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ISRAELDISPATCH

A Country's Politics Reflected in the Waters of a Gentle Stream

Standoff Over Access
Grows Outside Kibbutz
By 1SABEL KERSHNER
KIBBUTZ NIR DAVID, 1srae A
wimsical cnain of iiflatable ratts teth-
ered together by a ilimsy rope tloated
Bee dt runs
orthern Israel. Pan
The boats were packed with res-
ents of tne area, their children and day
trippers from tarther afield, but this

noliday. The goal of this unarmed arma-

da was nothing less than reclaiming the
mall riveer.
"This is a strategIc takeover e
houted throuch a bullhorn as he
waded ahead ot the group.

ne otlas anestinaton
en paradse:
was aTOroid
exquisite, aquamarine

ized by, Kibbutz Nir David, a commu

1al tarm tOunded by eary zioist plo-
neers, Ashkenazi Jews trom Europe
who historically formed the core of the

The "new pioneers," as Mr. Vaknin

alled nis cadre, were young acivIsts,
mostuly ron the nardscraboie negnbor
ng town ot Beit shean. Many of the
who immigrated from North Africa and
other Miaole Eastern countries, nave
laboreS n Nir Davia.
aSon the surface, the squabble over the

On one sideis the Free the Asi cam

agn., a group tignting for pubice acCCess
à cherisned Deauty spot and against FOR The NEW YOK TIMES
perceived privilege. On the other 1s a ATAM
Boys trom the town of Beit Shean enjoying the waters of the torbidden Asi. Protesters are fighting tor public access to the stream through Kibbutz Nir David.
ndrmusil iéeastula

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rhe dispute has landed in court, awant
ing resoution; in late May, the state of
Sreio wegned n, Dacking the publicS
access tne stream through the

But underlying the battle are much

greater tensions that extend across
Israel.
The Asi dispute pits advantaged
Founders against a younger generation
from a traditionally marginalized
group. Aa t nas resOnatd dCTOSS
Israel as a distillation of the identity
da tha lone nrime ministership of
3enjamin Netanyahu.
neckasn over wn0 can use tne Asl 1s
"quintessential" reflection of contem-
7 SIon, d nistor-
.
"The kibbutzniks, once perceived as
ne ente in the servce or tne state and
ne warnOrs prorectng society, nave
become expioitersS m
tnee The section of the Asi at the center of the kibbutz, left. Nir David locked the steel gate at its entrance about a decade ago and tenced oft the community as pro-
ests began. A residetnEs private garden, rignt. idDuz representatives say tney cannot Simpiy open heir gates and turn their home into a pubIIc park.
utznik, who used to stand proud, now
nas to apologize because Israell SOCiey
Mizrahis who arrived in the years after 18,000, wen with Mr Netan
ome on the right have enthusiasti- backed de new
lais lsraelsfounding in 1948, parties mostly alienedsh Neran- cally taken up the cause, like Yair
Ne. utside the kibbutz or extending the
The naray Tarmers wnorune Each sidee in the Asi dispute accuses yanu, then the prime minister. 1hree tanyanu, he rormer prime mnisters Asi's flow toward Beit shean. But tne
were joined by a group of Holocaust ne orneOr using nateru onne rheto iway Davd, TuEt S0n, Wno nas called to iberate the Free the ASI leaderS Said tnat coud set

Survvors in tne ia0s. 10getner, they ricand stirring up ethnic demonization of about 650 people, over 90 percent of AS 0n Twtte was a laWnRer ro a precedent 1or the privatizationn ot
worked the land, dralned tne surtou the
Beit Shean has long epitomZed the partues that belong to the new govern who brought the court case against the h Hadad, 36, a campaign leader
ing malar1al swamps and fought off ess pveged
owngrew otneSre
ne
out of a transit campod
gcoaOn tnat ouSted
ni. nas at kibbutz. from Beit Shean, said the relationship
expanded from one bank of the Asi to e MZrani mmgrants, andits relatiOns
for ree tne As cunpzugn
racted aarety o supporters, nc
S worth it for them to fan the with Nir Davia naa aways been one of
"us on the outside and them inside."
he other.
Ms. Hadad, a political science stu-
The stream begins just west of the Cnarged With resentment from the and environmentalists. But left-Wing hem votes"
abbutz, in a natioal park Tamed ror 1s Nir David denies any discimination,
start.
POcal partues ave mostuy tyed could be opened to the public with fixed
1at urdi oo irrioation
sp
In the March election, Israel's tourth mum to avoid alienating the kibbuz asserting that 40 percent of its popula- nours and prohibitions on barbecues
uaunuo Dise or
Reit Shean with anonlarionof abo Tnd the standoff, Nir David has a music.
channel suppiying water 1or local agri-
opud ud
"After all," she said, "there are not
ulture and fish ponds.
In
the mid-1990S Nir David renabul Th la lod
ated the nalt-mile section ilowing place on Mimouna, a North African
nforcing the banks with concrete, Ish hoiday marking the end ot
ng wils ana grdens and devel- A Ei2FRAPTMIN Passovet
Mr vaknin, 30, an intrormation sys-
ping a ucrative tourism industry by
renting out waterside holiday chalets at
and festive demonstration that began
Israeli law, rivers and streams are
By outside the kibbutz gate, complete with
meant ror pubne use. But n tne AS a D.J. and piles ot muietot, Mimouna
uspute, ne two sides afer over theP pancakes arippinE wltn noney.
meaning of "public use"and whether
ne patn nrougn tne KDDutz is a pubine
in
hea ehotod invirina
kibbutz residents to join the party.
Nir David locked the steel gate at its An eclectic mix of about two dozen
rance aDOut dece
fenced off the community as protesters
ago and Pe ur u up0 prores
While he kibbutz offers the most
P ne pro
ble to reach the water where the stream
and other activists began their "Free meets the irrigation channel. But that
the Asi campaign in 2019. The kibbutz way invovEs several nazards, ncudung8
hen hired a private security firm. clambering down a steep incline off a
KiDoutz eped
e rocks in this untamed nart of h
and turn their home into a public park. stream would tear a ratt.
Cnaya MoZer, 71, a KDDutz veteran, Despite those obstacles, the pro
said she understood the protesters testers mnoved from the kiboutz down
uesires.L0OK at the beauty!" she the road to 1auncn tner noa
he brilliant flowers. "But it's impossi. barked near the kibbutz cemetery.
Die. we inve here. This place was nur- Cnidren SWam and chased aucRS S
tured by us."
For those backing the young actv
E-taceu seturny Euarus 0KEd Onl,
filming on their cepnones.
red
mhof hcriiee h d off into the heart of the kibbuz.Nobody
ounced as the unequal allocation of Oppeu tnem, and tney posed for vic
he country's resources and the institu- Protesting in April outside the kibbutz's gate. The Free the Asi campaign has attracted a variety ot supporters, but left tory photoS on the manicured bank of
tional discrimination suffered by wing political parties have mosty stayed mum to avoid alienating the kibbutz movement, a traditional base of support. the Asi
 A6 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY JUNE 22, 2021

Afghan Cioilians Form Their Own Armies Against a Relentless Taliban

romFugeA
draw from Afghanistan, and talks
aiter Detween ne anban and
te
American-backed government,
ave formed militias or say they
plan to arm themselves. The rush
to
raise ngnters ad weapo
the early 1990s. when rival mili-
tias killed thousands ot civilians
and left sections o Kabul inrums.

nili
itia movement even if nomi-
nalyaligned with ATghan secur

vide the country into fiefs ruled by Hazara militia members. Zulfiqar Omid, a Hazara leader, said
warlords. Yet these makeshit ar that he now commands 800 armed men at seven staging areas.
mes hay
force bases and outposts steadily rival with an assault rifle, would ghanistan in case talks collapsed.
colapse in the tace oa nerce on nonetheless be a central figure inSuch talk has become more bla-
slaught of attacks by the Taliban. Taliban. PS drawal announcement" the re
.
was announced in April, regional Another power Droker wnose port sala.
strongmen nave pu PRESaTY HOTOCRAES RY wARIL KONEARAaNC BRANCL ACas are
actions being watched closely, For Hazara militias, a wild card
socialmedia showing armed menMe
embersor a azara milta on patrol against laliban nsurgents in wardak Frovince n January. are
thousands ot Hazara former
to fight the Taliban, Some militia inBalkh Province, which includes sion, trained by Iran and deployed
selves, will repeat Mahdi Raskih, another Hazara
we history it with the Ghani istr ation
a

leaders fear the flagging peace self and will be massacred like member of Parliament, said he vying for control, while trying to AnansnSmerc to Syria in 2014 through 2017, os
S during the time of Abdul Rahman had counted 35 major attacks Bgain the upper hand in a post
dav that he would mobilize his mi. Dy o
the Taliban willintensifyanall-outhan Alpur said, relerring aganstazaras in recentyears id wthdrawalAghanistan
tla Torces alongside government Muslim-dominated Isamic State
assault to capture provincial cap ruled in the late 19th century, mas- He said he had lost patience with leader to maintain a militia is Ah- others were sent to Yemen to fight
y segeO aDul. hat had fallen to une b
sacng ang ensiaving azaras. government promises or protec s,
ad aSsoua, S0n r Amad alongside HOut ebeis aga
nOwer hokers are neakinu nah Agna toOre Says ne siayed on rorazara Scnoois, osquesnan asSoud,anarisman rapid offensive in the north.
cyabOut

hal wrote
mobilizing

Hazaras have the

armed hede

Buns,
*
men the Aghanistan Analysts "They forced us to pick up
in a Tunerenort
most to fear
Allpur sald o tne gov .
fect HazarasWe mst carry
If they can't provide security,
be honest and admit it," Mr.
Raskin Sald.Feope tne
ance that helped U.S. forces rout
the Taliban in late 2001.
Anmadassoud nas assen- ern Alliance commander whoated
Deneve

for them. S Or Deople must ernAfghanistan.Callinghis helped defeat the Taliban, re

u
n Herat Province in the
raising
west, have returned to Afghanistan,
fears they will be incorpo-
nto iazara

onr R navsts and Hazar

mintlas, provi

e O p guns to protect ourselves"

D
ofthedominatev Shite man Over the past twodecades, Haz
pick up guns and fight."
Hazara soldiers, police and in
armed uprising the Second Re
sistarnce, M Massoud is purport
centiyDroadcast
ng Dage
book
or drmeu ne
a
aucouauleaders
o a
have
say former Fatemiyoun
been turned awayDecau
when the Sunni Muslim militants ties in west Kabul and in Hazara have been forced out of the securi. a
fighters and about dozen aging their Iranian ties and potential
Mr. Khan told supporters nat
gOverned mostof Atghanistan jat, their mountainous homeland ty forces because of discrimina
r in central Afghanistan. 8ut with tion Mr Raskih said, provicding
ic
militia commanders who fought halr-npeople Hera were ernment.
the 1aliban and the Soviets. sed to take up arms n toue
In Kabul, many HazaraS Sy
The most prominent Hazara mi- been vuneratble to attack men. Many Hazara pol
trained Massoud is too inexperienced to clear signal that he intended to they are ready to take up guns
litia commander is Abdul Ghani Hazara demands for an army ticians, including Mr. Ghani's sec- effectively lead an armed move- ns a Mohammad,
T peace taikS like m
shopkeeper who a
escalated girls were atter up to 69 school ondvice president,Sarwar ment. But some western leaders and the Taliban collansed name, said he crossed aditch flow-
e killed in a bombing in Danesh, have called on the gov- view him as a valuable source of
government forces. month later, three public trans- genocide of Hazaras. Hundreds of
Is Also in Herat, Kamran Alizai, aE Do0d wnen ne ran rom
lamic State groups inside Afghan- Pashtun who leads the provincial oke ihe neiehborine
n
with Mr.
POrtminivans were bombed in ka counci, said he commanded a Shhada biohscho on Mav R
Saed
hcopterdin March. In an interview at
Hazaras have taken to 1witter, 15tan
1anegnbohds oaarasenoieo de osevneeteroCal o e to mobilize at a moment's notice killing the dozens schoolgiris as of
he denied any involvement, al- Hazara. Among them was a jour Even as some Hazaras mobi mobilizing reads like a who's who If government forces were un- EO hoE
"Im 24, and there have been24
nalsand
amen nad
her mother, the poce
Said. Since 2015, at least 7665 Haz:
ize,
never
Some lajikK and uzbek Eroups one countrys civ war in the
are no
a
we
narApurs completely disbanded the 19905. But their forces wi stand by them and nghtHoe
If we don't stand up and defend alone in 23 attacks, according to topple the Taliban in 2001. Other The brutal Uzbek strongman, The Afghanistan Analysts Net Mr. Mohammad said several of

Ne o mes data. ethnic commanders have recently Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, has work reported that Abdul Basir hisrends have recenty oned
Asadullah Timory contributed re- *Tajik have weapons, Pashtuns begun forming militias as the Tal long maintained a private army of a
Salangi. former militia com-ms
ed Dy Mr Apur and Mr
roog Jan Mangal from Khost ment bases and outposts. Kabul, said in a speechin January"If this
Prov HazAra member
of Parliament. jan Province. General Dostum, situation continues" he
ince and laimoor Shah from Kan "We Hazaras must also have a Many of these power brokers who has been accused of war that militias were forming in the said, T pick up a gun and kill
dahar Province. system to protect ourselves. are locked in an enduring struggle crimes and sodomizing an Uzbek Salang district in north-central Af- whoever kills us.

Iran's Conservative President-Elect ows Mr. Azizi

irmness wtn wnich
jected the
attributed the striking

possibiy
r
Kaisi re
or sucna
Tough Line on Missiles and Militia lIssues eround in diplom
Mr. Raisi, who has been the
This articleis by Farnaz Fassihi, said in a briefing with domestic returned to the 2015 nead or tne udiciay ror tne past
accord, which 18months, has no experience in
sabella Kwai and Ben Hubbard. and international reporters in was abandoned in 2018 by Presi
s newiy chosen president,e dent Donald J. Irump, wno caled spent his career in the legal sys
news nference, on KeEIonial isses and miSSies
st em asprosecutoa Juageand
Monday rejected in that the United States had not sanctions on iran. he head or the judiciary, with a
with the Islamic Republic that carried through on matters it had ntred sates and iran are
he
would resStrctes ballistic missilesnegotatea, agreed and commit S hrougn mtermed glomerate.
programand curb itSregionalmi
e ram
d to hat 2015 agreement. American nee
and
was notplomane
something we are goin8
this is
ln nal a hardening of Iranian policies a ania is a
an greenent
President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, as the conservative faction takes because he has no experience in
conservative cleric
sahat rninen Parentthe could be possible in the six weeks told reno
reporte
iran's ballistic missiles and its re er nra he that remain before Mr. Raisi takes
Ebrahim Raisi, Irans president-elect, t. told
that he would not meet with President Biden, and that Tehrans
diplomacy, Mr. Azizi said.
Talal Atrissi, a sociologist at the
tiable" and that he would not meet LeDnese vS eiru
with President Biden. He called on
Mr. Raisi, who takes office in
August, sald his administraton's
Mr gOve host if
position on its ballistic missile program was "nonnegotiable."
alles, said Mr. Raisi's victory was
benefit
oS
2015 accord in which Iran agreed o
and ant-corruption
on
avs
uoy
insisted
it begins its term with sanctions
a
eased by renewed deal, as well
ates, charities and individuals ac
cused of human rights violations
expected-he a biow to reformists and would
"It was quite
knows more about what he is not
streneia s ts
or
turn for the lifting of economic that its military capabilities are sdods ouemain. pledge to refuse to to d axis of resistance" These include
up ror discussion, tne current
Sanctions against it. not omy and people's livelihoods was negotiate on missile and militia is- Hezbollah in Lebanon, various mi
in foreign policy" said Hamidreza
s
tne
e
govermensto e tre, as s
one of M. Raisi's main campaign
pledges.
sues, which fell outside the 2015
nuclear agreement, was not a sur
AZiZ1, a Visiing relow at the
man Institute for International
y er
Houthi rebels in Yemen, who re ne
.
has d to
ments, lift all the sanctions and one if it benefited his country. He a return to the deal, which would sitions he took as a candidate and was just repeating the general po- its anti-Israeli and anti-American
Show that they nave BOOd will, ne aso said broader negonations remove key sanctions, including was in keeping with the views of Sitions or the islamic Kepudlic. stances.
wIun
tne ne uatescu De hose dealing wItn ol, Danking he countryrs supreme eade Ay n whether ne would meet "RaisI wl stay committed to
Hwaida Saad contributea repor
er ealne the merne n a e e evies ad r arere anioEt

Uproar Over Artwork Ranking Women by Looks Reveals a Changing China

AMY CHANG CHIEN Campuslowershas been become more main-
have slowly and the artists explanation, the In one critically praised video those for himself to enjoy, he said.
and
ie ouitiee
nese social media.
it uras had plain why a work that few found concept of the work and its Eng- Loveliest Guy?" (2014), Mr. Song jectifying women, he responded
enough that he had secretly Thecontrastingreactions to Mr. ocuoDn 013c0udow Dehsh title were disrespectrul and of- persuades Chinese naval officers by saying that everyone oDect
filmed thousands of female stu-Song's piece the space of eight
dents on a Chinese university years underlnes both the chang
n Sn e asa ooccun
Pue
womenensve to
ithin Chinas art circles, opin
oriaearoer codster and recorus esveryone eise,gardess or
their etorts to stay serious and gendere aso sadhe sa him
pBut
then he proceeded to rank China and the evolving role of mu-
seums in a country where art and
nat kind or environmental cerns about OCAT Shanghai's
handling of the case, contending
included in the New Museum's
2013.
mitted to not fully understanding
womens 1SSues.
he women "from the prettiest to Iennial in
the ugliest," stringing together sconsumpaon are nojonger con ana T fna aChinese fim ehotnat the museum coua nave done LIke many artists, Mr. Song has ew
objected whenuglher and
around 5,000 grainy clips into a and alleries in ar who teaches at Purchase Colleast facilitate a discussion be: what he sees as political corect
rarened
ned to the as Dart of the ucCA Center for
numbersat the bottom of each im- China have long been accustomed
to lving unaer the prying eyes or
on Welo
eYrk wte o
ween Mr Song and his critics. ness. In a 2013 performance art Contemporary Art's 2013 show
a large-scale group e
age to indicate the woman's rank- lar Chinese social media plat.uners sadnat misoEYny was pieceuedone 1sNOt asG00d asOnO
deep-rooted issue in the art world, the Other, he ranked 30 young fe hibition featuring the work of
BOvernment cens0s form. "The so-called 'freedom of and 503E
ambieuous Enelish title:Uel many strategies to cope with or speech and art ereation' should have given a platform to amplity to ugly" andhad them walk downOne of the few people to raise
er and Uplier" circumvent such pressures. De useu asa EEa o ue a runway before an audience n concerns at
Mr. Song's work from the start. dme was ne cuta e
Thewo,
The work, by the Chinese artist
Dareyused
nle
&pple
NOw,more and more, such inst On Friday, OCAT Shanghai is-
tutions
udons also
also have
have to contena
contend with
wnsued an apology, syn
one o ereacne on onhat orde nevoWas part
vas day were willing to speak on the broader project
ang Lenul. revew
by Mr. Song called UCCA show for The New ohe York
oaor In

a E

space in Bejing, on.

prominent art ithdrang the and tempissue and also general wariness Ina2019 interview with
ork the Chi- site,
Ms. Tang called out Mr. Song

But when the video was recently Around the world, museums tion so that it could take some time about the Western news media in nese-language edition of Vice, Mr. for using his camera as a "weap

es e n n ae cre
spown again as part a Eroup o arap to "reflect" on its mistakes. Cu- China OCAShanghal, Mr Song Song described the proces of on of power. She pointed out that
show on contemporary Chineset lacK LVEs rated by Dai Zhuoqun, the exhibi-
e Circular
ngger and z0L4. ne women ne pnotograpned nadi ner
nonprofit museum, it set off a fu- lonialism. In China, too, museums Video Art 21," fea orks from The Guangzhou-born Mr. Song, ants to help him with the arduous and had thus become victims of
n China. must account lor sOCIal currents 21 Chinese video artists spanning wnoisin nis eary sU, IS nOwnas tasK or sortung_the 1ootage into nis work.
Many called the artwork, titled in a new way, as a booming aray the past 21 years. The show had provocaeur a
bad boy o olders ranging from "most "Itisindeed annoying that art iss beau.
o idaae euea to run rom Apru the olitieal breaerarand on y T 012
and a misogynistic affront to social media to promote them- "After receiving critícism froma oceaston stne censos The final cut did not include the wne comes following
women. Since the uproar began selves to these new audiences. everyone, we immediately re-ex pueupecensirOagover two women he deemed to be the the basic values of human univer
last week, the hashtag "Song Ta the same time, feminist ideas amined the content of the work ment-backed show. most beautiful; he had saved sality, artists have no immunity"
 A8 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

E.U. and U.S. Expand Sanctions on Belarus, Targeting Key Industries

By STEVEN ERLANGER We didn't use we
ions in the beginning because
he detention last month of a know they affect everyone, be
pPposiuon Journalist, the economy,
et e
Unted sares, uneuropea Un- 50e ne as S s, ut
0n, Bidn n
rther fifth round of sanctions if neces
y.
sanctions on the government of
Presiaent_ AlekSanarG. Luka Europeans imposeu prev
shenko of Belarus ror its aduses
mkashenko claimed a re-election
re united in our deep con victory n an August election
cern regarding the Lukashenko EySetas rauauent and
e nnungattacks on hu- rusned a popular uprising.
an g the
the detention of Roman Prota
by

four said in a joint statement sevich, a young alssaent

wasCenural nreporting on
oura
e are commited to supPport w
the long-suppressed democraticn cooranatng last years pro
an westand together to im
pose costs on the regime for its
or
Daan disregard international
d,
rEsted on May
,e
Mr. Protasevich, 26, and his girk
E, 23 after the Bela
cofmmimens, s senper iet flving between Greece
release all political prisoners and Lithuania, both member
and enter into a comprehensive aes one European
ana
Union, to
there
and genune polnucal dialogue" Clalmng
wnsk, that

and eiil e Oemocta oppositOn Since his arrest, Mr. PTOLASe

European Union foreign min- siDy Dused, despite
aup nas Deen neara
ealso voted
eng LuxemDourg,
on Monday to hit
n

n
seen recordinsan
im-nd e has
omy-banking, oil and tobacco praised Mr. Lukashenko in a dull
and, notably, the potash industry voice.
epresenung an The sanctions ist ncludes
en une pa
st in been involved in sentencing pro-
he Belaruskali
The mine, one of
mine, one olhethe worlds largest potash prouucet p came amid or human
dividuals responsible for repres- testers; members arliament
of Parliament
belaruskali worlds largest producers. Expanded sanctions accusations nghts abuses.

Sion. 1hose sectoral Sanctions are

Ev an e ue
expected to beconfirmed by Euro orement otcias and business er cear oashenko
ment who meet later this week. government. there is no going back," he said.
t the
oe inon
worth of chemicals including pot
Belarusians, Dut

"iththis agreement the E.U.is

nnay wen
ed Monday morning about
what these sanctions are ex
The coordinated move did not On Monday morninB the for-
involve identical sanctions, but it eign ministers and Svetlana minister of Luxembourg pushed as more than s1.2 bilion worth of nal against the Belarusian re the bloc's foreign policy chief, said
was insteau nerease
n Mr. Lukashenko sition leader, met over breakfast. describing them as crucial. such as fuel and lubricants. sion" the Austrian Foreign Min- the pressure for change.
by showing a unitedfront.
We will approve the package of
ATer that meeng, eiko Maas,
the foretgn minister of Germany,
ne Key wora, think, 1s
ash,"he said. "we know
o neons on ne inanc See
that Be tor wil include bans on newloans,
st
ince
na 5tatenenon Frday
sd last year, Tthe European
anctons are a Way or putng
pressure on the EOvernment or
new sanctions, which is a wider made clear that the European Un- larus produces very much potash nvestments Dy European Union Union has already imposed three Belarus he said. "And these are
Fontelles, the European Union's proach, and not only impose sanc- globally- and I think it would ties or buying short-term bonds in individuals, including Mr. Luka- rus, heavily. What do you expect
foreign policy chief. He said that tions on individuals. hurt Lukashenko very much if we Beläarus, and nvestmenE Services shenko. After the hijacking, the when you punish something? lo0
86 inaividuais and organizanons he bloc would now, he said, managed something in this area. from banks in the bloc. E.U.export European Union banned Bela change their behavior
r to th h frdieref frr tAerihh ich has important
sset freezes. cance for Belarus and for the re foreign currency for Belarus; the banking interests in Belarus to fly over Belarus. against Russia in response to thee
So, in total, some 166 people and gimes income. state firm Belaruskali says it through Raifeisen Bank, had held There has been ittle sign, how annexation of Crimea and sevas-
15 entities in Belarus are now un- Mr. Maas said the 27 member produces 20 percent of the worid's out against financial sanctions, in- ever, that the sanctions have al topol from Ukraine, extending
der E.U. sancuons. states were united on the new supply. SISing that they not harm ordl tered the pollcies or benavior orthem tor a urther year.

Eastern Europes Populists o Eastern Europe than the fall of

ME. Netanyahu in israel, a country
nat ne descrideda5 tne rue
dream of European nationalists
Run Into a Little Problem: strong economy, capable military
and an ability to resist outside
They Aren't That Popular pressure
hoeko
e negauve coaon
E es ripht.
By ANDREW HIGGINS Dring the news
media to heel wing populist leaders"because Is
LJUBLJANA, SIoveia naionalist governments in Hun
right-wing populist wave in Easteeded in doina at east
re was neir
ode
Mr. Turk, the former Slovenian
th tele
vision. gerated the menace posed by El-
has not crashed as a result of only television station
hisBut thesenuy rope's nationalist tilt but that the
eet stwithNOvemoer. But It has e suPports nm, a poarduon 1s
vEyed ne nd
collided a serious obstacie: 9ATY red is even ore extremetnan n
After winning elections by rail- has so few viewers than less Eager to present an image of
ng against widely disliked elites, ne percent ortne televisionit aud cam respectabny Tor Europes
E POpulists on Europe'sne On most daysthat does cantankerous illiberal movement,
ormeriy com e
Slavoj Zizek,a celebrity philoso
not much liked. That is due in pher and self-declared moder leaders committed to ereating a
unpopular coronav aey coservanve Marxist o
ptO
rus ocKdowns, and, ike other
TOea renaissance Dased
Christian vanues
shov
comnlexion. their

ney are 1so uhder pressure from

wng augue
stumbling re-
Sponses to the health crisis. But
wIth their divi-
.
with Melania Trump

Jansa, Mr.
said

Orban and Jaro

three countries he described as a

it was AECAGANCE
Viktor Orban, center, of Hungary and Janez Jansa of Slovenia are each facing rising opposition.
FRANCE IESE-CETTY IMAGCES Matteo Salvini, a fading far-rieht
star in ltaly who crashed out
overnment in 2019, and Poland's
Deleagueed prime minister, Ma
o

heauonast
isrei Intended to
In Hungary, Prime Minister
LOr orban is Delng countered popunsts, ne Sa1a,
signal the strength
Ik
by an uncharacteristically united p o SgEy, ne Duuapest cocive
cnervative government has he said, has been the disarray o hide that they are in decline" said
made an abrupt shift to the left inner opponents, many or wnom Peter kreko, the director ot Polit
economC poncy tO win back Sup-he pnios0pner sees as to0 To
pon An
the and issues that do not interest
most voteTS Instead of addressing
Bed with the prospect of los-
rump-loving prime minister is ing next year's election, Mr. Orban
slumping disastrously in the polls. economc concerns. as Tocused on revving up hs
Slovenia's leader, Janez Jansa, The impotence of the left is ter base with issues L.G.B. 1.Q
hke

wno Trump on w and Justice party

Me That nationalist populism re did in P
his "victory" in November andis a mains a force 15 demonstrated by land last year during its success
Se-declared scourge or liberal, or ane Le Pen tne Frencn tar upresenua
pan
eecuon Can

land, the Law and Justice

gion's unpopular populists. the weekend but opinion polls in- party has since taken anothen
Propelled by nationalist prom- dicate she could stll be a strOng tack, apparentiy deciding that it
ises to bar asylum seekers from contender in France's presidential needs more than aivisive cutural
ervival of tion
the Sloveni this by softening her image as a
a S0cal issueS to win uture
Mr. Jansa's Slovenian Democratic populist firebrand, ditching overt In May it embraced measures
Party won the most votes in a 2018race-batin8 and her preous and raditionally associated with thee
election. Lastyear, aew conu ion d its common left like higher taxes on the rich

an approval rating of 65 percent. Currency, the euro. off, and support for home buyers.
Thishas since plunged to 26Having never held high office, Even as her party struggles, Marine Le Pen of France has held onto support by softening herThat came after its populariy rat
ercent and Mr. Jansa is so unpop MS. Le Pen has also avoIded the e
ngs rom around 3 prcent
Street notesfs aeainst his have
attracted as many as tens of thou
ast and Central Be
have been running governments
who rt er
ban's ruling Fidesz party in elec
t
what he had viewed as a healthy
t
candidacy.
o eti M de n part the
the
demic but also because of anger,
n
sands or peope, nugEe rurnouts n
a normally placid Apine natuon
aurng ne panemic
Hungary,Europes Sel-pro Bether, according o
uc
Ons next yer ueyopinion polls,
spPOse to staue cener ortno
doxY to become a haven lor para-
But r irump d give coverparuryn agews, 0ve
and confidence to IHke-minded po- the ughtening or already strict
au
eral democracy" under Mr. Orban, In Slovenia, Mr. Jansa has ral- mongers. rhol ovresses and nlacing their Whenit comes to alienating vot
MJansa nas
narrowiy Survvinga no-conn
staggered on, asna newords Eest
capita aeath rate irom covid-l9
per
a
ed a loyal base or arouna z5 per ACrOSS the region, ne added,
cent of the electorate but has been"The whole wave has lost its mo-
Strugees in simal, inward-i0OKIng ers, howeve, noboa ivals Mr
countries into what seemed anir Jansa of Slovenia, who has made
ven more successiu scant etorts to reacn Deyond
and Slovenia have fared aid MrTrump's defeat has added to rump
pOsion iegisiators better but their right-wing gov
and defectors Luka LIsjak Gabrijelcic, a Slov its malaise, along with the recent has gone, said Ivan Krastev, an ex critics as communists and stirring
rom nis Cono erning pares,s La anausuce ean
But he has been so weakened and ME. Jansa Slovenian Demo
istorlan anda asen TOppng sraeis ongme
chanted former supporter.HIs leader, Benjamin Netanyahu,
pet on East and entral Europe
at the Institute for Human sci- world war I
ennes tat date bacK TO

anvthing"other than curse foes licanger over their handlingof the ple realv hate him he fo agency
lons been admired by nationalist confident populism of leaders of Slovenia's intellience
on
witer, Sald ziga urs, a un pandemic. his ncludes the speaker of leaders In Europe, despite the like M. Jansa and Mr. Orban and once a vocal supporter, said
versity proressorana caDinetnmin ne DBBst aane eaderS E T
n sin uae nes
paris0 P ne was sted Dy anss
p's residency as tha
Enng party n 2019. some opponents are finally get- to follow the model from Hunga- never the trigEger for Europe's right in the United States. nale: How can you win in politics iff
An admirer ot Hungarys M. ting their act together. In Hunga ryhe said. populist surge, whose leaders had But America's political convul you are constantly fighting with
Orban, Mr. Jansa has sought to ry, a diverse and previously feud- Mr. Gabrijelcic said he quit Mr. been around and winning votes sions, he added, are less relevant everyone? he asked.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 N A9

Vote Signals
Acceptance
OFPeace Pact
In Armenia
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
MOScOW pY
Pashinyan, won a snap election

g acceept
naued atEst Bru
ance by Armenians ora peaceet
S1l with
aian
Azerbaija
Forced on Armenia by battle
feld losses and negotated by Mr.
Pashinyan, the settlement re
a war over the enclaveof
six-week
Nagorno- Karabakh, an ethnic-Ar
menlan area nside Azerbaan,
but at a steep cost for the Arme-
tory that included centuries-old
monasteres that are, a touch
stone for Armenian natonal iaen

deal in
November.nationaliet n
testers stormed Mr Pashinyan's
one anaore nis namepiate
from the door. It seemed unclear
to enforce the tentative neace in
CRISHELCRENRELITERShe south Caucasus, a region
A mother and daughter at a demonstration in loronto to honor the 215 children whose ren were found near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School where urkey and Kussia COm
pete for influence.
nomeed on Monda showed Ar-
nd Determined Campaign to Dismantle Colonialism menian
aceep
voters appirenuy
sys
wng

when an Indigenous commun lowed a similar process: years ment, and with it a cleareyed vieww
yn Canada announced recently long efforts that bring incremen-Or tner countys aineuit secun
Indigenous Activists Make Gains in Courts and Legislatures
burial site with the remains of ernments face growing legal Election officials said Mr.
25 children, the location rang obligations to defer to Indigenous Pashinyans party, CIv contract,
with significance. autonomy. had won 3.3 percent ot the vote
was
grounds of a now-shuttere
Indian Residentia fewer. The government apolo ers. In a video address, he said it
MAA School, wnose gized only in z2010 IOr past would "restore social and national
FISHER tion of Indigenous concelved pouclesagalnst inalE consolidation" after the war.
A bloc of parties headed oy
children a 2015 knowledge direct responsibility
NTERPRETER n and reconcill
anon report called
Public pressure tor reconcillation
nas been ghter.
Kocharyan, came in second with
a key comp percent or the. vote M
cultural 016, civista nhusicalvimned. Kocharyan said on Monday that
overnment policy of
genocide ed construction of a North Dako
hat scho00 1 in Kamloops, a ta pipene wnose environental
impact, they said, would infringe
which, 52 years ago, Indigenous
leaders started a global cam persuadeda federal iudge to
ater
A victory by the ruling
paugn to reverse centuries ot pause theep party shows Russia's
m
their status as sovereign nations. Lin Amenca nas often growing influence in
ner eOrg wagea predon activism. Militarie
internal afairs.
y Curts ana mternatonal cOuntries have targeted Indige-
ulaied
steady gains ever since. conming nous conunnues n uving Eem
Ory, leavlng Bovernments reuc
urther than many realtze.
It has brought toEener groups the results were tainted by fraud.
In 2007, after 40 years of ma- Mr. Kocharyan and other oppo
neuvering, the united Nations
Canada's mountainous west, adopted the declaratuon on inagthe peace settlement and sug-
nave Deen at the Toreiront gested they might renegotiate the
wo years ago, the provin nAL SCHOOLS, VLA RELUTERS and Canada opposed, sayingit Russian-brokerea dea hrougn
piomacy.
cial government there became veu S0me indgenous claims
above thOSe of other citizens. All based
neword5 nist to adopt into law posl
largely on wishful thinking that
Nadons guidelines for
ions.eed
uier
ned ASAA Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russiaa
CANADA The
sovereignty. On Wednesday Declarations rignt to
voters, sald Rich-
Canadas Parllament passed a Eetemination Is not a unilat esonate with
law, now awalting a final rubber LIMHIA Charters. a New Z.ealand Maorigional Studies Center, a research
nationwide Easures group in Yerevan.
egal expert, wrote in a legal
was a stunning
aecades in
vIetory,
the
makinE, that
ournal. HOwever, 1ts recognit0n
of Indigenous peoples collective
r.
KDcharyan and other oppo
sition candidates had not sug
amloops n
Keskernt
and did not dirertr rie
D

ew: sive" in court systems, which

one day, in more recalcitrant often treat sucn documents sia's role in the negotíations or the
Australla, Latin Amerca an 200 MiLES
US. proot of an internanonal egal eployment or Peacekeeplng
even e ed o move
ANE
DVASOATD PS HE NEW YORK TIMES TRRAY SYVLSD
Few have sought formal inde
roops to Nagorno-Karabakh.
The reuca hiehliehted
ment
the tets happening
With different layers of courts,
All Saints Residential School, top, in Lac la Ronge, Saskatchewan, circa 1950. Above left, on the pendence. But an Australian

wItn aerent es grounds of the former Kamloops school and, right, a march against the Dakota Access pipeline in
2017. It was in Kamloops that Indigenous leaders first met in 1963 to organize a nignes
the nte
to the
Nations md the
United Natonsna ne
Moscow's growing sway in Arme
an ponacs. NO Candidates ranin
nadian legal scholar and a mem-
nvee inspired several others to follow. PpoSIOn to Kusia's mili-
Der or theChippewa or the verse. It was taken as effectively Ihey linked up with others Laws and rulings in one can Dy ting T
A ed 5ut, warf for
Nawash Unceded First Nation.
aIndigenous peoples.
er r frfr tn
cil of Indigenous Peoples on
to
the broader world as a global
wIdening legal precedent and Armenia means that Armenia is
iphted that ful nationhood is notIn the Kussian orot ever more
sovereignty has come with a rise
ancouver island. lts irst leader, norm. firmly," Mr. Giragosian said. "Arr
in activism, legal campaignin8 hen, at the end ot the decade, as unthinkable as it once was.
and historical reckonings like the anaas progssv v y nave seemed like a 0SS the
he movement's ultimate aim, announcing that it would
*dential nous law and First Nations mem-
step in that directton w
paper" school asS a cha Other factors in Armenian pou
which is nothing less than over ssove colonlal-era poleies, ne councs chartermpieity De oeseDens eort, in a the U.N. declaration's terms into cS SO neipedwas asninyan
20 DoOK, as
ne wor 0 nas tog
ouesis
epecu
n including reserves, and integrate
itizens t was offered as eman-
treated countries hke Canada the aevelopnent provincia aw.
Bur D Borrows called its
T
he opposition
ghting and Mr. Pashinyan's do
divided by in

It began lobbying the United would pressure governments to

No one is sure precisely what cipation. Nations to recognize Indigenous addressthe intergenerationa including one reauiring that the tion and focusing on road building
n w0OK DKe or how iong It ner countries wrepursung s impact o coRona , w
neve
government win iatnrmatve andrural development remain
mignt takKe. but Y a TUnited States' inauspiciously Nations so
m P ahas
consent irom Indigenous commu- POpular,opinion pols have
he United
pening now" Dr. Borrows said, amed "termination policy. established à working eop mignt even establish a legal pouces that affect sOW ne surveys Ese
and m an acceleratng way e EOvenments shock, rtsysEns were
Burtne groups ambinons were
s clalm to naonnoo Dut
nternanona arena tnar ut on
scholars have argued it would economic issues than on the lost
nce amount to0 nagenous veto tories.
Generational Campaign United Nations declaration, it Legal principles like terra any sovereign state. thougn usn irudeau anadas, In the frighting last fall, Azerbai-
captured districts it had lost in
The Indigenous leaders who mplied that colonla-era con nullius noboays lana ad Prine te this Dera |an

atnered n 1969 h va es werE W De acceptea as long served to Justiy co0n

Toward Sovereigny Mr. Trudeau promised to pass the Soviet Union three decades
changes Indigenous leaders gathered in these while, in parallel, establish- By the mid-1990s, the can a similar
law nanona agourkeyrs roe ws vo
Duttaceu Ooas ouea
e narsnest assimilation
polcies were roued Dack in m0St
Kamioops to organlze a response.
Brish columbla was a loglcal
nga DOCy Or naigenous
The courts are ve
1aw.
po
P The s Dudng momenrum.
United Nations Degan
6 SuppyingE arones ana
sistance, and tipping the scales
would allow Indigenous commu-
mained visible in everyday life. had never signed treaties with its develop our jurisprudence" Dr. nous rights. Several countries niues to bIOCK projeCEs. He co Turkish intervention also
tinued trying, ana wednesday's
xracE nd nrasuructu E nnDns, unke Borrows said. ypologzed, often along- stirred worry ol a waerwar
negpruEcis provo he movement secured a Side promises to setue old clams. C il fll outn caucasus reglon that mignt
draw in Turkey and Russia, be-
The civil rights era was energiz- ive under illegal foreign occupa- over decades, stitched together a ciliation was meant to address adopt the U.N. terms.
generation. egal claim to the land, not Just as tne past ana, Dy educang the
Mr. Gubert sald that acuvists
with Armenia.
pa
But two of the greatest motiva its really Quebec and British Its owners but as
sovereign na- Droaaer pubuc, Create support current rocus5getng tnis into The settlement ended the fight-
8

ck to report, chron ardly indigenous independence, t Ougnt a EreaterH

icling many of Canada's darkest Russian military presence to the
In 1960, world governments
near-unannouy
70s" said Jérémie Gbert, a
human rights lawyer who works
obligation to settle Indigenous
Claimsto territory. in Australa, moments, was 1olowed bya
t would bring them closer than
y sep n generations. mountains and multiple ethnic &l
e n ingenous
**
eroups. ira
ne nn couckea man wno S
eted 19
ASunEP groups that has been an intersec
n ourkisn and Kussian influ-
pean nations began withdrawing in both. turies-long use of their land years after the first, the Truth follow (New Zealand is consid-
erea a prme candidate), paving nce Tor centuries. t lett Russlan
Overseas,Orten under pressue he Kamloops group Degan SuetseuEu ne govenens aaecuonomisSTon
rom the Cod warPOwE
ded
what became a canpe
ey
colOnlaeracou
ially
yet more Tederal policy
Spurred e yr x Nagnrno-Karahakh. facing
the Americas, Australia and New were sovereign peoples with the Canada, Australia and New Zea- including last month's discovery advances. AZerbaljans urkish-backed
Zealand, where colontzation was rights of any nation, often by land, which each draw on a legal at Kamloops. It is why, Mr. Gilbert said, "Alltroops over a shaky ine of control
seen as too deep-rooted to re- working through the law. 5ystem inherited from Britain Judicial advances have fol- he eyes are on Canada." where the fighting ended.
Alo TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

National
N

Ehe Xew jorkTimes

Liberal Group
HOLLYW0OD Aims to Spend
HIGH SCHO0OL $20 Milion
In VotingPush
By NICK CORASANITI

Priorities USA, one

nounce on Tuesday that it will pump $20
milon nto voting rngnts initiatives
ahead of the 2022 election Cycie, ang
dipital ads and or9anizing as well as
with
in the courts.
The digital ettort wll include a series
of extensive voter intormation ca-
roach that woluld consist solely o
persuasion ads. Tne groups overall goal
IS to neip people naIgate a new Dallotun8
auscape createa Dy the many neW re
16 states. The campaigns will als0
least
provide voOting toois liKe text message re-
minders to register to vote or request an
0se of this program Is to re-
ally center the voters who we know are
particularly targeted by the Republi-
cans' suppression efforts," said Danielle
orities USA. Those ane voters of color
Black and Latino voters specitically, and
We plan t0 Center tnem bon in Our cre
ative and our targeting to make sure that

ROOIN ECKENoTHGETTY IMAE

ingis"
The other significant investment will
Students returned to Hollwood High School in Los Angeles in April. There are 650,000 students in the city's public schools, most from low-income families. be on thelegal iront, wnere tne group
as
eve s One Or the leading litigators in

Stars Find New Pet Project: A School for Showbiz ities UsAjoined lawsuits in 10 states dur.
ing the 2020 election ana ts arterat,
squaring off against legal attempts by
demic. within days, he said, Mr. Beutnerthe election and nahino
rels hackon
Los Angeles Teenagers had imtroduced
te he new voting lawS. Though Priorites ds
Will Be Trained to Work Edward
erves
R. Roybal Learning Center,
moSty low-income stu-
S
e
gestcos, eoe
ergroup oficis
In the Film Industry dents. comine eo sa cilo would De
s00
on tha Pouhal Schoolof Eilm and Tele. The initial $20 million investment rom
y JILL COWAN
and SHAWN HUBLER
vision Production, built from the seed of
nat magnet progtdl, wi u a
the e On
country are struggling to fight back
LOS ANGELES-For the entertain rollment of about 120 students
andcur voting. Opposition from major corpora-
toachers and staff and industry profes tions, faith groups, civil rights grOups
meant a cameo appe areer sionals. ana cetedriaes nas uone ntue tu sye

e ps0e typically, a fat

fat addition to Mr Clooney, M. Heslov, e
checkP
made out to your own child's elite Mr. Cheadle, Mr. Lourd, Mr.
Feneran dramatic late-night walkOut by Demo
But on Monday, the nation's second- clude Nicole Avant, a producer and thecrats in Texas, which effectively killed a
largest district will unveil the latest in a execu
wife of Ted sarandos, the co-chner
String ot Star-stucdded collaborations: a nve ot Nettlhxg Mr. Felners co-chairman
new mgn school underWriten by. among at Working Title Films, nm Bevana
A super PAC will counter
Eva Longoria and principals at Creative MAGDALENA WOSINSKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMS BTTANY NAY ORANE COUNT KBGSTEA, VIA A
Kaling.
G.O.P-driven suppression
usts Agecy. Mr. Lourd said the group was planning
The magnet school is intended to d- The latest star-studded collaboration The citysdeparting sehools superin- to involve a broad range of colleagues, efforts in the courts and
e n the nations second-largest schooltendent, Austin Beutner, spent more rat gnlds and entertnment compa with a digital ad effort.
ists and other technical workers in the by.: Tor pandemiC rener ror scnool5. the line in the entertainment industry
eldturejob Sector, and is one of at *** B OEy ROns
1T you

least three
0,000 incude aigtal work and all
jont initiatives started in the the other things, sad Mr. Lourd, using
virus pandemic, the district handed out cessful public school with wraparound Republican voting bill in tne st
term 0r speciailzed
SOsness
more than 140 million grab-and-go social services in Ohio. But group of a keyto De ony a temporary victory
ne meals exascter
les schools and entertainment industry work behind the can
DenetactoOrs.
Last week, the music producers Dr.
to chiaren ana aauts.
a eort was serooSTOunen
part ot schoo-based rellet programDejon sanders. the former NL. player,
y
Evenyoung in Los Angeles, Ms. Avant said,
people don't picture them-
w
tne BOvernor piedging to enact new
ug egisknon through a special ses
eney e e ost
Selves in these jobs. "They nave no ded
acialiged hich included distributing items like diapers plagued years. The Supreme Court is also poised to
now you gnt d gp
school in South Los Angeles. In May, a and computerS, and running a mass vac >aran keCkhow, an expert on educa- coe dlat Ms deliver a ruling in the comung days o
ew nundred middle schoolers per-
TO
ree W eoparsta
uO progra
oor Ss
o Avant, producer of "The Black Godfa-votingights Act, potentaly Turther
hronyis commn and dunhtloss hornother""They're like, 'Where do I send my een
Deesgsog
vearlong Dartnership with the Fender hell do I start? ton annear to he on the brink of a defeat
Angeles teachers went on a six-day go00d intentions, its prevalence rernesa
Play Foundation. And more high-profile strike shortly after he signed his three Tundamental neality n
the way chi open the fall of 2022 with an initialof their expansive federal voting bill, the
in
year Ontract as Superntendent. dren are schooled in the United states.
mitatves invoving roDorcs and musiC Dudget ot about s7 million, with the dis-
D
t, w Repudncas
re m tue woS AS ne panaenceDDeu, it often iust comnounds other inequal- trict covennEDOur oPee united in opposition and moderate Dem-
ocra
The suddeninvolvement of Holywood toreopenOnly a small peroentage of Losities" Ms.Reckhowsaid. Hollywoodsre cvering balance. The plan, sad
the he pass the legislation.
1sn part a testament to the pull ot the
schools superintendent, Austin Beutner.
Angeles Unified scho01 District students
have retumed in person, although Mr. o
ys
re we winn tnarno
c is to develop curriculum at the magnet Or course, the new laws will continue

uy mag- ncd then scale it throughout the district. et rerOr SOne pOple to vote,
_voer euucauon awareness ef-
ine his iob in
two weeks after snendino WDE net schools complement the district's e uP ntenstve mterIships, the
g
nd
group Mir will be a key tocus.
more than a year leveraging his personal traditional schools and help to engage Rorhsaid,
One ray of good news is that, at least ey saidsaid it would continue to explore other
connections tor snOoDaseu
Tene.
pauluen Students wO e es they were surprised at how swiftly theaveues to nep peope o
supporterslike Mr. Clooney or Mr. Iovine partnerships came together. Los Ange- 0st
votingngnts advocates and
education advocates are skepti
cal that his philanthropic approach will Skeptics see resources Can provide a "margin of excellence be- as 1Ong Deen known tor itsPepe tnatd0 tnis work would say that
e
make much aifference in a distict o yond wnat pubuc runaing can ao. Soul-Rlnng u be a lot longer just one areaof work" said Aneesa S. Mc-
some 650,000 mostly low-income stu flowing away from most Skng ue process" Mr Clooney said. "But we Millan, a deputy execuve irectort
0 Duues are L

students in the city's thoseskills in the curricujum and con- 1ound we were pushing an open aoo PTiorities USA Who oversees voting
eu t De unnkng ot
Charity is no substitute for justice necting it to a job Both men acknow iedged that sustain E Se
troubled public schools. ouu a lauenge,
aia Linda DarngHanmod, ne ovine sud ne and Dr. Dre, whose be
organizing campaigns are becoming
dent of the Califormia state Board of Edu- LTifiad with theirdea for a long track records of community involvean imcredsingiy popu
lae
these investments. but we have a bigger new mgn scnool after starting an acad- e
ooOOy is Deter at guulang a stu uy ouuetact ew VOung
to d10.
The new on
focus education Los A
in
California with
re
plans to spend a hefty $96 billion next
California
trione
that focused on the intersec
or
sate surpns emyin 2013 at the University of Southern dio union or guild into stepping up
a

r
ohin the ilm and television magnet tration push in its history, aiming to reg
na mountine alarmat growing income year on grade schools and community
disparities and a need for the industry to Ee, an investment of $21,000 per
emy
What we realized at the
is that to be more effective, we have
s..
acad- school "It's what we do
Deutner says tne aistrIct's interest
Ister two milion new voters and invest
E Inau4 munon m tne eftort.
addition to intormng vote
ind new ways to reerunt
woret In the last three years, Mr. Beuther to get to these kids earlier," Mr. lovine S
Holywoodsowhite era. There is also a
n
said, per-pupil runding the districthas
said
Clooney
e he interim sunerin- ties USA will be fighting voting dis
keeping low-income students in school, increased by percent, but still falls ner, Grant Heslov, said tihey had come to tendent. The show business schools, he information.
40
uespite inancial pressure they may face s asimilar conclusion as they sought to di- Says, are not large, Dut theyrepresent W

to neip support ther families. otre

comine off an era of disinvest- versify hiring on their productions, "You the fruit of a long effort to get Holywood ng our part to dlarity and breakthrough
eyone s teCOgnizing thatiM th
ment in public schoo1s, sad D Da w e e give mnore tuian ue oea
h **tion which is how voter suppression

u ,
Clooney, whose West Coast home is in

Zoom from his Italian villa. "There's a

Hammonad, an educauon senolar Peo
Dut wno was Speaking ViaPEsEett need and want step into it"
O se
ne
to
prse
spea
people out there."

said, he mentioned the issue Over dinner

"Were unlocking for the first time in
About two weeks ago, Mr Cooney Los Angeles a whole set of communityOfials at roities
members who historically have notbeen
thrives, Ms. MCMillan sad.
Sad that
they expected the groups initial sz0m
sA
une weret getS easjer tO do
often channeling precious resources
nto ing Title Films. Mr. Fellner
tokd him ner
said. -our students dont live next that setting asidethe current budget
but
The challenges of the Los Angeles tangentapriondes, and sing or tainng about becoming a co-founder in 2018 of a door to makeup artists and set design-now was crucial to the eftort.
public schools have, for generations, w ne atenon spais tner bacNers. LOondon scho00L to address the same issue es, or ave ramuy renaswno are aC were stalrung tnis conversauon
Deen epic. me district sprawis across 7 10 ne d Orenor e
ttS mtne Brusn nim inaustry. tors or songwriters. People who dont eariy because we want to make sure we
d the dea to un
1,400 schools. Eighty percent of the stu- operated for decades within New York's Bryan Lourd, the co-chairman at C.A.A., stand what a difference it can ma much work needs to be done to respond
dents ive in poverty, and nearly 100,000 pubic scnool System, 1or exaimple. And whose talent agency had helped support Just the sense that they belong, and that to these Repubican etforts," Ms. Butter
are learning English. During the corona LeBron James has opened a higniy suc- Los Angeles Unihed during the pan- these are things that they could do, too." feld said.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY JUNE 22, 2021 N

Democrats Unite Behind Voting Rights Overhaul as It Faces a Senate Roadblock

By NICHOLAS FANDOS done to protect voting rights and dorsement, saying it would ad rescinded a few years from now A Monmouth University Poll re
WASHINGTONA push bye
Democrats to enact the most ex
rOuninkenr we snould be able
Conceding defeat, dress many or nis concerns Dut
aoesnt nave everytning la IKe
and replaced Dy a natonwide vot
erlD law or rESrictions on voting
eased don Monda indicate that
nis posiion may tDe more in line
pansive voting rgns Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New members aim Regardless, Mr Schumer ap the objections of the minority?" larly his support for some kinds o
the Senate on Tuesday, when Reork and the majority leader, said
n a last-ditch appeal to
for a moral victory. pEdreu nave oy one rea s With
nena wrO
ing option to try to pass the legis forward so
voter identiication requiremnents.
P nS artexpected to use a fil- day the path he poll tound, for instance,
ibuster to Dlock a neasurte Senate ruile that sets a 60-vote framine Tuesday's vote as a moral norted making early in-nerson
But in the hours before the vote
Congress have called a vital step Denocrats conceded tney wereislati tne recuy uu u
threshold for breaking a legisla Vctory ana potenuany a
cruc o
to protect aemocrac acing aereat- at least ror nOW. official familiar with their conver, ve nibuster Proeressiveshave step in buiding consensSus around eral governmens reain8 na
Despite solid Republican oppO f al 50 eonatore in sation who was not authorized to crats w a narrow mioit n "y wE e ous na gaennes 1or mail-in anda

the voting rights fight to a head on the Democratic caucus, party P January. Yet a handful of key mod- Mr. Manchin had opposed key in l0 said they generally sup
the Senate floor by calling a test eaders were expected tO rall wel
short ot the votes needed to Mamchin will vte with the "
o
Merates ied by Mr. Manchin insist
restof they will never go along
planks in the original For the Peo-
ple Act as too intrusive into the
Ported voter iD requirements.
Republicans are united in their
vote to try to advance the broad
0
as the For the People Act. As Re- debating the bill. thethe Sena
Senate's Democrats and Dem- Sinema of Arizona, dug in further own elections. His proposal would original bill and to Mr. Manchin's
publican-ed states rush to enact nstead, they rocused Monday t dt llin onday nignt, warning net parg elminate a provIsion neutering changes.
restncve new voting laws, DE Onyi ne partyaround a e d
n an op-ed in The Washington state voter identification laws and The real driving force behind
tio h t ato i of
on the bil,
are measuring
more than we unin hy eliminatina ancine roeram "

r o t
undo them, expand ballot access West Virgnia, who had been the natwe the 60-vote threshold. But it preserves other key-permanently-in Democrats'
n coSt costnerests
and nt ne only Democrauc holdout on tne 1othoseWho wantto eliminate measures, ike an end to partisan avor saiaenator tch econ
eee opEc on e ong rgnts measure 5oth tne a tne egisiave npuster to pass Eerymandering or congressiona nel, Kepubican or KenrucKy and
We can argue what should be dent Barack Obama said his sug White House press secretary, said rights legislation I support and new ethics rules. It would also ex- the legislation by its bill number.

ReidJ. Epstein and Catie Edmond

gesaons would addlress many or
the most urgent issues. Mr. Biden
DeroecnOweugingne
would fail.
vote nave coSponsorea), I would ask
Would it be good forour country if
pand early voting, make Elecuon
Day a federal holiday and make it
ars wny the
this disastrous
>enate will give
proposal no quar-
SO cOnLrDuted reporng and Mr. Manchin alsO SpoKe d Mr Obama offered a tepid en- we did, oniy to see thiat legislation easier to vote by mail.

Enrollment in Medicaid
Soared in thePandemic,
To a Record 80 Million
By SARAH KLIFF
Medicaid enrollment rose
uge group of newly Fun and Fast.
Together at Last.
"In past economic downturns,
with nearly 10 million Americans there has been substandia
ning the public health program
poO0, a government reporthildron
n in Medicaid enrollment,
Or ne " id al
released Monday showed.
O-director of the Kaiser Family
covered under Melicaid a FOundations program on Medc
aid and the uninsured. "This
record. it reiected an increase o
nedriy pEE etne
month period ending Jan. 31. The
much of the enrollment happen-
ing among adults
Sne also noted that Medicaid
the Children's Health Insurance
FTORram, which covers children
whose parents earn too mucCn To
faeto da The New York Times's speedy 5x5 mini crosswords
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Medicaid, but too lnue to Ous downturns. Fewer tnan tOur are now available in two pocket-sized volumes.
million Americans joined the
The spike in enrollment dem-
onstrates Medicaid s ncreas ning of the Great Recession.
ngy important role no JUst asa There may also have been
safety net, but also as a pillar or increased interest among unn
with fully a quarter of the popu- already elipible for Medieaid bu
lation getting coverage througn who decided to enrol DE on
This tells us that Medicaid is
cause o neentene
cerns during the pandemic.
con
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amilies said Chiquita Brooks

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well as CHIP, which prowioes
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ance, ana now and edraskaexpanded Med
icaid last year after votesap
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 A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

G.O.P. Grows Irrelevant

In Big-City Elections,
At Cost to Conservatives
From Page Al venent she e But a
0,ssaid in an interview. He said he ficult battle" to make Repubticans
renounced his party affiliation on ompeiuve in cities with partisan
Jan. 7, the day after the mob attack e 1ons.
n the Capito. tnink unee sta
olitical ze WoRTH
year, Mr. Sanders's diagnosis of Ms. Parker, 37, said of her fellow
ty appears indis- KEpubncans. "And they're realiz- UZANNE DECHILL.O/THE NEW YORK TIMES
1s former
Y YOSIPORSTAR TLECRAM MA ASSOCIATED PRESS

putable: In off-year elections from mg

Vork y ad New and rsev the
eea e
cities, who identify as Republi:
mooe anrn New York City was led by the back-to-back G.O.P administra
tions of Rudolph W. Giuliani, right, and Michael R. Bloomberg.
Mattie Parker won Fort Worths nonpartisan mayoral race this
month but called her fellow Republicans "asleep at the wheel.
increasingly blue state of Virginia cans
witn 1ts Cruclal suburos or wash Ms. Parker said she had gently rying
45 percent of the vote in L0s
ington, D.C., the kepubican Par e majority in San Diee0 C
hie cities and dense suburbs is on the G.O.P.as a whole has been dis-
lis- Representative Darrell Issa, a
vivid aispiay. inclined to take. "when Twas Republican from soutnerm al
wnere the G.0.P once consis- SKed about the president and the demograpnic cnanges
fornia, said
enuy oueuroust ate differentiy sheexplained. ding place for his party. Mr. Issa's
is now all but locked out of all the It is not only within city limitss political career 15 proot enougn:
dt Repubca a u55 he represented a san Diego-based
ne Seat unal ne dechneuwru
realignment of nattonal D, Du
and
Pdeon ely ginia, have long spurned Mr. Trump backlash in 2018. Mr. Issa
doomed Republicans in these ar and ns nes aown ot eturned ueouse two eds
eas as surely as it has all but eradi-
cated the Democranc Farya
erce
ooranhic nolarization, Republi-
later Dy reocanng TO new
stretches far into the state's con
Upper Mountain West. At the na- cans now ind themseives wth Servative mland.
tional leve, Republicans have
1argely acCepted that trade-ott a5
re ec tne
The
de
Republican message tor
5har ha
*
f the federal povernment gives monized for half a decade. still saw opportunities for Repub-
disproportionate power to sparse Wnere the G.0R maintains in Dcans Canrola prcK up to
PueuTural States. TIuence over metro areas, it 1s ground in smaller-scale elections
ranco tn

urhan overnors and state leisla

han alican can win votes that you can't winin
eas also comes at a considerable tors can impose policy on local 1 State ol 38
inon people
Cost, denying conservatives intlu- aDove Demoerts do not assume tnat
ence over the policies that govern ederOnDemocrats wno once bat uto ADREWS FOR THE NEWw YORK TIMES
elections is here to stav Tho u
sidelining them in some of the cities and on the coasts, the explane party 15 0n track to lield a marginal candidate lorivew 1ork mayor, probabiy urtus iwa, cetnter derlying issues that used to fuel
country's centers of innovation nation torthe party s decine there
LOS Angeles and san Diego, and a
Kpuica these capens
and economic mignt. Tne trena sSple enougn do in Texas and Missouri, of Bloomberg, the G.0.P is on track Cites ana regions nave not gone
onto purple battlegrounds as their
Daru aidonrentaio
ald McEachin of virginia. "rump
o trotu
without entering a state helmed
S r he nd
This year Republicans are not
and
t a
omayeseape theshadow ofMr
ality Curtis Sliwa. The situa- ump and find a way to recon
largest cities and Suburbs nave chaSed or a 0t or moeräte Re Dy Democrauc BOVernor. making much of an effort to re tion tor New Jersey Republicans win voters On SuDecis nke
grown larger and more ethnically publicans, so it's a much smaller Since then, said JosephJ. Lhota, claim those once-przed opportu S Shgntly, better: The party has n
Long Island, Representative
Thoroe are a few possible excep- Itis difficult to overstate the ex- portation Authority chairman Mr rump made incremental state legislator, Jack Ciattarelli, Kathleen Rice, the former district
tent of the Republican Partyspo whowasS the Repubiican nominee gains in 2020 with communities ofwho 1S runing onventionaatoeyo
tions to the rule tor Republicans Suuny, Cu
litical decline in big-metro Amer for mayor of New York in 2013, the color in certain metro areas, as his campaign about taxes and public tioned that averse suburos coula
this year: In Virginia, despite a
a
washinoton sharhs the Renuhi. heen more alioner with raral coneared
can gubernatorial nominee's fabu-
a force in meto
poi. s
resonate withHinanicand apainstCo Phil Murphy the mesSage that was not heavily
Asian Asian-American voters with roots Democratic incumbent. Trump-inflected.
servative voters than with urban tics.
ous personal wealth and busi- constituencies, thepre-irump ts not Sustainable. Its just in countries like Venezuela and nCalifornia, a recall campaign Lets see how Iong irumpism
ness-fmenaly profile coula make G.0.P. made a point of recruiting not," Mr. Lhota saia. "Tnere was a Vietnam, as well as WItn more ru targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Saroua, Ms.KCe Said, DE

Worth, the country's 12th largest cratic strongholds like New York at the table when people talked state bounces back from the pan-
no evidence that his party is mak- some point is going to have to re-
City, a Republican, Matte Parker, City and California. The party about laboratories of democracy, ing a concerted ettort to craft a
demic. The kepublican Partys ta- nvent itser 1n some torm otner
won electon as mayor earier tnis puled ot upset victones witn and theres no better place for lab- message with broad appeal to ur
vored candidate, Kevin Faulconer, tan rump.
But Ms. Parker had distinc- a
SO
Democ uen es r an large Dano
es
t that traditional found himself comneting forat
mae of o u
tive advantage: Fort Worth has tractable problems ike violent Lanhee Chen, policy director to conservative themes are resonat tention with a vanity campaign by Democrats hadborrowed a lot of
nOnpartusan eectOTs, auowIng Cne gntdxes ainu wasteru t Oneys4014 presien g n oeyear eect0Ts, They dre eOD ete-turteedi RepunSung tnerunp
her to run as a centrist option spenaing campaign, said it was obviously largely playing out in Democratic ty Star caitlyn Jenner. Neither has era. Mr. Himes, whose district 1s
Republicans were re
The country's 11 largest cities are warded with a crop of leaders who write off so many important parts left-wing candidates, like the voters by attacking Mr. Newsom's of New York City, said an older
all nemed Dy DemoCrats. helped persuade not just their of the country. Mr. Chen, who is pitched debate within New Yorks record on homelessness, crime version of the Republican Party,
MS. ParkKer said in an interview constituents but the country as a Dasea in Califormia, 1s weigning a ruling Democrats about now to and puDne neal. roored inpnmcipes O eu Eo

race, she said, voters were recep in government. At the turn of the Competing, and competing to once led by the back-to-back Re when Arnold Schwarzenegger peal there.
tive to a down-the-middle mes 21st century, Republican mayors win in the marketplace of ideas, is pubican administrations of Ru won the governorship for Republi- "They go back to that stufí, I'm
sage about public safety and com- governed cities like New York, an important thing for the party to dolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. cans in a 2003 recall election, car in trouble" he said with a laugh.

Trump, Citing Political Bias, Sues New York City for Ending Golf Course Contract
By JONAH E BROMWICH New Jersey golf club owned by "T'm not used to having nice
The Trump organization sued M. Irump
The contracts in Central Park A move made said at th
a wronelv terminated a had already been set to expe
cenrers on
following the Jan. 6 The contracts were renewed
lucrative golif course contract for Wsut &
durng he tenure Or Mayor M
P aeasonsarter the Jan. 6 ouse in the Ferry attack on the Capitol. Cldel R. BI0omberg. But Mr. de
TOtt te Asngto Trump Gof Links at Ferry Point
The suit, filed in New York State
ne mimp organizaton wasthein r
new yendor for Ferry Selecting a
e
tat put him in line
the eve of the mayoral election, ar- ts Sixth year of running Point" witn nis many noeral consu
COurse, wnicn opened in 2015.
ued that the January decision by Ov nere iS httle love lost between

Vayb de Bidsio to end the nerod the Tamn Oroaniion ME. Irump ana Mr.de Blasio. 1ne Trumn and his company are fac
companyS20-year cOnuac about $17 million a year, Mr de
Tortmer presue 0 ing an unrelated criminal invest-
tne pubnc hie and Blasio Sad au
Although Mr de Blasio said
idential contender "the worst
tne nistory of NeW York eyoCe, wic 1s ex-
was meat oniy to punish former dyor
President
DOnad. Trup.
"Mayor de Blaso du d Pe
udEiso to sever tes
Cty e Blasio, In tn, emdentandhisemplovees
his own il-fated presidential run,
cited rioters at the capitol, the city ATED PRESs committed financial fraud in re-
isting, poiticaly-Daseu pie
offered
ne decision:ntrta
a
even attempting
asis give the presi- enYs
to

The city says the Trump Organization defaulted on its 20-year

contracts, and the city used the 1ne irump orga eal by Tailing to àtract a major golf tourmament to Ferry Point. E DOn. Prosecutors appear to be in thee
events of January 6, 2021 as a pre apreemont on the oolf cour h The city initially celeorated lS
oilho MMr
Tns lono.
eA ueSut Said.
So, cause it had not attracted a major discrimination. sional golfers, including Dustin when the rising real estate devei- serving chief financial officer, and
said that the crse was wide tournament and was unlikely toNow, the organization made Johnson and Bryson Decham- oper first won the contract to re- could criminally charge him this
wo h ao SO in the future, given the ts case in an 18-page has
petition say- Deau, atesng to tne COurses De furbish Wollman Rink in Central Summer, Tne New York Times
magnificent public goll exper or insisted at the time who h1as

in une counr
ences anyWhere that the city was on "strong legal merely to maintain "a first class A Spokesman for the city's law der budget and ahead of its dead worked for the Trump family since
groundDut the irumprgana- tournament quaity aaiy ree go department Said that Ttwoud line, and city officials embraced 3,was isted aS the contact Tor
eidhardt, responded, saying: tion vowed to fight back, saying course." The petition included "vigorously defend" its decision to him; one even joked about plant- the company on the city's contract
the move was a form of political several statements from protes- terminate the contract and that it ng a "irump tree" in the park. TOr tne central ParK Carousel
deadly insurrection at the U.S.
Capitol. YoOu do that, and you lose
the privieeeVork
with the City or New YOTK Editors Note Corrections
rear for incitine the riot. his see.
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 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 A13

In a Virus-Ravaged Pocket of South Texas, a Rush for Vaccinations

them
while she was in auarantin
From PageeA
in the region knew someone who The tamily came across the ta-
died fromcovid, saia Dr. Icnaet males after she died, Ms. Garcia
R. Dobbs, vice dean of clinical af
It was as if she knew she was
Rio CrandeeVa
lley not going to be here with us, Ms.
the region's only medical school. Garcia saia. we dia itror he. 1Es

peope wanted the viaccine ne B

to get
e hone nple otine
it for the better of the com
gion. Hospitals were overloaded muniy
While the pace or vaccinauOn
w
as
Vaed nous toESEen Funera
w
the country, to about 1.3 million
doses a aay,
needed1arge rerngeraors downom Pa
Store bodies Tor several weeks. 0n more than 3.3 million doses a day
its worst day, HidalgO COunty, the
trickle into venues and pharma-
ley, reported the deaths of more es across the valey
on a recent day, 14-year-old
Virus death rate or percent, more ond shot ata site on the medical
average Peee dton school campus or thne UniverSIy or
wnen vaccines Decame avail- Texas do ran e
able, people scrambled to line up. and I ouan Strader eatev tm
stations and even flea markets, or another in front of plexiglass and
pulgas, where local residents winced as each was jabbed.
gather in large numbers. They
phone lines and showed un with ing.
out appointments pleading tor a Their mother, Goldie strader,a
Ever d0se, nealtn onclalS Said. affi arra cunie
death" said Dr EmilieProt watched with pride. "I can tell you
gional medical director with the gettingpeople vacCinated is not a
State department of health. "A lot prooiem down hereShe Sad
of times we needed to turn people
verybody saw all the suffering"
High death tolls elsewhere Instart couny,arur
the country nave not necessariy dotted with tiny vilages and long
translated to high vaccination Gorcia above. losta
Eddie 15,000 people have gotten their

nwnere Greenville County,S sister, Margarita Gonzalez, far shots at Popular PharmacY in Rio
Grande Cy ne coy
ateastone 08 resiaents lelt, to the coronavirus last 8oper
has died, about 40 percent of those year 1ne siblings, now
W

nated. In East Feliciana Parish, vaccinated, also fell ill. Left, A year ago, Starr County Me
Corando Rios, a nurse, went
La, Where one in l8 has ded,
about 29 percent of the eligible from carngTrorvey
in the county of San Bernardino in Ptens O ngnang Tor nis lite.
help decide which patients to send
o hospiaus wn
ornia, wnere one in nas
dhed,just43 percentor elgible res-
almost a year ago, the family pa-
tiently waited for their turn to roll ter oe to a
die
its
n the Rio Grande Valley ey, ac up their sleeves. In October, a sec course.
cines are part of the regions TaD Ona wae neceu sever Ona recentorday,nurses,
Martha 1orres,
ric, Dr Prot said. Parents under husband, two teenage children airector strolled
cinated auainst diseases lie mea and her brother, bddie Garcla, a way. Only two patients were re
sles and polio before starting 6-year-O1d reure poe covering n the covIa umt and
w a both were expected to survive.
d nat senament ontenana wnite respondents.) Ivan Melendez, the Hidalgo
fully vaccinated. nospiua

has seen patients complaining of not on pace to meet President B Rio Grande Valey are particu- lendez and the county judge, Rich-
Se.

1was afraid that he would die Corando Rios, 55. They walked

arca su diabetic and

pper respiratory illnesses choos- den's goal of at least partly vacck larly striking at a time when rates ard E Cortez, had public bouts nto aroon atust nonns80
ng a shot over a pill, which many nating 70 percent adults by July continue to straggle in Southern with the virus, reminding people
Pe he e
nc
of
close to that threshol
Men Republicanled stateske Mis threat, p o5 was buzzing with activity They
cedure, and the rest of the family tains and savored the stillness ofit
culture it's always, 'All right, you In Hidalgo County, where one in sissippi, Alabama and Louisiana, "That memory is still fresh in eventuay recovered. 1hey tnen all.
panen nes
have to get your shots to go to 308 residents has died from the co where mistrust in the government people's minds, Mr Melendez Mr. Rios recalled how he went
School she said. part of the
Its oavirs and nearpy 2eron 1more prevaent
ountry, accordingt C too, are the empty chairs at that day came in February when
a to lving in the Cowid i
nated" dents has died, about 60 percent of votingfigures, regions that turned the dining table, the two or three ocal cinc calea ner attne court ghting tor his lifeCovid was ev
Recent polling supports this no- those who qualify have been fully out for Mr. Biden have higher vac urns sitting next to televisions and room wnere she isajudge tod
r eynad anexta snot, Dut sne
an erywhere, he said.
tion: According to a NPR/PBS vaccinated, according to data cination rates when compared oxygen tankS laying about homes. He turned to Ms. 1orres and

adults in early March, 63 percent health and a tracker by The New where elected leaders rushed to vaccines can help save lives. "Idropped everything and went Please, if I get really sick, please
of Latinos who participated said York Times. In Start County, a ease virus restrictions. Parts of Ms. Garcia, who lost a sister
ataere5 are Sadne dontSend me somewhere eise
they either planned to get the vac mostly rural area with a single the valley, a longstanding solidly time when dozens of people in the oeeryone ner amuy, n* andnt wantto dhe in a room alone.
(But the number of those who ex 213 has died, that figure is about 70 percent Hispanic, have slowly the close family connections that
the vaccine, all in her sister's He eventually recovered, was
pressed hesitancy3 percent Pent shited to the rignt But ponacs once helped uel the spread or the
memory. accinated ana reurned to care
was slightly higher than Black y comparison, just 45 percent aside, officials said, residlents re virus are now motivating peopleEven after her death, her sis Tor covid patients
0 uke
according
to a tracker hu The Ne " After her sister, Margarita Gon- telling her family, Ms. Gonzalez, were going through Ms. Torres
Mitch Smith contributed report-York Times. And across Texas, Down here we are all brown. zalez, 68, a retired educator who known for her annual Christmas said.
only 39 percent of all residents are We had to trust ourselves," said had been battling diabetes, died tamales feast, had cooked a large "Yes," he said. "I still do."

groups and labo

California Hopes to Use cvist
ions participated in a May Day
rally in Los Angeles this year

Extra Money to Forgive S7 billion to buy motels and apart

es convertnem into sne
Rent of Tenants in Need While government efforts have

ENT
billion recovery Deen Keyto Keepung enants
From Page A
posed a100
package that pours money int houseauringheandemic
ship. In San Francisco, a family of everyunng rom tne most expen elsewhere have been plagued
four would have to earm less than D win probiemsand sOw to gertne

California is not the only state notels and apartments for the money Out. studies show that
usn with money. homeess ana a Program 0 some point used federal stimulus
At least 22 states that had un- ve tines for low-
trafic violation
epoeneytpay
that had trimmed their budgets and the Democratic-dominated heir rent snce yev
anbcipatin8 scal challengesEgsiae are oW ronng out Dercent. have been able to access
have now found themselves with a the details ot what would be the a rental program. Consequentuy, a
1 Benerous rent pay-
majornyorentesstl nad to bor
breaking S800 million surplus at "Nationwide this is certainly thanandemie leaving
the end of this month, wile othersthe largest rent reliet theres ever NER them less able to weather future
said Russ Heimerich, a
ke Oklahoma, Utah and wash been, DAVID MNEW/AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE GETTY MAGES etBenes as une ecodmy re
creases. And while some states Business, Cons Services and nday, tate wma ers
navener d oSn Housing Agency, a state umbrela were working on a bill to extend
ne money otners are runnelinE organization that is overseeing
can we spend
$5.2 billion $100 billion $12 billion he eviction moratorium past
June 30 expiraion aate, accora
ts
on and reviving local arts. estionquestion is it all" The value of Calltornia's prop05e rOpOSd Jor the nomeless,
5 ngres aebates ne Bde The enormous wealth
acdministrauons
of tech Progrdm to cOver tne unpaid rent
o0wer-income tenants.
proposed recovery peckage, which
includes money for education.
Including money to buy properties
to convert them into shetters.
ielature reauested ano
who
mak. entrepreneursand HollywOOd
nymity to discuss ongOng nego
moguls, ana the sales ot surging atons. A voe coudoe aseary
ers have pointed to the surpluses
in California and other states and homes helped produce this year's and is easier to tal out on a smart median home value andCaltornia they re leaving ourstate "en pected to extend theeviction mor
suggestea usinghose u recora Duaget su" pius Pnone renters are among the nation's masse. atornum and cover 100 percent of
costlv public works plan, e n o
Other states have offered pan- most burdened, with 21.3percenEBefore the pandemic, housing the rent for lower-income tenants,
Emilie Simons, a spokeswoman the wealthy, rils state coffers in
Tor tnewhite House, saia the sur years when the stock market doess
emraerentarne P
cover 100 percent of the back rent
he o
third-highest rate in the nation.
annmeessess ar
and last year the state lost popula-
ere
officials said.
heene
ets do not chanpe the infrastruc set resticons on ne assistance. Despite tne State supus,
tne On te, as mdde
Tor the nrst om
BannO1, Tthe nead or the
ture needs facing America, and
armielhthnanemihanding
oee e out so much money can
eoci limis its rent reer to
and other states do not have a fi
pandemic has ben an economic class homeowers fed the state California ApartmentAssocia
ers, Uber drivers and workers in While some of this was driven bylords in the state, said he was open
Forty-five states have cut state De a owDureaucratic proCess. nancial cap, but instead covera thestates vasttravelindustry one-time factors, the state has to a short-term extension of an
more modest program, already in maximum ot 12 months ot missed Newsoms stimulus package is a consistently seen more people eviction moratorium but called for
tne pandenc Degan, ncuding some but not all back rent, yet it For California, the pandemic this pandemic-aggravated in- state over the past decade. 1If California does extend evic-
many states tnat
now nave Sur
has struggied to Keep up with de has been a case of a long-term cri- equality. Worried that the pandemic tion protections past June it
This crisis has adversely im-
pacted State and local governrentol aceetan eEency
already has more
ments, and that is not ruly cap
ator" through Monday morning had than half of the nation's unshel upcoming recall election, said the one of the nation's strictest evic ums will end in August, while New
mons said.
Ms. Simons Dn pad, aceorung tered homeless populato-each ent rene program was oniy a ion moratoriums ana movingersey, vernmont and Washington,
noma, Uhe BOvernor pro Heimench. Arter complaints that night about 114,000 Californians temporary Iix.
immicks are o
Some 35.000 homeless Californ DCplan to end theirs sometime
ed

took three hours to complete, the and federal data show the home substitute for permanent tax re proliferated nationwi The gov- state ot emergency status,
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Emily state abridged the application. It less count was rising just as the lier Mr. Faulconer said Monday ernor has proposed spending S12 according to the Eviction Lab at
Cochrane contributed reporting. now takes an average of 30 min- pandemic hit. The cause is no"California is unalfordable for billion on homelessness, including Princeton University.
Al4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Colleges Cannot Prevent

Athletes From Receiving
Payments, Justices Rule
s
From Page Al
come under increasing legal
tory for the N.C.AA.s critics
part because the justices "had the
y undercut thee
98
an poutcaserutiny N.CA.A. S Droader amateurism
The case Deroreu h But he said that the withering
ssue of whether athletes may concurrinR OpinionbyJustice
oEy ne use ot their
tor uB was"tne most antu-
names, images and lkenesses, ion that hasever been athored
day with the N.C.A.A. already em- and could amount to a biueprint
broiled in that question as well. TOr rurure Cnaleng.
student-athietes in
WeeK, The longer-term concern for
EX N.
arest sX Stares are POISEd to De and federal judges join with Jus-
personal fame not because Kavanaugns View he said
ofTie u De a mater ot time
Dy e
C.A.A, Dut be
cause of state offic1ais wno grew ons on comnensation are struck
lone efforts to limit the rights of down as antitrust violations.
players. Justice Nel M. Gorsuch, writ-
court, toOK a measured
response to the 0tne
e.CAA.S
pressure rouuleyt on merely to assess a limited injuncC
in effect, to stall. tion entered by a tnal Jucuge e

Less tnan two weeks before dowed payiments for things

Some or tne new laws are schedfcinmant notraduato cehol
Florida. Georgia, Mississippi, arships, tutoring, study aDroad, MENKCPGETTY IMACRES

New Mexico and Texas and allow acacemc aards andinternsups. Shawne Alston scoring for West Virginia in the 2012 Orange Bowl. He is among those challenging the N.CAA.s rules.
aietes to make endorsements
u
otpermt tne outignt pay-
and monetize their social media
Some will think the distriet Th ries, he wrote, as they are linked allow schools to give students lux an inthuential passage on student-
court did not go far enough," Jus-The appeals court rejected the to edtucation and could be pro
urycars to get toclass. Under the athletes.
EGOrSucn wrore otinohla wOnldalHanato e wmte he NCAA is frpe to for rolein the maintenaneeofa
Tho Sroma Corofirmed
A concurrng opinion offer enhanced education-related sports fans who prize students that ruling, stressing that it was bid in-kind benefits unrelated to a revered tradition of amateurism
by Kavanaugh leaves benefits, its decision may encour anateur starus. addressing only a limited set of iS- student's actual education; noth- n colege sports, Justice John
ge scholastic achievement and Uncappung certain education- Sues. ng stops it from enforcing a "no Paul Stevenswrote for the major-
an opening for an allow student-atnieres a metsre and forcolao ath. naid internshins nosed particular The Supreme Court last consid question but that it needs ample
antitrust challenge. with the value they bring to their letics just as well as the chak hazards because they could in ered how antitrust laws applied to arude to plaly
schools. Still, some will see this as lenged rules do," Chief Judge Sid volve unlimited sums. But Justice the association in 1984, ruling that o
roe, Or tnat r
a poor substitute tor fuller relle ney R. Tnomas wrote for a unam Gorsuch saia tne association 1ts restrictions on television cOv- re
presences, the N.C.A.A. has notothers will think thedistrict court Court of ApDeals for the Ninth Cir. that left "room to police phony in- were unlawful. Rur the decision legiate athleticsneandgoaus is entirely
agreed to extend S a g
t0 went too far by undervaluing the cuit, in San FrancSco.
back last week for the asspciarion, SoCial benefits assocated with Such benefits are easily distin
ternships National Collegiate Athletic ASS0
v.
Similarly, he rejected fears that ciation Board of Regents of the
or ne
r
atn. guishable from professional sala permitting in-kind benetits would University of Oklahoma, included
hthe new case Justice bind
Senor members of Congress Said relr Kavanau Justice eh
gh's oncur in
that they d noteApet
deal for a federal standard
ueoetore ring opinion was bolder. wrore. Glven tne sensiviy Or
The N.C.AA. couches its argu- How the Justices Voted in the N.C.A.A. Case antitrust anaiysis tO market real
A powerful N.C.A.A. panel is
ments tor not payng
lete the court ruled unanimously that the N.C.A.A. may not bar
In National Collegiate Athletic AssOciation v. Alston,
in shie ao ds cnangedld
wrote, "But the labels cannot dis
neued to meet this week to
discuss now players curd Pro guise the reaity: ne
.ufs
inot dis- modest payments related to academics to student-ath letes in the name of amateurism despite antitrust laws. DEpertcary unwSeto treat
aside in B0ard ot Regents as more
n
oft ther reowil, Dut e i e e business moder wOu uye LIBERAL BLOC CONSERVATNE BLOC
than that," he wrote.
stration f in
legal in almost any other industry
lariy in the wake of Monday's rul-in Amer a brief supportine the athletes
Price-fixing labor is price-t the new case, National collegiate
In a statement, the assocauon ing labor, Justice Navlaugn Athletic ASsociation V. AISton, No.
NCAAs athority to adont raa wrote.Ana price-Ixing labor is

sonable rules and repeatedly problem because it extinguishes by focusing on educational ex

otes ate AA. emns the free market in which individu
Sotomayor Kagan Breyer ROberts Kavanaugn oney Allto Gorsuch nomas penses.
W hat are ana are
free to articulate alscan otherwise ODtain talr con
pensauon
Barret
n
. April, Mark Emmert, the
Jeffrey L Kessler, a lawyer for ote of the
wnere he public stands lookine forclarity about what the

o fact that the N.C.A.A. iS a mas

e
Some people think the N.C.AA.s strict limits on paid compensation for college athletes in this manner is an
Unlawful form of coordination against athletes. others disagree and think the N.C.AA. should be able to strictyo
law s, clarity about Wno nas re

e
eneinhesssoaton's halS
nd other Sdentathletes rues now hese issues
tnese issues w1ll be deded
saud
hh
the decision could make a
hseerise
student-athletes whose activitie
limit colleges and universities from providing paid compensation to college athletes. What do you think? decided,
processes, through legal pro-
eningr direrece to studen they oversee. He cited a salary of The N.CAA. should not be able to he N.CA.A. should be able to cesses or through N.C.AA. deci-
athietes,especay tnose wnO neary>4 minon a year0ue stricty limit paid compensatIon to compensation to
Stictuy limit paid Sion-maKing processes.
COege atnietes. COIege amietes.
HoDefuly will also swine thef D to Ss. million a vearfor the
it money had plaved a role in college
doors open to rurher cnange, ne comnissioners of some conrer 50% 50% athletics since its earliest days,
we y ences nd annuai approach
fair anddcompetitive compensa- ball coaches thatsiEs
rorroot
Sil 42 e,ong wnat many
regard
Democras ata
ible piavers get to benefit from the Compensation ror o competition: a boat race berween
Independents 49 S
Harvard and Yale in 1852 at L
economictruits or their labors and etes, by contrast, Is strictly lim-
pursie ner euucaonal 0ojeC Itea. Current ana tormer players winpesukee, N.H.

be Feldman, the director of h achiwed a nartial victorv in and Kepublicans 40 60

Tuucti pR tCn,
the sports law program at Tulane the lower courts. oling deta comes from the S0OTuSPoll project by Stephen Jessee, University of Texes at Austin: Nei Mahotra, Stanford Unibersit and Meya Sen, execuesponsoreteevent
Unmversiuy m New Orieas, sad Last yea,a rederal appealsS Harvard University It is based on a survey conducted online by YouGov from April 7-16 using a representate sample of 2,158 Ameican sduits. promote ran
uavel to tne pictur-
he saw the ruling as a modest vic court affirmed the trial judge's rul- ENWKTMES esque lake.

Court Warns About the Rules, but lt Leaves the N.C.A.A. in Control
.
Tne N.C.A.A.S tomDstone naa ens dasKetbal tournaments, lax the N.EL. and is now a neuro- Elmore suggested tnat witn ts nara to ever remember the restitution after an agent ierta
long ago been prepared. The policing in recruiting scandals, esuent at Harvard the courts ruling and athletes in N.C.AA. being equipped to oper: couple bags of groceries tor him.
h ue ew ruES
cause of deathconsumntion imniementino nama inma nd oain the ahilitu to nrfit off their to attention in 2014when athletes are often treated as
had been eneraved. Al that had But Len Elmore, a member of Shabazz Napier, a guard at Con
etewhe
Kenessntstostate fame beginning July 1, major afterthoughts compared with the
BILLY e s p e
A. the retorm-minded Knight Com-
ssion On college Athletics,
Coege sports will be operating
in a "wild west" environmmet
ecticut, told repoters
Final Four that he went to bed
at tne
Viral nignngntng the erenCEs
WITZ
Monday. lation around athlete endorse
gis
r co t or tne
ited ir ie nd ey mone to feed himsel
nament, N.C.A.A. President
When the suj
ON COLLE preme Court ent eals: go Cuedn up your own "Can a school say to a recruit, "There's all this chaos and Soon, food allowances were Mark Emmert leapt to attention
unan mess wen get yaou a joo on wall stree wnat you need isa Sheri wi Dumpea up. and told coaches he recognized
sav th that pays S500,000 i1 you sign unettered authority to make But it was hardly a new prob-his
N.C.AA. v. Alston to N.C.A.Aol olainn aaion
biggest governing body of col- antitrust laws but can you just do hroadcastor and fore NTD d is
eme inehacker at This is and always De, wl
lege spots coud n0t stana
way ot atnietes Deng pala
tne n tess egregousiy? Säld Anay player. "Institutional integnty is not equipped to do that right U.C.L.A., was suspended for a nl ts ended, a fietdom," said
Sonny vaccaro, the tormer shoe
Schwarz, an economst who On tne nne nere now. game and ordered to pay $150
a number of victories for those Alston and in another influential become an advocate for player's
wno argue
at ne
Dlmon-dollar
De dismantled.
case on college atniereS COmpen-
Sation rights, O'Bannon v.
rights.Tney owm tne atmetes.
That is why VaccarO said he
Od was sming through tears on
phatic doiaroti NCAArales rohohr i
away the cudgel of a 37-year-old the law and theyre going to stay Heremembers cases like
decision-made in Board ot tne D0OS TOr te ost peurt Jeremy B00m, an Oymplc sKIer
1o sOme degree, the supreme
ECEs. N.CA.A.that the ck
who lost his eligibility to play
chall wow
econe of a ease that both accented skiing endorsements,
antitrust
Also, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's sides had appealed. When Judge And an effort by Northwestern
restrraned oplnon was acconmpa Cauda wilken in the Uited football players to unionize that
nied by a fiery concurence irom States DIStrict Court tor the was struck down. And the holow
nia
characterized the N.C.A.A.S originally ruled on the case two former U.c.LA. basket ball star
refusal to share its wealth with esgo, Sne gaveAStO, who sougnt to stnke down
k
players as a textboOK Case ot former running back at west teurism but settued 1or requinng

PAAnd y hie r an oropockets nickols in ath

tn
another crack in the foundation on compensation for college etes'
0T cOlege Sports, is not aute t atnietes. Instead, wuken ruled "There were Dig cnuNS
the blow that brings the whole that the N.C.A.A. Could restrict freedom left open, Vaccaro, 81,
ut
Infact, the N.C.AA. is being not those "tethered" to education day,"Ninety percent of the public
left by the nine justices
witnte nus, scnoos can now ofter doesn't know what they didnt
Same power that it Walked into graduate scnoo scnolarsnips, Conciude.
n: t can still make its
eewrus nu computers, But wnat are w
For all the self-inticted black limits
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2021 Division I men's and wom- starred at Florida State, played in A namow ruling Monday was not quite the body blow that critics of the N.CAA. had hoped for. deners, IS it
 THE NEW YORK TIMEs NATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 A15

Justices Give The Democrats in the Manhattan D.A. Race

2nd Chance Eight candidates are vying to By JONAH E BROMIWICH investigations, including the ongo
fileald 1Tra survey found that the fund-raising
Far an wenstein and
To Goldman run a prominent prosecutor's EIght Democrats are running to re- and hi fas
office. The winner will pacerus vance
rAs tonnatan The contenders-five of whom have port. Because the district attorney is a
district attorney, eaa o
jOCKeying been prosecutors before and three of stateeleCuon rather man a uap
In Fraud Suit inherit a Trump inquiry.
local prosecutor's offices in the country navenomostuy agree on a ba- one, vong wil not oe ranked choice, as

By ADAM LIPTAK at a time when view'S of the criminal But they are divided over just how far will select only one candidate.
Justice sy'stem have shifted. they woud pusn reEorme Here's a ist of the candidates with
The office is home to many high-pro Polling has been sparse, but a recent details on their vision for the office.
Goldman Sachs another chance to
nat it snoud noD
much as $13 billion as a conse
quence or Wnat they called talse
statements about the investment
struments before the 2008 finan-
CIal
crisis.
he investors argued that the
S
aid were eonflicts of Fin-
terest at the bank, which theey ac
Cuse ou pck n
usendetoteven
sengs
s
them. Goldman has denied de-
ceiving investos.
The contested statements were

ple: "Our clients' interests always

come first Another ntegrity
and nonesty are at tne neart or Our

nited States Court of Ap REUTDS

A RSEK O E E TO ALLER
peals for the Second ircu, n
e o,5a
GOmanSe
last year tnat Tahanie Aboushi, 35
HARLEM
Alvin Brag8, 47
ARLEM
Liz Crotty, 50
UNION SQUARE
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, 45
oFFER AS

roceed as a class action. Ms. Aboushi's candidacy is informed Mr Bragg. a lifelong resident of I bring a breath of reality to the race, A Rhodes scholar, Ms. Farhadian Wein-
The two Sides positions had by her experience as a young teenager Harlem, has called for a balanced ap- Ms. rotty said in an interview. The stein has a sterling resume, having
evolved and converged dunngthe conspiracv charges and sentenced to Safety. A graduate of Harvard Iaw is the most traditional candidate in the the Us. attorney generab and Justice
rett said when the case was ar. prison for more than two decades. School, he peppers his public appear- race, more focused on public safety Sandra Day O'Connor. She was also a
seems to me lawyer or Eric Holder, when he was
ged Marcnt in
nat youve 0otn moved towara
thoiectoreat thime who are and will be prosecuted by the criminal justice system. in lange part on the racial biases in the Ms. Farhadian Weinstein has raised
"They've backed off on how im
portant they think generality s
office she nopes t0 ead, a strkng
proach ina p
P e sad ne nsttnountabout ben rna
jusuce system. We Sne
prosecutor while clerking 1or a Tederaknowiedges that Such biases exst,Ms.
ore
ors,
noey any er cOmpett
includng 8.2 mlhon she gaveto
h ealls for reforn
and
etnerit can De deciaed cat Ms. Aboushi is the candidate most con could protect the public through major ing the office to stop prosecutingentire she frequentlyspoke about reform. But

ene se rerBragg oecanecorrup-

ceded that generality 1s relevant. Sisrenty rocuse on tnesysten vestgaro5 serving asa Caegones crie, sne woua asseS recentmontis, Sne nas Deen ored
C or
..onowweareieyou now,
this position where youve both
an on aK es gnSawer a re ers n a case ocases5 unions,
er descong e plan5 or pros
and she has stressed the need for alter police misconduct and public public safety.
said, "and now we have to decide natives to incarceration wherever pos tion. He led a unit in the New York at Ms. Crotty, who worked in the Man She said in an interview tnat there
what to do about the Second Cir
sible. Torney eeneras o1nce that investi atan aistrict artOorney's onnce under was 0ne quesi0n tat prosecutor
cuits pinion.
ians, and
ind. later became a chief deputy Morgenthau, has also pledged to intervention as an actor in the criminal
writing for a
ani e state atorney general. strengthen the officesinvesugations ot Justuce system increasing putblic salety
white-collar crime. or not?
this point, repeated that the par
ues spue as dugely eviapo
rared
two sides now agreed
nd the court, she wrote, that
uages may taaKe ountor geer
ic statements and that they may

use their common sense in assess-

ng whether a generie misrepre-
sentation naa a price impac
h

A bank says its

statements were too
generic to support a
class action.

lon," Justice Barrett wrote that

Goldman was entitled to renew its
E OR ANIATTAN DA "FUx RE NEW TOWK TIMES CARLO ALLEGRV REUTES
guments n he aPpeals court
Decause, Sne sud, Ee was0 Diana Florence, 50 Lucy Lang, 40 Eliza Orlins, 38 Dan Quart, 49
idered the generic IPS BAY HARLEM CHELSEA UPPER EAST

nature of Goldman's alleged mis Ms. Florence, a veteran of the Manhat- Ms. Lang. another veteran of Mr. The views of Ms. orlins (a two-time Mr. Quart, a longtime state assembly-
esenauons. tan district attorney's office, where she vance's office, is the most policy-tor- contestant on "survivor") were shaped man, 1s the only candidate in the race
Justice Sonia sotomayor dis- worked for 25 years, has spent much of ward candidate in the race. She has re- by her decade working as a public de with political experience. He has cited
was nothing for the Second Circuit ruption cases, As the head of Mr dozens of issues. including hate crimes. svstem as racist. cruel and uniust, with ability in the Legislature as evidence
to reconsider she said the Su- vances Constructuon Fraud 1ask poice accountablnty and tenants outcomnes that tavor the rich and powthat he will be an efective relormer.
preme Court should simply have erui, and has saa sne woua work to
Force, she ed cases invovinE worker rignts. sne nas aliso emphasized ner heres no guessworkwith me, ne
sion in the case coldman Sachs
Group V. Arkansas Teacher Re ment of 20 unions. Harlem. eryone working as a prosecutor there one who really wants reform in this of-
rementystem,. 4044
he Second CircuitS rung ws
nere is a sna er , FIor A granddaughter ofthe philan to ensure that their views align with fice that
Though
be committed to it
his propess N
ins has said she would stop Ms.
by a 1988 Supreme Court decision, she had withheld evidence from de- novation in Prosecution at John Jay the prosecution of all but a handful of orlins, he has billed himself as the most
Basic v. Levinson, Which saa
ngney were n
de
Tense lawyers in a major Didery case,
which constitutes an ethics violation. A
Ollege in 2018. In ner view, prosec
a
tion should take holistic view of the
miscemeanors and reairecttne onice S
attention toward white-collar crime.
pragauc candaare on thne
formist wing. For instance, he has not
races e
ticall
rities fime paign has said the candidate has taken East Harlem, for instance, she worked on Twitter, speaking publicly against half because, he said, it would be an un-
had relied on the statements. In- "Tull responsibiliy Tor tne mistake. with a couition or dilferent Broups powerru igures Ike Mr. irump and realisuc promise Biven the realitues o
including the police and tenants- to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. the Dudget process.
sted, tne Basic deCISTOn sd,
on a make it
they coula rely presumption welcoming to children.
able information about a company
reectea
The theory
m
s stoC
allowS
Pe o
investoS
dirert
relied on the contested statement
r
Supreme Court Says Over 200 Patent Judges Were Wrongy Installed
t aiso alowed nvestors to avod a
requirement tor class actions
By ADAM LIPTAK ceed as before, without changes to and so were "principal officers appointed and their duties. "The Justice Stephen G. Breyer,
WASHINGTON The su howthejudges are appointed. The under the Constitution, meaning unreviewable executive power joined by Justices SoniaSo
in common to allow them to band preme Court ruled on Monday courts narow fix, subjecting the that they had to be appointed by exercised by the Judges, he tomayor and Elena Kagan, dis
DEener that more than 200 administrativeudges to additional supervision,e president and contirmed by wrote, 1s incompatible with their sented rom the first part of the
upenang tne
fied
In a second part of Justice Bar- judges who hear patent disputes,esrto curTThe appeals court's solution to y a decieion
both
un-
hothe Baienumtionlarehad heon annointed in io The case United States v.he constiutonal probiem Was to pointed to a principal office may precedented and unnecessary,
worked. Plaintiffs must come for- Arthrex, No. 19-1434, arose froma suRE a part or ne aw nat
down 15Sue a inal decisIOn binding the and risks pushing tne Judiciary
lation of the Constitution.
uenge
ward witn 50me eviaence tnattne 0, tactured mayor ied by Smith & Neph- executive branch in the proceed* further into areas where we lack3
contested statements affected the yo
E o held by a Dany. against patents nact toac ieeh
ants bear the burden of persuad- Trademark Office the power to re competitor, Arthrex, on a medical
ing the court that there had been view the judges" decisions in cases aevice. A pane ot juages on an
10 effect. brought under a 2011 law that Patent and Appea Boaru, an a
A larger role Tor
executive branch
an .Gorscn Brett avanaugn
and Amnert
.
Justices Samuel A. AlitoJr., Neil
sd
oneduse oenss
But those three justices none
tney pe

Old rarel akediff ah Ee ecutive branch created by the 201

official is called for. fied.
The defendant's burden of per
suasion wll have bite only when
Supporters of the procedure,
called nter partes review, which
anexs palens Chief Justice Roberts Wrote for
oniy 1our Justices in another part
Justice Carence Thomas 1s
sued a separate dissent, JOined in
the courtnnds the evidence n s Latin or Derween the parties roteced e ptent Judges rom s opnon, tsoeoncern ePart Dy o
ces eyer,
should rarely arise," she wrote. ornot companies that obtain patents Federalurcut, a specIalized fectively demoted
them fromconstitutional problem it had today draws a new line dividing
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined touse Dut to
them demand court in Wasngto, Saying nat"principal omicers, the appeals
the patent judges' decision should court said.
1denaned. He said the judges de
cisions must be made subject to
nero oncers rom principau
ones," he wrote. "The fact that this
y Justices Clarence Thomas and royalties and sue for damages.
Jr.. writing for fiveG
Robe
this second point."It is incumbent skewed toward the cancellation of not been properly appointed. iustices on such did not agree with that part iudges on the side of ambassa-
on the plaintiff to prove reliance," valid patents. .
The appeals court agreed, ru Monday, agreed that there wasa of the ruling, saying it was up to dors, Supreme Court justices and
he wrote,
disprove i
not the defendant to he decision on Monday means
the challenges will largely pro
ing that the judges pertormed im-
portant work without supervision
constitutional problem with theit
between how the judges had been
Congress to address how to fix the
constitutional flaw.
department heads Suggests that
something is not quite right."
 l6 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

|Bruising Race Is Nearing

Finish Line Amid Rancor
Between Front-Runners
|

Yang
ERIC ADAMS 8 ADAMS ERIC
By DANA RUBINSTEIN rich businessman bureaucrat
ew tothe masses can

York City's mayoral primary cam- steal the election from us" she
Paign, the
leaamE Democratic sng
E candidate,
top ival aa
nc Adamscalled a MrAdamsold CNNthat thos
hariwere merely his alheswOrus
val, Andrew Yang, had suggested the next breath, he suggestedd

OR MAYORFOR EVthat Mr. Adams "cuts corners and neee ns

Dreaks rules," and that it Mr. AdAmariene ery
ministration "would be mired in suppression, Mr. Adams
r r
UNEZ said.
uy srunction and questions and in-
vestigatuOn ammoSt irom Day
e Know adOut a poll tax."
Mr. Adamss tacK Seeme de
New York's most important has lone articulated: That voters
whose victor will be charged with do not truly undersStand now
revivinga city oroKen by the pan aNE-Cnce voing workS.
His remarks sparked con
On the eve ot uesdays primary ratic Part e
e
corous spat between two of the tis disingenuous and danger-
race's leading candidates and
prompted fresh, if unwarranted,
ustopiayonthe verea ana
Ete es oDgOy nu vOe
EE RIOR HE SEW YOK T.
tion of rarmbad.ch tending it's present Wheree
Interviews at early voting sites across New York City suggested that many voters had embraced the new ranked-choice ballots. At issue for Mr. Adams was a notSd Jumaane wlams, the
New York city public advocate,
dte nnce etwee Tdng, a
former presidential candidate,WO n nt
New York City Rates Hopefuls and the Ballot sanitation commissioner; Mr. Ad- nately, these tactics are too often

Oners saw ranked-choice vot- Bgest,

ams, the Brooklyn borough presi-
witn
eee 1dng condemned Mr. Ad-
ro PaeAI to gameMr Vano were conenirin who ie Dl
pportunty
the field and planned their choces aailah press the Black vote.
ah ddate on the left; she issued a
m
advance, tnose wno nave aCho availabie Derore. ne accusauon runs counter to y statenent that condemned
TanKed-Choice voting, a uSS cOmments, wIthout
he ranked Ms. Wiley as first Ed0
ittle interest in filling any of the choice butthen he chose someone
he liked more but aidnt thinkprefe
up
to five candidatesin order of These accusations are a weap-
Dvais Deyona
uher ist cnoce
"I Voted for wh0 made me Teer w y
prererence. Proponents sa it
generally inauces better behavior eris
o aD0ut
ears and
tTeour democracy, con
and

Said Claire Landsbaum. 28. a ph

g
Candidat
David Anziska, 42, a lawyer in 0
tographer casting an early
voting Crown Heghts in Brooklyn, sadof second- or third-place rank a
ballot in Prospect Heights in
vOTE he wanted Ms. Garcia to win. But ing. A spat gives rise to
BroOKIyn, decining to say who
plays a major role in city govern-
to d
fresh criticism of
lane Lemiszko, 65, a retired nent even it she loses, he chose dd
health care administrator voting
Mr. Yang Tor nis ee Yang and Ms. Garcia have been
ranked-choice voting.
mOSpeect Heignts, said after her would appoint her deputy mayor. Campaigning together n the nnal
top piCk, MS. wiley, she was less AnziSKA did this before the
(r. s
wo candidates teaned up on have n0 place here" she said.
And she was more stymied by Sat-nare h
net raCes on tnepublic
Dallot, nclud- urday y far the most qualified.aly nasty tenor of New York a
earned him rebuke
from the
ing comptroler, advoCate, we need a mayor who knows how
tne ciy actuany runs, ne sld. "Ranked-choice vong 1s4
c nair of the Elections Committee
inthee New To
st and sec Still others went in with an e Zellnor Myrie, who is Black and
ond, that's all right, kind of "Een
the mavors ra
" alnddde
Etynny, moe,Sne Sald. egy. Louise Lauren, 29, who lives Cause New York, and a proponent
"Definitely not the people who I'm in Bedford-Stuyvesant and works
industry, choseEng to De numans."
aie"I s think about voter suppres-
nan tne averge pol
h noni who sounded lr Wiley powertnen SOn nore
Ms. irst, the morning of what would be ne wrote on Twitter "To
ners
or confused.
were outright skeptical choice escaping her moments lat- come another unusually unpleas- compare it to a pol tax, is *in-
er-but Sne knewwho it Was not.aintue udy. credibly* wrong and dangerous.
are
ooino totakeare thev ooin DESIRR B rOR HE NEW ORK
HS wanteuoake sre tnatannearod on CNN One.of a serios Stop It
to take my first pick or second n maka it in the top of national cable televiSion ap
Laterin
the day, when a report
five," she said. earancesfor the mayoral cand
sure voters that he would not em-
58, on Monday on Monday. He spoke about
are tney Bng
i de
ngure tat outr
The system was not without itsates ulate the former President Do
hiccups.Durng aryvotng8, vovolunteer in the South Bronx.and ald J. Trump and claim the elec
more than one first choice uon was stolen, Mr Adams's
were mentioned his visit to the family res
Counting the ranked escorted to a desk where workersil
deleted that baliot and replaced on a Sidewalk, When
itIed nv Bronx ala
I assure voters that no one is
BOLng to steal the election from
choices will not begin With a new one. in en r and his intended taroet. me ne said.
were nope
until June 29. RIcnards VISited a polling place on The anecdote highlighted the Is
his own
o
ednesday and heard
contusionatmrcin
that crime 1s risg ad while designed to rally
firsthand. supporters, mignt stoKE uuds
Yvette Chavis, a marketing con- voted for me five times," he said. reformer, is equipped to tackle it
consideing rdnking
Sultant, had just one question ew Dalotsnowaside, the race Ofis aWiunout violating New Yorkers Ere
Wny? er Or tne electton a g A spokesman for Mr. Adams
"I don't understandwnywe YORK TIMIES mayor 18 SO mucn more deeply But to Adams's other tonic
TOR BLUE POR THE NEw had no comment on that scnoor or
n, say, a gove
even president.
said Monday Harlem."Why is it
in Voters cast ballots at, top, Monroeollege in Fordham Manor in a of choice: Mr. Yang and MS. G
Detter than what we had in the aa, above, at the Helen larshall ultural Center at The rest of the last camp
eDron In Bedford-stuyvesant, Mr.
past? Queens Borough FHall, on June 12, the first day of early voting Beamon, a maintenance worker The prior morning, Ad in the shadow of the Adams-Yang
at the Ftu srios of auotes from alies areu- dispute. The tone outside ot the
ot of iriends that told me they her mother, Shirley Boxili. 77, t0 childhood, John Lindsay, because ing that the decision by Ms. Gar- ngea
City.Approximately 700,000 Dem-
were ray ang to campaign todatoe aehadh
Sstantia
Ocrats votea n the last comper
uve mayord
COming into the booth with vote and to help he gate the adu
d
pra y notes tor ne nst uneau N
about hi
a man like him: he plarld uppEss boroughs in one last-sgasp attempt
White, who lives a nau
ts
.
early this vear in the period that in williamsurg not ttiEs said, hastily adding that the
he Thenews release called the alli-
ended sunday, and more than health and ranked Ms. Wiley first "but you really have to explain it candidate he favors is Ms. Garcia|
mpacta ayor has
ance a "back-room deal" to block
Adams path to Cty Hal, even
yd
ds a
taed
e SDway
wItn suppOt
68,000 peOple navereturneu c because Representative Alexan- o
em. tse
De e
will be highly favored to become
n dria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed her.
Yanitza Tones t
"Well, it looked easy to me, be
useyou aid it, her mother said,
othe te OewarerS.andthehou
directly, means firsthand experi-
ng o pc hter
of the Rev. Al Sharpton and an Ad-
the five boroughs in a van embla
Zoned wIth his tace that his canm
er
e extmayor. polling station in Bedford-Stuyve Yolanda Mason, 41,preparing to ence can play a big role in the vot- ams Supporter, called the alliance ere men

oar
sant in Brooklyn last week with vote in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, a cynical attempt y Garcia ana idie
fewer than 30 percent of first-
e her copy of the cty's official voter said she planned on doing things is

ams
onaa
O
oXalng to disenirancnise BiackK VOt-
past New York City mayor would
choice picks for mayor written do-my first choice" she said. "I because the candidate "We didn't march in the streets Deavoron-ke amalgamanon.
Choice vOLes. n
sua g
"Since
down in order,
this is my first time vot-
don't have time to go through it
like, 'one, two, three, four, five
stopDed by his mosque once. And
ennd ars,
all summer last year and organize
BscKTOr generations just so that some on oing e
ingSne said, "Twanteu to make
ner And New YorkerS seem to be count" Likewise, Hannah Josiah, 49, a place because, she said, "when I paign outside of Fairway Market
angtOSecoceswystat With ranked-choice voting, if no voter outside of the Bronx Su- was walking my doE, ne stoppea Reporting was contributed by OnBrowy, a Opular Stomping
eo
ane

For
nem, vitn

as opinionated of a citYas
no appar
percent
wins more than
single candidate preme Court in Concourse. said topet my dog
stenOCe votes,the sstemiustratea nertne
E
ec
aGFIzsimmons,
O
Katie Bround for candidates.

1an Snoutred as Sne Walkeu

we are, ranked-cnOCe voung nated, and the first-place votes for mitted to that person, but instead ovan because two important fig- veri. past.
o those uc dn
that candidate are redistributed to
votersS second choices.
you give me all these different opures
tions, she said. "t just confuses n; Bardac Dd, wno er
ure ad c0nneconsto

hattan, iminatod their votes po to their Some spread their votes among and her pastor, who supports him.
me canetoear0ng S third-choice candidates, and so candidates they admired equally,Alexandra James,0, Who
OS e witn nndwtte on. The rounds of elimination con regardless of whether they were oted in Prospect Lerterts (Gar
Alexandra Petri, Ashley Wong, didates
lof
Precious Fondren, Iman Steven candidate in the lead is declared male mayor "I'm leaning 1ent tor the job-and if he doesn't
So es5Gueero, sane A the winnerTnat tabulating ward theladies, said Gedorge D. denver, sne Knows wnere to lodge
Kuly, Sean Piccoll, Diane Bezucha process could last into mid-July, Beamon, 61, of Bedford-stuyve her complaints.
chweberco Pacheu ue piCKS WItn Ip us," she
orting. Drosnect Lefferts Gardens in women T'm going straight to his office"

It's real easy if I voted for who made Its not that it's a Tdon't understand
ROP
people just learn me feel good-you hard concept for the why we need it, first
how to read. know, within reason. elderly, but you really and foremost. Why is
DEBRA TITUS, 59, who voted CLAIRE LANDSBAUM, 28, a have to explain it to it better than what
siand on had in the past
w
Heights in Brookdym.
them. we
ALCIRA BOXILL, 52, who YVETE CHAVIS, a marketing
helped her mother, Shirley consultant, in Harlem on
Boxill, 77, navigate the ballot.
AEW SN FOR THE NWo TMES
Monday. Proponents say ranked-choice voting induces better behavior.
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Bishops, Biden and Abortion Politics

Iran Bets on Religion, Repression and Revolution TO THE EDITOR: or course, these are the same
IN THE SUMMER of 1988,Iran's supreme "Bishops on Path to Refuse Biden Dshops wno, as your article polnts
Dut, had no problem turning a blind
eader, Ruhollah Khomeini, onrdered the
Holy Communon ropag
SEcretexecutonsOr thousands ot politi- atholic Bishops escapades. This same group of
e r
denied reportsn Church:
of My
hypocrites was mute in the tace of
but propaganda" based on "forgeries" am a 76-year-old woman born Mr. irumps vitriol against the
and raised Catholic as well as handicapped, minoriaes,
It also ruthlessiy Suppresseu
eilors imme
he r umilies of the disaPpearea un It is with A Saddened heart that I erty and violence, the L.G.B.T.
tives, including the location of their find it necessary to part ways with community and scores of others.
burial sites. y church. And now it wants to punish a
More than 30 years
the worid later, AS a registered nurse, I have
ere mrdered. though a jandmark denying women birth control or this country and to show compas
2017 report from Amnesty nterna medicalynecessary aDoruns. SOn to ugrants seeking a better
onal pur tne nimum number at nave wtessed tne pain or my ife in this country. HOw rich! And

nre as high as 30,000. u mittee on Doctrine claims that this

But one point is not seriously in And now you are considering has nothingto do witn poiacs?
oube: Among the nandn or irinian denying communion to President LAURIE KORENBAUM, BROOKLYN
Biden, who is at ns core a E00d,
Ceahim Paisi At
the time of the massacres, Raisi, the son of his support for abortion rights. TO THE EDITOR:

OCerend he productortocenca No matter his personal religious

beliefs, Mr. Biden represents all
John F Kennedy famously said, "I
do not speak for my church on
rol of Tra erin h
Iran's chief justice. In 2018 he called the
ssce was
ments
acneven proud hestands for the constitutional helped to convince Americans that,
elected president or Spruon oCurcn anu siaie Mr. Kenneay was elected, nis
ran in a rigged process in which cen-
choose to follow my president Policies would be dictated not bDy
trist candidates were the Catholic Church he believed was good and
Tore the vole took place
disqualiied be
what
us mean or the world KATHY LOLLOCK, SANTA ROSA, ALI
ngnt tor tne country.
constitutional separation or t
upheld the
utside Iran?
and state and
churc
One awkward question is how West TO THE EDITOR: reconize t
eaders snould deal with a foreign Lets see if have this straight. A
T
inagreement with many of the
Treasury sanctions for his
Department eroup or conservaive Dishops is church s poSitions.
numan-tignts aDuses. Progressives spending its time and resourcees Conservative bishops of today's
someumes call ror the arrest or srae d tho rinei
Crimes against Palestinians, It'l be in- Catholic, from receiving the sacra- ples it represents. In a likely futile
eresung to see 1 tnese same progres ment o.
Euorteese deung cun
Sves ave ostethetr n membership, they want to dictate

should he fravel ahroad nerhans to ments to those whodon't adhere

New York for the U.N. General Assem- Ruling on Health Law rngidly to their viewpont. if they
y TO THE EDITOR: insist, they may tind it impossible
meanscond
for questionisw ear deal. o rd
ever to see a third Catholic presi-

which the Biden administration is keen

ar deal. It's about the kind of regime we
are dealing with.
Khamenei when the supreme leader,
is 82 and rumored to De sue
eustices Fend are
AEmpt p
dent
Ace uront
.0 eee
page, June sAIL GOLDEY, SANTA FE, N.M.
o
restart arter tne rup amnistra Several years ago, Henry KIssinger from prostate cancer, dies. what were Justice
ton witndrew irom it in z018. INegotaa5Ked wnetner lran nanon or a
asa hoseho tnougnt that iranian pol Samuel A. Alito and Neil M. Gor- ro THE EDITOR:
completed the revised accord. by normal considerations of national moderate direction were wrong. The re Such thinKing
in thenr assets i will any of the Catholic Supreme
g to One unay sis.r prospey and Serespect, Be 15 doudung aown On rengo, tne supreme ourtrulng upnO1d
ACO
most ikely move quickiy to finalize an
wul
Secur re*
LOurt justices e rerused noy co
then the U.s.can negotiate with iton the pression and revolution. position (and that of the lower munion if they uphold Roe v. Wade
ke the n court cases? Is that the warning
bly moderate government of Hassan ours. Alternatively, if Iran's ambitions ment that, whatever its flaws, the deal court Judges in the case) woula
oce, on the taDie n vienna is suu the Dest op nave blown up the American dent of the United States?
Kounan remains in tne
Detter ror
t to receive the blame for the deal's tion 1or dealnng
win iransnucie P of a pandemic no lee e MAURICE REDER, MIAMI BEACH
see them) while Raisi's government he incoming presidents unthinkable and the Trump administra- nis denes common sense anda
reaps the benefits of sanctions' relief. non s poey or maXimum sanctions aid good policy. It is also judicial activ-
past tells us something I5m ot the worst sort.

nattes Manchin's 'Fantasy World'

hn euestionsdictd oabout the nations future amont of sense at least if the true
LORELIE S. MASTERS, WASHINGTON
The writer is a lawyer. TO THE EDITOR:
he supreme leader,une
A Khamene. The gOal or .S. poliey S to ind a race-sav-
buiextenas to deai is, cnare unaamentayeoOgC et ro e e ESt, akint TO THE EDITOR:
Re "Why Manchin ls Empnasng
Bipartisanship" (front page, June
It would not have been hard for
The one thingit will achieve is a fleet- and beyondthen negotiations are But if long experience in the Middle Republicans to kill the Affordable Senator Joe Manchins "dreams
ngaplonanevictoTone iden ad rgey polnuess. ran wil Denobent onEast nas taugnt us anying, itS Tnat Care Act. All they needed to ao was of comity in washington are just
ins trano. Sne eS ominance and suDversion,
eo s yee tes
Stadl
E pDe that: dreams that don't mesh with
demands for additional curbs on Iran's This is why Raisi's rise matters. Al means more regional mayhem. It ised a big. beautiful health care fantasy world, and his r
plan for all at great prioes with stand up to the dirty tricks em-
new ts more aceurate to say quire nuciear capabioes or their own great service and never denvereu
meantime Dons 0 dolars O Conservanve ployed expertiy by Mich
con
proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Af sense that he remains the loyal and un- to take its chances. Whatever else hap-
BRANT THOMAS, COLD SPRING, NY.
nell threatens the viability of the
ghanistan, Gaza ana Tene repentant Khomenist he beCame as a pens in vienn, Kaisi s presidency ana, more important, the wants
But the important question raised by youngman. That makes it possible, means that the 42-year crisis with Iran and needs tne Amercan pudie
isiS eevauon s ot aDout ne hu
EEn uRE suceeeu
a w aDut o get woe Unvaccinated Hospital StaffRather than being a broker of
TO THE EDITOR Manchin is an ohstacle preenti
PAUL KRUGMAN KeAJudge dismisses Houston any movement toward success in
hospital workers' lawsuit about v Our myrlaca problems. He

nytimes.com. June 12) eeus to put the l9th century

The Week Inflation Panic Died .am an oncology nurse pract-
oner i tneAanta area.ASa
world of the 21st century, where
Mr. McConnell and his minions put
to go on a spending spree. As health care provide, T nave auuy poOWer and party over Couny
REMEMBER WHENEVERYONE Was panick iey intace ot inilation considers
the
it a result,
ing about intlation, waming ominously temporarynotably 2010-11, when in critics warn, there will be a classic case of
already inmmunocompromised BILL GOTTDENKER
MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J.
people are still saying such things, some rising and Republicans were accusing leading to a big rise not just in volatile patents by wuny cnoosinghot
Decause tnatswna wys Say or niSking curreney aeDase t0o. to be vaccinated against this
some because thats what they say wnen need
men
prices but in underlying intlauon,
ney
Fed was, of course, right: Inflation
To buy
into this StOry, noweve o atients are terri
cause they're extrapolating from the big soon subsided. And the distinction be- boom will be truly ned to leave their homes, uncertain How to Reduce Roadkill
prceinereases rattooK place in e nrst Een ransirory and unaerng n than most private forecasters expect ney wDe unwney exposea TO THE EDITOR:
ive montns or
us er attention
ion a aistincuOn hat, J
but also thaT the rea, runaway
Wnicn s uy p TO tne virus Dy some thougntiess Re "How Did the Moose Cross the
the flow of new information, inflation amount of hatred from some Wall Street stand idlh g
a boom, wil intolerant or intransigent to uet a Koad? On the Overpass, of
paane 1s,you Know, so last Week. a, n Ct, DeEen a huge pract hand, lifesaving vaccine. How is this orseews artceune)
c uso recenata anorecent
l deflated case for a sus
the
calsucCess, hepung
and deflation seare
neeo "
ca
Last week, however, statements from
the Feds open market committee- the
different rom Demgeue
vaccinated against ne nu, as ay
tipping point, and the United
States lags way benina onET n
e 0utDreak orinauon. For that case The Fed has been arguing that recent chlaime la aik Shame on those hospital workk oocountry, addressing All over the
small groupso
it.
groups ScenuSts,O
Keading such statements Is often an ers in lexas who claim a rignt no
eirent h
inflation, you had to believe either that
e d exercise in Kremlinology the Fed did-
nt announce any actua pone cnanges,
to be vaccinatea. w
pauents ene oo
a citizens are banding togetner in
attempts to recduce wildintevemcie
tne Feds modelo nowna wo
in tone that give clues about the future for the sick. Do your duty now or Cosions Dy buiding wildlife
ng O at tne Fed would lack the
Don't worry: Lumber is But red watcnersconsidered tne new ouner proression, preferably i ese cODo
truggles,
leases hawkish, signaling increased wilk one where you work in isolation.
were to become dangerously overe
if it
falling and the Fed is on the biggest being funding.
neated. ALYCE M. KANTNER, ATLANTA Here in the smokies, bear, elk
Both beliefs have now
s thee case. For what it's worth, I don't think tap- and deer are the biggest threats to
numan sarey tor he entire
Let's start with the theoryof inflation. ping the brakes will be required. But by Bt nt
Since the 1970s, and especiallysince a ruptions that caused surging prices of Suggesting that it will act if necessary,
What to Wear to a Funeral to protect smaller mammals like
semina S paper Dy KODet ordon, usea car, 1u and toxes as wel
Dt th ed'e case there was for worrying about a re TO THE EDITOR:
bobcats as an
phibians and reptiles.
guish between transitory fluctuations in view has been that this episode, like theturn to the 1S/0s. Re "What Should I Wear to a Fu-
he inflation rate driven by temporary
actors aa an unuenyng
inflation blip of 2010-11, wil soon be over.
And its nOW lo0kIngE as ir tne red was
d
oi he r
ar 1090e
an
t
neral? (Here to Help, June 14):
Twas mildly surprised that
OSingspecies 1snot an
iences of modernity. Small commu-
appro

someone would write to a newpa

also hard to bring down if it gets uncom- metals Friedman kept predicting an inflation re
cent weeks. Prices of industrial nity and regional erores c
fortably high. The idea is that policy like copper are coming down. Prices ofSurgence that never arnve.ny the e appropriately for a funeral. My compiish Ony so much on the
shoukd largely ignore transitory infla
wory onlv if core inflation looks asif
used cars are stll very high, but their
neaked Core inflation wins again
ernesso pary
or t
is much stronger now than it
es Surprise urned to bewilderment,
however, wnen vaEs
traneno
it's conomy
felt the ned
cultural sea change to make wil
getting to0 high (or too low). What about the alternative inflation was during the Obama years, so it makes sed
d
nre crossings not an anomaly, Dut
body
since 2004 the Fed has routinely pub- story? lt goes like this: The Biden ad- more sensetoworry about intiation tis parts or wild animal prints. No the nortm.

shed an estmate of core intlaton thatit ministrations American Rescue Plan eouna u
ne eeeo e jangly accessories. FRANCES FIGART, FLAG POND, TENN.

,which are notoriously vol ing power into the economy, while afflu-portionate to the actual risks-and Apparenty he ardashian The writer ts the author g "A Search
1Zation of America is complete. for Safe Passage," a children's book
atle, and nas used tnat measure to rena enthousenolds, nicn Duntup large savtnose risks now seem even smaler than
off demands that it tighten monetary pol ings during the pandemic, are now ready they did a few weeks ago. ELLEN D. MURPHY, PORTLAND, ME. about the need for wildife crossings.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 A19

MICHELLE COLDBERC
City's Election Could Set Agenda on Policing
Only the
Errol Louis
ALTHARAR Women Can
OEDate 1s playing out
RENI
sharp rises in violent crime.
Save Us Now
ne ngnto contro tnat alsoraer
a battle for the direction of the partydo
is also LASTWEEKIWROTE about wny hougnt
Eric Adamsis very marginalypreerabie
o
fieht crime? Do thev need to be re. eratie mavoral primary. Yang is likable,
stralned, Bven a long record or abuses nave gravitate
and I can see wny peopie
ora vibrant, bUsiness-
nd policies ike stOp-and-inSK How
0 Thissunny vision
hr ocidente2 hich tactice aro icht Rat electing a totally inexperienced
and which tactics violate our rights? mayor buoyed by hedge fund bilhonaires
guesuons more con
NOwnere are tnese andsinguary rocused on pudiC oraer
entious than in New York Cty, where two i ient imortant ev
ric Adams and Mava Wiley have had a eryone wants a safe city-but because it
war of words over race, policing and civil has to be balanced with a commitment to
rights. Justice.
iams the Brooklyn borough presi-
er csnes eee an mportnt uS
buoyed by hedge fund bilhon
dent, is also
stretches back decades. And if either wins
a luesday s primary, he or she
resseEw
increasingly
0Tthan Yang,
more so
STEporeu
Since
wil be-
ome a national voice on crime; their ar
port as he's surged into the lead. But, I fig-
ffs facing Democrats and the urban vot- red, Adams unestnds now uy
works, ana will owe nis power to Biac
e
the partys ba
Ec tnnks the soluton to every prob from both crime and over-policinp
em i5 Dage and a Bun, M5. Wey sad That said, an Adams mayoralty would
he solution, but some problems we actu- Key De pretytrerrlbe. He nasa pencnant
were on full display when he accused Yang
who isn't trained for the situation rather or their
Her plan calls tor "aradical reimagining approaches.A Mayor Adams neighborhood and Kathryn Garcia of racism because
ardaolle veen everunne sofe of policing t incudes cancenng newwouidave to taKE Serousiy tne pudies Many years later, l find itheartbreaking they hadthe temerty to join orces
For his part, Mr Adams has sammed ducing the NY.PD. headcount by 2.500o siom and mind-set of the NYPD. in w an oiheoes andFor them
n to come together ike they
swy ficers;creating a civilian commission to tat go Deyondwoula public housing developments my father are doing in tne 1ast tnree uys,uey
Dredur
oce Department budget
when oversee the aepartment; overhaluling the ayor wiley qurcky ascover that
Pubue
patrolled-and equally disheartening to yn we
CanusaPesn ocO
Black and brown babies are being shot in Patro ude an removing ops rom mucn wiaer range or taSKS
an Sne read about abuses of police power that
are terrorzing ment and school eofor uu 0 or the N..PD. to
es,
ur streets, hate
crimes he entnisted to the cops we have, not E to say, a person of color.) Some of Adams's
sian and Jewish
communides, and
way to woek
hot on their way to work
d
tiny
nAl of these ideas should receive scru-
tiny and debate, because one of these
f
the cops we wish we had.
Poce officers, especaly lack ones,
We arrive at this crossroads for public
safety at a peak moment of Black political ress re n
engang voter sup r
The debate reilects a cruel, decades-old
conoafio eiin eenesn
ween neieoe afeones
ane
keeping neignbornoods Sare
power in New York. Black leaders lead
lack voters.
set or cireustances forms and practices. Unfortunately, M. 7ations in the.city (Staten Island is the ex. .On the cusp of an election that will de
hoods areoten ovEtpuce Adams and MS. wieynve e ception), and the State Legislature is run termine
York the future or post-ovid New
cature each otheris posS ers reers Proposals by
Commission study of inner-city riots in
S6Us Tound a wiaespread Delle in Black
Adams alld
by Adams and S
and the Senate majority leader, Andrea catastrophe. Both of the male front-run
ners are, for dierentres
have been lost in the sniping.
iley reflect a split seven Rlack mem eader
ne omce. New rork cannot afford a leader
ommunities that "the police maintain a While Mr.Adams did, indeed, spend two Dermaiorities And the
forcement in theghetto, tolerating ilegal decaaes n rhe
ivist
e ouneathe among Black Democrats. bers of the New York congressional dele
arene
can't afford a mayor who has, The as
ever est
who helped lead dem-
sent to nberot iac
activities lIke drug addiction, prostitution Times reported, repeatedly pushed "the
and streetvOence ae uney wo e hticans Congress from any boundaries of campaign-finance and
erate elsewhere
onstrations against the department and manng rue epy
nd brutalcome
recruited, Mr Adams and others to be values of the need to fight for racial jus- In the past, Black leadership has peri- mired in scandal, using race to deflect ev-
ive profiling and brutal nolice officers with the specihc mis
use of foroe exist side-by-side with a le- yenDCe narsn iaw eniorcement ery criticism. Among the eading candi-
a 31-year vet-
eran of the N.Y.PD. whouis,
ather Edw
nient acceptance of low-level criminal be- And Ms. Wiley's career includes a retired as an in- actcs and toughonrime messaging
havior,a toxic downward spiral folows, as The controversial 1994 federal crnime bill
three-year hiatus trom civil rights work to spector, often spoke with prde about tra
noted: wReing over-noliced for the small serve in the U.S. Attorneys oftice tor the eng thacontingentOr Black copsto ne Black officials in communities devastated DOLn men ledalg trle

stuft, and under-policed for the important

Southern DIstnet or New rot Cu r the d by drug addiction and street crime. But a Vew York mayoral race
cra
es fe
Pvate violence
eneor
Bill de Blasio. She
nvan omplant
later
became the
Review
sights and people of his native Harlem,
where he spent most of his career-but he
ter other moments, Iike the wave of Black
ao aster, ure disaster
utsUSters.

ntrusive policing, more alienation, lower

BOara, and nas arawnclicismrom some asounderstooa tne neea to ao Datle, lice accountability have been passed.
learance rates and still more violence" reform the N.Y.PD. from her powerful drug pushers, armed robbers and pimpsItnow falls to Black Democrats to vote Garcia and Mava Wile
Mr.Adams and Ms. Wiley are propusuE perch. wno nad aisrupted, degraded and de- in mis primary elecuon to say this not because I so desperately
T

Iaealuy, tne next mayor wu Diena Doin countess uves in nis Deioved most at stake. and offer ijudgments on two
Adams a 2-year veteran of the stroyed want a female mayor; it would be nice to
New York Police Department, has a pubic Canaidates who understand the issue and
gn ow
sarety plan centered on hiringraning wnose aecsons as mayor woula resonate city's problems. Gender, however, is
and deploying police officers differentiy. Deyona tne mve Dorougns. ceary playing aroe tis ra0e
ent of pub
plainclothes unit to target illegal guns, dollars moved from the N.YPD. intosocial eTeee poll asKed voterS to name
send more ofncers into high-erime nelgh services, as Ms. Wiley wants, in the belief well-known male candidates, the most
Dornoods, and reassign
H ln as aidtrr
cops wno do
00
here youth s ser
e c ana menta neaun
na programs Common second choice was also a man.
For the remie canaidates, une
oSt o
ommunity boards and precinct councils start with an Adams-style crackdown lana and
More than a moderate
p tco
has vowed to create a more uveep d on guns and gun violence as a first step sive lane in this primary, there's a men's
towaird restoring sarey and oraerlh Black lane and a womens lane. And the mens
nng unestienae
police commissioner. nd Drown egnbor00d5 rgn we
lanedSer bigotry are tlam
proaches? bnatio of
Ms. Wey, a rormer chalror the Civian boyantly cynical, gleefully exploiting lib-
Complaint.Kevew Boara, nas been crilt The 2021 election for mayor will be a eral taboos about pushing bacK on most
hitting television ad that to oment hat we l looK back onin satis- nvocaions or racism. Worse than that,
ages of police officers clashing with pro- handle the twin challenges of horror about voter suppressIon nationauy
testers folowing the aeatn O
Floyd, alter which Ms. wEy sys
E pubic salety and civil rights. More so than
ecuons, Buack vOtes Matter. D
uneirumplan
,uan ainoSt eeunaey
move.
or tnis

Ju-
ives matter" and adds, "As a mom and ERROL LOUIS is the political anchor of NY1 maane Williams, determined to stop Yang
Ivl rights lawyer, I've had enough. cORY SIPKIN/AGENCE FRANCEPRESE-GTTY IMACGES and the host o"Inside Cily Hal. recentuy announced he was ranking Ad-
as, Dut On onda Spoe out about ne
is disingenuous and dangerous to play on
ne veryeal ana egumare rears or Dig
y oer dsenirancnisement by

The Bishops Betray a Faithful President Wiliame P

What Adams 1s dong 15 particulariy
wnere ts not,

Tom Perriello faith.

This is not the first time the bishops
v OKe ADOut mycareer in peace
and justice: that I came for the guilt and
risked everything to defend human han
rights and persuaded the Vatican to first-place votes and stilllose Tuesday's
.
have challenged a practicinE Catholic stayed tor the joy. This calling would sponsor peace talks that forged the election
election. A new Ips0s poll shows Adamss
E seoK COmunOn Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts Leone and Afehanistan. as well as strug of Congos first Deaceful democratic eadin8, Dut an accompanying anaysis
fore the pandemic. As a Roman was targeted by conservative bishops, gling communities back home. Only with transfer of power. hoice for ahot renuy 1s Hike
auater of on a
Catholic, I enjoy exploring how isp E v Democratic primary voters. This means
Mass is experienced and enriched by dif- Sanatoe Tad Kennedrle fnoral Mass Biehon Walter Sslliram ith ite radro of eet there is Significant opportunity for voters
nn
ferent cultures. But nad a
oe I have worked on peace and Jusuce is Dests Wno sought and vulnerable, also met recently. They
and Opuons to

broad. It provided my only chance to

Sues at nome and aro,
and was & t po chose to take a courageous position that happens, Adams is setting his
If
ake the Eucharist, because I quietly de-
er heni
focus.But the us
bshops myopic esoma o against President Nayib Bukeles move
t for corrantioThele D
supporters up to believe that the election
Was stolen irom them. It demonstrates a
onsieed une
during my brief time in Congress federacy, Bishop Sullivan was an unwa-
United States Conference Catholic
the of shocked me. As a representative, I saw vering torce tor racial justice and heal den administration a clear message that voted overwhelmingly to adopt ranked
Bishops. them cherypi thepoy to promote ing, an antagonist of amti- Semitism and "tough talk on the boder only belps the choice voting in 2013 and for the ability
While the Catholic Church is far from Dreme Court overtheir conereeations coyotesandgangs extort a higner price of this beleaguered city to move forward
nfallible overseas,1Irequenuyb struggling to0 afford cäare. T These are the true Catholic leaders, That makes it all the more urgent tnat
why mu faith called to e At time when the church could model American Catholic and the ones nope Serve as tne DerterS0meone DesideS Aams eads ew
moung peace and Justice. But back riminalit des s nleaders are driven by a anges n Tesident Biden's ear. orks recovery.My ideal candidate would
nome, the persistent eforts Dy con5erva stead for the partisan agenda ot its larg partisan agendd. againen rae teio rafic eeriene hateitherone ofthemis
ve Disnops to arDre est donors and the misOByny mnetet inspired every day by Catholic clergy capable of saving this city.
nas chnosen to model the a Wley victory would be inspirational;
ng to practice the confession and pen- gne the dirty
an ally for ending wars inin cen
aurty wars Cen- inspires them to serve. I e
inspires them tor
statemente continue to fall il rihts and an un
es, eniorces it accuses reformers. Its
OSpS SooS
the moral clarity of its Salvadoran The Catholic lay leaders and clergy Catholic would. derstanding of how City Hall functions. A
When the bishops
could have
ney
their support for to
one a
hate and or lies,
on ob
n
reading it from
o
the pulpit
I
on Sunday.
eo
pray that the American bishops re
o
Garcia victory would be reassuring:no

ay's ecoome ana raclal justce move

elected officials who
struct efforts to humanize our economy. When I visit the border or opioid-rav-
nesethte
ward
the bread of sinners" Instead asking
or
of
ning during calamities from Hurricane
Sandy to the pandemic. Ideologically, Gar
nChildrenDarentstheaoinan
e
i the
Growing up aroundCharlotteslle agedparts ot
Appalachla, tness
s worthy
whether they think President Biden is
of communion from them, I pray
cia is a centrist, but devotion to public
rveninE EOVernent ncuon
workers who care for them. Instead, atrocities committed against innocent ci- breath. And yes, I saw Archbishop
that they ask what they must o New York is in trouble and deservess

sven
guarantee ol housing, health care and in- ca and about our own
nns en Ner
government's of
eE
us demanding
u
n nnosehave them
that Black lives matter
offering communion to any of
ODuy.
s
Omeone who neltner neopnyte nora
we need, ar a minimum, Someone
be an early step toward limiting com ty, with a clear message that a failure humane border. As the U.S. special envoy TOM PERRIELLO is an expert in transitional the bureaucracy the mayor commands. If
munion tor President Biden
compassion, empathy
man of a
and lived but quiet
to devote your lifeto addressing these n-
Justices might lead to eternal damnation.
to the African Great Lakesregion,I stood
With courageous Congolese bishops who ber
a
Justice and former diplomat and mem-
Congress.
she doesn't win, we're in for a rough four
yEai.
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By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
OAKLAND, Calif.
Even as Google's profits The innovation challenges he wrote,
"will only get worse as the risk e will
The seeds of a compa
iness
nys downtal, it is otten sad in tne busines go down.
worla, are sown when everything s gOingB
boom, executives are oge prooiems, current and
It is hard to argue that things aren't going restive, with some the leadershin stvle of Stundar Pichai the
great for Google. Revenue and profits are company's affable, loW-key chiet executive.
charting new higns every hree months
departing and others .
Filteen Current and 1ormer Google exec
Prcony,pa O saying their low-key ves,seng On tne Ondtono
r imtofhe lives of eveervriay meri
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ans. surrerng rom many or
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to a self-defeating ntion
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public perception,
outspoken. Personnel problems are spilling8 risk aversion. The executives, some of whom regularly
into the public. DecISIVe leadership and DIB interacted with Mr Pichai, said Google did
naVe gven way to risk aversion and in-
eas
he chewed over dec
sonnel moves herause
are leaving and letting everyone know ex- sions and delayed action. They said that
ctly why. GOOge contnued to De rockedDywoTplace
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for so lonp? Noam Bardin. who ioined ect- allowing problems to fester while
Google in 2013 when the company acquired avoldng tOugn and sometimes unpopular
mapping service Waze, Wrote in a blog post positions.
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Tace a new challenge that has its
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TRADE | ARLINES

Covid Crackdown
At Chinese Port
Stalls Global Trade
By KEITH BRADSHER container port, where the hrs
HANGHAI Dozens of huge s etee l. on ay All

container Snps nave Deen forced

e contaCt Derween port em-
to drop anchor and walt. re banned. The city has required port
United States and Europe find employees to live in 216 hastily
uneserves with understocked e,pretabricated buildings
Sneves, nigner prices or botn.
uez Canal to their families
every day.
ne AN MIN
disruption in global shipping.his Huge container ships
me, the probiem
a es
nSnen
zhen. metropolis adjacent to wait up to 16 days in
Clobal Shipping has been dis- long lines for cargo.
rupted by the pandemic for
months, as western aemn
The
port's capacity to hande
E ore
to ontainers pumeeu ty
ut montn. 1t was still running at 30
get their containers onto out-
bound vessels. But the latest prob the port announced, and state
lem in Shenzhen, the wor controlled media said on oday
Shanghai and Singapore, is mak- Tu recovery might require
ing the dificulties even worse. few weeks into a very sub-
"A
ne shipping deays are ree
stantial port congestion in Tanuan
seones
break of the virus. Shenzhen, with
caused by a Covid-19 outbreak, AIN OLLARDYRELTERs

The Yantian port in Shenzhen, China, last year The ports capacity to handle containers plunged this month amid eforts to control a coronavirus outbreak
tbeveventibae
D Maersk, the world's largest con-
lHon, has had fewer than dozen tainer shipping line, said in a ferrying many containers straight ping line based in Hong Kong. He days eary this month. But Yan ferences between thewo
Statisucal
cases; city health officials have Long lines of container ships the Pearl River Delta to container shipping delays at Yantian and on much longer Simon Heaney, comparison difficult.
Iinked them to the Alpha variant, awaiting cargo bound for North Ships near Hong KOng as export elsewhere culd take the rest o the senior managBer Tor container
which was nrst iaentined in Brite America, Europe and elsewhere ers uy to bypass aelays at ran- his year. Snppngesear Dey
average cost oI shippinga
4-T0Ot container rom East ASla
ne
henzhen has responded by or-
have had to anchor off Shenzhen an.
looks like rush hour uezLn was D rper ted nas n
dering five rounds of coronavirus wait as long as 16 days to dock at there's a lot of ships waiting said container ship in March, and Yan- ruption caused by the Yantian year. Rates have soared this
testing of all 230,000 people who Yantian. Small vessels mounted im Huxey, the chairmän or Man ah coincidentaly halted all load-port proDems was similar to the mnonth with the rantdan dnnicu
ive anywhere near the Yantian with their own cranes have been darn shipping, a container ship ng of export containers for six Suez Canal blockage, although dif- ties.

Storms Force Slowdowns as Airlines Struggle With Surge in Travel

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI curity Administration sCreened back its schedule over the nextDespite the omplications, the rises0 much so that a groupP oboard actsof violence the group
taways aretesting the
vel curity checkpoints on Sunday, the
most since early March 2020.
minute disruptions.
focus this summer- and
industry, which has suffered the Justice Department on Mon-
the devastating financial losses. niy day to crack down on such con
eral, Merrick B.
Garland.
The recovery is far from com
system as airlines and airports try Our
to restore operations that were Severarlinecuding awaysis on delivering for our eortes a aunemit sne hee dents ety
plete. 1.5A. screenings over the
decimatea Dy the pandemicC. for the delavThmderstrns af c the pandemic began. and security threat to our pas- Dercent from the sameperiod in
layed in the United States on Sun- fected operations at Delta's hub ment. "We never want to disap But the resurgence hasn't come sengers and employees, and we 2019, and cor porate travel and in
day, as travel surged and airlinesaports in Atanta, nneapons point, and feel these schedule ad- wItnoutaincutes. KEports oras respecuruiy reguest that the De eratonal urave wo money
oene Dd weatner ana
largest place. snokesman said AtA
e no justments will help ensure we can
Ke EO0a Care of our customers
Dassenger behaviorare on the full and Dublicprosecution of on: up
to pick in any meaningful way
ngf
the nation's air- a
Ican, the problems had been build- surprises at the airport"

2.1 million travelers ESce earher in the month. All told, American cut about a
The irst Tew weeks

ed
o .housand hghts im Juy, moreua
were screened by percent or its Schedule that
weather to our largest hubs, heav-
security on Sunday. y impacting our operation and light data provider. Most of the
Causing y 6 cuts are concentratea m the nst
ines, Southwest Airlines had the schedules and our cstomere half of the montn, the airne sad.
The cancellation situation im
most delays, with 30 percent of plans," American said in a state-
late, accorung w
flights running ment. Delta and United had canceled
AWranrckng Each of the nation's major air
on few fights by early evening, while
percent of flights were delayed, Sunday, but only American also American and Southwesthad can
T Pecen had substantial cancellations, ut percent each. Still,
United Airlines and 21 percent for which affected about percent ofated h American and Sthwest
6ngntAware.
Delta
A owns Occurred as
Urng la had been delayed, while more
uravel
negns:
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new pandemic
lransportation Se
bor shortages and the rapid rise in
travel, American said it would cut
nnted a enun oDeltagnshad operated
and run late.
by

May Ticket Sales for Flights Stid

After 4 Months of Steady Gains
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI

Airine ticket sales fell a little in 4%

ay arte ising steaany in he and the European Union urged its
first four months of the year, ac Drop in airline ticket sales in May
member states on Friday to ift a
compared wtn April. ban on nonessential travel for
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BANKING EcoNOMY

TechCrunch Gerard Cassidy of RBC Capital

Cncs TechC ets sa tnat tewer customers
e to pay overdraft leesas

Lch
year. The top 20 banks nonethe
less collected about S6 billion n
Overarat rees in zU20, down 32
percent from 2019, while the three
TechCrung echC JPMorgan and Wells Ear
counted for s4 billion of that, Mr.
Cassiay Or KBC Capltal sald.
nowever, 1t has
Yses,
ted outsize fees. Aaron Klein, a
senior Tenow at tne broogs
stitution, recentuy found that sev-
Chime, led by Chris Britt, introduced its spotMe overdraft service
s
in 2018.
owerdraft giante relving on over.
draft fees as their main source or
profit. At six banks, Overdrart

Banks Slowly Offer TEvenuesS HCcOunted ror more than

"It is insane that our financial

regutonysem nas we
Alternatives to Fees e DnkS

ieSa.
O Operate wih this

On Overdrawn Users over its fees in the past is TCE Na-

onal Bank, the instudon whose
former chiet named his boat over
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PACE which i
the
ied-even though they can turn from chased by Huntington, a bank
a 3 coffee into à >s8 extrava- check. based in Columbus, Ohio. This
tsa very loW-cost tor us
to do that creates tons ot good
thing month, Huntington sald wouid
SI00 and SI 000 that conla beln
t
ion:
way to Siphon fees chief executive. consumers cover emergency ex-
EesSIve
ron nsumersAOugn Together, these changes are a penses and avold an overarätt
customers must opt meaningnul Snnt m way was tpea witnn 24 hours. The

A.1.M. withdrawals, banks don't afford these

fees inelim to sign up for automatic payments
need thelr permission to charge proportionate number of lower-in- to pay it back over three months.

ekn otin he ome Black and Latino house nars n adaion to an epa
sera holds. Consumer Pinat cial fdl oie Hantinrton
Al told, overdraft fees are tection Bureau found that fre- already provided a 24-hour grace
S quent overdrafters-those with period 1or customers to bring
each year. Overdralt chargesS were 10 or more annual their account back into balance
OCeuree
tion that its chief executive once acete h 20
fees. In September, it said
named his boat arter them. overdraft and nonsufficient-fund customers wouldnt be charged
sut tne tuae may De Changing fees, according to a 2017 analysis Ees even u they remained s50
An ncreasing number o banks that studied data trom several Ov
eforts can help dis-
grace periods and small short "Overdraft is often serving as a tressed consumers, Dut someCO
ns p Esspunvery expensive orm credit
ve alternativesIusers qual said Alex Horowitz, a senior
of
offi-
Sumer advocates arentconvinced
E prove
consistent deposit history, ike A third of overdrafters treatth even a significant number of
egar pavcecks, 0otnera ua programs as a way to borrow RiSTAN SPINSAI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMS anks are not kely to add up to
hcations that may cude 1ong small amounts or honey Decause une systemic rerom neeaeu. to
occurre
TEdthis
month when Ally Bank said it
they don't have access to more
ing to a report from the charity's
drat Services covering
drawals. These recent moves by
debit er
The
aressed more than
most egregious practices
a
dra Poo n
while adding other safeguards.
so nsumer Beg
Center for Responsible Lending.
Tee
e ate
s
40 Overurat consumer inance project.
altogether, giving customers
DankKScOuld push that number are agey tne sae as theynae
Despite the fine print of newer down further: PNC, for example,been for nearly 20 years said Re
And urng nearng las
month, Senator Elizabeth Warren,
ne onus emans on con
sumers to navigate the systemn
before it potentially limits how Horowitz said they were likely to would cost it up to $I50 million a sel at the Center for Responsible buked big bank executives for can. Violet Rae, a 31-year-old for
hey use thelror
accounts help habitual overdrafters be year in revenue. Lenaing, an advOcacy group. conuinuing to charge overarat mer campaign consultant who
.A numoer otner
anks are cause he programs were largely
seo accOun storyc
We do expect an evolution of argng ee avengingo esto strugeng Consumers auruses gender-neutra pronouns,
N cco alled. Jamie Di ut
"low cash mode" service that than credit scores. Critics say regulators draft fees on small debit transacmon, the chiet executive of JP- two years ago. It doesnt charge
alerts custOmes ons,ngng up t n ogan or the over an
ance aropS to u, ano agaln wnen to banks. Revenue was a1
3 bi
$31.3 bil
should crack down on a 0es Chase,star
single day and calling that a lim- draft show noting that his barnk users aCeaent Overart
0r

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they have at least 24 hours to Services aeconomresearch predatory practices. It's not clear whether the Con overdraft fees last year. (A JP. repeated $36 overdraft fees from
make trnt before they are hit
wItn a36ree, capped at onea day.
im, down l0 percent trom s34.5
billon in 2019. (Banks account for these
sumer Financial Protection Bu-
products. that allow reau or other regulators wl pur
Morgan spokeswoman sad it
waved more than >+s0 mllnon in
Chase in the past has stuck with
M. Kae..Just iast montn, a phone
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Re apn
October: For a $5 fee, customers unions at 20 percent and savings sidy, the head of U.S. bank equity uy ror consumers, a bureau through March 2021.) drawn. But there was no asso
can borrow up to >0U that tney banks and intechs at less than 2 strategy at RBC Capital Markets. spoKeswoman sala, and we are Many large and regional banksared overarat chage to send
must repy in equal nstalnents PEe Consumer advocates say finan- continuing to monitor market ac offer accounts without overdraft their balance deeper into the red.
Andin Ma.Chime. a pooular f- biltion in 2009 and then beran to sholdnt have to relv on the mas. lawmalkers h
But aesimnl declinedhtcomee Daaet
ae ha le liea
nancial technology firm that ot decline atter new regulatons re- nanimity of banking executives tice. Democrats in both chambers have begun only recently: Chase pointing and depressing to know
ers.DanknE Services, ncrease qured Danks receve col ana nave urgedeguatosto OOngress Dan to reimtroduce Degan oerng Such accunt innow manypeopie out there are
the limit of its SpotMe overdraft sumers' consent to opt in to over tighten the overdraft rules, which bills that would create more over 2019, and Wells Fargo started last also struggling

Drop-Off of Fiscal Stimulus Could Drag Down the Economy

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
now shipped, which is slightly
Fiscal Policy is Set to Subtract From Growth
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nE paynens ue to fall, meaning it will redauce orwth ratoe in i
American Rescue Plan were
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while unemployment insur Estimated contribution of govern-
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on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at

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forecast to turn slightly negative
in tne second and third quarteS SOUrce rookngs instuton.
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Prajections do not indude propoed fiscal messures not yet enacted.
Messure
TMES Waiting in line to file for unemployment benefits in Fort Smith, Ark, last April. Supplemental benefits expire soon
tnen act as ameaningr
and
of 2021 and
in 2022 front-loaded so they shouldn't widespread vaccination, which So a big question for the econ next year, said Lael Brainard, a Ultimately, this is another
the second quarter of 2022, Dmy in the second halt of 2021 Fed governor, in a speecn unus examplie oT the waysn p
By radically change the near-term would be good news for Ameri-
fiscal poley 1s on urack s future. canexports. and z022 1S what happens to that montn. so an important ques demic-drven economy 1s an
tract 3.3 percentiaEe pointsrom
more the 22.re
ds
he case for staying calm even
ieuet P ean
"Ithink the basic story is that
take the fact that this stimu-
c a sngso
term spending enough to keep
Ono nse e Onr
than growth into t year, as op of surges in government spend-
point subtraction in the third private sector in recent months. lus is coming oft, said Loulse growth on a strong track, or wIll pOSed tosetlng back to prepan ing of the last tive quarters
in
quarter of 2011, which was thee y areaddung to thEr sener, a senior felow at Brook- mercans instead prerer the demicurends. Ove
uDegnings nd ends o
most extreme quarter tne las n payrolls at a breaKneck pcCe, S0
over,
aDEETEdup
prevlous reces ion. prop up consumer spending even sittingon a vast pool of savings where the distributional
That's moderate the intlation pressures which means it's worth watch
nat could cnange depenaing
1

on wnere negonanons on inird

as govermment support goes from money they didn't spend onocern
anises. i0tne aegree that have tDeen bulidlng in the
economy, whatever you think of
exCuy wnat nappens
asnE
away. Businesses report being in things hke travel and restaurants
thatmoney shea Dypeople who Tederal government pulls back,
policies lead but those rolicies an xpnSayOd, wnicn
d- u Le pandenc HOUse ofge
to
be less likelv spend it and heip Deople. there won't be any more sumers and businesses and
would be expected to intluence ing. And overseas economies $282 billion per month since propel the economy checks that might push demand Importers from around the world
niscal policy over many years should start to surge ahead as March 2020, compared with $103 "Today's fiscal tailwinds are still higher and risk fueling a step up the way rorecastets
they are backloaded rather than other countries achieve more billion a month in 2019. projected to shift to headwinds cycle of inflation. expect.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 B5

LEADERSHIP | AUTOMOBILES

Restive Google Executives Fret Over Chief and Direction

FRO FIRSTUSINESSPAGE David Baker, a former director
woro
oitie Th omman d t engineering at Goges trust
clined to make Mr. PIchl, 49, protest of Dr. Gebru's dismissal,
avallable Ior comment, but t ar said Google should admit that t
riangeu vwN had made amistake instead ot try
fer a different perspective on his lack of courage with
eadersnp ts diversity problem is ultimately
"Would Ibe happier he made
. if what evaporated my passro 0
the m.
sar Sengupta, a former vice presi- Job, sad Biuker
dent who worked closely with Mr. vearshe more sere Cogle
Pichal during niS 1 ye a has become financially, the more
I happy
that he gets nearly allof averset nas DescOe
iSSome critiques of Mr. Pichai can
his decisions right? Yes.
Google is tacing a perilous mno maintaining Goople's otsrokon
n8 eguatory culture among a work force that is
Politicians on the left and the right
are united in thelr mistrust orthe
pany, making Mr. Pichal a fix-
te Gooe execunves nom tne
Even his critics say he has so far I don't think anyone else could
managed to navigate those hear
ngs WInout ruffling the feathers
manage hese issues as we
Sundar said LAuz 5arrOSo, one o
a
Lechn
mition hicoane cal executives
Des.
Mr Pcha has made ta point to
The Google executves com not act ke a corner onemes
plaining ab

is a thoughtful and
nav
caring leader.
hee cratic boss who is often romanti.
cized in the tech industry but can
make tora toxIc woTplae Sad

plined and organzed these days SNOR THE NEW YORK TIMES nanennapragada, who was
run company than the one Mr. Even Sundar Pichal's critics have credited his periormance on Capitol Hil. leaving in April to oversee prod-
tgnt, arew cS.
PIchal nnereu suy His nandnng 0r tne dusnssal 0r nt ednu, uct development at the Robinhood
During ns tme eading Googe, urddng
about 140.000 neonle and Alnha. Ets DOSS Tour yearS later. A common critique among cur Mr. Pichal nas aso
e
bet has tripled in value. It is not presidents tGoole riedto warnMr Pichai's slow deliberations of cisions, like cutting down on "van
nsara ompaa Mr Pichai in an email that the ten feel like a way to play it safe
orunwilling to risk what has made ompany wasexperiencing signif and arrive at aho
ty projects that didnt do
tor the business,
much
Ms. Chennapra
It so wealthy. Mr. Pichai has taken E Paun ney Sad G0Ogle executives proposed the Bada sar
asis on the manag
some steps to counter that. In nating technical decisions and challenge Amazon in online to ment teamrather than his ego
13, 10rexnpie, that feedback from vice pres
wa
commerce a lew years ago. M. nas ied M. PIChalto get nisaep
uties to make more decisions
making bodies so fewer decisions Oen aisregared Pchal rejectea the dea Decause
Ihe executives many or netnougnt nop
needed nis signon
Yet Google, wnen was ouneu
tives said, But he was notably de-
ade at the company-wrote Sald. that discussions cisive when it perhaps
matered
ne
tion that its best days are behind G0ogetooK TOOlong witn big adec those people sald tnattney
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Sicon valley, where recruit etany u nougnt M. PIchal had
RK TIM
start working irom home as the
ing and retaining talent serve as a nle rith knowledeeof the email nrice was a convenient and ultie spread in the United States.
Elee other While not directly critical of Mr. mately misguided justification. dent of lohal affoire i 201 n Dece eor, Discussions to cquire
tech companies said it had never e ne eg puy P company began a search for a
a ot its
team and one of best-known
its best-known D, which closed
Sr
execuuve
persuade a Gogle
to Torgo
asabe S Since
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then several of the execu spokesman, said, "There was
e generalco
general counsel to replace him. It
O0Be
Black female employees, said she
had been fired after criticizing
Mr. Pichai restled
of the deal, including how to inte-
with aspects
elsewhere. tives who Signed onto the email never a serious discussion of this a longtime deputy in the compa- ing and writing a research paper Brate the company, its product
Mr. Pichai, a former McKinsey
consultant, Joined Google in 2004
resigned to take jobs elsewhere
A e press
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knack for navigating a company year, according to profiles from bodied by a state of perpetual re- to Mr. Pichai, who asked to see the fray Mr. Samat, who was Pushing tor
teeming with big egos and sharp
elbows
LnkKEdin.
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search and development known more names, several people famil
1ar with the search said. The ex
After 2,000 employees signed
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deal, Sald N Pcha had laen
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discussions could make some
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company gesld was t
fortable with ts vice president at-
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Mr. Pichars reluctance to take
decisive measureson Google's
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short of an apoloEY, she said, and
Doyee Ke were siowo make
decisions, Mr. Samat sald. "The
Drk Torce nas Deen no eyage
founder, stepped down as Alpha- steady the last five years. sions. When Google promoted ticeable. pandering to some employees. decisions."

Lordstown Motors Opens Up Truck Factory to Ease Concerns and Show Progress
By NEAL E. BoUDETTE company said in a statement filed worth of stock. A few months ear Despite his departure from the
LDRDSTOWN, OHIO-, Lordstown With securities regulators that it her, Insiders had sold sS3 millhon company, Mr. Burns remans one
otors,a roubied aeecirc-ven did not have enough money to worth of shares. or Lorastowns DiggesTsnarenol
cie startup, Degan push to Win
on Mondayv by demonstrating thee
c e That as folowe
h the Irdetownehard reviewed the showed that he owned about 26
resignations of its tounder and stock sales, the company said in a percent ot the voting shares and
abilities of four working proto chief executive, steve Burns, and statement that they "were made nad not501d any
it its Ohio factory. its chief financial officer, Julio or reasonsunrelated to the per On Monday, Lordstown shares
run-soked parking lot,
Last week, Lordstown's new bility of the Endurance" than 5 percent on a day when the
ysts, reporters and other visitors president, Rich Schmidt, maket was up snpuy
he wall Street Journal ralsedver shares
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celeration and handling ot the tour y o Ma ticular Mr. Schmidt's sale of about ruary.
ofcials sajd that 2022 and that many of its pre-or $4.6 million worth in early Febru Lordstown manages to make
they were confident that produc- ders were binding agreements. ary. The Journal said he had used ndurancetrcks, Iwprobaby
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rities and Exchange Commission,
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pointed executive chairwoman robots as wellas hundreds of carts to be assembled, the floor was that skipped the typical route for surronding its merger with Dla- Mattw oldstem contribuled
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The New ork Eimes

Were a Targe: Golfers Speak Out

Against Anti-Asian Bias in the U.S.
By KAREN CROUSE
ATLANTAPlayers of Asian descent
PG.A. Championships, but there is oth-
ngcooe cuter DOur tne nners.
include
They Feng of China,
shanshan

HyunPark of South Korea, who had a Ko-

rean wor on ner bag that transtated to "

different.
lozer Sian
and Pacific Islanders are LPGA.
mem
Ders, more than any league or tour in
NOrtn Anercan proressionai sports.
roots. and their converpence on the At.
lantaAthletic Club this week for the third
or or ne seaso trows mto stalrk r
both their ascendancy andancestry.
lief
from two of the three massagehus
busi-
esses wIere eignt peopie, SIX OT
te
ASian women, were fatally shot in March
ma e e in America
during the pandemic.
The rise o1 anti-Asian hatred and bias
has jolted the players out ot their silence.
microaggressions about their names,
tneir appeardnce even tnerSuccess. At
a time When Aslans Deen scape
navee
SDread of the cobnavirus Dlavers of
ASiandescent wno show no tear
BOr curE nave grown uneaSy, and ou
oe
raged, enough that tney are speaknE Out MIcHELLEwIE WESTShe ran an errand at a recent event. in her neariy LYDIA KOA Korean-bom New iealander with two major titles. she
be Asian in the United States right now. two decades on tour, "it was the first time I was truly afraid, she said. worries about her mother traveling on her own in the United States.
Sarevery une see ue ews
nat t cOud nappen to mesald ra
nion and
the first plaver from Taiwan to
become the world No. 1.

seng. 32 Was namned one of imes

0OSTne PEopie in tne word
Tseng, who said she fell in love with TRUCTION
America during her first visit in 2007 be-
Cause everyonewas Suowas i
a
Irvine, Calif., relaved terrifvine eyneri
ence she had while seated in her car in a

strangersS approacned ner u

pounding on the car with so much force
the venicle oscillated. After hearing that,
Tseng, who has a residence in san Diego,
said."Iwasreally worried about myself"
At home in Taiwan, her family also
rets. Every netUeyseee e ey
Na
Yeon Choi,one of 25 LPGA. members
rom south Korea, has traveled to events
in America in the past accompanied by
bother coming to the United States for
her tournaments this year, even it, or as,
traverestncons are oosereu
ho
alon hon
Choi said. "She can't speak English, so
Shea De Stuck in the notel Decause
Wouldnt want her going out.
HOTOGRAPS
M WILSONTHE NEW YORK 1TIMES

leased by Stop AAPI Hate. 6.603 inci TIFFANY JOH Her Korean-born parents live in California. My mom NA YEON CHOI One of 25 LPG.A. members from South Korea, she
aentsor ant-Asian vOence, narassment was ike, Should we start carrying around pepper spray she said. advised her mother not to come to the U.>. for her events this year
and discnimination were reported to thee

(65.2 percent), shunning (18.1 percent) afrai first "t was

weTe a tai
the time I was truly Decause tor me, wnen I nave a sense or ens PG.A. Champion and tormer worla
and physica assault (126 percent) led now, unfortunately" Much is on their minds at humor. So 1 said, "You know, no one has ing business not far from where they oc-
the recorded incidents.
nan allegedly Lydia Ko, 24, a Korean-born Newe a major tournament near ever tola me my parents are my real par Cured. "T called ner sturaignt away to
opened fire at the three Atlanta-areaader l6 LGA. VICtones, 1ncudwi ents. ayDe neea to t to ne ilk make suresne waso She sald, adding.
spas, the L.PG.A. released a statement S, acNOWedged at the LOs
O this years spa shootings. That woid hethe e l ay nrtunate wnats nappen
in support of the A.A.PI. community
ds omt
ri
o allthe nlavers ad
and ao
her mother traveline on
Own in theUnited states.
er were tuying to be cute."
Jon added,"it was KInd of an exampie
The rise in anti-Asian sentiment in
Amencan SOCiety nas caused pläayers to
Vising them to be careful when venturing Tiffany Joh, a first-generation Ameri the symetra ircuit, where she often onowoucaneucate someone without See experiences theyve had on the gol
outside the tour bubble at all tourna a
Can grew uPin nce neighborhood in
heee p 2011, ane Park has also used humor to dored wh hroadeaet
ae
ents still live nearby. "It was kind of a sad At one stop, Joh recalled, her hosts re- flect uncomfortable situations. Despite mispronouncing the names of Asian
DCACommissioner said there had
been isolated incidents involving Asian
day when my mom was like, "Should we marked on her height, which is 5 feet 6
start carrying around pepper spray?" inches, and asked: Are both your par
having won the u.SWomens Amateur
hile in high sehoo and been the
Dayers even artersne
them .socia nedia
na seas
v coreEted
Pidyesaway rom tournament venues on saia. and bit for an Orfental " can of Korean descent, could tellfrom Parks" on the tour.
get in- course. Just follow the lah O "I said, 'No, I'm not a rug and I'm not a her amateur playing partners initial Christina Kim, a Californian of Korean
volved.
The Covid-19 protocols inplace during
one-tiners as crisp as her iron shots, she
spent two years grinding on what is now
chicken salad, so no, I'm not oriental"
Joh said. "And then I was joking around
o e
wS anoersinuseame
eha e ak
t
nanretireehe aded
ne past yearnave
prvded aprotecve ona several years ago. tour feel to speak the Queen's English to
or socializing outside the she decided to play a prank on avoa tDeing mocKed or citiced. sne is
ed from dining S0 people on soCial media directing
tOurnamentgrounds or tnelr accomm0 them. At the first tee, she bowed formally tired ot
dadons. And tournaments nave nad re, nothine more for the rest of the hole On Plaversof Asian descent are weary of
POnmanteran oioht and nandamie the second hole, she asked in English ir the many microaggressions that they
protocols are easing, increasing interac ney were reauy tor Deers, and ner play must deflect, ignore or swalow because
ing partners laughed and were animated competitive golr at the ighest level
O Detwen tne players and ne pudnc.
The players find themselves dis-
Rt not every indignity can be dis- ing to also maneuver around race and
their loved ones- and of themselves. missed with laughs. Park, 34, lives with genaer-relatea nazards.
naHangae, 31, a 1our-ume Caor
la womens Amateur cnampion rom
ner nusband ana imonth-old daugnte
roughly ive miles irom one ot the three
we wes, tne z0l4U.S womens open
champion, sad: "i look back at a lot ot
said.p he honestoot soSrared scribed the spa shootings as "jarring." why are the South Koreans so good?
wentonline and bought a self-defense They dredged up a memory trom a few
years ago, Wnen she was waiting to pay
nat question aways otnered me, out
say, On, because tney
StCK answered It. Ia
At the years iST WOE oim i
Calif, Michelle Wie West said she ran an pered an ant-Asian pejorative directed never really put two and two together as
enrdnd ta
stnp neartne cours at ner y wnoe DOuy Stalrted swea tO wny
tat queStOn, and certain oner
one or th0usands of Sucn pit stops she ng" said Park, who whirled around and comments, bothered me until this year"
Said to the woman,
tion wil recpive a different an
dea
dcados of h
competing in LPG.A. events. This time, FANS Kos group drew spectators recently in Daly City,
Calif. Over five swer. She said, "I would say that's a re
dozen Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are LPG.A. members.
The shootings in Atlanta rattled Inbee
tnougn, was aineren Park of south a
Korea, three-time Wom- aly inappropriate question
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SCOREBOARD PRO BASKETBALL N.B.A. PLAYOFES BASEBALL

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process
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N.8.A. PLAYOFFS
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PHOTOXRAPHS BY KEVIN C CONGETTY IMAGCES
n
a at waue Irae Toung during an Eastern Conference semitinal in Pfiladelphia, was key to a late-season rally to push Atlanta into the playos. who was fired in January, only a
LA Cpors at Phoanik, 9 pm month after being hired, for send
ing inapprOpriate photOS to a re
w.N.B.A. STANDINGS
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onnecbcut
Embracing the Postseason Glare Ryan Ellis, an organizationa
hitting coorainator, was re
nta
A fearless' Hawks guard, Young has quieted critics and relished his role as a villain.
pliit adthatonin rrot
WESTERN three female employees. The
Mets sald that his actons were re
By JONATHAN ABRAMS The Hawks rebounded ported to their human resources
an
an Bogdanovic returned from in
most. knows the unpredictable na ury tnar
nee a neaonim, inisnEllis wasror counseng
on probation and as put
a
ture of point guard equipped
with unfincning conndence conet
oa tougha journey,
ca"
Signed es
rea nim, tney sxau, wnen new
1ne

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,
ts at Connactiu 7 pmpm
0
MMlanhareda
Dackcourt with Gary Payton. 1he
brash Payton scored on neayev
Young said. "It took
OBetnereOrtnnk
naveen
lot of losses for
after the revelations sur-
to light
tne guys| rounding Porter The firing was
nere sincee
re
not made public until February.
HOCRET eryone and Dacke
N.R.LPLAYOFS than what it's been. We know it's
included. our first year in the playois O ing ineffective, was also said to
Monday Tama Rey So McMillan, now the interim Bener, ana t s Onuyue Deg have made SEvEr Ppo
coach of the firth-seeded Atlanta advances toward women durin
Mortro at p.m Young was at the forefront of
slandors,8i hot of his star guard, Trae Young, both the rebuild and the rally and other clubs. An investigation into
1Saveraging z9.1 points ana
egas Mortroal, 8 p.m. was off throughout much of his 04accusations against Laawayu
aidors at Tampe Bay, THA
teams deciding Game
n the
ofe ea a fr n his iring Dy tne LoS Angeies
xMontrol t Vogas, TBA
semifinals on Sunday nicht to watch. He entices fouls in a baseball's ineligibie list
"Hes fearless, so the opponents, they have to guard ror tnat, sard Harden-esque way, stopping ran
SOCCER against the top-seeded Philadek Cohen vowed to expand the
the Hawks interim head coach Nate Mcvlan, left, with Young. omy and puTpoSefulyn the scope of the antidiscrimination
believe how calm was tne overar
M.L.S. STANDINGS
cant I nd sh of him. He is getting results. hin Ze

wE 149 it just came from the fact that I butmy teammates showed up and WaltSo Tar this postseason, ounE
20
the 22 teams invited into the ful workplace." He said that under
Knew these guys were going to
adoiphia. made plays. Me, Ijust tried to find Disney World bubble last season l five games
hi the new policy the cub would not
u gve me everyuninE ney na, them. when the N.B.A. resumed the pan- Knicks in and he ner ratonduct eDung
"He's fearless, so the opponents,
n
the c0sing moments, oung puse seo omed push-ups on the court at culture-even if that conduct falls
uickly and
they have toguard for that. He will claimed the series with a 103-96 smartly retooled itself by adding short of violating the law
akea snOt
esoe,ega Bogdanovic
victory, earning its first confer- and Galinari through amed fivead nlavfamesinCohen had previously been ac-
noinnati He really stretches the deense nce inals p
Since
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New York and Philadelphia with role as t g DenaIor in his
And Young missed a great Milwauk eckAtlanta never alone with the developing core of Toung resning s roe as v set Management.
many shos o
undauts trailed after Young's midrange Young, Collins and Huerter
Aence maximired by the unpr floater put the Hawks up, 86-84, Hunter and
and cursed at
am ed
hod He said the
d and cla
team
hima
would also eX
poe nno
ortiard
his lon8 3-point shot ana ree
Andre The last time the Hawks made it
dictability of his repertoire. and inaed this deep into the playoffs, they tic relationships.
nool ne spo up rom s0 Teet or "They were making plays for The Hawks began the season h h ac
Sandy Alderson, the president
whip a line-drive pass through
John Collins? Will he zig and zag
me throughout the whole game" with the hopes of qualifying for waukee nexes Giannis Antetok of the Mets, acknowledged in Jan
Oung sald.Just wanted to comene piayors, Dut that
goal seemed
ounmpo, a former nsive play-with m cosuted
aa
nelp hem
e se e
ane Tor a tioater or lob an
Phiadolphis 2
As& started 14-20 before firing Coach O ting Porter. Cohen said he in-
Sen Jono at Orando Cty, 7 pm wal e formidron without
hack This season is coming to a close oya Peree ana promoing Mc leagt
who tegardu 4 tended to promoe.e
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP t ro heln defenders une malnstays or reEcen Milan, who had been an
assisaaball
defenders. The Bucks are
ity and inclusion in leaderShIp.

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nto the Young in the Playoffs
h nNatharands3 ball out to Danilo Gallinari, Bogame Anaelee Iak
and the I Trae Young has helped the Hawks
SIgned alour-year, 3135 the recommendations shared by
EuaovIC or Kevin on a series iust like the an,Wilmer Hale, Cohen wrote.
nlnd Bagum Ha ers bowed out in the first round. reach the Eastern Conference finals. Dact
roetia vs. 5ootand. 3 pm ne options appear plentiful on y ving ana proaching one.
Ey oensive possession, with raen lost in the second ATEGORY TOTAL
The Bucks pose another serious
TRANSACTIONS
the route dictated
Young choO5ing
only postseason appearances sueauaae esa Voumu and th Laeh
dealing with a right shoulder inju- Came while watching his brother, tinually silenced their skeptics.
ANS peA missed17 or histrst 19 shots, as play uadelpnia. No one expected Auant
MKLAND ATH
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Pyo
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The threat or Toun pulling up
of Young O 3-point field goals a game to have a ceiling.
The lAei been accused
accusedoof puttng
putting pup empty
2.8
une 20, Rocalied LHP Stephen Tanlaw ro deep lengtnened PhiladekDEtn 3-point ficld-goal ate 8.6 napsOungs
conhaence e
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ourys Famila on
the 10day LRecalad
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ATLANTA BRAVES-Optoned
LHP Kyo Mulor from Gwinnett.
H
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Kept the Bme close.
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5 irsttwo e
ed seasons. He Total rebounds a game
ng
2.7 Young said. "The confidence is go
to remain the same. were
"I know Ijust had to find a way, Just didnt have the caliber of ASSSa nappy we made
it to tne Eastern
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a game
steals MARY ALTASFER ASSOCIATED PRESS
aOCepiad a role woriing with business was off tonight. My right hand and rounded with in his third. satisfied. So it's great that we're
AS VEGAS RAIDERSSigned 3 Travon my shoulder-I was still trying to Atlanta did not cros the 30-win g 9.1here, but we ve still got someteven Cohen bought the Mets
Moafrig lo a ouryaal conu fight through it and push through threshold in either of the two pre- Source: Basketball-Reference.com Bames to win." during the last off-season.
S8 THE NEW YORKTIMES SPORTS TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

OLYMPICS

TOKYO GAMES AT A GLANCE UPCOMING GAMES

7/23
Date Olympics are
8/8 13 33 339 121 2022 2024 2026 2028
Date Olympia are Number of hours Tolkyo Number of Olympic medals Number f medas Beijing
Pari Milan and Cotina Los Angeles
heduled to begin scheduled bo ena is abead of Eatern lime Ompis aports to be awarded US. athletes won
a
Rio Obympics in 206
(Winter) (Summer) dAmpezzo,aly
(Winter)
(Sumaer)

ouroes: The New York Times, NBCobympcs.com

JACASON Bs

Why Are the Games Still Happening?

These Numbers Explain It.
This article is by Kevin Draper, Andrew Keh, irom Cleveland who had aimed to
ariq Parja and Motoko Rich. n 2021. He de-

The Olympic Games have always been about numbers. Af- for another year, in part, to fulfill a
prOsene to nus
ter all, a motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius-faster, higher, strong- de
Cunt Martin, who died
C,
er-doesnt mean much without seconds, meters and pounds.

bhMJAAAL
Tobne
to the olumnice
How fast? How high? How strong? and I'm holding on to what he
For more than a year, though, a different set of numbers has ald.
ome to dominate discussions about the Tokyo Games: rising
coronavirus case counts, escalating risk factors, inadequate their dreams, the Games are ev
eryningney can open tne oor
vaccination totals. to sponsorship opportunities, to
Despite those concerns, the Games are almost certan to go competition careers. For many,
Iorward this summer: The latest evdence was the announce
pertorm in front ot a global audl
ment on Monday that domestic spectators woukd be allowed to
attend Olympic events at reduced capacities. have that excitement, and I'm just
giddy, sald Kalelgnoicnst, 43, a
These numbersmay help explain why-a month betore the water polo player from Newport
opening ceremony- the Games are still a go. wcase all the hard work
put in."
$15.4 billion be allowed to enter Japan will not NES

charms um epelen s
because the rules restrict NEW STADIUM stment in the Olympics.
lokyos venue is part of billions of dollars in inves
37%
* ypic venues. That's the current favorability
opening ceremony, that wil be ratng rorapanspre mnister,
lb.4 Dullon in invesmen 0Suy
wno may tear his
4 billion rights to the
U.S. broadcast and other payments to national concluded recentdy, "would create political fo
down the drain. The figure, a Oympccommittees arge ancd
amesannounced , had sold t materia uncertainty that may closely to the Games to cancel
esion Small. (The 1.0.Cs accounts do cast significant doubt about the
ineome thatrhts
the billion innational advertis
25 yD o conunue as a
them. "Politically he's dead in the
water if he pulls the plug," said
Dnon in the past year International Olympic Commit exceeded the amot old foe the ete whatN " wd

oweenoe tee,which organizes and runs the 2016 Rio Olympics, which had To many Olympic committees, Asian studies at Temple Univer
monev would be incalculable
es, od havtreunhe
generatedS1.62 billion in totalrev the L0.Cs largess- which pays 15,500 Siy n 1OKyo, naon wn e
. "Ihis was the branding
exer-
22 e enue for the company and s250 for everything from administra
to The poOstponement of the
ons00ming
ngso
Ep e
CSrevenue, dponsorships re And not even a year's delay youth development programs Oympics forced thousands of the the Olympics ential ife-
ae d eo foerated s the Games account to or
may hurt NBC's bottom line. Jeff
shell, the chief executive of NBC
is a vital financial lifeline. In the
Caribbean island of st. Lucia, for
athletesabout 11.100 for the
ymples and another 4,400 Tor
line.
For Suga and his government,
pan for more than three decades. mean those companies could ence last week that, depending sents around a quarter of the na- senting more than 200 countries Olvmpics would ofiers
AThe end or the da. t 15 not
wnether the construction
come looking for rebates, too. upon ratings, the Tokyo olympicS tionalOlympic committee's to put their hves on hold tor a ical upside. The downside, of
about
ua De our
Oymplcs n
moSt prontaDle
the history ot the
coneE,acrd
ormer ns
e Course, s
he isk or a pubuc
health disaster that costs lives
about whether the brand of the 1.z5 billion Kcar Pecerkin,
couny Eets a boost The U.S. broadcasting rights to
But larger countrles count on mentsand even plans to have chil That would ntict damage far
Much of the upside that 10ky ne summer nps e
$549 million ne mone, to0. Eaer tnis year, e S0 1s
0Spris na,0 more sertous than just harming
hoteliers or restaurants could the most valuable sports proper
The word "s
.C.s latest an
he BrishOymplcASCanon
meltdown in
aene
its annual report if take place.
o gas personal poutucal reputa-

Games has already evaporated, ing revenue they produce regu- 406 times in the I.0.C.s latest a "This is the potential making of
s organlZers binned nterna thetm among the most
larmakes too. nual report. 1he m0St Signincant this Summers Games Were ca next chaprer was Sup the Godzilla variant, Kingston
ional spectators in March. And profitable, In March 2020, reference is to the $549 million it celed. "Cancellation of the Games posed to be happening already said. "Is that how Tokyo wants to
even the Oympic visitors who will NBC Universal, which holds the distributes in so-called solidarity later than May 2021, its directorsS sald DEelante Johnson, 22, a boxer be remembered?

VIA SHUTTERSTOCK
DAVID ZALUBOW SKI' ASSOCIATED PRESS D
O AroEPA
TV REVENUE Broadcasting rights hold major value for the TRAINING Thousands of athletes, representing over 200 POLITICS or Japans prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, a sate
International Olympic Committee and NBC Universal. countries, have rearranged their lives tor another year. and successtul Olympics would provide a huge boost.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 N B9

OLYMPICS SWIMNING

Teenagers Lead the Way to Tokyo as U.S. Swimming Reloads

OMAHA- But for the pan-
enc, neeegerL
CoDy was a lbck to Bo to the 2020
vacation with her
Thoughshe had
AAREN Surpassed the
CROUSE stroke qualifving
me
ESISAA
ror the u.s.
SWIMMINC pcudiswo
4-year-old,J in e race US
against time in the winter of
2020, with oniy a rew montns to USA USA
pe
for a spot on the Tokyo-bound
team.
uue
iss
post

USISA
D

worked inJacoby's favor, en-

abing ner to gain more strength
n the wegnt room as wen s
uri-

S IS
ty. The benefits of the yearlong
ey ue
pants nke Jacoby were inconro
ris paruc US 1S
trials at CHI Health Center
which concluded Sunday
Jacooy, 7, Was one or een
vho earned berths on the 50
member team or p001 SWimmers.
I hen, as now, the U.S. was r

nrotion tolent.
In 19s6, 1it was the three-ume
ympian wno won
Mat Bioa,
0 ha lefr the
sport. This year, for the first time
Since 20-tme oymp
sotne
medalist Michael Phelps was a
THE
PHOTOCRAPHS BY HIRDKD MASUIKE NEW YORK TIMES
Thirty swimmers Irom the
2016 ypic team rerurned i
Z021 to ve Tor spots raled to
32, a five-time Olympic gold
medalist who finished third,2
QOMEGA
of a second behind Michael An

style final, won by Caeleb Dres

el.
Dressel was one ot three swin
ndividual events (for him, the 50

.
and l00 freestyle and 100 butter
1he Otherswere atie
freestyle and Michael Andrew
(50 free, 100 breast, 200 individ
ual medley).
Olvmpics. the 1iS team ill
include Simone Manuel, who
The U.ympicswmea, P, nas e
secured ner bertn ne ia postponement of the Tokyo Games to gain strength. The 24
year-old Simone Manuel, near left, can be considered a vet-
Olympic silver medalist in the 50, eran, returning tor her second straight Olympics.
Out-touched ADoey weltze, wo
had won Manuel's signature
folding origami paper 30 minutes Olympic team. Each decided to different club teams all around Jacoby, who will be a senior at what's great about
harsswimming, Said
alter Manuel, who tied for the Derore her races.
dont like to think about my
rerurn to the sport anter
mining she wasnt ready tor
eter
a
America, and we are becoming
eteam, he said.
Seward Hen, is coached by
Meghan OLeary at Seward
san an Alaska native. "The
gold at the 2016 Olympics, failed
I Leary,
to advance out of the semilinals.
n hent feel who knows2 Perhaps a few of the Jacoby,
was severely compromised by I ock it all out
like kind of just block Swimmers who left these trials of Seward, Alaska, a two-hour letes of varying levels, less than Going into 2020, OLeary and
ated at
Overtraining syndrome, opened un

uteseore devastateu being left olr u arveron AncnorE eswn v Jtcnen cOnsiuereuacooy
P a0out ner strugges InurSaay ,onng water sprtes ike ympic w
1 nearythree secondstaster than a o eas a e canceor
cknowledged her vulnerability a handful of veterans who berths to Paris in 2024. 100 breaststroke to finish second She will have as many team Would have been more of a fan
ter six montns Oying nougntney were done swm
ns was tne nau patsaldttne
y 01 ympic cnampion, mates at the OlympicS as she
does on her club team, and the
trip than a Dusneo Ps
Soldier on but was her old, bold nE ve yearS g0ey Dressel, who is also eligible for King. Jacoby is the first Kitchen sad
n

to
pi- advant.tage f the
ried wim loe and Schmitt, who became the fifth referring to the stress of thiss an and only the second Summer will be her first time stringing extra year to spend more time on
ighthearted in the 50, but shar woman ater Dara Iorres, Jenny
terKel ana
e s uu e
wIc
Erueung an the Games itselr
ames parucipant Irom ner workouts together in a 50-meter her strength training, and with
eu
mY Spot on the team." Manuel
Prove pson, noneStae
s
P0Ol. At home, sne ains in a added muscle, she gained belief.
fourth Olympic team after plac- Americantalent. tehon oid esotta
said. "I am trying to be a better ing on pause the master's degree Dressel said it was heartbreak- parents, Richard and Leslie, are facilities closed last year during much exactly what she did.
Simone tnan i was e uay
e cwork tnat Sne started ing to watch tormer oympie proressional boat captailns wh0 the10CKaown, Jacoby traveled to S0JacObys 1oyo ramiuy vaca
arter
returning irom Kio de Ja-
traininanortner oll chotAt theatee afeHer anude fr the on nas morpned into arw
Veterans burdened by their Swiim her
expectations were more affected The breaststroker Annie Lazor same time, Dressel added, the breaststroke was evident from Club. Her parents rented a place USA.
Dy the Olympies interregnum
than youngsters like the 100-
and the sprint ireesyier Natalle
Hinds both retired after disap-
nusion or new DiOOd 1s nigo he start. Her long egs and un
usually Tlexible ankes combine
to cut down on the commuang
and when they couldn't make the
s deinitey crazy having
known all those amazing people,
have people from differ- ake her Kick extra propul
Huske, 18, who was intently 2016 trials left them off the ent backgrounds, differer sive. swimming families. now one of them."

PROFOOTBALL

Raiders Defensive End Becomes First Active N.FL. Player to Announce He's Gay
By KEN BELSON I
would not be able to do this athletes from around sports re- particularly because in February ington Football Team had ended. came out as gay hat year after he
On Monday, Raiders defensive without them, he wrote in his In- acted positively to Nassibs an 2014 theN5.A had Just become He later disclosed he was HlVretired.Hearsts commentelicited
nemanCar NasSib became the Ps ment
Monday,
Co
tennisstar Rllie eas Kine whoioAmerieanmen'sorts niarelated comalications in 2014 eamonersand then.head coach
e missioner Roger Goodell said he wrote, "the ability to live an au- leagues to have an openly gay ac at age 57. Steve Mariucci, but no penalty
1 just want to take a quick mo- Was proudo
ng trutn
couraar
today.
tor thente lie is important
so

social media post Monday

n a ive player when Jason colins ome players nke Simmons trom the league.
na merican,l
ment to say that l'm gay," Nassib yS is Kate But Sam left the N.E.L without but to l
DE
said in avideo posteu to s
The Raiders quickly showed Elis, chief ex making an impact on the field. while they were in the league wrong Hearst later said. was
I
representation and visibility areneir support orNassiDs.an ecuve or the Nassi,oycontrast, has already In recent years, the league haswrong Tor sayingwhat i Sald
played win three teams over ne
mportant. I actually hope that
like one day
nouncement, w
eams L.G.B.1.Q ad pubicy supported Pride Month about anyDouy
had little to do with
viaeS Re u Twitter account that included hisis zation Glaad, through 2022. After a collegiate changing official social media av- Sam's announcement because it
E wo o tHan Original statement. Twoea alled the an career at Penn State, he was cho atars to includie rainbowS and sup came betore he was dralted. For
m to do my best and my
going
ineman Darius sve nouncement "a sen by the Browns in the third porting the You Can Play Project, mer N.EL. players like Brendon

tihre
accepting e Crosby, voiced their support by Cari Nassib ion of the two seasons in Cleveland before courage inclusivity in youth Baltimore Ravens, defended

nate $100,000 to The Trevor

Commenting
that they were
under Nassios POSt
proud of him. De
ws
of LG.B.T.Q. visibility and inclu Tampa.
yin
The
ds SporsEvdssone playets
Raiders signed him to
ae esex
rgu
made derogatory Sstatements and supported Sam at the time.
Eay s
Project, a nonprotit group that fo- or supported groups that op-
of the N.EL. Plavers Association sports, which has been driven by a in March 2020. He has tallied 201% alty echoed his support.
cuses on suicue prevenOn e said in a Twitter post that he and long list of brave pose gay rights. Seven years after Sam's an
L.G.B.I.Q. ath saCKS auring nis caree
transgender, queer and question- o
etes wno came belore him.
supported NaSSib.
sienifi defensive lineman at Missour
A nandrul or N.EL- players had
were ay
n zU13, Chris Cumver o the san nouncement, Nassibs announce
youth. uring Pride Mo hat thev bat all after ons of the Seattle Seahawks made nublie orh
his t for t 1s oecantand makes
he wrote in the same post
turning point for the N.EL, had been viewed as the most their playing careers were over. offensive comments when asked
David kopay became the irst pro about the prospect othaving aga
league itself and the Raiders.
him the rst openiy hkely to acquire that distinction
Nassib, a five-year N.EL vet-
ran noprevousiy played wtn "Sports are, in many ways, one the seventh round of the 2014 ter he retired. He played for nine gotta get up outta here if they do
THE NEW
YORK TIMES
e sa
was finaly comfortable ettingit of the last bastions of place
nea u e
was
draft, buthe cut at the
N.EL.

S1
seasons with the San Francisco Culliver later apologized, saying.
o CLASSIFIED
dCaheno heDalas And
1970d hane Thrv
LISTINGS
off my chest. an for the National LG.B.T.Q. to their practice squad, but he come an activist and an ambassa- San Francisco running back
NaSSi,48, tnanke ns coacnes, Task Force. "so to have a profes- never played in a regular season dor for the Gay Games, aquadren Garrison Hearst apologized in
eanmates ana tne N.F.L. T0r tnelr sional athlete of that caliber, par game. nial sporang even 2002tor using a slur and saying he
m's draft status was seen as a aoe

leagues like the N.EL., it really is barometer of whether the eclimate former player to ann ce that he teammate. His comment came a
Emmanuel Morgan and Jesus Ji historic." of men's pro sports was becoming was gay, doing so in 1992 after his ter the former Minnesota Vikings
menez contributed reporting. bevy of current and former more accepting of gay athletes, career with the Giants and Wash player Esera Tuaolo publicly hosiwarWKkNgneteco
B10 THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Edward Diener, 74, Dies;

Found a Way to Measure
Sustainable Happiness
By RICHARD SANDOMIR dents said that they had good rela-
Edward Diener, a playful social tionships.
sycnologIst who was nicknamed D Dener said that even the
ppiness Tor nis pioneering pestudents nad bad days
researcn into what defined con- emotional
owed that their
home Salt Lake City. He was 74. tems were working propetiy.
in
The cause was bladder cancer,
his son, Robert Biswas-Diener,idT New
one or hem are
ata a
said. His death had not been
the Teater
study was published. "So many
Dr. Diener brought legitimacy Peopie Say, want to be napprer
ngor to a field that than am now There is this ex-
I
a scieac
had been largely uncharted when Dr Diener washvall acconts a
ne Dea
very happy man. He was known
bana-Champaign. Misery, sad- ounE likeparues nat includea
Sand fes
subjects of
Tertile subjects
fertile
more es carving Snam nto
or Psye glass, and for hiding cash in tne
Hanniness "sounds flaky. kind PgesoDNS 10
of frivolous," Dr. Diener said in _e once Rreeted his son's
O17. wearing a beard and using a hook
But wnat wete i for an arm that he bade ne to
piness- what you get from your s
Tamily, work, meanng and pur came ba
pose, naving Eo
uch, much more
never mentionedit again,"his
oned it again, nis son,
ha
5 wno roilowed nis launer app
resercn, sala in a phone in
Martin E.P. Seligman, profes a ess
tervie e was cutrom a airer
Sor or psychoiogy at the univer ent cloth"
Sity ot Pennsyivaa ana n Edward Francis Diener was
who sometimes collaborated on born onJuly 2, 196, in Glendale,
research with Dr. Diener, recalled
Calit.
farmme His Tather, rn
ne innuence D. DEE
o ice (Ferry) Diener, was a home
m
vas from the misey/sune mae
A curious, adventurous yous
ng co t and was take
reud and schopenhauer saying at a swarm of beee to e ha
S NEWS BREAU
the best youcando1 o De they would do. As a teenager, ne
Edward Dener in 2015.ie brougn an l
Ra Ed aid heree om climbed the Golden Gate Bridge
and experimented with gunpow
thing above zero, there's happl laborated on a book about happiness that was published in 2008.
ness, and you can medsue -

In about 400 articles written on

His father wanted Edward to
follow lent" The respondents were Jones of Happiness that tells us
hecame the leading researcher in Suaying agncuure aEsno as nsweren Ona scae nwour nao saongn etms o
ue cience or measuring happl- State University Eresno) hored Stroneydsagree) to engagement at work, rUst in our
e
tive
sce,
well-Oemg
ney can brin
sunjee him, and he became interested in
8
iappiness Another. the Flourishing
asks people to rank, also from Ito
Scale, positive emotions" he wrote in his
autobiographical essay.
nappiness, but only up to a certain a
hae ung in l968 with
Unlocking the Mysteries e P n adaitton to nis son, DE Dener
genenes pläay a
poseful and meaningul ne and 15 Survived Dy nis wTe, aaroi
income evel, tat he proposed a research project ex- Poychologlcal Woalth
role in onEs
Sauisiauon w
mata corial atimchine
cal to happiness; and that cultural
iti
e
enfaeeor reiected the idea. de-
Ploring
ar
the nappiness
workers, SOme or wnom ne
mgrne
OOa portive aind ewarding
with his son, Dr. Diener wrote
Happiness: Unlocking he Targue that we
norms muence wnat peupe DeClaring that tarm workers as a
enes ot Psychological wealth
lheve happiness is and now O pur group were unnaPPy aaae d blener and Robert Bswas-Dlenwr
Dr. Diener retired from the Uni
need a Dow Jones
Inna 2002 study of college under uee wsno wayto measure hap versity ot inois in 2009 and sub- Orappiness.
graduates pubished in the journal other subject: conformity. sequenty resumed teaching psy
Psychological Science, Dr. Dener Aconscientious o0jector aunng chology at the university of Utah
ana Deugman denned std the Vietnam War, Dr. Diener He won the American Psycho erk) Diener; their daughters,
t on various measures of hap- small Dsvchiatric hosnital hefor logical ASSOCiauon8wrd Enet, ay Beth D

pinessey unen npareu unem resuming his studies at the Un Distingushedenc and Susan Watson; and 12 grand
wItn b0 others wno averge tions in Z2012. auso
versity or Washington, where he
He
ad children. His wife and ns aaugn
wha measured as verv uhann 174 f
y moner presented me with told me that even criticism could pore and Dubai, where he served ary bEn are
The happiest students were the University of Ilinois. DOs sn asNOmannent Deramea na positveway On 5ubeonteeo eo Dr. Diener loved examining
more socal, spent less time As a graduate student and a eesneoer o051te DE Dener aeveloped several data and said he was content to
alone had strong relationships young professor, Dr. Diener per aes
ued Y 012y eSatis
"
keep researching without arriv-
and almost never thought of sui- tion, the loss of self-awareness in graphical essay written for the Scale, consists of five statements Dr. Diener believed that gov
cide. Dr. Diener and Dr. Seligman groups. He did not study happi- book Journeys in Socialsycho that were posed to respondents: ernments needed netrics to gude in10 years we'l have a compre
ound, though, that a ich soC1al nesS untl the early 1980s, a shitt OgY (Z008, Edited Dy KODet Le n most ways my le is close to pocieS that would mprove sOc hensive theory of hapPpiness," his
d
SOne o. Eurn
most unnappy
ppiness
stu- s
S
opisuc
apruy
parents.nenced rgues). "My mother
y argue that we need a Dow char
uoDserve,
chart happiness and not rush it" a

Robert Quackenbush, 91, Author Who Turned Animals Into Crime-Solving Sleuths
By ALEX VADUKUL tective who solves crimes in a that, nobody made fun ot him and
KoDert Quackenbush, a prolific artment Duilding on
Se nsst nne
D00K utnor who con PPerast Soe. His wife, a Robert Mead Quackenbush was
born on Juy zs, 13,n
ceived of the beloved character theci in the 1o70as an inn os

etortive Mole ration for Miss Mallard; just like ther, Roy, was an
engineer. HIs
and Miss Mallard, died on May 17 er Ss Mallard (whose first motner,. ginla (Arbogast)
m annatan. He was argery) CRenousn, was
a secretary.
ot E sortlers wh rred in Now Yor
is wife Mar ken- One of Mr. Quackenbush's best
bush, said the cause wasknown characters,Henry the in the 1600s; he liked telling peo
uc Wno constantuy stumbles ey nad
leukemia.
duckPefarmers. probaby Deen

verbuyears rQuackenbusn ration of one book scrambling obert was 9, his father
nis own
created
aise across town trying to nal a u died in car accident a few days
a
some 200 titles and wrote and il Drnday before Christmas. The two had
lustrated bedtime staples like learns
that the party isn't unti the quarrele over sonetning Vlal
Henry's AWru Suane next day.) Derorenistatner ietoa business a SCHUSTER

in an undat-
about Miss Mallard. an inauisitive when Mr Quackenbush con rts for Robert and his two sib- uackenbush
uck who solves crimes around o ny the Duck in the ings
ed pholograph.

Agatna
n
the worla piots hat resetoe ery of his vo hildren's a In those days they didn't tell
ole thor Margery Quackenbush said. "He Writing stories to help
naeu
sion series in 2000.
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 THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 B11

Mark Peel, 66, Campanile Chefand Pillar of Pioneering Food Scene, Dies
By KIM SEVERSON t Maxwell's Plum, the couple re
Mark Peel, one of a handful of turned to Los Angeles and in 1989
/oung, educated California cooks
enamored with local
opened La Brea BaKery ana
panie in Crumbling rauk-Anda
an
ingreenes
who emenged
in the 19/0s ana Cholie h
sld businesses changed the dining
change the trajectory of American andscape in Los ngees
ood culture, died on Sunday eeand S.Slerton ived
LOSAngees. He was 0 could juggle the needs of their two
nital with
nos
a young cnuaren ana ne ue
of an estabishment that was
earlier and was diagnosed with an
ggressive form of germ cell can- heir third child came along in
cer, his daughter Vanessa Silver 993, they had moved to a house in
Mr Peel helped write the rules pscale Hancock Park.
or a new culinary canon based on ne keexpioed nto a
ine ngnest quty nd resnest was distributing bread in nearly
regional ingredients but also on a 0 states. ln 2003,tne
risn0u
ant IAWS Group agreed to DUy an
that likened to "an unmade bed
he

oess
with fine linen. for S68.5 million
Sno ooK disheveled, he Peel and is. sverton per
said. A ltue messy. As it it fell Onaly mae severa on ao
with a Reverly Hil financial ad
Mr. Peel wor at restaurants
that would come to define Califor viser, who, itturned out, was send-
1a cuisine before anyone called it ng a tO Bernara adot.
t lost most iney
that, among tnepgo,e
t Hol
s both or the money
u
rant that Wolfgang Puck opened Mr. Madoff's $50 billion pyramid
in s82. But his biggest plattorm cheme.
was the restaurant Campanile as The couple separated in 2003
well as the ajacen L D married the comedian and food
he opened in 1989 with his wifee at personality Daphne Brogdon in
the time, the chef Nancy Silver ANNE PISMBEN
2005. They separated in 2017 and,
ton, and Manfred Krankl.
Mark in z006 at Campanilein Los Angeles, his signature restaurant. One rood critic called him a master atthe restaurants grill.
t
Pees aeu,ee
ro arethes Angeles Times
st marriage, in 1979, to Reine
food critic Jonathan Gold, who
died in 2018, wrote a love letter to
with their mother, who was a terr
ble cook. Mr. Peel took up the task.
opened Michael's in Santa Mon-
Ica.wned by Michael Mccarty, it
Drugs & Rock & Roll" which
chronicled the roots af the Amer
anced in his life. He was never one
of these crazy guys who threw
anno eine ver

the place, which meant so much toYou were yearsold when ou was tourndational in codityng Cal Can
tarte
culnarymovement that pans
Mr. Peel Vanessa, from his marriage to Ms.
turkey" his mother told him in "It was a moment in California When Mr. Puck and his wife, the explained that his philosophy ofSverton, Mr. Peel Survived by 5
It is hard to overstate Campa-
oiDuuons
Making a Mark, a 2015 Dutch
umentary about Mr. Peel.
to American
and in LA. specficaly when peo
ple were thinking about American
designerBarbara
opened pago, the restaurantwas
Lazaroff, cooking came down to respect,
both for food and for people. rito iver
rn
ne wrote wtse "People might say
CoOKing.
neants to support himself while in an American restaurant could be" kitchen, designed to make it seem
1ove s
ton, Benjamin and oliver Sulver
ith a grill at its heart, Schoo, asa dishwasher and iry
but it codified the style, as well
as coo. He attended ahandulot un
Said Ruth Reich, the ood
an edtoh remauned close
writer hke theater, was separated from
dhners ony ongnarrow us
and Rebecca
issLE
aDroner, hen
Peel,

the practice of reinterpreting sim-ied as medliineAmeican history at Chez

Mr. Peel went to work members of the Hollywood
elite Ushering in a looser Mr. Peel co-wrote three books
le dishes- lad, fish soup with and agricultural economics. He Panisse in Berkeley to learn how were constanty leaning over it to style of cuisne that set and appearedon several ood tele
first-rate ingredients and cheflytransferred to aPoyPomonato that restaurant madeits beloved speak to vIsIOn compeution sows,
study hotel and restaurant man pizzas.Before he headed back to ir Pc
Mr Peel handling the Californid
alrorna apart. 5
virtuosity. ith afood etall Prawn in the Grand
CTine eril chef in the countr of graduating to work in restau- Spago, he went through the Chez into the dining room to mingle Central Market in downtown Los
acting gnl cnet mue counuarants full time. (The university Panisse files and round the tete wu u most important thing, but what's ngeles nad Deen snut down De
ogs the way that Pinchas Zuker
in 2010.)
Erantedmadegree phone number tor the mason who rowing ame, a move that would love ?" he sSaud, "T don't know. But
e
peandemic
e
sa Stradivarius. food writer told him to call Patrick ranged for him to make similar ov- ty chef era. ne celebri-
respect is easy to define
rocrastinator
who was always running late for
el in Aclen Terrail,
the owner Ma Maison,
of ens for Spago, where Mr PuckFame didn't impress Mr. Peel. eel. Mr. Peel and ves. professional and famiuy even,

0 Ans planned to make pizzas with fanci- He even played down his own tal-
one of the top restaurants in the P
Ms. Slverton-Peel sad, and could
and duck sausaue gnseu a coOK
e went to Spago, per or way out the
(Stockwell) Peel, schoolteachers the kitchen. he insisted that a book on the
who metwhen they were atend He was hired over the phone. "He is one of these humans wh0 "He was not like, 'Oh, my God, she De hired as the pastry cher. door.
ing tne unmversiy oT Carornla at Mr. Puck sent Mr. Peel to connected the dots and whatever here comes Henry Winkler or neymarried n 1985. 1 neirs But not at work.
L Anes. ey vreed nen rance study for six months. In itwas,he ould get ittor you, saidStallone or Kirk Douglas,M.
to with omeoneO encas orKing on the une, she sad,
Mr. Peel and his siblings lived than Waxman and Ken Frank, he Mr. Peel in his 2018 book "Chefs, man being and was very well-ba- After a short stint in New York him to do something on time."

Consuewella Africa, 67, Whose 2 Girls

Were Killed in MOVE Bombing in 1985
By SAM ROBERTS including ive children, were University of Pennsyivania Mu-
COnsuewella Alrica, whose two
young daughters were amoneE
e unidentified bones of o
seum, Ms. Africa broke into tears.
ona vietim had heen turned vicious, violent, sadistic, ongoing
Philadelphia in 1985 that began over by the local medical examin abuse of the MOvE organization,
when officers ried to arrest four
tried to erto an independentorensic an
thropologist
she sald at a news conterence.
memberS 0r tne revolutionary opoogIst at the
he University
Oniversny of "The MOVEOrganizau0
o TYGER WILIASY E
group MOVE and ended after the VLA ASSOCATED
PRESS
pologist was subsequently hired here" she said. "We are a family, a
Dy arter neeunit. we stand together. 1his is my
Consuewella Africa in May
fied commune, died on Wednes- inceton. in z016,
speaking on the 36th anniver
day in Philadelphia. She was 67.
e deatn was conirmed by
ene nes were
etredtocu
w e
Tamily. The family of John Africa.
Our belief 1s life. Our children is
VEs compound in Phila
b
EERS
examination of the bones for a we stand together and fipht for delphia. At left, Ms. Africa in
with lung problems. one lie 19r. she was in pnson when
The group said Ms. Africa had MOVE Was lounded in
Jre D her daughters were killed.
Decome ter a oas u One of the daughters' John Alrica, Dorn nent
tainly wasn't our intention. our in-
for the original title. Christian
in April that anthropologists had
remains may have Movement tor Life. 1he group es
tenuon was d
been using the unidentified bones been used in a claSs. pouses a DacK-to-nature plos0 Identity and dignity of this individ
of one of the sieges young victims phy while promoting Black libera-
al.
or researeh and in teaching an Consuewella Dotson was
Black, have
ad bom
pted Africa as a
Ms. Africa, MOVEs former Princeton online course. surname. nhia After praduating from a Ro-
minister of confrontation, was in
prison at the time of the siege. She
MOvE members believed the
bones belonged to one ol MS. Alrk
n 1988, a
ed police olficials
grand Jury exonerat
o criminal l
man catholic high school, she be
purea oy ue teachings

as Netta. or Katricia. 14, who was rica wasawarded S125,000 in

of John Arica.
rs include her
with the police in the Powelton Vil knownas Iree. Ihey were half sis- damages plus a 5950 monthly an and, Frank Edwards; her sister
lage section of Philadelphia, in ters.Astatement on MOvEsweb nuity tor each of her two daugh- and brother, zelma and isaac Dot
which an officer was killed. She site expressed confidence that the ters, guaranteed for 30 years. on, and her son, Lonel DosO.
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the 1985 episode,

the police posed to childhood friend of Ms. Africalsas otold The New York Times, "and no After the existence of thee re- had
ite eaid that heorniation
fired 10,000 rounds into MoVE'S have been cremated, but when daughters, Said his reaction to the matter how much time passes, mains was reported in the newS been notified that the remains had
rowhouse compound and de he Philadelphia lnquirer and the revelaton about tne remans was and you hope that things can get media,chnstopher woods, the d been sent to a local funeral home
ployed a helicopter that dropped news Site Billy Penn reported in anger, Tury, disappointment, sad- to a place where you can begin to rector of the Penn Museum, said: and expressed the hope that "we
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Metropolitan Forecast

Spokane
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Amid the crowd at the amphitheater that recently opened on Little Island in Manhattan. Performances by Broadway Inspirational Voices there on Saturday and Sunday gave New Yorkers the culture they craved.

Cheers and tears of gratitude greet shows by the At Madison Square Garden, the Foo Fighters
Broadway Inspirational Voices choir on Little Island. bring arena rock back, to the vaccinated.
By JULIA JACOBS again to gather for open-air performances. By MATT STEVENS The sound of a keyboard echoed througn
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The timing could not have been Deter tionally rousing performance by Broadway The house lights inside Madison Square frontman, appeared on the stage.
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Nets His
First No. 1
Album
Hall of Fame' follows
the single Rapstar, a
chart-topper this sprins
By BEN SISARIO
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and singer Polo G had his first
No. 1 single with "Rapstar and
now ne ns compee vcy
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ent o ,00 ses
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cording to MRC Data. 1he album
features guest spotS by Ll Durk,
Wayne and Pop Smoke-whose
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A KLOS FOR THE. NEW YORK TIMIS

Charting a Future for Orchestras

As Mark Volpe leaves the
Boston Symphony, he suggests We realy were remiss when public
schools in urban districts initially and
what recovery may require.
THE NEW YORK TIMEs ting bands and orchestras. If you look, 50
FOR
Polo Gs "Hall of Fame" features
il By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ o
PErcent our udence nas musCa soe
Durk, Young 1hug, R0ddy Ricch, Lu experene m Junor gn or ngn scno01,
wayne and Pop Smoke. Mark Volpe grew up steeped in classical
music, the son of a trumpet player in the And so I'ma deep believer that this should
Minnesota orchestra. An aspiring clari- be part of everybody's education. That's
netist, he stumbled into a career managing
wEwEVE E
professional ensembles and enrolling in law You worked closely with James Levine, who
VE ARE OPEN! School. resigned as music director in Boston in
ANGELIKA ELM CENTER Volpe, 63, went on to Decome n lems. How did you decide to part ways?
Boston Symphony Orchestra as
ing the sat with him and explained we couldn't goa
ORNS1 Presdent ana cer execuve rward. nu su, now, youe
eATA POR pOSt ne
leaves this month after 23 years. On his phenomenal teacher And he looks at me.
SUMM he savs,You're telling me something?" I
Sic director, Andris Nelsons, recruited by said: "Yeah, l'm telling you, Jimmy, 1ts

ve ne s
ingit one of the wealthiest classical ensem Top, Mark Volpe, who is rediring from the Boston Symphony (above, its hall), says e
antdo
another
ensembles must emDrace tecnnoiog3, educauon and ebilywDuv
bles in the nation. word to each other
|2:00
When, in January 2020, he announced his His career ended years later in disgrace,
vope exectedreavy this
Pans etn mit to morph into media com- a amid allegations of sexua abuse an nar
stints in Detroit, Baltimore and Minneapo- pany and make the case that what we do is 0acK decades, before
nentsEretcning
ng you
S. 1hen tne coronavirus pandemic pOs indispensabie to soston. wold hedn
UEDPARDYI ing one ot the gravest threats to the Boston
r histo
Are orchestras well positioned to innov ate? We had heard rumors and stuff, and we did
celing more than 300 concerts, including its nnae
or decade
adnered to à traditional model
our due diligence like everybody else.
venerable and lucrative summer season at id model of havingi
Should we have been more proactive?
GUE DETHEDAY ngew00a, tne orchestra laid off 50 of its
agreed O pay
di-
ences, as well as disseminating our content ere Tean, maype.
Cute of 2 dgitaly on our plattorms,is going to be crit solutely diligent and [awareness about sex
In an interview, volpe reflected on thee
POstpandemechailenges ror Amerncan en
ed Ate onomc v nesports teams
ve eevisOn, eve
ual harassment and inappropriate behav-
ior] is part of the DNA of the place.
sembles eorts to Drn hi on the
Reflecting come to baseball games." And there has nneapos wn a tather
been nothing better for sports than televi sota Orchestra. What did you learn trom
THE AUTHOR SAID memories of the conductor James Levine, postpandemic challenges
THE NAMEOF THIS Boston's music director from 2004 to 2011, for American
ensembles.o an having a musician as a parent?
10-LETTER CREATURE who died in March after his career ended in vIOusiy negral part or our nves.
IN HIS POEM MEANT
iearned whatt takes to be onstage. I have
"THE RESULT OF MUCH
prieties. These are edited excerpts from the
comvesa
Sucpprecaon
cially after losing
d orur
10 sPmyselr
11 auditions
classical music, which has long been domi-
EXCITED DISCUsSION" The pandemic has devastated American nated by white performers and administra- an orchestra.
orcnestras, and ay
are resorung to Dug tors. What needs to change?
orchestras-and itsa bit of an overused
rconcer How wil they re- Thereality is this is no longer a Eurocentric metaphor-are big extended families, with
FOR THE CORKEC
cOver? changing, We have to be responsive to that. nockets of dusfunction and urith eonei
JEOPARDY! TONIGHT The ramifications of the pandemic are here PrOgrammatically, we ve been instit really tense moments.
OR LOOK IN THS Tor the toreseeable years, i not
futureorpncatons onay temiss. ink tne naustrys Deen
SPACE TOMORROW in for gO
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emss. ee ae rer
along in terms of ent you plan to take on
projects in Europe
ànd Asia,
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NTHE TIMES.
put together a budget, with three dif- 33 women composers. But I compettons, as well as returning
We ssioned
Terenmoaels. Eventually you need a Dudg think in terms of people of color, we need to seminars on negotiation strategies. What
Yesterday's Response: do more.
WHO IS NOAH WEBSTER?
et. Butthere are too many unanswet else are you looking forward to?
the year after that. And I don't think it's go- What do orchestras need to do to say re
also want to take time off and travel-and
ng to get any easier
vant im hne z1st century?
avwere n not reSponsioiee ror 150
Watch JEOPARDY! How is the Boston Symphony grappling with
the pneavalt
nrecticioms nf he
deseotisrali emmina at 3mhe morninat n the
p.m. on Channel 7 started in the late 19405. Equity, diversity morning: lost my passport. The bus is
This was the ultimate puzzle of what to do: and inclusIon is a partof this, but we haveto eaving at 7:30. I have no passport.
how to stay connected to audiences, how to do a much better job of engaging more peo Thank God I had a fantastic team.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 N

More Puzzles to Twist Your Head Around

Reece Shearsmith and
Steve Pemberton discuss the
new season of "Inside No. 9.
By DARRYN KING A

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PARUL SEHGAL | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

The Vexing Puzzle

Of the Word 'Consent
coNTINUED
FROMPAGE CI sent can act hike a fig leaf, as
ngstiy wone, expernence Popova calls it, masking other
COme not to Dury the Word, power difterentials in the rela-
not today,Dut s t reaid voe or offering
netism the new hive of capa- cover for other violations. Its the
story or My Dark vanessa" an
sent nas Deen a notor tneA SermesATeacher, for ex-
penerations the ripht to consent cators who elaborately ask for
(to sex, to medical treatment) permisSTOn.
Tne chipper rnetornc or con
America. Marital rape was legal sent culture, withits inunction to
loopholes still exist. mind, tells us so little about such
Recent novels, philosophical states of being, Self-knowledge is
inquines, young adult uredas id o orTyou
and ro
nce n ae for vos can'r he evnloited. In
ture from the fields of feminist"Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good
and disability studies to ask who Again Angel inks tnis belet to
and what the term "consent" ex what she cals conidence femi
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complicate the idea, pull up its horror of vulnerability. Beneath
Credit score, refine it._ Vanessa
ngoras memOr Consent
t, She argues, es the old bus
women
ness or making responsi-
Michaela Coels HBO Series DeTr S neee Vene
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Kate Reed Petty's "True Story is to feel a rushing. powerful con-
ana Kate Ezabeth Russelrs"MY ence or laeds. we nave to
Dark vanessa; essay colectiOns COpncatensCoversauon
i Moram ahlelaneaco for notrmof Madison Square Garden presented its first concert in more than 460 days, drawing a full-capaciry crowd of Foo Fighters fans.
sa Febos, Maggie Neisonques narm (Kaba);we neea ih
aons about consent run througn Derweeworus eDOS) We
them al. HOW IS this word beingneed to earn nOW to Say and
does it conceal? Is there a better
Standard? what are the condl-
"yes" or "no" but "maybe
a, SerougnE nOt to De
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consent doesn't seek to discard
the term, but to wonder about its
Pndy and assumpaons. What
thing we
else, but something "we make
and exXpernenoe togetner
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At Least to the Vaccinated
asa nrivate transaction between
not only to consent but to coN ors arena rock returned to New
individuals, but, as Milena*Melo0 ana the sorts or Know YorKCIty justoveraearartertne ctyya
Popova suggests in her study of ugeproduceS etonc ne center or tne outDrea. it Was tedr
the term, "Sexual Consent as aroundvi0ence, itsexpectations dens first concert in more than 460 days,
enmeshment with the world? these works invoke the waves of asked to show proof of vaccination to enter.
where is our consent n the water Opes and tesumoniaistat nside, pedOple grooved, tigntiy packed, withn
we annk or the air we breathe? I1o0dea sOCial media, wondering VISIDIe.
ew
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May Destroy You" is based on created. In"I May Destroy You, Morris, 47, of Chicago. "We've survived it
Coels experence of sexual
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as Tepe
ADeDeesu
e ce,
s
were going forwar.
The return of concerts to the Garden
ontors thefts of consent" 1ind comtort by sharing her story
comos to the nandemic
in the United States.
she calls them. The most stirring online. warness ot narrative
A AS more and more Americans have bectorme
oments of the snowunspool in vaccinated against tne coronaVirus, aeatns
Silence, dcruss raes vaha in her hook wWe Do This
CHatdcters alned n woruies
Tl We Free us, calis compu States have gotten at least one dose of the
These thinkers are also S0 COessionne onus to /accine, and there are still parts ot the coun-
share ones story of trauma. A ry where vaccinations lag
trying to understand
#MeToo and the kinds of orized women's sDeech. but la havo hoon ar ta hoir hobbios
knowledge it brought forth.rSked making ta duty toaman and routines and to connect witn one an Along with the music, there was a resumption of some on-street commerce.
ddory splay nes e st tner again. Last week, Dotn New York and
California, where more than 70 percent of
tota vo what
word to apply In Kate Reed Petty's novel vaccine, lifted virtually all coronaviru re
to the event or to themselves.
Annader yons prizewinning
rue storyAlhce, a ngn school
uuentWo ears Sne was as-
Strictions. The Centers tor Disease Control
and Preventon nasS Saa rullyvaceated
novel "Consent" follows, in part,
ritoahot her n mash ranid hina
her intellectually disabled sister experience in her college admis- lowed the Foo Fighters concert to go for-
wants to marryis she capable nsy nrarrago
annotated Dy ner teach
ward.
Snatard Micheie gurdt,
re
on sunday, a concert attendee would
ion o consent hinpes not your PO.V. on sexism a Dit
Hemic nersistine
In many wavsthe
just on a woman's assault by a re?we witness nerstrdinge
putaUveyPaue awareness udt sne 1s ex
eveming telt ike prepandemic&times.
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protective behavior of her part na ere wore rdce coveings. Tno-

French writer Annie Ernaux took though she is bewildered by what belted out the lyrics to well-known songs,
60 years to piece together her lat
est memoir, "A Giris Story,
as Dene aer Sne
noundea Dy a documentary film-
sending aerosols ilying through the air. No
DE Seeneu conceed
ease it was sharing" her story. Fans were packuOgene A Sen
so complex.Had it been a rape, But of course Alice does share Strangers hugged and high-fived. They
might have been able to
talkner stoyner way. she ntes, Dunped nto edcn otner mar,ne Dusy eO
DOur it earlier, Dut I never
uResADe, Ke rk e course. They punchea the swunE
state of hioh.docihel mui
has said. "I gave in, so to speak, vanessa IKe Springora, who en- their seats in a
out of ignorance. I don't even re- VISIoned her memoir as atraptor induced Dliss.
e way to "ambush the Garden's first concert since the pandemic. amone tho wacein ywere
Der Saying, "NO.
many wTerstetnis sto
uSer, à It was just epic said Rachael Cain, 51,
who was among the first people to arrive at

bodies, worn down since child- word, calls tor more words, bet But there were subtle reminders of the
nood by, touching, teasing, male ter words. From a Suspicion or pandeic everywnere Hand Sanitzer
aggression. "I was very confused narratives, a profusion. T0 con- pumps were clampea to the wals, and
wIpes cou
body helonood to
os writes the root holds true. And in these aditalT and conces
in Girlhood"if someone works, an argument is being ad sion buying appeared mastly cashless.
wanted my body, tended to give
I vanced about how to proceed in ATtne entrances, Str nembErs Checkeu
it to thempringora, who had a the spirit of exploration and un- people's vaccine caras withn varying eveis

notorious older writer: "I felt like I think of a few lines of an Eve match with proof of inoculation, in a
slow.
moving process. Other checkers Simply
no eanow nerOwn DOu Neison quotes.They are nes wavea peoDe tnrougn as tney tiasnea their
one thing: how to be an instru- passes wne walkE
about touch. They are full of won- dro eda
ment for otner peopie s game der, both audacious and permis ittle attention.
Es not ust that these works
explore consent's "gray areas"
Sion-Seeking ever
guage the loveliest question/is,
a Several patrons said that the vaccine re-
wndt uiey exaimne iš mow COn T0u can Say
nat reneE nerpeutneee sire dut re
tur ine i to be a little lor be-
a
tore I came to concert again said Nick
SOW, 23, Wno was among tne rew rans WnO
GIRIHOOD
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Grohl himselt took care to acknowledge HoTORAPHS Y NATHAN BAM

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Fans were asked to show proof of vaccination to enter tne arend

he asked the crowd rhetorically if they had old, familiar comiorts that music lovers venue and the echoey plaza that leads to the
SEX pEEX
felt to be around thousands of people while was call and response; people gesturing communal experence for the night sent up
GO0D Hero 2sa tribute to those who had mad ino theIvries to sonos onlv torealize their most well-known sonps. Rest of You
possible. And in a surprise cam-
the concert voices were drowned out by the music: and Ohhhhhh.
bESTROYYou toceeDrare the occasol, ne Dandanenre
brought out the comedian Dave Chappelle
oor
as one wave.
Sectonjunping up ad down
Ohhhhhh.
Ohhhhhh.
raccinated times over
10
Ohhhhhh.
"Welcome back, New York City!" to see a live show like this with people," said
These are among the current books focusing on the idea of consent. Films pelle yelled as he exited the stage. Rich Casey, 53, ot Massachusetts. Then they erupted in one final cheer and
ind televislon snows äare part ot the diseussiOn, too. walked out into the New York night.
The show represented the return of some Having reached the ground floor of the
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 C5

MAYA PHILLIPS | THEATER REVIEW

Immersive and Occasionally Transporting

A virtual reality experience
marries wondrous production
values with banal narrative
rHE WORD "LIMINALITY" which broadly
Eres needaer
paces, evOKes nsona
Visions or New Age-y wom

Dgists or insidiouS miracle dr

Burgess-esque dystopias. There 'sa bit of all
hree in "Liminality" at the Museum of Fu
duction studio in
Williamshar Rrookivn
or virtual reality and immersive audio sto
yenng aon
meets Poso
meets sound bath meets gaming meets Luk
hat's inviting and
ping
catching. but too conceptualy broad and
self-satistied 1or its Own goo
Jescript doorway off Grand Street.which
eads to a 0bDy thatofers alew micro-exh
itions 1or audiences waiting to embark into

ther, a chest of drawers invites audience

nembers expiore s
Contents at tner
leisure. Issues of old pulp-fiction magazines
and drawers reveal Rorschach tests and
ooks on psychology and Surreal ar
A guide who is reminiscent of a nght at

tainty,
chaos and metamorphosis. The
pom wneeLminay place, witn
or thick curtams, nDisonpeak
its walls
es
chairs-each with a VR headset-placed
nfour rows around a central aisle,feels less
ike a theater than the antechamber of an
Thouch
ugh is this even theater? Theater is
perhaps the closest term to describe the ex
Dernence Dut even that is po0ry suited,

pect from a show thats all about the in-be-

ween spaces m pereptions and realldesS MSLM OF FUTURE EPERIENCES

Solet'sjust say it's a theater of the mind. In *Liminality" at the Museum crew stranded in the ocean, are rendered for an experience that combines the imme style of the performances.
ent segments, some of which are immersive of Puture Experiences in with such soic dimension that was sur diacy o theater, the visual dialect ot For
all of the technical originality of "Lim
lm
soundscapes and audio performances, and
Paants prised to ina myserSl perfectuy ary andana the tecnnological rush or gaming. it ainality, what ends up staying with you is the
others that are more guided meditations. a
Sheltered at the scenes conciusion. T he adds up to a strikingiy immersive Teat or banality of the stories and themes. "Life
t's
hat the audience watches via the VR head theater of the mind that evades soft beams of the Edison bulbs in the over constellations overhead or turn around to apocalyptic sci-fi film from the past few dec
ets. ay
head lamps to the ultravoet gleam that ee the rubbie o a Droken Earth extend toades. An audio segment called Death of a
Stately and dreamy swells of
8ongs
Sound nnounce an ntrospectve perorn
gave lettering my
the or an irides
-shirt anorizon. (Audience members who aveAlegory amodern retelling or Platos
ward
Rat it's the VR.hased seoments that are Drone to vertieo may find all this
Matr
evcernt from an deroradate nhilosonay
imagination. A narrator talks you through a Liminality most transporting. The first VR short film, esque exploration tiring and discombobu- class.
guided visualization where youre meant toMuseum oft Future Lreive, creared Dy Peter Lindblad ag) alSo inaicauve or the larger pro0
ind a field, trees and your own childhood Experiences, Brooklyn; and Alexander Konnoer. 1oows a Tamilyne narraves are nit and missind emhats
or
Liminalityit aims to tackle a con
Warning: Your mileage may vary. Whether off a dying, post-apocalyptic Earth. The sec- gant scenes don't provide enough narrative definition of its subject or focus for its inten
ne exercise grants you enngntenment ora ona,
ind Palace, writen and airected bycontextA Sentent pool or Dio00 that ebDS tions.A liminal space can be twilight or pur
snort nap o
depends your own mental pe Carl Krause and Dominik SocKnausen, 1s &

ietol elationship. The final VR m

is Metaphorical? It isnttclear citizenshin
citizensh
ora trans or nonbiary way of
bookends "Liminality, is the most pedantic Conscious Existence, created by Marc The sublime landscapes of Conscious dentitying sexuality. "Liminality is both
nd least interesting part ot the show. nean ncoldroI OrE EXIstence wtntne and
purpie neb
plnk 0
gE and to ntow, s snauerng O
Thatsmore the fault of the script than the S sup y sre exSten e, waying rorests and canvalesque naranves and sonc expioratons oniy e
Jon't disaPpoint. The sounds are succulent far reaches of space. scendental filmmaking of Terrence Malick. take.
The vibrancy of the visuals, combined The voice-over narratives are less mpres- Though thats the problem with limina
rainfall ot a storm during
called" Ine Doidrums,
an
about
audlo seRment
a captaln ana
with the tactile vibrations of theVR device
-rendering crashes and quakes-make
sive: the didacticism of the monologues ex
acerbate the self-consciously meditative
ity, isn't it? The innate paradox: It can be
everything and nothing all at once.

ELISABETH VINCENTELLI | STREAMING SCIENCE FICTION

This Can't Happen, Right? Perhaps It Is Now.

A selection of five films of Dong
a
he world-altering sort that The title refers to South Korea, the title character (played by the lithe, char
will keep you guessing 1Simaic ADimana ryasaya auyop
that has turned it int
T'S HARD To define Science fiction as a wasteland sealed off from the factory workers and market vendorsthe
Ee
yesierua
pos KetpInovng rest of the woria.
nas
treatment
a srong ICKESa viD,
of children is Dracingiy unse
and
s
movie that asks "What if? as part of the the superhero Gundala fights on be
ere
enre.Anatis montnsSeiecton0T Stream nar o tne poor and ne aowrden, st
under-the-radar Science fiction will thanks to his marIa-arts sKls, thenwna
ake y ore quesudn8.
enep rom powers derived rom
ndergods His nemesis is the ruthless sPengkor
uy or rent it on Amazon Prime, Apple 1V, BrOnt rae, wse gnS1t s
00gle Play, vuau and roulubRE. ured a la the Batman villain 1wo-Face. Heis
terminate tim h e
very special drug the plot is straight out
Chino Moya's dystopian fable keeps the o a 1960s Silver Age comic booR, which is
IEwer in a State o uneasy puzenent 1ne wELL GO USA
fitting since that's when the Gundala char-
romche inrm ethoie Curtoin The movie's ending suggests a sequel s
and the general atmosphere suggests a par of his be coming. No complaint there.

s state.er
aDnooned by the
waar day he meets-cute with Vienna (Zoe Chao),
who cones aangerousiy close to Deing
zombie playground with the fast and furi-
OusPeninsula
Greenland
reaver together p eam t on HBO Max.
distinct stories, with the first one kicked off bangs and quirky attributesshe doesn't reality in
vhich
Dy donann Nyersand ea KOn have a credit card or a cellphone!
in the movie, set in a ruined city overrun by Earth gets destroyed by a comet and Ge-
i he director Stephen 5asilone (a Writer hungry undead hordes and gangsof crazed rard Buier 1s in a prety good movie.
nts has an off-kilter internal logic rod
do
on tne ivSenesneoldbere Sei nugs nara te wcn worse, are wnat propeis Tims that describe an ex
ent or a morany ale, Moya Sess inter said stock character The relaxed, fluid rap coolfemale characters led by a badass mom be saved-it won'tbut who will some-
sted
The
nanoavefilnm
a will
he anathematoon
raport
ae an
between the two leads is more impor
any metarony, hough: its easy
(Lee Jung-hyun).
The title refers to South Korea, now four
how make it through, and hoW. Usually we
TOlow a smal group or peopie, and the one
3
need clear-cut-wel, clear-cut anything. ing what kind of obstacles Basilone will that has turned it into a wasteland sealed off
But Moya has made something rare: an throw their way. Irom the rest ot the world. But there s gold, na Baccarin) and their diabetic young son,
0dnty that reeis Dotn tamilar, and com Which is exactly when the movie twists or rather millions of dollars in cash, in them an Oger Da O nis neps pre
reze
Brazil" and "Eraserhead" should give it a the ending feels earned.
Dee o
oe
to lose isis disnatched
dienate from HongKKong to
vent Ric Roman Waugh's movie from get-
steal the loot. Yeon takes it from there, are separated: The tight focus, com-
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula working m various Set plecesS at a Dreak
pounded by a relatively restrained film-
Long Weekend' Stream it on Shudder; buy or rent it on making style, creates an anxiety-inducing
Buy or rent iton Amazon Prime, Apple T, Aa And there you have it: Zombies+ heist
Google Play, Vudu and YouTube. YouTube,
APpiei g "Road Warrior"+ "Escape from New York show catastrophes of such a ieantie
What cozy mysteries are to hard-boiled Five years ago, "Train to Busan" juiced up s Scale that they become abstract; here, hu-

a vast aen
thisthe mo
genuer about the a
zombie genre with seemingy simple
move: The unrelenting action was set on a Gundala
man deciSons airve me sto
les: side of fictional ee
Stream it on Hulu. f ereeth ehie
At first,"Long Weekend looks like a tra fans, the director Yeon Sang-ho was not Speaking of rejuvenating an exhausted and practical issues, partly because of Na-
itional rom-com. Bart (Ryan Murphy reg done with that specihc universe: He also genre: Based on this greatiy entertaining than's condition. who gets a chance to sur-
alar Finn Wittrock) is an endearingly strug- helmed an animated prequel, "Seoul Sta- movie alone, Indonesia may do to super vive is not an easy question to answer
 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Cheers and lears

On Little lIsland
cONTINUED FROM PAGECI with the choir. It was shepherded by McEl-
ment. a nomiletic interludes urEed the
Some cheered, epe at the re-
ana somewept ue audience tonreconnect wiunOnea
supply during the many months of tne ine,After the darkness,
short there
S n
as
piled into the curved wooden Dencnes
Theeevening of musical theater and
gospel music was punctuated witn draina
masked, watching the sun set over the Hud-and dance
The actroee Dhsii
n
evoved around tne
s
worid
Cnor Deted out
from "Aladdin."
A Whole New

I've monologue about rediscovering the inner

and I'm overwhelmed" said Barry Diller, chidDane.wats and Ayodee ase
ouus thunder and a babbling
ke
egmogul who paid for Little Island,
ampaneater 10r du
den sang a commanding rendition of "Go the
h n outdoor theater was always rom Hercules."
of this space ot necessary, required
part of the plan for Little Island, Diller had Out
o idea how usetul it would be as the city ated for community" McElrov said in an in-
emerges roma pu
terview.
formances as indoor venues slowly begin to The show was McElroys last major per
formance witn Broaaway spirduoa
come back to ure. "us the exiact rignt mno-
oie 1op and above right, For the initial rehearsals, which happened monthsto go before it returns in tull torce,
nent, he sald Pat her vrtual to Po over the music and wer able to vet onstaee tosine sones
foundation will bankroll the time when his friends were dying of AIDS Broadway Inspirationa fro
irst two decades of the park's operations,
which includes six daysa week of arts pro
nd ne saw a nee or S nen Voices choir performing
on Sunday at the
ask questions, then mute themselves when
was une to sing
some of the most popular musicals of all

Brmming&
cetsto the
other creative Dursuits. as well as to serve and in Manhaan n May, the choir moved to a spacious re- Story as wel as some ot the newer musi-
hitheat
tors can perch themselves atop one of the as the musical theater chair at the Univer-Michael McElroy, leader distance masked. And at the end of the including "Hadestown" and "Mrs. Doubt
sland's overlooks to peer down at the per o
sIy chEan ot the choi, reacting to montn, tey startea renearsing pars na e
tormances. Or, if they're lucky, they can urst, cEoy wanted toputtogether the crowOs applausearter the show
and then eventually, on the island itsell, Watching from the audience, David Plun-
at various snots on the island, like West 13th Street
*

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entionaly placed, well-paid buskers. anuay, Ciroy, anrust in rEs Wewere rehearsing on the raltn tnat we waving 1t in the alr 1ke 1t was a hianaker
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thin we can do in this life is eonect wit
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 oUTTHERE s RESEARCH DOcTORS

Feeling a cosmic vibe Deep questions Her sister died

while surveying a Over how scientists of glioblastoma.
collection of Earthis should study viruses Then she got her
minerals and gems. and other pathogens. Own diagnosis.

Science
SCIENCE MEDICINE| TECHNOLOGY |
HEALTH TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 DI

imess
The WewjorkTimes

Desperate
To Receive
Covid Care
Fearful or poor, some
immigrants resort to unproven
drugs to ward oft the disease.
By AMY MAXMEN
FRESNO, CALIE-On a luesaay artern00n n
and telephone chargers at Fresno's biggest
flea market were prescription
outdoor
sDengsoseatentstorovd
e ntibi
biotics
and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin.
nloroqune and nyuroay
malaria drugs pusEu u
ances at the market as well, as do sham
herbal suPplements.
Heatnand consue
hese treatments, as well as vitamin infu
ons and expensive inections ofpeptide
therapies sold at alternative wellness clin
y rellable scientific evidence. PPO
But sucn unprove remedles, Orten pro
motea by doctorsS ana copaue
low-income communities in
immigrant
places across the country where covidS
aes ve
Deen ngn Dut aCCess to health

ause mainstream medicine is too eyren

Ive, or is inaccessible because of language
"
u Durners.
at r
1ave spent large sums of money tor unprov
reatmenES TorovCI, Sad KAIs vonra,

ombarded with misintor mation and may

ot have tne skuls, ume or conext o

pret ie not new. In 2014, Dr. Vohra

ublished a case report on a Hmong woman
Fresno with life-threatening poISoningafter
DverdosinE On chioroquine that sne nad

HLAN L FRANE OR THE NEW YORE TIMIS

flea market in Fresn0, Calif., where sham

ovid-19 treatments proliferate.

quently went to the market and to three

cauons that were prescripuon-oniy or had

DEUB
dministration ad
"It was a real eye opener," he said.
During tne pandemic, many immigrants
ote for Covid.19 treat.
ments.About 20 percent ot Hispanic people
n the nited stares ack neaitn insuranece
1 r nugner among un-

What's more, some immigrants mistrust

octors wno dontspeak lnguage or ter oRK TIMES
PROFILES IN SCIENCE

oric directed at Mexicans and Central

JULIANE DILLER
mericans.

Life After the Fall

"My communiy Iears
that tne gover
Oralia Maceda Méndez, an advocate at a
Fresno-based community eroup ror indige
ous peope Trom Oaxaca, Mexico. She has

treat thenmselves for Covid-19 with peni

cilin, otherT anibiotucs or a mix or vitamins The next thing By FRANZ LIDZ The survivor of a 1971 "Mymother, who was sitting beside me.
and herbal therapies bought irom shops or I Knew,Wa ge said, "Hopefuly, this goes all nght, recalled
ng nenauons Dugnt n the morning ater Amazon crash suil runs Dr. Diller, who spoke by video trom her
called. the
Some farmworkers have received un 1 hadn't left the piane Peruvian rainforest dazed with incompre a research station her retired as deputy director of the Bavarian

woman n esno receny oesce now

ne plane nad et me
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s
eso
dayChristmas
o
Preusthen
tDOEve, 1971-Juliane, parents founded in Peru.
State Colection or LOolOEy. Thougn I couid
sense her nervousness, I managed to stay

ick from Covid-19 that he could barely Lima bound for Pucallpa, a rough-and-tum rom a window seat in a back row, the
oreathe or walk, Dut he rerused to go to tne Dle port city along the Ucayal Kiver. Her taked
hospital because he had heard rumors t nal destination was Panguana, a biological
0 teenager watched a bolt of lightning strike
the plane's right wing. She remembers the
g
and never left. She took him to a wellness here for three vears she had lived, on ane nto a thunderstorm and began to shake. evenl o i

were a octor gave nim injectabie

peptide treatments, recalled the woman,
ofr,Wth her mother, Maria, and her Tather,
Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, both zoologists.
verhead storage bins popped open, Show
erin passengers andcrew witn luEEage
people weeping and screaming. And she re-
members the thundering silence that fol-
NOED ON PAGE D4 The fight was supposed to last less than and Christmas presents. cONTINUED ON PAGE D8
 D2 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Observatory
FINDINGS, EVENTS AND MORE

TOOTHY WONDER

Finding a Star
With a Jurassic-Era Ancestor
In theory, Tim O'Hara had come to Paris to map eight arms. "Brittle stars always have five, a few "IFI found this thing, I just would have died"
the biodiversity of a faraway seamount. In prac- have six, and the very odd one has more than said Christopher Mah, a researcher at the Smith
tice, this meant sifting a plastic barrel of pre- 10, he said. "To suddenly have eight arms? That sonian National Museum of Natural History and
served brittle stars tloating in 95 percent ethanol. was special." expert on sea stars, who reviewed the paper.
For weeks, he sorted through common, five- Dr. O'Hara believes the echinoderm, which That thing is all teeth.
armed species of echinoderms that are related to was collected on an expedition to a seamount east After Dr. OHara took a genetic sample from
starfish, many of which he had seen before. "You of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, represents the toothy, eight-armed star, he put it in his
get humdrum things said Dr. OHara, a senior a new family of brittle stars that hails from an "weirdo boxwhere he stores specimens that
curator at Museums Victoria in Australia. ancient lineage dating back to the Jurassic and puzzle him. A phylogenetic analysis revealed that
One specimen Dr. O'Hara scooped from the survives to this day. He and other researchers the stars singular lineage emerged in the Jurassic
bucket looked unlike any brittle star he knew of. deseribed the species, Ophiojura exbodi, in a new or late Triassic, approximately 160 million to 200
It had a thorny nest of teeth and, quite peculiarly, paper. million years ago. sABRINA IMBLER

A. LISITZ,
R REW NEIN
EARTHSHAKING EVENTS SENSING LAND MINES

To Learn More About Dinosaurs, Building Up an Army of Bacteria

Scientists Look Into Ukrainian Crater To Detecta Deadly Remnant of War
Some 65 million years ago, a rock fnom outer space slammed into Land mines left over from bygone conflicts-or those still being
cONE FROM GUANO
crater. No, not one vou're thinkine of world. With the help of bacteria that glow in their presence, these
it's the Why Did the Cave Art Vanish?
Boltysh crater, a 15-mile-wide formation now buried beneath hidden hazards may one day be found and safely removed or
Maybe the Bats Carried Erasers.
eument centra okNralne aynot De as tmous as tnenexu Hunting scenes and other works of prehistoric art can endure for
destroyed
ud cräter under the Iucatan Peninsula in Mexico, wnich is al- Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have spent
rectly implicated in he death ol the dinosaurs about 66 million need a safe nlace to a decade developing living land mine sensors using E. coli bacte-
iust
years ago. Nevertheless, Boltysh has long led to debate among rla. In recent studies, they describe their latest progress. By using
erase paintings and other cave wall markings because of the
hefore or oftor the
this et
hievh eent akineite*E ole inn thie cata- orrosive property or their eces, or guano, new research shows. 5 h ence
of a chemical
associated with the
lysmic period unclear Srudies nave snown now bats generate neat and numiany in a explosives (as is shown above), said Shimshon Belkin, the Hebrew
cave, slicking the walls with an acidic, carbon dioxide-rich film.
NOw, a research team estimates that Bolysh tormed about nversiy mcrooloogst eadng he resear.
And bat guano and urine can ferment and saturate the air with
o0,000years ater the ncxud catastropne
has implications for understanding
rene e
how Boltysh affected this
e eso rs o pos comonaontna eats
n 2019, more than ,500
mines and explosive
people were kiled or imjured by land
remnants orwar, and 80 percent o them
tumultuous time, and can shed light on our own era of sudden were civilians, according to the International Campaign to Ban
know whether the same process plays out in caves across Europe,
e ting e
lyzed specimens from a geological layer in Montana that marks
where cave painangs Oner windows into our past. (ADOve, Inside
tne Aven dOgnac caein rrance, a ScenustexaminngE a staiag
hieh 10
spread over a lot of ground. And they
y
are relatively quick at re-
Des

mite with evidence of biocorrosion surrounded by guan0)

nerason ne
age suggests exuD
wOgt npc Dy
They found the walls of a long-blocked section of the cave were
porting bacK- wIthin hours, or up to a day, they enther BIOW or
The revised the that mpact that made the Ukrain they dont. ELZABETHLANDAU
an crater did not factor into the apocalyptic die-off of the dino more Ee, witn ewereeessesinne cengnan the entrance
saurs, though it may have interfered with the recovery from the
mass extincton. BECKY FERREIRA while none exist in the parts of the cave occupied by bats. The
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scientists determined that the bats presence had caused the walls
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ree to seven milmeters Dy ERers sciencefor mobile
every thousand yeas. 1ne cave entrance lacks any cave ar, readers: mytimes.com/trilebites
graffiti or claw marks, they concluded, because bat-driven erosion
made all such markings crumble to dust. MiCHAEL PRICE

"My heart is flying, marching courageously forward.

Maj. Gen. Nie Haisheng, the commander of China's Shenzhou-12 mission that launched three astronauts to orbit, after he boarded the country's nascent space station.
 THE NEW YORKTIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 D3

oUT THERE | DENNIs OVERBYE

Why Geology Is Truly Biological Destiny

At a museum, manitestations
of how the universe actually
works in the real world.

oNE DAY IN OCTOBER 1820, two young men,

En Halin and Ezekiel Holmes, weere
hiking ona hill in Maine called Mount Mica
when they spotted a glowing, green arted
to look for others, but darkness Was falling.
ne next day nt snowed.
When they finally returned, in the spring

since identified. as tourmaline senmi a

precious gem prized for its range of colors.
a
word spread. In 18/S, gentleman geologist
Knz visited He uave some nieces toa bus.
nessman named Charles Tiffany, who hired
members was J. P Morgan, the banker and

line and other jewels through Mr:. Kunz.

uch or hat colectdon wound up in he
necan Museum ot Natural Historyy
ourmaline, along with the original tourma-
ine found by those hikers (fashioned intoo a
warch roD inscribed witn the word Primus,
or "tirston a recenvis to E
ofGems and Minerals.
In addition to the toumaline, I found my-
self gawking at a dazzling colection of erys

dainty enough to grace an Oscar nominees

necne on ne red carpert
ners, as a sn O thewalnepruu into slabs called tectonic plates that, float
ng atop molten magma, bang into one an
matter in the universe is minerals," said to create continents and separate to form
E seas5.
Curto, wno pateuy guaed me round ueOlOBy 1s Diological destiny: Whatever
as ey minerals land or are deposited in a place de
ead morning newspaper
the I
wandered across to the gem alcove to
ple ont
know ce is a mineralhe there mlions of years later. Trout favor narvel at the beles or the bail, among hem
noted. And snow, he added, is a secdiment

,
arth, and I know the
names of hardly any
ougn They torm the substance
,
ontana, I an oi Dy y
Decause
oUr freshwator
ne
E
streams tiowing through
s o
the Star of India, another find by tne

Mr Morgan. FinallyI returned to the nair

of
re
purple geodes that stood like stargates at
oI
1Dly
the wora we evoeu up
tne dstant wou
P Millions of years ago, the MIsSISsipp va
was an inland sed. As Ee
erace
Alas, their magnincence per
P ley
They tell ancient tales: of continents col-
squeezed the seafloor upward, water-en. typically yellow or gray, Dr. Harlow in
iding, ot mountain ranges ising and being
the porous carbonate rocks that e. Ihe purpewsaresutorracia
,
through ormed
worn doWn, of ocean Dusus tion damage, probably from the surround
o5 comprised the ocean floor, leaving aeP
crystalsfrom gas and fluids. Some of these posan
medames nsT an and would most likely revert to its original
minerals Are almostas old as time itselt. The for C
color eventually. Not even stones are im
nano-diamonas oOund n
and floor were lined with crystals or cacite, feom China mortal.

hudred million a form of carbonate. He and nis

l y at the American Museum
o.
years after the Big Bang, Dr. Harlow said. turned nt nto an undegrou ua Nau sty e e ity: a slabof petrified wood from an ancient
I felt a familiar cosmic vibe just walking Groundwater reciaimed it in the 19405 ualine rvsal from sequola. Museum oficials have counted
tne all. I nere n ront of me, nine feet dated the tree to 33 million to
to One of the mightiest of the stone- dis- Mount Mica in Maine; anoeher nd
cracked open by the gods, was a nest of pur
ple ametny sts, a galaxyrs ortn or ugnt.
play at the museum isa four-oot-tal, 7.756
pound hunk of grayish-green rock called
ouna ae
geode Irom Uruguay.
and a ume, chemistry worked its magic and sili-
cate minerals replaced tne ceuuiose n tne
Ageode, it formed 135 million years ago iner n corme emeraas as wel as wood, while solidifying the record of
COng James webb >pace Telescope are
le ache into an undervround chamber.,per In 1930, this stone waS a 14-1o0t ump in mäde or beryinum. Dr. Harlow pointed out a smilar-size siad
haps a bubble inthe mama, and then ery
St
edon tne wais. Benind it was another
oa n
Cess to aVast ioae eldeoe that
o primeleldspar the Most of the solid
matter in the
On our tour, Dr. Harlow splea mote
of redwood, cut down in 1891, around a ew
Dhibolite from Gore Mountain in upstate corners in the Hall or American orests.
h ,anonerpur pie up the day
before Mr. Kunz arrived with an universe is minerals. New rorR VISIDe In the siab were ancent
tion of how the reak-world universe-
uced to mere dots or less in astrophysicalsun-
re
g upre g
orer toDuy 1t ror thne Natural HIstory
s
u GEORGE HARLOW
ONATRAHIS
HUSTORY
eocemicarauir nes and, clustered along "Without minerals there is no life. Life
them, an arrangementor garnets, Ty learned how to nake mner
data-actually works.
by the ssame aluable as a
They traced he ancient woll ow lost to boes and shesEventa ereturs
damentals: water, heat and pressure. But source of lithium and beryllium, a light time,on which they had grown, and to Dr. wood.
Ike lolstoys unhapPy lamiles, every roCK weight element born in stars and cOsmic larow oTered more sentences in the DoOK
of ancient cataclysms.
"People think these are separate, Dr.
nias ts own story. Eartn's crust 1s Droken ray colisions. 1ne mirrors o NASAS Up Harlow saua. "its all part or a whole

The Dimming of Betelgeuse: Due to Stardust

Some believed the red one part of the star was only one-tenth as

supergiant was about to

bright as t
had been the year before and
about suu to U0 Kervin 40 To S00 ae
explode in a supernovä. rees Fahrenhet cooler than the rest of
By DENNIs oVERBYE Dr. Montargès and his colleagues reason
nattne Dong sar ejecte a DiOD o gas
Betelgeuse, to put itmstpolitely, burped. months it not years betore the dimming.
pergiant at the shoulder of the constellation hung around Betelgeuse as gas because the
Orion the Hunter, Degan to dim arasucauy
to less than half its usual brightness, and for the cloud to condense into aust unu tne
Acomposite made trom
Then the nhotosphere cooled," exposures from the Digitized
hoped-that it would explode in a super Dr. Mon-
targes nored, probaDyin the imuay area around the red
Astronomers now say that dust was the Drignt regron tna ece e
cp supergiant star Betelgeuse.
that Betelgeuse itself was responsible for ture in the cloud enough for dust to nucleate
blotb of gas erupted trom
that dust. A ant
the star, the story goes, and then cooled off
and shroud its birthplace.
"This adventure with Betelgeuse was re
em
porarily veiled their oriein * eoie hael
ck to nor-
.we
on or
have directly witnessed the torma-
staraust, gueon
mal-whatever "normal" means to a star
S0-Cae
targes, opy even y

ropean Southern_ Observatory He and as Alpha orionis, is at least 10 times and

Emyannon or Catnoue niversiy Leu mayoe
ues
were placeu
as mas5ive ne sun s
ter's orbit.
during the dimming with the European Red supergiants are stars in the last vio
Souhern ODservatorys very Large lele-
Scope on erro Paranal, In cie summer of 2019 uve cells are as big as France" Mon
as ier.
Pet ons
DElEg
or years burning
were only euse n the Dr.

one-tenth as bright as normal and markedly we saw thespner

matenamovingoutarges
n
sau an emasreay unny to
Se eacn countty compiarison.
into helium, the next lightest element. The
cooler han the rest of the surface, enabling
the expelled blob to cool and cOndenise into
wrote in an email. She referred to the expu
eSoutn Betelgeuse, he said, those blobs
hose bioDs
are half as wide as the star itself, 350 million
eu During
ments. Once the core or the
into more masSve ee
eoo
star

ure ous st " solid ir

week in Nature. sion as "a sneeze." She and Dr. Montargès miles across. There are only a few of them at
years, the star will collapse and then re
researcn, they sad, showed that ecounors on each others papers. even time. Dound in a supernova explosion, probabiy
such dust formation could occur very .
who has followed Betelreuse intentlv
sity
e of lsation dimmine and brichteningeaving behind a dense nuEEet called a neuk
there it could wind up anywhere; as the old was more measured in his enthusiasm. although usually not nearly to the extreme That will be quite a show. The last bright
saying goes, we are all made from stardust. Three other studies favor the growth of cool it just exhibited. supernova in our galaxy occurred in 1604
"The dust expelled from cool evolved regons on tne surtace ortne star to explain Dr. Montarges and Dr Cannon began to and was as bright as Venus in the sky, Dr.
vo
neccd eould on fobeeome the building Betelgeuse is a so-called red supergiant, instrument called SPHERE on the Very Hesaid that he still glanced at Betelgeuse
biocks of terestrial planets and life DE mes s agt as our ow sunas Sur echanges
eescope, wncnaowed nem T0 every day but that lately he had become

findie e oser
ace,
t sun s resembies boting
and energy. Such blobs on the sun are often
a onhe surtace oT the

"For once, we were seeing the appear

distant convinced that an even larger supergiant
to b s aoris waS more likely

Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center described by American astronomers as ance of a star changing in real time on a "I have been observing since 1980, he
or Astrophysics and her colleagues, who
detected an upwellingof material on Betel-
comparable in S1Ze to lexas.
France, we say that the sun's conveC
Scale or weeks Dr Montarges said in his
statement. In late 2019 they observed that
sad, s
"ana i anm now and don t have much
more time left to see these supernovae.
"In
 D4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Desperate, Some Resort to Unproven Covid Care

cONTINUED FROM PAGE DI aption in which he indicates that he is be-
who requested anonymity because of her ng infused with vitamin C. "This IV along
immigration status. with peptde heraPy wil imt my chances
S 400 ill e oa ng necuons such as Intluenza.
ringesand vials labeled thymosi- alpha l, The F.D.A. points out that the thymosin
BPCI5 and LL-3/.
"I was shocked, butwastying
upapeptde nerapy 1s not autnonzed in
t ne onited states to rear covid-1s, nor isi
approvedT d the Eederal
husband and my kids," she said. He grew
Irade Commission have cracked down on
aa no Tunas len Tor care. More than a
unreus O pnes mknE unispport
return to the fields.
**
*eu elougn to ed claims about supposea ovlet
Sandra Celedon, the president of a coal and vitamin C infusions. The ETC. warns
tion ograss-roosOgnauons a ued nat anyone
to
related
wno nakes ueceptve
the
clas
treatment, cure, or prevenuon
she and her colleaues ha heard freom Enandes o
several farmworkers.and other low-income up for each violation.
to $43.792
Latino immgrants wno spent tner savings Neither of those agencies has sent pub- a
ic warninE etter to LDr.GZman. He and his
several requests
poor, and yet the doctors were requesting Poa
casn Tor their unproven treatments, she PMOTOCAPIS Y BAN L FRAK FOR nHE
NEW YORK
TIMs Juan G. Bautista, who works with Dr
Dr.

Some unregulated drugs can be danger- emergency room at her hospital often men ivermectin and chlorine dioxide- which op let, oralia Maceda uzan at ne
on
cunc, dened o comment
ous. And even if they aren't a health risk by tion home remedies, vitamins or antibiotics has been tied to reports of respir atory and enez, es, his colleague.T dont want to speak
themselves, they can lead people to post they have injected or ingested before seek ver tailure y advocate who
to take care of a patient," he said.
pone seeking heip rom doctors, Which can ng cart otupset at patensen D 1gnacio uznan, wno 5pecialzes in in need of
Covid.-io
when D Bauista came down witn
tretments feared the Covid-19 himself last year, he tried peptides,
Black and Hispanic people have died from said. "I'm upset about the system that medicine" at a clinic in an affluent area of
as
ovatce tne rate
the United States.
wnite people in makes it easler for them to get help from
nontradntonal places than Trom regular
northern Fresno, uses social media to ad
vertuse peptide tnerapy tor a Droad range or
andra Coldonho
a orass-roots oreanivation
He said that he hadn't used peptides to treat

n also limit a p ailments. On nsgr

COvid-9 n
his patients but that he didnt

tient's treatment options because doctors unwilling to talk with main nho P A 1O in the city. Above, a Tault doctors who had used experimental

D Katheen Paee nteciousedisease stream medical providers, some people vaccine, questionablemarket drugs.
writing that "integrating
peptides Physicians were doing everything p0
3pecialist at Jons Hopkins University turn instead to Facebook, You Tube or
WhatsApp for advice. On Covid-19 Recipes
with immunizations candouble their effica-
cy" (No cinical trials of Covid-19 vaccinees
ible to keep patients outside of the hospi-
tal, ne s.ad, Cing tne aistress 0 mtubauon
chool of Medicine in Baltimore. s e guy
imigrants Trom Mexico nage in Snanish thar has aho 10 000 and medical bills that could WIpe out the
nented book 0 effe
members), people from the United States, Another Instagram post, from March Fresno and the broader San Joaquin Valley
Sandy Sirias contributed reporting. his article Mexico and South America exchange tips 2020, includes a photograph showing an There's not a lot ot people here in the va
was supported by the Pulitzer Center on herbal concoctions, zinc, Vitamin BI2, intravenous line in the doctor's arm above a ey that take care or the poor

ESSAY

Who's Afraid of Extremely Large Numbers?

Pretty much everyone. But it to get a feel for them? As it turns out, there
doesn't have to be that way, thin famlia
Two mathematicians contend. TanEbe, almost papable.
o empie, consiaerSenator Bernie
ByATYANA GREEN Sanders's signature reference to "million
and sTEVEN STROGAz
these levels of wealth really comparab
"Billions" and "trillions" seem to be an in- Intellectually, we all Know
mdt
Beaos net
davs whether the ubieet ie Teff have a lot more money than milhonaires do,
worth or President Biden's proposed udg.
en e e ner
et. Ter neariy everyone nas troube making enced what it's like to have that much
sense of such big numbers. Is there any way money.
onSt,everyone knows what the

THE FEDERAL BUDGET includes vast sums that are hard to comprehend, but long it would take for a million seconds to
rescaling the amounts to mimic a household budget can help. Below, total CRDy D0ne natn, and you ina tnata
revenue of $4.174 trillion has been scaled to a hypothetical income of $100,000. milhon secondsis about 12 days. And a
b
Total Reven. $100,000 denly the vastness of the gulf betweenamil.
Individual income tax revenue 48,0 lion and a billion becomes obvious.A millon
SOCal in'surance, rerement taves Seconds is a Drier vcaona on sec
e
Jtner rece pts
t revenue onds Is a mayor
ta ae oro-
spending vide another way to make sense of big num- "Rescaling" huge sums, like the national deficit, can help people better fathom enormousness.
andatory ere
Ders. n itnaca, N.I., We nave ascale
Medicare 18,352 odene soasenona5 tne cognitive scientists found that students budget by as much as Mr. Biden is propos
could grasp extremeyong me perioas ing leaves oniy about >22,000 to spend on
Medicaid 13,680 ps between them are reduced by a factor
Dtner mand8t0ry progds 9,601
0ven.ATtat saeesnoecomes and emergenoe of humansmore readily if nondefense discretionary spending.
Discretionary Defense
Departnent 0r Derense
spending S18,112
tne sze o aServing plate, Earth s a small
e tth tops efd e eont er
Sgnncantevenesin
en
nves and rescaled
When the numbers are reframed this
way, the trade-offs become clearer Want to

Non-Defense Discretionary 5pending $22,329 ootsteps, whereas Pluto is a l5-minute hike American history, all of recorded history leges and universities ? Mr. Biden does, and
acrossto rong runne sorsSand so on.These students were also better he is asking the nation-family to chip in 36
Commerce
eou set
anc
erst ohn controls ar estiatng numbers in the cents (in these rescaled terms) to that end.
What about former President Donald J.
1.107 from looking ata book or visiting a planetar standing geological time, astronomical dis-
elakh and Human services 3,203
ur
cannot.
Duy Brsps t even your mnd ances or tne
ralbudgee.
bewuaering sums in the red spent about $388 on it in 2021. In compari-
Homeland Secunty
Housing and urban Development
1.251
more comprehensible if they are reframed
we thought it could be in-
structive to update Dr. Tao'sexercise, thiseyea
:
Dlaen 15 proposSing to spend $255
upa oesreeaSeng
in terms of more familiar amounts. In a 2009 time using the numbers in Mr. Biden's pro school meal programs. These choices are
abor *
blog post, the mathematician lerry Tao re posEu a Duug political ones, but at least now we can wrap
state, other intornatonal programs 1,524 budset to the annual household spending"income has been scaled to be S100.00. our minds around how much money we're
iransporta tauon 16
Meanwhile, as the graphic shows, this hy- not e
otorane
for a hypothetical family of four In Dr. Tao's
rescaling, a S100 million line item in the
Wh dia
strategy, like a bar chart? Well, a bar
Affairs 710 onetca nauon-tamySpendsSDOut ing
Major Agencies. cane equivalent to a $3 expend 19,000 dituro goes chart would reduce most items to barely
-Corps of Engneers
Environmental Protection Agen
b3
Kesearch psychology and science edu-
in
cation supports Dr. Tao's strategy. In 2017,
to four big-ticket items: about $29,000 to
pay for Social Security SI8.000 for Medi
uves Soneumes sucn ange nu
but that approach suffers from the same
n same for derense and around
nal Science Foundation AIYANA GREEN iS an undergraduate majoring in drawback, generating confusingiy S
Small Businoss Administration policy analysis and management in the College Taken together, these four items add up to gures, ke 0.01 percent. As Dr 1ao recog
SOaial secUny Administrauon of Human ECology at Cornell University lmost s80,000 in expenses tor our nation nized, sio0,000 trades on a scale with which
family. In addition, we must st pay oune
General servces, other agences STEVEN STROGAZ IS a professor of matnemat mon alas ever be
will a billionaire,
Total Deficit s44,011 $7,000, along with $36,000 on other assorted much less a trillionaire. But we can all rea
recent onfinite Powers: How Calculus
y eflicit 36,/03 Reveals the Secrets f the Universe." mandatory programs. So exceeding the sonably budget ike one.
interest 7,307
Gross Federal Debt $776,785
ote: List is simplified. totals may not edd due to roundng and omited ine items. THENWYO
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 N D5

Covid-19 Renews Debate About Risks of Lab Work

An uproar over the pandemics s ne even thornier question of private re
Search, noE runded by the govenment
origins raises questions about D Keiman has aiso cnticizedthe govern
how to study deadly viruses. ment s process tor screening and approving

By CARL ZIMMER
2020 meeting of the advisory board, he ob-
and JAMES GORMAN ected to tne iack rormauon released
about how two research proposals were ap
At a Senate hearing on ettorts to combat
Covid-19 last month, Senator Rand Paul of anne Sandri-Golin, editor in chief
Kentucky asked Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
of
the Journal of Virolo8y, a scientist who
ad fud works on the herpes virus and a fellow
orOnaviruses in China. member Or tne Doar, sad Dreman mde
ain-o-Tunction research, as you know
S Juicing up naturally occurring animal ve
was told that a committee made the deci-
Dr. Eanci the nation's to nf Is dis- sion outheir names werent pubished,
their backgrounds weren't published and
ease expert, flatly rejected the claim: "Sen
tor Paul,wIn all due respect, yoare
compietey incorrect, that the
e whether or not it was going
now proceed with this research was not
to be all ripht to

cleany deineu,
gain-of-function research in the Wuhan In- te S

titute. The secrecy of the screening process was

This exchange, and the bit of scientific oversipht of potentiall danro
search, according to Angela Rasmussen, a
ng that the coronavirus was engineered, virologist at univeSIy or SasKarenewans
ather than having jumped from animals to Vaccine and Intectious Disease organiza
humans, the explanation favored by most
tes at that time. "It's not clear how they
also drawn attention back toa decade-long decide what's acceptable gain of function
ebate among scientists over whether cer and whatS not, she Said.
ain gain-o-uncuon research iS too riskYto However, the "star chamber nature of
hiolopist
purred by some contested bird flu ex said Richard Ebright, a moleculart
periments in z012, the U.S. government ad at Rutgers who has also been one of the
ustea ts poncles TOr oversignt or certan most vocal proponents or tne lab leak the
ypes of pathogen studies. But some critics oryand has long advoCated stricter contro
cy is overly restrictive and that its enforce- even bigger issue, he said, was that gain-of
ment has been far from transparent. function research was simply not being
.he stakes or the debate could not De
higher. 1o0 ittde research on enereng V DS y " n Infeetious
pandemics. But too little attention to the Diseases, run by Dr. Fauci.
sarety risKS Wll increase the chances that The ideal solution, Dr. Ebright said,
an experimental pathogen may escape a lad WOuld be the creation of an independent
d caube an outoreak
ie
Sorting out the balanceof risks and bene clear Kegulatory Commission does for stud-
ts or the research nas proved over thne es Or radoctive materiais.
years to be immensely challenging. And In the UnitedStates, there are
ric over the lab leak theory threatens to forceof law" he said. And this is in contrast
ush detailed science poiey discussions to to every other aspect of biomedical re
e sidennes. are enorceaoierues, orex
Searcnnere
ample, for experiments with human sub-

sitch, an epidemiologist ferials and lasers. but none for research

. H.Chan School or PubicatHealhthe Harvard
who has with disease-causing organisms.
rged the government to be more transpar Dr Kelman, who aso supporEs the need
aarchh. **** for independent regulation, cautioned that
In the 1970s, researchers were learning or more flexible regulations.could also pose
cE RANCERESsE Problems.he law is curmbersome and
slow,
he said. At one point in the evolution
Csworried that such experiments could ac-
e gown mcreasingy trus when guestioning DE. Fauci last month, Be, a of laws relaung to Diological wartare, lOTex

dentalyceate aeaaly parnogensr they It's a horribly imprecise term" said Gigi cited examples of gain-of-function research, company, staff members of smallpox. But the rule's language, Dr.
SCaped from labs Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hop- a study of coronaviruses done by Ralph worked on the developmento Keman sala, aiso seemedto ban possession
hat a scientist can give an onganism new kins Center for Health Security. Baric at the University of North Carolina acovid-9 vccne last year of the vaccine because of its genetic similar

abilities. Researchers can also stage evolu-

Many gain-ortunctionexperens
with data sent from Shi Zhengli.
workina with company inoculated chicken usen. 1o tty to fix it took

egE gnst tne HINI a

are grown in the cells stead, they have provided huge benefits to the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virok The current H.H.S. policy also doesn't of
of an unfamiliar host Dalnc and ns coueagues built a new Strn m 2009.
numany n 133, researchers found that 6 Ter mucn guidance about worKIng winSc
passeu tneyeOw evervirus coronavirus iromr exi entists in other countries. Some have difer
But new mutations can help them adapt,
through chicken cells, it lost the ability to
radually improving their pertormance. and neither Dr. Shi nor memoers e a
a tree o lednerpes to a vaccine for yellow fever. Likewise, participated. Dr. Gronvall of Johns Hopkins arBued
earn houw new etrine of i The so-called chimeric virus that resulted
that the S 8overnnment canno dietate
lve. viruses nave een engineered to
lu
lu strains start ot ne
off in the guts of birds, and
rfom a entn
cancer
a
cells. Theyre
their on
nOw atack
PPO
Virus, Dr. Baric said. "This work was ap-
proved by the N.I.H., was peereve
wnat scienusts ao in other parts of the

nat can spreaa amOg peup D

Dac
om the But the bird flu experiments raised con- t in emaul
P
lastmontn. 1hework also
eryone's shoulder"
University of Wisconsin in Madison and the cerns that certain gain-of-function studies inyolyeds Even countres tall short on gan
t other
Peauny olut real risK or dangerous ounciom research policesr Lpsitch
erErasmus edical Center in Rotter ronavirus, than the one that causes
lam,the Netherlands-devised exper ht 15 e tudi h Th Covid-19," he said, and was considered low fom deeloning hetter ones the world's As

1e risk because of the particular strain inques

l am from
0
5 experiments were not just on iniuenza v leader research, the counry
in biomedical
birds to people. They injected bird flu vi u coronaviruses tnat caused In the paper, he and his colleagues cau- oud set an examplene ntedstatesIS
sufficiently central," Dr. Lipsitch said.
e noses o Terrets, waited for AKS And MERS. tioned others about similar research. "The
the vruses to repicae and hen rns out ane lie hepaco frameworepotential to prepare for and mitigate future Ironicalh th ue
ut delibera-
outbreaks must oe tions over such issues on hold. But there's
he viruses evolved to become better at rep- -for research on "enhanced potentiai p
hcaing in the Terret
ews o e expenmnens broKe in
demc patnogensthe
gences under
nere regures ne
H.H.5. umbrella, like
they wrote. no question the coronavirus will intluence
the shape of the debate. Jesse Bloom, a vi-
w eoc pOUey nas a signiicant short
e aenerial raiew of rant annlieatione for 5 ehCenter said that before the pan-

shouldn't be published, for fear that other anyresearch on a credoe souree Or a po- sory Board for Biosecurity and a micro demic, the idea of a new virus sweeping the
researchers would copy the work and acc ena nuan pade
n arter conducting such a scientiic
2019,
Doogistt Stantora Oniversiy t onyp
Plies to the grant process in agencies that
world and causing millions of deaths felt hy-
pothetically plausible. Now he has seen
Health and HumanServices held a meeting two infuenza proiects to restart. setting off Science Foundation. the Pentaron or
er You have to think really carefully about
to consider what it called gain-of-function more debate about whether its policy was agencles could include dangerous research any kind of research that could lead to that
researcn. ne name toOK noid, Dut scienti noroug enougn. and also need oversight, he said. 1hen there sort ot mishap in the future, Dr. Bloom sad.

U.S. Will Ban Dogs American Veterinary Medical Association,

Sald in an interview last week that tne tem

P idaid Dr. Kratt,

who owns an animal hospital in Onalaska,

From 100 Countries Wis. think that is a great concern, not just
"
Tor rabies but for any number ot diseases, to
mals"
temporary move, intended DEEn enmnated since 2007. in the United states, the frequency of ra
to block the spread of rabies, 4 0 ne,one mili0n bies transmission from dogs to humans has

could affect 100,000 animals. each year could be denied entry, according of animal vaccination programs and efforts 3
OtneDA a
thatwoud make
exceptions on a limited basis for owners o
to prevent aog Dies. 1ne irus, wnCn nas
nocure once symptoms Degin, Causes tens
By NEL. VIGDOR
Dogs from more than
g Sate
moetl inAia and Afriea aconing to the
l00 countries will be side with their pets.
Deofor
States
Deing
one year Decause o neig ee e "Rabies is fatal in both humans and
mals, and tne importaon orEvE e
ani World Health organization.
The newrules will appiy to dOgs that are
unced.
health officials have announcs nsnd illfatheen oid on i nalnd-cred, Ceh p
Thecountries targeted by the ban, which website. the United States, the C.D.C. said. The own-
wi take enecton uuy l, ae
cosaered to Health officials said that the number of riSk countries hadto be atleasttour months a WIth the ers or pupples, emoIOna support dogs ana
rus theUS Centers for Disease Control id antit th itd Statos i 9090 ing themenonah time fortheir rahies vacci 2019. The Philippines is amo ETvice dogS must comply with the rules.
nong for
and Prevention said. They include China, roseby 52 percent compared with the previ nations to take effect. the countries said to be at high ogs that are least 6 months old (as verified
olomba, ba, the Dominican epubic, ous two years. Many ot the dogs, which The dogs, health officials said, had to wait k l0r spredung ne usese
DySuomisS10 0Tcurrent protos otheaogs
nda, the hippnes, usS and kraine mostly came from Russia, Ukraine and Co- ongerto be returned to the countries where teeth), are microchipped, have a valid ra
rary measure was necessary to prevent work submitted for them was fraudulent schedules, putting them at greater risk for rabies serologic titer from an approved lab-
eintroduction of a canine rabies virus vari and Overstated their age, according to the illness or death. oratory if the dog was vaccinated outside
ant in United States, where the variant has CDC. Before the ban, dogs from the high Dr. Douglas Kratt, the president of thee the United States.
 D6 THE NEWYORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

Well
In Brief | NICHOLAS BAKALAR PHYS ED GRETCHEN REYNOLDs

BLOOD PRESsURE

Early Hypertension in Women Lifelong Exercise Leads to Savings

pressure in
High blood during the tollow-up period. People who start before or
wyounger people may De ,ne emerging evdence
Is worse T0 during middle age typically
particularly hazardous that hypertension
wOnen, remale hearts than 1or male an cut costs on health care.
tudy sugs y ound tral
Dr
that women- but not men
with even mildly elevated blood
BECOMING MORE PHYSICALLY active today
medicine specialist at the Univer
pressure in their early 405 may De sity of Bergen in Norway, "and health care costs later, according to a new
at substanaanly increased risk Tor the risk starts at a lower blood study ot exercise and Medicare clalms, it
ater coronay alsease and deatn. pressure level in women. nas una peope wno Start to exertise DE

In 1992, Norweglan researchers Dr. Joyce M. Oen-Hsiao, an

began studying 12,329 men andd assistant professor of medicine at
ealth care costs alter retirement, and the
women wnse ave (ale who wS not nvoved ne earer theyst woKOUEs, the grea-
teT
sure and cardiovascular health study. Most of us just look at risk
er those Savings De an
ost well- ucate
IOr an average of 16 years. factors, and we never really break white men and women and has other limit
AT the start, hign biood pres- t down by gender. 1hats the tions, but the tindings highlight how signit
sure was nucn ess Conmon n Cantyexeresegnt DEnent pecOpie s bank
women nan in men: 4 percent OrtherES a stausical anrerence counts, as well as their bodies.
women and 35 percent ol men etween men and women. Ana ld move.
Physical activity is associated with longer
had Stage 1
hypertension, which
we
can replicate this finding in
life spans and lower risks for a host of ser
tne Amenican ieart A550Caon our
more di'verse populiauon, it ous conditions, including 1ype 2 diabetes,
139/89. (A reading under 120/80 American Heart Association iaDat dehoin audih more than 500,000 older Americans, most of their exercise, saving an average ot S1,874
is considered normal.) Fourteen guidelines say that in otherwise nat, despite these allures, nearly half of study volunteers had aureed
to ill o e
percent oromen
o en nad enypertenson,
na o1 percent healthy people, hign biood pres
sure up to l30/80 can uSualy be
American acs
rarey ever
exereise
This pervasive pnysIca torpor has per
tensive forms about their lives and health.
Among, thnese was a lengtny quesuon
creased routines slide during middle age,
reauclng now oten tney worked out in their
enned as 140/s0 or higner. Ine managed with litestyle changes. matedthatinativivdrive least 7h naire asking how many hours each week 40s and 50s, they still spent about 860 les
women also had fewer risk tac- For readings from 130/ 80 to 139/ never exercised.
annual nealtn care spending in the ing sports at multiple points throughout
tors Tor neart aisease 1hey 89, the group recommends antihy-
nd
United sates, represenunE aDout l pet their lives. Many Or the stuay parucpants These data intimate that being active
thetotal to what extent getting
also agreed to allow scientists to access
uney oned the
when we are young might have especialy
potent a
lewer of them were smokers. disease risk factors. At 140/90 or and moving might drop our share of that in t
expenses.
During the follow-up period, 1.4 higher, medication is indicated in Dnon,
lhas been thougn, especlally as we å
less clear. Past researen suBEEs eNOW,the Nanona ancerlnsute scle But even waiting until middle age to bee
percent oe
o
wone
percent the men had been
o.
nd nost cases. But the guidaelines
make no distinction between men Puy y u PeopSpe tists pulled reCords for 21,750 of the volun-
come active proved beneficial in this study.
People who increased how often they exer
hospitalized with or diea irom na women. outs, noting changes over the decades. Did s824 less annually on heaith care than their
ple, thanks in large part to needing fewer
cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kringeland said that one
tnese men ana women start exerelsing Inacive peer.
Compared with women who
he
reading, or a reading with a home Bu those and sumar studes osedon
people were middle-aged or already much
more or less oftenduring their 20s, as young
outs in middile aee2 Or vere they consis
nsearch
other "ts never
words, too late to

older, and do not tell us what happens to tently active, or the reverse, throughout sity
t
asiate Newe Unive:
in England, who, as a research fellow at
Stage 1 hypertension had more doctor has to take three readings,
thandoubie the risk or near then average the last two. And to neantn care costs we cnanEe our naDiEs their nves? tne atonal Cancer nsitute, led the new
Over ume. Tney also cannot pinpoint any Then, the researchers compared these study.
Hsease. in men, tnis as5oclanon aagnose nypertension, you need study v
was stascaly nsignincant ne at east two vISiES TO tne aoetor crease workout
a routine for the sake of our eventual Medicare claims. Andthey found show only that being active is associated
study, in the European Journal ot The question of whether a ong-tem nances and neat notabie asparibes. With lower health care costs, not whether
Preventive Cardiology, controlled healthy woman in her 40s with a 0, 10r the new stuay, which was pub hose men and women wno reported ex exercsing causes expenses to change. It
or diabetes,
B.., nosr reading of 130/80 should be Hsnea neDruaryin BMJpen pot& ercising moderately throughout ther adut also relied on people remembering and hon-
s pass, Whicn
The authors note that the study drugs is not settled. "In some tional Cancer Institute, the Centers for Dis- for a few hours most weeks, saved an aver tricky.
ouner eo3annualy, orabout iperoent, S,tnis is raly sold data, given the
had limitations. It was done in a women-those with diabetes, for eseonurondeveonand
stitutions decided to look for links between on health care expenses after reaching age sze of the group and extent of the question-
small area in Norway and most of example-treatment is indicated
he subjects were Caucasian. 1he even atthis eve, Dr. Kringeland health care costs. vears later Interestinply a different groun who said demiolopist at the National Cancer Insti.
researchers had no data about said. "But in women who are
ypertension treatment or the use otherwise healthy? We don't have he researchers began by turning to the they had changed their routines, increasing tute, who oversaw the new study. The find
handy N.l.H-AARP Diet and Health study, how often they exercised during their 20s, ings "reaffirm the value of physical activi-
of cholestero-lowering drugs he answer yet." a large-scale database of information about gained even greater monetary bang from ty he concluded, whatever our age.

A CONVERSATION WITH
KRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Scientist on His Email to Fauci on Virus Origins

His research has since volutionary theory"
vornar emengence as a

dispelled those suspicions he his was a relerence to the teatures of gence of SARS-CoV-2, while the lab leak
wrote about in early 2020. early analyses that didn't appear to have an a
remains speculauve hypothesis based on
o0vus mediate evoutonay precursor conecture
By JAMES GORMAN We hadnt yet pertormed more in-depth Based on detailed analyses of the virus
and CARL ZIMMER eha COusn, rather were the world, it is extremely unlikely that the
Among the thousanas o pago I cautioned in that same email that we
BuzzFeed News. a short note from Kristian would need to look at the question much
yaa nat our opinions cOuld
wnicn thevirus as
Touna nature
ese, virolOgist at the scripps Re- leaseldl is similarly unlikely. based on cur-
a lot o E an Diego, tnas garnered and ar ew aa
rent evidence.
t vear.
ear, Dr. Andersen has In contrast, the sclentific theory about
In ch of 2020,) cienti
ther paper the natural emergence of SARS-CoV-2
een one of the most outspoken proponents published the Nature Medicine savine
Ttne theOry tnat tne coronairus orig that we do not beleve that any type ot nario The emervence SARS-CoV-2
of is
ae omanatura sp an roan laboratory-based scenario plausible. Can
is
pran now tne research changed your
very similar to that of SARS-CoV-1, includ-
mail to Dr Fauci in Tanuar 900 D ing its seasonal timing. location and associ-
ation with the human tood chain.
dersen hadn't yet come to that conclusion. The features in SARS-CoV-2 that initially
He told gove
D. Faucl, the
suggested possible engineerng wete u 5ome people have polinted to your emall to
Iecuous sease exprt, a tified in related coronaviruses, meanng D C SuEEestnE hat t raises questions
that teatures that initially looked unusual to
had been engineered, and noted that he and officials gave more credence to the lab-leak
is colegues
further
were Planning tO nvestigate
by anaiyzing tne viruss Benone
Manv of these analyses were mpleted
in amatter ofdays, while we worked around
neoy n ey e0n e puc
Is your response to this? Were you worried
na
a Daper in the scientific journal Nature the clock, which alowed us to reyectour pre latc
uEsis hat SARS-CoV-2
ecine on March I,was2020, concluding that My primary concern last spring, which 1s
oratoy orgin veryunkey. "lab-based scenarios were still on the true to this day, is perform research to
to

When his early email to Dr. Fauci was re* table. ascern exacuy now sARSLOv emerged
In the human populadon.
tia storm and deactivated his Twitter ac- et Ore extensE analyses, S1nincan rnment offi
count. Heanswered written questions irom to com ials and other scientists did or didn't say or
Ihe New York Times about the email and across coronaviruses led to the p think. My comments and conclusions are
the fracas. The exchange has been edited reviewed study published in Nature Medi strictuy aven Dy sekentinc nqury, and
Cne. For exampe, we looked at data from strongly beleve hat careru,esp
hort e nary z020,
was as bats and pangolins, which demonstr ted topics is paramount.
first sequenced. You said: "The unusual that the features that first appeared unique H INSTTUTE
o you have any regrets about the way you
features of the virus make up a really small o were in ace Touna n otRer,
ree L his
communicated with the public about the
art or tne genomeO.6) s0 One nas to age site as strong evidence that the virus ristian AnderSen, a ab-lex x dea?
is
a textbook example of the
see that some of the features (potentialy) scientific method where a preliminary hy- factually incorrect. Research Institute in First, it is important to say that the scientif-
0ok engineered." Can you explain what you
c community has made tremendous
pothesis is rejected in tavor of a competing While it's true that CGG is less common San Diego.
meant?
At the time, based on limited data and pre-
naDie and analyses ne
are compietea.
e aval Ttnan
co0on
oter parternsTOuna
nat code Tor arginine,
15 in the
esewhere
markably short amount of time. Vigorous
debate is integral to science, and thats what
Some
SARS-COV2. we had not yet seen these fea-
people, including the virologist David

site could be a sien of hauman

quencels that include the CGG codon eeen
SARS-COv
egarding tne orngns or
cleavage
aiso rouna in otner
TOund in SARSLOvare
uses nese findings, together icult at times for the public
ures im onet
relaeu virusts o
exploring whether
thus were expoing
sources, and thus a
weue
manipulation of the virus. an
rus. Can you expain
explain think, to observe the debate and discern the
rcesand for readers why you
dont think t proO site stronply suggest that it evolved natu- likelihood of the various hypotheses. That is
or an engineered
Those features included a structure
virusr
rally and there is very little chance some parculariy rue wnere sclenoe Decomes
nown as the furin cleavage site that allows ornavie fomil d body engineered it. entiete n
hiect matter vmerte cte
he
SARSCoV splke proten DE e coronavirus genus that SARS-CoV-2 be- DO you s Dee dangerous precedent. We saw that with the
and another structure, known as the recep longs to. There has been much speculation scenarios are implausible? ehmare change debate, and now were see
that patterns found in the virus's RNA that As we stated in our article last March, it is ing it with the debate around various facets
or binding domain, that allowed the virus
e Or numn cells via a furin cleavaee eite an Snecifichotheses of SARS.Coy.2 oriin Throughout this pandemic, I have made
cel-surface protelin known as ACE2.
engineering. Specifically, people are point However, while both lab and natural scenar mybest eforts to help explain what the sc
You also said you tound the viruss genome ing to two GGsequences that code 10r 1os are possible, they are not equally ikely entilic evidence Is and suggests, and I have
to be "inconsistent with expectations from the amino acid arginine in the furin cleav- -precedence, data and other evidence no regrets about that.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 D7

Well
PERSONAL HEALTH |
JANE E. BRODY

Living to 100 and Staying Sharp

By studying super-agers, eventhough their brains may have damage
pical or AZeme5, tne eading cause or
researchers hope to learn how dementia. In addition to plaques ana tan
to ward off cognitive declines. inflammation and clogged blood vessels.
People with cognitive resilience are able
oNEOFMYGREATEST Pleasures during the to accumulate higher levels of brain dam-
ndulge in hourlong phone conversations
e erore ceasnmptoms appeary the
witn iriends ana ramily whomi could n0t Yaakov Stern, neuropsychologIst ana a
ee m perS0n. Especauy upintngwere my rector or Cogniuve neurosclence at coum
wice-widowed 94-year-old Minneapolitan. bia University Colege of Physicians and

met Margaret in Minneapolis in i9b3,

ix months after her first husband was
brain pa
uals might be spared much of the
tholoeyypical otAzneimers aisease, resil
children to support, this young widow ent individuais nave what researchets ca

wasted no time getting qualified to teach cone hetter with natholopical chanpes.
German to ngn scno1 Stuents. Margaret Many studies have revealed that a varie
stantly, and despite livinp half a countru yor hestyie ractors may conuridute to reSl
hir sa, no
ence, a
apart since 1965, we've remained devoted
riends now for 58 years. ucation; choosing oceupations that deal
tantive and iluminatfine covering tonics
hat include politics, poetry, plays and phi-
MediterTanean-style diet; engagng m
osopny as wel
P
as amlyin thapleasures
lhe
and
fart that
ehe
people; and exercising regularly.
D Peris saia: "Alzneimersasease is hot
seems not to have lost an iota of her youthful
rain powe. snes as Sharp now as she was y i aforothev die hy do
wnen we
eabout the trajectories of ing the things we know are healthful: exer-
uman cognition suggest that i no pnysical
nsult, like a stroke, intervenes in the next
CRACIA
a ne
LAMCESIng regulariy maintaining
welght, not smokinB, minimang reu
healny
six years, Margaret is destined to be a cog study ot 340 Dutch centenarians living
Alzheimer's disease i to
donatenerrs ane tively new and challenging to the brain, like
Fewer thanpercent of Americans reach be cognitively healthy when they enrolled. 1s not an inevitable vealed that many had substantial neu-rng a new language or a in musical

ee
ands indicate ethat ne
those who achieve that a ns en fOr re
dropped out ot the study returnedoresult
of aging.
DR. THONAS
THOM
RLS
ropatnoloEycomon to people witn
Alzheimers disease altnougn hey na
ument
Alen
ina said Dr Perls.a 60-vear-old who wears
re Heelv to remain so for their remaining follow-up of 19 months. e BOSTON UNIVEKSNIT years bevond 100 P10ur
a nearinE aia. cant emphasze enougn
ears, even if their brains are riddled with he research team, airected Dy Henne Dr. Thomas T. Perls, a geriatrician at Bos how mportan is TOr PeopeO Opamuze
he plaques and tangles that are the hallk Holstege at Vrije University in Amsterdam,
ary that these participants experienced no
ton University who directs the New Enghe a ene aeres
Findingsfrom the Dutch study may
nayeeven- companying editorial, said that the Dutch serving cognitive function. Being stubborm
apou wearng hearng ads
ually pave a patn Tor many more or
ustodecnein maor cogniave measures, except participants represented "the crème de la
nenanans wno nad averted etg
Jut S
STesults n coEnave loSS De
eeO
life span with brains that func vears vounger in overall cognition: ability 090 ucn
f the human her seemed to he either re- with your environment
ion as if they were 30 years younger to make decisions and plans and execute sistant to the disease or cognitively resi- oo, 1S important, especialy Tor
VISIOn,
ne dayeveryone wno 1s paysicaly abie
erereate y drawing a ngure ney et Fernaps botn people who already are cognitavely cha
n o e hean with aertoin leter and not heom Ptarelative ahsene hrain damage
fled aiment worse Dr Perls said AS his
ans, researchers hope to identify character ing easily distracted when performing a conferred by a person's genes or lifestyle. brain-challenging activity, he's taken up
stics and develop treatments that would re
Sult in healthy cognitive aging tor most of
task or geting lostwhen they home
Even those with gees nked to an ee
et they may nave Protective DiologicalDiring.
Orchanisms
that slow brain aging and pae c
reures Dotn BO0a nearnng
her nart. my friend Margaret reads,
o keep our brains in tiptop condition. ease were able to perform well on the tests. Resilience, on the other hand, character- writes and recites poetry and occasionaly
hese hopeul prospects stem irom thee Nearly a third of the parucipants agreedd Zes people with norimal cogntive abiliues acts in a relauves tulms.

DOCTORSS

Two Sisters. The Same Diagnosis.

Only a few years after one hat in common too?
I smiled at her efforts to add some humor
had died of a brain tumor, the to the situation.
other had similar symptoms. read thar hoDlastoma 1s extremely

gery
. By ABDUL-KAREEM AHMED, M.D.

etinbot er
right? she asked.
explained it was rare, but pOSSible.
"My SIster waSn

that causes prob

it
neSne
Ne Do much out

1 introduced myse. The next morning, her nurses brought

This
isnt the same tall guy as Detore, her down to the operatng ro0m, Wnet
They only hire tall people," I said.
wearning masks in every naiway and pa operating table, moving equipment. The an-
ent room,hadthough necessary in the time of esthesiologist skillfully intubated he.
Covd-13, stolen the ramiliariy or a We started by cutting a niarrow ruTOW
hrou
She was in her late 50s, wearing glasses serving as much hair as possible. Cutting
nda D ptd gow g up
bed. she had a rul nead or Sant and pePperpart
the nar Derore making
ot Drn surge t
ncision is a small a
ner right was a gingham-lined picnic sister had and we'd cut it all, her hair might
asket brimming witn reats, COca-Cola never ruuy grow Dack in time. she would
ina ouertDeins CooKies, a local Tavorite, Iorever be marked by her disease.
and than
A few weeks earlier, her life had been rou- cleaned her hair and scaln
ine. As an information technology specia the surgical drapes, created a window
st, she had been working trom home. At where we would work.
riencine weakness in her right le. and then asealnel and we instinctivev stemmedan
in her right arm. bleeding. After folding her scalp back and
notced at nn, er sever
Du
e e Decauseas
xposing made LONARDO SANTAMARIA
Sing amyesk sne 5a noes en nnected tse s
skull. daughter Karen, who hacd dea seven years young people are dying these days, so l'm Some cancers in
ously over the previous few days. "I can't craniotomy, removing a disc of My
nyO S
y darm wa
tet heavy ere n
u
as Karen had succumbed to what is believed the day before. siblings can be
weeghts and bran
dt y tohave been dituse intrinsic pontine glio-orty years ago. the median survival
ma, a rare childhood cancer the brain
explained by genetics
She had gone to the emergency room, brain.
* Co E tme for ghoblastoma was four-and-a-nalr
of But thats usually
where doctors performed a CT scan ot her Uing Surtace eectrooes, and tin Jot or gioblastoma. His daughter had undergone acterized the genetics of glioblastoma and not the case for
heathe seathe toer
acod Arher r h nt
n eernenoudas
mising anv nart of this ribhon wonld result
radiation therapy, which reduces symp
n, Du y nort
studied various vaccines, chemotherapies,
un esE eaps nEw
glioblastoma.

M.RI. scan of her brain provided clarity. in paralysis. ment for this devastating disease, which to- pies and innovative forms of drug delivery
My attending and chiet resident
ACystc mass was lnvading ner lert parä suared day, as then, 1s almost universaly taal totreat the disease. Many steps.
Central lo0e, pt O ner p hereshev met the mass from its flank. Humanity nas planted lags on the moon, he median survival time today 1S about
cet naas yet to pa
**
Sue packed with the millions of neurons was aberrant, alien.
thatt we be realized
tientssurvive more than five vears,
alow us to voluntarily control our muscles. senttheirst piece of t to the patholo- Dagnosis Known, we Bradualy stopped Dereausm 15 Common reeng &mong
Her sister had died of a glioblastomaa
s the most common tumor that arises from
Bstor anaysi5 ically resected
working from within the abnormal tissue
the t
removing more tumor he more tumor youDerosurgen5, Dut o
maintain esove,
meager though it may be. But the quest for morning, our patient was in good spirits, re
it
Drn ussut, and on o une mStena O surgical perfection sometimes comes with a covering well, with good strength. we del-
human cancers. Three people in every narm nealtny Dran tissue ney peeied t
erate work.y o oy
ncons are pacKEd into mere milnmetes Sne salawitn a smile. Sne
"wGS
d Ustyuck
She recounted the story of her sister's di- he phone rang, interrupting the buzzing bly damaging healthy tissue risks the loss of Some cancers in siblings can be ex
rene,SpEtecn, viSOn, neDE ad Ore uneu Dy Beneues, ut nassuy not
mace tha lef idaf her hrain for hich The eimoni oneietemnt
ith lecontimr fr the hlo t ealthndidote eeore tn thie
she had elected surgery. The surgery and ghoblastoma, her voice rang on speaker tumor, far out of reach of any forceps, a ongoing. For so many, it really is bad luck.
,
ass nad et ner weak and unDie to speaK.
Ater tne alagnosis o was
gnoblastoma
p
LIke her SIster, I
eor toin e t
& cnan thougnt
mysel
ost guarantee the cancerrs recurrenCe
Surgical peiecaon is mperect.ne
ur surgical team, along wit Our co
leagues in neuro-oncoloEy and radiation on
nien
py and radiation therapy, the standard of Chazelle's "First Man," a biopic of Neil Arm- We sutured the dura closed, and then ment of chemotherapy and radiation ther-
arew XLEnu Su EwStrong
months. She died a year later, and had never
1here was moment tne
when the astronaut stood at the rim of a
a n m Dlated er Done Dack on.Wn carewe
closed the layers of her skin. In short a
py. But sne dechnedeanent
times and chose palliative care.
munple

he said.
"Me and my sister have everything n es there, but what he did remains a mys- her up to our neurological intensive care She died peacefully four months later,
ommon," she said. "When I heard about tery. The filmmakers had suggested he left unit to recover surrounded by her family, listening to "The
this mass, I said, "Really, we have to have
a bracelet, one that had belonged to his I have seven years on my sister, anda lot Sound of Music" her favorite musical.
 D8 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021

PROFILEs IN SCIENCE

Juliane Diller's Life After Her Two-Mile Fall

CONTINUED FROM PAGE DI woodlice.) Late in 1948, Koepcke was of-
owed. he aireraft had broken apart, fered a jotb at the natural history museum in
SeparatinE her from everyone else on Lima.

longer inside the cabin," Dr. Diller said. lin Eurore wa dificule
was outside, in the open air. hadnt ler tne ticularly problematic for Germans. There
plane; henad et e
plane were no passports, and visas were nard o
which shewas helted snun like the co
winged ach
Peru, D. ad to first
seed of a maple tree
toward thejungle cano get to a port and inveiglehis
his way
way onto a
yFrom above, thne treeropS resembled
hnccoli." rans-Atlantic freighter settin8 off on 1ot,
Dr. Diller recau a. .
he trekked over several mountam ranges,
han
nessalone, under the bench, in a torn prison camp, and finally stowed away in the
nars n ssOrngne
had tallen some 10,000 Teet, nearly two
nod or a cargo snip Dound tor oruguay Dy
DurrownE ntoa pie o rock sait. Wnen ne
landed in dense foliage, cushioning the im- rector two vears after accenting the fioh of-
pact. Julane was tne soe SurvvorOr tne fer, he was told the position had already
crash. D
ed
minor: a hroenollarhon He persevered, anawound up managing
nee and gashes on her right shoulder and ancée followed him in a South Pacific
ert cal, oneeye swolen snut ana nernea0 steamer n 90 ana was nired at the mu
seum, too, eventualy running the ornithol
disappearance of her eyeglasses-she was hids shehas since been memorialized in
nearsightedand one of her open-back ne sclenune names or Tour Feruvlan
sandals.Tlaythere, aimost inRe y n species.
til the next morning," she wrote in her mem-
eL rne
Germany in 2011. "I am completely soaked,
yDuisnen Universally Valid Biological Theory In
6, a Species or lava lzara endemic to
Peru, crolopnus.KOEpcKeorum, was
been pouring rain for a day and a night." and
ne steneu tone ne Panguana Reserve
in

cals 0rds, the In 1968, the Koepckes moved from Lima

croaks of frogs and the buzzing ofinsects. "I
eru. KRIgnt, Junane o an abandoned patcn or prmary torest n
PuanA and realizedI was in the eam il Prents, aria and themiddle or the jungie. pla ne a t
and had survived the crash," Dr. Diller said.
wnatexperenced
shock befouwed h
was noE Tear puta
conceeio
the atural
Mseum n Lima in 960.
Coumn at lert, widre
Histor

o
wthout exploiang .
mals for five vears. exploring the rainforest
"wasnt exacty
thriled by the prospect of being there," Dr.
only a small bag of candy to sustain her, she haan ia leae m echoolmates oit in whatima
SOldlered on througn the rearsome Ama- monkeys; a band-tailed ined would be the gloom under tall trees,
Zon: eight-toot speckled caimans, poison manakin; and an wnose canopy or leaves didnt perimit even a
clumped to her face, ever-present swarms
Amazonian hornea iroog. limmer or sunuign
her new ho
or mosqunoes, rverbed stingrays that, n't dreary at all. "It was gorgeous, an idyll
on,
when stepped instinctively lash out with LA DILE on the river with trees that bloomed blazing
ed, she recalled in her memoir. "There
It was the middle of the wet season, so
there was no iruit wthin reach to pick and ethina a olorious 150-foot-tall
no ury indung w wcn nKe a re upuna tree, also Known as a kapok.
ment Juliane received. For 11 days, despite ne ramily nved in Panguana
with auerman sepnerd, Lobo, and
Tull tinme
à para
the staggering humidity and blast-furnace
neat, Sne walked and waded and swam.
stilts, with a roof of palm thatch. Juliane was
A Haven for Ants and Bats home-schooled ror wo years, receving her
textbooks and homework by mail, until the
es netn
anniversary ot LANSA
Flght 508, the deadiliest lightning-strIke return to Lima to finish high school.
asaster n avlauon nistory. During the in
many.earned a Ph.D. in bioloey and became A Place of Peace and Harmonyy
an eminent 20ologist. In 1989, She marned Dr. Diller's parents instilled in their only
Ench Dier, an entomoogist and an author ness, but the knowledge of the inner work-
standable unease abut aie Teavol che hae ngs or is VOlaeeysem. uyoue

been continually drawn back to Panguana,

lostin the raintorest, tey
usee
he remote conservation outpOst estab- river. where human settlements are likely
eht ns in 1968.
id De
*

to be.
who hasn t spoken publicly about the acc- Their advice proved prescient. in 1971 Ju
ane, niing awayirom tne cras site, came
nded here nt 18 m ntns idence
EMERGENEIA which eventually became a river. On Day 11
atthe station while researching her gradu- neroraeSne stumDe They fed canp
a group of forest workers.intoe
or
her cas
are thesison aiurnalbutterfies and ner dOC
toral dissertation on bats. Nineteen years pro-
wounds to flush out the maggots that pro-
took ower as director of Panguana and pri DE
mary organizer of international expeditions SAUDA next morning he workers t00K ner v
O Tthe reuge On y
1onely iday hike
RBLT RETZ
mw narents. the rainforest
station
ise D. Diller said," vowed that it I staved tire continent of Eurone"Thepreserve has was a sanctuary, a place ot peace and har
alive,I would devote my lite to a meaningul been colonized by all three species of vam-
ause that served nature andhumanity pres. neyeo was mureal teacher leamed
tose old Tn
Atnougn
mans, one dined on tac 1

hat cauise would become Panguana,the Dr Diller's big toe. asS shortcuts and lay out a system
ian trals
Dr. Diller and her fa- or paths wth a compass and roaing ruerto
tarting in the 1970s, rather than suck," she said. "After they
ner ioooled tne govenment to protect tne make a small ncision with their teetn, pro orientmysell in the thick bush. The jungle is
area from clearing huntng and coloniZa teinin their saliva called Draculin acts as an
Eps ne Diood Tiow and, the music of the people who live along
istry of Environment declared Panguana a ing while they feed" ne Amazom and itsS tributares, and tne
privare conservation area. 10 nep acgure Scars that remain irom the plane crash."
adjacent plots ot land, Dr. Diler enisted Return to the Crash Site
demic restricted intemational travei Dr
air
a bakery chain Der described her youth in Peru with
largess of Hofpfisterei, Diler made a point ot visitinE the nature
Dabe ucn, tne property has ex at th
Lima. where her narents rked att
pane trom s ore acres tional
common.
history museum. Earthquakes were uons u eleural
forh ti th I ngIs realy
development at bay. She estimates that as
achieve, said Stefan Stolte, an executive eafa 5 L much as l percent ot Amazonia has been
board member or stterveroan deforested, and laments that vanishing ice,
nonprotit that promotes educauo,
toe
De
Dr. Diller said. "The memories have neipeu
me again and again to Keep a coolneddeven ing the average temperature at Pan-

.
in dificult situations." guana nas sen oydegreeseSiusn tne
Over the past half-century, Panguana has 1l ha dby
midair separation from her mother Her past su yearsare causing its wetands to
date, the llora and auna nave pv voice lowered when she nal Science Adyances warned that the rain-
recounted certa
Ap ve ll, forest may be nearing a dangerous tpping
olic topics as the biology of the Neotropical
orchid genus Catasetum and the protrusile haealon 1d uiveandthat Center, for a documentary to Mr Herzog amid the planes still scat pon
puetomone glands of the luring mantid. noner had indeed died," she said. "Then er tered remains. The most gruesome moment
erve e 500 necie of there was the
moment when iteauzeu tktt revisited the site of the 1971 day in the jungle, wthen she came upon a expect a major forest dieback and a rather
rees (o or them palms), 160 types of rep- 5 ru y
search planes and was CTash she sSurvived asa row of seats. Still strapped in were a woman enevottsoengeseDro
savanna. Ihat would lead to
feeling hird feeling dying without ever having done
of sho et ADOVe
Is DE Diller
women wno nad landed headfirst, with Dy degraded
mas na's from the anything of significance in my young re Bavarian S
SUch torCe tmat u
ErOUnd, 1eEs Jung Boesueiy
emissions, which is why the preservaaon or
local word for the undulated tinamou, a ne acnieveu a Tec ae oOlogy in Municn, Germany. s gen anu
upward. EFEruvn Trnoest is
species of ground bird common to the Ama-
zon basin. Dr. DulerS1vo
o
which the teenage Dr. Diller is portrayed as
She
wec
recently retired as
S upuy
the
urectOr
"It was horrifying," she told me. "I didn't
want to touch them, Dut I wanted to mäake
dD Diller's rdshi
guana has increased its outreach to neiph
1ana
sterchen-or Little Pillow- because of its a hysterical dingbat. She avoidedis the news S d one of her feet boring Indigenous communities oY provid
mediafor many years after, and still stung scnooinOuse ana
piunage Careruuy so could see the toenails. They
"Panguana ofers outstaannng co lontem of human activitv on the
times wildly inaccurate. According to an ac- were polished, and I took a deep breath. My
mother never used polish on her nails"
efects
as a home base with excellent infrastruc- count in Lite magane m rainforest's biodiversity and climate
s a startng point into the prima ug d
tet o vnes ana with Mr. Herzog was"Wings of Hope" an change.
ry rainlorest Just a lew yards away sad
nsetdinE nim that, filtered through Mr. Eeung ne surrounding pop-
varian State Collection for Zoology, Munich. Wreckage and implied, from an interview
Its extraordinary biodiversity is a 'Garden cnducteu durinner recovery, tnat sne
tsthe strange and s
terribie beauy
o au tecting its environment," she said. "Species
and climate protecuon will oniy work u e
of Eden' for scientists, and a source of yield-was
Entomologists
98, hen she arn nneene tic," Dr. Diller said. "At the timeof the crash,
no one offered me any formal counseling or
eaeunto tne projects, have
conditions and the cooperation is transpar
have cataloged a teeming was approached by the movie director Wer
ner erzog. wno noped to turn ner sur psychologIcAl heip. 1naa no 10ea ha was
ent." And so she plans to go back, anu con-
array of insects on the ground and in the
PUSSOe o even get help."
eetops O PAnguana, ineiuding butterties
(more than bo0 species), orenra DeeEs
VIvOTS StOy ntoà documentary for Ger tunue returning, once
Fiy years arter
ar Duers raumato
travet alows.
D
h while scontinu Lima or Bust d to
Verhaagh of the Natural History Museum ocations tor his histoncal drama Aguirre Dr. Diler attributes her tenacity to her fa- look back on her life and know that it has
in Karlsruhe, Germany, identified
520he wrath or God He told her, For al nean5-eioepce 5ing achieved purpose and meaning Just to
species o ants. (S0 much for picnics at know, we may have bumped elbows in the won ave helped people and to have done some-
Miic
While working on her dissertation, DE Diller traveled to Peru and
Intrig ued, I Sity e, where both were biology stu was allowed to survive" she said with a
Diller documented 52 species of bats at the was lown by helicopter to the crash site, dents. (Her Ph.D. hesis deal with the co IcKer ot a smile. And 1or hati am so
reserve. "We now know of 56," she said. "By where she recounted the harrowing details oration ot wild and domestic doves; his, grateful."