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HAMAS TEMPERS TRUMP OVERTURE

EXTREME STANCES TO NORTH KOREA
IN BID FOR POWER IS FULL OF RISKS
BATTLE FOR CREDIBILITY IMPROMPTU DIPLOMACY

Presenting a Moderate Offering to Meet With

Face to Gain Ground Kim While Duterte
Against Fatah Gives a Brush-Off

By IAN FISHER By MARK LANDLER

JERUSALEM — Hamas, the WASHINGTON — President
militant group built around vio- Trump continued his outreach to
lent resistance to Israel, sought on rogue leaders on Monday, declar-
Monday to present a more moder- ing he would meet North Korea’s
ate public face, taking its next shot dictator, Kim Jong-un, provided
in an intensifying struggle for the circumstances were right,
leadership of the Palestinian even as the Philippine president,
cause and international recogni- Rodrigo Duterte, brushed aside
tion. the president’s invitation to visit
Released by Hamas just days the White House, saying he might
before its chief rival, the Palestin- be “too busy.”
ian Authority leader Mahmoud Mr. Trump’s unorthodox over-
Abbas, was to meet President tures — to a nuclear-armed
Trump, a new document of princi- despot who brutally purged his ri-
ples for the group calls for closer vals, and an insurgent politician
ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
ties to Egypt, waters down the accused of extrajudicial killings of
anti-Semitic language from its
charter, and accepts at least a pro-
A Clash of Protesters and Politics drug suspects — illustrated the
president’s confidence in his abil-
visional Palestinian state — Police officers in Paris at a May Day rally, one of several in France, where unions are divided over the presidential election. Page A6. ity to make deals and his willing-
though it still does not formally ness to talk to
recognize Israel. virtually any-
With its statement, Hamas is one.
trying to offer a more main-
stream-friendly version of its vi-
Australia Feels WHITE HOUSE MEMO Above
they
all,
high-

Its Ties to U.S. This President Doesn’t Go by the (History) Book

sion for the Palestinian cause, and lighted his pen-
to gain ground against Mr. Abbas, chant for flout-
whose influence is growing more ing the norms
tenuous.
Mr. Abbas is 82 years old, and
Put It in a Bind “Presidents should have some
Remarks on Civil War better sense of the nation’s his-
By PETER BAKER
of diplomacy,
no matter his
his rivals within tory as they become part of it,” larger aim.
and JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH Trump
his own Fatah WASHINGTON — If nothing Underscore Tenuous said Julian E. Zelizer, a presiden-
tial historian at Princeton.
No sitting
American pres-
movement are By DAMIEN CAVE
else, President Trump has al-
increasingly DARWIN, Australia — South ready secured a place in history. Grasp of the Past White House officials said that ident has met with a North Korean
open about the Korea, Japan and the United Mr. Trump was being misinter- leader since Mr. Kim’s grandfa-
It is his grasp of history that ther Kim Il-sung established a
struggle to suc- States have grown accustomed to seems less secure. preted and that a few random
ceed him. Seek- comments had been twisted into Stalinist state there after the Ko-
North Korea’s diatribes, but In his latest foray into what may have been attributable to
ing to regain meaning something they did not. rean War. However vague and im-
Pyongyang recently threatened a might be called the alternative imprecision, but for historians
the initiative, The criticism of his remarks, promptu, Mr. Trump’s offer shook
new target with a nuclear strike: past, Mr. Trump suggested that they underscored what seems to
he has recently they said, reflects a “gotcha” up an unsettled situation on the
Australia. Andrew Jackson had been “re- be a tenuous understanding by Korean Peninsula, which has been
waged a crack- ally angry” about the Civil War, Mr. Trump of the course of game by intellectual elitists who
Abbas down on Ha-
During a visit by Vice President
fail to understand him. alarmed by the prospect of a mili-
Mike Pence to Sydney, the North which did not break out until 16 events that preceded his ascen- tary clash between the United
mas, cutting sa- years after his death. And for sion to power. At various points, “There’s a certain amount of
warned Australia to think twice States and the North.
laries due to them from the Pales- good measure, Mr. Trump ques- he has seemed to suggest that hunting for ‘what is it that Trump
about “blindly and zealously toe- “Kim Jong-un would be de-
tinian Authority and refusing to tioned “why was there the Civil Frederick Douglass is still alive, has done that’s dumb?’” said
ing the U.S. line” and acting as “a lighted to meet with President
pay for electricity in the militant War” in the first place, suggest- appeared surprised that Abra- Newt Gingrich, the former
shock brigade of the U.S. master.” Trump on the basis of one nuclear
group’s power base in Gaza. ing that it should have simply ham Lincoln was a Republican, speaker of the House, who
The split between the two Australian and American leader to another,” said Christo-
been worked out. and mounted a plaque at a golf taught history as a college pro-
groups — Fatah in the West Bank, troops have fought side by side in pher R. Hill, a career diplomat
The comments, made in an course marking a Civil War fessor in Georgia and has written
Hamas in Gaza — has stood as one every major conflict since World who was special envoy on North
War I, and there are few militaries interview broadcast on Monday, battle that never happened. Continued on Page A16 Korea under President George W.
of the major obstacles in the peace
process with Israel: Who, the Is- in the world with closer relations: Bush. “If I were Trump I would
raelis ask, is their partner if the 1,250 United States Marines re- pass on that.”
Palestinians are so deeply divid- cently arrived in Darwin for six Mr. Duterte’s backhanded re-
ed? That division has also been months of joint exercises; the two sponse to Mr. Trump, however,
convenient for, and encouraged countries share intelligence from also showed the pitfalls of his per-
by, those on the Israeli right who land, sea and even outer space; sonal brand of diplomacy. The
do not want a peace deal. and Prime Minister Malcolm president had already gotten
But the Hamas document, Turnbull is slated to meet Presi- fierce criticism from human rights
which has been leaking for weeks, dent Trump on Thursday on an groups for embracing a man
is less a change in Hamas’s funda- aircraft carrier in New York. viewed by many as being respon-
mental beliefs than a challenge for But North Korea’s threat sible for the deaths of thousands
the credibility of Palestinians in against the country, far-fetched as of people involved in the drug
both Gaza and the West Bank, as it might seem, is an example of trade. Now he faces being
well as internationally. how Australia’s most important snubbed by Mr. Duterte as well.
And he is working to keep open
Continued on Page A9 Continued on Page A8 lines of communication with Pres-
ident Vladimir V. Putin, despite
partially blaming the Russian
leader last month for the continu-
Fox News, Pledging New Culture, ing civil war in Syria. Mr. Trump
Continued on Page A21
Ousts Another Symbol of Old One
HEALTH BILL After two false
starts, the administration is still
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and EMILY STEEL pushing for a vote. PAGE A17
Fox News forced out one of its big changes as the Murdochs
move to retool a lucrative channel TRUMPS’ SECURITY Congress
most senior executives on Mon-
that has threatened to become an sets aside an extra $120 million to
day, the latest aftershock of a sex-
ual harassment scandal that has obstacle to their global business protect the first family. PAGE A18
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
engulfed the television network ambitions.
WALL STREET WORRY The presi-
and pressured its owners, the Mr. Shine’s exit did little to quell The Lipstick Matched dent suggested breaking up the
Murdoch family, into a painful and a newsroom in tumult, however.
Even as Mr. Shine was removed, Katy Perry at the Met Gala on Monday in Maison Martin Margiela by John Galliano. Page A24. biggest banks. DealBook. PAGE B1
protracted public housecleaning.
The exit of Bill Shine — a co- another veteran executive with
president at the network and a deep ties to Mr. Ailes, Suzanne
Scott, was promoted. Ms. Scott,
close ally of Roger E. Ailes, its for-
mer chairman — came nearly 10
months after Mr. Ailes was re-
who is now the president of pro-
gramming, has been cited in law-
An Obscure Law Unravels Obama’s Legacy, One Rule at a Time
suits against the network as a fig-
moved in the wake of numerous For about three months after overturn major new regulations lawmakers worked from a shared
ure who enabled and concealed Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump issued by federal agencies. After
harassment allegations. Mr. By MICHAEL D. SHEAR Excel spreadsheet to develop a
Mr. Ailes’s behavior. would have the power to wipe that window closes, sometime in
Shine’s departure could portend list of possible targets: rules en-
Mr. Shine had been viewed by WASHINGTON — Just days af- away some of his predecessor’s early May, the process gets much acted late in Barack Obama’s
some employees as a symbol of ter the November election, top most significant regulations with more difficult: Executive orders presidency that they viewed as a
Mr. Ailes’s tainted tenure amid a aides to Donald J. Trump huddled simple-majority votes from his al- by the president can take years to
Local TV Mergers in Works vast regulatory overreach that
public pledge by the network’s with congressional staff members lies in Congress. unwind regulations — well be-
corporate parent, 21st Century was stifling economic growth.
Media companies are looking to in Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s suite of But the clock was ticking. yond the important 100-day yard-
Fox, to reform its office culture. The result was a historic rever-
consolidate after the F.C.C. re- offices at the Capitol. The objec- An obscure law known as the stick for new administrations.
He was accused in several law- sal of government rules in record
laxed its rules on how many sta- tive: not to get things done, but to Congressional Review Act gives So in weekly meetings leading
tions they can own. Page B1. Continued on Page A12 undo them — quickly. lawmakers 60 legislative days to up to Jan. 20, the Trump aides and Continued on Page A20

INTERNATIONAL A4-10 SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

Nerve Gas Attacks in Syria Clues to Zika’s Damage

A chemical attack in Syria in April was In cases of twins, the virus usually
one in a series, witnesses and investiga- infects both twins if they are identical,
tors say, with at least 64 people dead in but only one if fraternal. The difference
two attacks in December. PAGE A9 may offer a telling clue. PAGE D1

NATIONAL A11-22 Arrests in Russia Protest SPORTSTUESDAY B8-12 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 ARTS C1-7
The Russian police detained about 20
Rough Greeting at Borders gay rights protesters rallying against
Bigger, Faster, Frailer Fund Manager Ousts Chief A Mother-Daughter Sitcom
Travelers complain of severe treatment. abuses in Chechnya. PAGE A10 Noah Syndergaard, who has a torn torso A reshuffling at AllianceBernstein Tracey Wigfield is used to her mother
Fadwar Alaoui, a Canadian, was turned muscle, can do it all — except, perhaps, comes as investors abandon active inserting herself into her professional
away when she came to shop. PAGE A11 throw properly. On Baseball. PAGE B8
money managers in favor of less expen- and personal life. Now she has turned
NEW YORK A23-25 that into NBC’s “Great News.” PAGE C1
sive exchange-traded funds. PAGE B1
Worries Over a TV Suicide Welcoming a Ferry Service ESPN Accused of Liberal Bias
Health experts take issue with how Mayor Bill de Blasio greeted some of Conservative critics have celebrated the EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
suicide is treated in Netflix’s popular
show “13 Reasons Why.” PAGE A12
the first commuters on a ferry from
Queens to Manhattan. PAGE A23
network’s struggles, saying its coverage
of social issues is slanted. PAGE B8 David Leonhardt PAGE A27
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The opinion columns of The New York Mr. Halberstam told Mr. Sulzberger. “You
Times are supposed to be a place for lively said — ‘It’s a lousy paper. Close it.’ So
debate. Punch, this time the play is to you. It’s a THE DAILY 360
Sometimes, the liveliest debate is over lousy column and it’s a dishonest one. So
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the columns. Especially when the opinions
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Mr. Sulzberger demurred. every morning on Sydney’s
There has been an uproar over the hir-
“I appreciate that you feel I am prepared Manly Beach to swim almost a
ing of Bret Stephens as an Opinion col-
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hiring in 2008 of William Kristol. “Of the
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then The Times’s public editor. will be an important contributor.”
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pared with the hornet’s nest that was from the initial stumble.
stirred in 1973 when the publisher, Arthur “That is what is called ‘being really
Ochs Sulzberger, brought William Safire wrong,’” Mr. Safire wrote eight months
aboard — directly from the Nixon White later. “Not mistaken, not slightly off base,
House — without even first informing his not relatively inaccurate — but grandly,
cousin, John B. Oakes, the truly liberal gloriously, egregiously wrong.” LIVE BRIEFING
editor of the editorial page. It was hardly the end of the line. Mr.
Mr. Safire, a speechwriter and special Safire was to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 Nominations for the 71st annual
assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, for his columns about Bert Lance, Presi- Tony Awards will be announced
did not disappoint those waiting to pounce. dent Jimmy Carter’s budget director, who around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. The
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with lightning speed. But conspir-
comeback time — and when it comes to the home of the editor Doug Robinson in
acy theories are nothing new. The
comebacks, the world’s leading expert has Maryland. Bill Kovach was among them.
latest edition of the Retro Report
just made his appearance on the right side “Safire was the only one who saw Jim
explores decades of conspiracy
of the Watergate investigation.” Naughton’s young son fall into the pool and
theories — and what they can tell
David Halberstam, a highly respected thrash around,” Mr. Kovach recalled. “He
us about how we view the world
journalist and former Times correspond- swept past me and others and leaped fully
today. nytimes.com/video
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— that he had made a mistake hiring Mr. In the book “Safire’s Washington,” the
Safire. “He is a paid manipulator,” Mr. columnist admitted that his wife, Helene,
Halberstam said, just warming up. had pushed him in to save the boy. But the
“A few years ago when you had just result was the same. “It was hard to hate
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Of Interest MOTHER’S DAY

NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

Yellowstone Park’s wolves live to On a typical day in 2016, the

be about five years old, double the Department of Homeland Security
life span outside its borders. The denied admittance to 752 people at Show her you
park’s oldest wolf reached age 12½. American ports of entry and flagged
The New Threat to Wolves D1 877 people deemed possible national
• security risks.
Only 27 percent of Republicans A Severe Reception at America’s Front Door A11
JASON POLAN
say blacks experience a lot of •
discrimination, while 43 percent After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
say whites do and 48 percent say The breath of diabetics sometimes Portland International Airport in
the same of Christians. smells of rotten apples, experts Oregon began hosting volunteer
America’s Political Disunion A27
report; the skin of typhoid patients, musical performances; it now has
like baking bread. 65 a week.
•
The Race to Sniff Out Disease D5
Postpartum hemorrhage, in which Security Line Blues? Maybe Some Cool Jazz
• Will Help B4
women bleed uncontrollably after
childbirth, kills an estimated 100,000 Before natural gas is exported, it •
women a year in poor and middle- is cooled to minus 260 degrees, There are about 100,000 species
income countries. condensing it to a liquid known of fungi, but only about 80 of them
A Cheap Drug Can Save Hemorrhaging Mothers D3
as liquefied natural gas. bioluminesce, or glow in the dark.
President’s Preparations to Increase Hunting Mushrooms (Glowing or Not) D6
Gas Exports Face Glut in the Market A20

Near or far, there are certain words

that will always warm a mother’s heart.

The Conversation Spotlight

FOUR OF THE MOST READ, SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS ADDITIONAL REPORTAGE AND REPARTEE
FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM FROM OUR JOURNALISTS

1. Trump’s ‘Very Friendly’ Talk With Duterte Stuns Aides Last week on Facebook Live, Matt Walsh, who plays the
And Critics Alike White House press secretary Mike McLintock on the HBO
“Who knew that inviting a murderer to the White House could show “Veep,” joined the New York Times White House report-
be so complicated?” reads one of the milder comments on The er Julie Hirschfeld Davis in front of the Capitol building in
Times’s website, where this was the most read article on Mon- Washington, D.C., for a chat about his character and the PALOMA’S GRAFFITI
day. President Trump extended the aforementioned invitation to show’s real-life analogues. Read a lightly edited and con- 800 843 3269 | TIFFANY.COM

the White House during a late-night conversation with President densed excerpt of their conversation below, and watch the
Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, despite Mr. Duterte’s role in entire video at facebook.com/nytimes.
sanctioning the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in his
country. Julie Hirschfeld Davis Do you actually watch the
2. Brand to Know: The Kenyan Line That Makes White House briefings?
Only One Dress
This write-up of Zuri, a line operated by two New Yorkers, drew
most of its readers from Facebook. Commenters there noted the Matt Walsh As soon as Spicer took office, I watched
dresses’ beauty, but many wondered: Why feature Zuri rather them, in the early days, and now I kind of get what
than an African apparel company run by Africans? he’s about. I read the newspaper and see things, but
I’m not on top of the news briefings.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis Your background is in improv.

Do you think that’s a useful thing for a press secretary,
or anyone in politics, to have?

Matt Walsh Yes. I think you cannot predict what’s

coming at you in that job. In the room, people are on
their phones: ‘Actually, this just happened.’ You’re
constantly being presented with things that people
are ahead of you with, so you do need to be good on
SANDRA ZHAO your feet, and improv is a great skill for that.
3. China’s Appetite Pushes Fisheries to the Brink
Andrew Jacobs’s report, Monday’s most emailed article,
details the global burden of China’s demand for seafood, Julie Hirschfeld Davis When people see you here in
calling particular attention to fisheries as far afield as Senegal Washington, are they super-starstruck about you?
that have been depleted by Chinese vessels.

4. Key to Improving Subway Service in New York?

Modern Signals Matt Walsh It’s like an industrial — it’s like we went
Emma G. Fitzsimmons reports that the myriad headaches of to IBM and wrote a bunch of jokes about computers
using New York’s subway system can be traced to infrastruc- and executives that work at IBM. Our show is exactly
ture dating to the 1930s. Nicholas Kulish, a writer and corre- what happens in this town, so even if it wasn’t
spondent for The Times, shared the story on Twitter along successful or super funny, I still think people would ')HQFHVDGGOHEDJLQODWWHFDOIVNLQ
with his own tale of woe: “Anyone else perversely delighted really love it, because it’s brought to light what they
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to be stuck in a signal malfunction and reading @emmagf on do for a living.
same antiquated system?”

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Quote of the Day “I took care of Roy, and I had to use the facilities myself.
HONORING A DECEASED FELLOW
FAN, ONE BALLPARK BATHROOM
So I figure, you know, kill two birds.”
AT A TIME A25 TOM McDONALD, a Mets fan who is disposing of the ashes of his childhood friend
Roy Riegel by flushing them away in ballparks across the country.

The Mini Crossword Here to Help

BY JOEL FAGLIANO HOW TO BE MINDFUL WHILE GARDENING

1 2 3 4 It’s o.k. to get a little dirty in search of a

mindful moment. “Caring for your garden
can be a great form of mindfulness medita-
5
tion,” says Suze Yalof Schwartz, the
founder of Unplug Meditation and the
6 7 author of “Unplug: A Simple Guide to
Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern
8 Soul Seekers.” “By connecting with the
earth and with the practice of gardening,
you can cultivate a healthy mind and feel
9 calm and connected. Simply planting a SAM KALDA

seed with intention, or touching soil, can

Be fully present to the act of planting.
5/2/2017 EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ be transformative.”
Notice how the soil feels and take a mo-
To stay focused while planting, follow
ACROSS ment to appreciate that you actually have
these steps from David Gelles’s Meditation
1 Stupid soil that you can plant in.
for Real Life column:
5 Company co-founded by
Notice the earth, feel the soil, smell the air Take the seeds or the plant in your hands
Travis Kalanick
and take a long slow deep breath. Connect and silently state your intentions. May you
6 Extinct birds that are
with the world around you. grow and may you be healthy.
synonymous with “stupid”
8 Part of a sausage chain Place the seeds or plant gently into the hole
9 Move from gate to runway
Once you have collected the soil, the seed
or the plant, the watering can and the with intention and cover it up with soil.

DOWN
shovel, stop and open your eyes and look Water lightly and listen to the sound of the
1 Failure around you. Notice what plants are already water hitting the earth.
2 Letter-shaped piece of hardware in bloom.
For more tips about everyday mindful moments,
3 Attendees of the White House With your pointer finger, slowly poke a small visit nytimes.com/mindful.
Correspondents’ Dinner
hole. Take a moment to just feel the sensa-
4 Home to New York City’s zoo
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A4 TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

HAWARDEN JOURNAL

A Bookish Refuge Where Tolerance Rules, but Don’t You Dare Loll About
By STEPHEN CASTLE
HAWARDEN, Wales — Flitting from
the origins of mountaineering to the
writing skills of recent archbishops, the
bookish talk at the breakfast table
seemed to suit the setting. Overlooking
it all hung two portraits of Britain’s
high-minded 19th-century Liberal prime
minister William Gladstone, staring
down with a severe look.
The restaurant at Gladstone’s Li-
brary, close to the border between
Wales and England, is called Food for
Thought, and the caterers have been
busy recently.
Interest has surged in an institution
that houses Gladstone’s books and
papers and that sees itself as a temple
of liberal values, delighting its director,
Peter Francis, who believes the trend is
a reaction to the rise of populism in
Britain.
Last year, Britons voted to quit the
European Union after a notably shallow
referendum debate. Now, a badly divid-
ed electorate faces a general election at
a time when politicians are generally
held in low esteem and amid anxieties
about the spread of fake news.
So this unique residential institution
— in contrast to recent American presi-
dents, Gladstone is the only British
leader to have established a library —
sees itself as a refuge, Mr. Francis said,
and one that is being “hugely used at
the moment by people who feel the loss
of liberal values.”
Four times prime minister, William
Ewart Gladstone was first elected to
Parliament in 1832, age 23, as a Tory,
but he became leader of the Liberal
party in 1867, expanding the voting
franchise and championing Irish home
rule. Whereas his archrival, Benjamin
Disraeli, charmed Queen Victoria,
Gladstone tended to do the opposite, so PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
much so that the monarch complained
that he addressed her as if she were a Interest has surged
public meeting. SCOTLAND
in Gladstone’s North Sea
Yet his scholarly and sober approach
may be having a revival. Library, a serene N. IRELAND
ELAND
refuge near the B RITAIN
Reading room visitors increased by
25 percent to 50 percent in each of the border of England
first three months of 2017 over last year, and Wales that IREL
LAND Hawarden
and there was an overall 29 percent houses books and
increase in overnight stays by scholars, ENGLAND
papers from the
writers and others in the same period. 19th-century WALES
Fund-raising is underway for a $10 London
million plan to build an auditorium for
Liberal British Celtic Sea

literary festivals, to improve video prime minister

capabilities and to upgrade more basic William Glad- English Channel
facilities, including the women’s stone. Its director,
restrooms. Peter Francis, left,
But the idea is to retain the ambience said he believed 100 MILES FRANCE
of a place where visitors sometimes feel that the increase in THE NEW YORK TIMES
as if they have stepped from a divided
visitors in the first
and ill-tempered Britain into a 19th- Over dinner, the current writer in
century vicarage. three months of
residence, the novelist Rowan Hisayo
Sitting in his book-lined office, Mr. 2017 was a reaction
Buchanan, put the attraction differ-
Francis, whose formal title is warden, to the rise of popu- ently: “When I was a kid, I always
said that as a committed international- lism in Britain. wanted to live in a library, then I dis-
ist, Gladstone would have been “very covered that there is a library, and you
upset” about Britain’s exit from the can live in it.”
European Union. He thinks it fair to Liz Simons, a textiles teacher from
assume that a politician whose Cambridge, said she was visiting be-
speeches could last four hours would cause of her 18-year-old son’s interest in
have been unimpressed by President Victorian history. As a supporter of the
concentrating on history, literature and
Trump’s Twitter feed.
theology. right-wing U.K. Independence Party, he
As for fake news, Mr. Francis added, may not be typical of Gladstone’s Li-
Gladstone would have been horrified. “I Access is free, which has made the
library a popular place of study for local brary users, though she thinks expo-
can’t think of any single thing that is
teenagers preparing for exams. It also sure to it may be making him a little
more un-Gladstonian,” he said, noting
has 26 bedrooms, with reduced prices more liberal.
that the statesman prized “deep study
for authors, clergy members and stu- Originally, the library was named
and doing your proper research and in
some depth, so that you would get all dents, and there is often a writer in after the nearby church, St. Deiniol’s,
the nuances.” residence. which contains several plaques com-
While anyone can reserve a bed, this memorating the Gladstone family.
Evidence of scholarship is all around
in this imposing library, built in the first is not an ordinary hotel. The rooms, (William Gladstone, who died at
years of the 20th century in Gothic while comfortable, are equipped with a Hawarden Castle in 1898, is buried in
style on the site of the more basic struc- retro-style radio, but no TV. Down- Westminster Abbey.)
ture — the “Tin Tabernacle” — that stairs, in a spacious sitting room, the The library’s warden must be a mem-
Gladstone built in 1889 to house his bar is not staffed; guests are expected ber of the clergy, and there is a regular
32,000 books. Though he turned 80 that to display another Gladstonian quality communion service at 8 a.m., though
year, he helped to move them there in — integrity — by signing for what they Mr. Francis said that there was “no
wheelbarrows from nearby Hawarden consume. expectation that people go,” and de-
(pronounced Harden) Castle, his grand Along the corridor, under the wooden scribed this as “old-fashioned Anglican-
country home. beams of the large, light and airy main ism that goes on like the breathing of
A devout Christian, Gladstone be- reading room, silence is strictly ob- the house.”
came well known for his rescue work served, the only distraction being the Mr. Francis remembered being “terri-
among prostitutes, but his contacts thousands of surrounding volumes (one bly scornful” that his predecessor
with “fallen women” provoked gossip visitor recalls being sidetracked from stayed in the job for 21 years, yet he is
and speculation. His reputation for work by “The Book of British Fish”). who describes it as “a very remarkable in human rights and the rule of law.” now at the start of his own second
intellectual rigor is rarely questioned, In addition to his books, Gladstone’s and special place, both in terms of what “In our current climate, they need decade in the post and seems destined
however. Mr. Francis recounts how personal papers are here, including his it is and what it stands for.” reaffirming, exploring and celebrating to outdo the record. Not that this means
when asked to cut the ribbon to open a marriage proposal, whose romantic “People can visit and stay and work more than ever,” he said. he has become complacent, he added.
flower show, Gladstone read for weeks intent was somewhat opaque: It is a in an environment which is si- Another trustee, Patrick Derham, “We have a lot of images of Glad-
about flora and delivered a lengthy letter that includes a sentence of 141 multaneously stimulating, secluded and headmaster of Westminster School, stone, and I do find him quite stern,” he
oration. words, with 18 clauses or subclauses. serene,” he said, adding that “it also described the library as a “magical said. “You can’t quite loll about doing
Augmented with newer works, Glad- The library’s many admirers include embodies those quintessential Gladsto- place,” which, “in an increasingly illib- nothing with Gladstone looking over
stone’s Library now holds more than David Cannadine, the Dodge professor nian values of liberalism, tolerance, eral world, is even more important now you. You feel you should be doing some-
200,000 books, journals and periodicals, of history at Princeton and a trustee, internationalism, democracy and belief than at any point in its existence.” thing solidly and seriously.”

Iran and United States Discuss Issue of Dual Citizens’ Imprisonment by Tehran
By RICK GLADSTONE discussion, and he said such talks in pre- currently imprisoned are Siamak Na- their release. Last week during the Vien-
vious years had yielded “positive re- mazi, a businessman who had advocated na meeting, Baquer Namazi’s other son,
Iran said Monday that it had discussed
the issue of Americans with dual citizen- sults.” At least four Americans of improved relations with the United Babak Namazi, joined with their lawyer,
ship held in Iranian prisons during a Mr. Ghasemi’s remarks, at a regular
weekly news conference reported by Ira-
Iranian descent are being States, and his father, Baquer Namazi, a
former United Nations Children’s Fund
Jared Genser, at a news conference to de-
nounce what they called the “intense, un-
meeting last week with the United
States. nian media, did not suggest a negotiation held on dubious charges. official. Others include Karan Vafadari, relenting, cruel and inhuman treatment”
The discussion, during a meeting in Vi- was underway for the release of the an art gallery owner, and Afarin Niasari, of the Namazis.
enna on compliance with the 2015 Iranian Americans, all of them dual citizens of Mr. Vafadari’s wife. Babak Namazi also said he was count-
nuclear accord, was the first face-to-face the United States and Iran. to foreigners arrested in the country. Another dual citizen, Robin Shahini, a ing on Mr. Trump to “take personal re-
exchange between emissaries from Iran Mr. Ghasemi did not identify any of Iran has long used prisoners as bar- San Diego State University graduate stu- sponsibility for the lives of my father and
and the United States since President them by name. At least four Americans gaining leverage with the United States dent arrested last July and later sen- brother.”
Trump took office. of Iranian descent are known to be held in the more than three decades of hostil- tenced to 18 years’ imprisonment, was In a Twitter message in October, when
A State Department spokesman, Mark in Iranian prisons on dubious charges. ity that have prevailed since diplomatic released on bail in March after he began the Namazis were both sentenced, Mr.
C. Toner, had suggested on April 25 that His public acknowledgment that the relations were severed after the 1979 rev- a hunger strike. Trump vowed, “This doesn’t happen if
the imprisonments would be raised at imprisonment issue had been raised ap- olution. The United States also has repeatedly I’m president!”
the meeting, which was held while both peared to signal that Iranian leaders When the nuclear agreement was put asked Iran about Robert Levinson, a for- Mr. Trump has also denounced the Ira-
sides were attending a session of the In- were at least open to the idea of negotiat- into effect in January 2016, Iran released mer F.B.I. agent who disappeared in Iran nian nuclear accord as “the worst deal
ternational Atomic Energy Agency, the ing with the Trump administration, de- a number of dual nationals from the a decade ago. The Iranians have said ever” and has hinted that he would seek
United Nations nonproliferation moni- spite its avowed hostility toward Iran. United States that it had arrested on spy- they know nothing of his whereabouts or to renegotiate or scrap it. But political
tor. The United States has repeatedly ing and other charges, including Jason fate, despite suspicions by Mr. Lev- analysts have suggested that he will hon-
Bahram Ghasemi, a spokesman for called for the prisoners’ release. Iran re- Rezaian, who was The Washington inson’s family that he is a captive. or terms of the deal, which eased sanc-
Iran’s Foreign Ministry in Tehran, con- gards them as its citizens, with none of Post’s Tehran bureau chief. Advocates for the Namazis have been tions on Iran in exchange for its verifi-
firmed on Monday that there had been a the rights to diplomatic access afforded The most prominent dual nationals especially outspoken about calling for able pledge of peaceful nuclear work.
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A6 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Unions in France Split

Over Supporting Macron
A Centrist Running Against a Far-Right Foe
By AURELIEN BREEDEN French people.
PARIS — France’s presidential “I don’t want to do so, because
campaign entered its last week on the day after, we will have a
Monday, coinciding with May Day ‘Frexit,’” he said, referring to a
labor demonstrations around the French exit from the European
country that reflected a split Union, “or we will have the Front
among unions over whether to en- National again.”
dorse Emmanuel Macron, the Many on the French left, includ-
centrist candidate, against ing union advocates who oppose
Marine Le Pen, his far-right oppo- the National Front, say the eco-
nent. nomic policies defended by Mr.
More than 140,000 people Macron — free trade and a desire
participated in rallies in Paris, to loosen labor regulations — have
Lille, Marseille and other cities — fueled the National Front’s suc-
events organized by French labor cess.
unions, some of which have found Those voters, many of whom
themselves in a bind ahead of the supported the hard-left candidate
vote in the second and final round Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first
of the presidential election on round, do not want their votes for
Sunday. Mr. Macron to be construed as
Although they have historically support for his platform. The lat-
opposed Ms. Le Pen’s far-right est polls have shown an increase
National Front and have urged in the number of voters who say
members to vote against her, sev- they plan to abstain in the second
eral major labor unions also round.
fought the job market overhauls In Paris on Monday, the unions
that Mr. Macron defended as that supported Mr. Marcon and CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
economy minister and that he opposed Ms. Le Pen marched sep-
wants to expand if elected. arately, in stark contrast to 2002, Protesters and the police clashed on Monday at a May Day demonstration against the country’s far-right candidate for president.
That has left unions split be- when the different labor unions
tween those who have explicitly united to oppose Ms. Le Pen’s fa- workers, but he’s a former banker
endorsed Mr. Macron, and those ther, Jean-Marie, after he made it at Rothschild; he wants to revital-
who have only called for votes into the second round of the presi- ize the economy, but he’s one of
against Ms. Le Pen. dential elections. those who dynamited it,” Mr. Le
At a rally of his supporters in Philippe Martinez, the head of Pen said.
Paris on Monday, Mr. Macron the General Confederation of La- Ms. Le Pen, who announced last
reiterated his economic agenda bor, one of France’s biggest week that she would name a for-
and renewed calls for a “strong unions, told the newspaper Le mer right-wing rival prime min-
Europe.” But he said he would Parisien on Sunday that while his ister if elected, said on Monday at
never “judge” a National Front and other unions agreed on oppos- a campaign rally near Paris that
voter, “because behind that vote ing the National Front, “we are not Mr. Macron was the candidate of
there is always an anger, an out- in 2002 anymore.” “finance” and that he was an “ad-
rage, a disappointment.” At the bigger demonstration on versary of the people.”
Though he condemned Ms. Le Monday in Paris, unions marched “I will be a president who pro-
Pen for seeking to exploit voters’ for workers’ rights and against tects,” Ms. Le Pen told her cheer-
anger, Mr. Macron seemed to play Ms. Le Pen, without calling for ing supporters.
to the same deep anxieties on support for Mr. Macron. Other Manon Bouquin, 24, a Le Pen
Monday when he told the BBC demonstrators carried signs that supporter at the rally, said she be-
that if elected he would have “to
read “No to Macron” and “No to lieved Ms. Le Pen could win on
listen to our people, and to listen to
Le Pen,” and some chanted “abol- Sunday.
the fact that they are extremely
ish the Macron law” or “abolish “Whatever the outcome, every-
angry today, impatient, and the
the labor law.” thing will have changed, and it
dysfunction of the E.U. is no more
Some hooded protesters was interesting to see people in
sustainable.”
clashed with the police on the the establishment of 40 years fi-
Mr. Macron said that he was
sidelines of the demonstrations, nally getting worried,” Ms.
“pro-European,” but that if elected
throwing rocks and firebombs at Bouquin said.
he would “reform in-depth the Eu-
ropean Union and our European the officers, who responded with Ms. Le Pen has campaigned on
project,” lest he “betray” the tear gas. Five riot police officers an anti-elite, anti-immigration
GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS
were wounded in the clashes, the and anti-European Union plat-
Paris police prefecture said. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front founder and Marine Le Pen’s father, addressed supporters form that has tapped into deep
Reporting was contributed by
Benoît Morenne, Milan Schreuer Demonstrators at a smaller on Monday in Paris at a rally celebrating Joan of Arc. Unions support voting against Ms. Le Pen. frustration about unemployment,
and Paméla Rougerie from Paris, rally organized earlier on Monday especially among the working
and Lilia Blaise from Villepinte. in Paris by more moderate labor tions could help Ms. Le Pen, espe- Bouarram’s son, who was 9 at the The National Front’s unsavory class.
unions, who have endorsed Mr. cially if left-wing voters reluctant time of his father’s death, joined past is embodied by Ms. Le Pen’s Even some Macron supporters
Macron, said voters had to choose. to vote for Mr. Macron stay home Mr. Macron as they laid flowers at 88-year-old father and founder of at his rally said that, though they
“Although we don’t support the on Election Day. The latest polls a memorial plaque. the party, who on Monday ad- believed in his ability to win, they
politics of Macron, we advise our suggest that Mr. Macron could It was the latest attempt by Mr. dressed a couple of hundred worried about his ability to unite
followers to vote for him, because beat Ms. Le Pen with roughly 60 Macron to draw attention to the supporters in Paris at a rally cele- disenchanted voters beyond their
we don’t want Le Pen,” said Olivi- percent of the vote in the second National Front’s anti-Semitic and brating Joan of Arc. rejection of the far right.
er Belem, 56, a computer techni- round. racist roots, from which Ms. Le Despite fears in Ms. Le Pen’s “There are a lot of people who
cian and union member. “The fact On Monday, Mr. Macron also Pen has tried to distance herself. entourage that her father might think that it is mostly important to
that the other unions don’t give paid tribute to Brahim Bouarram, Last Friday, Mr. Macron make inflammatory remarks, Mr. vote against Marine Le Pen,” said
voters clear advice will leave open a 29-year-old man who was killed traveled to Oradour-sur-Glane, a Le Pen stuck to fairly routine anti- Elfayed Sagaf, 18, a student who
the possibility of a blank vote and during a far-right demonstration village in central France where an immigrant rhetoric and harsh was holding a banner supporting
will help Le Pen in her chances of in Paris on May 1, 1995, by skin- SS division killed 642 people in criticism of Mr. Macron. En Marche!, Mr. Macron’s move-
victory.” heads who pushed him off a 1944; and on Sunday, he visited the “He talks about the future, but ment. “I would have preferred
Analysts predict that absten- bridge and into the Seine. Mr. Shoah Memorial in Paris. he has no children; he talks about more votes of support.”

Echoes of the War in Algeria Reverberate in French Politics

40NINE.COM When asked about this year’s the racial hierarchies of co- up their faith and culture, others
the Algerian war’s legacy, while gia for a lost era, for an era when
presidential election, French often too painful to confront there was a hierarchy based on lonialism. that French Christians would
historians often draw a compari- directly, are reverberating in the ethnicity.” The dispute over whether to have to widen their sense of
son that could initially seem French presidential election, Terrence Peterson, a historian stay in Algeria brought France to identity to make room, and oth-
outlandish. which will end in a runoff on at Florida International Univer- the brink of a civil war that was ers still that France was only for
The war Sunday. sity, compared debates over averted by withdrawing from the French.
THE that France Algeria to those over the Confed- North Africa. But the cultural This disagreement continues
fought in ‘It Was Algeria and identity issues were never to divide French politics, though
INTERPRETER Algeria, they That Was the Problem’
erate flag in the United States.
“History is a way to talk about resolved they are now argued in the sub-
said, cleaved Nearly one million settlers, France’s relationship with its The divisions were deepened tler language of integration and
MAX FISHER and French soci- by the sudden arrival of about secularism.
AMANDA TAUB known as pieds-noirs, fled Alge- minority population,” Mr. Peter-
ety, opening ria after the war. Many arrived in son said. “Like the Confederate one million pieds-noirs and thou- “Marine Le Pen uses the vo-
crises of identity and integration southern towns where Ms. Le flag, it means very different sands of harkis, followed by cabulary of the Republic, but in a
that still drive politics, much as Pen’s far-right National Front things to different people.” more Algerians who went to colonial sense,” Mr. Stora said,
the Civil War lurks within the today draws heavy support, and France to work. The ideological referring to colonial-era de-
For those who see immigration
racial and regional politics still that are dotted with gravestone- conflict for French identity, far mands that Algerians make
or the European Union as an
roiling the United States. like monuments to the lost terri- from ended, was imported onto themselves culturally French.
assault on French identity, Alge-
“The Algerian war was a tory. Schools across France are French soil. The effect, he said, is still that
ria provides a memory of a time
French civil war,” Benjamin required by law to teach the Jean-Yves Camus, an analyst outsiders “cannot access the
when France was great and a
TENO.COM Stora, the conflict’s foremost benefits of French colonialism. way to argue against compromis-
at the French Institute for Inter- Republic.”
historian, said in a recent inter- national and Strategic Affairs,
In conversation with voters in ing that greatness ever again, A Divided Right
view from his home in Paris. traced the National Front’s roots
the area, questions about seem- whether by bowing to the Euro-
In Algeria, independence to popular opposition to leaving When Charles de Gaulle, the
ingly disparate topics of present- pean Union or broadening
groups fought to end 130 years of Algeria, culminating in a failed nationalist president, withdrew
day politics — immigration, French identity to accept new- from Algeria in defeat in 1962, he
French rule. Within France, Mr. coup by military leaders. Ms. Le
French republican values, the comers. opened a divide between the
Stora said, the war was an Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, who
struggle against anti-Semitism, Ms. Le Pen has skillfully French center right and far right
ideological conflict over “two founded the party, grew that
the rising support for the Na- played on that nostalgia, saying that never closed.
conceptions of the nation,” one “spark” of far-right activity into
tional Front — all come back to colonialism “brought a lot, espe- De Gaulle’s enormous popular-
that saw France as an empire the National Front, Mr. Camus
Algeria, as Mr. Stora suggested. cially to Algeria.” ity led center-right voters to
and Algeria as core to its great- said.
Christophe Tellier, a plumber After Emmanuel Macron, her support him in abandoning Alge-
ness, and another that rejected in the town of Fréjus, when centrist opponent for the presi- Integration and Core Values
colonialism. The war also be- ria. But the far right never for-
asked about immigration, dency, called France’s actions in Jennifer Sessions, a historian gave him.
came a struggle over whether brought up the so-called harkis, Algeria a “crime against human-
French identity could expand to at the University of Iowa, said “They wanted to kill de Gaulle,
Algerians who fought alongside ity” and “part of this past that we French far-right politicians used physically,” Mr. Stora said of the
include the mostly Muslim the French military during the must face” during a trip there, he the language of colonization to far right in the early 1960s.
Algerians. war and who immigrated to faced a chorus of criticism. talk about fears of immigration, “There were four assassination
When France withdrew in France afterward. Gérald Darmanin, a mayor and warning that France is at risk of attempts against him.”
defeat in 1962, the guns quieted, “It was Algeria that was the member of the center-right Re- being “colonized” by immigrants. Ever since, mainstream poli-
but those tensions over identity
SBWATCHES.COM only intensified in France.
problem,” Mr. Tellier said. “And
now the children of the harkis,
publicans, accused Mr. Macron of
“spitting on the graves” of those
The National Front also draws ticians have struggled to recon-
subtle parallels between the cile national grievance over
Settlers, along with their they are a problem.” who died in Algeria “for a France Algerian independence fighters Algeria with the establishment
supporters in France, experi- He added: “These immigrants, they loved.” and disorder in immigrant neigh- position that de Gaulle was cor-
enced Algeria’s loss so pro- I hope they won’t have all these borhoods today. rect to withdraw.
foundly that many still speak of advantages that they have the Revolutionary France
Or Imperial France The left also uses Algeria as a The National Front, long one of
reclaiming France’s lost glory — right to now. I hope they’ll be metaphor, drawing a parallel Europe’s most popular far-right
often while explaining their taken away.” The Algerian war divided between colonial-era abuses and parties, thrived by taking up that
support for Marine Le Pen, the Much as in the American France between two visions of the policing of Muslims today. French nationalism as its own.
far-right presidential candidate. South, memory of defeat has the nation that play out in poli- But the heat of those argu- This anger echoes Continent-
Questions over French iden- blurred with its present-day tics today, Mr. Stora said. ments might obscure a deeper wide populist rage at the Euro-
tity, opened by the war, still pit social consequences. French One vision defined France problem: Debates over integra- pean Union and at elites who are
the French against one another. citizens lost their once-superior through its revolutionary values, tion of immigrants cannot be said to have sold out the people.
The politics of nostalgia and status over Muslim and Arab particularly equality and liberty, resolved without agreement over But it has been particularly loud
grievance so closely parallel the subjects, a transition that today which many saw as in tension the core values into which new in France, amplified by lingering
American South, Mr. Stora said, colors the debate over immigra- with colonial rule. arrivals must integrate. humiliation and nostalgia over a
that he has termed them “Sud- tion and the treatment of The 130 years of rule in Algeria That question was raised in national identity that is said to
isme à la Française.” France’s Muslim communities. culminated in an imperial iden- Algeria, but never answered. have been lost in a stretch of
The parallel has its limits, but Algeria, Mr. Stora said, has tity that blended values like Some argued that Algerians North Africa that was once
it highlights how disputes over become a way to express “nostal- secularism with nationalism and could integrate only if they gave French.
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Mob in India Kills 2 Muslim Teenagers Accused of Stealing Cow Pompeo Visits
By HARI KUMAR South Korea
NEW DELHI — Villagers in the
northeastern Indian state of As-
sam beat to death two Muslim
At Tense Time
teenagers they suspected of steal- By CHOE SANG-HUN
ing cows, the latest in a string of SEOUL, South Korea — The
mob assaults in the country. C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo,
A police official said the visited the South Korean capital
teenagers had been spotted unty- on Monday amid heightened ten-
ing two cows in a pasture on Sun- sions with North Korea, and about
day. When the owner shouted a week before South Koreans vote
“Thieves, thieves,” a crowd of sev- for a new president, an embassy
eral hundred villagers gathered spokesman said on Monday.
and began beating the youths. Mr. Pompeo, traveling with his
When the teenagers, identified wife, was in Seoul to meet with
as Riazuddin Ali, 18, and Abu Han- American diplomats and military
ifa, 16, broke free and tried to flee, officials, said the embassy spokes-
the crowd chased them for a mile man, Daniel Turnbull. The C.I.A.
and a half, the police official, De- chief had no meetings scheduled
baraj Upadhay, chief of Nagaon with officials from the South Kore-
District, said. an president’s office, Mr. Turnbull
Raham Ali, Mr. Ali’s father, said said, or with any of the candidates
his son was an auto rickshaw vying to succeed Park Geun-hye,
who was impeached for corrup-
tion in December and removed
from office in March.
South Koreans will go to the
Muslims in India have polls to choose a new president on
been the subject of May 9.
Mr. Pompeo’s visit drew atten-
attacks by groups tion from the South Korean news
media at a time of increasing anxi-
protecting cows. ety on the Korean Peninsula over
the North’s nuclear ambitions and
increased ballistic missile activity.
North Korea carried out a mis-
driver and had left that day to go sile test on Saturday that failed,
fishing. Faizul Islam, Mr. Hanifa’s the second consecutive failed test
father, said his son sold vegetables ANUPAM NATH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
in the last two weeks. The projec-
for a living. Halima Khatun, center, the mother of one of the teenagers beaten to death by villagers, received medical treatment on Monday. tile fired on Saturday — it was not
“He was not doing anything ille- clear what type of missile it was —
gal,” Mr. Islam said. “If he was do- lying in a field, surrounded by Dr. Devajit Medhi, who at- in a series of similar episodes, of- vigilantes nor motivated by reli- exploded minutes after liftoff.
ing anything illegal, they should men carrying sticks and belts. Po- tended to the victims, said they ten by “cow protection” groups gious concerns, but had simply News reports in South Korea
have handed him over to the po- lice officers arrived on the scene had injuries to their heads, stom- who said they had caught Mus- believed the young men were speculated about which senior
lice. Why did they kill him? My and took the youths to a govern- achs and legs, and were bleeding lims transporting the animals, le- thieves. South Korean officials Mr. Pom-
son was innocent, and the other ment hospital nearby. profusely. He said it appeared the gally or illegally. Hindus consider “They should have caught them peo might be meeting with on his
boy was innocent.” One was dead on arrival and the two had been beaten with blunt cows sacred, and they have some- and handed them over to police,” visit to discuss the North’s nuclear
Jaynal Abidin, chief of the vil- other died minutes after arriving, objects. times accused Muslims of killing he said. “We would have rewarded and missile abilities. The embassy
lage, said neither of the teenagers said Pinaki Chakraborty, a police the animals. them. But now a crime has been did not disclose further details of
Over the last two years, Mus-
had a criminal record. officer who took the two to the Mr. Upadhay said the assailants committed and police will ensure Mr. Pompeo’s trip.
lims in India have been attacked
News footage showed the two hospital. on Sunday were neither cow justice to the victims.” The North Korean missile test
took place as the United States
aircraft carrier Carl Vinson was
sailing into Korean waters to con-

British Leader Is Said to Be in ‘Different Galaxy’ Over Split With E.U. duct a joint naval exercise with
South Korea. North Korea, which
condemns the drill as a rehearsal
By STEVEN ERLANGER the question of how much Britain anteeing the rights of citizens of consider the complications of pen- as the various newspaper ac- for invasion, has threatened to
will have to pay as part of the “di- European Union member states sions, legal rights and the right to counts prove, leaks will be numer- turn the carrier into a “giant heap
LONDON — No one expects ne- of scrap metal” and “bury it in the
gotiations over Britain’s exit from vorce settlement,” with Mrs. May living in Britain; settling the di- health care. ous in any case.
reportedly saying it owes nothing sea.” South Korean and American
the European Union to go vorce bill; and safeguarding the The issue is especially compli- While the dinner was about
because there is no mention of officials have warned that the
smoothly over the next two years, 1998 Good Friday Agreement. cated because Mrs. May wants opening stances in the talks, the North could be preparing to con-
but a German newspaper’s ac- such payments in the European Mrs. May, who wants to resolve the exit to end the jurisdiction in gaps reportedly made Mr. duct its sixth nuclear test.
count of a dinner last Wednesday Union’s founding treaties. speedily the post-exit status of Britain of the European Court of Juncker more skeptical that a deal In recent weeks, Vice President
between the British prime min- Mr. Juncker was said to have re- member-state citizens in Britain Justice, but it is that court that could be done in two years, before Mike Pence, Secretary of State
ister, Theresa May, and senior Eu- plied that without a payment and British citizens in the bloc, currently settles legal disputes Britain leaves the bloc, making a Rex W. Tillerson and Defense Sec-
ropean Union officials suggests there would be no trade deal. suggested the issue could be set- among member states. “hard Brexit” more likely. “I leave retary Jim Mattis have made sep-
that round one, at least, was par- Ms. Merkel was concerned tled at a summit meeting at the Britain also wants complete se- Downing Street 10 times as skepti- arate trips to Seoul reaffirming an
ticularly discordant. enough to issue a strong state- end of June. Mr. Juncker and his crecy for the negotiations, which cal as I was before” about a deal, alliance with South Korea under
On Sunday, the German news- ment to the Bundestag, the lower top officials considered that time- Brussels believes violates the Mr. Juncker reportedly told Mrs. President Trump in the face of
paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine house of Parliament, on Thursday, table unworkable given what they principle of transparency — and May as he left the dinner. growing North Korean threats.
Sonntagszeitung, ran an article, saying that Britain can work out a
clearly leaked by officials in the new relationship with the Euro-
pean Union only after it leaves. “I
European Commission, that de-
must say this clearly here because
scribed a considerable gulf be-
I get the feeling that some people
tween Mrs. May, who called for a
in Britain still have illusions —
snap election on June 8, and Jean-
that would be wasted time,” she
Claude Juncker, the president of
warned.
the commission, as well as the
She added: “We can only do an
bloc’s chief negotiator on Britain’s
agreement on the future relation-
exit, Michel Barnier.
ship with Britain when all ques-
According to the German news-
tions about its exit have been
paper and some from Britain, like cleared up satisfactorily,” while
The Sunday Times of London, Mr. pointing out that serious negotia-
tions could not start until after the
British elections in June.
The reports on Sunday were de-
A dinner reveals a gulf tailed enough — and one-sided
between Britain and enough — that officials at 10
Downing Street issued an official
Europe over ‘Brexit’ statement on Monday, a holiday in
Britain, rejecting the German
negotiations. newspaper’s version. “We do not
recognize this account,” the state-
ment said. “As the prime minister
and Jean-Claude Juncker made
Juncker came away believing that clear, this was a constructive
Mrs. May was not just in “a state meeting ahead of the negotiations
of denial,” but in “a different formally getting underway.”
galaxy,” as he was said to have re- On Sunday, on television news
ported in an early morning tele- talk shows, Mrs. May acknowl-
phone call the next day to Chan- edged that the talks would be diffi-
cellor Angela Merkel of Germany. cult but said to the BBC, “I’m not
The paper reported that Mrs. in a different galaxy, but I think
May said at one point, “Let’s make what this shows, and what some of
Brexit a success.” Mr. Juncker the other comments we’ve seen
was said to have replied, “Brexit coming from European leaders
cannot be a success.” shows, is that there are going to be
Mrs. May was said to have times when these negotiations are
called for working on a trade deal going to be tough.”
simultaneously with talks on She insisted that Britain could
Britain’s exit, arguing that since secure a comprehensive trade
Britain is already a member and deal with the European Union
merely wants to leave, a trade alongside the divorce negotia-
deal should be much easier to tions and complete everything in
complete. two years, with an “implementa-
Mr. Juncker somewhat theatri- tion period.”
cally dismissed the idea, reaching Brussels officials regard that as
into his bag and pulling out two unrealistic and point to the bloc’s
big stacks of paper: Croatia’s Eu- “Brexit” negotiating guidelines,
ropean Union entry deal and which mandate that talks on a fu-
Canada’s free-trade pact, all 2,250 ture relationship can begin only
pages of it. after “sufficient progress” has
The two sides also differed on been on three major issues: guar-

ANDY RAIN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain and Jean-Claude

Juncker, president of the European Commission, last week.
A8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Trump’s Volatility Has Australians Worrying Over Risk of Ties to the U.S.
States.
From Page A1 Mr. Keating, the former prime
military alliance faces a new chal- minister, is among those urging a
lenge: the risk that President more independent foreign policy
Trump will draw the nation into a in which Australia accepts China
conflict or other unexpected crisis as the region’s dominant power.
that destabilizes the region, In the discussion last week at
angers its trading partners or the Lowy Institute, a think tank in
forces it to side with either the Sydney, Mr. Keating said Austral-
United States or China. ia should say no to the United
“The question is: What might States more often — as France
America drag Australia into?” and Canada do — especially on is-
said Ashley Townshend, a re- sues that affect Australia’s rela-
search fellow at the United States tionship with China.
Studies Center at the University Those who reject this argument
of Sydney. “That’s a very scary include John Howard, the prime
thought for Australians, many of minister who followed Mr. Keat-
whom perceive Donald Trump to ing and was in Washington on
be an erratic and highly self-inter- Sept. 11, 2001. In an interview at his
ested commander in chief.” modest office, with worn carpets
Mr. Trump has already embar- and military memorabilia, Mr.
rassed Australia once, with an Howard warned against being
abrupt phone call to Mr. Turnbull “mesmerized by China” and said
that seemed to dismiss Australia’s his Liberal Party, which is the
historic role as a friend who often more conservative of the coun-
gives more than it gets. Now his try’s two largest parties, had
unpredictable approach is fueling “pulled off the daily double.”
a national debate about “We deepened our relationship
Australia’s relationship with the with the U.S. — and China became
world, and especially the United our biggest customer,” he said.
States. Last week, Paul Keating, a He added that too many
prime minister during the Clinton Australians were jumping to con-
years, reignited discussion by ar- clusions about President Trump.
guing that Australia must end its “He’s different,” Mr. Howard said.
status as a “client state.” “Whether he’s good different or
Australia is essentially caught bad different is not the point; the
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID DARE PARKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
between two powers: China, its world has to get used to him.”
largest trading partner, and the United States Marines marched in Darwin on Anzac Day, a holiday honoring Australians and New Zealanders who died in battle. In Darwin too, there are divi-
United States, its faithful ally, with sions. Luke Bowen, who heads an
a military connection that has that the raids were led by the ally the guts of the alliance,” Mr. and drones in the air and under- pay more of the costs of improving economic development agency
been strengthened by the wars in same commander responsible for Beazley said. water. wastewater lines on military for the Northern Territory, which
Iraq and Afghanistan and more the attack on Pearl Harbor 10 On the ground in countries like And in many cases, that means bases. The proposal stunned even includes Darwin, would like to see
recent agreements to gradually weeks earlier. Iraq and Afghanistan, Australian purchases of American equip- the lead Australian negotiators, even more American troops and
expand the American footprint in Within a few months, Darwin troops are also peers in battle, said ment. An Australian defense plan- who quickly dropped it, according equipment move in to the area,
Darwin. ning report last year laid out a $20 to American defense officials. possibly from the Philippines.
became a hub for counterstrikes Lt. Col. Brian S. Middleton, com-
What Australia and the United from bombers flown by Ameri- manding officer of the Third Bat- billion increase in the annual mili- The toughest issues have in- “It’s a priority for us to make the
States are now trying to work out tary budget by 2025, including volved China, the crucial lever of fit as comfortable as possible,” he
cans. A pocket guide for arriving talion, Fourth Marines — the
is how to manage that military money for fighter jets, surveil- influence with North Korea and said. “It’s not just about the
American troops set the tone: American unit that just moved
momentum in an increasingly lance technology, submarines, the region. Some American offi- Australian presence. It’s about the
“You’re going to meet a people into Darwin for six months of
tense part of the world. If the mili- surface ships and other equip- cials have urged Australia to en- combined presence.”
who like Americans and whom training with the Australians.
tary is a hammer in the Trump ment. gage in robust freedom-of-naviga- But Justin Tutty, who works
era, at what point does every dis- you will like.” As part of the American pivot to
During the Cold War, the rela- Asia, the long-term plan, negotiat- Australians are embedded at tion operations in the South China with a watchdog group that moni-
pute start to look like a nail? every level of the American mili- Sea, where China has set up bases tors the impact of the American
“It’s always important that tionship expanded. ed under the Obama administra-
Kim Beazley, a former defense tion, is to send up to 2,500 Marines tary. Australian Air Commodore on disputed islands, but the Marines, said he was worried
there’s a balance between the mili- Phillip Champion’s story is com- Australians have resisted. about “a one-sided relationship”
tary and the diplomatic — be- minister and ambassador to the to Darwin — the largest deploy-
United States, cited the rise dur- ment of United States forces to mon: He first worked with the Last year, American officials in which the Americans lay out the
cause of the scale of the military,” Americans as a young pilot in the also expressed alarm about a port priorities.
Mr. Keating said in an interview. ing the 1960s of three joint installa- Australia since World War II. “It’ll
tions to maintain contact with make us more effective in what- early ’80s, flying surveillance air- in Darwin that local officials “The overinvestment in ‘inter-
“In both economic terms and in craft, and later as a commander leased to a Chinese company for operability’ ties us closer to our
strategic terms, they squeeze di- American submarines in the Indi- ever conflict we end up serving in
all over the world, including Af- $361 million, possibly making it larger foreign partner’s attack for-
plomacy out.” an Ocean and provide infrared de- together,” said Kelly Magsamen,
ghanistan. easier to collect intelligence on mation, and reduces our capacity
Darwin, a humid, crocodile-in- tection of Soviet capabilities, in- the Pentagon’s top Asia-Pacific
“We’ve grown up together,” he American and Australian forces to act, relate and think in-
fested coastal city at the northern creasing the warning time for a policy official at the end of the
said in an interview by phone stationed nearby. dependently,” he said.
end of this vast country, captures potential Soviet strike to 30 min- Obama administration.
from Hawaii, where he has been “China is the elephant in the Last week for Anzac Day, com-
the past, present and future of utes from 15. Other American officials said
posted to the United States Pacific room for both of us,” Ms. memorating Australians and New
Australia’s alliance with the Those installations and the that in space, missile defense and Zealanders who died in battle,
Command since January. “We Magsamen said. “We need to have
United States. ones that followed — especially cyberwarfare, the Australians are trust each other and know we can a more frank and structured dis- American Marines and Australian
Japan attacked the city on Feb. Pine Gap, a joint Australian- all in. Australia is working with operate together.” cussion amongst ourselves about soldiers marched through Dar-
19, 1942, killing 235 people, and American spy base that helps pro- the United States to relocate a Still, there have been chal- how to manage that relationship.” win’s streets together. Later, there
residents are quick to point out vide battlefield intelligence and special radar that helps better lenges. In a discussion last year Allan Gyngell, who ran were friendly games of rugby, and
early warnings for missile track satellites. The Australian about the cost of the Marines in Australia’s intelligence agency infantrymen shared war stories.
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting launches around the world — “are military is also making a big push Darwin, the Australians came in from 2009 to 2013, argues in a new “The Australians have been
from Washington. never talked about, but they’re re- in innovation in undersea warfare with a data-heavy presentation book, “Fear of Abandonment,” fighting in the same places we’ve
asserting that United States Ma- that Australia’s foreign policy is fought for over 100 years,” said
rines eat more than typical still driven by worries about being Colonel Middleton of the Marines.
Australian soldiers, and therefore left isolated, without the promise “When we operate with the
strain sewage systems more, and of security from a powerful friend: Australians, we learn as much
argued that the Americans should first Britain, now the United from them as they learn from us.”

An Anzac Day tradition: Red poppies are handed out to a crowd to place on memorials.

Japanese Warship Escorts U.S. Supply Ship

By MOTOKO RICH southwest of Tokyo. The base is forces when Americans are in-
TOKYO — A Japanese warship also home to the American air- volved in the defense of Japan.
accompanied a United States craft carrier Reagan. The laws were largely seen as a
Navy supply ship on Monday on “It is extremely significant to first step by Mr. Abe to expand the
its way to join an American air- show that the deterrent force and country’s military power and,
readiness of the Japan-U.S. secu- eventually, overturn the clause in
craft carrier and three other war-
rity alliance are powerful,” said the country’s postwar Constitu-
ships in a strike force that entered
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s foreign tion that calls for the complete re-
the Sea of Japan over the week- minister, in remarks to reporters nunciation of war.
end. in Turkmenistan, where he was at- The Japanese public is deeply
The group is meant to send a tending talks with his counter- divided over whether to modern-
powerful deterrent signal to parts from several Central Asian ize the Constitution to allow for
North Korea at a time of mounting countries. more military activity. A poll pub-
tensions on the Korean Peninsula Under Japan’s new security lished on Monday by Kyodo News
over the North’s advancing nucle- laws, the country may engage in showed that respondents were
ar program. “collective self-defense,” meaning nearly equally split on the ques-
Japan’s action is a sign of its ex- its military forces may guard the tion of whether that pacifist clause
panding military presence in the ships or weapons of United States should be revised.
region. It is particularly signifi-
cant because it represents the
first time a warship is being used
to aid an allied force since the
country’s Parliament passed leg-
islation authorizing overseas
combat missions.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
fought a hard political battle to
push through those security laws
two years ago, and they remain
contentious in a country that has
considered its postwar pacifism a
deeply embedded part of its iden-
tity.
The Japan Maritime Self-De-
fense Force sent the Izumo, a heli- KYODO NEWS, VIA REUTERS

copter carrier, on Monday morn- The Izumo, a Japanese helicopter carrier, on Monday accompa-
ing from a base in Yokosuka, nied a United States Navy ship on its way to join a strike force.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N A9

Hamas Moderates Extreme Stances in a Bid to Gain Ground Against Fatah

From Page A1
“Whether it’s a coincidence or
it’s connected, I have one thing to
say: The Palestinian leadership is
afraid of this Hamas moderation,”
said Mkhaimar Abusada, a po-
litical scientist at Al-Azhar Uni-
versity-Gaza. “Because the P.A.
and Fatah are afraid that by this
moderation, Hamas presents it-
self as the true representation of
the Palestinian people,” he said,
referring to the Palestinian Au-
thority.
The official release came at a
telling time and place: Hamas of-
ficials, normally secretive, held
several events on Monday in
Doha, the capital of Qatar, an
American ally that would play a
crucial role in a deal between the
Israelis and Palestinians, which
Mr. Trump is pushing.
Mr. Abbas was scheduled to
meet with Mr. Trump in Washing-
ton on Wednesday as the sole rep-
resentative of the Palestinian peo-
ple.
Experts on all sides of the com-
plex struggle here say the new
document is unlikely to represent
any profound change in Hamas’s
true position toward Israel. The
group recently chose a hard-liner,
Yehya Sinwar, as its new leader in
Gaza, and it has still in no way rec-
ognized Israel or renounced vio-
lence.
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu of Israel quickly de-
nounced the move. “Hamas’s doc-
ument is a smoke screen,” he said
in a statement. “We see Hamas
continuing to invest all of its re-
sources not just in preparing for
war with Israel, but also in educat-
SAID KHATIB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
ing the children of Gaza to want to
destroy Israel.” The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in the Gaza Strip last year. The rivalry of Hamas and Fatah has hobbled the peace process.
Hamas is still considered a ter-
rorist group by much of the West, sus of Hamas’s top leadership. the well-trained Palestinian Au- willingness to engage with the And it does not renounce vio- Under President Abdel Fattah
including the United States, a sta- The paper calls for Hamas to thority security forces have kept a outside world, he said. “Hamas lence; “resistance” continues to el-Sisi, Egypt frequently accuses
tus that has led to its exclusion distance itself from the Muslim tight check on Hamas in the West will be an influential political body be a main source of strength and Hamas of aiding Islamist mili-
from wider international talks Brotherhood in an effort to build Bank, Fatah always fears support in the next phase.” credibility. tants in attacks against Egyptian
about the Palestinians’ future. stronger ties with Egypt, which or action waiting in the wings. In Israel, which has fought “Hamas rejects any attempt to security forces in Sinai and
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas controls the Gaza Strip’s southern In Fatah, Marwan Barghouti, a three wars with Hamas since undermine the resistance and its Egypt’s main cities. Egyptian se-
spokesman in Gaza, said the border. It reiterates the Hamas popular figure among Palestin- 2008, the document was greeted arms. It also affirms the right of curity officials and pro-govern-
group had to move beyond its leadership’s view that it is open to ians who is serving five life sen- with skepticism. our people to develop the means ment news outlets accuse Hamas,
original charter to achieve its a Palestinian state along the bor- tences for murders in the second “Not even one mind” will be and mechanisms of resistance,” often without proof, of providing
goals. “The document gives us a ders established after the 1967 intifada, is leading a hunger strike changed in Israel, said Yossi Ku- the document says. “Hamas con- militants with training and guns.
chance to connect with the outside war, though it does not renounce in Israeli jails, now two weeks old, perwasser, a retired Israeli briga- firms that the resistance leader- At the same time, Egyptian in-
world,” he said. “To the world, our future claims to Palestinian rule that some experts say is aimed at dier general who led the army’s ship can decide the level of resist- telligence has quietly renewed its
message is: Hamas is not radical. over what is now Israel. And the raising his credibility as a leader. research arm. “Nobody will be af- ance and can utilize a variety of relationship with Hamas in recent
We are a pragmatic and civilized group specifically weakened lan- Mr. Trump has expressed a de- fected by this.” the different tools and ways to ad-
years, in an effort to secure Sinai
movement. We do not hate the guage from its 1988 charter pro- sire for a peace process that Mr. Kuperwasser called it a ministrate the conflict, without
and to bolster Egypt’s role as a
Jews. We only fight who occupies claiming Jews as enemies and brings in Sunni Arab nations “sugarcoating” of old positions compromising the resistance.”
comparing their views to Nazism, mediator in the Israel-Palestine
our lands and kills our people.” aligned against Shiite Iran, itself that did not renounce Hamas’s In distancing itself from the
though the new document does allied with Hamas, even as Hamas Muslim Brotherhood, analysts conflict.
The document is a distillation of original charter and did not recog-
various public statements over not replace the original charter. seeks to become closer to those nize Israel’s right to exist. He did said, Hamas was likely to improve Before Mr. Abbas’s visit to
the years signaling an attempt by “Hamas does not wage a strug- same Sunni nations. say, however, that it could be prob- its often-strained relationship Washington, the Egyptians are
Hamas to appear more pragmatic gle against the Jews because they “The P.A. and Hamas compete lematic for Mr. Abbas because the with Egypt, even if it was unlikely keen to establish their role as po-
since it seized broad control of are Jewish, but wages a struggle to get embraced by Egypt, Saudi Palestinian Authority and Hamas to open the border between Egypt tential peacemakers. After a
Gaza in 2007, after winning parlia- against the Zionists who occupy Arabia and the rest of the Arab platforms appear to be growing and Gaza for trade. meeting between Mr. Sisi and Mr.
mentary elections a year earlier. Palestine,” the new document states, but it seems the Arab em- closer. “It’s a huge step for Hamas, but Abbas in Cairo on Saturday, the
Four years in the drafting, the states. brace is not enough for two wom- In the document, Hamas reit- I think they should temper their Egyptian president’s office issued
document represents the consen- Mr. Abbas is increasingly un- en,” said Fayez Abu Shamala, a erates that Palestinians who fled expectations about the reaction a statement that noted Egypt’s
popular at home, though he is the Palestinian writer and political or were expelled during wars with from the Egyptians,” said Abdel- “pivotal role” and urged Palestin-
Majd Al Waheidi contributed re- recognized conduit to the wider analyst close to Hamas. Israelis have the right to return — rahman Ayyash, a researcher on ian unity as “essential to put an
porting from Gaza, and Declan world, and the race for succession The new document, however, largely a nonstarter in successive Islamist movements who is based end to the plight of the Palestinian
Walsh from Cairo. is clearly heating up. And while reveals a greater pragmatism and peace negotiations with Israel. in Istanbul. people.”

Syrian Nerve Gas Attack That Led to Missile Strike Appears to Be One of a Series
By ANNE BARNARD held areas where they occurred. ty, killing a doctor, Ali Darwish, as
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last Medical organizations and so- he performed surgery, as well as
month’s chemical weapons attack cial media accounts that day his patient and another person,
on a rebel-held Syrian town may shared images of dead children according to the Human Rights
have caught the world’s — and bearing no visible wounds, as if Watch report and other witnesses.
President Trump’s — attention, sleeping, like those killed by a On April 3, munitions with a simi-
but it was not the only recent sus- nerve agent in Khan Sheikhoun lar smell again hit the village, in-
pected use of a nerve agent by and in 2013 attacks near Da- juring at least a dozen.
Syrian government forces. mascus. But because people can On March 30, a bomb fell with-
On three other occasions in the be killed for sharing information out the usual intense explosion —
months leading up to the attack on online from Islamic State-con- chemical weapons typically con-
the town of Khan Sheikhoun, wit- trolled areas, it was difficult to tain a smaller explosive charge, to
nesses, doctors and human rights verify them at the time. disperse but not destroy the agent
investigators say, government at- Human Rights Watch said its in- — injuring 169 people, many but
tacks left scores of people sick- vestigators interviewed four not all of them believed to be com-
ened with similar symptoms, like residents by telephone and two batants. They reported symptoms
foaming at the mouth, shaking medics through intermediaries. It similar to those from a nerve
and paralysis — including two at- said they gave consistent ac- agent, including pupils con-
tacks in December, little noticed at counts of chemical weapons at- stricted to pinpoints.
the time, that killed at least 64 peo- tacks in two villages in eastern In the Dec. 12 attacks, two vil-
ple. Hama Province, amid clashes be- lages, Jrouh and al-Salaliyah,
New information about the ad- tween government and Islamic were hit, Human Rights Watch
ditional attacks appears in a Hu- State forces, that killed residents said. It quoted a Jrouh resident
man Rights Watch report released sheltering in caves and in their who said he found his wife, three
Monday, bolstering New York homes. children, brother, brother’s wife
Times reporting on those The report also provides new and brother’s three children dead
episodes and placing Khan details about the Khan Sheikhoun in his basement. He said his neigh-
Sheikhoun in the context of wider bors, his uncle and the families of
attack, as well as about an in-
evidence that the Syrian govern- ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/REUTERS his uncle’s two sons also died.
tensifying series of recent govern-
ment continues to use chemical Inspecting damage to a hospital in the area of Aleppo, Syria, last year. Human Rights Watch and ment bombings and shelling ille- “Everyone within 100 meters
weapons despite its 2013 agree- died,” he told the rights group.
witnesses said Syrian forces were increasingly relying on tactics such as the bombing of hospitals. gally using chlorine gas, with bar-
ment to give them up. “There was no one left.” He buried
rels dropped from helicopters
Despite the missile strike Mr. his family and fled, and was inter-
come clean.” and, in a new method, with impro-
Trump ordered on the Syrian mili- viewed by Human Rights Watch
He also said the pattern of at- vised ground-to-ground missiles.
tary airfield he said was the after finding refuge outside Is-
tacks as described in the Human In those cases, too, the findings
source of the Khan Sheikhoun at- lamic State territory.
Rights Watch report amounted to coincide with accounts residents
tack, Syrian forces are doubling Human Rights Watch inter-
“a level of culpability and horror and witnesses gave to The Times
down on tactics that constitute viewed 32 residents of Khan
that cries out for prosecution.” and with a Times analysis of pub- Sheikhoun and reviewed avail-
war crimes, including bombing
So far, Russia has used its Secu- lic information online. able evidence, corroborating pre-
hospitals and rescue and medical
workers and using chemical rity Council veto to block investi- Human Rights Watch corrobo- vious accounts that one bomb con-
weapons, according to the report gations of war crimes in Syria in rated eight chlorine attacks this taining a chemical agent fell after
and other witness accounts. the International Criminal Court. year, out of a larger number re- a warplane passed over before 7
The Syrian government and its But even without a Security Coun- ported by residents. Possession of a.m. on April 4, followed by three
main ally, Russia, deny that it uses cil referral to the court, an ac- chlorine, unlike sarin, is not illegal or four explosive bombs dropped
such tactics. countability mechanism created under international law, but its in a second bombing run.
At a news conference held at last year by the General Assembly use as a weapon is. The attacks It found that bomb fragments
United Nations headquarters in can be used to look into the allega- took place in areas where govern- from the scene of the suspected
New York to release the report’s tions. United Nations officials told ment forces were clashing with chemical bomb matched those of a
findings, the executive director of reporters on Monday in New York rebel forces, near the cities of Da- Soviet-made munition that deliv-
Human Rights Watch, Kenneth and Geneva that the work could mascus and Hama. ers sarin, the KhAB-250.
Roth, ridiculed what he described begin soon, and that member The intense battles around Human Rights Watch said it
GHIRH SY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
as “preposterous” assertions by states have raised half of the re- Hama led to three attacks, two be- found no evidence for the version
the Syrian and Russian govern- quired $13 million initial budget. A child being treated for respiratory distress in Aleppo in De- lieved to be with chlorine and one of events provided by Russia: that
ments denying responsibility. Mr. Roth expressed impatience cember after what may have been airstrikes using chlorine gas. believed to be with a nerve agent, government warplanes bombed a
Mr. Roth said it was time for for the secretary general, António in the two weeks before the Khan warehouse holding chemical
them “to stop these transparently Guterres, to appoint a prosecutor, its members, the group and other Human Rights Watch corrobo- Sheikhoun attack. All of them agents stored by rebel groups.
false diversionary claims and but Mr. Guterres’s spokesman, witnesses say. And medical orga- rated claims of two suspected were in al-Lataminah, a town in Corroborating reporting by The
Stephane Dujarric, said the nizations working in Syria have nerve gas attacks on Dec. 12 that Hama Province between Khan Times and The Guardian, it found
Reporting was contributed by process was underway, adding, “I tallied 10 government attacks in initially went relatively unno- Sheikhoun and the front line. that the only buildings near the
Karam Shoumali from Istanbul, don’t think the secretary general April alone on hospitals and clin- ticed. This was in part because On March 25, ordnance crashed small crater left by the suspected
Maher Samaan from Paris, is dragging his feet.” ics in rebel-held areas, part of a they took place when the world’s through the roof of a clinic that, be- chemical bomb were abandoned,
Hwaida Saad from Beirut, On Saturday, an attack on a pattern of hundreds of attacks on attention was focused on the bat- cause of previous attacks, had sustained no new damage, and
Malachy Browne and Rick Glad- headquarters of the White Hel- medical workers and facilities tle over Aleppo, and in part be- been reinforced with a metal roof were open to the air and could not
stone from New York, and Somini mets civil defense rescue group in that United Nations investigators cause of the difficulty of verifying covered with earth. Yellowish gas have concealed a chemical
Sengupta from the United Nations. the town of Kafr Zita killed eight of have described as war crimes. information in the Islamic State- smelling of bleach filled the facili- weapons store.
A10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Insurer Threatens to Sue Chinese Magazine Over Critical Article Gay Rights
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
BEIJING — Wu Xiaohui, the
stepped into more sensitive terri-
tory by examining the group’s
Protesters
Chinese tycoon who was in failed
talks with President Trump’s son-
in-law, Jared Kushner, to buy into
ownership and accounts in pains-
taking detail.
In 18 months from October 2014,
Are Detained
a skyscraper project in Manhat-
tan, is fighting allegations of fi-
nancial chicanery and has
Caixin estimated, Anbang had
spent $16 billion on overseas ac-
quisitions. But Caixin also said
In Russia
threatened to sue a Chinese maga- Anbang’s successive injections of By ANDREW E. KRAMER
zine that examined his company’s capital, which have helped finance
MOSCOW — The Russian po-
labyrinthine funding. these deals, appeared to often in-
lice detained about 20 gay rights
The Anbang Insurance Group, volve companies linked to Mr.
protesters on Monday, among
which Mr. Wu controls as presi- Wu’s relatives and associates,
them the leader of a group that is
dent and chief executive, said on raising the possibility that they
helping gay men escape from the
Sunday that it would take legal ac- were not real injections by outside
southern province of Chechnya,
tion against Caixin Media and its investors.
where they face abuse, including
editor in chief, Hu Shuli, after Anbang appeared to have “used
torture.
Caixin Weekly magazine ques- circular injections of funding to
The protesters held a demon-
tioned whether Anbang was as fi- magnify its capital,” the report
stration on the sidelines of a May
nancially robust as the company said.
Day parade in St. Petersburg,
claimed. The Caixin report said those
Russia’s second-largest city.
“Anbang’s shareholder struc- doubts were reinforced by An-
The treatment of gays in Chech-
ture is like a maze,” Caixin said in bang’s complicated ownership.
nya has prompted protests out-
an article published online on Sat- Many of those companies regis-
side Russia, but the demonstra-
urday and in print on Monday. It tered under obscure addresses,
tion on Monday was the first sig-
said that Anbang’s meteoric with little capital registered in
nificant action inside the country,
their names, and often they were
growth and acquisitions raised and it ended, perhaps predictably,
formed in clusters shortly before
suspicions of financial sleight of with arrests. Russia has strict
they bought into Anbang — find-
hand, including capital injections JASON LEE/REUTERS
rules on political activity in public.
ings that echo the Times report.
coming from companies linked to The headquarters of the Anbang Insurance Group in Beijing. A report in the Chinese magazine The names, addresses and other Some protesters lay on the
Mr. Wu. Caixin Weekly questioned whether the company was as financially robust as it claimed. pavement draped in a rainbow
details of dozens of people regis-
“The left hand has been helping flag and the flag of Chechnya. Oth-
tered as holding shares suggested
the right hand to inflate capital,” ers carried placards objecting to
vided in the article is, I think, rela- the Communist patriarch who that they were Mr. Wu’s relatives
the article said. and associates. the mistreatment of gay men in
tively unique for any type of story oversaw China’s market reforms
Anbang hit back with its own in- Chechnya, news footage showed.
of a Chinese company in Chinese in the 1980s. Mr. Wu also came Until recent days, Anbang was
cendiary accusations. Caixin is a media,” Christopher Balding, an mostly silent about the reports on “They even deny they exist and
close to sealing a partnership with
widely respected economics associate professor at the Peking Mr. Wu and the group’s finances, deny the problem exists,” Andrei
American political royalty
weekly, and its findings echoed an University HSBC Business School including internet-born rumors Potapov, one of the protesters, told
through Mr. Kushner, the New
extensive report on Anbang by in the southern Chinese city of that he had been held as part of a Euronews of Chechen officials. A
York developer who is a son-in-
The New York Times last year. But Shenzhen, said by telephone. criminal investigation. No Chi- spokesman for the regional lead-
law and adviser of Mr. Trump.
Anbang suggested on Sunday that nese officials have said anything er, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, told The
A lawsuit would pit a company Anbang was in talks with Mr.
Caixin had published its report af- to suggest that Mr. Wu was de- New York Times this month that
that has recently appeared poli- Kushner’s family company to pay
ter failing to squeeze advertising tained or under investigation. Chechnya had no gay men.
tically vulnerable against a maga- $400 million for a stake in a flag-
orders and other contributions zine that has proved skilled at But since late last week the It was not immediately clear
ship skyscraper on Fifth Avenue
from Anbang. navigating censorship to report company has fought back. An- why the police had detained the
in Manhattan. Anbang bought the
According to Anbang, Caixin on corruption and financial bang issued a statement on Friday activists. Among them was Igor
Waldorf Astoria hotel, a popular
falsely claimed that Mr. Wu had shenanigans in China. that it had sufficient cash flows; it Kochetkov, director of the Russian
venue on the New York social cal-
married three times and “made a The controversy over Anbang told a Chinese newspaper that ru- LGBT Network, a group that has
endar, in 2014 as part of a spree of
series of smears and slanders has come while the Chinese Com- acquisitions. mors that Mr. Wu was in detention been providing gay men from
against our company’s legitimate munist Party government under were false; and Mr. Wu gave an in- Chechnya with safe houses else-
But the deal with Mr. Kushner’s
business activities.” The marriage President Xi Jinping is seeking terview to another Chinese news- where in Russia.
company foundered in March, in
allegation appeared to refer to a stability ahead of a leadership THOMAS PETER/REUTERS the wake of growing controversy paper, The Beijing News, that also Tens of thousands of people in
report in Caixin in 2015. Russia attend May Day parades,
turnover later this year. But Mr. Xi Wu Xiaohui, Anbang’s presi- about a presidential in-law doing seemed intended to squash the ru-
Caixin responded to Anbang’s also vowed in late April to rid Chi- business with a Chinese conglom- mors. which are intended to highlight la-
dent and chief executive. bor issues and defend the rights of
threat to sue with its own threat of na’s banks, insurers and other fi- erate with many ties to Beijing’s Mr. Wu said in the interview
litigation. On its website on Mon- nancial companies of excessive political elite. Mr. Kushner has that Anbang was especially en- workers. In Moscow, Gennady A.
day, Caixin said the suggestion risk. Last month, Xiang Junbo, the also become an influential White thusiastic about Mr. Xi’s plan to Zyuganov, the leader of the Rus-
like that were exploding by just
that it took on Anbang out of chief regulator of Chinese House adviser to Mr. Trump, in- expand Chinese investment and sian Communist Party, gave a
astounding rates in the past few speech in front of a poster of Jo-
vengefulness was “an attempt at insurers, including Anbang, was years.” cluding on China policy. construction abroad in a much-
framing with no basis in facts.” put under investigation by party Anbang’s international luster promoted plan called “One Belt, seph Stalin.
Guo Wengui, a Chinese busi- Fontanka, a St. Petersburg
“We strongly condemn the slan- anticorruption investigators. had already dulled after it with- One Road.” Now investors and po-
nessman who fled abroad, has news portal, reported that the po-
der in the Anbang statement and The questions raised by the ar- drew an application last year to litical analysts will watch to see
added to the recent jitters in Bei-
reserve the right to take legal re- ticle, and by the possibility of a buy an Iowa insurer, Fidelity & whether Mr. Xi’s government
course,” Caixin said. A director of jing by publicizing allegations —
lawsuit, may test whether the de- Guaranty Life, and also shelved a takes sides in the dispute between
communications at Caixin, Ma many of them lurid and difficult to
sire for stability will outweigh the $14 billion bid to buy Starwood Ho- Anbang and Caixin.
Ling, declined to answer ques- government’s vows to take on net-
corroborate — of corruption
reaching into the party elite. Mr.
tels and Resorts. Before those “Hu Shuli and Caixin have done Denying abuses in
tions and referred to the online tlesome financial issues. deals foundered, American
statement. “Anbang is definitely a little bit Guo has also clashed with Caixin. investors and regulators raised
an amazing job carving out a
space for honest and incisive re-
Chechnya, and
Mr. Wu’s family and personal
Caixin’s latest report on An-
bang has been part of a burst of
more extreme and more ag-
gressive than other Chinese insur- ties are at the heart of the growing
doubts about Anbang’s opaque
ownership and its financial
porting in China’s heavily cen-
sored media,” Victor Shih, a pro-
punishing those who
unwelcome attention for the com- ance companies,” Mr. Balding questions about Anbang, which he
co-founded in 2004.
strength. fessor at the University of Califor- condemn them.
pany and Mr. Wu, which has said. “But at the same time, if you Now Caixin has laid out similar nia, San Diego, who studies fi-
thrown into doubt his business look at the finances of the insur- He has been a member by mar- doubts for its readers. The Chi- nance and politics in China, said
acumen and his reputation for po- ance industry at large, and at indi- riage of China’s political and busi- nese news media had already by email. “Caixin will need all of
litical invulnerability. vidual insurance companies, their ness aristocracy: He married a raised questions about Anbang’s its savvy to navigate the Anbang lice had detained 18 people under a
“The level of detail that is pro- revenue and building and things granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, spending spree, but Caixin lawsuit though.” law against “violations by par-
ticipants of a public activity of the
rules of its implementation.”
That implied that the gay rights

An Indonesian Group Seeks to Export Its Modernized Vision of Islam message had not been approved
for the pro-labor marches, though
the Fontanka report did not say
By JOE COCHRANE to battle in the Middle East and archaic interpretations of Islam. and other religious minorities. precisely how the protesters had
elsewhere, and distorted by “The challenge we face is not Saudi Arabia, in the Middle violated the parade rules.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The
movements that seek to turn Is- confined to religious views that East, however, practices the con- Videos posted online showed
imposing, six-foot-tall painting is
lam into a political weapon. emerged through an intellectual servative Wahhabi Islam, and its activists carrying rainbow flags,
a potent symbol of modern and then police officers bundling
Indonesian history: the country’s “The classical Islamic perspec- process conducted a thousand government does not officially
tive is dominated by views that years ago. We are also confronted recognize any of its citizens as be- some of them into a van. Reached
founding father, Sukarno, cradling by cellphone in jail, Mr. Kochetkov
a dead, barefoot rebel killed by position non-Muslims as enemies by religious and political authori- ing Christian.
or, at best, as suspicious figures ties whose institutions are deeply “If you want to have only one said about 20 people had been ar-
Dutch colonial forces amid rice rested, Reuters reported.
fields and smoldering volcanoes not worthy of trust,” H. Yaqut intertwined with these views, and universal interpretation, you have
Qoumas, Ansor’s chairman, said thus continue to inculcate such to deal with the cultural differ- The Russian LGBT Network,
in late-1940s Java. Mr. Kochetkov’s group, has creat-
in an interview. teachings among each new gener- ences and also find an interna-
The fighter’s bloodied shirt ed an emergency volunteer net-
“Fiqh,” or the body of jurispru- ation of Muslims,” Mr. Yaqut said. tional central authority. This is im-
draws immediate attention — but work to help gay men escape
dence that applies Shariah to ev- Nonetheless, some Islamic possible,” said Abdel Rahman El
so does a necklace dangling from Chechnya, operating a hotline and
eryday life, “explicitly rejects the scholars and experts note that be- Haj, a professor at Ankara Social
the body: a Christian cross, worn safe houses.
possibility of non-Muslims enjoy- cause there are so many diverging Sciences University in Turkey.
by the independence martyr for Even by the standards of
ing equal rights with Muslims in interpretations of Islamic law and He added that while Indonesian
the world’s most populous Mus- Chechnya, a small region tor-
the public sphere, including the the Quran, it would be difficult to Islamic leaders had good inten-
lim-majority nation. right to occupy certain positions,” reach an international consensus tions, substantive changes would mented by two brutal wars for in-
The 2006 painting has become he said. “This classical Islamic on reforms. be successful only if support for dependence in the post-Soviet pe-
the symbol of a global initiative by perspective continues to possess NAHDLATUL ULAMA “There’s a whole library of in- them emerged within the Arab riod, the mass arrests of gay men
the Indonesian youth wing of an extraordinarily powerful au- terpretations of jihad — Muslims world. seem brazen.
Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest
A painting depicting Indone-
thority in the eyes of most Mus- sia’s founding leader, Sukarno. must fight non-Muslim states to The Ansor initiative is seen as To counteract popular support
mass Islamic organization in the lims, and is regarded as standard, expand territory, for example,” another move by young Muslims for an Islamist insurgency that
world, that seeks to reinterpret Is- orthodox Islam.” said Ruud Peters, an emeritus in Indonesia, as well as Islamic erupted after the Soviet breakup,
lamic law dating from the Middle Some interpretations of classi- prisoners. professor of Islamic law at the clerics and other Muslim organi- President Vladimir V. Putin of
Ages in ways that conform to 21st- cal Islamic law teach that Mus- Some predominantly Muslim University of Amsterdam. “But zations in Europe and the Middle Russia has granted wide latitude
century norms. lims have a duty to seek out and countries have been moving to re- since the 19th century, there have East, to push back against ex- to the regional leader, Mr. Kady-
Among other things, it calls for fight Christians, Jews and follow- interpret Islamic law within their been interpretations followed by treme, conservative interpreta- rov, to co-opt elements of the Is-
a re-examination of elements of ers of Zoroastrianism until they borders, with some sending dele- many Muslim states to only de- tions of Islam. lamist agenda, including an intol-
Islamic law that dictate relations either convert to Islam or submit gations to a 2016 international fend against attack from non- “The general impression we erance of gays. Local officials in
between Muslims and non-Mus- to its rule and pay a head tax. conference of scholars, religious Muslim states.” sometimes get in the West about Chechnya and federal officials in
lims, the structure of government These interpretations have leaders and clergy members in Another problem, scholars and Islam is one of radicalization,” Moscow have denied that gay
and the proper aims and conduct been enthusiastically adopted by Morocco on protecting the legal experts said, is the cultural differ- said Raphaël Lefèvre, a nonresi- men are being abused.
of warfare. the Islamic State. rights of religious minorities liv- ences among predominantly Mus- dent political Islam scholar at the “You should ask those devils to
Leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama’s Also, some interpretations of ing among them. lim countries in interpreting Is- Carnegie Middle East Center, apologize and kneel before the
youth wing, known as Ansor, say classical Islamic law, and of cer- The Indonesian initiative, how- lamic law. Indonesia, in Southeast “while an equally if not more im- Chechen people for insults, hu-
that elements of Shariah, which tain passages in the Quran, forbid ever, aims to directly approach Asia, for example, practices one of portant trend is the ongoing strug- miliation and accusation,” Mr.
Muslims consider divine law, are Muslims to have non-Muslim po- governments around the world, the most liberal forms of Islam in gle by Muslim clerics to redefine Kadyrov told RBK television last
being manipulated by groups like litical leaders. Medieval Islamic both Muslim-majority and other- the world, while simultaneously what Islamic law has to say about month, speaking of Russian jour-
the Islamic State and Al Qaeda to jurisprudence, still regarded as wise, as well as at the United Na- having a secular government and society and politics in ways nalists who have documented the
justify terrorist attacks around valid by some, is used to justify tions, to achieve a global consen- Constitution, with full rights for deemed more compatible with arrests and abuse of gay men.
the world, invoked to rally fighters slavery and the execution of sus on reforming what it views as Christians, Hindus, Buddhists modern life.” “The best way to lead a healthy
lifestyle is to have the right orien-
tation,” he said. “God created us
men, women and animals. Have
Venezuela’s President, Besieged by Protests, Wants to Rewrite Constitution you seen any religious pronounce-
ment that would say you should
marry a cat, for example?”
By NICHOLAS CASEY the people, the communities, the don’t know how to continue using “There are violent groups that A dismal economy has led to Earlier this year, to find clos-
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Presi- peasants” to rewrite the govern- the normal mechanisms, such as don’t understand that violence shortages of food and medicine, eted gay men, the authorities be-
dent Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ing charter. having elections,” said Enrique won’t get us anywhere, and that and a Supreme Court decision last gan to pose on social networking
said Monday that he would con- The president’s plan came at a Sánchez Falcón, a legal expert we must have a dialogue despite month to strip power from the Na- sites as gay men looking for dates
vene an assembly to rewrite the time of deep desperation for his and professor at the Central Uni- our differences,” said Hermann tional Assembly led to the pro- and detained the people who re-
unpopular government. Hun- versity of Venezuela. Escarrá, a legal adviser to Mr. Ma- tests. sponded, according to Chechen
country’s Constitution, which he
dreds of thousands of Venez- Venezuela’s opposition quickly duro. The court, on Mr. Maduro’s urg- gay men interviewed last month.
said would quell mounting pro-
uelans have been protesting in Ca- rejected the president’s proposal. It was unclear precisely how ing, later reversed much of its rul- Novaya Gazeta, a Russian inde-
tests against him.
racas and other cities, calling him Henrique Capriles, a state gover- Mr. Maduro wanted the Constitu- ing. But his opponents say he is pendent newspaper, reported that
But the plan was quickly re- a dictator and demanding that he tion changed. Some legal experts continuing to govern in an au-
jected by his opponents as an at- nor who narrowly lost to Mr. Ma- more than 100 gay men had been
schedule elections that his gov- said the constitutional assembly thoritarian manner, and they are arrested and that at least three
tempt to avoid elections. duro in an election in 2013, dis-
ernment postponed. could be used to sideline Vene- demanding new elections. had died. Human Rights Watch
In a televised address on Inter- missed the plan as a “fraud” that
To many, Mr. Maduro’s call to re- zuela’s opposition-controlled Na- Rewriting the Constitution has corroborated that conclusion
national Workers’ Day — on write the Constitution seemed like had been “announced by a dicta- tional Assembly, which has been would forestall any elections, le- based on its own interviews with
which both the president and his an effort to divert attention from tor.” attacked by the country’s courts. gal experts said. victims.
opponents held demonstrations — the political crisis he has been fac- “People to the street to disobey Venezuela has been rocked for The last president to initiate a
Mr. Maduro said he would call to- ing in the streets and to avoid elec- this madness,” he wrote on Twit- the last month by huge street rewriting of the Constitution was
gether what he described as a “cit- tions that his governing United ter on Monday. protests against Mr. Maduro’s Hugo Chávez in 1999, shortly after Everything you need to
izens’ constitutional assembly of Socialist Party is likely to lose, ac- Mr. Maduro’s supporters urged government, which have been he took power and declared his
the opposition to accept the con-
know for your business day
cording to polls. met with repression by the securi- plans for socialist reforms to bene-
Patricia Torres contributed report- “From my point of view, they stitutional process as a means of ty forces. At least 29 people have fit poor and working-class Venez- is in Business Day.
ing from Caracas, Venezuela. are in a dire situation that they settling their disagreements. been killed. uelans. The New York Times
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‘They treated us like criminals. Like they have the right to do anything they want.’
FADWA ALAOUI, below, with her son; a Canadian, she was barred entry trying to cross into Vermont to go shopping.

ALEXI HOBBS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Severe Reception at America’s Front Door

By VIVIAN YEE to ask about religious beliefs.
A children’s book author from Austral- In recent months, even non-Muslims
ia said she “loathed America” after her have appeared to attract far more atten-
interrogation at Los Angeles Interna- tion.
tional Airport. A retired police chief from After flying back to San Francisco
North Carolina wrote that his customs from Belgium, where he had been show-
screening made him “question if this is ing some of his artwork, Aaron Gach, an
indeed home.” American artist, was stopped and asked
And when Fadwa Alaoui, 39, a Moroc- repeatedly to unlock his cellphone for an
can-born Canadian, tried to drive into officer to search, he said. Mr. Gach, 43,
Vermont for her monthly shopping trip, said he had been asked a series of ques-
she faced questions about her religious tions about his work, his travel arrange-
beliefs and politics and gave up her ments and the art show. He was released
phone to be searched, only to be turned only after complying with the request to
away. unlock his phone.
“They treated us like criminals,” Ms. For noncitizens, formerly routine trips
Alaoui said. “Like they have the right to have turned fraught as travelers report
do anything they want.” encountering customs officers who
As his administration wades past the question whether they are taking Ameri-
100-day mark, President Trump’s efforts can jobs or being paid improperly.
to bar travelers from several majority- “We used to hear about these things
Muslim countries and to eject immi- once in a blue moon, and it would be the
grants without legal status have talk of the office,” said Greg Siskind, an
heartened many supporters and in- immigration lawyer in Tennessee. “Now
flamed widespread dissent. But for those people just basically roll their eyes be-
not subject to ban or deportation, it is in cause they’ve heard it so often.”
the sterile screening rooms of the coun- There was the Australian children’s
try’s airports and border crossings — book author, Mem Fox, who was nearly
where Americans and foreigners alike denied entry on her way to give a speech
can be held, searched and interrogated in Milwaukee after being questioned
for hours — that everyday people are about the $8,000 honorarium — standard
most likely to meet the machinery of Mr. DON EMMERT/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES for such speaking engagements — that
Trump’s government. Lining up in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, to cross the border. Hundreds of people are denied entry each day. she had accepted from the organizers.
To judge by the chorus of travelers Ms. Fox, 71, who had traveled to the
who have spoken out about a rough United States uneventfully more than
greeting at America’s doorstep, the Doris Meissner, a former commissioner the customs agency can keep their want to cross the border to go shopping. 100 times in the past, characterized her
customs experience is not helping Mr. of the government agency that evolved phones for weeks while investigators fo- Why are you asking me this question?” questioning as “sadistic from the first
Trump’s image. into the Department of Homeland Secu- rensically peer into their contents. recalled Ms. Alaoui, who wears a hijab. moment,” though she was eventually al-
But not all the blame for soured airport rity after Sept. 11. Electronic device searches were al- After they were photographed and fin- lowed to continue on her way.
experiences can be directed this presi- The administration has not issued new ready on the rise under the Obama ad- gerprinted, another officer told the wom- There was a 61-year-old ballet teacher
dent’s way. Customs and Border Protec- directives about screening arriving pas- ministration, with the number of en that they would not be allowed into from outside Toronto, Kennetha
tion officers had the same discretion to sengers, and current and former govern- travelers whose devices were searched the country because of the videos found O’Heany, who tried to drive across the
screen travelers under the Obama ad- ment officials argue that many people more than doubling from 2015 to 2016. on their phones. border in March to observe a children’s
ministration, when Muslims and other are predisposed to see the worst in offi- The monthly total of searches since Mr. Muslims have spoken for years of fac- ballet class taught by another teacher in
travelers said they routinely endured in- cers now that they work for Mr. Trump. Trump took office has remained roughly ing heavy scrutiny from customs offi- Ann Arbor, Mich.
trusive and even discriminatory treat- “This is something that has always oc- at the level that occurred during the last cers, accusing the agency of racial profil- Though she had made a similar trip in
ment. At this stage, the data available curred,” said David Lapan, a Homeland months of the Obama administration. ing. So have people who may be mistak- 2014, the explanation did not satisfy the
about customs officers’ activities does Security spokesman. “The same things Ms. Alaoui, who drove to the border in en for Muslims: Shah Rukh Khan, the In- officer, whom she said had told her, “If
not support the charge that many more have happened under previous adminis- early February, had intended to spend dian actor known as the “King of there are Americans that can do this job,
travelers are facing extra scrutiny. trations.” the day in Burlington shopping for toys Bollywood,” has made headlines for be- then you are an illegal foreign worker.”
Still, amid Mr. Trump’s attempts to Civil liberties advocates and immigra- for her 5-year-old son, who had just fin- ing detained three times in seven years Her three-hour detention at the Wind-
harden American borders via wall, tion lawyers, however, say they believe ished three months of chemotherapy. while traveling to the United States. sor-Detroit crossing culminated in a pat-
heightened vetting and a travel ban, the individual officers are fueling a disturb- On past trips, she said, she had spent The most prominent such incident in down search by two female officers, who
public is confronting a reality that went ing escalation of enforcement, made about two minutes at the border before recent months occurred when Muham- were so thorough that they even felt be-
mostly unremarked in the past: In a plain in the aggressive tone as well as the being waved through. This time, she and mad Ali Jr., the famed boxer’s son, was tween her toes, Ms. O’Heany said.
country still struggling to define the bal- frequency of travelers’ encounters with a cousin were questioned and held for stopped by customs officers at Fort Lau- “I just kept thinking, ‘But I’m just a
ance between civil liberties and security them. four hours while their phones and car derdale-Hollywood International Air- ballet teacher,’” she said.
nearly 16 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist “This is by no means an unprecedent- were searched. port on Feb. 7. Mr. Ali, who had just ar- And there was Erik Hoeksema, whose
attacks, customs officers wield broad au- ed thing,” said Hugh Handeyside, a staff After telling her to write down the pass rived from a trip to Jamaica with his group of about a dozen volunteers from a
thority over the millions of people who attorney at the American Civil Liberties code to her phone, a customs officer mother, said he had been led to a room church in Ontario was stopped and
knock on the United States’ 328 gates Union. “But it does seem at this point like asked where she had been born (Moroc- where an officer asked how he had got- turned back at the Buffalo crossing in
each year. the reports we’re hearing are not just iso- co), how long she had lived in Canada ten his name and what his religion was. March. They had been on their way to the
In the limbo between leaving another lated reports, but they appear to be part (more than 20 years) and if she was a In an interview, Mr. Ali said the officer Jersey Shore to help rebuild houses de-
country and arriving in this one, the offi- of a trend. Either the word’s gotten out practicing Muslim (yes). had told him that he shared a name with stroyed during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
cers have wide latitude to examine unofficially or officially that this treat- The interrogation quickly veered fur- another person who had been flagged for No foreigners were allowed to do work
travelers, their baggage and their elec- ment can be tolerated.” ther toward religious questions, Ms. extra screening. He had never had trou- for hire without visas, Mr. Hoeksema
tronic devices while deciding whether to Customs inspections are routine: On a Alaoui said. The officer asked about her ble entering the country before, he said. said he had been told. The fact that they
let them in. The rights that individuals, typical day in 2016, for instance, the mosque and its imam. He pulled up Officers have “an enormous amount of were not going to be paid did not seem to
even citizens, are entitled to once inside agency denied admittance to 752 people videos found on her phone, videos of discretion” to question travelers, said make a difference.
the United States do not always apply at ports of entry and flagged 877 people Muslim prayers and Arabic jokes that Margo Schlanger, a law professor at the “We don’t know if we were mistreated,
while they are trying to enter it. deemed possible national security risks. had circulated among her friends and University of Michigan and a head of civ- or we just made a mistake, or who
“You may think you are in the United Still, for many travelers, officers’ abil- relatives on social media, and asked her il rights and civil liberties at the Home- knows?” Mr. Hoeksema said, adding that
States, but for legal purposes, you aren’t ity to examine their phones — and even to explain. land Security Department under Presi- he has heard of other volunteer groups
until that inspector admits you,” said request their pass codes — has made Then he asked what she thought of Mr. dent Barack Obama. While Customs and being denied entry in the past. “I just
even ordinary stops into alarming and Trump. Border Protection has an anti-discrimi- wish that you could just come to common
Nicholas Kulish and Ron Nixon contribut- uncomfortably personal encounters. “I said he can do whatever he wants in nation rule, she said, the agency has not sense and look at our group and consider
ed reporting. Even after travelers enter the country, his country. It’s not my business. I just put significant limits on officers’ ability that there still is a need for Sandy relief.”
A12 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

In Fictional Suicide, Health Experts Say They See a Real Cause for Alarm
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS breaks between episodes rather going to stop her.”
As a mom who lost her son to than binge watch. The statement runs counter to
suicide in 2013, a Houston nurse “It’s complicated, because they the advice given to teachers and
became concerned when she got a lot of important issues out on peers about how to help at-risk
heard about the popular Netflix the table,” Dr. Schwartz said. But teens.
show “13 Reasons Why.” By then he’s concerned that students “For kids, that action is staying
her 15-year-old daughter had al- could think of suicide as a way to with your friend, not keeping it a
ready binge-watched it. get back at people and worried secret, and telling a trusted adult,”
In the series, the character that showing the specific way said Richard Lieberman, who
Hannah Baker kills herself in de- Hannah died would spur imita- coordinated suicide prevention
spair, leaving audiotapes for the tors. “The missteps are high for Los Angeles Unified School
people she holds responsible, stakes,” he concluded. District for 25 years. Another op-
among them, her rapist, fickle The problem, suicide preven- tion is to call the National Suicide
friends and bullies. The tapes are tion experts said, is that even an Prevention line, 1-800-273-8255, or
ugly suicide can beget copycats. text HOME to 741741.
part justification for her suicide
and part vengeful accusation of Research has shown that “some- David N. Miller, the author of
one else’s death by suicide can re- “Child and Adolescent Suicidal
her peers.
Behavior: School-Based Preven-
But in the month since the
tion, Assessment, and Interven-
show’s release, a rising chorus of
tion,” said that children and
mental health experts contend
that too many of the show’s mes- Concern about the adolescents often tell their peers
about their suicidal behavior
sages on suicide are inaccurate
and potentially dangerous.
effect of a show on rather than adults. He said, "the
way adults are portrayed as in-
Superintendents and school vulnerable youths. competent or clueless” is a major
counselors around the country problem in “13 Reasons Why,” be-
have issued warnings to parents cause he thought it would dis-
that “13 Reasons Why” glorifies suade students from seeking criti-
suicide and could lead to an in- inforce a vulnerable person’s mo- cal assistance.
crease in copycat behavior and BETH DUBBER/NETFLIX, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS tivation to die by suicide,” said Hours before her death, Han-
self-harm among vulnerable stu- Katherine Langford in the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” about a teenager who kills herself. Madelyn Gould, a professor of epi- nah goes to see the school coun-
dents. “We are concerned about demiology and psychiatry at Co- selor, hints that a senior assaulted
our children watching this series lumbia University. her, and cryptically says, her eyes
without adult supervision be- ing withheld to protect her daugh- companying 30-minute documen- legal from Fort Mill, S.C., said she On Instagram, Paris Jackson, a
ter’s privacy. “If kids have a his- tary “Beyond the Reasons,” that watched part of the series with welling with tears, that “I need ev-
cause it romanticizes and sensa- 19-year-old model who has tried to erything to stop, people, life.” He
tionalizes the idea of suicide,” Lisa tory of depression, self-harm or includes the cast, producers and her 16-year-old daughter. “Every- kill herself in the past, called the
suicidal thoughts, I don’t think mental health experts discussing body is saying ‘it glamorizes sui- hands her tissues, but doesn’t con-
Brady, superintendent of schools series, “extremely triggering.” duct a suicide-risk assessment or
in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., wrote in an they need to watch it.” some of the show’s more difficult cide,’ but I don’t think it does,” she “Please only watch this show with
scenes. In the documentary Brian said. “It’s making us wake up and consider hospitalization.
email to parents. On Friday, in a letter to parents, caution and keep in mind that it
Yorkey, the creator of the series, look at it.” “That was gross negligence,”
Its creators have defended the Robert Avossa, superintendent of may put you in a dark place,” she Dr. Miller said, and it sends “a
show, saying they aimed to make Palm Beach County schools in said, “We did want it to be painful Not everyone agrees. Just be- wrote in a post that got more than dangerous message” that adults
the drama helpful to struggling Florida, reported that his to watch because we wanted it to fore its March 31 release, a 20,000 likes. don’t care.
kids. employees have seen an uptick in be very clear that there is nothing producer sought the support of The National Association of Although the creators of “13
But for the nurse’s family, the self-mutilation and threats of sui- — in any way — worthwhile about the JED Foundation, a teen sui- School Psychologists has advised Reasons Why” aspired to educate,
show has been devastating. Her cide among elementary and mid- suicide.” cide prevention group. “I think teenagers, who have had suicidal the show itself never mentions a
daughter, who found her brother’s dle school students since the show In a statement, Netflix said the they were looking for us to say, ‘It thoughts, to avoid the series en- critical point: most children who
body, has been working through began. writers sought the advice of medi- was a great educational tool,’” or tirely. They recommend that any die by suicide have a mental
depression and trauma ever The Netflix series, which may cal professionals while writing the that “they handled the issues in a teenager should watch with a par- health disorder like depression
since. With treatment and regular be renewed for a second season, is script, and the show carries a TV- psychologically helpful way,” said ent who can make it clear that sui- that’s treatable.
therapy, things got better — until based on the 2007 young adult MA rating as well as a warning Dr. Victor Schwartz, a psychiatrist cide is not a solution to problems. And throughout the series, as
she watched “13 Reasons Why.” novel “Thirteen Reasons Why,” by about graphic content. “Our mem- and the chief medical officer at the The show’s fatalism leaves the other characters talk of suicide,
Now the show has set off new Jay Asher. It includes a graphic bers tell us that 13 Reasons Why JED Foundation. impression that suicide can’t be little is done to address their
thoughts of despair and suicide in scene in which Hannah kills her- has helped spark important con- Ultimately, he could not support stopped, experts said. In one con- struggles. “The series is actually
her daughter, she said. self with a razor. Its creators say versations in their families and what he called “one long revenge cerning scene, a character ago- depicting suicide contagion, and
“If I’d known about the show be- it’s an unglamorous death, and communities around the world,” story.” The group issued a guide nizes that he could have done at the same time, it’s denying the
forehand I would have monitored they worked hard to make sure it the statement said. about the show, advising people more to help his friend. A school suicide contagion exists,” Dr.
her Netflix account a bit more,” wasn’t gratuitous. Some parents have defended who choose to watch it to view it counselor tells him: “If she Gould said. It’s “so upsetting to
said the nurse, whose name is be- Netflix has created an ac- the show. Dawn Zawadzki, a para- with someone else and to take wanted to end her life, we weren’t me on so many levels.”

Fox News, Pledging New Culture, Ousts Another Piece of Old One Jury Urges
From Page A1 REPORTER FILES LAWSUIT
Prosecution
suits of covering up Mr. Ailes’s be-
havior and dismissing concerns
from women who complained
Diana Falzone accused Fox News
of discrimination. Page B2. In Jail Death
about it. Mr. Shine and Ms. Scott
deny any wrongdoing.
Seen by the Murdochs as a
changes, in the end he did not ad-
dress Mr. Shine’s exit.
In Milwaukee
steward rather than a visionary — Mr. Murdoch, Fox News’s exec- By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Rupert Murdoch, in a meeting utive chairman, is facing pressure
on multiple fronts, not least his A jury recommended on Mon-
with executives, once referred to day that prosecutors file criminal
him as a “fine company man” — own corporate aspirations. He is
on the verge of acquiring a long- charges against seven Milwaukee
Mr. Shine was not considered a County jail employees over the
long-term leader for the network, coveted prize, the British satellite
and television company Sky, for death of Terrill Thomas, an in-
despite his close relationships
his European media empire. mate who the authorities say died
with marquee personalities like
Sean Hannity. But the deal must be approved of dehydration after going a week
But Mr. Shine’s standing by a British regulatory agency without water.
weakened in recent weeks as his that will determine if 21st Century The jury found probable cause
name surfaced in new lawsuits Fox can act as a “fit and proper” to charge the seven staff mem-
against the channel and advocacy owner. The last time Mr. Murdoch bers, including two supervisors,
groups called for his firing. Inside faced a major public outcry — dur- with felony abuse, according to
Fox News, Mr. Shine also advocat- ing the hacking scandal at his Erik Heipt, a lawyer representing
ed keeping Bill O’Reilly, even after British tabloid News of the World Mr. Thomas’s estate.
The New York Times reported — regulators rejected an attempt “Nothing like this should ever
that Mr. O’Reilly, a popular prime- to acquire Sky. happen in an American jail,” Mr.
time host, had entered into multi- The Murdochs are “definitely
Heipt said, “and we’re pleased
million-dollar settlements with cleaning house,” said Andrew
that justice is taking its course.”
women who had accused him of Gilman, the chief executive of the
crisis communications firm MARK LENNIHAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The jury’s inquest began April
harassment. Mr. O’Reilly was 24, exactly one year after Mr.
fired almost two weeks ago. CommCore Consulting Group. From left, Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News co-presidents Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine in
Referring to Mr. Murdoch’s Thomas, 38, was found dead in his
The string of major departures Manhattan last month. Mr. Shine, a close ally of Roger E. Ailes, was forced out on Monday. cell. The Milwaukee County dis-
— at a network that for two sons, Lachlan and James, who run
21st Century Fox, Mr. Gilman add- trict attorney’s office, which had
decades had had little to no ronment at Fox News. He has de- because they feared retribution, Shine’s exit in a memo to the staff. requested the inquest, is not
change in its senior ranks — has ed, “It sounds like the younger
Murdochs are saying, ‘We’re will- nied wrongdoing. described a sense of continuing “I know Bill was respected and bound by the recommendation.
unsettled Fox News’s employees, The network’s senior ranks still dread about the spate of new de- liked by everyone at Fox News,”
ing to sacrifice some revenue and In a statement posted online,
from its prime-time stars to its include other executives who velopments in a scandal that has Mr. Murdoch wrote. “We will all
rank-and-file staff. Mr. Hannity, talent for a longer-term view.’” Sheriff David Clarke of Milwau-
The family has been willing to worked closely with Mr. Ailes, in- stretched on for months. miss him.” kee County said he would await
who had recommended Mr. Shine cluding Dianne Brandi, the gen- Mr. Shine prided himself on his In a subsequent public state-
for his first position at Fox News, make sacrifices before: News of the district attorney’s decision.
the World no longer publishes, eral counsel. On Monday, several working-class roots, and friends ment, Mr. Murdoch praised Mr. “This is part of a process,” said
said on Twitter last week that Mr. employees pointed to the considered him the newsroom’s Shine even more, writing, “His
Shine’s removal would be “the to- and Rupert Murdoch let go one of Sheriff Clarke, who has gained na-
his favorite executives, Rebekah continued power of Mr. Aber- closest embodiment of the aver- contribution to our channel and
tal end of the FNC as we know it.” tional prominence as a Fox News
Brooks, when she was caught up nethy, Ms. Brandi and Ms. Scott as age Fox News viewer. He had a our country will resonate for
Mr. Hannity was mostly silent evidence that the old guard at Fox knack for talent management and many years.”
about the matter on Monday, al- in that scandal (although he has
since hired her back). Whether News remains in charge. maintained a close friendship Mr. Shine’s co-president posi-
though he posted a comment on Two employees invoked a with Mr. Hannity, with whom he tion is considered open. Another
Twitter affirming reports that he the Murdochs go further in chang-
ing Fox News’s leadership is phrase from President Trump in had worked before Mr. Hannity executive, Jay Wallace, was pro- A recommendation
was not considering a departure
from the network. Though Mr. openly speculated at the network. describing the attitude of some
workers: “Drain the swamp.”
made the leap to cable-news
prominence. The men frequently
moted to president for news.
Mr. Murdoch concluded his note
of charges against
With Mr. Shine out, the network
Hannity teasingly suggested on
his show that he might have some- is now under the day-to-day com- Five current Fox News
employees, male and female, de-
spoke by telephone.
It was Mr. Murdoch who se-
by underscoring the lucrative na-
ture of the network. “Fox News
seven employees.
thing to say about Monday’s mand of Jack Abernethy, who re-
tained a title of co-president. Mr. scribed the newsroom on Monday lected Mr. Shine as a co-president continues to break both viewing
Abernethy has also been cited as as being in a state of shock after last summer, after Mr. Ailes’s re- and revenue records, for which I
Sydney Ember and Jim Rutenberg contributing to a toxic envi- learning of Mr. Shine’s exit. Work- moval, and it was Mr. Murdoch thank you all,” he wrote, adding, “I regular and an outspoken sup-
contributed reporting. ers there, speaking anonymously who on Monday announced Mr. am sure we can do even better.” porter of President Trump. “I re-
spect the process. Jury recom-
mendations are just that.”

Police in Texas Change Account in Officer’s Fatal Shooting of 15-Year-Old A spokesman for the district at-
torney did not immediately re-
spond to a request for comment.
By LIAM STACK County medical examiner’s report injuries at a hospital. Monday. Prosecutors and Mr. Heipt say
and CHRISTINE HAUSER ruled the death a homicide caused The shooting has unnerved He said Jordan, who weighed that correction officers turned off
As family and friends mourned by a “rifle wound” to the head. Video evidence is Balch Springs, a city of about 150 pounds and was nearly 6 feet the water supply to Mr. Thomas’s
isolation cell last April. Mr. Thom-
the death of a 15-year-old boy shot Lee Merritt, a lawyer for the Ed-
wards family, praised the police
cited as contradicting 25,000 people that lies about 15
miles east of downtown Dallas.
tall, was a committed athlete who
had aspirations to play college as, who had bipolar disorder and
in the head by a police officer in a
Dallas suburb over the weekend, chief for his willingness to admit earlier details. The Mesquite Independent football and was trying out for the needed mental health treatment,
was unable to advocate for him-
the police chief said Monday that the department’s mistake and School District said Mr. Edwards team’s defensive position.
new evidence showed the killing called the new account “a big “was a good student who was very Jordan “spent a lot of time in the self, though other inmates told
did not unfold the way the authori- deal.” well liked by his teachers, coaches weight room to make himself bet- correction officers that he needed
have the identity of the shooter, and his fellow students.” water, Mr. Heipt said. Mr. Thomas
ties had originally claimed. “There were no weapons in- ter, bigger and stronger,” Mr.
volved; there was no aggressive and they have no explanation for “The entire district — espe- Fleener said. “The big thing is he also refused to eat jail-provided
The Police Department in Balch the shooting,” Mr. Merritt said.
Springs, Tex., said Sunday that behavior; these were not sus- cially the staff and students of was not scared to come hit some- meals, which were served without
pects,” Mr. Merritt said in a phone “They have more than sufficient Mesquite High School — are body on the football field.” The drinks, and lost at least 30 pounds,
the officer, whose name has not
interview. “The lone motive they probable cause to make an ar- mourning this terrible loss,” the coach added, “He knew how to flip according to Mr. Heipt.
been released, fired on a car car-
had for the murder was that the rest.” district said. that switch on the field and play Mr. Thomas was arrested on
rying the teenager, Jordan Ed-
wards, a freshman at Mesquite vehicle was being used as a weap- Jordan, a popular football play- Chris Cano, whose son played with some physicality.” April 15, 2016, on charges that he
High School in Balch Springs, be- on, and now that is no longer er, was killed shortly after leaving football with Jordan, told a local “He was excellent — 3.5 G.P.A., shot a man in the chest and fired
cause the car was reversing down there.” a party with friends on Saturday television station, WFAA, that he never in trouble, no attendance is- shots in a Milwaukee casino, ac-
a street toward the officer in an Efforts to reach officials with night. The police said in a state- was a “great kid” with “awesome sues,” Mr. Fleener said. “He was a cording to The Milwaukee Journal
“aggressive manner.” the Police Department after Mon- ment on Sunday that officers were parents.” kid that did everything right.” Sentinel.
But Jonathan Haber, the police day’s news conference were un- in the area responding to a 911 call The first day of spring football Officer Pedro Gonzalez, a police Mr. Heipt said he planned to file
chief, told reporters at a news con- successful. complaining about drunken practice at Mesquite High School spokesman, said in a phone inter- a federal civil rights lawsuit on be-
ference on Monday afternoon that Mr. Merritt called the change in young people. was canceled on Monday because view early Monday that the offi- half of Mr. Thomas’s estate. One of
video showed the opposite. He the department’s account “a hope- The statement said officers of Jordan’s death. His teammates cers involved in the episode had Mr. Thomas’s children has al-
said the officer fired when the car ful sign” about the transparency fired on the car after they heard are grieving and will miss Jor- been wearing body cameras. Offi- ready filed a federal suit against
was “moving forward as the offi- of the investigation, but he said gunfire from an “unknown alter- dan’s “big smile,” said Jeff cer Gonzalez said they would be Sheriff Clarke and his staff, ac-
cers approached,” according to the authorities needed to do more. cation.” Jordan, a passenger, was Fleener, the coach of the team, the interviewed after they had a cording to Fox 6 News in Milwau-
The Associated Press. The Dallas “They have a dead child, they shot in the head and died from his Skeeters, in a phone interview on chance to “decompress.” kee.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 0N A13

On May Day, Marchers

Fight for Myriad Goals
By JENNIFER MEDINA grants” — had turned out in the
and VIVIAN YEE rain by midafternoon, closing
At the White House, President large sections of the city’s Latino
Trump had proclaimed May 1 to be community. Bakeries, markets,
“Loyalty Day,” a time for Ameri- restaurants and clothing stores
cans to reaffirm their commit- had shuttered for the day out of
ment to “individual liberties, to solidarity or for lack of workers.
limited government and to the in- In Homestead, Fla., where im-
herent dignity of every human be- migrant farmworkers keep fields
ing” with Pledge of Allegiance cer- of zucchini, beans, cherry to-
emonies and a display of Ameri- matoes and okra growing, over
can flags. 1,000 people marched from a park
Some Americans had other to City Hall. Many were not sure
plans. how employers would react when
In major cities and dozens of they returned to work on Tuesday.
smaller communities, protesters Local activists had planned to ac-
marched for immigrants, for company farmworkers back to
workers, for women and for oth- their jobs to offer support.
ers, grafting their myriad pleas About 300 people gathered out-
onto a day traditionally reserved side a Home Depot near Minne-
for the cause of laborers around apolis to protest what they said
the world. were the anti-labor practices of
Many surrendered a shift’s pay. some janitorial companies that
Labor and immigrants’ rights clean stores for Home Depot,
activists, criticizing Mr. Trump’s Sears and other retailers.
detention and deportation “We have no benefits. No vaca-
agenda, had called for a general tion. We don’t have anything,” said
strike on May 1, also known as Antonia Sanchez, a Mexican im-
May Day, to emphasize the over- migrant who has worked for one JIM YOUNG/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
lap between the concerns of unau- such contractor for nine years,
thorized immigrants — on whom cleaning a Sears. “It doesn’t mat-
farms, restaurants, construction ter if we are black, white or brown.
projects and other industries de- What matters is that we stay
pend — and those of workers. united and fight for what we de-
“Trump has pitted the U.S. serve.”
working class against migrant In Austin, Tex., some immi-
workers and refugees, and so we grants’ rights advocates staged a
must strive to create bridges, not sit-in at the office of Gov. Greg Ab-
bans or walls, to connect our bott, a Republican, over legisla-
struggles together,” tion that would punish local offi-
representatives of the Interna- cials and cities for refusing to help
tional Migrants Alliance wrote in the federal government with de-
its call to assemble. portations. Outside the Immigra-
One of the marches, in Portland, tion and Customs Enforcement of-
Ore., was ended by the police after fice in San Francisco, protesters
some protesters threw rocks, lead blocked an intersection and a
balls, smoke bombs and full cans driveway.
of Pepsi at officers. The police In New York, protesters in Un-
blamed anarchist groups — which ion Square and Washington MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

have disrupted other protests Square Park waved signs with slo-
gans in Spanish, like “Workers
Protests on Monday in, clockwise from top, Chicago, Seattle and New York. As May Day commemorations go, Monday’s turnout
since the election — for destroy-
ing a police car, attacking officers, united will never be defeated.” was extraordinary in the United States. But in a crowded calendar of anti-Trump dissent, the scenes took on the quality of a refrain.
damaging windows and starting There were more than 30 arrests,
fires. More than two dozen people mostly for disorderly conduct. “We all have family members cause without work, who’s going claring “No human is illegal” and and for America, for following the
were arrested. Marchers moved to Foley and acquaintances who are af- to pay the bills?” he said in Span- “Sanctuary now!” marched about law,” said Dura Young, 60, a cur-
But most of the day’s events Square in Lower Manhattan, fected, who don’t have their pa- ish, to a murmur of approval from two miles from MacArthur Park to rency trader from Torrance, Calif.
were peaceful. In Grand Rapids, where Mayor Bill de Blasio pers and are afraid,” he said. a bakery worker behind the City Hall downtown. “It’s not immigrants, it’s the ille-
Mich., more than 4,000 people — shouted to the crowd, just as a Still, for at least one limousine counter. The crowd swelled with mem- gals — they’ve committed a crime
twice the number of people who double-decker tour bus rolled up, driver, taking the day off was sim- As May Day commemorations bers of unions representing jani- by coming here. Of course they’re
sat out jobs and school days in “Everything Donald Trump wants ply unaffordable. As he bought go, Monday’s turnout was ex- tors, health care workers and ho- going to get deported.”
Grand Rapids on February’s na- to do, I have a simple message: coffee and a pastry at a Do- traordinary. But in a crowded cal- tel employees, as well as members It was still Loyalty Day, and the
tionwide “Day Without Immi- No, you can’t! No se puede!” minican bakery in Washington endar of anti-Trump dissent — af- of the Writers Guild of America members of the pro-Trump coun-
Damian Rodriguez, the owner Heights, Fernando Garcia, 49, ex- ter January’s Women’s March, and other Hollywood unions. terprotest began reciting the
Jennifer Medina reported from Los of First Class Car and Limo Serv- plained that because he was a late April’s March for Science and Across the street from City Hall, Pledge of Allegiance. The pro-
Angeles, and Vivian Yee from New ice in Inwood, said his company partner in his company, they all Saturday’s People’s Climate dozens of police officers separated testers joined in. When it had
York. Reporting was contributed by had given its 400 drivers the op- had to contribute equally or the March — the scenes and chants a few dozen Trump supporters ended, they were still shouting the
Matt Furber from Minneapolis, and tion of staying home on Monday business would suffer. took on the quality of a refrain. from the protesters as they last words: “One nation under
Annie Correal, Kate Taylor and Ni- morning, and about 20 percent of Rent was due on May 1, he add- In Los Angeles, tens of thou- shouted bitterly at one another. God, indivisible, with liberty and
raj Chokshi from New York. them accepted. ed. “I’m going to work today be- sands of people holding signs de- “I’m here for the Constitution justice for all. For all. For all.”

Texas Immigration Bill Draws Protesters

By DAVE MONTGOMERY
and MANNY FERNANDEZ
AUSTIN, Tex. — About two doz-
en demonstrators held a daylong
sit-in at a state building on the
grounds of the Texas Capitol on
Monday to oppose legislation that
would ban so-called sanctuary ju-
risdictions in Texas.
The protesters called for Gov.
Greg Abbott to veto the bill, which
would require police chiefs and
sheriffs to cooperate with federal
immigration officials or face jail
time and fines.
The protesters and their sup-
porters filled the lobby of the State
Insurance Building here, an an-
nex of the governor’s office,
singing and clapping and chant-
ing, “Stand up, fight back!” Many
wore white T-shirts reading “S.B.
4,” for Senate Bill 4, with a slash
drawn through it. State troopers
stood quietly nearby.
About an hour into the protest,
participants sat down and blocked
the two lobby entrances, defying a
police request.
“It’s important for us to block
both doors to show the governor
we’re not afraid,” said Greg Casar, ELENA LUTZ/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

an Austin city councilman who is Opponents of a Texas bill that would ban so-called sanctuary ju-
the son of Mexican immigrants risdictions held a sit-in at a state building in Austin on Monday.
and led the protest.
The sit-in came to an end more
than nine hours after it started. The governor’s office did not re- that would ensure that local offi-
State troopers arrested the 22 pro- spond on Monday to requests for cials do not pick and choose which
testers after the close of the work- comment. laws they enforce.
day, placed them in handcuffs and The bill has angered immigrant “I think it’s a good, common-
called in a magistrate to arraign advocates, many of whom see it as sense policy that is going to pro-
them on charges of criminal tres- a variation of Arizona’s S.B. 1070. tect the safety of all Texans,” said
pass, a Class B misdemeanor pun- That legislation, enacted in 2010, State Representative Matt Rinal-
ishable by up to 180 days in jail and gave local law enforcement offi- di, a Republican from the Dallas
a fine of $2,000. cials broad authority to detain suburb of Irving.
The bill has emerged as one of people suspected of being in the Police chiefs in some of Texas’
the most contentious issues for country illegally, and led to law- biggest cities have opposed the
the Texas Legislature, stirring suits, boycotts and the loss of con- bill, saying it would strain the rela-
marathon debates among law- ventions and concerts. tionship between law enforce-
makers at packed overnight hear- Activists in Texas have been ment and immigrant communities
ings. It passed both the House and trying to build momentum for a and turn local police officers into
the Senate, but in different forms, similar backlash against S.B. 4. immigration agents without ade-
and Republican leaders in both The bill already has a handful of quate funding or support. The po-
chambers are sorting out how to national organizations focused on lice chiefs in Arlington, Austin,
proceed before sending it to the stopping it, including Local Pro- Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and
governor’s desk. gress, a national network of pro- San Antonio were among those
The version passed by the gressive local elected officials that who signed a letter opposing the
House last week calls for jail time is led by Brad Lander, a city coun- House version of the bill.
and other penalties for officials cilman in New York City. “Officers will start inquiring
who refuse to honor a federal re- For months, Mr. Abbott and the about the immigration status of
quest to detain an undocumented Republican-dominated Legisla- every person they come in contact
immigrant jailed by the local au- ture have been outspoken against with, or worse, only inquire about
thorities. And it would allow law local law enforcement officials the immigration status of individ-
enforcement officers to question who fail to comply with federal im- uals based on their appearance,”
the immigration status of a person migration guidelines. Mr. Abbott read the letter from two law en-
they have arrested or detained. has been critical of two Hispanic forcement groups, the Texas Ma-
“I am deeply grieved but wholly sheriffs in particular: Lupe Valdez jor Cities Chiefs and the Texas Po-
unsurprised that anti-immigrant of Dallas County and Sally Her- lice Chiefs Association. “This will
lawmakers in the Texas House nandez of Travis County, which in- lead to distrust of police, less co-
have taken a wrongheaded, racist cludes Austin. Earlier this year, operation from members of the
piece of legislation and made it a Mr. Abbott canceled state crimi- community, and will foster the be-
‘show me your papers’ bill,” Terri nal-justice grants to Travis Coun- lief that they cannot seek assist-
Burke, the executive director of ty over the issue. ance from police for fear of being
the A.C.L.U. of Texas, said in a Supporters of S.B. 4 defend it as subjected to an immigration sta-
statement. a simple law-and-order measure tus investigation.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team

President Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Question About Wiretaps

By GLENN THRUSH On Monday, the White House his attempts to crack down on ille-
and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS reverted to a less subtle way of de- gal immigration, which have
WASHINGTON — President livering its message, releasing a largely stalled.
Trump marked his first 100 days in campaign advertisement declar- Congress has refused to provide
office by attacking the news me- ing his administration’s beginning any money for the border wall
dia with a calculated fury not seen a triumph, and questioning the that was his most talked-about
since the beginning of his admin- way the press has covered him. campaign promise, and courts
istration — while rewarding the The 30-second television ad and have blocked two of his efforts to
journalists he allegedly loathes a series of more targeted versions bar travelers from six predomi-
with long, newsy chats in the Oval that are to run online were the lat- nantly Muslim countries and to
Office, Air Force One rides and est examples of Mr. Trump’s ex- defund so-called sanctuary cities
meals. traordinarily early return to cam- that refuse to help the federal au-
Mr. Trump’s split-personality paigning at a point when most thorities track and deport illegal
approach to the press was on par- presidents would be spending immigrants.
ticular display on Saturday, when their time pushing through their The TV advertisement was paid
he skipped the White House highest legislative priorities. for by Mr. Trump’s re-election
Correspondents’ Association din- “America has rarely seen such campaign, for which he filed pa-
ner to blast the news media in success,” the narrator says in the pers in January, on the day he was
front of a friendly rally audience in ad, listing the confirmation of Jus- sworn in. The campaign said it
Harrisburg, Pa., and then sat tice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Su- would spend $1.5 million to air the
down with John Dickerson, host of preme Court, companies invest- ad across the country, a relatively
CBS’s “Face the Nation,” for a ing in jobs in the United States, the small sum that does not indicate a
wide-ranging conversation. elimination of “regulations that major national public relations of-
The interview was the capstone kill American jobs” and the ap-
fensive.
of a frenetic period in which Mr. proval of the Keystone XL pipe-
But airing the ad underscored
Trump sat for interviews with line.
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Mr. Trump’s remarkably early re-
representatives of the very media “You wouldn’t know it from
President Trump and members of the Independent Community Bankers Association on Monday. watching the news,” the narrator
turn to partisan politics, a strat-
he has publicly criticized and dis- egy that has included a series of
patched his top advisers to pro- adds, showing the faces of an-
former president had been “very own opinions.” tried to demonstrate progress chors for mainstream news re-election campaign rallies that
vide virtually nonstop briefings
nice to me,” the two have had “dif- The president then ended the around Mr. Trump’s 100-day mark, broadcasters as the words “FAKE began only weeks into his presi-
for them. The president and his
ficulties.” interview, saying, “O.K., it’s a time frame the president re- NEWS” flash across the screen in dency.
aides made the case that he had
accomplished significant things “You saw what happened with enough.” jected as ridiculous but has gone large red letters. The latest such gathering was
since taking office, despite Mr. surveillance,” Mr. Trump said, de- Congressional investigators out of his way to frame as an un- The ad also mentions “the big- in Harrisburg, timed to coincide
Trump’s lack of major legislative clining to elaborate. Asked by Mr. from both parties have said they paralleled success. gest tax cut plan in history,” with- with the White House
achievements. Dickerson, “What does that mean, have uncovered no evidence to While he takes pains to hide it out mentioning that Mr. Trump Correspondents’ Dinner.
In his interview with Mr. Dick- sir?” Mr. Trump said: “You can support Mr. Trump’s claims. But from his supporters, Mr. Trump’s has yet to offer any legislation — Yet even as he gleefully
erson, the president veered from figure that out yourself.” congressional Republicans and public churl is often followed by or even a set of policy prescrip- snubbed it, Mr. Trump offered an
sales mode to sullen defiance. The When Mr. Dickerson asked White House officials have said private charm. Shortly after cut- tions — for reordering the tax exclusive interview to the associa-
first part, which aired on Sunday, whether Mr. Trump stood by his that some communications of Mr. ting short the interview on Satur- code to achieve the enormous cuts tion’s president, Jeff Mason of
was all sales. The second part, characterization of Mr. Obama as Trump’s associates were picked day, Mr. Dickerson flew with the for businesses and individuals Reuters. It was arguably the most
which aired on Monday, ended “sick and bad,” the president ap- up as part of routine surveillance president on Air Force One and that he has endorsed. telling of the dozen or so sit-downs
when Mr. Trump walked away peared to become agitated and conducted by American intelli- then had dinner with him, accord- It also does not mention Mr. the president conducted.
abruptly after Mr. Dickerson said, “You can take it any way you gence agencies. ing to a person with knowledge of Trump’s failed attempt to push “I loved my previous life. I had
pressed him on his false claim, ex- want.” The testy exchange was at odds the interaction. through a health care overhaul, af- so many things going,” Mr. Trump
pressed on Twitter, that President “I have my own opinions,” Mr. with the image of competence and “I love your show,” he said sar- ter having vowed that the repeal told Reuters in an interview just
Barack Obama had placed a “tap” Trump continued, as Mr. Dicker- message discipline White House castically to Mr. Dickerson at one and replacement of the Affordable before the dinner. “This is more
on Trump Tower. son tried in vain to ask him for an officials have labored to show point in the interview. “I call it ‘De- Care Act would be his earliest pri- work than in my previous life. I
Mr. Trump said that while the explanation. “You can have your over the past week, as they have face the Nation.’” ority. Nor is there any reference to thought it would be easier.”

WHITE HOUSE MEMO A statue of Andrew Jackson in

Lafayette Square, across the

President Doesn’t Go street from the White House.

Douglass at besieged Nordstroms

By the (History) Book & figure out Civil War thingy,” Mr.
Weaver wrote.
Jackson, a slave owner who
believed in the use of force if
Mr. Obama referred to “Polish necessary to preserve the Union,
From Page A1 death camps,” he generated a did not live to see the Civil War,
multiple historical novels. storm of protest in Warsaw, but Mr. Trump may have been
“Trump’s not a student of history. which always insists that they be thinking of the Nullification Crisis
Trump’s an extraordinarily suc- referred to as German death of 1832-33, when Jackson threat-
cessful, entrepreneurial per- camps on Polish territory. ened to send troops after South
sonality who learns what he Mr. Trump has made question- Carolina declared tariffs imposed
needs to know when he needs to able comments a regular feature by the federal government null
know it. Trump is learning his- of his public discourse, going and void and threatened to se-
tory as he governs.” back years. During the cam- cede. That was a precursor, in a
After Mr. Trump’s comments paign, he talked about thousands sense, to the crisis that precipi-
led to criticism, he tried to clarify of Muslims in the United States tated the Civil War in 1861.
Monday night on Twitter. “Presi- cheering after the attacks of Sept. “That’s similar in vein to what
dent Andrew Jackson, who died 11, 2001, despite a lack of evi- one would say about the Civil
16 years before the Civil War dence. At a golf course in Virgin- War,” said Michael Dubke, the
started, saw it coming and was ia, he posted a plaque honoring White House communications
angry,” he wrote. “Would never the “River of Blood” where so director. “I’m sure something
have let it happen!” many soldiers died in the Civil along those lines is what the
Many presidents find history War that “the water would turn president was referring to.”
absorbing, since they live it and red,” even though historians said Mr. Gingrich suggested that
make it. President George W. no such battle took place there. Mr. Trump was onto something in
Bush read 14 books about Lincoln At an African-American His- STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES suggesting that Jackson, rather
during his time in office, seeking tory Month celebration in Febru- than James Buchanan, who was
inspiration and comfort. Presi- ary, Mr. Trump seemed to sug- Trump was thinking about the 28 The latest historical question War, if you think about it, why? passive as Southern states seced-
dent Barack Obama made a point gest that the 19th-century abo- percent who thought the Great mark came in an interview Mr. People don’t ask that question, ed, would have been more suited
of regularly hosting historians litionist Frederick Douglass was Emancipator was a Democrat. Trump gave to The Washington but why was there the Civil War? to stopping the slide to war.
like Doris Kearns Goodwin, still around. “Frederick Douglass Even his staff has found trou- Examiner in which he discussed Why could that one not have been “Compare Jackson with Buchan-
Robert A. Caro, David Kennedy is an example of somebody who’s ble over historically loose com- Andrew Jackson. Mr. Trump has worked out?” an, and you could make a pretty
and Robert Dallek for dinners done an amazing job and is being ments. Sean Spicer, the White embraced Jackson as a kindred While he demonstrated knowl- good argument that had Jackson
examining how the travails of his recognized more and more, I House press secretary, asserted populist spirit railing against the edge of other details of Jackson’s been president in 1856, there
predecessors offered lessons for notice,” he said. at a briefing that Hitler did not establishment ever since Mr. life, the Civil War comments set wouldn’t have been a Civil War
his presidency. At a later fund-raiser for the use chemical weapons against Gingrich and Stephen K. Bannon, off a wave of scorn online. “PO- because he would have crushed
But even presidents with more National Republican Congres- his own people. Mr. Spicer now the president’s chief strat- TUS says that Andrew Jackson it,” Mr. Gingrich said.
evident interest have tripped up sional Committee, he seemed quickly apologized. egist, told him of the similarities (who died in 1845) ‘was really Jon Meacham, a Jackson biog-
over history from time to time. surprised that Lincoln belonged “Trump seems almost uniquely last year. Mr. Trump has hung a angry’ about the Civil War,” Sena- rapher, agreed that Mr. Trump
Mr. Obama mangled World War to the Republican Party. “Great ill-equipped to process history, portrait of Jackson in the Oval tor Tim Kaine of Virginia wrote probably meant the Nullification
II events when he said his great- president,” he said. “Most people whether because of his lack of Office and visited his estate. on Twitter. “Paging the Depart- Crisis, but he said the question on
uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, don’t even know he was a Repub- empathy, his allergy to complex- “I mean, had Andrew Jackson ment of Education . . . ” what caused the Civil War sug-
which would have been possible lican, right? Does anyone know? ity, or his tendency to keep dis- been a little later, you wouldn’t John Weaver, a longtime advis- gested Mr. Trump might have
only if his great-uncle had been a Lot of people don’t know that.” tant from anything that might have had the Civil War,” he told er to Senator John McCain, Re- been referring to a deal to avert
Soviet soldier. Aides later clari- No doubt many Americans are carry the whiff of defeat,” said The Examiner. “He was a very publican of Arizona, and other conflict short of abolishing slav-
fied that Mr. Obama meant Bu- not fully aware of the country’s Paul Starobin, author of the tough person, but he had a big politicians, mocked Mr. Trump ery. “The expansion of slavery
chenwald, which was liberated by history, but most do know Lin- newly released “Madness Rules heart. He was really angry that with a reference to a supposed caused the Civil War,” he said.
American troops. Similarly, when coln was a Republican, according the Hour,” about the confronta- he saw what was happening with terrorist attack in Kentucky that “And you can’t get around that. So
to a Pew Research Center survey tion at Charleston, S.C., that led to regard to the Civil War; he said, one of his aides once cited er- what does Trump mean? Would
Peter Baker reported from Wash- in 2012. Fifty-five percent of those the Civil War. “History is not tidy. ‘There’s no reason for this.’” roneously. “Too bad Pres. Jack- he have let slavery exist but not
ington, and Jonah Engel polled correctly said Lincoln was Trump likes tidy. He likes slo- Mr. Trump added: “People son didn’t ride up to Bowling expand? That’s the counterfac-
Bromwich from New York. a Republican. Still, perhaps Mr. gans. History doesn’t offer any.” don’t realize, you know, the Civil Green/sit down with Frederick tual question you have to ask.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Trump Garbles Pitch on a Revised Health Bill

By ROBERT PEAR tol Hill on Monday evening to insurers to provide a more limited would produce “much lower pre-
WASHINGTON — After two twist the arms of Republicans package of health benefits than miums.” In its analysis of the last
false starts on President Trump’s while the White House chief of the Affordable Care Act requires. version of the repeal bill, the non-
promise to repeal the Affordable staff, Reince Priebus, sent texts to With a waiver, states could also al- partisan Congressional Budget
Care Act, Trump administration wavering members. low insurers to charge higher pre- Office said that average premi-
officials ratcheted up pressure on “We’re getting closer and closer miums to some people with pre- ums in 2018 and 2019 “would be 15
every day,” the White House press existing conditions, if states had percent to 20 percent higher un-
the House on Monday to vote on a
secretary, Sean Spicer, said, but he an alternative mechanism such as der the legislation than under cur-
revised version of the Republican
acknowledged that “we’re not a high-risk pool or a reinsurance rent law.” By 2026, it said, average
repeal bill this week, even as sup-
there yet.” program to provide or subsidize premiums would be roughly 10
port may actually be eroding. coverage for people with serious
The president complicated his But a coalition of 10 advocacy percent lower than under current
illnesses. law.
pitch with a jumble of statements groups — including the American
But such high-risk pools did not How the revisions might affect
that indicated he did not fully un- Heart Association, the American
always work well before the Af-
derstand the content of the meas- Lung Association, the March of those figures — or the estimated
fordable Care Act’s outright ban
ure he was pushing. He insisted Dimes and the American Cancer 24 million more Americans who
on discriminating against people ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

that the repeal bill would protect Society’s Cancer Action Network with pre-existing conditions took would lack insurance under the Representative K. Michael Conaway of Texas said he thought
Americans with pre-existing med- — urged a “no” vote. original bill after 10 years — may
effect. House Republicans would be able to pass a repeal bill this week.
ical conditions, as the Affordable “As Congress considers this leg- Mr. Trump appeared to be unfa- not be known when the House
Care Act does. But a host of medi- islation, we challenge lawmakers miliar with details of an amend- votes on the new version. Repre-
cal groups and disease advocacy to remember their commitment to sentative Chris Collins, Republi- Conaway of Texas, who counts ple sclerosis could be far higher
organizations said it would not. their constituents and the Ameri- can of New York and a top Trump votes as a member of the Republi- than the standard rate, effectively
“I want it to be good for sick can people to protect lifesaving ally, said Republicans were not can whip team, said he thought pricing the sick out of the market
people,” Mr. Trump said in an in- health care for millions of Ameri-
cans, including those who strug-
An assertion about planning to seek a new cost-and-
impact estimate from the Con-
Republicans would be able to get
the votes needed to pass a repeal
without technically blocking cov-
erage, critics say.
terview with Bloomberg News.
“It’s not in its final form right now. gle every day with chronic and pre-existing conditions gressional Budget Office. bill in the House this week. “Health status underwriting
other major health conditions,” White House officials ex- Mr. Trump insisted that the could effectively make coverage
It will be every bit as good on pre-
existing conditions as Oba- the groups said. is contradicted. pressed confidence on Monday bill’s approach to pre-existing con- completely unaffordable to people
macare.” Since Sunday, Mr. Trump has that they were nearing success, at ditions had been misreported. with pre-existing conditions,” the
Representative Billy Long, Re- repeatedly insisted that the Re- least in the House. “Do we have “When I watch some of the American Medical Association
publican of Missouri, said on Mon- publican health legislation would the votes for health care? I think news reports, which are so unfair, said in a letter urging opposition.
ment offered by Representative
day: “I have always stated that not allow discrimination against we do,” Gary D. Cohn, director of and they say we don’t cover pre- The possibility that Republi-
Tom MacArthur, Republican of
one of the few good things about people with pre-existing condi- New Jersey, that would allow the White House National Eco- existing conditions — we cover it cans would muster a majority for
Obamacare is that people with tions. Which bill Mr. Trump was states to obtain a waiver permit- nomic Council, said in an inter- beautifully,” the president said. the repeal bill set off alarms
pre-existing conditions would be referring to is not clear. ting insurers to charge higher pre- view with “CBS This Morning.” Mr. MacArthur’s amendment, among supporters of the Afford-
covered.” The Republicans’ latest Since the first version of the miums based on the “health sta- On the same show, Mr. Priebus embraced by House Republican able Care Act.
version “strips away any guaran- American Health Care Act failed tus” of a person who had experi- predicted that the health care bill leaders, says, “Nothing in this act “We were actually more con-
tee that pre-existing conditions to win enough House support on enced a gap in coverage. would be “one of the fastest pieces shall be construed as permitting cerned when it didn’t come up for
would be covered and affordable,” March 24, revisions to win over That amendment won an en- of signature legislation to go health insurance issuers to limit a vote last time because that
he said. the conservative House Freedom dorsement of the bill from the through for a president since access to health coverage for indi- meant there was no room for com-
Still promising that the votes Caucus have undermined protec- House Freedom Caucus, but alien- Roosevelt.” viduals with pre-existing condi- promise at the middle,” said Va-
would come, senior White House tions for the sick. The conserva- ated other Republicans. Mr. Long, (The American Recovery and tions.” lerie Fleisher, an organizer of 412
officials pressed on. Vice Presi- tives finally endorsed the legisla- for instance, voted for an earlier Reinvestment Act, President But the amendment also says Resistance, a protest group out-
dent Mike Pence headed to Capi- tion last week after House leaders version of the bill in the Energy Barack Obama’s far-reaching eco- that the federal government can side Pittsburgh. “It would have to
revised it to permit states to opt and Commerce Committee in nomic stimulus program, was grant waivers allowing insurers to move more to the extreme, more
Kate Zernike contributed report- out of several mandates in the Af- early March. signed into law Feb. 17, 2009, a consider “health status” as a fac- to the right, to get the votes that it
ing from New York, and Thomas fordable Care Act. Mr. Trump did not explain how month after his inauguration.) tor in setting rates. Rates for a per- needed from the Freedom Cau-
Kaplan from Washington. States could, for example, allow the Republicans’ new health plan Representative K. Michael son with cancer, diabetes or multi- cus.”

President Takes Aim at Lunch Guidelines and a Girls’ Education Program

By ERICA L. GREEN a signed proclamation on Monday 2012, many have complained that ease and strokes. Nutrition Employee Week. cial, who discussed private delib-
and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS after having lunch with students they are too stringent and costly. Ms. Brown said her organiza- Representatives of the national erations on the condition of ano-
WASHINGTON — The Trump at Catoctin Elementary School in The new rules were projected to tion was “very disappointed that School Nutrition Association nymity.
administration took aim Monday Leesburg, Va. Mr. Perdue, a for- cost $3.2 billion over five years, the U.S.D.A. has decided to put cheered the regulatory rollback. R. C. Hammond, Mr. Tillerson’s
at two signature programs of the mer governor of Georgia, was just but Mr. Perdue said they had cost special interests back on the “We have been wanting flexibility spokesman, declined to answer
former first lady Michelle Obama, confirmed last week. states an additional $1.22 billion in school menu,” and added, “We so that schools can serve meals questions, providing only a terse
rolling back her efforts to promote Nutrition advocates said the the 2015 fiscal year alone. strongly urge the agency and Con- that are both nutritious and palat- statement that said, “No changes
healthy school lunches nation- move by the Trump administra- Congress has allowed states to gress not to give politics priority able,” said the group’s chief execu- have been made to the Let Girls
wide and potentially rebranding tion was shortsighted. apply for waivers if they cannot over the health of our children.” tive, Patricia Montague. Learn program.” He referred ad-
her program to educate adoles- “Just because children would meet certain standards. Last month, Senator Pat Rob- This flexibility will be wel- ditional queries to the Peace
cent girls abroad. rather eat heavily salted, pro- Nancy Brown, chief executive erts, a Kansas Republican who comed in at least one part of the Corps, which did not return phone
Agriculture Secretary Sonny cessed foods at school doesn’t of the American Heart Associa- leads the Senate Committee on country, Mr. Perdue said. calls and emails seeking com-
Perdue announced that school mean they should,” said Ken Cook, tion, said in a statement that Agriculture, Nutrition and Forest- “A perfect example is in the ment.
meals would no longer have to president of the Environmental schools were moving forward to ry, asked Mr. Perdue to have the South, where the schools want to But former officials expressed
meet some requirements con- Working Group. “The president’s meet the requirements. The orga- Agriculture Department provide serve grits,” he said. “But the alarm that members of Mr.
nected with Mrs. Obama’s initia- fondness for Big Macs and KFC is nization denounced the Agricul- “immediate relief” from the regu- whole grain variety has little black Trump’s administration would
tive to combat childhood obesity well known, but we shouldn’t let ture Department’s relaxation of lations, some of which were to flakes in it, and the kids won’t eat even consider trying to redefine
by overhauling the nation’s school Colonel Sanders and McDonald’s the rules, noting that more sodium take effect July 1. On Monday, Mr. it. The school is compliant with the an initiative that gained traction,
menus. run the school cafeteria.” and sugar would increase stu- Roberts accompanied Mr. Perdue whole grain requirements, but no and its name, under Mrs. Obama’s
The nutrition regulations were Since schools began complying dents’ blood pressure and put in his announcement, which one is eating the grits. That does- stewardship after the world re-
part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free with the nutrition standards in them at greater risk of heart dis- coincided with the start of School n’t make any sense.” acted with outrage to the kidnap-
Kids Act of 2010 and were advocat- The Trump administration also ping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in
ed by Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move” indicated on Monday that it was Nigeria by the Boko Haram ter-
campaign. For the last five years, eyeing another program Mrs. rorist group.
schools have been required to re- Obama promoted. “If this administration wants to
duce the amount of calories, fat It was not clear how serious the move in a different direction on
and sodium in their cafeterias and administration was about target- girls’ education, that’s certainly
increase offerings of whole grains, ing the program, Let Girls Learn, their right and understandable,
fruits and vegetables, and nonfat which was spearheaded by Presi- but to tear down a message that
milk to the roughly 32 million stu- dent Barack Obama and Mrs. was erected in the wake of this ter-
dents who receive federally subsi- Obama in 2015 to increase educa- rible incident that happened in Ni-
dized meals. tional opportunities for adoles- geria, and that the world rallied
Beginning next school year, cent girls who face physical dan- around, I think it is really shame-
schools can request an exemption ger and other obstacles to going to ful,” said Brett Plitt Bruen, an
from the whole grain require- school. Obama administration official
ments and delay the sodium man- In a letter circulated internally who helped create the program.
date. They will also be able to this week, a Peace Corps official The initiative predated Mrs.
serve 1 percent flavored milk in- said the initiative would no longer Obama’s involvement, but she
stead of nonfat. use the Let Girls Learn brand or traveled the world and recruited
Mr. Perdue said the Obama-era operate as a discrete program, ac- dozens of celebrities, including
rules had resulted in increased cording to people familiar with the Alicia Keys, Anne Hathaway and
costs for school districts and de- document, which was first re- Shonda Rhimes, to promote and
clining participation in the federal ported by CNN. participate in it.
school lunch program. He said re- A senior administration official “It was effective before the first
laxing the rules was part of the ad- said there was no plan to end or lady got involved, and it became
ministration’s effort to “make even rebrand the program, calling even more powerful when her
school meals great again.” the letter a result of an unauthor- brand and her office were
“If kids aren’t eating the food, ized and erroneous decision by a associated with it,” Mr. Bruen
and it’s ending up in the trash, career government employee. said. “And to say we’re going to
they aren’t getting any nutrition When Secretary of State Rex W. stop the campaign or change it
— thus undermining the intent of Tillerson’s staff learned of the just to distance it from her is to un-
the program,” said Mr. Perdue, ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
memo on Monday, they insisted dermine everything that was
who announced the changes with Michelle Obama, during a school visit in Alexandria, Va., in 2012, championed healthier lunches. that it be reviewed, said the offi- achieved.”
A18 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 K

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Budget Deal Allots $120 Million More for First Family’s Security After Dust
By NICHOLAS FANDOS
WASHINGTON — Congress
Settles,
would allocate more than $120 mil-
lion in additional money to help
cover the escalating costs of pro-
tecting the Trump family and
Winners
Trump Tower under a bipartisan
spending agreement that appears
poised to pass this week.
And Losers
About half of the money, nearly By THOMAS KAPLAN
$60 million, is earmarked for the WASHINGTON — In the early
Secret Service, with most of it go- days of the Trump presidency,
ing toward protecting the presi- Republicans and Democrats on
dent while he is traveling and se- Capitol Hill have not agreed on
curity for Trump Tower in New much. But they have come to-
York City, according to legislation gether to keep the government
being circulated on Monday. open for the next several months.
Another roughly $60 million The more than $1 trillion
would be set aside in a rare provi- spending deal that congressional
sion to reimburse localities, like leaders reached on Sunday was
New York City and Palm Beach an act of compromise, a rarity in
County in Florida, that have in- a highly polarized Congress.
curred “extraordinary law en- But that was the easy part. The
forcement personnel costs” fiscal year is already more than
associated with protecting Mr. halfway over, and the new spend-
Trump’s residences since Election ing package — which must still
Day. be approved by lawmakers —
The additional funding, which covers only the next five months.
comes after weeks of mostly be- A bigger fight awaits as the year
hind-the-scenes lobbying, reflects goes on and President Trump
the tremendous costs associated tries to put his imprint on the
with protecting the lifestyle of Mr. budget for the next fiscal year,
Trump and his family. And it is which begins Oct. 1.
likely to provide relief to those
who have borne the brunt of the
Loser: President Trump
effort — if only for the next five
months, when the current fiscal AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES The Trump administration has
year ends. Secret Service agents surrounded Marine One as the president little to brag about in this deal.
The Secret Service has been The agreement provides an
particularly strained as it tries to
left Joint Base Andrews in Maryland last week. Under the deal,
additional $15 billion in military
keep up with its new protectees, the Secret Service would receive nearly $60 million more, and spending, but that is only half of
who include a first lady and a son localities like New York City, left, roughly the same. what Mr. Trump had sought.
living at Trump Tower and Mr. The White House budget direc-
Trump’s frequently traveling is located.” Tower triplex or return to Bed- tor, Mick Mulvaney, argued on
adult children. The agency had re- More than 100 days into Mr. minster, which is likely to become Monday that Republicans scored
quested additional money earlier Trump’s presidency, those juris- a more frequent presidential re- some wins in the budget deal.
this year. dictions said they have yet to see treat as the weather warms. “I saw how the Democrats
The legislation provides the Se- any federal money and are still The federal reimbursement, thought they did a great job and
cret Service with $34 million for awaiting instructions on how to which was championed by law- how they think we didn’t,” he
the increased cost of physical pro- apply for the bulk of the reim- makers representing the local- said. “I think it’s great that the
tection of Mr. Trump for the rest of bursement. ities, was greeted as a relief, even Democrats like the bill. That’s
the fiscal year. The money could New York City has shouldered as there were concerns that it may fantastic. We thought it was a
be used flexibly to protect the first the heaviest cost since Mr. Trump prove insufficient. The legislation really good deal for this adminis-
family in New York and when it was elected. James P. O’Neill, the also specifies that the funds are to tration as well.”
travels. The family’s travels, from police commissioner, wrote in a be used for reimbursement of The Trump administration
business trips to Vancouver and letter in February to the state’s costs incurred before Sept. 30, the called for $18 billion in cuts to
Dubai by Mr. Trump’s adult sons KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES congressional delegation that the end of the fiscal year, meaning domestic programs. Lawmakers
to ski weekends in Aspen, Colo., Police Department had spent that Congress is likely to have to were not receptive, and their
and Whistler, British Columbia, by million for the installation of long- Election Day. Bedminster, N.J., $300,000 a day protecting Trump take up the issue again. response provides a preview of
his daughter Ivanka have become awaited White House fence seg- where Mr. Trump owns another Tower between Election Day and “We are getting what we are how members of Congress from
a constant point of criticism ments intended to improve securi- golf club and is expected to spend Inauguration Day and $127,000 to owed,” Mayor Bill de Blasio of both parties might respond as
among Democrats. ty at the Executive Mansion and time in the coming weeks and $145,000 a day since then, on top of New York said in a statement Mr. Trump presses for bigger
Another $23 million would go $13 million to make overtime pay- months, would also be eligible to other costs. thanking New York’s congres- cuts in the 2018 budget.
specifically toward covering the ments incurred during last year’s apply for the funds. In Florida, home to Mr. Trump’s sional delegation for helping se- Consider the fate of the Na-
costs of outfitting Trump Tower presidential campaign. Congress had previously ap- Mar-a-Lago resort, the Palm cure the funds. “That’s good news tional Institutes of Health. The
with the necessary equipment In total, the Secret Service proved $7 million to reimburse lo- Beach County Sheriff’s Office has for our city and the hardworking Trump administration sought a
and personnel, as well as to rent spends more than $750 million of cal law enforcement for the costs said it was spending an additional police officers faced with this un- $1.2 billion reduction in funding
space inside the building for its $1.8 billion budget on protective of protecting Mr. Trump between $60,000 a day in overtime when precedented security challenge.” for the agency for the current
agency personnel, according to a operations. That includes not only Election Day and the inaugura- Mr. Trump was in town. He has The Palm Beach County Sher- fiscal year, but congressional
Department of Homeland Securi- protection of the White House tion. The new agreement will pro- visited seven times since Inaugu- iff’s Office declined to comment on negotiators ended up agreeing on
ty official who was familiar with compound, Mr. Trump, his family vide that money, plus $20 million ration Day, spending a total of 25 Monday, but Representative Ted a $2 billion increase.
the funding bill but was not yet au- and other current and former top for the same period and $41 million days there. Deutch, Democrat of Florida, who
thorized to discuss it. Mr. Trump government officials, but also se- for the period from Jan. 20 until And Bedminster, about an hour represents parts of Palm Beach Winner: Congressional Democrats
has not returned to the tower, his curity for visiting foreign digni- the end of the fiscal year. outside New York City, said its 16- County, said he was grateful the
primary residence and the corpo- taries and the United Nations “Although the federal govern- person police force spent $300,000 county’s taxpayers would not be Consigned to the minority and
rate headquarters of the Trump General Assembly each year. ment does not otherwise reim- protecting Mr. Trump when he on the hook. Still, he said, the still processing their grief over
Organization, since Inauguration The agency declined to com- burse costs of state or local law en- held meetings at the club during agreement provided only a tem- the presidential election,
Day, but his wife, Melania, and son ment on the legislation. forcement for activities in support the presidential transition period. porary solution. Democrats in Congress entered
Barron have been living there full Aside from the Secret Service, of the United States Secret Serv- Later this week, Mr. Trump is “This is an important step,” Mr. this year in a fairly bleak state.
time. the biggest beneficiaries under ice protection mission,” the legis- scheduled to return to New York Deutch said. “But now and by the But spending measures are one
The agreement also funds sev- the agreement would be New lation reads, “these funds are be- City for the first time since taking end of the funding bill, we have to area where they can still exert
eral significant one-time costs York City and Palm Beach County, ing provided in recognition of the office to commemorate the 75th have a discussion about whether considerable influence even
associated with presidential pro- where Mr. Trump and his family extraordinary costs borne by a anniversary of a World War II na- it is appropriate for the president while in the minority.
tection that predate the Trump ad- have spent the bulk of their time small number of jurisdictions in val battle. It is unclear if Mr. to bill the taxpayers for trips to his Democrats emerged from the
ministration. Among them are $50 away from Washington since which a residence of the president Trump will stay at his Trump private club.” spending talks with a respectable
list of victories, including provid-
ing funds for Puerto Rico’s Med-
icaid program as well as for costs

Congress’s Bipartisan Deal Sets Template for Bypassing Trump incurred by local law enforce-
ment — like the New York Police
Department — to protect Mr.
WASHINGTON — By cutting would have written on my own, because of the Senate filibuster. Trump and his family. But even
a bipartisan spending compro- we showed that when Democrats Getting them to go along with more significantly, the
mise among themselves, Repub- and Republicans work together the funding for the wall probably Democrats were able to push
licans and Democrats in Con- and reject President Trump’s back on Mr. Trump.
will not get any easier in the next
gress not only prevented the demands, we can make progress budget. Mr. Trump himself ex-
White House from and get things done for the work- pressed new frustration with the Loser: Border wall builders
CARL delivering on Pres-
ident Trump’s
ers, women and middle-class
families we represent,” said
Senate in an interview aired Few campaign promises have
Sunday by CBS’s “Face the Na-
HULSE priorities in his Senator Patty Murray of Wash- tion.”
been as central and as polarizing
as Mr. Trump’s oft-repeated vow
very first budget, ington, the No. 3 Senate Demo- “I think the rules in Congress,
ON to build a wall along the border
they also drafted a crat. and in particular the rules in the
WASHINGTON with Mexico, which he insisted
handy blueprint Democrats were in a celebra- Senate, are unbelievably archaic Mexico would pay for. Mr. Trump
for circumventing the Trump tory mood, issuing news releases and slow-moving and, in many had wanted money in the spend-
administration in the future. highlighting pet projects includ-
cases, unfair,” he said. “In many ing deal to go toward the wall,
It was an outcome that should ed in the measure to be voted on
cases, you’re forced to make but he backed down — a crucial
worry the new president even this week. “Omnibus Bill Reflects
deals that are not the deal you’d concession that helped smooth
though Mr. Trump will be spared Democrats’ Values to Protect the path for congressional nego-
the humiliation of a government Health Care, Environment and make. You’d make a much differ-
ent kind of a deal.” tiators completing the deal. (The
shutdown early in his tenure if Education,” read the headline on agreement does include more
he signs the legislation. a letter from Representative ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES But after the Senate just
changed procedure to ban funding for border security.) Mr.
“We were sort of a united Nancy Pelosi of California, the Trump insists he will build his
front, Republicans and Democratic leader. filibusters against Supreme
Court nominees, it is unlikely wall, meaning that lawmakers
Democrats, opposed to Trump,” Republicans, perhaps in no are likely to face pressure to
said Senator Chuck Schumer of rush to stick their thumb in the senators will be in a hurry to
come up with funding.
New York, the Democratic eye of a president known for his institute an even more sweeping
leader, in an interview. itchy Twitter finger, were more change to gut the legislative
Not exactly the words a presi- restrained. But many are not filibuster that instills individual Winner: Coal miners
dent wants to hear in the open- enthusiastic about the border senators with greater power — A standoff over health care for
ing months of his term — that wall, and there was plenty in the especially to win money for a retired coal miners raised the
the two usually warring parties 1,665-page bill for them to like, wall many of them don’t want. prospect of a government shut-
on Capitol Hill instead joined such as an increase in Pentagon Instead, members of the down in December. Ultimately,
forces to gang up on him. But spending and more money to House and Senate now have Senator Joe Manchin III, Demo-
that is essentially what hap- reduce the opioid addiction clear evidence they can success- crat of West Virginia, and other
pened. plaguing many of their states. fully work together in certain Democrats backed down, and the
Republicans, protective of Senator Mitch McConnell, cases and deliver a product they lights stayed on.
their spending priorities, chose Republican of Kentucky and the support even if it does not do all But Mr. Manchin and others
to cooperate with Democrats in majority leader, professed partic- that the White House wants. It vowed to continue their fight.
the House and Senate to work ular satisfaction at a permanent could serve as a template for The agreement reached by law-
out a five-month package they extension of health benefits for putting together the next round makers includes a permanent
could all live with, ignoring de- retired coal miners and assist- GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
of spending bills. extension of health benefits for
mands from the White House for ance for communities and work- Top, Senators Chuck Schumer, left, and Patrick J. Leahy, both “This gives me a great deal of retired miners who faced losing
deep spending cuts in areas like ers hit by the downturn in coal Democrats, met reporters Monday. Aid for coal miners pleased coverage, a win for Mr. Manchin;
optimism about getting a full-
environmental protection. mining. The deal was exactly the Senator Mitch McConnell, above, the Republican leader. Mitch McConnell, Republican of
year budget for 2018 if we follow
By insisting on proposals that sort of something-for-everyone Kentucky and the Senate major-
both parties on Capitol Hill knew grab bag that used to be a stand- this pattern,” Mr. Schumer said.
ity leader; and other lawmakers
could not pass — the border wall ard feature of Congress before promise of a border wall,” said priorities would be better re- After Mr. Trump’s election, from coal states.
funding in particular — the the breakdown in passing the Bob Dane, the executive director flected in the coming budget for some Republicans feared that the
White House took itself out of the annual spending bills. of the Federation for American the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. new president might be too will-
ing to work with Democrats at Winner: Planned Parenthood
game and ceded power to Con- Most of the displeasure with Immigration Reform. “Other He portrayed new border securi-
gress. Members of both parties, the legislation was being ex- provisions of the budget deal ty funding included in the cur- the expense of Republicans. But Despite the desire of congres-
freed to direct money to favored pressed off Capitol Hill by con- effectively sell out the very peo- rent budget deal as a step toward the spending deal showed that it sional Republicans to cut off
initiatives, eagerly seized the servative groups that found it a ple who delivered key swing constructing the wall. might be pragmatic Republicans federal funds to Planned Parent-
opportunity and increased fund- rank capitulation to Democrats states to him last November.” “Make no mistake: The wall and Democrats on Capitol Hill hood, the spending package
ing for agencies such as the and Trump opponents. At the White House, Sean will be built,” he said. who are occasionally willing to spares the organization.
National Institutes of Health “The late-night closed-door Spicer, the spokesman, played But this budget deal made it get together — and that union
rather than cutting it. budget deal provides no funding down any defeats for the White abundantly clear that Democrats could come at a cost to the presi- Alan Rappeport contributed re-
“Although this wasn’t the bill I for President Trump’s signature House and said the president’s retain real leverage on spending dent. porting.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N A19

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

‘You’re the Best,’ Trump Once Told Pelosi. Can They Cooperate Again?
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Rangel, the recently retired 23-
and MAGGIE HABERMAN term Harlem congressman, had
WASHINGTON — The mes- helped arrange her initial meeting
sage came in a distant January, at with Mr. Trump.
the dawn of a power transfer in “I’m a likable guy, and he liked
Washington — dictated, like so everybody,” Mr. Rangel said in an
much would be in due time, by interview.
something Donald J. Trump saw The feeling is no longer mutual.
in the news. “The one good thing that Donald
“Nancy — you’re the best,” Mr. Trump does for our great nation,”
Trump wrote to Nancy Pelosi at Mr. Rangel added, “is that he shat-
the beginning of 2007, scribbling ters the myth of white supremacy
on an article about her swearing- once and for all.”
in as House speaker after Ms. Pelosi’s public assessments
Democrats seized control of the have been nearly as blistering.
chamber. “Congrats. Donald.” But she has seemed disinclined to
take Mr. Trump’s appeal lightly.
Mr. Trump had a small hand in
her elevation. He had made a During their phone call the day
after the election, smarting from
$20,000 donation to the
Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss,
Democratic Congressional Cam-
Ms. Pelosi posed a question to the
paign Committee.
president-elect, noting his upsets
A decade later, long after the
in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
two first made a gilded acquaint-
“What did you know?” she
ance at Trump Tower in Manhat-
asked him.
tan, they have emerged from the
“I saw the hostility,” Mr. Trump
administration’s first 100 days as
replied, according to Ms. Pelosi.
partisan foes with divergent pol-
She praised Mrs. Clinton for her
icy aims but one common political
concession speech, telling Mr.
goal: proving their deal-making
Trump it “must have been very
clout in a city where each has a
hard for her to do.” “It would have
history of being underestimated.
been hard for me, too,” she re-
As Mr. Trump strains to demon- called him saying.
strate progress on his main cam- Holding forth in her office, Ms.
paign pledges, he has slogged Pelosi brandished an instinct for
through his early months with few Trumpian adjectives and work-
Sherpas on Capitol Hill, pursuing GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES day habits. She took stock of his
halting partnerships with Senator budget (“pathetic”), his praise of
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Representative Nancy Pelosi at a news conference last week. In an interview, she said of the president, “I could be helpful to him.”
the far-right French presidential
majority leader, and Speaker Paul candidate Marine Le Pen (“I
D. Ryan that have yielded few leg- that she knew how to address bers to pass.) of Vermont (“crazy Bernie”), Sen- ing it “nonexistent” and suggest- mean, really?”) and his tax pro-
islative successes. some Republicans’ concerns over There have been occasional ator Elizabeth Warren of Massa- ing that she was a minority-party posal (also “pathetic”).
Ms. Pelosi — whose hard line on the Affordable Care Act and would gestures toward collaboration. In chusetts (“Pocahontas”). leader searching for purpose. She described Sean Spicer, Mr.
subsidy payments for insurers un- gladly help if they stopped push- a phone conversation the day af- Ms. Pelosi has avoided this fate, But she has, at times, made her- Trump’s press secretary, as “that
der the Affordable Care Act ing for a full repeal. “We’re not ter the election, Ms. Pelosi sug- mostly. “When he lost the health self heard. poor slob” from television, when
helped extract an apparent con- here to obstruct him.” gested that Mr. Trump meet with a care bill, he called us losers,” she It was Ms. Pelosi who inter- she could not recall his name.
cession from the White House Political realities make her a bipartisan congressional caucus said in the interview. “All right, jected, during Mr. Trump’s meet- She interrupted herself at one
during recent budget negotiations highly unlikely partner in the near on women’s issues. Mr. Trump way to go!” ing with congressional leaders point to turn to the four TV sets in
— will not help Mr. Trump disman- term. Ms. Pelosi remains an ava- said his daughter Ivanka should It is not clear if this more gentle days after taking office, to correct the room, which play cable news
tle President Barack Obama’s sig- tar of San Francisco liberalism go instead, handing her the phone. treatment reflects Mr. Trump’s as- his claim that millions of unau- and C-Span on a loop, remarking
nature law. She will not shepherd and progressive excess to Mr. A person close to Ms. Trump said sessment of Ms. Pelosi’s impor- thorized immigrants had cost him on the lighting of an interview
his tax plan, which she has called a Trump’s base. she would be happy to attend. tance or a signal of respect for a the popular vote in November. with Mr. Schumer on CNN.
“wish list for billionaires.” Mr. Trump remains the most po- Mr. Trump has in many ways woman he used to describe pri- And it was Ms. Pelosi, according In private, Ms. Pelosi has ap-
But with an ideologically shape- tent proponent of a Republican made Ms. Pelosi’s job easier by vately as a tenacious negotiator, to people familiar with the negoti- peared to discourage members
shifting president — and a former health bill that Ms. Pelosi recently declining to bother much with the kind he championed at times ations, who led the charge in re- from taking needless swings at
speaker seeking relevance in a appraised as “doo-doo on their Democrats so far, binding the mi- in his business life. cent days to earn assurances from Mr. Trump, invoking another
moment when the title of House shoe, tattooed on their forehead.” nority caucus in opposition. She “He said she was a very tough the Trump administration that it presidential obsession, his poll
minority leader often confers little Yet for Ms. Pelosi, recent nego- has called Mr. Trump “one of the leader — he respected her,” said would continue making subsidy numbers, and informing col-
— she seems to retain at least a tiations over government funding best organizers the Democratic Sam Nunberg, a former aide to payments to insurers under the leagues that they compare unfa-
measure of hope that the man she have delivered the first meaning- Party has ever had” — a boon of Mr. Trump. “He thought that she Affordable Care Act. The White vorably to every president’s dat-
met in his previous political life ful bipartisan exchanges of this sorts but also a testament, critics got a lot over on Bush those last House had threatened to withhold ing to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
might re-emerge. Congress — arriving at a moment say, to an absence of inspiring af- couple years.” the payments as leverage. “We have a very clear responsi-
“I could be helpful to him,” Ms. when some Democrats have firmative leadership from top One White House official, Ms. Pelosi played down any bility to take our shots very care-
Pelosi offered without prompting chafed at her continued grip on Democrats in Washington. speaking on the condition of ano- past relationship with Mr. Trump fully,” she said during a whip
during an interview last week in power, expressing a desire to ele- The president has elevated nymity to discuss the Trump ad- when he was a donor to meeting last week, according to
her office at the Capitol, saying vate new voices. (A newly agreed other Democrats with character- ministration’s tenuous ties with Democrats, and her office said she an aide in the room.
upon budget deal, announced on istic name-calling: Senator Chuck congressional Democrats, dis- had no record of Mr. Trump’s note Mr. Trump’s shaky standing,
Kitty Bennett contributed re- Sunday night, requires Schumer of New York (“head missed the notion of any current from 2007. She recalled that for- she added, supplies “a real oppor-
search. Democratic votes in both cham- clown”), Senator Bernie Sanders relationship with Ms. Pelosi, call- mer Representative Charles B. tunity for us.”

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A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

President’s Preparations
To Increase Gas Exports
Face Glut in the Market
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS address the trade imbalance,”
HOUSTON — The Trump ad- said Daniel Yergin, the energy his-
ministration is moving to make torian and vice chairman of IHS
the United States the world’s lead- Markit, a consultancy. “This sup-
ing exporter of natural gas as a ports jobs, this supports invest-
central component of both energy ment in energy, this supports ex-
and trade policy. ports, a whole host of administra-
But whether global markets, tion objectives.”
currently awash with gas, will Once six facilities under con-
play along remains a long shot struction or being expanded are
over the next several years. Any completed over the next few
breakdown of talks to remodel the years, the additional liquefied gas
North American Free Trade exports could amount to as much
Agreement, which set the regula- as $50 billion in annual revenue,
tory framework that allowed gas depending on gas prices. Much of
exports to Mexico to triple over that would help balance the trade
the last six years, could also get in deficit with China, an administra-
tion objective.
the way.
Additionally, four big pipelines
The administration’s ambitions
are being built this year to take
were explained emphatically last
more gas to Mexico, and at least
month by Gary D. Cohn, director
two more are slated to begin
of the National Economic Council,
transporting gas by the end of
and they were followed up by the
2018. With Mexico converting its
Energy Department’s authoriza-
power sector to natural gas from
tion last Tuesday for a Texas ex-
fuel oil, the country already im-
port terminal that Exxon Mobil
ports more than 5 percent of
and Qatar Petroleum have pur-
United States gas production,
sued for years. Other administra- MICHAEL STRAVATO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
which particularly helps Texas
tion plans include opening the gas producers and pipeline com- The Golden Pass Products liquefied natural gas terminal in
way for more gas exports from Or- panies. Sabine Pass, Tex., above, which has permission to start exports.
egon to serve Asia.
To some extent, even American At left, Gary D. Cohn, right, director of the National Economic
In recent years, there was coal companies could benefit from
strong domestic opposition to the
Council, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week.
more gas exports, because ex-
exports, from manufacturers and porting natural gas tends to sup-
others, out of fear that domestic
gas prices would rise, and the
port its price. That is important A plan to develop partnership between Exxon Mo-
bil and Qatar Petroleum, to export
because inexpensive gas has been
Obama administration moved the leading enemy of the shrink- infrastructure and domestically produced gas from
cautiously before increasing the ing coal industry, a head-to-head the Texas coast.
pace of export terminal permit competitor. tackle a trade deficit. “This is not only good for our
approvals during its second term. Proponents in the State and En- economy and American jobs but
With supplies appearing boun- ergy Departments have also long also assists other countries with
tiful, and other countries aiming argued that more gas exports can Trump administration is hoping their energy security,” said Ener-
to increase their own production, provide better security to energy- for, although its policies may not gy Secretary Rick Perry, who
opposition has mostly abated, ex- hungry allies like Japan; lessen have much of an immediate im- championed the oil and gas indus-
cept in pockets of the East Coast the dependence of Europe on Rus- pact. try as Texas governor.
and Pacific Northwest. There re- sia, which has been known to use “We could be and should be the The Golden Pass facility,
mains enthusiastic support along gas as a political weapon; and largest exporter of L.N.G. in the originally designed for gas im-
the gulf coasts of Louisiana and speed up the replacement of coal
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
world,” Mr. Cohn said at a Wash- ports before the shale production
Texas, where there is substantial with gas to curb climate change. ington conference in April. He boom created a glut, has largely
room for more growth. complete the permitting process, grow as more export and import remained dormant for the last six
But construction has begun on seek financing and markets, and terminals are built and that the said the first thing the administra-
For the Trump administration, so many terminals in recent years tion would do was issue a permit years. With an additional invest-
develop construction plans in the United States will continue to
the economic benefits of gas ex- in Australia, Malaysia, Russia and for an export facility in the North- ment of $10 billion or so, the plant
hope they can act fast in case the have a cost advantage over other
port infrastructure are para- the United States that supplies of west, a reference to the Jordan could become a force on interna-
market turns around. major producers, including Qatar
mount. Each natural gas export liquefied gas shipped in tankers Cove L.N.G. terminal in the Ore- tional markets and export two bil-
“The pace follows the market and Russia, because of the abun-
terminal can require an invest- are expected to increase by nearly dance of American gas produc- gon port of Coos Bay, where a Ca- lion cubic feet of gas a day, nearly
and not the wishes of the U.S. gov-
ment of $10 billion or more, 50 percent over the next five years tion. nadian company, Veresen, has 3 percent of current American gas
ernment,” said Nikos Tsafos, pres-
produce thousands of construc- while global gas demand is in- ident and chief analyst at the con- “It’s been demonstrated over proposed to build. production.
tion jobs and consume millions of creasing by less than 2 percent a sultancy Enalytica. “No one is re- the last two years that when you The Federal Energy Regulatory Golden Pass claims construc-
pounds of steel. Then there is the year. ally out there fishing for new have low natural gas prices, de- Commission last year denied a tion of the facility would mean
additional drilling and production In the United States alone, projects right now.” mand increases much faster than permit to the terminal as well as a 45,000 direct and indirect jobs
of gas, which is then cooled to mi- where Cheniere Energy began The gas business is cyclical, and what people think,” said Charif pipeline to link it to production, over five years, and 3,800 direct
nus 260 degrees, condensing it to major liquefied gas exports only proponents say it is only a matter Souki, chairman of Tellurian, a saying the pipe would have “ad- and indirect permanent jobs.
a liquid known as liquefied natural last year, shipments are expected of time before demand picks up. Houston company developing a verse effects on landowners.” The partnership released a one-
gas, or L.N.G., to be shipped on gi- to jump to nearly six billion cubic China and India are increasingly $15 billion L.N.G. export project There was also strong opposition line statement in response to the
ant tankers to Asian, European feet a day from the current 1.5 bil- turning to gas to replace coal and south of Lake Charles, La. from local environmental groups. administration announcement:
and Latin American markets. lion cubic feet a day by the end of improve the air quality of their cit- “The Trump administration has The commission can reconsider “Golden Pass Products is pleased
The recent expansion of the the decade as a cluster of projects ies. Gas demand for transport is discovered the power of natural the issue, but not any time soon, to have achieved this important
Panama Canal has quickened the are completed on the gulf coast. growing in Iran, Pakistan and Ar- gas,” Mr. Souki added. “Today, we because three of its five seats are regulatory milestone as we con-
route to growing markets in Ja- The momentum for start-ups gentina. Germany has largely giv- are the top gas producer in the vacant and the Senate has been tinue to work to develop the ex-
pan, South Korea and elsewhere hit a wall over the last two years en up on nuclear power, and it world, and in another three or four known to take months to confirm port opportunity.”
in Asia, making American gas worldwide, and four United States needs natural gas to replace some years, we’ll be one of the top two commission nominations. But executives noted that the
more competitive. projects approved in recent years of the lost power. gas exporters in the world, right With additional fanfare, the En- companies had not yet made a fi-
“Exporting L.N.G. meets many have not yet begun construction. Some L.N.G. executives say up there with Russia.” ergy Department last week autho- nal decision on whether to go
objectives, including helping to Companies have been content to that the global demand for gas will That is certainly what the rized Golden Pass Products, a ahead with the investment.

Administration Uses Obscure Law to Unravel Obama’s Legacy, One Rule at a Time
From Page A1
time. Mr. Trump has used the re-
A historic reversal of
view act as a regulatory wrecking
ball, signing 13 bills that erased
government rules in
rules on the environment, labor, fi- record time by Trump.
nancial protections, internet pri-
vacy, abortion, education and gun
rights. In the law’s 21-year history, Trump’s critics say he has set a
it had been used successfully only dangerous precedent with what
once before, when President
they call his indiscriminate use of
George W. Bush reversed a Clin-
the Congressional Review Act.
ton-era ergonomics rule.
The critics are especially con-
The effort has surpassed its ar-
chitects’ most ambitious hopes. cerned about a key provision in
Andrew Bremberg, the presi- the act that seeks to prevent all fu-
dent’s domestic policy chief, said ture presidents from replacing the
he had thought Congress might be eliminated regulations with any-
able to use the act to pass five or thing similar. That part of the act
six bills reversing Mr. Obama’s has never been tested in court, but
regulations. During the transition experts said it would chill efforts
effort, no one contemplated more to draft new regulations even af-
than a dozen, Mr. Bremberg said. ter Mr. Trump leaves office.
“It is a strong and very potent “The Congressional Review Act
and powerful tool,” he said. used in this way is kind of like a
But critics say Mr. Trump’s ag- nuke,” said Robert Hahn, a profes-
gressive use of the Congressional sor of economics at Oxford and an
Review Act amounts to a blunt expert on American regulations.
and thoughtless assault on rules “We had a Democratic president
that would have increased peo- who was reflecting his policy pref-
ple’s safety, secured their person- erences toward regulation. Trump
al information, protected federal has a tool now to undo those po-
lands and improved education. litical preferences, and he’s using
An early Obama rule that Mr. it.”
Trump and Congress reversed Public Citizen, a liberal watch-
would have required coal compa- dog group, said in a statement that
nies to make sure that waste from Mr. Trump and congressional Re-
mountaintop mining was not pol- publicans “have been using the
JOHN SOMMERS II/REUTERS
luting local waterways. Now, C.R.A. to reward the corporate
steps to prevent illness from con- An N.R.A. show last May. Since taking office, President Trump has signed 13 bills erasing regulations, including one on gun rights. and ideological special interests
taminated drinking water will not that funded their campaigns. It’s
be taken. years instead of six months. And last eight years was not knowing But reversing regulation director of the transition effort an escalation of the corrupt insid-
Another rule would have re- another would have prevented where the next regulation was through executive authority re- and now a deputy chief of staff at er-dealing that Trump cam-
quired the Social Security Admin- states from denying funding for coming from, the next rule, and quires long periods of study, no- the White House; and House and paigned against.”
istration to provide information women’s health services to facili- that uncertainty stifled invest- tice to the public and hearings. Senate aides. The group’s mem- But what Democrats viewed as
about mentally incapacitated peo- ties that also provided abortions. ment,” said Marc Short, Mr. The final outcome is often chal- bers settled on a list of rules they important new protections, Re-
ple to law enforcement agencies Republicans viewed those rules Trump’s legislative affairs direc- lenged in court, adding to the de- thought could be eradicated.
that conduct background checks publicans saw as unneeded en-
and the other eliminated regula- tor, who participated in planning lay. “We knew we had a short win-
for gun purchases. Now, these in- cumbrances on insurance compa-
tions as unnecessary burdens en- for the regulatory assault. Under the Congressional Re- dow of time in order to do them,”
dividuals — an estimated 75,000 a nies, banks and other businesses.
acted by a president who had re- Mr. Trump’s efforts to unwind view Act, the process is cleaner said Don Stewart, a spokesman
year — will not need Justice De- sorted to executive action be- Mr. Obama’s regulations go be- and simpler. It requires only an for Senator Mitch McConnell of “It’s not as if there aren’t an
partment waivers to buy guns. cause he could not get his agenda yond the use of the Congressional up-or-down vote, and the outcome Kentucky, the majority leader. enormous number of regulations
One eliminated regulation through Congress. While initially Review Act. He has issued execu- cannot be challenged legally. “That was an important part of still on the books,” Mr. Short, the
would have prohibited internet skeptical of using administrative tive orders, including one in- The use of that tool to attack the coordination effort.” president’s legislative affairs di-
providers from collecting, sharing power to govern, Mr. Obama in- structing the Environmental Pro- Obama-era regulations was Many Obama-era rules may rector, said. “I don’t think that we
or selling consumers’ information creasingly embraced the use of tection Agency to begin the coordinated by a small group, in- survive Mr. Trump’s efforts to un- feel like there is some sort of
without their permission. One regulation, reshaping govern- process of rolling back far-reach- cluding Mr. Short; Mr. Bremberg; wind them. Republicans have yet threat by passing this legislation.”
would have required some busi- ment more by writing new rules ing rules that would shut down Eric Ueland, a veteran Republican to repeal the Affordable Care Act, He added, “I think it would be
nesses to keep records of work-re- than by passing new legislation. many of the country’s coal-fired who works for the Senate Budget for which many of the most signifi- unfair to paint it as if you are mov-
lated injuries and illnesses for five “The biggest frustration in the power plants. Committee; Rick Dearborn, the cant rules were written. Still, Mr. ing into an anarchical society.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 0N A21

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Trump’s Impromptu Diplomacy Toward North Korea Is Laced With Risk

country forward.” Mr. Spicer add-
From Page A1 ed, “He is a young person to be
and Mr. Putin are scheduled to leading a country with nuclear
speak by telephone on Tuesday weapons.”
afternoon, the White House an- For his part, Mr. Duterte ap-
nounced late Monday. peared unimpressed by Mr.
“The most serious risk with Trump’s invitation to the White
this series of uncoordinated and House, which the president made
controversial statements is that during a phone call on Saturday, to
they undermine the most impor- the surprise of his own staff. The
tant currency of U.S. power: the Philippine leader said he and Mr.
credibility of the president’s Trump had an amicable conversa-
words,” said Evan S. Medeiros, tion, but he was noncommittal
who served as a senior Asia ad- about visiting Washington, saying
viser to President Barack Obama. he had a busy schedule.
Mr. Trump first broached the “I cannot make any definite
idea of sitting down with Mr. Kim promise,” Mr. Duterte said to
during the 2016 presidential cam- reporters after touring Chinese
paign. He revived it in an inter- warships in Davao City, his home-
view Monday with Bloomberg town. “I’m supposed to go to Rus-
News, saying, “If it would be ap- sia, I’m also supposed to go to Is-
propriate for me to meet with him, rael.”
I would absolutely; I would be If Mr. Duterte rejected Mr.
honored to do it.” Trump’s invitation, he would
The White House clarified that spare him further criticism for
Mr. Trump would only consider a playing host to a leader with a
meeting if the North Korean toxic reputation. On Sunday, sen-
leader met a series of conditions, ior officials said they expected the
starting with a sharp curtailment State Department and the Na-
of his provocative behavior. North tional Security Council to resist a
Korea carried out its most recent White House visit. But on Monday,
ballistic missile test, which failed,
an official said the White House
only last week.
did not pass word to Mr. Duterte to
“We want to hold out the possi-
demur.
bility that if North Korea were
Mr. Spicer defended the invi-
ever serious about completely
tation, saying the Philippines
dismantling its nuclear capability
and taking away the threat that were important to isolating North
they pose both to the region and Korea diplomatically and econom-
to us,” the press secretary, Sean ED JONES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES ically. Mr. Trump, he said, had
Spicer, said, “there is always go- A display of military might last month in Pyongyang. President Trump said he would consider meeting with North Korea’s dictator. been briefed about Mr. Duterte’s
ing to be a possibility of that oc- record before he made the call.
curring.” But he added, “That Josh Kurlantzick, a senior fel-
sible. ministration that led to a nuclear last gaps. So far, Mr. Kim has dis- brother, Kim Jong-nam, who was
possibility is not there at this low with the Council on Foreign
Some experts said Mr. Trump’s agreement with North Korea in played no interest in even begin- accosted in an airport in Kuala
time.” Relations, said he expected Mr.
openness to diplomacy reflected 1994. ning such a negotiation. Lumpur, Malaysia, by two
For now, the Trump adminis- the influence of China, which has “They’re trying to create the Mr. Trump has spoken gener- assailants wielding a liquid con- Duterte would still come to the
tration is pursuing a more tradi- long urged the United States to right circumstances for talks,” Mr. ously of Mr. Kim in recent days, taining the nerve agent VX. United States, but might not want
tional strategy of tightening eco- speak directly to North Korea. Wit said, “ramping up the pres- noting that he survived the Beyond the palace intrigue, the to seem too eager to do so. The
nomic pressure on the North — Since Mr. Trump met last month in sure on the Chinese, ramping up treacherous political circles in Kim family has presided over one Philippine leader has made a
mainly through its neighbor, Florida with President Xi Jinping the pressure on the North Pyongyang after he first assumed of the world’s most repressive show of his independence from
China — and backing that up with of China, he has praised Mr. Xi for Koreans, and then opening up an power as a young man. Mr. Trump regimes, leaving the country in the United States, a treaty ally.
threat of military action. Mr. what he insisted was China’s will- escape route.” suggested that Mr. Kim repelled tatters and its people in misery. “Even though he welcomes a
Trump said last week that while ingness to use its leverage over But the timing of Mr. Trump’s an effort by an uncle to take power Asked to explain why Mr. better relationship with this U.S.
he wanted to solve the crisis with the North to curb its behavior. overture, analysts and diplomats back from him. In 2013, Mr. Kim Trump would consider it an honor president, he wants to be cautious
North Korea through diplomacy, “The Chinese have told Trump, said, was hopelessly premature. purged his powerful uncle, Jang to meet such a leader, Mr. Spicer that he does not appear to be em-
a “major, major conflict” was pos- ‘You’ve got to talk to these peo- In these types of negotiations, Song-taek, who was later execut- said, “I guess because he’s still a bracing the U.S. too much,” Mr.
ple,’” said Joel S. Wit, an expert on American presidents typically ed. head of state.” He noted that there Kurlantzick said, “given that he
Felipe Villamor contributed re- North Korea at Johns Hopkins function as closers — taking over Human rights groups also sus- were “a lot of potential threats has devoted a fair amount of di-
porting from Manila, and Austin University, who was involved in the process, after all the spade- pect Mr. Kim was behind the as- that could have come his way, and plomatic resources to courting
Ramzy from New York. diplomacy during the Clinton ad- work has been done, to bridge the sassination of his exiled half he’s obviously managed to lead a China.”

Ethics Official Challenges A call for disclosures

on ex-lobbyists with
Trump Over Secret Waivers White House jobs.
By ERIC LIPTON nore any part of the executive
branch’s ethics policies, saying in Shaub does not have jurisdiction
WASHINGTON — The federal
his letter that he was “advancing over the White House staff at all
government’s top ethics officer is because the White House is not
challenging the Trump adminis- the mission of the executive
branch ethics program.” formally a federal agency.
tration’s issuance of secret
Such waivers are typically is- Mr. Shaub wrote back bluntly to
waivers that allow former lobby-
sued when the administration Mr. Passantino in March: “That
ists to handle matters they re- assertion is incorrect, and the let-
cently worked on, setting up a con- wants to allow a new political em-
ployee to work on an issue, like ter cites no legal basis for it.”
frontation between the ethics of-
federal housing or environmental Mr. Shaub’s data call will test
fice and President Trump.
policy, that involves people the this dispute. He appears to have
The move by Walter M. Shaub clear authority to order the lead-
new employee may have worked
Jr., the director of the Office of ers of federal agencies to provide
with previously. For example, Er-
Government Ethics, is the latest him with a copy of all ethics
nest J. Moniz, the energy secre-
sign of rising tension between Mr. waivers granted in the last year.
tary in the Obama administration,
Shaub and the Trump White But he may not be able to force the
was allowed to work on matters
House. Mr. Shaub has tried sev- White House to provide similar in-
that involved General Electric,
eral times to use his limited pow- formation, even if Democrats in
even though Mr. Moniz, as a nucle-
ers to force Mr. Trump to broadly Congress join in urging the White
ar physicist, had served on a Gen-
honor federal ethics rules as well eral Electric advisory board. House to respond to the request,
as the ethics order that Mr. Trump About 70 such waivers were is- which is likely.
himself signed in late January. sued during the Obama adminis- Posting these waivers in a pub-
Historically, the Office of Gov- tration. lic place provides a degree of con-
ernment Ethics — a tiny operation Mr. Trump, in his ethics order,
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
firmation that the executive
that has just 71 employees but that made several fundamental Walter M. Shaub Jr., the director of the Office of Government Ethics, in Washington in January. branch is honoring the ethics
supervises an ethics program cov- changes in this process, some of agreement. Anytime Mr. Obama
ering 2.7 million civilian executive which Mr. Shaub is challenging. wanted to make an exception, said
waivers granted to new hires — statement, said officials were re- second letter he sent late last
branch workers — has main- First, Mr. Trump eliminated a means the public has no way of viewing Mr. Shaub’s request and week to the top senators on the Norman L. Eisen, an ethics law-
tained a low profile. Created in prohibition imposed by President knowing if Mr. Trump’s staff mem- had not decided how to respond. Homeland Security and Govern- yer in the Obama White House, it
1978 after the Watergate scandal, Barack Obama in 2009 on the hir- bers are complying with the rules. “However, in the meantime we mental Affairs Committee also needed to be explained in detail in
it does not have subpoena power ing of staff members who in the Terminating the release of the would like to reiterate our position made clear that the ethics office a letter from the head of the
or its own investigators. previous two years had lobbied White House visitor logs, which that the White House and the intends to make a similar request agency and then made available
But Mr. Shaub, in the last year the agency they now wanted to were public during the Obama ad- White House Ethics Office are early next year that will cover all for public inspection. “We were
of a five-year presidential ap- work for. Former lobbyists seek- ministration, has made evaluat- fully compliant with ethical such waivers granted in 2017. committed to transparency, even
pointment, is now pressing Mr. ing jobs in Mr. Trump’s adminis- ing compliance even harder, as it obligations set forth in the Mr. Shaub made headlines when it was painful,” Mr. Eisen
Trump for more information on tration must get a waiver from the is now not known which private- standards of conduct,” the state- when he authorized his staff to said. “And at times the debate
former lobbyists or employees of ethics rules if they want to work sector players are meeting with ment said. “Anyone that claims publish a series of Twitter posts in about these waivers was not fun
corporations working in the presi- on matters that overlap with their White House aides. otherwise is purposefully mis- December related to how Mr. for us.”
dent’s administration. The effort lobbying assignments in the pre- For example, Michael Catanza- characterizing the White House’s Trump would separate himself In fact, Senator Charles E.
started before Inauguration Day vious two years. ro, who until recently worked as a position.” from his family business opera- Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in a
to persuade Mr. Trump and his But Mr. Trump has chosen to lobbyist for companies like Devon Mr. Shaub has tried to at least tions. Then, in January, in an un- letter to Office of Government
staff to comply with more conven- keep the waivers secret. He Energy and for the American Fuel force the White House to make usual public statement, Mr. Shaub Ethics in 2009, pressed the Obama
tional ethics standards used dur- dropped a practice, in place dur- and Petrochemical any waivers public. He is doing so called Mr. Trump’s steps “wholly administration to ensure that it
ing the Obama and George W. ing the Obama administration, Manufacturers association, is now by using his power to issue a “data inadequate,” even though Mr. was disclosing all such waivers,
Bush administrations. that any waiver would be shared in charge of White House envi- call” for copies of all waivers is- Shaub did not have the power to explaining that “the American
The most recent request came with the Office of Government ronmental policy, an issue related sued in the last year. That would order Mr. Trump to take addi- people deserve a full accounting
late Friday, when Mr. Shaub asked Ethics and posted on the White to the topics he handled as a lob- include the final months of the tional steps. of all waivers and recusals to bet-
every executive branch agency — House website or the ethics of- byist. He may or may not have Obama administration and the The White House has pushed ter understand who is running the
including the White House — to fice’s website, or on both. been granted a waiver by the first four months of the Trump ad- back at Mr. Shaub. A letter sent in government and whether the ad-
give him, by June 1, a copy of any The combined result — elimi- White House. A White House ministration. late February by Stefan C. Pas- ministration is adhering to its
waivers issued to political nating the ban on hiring former spokeswoman declined to say. He has quietly escalated his santino, the top White House promise to be open, transparent,
employees allowing them to ig- lobbyists and keeping secret any The White House, in a written battle with the White House. A ethics lawyer, argued that Mr. and accountable.”

Man Wielding Knife Kills Student and Injures Three Others at University of Texas
By DAVE MONTGOMERY posed during the episode near bloody, who was slumped over a men and one Asian-American pus were crowded with students ter. “He was like emotionless, very
and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Gregory Gymnasium, and said table. man. One died at the scene, and on Monday. The police received nonchalant, from what I saw,” Mr.
AUSTIN — A man killed one that when he was confronted by In recent weeks, fraternity the others were taken to the uni- the first report of the stabbing at Arredondo said.
student and wounded three others police officers, he did not speak or houses at the university had been versity medical center. The au- 1:49 p.m. Officers arrived within Another Twitter user posted a
on Monday at the University of appear to hurry. vandalized with messages accus- thorities did not immediately re- two minutes and arrested Mr. short video showing a man sitting
Texas, walking calmly from one to Rachel Prichett, 19, a student ing them of promoting racism and lease the victims’ names. White without incident. on brick steps, with other people
another and stabbing them with a from Austin, said she was stand- rape. Many people on campus After the attack, unfounded ru- Ray Arredondo, 21, a student pressing on what appeared to be a
bowie knife, setting off panic and ing at a food truck when she heard speculated Monday that the knife mors flew of more violence and from San Antonio, said, “I just saw bloody wound in his back. Local
rumors of a larger wave of vio- screaming, turned and saw a man attack was related. more assailants on the loose, and swarms of people running away television news footage later
lence. holding what looked like “a small But Chief David Carter, of the there was a bomb threat against a from Gregory Gym, and my first showed what appeared to be that
The university police identified machete” approaching her, “just University of Texas at Austin Po- nearby building. reaction was ‘gun,’ so I ran, too.” same man being loaded into an
the suspect as Kendrex J. White, a walking calmly with the knife to lice Department, said the authori- A student who said he knows “The cops were on scene, and ambulance.
21-year-old student who was his side.” ties did not know of a motive for Mr. White socially, William Ve- they were doing CPR on one vic- Lindsey Clark, 20, a student
quickly arrested. Witnesses de- The suspect walked behind a the stabbings. Speaking at a news rastegui, said the suspect had al- tim,” he said. “There was another from Richardson, Tex., heard
scribed the suspect as eerily com- man a few feet away from her, conference, Chief Carter said that ways seemed friendly. “He didn’t guy who had lacerations to his screaming, then saw police offi-
then grasped the man’s shoulder he was aware of the rumors but seem to be hotheaded; he didn’t head or neck, and a police officer cers force the suspect to the
Dave Montgomery reported from with one hand and with the other that he did not know if the victims, seem to be an angry person or was holding his head.” ground outside the Jester Center,
Austin, and Richard Pérez-Peña hand stabbed him in the back, all men, were fraternity members. anything like that,” Mr. Verastegui He used his phone to take a pic- across the street from the gymna-
from New York. Cat Cardenas con- thrusting the knife “all the way in.” Mr. White is black. Chief Carter said. ture of officers taking Mr. White sium. She said she heard an officer
tributed reporting from Austin, and Ms. Prichett said she fled, run- said the four who were stabbed, all The grassy open areas on cam- into custody and posted it to Twit- say, “Don’t move or you’re going
Manny Fernandez from Houston. ning past another victim, his head age 20 or 21, included three white to get tased.”
A22 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

A Sign of Independence
From the Newest Justice
By ADAM LIPTAK The pool has been criticized for
WASHINGTON — In an early giving too much power to law
sign of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s clerks and for contributing to the
independence and work ethic, he court’s shrinking docket.
has decided not to join a labor pool For almost two decades until
at the Supreme Court in which jus- 2008, only Justice John Paul
tices share their law clerks in an Stevens, who retired in 2010,
effort to streamline decisions stayed out of the pool. He said it
about which cases to hear. had caused “the lessening of the
Justice Gorsuch joined the docket.”
court last month. His decision not “You stick your neck out as a
to participate in the pool was con- clerk when you recommend to
firmed by Kathleen L. Arberg, the grant a case,” he told USA Today.
“The risk-averse thing to do is to
court’s public information officer.
recommend not to take a case.”
The only other member of the
Some scholars have traced the
court who is not part of the ar-
decline of the Supreme Court
rangement is Justice Samuel A.
docket to the pool. In the early
Alito Jr.
1980s, the Supreme Court decided
Justices in the pool receive a
more than 150 cases a year. These
days, it decides about half that
many.
The justices each hire four law
Gorsuch declines to clerks, who are recent law school
join a clerical pool graduates with uniformly stellar
credentials. But they are also
that reviews petitions. young and inexperienced, Ken-
neth W. Starr wrote in 2006 in the
Minnesota Law Review.
“The prevailing spirit among
common “pool memo” on each pe- the 25-year-old legal savants,
tition seeking Supreme Court re- whose life experience is necessar-
view — more formally, “petition ily limited in scope, is to seek out
for certiorari” — from a single law and destroy undeserving peti- AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
clerk. The memo analyzes the pe- tions,” wrote Mr. Starr, a former
tition and makes a recommenda- appeals court judge, solicitor gen-
Judge Neil M. Gorsuch before his swearing in. The court receives about 7,000 petitions a year, and decides to hear about 75.
tion about whether it should be eral and independent counsel in
granted. the Whitewater investigation. presumably mean that fewer wor- Blackmun’s papers made clear igent,” she told Docket Sheet, a rely solely on a pool memoran-
As a law clerk to Justices Byron A petition accepted that must thy ones fall through the cracks. they were not the last word in im- newsletter published for Supreme dum.”
R. White and Anthony M. Ken- later be dismissed as “improvi- Pool memos are not public, but portant cases, as Justice Black- Court employees, in 1993. “They The pool started in the early
nedy in 1993 and 1994, a young Mr. dently granted” is a significant some have been released, decades mun’s own clerks reviewed and save us hours upon hours of labor. 1970s at the suggestion of Justice
Gorsuch wrote quite a few such embarrassment to the clerk in after they were written, in jus- annotated. But most of them are also young Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had come
memos. question. On the other hand, it is tices’ papers after their deaths. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and in need of the seasoning that from a law firm. At first, five jus-
Justices who do not participate, hard to get into trouble by recom- They can seem hedged and homo- who participates in the pool, has experiences in life and in law prac- tices participated.
by contrast, have their law clerks mending a denial. geneous because they were writ- cautioned against overstating the tice afford. Whenever I think a “In true Washington, D.C., fash-
review all of the roughly 7,000 pe- Having several clerks review ten for all of the participating jus- clerks’ roles in evaluating peti- case may be cert. worthy,” she ion,” Mr. Starr wrote, “this modest
titions filed each year, looking for each petition — the pool clerk and tices and not just the clerk’s own tions seeking review. said, using legal language mean- government program has grown
the 75 or so worthy of the court’s ones from the chambers of Jus- justice. “The law clerks are highly intel- ing worthy of review, “I will do the significantly and now possesses
attention. tices Alito and Gorsuch — would The memos in Justice Harry A. ligent, very able, uncommonly dil- homework required and will not great power.”

Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms

When Chief Justice John G. usual factors, including his report from the Electronic Pri-
Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer ONLINE: MORE 'SIDEBAR' crime — fleeing the police in a vacy Information Center found.
Polytechnic Institute last month, An archive of Adam Liptak's car — and his criminal history. “Yet the inner workings of these
he was asked a startling ques- recent articles and columns: At the same time, the court tools are largely hidden from
tion, one with overtones of sci- seemed uneasy with using a public view.”
nytimes.com/adamliptak
ence fiction. secret algorithm to send a man In 1977, the Supreme Court
“Can you foresee a to prison. Justice Ann Walsh ruled that a Florida man could
ADAM day,” asked Shirley should hear his appeal. Bradley, writing for the court, not be condemned to die based
LIPTAK Ann Jackson, presi-
dent of the college in
The report in Mr. Loomis’s discussed, for instance, a report on a sentencing report that
case was produced by a product from ProPublica about Compas contained confidential passages
SIDEBAR upstate New York, called Compas, sold by North- that concluded that black he was not allowed to see. The
“when smart ma- defendants in Broward County, Supreme Court’s decision was
pointe Inc. It included a series of
chines, driven with artificial Fla., “were far more likely than fractured, and the controlling
bar charts that assessed the risk
intelligences, will assist with white defendants to be incor- opinion appeared to say that the
that Mr. Loomis would commit
courtroom fact-finding or, more rectly judged to be at a higher principle applied only in capital
more crimes.
controversially even, judicial rate of recidivism.” cases.
The Compas report, a pros-
decision-making?” Justice Bradley noted that Mr. Schimel echoed that point
ecutor told the trial judge,
The chief justice’s answer was Northpointe had disputed the and added that Mr. Loomis knew
more surprising than the ques- analysis. Still, she wrote, “this everything the court knew.
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
tion. “It’s a day that’s here,” he study and others raise concerns Judges do not have access to the
said, “and it’s putting a signifi- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., center, says the use of artifi-
cant strain on how the judiciary Computers assess regarding how a Compas assess-
ment’s risk factors correlate cial intelligence in courtrooms is already straining the judiciary.
algorithm, either, he wrote.
There are good reasons to use
goes about doing things.”
He may have been thinking
the risk that a person with race.”
In the end, though, Justice
data to ensure uniformity in
sentencing. It is less clear that
one. access to the algorithm itself.
about the case of a Wisconsin will offend again. Bradley allowed sentencing In urging the United States The company that markets uniformity must come at the
man, Eric L. Loomis, who was judges to use Compas. They Supreme Court not to hear the Compas says its formula is a price of secrecy, particularly
sentenced to six years in prison must take account of the algo- case, Wisconsin’s attorney gen- trade secret. when the justification for se-
based in part on a private com- rithm’s limitations and the se- eral, Brad D. Schimel, seemed to “The key to our product is the crecy is the protection of a pri-
pany’s proprietary software. Mr. showed “a high risk of violence, crecy surrounding it, she wrote, acknowledge that the questions algorithms, and they’re proprie- vate company’s profits. The
Loomis says his right to due high risk of recidivism, high but said the software could be in the case were substantial tary,” one of its executives said government can surely develop
process was violated by a pretrial risk.” The judge agreed, helpful “in providing the sen- ones. But he said the justices last year. “We’ve created them, its own algorithms and allow
judge’s consideration of a report telling Mr. Loomis that “you’re tencing court with as much should not move too fast. and we don’t release them be- defense lawyers to evaluate
generated by the software’s identified, through the Compas information as possible in order “The use of risk assessments cause it’s certainly a core piece them.
secret algorithm, one Mr. assessment, as an individual to arrive at an individualized by sentencing courts is a novel of our business.” At Rensselaer last month,
Loomis was unable to inspect or who is a high risk to the commu- sentence.” issue, which needs time for Compas and other products Chief Justice Roberts said that
challenge. nity.” Justice Bradley made Com- further percolation,” Mr. Schimel with similar algorithms play a judges had work to do in an era
In March, in a signal that the The Wisconsin Supreme Court pas’s role in sentencing sound wrote. role in many states’ criminal of rapid change.
justices were intrigued by Mr. ruled against Mr. Loomis. The like the consideration of race in He added that Mr. Loomis justice systems. “These proprie- “The impact of technology has
Loomis’s case, they asked the report added valuable informa- a selective university’s holistic “was free to question the assess- tary techniques are used to set been across the board,” he said,
federal government to file a tion, it said, and Mr. Loomis admissions program. It could be ment and explain its possible bail, determine sentences, and “and we haven’t yet really ab-
friend-of-the-court brief offering would have gotten the same one factor among many, she flaws.” But it is a little hard to even contribute to determina- sorbed how it’s going to change
its views on whether the court sentence based solely on the wrote, but not the determinative see how he could do that without tions about guilt or innocence,” a the way we do business.”

Miami Wins Right to Sue A city argues that

banks’ discriminatory
In Predatory Lending Case practices caused
By ADAM LIPTAK to segregation and foreclosures, ‘economic injury.’
WASHINGTON — The Su- hurting its property tax base and
preme Court ruled on Monday requiring it to provide additional
that Miami can sue two banks for municipal services. address whether those kinds of
predatory lending under the Fair A trial court dismissed the suits suits were allowed under the law.
Housing Act of 1968. in 2014, saying the city had not Justice Thomas welcomed that
The case arose from the 2008 fi- demonstrated that its claims were aspect of the ruling, saying, “It
nancial crisis. Miami sued Bank of covered by the housing law. The should not be read to authorize
United States Court of Appeals for suits by local businesses alleging
America and Wells Fargo, saying
the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, re- the same injuries that Miami al-
that their discriminatory mort-
versed those rulings in 2015, al- leges here.”
gage lending practices had led to a
lowing the cases to proceed. The Justice Thomas said the city
disproportionate number of de-
appeals court said it was enough should also lose on the question of
faults by minority home buyers
for the city to contend that it had causation. “Miami’s asserted inju-
and, in turn, to financial harm to
“suffered an economic injury re- ries are too remote from the injuri-
the city.
sulting from a racially ous conduct it has alleged,” he
Even as the majority of justices discriminatory housing policy.” wrote.
ruled that Miami was entitled to
Writing for the majority on Justices Anthony M. Kennedy
sue under the housing law, the Monday, Justice Stephen G. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined the
court declined to decide whether Breyer said Congress had meant partial dissent. Justice Neil M.
the city had asserted a direct to include cities among the “ag- Gorsuch did not participate in the
enough connection between the grieved” persons who may sue decision.
banks’ actions and the harm it under the housing law. He said a JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
The court’s decision in the two
claimed. The court sent the case 1979 Supreme Court decision, Empty housing lots, on the right, next to newly constructed homes in Homestead, Fla., in 2009. consolidated cases, Bank of Amer-
back to the federal appeals court Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of ica v. Miami, No. 15-1111, and Wells
in Atlanta for further exploration Bellwood, supported the ruling. Fargo v. Miami, No. 15-1112, was
of that question. peals court had used too lax a ripples travel,” he wrote. cerned about decreased property
In that case, he said, a village standard in assessing the connec- Instead, he said, there must be a values, foreclosures and urban limited. But it nonetheless meant
When the case was argued in had been allowed to sue on the that civil rights groups had for a
tion between the banks’ conduct direct relationship between the blight, much less about strains on
the Supreme Court in November, theory that it had “lost tax reve- second time in two years avoided
and the city’s asserted injuries. challenged conduct and the as- municipal budgets that might fol-
it seemed headed for a 4-4 tie. But nue and had the racial balance of The appeals court had ruled that low.” a complete loss in a Fair Housing
serted injury. He left it up the ap-
the vote on the question of its community undermined by ra- injuries had only to be foresee- peals court to re-examine that When the case was argued, Act case by a narrow margin.
whether Miami could sue under cial-steering practices.” In the Mi- able, but Justice Breyer said that question. some justices worried that a rul- In 2015, in a 5-to-4 decision, the
the law was 5 to 3, with Chief Jus- ami case, Justice Breyer wrote, was too attenuated. In addition to Chief Justice Rob- ing for Miami would allow all sorts court allowed plaintiffs in Fair
tice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the the city had similarly asserted “The housing market is inter- erts, Justices Ruth Bader Gins- of people and entities to sue for in- Housing Act cases to use a legal
court’s four-member liberal bloc that the banks’ actions had “re- connected with economic and so- burg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena direct harm from discriminatory theory that civil rights groups had
to form a majority. duced property values, diminish- cial life,” Justice Breyer wrote, Kagan joined the majority deci- practices. Justice Kagan asked said was a crucial tool to fight dis-
Miami said the banks had inten- ing the city’s property-tax reve- and violations of the housing law sion. about restaurants and dry clean- crimination. The majority ruled
tionally and disproportionately is- nue and increasing demand for always have ripples. In a partial dissent, Justice ers, Justice Sotomayor about cor- that plaintiffs could use statistical
sued risky mortgages on unfavor- municipal services.” “Nothing in the statute sug- Clarence Thomas said there was ner grocers and Justice Breyer evidence to prove that the chal-
able terms to black and Hispanic In a second part of his opinion, gests that Congress intended to nothing in the housing law to sug- about publishers. lenged practice had produced a
borrowers. That led, the city said, Justice Breyer wrote that the ap- provide a remedy wherever those gest that “Congress was con- The majority did not directly “disparate impact.”
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 A23
N

Ferry Service Makes Maiden Voyage, Beating de Blasio’s Deadline

By PATRICK McGEEHAN
The ferry dreams of Mayor
Bill de Blasio seemed impossibly
ambitious to many who heard
them: In a little more than a year,
he wanted to build a fleet of boats
and a network of landings to lure
thousands of New York
commuters onto the water from
the streets and subways.
Veteran ferry operators said it
could not be done by Mr. de Bla-
sio’s deadline of this summer,
just months before he would
stand for re-election. Ferry boats
are usually fabricated one or two
at a time, and planning and build-
ing docks and piers often takes
years.
But on Monday morning, Mr.
de Blasio was at Pier 11 near Wall
Street to triumphantly greet
some of the first commuters to
take the new NYC Ferry service.
Not only did it begin operations
on time, Mr. de Blasio repeatedly
said, it was ahead of schedule.
“How was the ride, man?” the
mayor asked several riders. To
others, he said: “No traffic, all
right!” “Smooth!” and “Exactly
on time, fantastic.”
A mayor’s day could hardly be
expected to start on a brighter
note than the one sounded by
Rob Murphy, 60, a resident of the
Rockaways in Queens and a
business manager in Manhattan, PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
who rode the 7:30 a.m. ferry to
Wall Street. “This is absolutely Above, a boat prepared to make its way back to the Rock-
awesome,” Mr. Murphy said. NYC Ferry Service Routes aways on Monday, the first day of service for the new NYC
“It’s the best way to get to work. Soundview
Ferry. Below, riders took the 7:30 a.m. ferry to Manhattan.
It’s superexciting, like the first Spring/Summer 2017 Planned Service 2018
day of school.” East River ferry BRONX
Not all was smooth sailing. Current service
One ferry was pulled from serv- MANHATTAN Astoria
ice because of a minor me- Rockaway ferry
Current service QUEENS MANHATTAN
chanical problem, leading to
some delays. Roosevelt Island
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South Brooklyn ferry E. 90th St.
The Rockaway route, which Opening June 1 Long Island City
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neighborhood of Brooklyn, is the East River and
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land. One of Mr. de Blasio’s most Pier 11/ Wall St.
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service is coming at a high price Pier 1 Du
Dumbo East River and BROOKLYN
to the city — but not to riders. S. Brooklyn service
Wall St.
Pier 11
The city has pledged more Pier 6 Brooklyn Bridge Park
than $325 million to build and op-
erate 20 ferries that will connect Red Hook
22 landings in Manhattan, Summer Weekend Service
Brooklyn, Queens and the Upper New Wall St. The Urban Journey, which the Now, Mr. de Blasio implied, the
Bronx. The mayor has promised York Bay Pier 11 mayor said sounded “like a ’70s onus is on city residents to ride
Brooklyn Bridge Park
to hold the fare even with that of Opening May 6 rock band,” will eventually run the ferries in numbers sufficient
the subway, $2.75 a ride. East River route on other routes on the East River. to justify the city’s investment.
Brooklyn Army Terminal Rockaway and
That is quite a bargain for the S. Brooklyn service
Opening June 1 Built by Horizon Shipbuilding in “If this works as well as we hope,
Bay Ridge Ave. Governors South Brooklyn
hourlong trip to Wall Street from Island Bayou La Batre, Ala., it is one of if people ride this, we can go far-
route
the dock at Beach 108th Street five ferries that have been deliv- ther,” the mayor said on Sunday,
and Beach Channel Drive in a Red Hook ered. Metal Shark, a shipyard in hinting at the possibility of ex-
149-passenger boat equipped Louisiana, is building some fer- panding the service beyond cur-
with Wi-Fi, bike racks and a con- BROOKLYN 1 Mile ries with deeper hulls and larger rent plans.
cession stand selling snacks and engines to manage the rougher Those were encouraging
drinks, including draft beer and waters near the Verrazano-Nar- words to Terry MacRae, the chief
wine, said Delia Brooks of Belle rows Bridge between Staten Is- executive of Hornblower Cruises
Harbor, Queens. land and Brooklyn. and Events, the San Francisco-
“It’s a good deal,” Ms. Brooks City officials enlisted second- based company that will operate
said on Sunday as she admired Lower New the ferries. “If there’s demand
Ro
Rockaway grade classes in Brooklyn to sug-
two of the new ferries with her York Bay gest names for the first batch of and it’s good service, everyone
husband, Keith. “It’s going to boats. “Lunch Box” and “Friend- will rush to take credit and want
make our life much better.” Atlantic Ocean ship Express” were two of the more of it,” he said.
Ms. Brooks said she would THE NEW YORK TIMES
winners, along with “McShiny,” Just a year ago, doubts about
take the boat to appointments which Mr. de Blasio said was his the city’s ability to create a ferry
with doctors in Brooklyn and said. “It’s going to revitalize the Urban Journey, a new boat. from work and could help ease favorite. fleet from scratch seemed ramp-
speculated that schoolchildren area. We’re going to need more “Tomorrow morning, a new congestion on streets and sub- On the inside, though, the ant. Tom Fox, who formerly ran
would ride the ferries on field restaurants.” era begins in New York City,” he ways. Wearing a suit but no tie, boats have a more grown-up at- the Water Taxi service in New
trips to Manhattan to visit muse- Mr. de Blasio seemed ener- said, referring to the start of Mr. de Blasio even took a turn at mosphere, with dark gray seats, York, was one of the skeptics.
ums and see Broadway shows. gized by the reception for the fer- service at 5:30 a.m. Monday. “To- the helm, steering the boat past work spaces and concessions op- “There was a lot of skepticism,
Mr. Brooks said he thought the ries. “I’m proud to say that this morrow morning, we go back to Breezy Point before turning the erated by the New Stand. An- and they proved the skeptics
ferry service would also attract administration has kept our the water.” controls over to Councilman drew Deitchman, the company’s wrong,” Mr. Fox said on Sunday.
more visitors to the Rockaways. promise to the people of the Mr. de Blasio said the ex- Donovan Richards Jr. of Queens, chief executive, said the boats “When you’re wrong, you’re
“A lot of the people from Man- Rockaways,” he said on Sunday panded ferry service was in- a fellow Democrat. going to the Rockaways might wrong. I’m looking forward to
hattan, the hipsters, are going to during a ceremonial ride from tended to provide New Yorkers “It’s like driving a Fiat,” Mr. de sell sunscreen, flip-flops and seeing how they operate the
come flying out here now,” he Queens to Manhattan aboard the with another way to get to and Blasio said. “Very responsive.” Frisbees. service.”

Housing Advocates See a Tactic Succeed Against the Mayor, and Give It a Try
By J. DAVID GOODMAN Many of the same groups that are 73, a Democrat who has never before administration.
For months, protesters hounded May- pressing Mr. de Blasio on the issue of held public office or run a political cam- The projects, the report argues, fuel
or Bill de Blasio at town hall-style meet- housing, like the organization Ms. Lewis paign. gentrification and do not provide enough
ings and fund-raisers from Manhattan to founded, the Black Institute, and New Melissa Grace, a spokeswoman for the housing for residents who already live in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., demanding that York Communities for Change, have also mayor, said the targeted protests had not places like East Harlem and Flatbush,
he shut down New York City’s main jail criticized his approach to policing, an- affected the administration’s policies in Brooklyn.
complex on Rikers Island. other issue resonant with the mayor’s any way. “This has been their strategy The companies disputed the notion
Eventually, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, minority supporters. They are looking to for more than two years — and it has had that they received special treatment dur-
embraced their cause, and recently the tactics employed in the Rikers cam- zero impact,” she said. “We’re creating ing Mr. de Blasio’s tenure or that they ig-
called for its closing — a shift that did not paign by Glenn Martin of JustLeadershi- and protecting more affordable housing, nored community demands. “We work
go unnoticed by liberal activists. pUSA and others who protested the may- including more homes for the lowest-in- on the ground with communities to build
Some advocates who have long com- or on some of the same social justice is- come New Yorkers, than at any time what they tell us is appropriate,” Ron
plained that Mr. de Blasio’s administra- CHRISTOPHER LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES sues. Moelis, the chief executive of L&M, said
tion has not built enough low-income Alicia K. Glen, head of the housing In addition to protests, Mr. Martin in a statement. “Our city needs afford-
housing are now looking to follow a simi- said, his group engaged in “power map- able homes across a wide economic spec-
and economic development agency. ping” the mayor — identifying roughly trum, and we do our best to respond.”
lar model with a campaign targeting
their bête noire: the deputy mayor in 1,500 people most important to him and Watching protests that The report compares several projects
charge of housing and economic devel- reduce homelessness.
The tactic of sustained and targeted
targeting them with digital messages —
so that Mr. de Blasio would feel sur-
affected de Blasio and by the de Blasio administration to the As-
pen, an early Bloomberg-era develop-
opment, Alicia K. Glen.
The strategy involves trying to paint protest is certainly not new. In this ad- rounded by its campaign. “We logged planning their own. ment and venture between Ms. Glen and
the housing plan with the broad brush of ministration alone, police officers 20,000 tweets to the mayor in one day L&M that included half market-rate
anti-Wall Street sentiment. They have protested Mr. de Blasio outside Gracie alone,” Mr. Martin said. apartments, and half that were afford-
pledged to protest Ms. Glen at public ap- Mansion, the mayoral residence, and the The housing advocates — a coalition of able units at either 50 or 130 percent of
pearances and rally against her housing Prospect Park YMCA, where he works groups under the banner Real Afford- since Mayor Koch.” the city’s so-called area median income
agenda on the steps of City Hall. They out. And demonstrators set up shop at ability for All — are looking to emulate Indeed the coalition now attacking Mr. (currently about $86,000 for a family of
are emphasizing similarities between the home of Steven Banks, the city’s top the approach favored by the anti-Rikers de Blasio’s housing plan has also previ- three).
the mayor’s approach to housing and Ms. homelessness official. Their effective- protesters. “The mayor would not have ously endorsed elements of the mayor’s Among those singled out is the Bed-
Glen’s projects at Goldman Sachs, where ness is open to debate: Patrol officers got changed course without that campaign,” approach. ford-Union Armory project, a re-
she led the firm’s urban investment a new contract, though the mayor’s shel- said Jonathan Westin, the executive di- Ms. Grace added, “Resorting to per- development on public land by BFC Part-
group, financing affordable housing and ter plan is more assertive, not less. rector of New York Communities for sonal attacks means you’ve run out of ners that includes half market-rate
other projects, before joining the de Bla- But no election-year incumbent wants Change. “The housing stuff and the crim- honest arguments.” apartments and also a recreational cen-
sio administration in 2014. a story line muddled by angry bands of inal justice stuff are the two weak spots The new effort does go further in at- ter. The project has been criticized by
The goal is to force Mr. de Blasio to roving protesters. That applies even to for the mayor.” tacking Ms. Glen, accusing her of bring- some local elected officials who, along
shift course on his 10-year housing plan, Mr. de Blasio, who enjoys a wide lead in So far, Mr. de Blasio has not shown ing a Goldman Sachs model of develop- with advocates, have called for the entire
which is on pace to create 200,000 units polls against his likely opponents. enough political weakness for a promi- ment to City Hall. To buttress the argu- project to be affordable units.
of new housing for low- to moderate-in- “The mayor is going to be re-elected; nent challenger to emerge from the left. ment, activists compiled a report looking The city has said the market-rate units
come residents across New York. In- let’s be real here,” said Bertha Lewis, a Most of his rivals, both in his own party at projects created by three developers in the armory project are necessary to
stead, advocates want the city to redirect former supporter of Mr. de Blasio’s who and among Republicans, have opted for — L&M Development Partners, BRP De- offset the cost of the recreational center.
funds toward building new homes for has become one of his most vocal critics. more centrist campaigns to unseat him; velopment Corporation and BFC Part- And officials disagreed with the idea that
only the poorest New Yorkers, to stave “So our job is to push as hard to challenge the only one to challenge from the left is a ners — that worked with Ms. Glen both affordable housing projects exacerbate
off gentrification and, they hope, to help him, not just go along to get along.” police reform advocate, Robert Gangi, before and after she joined the de Blasio gentrification.
A24 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Freak Flags Fly at Met Gala, but Lips Stay Closed Most Adults Favor Sex Ed.
By JACOB BERNSTEIN
This year, the Metropolitan Mu-
Most Students Don’t Get It.
seum of Art’s Costume Institute
paid tribute to Rei Kawakubo, the By ANNA NORTH higher rates of condom use among
Japanese designer with a pen- Wazina Zondon’s 10th-grade student participants compared
chant for all things edgy and class was playing a game about with other teenagers.
asymmetrical. birth control. The students picked At other schools in the city, the
There were wedding gowns a method while Ms. Zondon left content of sex education varies
that suggested “Like a Virgin” by the room. When she came back, widely. The Department of Educa-
way of Tim Burton. There were she had to guess what it was. tion offers a free health curricu-
jackets that appeared to have “Am I a barrier method?” asked lum that includes lessons on rela-
been made from pipe cleaners. Ms. Zondon, a family life and sex tionships and gender as well as in-
So what was that shiny gown education teacher at the Urban formation on condoms and testing
that Anna Wintour rolled in wear- Assembly Institute of Math and for sexually transmitted infec-
ing at 6 p.m. on Monday? Science for Young Women in tions. But schools are not required
“Chanel,” she said. Downtown Brooklyn. “Are hor- to use it, and the department does
And the last time she wore Ms. mones involved?” not track what curriculums they
Kawakubo’s line, Comme des use.
After a few more questions, Ms.
Garçons? Ashley Vasquez, 17, a peer edu-
Zondon guessed correctly: an
“Sometime back in the ‘80s,” cator with the Teen Outreach Re-
IUD. Other options included con-
Ms. Wintour said, letting that productive Challenge program,
hang out there with all the implicit doms, the birth control patch and
abstinence. The students had said her eighth-grade health
meaning one might read into it. teacher at P.S. 212 in the Bronx
Anyway, Ms. Wintour was not learned about all of them earlier in
the class, including how to use told students to use condoms, but
alone. In years past, people have didn’t explain how.
taken the themes very seriously. them properly and what, if any,
side effects they can cause. In a recent survey by the Sex-
This time, it was more like a gen-
Ms. Zondon’s class offers some- uality Education Alliance of New
eral invitation to let the freak flags
thing advocates say is all too un- York City, a coalition of teachers,
fly, and so lots of people, aside
from Ms. Wintour, did. common in New York City: com- students and health experts, 38
Katy Perry wore a red veil and prehensive sex education. Since percent of students in grades six
dress by John Galliano for Maison 2011, the Department of Education through 12 who had received sex
Martin Margiela that left her look- has required that all middle and education had not learned how to
ing like the bride of Frankenstein. high schools teach sex education put on a condom. Forty-three per-
Nicki Minaj was more “Elvira: as part of health class. But the re- cent had not learned about gender
Mistress of the Dark” by way of a quirement came with little en- identity and 38 percent had not
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Las Vegas showgirl in a caped forcement or oversight and com- learned about consent.
black and red dress that was de- Among those at the Met Gala pliance has been spotty. “Many schools are overbur-
signed with H&M. were, clockwise from above A bill before the City Council, dened with testing,” said Council-
The bright spot? left, Jenni Konner, Lena Dun- backed by Planned Parenthood of woman Laurie Cumbo, one of the
“It’s not that uncomfortable,” ham and Joe Jonas; Serena New York City and a number of sponsors of the task force bill,
she said. Williams; and Edward Ennin- other reproductive health and which is expected to come to a
Helen Lasichanh — the wife of ful and Naomi Campbell. youth advocacy groups, would vote later this year. Sex education,
this year’s co-host, Pharrell create a task force to study for which there are no state tests
Williams — should have been so or reporting requirements, can
the recent turmoil at Fox News, whether and how sex education is
lucky. fall by the wayside.
which on Monday announced the taught and make recommenda-
She was stuffed into a bright red Additionally, of more than
departure of its co-president, Bill tions for improvement.
Comme des Garçons gown that 15,000 instructors who taught
actually had no arms. So while Mr. Shine. In 2016, about 43 percent of
eighth-graders in New York City health in the city last year, only 153
Williams stood by her talking As ever, the event drew people
had never taken a semester of were licensed in health. (About
about how easy it was to put on his from other industries, too.
health class, according to data re- 12,000 were elementary school-
ripped jeans and plaid CDG jacket One was the artist Jeff Koons,
leased by the Department of Edu- teachers, who typically teach mul-
(“I’m a man,” he said), her prepa- who said this event was a perfect
blend of fashion and art. “We cation. Nearly all graduating 12th- tiple subjects and are unlikely to
ration process was more involved. be licensed in health.) “If people
“Weekend at Bernie’s” was the come almost every year,” he said, graders had taken health, but that
of himself and his wife, Justine doesn’t always include sex educa- aren’t educated around the peda-
metaphor Mr. Williams reached
Wheeler, who stood to his left. tion, which the department does gogy of sex education, they can
for to describe it.
blue Valentino gown, flanked not Another was the financier talk in out-of-touch, fatalistic or in-
By 8 p.m., the stairs leading up ham said. “We even forced Ms. not track. Moreover, about half of
just by her new boyfriend, Alex Stephen A. Schwarzman, whose accurate terms,” or shame stu-
to the event were filled with celeb- Wintour to weigh in.” the city’s high school students
rities. Rodriguez, but also by Valentino last birthday party seemed to set dents for their sexual behavior,
Of course, because the Met Gala take health in their junior or sen-
One minute, Kendall Jenner as- himself. (The company’s new de- records for opulence. Which is said Francisco Ramirez, the vice
serves as Vogue’s biggest brand- ior year, which experts say is far
cended, wearing a La Perla gown signer, Pierpaolo Piccioli, was why he seemed happy to say, “I president for education at
ing opportunity, and because the too late to begin learning about
that showed off pretty much ev- money it raises for the Costume there, too, with the Oscar- think this cost more.” Planned Parenthood of New York
healthy sexuality. The average
erything underneath it. Institute makes up the center’s nominated actress Ruth Negga.) Shortly after Mr. Schwarzman City.
girl in the United States begins
Just behind her was Lena Dun- entire budget, many glittery Kerry Washington arrived with made his way inside, the eve- dating at 12 and a half years old School administrators some-
ham, in an Elizabeth Kennedy-de- attendees wore designers that the Michael Kors and wore one of his ning’s last big arrivals occurred. and the average boy at 13 and a times oppose lessons related to
signed, gingham-accented gown magazine effectively paired them gowns, which had lots of metallic First Celine Dion, and then Ma- half, according to the American sex. At one middle school, said Mr.
with ruffles. with. details, along with holes that were donna, who has been showing Ms. Ramirez, an administrator ob-
Academy of Pediatrics.
It definitely had a Comme des And every big celebrity had a cut into it to pay a homage to Ms. Dion contempt for nearly 20 jected to a video describing repro-
Many reproductive health ad-
Garçons influence to it. “We really big fashion date. Kawakubo. years. duction shown by visiting instruc-
vocates say students should learn
took the theme to heart,” Ms. Dun- Jennifer Lopez arrived in a sky “It’s Park Avenue punk,” he Naturally, Madonna got a big tors from Planned Parenthood.
said. reaction, even though she is a fix- not just about avoiding sexually
The instructors were not invited
“Spence girl punk,” Ms. Wash- ture at the event. transmitted infections and unin-
back.
ington chimed in. She wore a slinky camouflage tended pregnancy, but also about
Parents are sometimes initially
Many of the people one most patterned gown and was flanked consent, a variety of gender iden-
uncomfortable with lessons on
wanted to hear from ran up the by its designer, Jeremy Scott. Sar- tities and sexual orientations,
gay, bisexual or transgender iden-
stairs quickest, avoiding the que- ah Paulson (in Prada) held her healthy relationships and making
tities, said Lindsay Fram, a curric-
ries of attendant reporters. train, and a publicist stood at the informed decisions about sexual
This included Rihanna, who ready with an Army-green can- behavior.
wore a kaleidoscopic Comme des teen for her to sip from as she “Any great sexual and health
Garçons dress with swirling
lawyers of floral flounces. And
worked her way up the press line.
“I picked it up and started gal-
education program should be fo-
cused on helping young people
Seeking ways to
Thomas Campbell, the departing loping her like a horse,” Ms. Paul- identify what their goals are and broaden sex education
director of the Met, who an- son said. then how they can advocate for
nounced his resignation this year. But Madonna was not doing a themselves to achieve those and teach it sooner.
Also, Megyn Kelly, although she at lot of interviews either. goals,” said Louise Langheier, the
least acknowledged the reason “Sorry,” she said, making her chief executive of Peer Health Ex-
GRAEME SIMSION she was not giving interviews. way inside as she blamed her change, a program in which
The Best of Adam Sharp “I know what you guys want to publicist. “I have to do whatever ulum development coordinator at
college students teach sexual
Reading / Book Signing ask,” Ms. Kelly said, alluding to he says.” the Children’s Aid Society, which
health lessons to high school stu-
administers the Carrera Program.
dents around the country.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 7pm But “mostly people want their
Students at the Urban Assem- young people to have the knowl-
2289 Broadway at 82nd Street bly Institute get sex education ev- edge and skills they need to make
Upper West Side (212) 362-8835 Corrections ery year, starting in the sixth
grade with lessons on puberty and
healthy decisions,” Rachael Pe-
This novel from the author of ters, the New York executive di-
anatomy, as well as things like rector of Peer Health Exchange,
The Rosie Project follows a happily INTERNATIONAL While it has been found in dozens crushes and the emotional said. In a 2009 survey of regis-
married, middle-aged man whose An article on Sunday, about of former players, research is con- changes of adolescence, and con- tered voters in New York State, 85
life is upended when a former flame demonstrations in Russia, mis- tinuing and it is not known to be tinuing in later years with infor- percent wanted sex education to
sends him an email. quoted an outspoken critic of the “extremely common.” mation on sexually transmitted be taught in schools.
Kremlin, Aleksei A. Navalny. In a infections and contraception. At
recent video, Mr. Navalny said The Department of Education
all levels, the students learn about does not oppose the creation of a
that four charities had spent THE ARTS
having healthy relationships, not sex education task force, but at a
$66 million to maintain luxury A theater review on Monday, just with romantic partners, but
residences for Prime Minister hearing on the task force bill last
about a revival of “Dreamgirls” with parents and friends, and
Dmitri A. Medvedev, not $66 bil- running in London, omitted the month, Elizabeth Rose, the deputy
JO NESBØ about different gender identities chancellor for operations, ques-
lion. given name of one actor. He is Joe and sexual orientations. “L.G.B.T. tioned whether it would be possi-
The Thirst A picture caption with an article Aaron Reid, not Aaron Reid. identity is woven in and normal- ble to review how sex education is
Discussion / Book Signing on Sunday about a threat to the ized throughout the entire school taught at all of the city’s more than
street-food culture in Southeast year,” Ms. Zondon said.
Monday, May 8th, 7pm WEEKEND 1,500 schools, and argued that the
Asia misidentified a Vietnamese The Urban Assembly Institute
dish shown in a bowl in the photo. A film review on Friday about task force should not be charged
33 East 17th Street and about five other schools in the
It is banh da cua, not bun cha. “The Circle,” an adaptation of the with examining the department’s
Union Square (212) 253-0810 city use the Carrera Adolescent health curriculum.
Dave Eggers novel, misstated the
year the book was released. It was Pregnancy Prevention Program, Councilwoman Cumbo, howev-
In the latest installment of the NATIONAL which combines sex education
2013, not 2014. er, said the task force would pro-
bestselling series, Detective Harry A picture with an article on Sun- with financial literacy lessons, ca- vide a much-needed “extra set of
Hole fears an old foe has returned day, about a judge overturning An article in the Gallery Guide reer training and mental and eyes” on sex education in the city.
to Oslo—and is killing users of part of the bail system in Houston, on Friday about art galleries on physical health care. A 2002 study She is optimistic that the bill will
a dating app. was published in error. It showed the Upper East Side of Manhat-
found that girls in the program pass.
a building that was once the Har- tan, including the Craig F. Starr
were significantly less likely than “My goal is to continue to do
Priority seating with book purchase. ris County jail; it is no longer used Gallery, where an exhibition of
paintings by John Baldessari is on other girls to have had sex or got- this work until H.I.V. and AIDS
for that purpose. ten pregnant. The program did and healthy relationships and re-
view, misstated the city in Califor-
An article on Saturday about nia depicted in some of his art- not have a significant effect on productive health are taken as se-
the Los Angeles riots in 1992 mis- works. It is National City, not Los boys’ sexual behavior. More re- riously as biology, chemistry and
stated the makeup of the jury that Angeles. cent evaluations have found mathematics,” she said.
acquitted four white police offi-
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN cers in the beating of Rodney A film review on April 21 about
King. It included an Asian juror “Behind the White Glasses,” a
in conversation with LIZ EGAN documentary portrait of the Ital-
and a Hispanic juror; it was not
Saints for All Occasions all-white. ian director Lina Wertmüller, mis-
Discussion / Book Signing stated the surname of another di-
rector. She is Lois Weber, not
Monday, May 8th, 7pm NEW YORK Smith.
150 East 86th Street A listing in The Conversation on
Upper East Side (212) 369-2180 April 20 of most-read articles,
about the suicide of the former OBITUARIES
When a family tragedy strikes, N.F.L. player Aaron Hernandez, An obituary on Saturday, about
two Irish immigrant sisters must misstated the prevalence of the performance artist Vito Ac-
face the consequences of choices chronic traumatic encephalopa- conci, misstated his date of birth.
made 50 years ago. thy among former N.F.L. players. It was Jan. 24, 1940, not Jan. 4.

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 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N A25

Honoring a Deceased Fellow Fan, One Ballpark Bathroom at a Time

By COREY KILGANNON
The New York Mets were lead-
ing the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1,
after two innings when Tom Mc-
Donald stood up from his upper-
deck seat at Citi Field.
Nature was calling, and so was
his obligation to his childhood
friend and fellow Mets fan Roy
Riegel, whose death nine years
ago left Mr. McDonald, 56, vowing
to honor their baseball bonds in an
unconventional way: by dispos-
ing of Mr. Riegel’s ashes in ball-
parks across the country.
Even more unusual was his cho-
sen method: flushing them down
public restroom toilets in the ball-
parks between innings.
“The game has to be in progress
— that’s a rule of mine,” Mr. Mc-
Donald said one recent weeknight
before entering a Citi Field bath-
room, holding a little plastic bottle
containing a scoopful of Mr.
Riegel’s cremains.
He stepped into a bathroom
stall and sprinkled the ashes into
the toilet with as much decorum
as the setting allowed. A couple of
flushes later and Mr. Riegel’s re-
mains were presumably on a jour-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ney through Citi Field’s plumbing.
“I took care of Roy, and I had to Tom McDonald at home in Astoria, Queens, above, with the peanut can that contains a por-
use the facilities myself,” Mr. Mc- tion of the cremated remains of a lifelong friend and fellow Mets fan, Roy Riegel; holding his
Donald said, emerging from the photograph, above right; and heading to a Citi Field restroom to flush Mr. Riegel’s ashes.
stall with the empty container. “So
I figure, you know, kill two birds.”
“I always flush in between, tended countless games together Broadway commemorating the took on a life of its own.” “walked that tightrope between exterior is wrapped in old Mets
though,” he added. “That’s an- at Shea Stadium, which closed in city’s ticker-tape parade for the In the years that followed, he — genius and insanity.” ticket stubs. He said he had
other rule of mine.” 2008. As adolescents, they raced Mets after their 1969 World Series often with Mr. Boneker — flushed The fast life caught up with him, enough left for one more tribute,
The key here is that Mr. Riegel jubilantly onto the field when the victory. He dusted them onto ashes in stadiums in Arizona, At- and he died at age 48 on April 8, which he plans on doing at
was a plumber, so how better to Mets beat the Cincinnati Reds in Shea’s original home plate loca- lanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., 2008, the day of the home opener Durham Athletic Park, the former
honor him than by pumping his Game 5 to win the National tion, which is designated by a Toronto, Detroit, Cincinnati, Balti- of the Mets’ final season at Shea. minor league ballpark in North
essence into the plumbing, Mr. League pennant in 1973. They also marker in Citi Field’s parking lot. more and elsewhere. Mr. McDonald attended the game Carolina where the 1988 movie
McDonald said, adding that he suffered through many losing sea- But scattering the ashes at In Cleveland, Mr. Riegel’s ashes without Mr. Riegel and returned “Bull Durham” was filmed.
has flushed Mr. Riegel’s ashes at sons. some stadiums posed problems. were flushed at both Progressive home to find out his friend had Mr. Riegel’s youngest brother,
16 stadiums so far while keeping A watery send-off had not oc- Mr. McDonald’s first attempt, at a Field and at the Rock & Roll Hall of died. Hank Riegel, of Waterloo, N.Y.,
journals of his trips. curred to Mr. McDonald when he Pittsburgh Pirates game in 2009 Fame, because Mr. Riegel was a called Mr. McDonald’s method of
He sat down and wrote “A Final
“I know people might think it’s asked Mr. Riegel’s family for a at PNC Park, was met with a gust devout rocker. In Chicago, Mr. Mc- ash scattering appropriate, given
Opener, Indeed,” a poem about
weird, and if it were anyone else’s of wind, recalled Adam Boneker, Donald flushed them at a White how the start of each baseball sea- his brother’s offbeat outlook on
ashes, I’d agree,” he said. “But for 46, a friend who has accompanied Sox game but not at a game of the son would renew their childhood life.
Roy, this is the perfect tribute to a Mr. McDonald on many of his trips Cubs, the Mets’ old National
plumber and a baseball fan and friendship. “He’d be like, ‘Oh, yeah, do
just a brilliant, wild guy.” Think about it: What to ballparks to dump the ashes. League nemesis. “Each April, we were once that,’” Hank Riegel said. “He
“It was awkward,” Mr. Boneker “It’s funny — not in a joke way again, boys in constant, cool con- would definitely approve of it.
Mr. McDonald, who also goes
by Porky, is a recently retired New
better place for a recalled, adding that they re- — but funny that it was exactly nection,” wrote Mr. McDonald, Never once did Roy follow the
solved to try it at a Minnesota like Roy would have wanted it,’’
York City Transit Authority office plumber’s ashes? Twins game at the Metrodome in Mr. McDonald said.
who will read his poems next
month at a symposium at the Na-
rules.”
For years, Mr. McDonald con-
worker who has written about
3,000 poems, most of them about Minneapolis but, once there, real- Over the years, a wide circle of tional Baseball Hall of Fame in soled himself that at least Mr.
baseball, often traveling to ball- ized that an indoor stadium was Mr. McDonald’s friends have got- Cooperstown, N.Y. Riegel never had to see his be-
parks across the country for inspi- portion of his ashes shortly after not an appropriate setting. ten updates on the latest In Mr. McDonald’s Astoria stu- loved Shea Stadium torn down.
ration. his 2008 death. He originally had Afterward, at a nearby Irish disposals. dio apartment, filled with baseball Only recently did he decide that
With no college education or planned only to scatter them in pub, a frustrated Mr. McDonald “It became kind of an inside and other memorabilia, he keeps Citi Field was worthy of Mr.
formal instruction as a writer, he ballparks and other poignant excused himself to use the bath- joke: What’s the best place for Mr. Riegel’s remaining ashes in a Riegel’s ashes.
has cultivated an accessible, regu- spots. room. He returned smiling and de- Roy’s ashes?” said Mr. McDonald, Planters peanuts can next to a set And so it was with a poignant
lar-fan style that owes much to his He rubbed the ashes tenderly clared triumphantly, “ ‘I just took whose friendship with Mr. Riegel of World Series highlight videos smile that he tossed the empty
knockaround childhood in Asto- into the asphalt of the schoolyard care of Roy,’ ” Mr. Boneker re- stretched back to Pack 65 of the and Mr. McDonald’s collection of Advil bottle in the bathroom trash
ria, Queens, not far from where at Public School 70 in Astoria, called. Cub Scouts and through adult- 149 autographs of baseball Hall of can at Citi Field the other night
the Mets play — which, it should where the two had played pickup Mr. McDonald had flushed the hood as the fun moved into local Famers. and returned to his upper-deck
be said, is in Flushing. baseball, football and roller ashes in the bathroom. bars. For each trip, Mr. McDonald seat.
Mr. McDonald and Mr. Riegel hockey. He smudged them “Right there, it hit me,” Mr. Mc- Mr. Riegel was “a major par- spoons some ashes into an empty “I know he’s roaring at all this,”
grew up a block apart and at- proudly onto a marker on Lower Donald said. “After that, it just tyer,” Mr. McDonald said, and Advil bottle from the can, whose Mr. McDonald said.

OPENS TOMORROW THRU SUNDAY | PIER 94

Plan to Use Chlorine in Sewers Has Critics
By COREY KILGANNON
Facing a chronic problem of raw
sewage emptying into city water-
ways during rainfalls, and strug-
gling to meet health regulations,
New York City environmental offi-
cials are turning to a new method
of treating bacteria in sewage:
dumping chlorine into sewer
pipes leading to the waterways.
NORMAN BLUHM, “SQUAW COVE”, 1966, OIL ON CANVAS, WATERHOUSE & DODD, NEW YORK

The city’s Department of Envi-

ronmental Protection has long
tried to mitigate the pollution and
health risks from the estimated 20
billion gallons per year of untreat-
ed sewage that flow into city wa-
terways when treatment systems
are overwhelmed during a rain-
fall.
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
But some environmentalists
claim that details have been scant The notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Around
on the city’s plan to disinfect 20 billion gallons of sewage flow into city waterways each year.
wastewater by chlorinating it in-
side pipes before releasing it into October and that the sewage lion to upgrade wastewater treat-
three bodies of water in Queens would undergo a dechlorination ment plants and improve water
and the Bronx. process before being discharged quality. In January, the city
“They’re using the most worri- into the waterways. He also said agency announced that nitrogen
some and unproven technique the plan had been discussed at levels had declined in city water-
that we have in our toolbox,” said neighborhood meetings. ways as a result of $1 billion in up-
Sean Dixon, a staff lawyer at Sean Mahar, a spokesman for grades at four wastewater treat-
Riverkeeper, a group that seeks to the state’s Department of Envi- ment plants.
protect the Hudson River and its ronmental Conservation, said the The agency also plans on build-
tributaries. “It’s like they’re grab- state would continue to hold the ing a 25-million-gallon storage
bing the last straw and using the Department of Environmental tunnel — estimated to cost at least
cheapest and least effective Protection accountable. $1.2 billion — to reduce outflow
method.” Much of the advocates’ outrage into Flushing Bay.
In response to this and other
water-quality concerns, a coali-
was spurred by plans released Mr. Dixon, of Riverkeeper, MODERN POST-WAR CONTEMPORARY MID-CAREER EMERGING
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EDITORIALS LETTERS

Mr. Trump Embraces Another Despot A Conservative’s View of Climate Science

Bret Stephens’s first column in The
New York Times, about climate
“great deal” about the problem is
not surprising, since its ultimate
The United States has long seen itself as a beacon of democ- House has done anything to prepare the groundwork for a
change, drew more than 600 letters, an impact seems far away while we all
racy and a global advocate of human rights and the rule of Duterte visit. The normal way to mend diplomatic ties is to have more immediate problems
unusually large outpouring. Here is a
law. It has faltered, sometimes badly, undermining leaders negotiate privately over months and have the process cul- pressing us in our everyday lives.
sampling.
whose views did not fit its strategic objectives and replacing minate in, not begin with, a White House meeting. But the concern is growing steadily
them with pliant despots. Yet for the most part American What is not in any doubt is Mr. Trump’s own authoritar- as more evidence piles up.
presidents, Republican and Democratic, have believed that ian tendencies and his fondness for other strongman leaders TO THE EDITOR:
ARLIE SCHARDT, WASHINGTON
the United States should provide a moral compass to the who, like him, chafe at governmental checks and balances, Re “Climate of Complete Certainty”
(column, April 29): The writer is chairman of Friends of
world, encouraging people to pursue their right to self-gov- including the courts. Mr. Trump reportedly admires Mr.
Bret Stephens does not deny the the Earth.
ernment and human dignity and rebuking foreign leaders Duterte’s aggressive rhetoric about fighting the Islamic
reality of climate change, but he
who fall short. State and cracking down on drugs. He has praised President uses a familiar strategy from the TO THE EDITOR:
Like so much else under President Trump, though, this Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for winning a disputed ref- skeptical playbook: misdirection. After skimming the comments
idea has now been turned on its head and people are wor- erendum that will give him vastly more power and invited Rather than acknowledging the role section of Bret Stephens’s first New
ried about the very survival of the values on which America him to the White House on May 16. He has already given a of climate change denial, he blames York Times column, I was disap-
built its reputation and helped construct an entire interna- friendly reception to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, scientists and their allies for al-
pointed to see the hysterical reac-
tional system, including the United Nations. The latest ex- who was barred from the White House after staging a coup leged certitude. In fact, the scientif-
tion of my fellow liberals to this
ic community has taken great pains
ample is Mr. Trump’s decision to invite four years ago and arresting thousands of political oppo- measured, insightful essay and its
to analyze and communicate the
His fondness for Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the nents. He has replaced harsh criticism of China with praise author. It seemed as though readers
uncertainties related to climate
strongmen, like Philippines, to the White House. for President Xi Jinping, and in the past displayed a bizarre could not bring themselves to care-
change.
fully read and consider a column
the Philippines’ Though the Philippines is an ally affection for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. In 2013, my colleagues and I
about climate change written by a
Rodrigo and a democracy, Mr. Duterte is neither American presidents must work with foreign leaders of published an analysis of scientific
conservative, and therefore could
Duterte, whom a democratic leader nor a worthy ally. all kinds to advance the national interest. But Mr. Trump predictions related to climate
not appreciate that Mr. Stephens is
he invited to For about two decades as mayor of Da- erodes America’s reputation when he uncritically embraces change. We found that scientists
neither a denier nor an advocate for
had generally either been correct in
Washington, vao, he was accused of allowing death those who show the least regard for human rights, rule of
their predictions, within error bars,
inaction with respect to anthropo-
hurts America’s squads to roam the city and kill freely. law and democracy. or had underestimated the rate at
genic climate change. I would ad-
reputation. Most victims were poor drug users and vise them to calm down and read it
which climate change would unfold.
low-level criminals, but bystanders, again, since Mr. Stephens made
For more than two decades,
some excellent points.
children and political opponents were also caught up in the scientists have been the target of
attacks designed to create public Welcome to the neighborhood,
bloodshed. After his election last year, Mr. Duterte took the Mr. Stephens. You may encounter
killing campaign nationwide, effectively giving free license uncertainty and skepticism not just
about proposed solutions, but about hostility, but some of us are glad to
to the police and vigilantes. He has boasted about his tenure the science itself. Polls show that see a new face with fresh opinions,
in Davao, and admitted to personally killing three kidnap- these attacks have worked: Many however often we may disagree.
pers without trial. The mayhem got so bad that last week a Americans, even those who accept SUSAN COVINGTON, HOUSTON
Filipino lawyer formally asked the International Criminal the reality of climate change, be-
Court to charge Mr. Duterte and 11 officials with mass mur- lieve that scientists are still uncer- TO THE EDITOR:
tain.
der and crimes against humanity over the extrajudicial Bret Stephens presents us with a
Mr. Stephens would like to have a
killings of nearly 10,000 people over the past three decades. reasoned conversation about cli- false comparison when he likens
During the last administration, Mr. Duterte disre- mate change. So would I, and so the science of climate change to
spected President Barack Obama by calling him the “son of would every climate scientist I predictions about Hillary Clinton’s
a whore” and threatened to abandon his country’s alliance know. Misdirection and offering election. Political polls are obvi-
opinion as fact do not move us in ously unscientific and prone to
with the United States for one with China. This is obviously error. The virtually universal con-
that direction.
not a man who should be welcomed to the White House. clusion of climate scientists the
Mr. Trump extended his invitation in a telephone call NAOMI ORESKES, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. world over is that global warming
that was described as “very friendly.” Administration offi- The writer is a professor of the history can do great harm to our earth. The
cials said the call was one of several the president made to of science at Harvard University. only uncertainty concerns timing
reassure Southeast Asian leaders of America’s continuing and magnitude.
If we err, it must be on the side of
commitment at a time when they were feeling neglected TO THE EDITOR:
extreme caution. We cannot correct
over Mr. Trump’s focus on China, Japan and North Korea. Despite his sly approach to create errors in judgment about climate
Administration officials said that Mr. Trump was looking to doubt about the seriousness of with another vote.
mend ties with the Philippines as a hedge against China’s climate change, Bret Stephens
acknowledges, “None of this is to FRED SCHLISSEL, WOODMERE, N.Y.
expansion in the South China Sea. But there is no evidence
deny climate change or the possible
that he consulted the State Department, or that the White HEADS OF STATE
severity of its consequences.” TO THE EDITOR:
We see this “possible severity” Bret Stephens is right that there is
happening around us every day — some uncertainty about how bad
from year after year of record-

Populism, Politics and Measles breaking high temperatures to

droughts, floods, warming oceans,
melting glaciers and more.
unchecked climate change will be.
However, that uncertainty cuts both
ways. Scientists have been explicit
One of the tragedies of these post-truth times is that the lies, Ministry of Health had reported 1,739 cases of the disease, that there is a small chance that
At least 97 percent of the thou-
conspiracy theories and illusions spread by social media compared with 840 in all of 2016 and only 250 in 2015. Of global warming and its impacts will
sands of scientists worldwide who
be less severe than their best esti-
and populist politicians can be downright dangerous. The those stricken, 88 percent had not been vaccinated. The dan- have studied this problem for
mates. However, they also report
denial of human responsibility for climate change is one ob- ger was not only to them: 159 of the cases were health care decades agree that climate change
that there is a good chance that the
vious example; another is opposition to vaccination. A seri- workers infected by patients. Yet studies show that 97 per- is a genuine threat to our future
impacts of unbridled carbon pollu-
well-being. Predictions they have
ous outbreak of measles in Italy and in some other Euro- cent of people who receive the recommended two doses of tion will be much, much worse than
made during those decades have
pean countries could well be the result of a drop-off in vacci- MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine are fully pro- their best estimates.
proved mistaken only in that cli-
nations caused by utterly misguided and discredited claims tected. Most people today would not remember a time when mate’s impact is happening much Proper risk management calls for
about their dangers. measles — or mumps, or polio — were faster than they expected. looking at both sides of the uncer-
tainty equation.
Vaccines are among the greatest achievements of medi- An outbreak in commonplace. Mr. Stephens’s assertion that just
cal science, an easily and safely administered defense Italy shows the M5S may not be responsible for the 36 percent of Americans care a HUNTER CUTTING, SAN FRANCISCO
against once common and often deadly diseases like dangers entire outbreak, since vaccine skepti-
measles, polio, smallpox, whooping cough and cervical can- of irresponsible cism predates the party’s rise. Yet the
cer. Yet fear of vaccines has spread over the past two politicians percentage of 2-year-olds given vacci-
decades, fueled in part by an infamous study published in fanning nations has steadily fallen in recent
Invitation to a Dictator Republicans and Racism
the medical journal Lancet in 1998 and later retracted and skepticism years, from 88 percent in 2013 to 86 per- TO THE EDITOR: TO THE EDITOR:
completely discredited. about vaccines. cent in 2014 and 85.3 percent in 2015. Re “Trump Officials Brace for I applaud David Leonhardt’s argu-
More recently, President Trump has added his voice to The World Health Organization regards Anger at Duterte Call” (front page, ment in “The Urgency of Ethnic
vaccine skepticism, like this utterly unfounded and irre- 95 percent as the level to achieve “herd immunity,” at which May 1): Nationalism” (column, April 25)
With each day of the Trump that left and right alike need to
sponsible tweet: “Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets point the disease poses no threat to the entire community.
presidency, the stature of our oppose the racism, anti-Semitism
pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel Combating vaccine skepticism is not easy, because and ugly nationalism that are
country is further diminished. We
good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!” In Italy, even the countless studies by innumerable health groups af- are no longer the beacon of hope surging in global politics. But I am
the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) led by the comedi- firming that there is no link between vaccines and autism for immigrants; no longer the afraid that he lets the Republican
an Beppe Grillo has campaigned actively on an anti-vacci- have failed to penetrate the fog spread by Mr. Grillo and his leader in the battle to mitigate Party off a bit too easily in this
nation platform, likewise repeating the false ties between ilk. The Italian measles outbreak, unfortunate as it is, does climate change; no longer a coun- regard.
vaccinations and autism. give health authorities an opportunity to strengthen their try seeking to reduce gun vio- True, it is the party of Lincoln, as
lence; no longer a country trying he acknowledges. But long before
To these and other skeptics, the measles outbreak in It- case by pointing to concrete evidence of what inevitably fol- it was the party of Donald Trump,
aly should sound a piercing alarm. As of April 26, the Italian lows when vaccinations drop off. to lessen income inequity; no
it was also the party of Barry
longer a country working to pre-
Goldwater, who opposed the Civil
serve our environment. Rights Act of 1964; Richard Nixon,
Instead, we are a country whose whose Southern strategy set the

Clean Government? Prove It president, after a “very friendly

conversation,” invites President
Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines,
template for contemporary race-
baiting campaigns; Ronald Rea-
gan, who launched his 1980 general
Late on Friday, the Office of Government Ethics sent a little- that openly flouts ethical norms. Top-tier government and a man responsible for thousands of election campaign in Philadelphia,
noticed memo to the White House, with the subject, “Data regulatory positions have gone to friends of Wall Street, Big extrajudicial killings, to the White Miss., near the site of the murders
Call for Certain Waivers and Authorizations.” It could have Oil, Big Coal, Big Pharma and for-profit education. Ivanka House. of the civil rights activists James
been titled: “You Said You’d Clean Up Government. Now Trump, a White House senior adviser, reaps trademarks and This act makes a mockery of all Chaney, Andrew Goodman and
Prove It.” promotional opportunities from China and Germany. Jared the United States has stood for. As Michael Schwerner; and Lee At-
American citizens, we should be water, the mastermind behind
On the campaign trail and in office, President Trump Kushner, Ms. Trump’s spouse, is a United States envoy to
ashamed. George H. W. Bush’s Willie Horton
proclaimed his determination to keep his administration countries where his family has business ties. But why ad.
free of lobbyists, foreign agents and special interests, who should anyone in the White House bother to separate busi- CLAY SAMMIS, AMHERST, N.H.
While neither side is blameless
have “reaped the rewards of government while the people ness and government service when the president himself here, the record over the last half-
have borne the cost,” as he said in his inaugural address. promotes everything from his Washington hotel to his pri- century or more is far from even.
A week later, Mr. Trump signed an executive order re- vate Mar-a-Lago beach club. Obama’s Wall Street Speech ROBERT C. LIEBERMAN, BALTIMORE
quiring executive branch employees to obey a list of rules Presiding over this ethical morass is Stefan Passantino, The writer is a professor of political
TO THE EDITOR:
designed to prevent conflicts of interest. But the order is the White House ethics officer. Mr. Passantino is a lawyer science at Johns Hopkins University.
rendered practically worthless by a clause allowing waivers who has represented former House Speakers Dennis Hast- In reading your May 1 editorial
to ethical rules for any White House staff, without any writ- ert and Newt Gingrich in their ethical tangles. In 2009, when about President Barack Obama’s
remuneration for his Cantor
ten explanation or public disclosure. That’s why the ethics the Obama administration was criticized for granting a
Fitzgerald speech (“The Cost of a
office, which ensures that public servants enter government waiver so William Lynn, a former Raytheon lobbyist, could Speech”), I felt a bit put out by
Flying Cars
free from potential conflicts of interest, is demanding that become deputy defense secretary, Mr. Passantino seemed to what seems to be a somewhat TO THE EDITOR:
the White House provide the names of executive branch offi- take the wrong lesson about the disclosure. “Very often in pejorative finger-pointing attitude Re “Defying Roadblocks, Silicon
cials who have received waivers, on what issues, by June 1. Washington and in politics there are efforts to make grand toward his post-presidency. Valley Tests a Flying Car” (Busi-
The Obama administration required that waivers to its pronouncements reflecting a grand change in policy,” he What this dignified and elegant ness Day, April 25): Good; so now
anti-lobbying rules be accompanied by a detailed explana- said. The results, he added, are “the law of good intentions man endured during his presidency people will be texting while flying.
tion written by administration ethics lawyers, and filed with running headlong into the law of unintended consequences.” from those who have acquired JEFF BROWN, EVANSTON, ILL.
the ethics office. In 2009, Republican Senator Charles Grass- It seems unlikely that good intentions have anything to power should exempt him from this
premature criticism of what ap-
ley, a veteran Senate investigator, demanded that the ethics do with Mr. Trump’s grand ethics pronouncements. It’s Mr. pears to be a carefully thought
office release the waivers. “The American people deserve a Passantino’s job to release to the ethics office, and to the through strategy for his appear-
full accounting of all waivers and recusals to better under- public, the names of public servants whom Mr. Trump has ances. ONLINE: MORE LETTERS
stand who is running the government and whether the ad- allowed to bypass the rules. If he stonewalls, we look again He just might be the right man at Child care and tax credits:
ministration is adhering to its promise to be open, transpar- to Republicans like Mr. Grassley, now chairman of the pow- the right time to help save us from “How the tax system can
ent, and accountable,” Mr. Grassley wrote. erful Senate Judiciary Committee, to remind this adminis- ourselves, and for that, he can support working families and
Now, in the absence of any action from Congress, the tration that the American people deserve an accountable charge whatever he wants.
enhance quality simultaneously.”
government ethics office is on its own with a White House government, and to make sure they get it. KATHERINE BERLOWE, NEW YORK nytimes.com/opinion
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N A27

Christians DAVID LEONHARDT

School Choice
Who Shield
Works While
O’Reilly Vouchers Don’t
Katelyn Beaty BETSY DEVOS’S FAVORITE education policy
keeps looking worse. Last week, the Ed-
ucation Department, which she runs, re-

I
NSTITUTIONS plagued by sexual
leased a careful study of the District of
assault scandals tend to look alike:
Columbia’s use of school vouchers, which
They are usually insular organiza-
she supports. The results were not good.
tions that resist external checks and
revolve around authoritative men. Students using vouchers to attend a
This characterization fits Fox News, private school did worse on math and
which recently fired its host Bill O’Reilly reading than similar students in public
after sexual harassment allegations school, the study found. It comes after
against him (and pressure from adver- other studies, in Ohio and elsewhere,
tisers) mounted. have also shown weak results for vouch-
But it is also applies to the white evan- ers.
gelical Christian community. This group To channel President Trump: Who
is not a monolith, but its social hierarchy knew that education could be so compli-
often functions like the military, a univer- cated?
sity or private business. It’s not a co- The question for DeVos is whether
incidence that conservative evangelical she’s an ideologue committed to prior be-
leaders tend to resist taking harassment liefs regardless of facts or someone who
and assault claims seriously. has an open mind. But that question
Eric Metaxas, a best-selling Christian HARRY CAMPBELL
doesn’t apply only to DeVos. It also ap-
author, tweeted after the firing that Mr. plies to all of us trying to think about edu-
O’Reilly’s ouster was “tremendously cation, including her critics. And the re-
sad” and that his show had been a “bless- sults from Washington are important
ing to millions.” When people responding
to his tweet noted that he was silent on
the harassment itself, he wrote “Jesus
loves Bill O’Reilly” and told his followers
America’s Political Disunion partly because they defy easy ideo-
logical conclusions.
Before diving into those results, I want
to make two broader points. First, educa-
to pray for their enemies. Republicans, on the other hand, are joying energetic backing from their base tion isn’t just another issue. It is the most
Robert P. Jones much less likely than Democrats to be- for pro-immigration and pro-L.G.B.T. powerful force for accelerating economic
Many Christian leaders responded to
Donald Trump’s bragging about sexual lieve any minority group faces a lot of dis- stances, but they are experiencing in- growth, reducing poverty and lifting
crimination, and they believe Christians creasing opposition to their support for middle-class living standards. Well-edu-

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assault with a similar line of defense. FTER the British writer G. K.
Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty and whites face roughly as much discrimi- free trade. cated adults earn much more, live longer
Chesterton visited the United and are happier than poorly educated
University, the country’s largest Chris- nation as immigrants, Muslims and gay There have been other times in our his-
States for the first time, he re- adults. When researchers try to tease out
tian college, said that “we’re all sinners” and transgender people. Moreover, only tory when the fabric of American identity
marked that America was “a na- whether education does much to cause
and that Mr. Trump had apologized. (In 27 percent of Republicans say blacks ex- was stretched in similar ways — the Civil
tion with the soul of a church.” these benefits, the answer appears to be
fact, Mr. Trump has said that he doesn’t perience a lot of discrimination, while 43 War, heightened levels of immigration at
Mr. Chesterton wasn’t referring to the yes.
ask God for forgiveness and didn’t need percent say whites do and 48 percent say the turn of the 20th century and the cultur-
nation’s religiosity but to its formation Second, the highly charged debate
to ask his wife for it either.) Mr. Falwell the same of Christians. al upheavals of the 1960s.
around a set of core political beliefs en- over education often lapses into mislead-
later claimed to have proof that the wom- Taken as a whole, these partisan por- But during these eras, white Christians
shrined in founding “sacred texts,” like the ing caricature. On one side of the carica-
en accusing Mr. Trump of sexual har- traits highlight contrasting responses to were still secure as a demographic and
Declaration of Independence. He noted ture are defenders of traditional public
assment were lying. the country’s changing demographics and cultural majority in the nation. The ques-
that the United States, unlike European culture, especially over the past decade as schools, who believe in generous fund-
David Brody, a correspondent with the tion at stake was whether they were going
countries, did not rely on ethnic kinship, the country has ceased to be a majority ing, small class sizes and teacher train-
Christian Broadcasting Network, ex- to make room for new groups at a table
cultural character or a “national type” for white Christian nation — from 54 percent they still owned. Typically, a group would
a shared identity. in 2008 to 43 percent today. Democrats — gain its seat in exchange for assimilation
The profoundness of the American ex-
Evangelical leaders tend periment, he argued, was that it aspired to
only 29 percent of whom are white and
Christian — are embracing these changes
to the majority culture. But as white Chris-
tians have slipped from the majority over
A highly charged debate
create “a home out of vagabonds and a na-
to resist taking sexual tion out of exiles” united by voluntary as-
as central to their vision of an evolving
American identity that is strengthened
the past decade, this familiar strategy is
no longer viable.
that often lapses into
assault claims seriously. sent to commonly held political beliefs.
But recent survey data provides trou-
and renewed by diversity. By contrast, Re- White Christians are today struggling misleading caricature.
publicans — nearly three-quarters of to face a new reality: the inevitable sur-
bling evidence that a shared sense of na- whom identify as white and Christian — render of table ownership in exchange for
cused Mr. Trump’s language at the time tional identity is unraveling, with two mu- an equal seat. And it’s this new higher- ing. On the other are so-called reformers,
by saying, “We all sin every single day.” tually exclusive narratives emerging stakes challenge that is fueling the great who believe in vouchers, charter schools
Jim Garlow, a prominent California pas- along party lines. At the heart of this di- partisan reorientation we are witnessing and standardized tests.
tor, refused to “cast any stones” at Mr. vide are opposing reactions to changing We’re losing our shared today. Unfortunately, this caricature mixes
demographics and culture. The shock several ideas that do not necessarily go
Trump, invoking Jesus’ teaching in the
Gospel of John. He then called Hillary waves from these transformations — har- identity to diverging The temptation for the Republican
Party, especially with Donald Trump in together. In particular, it conflates vouch-
Clinton a modern-day Herod who would nessed effectively by Donald Trump’s
campaign — are reorienting the political
political narratives. the White House, is to double down on a ers (coupons that let parents use their
tax dollars for private schools) with
kill all the unborn babies if elected. form of white Christian nationalism,
Within the ranks of conservative parties from the more familiar liberal-ver- which treats racial and religious identity charter schools (public schools that op-
church leadership, this default empathy sus-conservative alignment to new poles see these changes eroding a core white as tribal markers and defends a shrinking erate outside the usual bureaucracy).
for powerful men is coupled with tone of cultural pluralism and monism. Christian American identity and perceive demographic with increasingly autocratic Hard-core reformers, like DeVos, sup-
deafness for victims. But the phenom- An Associated Press-NORC poll found themselves to be under siege as the coun- assertions of power. port vouchers and charters. Hard-core
enon is also a misapplication of the Chris- nearly mirror-opposite partisan reactions try changes around them. For its part, the Democratic Party is traditionalists oppose both. The rest of us
tian teaching on forgiveness. Mr. Metax- to the question of what kind of culture is Americans of both political parties contending with the difficulties of organ- should distinguish between them, be-
as wrote a biography of the German important for American identity. Sixty-six sense the unraveling of a broadly shared izing its more diverse coalition while fac- cause their results differ.
theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so he is percent of Democrats, compared with consensus of American identity, although ing its own tribal temptations to embrace Vouchers have been disappointing.
surely familiar with his teaching on only 35 percent of Republicans, said the they cite different reasons for feeling that an identity politics that has room to cele- They are based on the free-market the-
cheap grace — “the preaching of for- mixing of cultures and values from around way. About seven in 10 Republicans and brate every group except whites who ory that parents will choose good schools
giveness without requiring repentance.” the world was extremely or very impor- Democrats fear that the United States is strongly identify as Christian. If this re- over bad ones. It’s a reasonable theory,
Cheap grace wrongly separates absolu- tant to American identity. Similarly, 64 losing its national identity, the A.P.-NORC alignment continues, left out of this oppo- and vouchers can have benefits, like al-
tion of sin from acknowledgment of that percent of Republicans, compared with 32 survey found. The two political parties sition will be a significant number of lowing children to leave dangerous
sin. In Christian teaching, God forgives percent of Democrats, saw a culture may not share much, but each is increas- whites who are both wary of white Chris- schools.
people before they confess wrongdoing. grounded in Christian religious beliefs as ingly aware that the other has embraced a tian nationalism and weary of feeling dis- For the most part, though, identifying
But among individuals, groups and na- extremely or very important. radically different vision of America’s counted in the context of identity politics. a good school is hard for parents. Con-
tions, there can be no forgiveness when These divergent orientations can also identity and future. This end is not inevitable, but if we are ventional wisdom usually defines a good
wrongdoing isn’t named. be seen in a recent poll by P.R.R.I. that ex- These responses are shifting the po- to continue to make one out of many, lead- school as one attended by high-achiev-
In cases of sexual assault, cheap grace plored partisan perceptions of which litical magnetic field that defines the par- ers of both parties will have to step back ing students, which is easy to measure.
is doubly dangerous: It can allow a guilty groups are facing discrimination in the ties. Republican leaders are finding strong from the reactivity of the present and take But that’s akin to concluding that all of
party to continue his abuse while victims country. Like Americans overall, large support among their base for the Trump up the more arduous task of weaving a LeBron James’s coaches have been
stay silent in fear of punishment. majorities of Democrats believe minority administration’s executive order barring new national narrative in which all Ameri- geniuses.
In churches, a quick forgiveness for groups such as African-Americans, immi- travel to the United States from particular cans can see themselves. 0 Unlike most voucher programs, many
perpetrators often dovetails with strict grants, Muslims and gay and transgender Muslim-majority countries. But their plan charter-school systems are subject to
standards of purity for women. From a people face a lot of discrimination in the to repeal and replace the Affordable Care ROBERT P. JONES, the chief executive of the rigorous evaluation and oversight. Local
young age, many Christian women are country. Only about one in five Democrats Act was dramatically derailed by factions Public Religion Research Institute, is the officials decide which charters can open
taught to dress modestly so as not to say that majority groups such as Chris- within their own party. author of “The End of White Christian and expand. Officials don’t get every de-
cause men to “stumble.” John Piper, a tians or whites face a lot of discrimination. Democrats, on the other hand, are en- America.” cision right, but they are able to evaluate
prominent pastor and theologian, has schools based on student progress and
said that “a lot of Christian women are surveys of teachers and families.
oblivious to the fact that they have some As a result, many charters have flour-
measure of responsibility” in managing ished, especially in places where tradi-
men’s lust. The moralizing about dress
and behavior can be a setup for victim-
blaming wrapped in a spiritual veneer.
Voodoo Economics, Then and Now tional schools have struggled. This evi-
dence comes from top academic re-
searchers, studying a variety of places,
Perhaps churches have been slow to including Washington, Boston, Denver,
flicted by the Reagan tax cuts was to our After dropping to $444 billion in 2015,
address sex crimes out of a belief that Steven Rattner political psyche, making respectable — the federal deficit is again marching up-
New Orleans, New York, Florida and
such offenses couldn’t happen among Texas. The anecdotes about failed char-
particularly among Republicans — the ward. By 2026, it is projected to be $1 tril- ters are real, but they’re not the norm.
their own. It’s assumed that the culture terrifying notion that high deficits result- lion. In normal times, economists con-

A
of harassment at a place like Fox News S a young New York Times report- Douglas Harris, a Tulane professor,
er nearly four decades ago, I ing from tax cuts don’t matter because sider a deficit of about 3 percent of G.D.P. says the difference between charters
would never come to infect a community faster economic growth will quickly — where it is now — to be appropriate.
serving God. This thinking is both naïve helped chronicle the rollout of and vouchers boils down to “managed
what proved to be among our close the gap. (At the time, this idea was The Trump plan isn’t all bad. I under- competition” versus the “free market.”
and theologically irresponsible: Chris- called supply-side economics, but it has
country’s greatest economic follies — the stand our need to lower the corporate tax Susan Dynarski of the University of
tians, of all people, acknowledge the now been rebranded with the phrase
alchemistic belief that huge tax cuts can rate to compete with other countries and Michigan talks about charters’ success-
depths of human depravity. “dynamic scoring.”)
pay for themselves by unleashing faster adjust other provisions to keep compa- fully combining flexibility and account-
In recent years, undeniable scandals In 2002, while trying to justify another
economic growth. nies and jobs here. Critics are correct ability. Joshua Angrist of M.I.T. says,
at Bob Jones University, Sovereign set of irresponsible tax cuts, Vice Presi-
Buoyed by this idea, Congress passed that our business-tax structure encour- “Flexibility alone is not enough.”
Grace Church and Bill Gothard’s family dent Dick Cheney reportedly said, “Rea-
the largest tax reductions in history just ages companies to ship jobs and even Crucially, many charters are open to
ministry, among others, have awakened gan proved deficits don’t matter.” By the
many conservative Christians to the re- seven months after Ronald Reagan’s in- themselves overseas. But in return for all comers, which means their success
auguration. I was deeply skeptical of the end of George W. Bush’s tenure, the sur- that concession, which would signifi- doesn’t stem from skimming off the best.
ality of sexual assault in their own ranks. pluses that he had inherited were squan-
Boz Tchividjian, a grandson of the evan- illogical notion that tax cuts could some- cantly benefit shareholders, we should And the schools’ benefits extend beyond
how pay for themselves, so much so that dered, and as the financial crisis raged, be raising the 23.8 percent capital gains test scores to more meaningful metrics,
gelist Billy Graham, is a law professor the deficit soared to $511 billion before
who runs Grace (Godly Response to I was attacked by name on the Wall rate closer to the top rate of 39.6 percent like college graduation.
Abuse in the Christian Environment). Street Journal op-ed page. That, in turn, on earned income, not lowering it. The District of Columbia study high-
While the organization focuses on child caused consternation among my editors Should Mr. Trump’s proposal become lights the charter/voucher contrast in a
abuse, Mr. Tchividjian speaks regularly in an era when reporting was meant to be Reagan’s tax cut blew up law, I’ll bet the denouement resembles neat way. The voucher results look so
on sex crimes in general. He critiques less analytical. that of Reagan’s: In 1982, just a year after weak — even worse than elsewhere —
Christian organizations that respond to Nonetheless, I felt no joy as the plan the deficit. Trump’s plan those cuts, Congress enacted new provi- partly because the city’s charters are so
sions that recovered about a third of the strong. That is, voucher recipients are
abuse with “institutional self-protec-
tion,” often by couching self-protection
immediately made a bad economy
worse. could do even worse. lost revenues, and by the end of Reagan’s being compared with children at higher-
as “protecting the name of Christ.” Now comes Donald Trump, essentially administration, additional tax increases performing public schools than in the
If conservative Christians want to pro- trying to revive that same supply-side raised that figure to about two-thirds. past, and the voucher schools aren’t
credo (famously branded “voodoo eco- peaking at $1.6 trillion in 2009 (all figures Don’t get me wrong — we have signifi- keeping up.
tect the faith — especially in a time when in 2016 dollars).
they fear loss of cultural power — they nomics” by George H. W. Bush) with his cant economic challenges (as reflected It’s an argument for a political compro-
proposal for $5.5 trillion of tax give- Deficits have left a lasting mark in the in our anemic sub-2 percent growth mise: fewer vouchers, more charters.
must show preferential care not for the
aways, mostly for business. form of vast piles of national debt — $14 rate), and thoughtful tax policy can play If you’re a progressive, I realize that
powerful but for victims. They must be
What proved a bad idea then is a worse trillion currently, up from $712 billion a positive role. We haven’t had a serious this compromise may make you squea-
just as quick to extend empathy to wom-
one now. Unemployment was 7 percent when Mr. Reagan took office, an almost attack on loopholes, complexities and mish. Progressives often prefer to spend
en who have been harassed as they are to
and rising when President Reagan took 20-fold increase. Big deficits can some- egregious deductions since 1986, and we more on traditional schools — which are
extend forgiveness to harassers.
This is the hard work that epitomizes office. Today, with unemployment at just times be advisable, as they were in aid- desperately need another one. still crucial — and to trust them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s conception of 4.6 percent, broad-based fiscal stimulus ing recovery from the 2009 recession. But what we don’t need — and can’t af- But I would encourage you to look at
“costly grace.” An application of costly isn’t likely to create many new jobs. But incurred pointlessly, as Mr. Trump is ford — is another round of huge, unpaid- the full evidence with an open mind.
grace would mean showing perpetrators For its part, the Reagan tax cut in- proposing, large fiscal gaps simply mean for tax reductions that saddle us with Charters have the potential to help a lot
that their actions have real conse- creased the budget deficit, helping ele- more debt that will be left to our children large amounts of new debt without pro- of poor children in the immediate future,
quences. It would also ensure that vic- vate interest rates over 20 percent, and grandchildren to pay off. ducing the growth levels being pre- and it’s hard to think of a more important
tims are heard and given tools for heal- which in turn contributed to the double- A large deficit is another significant dicted. Changing the sales slogan from progressive goal.
ing long before there is any talk of restor- dip recession that ensued. The stock difference in the state of the economy “supply-side economics” to “dynamic As for Secretary DeVos, I hope she is
ing their abusers. 0 market fell by more than 20 percent. Fis- compared with 36 years ago and helps scoring” won’t do anything to shield us similarly open to new facts. It seems a
cally, the revenue loss totaled 2.9 percent explain why Mr. Trump’s business-heavy from the painful consequences. 0 reasonable expectation for somebody
KATELYN BEATY is an editor at large for of the average gross domestic product proposals are not only grossly unfair to whose title is secretary of education. 0
Christianity Today and the author of “A between 1981 and 1985. middle-class Americans but also terrible STEVEN RATTNER is a Wall Street executive
Woman’s Place.” But perhaps the greatest damage in- policy. and a contributing opinion writer. David Brooks is off today.
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Tech Tackles Fake News Music Is in the Air A Pitcher’s Hard Lesson
Computer experts are using Musical interludes at U.S. Noah Syndergaard, who bulked
algorithms to spot and stop the airports are easing passenger up in the off-season, has a torn
spread of misinformation. 3 stress and generating revenue. 4 torso muscle. On Baseball. 8

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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Wall Street
Shudders
As Trump
Muses
For a brief moment, Wall Street
stopped on Monday, as if time was
suspended in an alternative reality.
President Trump, for the first time
as resident of the White House, said
aloud that he was
ANDREW considering breaking
up the nation’s big-
ROSS SORKIN gest banks. Of course,
he had said it on the
DEALBOOK
campaign trail, but
this seemed different.
“I’m looking at that right now,” Mr.
Trump told Bloomberg News during
an interview in the Oval Office.
“There’s some people that want to go
back to the old system, right? So
we’re going to look at that.”
The headline ricocheted around
the email boxes of senior bank exec-
utives across the industry. At the
Milken Global Conference in Los
Angeles, where Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin had just finished
speaking — and didn’t mention
breaking up the banks — the hall-
ways quickly buzzed about the com-
ment, according to participants, as
their phones lit up. Shares of bank
stocks dived lower within seconds of
the headline, only to recover quickly.
Mr. Trump’s comments shouldn’t
come as a surprise: His chief eco-
nomic adviser, Gary D. Cohn —
formerly president of Goldman
Sachs — has been not-so-quietly
trying to socialize the idea of bring-

Break up the banks?

Saying aloud what had
seemed theoretical.

ing back the Glass-Steagall Act, the

Depression-era law that was enacted
to prevent investment and commer-
cial banks from combining. The law
was repealed in 1999, helping to
bring about the supersized banking
giants that dominate the market
today.
Before Monday’s musings, Mr.
Trump’s thoughts on the matter had
felt like a theoretical exercise, those
who have met with him say.
What would be surprising, howev-
er, is if Mr. Trump made it a reality. It
would be one thing for him to “do a
big number” on Dodd-Frank, the
2010 law that imposed stricter regu-
lations on banks in the aftermath of
the financial crisis — he has repeat-
edly stated that he wants to pare it
back, repealing parts of the law. But
it would be a much more seismic ALESSANDRO PAUTASSO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
shift to bring back Glass-Steagall,
which would be the equivalent of

A Star Trader’s Decline

doing “a big number” on the banks
themselves. The biggest names in
banking would presumably face the
choice of having to shed either their
commercial banking arm or their
investment banking division.
When Mr. Trump met with busi- By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON That dismal record is a far cry from nearly a dec-
ness executives in February at the and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ade ago, when Mr. Paulson made nearly $15 billion
White House, he turned to Jamie John A. Paulson is one of the best-known names
John Paulson’s betting on the collapse of the housing market. Back
then, state pension funds and investors around the
Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan
Chase, an unabashed defender of big
in the hedge fund industry. But these days, Mr. Paul- hedge fund today world rushed to give him their money to manage.
son is having more success in the political realm than
Even Mr. Trump became an investor with Mr. Paul-
banks, for advice. JPMorgan Chase he is managing his business. manages $26 son — and eventually lost money.
would not exist in its current form Mr. Paulson, 61, was one of the first people on Wall
were it not for the 1999 repeal of Street to back Donald J. Trump’s bid for the presiden- billion less than it Mr. Paulson’s struggles come after a gut-wrench-
ing 2016, when he recorded even steeper losses in
Glass-Steagall. cy. He counseled Mr. Trump on economic matters
“There’s nobody better to tell me during the campaign. He gave $250,000 to Mr. did in 2011. those funds, partly because of several wrong-footed
bets on drug makers, including the troubled Valeant
about Dodd-Frank than Jamie, so Trump’s inaugural committee. And he recently
Pharmaceuticals. That followed a painful 2015, when
you’re going to tell me about it,” Mr. visited President Trump at the White House for a
investors first balked and began pulling their money
Trump said at the time, to the con- “C.E.O. Town Hall.”
from his firm.
sternation of proponents of more But his investors are unlikely to be impressed by
A representative of Mr. Paulson declined a re-
banking regulation. his political access. His firm, Paulson & Company, has
quest for an interview with him. His funds are said to
Viewed through the prism of goos- recorded nearly double-digit losses in several of its
ing the economy and creating jobs — larger funds as of the end of March. Continued on Page 5
Continued on Page 6

TV Station Owners Rush to Seize on Looser Rules Shake-Up at AllianceBernstein

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
and CECILIA KANG
have hinged directly on the change, but
it demonstrated a demand for broadcast
station mergers. Sinclair did not reply to
tions could lead to more expensive fees
for consumers as providers pass on
ever-higher fees from broadcasters and
As Money Managers Struggle
The media industry has been rife with
consolidation in recent years: Cable requests for comment. content creators to subscribers. But to By LANDON THOMAS Jr. cheaper exchange-traded funds that
companies, film studios and And now, a bidding war has begun media companies, the mantra of late has In a move that highlights the increas- track a wide variety of stock and bond in-
telecommunications firms have all been over Tribune Media, the owner of WGN been that bigger is better. dexes.
ing pressures faced by stock pickers on
bought and sold at a rapid clip. America and, in New York, PIX 11. For broadcast station companies in AllianceBernstein, an institutional
Wall Street, Peter S. Kraus, the chief ex-
Now, local television stations are at The Blackstone Group appears to be particular — including Sinclair, Fox and fund manager rooted in a culture of ac-
ecutive of AllianceBernstein Holding,
the center of the deal-making frenzy. working with 21st Century Fox on a bid the Nexstar Media Group — owning tive stock management, has seen
more stations increases their power was ousted by the money manager’s
Last week, a day after the Federal for Tribune. And Sinclair is also circling investors take their money elsewhere in
over cable companies, which pay to re- controlling shareholder on Monday. recent years despite efforts by Mr. Kraus
Communications Commission eased that company.
transmit the stations. The abrupt shake-up, which included to reverse the company’s fortunes.
regulations over how many stations an “The F.C.C. has basically said: ‘Game
Fox’s motive for pursuing Tribune, the appointment of six new members to As part of the reshuffling, Axa Finan-
owner may have, Sinclair Broadcasting, on. We’re going to let you consolidate
further than anyone had imagined,’” which has more Fox affiliates than any the AllianceBernstein board and the re- cial, the French insurance giant that
the largest local broadcast group in the
country, said it would buy 14 New York- said Richard Greenfield, a media ana- other station owner, largely appears to moval of nine, comes as investors contin- owns the firm, named as Alliance’s chair-
based stations for $240 million. lyst at BTIG. be blocking a deal with Sinclair. It plans ue to abandon higher-priced, actively man Robert B. Zoellick, a former presi-
The timing of Sinclair’s deal may not Consolidation of local broadcast sta- Continued on Page 2 managed mutual funds in favor of Continued on Page 5
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Airbnb and San Francisco

Settle Registration Dispute
By KATIE BENNER service.
SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb The board imposed the fines af-
agreed on Monday to settle a law- ter it realized that hosts had not
suit against the city of San Fran- been complying with a cumber-
cisco, putting to rest litigation that some process passed in 2014 that
could have hampered the compa- asked them to register in person
ny’s efforts to expand and go pub- at a city office overseeing short-
lic. term rentals. Airbnb was so influ-
In the settlement, Airbnb essen- ential in the creation of the origi-
tially agreed to San Francisco’s nal rule that it was often referred
demand to be more transparent to as the Airbnb law. Airbnb re-
about its hosts and to help enforce sponded to the fines by suing the
existing registration laws. It fol- city.
lowed the company’s dropping of David Campos, a former mem-
a lawsuit in December over a New ber of the San Francisco Board of
York law that fines people who il- Supervisors, said at a news con-
legally list their homes on short- ference announcing the settle-
term rental platforms. Taken to- ment, “Three years ago, we said
gether, the actions mean Airbnb the law being passed, which was
has cleared up outstanding litiga- written by Airbnb, won’t work be-
tion in two of its biggest markets cause there was no skin in the
in the United States. game in terms of enforcement.”
The latest settlement removes a Under the settlement between
regulatory cloud over the com- the city and the companies,
pany as it readies itself for a public Airbnb and other services like
offering, even though Airbnb, HomeAway will collect data from
which is based in San Francisco people who rent their homes out
and has a valuation of about $30 for less than a month on their
billion, still faces legal disputes in sites. San Francisco will use that
a handful of markets. The compa- information to vet and register
ny’s chief executive, Brian hosts.
JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Chesky, said this year that the Companies like Airbnb will
company could be ready to go have to regularly provide the city A group funded by Airbnb put up billboards around San Francisco in 2015 opposing a measure restricting short-term rentals.
public in a year. with the data it needs to enforce
Arun Sundararajan, a professor local laws. The companies will pany has come to similar agree- Board of Supervisors, some of
at New York University’s Stern also cancel reservations and de- ments in New Orleans and Chi- whom spoke favorably of the deal
School of Business who studies activate listings if the city notifies cago. at a news conference hosted by
the so-called sharing economy, them of an invalid registration. “We want to work with cities as Mr. Herrera.
said, “As Airbnb gears up to go The city also preserved its abil- partners,” said Chris Lehane, the Airbnb also said last week that
public over the next couple of ity to hold companies like Airbnb head of public policy at Airbnb. it would allow the California De-
years, creating a stable envi- accountable by fining them $1,000 “We are appreciative of the work partment of Fair Employment and
ronment with less regulatory un- per violation if they do not take with the San Francisco city attor- Housing to conduct fair-housing
certainty is good for them.” He down illegal listings. ney’s office.” Mr. Lehane said the tests on hosts in California. Under
added, “While it is well past the “There are 2,100 registered new system would likely be put the agreement, state agents can
point where regulations pose an hosts and about 8,000 listed. We into effect by 2018. pose as potential travelers to see
existential threat to the company, don’t have exact numbers, but it’s Mr. Lehane declined to say how whether a host complies with anti-
regulatory issues are still the big- not a secret that there are a lot of settling outstanding legislation discrimination and fair-housing
gest source of uncertainty about folks gaming the system and vio- would affect the company’s ability laws.
its future revenue streams.” lating the law,” Dennis J. Herrera, to go public. He said complying “This is all part of a broader
Airbnb and another short-term the San Francisco city attorney, with laws and working with local shift towards Airbnb taking on
rental company, HomeAway, said. governments would allow Airbnb more regulatory responsibility,”
brought the lawsuit against San Airbnb said the deal with San to “build the foundation” and Mr. Sundararajan said. “It’s also
Francisco in June over a decision Francisco was the latest step in its make sure it was “getting the ba- first steps, over time, toward gov-
ERIC RISBERG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
by the city’s Board of Supervisors plan to work with local govern- sics right.” ernments trusting Airbnb to as-
to fine the companies $1,000 a day ments on short-term rental legis- The settlement is contingent on sume more responsibility for reg- Dennis J. Herrera, the San Francisco city attorney, at City Hall
for every unregistered host on its lation and tax collection. The com- the approval of the San Francisco ulating their hosts.” on Monday. Airbnb will provide data on its hosts to the city.

TV Station Owners Appear Eager to Seize on Relaxed F.C.C. Rules Citing Bias,
From First Business Page
sion stations, according to people
briefed on the plans who were not
said, while still holding on to a
piece — and while stymieing a ri-
are both up sharply this year.
Underpinning broadcasters’
allows station owners to exclude
certain stations that operate in ul-
Contributor
val. trahigh frequencies. With the
To Fox News
to form a joint venture with the authorized to speak publicly dreams of expansion is the hope
Blackstone Group, an investment about the matter. Details of the potential joint that Ajit Pai, the F.C.C.’s new reinstated discount, according to
giant, in which Blackstone would If successful, Fox would then re- venture were unclear, as were the chairman and a Republican, will calculations by Fitch Ratings, Sin-

Files Lawsuit
provide the cash for a deal while duce its direct exposure to local precise reasons that Fox was let through the kinds of deal clair’s household coverage per-
Fox would provide its own televi- television stations, Mr. Greenfield turning to Blackstone. Tribune is a making that had been held up dur- centage has fallen to about 25 per-
relatively small company, with a ing the Obama administration. cent, from 38 percent, while Nexs-
market value of about $3.4 billion. “Companies are talking about tar’s has dropped to 27 percent, By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH
But for companies like Fox and from 39 percent, opening the door
deals now because they have rea- Fox News faced a fresh legal
Sinclair, consolidation is also a de- to new mergers and acquisitions.
“This represents a rational first challenge on Monday after Diana
fensive move, shoring them up at Falzone, a reporter at the net-
a time when online rivals like Net- step in media ownership reform
policy allowing free and local work, accused it of discriminating
flix and Hulu are commanding
more viewers. Content providers
Consolidation could broadcasters to remain competi- against her on the basis of her
gender and her fight against a
like CBS and the Walt Disney help companies drive tive with multinational pay TV gi-
ants and broadband providers,” chronic disease.
Company are also pushing for big-
ger fees from broadcasters. harder bargains. Gordon Smith, the president of the Ms. Falzone, who appeared reg-
ularly on Fox News and helped
And local television advertising National Association of
Broadcasters, said in a statement. host several shows on the net-
sales, excluding political ads and work‘s website, claimed in a suit
the Olympics, were roughly flat The F.C.C.’s rule change fol-
son to believe the F.C.C. will relax lowed pressure from industry filed Monday in the New York
last year, according to the re- State Supreme Court in Manhat-
search from Magna Global, with all the ownership rules,” said Paul groups. One week before the vote,
Gallant, an analyst at Cowen and Mitch Rose, NBC Universal’s sen- tan that she had been barred from
expectations that 2017 will be even further appearances after writing
Company. ior vice president for government
tougher. an op-ed column for Fox News dis-
The first tangible step came relations, visited the office of the
Getting bigger through station closing that she had endometri-
with a 2-to-1 vote by the F.C.C. last other Republican commissioner
acquisitions, then, is meant to osis and was likely to be infertile.
week to reintroduce the so-called on the F.C.C., Michael O’Reilly,
help these companies drive hard- urging him to reinstate the UHF The suit
er bargains. And smaller opera- UHF discount. claims that Ms.
discount.
tors have emerged as potential Longstanding rules prohibit Falzone had ap-
And in February, Tribune Me-
takeover targets: The stock prices companies from covering more proval from her
dia’s general counsel, Edward
of two other broadcast companies, than 39 percent of American Lazarus, met with Mr. Pai’s chief supervisors to
E. W. Scripps and Gray Television, households, but the UHF discount of staff, Matthew Berry, and lob- write the
bied for the change in rules. column, which
Mr. Pai has long been critical of ran with the
strict broadcast ownership rules. headline
He has said that online media “Women
companies such as Google, Face- Should Never
book and Netflix are competing
Diana Falzone Suffer in Si-
for audiences that were once in 2016. lence.”
served only by television. He has According to
also been skeptical of rules the lawsuit, her supervisor, Refet
against broadcast ownership Kaplan, told her shortly after the
limits, given that the agency has piece ran that executives at the
approved mergers in competing network had barred her from ap-
industries, including Charter’s pearing on the air on Fox News or
purchase of Time Warner Cable its website, the suit says, adding
and AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV. that Ms. Falzone was not given a
At the annual National Associa- reason for the decision. The filing
tion of Broadcasters convention in did not elaborate on why she be-
Las Vegas last week, Mr. Pai an- lieved the column led to her being
nounced his intention to re-exam- barred other than noting that it
ine other media ownership rules. happened three days after the ar-
Broadcasters hope that one limit ticle was published and that she
that may be removed is a prohibi- previously had received positive
tion on owning more than two sta- performance evaluations.
tions in a local market. “The issues raised in Diana Fal-
Consumer groups and zone’s lawsuit are a concern for all
Democrats in Congress and at the women,” Nancy Erika Smith, a
F.C.C. warn that the changes will lawyer for Ms. Falzone, said in a
lead to great industry consolida- statement. “Fox News never
tion, giving a few companies great banned her male counterparts
influence over news and public who have discussed their person-
opinion. al health issues on air. Indeed,
The action “will actually harm those men saw their careers ad-
the public interest, by reducing di- vance.”
versity, competition and local- Ms. Falzone’s claim is the latest
ism,” Mignon Clyburn, the sole of many the network has faced
Democrat at the F.C.C., said after since its former chief, Roger Ailes,
the UHF discount vote. was forced out last summer after
In a letter to Mr. Pai last month, being accused by at least six wom-
Democratic House members ar- en of inappropriate behavior. Last
gued against both the UHF dis- month, Bill O’Reilly, the network’s
count and a union of Sinclair and most popular host, was pushed
Tribune. Such a merger, they con- out after The New York Times re-
tended, could lead to higher cable vealed that five women had been
fees because Sinclair charges ca- paid about $13 million to settle har-
ble companies more than Tribune assment claims. Mr. Ailes and Mr.
does to retransmit its broadcasts. O’Reilly both deny the allegations
“These were mergers that against them.
could never have been contem- Last week, 11 current and for-
plated a year ago,” Mr. Greenfield, mer employees filed a class-action
of BTIG, said of the deals that lawsuit against the network ac-
might blossom under the new cusing it of racial discrimination.
F.C.C. “You’re enabling the impos- A spokeswoman for the net-
sible in many ways, so people are work did not immediately reply to
saying, ‘Let’s take a shot at this.’” a request for comment.
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TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Andreas Vlachos is one of a growing number of researchers looking for ways to use artificial intelligence to combat fake news and improve the political debate.

As Europe Heads to the Polls, Tech Tackles Fake News

Computer experts are using sophisticated algorithms and online data to spot misinformation.
By MARK SCOTT and start-ups are using so- social media, are less prevalent in accounts in France that had “We’re trying something new,” of the time, Mr. Pomerleau said.
LONDON — In the battle phisticated algorithms and reams Europe. shared fake news, a small fraction Mr. Dieudonné said. “There’s no He hopes that figure will rise to
against fake news, Andreas Vla- of online data to quickly — and au- So far, outright fake news of the approximately 33 million easy answer for this complicated the mid-90s before his challenge
chos — a Greek computer scien- tomatically — spot fake news fast- stories have been relatively rare. Facebook users in the country. issue.” ends in June.
tist living in a northern English er than traditional fact-checking Instead, false reports have more Not everyone, though, has em- Not all potential solutions, “This is just Round 1 of what we
town — is on the front lines. groups can. often come from Europeans on so- braced Facebook’s response. though, are being driven by Sili- want to do,” said Mr. Pomerleau,
Armed with a decade of ma- The goal, experts say, is to ex- cial media taking real news out of Most German publishers, for in- con Valley’s big beasts. who expects the teams to share
chine learning expertise, he is pand these digital tools across Eu- context, as well as from fake stance, have so far balked at par- David Chavalarias, a French ac- their work with fact-checking
part of a British start-up that will rope, so the region can counter the claims spread by state-backed ticipating in the company’s fact- ademic, has created a digital tool groups worldwide. “Next, we
soon release an automated fact- fake news that caused so much groups like Sputnik, the Russian checking efforts, saying it is the that has analyzed more than 80 want to move toward multimedia
checking tool ahead of the coun- confusion and anger during the news organization. responsibility of the social net- million Twitter messages about content like videos.”
try’s election in early June. He United States presidential elec- But with fake news already work, not them, to debunk such the French election, helping jour- In the rush to find solutions to
also is advising a global competi- tion in November, when outright swirling around Europe’s forth- claims. German lawmakers are nalists and fact-checkers to fake news, some within the indus-
tion that pits computer wizards false reports routinely spread like coming elections, analysts also mulling potential hefty fines quickly review claims that are try are taking a decidedly more
from the United States to China wildfire on Facebook and Twitter. worry that technology on its own against tech companies if they do spread on the social network. low-tech approach.
against one another to use artifi- “Algorithms will have to do a lot may not be enough to combat the not clamp down on fake news and After the presidential election Jimmy Wales, the founder of
cial intelligence to combat fake of the heavy lifting when it comes threat. online hate speech. in the United States last year, Wikipedia, recently started a
news. to fighting misinformation,” said “There’s an increased amount Since last year, Google also has Dean Pomerleau, a computer sci- crowdfunding campaign to create
“I’m trying to channel my re- Claire Wardle, head of strategy of misinformation out there,” said funded almost 20 European entist at Carnegie Mellon Univer- a news organization that would
search into something that is use- and research at First Draft News, Janis Sarts, director of the NATO projects aimed at fact-checking sity in Pittsburgh, also challenged combine professional journalists
ful for everyone who’s reading the a nonprofit organization that has Strategic Communications Center potentially false reports. That in- his followers on Twitter to come with digital volunteers, who
news,” said Mr. Vlachos, who is teamed up with tech companies of Excellence, a think tank in Riga, cludes its support for two British up with an algorithm that could would contribute to reports in a
also an academic at the University and newsrooms to debunk fake re- Latvia, that will hold a hackathon groups looking to use artificial in- distinguish fake claims from real way similar to how articles are
of Sheffield. “It’s a positive way of ports about elections in the United with local coders in May to find po- telligence to automatically fact- news. created on Wikipedia.
moving artificial intelligence for- States and Europe. “It’s impossi- tential tech solutions to this trend. check online claims ahead of the Working with Delip Rao, a for- Part fact-checking site, part tra-
ward while improving the political ble to do all of this by hand.” “State-based actors have been country’s June 8 parliamentary mer Google researcher, he offered ditional newsroom, the project —
debate.” Researchers have tried to learn trying to amplify specific views to election. a $2,000 prize to anyone who called Wikitribune — was inspired
As Europe readies for several from the United States’ run-in bring them into the mainstream.” It similarly has teamed up with could meet his requirements. By by the effect of misinformation on
elections this year after President with fake news, but the problem in Calls for combating fake news French newsrooms to create early this year, more than 100 the United States presidential
Trump’s victory in the United Europe has mutated, experts say, have focused on some of the big- digital tools, including ways to teams from around the world had election. Mr. Wales said his project
States, Mr. Vlachos, 36, is one of a making it impossible to merely gest online players, including track trending topics during that signed on to Mr. Pomerleau’s Fake would choose subject areas based
growing number of technology ex- replicate American responses to American giants like Facebook country’s election. News Challenge. on the interests of the community
perts worldwide who are harness- the issue. and Google. David Dieudonné, head of the Using a database of verified ar- of volunteers and paying sub-
ing their skills to tackle misinfor- European countries have differ- After criticism of its role in company’s news lab in France, ticles and their artificial intelli- scribers to the service, relying
mation online. ent languages, and their media spreading false reports during the said the project had debunked 43 gence expertise, rival groups — a more on traditional reporting
The French electorate heads to markets are smaller than those in United States elections, Facebook reports since February (arguably combination of college teams, in- techniques than high-tech wizard-
the polls in the second round of the United States. That means introduced a fact-checking tool a relatively small figure), includ- dependent programmers and ry.
presidential elections on May 7, groups that set up fake news sites ahead of the Dutch elections in ing claims that Saudi Arabia was groups from existing tech compa- “The real impetus for this was
followed by votes in Britain and in the United States, seeking to March and the first round of the funding the campaign of Emman- nies — already have been able to fake news,” he said. “We want peo-
Germany in the coming months. profit from online advertising French presidential election on uel Macron, the leading candi- accurately predict the veracity of ple to get behind topics, and then
Computer scientists, tech giants when false claims were shared on April 23. It also removed 30,000 date. certain claims almost 90 percent we’ll hire staff to cover them.”

ABC’s ‘Live’ Ends Search, Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest

on “Live” in November. It has
been a year since Ms. Ripa
Naming Seacrest Co-Host had a full-time co-host.

network with reality shows like

By BROOKS BARNES when people try to pit us against “Keeping Up With the Kardashi-
and JOHN KOBLIN other shows,” Ms. Ripa said, ans.” Among his other commit-
Ryan Seacrest, the master Hol- brushing aside a question about ments: hosting “Dick Clark’s New
lywood multitasker, was named increased competition. “We don’t Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan
Kelly Ripa’s “Live” co-host on compare ourselves to anybody be- Seacrest” for ABC, maintaining
Monday, giving him a high-profile cause we are the only ones who do endorsement deals with Coca-
platform and bringing stability to what we do.” Cola and Ford, and various philan-
an important ABC morning show Mr. Seacrest joins Ms. Ripa one thropic and nonprofit pursuits.
as it prepares for new competi- year after her previous “Live” co- “The puzzle of it all is what took
tion. host, Michael Strahan, abruptly a long time to figure out,” Mr.
“It’s making sure the show is in left for a job at “Good Morning Seacrest said of the negotiations
the right hands — one day, America” on ABC. It was a badly with ABC. “I love to do a lot, but I
bungled transition: Ms. Ripa felt
eventually, I’m sure of it, I will re- am very conscious of making sure
blindsided by Mr. Strahan’s nego-
tire,” Ms. Ripa, 46, who has been a that no commitment is less favor-
tiations with ABC, which were
“Live” host since 2001, said by ite than another. They all deserve
kept secret until the last minute,
phone. “And Ryan Seacrest, who full focus, full attention, full ener-
and she saw ABC as slighting her
is a seamless broadcaster and a gy.”
show in favor of another. She did
kind human being, is the one who In many ways, Mr. Seacrest and
not come to work for three days
can take this show into the future.” Ms. Ripa are mirror images. They
while ABC did damage control.
Mr. Seacrest, 42, speaking on a (“Live” is produced and distribut- have a peppy polish, teacup
separate call, heaped similar ed by Disney-ABC syndication.) physiques and an ability — harder
praise on Ms. Ripa. “She is so But Ms. Ripa, who recently DAVID M. RUSSELL/ABC
than it looks — to engage celebri-
smooth and seamless and won- signed a multiyear contract, said ties in entertaining conversation.
derfully clever and quick — she’s she had moved on from that Lee Gifford held the coffee mugs. Seacrest’s personal businesses, It will continue in its present form. They first got to know each other
part of people’s lives, in their liv- drama. “Whatever brought us to Little about the bouncy show will which include a clothing line, But he will now work from a New more than a decade ago at Walt
ing rooms — and I want to come in here was worth it 1,000 times change with Mr. Seacrest’s arriv- Ryan Seacrest Distinction, and a York recording studio instead of a Disney World in Florida, where
as a friend of hers and as a friend over,” she said. “This is a great, al, at least at first. “Live,” after all, coming skin care line. (The show California one, at least for most of they hosted a Christmas parade
to the audience,” he said. great moment.” still wins its time period, attract- also brings him another rich pay- the year, and some segments dur- telecast.
The honeymoon period may be At the start of Monday’s show, ing an average of 3.2 million view- day. Terms of his multiyear con- ing the radio program’s first hour Who would land the “Live”
short. Starting in the fall, NBC will Ms. Ripa and Mr. Seacrest walked ers, according to Nielsen. tract were not disclosed, but it is — since it will overlap with “Live” hosting job had been a topic of hot
make a renewed push for ratings on stage holding hands. “We welcome Ryan’s energy, easily worth millions of dollars an- — will be taped. speculation for the celebrity news
supremacy in the 9 a.m. Eastern “Nice to see you, partner,” he enthusiasm and entrepreneurial nually.) “Very few people have both the media over the last year. Ander-
time slot that Ms. Ripa and her said. spirit and look forward to all the For ABC, which has pursued appeal and the work ethic to ac- son Cooper? Mario Lopez? For
various wingmen have long domi- “Hi, partner,” she responded, possibilities that the future holds,” Mr. Seacrest for years, landing complish this,” Robert W. Pittman, Ms. Ripa, who had approval over
nated. giving him a noisy kiss on the Ben Sherwood, president of the him required a herculean behind- chief executive of iHeartMedia, who would sit beside her on
Setting up what promises to be cheek. Disney-ABC Television Group, the-scenes effort to rearrange his said in a statement. “I’m pleased “Live,” Mr. Seacrest got the job the
one of the most intriguing battles Then they discussed her week- said in a statement. Rubik’s Cube of a schedule. to see him return to another regu- day in November when he ap-
in television, an NBC spokeswom- end flu and his mother’s texting “Live With Kelly and Ryan,” as Robert A. Iger, the chief executive lar TV platform.” peared on the show as her guest
an said Monday that Megyn vocabulary, and he read from a list the syndicated series will now be of the Walt Disney Company, Mr. Seacrest’s “American Top co-host and did an awkward cook-
Kelly’s new daytime talk show of first-day dos and don’ts. “I’m a called, represents an important which owns ABC, was even in- 40,” a nationally syndicated week- ing segment with his mother, Con-
would go up against Ms. Ripa and little bit nervous,” he said. career moment for Mr. Seacrest. volved, Mr. Seacrest said. end radio show, will continue. So nie. (They made oyster casse-
Mr. Seacrest. Cue the Kelly-ver- “Live,” with its celebrity chit- The program returns him to regu- Consider, for instance, Mr. will his hosting duties for iHeart role.)
sus-Kelly tabloid headlines. chat, home viewer trivia segment lar broadcast television a year af- Seacrest’s Los Angeles radio events and his affiliation with “It’s like he didn’t even know
Ms. Kelly joined NBC in Janu- and occasional burst of confetti, ter the end of “American Idol,” show, “On Air With Ryan NBCUniversal’s E channel. Mr. what a kitchen is,” Ms. Ripa said.
ary after a successful ratings run has been a brightly lit national which he hosted on Fox for 15 sea- Seacrest,” which iHeartRadio Seacrest hosts red-carpet specials “And I thought: ‘Did we finally
at Fox News. television institution since 1988, sons. A successful run on “Live” broadcasts on weekday mornings for E, and his Los Angeles-based find a flaw in this person? Innnter-
“It’s always interesting to me when Regis Philbin and Kathie could give a boost to Mr. from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Pacific time. production company supplies the esting.’”
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

ITINERARIES

Security Line Blues? Maybe Some Cool Jazz Will Help

By AMY ZIPKIN
The last thing Joel Malizia, a co-
founder of the video production com-
pany Pilot Moon Films, expected when
he arrived at the airport in Austin, Tex.,
for the recent South by Southwest festi-
val was the sound of live music.
What he heard was the ensemble of
Wendy Colonna, who describes her mu-
sical style as Americana. “It was so ethe-
real,” he said.
Austin-Bergstrom International Air-
port is among over a half-dozen airports
in the United States that offer travelers
frazzled by bottlenecks on security lines
and cramped seating on planes (not to
mention pressured airport employees) a
bit of a respite in the form of music.
Ms. Colonna said that her group
played at the airport about four times a
year as part of the airport’s Music in the
Air program. “We don’t have to go on the
road to make new fans,” she said. “At the
airport, the road comes to us.”
For much of the year, several musical
groups perform weekly, but during South
by Southwest in March, that number
swelled to more than 20, said Michael
Pennock, the music coordinator for the
city’s aviation department.
The city aviation department; Dela-
ware North Companies, a food service
and hospitality company based in Buf-
falo; and Pepsi underwrite the program.
The musicians are paid $120 for two 50-
minute sets on four smaller stages or
$100 per musician for up to five musi-
cians on a main stage on the secure side
of the airport.
For a similar program at Nashville In-
ternational Airport, Music in the Termi-
nal, 80 to 100 bands perform each year on
four stages. Last year, Pittsburgh Inter-
national Airport began hosting two
performances a month in the baggage PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD SPOTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
claim area. Houston Airport System cre-
ated a performance series, Harmony in The Apollo Chamber Players at the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, one of about a half-dozen airports that offer frazzled travelers a
the Air, with rotating soloists, including respite through music. Matthew J. Detrick, a violinist, said that the gig “teaches us to break down barriers between audience and performer.”
classical music and jazz, at William P.
Hobby Airport beginning in 2015 and
George Bush Intercontinental Airport in
2016. San Diego Airport recently institut-
ed a paid performing arts residency. This
year’s winner, TranscenDance, began
performances there last month.
The idea is not a new one: After the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Portland Inter-
national Airport in Oregon began host-
ing musical performances by volunteer
musicians and now has 65 performances
a week.
The airports’ arrangements with mu-
sicians vary. Most pay the performers,
although rates may depend on experi-
ence, the size of the group and even the
difficulty of the genre. Funding comes
from a combination of sources. An air-
port authority may join forces with a cor-
porate partner or a state or municipal
arts commission. Houston Airport Sys-
tem has an enterprise fund for opera-
tions, maintenance and capital improve-
ments.
While passengers say they appreciate A report released in March by the Air- pany who lives in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., helped improve the group’s perfor- three hours ahead for international
the unexpected interludes, and musi- ports Council International-North Amer- agree. Ms. Seymour said that hearing a mances. “It teaches us to break down flights. Concerts are scheduled to lead up
cians’ earnings and fan bases may re- ica, a group in Washington representing blues guitarist when she arrived at the barriers between audience and per- to afternoon departures.
ceive a lift from the programs, airports’ airport owners and aviation-related Nashville International Airport recently former,” he said. For all its entertainment value, music
decisions to offer performing arts are businesses, said that airports estimated “set the mood for the trip.” Maricela Kruseman, the performing can only go so far in easing passengers’
they would need almost $100 billion for And a performance may reach listen- arts program manager for the Houston stress. Barbara E. Lichman, a lawyer
largely for their own benefit, said Steven
capital projects over the next five years. ers beyond its in-person audience. Shar- Airport System who books talent, said specializing in aviation at Buchalter, a
A. Carvell, a professor at the Cornell Uni-
Right now, they can fund only about half jeel Ahsan, a certified public accountant that the audition process was competi- law firm in Irvine, Calif., said that the air-
versity School of Hotel Administration.
that on their own. in Houston who said he traveled about tive. Musicians are expected to have a lines and the Transportation Security
“Arts are one of the few things an air- “Music provides a better passenger six times a year for business, was walk- college degree in music, five years of ex- Administration needed to closely exam-
port authority can do to control the experience and encourages people to ar- ing through Hobby Airport in February perience, two professional and two per- ine their contributions to travelers’ anxi-
traveler experience,” he said. “They take rive earlier,” said Darren Perry, a manag- when he heard strains of classical music. sonal references, and must be perform- ety. She pointed to cramped and over-
the traveler out of the space they are in, ing director in the aviation and travel Before getting something to eat and ing in Houston. (Currently 10 groups per- crowded airplanes and what she consid-
so they are not attending to their anxi- practice at L.E.K. Consulting. “The earli- continuing to his gate, he stopped for form at two Houston airports.) Other air- ered illogical parameters for T.S.A.
ety.” er they arrive, the more money they about 15 minutes to hear the Apollo ports have their own criteria; a common searches.
A potential for increased profits may spend. The money could be used for any Chamber Players. He recorded the seg- requirement is for musicians to reside “Fix the problems in the industry and
also factor into that decision. In airports number of things, from improving the fa- ment on his phone and still listens to it. and have performing experience in a don’t coat them over with icing like mu-
where entertainment is offered in areas cilities to making the facilities more com- Later, he said, he told his colleagues specific city. sic,” she said.
past security lines, the music gives pas- fortable.” about his encounter. Ms. Kruseman said that she had re- Still, Ms. Kruseman said, the comment
sengers a reason to linger near shops Some passengers, like Donna Sey- Matthew J. Detrick, a violinist and ar- cently moved some of the performances cards she receives are positive. One
and food and beverage concessions, and mour, an assistant vice president and ac- tistic director for the Apollo Chamber at Bush Intercontinental to Terminal D, called a performance “a soothing touch
to make purchases. count executive at a title insurance com- Players, said that the airport gig had where passengers are expected to arrive of hospitality to my trip.”

Fyre Festival Organizers Diplo at Coachella in 2013.

His group Major Lazer was
billed as part of the Fyre Festi-
Face Wrath of Attendees val, which was canceled.

The festival has told attendees

By BEN SISARIO mian government sought to re- they can have their tickets re-
and JOE COSCARELLI assure travelers of the safety of funded or receive a V.I.P. ticket to
On Friday, the music industry the islands. Fyre Festival 2018, “which will
woke up to the news that the Fyre The lawsuit, which seeks $100 take place at a U.S. beach venue.”
Festival, promoted as a pair of lux- million and class-action status, Yet talent managers and others
urious concert weekends in the was filed by Mark J. Geragos, a ce- expressed doubt that anyone in
Bahamas, had been abruptly can- lebrity lawyer who has repre- the music industry would work
celed, with attendees taking to so- sented Chris Brown and Kesha, on with the Fyre team again.
cial media to post images of behalf of Daniel Jung, a Los Ange- An email sent over the weekend
shoddy beach accommodations les man who, according to the suit,
to ticket holders included a link to
and far-from-gourmet meals. paid $2,000 for a ticket and airfare
an online form for requesting re-
And then, for the festival to the festival.
funds. Organizers asked cus-
organizers, the legal and financial The event, announced in De-
tomers not to request refunds on
reckoning began. cember through a wave of Insta-
payments they had already dis-
Over the weekend, one disap- gram posts by celebrities and
puted through their credit card
supermodels, was advertised as
pointed ticket buyer filed a law- companies, a move some made al-
including popular acts like
suit alleging fraud, and the Baha- most as soon as they arrived.
Blink-182, Major Lazer, Migos and
Rae Sremmurd. The rapper Ja Shivi Kumar, 33, who split a
Rule and his business partner, the $3,500 deluxe lodge package with
25-year-old technology entrepre-
CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES six friends, asked her bank to re-
neur Billy McFarland, were be- fund the money she had uploaded
denfreude.) ers had not been paid advances, ing infrastructure. And one more to a digital wristband, which
hind the festival, and attendees In an email, Mr. Geragos said but talent agents representing thing: “Despite reports, the wa-
were promised music, catered organizers had recommended
that “we have been inundated acts on the bill said the fees were ters surrounding Great Exuma
meals and V.I.P. accommodations that guests use instead of cash.
with people distraught over what eventually paid. are not shark-infested,” she said.
in a beach paradise. “When I called Bank of Amer-
happened” who wanted to join the Blink-182 withdrew on Thurs- Festival organizers have cited
But once the first fans arrived ica, they said, ‘We already know
Other Areas 795 suit, filed Sunday in federal court day afternoon, telling its fans, rough weather as one cause of
on flights from Miami on Thurs- in California. “We’re not confident that we complications at the event site but about everything’” regarding the
Pennsylvania day, it was clear that the festival Organizers issued a statement would have what we need to give also admitted in a statement, “We festival, Ms. Kumar said. “They
PENNSYLVANIA was not what it was promised to saying, “The Fyre Festival is a you the quality of performances were simply in over our heads.” didn’t even do a temporary credit;
PHILLY DEVELOPMENT DEALS.
OFF-MARKET TROPHY SITES. be. According to Mr. Jung’s suit, dream and a vision that we regret- we always give.” Yet even that In a presentation put together they just refunded it.”
[email protected]
the scene “was closer to ‘The tably did not see come to life how evening, agents for other acts to entice investors, which was ob- The organizers’ email also
Hunger Games’ or ‘Lord of the we imagined in 2017, but our main were given no indications from tained by Vanity Fair, the festival promised that Mr. McFarland
BUSINESS Flies’ than Coachella.” (The pro- priority now is rectifying the situ- organizers of trouble ahead. organizers claimed they had been would make a personal apology
OPPORTUNITIES testations of the event’s wealthy ation and helping all affected In a lengthy statement, the di- given access to land worth $8.4 by phone and asked ticket holders
(3400) young clientele, however, also guests.” rector general of the Bahamas million in exchange for putting on for the best number to use to con-
Capital to Invest 3404 drew plenty of social media scha- It is still not clear just how, or Ministry of Tourism, Joy Jibrilu, the festival and advertising the is- tact them.
FINANCE AVAILABLE when, the event fell apart. Last defended Great Exuma, where the land. The Ministry of Tourism did “We are now one of the world’s
for real estate business.
Please email your info at
Melena Ryzik contributed report- month, The Wall Street Journal re- festival was to be held, as a devel- not respond to a message seeking most famous festivals,” the note
[email protected] ing. ported that some of the perform- oped island with a fully function- comment. said, “for all the wrong reasons.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 0N B5

Atlanta Firm
Lures Veteran
Deal Maker
Back to Law
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
Over his career, James C. Wool-
ery has ventured from the law to
investment banking and hedge
funds.
Now he is preparing to return to
life as a lawyer once more, at his
third law firm in six years.
Mr. Woolery announced on
Monday that he was joining King
& Spalding, a firm that aims to join
the top rungs of the legal industry.
There, he will serve as the head of
the firm’s mergers and corporate
governance practices, overseeing
both takeovers and defenses
against activist investors who
want to shake up companies.
“Given his background and ré-
sumé, his deal list and his experi-
ence, it’s a significant hire for the
firm,” Robert D. Hays, King &
Spalding’s chairman, said in a
telephone interview.
Mr. Woolery said he wanted to
help companies be more proactive
in warding off activist investors.
He will also help guide King &
Spalding’s network of lead board
directors, who take leadership
roles on boards, on discussions of
corporate governance practices.
“What we want to do is try to in-
novate around the whole spec-
JOHN TAGGART/BLOOMBERG
trum of corporate governance, in-
cluding activism and shareholder
Donald J. Trump with John A. Paulson at the Economic Club of New York last September. Mr. Paulson was an early Wall Street supporter of Mr Trump. relations,” Mr. Woolery said.
“We’re going to bring not only a le-
gal but also an economic analysis

Star Trader’s Fund Manages $26 Billion Less Than It Did in 2011 to the effort, as well as get beyond
the traditional confrontational ap-
proaches.”
“While we are disappointed in gan to show signs of overheating, posted positive returns, but the companies, a development that Mr. Woolery first rose through
From First Business Page performance in 2016, we believe Mr. Paulson had a hunch that overall picture has not been could make Mr. Paulson’s funds the deal industry at the white-
have performed better in April, we have a path to a recovery,” Mr. home loans to borrowers with pretty. big profits. Mr. Paulson and Mr. shoe law firm Cravath, Swaine &
said a person with knowledge of Paulson told investors in one let- spotty credit histories — which But Mr. Paulson soldiered on Mnuchin, a former hedge fund Moore, where he made partner
the firm who spoke on the condi- ter. were ballooning at the time — and even began to raise money in manager, once worked together to and worked on big deals involving
tion of anonymity. But it has not been smooth sail- were about to go sour. He po- 2015 for a private equity fund and pull OneWest Bank out of the the likes of Universal Health
Despite his mounting losses, ing. In another letter to investors sitioned his firm to benefit in the one focused on health care stocks. wreckage of IndyMac, a lender Services and Air Products.
there is little indication that Mr. of a merger arbitrage fund that de- event of a huge failure of the sub- Health care bets, in particular that the federal government In 2011, he followed in the foot-
Paulson, who donated $400 mil- clined by 49 percent last year, Mr. prime mortgage market. those on pharmaceutical compa- seized in 2008.
lion to Harvard University’s Paulson called 2016 “the most It was a bet that few were will- nies, have proved especially pun- Several new funds the firm has
school of engineering in 2015, is challenging year since inception.” ing to take, but one that resulted in ishing for Mr. Paulson and his started are posting positive re-
throwing his hands up and walk-
ing away.
In May, Mr. Paulson will address
a major payday for him and his
firm, and was later referred to as
investors. Losing wagers on eco-
nomic recoveries in Greece and
turns, too.
“We remain confident in the
Offering advice on
his investors at a meeting at Clar-
“It is clear that Paulson has dug idge’s Hotel in London.
“The Greatest Trade Ever,” in a Puerto Rico haven’t helped. long-term relationship we have how to repel activist
in with both heels and committed book by the reporter Gregory The Valeant trade resulted in a with Paulson,” said Christopher
to steering the firm through this
Mr. Paulson’s fall from stock-
trading stardom underscores a
Zuckerman. nearly $2 billion loss for the firm Zook of CAZ Investments, a Texas investors who want to
After the financial crisis, — bad, but not as disastrous as it wealth management firm that re-
period,” said David Black, founder
of Quadra Advisors, a recruiting common disclaimer in industry investors flocked to Mr. Paulson’s was for another famed investor, cently rotated out of the poorly shake up companies.
firm for hedge funds and other in- firm, which is in Midtown Manhat- William A. Ackman, whose firm performing Paulson Special Situa-
vestment firms. tan, a stone’s throw from Rocke- Pershing Square Capital Manage- tions fund into a newer Paulson
Nonetheless, his assets under feller Center. ment lost $4 billion on Valeant. fund.
management continue shrinking. Playing a hunch that For several years, Paulson & Some of Mr. Paulson’s top talent And Mr. Paulson and other
steps of several former Cravath
partners and jumped over to in-
Company continued to make have moved on. Putnam Coes, his hedge fund managers stand to be
Paulson & Company manages just
under $10 billion today, down from
the subprime money for some of his investors, former chief operating officer, left big beneficiaries of Mr. Trump’s
vestment banking, joining JPMor-
gan Chase as co-head of the bank’s
$36 billion in 2011. Nearly two
years ago, some Wall Street banks
mortgage market was but the performance increasingly
grew bumpy. This was particu-
the firm in September. Soon after,
John Reade, a senior vice presi-
plans to slash taxes.
Yet 2017 is shaping up as an-
North American mergers prac-
tice.
began to recommend that poised to collapse. larly true for the firm’s flagship dent who was based in London, other rough one for Mr. Paulson.
Two years later, he returned to
investors redeem some of their Advantage fund. It lost 36 percent left. The Advantage fund was down 9.7
money from the firm. in 2011 and plunged another 14 per- Despite his losses, Mr. Paulson percent as of the end of March and the law, heading to the two-cen-
And while Mr. Paulson is not the cent in 2012, but rallied to post a 26 is still making new and specula- the Partners Enhanced fund tury-old Cadwalader, Wicker-
only hedge fund manager to see parlance: Past performance is no percent gain in 2013, according to tive investments. In November, continues to sink — falling just sham & Taft as deputy chairman
large investors pull their money in guarantee of future returns. an HSBC industry report and peo- Paulson made an investment in over 8 percent after last year’s 49 and anointed successor to the
recent years, he has become a In early 2007, Mr. Paulson, who ple with knowledge of the firm’s Didi Chuxing, a fast-growing Chi- percent plunge. firm’s chairman.
symbol of what some pension started his firm in 1994, was still a performance. The losses were am- nese ride-hailing firm that signed Even after several years of los- Yet Mr. Woolery zagged again
funds have taken issue with for relatively unknown hedge fund plified in Advantage Plus, a ver- a deal to acquire Uber Technolo- ing money for his investors, Mr. in 2015, when he and a former JP-
the industry at large: big fees for manager. A former Bear Stearns sion of the fund that uses leverage gies’ operations in China. Paulson remains one of the richest Morgan colleague founded Hud-
little reward and little originality. investment banker, he had a repu- to enhance returns. One bright spot could be a bet men in the world — with a net son Executive Capital, an activist
Mr. Paulson has remained up- tation for running a solid if boring Over the last three years, Ad- on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. worth of about $7.9 billion, accord- hedge fund with a twist: It would
beat with investors, according to hedge fund that made bets on the vantage has consecutively re- Steven T. Mnuchin, the Treas- ing to Forbes. never wage a hostile fight against
two people who have seen recent outcomes of various mergers and corded double-digit losses. Some ury secretary, has pledged to re- But, as the financial magazine a company, instead preferring to
investor letters but spoke on the acquisitions. of Mr. Paulson’s merger funds, turn the mortgage finance giants recently noted, he is now $2 billion press for change on friendly
condition of anonymity. But as the housing market be- credit funds and gold funds have to free-standing publicly traded poorer. terms. Mr. Woolery resigned from
Hudson Executive last autumn.
As Mr. Woolery weighed his op-

A Shake-Up at AllianceBernstein Amid Money Managers’ Struggles tions, King & Spalding began to
reach out. He knew of the firm, as
well as some of its partners. One,
the company’s finances, that forcing many to act sooner rather William Calvin Smith III, was in
From First Business Page drove the board to act as it did. than later. his undergraduate class at Wake
“There were no concerns about The industry leaders, Vanguard Forest University. For King &
dent of the World Bank and senior
anything,” Mr. Duverne said. “Its and BlackRock, have attracted Spalding, the chance to bring in a
economic official in Republican
record-setting amounts into their well-known deal maker offered
administrations. just an acceleration of the changes
exchange-traded-fund lineups. the prospect of greater promi-
Mr. Zoellick did have a stint with the new team.”
Asset management experts and nence in one of the most profitable
with Goldman Sachs, but he has On the call, Mr. Duverne took
executives have warned that a legal practices around.
no hands-on experience in the as- pains to say that he was support-
vast reordering of the sector is in- Long known as one of Atlanta’s
set management industry. ive of the direction Mr. Kraus had
evitable. top firms, King & Spalding did not
Seth Bernstein, a longtime JP- taken the firm. But Mr. Duverne
“We are going to see a large con- make the top 20 of American legal
Morgan Chase executive, was also left little doubt that he wanted
solidation in the asset manage- advisers on mergers, ranked ei-
named chief executive.
ment industry,” Laurence D. Fink, ther by dollar volume of an-
According to a regulatory filing,
the chief executive of BlackRock, nounced deals or by number of
Axa has agreed to buy Mr. Kraus’s
transactions, according to data
4.3 million shares of Alliance More investors are said at a mutual fund conference
on Friday. He said managers were from Bloomberg.
stock, a transaction that will net
him about $100 million. opting for cheaper having a hard time finding returns But it has been growing rapidly.
The firm now has 1,000 lawyers in
Wall Street chief executives that beat the market benchmark.
have been fired before, but such exchange-traded That it was Mr. Kraus who took 19 offices around the world, hav-
ing opened outposts from Silicon
an extensive reshuffling — sud-
denly removing nine directors —
funds. the fall for his industry’s troubles
was noteworthy. Valley to Switzerland to Saudi
is unusual. Alliance, or AB, as the More than most of his peers, Mr. Arabia. Its net income has risen 60
firm has recently rebranded itself, Kraus, a former top executive at percent over the last five years,
manages about $500 billion, with a Goldman Sachs who had led Alli- according to Mr. Hays, the chair-
the company to adapt more
focus on managing bond and equi- ance since 2008, had said loudly man. Profits per partner now total
rapidly to the changes rattling the
ty portfolios for large institutions fund management world. and repeatedly that a rush of about $2.5 million, according to
like pension and sovereign wealth money into exchange-traded the publication American Lawyer.
“We are not here to challenge
funds. what has been done in the past,” funds posed a danger to market For Mr. Woolery, who focused
And while there had been out- he said. “We want to adjust the stability. on building out Cravath’s business
flows and some ups and downs in company to the new structure of To counter this trend, Mr. Kraus development during his time
performance, analysts had been the industry.” pushed for concentrated invest- there, joining King & Spalding
saying that Mr. Kraus’s strategy According to Morningstar, 36 ment approaches, in which man- means working to give the firm
COLE WILSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
had been showing some signs of percent of the mutual funds it agers focus on a small group of more of the stature held by merg-
success. Peter Kraus in 2015. He was ousted as AllianceBernstein’s chief companies that they strongly be- ers stalwarts like Cravath; Skad-
tracks now follow passive strat-
The firm had sought regulatory executive on Monday as nine board members were removed. egies — up from 16 percent 10 lieve will perform well. His move den, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
approval for starting a suite of years ago. Morningstar believes to adjust fees to performance was Flom; or Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen
funds in which the investor fee pleton and T. Rowe Price. On a conference call on Monday, that the share of index-driven also a bold move to address in- & Katz.
would rise or fall depending on The shake-up came as a shock analysts who cover the stock chal- strategies will increase to 48 per- vestor concerns regarding high- “When you go to a business
performance. to employees, most of whom left lenged the chairman of Axa, Denis cent by 2021. cost funds. that’s more mature, that has its
And fund returns have been re- work on Friday believing that Mr. Duverne, asking him repeatedly Active managers have been But in a marketplace that had advantages and its disadvan-
spectable of late. According to Kraus was their leader, according why he had decided on such an ex- struggling for years to come up become enamored with lower- tages,” Mr. Woolery said. “A pow-
Credit Suisse, 74 percent of AB to an employee who declined to be treme step given the firm’s im- with a strategy for confronting the cost index options, his strategy erful brand is an important thing.”
funds were ranked four or five identified. proved performance in recent tremendous flow of money to pas- had not yet yielded significant Speaking of his new firm, he
stars by Morningstar, a figure that Over the weekend, though, Axa quarters. sive investment strategies, but gains in money flowing into the said, “In legal circles, they’re
far surpassed those of larger ac- moved quickly to make the One analyst asked if there were the recent pickup in money mov- firm. Axa decided not to wait any making up tremendous ground all
tive managers like Franklin Tem- change. other issues, perhaps related to ing to exchange-traded funds is longer. the time.”
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Wall Street Shudders A two-tiered system

While Trump Muses of regulation is

discussed.
inject as much uncertainty into
From First Business Page the economy as Dodd-Frank did America, which have been forced
as Mr. Trump has pledged his initially, when banks were sort- to reduce the risk they take,
efforts should be viewed — it’s ing out how they would comply.
would ultimately be less regu-
hard to see how breaking up the The process did throw some big
lated.
biggest banks would help, espe- banks’ lending into a state of
There are a lot of good reasons
cially in the short term. Indeed, it paralysis.
to reform Dodd-Frank. And there
would most likely have the oppo- And while proponents of end-
are lots of good ways to make
site effect. ing too-big-to-fail love to point to
the repeal of Glass-Steagall as regulations less onerous to the
Mr. Trump’s chief complaint nation’s smaller banks, which
about Wall Street is that he does- the culprit, by now that meme
should have resolved itself. complain they are drowning in
n’t think lenders are extending legal and compliance bills; giv-
“I don’t think that Glass-Stea-
enough money. “I have so many ing them some relief could in-
gall was a cause of the crisis,”
people, friends of mine, that had deed open the loan spigot even
Ben Bernanke, the former Fed-
nice businesses. They can’t bor- more. But both of those
eral Reserve chairman, who has
row money,” he famously said. measures would be very differ-
no horse in this race, told me
“They just can’t get any money matter-of-factly. ent from bringing back Glass-
because the banks just won’t let Steagall.
Indeed, he said, he would be
them borrow, because of the worried if the law were brought Whether Mr. Trump’s talk
rules and regulations in Dodd- back, because it would hamstring translates into action on this
Frank.” the government if it ever needed front remains to be seen. The
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
Given that commercial lending to intervene in a crisis similar to prevailing view seems to be: “Be
is at a record, according to the what happened in 2008. “If
President Trump and Gary D. Cohn, his economic adviser, at a speech to bankers on Monday. prepared for more headline risk
Federal Reserve, that’s a hard Glass-Steagall had been in effect, for big banks as lawmakers keep
statement to square. we couldn’t have had some of the on a campaign to break up the Bankers of America. One issue were to try to bring back what he piling on the anti-Wall Street
But let’s be generous and failing firms taken over,” Mr. biggest banks, concerned that they discussed was the idea of a described on the campaign trail rhetoric — most of it will be
assume for a moment that he is Bernanke said. “JPMorgan took they still pose too much of a risk two-tiered system of regulations, as Glass-Steagall, it wouldn’t be substantively meaningless,”
right. What is undoubtedly true over Bear Stearns, and so on.” to taxpayers if they were to fail. one for big banks and another for to prevent the next crisis. He according to Ian Katz of Capital
is that big banks would probably On the other hand, Neel Mr. Trump’s comments came community banks. Whether that would have to be convinced that Alpha, whose comments were
be even more conservative with Kashkari, the president of the on the same day that he and his construct is now being inter- bringing back the law would highlighted by Ben White of
their loan books during whatever Minneapolis Federal Reserve team spoke with about 100 com- preted as a new version of Glass- stoke the economy. And that’s an Politico.
transition would be required to and a former Treasury staff munity bankers led by Cam Fine, Steagall or a breakup of the even scarier prospect, because it Of course, with President
comply with a new version of member who oversaw the president and chief executive of banks remains an open question. means firms like Morgan Stanley, Trump, the prevailing view could
Glass-Steagall. Such a law would bailouts of the banks, has been the Independent Community But let’s be clear: If Mr. Trump Goldman Sachs and Bank of change in an instant.

STOCKS & BONDS

Tech Rally Lifts Nasdaq to Record as Threat of U.S. Shutdown Wanes

By The Associated Press
The Dow Minute by Minute nies and banks to rise 19 percent 3-Month Treasury Bills after it replaced Peter Kraus as
The rally in big technology com- from a year earlier, S.&P. Global chairman and chief executive and
panies like Apple helped lift the Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on Market Intelligence said. While High rate at weekly auction. removed most of its directors. Mr.
tech-heavy Nasdaq to another Monday. most banks have released their re- Kraus had led the company since
20,980
record on Monday. Investors were sults, dozens of technology com- 0.9% 2008.
also relieved that the threat of a panies have yet to report. 0.845% The company named Robert B.
government shutdown appeared Apple climbed $2.95, or 2.1 per- 0.8 Zoellick, a former president of the
20,960 cent, to $146.60, and Facebook World Bank, as nonexecutive
to have been averted.
Investors bought stocks and added $2.21, or 1.5 percent, to chairman, and Seth Bernstein, a
$152.46. Microsoft, which dis- 0.7 longtime JPMorgan Chase execu-
sold bonds and gold after Con- 20,940
gress agreed to a deal that would closed its earnings last week, rose tive, as chief executive, and re-
keep the government operating 95 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $69.41. 0.6 moved nine of the 11 members of
Previous close the board. It named six new direc-
for the fiscal year. But the Dow The online retailer Ama-
20,940.51 20,920 zon.com stood out among con- tors. The stock lost 75 cents, or 3.3
Jones industrial average, which 0.5
sumer companies, gaining $23.24, percent, to $22.15.
represents 30 stocks, lost 27.05 Jan. Feb. March April
or 2.5 percent, to $948.23. Benchmark crude futures for
points, or 0.1 percent, to 20,913.46,
20,900 Before dawn on Monday, Con- June fell 49 cents, or 1 percent, to
as Boeing and IBM lagged. Source: The Bond Buyer
gress unveiled a spending bill that $48.84 a barrel in New York. Brent
Technology companies have set 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. would fund most government op- crude, used to set international
the pace all year and are up more Source: Reuters | By The New York Times erations through September. The
THE NEW YORK TIMES
prices, declined 53 cents, or 1 per-
than twice as much as the rest of House is scheduled to vote on the cent, to $51.52 a barrel in London.
the market. Apple and Facebook, dend stocks, including utilities,
bill Wednesday. The price of gold for May fell
which will report first-quarter re- said many types of technology double-digit gains.” phone companies and makers of
Reassured investors sold $12.80, to $1,253.30 an ounce.
sults in the next few days, helped companies were doing well, espe- The Standard & Poor’s 500- household goods.
bonds. The yield on the 10-year The dollar rose to 111.77 yen from
lead the way. cially ones that cater to con- stock index picked up 4.13 points, Treasury note rose to 2.32 percent Industrial companies lagged 111.46 yen. The euro advanced to
The VIX, an index that is seen sumers, as economies outside the or 0.2 percent, to 2,388.33. from 2.29 percent. That sent inter- the rest of the market after the In- $1.0898 from $1.0892.
as a measure of the market’s anxi- United States improved. The Nasdaq composite index est rates higher, which allows stitute for Supply Management Many markets in Asia and Eu-
ety level, fell to 10.11, its lowest lev- “Emerging market economies rose 44 points, or 0.7 percent, to banks to charge higher interest reported that output by American rope were closed for May Day. The
el since February 2007. are starting to get better momen- 6,091.60, a record. The Russell rates on loans. Capital One Finan- factories did not grow as much as benchmark Nikkei 225 in Japan
Technology companies and tum, and we’re also starting to see 2000 index of small-company cial advanced $1.19, or 1.5 percent, analysts had expected. The insti- was an exception, and it gained
banks have stood out in the first some pretty decent activity out of stocks gained 6.93 points, or 0.5 at $81.57, and Citizens Financial tute said new orders and hiring 0.6 percent. Stocks in Japan were
quarter, said David Schiegoleit, Europe,” Mr. Schiegoleit said. “All percent, to 1,407.36. rose 56 cents, or 1.5 percent, to grew more slowly in April. helped by a weaker yen and
the head of investments at U.S. the different major components of Analysts expect first-quarter $37.13. The investment management strong readings in a manufactur-
Bank’s Private Client Reserve. He the technology sector are posting earnings for technology compa- Investors also sold high-divi- company AllianceBernstein fell ing survey.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N B7

MARKET GAUGES
S.&P.
500
U 2,388.33
+4.13
DOW
INDUSTRIALS
D 20,913.46
–27.05
NASDAQ
COMPOSITE
U 6,091.60
+44.00
10-YEAR
TREASURY YIELD U
2.32%
+0.03 OIL D
CRUDE $48.84
–$0.49
GOLD
(N.Y.)
D $1,253.30
–$12.80
THE
EURO
U $1.0898
+$0.0006

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

6,400

2,500 +10% 6,200 +10% 22,000 +10%

6,000
2,400 + 5% + 5% 21,000 + 5%
5,800
2,300
0% 5,600 0% 20,000 0%

2,200 5,400
– 5% – 5% 19,000 – 5%

Feb. March Apr. Feb. March Apr. Feb. March Apr.

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 20913.46 ◊ 27.05 ◊ 0.13 + 17.67 + 5.82 Nasdaq 100 5629.63 + 46.10 + 0.83 + 29.68 + 15.75 Bank of Ameri (BAC) 23.61 +0.27 +1.2 722600 Aviat Networ (AVNW) 19.56 +2.87 +17.2 1016 Neurotrope (NTRP) 6.97 ◊11.84 ◊62.9 35531
Transportation 9070.15 ◊ 27.48 ◊ 0.30 + 15.23 + 0.29 Composite 6091.60 + 44.00 + 0.73 + 27.56 + 13.16 AMD (AMD) 13.62 +0.32 +2.4 627423 Costamare (CMRE) 7.68 +0.94 +13.9 26888 Bonanz Creek (BCEI) 39.20 +38.70 +7662.4 6446
Utilities 699.58 ◊ 4.77 ◊ 0.68 + 6.90 + 6.06 Industrials 5002.35 + 20.93 + 0.42 + 22.06 + 12.54 Twitter (TWTR) 17.54 +1.06 +6.4 473634 Strattec Sec (STRT) 35.85 +3.70 +11.5 512 ITI (ITCI) 10.49 ◊3.33 ◊24.1 147419
Banks 3732.54 + 36.24 + 0.98 + 32.85 ◊ 3.11 Spirit Realty (SRC) 9.15 ◊0.27 ◊2.9 429285 Tocagen (TOCA) 15.47 +1.49 +10.7 2735 Wesco Air Hl (WAIR) 9.95 ◊2.20 ◊18.1 28369
Composite 7198.05 ◊ 19.22 ◊ 0.27 + 15.11 + 4.28
Weatherford (WFT) 5.47 ◊0.30 ◊5.2 343226 Qualstar (QBAK) 7.84 +0.75 +10.6 1210 Apollo (APEN) 8.12 ◊1.08 ◊11.7 121
Insurance 8385.49 ◊ 6.93 ◊ 0.08 + 14.74 + 0.38 12.85
Apple (AAPL) 146.58 +2.93 +2.0 334840 Manhattn Bri (LOAN) 5.75 +0.55 +10.6 763 8x8 (EGHT) ◊1.70 ◊11.7 25621
STANDARD AND POOR’S Other Finance 6839.86 + 33.25 + 0.49 + 23.13 + 5.75 Ford Motor (F) 11.42 ◊0.05 ◊0.4 321088 Polar Power (POLA) 5.85 +0.52 +9.8 3162 Broadwind En (BWEN) 8.13 ◊1.06 ◊11.5 6751
100 Stocks 1057.31 + 2.45 + 0.23 + 15.55 + 6.64 Telecommunications 315.11 + 0.56 + 0.18 + 23.36 + 9.31 Microsoft (MSFT) 69.41 +0.95 +1.4 319001 US Ecology (ECOL) 51.75 +4.60 +9.8 1707 Beasley Broa (BBGI) 11.65 ◊1.50 ◊11.4 1398
500 Stocks 2388.33 + 4.13 + 0.17 + 15.64 + 6.68 Computer 3434.97 + 39.17 + 1.15 + 39.41 + 17.40 U. S. Steel (X) 21.94 ◊0.38 ◊1.7 298943 Cohu (COHU) 20.41 +1.68 +9.0 4497 Radius Healt (RDUS) 35.31 ◊3.76 ◊9.6 38403
Mid-Cap 400 1737.37 + 4.61 + 0.27 + 18.86 + 4.62 Facebook (FB) 152.46 +2.21 +1.5 251652 NL Industries (NL) 8.75 +0.65 +8.0 612 Asta Fund (ASFI) 7.60 ◊0.80 ◊9.5 679
Small-Cap 600 855.02 + 3.66 + 0.43 + 23.10 + 2.04 OTHER INDEXES Intel (INTC) 36.31 +0.16 +0.4 247633 Calithera (CALA) 11.70 +0.85 +7.8 3787 Revolution L (RVLT) 8.02 ◊0.83 ◊9.4 1509
American Exch 2517.76 ◊ 11.60 ◊ 0.46 + 6.75 + 9.09 AT&T (T) 39.10 ◊0.53 ◊1.3 244576 Alder (ALDR) 21.60 +1.55 +7.7 8103 LSB Industrie (LXU) 10.03 ◊0.99 ◊9.0 11066
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 24929.76 + 51.28 + 0.21 + 16.62 + 6.42 GE (GE) 28.94 ◊0.05 ◊0.2 240124 BioCryst Pha (BCRX) 6.83 +0.49 +7.7 16089 BroadSoft (BSFT) 35.20 ◊3.20 ◊8.3 21122
Micron Tech (MU) 28.29 +0.62 +2.2 238694 Editas Medic (EDIT) 20.27 +1.42 +7.5 5558 Noodles (NDLS) 5.40 ◊0.45 ◊7.7 2450
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 5517.68 + 4.00 + 0.07 + 19.04 + 4.86
Synchrony Fin (SYF) 27.94 +0.14 +0.5 229716 Ultra Clean (UCTT) 20.63 +1.39 +7.2 22218 PDF Solution (PDFS) 17.58 ◊1.44 ◊7.6 4603
NYSE Comp. 11536.49 + 0.41 0.00 + 10.54 + 4.34 Russell 2000 1407.36 + 6.93 + 0.50 + 24.45 + 3.70 Pfizer (PFE) 33.78 ◊0.14 ◊0.4 226842 Brooks Aut (BRKS) 27.07 +1.81 +7.2 12827 Synchronoss (SNCR) 14.83 ◊1.17 ◊7.3 45354
Tech/Media/Telecom 8158.08 ◊ 11.09 ◊ 0.14 + 8.67 + 4.88 Phila Gold & Silver 80.77 ◊ 2.33 ◊ 2.80 ◊ 13.01 + 2.42 Swestn Energy (SWN) 7.53 +0.02 +0.3 200146 Willdan Grou (WLDN) 30.31 +1.94 +6.8 1441 Aegion (AEGN) 21.30 ◊1.52 ◊6.7 2890
Energy 10497.38 ◊ 24.36 ◊ 0.23 ◊ 0.99 ◊ 8.75 Phila Semiconductor 1015.43 + 9.90 + 0.98 + 57.35 + 12.02 AK Steel Hold (AKS) 6.23 ◊0.11 ◊1.7 177549 Ensign Group (ENSG) 19.17 +1.22 +6.8 12295 Richmont Mine (RIC) 7.10 ◊0.50 ◊6.6 7986
Financial 7242.30 + 34.17 + 0.47 + 18.32 + 4.03 KBW Bank 92.08 + 0.84 + 0.92 + 33.28 + 0.32 Chesapeake En (CHK) 5.31 +0.05 +1.0 177555 FFN (FSB) 43.30 +2.75 +6.8 1679 AC Immune (ACIU) 8.93 ◊0.62 ◊6.5 1463
Healthcare 13018.58 + 17.88 + 0.14 + 6.59 + 9.33 Phila Oil Service 150.78 ◊ 2.64 ◊ 1.72 ◊ 16.38 ◊ 17.96 Cliffs Natura (CLF) 6.60 ◊0.12 ◊1.8 176819 Intersection (INTX) 5.21 +0.33 +6.8 802 Milacron Hld (MCRN) 17.60 ◊1.22 ◊6.5 4958

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) 89.47 147.20 146.58 + 2.93 + 56.37 + 26.6 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 106.67 81.96 ◊ 0.48 ◊ 18.45 + 3.9 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 109.32 129.00 123.34 ◊ 0.13 + 10.05 + 7.1 Procter Ga (PG) 79.37 92.00 87.09 ◊ 0.24 + 8.70 + 3.6
AbbVie (ABBV) 55.06 68.12 66.48 + 0.54 + 8.98 + 6.2 Chevron (CVX) 97.53 119.00 105.92 ◊ 0.78 + 3.66 ◊ 10.0 JPMorgan (JPM) 57.05 93.98 87.06 + 0.06 + 37.75 + 0.9 PMI (PM) 86.78 115.63 110.55 ◊ 0.29 + 12.67 + 20.8
Abbott (ABT) 36.76 45.84 43.48 ◊ 0.16 + 11.77 + 13.2 Du Pont (DD) 61.12 82.37 79.49 ◊ 0.26 + 20.60 + 8.3 Kinder Mor (KMI) 16.63 23.36 20.54 ◊ 0.09 + 15.65 ◊ 0.8 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 34.00 48.10 47.54 ◊ 0.18 + 21.34 + 20.5
Accenture (ACN) 108.66 126.53 121.25 ◊ 0.05 + 7.38 + 3.5 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 102.79 83.13 ◊ 0.20 + 13.37 + 6.8 Kraft Hein (KHC) 77.13 97.77 89.47 ◊ 0.92 + 14.60 + 2.5 Qualcomm (QCOM) 50.11 71.62 53.60 ◊ 0.14 + 6.10 ◊ 17.8
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 261.27 245.23 + 1.37 + 13.24 + 16.8 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 114.73 ◊ 0.87 + 11.11 + 10.1 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.01 43.22 + 0.07 ◊ 3.53 + 4.3 Raytheon (RTN) 124.98 158.87 154.08 ◊ 1.13 + 21.95 + 8.5
AIG (AIG) 48.41 67.47 61.61 + 0.70 + 10.37 ◊ 5.7 Dow (DOW) 47.51 65.42 62.52 ◊ 0.28 + 18.84 + 9.3 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 81.82 ◊ 0.24 + 8.33 + 11.2 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 61.94 60.18 + 0.12 + 7.02 + 8.4
Allstate (ALL) 64.36 83.09 81.50 + 0.21 + 25.29 + 10.0 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 82.07 ◊ 0.43 + 4.18 + 5.7 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 276.64 268.43 ◊ 1.02 + 15.51 + 7.4 Schlumberg (SLB) 72.00 87.84 72.30 ◊ 0.29 ◊ 10.01 ◊ 13.9
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 162.60 ◊ 0.72 + 2.72 + 11.2 Emerson El (EMR) 48.45 64.36 60.37 + 0.09 + 10.51 + 8.3 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 85.76 84.40 ◊ 0.48 + 11.02 + 18.7 Southern C (SO) 46.20 54.64 49.59 ◊ 0.21 ◊ 1.02 + 0.8
Amazon.com (AMZN) 654.00 954.40 948.23 + 23.24 + 43.76 + 26.5 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 37.70 34.33 ◊ 0.30 ◊ 2.17 ◊ 3.3 Mastercard (MA) 86.65 117.37 116.37 + 0.05 + 19.98 + 12.7 Simon Prop (SPG) 163.55 229.10 168.61 + 3.35 ◊ 16.19 ◊ 5.1
American E (AXP) 57.15 82.00 79.23 ◊ 0.02 + 21.09 + 7.0 Ford Motor (F) 11.07 14.04 11.42 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 15.78 ◊ 5.9 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 142.79 141.15 + 1.22 + 11.59 + 16.0 AT&T (T) 36.10 43.89 39.10 ◊ 0.53 + 0.72 ◊ 8.1
Boeing (BA) 122.35 185.71 182.39 ◊ 2.44 + 35.30 + 17.2 Facebook (FB) 108.23 152.57 152.46 + 2.21 + 29.66 + 32.5 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 46.40 44.06 ◊ 0.97 + 2.56 ◊ 0.6 Target (TGT) 52.72 80.68 55.77 ◊ 0.08 ◊ 29.85 ◊ 22.8
Bank of Am (BAC) 12.05 25.80 23.61 + 0.27 + 62.16 + 6.8 FedEx (FDX) 145.00 201.57 188.23 ◊ 1.47 + 14.00 + 1.1 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.27 83.74 + 0.65 + 5.80 + 17.6 Time Warne (TWX) 68.97 100.60 99.06 ◊ 0.21 + 31.83 + 2.6
Biogen (BIIB) 223.02 333.65 271.03 ◊ 0.18 + 7.00 + 3.8 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 29.69 ◊ 0.17 ◊ 1.43 + 9.0 MetLife (MET) 36.17 58.09 51.97 + 0.16 + 15.23 ◊ 3.6 Texas Inst (TXN) 56.19 82.92 79.29 + 0.11 + 39.01 + 8.7
BONY Mello (BK) 35.72 49.54 47.18 + 0.12 + 17.25 ◊ 0.4 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 30.39 ◊ 0.15 + 0.43 + 8.4 3M (MMM) 163.17 197.12 194.81 ◊ 1.02 + 16.39 + 9.1 UnitedHeal (UNH) 128.53 176.14 174.59 ◊ 0.29 + 32.59 + 9.1
BlackRock (BLK) 317.60 399.46 383.00 ◊ 1.57 + 7.48 + 0.7 General Dy (GD) 132.68 196.97 193.15 ◊ 0.64 + 37.45 + 11.9 Altria Gro (MO) 60.82 76.55 70.80 ◊ 0.98 + 12.90 + 4.7 Union Paci (UNP) 80.68 115.15 111.60 ◊ 0.36 + 27.94 + 7.6
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 77.12 56.31 + 0.26 ◊ 21.99 ◊ 3.6 GE (GE) 28.19 33.00 28.94 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 5.89 ◊ 8.4 Monsanto (MON) 88.76 117.33 116.87 + 0.26 + 24.75 + 11.1 United Par (UPS) 100.05 120.44 106.54 ◊ 0.92 + 1.40 ◊ 7.1
Berkshire (BRKb) 136.65 177.86 165.44 + 0.23 + 13.72 + 1.5 Gilead Sci (GILD) 65.38 92.53 68.11 ◊ 0.44 ◊ 22.79 ◊ 4.9 Merck & Co (MRK) 53.06 66.80 62.38 + 0.05 + 13.75 + 6.0 US Bancorp (USB) 38.48 56.61 51.70 + 0.42 + 21.11 + 0.6
Citigroup (C) 38.31 62.53 59.46 + 0.34 + 28.48 + 0.1 GM (GM) 27.34 38.55 34.20 ◊ 0.44 + 7.55 ◊ 1.8 Morgan Sta (MS) 23.11 47.33 43.74 + 0.37 + 61.64 + 3.5 UTC (UTX) 96.89 119.70 118.92 ◊ 0.07 + 13.94 + 8.5
Caterpilla (CAT) 69.04 105.98 102.00 ◊ 0.26 + 31.24 + 10.0 Alphabet (GOOG) 663.28 916.85 912.57 + 6.61 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 48.04 69.55 69.41 + 0.95 + 39.18 + 11.7 Visa (V) 73.25 92.80 91.26 + 0.04 + 18.15 + 17.0
Celgene (CELG) 94.42 127.64 124.06 + 0.01 + 19.97 + 7.2 Alphabet (GOOGL) 672.66 935.90 932.82 + 8.30 + 31.78 + 17.7 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 134.33 133.04 ◊ 0.52 + 13.15 + 11.4 Verizon (VZ) 45.88 56.95 45.88 ◊ 0.03 ◊ 9.93 ◊ 14.1
Colgate (CL) 63.43 75.38 71.80 ◊ 0.24 + 1.24 + 9.7 Goldman Sa (GS) 138.20 255.15 224.85 + 1.05 + 37.01 ◊ 6.1 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.33 54.99 ◊ 0.42 ◊ 6.70 + 8.2 Walgreens (WBA) 75.74 88.00 86.46 ◊ 0.08 + 9.06 + 4.5
Comcast (CMCSA) 29.81 40.62 39.19 0.00 + 29.00 + 13.5 Halliburto (HAL) 38.24 58.78 45.77 ◊ 0.11 + 10.80 ◊ 15.4 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 46.99 45.05 + 0.09 + 13.02 + 17.2 WalMart (WMT) 62.72 75.77 75.23 + 0.05 + 12.50 + 8.8
Capital On (COF) 58.03 96.92 81.57 + 1.19 + 12.68 ◊ 6.5 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 156.27 154.21 ◊ 1.89 + 15.18 + 15.0 Occidental (OXY) 60.50 78.48 60.82 ◊ 0.72 ◊ 20.65 ◊ 14.6 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 54.46 + 0.62 + 8.96 ◊ 1.2
ConocoPhil (COP) 38.80 53.17 47.48 ◊ 0.43 ◊ 0.65 ◊ 5.3 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 135.00 130.90 ◊ 0.24 + 15.21 + 13.0 Priceline (PCLN) 1148 1891 1870 + 23.10 + 39.17 + 27.6 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 80.30 95.55 82.06 + 0.41 ◊ 7.17 ◊ 9.1
Costco Who (COST) 138.57 178.71 177.86 + 0.34 + 20.07 + 11.1 IBM (IBM) 142.50 182.79 158.84 ◊ 1.45 + 8.84 ◊ 4.3 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 114.61 112.28 ◊ 1.00 + 9.05 + 7.3
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 25.81 34.53 33.97 ◊ 0.10 + 23.57 + 12.4 Intel (INTC) 29.50 38.45 36.31 + 0.16 + 19.91 + 0.1 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 37.39 33.78 ◊ 0.14 + 3.27 + 4.0

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
· or ·
that 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% +15% high yield +13.59% Total Issues Traded 7,065 5,151 1,737 177 T-BILLS
Advances 2,760 1,892 768 100
3 4 3-mo. Jul 17 ◊ ◊ 0.81 0.80 +0.01 0.80
Declines 3,958 3,097 789 72 6-mo. Oct 17 ◊ ◊ 0.98 0.97 –.00 0.98
Unchanged 123 43 76 4
6 +10 52 Week High 186 45 117 24 3 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 93 72 19 2 2 2-yr. Apr 19 1ü ◊ 99.95 99.95 –0.02 1.27
Dollar Volume* 16,705 11,922 4,367 415 5-yr. Apr 22 1~ ◊ 100.15 100.16 –0.12 1.82
2 10-yr. Feb 27 2ü ◊ 99.38 99.39 –0.28 2.29
4 + 5 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 30-yr. Feb 47 3.000 ◊ 99.92 99.94 –0.91 2.96
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 22 [ ◊ 100.43 100.53 –0.13 0.01
2 0 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 27 ] ◊ 99.74 99.86 –0.30 0.37
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 29 2ø ◊ 122.33 122.59 –0.43 0.50
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017 30-yr. Feb 47 ~ ◊ 97.81 98.08 –1.14 0.92
0 invest. grade +3.63% – 5 invest. grade +2.10% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2016 2017 2016 2017 Standard & Poor’s.

Some data may contain previous close.

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) .0650 15.3800 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7523 1.3293
One Dollar in Yen
Ford Mtr Cr Co Llc (F.AC) 5.000 May’18 Baa2 BBB 103.659 102.731 103.192 –0.108 1.858 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1451 6.8900 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9176 China (Yuan) .1451 6.8900 120 yen $1 = 111.83
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) 5.250 Mar’37 Baa1 BBB+ 105.788 103.452 103.850 –0.001 4.943 Brazil (Real) .3149 3.1755 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1286 7.7785
Telefonica Emisiones S A U (TEF) 3.192 Apr’18 Baa3 BBB 101.376 101.240 101.265 –0.017 1.884 Canada (Dollar) .7310 1.3680 India (Rupee) .0156 64.2400
Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMX) 6.750 Sep’47 Baa3 BBB+ 103.779 101.250 101.250 –0.990 6.653 Chile (Peso) .0015 665.25 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0089 111.83
115
Honeywell Intl Inc (HON) 2.500 Nov’26 A2 A 95.765 95.281 95.433 –0.358 3.058 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2940.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2305 4.3390
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) 5.012 Aug’54 Baa1 BBB+ 99.391 96.226 96.416 –0.606 5.231 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0213 47.0300 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .6904 1.4484
21st Centy Fox Amer Inc (NWS) 4.750 Sep’44 Baa1 BBB+ 101.705 100.967 100.967 –1.609 4.686
At&t Inc (T) 3.400 May’25 Baa1 BBB+ 99.751 96.800 98.598 0.956 3.602
El Salvador (Colon) .1147 8.7220 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.60
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1363 7.3390 Philippines (Peso) .0200 50.1250 105
Southern California Gas Co (SRE) 3.150 Sep’24 Aa2 A+ 102.601 102.451 102.601 0.030 2.745
Honduras (Lempira) .0427 23.4360 Singapore (Dollar) .7161 1.3965
Citigroup Inc (C) 2.750 Apr’22 NR BBB+ 100.515 99.515 99.668 –0.078 2.822
Mexico (Peso) .0534 18.7366 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1136.6
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0343 29.1900 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.1950
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5565.0 Thailand (Baht) .0289 34.5900
Scientific Games Intl Inc (SGMS) 10.000 Dec’22 Caa1 B– 109.500 107.000 107.000 –1.850 7.718 Peru (New Sol) .3084 3.2425 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22700 95
Harrahs Oper Inc (CZR) 10.000 Dec’18 NR D 88.500 87.250 88.125 1.125 N.A. Uruguay (New Peso) .0356 28.1000
Sabine Pass Liquefaction Llc (LNG) 6.250 Mar’22 Ba1 BBB– 112.253 112.162 112.212 0.036 3.370 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Equinix Inc (EQIX) 5.375 May’27 B1 BB+ 104.875 104.578 104.750 0.081 4.659 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6578 .3762
Sabine Pass Liquefaction Llc (LNG) 5.750 May’24 Ba1 BBB– 110.877 110.535 110.632 0.092 3.948 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1506.7
Norway (Krone) .1164 8.5924 Egypt (Pound) .0553 18.0900
Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC) 8.125 Apr’22 Caa1 CCC+ 102.350 101.402 102.250 0.500 7.565 Britain (Pound) 1.2885 .7761 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7500
Poland (Zloty) .2580 3.8755 Iran (Rial) .00003 32441
Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC) 6.750 Jun’23 Caa1 CCC+ 99.063 95.750 99.000 3.250 6.951 So. Africa (Rand) .0746 13.4062
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0406 24.6260 Russia (Ruble) .0176 56.9596 Israel (Shekel) .2769 3.6120
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 6.875 Feb’22 Caa1 CCC+ 88.000 82.090 86.250 3.250 10.636 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6727
Denmark (Krone) .1466 6.8222 Sweden (Krona) .1130 8.8468 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4092 .7096
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 11.000 Sep’25 B1 B+ 99.000 96.235 96.700 –2.050 11.622
Europe (Euro) 1.0898 .9176 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0039 .9961 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 103.10
Harrahs Oper Inc (CZR) 11.250 Jun’17 NR D 120.000 119.625 120.000 0.500 N.A. Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 285.97 Turkey (Lira) .2814 3.5531 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2884 .3041
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 0.250 Mar’19 NR B– 106.767 105.735 106.767 2.967 –3.316
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 1.250 Mar’21 NR B– 106.921 103.034 106.179 3.179 –0.353
Liberty Media Corp (LINT)
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
3.500
2.375
Jan’31
Mar’22
B2
NR
BB
B–
54.188
115.230
54.125
113.650
54.188
115.180
0.125
3.886
3.672
–0.688
FUTURES
Blackstone Mtg Tr Inc (BXMT) 5.250 Dec’18 NR NR 114.125 113.667 113.938 0.063 –3.297 Monetary
Microchip Technology Inc (MCHP) 1.625 Feb’25 NR B+ 151.585 145.650 148.250 –0.438 –3.675 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $48.84 a barrel
Weatherford Intl Ltd (WFT) 5.875 Jul’21 NR B 119.000 116.000 116.125 –3.471 1.829
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.250 Oct’18 NR NR 137.325 135.634 137.325 4.115 –19.744 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 460.00 332.50 May 17 363.00 370.50 361.75 369.25 + 11.25 9,959
Whiting Pete Corp (WLL) 1.250 Apr’20 B3 BB– 90.525 88.375 90.525 0.000 4.778 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1116.00 872.00 May 17 950.00 963.00 950.00 959.00 + 13.75 6,823
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc (BMRN) 1.500 Oct’20 NR NR 125.716 125.576 125.716 1.082 –5.212 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 646.75 398.50 May 17 423.75 442.25 423.75 442.75 + 24.25 1,985 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 125.33 91.30 Jun 17 124.63 125.33 123.65 124.13 + 0.10 179,345
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 76.53 62.50 May 17 67.00 67.38 66.03 66.13 ◊ 0.85 2,069
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3326.00 1805.00 May 17 1836.00 1866.00 1836.00 1812.00 ◊ 32.00 38 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 228.00 123.20 May 17 134.65 135.00 134.65 133.60 + 2.55 71
Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 22.09 12.07 Jun 17 16.20 16.41 15.93 16.18 + 0.05 379,329
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1295.30 1197.20 May 17 1268.70 1269.30 1254.00 1253.30 ◊ 12.80 435 45
Silver COMX $/oz 20.95 14.35 May 17 17.18 17.22 16.76 16.78 ◊ 0.41 2,038
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.84 1.97 May 17 2.59 2.68 2.59 2.65 + 0.05 5,824
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 93.23 36.18 Jun 17 49.17 49.32 48.59 48.84 ◊ 0.49 572,455 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.67 1.11 May 17 1.51 1.51 1.48 1.49 ◊ 0.02 129,175
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.10 2.37 May 17 3.25 3.31 3.20 3.22 ◊ 0.06 272,355 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Monday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 0.83% 0.30% Source: Thomson Reuters
Real Economic Growth +6%
Prime rate 4.00 3.50 Change from previous quarter,
15-yr fixed 3.10 2.76 annualized; seasonally adj.
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: WORLD STOCKS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.07 3.69 1st quarter ’17 +0.7% –2
4th quarter ’16 +2.1 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.90 3.63 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.40 4.05 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.17 2.97
Consumer Price Index +3%
Vanguard Total Intl Stock Index Inv(VGTSX) FB +11.0 +13.8 +5.6 0.18 100,653 Oppenheimer Global Opportunities A(OPGIX) SW +20.8 +34.1 +14.8 1.18 2,746
Change from American Funds Capital Income Bldr A(CAIBX) IH +5.4 +7.5 +7.1 0.60 70,076 Evermore Global Value Institutional(EVGIX) SW +8.9 +31.2 +12.0 1.24 375
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.62 3.13 previous year Dodge & Cox International Stock(DODFX) FB +12.5 +22.2 +8.5 0.64 58,608 Dodge & Cox Global Stock(DODWX) WS +9.8 +25.7 +12.8 0.63 7,758
American Funds Capital World Gr&Inc A(CWGIX) WS +9.6 +14.7 +9.8 0.79 52,695 T. Rowe Price Global Stock(PRGSX) WS +14.8 +23.7 +13.5 0.89 621
1-year adj. rate 3.14 2.79 March ’17 +2.4% American Funds New Perspective A(ANWPX) WS +13.0 +16.9 +11.0 0.77 37,284 Dodge & Cox International Stock(DODFX) FB +12.5 +22.2 +8.5 0.64 58,608
–1
Harbor International Institutional(HAINX) FB +12.4 +9.8 +4.7 0.77 31,050 Voya Russia A(LETRX) MQ ◊0.5 +22.2 ◊2.0 2.00 81
Feb. ’17 +2.7 ’12 ’17 American Funds Europacific Growth A(AEPGX) FG +12.9 +14.9 +7.1 0.86 25,677 Hartford International Value Y(HILYX) FV +9.1 +22.1 +11.0 0.89 488
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Funds SMALLCAP World A(SMCWX) SW +11.6 +19.4 +10.7 1.10 19,365 Oppenheimer Global Y(OGLYX) WS +15.8 +22.1 +11.5 0.90 1,214
Vanguard International Growth Adm(VWILX) FG +17.9 +20.2 +8.0 0.33 17,756 MassMutual Premier Global R5(MGFSX) WS +15.7 +21.8 +11.2 0.95 109
$75K line good credit* 4.88% 4.39%
Retail Sales +6% Old Westbury Large Cap Strategies(OWLSX) WS +8.0 +12.3 +9.1 1.11 15,732 Third Avenue International Value Instl(TAVIX) FA +10.0 +21.3 +5.0 1.40 130
$75K line excel. credit* 4.63 4.25 First Eagle Global A(SGENX) IH +5.5 +9.1 +7.6 1.10 14,976 Longleaf Partners International(LLINX) FB +13.8 +21.0 +7.8 1.33 1,076
Change from T. Rowe Price International Stock(PRITX) FG +13.9 +15.3 +6.7 0.84 13,296 Wells Fargo Global Small Cap A(EKGAX) SW +7.2 +20.9 +11.1 1.55 140
$75K loan good credit* 4.26 4.19 previous year Oppenheimer International Growth Y(OIGYX) FG +12.7 +8.6 +7.5 0.89 11,947
LAGGARDS
T. Rowe Price International Value Eq(TRIGX) FV +10.2 +10.6 +5.7 0.85 11,756
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.25 4.17 March ’17 +4.6% 0 T. Rowe Price Overseas Stock(TROSX) FB +11.5 +14.7 +6.9 0.84 11,031 Hussman Strategic Total Return(HSTRX) TV +1.0 ◊1.7 +0.7 0.71 393
Vanguard Developed Markets Index Admir(VTMGX) FB +10.6 +12.9 +7.2 0.07 11,021 Voya Global Real Estate A(IGLAX) GR +2.3 ◊0.9 +5.3 1.30 331
Feb. ’17 +4.7 ’12 ’17 Templeton Growth A(TEPLX) WS +7.1 +15.4 +9.2 1.07 10,816 EuroPac International Value A(EPIVX) FV +7.2 ◊0.6 ◊3.2 1.75 61
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Fidelity Diversified International(FDIVX) FG +12.6 +11.0 +7.7 1.05 10,739 Cohen & Steers International Realty A(IRFAX) GR +7.3 ◊0.1 +6.0 1.34 53
Franklin Mutual Global Discovery A(TEDIX) WS +5.3 +18.4 +9.7 1.23 10,215 EuroPac International Dividend Income (EPDPX) FV +6.7 +0.2 NA 1.50 59
36-mo. used car 3.34% 3.25% Unemployment 9% Tweedy, Browne Global Value(TBGVX) FV +7.9 +14.2 +8.3 1.38 9,612 Prudential Global Real Estate C(PURCX)
T. Rowe Price Global Real Estate(TRGRX)
GR
GR
+2.7
+2.7
+0.3
+0.7
+5.4
+6.6
1.94
1.05
119
191
Fidelity International Index Premium(FSIVX) FB +10.7 +12.7 +6.9 0.09 9,396
60-mo. new car 3.23 3.35 Percent unemployed Vanguard International Value Inv(VTRIX) FV +11.0 +13.7 +6.3 0.43 8,592 Franklin Global Real Estate A(FGRRX) GR +3.6 +1.0 +6.3 1.40 80
Seasonally adjusted MFS Instl International Equity(MIEIX) FG +12.3 +13.9 +6.8 0.70 8,405 BlackRock Tactical Opportunities Inv A(PCBAX) TV ◊0.4 +1.6 +3.1 1.18 249
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Questions Add to Drumbeat of Mets Injuries

PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES

Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard is on the 10-day disabled list with no timetable for his return. The Mets said his current injury was not related to a problem with his biceps muscle last week.

Seeing an Injury Coming Syndergaard Out Indefinitely With Torn Muscle in Torso
At 100 Miles Per Hour By JAMES WAGNER
ATLANTA — The Mets’ roster received an-
most talented hitters (Yoenis Cespedes), its start-
ing first baseman (Lucas Duda), two infielders
(David Wright and Wilmer Flores) and two other
Jim Kaat was young and Warren gaard, the muscular right-hander for other significant blow on Monday, one that re- crucial pitchers (Steven Matz and Seth Lugo). Ra-
Spahn was old, and the kid wanted to the Mets, has made 63 starts — includ- newed questions about the club’s handling of inju- fael Montero will most likely start in place of Syn-
learn from the master. He asked a ing games in October — in an electrify- ries, when the team announced that Noah Syn- dergaard on Friday.
coach to arrange a meeting, and for 20 ing young career. He has not completed dergaard, the hard-throwing ace, would be out in- “Somebody has got to pick up the slack,” Mets
minutes the ancient lefty told the green any, but he has achieved one goal. definitely with a partial Manager Terry Collins said. “I’m not asking any
lefty about mechanics — For the second year in a row, Synder- METS 7 tear of his right latissimus stating pitcher to be Noah Syndergaard. I’m ask-
TYLER how to use the torso to
drive to the plate, and so
gaard throws a harder fastball than any
other starter in baseball: 98.2 miles per
BRAVES 5 muscle.
Mets General Manager
ing them to be themselves, and go pitch a good
game.”
KEPNER on. The pitchers parted, hour. Only now, he cannot pitch at all, Sandy Alderson, speaking before Monday night’s Robert Gsellman, a rookie starter and Synder-
and then Spahn turned because he tore his right latissimus 7-5 win over the Atlanta Braves, declined to spec- gaard’s roommate in New York, showed some im-
ON back for a final word. muscle on Sunday when he came out ulate on how many weeks Syndergaard would provement early in his start on Monday. He tailed
BASEBALL miss, nor did he want to compare the injury to a
“Oh, kid, one more firing at 100 m.p.h. in Washington. off as the game went on, allowing five runs over
thing I meant to tell you,” he told Kaat. Officially, he is on the 10-day disabled similar one that forced Steven Matz, a fellow five-plus innings. Home runs by Jose Reyes and
“When the game’s tied in the seventh list. But the Mets acknowledged he will Mets starter, to miss two months of the 2015 sea- Michael Conforto, who drove in three runs, helped
inning, the game’s just starting. You miss weeks, not days. son. the Mets solve Julio Teheran, the Braves starter
have to learn how to pitch Mickey “It’s really sad to see,” Kaat said. “It’s going to be a considerable amount of who has confounded them in the past.
Mantle differently in the ninth inning “You get a guy like Syndergaard and so time,” Alderson said. A victory provided a momentary salve on a day
than you did in the first inning.” many other young pitchers — they’re Syndergaard underwent a magnetic resonance when the Mets drew scrutiny over the circum-
Kaat, who ultimately earned 283 so much more talented and gifted than imaging examination on Monday morning in stances surrounding the injury to Syndergaard,
victories in the majors, laughed as he we were.” New York after leaving his start in Washington whose start last week had been pushed from
recalled the anecdote by telephone on They know how to pitch, too. Half of on Sunday after only one inning and a third. After Thursday to Sunday because of biceps discom-
Monday. “That would be so strange Syndergaard’s pitches this season have throwing a second-inning strike to the Nationals fort. Alderson said a doctor told him that Synder-
today,” he said. been sliders, curveballs and changeups. star Bryce Harper, Syndergaard grimaced and gaard’s biceps issue last week was not related to
Kaat, 78, has stayed in baseball as an He has an impressive repertory and grabbed his right side, leading to his exit. the current injury to his lat muscle, which
analyst for MLB Network. But the seems to enjoy the craft, not just the The injury severely hampers an already de- stretches from the armpit to the back.
games he broadcasts are very different brute force, of pitching, which makes pleted Mets roster that is now without one of its
from the ones he played. Noah Synder- Continued on Page B11 most talented pitchers (Syndergaard), one of its Continued on Page B11

Claims of Liberal Media Bias Hit ESPN, Too

By MARC TRACY It is not as if American sports and poli- social debates that are not settled. A gal-
A TV network is accused of political tics have never intersected. From Jackie vanizing incident for critics was Caitlyn
bias: hardly a surprise in 2017. But what Robinson’s breaking Major League Jenner’s winning the Arthur Ashe
if the network is a sports broadcaster? Baseball’s color barrier to Billie Jean Courage Award at the ESPYs, ESPN’s
An unusual strain of partisanship — at King’s fight for gender equality in tennis annual award show, in 2015, after Ms.
to John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s black Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist in the
least in the sports corner of the news me-
power salute at the 1968 Olympics, many decathlon, announced she was transgen-
dia — emerged last week after ESPN an-
moments and figures in sports history der.
nounced it was laying off dozens of
mark social mileposts. In other cases, conservative writers
employees. The public reaction included
And ESPN has had no shortage of po- like Ben Domenech have cast ESPN’s
jeers toward the network for what some litical story lines to explore lately, after
viewers perceived as a leftward slant in perceived political approach as flawed
quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt dur- simply for the network’s willingness to
ESPN’s coverage, a reflection of how the ing the national anthem in protest of
country’s raw political nerves and cultur- mingle politics and sports rather than
what he saw as widespread American preserving its TV channels and digital
al divisions have spilled over into a world racism, the United States women’s soc-
that many value as a pristine redoubt platforms as sports-only zones, an es-
cer team and women’s hockey team
from worldly concerns: sports. cape from society’s headier issues.
raised issues of equal pay in labor dis-
“It’s a sign of the times,” said Neal Pil- putes, and several members of the New Even Linda Cohn, a longtime anchor of
son, a former president of CBS Sports England Patriots declined an invitation “SportsCenter,” ESPN’s flagship high-
who is a professor at the Columbia Jour- to the White House. lights show, blamed politics for some of
nalism School. “I think people are look- But for fans to detect a viewpoint from the network’s woes. In a radio interview
ing for bias, and opinion, and information a mainstream sports broadcaster ap- on Thursday, she said, “I felt that the old-
that in some way involves some hidden pears to be a novel development. school viewers were put in a corner,” CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGES FOR SIRIUSXM

signal or indication that there’s a political In some cases, ESPN has been ac- adding, “If anyone wants to ignore that From left, Curt Schilling joined Alex Marlow and Stephen K. Bannon of
bias in one direction or another.” cused of putting a thumb on the scale of Continued on Page B10 Breitbart News at a forum last year to discuss politics and his firing by ESPN.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N B9

C YC L I N G

PHOTOGRAPHS BY AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The men’s race at the Red Hook Crit in Brooklyn on Saturday. The event, which began in 2008 as an informal affair, now draws hundreds of competitors, including some Olympians.

Brooklyn Race, in 10th Year, Is No Longer ‘Yahoos in the Street’

By JEFF DiNUNZIO
David August Trimble first held the
Red Hook Criterium in March 2008 on
the sleepy streets of Red Hook, Brook-
lyn, with about 40 cyclists on bikes in-
tended for a velodrome. It was infor-
mal and unsanctioned, with little vi-
sion for the future.
“The first year it was just, ‘How do I
make a race that’s super fun and gets
people to come to my birthday
party?’” Trimble said.
But Trimble, who has a background
in auto racing, eventually turned his
attention toward making the race a
yearly event.
“In my head, the idea was to create
the Formula One of bike racing,” he
said.
Trimble’s goal is to create a specta-
cle, despite grumblings that the race
is becoming detached from its roots.
On Saturday night, a warm breeze
carried Trimble’s voice from the
booming loudspeakers across the
Brooklyn Cruise Terminal as he
counted down the start for 100 riders
in the 10th Red Hook Criterium, now a
well-loved fixed-gear bike race
known as the Red Hook Crit.
No longer a chaotic street race, the
event is contested on a winding,
closed-circuit course just over a kilo-
meter long, featuring tight chicanes,
sweeping turns and high-speed
straightaways.
Kacey Lloyd won the first Red Hook
Crit and competed in several more, of-
ten placing in the top 10 of what was Stefan Schäfer of Germany, and keeping them engaged during a
until 2014 a coed event. Lloyd, who above right, after his victory on full day of racing, Trimble said.
now oversees the race’s website, said Saturday. Left, David August “Whenever we pick a venue in an-
she welcomed the race’s evolution. Trimble announcing on Saturday. other city, we really think, ‘How can
“It’s not just a bunch of yahoos in this grow?’” he said. “The goal is to
Trimble organizes the Red Hook
the street anymore,” she said. make bike racing spectator-friendly.”
Crit with the goal of creating a The Red Hook race has built part-
“There’s so much more structure spectacle. Planning the event
around it. Some people think that’s a nerships with food and drink vendors,
bad thing. I think it’s fantastic.”
requires so much work that he and a five-kilometer race on the bike
The planning eventually became so can no longer compete in it. track was introduced in 2012. Live
time consuming that Lloyd and Trim- streaming is a likely next step in wid-
ble stopped competing in the event. hour, without brakes, on a course with ening the crit’s audience.
Red Hook took a major turn toward multiple turns. A competitor sus- “When you’re here in person, you
becoming a more well-oiled, profes- tained a shattered jaw in 2013. feel that energy,” Lloyd said. “We
sional event in 2013 when Rockstar “I’ve adapted a lot of safety aspects have to figure out how to actually
Games, a video game company, from motor sports into this race,” come remotely close to that on a
signed on as the title sponsor. In the Trimble said. “Like the way we use screen. Doing it properly is a very ex-
preceding years, registration was course marshals, and the way we use pensive process.”
limited to 100 riders on a first-come- flags, and the way we use crash pro- The organizers already broadcast
first-served basis, and there were no tection.” the race on Jumbotrons at the Brook-
qualifying races. The sponsorship al- In 2015, Trimble began working lyn Cruise Terminal — just as For-
lowed the organizers to accept more The 2017 field included Colin Strick- “You can’t talk about racing fixed- with Liam Worthy, a cycling consult- mula One does.
entries. land, the 2016 series winner, who gear bikes without talking about the ant from London who worked at the The costs associated with bike
That year, starting with the opening snagged three race victories with Red Hook Crit,” said James Grady, the 2012 Olympics. races are often insurmountable. The
race in Brooklyn, the crit expanded to team Allez Allez-Specialized; Callum founder of San Francisco’s Mission Philadelphia International Cycling
Some precautions include applying
a four-race series. From 2010 to 2012, Skinner, a gold and silver medalist in Crit. The Mission Crit held its fourth Classic, which began in 1985, was can-
grip tape to areas of the track prone to
contests were held in Brooklyn and track cycling for Britain at the 2016 annual race a week before Red celed this year because of a lack of
Hook’s, and attracted some of the tire slippage, and creating “see
Milan. But with additional resources Olympics; and the retired World Tour throughs” at corners using small or- funding.
rider Francesco Chicchi of Italy. Fran- same riders. Trimble does not play down the fi-
and growing interest in fixed-gear ange concrete markers to lessen the
cisca Campos, a former Olympic Zach Morvant, who competed at nancial obstacles.
races, a stop in Barcelona and a sec- risk of hitting the metal barriers en-
mountain biker from Chile, returned Mission and Red Hook, said more em-
ond race at the Brooklyn Navy Yard closing the course. “It could keep going, or it could
to Red Hook after finishing ninth in phasis was placed on preparation
were added. (The Navy Yard event After each heat, Worthy rides the not,” he said. “There are steps we
the 2016 women’s standings. than ever before. Morvant focuses on
was a one-time race, and a London interval training, honing his track course to observe the conditions and need to take to make it viable. Every
race was added in 2015.) Trimble, 34, said he wanted to keep make any adjustments. His team of year it gets more expensive.”
bike handling, and is attentive to nu-
By 2014, there were enough cyclists the race open to everyone, but ac- marshals is positioned along the Saturday’s final race came down to
trition.
to create a women’s division. This knowledged that rising performance course and communicates safety haz- the two breakaway riders, Strickland
“Drinking a beer before a race, that
year’s crit had 279 men and 69 women levels made it difficult for all but the doesn’t happen anymore,” he said. ards using flags, as in motor racing. and Stefan Schäfer of Germany.
complete qualifying. The top 100 men top riders. The increased participation meant Crashes are inevitable, though. Schäfer, who was the only rider to
reached the final, while there were 60 “When we started, the high-level adding structures such as qualifying Several occurred on Saturday, with beat Strickland in the 2016 Red Hook
spots in the women’s final. athletes were national track champi- heats and time trials to establish the most serious in the men’s final, series, took the victory on the final
What began as an underground ons,” he said. “Now they’re gold med- starting position. More racers also led which was red flagged with five laps lap. A budding rivalry could be a good
night race among friends at the inter- alists.” to a greater focus on safety and left so medical staff could tend to an thing.
section of Richards and Dikeman The Red Hook race has also in- course design. Red Hook has faced injured rider. “I think it has huge potential,” Trim-
Streets now attracts some of the spired similar fixed-gear criteriums criticism for the risks of fixed-gear The future of the Red Hook Crit will ble said. “I think we have the right for-
world’s top cyclists. in the United States and Europe. bikes racing at upward of 35 miles per depend on reaching more spectators mula.”
B10 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

MEDIA P R O B A S K E T B A L L N. B . A . P L AYO F F S

Cavaliers Trounce Raptors in Opener

By The Associated Press

LeBron James scored 35 points,

Kyrie Irving added 24, and the
Cleveland Cavaliers picked up
where they left off after a long lay-
off by throttling the visiting Toron-
to Raptors, 116-105, on Monday
night in the opener of their
Eastern Conference semifinal se-
ries.
The Cavaliers had not played
since April 23, when they com-
pleted a four-game sweep of the
Indiana Pacers. But Cleveland,
the defending champions, did not
show signs of rust and was well
prepared to face the Raptors, who
lost to the Cavaliers in last year’s
conference finals in six games.
Toronto dropped to 1-12 in play-
off openers, and the Raptors were
blown out for the fourth straight
time in Cleveland.
“As a team, I think we had great
energy,” James said, “and even
some of the mistakes that we had
we were able to cover up for be-
cause our energy level was high.
But we’ll be a lot better on
CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday.”
Some critics of ESPN have pointed to its award for Caitlyn Jenner, right, at the 2015 ESPYs. Game 2 is Wednesday night in
Cleveland.

Claims of Liberal Bias Hit ESPN, Too

Kyle Lowry scored 20 and De-
Mar DeRozan 19 for the Raptors, TONY DEJAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
who were within 7 points in the
third quarter before James hit a 3- Cleveland’s LeBron James scoring on Toronto’s DeMarre Car-
Washington Redskins’ name and analyst Curt Schilling after he pointer, converted a 3-point play roll. “As a team, I think we had great energy,” James said.
From First Sports Page imagery are offensive, he said, ridiculed transgender people in a and sank another 3-pointer.
fact, they’re blind.” most sportswriters consider there Facebook post in response to After drawing a foul on a missed the first half, as they built an 18- 1992, the man nicknamed Larry
The claim that the layoffs some- to be only one right-thinking side. North Carolina’s so-called bath- layup, James playfully hopped to- point lead only to watch the Rap- Legend and the Hick from French
how resulted from disenchant- The conservative writer Mi- room bill. The two incidents made ward the sideline, where a court- tors go on a 19-3 run to cut their Lick, a reference to his Indiana
ment with political bias is most chael Brendan Dougherty re- 16 percent and 12 percent more side server was passing by. James deficit to 41-39. hometown, retired as a player but
likely untrue. Industry analysts sponded in The Week that the viewers, respectively, feel worse grabbed a beer bottle from the But Cleveland regrouped and, remained with the Celtics as a spe-
have tied ESPN’s job cuts to radi- sports media’s “hegemonic liber- about ESPN than better (the ma- server’s tray and brought it to- playing a turnover-free second cial assistant until the Pacers of-
cally shifting habits of media con- alism” put it “in an antagonistic jority’s views were unaffected). ward his lips before putting it quarter, led at the half, 62-48. fered him their head-coaching po-
sumption — notably the fact that position not just with fans, but By contrast, coverage of Mi- back. James’ legs looked fresh early sition in 1997.
millions of people are turning with the entire sports culture be- chael Sam, the first openly gay “I was standing right next to on as he and Irving teamed on an Bird took the Pacers to the
away from cable TV, which for yond journalism.” player to be drafted by an N.F.L. him,” said James’s teammate J. R. alley-oop. Eastern Conference finals three
decades has been ESPN’s mother ESPN’s president, John Skip- team, and a town hall event in Oc- Smith. “I thought it was hilarious After James poked the ball straight times and was named the
lode for revenue — and to other per, told the network ombudsman tober with President Barack until I thought that if I did it, it league’s coach of the year in his
away for a steal, Irving took pos-
business-related factors. last year that ESPN and its parent Obama both resulted in slightly wouldn’t have been taken the debut season. A heart ailment
session as both headed up the
“I’m not aware of a tangible con- company, Disney, were committed more ESPN viewers feeling better right way. It was funny, though.” prompted Bird to follow through
floor on a break. James pointed to- on another promise — that he
nection that has expressed itself to “diversity and inclusion,” and about the network than feeling With the trade acquisitions ward the backboard, and Irving would coach only three seasons.
through any data,” said Brian that they “view this not as a po- worse, according to ESPN. Serge Ibaka and P. J. Tucker, To- got the message, bouncing a pass He walked away weeks after
Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Re- litical stance but as a human Clay Travis, a Fox Sports con- ronto appears to be better high off the glass that James
search, in reference to theories stance.” tributor and editor of the website equipped to compete with Cleve- Indiana lost to the Lakers in the
dunked with his left hand. 2000 finals.
that a political slant helped cause But conservatives might dis- Outkick the Coverage, has labeled land after losing to the Cavaliers
layoffs. He added, “There are agree with Mr. Skipper’s parsing, the network “MSESPN,” a refer- in last season’s playoffs. BIRD’S EXIT FOLLOWS A PLAN Three years later, a rejuvenated
much more obvious things to and Bob Ley, one of ESPN’s long- ence to MSNBC, the cable news The trouble is, James only Larry Bird made the decision last and healthier Bird returned to the
point to.” est-tenured anchors, perhaps channel that frequently skews seems to be getting better. year. team as the president for basket-
hinted at one byproduct of ESPN’s liberal in its analysis. Giving the After nearly averaging a triple- After nearly 40 years in the ball operations.
Still, some viewers seized on a
“diversity and inclusion” when he courage award to Ms. Jenner, he double against the Pacers, he re- N.B.A., he had started plotting an This time, Bird put together
rare moment of public vulnerabil-
said in an interview, smacked of exit strategy. teams that went to three more
ity for ESPN to air their griev- told the ombudsman, Jim Brady, minded the Raptors that to ad-
“social engineering” on behalf of Bird, a 60-year-old Hall of conference finals and earned him
ances, an echo of Gamergate, a in reference to gender and racial vance, they will have to stop him.
Famer, finally told the rest of the the N.B.A.’s Executive of the Year
heated dispute that escalated a emphases in personnel: “We’ve ESPN. He has also criticized what “We’ve just got to play defense
world Monday: He was stepping Award in 2011-12. Bird is the only
few years ago when video game done a great job of diversity. But he called the “lionization” of Mr. and not let them do up and down
down as the Indiana Pacers’ presi- person in league history to be
reviewers were accused of in- the one place we have miles to go Kaepernick. and do what they do,” Lowry said. named an M.V.P. and coach and
appropriately infusing politics is diversity of thought.” Mr. Pilson, the journalism pro- “Play defense for 48 minutes. dent for basketball operations,
executive of the year.
and biases on other subjects into An ESPN-commissioned study fessor, said he believed that amid We’ve got to find ways to limit turning the reins over to Kevin
Bird explained that he informed
their work, leading to a campaign last October found that 28 percent the present political deluge, even their spurts.” Pritchard and remaining in the or-
the team owner Herb Simon last
of harassment against those who of the network’s consumers be- sports media outlets could not Before the game, Toronto Coach ganization as a scout and consult- summer that he had signed his fi-
were derogatorily called “social lieved it was politically biased, ac- help but get wet. Dwane Casey talked about the big ant. nal contract to run the team. Then
justice warriors.” cording to figures provided by “People are either anticipating, comebacks that have been a “Maybe when I turn 70, I’ll Bird called two confidantes into
(It is difficult to discern, of ESPN. Of that 28 percent, 56 per- expecting or microwatching theme during the playoffs. The come back,” Bird joked. his office — Pritchard and Peter
course, whether the complaints cent believed the network was bi- sportscasters to see if they can de- Raptors blew a 25-point lead to the Bird’s story is well known to Dinwiddie, the Pacers’ vice presi-
lodged against ESPN on social ased in a liberal direction, while tect any bias,” he said. Milwaukee Bucks in the first millions — the small-town prep dent for basketball operations —
media and other digital platforms 37 percent said it was biased in a Barry Blyn, ESPN’s vice presi- round, while the Cavaliers over- star who led Indiana State to the and repeated the message.
represented a small or large por- conservative direction. dent for consumer insights, noted came a 25-point halftime deficit 1979 N.C.A.A. championship game “This is not a shock to me, as
tion of the network’s viewership.) Two events in particular polar- in an interview that ratings for and pulled off the biggest second- against Magic Johnson and Michi- Larry has always been upfront
In The Ringer, the writer Bryan ized viewers against ESPN, ac- CNN, Fox News and MSNBC had half rally in playoff history in gan State, won three Most Valu- about someday stepping down,”
Curtis recently concluded, sym- cording to the study, which was not fallen off since November. Game 3 against the Pacers. able Player Awards and three Simon said. “I thank him for all
pathetically, that sportswriting conducted by Langer Research “The election isn’t over,” he “There’s no lead safe in the N.B.A. titles in Boston, and then that he has done and am very
had become “a liberal profession.” Associates: Ms. Jenner’s receiv- said. “And because it isn’t over, ev- N.B.A.,” Casey said. helped the Dream Team capture pleased he is remaining with the
In debates such as whether the ing her award, and the firing of the erything is political.” The Cavaliers found that out in Olympic gold in 1992. In August Pacers in a different capacity.”

H O C K E Y S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S

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In Anyone’s
A.L. East,
Everyone’s
A Contender
By BILLY WITZ
May is only just beginning, but the
temperature in the American League
East has been rising rapidly lately.
When Baltimore’s Manny Machado
took out Dustin Pedroia of Boston
with a late slide a
BLUE JAYS 7 little more than a
YANKEES 1 week ago, Pe-
droia’s teammate
Matt Barnes threw a pitch that
buzzed Machado’s ear, which the Ori-
oles did not care for — and neither did
Pedroia, as he made clear after the
game.
On Sunday in Toronto, when Tampa
Bay’s Chris Archer threw a fastball
behind the head of Jose Bautista, it
was viewed by Blue Jays Manager
John Gibbons as payback for Toronto
reliever Joe Biagini’s hitting the hand
of Rays outfielder Steven Souza Jr.
the previous day.
The Yankees, in contrast, have thus
far steered clear of any testy conflict
in the division — perhaps because, for
the first month of the season, they
have found few reasons to take of-
fense.
Then again, until Monday, they had
not played the Blue Jays, the team
that during the past two seasons has
succeeded not only in repeatedly
beating the Yankees but also in get-
ting under their skin.
If the Blue Jays did little to upset
the Yankees’ sensibilities on Monday,
they nevertheless cruised to a 7-1 vic- JIM McISAAC/GETTY IMAGES

tory at Yankee Stadium, riding the Toronto’s Jose Bautista hitting a two-run homer during the seventh inning Monday night at Yankee Stadium. Bautista went 2 for 4, with two R.B.I.
adroit pitching of Marco Estrada and
home runs by Bautista, Ryan Goins
and Chris Coghlan. Their last meeting of 2016 was a meeting last year, which Bautista an- inning, scattering seven singles over on Travis raced home from second
The defeat dropped the Yankees to memorable one: Yankees pitcher swered with a hard slide that engen- seven innings. He struck out Didi Gre- and third. Ellsbury injured his left el-
one game behind the Baltimore Ori- Luis Severino hit the Blue Jays slug- dered an overhand right to his chin by gorius with two on to end the third, got bow on the play, and though he stayed
oles for the division lead and gave ger Josh Donaldson, the Blue Jays’ Rangers second baseman Rougned Greg Bird to hit into an inning-ending in the game, he was not sure if he
J. A. Happ answered by plunking Odor. double play with two aboard in the would be ready for Tuesday’s game.
Chase Headley, and Severino re- “Some people look at it, and they fourth, and retired Aaron Judge and Bautista applied the crowning blow,
sponded by hitting Justin Smoak. don’t like that aspect of the game,” Bird on fly balls with two on in the hitting a two-run homer off Luis
A foe who has recently That led to two bench-clearing Yankees reliever Tommy Layne said. sixth. Cessa, who was recalled from Scran-
dust-ups in the first two innings, a “I love it. I think that’s still keeping Asked how Estrada can get hitters
gotten under the welt under the eye of Yankees out- some of the traditional aspects of pro- out by throwing an 89-m.p.h. fastball
ton/Wilkes-Barre earlier in the day to
replace Bryan Mitchell. It was his
fielder Tyler Austin, and ejections for tecting your players and your team- and changeup combination up in the
Yankees’ skin rolls on. Severino, Manager Joe Girardi, the mates. But I think it breeds a better strike zone, Judge shrugged. “If I
34th home run against the Yankees,
the most of any active player.
bench coach Rob Thomson and the baseball. How long did people talk knew, I’d have had four hits,” he said.
“Any time you walk into this build-
pitching coach Larry Rothschild. The about the bat flip and the situation be- The Blue Jays did not find Severino
ing, you know what the name repre-
them back-to-back losses for the first Yankees had the last word when Mark tween Texas and Bautista? It brings nearly as baffling. Goins, filling in for
Teixeira hit a game-winning home attention to the game, which is not a sents, and you want to beat the best,
time since the opening week of the Tulowitzki, hit a two-run homer off
run off reliever Jason Grilli in the bad thing.” Severino in the second, and Coghlan, always,” Bautista said.
season, when they lost three in a row. He added: “I would compare this to
ninth inning, which Teixeira punctu- This season, the Blue Jays have not filling in for Donaldson, hit a solo
That it came to Toronto could ated with a bat flip and some extra had much to celebrate. They lost 17 of homer in the sixth that finished the an underdog playing Barcelona or
hardly be a surprise. The Blue Jays words for Grilli from the dugout. their first 23 games, and their dis- night for Severino, who has not beat- Real Madrid in soccer. You always
have won 26 of 39 games against the The Yankees viewed it as giving the abled list includes third baseman en the Blue Jays in five starts. want to beat the opponent, but there
Yankees dating to the beginning of the Blue Jays — “the kings of fun,” Head- Donaldson, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki Earlier in the inning, the Blue Jays seems to be a higher sense of aware-
2015 season — blowing past them ley called them at the time — a little and pitchers Aaron Sanchez and scored two runs on a sacrifice fly as ness of how important it is to win
down the stretch in 2015 and winning taste of their own sauce. Happ. Even with their modest three- Jacoby Ellsbury crashed into the cen- when you come into Yankee Stadium.
three of four in late September last It was Bautista, of course, whose game winning streak, the Blue Jays ter-field wall to catch Goins’s long It’s always important to come in here
season, as Toronto clinched a wild- bat flip after a late home run in the are eight games behind the Orioles. drive. But his flip from the seat of his and play good because it sets a state-
card berth and all but eliminated the 2015 playoffs so rankled the Texas On Monday, Estrada repeatedly pants to Judge went over the 6-foot-7 ment, not only with them, but for the
Yankees. Rangers that they hit him in their final stymied the Yankees’ pursuit of a big outfielder’s head as Smoak and Dev- rest of the division.”

Seeing an Injury Coming at 100 Miles Per Hour

and coach who runs the National I’m not with Syndergaard every should throw at least a little
From First Sports Page Pitching Academy in California, day; I’m not part of the Mets’ every day. Two of Sain’s pitchers,
his fixation on velocity such a told Bob Klapisch of The Bergen anything. I’m friends with Danny Kaat and Tommy John, would go
shame. Record in February: “Unfortu- Warthen” — the Mets’ pitching on to throw more than 4,500
Syndergaard bought so thor- nately, this is an injury waiting to coach — “and I just figured, well, innings apiece. No active pitcher
oughly into his Thor persona last happen by the second week of it’s going to run its course. In has worked even 3,300 innings.
winter that he should have just June. Unless you’re picking up a retrospect, I should have proba- “The single most important
carried a hammer to spring ball while you’re getting stronger, bly called the doctor and just exercise that I did during my
training. He was jacked, un- kind of told him what my fears career was throwing the base-
apologetically so. Why did the were.” ball,” Kaat said. “Whenever they
hardest-throwing starter in the House, like Kaat, believes that would say, ‘You sure you’re not
majors — 98 miles per hour last A school of thought developing pitchers should throw throwing too much?’ I would
season, according to FanGraphs
— need to bulk up and throw
says pitchers should more, not less. The modern in-
dustry believes the opposite. Yet
say: ‘Well, this is how I make my
living. I’m just spinning the ball.
even harder? throw more, not less. pitchers continue to break down. I’m trying to figure out what
“I want to set goals, not neces- “What happens in today’s makes it move, how can I make it
sarily throw harder, but just game is kids pitch too much, but do this and do that?’ So my arm
make the game easier,” he said they don’t throw enough,” House always stayed very flexible.”
this spring. “Just never become you’re just adding muscle that said. “That’s the simplest way to Syndergaard is only a product PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES

complacent and try to maintain doesn’t know how to throw. It’s explain it. They haven’t created a of today’s culture, in which the Noah Syndergaard, the hardest-throwing starter in baseball,
anything, because once you start unskilled muscle.” broad enough throwing founda- radar gun too often dictates a pitching in the first inning against the Nationals on Sunday.
maintaining, you ultimately Sure enough, Syndergaard had tion to handle the pitching work- pitcher’s value. But he also
lose.” not thrown all winter, believing loads. seems to have held too much
That rationale sounds fine on that consecutive seasons with “My brother and I wore out sway over his employers, refus- tant to do so in spite of his oppo- to prove a point, and cause a new
the surface, but it contradicts around 200 innings were enough three garage doors throwing ing their request for a magnetic sition. That was factored into the injury?
decades of examples of pitchers stress on his arm. And sure tennis balls against them. We resonance imaging for his biceps decision as well. From that “Anything’s possible,” Al-
who lost a little of their youthful enough, an injury happened even lived at the beach. I bet you I discomfort last week — and standpoint, who’s not to say that derson conceded.
fastballs yet continued to domi- before House expected. threw a million sea rocks at sea getting away with it. things couldn’t have been done All we know, really, is that
nate. Syndergaard wanted more, “I hate being right about these gulls. Not very environmentally “The M.R.I. was not dismissed differently?” Syndergaard made the radar gun
a goal that was noble, perhaps, kinds of things,” House said by friendly, but we were throwing out of hand simply because Noah Alderson insisted there was no sizzle on Sunday. At a carnival,
but ultimately reckless. Smart phone on Monday, adding that he all the time.” said he wouldn’t do it,” General connection between the lat injury he would have won the biggest
pitching minds saw an injury had almost called the Mets’ team Kaat worked under the re- Manager Sandy Alderson told and the biceps problem. But did stuffed animal at the booth. At
coming. doctor, David Altchek, last week. nowned pitching coach Johnny reporters in Atlanta on Monday. Syndergaard overcompensate on the ballpark, he won a lengthy
Tom House, the former pitcher “But it’s none of my business. Sain, who believed that pitchers “We evaluate whether it’s impor- Sunday, trying to throw too hard trip to the disabled list.

Questions Grow as Mets Lose Syndergaard Indefinitely to Torn Torso Muscle

go,” Alderson said. “Now, is it a the team called right biceps ten- ty of different sources, including Alderson said he did not want M.R.I. and it didn’t show anything
From First Sports Page surprise that Cespedes is on the dinitis and soreness in his biceps Noah himself,” he said. “The to speculate, but he said the Mets and he got injured,” he said. “Am I
“The question was specifically disabled list for the hamstring? and shoulder. M.R.I. was not dismissed out of would have to evaluate whether better off? The team’s not better
asked and the answer was, ‘No,’ No. We knew that he was suscep- Syndergaard called it a “little hand simply because Noah said he Syndergaard’s adding more mus- off.”
that there was not a connection,” tible to this, and there was some hiccup” and said he felt better wouldn’t do it. We evaluate cle in the off-season had had an Over the weekend, Alderson
Alderson said. “Now, that’s an issue. But at the same time, we with anti-inflammatory medica- whether it’s important to do so in adverse effect, or if changes said the Mets needed to appraise
opinion, but coming from a pretty can’t put somebody on the dis- tion, but insisted he could have spite of his opposition.” needed to be made to Synder- everything from weight training
knowledgeable source.” abled list who says they’re not started on Thursday. He also re- Alderson said he “sincerely” be- gaard’s hard throwing. to hydration of players, such as
hurt.” fused an M.R.I., a decision that lieved that Syndergaard was be- Mets strength and conditioning Cespedes, who had a history of leg
The episode added to criticism
A near mirror episode hap- was heavily scrutinized a few ing truthful about feeling fine. coaches visit players in the off-
that the Mets had already drawn issues, to prevent recurring inju-
pened last year with Cespedes days later after he walked off the “He was throwing 100 miles an season, Alderson said, but “we
regarding injuries, especially to ries. On Monday, Alderson said
and a quadriceps injury, which Al- mound holding his side with a hour in the first inning,” Alderson don’t control everything they do.”
Cespedes and Syndergaard. Ces- derson said then the Mets hoped trainer. said. “Was that because he was Asked if he regretted any deci- that he had “absolute confidence”
pedes first injured his hamstring to avoid, yet it happened again The Mets had cleared Synder- trying to show someone or us that sions on Syndergaard, Alderson in the information he received
on April 20, was not placed on the this year. gaard to start after he threw a he was fine? I don’t know the an- said it was hard to answer. He from the medical staff.
10-day disabled list and was given Syndergaard’s injury, though, bullpen session with no problem swer to that.” took in all the available informa- When Alderson took over as
five days of rest. He returned to brought more questions. He was in front of coaches on Friday. Asked whether Syndergaard tion, he said, from the medical general manager in 2011, he said
play, but he landed on the disabled scratched the morning of his Alderson said on Monday that it was compensating for one dis- staff to Syndergaard to his own he knew the Mets had a reputation
list on April 28 after he reinjured Thursday start because the Mets was his decision to allow Synder- comfort and it led to another, Al- experience, in making the deci- for struggling with injuries. “I
the hamstring. did not want to risk further injury, gaard to pitch. derson said, “Anything’s possi- sion. don’t seem to have done anything
“He thought he was ready to as he had been dealing with what “It was with input from a varie- ble.” “But let’s assume he got the to improve it,” he said.
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S C O R E B OA R D

W.N.B.A. Will Stream Games on Twitter PRO BASKETBALL

N.B.A. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

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Baltimore 16 8 .667 —
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A few months ago, W.N.B.A. Presi- on Facebook have delivered great re-
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE Yankees 15 9 .625 1
dent Lisa Borders reached out to Se- “We are excited to help extend the sults for fans, broadcasters and rights Cleveland 1, Toronto 0 Ottawa 2, Rangers 0
reach of women’s sports around the holders.” Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto 105 Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, Rangers 1 Boston 13 12 .520 3{
attle Storm guard Jewell Loyd, who Wednesday, May 3: Toronto at Cleveland, Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, Rangers 5, 2OT
had injured her ankle while playing in world by collaborating further with For now, major broadcasters like 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 2: Ottawa at Rangers, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay 13 14 .481 4{
Friday, May 5: Cleveland at Toronto, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4: Ottawa at Rangers, 7:30
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Loyd was recovering. During their live W.N.B.A. games for the next three dominate the market for sports rights p.m. x-Saturday, May 6: Rangers at Ottawa, TBD
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conversation, Borders also asked seasons,” Anthony Noto, Twitter’s and pay hundreds of millions of dollars TBD x-Thursday, May 11: Rangers at Ottawa, TBD Cleveland 14 11 .560 —
Loyd for any ideas on how to broaden chief operating officer, said in a news to televise games. Major internet com- x-Thursday, May 11: Cleveland at Toronto, Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1
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the game and help expand the league’s release. “The growing women’s bas- panies like Facebook and Amazon x-Sunday, May 14: Toronto at Cleveland, 2
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reach. Boston 1, Washington 0 Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
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111 Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.
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struck a chord with Borders. On Mon- ter, which streams weekly out-of-mar- “It’s not clear yet how to make these 8 p.m. TBD Houston 17 9 .654 —
day night, the W.N.B.A. became the ket Major League Baseball and N.H.L. profitable in their own right, but be- Sunday, May 7: Boston at Washington,
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league to sign a rights deal with Twit- ue-enhancing, I think you’re just going x-Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington,
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an analyst at Pivotal Research Group. Houston vs. San Antonio Friday, May 5: Edmonton at Anaheim, 10:30
gestion, I heard it, we listened and we Twitter for this season’s digital pack- Monday, May 1: Houston at San Antonio p.m. Toronto 7, Yankees 1
now have a deal with Twitter,” Borders age. Amazon will air 10 Thursday night He added, “It’s one of those things Wednesday, May 3: Houston at San x-Sunday, May 7: Anaheim at Edmonton, Baltimore 5, Boston 2
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Detroit 7, Cleveland 1
for which customers pay $99 per year. into because they may want to go big- 9:30 p.m. Anaheim, TBD Tampa Bay 4, Miami 2
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year deal coincided with Twitter’s pre- The N.F.L. deal is Amazon’s first foray ger.” 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3
Houston 6, Texas 2
sentation to advertising buyers on into sports rights. Still, deals with internet and social x-Tuesday, May 9: Houston at San Antonio, Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2
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Houston, TBA p.m.
NewFronts, an industry conference in to stream live sporting events. During smaller leagues like the W.N.B.A. to x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio, Friday, May 5: Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m. (Tanaka 3-1), 7:05
New York. Twitter will stream 20 regu- the 2016-17 season, the N.B.A.’s Devel- add revenue and experiment with new TBA x-Sunday, May 7: St. Louis at Nashville, TBD Baltimore (Asher 1-0) at Boston
Golden State vs. Utah x-Tuesday, May 9: Nashville at St. Louis, TBD (Sale 1-2), 7:10
lar-season games in each of the next opment League games were streamed ways to show their games. In 2016, the Tuesday, May 2: Utah at Golden State,
on Facebook Live. In March, Facebook Cleveland (Kluber 3-1) at Detroit
three seasons, starting with the game W.N.B.A. streamed the ring ceremony 10:30 p.m.
(Verlander 1-2), 7:10
between the Dallas Wings and the and Major League Soccer announced for the Minnesota Lynx on Facebook.
Thursday, May 4: Utah at Golden State,
10:30 p.m.
TENNIS
Tampa Bay (Cobb 1-2) at Miami
that at least 22 games in the 2017 sea- Saturday, May 6: Golden State at Utah,
Phoenix Mercury on May 14. “If folks can’t be physically in a mar- 8:30 p.m. ESTORIL OPEN (Volquez 0-3), 7:10
The games are exclusive to Twitter son would be available on Facebook. ket inside an arena, then we look for Monday, May 8: Golden State at Utah, 9 Oakland (Gray 0-0) at Minnesota
p.m. Estadio Nacional (Santana 4-0), 8:10
and are not simulcasts of local or na- “Sports are inherently social, with them to use tools like Twitter to enjoy x-Wednesday, May 10: Utah at Golden OEIRAS, PORTUGAL
Texas (Hamels 2-0) at Houston (Fi-
tional television games. Twitter is pay- the power to build and connect com- the games,” Borders said. “Folks have State, TBD Singles
First Round ers 0-1), 8:10
x-Friday, May 12: Golden State at Utah,
ing the W.N.B.A. guaranteed money to munities around the world,” Dan Reed, their choice of when they want to see TBD Tommy Robredo, Spain, d. Evgeny Chicago White Sox (Quintana 1-4) at
Facebook’s head of global sports part- x-Sunday, May 14: Utah at Golden State, Donskoy, Russia, 6-3, 6-2. Gastao Elias,
stream the games, but the league games and how they want to see TBD Portugal, d. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-4, 3-6, Kansas City (Duffy 2-1), 8:15
would not release the financial details. nerships, said in a statement. “This games. This is a real nod to the future, 6-3. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, d. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-1) at
Salvatore Caruso, Italy, 6-2, 6-3. Frederico Seattle (Paxton 3-0), 10:10
The W.N.B.A. also has a national tele- aligns closely with our mission, and we on recognizing that some of our fans N.B.A. PLAYOFF LEADERS Ferreira Silva, Portugal, d. Denis Istomin,
vision deal with ESPN that runs feel Facebook is a natural home for are consuming sports in very different Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-2. N.L. STANDINGS
Doubles
through 2022 and includes 16 games sports content, including live games. ways.” Scoring
First Round East W L Pct GB
G FG FT PTS AVG
Westbrook, OKC. . .5 59 56 187 37.4 Ryan Harrison, United States, and
Michael Venus, Australia, d. Sam Groth, Washington 17 8 .680 —
Harden, HOU . . . . .5 44 66 166 33.2
James, CLE . . . . . .4 50 22 131 32.8 Australia, and Robert Lindstedt (1), United
States, 6-3, 5-7, 10-4. Carlos Berlocq, Philadelphia 11 12 .478 5
Leonard, SAN . . . .6 57 59 187 31.2
Argentina, and Sergio Galdos, Peru, d.
Curry, GOL . . . . . .4 37 26 119 29.8
Ernesto Escobedo, United States, and Miami 11 13 .458 5{
Wall, WAS . . . . . . .7 72 43 197 28.1
George, IND . . . . .4 34 26 112 28.0 Fabricio Neis, Brazil, 6-0, 7-6 (6). Nicolas Mets 11 14 .440 6
Lillard, POR . . . . . .4 39 24 111 27.8 Almagro and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez,
Beal, WAS . . . . . . .7 69 26 182 26.0 Spain, d. Kyle Edmund, Britain, and Joao Atlanta 10 14 .417 6{
Paul, LAC . . . . . . .7 67 29 177 25.3 Sousa, Portugal, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (8), 13-11.
Irving, CLE . . . . . .4 39 16 101 25.2 Central W L Pct GB
Antetokounmpo, MIL 6 60 25 149 24.8 BMW OPEN Chicago 13 11 .542 —
Conley, MEM . . . . .6 50 31 148 24.7
Schroder, ATL . . . .6 50 31 148 24.7 Monday
At MTTC Iphitos Milwaukee 13 13 .500 1
Thomas, BOS . . . .7 54 49 171 24.4
Millsap, ATL. . . . . .6 50 43 146 24.3 Munich Cincinnati 12 13 .480 1{
Hayward, UTA . . . .7 53 43 166 23.7 Singles
DeRozan, TOR . . . .6 47 46 141 23.5 First Round St. Louis 12 13 .480 1{
Butler, CHI . . . . . .6 46 38 136 22.7 Jan-Lennard Struff (7), Germany, d.
McCollum, POR . . .4 32 15 90 22.5 Daniel Masur, Germany, 6-3, 6-4. Tommy Pittsburgh 11 14 .440 2{
Gasol, MEM. . . . . .6 39 31 116 19.3 Haas, Germany, d. Sergiy Stakhovsky,
Williams, HOU . . . .5 32 21 94 18.8 Ukraine, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Thomaz Bellucci (8), West W L Pct GB
Brazil, d. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan,
6-3, 6-2. Yannick Hanfmann, Germany, d. Colorado 16 10 .615 —
Gerald Melzer, Austria, 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.
GOLF Doubles Arizona 16 11 .593 {
First Round
Los Angeles 14 12 .538 2
ZURICH CLASSIC Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi, Italy,
d. Matthias Bachinger and Maximilian San Diego 11 16 .407 5{
TPC Louisiana Marterer, Germany, 6-2, 6-3.
AVONDALE, LA. San Francisco 9 17 .346 7
Purse: $7.1 million ISTANBUL OPEN
Yardage: 7,425; Par 72 MONDAY
Final Koza World of Sports Mets 7, Atlanta 5
(x-won on the fourth playoff hole) ISTANBUL
x-Blixt/Smith $1,022,400 . . . . 67-62-68-64—261 -27 Singles Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 3, 10 innings
Kisner/Brown $411,800 . . . . 70-64-67-60—261 -27 First Round Tampa Bay 4, Miami 2
Kraft/Tway $269,800 . . . . . . 71-63-70-61—265 -23 Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, d. Marcel Milwaukee 7, St. Louis 5, 10 innings
Spieth/Palmer $228,975 . . . . 66-66-70-64—266 -22 Granollers, Spain, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Steve
Dufner/Kizzire $140,225 . . . . 69-64-73-63—269 -19 Darcis (8), Belgium, d. Dudi Sela, Israel, Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs
B. Koepka/C. Koepka $140,225 69-65-73-62—269 -19 7-5, 6-4. Jordan Thompson, Australia, d. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers
Watson/Holmes $140,225 . . . .73-64-68-64—269 -19 Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, Spain, 6-7 (4),
Cabrera/Etulain $140,225 . . . . .70-63-71-65—269 -19 6-0, 6-0. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, d. Cem TUESDAY
Thomas/Cauley $140,225 . . . . .70-64-74-61—269 -19 Ilkel, Turkey, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rogerio Dutra Mets (Harvey 2-1) at Atlanta (Dickey
C. Hoffman/Watney $140,225 . .67-65-69-68—269 -19 Silva, Brazil, d. Riccardo Bellotti, Italy, 3-6, 2-2), 7:35
Schauffele/Ridings $71,000 . . . .68-64-73-65—270 -18 7-6 (1), 6-0. Bernard Tomic (6), Australia,
Murray/Percy $71,000 . . . . . . .70-67-71-62—270 -18 d. Radu Albot, Moldova, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3. Arizona (Walker 3-1) at Washington
Stuard/Stroud $71,000 . . . . . . .68-64-71-67—270 -18 (Roark 3-0), 7:05
Lingmerth/Lee $40,026 . . . . . . .72-62-72-65—271 -17
Stricker/Kelly $40,026 . . . . . . . .68-66-72-65—271 -17 PRAGUE OPEN Pittsburgh (Glasnow 0-1) at Cincin-
Reed/Cantlay $40,026 . . . . . . .68-62-75-66—271 -17 nati (Feldman 1-2), 7:10
TK Sparta Praha
Harman/Wagner $40,026 . . . . .71-64-72-64—271 -17 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Tampa Bay (Cobb 1-2) at Miami
Van Aswegen/Goosen $40,026 73-60-72-66—271 -17 Singles (Volquez 0-3), 7:10
Jacobson/Wilcox $40,026 . . . . .71-63-73-64—271 -17 First Round
CHARLES L e CLAIRE/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS M. Hoffmann/Villegas $40,026 .72-62-71-66—271 -17 Philadelphia (Hellickson 4-0) at
Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic,
Thompson/Wilkinson $40,026 . .71-66-68-66—271 -17 d. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-7 (6), Chicago Cubs (Lester 0-1), 8:05
The Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin, left, and Kevin Shattenkirk after Shattenkirk’s winning goal in overtime. Barnes/Jones $24,140 . . . . . . .70-67-70-65—272 -16 7-5, 6-2. Camila Giorgi, Italy, d. Karolina Milwaukee (Peralta 4-1) at St. Louis
Hearn/DeLaet $24,140 . . . . . . .71-66-72-63—272 -16 Pliskova (1), Czech Republic, 7-6 (6), 6-2.
Grace/Oosthuizen $17,665 . . . .70-67-70-66—273 -15 (Martinez 0-3), 8:15
Oceane Dodin, France, d. Annika Beck,
Henry/Hoge $17,665 . . . . . . . .69-67-71-66—273 -15 Germany, 7-5, 6-4. Wang Qiang, China, d. Colorado (Chatwood 2-3) at San
HOCKEY Merritt/Streb $17,665 . . . . . . . .69-62-74-68—273 -15 Maria Sakkari, Greece, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Diego (Cahill 1-2), 10:10
Cejka/Kjeldsen $17,665 . . . . . .70-62-75-66—273 -15 Doubles
Choi/Wi $17,665 . . . . . . . . . . . .67-64-76-66—273 -15 San Francisco (Moore 1-3) at L.A.
First Round

Crosby Injured as Penguins Lose to Capitals

Bryan/Blaum $15,691 . . . . . . . .71-65-71-67—274 -14 Dodgers (Wood 1-0), 10:10
Asia Muhammad, United States, and
Stanley/Ruffels $15,691 . . . . . .66-66-77-65—274 -14 Alicja Rosolska (4), Poland, d. Viktorija
Reifers/Johnston $15,691 . . . . .71-66-73-64—274 -14
Ogilvy/Poulter $14,697 . . . . . . .69-66-71-69—275 -13
Golubic, Switzerland, and Kristyna METS 7, BRAVES 5
Pliskova, Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-4, 10-
Bozzelli/Poston $14,697 . . . . . .70-66-73-66—275 -13 6. Xenia Knoll, Switzerland, and Demi New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
Swafford/English $14,697 . . . . .70-67-73-65—275 -13 Schuurs, Netherlands, d. Danka Kovinic, Conforto lf 4 1 2 3 1 1 .333
Kevin Shattenkirk scored 3 minutes 13 seconds into younger,” Can said. “That is the best goal I’ve ever scored.” Matsuyama/Tanihara $14,697 . .69-66-75-65—275 -13 Montenegro, Magda Linette, Poland, 6-4, Cabrera ss 3 1 1 0 1 0 .247
M. Kim/Hagy $13,987 . . . . . . .72-64-71-69—276 -12 Bruce rf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .287
overtime and the visiting Washington Capitals overcame a The league rivals Manchester City, Manchester United Made cut did not finish
6-7 (2), 10-4. Lucie Hradecka, Czech
Walker 2b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .200
Republic, and Katerina Siniakova (1),
late collapse in regulation to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Arsenal dropped points in the race for a top-four posi- Flores/Fdez-Castano $13,561 . . . .72-65-74—211 -5 Czech Republic, d. Natela Dzalamidze and Granderson cf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .124
Martin/Crane $13,561 . . . . . . . . . .67-67-77—211 -5 Reed p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
3-2, on Monday night in Game 3 of an Eastern Conference tion, so a win was vital for Liverpool, which has struggled Schniederjans/Werenski $12,851 . .70-67-76—213 -3
Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 6-4, 6-3.
Familia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
semifinal. against teams in the bottom half. The Reds moved 4 points Reavie/Glover $12,851 . . . . . . . . .69-68-76—213
Loupe/Peterson $12,851 . . . . . . .71-64-78—213
-3
-3
Reyes 3b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .178
d’Arnaud c 3 1 0 0 1 0 .214
Pittsburgh, the defending champion, has a two-games- ahead of fifth-place United, though they have played an ex- Hubbard/Randolph $12,283 . . . . .69-67-78—214 -2 TRANSACTIONS Rivera 1b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .207
to-one lead in the series. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednes- tra game. Gsellman p 3 0 0 0 0 2 .111
M.L.B. Edgin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
day night in Pittsburgh. “Everything is in our hands,” Can said. SOCCER Robles p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
American League Blevins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
The Penguins played most of the game without their
M.L.S. STANDINGS YANKEES — Recalled RHP Luis Cessa from Lagares cf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .167
star and captain, Sidney Crosby, who left in the first period Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHP Totals 33 7 8 7 5 7
BAS EBALL EAST W L T Pts GF GA Bryan Mitchell to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Atlanta ab r h bi bb so avg.
after taking a hit to the head from Capitals defenseman Orlando City 6 1 0 18 10 5 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed RHP Aaron Inciarte cf 4 1 2 1 1 1 .240
Matt Niskanen. Red Bulls 5 3 1 16 11 10 Sanchez on the 10-day DL. Recalled RHP Phillips 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .338
Washington appeared to be in control thanks to goals Machado Powers Orioles Past Red Sox New York City FC 4
Columbus 4
3
4
1 13 14
1 13 13 13
9 Danny Barnes from Buffalo (IL).
National League
Freeman 1b
Kemp lf
3
4
2
2
1
3
0 0 1 .379
0 0 0 .350
by Nicklas Backstrom and Evgeny Kuznetzov. The lead Toronto FC 3 1 4 13 12 7 METS — Placed RHP Noah Syndergaard on Markakis rf 4 0 0 2 0 1 .297
Manny Machado hit a long home run out of Fenway Atlanta United FC 3 3 2 11 18 11 the 10-day DL. Recalled RHP Paul Sewald Garcia 3b 3 0 1 2 0 0 .226
vanished in the final two minutes of the third when Evgeni Park, drove in two runs and made three solid plays at third Chicago 3 3 2 11 11 12 from Las Vegas (PCL). Flowers c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .380
D.C. United 3 3 2 11 9 13 PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled C Elias Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .151
Malkin and Justin Schultz scored in a 48-second span to base in his first game against Boston since a dust-up with New England 2 3 4 10 14 14 Diaz from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned C John Teheran p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .167
force overtime. the Red Sox just over a week ago, carrying the Baltimore Montreal 1 3 4 7 11 14 Bormann to Bradenton (FSL). Adams ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Philadelphia 0 4 4 4 8 14 Krol p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Braden Holtby stopped 28 shots for Washington after Orioles to a 5-2 victory. Vizcaino p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
N.B.A.
having been pulled in his previous start. Marc-Andre Caleb Joseph added a run-scoring double for the Ori- WEST W L T Pts GF GA Motte p
Peterson ph
0
1
0
0
0
1
0 0 0
0 0 0 .269
---
Portland 5 2 2 17 20 12 INDIANA PACERS — Announced the
Fleury finished with 30 saves for Pittsburgh. oles, who beat Boston for the fourth time in six games this Kansas City 4 1 3 15 9 3 resignation of president Larry Bird. Totals 33 5 9 5 2 5
The game was scoreless just over five minutes into the season. FC Dallas 4 0 3 15 10 5 New York 100 500 010—7 8 1
Houston 4 3 1 13 15 13 Atlanta 100 202 000—5 9 1
first period when Crosby skated outside the Capitals’ In the teams’ last meeting at Camden Yards, reliever San Jose 3 3 3 12 9 10 N.F.L.
Vancouver 3 4 1 10 11 14 E—Cabrera (3), Teheran (1). LOB—New
crease. Washington’s Alex Ovechkin slashed Crosby along Matt Barnes sent a pitch behind Machado’s head that hit Seattle 2 2 4 10 14 11 ATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms S York 5, Atlanta 5. 2B—Bruce (6), Lagares (1),
the upper body, and Crosby slid awkwardly trying to main- Real Salt Lake 2 5 2 8 9 15 Quincy Mauger, LB Darius English, G Robert Freeman (7), Kemp 2 (7). HR—Conforto (7),
his bat. Barnes was suspended four games and fined. Ma- Minnesota United 2 5 2 8 13 25 Leff, WRs Deante Burton Reginald Davis III, off Teheran; Reyes (3), off Krol; Inciarte (5),
tain his balance when he collided with Niskanen, who had chado had angered the Red Sox with a late slide into second Los Angeles 2 5 1 7 8 13 Josh Magee, QB Alek Torgersen, FB Tyler off Gsellman. RBIs—Conforto 3 (16), Walker
(11), Reyes 2 (5), Rivera (1), Inciarte (12),
his stick raised. baseman Dustin Pedroia’s left leg two days earlier. Colorado 1 5 1 4 5 11 Renew, OL Daniel Brunskill, T Wil Freeman, C
Cam Keizur, T Andreas Knappe, S Marcelis Markakis 2 (12), Garcia 2 (9). CS—Cabrera
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
The stick caught Crosby flush across the mouth, and he In Monday’s game, Machado hit a hanging slider on the for tie. Branch, CB Jarnor Jones, DE J’terius Jones, (1). SF—Garcia. DP—New York 2; Atlanta 1
S Jordan Moore, DE Chris Odom, CB Taylor New York ip h r er bb so np era
lay on the ice for several moments before slowly skating off inner half of the plate over the Green Monster seats, Saturday’s Games
Reynolds, LB Christian Tago and S Deron GsellmanW1-2 5 6 5 5 1 0 77 6.75
Red Bulls 2, Chicago 1
the ice under his own power as Pittsburgh trainers making it 2-0 in the sixth inning. He was loudly booed. New York City FC 3, Columbus 2
Washington. EdginH1 Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.61
BUFFALO BILLS — Signed CB Shareece RoblesH4 Î/¯ 1 0 0 1 0 12 1.76
searched the ice for Crosby’s teeth. Vancouver 2, Montreal 1
Wright. BlevinsH4 1 0 0 0 0 2 15 0.90
ASTROS 6, RANGERS 2 Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and Yuli Orlando City 2, Colorado 0 ReedH2 1 1 0 0 0 2 12 3.86
Niskanen, who played four seasons in Pittsburgh with Portland 2, FC Dallas 2, tie
CHICAGO BEARS — Signed G Taylor
Crosby before signing with Washington in 2014, earned a Gurriel each hit run-scoring doubles in a five-run seventh San Jose 1, Minnesota United 0
Boggs. Waived RB Bralon Addison, WR Dres FamiliaS2-2
Atlanta
1 1 0 0 0 1 13 1.50
ip h r er bb so np era
Anderson, CB De’Vante Bausby, RB David
major penalty for crosschecking and was given a game inning that lifted host Houston to a win over Texas in a Sporting Kansas City 3, Real Salt Lake 0
Cobb, CB Jacoby Glenn and TE Justin TeheranL2-2 6 6 6 6 3 5 83 4.33
New England 3, Seattle 3, tie Krol 1Î/¯ 1 1 1 1 2 29 9.31
misconduct. game that included a benches-clearing tussle. Philadelphia 0, Los Angeles 0, tie
Perillo.
Vizcaino Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.35
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released RBs Don
Sunday's Game Motte 1 1 0 0 1 0 18 9.00
TIGERS 7, INDIANS 1 Tyler Collins hit a three-run homer and Jackson and Christine Michael.
HART TROPHY FINALISTS NAMED Sidney Crosby, the Edmonton D.C. United 3, Atlanta United FC 1 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released LS Matt T—3:00. A—21,668 (41,500).
Oilers captain Connor McDavid and Columbus Blue Jack- Daniel Norris gave up only one run as host Detroit opened Wednesday's Games Overton and S Duke Williams. Waived LBs
a series against first-place Cleveland with a victory. Red Bulls at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 Alex Bazzie and Deon King; P Devon Bell; BLUE JAYS 7, YANKEES 1
ets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky are finalists for the p.m. LS Joe Fortunato; CBs Charles James and
Orlando City at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m. Larry Scott; S Stefan McClure; and WR Devin Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg.
N.H.L.’s Hart Trophy, given annually to the league’s most REDS 4, PIRATES 3 Billy Hamilton, who stole three bases, hit a Street. Pillar cf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .299
valuable player. Crosby, of the Penguins, is a two-time Hart run-scoring double in the 10th inning to lift host Cincinnati JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Exercised the Carrera lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .309
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE fifth-year option on QB Blake Bortles. Agreed Bautista rf 4 1 2 2 1 2 .191
Trophy winner, taking the award home in 2008 and 2014. He to a win over Pittsburgh. The Reds have consecutive wins to terms with LB P.J. Davis, TE Caleb Bluiett, Morales dh 5 0 2 0 0 0 .235
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
led the N.H.L. with 44 goals this season while helping the for the first time since completing a four-game winning Chelsea . . . . . 34 26 3 5 72 29 81
WR Keelan Cole, C Parker Collins, RB Tim Smoak 1b
Travis 2b
4 1 1 0 0 0 .272
4 2 2 0 0 0 .148
Cook, DE Hunter Dimick, WR Amba Etta-
defending Stanley Cup champions post the second-best streak on April 12. Tottenham. . . . 34 23 8 3 71 22 77 Tawo, G Avery Gennesy, LB Justin Horton, Goins ss 3 1 1 4 0 0 .208
Liverpool . . . . . 35 20 9 6 71 42 69 DT Tueni Lupeamanu, S Charlie Miller, DE Maile c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .000
record in the league. RAYS 4, MARLINS 2 Jake Odorizzi returned from the disabled Manchester City 34 19 9 6 65 37 66 Carroll Phillips, CB Ezra Robinson, WR Coghlan 3b 4 1 2 1 0 1 .250
McDavid won the scoring title, posting a league-high Man.United . . . 34 17 14 3 51 25 65 Kenneth Walker, CB Jeremy Cutrer and RB Barney 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .292
list to combine with four relievers on a four-hitter and help Arsenal . . . . . . 33 18 6 9 64 42 60 I’Tavius Mathers. Released TE E.J. Bibbs, Totals 35 7 12 7 3 4
100 points behind 30 goals and 70 assists as the Oilers visiting Tampa Bay beat Miami. Everton. . . . . . 35 16 10 9 60 40 58 RB Bronson Hill, OL Colin Kelly, LB Raphael New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
West Bromwich 34 12 8 14 39 43 44
reached the postseason for the first time in 11 years. Bo- Southampton . . 33 11 8 14 39 44 41
Kirby, LB Sean Porter, RB Daryl Richardson, Gardner lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .208
ROYALS 6, WHITE SOX 1 Eric Hosmer and Jorge Bonifacio hit TE Gannon Sinclair, S Elijah Shumate, OL Gregorius ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .368
brovsky led the N.H.L. in both goals against (2.06) and save Bournemouth . . 35 11 8 16 50 63 41 Arturo Uzdavinis, OL Greg Van Roten and Holliday dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .246
percentage (.931) as the Blue Jackets enjoyed the best sea- two-run homers, and host Kansas City ended a nine-game Leicester. . . . . 34 11 7 16 42 54 40 WR Tony Washington. Castro 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .358
Stoke . . . . . . . 35 10 10 15 37 50 40 Ellsbury cf 2 0 1 0 1 0 .282
son in franchise history. losing streak with a victory over Chicago. Watford . . . . . 34 11 7 16 37 55 40
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Exercised a fifth-year
option on OT Ja’Wuan James for 2018. Judge rf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .300
Burnley . . . . . . 35 11 6 18 35 49 39 MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Exercised the fifth- Bird 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .100
West Ham . . . . 35 10 9 16 44 59 39 year option on LB Anthony Barr. Agreed to Romine c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .315
Crystal Palace . 35 11 5 19 46 56 38 terms with DE Tashawn Bower, DT Dylan Hicks ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .289
SOCCER G O LF Hull . . . . . . . . 35 9 7 19 36 67 34 Torreyes 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .310
Bradley, OT Aviante Collins, OT Nick Fett,
Swansea. . . . . 35 9 5 21 40 69 32 DE Caleb Kidder, QB Wes Lunt, DE Sam Totals 34 1 7 1 1 7
Middlesbrough . 35 5 13 17 26 45 28
Liverpool Boosts Champions League Bid Smith-Blixt Team Prevails in Playoff Sunderland . . . 34 5 6 23 26 60 21
McCaskill, RB Terrell Newby, TE Josiah Price,
CB Horace Richardson, WR R.J. Shelton, LB
Toronto
New York
020
000
003 200—7 12 2
100 000—1 7 0
Shaan Washington and LB Eric Wilson. E—Maile (1), Barney (3). LOB—Toronto 6,
The team of Cameron Smith and Jonas Blixt won the Saturday's Games GIANTS — Waived QB Keith Wenning and
Liverpool improved its bid to secure a Champions Stoke 0, West Ham 0 RB George Winn.
New York 8. 2B—Travis (3). HR—Goins
League spot by winning at Watford, 1-0, in a largely forget- Zurich Classic on the fourth playoff hole, capturing a new- Leicester 1, West Bromwich 0 PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released QB
(2), off Severino; Coghlan (1), off Severino;
Bournemouth 1, Sunderland 0 Bautista (2), off Cessa. RBIs—Bautista 2 (9),
table Premier League match. Only Emre Can made this one format tournament in Avondale, La., that had been held Southampton 0, Hull 0
Zach Mettenberger. Goins 4 (8), Coghlan (2), Judge (21). SB—
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Exercised the Pillar (3), Ellsbury (7). SF—Goins. S—Carrera.
memorable, by meeting a Lucas Leiva cross with a bicycle- over a day because of darkness. Burnley 2, Crystal Palace 0 fifth-year option on DB Jimmie Ward. DP—Toronto 1; New York 1
Smith, an Australian, hit his approach shot within a Sunday's Games Toronto ip h r er bb so np era
kick score in first-half stoppage time. Manchester United 1, Swansea 1 N.H.L. EstradaW1-1 7 7 1 1 0 5 102 2.43
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B14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Malcolm Toon, Envoy Malcolm Toon, second from

left, and his wife, Elizabeth,
riding a troika in the Soviet

Whose Candor Piqued

Union in 1977, when he was
the ambassador there. Below,
Mr. Toon met with President

Soviets, Is Dead at 92
George Bush in 1992.

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Carter backed off from Ford’s se- some criticizing Mr. Toon but oth-
Malcolm Toon was a leading lection of Mr. Toon, but then went ers backing him. Israel’s foreign
State Department expert on the ahead with it. minister, Yigal Allon, remarked
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Mr. Toon was characterized in that Mr. Toon was “the kind of am-
during the Cold War, a blunt am- The Times in December 1978 as bassador we want”: a profes-
bassador with a reputation as a becoming “one of the most influ- sional with influence at the State
hard-liner in diplomatic duels ential of the postwar ambassadors Department. The Times quoted
with Communist governments. in shaping the policy of the United one Israeli official as saying, “He’s
In nearly 35 years as a Foreign States toward the Soviet Union.” a most undiplomatic diplomat,
Service officer, he was ambassa- He considered his steely image and I like him for it.”
dor to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslav- to be a simplification, but in his Mr. Toon drew a rebuke from
ia, Israel and most notably, the So- nearly three years in Moscow he the State Department in October
viet Union. displayed a penchant for hard- 1975 over a speech he had given in
Yet for all his prominence in the edged remarks. Haifa, Israel, two days earlier,
Robin Knight, the Moscow bu- when he said that the Egyptian
halls of power, in Washington and
reau chief of U.S. News & World president, Anwar el-Sadat, “had
Moscow, his death at a hospital in
Report during most of Mr. Toon’s chosen to embarrass the presi-
Pinehurst, N.C., eight years ago at
tenure there, recalled in a Foreign dent of the United States” with
92 — some 30 years after he had
Service Journal article in 2011 that anti-Jewish remarks at a Wash-
retired and many years after he
Mr. Toon had told American ASSOCIATED PRESS ington luncheon. He also specu-
had dropped from public view —
correspondents at his first brief- lated about the possibility of
went largely unreported. United States and settled in
ing, “I think my job is to teach American intervention in Leba-
The news did circulate in and Northborough, Mass., about 50
these guys how to act like a great non over Muslim-Christian strife.
around his hometown, Southern miles west of Boston.
But a Reuters report from Wash-
Pines, N.C., in early 2009. The Mr. Toon graduated from Tufts
ington said a department spokes-
Toon family provided a notice to University in 1937 and received a
man had not specified how Mr.
the Powell Funeral Home there, master’s degree from its Fletcher
announcing that Mr. Toon had A diplomat whose School of Law and Diplomacy in
Toon had departed from United
States policy.
1938.
died on Feb. 12, and The Pilot, the
local newspaper, published an
death in 2009 went He commanded a PT boat in the
In the 1990s, Mr. Toon was co-
chairman of the American delega-
obituary. largely unreported. Pacific during World War II, then tion to the newly created United
Outside of local coverage, The joined the State Department. He States-Russia Joint Commission
Foreign Service Journal, pub- served in Poland, Haiti and Hun- on POW/MIA Affairs, which was
lished by the American Foreign gary, received Russian-language charged with investigating the
Service Association, reported his power instead of some two-bit ba- training and had stints in the Mos- fate of American prisoners of war
death in its April 2009 edition, but nana republic.” cow embassy in the 1950s and and those missing in action from
its readers are largely diplomatic His briefings were off the ’60s. World War II, the Korean War, the
professionals. record, but Mr. Toon could be out- Mr. Toon was the third-ranking Vietnam War and the Cold War.
No national news organization spoken in public settings as well. embassy official in Moscow in Mr. Toon was survived by his
carried his obituary. The New Annoyed by the absence of senior 1965 when a Communist publica- son, Alan; his daughters Nancy
DENNIS COOK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
York Times, for one, was never in- Soviet officials at a 1979 Fourth of tion accused him of heading an Toon and Barbara Lindenbaum;
formed of his death, either by the July embassy reception (it was American spy ring, evidently a re- and three grandchildren. His wife,
family or the State Department, Mr. Toon took part in negotiat- chairman of I.B.M., to succeed sponse to Washington’s previous
also Mr. Toon’s 63rd birthday), he the former Elizabeth Jane Taylor,
though it had prepared an obitu- ing SALT II with the Soviet Union, him. Mr. Toon had planned to re- expulsion of Russia’s No. 3
told Americans gathered there, died in 1996 at 77. He was buried in
ary in advance three years earlier. an agreement that limited offen- tire soon, and he would do so that diplomat there in a spy case. The
“Sometimes over the past 20 Arlington National Cemetery,
His death was confirmed after a sive strategic weapons, but he October, but he further irritated accusations were denied, and Mr.
years I have had the impression alongside her.
Times editor happened upon an was dismayed when Secretary of the White House when he was Toon was not expelled. In the late
that we’re dealing with a bunch of While Mr. Toon was ambassa-
online reference to it. State Cyrus R. Vance bypassed openly critical of the practice of 1960s, he headed the State Depart-
clods.” him in negotiating the pact’s final giving ambassadorships to po- dor to the Soviet Union, his daugh-
Mr. Toon’s son, Alan, reached on Two years before, the Soviet ment’s office of Soviet affairs. ters presented him with a T-shirt
details with the longtime Soviet litical supporters and others who
Friday, said he did not recall any- government had refused to allow President Richard M. Nixon embroidered with the word
ambassador to Washington, Ana- had no background in the Foreign
one in his family having notified Mr. Toon to deliver the American named Mr. Toon ambassador to “Hard-liner.”
toly F. Dobrynin. Service.
the State Department of his fa- ambassador’s traditional Fourth Czechoslovakia in 1969. He be- But in a speech in Philadelphia
When the treaty was signed in “For me and others at the em-
ther’s death. of July talk on Russian television came ambassador to Yugoslavia in September 1977, he expressed a
Vienna in June 1979 by President bassy, Toon was a fearsome pres-
Mr. Toon was fluent in Russian, because his text — in line with the Carter and the Soviet leader, ence,” James Schumaker, a For- in 1971 and helped promote Ameri- more nuanced view. On the one
and his appointment in the last Carter administration’s concerns Leonid I. Brezhnev, Mr. Toon an- eign Service officer who worked can investments there. He later hand he defined the thaw in Amer-
weeks of President Gerald R. about human rights violations — gered the White House by publicly under him in Yugoslavia and the told of forging a close personal re- ican-Soviet relations known as dé-
Ford’s administration was in line stated that Americans hoped “vio- questioning whether it provided a Soviet Union, wrote in a memoir of lationship with the Yugoslav tente as “a growing sense in this
with a tradition of experienced di- lations of these rights, wherever sufficient means to verify Soviet his time in Belgrade. “Everyone at leader Marshal Tito. nuclear age of the need to cooper-
plomats serving as the American they may occur, will end.” compliance. But he soon an- that post seemed to be a little bit Mr. Toon was named ambassa- ate on some matters, to regulate
envoy in Moscow. But the Rus- Notwithstanding Mr. Toon’s nounced his support for the treaty, afraid of him, myself included.” dor to Israel in the spring of 1975 competition on others and to
sians considered him hostile and toughness toward the Russians, saying the Pentagon had eased Malcolm Toon was one of four by President Ford. A few months agree on the means of defusing
delayed formally approving his he was cautious at the same time. his fears. In the end, the Senate children of George Toon, a stone- later, in an interview with Israeli tensions which could lead to dan-
appointment. In his first months He was disturbed when the Carter voted not to ratify it. cutter, and his wife, Margaret. He Army radio, he advised Israelis to gerous confrontation.”
in office, in 1977, President Jimmy administration used strong lan- When Mr. Toon had arrived for was born on July 4, 1916, in Troy, “tighten your belts and temper On the other, he said, “I do not
guage toward Moscow, and he the SALT II summit meeting, he N.Y., a few years after his parents your appetites” before seeking hold with the fuzzy-headed notion
was wary of Washington’s sup- was stunned to learn that Presi- had emigrated from Scotland. The large aid packages from America. that all we have to do is sit down
Wolfgang Saxon contributed re- porting Soviet dissidents too dent Carter planned to appoint Toon family returned there when The remark brought a flurry of and reason with the Soviets and
porting. strongly. Thomas J. Watson Jr., a former he was 6, then came back to the letters to The Jerusalem Post, everything will be all right.”

Norman T. Hatch, Marine Cinematographer, 96; Filmed World War II Combat

By SAM ROBERTS theater to secretly photograph the
Norman T. Hatch, a former dancers. After graduating from
Marine cinematographer whose high school, he joined the Marines
Academy Award-winning footage at 18; his parents, he said, could
of a punishing American victory not afford to send him to college.
in the Pacific during World War II As a Marine he trained with
was so grisly that it had required documentarians who worked for
White House approval before it Time Inc. creating the “March of
could be released, died on April 22 Time” newsreels. He was then as-
in Alexandria, Va. He was 96. signed to the Marine Corps Photo-
His death was confirmed by his graphic Services Branch as a staff
son, N. Thomas Hatch Jr. sergeant.
A propaganda film featuring
Armed with a .45 caliber pistol,
Sergeant Hatch and his footage
Staff Sergeant Hatch, 22 years old
was released in 1944 as “I Was
at the time, waded ashore on tiny
There Tarawa.”
Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands
He married the former Lois
in November 1943 at the begin-
Rousseau. Besides his son, he is
ning of a 76-hour battle that would
survived by his wife and a daugh-
claim the lives of an estimated NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
ter, Colby Hatch.
1,000 Marines and sailors and Norman T. Hatch, far left, on After the war, Mr. Hatch sold
more than 4,000 Japanese sol- Iwo Jima in 1945. His footage photographic equipment and later
diers.
there was incorporated in the ran a photo agency. He also
When the fighting ended, the worked as a civilian audiovisual
United States had claimed one of documentary “To the Shores of
Iwo Jima.” Mr. Hatch, near left adviser in the Pentagon and as a
its first victories in the Pacific. consultant to the White House
Standing up to keep his hand- in 2013, won an Academy
press office and to Congress. He
cranked 35-milimeter Bell & How- Award in 1945 for the docu- rose to major in the Marine Corps
ell Eyemo camera dry, and filming mentary “With the Marines at Reserve.
through thick black smoke, Tarawa,” above, made from his He also collaborated with
Sergeant Hatch thrust himself so 1943 footage on Tarawa Atoll. Charles Jones on a book titled
deeply into the combat that he “War Shots: Norm Hatch and the
captured vivid close-ups of Ma- UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS MATT M cCLAIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST,
U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cam-
VIA GETTY IMAGES
rines firing at enemy troops only eramen of World War II” (2011).
15 yards away. ated with what was going on hind the war. flag-raising, by Joe Rosenthal of Tarawa measured about 400
“That’s the only time, to the best around me.” It had been Mr. Hatch’s choice The Associated Press, had not
of my knowledge, in the Pacific His raw footage was edited into to risk his life to get those images. Footage that showed been staged. Mr. Genaust was
acres, and after the battle the
casualty toll raised questions,
War that the enemy was in the
same frame as us in a fighting
a 20-minute film titled “With the
Marines at Tarawa,” which won
“I was told by guys on the front
line that I didn’t have to be there,
what battle was like, killed in action a week later.
Norman Thomas Hatch (he was
even among those in the Pacific
Theater high command. In his au-
stance,” he said in an interview the 1945 Academy Award for best and I would quietly tell them that I ‘up close and dirty.’ not named for the Socialist leader tobiography, in which he was criti-
with the Naval Institute. “The film short documentary. did,” Mr. Hatch told NPR in 2010. Norman Thomas, his son said) cal of the Navy, Lieut. Gen. Hol-
shot on Tarawa was a first be- Years later, after he had long left “The public had to know what we was born on March 2, 1921, in Bos- land McT. Smith wrote: “Was Ta-
cause it showed what combat was the service, Mr. Hatch recalled were doing, and this was the only ton and raised in Gloucester, rawa worth it? My answer is un-
really like. It showed it up close that President Franklin D. Roose- way they would find out.” league Bill Genaust to film the Ma- Mass. His father, Irving, an ex- qualified: No.”
and dirty.” velt had been reluctant to release A month before the Oscars, rines’ flag-raising atop Mount Su- boxer and Pinkerton strikebreak- But Adm. Chester W. Nimitz,
Somehow, he escaped the war gruesome images of dead Ma- which Mr. Hatch did not attend, he ribachi. A small flag had been in- er, was an auto dealer. His mother who became commander in chief
unscathed, having fired his pistol rines floating in the waters off Ta- had landed with fellow Marines on stalled, but a larger one was or- was the former Ruth Frances of the Pacific Fleet, disagreed.
only once. rawa, but that the journalist Iwo Jima; his footage there was dered to be placed on the island’s Colby. “The capture of Tarawa,” he said,
“When I was looking through Robert Sherrod had convinced incorporated in another documen- highest point. Mr. Genaust’s Norman was an early camera “knocked down the front door to
the viewfinder, I was living in the him that bringing the grim battle tary, “To the Shores of Iwo Jima.” footage was used to confirm that buff, joining his friends on expedi- the Japanese defenses in the Cen-
movie,” he said. “I was disassoci- home would rally Americans be- Mr. Hatch assigned his col- the historic photograph of the tions to a downtown burlesque tral Pacific.”
4 THEATER 5 THEATER

Michael Moore is bringing Laura and Linda

his outrage to Broadway.
2 MUSIC
Benanti, sparring
Jazz Fest defies trends in and ready to sing.
New Orleans. BY JON PARELES BY DAVE ITZKOFF

NEWS CRITICISM TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 C1

N

MICHIKO KAKUTANI
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

Traveling Side by Side On Obama;

The dynamic between
the Stapletons is one of
And On,
country’s great treats. And On,
And On
By JON CARAMANICA
FRANKLIN, TENN. — At a Chris Stapleton
concert, there is incendiary singing, rich
celebrations of country music tradition and,
most important, the eye thing. A biography takes a long,
It happens frequently onstage when that long look at the former
country singer and his wife, Morgane, face
each other, not the crowd, and hold each oth- president’s early years.
er’s gaze for seconds, sometimes minutes.
It is a shocking reframing of live perform- “RISING STAR,” the voluminous 1,460-
ance. Even though the show is technically page biography of Barack Obama by
Mr. Stapleton’s, with Ms. Stapleton singing David J. Garrow, is a dreary slog of a
backup, and even though there is an audi- read: a bloated, tedious and — given
ence rapturously watching, often it feels as
its highly intemperate epilogue — ill-
if the whole room is reduced to wordless,
considered book that is in desperate
loving conversation between two people.
“We’re married so we hold each other ac- need of editing, and way more ex-
countable,” Mr. Stapleton said last month on hausting than exhaustive.
the family ranch in this unassuming town Many of the more revealing mo-
30 minutes and several light-years south of ments in this volume will be familiar
Music Row in Nashville. “We can lift each to readers of Obama’s own memoir,
other up on bad nights, kind of give each “Dreams From My Father”; a host of
other a wink when we screw up or do some- earlier books about Obama and his
thing funny.” family; and myriad profiles of the for-
The dynamic between the two is one of mer president that have appeared in
country’s great treats, a vivid display of af- newspapers and magazines over the
fection that elevates their music. It also cre- years. Garrow has turned up little
ates a showcase for Ms. Stapleton, who,
over a decade ago, was an aspiring country
Rising Star:
star with a record deal of her own. Her har-
The Making of
monies are some of the most affecting parts
Barack Obama
of “From a Room: Volume 1,” Mr. Stapleton’s
By David J.
second solo album, which will be released
Garrow
on Friday, two years after “Traveller,” his
debut, which went platinum and earned him
two Grammys, five Country Music Associa-
tion awards and the somewhat unexpected that’s substan-
role of high-profile vintage country tially new —
preservationist. save for identi-
Like “Traveller,” “From a Room” is earth- fying and inter-
en, rich with tradition, has a tactile intensity viewing an old girlfriend from Oba-
and is carefully measured. It’s full of songs ma’s early Chicago years, who claims
about romantic disappointment and people that by 1987, “he already had his sights
letting each other down, often with the Sta- on becoming president.”
pletons singing in devastating harmony, In the absence of thoughtful analy-
like on “Last Thing I Needed, First Thing sis or a powerful narrative through
This Morning” and “Up to No Good Livin’.” line, Garrow’s book settles for barrag-
“Traveller” kickstarted Mr. Stapleton’s ing the reader with a cascade of de-
solo career (after years in bands, and one tails — seemingly in hopes of creating
false solo start) and, as a bonus, revived his a kind of pointillist picture. The prob-
wife’s as well. lem is that all these data points never
The two met in 2003. Both were songwrit- connect to form an illuminating por-
ers who plied their trade in adjacent build- trait; the book does not open out to be-
ings, and Ms. Stapleton was close friends come the sort of resonant narrative
with the woman responsible for pushing Mr. that Robert A. Caro and Ron Chernow
Stapleton’s songs to singers who might have pioneered, in which momentous
record them. After a few months, he asked if historical events are deftly recreated,
CONTINUED ON PAGE C2 and a subject’s life is situated in a time
and a place. Instead, Garrow has ex-
pended a huge amount of energy —
The singer Chris Stapleton his bibliography, including interviews
and Morgane, his wife, also with more than a thousand people,
a musician, on their runs to 35 pages — on giving us mi-
property in Franklin, Tenn. CONTINUED ON PAGE C6
KYLE DEAN REINFORD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

They’re Like a Sitcom. Really.

A mother and daughter the “30 Rock” finale in 2013, Jack McBrayer,
who played Kenneth the page, approached
inspired NBC’s ‘Great News.’ Mrs. Wigfield and told her, “You’re like ev-
eryone’s mom.”
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Sitting beside her daughter recently over
Tracey Wigfield is a rising star in television frittatas at Sarabeth’s on Central Park
comedy, a Tina Fey protégée who won an South, Mrs. Wigfield laughed at the memo-
Emmy as one of the youngest writers on “30 ry. “I look at them as like my little kids,” she
said, smiling.
Rock” and is now the creator and showrun-
Now, Wigfield mother and daughter, who
ner of a new NBC sitcom, “Great News.”
speak every day and call each other their
Among the comedy writing in-crowd, best friends, are having an onscreen mo-
MAARTEN DE BOER/NBCUNIVERSAL
however, her mother, Kathy, is nearly as ment. Their relationship inspired “Great
Kathy Wigfield, above left, well known. News,” which features a New Jersey
and her daughter Tracey Kathy Wigfield may be the only 61-year- mother named Carol Wendelson — played
Wigfield, the showrunner of old paralegal from suburban New Jersey with septuagenarian pizazz by Andrea
NBC’s “Great News.” At who texts regularly with Mindy Kaling — Martin — who lands an internship at the lo-
right, Briga Heelan, center her daughter’s former boss on “The Mindy cal TV news station where her daughter,
left, with Andrea Martin, on Project” — and spent a family vacation at Katie (Briga Heelan), works as a producer.
the set of the new series. Disney World with Ms. Fey. At a party after CONTINUED ON PAGE C6
EMILY BERL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

JON PARELES CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

A New Orleans Institution, Defying Trends

The Jazz and Heritage Festival

maintains its mission of
showcasing regional talent.
NEW ORLEANS — The sound of the New Or-
leans Jazz and Heritage Festival is a synco-
pated beat: rooted in Africa, mingled with
elements from Europe and the Americas,
transmitted through generations, played by
hand and determined to get people dancing.
The beat doesn’t have to sell a song; it’s a
joy in itself. It’s proudly old-fashioned, cele-
brating its own history. Yet it lives in the im-
mediate present, the moment when music
generates motion.
Jazz Fest, as everyone calls it, is as stub-
bornly exceptional and as proudly nostalgic
as the city it reflects. First presented in 1970,
the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
became one template for the modern pop
festival, like Coachella or Bonnaroo, with
music on multiple stages, assorted nonmu-
sic exhibitions, and food and crafts vendors
geared to the crowd.
But where other major festivals tend to
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRYAN TARNOWSKI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

be brief invasions of their locales, Jazz Fest stone, the gospel tent, where singers, Gente de Zona, a reggaetón group that has set, she had noticed the New Orleans differ- Scenes from the New Orleans
is an institution, inseparable from the city preachers and choirs of everyday wor- won a Latin Grammy, and the Septeto Na- ence: “You guys have danced more than the Jazz and Heritage Festival’s
where it also sponsors free events through shipers belt out praises and gratitude. cional de Ignacio Piñeiro, founded in 1927, entirety of Coachella,” she said. first weekend included,
the year and supports the only-in-New-Or- Jazz Fest’s New Orleans aesthetic is de- playing vintage-style Cuban son. There are USHER AND THE ROOTS Usher didn’t bring his
clockwise from top left,
leans public radio station WWOZ. And fined not by the big pop chorus but by live, longstanding ties between the music of New elaborate arena-concert setup or his elec- crawfish to go; a jazz funeral
where other major festivals have current danceable grooves. New Orleans audiences Orleans and of the Caribbean, particularly tronics-loving band to Jazz Fest. Instead, he for the clarinetist Pete
pop hitmakers as their big draws, along appreciate instrumental music; Jazz Fest Cuba; what Jelly Roll Morton called the Fountain, who died in 2016;
collaborated with the Roots, reworking his
with an undercard of new acts striving to has long been hospitable to jam bands and, “Spanish tinge” was actually the Afro-Cu- Usher, who performed with the
music with live muscle rather than pro-
reach the main stage in a year or two, Jazz this year, to bands like Tom Petty and the ban rhythms that made their way into New Roots; an impassioned Lorde;
gramming, meshing his own songs with
Fest prizes the regional over the national, Heartbreakers, whose live sets move to- Orleans Mardi Gras music, jazz and R&B. and Dwayne Dopsie and the
soul oldies and testing himself as an old-
putting just a few big names in headlining ward improvisation. The “heritage” in the Bouncing across the fairgrounds field, Zydeco Hellraisers.
school soul man. He easily seduced the
spots. festival’s name also looms large. Jazz Fest mingling with second-line brass-band densely packed crowd, promising “so many
Its first weekend this year, which started glorifies genre as much as individual musi- drums, Mardi Gras Indian chants and the ways to love you” and carrying the peak of
last Friday, included Lorde, Usher with the cianship; New Orleans is full of performers hooting, ratcheting two-steps of zydeco his set toward a galloping gospel climax. He
Roots, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who proudly steep themselves in vintage bands (like Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco also shared time with the Roots, ceding the
Elle King, the Trey Anastasio Band, Ala- styles and a shared repertoire, handed Hellraisers), their syncopations joined the stage to their rapper, Black Thought, for
bama Shakes and Maroon 5. Its second half, down from parent to child and embraced by New Orleans mix, sounding right at home. dense, breakneck rhymes of his own.
starting on Thursday, has scheduled Stevie musicians who move into the city. Notable acts from the 2017 New Orleans
Wonder, Dave Matthews, Snoop Dogg and New Orleans honors its ancestors, keep- STANTON MOORE The drummer Stanton
Jazz and Heritage Festival included: Moore, who plays constantly around New
Wilco. Nearly everything else — except, ing old songs current and paying tribute in
this year, for a contingent of superb bands ways that go deeper than borrowing sure- LORDE Like an emissary from a separate Orleans, previewed his next album, due in
from Cuba — stays local and familiar, as un- fire hits, although this year’s Jazz Fest had pop planet, Lorde played a headlining set July: a tribute to Allen Toussaint featuring
trendy as a festival can be. (The festival its share of crowd-pleasing Prince covers. that defied Jazz Fest customs. She had Cyrille Neville on vocals. Mr. Moore is used
ends of Sunday.) Onstage during the festi- Inevitably, over 48 years Jazz Fest has party songs, but they were about feeling to stirring up a dance floor; his drumming
val, I saw more Sousaphones than laptops. faced generational change and loss; this isolated; she had beats that she danced to, was steady and unstoppable, pushing to-
The visiting pop headliners attract home- year’s lineup included sets devoted to defin- but they were stark and somber. Part of her ward peaks. With a drummer’s wit, he
town residents and a youth contingent. Out- itive New Orleans figures like the tradi- music, notably backup vocals, was canned. switched Toussaint’s “Everything I Do
of-towners — many grizzled and wearing tional jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain and the And she brought the same songs from her Gonna Be Funky” into a 5/4 meter that
Hawaiian-style souvenir shirts from previ- songwriter Allen Toussaint. coming album, “Melodrama,” that she had might trip up dancers, and kept it funky
ous Jazz Fests — return for an annual im- Visiting musicians often adapt to Jazz performed a week earlier at Coachella. But anyway.
mersion in Louisiana lore. That means Fest, not the other way around. Nas, the her own singing was impassioned and drew TELMARY Y HABANA SANA The Cuban poet,
brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians, who New York rapper, played with the Soul ardent, verse-and-chorus singalongs on rapper and songwriter Telmary Diaz didn’t
perform on stages and — simulating the Rebels, a New Orleans brass band, remind- songs from her debut album; and she rely on her words alone to get across her so-
city’s continuing street traditions — in mini- ing listeners that “these are my roots, too.” charmed the crowd by singing a snippet cially conscious messages. She had a full
parades through the fairgrounds where the More subtly, the festival leads listeners to from Tom Petty, who was playing on the Latin band, playing the sinuous rhythms of
festival is held. It also means blues, zydeco hear musical kinships — particularly, this other main stage, and noting her dangerous son and speedy, percussive rumba, sur-
from bayou country and a Jazz Fest touch- year, from a Cuban contingent that included attraction to beignets. Three songs into her rounding her with melodic refrains.

Onstage and Off, Traveling Side by Side

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 And she is a major driving force in Mr.
she’d like to write a song together. She pro- A vivid, often wordless Stapleton’s song selection. “From a Room”
posed Friday at 6 p.m., a time when not display of affection that is made up of songs written many years
much songwriting gets done. Four years elevates their music. ago, drawn from a 1,000-deep catalog. (Part
later they were married. They have two 2 of the album is due this year.)
children, now 6 and 8. “She is such a great litmus,” said Dave
When they met, Ms. Stapleton was signed I don’t remember why. I have an aversion to Cobb, Mr. Stapleton’s producer. “She has a
to the label Arista Nashville under her the spotlight. It’s not for everybody.” huge input on what becomes the sound of
maiden name, Morgane Hayes. “I think the the record.”
Then, as now, Mr. and Ms. Stapleton
label was looking for Gretchen Wilson, the Ms. Stapleton has recently released one
shared the stage, though then it was Mr.
total package — a crazy talented woman, song where she is credited first (alongside
Stapleton backing her on guitar. “He defi-
who could write great songs and sing the her husband): a scintillating, bluesy cover
hell out of them,” Ms. Stapleton said. “I was nitely gave me a boost of ‘you can do this’ — of “You Are My Sunshine,” on a compilation
still trying to find my voice.” not because he said it, but just because he by Mr. Cobb. “They light each other up,” Mr.
Though she recorded about three al- was standing with me,” she said. But Mr. Cobb said. “He knows that when she walks
bums’ worth of songs, she never formally Stapleton wasn’t seeking the limelight, ei- in the room, he’s got to make it better.”
released any music. Her Myspace page sur- ther. “I think it’s why he’s always got a The trust runs both ways. “I don’t have to
vives, revealing a tender-voiced singer with beard, he’s always got long hair.” be medicated anymore to get onstage,” she
sass and a dark streak. (Check out the wry She asked to be released from her record said. “I used to be so afraid that I would
“We Just Talk About It” and the bitter “We contract, and for years largely avoided the have to take beta blockers so I wouldn’t
Tried.” She sang demos for $60 a pop (until stage. Before “Traveller,” Ms. Stapleton oc- shake.” Though Ms. Stapleton has no spe-
KYLE DEAN REINFORD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
someone told her she could charge $125), casionally joined Mr. Stapleton’s set, but cific plans to release more music under her
and backed up Lee Ann Womack on tour. during the tour for that album, her presence Now, the show is incomplete without Chris Stapleton on the family name, “recently we’ve had a few conversa-
She had some success as a songwriter, in- became more frequent, and more integral. their interplay, Mr. Stapleton’s lionesque ranch. His 2015 debut album, tions of, ‘Hey, what would that be?’ ” she
cluding on Carrie Underwood’s “Don’t For- “I don’t remember the moment, but I re- roar against Ms. Stapleton’s rustic balm. “Traveller,” went platinum. said. “Just casual conversation, really.”
get to Remember Me,” which went to No .2 member feeling like I can’t miss this any- “I was singing with Chris long before he If it happens, it will certainly be with Mr.
on the Billboard country songs chart. more,” she said. Now when the Stapletons knew I was singing with him,” she said, re- Stapleton at her side, probably with eyes
Though Ms. Stapleton played her own tour, it is as a family, with Ms. Stapleton’s membering how she would ask his publish- fixed on each other.
shows occasionally, she hated the spotlight. mother home schooling the children. ing representative for “volumes of his “As much as I can talk about him being a
As a young singer, she performed with her “When we weren’t taking the kids, I always songs, CDs of everything he’d ever written comfort to me, I think in that way I also am a
sister, but standing out in front, alone, un- felt like I couldn’t win,” Ms. Stapleton said. up until that point, and I would take them comfort to him,” she said. “We can look at
nerved her: “I broke out in hives one time — “I was always in the wrong place.” home and study and sing along.” each other and know, ‘O.K., I got you.’”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 N C3

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

Kendrick Lamar Ready, Set, Go

At No. 1 for 2nd Week YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX

For the second week in a row, the

Billboard album chart is all about
Kendrick Lamar.
Mr. Lamar’s new album,
“DAMN.” (Interscope), holds at
No. 1, with 87,000 copies sold and
204 million streams in the United
States, according to Nielsen.
Those numbers helped give it the
equivalent of 238,000 album
sales, according to Nielsen and
Billboard’s chart formulas, and
put the album by Mr. Lamar, ‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’
right, far above anything else on Antonio Pappano conducts
the chart.
Puccini’s opera in this replay
Drake, the king of streaming
hip-hop, had 97 million streams of a live broadcast from the
for the songs on his latest Royal Opera in Britain. Find
playlist, “More Life” (Republic), participating cinemas at roh
which came out six weeks ago .org.uk/screenings.
and lands this week at No. 2. But
the album’s tiny sales quotient —
the full collection sold just fewer
than 6,000 copies — contributed
to a low total equivalent number
of 77,000.
Also this week, Ed Sheeran’s
“÷” (Atlantic) is No. 3; the rock
band Incubus opened at No. 4
with its new album, “8” (Island);
and Bruno Mars is in fifth place
with “24K Magic” (Atlantic), now
in its 23rd week on the chart.
BEN SISARIO
‘HOW TO TRANSCEND A
RICH FURY/GETTY IMAGES HAPPY MARRIAGE’ Sarah
Atlantic Theater Ruhl’s play about polyamory
lyricist of “Hedwig and the An- wu’s “The Homecoming Queen” dancer Rady Nget, which shares
Unveils New Season gry Inch,” will present the world (Jan. 10 through Feb. 11); and a program with Yoshiko Chuma
closes on May 7. 8 p.m. at the
Lauren Yee’s “The Great Leap” Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
“Hangmen,” Martin McDonagh’s premiere of his musical “This (far left, with Dane Terry).
Ain’t No Disco” (May 11 through (May 23 through June 17). “PI=3.14 . . . Dead End, Hey! All 212-239-6200, lct.org
Olivier Award-winning play,
which had its premiere in London July 1), written with Peter JOSHUA BARONE Women!,” Ms. Chuma’s new
in 2015, is to be seen in the United Yanowitz, who was a drummer work, features a changing cast
States for the first time as part of for the Wallflowers and for the including Vicky Shick, Jodi Mel-
the Atlantic Theater Company’s band in the Broadway debut La MaMa Moves! Goes nick and Irene Hultman. Also on
2017-18 season, that Off Broadway production of “Hedwig,” in 2014. that bill is Orlando Zane Hunger
theater announced on Monday. The musical, about drifters Online for 2017 Festival Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine’s “how
Many of Mr. McDonagh’s earli- and dreamers amid the grit of This year, the La MaMa Moves! SANTIAGO MEJIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES to survive a plague,” about the
er plays, including “The Beauty 1979 New York, features a book Dance Festival is breaking out of AIDS epidemic.
by Rick Elice and will be directed direction for dancers around the The 2016 Bessie Award-win-
Queen of Leenane” and “The its small downtown theaters and
by Trip Cullman (“Six Degrees of world to submit one-minute ning choreographer Ephrat
Pillowman,” were produced on onto the internet.
Separation.”) works in response to human- Asherie will present “Odeon,” a
Broadway. “Hangmen” was The festival, which runs from
nominated for three Oliviers, the Among the season’s other rights abuses. work set to music by the Brazil-
May 18 through June 4 and has a
equivalent of the Tony Awards, premieres are “On the Shore of reputation for tapping into timely Those will be shared online, ian composer Ernesto Nazareth.
and won for best new play and the Wide World” (Aug. 23 topics like climate change and then screened during the festi- And Patricia Hoffbauer’s “Get-
best set design. This black com- through Oct. 1), by Simon gender, will crowdsource val’s Dancing in the Street Block ting Away With Murder,” about LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY
edy, about what happens to Stephens, a Tony winner for choreography for “#Here to Party, on May 20. the history of abuses against This modern-dance troupe
Britain’s second-best hangman “The Curious Incident of the Dog Dance,” an online project about Nine world premieres, two women, will have cameos by returns to the Joyce Theater.
on the day hanging is abolished, in the Night-Time”; “Describe human rights. United States premieres and one performers including the 7:30 p.m.
is scheduled to run at the Atlan- the Night” (Nov. 1 through Dec. Three local dance creators — New York premiere are also on choreographer Yvonne Rainer. 212-242-0800, joyce.org
tic from Jan. 18 through March 4. 17), by Rajiv Joseph, whose Annie-B Parson, Raja Feather tap. Highlights include “My The full lineup and tickets will
Stephen Trask, the Grammy “Guards at the Taj” ran at the Kelly and a third choreographer Memory,” choreographed and be available at lamama.org.
Award-winning composer and Atlantic in 2015; Ngozi Anyan- to be announced — will provide performed by the Cambodian JOSHUA BARONE

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ANTHONY TOMMASINI OPERA REVIEW

Scottish Knight;
Jealousy Issues
Joyce DiDonato scores a tions that were becoming dated
even in Handel’s day. But at his
triumph in ‘Ariodante.’ best, he dug in to tease out every
psychological current in his char-
In the middle of Handel’s “Ario- acters. And “Ariodante,” from
dante,” the title character makes 1735, is a masterpiece, especially
an uncomfortably convincing as performed on Sunday by an ex-
case for suicide. On Sunday, the ceptional cast.
mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, In just the first few arias, Han-
singing the role in a concert per- del shows us, one by one, who
formance of the opera with the these characters are. “Ariodante”
conductor Harry Bicket and his opens as Ginevra (the bright-
English Concert chamber orches- voiced soprano Christiane Karg)
tra, held Carnegie Hall’s audience tells her attendant about her love
in thrall for nearly nine minutes as for Ariodante in an effusive ario-
she wrung every bit of emotion so. Yet fluttery touches in the mu-
from this music. sic suggest that the princess lacks
In this long aria, “Scherza in- some grounding. When Polinesso,
fida,” Ariodante, a Scottish knight, the preening duke, arrives and de-
imagines his beloved, the princess
Ginevra, frolicking with his rival, The English Concert: Ariodante
a duke. The slow, halting melody Performed Sunday at Carnegie Hall.
conveys both his longing and his
desolation; a curiously lilting bass
line for pizzicato strings seems to clares his love, Ginevra rebuffs
mock Ariodante with a hint of him in a feisty aria full of spitfire
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ginevra’s fickleness. In a somber runs.
Michael Moore said that his show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” starting in July, would simultaneously be entertaining and infuriating. middle section, the knight re- Her gullible attendant, Dalinda
solves to take his own life and re- (Mary Bevan, a luscious lyric so-
turn as a ghost to torment prano), has fallen for the duke, as

Aiming at Trump, Onstage Ginevra. The music has such

grief-stricken elegance that for a
moment it almost convinces you
that this is possible.
she reveals in a demure aria sug-
gesting her vulnerability. Poli-
nesso (like Ariodante, a trouser
role, here nailed by the hearty
Michael Moore is heading to “We’re 10 blocks from Trump Tower, we’re
in the corporate capital of America, we’re in
present it in the 1,018-seat Belasco Theater.
Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring
The English Concert’s almost contralto Sonia Prina), sensing
annual visits to Carnegie since opportunity, feigns love for
Broadway with ‘The Terms of the financial capital of America, we’re in the Awakening,” is the director, and David 2013 for concert performances of Dalinda in an audaciously manip-
My Surrender.’ media capital of America,” Mr. Moore said.
“If one was going to stand on a stage and do
Rockwell, a Tony winner for “She Loves Handel operas and oratorios have ulative aria.
Me,” will design the set. The show’s lead been highlights of several sea- The solid bass-baritone
the things that I’m going to do, there’s only producers are IMG Original Content, sons. Ms. DiDonato starred in the Matthew Brook, as the king; the
By MICHAEL PAULSON
one place to do it, and it’s here in this city making its first stage venture, and Carole ensemble’s extraordinary “Al- spirited tenor Tyson Miller, as
Michael Moore has brought his zeal, his hu- and it’s right here at the epicenter of cre- Shorenstein Hays, a frequent Broadway Odoardo, the king’s aide; and the
cina” (2014), and the hall was
mor and his outrage to film, television and ative expression and free speech.” producer. sweet-voiced tenor David Portillo,
packed for “Ariodante,” one of
books. And now he’s bringing them to He said that he had been thinking about “I don’t know if I would call it a play; but it as Ariodante’s devoted brother,
Handel’s longest operas: The per-
Broadway. trying his hand at theater for some time, but is a theater piece,’’ Mr. Mayer said. “There were all excellent. Mr. Bicket’s su-
formance lasted close to four
This left-wing provocateur is not shy the election last year of Donald J. Trump as is going to be a certain amount of rabble- perb players brought clarity and
hours, with two intermissions. (It
about his agenda, made explicit on a prelim- president — which Mr. Moore correctly pre- rousing. There’s a good chance we’ll have suppleness to their stylish and re-
was webcast live on medici.tv and
inary poster for the production, which dicted — provided an impetus to do it now. some surprise guests throughout the run, is now available for viewing fined playing. We can look for-
poses the question, in all capital letters, and some surprise postshow excursions there.) ward to the English Concert’s next
“Can a Broadway show bring down a sitting that will vary night to night.”
president?” ‘I think that On the surface, his operas, fol- Handel installment, when it re-
Mr. Moore, 63, became famous as a docu- lowing a parade-of-arias struc- turns in spring 2018 with “Rinal-
His plan, he said, is to perform a scripted discombobulation might mentary filmmaker, bursting into public ture, may seem stuck in conven- do.”
(but also responsive to the news) one-man be our most effective consciousness with the groundbreaking
(more-or-less) show, called “The Terms of path to undoing his “Roger and Me,” in 1989, about his home-
My Surrender,” eight times a week for 12 presidency.’ town, Flint, Mich., and winning an Oscar in
weeks, starting in July. He said that the 2003 for “Bowling for Columbine.” His the-
MICHAEL MOORE,
show would simultaneously be entertaining LEFT-WING PROVOCATEUR atrical experience is limited — he starred in
and infuriating — not stand-up comedy, not two plays in high school, and tested out
a TED Talk, not a rally — but “a very devel- some of his new material in London.
oped piece of entertainment for people who But he has an unexpected fondness for
like to think.” “Can something like this unravel an un-
theater. As a child, he spent summers with
“It’s a humorous play about a country hinged man?” he asked. “I think that dis-
relatives on Staten Island, and saw an occa-
that’s just elected a madman — I mean, combobulation might be our most effective
sional Broadway show, starting with “Fid-
there’s really no other way to put it,” he said path to undoing his presidency.” dler on the Roof.” He has seen a lot of one-
in an interview at Sardi’s, the theater dis- However, he said it was not solely about man and one-woman shows. He was even
trict mainstay. the current president. “To say it’s just about once mugged in Times Square. And he
He was characteristically shlumpy, in an Trump would simplify it,” he said. “I think clearly believes in the power of theater to
oversized black pullover hoodie and a red people will find themselves laughing one effect change.
49ers baseball cap; gracious to the passers- minute and wanting to go look for some “It was either this or the Ice Capades,” he
by who thanked him for his activism and pitchforks and torches the next.” said. “I’ve made my movies. I’ve had two
asked for a handshake or a selfie; and Although Mr. Moore is a Broadway prime-time TV series. I’ve had eight books
thoughtful about theater, as he explained novice, “The Terms of My Surrender” has on your best-seller lists. I’ve done a lot of
what a firebrand was doing amid the “Cats” immediately attracted industry attention. things with the internet. But I haven’t done MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

crowd. The Shubert Organization has agreed to this.” Joyce DiDonato, center, in the title role of Handel’s “Ariodante,” on Sunday.

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Theater
A WORD WITH
LAURA AND LINDA BENANTI

A Pair of Mamas Going Strong

Laura Benanti and her mother,
Linda, welcome Laura’s new
child, a Broadway baby.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Fans of Laura Benanti, the Tony Award-
winning actress of Broadway (“Gypsy”)
and television (“Supergirl,” “The Sound of
Music Live!”), know that she has an enter-
tainingly complicated relationship with her
mother, Linda. Linda Benanti, a voice
teacher and former Broadway actress, is of-
ten name-checked in her daughter’s caba-
ret show and on her Twitter feed, portrayed
— in Laura’s telling, anyway — as a voice of
well-intentioned parental nagging, encour-
agement and reason. It’s a bond that has
grown even stronger since Laura gave birth
to a daughter of her own, Ella Rose Benanti-
Brown, on Feb. 14.
Linda and Laura Benanti will bring their
delightfully sparring relationship, as well
as some of their favorite songs, to audiences
in a cabaret show, “The Story Goes On,” that
they will perform at Feinstein’s/54 Below
on Friday and Saturday. Recently, at Laura
Benanti’s home in West Harlem, Laura was
settling into her new life as a mother, with
Ella snoozing in her lap, while Linda looked
on in appreciation.
Together they tried to predict how Lin-
da’s mothering skills had been passed down
(“I’m going to be that weird parent at the
sleepover, trying to make sure everybody’s
nice to her,” Laura announced), while also
campaigning not so subtly for the perform-
er’s next Broadway role. These are edited
excerpts from that conversation.

How has your relationship changed since

Ella’s birth?
LAURA BENANTI She was here for the first 10
days of Ella’s life.
JOSHUA BRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
LINDA BENANTI Pitched a tent, moved in,
took care of [Laura and Patrick Brown, her great. Laura was on my lap, I think you LINDA I think you process that like any par- When did you commit to these concerts at
husband] so they could take care of the were about 2, and he sang and she looked at ent would process anything that happens to Feinstein’s/54 Below?
baby. And then they came out to our house. him and she went, “No.” their child. Having been in the industry be- LAURA When I was pregnant, and, like, “Be-
LAURA Because I lost my mind. The first 10 LAURA Telling people what to do since 1981. fore, I was probably more nervous than a ing a mom’s going to be easy!” And now I’m
days, it was like, everything’s perfect! The normal parent would have been. And more like, “Great.”
baby’s amazing! And then the day she left, excited than a normal parent.
Linda, how could you be sure your profes- LINDA It’ll be fine.
everything went to hell. The baby was in- LAURA A bad review, you’re like, meh. But
sional assessments of Laura were objective,
consolable. when it’s been personal, you want to protect LAURA I’m excited to do this with you. I
and not just coming from a place of moth-
erly pride? me and correct someone’s misinterpreta- wish you had continued on, because you’re
Did you always know Laura would grow up tion. so talented. I wish you’d been able to pursue
to be an actress? LAURA I’m actually interested in this an- that for yourself, and that you weren’t in a
swer as well. LINDA And hit them.
LINDA Oh, Laura knew. [Laughs] It wasn’t position where you had to take care of me,
me saying: “You know what, honey? I think LINDA It’s complicated. I was trying not to and transition solely to being a voice
go, “That’s my daughter — she’s brilliant!,” Laura was in “Gypsy,” a show about a notori- teacher. I feel like 35 years later, you have an
you might like this.” This was Laura getting ous stage mother who comes to resent her
up on her wooden Fisher-Price slide, going, because I see a lot of moms like that. But as opportunity to share your gift with people,
a voice teacher, I know someone’s voice daughter for achieving a stardom she did and it is a gift.
“Presenting — !” not. Did you feel any of those feelings your-
could develop really early and then plateau
LAURA Shy. Always shy. My first words VIA THE BENANTI FAMILY out. You wait and see. My husband and I self?
Do you think Ella will follow in Laura’s foot-
were, “Can I have an agent?” Top from left, Linda both felt it was really important for her to LAURA She’s like the opposite. Even in my steps?
LINDA I filmed her saying that. Benanti; her daughter, develop who she is from the inside. speech, I called her the anti-Mama Rose.
LAURA My husband was playing the piano
Laura Benanti; and LAURA You’re going to get so much hate [Breathlessly] When I won the Tony Award.
for Ella — he was playing “Für Elise,” the
Laura, when did you realize that your Laura’s baby, Ella Rose mail from the stage moms. The entire cast LINDA I never, ever felt, “Oh, that should only piano piece he remembers — and her
mother was a talented performer in her own Benanti-Brown. Above, of “School of Rock” is going to come after have been me.” Not in a million years. eyes welled up with tears. And we were like,
right? Linda Benanti, and Laura you. whoa, O.K., that’s a one-off. He did it again
LAURA You were saying for years I should
as a child. the next day — same thing.
LAURA When I was 5 years old, I was com- play her [Louise in “Gypsy”].
ing up the stairs and I saw my mom stand- What is it like now, to see Laura go through LINDA She’s going to sing.
LINDA There are a lot of roles that I always
ing there, singing “A Quiet Thing” a cap- a negative experience, like not getting a role
thought that about. Amalia [in “She Loves LAURA She better.
pella, and it was such a differentiating mo- she wanted ...
Me”] was one of them. Louise was one of
ment for me. I realized that we are separate LAURA Never. No. Always got it. So, no that them. LINDA Laura had a very husky voice when
from each other — she has dreams and one. she was a baby. And as her mom, I thought,
goals. You weren’t just there to bring me LAURA [Whispers] Say “My Fair Lady.” “Where does she get this?” We called her
stuff. It stuck with me my whole life. ... or getting a bad review? How do you LINDA And “My Fair Lady” is definitely one Moose.
process that as her mother? of them. Gee! Obviously.
LINDA You used to critique my voice stu- LAURA I’ve talked to a lot of therapists
dents. This one particular student was not LAURA How do you process that? LAURA Good job. about this.

ELISABETH VINCENTELLI THEATER REVIEW LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES THEATER REVIEW

France in Reflection
Mathieu (Mark Evans), tirelessly
Malvolio and Pals, for the Masses
THE TOXIC MESS of nationalism fought to clear his name. This Shakespeare play is from Twelfth Night
and anti-Semitism known as the They battled not just the Army,
Dreyfus Affair deeply divided which considered the Jewish cap- the Public’s borough-touring Through May 14 at the Public Theater,
Manhattan; 212-967-7555, publictheater.org.
France in the late 19th century, but tain a convenient scapegoat, but a Mobile Unit, and it shows. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
any observer of the National virulently anti-Semitic press —
Front’s ideology will know that David Bengali’s projections in-
the scandal’s legacy continues to clude chilling period caricatures A QUIET LITTLE celebration is happening poser, Michael Thurber, is entertaining, and
poison French society. and slogans like “France for the over at the Public Theater, honoring 60 the slow-growing attraction between Viola
A sense of anxiety is estab- French” (still heard at National years of its Mobile Unit, which takes Shake- and Orsino is sweet. But there is an over-
lished from the beginning of “The Front rallies). speare to the people with performances in whelming forced merriment in the pursuit
Dreyfus Affair,” a hybrid of con- The case split families and po- New York City community centers, correc- of laughs — a layering on of brightly colored
cert and theater that has become litical parties, and stirred up the tional facilities and shelters, and then at the wackiness that feels partly like desperation
the signature style of the Ensem- press. “What a poignant drama, Public itself. “Twelfth Night,” this spring’s and partly like an attempt to dumb things
ble for the Romantic Century. and what superb characters!” the play, has wrapped up its five-borough tour down, as if by making the comedy broad
Gyorgy Ligeti’s creepy “String novelist Émile Zola (Peter Scolari, and is now onstage at the mother ship. In enough it will be comprehensible by the
Quartet No. 2” opens the produc- who played Hannah’s father on honor of the anniversary, all tickets are free. masses.
“Girls”) enthused before penning It’s a lovely gesture, but a customary That’s what rankles, despite the Mobile
The Dreyfus Affair the pro-Dreyfus editorial “J’ac- ratcheting down of expectations is in order. Unit’s laudable mission. As Stephanie
Through May 7 at BAM Fisher, cuse . . . !,” the opening salvo of the Directed by Saheem Ali, vaguely set in Ybarra, the Public’s director of special artis-
Brooklyn; 718-636-4100, bam.org. modern engaged intellectual. Zo- coastal Florida and sprinkled with Spanish, tic projects, said in her preshow introduc-
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes. la’s passion provides welcome fire this frantic staging does offer some amuse- tion on Wednesday night, some of the places
to a show that otherwise hews to a ments — chief among them, David Ryan that this cast has performed “Twelfth
JOAN MARCUS
calm, even-keeled tone, exempli- Smith as a wonderfully prissy Malvolio, and Night” are “designed to oppress and kill the
tion. The live music is paired with fied by Mr. von Essen’s sober per- Donnetta Lavinia Grays as a teasing, prote- Danaya Esperanza, in hat, and Michael human spirit.” It is honorable to bring
abstract projections incorporat- formance. Much of the emotion an Feste. But it also suffers the fate of many Bradley Cooper in the Public Theater Mobile Shakespeare into those spaces.
ing jumbled typography. (Hand- comes from the music, which both an outreach show produced by institutional Unit’s production of “Twelfth Night.” But mere worthiness is unworthy of the
writing played a key role, as Drey- illustrates and comments on the theaters, including the Public: It’s not as Public, which is in the business of making
fus was framed for treason in 1894 story, but is not necessarily from good as the usual fare. great art for the people of its city — all of
based on an unsigned letter.) the Dreyfus era — a conceptual That’s not because of the streamlined ute to her — Olivia is smitten with Cesario, them. Why should audiences in shelters and
As if to tighten a nightmarish gambit that can be just as distract- physical design. The show does fine with who is (supposedly) a dead ringer for Se- detention centers get less than top-caliber
vise on our minds, Ligeti’s quartet ing as illuminating. unchanging overhead lighting, and the flat bastian. Mistaken-identity high jinks ensue, stuff? If it’s a matter of resources, maybe
returns at regular intervals dur- Baroque pieces by Jean- square (by Arnulfo Maldonado) that forms as does a practical joke on Malvolio by the the Mobile Unit should get more. Because
ing this show at the Brooklyn Philippe Rameau predate the af- the stage is tricksy enough to transform clownish Sirs Toby (Christopher Ryan surely its target audiences need the solace
Academy of Music. fair by centuries, and are used in a briefly and cleverly into the roiling sea Grant) and Andrew (Mr. Cohen) and their of Shakespeare at least as much as people
In other ways, though, the pro- head-scratching ballet of military where the twins of the tale, Viola (Danaya chum Maria (Aneesh Sheth). who can afford to shell out for the next
duction, written by Eve Wolf, the officers; Jehan Alain’s pulsating Esperanza) and Sebastian (Sebastian Cha- It’s a convoluted and ridiculous plot that must-see production in from London or to
Ensemble founder, and directed “Litanies,” performed with verve con), are separated before washing ashore, demands clarity in performance but mostly spend hours in line for a free ticket to Shake-
by Donald T. Sanders, is straight- by the organist Parker Ramsay, each assuming that the other has drowned. doesn’t get it from this erratic production, speare in the Park.
forward. Unfairly accused of spy- are from the 1930s, decades after Disguising herself as a young man whose pared-down script (a feature of Mo- Muddled Shakespeare can leave audi-
ing, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (Max Dreyfus was rehabilitated. named Cesario, Viola gets a job with a duke, bile Unit shows) adds to the confusion. Mr. ences blaming themselves for failing to get
von Essen, “An American in The point may be to underline Orsino (Michael Bradley Cohen), who is un- Ali’s conceit is that Viola and Sebastian are it — can, in fact, turn them off to trying it
Paris”) was dismissed from the the timelessness of the issues. requitedly in love with the haughty Olivia Cuban refugees, but that doesn’t come again. Shakespeare done brilliantly, though,
military and shipped off to Devil’s Bracingly, the show reminds us (Ceci Fernandez). Adored by her own ser- across onstage. is a revelation. And revelation is what the
Island. Meanwhile, his wife, Lucie that in 2002, a statue of Dreyfus vant, Malvolio — even the pattern of his The lively Latin and house music, per- Public should be helping its Mobile Unit to
(Meghan Picerno), and brother, was defaced in Paris. baby-blue pajamas, by Dede Ayite, is a trib- formed by Ms. Grays and the show’s com- achieve.
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They’re Like a Sitcom, With Good Reason

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 Andrea Martin, seated at left, Letterman’s “Late Show” before landing at finding workplace success late in life de- “Survivor.” Would the Menendez brothers
Carol proceeds to insert herself into ev- Briga Heelan, center, and “30 Rock.” spite coming from a generation in which work?
ery aspect of her child’s professional and Nicole Richie, seated at right, “Tina recognized her wonderful talent,” women were not always encouraged to pur- Finally, a winner was declared: Air Bud,
personal life. Sound familiar? “I wanted to on the set of “Great News.” recalled David Miner, a “30 Rock” executive sue careers. the basketball-playing dog. “Googling ’90s
write about her because she was a funny producer who, along with several other Her mother, she recalled, often accosts celebrities and picking one — that’s 90 per-
character in my life,” Ms. Wigfield, 33, said alumni from the show, is working on “Great network executives at events, including cent of comedy writing,” Ms. Wigfield said,
as her mother fussed with her daughter’s News.” “There are a lot of people who aren’t Robert Greenblatt, NBC’s head of entertain- closing her MacBook.
clothing — couldn’t she have worn a better really ready to run their own show. Tracey ment. “She would corner NBC execs and be Despite living across the country, her
shirt? — and discussed their plans to see A daughter and mother was so ready for this.” like, ‘Do you know anyone at ‘Days of Our mother is never far away. She visited her
that evening’s performance of “Dear Evan see whether years of After “30 Rock,” Ms. Wigfield decamped Lives’?” Tracey Wigfield said, laughing. At daughter’s set several times, leading to a
Hansen.” togetherness translate to to Los Angeles for a senior position at “The one point, Mrs. Wigfield talked a producer few pranks in which crew members
“My mother’s crazy,” Ms. Wigfield added. the TV screen. Mindy Project,” where she was a writer, a of “General Hospital” into hiring her other sneaked her into scenes, surprising the
“But I’m also really into my mom.” co-executive producer and played a small daughter, Ashley, for a small role. younger Ms. Wigfield.
Carol Wendelson is closely modeled after onscreen role. (In “Great News,” she plays “Knowing my mom, she without a doubt Last spring, Ms. Wigfield’s pilot was
Kathy Wigfield, down to her head-to-toe Beth, an oddball meteorologist.) She signed could have been a great agent, or an execu- picked up by NBC a week before her wed-
outfits from the retailer Chico’s. When Mrs. a development deal with Universal Studios tive, or a TV writer, or a million things,” Ms. ding; she had a honeymoon in Italy before
Wigfield visited the “Great News” set in Los and ran the mother-daughter idea by Ms. Wigfield said, her mother beaming beside rushing back to Los Angeles to start pro-
Angeles last year, she encountered Ms. Fey, who quickly approved. her. “My mom and women of her generation duction. Over brunch, Ms. Wigfield recalled
Martin in full costume — coincidentally Ms. Fey and her creative partner Robert weren’t pushed in the same way I was.” that she and her mother spent New Year’s
wearing the same colorful paisley-print top. Carlock are executive producers of “Great During a recent taping, Ms. Wigfield was reminiscing about their momentous 2016.
In real life, Mrs. Wigfield is not a stage News,” and offered weekly input on scripts fully comfortable leading a team of dozens, “Your favorite was when my show got
mom in the classic overbearing sense. It via Skype from New York to the writers’ joking with cast members, conferring with picked up,” Ms. Wigfield, one eyebrow
was her daughter’s idea to try show busi- room in Los Angeles. The show, set in the her director between takes and ironing out arched, reminded her mother. “Not my wed-
ness, not hers. “She used to say, ‘Get me a lower-rent waters of local TV news, is taped details on set. At one point, she and other ding.”
manager so we can go on auditions,’ ” Mrs. on set that is a near-copy of the NY1 studio writers were brainstorming ideas for which The matriarch threw up her hands. “I did-
Wigfield recalled. “I didn’t know how to be- in Manhattan, where the pilot was filmed. faded celebrity they could turn into a wax- n’t sit around thinking, ‘Oh, one day when
gin doing that.” Ms. Wigfield, whose corner office on the figure prop. she gets married . . . ’ ” Mrs. Wigfield ex-
Ms. Wigfield acted in commercials as a Universal lot features the same framed “Can we get Justin Guarini? What’s he plained. “Anybody can get married! I’m
child, including an ad for a toy called the photo of thermostats that appeared in Liz doing?” Ms. Wigfield asked, referring to the happy she found the guy she did.”
Glitterator that featured her shouting, “It’s Lemon’s office on “30 Rock,” said that she now-obscure “From Justin to Kelly” co-star. “But,” she added, “not everyone has a TV
Glitter-ific!” She later interned at David was drawn to the idea of an older woman Somebody suggested Richard Hatch from show.”

MICHIKO KAKUTANI BOOKS OF THE TIMES

On Obama; and On, and On, and On

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 epilogue — with the snarky title of “The ald J. Trump?)
nutely detailed accounts of early chapters President Did Not Attend, as He Was Golf- Then there is the innuendo. Garrow por-
of Obama’s life, like his years at Harvard ing” — seems even more inexplicable. tentously cites a poll indicating that 64 per-
Law School, his time in Chicago as a com- Whereas the rest of the book is written in cent of Republicans and 42 percent of
munity organizer, and his work in the Illi- dry, largely uninflected prose, the epilogue whites agreed that it was “probably true”
nois State Senate. Garrow gets to Obama’s — which almost reads like a Republican at- that Obama was “hiding important infor-
presidency only in an epilogue. tack ad — devolves into a condescending di- mation about his background and early
While the Chicago chapter sheds valu- atribe unworthy of a serious historian. It life.” This could be a reference to the birther
able light on Obama’s connection with black consists mainly of a string of negative quo- movement, or perhaps to the bitter musings
residents and his developing sense of voca- tations about Obama’s presidency and tem- of Sheila Miyoshi Jager, the former girl-
tion, many of the other sections that try to perament, many plucked out of context friend Obama had met in Chicago — who re-
chronicle his day-to-day life feel extraneous from articles and books by journalists and mained upset for years over their breakup,
and absurdly long-winded, as if Garrow commentators, or extracted from disillu- and whom Garrow has turned into one of his
wanted to include every last scrap of infor- sioned former friends or supporters. There main sources. Jager is quoted as saying that
mation he’d unearthed. Are we really inter- is no considered weighing of the record, no “something changed” in Obama “after we
ested in what numerous Obama class- real recognition of the achievements of went our separate ways after Harvard, as if
mates, colleagues and passing Obama’s two terms in office (including his the part of him that was so vulnerable and
acquaintances remember about his per- handling of the financial crisis that he in- open (and sensual?) went underground
sonality — that he struck them as cool or herited and passing Obamacare). Nor is and something else — raging ambition,
friendly, arrogant or voluble, cheerful or de- there any useful explication of the policy de- quest for greatness, whatever just took over
tached? Do we really want to read repeti- cisions (like flip-flopping on Syria, and fail- instead.”
tious discussions about his cigarette con- ing to close a deal enabling a sizable num- It’s odd that Garrow should seize on one
sumption and poker-playing habits? ber of American forces to remain in Iraq be- former lover’s anger and hurt, and try to
Indeed, this entire book suffers from a JOE WRINN/HARVARD UNIVERSITY, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
yond 2011) that have elicited sustained criti- turn them into a Rosebud-like key to the for-
poor sense of proportion. Garrow adds cism from both government insiders and mer president’s life, referring to her repeat-
nothing to our understanding of Obama’s in- Above, Barack Obama as a outside experts. edly in his epilogue. He even tries to turn
tellectual evolution during his years at Co- Harvard student in 1990. Left, Instead, Garrow’s epilogue delivers a her perception — about Obama’s having
lumbia, or the role that the civil rights the Obama biographer David J. crude screed against Obama the president willed himself into being — into a pejora-
movement played in shaping his political Garrow. and Obama the man, filled with bald as- tive, when the act of self-invention, as other
consciousness and ideals. (Curious, given sertions and coy half-truths. He suggests biographers have noted, was the enterpris-
that Garrow, a professor at the University of that Obama’s presidency was a long string ing and existential act of a young man who
Pittsburgh School of Law, won a Pulitzer of failures and disappointments and that essentially had been abandoned by both his
Prize in 1987 for his book on the Rev. Dr. “behind the scenes, many Democrats were black father and white mother, and who
Martin Luther King Jr., “Bearing the Rising Star: The Making of just as eager for Barack to exit the White found himself caught between cultures and
Cross.”) And yet Garrow prattles on for Barack Obama House as he himself now seemed,” when, in trying, as he wrote in “Dreams,” “to raise
pages about legislation Obama worked on By David J. Garrow fact, he left office as one of the most popular myself to be a black man in America.”
in the Illinois State Senate, and about dis- 1,460 pages. William Morrow. presidents in recent decades. Perhaps Garrow leans so heavily on
cussions in law school classes he attended $45. Garrow takes Obama to task for his lack Jager because she is a source mentioned
or taught. The entire first chapter of the of “bipartisan outreach” with Republican only in passing (and not by name) in David
book is devoted to examining the social and members of Congress, but doesn’t tell the Maraniss’s “Barack Obama: The Story”
political landscape of Chicago’s South Side other side of the story — namely, the Repub- (2012). It’s telling, after all, that Garrow
in the early 1980s before Obama arrived to licans’ deliberate strategy of obstruction- mischaracterizes the reception that both
work there, but Obama’s 2008 campaign ism throughout Obama’s tenure in office. Maraniss’s biography and David Remnick’s
and two terms in the White House are com- (The Republican Senate leader Mitch Mc- incisive book “The Bridge” received, sug-
pressed into a 50-odd-page epilogue. Connell famously declared, “The single gesting that both volumes failed to get the
Perhaps, as the title “Rising Star” indi- most important thing we want to achieve is accolades they did, in fact, receive.
cates, this book is meant to focus only on for President Obama to be a one-term presi- The reader interested in Barack Obama’s
Obama’s early years, but in that case, the dent.”) And, as the chapter title indicates, life would do well to turn to those books, and
Garrow even mocks Obama, repeatedly, for not Garrow’s overstuffed and ultimately un-
Follow Michiko Kakutani on Twitter: spending too much time on the golf course. fair work here. Or, go back to Obama’s own
@michikokakutani (What, one wonders, would he make of Don- eloquent memoir.
DAVID RUBIN
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Highlight: Major Storm Later This Week National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac
A storm will strengthen as As a powerful storm moves northeast In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
it moves along the into Quebec today, severe thunderstorms
western slopes of the should come to an end across the United Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
Appalachians on Montreal States. A few strong to severe storms may 90° Yesterday ............... 0.00
Thursday into Friday. The occur in parts of Florida, ahead of a mass Record
Record .................... 2.48
storm may produce of much cooler air approaching the East high 87° For the last 30 days
(2001) Actual ..................... 3.84
heavy rainfall from the Boston Coast. 80° 72°
Toronto Normal .................... 4.46
Ohio Valley to upstate Clouds and showers will stretch from 3 p.m.
For the last 365 days
New York with the northern New England to the central Actual ................... 46.81
HEAVIEST SUN. YESTERDAY
potential for some Detroit RAIN New York Appalachians and much of the Great 70° Normal Normal .................. 49.94
flooding. Along the East high 67°
Lakes. Sunshine and low humidity are in LAST 30 DAYS
Coast, Friday will be Pittsburgh Air pressure Humidity
the forecast for much of the South and 60°
stormy with rain, thunder- Washington the southern Plains. High ........... 30.17 1 a.m. High ............. 96% 5 a.m.
storms and increasing VERY Low ............ 29.85 4 p.m. Low.............. 60% 2 p.m.
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Little Rock 70/ 49 0 81/ 56 S 73/ 49 R New Delhi 102/ 71 0 105/ 79 PC 103/ 79 PC
Cities Los Angeles 84/ 58 0 85/ 59 S 87/ 59 S Riyadh 97/ 76 0 101/ 74 S 102/ 75 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 66/ 52 0.60 72/ 48 S 63/ 54 C Seoul 82/ 52 0 79/ 59 S 84/ 59 S Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 68/ 51 0 80/ 58 S 79/ 53 R Shanghai 81/ 63 0.07 72/ 64 R 75/ 64 C from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 87/ 76 0.04 87/ 75 PC 87/ 76 PC Singapore 90/ 79 0 88/ 79 T 88/ 78 T this month ............. +2.4° this year ................ +3.1°
Milwaukee 56/ 41 0.18 53/ 38 W 57/ 39 PC Sydney 78/ 57 0 75/ 60 PC 67/ 58 C 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 41/ 39 0.41 58/ 43 PC 64/ 45 Sh Taipei 84/ 66 0.02 85/ 72 T 85/ 72 T 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 69/ 50 0.30 78/ 52 S 76/ 58 C Tehran 84/ 60 0 83/ 63 C 79/ 62 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 79/ 60 0 84/ 65 S 81/ 65 T Tokyo 75/ 60 0.10 70/ 58 S 70/ 59 PC
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 90/ 67 0 82/ 62 S 78/ 58 S Yesterday ............. 100% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 72/ 48 0 78/ 53 PC 63/ 45 C Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T .......... Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 98% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 56/ 40 0.18 66/ 43 S 65/ 43 Sh Amsterdam 57/ 49 0.57 56/ 46 R 57/ 45 T
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 81/ 61 0 80/ 61 S 80/ 60 S
Orlando 91/ 71 0 84/ 66 T 88/ 67 PC
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 83/ 62 0 75/ 52 W 67/ 47 S Berlin 61/ 41 0 56/ 43 R 60/ 46 Sh
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 48/ 43 0.30 63/ 45 Sh 62/ 39 C Copenhagen 54/ 40 0 53/ 44 S 53/ 41 PC
New York City 72/ 49 0 74/ 53 W 63/ 46 S Portland, Ore. 56/ 49 0.02 62/ 54 C 81/ 57 C Dublin 59/ 44 0.02 56/ 45 PC 54/ 45 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 65/ 49 0.04 72/ 52 W 64/ 46 S Providence 66/ 58 Tr 72/ 50 W 63/ 42 PC Edinburgh 53/ 46 0.05 56/ 43 PC 57/ 42 PC
Caldwell 77/ 49 Tr 74/ 50 W 61/ 42 S Raleigh 84/ 59 0.04 79/ 55 S 79/ 56 S Frankfurt 54/ 45 0.33 57/ 43 T 63/ 46 T First Quarter Full Last Quarter New
Danbury 72/ 45 0 71/ 43 W 59/ 37 PC Reno 75/ 51 0 78/ 52 S 82/ 54 S Geneva 52/ 38 0.68 53/ 40 R 59/ 42 R Today’s forecast
Islip 68/ 50 0.02 70/ 50 W 64/ 42 S Richmond 85/ 61 0 78/ 56 S 75/ 53 S Helsinki 55/ 32 0 55/ 35 S 52/ 33 PC
Newark 77/ 51 0.01 74/ 53 W 64/ 44 S Rochester 75/ 48 0.05 55/ 43 Sh 56/ 37 C Istanbul 64/ 54 0 70/ 55 C 72/ 55 S White
Trenton 81/ 51 0 73/ 50 W 63/ 43 S Sacramento 89/ 63 0 91/ 64 S 92/ 64 S Kiev 59/ 46 0 65/ 44 S 65/ 46 PC May 2 May 10 May 18 May 25 58/36 Cloudy with brief showers
White Plains 72/ 47 0.01 71/ 49 W 61/ 42 S Salt Lake City 62/ 47 0.07 63/ 43 PC 67/ 48 PC Lisbon 68/ 50 0 76/ 56 S 81/ 59 PC 5:42 p.m. 3:45 p.m.
San Antonio 87/ 61 0 89/ 69 PC 85/ 59 T London 56/ 47 0.42 64/ 46 C 56/ 48 C Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow 47/30 Brief showers
San Diego 75/ 60 0 73/ 60 PC 73/ 61 PC Madrid 66/ 35 0 73/ 47 S 80/ 51 S Sun RISE 5:53 a.m. Moon S 1:28 a.m.
Albany 77/ 59 0 68/ 46 Sh 57/ 40 C Moscow 75/ 52 0 67/ 39 PC 54/ 37 PC
San Francisco 77/ 55 0 76/ 57 PC 79/ 56 S SET 7:53 p.m. R 11:49 a.m. Adirondacks
Albuquerque 72/ 46 0 75/ 48 S 72/ 49 PC Nice 72/ 52 0.24 65/ 51 R 64/ 52 PC
San Jose 88/ 58 0 89/ 61 S 91/ 63 S NEXT R 5:52 a.m. S 2:12 a.m.
Anchorage 49/ 34 0 52/ 39 C 53/ 39 PC Oslo 57/ 36 0 63/ 40 S 59/ 37 S 53/38 A few showers
San Juan 82/ 75 0.33 84/ 74 Sh 87/ 76 Sh 40s
Atlanta 73/ 54 0.49 77/ 57 S 83/ 62 PC Paris 61/ 44 0.14 61/ 45 T 57/ 44 Sh Jupiter S 5:01 a.m. Mars R 7:10 a.m.
Seattle 55/ 46 0.03 62/ 53 Sh 73/ 54 C Berkshires
Atlantic City 72/ 62 0 71/ 54 W 64/ 47 S Prague 60/ 40 0 57/ 39 PC 63/ 46 T R 5:27 p.m. S 10:03 p.m.
Sioux Falls 50/ 32 0.41 62/ 40 PC 65/ 41 Sh 63/41 Mostly cloudy, a shower
Austin 88/ 58 0 90/ 67 S 86/ 57 T Rome 66/ 45 0 69/ 49 PC 68/ 49 PC
Spokane 52/ 38 0 61/ 45 PC 69/ 48 PC Saturn S 8:45 a.m. Venus R 4:10 a.m.
Baltimore 82/ 59 0 77/ 53 S 68/ 49 S St. Petersburg 51/ 33 0 51/ 36 S 49/ 36 C
St. Louis 55/ 47 0.02 71/ 49 S 55/ 46 R R 11:21 p.m. S 4:28 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 81/ 57 0 87/ 60 S 80/ 62 T Stockholm 59/ 35 0 58/ 34 S 55/ 32 S
St. Thomas 81/ 74 0.09 84/ 76 Sh 84/ 76 Sh 55/38 A shower or two, windy
Birmingham 75/ 52 1.00 80/ 57 S 85/ 62 PC Vienna 63/ 41 0 61/ 42 PC 66/ 48 R
Syracuse 78/ 53 0.02 59/ 43 Sh 52/ 36 C Boating
Boise 62/ 46 0 67/ 45 PC 73/ 51 S Warsaw 57/ 37 0 58/ 45 PC 54/ 49 C
Tampa 89/ 76 0 87/ 71 T 90/ 74 PC Poconos
Boston 56/ 51 0.07 73/ 50 W 63/ 44 PC
Toledo 64/ 43 0.35 51/ 38 W 60/ 41 PC North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 54/39 Windy and cooler 50s
Buffalo 70/ 47 0.07 51/ 41 Sh 53/ 37 PC
Tucson 89/ 59 0 91/ 60 S 94/ 61 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
Burlington 68/ 57 0.13 64/ 46 Sh 55/ 40 W Tulsa 69/ 49 0 75/ 53 PC 63/ 45 R Acapulco 86/ 75 0 88/ 76 PC 88/ 77 PC
Casper 50/ 28 0.05 51/ 28 Sn 57/ 33 C York Harbor. Southwest Pa.
Virginia Beach 83/ 68 0 78/ 61 S 74/ 56 S Bermuda 75/ 70 0.01 75/ 70 S 74/ 70 PC
Charlotte 78/ 55 0.20 76/ 54 S 78/ 58 S Washington 82/ 64 0 77/ 56 S 71/ 52 S Edmonton 51/ 32 0.01 56/ 32 PC 65/ 44 C Small craft advisory in effect. Wind will be from the 54/39 Very windy
Chattanooga 74/ 51 0.73 77/ 53 S 80/ 59 PC Guadalajara 89/ 53 0 92/ 54 PC 91/ 53 PC southwest at 10-20 knots, gusts to 30 knots. Waves 60s
Wichita 68/ 46 0.03 72/ 50 PC 61/ 43 R
Chicago 56/ 41 0.12 54/ 36 W 60/ 42 PC Wilmington, Del. 79/ 62 0 75/ 52 W 66/ 45 S Havana 88/ 73 0.05 87/ 70 PC 88/ 71 S 6-9 feet on the ocean and 2-4 feet on Long Island
Cincinnati 65/ 47 0.70 67/ 43 S 62/ 48 C Kingston 88/ 77 0 87/ 77 PC 87/ 78 PC
West Virginia
Sound and on New York Harbor. 70s
Cleveland 71/ 48 0.27 56/ 45 W 58/ 46 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 88/ 76 0.01 85/ 76 PC 85/ 74 Sh 61/42 Very windy, mostly sunny
Colorado Springs 61/ 37 0 57/ 38 Sh 56/ 37 C Algiers 68/ 51 0 71/ 50 S 76/ 55 S Mexico City 85/ 55 0 82/ 54 PC 82/ 54 PC High Tides
Columbus 70/ 49 0.43 64/ 43 W 62/ 47 C Cairo 84/ 69 0.01 84/ 64 S 86/ 65 S Monterrey 89/ 57 0 93/ 66 S 100/ 66 PC Color bands
Concord, N.H. 55/ 48 0.02 71/ 44 Sh 61/ 38 C Cape Town 70/ 54 0.06 77/ 58 S 82/ 58 S Montreal 52/ 41 0.65 59/ 43 Sh 54/ 34 W Atlantic City ................. 12:52 a.m. .............. 1:41 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 83/ 58 0 86/ 65 S 78/ 54 R Dakar 79/ 69 0 79/ 68 S 76/ 68 PC Nassau 88/ 75 0 88/ 73 PC 87/ 75 PC Barnegat Inlet ................ 1:05 a.m. .............. 1:51 p.m. 67/48 Very windy, mostly sunny temperature.
Denver 62/ 33 0 61/ 34 Sh 58/ 35 C Johannesburg 67/ 45 0 70/ 47 PC 70/ 48 C Panama City 88/ 75 0 88/ 73 PC 90/ 74 PC The Battery .................... 1:45 a.m. .............. 2:32 p.m.
Des Moines 48/ 38 0.13 65/ 43 S 65/ 44 C Nairobi 77/ 58 0.25 75/ 58 T 75/ 60 T Quebec City 43/ 38 0.84 56/ 42 Sh 52/ 34 C Beach Haven ................. 2:34 a.m. .............. 3:18 p.m.
Detroit 66/ 45 0.31 52/ 39 W 62/ 43 PC Tunis 81/ 55 0 72/ 55 S 79/ 60 S Santo Domingo 86/ 69 0 84/ 71 Sh 85/ 71 PC Bridgeport ..................... 4:43 a.m. .............. 5:25 p.m.
El Paso 85/ 56 0 88/ 60 S 87/ 60 S Toronto 65/ 44 0.27 53/ 38 Sh 58/ 35 PC City Island ...................... 4:51 a.m. .............. 5:54 p.m.
A departing low-pressure system will bring
Fargo 60/ 36 0.36 66/ 41 PC 65/ 40 Sh Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 52/ 44 0.05 59/ 50 C 60/ 52 R
Hartford 73/ 59 0 75/ 47 W 61/ 40 PC Baghdad 99/ 71 0.04 96/ 66 C 96/ 67 PC Fire Island Lt. ................. 2:02 a.m. .............. 2:46 p.m. clouds and showers from southwestern
Winnipeg 59/ 35 0 62/ 38 C 61/ 38 C
Honolulu 82/ 70 0.52 85/ 71 Sh 84/ 73 S Bangkok 99/ 79 0 97/ 84 T 97/ 82 T Montauk Point ................ 2:27 a.m. .............. 3:05 p.m. Pennsylvania to the Green and White
Houston 87/ 60 0 88/ 68 S 81/ 59 T Beijing 84/ 47 0 87/ 58 S 82/ 59 C South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 4:47 a.m. .............. 5:29 p.m.
Indianapolis 59/ 45 0.20 63/ 40 W 60/ 47 R Damascus 87/ 58 0 81/ 49 T 82/ 48 S Buenos Aires 81/ 52 0 77/ 58 PC 75/ 55 C Port Washington ............ 4:52 a.m. .............. 5:50 p.m. Mountains. West Virginia and the Blue
Jackson 75/ 54 0 82/ 57 S 80/ 57 T Hong Kong 84/ 72 0 84/ 73 PC 84/ 76 T Caracas 87/ 74 0.71 86/ 78 T 86/ 78 C Sandy Hook ................... 1:16 a.m. .............. 2:00 p.m. Ridge Mountains will be mostly sunny and
Jacksonville 89/ 62 0 84/ 54 S 84/ 60 PC Jakarta 90/ 77 0.14 89/ 76 T 89/ 76 T Lima 74/ 67 0 76/ 67 PC 76/ 67 PC Shinnecock Inlet .......... 12:56 a.m. .............. 1:34 p.m.
Kansas City 56/ 46 0.04 68/ 47 S 60/ 42 Sh Jerusalem 79/ 55 0 72/ 54 T 71/ 53 S Quito 67/ 52 0.30 71/ 52 R 70/ 52 R Stamford ........................ 4:46 a.m. .............. 5:28 p.m.
a bit cooler. Highs will range from the
Key West 85/ 79 0 85/ 78 PC 85/ 78 PC Karachi 96/ 79 0 97/ 80 PC 99/ 80 S Recife 86/ 79 0.11 86/ 77 Sh 85/ 77 Sh Tarrytown ....................... 3:34 a.m. .............. 4:21 p.m. mid-50s in the Adirondacks to the low
Las Vegas 88/ 67 0 90/ 70 S 92/ 72 S Manila 93/ 80 0.04 95/ 81 T 95/ 80 T Rio de Janeiro 79/ 65 0.01 78/ 64 PC 80/ 66 S
Lexington 68/ 50 0.93 70/ 45 S 64/ 52 C Mumbai 91/ 80 0 90/ 75 PC 92/ 77 PC Santiago 66/ 43 0 70/ 43 PC 78/ 42 S
Willets Point ................... 4:49 a.m. .............. 5:51 p.m. 70s in the Blue Ridge.
4 THE CHECKUP 5 PERSONAL HEALTH 6 EXPEDITIONS

Not a ‘numbers When medicine has Lost in the dark with

person’? Math little to offer, some a dying phone and a
anxiety is a problem families step into the forager called the
all over the world. unknown. Mushroom Man.

SCIENCE MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 D1

N

ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Double Jeopardy
Zika usually infects both twins if they are havior for a newborn. But João Lucas is the
exact same age as Ana Vitória — they are
infected in the womb while the other did not
may illuminate how Zika crosses the pla-
Valéria Gomes Ribeiro
holding João Lucas, who has
twins. centa, how it enters the brain, and whether microcephaly, on a two-hour
identical, but only one if fraternal. The João Lucas was born with microcephaly any genetic mutations make a fetus more bus ride home after taking
him to appointments. The
and other serious problems, the result of his resistant or susceptible to Zika infection.
difference may be a key to the epidemic. mother being bitten by a Zika infected mos-
quito during pregnancy. But the virus that
Until recently, Brazil’s Zika twins seemed
to follow a pattern, said Mayana Zatz, a ge-
green tape is applied to relax
his tight muscles.
attacked his brain in the womb apparently neticist and molecular biologist at the Uni-
By PAM BELLUCK and TANIA FRANCO spared his sister. versity of São Paulo. The cases include two
PAULISTA, BRAZIL — On the bed next to her The siblings are one of nine sets of twins sets of identical twins, and both babies in “He would fall asleep,
brother, Ana Vitória da Silva Araújo acted identified in Brazil’s Zika crisis, and scien- each pair have microcephaly, she said. and five minutes later he
like the 1-year-old she was. She smiled and tists hope they can shed light on how the vi- There are also six sets of fraternal twins, in would start screaming.”
babbled. She played with a stuffed whale. rus works generally and why it inflicts ruth- which one twin has microcephaly, while the
NEIDE MARIA FERREIRA DA SILVA
She plucked the pacifier from her brother’s less damage on some babies and not others. other appears unaffected.
mouth and the burp cloth from his shoulder. Twins often yield clues to medical mys- Since identical twins share one placenta
Her brother, João Lucas, seemed un- teries because their biological similarities while fraternal twins almost always have
aware of her, his eyes closed, his mouth allow scientists to identify relevant differ- separate placentas, Dr. Zatz and other ex-
making sucking motions. It was typical be- ences. Determining why one twin became CONTINUED ON PAGE D6

Finding Their Voices The New Threat to Wolves

Speech training smooths the men choose to take hormones or have
surgery, or choose neither, some seek to
Biologists worry as hunting
transition to a new identity. feminize or masculinize their voices. Many resumes outside Yellowstone.
say they want a voice that matches their ap-
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS pearance or that the change allows them to By JIM ROBBINS
In her 30s, Sophie Marat, now 42, used to escape unwanted attention. There’s also a YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYO. — The
record herself reading poetry aloud, then growing recognition among health profes- vast, sagebrush-studded valleys in this
play it back to hear if she sounded like a sionals who have transgender patients that huge chunk of wild country, teeming with
woman. Ms. Marat, who is transgender, had altering one’s voice can improve quality of herds of elk and bison, are home these days
spent years trying to remake her voice in life and reduce distress. to 10 packs of wolves.
private by speaking in a higher pitch but ul- “This isn’t just a sidebar,” said Sandy Once among the first species to be listed
timately felt that her efforts were hopeless. Hirsch, a Seattle-based speech language as endangered, the gray wolf has made a
“I was feeling like changing my voice to pathologist who was a co-author of the pio- healthy comeback within Yellowstone Na-
match my gender identity was almost im- neering textbook on transgender voice and tional Park and its bordering states. Since
possible,” she said. “It was terrible.” communication therapy. “It’s an integral 1995-96 when 31 wolves were trucked into
Ms. Marat’s transition from male to fe- part of care for transgender people as they the park from Canada, their numbers have
male has been a gradual evolution. She had transition.” grown and stabilized to the point that offi-
come out to friends and family back home in Transgender men who take testosterone cials could essentially post a “no vacancy
Mexico, then began to wear skirts to work permanently thicken their vocal folds, sign” at Yellowstone. That’s because the RYAN DORGAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

as a software engineer in Manhattan. Still, which tends to deepen the pitch of their park’s wolf population has hovered for the
her confidence would falter with everyday voice. But transgender women who take last decade at 100, give or take, which ex- “Yellowstone is the best place in the Samples from the heads
tasks like ordering takeout. “It was really hormones — a mix of estrogen and andro- perts consider Yellowstone’s carrying ca- world to view wolves,” said Douglas Smith, of dead wolves are used
painful to speak on the phone,” she said, gen-reducing drugs, for example — pacity. the park’s wolf biologist, as he hiked up a in a study of Yellowstone
“because they would reply, ‘O.K., sir.’” typically hear no change in their voices. As Protected on parkland, gray wolves show fog-shrouded hill searching for one of the National Park wolves.
That was before she started her weekly a result, transgender women are more little fear of humans, often living out their packs.
sessions with a voice therapist at New York likely to work with voice therapists, though lives within view of roads. They attract The sprawling 2.2 million-acre park acts
University’s speech-language-hearing transgender men can benefit as well, as thousands of tourists a year who sometimes as a laboratory for Dr. Smith and other sci-
clinic, one of a growing number of programs some struggle with pitch instability and become witnesses to the life-or-death dra- entists, who are conducting a long-term
that cater to transgender clients seeking to voice fatigue. mas between predator and prey. study of this very rare population of wolves
retrain their voices. A lot of what transgender women learn in And some catch a glimpse of a rare white — unusual because they are neither shot
Just as some transgender women and CONTINUED ON PAGE D4 wolf. CONTINUED ON PAGE D3
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Observatory
FINDINGS, EVENTS AND MORE

Engrailed-rubbed moth Granite-bogus moth

(Moides cupida) (Mongusii amyelithophane)

Minor pleuroptya clearwing-middle (Pleuca sphelicoverpa) The great bluish ruby Sociable-anna moth Dowdy (Visaliva atrolaris)
(Mumens marmata) (Brsalli approei)

Large finned-swordsman-scoparia The armyworm-adana Woolly-woolly Seven-oculea moth

(Flucarissima parecta) (Pimenis striana) (Gigantellerae aecedens) (Densoraliella ubnivosella)

Browntail-baworth’s moth Rivulet-cacozelia ferruginous Mobile-rocky wedge moth (Obtusea decipiens) Pleromelloida chi Cecrops
(Longimulea musiccatus) (Phidingsii ellucidaria) (Sabalia scella) (Pictata insozmani)
KATIE ROSE PIPKIN AND LOREN SCHMIDT

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

There’s a Moth in Your Feed

Not all Twitter bots are trying to spam, hack or peddle you fake news. Some are
works of creativity. There’s @shark_girls, which casts two geotracked great
white sharks as travel writers. There’s @the_ephemerides, which juxtaposes
raw images taken by outer planet probes like the Cassini spacecraft with com-
puter-generated poems.
A cult favorite among science Twitter bots is @mothgenerator, which tweets
make-believe moths in all shapes, sizes, textures and iridescent colors. It’s pro-
Elderberry straw grammed to generate variations in several anatomical structures of real moths,
(Ncorrupta vanalis)
including antennas, wing shapes and wing markings.
A related program recombines real Latin and English moth names to make new ones. And if you reply
to the account with name suggestions, it will generate a corresponding moth.
Inspired by naturalist illustrations like those of Ernst Haeckel, the programmers designed their bot to
create moths stroke by stroke, in loving detail.
“At its core, the moth generator is a wildly byzantine drawing machine,” said Katie Rose Pipkin, an art-
ist at Carnegie Mellon University who created the bot with Loren Schmidt. STEPH YIN

C O LO N I A L A R C H I T E C T U R E F I R ST C L A SS

For Homes on Mars, A Novel Stamp

One Day Builders To Mark the Eclipse
May Favor Red Brick The Postal Service is commemo-
We often wonder if somewhere rating this summer's total solar
hidden on Mars are the building eclipse with a first-of-its kind
blocks for life. But what about stamp. Just touch it, and an image
building blocks for a civilization? of the blacked-out sun morphs
A new study suggests that the into the moon. Remove your
material humanity needs to one finger, and the eclipses sun
day construct buildings and even reappears.
entire colonies on Mars may The trick: temperature-sensi-
already exist within the planet’s tive ink.
desolate soil. There's a map on the back of
Experimenting with a sub- the stamp sheet showing the
stance similar to what you might eclipse's diagonal path across the
find on the surface of Mars, re- United States on Aug. 21, as the
searchers found that with enough moon covers the sun in the sky.
pressure they could mash the It will be the first total solar
mock Martian dirt into bricks — eclipse visible in the contiguous
no extraterrestrial kiln needed. United States since 1979, and the
The technique could make it first one running coast to coast
possible to develop building since 1918. (A.P.)
material on Mars without need-
NASA ing extreme heat, water or a
F LY BY E - BY E
binding agent. Though the bricks
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
Cassini’s Deep Dives they created were small, they F I R ST A M E R I C A N S
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has were stronger than steel-
reinforced concrete.
This Dog Is Quite Proud, Despite All Appearances
survived its first passage between
Saturn and the planet’s innermost NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Pity the Chinese crested dog, or more years ago, scientists now Chinese crested — share large
ring, coming within 1,900 miles of whose scrawny, wrinkly appear- think, and accompanied the first chunks of DNA not found in
the cloud tops. Cassini didn’t ance has drawn guffaws for, oh, people who migrated from Asia to other breeds. This DNA most
resume contact with Earth until hundreds of years. But revenge is America more than 10,000 years likely comes from ancient Ameri-
nearly a day after the passage, sweet: Scientists now report that ago. But those dogs seem to have can dogs, they said. So the Chi-
sending back close-up images of the breed is among just a handful disappeared when Europeans nese crested dog, despite its
Saturn, including its hurricane- descending from the first dogs to brought over their own dogs. name, seems not to have come
like storms, above. populate the Americas. Recently geneticists found that from Asia at all.
This milestone is the beginning Dogs were domesticated 15,000 several breeds — including the JAMES GORMAN

of the end. Cassini will make 21

more dives between Saturn and
the rings, and then, on Sept. 15, it
I ’ M O K , YO U ’ R E A C C E P TA B L E
will plunge into the planet.
KENNETH CHANG
JACOBS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING/UC SAN DIEGO
Empirical Evidence: Cats Love People
Researchers at Oregon State of catnip and gerbils.
University offered 38 cats a But 19 of them — half! — pre-
choice between food, a toy, an ferred the company of humans
“The world is not quite at the point where interesting smell (catnip, a gerbil) above all, choosing them over
every hot temperature record has a human
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
and attention from a human. other entertainment possibilities.
Thirty-seven percent preferred So cats are not haughty and
fingerprint, but it’s getting close to that.” food to anything else. Eleven aloof. They’re affable, affectionate
Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford University
ONLINE: TRILOBITES
percent liked toys, and one cat and selfless. Yeah, right. Daily nuggets of science for mobile
was preoccupied with the smells NICHOLAS BAKALAR readers. nytimes.com/trilobites
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Global Health D O NA L D G . M cN E I L J r.

The New Threat to Wolves A Cheap Drug Can Save Hemorrhaging Mothers
An inexpensive generic drug that “Doctors are forced to throw in
saves the lives of wounded sol- everything they’ve got, because
diers and civilian car crash vic- they know the woman can be
tims has now been shown to dead in an hour,” he added.
rescue women suffering hemor- Emergency hysterectomies
rhages in childbirth. save some lives, but the women
Postpartum hemorrhage, in will never bear another child. It is
which women bleed uncontrolla- “logical to infer” that such opera-
bly after childbirth, kills an esti- tions would also be reduced if
mated 100,000 women a year in tranexamic acid becomes widely
poor and middle-income coun- available in delivery rooms, Dr.
tries. The complication also forces Roberts said.
doctors to perform emergency The drug was invented in Ja-
hysterectomies, especially when pan by a husband-wife research
hospitals have too little blood on team, Shosuke and Utako
hand to provide transfusions. Okamoto. They hoped it would be
In a major six-year trial involv- used to prevent birth hemor-
ing over 20,000 women in 21 coun- rhages, but local obstetricians
tries, researchers showed that declined to organize a clinical
tranexamic acid, a little-known trial.
blood-clotter invented in the Ultimately, they turned the
1950s, reduced maternal bleeding patent over to a Japanese phar-
deaths by a third if it was given maceutical company, which sold it
within three hours. It costs less as treatment for heavy menstrual
than $2 a dose and does not re- periods and as an ingredient in
quire refrigeration. skin-whitening creams. Some oral
The trial — known as Woman, surgeons used it when doing
short for World Maternal Antifib- dental work on hemophiliacs, Dr.
rinolytic — was led by doctors at Roberts said.
the London School of Hygiene Suspecting that tranexamic
and Tropical Medicine and paid acid could also stop major bleed-
for by the Wellcome Trust, Pfizer, ing like that caused by car
Britain’s health department and crashes or bullet wounds, he
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RYAN DORGAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun- eventually received British gov-
dation. Results were published ernment funding to do a trial in
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
nor trapped. And it turns out a wolf pro- last week in The Lancet Apr26. 20,000 emergency-room patients
tected from human killing is a very different “Tranexamic acid can save in 40 countries.
animal from those that are hunted. women’s lives and ensure more The results, published in the
That may change, researchers say, as children grow up with a mother,” Lancet in 2010, showed that the
more hunting is allowed in the states that said Haleema Shakur, one of the drug lowered hemorrhage death
surround the park. lead authors. rates by 30 percent.
As the packs grew, many wolves roamed The British military was so
The World Health Organization
outside the national park, replenishing the
currently recommends treating impressed that it started stocking
wild lands. Wolves now number about 1,700
in the Western states of Montana, Idaho, birth hemorrhages by massaging tranexamic acid in surgical units
Wyoming, Oregon and Washington. the uterus and injecting uterus- in Iraq, and American military
Threats to livestock have intensified in re- shrinking drugs like oxytocin. surgeons followed suit. The
cent years, pitting ranchers against conser- Tranexamic acid acts in a dif- W.H.O. added it to a list of essen-
vationists and prompting some states to ferent way — it allows blood to tial drugs that all hospitals should
permit limited wolf hunting again at certain clot more quickly — and so it have on hand.
times. should be given in addition to the
In March, a United States Court of Ap-
peals paved the way for Wyoming to join usual measures and at the same
Idaho and Montana in allowing wolf hunt- time, said Dr. Ian Roberts, one of
ing. Wildlife officials are now planning a the study’s lead authors.
hunting season on gray wolves for this fall, “Women die very quickly from
based on the court’s ruling that the state’s this, especially in Africa, because
plan to manage wolves was adequate to en- they are so profoundly anemic,”
sure that the once-threatened species Dr. Roberts said. “Half the women
would not be imperiled again by hunting giving birth there start off with
wolves near the park or those that leave it.
roughly half the red blood cells
Experts say that the gray wolf is no long-
er in danger of being completely wiped out they should have. If you or I had
by hunting. Their extirpation by the 1920s hemoglobin counts that low, we’d
JIM PEACO
or so was caused by unregulated killing. be breathless.”
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE
But expanding the hunt for wolves AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
around the edges of the park poses several
issues at Yellowstone Park, where the man-
agement protects wildlife so people can
watch and study it. ScienceTake JA M E S G O R M A N
“What will hunting wolves nearby do to
that?” Dr. Smith asked.
A study underway that Yellowstone has
joined with Denali and Grand Teton Na- Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen

“Yellowstone is the best And, the award for strangest oxygen and about 15 minutes in 5
place in the world to mammal goes to . . . percent oxygen.
If there were such a prize, the Mole rat bodies switch from
view wolves.”
naked mole rat could well win it. using glucose as a fuel to fructose,
DOUGLAS SMITH
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK For one thing, it’s naked. And which doesn’t require oxygen at
coldblooded, which seems wrong. all. They don’t keep running at
No other known mammal is. the same speed: They fall into a
tional Parks is examining that very ques- Until recently scientists kind of suspended animation,
tion. A paper published last year by Dr. thought mole rats never got can- with a much lower heart rate and
Smith and others found that sightings of cer. Then two mole rats in a lab breathing. But they keep going.
wolves in Denali and Yellowstone “were were found to have it. Other mammals, like people
significantly reduced” by as much as 45 per- Still, there are a lot of mole rats and mice, can metabolize fructose
cent from trapping and hunting. without oxygen, but only in a very
in the world and only two known
If the wolves become less visible, that
to have cancer. limited way.
could diminish the steady flow of tourism
dollars, given that wolf watching in Yellow- And now the latest twist in the Mole rats probably evolved this
stone alone is estimated to generate $35 can-you-believe-what-naked- ability because the tunnels they
million a year for the regional economy. mole-rats-do story is that the live in can be low in oxygen. In
Officials in Montana have already placed animals can survive for 18 min- fact, when they all gather togeth-
a quota on the number of wolves that could Yellowstone National Park’s Northern Range is rich with wildlife that draws visitors, top. A wolf utes with no oxygen. None. er to sleep, the ones in the center
be shot by hunters north of the park — four chasing magpies and ravens from an elk carcass in the park in 2016, middle. A female wolf killed They can live for at least five may run short on oxygen. It’s
each season — to minimize the impact on by an elk, above, with five unborn pups that were likely within days of birth, above. hours in an atmosphere that is harder for them to wake up. But
wolf watching in the park. they do. Watch the video at
only 5 percent oxygen (the nor-
Yet another possible effect of expanded
bers of the pack often scatter and reform he said. mal level is about 20 percent). nytimes.com/sciencetake.
hunting would be the disruption of a historic
long-term wolf research project. . with different members. Outside the park, ranchers have been vo- Mice last about a minute with no JAMES GORMAN
Yellowstone’s vast wilderness provides Park wolves live to be about five, double cal in their support of expanding hunting,
the only place in the world where many thethe life span outside its borders. Yellow- citing real threats to their livestock.
packs of wolves, free from human hunting, stone’soldest wolf reached 12 ½ years. Jon Robinett of Dubois, Wyo., says he has
live in full view of groups of biologists Group dynamics also change signifi- lost hundreds of cattle, several horses and
equipped with high-tech research equip- cantly, sometimes in mercurial ways, when six dogs to wolves over the last 20 years.
ment. membership shifts or a pack loses individu- While there are 50 wolves in his part of the
Ten of the park’s wolves wear GPS collars als. “Personalities matter,” Dr. Smith said, Dunoir Valley, allowing hunters to take out
that beam their whereabouts as many as 48 noting that science doesn’t have a good way five won’t accomplish much, he said.
times a day to a satellite, providing re- to assess the effect. “It’s really hard.” “Killing is what wolves do,” he said, add-
Then there is the role of the wise wolf to ing that even with reduced numbers, “they The Executive Program in Healthcare Management
searchers with unprecedented detail on
what wolves do all day. consider. During pack warfare, a deciding aren’t going to quit their home range.” The MASTER OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MHA)
A team of up to 20 researchers and volun- factor can be the presence of an elder, a sin- state compensates him for lost cattle, he MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MPH)
teers, sitting on a hilltop with spotting gle wolf older than five, that is even more said, “but it doesn’t make you whole.”
scopes or peering down from aircraft, wit- important than the number of wolves, re- Some biologists say there are legitimate
ness the daily goings-on year-round. Cam- searchers found. reasons to allow hunting, perhaps most im- “I serve a unique community,
era traps record remote wolf activity. And “It was a surprise,” said Kira Cassidy, a portant to placate residents. “A little blood EARN YOUR MHA
and the EXEC program has
because they have lived without the threat Park Service biologist and an author of the satisfies a lot of anger,” said Ed Bangs, a re- OR MPH DEGREE
given me the management
of being shot and with near daily tourist study. “I attribute it to the fact that older tired Fish and Wildlife biologist who led the
traffic — the wolves ignore the researchers wolves will only engage their neighbors if effort to restore wolves to the northern
skills to have a greater impact WITHOUT
on the ground.”
and are readily observed. they feel they are likely to win.” Rockies. INTERRUPTING
As a result, a complex and in some cases Research here also leads Dr. Smith to be- “The wolf most likely to get harvested by Kyunghee Choi
lieve that wolf packs are matrilineal. Males a hunter is one that is in open areas with Vice President
YOUR CAREER
unprecedented portrait of wolves is emerg-
road access,” the interface between ranches Asian Health Services
ing. come and go, he said, but “Gramma, Mom
Holy Name Medical Center A two-year Executive
For example, protected wolves regard and the daughter are the ones that stick and wild land, Dr. Bangs said. “So hunters
humans very differently. “Wolf hunters talk around” and carry on the pack through gen- are removing the animals with the highest Program scheduled
about seeing a pack of park wolves outside erations. probability of getting in trouble with live- one weekend a month
the boundary, and being able to pick the one There is some evidence that the increase stock.”
they want,” Dr. Smith said. “They just stand in hunting could alter this research. When Dr. Smith says the wolf personality is not
there and have no fear.” the alpha female in the Lamar Canyon pack the only wild card in the Yellowstone frame
While all wolves are very social with a hi- left Yellowstone in 2012 and was shot, the — humans figure in as well. INFORMATION
erarchy, those pack rules are often cor- pack split into two and the alpha male left Last year, the famed white wolf left the SESSION
rupted when human hunting enters the pic- because the new alpha female was his park and went into Montana for a few days.
ture. In the park, researchers are getting a daughter. (Wolves avoid inbreeding.) Dr. Smith said a hunter who hates wolves Monday, May 15
thorough look at pure wolf social dynamics Of course, the life of a wolf is a high-risk sought the 11-year-old female out as a prize at 6 pm
— within and between packs. occupation and natural deaths occur all the trophy. But the animal returned to safety in
For the first time, pack longevity has time, especially when a pack tries to kill an- the park. Columbia Club of New York
been studied in depth, the life span of a pack imals with hooves and horns 20 times their Just last month, the wolf was found with 15 West 43rd Street
is eight to 10 years in the park. One pack size. In early April, an alpha female with “a severe injuries and was euthanized. Law (between 5th and 6th Ave)
called the Druid is more than 20 years old. belly full of pups” was killed either by an elk enforcement is investigating her death. She
Hunted wolf packs, on the other hand, often or a bison, Dr. Smith said. Because only the was almost twice as old as most wolves
last just two or three years. When one or alpha female in a group reproduces, “that here, but will be missed. “She was the most
two of the wolves are shot or trapped, mem- means the pack won’t have pups this year,” coveted wolf to see,” Dr. Smith said. For more information or to RSVP visit mailman.columbia.edu/exec
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In Brief N I CHO L A S B A K A L A R

E AT

Diet Soda Tied to Stroke

Finding Their Voices
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
A new study links diet The reasons for the link remain voice therapy is how to create a higher pitch
soft drinks to an in- unknown. and oral resonance without straining, so
creased risk for stroke The study adjusted for age, sex, their new voices are sustainable. “We’re
and dementia. asking them to do an Olympic athletic feat,”
education, physical activity, diabe-
said Heather Krug, who has worked with
Researchers studied more than tes, smoking and many other transgender clients for four years at the
4,000 people over 45 who had characteristics that might affect University of Wisconsin — Madison. “If
filled out food-frequency question- the risks. But the senior author, they are going to get pitch into a feminine
naires and had periodic health Dr. Sudha Seshadri, a professor of range, they need to have nicely conditioned
examinations between 1991 and neurology at Boston University vocal cords so they don’t get injuries.”
2001. The scientists tracked their School of Medicine, said that Feminizing a voice, however, involves far
more than just achieving a consistently
health over the next 10 years and there were additional variables higher pitch. Perhaps the most critical, ex-
found 97 cases of stroke and 81 the study could not address. For perts say, is a quality called “forward reso-
cases of dementia. example, she said, people might nance,” in which a speaker feels vibrations
The study, in the journal Stroke, have switched to diet soda be- closer to the front of the vocal tract, toward
found that compared with those cause they already had cardiovas- the nose and lips.
who did not drink diet soda, peo- cular problems. Research has shown that “a higher pitch
and more forward oral resonance corre-
ple who drank one to six artifi- Still, she added, there are sponds to a voice consistently perceived as
cially sweetened drinks a week health benefits associated with female,” said Adrienne B. Hancock, an asso-
had twice the risk of stroke. There some drinks, like tea or coffee, ciate professor of speech, language and
were similar, although weaker, “but not with soda of any kind, hearing sciences at George Washington
associations for dementia risk. either diet or not.” University. CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Unlike pitch, which can be readily
Sophie Marat, a transgender woman, blows bubbles as a voice exercise.
measured using phone apps, such as Pitch
Perfect, resonance can’t be objectively pin-
pointed. “You need a human ear,” and the image of a lady as I see fit,” Dr. Helou said. tirement from their jobs. “They were at a
speaker has to learn to feel the difference, “The danger when they come to me is they point in their lives where they just felt they
HEART Dr. Hancock said. think, ‘She’s going to tell me what I need to needed to be true to themselves,” she said.
While do-it-yourself YouTube videos by do to pass.’” But now, she’s as apt to see new college
Beer and Arrhythmias transgender women are available, sessions
with a voice specialist can improve forward
Speech and language therapists have
been working with transgender clients as
graduates.
Since 2015, Northwestern University and
The Munich Oktober- creased, but not statistically resonance and soften an elevated pitch, so far back as the ’70s, but it wasn’t until 2006 the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospi-
someone doesn’t sound like Minnie Mouse, that the first textbook was published. In the tal of Chicago have held a coed voice train-
fest might seem an significant, levels of other kinds of
Dr. Hancock said. past decade, the number of speech ing session exclusively for transgender
unlikely locale for a irregular heartbeats, including Another voice quality to consider is into-
medical research the heart palpitations of atrial
pathologists and voice clinicians learning to adolescents and young adults.
nation. While men tend to speak in a mono- work with transgender clients has grown Posters advertising the group on campus
project, but German scientists fibrillation, a potentially serious tone fashion, women generally have more exponentially. proclaim, “Be heard for who you are!” The
studied festivalgoers and found condition. The arrhythmias in- highs and lows, something Ms. Marat mas-
This April, Ms. Hirsch, Dr. Helou and age cutoff is 24, and so far, the youngest par-
that moderate social drinking creased with higher breath alco- tered during about a year of group and one-
Christie Block, a speech language patholo- ticipant was 12, said Nathan Waller, a group
on-one lessons and practice at N.Y.U.
may lead to arrhythmias — irreg- hol levels. gist in Manhattan, joined forces to expand a supervisor and a clinical instructor in
Her fundamental pitch is consistently el-
ular heart rhythms — in other- The study, in the European two-day training program for voice thera- Northwestern’s department of communica-
evated in the feminine range at about 185
wise healthy people. Heart Journal, controlled for age, pists interested in transgender work. The tion sciences and disorders.
hertz, up from 147 hertz. Still, if Ms. Marat
speaks for too long, she gets out of breath, weekend workshop has grown from 25 Voice modification can take six to 12
Using a hand-held breathalyzer, sex, smoking, medication use and
and she feels she speaks too softly. voice therapists in 2007 to roughly 85, Ms. months or longer, with home practice re-
the researchers tested 3,028 men a history of heart disease. Hirsch said. quired to achieve the stamina needed for
and women who had been drink- The lead author, Dr. Moritz F. On Tuesdays, Ms. Marat works with Sam
Jaffe, a graduate student at N.Y.U., to get A Facebook group for speech language sustaining a new voice throughout a tête-à-
ing but were not legally impaired. Sinner, an assistant professor of therapists and other professionals to dis- tête conversation or a work presentation.
her vocal cords into better shape so she can
They gave them EKGs to test cardiology at University Hospital raise her pitch and volume to where she cuss transgender care now has about 100 Darlene Monda, the clinic supervisor
heart function. Munich, said that in most people, wants it without becoming breathless. clinicians in the referral database from the who started the N.Y.U. group three years
More than a quarter of the elevated heart rates would be “Voice modification therapy is kind of anal- United States and about 50 more from ago, said some participants haven’t told
ogous to going to the gym for your voice,” abroad, according to Dr. Helou, one of the their friends they’re transgender yet or
group had a condition called sinus expected to subside as alcohol
Mr. Jaffe explained. moderators. started the process of physical transition.
tachycardia, marked by a resting concentrations went down. He Speech language pathologists are also But “they want to start working on their
But while therapists help clients gain
heart rate of more than 100 beats suspects “that people susceptible technical skill, it’s up to each patient to seeing a growing number of transgender voice, so when the time comes, they are
per minute. About 1 to 2 percent of to developing arrhythmias be- “own” his or her new voice and figure out people in their 20s and 30s, and even ready to transition and have this piece un-
the general population have re- cause of some undiagnosed condi- what sounds right, said Leah Helou, the di- adolescents. derway,” she said.
peated episodes of tachycardia, tion might develop an arrhythmia rector of the transgender voice program at In 2012, when Cynthia Simonetti, a speech Others are already out, she said, and they
which in some cases can pose under the stress of alcohol,” and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen- language pathologist, became an instructor “don’t want to present visually female, open
ter. at the University of New Mexico, most pa- their mouths, and have people staring at
risks. that some could end up requiring
“It’s not my job to make someone into an tients were older, many on the verge of re- them, like ‘You’re not really a woman.’”
They also found slightly in- treatment.

THE CHECKUP PERRI KLASS, M.D.

MI N D

Diabetes May Harm the Brain

Diabetes may be bad
for the brain, espe-
tion. Compared with the controls,
those with Type 2 diabetes had
An Antidote to Math Anxiety
cially if you are over- more severe thinning of the cor- you don’t, rather than assuming that your
weight. tex and more white matter abnor- skills and abilities are the result of study
Researchers studied 50 over- malities. Overweight people with and practice. “It’s an interesting phenom-
enon in our culture to hear highly intelligent
weight and 50 normal weight diabetes had more brain deterio-
people bragging about not being good at
people in the early stages of Type ration than diabetic people of math, not being numbers people,” Dr.
2 diabetes. All had been given a normal weight. Beilock said.
diagnosis within the previous five Are these changes reversible? Dr. Susan Levine, chairwoman of the de-
years. They compared both Probably not, according to a partment of psychology at the University of
groups with 50 healthy control co-author, Dr. Donald C. Simonson Chicago, agreed: “An educated person
doesn’t go around saying, I’m not a reading
subjects. of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
person.”
The scientists performed M.R.I. in Boston. Researchers believe that the skills — and
examinations of their brains and “When structural changes are the anxiety — are actually shaped even be-
psychological tests of memory, seen on an M.R.I. scan, the pro- fore children start formally learning math.
reaction time and planning. Those cesses leading up to them have Math skills at kindergarten entry, Dr.
with diabetes scored worse than probably been going on for Levine said, predict not only later math
the healthy controls on tests of years,” he said. “On the positive achievement but also other important
skills, including reading.
memory and reaction times. side, patients who maintain good
So what are those crucial math skills in
M.R.I. scans revealed signifi- control of their diabetes do seem early childhood? Dr. Levine said that al-
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cant differences in brain areas to have a slower rate of deteriora- though many preschool children know how
related to memory, planning and tion.” The findings were published to count, they don’t necessarily understand
the visual processing of informa- in Diabetologia.
Parents can help by regularly at math,” she said. “If you look between
countries, countries where more students the meaning of the number words. By the
talking to young children experience math anxiety tend to underper- time children are around 2, “They can recite
the count list up to maybe 10,” she said, but
about numbers in daily life. form.”
“they don’t understand that the last number
So does being “bad at math,” whatever
that is, make you anxious, or does being you reach is the set size; they don’t connect
MY MOTHER was what we would now call anxious make you bad at math? the counting” to the total. With children
math anxious, if not phobic. My daughter, “There’s increasing reason to believe it’s from 2½ to 4, “parents are often shocked
on the other hand, was a math major, which a bidirectional relation,” said Alana Foley, a when we bring kids into the lab,” she said.

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always left me feeling like the transitional postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chi- “They know the kids can count, but when
generation, capable of mastering cago in developmental psychology, who we ask them to give me two of something
standardized-test math problems and sur- was the first author of the study. “Poor per- they just grab a bunch of things.”
viving college calculus (it’s one of the pre- formance in math can lead to math anxiety, By kindergarten, children have addi-
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necting to the subject’s beauty or power.
but there are also studies that point in the tional skills; for example, they can under-
stand that you can make five by holding up
other direction; if you have math anxiety it
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self-confidence when it comes to numbers
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Even students who score high on math
three fingers on one hand and two on the
other, or four and one. Dr. Levine said they
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of my mother, a college English professor
tests can feel a special worry around this
subject, Dr. Foley said. Among high-per-
also can demonstrate what is known as flex-
ible counting — that is, they can start from
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a 10 percent tip, and desperately grateful to
forming students, she said, “math anxiety
takes a bigger bite out of their perform-
four or five, without going all the way back
to one, or count backward.
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grade level or beyond. (Little did my De-
ance.”
Other researchers involved in the study
“Parents embrace as part of their respon-
sibility to get kids ready to read in school to
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her grandchildren to jack up the tips to 15
traced math anxiety into early childhood.
Sian Beilock, a professor of psychology at
introduce them to the alphabet and letter
sounds,” Dr. Levine said. “They’re much

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more likely to think it’s the school’s job to
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both a slightly more difficult arithmetic pressure, said that math anxiety “often- In a 2015 study, parents used a program
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New research shows that math anxiety is ance of those kids who want to do well, who presented short numerical story problems
by no means an American problem, and is tend to be high achieving in school.” to their children; the children’s math skills
found in countries where students regularly improved relative to children in a control
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A couple of years ago, Dr. Beilock and her
outperform us in math skills. In a study pub- colleagues published an article showing group, Dr. Beilock said, but the improve-
lished in February, researchers from the that parental math anxiety could be trans- ment was strongest in children whose par-
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64 countries participating in the Program
mitted to children. ents had math anxiety.
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which tests 15-year-olds in math, science
demonstrated between math anxiety and
other more general types of anxiety, espe-
the myth that there are math people and
non-math people, said Dr. Levine, and make
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“Math anxiety is prevalent all around the
cially related to test-taking, but math anxi-
ety seems to exist as a separate phenom-
parents less anxious and more willing to in-
troduce math talk into their daily lives (let’s
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and a doctoral student at the University of
enon; studies have shown increased heart
rates when people were tested on math, but
put five raisins in each cookie; let’s set the
table, how many forks do we need?).
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“If you look within Japan, students in Japan
not on other subjects.
One problem is that we tend to believe
“Think of math as something that’s the
purview of the home, not just the school,”
who are math anxious aren’t scoring as well with math that you either have the ability or Dr. Beilock said.
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PERSONAL HEALTH JANE E. BRODY

When Patients Hit a Medical Wall

With no other choice, some nothing or treating him with a potent drug
that “made him feel bad and did little for his
step outside the realm of arthritis,” she learned about a child with the
established medicine. same condition who was helped by avoiding
gluten and dairy products and taking fish
oil, probiotics and a Chinese herb.
WHAT IF YOU or your child had a chronic ill- “With nothing to lose — if it helped one
ness that seriously limited or threatened child, maybe it will help ours,” Ms.
life, and modern medicine had no effective Meadows said. “In terms of hope, an exam-
or acceptable treatments to offer you? ple of one is very important.” And as she re-
Imagine you were plagued by severe food ported four years ago in an article in The
allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, attention New York Times Magazine, Shepherd got
deficit hyperactivity disorder or intractable better.
epilepsy. Would you be willing or desperate Eventually, with the help of a self-styled
or brave enough to step outside the realm of healer named Amy Thieringer, who empha-
established medicine and seek help from an sizes the need to calm fear and anxiety
unconventional therapist — even someone when trying to counter food sensitivities,
with no medical or scientific training?
Shepherd was gradually reintroduced to
What if you heard about others in a simi- gluten and dairy and “now eats everything
lar situation who had tried a purported rem- without any problems, no more painful, in-
edy that appeared to work, or the method flamed joints,” his mother said.
seemed to make biological sense?
Although Amanda Hanson was warned
In her new book, “The Other Side of Im-
by her son Hayden’s allergy specialist that
possible,” Susannah Meadows, a Brooklyn-
attempting Ms. Thieringer’s treatment for
based former senior writer for Newsweek,
the boy, who had life-threatening allergies
has compiled compelling stories about peo-
to 28 different foods, would be playing Rus-
ple who faced and ultimately surmounted
sian roulette with his life, she felt she had no
daunting medical challenges. The book fo-
choice but to try.
cuses on several families, including her
own, who felt they had no choice but to wade Inspired by the testimony of other moth-
into the world of unproven therapies. ers facing a similar problem, and knowing
The families’ ventures into a realm that that doctors had no solution for Hayden’s al-
some would call quackery were typically in- lergies, Ms. Hanson bought into the
spired by love, desperation and hope, and Thieringer program known as allergy re-
were fueled by irrepressible grit and deter- lease technique.
mination to find solutions to debilitating Borrowing ideas from cognitive behav-
health problems that defied the best that ioral therapy, Ms. Thieringer first worked to
conventional medicine could offer. ratchet down Hayden’s fear of certain foods
Their stories left me in awe of their per- before introducing them in tiny increments
sistence against formidable odds. As one until he could consume them in normal
mother replied when asked how she perse- amounts without a reaction.
vered through a five-year search for a way Now 16, Hayden has had no bad reaction
to control her daughter’s relentless PAUL ROGERS to any food since completing the program
seizures: “You can’t not try. She’s not better six years ago.
yet.” foster perseverance in seeking recovery Within a year, Dr. Wahls had ditched her As a careful journalist, Ms. Meadows
from an incurable condition: “Early life ex- “They had no reason motorized assists and started riding a bicy- make no claims for cures. Her book is not
In her analysis of the disparate yet relat-
ed cases, Ms. Meadows highlights at least periences in coping with adversity that may to think they could cle. Eight years later, she shows no signs of prescriptive, though it describes the sci-
three important influences on well-being inoculate people against hopelessness and succeed, but they just her disease. Last summer, the National ence that might explain the unlikely recov-
that have yet to receive their just due in un- prompt them to believe that if they would wouldn’t give up.” Multiple Sclerosis Society, which has been eries she has written about.
derstanding what might cause or aggravate just keep trying they would succeed.” tracking research into diet and inflamma- “I’m a journalist reporting on the fact that
SUSANNAH MEADOWS
certain intractable medical disorders. Or as the son of one patient profiled in the “THE OTHER SIDE OF tion, committed more than $1 million to there is a whole community of people who
One is a characteristic called “leaky gut,” book put it: “Courage is knowing you’re IMPOSSIBLE” study the effect of her diet on M.S.-related are looking for, and in some cases finding,
essentially tiny holes in the intestinal walls licked and doing it anyway.” fatigue. answers to health problems on their own.”
that allow proteins to reach the blood- That patient was Dr. Terry Wahls, who Ms. Meadows summarized the overrid- There is another important message in
stream where they can trigger a vicious im- overcame a progressive form of multiple ing lesson derived from the people in her this book worth mentioning, and that is the
mune attack on healthy tissues. sclerosis for which medicine had little to of- book: “You have a choice to keep going enormous obstacles to producing ironclad
Another is an imbalance of microbes in fer. when others say you can’t. They had no rea- evidence for the kinds of approaches that
the gut and how communication between Once confined to a reclining wheelchair son to think they could succeed, but they brought relief to the people Ms. Meadows
the brain and the gut can adversely affect despite trying a range of conventional treat- just wouldn’t give up.” interviewed.
behavior and emotional stability. A third is ments, Dr. Wahls researched, then adopted, Ms. Meadows said this was not some- The treatments often involved a combi-
the still underappreciated interaction of a diet that eliminated grains, dairy and sug- thing she understood when her son Shep- nation of interventions and few, if any, prof-
mind and body, especially the effect that ar but included 12 cups a day of berries and herd was given a diagnosis at age 3 of pol- it-making products. Thus, no company is
anxiety and fear can have on the body’s re- vegetables supplemented with grass-fed yarticular juvenile arthritis, a crippling con- likely to pay for the needed studies, which
sponse to otherwise harmless substances. beef, organ meats and oily fish. She com- dition affecting multiple joints. would also probably be too costly and com-
There is perhaps a fourth factor, Ms. bined this with neuromuscular electrical She and her husband were told he was un- plicated for government agencies to under-
Meadows said in an interview, that seems to stimulation and exercise. likely to outgrow it. Facing a choice of doing write.

The Race to Sniff Out Disease

to be a “big motivator.” cific molecules that suggest disease, how-
Owlstone has raised $23.5 million to put ever, Mr. Haick’s machine sniffs out the
its odor analysis technology into the hands overall chemical stew that makes up an
of clinicians. Moreover, Britain’s National odor.
Health Service is funding a 3,000-subject It’s analogous to smelling an orange:
clinical trial to test Owlstone’s sensor to di- Your brain doesn’t distinguish among the
agnose lung cancer. chemicals that make up that odor. Instead,
The sensor is a silicon chip stacked with you smell the totality, and your brain recog-
various metal layers and tiny gold elec- nizes all of it as an orange.
trodes. While it looks like your mobile Mr. Haick and his colleagues published a
phone’s SIM card, it works like a chemical paper in ACS Nano last December showing
filter. that his artificially intelligent nanoarray
The molecules in an odor sample are first could distinguish among 17 different dis-
ionized — given a charge — and then an eases with up to 86 percent accuracy.
electric current is used to move only chemi- There were a total of 1,404 participants in
cals of diagnostic interest through the chan- the trial, but the sample sizes for each dis-
nels etched in the chip, where they can be ease were quite small. And the machine was
detected. better at distinguishing among some dis-
“You can program what you want to sniff eases than others.
out just by changing the software,” Mr. In the United States, a team of re-
Boyle said. “We can use the device for our searchers from the Monell Chemical Senses
own trials on colorectal cancer, but it can Center and the University of Pennsylvania
also be used by our partners to look for received an $815,000 grant in February
other things, like irritable bowel disease.” from the Kleburg Foundation to advance
The company also is conducting a 1,400- work on a prototype odor sensor that de-
subject trial, in collaboration with the Uni- tects ovarian cancer in samples of blood
versity of Warwick, to detect colon cancer plasma.
from urine samples, and is exploring The team chose plasma because it is
whether its chips can help determine the somewhat less likely than breath or urine to
best drugs for asthma patients by sorting be corrupted by confounding factors like
through molecules in their breath. diet or environmental chemicals, including
A similar diagnostic technology is being cleaning products or pollution.
VIKTOR KOEN developed by an Israeli chemical engineer, Instead of ligands, their sensors rely on
Hossam Haick, who was also touched by snippets of single-strand DNA to do the

“I realized early Researchers are developing sion instrument, and dogs, while adept at
sniffing out cancer, get distracted. So re-
cancer. work of latching onto odor particles.
“My college roommate had leukemia, and “We are trying to make the device work
diagnosis could be new medical tools that rely on searchers have been trying for decades to it made me want to see whether a sensor the way we understand mammalian olfac-
as important as scent to make a diagnosis. figure out how to build an inexpensive odor
sensor for quick, reliable and noninvasive
could be used for treatment,” said Mr. tion works,” said Charlie Johnson, director
treatment itself.” Haick, a professor at Technion-Israel Insti- of the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the Uni-
diagnoses. tute of Technology in Haifa. “But then I real- versity of Pennsylvania, who is leading the
HOSSAM HAICK By KATE MURPHY
The field finally seems on the cusp of suc- ized early diagnosis could be as important fabrication effort. “DNA gives unique char-
TECHNION Blindfolded, would you know the smell of ceeding. as treatment itself.” acteristics for this process.”
your mom, a lover or a co-worker? Not the “You’re seeing a convergence of technol- His smelling machine uses an array of In addition to these groups, teams in Aus-
smells of their colognes or perfumes, not of ogy now, so we can actually run large-scale sensors composed of gold nanoparticles or tria, Switzerland and Japan also are devel-
the laundry detergents they use — the clinical studies to get the data to prove odor
smells of them? carbon nanotubes. They are coated with li- oping odor sensors to diagnose disease.
analysis has real utility,” said Billy Boyle, gands, molecular receptors that have a high “I think the fact that you’re seeing so
Each of us has a unique “odorprint” made co-founder and president of operations at
up of thousands of organic compounds. affinity for certain biomarkers of disease much activity both in commercial and aca-
Owlstone, a manufacturer of chemical sen-
These molecules offer a whiff of who we are, found in exhaled breath. demic settings shows that we’re getting a
sors in Cambridge, England.
revealing age, genetics, lifestyle, hometown Once these biomarkers latch onto the li- lot closer,” said Cristina Davis, a biomedical
Mr. Boyle, an electronics engineer,
— even metabolic processes that underlie gands, the nanoparticles and nanotubes engineer and professor at the University of
formed the company with two friends in
our health. 2004 to develop sensors to detect chemical swell or shrink, changing how long it takes California, Davis, who also is helping to de-
Ancient Greek and Chinese medical prac- weapons and explosives for customers, in- for an electrical charge to pass between velop an odor sensor to diagnose disease.
titioners used a patient’s scent to make di- cluding the United States government. But them. This gain or loss in conductivity is “My estimate is it’s a three- to five-year
agnoses. Modern medical research, too, when Mr. Boyle’s girlfriend and eventual translated into a diagnosis. time frame” before such tools are available
confirms that the smell of someone’s skin, wife, Kate Gross, was diagnosed with colon “We send all the signals to a computer, to clinicians, she added.
breath and bodily fluids can be suggestive cancer in 2012, his focus shifted to medical and it will translate the odor into a signature The researchers may be competing in-
of illness. The breath of diabetics some- sensors, with an emphasis on cancer detec- that connects it to the disease we exposed to tensely, but all see possibilities for saving
times smells of rotten apples, experts re- tion. it,” Mr. Haick said. lives.
port; the skin of typhoid patients, like bak- Ms. Gross died at the end of 2014. That she With artificial intelligence, he said, the “There’s a lot of good work going on out
ing bread. might still be alive if her cancer had been machine becomes better at diagnosing with there,” Mr. Johnson said. “It will be interest-
But not every physician’s nose is a preci- detected earlier, Mr. Boyle said, continues each exposure. Rather than detecting spe- ing to see who comes out on top.”
D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Double Jeopardy in Twin Births

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 mild, she said.
perts suggested that the Zika virus may She had already given birth to 10 children,
have penetrated one placenta and not the starting when she was 17. It took a month
other. before she brought João Lucas to the ge-
Perhaps the virus entered through a neticist, who said “his brain, it wasn’t like
weak spot in one placenta’s membrane, said ours,” Ms. da Silva, 42, recalled. “It was go-
Dr. Ernesto Marques, an infectious disease ing to be always very small.”
expert at the University of Pittsburgh and She was shocked. “I didn’t feel sad or up-
the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Recife, set,” she said. “I thought about how it was
Brazil. Or if one fetus “kicked the placenta,” going to be when he grows up” and realized
he said, inflammation from that bruise on “I will have to take care of him more than
the membrane could become a portal. the other kids.”
But one set of twins has broken the pat- But his symptoms began overwhelming
tern. Those twins are fraternal and had sep- her. “He would fall asleep, and five minutes
arate placentas — but both have microceph- later he would start screaming,” she said.
aly and other Zika complications. “The boy Ms. da Silva was especially alarmed by
is more affected than the girl, but both are João Lucas’s seizures, which made him “get
severe,” Dr. Zatz said. purple” and look “like his eyes were going to
That case complicates the theory. Dr. jump out.”
Vanessa van der Linden, who helped dis- Sometimes he became so agitated, he
cover that Zika causes microcephaly and would scratch himself in the face, Ms. da
has treated some of the twins, said one ex- Silva said. “Blood would come out.”
planation might be that in some fraternal Unable to cope with his care, Ms. da Silva
cases Zika crossed both placentas, but the started bringing him to a neighbor’s cousin,
twins had genetic differences that influ- who began caring for him. The caregiver,
enced why only one became infected or Valéria Gomes Ribeiro, 46, brought the
“why the babies reacted differently to the baby to his first appointment with a neu-
virus.” rologist. The doctor prescribed clon-
Dr. Marques suggested another possibil- azepam, an anti-anxiety drug, to calm him,
ity: that an impaired twin was exposed to but Ms. Ferreira still found that when João
Zika before the mother’s body or the pla- Lucas was home, something often went
centa developed immune responses against wrong. He developed pneumonia and eat-
the virus and that the second fetus was in- PHOTOGRAPHS BY ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

fected slightly later.

“It should reach both at an equal time,” he
said. “However, if the virus hit one of the ba- “I believe the
bies before the mother actually had devel- explanation will be
oped protective immune responses, you complex.”
have a problem.” MAYANA ZATZ
UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO
Dr. Zatz’s lab has drawn blood from af-
fected and unaffected twins, and is growing
brain cells from their stem cells. She is test- sticks to stimulate touch.
ing to see which of those cells are suscepti- On a visit last fall to Ms. Ribeiro’s emerald
ble to Zika infection. That could show green house on a dirt street, where the 23rd
whether some twins have genetic predispo- psalm hangs on a yellow wall, Ana Vitória
sitions that make Zika infection more likely. toddled around, clutching a piece of spongy
Ultimately, Dr. Zatz expects to find an inter- cake with one hand, thumping a table with
play of factors that can vary in each twin the other. Reaching for her brother’s mouth,
pregnancy. “I believe,” she said, “the expla- she touched the green tape that therapists
nation will be complex.” ings to remove João Lucas from her home. apply around his lips, fingers, back and chin
For now, why João Lucas is devastated by To keep him from being placed in a shelter, to relax tight muscles. Ms. da Silva waved a
the virus and his sister is not remains a both women and the state agreed that João rattle before João Lucas, but he did not re-
mystery. Lucas would live with Ms. Ribeiro, while spond.
When João Lucas and his twin sister were Ana Vitória stayed with Ms. da Silva. Under So far, his sister — like the other fraternal
born in August 2015, their mother, Neide court order, João Lucas spends Sundays at twins without obvious brain damage — ap-
Maria Ferreira da Silva, was unaware he ing problems, even what she called “an João Lucas, top in red, with his biological mother’s house. pears unimpaired, but doctors are monitor-
emotional fever” because he seemed to his twin sister, Ana Vitória. Ms. Ribeiro, who has adorned João Lucas ing her and the others. At Ana Vitória’s one-
had microcephaly or brain damage, she
miss Ms. Ribeiro, Ms. da Silva said. Ms. Ribeiro, giving João with a bracelet and necklace hung with a
said. He was born first and was temporarily year exam, she was slightly behind devel-
Ms. da Silva’s 11-year-old daughter be- Lucas a massage, right, and
placed in an oxygen chamber because of good-luck charm called a “figa,” tries to opmentally. Her vocabulary was limited
came pregnant and had an abortion, at an appointment, above, is
breathing problems. And the maternity keep up with his many appointments. They and she was slow to point to her mother
prompting a child protection agency visit. the boy’s legal guardian.
hospital’s “deformation doctor,” a physician include visits with a psychologist who when the doctor asked, Ms. da Silva said.
specializing in newborns with deficiencies, After Ms. da Silva told the caseworker that shows João Lucas a panel of black and That could be unrelated to Zika, but, she
recommended he see a geneticist. But Ms. a friend was caring for her Zika baby, the white squares to stimulate vision and rubs noted, “The doctor never said it’s 100 per-
da Silva thought any problems would be agency investigated and initiated proceed- him with a sponge studded with Popsicle cent sure that she doesn’t have a problem.”

Hunting Mushrooms (Glowing or Not)

Many species glow in the dark, tract spore-transporting insects, that dims
and intensifies according to a circadian “This isn’t like a
and scientists are just clock that still isn’t quite understood. convenience store.”
beginning to figure out why. ALAN MUSKAT
Something Exotic in the Backyard NO TASTE LIKE HOME TOURS

By JOANNA KLEIN On the Japanese island Hachijo-jima, tiny,

common mushrooms — known locally as
PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST, N.C. — Here’s for honey mushrooms, only to find after we
hato-no-hi, or pigeon fire — glow along for-
what I was told: Get away from the city, go had turned back that the fungus was under
est paths during the rainy season from May
during a new moon and keep my flashlight the tree we had passed at the trail head.
through September. And in the Atlantic for-
off. When the sky faded black enough to
est of southern Brazil, Neonthopanus gard-
spot stars twinkling, I’d be able to see mush- Beauty in the Rot
neri, or flor de coco, resembles a large, ra-
rooms glowing. Foxfire is the emberlike glow that appears
dioactive flower from another planet.
There are about 100,000 species of fungi, when a honey mushroom’s rootlike fila-
but only about 80 of them bioluminesce, or But among the thousands of fungi that
grow in the subsection of the southern Ap- ments infect and start killing a deciduous
glow in the dark. They pop up in tropical and tree, often an oak. To see whether the fun-
temperate forests in the Americas, Japan, palachian Mountains I was exploring, there
gus we had found would produce a glow, we
Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa. are a few glowers. The large, orange fruit-
looked for the dark, stringy infestation
They emit green light, a result of nearly ing bodies of Omphalotus olearius, or jack-
known as a rhizomorph, or shoestring rot,
the same chemical reaction that illuminates o’-lantern, appear in great numbers around
because that’s what it looks like, and that’s
the belly of a firefly or the skin of a squid, June through September.
what it does to the wood.
only the resulting light is constant in the Mr. Muskat found a rhizomorph at the
mushroom, not on-demand or reactive as in bottom of our tree, but the healthy-looking
some insects or marine animals. The mole- wood and the dead-looking mushroom sug-
cules responsible for the colors are different gested it wouldn’t glow. Still, he shouted
too. And in a study published last week in “lights out,” and we waited for even a faint
Science Advances, researchers have finally light. As we allowed our eyes to adapt to the
revealed what’s going on inside these flam- darkness — it should take around 20 min-
boyant fungi — at a molecular scale. utes — we played a brain game called
With mushroom season approaching, minute mystery to pass the time.
you can see them glowing, too, and you
don’t even need to leave the country. But Something Strange in the Dark
you’ll need to practice patience and prepare The honey mushroom we found never
for disappointment when heading out on produced any glowing wood, but while I sat
the hunt. In a boggy forest near Asheville, in the dark, I spotted tiny green dots: an un-
N.C., I once spent a night two summers ago expected cluster of bitter oyster, one of the
tracking down three species of glowing other glowing species, lined up on a small
mushrooms. Lost in the dark with a dying stick.
phone and a forager known locally as the More bitter oyster appeared, as if out of
Mushroom Man, I learned that mushrooms nowhere, in another spot where we were
are unpredictable. disappointed yet again by decomposing
“You can’t always get what you want, jack-o’-lantern mushrooms. The dead
when you want it,” said Alan Muskat, who mushrooms looked like burned pancakes
leads quirky foraging tours with his com- that were teeming with insects, emitting
Clockwise from top: a bioluminescent
pany, No Taste Like Home, near Asheville. only a dim, ghostly, pewter aura.
jack-o’-lantern mushroom; Alan Muskat in his
“This isn’t like a convenience store.” As a mushroom’s metabolism shuts down
mushroom hunting outfit; bitter oyster
I learned a few other lessons as well. in death, so does its ability to create light,
mushrooms; more jack-o-lantern mushrooms.
said Dr. Kaskova: “Fewer and fewer mole-
Get to Know Your Target cules of luciferin are synthesized, so the
In all bioluminescent organisms, a small Then there’s Panellus stipticus, or bitter glowing becomes weaker and weaker.”
molecule called luciferin interacts with oxy- oyster, a summer mushroom that looks like
gen and a bigger protein called luciferase, a tiny, tan fan growing on sticks. You can A Surprise in the Sunlight
creating chemical energy that is eventually also find Armillaria mellea, a sometimes- After an unsatisfying evening, we went
released in the form of cold light. Every or- parasitic fungus also known as honey looking for other mushrooms just for fun the
ganism has its own version of luciferin and mushroom that appears in the fall and next day. Unexpectedly, we found hundreds
luciferase, with individual properties that makes wood look as if it’s glowing. of jack-o’-lanterns in the daylight. This is
could prove useful. But first, you have to find them. why you should always bring a basket. It
For example, one group has unsuccess- should be wood or natural fiber with a lat-
fully tried to make glowing plants by splic- Some Help Won’t Hurt tice bottom so the mushrooms’ spores can
ing in genes from bioluminescent bacteria. Don’t go into the woods alone at night. Find return to the forest floor.
But the chemicals involved in fungal biolu- a guide in a local mushroom hunting group. To collect the mushrooms, bring a knife
minescence may be more compatible with A good place to start is the North American and a brush. Unless you want your
plants. Mycological Association, an organization of ’shrooms to turn into slime, bring wax pa-
“Maybe it will be as difficult as people professional and amateur mycologists. per or a paper bag, never plastic.
traveling to Mars or other galaxies, but My guide, Mr. Muskat, is not a profes- PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE BELLEME FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES At home, I placed my fresh jack-o’-
maybe we will use it,” said Zinaida Kaskova, sional mycologist, but he has decades of ex- lanterns, gills up, in a cardboard box in the
a chemist at Pirogov Russian National Re- perience — enough to write a book. His and detailed descriptions of what trail they corner of a windowless bathroom and
search Medical University in Moscow who weird sense of humor and Tao-like wisdom were on, how far down it they would be waited for my eyes to adjust. It didn’t take
led the study of bioluminescent mushroom made a dragging hunt less taxing. A week found and even the unique characteristics long before I saw the little glowing gills.
molecules. before we met, he enlisted “informants” and type of tree they were under. They appeared to be breathing. Hello there,
Unlike other bioluminescent organisms, who provided leads on where to find our But tips don’t always pan out. We spent my neon green friend. I’ve heard so much
fungi emit a constant light, possibly to at- three mushrooms. These included photos two hours wandering down a trail searching about you.