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trade deal is seen as a true win or a capit
happening communications for ulation.
are no better the People’s Vote The emerging pact tries to resolve
than even. campaign for a sec longstanding concerns about Beijing’s
ond referendum, put
it to me: “The prob
lem with Brexit is not Theresa May. The
problem with Brexit is Brexit.”
Here we are. Brexit is not doable
Hindu surge divides India economic practices, including forcing
American companies to turn over valu
able technology as a condition of doing
business in China and restricting Ameri
can firms from participating in certain
because it makes no sense, whatever my ancestors have lived here hundreds has never been more enfranchised at ev mystical river that features prominently industries. But business leaders are
NEW DELHI
the prime minister’s scattershot efforts of years?” ery level of government. in Hindu scriptures. Critics called it closely watching to see exactly how
or offers to resign. You can hoodwink “Brother, let me tell you,” Mr. Adnan Now, with national elections under pseudoscience and said the search was American negotiators will ensure that
people — but not if you give them three added with a sigh, “I live with fear in my way, and with most polling data indicat akin to using public dollars to study China holds to its commitments.
years to reflect on how they were hood Muslims fear that if Modi heart.” ing that Mr. Modi will return to power, mermaids. The United States is pushing for a
winked before doing the deed the hood
winking was about.
wins re-election, far-right When Narendra Modi, India’s prime
minister, was elected in 2014, it was with
the growing belief here is that a divisive
Hindufirst agenda will only accelerate.
The consensus among Indian activ
ists and liberal political analysts is that
broad commitment that would allow
American tariffs on Chinese goods to
The British cannot actually go agenda will only accelerate broad support for his sweeping prom The emboldening effect became ap their society, under Mr. Modi, has be snap back if China violates key promises
through with something that will lower ises to modernize India’s economy, fight parent within months of the 2014 elec come more toxically divided between — without permitting China to retaliate
their incomes, make them poorer, lose BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN,
corruption and aggressively assert In tion. Hindu lynch mobs began to pop up Hindus and Muslims, between upper in response. So far, Chinese leaders have
them jobs, drain investment, expose KAI SCHULTZ, SUHASINI RAJ dia’s role in the world. Five years later, across the landscape, killing Muslims and lower castes, between men and been reluctant to agree to an enforce
their market to trade deals over which AND HARI KUMAR he is widely seen as having made at and lowercaste people suspected of women. ment mechanism that would leave their
they would have no say, and — just an least some progress on those issues. slaughtering cows, a sacred animal un “In plain language, they are what we economic future at the mercy of Ameri
afterthought — lead to the breakup of In the machine tools market in the cata That secular agenda was always en der Hinduism. Most often, they have now call communal fascists,” said can politicians.
Britain. combs of Old Delhi, Muslims dominate twined with Mr. Modi’s roots within a gotten away with it. Aditya Mukherjee, a retired historian, In a hearing in March, Robert Lighthi
They cannot even if President Trump the business stalls. conservative Hindu political movement Hate speech began to proliferate. So referring to Mr. Modi and his political al zer, Mr. Trump’s top negotiator leading
calls the European Union “brutal” as he But at night, they say, they are in that strives to make India a Hindu state. did the use of internet trolls to shut down lies. the China talks, said the United States
enfolds gentle Kim Jongun of North creasingly afraid to walk alone. And Many of his more moderate supporters critics. “This is something that Jawaharlal had to maintain the right to be able to
Korea in a love embrace. To live is also to when they talk politics, their voices drop hoped he might set the sectarianism Government bodies began rewriting Nehru had predicted,” Mr. Mukherjee raise tariffs “in situations where there’s
COHEN, PAGE 11 to a whisper. aside. history books, lopping out sections on said, referring to India’s first prime min violations of the agreement.”
“I could be lynched right now and no But over the past five years, his bloc, Muslim rulers, changing official place ister. “He said if fascism ever came to In “That’s the core,” he added. “If we
The New York Times publishes opinion body would do anything about it,” said the Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., has names to Hindu from Muslim, and more dia it would come in the form of majori don’t do that, then none of it makes any
from a wide range of perspectives in Abdul Adnan, a Muslim who sells drill been spreading an usversusthem phi aggressively contesting holy sites. They tarian Hindu communalism. That is ex difference.”
hopes of promoting constructive debate bits. “My government doesn’t even con losophy in a country already riven by also began pushing extremist Hindu pri actly what is happening.” Mr. Lighthizer and other White House
about consequential questions. sider me Indian. How can that be when dangerous divisions. The Hindu right orities, including an effort to locate a INDIA, PAGE 4 TRADE, PAGE 8
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China’s young shrug in the face of layoffs
CHINA DISPATCH
CHONGQING, CHINA
But with car sales plunging as the Chi Above, after being laid off from a Ford factory in Chongqing, Huang Lincai, 23, became a
nese economy slows, Mr. Huang and health club attendant. He took a pay cut, but his rent is inexpensive and he’s optimistic
thousands of his coworkers were laid about his prospects. Even with China’s economy slowing, Chongqing, left, is prospering.
off in January at Ford’s factories, which
are part of a joint venture with a Chong
qing automaker. After crossing the Jialing River, the Huang’s, that meant only one parking
Far from panicking at his misfortune, bus drove north to the factory through space for every six or seven apart
he used his five months of severance open countryside on a broad, mostly ments.
pay to hang out for a few weeks with empty highway. Scant parking means the clean, mod
friends and ponder career options, like Today, the land from the river to ern subway and monorail are heavily
maybe joining a friend’s startup draw Ford’s assembly plants — and for many used.
ing cartoons on computers. He has now LAM YIK FEI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES miles beyond — has urbanized. Apart But it is not helping local car sales, as
taken a job as a health club attendant, ment towers alternate with landscaped evidenced by the job cuts at Ford.
joining China’s booming service sector, Floor after floor of the surrounding What makes the current optimism of Less than two years ago while serving parks. And it’s not just automakers that are
although he makes less than he did at buildings are filled with attractive young people like Mr. Huang so striking, as Chongqing’s leader, Sun Zhengcai, The huge amount of construction has struggling. Chongqing’s latest test is not
Ford. restaurants, offering excellent meals for and the livability of today’s city so sur once seen as a potential successor to kept rents cheap. of warfare or of politics, but of econom
“I don’t want to go back to any factory less than $10 a person. Go to a less fash prising, is that much of Chongqing’s his President Xi Jinping, was accused of Mr. Huang, who likes to wear a green ics.
again — it’s boring, it’s not what I ionable neighborhood and a big plate of tory over the past century has been corruption and of plotting against the windbreaker with colorful patches, pays Recently dismissed workers
thought,” Mr. Huang said. freshly made dumplings and soup costs grim. Communist Party. $75 a month for his nearly 500square thronged a hiring hall in February. But
That youthful confidence of always less than $2. Chongqing was the capital of China Mr. Sun was sentenced to life in pris foot apartment. His apartment is half many booths normally staffed by em
being able to find work is not unusual in Zigzagging over and under the city’s during World War II. Large areas were on. way up a 30story highrise, several ployers were empty.
China these days. A younger generation steep hills and even through buildings is flattened or burned by Japanese incen Amid these political upheavals miles north of the Ford factories. The Local factories “are facing great diffi
has come to expect prosperity. They in the world’s longest and busiest monorail diary bombs, with an extremely heavy Chongqing continued to grow, becoming neighborhood did not exist when he was culty; some may even close,” said Mei
creasingly look for personal fulfillment line. Under the ground is an extensive loss of civilian lives. Then during the a very different place than it was 16 a boy. Mei, a personnel manager for a local
as well. subway system. The monorail and sub Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, years ago, when Ford’s first assembly Mr. Huang earned about $1,000 a auto parts manufacturer. Her employer
Yet as the Ford layoffs show, eco way were almost entirely built in the last there was deadly fighting between plant in China opened here. month at Ford. So his low rent left a lot of cut its own hiring in half and slashed the
nomic warning signs are starting to 15 years. heavily armed Red Guard factions in The downtown area, tucked between disposable income. He could save annual Chinese New Year bonus by 90
emerge in China. Inflation has gradually The city’s roots are still visible — lit Chongqing. the two rivers, was moldering and over money, eat out frequently and dote on percent, she added.
crept up. Economic growth has slowly erally. Ancient banyan trees drop roots When Bo Xilai ran the city nearly a crowded. Not enough bridges or tunnels his Renegade motorcycle. Mr. Huang is not worried. He spends a
eroded. from branches into pockets of soil on the decade ago, his police imprisoned doz had been built to allow large numbers of One feature of Chongqing has not lot of time with his motorcycle, thinking
For now, though, even with the recent city’s rocky slopes. ens of local business leaders in the name people to live on the far banks. The sub turned out the way Ford expected: about what he wants to do with the rest
job losses, Chongqing is prospering. Barges loaded with sand, freshly cut of fighting organized crime. The police way had not yet opened. There’s not much parking. of his life.
A huge pedestrian plaza in the Guany tree trunks and other goods move up confiscated their assets and sometimes For the assembly plant’s opening cer Until recently, developers were only “I just ride to the riverside,” he said,
inqiao neighborhood pulses with lights and down the muddy Yangtze River and tortured them. Mr. Bo ended up sen emony, Ford chartered a bus to bring a required to build one parking space for “and enjoy the scene.”
and crowds even on weekday nights. the equally murky Jialing River, which tenced to life in prison for taking bribes, group of executives and journalists to every 3,200 square feet of apartments.
The trees are illuminated with lanterns. meet in the heart of Chongqing. embezzlement and abuse of power. the event. With many apartments the size of Mr. Ailin Tang contributed research.
world
world
President Omar Hassan alBashir loved
to tell the story about his broken tooth.
As a schoolboy working on a con
struction site, he told supporters in Jan
uary, he fell and broke the tooth while
carrying a heavy load. Instead of seek
ing treatment, he rinsed his mouth with
saltwater and kept working.
Later, after he joined the army, he re
fused a silver tooth implant because he
wanted to remember his hardships.
“This one,” he said, pointing to a gap in
his mouth, as supporters erupted into
laughter.
The story was a way for Mr. alBashir,
who was ousted Thursday after 30 years
of ironfisted rule over Sudan, to play up
his humble origins — to show that he re
mained a man of the people who, like
him, hailed from dusty farming villages LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS
on the Nile. Left, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, center, in 2009, a day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant over war crimes. Right, calling for Mr. al-Bashir’s ouster on Tuesday in Khartoum.
The folksy image was a jarring con
trast with Mr. alBashir’s image in the
West, where he was often seen as a On Thursday morning, the military Shariah law deep in Sudan’s diverse so the politics of the army,” he said. and shiny buildings rose in Khartoum. 2017 might have helped Mr. alBashir.
heartless warmonger, as a coddler of ousted him, ending his 30year rule in ciety and institutions. Mr. alBashir used a similar approach “Those were the fat years,” said But the United States State Department
terrorists like Osama bin Laden and as the face of the sweeping demonstra International jihadists flocked to Su to manage provincial leaders and tribal Magdi elGizouli, a fellow at the Rift Val kept Sudan on its list of terrorism spon
the accused architect of a genocidal tions. It said it had taken Mr. alBashir dan in that period, among them Osama chiefs, Mr. de Waal added. “Most of them ley Institute. sors, stymieing foreign investment. By
purge in Darfur that killed hundreds of into custody, dissolved the government bin Laden, who bought a house in an up became militarized and enmeshed in In 2005, under international pressure, 2018 Sudan’s economy was in freefall,
thousands of people. Since 2009, the In and suspended the Constitution. market Khartoum district and invested one of the popular defense forces. He Mr. alBashir signed a peace deal with with an inflation rate of 72 percent, long
ternational Criminal Court has sought to Representatives of the principal pro in agriculture and construction. In 1993, has that extraordinary network, and it’s the southern rebels, overcoming opposi lines at fuel stations and even a shortage
arrest him on war crimes charges that test group, the Sudanese Professionals the United States blacklisted the Bashir all in his head.” tion from his hardliners who wanted to of bank notes. The urban middle classes,
include murder, rape and extermina Association, which had been expecting a government as an international sponsor That style of personalist autocracy keep fighting. But by then another up dismayed to see their living standards
tion. statement from the military and were of terrorism, and it imposed sanctions was put to use in battling the insurgency rising had erupted in western Darfur collapsing, revolted.
But global notoriety was never much preparing to negotiate a transition to ci four years later. in southern Sudan, where rebels from that would define his legacy. A protest against the soaring price of
of a problem for Mr. alBashir, 75, at vilian rule, greeted the announcement In 1999, after a fallingout, Mr. alBa different ethnic groups with Christian or There, a progovernment militia bread in Atbara on Dec. 19 quickly
home in Sudan, a vast African country with disappointment. shir outmaneuvered Mr. alTurabi and animist beliefs were fighting for inde known as the Janjaweed cut a bloody spread to towns and cities across the
with a long history of war and suffering. “What has been just stated is for us a cast him into prison. He turned back to swath through remote villages, quelling country and were led by doctors and
He outwitted rivals who underesti coup, and it is not acceptable,” said Sara the army to underwrite his authority, an insurgency led by rebels. At least other professionals. Public anger grew
mated him, steered a decadelong oil Abdelgalil, a spokeswoman for the forging relationships that spanned the The oil money was running low, 300,000 people are estimated to have as young doctors, some from wealthy
boom that swelled Sudan’s middle group. “Our request for a civilian transi military, the security forces and the the economy was in tatters and died. families, were killed.
classes, and forged a network of securi tional government has been ignored.” country’s tribal leadership. young Sudanese, in particular, Mr. Bashir is facing two arrest war In January, Mr. alBashir contemptu
ty forces and armed militias to fight his Born into a farming family in a village Mr. alBashir assiduously attended rants from the International Criminal ously dismissed the protesters, telling
wars that some likened to a spider’s web 100 miles north of Khartoum, the capital, the funerals and weddings of military of
had had enough. Court for charges in the Darfur conflict the “rats to go back to their holes” and
with Mr. alBashir at its center. Mr. alBashir served as a paratroop ficers, often sending presents of sugar, that include genocide. He was the first saying he would move aside only for an
That carefully constructed edifice of commander in the army. In 1989, he tea or dried goods to their families. He pendence. During the 21year war, the sitting head of state to be targeted with other army officer, or at the ballot box.
power crumbled over the past week as headed an Islamist junta that ousted held an open house once a week where Sudanese air force dropped crude barrel an arrest warrant by the Haguebased Like many military rulers, Mr. alBa
thousands of protesters massed outside Prime Minister Sadiq alMahdi in a commissioned officers could drop in and bombs over remote villages in the south court. shir liked to claim that power had been
his Khartoum residence, chanting slo bloodless coup, Sudan’s fourth military meet with him, said Alex de Waal, a pro and sided with vicious local militias re In 2011, South Sudan voted to secede, foisted upon him, and that he wielded it
gans and braving gunfire as rival gangs takeover since independence in 1956. fessor at the Fletcher School of Law and cruited by Mr. alBashir and his officers. becoming an independent country and reluctantly. “This country does not en
of soldiers exchanged fire. The oil For the first decade of his rule, Diplomacy at Tufts University, and an At the same time, Sudan discovered taking with it threequarters of Sudan’s courage anyone to enjoy power,” he said
money was running low, the economy though, Mr. alBashir was seen as a expert on Sudan. oil. After the first barrels were pumped oil reserves. As revenues dried up, Su after he seized control in 1989. “This
was in tatters and young Sudanese, in frontman for a more powerful force — “He’s like the spider at the center of in 1999, living standards gradually rose dan’s economy weakened badly, and Mr. country is exhausted. It has collapsed
particular, had had enough. The spider the cleric Hassan alTurabi, a smooth the web — he could pick up on the small in one of Africa’s most desperately poor alBashir started to face serious opposi and fallen.”
had to go. talking, Sorbonneeducated ideologue est tremor, then deftly use his person countries. New roads appeared, remote tion. Critics say he left Sudan in much the
“Just fall, that is all!” they chanted. with sweeping ideas about embedding alized political retail skills to manage villages gained water and electricity, The lifting of American sanctions in same condition.
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Business
Investors are craving
any piece of Aramco
off major banks like JPMorgan Chase
LONDON
and Morgan Stanley, which are leading
the offering, and other banks in support
ing roles. JPMorgan and Morgan Stan
Demand for bonds ley declined to comment.
from Saudi oil giant far “To the extent that Mohammed bin
Salman has become persona non grata
surpassed expectations in the West doesn’t make Saudi Arabia
persona non grata,” said Chas W. Free
BY STANLEY REED man Jr., a former United States ambas
AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED sador to Riyadh.
In early April, Aramco released a pro
When executives from Saudi Aramco, spectus showing it was the world’s most
the giant oil company in Saudi Arabia, profitable company in 2018, with $111 bil
pitched prospective investors on the lion in net income and very little debt.
company’s first international bond of Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service
fering, they were shown the red carpet gave the company a strong credit rating
everywhere. of A1, the same as the Saudi govern
In central London in the past week, in ment. Had Aramco been an independent
vestors crowded into a room at the up company, it would have earned a higher
scale Corinthia Hotel to hear details of rating, Moody’s said.
the deal. In New York, Jamie Dimon, the That has made the bond offering a hot
chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, ticket for investors.
made a rare appearance to talk up the “The more someone doesn’t need
bond sale. money, the more we want to give it to
All signs are that investors are eager them,” Reza Karim, an assistant fund
for any piece of Aramco they can get — manager for emerging market debt at
despite concerns about how closely its Jupiter Asset Management, said in an
fortunes are tied to its owner, the gov interview.
ernment of Saudi Arabia, and Crown Some analysts said that Aramco’s his
Prince Mohammed bin Salman. tory — it was founded by Standard Oil of
Prince Mohammed’s connection to California — and reputation as a West
the murder of a prominent journalist ernstyle business in the staunchly con
and dissident, Jamal Khashoggi, caused servative kingdom made it attractive to
a storm among politicians and members international investors.
of the news media. Yet demand for
Aramco bonds has topped $60 billion,
HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS said a person briefed on the matter who
With a new Brexit extension announced, “lots of small businesses are in wait-and-see mode,” a spokesman for Britain’s Federation of Small Businesses said. declined to be identified because he was
not authorized to speak publicly about
the deal. The amount far surpasses the
grounding of its 737 Max,” according to a
The company and airlines report by Bloomberg Intelligence,
that rely on its planes are which estimated that the cost of law
suits and reimbursements could total
scrambling to adjust $1.9 billion in just six months. Est.
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Opinion
Is Julian Assange’s arrest a threat to free press?
He deserves
his fate,
but it sets a
dangerous
precedent. Michelle Goldberg
Last November, federal prosecutors
accidentally revealed, in an unrelated
court document, that a sealed indict
ment had been filed against WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange. Many people
concerned with civil liberties, includ
ing some who despise Assange, were
alarmed by the idea that he could be
punished for his role in exposing
American government secrets. “If
Assange can be prosecuted merely for
publishing leaked classified docu
ments, every single media outlet is at
risk of prosecution for doing the exact
same thing,” the lawyer Bradley P.
Moss wrote in The Atlantic.
At the time, the public didn’t know
what the actual charges were. Now
that Assange has been dragged from
the Ecuadorean Embassy in London,
where he’s lived for almost seven
years, and is facing extradition to the
United States, we do. He’s been in
dicted for conspiracy to commit com
puter intrusion, a result of his alleged
attempts nearly a decade ago to help
former Army intelligence analyst
Chelsea Manning crack a password to
a government computer.
These charges do not pose quite the
threat to a free press that some feared,
because hacking is not standard jour
nalistic practice. “The indictment does
not charge Assange for the act of
publishing, which would have been a
serious Rubicon crossed,” Ben Wizner,
director of the American Civil Liberties
Union’s project on speech, privacy and
technology, told me.
But, as Wizner emphasizes, that EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK
doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried
about what Donald Trump’s Justice antiSemitism. He might be known as Miller, a former Justice Department dor was less willing to turn Assange part of Assange’s alleged crime. Julian Assange,
Department is up to. Elements of the an information anarchist, but by help spokesman, told The Washington Post over. “There’s no reason to bring a “It was part of the conspiracy that the founder of
Assange indictment could still set a ing Trump become president, he be in 2013. case against him when you can’t actu Assange and Manning took measures WikiLeaks, was
dangerous precedent. came a handmaiden to authoritarian When Miller said that, the facts ally put your hands on him,” said to conceal Manning as the source of arrested Thurs-
I don’t say that out of any sympathy ism. underlying the current hacking charge Miller. And while he believes that the the disclosure of classified records to day at the Ecua-
for Assange, an odious person who So Assange may well deserve to go were already known. During Man hacking charge is justified, he said, WikiLeaks,” says the indictment. Most dorean Embassy
initially sought refuge in the embassy to prison. What’s troubling, however, is ning’s trial in 2011, military prosecu “This is not the world’s strongest if not all investigative journalists take in London, where
to dodge charges stemming from an that his indictment treats ordinary tors revealed chat logs in which Man case.” such measures to protect their he had lived
alleged sexual assault in Sweden. In news gathering processes as elements ning asked Assange for help cracking But the Justice Department’s desire sources. The indictment says, “It was since 2012.
the 2016 election, Assange acted as a of a criminal conspiracy. the password. There was no indication, to nail Assange for publishing informa part of the conspiracy that Assange
conduit for Russian intelligence serv The Obama administration made a then or now, that Assange succeeded; tion leaked by Manning never went encouraged Manning to provide infor
ices that had hacked emails from top decision that it couldn’t prosecute the Assange indictment says only that away. Miller said that both former mation and records from departments
Democrats. He helped spread the Assange for disseminating classified the password “would have allowed” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and and agencies of the United States.”
conspiracy theory that the leaked information without threatening the Manning to access government com Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosen Journalists often do this when they
Democratic emails were actually re First Amendment. “The problem the puters without entering her own user stein wanted to take a new look at the urge whistleblowers to come forward.
leased by Seth Rich, who worked for department has always had in investi name. case. It’s a relief that they found a way “It was part of the conspiracy that
the Democratic National Committee gating Julian Assange is there is no On Thursday, Miller told me there to make the case without a frontal Assange and Manning used a special
and who was murdered in 2016. Surely way to prosecute him for publishing could be several reasons the Obama assault on journalistic prerogatives. folder on a cloud drop box of Wiki
Assange knew this wasn’t true. There information without the same theory Justice Department didn’t pursue a Still, if you read the indictment, a lot of Leaks” to transmit classified informa
is ample evidence of his misogyny and being applied to journalists,” Matthew hacking indictment. At the time, Ecua things that journalists do routinely are GOLDBERG, PAGE 11
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For a week, the harbor of this island of the rich and famous becomes a forest of masts
Unforgettable
editions
Left, the first day of
racing at Les Voiles
de St. Barth in
2018. Months
before, Hurricane
Irma destroyed
much of the island’s
beachfront and the
race’s organizers
weren’t sure if it
could still take
place. But, “it was
really important for
the island and for
everybody’s morale
that we were able to
move forward and
do the event,” said
the race director,
Luc Poupon.
CHRISTOPHE JOUANY
CALIBER RM 60-01
REGATTA
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www.richardmille.com
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science lab
A P R O B L E M O F T E C H N I Q U E
Romeo the frog is lovestruck, but he’s a little fuzzy on the birds and the bees
The story of Romeo, the last Sehuencas water frog, once for their species. The first date was so successful that the Romeo, above at right with Juliet, is giving up his worm
seemed like an environmental tragedy. He appeared des- frogs have been living together in Romeo’s aquarium ever meals for her and trying his best to perfect amplexus. But
tined to live as a bachelor, passing with his kind into extinc- since. after a decade of solitude, “he needs more practice,” said
tion. But then biologists found Romeo’s Juliet and took her To mate, frogs embrace in a position called amplexus: Teresa Camacho Badani, a herpetologist who found Juliet.
to Romeo’s home at a Bolivian museum to see whether The male frog clings to the female until he can fertilize her The scientists are trying to breed four other Sehuencas wa-
they would hit it off. eggs as she lays them. During this time, the male often ter frogs captured (two males; two females) at about the
If their mating is productive, it could mean restored hope won’t eat — for weeks or even months. same time Juliet was found. JOANNA KLEIN
B A SS O P R O F U N D O
“I don’t think any
A whale species
of us will ever that is more easily
forget it, honestly.” heard than seen
Cameron Walker, of Oregon
Health and Science University, In 2015, Salvatore Cerchio found ex
on dissecting a cadaver whose amples of a new whale species in the
internal organs were placed wild. Now, he has mapped the habitat
exactly opposite of where they of that species, called Omura’s whale.
should have been. The surprise is that the whales,
though seldom seen, are widespread.
Dr. Cerchio compiled reports of
sightings off Madagascar, Japan,
M A R T I A N E C L I P S E S Australia, Brazil and the coasts of
Darker days Indonesia, among others. One reason
they are noticed now: Christopher W.
on the Red Planet Clark, an expert in whale acoustics,
said recorders could now be posi
tioned at the bottom of the sea for 12
months at a time and had been able to
detect a wide range of tones, enabling
them to hear the low notes of Omura’s
whales.
Dr. Cerchio said the whales sang at
such a low frequency that when he
was in their habitat, he felt rather
than heard the patterns of their
songs. KAREN WEINTRAUB
GABRIEL BARATHIEU/BIOSPHOTO, VIA ALAMY
TA K I N G T H E P LU N G E But what helped turn them into
When seals decided marine mammals is a tale riddled
with holes.
to leave the beach
Recently, two researchers study
and dine at sea ing prehistoric seal fossils and
Oceans today are home to a variety remains of modern species fit a
of seals. The family includes leopard new piece into the puzzle.
seals that dart through Antarctic surf They reported that some contem
in pursuit of penguins and Hawaiian porary seals attack and bite their
monk seals, like the one at right, that prey using much the same tech
lounge on sunny shores. nique as their ancestors did long
But how did seals first take the ago.
evolutionary dive into the oceans Their finding suggests that an
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS
more than 30 million years ago? cient seals were able to adapt a
Paleontologists know seals’ ancient landbased feeding strategy to a
The cameras of NASA’s Curiosity rover ancestors lived and walked on land. marine environment. LUCAS JOEL MARK BAKER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
usually look down at the rocks on
Mars, searching in the minerals for ONLINE: TRILOBITES
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Sometimes the rover also looks up. Gene-editing tool cently.
In March, it spotted two eclipses. It took scientists about two years to
is brought to bear figure out how to gain access to the
Eclipses on Mars are not quite as total
on tricky new subject reproductive system of the lizards in
as those sometimes seen on Earth
Scientists have been altering the genes the desired way.
when the moon blots out the sun. The
of mice, pigs, goats, chickens and The scientists could have altered a
two moons of Mars are small: Phobos
butterflies for quite some time. But variety of genes, but they focused on
is 17 miles wide, Deimos just 9 miles. while Crispr, a transformative gene the mutation that codes for albinism, in
They block the sun only partially when editing tool, made seemingly impossi large part because that tweak is visual.
they pass in front of it. ble genetic alterations possible, rep Producing an albino lizard would show
The camera on Curiosity’s mast has tiles remained untouched. their gene editing had been successful.
solar filters that allow it to look di That changed with the birth of a They thought it would take at least
rectly at the sun and photograph nearly transparent Anolis lizard, the two generations to get there, how
eclipses. KENNETH CHANG HANNAH SCHRIEVER/UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA first geneedited reptile, according to ever. HEATHER MURPHY
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The crash, the fall and the road back
back operations and myriad offcourse
AUGUSTA, GA.
embarrassments.
“I had chills,” he said of that gallery on
BY BILL PENNINGTON the 18th hole seven months ago.
It was his 80th tour title, and yet
The 10th anniversary of the Thanksgiv Woods said of that victory, “I didn’t
ing night car crash that changed the know if I could ever get there again, and
course of golf history is months away. lo and behold, I got there again.”
But as a smiling Tiger Woods exited the He also freely revealed his vulnerabil
Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse ity, something that 10 years ago hap
after a practice round to cheers and ap pened as often as he sixputted a green.
plause, it was not too soon to consider Queried about the reliability of his
his renaissance since the fall from grace putting, Woods insisted he was still a
that began when his then wife chased strong putter, but one with a problem.
her philandering husband from their “The hardest part is I just can’t prac
home and he drove his S.U.V. into a tice like I used to,” he said. “My back
neighbor’s tree. gets sore. I just can’t log in the time that I
It also might be an occasion to ob used to, and that goes with every part of
serve how cultural status can be re my game.”
couped with demonstrated, untiring The invincible Tiger Woods was not
perseverance. Woods kept showing up. only admitting to a weakness, he was
There is power, too, in being a wildly smiling about it.
popular sports figure transformed into “It was a little bit easier when I could
an underdog who struck rock bottom: work on everything,” he said with a grin.
Two years ago, he was charged with “But that’s no longer the case. You know,
driving under the influence as he sat I just can’t do all the things all the time
asleep in a painkiller haze at the wheel anymore.”
of his car with the motor running. He lat Woods, now ranked 12th in the world,
er pleaded guilty to reckless driving. believes in his chances at Augusta. He
Whatever the lens to view Woods’s knows the course better than any other
current fate, it helps to revisit a scene in top golfer in the field. He is convinced of
2010 at Woods’s first competitive ap the mental fortitude provided by the mo
pearance after five months of blaring mentum he gained last season when he
tabloid headlines about extramarital af held a finalround lead at the British
fairs that forever besmirched his legacy. Open, contended late in the P.G.A.
The scene was similar to Tuesday’s, with Championship and won the final event
Woods emerging from the Augusta Na of the tour calendar. This season, in five
tional clubhouse for the 30yard walk to events, he has had four top20 finishes,
the first tee, where he began a practice and he opened the Masters on Thursday
round on the eve of the Masters. with a strong twounderpar 70.
But in 2010, a stonefaced Woods was Moreover, Woods, credibly and palpa
met not with shouts and clapping but bly, is no longer haunted by the most in
with an eerie stillness. Only a few hun glorious chapter of his past. He’s O.K.
dred spectators had gathered for his 8 with looking backward. He knows he
a.m. tee time, and they noiselessly par MIKE EHRMANN/GETTY IMAGES
made a lot of mistakes.
ted to give him access to the course. Tiger Woods during a practice round at Augusta National Golf Club. Woods, ranked 12th in the world, believes in his chances to win his 15th major championship at the Masters. This past week, he announced that at
No fourtime Masters champion had the 2019 Masters he would once again
ever been treated with such indifference wear the collarless mock neck pullover
at Augusta National, nor will one likely woods left of the first fairway, and he Worse, a day earlier, Billy Payne, then But the Augusta National scene on He thought he would win more, he he made famous in his prime. He will
be again. The pretournament conjecture marched off in haste after the uncom the Augusta National chairman, had de Tuesday found Woods humbled and said, adding, “But unfortunately, I just don a version of it in all four rounds, he
was that Woods would be a target of monly ugly outcome. livered a harsh rebuke, saying Woods changed in ways unimaginable from the didn’t do it.” said. That’s what he wore in 2005, the
heckling and snide comments. Instead, Woods had reason for feeling espe did not live up to role model expecta 2010 Masters. Yes, he is still chasing a Repeatedly, he acknowledged a new last time he won the Masters.
he received the silent treatment. cially anxious. A glut of security officers tions and had “disappointed all of us, 15th major championship, but tellingly, — or is it rediscovered? — embrace of “I thought it was a pretty neat look
Perhaps Woods believed the famous flanked him on every step, including and more important, our kids and our he seems less frantic about that pursuit the sport’s fans. He talked about the back in the day,” he said on Tuesday.
serenity of Augusta National’s pristine armed sheriffs, unarmed guards and grandkids.” than ever. Asked if he would have ex surging gallery that enveloped him on All these years later, there was little
grounds could bring some tranquillity to plainclothes police officers. The whirl Not a great day for the world’s top pected such a lengthy major drought, the concluding hole of last year’s Tour left to hide.
his then rancorous life, but he appeared ing of television news helicopters cir ranked golfer, who had won 14 major Woods calmly answered, “Yeah, I would Championship, when he won his first “I was probably in a little better shape
only nervous and uneasy. cling overhead provided a constant championships and was still expected to say that I wouldn’t have foreseen that, PGA Tour event in five years, a triumph back in those days,” he said. “But I won
His opening tee shot rocketed into the noisy soundtrack to his presence. vault past the record, Jack Nicklaus’s 18. for sure.” that seemed to eclipse the travail of four events wearing the mock.”
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In a neighborhood in need,
a painter finds a home for
himself and other artists
BY PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
style weekend
seen as the color of new beginnings, the In each case, the images derive their
‘It’s going to be color of American and British suffrag
ists and the color adopted most recently
by the women of the United States Con
power in part from the sheer quotidian
nature of the individual, armored not in
defensive gear or in depersonalizing
the image of the revolution’ gress, who wore white to the State of the
Union address earlier this year to dem
onstrate their own solidarity and mo
military garb but in the clothes of the ev
eryday.
It’s one of the ways viewers connect to
ther way, her picture has had resonance ment of change. the figures in the frame; they feel imme
Some photos, like ‘the woman far beyond its place of origin. “The response has been phenome diate, and recognizable, because they
in a white thoub,’ have great resonance “I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the im
age of the revolution,” said Hind Makki,
nal,” said Ms. Makki of reaction to her
posts. “It’s a little overwhelming.”
are wearing recognizable colors and
costumes.
a SudaneseAmerican antiracism edu It is also, however, dangerous; on And it is no accident that such photo
BY VANESSA FRIEDMAN cator in Chicago who reposted the photo Wednesday, after her identity became graphs are referred to by the garments
on all of her platforms. known, Ms. Salah wrote on Twitter that involved. It’s not just how we identify
Every once in a while an image appears She wasn’t the only one who thought she had received death threats. the pictures, but how we identify with
that so viscerally frames the human so. “I will not bow down,” she wrote. “My them.
story in a time of social or political par Part of its power, Ms. Makki argued, voice can not be suppressed. Will hold Indeed, though some comments on
oxysm that it becomes a symbol. derived from the symbolism inherent in AlBashir responsible if anything hap social media have expressed irritation
Such was the case in the past week the shot, much of it contained in the visu pens to me.” about the fact that it took a photograph
with a smartphone photo taken during a al shorthand of what Ms. Salah is wear Similarly, Ms. Haroun posted a video to capture the attention of the world and
demonstration in Sudan against the re ing. noting she wanted to respond to all the draw it to Sudan, Arthur Asseraf, a his
pressive regime of President Omar al Her earrings, which reflected the people who had asked her how she felt torian at Cambridge University in Brit
Bashir, as the protests that resulted in light, are, Ms. Makki said, traditional about her photograph’s power. “Pray for ain, wrote of the reaction to Ms.
his ouster reached a new intensity. wedding jewelry meant to symbolize Sudan,” she said. Haroun’s picture: “This is incredibly
In the picture, a woman in a white femininity. The choice of a white thoub, a LANA H. HAROUN The reaction to Ms. Haroun’s picture frustrating. But it is also very useful.
thoub and gold disc earrings stands on garment no longer popular among puts it firmly in line with a series of im The images of these women is a huge
the roof of a car. She is caught in profile, young Sudanese (who associate it with thoubs, inspiring others to show their This photograph of ages that have become synonymous strategic resource for these movements
midspeech, one arm raised to the heav an older generation), reflected a connec support by wearing similar garments Alaa Salah’s ap- with the historical moments they repre to grab attention.
ens, finger pointing upward, the other tion to mothers and grandmothers “who (and producing a hashtag). Since then, pearance at a sent, including, most recently, the “So go out and dress up! Use your
clutching her waist, amid a sea of heads dressed like this during while they these women in white have often been protest against “woman in a sundress” who faced down phones! Seize the means of representa
and of arms waving phones to record the marched the streets demonstrating called kandakas, a reference to ancient President Omar the riot police in Baton Rouge, La., dur tion!”
moment. Posted on Twitter on Tuesday against previous military dictator Nubian queens, connecting their power al-Bashir of Sudan ing the 2016 protests against the shoot The effect is, as Susan Sontag wrote in
by Lana H. Haroun, it had more than ships.” to the power of the women now helping has swept through ing of Alton Sterling; the “woman in a her essay “On Photography,” “to democ
66,000 likes by Friday and had taken on The white thoub also has been, Ms. lead the protests. social media. red dress” who turned her head away as ratize all experiences by translating
a life of its own. Makki said, a democratic garment, worn None of this could have escaped Ms. Istanbul police teargassed protesters in them into images.”
Though the speaker has since been by secretaries and lawyers alike. And Salah, whose mother is a fashion de 2013 during an antidevelopment dem There’s a throughline linking one pic
identified as Alaa Salah, a 22yearold white was the color adopted by female signer who specializes in thoubs. onstration; and the young man in shirt ture imprinted on the memory to the
student, some people have dubbed her student protesters, beginning in March, And though, as Ms. Makki has pointed sleeves facing the tanks that were next, a shared sense of sisterhood and
the Sudanese Statue of Liberty, others when many involved in a sitin at Ahfad out, these references give white its own rolling into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square humanity, though they were taken
simply “the woman in a white thoub.” Ei University for Women wore white history in Sudan, it is also generally in 1989. across oceans, and time.
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weekend books
Consider walking into the Lyndon
Biography Baines Johnson Library and Museum
in Austin for the first time, past the
presidential armored limousine, and
the assault on your senses of thou
sands and thousands of boxes of pa
as obsession pers, 40,000, each with a capacity of
800 pages. As the archivist said, yessir,
that’s 32 million pages awaiting your
attention.
Somewhere unflagged in the millions
was a Western Union telegram to
BOOK REVIEW
George Brown, a Texas contractor.
Faded since its transmission on Oct. 19,
1940, it was the key to how the obscure
Working:
Researching, Interviewing, Writing 32yearold Johnson had suddenly
acquired power and prestige and won
By Robert A. Caro. 207 pp. Alfred A.
the ear of “the Boss,” Franklin Roose
Knopf. $25.
velt. But George Brown at 79 was
BY HAROLD EVANS determined to honor a lifetime pledge
to his adored late brother, Herman:
“Working” is a squib for Robert A. Never, never on any occasion talk to an
Caro. It barely tops 200 pages. His first interviewer.
masterpiece, “The Power Broker,” How Caro finds what he needs to
1,336 pages published in 1974, investi know about the secrecy of Johnson’s
gated how ruthlessly Commissioner ascent from Brown is par for the au
Robert Moses, never elected to any thor’s tenacity, his charm and his in
thing, concreted the metropolis of vestigative genius, no other word for it.
Manhattan, tying it to distant suburbs So is the way he settles Johnson’s
by expressways, bridges, parkways famously controversial senatorial
and beaches. Caro’s four subsequent election victory over Gov. Coke Steven
biographies, thousands of pages about son by 87 votes in 1948. The imbroglio
the life of the 36th American president, of gossip in the Rio Grande Valley, of
Lyndon Johnson, await only the cap differentcolored ballots and court
stone of the fifth to complete the chron rulings, had led to a federal investiga
icle of the last great socialpolitical tion finally closed by a Supreme Court
reform movement of the American justice in Washington with orders that
century. BARBARA ALPER/GETTY IMAGES (LEFT); MICHAEL KIRBY SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (RIGHT) it never be reopened. That wasn’t good
So this new Caro is not the long enough for Caro. Nearly 40 years later,
promised fifth volume, not about the critic R. P. Blackmur precisely identi ble. He is incapable of dispensing do you?” He had to understand what it he tried to find Luis Salas, a big bruiser
collision with Bobby Kennedy, or the Robert Caro fied a course correction for his under bromides. meant in the 1930s and 1940s, when of a deputy sheriff who had once killed
muchmisreported advent of the Great asks what life graduate shortstory aspirant: “You’re As a newspaper reporter, he came to every day, for handwashing clothes a man in a barroom brawl. Salas was
Society, or the president’s years of war has meant for never going to achieve what you want hate having to write a story while there and cooking, the wives had to bring up the election judge who, under oath, had
in Vietnam, where Caro left us with to, Mr. Caro, if you don’t stop thinking were still questions, still documents he water from a deep well a way down certified 200 disputed votes for John
young G.I.s wading through the Me
those he writes with your fingers.” What Blackmur hadn’t checked. Wasn’t it just meaning from the house. Then they’d have to son in the notorious Ballot Box 13. But
kong River, holding their rifles above about, the meant was that Mr. Caro couldn’t just less to tap out the phrase “the human stand over a hot wood stove to press Salas was nowhere to be found. He was
their heads waist deep in the Big powerful and type, “The young congressman Lyn cost of highways” if he hadn’t himself the heaps of washing with heavy iron said to be living in Mexico.
Muddy and, as Pete Seeger lamented, the powerless. don Johnson’s rural electrification walked the New York City neighbor bars. So Caro took the woman’s old Caro was able to stop looking in
the “big fool” said to push on. And so program was a boon” and leave it at hood called East Tremont, which was bucket with a long frayed rope, March 1986. He knocked on the door of
they did. that. He had to work out how Johnson razed for the CrossBronx Express dropped it in the deep well and heaved a mobile home near Houston, and the
“Working” is Caro’s selection of got it done and won the adulation of way; if he hadn’t spent days interview it up again. Heavy, yes! frail old man of 84 who answered was
observations, as its subtitle tells us, on more than 200,000 Texas Hill Country ing black and poor tenants evicted Being Caro, he took his questions to only too pleased to fish out from a
the arts of researching, interviewing people — what their lives had been like from apartments now derelict, “the a 1940 Agriculture Department study. trunk a 94page history titled “Box 13,”
and writing. Some are drawn from his working “dark to dark” before “the stench of urine and of piles of feces in It told him he’d have to haul up 40 which described how he had switched
experiences writing about Robert lights” arrived at their isolated homes, corners . . . so thick in the lobbies it gallons a day for each person. He had votes from Stevenson to Johnson. He
Moses and Johnson, some freshly with maybe 30 miles of dirt road to the made your eyes tear”? to imagine a family of five collecting was proud of deceiving everyone. “We
minted, some culled from earlier inter next place. The Caros were “plain broke” from 200 gallons a day, carried back to the put L. B. Johnson as senator for Texas,
views. Inevitably, with selections, there Caro is steeped in humility. He took the seven years working on “The house two buckets at a time, with the and this position opened the road to
are repetitions and occasional lapses of Blackmur’s advice. He slowed down. Power Broker.” While Caro worried and people yoked like cattle to a heavy bar reach the presidency.”
style: Before we have warmed up, Thought takes time. Truth takes time. worried, Ina, his wife, Arguseyed of wood across the shoulder. Never again would Caro have to
there’s a headspinning single sentence When the research had filled in the researcher and intellectual twin, sold Caro insists that the three years he equivocate, “No one will ever be sure if
of almost 170 words. And yet Caro’s blanks, he compiled first drafts in their house in Roslyn, N.Y. One day, and Ina spent in the Hill Country were Lyndon Johnson stole it.” Now, in
squib about working is iridescent, so longhand, second and third and fourth when a few dollars came from The n’t a sacrifice. “Getting a chance to “Working,” he writes yet another defin
many brilliant refractions of light from drafts, too, and on a SmithCorona New Yorker for excerpts from “The learn, being forced to learn — really itive sentence: He stole it.
his hard slog of discovering what life Electra 210, writing 1,000 words a day. Power Broker,” she was able to break learn so that I could write about it in Nearly 200 years ago, James Madi
has really meant for the people in his Philip Larkin observed that “someone the news of their predicament: “Now I depth” was “an opportunity to explore, son commanded that a people who
narratives, the powerful and the pow will forever be surprising / A hunger in can go to the dry cleaners again.” to discover, a whole new world when mean to be their own governors must
erless. himself to be more serious.” This is For his work on Lyndon Johnson, you were already in your 40s.” It was arm themselves with the power that
Early on, he recognized that for all what Caro responded to. One some Robert and Ina went to live on the edge “a privilege, exciting. The two of us knowledge gives. Robert Caro, the
his skill as a Newsday reporter, the times feels he might have followed a of the Hill Country to learn from ranch remember those years as a thrilling, young man who gave up thinking with
fastest wordsmith in the West, he knew religious career, but the origin of his ers and farmers about Johnson’s boy wonderful adventure.” his fingers, has performed great deeds
nothing about the names he typed, still empathy is more prosaic. He discov hood and young manhood. Of course The phrase Caro recited in his sleep in that cause, but he has also measur
less about exactly what political power ered within himself a redemptive Caro could not stop asking questions (I’m guessing) was “Papers don’t die; ably enriched our lives with his intel
did for these people or to them. He hunger that still perplexes him even about everything, every day of every people do.” So he had to get to the right lectual rigor, his compassion, his open
wanted the reader to feel for them, after decades of literary and popular one. people as soon as he could to know ness, his wit and grace.
empathize with their ambitions and triumph. He can’t stop asking ques He had the tables turned on him by a where to look for the papers. And the
their torments. At 83, in book after tions. He suspects that behind every taciturn woman whose exasperation papers were all too often the only Sir Harold Evans, Reuters editor at
book and now this semimemoir, he has answer, there is another question. with tomfool questions forced her to source for identifying the individuals large, is the author of “The American
succeeded to a breathtaking degree. Most good reporters I know have a full blurt out: “You’re a city boy. You don’t who might have answers to his prolif Century” and “Do I Make Myself
At Princeton, the acerbic literary quiver of “whys?” but Caro is insatia know how heavy a bucket of water is, erating questions. The papers! Clear?”
for its 25th anniversary, has always information in my head: that stories 5 Time to treat 41 Blueprint details 87 Web user 23 24 25 26
yourself 43 Cryptanalysis 90 Cousin of a
been taken with Milton’s Satan: “Sorry, have power, that they can transform 10 “The Chosen” org. martini 27 28 29 30
God, but he got the better part.” you and save you. novelist Potok 44 Tram part 92 Blogger’s code
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What books are on your nightstand? Who is your favorite fictional hero or purchase, for 47 Affix with a 95 Person with a
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heroine? Favorite antihero or villain? short thumbtack record
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or I’d have even worse problems with Some of the first books I read in Eng at a canine address or a homophone
insomnia. How can I sleep when I lish were the Nancy Drew mysteries. I talent show in 50 Ermines, in the for what bread 50 51 52 53
could be reading? JILLIAN TAMAKI found Nancy’s situation enviable: a “Garfield: The summer loaves do
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handsoff papi, a doting housekeeper, a 53 They’re full of records
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theater weekend
human exploration of a technologically
weekend music
Pulitzers
move to
the beat
A year after Kendrick Lamar took home
the music honor, what could be next?
BY WILLIAM ROBIN
A year ago, shock waves rippled through
the arts world when the Pulitzer Prize in
Music, almost always bestowed on a
classical composer, was awarded to ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kendrick Lamar’s album “DAMN.”
“This is a big moment for hiphop mu guish a work of the caliber of “DAMN.” ventional finalists, the composers Ted
sic and a big moment for the Pulitzers,” from other hiphop entries? Hearne and Michael Gilbertson, rather
Dana Canedy, the prizes’ administrator, “Technically speaking, excellent mu than Mr. Lamar.
said then. sic is excellent music,” Ms. Canedy said. And if a future board were to be con
Mr. Lamar told Vanity Fair about the “So I think if you can judge excellent mu fronted with, say, an opera by Tania
prize: “I never thought I’d be a part of it. sic, you can do that across genres.” León, an experimental record by Nicole
It’s one of those things that should have Maybe, or maybe not. Having listened Mitchell and a visual album by Beyoncé,
happened with hiphop a long time ago.” to Mr. Lamar’s music, Steve Reich, who might its members tend to select the fi
It was not only the first time the prize won in 2009, said, “I don’t know enough nalist with whom they were already
had gone to a hiphop work; never be hiphop to separate him from other hip most familiar?
fore had it been given to any kind of hop artists.” “That’s just never happened,” Ms.
mainstream popular music. Even as NANCY LEE KATZ/JUILLIARD SCHOOL ARCHIVES “To make a judgment, you have to Canedy said.
Pulitzerwinning musical styles shifted make an informed judgment,” Mr. Reich “Every finalist gets its due when it
over the decades, from the Americana of Recently the prize has broadened in liberations, the fivemember music jury Clockwise from added. “And I don’t have that. Therefore, comes before the board,” she added.
Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”(1945) aesthetic scope and given a career boost weighed the merits of some classical top: Kendrick I wouldn’t be competent to judge him.” “They do what they do, which is down
to the fragmented atonality of Donald to young composers like Ms. Shaw, who submissions that drew on hiphop influ Lamar, whose The composer Kevin Puts, who won in load the work, listen to it, debate it and
Martino’s “Notturno” (1974) to the joyful was 30 when she won. But until Mr. ences, and came to the conclusion that Pulitzer Prize for 2012, said in a recent interview: “I do a then make a decision.”
genrebending of Caroline Shaw’s “Par Lamar, it had still barely budged outside hiphop itself should be under consider music last year lot of judging of competitions for so It’s not always that simple. The El
tita” (2013), the prize had remained al its old classical music limits. When, in ation. was a break- called classical music, like orchestra lington controversy arose from dis
most exclusively the province of classi 1965, the music jury attempted to break The jury introduced “DAMN.” into the through for hip- music. I feel I’m qualified to do that. But agreement between a jury eager to
cal music. free of those constraints by requesting a process and ultimately decided it was hop; Wynton I wonder, if there were more genres or award a jazz master and a board con
But Mr. Lamar’s Pulitzer upended all special citation for Duke Ellington, the worthy of the prize. “We’re there all day Marsalis, who won more styles involved, if I would really be cerned that it was violating the prize’s
that. Was “DAMN.” a fluke, or will the Pulitzer’s governing board declined the listening, reading, discussing,” one of in 1997, the first the person to make a good decision.” rules. In 1992, the music jury recom
prize — the 2019 winner will be an recommendation. the 2018 jurors, the jazz violinist Regina time jazz was Ms. Carter expressed confidence in mended only a single finalist: a work by
nounced on Monday — genuinely em The prize has been haunted by that Carter, said in a recent interview. “We recognized; and the diversity of the two juries on which the composer Ralph Shapey. The board
brace popular music? What now counts embarrassing episode, only partly recti were all really respectful of one another William Schuman, she has served. But she also acknowl demanded that the jury provide a sec
as a “distinguished American composi fied by special awards and citations and listened to each other. There was no the recipient of the edged that there were potential limita ond option and, when a piece by the
tion”? granted posthumously to Ellington and fighting going on: We’d argue our cases, first music prize, tions in the early stages. “If you have ju composer Wayne Peterson was sub
The music Pulitzer was established in other jazz legends like Scott Joplin and but it never got ugly.” in 1943. rors and no one is familiar with that mitted, the board chose the Peterson.
1943 as a celebration of homegrown art John Coltrane. A turning point came in Ms. Canedy, who spent much of her genre, then I think it’s not even going to Angry jurors then released a state
in the midst of World War II; the first 1997, when Wynton Marsalis won, the career as a reporter and editor at The make it into that forward pile,” she said. ment describing the board’s decision as
winner was a briskly patriotic cantata first time the prize recognized jazz. The New York Times, became the Pulitzers’ Excellent music may be excellent mu “especially alarming because it oc
by the NeoClassicist William Schuman. guidelines subsequently eliminated an administrator in 2017. She sees Mr. sic, but not all musicians have equal un curred without consultation and without
For decades, the prize was mostly given original reference to classical forms Lamar’s win as a step toward diversi derstanding or even respect for differ knowledge of either our standards or ra
to wellestablished composers: As Mr. and, in 2004, dropped a requirement to fying the submission pool. “The biggest ent traditions; consider the many online tionale. Such alterations by a committee
Martino once said, “If you write music provide a notated score, allowing for re thing we could have done to send a sig commenters who dismissed Mr. without professional musical expertise
long enough, sooner or later someone is cordingonly submissions. nal to the music industry that we’re seri Lamar’s win, one of whom described the guarantees, if continued, a lamentable
going to take pity on you and give you There were critics. “I don’t think it’s a ous about this is to award a Pulitzer to album as “neurologically divergent devaluation of this uniquely important
the damn thing.” good idea at all,” Mr. Martino said of the Kendrick Lamar,” she said in a recent in from music.” award.”
There was also long a sense that new openness in 2004. “Let these people terview. “That’s not why we did it; we The prize, moreover, is not actually And the Pulitzer remains singularly
awardees largely came out of the insular win DownBeat polls,” referring to the did it because his work was spectacular. decided by the music jurors. The jury is important — which makes its intricate
academic scene. In a scathing 1991 arti jazz magazine. (Characteristic of the But if it sends a signal to the industry instructed to provide the Pulitzers’ ad rules and shifts of stylistic emphasis big
cle, the critic Kyle Gann chastised the history of the prize is the contradiction that we really are open to all kinds of ministrative board — which includes news in the music world. The 2019 prize
Pulitzer as a “reward for conformity and that some of the composers who have amazing music, then that’s a good journalists, editors and academics, but may go to a groundbreaking symphony,
a compensation prize for ineffectuality.” complained about its insularity have thing.” not professional musicians — with three a confessional folk record or a tran
After winning, in 2003, John Adams told also vociferously defended its bound But even if SoundCloud rappers and Will the prize unranked nominations. The board then scendent mixtape. Speaking in late Feb
The New York Times that, “among musi aries.) aspiring singersongwriters start to decides which of the three receives the ruary, Ms. Canedy said that the music
cians that I know, the Pulitzer has over Such changes, though, didn’t over submit, their work still needs to be eval — the 2019 award. jury — which will remain anonymous
the years lost much of the prestige it still turn the status quo. Since Mr. Marsalis, uated by a jury. Pulitzer juries in the winner will be “We would have been happy with until the prize is announced — had se
carries in other fields like literature and only two other jazz composers have past decade have typically comprised a announced on whomever they had chosen to win both lected its three finalists.
journalism.” (Mr. Adams, as well as six won: Ornette Coleman and Henry mix of classical and jazz musicians, crit Monday — times,” Ms. Carter said of her juries, “be “We had a diverse slate of entries,”
other Pulitzerwinning composers, de Threadgill. Even Mr. Lamar’s path to ics, academics and arts administrators. cause all of the composers felt really she said. “We have three finalists that
clined to be interviewed for this article; victory last year was somewhat un Will future juries give adequate atten
genuinely strong and their works were really in we’re incredibly proud of, and would be
Mr. Lamar was unavailable for com usual: “DAMN.” had not been officially tion to nonclassical submissions — or embrace triguing.” Last year’s Pulitzer could well happy to see any of the three win a Pul
ment.) submitted. But during a weekend of de have the knowledge to properly distin popular music? have gone to one of the other, more con itzer.”
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But over time, “Thrones” evolved
Dragons into an example of the next age of TV
drama, defined by hit action spectacles
like “The Walking Dead” and espe
cially the binge model of Netflix, in
which TV series were structured less
subtlety memorable more for visually stunning
or shocking scenes than for wellcon
structed episodes. People describe its
signature moments like “Friends”
titles: “The One Where the Mountain
is hard Smooshes the Viper”; “The One Where
Danaerys Says, ‘Dracarys’”; “The One
With the Ice Dragon.”
Yet the scenes that stick with me
from “Game of Thrones” are almost
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
invariably conversations. Robert and
Cersei talking with resigned familiarity
about their marriage. Arya and Tywin
(Charles Dance) discussing legacy and
With ‘Game of Thrones’ power. Any scene involving Olenna
ending its run, one viewer Tyrell (Diana Rigg) and her thorny
tongue. The Hound ordering the
wants more talk, less action chicken.
These moments have become rarer
BY JAMES PONIEWOZIK as the series has gone beyond the plot
of the uncompleted books and its pace
In “The Dragon and the Wolf,” the has accelerated (sometimes, to be fair,
most recent season finale of “Game of improving on sluggish source ma
Thrones,” a lot of people have a lot to terial). And I have to wonder if the
talk about. turn toward spectacle stems from
The warring factions of Westeros Benioff and Weiss’s muchstated belief
have convened a truce to discuss the that they’re making a “73hour movie.”
frostycold undead army of the White By that analogy, their blockbuster
Walkers approaching from the north. series is obligated to provide an ex
The setup reunites characters with tended, explosive third act.
deep history who have been separated “Game of Thrones” has indeed
for ages: Brienne (Gwendoline HELEN SLOAN/HBO produced the kind of aweinspiring,
Christie) and the Hound (Rory Mc culturedominating entertainment you
Cann); the Hound and the Mountain daughter Sansa (Sophie Turner), in exercise, cutting through those Gordi Thrones” over the seasons shows how As “Game of used to have to see in a theater. If
(Hafthor Julius Bjornsson); Tyrion her stead, to keep peace between the an knots of subtlety with Valyrian it bridged the distance between two Thrones” pro- HBOage TV were 1970s Hollywood, it
(Peter Dinklage) and Bronn (Jerome families. steel. eras of TV. It began, in 2011, in the gressed, it spent would be the “Star Wars” to Tony
Flynn); Tyrion and Cersei (Lena That’s it. Roll credits. No magic, no The recent 20th anniversary of “The wake of HBO’s “Sopranos” era, which more time on Soprano’s “Godfather.”
Headey). dragonfire. But so much character and Sopranos” reminded us of a tension took familiar genres (the gangster spectacle. It isn’t really a movie, though, and
Friendships are reaffirmed; old foreshadowing are concentrated in this that series always had, between its saga, the cop show, the western) and that’s for the best. Unlike a movie, a
grievances are reopened; negotiations highfantasy “Old Yeller.” It estab creator, David Chase, who insisted that set them in worlds of moral grayness TV series is able to coursecorrect and
are broached. But then: silence. No lishes, in one swordstroke, that relationships were as important to the and complexity. learn as it goes, as “Thrones” did by
one has anything left to say. They’re Robert, pushed by Cersei and his series as the mob wars, and his more “Thrones” felt like the natural exten finally cutting back on its egregious
just waiting for the dragons to arrive. bratty son, is weak and inconstant; bloodthirsty fans, who wanted, as the sion of that approach, a realpolitik rape scenes.
They do arrive, of course: Two of that the Stark children will become phrase went, “Less yakking, more fractured fairy tale in which good and My hope — because, make no mis
them, enormous and leathery, one unmoored from their roots (the dire whacking.” bad were harder to distinguish than take, I will be eagerly planted in front
bearing the Khaleesi, Daenerys Tar wolf is the symbol of the North, and “Game of Thrones” has had that they were among Tolkien’s orcs and of the series from Sunday until my
garyen (Emilia Clarke), descend this is the first of several lupicides to tension itself over the years. But unlike elves. “The Kingsroad” is like the watch is ended — is that “Game of
screeching and preening. It’s show come); that Joffrey is a dangerous Chase, who stubbornly stuck to his firstseason “Sopranos” episode “Col Thrones” will likewise use its final run
time! monster; that the Starks will pay a vision, “Thrones” has increasingly lege,” in which Tony offs a mafia rat to rediscover its roots as a series not
The scene encapsulates what “Game high cost, principles will be tested, and given in to the fan contingent that while on a road trip with his daughter just about dragons but also about
In the saga’s of Thrones” has become, as it begins the innocent will die. wants more big action moments. Less — a small, definitional story that tells people making difficult choices in
best seasons — its last firebelching spin around the Compare this with “The Battle of the blabbing, more stabbing! you you’re watching something famil extremis, a show that can give you
roughly the HBO firmament Sunday: a dragon Bastards” in Season 6, where Jon Snow In a way, the evolution of “Game of iar, but different. chills even as it breathes fire.
delivery device, a collection of spectac (Kit Harington) sees his adoptive
middle of its ular images, to which character, com brother Rickon (Art Parkinson) mur
run — the plexity and conversation have become dered before his eyes. The moment
showrunners secondary. barely has time to land. If viewers
held its human The series’s changes, in part, reflect remember it at all, it’s as the opening
and fantastical the ambitions and limitations of today’s casualty for the breathtaking war
bigticket TV. Rewatch the earliest scene, which took nearly two months
sides in episodes, from 2011, and they already to shoot, that gives the episode its title.
balance. seem to belong to another era. To be fair, the George R. R. Martin
It’s not simply that Arya (Maisie books on which the series is based
Williams) was more innocent then, establish a premise in which the
Westeros more peaceful, Ned Stark’s mythic and epic will become more
head still attached to his body. (No commonplace. “Game of Thrones” is
spoiler alert! Honestly, you’ve had about a world in which magic used to
plenty of time.) exist, seemed to disappear and is
It’s how much of the series was slowly returning. This happens gradu
simply people talking, how it was able ally, then accelerates. The dragons
to draw import from relatively small take a season to hatch, then they grow
incidents. The second episode, “The up fast; war breaks out, then it engulfs
Kingsroad,” for instance, focuses its the world.
main story line on nothing more high In the saga’s best seasons — roughly
stakes than the death of a child’s pet. the middle of its run — the showrun
The Starks, journeying to the capital ners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss
where Ned (Sean Bean) will serve held its human and fantastical sides in
King Robert (Mark Addy), have re balance. The result was stunning set
cently come into possession of a litter pieces — the Battle of the Blackwater,
of orphan direwolves. Along the way, the Red Wedding — but it was
the crown prince, Joffrey (Jack Glee grounded in ideas.
son), bullies Arya’s friend, the butcher It’s become cliché, for instance, to
boy’s son, holding him at sword point. compare current politics to “Thrones,”
Arya’s wolf, Nymeria, mauls Joffrey but that’s in part because the series
(no jury would convict her). After Arya engaged so deeply with the question of
scares Nymeria off, Ned is forced to what it means to be a good leader. Now
execute Lady, the wolf belonging to his it’s become more of a pure power
HBO
HBO
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connect their own experiences to it.”
Unraveling In New Haven, the artist’s unassum
ing backyard studio stands out for a
maraschinocherryred 1956 GMC
pickup in the driveway. Moving here af
ter two years in New York provided him
away in “There is a
way in which
my life is a
themselves,” he said.
A blitzkrieg tour of some of the artist’s
favorite haunts started with gelato by
an artisanal confectioner, followed by a
chaser of barbecued pork ribs. He is on a
living weekend
little rattled.
I had to do The registry found me a match. A
date was arranged. My beloved took
me to the hospital, kept me company,
helped me change into a hospital gown,
gave me away to the orderly who
it without wheeled my gurney. The kidney was
removed from my body and sent on its
journey, destination unknown.
All we learned was that the trans
plant was successful. As for my own
telling my journey, my beloved accompanied me
every step of the way. He breathed
with me through recovery, held my
hand when I was in pain, walked laps
with me around the floor, asked ques
beloved tions about homecare and said yes:
yes with every bowl of broth he made
me, yes with every load of wash he did,
yes with every hour he spent away
from his work, yes with every rumpled,
exhausted, ready smile.
I donated a kidney to a stranger, And when I was well enough, we
but I made the decision on my own finally fought.
“You hurt us,” he said. “When you
decided this alone.”
“But it was honest,” I said. “I needed
Modern Love to be free to decide on my own.”
He nodded sadly. “But you hurt us.”
There is a phrase in the Bible that
talks about the relationship between
BY LEAH HAGER COHEN Adam and Eve. It usually gets translat
ed “helpmate,” as in, “I will make a
The idea never crossed my mind until helpmate suitable for him.” But the
the afternoon I stood folding laundry Hebrew, “ezer kenegdo,” may better be
and heard a woman on the radio telling translated as “helper opposite” or
the story of donating a kidney to some “helper against.”
one she didn’t know. In other words, it offers the sugges
I had turned 50 the week before. I tion that a true partner is one who can
didn’t think I cared about this mile oppose us, challenge us, spar when
stone, but then I had an epiphany: At necessary. What makes a good spar
last, I was turning an age that would ring partner? Trust. Trust that the
impress trees. other isn’t pulling any punches. And
In the weeks leading up to my birth trust that you’re both in the ring for the
day, I kept telling everyone my tree same reason: not to hurt each other
theory, so I felt truly seen on the day but to grow.
itself when my beloved presented me Here’s what I understand now,
with a breadboard made from a slice of nearly a year later: I really did need to
tree trunk. Dark and glossy, with legi make the decision alone. It was selfish
ble rings and rough bark intact, it had — but for me, healthily selfish, a fierce
a split — a crack in the wood that reclamation of authority over my body
curved from outer rim to a little knot in and mind, and even more fierce: a way
the heart. of honoring my desire.
I’d met my beloved three years And I really did hurt us. By insisting
earlier. At first we were friends, both of on my journey, not ours, I created a
us sorting through recent breakups. rift. By not including my beloved in the
Then we began studying Torah togeth decision, I made him feel distrusted.
er, wrestling over bits of text. Not just The surgery left me with four laparo
Torah, secular books, too, and movies scopic scars that are barely visible and
and paintings and philosophies and one big scar that remains vivid. Most
constellations. Sharing questions and Fridays, I bake challah for shabbat
interpretations, sometimes in harmony, BRIAN REA dinner. While it’s cooling, I set the
sometimes in screeching discord (like table, put the candles in their holders,
the time I said, “Poor Tolstoy, he takes house and the youngest was in his last more proper emphasis: Instead of The process began in earnest with pour wine in the kiddush cup. When
himself too seriously,” and almost By insisting on year of high school. Soon I wouldn’t be highlighting the motivation of the do scans and labs, a psychiatric evalua the bread is cool, I put it on the tree
severed our friendship for good). my journey, needed for daytoday mothering. On nor, it focused on the trajectory of the tion, meetings with medical specialists, slice breadboard, with its crack that
We were forever coming together not ours, I top of that, I have an academic job, organ. literature to review and a day of uri runs from rim to center. The crack is
and diverging, always in motion. Be which means several months of paid I liked this better. Satisfied that I was nating exclusively into a big plastic about the size of my scar, the big one
fore I met him, I had developed a bad
created a rift. discretionary time each summer. All of being honest with myself about the role jug. All the while I felt invigorated, from the incision where they slid the
habit of ceding desire to others. I had By not which added up to the recognition that my own desire played in the decision, I almost giddy with my own sense of kidney out.
put my body and mind too much at the including my I had a surplus ability to be more applied to become a nondirected donor. agency. Five months elapsed before I don’t think about the kidney often.
disposal of other people, allowed them beloved in the useful. In the weeks surrounding my I did this without telling anyone. Not the tests were completed and I re I sometimes think of the recipient. I
authority over me. I had become adept decision, I 50th birthday, this sense of surplus, even my beloved. For three weeks, in ceived word I had been approved. I feel immense gratitude toward this
at exercising my will to negate my will. and the question of how to channel it, between filling out the online form and just had to sign the papers to get en person whose need made it possible
An ugly habit; it still fills me with made him feel built in me like steam in an engine. passing an initial telephone screening tered with the national registry, a kind for me to fulfill my desire to be of use.
shame. distrusted. When I heard the radio story about with the donor center, I kept my inten of matchmaker service for organs. In this sense, we are partners, the
But now I found myself 50 and free becoming an altruistic donor, it seemed tion to myself. My beloved came with me. He took a recipient and me.
— free to claim myself. And fit. For an answer. I folded the last pair of Only when I got an appointment to breath as I signed, held my hand, And my own partner? He and I
most of my life, I hadn’t really noticed socks, went to the computer and go in and meet with the donor coordina asked questions and continued to say never stepped out of the ring. He was
the privilege of good health. I didn’t go looked up kidney donation. I was un tor did I tell my beloved, and then I did yes — yes with his presence, yes as he no more deterred by the rift than he is
around on a daily basis thinking, “Jack comfortable with the phrase “altruistic not say, “I’m thinking about doing this walked beside me, yes to accompa by my scar, which lies not so much
pot! Another day of not being sick!” donor,” which implied a lack of self thing. What are your thoughts about nying me on my journey. But he was between us as before us: a challenge
But time had increased my awareness interest, when it was perfectly clear to it?” No. I told him I had decided. All I still hurt, both that I had made the we face together as we continue to
of how many people live with injury me that I had great selfinterest: It asked was that he accompany me decision alone and that I had withheld spar, learning new steps, getting our
and illness, how uncommon it was that would make me feel good to be of use through the process. it from him those first few weeks. timing down, trusting each other with
I had never suffered anything more in this way. He took a breath, held my hand, I explained that really it was my more and more of our weight.
grievous than having my wisdom teeth I came across an alternate phrase: asked questions and said yes. I could decision, my desire; that it was impor
out. It had come to seem an embar nondirected donor. Not only was this see he was a little rattled, but I thought tant for me to own this choice without Leah Hager Cohen teaches writing at
rassment of unearned riches. objectively descriptive (the kidney he just needed to get used to the idea. I seeking approval and without apology. the College of the Holy Cross. Her latest
Then there was the fact that two of would go to whoever needed it rather didn’t realize then how much I had hurt And yet I saw how the hurt lingered. novel, “Strangers and Cousins,” will be
my children were already out of the than to a designated recipient), it had a him. And this time I was the one who was a published in May.
weekend travel
International Homes
Exodus to the cities in Spain leaves entire settlements for sale
Own a village
Left, Jeff King and
promises are being made to provide ru Claudia Weber
ral areas with more schools and medical bought a cluster of
centers. One party has even proposed a stone houses set on
60 percent reduction in income tax for 12 acres for less
inhabitants of rural areas. than 300,000
$336,000, they bought a cluster of crum More than half of Spain’s villages are euros, or about
RÁBADE, SPAIN
bling stone houses with slate roofs, set in the lush, northwestern region of Gali $360,000. The
on 12 acres of woodland dotted with cia. Daniel Herrera, a researcher at the horses take the
chestnut, oak and apple trees. Territorial Observatory at the Univer place of a lawn
The ultimate fixer-uppers: “There is just so much space,” Ms. sity of Oviedo, said this is because a mower.
Ruined hamlets in Galicia Weber said, patting their horse, whose
sole purpose is to eat the grass, so that
group of only two or three houses in Ga
licia can be considered a hamlet, where
cost as little as €100,000 neither she nor Mr. King needs to cut it. as in other regions the bar is five or six.
Though some Spaniards are begin Mr. Herrera’s research group esti
BY RACHEL CHAUNDLER
ning to invest in abandoned villages, it is mates that 1,789 villages are empty in
mostly foreigners who are interested, Galicia. The figure for the entire country
After a decade of working on luxury said Pepe Rodil, a salesman at the real is 3,475.
cruise ships in the Bahamas, Jeff King, estate agency Aldeas Abandonadas. between 1936 and 1939, will set you back for acorns on the land, which runs down Rural depopulation began in Spain at
60, and Claudia Weber, 50, decided Gwyneth Paltrow gave the idea a €425,000. For a couple of million, you to a sandy cove. the end of the 19th century, when small
they’d had enough of Caribbean sun, shoutout last year, when she suggested could even purchase a medieval hilltop “We wanted somewhere quiet, where farming communities could no longer
tourism and mosquitoes. on her blog, Goop, that one of the aban settlement with its own fortress. our daughters could run free during the sustain families that were becoming big
A former ship’s captain and a cook, doned Spanish villages sold by Aldeas Mark Adkinson, who owns Galician holidays,” the new owner, Rupert Evans, ger because of the decline in infant mor
they decided to drive around northern Abandonadas could make the perfect Country Homes, the agency that sold said from his London home. tality.
Spain in search of a quiet place to settle Christmas gift for a loved one. Mr. King and Ms. Weber their hamlet, But he expects that his family will be Some Spaniards sailed to the Ameri
down — an old farmhouse, perhaps, or Despite being in dire need of a roof or says entire villages are particularly pop camping on their land this summer, as it cas to seek their fortunes. But it wasn’t
an abandoned mill. two, the village in question was snapped ular with northern Europeans looking will take time to make the buildings hab until Gen. Francisco Franco industri
When they stumbled across an entire up for €150,000 by Dutch investors, Mr. for retirement options or vacation itable. alized Spain’s cities in the 1950s and
ruined hamlet up for sale, they were Rodil said. homes. While Spain’s cities are full of young ’60s, that there was a mass exodus from
smitten. Dozens of such empty villages are “There is a boom,” he said, contem people, struggling to find work that will the countryside.
“As soon as we saw this place,” Mr. listed in 10 languages on the Aldeas plating the sea view from the ruined enable them to pay skyhigh urban It has taken Rosa and Neil Christie
King said, “we stopped looking.” Abandonadas website. hamlet he sold for €312,000 in February rents, the countryside is cheap and over a decade to restore the hamlet they
Their decision two years ago to buy an The going rate for a ruined hamlet is to a young British family. empty. bought for €45,000 in 2004.
entire village is still rare, but getting less now close to €100,000. If you’re feeling Though the buildings are in a state of Not even the pristine roads that lead Mr. Christie, who had experience as a
so. flush, an entire village of 75 homes, all disrepair, the location is stunning. to many abandoned villages, thanks in builder, brought his machinery with him
For less than 300,000 euros, or about abandoned during the Spanish Civil War Hence the price tag. Wild boars forage part to European Union regional devel SPAIN, PAGE S2
INTERNATIONAL HOMES
Long-term project
INTERNATIONAL HOMES
Mixing contemporary
and Italian tradition
by a roof deck of roughly 1,000 square
House Hunting in . . . feet. The property, which is listed at 1.45
Italy million euros (about $1.6 million), func
tions as a singlefamily home, but could
BY ALISON GREGOR also be rented to tourists, as many reno
vated trulli complexes in the Apulia re
This threebedroom home is just outside gion are.
San Vito dei Normanni, a rural town in “This project was born from a com
the southeastern Italian region of Apu pletely renovated period village of trulli,
lia, about 15 miles west of the coastal city to create a luxury residential and tourist
of Brindisi and the shores of the Adriatic facility equipped with every comfort,”
Sea. said Francesco Cavallo, a founding part
Completed in 2017, the 2,691square ner of PROF.IM. Real Estate Agency,
foot home includes a contemporary one which has the listing.
story villa with two bedrooms and a Specific to Apulia and dating back
cluster of traditional structures with several centuries, trulli are built from
conical roofs known as trulli, made from stone, without mortar. They were origi
Apulian dry stone. nally used as temporary field shelters or
Set on nearly four acres, the property dwellings for agricultural laborers that
has landscaped gardens, fruit trees, an could be disassembled easily. This
olive grove and a swimming pool. home’s trulli, which date to the early
The five attached trulli have been re 19th century, were rebuilt with an eye to
furbished and include a single bedroom, retaining their authenticity, Mr. Cavallo
a dressing room, a bathroom and a liv said. One of the structures had partly
ing room with open kitchen. The trulli collapsed and had to be rebuilt by local PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA WYNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Inspired by Morocco
Rich color, abundant tile
and riotous patterns create
a North Africa décor
BY RIMA SUQI
Not long ago, interiors were expected to
be chill. But as more decorators lay on
color and pattern with the giddiness of
paintball enthusiasts, they are borrow
ing from places where lush, layered and
crazy combinations are standard oper
ating aesthetics. Places like Morocco.
What is Moroccan style, exactly? Ac
cording to Stephanie Rudloe, the owner
of Marrakech Designs in Boston, it is a
mix of nomadic Berber, ArabIslamic ties like Khloe Kardashian and Cher.
and European influences that slightly “You can put it in the most modern
changes character as you venture house, or the most traditional, and
across the region. somehow it still freshens up the interi
More specifically, Ms. Rudloe said, ors,” he said. “It adds glamour, it adds
“an imaginative fantasy” might include sex appeal, but it still can feel really
“mosaic tile walls, inlay tables, a glass fresh.”
chandelier from Egypt or Venice, metal Start with color — and no, not bright
Eclectic lanterns, Berber carpets and ban blue. “The colors I most associate with
Above right, a coffee quettes covered in a patterned French Morocco are the warm, earthy, rich reds
table with geometric velvet or an Indian paisley.” that echo the spices found in markets all
bone inlay that mim Such objects age well. Martyn over the country, the earthenware that
ics patterns found in Lawrence Bullard, a Los Angeles interi is so often decorated and the natural red
traditional Moroccan or designer, has created fabric, wallpa clay that is used to paint the majority of
tile. Below, a Moroc per and rugs with Moroccan motifs and buildings in Marrakesh,” said Charlotte
caninspired room at infused bits of Moroccan style into the Cosby, the creative director of Farrow &
a Mexican home Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara and Ball, the British paint and wallpaper
designed by Daniel the Sands Hotel & Spa in Indian Wells, company.
Torres. Calif., as well as into homes for celebri For a truly intimate Moroccan feel,
Ms. Cosby said that you must “paint all
four walls in the room, including the ceil
ing.”
Daniel Torres, a Los Angeles de
signer, did just that — and a whole lot
more — for a client in Mérida, Mexico,
who bought a rundown colonialera
building with the dream of creating a
Moroccanstyle home. Mr. Torres de
signed what he describes as a “mini
riad,” in which the public rooms opening
to a central courtyard have soaring
arches and lots of tile and color.
Shops and websites around the world
carry everything to outfit a place in Mo
roccan style. Some businesses, like Ms.
Rudloe’s, will even customize your tile,
paint color and woodwork.
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INTERNATIONAL HOMES
Built
to take
a beating
A vacation home designed to withstand
an extended family’s 8 boys, ages 1 to 17
BY TIM MCKEOUGH
A few years after their daughters moved
from the mountainous western edge of
Austria to the concrete canyons of New
York, Konrad and Doris Wuehrer de
cided to start a new tradition.
Instead of expecting their children to
return home to Austria every summer
— as Barbara WuehrerEngelking and
Monika Wuhrer (who uses a variant
spelling of the surname) were begin
ning to start families of their own — the
parents would organize a family vaca
tion in the United States, renting a beach
house with room for everyone.
At first, it was Cape Cod. But after a
few years, when the drive to Massachu
setts proved too long for the increasing
number of grandchildren (the New PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC STRIFFLER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES