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The main bazaar in the city of Farah in Afghanistan in April. There, and in Herat, Iranian goods and influence are prominent.
PRESIDENT ASIDE, Cities in U.S. Welcome a Foreign Product: Jobs
G.O.P. STARS MOVE
Attack on Global Trade
Rattles Areas Lifted
TOWARD 2020 BIDS
by Overseas Firms
Quietly Planning in Case
a Beleaguered Trump
Isn’t on the Ballot
By JONATHAN MARTIN
and ALEXANDER BURNS
WASHINGTON — Senators
Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have
already been to Iowa this year,
Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a re-
turn visit to New Hampshire, and
Mike Pence’s schedule is so full of
political events that Republicans
joke that he is acting more like a
second-term vice president hop-
ing to clear the field than a No. 2
sworn in a little over six months
ago.
President Trump’s first term is
ostensibly just warming up, but
luminaries in his own party have
begun what amounts to a shadow
campaign for 2020 — as if the cur-
rent occupant of 1600 Pennsylva-
nia Avenue weren’t involved.
The would-be candidates are
cultivating some of the party’s
most prominent donors, courting
conservative interest groups and
carefully enhancing their profiles.
Mr. Trump has given no indication
that he will decline to seek a sec-
ond term.
But the sheer disarray sur-
rounding this presidency, the in-
tensifying investigation by the
special counsel Robert S. Mueller
III and the plain uncertainty
about what Mr. Trump will do in
the next week, let alone in the next
election, have prompted Republi-
can officeholders to take political
steps that are unheard-of so soon
into a new administration.
Asked about those Republicans
who seem to be eyeing 2020, a
White House spokeswoman, Lind-
say Walter, fired a warning shot:
“The president is as strong as he’s
ever been in Iowa, and every po-
tentially ambitious Republican
knows that.”
But in interviews with more
than 75 Republicans at every level
of the party, elected officials, do-
nors and strategists expressed
widespread uncertainty about
whether Mr. Trump would be on
the ballot in 2020 and little doubt
Continued on Page 16
INTERNATIONAL 4-13
Brexit Worries at Irish Border
Britain’s exit from the European Union
jeopardizes a hard-won arrangement
easing travel between Northern Ireland
and the Irish Republic. PAGE 6
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By PATRICIA COHEN
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — At
the airport here, there is a remind-
er to travelers of the jobs that
global trade can bring. A shiny
2017 Volkswagen Passat is sta-
tioned near the entryway and la-
beled: “Designed in Germany.
Built in Chattanooga.”
The American map is dotted
with towns drained of jobs after
homegrown factories bolted to
lower-wage countries. But for
many spots throughout the coun-
try, the same strategy of moving
operations overseas — when
A job is a job, foreign or not, says Bill Phillips of Southeast Mahindra in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Risking Death, He Fled North Korea. Now He’s Begging to Return.
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — Di-
vorced and out of money, Kwon
Chol-nam fled North Korea for
China in 2014 by wading across a
river border at night and then
crawling over a barbed-wire
fence. After a perilous trek that in-
cluded walking through a jungle
in Laos, he reached Thailand,
where he was allowed to fly to
South Korea to start a new life.
After all that trouble and dan-
ger, Mr. Kwon now wants South
Korea to allow him to return home
to the North.
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Finding Hope in Island’s Crisis
As a tide of Puerto Ricans flees economic
calamity, some young entrepreneurs are
finding new niches, elbowing aside
“colonial” ways of thinking.
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
practiced by foreign companies —
has buoyed local fortunes.
In Chattanooga and the sur-
rounding region, for example,
more than two dozen companies
from 20 countries have set up
shop, generating billions of dol-
lars in investment, employing
thousands of workers and helping
“You have to
ride a horse to
know whether
it’s the right
mount for you,”
Mr. Kwon said
in an interview
in Seoul. “I have
tried, and the Kwon
South is not for
Chol-nam
me. I want to go
home to the
North to reunite with my ex-wife
and 16-year-old son.”
North Korea is one of the
world’s most politically repressive
countries. No matter. Mr. Kwon
says he has grown disillusioned
SUNDAY BUSINESS
Billionaire’s Fixer-Upper Town
Diane Hendricks, the nation’s second-
richest woman, has been fixing up a
PAGE 14
decaying Wisconsin town, hoping to
turn it into a start-up mecca.
BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
drive Tennessee’s jobless rate to
3.6 percent in June, a record low
for the state.
But political and business lead-
ers here in Hamilton County, a
conservative stronghold where
Donald J. Trump won a majority of
the votes, worry that the presi-
dent’s attacks on trading partners
and exhortations to “Buy Ameri-
can” could set off a protectionist
spiral of tariffs and import restric-
tions, hurting consumers and
workers.
“I’m nervous,” Mayor Andy
Berke said over sweet tea and
Continued on Page 17
MELISSA GOLDEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
with life in the capitalist South,
where he says North Korean de-
fectors like him are treated like
second-class citizens.
“They called me names, treat-
ing me like an idiot, and didn’t pay
me as much as others doing the
same work, just because I was
from the North,” Mr. Kwon said,
his voice rising in anger.
To press his unusual demand,
he has held news conferences,
submitted petitions to the United
Nations and demonstrated with
signs in front of government
buildings in Seoul.
More than 30,000 North Kore-
ans have fled to South Korea since
SPORTSSUNDAY
21 Frigid Ocean Miles to Go
Antonio Argüelles swam six of the
arduous channel crossings of the so-
PAGE 1
called Oceans Seven. Then, at 58, he
confronted the North Channel.
Iran Flexes in Afghanistan
As U.S. Presence Wanes
Covert Aid to Old Enemies in the Taliban
Risks Further Destabilizing a Nation
By CARLOTTA GALL
FARAH, Afghanistan — A po-
lice officer guarding the outskirts
of this city remembers the call
from his commander, warning
that hundreds of Taliban fighters
were headed his way.
“Within half an hour, they at-
tacked,” recalled Officer Najibul-
lah Amiri, 35. The Taliban
swarmed the farmlands sur-
rounding his post and seized the
western riverbank here in Farah,
the capital of the province by the
same name.
It was the start of a three-week
siege in October, and only after
American air support was called
in to end it and the smoke cleared
did Afghan security officials real-
ize who was behind the lightning
strike: Iran.
Four senior Iranian comman-
dos were among the scores of
dead, Afghan intelligence officials
said, noting their funerals in Iran.
Many of the Taliban dead and
wounded were also taken back
across the nearby border with
Iran, where the insurgents had
been recruited and trained, vil-
lage elders told Afghan provincial
officials.
The assault, coordinated with
attacks on several other cities,
was part of the Taliban’s most am-
bitious attempt since 2001 to re-
Colleges Seek Diversity Ideal,
But Pick Different Paths to It
By VIVIAN YEE
Just a year ago, after the Su-
preme Court rejected a challenge
to the University of Texas at
Austin’s admissions program by a
single swing vote, the question
seemed to be edging, at last, to-
ward an answer: Colleges could,
the justices ruled, consider race
when deciding whom to let
through their gates.
“I thought this was settled,”
said Anthony P. Carnevale, an
economist at Georgetown Univer-
sity who studies affirmative ac-
tion. “I thought it was done.”
Only for the moment.
A series of lawsuits and com-
plaints have continued to chal-
lenge such practices, and last
week, President Trump’s Justice
Department joined the chorus,
signaling that it would marshal
lawyers to investigate and per-
haps sue colleges over “inten-
tional race-based discrimination”
in admissions.
Besieged in court, routed in
eight states, accused of favoring
blacks and Latinos at the expense
of Asians and whites, affirmative
action — a major legacy of the civil
NEW SANCTIONS The United
Nations Security Council voted to
impose the most punishing sanc-
tions yet on North Korea. PAGE 11
a famine hit their homeland in the
1990s. Of them, 25 have mysteri-
ously resurfaced back in the
North in the past five years.
South Korean officials suspect
these “repeat defectors,” as those
who return to the North are
known, may have been lured to
China and kidnapped back to the
Continued on Page 4
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take power. But it was also a piece
of an accelerating Iranian cam-
paign to step into a vacuum left by
departing American forces —
Iran’s biggest push into Afghanis-
tan in decades.
President Trump recently la-
mented that the United States was
losing its 16-year war in Afghanis-
tan, and threatened to fire the
American generals in charge.
There is no doubt that as the
TEHRAN’S TURN
A Bold Gambit
United States winds down the Af-
ghan war — the longest in Ameri-
can history, and one that has cost
half a trillion dollars and more
than 150,000 lives on all sides —
regional adversaries are muscling
in.
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan re-
main the dominant players. But
Iran is also making a bold gambit
to shape Afghanistan in its favor.
Over the past decade and a half,
the United States has taken out
Iran’s chief enemies on two of its
borders, the Taliban government
in Afghanistan and Saddam Hus-
Continued on Page 12
rights era — is once again the sub-
ject of uncomfortable scrutiny.
But even without federal inter-
vention, a look at affirmative ac-
tion policies in 2017 shows that
they have achieved their own kind
of diversity, evolving from the ex-
plicitly race-based quotas of dec-
ades ago into a range of ap-
proaches that occasionally, not al-
ways, near the melting-pot ideal,
often by giving preference to low-
income students instead of minor-
ities.
“The reason a liberal like me is
intrigued by Trump’s actions on
affirmative action is that I think it
could have the effect of driving
universities to really pursuing so-
cioeconomic diversity as a way of
indirectly creating racial diversi-
ty,” said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a
senior fellow at the Century Foun-
dation who has pushed for class-
based admissions to replace race-
based admissions.
Public universities in California
and Washington, forbidden by
state law from considering race in
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you on the coming darkness.
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How to Spend a Sunless Day
By REMY TUMIN
As an eerie midday twilight settled over
Baker, Ore., on June 8, 1918, the hearts of a
group of astronomers began to sink.
Clouds became dense, and their chance to
watch the sun wink out was in jeopardy.
But soon the overcast began to thin; The
New York Times reported that the scene
“took the peculiar color of yellow usual at
eclipses.”
Minutes passed, and “nature now be-
came hushed, the birds sang their evening
song, and the cocks were heard to crow.”
Later this month the same quiet could
fall again. On Aug. 21 the earth, moon and
sun will align, creating the first solar
eclipse since 1918 to sweep across the con-
tiguous United States, coast to coast. It will
also be the first to be seen only in the U.S.
since the signing of the Declaration of
Independence; NASA has even billed the
event as this generation’s moon landing.
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section to commemorate the event and to
prepare the curious. An array of first-
person accounts, explainers on the science
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contemplative essay on what it’s like to be
one among millions swallowed by the
moon’s umbra at once.
When the hour comes, Mr. Guterl said he
would be in Carbondale, Ill., which will
experience the longest period of darkness,
about two minutes and 38 seconds. “Some-
thing about seeing it go over actual places
in the country, I thought, I’ve got to get to
one of them,” he said.
This is the fifth print-only section
OYSTER perpetual produced by The Times Magazine in the
last year, and like the others, it is meant to
explorer ii “surprise and delight” print readers, the
magazine’s editor, Jake Silverstein, said.
“It’s our attempt to convince as many
people who either may not have yet known
about the eclipse or haven’t made plans,
that this event is so magical and awe in-
spiring that they need to figure out a way
to get into the path of totality,” Mr. Silver-
stein said, using the term for the regions
for which the moon’s shadow will occlude
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was 36 years old,” The Times reported in a front-page article dated Aug. 5. In total, seven
pieces about the “contemporary Venus” ran in the Aug. 6 paper.
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NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

Twenty million bananas are distribut-
ed around New York City each week.
The Secret Life of the City Banana
METROPOLITAN, PAGE 1
•
In their Olympic Games, ancient
Greek competitors would drink drug
and herb concoctions to kill pain.
A Russian Cocktail of Cycling and Doping
ARTS & LEISURE, PAGE 11
• the observer on the ground means
In 16th-century British trials,
people suspected of crimes had
no right in advance to learn of the
evidence against them, or even the
charges, because the element of
surprise was deemed crucial to
ascertaining the truth.
Guilt by Omission THE MAGAZINE, PAGE 40
JASON POLAN
A record $54.1 billion will be spent
on back-to-school shopping this year.
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Sheets
EDUCATION LIFE, PAGE 4
• wagon full of fat onto the stage of
More than half of first-year students
at Harvard failed an entrance exam
in writing in 1874.
Why Kids Can’t Write EDUCATION LIFE, PAGE 8
The term “American dream” was
popularized by the writer James
Truslow Adams, who used it in his
1931 book “The Epic of America.”
The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’
SUNDAY BUSINESS, PAGE 3
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The sun is 400 times as large as
the moon, but it also happens to be
400 times farther away, which to
they are almost identical in size.
Cosmic Coincidence SPECIAL SECTION: THE
GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE OF 2017, PAGE 4
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In 1988, Oprah Winfrey pulled a
her television show to show off
her 67-pound weight loss.
Losing It THE MAGAZINE, PAGE 34

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1. John Kelly, Asserting Authority,
Fires Anthony Scaramucci
The Times’s report that the new White House chief of staff had
ended Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure as communications direc-
tor was by far the most popular read last week. In the same
span of days as the dismissal, Mr. Scaramucci’s wife filed for
divorce and gave birth to their child, and readers on social
media heaped on schadenfreude.
2. Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action
In College Admissions
Nearly 3,000 commenters came to The Times’s report revealing
the Justice Department’s intent to investigate universities’
affirmative action policies as programs of “race-based discrimi-
nation” against white applicants.
3. Sam Shepard, Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright,
Is Dead at 73
The death of Sam Shepard, one of American theater’s towering
figures, was met by a river of grieving commenters on Twitter
and on Facebook, where the Times obituary was shared more
than 7,000 times.
4. In Pivotal Moment, Tesla Unveils
Its First Mass-Market Sedan
Tesla’s rollout of the Model 3 battery-powered sedan at the end
of last month remained popular into the weekend, as clean
energy groups on social media continued to celebrate the news
as part of the forward march of fossil-fuel alternatives.
On Friday, the Times reporter Nelson D. Schwartz ran
through the latest job report and current economic conditions
on Facebook Live, taking viewer questions along the way. A
lightly edited excerpt from his thoughts on the economic
outlook — and who may be responsible for good numbers —
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Nelson Schwartz Isn’t this still considered Obama’s
economy until September?
That’s Dan. I think what Dan’s referring to is the fiscal
year. So, we are still in fiscal ‘17 — fiscal year is
September to September — so it is the fiscal year. I
think most people would say the Trump economy began
in January when Trump took office. When there’s a
ship the size of the U.S. economy, it takes a long time
to turn that around and move it in one direction. So, I
think, it is safe to say that President Trump inherited
an unemployment rate definitely going in the right
direction. It’s not as if the economy went in a total
different direction when Trump took office.
Any thoughts about a continuing trend? From Anne
Gale.

Yeah, as they say on Wall Street, ‘The trend is your

friend.’ We could argue til the cows come home about
who deserves credit — Trump, Obama, Wall Street, the
weaker dollars, all of the above. The bottom line is the
trends are going in the right direction.

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Laurent presentation when to signal to others. So denim shorts are
KWON CHOL-NAM, a defector from out walked a model in a tux- O.K., but maybe not Daisy Dukes; a se-
North Korea who finds life in Seoul edo shorts jumpsuit and I found myself quined sheath or tank fine, but perhaps
intolerable but is not allowed to go thinking: “Yes! That would solve so many not a crop top. Anything you could imagine
home.
problems for me if I got it and didn’t want a 10-year-old absconding with should
to wear a dress to a black tie party.” Then I probably be avoided. Or go by the free-
took a deep breath and thought: “Get a association adjective rule: “Elegant” is
grip. You are way past the days of tuxedo better than “cute”; “seductive” better than
onesies.” Which is to say: The question of “beach babe.” Finally, if you’re still not
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Kwon Chol-nam, a North Korean defector, in his room in Seoul, South Korea. “I am afraid to live in the South,” he said.
Risking Death to Flee, North Korean Now Begs to Return
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Mr. Kwon, 44, was working as
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with China in 2014 when he and a
woman he had met while collect-
ing blueberries fled across the
border. The woman had been in
China before, and she told Mr.
Kwon that he could make money
in China, a lot of it.
But once he made it there after
a harrowing border crossing,
nothing went as expected.
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South Korea, for about $2,500. Af-
ter an arduous journey that lasted
a month, he arrived in the South in
November 2014, settling in Ulsan,
an industrial city in the southeast.
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Corrections
NATIONAL
An article last Sunday about po-
ems by contemporary American
poets that inspired photographers
misspelled the given name of one
poet. She is Katy Lederer, not
Katie.
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Mr. Kwon moved to Seoul in March and stayed in homeless shelters before renting a room.
But like other defectors, he
struggled to make the transition
from the North’s highly regi-
mented totalitarian system to the
South’s fast-paced, hypercompeti-
tive capitalist society. (About 63
percent of defectors say they ex-
perience discrimination in the
South, according to a study by the
government-run Korea Institute
for National Unification last year.)
Mr. Kwon drifted from farm to
construction work. He was often
A defector grows
disenchanted with
life in capitalist
South Korea.
ridiculed for not understanding
the English words South Koreans
liberally adopt in their daily con-
versation. Just over 5 feet tall, Mr.
Kwon didn’t see a future in physi-
cally demanding jobs.
The more he struggled, the
more he missed his family in the
North, especially his son. He
saved $4,500 and, using interme-
diaries because no banking trans-
fers are allowed between North
and South, sent it to his ex-wife in
the North, who told him that she
wanted to be reunited. He also felt
guilty for leaving home after he
learned that his father had died
while he was away. To add to his
woes, the broker who smuggled
him from China to Thailand sued
him, accusing him of not paying all
An article in some editions last
Sunday about Claire Smith’s re-
ceiving the J. G. Taylor Spink
Award at the National Baseball
Hall of Fame misspelled, in some
copies, the surname of a previous
winner. He was Damon Runyon,
not Runyan. (He was born Run-
yan but later began using the al-
ternative spelling professionally.)
METROPOLITAN
The Sunday Routine column in
some editions on July 30, about
how the lacrosse player Paul Rabil
spends his leisure time, misstated
the opening month of the Major
League Lacrosse season. It be-
gins in April, not in June.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEAN CHUNG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
of his fee.
Then in May last year, Mr. Kwon
said, he finally “snapped.” When
he didn’t get the pay he said he
had been promised for carrying
bricks, he asked the police to in-
tervene, but they sided with his
South Korean boss, who denied
Mr. Kwon’s accusation.
“I will go back to the North and
hold a news conference there to
tell the truth about what the life
was like in the South,” he yelled at
them, according to court records.
His escape from the North first
made him an enemy of Pyong-
yang, and now his desire to go
back has made him a pariah to
some in the South.
Homesick, Mr. Kwon watched
North Korean propaganda on the
internet. He applied for a South
Korean passport and a tourist visa
to China so he could enter North
Korea from there. He converted
his savings to dollars. He even
sent goodbye text messages to a
police detective he had be-
friended, saying he was moving
“abroad.”
“I no longer want to live here
heartbroken,” he texted.
On June 22 last year, a dozen po-
lice officers raided his home and
arrested him on a charge of plot-
ting to flee to North Korea, a crime
punishable by up to seven years in
prison. Mr. Kwon was released in
September after a judge sus-
pended his one-year prison term.
He has since been out of work,
and his fellow defectors shun him.
He was reduced to smoking dirty
cigarette butts off the ground.
“I went through difficulties in
the South that I hadn’t known in
EDUCATION LIFE
An article on Page 16 this week-
end about students with develop-
mental disabilities in special col-
lege programs refers incorrectly
to a legislative act passed in 1975
that opened the way for such stu-
dents to attend mainstream
classes. When it became law, it
was the Education for All Handi-
capped Children Act (and was lat-
er reauthorized as the Individuals
With Education Disabilities Act);
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the North,” he said. “I am afraid to
live in the South.”
Mr. Kwon moved to Seoul in
March and stayed in homeless
shelters before renting a room for
$267 a month. He found help in
sympathetic Christian pastors.
“It’s a most natural thing for a
human to want to go home to his
family,” the Rev. Moon Dae-gol
said. “A state that denies that right
is no better than a beast.”
During his protests in front of
government buildings, Mr. Kwon
holds a sign that says: “I am a citi-
zen of the Democratic People’s Re-
public of Korea. I want to go
home.” Some accuse him of being
foolhardy. But he remains un-
deterred.
He said he was not afraid of be-
ing punished in the North for flee-
ing, although he added that he ex-
pected to be sent for re-education
for a period and that this was a
price he was prepared to pay. He
said he was proud of the North’s
nuclear weapons. He would not
accept any criticism of North Ko-
rea, and its human rights abuses,
and vowed to “stay loyal to the
end.”
It was difficult to tell whether
Mr. Kwon was being sincere or
just trying to endear himself to the
North.
But his conviction was clear
when he emphasized that while
South Korea was economically
better off, he preferred a simpler
life in his birth country.
“In the North, I may not be rich,
but I would better understand
people around me and wouldn’t be
treated like dirt as I have been in
the South,” he said.
it was not known as the Individu-
als With Disabilities Act in 1975 or
at any other time.
An article on Page 12 this week-
end about New World School of
the Arts misspells part of the
name of one of the Broadway
shows orchestrated by Alex La-
camoire, an alumnus. It is “Dear
Evan Hansen” (not Hanson). The
error is repeated on Page 14 in an
interview with Mr. Lacamoire.
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0N
A Brexit Risk
To Irish Peace
By SARAH LYALL
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland —
Crossing the border between Northern
Ireland and the Irish Republic used to in-
volve delays, checkpoints, bureaucratic
harassment and the lurking threat of vio-
lence. That it’s now virtually seamless —
that you can drive across without even
knowing it — feels close to miraculous.
It is also one of the great successes of
the Irish peace process of the last several
decades. “It was like you had to climb
over a locked gate,” George Fleming, the
president of the Londonderry Chamber of
Commerce, said in an interview. “And
then someone came and opened the gate.”
But as with so many British-related
matters these days, Brexit — Britain’s di-
vorce from the European Union — has
thrown this hard-won arrangement into
jeopardy.
If the British government succeeds in
extricating itself from the European Un-
ion, the two parts of Ireland will lose one
of their most important connective
threads: a shared membership in the
bloc. In an instant, one part of the island
would be in Europe, and the other would
not.
Established nearly 100 years ago ac-
cording to political expedience rather
than natural logic, the border — some 300
miles long, with about 210 crossings — is
not easy to control, police or even always
identify. (Many of the crossings are on
tiny back roads.)
Reinstating a hard border, as residents
call it, would have both psychological and
Houses with murals depicting the
Troubles at the Bogside, a prominent
Irish Republican Army heartland in
Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
practical implications. The movement of
goods and services between north and
south, now commonplace and easy, would
become far more complicated with the in-
troduction of new tariffs and customs reg-
ulations.
There are fears, too, about the return of
armed guards and checkpoints, a re-
surgence of smuggling and other types of
lawlessness, and a renewal of violence
from dissident Irish republicans bound to
chafe at signs of British control at the
crossings.
Northern Ireland voted against Brexit
in last year’s referendum. Polls show that
for practicality’s sake, a majority of peo-
ple in the region, whether they identify
themselves as Irish or British, want the
border to remain porous and fluid.
“To reimpose the border is like putting
up the Berlin Wall again, after you’ve tak-
en it down,” said Mr. Fleming, whose farm
equipment company is based just two
miles from the border.
He employs people from both north and
south; does business in both north and
south (and abroad); and, along with some
325,000 other people per week, regularly
drives back and forth, too many times to
count, between the two places. His 96-
year-old mother lives just across the bor-
der, in the republic.
The island has been split in two since
1921 — the north, part of the United King-
dom and governed from London, and the
south, a sovereign nation governed from
Dublin. Most of the United Kingdom-Eu-
ropean Union border is the waters of the
English Channel; the only somewhat
comparable land border is between Spain
and the British territory of Gibraltar.
The British government has sought to
reassure border residents that their con-
cerns are being heard. “Nobody wants to
return to the borders of the past,” Prime
Minister Theresa May said in January,
pledging to maintain the so-called Com-
mon Travel Area, which allows citizens of
the United Kingdom and the republic to
travel back and forth without being sub-
ject to passport controls.
But Ms. May’s words have convinced
few people here. One of the prime motiva-
tions for Brexit was Britain’s desire to re-
establish sovereignty and retake control
of its borders. People who live on either
side of the divide wonder how Britain can
possibly expect to achieve both things —
put in a new hard border with Europe
while maintaining the current openness.
They say, too, that easy statements
from Westminster ignore hundreds of
years of complicated history and show a
profound failure to understand the in-
Ed O’Loughlin contributed reporting.
Exit From E.U. Imperils
A Border Arrangement
tense emotions that Brexit has stirred up
in a region scarred by the past.
Londonderry, for instance, is a predom-
inantly Catholic city in a majority Protes-
tant region with a long and bitter history
of violent sectarian conflict. Ancient prob-
lems can seem very close to the surface
here. But in recent years — and most dra-
matically since the enactment, in 1999, of
the peace accord known as the Good Fri-
day agreement — the city has made a re-
markable turnaround.
Few people make a big deal now about
the once life-or-death question of what to
call the city: Londonderry, its official
name and the one Protestants tradition-
ally prefer, or Derry, the Catholics’ fa-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
vored name and the one by which it is
generally known. Reflecting that both
sides have a point, government organiza-
tions (and the BBC) have succumbed to
practicality and often write it as “Derry/
Londonderry.” Above, the for-
“There’s no trouble here anymore,” mer border post
said Shauna McClenaghan, a civic leader between the
in Inishowen, a nearby area of the repub- Republic of
lic that is intimately connected to Lon- Ireland and
donderry politically and culturally, de-
spite being across the international bor-
Northern Ire-
land in Car-
der. “Derry’s just a city.”
Gerry Lynn, an amateur historian who rickarnon, Dun-
leads tours at the Guildhall, the historic dalk. At left,
downtown building where the City Coun- George Fleming,
cil meets, unleashed a condensed version the president of
of more than 1,000 extremely complex the Londonderry
years of Irish history by way of explain-
ing how far the country, and the region,
Chamber of
Commerce, at
have come since the Troubles (not to
mention the 1600s). his farm equip-
“This city, this country, is like a woman ment company
who has given birth,” Mr. Lynn said. “All in Newbuild-
the trauma, the pain and the fighting are ings, near the
over. We’ve come out of the Troubles — border. Below, a
out of black and white and into color.” view of the Bog-
Now buses full of tourists from China
and South America pour in to admire the side.
17th-century wall that surrounds the city,
whose Protestant residents are still
proud that it was never breached by
Catholic forces during the Siege of Derry,
in 1689. In 2013, the city became the
United Kingdom’s first City of Culture.
In 2011, a pedestrian Peace Bridge,
costing 14 million pounds, or about $21.7
million, and financed in large part by Eu-
ropean money, was built over the River
Foyle, connecting the mostly Catholic
city center to the more Protestant Water-
side section in the east.
“Everyone’s so content with the peace
we have here, and nobody really makes
too much fuss about the politics except
the politicians,” said Daphne Wilson, 50,
who was ambling across the bridge the
other day.
Though she voted for Brexit — “We
don’t want pedophiles and terrorists com-
ing here” — she believes that free move-
ment back and forth has helped the two
sides feel like part of a greater whole.
So does Toni Forrester, the chief execu-
tive of the chamber of commerce in Let-
terkenny, County Donegal, next door in
the republic. “We’ve worked so hard and
so closely together to get cross-border co-
operation working,” she said.
As an example, she mentioned a new
medical-imaging center in Londonderry
that is open to patients from the republic.
“You can have a heart attack in Donegal
and be treated in Derry,” she said.
Community leaders worry that much of
the delicate progress of the last couple of
decades — the softening of entrenched
prejudices, the gradual moves toward
reconciliation — could be shattered by the
reintroduction of an us-versus-them men-
tality that a harder border would bring.
“This area benefits from E.U. funding,
from peace programs that benefit north
and south promoting the notion that we
have more in common than we have dif-
ferences,” Ms. McClenaghan said.
Now 49 and joint chief executive of the
Inishowen Development Partnership,
she grew up in Galway, in the republic,
when the borders were pockmarked with
checkpoints and the roads patrolled by
armed officers.
“You’d see the army with their tanks
and guns, and it was scary and intimidat-
ing,” she said. “Passing the border, they’d
always ask you where you were going and
where you were from.”
Ms. McClenaghan was chatting over a
cup of coffee at a cafe in Bridgend, at the
southern end of the Inishowen peninsula.
The border with Northern Ireland was
just down the road, near an intersection
that already snarls up and slows down at
rush hour.
“What’s going to happen to traffic if
there’s a hard border?” she asked.
Among other logistical awkward-
nesses, the impractical way the island is
divided means that unless you take a
three- or four-hour detour through west-
ern Ireland, you cannot drive from In-
ishowen to Dublin without crossing the
border at least twice.
Back at the Guildhall, Mr. Lynn, the
tour guide, said that having come this far,
people in the city had no desire to return
to the way things were before. “History
has to be history,” he said. “It has to be left The Peace Bridge, which spans the River Foyle in Londonderry, connects the mostly Catholic city center with the
in the past.” more Protestant Waterside section in the east. Built in 2011, it was financed in large part by European Union money.
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Week (Breakfast) (Lunch) (Dinner) Each Day
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3 3 3 9
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Week (Breakfast) (Lunch) (Dinner) Each Day yellow, propylene glycol, ammonium hydroxide
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Days 15 Active ingredient: pirfenidone
1 1 1 3
onward Inactive ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, colloidal anhydrous silica,
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8 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
Britain Turns to Chinese Textbooks to Raise Math Scores
By AMY QIN
BEIJING — Educators around
the world were stunned when stu-
dents in Shanghai came first in
their international standardized
testing debut, in 2010, besting
their counterparts in dozens of
countries in what some called a
Sputnik-like moment.
Now, some British schools will
try to replicate that success by us-
ing translated textbooks that are
otherwise all but identical to those
in public elementary schools
around Shanghai.
Starting in January, teachers in
England will have the option of us-
ing “Real Shanghai Mathemat-
ics,” a series of 36 textbooks trans-
lated directly from Chinese into
English. The only difference? The
renminbi symbols will be replaced
by British pound signs.
“All this time, Asians have been
learning from the Western educa-
tion system,” said Yong Zhao, a
professor of education at Univer-
sity of Kansas. “Suddenly, it’s the
reverse.”
Western classrooms have
adopted mathematics teaching
techniques from Asia before. In
the past, a small number of
schools in the West experimented
with a Singapore-style approach.
It is similar to the method used in
Shanghai, which is seen as having
the best math teachers in China.
But experts say England is the
first country to forge ahead with a
bold government-backed plan to
remake some classrooms in the
image of the East. Under a $54
million initiative funded by the
government, more than half the
primary schools in England will
adopt a teaching approach to
math that is used in top-perform-
ing places like Shanghai and Sin-
gapore.
“I am confident that the steps
we are taking now will ensure
young people are properly pre-
pared for further study and the
21st-century workplace, and that
the too often heard phrase ‘can’t
do maths’ is consigned to the
past,” said Nick Gibb, the British
schools minister who oversees
primary education, when he an-
nounced the initiative last year.
The teaching method, known as
the “mastery” approach, is based
on the idea that all students can
succeed in learning mathematics
when given proper instruction.
Whereas teachers in the West
might describe a concept and then
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Primary schools in Shanghai use a teaching approach to math that requires students to explain concepts to their classmates.
assign problems for students to
solve individually, the mastery
method is more interactive.
Teachers frequently pose ques-
tions to students who are then ex-
pected to precisely explain both
solutions and underlying princi-
ples in front of their classmates.
Students learn fewer concepts
under this approach, which allows
them to go into those concepts in
greater depth. For fractions, for
example, teachers might ask stu-
dents to apply the underlying
principle “part of a whole” in dif-
ferent contexts, making use of pic-
torial representations and other
visual techniques to explore the
abstract idea. Ideally, only when
the entire class has demonstrated
understanding or “mastery” of
one concept does the teacher
move to the next.
Colin Hughes, the managing di-
rector of Collins Learning, the ed-
ucation division of HarperCollins,
which is publishing the texts, said
re- that the Chinese textbooks were
“significantly more demanding”
than the current curriculum in
England.
The mastery approach is be-
lieved to have propelled students
in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sin-
gapore to the top of the rankings
for the Program for International
Student Assessment, a respected
exam known as PISA, which tests
about half a million 15-year-olds in
over 60 countries every three
years.
In 2009 and again in 2012,
Shanghai students outscored
their counterparts in reading, sci-
ence and math. Singapore ranked
first in 2015. Experts say that be-
sides the mastery approach, other
factors explain that success, such
as heavy parental involvement
and a cultural emphasis on educa-
tion.
Many Western countries, by
contrast, have lagged, making lit-
tle progress in the rankings over
the years. The United States, for
example, generally hovers at av-
erage or below average in overall
results, and in 2015, Britain was
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27th for math, one place worse
than three years earlier.
Some schools in Britain have al-
ready begun experimenting with
mathematics textbooks based on
teaching materials from Singa-
pore. Another series adapted from
China to fit British curriculum re-
quirements is used in around 400
primary schools in England, ac-
cording to Ni Ming, an editor at
East China Normal University
Press, the Chinese publisher of
those books.
Britain’s shift to the East is a
turnaround for a country that has
some of the world’s elite universi-
ties.
It is a boon for China, which has
made no secret of its wish to
project soft power to accompany
its growing economic might. But
those efforts have met with mixed
results so far. An ambitious en-
deavor to establish hundreds of
Confucius Institutes on university
campuses around the world, for
example, has drawn widespread
criticism for what some say are in-
Singapore Orders Expulsion of American
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK
BANGKOK — Singapore has
ordered the expulsion of a noted
American academic for what it
said was his covert effort to influ-
ence Singapore’s foreign policy on
behalf of an unnamed foreign gov-
ernment.
The academic, Huang Jing, was
accused of passing “privileged in-
formation” to senior Singapore of-
ficials with the intent of affecting
their decisions. He was quickly re-
moved from his position as the
Lee Foundation professor on
United States-China relations at
the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy.
“He did this in collaboration
with foreign intelligence agents,”
the Singapore Ministry of Home
Affairs said in a statement on Fri-
day that announced the order.
“This amounts to subversion and
foreign interference in Singa-
pore’s domestic politics.”
Mr. Huang has held posts at the
Brookings Institution, Stanford
University and Harvard Univer-
sity. Some view his academic writ-
ings as pro-Chinese.
Mr. Huang declined to answer
questions from The New York
Times about his expulsion, but in
comments to other news media,
he expressed uncertainty about
whether he had been accused of
Austin Ramzy contributed report-
ing from Hong Kong.
Polish Man Accused of Plot to Sell British Model
By MATT STEVENS
A Polish citizen has been
charged with kidnapping a 20-
year-old British model in what the
Italian authorities said Saturday
was part of a scheme to sell the
woman on a pornography web-
site.
The model, whom the State Po-
lice in Italy did not identify, was
drugged, handcuffed and locked
in a travel bag after being taken
hostage in Milan on July 11, ac-
cording to a statement issued by
the authorities.
The kidnapper had demanded
that the woman’s agent pay a
$300,000 ransom to prevent her
from being sold, the statement
said.
The model was released after
six days and was “accompanied to
the British consulate in Milan,” ac-
cording to the police statement.
“Further investigations are on-
going,” the police said, “in order to
identify possible accomplices”
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ternal policies running counter to
general principles of academic
freedom.
The country’s K-12 education
system, by contrast, is something
of a natural cultural resource, hav-
An interactive
approach, not just
problems to solve.
ing been built around the all-im-
portant gaokao, or national col-
lege examination, a single com-
petitive test that determines
where most Chinese go to univer-
sity.
Besides Britain, a number of
other countries, including the
United Arab Emirates, Kenya,
and Malaysia, have expressed in-
terest in learning from the so-
called Chinese mastery model.
aiding Beijing or Washington.
“It’s nonsense to identify me as
‘an agent of influence’ for a foreign
country,” he told The South China
Morning Post. “And why didn’t
they identify which foreign coun-
try they’re referring to? Is it the
U.S. or China?”
“My family and my home are all
here,” he added. “I have property
in Singapore, too. How can they
treat me like this? If they have evi-
dence, they should take me to
court.”
The United States counts Singa-
pore as a close ally, but the city-
state of 5.8 million people also has
generally maintained good rela-
tions with China, its largest trad-
ing partner. Ethnic Chinese make
up about three-quarters of Singa-
pore’s population and hold most
key positions in government.
In recent months, however, the
two Asian nations have ex-
changed words over control of the
South China Sea and China’s
seizure in Hong Kong of Singa-
pore military equipment that was
en route from Taiwan.
According to one person close
to the Lee Kuan Yew School, Mr.
Huang’s troubles began after he
submitted an academic paper to a
school administrator, who then
passed it on to high-level officials.
This appears to be the origin of
the charge that Mr. Huang had
used his position “to deliberately
and covertly advance the agenda
and clarify the
motive. The
statement said
a second man
had also been
involved in the
kidnapping, but
did not elabo-
rate.
Lukasz Pawel The day after
the woman was
Herba after freed, a 30-
his arrest.
year-old Polish
citizen was ar-
rested, according to the police.
The statement did not identify the
man but said he lived in Britain.
The Associated Press, citing the
Italian authorities, identified him
as Lukasz Pawel Herba. Multiple
news outlets also reported that
Mr. Herba was the man who had
accompanied the model to the
British consulate, though it was
not clear why.
The woman had come to Milan
on July 10 for a photo shoot that
was scheduled for the next day,
Mr. Ni, the Chinese publisher, said
that the company was in talks
with education representatives in
several other countries, like the
United States, about adapting its
workbooks.
The movement to learn from
China comes even as parents and
educators in the country increase
calls to overhaul the education
system to ease the intense pres-
sure on students and encourage
individuality.
“Just because England is im-
porting our teaching materials
doesn’t mean there aren’t any
problems with our education sys-
tem and that it doesn’t need re-
form,” Xiong Bingqi, vice presi-
dent of the 21st Century Education
Research Institute in Beijing,
wrote recently in the Guangming
Newspaper.
In some parts of China, officials
have already begun experi-
menting with gaokao reforms and
with teaching techniques that re-
ward critical thinking. Dissatis-
fied with the education system at
home, huge numbers of parents
continue to send their children to
study in countries like England
and the United States.
“Right now, the national buzz-
word is creativity,” said Jiang Xue-
qin, a researcher at Harvard who
advises Chinese schools on how to
incorporate more creativity into
their curriculum. “China sees it as
a source of economic power, a hur-
dle to be jumped over to challenge
American hegemony.”
Some experts question whether
merely adopting Chinese text-
books will have a real impact on
math standards. Textbooks, Mr.
Hughes acknowledged, are not a
silver bullet for education prob-
lems in Britain.
But even if the effort is well in-
tentioned, some critics say the
mastery system is too rooted in
the cultural context of Asia to be
applicable in the West.
Mr. Ni said that some of those
differences became evident in
translating Chinese workbooks
into English. One exercise asks
first graders to pair objects, like a
shirt and shorts, for example, or a
flower and a vase.
But at least one pair had to be
changed, he said. The bird and
cage in the original became a bird
and a tree in the English edition —
a not-so-subtle metaphor, per-
haps, for the different approaches
to teaching.
“To Chinese, the bird is just a
toy,” Mr. Ni said. “But in England,
the bird has to be free in the tree.”
of a foreign country at Singapore’s
expense.”
The clear intention was to use
the information to cause the Sin-
gapore government to change its
foreign policy, the ministry said,
but the government did not act on
the “privileged information.”
Mr. Huang’s wife, Shirley Yang
Xiuping, was also ordered to leave
Singapore. The ministry said she
had been aware that her husband
was using his position to advance
the interests of a foreign country.
The ministry identified both as
American citizens. It said that
their continued presence in Singa-
pore was “undesirable” and that
they would be permanently
barred from re-entering. Singa-
pore did not announce a deadline
for the couple’s departure.
At the Lee Kuan Yew School,
Mr. Huang had been director of
the Center on Asia and Globaliza-
tion until June. As of Saturday, his
biography page had been re-
moved from the school’s website.
In the preface to one of his
books, Mr. Huang writes about his
early years in China, where he
says he was sent to Yunnan Prov-
ince for “re-education” as a teen-
ager in the 1970s.
He studied history and English
at Fudan University and Sichuan
University before earning a Ph.D.
in government at Harvard, ac-
cording to a screenshot of the de-
leted web page.
the police said. But when she en-
tered an apartment for the shoot,
she was “attacked by two men,”
the authorities said.
The kidnappers locked the
woman in the trunk of a car and
took her to a remote location, the
police said. Once inside a home,
the model was handcuffed to a
wooden chest of drawers.
Using encrypted accounts, the
woman’s abductors threatened to
auction her online and demanded
the $300,000 ransom to stop the
sale.
Investigators said the 30-year-
old Polish citizen had previously
organized similar online auctions
in which he advertised abducted
young women for sale as “prey.”
They cautioned, however, that it
was not clear whether the man
had actually kidnapped other vic-
tims.
The woman was released on
July 17, but the police did not say
why. They also said they did not
believe a ransom had been paid.

Flaws Seen
As Asylum
In Mexico
Is Strained
By KIRK SEMPLE
MEXICO CITY — As the Trump
administration pushes forward
with its plans to harden the south-
west border, Mexico has found it-
self under pressure to take in an
increasing number of asylum
seekers making their way north
from Central America, many of
them fleeing gang violence.
But immigrants’ advocates say
Mexico’s asylum system and its
ability to protect migrants have
not kept pace with these de-
mands, impeding access for many
migrants to the safety they de-
serve and the refugee status they
may be entitled to.
While the Mexican government
has made improvements to its
asylum program in recent years
and has awarded protection at in-
creasingly higher rates, the sys-
tem remains deeply flawed, leav-
ing many migrants vulnerable to
harm, according to at least seven
reports published in recent weeks
by American, Mexican, Central
American and international
groups focused on human rights
and migration.
The weaknesses include inade-
quate staffing in Mexico’s refugee
agency, leading to monthslong
waits for applicants; uneven
training and supervision of immi-
gration agents; and inconsistent
adjudication of asylum law, ac-
cording to the reports.
Many who might qualify for
asylum have been unable to begin
the process because government
officials have not taken the steps
needed to allow them to apply, the
groups contend. In some cases,
border agents have actively dis-
couraged migrants from applying
for asylum, threatening them with
long detention in Mexico while
their petitions are being consid-
ered, advocates say.
These weaknesses are particu-
larly glaring, advocates say, as
some legislators in Washington
push for a legal change that would
require migrants to apply for asy-
lum in Mexico if they reached the
United States by traveling
through it. A bill pending in Con-
gress “would allow the return of
apprehended Central American
refugees to Mexico, where they
could apply for protection,” with-
out the need for a bilateral agree-
ment with Mexico, according to a
summary from the House Judicia-
ry Committee, which approved
the bill last month.
Such changes “would under-
mine U.S. global leadership and
violate American legal commit-
ments, even if Mexico had a
strong refugee protection sys-
tem,” said a report published last
month by Human Rights First.
“They are all the more dangerous
because Mexico doesn’t.”
Officials with the National Mi-
gration Institute, Mexico’s immi-
gration enforcement agency, and
the Mexican Commission for Ref-
ugee Assistance, or Comar, the de-
partment that processes asylum
petitions, did not grant interviews
for this article.
Though the vast majority of
northbound migrants from Cen-
tral America still regard Mexico
as a transit corridor to the United
States, the country has increas-
ingly become an attractive desti-
Top, a fence in Tijuana, Mexico, along the border with the United States. Left, Honduran migrants packed before moving from a shelter in Tapachula to an
apartment. Right, migrants waited for food in Caborca, in northern Mexico. The asylum system suffers from inadequate staffing, training and adjudication.
nation in its own right.
Last year, nearly 8,800 people
applied for asylum in Mexico, al-
most seven times as many as in
2013, according to government
statistics.
Some of the increase has been
because of stronger immigration
enforcement in Mexico, particu-
larly along its southern border.
Some detained migrants, faced
with deportation to their home
countries, have chosen to apply
Changes in U.S.
policy threaten to
overwhelm a system.
for asylum.
Over the last several months,
the Trump administration’s immi-
gration policies have stoked con-
cern among many potential mi-
grants in Central America that
crossing the border and getting by
in the United States without
proper documentation have be-
come more difficult. As a result,
far fewer Central Americans ap-
pear to be making the trek, partic-
ularly those whose principal moti-
vation is to escape poverty.
But Central Americans fleeing
chronic violence, particularly in
Honduras and El Salvador, contin-
ue to leave their countries in large
numbers, and an increasing num-
ber are deciding to seek refuge in
Mexico, claiming they are at risk
of, or have suffered, certain kinds
of persecution in their home coun-
tries.
Officials predict that the total
number applying for asylum this
year will reach 20,000, more than
twice the number of last year.
This surge has put intense pres-
sure on the Mexican government,
and Comar, the agency that pro-
cesses asylum applications, has
not kept pace. The agency got a
significant lift last year when the
United Nations agreed to cover
the cost of hiring 29 additional
staff members, but its employees
are still overloaded.
“While the number of asylum
claimants has increased many
times over, the budget of Comar
has not,” said Mark Manly, the
Mexico representative for the Of-
fice of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.
“This has put the Mexican asylum
system under significant strain.”
The stress on the staff members
has contributed to sloppy work
and inconsistent adjudication, im-
migrants’ advocates and human
rights workers contend.
The outcome of an application
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for asylum “depends a lot on who
has to review your case,” said
Nancy Pérez García, director of
Sin Fronteras, a group based in
Mexico City that promotes the
rights of migrants and refugees.
Even worse, advocates and im-
migration lawyers say, many peo-
ple are not even getting the
chance to be considered for asy-
lum.
For many, their first contact
with the Mexican authorities is
when immigration-enforcement
officials detain them. According to
protocols, agents are supposed to
screen the migrants to assess
whether they might need protec-
tion and, if so, to refer them to the
refugee agency.
But in some cases, agents fail to
screen properly and instead chan-
nel people into the deportation
process. Amnesty International
said in a report published in June
that “numerous asylum seekers”
told the group’s researchers they
had been deported on earlier trips
and had never been informed of
their right to seek asylum.
“There’s a lack of education
both for the foreigners and for the
people who have first contact with
them,” said Alejandra Macías Del-
gadillo, the national legal services
coordinator in Mexico for Asylum
Access, a group based in Oakland,
Calif. “We continue to emphasize
the importance of timely informa-
tion.”
Agents have also been accused
of actively dissuading migrants
from seeking asylum, saying that
they will have to endure months of
detention as their cases are adju-
dicated.
For years, detention was the
norm for asylum seekers until
their cases were decided. But last
year the government began a pilot
program to test alternatives, giv-
ing petitioners their liberty while
their cases were being adjudicat-
ed, and providing them with bet-
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ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
ter access to humanitarian aid Institute said in a report pub- run by the United Nations in Salti-
and psychological and legal coun- lished last month. Only 131 of those llo, Mexico, there are few integra-
seling. minors have been granted some tion programs for refugees. In
Mexican officials say this pro- form of protection. their quest for work, many face
gram has been expanded to in- While some children do not en- discrimination, and some eventu-
clude all migrants who have peti- ter the asylum process because ally give up on Mexico.
tioned for asylum. But the rollout their primary goal is to get to the Advocates warn that unless the
is far from complete. Some asy- United States and link up with asylum system is improved and
lum applicants are still kept in im- members of their family, the low made more accessible, more mi-
migration detention centers, with numbers are more likely attribut- grants with justifiable claims to
limited access to legal representa- able to other factors, advocates protection might decide it’s sim-
tion during the petition process, and asylum experts say. They say ply not worth the effort to apply in
advocates say. these factors include the failure of Mexico and will continue to press
Under published guidelines, the Mexican officials to identify chil- north to the United States, despite
government should rule on asy- dren who need protection, a lack the uncertainties there.
lum requests within 45 days. But of access to legal representation They would then risk more dan-
in an overtaxed system, waits
have frequently been far longer,
and poor conditions after they are
detained.
ger; migrants run a minefield of
harm on their way north, such as
often lasting three months or “Central American children rape, theft, assault and forced la-
more. fleeing violence and persecution bor, including prostitution. By
The reception and treatment of in their countries of origin contin- some estimates, only about 1 per-
unaccompanied minors, tens of ue to face significant barriers to cent of all crimes committed
accessing international protec- against migrants result in convic-
thousands of whom have traveled
north from Central America in re- tion in Mexico,” said a report pub- tions.
cent years, have been particular lished in June by Kids in Need of “Mexico has drastically in-
worries for nongovernmental Defense, a group based in Wash- creased its capacity to detain and
groups. ington that provides legal assist- deport migrants, but it has not giv-
ance to unaccompanied immi-
Among their concerns is the ex- en the same priority to, nor
grant children, and the Fray
tremely low number of minors treated with the same urgency,
who enter the asylum system in Matías de Córdova Human Rights the need to develop mechanisms
Mexico. According to Mexican Center in Tapachula, Mexico. for investigating crimes against
government statistics, fewer than Asylum recipients have the them,” the Washington Office on
1 percent of the more than 40,000 right to work and have access to Latin America, a research group,
children detained in 2016 filed medical services and an educa- said in a report last month. “Impu-
claims for asylum — a “strikingly tion. But the challenges do not nity for crimes against migrants
low” figure, the Migration Policy end. Beyond a small pilot program in Mexico is at alarming levels.”
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Luxury Brands Try
White-Glove Treatment
For Chinese Shoppers
By AMY QIN
BEIJING — In China, legions of
delivery personnel power the
world’s largest e-commerce boom.
Known for their careening three-
wheeled carts, they terrorize pe-
destrians and sometimes dump
their packages on doorsteps and
desks with the delicacy of a
restaurant employee tossing out
yesterday’s leftovers.
Then there is Tang Hongliang,
who is part of an ambitious effort
to bring some sparkle to the busi-
ness — and perhaps help revive
the fortunes of the world’s makers
of high-priced handbags and
watches.
Decked out in a black suit, dark
gray tie and white gloves, Mr.
Tang does not look like a typical
Chinese package courier. Instead
of piping hot noodle lunches, he
delivers a $2,400 designer hand-
bag. Rather than a three-wheeler,
he drives an electric car to trans-
port expensive cargo. In the time
he makes one or two deliveries,
the typical Chinese courier would
have made about 150.
“Efficiency is of course impor-
tant,” said Mr. Tang, who works
for the online retailer JD.com.
“But serving the customer is the
most important.”
Facing slowing sales, global
luxury brands are angling for a
piece of China’s e-commerce mar-
ket, where people are accustomed
to buying gadgets and groceries,
but not high-priced jewelry and
haute couture. Many are unsure,
however, about diving headfirst
into online retail, because China’s
favorite way to shop is also an in-
dustry better known for piracy
and dusty deliverymen than for
shine and polish.
To court the luxury market,
companies like Alibaba and JD-
Designer companies
covet a piece of the
e-commerce market.
.com are using their vast
customer base to offer upscale re-
tailers support on issues like dig-
ital marketing, pricing, customer
services and, in the case of Mr.
Tang, delivery.
“The most difficult thing to
overcome is the experience for the
shoppers,” said Xia Ding, presi-
dent of JD.com’s fashion division.
“But because we own the logistics
we are really able to deliver lux-
ury goods in a way that makes
shoppers feel like they are getting
the same special experience as
they get offline.”
Chinese shoppers have long
dominated the global luxury mar-
ket. Last year, they accounted for
30 percent of global luxury pur-
chases, according to a report by
Bain & Company.
Until recently, however, many
Chinese luxury purchases were
being made overseas or through
daigou — personal shoppers who
buy goods abroad and bring them
into China, avoiding the country’s
hefty taxes. That started to
change two years ago when, in an
effort to combat gray-market
sales, a number of high-end lux-
ury brands led by Chanel took
steps to reduce the price gap be-
tween goods in China and over-
seas.
At about the same time, the Chi-
nese government also stepped up
efforts to crack down on daigou
shoppers, increasing checks at
airports and lowering duties on
some luxury goods imported
through official channels.
As a result, brands have seen a
shift in luxury shopping habits,
with more and more Chinese con-
sumers now choosing to buy at
home rather than abroad. This so-
called reshoring has caught the at-
tention of Chinese e-commerce
companies, causing major players
like Alibaba and JD.com, as well
as smaller luxury-focused compa-
nies like Secoo and Xiu, to invest
aggressively in the luxury sphere.
“Mass market brands already
know that there is no choice but to
be on these e-commerce plat-
forms,” said Liz Flora of L2, a mar-
ket research company based in
New York. “So luxury is really the
next frontier for these e-tailers.
Tang Hongliang, left, a courier for the online retailer JD.com,
picking up a package at a warehouse in Beijing.
You can see the competition get-
ting more and more fierce.”
In addition to starting the
white-glove delivery service, JD-
.com announced a deal in June to
invest $397 million in the luxury e-
commerce platform Farfetch,
which is based in London. Both Al-
ibaba and JD.com are considering
rolling out separate platforms fo-
cused exclusively on luxury in the
coming months, executives from
the companies said in interviews.
But so far, China’s e-commerce
companies have struggled to per-
suade top international luxury
brands to sell on their platforms.
Luxury companies have long
been concerned that with e-com-
merce, it would be impossible to
replicate the gilded, perfectly cu-
rated in-store shopping experi-
ence. Brands also worry about
their products being sold next to
counterfeit and gray-market
items — an issue that Alibaba in
particular has struggled with in
the past.
Still, there is no ignoring the re-
ality that Chinese consumers love
shopping online. Chinese shop-
pers spent $758 billion online last
year — more than the United
States and Britain combined, ac-
cording to official data, buying ev-
erything from toilet paper to lux-
ury cars.
“The brands are finally starting
to intellectualize the fact that to
succeed in China, they need to go
online,” said Alexis Bonhomme,
co-founder of CuriosityChina, a
Beijing-based digital marketing
and tech company that works with
luxury brands. “The bottom line is
they need new revenue channels
and e-commerce is a real revenue
channel.”
Some brands have already
made the leap. Burberry in partic-
ular has led the push into e-com-
merce in China, opening a flagship
store on Alibaba’s Tmall platform.
Others, like the Hong Kong jew-
eler Chow Tai Fook and the Swiss
watch brand Tag Heuer, have
stores on JD.com.
To appeal to brands, e-com-
merce companies offer to increase
efforts to crack down on counter-
feits.
“One of our goals was to clean
up the e-commerce market so we
could ensure that anyone who
bought online was buying a real
Tag Heuer,” said Leo Poon, gen-
eral manager of Tag Heuer in
greater China. “So far it’s been
working and we’re seeing sales
picking up.”
But for more high-end luxury
brands, increasing the anti-coun-
terfeit effort is not enough.
“Luxury brands are control
freaks,” Mr. Bonhomme of Curi-
osityChina said. “They want com-
plete control over everything.”
For now, some luxury brands
are opting to create their own e-
commerce websites to sell di-
rectly to consumers. Many, like
Cartier and Bulgari, have also be-
gun partnerships with Tencent’s
popular WeChat mobile messag-
ing service to create online stores,
flash sales, and marketing cam-
paigns featuring major Chinese
influencers.
Ultimately, e-commerce giants
like Alibaba and JD.com are hop-
ing that the allure of their vast
consumer base will be too difficult
for luxury brands to resist. Shiny
add-on features like the white-
glove delivery service may make
swallowing the e-commerce pill a
little easier for the brands.
On a recent morning, Mr. Tang,
the courier, pulled out of a JD.com
warehouse on the outskirts of Bei-
jing with a single delivery box in
tow. Three-wheeled delivery carts
whizzed past as he drove calmly
toward the city’s central business
district.
After waiting for the customer
for nearly two hours, Mr. Tang
stepped out of the car, pulled on
his signature gloves and headed
out to deliver the package.
“Wow, I wasn’t expecting this
service at all,” Yan Luxia, 30, said
as she received the box and took
out a designer Italian leather
handbag.
Ms. Yan, who manages a dating
service in Beijing, later said the
premium delivery service had
been a very “satisfying” experi-
ence.
“But to be honest,” she added,
“consumers care more about the
authenticity of the product.”
GIULIA MARCHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
Members of Venezuela’s National Guard cordoned off the office of the ousted attorney general, Luisa Ortega, on Saturday.
Venezuela’s New Assembly Ousts Attorney General
By NICHOLAS CASEY
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezu-
ela’s dissident attorney general
sped away from her headquarters
on a motorbike on Saturday as she
was being ousted by the country’s
new all-powerful assembly, which
moved toward a swift consolida-
tion of its power.
“We have asked that she not
only be suspended, but removed
from her position,” Diosdado Cab-
ello, a powerful member of the as-
sembly, said of the dismissed offi-
cial, Luisa Ortega. “It was ap-
proved unanimously.”
Standing before the group,
called the Constituent Assembly,
Mr. Cabello proposed that it gov-
ern Venezuela for up to two years
before presenting the country
with a new Constitution that
would allow for elections. Mem-
bers responded with cheers, pre-
sumably assenting to the timeline.
For months, Ms. Ortega has
been one of the most vocal critics
of President Nicolás Maduro from
within his own political party. In
March, she condemned an at-
tempt by the courts to dissolve the
legislature, and she has since said
that Mr. Maduro’s crackdown
against protesters has gone too
far, saying it could constitute
crimes against humanity.
Last Sunday, Mr. Maduro held a
contentious election to secure
control over the country. In the
vote, Venezuelans were asked to
choose delegates from a list of al-
lies in the governing party who
would rewrite the Constitution
and rule the nation while they did
so. Voters were not given the op-
Ana Vanessa Herrero and Patricia
Torres contributed reporting from
Caracas, Venezuela.
At Asean Meeting, Eyes Are on U.S. and North Korea
By GARDINER HARRIS
MANILA — Secretary of State
Rex W. Tillerson will for the first
time on Sunday be in the same
room with his North Korean coun-
terpart, and much of the world will
be watching for whether the two
even acknowledge each other.
Joining them in Manila will be
representatives of other countries
with a stake in the regional con-
frontation, including China, Rus-
sia, South Korea and Japan. The
occasion is the annual ministerial
meeting of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, or
Asean, which will be followed lat-
er this year by a meeting of the
leaders of the organization’s na-
tions. President Trump has
promised to attend that meeting.
Mr. Tillerson and North Korea’s
foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, are
this year’s most intriguing pair-
ing, and their diplomatic choreo-
graphy — whether they avoid
each other or sit down together —
could set the course for the Trump
administration’s moves on its top
foreign policy priority for the rest
of the year.
State Department officials said
Mr. Tillerson and Mr. Ri were not
expected to meet privately. “The
secretary has no plans to meet the
North Korean foreign minister in
Manila, and I don’t expect to see
that happen,” Susan A. Thornton,
the department’s acting assistant
secretary for East Asia and Pa-
cific affairs, said in a briefing on
Wednesday.
But Mr. Tillerson’s first appear-
ance at a departmental press
briefing in Washington this past
week and his unusually restrained
comments about North Korea —
he assured the North “the security
they seek” and offered a new
chance at economic prosperity if it
surrenders its nuclear weapons —
had some speculating that he
might welcome a meeting with
Mr. Ri.
On the other hand, Mr. Tiller-
son’s comments were accompa-
nied by increased saber rattling
Ms. Ortega, left, with employees loyal to her after she was barred from entering her office.
tion of rejecting the plan.
Ms. Ortega had called the vote
illegal and tried to block the as-
sembly’s members from being
seated. And after a software com-
pany that set up voting systems
said the tally had been manipulat-
ed by at least one million votes,
Ms. Ortega said she was opening
an investigation.
On Saturday morning, mem-
bers of the National Guard carry-
ing rifles and shields surrounded
her headquarters in the capital,
Caracas. Ms. Ortega took to Twit-
ter to call the events a “siege.”
Ms. Ortega tried to enter the
building but was blocked by mem-
bers of the security forces. Video
posted on social media sites
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson and North Korea’s
foreign minister will be closely
watched on Sunday.
from Washington directed at the
North, with the United States test-
ing an unarmed Minuteman III in-
tercontinental ballistic missile in
the Pacific and flying two stra-
tegic bombers over the Korean
Peninsula. In addition, Vice Presi-
dent Mike Pence said the two na-
tions would not hold direct talks.
On Saturday, the United Na-
tions Security Council imposed
the toughest sanctions yet on
Pyongyang over its continued
testing of missiles and nuclear
weapons.
Victor Cha, who served as the
Asian affairs director on Presi-
dent George W. Bush’s National
Security Council, said in an inter-
view that Mr. Tillerson would
want to show not only the North
Koreans but the rest of the world
that he was open to a dialogue
with the North if only to prove that
alternatives to tougher sanctions
had been tried.
“But I don’t think the North is
interested in talking,” Mr. Cha
said. “They’re not really talking to
anybody — not to us, not to the
Russians, not even to the Chi-
nese.”
And that is why Mr. Ri’s appear-
ance in Manila is so unusual. Mr.
Tillerson’s two-pronged ap-
proach, proposing talks while
MIGUEL GUTIERREZ/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
showed the attorney general look-
ing forlorn while retreating from
the area, sandwiched between
two men on a motorbike.
“We must continue to fight for
freedom and democracy in Vene-
zuela,” she said at a news confer-
ence afterward. “This country has
lost its freedom.”
On Saturday, international criti-
cism of the new assembly grew.
Mercosur, South America’s larg-
est regional trade bloc, suspended
Venezuela, citing a “rupture to the
democratic order.” Brazil and Co-
lombia both called the country a
dictatorship.
Ms. Ortega was replaced by
Tarek William Saab, a close depu-
ty of Mr. Maduro’s who has served
backing sanctions and military
pressure, is likely to be evident
this weekend in Manila as well.
While he has signaled an in-
creased willingness to talk to the
North with fewer preconditions,
he is also likely to ask every diplo-
mat he encounters in Manila to
take steps to further isolate North
Korea, Ms. Thornton said.
Indeed, the American delega-
tion here intends to try to get
North Korea expelled from future
Asean meetings.
“Of course, it’s too late now to
have that conversation since the
meeting is upon us for this year,
but we’ll continue to explore this
and continue to, I think, push the
organization to think about what
kinds of suspension measures or
requirements or stipulations
might be included in the future,”
Ms. Thornton said.
Mr. Tillerson is also expected to
meet with China’s foreign min-
ister, Wang Yi. Throughout his
campaign and his first months in
office, Mr. Trump said China was
crucial to curbing North Korea’s
nuclear program.
“China should solve that prob-
lem for us,” Mr. Trump said last
September.
Mr. Trump has since acknowl-
edged that his efforts to get China
to do just that had failed, and there
are signs that the Trump adminis-
tration intends to take a tougher
line on China, particularly on
trade issues, something Mr.
Trump promised during his cam-
paign but has eschewed in his first
months in office.
Beyond North Korea, Mr. Tiller-
son is expected to tell Mr. Wang of
Washington’s continued concerns
about China’s territorial claims in
the South China Sea, which have
unnerved countries in the region.
Before arriving in Manila on
Saturday night, Mr. Tillerson
stopped in Honolulu, where he
was briefed by Adm. Harry B.
Harris Jr., commander of the
United States Pacific Command,
who has advised taking a hard line
against Chinese claims in the
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as the top human rights official.
Mr. Saab has been criticized by
members of the opposition for de-
fending the government’s tough
sentences for political prisoners.
In the days before the vote, the
United States Treasury Depart-
ment sanctioned Mr. Saab for fail-
ing to protect protesters from
abuse by the security forces.
“As the ‘People’s Defender,’ it is
ostensibly his role to stand up for
human rights in Venezuela,” the
Treasury statement said. But he
and other officials had allowed
“rampant violence against oppo-
sition protesters.”
The sanctions were imposed on
a total of 13 current or former sen-
ior Venezuelan officials.
South China Sea.
But the election of Rodrigo
Duterte as president of the Phil-
ippines last year has shifted the
terms of the dispute. Mr. Duterte
has taken a far more conciliatory
approach toward China than his
predecessor did.
There is a widespread percep-
tion in the region that the Trump
administration has little interest
in Southeast Asia. The adminis-
trations of Presidents George W.
Bush and Barack Obama pushed
the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a
trading pact initially endorsed by
12 nations, to demonstrate the
United States’ commitment to the
region and as a way of pushing
back against China’s growing in-
fluence and assertiveness.
But Mr. Trump rejected the pact
in his first days in office and has
yet to offer anything in its place.
“That Tillerson would come
here and mostly want to talk about
North Korea shows that there’s a
problem because that’s not the
subject we want to discuss at all,”
said Victor Andres C. Manhit,
president of the Albert del Rosario
Institute for Strategic and Inter-
national Studies, a think tank in
Manila.
The top priority for Mr. Duterte
is the fight against the Islamic
State and its allies. An Islamist
militant group has laid siege to the
Philippine city of Marawi on the
island of Mindanao, an embar-
rassing setback for Mr. Duterte,
whose tough approach to crime is
his signature issue.
Mr. Tillerson said this past
week that fighters from the Is-
lamic State had left Syria and Iraq
and found their way to the Phil-
ippines.
“Nobody here really believes
that,” Mr. Manhit said. “We think
it’s an indigenous group with a cle-
ver branding campaign and not
some boatload of fighters from
Syria.”
But alarm about growing Islam-
ist extremism in the region is ex-
pected to unite many of those at-
tending the meeting.
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Abuse Follows Pakistan’s Women Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani

By MEHREEN ZAHRA-MALIK
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —
When a Pakistani lawmaker said
this past week that she had re-
ceived “inappropriate text mes-
sages” from a male colleague, she
was met with a wave of vitriol on
social media.
The episode has attracted wide-
spread attention, as the man she
accused is Imran Khan, the for-
mer cricket star who is now one of
Pakistan’s leading politicians,
with a large social media follow-
ing. The case also illustrates the
rise of online abuse against wom-
en in a country considered one of
the most dangerous in the world
for them.
On Tuesday, the lawmaker, Aye-
sha Gulalai Wazir, from Pakistan’s
tribal South Waziristan region, ac-
cused Mr. Khan of sending her
“objectionable” text messages,
and said women were not re-
spected in his political party, Paki-
stan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The party
denied that Mr. Khan had sent any
such text messages to Ms. Wazir.
Social media users unleashed
profanity-filled tirades against
Ms. Wazir, calling her a liar and an
opportunist. Many tried to shame
her because her sister, Maria
Toorpakai Wazir, a top squash
player, has competed in interna-
tional tournaments in shorts, the
kind of attire considered immod-
est in Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Some messages were more
frightening. “Ayesha Gulalai
KILL YOURSELF,” one Twitter
user wrote. Another Twitter user
threatened to kill her. Others pro-
posed throwing acid in her face.
Women around the world face
online abuse, but in Pakistan, with
its entrenched culture of discrimi-
nation and violence against wom-
en, the threats are not idle. Ac-
cording to the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan, about
500 Pakistani women are killed
each year by family members who
believe their honor has been dam-
aged if a female relative refuses
an arranged marriage, socializes
with men or even claps and sings
at a wedding.
In a country where 33 million
people use Facebook and at least
five million are on Twitter, social
media has become a frequent plat-
form for obscene and virulent out-
bursts. In some cases, online
abuse has incited physical vio-
lence.
“Instead of responding to my
accusations or proving that I am
wrong, people are saying throw
acid on me?” Ms. Wazir said in a
telephone interview. “I can’t be-
lieve they have fallen to this level,
but it is just part of a larger culture
encouraged by the society and po-
litical parties here.”
Ms. Wazir said she was afraid to
publicly share the objectionable
text messages out of fear of fur-
ther antagonizing Mr. Khan’s fol-
lowers. But she said she was pre-
pared to present the messages to
a judge or an investigating author-
ity on the condition that they re-
main confidential.
Maria Waqar, an Indiana Uni-
versity graduate student who has
interviewed dozens of female law-
makers in Pakistan for her re-
search on the legislature, said the
abuse directed at Ms. Wazir was
not surprising. She said that “the
web is littered with websites, vid-
eos and message boards dedi-
cated to objectifying and degrad-
ing women parliamentarians in
particular and women in general.”
In a survey of women in 17 Paki-
stani universities, published by
the Digital Rights Foundation in
May, 34 percent said they had ex-
perienced online harassment and
abuse. The actions included cy-
berstalking, bullying, and the
leaking and manipulation of per-
sonal information and pictures.
Many women reported threats
of physical violence and vandal-
ism, blackmail, sexual remarks
and false accusations meant to hu-
miliate, threaten or discredit
them. Seventy percent of the
women surveyed said they were
afraid to post their pictures on so-
cial media websites.
The country is taking some
steps to address the problem. Last
year, Parliament passed the Pre-
vention of Electronic Crimes Act,
which was widely promoted as a
tool to curb online sexual har-
assment. Pakistan’s first cyber
harassment help line, also set up
last year, received 763 complaints
in the form of calls, emails and
Facebook messages from Dec. 1 to
May 31.
In July, a man was sentenced to
12 years in jail for blackmailing a
woman in the northern city of Pe-
shawar. And in two cases still to be
decided, a university professor in
the port city of Karachi was ar-
rested on charges of setting up
fake Facebook pages and publish-
ing doctored pictures of a female
colleague, and two boys were ar-
rested in 2015 on charges of using
a fake Facebook profile to harass
and blackmail up to 50 girls in Pe-
shawar.
Yet online activity has still led to
real-life violence, including in July
of last year, when Qandeel Baloch,
a social media sensation, was
strangled in what is known as an
honor killing. When Ms. Baloch’s
brother was arrested in connec-
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tion with her death, he said at a
news conference that he had
killed her because he was in-
censed over her risqué Facebook
posts.
Nighat Dad, the executive di-
rector of the Digital Rights Foun-
dation, a Pakistani internet advo-
cacy group, said, “There is a cul-
ture of violence against women
that already exists in the home,
social media star, was stran-
gled last year by her brother,
who said he was angered over
her risqué Facebook posts.
the workplace, in public places,
and now it is increasingly mani-
festing itself in online spaces as
well.”
In another case, Saman, a 19-
year-old university student from
Lahore who asked to be identified
by only her first name to protect
her safety, said her sister’s hus-
band had propositioned her for
years before spraying her with
acid, disfiguring her, in January
2016.
When she filed a case against
her attacker, he threatened to post
what she says are doctored nude
pictures of her online. Last month,
he was sentenced to 28 years in
prison, but Saman said the har-
assment persisted.
“Even from behind bars, the
threats continue,” Saman, who
has seen the photos, said in a tele-
phone interview. She said she had
told the authorities about the im-
ages, “but they say they can’t do
anything until the pictures are ac-
tually published.”
Marvi Sirmed, a Pakistani jour-
nalist, said people on social media
had called for her to be publicly
raped and killed over her views on
the rights of women and minor-
ities.
“Women who are opinionated,
who are professionals doing jobs
traditionally done by men, who
are entering politics and media, of
course they are going to be in the
line of fire on the internet,” Ms.
Sirmed said. “And when they fight
back, the abuse just gets worse.”

Pakistan’s Ousted Leader Assails Court

By SALMAN MASOOD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pa-
kistan’s ousted prime minister,
Nawaz Sharif, sharply criticized
the Supreme Court verdict that
forced him to step down last week
and said he was planning a big
rally in his hometown, Lahore, to
galvanize public support for his
political party and his future.
“What can be a bigger joke with
the nation, and with a prime min-
ister of the country, than this?”
Mr. Sharif said, referring to the
court verdict, in his first news con-
ference since his removal from of-
fice on July 28 after the court ruled
that corruption allegations had
disqualified him.
“It was not a verdict over cor-
ruption or kickbacks or embezzle-
ment in the state funds,” said Mr.
Sharif, who looked relaxed and
confident as he spoke with jour-
nalists in Islamabad, Pakistan’s
capital. “Had it been so, I would
have been very ashamed.”
Mr. Sharif’s political party, the
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,
elected one of his longtime loy-
alists as prime minister, Shahid
Khaqan Abbasi, who is expected
to lead the government until gen-
eral elections scheduled for next
year. The new cabinet, sworn in on
Friday, included almost all the
ministers who had served under
Mr. Sharif.
Both those developments
seemed to indicate that Mr. Sharif,
a populist leader who has served
as prime minister three times,
maintains a strong hold on his po-
litical party and will continue to
call the shots from behind the
scenes.
Mr. Sharif’s failure to disclose
his role in a Dubai-based company
run by one of his two sons led the
Supreme Court to use a clause of
the Constitution that requires
public office holders to be “honest
and faithful.”
“I never received any salary
from my son’s company,” Mr.
Sharif said. “How can a tax return
about it be filed?”
He added, “I am a man who be-
lieves in the rule of law, but there
should be law and there should be
a rule.”
Reports about the Sharif fam-
ily’s offshore wealth first surfaced
in last year’s Panama Papers, and
since then, Mr. Sharif has faced al-
legations of corruption and money
laundering, with the campaign
spearheaded by Imran Khan, an
opposition politician who hopes to
win the prime minister’s office in
the 2018 elections.
After months of court hearings
and an investigation ordered by
the judiciary, the Supreme Court
concluded in July that Mr. Sharif
and his children could not justify
the means to buy the expensive
properties they owned in London.
Mr. Sharif in his news confer-
ence stopped short of criticizing
Pakistan’s powerful military, ele-
ments of which have been op-
posed to his rule. His attempts to
establish civilian authority in ar-
eas that had long been dominated
by generals, especially foreign
policy, were thwarted by the mili-
tary.
There have been insinuations
by party leaders that the justices
removed Mr. Sharif after getting
approval from the country’s top
generals. Representatives of the
military’s intelligence agencies
were included in the corruption in-
vestigation ordered by the court,
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Some analysts here say the jus-
tices were driven more by their
own sense of activism, not by the
military’s prodding.
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As Mr. Sharif plans to visit La-
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power base, party members and
supporters there are making elab-
orate arrangements for his wel-
come.
Mr. Sharif had initially planned
to go to his hometown on Sunday
by way of a highway he built dur-
ing his second tenure as prime
minister in the late 1990s, and
which he takes great pride in.
But party leaders urged Mr.
Sharif to travel to Lahore by the
ancient Grand Trunk Road, which
runs through the center of major
cities where Mr. Sharif is hugely
popular.
Since his removal, Mr. Sharif
has seemed buoyed by the warm
reception he has received during
his impromptu appearances in
public. He said he plans to visit dif-
ferent parts of the country in the
coming weeks and months.
Analysts said Mr. Sharif was
throwing the gauntlet back at his
challengers.
“One word defines him: defi-
ance,” said Murtaza Solangi, a vet-
eran journalist and talk-show
host. “Going back to people is his
recipe of rebirth and revival.”

U.N. Imposes Strict Penalties on North Korea

By RICK GLADSTONE
UNITED NATIONS — The
United Nations Security Council
on Saturday unanimously
adopted a resolution to impose the
most punishing sanctions yet
against North Korea over its re-
peated defiance of a ban on testing
missiles and nuclear bombs.
The resolution, intended to
press North Korea to renounce its
nuclear militarization, could re-
duce the isolated country’s al-
ready meager annual export reve-
nue by $1 billion, or about a third of
its current total.
Ambassador Nikki R. Haley of
the United States, which intro-
duced the resolution, said its
adoption by all 15 Council mem-
bers signified what she called “a
strong, united step toward hold-
ing North Korea accountable for
its behavior.”
Ms. Haley described the new
penalties, which the United States
painstakingly negotiated with
China, North Korea’s most impor-
tant trading partner, as “the most
stringent set of sanctions on any
country in a generation.” She also
said they would give North Ko-
rea’s leaders “a taste of the depri-
vation they have chosen to inflict
on the North Korean people.”
Before she walked into the Se-
curity Council chambers for the
vote, Ms. Haley stopped and told
reporters, “All this ICBM and nu-
clear irresponsibility has to stop.”
The measure’s unanimous ap-
proval was a diplomatic victory
for the Trump administration and
partly reflected growing impa-
tience with North Korea by China,
which historically has called rela-
tions between them as “close as
lips and teeth.”
President Trump has repeat-
edly cajoled China to exert more
pressure on North Korea over its
nuclear belligerence.
Whether Mr. Trump’s badger-
ing played any role in China’s sup-
port for the resolution is unclear.
But its willingness to enforce the
resolution’s provisions will be crit-
ical to its effectiveness.
China’s ambassador to the
United Nations, Liu Jieyi, hinted
at his country’s vexation with
North Korea in his Security Coun-
cil remarks after the vote. He
urged the North Korean authori-
Punishing sanctions
over defiance on
nuclear militarization.
ties to “cease taking actions that
might further escalate tensions.”
But Mr. Liu also criticized the
United States, calling for the dis-
mantlement of a missile defense
system it has begun installing in
South Korea, which China also re-
gards as counterproductive.
Since 2006, North Korea has de-
fied a half-dozen Security Council
resolutions over its nuclear and
missile development, which
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-
un, has called a necessary, just re-
sponse to military threats by the
United States and South Korea.
The latest resolution was a di-
rect reaction to two North Korean
tests last month of intercontinen-
tal ballistic missiles that appeared
capable of reaching the continen-
tal United States.
Under the resolution’s provi-
sions, all exports of North Korean
coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore
and seafood will be prohibited.
The resolution also imposes new
restrictions on North Korea’s For-
eign Trade Bank and bans the
country from increasing the num-
ber of workers it sends abroad.
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Iran Gains Ground
In Afghanistan
As U.S. Eases Out
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sein in Iraq. Iran has used that to its ad-
vantage, working quietly and relent-
lessly to spread its influence.
In Iraq, it has exploited a chaotic civil
war and the American withdrawal to cre-
ate a virtual satellite state. In Afghanis-
tan, Iran aims to make sure that foreign
forces leave eventually, and that any
government that prevails will at least not
threaten its interests, and at best be
friendly or aligned with them.
One way to do that, Afghans said, is for
Iran to aid its onetime enemies, the Tal-
iban, to ensure a loyal proxy and also to
keep the country destabilized, without
tipping it over. That is especially true
along their shared border of more than
500 miles.
But fielding an insurgent force to seize
control of a province shows a significant
— and risky — escalation in Iran’s effort.
“Iran does not want stability here,”
Naser Herati, one of the police officers
guarding the post outside Farah, said an-
grily. “People here hate the Iranian flag.
They would burn it.”
Iran has conducted an intensifying
covert intervention, much of which is
only now coming to light. It is providing
local Taliban insurgents with weapons,
money and training. It has offered Tal-
iban commanders sanctuary and fuel for
their trucks. It has padded Taliban ranks
by recruiting among Afghan Sunni ref-
ugees in Iran, according to Afghan and
Western officials.
“The regional politics have changed,”
said Mohammed Arif Shah Jehan, a sen-
ior intelligence official who recently took
over as the governor of Farah Province.
“The strongest Taliban here are Iranian
Taliban.”
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Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Man-
sour, the leader of the Taliban, who
was killed in Pakistan last year.
Iran and the Taliban — longtime rivals,
one Shiite and the other Sunni — would
seem to be unlikely bedfellows.
Iran nearly went to war with the Tal-
iban when their militias notoriously
killed 11 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian
government journalist in fighting in 1998.
After that, Iran supported the anti-Tal-
iban opposition — and it initially cooper-
ated with the American intervention in
Afghanistan that drove the Taliban from
power.
But as the NATO mission in Afghanis-
tan expanded, the Iranians quietly began
supporting the Taliban to bleed the
Americans and their allies by raising the
cost of the intervention so that they
would leave.
Iran has come to see the Taliban not
only as the lesser of its enemies but also
as a useful proxy force. The more recent
introduction of the Islamic State, which
carried out a terrorist attack on Iran’s
parliament this year, into Afghanistan
has only added to the Taliban’s appeal.
In the empty marble halls of the Irani-
an Embassy in Kabul, Mohammad Reza
Bahrami, the ambassador, denied that
Iran was supporting the Taliban, and em-
phasized the more than $400 million Iran
has invested to help Afghanistan access
ports on the Persian Gulf.
“We are responsible,” he said in an in-
terview last year. “A strong accountable
government in Afghanistan has more ad-
vantages for strengthening our relations
than anything.”
But Iran’s Foreign Ministry and its Is-
lamic Revolutionary Guards Corps act as
complementary arms of policy — the
first openly sowing economic and cultur-
al influence, and the second aggressively
exerting subversive force behind the
scenes.
Iran has sent squads of assassins, se-
cretly nurtured spies and infiltrated po-
lice ranks and government departments,
especially in western provinces, Afghan
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officials say.
Even NATO’s top commander in Af-
ghanistan at the time, Gen. Sir David
Richards of Britain, discovered that Iran
had recruited his interpreter, Cpl. Daniel
James, a British-Iranian citizen. Corpo-
ral James was sentenced to 10 years in
prison for sending coded messages to
the Iranian military attaché in Kabul dur-
ing a tour of duty in 2006.
More recently, Iran has moved so ag-
gressively in bulking up the Taliban in-
surgency that American forces rushed to
Farah Province a second time in January
to stave off a Taliban attack.
“The Iranian game is very compli-
cated,” said Javed Kohistani, a military
analyst based in Kabul.
Having American forces fight long and
costly wars that unseated Iran’s primary
enemies has served Tehran’s interests
just fine. But by now, the Americans and
their allies have outlasted their useful-
ness, and Iran is pursuing a strategy of
death by a thousand cuts “to drain them
and cost them a lot.”
An Ambitious Expansion
The depth of Iran’s ties to the Taliban
burst unexpectedly into view last year.
An American drone struck a taxi on a
desert road in southwestern Pakistan,
killing the driver and his single
customer.
The passenger was none other than
the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar
Muhammad Mansour. A wanted terror-
ist with an American bounty on his head
who had been on the United Nations
sanctions list since before 2001, Mullah
Mansour was traveling without guards
or weapons, confident and quite at home
in Pakistan.
The strike exposed for the second time
since the discovery of Osama bin Laden
in the Pakistani hill town of Abbottabad
the level of Pakistan’s complicity with
wanted terrorists. It was the first time
the United States had conducted a drone
attack in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Prov-
ince, a longtime sanctuary for the Tal-
iban but until then off limits for American
drones because of Pakistani protests.
Yet even more momentous was that
Mullah Mansour was returning from a
trip to Iran, where he had been meeting
Iranian security officials and, through
Iran, with Russian officials.
Afghan officials, Western diplomats
and security analysts, and a former Tal-
iban commander close to Mullah Man-
sour’s inner circle confirmed details of
the meetings.
Both Russia and Iran have acknowl-
edged that they have held meetings with
the Taliban but maintain that they are
only for information purposes.
That the Taliban leader was person-
ally developing ties with both Iran and
Russia signaled a stunning shift in alli-
ance for the fundamentalist Taliban
movement, which had always been sup-
ported by the Sunni powers among the
Arab gulf states and Pakistan.
But times were changing with the
American drawdown in Afghanistan,
and Mullah Mansour had been seeking
to diversify his sources of money and
weapons since taking over the Taliban
leadership in 2013. He had made 13 trips
to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and one
to Bahrain, his passport showed, but also
at least two visits to Iran.
Set on expanding the Taliban’s sway in
Afghanistan, he was also preparing to
negotiate an end to the war, playing all
sides on his terms, according to both Af-
ghan officials with close knowledge of
the Taliban and the former Taliban com-
mander familiar with Mullah Mansour’s
inner circle.
It was that ambitious expansionism
that probably got him killed, they said.
“Mansour was a shrewd politician and
businessman and had a broader ambi-
tion to widen his appeal to other coun-
tries,” said Timor Sharan, a former sen-
ior analyst of the International Crisis
Group in Afghanistan who has since
joined the Afghan government.
Mullah Mansour had been tight with
the Iranians since his time in the Taliban
government in the 1990s, according to
Mr. Kohistani, the military analyst. Their
interests, he and other analysts and Af-
ghan officials say, overlapped in opium.
Afghanistan is the world’s largest source
of the drug, and Iran the main conduit to
get it out.
Iran’s border guards have long fought
drug traffickers crossing from Afghanis-
tan, but Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and
the Taliban have both benefited from the
illicit trade, exacting dues from traffick-
ers.
The main purpose of Mullah Man-
sour’s trips to Iran was tactical coordina-
tion, according to Bruce Riedel, a former
C.I.A. analyst and fellow at the Brook-
ings Institution in Washington. At the
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for offensives across eight Afghan prov-
inces. Farah was seen as particularly
ripe fruit.
Iran facilitated a meeting between
Mullah Mansour and Russian officials,
Afghan officials said, securing funds and
weapons from Moscow for the insur-
gents.
Mullah Mansour’s cultivation of Iran
for weapons was done with the full
knowledge of Pakistan, said the former
Taliban commander, who did not want to
be identified since he had recently de-
fected from the Taliban.
“He convinced the Pakistanis that he
wanted to go there and get weapons, but
he convinced the Pakistanis that he
would not come under their influence
and accept their orders,” he said.
Pakistan had also been eager to
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spread the political and financial burden
of supporting the Taliban and had en-
couraged the Taliban’s ties with Iran,
said Haji Agha Lalai, a presidential ad-
viser and the deputy governor of Kanda-
har Province.
On his last visit, Mullah Mansour trav-
eled to the Iranian capital, Tehran, to
meet someone very important — possi-
bly Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, said the former Taliban com-
mander, who said he had gleaned the in-
formation from members of Mullah Man-
sour’s inner circle.
Mullah Mansour stayed for a week,
also meeting with a senior Russian offi-
cial in the town of Zahedan, said Mr.
Lalai, who spoke with relatives of the Tal-
iban leader.
He was almost certainly negotiating
an escalation in Iranian and Russian as-
sistance before his death, Mr. Lalai and
other Afghan officials said, pointing to
the increase in Iranian support for the
Taliban during his leadership and since.
But the meeting with the Russians was
apparently a step too far, Afghan officials
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say. His relations with Iran and Russia
had expanded to the point that they Gen. Sir David Richards, right, then NATO’s top commander in Af-
threatened Pakistan’s control over the ghanistan, and his interpreter, Cpl. Daniel James, in 2006.
insurgency.
The United States had been aware of
Mullah Mansour’s movements, includ-
“I don’t think the contact is broken,” he say, and it has been plagued by multiple
ing his ventures into Iran, for some time
said. “Haibatullah is still reaching out to assassinations and kidnappings in re-
before the strike and had been sharing
Iran. They are desperately looking for cent years. The police say Iran is funding
information with Pakistan, said Seth G.
more money if they want to extend the militant groups and criminal gangs. The
Jones, associate director at the RAND
fight.” former mayor says it is sponsoring ter-
Corporation. Pakistan had also provided
rorism.
helpful information, he added. “They
were partly supportive of targeting Man- Intrigue in ‘Little Iran’ Iran is constantly working in the shad-
sour.” ows. The goal, Afghan officials say, is to
There is no place in Afghanistan where
Gen. John Nicholson, the United stoke and tip local power struggles in its
States commander of coalition forces in Iran’s influence is more deeply felt than favor, whether through bribery, infiltra-
Afghanistan, said President Barack the western city of Herat, nearly in sight tion or violence.
Obama had approved the strike after of the Iranian border. One day in January, Herat’s counter-
Mullah Mansour failed to join peace talks Two million Afghans took refuge in terrorism police deployed undercover of-
being organized in Pakistan. Iran during the Soviet invasion in the ficers to stake out the house of one of
Col. Ahmad Muslem Hayat, a former 1980s. Three million live and work in Iran their own men. Two strangers on a mo-
Afghan military attaché in London, said today. Herat, sometimes called “Little torbike seemed to be spying on the
he believed that the American military Iran,” is their main gateway between the house, so secret agents were sent out to
had been making a point by striking Mul- countries. spy on the spies.
lah Mansour on his return from Iran. People in Herat speak with Iranian ac- Within hours, the police had detained
cents. Iranian schools, colleges and the men and blown their cover: They
“When they target people like this,
they follow them for months,” he said. “It bookshops line the streets. Women wear were Iranian assassins, according to the
was smart to do it to cast suspicions on the head-to-foot black chador favored in Afghans. The passenger was armed with
Iran. They were trying to create a gap be- Iran. Shops are full of Iranian sweets and two pistols.
tween Iran and the Taliban.” produce. Forensics tests later found that one of
But if that was the intention, Mr. Lalai But even as the city is one of Afghanis- the guns had been used in the murder of
tan’s most decorous and peaceful, an air an Iranian citizen in Herat 10 months ear-
said, it has not succeeded, judging by the
of intrigue infuses Herat. lier, police officials said.
Haibatullah Akhundzada, has picked up The city is filled with Iranian spies, se- The two Iranians are still in Afghan
his predecessor’s work. cret agents and hit squads, local officials custody and have yet to be charged.

They have become a source of contention
between Iran and Afghanistan.
Iran disowned them, pointing to their
Afghan identity cards, but Afghan offi-
cials paraded them on television, saying
they were carrying false papers and had
admitted to being sent by Iran as a hit
squad.
The Afghan police say they have ar-
rested 2,000 people in counterterrorism
operations in Herat over the last three
years. Many of them, they say, are armed
insurgents and criminals who reside
with their families in Iran and enter Af-
ghanistan to conduct dozens of attacks
on police or government officials.
Iran is set on undermining the Afghan
government and its security forces, and
the entire United States mission, and
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maintaining leverage over Afghanistan
by making it weak and dependent, Af-
ghan officials say.
“We caught a terrorist who killed five
people with an I.E.D.,” a senior police of-
ficer said, referring to a roadside bomb.
“We released a boy who was kidnapped.
We defused an I.E.D. in the city.”
Flicking through photographs on his
phone, he pointed to one of a man in a
mauve shirt. “He was convicted of kid-
napping five people.” Much of the kid-
napping is criminal, for ransom, but at
least some of it is politically motivated,
he added.
The 33-year-old, English-speaking
Farhad Niayesh, a former mayor of He-
rat, is even more blunt, and exasperated.
He says the Iranians use their consulate
Above, an Afghan police officer at
his unit’s outpost overlooking the
districts north of Farah, the capital
of Farah Province. At left, a bazaar
in Herat known for Iranian goods.
Below left, a bridge in Herat where,
in January, the police stopped two
armed Iranian men who were carry-
ing false documents.
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in the city as a base for propaganda and
“devising terrorist activities.”
“Iran has an important role in terrorist
attacks in Herat,” Mr. Niayesh said.
“Three or four Iranians were captured.
They had a plan against government offi-
cials who were not working in their inter-
est.”
Members of Parliament and security
officials say Iran bribes local and central
government officials to work for it, offer-
ing them 10 to 15 Iranian visas per week
to give to friends and associates — Af-
ghans visit to conduct business, receive
medical care and see family.
The Afghan police have uncovered
cases of even deeper infiltration, too. A
female member of the Afghan police
service was sentenced to death, accused
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of being a secret Iranian agent, after fa-
tally shooting an American trainer in the
Kabul Police Headquarters in 2012.
“Our western neighbor is working
very seriously,” said the senior Afghan
police official in Herat who requested an-
onymity because of the nature of his
work. “ We have even found heavy artil-
lery to be used against the city.”
Iran is supporting multiple anti-gov-
ernment militant groups in half a dozen
western provinces, he said. The Afghan
police, despite a lack of resources, are
working to dismantle them.
“The same sort of people are still in the
city,” he added. “They are doing their
work, and we are doing our work.”
Double-Edged Soft Power
Afghans dream of restoring their land-
locked, war-torn country to the rich trad-
ing center it was in days of old, when car-
avans carried goods along the Silk Road
from China to Europe, and people and
ideas traveled along the same route.
If Tehran has its way, the modern Silk
Road will once again run across Af-
ghanistan’s western border, and proceed
through Iran. At least that is the ambi-
tion.
On one side of the Afghan border, India
has been building a road through south-
western Afghanistan to allow traders to
bypass Pakistan, which has long re-
stricted the transit of Afghan goods.
Tehran’s goal is to join that route on the
Iranian side of the border with road and
rail links ending at the port of Chabahar
on the Persian Gulf.
“We said that Afghanistan would not
be landlocked anymore and we would be
at Afghanistan’s disposal,” said Mr.
Bahrami, the Iranian ambassador in Ka-
bul, stressing that Iran’s contribution to
the Afghan road was not stalled even by
its economic difficulties under sanctions.
But Iran’s economic leverage comes at
a price.
Afghan officials say Iran’s support of
the Taliban is aimed in part at disrupting
development projects that might threat-
en its dominance. The Iranian goal, they
contend, is to keep Afghanistan suppli-
cant.
The biggest competition is for water,
and Afghans have every suspicion that
Iran is working to subvert plans in Af-
ghanistan for upstream dams that could
threaten its water supply.
Iran has raised the issue of the dams in
bilateral meetings, and President Has-
san Rouhani recently criticized the
projects as damaging to the envi-
ronment.
With the upheaval of 40 years of coups
and wars in Afghanistan, large-scale de-
velopment plans, like hydroelectric
projects, have largely been stalled since
the 1970s. Even after international assist-
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Tehran’s Turn
Articles in this series examine Iran’s
growing regional influence.
ONLINE: More photos and the first
article in this series are at
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ance poured into Afghanistan after 2001,
internal and external politics often got in
the way.
But President Ashraf Ghani, deter-
mined to generate economic growth,
made a priority of completing the Salma
dam in Herat Province, and has ordered
work on another dam at Bakhshabad, to
irrigate the vast western province of
Farah.
In Farah, despite the two calamitous
Taliban offensives on the provincial capi-
tal in October and January, the
Bakhshabad dam is the first thing every-
one mentions.
“We don’t want help from nongovern-
mental organizations or from the gov-
ernment,” said Mohammed Amin, who
owns a flourishing vegetable farm, grow-
ing cucumbers and tomatoes under rows
of plastic greenhouses. “We in Farah
don’t want anything. Just Bakhshabad.”
Afghanistan’s lack of irrigation makes
it impossible to compete with Iranian
produce prices, something Bakhshabad
could solve, he said.
The project is still only in the planning
stage. But the dam, with its promise of
irrigation and hydroelectricity for a pop-
ulation lacking both, is a powerful dream
— if Iran does not thwart it.
“The most important issue is water,”
Mr. Lalai, the presidential adviser, said of
relations with Iran. “Most of our water
goes to our neighbors. If we are prosper-
ous, we might give them less.”
Peace or Proxy War?
The death of Mullah Mansour re-
moved Iran’s crucial link to the Taliban.
But it has also fractured the Taliban,
spurring a number of high-level defec-
tions and opening opportunities for oth-
ers, including Iran, to meddle.
An overwhelming majority of Taliban
blame Pakistan for Mullah Mansour’s
death. The strike deepened disillusion-
ment with their longtime Pakistani spon-
sors.
About two dozen Taliban command-
ers, among them senior leaders who had
been close to Mullah Mansour, have
since left their former bases in Pakistan.
They have moved quietly into south-
ern Afghanistan, settling back in their
home villages, under protection of local
Afghan security officials who hope to en-
courage a larger shift by insurgents to
reconcile with the government.
Those with family still in Pakistan live
under close surveillance and control by
Pakistani intelligence, said the former
Taliban commander, who recently aban-
doned the fight and moved his family into
Afghanistan to escape reprisals.
He said he had become increasingly
disaffected by Pakistan’s highhanded di-
rection of the war. “We all know this is
Pakistan’s war, not Afghanistan’s war,”
he said. “Pakistan never wanted Af-
ghanistan to be at peace.”
The question now: Does Iran?
Citing the threat from the Islamic
State as an excuse, Iran may choose,
with Russian help, to deepen a proxy war
in Afghanistan that could undermine an
already struggling unity government.
Or it could encourage peace, as it did in
the first years after 2001, for the sake of
stability on at least one of its borders,
prospering with Afghanistan.
For now, Iran and Russia have found
common cause similar to their partner-
ship in Syria, senior Afghan officials and
others warn.
Emboldened by their experience in
Syria, they seem to be building on their
partnership to hurt America in Afghanis-
tan, cautioned Mr. Sharan.
As American forces draw down in Af-
ghanistan, jockeying for influence over
the Taliban is only intensifying.
“Pakistan is helping the Taliban
straightforwardly,” said Mr. Jehan, the
former Afghan intelligence official who
is now governor of Farah. “Russia and
Iran are indirectly helping the Taliban.
We might come to the point that they in-
terfere overtly.
“I think we should not give them this
chance,” he added. “Otherwise, Af-
ghanistan will be given up to the open ri-
valry of these countries.”
The former Afghan foreign minister,
Rangin Dadfar Spanta, warned that the
country risked being pulled into the
larger struggle between Sunni powers
from the Persian Gulf and Shiite Iran.
“Afghanistan should keep out the ri-
valry of the regional powers,” he said.
“We are vulnerable.”
Some officials are optimistic that Iran
is not an enemy of Afghanistan, but the
outlook is mixed.
“There is a good level of understand-
ing,” Abdullah Abdullah, the Afghan gov-
ernment’s chief executive, said of rela-
tions with Iran.
“What we hear is that contacts with
the Taliban are to encourage them to pur-
sue peace rather than military activi-
ties,” he said.
Mohammad Asif Rahimi, the governor
of Herat, warned that if Farah had fallen
to the Taliban, the entire western region
would have been laid open for the insur-
gents.
Iran’s meddling has now grown to the
extent that it puts the whole country at
risk of a Taliban takeover, not just his
province, he said.
But it could have been prevented, in
the view of Mr. Sharan.
“The fact is that America created this
void,” he said. “This vacuum encouraged
countries to get involved. The Syria issue
gave confidence to Iran and Russia, and
now that confidence is playing out in Af-
ghanistan.”
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The Meatball Company food truck, owned by Yareli Manning. She left her job as a consultant in Austin, Tex., to start a food truck park in the Miramar neighborhood of San Juan, P.R.
Staying or Returning Home, Millennials Help Lift Puerto Rico
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
SAN JUAN, P.R. — Two young gradu-
ates from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology did the unthinkable last
summer: They quit enviable jobs in New
York and moved back to beleaguered
Puerto Rico, bringing their plan for a
start-up with them.
“People were like: ‘Are you crazy?
Why would you ever do that? Go back
way later; you’re basically going into a
hellhole right now,’” said one of the grad-
uates, Eric Crespo, 25, who helped create
Lunchera, a fast-growing online food de-
livery and logistics company in Puerto
Rico.
As the tide of Puerto Ricans leaving
the island continues unabated, Mr. Cre-
spo and his partner and college friend,
Bryan Collazo, are part of a small but
critical wave of educated millennials
who are doing the opposite; they are
choosing to return home or stay put on
the island.
They are opening restaurants and
bars, fueling start-ups and small busi-
nesses or jump-starting moribund sec-
tors, like agriculture. They are motivated
both by an urge to help lift Puerto Rico
out of its quagmire, but also by a pro-
found attachment to the island — its
beaches and countryside, its friendli-
ness, its intimacy and the tug of family.
The pull in the opposite direction can
be intense, as Puerto Rico reckons with
an economic calamity more than a dec-
ade in the making. This island of United
States citizens, whose finances are now
being overseen by a federal control
board, is shackled by about $70 billion in
public debt, crushing job losses that are
expected to deepen as more government
workers are laid off, and an unrelenting
exodus that includes many profession-
als, like doctors, engineers and teachers.
Since 2004, more than 400,000 people
have left Puerto Rico, a United States
commonwealth of 3.4 million people.
As the island enters its 11th year of re-
cession, though, the crisis is slowly giv-
ing way to new opportunities that are el-
bowing aside more conventional ways of
thinking. Puerto Ricans have long relied
on the government for most of their jobs
and on the mainland for many of their ca-
reers; university graduates have reflex-
ively looked to United States corpora-
tions for work or slid into reliable profes-
sions, like medicine or engineering. On
the island, they call it the “colonial”
mind-set, a way of thinking that is tightly
bound to Puerto Rico’s standing as a
commonwealth.
“We were taught to be employees here
— not entrepreneurs,” said Carlos Co-
bián, an events specialist who is per-
suading Puerto Ricans on the mainland
to come home, and promoting en-
trepreneurship on the island.
But that is slowly changing. A younger
generation, steeped in today’s en-
trepreneurship revolution, is starting to
think differently.
Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo
Rosselló, announced in May that the gov-
ernment had certified 260 new compa-
nies that would be creating around 1,000
jobs in large part through a program of
tax incentives aimed at helping en-
trepreneurs. They are mostly small oper-
ations, and more than 75 percent are run
by people under 35, officials said.
“For a long time, there was a mind-set
Above, the offices of Parallel18, a start-up accelerator in San Juan. Below left, Cristina Sumaza is a co-
founder of Lote 23, a former vacant lot in San Juan that is now filled with restaurant kiosks. Below right,
Daniella Rodríguez Besosa runs an organic vegetable farm, Siembra Tres Vidas, in Aibonito.
that anything that comes from the out-
side was better,” said Daniella Rodríguez
Besosa, 32, one of a new collection of
young farmers who have re-embraced
agriculture, a forgotten force on the is-
land, and are helping to bolster agri-
tourism and a farm-to-table movement.
“I feel the crisis is an opportunity; it’s
not until you have a dire situation that
you have to do things creatively,” said
Ms. Rodríguez, who runs a small organic
vegetable farm, Siembra Tres Vidas, in
the mountains of Aibonito. “Change can
happen.”
After moving back to Puerto Rico as a
child, Ms. Rodríguez never left, choosing
the University of Puerto Rico at
Mayagüez for her biology degree.
“If no one is here to change what’s hap-
pening, we will suffer,” she said. “And,”
she added, gesturing toward the sea in
the distance and the lush mountains
around her, “who leaves paradise?”
Just recently, farmers who run small
and medium-size farms have started
selling their produce to chefs in Puerto
Rico’s fast-evolving culinary scene, and
a group of millennial women is helping to
facilitate that exchange. Buying local is
novel here — 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s
food is imported — and some farmers are
now even selling to Walmart. Others
have their eyes on increasing exports.
Calle Loíza and the San Juan neigh-
borhood of Santurce, near the beach,
have become the millennial hub for this
newfound energy. Once forlorn and dan-
gerous, the area buzzes with just-opened
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restaurants led by inventive chefs who
prize local ingredients.
Lote 23, a former vacant lot, opened in
December and is now filled with 16
trendy restaurant kiosks. Its co-founder
Cristina Sumaza, 29, gave up jobs at NBC
Universal and L’Oréal in New York to
come home and jump into entrepreneur-
ship. “This crisis has forced us to think
outside the box,” she said.
The food truck movement is also grow-
ing, although slowly. Yareli Manning,
owner of the Meatball Company truck,
left a job at a multinational company in
Austin, Tex., to start a food truck park.
It has been a struggle, she said. There
are many obstacles to starting a business
on a struggling island overseen by the
federal government. Getting laws and
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ordinances changed — a laborious
process before the crisis — takes even
longer now, she said. It took two years to
get two food trucks in one park. Money is
tight, the market is small, and palates
can be stubborn. San Juan has nearly
400,000 people, and many are wedded to
traditional and fast food.
“You have to have patience, which I
have,” Ms. Manning said. “I’ve never
been happier, though.”
Puerto Rican mixologists and their
new bars — a swirl of laid-back hipster
and Latin verve — have attracted a fol-
lowing well beyond the island. La Fac-
toría, the first genuine craft cocktail bar,
is tucked away in a warren-like building
in Old San Juan. La Factoría has twice
made the coveted list of the world’s 50
best bars by Drinks International. The
owners lured Chuck Rivera, a star bar-
tender in Washington, back to the island
to be their partner on two new bars.
“We would have never been able to
start La Factoría before; we started it on
our own, no help from banks,” Leslie
Cofresí, a co-owner of La Factoría, said of
the crisis’ silver lining. “The economic
situation has brought about an attitude
that is very different from what you hear
— which is that people depend on the
government and people want handouts.
It’s on the contrary.”
Start-up culture, once the purview of
isolated pockets in the United States, is
budding here, too. Parallel18, a start-up
accelerator created last year by Se-
bastián Vidal, is drawing a number of
young entrepreneurs, including the two
M.I.T. graduates.
Applicants worldwide are drawn by
grants, funded in part by the govern-
ment, and the chance to test their prod-
ucts on a bilingual, bicultural market op-
erating under United States law. Compe-
tition for the 80 slots a year is tough.
Parallel18 wants its entrepreneurs to
think globally. But it also encourages in-
vestment in Puerto Rico and requires en-
trepreneurs to share their knowledge
with college students. In one year, the
start-ups created $14 million in revenue,
$8 million of it generated in Puerto Rico.
Josie Arroyo, 35, gave up a job at Ya-
hoo in Miami to start her company, Bien
Cool, which designs clever greeting
cards in Spanish. She started it in 2013
and is working with Parallel18 this year
to expand it. Now she is selling her cards
in 100 locations on the island and funnels
orders to 25 states.
The fundamental question for her and
others of her generation is: “How are we
going to succeed and help Puerto Rico
grow?”
Reaching out to successful Puerto Ri-
cans across the mainland is crucial,
those trying to encourage entrepreneur-
ship say. Isabel Rullán helped found Con-
PRmetidos, which is connecting Puerto
Ricans abroad with people and jobs here
as a way to promote innovation.
The group is now working to bring
doctors home by sharing the latest finan-
cial incentives the government is offer-
ing to entice them back. Puerto Rico is
suffering an acute shortage of specialists
because so many have left for better pay-
ing jobs on the mainland.
Ms. Sumaza of Lote 23 said she was
not naïve about the depth of Puerto Ri-
co’s woes. “But,” she said excitedly, there
is a trickle of optimism. “It’s a small
movement that is slowly growing.”

Colleges Seek a Diversity Ideal, but Choose Different Paths to Achieve It
From Page 1
individual admissions decisions,
have attempted to use socioeco-
nomic factors as a substitute, hop-
ing to draw from the overlap of mi-
nority and low-income students.
Others, like the University of
Texas, accept a set percentage of
the top students at every state
high school. Neither method has
fully succeeded in composing stu-
dent bodies that match the racial
makeup of their states.
Other colleges with more free-
dom to curate a student body con-
tinue to weigh race as one factor in
admissions, which can lead to
more diversity. But their decision-
making can be so subjective that,
in the minds of high school seniors
staring down application season,
it can border on the occult.
It is this opacity that has left few
happy: not Asian-American stu-
dents who feel that they are being
held to a higher standard, and
whose complaint against Harvard
has become a focus of the Justice
Department’s efforts; not white
students who feel similarly penal-
ized; and not those who remain
the theoretical face of affirmative
action, African-American and Lat-
ino applicants who say the as-
sumption that their success de-
pended on their race can shadow
them far beyond commencement.
“When I told people I was going
to Princeton, it was not uncom-
mon for me to hear: ‘Oh, you’re
going to Princeton because you
are black,’” said Jonathan
Haynes, a sophomore from Mid-
land, Mich., where just 2 percent
of the population is black. He is
among a group of students push-
ing Princeton, where 9 percent of
students are black, to admit more
from low-income backgrounds.
For Mike Coiro, who will enter
Columbia University in the fall,
the role race might or might not
play in college admissions had in-
serted itself into conversation af-
ter conversation as he and others
at his New Jersey boarding school
filled out their applications.
“It’s not something I actively
worried about, but it was defi-
nitely in the back of my mind,” he
said. “I wondered whether being a
straight white male would have
any effect on Columbia.”
But Mr. Coiro said he supported
affirmative action, despite being,
in his words, “kind of right-lean-
ing.” That is partly because his
best friend, a Hispanic student
who will be the first person in his
family to attend college, will also
be a freshman at Columbia in the
fall.
“We’re both here,” Mr. Coiro
said. “I don’t feel disadvantaged
at all.”
Colorblind by Law
In states that have rejected af-
firmative action policies at univer-
sities, which include Michigan,
Washington and Florida, the new
approaches to assembling a di-
verse student body have tended to
give an edge to applicants who
have overcome disadvantages
like poor neighborhoods, troubled
schools and language barriers.
But though these methods may
have somewhat increased the
number of low-income students of
all backgrounds, racial diversity
remains elusive.
Socioeconomic considerations
“may be desirable in and of them-
selves,” said Mark Yudof, a former
president of the University of Cali-
fornia and former chancellor of
the University of Texas. “But I
don’t think they can get the job
done.”
At the University of California
system, which was forced to drop
affirmative action programs after
voters approved Proposition 209
in 1996, officials have had to rely
on what they call “race-neutral”
solutions to strive for a student
body that more closely mirrors
the state’s population.
Students in the top 9 percent of
their high school class are guaran-
teed admission to at least one U.C.
campus.
Starting in 2011, most of the sys-
tem adopted what university offi-
cials call a “holistic” review, under
which admissions officers consid-
ered the entirety of the applicant’s
circumstances, “reading the ap-
plication beginning to end before
making a judgment,” said Han Mi
Yoon-Wu, the undergraduate ad-
missions director for the system.
“Nothing is particularly weighted
more than anything else.”
Race is not one of the criteria,
but to opponents of race-con-
scious admissions, such methods
sound suspiciously like a euphe-
mism for affirmative action. Ad-
missions officers are using details
about a student’s background as a
“proxy” for race, said Ward Con-
nerly, an African-American busi-
nessman who is a longtime and
outspoken critic of affirmative ac-
tion.
University officials have
reached into California high
schools, working with teachers,
counselors and parents to identify
a pool of promising low-income
Reporting was contributed by Eliz-
abeth A. Harris, Vivian Wang,
Frances Robles, Dana Goldstein,
Jennifer Medina and Thomas
Fuller.
students and help them apply.
Nevertheless, a gap persists.
Although Latinos made up
about 52 percent of students grad-
uating from high school in Califor-
nia in 2016, only about one-third of
the freshmen who enrolled in one
of the 10 U.C. campuses that fall
were Latino, a disparity that Ms.
Yoon-Wu called “troubling.”
The number of black and Latino
students enrolling at Los Angeles
and Berkeley, the flagship cam-
puses, have declined even more
steeply. Blacks made up about 3
percent of all undergraduates at
Berkeley last year, with Asians at
39 percent and whites at 26 per-
cent.
“There is still a lot of work to be
done,” Ms. Yoon-Wu said.
In 1999 Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida,
pre-empting an attempt by Mr.
Connerly to pass a version of Pro-
position 209 in his state, banned
racial preferences in admissions
but attempted to compensate by
guaranteeing admission to a state
college to students who graduated
in the top 20 percent of their high
school classes.
Mr. Bush later boasted that af-
ter Florida campuses set aside an
affirmative action system he
called “discriminatory,” they
raised the number of black and
Hispanic students attending state
colleges. But education experts
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Lee C. Bollinger, the president
of Columbia University, is a
proponent of considering race
and ethnicity in college admis-
sions. Right, the campus of the
University of California,
Berkeley, which has seen en-
rollment among black stu-
dents decline.
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questioned his numbers, noting
that the population of Hispanic
students rose mainly because of a
change in how students were told
to report their ethnicity on their
applications, and that the number
of students in the system had ris-
en over all.
State statistics also show that
the number of black students at-
tending Florida’s state schools
has declined slightly since the rule
went into effect. At the state’s flag-
ship university, the University of
Florida, 6 percent of undergradu-
ates who enrolled in fall 2015 were
black, down from 12 percent in
2000, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics.
About 17 percent of Florida’s popu-
lation is black.
A University of Florida spokes-
woman said a number of factors
had contributed to the change, in-
cluding the economy, the lack of
need-based financial aid and a
higher number of applications,
which made the school more se-
lective. Changes in the way stu-
dents report their race may mean
that many black students are be-
ing counted in other categories,
such as Hispanic, she added.
“The University of Florida
strives for a diverse campus com-
munity,” said the spokeswoman,
Margot Winick. “We have worked
diligently to remove barriers
JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
through recruiting programs.”
For example, she said, the uni-
versity arranges campus visits
and conducts outreach at urban,
rural and low-income high
schools.
At the University of Florida in
Gainesville, the “dwindling” num-
ber of black students is noticeable,
said Dwayne Fletcher, the head of
the Black Student Union.
“It’s a palpable feeling when it
comes to wanting to find someone
you can identify with, and having
to look few and far between,” said
Mr. Fletcher, 21, an agriculture ed-
ucation and communication major
who will be a senior this fall.
Although the university would
have been prohibited from consid-
ering his race when offering him
admission, Mr. Fletcher may have
benefited from the school’s new
focus on other forms of diversity.
He was a member of the school’s
AIM program, which chooses can-
didates based on criteria includ-
ing test scores, being the first in
their family to attend college or
the geographical region they
come from.
“I was told that it was not for the
AIM program, I would not be at
the University of Florida,” said Mr.
Fletcher, whose parents immi-
grated from Jamaica. “I’m not
saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to select
all these people of color at random
LAURA PEDRICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The campus of Princeton
University, where 9 percent of
students are black. Jonathan
Haynes, left, a sophomore, is
among a group of students
pushing the university to ad-
mit more people from low-
income backgrounds.
to fill a quota to make sure we’re
exemplifying diversity.’ However,
equity is something that needs to
be considered.”
Meritocratic Ideal
For many opponents of affirma-
tive action, the ideal admissions
system strips out all factors but
achievement.
“All that matters, in the type of
society that I envision, is that you
are at the top and you are there be-
cause you have achieved in ac-
cordance with the rules that we’ve
laid out,” said Mr. Connerly. “Not
on the basis of your skin color, not
on the basis of where your daddy
was born.”
The California Institute of Tech-
nology, an elite destination for sci-
ence, engineering and math study
just outside Los Angeles, hews
strikingly close to Mr. Connerly’s
vision.
“We are as close to a meritocra-
cy as is possible,” said a spokes-
woman for the university, Kathy
A. Svitil.
Underrepresented minorities,
including African-Americans,
Hispanics, American Indians and
Alaska natives, make up 16 per-
cent of the undergraduate popula-
tion.
There was a tiny number of Af-
rican-American students in last
year’s freshman class, 4 out of 235.
The largest ethnic group was
Asians, with 77 students, followed
by whites, with 70.
Fadl Saadi, a former graduate
student at the university, says
there has been tension in the past
over whether to admit more un-
derrepresented minorities.
In 2012, Mr. Saadi posted an arti-
cle that began, “Caltech has a seri-
ous diversity problem.”
The response on campus was
less than warm, he said.
“I received a lot of pushback
from people who felt that this kind
of ‘perfectly meritocratic system’
was the ideal,” Mr. Saadi said.
“There was this preconceived
idea that outreach into ethnicities
and underrepresented minorities
and genders would be somehow
linked to a decrease in quality.”
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But on a campus that has his-
torically had a wide gender imbal-
ance, skewed toward men, the col-
lege seems to be striving for gen-
der parity, if not racial diversity:
About three times as many men
as women applied last year, but
women were three times as likely
to get in as men.
Diversity on Purpose
Among the most diverse and
prestigious colleges in the coun-
try is Columbia University.
Among domestic undergradu-
ates, the proportion of Hispanics
and African-Americans has in-
creased significantly over the
past two decades, to 28 percent in
the class of 2021, according to Co-
lumbia.
“To do this, you have to make it
a purpose, you can’t just decide
that this would be nice to have and
then just let it happen,” said Lee C.
Bollinger, Columbia’s president,
who has long been a proponent of
considering race and ethnicity in
admissions, most famously as the
named defendant in a pair of law-
suits challenging affirmative ac-
tion at the University of Michigan,
which he previously led.
Black and Latino applicants are
often trying to surmount not only
poverty, but also inferior public
schooling. “It’s the responsibility
of a great institution to try to help
to address those injustices,” he
added. “ Secondly, it just makes
complete sense to prepare your
students for a world that is pro-
foundly diverse.”
Tristan Douville, who is a Na-
tive American from Alaska, was
participating last week in a sum-
mer program for incoming fresh-
men who would be the first in
their families to attend college. He
said participants have had frank
conversations about the stigma
they may face when they join the
rest of the student body.
But, he said, the program’s di-
rectors reinforce that “we got in
because we deserved to be at Co-
lumbia just as much as other peo-
ple did.”
Mr. Bollinger said the popular
understanding of affirmative ac-
tion — that admissions officers
save some spots for minorities, re-
gardless of their qualifications —
did not match reality. Instead, he
said, the university selects a pool
of qualified people whom they be-
lieve can thrive on campus, look-
ing at an array of factors including
grades, test scores, essays, rec-
ommendations, legacy status,
athletic ability, musical talent and
geographic diversity.
He denied that Columbia dis-
criminated against white or Asian
applicants.
“It’s impossible to know with-
out going through the entire ad-
missions process why it is you
were not accepted,” he said.
Still, there is little transparency
about how much of a role race
plays in the admissions offices of
highly selective colleges. When
part of the process does become
public, as it did after the Depart-
ment of Education investigated a
complaint by Asian-American ap-
plicants against Princeton, it can
show admissions officers high-
lighting race in frank terms.
“Very few African Americans
with verbal scores like this,” one
Princeton admissions officer
wrote of a black student, accord-
ing to documents tied to the inves-
tigation that were first reported
by BuzzFeed.
Other officers wrote that Asian-
American applicants had “very
familiar profiles” or were “diffi-
cult to pluck out.”
Members of other minorities,
on the other hand, appeared to
catch the officers’ interest if they
played up their backgrounds: A
native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
received the comment, “Were
there a touch more cultural flavor
I’d be more enthusiastic.”
But the Education Department,
which opened the investigation in
2008, ultimately found that while
the officers’ comments were
sometimes associated with ster-
eotypes, Princeton had not dis-
criminated based on race or se-
lected applicants based only on
their race.
Asked for comment, Daniel
Day, a Princeton spokesman, re-
iterated the investigation’s find-
ings, adding that they were “as
true today as they were then.”
Daniel Alvarez, the boarding-
school friend of Mr. Coiro who is
joining him at Columbia, did not
dispute Mr. Coiro’s belief that he
had benefited from the school’s af-
firmative action policies.
But while his classmates had
speculated about some black and
Latino students who had been ad-
mitted to elite schools, Mr. Alva-
rez said he had not been one of
those targets. He was well-known
in his high school for being aca-
demically successful and accom-
plished, he said.
“People can think what they
will, but in the end, I’m never go-
ing to really be able to know”
whether race helped him, he said.
“I feel like the true measure of
whether or not it was really part of
it will depend on how I do there. If
I get there, and I’m struggling,
and this isn’t the sort of school
that I belong at, then maybe I’ll re-
consider.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Building a Trump-Centric Intellectual Movement, With or Without Him
By JEREMY W. PETERS
GLENDORA, Calif. — They’re
the first to admit that trying to re-
orient conservatism and the Re-
publican Party around a president
who does not consider himself
much of a conservative or a Re-
publican is a bit of a riddle.
But to this small group of rene-
gade thinkers on the right, Presi-
dent Trump represents the foun-
dation of what they hope will be a
new conservative movement
premised on the inward-looking,
America-centric approach his ad-
ministration is pursuing.
Just don’t call it Trumpism.
Building on Mr. Trump’s popu-
list appeal, they are attempting
what many of their fellow conser-
vatives have told them is an im-
possible, even foolish undertak-
ing. They are making the intellec-
tual case for a man who is the ulti-
mate anti-intellectual.
“It took a Trump, of all people,
to allow for a certain level of intel-
lectual ferment to take place,” said
Ben Boychuk, the managing edi-
tor of American Greatness, a new
political journal based here in
Southern California.
American Greatness gives
voice to a growing genre of con-
servative thinking that wants the
right to be less oriented to the is-
sues that built the Reagan coali-
tion of social, fiscal and national
security conservatives and more
focused on the country’s self-in-
terest.
In its inaugural issue last sum-
mer, the journal published “Our
Declaration of Independence
From the Conservative Move-
ment,” which argued that what
worked for Ronald Reagan could
no longer define the movement.
President Aside, Some G.O.P. Stars Quietly Move Toward 2020 Bids
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that others in the party are en-
gaged in barely veiled contin-
gency planning.
“They see weakness in this
president,” said Senator John Mc-
Cain, Republican of Arizona.
“Look, it’s not a nice business
we’re in.”
Mr. Trump changed the rules of
intraparty politics last year when
he took down some of the leading
lights of the Republican Party to
seize the nomination. Now a hand-
ful of hopefuls are quietly discard-
ing traditions that would have dic-
tated, for instance, the respectful
abstention from speaking at Re-
publican dinners in the states that
kick off the presidential nomina-
tion process.
In most cases, the shadow can-
didates and their operatives have
signaled that they are preparing
only in case Mr. Trump is not
available in 2020. Most signifi-
cant, multiple advisers to Mr.
Pence have already intimated to
party donors that he would plan to
run if Mr. Trump did not.
Mr. Kasich has been more defi-
ant: The Ohio governor, who ran
unsuccessfully in 2016, has de-
clined to rule out a 2020 campaign
in multiple television interviews,
and has indicated to associates
that he may run again, even if Mr.
Trump seeks another term.
Mr. Kasich, who was a sharp
critic of the Republicans’ failed at-
tempt to repeal the Affordable
Care Act with deep Medicaid cuts,
intends to step up his advocacy by
convening a series of policy for-
ums, in Ohio and around the coun-
try.
“He’ll continue to speak out and
lead on health care and on na-
tional security issues, trade policy,
economic expansion and poverty,”
John Weaver, a political adviser of
Mr. Kasich’s, said.
In the wider world of conserva-
tive Trump opponents, William
Kristol, editor at large of The
Weekly Standard, said he had be-
gun informal conversations about
creating a “Committee Not to Re-
nominate the President.”
“We need to take one shot at lib-
erating the Republican Party from
Trump, and conservatism from
Trumpism,” Mr. Kristol said.
It may get worse, said Jay
Bergman, an Illinois petroleum
executive and a leading Republi-
can donor. Grievous setbacks in
the midterm elections of 2018
could bolster challengers in the
party.
“If the Republicans have lost a
lot of seats in the Congress and
they blame Trump for it, then
there are going to be people who
emerge who are political oppor-
tunists,” Mr. Bergman said.
Mr. Pence has been the paceset-
ter. Though it is customary for
vice presidents to keep a full poli-
tical calendar, he has gone a step
further, creating an independent
power base, cementing his status
as Mr. Trump’s heir apparent and
promoting himself as the main
conduit between the Republican
donor class and the administra-
tion.
The vice president created his
own political fund-raising com-
mittee, Great America Commit-
tee, shrugging off warnings from
Kenneth P. Vogel contributed re-
porting.
Michael Anton, right, a National Security Council communica-
tions official, wrote under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus.
“We cannot slavishly attempt to
relive the politics of 40 years ago,”
the editors wrote.
These disillusioned academics
see plenty of things they like in the
Trump administration, including
Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the
Paris climate accord and his pro-
posal to reduce legal immigration
by half within a decade. And
though Republicans have failed so
far to dismantle the Affordable
Care Act, they don’t blame the
president, whom they applaud for
at least trying to undo what they
see as an unconstitutional expan-
sion of government power.
But in this view, Mr. Trump is
not so much a movement leader as
he is a vessel. “We see a lot of po-
tential here with this particular
administration,” Mr. Boychuk
said, “but we’re not going to live or
die by him.”
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
Among the possible Republi-
can candidates in 2020 are,
clockwise from top, Vice Presi-
dent Mike Pence, Senator Ben
Sasse of Nebraska and Gov.
John Kasich of Ohio. Mr.
Sasse is one of the Senate’s
sharpest Republican critics of
President Trump.
some high-profile Republicans
that it would create speculation
about his intentions. The group,
set up with help from Jack Oliver,
a former fund-raiser for George
W. Bush, has overshadowed Mr.
Trump’s own primary outside po-
litical group, America First Ac-
tion, even raising more in dis-
closed donations.
Mr. Pence also installed Nick
Ayers, a sharp-elbowed political
operative, as his new chief of staff
last month — a striking departure
from vice presidents’ long history
of elevating a government vet-
eran to be their top staff member.
Mr. Ayers had worked on many
campaigns but never in the fed-
eral government.
Some in the party’s establish-
ment wing are remarkably open
about their wish that Mr. Pence
would be the Republican stand-
ard-bearer in 2020, Representa-
tive Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania
said.
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If nothing else, these conserva-
tives see Mr. Trump as a disrupter
who is already jolting a movement
they believe is badly ossified and
reflexively devoted to an agenda
of corporate tax cuts, global trade
agreements and military adven-
turism — “checklist conserva-
tism,” as an essay by Chris
Buskirk, the publisher of Ameri-
can Greatness, described it.
They accept the almost social-
ist-sounding “pro-worker” label.
They believe the Republican
Party has been far too complicit in
the expansion of the federal bu-
reaucracy, what they scorn as the
“administrative state.” And they
tend to de-emphasize social issues
as a priority.
“When they started saying
Trump wasn’t a conservative was
when I started paying attention,”
said Julie Ponzi, who helps edit
“For some, it is for ideological
reasons, and for others it is for
stylistic reasons,” Mr. Dent said,
complaining of the “exhausting”
amount of “instability, chaos and
dysfunction” surrounding Mr.
Trump.
Mr. Pence has made no overt ef-
forts to separate himself from the
beleaguered president. He has
kept up his relentless public
praise and even in private is care-
ful to bow to the president.
Mr. Pence’s aides, however,
have been less restrained in pri-
vate, according to two people
briefed on the conversations. In a
June meeting with Al Hubbard, an
Indiana Republican who was a top
economic official in Mr. Bush’s
White House, an aide to the vice
president, Marty Obst, said that
they wanted to be prepared to run
in case there was an opening in
2020 and that Mr. Pence would
need Mr. Hubbard’s help, accord-
ing to a Republican briefed on the
American Greatness from her
house in Glendora, a small com-
munity about 20 miles east of Los
Angeles at the foot of the San Ga-
briel Mountains.
“What’s the problem?” she in-
sisted, referring to Mr. Trump’s
many critics on the right. “He’s
not a neoconservative? Good.
He’s not working for the Chamber
of Commerce and wanting to im-
port a bunch of cheap labor?
Good. He’s interested in America’s
interests abroad, first and fore-
most? Good.”
Until now, this brand of con-
servatism thrived mostly at the
periphery of the movement. Its
scholars hail from conservative
bastions like Hillsdale College in
Michigan and the Claremont In-
stitute, which is just a few miles
from Glendora and publishes the
Trump-friendly Claremont Re-
view of Books. Another new jour-
nal, a high-minded quarterly
called American Affairs, recently
debuted in Manhattan.
The brand’s admirers include
the likes of Stephen K. Bannon,
the president’s chief strategist;
Stephen Miller, a senior White
House aide involved in immigra-
tion policy; and Peter A. Thiel, a
Silicon Valley entrepreneur who
has embraced Mr. Trump as some-
one who could pull the Republican
Party away from what he called
“the dogmas of Reaganism.”
It sees American sovereignty
as the overriding principle that
should guide everything from mil-
itary to economic to immigration
policy. Engagement overseas is
noble only if its goal is to protect
American citizens and their pros-
perity. Trade deals have been too
open ended and harmful to the
meeting. Reached on the phone,
Mr. Hubbard declined to com-
ment.
Mr. Ayers has signaled to multi-
ple major Republican donors that
Mr. Pence wants to be ready.
Mr. Obst denied that he and Mr.
Ayers had made any private in-
sinuations and called suggestions
that the vice president was posi-
tioning himself for 2020 “beyond
ridiculous.”
For his part, Mr. Pence is me-
thodically establishing his own
identity and bestowing personal
touches on people who could pay
dividends in the future. He not
only spoke in June at one of the
most important yearly events for
Iowa Republicans, Senator Joni
Ernst’s pig roast, but he also held
a separate, more intimate gather-
ing for donors afterward.
When he arrived in Des Moines
on Air Force Two, Mr. Pence was
greeted by an Iowan who had
complained about his experience
middle class. And the virtues of
citizenship only further erode as
our borders become more porous.
Much of this happens to be at
odds with the agenda that Repub-
lican leaders in Congress have
spent years promoting. And it is in
some ways at odds with Mr.
Trump himself, who is pursuing
efforts to significantly cut taxes
and increase military spending
and has launched military strikes
in Syria and Afghanistan.
But the growing prominence of
these ideas speaks to the void that
Mr. Trump’s victory has created in
the conservative world, where the
thought leaders and multimillion-
dollar policy shops that have tra-
ditionally set the agenda have be-
come unmoored. The Heritage
Foundation, once at the vanguard
of conservative thought, recently
replaced its president, Jim
DeMint, in a messy coup.
“No think tank has tied this to-
gether as an intellectual construct
— this populist, nationalist move-
ment,” Mr. Bannon said in an in-
terview, noting how dismissive
and often hostile Washington’s
conservative ideas machine was
to Mr. Trump. “There is still a mas-
sive void.”
Today the work of these out-
sider conservatives is closely read
at the White House. The publisher
of American Greatness was part
of a group of conservative journal-
ists who recently met with the
president.
West Wing aides speak their
lingo. They were delighted this
year to hear Mr. Bannon call for
the dismantling of “the adminis-
trative state.”
“Five, 10 years ago, only a hand-
ful of people knew what that
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with the Affordable Care Act —
and who happened to be a mem-
ber of the state Republican central
committee.
The vice president has also
turned his residence at the Naval
Observatory into a hub for rela-
tionship building. In June, he
opened the mansion to social con-
servative activists like Tony
Perkins of the Family Research
Council and representatives of the
billionaire kingmakers Charles G.
and David H. Koch.
At large gatherings for contrib-
utors, Mr. Pence keeps a chair free
at each table so he can work his
way around the room. At smaller
events for some of the party’s big-
gest donors, he lays on the charm.
Last month, Mr. Pence hosted the
Kentucky coal barons Kelly and
Joe Craft, along with the Univer-
sity of Kentucky men’s basketball
coach, John Calipari, for a dinner a
few hours after Ms. Craft ap-
peared before the Senate for her
meant,” Mr. Boychuk said.
And Mr. Trump hired one of
their own as the head of communi-
cations for the National Security
Council: Michael Anton. Mr. An-
ton, a graduate of Claremont
Graduate University, has written
extensively on what Mr. Trump of-
fers conservatives, most provoca-
tively under the pseudonym Pub-
lius Decius Mus, a Roman who
sacrificed himself for the republic.
Mr. Anton’s most famous essay,
which he wrote for the Claremont
Review of Books and called “The
Flight 93 Election,” made the case
that the choice between Mr.
Trump and Hillary Clinton was
like the one the passengers on that
hijacked flight made on Sept. 11,
2001, when they rushed the hijack-
ers and forced the plane to crash
into a Pennsylvania field.
The glaring problem with at-
taching a set of ideas and princi-
ples to Mr. Trump is, of course, Mr.
Trump, a man with a notoriously
fickle and unpredictable nature
who has always preferred the
transactional to the ideological.
“His policies always seemed to
me to be improvisational, and still
are to a certain extent,” said
Charles Kesler, a senior fellow at
the Claremont Institute and the
editor of the Claremont Review of
Books, which has provided a for-
um for discussing the intellectual
framework of the Trump move-
ment but warned of grafting any
fixed ideology onto him.
“You can be building castles in
the air that have no reference to
reality,” Mr. Kesler added. “And
that’s a real danger for anyone
who’s in the business of trying to
detail/enumerate/explain the ele-
ments of Trumpism.”
hearing as nominee to become
ambassador to Canada.
Other Republicans eyeing the
White House have taken note.
“They see him moving around,
having big donors at the house for
dinner,” said Charles R. Black Jr., a
veteran of Republican presiden-
tial politics. “And they’ve got to try
to keep up.”
Mr. Cotton, for example, is plan-
ning a two-day, $5,000-per-person
fund-raiser in New York next
month, ostensibly for Senate Re-
publicans (and his own eventual
re-election campaign). The gath-
ering will include a dinner and a
series of events at the Harvard
Club, featuring figures well
known in hawkish foreign policy
circles such as Stephen Hadley,
Mr. Bush’s national security ad-
viser.
Mr. Cotton, 40, a first-term Ar-
kansas senator, made headlines
for going to Iowa last year during
the campaign. He was back just af-
ter the election for a birthday
party in Des Moines for former
Gov. Terry E. Branstad and re-
turned in May to give the keynote
speech at a county Republican
dinner in Council Bluffs.
Mr. Sasse, among the sharpest
Senate Republican critics of Mr.
Trump, has quietly introduced
himself to political donors in lan-
guage that several Republicans
have found highly suggestive, de-
scribing himself as an independ-
ent-minded conservative who
happens to caucus with Republi-
cans in the Senate. Advisers to Mr.
Sasse, of Nebraska, have dis-
cussed creating an advocacy
group to help promote his agenda
nationally.
He held a private meet-and-
greet last month with local Repub-
lican leaders in Iowa, where he la-
mented the plodding pace of Capi-
tol Hill and declined to recant his
past criticism of Mr. Trump.
Jennifer Horn, a former chair-
woman of the New Hampshire Re-
publican Party who hosted Mr.
Sasse in the first primary state
last year, said she saw the senator
as speaking for conservatives
who felt that Republicans in
Washington had not been deliver-
ing on their promises.
“There are a lot of people in
New Hampshire who have devel-
oped a lot of respect for him, and
I’m one of them,” she said.
James Wegmann, a spokesman
for Mr. Sasse, said the only future
date that Mr. Sasse had in mind
was Nov. 24, 2017, when the Uni-
versity of Iowa meets the Univer-
sity of Nebraska on the football
field.
“Huskers-Hawkeyes rematch,”
Mr. Wegmann said, “and like ev-
ery Nebraskan, he’s betting on the
side of righteousness.”
Beyond Washington, other up-
and-coming Republicans are ma-
king moves should there be an
opening in 2020. Nikki Haley, the
ambassador to the United Nations
and a former governor of South
Carolina, put her longtime pollster
on the payroll, has gotten better
acquainted with some of New
York’s financiers and carved out a
far more muscular foreign policy
niche than Mr. Trump.
“She sounds more like me than
Trump,” said Senator Lindsey
Graham, a hawkish Republican
from South Carolina.

Amid Attacks on Global Trade, U.S. Cities Welcome Foreign Product: Jobs
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French toast at the Bluegrass Grill
on Main Street.
Mr. Berke will travel to Japan
this fall in hopes of persuading
more companies to hang a shingle
at the foot of the Appalachians.
“Trade and foreign investment is
a big part of Tennessee’s portfolio,
and it affects many people in our
area,” he said. “And I don’t know
exactly what the policies will be.”
Pushing to rewrite his prede-
cessors’ free-trade approach, Mr.
Trump has reopened the North
American Free Trade Agreement
with Mexico and Canada, threat-
ened tariffs and quotas on steel
imports, moved to revise a trade
agreement with South Korea and
signaled his support of American
businesses by declaring a “Made
in America” Week. A trade case
accusing China of intellectual
property violations is also in the
works.
At the same time, the president
has cited the jobs foreign busi-
nesses can bring, announcing at
the White House recently that the
Taiwanese electronics supplier
Foxconn would create at least
3,000 jobs with the help of hefty
tax credits at a new plant planned
for Wisconsin. And after two Japa-
nese carmakers announced on
Friday a joint decision to build an
assembly plant, he tweeted: “Toy-
ota & Mazda to build a new $1.6B
plant here in the U.S.A. and create
4K new American jobs. A great in-
vestment in American manufac-
turing!”
For employers and workers
here, though, the labels can be
confusing. “There is no such thing
as just ‘American built’ anymore,”
said Randy Topping, who owns a
tractor and equipment dealership
in Chattanooga.
He saw his business explode in
2010, thanks in part to growing
sales of vehicles made by the Indi-
an manufacturer Mahindra. Mr.
Topping is now teamed up with
the company and is president of
Southeast Mahindra, where
nearly 60 people assemble and
distribute small red tractors
suited to gentleman farmers.
The parts are made in the
United States as well as India,
South Korea and Japan. “Every-
thing has foreign content,” he said.
Production workers at South-
east Mahindra start at a wage of
$12 an hour, eventually earning up
to $20 an hour. The competition
with rivals, both in the United
States and in developing coun-
tries, can be brutal, and success is
counted in nickels and minutes.
Like other Southern states, Ten-
nessee makes a selling point of the
scarcity of unions, largely a result
of laws exempting workers who
don’t join from paying the equiva-
lent of dues.
“It’s hard work,” Mr. Topping
acknowledged as the temperature
outside neared 97 degrees, ma-
king the air in the assembly shed
hot and thick. “But this is a close-
margin business,” he said, ex-
plaining why he is not offering
more money despite adding a sec-
ond shift.
Bill Phillips, 57, the production
line leader, worked for Mahindra
in northern Georgia for eight
years before transferring to this
plant in 2009. Whether it’s a for-
eign company or not, “it’s still a
job,” said Mr. Phillips, whose
American Work, Foreign Employer
Tennessee leads the nation in the number of workers employed by a foreign-based company, with 136,000. They
represent 5 percent of the 2.6 million Tennesseans with private-sector jobs.
Employment by foreign-owned companies in Tennessee
Top countries TOTAL EMPLOYED
1. Japan 50,900
2. Germany 16,400
3. Britain 9,800
4. France 9,200
5. Canada 8,400
6. Sweden 7,400
7. Switzerland 5,000
8. Italy 4,000
9. Ireland 3,200
10. Netherlands 3,000
Source: State of Tennessee
Explicit Texting on Plane Leads to 2 Arrests
By JACEY FORTIN
On a flight from Seattle to San
Jose, Calif., on Monday, a woman
caught a glimpse of some text
messages that alarmed her.
A man seated in front of her on
the Southwest Airlines flight was
“texting about sexually molesting
young children,” the San Jose Po-
lice Department said in a news re-
lease.
The man, identified by police as
Michael Kellar, 56, of Tacoma,
Wash., was using a large smart-
phone with enlarged text, making
it easier for her to read his mes-
sages and take photographs of
them.
The woman alerted a member
of the flight crew, who notified po-
lice officers working in the Mineta
San Jose International Airport.
Mr. Kellar was arrested after the
plane landed.
The woman is a preschool
teacher, said Detective Sgt. Brian
Spears, commander of the San
Clockwise from top, tractors at Southeast Mahindra, an assembly plant and distribution center for the Indian maker Mahindra, in
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Randy Topping, the dealership’s president; and a Volkswagen plant that employs 3,200 people there.
shaggy gray mustache hangs on
his face like an upside-down U.
“I’m working. I’m making a liv-
ing.”
Tennessee, which actively
courts firms from abroad, ranks
first in the nation in jobs created
by foreign-owned companies, ac-
cording to the State Economic and
Community Development De-
partment: 136,000 workers at 931
foreign-based businesses.
In the Chattanooga area, where
the unemployment rate dropped
to 3.3 percent, foreign companies
account for roughly 20,000 jobs,
according to a list compiled by the
local Chamber of Commerce.
“We love to say, ‘Buy Ameri-
can,’” said William B. Kilbride, the
chamber’s president and chief ex-
ecutive, “but we both know how
hard that is.”
He pointed to Pilgrim’s Pride, a
large chicken processing plant in
the Southside neighborhood. It
employs 1,200 people, and many of
the chickens are raised on north
Georgia farms, but most of the
profits flow back to the majority
owner, JBS of Brazil.
“So are you buying American or
NO. OF
FIRMS Top industries
185 1. Automotive
110 2. Other manufacturing 25,800
111 3. Chemicals/plastics 14,900
74 4. Transportation
72 5. Business services
36 6. Other
46 7. Energy technology
38 8. Health care/devices 4,000
27 9. Food/agribusiness
45 10. Aerospace/defense
Jose Police Department’s Inter-
net Crimes Against Children Task
Force. “She’s definitely a hero in
our eyes,” he said.
Mr. Kellar was charged with at-
tempted child molestation and so-
licitation of a sex crime, both fel-
onies. He was arraigned on Thurs-
day and was being held without
bail at the Santa Clara County Jail.
Police named Gail Burnworth,
50, also a resident of Tacoma, as
the person Mr. Kellar was sus-
pected of texting. They have also
located two children, ages 5 and 7,
who may have been victims of
sexual abuse.
Sergeant Spears said the text
messages “described specific sex
acts performed on children, as
well as bestiality.”
“It definitely goes beyond just
that flight,” he added. “There is a
history of conversations between
them.”
According to a statement from
the city of Seattle on Wednesday, it
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not?” he asked.
Volkswagen, which made this
spot its North American manufac-
turing headquarters, now em-
ploys more than 3,200 people at
the plant it opened in 2011. The au-
tomaker’s presence has attracted
other firms, like the Spanish com-
pany Gestamp, which manufac-
tures metal automotive compo-
nents and employs 634 people.
“You can throw a baseball and
almost hit the Volkswagen plant,”
said Corey Jahn, the Gestamp
plant director, standing next to
powerful cold-stamping machines
that press sheets of metal into
wheelhouses, door sills and floor
plenums. The neighborhood sup-
ply chain significantly reduces
shipping costs and turnaround
times, while an American pres-
ence avoids the effect of currency
fluctuations on profits.
“We follow our customers
throughout the world,” Mr. Jahn
said.
Japan is the biggest foreign in-
vestor, employing 3,000 nearby
residents at Japanese companies
like Komatsu, Toshiba, Hitachi
Metals and Toyota. The Haier
NO. OF
TOTAL EMPLOYED FIRMS
53,800
13,600
7,800
5,800
4,700
3,500
1,400
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seems that Ms. Burnworth “had
access to the children either as a
caregiver or babysitter.” She was
arrested in Tacoma on Monday
but was released after prosecu-
tors did not formally charge her
within 72 hours. She was arrested
again on Friday night on a federal
warrant for conspiracy to produce
child pornography.
The authorities in California
and Washington said federal
charges are likely, and the F.B.I.
was involved in the continuing in-
vestigation.
Capt. Mike Edwards, com-
mander of the Seattle Police De-
partment’s Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force, said
the two children who may have
been victims remained at their
home with their parents.
Police did not identify the
teacher who reported the text
messages. “We’re very grateful
that she was on that plane,” Cap-
tain Edwards said.
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time in its Bradley County plant and high schools, Mr. Kilbride
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American market say they are
drawn to Chattanooga’s location;
its rail, port and interstate high-
way connections; dependable
electric power; supply pipelines;
pro-business tax provisions; and
trainable work force. Political
leaders and the chamber also
highlight as incentives the lack of
state property and income taxes
and the absence of unions.
Still, the antitrade talk cur-
rently streaming out of the White
House is unsettling.
“That keeps me up at night,”
said Mary Beth Hudson, vice
president of Wacker Polysilicon.
“We depend on global trade.”
Some raw materials, equipment
and spare parts come from
abroad, she said.
Of greater concern are the im-
port duties that the Trump admin-
istration could impose on the for-
eign solar panel makers that
Wacker supplies, potentially cut-
ting into the sales of the final prod-
uct in the United States.
“We want to make sure there’s
customers out there to buy our
materials,” Ms. Hudson said.
Germany sells much more to
the United States than it buys, cre-
ating a multibillion-dollar trade
imbalance that has agitated the
White House. “We have a MAS-
SIVE trade deficit with Germany,”
Mr. Trump tweeted in May. “Very
bad for U.S. This will change.”
It is much too early to measure
whether recent pronouncements
in Washington have put off poten-
tial foreign investors. But Mr. Kil-
bride of the chamber worries that
uncertainty surrounding Mr.
Trump’s trade, tax and immigra-
tion policies could have a chilling
effect.
“If you’re concerned about any-
thing, you sit it out,” he said.
For other firms, the decision to
set up manufacturing in the
United States has much less to do
with who is in the White House
than who will buy their product.
Nokian Tyres, a Finnish company
that is preparing to break ground
on a $360 million plant with 400
jobs, can grow only if it has a local
presence, said Tommi Heinonen,
head of Nokian North America.
“When we started the project,
there was a different administra-
tion, and it will be different again,”
Mr. Heinonen said, noting that the
company started scouting Ameri-
can locations in 2015. “The factory
is built to be there for decades. If
you start to change your corpo-
rate strategy every time there is a
new person in some chair, you end
up changing it quite often.”
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highs Yesterday ............... 0.30
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experience the greatest risk of flooding. FRI. YESTERDAY
mean Actual ..................... 4.05
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comfortable temperatures. Thunder- Normal Cooling Degree Days
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Total Upper Midwest, where it will also remain 70° far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
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Milwaukee 79/ 64 0 74/ 62 Sh 73/ 60 PC Sydney 68/ 50 0 71/ 54 S 66/ 48 S 30 days
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Mpls.-St. Paul 78/ 61 0 76/ 59 Sh 80/ 61 PC Taipei 97/ 82 0 100/ 83 PC 100/ 83 PC 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 84/ 62 0 87/ 71 T 82/ 67 T Tehran 103/ 77 0 99/ 80 S 98/ 78 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 85/ 75 0 88/ 76 T 89/ 76 T Tokyo 88/ 77 0.03 87/ 80 PC 86/ 79 Sh
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 84/ 71 0.02 84/ 72 PC 86/ 74 T Yesterday ............... 93% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 97/ 73 0 91/ 68 T 84/ 64 C Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
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Omaha 69/ 62 0.02 77/ 60 PC 78/ 59 PC Amsterdam 66/ 59 0.12 68/ 55 PC 72/ 57 C
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 100/ 81 0 98/ 82 PC 99/ 81 PC
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 72/ 58 Tr 78/ 58 S 75/ 59 R Copenhagen 72/ 59 0.02 67/ 55 T 68/ 60 PC
New York City 80/ 70 0.30 82/ 67 S 75/ 68 R Portland, Ore. 89/ 63 0 93/ 65 S 94/ 63 PC Dublin 61/ 49 0.06 61/ 50 R 62/ 48 Sh Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 84/ 74 0.35 81/ 67 S 76/ 66 R Providence 76/ 61 0.54 79/ 62 S 77/ 62 R Edinburgh 63/ 52 0.49 61/ 50 R 62/ 47 Sh
Caldwell 86/ 67 0.04 80/ 62 S 74/ 64 R Raleigh 90/ 64 0 88/ 71 T 88/ 72 T Frankfurt 75/ 59 0.38 74/ 54 PC 79/ 59 PC Full Last Quarter New First Quarter
Danbury 84/ 70 0.12 77/ 60 S 72/ 58 R Reno 88/ 62 0 87/ 61 PC 88/ 62 PC Geneva 88/ 66 0 76/ 56 PC 84/ 61 T Today’s forecast
Islip 83/ 73 0.01 81/ 65 S 74/ 67 R Richmond 87/ 62 0 86/ 69 PC 83/ 70 T Helsinki 68/ 59 0.44 65/ 55 T 70/ 52 T
Newark 85/ 70 0.09 82/ 66 S 76/ 68 R Rochester 72/ 54 Tr 78/ 59 PC 74/ 59 R Istanbul 99/ 75 0 91/ 76 S 92/ 76 S
Trenton 88/ 69 Tr 80/ 64 S 74/ 66 R Sacramento 94/ 63 0 92/ 61 S 93/ 62 S Kiev 88/ 71 0.16 88/ 67 T 75/ 59 R Aug. 7 Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 29
White Plains 84/ 69 0.12 79/ 62 S 73/ 64 R Salt Lake City 97/ 71 0 91/ 67 PC 88/ 68 T Lisbon 81/ 66 0 86/ 63 S 79/ 60 PC 2:11 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 97/ 78 0 94/ 79 PC 94/ 77 T London 68/ 57 0.16 70/ 56 PC 70/ 56 C Kennebunkport
San Diego 79/ 70 0 78/ 70 PC 78/ 70 PC Madrid 104/ 75 0 97/ 69 S 97/ 66 PC Sun RISE 5:57 a.m. Moon S 4:48 a.m. 78/56 Mostly sunny, less humid
Albany 77/ 56 0.31 76/ 60 PC 69/ 59 R Moscow 73/ 61 0 74/ 61 S 73/ 54 Sh
San Francisco 77/ 60 0 72/ 58 PC 72/ 59 PC SET 8:06 p.m. R 7:26 p.m.
Albuquerque 87/ 66 0.01 89/ 66 T 89/ 67 T Nice 84/ 75 0 85/ 75 R 83/ 74 PC
San Jose 86/ 63 0 81/ 60 S 80/ 59 S Cape Cod
Anchorage 71/ 56 0 68/ 55 PC 67/ 56 C Oslo 68/ 54 0.39 65/ 52 T 68/ 53 R
NEXT R 5:58 a.m. S 5:45 a.m. 60s
San Juan 88/ 80 0.04 88/ 79 Sh 87/ 79 Sh 79/63 Mostly sunny, less humid
Atlanta 88/ 70 0.04 87/ 73 T 86/ 72 T Paris 77/ 61 0.02 76/ 55 S 81/ 58 PC Jupiter R 11:19 a.m. Mars R 5:39 a.m.
Seattle 88/ 62 0 91/ 64 S 93/ 63 PC
Atlantic City 82/ 63 0.03 80/ 69 S 78/ 68 T Prague 86/ 59 0 71/ 53 PC 74/ 52 PC S 10:44 p.m. S 8:00 p.m.
Sioux Falls 73/ 56 0 75/ 53 PC 75/ 53 S L.I. North Shore
Austin 98/ 77 0 95/ 78 T 94/ 74 T Rome 95/ 72 0 91/ 70 PC 91/ 70 PC
Spokane 90/ 63 0 92/ 64 S 94/ 65 PC Saturn S 2:03 a.m. Venus R 3:00 a.m.
Baltimore 82/ 59 0 82/ 67 S 78/ 68 T St. Petersburg 67/ 59 0.32 67/ 56 Sh 65/ 57 R 81/66 Lots of sun, low humidity
St. Louis 85/ 65 0 73/ 66 R 80/ 64 PC R 4:39 p.m. S 5:50 p.m.
Baton Rouge 86/ 75 0.06 87/ 75 T 88/ 75 T Stockholm 67/ 57 0.25 64/ 54 T 72/ 55 T
St. Thomas 90/ 79 0.04 89/ 79 Sh 89/ 80 Sh
Birmingham 87/ 72 0 87/ 75 T 83/ 73 T Vienna 86/ 72 0.02 74/ 59 PC 77/ 57 PC L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 72/ 55 0.09 76/ 60 PC 69/ 57 R Boating
Boise 95/ 65 0 93/ 66 PC 93/ 66 PC Tampa 90/ 78 0 93/ 78 T 91/ 79 T Warsaw 81/ 63 0 76/ 56 PC 73/ 53 PC 81/70 Mostly sunny
Boston 75/ 61 0.15 80/ 64 S 75/ 64 R Toledo 77/ 55 0.01 74/ 58 R 74/ 53 C
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 68/ 56 0.21 76/ 60 PC 73/ 59 R Tucson 98/ 75 0 98/ 73 S 99/ 72 S N.J. Shore
Burlington 79/ 57 0.09 74/ 58 PC 73/ 57 R nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 94/ 75 0 86/ 68 R 83/ 67 C Acapulco 88/ 80 0.04 91/ 77 PC 89/ 79 PC 80/69 Mostly sunny
Casper 79/ 50 0 74/ 49 PC 75/ 47 PC Harbor. 70s
Virginia Beach 83/ 67 0 81/ 72 PC 84/ 73 T Bermuda 86/ 80 0 87/ 79 PC 86/ 78 PC
Charlotte 87/ 67 Tr 86/ 70 T 87/ 71 T Washington 83/ 66 0 84/ 71 S 81/ 72 T Edmonton 55/ 46 0 72/ 47 PC 65/ 44 Sh Wind will be from the west at 10-20 knots. Waves will be Eastern Shore
Chattanooga 85/ 63 0 89/ 72 PC 80/ 70 T Wichita 96/ 69 0 81/ 65 PC 82/ 61 PC Guadalajara 70/ 63 0.06 84/ 63 PC 82/ 64 PC 3-4 feet on the ocean, 2-3 feet on Long Island Sound and 82/69 Mostly sunny
Chicago 79/ 63 0 69/ 62 Sh 76/ 59 PC Wilmington, Del. 80/ 60 0.78 81/ 68 S 77/ 67 R Havana 88/ 73 0 93/ 74 PC 90/ 73 PC 1-2 feet on New York Harbor. Visibility will be generally
Cincinnati 77/ 60 0 74/ 63 T 74/ 61 Sh Kingston 90/ 84 0.05 87/ 79 T 91/ 81 T clear to the horizon. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 77/ 59 0 79/ 62 PC 75/ 63 R Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 88/ 77 0.02 89/ 78 Sh 90/ 78 Sh 77/69 Mostly sunny
Colorado Springs 85/ 57 0 75/ 57 T 67/ 54 T Algiers 93/ 76 0 93/ 73 S 94/ 75 PC Mexico City 68/ 58 0.04 79/ 60 PC 79/ 57 PC High Tides
Columbus 76/ 59 0 76/ 60 PC 73/ 60 R Cairo 95/ 79 0 97/ 78 S 97/ 78 S Monterrey 85/ 74 0 99/ 77 PC 97/ 73 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 75/ 53 0.01 79/ 55 S 72/ 55 R Cape Town 64/ 50 0 64/ 46 S 66/ 46 PC Montreal 70/ 64 0.27 70/ 55 PC 72/ 57 PC Atlantic City .................... 7:20 a.m. .............. 7:38 p.m. indicate water
81/72 Clouds and sun
Dallas-Ft. Worth 97/ 79 0 97/ 76 C 85/ 74 T Dakar 86/ 80 0 87/ 79 C 86/ 78 PC Nassau 93/ 80 0 93/ 81 PC 93/ 81 PC Barnegat Inlet ................. 7:32 a.m. .............. 7:45 p.m. temperature.
Denver 87/ 57 0 76/ 58 T 69/ 53 T Johannesburg 68/ 46 0 69/ 40 S 67/ 44 S Panama City 84/ 74 0.06 88/ 74 T 87/ 76 T The Battery ..................... 8:17 a.m. .............. 8:26 p.m.
Des Moines 79/ 63 0 74/ 60 PC 78/ 59 S Nairobi 77/ 57 0 74/ 54 T 75/ 54 PC Quebec City 73/ 66 0.01 63/ 49 PC 68/ 52 PC Beach Haven .................. 9:00 a.m. .............. 9:15 p.m.
Detroit 79/ 59 0 77/ 61 C 76/ 59 Sh Tunis 104/ 75 0 101/ 75 S 99/ 75 S Santo Domingo 86/ 79 0.01 89/ 74 PC 89/ 75 PC Bridgeport .................... 11:17 a.m. ............ 11:28 p.m.
El Paso 96/ 75 0 99/ 73 S 99/ 74 T Toronto 64/ 59 0.01 75/ 61 Sh 72/ 60 Sh City Island ..................... 11:50 a.m. ............ 11:47 p.m.
High pressure will move across the East
Fargo 79/ 53 0 77/ 50 PC 80/ 58 S Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 66/ 61 0 78/ 61 PC 79/ 63 S
Hartford 79/ 57 1.52 79/ 61 S 72/ 60 R Baghdad 119/ 85 0 120/ 87 S 120/ 88 S Fire Island Lt. .................. 8:28 a.m. .............. 8:43 p.m. Coast beaches today, bringing dry
Winnipeg 72/ 46 0 75/ 51 PC 79/ 56 S
Honolulu 88/ 73 0 88/ 73 PC 88/ 75 PC Bangkok 90/ 80 0.20 89/ 79 T 91/ 80 T Montauk Point ................ 9:00 a.m. .............. 9:14 p.m. weather and less humid air. The sky will
Houston 90/ 78 0 91/ 79 T 89/ 78 T Beijing 96/ 79 0 95/ 74 PC 94/ 73 S South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 11:30 a.m. ............ 11:36 p.m.
Indianapolis 78/ 62 0 69/ 63 Sh 73/ 60 PC Damascus 99/ 64 0 100/ 64 S 103/ 69 S Buenos Aires 64/ 45 0 72/ 54 PC 65/ 54 Sh Port Washington ........... 11:56 a.m. ............ 11:47 p.m. be mostly sunny from around Ocean City,
Jackson 91/ 73 0 87/ 75 T 91/ 73 T Hong Kong 93/ 83 0.20 93/ 81 T 92/ 84 T Caracas 90/ 80 0.22 89/ 78 PC 90/ 81 PC Sandy Hook .................... 7:42 a.m. .............. 7:57 p.m. Md., to Cape Cod. Elsewhere, a few more
Jacksonville 89/ 74 0 88/ 75 T 90/ 76 T Jakarta 90/ 77 0 90/ 76 PC 90/ 75 S Lima 67/ 59 0 70/ 59 S 70/ 60 PC Shinnecock Inlet ............. 7:22 a.m. .............. 7:40 p.m.
Kansas City 70/ 65 0.37 75/ 62 R 75/ 60 PC Jerusalem 86/ 65 0 88/ 68 S 89/ 70 S Quito 68/ 46 0 73/ 53 C 71/ 53 C Stamford ...................... 11:20 a.m. ............ 11:31 p.m.
patchy clouds will mix with the sunshine.
Key West 92/ 85 0 91/ 83 T 90/ 84 T Karachi 90/ 82 0 90/ 81 S 89/ 81 PC Recife 82/ 73 0 83/ 70 S 82/ 72 PC Tarrytown ..................... 10:06 a.m. ............ 10:15 p.m. High temperatures will range from the
Las Vegas 101/ 82 0.09 98/ 81 PC 102/ 82 PC Manila 88/ 79 0.02 90/ 81 T 91/ 80 T Rio de Janeiro 77/ 64 0.04 75/ 61 S 80/ 62 S
Lexington 78/ 60 0 80/ 65 PC 78/ 63 Sh Mumbai 88/ 80 0.04 88/ 82 Sh 88/ 80 C Santiago 48/ 45 0 62/ 40 PC 56/ 36 PC
Willets Point .................. 11:49 a.m. ............ 11:48 p.m. upper 70s to the mid-80s.

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U.A.W. Accuses Nissan of ‘Scare Tactics’ as Workers Reject Union Bid

By NOAM SCHEIBER
In a test of labor’s ability to ex-
pand its reach in the South, work-
ers at a Nissan plant in Missis-
sippi overwhelmingly rejected a
bid to unionize, an election that
the union quickly criticized.
Out of roughly 3,500 employees
at the Canton-based plant who
voted Thursday and Friday, more
than 60 percent opposed the un-
ion. It was an emphatic coda to a
yearslong organizing effort un-
derwritten by the United Automo-
bile Workers, which has been re-
peatedly frustrated in its efforts to
organize auto plants in the region.
The union accused the com-
pany of waging an unusually ag-
gressive fight against the organ-
izing effort. “Perhaps recognizing
they couldn’t keep their workers
from joining our union based on
the facts, Nissan and its anti-
worker allies ran a vicious cam-
paign against its own work force
that was comprised of intense
scare tactics, misinformation and
intimidation,” Dennis Williams,
the U.A.W. president, said in a
statement after the vote.
The company said its employ-
ees had spoken and urged the
U.A.W. to “respect and abide by
their decision and cease their ef-
forts to divide our Nissan family.”
The election campaign at the
plant, where a large majority of
workers are African-American,
frequently took on racial over-
tones. Some employees alleged
that white supervisors dispensed
special treatment to white subor-
dinates, a charge the company
emphatically denied.
For their part, anti-union work-
ers highlighted the U.A.W.’s con-
tributions to local civil rights and
religious groups, accusing the un-
ion of seeking to buy support in
the African-American community.
In the end, though, basic eco-
nomics combined with a fear of
change may have carried the day.
Veteran workers at the plant
make about $26 per hour, typically
only a few dollars less than vet-
eran workers represented by the
union at the major American au-
tomakers, and well above the me-
dian wage in Mississippi.
Nissan plant workers meeting at the United Automobile Workers office in Canton, Miss.
Nissan also pays a roughly sim-
ilar percentage of employees’ in-
comes into their retirement ac-
counts as do the Michigan au-
tomakers.
Before coming to Nissan more
than 14 years ago, “I didn’t have a
401(k), I had one week of vaca-
tion,” said Marvin Cooke, a Nissan
paint technician who was previ-
ously an assistant manager at a
Shoney’s restaurant. “Now, I have
four weeks’ vacation. I’m off on
every holiday. Nissan has pro-
vided a great living for me.” He
voted against the union.
While a significant number of
workers at the plant, which has a
total work force of nearly 6,500,
are contract workers who earn
lower wages than employees,
they were not eligible to vote in
the union election.
Publicly, Nissan emphasized
how the plant was a lifeline for
workers in the area, including one
commercial in which a Mississippi
pastor described how people were
“fluctuating back and forth look-
ing for jobs” before the plant ar-
rived. The message resonated
with many workers, although
some found it condescending.
“They were telling African-Amer-
icans, look what they provided for
us, but I had a job before I came to
Nissan,” said David Brown, who
was undecided the week before
the vote but ended up supporting
the union. “I had a house already,
had cars already. Nissan didn’t
provide me with it.”
In meetings between manage-
ment and workers, and in a video
featuring the plant’s top official,
Nissan was more menacing, sug-
gesting that a union would put
workers’ jobs at risk.
At one point leading up to the
vote, managers delivered a slide
presentation warning that in the
event of a strike, most employees
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who walked out would not be
guaranteed jobs afterward. Many
workers appeared to find the pre-
sentation alarming, even though
strikes are rare in the industry
and replacing production workers
could be difficult.
Another manager emphasized
in a meeting that Nissan could de-
cide not to automatically deduct
workers’ union dues, in which
case the union would end up send-
ing workers a regular “bill.”
“It was just to deter people from
joining, was what I’m getting out
of it,” said Earnestine Mayes, a un-
ion supporter. “No one wants to sit
there and pay that bill every
week.”
The company said that its com-
munications with workers were
an attempt to provide information
and clear up misimpressions, and
that dues were not a focal point.
A regional director of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board,
prompted by a series of charges
filed by the U.A.W., issued a com-
plaint in late July accusing Nissan
of illegally threatening to close the
plant if workers chose to unionize,
and threatening to fire workers in-
volved in the organizing effort.
Coinciding with the vote on Fri-
day, the union filed a round of new
charges about the company’s be-
havior, including providing the un-
ion with faulty voter information,
keeping workers who were en-
gaged in organizing activity under
surveillance and rating workers
according to the extent of their un-
ion support.
“On top of Nissan threatening
and intimidating employees in-
side the plant, the company gave
us lists that were terribly flawed
with inaccurate information,”
Gary Casteel, the second-ranking
official at the U.A.W., said in a
statement after the vote. “Nissan
had unlimited captive-audience
access to workers in the plant, but
its faulty lists limited the ability of
the union to contact workers by
phone, email or at home.”
Over all, the union was hobbled
in its ability to respond to the com-
pany’s message to workers. Be-
yond the question of its contribu-
tions to local groups, which the un-
ion said were similar to contribu-
tions it has made to civil rights
and religious groups for decades,
anti-union workers dwelled on the
indictment last week of a former
Fiat Chrysler labor relations offi-
cial accused of skimming millions
of dollars from a training facility to
benefit himself and a former
U.A.W. counterpart.
“Before all this came out, I felt
like the U.A.W. might come in,” Mr.
Cooke said.
The defeat raises further ques-
tions about organized labor’s po-
tential for inroads in the sparsely
unionized South, which many un-
ion leaders see as the key to im-
proving wages and labor stand-
ards across the country.
This year, workers rejected a
union by a nearly 3-to-1 margin at
a Boeing plant in South Carolina
after an organizing effort by the
International Association of Ma-
chinists and Aerospace Workers.
In 2014, the U.A.W. narrowly lost
a hotly contested organizing cam-
paign at a Volkswagen facility in
Tennessee, although a small
group of the plant’s skilled-trades
workers later voted to unionize,
and the union has notched some
victories at Southern auto parts-
suppliers in recent years.
“If you’re in an area where there
are unions, people have friends,
neighbors and relatives that
might be in a union, and it’s very
clear that people in unions like
them,” said Hoyt N. Wheeler, a re-
tired business professor who
taught labor relations at the Uni-
versity of South Carolina.
But in a region like the South,
few workers can speak from per-
sonal experience on the union’s
behalf when the company or local
politicians attack. “It makes it
tough; you don’t have contrary
voices,” Mr. Wheeler said.
Whatever its advantages, Nis-
san took no chances, pressing its
case through the final days. This
past week, it set up a huge tent
outside the plant and invited ev-
ery worker on each shift, even
those ineligible to vote, for meet-
ings in which senior plant officials
made their closing pitch.
For Mr. Brown, the previously
undecided worker, the meeting
proved to be the final shove in the
direction of the union.
“Management comes down
talking about how good we’ve got
it,” Mr. Brown said. “But we’re not
going to answer any questions.”
A Nissan spokeswoman, Parul
Bajaj, said that “employees were
reminded of the significance of the
election and encouraged to exer-
cise their right to vote,” and that
human resources officials were
available in the back of the room to
take questions.
By contrast, Kinoy Brown, a 14-
year veteran who works on en-
gines, saw the meeting as an
earnest attempt to unify the plant
after a bruising campaign.
“They were telling us,” said Mr.
Brown, who voted against the un-
ion: “‘Hey, let’s get this behind us.
Let’s go build some cars and
trucks. Let’s build people’s
dreams.’”

Minnesota Mosque Shaken

By an Early-Morning Blast
By NICK CORASANITI
An early-morning blast rocked
the Dar Al Farooq mosque in
Bloomington, Minn., on Saturday,
as worshipers had just begun to
gather inside for morning pray-
ers.
No injuries were reported. The
building sustained damage to its
front, and photographs from the
scene showed a large shattered
window, singed blinds and char-
ring around the outside.
The police said on Saturday af-
ternoon that a “preliminary inves-
tigation indicates the explosion
was caused by a destructive de-
vice.”
They announced that the Min-
nesota office of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation would be ta-
king the lead on the investigation.
Agents from the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explo-
sives were also on the scene.
The explosion was reported to
the police around 5 a.m., and they
found “smoke and some damage”
upon arriving. Mike Hartley, the
deputy police chief in Blooming-
ton, said there was no structural
damage to the building, but he de-
clined to elaborate on any damage
inside.
In a news conference, Mo-
hamed Omar, the executive direc-
tor of the mosque, said the explo-
sion had occurred “in the direction
of the imam’s room.”
He said one member of the con-
gregation immediately ran out-
side to see what had happened,
and “saw a truck fleeing from the
parking lot.”
While the police had not deter-
mined a motive, community mem-
bers and interfaith leaders of vari-
ous congregations responded to
the episode as yet another attack
on a Muslim place of worship.
“We’re here all together in or-
der to defend the values of our
country, the values of our faith, the
values of our people,” said Hamdy
El-Sawaf, president of the board of
the Islamic Community Center of
Minnesota. “No matter what hap-
pens, small or big, it will never
scare us, it will never bring us to
our knees. We’re here to help each
other, to support each other.”
Mr. Omar was joined by dozens
of community members, with
some in the crowd holding signs of
support proclaiming “All are wel-
come here.”
“What I would say is an attack
on a mosque is an attack on a syn-
agogue, it’s an attack on a church,
it’s an attack on all faith communi-
ties, so we stand with you, a mil-
lion Protestants in Minnesota,”
said the Rev. Curtiss DeYoung, the
chief executive of the Minnesota
Council of Churches.
The mosque had recently been
the target of harassment, receiv-
ing threatening and hateful mes-
sages, Mr. Omar told The Star
Tribune.
“People talking about us, telling
us, accusing us that we shouldn’t
be here, that we are like a burden
to the community or we are like
harming it,” Mr. Omar said.
In a statement issued late Sat-
urday, Gov. Mark Dayton of Min-
nesota said: “Every place of wor-
ship, for all Minnesotans of every
faith and culture, must be sacred
and safe. My prayers are with the
children, families, and faith lead-
ers of the Dar Al Farooq Islamic
Center today.”
20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
Richard Dudman, Global Reporter at Center of History’s Churn, Dies at 99
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Richard Dudman, a much-trav-
eled reporter for The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch who spent more
than a month in captivity in Cam-
bodia after being ambushed by Vi-
etcong fighters and later survived
an assassination attempt after
meeting the Cambodian dictator
Pol Pot, died on Thursday in Blue
Hill, Me. He was 99.
The death was confirmed by his
daughter, Iris Dudman.
Mr. Dudman’s career in journal-
ism lasted more than three quar-
ters of a century. He was in Dallas
when President John F. Kennedy
was assassinated and, after over-
sleeping and missing a flight back
to Washington, dropped by the po-
lice station where Lee Harvey Os-
wald was being held and watched
as he was gunned down by Jack
Ruby.
He covered the 1956 Arab-Is-
raeli War, filed stories from Ha-
vana when Fidel Castro toppled
the Batista government and cov-
ered wars and revolutions in
Guatemala, Argentina, Burma
(now Myanmar), Ireland, El Sal-
vador, the Dominican Republic,
Algeria, Laos and China.
He made his first reporting trip
to South Vietnam in 1962 and, con-
cluding early on that the war was
a doomed enterprise, became one
of the first American reporters to
question the official narrative dis-
pensed by military and govern-
ment officials. In 1965, while pre-
paring a series of pessimistic re-
ports, he wrote to his colleague
Marquis W. Childs, “The war is be-
ing lost, and in a hurry.”
As the Washington bureau chief
for The Post-Dispatch, Mr. Dud-
man secured and published ex-
cerpts from the government’s
classified history of the war,
known as the Pentagon Papers,
after the courts barred The New
York Times and The Washington
Post from printing any further
material.
His taste for adventure occa-
sionally led him down dangerous
roads. In 1970, he and two col-
leagues, Elizabeth Pond of The
Christian Science Monitor and Mi-
chael Morrow of Dispatch News
Service International, tried to
drive from Saigon to Phnom Penh
to report on the developing covert
war in Cambodia.
At a roadblock halfway between
the border and Phnom Penh, three
Vietcong fighters, brandishing as-
sault rifles, emerged from the
trees along the road and took the
reporters captive, convinced that
they were C.I.A. spies. Mr. Dud-
man turned to his colleagues and
said, “If we get out of this alive,
we’ll have a hell of a good story.”
A coolheaded Vietnamese gen-
eral, Bay Cao, eventually inter-
vened and ensured better treat-
ment of the three prisoners — on
Richard Dudman, left; Elizabeth Pond; and Michael Morrow, after being freed from Vietcong captivity in Cambodia in 1970.
Ho Chi Minh’s birthday, they en-
joyed a feast of roast dog. After six
weeks, Mr. Dudman and his col-
leagues were taken to a road and
left to hitchhike back to Saigon.
Mr. Dudman described his ordeal
in “Forty Days With the Enemy,”
published in 1971.
Cambodia had not finished with
him. In 1978, he and Elizabeth
Becker of The Washington Post
and Malcolm Caldwell, a leftist
Scottish economist, secured a
meeting with Pol Pot, becoming
the first Western writers to travel
through Cambodia after the
Khmer Rouge takeover in 1974.
The hoped-for interview never
materialized. After a handshake
that Mr. Dudman found unnerving
— Pol Pot had delicate, tapering
fingers and soft skin — the dicta-
tor held court.
“He spoke in a quiet monotone
as we sweltered in tropical sun-
shine that flooded the room and
brushed away the flies that
buzzed around the orange juice,”
Mr. Dudman wrote in The Post-
Dispatch in 2015. “He spoke in
Cambodian, Foreign Minister
Ieng Sary put the Cambodian into
French, and another official trans-
lated into English. Before getting
FAMILY PHOTO PROVIDED BY IRIS DUDMAN
Mr. Dudman in 2015.
to our questions, Pol Pot launched
into a diatribe against the Viet-
namese.”
He added, “We tried to break in
with questions, but he ignored
them and rolled right on.”
Mr. Dudman did manage to take
one of the few known photographs
of Pol Pot.
The following night, Mr. Dud-
man heard gunshots in the guest-
house where he and his colleagues
were staying. Stepping out into
the hallway, he faced an attacker,
who began shooting at him with a
pistol. Mr. Dudman dashed back
into his room, dodging bullets, and
hid behind his bed.
Two hours later, a Cambodian
escort officer appeared. “He told
me that Becker was safe but that
Caldwell had been killed and I
should view his body,” Mr. Dud-
man wrote in The Post-Dispatch
in 1997. “The young terrorist was
sprawled dead in the doorway.
And Caldwell’s body lay on his bed
with a gaping wound in his chest.”
The motivation for the attack,
and the identity of the gunman
and two accomplices, remained
unknown.
Richard Beebe Dudman was
born on May 3, 1918, in Centerville,
Iowa, to Virgil Ernest Dudman, a
gynecologist and obstetrician,
and the former Wilma Beebe. The
family moved to Portland, Ore.,
two years later.
Mr. Dudman enrolled in Stan-
ford University with ideas of be-
coming a doctor, but lost his nerve
when it came time to dissect a
frog. He began reporting and ta-
king photographs for The Stan-
ford Daily and, on summer vaca-
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tions in Northern California,
worked for The Mercury-Register,
in Oroville, a newspaper owned by
his uncle.
After graduating in 1940 with a
degree in economics and journal-
ism, he joined the merchant ma-
rine, serving on a freighter that
transported war matériel across
the North Atlantic. In 1942, he en-
A journalist who
became the story
more than once.
listed in the Navy Reserves and
spent four years on an armed sup-
ply ship that led convoys to Eu-
rope and North Africa.
He was hired as a reporter by
The Denver Post and joined The
Post-Dispatch in 1949. He re-
ported from around the world for
the newspaper and in 1954 was as-
signed to its Washington bureau.
He became bureau chief in 1969
and held the position until retiring
in 1981.
Mr. Dudman, desperate to get a
piece of the story, chafed when
The Times began printing ex-
cerpts from the Pentagon Papers
in mid-June 1971. A chance meet-
ing with the left-wing journalist
I. F. Stone, a good friend, led him
to Leonard Boudin, a radical law-
yer and Mr. Stone’s brother-in-
law, with whom Mr. Dudman had
an inconclusive conversation.
“That same day, an anonymous
caller said he understood I wanted
a batch of the papers,” Mr. Dud-
man wrote in The Post-Dispatch
in 1996. “He said I should send
someone to Cambridge, Mass., to
wait in a certain public phone
booth at a certain time the next
day for further instructions.”
Thomas W. Ottenad, the news-
paper’s political reporter, flew to
Cambridge, where, at the ap-
pointed phone booth, he was told
to go to a second phone booth.
There he received instructions to
look under a stack of newspapers
on a table on the upstairs back
porch of a Cambridge rowhouse.
There he uncovered a trove of
classified material, which he, Mr.
Dudman and James Deakin dis-
tilled in 38 articles. The newspa-
per published them the next day.
To Mr. Dudman’s annoyance,
however, The Post-Dispatch, on
the advice of its lawyers, held off
publishing further material from
the Pentagon Papers until the Su-
preme Court handed down a deci-
sion on the injunctions against
The Times and The Post.
After retiring from The Post-
Dispatch, Mr. Dudman continued
to file special assignment stories.
When his wife, the former Helen
Sloane, bought two radio stations
in Maine, he accompanied her to
Ellsworth, intending to build
boats.
Instead, he spent nine years as
a managing editor of South-North
News Service in Hanover N.H.,
editing copy from foreign corre-
spondents. From 2000 to 2012, he
wrote two editorials a week for
The Bangor Daily News. In 1993,
he was given the George Polk Ca-
reer Award for his foreign report-
ing.
In addition to his daughter Iris
and his wife, who was executive
women’s editor of The Washing-
ton Post in the 1960s, he is sur-
vived by another daughter,
Martha Tod Dudman, and four
grandchildren.
Mr. Dudman’s last day on the
job at The Post-Dispatch was
eventful. Word came in that a gun-
man had shot Ronald Reagan out-
side the Washington Hilton, not
far away from the newspaper’s of-
fices. Like a racehorse hearing the
bugle, Mr. Dudman ran out the
door and up Connecticut Avenue,
pen and notebook in hand. His
story ran the next day.
He had a motto: “Reporter who
sits on hot story gets ass burned.”

Deaths
ARKIN—David,
91, died peacefully on August
3, 2017 after a brief illness.
Beloved father of Marc M.
Arkin, devoted father-in-law
of Greg Crossley, he was re-
cently predeceased by his se-
cond wife, Rita W. Hirsch and
previously predeceased by
his first wife, Rita Arkin, nee
Silverstein, beloved member
of his second wife's family in-
cluding his stepsons Bruce
(Sue) and Don (Bennette); as
well as adoring grandfather
of their five wonderful sons.
David was a well-regarded
and international petroche-
mical economist and was
president for many years of
the consulting firm Chemical
Projects Associates. His zest
for life and his love of family
were infectious. He will be
sorely missed. Services at
Campbell's, 1076 Madison
Avenue, at 11:30am, Monday,
August 7.
ARKIN—David. We, your ex-
tended family, will dearly
miss your joy, warmth and
wisdom. Our condolences to
your beloved daughter, Marc.
Harriet N. Cohen
and daughters,
Martha Cohen Stine,
Amy Z. Cohen,
Susan Cohen Hirsch,
Patricia Cohen Putney
and families.
BARRY—Susan Lowenstein.
The twinkle in your eye and
your smile will live on in our
hearts forever. We send our
condolences to our Bob-
ensteins cousins and to Ka-
ren, Ed and Robbie.
Love,
The Lowenstein family
Helen, Rita, Roger, Jane,
Michael, Barbara and Wendy
BARRY—Susan Lowenstein,
of New York, NY and Seattle,
WA passed away on Wednes-
day, August 2, 2017. Susan
graduated from The George
Washington University
School of Law in 1979. She
practiced as an attorney in
New York City and Seattle.
Susan loved spending time
with family, especially at
Thanksgiving and during the
family beach week in Betha-
ny Beach, DE. She is survived
by her daughter, Karen (Ed-
ward) Moya, and her grand-
son, Robert Moya; her father
and stepmother, Robert and
Elizabeth Lowenstein; her
stepfather, Seymour Efros;
and her siblings, Steven
(Elaine) Lowenstein, Beth
(Jeff) Lowenstein and Linda
(Al) Lowenstein. Susan was
predeceased by her mother,
Rollee Efros, and sister Carol
Lowenstein. A funeral ser-
vice will be held on Monday,
August 7th, at 11am at Na-
tional Funeral Home, 7482
Lee Hwy., Falls Church, VA
22042. Interment will follow at
King David Memorial Park. In
lieu of flowers, donations in
Susan's name may be made
to King County Sexual As-
sault Resource Center
(Seattle) or Coalition for the
Homeless (New York City).
BERNSTEIN—Frances Rita
Blechman, died peacefully at
home on the morning of Sa-
turday, July 29 after enor-
mous suffering with ALS and
a long, extraordinarily cou-
rageous battle to stay alive
and continue to be with and
enjoy her time with her loyal
and supportive family and
friends. Until the end, her vi-
vacity, humor, and loving
spirit of fun, generosity, car-
ing and kindness to all shone
through the devastation of
this incurable crippler. Born
in Queens in June, 1948 to
Beatrice and Ralph Blech-
man, Fran graduated from
American University in 1970,
and went on to a long and
pioneering career on Wall
Street. At a time when wo-
men were discouraged from
entering the building, Fran
made it to the top floor, ap-
pearing often on the Wall
Street Journal and Institution-
al Investor's lists of top ana-
lysts and reaching the title of
First Vice President at Merrill
Lynch. In April 1981, she mar-
ried Alan Bernstein, a social
work administrator, then with
the JBFCS, and settled in Car-
roll Gardens and Cobble Hill,
where they raised two sons,
Andrew Joseph and Eric Har-
ris. An outstanding mother
and community member
Fran rarely missed a ball-
game, bike race, or Packer
Collegiate Institute event. She
was always ready to pitch in
and help get things done. Af-
ter retiring in 2001, she fo-
cused her energy on social
change, giving generously of
her time and resources to the
Brooklyn Kindergarten Socie-
ty, the Center Against
Domestic Violence, the pres-
idential campaigns of Barack
Obama and sharing her fi-
nancial expertise with many
in the community who came
to her for tax advice and pre-
paration. Even in her illness,
Fran remained highly invest-
ed in the lives of her family
and friends. She is survived
by her husband, Alan; sons,
Andrew and Eric; nieces, Jen-
ny, Ali, and Emilie; brother,
Barry; and friends too nume-
rous to mention. She will be
deeply missed by all who
knew her and her memory
will always be cherished and
never forgotten. According to
her wishes, she has been cre-
mated. A memorial service
will be help in September. For
those wishing to attend, con-
tact the family. Donations “in
memory of Fran Bernstein”
can be made to the ALS As-
sociation Greater New York
Chapter, 42 Broadway, Suite
1724, New York, NY 10004
(ALS-NY.org).
BRODER—Elaine.
June 19, 1937 - July 27, 2017.
Elaine Broder (nee Goldman)
passed away peacefully in
the arms of Howard, her be-
loved husband of 57 years.
She is also survived by her
children Gail and David,
daughter-in-law Diane and
grandchildren Jackson and
Brooke. Predeceased by
parents Martha and Joseph
Goldman and sister Jacky
Schraibman. May her memo-
ry be for a blessing.
Deaths
BROWN—Fern.
Born and raised in New York
City, Fern Brown, beloved
daughter of Virginia and step-
daughter of John Braith-
waite. They raised Fern to be
warm, loving and fiercely in-
dependent. Leading by ex-
ample, her mother instilled in
her a strong work ethic that
propelled Fern into a lifelong
career at Jaclyn Inc, where
she worked her way up to be-
coming President of the a
very successful premium ac-
cessories division within the
company. Fern took great
pride in her job and worked
with a strong team that she
nurtured, mentored and be-
friended. She was demanding
and decisive, leading her to
get the best out of her group,
and respect and admiration
from her clientele. After a
long accomplished career at
Jaclyn, Fern retired in 2011 so
she could take care of her ail-
ing mother and best friend
Virginia, and her stepfather
John, both deceased. She also
spent time volunteering at
animal shelter ARF in East
Hampton, NY. One cannot
talk about Fern without men-
tioning her love of animals.
Gingy, and Dusty Rose were
her “fur baby” dogs and conti-
nued to live on in her heart
long after they were gone.
After a battle with cancer,
Fern passed away peacefully
in her home surrounded by
loving friends. She is survived
by her beautiful poodle Dan-
ny Boy, who will be taken
care of by close friends Al-
phonse and Mark. A celebra-
tion of Fern's life will be held
at Bonnie Levy's house at a
date to be determined. One
thing you can be sure of is
that Bon will be playing
Fern's favorite band Hall &
Oates on repeat. We will
laugh, cry, sing, reminisce
and raise a glass to a woman
we all admire and miss so
much. Rest in Peace, Fern.
Bonnie, Alphonse & Mark
CLAMAN—Jeffrey Alan,
76, of Short Hills, NJ and Key
Biscayne, FL, passed away
on Thursday, August 3, 2017.
Adoring husband of Susan
Barrish Claman. Loving fath-
er of Larry and Susan of
Short Hills, and Jonathan and
Patricia of Rutschwil, Switzer-
land. Proud grandfather of
Jason, Adam, Madeline, Ala-
na, Benjamin and Carmela.
Beloved brother of Jill Kras-
ner, Meryl and David Lub-
chansky, and Elsa Brenner.
Devoted uncle of many
nieces and nephews. Trave-
ler, adventurer, marathoner,
cyclist, and aviator. Long-
time EMT at the Millburn
Short Hills Volunteer First Aid
Squad and a Court Mediator.
Services will be held Monday,
August 7, at 10:15am at Bern-
heim Apter Kreitzman Cha-
pel, 68 Old Short Hills Road,
Livingston, NJ. In lieu of flow-
ers, donations to Jackson Me-
morial Hospital Foundation,
Stroke Unit, Miami, or The
Millburn-Short Hills Volun-
teer First Aid Squad would be
appreciated.
DAVISSON—Zita.
Zita Davisson died peacefully
on July 18, 2017 after compli-
cations following a fall walk-
ing her adored blond Chihua-
hua. A renowned portrait ar-
tist, she resided in New York
City and Southampton, NY. A
list of her subjects reads like a
Who's Who of art, show busi-
ness and politics. She painted
H.R.H. Princess Diana of
Wales with Prince William
and Prince Harry, Nancy
Reagan, Princess Grace of
Monaco with her children, the
Maharanee of Jaipur, Liza
Minelli, Rudolph Nureyev,
Vanessa Redgrave, Muham-
mad Ali, Gloria Vanderbilt
and her sons, and the Rocke-
feller, Hearst, Havemeyer,
Roosevelt, and Whitney fami-
lies. An artist from a young
age, Ms. Davisson held her
first solo show at age 12.. She
trained as an artist at the Art
Students League, NYC and
with artist Jan de Ruth. Ms.
Davisson grew up in Manhat-
tan and in Switzerland. Her
father was John P. V. Hein-
muller, president of the Lon-
gines Wittnauer Watch Com-
pany, which was based in Ge-
neva. Her mother, Luella,
painted landscapes. She at-
tended Belmont Academy at
St. Moritz, Switzerland, and
the Gardner School in NYC.
As a teenager Ms. Davisson
signed with the Conover
Modeling Agency, she later
became associate art direc-
tor at Harper's Bazaar, and
designed clothing for her own
line. She has been married
four times, has raised two
daughters and has two grand-
children. She is survived by
daughters Lacy Davisson
and Darcy Rigas, grandchild-
ren Virgil L. Doyle and Eliza
L. Doyle, and son-in-law John
Rigas. Donations honoring
the life of Zita Davisson can
be made online through:
www.calvaryhospital.org
DUDMAN—Richard Beebe,
99, newspaperman and editor
for 76 years, died August 3,
2017 at Parker Ridge in Blue
Hill, Maine. He is survived by
his wife, Helen Sloane Dud-
man; two daughters, Iris Dud-
man and Martha Dudman;
four grandchildren: Georgia
Howland, Richard Howland,
Rosa Mayer, and Lillian May-
er; and son-in-law Anthony
Mayer. Memorial service will
be held 11am, Saturday, Au-
gust 19, 2017 at Jordan-
Fernald, 113 Franklin Street,
Ellsworth, Maine. Condolen-
ces may be expressed at:
www.jordanfernald.com
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
Deaths
FUNSTON—Rodman B.,
of Tubac, AZ and New Pre-
ston, CT died at his home in
Connecticut on August 1st at
age 94. He lived with his fami-
ly in Scarsdale, NY from 1963
to 1993 where his five child-
ren attended the Scarsdale
schools and he was very ac-
tive in community affairs. Mr.
Funston was in the advertis-
ing and executive recruit-
ment business in New York
City for more than 40 years
and served on numerous non-
profit boards. He was a gra-
duate of Columbia University
and a decorated WWII pilot.
Mr. Funston is survived by his
wife, Sidney Reid Funston,
three sons, Rodman B. Jr, Da-
vid B., and Reid T. Funston,
two daughters, Meredith Fun-
ston and Courtenay Price-
Gallagher, twelve grandchild-
ren and two great-grand-
children. A memorial service
will be held at a later date
and contributions in remem-
brance may be made to The
Lake Waramaug Task Force
or the Lake Waramaug Asso-
ciation.
GRATRY—Jerome Rene
Alexandre Marie, beloved
father and founder of the glo-
bal investment firm Gratry
and Co., died July 30th sur-
rounded by his close family
members. He was 74. He is
survived by his wife of 45
years, Barbara Bolton, their
four children, seven grand-
children, and his sister and
two half brothers. A memor-
ial will be held in September
in Cleveland.
GROSSENBACHER—Roger.
The officers, brokers and
staff at Brown Harris Stevens
Residential Sales will miss
our beloved colleague. After
his first career as a Swiss di-
plomat, Roger became a
highly respected plastic sur-
geon who retired 10 years
ago. Since that time, he
worked closely with his wife
Danielle Grossenbacher who
joined the firm more than a
decade ago. Roger will be re-
membered for his dedication
to his family and for his kind
and patient demeanor. Our
heartfelt sympathy is extend-
ed to his family and friends.
Memorial donations may
be made to Doctors without
Borders.
HABER—Faye, at 100 plus,
died peacefully at home on
August 2, 2017. She was the
cherished wife of the late
Max Haber, beloved mother
of Robert (Roslyn), Kenneth
(Adrienne), devoted grand-
mother of Jonathan and Brett
Haber, Jennifer (David Fen-
ster), Jaime Cohen and
Adam Haber, loving great-
grandmother of Max Fenster
and Brooke and Max Cohen.
A woman of impeccable
taste and style in a class of
her own. Graveside funeral
on Friday, August 4, 2017.
HABER—Faye.
We mourn the passing of a
beautiful, warm woman who
was bright and active until
the end. Our sincerest sym-
pathy to Kenny, Adrienne,
Jaime and Adam.
Andrea & John Stark and
Gail & Jimmy Kaplan
HART—Stanley F.,
died peacefully this past
Thursday afternoon after a
long bout with progressive
supranuclear palsy. As he
breathed his last, he was sur-
rounded by his beloved wife,
Jane Marks Hart, adoring
daughter Victoria Hart, son-
in-law Valery A. Ryvkin, and
brother-in-law Robert Stein-
berg. In the days before his
passing his stepson Christop-
her Harris Marks, his wife
Lisa Hammond Marks, and
their son Owen William
Marks showered him with
their love, as did his grand-
daughter Amanda Joan Ryv-
kin, and his stepson Joshua
Grant Marks. The family
wishes to thank the staff of
Clearwater at Kendal at Slee-
py Hollow for the years of
loving care they gave to Stan,
and for seeing him as a whole
person even as his disease
progressed. His first wife,
Joan Shorin Hart, died in
1995. Other survivors include
his son Christopher Hart, and
wife Maria Hart, and
their daughters Isabella and
Francesca.
HRUZA—Zdenek T.,
MD, PhD, 90, March 7, 2017 in
St. Louis, MO. Physician,
scientist, mentor, and patriot.
As a teenager he fought the
Nazis on Prague's streets; as
a young father he and his be-
loved wife Judita (prede-
ceased) sacrificed all and,
with two young children, es-
caped communism. With
only their diplomas they built
new lives in their adopted and
loved country. As a professor
at the Czechoslovak Acade-
my of Sciences and NYU
School of Medicine he pub-
lished 100+ scientific articles
and books on the processes
of aging and shock. His
children: Eva (Mark) Horn,
George (Carrie) Hruza,
and grandchildren: David,
Audrey, Stephanie, Paul,
Hope and Rose miss him ter-
ribly. He leaves a legacy of
love and inspiration. He will
be remembered — always.
Deaths
Arkin, David Hart, Stanley
Barry, Susan Hruza, Zdenek
Bernstein, Frances Kew, Christina
Broder, Elaine Leighton, Fred
Brown, Fern Lerner, Judye
Claman, Jeffrey Levy, Bessie
Davisson, Zita Lipper, Pearl
Dudman, Richard McVey, Ronald
Funston, Rodman Newman, Miriam
Gratry, Jerome Peckolick, Alan
Grossenbacher, R. Peterson, Michael
Haber, Faye Pooler, William
KEW—Christina Eileen.
Christina passed at her fami-
ly home on the Island of
North Haven, Maine on Sa-
turday, July 29, 2017. Christina
was born to Lucinda and Alan
Kew in (Annapolis, Mary-
land) on August 5, 1972. In
1977, Christina moved to San
Francisco with her mother
and stepfather, Alex Mehran.
There Christina attended The
Hamlin School and Branson
where she excelled in English
and literature while also de-
veloping a love of acting,
painting and sculpture, three
areas where she had unique
talents that she pursued
throughout her life. Christina
graduated from UCLA In 1995
and established herself in
Malibu, California. In Malibu
she continued with her art-
work while gaining traction in
the movie industry including
several feature film roles.
She was a beloved member
of the Malibu community and
pursued her lifelong love of
surfing there. An itch for
world exploration brought
her to Australia, Europe and
the Caribbean in subsequent
years. Everywhere she went
she was able to use a knack
for real estate and wonderful
taste to create beautiful
properties that were a great
source of pride for her in ad-
dition to their financial suc-
cesses. As a result of her
travels she also added a glo-
bal network of friends to her
core group in the Bay Area
and Malibu. She enjoyed her
friends tremendously in re-
cent years, spending time
with them in Saint Tropez,
Amsterdam, Saint Barthale-
my, Munich and countless
other places. Christina was a
beautiful woman with an
equally beautiful soul. Her
mix of charm, intelligence,
humor and loyalty were ap-
parent the instant one met
her. She will be missed by
many and is survived by her
mother, Lucinda Watson; her
father, Alan Kew, her step-
father Alex Mehran, her
grandmother Maryann Meh-
ran; sister, Anabel Mehran
and brother, Alexander Meh-
ran. The memorial service
will be held at 1:30pm, Thurs-
day, August 3, 2017 at the
First Congregational Church,
55 Elm Street, Camden, ME.
www.longfuneralhome
camden.com.
LEIGHTON—Fred.
Born Murray Mondschein,
the adored father and grand-
father, beloved husband to
his late wife Glorya, trea-
sured friend and passionate
jeweler, died peacefully on
Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at
the age of 85. Fred began his
retail journey in the 1960's in
Greenwich Village, selling
Mexican wedding dresses,
ethnic clothing and accesso-
ries, and silver jewelry. He
soon expanded into Victorian
era jewels, which opened the
door to what would become
his professional passion,
gems and fine jewelry. Set-
ting out to learn all he could,
Fred's voracious appetite for
knowledge and his natural
eye for beauty served him
well. While his gregarious-
ness and warmth not only
helped pave the way in an in-
dustry generally closed to
outsiders, but made all who
entered his store feel wel-
come and at ease. Always a
visionary, in the early 1970's
Fred moved his store to Ma-
dison Avenue, long before it
was popular, ultimately
spearheading the influx of
luxury boutiques to the now
iconic avenue. It was there
that his entrepreneurial
talents truly flourished. By
the mid 1990's looking to ex-
pand and never one to do the
expected, Fred opened a se-
cond store at the Bellagio Ho-
tel in Las Vegas, bringing his
unique taste and eclectic
style to a whole new follow-
ing. Being self-taught in a ge-
nerational industry had its
challenges, but it also gave
him the freedom to find beau-
ty and value where others did
not. One of the first to appre-
ciate period jewelry as collec-
tible, desirable art objects,
Fred filled his stores with an
exceptional, diverse and un-
paralleled inventory, which
ultimately found its way into
private and museum collec-
tions, onto the pages of ma-
gazines and glamorously
walking the red carpet. His
enthusiasm and joy for his in-
dustry never waned. His re-
laxed, open, sometimes irrev-
erent, down to earth persona-
lity drew people in. And his
love of life and for those pre-
cious to him was profound
and embracing. Murray will
be deeply missed by all those
whose lives he touched with
his love, humor, joie de vivre,
generosity and his unfailing
willingness to share his know-
ledge, expertise and passion.
He is survived by his daugh-
ter Mara, his grandchildren
Zachary and Sasha, and his
sister Gloria. A Memorial Ser-
vice will be held Tuesday, Au-
gust 8th, 10:00am at Temple
Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue at
65th Street.
LERNER—Judye.
August 24, 1944 - July 29, 2017.
A woman who was fiercely
independent and the quintes-
sential New Yorker. She
thrived in the city she loved
so much by taking advantage
of everything it had to offer.
She was deeply loved and will
be greatly missed by her sis-
ter Lee (Richie) and her
brothers Alex (Helena) and
Saul (Vivian); eight nieces
and nephews and seven
great-nieces and nephews as
well as her many friends.
Quigley, Andrea
Radutzky, Marian
Reiman, Rita
Shepard, Sam
Simon, David
Sternberg, Norma
Swartz, Arnold
Wilson, Katharine
Wolf, Marion
Yiannakou, Christos
LEVY—Bessie Gordon,
passed away August 3, 2017,
aged 100. Predeceased by
husband Sol, son, Michael.
Survived by daughter-in-law,
Diane, grandchildren, Spen-
cer, wife Kerry, Stacey, hus-
band, David, six great-
grandchildren, nephew Mat-
ty, wife Joanne, niece Shelly,
husband Herb, nieces Cathy,
Nancy, San. Compassion, and
wisdom were Bessie's legacy.
Funeral services Riverside
Memorial Chapel, Mount
Vernon, NY, Sunday, August
6th, 2017, 9:30am.
LIPPER—Pearl,
passed away on August 2,
2017 at the age of 98. Beloved
mother of Barbara Heizer
and Bennet Lipper (Lisa).
Adoring grandmother of
Hannah (Stephen) and Emily.
She was an amazing mother,
very bright, and super
eclectic.
McVEY—Ronald.
Dr. Ronald Francis McVey,
81, of Chelsea, New York
passed away peacefully at
home July 28, 2017. Ronald
was born on May 26, 1936 in
Manhattan, New York to
Clarence and Elizabeth
(Monahan) McVey. He gra-
duated from Fordham Uni-
versity with a B.S. in 1958, an
M.S. in Guidance and Coun-
seling in 1969, and a Ph.D. in
Counseling and Education in
1971. Dr. McVey was em-
ployed by John Jay College
of Criminal Justice for 36
years. He was a Counseling
Professor and Dean of Stu-
dents. Additionally, he was a
consultant for various law en-
forcement agencies in New
York, New Jersey, and Con-
necticut to include the FBI,
NYPD, and Port Authority
Police Department. Ron
helped many individuals in
crisis as a consultant and also
worked as a therapist at Cop-
ing East in Dutchess County,
New York. On July 2, 1965, he
married Rosemarie Temme
in Manhattan. Ronald is sur-
vived by his wife, Rosemarie,
of 51 years: three daughters,
Karen McVey, Erika (Robert)
Fuller, and Samantha
(Joseph) Schwall; two grand-
children, Alexandra and Eli-
zabeth Fuller; and his sister
Gail Ryan. Ronald was a self-
less man who helped many
and was devoted to his family
and friends. He enjoyed hu-
mor, reading, creative writ-
ing, and had 'many good
thoughts.' Spending time with
his wife, children, grandchild-
ren and friends were most
important. In death, Ronald
continues to help others as he
is an anatomical gift to Alba-
ny Medical College. A cele-
bration of life with family and
friends will be held on Satur-
day, August 26 from 4-7pm at
the Chelsea Yacht Club,
Chelsea, New York. Memor-
ial donations may be made in
Dr. McVey's memory to Hud-
son Valley Hospice Founda-
tion www.hvhospice.org.
NEWMAN—Miriam.
September 18, 1926 - August 2,
2017. Survived by her devoted
husband of 67 years, Sheldon
Newman, loving sons Barry sity's Sociology Department
(Jane Newman), Andrew
(Karen Sutton); predeceased
by her beloved daughter
Amy (Richard Korn). Also
survived by her cherished
grandchildren, Daniel Korn acuse, 315-446-4848.
(Trang La), Melissa Korn
(Daniel Hughes), Alexander, QUIGLEY—Andrea,
Sara, Adam and Rebecca
Newman; precious great-
grandchildren Ava, Eliana
and Abigail; dearest cousins, High School, Huntington, NY
nieces and nephews.
PECKOLICK—Alan,
beloved husband of Jessica
Weber, died on August 3rd
from results from a catas-
trophic fall in his Connecticut for her devotion to her
home. Born October 3, 1940,
Alan drove fast cars, loved
great food and traveled the
world voraciously. A revolu-
tionary in the world of grap-
hic design, mentored by and
then the partner of design REIMAN—Rita Fox.
great Herb Lubalin, Alan was
the father of the revolutiona-
ry “graphic expressionism” -
he taught type to talk, and his
calligraphic typography put
the human touch back into
design. Late in life he be-
came a professional painter,
exhibiting extensively in
America and abroad. His sly be sorely missed.
humor, his keen observation
of people and our society, SHEPARD—Sam.
and his enormous appetite
for life itself were the spark
of his creative ability, as well sorrow the death of a true ori-
as the reason he was so deep-
ly loved by so many people.
Alan is survived by Ms. We-
ber, his sister Gail Rae-
Garwood (Paul) and his SIMON—David,
brother Paul (Judy). He will
be keenly missed. A memor-
ial service will be held on
Wednesday, August 9 at
11am at Temple Emanu-El of
New York City, Fifth Avenue
at 65th Street.
Deaths
PECKOLICK—Alan.
Congregation Emanu-El of
the City of New York mourns
the sudden death of our de-
voted and creative member,
Alan Peckolick. The beautiful
memories of his life and his
works will remain a blessing.
PETERSON—Michael.
Michael Downes Peterson,
52, died at Keystone Hospice
in Philadelphia on July 22,
2017. The cause was brain
cancer. Mike was born in San
Rafael, California to Donald
Warren Peterson and Nancy
Joan Simons Peterson. He at-
tended Princeton University
where he won the Halbert
White Prize for outstanding
performance in Economics
and he played on both the ju-
nior varsity and varsity tennis
teams. Mike won a Keasbey
Scholarship for study at Trini-
ty College, Cambridge in En-
gland, where he earned an
M.A. in Mathematics. Follow-
ing his time in England, Mike
earned a Ph.D. in Manage-
ment Science at the MIT
Sloan School. After a brief
stint as an Assistant Profes-
sor of Operations at Indiana
University, he joined McKin-
sey and Company as an As-
sociate Consultant in 1995 be-
fore beginning a rewarding
twenty year career in New
York at Pzena Investment
Management. Mike was a
philanthropist with a focus on
organizations dedicated to
poverty relief and develop-
ment. He was a joyful and en-
thusiastic father to his sons
Colin, Matthew and Timothy,
and a beloved husband to his
wife, Sarah, who will miss his
extraordinary energy and op-
timism. In addition to his
parents, Donald and Nancy of
Portola Valley, California and
his immediate family, he is
survived by his sister Karen
Peterson-Iyer and her hus-
band Mohan Iyer of Menlo
Park, California and his
parents in law, T. Michael and
Barbara W. Mather of Phi-
ladelphia along with a large
and loving family. Donations
in his honor may be made to
the National Brain Tumor So-
ciety at braintumor.org. A
memorial service will be held
on October 15th in Philadel-
phia.
POOLER—William,
“Bill,” Pooler, 85, passed away
on Thursday after years of
dementia. Bill grew up in Phi- SWARTZ—Arnold Martin.
ladelphia, and after serving in Beloved Husband of Joyce
Germany during the Korean
War, he completed his under-
graduate studies at Temple
University and his Master's Zachary, Rochelle, Courtney,
degree at the University of
Connecticut. He then com-
pleted his Ph.D. in Sociology name in the phone book.
at the University of Michigan
and came to Syracuse with
his wife, Rosemary, to be-
come a professor of sociolo-
gy in the Maxwell School at
Syracuse University. He had
a happy fulfilling career at WILSON—Katharine Gordon.
Syracuse until he retired in
2010. He was a wonderful and
well-loved professor who was
passionate about his family,
teaching, and running, and
became an accomplished
marathon runner. He was
kind to everyone he met and
was always supportive of his
wife, Rosemary's, career in
politics, government, and
more recently the federal ju-
diciary and Court of Appeals.
He was predeceased by his
beloved Bubby, his father,
George, his mother, Eli-
zabeth, and his sister, Shan-
non. He is survived by his
wife, his son, Michael, and Family and friends mourn
daughter, Penelope (Mark),
and his two grandchildren, Wilson of Vero Beach, Flori-
Broden and Asher. Calling da and formerly Darien, CT
hours for Bill will be held who died peacefully on July
Monday, 10am to 12 Noon at
Congregation Beth Sholom-
Chevra Shas, 18 Patsy Lane,
Jamesville, NY, and then fol-
lowed by a service. In lieu of
flowers, donations can be
made to the Syracuse Univer-
(302 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse Wilson and two sons, Ken-
University, Syracuse, NY,
13244) in Bill's memory. For F. Wilson and a brother,
more information, please call Theodore Gordon. Her hus-
Sisskind Funeral Service, Syr-
on June 28th, 2017. Born in
New York City, raised in Qu-
eens. Teacher at John Glenn
(known as “Mrs V”-Vrusho), Known as KK to her 10 grand-
before relocating to Boston
and Martha's Vineyard. Me-
morial information:
http://tinyurl.com/abquigley
RADUTZKY—Marian.
Born November 8, 1924. In
Kielce, Poland. When she was
two years old she immigrated nations in her memory can
to Cuba where she lived until
she was 16, then found her
way to New York where she
worked and lived for the rest
of her life. Marian was a car-
ing and devoted wife to
Milton for 67 years. A loving
and adoring mother and
mother- in-law to Michael
and Richard and Leslye and
Kathryn and a warm and dot- WOLF—Marion C. April 3,
ing grandmother to the loves
of her life: Danielle, Sam, Kel- wife of Fred. Loving mother
ly, Ben, Jack, and Sophie. She
will be missed and cherished dy), grandmother of Kate,
friends and family and for
how she made all those that
she came in contact with feel
welcome and loved.
October 12, 1923 - July 28,
2017. Beloved wife of Herbert
for 71 years, loving mother of
Alan and Carol, grandmother
of Jaclyn and Mark, son-in-
law David Sillars, and above
all, her beloved sister, Toby
Heller. She added to the lives
of all who knew her, and will
The American Academy of
Arts and Letters notes with
ginal whose darkly inventive
plays shaped the American
theater and imagination.
March 17, 1925 - July 9, 2017;
Marine Corps, Pacific Thea-
ter WWII; Dean, Manhattan
School of Music; Founding Di-
rector, Baltimore School for
the Arts. Beloved by family,
students and colleagues.
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Deaths
STERNBERG—Norma
Wollner, MD. The Depart-
ment of Pediatrics at Memor-
ial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center mourns the passing of
Norma Wollner, MD, Mem-
ber, Emeritus on July 30, sur-
rounded by her loved ones.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dr.
Wollner received her degree
in Medicine from the Univer-
sity of Sao Paulo and first
came to Memorial Hospital in
1958 for training and research
on drug combinations with
activity in the treatment of
childhood cancers. In 1966, af-
ter completing residency
training in Pediatrics at New
York University and Bellevue
Hospital, she joined our facul-
ty, serving with distinction un-
til her retirement in 1999. Dr.
Wollner pioneered the use of
combination chemotherapy
for children at a time when
only single agents were the
norm. The regimen she intro-
duced radically improved
prospects for cure of Non-
Hodgkins lymphoma in child-
ren and also provided a foun-
dation for chemotherapy-
based protocols for other
childhood cancers. She ex-
tended her expertise to the
development of an outpatient
system of supportive, com-
plex care and treatment,
creating the nation's first
“Day Hospital.” This model
liberated children from the
need to receive all of their
treatments in an inpatient
setting, allowing them to re-
turn home to family each
night. This approach revolu-
tionized the treatment of
children with cancer and be-
came the standard for how
kids are treated throughout
the world. Dr. Wollner was an
extraordinary healer combin-
ing exceptional skills as an
oncologist and physician with
a rare gift, the ability to en-
gage and listen to children
and especially teenagers, to
replace fear with hope and
confidence, and by a few
words or a pat on the shoul-
der, to relieve their pain and
calm their anxieties. She was
a passionate advocate for the
best care for the whole child,
beloved by her many pa-
tients and their families.
Our hearts go out to her
family, her husband, Stephen
Sternberg, MD, also Member,
Emeritus, and their two
daughters, Alessandra and
Susan, and grandson, Murray.
Dr. Wollner was the most pe-
tite giant in her field, teaching
and inspiring generations, ad-
mired by all. On behalf of the
countless children, families,
staff of the Department of
Pediatrics, and colleagues
throughout MSK, we mourn
her loss and celebrate having
known her.
his Liebchen. Devoted Father
of Ronald and Jill, Lisa and
Alan Adler. Loving Zayde of
Sol, Robert, Ethan and Ava.
He saw the world and put his
the loss of Katharine Gordon
27th of complications from a
stroke. Born in 1920, at the
base of Mt. Hood, Oregon,
she was one of six children of
Colin John Gordon and Kath-
arine Forbes Jones. She is
survived by her daughters,
Schuyler Field and Holland
drick R. Wilson, III and James
band, Kendrick R. Wilson, Jr.
predeceased her in 2008. Kate
was a determined and avid
athlete and excelled in golf,
tennis, and trapshooting. Her
passion for the outdoors, gar-
dening and healthy living
were an inspiration to all.
children and 13 great-
grandchildren, she was a
guiding force to her large fa-
mily and beloved by many. A
celebration of her life will be
held September 28th, 11:00am
at St. Luke's Church in Da-
rien, CT. In lieu of flowers, do-
be made to Harbor Branch
Oceanographic Institute
(fau.edu/hboi) or Person to
Person (p2phelps.org)
1913 - July 26, 2017. Beloved
of Peter (Christina), Dan (Cin-
Alex and Josh, great-grand-
mother of Anika. Former
Guggenheim museum read-
ing room librarian. Lover of
the arts, books and every-
thing beautiful. Donations
can be made to the Jewish or
Nassau County museum.
The Wolf Family
Deaths
YIANNAKOU—Christos.
Renowned bridal designer,
Christos, passed away on Au-
gust 1, 2017 after a long battle
with cancer. His career in the
bridal industry spanned forty
years. Christos Yiannakou
was born to Yiannakos and
Margarita Papakiriakou on
April 28, 1930 in the village of
Ardana on the Mediter-
ranean island of Cyprus. In
1952, at the age of 22, Christos
arrived in New York City to
pursue his passion for fashion
design. With a minimal know-
ledge of English and little mo-
ney he applied to the Trapha-
gen School of Design and was
accepted due to his unique
design talent. While attending
Traphagen he worked as a
free lance fashion illustrator.
After design school he began
his bridal design career at
Galina Bridal. His design skills
were quickly recognized by
the bridal industry and he
eventually became the lead
designer for Galina Bridal, de-
signing wedding gown,
bridesmaids and flower girl
dresses. Bridal magazines,
Brides and Modern Bride,
awarded Christos “Bridal De-
signer of the Year” awards
during his design career. In
1984 Christos, along with his
business partner Michael De
Cuollo, opened his own bridal
design and manufacturing
company, Christos Inc., in
New York City. The company
grew quickly and successfully
and Christos' designs were
sold throughout the United
States, Canada, Japan, Mexi-
co, England and Europe. Dur-
ing this time his designs were
sold at Saks Fifth Ave, Nei-
man Marcus, I. Magnin, Bul-
locks Wilshire, Woodruff &
Lothrop, Frost Bros. and
numerous high end bridal
specialty retailers. Christos
was known for the variety
and intricacy of the lace he
used in his designs, primarily
Alencon, in addition to Gui-
pure, Chantilly and embroid-
ered laces which became
works of art. His bridal gowns
were elegant, timeless de-
signs that transitioned from
the sixties into the new centu-
ry. In 2005, Christos Inc was
sold to Amsale Aberra LLC
who continues the Christos
tradition of creating elegant,
classic Christos designs sold
nationally and international-
ly. Christos' design talents
were only surpassed by his
kindness and generosity. His
family always came first
especially his nephews and
nieces who were the children
he never had. His generosity
and beneficence to his family
continued throughout his life
and it enabled his family to
gain success in their lives.
Christos traveled the world
but his heart was always in
the village of Ardana, where
he would spend weeks visit-
ing with family and friends
from his youth. He commis-
sioned a book to be written
about his village life with all
proceeds set aside to assist
families from Ardana befal-
len by unfortunate circum-
stances. He was a man with
impeccable taste and style.
He left his mark on this world
as an artist of incomparable
talents. As a brother, uncle
and friend, there were none
better than Theo Christos and
he will be missed by many
who he touched with his kind-
ness. Christos is survived by
his brothers, Kyriakos and
Neofitos Yiannakou who re-
side in Cyprus, his sister Hel-
en Marcovici who resides in
California and his many
nieces and nephews. He is
predeceased by his sister,
Eleftheria Vassiliou. A Me-
morial will be held on Sunday,
August 6, at 5pm at The Plaza
Community Chapel, 630 Am-
sterdam Ave, at 91st St., New
York, NY 10024. (212)769-4400.
In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that a donation be
made to Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center.
In Memoriam
BLUM—Stanley. 1919 - 2016.
I honestly believe - If we exer-
cised our brains - creatively -
as well as our bodies - we
would discover American
Enlightenment - and perhaps
- humanity's renaissance!
GOLDSTEIN—Fred.
3/2/29 - 8/7/87
Freddy, gone for 30 years but
your love of family, friends
and life lives on in our hearts.
Not a day goes by that I don't
think of you.
In loving memory, Blanche
GURNEE—Stephen Gary.
Jan. 1, 1950 - Aug. 6, 2016
Gorgeous Honey Pot
will join you soon.
HUSO—Eleanor James,
Aug. 6, 1917 - Feb. 28, 2003
Happy 100th birthday, Mama.
Love and miss you every
day, Sharon
SANDERS—Edwin.
May 13, 1917 - August 6, 2013
Forever loved,
never forgotten.
Lois
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Who can tell the story of 1967 Detroit and
race in America? Kathryn Bigelow, a white
filmmaker, stakes her claim.
By JOHN ELIGON
DETROIT — They crept through this city
clutching their rifles, an army of jittery cops
and National Guardsmen surrounded by an
armored battalion that seemed more suit-
able for a Vietnam jungle than a Middle
American thoroughfare. But this was war,
the early days of an uprising by black De-
troiters. And so the mostly white law en-
forcement regime rolling through the cal-
dron of smoke and rubble was determined
to restore order by any means necessary.
This meant that when a little girl peeked plays an officer in the
through the blinds of an apartment to see
what was going on, the grim outcome was
Algiers Motel, as
depicted in “Detroit,” the
inevitable. new movie from Kathryn
“Sniper in the window!” a Guardsman Bigelow. Left, the bodies
yelled almost as quickly as he fired shots of three black teenagers
that all but obliterated the window. being removed from the
The camera moves on from the smoky af- motel in 1967.
termath of this jarring moment in the direc-
tor Kathryn Bigelow’s latest feature film,
“Detroit.” What lingers, however, is the
sense of racial terror that pulsed through
this city in 1967 during one of America’s
most infamous episodes of civil unrest.
Ms. Bigelow, the director of “Zero Dark
Thirty,” is in her sweet spot when trans-
forming real life into high art. But with “De-
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Soaring Toward New Heights

Julie Mehretu is executing a
monumental new commission.
By HILARIE M. SHEETS
The artist Julie Mehretu has been flying aw-
fully close to the sun.
Soaring midair on a mobile platform in-
side an unused Harlem church, she has
been working and reworking two towering
paintings taking shape on opposite walls, a
monumental commission for the San Fran-
cisco Museum of Modern Art.
NATHAN BAJAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES For the last 14 months the vaulted neo-
Gothic nave has served as Ms. Mehretu’s
temporary studio as she executes the most
physically demanding, politically charged
and collaborative work of her career. Later
this month, her paintings will be installed in
the museum’s atrium, where they will re-
main on view for more than three years.
“These are my most American paint-
ings,” said Ms. Mehretu, 46, running her
hand through her crop of dark curls as she
contemplated the two radiant and complex
canvases, each stretching 27 feet by 32 feet.
Ms. Mehretu made her first marks on the
canvases in the days right after the Novem-
Julie Mehretu set up a
temporary studio in a
church in Harlem.
ber election. It was her shock that moved
her to rapid action and she said the current
“miasma” informed her improvisational
language of roiling calligraphic brush
strokes and erasures. She is interested in
what “gestural abstraction” — her intuitive
and personal expression — ”can conjure in
this political moment,” she said, adding that
the works “are trying to make sense of
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2 AR
FILM
HEARTY HARVEST
OF SUMMER SERIES
GLENN KENNY
Summer is a ripe time for
great repertory cinema in
New York. BAMCinématek has a
long, comprehensive retro-
spective of the director Jonathan
Demme that runs through Aug.
ART
WOODBLOCK
SMACKDOWN!
DANIEL McDERMON
Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls, lovers of Japanese
woodblock art: Let’s get ready to
rumble! In this corner, the prince
of portraits, the regent of realism,
the king of Kabuki-actor pictures:
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864).
And in this corner, the wizard of
warriors, the sultan of the super-
MUSIC
CROSSING BORDERS
IN THE OUTDOORS
J O N PA R E L E S
America’s music has always
benefited from a permeable
Southern border, and free con-
certs in the coming week cele-
brate interchanges and connec-
tions across the Americas. A
concert at Lincoln Center Out of
Doors features Natalia LaFour-
cade, a Mexican songwriter with
half a dozen Latin Grammys. Her
latest album, “Musas,” is split
between folky, unplugged songs
from around Latin America and
her own new ones that belong
among them; she’ll be backed by
the guitar duo Los Macorinos.
Sharing the bill is the indie-rocker
Vagabon, born in Cameroon and
based in Brooklyn. (Friday, Aug.
24. On Friday, Aug. 11, Film Forum
begins a program of vintage
double features — early bills
include “Top Hat” paired with
“Swing Time” and “The Killers”
paired with “Gilda”; a great op-
tion for lovers of both film and
air-conditioning. And the Film
Society of Lincoln Center is ex-
ploring 1977 with a wide-ranging
group of films made that year,
from Robert Altman’s enigmatic
“3 Women” to Charles Burnett’s
natural, the ancestor of anime:
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).
These two titans, the best-
selling woodblock artists of 19th-
century Japan, are squaring off in
“Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Ku-
nisada,” opening Friday, Aug. 11, at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Each artist had his specialties,
but they also took on many of the
same subjects, illustrating tales of
adventure, mythical monsters
and famous theater actors. Before
there were magazines or movies
or manga, these artists indelibly
shaped Japan’s early popular
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Mexican
singer-songwriter
Natalia LaFourcade.
11, at 7:30; Damrosch Park, free.)
The opening of Lincoln Center’s
Roots of American Music: Ameri-
canafest weekend includes Flaco
Jiménez, the Texan accordion
virtuoso whose polkas and
waltzes epitomize norteño music.
He’s on a bill with Amanda Shires
and Traveller. (Saturday, Aug. 12,
at 2 p.m., Hearst Plaza.)
Cuban performers steeped in
jazz hit Central Park Summer-
Stage on a bill featuring Daymé
Arocena, a singer melding Afro-
Cuban traditions with jazz, and
the dance troupe Malpaso, chor-
eographed to music by Arturo
O’Farrill, who leads New York’s
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
(Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m.;
Rumsey Playfield.)
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
The Week Ahead
A S U R V E Y O F T H E C U LT U R A L L A N D S C A P E
20TH CENTURY FOX
Shelley Duvall starred in
Robert Altman’s “3
Women” (1977).
groundbreaking “Killer of Sheep”
and beyond. The coming week’s
highlights include Peter Weir’s
“The Last Wave” on Tuesday,
François Truffaut’s “The Man
Who Loved Women” on Thursday
and Richard Brooks’s “Looking
for Mr. Goodbar” on Friday.
UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III)/WILLIAM STURGIS
BIGELOW COLLECTION; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
CLASSICAL MUSIC
IMAGINATIVE TAKES
ON SCHUBERT SONGS
ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The Mostly Mozart Festival
is presenting “Schubertiade
Remix,” a radical re-creation of
the legendary musical soirees in
Vienna featuring Schubert and his
fellow artists, often hosted by
prosperous admirers of the strug-
gling composer. (Monday, Aug. 7,
DANCE
A PIONEER
INSPIRES A BOOK
SIOBHAN BURKE
The choreographer, dancer
and social activist Katherine
Dunham made headlines in 1944,
when, after reluctantly perform-
ing for a racially segregated
audience in Louisville, Ky., she
declared that if the theater
wanted her to return, it would
have to integrate. This scene
introduces an in-depth, necessary
new book on Dunham and her
trailblazing career, “Katherine
Dunham: Dance and the African
Eartha Kitt, foreground, and James Dean in a 1950s Dunham dance class.
UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III)/WILLIAM STURGIS BIGELOW COLLECTION; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III)/NELLIE PARNEY
CARTER COLLECTION MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
7:30 p.m., free, David Rubenstein
Atrium, Lincoln Center;
mostlymozart.org.) The pro-
gram’s three M.C.’s — the song-
writer and playwright Rick
Burkhardt; the playwright and
director Alec Duffy; and the
composer and playwright Dave
Malloy, who wrote the book, lyrics
and music for “Natasha, Pierre &
the Great Comet of 1812” — can
rightly claim some expertise in
Schubertiades. In 2010, they
jointly wrote and performed in
“Three Pianos,” the musical play
Diaspora” (Oxford University
Press), by the dance historian
Joanna Dee Das.
Ms. Das, who grew up studying
Dunham Technique, examines the
relationships, both explicit and
subtle, between Dunham’s art and
activism, from her formative
travels in Haiti to her support for
the Black Arts Movement in East
St. Louis, Ill. A multifaceted por-
trait emerges, of a woman who
believed, as Ms. Das puts it, that
“living in the space of diaspora, in
between-ness, was the way to
achieve wholeness.” Though
Dunham is celebrated for her
contributions to modern dance,
her works are rarely restaged
today. Ms. Das leaves us wonder-
ing: How can we see more?
DENNIS STOCK/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Works by the
19th-century Japanese
woodblock artist
Utagawa Kunisada.
culture. The 100 works on view,
drawn from the museum’s col-
lection, will be framed in black
ash (for Kuniyoshi) or cherry (for
Kunisada), and visitors will be
encouraged to pick favorites in an
in-gallery quiz (also available
online). Ding! Ding! (Through
Dec. 10; mfa.org.)
that turned a manic romp through
Schubert’s “Winterreise” song
cycle into an eerie modern-day
Schubertiade. For this “Remix,”
with musicians from the Interna-
tional Contemporary Ensemble,
the hosts have invited artists
from New York’s diverse music
scene to write bold new takes on
Schubert songs.
The International
Contemporary
Ensemble.
ARMEN ELLIOT
JASON MOODY PHOTOGRAPHY
Thomas Kapusta, left, and
Alexander Donnelly, founders of
the Corkscrew Theater Festival.
THEATER
RISING ARTISTS
(AND A WEREWOLF)
ST E V E N M c E L R O Y
With the New York Interna-
tional Fringe Festival, nor-
mally the biggest fish in the pond,
on hiatus for 2017, a number of
opportunists have leapt forward
with new summertime options for
New York City theatergoers.
Among these go-getters are the
folks behind the inaugural
Corkscrew Theater Festival,
running Monday, Aug. 7, through
Sunday, Sept. 3.
Corkscrew, which aims to sup-
port early-career artists, includes
five world premiere productions
and a handful of readings. Given
that they’re all new works by
lesser-known writers, it’s hard to
tell what to expect, but the festi-
val seems to cover many themes
in imaginative ways. One play,
Robert Zander Norman’s “All of
My Blood,” is about a young
woman who struggles to express
herself to her boyfriend and fam-
ily — and who may be turning
into a werewolf. Hmm . . . O.K., I’ll
bite.
All performances are at the
Paradise Factory in Manhattan;
corkscrewfestival.org.
BROWNIE HARRIS/AT&T AUDIENCE NETWORK
Kelly Lynch in the
Audience Network
drama “Mr. Mercedes.”
TELEVISION
STEPHEN KING,
CUTTING IT CLOSE
K AT H R Y N S H AT T U C K
Stephen King’s 2014 novel
“Mr. Mercedes” opens with a
psychopath plowing a stolen
luxury car into a crowd at a job
fair. Later, there’s an attempted
bombing at a boy band concert
teeming with girls — all of which
might sound too gruesomely
familiar to relive as entertain-
ment. Take heart: The producers
of the Audience Network adapta-
tion (starting Wednesday, Aug. 9)
have revised the concert scene
because of similarities to the May
22 massacre in Manchester, Eng-
land. But this David E. Kelley-
Jack Bender series retains that
King shiver with Brendan Glee-
son as Detective Bill Hodges,
taunted out of retirement and into
private-eye mode by the killer
behind the case he never solved:
the deranged Brady Hartsfield
(Harry Treadaway), a computer
technician and ice cream truck
man whose mother (Kelly Lynch)
loves him inappropriately. Mary-
Louise Parker sparks as Bill’s
first client; Jharrel Jerome, mem-
orable as the teenage Kevin in
“Moonlight,” is the Harvard-
bound whiz who wants to be
Watson to Bill’s Holmes.
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QUOTABLE
“At the end of the day,
you’re like: ‘Why did I
do this? This is so hard.
I can’t cry another tear if
you paid me a million
dollars.’ ”
J E S S I C A B I E L , O N P L AY I N G A
K I L L E R I N U S A’ S “ S I N N E R ,” PAG E 1 2
“If you are Native, you
rarely get cast in
crossover parts.”
T H E AC T O R G I L B I R M I N G H A M , N OW
I N “ W I N D R I V E R ,” PAG E 1 0
CORRECTION
A picture caption last Sunday with
an article about choreographed
performances of classical music
misstated the given name of a cellist
shown. She is Beth Root Sandvoss,
not Ruth.
THE FIRST TIME . . .
. . . I Road-Tripped With My Dad
By ARI GRAYNOR
A few years ago I called two old friends to
tell them I was thinking of asking my dad to
drive cross country with me. They each re-
sponded with a long pause, followed by, “I
don’t think that’s such a good idea” and a
burst of laughter.
There’s always been a lot of love between
my father and me, but we’re close in the
sense that he knows everything about me
from my mom, and we hadn’t really been
alone together since the ’90s. I’m an only
child, and my homecomings can render him
a third wheel.
Our phone conversations fall into a pre-
dictable pattern. I’ll be saying goodbye to
my mom when she says, “Dad just wants to
say hi.” He gets on and announces, “Accord-
ing to your mother, I’m only allowed to say
hello.” He then asks why it’s so noisy where
I am and why I only ever talk on the phone
when I’m going someplace. I ask him about
his health; he says, “If you take out my
teeth, my glasses and my hearing aids and
put me in the closet, I’d be as happy as a
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
A Word With
Woody Harrelson’s Life Is Weirder Than Fiction
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
The sky was gray and drizzly outside the 54th-floor
duplex in the Time Warner Center where Woody
Harrelson was staying. But Mr. Harrelson was
bright as a rainbow: yellow T-shirt, cobalt cap,
purple cauliflower in his green salad and flecks of
red rimming his baby blues, perhaps a side effect
of jet lag after having just arrived from London.
It was fitting, then, that his latest character —
the quixotic Rex Walls in “The Glass Castle,” open-
ing Friday, Aug. 11 — is a man he described as
having “a lot of colors.” Adapted from Jeannette
Walls’s best-selling 2005 memoir, the film recounts
life on the lam with her father, an alcoholic nomad
who hauled his wife and four children (Brie Larson
plays the author as an adult) from state to state,
outrunning debt collectors, law enforcement and
his own haunted memories.
“He could be the greatest guy, and then he’d go
on a bender and do some really rash things that
were almost unpardonable,” said Mr. Harrelson, 56,
whose own childhood was famously complicated.
(His father was convicted of murdering a federal
judge and died in prison.) “The lightness and the
dark, he was just fighting it,” he added, stretching
his yoga body and grinning sunnily. These are
edited excerpts from the conversation.
No child really escapes his parents unscathed, but
did you draw on your own experiences to play Rex?
I definitely relate to Rex in a lot of ways. I admire
that zest for life. He doesn’t feel like kids need
regular schooling. He thinks that they can be
schooled by experience, and I’ve often been a fan
of that philosophy. I don’t think I learned much
sitting in a chair getting lectured for 12 years, you
know what I mean?
You have three daughters. What was your child-
rearing philosophy?
For a long time, they’d come with me wherever I
went. Then they got into a really good school, and
that was the end of traveling everywhere with
Daddy. It was kind of unfair to them and me. But
on the other hand, I could have been working less.
At one point, you moved your family to Costa Rica.
That was in the mid to late ’90s, until I ran into
Willie Nelson, and he’s like, “Hey,
come on out to Maui.” The
next thing you know, I’m mov-
ing to Maui.
clam.” We laugh and say I love you. That’s
more or less how it’s been since I was 18.
“I just want us to meet each other as
adults,” I told my phone mates. “And I prom-
ise we won’t kill each other.”
I was also moving from Los Angeles to
New York, needing to transport everything
I owned across the country, and there’s
nothing a father-daughter relationship
loves more than a task. My dad and I both
relish a good story and a long drive, so I
wasn’t that surprised by his enthusiastic
(and slightly teary) “Of course I will!”
He’s a character, my dad, who describes
himself as a “legend.” G.K. Graynor: part
hero, villain, Willy Loman and James Bond.
With good looks, charm and love of a party,
he’s always been a fast driver, even in a
minivan.
Right.
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Television
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘I forgot I hated his driving and would
probably end up doing all 3,000
miles myself.’
I forgot I hated his driving and would
probably end up doing all 3,000 miles my-
self. You know what no one tells you about
driving a truck? You are driving a truck.
There are only side mirrors and it does not
handle like a Prius. I was racked with terror
and regret the second I picked it up. The is-
sue of us killing each other was now moot
because we would definitely just die the reg-
ular way, in some horrible car crash in some
God-forsaken part of the country.
I had flown my father from Boston to Los
Woody and Willie. I can only imagine.
You would love him. He’s maybe the greatest guy
alive. When he’s there, I see him pretty much
every day. He came out to do “Lost in London,”
which was really nice.
That’s your live movie from January?
It was a wild concept. I had this horrifying, terrible
night that started with my wife and I heading out
to this club with a prince. We got in a taxi, and the
next thing you know I’m getting into an argument
with the taxi driver over some stupid stuff. An
ashtray, actually. And then I leave the taxi, not on
good terms, and he calls the cops. So I’m running
from the cops.
And this really happened?
It really happened. And then I ended up in jail, so
you can imagine I wanted to forget it, but I kept
thinking about it. There’s something in this story —
a guy who has it all but didn’t really see it until he’s
threatened with losing it, and then this shot of
redemption. In that sense, it’s kind of like one of
my favorite movies with Jimmy Stewart, “It’s a
Wonderful Life.” I wish I were half the actor he is. I
decided to make it my directing debut, and then I
thought, geez, I can shoot this in real time. I live
streamed it into three cinemas in London. It was 2
in the morning when we started, and they were
packed.
In “War for the Planet of the Apes,” you play a colo-
nel with a God complex. Some have cited a resem-
blance to the president.
Well, we shot this long before there was any notion
that this guy was going to be president. Nobody
could have imagined it back then. I wasn’t thinking
of myself as a presidential deity. Can you imagine if
God was like that? Just like a crass, vulgar, self-
centered, narcissistic — I mean, my God.
You wear a major prosthetic in Rob Reiner’s coming
“LBJ.” Did that help you buy into your own perform-
ance?
I went to the tippy-top of the prosthetics pyramid
and got the best people. [The prosthetics] couldn’t
be cheap or look fake, and Rob’s just like, “What-
ever you need.” The prosthetics go from [below the
neck] all the way up to the ears, nose, everything.
It wasn’t what helped me move into the role, but it
will help you not to think it is [expletive].
Angeles the morning we were leaving. He
was scheduled to arrive at a storage unit at
the precise moment of departure, lest any-
thing mundane threaten our good behavior.
I waited anxiously in the glaring sun as I
watched a bunch of moving men condense
my life into 16 feet.
He arrived low-key, either sedated or
more likely under clear instructions from
my mother to keep cool. For such a big per-
sonality, he’s a little guy, with silver hair,
glasses and a face like Samuel Beckett’s. I
went to check on the truck and something
was off. A tilt . . .
A flat.
We sat in the parking lot for three and a
half hours. I kept bracing for him to get an-
gry and say something I didn’t like to some-
one. But he didn’t. I apologized for the delay,
and he told me I had nothing to apologize
for. He was there, for me.
The tire was eventually replaced, and we
got on the road. Every time I accelerated, I
thought the engine would explode, but it
didn’t. Every time I hesitantly switched
lanes or left an inordinate amount of space
between us and the car in front, I thought
my dad would back-seat drive and we’d get
into a battle of wills, but he, and we, didn’t.
And so we drove. We took the fastest
route, straight across the country, and did-
n’t plan where we’d sleep. We stayed in
towns with names you forget as soon as you
leave and Holiday Inn Expresses that all
look the same. We drank coffee and smoked
cigarettes and never stopped for lunch. The
cup holder between us held M&M’s and my
dad’s dentures, which he always put down
so that they were smiling at me.
I asked him the kind of questions you ask
a new friend and learned that silence can al-
chemize into a new language. As we moved
to the rhythm of the highway and the incon-
sequential landscape, we fell into beat. Not
the high-energy riff between my mom and
me, but the harmony of two easy riders.
We fought only once. I let him drive,
warning him of the delicate transmission.
Old Lead Foot didn’t seem to listen, which
momentarily symbolized every time he
never listened in my whole life. But then I
ARI GRAYNOR
remembered I was 32 and everything was
The actress is now
fine.
starring as a stand-up
There wasn’t that one thing that hap-
comedian in “I’m Dying
pened. There was just time and motion. But
Up Here” on Showtime.
somewhere along the highway to my new
home, I met someone I liked more than the
Legend. I met a guy named Greg whom I
can sit with in comfortable, loving silence
and, thanks to cup holders, is always smil-
ing.

Two Generations, One Golden Age
A composer helps celebrate
Hal Prince’s Broadway.
By ERIC GRODE
Seven years ago, Jason Robert Brown
visited the office of the storied director and
producer Harold Prince to discuss collabo-
rating on a revue about Mr. Prince’s career.
Like any Broadway personage, let alone
one with an unparalleled 21 Tony Awards,
Mr. Prince — known universally as Hal —
has a wall covered with posters of the shows
he worked on.
Mr. Brown, the composer and playwright,
who made his Broadway debut at age 28
when Mr. Prince tapped him to write the
score for “Parade,” lingered at that wall and
got choked up for a minute. And then he got
mad.
“I looked up,” he said, “and there’s ‘Com-
pany’ and ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and
‘Evita’ and ‘Show Boat’ and ‘She Loves Me.’
It’s all there. And I thought, ‘I’m so pissed
off when I look at this because that is the
theater that I thought I was going into.’ And
I realized that I got in at the tail end of it.”
Mr. Brown’s show did make that wall, a vir-
tual time capsule of a theatrical golden age
that Mr. Prince all but willed into being. But
just barely.
With the exception of the Kurt Weill-Lotte
Lenya musical “LoveMusik” a decade later,
“Parade” (1998) was the last new musical
that Mr. Prince, now 89, directed on Broad-
way. And it is one of more than a dozen
shows represented in “Prince of Broadway,”
the long-aborning musical that prompted
this infuriating wall episode back in 2010.
(Mr. Prince and Susan Stroman are its di-
rectors.)
The intervening years made for plenty
more frustration, as one announced produc-
tion of “Prince” after another fell by the
wayside. An earlier version finally reached
Japan in 2015. “I’m told it played better in
Osaka than Tokyo,” Mr. Prince said of that
production, “because the theater was so
much smaller.” By that logic, the Broadway
run — presented by Manhattan Theater
Club and opening Aug. 24 at the relatively
intimate Samuel J. Friedman Theater —
will be a more fitting place to hear the likes
of Chuck Cooper and Karen Ziemba per-
form material from the above shows and
nearly a dozen more.
Some of those were directed by Mr.
Prince, others merely produced by him. But
he didn’t write a note of the songs in ques-
tion, deferring to those with last names like
Bernstein and Sondheim and Webber and
Kander. And Brown, which helps explain
Mr. Brown’s involvement in the show. In ad-
dition to currently weaving about 16 songs
from Mr. Prince’s past into an overture, he
has reorchestrated the material throughout
and written a forward-looking new finale,
“Do the Work.”
The two men sat down immediately after
the first full “Prince of Broadway” run-
through to discuss how to distill two-thirds
of a century of Broadway history into just
over two hours. These are edited excerpts
from the conversation.
So . . . 67 years. Dozens of shows. How did
you decide which to pick?
JASON ROBERT BROWN I have trouble get-
ting Hal to say this out loud, but “Prince of
Broadway” is about an era in which musical
theater and really Broadway completely
changes. Not solely because of Hal, but
largely because of Hal.
HAROLD PRINCE No, not solely.
BROWN And I think you have to under-
stand certain landmarks around that.
There’s no way you can tell that story with-
out “Phantom of the Opera,” without “West
Side Story.” You can’t do a show about Hal
without “Cabaret,” which I think is sort of
the ur-Prince experience. But even with
that criteria, there’s too much material, so
then it just becomes about personal taste
and flow, and we’ve always deferred to Hal
about that. There’s a point in which Hal
says, “I feel like we just need one more
song,” and we say, “It’s your show, let’s do
another song.”
The stuff from the big hits, either you’re
going to do a song from “A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum,” or
you’re not going to do it. No one’s going to
die one way or the other. It’s the stuff from
“Grind” where you’re like: How do we pay
tribute to the fact that not only did you suc-
ceed over and over again, but when you
failed, you failed with such beautiful ideas,
you failed for the best possible reason, you
failed because you tried hard?
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
PRINCE The tough decision was to cut from
“Grind,” to cut from “Flora the Red Men-
ace.” Of course you get into what’s a flop or a
hit. My wife once said: “I’m sick of hearing
you talking about flops. I wish you would
make the distinction between success and
failure, because some of your successes
have been flops and some of your failures
have been hits.” And that is true in any artis-
tic career.
How much does the size of a show play into
that?
PRINCE I want this show to be about the
empty space and how all of us dedicate our
creative lives to filling it with magic. This
whole thing about extravaganza has been
pinned to me, that I do spectacles, and I
don’t. Sure, “Follies” had a spectacle mo-
ment. But “Phantom” is always put down as
a spectacle — it’s a black enameled box with
things put in it mostly. Not always, but
mostly. In the theater, two people sitting
next to each other see a different show be-
cause they fill the blank spaces differently.
That’s what we’re here for.
Are any of these shows or performances so
seared into your mind that it’s hard to look
at them with a fresh perspective?
Theater
Above, Donna Murphy and
Michael Cerveris in Mr.
Prince’s “LoveMusik.” Above
that, Hugh Panaro and Trista
Moldovan in “The Phantom of
the Opera,” his biggest hit.
Top, from left, Jason Robert Brown and
Harold Prince, whose “Prince of
Broadway” is in previews. From far left,
Mr. Brown and Mr. Prince at a rehearsal.
And Brent Carver and Carolee Carmello in
the collaborators’ “Parade” (1998).
PRINCE No. My job is to stimulate people. If
I ask for something and I get what I ask for,
I’m sorry. Because I’m not a composer, I’m
not a designer. I want you to come back with
something that will surprise me.
BROWN There’s not been a single moment
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
from the day I met Hal to this day that he
said, “Let me tell you what’s going to make a
musical work.” That’s not his job. His job is
to get the show up. Hal was fantastic at see-
ing there was something that was wrong
with a piece. And it took me a while to real-
ize that solving the problem isn’t what he
did. He was always proposing solutions, but
they were often terrible solutions.
PRINCE In the “Superman” song [“You’ve
Got Possibilities,” from “It’s a Bird . . . It’s a
Plane . . . It’s Superman” in 1966], I clearly
remember Linda Lavin. Now, Linda never
imposes. And so I said to Janet Dacal, who’s
doing it here, “Let’s go the Linda way.” Of
course, Janet’s not Linda, so you never im-
pose. But you get her to try coming from un-
der.
Jason, what is your role here?
BROWN Part of my job on this show, and it’s
sort of a strange job, is to represent the writ-
ers who are not here to do it. I needed to
make a cut from the balcony scene in “West
Side Story,” and I thought, “I’m supposed to
change Lenny Bernstein’s music?!” It re-
ally matters to me to do that right. And I feel
like the minute I came on board, it allows
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steve Sondheim
and John Kander to relax and say, “O.K. Ja-
son can take care of it.” Plus, I wouldn’t have
the career that I have if it wasn’t for Hal. It is
always fun to work with Hal — it’s a pain in
the ass, but it’s fun. This is the place I pay
my respect to the work that he did.
What on earth took so long in terms of
getting this show produced?
PRINCE It’s all about who has the money
and where the money comes from. You
know who the backers were for “The Paja-
ma Game” [in 1954]? Wardrobe mistresses.
Stage managers. Stagehands. All the people
we worked with backstage. The biggest in-
vestment was $5,000. There’s a line in this
show that tells it all: “Follies” was the most
expensive musical ever done when it
opened in 1971. You know how much it cost?
It cost $800,000.
BROWN There’s no institutional memory
on these blocks. At the time Hal happened
to come up — in the ’70s, when New York
was like Beirut — he had the luxury to ex-
plore these beautiful, difficult concepts in a
commercial environment. Now, when New
York is the most expensive real estate on
the planet, there’s not that luxury to do that.
It drives me bananas that the memory of
what that is has so little purchase. You’ve
got all those people talking about “the great
history of Broadway,” but none of them are
saying we have to honor that history in a
great way. They’re saying, “Oh no, we have
to put on ‘SpongeBob SquarePants.’”
PRINCE Jason is part of the answer. He’s
part of the continuum. And that’s very im-
portant to me. I am not interested in an au-
dience coming to this show and saying,
“Those were the good old days.” If they do,
I’ll kill myself. It’s the future you’ve got to
take care of.
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Caressing Notes
With a Purr
Jeremy Denk writes about the joys of
Frédéric Chopin, a most catlike composer.
By JEREMY DENK
A vivid memory from the early 1990s: My
piano teacher was giving me hell for not ob-
serving some pedal markings in Chopin
when he reached for his lighter, to smoke
away the aggravation I’d caused. Mid-reach
he stopped, suddenly inspired.
“Chopin was sensitive,” he said. “Like a
cat.”
This teacher was Gyorgy Sebok, a great
Hungarian piano guru with an unpro-
nounceable name, who resembled less a cat
than a sort of profound armadillo. As he
spoke, he made his sausage-fingered hands
walk across his desk, like nimble and grace-
ful paws.
Despite my suspicion of cats, this remark
stuck with me, as did an admiration for the
subtlety of Chopin down in the foot-operat-
ed region of my instrument. He made the
foot into a third hand, and brought the lowly
pedal — a tool for letting strings ring, for let-
ting the piano resonate like the harp-in-a-
closet that it is — to an unimaginable level of
refinement.
Mr. Sebok’s point wasn’t just that Chopin
was precise about pedal markings — he was
borderline obsessive! — but that his whole
achievement depended on a catlike under-
standing of which notes hold on and which
let go; on delicate traceries between chords,
suspending dangerously on a single note or
pair of notes, and then, once a foothold is es-
tablished, leaping to a new harmony as if it
were nothing.
The quintessential Chopin gesture is to
mark a bass note staccato (meaning: play
short) while instructing you to put down the
pedal. Why would you play short and then
let the sound linger? Many non-pianists, al-
ready prejudiced against Chopin because
he didn’t care much for their instrument,
think this is wasteful, or fussy — but pian-
ists know. It creates a different timbre, and
a different meaning: a release that remains.
The foundation, the deepest note, is felt as
light, pillowy: a perfect analogue to cat’s
paws, the sense of grace and lift from below.
Chopin’s refinement of the pedal would be
a ho-hum technical achievement, some-
thing for pianists to gab about at gather-
ings, if it weren’t combined with an unparal-
leled understanding of harmony — he is al-
ways ravishing us with his chord changes,
Jeremy Denk is a pianist and the author of the
blog Think Denk.
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Classical
even the simplest ones. There are, in a
sense, two Chopins: the one who spins gold
out of the most obvious, clichéd chords (the
famous A-major Prelude) and the con-
stantly lurking, chromatic subversive. You
can see the latter on full display in the E-
minor Prelude, an iconic representation of
Romantic melancholy, with its two la-
menting notes over and over in the right
hand, while the left hand oozes downward in
a series of virtually unanalyzable, alter-
nately tragic and luxurious chord changes.
Even Heinrich Schenker, the renowned
dogmatic and German-centric theorist,
spent a lot of time on the mystery and craft
of Chopin’s modulations, despite their hint
of French decadence. And what a trick: As
responsible as anyone for the evolution
(and gradual collapse) of Western classical
harmony, Chopin still remains eternally
popular, lovable, at home in a salon. He’s at
once a textbook puzzle and easy listening.
Chopin’s catlike subtlety extends to
rhythm as well. The great weakness of 19th-
century music, for all its emotional parox-
ysms, is squareness — the Romantics are
addicted to symmetrical twos and fours. In
the Waltzes and Polonaises, Chopin tends to
stick to the dance script, but in the more
personal genres — the Ballades, the Prel-
udes — his approach to rhythm is unusually
flexible, fluid to the point of dissolution.
When he’s really giving in to his ambitions,
to his imagination, you can see that he
prefers whorls to chunks. He likes ideas
that spin off into unpredictable, quasi-frac-
tal offshoots.
You can hear this rhythmic approach in
the famous, haunting theme of the Fourth
Ballade, which lives and dies by its strange
proportions — four-and-a-half, two, two,
one-and-a-half, four-and-a-half. The very
idea of a downbeat or upbeat seems to van-
ish in this unfolding, along with the half bar
that doesn’t add up. Despite all the frag-
ments, the melody becomes impossible to
stop, a series of commas and dashes, de-
manding continuation.
And just try to count bars in the Polo-
naise-Fantaisie: It’s like trying to graph a
sentence in late Henry James. For contrast,
listen to a piece by Grieg (not to pick on him,
but try the hilariously clunky Cello Sonata),
and you get discreet bits of Romantic ex-
pression, ramped up in a series of modula-
tions, like escalating sequences you hear at
sporting events. You always know exactly
how many measures have passed.
Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-
detect techniques of elision and interpene-
tration — a world of transference, where be-
ginnings and endings merge. When the first
theme of the Fourth Ballade returns mid-
way through the piece, it comes vaguely in
the left hand: a memory, like a tag onto a
previous idea. But once recognized, it takes
over, evolving into an unprecedented apo-
theosis. The magic of this moment has to do
with the deft, shockingly quick move from
melancholic half-memory to rapturous
transfiguration. This elegant unpredictabil-
ity of construction helps Chopin create
unique larger forms, too — it makes him a
compelling storyteller. He seems always to
follow the demands and fascinations of his
ideas, rather than pouring them into tem-
plates.
Chopin has a scientific awareness of over-
tones: He just knows that if a bass note is
played, it activates a series of resonances in
the instrument, and the other notes need to
sail into the “sweet spots” that the bass cre-
ates. You might find this far from Romanti-
cism, but Chopin makes overtones feel
physical, even sensual. He makes the dis-
tances between notes tactile.
A classic example is the beginning of the
beautiful Barcarolle: a deep bass note, fol-
Following the
fascinations of his ideas,
not pouring them into
templates.
lowed by a high chord. I’m sure any pianist
will agree how deeply satisfying it is to play
these two notes, but what follows is even
better: Chopin writes notes in between, fill-
ing in the space, touching — you might say
loving — what has been leapt over. This tac-
tility carries into rhythm, too. Listen to how
a great pianist plays certain passages in the
Barcarolle (I’m listening to Martha Arge-
rich right now), how at the transitions all
the beats seem to be giving and taking from
one another, in a constant exchange or
touch of time. In other words, Chopin forces
you to think of time sensually, forces the pi-
anist to acknowledge the connection be-
tween the body and duration.
The last Chopin virtue I’d like to list can
be witnessed in the opening bars of the Po-
lonaise-Fantaisie — maybe my favorite of
his works, showing how much more deeply
he wanted to explore possibilities, despite
his illness. (A sickly man all his life, Chopin
died at 39, probably of tuberculosis.) Chopin
writes a couple of announcing chords, and
then a long, free, drifting arpeggio. The
piece has barely begun before he stops to
JASON RAISH
listen to the beauty of the chord he’s just
written. This isn’t unusual: He frequently
writes the act of listening into the music,
aware that somehow composing a good
phrase is only half the job, and the beauty of
moments must be given space to sink in.
Immediately after my former teacher ut-
tered his animal analogy, he couldn’t resist a
second comparison: “Liszt was not nearly
as ambitious.” (A major concession from a
Liszt fan.) It is fascinating to think about all
the different ways you can be a Romantic.
Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pi-
anist-composer of the 19th century, had
many virtues but was almost never as sub-
tle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusi-
astic, friendly dog, often too eager to please.
For me, the really interesting Romantic
parallel is between Chopin and Schumann,
partly because Schumann announced
young Chopin to the musical world: “Hats
off, gentlemen, a genius!” Schumann con-
sidered Chopin a member of his fanciful
“League of David,” a composer of principle
who would fight against the musical Philis-
tines. So he wrote a loving vignette about
Chopin in “Carnaval,” one of his early key-
board masterpieces.
This didn’t work as intended: Chopin
never warmed to Schumann or his music.
It’s a sad story — yet another misunder-
standing among geniuses — but you can see
why they wouldn’t get along. Schumann’s
work is full of irony and satire; Chopin’s is
not. Schumann often writes deliberately
awkward things; Chopin would never write
clumsy, and only rarely heavy. Schumann
was mentally unwell; Chopin was physi-
cally debilitated, but sane. Schumann often
tries to write the Romantically hypotheti-
cal, like “as fast as possible” followed by
“faster!”; Chopin would never write imagi-
nary. His music may be impossibly beauti-
ful, but it’s always possible.
Chopin will purr on your lap, happily
enough, but that is not his main agenda. For
all his Romantic urgency, there is some-
thing about him that stands apart. You don’t
get the laid-bare feeling of Schubert, Bee-
thoven’s idealism, Liszt’s philosophical
questing, or Schumann’s palpitating, spe-
cific love for his wife, Clara.
You have, instead, sounds unfolding, un-
dulating, curving; the sensuality of the
alive being, of the hand caressing the keys;
the magic of the resonating piano — all com-
bined with a certain deserved pride. His
music changed the world without wanting
to get too dirty in it. And if you ask what it all
means, you could imagine his reply: I am a
cat. Isn’t that enough?

How Murdoch Became the King of England
London stages: Hedonism,
despair, a media mogul’s rise.
LONDON — The face of the future is masked
in shadows in the opening moments of
“Ink,” James Graham’s hit play here about
the transformation of British journalism in
the late 1960s. But there’s no mistaking the
imperative urgency in the voice of the omi-
nously backlighted figure on the stage of the
Almeida Theater, nor the Australian twang
that animates his favored four-letter words.
“OK, listen — you listening?” he hisses.
“Good, cause I want to tell you a story.” And
you really should listen to this insistent
voice from the past. It belongs to one of the
master architects of the culture you now in-
habit.
His name? Rupert Murdoch, who is em-
bodied with fascinatingly seductive brash-
ness by Bertie Carvel in “Ink” — which
transfers from the fertile little Almeida, in
North London, to the Duke of York’s The-
ater in the West End next month — one of a
host of productions here that look to the
past to consider the uneasy state of the pre-
sent.
Or to quote from Mick Jagger’s new,
peppy dirge of a song, “England Lost”: “It’s
déjà vu, I’ve seen it all before/Different sea-
son, same score.” Many of London’s play-
makers could be said to be humming a simi-
lar tune.
As for that story that “Ink” promises to
unfold, it’s about the overhaul nearly five
decades ago of a London newspaper called
The Sun from a drowsy nonentity into a tab-
loid sensation. A newspaper? How very
anachronistic.
Yet Mr. Graham’s account has tentacles
that reach into the deepest recesses of
where and how you live, think and perhaps
even vote in today’s era of social media. You
could even argue, without straining your
voice, that this chronicle of the early days of
Mr. Murdoch’s Sun also portrays the as-
cendance of the populist sensibility that
gave us Brexit. Or, to switch continents,
President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Murdoch’s
longtime friend.
“Pander to and promote the most base in-
stincts of people all you like,” says one char-
acter in “Ink” as The Sun rises in popularity.
“Fine, create an appetite, but I warn you.
You’ll have to keep feeding it.”
“Ink” may consider only the immediate
consequences of catering to such an appe-
tite, from the seemingly silly (reader-bait-
ing themed campaigns like Puppy Week
and Knickers Week, topless models on Page
Three) to the deadly serious (the kidnap-
ping of the wife of one of the paper’s execu-
tives). But it’s impossible not to think about
how such hunger has kept expanding and
mutating in the succeeding years, bringing
to mind the ever-growing cannibal plant
from the 1960 film “The Little Shop of Hor-
rors.”
As it follows the unsentimental education
of Larry Lamb (a superb Richard Coyle),
the editor who is anointed to oversee the
Sun’s metamorphosis, “Ink” ultimately be-
comes an overly tidy exercise in lost illu-
sions. But as directed by Rupert Goold with
a savvy flashiness that mixes chorus-line
musical segues and “Front Page” adrena-
line, this production manages to be both an
entertaining epitaph for a lost age and a
chilling prophecy of days to come.
For the record, the character of Mr. Mur-
doch, whose real-life prototype remains
alive and active as a media czar on both
sides of the Atlantic, comes across here as
something more than a satirical gargoyle.
Mr. Carvel’s Rupert has a priggish and shy
side, compellingly at odds with the vulgar-
ity of his product.
(In an interview in The Guardian, Mr.
Graham spoke of parallels between the sit-
ting president of the United States and Mr.
Murdoch, whose Fox television network
has been Mr. Trump’s best media friend.
“There’s a weird kind of loneliness to both
men,’’ Mr. Graham said.)
Another 20th-century mirror of 21st-cen-
tury anxieties can be found at the Royal
Court Theater, the fabled incubator of dis-
eased-England dramas like John Osborne’s
“Look Back in Anger.” It is now the host to
the first major London revival of the land-
mark working-class drama “Road,” Jim
Cartwright’s mosaic portrait of being unem-
ployed and unmoored in Margaret Thatch-
er’s Britain in the mid-1980s.
When it opened at the Royal Court in its
first incarnation in 1986, “Road” startled
theatergoers with its fragmented, poetic
language – which gave lyrical voice to a dis-
enfranchised population – and its immer-
sive staging by Simon Curtis. Audience
members were asked to walk along a re-cre-
ation of the play’s title thoroughfare, to visit
different residences and watering holes
during the course of one typical, sodden
night.
For its new version, directed by the
mighty John Tiffany (whose credits include
the Broadway-bound “Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child”), “Road” retreats to the tradi-
tional proscenium stage. This inevitably
creates a greater gap between the audience
and the play’s volubly disaffected inhab-
itants, who in the 1986 “Road” were known
to directly engage those who dared to gawp
at them.
Chloe Lamford’s set features a clear-
walled cube that rises into view to reveal
characters at home as they prepare for a
night on the town. The effect is not only of
isolation and confinement but also, at least
initially, of a detached distance between
them and us, now and then. Such impres-
sions were presumably not the intention of
Mr. Tiffany, who has said of the play, “It felt
as though it was written from a place where
things couldn’t get any worse, but they
have. The rich have got richer and the poor
have got poorer.”
It’s the anger and resignation within the
poverty depicted here that particularly res-
onate in these days of government austerity
and welfare cuts. We meet a young man
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who has recently lost his job (a harrowed
Shane Zaza) who refuses to leave his bed.
There he envisions a future that includes
“the last job on earth.” His girlfriend (Faye
Marsay) joins him beneath the sheets and
asks, “Are we protesting?” His response: “I
don’t know.”
This latter-day “Road” can feel self-con-
scious in its lyrical speech and in the chor-
‘Ink’ is both an
entertaining epitaph and
a chilling prophecy.
eographed movement overseen by Jona-
than Watkins. Some scenes, though, memo-
rably convey the desperation of its down-
and-out hedonists.
These include a vendor of chips (or
French fries) displaying a sample that goes
limp in his hands, and a dapper, gray-haired
man who irons his tie and remembers a past
when “we didn’t complain.” A middle-age,
boozed-up woman ardently (and hilari-
ously) tries to have sex with an unrespon-
Theater
BEN BRANTLEY
JOHAN PERSSON
ALEX BRENNER
sive, stone-drunk soldier.
In the final sequence, two young men and
the women they have picked up at a bar
competitively chug cheap wine and then lis-
ten with eyes shut to Otis Redding’s record-
ing of “Try a Little Tenderness.” They go on
to specify what they hope for out of life, in
breathlessly delivered monologues. But in
their hypnotized silence as Redding wails,
we truly feel what’s lacking in their exist-
ences, tenderness included.
That air of privation, as much emotional
as material, pervades the Cork, Ireland, of
the mid-1990s in Enda Walsh’s “Disco Pigs,”
which has been given a smashing 20th-an-
niversary revival at Trafalgar Studios. Di-
rected by John Haidar, this fast and furious
little play depicts the relationship between
two teenagers, who grew up together on a
housing estate, and have created a shared
imaginary world with its own private lan-
guage.
Played with eerie synchronicity and com-
bustible energy by Evanna Lynch and Colin
Campbell, 17-year-old Sinead and Darren
are known to each other as Runt and Pig.
Like the characters of “Road,” they live for
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From top to bottom:
From left, Bertie Carvel
as Rupert Murdoch and
Richard Coyle as Larry
Lamb in “Ink”; from left,
Faye Marsay, Liz White
and Lemn Sissay in Jim
Cartwright’s “Road”;
and Colin Campbell and
Evanna Lynch in Enda
Walsh’s “Disco Pigs.”
the night, when they cut a destructive
swath through the local pubs and clubs as
rampaging hogs triumphant.
But Runt and Pig have reached an age
when imagination is no longer enough to
keep the real world of deprivation at bay. We
watch fantasy fade and a relationship dis-
solve in the course of one violent, dusk-to-
dawn spree, set to the rhythms of period
dance music that shifts from exhilarating to
bludgeoning. Like “Road,” “Disco Pigs”
ends in an aching silence and a vision of the
future as a void.
Lucy Kirkwood’s thematically dense
“Mosquitoes,” which recently opened at the
National Theater, contemplates such a void
in literal terms. Expertly staged by Rufus
Norris, this overladen drama extracts par-
allels between the lessons of cosmic physics
and the fractious relationship of two sib-
lings: Jenny (Olivia Williams), a scientific
genius who’s overseeing a particle accelera-
tor project in Geneva, and her havoc-wreak-
ing, intellectually challenged sister (the
brilliant Olivia Colman, of “Broadchurch”
and “The Night Manager”).
But it is also steeped in a fatalistic dread
with which the characters of “Road” and
“Disco Pigs” might well identify. The pre-
sent-tense scenes in “Mosquitoes” are
punctuated by the frantic musings of a
white-lab-coated character identified as the
Boson (played by Paul Hilton).
Among the subjects the Boson addresses,
with wild eyes and paranoiac conviction,
are the ways in which the world might end.
That might be a result of “fire, ice, cosmic
menopause, atomic obliteration.” Or per-
haps, he adds in a throwaway aside, “a bad
day on the golf course for a sociopath with
access to the nuclear codes.”
MARC BRENNER
July 25–August 20, 2017
This week
Danish String Quartet
Thursday, August 10
All-Beethoven Program A Little Night Music
Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2 Folk music from
Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 Nordic countries
(“Razumovsky”)
At 7:30 pm At 10:00 pm
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, Stanley H. Kaplan
Adrienne Arsht Stage Penthouse
Tickets from $45 Tickets $45
Next week
“A dark and enthralling
tribute to Schubert’s genius.”
—Telegraph (U.K.)
Ian Bostridge
The Dark Mirror:
Zender’s Winterreise (U.S. premiere)
Conceived and directed by Netia Jones;
Ian Bostridge, tenor; International Contemporary
Ensemble; Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
HANS ZENDER: Schubert’s Winterreise
Saturday, August 12* at 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 13 at 5:00 pm
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
Tickets from $35
*Post-performance talk with Netia Jones
For the full festival schedule, visit:
MostlyMozart.org 212.721.6500
Alice Tully Hall or David Geffen Hall Box Office, Broadway at 65th Street
Illustration: ©2017 Malika Favre; Danish String Quartet: Nikolaj Lund; Bostridge: courtesy of the Barbican
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Dance

Renegades and Radical Bodies

Three exhibitions connect how postmodern dance, which developed in
seemingly dissimilar artists. the 1960s in New York, didn’t happen by
magic on the East Coast. Its roots were
By GIA KOURLAS planted by Ms. Halprin in California and al-
What makes a radical body? Take three ren- lowed to grow with the help of two of her stu-
egades: the choreographer Anna Halprin, dents, Ms. Forti and Ms. Rainer.
the visual artist Robert Rauschenberg and “Radical Bodies” feels less like a conven-
the Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo. tional exhibition than a story illustrated
They’re not as disparate as you might think. with objects. Photographs bring the past to
As New York exhibitions featuring these life and videos dance on the walls in this
three attest, a radical body unifies imagina- presentation of ideas born out of a fateful
tion and physicality: It’s where movement meeting: In 1960, Ms. Forti and Ms. Rainer
meets the mind, and the body, once ani- attended a workshop with Ms. Halprin, held
mated, becomes a site of transformation. LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY on her now-famous open-air dance deck in
Ms. Halprin, at 97, is a pioneer of post- Marin County, California.
Anna Halprin in Chicago in 1942.
modern dance whose influence is made The setting is crucial. For Ms. Halprin,
more than apparent in “Radical Bodies: own. nature is a partner. As Ms. Perron noted in a
Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer Rauschenberg, like Ms. Halprin and Ms. joint interview with Ms. Bennahum, “On
in California and New York, 1955-1972” at Kawakubo, was never afraid of bad taste. her deck, the trees are moving.”
the New York Public Library for the Per- You might say that these three, collectively, For Ms. Bennahum, “It feels like a very
forming Arts. The two other exhibitions, have a philosophy that holds when some- intimate theater, except for that rather than
though not directly about dance, have thing seems right, it’s probably wrong. So walls, you have trees — and sky.”
dance elements with something to say do the opposite. Soon after that 1960 workshop, Ms. Forti
about the radical body as well. Just as Rauschenberg didn’t pay atten- and Ms. Rainer found themselves in New
Ms. Kawakubo, 74, the subject of a show tion to artistic categories — he was a paint- York. Ms. Forti began to show her “Dance
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, contin- er, photographer, collagist, sculptor and Constructions,” works based on ordinary BARBARA MOORE/LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY, VIA PAULA COOPER GALLERY, NEW YORK AND 2016
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION; PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER MOORE
ues to blur and redefine what is acceptable even at times a dancer and choreographer movement and objects like plywood
in fashion by creating seemingly unwear- — Ms. Halprin turned against the practice boards; and Ms. Rainer went on to become
able but wonderful body-engulfing designs of inventing and maintaining a codified a founder of the experimental dance col- Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg
two times a year. The clothes aren’t the star; dance technique. Instead, she focused on lective Judson Dance Theater. performing in “Pelican”
it’s the body that makes the clothes. improvisational methods, dancing in the It’s easy to see how the dance artists of Takes Flight (1963) in May 1965.
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And there’s also “Robert Rauschenberg: natural world and using dance as a healing the 1960s were radical. But Ms. Kawakubo
Among Friends,” at the Museum of Modern tool. and Rauschenberg are part of the conversa- Who would Rauschenberg have
Art. This is both a dense spectacle and an For “Radical Bodies,” three curators — tion, too. You try things out. You fail. You been if he didn’t know dancers? that, for a time, extended to
intimate look at an artist’s life, one full of Ninotchka D. Bennahum, Wendy Perron start over. And sometimes, an ordinary Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, choreography. In “Pelican,” he
radical, dancing bodies — including his and Bruce Robertson — teamed up to show body breaks the rules: It becomes radical. Trisha Brown, those luminaries and Alex Hay performed on
of modern and postmodern roller skates, part of a choreo-
dance, were part of his inner graphic investigation in which
circle. It’s no coincidence that his performers interacted with ob-
Anna Halprin: Getting Anna Halprin’s
“Ceremony of Us,”
visual art was full of dimension jects.
and breadth. He understood They wore cargo chutes ex-
Naked Together from 1969.
dance — and how to design for it. tended on rods and attached to
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His entire career was a radical backpacks. Mr. Hay, in a museum
As violence ravaged cities across to create “Ceremony of Us,” a body of work. recording, admits that it was
America in the 1960s, Ms. Hal- healing dance performed in 1969. One showstopper at MoMA’s somewhat scary to perform.
prin — reacting to the 1968 assas- Though they were working to- exhibition “Robert Rauschen- “The problem was when we had
sination of the Rev. Dr. Martin ward a performance, the work- berg: Among Friends” is Ms. to circle around Carolyn Brown”
Luther King Jr. and the race riots shops were just as important as Brown’s “Glacial Decoy” (1979) — another dancer — “and not
in South Central Los Angeles — the end result. Ms. Halprin’s aim — the installation was created engage these two cargo chutes,”
held weekly workshop sessions was to integrate black and white with MoMA’s curatorial and he says. “I guess they were
in Watts, commuting from the bodies — physically, psycholog- exhibition design teams in col- about eight feet wide, extended.”
Bay Area. In an interview in her ically and sociologically. laboration with Charles Atlas — Here, the body is made radical
book, “Moving Toward Live: While no footage exists of the in which Rauschenberg’s revolv- by its expanded form, which
Five Decades of Transforma- performance, the film “Right ing black-and-white photographs gives it a blend of oddball humor
tional Dance,” Ms. Halprin says, On/Ceremony of Us” depicts are grandly displayed on a back and danger. Mercifully, no one
“I wanted to do a production with rehearsals. “It’s very erotic, they wall as the dance is projected on fell.
a community instead of for a get naked, they lick each other, top. It’s as gossamer-delicate as As a part of a special presenta-
community.” they kiss each other, they hold the gowns, also by Rauschen- tion on Sept. 6, the museum will
She also began to conduct a each other,” Ms. Bennahum said. berg, that the dancers wear. present dances associated with
similar workshop with a troupe “It’s very sensual.” And, as this “Among Friends” unravels Rauschenberg — by Brown,
of white dancers in San Fran- image of tightly knit bodies Rauschenberg’s effervescent Cunningham and Mr. Taylor — in
cisco. She united the two groups shows, endlessly arresting. imagination and enthusiasms the Sculpture Garden.
SUSAN LANDOR

Rei Kawakubo: business as usual.

The Merce Cunningham Dance
Company’s “Scenario” in 2006.
librium was thrown off; what
Changing Equilibrium Ms. Kawakubo refuses to call happened to their coordination,
herself an artist. Whether she is their spacing?
. ...................................................................
or isn’t, one thing seems true: The padding distorted the lines Ms. Kawakubo gave them new
When Ms. Kawakubo’s clothing, The clothes aren’t art on their of the hips, backs, shoulders and bodies, and Cunningham, with
no matter how sculptural, is own. The wearer gives them life. chests. She told Vogue at the typical wit, reacted with his
displayed on a mannequin, it’s It’s exciting to realize that even time: “It’s our job to question singular “Scenario.” At the Met,
still inert. In that sense, the Comme des Garçons is merely convention. If we don’t take the dance is screened on moni-
Metropolitan Museum’s show material without a partner: a risks, then who will?” tors on a platform where pieces
“Rei Kawakubo/Comme des willing, confident and radical Using the same approach as from the collection are displayed.
Garçons: Art of the In-Between” body. for that collection, Ms. Kawakubo And this matters: We need to see
resembles one of Ms. Kawaku- For her breakthrough “Body designed the costumes — as well the clothes in action.
bo’s stores; it even ends with Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body” as the white setting — for Merce When it comes to the artistry
something akin to a pop-up shop, (1997), Ms. Kawakubo created a Cunningham’s dance “Scenario,” of Ms. Kawakubo, you have to
where visitors can buy tote bags collection that transformed the which changed his performers’ wear her (and I do) to know her.
and a version of her 1982 hole body with clothing enhanced by physicality as efficiently as It isn’t like putting on a costume;
sweater. Ms. Kawakubo slyly bulbous bumps placed in places would a risky step. Their propor- it’s about finding your true self.
turns the museum exhibition into meant to do anything but flatter. ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES tions altered, the dancers’ equi- And that’s radical.
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A Black-and-White Issue
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
troit,” she had to wrestle with how far to
push reality — how to convey the real-life
horror of racism, without exploiting black
trauma. “It’s really a question of how do you
humanize and how do you bring to life a sit-
uation,” Ms. Bigelow said. “I suppose you
use a personal judgment, I guess.”
Ms. Bigelow’s nonfictional judgment has
earned her scorn in the past — most notably
criticism that she gave false, misleading
credit to the role that torture played in cap-
turing Osama bin Laden.
Now with “Detroit,” this Oscar-winning
filmmaker could be facing her most ambi-
tious, and contentious, project to date. She
is a white woman from Northern California
telling a story of the black experience in civ-
il rights era Detroit, which Ms. Bigelow said
was not lost on her. It certainly was not lost
on her cybercritics, who from the start were
quick to wield billy clubs full of skepticism
over whether she had erased the role of
black women during the unrest in Detroit or
had the cultural pedigree to convey a story
of black oppression.
The movie focuses on a little-known hor-
ror amid the five-day riot (locals argue that
“rebellion” is a more accurate term) that
left 43 dead, nearly 1,200 injured and the city
scarred. On the third night of the unrest, the
police stormed the Algiers Motel, where
they suspected a sniper had been firing at
them. Officers terrorized several black
teenage boys and two white women who
had been staying there, a macabre episode
that ended with the deaths of three of the
boys and the acquittal of the officers. How’s
that for reality?
Ms. Bigelow received the story from the
screenwriter Mark Boal at a time when its
power, importance and necessity could not
be ignored: A grand jury had just declined
to indict a white police officer in the killing
of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-
American teenager, in Ferguson, Mo., in
2014.
“It was two things simultaneously,” Ms.
BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Bigelow, 65, said of her initial reaction. “One
is kind of a, ‘I’m white, am I the right person
to do it?’ And the other is an extremely emo- Clockwise from top, the
tional reaction to the constant recurring of Oscar-winning
these events.” filmmaker Kathryn
She realized, she added, “that I have this Bigelow in Detroit; Ms.
opportunity to expose this story in the hope Bigelow on the set of her
that maybe it either generates a conversa- new film, “Detroit,”
tion, begins to generate a conversation and/ which takes place during
or encourages more stories like this to come the riots there in 1967;
forward. To do nothing was not an answer.” John Boyega as Melvin
If the time is right for this movie, opening Dismukes, a private
wide on Friday, Aug. 4, after a limited re- security guard, in the
lease, it is also daring. Detroiters, coming film; and another scene
out of the nation’s largest municipal bank- from the movie.
ruptcy, are touchy over how their city’s nar-
ratives are told, whether it be the jaded
tales of blight or the glowing renaissance
stories that somehow overlook those in the
black majority being left behind. And more
broadly, we are in a moment of heightened
scrutiny over how black Americans are
treated by the police and how they are por-
trayed in films, books and news coverage.
The reality of two Americas means that
there is a significant segment of the popula-
tion for whom the idea of racism in policing
is either difficult to grasp or fiction. That
makes the telling of this story by someone
like Ms. Bigelow vitally important, said Mi-
chael Eric Dyson, the scholar and activist.
Her broad appeal can attract white viewers
who might not otherwise go to see a movie
about this topic, he said.
“This is a white woman telling the truth
as much as she can on film about racial in-
justice in America,” said Mr. Dyson, a De-
troit native whom Ms. Bigelow consulted on ANNAPURNA PICTURES

the movie. “That will resonate very power-

fully with white folks. What better way to
use your white privilege than to undermine
it, raise questions about it, leverage it on be-
half of black and brown people who usually
don’t have a voice in the matter at all.”
Being true and authentic to the story, Ms.
Bigelow said, meant relying on a concept
she took from Mr. Boal, who is also white,
when they first worked together on “The
Hurt Locker” in 2009: film as journalism.
For Ms. Bigelow, creating “Detroit” in-
volved practicing the discretion that jour-
nalists grapple with after police killings. Is
that video of the young man bleeding out be-
hind the steering wheel of his car too grue-
some to air? What about the footage of the
man being gunned down from behind as he
runs from a police officer? Do we examine a
victim’s criminal record, or an officer’s mis-
conduct record?
These can be perilous tasks, as I learned
the hard way when, in an effort to humanize
Mr. Brown after he was killed in Ferguson, FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/ANNAPURNA PICTURES FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/ANNAPURNA PICTURES

my description of him as “no angel” in an

article overshadowed the sympathetic ele-
ments of his life.
Ms. Bigelow also found herself engaging
in another basic journalistic practice: im-
mersing herself in unfamiliar lives and ex-
periences, and trying to make sense of
them.
Without the rights to John Hersey’s book,
“The Algiers Motel Incident” — his estate
would not sell them — Mr. Boal and Ms. Big-
elow based their story on extensive re-
search. They studied contemporaneous
news accounts and court records and inter-
viewed people who were in and around the
Algiers at the time. Mr. Boal said he was
particularly moved by Larry Reed, a singer
with a group called the Dramatics, who was
in the motel during the incident and whose
life was upended by it, and Melvin Dis-
mukes, a black private security guard who
had entered the motel with the police, and
broke down in tears when he recounted the
events to Mr. Boal.
“As a dramatist, I was interested in the
struggle to survive that night and also to
sort of, to piece an identity back together af-
ter that kind of trauma,” Mr. Boal said, add-
ing that he consulted with black historians
and scholars to maintain the authenticity
and integrity of the story. “All I can do is try
to be respectful and humble and recognize
my shortcomings, and by the same token,
use whatever influence I might have in Hol-
lywood to do things that I think are mean-
ingful.”
Although the filmmakers insist that they
stuck to historical facts in constructing “De-
troit,” they did have to sprinkle Hollywood
dust on parts of the story because some de-
tails of what happened remain murky.
Some have criticized the absence of fully
realized black women in the movie. (Jetmag
.com asked of the movie’s trailer, “Why are
black women missing”?) Others have ques-
tioned the depth of its characters and its ef-
fectiveness as a political tool. Charles Ezra
Ferrell, the vice president for public pro-
grams at the Charles H. Wright Museum of
African American History in Detroit, said
he wished the unrest had been placed in bet-
ter context.
“There had been a long trail of police vio-
lence against the black community prior to
’67,” he said. “They don’t even tell the his-
tory correctly in the beginning. So, there-
fore, if you don’t have a foundation of what
caused that event, you see these as looters.
That undermines the story significantly.”
But Mr. Ferrell and others praised Ms.
Bigelow’s ability to make the raw, racist
brutality inflicted upon black bodies up
close and personal.
As someone who choked on tear gas
while covering protests in Ferguson, I
found it easy to appreciate the us-against-
them divide that the film depicts between
the police and black people. In one scene,
officers in riot gear initially rebuff Fred
Temple (played by Jacob Latimore) when
he tries to get past them to go to work. I
could not help but think of the night in Fer-
guson when a line of police officers, trying
to clear the streets, marched toward me and
ordered me to go home, even though news
media were allowed to stay. I had a press
pass dangling from my neck, but I guess
that did not matter to them when the person
wearing it was a black man with dreadlocks.
To draw her actors into the chaotic mo-
ments from half a century ago, Ms. Bigelow
withheld parts of the script from some until
the last moment. That kept them guessing
on important points, like who would die in
the motel, which helped elicit real emotion
and fear.
“We know how good of a storyteller
Kathryn is,” said Algee Smith, who is from
nearby Saginaw and plays Mr. Reed. “We
see that she holds no punches in the way
that she tells a story. She makes you feel like
you’re in there. With this, the story has to be
told in a certain way for people to connect.
So it’s not about what color the person is
shooting the film. It’s about who can tell the
story the best.”
A day before the film’s world premiere
here, Ms. Bigelow sat comfortably in a room
in a downtown fire station turned boutique
hotel, where the elevator walls are uphol-
stered with caramel leather. It was a stark
contrast to the boarded up swaths of De-
troit, just minutes away, still suffering the
effects of the 1967 unrest.
Ms. Bigelow makes no bones about the
fact that she was an outsider trying to tell a
story touching on some of the roots of De-
troit’s pain. From the all-too-expected out-
come of the trial of the police officers ac- Telling the story of
cused of the Algiers killings, to the way the three horrifying
officers concocted stories to justify the
deaths in Detroit in
shootings, when the focus is not on who
made the film, it is striking to see how the 1967.
picture lives in the present day.
“As far as for the policemen now, I really
don’t even think it’s too much different,” Mr.
Dismukes said. “They handle themselves a
little different because now, a whole lot of
them got the body cams and stuff like that.
But you still have your few violent police-
men out there that just don’t give a rip about
your rights.”
It’s on lessons like that Ms. Bigelow, who
says she’s more comfortable behind the
camera than in front of it, wants the focus.
“If you don’t face the sort of, the traves-
ties that are constantly recurring in this cul-
ture,” she said, “how are they ever going to
change?”
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Unheralded, They Shook Up Rock ’n’ Roll

The documentary ‘Rumble’
looks at Indians’ role in rock.
By ROBERT ITO
Plenty of rock ’n’ roll songs have been
banned from the airwaves because of their
lyrics, but “Rumble” was the first to be
banned because of its very sound. Recorded
by Link Wray & His Ray Men in 1958, the
instrumental pioneered the use of distor-
tion, feedback and the power chord, a mix
that made stations in New York and Boston
so nervous they refused to play the song for
fear that it might incite violence. According
to popular lore, the hit song got its name be-
cause it reminded listeners of a gang fight,
or at least a musical invitation to one; in
“Pulp Fiction,” it’s the tune that plays while
Uma Thurman and John Travolta share a $5
milkshake and a tense silence.
“If you considered yourself a real rock ’n’
roll guitar player, you had to learn ‘Rum-
ble,’” Robbie Robertson, the songwriter and
guitarist, said in an interview. “It was raw
and dirty, and had that rebellious spirit to
it.”
The single is at the heart of “Rumble: The
Indians Who Rocked the World,” a docu-
mentary directed by the Canadian filmmak-
ers Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso
Maiorana that has scooped up prizes on the
festival circuit, including a Sundance spe-
cial jury award for “masterful storytelling.”
Reviewing the film for The Times, Ken Ja-
worowski likened it to the Oscar-winning
“20 Feet From Stardom” and “Searching for
Sugar Man.”
In theaters in the United States and Cana-
da now, “Rumble” explores the history of
Native Americans in popular music, some
celebrated for their work, others less so.
Jesse Ed Davis, who played alongside the
Rolling Stones and, over time, every one of
the Beatles, is here, as is Buffy Sainte-Ma-
rie, the protest singer who composed songs
about everything from young love and spir-
ituality to cultural genocide and the theft of
Indian lands. Jimi Hendrix, whose paternal
grandmother was one-quarter Cherokee,
appears, resplendent in a white beaded
jacket and moccasins, at Woodstock, as
does the jazz singer Mildred Bailey, whom a
young Bing Crosby credited with giving
him his start.
And then there’s Wray, whose song and
sound went on to inspire musicians from
Pete Townshend and Neil Young to Iggy
Pop and MC5. “It wasn’t till later on that I
found out that Link Wray was an Indian,” of
Shawnee heritage, said Mr. Robertson, who
learned to play guitar on the Six Nations re-
serve in Ontario. “It just made the whole
thing 10 times cooler to me.”
One of the most striking aspects of the
documentary is how few people, like Mr.
Robertson, knew that these artists were In-
dians at all. Stevie Salas, an executive
producer of the film who got his start play-
ing electric guitar behind Rod Stewart and
Bootsy Collins, recalled watching scenes of
Mr. Davis playing in the 1972 documentary
about George Harrison’s Concert for
Bangladesh. “I’ve watched that footage a
million times,” said Mr. Salas, who is
Apache, “and all of a sudden I was like, how
did I not notice the big, 6-foot Indian stand-
ing next to Eric Clapton?”
For every Redbone, the ’70s rockers who
openly embraced their Indian roots, there
were dozens of others who did not. For
many, there was little upside to it. “Around
the time when ‘Rumble’ came out, there
was the Hayes Pond incident, where this
Grand Dragon was preaching from the
backs of trucks about the ‘mongrelization’
of white people by American Indians,” Ms.
Bainbridge said, referring to a North Car-
olina confrontation between the Klan and
the Lumbee. “Link Wray grew up in the cen-
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Clockwise from top left, cover, the curators immediately thought:
Robbie Robertson, who This needs to be a documentary. They
became famous in the sought out Ms. Bainbridge, who had gotten
Band, right, with Bob critical acclaim for the 2009 documentary
Dylan; Jesse Ed Davis, “Reel Injun.” That film examined the por-
who played alongside the trayal of Native Americans in Hollywood,
Rolling Stones and, over many of them played by nonnative actors.
time, every one of the “We found this way, through humor, for peo-
Beatles; and Link Wray, ple to relate,” she said. “I thought we’d
who rumbled his way to never have that chance again, to make a
guitar godhood. film that could really cross over. But as it
turns out, music is even more powerful than
comedy.”
Throughout, the film reveals how Native
Link Wray’s use of American rhythms and stylings became a
part of the larger tapestry of American mu-
feedback and sic. In one scene, the poet and musician Joy
distortion made Harjo (“Crazy Brave”) explains how the
‘Rumble’ an electric call and response of Muscogee music influ-
guitar snarl for the enced the evolution of jazz and blues; in an-
other, the singer-songwriter Pura Fe con-
ages. nects the blues guitar and vocal inflections
of Charley Patton, who was probably of
Choctaw ancestry, with traditional Indian
music.
And then there are the stories in the film
that are pure rock ’n’ roll. Mr. Robertson re-
calls his world tour with the newly electric
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Bob Dylan in 1966, when angry audiences
blamed Mr. Robertson and the rest of the
ter of all that, as did Native Americans Band for tainting their golden child. “All
throughout the South.” over North America, all over Australia, all
The film was inspired by “Up Where We over Europe, every night, they booed us,” he
Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Cul- said. But he remembers telling Mr. Dylan:
ture,” an exhibition that was first mounted “They’re wrong. This is good. I’m sorry, but
at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the world is wrong, and we’re right.”
the American Indian in 2010. It soon became In the end, a lot of the stories are like this,
one of the museum’s most popular. Curated small triumphs over overwhelming odds,
by Mr. Salas and Tim Johnson, the muse- which was what the filmmakers intended
um’s program director at the time, the ex- all along. “I didn’t want to make a victim
hibition, with its rock videos and battle-ax film,” Mr. Salas said. “Some of my Native
guitars, was a marked departure from pre- friends were adamant too, saying, we’ve
vious shows. “They certainly didn’t want to had enough of these films where they took
include Randy Castillo, the drummer from this from us, they did this to us. We were
Ozzy Osbourne,” Mr. Salas said. like, no, let’s talk about these amazing peo-
Buoyed by the success of the show and ple who did these amazing things.”

Indian Part, but Where’s the Indian Actor?

Director answers the question
in casting ‘Wind River.’
By KEVIN NOBLE MAILLARD
There’s a brief exchange in the new drama
“Wind River” that is brusquely telling. On a
reservation in Wyoming, a white man, Cory
(Jeremy Renner), tries to console an Arapa-
ho tribal member, Chip (Martin Sens-
meier), who has just learned that his sister
has been murdered.
When Cory philosophizes, “This land is
all we got left,” Chip excoriates his use of
“we” and adds, “Only thing Native about
you is your ex-wife and a daughter you
couldn’t protect.”
It’s at this moment, when Cory is re-
minded of his place, that the film refuses to
dance with wolves. Marriage, affinity or
even lifelong residency may change the
white man, but he will always be a foreigner
in Indian Country.
Taylor Sheridan, the writer-director, kept
that unbridgeable distance in mind when he
told his casting team: Hire Native Ameri-
can actors for Native American roles.
“I wasn’t going to sit here and tell a story
about very real issues,” namely sexual vio-
lence against women in Indian Country,
“and cast people to portray characters in
that world suffering those burdens and not
have some connection,” Mr. Sheridan, who
is not Native American, told me. He hired,
among others, Mr. Sensmeier (of Tlingit
and Koyukon-Athabascan heritage), Gra-
ham Greene (Oneida) and Julia Jones
(Choctaw and Chickasaw).
Mr. Sheridan admitted, “There was
someone far and away that was the best, but
I didn’t hire them because they were not Na-
tive American.” He even told his casting di-
rectors that when it came to auditioning ac-
tors, “Don’t even read them unless you can
vet the authentic nature of their ancestry.”
“Redface,” the manufacturing of ersatz
images of Native American identity, has
long been a problem in Hollywood, and
there’s a well-documented history of hiring
non-Indians for Indian roles. But Mr. Sheri-
dan’s solution is thorny, too. When vetting is
a challenge even for tribes, which can be-
come embroiled in controversies over iden-
tity, how can casting directors do it? Physi-
cal appearance can be deceiving, and re-
quiring tribal membership may exclude
those who are not enrolled.
“Fifteen or 20 years ago, they would have
Top, Kelsey Asbille, who
is of Taiwanese, British
and Cherokee descent, as
a Native American in
“Wind River.” Above, Lou
Diamond Phillips, right,
playing a Cheyenne
businessman, with
Robert Taylor in
“Longmire.”
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found someone who was ethnic enough, and
that would have flown,” said Lou Diamond
Phillips, who plays a Cheyenne business
owner in the A&E drama “Longmire.”
Frequently cast as Native American, but
of Filipino, Scottish-Irish and some Chero-
kee ancestry, Mr. Phillips has played a
range of roles, from a Mexican-American
teenager in “Stand and Deliver” to Thai roy-
alty on Broadway in “The King and I.” He
added, “I never claimed to be a Native actor,
but I do have Native blood.”
Other stars have taken pains to note their
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heritage when it mattered to the role.
Johnny Depp, who starred in “The Lone
Ranger” as Tonto, said that his great-grand-
mother was “Cherokee, or maybe Creek.”
“Being Indian is more of a political and
cultural identity than racial,” explained
Carla Pratt, a professor at Penn State Uni-
versity and a justice of the Supreme Court of
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “We do have
Casting directors were
told to vet the ancestry
of actors.
a reluctance to accept someone who doesn’t
fit that stereotypical image.”
Gil Birmingham, a Comanche actor who
plays a grieving father in “Wind River,”
looks every bit the part. More than 6 feet
tall, with long black hair and copper skin, he
is seemingly Hollywood’s go-to actor for
Native American male roles. He played a
half-Comanche, half-Mexican Texas Rang-
er in “Hell or High Water” (written by Mr.
Sheridan) and the Indian parent Jane
Krakowski keeps secret on the Netflix com-
edy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
“If you are Native, you rarely get cast in
crossover parts,” he said, referring to ethni-
cally nonspecific roles. “My approach to
characters is that I play them as human be-
ings.”
This issue is especially meaningful for me
because I am a fully enrolled member of the
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, where my
mother’s family has lived since Indian Re-
moval from Florida in the 19th century. I
now live in Manhattan and I am also Af-
rican-American. I am not alone: More than
three-fourths of Native Americans live out-
side tribal areas, and almost half are multi-
racial. This is what authenticity looks like.
Kelsey Asbille, who plays Natalie, the
young Indian woman who is raped and mur-
dered in “Wind River,” is of Taiwanese,
British and Eastern Band Cherokee de-
scent. Although she did not grow up in an
indigenous community, she said she had an
“intense connection” to Natalie and what
she stood for, adding, “This role, more than
any other, it’s in my blood.”
Cultural authenticity is a knotty web of
learned impressions. Film generates a col-
lective understanding of how Indians look,
sound and act, imparting and reaffirming
norms. In the watershed film “Smoke Sig-
nals,” directed by the Cheyenne-Arapaho
filmmaker Chris Eyre, the two leads, Thom-
as and Victor, discuss “real Indians” in mov-
ies. Victor tells the droll Thomas: “Indians
ain’t supposed to smile like that. Get stoic!”
As Bird Runningwater, director of the
Sundance Institute’s Native American and
Indigenous Film Program, explained:
“Most Americans consume media and then
you have our representation within that.
They consume what has been created by
the system.”
For “Wind River,” that system involved
an intertribal collaboration. Leaders from
the Wind River nations — the Eastern Sho-
shone and Northern Arapaho — read the
script and visited the set. The Tunica-Biloxi
tribe of Louisiana had no actors in the film
but provided 90 percent of the film’s budget
in a joint venture with Acacia Entertain-
ment. Marshall Ray Sampson, the tribe’s
vice chairman, explained, “We are always
looking for ways to diversify our portfolio.”
Though the quest for authenticity was a
community effort, Mr. Sheridan said, “As a
filmmaker you have to stand in front of what
you did and make choices that you could do
with a clear conscience.”
Those choices included making white
characters, played by Mr. Renner and Eliza-
beth Olsen, the leads in a film about Native
Americans. “Everyone puts words into
their mouths and says, ‘This is your experi-
ence,’” Mr. Sheridan said. “I’m a white guy
— that’s a lot of trust from a community
that’s generally been betrayed.”
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GLENN KENNY STREAMING

A Russian Cocktail of Cycling and Doping

How Netflix’s ‘Icarus’ evolved country received 33 medals over all), much
into a geopolitical thriller. to the delight of Russia’s president,
Vladimir V. Putin.
IN NOVEMBER, the disgraced former cycling “It’s very important to Russia, its na-
champion Lance Armstrong will go to trial tional identity, and this is particularly true
in a civil fraud suit related to his use of of its national identity under Putin, that it be
banned performance-enhancing drugs. A a dominating force in sports,” Mr. Fogel
recent report in USA Today suggests that said.
Mr. Armstrong may pursue an “everybody “Icarus” has archival footage from the
does it” defense, and goes on to describe the 1970s in which Dr. Catlin shares ideas with a
Justice Department’s strategy to block that contingent of Russian doctors visiting his
plan. Whatever the fate of Mr. Armstrong, it labs in California — one of whom is Mr. Rod-
seems that the sad fact of the matter is that chenkov.
an “everybody does it” argument has legs, “In a sense, Grigory was there as a spy!”
so to speak. Mr. Fogel said. “Assume that Russia has
The filmmaker Bryan Fogel recently re- been doing this for 40 years and that Sochi
minded me that the practice of doping goes was just the icing on the cake. Think about
all the way back to the ancient Greeks, who it: They were robbing the bank, and they
in their own Olympic Games would drink owned the bank. They spent $50 billion to
drug and herb concoctions to kill pain. A few
years ago, Mr. Fogel, a filmmaker and a ded- Jaw-dropping detail
icated amateur cyclist who had, like so about a urine-swapping
many, idolized Lance Armstrong in the
years when he vehemently denied doping, scheme at Sochi.
had an idea for a movie on the theme: He
would create a doping regimen for himself
that could go undetected and record the re- create Sochi. What they had at stake was
sults of the experiment. showing Russia as a world power in sports.”
“I had initially conceived this as a movie All of which brings up a timely question:
like ‘Super Size Me,’ in which I’m the subject How far will Russia go to achieve other
of this experiment to expose the failure of goals? As for Mr. Rodchenkov, in “Icarus”
antidoping systems,” Mr. Fogel said in a he evolves from an eccentric character into
phone interview. “Ultimately the question a courageous man who is forced to make
would be, what is the good of this system some difficult decisions. For about a year
that’s supposed to police doping if it can be now, he has been in protective custody in
defeated like this?” the United States. His wife and children re-
Had things gone according to plan, his main in Russia, unable to travel because
film, “Icarus,” available for streaming on their passports have been confiscated. Mr.
NETFLIX
Netflix on Friday, Aug. 4, might well have Fogel has been able to screen the film for
ended up a persuasive albeit dispiriting ac- Mr. Rodchenkov and is still concerned
Skype calls with Mr. Fogel while shirtless. “That wasn’t part of the scheme,” Mr. Fo- Bryan Fogel, the director about the state of his friend’s case. “I really
count of how easy it is to mask the use of
He dryly refers to his homeland as “the gel said. “When you see me helping Grigory of the Netflix
performance-enhancing drugs. But a world don’t know what the government has
most relaxing place in the world” during Mr. get out of the country, I’m doing it, I’m documentary “Icarus,” in
sporting scandal intervened, making Mr. planned for him or how this is going to re-
Fogel’s visit to Moscow, after Mr. Fogel has putting it on my credit card, everything.” At a scene from the film.
Fogel’s story more suspenseful and more solve,” he said.
disturbing. had enough experience to know it’s more that point, Mr. Fogel said, he had to go back The global implications of Mr. Fogel’s
“Icarus” begins with Mr. Fogel describing likely the opposite. to the movie’s investors and tell them that topic makes Netflix’s reach appealing. “No
his lifelong cycling obsession as a largely Strangely enough, Mr. Fogel’s doping what started as a meta-exposé with himself other company can press a button and get
masochistic one. Having cycled without us- doesn’t help him in the next amateur event as a guinea pig was going in a very different your movie out to 190 countries,” he said.
ing such drugs his whole life, in the wake of he competes in. But then the story takes a direction. Mr. Fogel does not intend to go back and
the Lance Armstrong scandal he decides to harrowing turn. Mr. Rodchenkov partici- Suddenly, Mr. Fogel was in constant con- make his own “Super Size Me,” despite
cheat and consults a man who has devoted pated in what the film calls “a systematic, sultation with lawyers and journalists — in- some of the questions about doping in both
his life to finding cheaters — Don Catlin, a statewide system to cheat the Olympics” — cluding ones from The New York Times, amateur and professional sports that the
scientist who invented many of the proto- specifically the 2014 Olympic Games in So- which ran an interview with Dr. Rod- movie leaves open. Does everybody really
cols for contemporary drug testing in chi, Russia. The story explodes in the late chenkov in May 2016, one of many articles do it? If so, what does the term “fair play”
sports. Dr. Catlin assists Mr. Fogel for a fall of 2015, and Dr. Rodchenkov, fearing for on the subject. “Icarus” eventually goes even mean anymore? Would play be more
while and then refers him to his Russian his life, is compelled to leave Russia. A late- into jaw-dropping detail about the elaborate fair if it were allowed? And given the condi-
counterpart, Grigory Rodchenkov. night call to Mr. Fogel seeking the filmmak- urine-swapping scheme that enabled large- tions, would permitting a practice we con-
Initially, Dr. Rodchenkov comes off as an er’s help in getting him out of the country is scale cheating at the Sochi Olympics, where sider corrupt be not just more expedient but
eccentric. Bluff and voluble, he conducts in the movie. Russian teams won 13 gold medals (the somehow morally justifiable?

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Television

A Knot of Memory and Motive

Jessica Biel stars in ‘The
Sinner’ on USA Network.
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
As the sun lowered on a drab industrial park
an hour northwest of Manhattan, Jessica
Biel settled into a therapist’s recliner and
prepared to go deep.
It took a moment to register this wan waif
as the Hollywood star who commandeers
sexiest-women lists and the attention of
Justin Timberlake, her husband. On loca-
tion for “The Sinner,” Wednesdays on USA
Network, Ms. Biel was in stealth-glam
mode — hair lank, lithe body obscured by
prison-issue sweats — to play Cora Tan-
netti, a lovely young wife and mother who,
on a gentle summer day at the edge of a
lake, stabbed a stranger to death for no ap-
parent reason.
Ms. Biel’s partner on this June evening
was Bill Pullman, in the role of Harry Am-
brose, a 60-something police detective dig-
ging to get at the root of Cora’s madness,
and to fill in the gaps where her memory in-
explicably went blank. His questioning
slowly intensified, and then panic overtook
her as shards of recollection brought her
past into sharper focus. For the next couple
of hours, Ms. Biel repeated the scene over
and over, dabbing away tears, wiping her
nose and hitting reset each time the director
called “cut.”
Afterward, she and Derek Simonds, the
show’s creator and showrunner, huddled in
a corner exchanging notes. With “The Sin-
ner,” a Gordian knot of memory and motive,
Ms. Biel, who appeared opposite Edward
Norton in “The Illusionist” and Adam Sand-
ler in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck &
Larry,” has taken on her first series lead
since playing a pastor’s basketball-crazed
teenage daughter on WB’s “7th Heaven.” BROWNIE HARRIS/USA NETWORK

“Cora is very draining — she’s tiring, for

sure,” Ms. Biel said a few weeks later on a
rare afternoon off. “At the end of the day,
you’re like: ‘Why did I do this? This is so
hard. I can’t cry another tear if you paid me
a million dollars.’ But it’s a very satisfying
work experience, as well as one of the most
consistently stressful and exhausting.”
The partnering of Ms. Biel with a charac-
ter capable of savage violence seems felici-
tous as she strives to stretch professionally.
Ms. Biel, now 35 and the mother of a 2-
year-old, Silas, said she had been “desper-
ately looking for something that would push
me creatively to places that I have never
been before.” To help find that role, she and
Michelle Purple, her producing partner,
signed a development deal with Universal
Cable Productions in 2014. “Producing puts
the power back into your own hands,” Ms.
Biel said, “so you’re not sitting around wait-
ing for somebody to deliver something
amazing to you, which is very rare.”
Then “The Sinner,” the best seller by Pe-
tra Hammesfahr, considered Germany’s
Patricia Highsmith, landed on their reading
pile and struck the right chords: a darkly
compelling psychological thriller whose
protagonist was a complex woman, with a
labyrinthine plot that could rivet viewers
for eight episodes and wallop them with a
satisfying conclusion. Perhaps just as at-
tractive: It could be shot in three months.
Ms. Biel is not the only female film star
developing novels into limited series; this
sisterhood includes Nicole Kidman and
Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”), Ju-
lia Roberts (“Today Will Be Different”) and
Toni Collette (“Invisible City”).
The limited series “is the new indie film,”
said Mr. Simonds, a former writer on ABC’s
“The Astronaut Wives Club” and “When We
Rise,” who had been brought in by Univer-
sal Cable Productions. “It’s a better way to
adapt a novel because you get to live with
the characters longer, and you just fall in
deeper.”
“I think this area of television is filling the
hole of what we experienced in the ’90s with
the Miramax film,” he continued. “When’s
the last time we saw a film like ‘The English
Patient?’ The big movie studios aren’t
spending money on these kinds of big-
range, highbrow movies anymore.”
Mr. Simonds transplanted “The Sinner”
from a small German town to a fictional
Hudson River village where locals and city
weekenders converge and collide. He also
fleshed out themes the book merely flirted
with: shame, repression and the pain we
hide.
Those emotional wounds are central to
the relationship between Cora and Am-
brose, and in casting Mr. Pullman he found
an actor keen to explore his character’s soft,
dark spots.
Mr. Pullman, best known for roles like
President Whitmore in “Independence
Day” and Jack in “While You Were Sleep-
ing,” hadn’t starred in a series since “1600
Penn,” his presidential sitcom that last just
13 episodes before NBC canceled it in 2013.
But he was intrigued by the character.
“There’s a side of playing Ambrose that is
very much about what it is to be my age,” he
said. “He still hasn’t dealt with a lot of is-
PETER KRAMER/USA NETWORK
Top, Jessica Biel in “The
Sinner,” a new series on
USA Network. Above,
with Bill Pullman in the
show.
sues, and that aspect of the internal journey
has to be more articulated than anything
I’ve ever done before.”
When the question isn’t who done it but
why, the territory gets murkier, Mr. Si-
monds said. “Rather than external circum-
stances, the clues and the mystery tend to
be about layers of character, and those are
much fuzzier and much more slippery than
a hard fact,” he said. “The DNA of the story
was aiming right where I’m interested,
which is the mind. It’s a different kind of de-
tective work than what we’re used to see-
ing.”
The whydunit also requires a different,
more delicate sense of timing, Ms. Biel said.
“You set up a lot of questions and answer a
couple every episode, so you’re really start-
ing to feel satisfied that you’ve uncovered
something.”
Somewhere along the journey, it became
clear to Ms. Biel and Mr. Simonds that “The
Sinner” could morph into an anthology se-
ries should it be renewed. But exactly how
that would play out — whether Mr. Pull-
man’s Ambrose would take center stage, or
Ms. Biel would return as another character
— no one seemed quite sure. Only that the
why might still trump the who.
“There’s a weight off your shoulders,” Ms.
Biel said, “when the person is waving their
hand in the air going, ‘I did it.’”

No Dive Is Too Deep for These Superfans

Dissecting avidly watched TV
shows and films on YouTube.
By SCOTT PORCH
LOS ANGELES — A few Sundays ago, as mil-
lions of people were sitting down to watch
the season premiere of HBO’s “Game of
Thrones,” those gathered at a small house
party in the Van Nuys neighborhood here
were still figuring out dinner.
The host, Filup Molina, didn’t have the
right pizza delivery app installed on his
iPhone, so he paused DirecTV’s East Coast
live feed to sort it out. “How many pizzas do
we want?” he asked. “Two? Three?” A half-
hour into the much-anticipated episode the
doorbell rang, so he stopped the show again
when the Domino’s delivery guy arrived
with three pies. All the while the armchair
analysis continued apace.
“Do they literally bring winter with
them?” Mr. Molina asked about the White
Walkers, referring to the zombielike army
of the dead descending on a mostly oblivi-
ous human population in the south.
His longtime friend Erik Voss nodded as
he finished a mouthful of pizza. “We’ve
talked before about this idea that winter
doesn’t bring White Walkers — that White
Walkers bring winter,” he said. “It may be
that winter didn’t exist in this world until
the White Walkers were created.”
This is how America watches live TV in
2017 — starting late, pausing to grab food,
debating the finer points of a show’s mythol-
ogy. But for Mr. Molina and Mr. Voss, this is
more than an enjoyable pastime; it’s a liv-
ing.
The two men run a YouTube channel
called New Rockstars devoted to “Game of
Thrones” and other intensely followed
genre TV shows and films, one of a new
breed of media outlets like IGN, Nerdist and
Emergency Awesome reimagining criti-
cism for a digital age. In addition to what
they call a breakdown video — an hourlong
recap, review and analysis of an episode —
they make videos that dig into trailers, de-
leted scenes and even the music behind
films and TV shows.
They are superfans — sophisticated ones
— using visual aids to break down shows
and movies for superfans. And their handi-
work makes the audience for these pop-cul-
ture spectacles even bigger and more en-
gaged.
“We are in a world where the cacophony
of coverage, whether it’s Vanity Fair or New
Rockstars, drives the cultural zeitgeist
around the show,” said Sabrina Caluori,
HBO’s senior vice president for digital me-
dia and marketing. “That breeds the FOMO
— the Fear of Missing Out — that’s driving
continued growth of the show this season.”
The morning after the “Game of
Thrones” premiere, Mr. Molina, 32, and Mr.
Voss, 29, started work early at their one-
room studio, which is across the street from
Universal Studios. Mr. Molina had watched
the episode twice, made extensive notes
and built the motion graphics for “Westeros
Weekly,” a new show that New Rockstars is
producing during this season of “Game of
Thrones.” Mr. Voss was in another corner
ELIZABETH WEINBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Filup Molina, left, and rewatching clips from the premiere and
Erik Voss on camera in writing a script for an hourlong episode
Los Angeles. breakdown that he and Mr. Molina would
begin taping the next day.
The two men both have comedy back-
grounds, and both are working on their own
film and TV scripts even as they’re becom-
Analytical smarts
ing known online as film and TV person-
and an engaging alities. New Rockstars, though, will be their
presence make up full-time gig for the foreseeable future.
for bare-bones New Rockstars started in 2012 as a
production values. YouTube channel for interviews with new-
media creators like Grace Helbig and Tyler
Oakley. At that time, the more popular vid-
eos generated 30,000 or 40,000 views, but
most had fewer than 5,000. In 2015, a three-
minute New Rockstars video speculating
about how the next “Fast & Furious” movie
would address the death of the co-star Paul
Walker generated 8.6 million views, and
New Rockstars promptly changed its busi-
ness plan.
“The moment we saw the response to
that ‘Fast & Furious’ video, we decided to
reduce all the coverage on all the YouTu-
bers,” said Jeben Berg, a former Google ex-
ecutive and a partner in Zealot Networks,
which owns New Rockstars. “People
wanted to see heightened, sensible, intelli-
gent speculation on what was happening on
big Hollywood film properties.”
New Rockstars videos now typically gen-
erate a few hundred thousand views each.
Several have broken a million views, and
one about Marvel’s “Guardians of the Ga-
laxy Vol. 2” has neared five million. Popcorn
movies generally dominate the entertain-
ment discussion in the summer months, but
“Game of Thrones” is airing later than usual
this year and has been as much a part of the
entertainment discussion on social media
and digital video as the Marvel and DC film
franchises.
Mr. Berg said that New Rockstars is using
the intense fan interest in “Game of
Thrones” as an opportunity to ramp up pro-
duction from a few to a half-dozen videos a
week across all the different movies and TV
shows that they cover. The YouTube person-
alities Maude Garrett and Sam Bashor re-
cently joined the channel, while Mr. Voss
and Mr. Molina will continue writing and
producing videos.
(Mr. Molina and Mr. Voss have focused
nearly all of their attention on the YouTube
channel, which has about a million sub-
scribers and is supported by advertising
and sponsors, though this fall New Rock-
stars will begin making content for Face-
book. So far the company has not delved
into podcasts, Instagram or Snapchat as
some other sites do.)
There’s a D.I.Y. spirit and modest scale to
the New Rockstars operation. When Mr.
Molina and Mr. Voss taped their breakdown
video on Monday night, they were the only
two people in the studio. They watched
themselves on a monitor and advanced
their teleprompter with an iPhone. No one
yelled “cut”; they just kept recording.
The next morning, as Mr. Molina and Mr.
Voss were preparing to finish the video, an
editor discovered that Mr. Voss’s micro-
phone had failed during the taping the night
before. They didn’t have time to rerecord, so
CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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Pop

You Think ‘Short People’ Was Controversial?

A new album is overshadowed
by a tune about Trump anatomy. those shirt-off photos, which I found hard to
understand. I think he wants to be not only
the richest and the most powerful man in
By ALAN LIGHT the world, but also the most attractive, to be
Randy Newman is releasing “Dark Matter” Tom Cruise. He wanted everything, like a
(Aug. 4), his first album of new material in rich guy buying a pro football team. It’s in-
nine years. The news that one of America’s teresting that he had that kind of teenage
most acclaimed and ambitious songwriters vanity. Even now, that whole shirt-off thing
has broken a nearly decade-long recording isn’t in the forefront of the news about him,
drought, though, has largely been over- but I think people still remember that.
shadowed by coverage of a song that he
The album opens with “The Great Debate,”
started, and scrapped, for the project. It was
which is not only the longest song you’ve
written in the voice of President Trump,
ever recorded (at nearly nine minutes), but
when he was still a candidate, bragging
maybe the most elaborate, with multiple
about the size of his penis.
speakers and perspectives in the lyrics.
After Mr. Newman quoted the lyrics to a
writer for Vulture, he found himself I started with “Welcome to this great
splashed all over the media for the first time arena,” and then I went to this guy holding a
since his controversial 1977 hit “Short Peo- mock debate about faith versus science, as
ple,” including a segment at ground zero of if they were completely separate. Then I
celebrity culture, TMZ. Speaking by tele-
Randy Newman, 73, at thought I needed the scientist as the second
phone from his home in Los Angeles, he
his home in Los Angeles. narrative voice. So I kept going — I tried to
hadn’t yet seen the clip. “It’s got to be the
Below, Mr. Newman in make it shorter, but couldn’t knock it down.
longest and most boring interview TMZ
1977, the year that “Short I’m happier with that than with anything
ever did,” he said.
People” put him in the else on this record.
public eye.
As usual, Mr. Newman’s new album stays You also work in a critique of your own role,
away from the headlines, concentrating in- with an audience member complaining that
stead on historical scenarios and character “the author of this little vignette, Mr. New-
studies. In “Brothers,” John and Robert Randy Newman man,” is stacking the deck in the argument.
Kennedy discuss Cuban music on the eve of still focuses on It’s career suicide, like a magician showing
the Bay of Pigs invasion. “Sonny Boy” tells his trick! I just felt like it was too easy. I was
the story of the bluesman Sonny Boy character studies.
cooking the results in one direction, so I
Williamson, who was killed in a robbery wanted to make it a little more ambiguous.
while another singer stole his name and Maybe it’s a warning to myself — maybe I
went on to fame and fortune. do want to get out of show business!
Mr. Newman, 73, first rose to prominence
in the early ’70s with albums including “12 When people talk about your songs, they
Songs” and “Sail Away,” introducing a new always concentrate on the words. Have you
sense of acerbic comedy and commentary ever thought about working outside the
to pop by writing in the voices of characters song form, writing essays or stories?
like a slave trader or an innocent at an orgy. I just went to the doctor, and I had those
He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of forms to fill out, and when they ask for your
Fame in 2013. occupation, I’ve always put “musician.”
Since the 1980s, he has juggled his own That is, first and foremost, how I think of
songwriting with a wildly successful career myself. I’ve never done anything that was-
composing scores and songs for films, in- n’t musical. And it is very important to me
cluding the three “Toy Story” movies. The that I write well musically — that if I’m writ-
nephew of three prominent Hollywood com- ing for an orchestra, I do it well. Maybe it’s
posers, Mr. Newman has racked up 20 because of my family, watching the sound-
Academy Award nominations and two wins JULIAN BERMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
stage when I was a little boy. I know I’m get-
for his music. ting better at those arrangements, I think
“Writing for an orchestra must use a dif- that’s the one thing I’m getting better at.
ferent part of the brain,” he said, comparing Can you hear a through-line in your writing?
his work on “Dark Matter” to his writing for
It used to be that I’d make a record and
film. “There are definite parameters — it’s a
never listen to it again. Now with Spotify
minute-20, it’s a chase scene. You know
and all this stuff, I listen to myself more than
where you are, where with a song you have
I ever did. It’s gratifying to me — it sounds
nothing if you don’t have an idea.” These are
like the same guy, from something like
edited excerpts from the conversation.
“Davy the Fat Boy” to now, the same guy
So now everybody wants to ask you about a wrote ’em, good or bad.
song that you didn’t actually record. I think I mean to make people laugh more
That was one of the reasons I discarded it, than most people do who use the form of
because I thought it would be too much for songs. My narrator is usually not so much
me — it would get all the attention, because unreliable as insensitive; he often doesn’t
everything about him is such a big deal. And exactly know what it is that he’s telling you
it’s so vulgar. I wrote it a year and a half ago, about himself. I’m not sure it’s the best way
when he was talking about relative size, im- to use the form — people love love songs, so
plicitly. This writer asked if I’d written any- I should probably write more of them. Even
thing about Trump, and with my big mouth, among my fans, the stuff they like best is
I couldn’t resist. It’s almost something I feel when I play it absolutely straight. They’re
like apologizing for. I don’t regret anything not necessarily wrong, but it’s still surpris-
I’ve ever written — I’ve written bad songs ing to me.
— but I do kind of regret this. What’s the When you look up “Randy Newman” this
point of it? week, the headlines say “ ‘Toy Story’ Guy
You wrote it during the primaries, but do Writes Song About Trump’s Penis.” Are you
you think that there is a Trump song you happy to make the jump from “Short Peo-
could write now? ple” Guy to “Toy Story” Guy?
I thought of a way you could do it — to write MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES Well, it’s hard to say it’s good in that con-
a song from the standpoint of Ivanka, writ- text! But still, in my obituary, which will be
ing a “Dear Dad” letter, saying “I’m so soon, it will say “Newman, composer of
quite the right thing, but something like You have always tended to avoid more ‘Short People’” — that will be in the first
proud of you and everybody loves you” and
that, you could do. [Sings] “Dear Daddy/ topical songwriting, but you do have a song sentence. Right after “composer of the
all that puffery you would have to say to
I’m writing you this letter” . . . that could about Vladimir Putin on this album. Trump penis song.”
him, and then have her say, “I just wonder if
work, but I doubt I’ll do it. When I wrote that, I started it with all of
you know what’s real right now.” That’s not

Television

No Dive
Is Too Deep
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12
they trudged ahead. That afternoon, Mr.
Molina used an audio app to isolate and
tweak Mr. Voss’s vocal track from what his
own microphone had captured.
“You could replace everything in that stu-
dio with $5,000 and an Amazon Prime ac-
count,” Mr. Molina said, “and it would all be
here in two days.”
New Rockstars has only been in a studio
since May; before that, Mr. Molina’s apart-
ment or whatever space they could find suf-
ficed. But the smarts of their analysis, and
the engaging presence the two men have on
camera, more than make up for the bare-
bones production.
“There’s so much on TV right now that
you have to prioritize what you’re consum-
ing, and some of those shows are really
complicated,” said Mallory Rubin, a writer
at The Ringer who co-hosts the “Binge
Mode” podcast, which explains all the
episodes of “Game of Thrones.” “You might
want a little help, and it’s great that there
are a lot of people out there you can follow.”
The breakdown video reached 400,000
views within two days of going live but add-
ed only another 100,000 over the next week.
Two weeks into the “Game of Thrones” sea-
son, though, New Rockstars were already
working to speed things up.
“We just shot a show live to tape for the
first time, which means all of our mistakes
are baked in,” Mr. Molina said on Tuesday
after posting a new “Westeros Weekly”
episode. “The mistakes drive me insane,
but it means posting now instead of Thurs-
day at midnight. People want to see it now
more than they want to see it perfect.”
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She’s Soaring Toward New Heights
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
where we are in our country right now.”
Ms. Mehretu won a MacArthur Founda-
tion “genius” award at the young age of 34
for her sprawling abstract paintings that re-
flect the velocity and fragmentation of con-
temporary life. With her auction record of
$4.6 million and transcontinental biography
— born in Ethiopia and raised in Michigan
— she is one of the top-selling living female
artists and bona fide stars in the art world
that prizes multiculturalism.
Her 2009 commission for the lobby of the
financial behemoth Goldman Sachs could
have been viewed as cozying up to the one
percent. She chose the opportunity to work
at a scale unprecedented for her and on a
wall visible to a broad public, including
service workers in the building. Measuring
23 feet by 80 feet, “Mural” maps the whirl of
global trade and communications and was
deemed “the most ambitious painting I’ve
seen in a dozen years” by Calvin Tomkins of
The New Yorker.
All of that is a lot to live up to as Ms.
Mehretu faces her new commission.
While the history of art is punctuated
with epic painting projects by men — from
Giotto to Michelangelo to Diego Rivera —
the director of SFMoMA, Neal Benezra,
said he was “hard-pressed to think of an-
other woman painter working at this scale
in a public place.”
At regular intervals during the comple-
tion of these new paintings, the jazz com-
poser Jason Moran, Ms. Mehretu’s friend
and Harlem neighbor, set up camp on the
balcony of the church. He made the for-
merly sacred space reverberate with com-
positions spun off his electronic piano while
she painted.
“Jazz has always been the form of music
that marks these temperature changes in
America,” said Mr. Moran, who will perform
the result of their collaboration this fall in
Performa 17, a visual art and performance
biennial in New York. “It’s turbulent now, as
America has always been. Julie and I are
making this response in concert with each
other.” Mr. Moran, who is the artistic direc-
tor of the Kennedy Center in Washington,
riffed directly off the markings in her paint-
ings as though he were reading a score.
Ms. Mehretu searched throughout New
York for a space big enough to make these
paintings before striking a deal with real es-
tate developers to use the church, just down
the street from where she lives with her
spouse, Jessica Rankin, and their 12- and 6-
year-old sons. Being able to duck out for
lunch at home or parent-teacher confer-
ences has made her grueling work schedule
more manageable.
Graceful and coolheaded, the artist is
prone to speaking in elliptical phrases that
build on one another, in a way that echoes
her artwork.
Ms. Mehretu, who received her M.F.A.
from the Rhode Island School of Design in
1997, has always layered her canvases with
diagrams and information as a starting
point: architectural plans of arenas or forti-
fied cities underpin her small dashes and
shapes that move in swarms across her
early paintings. In 2004, her works were
JULIE MEHRETU/COLLECTION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
From top, Michelangelo
really could’ve used one
of those: Julie Mehretu
in her temporary studio,
at a decommissioned
church in Harlem; Ms.
Mehretu’s mural for
Goldman Sachs; her
“Stadia I (2004).
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Art
prominently featured in the Whitney Bien-
nial, the Carnegie International in Pitts-
burgh, the São Paulo Biennial and the Mu-
seum of Modern Art, spurring collector and
institutional demand. In 2019, the Los Ange-
les County Museum of Art is scheduled to
give her a retrospective.
As a departure point for her SFMoMA
commission, Ms. Mehretu turned to 19th-
century paintings by Albert Bierstadt and
Frederic Edwin Church, layered with re-
cent photos of civil unrest in cities including
Ferguson and Baltimore.
When Ms. Mehretu visited the San Fran-
cisco museum, its two looming white walls
and the luminous California location led her
to think about American landscape paint-
JASON SCHMIDT
ings, bathed in glowing light, that commem-
orated the dream of this country’s west-
ward expansion in the mid-19th century.
“But at the same time this was a land-
scape of horror,” she said, drawing the con-
nection to the contemporaneous struggle
for emancipation as enslaved people moved
through America’s immense land on the un-
derground railroad, charting another kind
of migration.
“I was attracted to these landscape paint-
ings that were trying to describe a really in-
‘Eighty percent of the
marks I put down I wipe
or sand away.’
tense moment historically, of what this
country was becoming, on all these differ-
ent levels,” Ms. Mehretu said.
On the computer in Photoshop, she
merged two majestic landscapes by Bier-
stadt and another by Church with blurred
news images of riots and protests in the
wake of fatal shootings of black men. These
composites were inkjet-printed onto the
bare canvases, then stretched on the walls
of the church and encased in 20 layers of
clear acrylic to create the hard surfaces on
which she would paint.
Ms. Mehretu spent much of last October
just staring at the panels, trying to deter-
mine how to begin. “This scale is no joke,”
she said.
Her brush strokes, in ink, are now much
looser than in previous works and evoke
scrawled graffiti. “It’s exhilarating when
you make a mark that crosses 10 or 12 feet
and get it right,” said Ms. Mehretu, who
moved with growing agility on a manually
NATHAN BAJAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
operated scissor lift. She showed off her
huge archive of brushes, many of which
she’s modified with extended handles.
When she’s made a line that suggested
figuration, she’s intuitively pushed it fur-
ther, a development that first surfaced in
her exhibition last fall at the Marion Good-
man gallery. Pelvises, limbs, a tongue seem
to emerge from the morass and then break
apart again. Ms. Rankin, who is also an art-
ist, on a recent visit to the studio perceived
an Atlas figure in the sinuous contour of a
sloped back and leg “carrying the burden of
it all.”
“Eighty percent of the marks I put down I
wipe or sand away,” said Ms. Mehretu, ex-
plaining why she builds the surface up so
much. Only the golden haze from Bier-
stadt’s Lake Tahoe, for instance, or the
greens, yellows and reds of sirens, fires and
traffic lights in the nighttime riot scenes are
still visible through Ms. Mehretu’s dense ac-
cumulation of strokes.
Across the surface, she has silk-screened
hundreds of details from the computer com-
posites — enlarged into patterns of colored,
pixelated squares. The embedded refer-
ences “make these canvases extremely rich
to look at,” Mr. Benezra said.
For Ms. Mehretu, sharing her creative
zone with another artist was initially a chal-
lenge. (RoseLee Goldberg, Performa’s di-
rector and founder, called Ms. Mehretu’s
suggestion of a collaboration with Mr.
Moran “a gorgeous idea.”) During the bien-
nial in November, Mr. Moran on piano, ac-
companied by musicians on drums and cor-
net against a video backdrop of her art, will
perform his joyously mournful score.
When they both were working fully in the
flow, Ms. Mehretu described the sensation
of “actually hearing your drawing some-
how, the mixture of the hand, eye and ear at
the same time.”
Mr. Moran, who has followed Ms. Mehre-
tu’s work for years, said it took a lot of
courage for her to flirt with disaster at such
a large scale. Ms. Mehretu took a big risk
late in the game, after she had ostensibly
finished one canvas. She had the idea to air-
brush three sides of a huge diamond shape
in flaming orange across her vortex of dark
marks that seem to ascend upward. “I drew
it into the computer and thought, nah, that’s
crazy,” she said. Her 12-year-old son
cheered her on to do “the rainbow thingy,”
as he called it.
“It’s like a crescendo,” she said.
Does the giant form suggest a rainbow
emerging from the political chaos she sees
embroiling the country — or a conflagration
threatening to destroy all progress toward
equality?
The installation artist Sarah Sze dropped
by for a visit and was dumbfounded by the
addition, calling the canvas an “the Icarus
painting.”
“I couldn’t have made these 10 or 15 years
ago,” Ms. Mehretu said.
“I feel much freer in my approach to
painting right now,” she continued. “I’m ex-
cited about being open to intuition and influ-
ence, trying to keep pushing without falling
on my face or maybe allowing myself to fall
on my face.”
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Magic Hour in the Kitchen

Mohonk Mountain By STEVE REDDICLIFFE
House, a venerable Can you create a farm-to-table restaurant if
you have 100 tables in an 8,750-square-foot
Hudson Valley resort, main dining room, 80 more tables down-
stairs, nine in a cozy lounge, 50 outside
gets a slow, deliberate overlooking an Arcadian lake and, on cer-
tain nights, eight in a capacious kitchen?
farm-to-table makeover, That is the question that Jim Palmeri, the
and the results are executive chef at Mohonk Mountain House
in New Paltz, N.Y., spent several years con-
quietly grand. templating.
Mohonk, the idyllic resort founded by Al-
bert Smiley in 1869, was not a logical candi-
date for a chef-driven restaurant with a fo-
cus on local sourcing. It’s not a cafe, bistro
or gastropub. It’s big. The hotel, a National
Historic Landmark on more than 2,000
acres in the Shawangunk Mountains, has
265 rooms in five wings that date to 1879.
On a busy night — and there are many
busy nights — its restaurant serves 600 din-
ers. On Thanksgiving, 1,450; Mother’s Day,
1,400. The kitchen orders 2,000 pounds of
beef a week, 1,200 each of chicken and fish,
40 cases of eggs.
But there, in the bowls and on the plates,
is a bisque made with local parsnips; polen-
ta from Wild Hive Farm in Clinton Corners; The boat dock at
cheese from Chaseholm Farm in Pine Mohonk Mountain
Plains; and a bounty of vegetables grown
throughout the Hudson Valley. On tap there
House in New Paltz,
N.Y. One of the
might be an I.P.A. from Arrowood Farms in
Accord just down the hill, and mixed into
hotel’s infinite
charms is how
cocktails you might find McKenzie bourbon steadfast it is.
from Burdett in the Finger Lakes or 46
Peaks vodka from Lake Placid.
“It’s funny how things change,” Mr. Palm-
eri said early one morning in the Mohonk
kitchen, where the staff was already fo-
cused on prepping for the lunch and dinner
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SUMMER FIRSTS BROOKLYN

Traveling Farther Into the Fun House

A lesson in the transformative an hour by subway from our house — was
my favorite place in the world. We always
power of art begins in a moment did the same things there. I loved the famil-
of terror at Coney Island. iar, the routine. We walked on the board-
walk and watched the parachutes fall, like
airborne jellyfish, from the top of the Para-
By FRANCINE PROSE
chute Jump. We watched the grown-ups
One summer afternoon, when I was 8 or shrieking with terror (like children!) on the
maybe 9 — this was in the late 1950s — our Cyclone and the Tornado. We clutched at
Diane Arbus’s 1961 housekeeper, Cleo, took my brother, Neil, Cleo’s skirt so as not to get separated as she
“The House of and me to Coney Island. We lived in Brook- made her way through the crowds at Na-
Horrors, Coney lyn, in an area now called Ditmas Park and than’s to buy us hot dogs and what I be-
Island, N.Y.” shows then known, less glamorously, as Flatbush. lieved then to be (and still remember as)
the interior of the Both my parents worked from early morn- the world’s most delicious French fries.
Spook-a-Rama, with ing until late evening, and during those long That afternoon, just before it was time to
its shiny track. days, all through those summers that go home, we passed a ride, outside of which
seemed endless until they ended, we were were miniature cars on a track and a huge
left in Cleo’s care. mechanical clown, shaking and doubling
My brother, who was two and a half years over with laughter: a booming “ho-ho-ho.”
younger, and I splashed in our plastic back- It looked like fun to ride the tiny vehicles
yard swimming pool, we tested the safety into the hilarious kingdom over which the
limits of our swing set, we played with our jolly clown presided. I asked Cleo if we could
friends on the block, we read, watched TV go on the ride. She agreed, and my brother
and squabbled. And every so often, Cleo tagged along.
(who, I realize now, must have been going Did I have any idea what awaited me?
mad with boredom) took us on an excur- Maybe a little, not much. Children like to be
sion: Brighton Beach, Prospect Park, Co- scared — but not too scared. Did Cleo un-
ney Island. derstand that the ride might have been dis-
Until that afternoon, Coney Island — half CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
THE ESTATE OF DIANE ARBUS
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How to Navigate Art Galleries in Any City

Whether you’re vacationing in a big
city or a small town, checking out the
local art galleries makes for an enjoy-
able day out, said Natasha Schlesinger,
an art historian who created ArtMuse
Discover Galleries, an app that guides
ANDY HASLAM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
users through New York City’s more
The July 2 article by Rosie Schaap, than 1,000 art galleries. “So many
“King Arthur Slept Here (Maybe),” places around the world have a gallery
which explored the eccentricities of scene that’s either burgeoning or
southwest England, drew several established, and visiting these gal-
responses. Here are two, edited: leries is a chance to see some high-
quality art and get a pulse on local art
British Mysticism
trends,” she said.
The Chalice Well gardens that house But how should you pick the gal-
the Chalice Well are such a peaceful leries to check out and best appreciate
place. I went in expecting to spend a the art they display? Here, Ms.
half-hour and ended up staying for Schlesinger shares her advice on
three. I still have a bit of the water I gallery hopping with success.
brought back from the well. This Some cities around the
HAVE A LIST
article brought back such wonderful world like London and Hong Kong are
memories of my trip last year. home to several hundred art galleries,
DIANNE FECTEAU so having an edited list of the ones you
want to visit is essential. Once you
If you hike the 630-mile South West
research the galleries in your destina-
Coast Path of England, you will walk
tion (a web search, your hotel
through the delightful villages de-
concierge or a local newspaper are
scribed in this article. I feel that the
good resources for this), choose those
best way to experience any new with the newest shows. Also, pick a
place, is to explore it on foot. diverse mix so that you see a range of
GAIL RIEBELING art styles and media — some galleries
show only paintings while others focus
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on photography, sculpture or installa-
LARS LEETARU
tions. Try to visit a gallery on the day
a show opens because the artist whose
works are on display is often on hand.
“You’ll see the art but also get to meet
the artist, which is always fun,” Ms.
Schlesinger said.
HIT DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS In
large cities, art galleries are often
concentrated in different neighbor-
hoods according to the style of art they
exhibit, and Ms. Schlesinger sug-
gested hitting a few areas so that you
get a broad perspective of that city’s
gallery scene. In New York City, for
example, the Upper East Side of Man-
hattan has galleries showing works by
19th-century artists like Claude Monet
— Acquavella Galleries is an example.
Chelsea has contemporary art gal-
leries like Lehmann Maupin, which
displays works by established artists,
while Bushwick, in Brooklyn, also has
contemporary art galleries such as
Koeing & Clinton but with works by
up-and-coming artists.
TEN GALLERIES IS THE LIMIT A day of
gallery hopping should include visits
to no more than that. “Even though
many art galleries don’t exhibit more
than a few dozen works at a time, the
art you see will be a blur if you go to
too many,” Ms. Schlesinger said. “In
my experience, I’ve found that 10 or
fewer is the ideal number.”
HAVE A VIEWING STRATEGY When you
arrive at a gallery, take a news release
and a checklist of the exhibited works;
Ms. Schlesinger said that both are
generally available at the front desk.
The news release will have a biogra-
phy of the artist, and the list will have
the relevant information about the
works you’re seeing — art galleries
usually have no labels for the pieces
on display. If you have questions about
the art, feel free to ask for a gallery
sales associate, even if you’re not
looking to buy — sharing their knowl-
edge with visitors is part of their job.
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predawn hike in time for sunrise at Machu
Picchu; a guided tour follows. From $1,700 a
person including accommodations, some
meals and guided hiking. Reserve at 800-747-
7695 or by emailing Kendra Thornton at
kthornton@royal-travel.com.
Safari in Kenya
The safari outfitter Roar Africa is selling a
seven-night trip to Kenya, which includes a
night in Nairobi with a visit to an elephant
orphanage and six nights split between two
safari lodges; they will also catch the wilde-
beest migration from Tanzania to Kenya.
From $1,700 a person a night inclusive of ac-
commodations, meals, game drives and ex-
cursions from the lodges. Reserve at
welcome@roarafrica.com.
SHIVANI VORA
CORRECTION
An article last Sunday about Berryessa Snow
Mountain National Monument in California
misstated the height of Snow Mountain. It is
7,056 feet, not 3,057 feet.

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Avoiding Problems When a Child Must Fly Alone

Understand the fees, What if you’re stranded?”
Even when children are ad-
and make sure to pack equately prepared, the protocol
for flying solo is not uniform. Be-
food and entertainment. cause there are no federal Trans-
portation Department regulations
By ELAINE GLUSAC for unaccompanied minors, air-
lines create their own policies, be-
Recently, an unaccompanied 15-
year-old traveling from London to ginning with who can fly. Here are
guidelines established by various
meet his grandparents in France
airlines, and tips for preparing
was bumped from an oversold
your child for traveling without an
easyJet flight and essentially
adult.
treated as an adult, left to deal
with rebooking on his own, ac- Airline Requirements
cording to a report by the BBC.
Many American carriers offer
Though the episode ended with
services for children designated
the boy taking a flight 10 hours lat- solo fliers, including select seats
er, it shows a weakness in a sys- and escorts on and off the plane
tem intended to care for children and to connecting gates. Most air-
unaccustomed to advocating for
lines consider solo fliers from the
themselves. ages of 5 to 15 as unaccompanied
Experts emphasize the impor-
minors, though Southwest Air-
tance of educating children before lines puts the upper limit at 11 and
their trip. “Even if it’s an older JetBlue Airways at 13. American
teen flying to soccer camp, they Airlines and Delta Air Lines make
need to learn to speak up and ex- the designation optional for chil-
plain that they’re 16 and on their dren 15 to 17. (For those ages, par-
own and can’t be stranded in an ents can let the kids fly without
airport,” said Eileen Ogintz, who designating them unaccompanied
has the syndicated column and minors and forfeit the additional
website Taking the Kids. “Play the care.) It is optional on Alaska Air-
lines for passengers 13 to 17.
what-if game. What if you’re can-
Additional fees also vary. It
celed? What if you’re diverted?
costs $25 each way for direct
With no federal rules for unaccompanied minors, airlines make their own.
flights on Alaska and $50 for one-
way flights involving connections.
Southwest charges $50; JetBlue,
$100 one way. American, Delta and
United Airlines all charge $150
each way.
Different fees may apply to chil-
dren traveling together. American
charges one unaccompanied mi-
nor fee for parties of two or more,
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and Delta charges one fee for up to
four children. For those fees, chil-
dren usually get a seat near the
front. Airline agents escort minors
on and off the plane, and to con-
necting gates.
Not all flights are available to
children traveling alone. Many
carriers limit younger children to
nonstop or direct flights. Delta al-
lows 8- to 14-year-olds to make
connections, aided by an employ-
ee. American allows connections
with an escort between flights at
several of its busier airports.
Parental Considerations
At the check-in desk, parents with
government-issued identification
can obtain a pass that allows them
to escort the minor to the gate.
Some airlines require them to stay
at the airport until the plane has
taken off; most experts advise do-
ing so in case there is a delay or
problem. On arrival, most airlines
will issue a gate pass to the person
designated to pick up the minor,
allowing that person to meet the
child at the gate.
To better track solo minors,
Delta has instituted a system that
relies on bar-coded wristbands
that are scanned at various way
points. The airline has said it in-
tends to make that data available
to parents and custodians.
Experts recommend parents
prepare children as they would
themselves, including sending
them off with identification such
as a birth certificate or a passport.
Pack a water bottle to fill after
clearing security; entertainment,
like books or a tablet, with an ex-
tra battery booster; a sweater for
chilly flights; and food.
“Send the equivalent of a school
lunch,” Ms. Ogintz of Taking the
Kids said. “Chances are there’s
not much food.”
Before leaving, position the trip
as an adventure. Rainer Jenss, the
president and founder of the Fam-
ily Travel Association, a group
that advocates travel as educa-
tional, suggests involving chil-
dren in planning flights to make
them feel empowered, and accen-
tuating the positives.
“Emphasize how they can now
be trusted and how grown up they
are,” Mr. Jenss said. “Talk about
how fun flying is. How they can
get somewhere so fast without
having to go on a long, boring car
ride.”
Finally, just because children
can fly solo doesn’t mean all of
them should. “If they’re truly ner-
vous, wait until they’re older,” Ms.
Ogintz said. “Or if you’re paying
$150 each way in fees, it might
make sense to pay for a niece to go
with them and fly back.”

Visit North Korea? For Americans, Time Is Running Out
A U.S. college student’s death
is prompting Washington to
move on a travel ban.
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT has de-
cided to bar Americans from visiting North
Korea, the first time in years that the State
Department has moved to block travel to
another country.
The restriction comes amid rising ten-
sions between the United States and North
Korea, which has been testing interconti-
nental ballistic missiles and threatened to
attack the United States with nuclear weap-
ons. The ban also follows the death in June
of Otto F. Warmbier, the University of Vir-
ginia student who was convicted of trying to
steal a political propaganda poster from his
hotel in Pyongyang. This is the first time in
more than a decade that the State Depart-
ment has taken such strong measures. It
was in the early 1990s during Saddam Hus-
sein’s regime that travel to Iraq was re-
stricted.
“Due to mounting concerns over the seri-
ous risk of arrest and long-term detention,
the department will soon impose a travel re-
striction on all U.S. nationals’ use of a pass-
port to travel in, through or to North Korea,”
Susan A. Thornton, the acting assistant sec-
retary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pa-
cific Affairs, said in a statement on July 25.
“We seek to prevent the future detentions of
U.S. citizens by the North Korean regime to
avoid another tragedy like that which Otto
Warmbier and his family endured.”
Heather Nauert, a State Department
spokeswoman, said late last month during a
news briefing that the travel ban would go
into effect 30 days after it was listed as a le-
gal notice in the Federal Register.
“I saw in one major newspaper today
where people were talking about, oh, there
are neat experiences in North Korea, which
makes it sound like it’s a fantastic place to
go,” Ms. Nauert said. “Let me use this as an
opportunity to remind people: It is not safe
for Americans to go to North Korea. Let me
remind you, we still have Americans who
are being detained in North Korea. We don’t
want to see any more people go to North Ko-
rea and be detained, and that is why we put
that travel ban in place.”
There may be exceptions, though. For ex-
ample, Ms. Nauert said journalists could ap-
ply to enter the country at the discretion of
the State Department.
For years, Americans have been free to
travel to other countries, even places that
are dangerous and war torn, including Af-
ghanistan. Travel to Cuba, while at times
limited to certain individuals or to those
with special licenses, has been allowed
A Respite From Tokyo, With Solitude and Sand
Exploring the dunes and
beaches of Tottori, far from
city crowds and skyscrapers.
By MOTOKO RICH
Shortly after I posted a picture on Insta-
gram from the sand dunes of Tottori on the
west coast of Japan, a friend from Brooklyn
commented, “Where is this?”
The subtext: This could not possibly be
Japan, right?
With its steep hills of creamy golden sand
and vast expanses ruffled into scalloped
patterns by the wind, Tottori evokes a scene
out of the Sahara. There are even camels to
ride.
Although these dunes are not the largest
in Japan (those are in Aomori, in the north,
and used for military exercises), the sand
dunes of Tottori are the largest that are ac-
cessible to visitors.
But even in Japan, the dunes are more fa-
mous for their literary connotations than as
a travel destination. They were the setting
for Kobo Abe’s classic novel “The Woman in
the Dunes,” but among Japanese tourists,
Tottori, the least-populated region in Japan,
ranks just 43rd among 47 prefectures in at-
tracting visitors.
That makes it a very relaxing place for a
getaway. We live in Tokyo, a city of immense
crowds and towering buildings. But when I
took a walk with my daughter along the
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THE GETAWAY
since the late 1970s. Still, the North Korea
ban is hardly the first time the United States
has restricted travel to other countries.
“In 1952, during the Cold War, all Ameri-
can passports were amended with a stamp
indicating they weren’t valid for travel to
China, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw
Pact nations without a State Department
exemption,” The Associated Press re-
ported. Subsequent bans where passports
from the United States were invalid for trav-
el have included Iran, Lebanon and Libya.
The State Department regularly issues
strongly worded alerts and warnings to citi-
zens about security threats throughout the
world, posting them on its website and so-
cial media accounts, and making them
available through email alerts. For in-
stance, the department “warns U.S. citizens
against all travel to Iraq” and that “U.S. citi-
zens in Iraq are at high risk for kidnapping
and terrorist violence.” Even so, Americans
can still travel there.
The same has been true of North Korea.
In May, the department warned Americans
about the “serious risk of arrest and long-
term detention” in North Korea, yet it had
not barred travel there.
dunes, it was easy to leave behind any sign
of other people.
One reason for Tottori’s absence of tour-
ists is its relative isolation. While Japan’s
system of shinkansen, or bullet trains,
makes travel around the country extremely
convenient, no lines stop in Tottori. But it is
just over an hour by plane from Tokyo
Haneda Airport, and there is a convenient
bus that connects the airport in Tottori to
the center of the modest city.
Most hotels and restaurants are in the
center of town, and the dunes are reachable
by city bus as well as taxis. As the Tokyo bu-
reau chief for The New York Times, I had
come to report on the Sand Museum, where
artists from around the world assemble ev-
ery year to build massive sculptures from
the distinctively moldable sand. The mu-
seum is open to the public from April
through early January, and it is a delightful
place to marvel at what sand can do in the
hands of skillful artisans.
The dunes are protected as a national
park, and there is no charge to climb them.
It’s a great workout for the thighs — in some
places the sand reaches 165 feet. As in many
places we go in Japan, I was impressed by
the number of fit elderly people who could
keep up with the rest of us.
Although the dunes stretch for 10 miles
along the coast, most visitors seem to stick
to a fairly narrow area, climbing a steep hill
next to a lagoon. Even the people watching
was fun: We saw a man climbing in a busi-
STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
“This news has been expected but never-
theless is something of a shock, and we’re
sorry for anyone who had planned a trip or
who had hoped to visit and who now will not
be permitted to do so,” Koryo Tours, one of
several companies that offer tours to North
Korea, said in a statement in anticipation of
the ban. The company, which is based in
Beijing, said that it will continue taking
American citizens to other far-flung desti-
nations, including Tajikistan, Turkmeni-
stan, Mongolia and the Russian Far East.
A handful of operators have lead Ameri-
cans on tours to North Korea, including Lu-
pine Travel, which is based in Britain; Uri
Tours, based in New Jersey; and Young Pio-
neer Tours, based in China.
Young Pioneer, the company that took
Mr. Warmbier to North Korea on a five-day
tour, advertised “budget travel to destina-
tions your mother would rather you stayed
away from.” In January 2016, Mr. Warmbier
was about to board a plane home when he
was detained at the Pyongyang airport. He
was convicted weeks later of trying to steal
a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15
years of prison and hard labor. He was re-
turned to the United States this year in a
HEADS UP JAPAN
ness suit with a briefcase, as well as a group
of millennials dressed in pink bodysuits
kicking around a pink ball. And, well, why
not?
At the peak, my 10-year-old son enjoyed
hurtling himself off the top of the dunes, try-
ing to see how airborne he could get.
Those who want more of that flying feel-
ing can get their feet off the ground at Tot-
tori Sakyu Sand Board School (like snow-
boards, but for sand) or try paragliding with
the Tottori Sand Dunes Paragliding School.
For sand boarding, you get a board, a hel-
Pedestrians passing a large
nationalist painting in
Pyonyang, North Korea.
Restrictions
amid escalating
tensions between
two countries.
The sand dunes of Tottori, on
the west coast of Japan, are the
largest that are accessible to
visitors. At the Sand Museum,
artists come from around the
world every year to create
massive sculptures.
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coma, and died on June 19. He was 22.
Young Pioneer Tours said that Mr. Warm-
bier’s death had led it to reconsider its posi-
tion on accepting American tourists, and
that it would no longer organize tours for
American citizens to North Korea. “There
had not been any previous detainment in
North Korea that has ended with such
tragic finality and we have been struggling
to process the result,” the company said in a
statement. “Now, the assessment of risk for
Americans visiting North Korea has be-
come too high.”
The State Department does not track the
number of American travelers to North Ko-
rea, but tour operators have estimated that
it is about a few hundred each year. The ma-
jority of tourists are Chinese.
Han Chol-Su, a vice director of the Won-
san Zone Development Corporation, which
is promoting tourism on the east coast of
North Korea, told Agence France-Presse in
Pyongyang that the loss of business as a re-
sult of the United States ban would not hurt
North Korea. “If the U.S. government says
Americans cannot come to this country, we
don’t care a bit,” he said.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KO SASAKI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
met and about two minutes of instruction in
how to bend your knees, grab your thighs
and slide down a steep slope that bottoms
out at the ocean. My son and husband
caught on quickly, though they both had
some spectacular wipeouts that left their
faces covered in sand.
They also tried paragliding, carrying
their parachutes on their backs on the walk
from the boardwalk to the dunes. With a
group of about a dozen others, they each
took three or four flights during two hours
on the dunes.
We had an extra day and decided to ven-
ture away from the dunes, catching a bus to
Uradome beach, which my 12-year-old
daughter had scoped out on Instagram. As
we walked from the bus stop down to the
coastline and glimpsed the sea between Ja-
pan and the Korean Peninsula, we spotted a
coffee sign and stepped into the charming
Nijinoki Cafe, where Brazilian jazz played
on a turntable and architectural magazines
were piled neatly on a bench. The coffee
was delicious, too.
The husband and wife who worked be-
hind the counter told us of a “secret” beach,
so we decided to skip Uradome and explore.
It was about a 25-minute walk east, where
we found a trail to Kumaihama Beach. And
indeed, when we arrived in the cove of tur-
quoise water and soft pale sand, we enjoyed
that rare treat in Japan: We were the only
people there.
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THEME PARK

The Valley of

Pandora’s Park
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The Floating Mountains Pandoran Plants Na’vi River Journey

The first thing likely to catch a visitor’s eye is the
cluster of floating mountains that hovers over the
land’s center. Waterfalls cascade from them, and
their peaks hold mystery. Twenty-two of these
mountains are scattered about, and each is unique.
A group of more than 60 artists worked on
hand-carving the rock on the mountains and
connecting them with greenery in a way to give
the impression that they’re defying gravity.
Walkways give you different angles to approach
them and walk right under them as well. There’s
water everywhere too, an overwhelming gush of
nature pouring out.
Even the world’s most knowledgeable botanists
won’t be able to name many of the plants on
Pandora. In their attention to vivid detail,
Imagineers invented 20 main species of plants and
dozens more subspecies. So explorers of the area
will come across dapophet, which looks like aloe
vera, or goblin thistle, which has a twisted trunk
and bluish leaves, among many more. Some
invented plants sit next to real ones, and it is
sometimes difficult to tell which is which. They
have rich colors during the day, but at night they
are illuminated. The plants are also interwoven
with one another, so the light emanating from them,
as well as from the ground beneath visitors, all
communicates in a warm glow.
If you won’t be around the park at night but still
want to see some plants glow, the Na’vi River
Journey ride is the best bet. Imagineers wanted to
make Pandora seem like a real place, not a theme
park, so they didn’t put up garish ride signs.
Instead, the entrance to the ride has a Na’vi totem
in front of it guiding guests to the entrance. In this
dark ride, passengers hop in a reed boat that takes
them on a bioluminescent rain forest expedition
that is both thrilling and a little trippy. The plants
shine in bright neon colors, and then riders come
in contact with the animatronic figure the Na’vi
Shaman of Songs. Joe Rohde, a senior executive
with Walt Disney Imagineering, said that it is one
of the most advanced examples of robotics to be
found on a theme park ride. “It is absolutely
cutting-edge in terms of the emotive illusory
capacity to appear to be a living being,” he said.
Visitors can explore th
By MEKADO MURPHY
The first time I saw the 2009 film “Avata
was pulled into its world. The gorgeous
itat of the moon of Pandora was rich
alive onscreen in a way that made me fe
if I were there, able to touch its floa
mountains.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom aspires
recreate that experience, a tall order. T
is an inherent challenge of transporting
world to a theme park: The movie’s N
inhabitants had to contend with
perwolves in the forest, while visitor
Pandora: The World of Avatar mostly h

KS FLORIDA
f Mo’ara, above, includes scenery and attractions inspired by the film “Avatar,”
such as the floating mountains, below, that dot Pandora’s sky.
he world of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ in a new addition
to Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
to contend with crowds and lines. But the
world aims to give fans of the film (and
ar,” I young fans in the making) the same jaw-
hab- dropping, immersive experience that they
and came away with after watching the movie
eel as the first time.
ating Did they pull it off? The answer is a re-
sounding yes. When I visited the park in the
s to spring, I was as wowed as I was the first
here time I donned those 3-D glasses to catch it
g the on the big screen. A team of Imagineers —
Na’vi employees of Walt Disney Imagineering,
vi- which handles design and development —
rs to worked closely with the film’s director,
have James Cameron, and its producer, Jon Lan-
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dau, to transport guests to the place where
the mountains are floating and the flowers
are glowing. This Pandora is set a genera-
tion after the events of the first film and its
coming sequels. The bad guys from the Re-
sources Development Administration, the
movie’s eco-unfriendly mining group, have
left Pandora’s Valley of Mo’ara. What’s left
is sustained nature and Na’vi in communion
with it. That includes, of course, some of the
most memorable touchstones: the floating
mountains, the bioluminescent forests and
the flying banshees. Below is a look at how
the park incorporated those, and much
more.
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Avatar Flight of Passage Na’vi Drum Ceremony
More state-of-the-art thrills can be found on the This area is called Swotu Wayä, a sacred place of
ride Avatar Flight of Passage, which takes viewers song for the Na’vi. The instruments are built into a
on a simulated ride on a banshee, the aerial tree’s root structure, creating resonant chambers.
predator that the Na’vi bond with. The ride uses a It allows guests to communicate through song
swerving seat and 3-D glasses to make you feel as with Eywa, the goddess of the Na’vi. When they
if you’re really there. Weta, the New Zealand play the drums, they get a response back from her.
effects company responsible for many of the Also during the day, a trio of local performers
original feature’s eye-popping visuals, did the plays on the drums and showcases what the
animation. As you fly through the air, wind blows instruments are capable of doing.
into your face. Deeper in the forest, that distinct
smell of damp soil is pumped into the air. And
when your banshee gets near water, drops of it hit
you. The machine beneath your seat and between
your legs expands and contracts to give the
impression that the banshee is breathing
underneath you. These details help make this
simulation successful in transporting you there.
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turbing for a little girl and her younger
brother? There was less talk, in those days,
about what was or wasn’t “appropriate” for
children, less worry that they would be per-
manently damaged by a frightening story
or film or, in this case, an amusement-park
ride. I assume that Cleo thought what I
thought: that it looked like fun.
It was the Spook-a-Rama, one of the
“dark rides” then popular at Coney Island
and other amusement parks. The small cars
moved haltingly, stopping and starting,
along tracks that ran through dimly lit tun-
nels, accompanied by appropriate sound-
tracks — groans, screams — and punctuat-
ed by the appearance of mechanized ax
murderers, devils and corpses leaping out
of the shadows.
Within moments I understood that I had
been tricked by the laughing clown. The
tunnel was dark, a skeleton sprang from the
wall, then a masked figure jumped out,
wielding an ax. I heard a shriek; something
lunged at us. I closed my eyes and buried
my head in Cleo’s lap. I started to scream
and didn’t stop.
I’ve read that, in those days, the ride
lasted 10 minutes, which seemed like 10
hours. Ten years. I shrieked the entire time,
hoping only to drown out the recorded
screams, mumbles, groans and clanking
chains, willing the ride to end.
That night, I couldn’t sleep. I kept visu-
alizing the ghosts and goblins and crazed
killers I had seen in the Spook-a-Rama. I
imagined even worse things, horrors I had-
n’t seen: the creatures that must have been
menacing us while my eyes were closed.
I hardly slept for the next three nights. I
kept waking in tears, from nightmares that
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this property in the heart of downtown San
Francisco opened as the Axiom after about
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once home to the Powell Hotel. The tech
touches are laudable — iPad check-ins, fast
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bles featuring places for each diner to plug
in a gadget, for example.
Location
Two blocks from the restaurants and shops
of Union Square and steps from the historic
cable car turnaround at Powell and Market
Streets, the hotel is centrally located. About
20 minutes by car from San Francisco Inter-
national Airport and near the Powell Street
BART stop, it’s also a short walk from
Moscone Center, the convention and exhib-
ition complex, and the Financial District.
The Room
My “Nano Queen,” the basic category, had
the feel of a dimly lit box. The queen-size
bed took up most of the room, which had
cream walls and nondescript brown fur-
nishings on a sleek dark floor. My solo slen-
der window looked out on an internal court-
yard, open to the sky. Though optimistically
labeled the Light Well, the courtyard cast
only a scant amount of natural light into the
room. The alarm clock, kitted out with plugs
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SUMMER FIRSTS
took me back to the Spook-a-Rama. It
seemed important to keep it secret. If I told
anyone, it would mean that it had been real.
Finally, my mother managed to get the
story out of me. She comforted me, she told
me the things I’d seen weren’t real, it was
only a ride, I was safe, in my own house, my
own bed. She told me whatever grown-ups
tell a child to calm her down: whatever
works. And it did work. I relaxed, I slept. I
don’t recall my parents criticizing Cleo for
taking two young children on the Spook-a-
Rama. Those were, as I’ve said, different
times.
My brother says he has a memory of our
little car crashing through the doors at the
entrance to the ride. But that’s all he recalls.
He thinks he’s blocked out the rest.
Looking back, I realize: That was the first
time I understood — in a way that was at
once inchoate and perfectly clear — that
there were things from which the grown-
ups couldn’t protect me. Or, perhaps more
accurately: There were things they didn’t
know enough to protect me from.
Fast-forward more than half a century. In
2015, the Brooklyn Museum mounted an ex-
hibition of art inspired by, and relating to,
Coney Island. Included among the photos
was Diane Arbus’s 1961 “The House of Hor-
rors, Coney Island, N.Y.,” a dark interior
shot of the Spook-a-Rama.
For me, the photo was a look at my child-
hood nightmare, my private trauma cap-
tured and returned to me in a form that
proved that I hadn’t imagined it, nor had it
been a dream. What made it all the more
striking and complicated is that the photo —
shiny metal tracks snaking through the de-
serted tunnel past a skeleton, a toothy goril-
la, a painted owl, a devil, a figure dressed in
a straw hat and (improbably!) a bikini,
brandishing a scythe — is extraordinarily
AXIOM HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO
for charging various devices, and the com-
fortable robe made of sweatshirt-like fabric
were nice touches — as was the ability to
order room service and sync your phone to
listen to your own music via the 48-inch
LED Smart TV.
The Bathroom
The space was surprisingly large — its foot-
print was about one-third of the size of the
bedroom and included a spacious glass-
walled shower and an expansive sink area.
The bamboo-lemongrass shampoos and
soaps by Lather were refreshingly tangy.
Amenities
A gym, a 1,000-square-foot meeting room
and a closet of a business center with two
BROOKLYN
beautiful. Like all of Arbus’s work, it sug-
gests that we can see into another world,
another life, another psyche, if we only look
hard enough — or let her do the looking for
us.
Arbus fans can well imagine that she
would have been drawn to Coney Island.
Her subjects there, in addition to the Spook-
a-Rama, included an arguing couple, their
disagreement so theatrical that you can
practically hear the woman berating her
grimly closemouthed male companion. Si-
multaneously funny and grotesque, “Wax
Museum Strangler, Coney Island, N.Y.,” fea-
tures a wax museum tableau of a killer
choking his hapless female victim. In a let-
ter to her daughter Doon, quoted in “Diane
Arbus Revelations,” a collection of Arbus’s
photos and written texts — she wrote, “I
spent hours in the waxworks watching little
kids and pregnant women staring bug-eyed
at the ghouls and murderers, and next week
I will be able to visit the lit up interior of one
of those spook rides which I have wanted to
see all my life.”
I became obsessed with Diane Arbus’s
photo of the Spook-a-Rama. I finally man-
aged to buy a print, which now hangs in my
bedroom. Often I stand for a long time,
watching the changing afternoon light pick
out details: the gleam of the serpentine rails
that grow brighter and dimmer depending
on the hour of day. Sometimes the “horrify-
ing” figures look cheesy, comic, absurdly
over the top. And sometimes they look as
frightening as they did when I was a child,
or perhaps I am only recalling how fright-
ened I was then.
Works of art (a painting or photo, a novel
or poem or play, a symphony or song) can
serve as bridges to the past, connecting us
to a distant time. And for me, Arbus’s
“House of Horrors, Coney Island, N.Y.”
seems like a private bridge that no one else
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computers and a printer were in the base-
ment, though the mezzanine level boasted a
station of vintage arcade games and a foos-
ball table. The lobby had a cozy library
(which doubled as the reception area) lined
with books on San Francisco food, architec-
ture and culture. The cheeriness of the hotel
was charming, if a bit excessive at times —
staff members wore name tags that de-
scribed their personal passions. Jarnetta,
the receptionist, for example, loves “shower
singing.”
Dining
The Turn Cafe in the lobby provided room
service and its offerings included Kilobytes
(small plates) such as coconut shrimp and
kale chips, Megabytes (sandwiches) and
The ride lasted
10 minutes, which
seemed like 10 hours.
Ten years. I shrieked
the entire time.
Summer Firsts
Articles in this series are
focusing on first-time summer
experiences.
Rooms at the Axiom
offer high-tech
touches, but some
could do with more
natural light.
AMREE WEAVER
can cross in precisely the same way. Look-
ing at the photo, I can’t help thinking that
my trip through the Spook-a-Rama had
something to do with my (much) later deci-
sion to become a writer. Perhaps, for me, the
Spook-a-Rama was the equivalent of
Proust’s madeleine. Perhaps I have always
wanted to recapture that moment lost in
time, not so much the terror as the thrill, the
exhilaration of having left the familiar,
known world for ... a more imaginative,
weirder and ultimately more interesting
place.
Not long ago, I stood with my grand-
daughters — ages 10 and 6 — in my bed-
room, in front of “The House of Horrors, Co-
ney Island, N.Y.” I told them about the photo
and about my connection to it. I watched
them trying to see as far as they could, deep
into the photograph, farther into the fun
house than Arbus takes us. They both said
that the picture was funny. I think they
sensed what a powerful image it is. But hav-
ing grown up with 3-D films, both of them
passionate fans of the truly scary screen
version of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline,” they
found it hard to believe that these crudely
painted figures could have terrified their
grandmother, at any age, for one second.
As we talked about the photo, I felt a rush
of gratitude: to Cleo, for having taken me to
Coney Island; to my mother, for having
comforted and cured an insomniac daugh-
ter; and to Diane Arbus, for having alche-
mized a funky dark ride into a work of art.
Most of all, I felt thankful for the turns my
life has taken, steering me in a direction and
to a destination where I could treasure the
way in which art can focus on a place, an
experience, a moment, and preserve it so
that (again like Proust’s madeleine) it tran-
scends the effects of time, and remains alive
and available to us, and to those who will
come after.
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Gigabytes (burgers). My burger order ar-
rived within 30 minutes — handily deliv-
ered in a paper bag. Breakfast at the cafe
meant eating at a table in the lobby walk-
way, in the fray of the morning hubbub. Egg
dishes and healthy options like avocado
toast filled the menu. The Sexi Mexi (fried
egg on a bed of chorizo, tomato and onions,
with queso fresco and tortilla) that the serv-
er highly recommended was delicious.
Bottom Line
A centrally located hotel with handy ameni-
ties.
CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN
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Axiom Hotel, 28 Cyril Magnin Street, San
Francisco; 415-392-9466; axiomhotel.com
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1 2 P.M. EDIFY YOURSELF
The Anchorage Museum ($15, adults), with
its cool, white-sheathed building, is a mixed
bag. Tools and clothing of Alaska’s native
populations — everything from fishing
floats to woven grass socks — are amaz-
ingly crafted, but there’s not enough de-
tailed context for visitors. More moving is “I
Am Inuit,” a photo exhibit by Brian Adams,
that documents the Inuit people of the far
north, and their stories (on display through
Sept. 3). A planned expansion will add
25,000 square feet of gallery space to the ex-
isting 170,000, and will most likely bolster
the museum as a place to linger. (Tip: In ad-
dition to the gift shop, there are very im-
pressive crafts at the Alaska Native Medical
Center shop, where native Alaskans sell
their works. Call ahead for hours, 907-729-
1122.)
•
2 7:30 P.M. SOUTH, UP NORTH
The menu at South is all over the map, offer-
ing everything from tapas ($4 to $18) to the
“butter burger” ($14), which is what it
sounds like. You usually cannot go wrong
with Alaskan staples like seared salmon
($29) with roasted local potatoes. South
takes pride in its “Barcelona-style” gin and
tonics ($13.50), enhanced by herbs and
berries. The Amalfi Coast tweaks the classic
gin and tonic with cilantro, lemon, cubeb
berries, chile threads and orange bitters.
Reservations are a good idea.
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3 10:30 P.M. DRINK IN THE VIEW
It’s neither new nor hidden, but even long-
time Anchorage residents say they take vis-
iting friends for a drink at the Crow’s Nest,
on the 20th floor of the Hotel Captain Cook.
The service is excellent, as are the views of
the water and mountains. Situated in the
center of the restaurant, the bar is elevated
several feet, so you get an unobstructed
view over diners while you sip your Sazerac
and drink in the view under the lingering
northern sun. Reservations recommended
for dinner.
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Lake Road; kincaidgrill.com
11 Jack Sprat, 165 Olympic
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Saturday whole wheat ($3.50), and sourdough
breads. “What really keeps people coming
Beyond the parking lot lies an oddly quiet,
candlelit space that serves great seafood:
Kincaid Grill. You will pay for that excel-
here, though, are the scones and chocolate-
•
4 8 A.M. FUEL UP
Head to the Spenard neighborhood and
chip cookies,” Mr. Watt said.
lence: The fresh-caught halibut special on a
recent visit was $44. The half-dozen Kodiak
Island scallops on a bed of risotto ($30)
grab a cappuccino at Kaladi Brothers Cof-
fee, the excellent local coffee roasters. Then
wander a few doors down to Middle Way
• 7 2 P.M. SPIN THE SEASHORE
Outside is where Anchorage shines. Even if
don’t disappoint, and neither does the wine
list, with two dozen pours by the glass. Din-
ner only; reservations recommended.
Café. The popular local joint in a strip mall you have only an hour or two, the best,
often features seasonal local ingredients quickest escape is to hop on the Tony
and offers vegan and gluten-free items (a Knowles Coastal Trail, a beloved public trail
vegan Reuben sandwich, for instance, is
$12). There is something here for everyone,
that winds along the waters of Knik Arm
and Cook Inlet for 11 miles. Rent a bike at
Sunday
though, including avocado toast topped
with meats like Alaskan reindeer sausage
Pablo’s Bicycle Rentals downtown ($10 to
$15 an hour), catch the paved trail a block •
11 9 A.M. GET OUTTA TOWN
There’s a saying here: “Alaska is 30 minutes
($12). away and start pedaling toward wooded
Kincaid Park (itself home to about 15 miles outside of Anchorage.” Grab a coffee and
of single-track mountain-bike trails). The drive 40 miles southeast along the Alaska
•
5 10 A.M. HEAD FOR THE HILLS
The eastern backdrop of Anchorage, the
mostly flat trail soon enters glades of ferns
and birch where you might see a moose. On
Scenic Byway that skirts Turnagain Arm, to
the resort village of Girdwood, home of
a recent ride I saw a black bear and her Alyeska Resort. Housed in a Swiss-feeling
Chugach Mountains, hold many hiking op-
tions, from the steep-and-gorgeous Bird
Ridge to the fun scramble of O’Malley Peak.
cubs. The tide flats over your shoulder are
your constant companion. So is the smell of
alder. It is the smell of Alaska.
chalet at the bottom of the ski hill, with sun-
light and reggae music filtering down
through the blond rafters, Jack Sprat
If you want to take a quick hike to amazing
(motto: “fat and lean world cuisine”) serves
views, and don’t mind crowds, head to Flat-
an inspired brunch with a menu that skips
top Mountain, among the most popular
hikes in the state. The summit requires a
• 8 4:30 P.M.
Anchorage rarely gets hot — the average
SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM
around the globe. Items include bibimbap
and chia muesli with almond milk, also
200-foot scramble. But you don’t need to do high temperature in August is 64 degrees.
that to enjoy views of Denali and the moun- house-made ($9).
But that is warm enough for ice cream.
tains, with the waters of Turnagain Arm and Drop by Wild Scoops, where Elissa Brown
the city laid at your feet (not to mention
feasts of dwarf blueberries in late summer).
serves up her small-batch ice cream. Fear
not: the line moves fast, as Ms. Brown
•
12 11 A.M. NO BINOCULARS NEEDED
The drive along Turnagain Arm deserves a
Want a guide to provide commentary or to scoops out flavors that often feature local in-
calm your bear-anoia? Try Ascending Path. gredients, like blueberries from Talkeetna, spot as one of the most spectacular in the
and Alaskan birch syrup for the zingy birch- United States. Drive 11 more miles to the end
of the arm until you reach another Alaskan
•
6 1 P.M. BAKED BLISS
“First-timers get a cookie,” said the young
chipotle nuts. A scoop of the Alaska spruce
tip ($4, but a buck more will get you a waffle must-see: animals. The Alaska Wildlife
Conservation Center ($15) is a sanctuary of
cone scented with cinnamon and star anise,
more than 200 acres that takes in injured
woman behind the counter at Fire Island and, really, why not?) will transport you to a
wild animals that cannot be returned to na-
Rustic Bakeshop, presenting a pretty great stroll through a damp spring forest.
ture — creatures such as Venetie, an or-
chocolate chip. You like this place even be-
phaned lynx found as a kitten after a wild-
fore ordering the porchetta sandwich with
its cracklings and orange zest ($11), or the
bread pudding studded with golden raisins
• 9 6 P.M. A LITTLE MERMAID
The Bubbly Mermaid could feel right at
fire. The nonprofit facility has animals in
large enclosures, from musk oxen to brown
($4.50). This year, the James Beard Foun- home in Brooklyn or Seattle. It hits the bears. Signs are full of smart, gee-whiz fac-
dation tapped the head baker, Carlyle Watt, mark between trendy and twee. The center- toids. (Musk oxen qiviut, or underwool, is,
as a semifinalist for outstanding baker. His piece of the tiny space is the bar, formed apparently, the warmest fiber on earth.) Be-
skill is evident in a range of items, like or- from a chunk of a former fishing boat. Ask hind-the-scenes tours and other programs
ganic croissants, which have a touch of the blue-eyed mermaid standing in the bow are available by reservation.

Bites Aina S A N F R A N C IS C O

Hawaiian Fare Is Served (but Pineapple Is Not!)

Just after dawn in Dogpatch, Aina is drawing a crowd to a Valley Farm).
on San Francisco’s east side, a corner space in San Francisco But there are plenty of native Hawaiian
golden light falls on parked with its popular brunch menu. dishes, like pipikaula, a type of Hawaiian
Tesla Model S’s and on bloom- beef jerky here made with shoyu-cured
ing mountain laurels and, at an hour when short rib and accessorized with puffed
the air is still touched by a chill, on a crowd for Mr. Keao that means a lot of air miles. paiai, or taro root. Even better-known
that forms most mornings on the corner of Take, for example, one of the most popu- dishes like poke are creatively tweaked:
22nd and Minnesota Streets. That is where lar items on the brunch menu, a maximalist Aina’s comes with limu (Hawaiian algae),
Aina, a modern Hawaiian restaurant whose version of French toast that arrives buried inamona (a relish made of kukui nuts),
brunch has spawned a citywide mania, under a macadamia nut crumble, salted fresh hearts of palm, smoked sesame oil,
opened last year in April in a small light- coconut caramel, a spray of fresh strawber- shiso and sea grass. (Mr. Keao is planning a
flooded corner space. ries, a cloud of vanilla whipped cream and tasting menu for later this summer.)
Aina’s chef, a tall 30-year-old man with a a few leaves of mint. The bread itself, sweet But there is one ingredient you will not
broad smile named Jordan Keao, grew up and soft, is flown in weekly from Punaluu find at Aina: pineapple. That it came to be
in the rural hinterlands of the Big Island of Bake Shop, a century-old bakery on the so associated with the island, Mr. Keao
Hawaii. After a stint at the celebrated Bay southern tip of Hawaii. Also flown in is the said, “is infuriating.” For Hawaiians, pine-
Area restaurant La Folie, Mr. Keao labored poi, or taro root paste, and the fresh hearts apple has a painful colonial history. (The
in Silicon Valley, running the Hangout Cafe of palm, which are served pickled, roasted, fruit was popularized in Hawaii by the
at Google for a time. But he missed the fresh and fermented. Cords of kiawe, a American Dole family after Sanford Dole
heady mash-up of the food on which he was Hawaiian hardwood, arrive weekly; Mr. helped overthrow Hawaii's queen.)
raised and bristled at the ignorance in Keao uses it to smoke fish, meat and vege-
“I’m here to challenge people about what
which his ancient culture was held. tables.
they think they know about Hawaii,” Mr.
“The only thing anyone knew about Aina’s menu is both international and Keao said, “and teach them about the land I
Hawaiian culture out here,” he said, “was uniquely Hawaiian. It courses with the
love.”
pineapple and ham on a pizza.” often fractious history of the island. Influ-
JOSHUA DAVID STEIN
Thus Aina was born. The name comes ences include Portuguese (plump guava-
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from a Hawaiian concept that conveys love stuffed doughnuts called malasadas), Japa-
Aina, 900 22nd Street; 415-814-3815; ainasf
of the land. Since the 38-seat restaurant is nese (bento boxes and furikake rice) and .com. An average dinner for two, without drinks
about 2,300 miles from the land he loves, ALLIE TONG/ALLIE.EATS American (artisanal Spam from Stone or tip, is about $75.
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crowds. “When I first started cooking, ev-
erybody wanted the exotic. Ostrich was go-
ing to be the next red meat. Now they want
to know what you buy locally. They want to
know how far the farm is from the hotel.”
Mr. Palmeri, 54, has been the executive
chef at Mohonk for 10 years, and although
he long had an interest in local products, the
volume needed at a resort that serves more
than 500,000 meals a year was a hurdle.
“In the old days they’d bring us a box of
lettuce and half of it was dirt and grubs,” he
said. “And as nice as that sounds we can’t
have a guy just cleaning lettuce.”
But new purveyors brought new opportu-
nities to showcase Hudson Valley products,
and “the next challenge for me is to imple-
ment more of that into the dining experi-
ence.”
By training and temperament, Mr. Palm-
eri is well suited for the job of redefining
Mohonk menus. After graduating from the
culinary program at Kendall College in Illi-
nois, he worked primarily at large hotels,
many with well-regarded restaurants. He
was the executive chef at six Hyatt proper-
ties, from Coral Gables, Fla., to Grand Cay-
man Island, and jokes that he and his wife
found themselves in balmy locales because
of a “palm tree rule” they serendipitously
ended up following.
When he arrived in New Paltz, where the
trees lean toward pine and maple, Mr. Palm-
eri had to “get my head around” Mohonk.
Unlike resorts and hotels with multiple op-
tions — or proximity to cities with plenty of
good restaurants — Mohonk has one dining
room for dinner. (That room, which was
first used in 1893, is grand; the ceilings are
as high as 23 feet 10 inches.)
“There’s no choice for our guests, really,”
he said. “We have one opportunity, the din-
ner menu, to make someone from the city
feel that they’ve had a good meal, or some-
one who wants a steak and potato and that’s
it.”
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS Mr. Palmeri did
was address the kitchen’s “low, low staffing
levels,” adding cooks to a crew that included
Joe Serrecchio (35 years), the butcher, and
Greg Becker (37 years), who makes all of
the deeply flavored soups. For his stocks,
most of which are made in 40-gallon pots,
Mr. Becker gets 900 pounds of veal bones a
week and 400 pounds of chicken.
Mr. Palmeri’s second in command is
Steve Anson, the executive sous-chef, who
began at Mohonk as a banquet chef, left for
several years to be the executive chef at a
boutique hotel in Lake George, N.Y., and re-
turned in 2011. Another returning alum is
the pastry chef Audrey Billups, who was at
Mohonk when Mr. Palmeri began; he
helped arrange for her to work at the Addi-
son, the acclaimed restaurant in San Diego
(stints at Marea and Ai Fiori in New York
City followed).
With an expanded team — there can be as
many as 70 staff members during the sum-
mer in a kitchen that is quiet only between
midnight and 3:30 a.m. — Mr. Palmeri set
about elevating the food. Mohonk began
making its own pasta two and a half years
ago. It also started smoking brisket, bacon,
pork belly and other meats. And Ms. Billups
has transformed the desserts: lemon-
thyme posset with shortbread, apple
brown-sugar cheesecake with apple cider
caramel and a dusting of brown butter sug-
ar.
But the most significant change has been
the profusion of New York State products
from suppliers like Farms2Tables, which
delivers produce and meats from more than
90 Hudson Valley farmers, and Finger-
Lakes Farms (70 Normandy ducks a week).
“We can get all these things now easily,”
Mr. Palmeri said of the local produce and
poultry. “Before, we were so busy and we
were short-staffed, so you had to give your
attention to the most pressing thing, which
was surviving the day.” (Of course, not ev-
erything is local; no one is pulling sea bass
and blue cod out of Lake Mohonk.)
Last summer, Mohonk introduced a
Chef’s Table meal in the kitchen, with seat-
ing for eight. It is a chance for the chefs to
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show what they can do but not show off
(Mohonk is not braggy): 11 courses, match-
ing wines, spirited group, total fun. On the
night I went, the procession included a silky
cylinder of Hudson Valley foie gras with
compressed apples and plum compote; a
poached local egg with hollandaise foam
and English muffin crumbles; a smoked sea
scallop and velvety Iberico lardo atop pota-
to cream; and a crisp-skinned Finger Lakes
duck breast with sherry sauce and duck-
confit tortellini. As J. K. Rowling wrote of
the dishes that awaited Harry Potter at
Hogwarts: “He had never seen so many
things he liked to eat on one table.”
And then there were desserts, which in-
cluded vanilla wafer cones filled with
Chambord ice cream made tableside by Mr.
Anson, and a showstopper orchestrated by
Ms. Billups. After the table was covered
with a white plastic mat (“a blank canvas,”
she said), Ms. Billups spooned and scat-
tered the following for each diner (this a
partial list but you’ll get the picture): hot
fudge sauce, pistachio sabayon, an ounce of
warm chocolate cake, cubes of amaretto
gelée. It was a finger-painting with one
burst of flavor — sweet, tart, tangy — after
another.
At meal’s end, Mr. Palmeri and Mr. Anson
said a modest good night and did a slow fade
out of the kitchen à la Rick Blaine and Louis
Renault — “Casablanca” but with stock-
pots.
Mr. Palmeri’s latest project is the rethink-
ing of the Granary, the cliff-top outdoor
restaurant. This year, there is flavorful
grass-fed beef in the burgers, and savory
chicken, both from the region.
“The Granary is outdoor barbecue,” Mr.
Palmeri said. “It should all be local, right?”
None of this happened overnight, which
is in keeping with Mohonk, where it’s not
supposed to (employees were still harvest-
ing ice from the lake in 1965). One of the ho-
tel’s infinite charms is how steadfast it is.
There have never been televisions in
rooms. A sign tells guests that “horseplay”
Now diners ‘want to
know how far the farm
is from the hotel.’
is prohibited at what is still called the
bathing beach. Meditation sessions are held
every morning. Tea and cookies are served
each afternoon in the Lake Lounge.
You go back to Mohonk looking forward
to doing the things you did the last time:
strolling on a trail or scrambling up the
rocks to Sky Top Tower, with a sweeping
view of the cliff called the Trapps. Finding
serenity on a bench in one of the scores of
gazebos known as summerhouses (the
view from Huntington Lookout is spectacu-
lar). Making a paper lantern in an afternoon
craft session. Piling into the Parlor after
dinner to see the ventriloquist Sylvia
Fletcher or to venture an answer in a rock
’n’ roll quiz conducted by Bruce Morrow,
PURSUITS NEW YORK
a.k.a. the longtime D.J. Cousin Brucie. (I
won a Gladys Knight & the Pips CD; totally
wanted it.)
ANY CHANGES to the place are deliberated
by the Smiley family.
The expansive spa, for one, was dis-
cussed for a decade before it opened in 2005.
As Eric Gullickson, the general manager
and a fifth-generation member of the Smi-
ley family, said, it’s important that Mohonk
is “not just reacting to something that’s a
trend.” (“Disruption” is not in the Mohonk
vocabulary.)
The small bar called the Carriage Lounge
was a similar story. Albert Smiley, from a
temperate Quaker family, did not serve al-
cohol when he opened Mohonk in what had
previously been a 10-room tavern owned by
John Stokes, which most definitely did.
That didn’t mean some guests didn’t
drink. “They would bring these suitcase
travel bars to their room, and they would try
to get enough of a shine on to get them
through dinner and sometimes they over-
shot,” Mr. Palmeri said. “The way they
judged the captain in the dining room was,
was he able to carry a guest back to their
room?”
The dining room began serving liquor in
1970. The Carriage Lounge opened in 2005,
and Spirits on the Sunset, drinks on a broad
porch with the Catskill Mountains as back-
drop, in 2016.
The emphasis on local food, though, isn’t
a change as much as it’s a back-to-the-gar-
den moment. For decades Mohonk had its
own farms — at one time there were seven
From top: a western view from
the main dining room at
Mohonk Mountain House; a
roasted heirloom baby beet
salad; Steve Anson, the
executive sous chef; dinner at
the Chef’s Table in the kitchen,
a seating introduced last
summer.
IF YOU GO
Mohonk Mountain House (1000
Mountain Rest Road, New
Paltz, N.Y., mohonk.com) has
rooms from $660 in the sum-
mer, double occupancy (meals
and activities are included).
Chef’s Table dinner is a supple-
ment of $155 per person.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
— which provided food for its dining room.
(Mohonk Farms Milk was still listed on the
menu in 1958.) One farm, Mountain Rest, is
now part of the hilly Mohonk golf course,
and others, like Home Farm and Spring
Farm, have prominent places in the 85-mile
Mohonk trail system.
The kitchen’s recent focus on Hudson
Valley farms aligns with “health and well-
ness and nature and all the things that ema-
nate out of that,” Mr. Gullickson said.
“Mohonk is very much founded on those
principles,” he continued.
Whether they featured local items or not,
Mohonk’s menus, some of which are dis-
played at the vast Barn Museum on the
property, are a captivating chronicle of
American cooking.
For supper in the 1890s, guests could or-
der cornmeal mush and choose from 10 dif-
ferent kinds of cold meat, among them roast
beef and tongue. (The story goes that
Stokes’s tavern was known to serve pea-
cock, a dish Mohonk did not carry over to its
own dining operation.) There also was a list
of stomach-soothing waters, including Sar-
atoga Vichy and Apollinaris from Germany.
In 1934, straight out of Escoffier, poached
eggs Colbert (the recipe has them in a tart-
let with béchamel). Diners could get a leg of
veal with pan gravy in 1958 and, for a starter,
jellied turkey bouillon.
In 1972: sautéed frog legs Provençal,
creamed Welsh rabbit on a Holland rusk,
and, in a gust of brand names, “Hollywood
Diet Bread” and “Steamed Uncle Ben’s
Rice.”
For those interested in how those dishes
were prepared, a visit to the museum — Jim
Clark, curator — is in order. On display are a
swing churn for butter, a supersharp bread
slicer that worked like a guillotine for gluten
and a milkshake maker that really shook.
(“You don’t get a milk shake now,” Mr. Clark
said, hitting a Louis C. K. note. “You get a
blend!”)
MY FIRST VISIT to Mohonk was in 1987, when
my wife and I celebrated our first anniver-
sary on what we remember as a muddy
May weekend. Our dinner orders have been
lost to time, but we were so taken with the
place — including the warmth of the long-
leaf-pine-walled main dining room — that
we have returned on a number of occasions
with our three children (first as grade-
schoolers, then as grown-ups), a grand-
mother or a passel of friends.
Dinner was always dependable and, in re-
cent years, became much more ambitious
and delicious. It wasn’t a thunderclap; true
to Mohonk tradition, Mr. Palmeri plays a
long game. (He also knows which flames to
keep — he loves Thanksgiving at Mohonk
— turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce.
“It really glows. I think it’s us at our best, to
be honest.”)
“Our goal is to have people come here for
the food,” Mr. Palmeri said. “Someone who
will remain nameless — they laughed at me
— they said, you can’t really think that, can
you? My response was: How could you not
expect me to?”
In late spring, Mr. Palmeri’s menus had a
honey-glazed local chicken with braised
leeks; a pan-roasted Millbrook venison loin
with a grand veneur (huntsman’s) sauce
made with gooseberry jam; and, from Ms.
Billups, a warm molasses cake with salted
caramel and citrus meringue.
There was also house-made pappardelle
pasta Bolognese, a dish that is close to Mr.
Palmeri’s heart.
Mr. Palmeri grew up in a large Italian
family in Greendale, a suburb of Milwau-
kee; his mother, Mary, was an accom-
plished cook who read Bon Appétit and
watched “The Galloping Gourmet.”
“I just fell in love with the passion that she
had for food,” he said.
Which is why the pappardelle and a sauce
made with 40 pounds of ground meat for
each batch is a regular on the Mohonk
menu, though Mr. Palmeri said there was
some initial skepticism in the kitchen about
offering a simple, if classic, pasta dish.
“Bolognese is something I’ve always
done, it’s one I grew up on,” he said. He
paused for a beat and smiled. “Bolognese
stays!”
It may not be farm-to-table but it is mom-
to-table, and sometimes that’s just as good.
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INVESTING INNOVATION JOBS SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

Above, the Phoenix complex in downtown Beloit, Wis. Below, Diane Hendricks, the second-richest woman in the United States.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNDON FRENCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Billionaire-Fueled Revival
Diane Hendricks and By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
BELOIT, WIS. — When Diane Hendricks sees
her late husband saw something she doesn’t like here, she buys it.
opportunity in the A bankrupt country club. A half-empty
mall. Abandoned buildings. The rusting
desolation of Beloit, an foundry down by the river.
Beloit used to be a town that made paper-
old industrial town. making machines and diesel engines. Ms.
Hendricks thinks it can be a place where
Now, she dreams of a start-ups create the next billion-dollar idea,
and she is remaking the town to fit her vi-
mecca for start-ups. sion. She can do so because she is the sec-
ond-richest woman in the United States, be-
hind only Marian Ilitch of Little Caesars
Pizza.
“I see old buildings, and I see an opportu-
nity for putting things in them,” says Ms.
Hendricks, 70, who got her start fixing up
houses here as a single mother and made
her billions selling roofing felt, copper gut-
ters and cement with her late husband.
Now Ms. Hendricks is fixing up Beloit.
She took the library from its historic loca-
tion downtown and resurrected it inside a
failing mall at the edge of town, replacing
the original with a performing arts center
where dance and music students from Be-
loit College can study and perform each
year. Then she scooped up nearly every
building on a downtown block and knocked
each one down, making way for a sushi
restaurant, a high-quality burger joint and
modern apartments with marble counter-
tops and exposed-brick walls.
She called the complex the Phoenix. “It
looks like we’re beautifying the city, but
we’re really beautifying the economy,” she
says, casting her piercing blue eyes out of
the window of her office in Ironworks, the
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FAIR GAME GRETCHEN MORGENSON

Making PayPal’s Numbers Shine How a Silicon Valley Firm

If you don’t count employee
stock grants as a cost, earnings
appear more impressive.
INVESTORS LIKED what they saw in Pay-
Pal’s second-quarter financial results, re-
ported by the digital and mobile payments
giant on July 26. Revenues grew to $3.14 bil-
lion in the quarter that ended in June, an in-
crease of 18 percent over the same period
last year. Total payment volume of $106 bil-
lion was up 23 percent, year over year.
Even better, PayPal’s favored earnings-
per-share measure — which it does not cal-
culate in accordance with generally ac-
cepted accounting principles, or GAAP —
came in at 46 cents per share, 3 cents more
than Wall Street analysts had expected. The
company has trained investors to focus on
this number, rather than on the less pretty
GAAP-compliant numbers most companies
are judged by. And focus they did.
Exceeding analysts’ estimates — “beat-
ing the number,” in Wall Street parlance —
is crucial for any corporate leader inter-
ested in keeping his or her stock price aloft.
Even the smallest earnings miss can send
shares tumbling.
Examining how a company meets or
ANDREW GOMBERT/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
beats analysts’ estimates, therefore, can be
illuminating.
PayPal’s stock has been on a tear this
year, up almost 50 percent since January. At
a recent $59, its shares are trading at over
40 times next year’s earnings estimates. It
is clearly an investor darling, providing all
the more reason to dig into its numbers.
Naturally, many factors contributed to
PayPal’s second-quarter earnings. But one
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Dan Schulman, chief
executive of PayPal,
taking a selfie after his
company’s initial public
offering in July 2015.
Is Aiding China’s Ambitions
Qualcomm helps a Beijing
market to build a better drone,
but not without U.S. unease.
By DAVID BARBOZA
As the Chinese government develops
drones, the American technology giant
Qualcomm is helping. The same goes for ar-
tificial intelligence, mobile technology and
supercomputers. Qualcomm is also work-
ing to help Chinese companies like Huawei
break into overseas markets in support of
China’s “go global” campaign to develop big
multinational brands.
Qualcomm is providing money, expertise
and engineering for Beijing’s master plan to
create its own technology superpowers.
Big American companies fiercely protect
their intellectual property and trade se-
crets, fearful of giving an edge to rivals. But
they have little choice in China — and Wash-
ington is looking on with alarm.
To gain access to the Chinese market,
American companies are being forced to
transfer technology, create joint ventures,
lower prices and aid homegrown players.
Those efforts form the backbone of Presi-
dent Xi Jinping’s ambitious plan to ensure
that China’s companies, military and gov-
ernment dominate core areas of technology
like artificial intelligence and semiconduc-
tors.
As concerns mount about Beijing’s indus-
trial policy, the Trump administration is
preparing a broad investigation into poten-
tial violations of American intellectual
property, according to people with knowl-
edge of the matter. Congress is also consid-
ering ways to restrict China’s ability to ac-
quire advanced technology by toughening
rules to prevent the purchase of American
assets and limit technology transfers.
In this arena, America’s economic inter-
ests are aligned with its national security
needs. The worry is that by teaming up with
China, American companies could be sow-
ing the seeds of their own destruction, as
well as handing over critical technology
that the United States relies on for its mili-
tary, space and defense programs.
Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett
Packard Enterprise are working with Chi-
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2 BU N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

The Chatter CORNER OFFICE BY ADAM BRYANT

“What’s not great

about a company that
keeps building?”
Brandon Williams, who applied for a job
at an Amazon fulfillment center during a
company hiring spree, on the benefits of
working for the home delivery giant.
“It provides exposure
in a way that patients
feel safe.”
Dawn Jewell, a psychologist, explaining
why virtual reality exposure therapy can
be so effective.
“It is a renaissance
moment for content.”
David M. Zaslav, chief executive of
Discovery, discussing how his company’s
merger with Scripps will bring its
programming to new territories.
“We are willing to pay
a good wage for stable,
skilled employees.”
Steven Lou, the developer of a new
Hyatt House in SeaTac, Wash.,
explaining how a high minimum wage is
not a deterrent to hiring.
How to Unlock Employee Potential
Michel Feaster
Chief Executive, Usermind
Q. Tell me about your parents.
A. I got a lot of my values from them. My
mom was born in Wiesbaden, after World
War II. She sued for independence from her
family when she was 14. She worked her
way through high school and college as a
maid working for the Bismarck family.
Then one day she decided she wanted to
come to America. She learned English by
watching television. She had a construction
company once but now works in nursing.
My father was an objector to the Vietnam
War — he was deferred and was sent to Leb-
anon for 18 months to teach English. He’s
very principled. He’s a professor now.
Were you in leadership roles early on?
No. I was kind of a nerd. I didn’t fit in. My
parents divorced when I was 8, and we relo-
cated to Providence. We were poor. We lived
in a bad section of the city, where we were
renovating an old house.
I remember thinking that I was going to
help support my mom and get her out of this
situation. I decided when I was 11 that I
would get straight A’s and go to Harvard. I
ended up getting into Harvard, but I
dropped out. I didn’t fit in.
What did you do?
I moved home and got a job at a conven-
ience store working overnight. I worked my
way up to running that store, and then I
managed a number of them, with about 50
or 60 employees.
A lot of my hiring philosophy comes from
that time. The people who applied for those
jobs were either high school or college kids
who wanted a part-time job, or they were
adults who weren’t really skilled workers.
It was fascinating to me that I couldn’t
predict who would be a good worker. I
would hire these clean-cut young kids, and
they would be lazy or not attentive to detail.
And then I would hire people who were in
their 50s who didn’t look put together. But
their commitment to the job was incredible.
I’ve learned that you hire based on what’s
inside people.
In start-ups, people who are great hires
have grit and tenacity, because it’s hard and
everything’s breaking all the time. It was a
real lesson about the dangers of judging
people based on appearances.
I ran those convenience stores for five
Each week, Adam Bryant talks with top execu-
tives about leadership. Follow him on Twitter:
@nytcorneroffice. This interview has been
edited for space and clarity.
years until my partner at the time told me
about a technical sales job at Compuware.
They taught me everything about tech, and
my whole life changed.
What have been some key leadership
lessons for you?
To me, the difference between leadership
and management is the commitment to un-
lock the employee. I’m passionate about
building teams and looking to understand
each person’s strengths and weaknesses,
and helping them see their strengths.
Most people don’t see themselves very
clearly. Our internal narratives prevent us
from seeing our superpowers and our
weaknesses. So it’s important to have men-
tors and leaders who are committed to help-
ing you see yourself more clearly.
My philosophy is about helping people
unlock what they’re really amazing at and
help them understand their weaknesses
enough to manage them, because you’re not
really going to change who you are.
What else?
I’ve learned that really intelligent people
operate best in a world where they have as
much context as possible. My role is to pro-
vide context constantly — what’s the plan,
and the why behind each decision so that
people can align their priorities.
What are your thoughts on building culture?
One thing I recognize now is that culture
isn’t about values; it’s about behaviors. And
I think people often confuse the two things. I
have values, and I am looking for certain
values in the people I hire.
But I think the best cultural lists are the
behaviors you want to cultivate. The prob-
lem with values like respect and courage is
that everybody interprets them differently.
They’re too ambiguous and open to inter-
pretation. Instead of uniting us, they can
create friction.
How do you hire?
As I mentioned earlier, the two things that
are most important to me are grit and integ-
rity. And integrity is a big word, but to me it
means telling the truth. It means doing
what you say you’re going to do. It also
means no politics, and that you’re not going
to put yourself above the company.
I often ask people questions like: “Was
there ever a time when a manager asked
you to do something that you weren’t com-
fortable with? How did you respond, and
why?” Or “Was there ever a situation where
you put yourself on the line because you
wanted to protect the company from some-
thing you thought was a bad deal?”
I also look for self-awareness. Most of the
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people I’ve had to fire did not have self-
awareness, so that when you give them
‘Most people don’t see
feedback, they don’t react well to it, which
means they’re never going to grow.
themselves very clearly. So I’ll ask, “Can you give me an example
of a time when a boss or peer gave you feed-
Our internal narratives
back that made you change your approach
prevent us from seeing to a situation?” I’ll also ask: “If there’s one
our superpowers and
thing that’s held you back in your career,
our weaknesses.’ what is it and why? What are you doing to
mitigate it?”
What career and life advice do you give to
new college grads?
I think school teaches you some wrong
lessons about life. You’re always graded on
everything, and you start thinking that’s
true about life, too. But that’s not true.
And so I see young people who are para-
lyzed about trying to find the right next step
in their careers. So my advice is that it does-
n’t really matter what job you take if you
don’t really know what you want to do yet.
I took a job at a convenience store. I
learned things about myself. I got to my
next step. Now I’m a tech C.E.O.

FAIR GAME GRETCHEN MORGENSON

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Back in the 1990s, technology companies ar- our treatment of stock-based compensation is Vanguard Wellington Admiral (VWENX) +7.8 +11.8 +10.4 0.17 82,054
FTSE 100 7511.71 + 143.34 + 1.95 + 11.45 + 5.2
gued strenuously against having to run stock broadly consistent with our peer group.” DAX 12297.72 + 135.02 + 1.11 + 20.24 + 7.1
American Funds Growth Fund of Amer A (AGTHX)
American Funds Income Fund of Amer A (AMECX)
+15.8
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+20.2 +15.8 0.65
+9.3 +9.2 0.56
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compensation costs through their profit-and-loss But this isn’t accurate, according to the compa- CAC 40 5203.44 + 72.05 + 1.40 + 19.74 + 7.0 American Funds Capital Income Bldr A (CAIBX) +10.1 +8.7 +7.5 0.59 71,536
Fidelity 500 Index Premium (FUSVX) +11.9 +16.8 +14.6 0.05 68,978
statements. Who can blame them for wanting to nies PayPal lists as peers in its proxy filing. At Dodge & Cox Stock (DODGX) +8.7 +24.8 +16.0 0.52 66,135
Nikkei 225 19952.33 ◊ 7.51 ◊ 0.04 + 20.42 + 4.4
make an expense disappear? least four of those companies — Alphabet, Face- Hang Seng 27562.68 + 583.29 + 2.16 + 26.25 + 25.3
Dodge & Cox International Stock (DODFX) +19.8 +29.6 +10.6 0.64 61,462
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A (AIVSX) +10.0 +14.4 +13.8 0.59 61,153
They lost that battle with the accounting rule book, Mastercard and Visa — do not exclude Shanghai B. 334.11 ◊ 0.18 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 2.92 ◊ 2.2 American Funds American Balanced A (ABALX) +8.9 +11.2 +10.6 0.59 60,215
makers. But then they took a new tack: Technol- stock-based compensation from their earnings
All Ordinaries 5773.31 + 18.07 + 0.31 + 3.77 + 0.9 American Funds Capital World Gr&Inc A (CWGIX) +16.5 +18.1 +11.2 0.77 55,378
Sensex 30 32325.41 + 15.53 + 0.05 + 16.64 + 21.4 *Annualized Source: Morningstar
ogy companies began providing alternative calculations as PayPal does.
earnings calculations without such costs along- Craig Maurer is a partner at Autonomous, an
side results that were accounted for under GAAP, INTEREST RATES BANK SAVINGS YIELDS
independent investment research firm in New
essentially offering two sets of numbers every York. He follows payments companies and rates 10-year Treas. Prime Rate HIGHEST SMALL SAVER RATES HIGHEST JUMBO SAVINGS RATES
Bank Rate Phone Bank Rate Phone
quarter. The non-GAAP statements — called pro PayPal’s stock an underperformer. 2-year Treas. Fed Funds
5% MONEY MKT. & SAVINGS ACCT. YLD. (0.12% nat’l avg) MONEY MKT. & SAVINGS ACCT. YLD. (0.23% nat’l avg)
forma numbers or adjusted results — often ex- In a telephone interview, Mr. Maurer was criti- DollarSavingsDirect, NY 1.40 (866) 395-8693 BankDirect, TX 1.35 (877) 839-2737
clude expenses like stock awards and acquisition cal of how the company accounts for stock-based 4 BankDirect, TX 1.35 (877) 839-2737 BBVA Compass, AL 1.25 (800) COMPASS
BankPurely, NY 1.30 (844) 878-7359 Discover Bank, IL 1.01 (877) 505-4051
costs. And the equity analysts who hold such pay. He said that as a percentage of PayPal’s non- 6-Mo. C.D. (0.22% nat’l avg) 6-Mo. C.D. (0.24% nat’l avg)
sway on Wall Street seem to be fine with them. 3 First Internet Bank of Indiana, IN 1.37 (888) 873-3424 TriState Capital Bank, PA 1.45 (866) 680-8722
GAAP operating income, stock-based compensa-
As long as companies also showed their results tion has risen to 29 percent this year from 17 per-
M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB, NY 1.26 (212) 652-7200 First Internet Bank of Indiana, IN 1.37 (888) 873-3424
2 Pacific National Bank, FL 1.25 (305) 539-7500 M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB, NY 1.26 (212) 652-7200
under generally accepted accounting rules, the cent in 2015. 1-Yr. C.D. (0.36% nat’l avg) 1-Yr. C.D. (0.39% nat’l avg)
Securities and Exchange Commission let them 1 BankDirect, TX 1.60 (877) 839-2737 BankDirect, TX 1.60 (877) 839-2737
“They are literally taking a cost out of their in- M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB, NY 1.56 (212) 652-7200 TriState Capital Bank, PA 1.60 (866) 680-8722
present their favored alternative accounting.
come statement, moving it to a different line and 0
EverBank, FL 1.56 (855) 228-6755 M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB, NY 1.56 (212) 652-7200
PayPal is by no means the only company that 5-Yr. C.D. (0.92% nat’l avg) 5-Yr. C.D. (0.98% nat’l avg)
backing it out of results,” Mr. Maurer said in an
adds back the costs of stock-based compensation 2016 2017 Synchrony Bank, NJ 2.35 (800) 903-8154 Synchrony Bank, NJ 2.35 (800) 903-8154
interview. “And you can see that it’s adding sig- First Internet Bank of Indiana, IN 2.30 (888) 873-3424 First Internet Bank of Indiana, IN 2.30 (888) 873-3424
to its unconventional earnings calculations. Source: Thomson Reuters Barclays, DE 2.30 (888) 720-8756 EverBank, FL 2.30 (855) 228-6755
nificantly to their ability to meet earnings expec-
Many technology companies do, contending, as
tations. If you backed out the difference between Rates are indicative of what institutions are paying, based on a bankrate.com survey last Tuesday. They are subject to change without notice, and
PayPal does, that their own arithmetic “provides may vary from branch to branch. Accounts accept telephone and mail deposits.
what we were expecting on stock-based comp in Source: bankrate.com
investors a consistent basis for assessing the
the quarter versus what they reported, it was 2
company’s performance and helps to facilitate CONSUMER RATES FOREIGN EXCHANGE
cents of earnings.”
comparisons across different periods.”
In other words, the increase in stock-based Foreign Curr. Dollars in For. Curr. Dollars in
Still, some technology leaders are dumping Friday’s rate Change from last week in Dollars For. in Dollars For.
compensation made a big contribution to Pay-
the practice. In addition to Facebook, Alphabet 1-year range Up Flat Down
Pal’s results versus what analysts had been ex- AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
said this year that it would no longer present re- Year Argentina (Peso) 0.0567 17.6440 Australia (Dollar) 0.7922 1.2623
sults that excluded the costs of stock-based com- pecting. KEY RATES Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Brazil (Real) 0.3194 3.1305 China (Yuan) 0.1487 6.7272
Canada (Dollar) 0.7905 1.2650 Hong Kong (Dollar) 0.1279 7.8189
pensation. PayPal’s stock-based compensation practices Federal funds 1.16% 0.40%
Chile (Peso) 0.0015 650.70 India (Rupee) 0.0157 63.6238
have another noteworthy effect: They drive ex- Prime rate 4.25 3.50 Colombia (Peso) 0.0003 2986.0 Indonesia (Rupiah) 0.0001 13315
Dave Wehner, Facebook’s chief financial offi- HOME MORTGAGES Dom. Rep. (Peso) 0.0213 47.0200 Japan (Yen) 0.0090 110.67
cer, told investors on a May conference call that ecutive pay higher at the company. Here’s how. 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Mexico (Peso) 0.0559 17.8840 New Zealand (Dollar) 0.7408 1.3499
15-yr fixed 2.99% 2.67%
the company would report results that include The company says it has three main metrics Peru (New Sol) 0.3082 3.2450 Pakistan (Rupee) 0.0095 105.24
15-yr fixed jumbo 3.75 3.31 Venezuela (Bolivar) 0.1003 9.9750 Philippines (Peso) 0.0199 50.2950
share-based compensation because it’s a true for calculating its managers’ performance pay 30-yr fixed 3.81 3.39 So. Korea (Won) 0.0009 1127.7
cost of running the business. each year. One of those measures, its proxy 30-yr fixed jumbo 4.12 3.83 EUROPE
Taiwan (Dollar) 0.0331 30.1970
Thailand (Baht) 0.0301 33.2700
Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet, shows, is non-GAAP net income. So, as PayPal AUTO LOAN 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Britain (Pound) 1.3035 0.7672 Vietnam (Dong) 0.00004 22725
Czech Rep (Koruna) 0.0451 22.1690
which is Google’s parent company, said the same awards more and more stock to its executives 60-mo. new car 3.14% 2.93% Europe (Euro) 1.1779 0.8490 MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
thing on a conference call in January. and employees, non-GAAP net income shows Source: bankrate.com
Hungary (Forint) 0.0039 258.59 Egypt (Pound) 0.0563 17.7500
Poland (Zloty) 0.2774 3.6050 Iran (Rial) 0.00003 32771
PayPal takes the opposite approach. And look better growth. And the greater that growth, the Russia (Ruble) 0.0167 59.9118 Israel (Shekel) 0.2756 3.6288
at what it does to its results. more incentive pay the company awards to its ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS Sweden (Krona) 0.1228 8.1424 Kenya (Shilling) 0.0096 103.80
Switzerland (Franc) 1.0281 0.9727 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 0.2667 3.7499
Under generally accepted accounting princi- top executives. More market data and new tools for investors: Turkey (Lira) 0.2835 3.5269 So. Africa (Rand) 0.0743 13.4500
For PayPal insiders, at least, that’s one virtu- nytimes.com/markets Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Source: Thomson Reuters
Twitter: @gmorgenson ous circle.
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ECONOMIC VIEW ROBERT J. SHILLER

The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’

It once meant mutual respect,
equality of opportunity and
freedom, not material success.
“THE AMERICAN DREAM is back.” President
Trump made that claim in a speech in Janu-
ary.
They are ringing words, but what do they
mean? Language is important, but it can be
slippery. Consider that the phrase, the
American Dream, has changed radically
through the years.
Mr. Trump and Ben Carson, the secretary
of housing and urban development, have
suggested it involves owning a beautiful
home and a roaring business, but it wasn’t
always so. Instead, in the 1930s, it meant
freedom, mutual respect and equality of op-
portunity. It had more to do with morality
than material success.
This drift in meaning is significant, be-
cause the American Dream — and interna-
tional variants like the Australian Dream,
Le Rêve Français and others — represents
core values. In the United States, these val-
ues affect major government decisions on
housing, regulation and mortgage guaran-
tees, and millions of private choices regard-
ing whether to start a business, buy an os-
tentatious home or rent an apartment.
Conflating the American dream with ex-
pensive housing has had dangerous conse-
quences: It may have even contributed to
the last housing bubble, the one that led to
the financial crisis of 2008-9.
These days, Mr. Trump is using the hal-
lowed phrase in pointed ways. In his Janu-
ary speech, he framed the slogan as though
it were an entrepreneurial aspiration. “We
are going to create an environment for
small business like we haven’t seen in many
many decades,” he said, adding, “So, essen-
tially, we are getting rid of regulations to a
massive extent, could be as much as 75 per-
cent.”
Mr. Carson has explicitly said that home-
ownership is a central part of the Dream. In
a speech at the National Housing Confer-
ence on June 9, he said, “I worry that millen-
nials may become a lost generation for
homeownership, excluded from the Ameri-
can Dream.”
But that wasn’t what the American
Dream entailed when the writer James
Truslow Adams popularized it in 1931, in his
book “The Epic of America.”
Mr. Adams emphasized ideals rather
than material goods, a “dream of a land in
which life should be better and richer and
fuller for every man, with opportunity for
each according to his ability or achieve-
ment.” And he clarified, “It is not a dream of
motor cars and high wages merely, but a
dream of a social order in which each man
and each woman shall be able to attain to
ROBERT J. SHILLER is Sterling Professor of
Economics at Yale.
the fullest stature of which they are innately
capable, and recognized by others for what
they are.”
His achievement was an innovation in
language that largely replaced the older
terms “American character” and “Ameri-
can principles” with a forward-looking
phrase that implied modesty about current
success in giving respect and equal oppor-
tunity to all people. The American dream
was a trajectory to a promising future, a
model for the United States and for the
whole world.
In the 1930s and ’40s, the term appeared
occasionally in advertisements for intellec-
tual products: plays, books and church ser-
mons, book reviews and high-minded arti-
cles. During these years, it rarely, if ever, re-
The drift in meaning is
telling, because the term
represents core values.
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ferred to business success or homeowner-
ship.
By 1950, shortly after World War II and
the triumph against fascism, it was still
about freedom and equality. In a book pub-
lished in 1954, Peter Marshall, former chap-
lain of the United States Senate, defined the
American Dream with spiritually resound-
ing words: “Religious liberty to worship
God according to the dictates of one’s own
conscience and equal opportunity for all
men,” he said, “are the twin pillars of the
American Dream.”
The term began to be used extensively in
the 1960s. It may have owed its growing
power to Martin Luther King’s “I Have a
Dream” speech in 1963, in which he spoke of
a vision that was “deeply rooted in the
American Dream.” He said he dreamed of
the disappearance of prejudice and a rise in
community spirit, and certainly made no
mention of deregulation or mortgage subsi-
dies.
But as the term became more common-
place, its connection with notions of equal-
ity and community weakened. In the 1970s
and ’80s, home builders used it extensively
in advertisements, perhaps to make con-
spicuous consumption seem patriotic.
Thanks in part to the deluge of advertise-
ments, many people came to associate the
American Dream with homeownership,
with some unfortunate results. Increasing
home sales became public policy. In 2003,
President George W. Bush signed the
American Dream Downpayment Act, subsi-
dizing home purchases during a period in
which a housing bubble — the one that
would lead to the 2008-9 financial crisis —
was already growing at a 10 percent annual
rate, according to the S.&P. Corelogic Case-
Shiller U.S. National Home Price index
(which I helped to create).
This year, Forbes Magazine started what
it calls the “American Dream Index.” It is
based on seven statistical measures of ma-
terial prosperity: bankruptcies, building
permits, entrepreneurship, goods-pro-
ducing employment, labor participation
rate, layoffs and unemployment claims.
This kind of characterization is common-
place today, and very different from the
original spirit of the American dream.
One thing is clear: Bringing back the fe-
vered housing dream of a decade ago would
not be in the public interest. In “House
Lust: America’s Obsession With Our
Homes,” published in 2008, Daniel McGinn
marveled at the craving for housing in that
era: “In many neighborhoods, if you’d
judged the nation’s interests by its back-
yard-barbecue conversation — settings
where subjects like war, death, and politics
are risky conversational gambits — a lot of
people find homes to be more compelling
than any geopolitical struggle.”
This is not to say that homes have no ap-
propriate place in our dreams or our con-
sciousness. To the contrary, in a 2015 book
“Home: How Habitat Made Us Human,” the
neuroanthropologist John S. Allen wrote,
“We humans are a species of homebodies.”
Ever since humans began making stone
tools and pottery, they have needed a place
to store them, he says, and the potential for
intense feelings about our homes has
evolved.
But the last decade has shown that with a
little encouragement, many can easily be-
come excessively lustful about homeowner-
ship and wealth, to the detriment of our
economy and society.
That’s the wrong way to go. Instead, we
need to bring back the American Dream of a
just society, where everyone has an oppor-
tunity to reach “the fullest stature of which
they are innately capable.”

RETIRING CLAUDIA DREIFUS

Writing the Script for Your Next Act

Passion projects, adventures
and different uses of old skills
are all new possibilities.
IN WINTER 2007, John V. Siebel, an oncologist
with a busy office in San Mateo, Calif., was
feeling restless.
While Dr. Siebel, then 64, found satisfac-
tion in helping cancer patients, he felt bur-
dened by the endless administrative tasks
that are a part of a modern medical practice.
“It felt like it was time to retire,” Dr.
Siebel, now 74, recalls. “I wanted to do other
things.”
But what? After announcing his retire-
ment, the physician began sketching out a
new life. Always athletic, he loved the out-
doors, particularly in Alaska, where the
land and culture fascinated him. One thing
was certain: He wanted to keep on seeing
patients, though part time.
Dr. Siebel’s answer was to become a kind
of oncological “temp,” covering for vaca-
tioning doctors with practices in interesting
places — including Alaska.
In many respects, Dr. Siebel represents a
new type of retiree, the professional who,
late in life, deploys his or her training in
some new way. In doing so, this person is
blurring the lines between work and leisure,
and redefining traditional ideas about the
nature of retirement.
For up to three months of every year —
the limitation is Dr. Siebel’s choice — a med-
ical employment agency books him for
short stints in remote parts of Alaska, Cali-
fornia or Idaho. He will only accept assign-
ments near wilderness areas.
Weekdays, he sees patients. On week-
ends, he heads to the mountains and ex-
plores.
“I work for doctors on vacation or ma-
ternity leave,” Dr. Siebel said. “It’s easy for
people with my particular training to get
these jobs. What oncologists do is more or
less universal, so you can easily integrate
into an ongoing practice.”
What’s different now is how Dr. Siebel
practices. “I have more time to find out
about the patients’ lives, which helps me
clinically,” he said. “I don’t have to worry
about ‘the office,’ which can be consuming.
Now all I do is sit there and be with the pa-
tients, which is one of the beauties of the
new situation.”
This type of work flexibility isn’t possible
for everyone. “You need in-demand skills,
good health and some financial security,”
Dr. Siebel said.
Despite the caveats, a small but signifi-
cant cohort of older Americans is experi-
menting with variations of a self-designed
retirement.
According to a 2015 census study, 8 per-
cent of Americans over 65 are full-time
Joel Dreyfuss retired as editor
of the website The Root and
moved to Paris to work on a
book about his family’s
300-year involvement with
Haiti’s history.
Productivity is a bonus:
‘This is the furthest
thing from retirement.’
workers. Another 12 percent work part
time.
Some do it because of financial need. Oth-
ers find themselves liberated by their new
pension checks, which they use to under-
write a redesigned work life.
Joel Dreyfuss, a 71-year-old Haitian-
American journalist and editor, had long
sought to write a book about his family’s
300-year involvement with Haiti’s history.
Mr. Dreyfuss (who is not a known relation
to this writer) was born in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Though the family is prominent there,
he was aware of only fragments of his back
story.
“I knew that my Jewish grandfather, Em-
manuel Dreyfuss, was born in France and
immigrated to Haiti in 1893,” Mr. Dreyfuss
said. “My grandfather was taciturn. He did-
n’t tell the kids much about the past.”
Over the years, Mr. Dreyfuss interviewed
relatives and collected bits and pieces of
family lore. However, intense career de-
mands — he was at various moments the
top editor at publications like Information-
Week, PC Magazine and Black Enterprise
— kept him from the concentrated research
such a book required.
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An epiphany came in September 2011,
while Mr. Dreyfuss was serving as manag-
ing editor of The Root, an online news site
that covers black culture, and his 66th birth-
day rolled round. Suddenly, he realized, “the
clock was ticking, and that there were
things I still wanted to do — like the book.”
In that moment, he decided to gather up
his savings and retire.
By February 2012, Mr. Dreyfuss and his
wife, Veronica Pollard, had moved to Paris,
where many key documents of Haitian his-
tory are stored. (The flat they purchased, in
the Parc Monceau district, was in the very
building where the author Graham Greene
had once lived.)
The last few years have proved a mix of
pleasant strolls, fine dining and historical
research. “What I do now is a lot like jour-
nalism,” Mr. Dreyfuss said. “You’re tracking
down records, cross-referencing them, fig-
uring out the story behind the numbers.”
On the whole, he said, his time has been
productive. “I’ve learned of a colonial an-
cestor who I’ve traced back to the early
1700s,” Mr. Dreyfuss said. “His grandson
was the only white signer of the Haitian
Declaration of Independence in 1804. I have
one or more African ancestors. With one, I
found a document from the 1770s saying he
was born in Benin and sold into slavery in
Haiti.”
Last winter, Mr. Dreyfuss finished a first
draft of the still-untitled work. In it, he
shows how his family’s multicultural story
is linked to the larger story of the New
World; he expects to send a final version to
his literary agent by New Year’s Day.
“I couldn’t have done it,” Mr. Dreyfuss
said, “if I hadn’t retired, or rather, semi-
retired.”
Similarly, Michael Gerrard, the faculty di-
rector of Columbia University Law School’s
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, isn’t
quite sure he can be defined as retired.
“This is the furthest thing from retire-
ment,” Mr. Gerrard, 65, said with a laugh.
“In the years since I’ve ‘retired,’ I’ve
produced five books on climate change.”
For 14 years, Mr. Gerrard was a partner in
the New York office of the Washington law
firm Arnold & Porter (recently renamed Ar-
nold & Porter Kaye Scholer). He headed the
firm’s New York environmental practice,
where he still works one day a week.
When, in 2008, David Schizer, who was at
the time the dean of Columbia Law School,
invited Mr. Gerrard to jump-start what
would become the Sabin Center, he opted
for an early retirement.
Back then, he was 57 and, by his own de-
scription, “nowhere near retirement.” And,
he said, his law firm “wasn’t thrilled.”
But Mr. Gerrard said he “felt almost a
duty” to make the move because “climate
change is an existential threat. There are le-
gal tools that can be deployed to fight it. I
wanted to train students and lawyers how
to use them.”
From his university post, he has a plat-
form to do some of that fighting himself. For
instance, as director of the Sabin Center, Mr.
Gerrard serves as an adviser to the govern-
ment of the Marshall Islands, the Pacific na-
tion that could disappear because of rising
sea levels.
Mr. Gerrard advised its delegation during
the negotiations at the 2015 United Nations
Climate Change Conference in Paris.
“There was some controversy on whether
countries damaged by climate change
could get compensation from damagers,” he
said. “We beat back some potentially bad
language.”
Mr. Gerrard admits that taking early re-
tirement was “an unusual move. A lot of
people thought I was crazy. But, I’d done
very well financially. The kids were out of
college. Columbia’s pay is fine, and I get to
do some very interesting things. Last year, I
went to a meeting with the pope!”
And there’s a bonus: “I don’t have to fill
out a time sheet every day, which I had done
for 30 years.”
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A Billionaire-Fueled Revival

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

old foundry complex she converted into a
commercial space.
She has wooed several start-ups, per- PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNDON FRENCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
suading them to set up shop in the old
foundry building — one with the help of Wis-
consin’s governor, Scott Walker, who per-
sonally called the co-founders on her behalf.
Ms. Hendricks, a major Republican do-
nor, was briefly thrust into the national
spotlight a few years ago when she was re-
corded asking Mr. Walker to break up the
labor unions. He then introduced a bill lim-
iting the ability of public workers to bargain
over wages. In response, protesters occu-
pied the halls of the Capitol for weeks.
Not long ago, Beloit’s economy was ugly.
Like many American cities — Detroit,
Youngstown, Gary — it had fallen victim to
the damage that is wrought when one major
industry vanishes from town, reversing lo-
cal fortunes.
Beloit is different today. That’s because
this town of nearly 37,000 has a billionaire
who has gone to great lengths to help it turn
a corner.
In a nation with countless struggling
towns and small cities, Beloit is not a model
for economic revival that is easily rep-
licated, although a few others have tried.
In Kalamazoo, Mich., a group of well-to-
do town “elders” pay for every public school
student in town to go to college. And Colum-
bus, Ind., has become an architectural
mecca thanks to the support of J. Irwin
Miller, whose family made its riches manu-
facturing engines.
Ms. Hendricks’s project has not been
cheap.
Buying and fixing up the foundry alone
has cost Ms. Hendricks around $40 million,
according to Rob Gerbitz, the president and
chief executive of Hendricks Commercial
Properties. The Phoenix complex has cost
$7 million (with a $1 million assist from the
city).
And, of course, money doesn’t solve ev-
erything. Ms. Hendricks’s overhaul faces
challenges big and small, including skepti-
cism. Early on, some residents joked about
giving the city a new name: Hendricksville.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high,
as does poverty.
Her activities on Beloit’s behalf are com-
plicated by the fact that not everyone
agrees with Ms. Hendricks’s political views.
She was an early supporter of Donald J.
Trump’s presidential campaign here in Wis-
consin, a state with a history of progressive
politics, and that has pitted her against
some current and former students at Beloit
College, a liberal arts school and one of Be-
loit’s other big employers. (Ms. Hendricks
sits on the college’s board of trustees.)
“Diane Hendricks is the most powerful
woman in Wisconsin,” says Charlie Sykes, a
former talk-show host in Milwaukee.
In Beloit, she’s so influential that some
worry about what would happen if someday
she walks away. “Will the kids take over?”
asks Rod Gottfredsen, a local barber, refer-
ring to her seven adult children.
MR. GOTTFREDSEN HAS HAD a front-row
seat to Beloit’s travails for nearly 40 years.
He’s been cutting hair and trimming beards
since 1978, when he took over Austin’s Bar-
bershop on one of Beloit’s main streets
downtown.
On a clear June day, one of Ms. Hen-
dricks’s sons, Brent Fox, is in his white Ford
Super Duty truck driving through the lush
tree-lined streets around Beloit College.
This is the neighborhood where Ms. Hen-
dricks and her husband got their start a
half-century ago, buying and fixing up
homes, in the 1960s.
“Mom wanted me to show you these,” Mr.
Fox says as he stops outside two Crafts-
man-style homes where trucks marked
CCI, a Hendricks-owned construction com-
pany, are parked. “One of the biggest prob-
lems we find is suitable housing stock, so we
decided to buy old, stately houses,” says Mr.
Fox, who is also the chief executive of ABC
Supply, the company that Ms. Hendricks
and her late husband built.
“As long as we can break even or make a
dollar, we’ll keep doing it,” he adds.
Mr. Fox drives north, past Beloit’s indus-
trial sites, through the town’s history. The
red roof of ABC Supply comes into view,
overlooking Beloit from a slight hill. When
the Hendrickses bought the property in the
1990s, it was an abandoned factory that had Top row from left: Ironworks, bought it several years ago, possibly saving
once made diesel backup engines for mili- which today is a far cry from its the club from an ignominious fate as a grav-
tary submarines. foundry origins; the Beloit el pit.
We pass the Eclipse Center, which in its barber Rod Gottfredsen; a “From a business perspective, it was a
heyday in the 1960s was the biggest mall in display at Comply365, which horrible decision,” he says of the purchase.
Rock County. By the 1980s, it had become makes software used by airline But if Beloit was to be reimagined as a mod-
better known for a notorious double murder pilots to complete their flight ern city, the thinking went, it needed a club
at the Radio Shack. The place was half paperwork, in the Ironworks for golf.
empty when the Hendrickses stepped in. complex; ABC Supply, which
the Hendrickses started in 1982. BELOIT’S HENDRICKS-FUELED REVIVAL hap-
He stops at the Beloit Club, a beleaguered pened largely by chance.
country club near the Rock River, which Ms. Hendricks grew up 200 miles away
cuts through the town. Ms. Hendricks from Beloit, on a dairy farm, with eight sis-
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNDON FRENCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ters. As a child, she yearned to work out-
doors on the farm, but her father forbade it.
A surprise pregnancy at 17 and her short
marriage to Mr. Fox’s father brought her to
Janesville, to work briefly in the Parker Pen
factory, where women assembled fountain
pens.
Soon she divorced. She had to find a way
to support herself on her own, as a single
mother. She switched to selling real estate,
and had gotten her broker’s license by the
time she turned 21.
Center, a flag painted over old
machine parts at Ironworks.
Bottom row from left: Max
Maiken, left, and Ron Nief,
organizers of Beloit’s film
festival; at the Comply365
offices in the Ironworks
complex; an Ironworks
building where an Y.M.C.A. is
being built.
Before long, she had found a business
partner, a roofing contractor who had
dropped out of high school, named Ken Hen-
dricks. Together the two bought old houses
in Beloit, fixed them up and rented them
out. They married in 1975 and moved on to
buying industrial spaces at around the
same time. They found a rundown sugar
beet plant in Janesville, 20 miles up the road
from Beloit.
When Mr. Hendricks went to a Janesville
bank to finance the purchase of the plant, he
was turned away. “The banker said, ‘We
don’t do business with entrepreneurs, and
we don’t want your business,’” Ms. Hen-
dricks recalls.
It was a turning point. The couple turned
their backs on Janesville, focusing instead
on Beloit.
They would move from renting local
apartments to starting ABC Supply in 1982,
buying up distributors nationwide.
Beloit at the time was on the cusp of a
steep decline after successive economic
blows, among them the grinding to a halt of
Fairbanks Morse, a diesel engine maker
and a onetime major employer.
Like struggling cities and towns across
the country, Beloit went through a period of
Band-Aid-like efforts. By the 1980s, local
businesses were petitioning the city to
change its image by cleaning up the river-
front, where vacant stores sat along the
banks of the river, and by reviving the with-
ering downtown. The initiatives barely
made a dent.
Into the 1990s, at least, the town still had
its foundry, Beloit Corporation, by that time
owned by a Milwaukee company, Harnish-
feger Corporation. At its height, Beloit Cor-
poration had employed more than 7,000
people building papermaking machines.
Late into the night, the flickering light from
the welding in the foundry would light up
the Rock River.
In 1999, the foundry went bankrupt, leav-
ing behind an empty, sprawling complex the
size of 15 football fields. Beloit’s downtown
became a bleak landscape of “decayed,
bombed-out buildings,” recalled Jeff Ad-
ams, who moved to Beloit to teach econom-
ics at Beloit College in the early 1980s and
was involved in early initiatives to try to fix
the town.
But if Beloit was sinking, the Hendrickses
were riding high. Their business was boom-
ing, and they saw opportunity in the desola-
tion.
One day, a few years after Beloit Corpora-
tion went bust, the two were riding their
Harley-Davidsons past the abandoned fac-
tory and noticed someone wandering
around the property. They stopped to ask
what he was doing. The man, Samuel Popa,
turned out to be looking for a place to put his
aluminum business.
On a whim, the Hendricks decided to buy
the 800,000-square-foot building. They
knew it had the potential to one day become
commercial space, perhaps residential, too.
They ended up becoming a partner in Mr.
Popa’s company, American Aluminum Ex-
trusion.
Next, they bought the old mall on the
edge of town, which they planned on turn-
ing into “a community and civic center,” Ms.
Hendricks says.
Around the same time, Ron Nief, the di-
rector of public affairs at Beloit College, and
two of his friends had an idea that in almost
any other dying industrial town would not
have gotten out of the starting blocks: Let’s
start an international film festival.
They approached Beloit’s billionaire
benefactors about the idea, and in 2006, the
festival opened on a frigid Wisconsin week-
day in January.
Despite the fact that its debut occurred
the same week as the much more famous
Sundance Film Festival, it has thrived. Jon
Voight, Melissa Gilbert and David Zucker,
the director of “Airplane!,” have attended
Mr. Nief recalls a conversation with Mr.
Hendricks, who had told him to aim high
with the film festival idea. Mr. Nief said to
him, “It needs to be special, but it doesn’t
need to be, say, the Toronto Film Festival,”
referring to the giant on the festival circuit.
“Ken said: ‘Why not? Why don’t you want
to be the biggest and the best in the
world?’” Mr. Nief said.
But tragedy struck one evening, just days
before Christmas in 2007. Mr. Hendricks fell
through the roof of his home after inspect-
ing some renovations; he died from the inju-
ries.
Mr. Hendricks’s death led residents in Be-
loit to worry that Ms. Hendricks would sell
ABC and abandon the couple’s efforts to re-
vive the town.
Then came the 2008 economic crisis.
Housing and construction, the very busi-
nesses on which the Hendrickses’ fortune
had been built, suffered through one of the
worst downturns in decades.
ABC pulled through, and grew in part by
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buying its biggest rival, Bradco. Today ABC
is a private company and the largest whole-
sale distributor of roofing, windows, siding
and gutter materials. It has 715 stores
across the United States and employs 656
people in Beloit alone.
Ms. Hendricks also began putting to use
the industrial buildings that she and her
husband had bought over the years. She
turned the foundry into a commercial space
with high ceilings, dubbing it Ironworks,
and turned to a political ally, Mr. Walker, to
help attract at least one tenant.
The move worked.
“I had 17 employees at that moment, and
the governor of Wisconsin told me my busi-
ness mattered to him,” recalled Kerry
Frank, the co-founder with her husband,
Dude Frank, of Comply365, which makes
software used by airline pilots to complete
their flight paperwork. Started in the
Franks’ basement, the company is now
housed in Ironworks and counts Southwest
Airlines among its biggest clients.
In 2011, after Illinois created a new law to
collect sales tax from online shoppers, the
Rockton online coupon company FatWallet
needed to find a Wisconsin town for its
headquarters. Ms. Hendricks worked with
the city to make Beloit, just over the state
border, FatWallet’s first choice. The com-
pany is now based in Ironworks.
“The advantage here in Beloit is that the
same type of engineer that you hire in Sili-
con Valley can have a large house,” says
Ryan Washatka, general manager for
Ebates, FatWallet’s parent company.
Still, few people in the start-up world out-
side of Wisconsin know much about Beloit.
It certainly was not on the radar of Chris
Olsen, a former executive at Sequoia Capi-
tal, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm,
whose Ohio venture capital firm Drive Capi-
tal is now one of Comply365’s biggest in-
vestors.
After several airlines told him to look at
Comply365, Mr. Olson found himself look-
ing at a map. “I didn’t even know where Be-
loit was,” he jokes.
In part to address problems like that, Ms.
Hendricks has sent members of her prop-
erty company, Hendricks Commercial
Properties, to Madison to talk to venture
capitalists. “Candidly, I wasn’t looking at
Beloit,” said Joe Kirgues, a co-founder of
Gener8tor, a tech incubator, who one day
found himself at a table with Ms. Hen-
dricks’s team.
He said the pitch to him had boiled down
to: “Tell us what resources you need.” To-
day, Gener8tor has an office in Ironworks
and is working with several local start-ups.
DESPITE MS. HENDRICKS’S efforts, unem-
ployment is still high. A short drive south of
the Phoenix and new buildings turn to
boarded-up shops. Beloit remains deeply
troubled. About a quarter of the population
lives in poverty, twice the rate of residents
in the rest of Rock County. One in every four
children lives in poverty in the county, ac-
cording to Project 16:49, a nonprofit group
that works with homeless youth.
What’s more, many new jobs are filled by
people who commute to Beloit from nearby
cities. At AccuLynx, a software company
based in the Ironworks, just 17 percent of the
employees live in Beloit. The rest live in
nearby towns in Wisconsin and just over the
border in Illinois.
And many of the new jobs require techni-
cal skills, like engineering, that residents
who once worked in manufacturing often
lack. “I know that there are parts of Beloit
that are not sharing in this renaissance,”
says Scott Bierman, president of Beloit Col-
lege.
Mr. Bierman credits Ms. Hendricks for
providing a vision of how things can be. Still,
he says, “I worry a lot.”
While he does see signs that what Ms.
Hendricks has built can be sustainable,
“We’ll know a lot more once we get through
the next recession,” he said.
For now, around 1,000 people currently
work out of Ironworks, according to Mr.
Gerbitz of Hendricks Commercial Proper-
ties. “Our goal is to get to 5,000, which was
what was lost when Beloit Corporation
went away,” he said.
Ironworks today is a far cry from its
foundry origins. At AccuLynx, the software
firm, there is a giant slide running down
from the second floor to the first, a video-
game console and a giant gold bell that is
rung when sales are made.
AccuLynx’s founder, Rich Spanton, de-
scribed the day his grandfather, who had
worked at the foundry as a superintendent
for nearly a half-century, visited the build-
ing, where he had spent a career assem-
bling steel parts for paper machines. He
was astonished at what he saw.
“He walked in,” Mr. Spanton recalls, “and
he said, ‘Jeez, we couldn’t have gotten any
work done if this had been our office.’”
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A Silicon Valley Firm in China
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
nese companies to develop server chips,
creating rivals to their own product. Intel is
working with the Chinese to build high-end
mobile chips, in competition with Qual-
comm. IBM has agreed to transfer valuable
technology that could enable China to break
into the lucrative mainframe banking busi-
ness.
“There’s a great deal of unease in Wash-
ington,” said James Lewis, an analyst at the
Center for Strategic and International Stud-
ies, a Washington-based think tank. “The
defense, intelligence agencies and others
are concerned that advanced chip-making
capabilities are going to China.”
Qualcomm declined to comment, as did
Intel.
Qualcomm is caught in the middle.
The world’s dominant mobile phone chip
maker, Qualcomm ran afoul of the Chinese
government, getting hit in 2015 with a
record $975 million fine for anticompetitive
behavior. To get back in Beijing’s good
graces, the company agreed to lower its
prices in China, promised to shift more of its
high-end manufacturing to partners in
China, and pledged to upgrade the coun-
try’s technology capabilities.
The extent of Qualcomm’s involvement
with the Chinese government — and the
complications for American tech giants — is
seen in a low-slung office building in the
southwest part of the country. There, a team
of engineers is developing leading-edge
microchips to compete with the finest made
by Intel. The chips will help power a huge
data and cloud center with the potential to
strengthen the country’s computing capa-
bilities. No longer content to rely on buying
the chips that go into cellphones, computers
and cars, China now wants to design and
build the brains that drive much of the dig-
ital world.
The government is providing land and fi-
nancing to the start-up formed with Qual-
comm, called Huaxintong Semiconductor.
Qualcomm has provided the technology
and about $140 million in initial funding.
“Qualcomm has a balancing act,” said
Willy Shih, who teaches at Harvard Busi-
ness School. “Most of the world’s PCs are
made in China, and most of the world’s
smartphones too, so they have to play
along. It’s a fact of life.”
QUALCOMM WAS EARLY to break into China.
In the mid-1990s, as China’s economy be-
gan to boom, President Bill Clinton pressed
the country’s leaders to open to American
technology companies.
Members of the Clinton administration,
including Charlene Barshefsky, the United
States trade representative, and William M.
Daley, the secretary of commerce, were dis-
patched to Beijing to hammer out the de-
tails. They pushed for one company by
name: Qualcomm.
“At the time, they were the only U.S. show
in town,” Ms. Barshefsky said.
“Bill Daley and I pushed the Chinese hard
on accepting the U.S. standard for wireless
technology,” she added, “and that was Qual-
comm.”
Mobile phone adoption was taking off
globally, largely backed by a European
wireless standard called G.S.M., or global
system for mobile communications. Qual-
comm had a competing American standard
called C.D.M.A., or Code Division Multiple
Access.
Irwin M. Jacobs, a founder of Qualcomm,
spearheaded an aggressive lobbying cam-
paign in Washington and Beijing, promot-
ing the technology’s potential to transform
wireless communication markets.
“We knew China would be important, and
they didn’t have their own system,” said
Perry LaForge, a former Qualcomm execu-
tive. “We also told them this system would
give them an opportunity to manufacture
their own handsets, and not rely on buying
them from other countries.”
When Qualcomm first entered China in
the late 1990s, it was slow to gain traction.
The company struggled to find Chinese
partners to produce mobile phones that
worked with its network. China also tried to
Helping the Chinese
develop its own wireless standard.
government develop Qualcomm eventually won out, helping
supercomputers raises write the standards for next-generation mo-
bile technology, 3G and 4G service. The
concerns in Congress.
standard championed by European telecom
providers faded rapidly. And China’s home-
grown technology struggled.
By 2013, virtually every wireless device
around the world was reliant on either Qual-
comm’s chips or its patents — enough to
provide some of the technology industry’s
fattest profit margins.
With its dominance rising, global brands
like Apple and Samsung began complaining
to regulators around the world, citing “dis-
criminatory” pricing practices and high
royalty fees. In China, a trade group made
up of the country’s major handset makers
complained about patent holders levying
“exorbitant licensing fees.”
“These days a smartphone is covered by
about 250,000 patents,” said Dieter Ernst, a
senior fellow at the East-West Center, a re-
search and educational center based in
Honolulu. “A Chinese smartphone maker
needs to negotiate license agreements with
companies like Qualcomm that own the es-
sential patents.”
“The Chinese government was worried
about this,” he added. “That all these costs
could constrain Chinese companies.”
THE RAIDS BEGAN at dawn, in late Novem-
ber 2013. Investigators descended upon
Qualcomm’s offices in Beijing and Shang-
hai, questioning the staff and hauling away
laptops and documents.
At the time of the raids, the San Diego-
based company’s senior managers were at
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York, attend-
ing an investor conference. The executives
were planning to talk about the company’s
strategy. Instead, they began fielding fran-
tic phone calls from China.
The China business, which accounted for
more than half of its global revenue, was in
trouble.
A week later, one of the country’s most
powerful regulatory agencies, the National
Development and Reform Commission
(N.D.R.C.), announced that it was looking
into whether Qualcomm had abused its
power in the sale of mobile phone chips.
“Qualcomm came to control so much of the
chip market in China,” said Louie Ming, a
former Qualcomm executive in China. “It
was clear they were eventually going to run
into antitrust problems.”
While Qualcomm agreed to fully cooper-
ate with the investigation, some senior ex-
ecutives appealed to the Obama adminis-
tration, pressing the White House to raise
the issue with China’s senior leaders, ac-
cording to a former administration official.
Qualcomm’s troubles went beyond China.
The company was also under scrutiny by
antitrust regulators in the European Union
and South Korea, as well as by the United
States Federal Trade Commission.
China didn’t back down. The head of the
N.D.R.C. branded Qualcomm a monopoly.
In February 2015, after a 15-month-long
investigation, Qualcomm settled allega-
tions in China that it had charged unfairly
high prices for its chips and patents. The
company agreed to pay the $975 million fine
— about 8 percent of its annual revenue in
China — and to lower the prices for chips
sold in the country.
“We are pleased that the resolution has
removed the uncertainty surrounding our
business in China, and we will now focus our
full attention and resources on supporting
our customers and partners in China,” said
Steve Mollenkopf, the company’s chief ex-
ecutive, said at the time.
Qualcomm then went into business with
the Chinese government.
There was a $150 million investment fund
to help Chinese start-ups; new research
and design facilities set up with Chinese
companies such as Huawei and Tencent;
and a partnership with a Beijing-based
company called Thundersoft to develop
MINH UONG/THE NEW YORK TIMES
drones, virtual reality goggles and internet-
connected devices.
Qualcomm is also helping the Chinese
government develop supercomputers, a
technology the United States government
has discouraged American companies from
supporting overseas. In May, Qualcomm
agreed to form a joint venture with other
state-backed firms to design and sell mass-
market smartphone chips. And to help
make Chinese chip manufacturing more
competitive, Qualcomm has pledged to shift
more of its high-end production — long
done by outside contractors in Taiwan and
South Korea — to China.
“This is what China does better than any-
one else,” said Robert D. Atkinson, presi-
dent of the Information Technology and In-
novation Foundation, a think tank focused
on technology policy that has conducted
studies detailing the Chinese government’s
pressure on technology companies.
“They have a large carrot and a large
stick,” he said. “And they have a market no
C.E.O. can walk away from.”
Qualcomm’s biggest new venture is ta-
king shape in southwest China’s Guizhou
Province. Determined to leap into ad-
vanced technology, China has designated a
large parcel of land in the provincial capital
of Guiyang as the home of a new industrial
park for supercomputing, data centers and
cloud computing. The country’s large state-
run telecom operators and its internet behe-
moths, including Alibaba and Tencent, are
moving in, to build massive server farms.
The region offers lower energy costs and
abundant supplies of water, necessary to
cool server farms.
A year ago, Qualcomm set up a joint ven-
ture with the Guizhou government and
pledged to invest about $140 million for a mi-
nority stake in the business, situated in a de-
velopment zone that has also attracted the
interest of Microsoft and Dell. Qualcomm
says it received American government ap-
proval for the deal.
The new Qualcomm joint venture, Huax-
intong Semiconductor, broke ground on the
site in 2016, and now operates in a 46,000-
square-foot design and engineering center.
A major test of the partnership will come
when the joint venture’s first server chips
are released — helping Qualcomm and the
Chinese government stake out new ground.
The Chinese government will control the
chips and reap most of the profits.
In late March, Qualcomm’s president,
Derek K. Aberle, flew to Guizhou to meet a
powerful local government leader, Chen
Miner, a confidant of the Chinese president.
Seated in a government hall, before an
enormous landscape painting, Mr. Aberle
pledged to “continually cooperate” with the
Chinese government.
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THE WORKOLOGIST ROB WALKER Vocations Head of Experiential Marketing

A Bad (for the Team) Romance

The (female) boss of my small team at the large firm where I tract” or similar document, basically shield-
ing the employer from such claims.) But
work is having an affair with one of my (male) peers. plenty have no policy, and I suspect many
Both are married with kids. They spend hours together in each more look the other way unless a relation-
ship starts causing tangible problems.
others’ offices with the door shut, sneak out for lunches and go In fact, if the behavior is as you’ve de-
on supposed work trips that happen to “coincide.” scribed it, it’s hard to believe H.R. or man-
agement doesn’t already have some idea.
My boss constantly gives this peer undue credit and puts down That’s another reason for you to focus on
the rest of us in his presence. She also seems distracted, to the specific problems hurting your team. Let
detriment of the team, and shares confidential information about management worry about what might be
causing them — and what to do about it.
compensation and people in the company with him.
Essentially, they are hurting our team and creating a toxic envi- A Date With the Boss’s Son? EMILY WILSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

ronment. I am an office manager, and at times work

In our ethically focused company, this affair, if discovered, with my boss’s son. He has invited me to go
out with him. He’s a nice guy, and if he
Engineering Fun at Zappos
would lead to immediate termination for both. But my other weren’t related to my boss (who runs the Tyler Williams, 33, is the head of experiential marketing for Zappos, the
online retailer, in Las Vegas.
team members are afraid to blow the whistle for fear of retribu- company), I would consider dating him. But
I don’t believe it’s wise. So I have politely
tion. declined his invitations, although I haven’t
Q. In the language of Zappos, you’re called a fun-gineer. Why?
I have contemplated going to human resources, but that might explained my reason. However, he contin-
A. Our chief of staff dug up the title for me. My job is to bring joy and
ues to ask.
be risky. I could find another job if I had to, but this would be a I am not in a relationship, and I’d like to
smiles to Zappos’s 1,500 employees. (Without the hyphen, by the way,
I’d be a technician of fungi.) For example, I built an instant dance party
tough blow to a wobbly team, and I feel a sense of loyalty. That date, but my job leaves little time to find
in the company lobby. It works like this: When you push a button with
someone. This fellow seems decent and
said, the toxicity and unfairness of this situation is mind-bog- would be an easy fit, but I certainly don’t
a sign under it that says, “Don’t ever push this button,” lights go on and
music blares. My position comes within our brand aura department,
gling. want it to ruin my career should a relation-
which is similar to other companies’ brand marketing departments.
What is my best course of action? ship go south.
Zappos sells shoes and clothing online. How did you get a job there?
ANONYMOUS
Should I just be blunt and tell him to back
off, or should I go for it? In truth, I did not have work experience related to anything at Zappos.
DALLAS I’d been a professional drummer since high school, had built stages
Start by breaking down this litany of criti- and knew audiovisual technology. I had heard it’s easier to get ac-
cisms a bit. Separate what you know from While The Workologist is no dating expert, cepted to Harvard than to get a job at Zappos. I took the creative route
what you believe or suspect. And set aside I can’t help but notice how lukewarm you and wrote, starred in and produced a video about the company’s 10
demonstrable workplace problems from are about this fellow: He’s asking, he’s core values. Once hired, my first job was at the customer call center.
behavior that annoys or appalls you. “decent,” and you’re too busy to find some-
That doesn’t sound like a good fit for a creative type like you. Was it?
Remember that, in general, the marital one better? Given your very reasonable
Not exactly. But the job I applied for was filled internally. That made
fidelity of a co-worker isn’t your business, qualms, it hardly seems worth it.
me admire the company for its integrity to promote from within. Ev-
or your firm’s. This should help clarify what You’re right to consider this — or any
eryone — even our C.E.O., Tony Hsieh — has worked the customer
your real goal is here, and what you might office romance — from the perspective of
services lines. After six months, I became a new-employee trainer.
plausibly do. what happens if it ends badly. Let’s gener-
It seems reasonable to have a conversa- ously assume that this guy wouldn’t try to How did that eventually evolve into your current position?
tion with human resources that focuses on wreck your career, which could expose him Because I was handy with constructing things, I became known for
specific problems: If a manager’s favorit- to a legal claim; it might still be a drag to developing and executing fun ideas. The turning point was when Tony
ism for a particular employee is really cerns in terms of the actual workplace interact with him if things sour. was preparing to give a speech for Amazon in his apartment. He
lowering morale or causing other trouble, behavior and its effects on the team — Either way, don’t be coy or vague — that needed to show the video in three rooms simultaneously. I knew how to
that’s a legitimate issue, whatever the rather than on what you believe is the root could be misread. Be direct and explain do that. That’s when a light went on in Jamie Naughton’s head. She’s
underlying reason. I’m not sure how you cause. If the situation is as blatant as you your concerns. If you decide to “go for it,” our chief of staff, and suggested I write my own job description. Jamie
could know your boss is sharing confiden- suggest, this shouldn’t be hard. you should be transparent with your em- started calling me a fun-gineer, and it stuck.
tial information, but that also sounds like a Office romances are, of course, not un- ployer, and make sure you’re not running
Do you miss playing drums?
concrete problem. common. And it’s a good idea for a com- crosswise of any company policy. This
I managed to create a musical opportunity for myself and the many
Think about how to express your con- pany to have spelled-out guidance and would apply even if we weren’t talking
. ...................................................................................... other musicians working at Zappos. We set up a music stage in the
Send your workplace conundrums to expectations, especially to address a rela- about the boss’s son, but that detail makes
trailer park where a lot of employees, including Tony, live. Once a
workologist@nytimes.com, including your tionship that crosses the supervisor/subor- it particularly important not to be covert.
But if all of this is just too much trouble, month, musicians show up to jam. We call it Open Air. I don’t miss the
name and contact information (even if you dinate line — which can lead to, for exam-
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SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS

BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
(3400)
Capital Wanted
Looking for partner investor, 4,000SF
property in Fresh Meadows, 180 3rd St.
& Horace Harding Expwy. Consist of 1
bar, 1 restaurant, 3BR apt & 2BR apt.
Net $10,000/mo. 917-767-6291.
Capital to Invest
Hudson/Passaic/Essex, NY counties,
financing available for rehab 1-2 family
houses. Please email your info at
Chambordgroup@gmail.com
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
V.
AIDA TORRES, et al.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated
January 05, 2017, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of
Queens, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and
AIDA TORRES, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will
sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, COURTROOM
#25, 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., JAMAICA NY 11435, on August 18, 2017 at
10:00 AM, premises known as 7818 85TH ST, GLENDALE, NY 11385: Block
3843 Lot 52:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND,
WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3402 ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH
AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #
1468/2011. Eun Chong Thorsen, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900
Merchants Concourse, Suite 106, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys
for Plaintiff
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Miscellaneous 3454
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FOR SALE, collection of Don Quixote,
consist of 1,250 pieces of beautiful and
great Art pieces : paintings, sculptures,
figurines, statues, Lladro, Capida-
monte, crystal, tapestries, ornaments,
CD's, videos, movies, 250 books of Don
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opportunities. plete the application tabs & click 'sub- transactional and capital structure structures across asset backed securi- production outages from discovery
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in Accounting on: dence, drive campaign prod'n and re- three (3) years of experience in per- forming company and pricing analyses using both Scrums and the Kanban enter keyword 17009554 when prompt-
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berg Investor Services, ThomsonOne, Assistant Vice President, Risk in New decisions without regard to race, color,
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Consultant performing following job trait or predisposition, carrier status, ci- Group, Inc., 2017. All rights reserved. solutions that make bus. run. Requires and Factset; performing merger analy- gy & BI; perform big data analysis for utilizing FIX protocol to handle confi-
sis, discounted cash flow analysis, su- within risk divisions and across risk di- identity, national origin, protected ve-
duties: Manage & conduct periodic in- tizenship, veteran or military status Goldman Sachs is an equal employ- Bachelor's in Elect Eng'g, CS, Math, or visions of bank sponsored develop- financial, operational & analytical ana- guration of FIX connections for FI and teran status, disability status, or any
ventory audits. Assess compliance w/ and other personal characteristics ment/affirmative action employer Fe- rel field of study & 3 yrs exp in position m-of-the parts analysis, liquidation an- lysis of the manufacturing industry; de- equity trading with sell side brokers; re-
alysis, and credit analysis, working with ment programs and initiatives, and li- other status protected by law. Click
fin'l regulations & controls by execut- protected by law. All applications will male/Minority/Disability/Vet. offered or 3 yrs exp as Network Eng'r aise with program partners to ensure velop analytics tools using Excel VBA, commending support policies and guid- here to view the “EEO is the Law” pos-
ing audit prgm steps. Test general receive consideration for employment Euromonitor, and Merger Market fi- Lindo WB, SQL, Matlab, Python, R, elines for mission critical applications
or rel occupation. Req's 2 yrs exp nancial research tools; performing va- program coherency. Requires a Mast- ter and supplement and the Pay Trans-
ledger, acct balances, balance sheets, without regard to legally protected w/each of following: data networking er's degree in any field or equivalent Scala & Spark; use Numpy, Pandas, including ALADDIN, PORTWARE, and parency Policy Statement. If the links
income statements & rltd fin'l state- characteristics. REQ-001237. For more luation analysis for companies in the Statsmodels, scikit, MLpy, SciPy, LONGVIEW; utilizing PERL to debug
Assoc-Int, VP w/ Goldman Sachs & Co. principles pertaining to Lan/WAN in- Consumer, Retail and Business Servi- and two (2) years of experience estab- do not work, please copy and paste the
ments. Conduct Quantitative analysis infomation, please visit LLC in NY, NY. VP w/in the Firm's An- frastructure; Cisco routing/switching, lishing financial and non-financial risks SQLDF, dplyr, ggplots2, matplotlib & fix logs and write scripts to create pro- following URLs in a new browser win-
of fin'l data to forecast revenue, identi- nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Ad ces sectors; evaluating antitrust com- NLTK to work w/complex data sets & grams, including watchdog reports, au-
ti-Bribery bus unit. Responsible for de- BGP, OSPF & related protocols; troub- pliance aspects of deals to determine for data aggregation and reporting dow: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/
fy future trends & assess risk w/ capital vertising tecting, preventing, & remedying bribe- leshooting & providing day to day level standards for compliance with Basel III create solid predictive modeling & ma- tomated alerts and file manipulation;
feasibility from domestic and interna- compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and
expenditure. Audit supplier & buyer in- ry & corruption issues rel to gifts & en- 3 op support as part of Global Network requirements. Must include at least two chine learning tools; perform consult- utilizing SQL to access the order man- https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay-
tional perspectives; and creating mark- ing for purchasing & risk management. agement system for relational databa-
voices & make sure rates are correct
as per contract. Audit & reconcile AR &
The New York Times tertainment. Reqs: Bach deg (US or Ops Ctr (NOC); Wireshark for packet eting materials to facilitate client dis- (2) years of experience identifying and
Reqs up to 80% domestic & intern'l ses; developing utilities and scripts to
transp_formattedESQA508c.pdf.
foreign equiv) in Bus, Fin, Pre-Law, or capture & analysis & multicast; priori- cussions. Alternatively, the employer quantifying Key Performance Indica-
AP. Provide liquidity ratios & ratios an- a broadly rel field. Will accept single tizing & executing Network changes tors and Key Risk Indicators for finan- travel. Reqs MS + 3 yrs exp in manage- automate daily application support Computer/IT: Advisory Senior Consul-
alysis of customers. Document audit will accept a Bachelor's degree and ment consulting & analytic tool deve- tasks, fix destination set up/mainten- tant for Deloitte & Touche LLP in New
deg or any combin of degs/certifica- w/o causing negative impact to pro- five (5) years of progressively respon- cial and non- financial risks; applying
procedures & cross reference work pa- tions &/or prof'l exp that are equiv to a duction environments; MS Office incl Basel III mechanics to ensure data re- lopment for the manufacturing indus- ance, and troubleshoot application York, NY to interface with internal au-
pers. Audit Bill of Lading. Generate ex- sible experience. Apply to try or BS + 6 yrs same exp. Submit re- issues impacting Bloomberg, Tradew- dit, business, IT, and members of se-
Bach deg. 5 yrs of exp in the job offered Word, Excel, Visio, & PP; Juniper & Ari- porting integrity of risk-based capital
port documents using File center ADVISORY or a rel position. Must have 5 yrs of exp sta platforms; & NMS tools incl SevOne
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s/ware. Propose adjusting journal en- Advisory Director, Asset Manage- w/: fin services institutions & bus lines, or Spectrum. Req's Cisco Certified Net- professionals, keyword MH0717.
processes and test cases for risk data appliedvalue.com & incl. Job Code Connect, and Liquidnet; creating, main- ment solutions. Requires: Bachelor's
tries & discuss audit findings w/ clients. ment, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advi- incl know of investment banking, se- work Prof'l (CCNP) cert. To apply, visit aggregation and reporting; assisting GCXZ in subject line. taining, and running ad-hoc custom re- degree (or higher) in business adminis-
Prep monthly statements by collecting sory Services LLC, New York, NY. curities, private wealth mgmt, & re- http://www.morganstanley.com/about/ Banking: Deutsche Bank seeks a Vice ports for trading desks; and handling tration, economics, computer science,
President, Product Specialist Foreign with data anomaly discovery and re-
data. Perform consolidation & elimina- Help global clients operationalize bus. search; Excel, incl exp completing pi- careers/careersearch.html Scroll down mediation to support Basel III calcula- production management related audit information systems, engineering, fi-
tion on fin'ls w/ GAAP. Analyze & in- strategies & transform value chain vot tables & vlookups; PowerPoint, incl & enter 3095686 as “Job Number” & Exchange and Treasury Operations in maintenance of applications and ser- nance, financial mathematics, ac-
New York, NY to handle US Operations tions and reporting; working with test-
vestigate variances; summarizing da- functions from product dvlpmt thru exp graphically representing datasets; click “Search jobs.” No calls pls. EOE ing programs for data control verifica-
BUSINESS vers. Must include at least five (5) counting, or related field (willing to ac-
ta, info & trends. Use MS Access, Excel supply chain, manufacturing & product & communicating (both orally & in for the Foreign Exchange, Commodi- PWP Employer LP, d/b/a Perella years of experience utilizing UNIX to cept foreign education equivalent) plus
ties Index Group and Treasury Busi- tion and control gap mitigating proces-
& File Center. Mail resume to: Steelbro support. Req. Bach's deg or foreign writing) substance of statutes & regula- Associate, Aladdin Product Manage- ses; creating and analyzing business
Weinberg Partners, New York, NY, ensure the successful performance of two years of banking and securities ex-
International Co., Inc., 26 Pleasant Ln, equiv. in Op. Research, Ind Engg, Bus tions to internal stakeholders. Must ment in NY, NY sought by BlackRock nesses. Requires a Bachelor's degree seeks a Director, Advisory to provide trading applications, including order perience. Less than 10% travel outside
in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, and data requirement documents un-
Oyster Bay Cove, NY 11771. Job Loc.: Admin or rel. + 7 yrs rel. work exp. (5 of have 2 yrs of exp w/: Foreign Corrupt Financial Management, Inc. to act as der Basel III framework; performing
deal execution leadership and process management systems; and utilizing of normal commuting distance. To ap-
Oyster Bay Cove, NY which are post-bach's prog. rel. work or related field or equivalent, and four management for mergers and acquisi- ORACLE, .NET, JAVA, FIX PROTO- ply, visit https://jobs2.deloitte.com/us/
exp); OR a Master's deg or foreign Practices Act, UK Bribery Act, Brazil techn'l product lead for a firm-wide ini- (4) years of experience working with fi- end-to-end analysis of data lineage for tions (”M&A”). Qualified applicants COL, ITIL, and SCRUM. Employer will en/ and enter XSFH18FA0717NYC6 in
ACCOUNTING equiv. in Op. Research, Ind Engg, Bus Clean Companies Act, & other rel anti- tiative to centralize all post-trade nancial markets products, including FX regulatory reporting of risk and fi- must have: Master's of Business accept one (1) year of relevant work the “Search jobs” field. No calls please.
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tor in order to create efficiencies w/in ing project plans and budgets. Apply to “Deloitte” means Deloitte LLP and its
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Travel req. up to 80%. Apply by mail, Job Code: COM72017SSAB. Structured Products, and Liquidity. three (3) years' experience in position dergraduate studies, to satisfy the subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.
Services LLC, New York, NY. Provide referencing Job Code NY1370, Attn: HR the Trade Operations team. Req's: Must include at least four (4) years of www.db.com/careers and search by offered or related investment Bachelor's degree requirement. Apply com/us/about for a detailed description
mgmt., tech. & risk consulting services SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Apply at: Master's deg or equiv in Fin'l Engg, experience analyzing settlements and professionals, keyword NS0617. banking position, among other skills. to www.db.com/careers and search by of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP
to help clients anticipate & address Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607. https://careers.gs.com. Click on 'Search Comp Sci., Engg, or rltd field of study & confirmations for product suites includ-
Jobs' under 'Experienced Profession- 3 yrs exp: driving end-to-end delivery Employer will accept a Bachelor's professionals, keyword DU0717. and its subsidiaries. Deloitte LLP & its
complex bus. challenges. Req. Bach's ing, FX Spots, FX Forwards, Futures Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. of Business Administration or related subsidiaries are equal opportunity em-
deg or foreign equiv. in Acctng, als'. Search for job using Job Code. Se- of a project from inception to dvlpmt, and Options, FX Swaps, FX Options,
lect Job. Click on Apply. If new user, incl testing & ultimate client rollout; seeks a Vice President, Derivatives degree and five (5) years of specified Computer/IT: Accenture LLP seeks In- ployers.
Fin, Engg, Operations Mgmt, Mgmt FX Exotics, Currency Swaps, Interest Funding and Collateral Optimization, experience as alternative. Applicants formation Technology Project Mana-
Sci, Information Systems, or rel. + 5 Applications Support Manager sought click on 'create with resume' & follow performing bus. & techn'l analysis such Rate Derivatives, Structured Products, Fixed Income in New York, NY to sup- should submit a resume by mail to: ger [MULT POS] in NY, NY to lead
yrs of post-bach's progress. rel. work by Citibank, N.A. (NY, NY) to provide steps provided to create a profile. If re- as troubleshooting techn'l issues re- Loans, Deposits, CDs and global cur- PWP Employer LP, 767 5th Avenue, complex SAP Order To Cash prcs team COMPUTER
turning candidate, click 'Log back in' in ported by end users, fin'l s/ware dsgn & port multi-currency interest rate deri-
exp.; OR Master's deg or foreign application support directly to U.S. rencies; utilizing market platforms, in- vatives book, managing interest rate New York, NY 10153. Reference # from bus req cllctn, dsgn, bld, tst, de-
equiv. in Acctng, Fin, Engg, Oper- electronic equities trading business & upper right & click update profile. Com- implmtn, & functional testing; optimiz-
ations Mgmt, Mgmt Sci, Information trading applications, including Finan- plete the application tabs & click 'sub- ing user workflows & streamlining
cluding CLS, FxAll, Traiana, GTSS, Mi-
sys, Autobahn, Reuters Eikon, and
discount risk and NPV exposure for
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DA/SG/CG/2017. Attn: Ms. Jaime Sebel ployment, & initial post go-live sppt Get Matched
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Systems, or rel. + 3 yrs of rel. work exp. cial Information eXchange client con- mit' at the bottom of each. NO PHONE processing thru bus. process re-engg; EBS; working with various groups and w/in large scale SAP implntn pgms.
Derivatives Businesses. Requires a S/he will perf following duties: provide Search for openings
Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, nectivity, Direct Market Access & dark CALLS PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs interacting w/ end-users to define pro- stakeholders on financial reporting Bachelor's degree in Economics, Fi-
referencing Job Code NY1362, Attn: pool crossing engines. Must have Group, Inc., 2017. All rights reserved. duct reqmts & workflows for large operations, including ledgers and sub- BUSINESS client dsgn sppt & expertise in SAP Hundreds of openings in Information
nance, or related field or equivalent, Macy's Merchandising Corporation OTC based on exp & anlss of bus reqs;
HR SSC/Talent Man- agement, 4040 W. Bachelor's in Comp Sci, Engg, Fin or Goldman Sachs is an equal employ- scale initiatives; working w/ Mortgage ledgers entries, within Foreign Ex- and three (3) years of experience per- and Computer Technology
Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607. rltd fld fllowd by 5 yrs progrssv exp in ment/affirmative action employer Fe- Trading & Operational workflows incl change and Money Market products (MMC) has openings in New York, drv intgrtn w/key rltd wrk strms (finc,
forming collateral management and sply chain, prospect to cust, EDI) to en-
job offrd or as Project Mgr, Tchnical male/Minority/Disability/Vet. FICC Netting & Settlement srvcs; & uti- including FX Spots, FX Forwards, Fu- optimization for Fixed Income and De-
NY for: Create a profile and upload your
ACCOUNTING Lead or rltd pos. Full term of req exp lizing SQL & dbase relations, Java- tures and Options, FX Swaps, FX Op- sure prcs continuity; engage bus team resume to nytimes.com/jobs
Tax Manager, ITS (Mult. Pos.), Pricew- must incl prvidng app supprt for Script & Unix. Apply directly thru rivatives products for a global financial * VP Analytics (Job # 11908.224), to Set to socialize dsgn dcsns & clarify reqs; & Employers can find you and you can
tions, FX Exotics, Currency Swaps, In- services institution. Must include at find matching job opportunities.
aterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, electrnc equities trding bus & electrnic Associate, Product Specialist - Corpor- https://blackrock.taleo.net/careersecti terest Rate Derivatives, Structured strategic analytical direction for deve- track status of key activities & report to
NY. Help multi-ntl. bus. achieve bus. trding apps, incl Fin Info eXchange ate Banking (NY, NY) Generate, struc- on/BR_Exec_CS/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en least three (3) years of experience allo- loping innovative analytics to augment pgm ldrshp on a dly & wkly basis & at
Products, Loans, Deposits, and CDs; cating collateral in response to Mark- Our technology automatically
goals in a tax-efficient manner & ad- client cnnctivity, Direct Market Access ture, execute & monitor renewable en- &job=172031&src=cws-10680 by clicking and analyzing inputs that impact finan- core business processes; critical mlstns. Pos are based out of Ac-
to-Market changes and maintaining MATCHES your skills and interests to
dress cross-border tax needs by ana- & dark pool crossing engines; using ergy financing transactions. Identify on “Apply Online.” cial and operational risk and valuation * Manager, Analytics (Job # 11908.177), centure office in NY, NY, but trvl to available opportunities
lyzing fin., econ., & other data. Req. ITRS Geneos Active Console tool to set profitable bus. opportunities & convert optimal allocation of collateral of exist- to Develop innovative analytical client sites is reqd up to 80% of avg wrk
processes for financial instruments. ing exposure; monitoring and main-
Master's deg or foreign equiv. in up & optmze monitrng on electrnic them into profitable transactions. Man- AVP/Research Analyst (AllianceBern- Apply to www.db.com/careers approaches to analyze merchan- wk. Pos req at least a bach degree or
Acctng, Bus Admin, Tax, Law or rel. + 3 trding systms; handling tchnical outa- age transactions, incl engaging in con- stein L.P. — New York, NY) Formulate and search by professionals,
taining funding and balance sheet ex-
posure under Basel 3, CRD4 and SFTs
dising, supply chain, customer and its foreign equiv, in Comp Sci, Info Sys- NYTIMES.COM/JOBS
yrs of rel. work exp.; OR a Bach's deg ges incl connectvty failre, Tibco & 29 sultation, analysis, structuring, & com- & apply quant mdl'g & optmz'g mthds keyword SL0717. pricing strategies. /Tech, Indus. Sci/Tech, Comm, or
or foreign equiv. in Acctng, Bus Admin, West message buildup, app failover, & munication w/ credit, regional, & bus. to imprve firm's proprietary anlytcl regulations through repo/reverse repo Engrg (any). Emplr will accept 3 or 4 yr
Tax, Law or rel. + 5 yrs of post- bach's data recvery; trblshooting ordrs w line mgrs. Maintain & monitor a portfo- frmwrk & tools. F/T. Reqrs Mstr's dgr transactions, asset swaps, and money Mail your resume to MMC/Macys, 680 bach degrees. Emplr will accpt any sui-
Banking: Deutsche Bank seeks a Direc- market loans; performing review and Computer/IT: JetBlue Airways seeks f/t
progressive rel. work exp. Must have extrnl exchngs incl NASDAQ & NYSE, lio of loans based on risk analysis, incl (or frgn equiv) in Econ, Quant or Com- tor, Head of U.S. Credit Portfolio Man- Folsom St, #1200, San Francisco CA table combo of ed, train, or exp. Pos
CPA, Enrolled Agent, or Member of the dark pools, Electrnic Communication expansions, refinancings, restructur- putatnl Finan, Appld Math or rel fld & 4 sign-off of P/L and risk associated col- 94107, Attn. Randy Shelton. Must also reqs at least 5 yrs of post-bacc exp Developer - Services (TIBCO) in Long
agement, Regulatory Liaison & Gover- lateral delivery and funding utilizing Island City, NY to dev, test & doc enter-
Bar. Travel up to 20 % req. Please ap- Netwrks, & Alt Trding Systms; utlzing ings, exits, & others as needed. Assist in yrs exp in job offrd or w/ asset mgmt nance in New York, NY to determine reference Job #. in IT consltng, incl following prof exp: 5
ply by mail, referencing Job Code Autosys Scheduler, Cisco Tidal Schedu- cross-selling existing products incl deri- rsrch w/ quant mdl'g. Must have 4 yrs collateral delivery and optimization yrs wrkng w/SAP OTC, incl sales order prise class web app, services, middle-
credit risk appetite for asset classes platforms; and supporting Credit tier interfaces & backend database.
NY1348, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Manage- ler, Sybase & SQL Server databases, vatives. Identify & dvlp new products to exp in fllw'g: prgrmm'g us'g SQL, SAS, and legal entities based on in-depth an- mgmt, pxng, accts rcvbl, or dstn; 5 yrs
ment, 4040 West Boy Scout Boulevard, Perl & Shell scripting, Linux, UNIX, & adapt & cross-sell for changing mkts in MATLAB or simlr sftwre; presnt'g Support Annex amendments and ne- cndctng implntn & sppt of SAP pgms; 5 Req's Bachelor's degree or frgn equiv
alysis or portfolio characteristics and gotiations. Apply to BUSINESS in Comp Sci, Comp Engg or rel tech dis-
Tampa, FL 33607. Windows op systms; & providing supp- collaboration w/ the credit team, quant topics to sr audience, & expert & the risk bearing capacity. Requires a Infor (US), Inc. has an opening for yrs gdng wrk strms on glbl SAP deploy-
www.db.com/careers and search by cipline +6 yrs progressively resp exp
ACCOUNTING rt to & trbleshootng issues w Equities clients, & other lenders. Analyze pro- non-expert audiences; wrk'g w/ Master's degree in Business Manage- professionals, keyword MG0717. an Enablement Instructional Designer ments; 5 yrs wrkng w/clients to scope & developing web services &/or enter-
Tax Senior Associate, ITS (Mult. Pos.), Smart Order Router Technology. Mail posed transactions & propose risk- invstmnt cncpts on prtfolio return/risk ment, Business Administration, Fi- and Trainerin New York, NY. Build drv successful Order To Cash dlvry. prise-scale app integration solutions.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New resumes ref MS/ASM/KSK to Citigroup mitigating credit structures & solutions. mgmt & prtfolio prfrmnce assessmnt nance, or related field or equivalent, & maintain relationships w/in key Apply online at www.accenture.com Must pass 10 yr backgrnd chck & pre-
York, NY. Provide tax strategy, plan- Recruiting Dept., 3800 Citigroup Center Reqmts: Bachelor's deg, or foreign w/in currnt mkt envrnmnt; &, stats & and six (6) years of experience handl- Bialy Maker, Southampton, NY - stakeholders to clearly understand [Select Careers; Job #00498595]. emplymnt drug tst. Up to 35% travel
ning, compliance & acctng services to Drive, Tampa, FL 33610. Citigroup is equiv, in Finance, Econ, Bus. Admin quant mdl'g for asset mgmt w/in finan ing credit risk management, concern- Knowledge of bialy prod from start to the business, target audience & req'd. Potential need to work flex hrs +
companies with int'l. operations. Assist EOE. Direct apps only. (Mgmt) or closely rltd field, + 2 yrs exp ind. Must also have 1 yr exp wrk'g w/ ing commercial and retail lending, se- end exp. w bialy equip (semi-auto bun content needs to construct learning Computer: DB USA Core Corporation be available to respond on short notice.
multinational businesses achieve busi- in position offd or closely rltd occupa- invstmnt cncpts on asset alloctn w/in curities and derivatives portfolios; de- divider & rounder); pay strict attn to & performance outcomes on time seeks a Vice President, Business Ana- Fax resume/CV to 718-504-5338, attn.:
ness goals in a tax efficient manner. tion working in natural resources, re- currnt mkt envrnmnt & implmnt'g mul- veloping, implementing and using timing & follow recipes; must be org. & or ahead of schedule. Travel & work lyst, Global Markets Technology in Shikha Sharma ref #15-1705. EOE &
Req. Bach's deg or foreign equiv. in Apps Support Sr Analyst for Citibank, newable energy, or industrials area for ti-asset class stratgs. Exp may be quantitative and qualitative models, in- pay close attn to process. Strictly mea- at various unanticipated client loca- New York, NY to assist review and an- ADA compliant.
Acctng, Bus Admin, Tax, Law or rel. + 3 N.A. (NY, NY) to Design, document & a global bank. Must have 1 yr exp in: gained cncurrntly. Resumes: J. Alvia, cluding rating, capital and portfolio sure/mix ingrdnts; cut, roll, shape tions throughout the U.S. as assigned. alysis of business requirements for
Computer Vision Engineers
yrs rel. work exp.; OR a Master's deg or develop tech spprt tools for Global fu- fin'l modeling in project finance sector; AllianceBernstein L.P., 1345 Ave of the models; performing portfolio optimiza- dough, proof to reach size, shape, tex- Telecommuting permitted up to technical solutions. Requires a Bache-
(New York, NY): Rsrch & implmt ma-
foreign equiv. in Acctng, Bus Admin, tures production srvcs team. Enhance Project finance term structuring, incl Americas, New York, NY 10105. JobID: tion, using quantitative models and ture; use bialy mach, hand tech. to 80%. How to apply: Mail resume, lor's degree in Computer Engineering,
chine learning mdels for predictn, objct
Tax, Law or rel. + 1 yr of rel. work exp. futures trading apps. Reqs Bachelor's loan sizing, pricing, & term sheet draft- AVP-WEL tools, including VBA; handling interna- shape dough; add filling; operate oven- ref. IN66, incl. job history, to: Infor Computer Science, or related field or
detectn, matching, prsnlztn, &
Travel up to 20% req. Apply by mail, re- in Comp Sci, Engin or rltd fld & 6 yrs ing; Renewable energy sector & tional financial reporting; and handling s/kettles. T - F 2 AM - 9AM, Sat - Sun (US), Inc. Attn: Cheryl Sanocki, 1351 equivalent and five (5) years of pro-
rcommndtn of fshn items as prt of a
ferencing Job Code NY1352, Attn: HR progrssve, post-bacc exp providing IT project finance in Americas; Project Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC credit portfolio management, which in- 2AM - 10AM. wknds, nat'l holidays, relig South County Trail, Building 3, East gressively responsible experience vali-
cnsmr mobile applctn; Resume to:
SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy prdctn spprt for fince indstry using Or- cash flow waterfall analysis & risk as- seeks Associate, Credit Stress Testing cludes portfolio analysis, risk appetite, holidays a must. HS Dipl min 12 mnths Greenwich, RI 02818. EOE. dating feasibility studies and estimates.
Iown LLC, Attn: Anne-Marie Shelley,
Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607. sessment, incl risks rltd to renewable in NY, NY to coord Counterparty & limit determination, limit governance exp. Must have legal auth. to work in Must include at least five (5) years of
acle, PLSQL, Sybase, Core Java & Unix energy project construction, operation CVA CCAR stress testing & vali- and portfolio reporting. Must include at US. Email bagelguru22@yahoo.com progressively responsible experience 116 W. 32nd St. Fl. 9 New York, NY
ACCOUNTING Shell Scripting. 2 yrs exp must include & investment funding; Renewable en- date/explain results. Req's Master's in least six (6) years of experience re- validating business cases outlining cost 10001. Ref job # AI264673NP
Assurance Manager, Transaction Ser- Clearvision, GMI, Abinitio; Geneos- ergy project contract review; & Financ- Operations Research, Info Eng'g, Fin'l viewing rules and regulations applicab- Carpenter reqd to construct, erect, in- impacts and value drivers of proposed Computers:
vices (Mult. Pos.), Pricewaterhouse- /ITRS; Futures & exchange traded bus ing agreement & legal document re- Eng'g, or rel field of study & 1 yr's exp Biochem stall & repair structures & fixtures of solutions; maintaining project plans
le to foreign banking organizations Research Assistant III Genomics: 45-01 Senior Developer (NY, NY) Resp. for
Coopers LLP, New York, NY. Advise & fnctnal workflow/lifecycle; & IT Ser- view. Send resume to: P. Ferrara, Jr., in position offered or 1 yr's exp as Ana- operating in the U.S., including Eu- wood, plywood & wallboard using car- and project artifacts; tracking IT dsgn & dvlpmt of windows applics
clients on complex acctng & reprtng vice Mgmt sftwre. Mail Resumes ref Exec. Dir, HR, Cooperatieve Rabobank lyst or rel occupation. Req's 1 yr's exp Vernon Blvd, LIC, NY 11101 at New penter's hand tools & power tools in project issues, risks, dependencies, and
ropean capital requirements regula- York Blood Center to perform molecu- using WinForms & WPF & web applics
matters relating to events, such as; MS/ASSA/SS to Citigroup Recruiting U.A., Ref. Job# APS-2017-1, 245 Park in risk, modeling, or stress testing ca- tions and the German Banking Act; ad- New York City & Bergen County NJ. developing mitigation strategies; work- using Angular JS, Java Script, HTML,
IPO's & debt raisings. Req Bach's deg Dept, 3800 Citigroup Center Dr, Tampa, Ave, NY, NY 10167 pacity. Will accept any amount of exp lar & cellular analysis of blood samples Mail resume to Construction Contrac- ing with regulatory tax programs in-
dressing credit risk related requests from patients & donors. Must have Bootstrap & C#. Gather, analyze, &
or foreign equiv in Acctng, Econ, Engg FL 33610. Citigroup is EOE. Direct apps w/: fin'l math; CVA/DVA pricing & eva- from regulators; and handling regula- tors of NY Corp., 208 Russel Place, cluding FATCA (Foreign Account Tax compile business reqmts & build busi-
or rel + 5 yrs post-bach's prog rel work only. luation of products incl SFT, TBA, & Bachelor's in Bio Scie, Health Scie, Lab Hackensack, NJ 07601.
tory examinations and remediation of Scie, or rltd, and 3 yrs professional exp Compliance Act) and Chapter 3 sup- ness logic components & other mid-
exp; OR a Master's deg or foreign AVP/Senior Research Associate (Al- OTC derivatives; analyzing impact of credit risk-related findings. Apply to porting syndicated loans business; dle-ware to implmt multitiered web &
equiv in Acctng, Econ, Engg or rel + 3 in Scientific Lab position. Must have 2
lianceBernstein L.P. — New York, NY) each asset class on stressed CVA/DVA www.db.com/careers and search by yrs blood group genomics lab exp. working with year-end tax reporting windows applics. Dsgn dbase struc-
yrs rel work exp. Travel up to 20% req. Prvde covrge of Cruise, Hotels and valuation; counterparty stress testing; professionals, keyword TK0617. CLERK/BOOKKEEPER forms 1042, 1098 and 1099; and utilizing tures & methods that reflect needs of
Apply by mail, referencing Job Code ARCHITECTS Must have 2 yrs exp utilizing theoreti-
Powersports inds. F/T. Reqrs Mstr's prog'g skills in R & Matlab; VBA & SQL; cal & practical applications of Molecu- Small CPA Firm Manhattan seeks en- FpML (financial products markup lan- clients' applic. Perform dsgn, dvlpmt,
NY1376, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Manage- DDG Partners LLC. has an oppty in dgr (or frgn equiv) in Econ, Finan, & stat's & model dvlpmt areas. To ap- ergetic worker, filing,ordering supplies, guage) schema and architecture, testing, support & maintenance activi-
ment, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, New York, NY for an Architectural Acct'g, Bus Admin or rel fld & 3 yrs exp ply visit http:// www.morganstanley. lar biology, Immunohematology &
Dsgnr. Exp w/commrcl arch & dsgn in job offrd or in mgmt cnslt'g or financl com/about/careers/careersearch.html Genomics, w/ 35 blood group systems, Time & billing, bank, assemble tax re- MarkitClear, Loan IQ, Microsoft ties. Bachelor's deg in Comp Engg, Info
FL 33607. turns, light bookkeeping. Quickbooks, Project, Eclipse and DB2. Apply to Tech or rltd field. 5 yrs of exp as
reqd. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 60 Hud- terminology & clinical significance; &
srvcs ind. Must have 3 yrs exp in fllw'g: Scroll down & enter 3094731 as “Job w/ relevant regulatory requirements. Microsoft Office. Send salary request- www.db.com/careers and search by Sr./Software Dvlpr/Engr, Team Lead,
Accounting: FIG LLC seeks Associate, son St, Ste 1803, New York, NY 10013, Bloomberg, Factset, IHS, STR, Thom- Number” & click “Search jobs.” No calls Sr./Systems Dvlpr or a rltd role. 5 yrs of
Senior Accountant in NYC to perform Ref #NYSHU. Must be legally auth to Must hold NY Clinical Lab Technolo- ed john@jalarossacpa.com professionals, keyword MK0417.
accounting duties for hybrid fund work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE sonOne & Haver Anlytics; MS Excel please. EOE gist License. To apply, go exp must incl: understanding needs of
w/characteristics of hedge fund, pri- incl regrssn anlysis, pivot table rprts, to https://careers-nybloodcenter.icims. hedge fund & private equity opera-
vate equity & REIT function. Requires data tables, solver, adv chrt'g & frmuls; Associate-Technical Business Analyst - com, search for Research Assistant III tions, accounting & trading teams; Win-
Bachelor's or foreign education equi- MS PPT & Word; &, financl mdl'g. Must New York, NY. Provide detailed analy- Genomics & click “apply for this job on- Forms, WPF, Angular JS, Java Script,
valent in Accounting & 6 years of ex- Architects: Arch III (Req. No. 17-0195) - also have 1 yr exp w/ sourc'g, rsrch'g & sis of existing business processes. Req. line” icon on the page. JQuery, HTML, ASP .NET, Bootstrap,
perience performing auditing or ac- Perkins + Will, Inc., New York. Req B anlyz'g cmplx Chinese mkt events & Bachelor's in Comp Engg, Engg, CS, IT, C#, MS SQL Server, SQL, SSIS, SSRS,
counting functions w/in public account- Arch (5 yr) or foreign equiv + 2 yrs exp. cntrovrsies incl monitr'g regionl & local or rel. field + 6 yrs. exp. in job offered or Excel VBA, Team Foundation Server,
ing and/or private accounting environ. Pls review addl reqmts & apply online Chinese press for mkt intel on vndrs, as App. Dvlpr, SW Engr/Analyst, In- Biostatistician, Glen Oaks, NY. Provide Visual Studio, SQL Server Mgmt Stu-
Will also accept Master's & 4 years of at http://perkinswill.com/careers for cmptitrs & govt news; SAS, Matlab, frastructure Support Analyst, or relat- statistical support to organization and dio, MS BIDS, MS Office, Dbase Dsgn &
experience. CPA required. Fax cover Req. No. 17-0195. SPSS, JMP or equiv stats anlysis ed occ. Req. any amount of exp. with: medical research projects. Design, de- Dvlpmt, Entity Framework, HTML5.0,
letter/resume to 917-639-9893 & refer- sftwre; SQL & VBA; rate of return Sybase DB; SQL Server; UNIX; Win- velop and manage databases. Prepare ASP .NET Web API, Jasmine Test
ence job code ASADL. valdtn; cost & price bnchmrk'g across dows 2000, XP, Vista, & 7; Python script- reports for management and project Framework, NUnit, Moq, MS Unity, JI-
globl mkts; MS Access incl creat'g & ing, Shell scripting, & Perl scripting; JI- heads. Use computer programs for RA, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Con-
Accounting Clerk (NY, NY) Manage Asst Strctr'l Engr -NYC. Conduct strct'rl run'g queries on mult tables, calcultd RA; Geneos; exposure to front-office in data management and statistical ana- fluence, Active Batch, Dsgn Patterns,
cash accounts, loans, credit lines, analysis & design bldgs & strctrs using flds & dsgn view custumztns; &, ind mkt fin'l serv. industry; & US Equity Deriva- lyses. Reqs: Masters in Mathematics, Data Warehouse, Security Master, Re-
AP/AR, payroll, & transaction records SAP2000/RAM/Robot,MathCAD,Auto - siz'g, 3-statement, Merger & Acquistn, tives & Cash products. To apply, visit Statistics, related field + 2 years exp in ference Data & Legal Entity Master,
under supervision of accountant. Veri- CAD & DeepEX & know bldg codes & & Lveragd Buyout mdls. Exp may be http://careers.jpmorganchase.com and job offered or as Statistical Analyst in Regulatory & Compliance Reporting,
fy charges, reconcile bank records. specs (AISC, ACI, IB, ASCE). Review gained cncurrntly. Resumes: J. Alvia, apply to job #:170077915. EOE, AAE, medical/science setting. Send CV to Tableau, MS Visio, MVVM Pattern,
Reqs 2 years of exp. Mail resume to draw'gs/take field measuremt. Mstrs AllianceBernstein L.P., 1345 Ave of the M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All kmelbourne@northwell.edu at North- XAML, WCF, VPM, Bloomberg. Apply
Funaro & Co, 350 5th Ave, 41st Flr, NY, Civil Engg.Resume:Urbantech Conslt'g Americas, New York, NY 10105. JobID: rights reserved. well Health, Subject line “Resume”. to Centerbridge Partners, L.P. via
NY 10118. Attn: B Boydston. Refer to ad Engg PC, 11 Bway,Ste 410, NY, NY10004 AVP-ZBE www.jpmorganchase.com. EOE M/F/D/V email to: HRteam@centerbridge.com
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Director, Revenue Mgmt (VNSNY Exec Director, Global Cybersecurity- Banking in NY, NY to provide fin'l ad- cate cross-functionally across various seeks a Technical Support Lead, Fixed M
Bank of America. Reqs: BS or equiv. & CHOICE, NYC)- Dvlps & leads initia- NY, NY. Manage & oversee all regula- vice & solutions on strategic issues in Hematologist/Oncologist, Sleepy Hol- teams as well as w/internal & external Income Technology in New York, NY m m
6 yrs exp; & Exp in verifying the applics tives to max revenue for all VNSNY tory engagements globally for order to advise domestic & multi- low, NY. Diagnose, treat and/or pre- stakeholders to drive eng'g efforts. to lead the global support team in pro- m m m
made on HTML 5, CSS, Java, Jscript & vent cancers (breast, lung, colon, etc) Req'mnts: Master's in IT & Mgmt, CS, M
CHOICE mngd care product lines. Col- cybersecurity incl exam management, national corp clients & emerging viding technical support for Fixed In- M
Mcrsft Techs; Exp in Big Data Hadoop laborates w/sr mgmt to dvlp, imple- regulator engagement, regulatory re- growth co.'s in achieving short- & long- and benign and malignant blood or rel. field or equiv, plus 2 yrs of exp come applications. Responsible for
& Predictive Anlytcs implementation & ment & monitor effective fin operating sponse & follow up of open items. Man- term objectives. Req's Bachelor's in diseases such as Myeloma, Leukemia, designing & dvlping front-end interfa- working with the team members to m
verification; Track record of Infrastruc- Lymphoma, Anemia, bleeding and ces, underlying APIs, & backend syst's m m m m
& reporting procedures; dvlps annual age & oversee all audit globally for Bus. Admin, Fin'c, or rel field of study & monitor applications, resolve prob-
ture Migrations like Oracle to Vertica; revenue & savings budget projections cybersecurity incl audit mgmt, audit 6 yrs exp as an Investment Banking As- clotting disorders; diagnose and man- across different programming langua- lems, identify areas of improvement,
Wrkig exp & kwldg on Tableau rprtng; age hematologic conditions that ac- ges. Prior exp must incl 2 yrs of analyz- and own change/problem manage- m m
for each line of bus. Leads initiatives to engagement, audit response & follow soc, Director, or rel occupation in In- m
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alysis financial reports; dvlp & main- stratgs; Cvring all hdge fnd & institu- Finance-Economist (New York, NY): agement on needed action s; Maintains Sketch-Up, Adobe S. Req'd Master's m m
Conduct quantitative & qualitative financial staff by recruiting, selecting, HUMAN RESOURCES. Director of and design of database systems for ac-
tain change order documentation; tional clnt stratgs; & Servicng Prime Talent and Inclusion (REQ-000862). degr in Archit Dsgn or rel field. Mail CV m m
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and delivery and work on open-source to work directly w/Senior Invstmnt
& delays, prep reports & make recom- lng colltral, dbt balncs, crdt balncs, & veys & field work & correspond regu- lieu of a BA plus five yrs exp, emp will to foster a high-performance work en- projects and rapid prototyping. Exe- Team (SIT) members to perform due
larly with the executive management accept 7 exp in position or as Chief Fi- cute complex front-end projects and diligence on existing & prospective M m M
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covery from setbacks. Work loc: 500 anlytics; Lvrging sales stratgs to mnge teams of the companies under cover- nancial Officer . Must have knowledge culture and will work closely with other backend integrations. Work with de- equity & debt invstmts. Conduct prima- m
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PMX, LLC, 10 Hillside Ave, Port Wash- hdge fnd clnts. Mail resumes ref culate the intrinsic value of their stock issues and cost elements. Emp will ac- the strategy. programming languages, JavaScript, models for all prospective invstmts. m
prices, compare the calculated stock cept any suitable combination of train- SQL, Python, HTML, Rails, CSS, Java, m m m
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EJ/DST/RP to Citigroup Recruiting value to the market price & make in- ing, education, and experience. Send For more info on the opport., visit Node.js, Express, and NoSQL databa- ing of publicly available, yet often un-
Dept., 3800 Citigroup Center Dr, Tam- vestment recommendations based on letter of interest and resume in dupli- www.NYTimes.wd5.MyWorkdayJobs. ses. Req's Master's degr plus 2 yrs exp. derfollowed, data sources as well as
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multiple partners on diverse capital eral types of steel products, iron ore, Financial: a HR Operations / HRIS Transforma- Equal Opportunity Employer m/f/d/v. company's bus model, unit economics
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projects with varying degrees of (IBD), Industrials sought by Barclays coal & aluminum). Build & maintain Vice President, Corporate Finance tion Manager, and more. & industry structure in order to make
commodity price databases & monitor (NY, NY). Evaluate & outline potential IT: UBS Business Solutions US LLC m
complexity. B.A. in Civil or Structural Capital Inc (NY, NY) to plan, dirct & seeks Associate Directors, IT Softw & invstmnt recommendations to SIT. m
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cord fin strats & acq for auto and ind
sectr clients. Reqs: MS deg or for eqiv
& forecast commodity price trends bus. opportunities supporting the
based on supply, demand, trade arbi- growth, dvlpmt & profitability of the The New York Times
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www.nyc.gov/careers/search in Fin, Cmrce, Acct, Econ or rltd & 4 yrs trage & cost curve dynamics. Write co.'s publishing operations. Master's mrkts & risk mngmnt. Must have prov-
equity research reports utilizing in- deg in Bus. Admin, Finance or rltd field, sustainable success over life cycle of
Job ID# 296174 EOE of exp as Fin Assoc, Fin Mngr or rltd in sware products. Req'mts: Bachelor's or en ability to manage a variety of trans-
fin svcs. Alt, Bach deg or for eqiv in abv depth analytical research & dissemin- or foreign equiv. Must have 5 yrs exp actions & projects simultaneously. Ex-
ate the reports to large institutional in: Investment banking/ transactional equiv in CS, Comp Eng'g, Comp Info M m M
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Consulting: AlixPartners, LLP (New fields & 6 yrs of exp in abv occs in fin clients to assist them with the maxi- M&A, coordinating due diligence Sys's, IT, or rel field & 7 yrs exp in job
& verbal req. Advanced exp w/Micro-
York, NY) seeks Director w/ Master's svcs. Dem exp must incl: Prep due dilig mized return on their investments. Re- processes & fin'l modeling for M&A, as Human Resources: Heidrick &
offered or rel position: delivering fin'l
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ing, or Finance and 1 yr. of exp.in man- anly, modlng & val of co to eval trans (CRU, Platts, Metals Bulletin, Wood drafting of deal documents; Fin'l analy- Managers in NY, NY to ensure thor-
stages of softw dvlpmt lifecycle incl
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agement consulting, strategy analysis, impct; Prvdng invst bnk advsry svcs in Mackenzie, American Metal Market, sis or corporate finance, incl managing ough understanding of client's position
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or business analysis (or BS+5). Must suprt of M&A trans in cap mkts; & An- Steel Market Update & Steel Business projects &/or implmtg corporate effi- requirements at the briefing stage by
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have some work experience in each of lyzng econ/ind trends, cmptitive Briefing), annual reports & financial fil- ciency initiatives in both a corporate & proactively raising relevant questions
tion, & providing support for trading
sure to real estate, project/asset fin &
the following: (1) advising C-suite exe- threats & strat alt on bhalf of clients. ings to gather, synthesize & interpret consultant envrmt; M&A transactions & collecting critical information. Write
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cutives on strategic sourcing to estab- Req FINRA Series 63 & 79. Must be data on the companies under cover- in the media industry inclusive of fin'l high quality Confidential Position Spe-
dvlpmt lifecycle; utilizing user interface
leasehold agrmnts, Low Income Hous-
lish a competitive supplier base that avail for 50% travl to clients wrldwd to age. Req's Bachelor's degr plus 2 yrs modeling & due diligence, as well as cification (CPS) & “Key Factors for
technologies incl JSON & Javascript
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helps deliver against business strate- cndct mkt activities & exec trans. To exp. Req's FINRA Series 7, 63, 86 & 87 exp w/ multiple transactions involving Success” that may be sent directly to
frameworks; & utilizing Core Java,
gulatory Agreements (LURA), historic m
gies; (2) identifying best potential sour- apply go to https://barclays.taleo.net/c licenses. Please forward your resume companies w/ multinational opera- client with minimal Consultant input. Web Srvcs, & Open Source technolo-
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ces and advantaged suppliers for mid- areersection/2/moresearch.ftl & to Credit Suisse, P.O. Box F013CSNY, 71 tions; Bus. analytics, dsgng & implmtg Present research strategy to client gies incl Redhat Fusefabric or Apache
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to-large cap companies in the retail enter job #00245874. Barclays is an Fifth Ave., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10003. new operating metrics & processes, as with minimal Consultant oversight, & Servicemix, OSGI, FIX protocol / En-
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and consumer products industries; and EEO/AA emplyr. No phone calls. well as improving efficiency of report- discuss & refine strategy to obtain gine Java Middleware stack, Spring
Knowledge of solar construction fin, m m
(3) leading large-scale organizational buy in. Less than 5% domestic framework, & Hibernate. 2 yrs prior
ing w/in a finance organization; & Sum- exp must incl utilizing HTML5, EXTJS, incld understanding of electricity
change and merger integration includ- marizing & presenting results of fin'l travel. Please apply to mrkts, solar legislation/reg, power pur- m
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analysis to Board Directors & C-Level chase agrmnts, Solar Renewable Ener-
customer care for telecom industry EDITOR Finance-Assistant Vice President (New Executives. Must have exp w/ int'l and reference Engagement Manager SH-ProfRecruitingCC@ubs.com. Pls ref
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clients. Up to 80% travel required; tele- Senior Editor, Environmental Sciences York, NY): Monitor monthly business transaction work in foreign mkts. Must role. AB6282017NYT. NO CALLS PLS.
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commuting permitted. This position sought by Springer Science + Bus- information closing process, controls & be fluent in German, Spanish or Portu- EOE/M/F/D/V
of sectors incld Continuing Care Retire- m
qualifies for the AlixPartners employ- iness Media LLC, in New York, NY. reports. Evaluate & assess monthly guese. Send resume to Penguin Ran- IT/Software: Autonomy Americas, LLC ment Communities (CCRC), student M
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through correspondence, required ing knowledge of assets under man- ate Finance), 1745 Broadway, 14th Flr, Collect & maintn db of mrkt data to en- housing, energy, utility & infrastruc-
klongo@alixpartners.com. agement & net new assets. Enhance NY, NY 10019 or apply at www. HR: SimCorp USA Inc. seeks HR Asso- m m
meetings/trips, telephone, consulta- ciate in New York, NY to asst w/hiring hance risk calcs & attrib probs, utilizg ture, among others. Required Qualifi-
No calls. EOE. control framework to check & monitor penguinrandomhousecareers.com cations: Bachelor's degree in finance & m
tions with advisors. Prepare and exe- & othr HR process/prcdrs. BS/BA HR, industry & model spec knwldge. Reqs m m
cute publishing contracts in regard quality of information being delivered Master's in Stats, Maths or closely rel excellent academic record w/ min 3 yrs M
for accurate reflection of external pub- Financial: Prosperity Service Group Hmnities or rltd + 1yr HR exp, pref in m
CONTROLLER for retail business. to US product. Maintain and develop cnsltng envrmnt..Reqs any amnt exp quant field or frgn equiv w/ min 2 yrs of prior finance exp, incld the following: 2
Car required. a circle of reviewers and advisors lished results. Design new reports, sys- LLC seeks Sr. Actuarial Assoc. in NY, exp as a quant strategist at invstmnt yrs in invstmnt banking analyst pro-
tem enhancements & standard set- NY to coord. actuarial model dvlpmt, w/: orgnzng & effctvly prtzng mltpl m
Email HRES2200@YAHOO.COM and evaluate their judgments. Main- prjcts & dmnds; hndlng snstve & bank or macroecons-based hedge gram & at least 3 yrs of alternative as-
salary requirements. tain continuous cooperation and dia- tings to enhance transparency of finan- maint. & upgrade for various funcs., fund. 2 yrs of exp must include per- set mngmnt exp; 3 yrs of professional M
cials, trends, performance indicators & incl asset & liability mngmt, pricing, cnfdntl info in dscrte & prof mannr;
logue with marketing, promotion and cmptr prfcncy; Excel, PwrPnt, Outlook formg statstcl modelg; workg w/ tra- exposure & knowledge of portfolio
efficiency measures. Perform regular, M&A, Enterprise Risk Mngmt, cash ders to solve trading probs, deliverg ro- theory & broad exposure to real estate m mm
Cram School (Westchester, NY) seeks production concerning individual ad hoc & deep-dive analysis for execu- flow testing & bus. plan projection. & othr sftw tools. Wrkng knwldg fed- m
Teacher for science for students age projects as well as general questions /state empl laws & regs. Emplyr accpts bust front-end tools for real-time risk & & municipal finance invstng, alterna- M
tive management, business areas sup- Reqs Master's in Quant. Finance, Ac- pre-trade analytics; using C/C++/C# & tive asset mngmnt w/exposure to vari- m m
6-18. Must have Bachelor's in Environ- of mutual interest. Maintain communi- port & regulatory reports. Work on tuarial Sci., Math, Stats or rel fld of stu- sngle degree or any combo of dgrees,
mental Sci or rel., & 2 yrs exp. in job of- cation with US, European and Asian dplas, or prof creds dtrmnd equiv by VBA; utilization of Yield curve boot- ous fund products, multi-asset class
projects to improve data quality, timeli- dy + 2 yrs of exp in job offered or in rel strapping technqs & industry stnrd fi- portfolio mngmnt, global invstmnt
fered & fluent in Japanese. Mail re- editorial counterparts about specific ness & delivery of business informa- actuarial role. Will accept Bachelor's in qualfd eval srvce. Perm US auth reqd. m m m
sume to: JECUS, INC. d/b/a SAPIX USA, immediate questions as well as long Email resume to nancl tools & data sources, incl. Bloom- strategies, invstmnt monitoring & re- M
tion to increase operational perfor- Quant. Finance, Actuarial Sci., Math, berg; utilizg financl derivs, incl. Interest search, portfolio analytics & risk M W m m m m
3000 Westchester Ave., Ste 205, Pur- term strategy questions. Work with va- mance. Propose asset classifications Stats or rel fld of study + 4 yrs of exp in SC.JobsNA@simcorp.com m m
chase, NY 10577. rious branches in coordination of the w/ subject “HR Associate.” Rate Derivatives, Interest rate curve mngmnt; 2 yrs of exp in Restructuring m @ m
international program. Supervise final based on global policies & analysis of job offered or a rel actuarial role. Req construc, numerical optimztn technqs from an international invstmnt bank
business transactions & corporate prior exp interpreting docs (e.g. proce- as well as complex derivs modelg & w/transaction exposure to leverage fi-
Credit Portfolio Sr Risk Manager for Ci- editorial preparation of manuscripts structures. Perform monthly & semi- dure manuals) & writing routine re- pricg, incl. performg computations on nance, workouts, bankruptcies, mer- m
tigroup Management Corp. (New York, for production. Discuss, assume and annual client asset case reviews to ports & corresp.; working w/ math. con- lg scale data sets, principl component gers & acquisitions & special situation m
NY) to Perform credit analysis & risk propose financial and budgetary plans confirm policy adherence for the U.S., cepts (e.g. prob. & stat. inference, dif- IT: FIS Management Services, LLC
analysis (US Treasury bonds), & boot- financings (i.e. debtor-in-possession &
management w/in Citi's Global Indus- for program. Ensure that financial Bahamas, Mexico & Brazil. Work with ferential equations, copulas, correla- seeks Professional Services Consultant
strapping technqs. Resumes to Auto- exit financing), restructuring & dis-
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tries & Regional Credits unit for Power, reports, status reports, budget fore- industry survey data analysis for tion & covariance analysis). Must have in NY, NY to gather & document client
nomy Americas, LLC, ATTN: Recruit- tressed transactional exp, both in-court m
Chemicals, Metals & Mining portfolio casts, etc., can be made on the basis of market publishers, including P&I, BCG, strong working knowledge of MS Of- req'mts in order to design & dvlp app
ing, Job ID: FFAA17, 90 Park Avenue, & out-of-court w/companies in various
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clients. Reqs Master's in Finance, Bus readily available material. Develop Towers Watson, McKinsey & Casey fice. Must be a FSA or an ASA & have sys's using latest technology & dvlpmt
NY, NY 10016. industries incld infrastructure, bus svcs,
Mngmt or rltd & 7 yrs of exper involv- guidelines, plan, reporting systems, Quirk. Prepare, reconcile & document passed CFA level 1 exam. Working tools, incl MS .NET, C#, Java, Visual consumer, industrials, oil & gas, explor-
ing credit risk mgmnt. Alt, will accept etc., to implement publishing plans. balance sheet, risk weighted assets & knowledge of Polysystems, Arc Val, Basic, ASP.NET, PowerShell scripting, IT: UBS Business Solutions US LLC ation & production, coal & healthcare,
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Bachelor's & 9 yrs of prgrssve, post- Maintain current status of all projects leverage ratio exposure. Assist in the LSP, MG-ALFA, MATHLAB, SQL, Ac- Python, Excel, VBA, & SQL/Server. seeks Directors, Project Managers in among others, credit analysis w/firm M m
bac exp. Full term of exp must incl Risk in the program via reporting system. implementation of the Intermediate cess & Excel req'd. Send resume to: Req's: Master's or equiv in CS, Elect Weehawken, NJ to manage US regula- understanding of bond indentures & m m
Mgmnt of complex credits w/ cross Review and discuss new projects and Holding Company reporting standard. careers@prosperitylife.com & refer- Eng'g, Elect or rel field & 1 yr's exp tory programs from Project Manage- credit agrmnts, demonstrated ad-
product exposures; Corp finance/acctg, plans with editorial colleagues particu- Apply knowledge of investment strate- ence req# 0627-17. dvlpg app sys's for clients in fin'l indus- ment Office (PMO) perspective, sup- vanced understanding of accounting,
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banking & derivatives products; PCM larly in overlapping areas. Monitor gies, including hedge funds, fixed in- try. Prior exp must incl enterprise solu- porting Group Operations work fin stmnt analysis, fin modeling, bus va- m
industries & commodities/derivatives staffing requirements and trains and come, equities, real estate, credit, fun- Financial: RBC Capital Markets seeks a tion design & dvlpmt w/focus on distri- stream. Req'mts: Bachelor's or equiv in luation & professional exposure to lev-
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mrkts; Policies impacting Credit Risk develop staff. Any other duties as d-of-funds & multi-class asset alloca- Vice President, Equity Index Options buted computing, multi-threading, & Bus. Admin, Mgmt Info Sys's, Elect erage buyout analysis, liquidation ana- m m m
Mgmnt framework; Legal docmntn for required by manager. tion. Req's Master's degr plus 2 yrs exp Trader in New York, NY that is respon- optimization algorithms; relational Eng'g or rel field & 3 yrs exp in job of- lysis, debt capacity analysis & various
Credit & Derivative Trading legal Min. Requirements: Bachelor's degree or Bachelor's degr plus 5 yrs exp. sible for pricing and hedging client fac- dbase dvlpmt using MS SQL Server, fered or rel position: managing large scenario analyses. Send resumes to
agreemts; Using anlytics for prblm in Environmental Sciences, Life Scien- Please forward your resume to Credit ing trades on equity index options and incl T-SQL, stored procedures, & LINQ scale strategic programs; participating Fundamental Advisors LP, 745 Fifth
solving incl qntve modeling & anlysis & ces or related or foreign equivalent Suisse, P.O. Box MT-246, 71 Fifth Ave., 5 trading both single stocks exotic pro- to SQL; concurrent dvlpmt source con- in all phases of change mgmt program Ave, 25th Fl, NY, NY 10151. Attn: HR m m
manipulation of large data elements; together with 3 years of experience Fl., New York, NY 10003. ducts and volatility dispersion strate- trol & continuous integration using lifecycle incl planning, req'mts spec, m
Presenting anlytical results. Mail Re- working in environmental research No phone calls. gies in the Americas. Responsibilities Source Control Management sys's; tech spec, reporting, risk action, test-
sumes ref KC/CPSRM/OEL to Citi- or STM publishing. Please reply include maintenance of market pa- gathering bus. req'mts & translating ing, issue logs & deliverables tracking; Investment Analyst- (NYC)- Conduct M
group Recruiting Dept, 3800 Citigroup with resume to: Heather Haney, One rameters, timely booking of transac- into tech solutions; writing tech spec dvlpng bus. req'mts documents, re- quantitative, qualitative, credit, valua- m M
Center Drive, Tampa, FL 33610. Citi- New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New tions and partnering with GELP sales documents; negotiating w/client stake- quests for proposals, & bus. process tion, & market-specific analyses of m
group is EOE. Direct apps only. Finance: The Raine Group LLC seeks teams worldwide to promote AMRS In- holders; networking using IP addres- optimization plans; dvlpng target oper- companies in the real estate industry m m m
York, NY 10004. Sr Associate in NY, NY to execute advi- dex Option business. The position re- ses, subnets, ports, firewalls, & NAT; &, m
ating models, & creating governance to support the formulation of strategic m
sory & principal investing opp'tys quires a Master's degree in Finance, working w/Windows Server 2008/2012 frameworks; performing fin'l planning & financial advice. Perform complex fi- m m
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oppty in New York, NY for a Sr Data Electronic FX Sales Person/Risk Spe- m m
cialist (Market, Analysis and Certifica- incl sourcing, evaluating, & conducting dex Options trading, including both group policies. 25% travel req'd to vari- C/EPS, & Basel req'mts. Qualified Ap- ment Trusts (REITs). Evaluate histori- m
Strategy Analyst. Exp w/or knwldg of due diligence for new investment opp- plain vanilla and light exotics, direct ex- m
Ad-tech, mrktng or consltng reqd. Mail tion) (Societe Generale, New York, ous & unanticipated client sites nation- plicants apply through cal information & generate financial
'tys for Raine-sponsored private equity perience with trading index options, ally. In alternative, employer will ac- SH - ProfRecruitingCC@ubs.com. projections, including utilization of DCF mm m m
resume to Attn: HR, 21575 Ridgetop NY) Assist with electronic fx relation-
ships for large US based customer funds utilizing MS Office Suite & third- single stocks exotic products, volatility cept Bachelor's + 5 yrs exp in above Please reference AS07132017NYT. NO (Discounted Cash Flow), Comparable
Circle, Sterling, VA 20166, Ref #NYT- party data providers incl Bloomberg, dispersion strategies, and VBA pro-
WU. Must be legally auth to work in the base. Service external as well as inter- listed skills. Please send resume to J. CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Companies, Precedent Transactions, & m
CapIQ, & ThomsonOne. Req'mts: gramming. Please respond online Souvenir, FIS Management Services, SOTP (Sum-Of-The-Parts) valuation m
U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE nal customers with regard to pricing, IT: Shutterstock Inc. seeks a Software methodologies. Participate in analysis
hedging, achieving market share & ba- Bachelor's or equiv in Fin'c, Econ, to http://www.rbc.com/careers/how-to- LLC, 85 Broad St, NY, NY 10004. Please
Acc'tg, Bus. Admin or related field & 3 apply.html - position #142238. reference JZ05122017NYT. No Head- Development Engineer in Test II in NY, & diligence process for direct private
DENTAL HYGIENIST: Cosmetic lancing customer exp with bank profi- yrs exp in job offered or related occu- hunters. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE NY to roll out enhancements & new equity investments & co-investments m m
Office, NYC, 1-2 days per week. tability. Laise with global team to deliv- pation: ass'tg w/execution of fin'l in- FINANCIAL features for web-based softw apps, across various industries, including m M m M
Must have experience. Email er system enhancements, product vestments in telecomm, Media & Tele- syst's, & srvcs. Req'mnts: Master's in real estate. Produce investment me- m m
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Technical Architect in NY, NY to pro- hancements & new features for web- nancial models including IRR (Internal
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Digital Software Engineer- New York, business (incl spot fx, forwards, options pal transactions comparison & returns by matching your background to their Req'mnts: Master's in CS, Computer dvlping, testing & deploying user sto- written reports setting forth projec- m
NY - Develop, create, and modify ge- & NDFs) on global trading floor. Must analyses; dvlpg full op models & co. needs. Eng'g, or rel. field or equiv, plus 3 yrs of ries; participating in SCRUMs; & utiliz- tions & conclusions. Req's: Master's de-
neral computer applications software also have: 3 yrs exp as salesperson incl models for TMT industry, incl transac- exp supporting Salesforce.com envir- ing Perl, PHP, Javascript, Computer gree in Business Administration & 5 yrs
or specialized utility programs that will closing sales, performing relationship tions involving minority protection Analysts, Advisors, Associates, Clerks,
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help maximize the potential of NBA's mgmt, obtaining new accounts & grow- rights; working on principal investing lers, Managers, Brokers, Coordinators, & Srvc Cloud. Prior exp must incl 3 yrs tures, Docker, OpenStack, MySQL, or Associate. All req'd exp must have
direct to consumer business. Design ing existing accounts; 3 yrs of exp per- w/focus on taking minority stakes in Directors, Engineers, Planners, Tech- of working w/RDBMS concepts; model- MongoDB, Database Mgmt, Agile included conducting quantitative, quali- m
software or customize software for forming trading analysis (incl decipher- portfolio co.'s in TMT industry; working nicians, Processors, and more can find ing for structured syst's analysis; per- Dvlpmnt methodology, AWS, Linux, tative, credit, valuation, and market- m m m
client use with the aim of optimizing ing trends (positive & negative) & ad- on transaction structuring; conducting hundreds of career growth opportuni- forming complex data integrations to Software Testing Principles, & Sele- specific analyses of companies in the @ m M
operations efficiency. Worksite ad- dressing them in quantitative environ- bus., fin'l, acc'tg, industry, & co. due di- ties by visiting: Salesforce using APIs, Apex control- nium WebDriver. Pls email resumes to real estate industry to support the for-
dress: 645 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ment); any exp using Excel to perform ligence & research for co.'s in TMT in- lers, Apex Web Srvcs, & data loaders; recruitment - LGLHR@shutterstock. mulation of strategic & financial ad- m
10022. Min Req: Master's degree in Glo- quantitative analysis to determine vo- dustry; utilizing MS Office Suite & third- working w/bus. users to translate bus. com & indicate job code SS072017. NO vice; building & maintaining complex
bal Management, Business Adminis- lume & profitability; any exp managing
tration or Logistics and 2 years of ex- cross-products (incl forwards, swaps,
-party mrkt data providers incl Bloom-
berg, CapIQ, & ThomsonOne; & refer-
NYTimes.com/Jobs req'mnts into technical design specs; CALLS PLS. Shutterstock is an EOE. financial models including IRR, NPV,
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perience in the job offered or related commodities, prime brokerage, & FX encing industry specific sources incl gies; responding to & resolving critical IT/Software: Senior Developer/Ana- enues & expenses drivers, & risks & mi- m
digital mediaproduct development ex- options); any exp working with exter- Comscore & SNL Kagan. In lieu of support incidents; delivering complex lyst, Business Intelligence. Sirius XM tigants analyses; & evaluating histori- m m M
perience in the sports entertainment nal vendors (incl Bloomberg & Reu- Bachelor's in 1 of above fields of study, Financial: BNP Paribas seeks Asso- releases involving multiple teams; re- Radio Inc., New York, NY: Develop Ti- cal information & generating financial m
industry. Requires 2 years in each of ters); any exp using Trader Tools (incl employer will accept Bachelor's in any ciate (Job Code S271) in NYC to support searching & adopting ancillary techno- dal jobs for automated BI projects; pre- projections, including utilization of
the following: data and digital product FXALL, 360T, EBS & Currenex); any field combined w/1 yr's exp in field of Merchant Banking Group in credit ap- logies to build solutions on the pare Tidal runbook documents w/ de- DCF, Comparable Companies, Prece- m m m
management, data sourcing, parsing, exp working with IT, compliance & de- fi'n'c. Submit resume to HR Dept, The proval process of transactions on exist- Salesforce.com platform; & utilizing tailed information of Informatica and dent Transactions, & SOTP valuation m
filtering, manipulation and querying; velopment teams to create seamless Raine Group LLC, 810 Seventh Avenue, ing credits. Requires Bachelor's or Force.com, ANT, Git, JQuery, Visual- Teradata ETL jobs & dependencies be- methodologies. Contact: Grace Lee, M m m m
experience with database querying trade processing workflow of electro- 39th Floor, NY, NY 10019 & foreign education equivalent in Fi- force, & Lightning Components. **In tween jobs; work closely with BI ar- EMS Capital LP, 767 Fifth Ave, 46th Fl,
languages, such as SQL, and data pars- nic business in order to troubleshoot indicate job code ES102716NYT. nance, Economics or Accounting & 3 the alternative, we will accept a Bache- chitect & dev teams to understand new NY, NY 10153. m
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ing and manipulation languages, such issues, enhance customer exp & in- cial statement analysis & projections lor's in CS, Computer Eng'g, or rel. field projects & end-to-end data flow for all
as XLST. Qualified applicants send re- crease productivity & profitability. modeling w/in leveraged finance envir- plus 5 yrs of progressively responsible BI subject areas from operation sup- Investment Banking Positions (Asso- m
sumes to Attn: Janine Brown, Job Send resume to: HR or SG Recruitment Finance-Director, Operational Risk on. Email cover letter & resume w/Job exp in the above skills. Pls email re- port perspective. Min. Reqmts: Bache- ciate level) available in our New York, m m
Code: DSE, NBA Properties, Inc. 100 Team, Societe Generale, 245 Park Ave, Management (New York, NY): Over- Code in subject line to: careers@ sumes to lor's degree or equiv. in CS, MIS, or re- NY office. Perform financial analysis, m m
Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ 07094. NY, NY 10167, at see, review & challenge all of the americas.bnpparibas.com. BNP Pari- recruitment-LGLHR@shutterstock. lated; 4 years' supporting high- strategic business analysis & detailed % m
us-humn-recruitment@sgcib.com. Americas Equity & Solutions aligned bas is an equal opportunity employer com & indicate job code VM072017. performance, cross-functional IT Data industry research in support of buy- M m m m m M
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York, NY; employer: CMGRP, Inc.)- management. Provide quality assur- Financial: HSBC seeks Trader (New matica, UNIX and Tidal/Autosys, data covering the Technology, Media, & m
Responsible for leading internal & ex- ance for the Equities & Solutions Risk & York, NY). Provide timely and accur- analyst and control-based data opera- Telecommunications (TMT) industry. M
ternal strategic program development Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) pro- ate execution of trades for Company's tions. Apply at www.siriusxm.com. Evaluate client business strategies,
& content creation across Education ENGINEER-Sr. Quality Engineer/ cess in the Americas region partnering targeted institutional clients in the La- IT: FIS Management Services, LLC Ref: NR. Equal Opportunity Employer market dynamics & capital structures
NY accounts & activities, including Hauppauge, NY-ID factory & field per- with Operational Risk Management tam FX environment, CLP, COP, PEN, seeks Utility Associate in Jersey City, M/F/D/V to discuss strategic alternatives geared m
print, digital, & audio-visual deliverab- form issues;execute close loop solutns. (ORM) regionally & globally. Conduct BRL, MXN, ARS, UYU. Manage the NJ to provide Listed Derivatives & IT: Iconology, Inc. d/b/a comiXology — towards competitive growth & provide m m
les. Oversee account management & Escalate issues &/or initiate actns. Pro- incident, thematic, & business reviews firm's trading risk related to Latam OTC clearing functionalities to institu- Multiple Quality Assurance Engineer II financial advisory services to clients. M
finances, as well as client management vide/dvlp qual support/ goals; define with clear descriptions & recommen- currencies previously mentioned. Re- tions, hedge funds & clients globally. positions available in New York, NY. Review financial models to analyze M M
for Education NY diabetes portfolio. strategies.MS + exp.,Mail res:Spellman dations for all business lines. Partner sumes to S. Scibelli, HSBC Bank USA, Req's: Bachelor's or equiv in CS, Info Job duties leading the testing of large- operating scenarios, acquisitions, m m
Provide strategic healthcare counsel to High Voltage Electronics Corp. 475 with ORM regionally & globally to en- N.A. 95 Washington St, Atrium 1NW, Sys's Eng'g or rel field & 5 yrs progres- scale systems, create test plans, test divestitures & recapitalizations. Ana- m
clients, monitor budgets, & maintain Wireless Blvd., Hauppauge, NY 11788. sure consistent deployment of the Buffalo, NY 14203. Must ref job sively respons exp in job offered or rel cases, and drive continuous improve- lyze & interpret valuation analyses to m m
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projects & issue resolution throughout pital. Teach and supervise FT, Maimonides Hos-
w/ clients. Identify & cultivate new busi- Mechanical Engineers (Building residents in mappings by using Informatica best rel. +1 yr exp or BS +5 yrs. exp. Send re- comparable company, sum of the m
ness opportunities. Req's: Bachelor's Construction). TECTONIC seeks Mech the Americas region. Attend & partici- clinic and care for patients in geriatric practices & decreasing run time of sume, referencing AMZ1899, including parts, precedent transaction & compa- m m m
degree in Marketing, History or En- Engs in NYC area. Req 2 yrs exp & pate in standing business partnership & office. Email CV to Dr. Barbara workflows; writing stored procedures, job history to: Iconology, Inc. d/b/a rable transaction analyses. Monitor m m m
glish & two yrs of exp in the position of- BS deg in Mech Eng; ICC Mech control meetings focusing on the iden- Paris at: bparis@maimonidesmed.org functions, triggers, complex queries comiXology, an Amazon.com compa- high yield bond & leveraged loan mark- m m M m
fered or in an Account Manager, Se- Insp Cert pref; Valid NY PE lic a tification of emerging & existing risks, using various joins, analytical func- ny, Attn: Hiring Manager (AMZ1899), ets, characteristics of deals, market mm m m m
nior Account Executive, or Account plus. Cmptive slry & Bnfts Pkg. escalation, mitigation & remediation to GTM Insights Analyst, Bluecore, Inc., tions, hierarchical queries & sub- P.O. Box 81226, Seattle, WA 98108-1300. events, terms of transactions & differ- M
Executive role w/ a public relations, To review full pstn details & req ensure an environment of continuously New York, NY. Responsibilities: Orga- queries, pkgs; working on performance Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity ent financing structures. Prepare vari- m m
medical education or public affairs and to apply, please visit improving operational risk manage- nize, interpret, and analyze customer tuning in Oracle; writing scripts in Unix; Employer. ous materials such as teasers, con- m
company. All req'd exp must have in- www.tectonicengineering.com ment. Respond to regulatory (primari- data using statistical techniques. Must performing MQ & Swift Message fidential information memorandums, m m
cluded strategic development of medi- or email ly the Federal Reserve Bank) inquiries have Bachelor's degree and 2 years of handling using JMS & real-time work- IT: SAP Oracle Database Administra- management presentations, rating m
cal education programs, including resume@tectonicengineering.com related to the area of coverage & inter- experience. Send resumes to flows; &, using Informatica Powercen- tor (New York, NY). Responsible for agency presentations & lender presen-
management & delivery of medical or fax 845-534-5666. AA/EOE act with on-site regulators as part of recruiting@bluecore.com. ter. At least 2 yrs exp must incl per- daily support of oracle databases serv- tations. Monitor industry develop-
education events targeted to govern- continuous monitoring. Work closely forming build automation using Gradle ing SAP systems. Develop and ensure ments through client interactions &
ment representative audiences; using with regional management to ensure Graphic Design: XO Group Inc. (New & Jenkins; using listed derivatives a viable and consistent capacity and usage of industry research d M
ATLAS, GaSP & QUANTUM to track appropriate operational risk considera- York, NY) seeks a Graphic Designer to clearing apps, Clearvision & GMI; & recovery solution. Build, create, moni- m m mm
international, national, regional & local tion to regional initiatives. Manage the work under the direction of the Crea- creating batch processes using pmcmd tor, and support Oracle database envir- m M
guidelines & assess quality standards; ESTIMATOR, Senior activities of two financial professionals tive Director & more senior designers commands & Informatica workflows. onments per SAP standards. Perform m M m m m
& using The Brainframe virtual meet- Wanted for const. co. Resi'l & Comm'l
office in Monmouth Co. area. Salary &
(Vice Presidents). Req's Bachelor's on the Creative Team. Please send re- Please send resume to J. Souvenir, FIS SAP Database cloning and database M m
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ties: Plan, direct, & coord activities of have 1 yr of exp in each skill: MS
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solns. Ensure bus & technl architecture NY 11801.
of delivered soln. Prov thought-
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5th Ave, Ste 401, NY, NY 10020
Podiatric Surgeon. Perform diagnostic, Assist in execution of media strategies
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in reconstructive rearfoot/ankle surge- high-end fashion PR & media relations,
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Predictive Analytics Technical Sales
Professional, IBM Corporation, Ar-
monk, NY and various unanticipated
client sites throughout the US (50 %
telecommuting permitted): Collabor-
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detail technical aspects and feasibility
of proposed solutions to progress/close
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through the creation and delivery of
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-of-concepts, and benchmarks. Act as
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Understand competitive landscape to
handle customer objections to pro-
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to identify and align critical outcomes
with potential data sources. Use best
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methodology and machine learning al-
gorithms. Recommend deployment
options for analytical results and how
to align them to maximize the impact
on business outcomes. Collect and ana-
lyze data on customer demographics,
preferences, needs and buying habits
to identify potential markets and fac-
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Devise and evaluate methods and
procedures for collecting data, such as
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science, machine learning, data en-
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chitecture. Required: Master's degree
or equivalent in Management Informa-
tion Systems or related (employer will
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years of progressive experience in lieu
of a Master's degree) and one (1) year
of experience as an Advanced Analy-
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data engineering, business optimiza-
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New York, NY 10003.
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sive content layers; Build custom con-
nections to home grown APIs based on
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Oath Inc. Attn: Kristin Faison, 22000
AOL Way, Dulles, VA 20166. Ref job
#NO160289NP
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York, NY. Responsibilities: Participate
in development of technical product vi-
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scope, spec, design, and develop new
product features with designers and
engineers; and collect and analyze cus-
tomer feedback to design and develop
customer solutions and determine new
product opportunities. Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer
Science, Engineering, or related field
plus 2 years of experience in job of-
fered or 2 years of experience as tech-
nical product manager. Prior exper-
ience must include 2 years of exper-
ience scoping, spec'ing, and designing
technical products and product fea-
tures; 2 years of experience developing
technical product strategies and pric-
ing; 2 years of experience collecting
and analyzing customer feedback to
determine customer issues and needs
and translate into technical product so- for Kosher restaurant. Manage staff,
lutions; and 2 years of experience
working with SQL and web program-
ming language, such as HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or Java.
To apply, submit resume to:
hr@datadoghq.com
Production Manager. 2 yr exp reqd. scribed, & full understanding of Kosher
Send resume to Human Resources, laws. Resumes: Office Manager, Sun-
Vice Media, LLC, 49 S. 2nd St, Brooklyn, flower Amsterdam, LLC, 676 Amster-
NY 11249
Professional: Chief of Staff (to the
CEO) (Imax Corporation) (New York,
NY): Resp for wrking clsly w/ CEO &
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oper. & spec. proj initiatives. Req a
Master's Deg or for equiv in Opers. Re-
search, Bus Admin, Fin, Econ, or a
clsey rel. field and 2 yrs of exp. as an
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allocation & invst. dcisions that will
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active invsts (incl annl perfmce, stock
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perfmce, & market cap share
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indx, & mrkt research to analyze oper.
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Prprng detailed mgmt. analyses for
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freq. imposs to prdict. Snd to Debbie
Adelsberg (VP, HR), Attn: Imax Cor-
poration, 12582 West Millennium Dr,
Los Angeles, CA 90094
Professionals:
Unique Settings of New York in LIC, NY
is seeking:
*Market Research Analyst (Ref#121):
to prep bus. & mktg rltd analysis & re-
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performance, jewelry industry, & ge-
neral mkt conditions. Req. Bach in Bus.
Admin. or Mktg/equiv + 1-yr exp. in job
offd. Exp. must incl industry research
analysis to increase bus. & profitability.
*Budget Account Analyst (Ref#122): to
analyze fin'l info rltd to assigned budg-
ets to identify budget variances, com-
piling statistical info, identifying long-
term budgetary goals. Req. Bach. in
Econ/equiv + 2 yrs exp in job offd.
CVs to Manisha Sagar, HR Mgr., 31-00
47th Ave, 2nd Fl, Long Island City, NY
11101
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LLC — New York, NY. Program Mana-
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clients on the Amazon Advertising
Platform (AAP). Send resume, refer-
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Box 81226, Seattle, WA 98108.EOE.
Project Architect(NY, NY)- at Lynch
Eisinger Design plans, designs & pro-
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nonprofit clients in all budget ranges.
Provides vertically integrated architec-
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Vray for 3D modeling & rendering. Ad-
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theory, bldg systems, bldg codes & zon-
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F/T prof'l position for NY state licensed
architect qual to independently design,
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studio@lyncheisingerdesign.com
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lala@nadinejohnson.com
Public Relations Specialist.
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promote company image. Bachelor of
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Icon Payments LLC, 50 Broad St, #1701,
New York, NY 10004
QA Specialist/Food Technologies (New
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chem; 6 mths exp in large scale food
dist; 40 hr/wk; eval tech/methods for
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the effort to build core s/ware to utilize
ultra high speed communication lines
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arbitrage btwn 2 or more rltd trading
mkts. Build specialized s/ware to auto-
mate the process of bldg, optimizing &
maintaining trading strategies. Dvlp &
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maintain generic data analysis & visua-
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Bachelor's deg or equiv in Comp Sci,
Engg, or rel fld + 5 yrs exp w/ algorith-
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mkts. Send cvl/res w/ job #TRCQA to:
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Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10013
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCHER
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Daniel Woelfel, 360 Madison Avenue,
Suite 1900, New York, NY 10017.
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JUnit. Develop new software from in-
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Req.s: BS degree in CS or related;
course work or min. 3 mos project exp.
during/following studies must include
Java or algorithm optimization. Will ac-
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markets, European inflation linked & profitability; any exp in developing &
bonds, and covered bonds markets; executing trading strategies with profi-
principles; working w/ AMPScript, Ja-
vascript, Google Analytics, SFMC Jour-
sions. Perform cash flow modeling, gulatory & economical domain, specifi-
budget analysis & tech expense report- cally related to op risk. Dvlpng & imple-
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quid and specialist markets, including
Inflation Linked Bonds, Futures, FX Sr Data Scientist - Purchase, NY (& un-
HTTP, SMTP, XML, & JSON. Send re-
sume to Weight Watchers International
Inc., Attn: HR, Job Ref# HR, 675 6th
changes. Must have US bachelor's modeling exp. Exp w/OpRisk or eco-
deg or foreign deg equiv in Mech/ nomic capital. Data analysis & stat
Aeronautical Eng'g or relt'd field & modeling exp. Exp in econometrics.
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Forwards, & Options;experience with anticipated client sites thruout US): De-
European Fixed Income instruments, sign, dvlp, & field analyses that have di-
Ave, 6th Fl, New York, NY 10010. 3 years exp in aircraft leasing mgmt. Exp w/numerical algorithms, such as
Must have 3 years exp in civil aviation root finding & optimization. Knowl of
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Spa Manager engine architecture & manufacturer Knowl of op Risk CCAR modeling. Any COSMETIC SURGEON
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zard Asset Management LLC, 30 Rock- For specific job req'ts & to apply: Visit
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velop and implement marketing strate- gramming. Must be willing to travel eting name of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Nassau County LLC & ASM AUCTIONEERS, INC
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Senior Trader (Emerging Markets) Inc. is an EOE/AAE. crease sales of products and services. nually. Email res & transcript to BBAM diary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 2003 155 Ash Drive, East Hills, Long Island, New York 11576 SELL TUESDAY AUGUST 8, 2017 AT 2:30 PM AT
(SG Americas Securities, LLC; New
York, NY) Trade Emerging Market Sr. Animator (New York, NY) Create
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Feat Mid Century Sofas, 2) Eames Lounge
235 RIDGEDALE AVENUE, CEDAR KNOLLS, NJ 07927
mize usage and efficiency. Minimum of
Rates & Foreign Exchange (FX) pro- current & next-gen animation assets Bachelor's Degree in any humanita-
served. www.jpmorganchase.com
Technical Program Manager @ VP, IT Programmer Analyst with La-
Chairs, Mid Century Dining Room Set W/ 6
Chairs, Etageres, Wall Units, Mid Century
WALMART SHOPPING CENTER NEAR MCDONALD’S
ducts in Latin American, Central Eu- during dvlpmnt production cycle. Work
rope, Eastern Europe, Middle East & w/others to ensure animation assets
rian field is required. Send your re-
sumes to: allurespainc@gmail.com
Bloomberg (NY,NY) F/T. Undrstnd zard Asset Management LLC in New Lighting Fixtures, Lamps, Orig. Artwork, Euro-
pean China Set, Wall Mount Desk, Large Qnty
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Books, Large Qnty Vintage Clothing, Glass-
age risk across portfolios. Must travel platforms. Job reqs 6yrs exp as Anima-
to client locations within US & Latin tor in the gaming industry. Must have
America. Must have FINRA Series 3, 7 exp w/: Completion of 3 AAA titles; Cur-
Sr. Regulatory & Compliance Analyst
needed w/Masters Deg or Foreign
Equiv in Pharmaceutical Sci or Phar-
sess rltve priorty & effrt reqd to unblck and supporting the Tibco Business
lw-lvl infrstrctre teams frm obstcls. Pos Works environment as it relates to
reqs Master's deg, or foreign equi- front office applications, including end-
ware, Bric A Brac, Bar W/2 Stools, Vintage
Toys, Luggage, Vintage Stereo Equip, Re-
cords, Ducane SS BBQ Grill, More. Cash Or
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20 WARREN STREET, MANHATTAN, NYC 10007, OFF BROADWAY
Compliance Analyst or Regulatory &
gree or US equiv in Bus Admin, Math- certification in Character Animation;
em, Econ, Fin, Engin, or rel, plus 5 yrs Autodesk Motionbuilder; Photoshop, Compliance Analyst performing fol-
Anlytcs Dvlpmnt Lead, Scrm Mstr, relating to all things Tibco, which will
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improvement in internal audit process
FX products incl all: interest rates cvr ltr & CV to Rob Spampinato, VP of
swaps, overnight index swaps, basis HR, Rockstar Games, Inc., 622 Broad- & risk assessment affecting business.
Scrum and Lean startup methodolo- plication interfaces, as well as leading
gies; Object Oriented Programming future development efforts as it relates • LIQUIDATION • Auctrs Ph: (212)473-6830 or (917)776-1080
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swaps, zero coupon swaps, govern- way, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012 Ensure pharmacists keep continuous and Service oriented architecture; to Business Works solutions.Requires a
process update w/ new compliance ini-
ment & central bank bonds, cross- Scrum and Scrum adoption techniques; Master's degree or foreign equivalent
currency swaps, inflation swaps, spot Senior Pastor tiatives. Support rsrch component of Managing teams, products, projects, in Engineering, Computer Science, In-
pharmacy department through dvlpmt Over (300) Doors, Freezers
FX, forward FX, Non-Deliverable For- Plan and conduct worship services; environments and technologies; formation Technology or related and 2
wards, & liquidity swaps. With all these prepare and deliver sermons; develop of automated processes & ensure com- Project management tools; and Ap- years of experience as a Software En- & Refrigerators, Zero Zone
products perform portfolio mgmt, external partnerships; network with pliance of health plan policy, proce- proaches for scaling Agile, including gineer or Software/Solutions Architect,
dures & regulatory standards. Dvlp & 2014 - 2016, Black Doors, 36”
manage & hedge risk, & provide pric- the local and extended community for SAFe or LeSS. Emp will accpt any suita including at least 2 years of experience
ing & liquidity to clients. Must also service and outreach; and interact implmt operating procedures ensuring combo of edu, training or exp. Send res with each of the following: developing Narrow Coolers w/LED Lights
corrective & preventive action. Pro-
have: 4 yrs exp trading rates & FX pro- with global ministries as a component to Bloomberg HR, 731 Lexington and delivering engineering solutions,
ducts in Latin America Markets; any of foreign missions. Provide the prima- vide req'd State, Federal, Medicaid,
Medicare & DEA laws compliance by
Avenue, NY, NY 10022. Indicate including error handling and validation CALL: (917) 327-1252
exp developing, testing & implement- ry leadership, teaching, and direction B48-2017. EOE processes, using Tibco BusinessWorks
ing risk & pricing systems; any exp of the congregation in all areas of bringing together documentation of ex-
pired controlled substance & inventory for applications; developing full life-
working with sales team to produce & ministry to fulfill the purpose and vision TECHNICAL cycle implementation using Tibco Busi-
market trade ideas; any exp develop- of the Church. Apply to: Bridge mgmt of control substance. Responsib-
le for internal audit of overrides, billing Interested candidates send resume nessWorks; designing and developing
ing, testing, & implementing pricing & Community Church, Inc., Attn: George to: Google Inc., PO Box 26184 integration with external systems and
risk mgmt infrastructure. Send resume Abraham, 6 Harvard Street, Floral over-dues & coordinating diagnostic
codes entered in the system regarding San Francisco, CA 94126 Attn: A. components; working with SOA/Inte-
to: HR or SG Recruitment Team, SG Park, New York 11001. Johnson. Please reference job # below: gration platform provider to perform
Americas Securities, LLC, 245 Park prescription & non-prescription drugs.
Involved in procedural review of third SOA platform upgrades; experience
Ave, NY, NY 10167, at Creative (New York, NY) Write & edit with SQL and Oracle; experience work-
us-humn-recruitment@sgcib.com. Spe- Senior Software Engineering Associate party audit, monitoring drug recall &
product recall. Provide training & guid- technical material for Google. ing and communicating with front of-
cify Ad Code ECJB in subject line. EOE. — Capital One Services, LLC in New #1615.13102 Exp Incl: end-to-end fice business teams, as well as front of-
MFDV. York, NY; Mult pos avail: Perform tech ance to staff. Supervise 2 employees.
Job Location: Bronx, NY. Mail res to: brand planning from business prob- fice technology platforms including Or-
design, dvlpmnt, modification, & imple- lem definition through creative execu- der Management Systems. Resumes
mentation of comp apps using existing NY Drugs Inc. dba Castle Hill Commu-
nity Pharmacy, 706 Castle Hill Ave tion; communications planning; MRI; to Yena Pak, ref code: VPIT17, Lazard
Senior Manager, Game Analytics & & emerging tech platforms. Requires Nielsen; Google Trends; Google Asset Management LLC, 30 Rockefel-
Strategy New York, NY- Utilize ad- Bachelor's degree or foreign equiv in Bronx, NY 10473
Correlate; WARC; PSFK; Trendwatch- ler Plaza, NY, NY 10020.
vanced econometric techniques and CS/Engn/CIS/rel tech field & 3 yrs exp in ing IPA; 4As; & APG. Travel Req'd.
statistical software packages to gener- job offered or app dvlpmnt. To apply, Sr Quality Assurance Engr @ Bloom- VP Community Strategy sought by
ate recommendations designed to im- visit www.capitalone.com/careers, berg LP (NY, NY) F/T. Crte tst scrpts
prove referee performance and ad- then search keyword “Senior Software usng tst tools to vrfy data strctrs, data Technical: Populus Group seeks a WeWork Management, LLC in NY, NY:
Technical Project Manager in New Resp for overseeing WeWork's Com-
dress potential issues of bias. Develop Engineering Associate” or requisition vals, data frmts, & bsc prcss prfrmnce.
and refine econometric models utiliz- ID R29613. Must have 1 yr of exp in each of the York, New York. Must have a Bache- munity Strategy team in the identifica-
lor's or equiv plus exp. Send resumes to tion, exploration, & analysis of new
ing various methods including spatial fllwng skills: Regression, integration & process automation & revenue genera-
analysis, and linear and non-linear re- Sr. Director/Vice President, Advertis- basic performance testing; Creating Christina Reygaert/Ref#241716 at:
gression. Min Req: Bachelor's degree ing Sales Growth Strategy & Business customer scripts or applications; Auto- creygaer@populusgroup.com or Popu- tion opportunities & dvlpg cross- func-
in Mathematics, Statistics, Econome- Development for NBCUniversal Media, mation test tools; C#, Python, Java, or lus Group, 3001 W. Big Beaver Rd, Ste tional strategic bus. initiatives that sup-
400, Troy, MI 48084. port the growth objectives of the orga-
trics, Economics, or related field and 5 LLC in NY, NY. Identify &/or ideate Perl; GUIs on WPF platform, Rapid, & nization. Mail resumes: WeWork -
years of quantitative statistical analy- NBCUniversal Ad Sales growth oppor- Web/Web Services; Automation exper- HR/Global Mobility, 115 W 18th St, NY,
sis experience in the job offered or re- tunities across TV & Digital platforms, ience testing data delivery & integrated Technology: CSC Holdings, LLC seeks NY 10011. Must reference job code
lated occupation. Requires 5 years in incl new monetization models, busi- systems; & Data mapping & bug track- a Lead Voice Solutions Engineer in NY0417DS.
each of the following: using spatial ana- ness lines, or customer bases, &/or am- ing systems. Emp will accpt any suit- Hicksville, NY to provide techn. leader-
lysis and linear and non-linear regres- plification of existing offerings. Mail re- tble combo of edu, trning or exp. Send ship to voice engg. & ops.teams for Warehouse Supply Chain Manager
sion to develop advanced econometric sume to: M. Ali, NBCUniversal Media, resume to Bloomberg HR @ 731 Lex- end-to-end voice infrastructure; resp. wanted by logistics support company
models; perform statistical analysis LLC, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY, ington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Indicate for integration & validation of mobile in Lake Success, NY. Oversee ware-
using STATA and R software. Or Mast- NY 10020. Ref: SRVPAD2. B57-2017. EOE. voice solutions; investigate & research house operations. Manage operation
er's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, devlpmnt of strategic implmntatns of processes using knowledge of Statisti-
Econometrics, Economics, or related Senior VP (NY, NY) Analyze & advise Sr IT Analyst @ Bloomberg LP (NY, fixed/mobile voice network solution ini- cal Analysis, Lean and Six Sigma, sup-
field and 2 years of quantitative statisti- on U.S. & European potential targets NY) F/T. Guide dvlpmt of sftwr prdcts tiatives; lead archit., design & im- ply chain management and Visio. De-
cal analysis experience in the job of- for acquisition in the mfg, sale & distri- using C & C++ on Unix. Pstn reqs plmntatn of next gen. voice technology velop, monitor and maintain key
fered or related occupation. Requires 2 bution of consumer goods incl food, ap- over IP Multimedia Subsystem net- m m
Mast's deg or forgn equiv in Comp Sci, m m
years in each of the following: using parel & luxury goods ranging btwn $200 Bus Admin, Econ, Engg, Fin, IN, IS, work; develop voice solution architec-
spatial analysis and linear and non- million & $1.5 billion using knowl of co.'s Math, Phys or rltd & 1 yr exp in job offd tures, techn. design documents & call
linear regression to develop advanced valuations, fin'l performance, competi- flows for fixed/mobile network; prep. m
or as Sftwr Dvlpr, Sr Sftwr Dvlpr or rltd. m
econometric models; perform statisti- tive envrmt, mkt dynamics & bus. sus- Alt, emp will accept a Bach's deg & 5 RFP/RFI specs. for new voice solution
cal analysis using STATA and R soft- tainability. 10% US & Intl travel. Must yrs prgrssvly resp exp. Must have 1 yr components; provide techn. guidance M
ware. Qualified applicants send re- have deg + exp. Send resume: of exp in each of the fllwng skills: C & to ops. team for eval. & migration of le-
sumes to: Jermaine Daw, Job Code: Investindustrial Advisers Inc., C++ on UNIX. Emp will accept any sui- gacy VoIP softswitch core to next gen.
9861, National Basketball Association, 375 Park Ave, Ste 2301, NY, NY 10152 table combo of edu, training or exp. IMS core. Reqs MS in CS, Engg. or re-
Olympic Tower, 645 Fifth Avenue, New Send resume to Bloomberg HR, 731 lated + 3 yrs exp prfrming research &
York, NY 10022 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Indicate deployment for new telecommun.
Senior Recruiter, Sales, NY, NY - BSM technologies. Send resume to
Associates (US) Inc. sks recruiter to B49-2017. EOE. m
recruit@cablevision.com & incl. Job
Senior Reporter @ Bloomberg (NY, build ntwk of cand & emplyrs in Fintech Code GCSP in subject line.
NY) F/T. Collab w/ teams & extrnl clnts & Fin. Svcs sales industry & recruit top Sr Project Engineer (LIC, NY): Perf M
engg duties rel to plan, dsgn, & over-
to dvlp brkng nws & itms of intrst to fin talent; Req'd: Bach. Deg. in Bus. Amin. TECHNOLOGY
audnce. Wrk w/ &/or prvd gdnc to jr or rel. fld; 2 yrs exp as recruiter dvlp'ing sght of heavy cnstructn prjcts for
hghwys & brdgs, w/ fcus on strctural (Multiple openings available). First W
rprtrs to idntfy stry trnds. Write brkng new client relation & achv'ing trgts set Republic Bank, New York, NY, seeks W M
nws & prfls on extrnl frms & nwsmkrs by emplyr. Exp as recruiter must incl. 1 steel paintng of brdgs. Reqs: Bach deg
or for equiv & 5 yrs exp. Must have 1 yr an Application Engineer, RSA Archer, W
that is of sgnfcnt intrst to Bloomberg yr focused on sales industry, working to provide subject matter expertise
trmnl cstmrs as well as brdr fin mrkt. w/ Fin. Svcs & Fintech clnts. Send cvr exp w/ strctural steel paintng for brdgs.
Travel req'd to various unanticipt'd and application engineering for m
Rprt on dbt captl mrkts, dstrssd-dbt si- letr & CV to paul@bsmgroup.com. design, development, modification, m m
tuatns, rstrctrngs & fnncng of corp locs in NYC. Job duties will be perfrm'd
at prjct sites for entire duration of prjct implementation, and/or conversion m m
tkvrs arnd the globe. Cndct intrvws w/ Senior Training Specialist sought by of all aspects of the RSA Archer m
knwldgble & prtnnt srces in ref to econ IBISWorld Inc. in NY, NY. Req Master's lasting 12-36 mos. Emplyee req'd to re-
side w/in commutng distnce of em- eGRC system, among other duties.
& pltcl issues. Mdrte indstry pnls at or foreign equiv degr in Corp Comm, Qualified applicants must have: m
plyr's main offce & trvel to wrksites.
cnfrncs. Appear on TV & radio to dscss Bus Adm or rel field, & 1yr of exp build- Mail resume to: HR, Kiska Developers, Bachelor's degree (or foreign equi- m
nws stories. Pstn reqs Mstr's deg or ing & maintain relationships w stake- valent) in Information Technology,
Inc., 43-10 11th St, 2nd Fl, LIC, NY 11101.
foreign equivalent in Bus, Fin, Econ, holders to optimize client retention Information Systems, Engineering, or mm m
Eng, Jrnlsm or rltd & 1 yr of exp in job within the textile prod, fashion, & inter- related field, plus five (5) years' exper- m
offrd or as Rprtr or rltd. Alternatively, ior design industr; identifying & closing Srvcs Archtct (NY, NY and unanticip
client sites thr US) Dlvr solutns that ad- ience in job offered or related position,
emp will accpt bachelor's deg & 5 yrs of growth opp to expand client base. Visit among other skills. Applicants m m
exp. Must have 1 yr of f exp in each https://ibisworld.applicantharbor.com dress clients' bus reqs. Assess need for
custmztn w/in clients' IT envrmnts & should submit a resume by mail M
skill: Writing about financial trends, in- & select NY; Sr. Training Specialist. to: First Republic Bank, 111 Pine M
ternational relations and world politics; dsgn & assess cstmr test data needs.
Collab & intrct w/ spprt to opn & trk Street, San Francisco, CA94111. Refer- M
Financial and political reporting; and, ence #AERSA/AS/CG/2017. Attn:
prod issues. Mntr Asscte Svcs & Avcs
conducting investigative journalism. Ms. Jennifer Leung. m M
Emp will accpt any suita combo of edu, Senior Software Engineer. Be a part of Cnsltnts. Bld knldge base. REQS: Bach
training or exp. Send res to Bloomberg the transformation of a 150-year-old in- deg or for equiv in Comp Sci, Math,
HR, 731 Lexington Avenue, NY, NY stitution with a “mission worth fighting
for.” Join The New York Times as a Se-
Engg (any) or rel + 5 yrs prog exp in TECHNOLOGY
m
10022. Indicate B51-2017. EOE. job off &/or rel occup or Mstrs deg or Developer: New York, NY
nior Software Engineer on the Home for equiv in Comp Sci, Math, Engg Moore Capital Management, LP seeks m m
Delivery Backend team. We are trans-
(any) or rel + 2 yrs exp in job off &/or an experienced Developer to create
Senior Manager - Services at forming the nation's “newspaper of re- rel occup. Must have exp w/ Archtctng, state-of-the-art html5-rich client appli- m m
cord” into a media-tech powerhouse. m
ExlService.com, LLC in Jersey City, NJ scoping, assessing, & implmntng Tst cations with strong emphasis on
We have a strong Technology depart- Data Mgmt solunts in a client envrmnt; real time and market data; work with a W M
will dvlp big data hypotheses & vali- ment of nearly 500 people. More at:
date them for mktg & operations ana- Dsngng, dvlpng, implmntng & mngng group of senior developers focusing
https://developers.nytimes.com/
lytics in credit card or healthcare sec- app tstng strategies in entrprse on trade processing, market data,
tors based on analysis of project data. Help develop the core backend servi- envrmnts using srvcs vrtulztn, tst real-time profit and loss and risk; and
Will travel to various & unanticipated ces for home delivery of the New York autmntn & test data mgmnt tools; collaborate with Portfolio Managers,
worksites throughout U.S. Reqs Bache- Times newspaper. That includes func- Sftwre Dvlpmnt Life Cycle proceses & Traders, Operations, and others as
lor's deg in Electronics Engg, Tech, tionality for billing and payments, cus- concepts, Agile/Scrum & Waterfall needed to address advanced front of-
Comp Sci, or closely rltd field, + 3 yrs tomer account maintenance, product mthdologs, source ctrl & code rev fice investment management require-
analytics exp. Must have 3 yrs exp in: maintenance and pricing, street main- processes; Java prgrmmng, archtctre ments. Interested applicants should
working w/ complex data structures & tenance and delivery routing, delivery & in-mssng techs; Dvlpng prgrms using mail a detailed resume, referencing
large datasets in real bus. setting; mktg complaint handling and credits, ac- C/C++, Java, VB.net prgrmmg langs & Job Code NS2017, to: Kathryn Tacchi,
& operations analytics in credit card or counting, financial reporting, and VB Script, Java Script & DOS scrptng Moore Capital Management, LP, 11
healthcare sector; utilizing SAS, SQL, more. The first project you'll work on is langs; Undrstng, assessing, scoping & Times Square, New York, NY 10036.
Excel, PPT, Teradata & Cplex s/ware; our migration from a private datacen- commnctng how Cont Dlvry solutns Equal Opportunity Employer:
ter to the Amazon Cloud. The existing
bldg, stabilizing, validating, & monitor- rslve client bus needs; DB concepts M/F/D/V.
application is written in Java with an tbls, view, constraints, sequences, joins,
ing statistical models & ensuring that Oracle database backend. Spring
they meet client guidelines; delivering Batch, Spring Security, Control- M, jet-
triggers, prcdres & fnctns; Crtng req TECHNOLOGY
data analytics presentations to clients, ty, nginx, and JPA/Eclipselink are core SQL to spprt tst data creation; Oracle, Advisory Manager, Risk & Regulatory
sr. mgrs & executives; big data proc- technologies in our stack. We use SQL Server & DB2; Readng & decipher- Technology - Information Manage-
essing, data extraction, & variable re- Gradle, Puppet, Jenkins, and Ansible ing info fr Entity Reltnshp Diagrams; ment (Mult. Pos.), Pricewaterhouse-
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Antonio Argüelles, 58, took to the North Channel on Thursday, trying to become the first Latin American, the seventh person ever and the oldest to complete the Oceans Seven.

A Two-Year Quest, a 21-Mile Challenge

Argüelles, with his crew, getting warm after his attempt at the difficult crossing
between Northern Ireland and Scotland. His fear beforehand was hypothermia.
One final channel crossing to
reach an open water pinnacle.
By ADAM SKOLNICK
Antonio Argüelles, 58, rose near dawn Thurs-
day hoping for good fortune.
He had arrived in Donaghadee, Northern Ire-
land, from Mexico City a few weeks before to pre-
pare to swim 21 miles of the frigid, tempestuous
North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scot-
land.
He’d already knocked off six of the seven ardu-
ous channel crossings that make up the so-called
Oceans Seven, open water swimming’s answer to
climbing the Seven Summits of mountaineering.
And if the weather cooperated, he would have a
chance to complete this crossing and become the
first Latin American, the seventh person ever and
the oldest to complete the Oceans Seven.
Nature seemed to have other plans. Argüelles
recalled that morning later in an interview by tele-
phone. As he sipped his coffee and stared to the ho-
rizon, all he could see were dark, foreboding skies
spreading a summer rain over a gray-green sea.
To complete an official crossing of the North
Channel, a swimmer must hire a boat and an official
observer, or referee, through the Irish Long Dis-
tance Swimming Association.
As open water swimming’s popularity has in-
creased, bookings have become a difficult wrangle.
Argüelles reserved his spot nearly three years in
advance, and was granted a one-week window from
July 28 to Aug. 4 for weather good enough to try. It’s
virtually impossible to make the crossing in winds
above 10 knots, and after Argüelles had spent tens
of thousands of dollars and dedicated two years to-
ward this singular pursuit, all he could do was wait,
and hope the weather improved.
On Thursday morning, he caught a break, and
at 7:15 a.m., with support crew in tow on a boat, he
Continued on Page 5

Who Qualifies to Compete

As a Woman? A Fight Resumes
For the past two years, Dutee Chand
could be herself.
She could run and train and even
compete in the Rio Olympics. She didn’t
have to constantly remind people that,
yes, of course, she is a
JULIET woman and that, yes, of
course, she qualifies to
MACUR compete with other wom-
en despite her naturally
SPORTS high level of testosterone.
OF THE TIMES
She didn’t have to feel
pressure to change her body so it con-
formed to rules or contemplate quitting
her sport — pressure placed on her after
doctors subjected her to gender testing in
2013, humiliating her by doing so, when
she was only 17.
For two years, she could just be Dutee
Chand. That’s because, two years ago last
month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport,
which is the supreme court for global
sports, temporarily suspended an interna-
tional track and field rule that had barred
Chand, a sprinter from India, and
women like her were excluded because
their bodies produced a high amount of
testosterone. It was often so high it was
classified as being within the male range,
a situation the authorities considered an
unfair advantage. The only way these
women could compete, track and field
officials ruled, was if they took hormone-
suppressing drugs or had surgery to limit
the amount of testosterone their bodies
produced.
The court decision suspending the
rule, then, was a mini-victory for Chand,
who competed Saturday in the prelimi-
nary heats of the 100 meters at the world
track and field championships in London,
finishing 38th with a time of 12.07 seconds.
But the ugly fight about what makes a
woman a woman, and what qualifies a
woman to compete as a woman, is about
to restart.
After a two-year break, Chand’s law-
suit against the International Association PHIL NOBLE/REUTERS

her from competing as a woman. of Athletics Federations, the world’s gov-

erning body for track and field, has quietly Paying Homage to the Departing King
come back to life. Ordered by the Court of After winning the 100 meters at the world track and field championships on
DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/ The Indian sprinter Dutee Chand at Arbitration for Sport to justify — with Saturday, Justin Gatlin bowed to Usain Bolt, the event’s world-record holder.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
the Asian championships in July. Continued on Page 5 Bolt, who took third place, has said he will retire after this meet. Page 6.
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Recipe for Run: Add Bullpen Muscle
Contenders have learned
that there is no such thing
as too many good relievers.
Kenley Jansen was asleep on the Los
Angeles Dodgers’ charter plane on
Monday when David Vassegh, the
team’s radio beat reporter, awoke him
with news: The Dodgers had acquired
Yu Darvish, an All-Star starting pitcher,
in a trade with the Texas Rangers.
Jansen, the Dodgers’ closer, had a
curious reaction.
“I’m like, ‘How about a bullpen
guy?’” Jansen said. “He’s like, ‘Yeah,
we got Tony Watson.’ When I heard we
got Tony Watson, that’s when things
really got crazy. I was like, ‘Yes, we got
the people we need to help us.’”
Jansen was too excited to fall back to
sleep. Last October, in the final game of
the Dodgers’ division series, Jansen
worked a career-high two and one-third
innings. He topped that in the final
game of the National League Champi-
onship Series, going three innings. A
deeper bullpen can only help — and
every contender knows it.
The Dodgers’ trade for Watson, a
left-hander with a 2.68 earned run
average over nearly seven seasons
with the Pittsburgh Pirates, was just
one of a flurry of deals for relievers
before Monday’s nonwaiver trade dead-
line. If there was one lesson winning
teams observed in July, it was this: The
need for relievers is great and the pool
is deep, so you might as well jump in.
Besides Watson, the Dodgers ac-
quired Tony Cingrani, another lefty,
from Cincinnati. The other National
League contenders welcomed new
relievers, too: the Arizona Diamond-
backs (David Hernandez), the Colorado
Rockies (Pat Neshek), the Washington
Nationals (Sean Doolittle, Ryan Mad-
son, Brandon Kintzler), the Chicago
Cubs (Justin Wilson) and the Milwau-
kee Brewers (Anthony Swarzak).
It was the same story in the Ameri-
can League: The Yankees (Tommy
Kahnle, David Robertson), the Boston
Red Sox (Addison Reed), the Tampa
Bay Rays (Steve Cishek, Dan Jen-
nings), the Cleveland Indians (Joe
Smith), the Kansas City Royals (Ryan
Buchter, Brandon Maurer), the Hous-
ton Astros (Francisco Liriano) and the
Seattle Mariners (David Phelps) all
added to their bullpens.
“We liked a lot of guys — I’d say we
inquired on almost all of them,” said
Boston’s president for baseball opera-
tions, Dave Dombrowski, who reached
into his jacket pocket for a handwritten
list of relievers. He counted them up
(without divulging names), one by one.
“Twenty right-handed relievers were on
our list at one time or another, and a lot
of lefties, too.”
Dombrowski ended up with Reed in a
deal with the Mets, who traded first
baseman Lucas Duda to the Rays but
found no takers for outfielders Jay
Bruce and Curtis Granderson, despite
their power. The Mets are out of the
race, but even they shopped for relief
help, acquiring closer A. J. Ramos from
Miami and targeting bullpen prospects
from Tampa Bay and Boston.
“Looking at 2018, we felt the bullpen
was an area we needed to address,”
General Manager Sandy Alderson said.
“And with all of these deals, we’ve
taken steps to do that.”
Relievers, especially setup men, are
easier for teams to acquire because
their contracts tend to be more afford-
able. They can also make a big differ-
ence in the postseason, as the Indians
showed last fall in the way they de-
ployed Andrew Miller after acquiring
him from the Yankees.
Miller worked in 10 of the Indians’ 15
postseason games, with a 1.40 E.R.A.,
30 strikeouts in 19 ⅓ innings and the
Most Valuable Player Award in the
American League Championship Se-
ries. Miller said the Indians were only
following an undeniable trend — the
Red Sox of 2013 and the Royals of the
next two seasons also marched through
October with shutdown bullpens.
“That’s baseball,” Miller said. “It’s
pretty consistent. The starters, every
year, go less than they did the year
Boston’s Rafael Devers, 20, the youngest player in the American League, has dis-
played a maturity beyond his years since being called up to the majors last month.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017
before. It’s just kind of the way it is.”
Miller and Aroldis Chapman — the
Cubs’ bullpen prize last summer, also
via the Yankees — finally sputtered at
the end, both allowing homers in Game
7 of the World Series. It was left to
another reliever, Mike Montgomery, to
close out the game and clinch the title
for the Cubs.
And how did the Cubs acquire Mont-
gomery? They got him in a trade from
Seattle last July, proving again the
value of grabbing as many good reliev-
ers as possible when pushing for a
championship.
Moustakas Chases Royals History
Ever since he was drafted by the
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The Dodgers, the team with
the best record in the majors,
bolstered their bullpen by
adding reliever Tony Watson
in a deal with the Pirates. The
Yankees did the same with
David Robertson, left, in a
trade with the White Sox.
said. “I’ve always been a power hitter.
In the minor leagues, I hit a bunch of
home runs, but obviously, that’s a little
different than up in the big leagues. I
had to learn how to hit here first. I did a
good job of that a couple of years ago,
figuring out how to hit. Now I’m just
getting further along in the process.”
Moustakas will be a free agent after
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this season, so this may be his final
chance to break Balboni’s record. He is
not planning a celebration.
Kansas City Royals with the second “It’ll be cool, it’ll be fun, but I’m not
overall pick in 2007, Mike Moustakas focused on that, man,” Moustakas said.
has heard the name Steve Balboni. This “The cool thing about hitting those
is no surprise, because Moustakas hits home runs is it’s helping us win ball-
for power, a skill the Royals struggle to games. And as long as I keep doing
cultivate at spacious Kauffman Sta- that, as long as I can find a way to
dium. Balboni set the franchise record contribute to winning games, I’ll be in
for homers in a season with 36 in 1985. good shape.”
Every other team has had a 40-homer
man. Red Sox Rookie Makes Quick Impact
Moustakas reached the magic num- On Oct. 24, 1996, the day the Yankees
ber, with 36 homers in 2010, his last full beat the Atlanta Braves, 1-0, to take a
year in the minors. But he never topped three-games-to-two lead in the World
22 in the majors until this season, when Series, a future rival was born in the
he slammed 30 before the end of July. Dominican Republic: Rafael Devers. At
“I’ve been fortunate enough to get age 16, Devers signed with the Boston
some good pitches to hit, and they’re Red Sox, who promoted him to the
carrying out of the yard,” Moustakas majors last month. He is the youngest
Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez has not changed his plate approach, but he cred-
ited watching video with improving his success, saying he sees more pitches to drive.
player in the American League, but he
has not been overmatched.
Through Saturday, Devers was hit-
ting .350, with a .422 on-base percent-
age and a .625 slugging percentage.
According to ESPN Stats & Informa-
tion, he is the first player younger than
21 to have at least 13 hits and three
home runs in his first eight games.
“Everything’s been very surprising,”
Devers said through an interpreter
after a four-hit game against the Indi-
ans on Monday. “I knew it was going to
be different, but I didn’t think it was
going to be this different. You see all of
these superstars on TV, and you hope to
one day be able to meet them. To be
able to meet them and say that I’m
their teammate is pretty cool.”
The Red Sox, who will visit Yankee
Stadium for a three-game series start-
ing Friday, had been desperate for
production at third base. They traded
Travis Shaw to Milwaukee last winter
and hoped for improvement from Pablo
Sandoval, who flopped and was re-
leased.
Devers and another July addition —
the veteran infielder Eduardo Nunez,
who was acquired in a trade with the
San Francisco Giants — have helped
ignite the offense. The Red Sox aver-
aged 5.7 runs per game in Devers’s first
10 games.
“We just kind of sit and admire his
work,” said right fielder Mookie Betts,
whose locker is next to Devers’s at
Fenway Park. “Even though he’s
young, he’s still kind of showing us
guys that have been around how to do
it. I thoroughly enjoy watching him.”
Betts said Devers’s most impressive
trait is how he hits to all fields, which
makes him tough to defend. Devers, a
left-handed hitter, smashed his first
career homer to center field in Seattle,
and took his next two the opposite way,
over the Green Monster at Fenway.
“He’s very relaxed, he trusts his
hands in the batter’s box, he’s got great
bat-to-ball skills and a lot of bat speed,”
Manager John Farrell said. “When you
look at the body language in the box,
he’s not in a hurry, he’s not in a rush,
you don’t see him lunging out to try to
manufacture bat speed to combat ve-
locity. At this level, we didn’t know
when it was going to happen.”
It has happened immediately — with
better defense than the Red Sox ex-
pected — and Boston may now have a
cornerstone for years to come.
Astro’s Discipline Pays Dividends
Three years ago, Marwin Gonzalez
had 310 plate appearances for the Hous-
ton Astros and walked only 17 times.
Through Saturday, Gonzalez had 337
plate appearances — and 34 walks.
“He’s doubled his walks, but the walk
isn’t the key,” Dave Hudgens, the As-
tros’ hitting coach, said recently. “Get-
ting a good pitch is the key.”
That is an important point to remem-
ber when considering the effects of
plate discipline. Walks are valuable, of
course, but a better eye also means
better pitches to hit. It is not so much
an aggressive mind-set as an opportun-
istic one.
By fouling off tough pitches and
laying off balls, Gonzalez said, he has
seen more pitches in the zone to drive.
As a result, he had 20 home runs and a
.578 slugging percentage through Sat-
urday’s games and ranked among the
best in the league.
“I knew that I wasn’t a disciplined
hitter in the past, but it’s not that easy,”
Gonzalez said. “Even when you know
something, you can’t fix it whenever
you want. So I changed the way I pre-
pare before at-bats, watching videos. I
have the same swing, same mechanics,
same everything. But the preparation
helps.”
One thing about Gonzalez has not
changed: his versatility in the field. He
has started at first, second, short, third
and left field, and he also played a few
innings in right. He said he keeps four
gloves broken in: a first baseman’s
mitt, a 12-inch glove for the outfield, an
11 ½-inch version for third base and an
11-inch model for the middle infield.
“Any way I can make it possible for
my manager to have me in there and
have a chance to play and help the
team, that’s great for me,” he said.
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BASEBALL

Chapman Survives Eerily Familiar Difficulty in a Nerve-Racking Win

By BILLY WITZ
CLEVELAND — Rajai Davis
may be long gone, but for Yankees
closer Aroldis Chapman, the ghost
of Davis was present and ac-
counted for here Saturday night.
In Chap-
YANKEES 2 man’s first ap-
INDIANS 1 pearance
Progressive
Field since last November —
when he was here with the Chi-
cago Cubs and gave up a game-ty-
ing, eighth-inning home run to Da-
vis in Game 7 of the World Series
— he had some more late-game jit-
ters against the Cleveland Indi-
ans.
This time, though, Chapman
had some help, mostly from left
fielder Brett Gardner, who helped
preserve a 2-1 victory with a leap-
ing catch at the wall that robbed
Jose Ramirez of perhaps a game-
tying extra-base hit.
Chase Headley’s solo homer in
the eighth gave the Yankees the
lead and ultimately the win, which
ended a four-game losing streak
and kept the Yankees within three
games of first-place Boston in the
American League East.
When Chapman went to the
mound in the ninth, and Michael
Brantley greeted him with a line-
drive single, the sellout crowd
rose to its feet, rekindling memo-
ries of that chilly night last fall.
“It’s a natural thing,” Indians
right fielder Brandon Guyer said.
“It went through our minds. It’s a
new year, a new game, but it defi-
nitely brought some memories
back.”
In Game 7, it was Guyer who
greeted Chapman with a run-scor-
ing double with two outs in the
eighth and then scored on the Da-
vis homer — a line drive down the
left-field line that just cleared the
wall.
While Davis, now with the Oak-
land Athletics, was missing from
the scene, Ramirez acted as some-
thing of an understudy. Ramirez
followed Brantley’s single by con-
necting with an 0-2 pitch from
Chapman and sending a high
drive toward the 20-foot-high left-
at
Yankees closer Aroldis Champion with catcher Austin Romine after the Yankees’ victory in Cleveland on Saturday night.
field wall. Gardner drifted back
and leapt to make the catch, send-
ing Brantley scurrying back to
first instead of racing closer to
home.
“It was fortunate it wasn’t hit
six inches higher, because it could
have been a different result in the
game,” said Gardner, who
pounded his glove after he had
made the catch. “Off the bat, I
don’t think anybody knew what
was going to happen.”
Edwin Encarnacion followed by
lacing a soft liner to right field that
second baseman Ronald Torreyes
was able to chase down with a div-
ing catch. With two outs, Carlos
Santana — who had lined a solo
homer off starter Jordan Mont-
gomery in the second inning —
worked the count full and lined a
fastball down the right-field line
that at the last moment sliced just
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wide of the foul pole.
Chapman finally struck San-
tana out with a slider.
“How packed it was, how we
quickly got somebody on base and
then Ramirez almost hit a home
run, and Santana almost hit a
home run,” Indians shortstop
Francisco Lindor said, recounting
the ninth inning. “It kind of takes
you back to those moments, those
pretty cool moments.”
Chapman, however, brushed
away a question about any memo-
ries he had of Game 7 with a terse
“No.”
Headley said Chapman must
have been feeling a great deal of
emotion and adrenaline.
“It’s good that he’s been in those
spots and had to make pitches in
big spots, but I’m sure coming
back here — it didn’t go as well the
last time he pitched here,” Head-
ley said. “I’m sure it was in the
back of his mind. He’s also one of
the best in the world at what he
does, so I’m sure he had a lot of
confidence as well.”
Chapman seems to have some-
what steadied himself lately after
blowing a lead at Fenway Park to
start the second half of the season
and being chided by Manager Joe
Girardi for relying too heavily on
his fastball. That Game 7 appear-
ance might have been an instruc-
tive one — after Guyer and Davis
hammered fastballs, Chapman
came back out for the ninth inning
and relied on his two off-speed
pitches, a slider and a changeup,
to carry the game into the 10th in-
ning, where the Cubs won it and
the World Series.
“If he’s not wild, he’s a great re-
liever,” Lindor said. “If he’s wild,
this is the big leagues — guys are-
n’t really going to swing at it.
That’s when he gets in trouble,
when he’s not throwing strikes.”
It also may have helped Chap-
man to have Austin Romine be-
hind the plate Saturday night.
Romine has counseled Chapman
to trust his off-speed pitches
more, since his fastball is a few
ticks slower this season — rarely
getting above 101 miles per hour
since he returned from the dis-
abled list in June. Romine was in
the lineup in place of Gary
Sanchez, who had a desultory
game behind the plate Friday
night and moved to designated
hitter in place of the slumping
Matt Holliday, who could be
headed to the disabled list.

After Potent Start, Mets Lose Spark, and Game

By WALLACE MATTHEWS
This is the difference between a
good, and possibly great, baseball
team, and an unquestionably bad
one: Six times, the Mets have
played the Los Angeles Dodgers
this season. Six
DODGERS 7 times, the Mets
have lost. The
METS 4
combined score
of those games, including Satur-
day’s 7-4 Dodgers victory at Citi
Field, is 49-15. And in those six
games, the Dodgers have hit 23
home runs.
The Mets could not sustain an
almost ideal first half of the game:
They took a 3-0 lead on three
home runs in the first inning, and
their starter, Seth Lugo, held the
powerful Dodgers lineup hitless
for four and two-thirds innings.
In the end, the Dodgers im-
proved their record, the best in the
major leagues, to 78-32, which
puts them on a pace to win 115
games. And while they bolstered
their bullpen and starting rotation
at last week’s trade deadline, the
Mets set out to to unload players
as part of another rebuilding pro-
gram.
Less than two years after the
Mets eliminated the Dodgers in a
National League division series
on their way to the 2015 World Se-
ries, the two teams could not be on
more divergent paths.
“It’s frustrating when you get
off to a start like that and lose, but
that’s too good of a team,” Mets
Manager Terry Collins said. “It’s
tough to hold them down. That’s
why they got the record they do.”
Before the game, Collins ac-
knowledged the obvious: As a
team, the Mets are playing for
next year, and as individuals, at
least a half-dozen are playing for
their next jobs.
The three first-inning home
runs came from players on differ-
ent parts of that spectrum. Mi-
chael Conforto, a third-year play-
er who is under team control until
2022, homered on the second pitch
he saw from Dodgers starter Rich
Hill. Two batters later, Wilmer Flo-
res, who will not be eligible for free
agency until 2020, matched Con-
forto with a long home run to cen-
ter field. And Curtis Granderson,
who according to published re-
ports on Saturday has cleared
waivers and become subject to a
possible trade this month, com-
pleted the trifecta with a solo shot
to right.
“We were hoping to build on the
momentum we gained in that first
inning and weren’t able to do
that,” second baseman Neil
Walker said. “It was unfortunate.”
Walker, like Granderson, Jose
Reyes, Jay Bruce, Asdrubal Cabr-
era and Rene Rivera, will be a free
agent after the season, and may
no longer be a Met by the end of
the month.
But in the sixth inning, using a
glove he had borrowed from Flo-
res, Walker willingly moved from
second base to first, a position he
had never played in the major
leagues, to accommodate a double
switch by Collins. In addition to
his home run, Granderson, who
has become a part-time player
since Yoenis Cespedes returned to
the lineup, risked his body by div-
ing for a sinking liner off the bat of
Logan Forsythe in the second in-
ning and stole a base in the sixth.
With the game out of reach, Rivera
hit a homer off Ross Stripling for
the Mets’ final run.
“Now, for some of those guys,
there’s probably some thought
processes involved: ‘Am I gonna
go this month?’” Collins said.
“They’re not naïve. They know
that possibility is still there, so
that could be in their heads. But I
want to tell you one thing about
our guys: They are professionals.”
But that did not help them hold
back the Dodgers, who, after hav-
ing been stifled by Lugo until the
fifth inning, belted five home runs JULIE JACOBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Curtis Granderson was welcomed back to the dugout Saturday
of their own, by Chris Taylor, Cody
Bellinger (his 31st of the season), after hitting the Mets’ third home run of the first inning.
Yasiel Puig, Justin Turner and
Corey Seager. And Hill, who
looked as if he would never sur- The loss was the Mets’ third in a INSIDE PITCH
vive the first inning, settled down row and their sixth in their last A magnetic resonance imaging
to allow just two hits over the next seven games. The Dodgers have test on the right shoulder of reliev-
four, striking out eight. won 12 of 13, and after Saturday’s er HANSEL ROBLES revealed no
“That’s a good lineup right win, they led the National League structural damage, and TERRY
there,” Lugo said. “We play nine West by 14 ½ games over the Ari- COLLINS said the Mets think the
innings for a reason. You can’t rely zona Diamondbacks, who were to numbness Robles felt in his pitch-
on one inning to get the job done. I play the San Francisco Giants on ing hand during Thursday’s loss
think we got a little complacent, Saturday night. to the Colorado Rockies was be-
and they didn’t.” cause of “general fatigue.”

PRO FOOTBALL

Lynch Makes Presence Felt in Camp With Hometown Raiders

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Marshawn Lynch
plowed through the line, dreadlocks
swaying on a rare cool summer morning
here, then juggled the football to the de-
light of hundreds cheering from nearby
bleachers.
They raised phone cameras to capture
Lynch’s every move. A film crew followed,
too.
It’s Marshawn Mania in wine country.
And Lynch sure seems to be loving the at-
tention of his return from retirement,
back in that familiar No. 24 jersey, albeit
different colors now that he’s with his
hometown team.
Lynch, 31, joined the Oakland Raiders
on a restructured two-year deal following
an April trade from Seattle, where he had
retired following the 2015 season. Now he
has a chance to contend for an A.F.C. West
title and a shot at the Super Bowl. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC RISBERG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
“He’s going to run through some peo- Running back Marshawn Lynch, 31, retired early last year after his fifth full Raiders fans watched, and some took photographs and videos, as Lynch
ple’s faces; I think that’s what he’s going
season with the Seattle Seahawks but has returned to play for Oakland. stretched during a practice in training camp on Friday in Napa, Calif.
to do,” quarterback Derek Carr said be-
fore adding: “Very physical. That part of
the game is fun to him. I tend to like to Lynch jersey with a leather vest over it quarterback and Lynch eager to take the He’s healthy and in good shape and ready “It’s certainly nice to see him out there
slide or go over people, and he likes to go and spiked leather cuff bracelets Friday ball and run. to have a good year for us.” and running around and moving the way
through them, so I don’t have to do it.” in a front-row seat off the practice field. Lynch has quickly become a training Lynch carried for at least 10 touch- he is. We’re really pleased with where he’s
The Raiders returned to the playoffs for “I really like that he’s doing a real good camp phenomenon and big-personality downs every year from 2011 to 2014, in- at.”
the first time in 14 years but lost in a wild- thing for his town,” King said. “He’s al- bright spot for that “Just Win, Baby!” fan cluding a career-best 13 during the ’14 sea- Lynch has already said the reason he
card game at Houston last season without ways been good for the city; he has never base. son to help lead the Seattle Seahawks to even considered coming out of retirement
Carr, who went down with a broken right been a ghost and left his city. For him to “When I think of Marshawn, I think of the Super Bowl. Lynch’s 51 rushing touch- was to give something back to Oakland
leg Dec. 24 against Indianapolis. come back to the team he’s always passion because he’s a very passionate downs are the most in the N.F.L. since before the Raiders depart for Las Vegas
Lynch, a running back, has brought wanted to play for, it’s really good for the player,” Coach Jack Del Rio said. “I think 2011, even though he played just seven in 2020.
some new life to an already deep and tal- city and the team itself.” of toughness and physicality. I think he games in 2015 and was retired last season. “It’s going to be good for all of us. It’ll be
ented team. And there’s no question Lynch has been even more visible in brings those things to our football team. The Raiders can’t wait to see him in especially nice for those that know Mar-
Lynch has boosted the morale of a fan Oakland than ever. He saved a soul food He’s been a terrific teammate, been great pads and when it all counts. shawn in a personal way that followed
base dreading the Raiders’ move to Las restaurant, led a bike ride through town in from Day 1. Everything has been really “He’s a fun guy to be around all the him throughout his career, having played
Vegas in three years. May and offered tickets to a water park outstanding with him and him joining us time. He’s a great teammate. He’s fun in right there in Cal and grown up in the Bay
Alex King, a 23-year-old lifelong for 2,000 kids. and fitting in with our guys. I think they meetings. He’s fun in the meal room,” the Area,” Del Rio said. “It’s awesome, so I’m
Raiders fan from Salinas, Calif., sported a On the field, Oakland has a healthy love him. We love having him, so it’s great. offensive coordinator Todd Downing said. sure it will be special for a lot of people.”
4 00N SP THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

S C O R E B OA R D

Kim Widens Lead in Women’s British Open BASEBALL

A.L. STANDINGS
TRACK AND FIELD

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
PRO BASKETBALL

W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
East W L Pct GB LONDON (AP) — Results Saturday from EASTERN CONFERENCE
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — the Athletics World Championships at W L Pct GB
London Stadium:
In-Kyung Kim stood on the first tee at Boston 62 49 .559 —
(Qqualifies)
Connecticut 15 9 .625 —
Washington 14 10 .583 1
the Women’s British Open and seemed Yankees 58 51 .532 3 Men's 100m Semifinal Liberty 12 12 .500 3
1. Christian Coleman, United States, 9.97 Q
to have everything going against her. Tampa Bay 57 55 .509 5{ 2. Usain Bolt, Jamaica, 9.98 Q
Atlanta 10 15 .400 5{
Chicago 10 16 .385 6
The wind was rising. Heavy rain Baltimore 54 56 .491 7{
3. Yohan Blake, Jamaica, 10.04 Q
4. Reece Prescod, Great Britain, 10.05 Q
Indiana 8 17 .320 7{
was falling. The temperature was 5. Akani Simbine, South Africa, 10.05 Q WESTERN CONFERENCE
Toronto 52 58 .473 9{ 6. Justin Gatlin, United States, 10.09 Q W L Pct GB
dropping. If that wasn’t enough, Inbee 6. Jimmy Vicaut, France, 10.09 q x-Minnesota 20 2 .909 —
Park had just toured Kingsbarns Links Central W L Pct GB 8. Bingtian Su, China, 10.10 q Los Angeles 18 6 .750 3
9. Chijindu Ujah, Germany, 10.12 Phoenix 13 11 .542 8
in a course record-tying 64 and was Cleveland 59 49 .546 —
10. Ben Youssef Meite, Ivory Coast, 10.12 Dallas 12 14 .462 10
one shot behind. Stacy Lewis, another Kansas City 56 52 .519 3 11. Julian Forte, Jamaica, 10.13 Seattle 10 15 .400 11{
12. Jak Ali Harvey, Turkey, 10.16 San Antonio 6 21 .222 16{
past Women’s British Open champion, Minnesota 52 56 .481 7 13. Christopher Belcher, United States, 10.20 x-clinched playoff spot
was another shot back after a 65. 14. Emmanuel Matadi, Liberia, 10.20 Saturday's Games
Detroit 51 58 .468 8{ 15. James Dasaolu, Great Britain, 10.22 Chicago 91, Atlanta 86
Kim answered every challenge Sat- 16. Aska Cambridge, Japan, 10.25 San Antonio 87, Seattle 80, OT
Chicago 41 67 .380 18 17. Shuhei Tada, Japan, 10.26
urday. 18. Emre Zafer Barnes, Turkey, 10.27
Sunday's Games
West W L Pct GB Phoenix at Washington, 3 p.m.
In weather that turned out better 19. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Japan, 10.28 Los Angeles at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.
20. Zhenye Xie, China, 10.28
than expected — only one heavy Houston 70 40 .636 —
21. Alex Wilson, Switzerland, 10.30
shower — Kim shot a bogey-free 66 by Seattle 56 55 .505 14{ 22. Andrew Fisher, Bahrain, 10.36 W.N.B.A. LEADERS
23. Kukyoung Kim, Korea, 10.40
converting a string of birdie putts. Los Angeles 55 55 .500 15 24. Cejhae Greene, Antigua, 10.64 THROUGH AUGUST 4
Men's 100m Final Scoring
With one round to play, Kim, a 29-year- Texas 53 57 .482 17 1. Justin Gatlin, United States, 9.92 G FG FT PTS AVG
old South Korean, was at 17-under 199 Oakland 48 62 .436 22
2. Christian Coleman, United States, 9.94 Griner, PHO . . . . . 18 143 116 402 22.3
3. Usain Bolt, Jamaica, 9.95 Fowles, MIN. . . . . 22 179 105 463 21.0
and had a six-shot lead over Georgia 4. Yohan Blake, Jamaica, 9.99 Stewart, SEA . . . . 23 156 112 462 20.1
Hall (70) and Moriya Jutanugarn (67), SATURDAY 5. Akani Simbine, South Africa, 10.01 Charles, NYL . . . . 24 189 84 477 19.9
Yankees 2, Cleveland 1 6. Jimmy Vicaut, France, 10.08 Ogwumike, LAS . . 24 172 110 469 19.5
the older sister of the defending cham- Seattle at Kansas City, ppd. 7. Reece Prescod, Great Britain, 10.17 Taurasi, PHO . . . . 22 125 101 425 19.3
MATTHEW LEWIS/GETTY IMAGES Delle Donne, WAS 20 121 112 376 18.8
pion, Ariya Jutanugarn. Milwaukee 3, Tampa Bay 0 8. Bingtian Su, China, 10.27
Diggins-Smith, DAL26 150 144 482 18.5
Lexi Thompson, who started the In-Kyung Kim shot a bogey-free 66 and had to deal with only one heavy Baltimore 5, Detroit 2
Men's Discus Final
1. Andrius Gudzuis, Lithuania, 69.21 meters Loyd, SEA . . . . . . 24 140 105 419 17.5
third round just two shots behind, shower Saturday during the third round of the Women’s British Open. Boston 4, Chicago White Sox 1 2. Daniel Stahl, Sweden, 69.19
3. Mason Finley, United States, 68.03
Quigley, CHI . . . . 22 142 31 375 17.0

stumbled to a 74 and wound up 10 shots
back.
Kim, five years removed from miss-
ing a 1-foot putt that would have won
the Kraft Nabisco Championship, is
poised for redemption to win her first
major title.
Even with such a substantial lead,
there will be pressure on her stamina
and usually reliable putting stroke.
Even five years later, the memory lives
on of her clasping her hand over her
mouth when she missed her tap-in for
victory, eventually losing in a playoff
to Sun-Young Yoo.
“I have finally been able to let go of
that,” Kim said. “I was disappointed
with my golf after 2012. I criticized my-
self too much, which is not healthy. So
it was tough. I never stopped liking the
game, but what happened did take
away some of the joy. I certainly don’t
SOCCER
get surprised by anything anymore.”
Should she falter in the race for her
first major and the $487,500 first-place
prize, there is plenty of experience in
her wake — from Park, the biggest star
on the L.P.G.A. Tour over the last dec-
ade, and from Lewis.
Both took advantage of the benign
morning weather to make substantial
progress up the leaderboard. Park
rose from a tie for 48th to a tie for
fourth alongside Ally McDonald, who
shot a 70. Lewis moved all the way up
to a tie for sixth.
“I putted great and hit the ball
great,” Park said. “That’s something I
have been really struggling with for
the last month. It doesn’t matter how
many shots I’m back. I’ll just try to
play my golf tomorrow. That’s all I can
do.”
Lewis credited her improved per-
formance to her putting — and her
mother.
“I really putted pretty poorly the
first two days,” Lewis said. “My mom
told me I needed to take my putter
straighter back. And that’s what I
worked on today.”
In contrast with the success of those
players still pursuing a vague chance
of victory, Thompson ended her
chances with a sloppy display both on
and off the greens. Despite three bird-
ies on the back nine, Thompson took a
double bogey on the 16th hole on her
way to 74.
She was tied for 13th, along with Mi-
chelle Wie, who rallied from a 76 on
Friday to post a 69.
Texas 4, Minnesota 1 4. Fedrick Dacres, Jamaica, 65.83
TENNIS
Toronto 4, Houston 3, 10 innings 5. Piotr Malachowski, Poland, 65.24
6. Robert Harting, Germany, 65.10
Oakland at L.A. Angels
7. Robert Urbanek, Poland, 64.15 CITI OPEN
SUNDAY 8. Traves Smikle, Jamaica, 64.04
9. Lukas Weisshaidinger, Austria, 63.76 Saturday
Milwaukee (Nelson 9-5) at Tampa 10. Apostolos Parellis, Cyprus, 63.17
Bay (Archer 8-6), 1:10 11. Simon Pettersson, Sweden, 60.39
At Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
Washington
Yankees (Severino 8-4) at Cleveland 12. Gerd Kanter, Spain, 60.00 Singles
Men's Long Jump Final Men
(Carrasco 10-4), 1:10
Chicago White Sox (Pelfrey 3-9) at
1. Luvo Manyonga, South Africe, 8.48 Semifinals
2. Jarrion Lawson, United States, 8.44 Kevin Anderson (15), South Africa, d. Jack
Boston (Fister 1-5), 1:35 3. Ruswahl Samaai, South Africe, 8.32 Sock (8), United States, 6-3, 6-4.
4. Aleksandr Menkiv, Authorized Neutral Ath. , 8.27 Women
Detroit (Sanchez 3-1) at Baltimore
(Jimenez 4-7), 1:35
5. Maykel Masso, Cuba, 8.26 Semifinals
6. Yuhao Shi, China, 8.23 Ekaterina Makarova (7), Russia, d.
Texas (Martinez 3-4) at Minnesota 7. Jianan Wang, China, 8.23 Oceane Dodin (5), France, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
(Berrios 9-5), 2:10 8. Michel Torneus, Sweden, 8.18 Doubles
9. Emiliano Lasa, Uruguay, 8.11
Toronto (Stroman 10-5) at Houston 10. Radek Juska, Czech Republic, 8.02
Men
Semifinals
(Fiers 7-6), 2:10 11. Fabrice Lapieere, Austria, 7.93 Henri Kontinen, Finland, and John Peers
Seattle (Ramirez 4-3) at Kansas City 12. Damar Forbes, Jamaica, 7.91 (1), Australia, d. Jaime Murray, Britain, and
(Kennedy 4-7), 2:15 Women's 200m Heptathlon Summary Bruno Soares (3), Brazil, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 20-
1. K. Johndon-Thompson, Great Britain, 22.86 8. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo
Oakland (Manaea 8-6) at L.A. Angels 2. Carolin Schafer, Germany, 23.58 Melo (2), Brazil, d. Bob and Mike Bryan
(Nolasco 5-12), 3:37 3. Erica Bougard, United States, 23.66 (4), United States, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
4. Nadine Visser, Netherlands, 23.73 Women
5. Claudia Salman-Rath, Germany, 23.92 Championship
N.L. STANDINGS 6. Odile Ahouanwanou, Bein, 24.09 Shuko Aoyama, Japan, and Renata
7. Ivona Dadic, Austria, 24.11 Voracova (2), Czech Republic, d. Eugenie
East W L Pct GB 8. Kendell Williams, United States, 24.29 Bouchard, Canada, and Sloane Stephens,
9. Evelis Aguilar, Colombia, 24.35 United States, 6-3, 6-2.
Washington 64 44 .593 — 10. Anouk Vetter, Netherlands, 24.36
Miami 51 57 .472 13
11. Yorgelis Rodriguez, Cuba, 24.42 BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC
12. Verena Preiner, Austria, 24.44
13. Katerina Cachova, Czech Republic, 24.56 A U.S. Open Series event
Atlanta 51 58 .468 13{ 14. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 24.57 Saturday
Mets 49 59 .454 15 15. Grit Sadeiko, Estonia, 24.60 At The Taube Family Tennis Stadium
16. Tamara De Sousa, Brazil, 24.64 Stanford, Calif.
Philadelphia 39 69 .361 25 17. Caroline Agnou, Switzerland, 24.64 Singles
18. Elika Klucinova, Czech Republic, 24.72 Semifinals
Central W L Pct GB 19. GÈraldine Ruckstuhl, Switzerland, 24.84 CoCo Vandeweghe (6), United States, d.

Neymar Watches as P.S.G. Wins Its Opener

20. S. Day-Monroe, United States, 24.97 CiCi Bellis (8), United States, 6-3, 6-1.
Chicago 58 51 .532 — 21. Nadine Broersen, Netherlands, 24.98
Milwaukee 59 53 .527 {
22. Vanessa Chefer, Brazil, 25.15 GENERALI OPEN
23. XÈnia Krizsan, Hungary, 25.15
24. A. Nana Djimou Ida, France, 25.17 Saturday
St. Louis 54 56 .491 4{ 25. G. Zsivoczky-Farkas, Hungary, 25.38 At Mercedes-Benz Sproportpark Kitzbuehel
With fireworks exploding around him, Neymar Pittsburgh 53 57 .482 5{
26. Lecabela Quaresma, Portugal, 25.38 Kitzbuehel, Austria
27. Alysbeth Felix, Puerto Rico, 25.38 Singles
emerged onto the field to present fans in Paris with the 28. Hanne Maudesn, Belgium, 25.43 Championship
Cincinnati 45 65 .409 13{
sight they had been expecting: the world’s most expensive 29. Swapna Barman, India, 26.45 Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, d. Joao
West W L Pct GB 30. Alina Shukh, Ukraine, 26.59 Sousa, Portugal, 6-3, 6-4.
player in a Paris St.-Germain uniform. Women's 1500m Semifinal Summary Doubles
Neymar lapped up the adulation in his new home on Los Angeles 78 32 .709 — 1. F. Chepngetich Kipyegon, Kenya, 4:03.54 Q Championship
2. Laura Muir, Great Britain, 4:03.64 Q Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Guillermo
Saturday — juggling a ball ahead of the game, blowing Arizona 63 46 .578 14{ 3. Sifan Hassan Netherlands, 4:03.77 Q Duran (4), Argentina, d. Hans Podlipnik-
kisses to the fans and tossing a jersey into the crowd. 4. Caster Semenya, South Africa, 4:03.80 Q Castillo, Chile, and Andrei Vasilevski,
Colorado 64 47 .577 14{ 5. Angelika Cichocka, Poland, 4:03.96 Q Belarus, 6-4, 4-6, 12-10.
It will be at least another week before Neymar starts 6. Meraf Bahta, Sweden, 4:04.04 Q
San Diego 49 60 .450 28{ 7. Hanna Klein, Germany, 4:04.45 Q ABIERTO MEXICANO DE
playing in matches and earning P.S.G. back some of the 8. Genzebe Dibaba, Ethiopia, 4:05.33 q
$262 million it spent to acquire him from Barcelona. San Francisco 42 69 .378 36{ 9. Jennifer Simpson, United States, 4:05.40 Q TENIS MICEL
10. Laura Weightman, Great Britain, 4:05.63 Q
After 24 minutes on the field, Neymar left to make way SATURDAY 11. Malika Akkaoui, Morocco, 4:05.73 Q Saturday
L.A. Dodgers 7, Mets 4 At Delmar International School
for his new teammates. Just like the fans, Neymar watched 12. Rababe Arafi, Morocco, 4:05.75 q
Los Cabos, Mexico
Chicago Cubs 7, Washington 4 13. Sofia Ennaoui, Poland, 4:05.80
from the stands as Edinson Cavani and Javier Pastore each 14. Zoe Buckman, Australia, 4:05.93 Doubles
Milwaukee 3, Tampa Bay 0 15. Winny Chebet, Kenya, 4:06.29 Championship
scored a goal to give P.S.G. a 2-0 win over newly promoted San Diego 5, Pittsburgh 2 16. Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Germany, 4:06.58 Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and
Amiens in its French league season opener. 17. Sarah McDonald, Great Britain, 4:06.73 Treat Huey (2), Philippines, d. Sergio
Atlanta 7, Miami 2 Galdos, Peru, and Roberto Maytin,
18. Sara Vaughn, United States, 4:06.83
The reason provided for the delay in Neymar’s debut St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1 19. Besu Sado, Ethiopia, 4:07.65 Venezuela, 6-2, 6-3.
was that the league had not received Neymar’s interna- Colorado 8, Philadelphia 5 20. Nicole Sifuentes, Canada, 4:07.92
21. Gabriela Stafford, Canada, 4:08.51 GOLF
tional transfer certificate before the deadline Friday night. Arizona at San Francisco 22. Jessica Judd, Great Britain, 4:10.14
CALL IT AN UNFRIENDLY A friendly in Manchester, England, SUNDAY 23. Kate Grace, United States, 4:16.70
WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN
24. Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopia, 4:22.01
Milwaukee (Nelson 9-5) at Tampa Women's 10,000m Final
between Burnley of the Premier League and the Bun- Bay (Archer 8-6), 1:10 1. Almaz Ayana, Ethiopia, 30:16.32 Saturday
desliga club Hannover was abandoned at halftime because 2. Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia, 31:02.69 At Kingsbarns Golf Links
St. Louis (Wainwright 11-5) at Cin- St. Andrews, Scotland
of crowd trouble. Burnley said on Twitter that the game had cinnati (Bailey 3-5), 1:10 3. Agnes Jebet Tirop, Kenya, 31:03.50
4. Alice Aprot Nawowuna, Kenya, 31:11.86 Purse: $3.25 million
Yardage: 6,697; Par: 72
been abandoned “on police advice” and that home fans had Miami (Urena 9-5) at Atlanta (Sims 5. Susan Krumins, Netherlands, 31:20.24
Third Round
0-1), 1:35 6. Emily Infeld, United States, 31:20.45
been asked to leave the stadium. News reports said Hanno- 7. Irene Chepet Cheptai, Kenya, 31:21.11 a-amateur
San Diego (Richard 5-12) at Pitts- In-Kyung Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . 65-68-66—199 -17
ver’s fans had thrown seats and surged toward Burnley burgh (Taillon 6-5), 1:35
8. Molly Huddle, United States, 31:24.78
Moriya Jutanugarn . . . . . . . . 70-68-67—205 -11
JACQUES DEMARTHON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES 9. Emily Sisson, United States, 31:26.36
fans after Burnley had taken the lead in the 41st minute. Washington (Fedde 0-1) at Chicago 10. Ayuko Suzuki, Japan, 31:27.30 Georgia Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-67-70—205 -11
The recently acquired Neymar waving to the home Cubs (Lester 8-6), 2:20 11. Yasemin Can, Turkey, 31:35.48 Inbee Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-70-64—206
Ally McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . 68-68-70—206
-10
-10
12. Shitaye Eshete, Bahrain, 31:38.66
crowd before Paris St.-Germain’s season opener. Philadelphia (Nola 8-7) at Colorado 13. Mercyline Chelangat, Uganda, 31:40.48 Stacy Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-72-65—207
Mi Hyang Lee . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71-67—208
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G OLF (Hoffman 6-3), 3:10 14. Dera Dida, Ethiopia, 31:51.75
15. Desi Mokonin, Bahrain, 31:55.34 Caroline Masson. . . . . . . . . . 69-72-67—208 -8
Arizona (Corbin 8-10) at San Fran- Jaye Marie Green. . . . . . . . . 68-73-67—208 -8
16. Natasha Wodak, Canada, 31:55.47
A Tie for the Lead at the Bridgestone ANDERSON AND ZVEREV ADVANCE AT CITI OPEN The 45th-ranked cisco (Samardzija 6-11), 4:05 17. Daria Maslova, Kirghizistan, 31:57.23 Angel Yin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-67-69—208
Mel Reid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67-72-69—208
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Kevin Anderson, seeking his first title in nearly two years, L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 3-6) at Mets 18. Sitora Khamidova, Uzbekistan, 31:57.42
Jodi Ewart Shadoff. . . . . . . . 67-70-71—208 -8
Thomas Pieters ended a roller-coaster round with a 30- (Matz 2-4), 8:05 19. Mizuki Matsuda, Japan, 31:59.54
upset Jack Sock, 6-3, 6-4, in Washington to reach the Citi 20. Rachel Cliff, Canada, 32:00.03 Ashleigh Buhai. . . . . . . . . . . 69-73-67—209 -7
Mi Jung Hur . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71-68—209 -7
foot birdie putt for a four-under-par 66 that gave him a Open final. Afterward, Alexander Zverev defeated Kei DODGERS 7, METS 4 21. Beth Potter, Great Britain, 32:15.88
Hyo Joo Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71-68—209 -7
22. Eloise Wellings, Australia, 32:26.31
share of the lead with Zach Johnson going into the final Nishikori, 6-3, 6-4, to advance to the final. Los Angeles ab r h bi bb so avg. 23. F. Abdi Matanga, Tanzania, 32:29.97 Ai Suzuki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-69-69—209 -7
Karine Icher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-70-69—209 -7
round of the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. Sock had not dropped a set all week and had been bro- Taylor lf 5 2 1 1 0 0 .314 24. Miyuki Uehara, Japan, 32:31.58
Michelle Wie . . . . . . . . . . . . 64-76-69—209 -7
Seager ss 4 1 1 2 1 2 .306 25. Salome Nyirarukundo, Rwanda, 32:45.95
Pieters built a big lead with five birdies on his opening ken only once, but Anderson ended both those runs in short Turner 3b 5 2 2 1 0 0 .347 26. Madeline Hills, Australia, 32:48.57 Jenny Shin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-69-70—209 -7
Chella Choi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67-70-72—209 -7
eight holes, but he made only three pars over his last 11. order. Anderson broke Sock at love for a 2-0 lead and held Bellinger 1b
Pederson cf
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1 2 0 1 .263
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27. Charlotte Taylor, Great Britain, 32:51.33
28. Carla SalomÈ Rocha, Portugal, 32:52.71 Lexi Thompson . . . . . . . . . . 67-68-74—209 -7
Johnson, who has not won since the 2015 British Open, sank serve from there to take the first set in 34 minutes. Hernandez ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .219 29. Margarita Hernandez, Mexico, 33:06.53
a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a 65. Forsythe 2b 2 0 0 0 2 1 .233 30. C. Buscomb, New Zealand, 33:07.53 BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL
(AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) Grandal c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .268 31. C. Patricia Martinex, Paraguay, 33:18.22
Barnes c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 xx. Sarah Lahti, Sweden, DNF Saturday
AROUND GOLF Greg Owen had nine birdies to take a 5-point Puig rf 3 1 1 1 1 0 .260 xx. Jess Martin, Great Britain, DNF At Firestone Country Club (South Course)
lead after the third round of the Barracuda Championship, FO OT BALL
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pleby and Derek Fathauer were tied for second in Reno, Baez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3. Anouk Vetter, Netherlands, 15.09 Third Round
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5. Elika Klucinova, Czech Republic, 14.80
Zach Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . 69-67-65—201 -9
Thomas Pieters . . . . . . . . . . 65-70-66—201 -9
65 to share the lead with Paul Goydos (60) and Gene Sauers Stripling p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6. Odile Ahouanwanou, Benin, 14.71 Scott Hend . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-69-63—202 -8
Miami Dolphins Coach Adam Gase said he has reached Totals 36 7 8 7 4 8 7. Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida, France, 14.61 Hideki Matsuyama . . . . . . . . 69-67-67—203 -7
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12. Gyˆrgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas, Hungary, 13.75
Russell Knox . . . . . . . . . . . . 66-71-68—205 -5
Paul Casey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-69-67—206 -4
BASEBALL But Gase said he does not think the Dolphins are close Cespedes lf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .278 13. Tamara De Sousa, Brazil, 13.69 Bubba Watson. . . . . . . . . . . 67-74-66—207 -3
Flores 1b 3 1 1 1 0 2 .285 14. Caroline Agnou, Switzerland, 13.64 Brooks Koepka . . . . . . . . . . 71-69-67—207 -3
to signing a quarterback in the wake of starter Ryan Tan- Sewald p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 15. Lecabela Quaresma, Portugal, 13.48 Daniel Berger. . . . . . . . . . . . 71-68-68—207 -3
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Kevin Chappell. . . . . . . . . . . 72-67-68—207 -3
Jason Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-66-70—207 -3
Jimmy Walker . . . . . . . . . . . 68-65-74—207 -3
Granderson rf 2 1 1 1 2 1 .225 18. GÈraldine Ruckstuhl, Switzerland, 13.36
Oakland A’s outfielder Matt Joyce received a two-game JETS RECEIVER INJURES NECK Quincy Enunwa hurt his neck
Walker 2b-1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .254 19. Verena Preiner, Austria, 13.16 Rickie Fowler . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71-67—208 -2
Jhonattan Vegas . . . . . . . . . 69-71-68—208 -2
Rosario ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .211 20. Nadine Visser, Netherlands, 12.96
suspension without pay for directing an antigay slur to- during practice, sustaining what Jets Coach Todd Bowles Rivera c 4 1 2 1 0 2 .242 21. Claudia Salman-Rath, Germany, 12.84 Xander Schauffele . . . . . . . . 70-69-69—208 -2
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called an injury similar to one that held him out of spring Reyes 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .223 23. Grit Sadeiko, Spain, 12.55 Tommy Fleetwood . . . . . . . . 70-68-70—208 -2
outreach initiative with Pflag, an organization supporting workouts. Enunwa’s 80 career receptions rank him first Totals 34 4 7 4 3 13 24. K. Johnson-Thompson, Great Britain, 12.47 Jordan Spieth . . . . . . . . . . . 67-70-71—208 -2
25. Vanessa Chefer, Brazil, 12.12
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26. Katerina Cachova, Czech Republic, 11.84
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28. Erica Bougard, United States, 11.41
begin Saturday, when he also apologized through the team. E—Seager (9). LOB—Los Angeles 6, New
29. Alysbeth Felix, Puerto Rico, 10.82
He said he was “beyond sorry,” and the Athletics said his SWIM M ING York 6. 2B—Grandal (22). HR—Taylor (15),
off Lugo; Bellinger (31), off Lugo; Puig 30. Swapna Barman, India, 10.81 M.L.S. STANDINGS
xx. Laura Ikauniece-Admidina, Latvia, DNS
language was unacceptable and won’t be tolerated. (21), off Sewald; Turner (12), off Sewald; EAST W L T Pts GF GA

CUBS DEFEAT NATIONALS Willson Contreras homered and Lochte Finishes Fifth in Return Seager (19), off Salas; Conforto (22), off
Hill; Flores (12), off Hill; Granderson (15),
Toronto FC
Chicago
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off Hill; Rivera (7), off Stripling. RBIs— BASBEALL NYCFC 11 7 4 37 40 31
drove in three runs, Alex Avila homered for his first hit with In his first U.S.A. Swimming-sanctioned event after a Taylor (53), Seager 2 (55), Turner (44), Red Bulls 11 8 2 35 32 26
Bellinger 2 (73), Puig (54), Conforto (57), Atlanta United 10 7 4 34 41 28
the Cubs, and host Chicago beat the Washington Nationals, 10-month suspension for his behavior at the Rio de Janeiro Flores (33), Granderson (42), Rivera (22). YANKEES 2, INDIANS 1 Columbus 10 11 2 32 33 37
7-4. Kris Bryant and Jon Jay each added run-scoring hits as Olympics, Ryan Lochte finished fifth in the men’s 100-meter SB—Granderson (4). CS—Granderson (2).
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MorrowW4-0 1 0 0 0 1 1 17 1.82 Headley 1b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .272
AROUND BASEBALL The right-hander Zach Davies allowed the United States Open in East Meadow, N.Y. BaezH17 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 1.74 Judge rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .299
New England
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Frazier 3b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .205
the National League Central. • Red Sox outfielders An- (54.62) and Brock Bonetti (54.99) ahead of Lochte, who Lugo 5Î/¯ 4 3 3 2 5 88 4.55
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homers, and Drew Pomeranz won a career-best fifth nary meet with a time of 55.59 seconds. T—3:18. A—40,060 (41,922). Cleveland ab r h bi bb so avg.
Portland 8 8 7 31 39 38
Vancouver 9 8 3 30 30 29
straight decision as host Boston beat the Chicago White Lindor ss 4 0 2 0 0 2 .272 San Jose 8 9 5 29 24 34
Guyer rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .224
Sox, 4-1. • Paul DeJong hit a two-run homer and Lance HAR NESS R AC ING PRO FOOTBALL Brantley lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .300
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has let him anchor the rotation since 2013. nian when the first-place finisher What the Hill caused an- Wednesday, Aug. 9 Totals 33 1 6 1 0 12 Montreal 2, Orlando City 1
other horse to go off stride in the stretch and was disquali- Houston at Carolina, 7:30 p.m. New York 100 000 010—2 5 0 Seattle 4, Minnesota United 0
Thursday, Aug. 10 Cleveland 010 000 000—1 6 0 Chicago 4, New England 1
TEN N IS fied in trotting’s biggest race. It was the first time in the Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Houston at Real Salt Lake
Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.
92-year history of the Hambletonian that a winner had dis- Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
LOB—New York 6, Cleveland 5. 2B— Vancouver at Colorado
Gregorius 2 (16), Lindor (30). HR— Columbus at San Jose
qualified after capturing the final. Jacksonville at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Kohlschreiber Wins Generali Open The judges posted the inquiry sign shortly after the
Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Headley (6), off McAllister; Santana
(16), off Montgomery. RBIs—Headley
Sunday, August 6
Los Angeles at Portland, 2 p.m.
(43), Gregorius (54), Santana (59). DP— Red Bulls at NYCC, 6 p.m.
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title, defeating João Sousa, 6-3, 6-4, in the Generali Open East Rutherford, N.J. Pittsburgh at Giants, 7 p.m. Montgomery 5 3 1 1 0 7 65 4.05 Kansas City at Seattle, 4 p.m.
The judges ruled that What the Hill caused Guardian Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
final in Kitzbühel, Austria. Kohlschreiber, No. 47 in the San Francisco at Kansas City, 9 p.m.
RobertsonW5-2 2 2 0 0 0 2 28 2.55 Portland at Toronto FC, 6 p.m.
BetancesH15 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.41 Real Salt Lake at D.C. United, 7 p.m.
world, rallied from a break down in both sets to win the final Angel AS to go off stride as he squeezed into a space be- Saturday, Aug. 12 ChapmanS14-17 1 1 0 0 0 1 21 2.87 Chicago at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Tennessee at Jets, 7:30 p.m.
clay-court event of the season. tween the pace-setting Perfect Spirit and Devious Man. Dallas at L.A. Rams, 9 p.m.
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his front hoof touched the wheel of What the Hill’s sulky Detroit at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m. Goody 1 0 0 0 1 2 19 2.23 San Jose at Houston, 9 p.m.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. and went off stride. What the Hill was placed ninth. Seattle at L.A. Chargers, 8 p.m. T—2:58. A—34,651 (35,051). NYCFC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

A Two-Year Quest and a 21-Mile Challenge to Reach a Sport’s Pinnacle
From First Sports Page
jumped into the ocean, wearing
only the marathon swimmer’s
minimalist uniform: swimsuit,
cap and goggles. In short order, he
started swimming to Scotland.
The water was not especially
rough, and no colder than ex-
pected, about 55 degrees, yet
Argüelles, his skin coated with
zinc oxide and petroleum jelly,
was sluggish.
In the third hour, with the sun
now shining, he found his rhythm,
stopping every 30 minutes for wa-
ter, a shot of protein gel and per-
haps some steamed potatoes.
During feeds, he treaded water
while an observer from the swim-
ming association ensured that his
support team didn’t make physi-
cal contact with Argüelles, a vio-
lation that would void his attempt.
In the North Channel, timing is
everything, and it’s not uncom-
mon to come within a mile of shore
only to be denied glory by tides
and wind and cold, no matter how
hard you swim or how much you
burn for it.
The swims in the Oceans Seven,
chosen for their familiarity and
geographic distribution, present
all sorts of hazards and weather
patterns.
The chilly and choppy 21-mile-
long English Channel and the 20-
mile Catalina crossing between
Santa Catalina Island and main-
land Southern California may be
the most famous of the bunch.
High winds, rugged surf, bull
sharks and Portuguese man-of-
war make crossing the 27-mile
Kaiwi Channel between Oahu and
Molokai particularly difficult. The
16-mile Cook Strait between New
Zealand’s North and South Is-
lands is famous for sharks, too,
which also school around tuna
boats in Japan’s roughly 12-mile-
long Tsugaru Strait, while the 10-
mile Strait of Gibraltar, between
Spain and Morocco, is one of the
world’s busiest shipping lanes.
Still, though it lacks sharks, the
North Channel is by far the most
feared.
“All things considered, North
Channel is the most difficult be-
cause of the cold water, jellyfish
and tidal flows,” said Steven Mu-
natones, founder of the World
Open Water Swimming Associa-
tion. “The currents and winds
fluctuate.”
But it wasn’t the currents or the
North Channel’s notorious jelly-
fish blooms that frightened
Argüelles going into the swim. It
was hypothermia. “I’m from Mex-
ico,” he said the day before his at-
tempt. “We don’t have cold water.”
The oldest of four brothers,
Argüelles grew up in the
Coyoacán borough of Mexico City.
In 1968, when he was 9, the
Olympics came to town, and Fe-
lipe Muñoz Kapamas became the
first Mexican to win a gold medal,
in the 200-meter breaststroke. His
feat captivated Argüelles, and he
took up swimming. Five years lat-
er, after his father lost his job,
Argüelles started selling Speedo
caps and goggles at swim meets to
help feed the family.
A Speedo executive, Bill Lee,
took notice and became his men-
tor and benefactor.
Who Qualifies
As a Woman?
A Fight Resumes
From First Sports Page
hard data — its policies barring
athletes with naturally high
testosterone, the federation has
returned wielding new informa-
tion. It is out to prove that wom-
en like Chand, who have a condi-
tion called hyperandrogenism,
have a significant athletic advan-
tage over other female competi-
tors.
The I.A.A.F. has until the end
of September to file its new evi-
dence with the court. If that
information is not convincing,
the hyperandrogenism rule that
once barred Chand from compet-
ing could be wiped from the rule
book.
Any decision will have pro-
found consequences for Chand,
who failed to make it out of the
heats at the 2016 Rio Games. And
it will affect elite athletes, like
Caster Semenya, the Olympic
champion in the 800 meters, who
have faced similar questions —
and similar indignities — merely
for competing with the bodies
they were born with.
Last month, the I.A.A.F. gave a
sneak peek of what it had found
in the two years since the court’s
ruling, publishing a news release
that included a study financed by
the I.A.A.F. and the World Anti-
Doping Agency. The study, a
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Argüelles moved in with Lee’s
family in Northern California and
swam for one year at Stanford,
narrowly missing out on making
the Mexican Olympic team in 1976
and 1980.
In the 1990s, having stopped
swimming, he started a business
to bring competitive triathlons to
Mexico and completed his first of
five Ironman distance races (2.4-
mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-
mile run) in Kona, Hawaii, in 1994.
In 1999, he went back to swim-
ming, and for his 40th birthday he
swam the English Channel for the
first time.
paper published in the British
Journal of Sports Medicine,
examined the testosterone levels
in 2,127 blood samples provided
by athletes competing at the 2011
and 2013 world track and field
championships. It concluded that
some women with high testoster-
one levels can have a marked
advantage over some women
with lower levels — but only in
certain events.
The event that yielded the
most glaring advantage was the
hammer throw, an edge the
paper put at 4.53 percent. The
pole vault (2.94 percent), the
400-meter hurdles (2.78 percent),
the 400 (2.73 percent) and the
800 (1.78 percent) were found to
have smaller, yet significant,
advantages for competitors with
hyperandrogenism, but all were
far below the 10 to 12 percent
advantage generally recognized
as the performance difference
between men and women.
That’s an important point. In
2015, the court said the I.A.A.F.
might want to reconsider barring
women with hyperandrogenism
from the female category “if the
degree of advantage were well
below 12 percent.”
For Chand, who competes in
races decided by fractions of a
second, this focus on numbers
and percentages is not merely a
theoretical debate. It has made
her anxious about her fate.
“I do get afraid, but I have
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SWIMMING
PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
He has also swum around Man-
hattan Island twice. All while
serving in multiple Mexican gov-
ernment ministries and running a
private school system he founded.
Ever since he made the commit-
ment to complete the Oceans Sev-
en two years ago, he has spent
weekends training. He hired a
strength coach and a mental fit-
ness coach, studied muscle activa-
tion technique, and bulked up in
the gym and at the kitchen table,
adding both muscle and fat until
he reached 210 pounds.
He does not swim in a wetsuit.
“People ask me if I swim with
T R AC K A N D F I E L D
faith in my God,” Chand told
FirstPost, an Indian news site, at
a meet in June.
In a statement, Chand and her
lawyers contended that the
I.A.A.F. study failed to clear the
high bar set by the court’s ruling
two years ago. They appear to be
right. On its own, the study is
hardly the slam dunk the I.A.A.F.
probably hoped it would be.
But nothing about this issue is
a slam dunk.
Dr. Eric Vilain, a medical ge-
neticist, helped create the Inter-
national Olympic Committee’s
hyperandrogenism policy, which
requires a competitor with the
condition to undergo treatment
that lowers her testosterone
levels. But he admitted that the
policy was not perfect, and that it
couldn’t be perfect.
Determining whether a single
neoprene,” he said Wednesday,
“and I say I have my own bio-
prene.”
Good thing. Steep yourself in
55-degree water for, say, 12 hours
without a wetsuit, and it won’t
take long before your blood is
shunted from your head and ex-
tremities to the core, to protect
your internal organs. “That’s why
open water swimmers have hallu-
cinations,” Munatones said.
“They start to lose their mental
clarity because the capillaries of
their brain start to close up.”
Kim Chambers, the third wom-
an and the sixth athlete to com-
JOHANNES EISELE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
In a sense, all elite
competition is unfair,
one expert says.
athlete has an advantage over
others is “basically impossible,”
Vilain said, because looking at
performance through the lens of
only one variable, like high levels
of testosterone, ignores too many
others — training regimen,
height, limb length, nutrition —
that can contribute to success.
This issue could be made
simpler, according to Dr. Myron
Genel, a Yale professor emeritus
and longtime consultant to the
I.O.C.’s medical commission, if
the governing bodies would
Top, Antonio Argüelles was accompanied on his swim by a
boat. Left, Argüelles warming up for his attempt in Don-
aghadee, Northern Ireland. Above, on the rocks.
plete the Oceans Seven, said, “You
are a bit delirious, as if emerging
from general anesthesia.”
But it wasn’t the cold that af-
fected Argüelles when he hit a
wall of exhaustion at 5 p.m. Thurs-
day, more than 10 hours into his
swim.
It was the tides.
Argüelles got caught in an eddy
and was held in place for an hour.
The captain of the boat noticed
and informed Argüelles that he
would have to swim as hard as
possible to try to break through.
Argüelles, punctuating the rec-
ollection with a Mexican vulgar-
ism, said, “I had to use all my men-
tal training at that moment.”
He hammered away. Three
hours later, he made the final 100
meters, washing in with a foaming
tide just before 9 p.m. local time.
Exhausted, he sat on a slick boul-
der and raised his arms. After a
swim of 13 hours 32 minutes 32
finally listen to the advice that he
and others had given them more
than two decades ago.
In the 1990s, those experts
suggested that athletes born
with what is known as a disorder
of sex development — a biologi-
cal anomaly that might result in
atypically high testosterone
production — should compete as
females if they were raised as
females. It is the same advice
that Genel and some of his col-
leagues give today.
Hyperandrogenism can be a
natural genetic advantage, Genel
argued, in the same way Usain
Bolt’s uncommonly long stride or
Michael Phelps’s flipper-size feet
give those athletes a winning
edge.
“I think all elite competition at
an elite level is unfair, in one
form or another,” Genel said.
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seconds, and a total of 25.7 miles
as he meandered out there,
Argüelles had done it.
“Three times in my life,” he said
by phone on the boat ride back to
Donaghadee, “I have been this
well prepared for an event: the
Olympic trials in 1976 and 1980 and
today. I never made the Olympics,
but today I redeemed myself.”
According to Munatones, there
are even bigger ramifications to
consider. This is the golden age of
open water swimming, with over
12,000 races held in 168 countries
around the world each year, and
Argüelles’s feat may inspire more
people to take on the challenge of
completing the Oceans Seven.
“He’s a pioneer,” Munatones
said. “He set the standard in chan-
nel swimming for the Spanish-
speaking world and for people
over 50. To do one of the world’s
most arduous endurance chal-
lenges at his age is mind-bog-
gling.”
Dutee Chand of India, third
from right, was born with a
condition in which her body
produces a high level of testos-
terone. An international rule
that barred her from competi-
tion was suspended for two
years, but the battle is about to
be joined again.
But will it ever be perfectly
fair? Could it ever be perfectly
fair? Not when so many different
qualities come together to make
athletes successful. And not
when gender distinctions are
changing so rapidly.
At its core, the sports world —
rigidly separating men and wom-
en — will perpetually struggle to
adapt to increasingly nuanced
gender distinctions. In June, the
District of Columbia became the
first jurisdiction in the United
States to offer an “X” gender,
signifying a neutral gender, on its
driver’s licenses. In March, a
transgender New Zealand wom-
an crushed her competition in
her first international weight-
lifting meet, and a transgender
boy won a Texas state champi-
onship in girls’ wrestling.
Not every governing body is
equipped to rule on these kind of
eligibility questions. Not every
athlete fits into this box, or that
one.
To Chand, though, the issue of
hyperandrogenism in sports is
clear cut. She grew up as a girl.
At 21, she is a proud young wom-
an. She wants to race as one.
On Saturday, she did. But in
the coming months, the Court of
Arbitration for Sport will decide
whether letting her continue to
do so is fair.
What if it gets it wrong?
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In a Final, Narrow Defeat, Bolt Leaves Behind a Yawning Chasm
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
LONDON — The moment and
the crowd of 55,900 at London Sta-
dium were his, and Usain Bolt was
inches from a clean getaway.
But on Saturday night, there
would be no pitch-perfect ending
to what Bolt insisted was the final
individual race of his unparalleled
career.
The gold medal in the 100 me-
ters at the world track and field
championships went instead to
Justin Gatlin, the 35-year-old
American who has long been
Bolt’s foil and who had not won a
100 world title since 2005. Gatlin
has served two doping suspen-
sions in his career, and the specta-
tors booed him before the final,
just as they had in the early
rounds.
Running far outside in Lane 8,
Gatlin finished in 9.92 seconds,
reeling in Christian Coleman, a 21-
year-old countryman he has men-
tored, with a final surge. Gatlin
screamed with delight and put an
index finger to his lips as if to si-
lence the crowd when the results
of this very close race appeared on
the scoreboard.
Coleman, in his first world
championships, took the silver in
9.94 seconds. The bronze went to
Bolt, whose 9.95 was his slowest
time in a major 100-meter final. It
was also a big stride or two re-
moved from his world-record 9.58,
set in Berlin in 2009.
“I’m just sorry I couldn’t end it
on a winning note,” said Bolt, who
will turn 31 this month.
It seemed hardly fitting, but
then neither life nor track meets
follow a script. Bolt’s season
turned out to be one too far, after
his triple-gold-medal perform-
ance at last year’s Olympics in Rio
de Janeiro.
In 2017, and above all on Satur-
day night, he simply did not de-
liver the required valedictory
speed. But he insisted the defeat
had not altered his retirement
plans.
“It doesn’t change anything for
me,” Bolt said. “I think I lost the
race to a great competitor.”
Referring to Coleman, he said:
“I came in third to a young kid that
is coming up. He has a great talent
and great future ahead of him. So
no regrets. I came out and did my
best. I was always going to end no
matter what happened — win,
lose or draw. I was always going to
walk away. I’ve done all I can do
for the sport and for myself. It’s
time to go.”
Coleman, who won N.C.A.A.
championships in the 100 and 200
this year for the University of Ten-
nessee before turning profes-
sional, managed a first early in the
day. He defeated Bolt in a close
Threats Are Emerging Off the Fairways, Rattling Top Players
Encounters have left athletes
fearful that they are more
vulnerable to crime.
By KAREN CROUSE
AKRON, Ohio — His day of
practice done at Firestone Coun-
try Club, Brooks Koepka headed
to his courtesy car in the players’
parking lot, which was cut off from
the public by temporary fencing
covered with banners.
Before disappearing behind the
fence, Koepka rebuffed an auto-
graph seeker who had a pin flag to
sign, explaining that he was not
feeling well. He drove three miles
to the hotel where many golfers
were staying.
Koepka, the United States Open
champion, did not give a second
thought to the fleeting encounter
until his girlfriend used the car lat-
er that day. Upon returning, she
said a man had approached to ask
if she would persuade Koepka to
sign his pin flag. The man
matched the description of the fan
Koepka had encountered earlier.
The incident, which occurred
this past week, before the Bridge-
stone Invitational here, unnerved
Koepka. He wondered: How did
the man know it was Koepka’s car,
and what if the man had been car-
rying a knife or gun?
The threats facing the world’s
best golfers were driven home at
the British Open last month, when
the rental home of the defending
champion, Henrik Stenson, was
burglarized while he was playing
his first round. Someone broke a
window in the backyard garden
and made off with money, jewelry
and much of his wardrobe.
Stenson said this past week that
the thief or thieves had not been
caught, and that he was convinced
he had been targeted.
In retrospect, he can see that he
unwittingly left a trail of clues to
where he was staying. He let Sky
Sports film him walking into the
rental house holding the Claret
Jug. He took a photograph with
fans in front of the house, and he
parked his courtesy car, with
Open Championship markings on
semifinal heat, ending Bolt’s 28-
race winning streak in the 100 me-
ters.
But Bolt played it cool, looking
theatrically at Coleman before
they crossed the finish line, as if to
say he would still have more —
much more — to give when it mat-
tered most.
Coleman returned Bolt’s glance
and went on to beat him out of the
blocks again in the final. Coleman
had company: Bolt’s reaction time
was the second slowest of the
eight finalists. Though he has rou-
tinely recovered from such
deficits by straightening up his
long body and achieving full flight,
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Brooks Koepka during the third round of the British Open last
month. He had an unsettling episode with an autograph seeker.
the side doors, in the driveway.
“I guess it was a bit of an eye-
opener in terms of when we’re at
some of these big events, we do
make easy marks for criminals
who are quite clever at what they
do,” Stenson said.
It used to be that the worst
crime that players feared was the
theft of bags from the trunks of
their cars. The arrival of the inter-
net and the escalation of prize
money have upped the ante. The
players’ competitive schedules
are widely circulated, and at any
PGA Tour stop, it’s as easy to learn
exactly what time the golfers are
playing as it is to know when the
buses or trains are running.
Their earnings also are a matter
of public record, and with 36 play-
ers having earned at least $2 mil-
lion this season, their wealth
makes them attractive targets.
Home addresses are at every-
body’s fingertips, just a few clicks
away, rendering the golfers’ bub-
ble existence far from imperme-
able.
After a round at the Arnold
Palmer Invitational in Orlando,
Fla., in March, Jason Day said, he
received a call from his wife, Ellie,
who had stayed at home in Ohio
with the couple’s two young chil-
dren. She told him that she had
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there would be no compensating
this time.
He has often made victory look
so easy, even preordained, cross-
ing finish lines at less than full
speed with his arms spread wide
and a grin on his face.
But there was no margin for
grandstanding in this final. As
Bolt stretched for the finish line,
he was grimacing, his mouth and
eyes wide with effort. And as he
started to decelerate, his face was
full of concern as he looked at the
scoreboard for the results.
“After the semifinal with Cole-
man, I knew if I don’t get my start,
I’m going to be in trouble,” Bolt
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heard a prowler.
Day advised her to leave at once
with the children, and he phoned a
friend who is a police officer. The
friend drove to the Days’ resi-
dence and, according to Day,
found a man in dark clothes hiding
in a tree on the property.
“Now if I’m gone, I have cops
stay at the house,” said Day, who
also plans to add a German shep-
herd to the family as a guard dog.
“What is really good is that the
PGA Tour security does a fantas-
tic job each and every week of try-
ing to handle certain threats, and
you don’t hear about them,” Day
said.
The tour employs a director of
corporate security, Steve Olson,
and has a group of consultants,
many of them private investiga-
tors or retired F.B.I. agents, who
work closely with tournament of-
ficials to ensure the players’
safety.
“Our longstanding policy is that
we do not provide specifics on
matters of security related to play-
ers and tournaments,” Laura
Neal, the vice president of com-
munications, said in a statement.
The security team may keep a
low profile, but its fingerprints are
apparent in the new placement of
the players’ parking lot here, near
MATTHIAS SCHRADER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Justin Gatlin, above left, winning the 100 meters Saturday at the
world championships in London. Christian Coleman, second
from right, finished second, and Usain Bolt, right, was third.
The American Gatlin, left, recorded a time of 9.92 seconds.
said. “And when I left the blocks, I the track, and he later defended
was like, ‘Awww.’” Gatlin’s right to compete after
It was the first bronze medal for “paying his dues.”
Bolt at a world championships, Gatlin, the oldest man ever to
and it left the crowd buzzing with win a running event other than
surprise. People had come to see the marathon at the world cham-
Bolt off in style, roaring for him as pionships, said he had tried to
he arrived on the track. Gatlin block out the boos.
drew boos as he walked through
“Throughout all my rounds, I
the tunnel, and again as he was in- kind of just zoned in on my lane,”
troduced at the starting line. he said. “It’s kind of sad my boos
But this turned out to be Gatlin’s were a little louder than other peo-
moment, too. His second doping ple’s cheers, but I wanted to keep
suspension, a four-year ban, be- it classy.
gan in 2006, when he was the
“At the end of the race, I bent
world’s leading sprinter. He has
deep for Usain and paid homage
been running in Bolt’s long shad-
to him. That’s what it is. This night
ow since his return, and their
is still a magical night for track
races have often been cast as mo-
rality plays, particularly their and field and for Usain Bolt. He’s
duel in the 100 at the 2015 world done so much.”
championships in Beijing, which By the force of his talent and
Bolt won by just one-hundredth of personality, Bolt has long been the
a second and was hailed in some sport’s seminal figure.
quarters as a savior for track and He still plans to compete next
field. Saturday in the 4x100-meter relay
There has been occasional ten- for Jamaica, but the heaviest lift-
sion between them, but on Satur- ing is now done unless Bolt
day, both resisted the suggestion changes his retirement plans.
that the victory by Gatlin, who Though his rare defeat at Lon-
also served a one-year ban start- don Stadium was deflating, his ca-
ing in 2001, had been a major blow reer has been an against-the-odds
to their sport. Bolt embraced him joy ride at a time when track and
and congratulated him warmly on field has been buffeted by doping
the first tee and protected by a into two groups: those who target
makeshift barrier. This tourna- an individual and those who take
ment and the Memorial outside advantage of an opportunity, like a
Columbus two hours away — cen- major sporting event where well-
trally located and with high-pro- heeled athletes converge.
file fields — are widely seen by Rory McIlroy, who last played
players as events where auto- here in 2014, is staying at a differ-
graph hunters, many of whom ent hotel this time. “The last cou-
procure signatures to sell on the
ple of times I played here, auto-
internet, pose the greatest hazard.
graph hunters checked into the
Bubba Watson, a two-time Mas-
ters champion, said someone had same hotel,” he said.
once followed him from the Muir- Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters
field Village course outside Co- champion and former world No. 1,
lumbus to his rental house after a breathed easier when he saw a po-
charity event. Through a series of
evasive turns, Watson managed
to lose the person tailing him.
“I never go the same route to
my hotel or my house,” Watson
said. “I always change it up.”
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Tobin divided the “bad guys”
and credibility crises. Though
many of his rivals and some of his
Jamaican compatriots have been
suspended for violations, Bolt has
never been sanctioned or been de-
clared to have tested positive for a
banned substance.
He remains one of three men to
have won three world 100-meter
titles — the Americans Carl Lewis
and Maurice Greene are the oth-
ers. But no great runner has pos-
sessed Bolt’s mix of race-day play-
fulness and ruthlessness. He has
been as good at communicating
with the big crowds who have paid
to see him (and often only him) as
Playful but ruthless,
a superstar sprinter
says he will retire.
he has been adept at shutting
down all opposition on the grand-
est occasions.
He swept the 100 and the 200 at
each of the past three Olympics,
an unprecedented feat. He also
has won four world titles in the
200, though he chose not to com-
pete in that event, long his favor-
ite, in London this year.
Since 2008, when he became a
global star at the Beijing
Olympics, he has lost only two in-
dividual finals at major champi-
onships. The first came in 2011,
when he beat himself with a false
start in the final of the 100 meters
at the world championships in
Daegu, South Korea.
The second came on Saturday
night — in the same stadium
where he won three gold medals
at the 2012 Olympics.
Bolt has won as an overwhelm-
ing favorite, as he did at the world
championships in Berlin in 2009,
where he set world records in the
100 and the 200 that still stand.
He also has won — repeatedly
— despite less-than-ideal prepa-
ration and legitimate concerns
about his form.
He had run three 100-meter
races this year before London,
breaking 10 seconds in only one,
when he won in 9.95 seconds in
Monaco last month.
He was vulnerable, no doubt,
but in the past, with the spotlight
at its brightest, he still found the
speed and the will to remain the
fastest man in the world. This
time, he faltered, and even as he
was left behind, he was also leav-
ing a void.
For Bolt’s sport, filling his gold-
en spikes will be a monumental
challenge.
lice officer patrolling the lobby of
the hotel where he is staying, he
said.
“That’s the first time I’ve seen
that,” said Scott, who is playing in
the tournament for the 15th time.
He is perhaps warier than most.
Several years ago, he said, he en-
listed the help of PGA Tour securi-
ty when a stalker was pursuing
him.
“Not to sound like a complete
wuss,” Scott said, but the police
presence “is quite comforting.”
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divemaster and a Navy Seal. (14) vivalists encounter. (N) (14) A mom and an adventure addict. (N) Seven Serpents.” (N) (14) (11:02) (14) (12:02)
E! Keeping Up With the Kardashians Keeping Up With the Kardashians Life of Kylie (N) Life of Kylie (N) Famously Single (N) (14) Life of Kylie (14) Life of Kylie (14) Famously Single
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FOOD Food Network Star (G) Food Network Star (N) (G)Food Network Star (N) (G) Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Food Net. Star p.m. on Smithsonian. The “Amazing Race”
FOXNEWS Fox Report (N) Watters’ World (N) The Next Revolution With Steve Fox News Sunday With Chris Watters’ World The Next Revo- presenter takes an adventurous tour of his
Hilton (N) Wallace (PG) lution With
native New Zealand in this new film, sur-
FREEFRM Mulan (1998). Animated. (G) (5:50) Brave (2012). Voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson. (PG) (7:55) . Pocahontas (1995). Voice of Irene Bedard, Voice of Judy Kuhn. (G) Little Rascals
veying its breathtaking mountains and lush
FS1 M.L.S. M.L.S. Atlanta United FC vs. Sporting Kansas City. Nascar V.L. N.H.R.A. Drag Racing Northwest Nationals.
landscape from hot air balloons and heli-
FUSE Moesha “Mom.” Empire (2002). Bronx drug dealer forgets where he came from. Leaves no cliche unturned. (R) Belly (1998). Nas, DMX. (R) Belly 2: Million
copters. Along the way, he meets with
FX Furious 7 (2015). Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Speedsters battle two supervillains. Solid entry in overachieving The Strain “New Horizons.” Dutch The Strain “New Horizons.” Dutch Snowfall “seven-
franchise. (PG-13) makes a deal with Desai. (N) (MA) makes a deal with Desai. (MA) four.” (MA) another island native: “The Lord of the
FXM Gone Girl (2014). Ben Affleck, Ro- Birdman (2014). Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis. A once-popular actor mounts a Broad- Birdman (2014). Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis. A once-popular actor Rings” director Peter Jackson, who shows
samund Pike. (R) (5) way play. (R) mounts a Broadway play. (R) (10:25) off his collection of World War I aircraft and
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SHARKNADO 5: GLOBAL SWARMING (2017) 8
GOLF P.G.A. Tour Golf Barracuda Championship, final round. From Reno, Nev. Golf Central P.G.A.
p.m. on Syfy. After wreaking havoc on Los
GSN Family Feud Family Feud Hollywood Game Night (14) Idiotest (PG) Idiotest (PG) Idiotest (PG) Idiotest (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Baggage (14)
Angeles, New York and Washington in
HALL Love at the Shore (2017, TVF). Amanda Righetti, Peter Porte. Chesapeake Shores (N) (PG) Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
previous installments of this franchise,
HGTV House Hunters House Hunters Beach Bargain Beach Bargain Caribbean Life Caribbean Life Island Hunters Island Hunters House Hunters Hunters Int’l Caribbean Life
sharks rain down on the rest of the world in
HIST Forged in Fire “The Scottish Clay- Forged in Fire: Cutting Deeper “Judges’ Selections.” Smiths harvest steel from power tools. (N) (PG) (8:07) Forged in Fire “The Kachin Dao.” Forged in Fire:
more.” (PG) (PG) (11:03) Cutting Deeper “Global Swarming.”
HLN The Hunt With John Walsh (14) The Hunt With John Walsh (N) (14) The Hunt With John Walsh (14) The Hunt With John Walsh (14) The Hunt With John Walsh (14) Forensic Files
ID Evil Lives Here “Our House of Hor- American Monster “The Green American Monster “The Last On the Case With Paula Zahn “Un- American Monster “The Green American Mon-
rors.” (14) Monster.” (14) Broadcast.” (N) (14) answered Questions.” (N) (14) Monster.” (14) ster (14) What’s Streaming
IFC American Pie 2 (2001). Jason American Wedding (2003). Jason Biggs. Young hero of “American Pie” American Pie (1999). Jason Biggs. Teenagers vow to lose virginity by American Pie 2
Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth. (R) (5:45) marries sweetheart. And with any luck finishes off the series. Pathetic. (R) prom night. Studiously raunchy. (R) (2001). (R)
LIFE The Good Nanny (2017). New nanny Trapped Sisters (2016). Alexandra Park, Nora-Jane Noone. Two sisters Girl in the Box (2016, TVF). Zane Holtz, Addison Timlin. Woman is kid- Trapped Sisters
has suspicions about employers. (6) become trapped in a covered pool. napped and abused by Connecticut couple. (10:02) (2016). (12:02)
LMN A Father’s Secret (2016). Willa Are You My Daughter? (2015, TVF). Peter Benson, Brooke Langton. My Stepdaughter (2015). Emmanuelle Vaugier, Niki Koss. Woman thinks Are You My
Ford, Richard Riehle. (6) Woman questions if escaped teen is her long-lost child. new stepdaughter is deadly. Daughter?
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00
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MSGPL World Poker World Poker CBR Bull Riding Championship. Soccer Borussia Dortmund vs. FC Bayern Munich. Cycling
MSNBC Meet the Press (G) Richard Engel On Assignment Dateline Extra (N) (PG) Lockup: Grand Rapids Lockup: Grand Rapids Lockup: San
MTV Catfish: The TV Show (PG) Teen Wolf “Raw Talent.” (N) (14) Siesta Key (PG) (9:01) The Hangover (2009). Las Vegas bachelor party goes bad. Funny, until you think about it. (R) ROB GRABOWSKI/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
NBCS Victory Lap Racing Roots Mecum Auto Auctions “Harrisburg.” Classic car auction from Harrisburg. (N Same-day Tape) Beach Volleyball
Brad Shultz of the band Cage the Elephant.
NGEO Monster Fish “River Wolf.” (G) Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (14) Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (14) Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (N) (14) Life Below Zero (PG) Wicked Tuna
NICK The Loud House The Loud House Dude Perfect Dude Perfect Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Friends (14) Friends (14) Friends (14)
LOLLAPALOOZA 3 p.m. on Red Bull TV. This
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four-day festival in Chicago, known for its
NY1 News Weekend On Stage News Weekend News/Evening News Weekend News Weekend News Weekend News Weekend News at Eleven Sports on 1 (11:35)
stellar rock ’n’ roll acts, concludes with
OVA Material Girls (2006). (PG) (6) . Overboard (1987). Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell. (PG) . When Harry Met Sally (1989). Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan. (R) Sabrina (1995).
performances by London Grammar, Little
OWN Undercover Boss “Chiquita.” (PG) Queen Sugar “Line of Our Elders.” Queen Sugar “I Know My Soul.” Queen Sugar “Freedom’s Plow.” Queen Sugar “Line of Our Elders.” Queen Sugar
Dragon and the Drums.
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SCIENCE MythBusters (PG) MythBusters “Fire vs. Ice.” (PG) MythBusters (PG) (9:02) MythBusters Firearm cliches. (10:04) MythBusters “Fire vs. Ice.” (11:06) MythBusters MAZ JOBRANI: IMMIGRANT (2017) on Netflix.

SMITH Sky View (G) O Flying High With Phil Keoghan Aerial New Zealand (G) Aerial Ireland (PG) Flying High With Phil Keoghan New Zealand Mr. Jobrani, the Iranian-American comic
SNY Mets Classics (5) Universal Open Rocket League Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Oh Yeah SportsNite Mets Postgame SportsNite SportsNite who rose to fame after his stand-up in
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STZENF Robots (2005). (PG) (6:29) The Game Plan (2007). Dwayne Johnson, Madison Pettis. (PG) Ricki and the Flash (2015). Meryl Streep. (PG-13) (9:52) Made of Honor (2008). (11:35) decade ago, tackles immigration in Amer-
SUN Friday Night Lights (2004). Living and breathing high school football in We Are Marshall (2006). Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox. New coach struggles to rebuild college foot- Dante’s Peak ica under the Trump administration. “Some
Odessa, Tex. Uplifting and troubling, with a gritty sense of place. (6:30) ball team. Crassly formulaic. (PG) (1997). (PG-13) immigrants actually voted for Trump be-
SYFY Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016, O Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017, TVF). Ian Ziering, Tara Reid. Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017, TVF). Ian Ziering, Tara Reid. Fin Sharknado: The cause they wanted fewer taxes,” he says in
TVF). Ian Ziering, Tara Reid. (6) Fin and April must save their son from a sharknado. and April must save their son from a sharknado. (10:01) 4th Awakens
this new comedy special, “but they ended
TBS Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom. Capt. Jack Sparrow The Guest Book The Guest Book People of Earth
(2012). Dwayne Johnson. (PG) (6) owes a blood debt to a ghostly pirate. Works so hard to top itself that exhaustion sets in. (PG-13) “Story One.” (MA) “Story Two.” (MA) up with fewer relatives.”
TCM The Wonderful Country (1959). The Night of the Hunter (1955). Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters. Wise . Out of the Past (1947). Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer. Private eye, gam- Thunder Road SARA ARIDI
Robert Mitchum, Julie London. (6) matron protects children hiding from corrupt preacher. bler and thieving, murderous woman they love. Slightly ambling cult favorite. (1958). (PG)
TLC 90 Day Fiancé: More to Love (N) 90 Day Fiancé (N) (PG) 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 The Spouse House (N) (14) (10:06) 90 Day Fiancé “Models, Moms & Meltdowns.” (11:09)
TNT Get Hard (2015). Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart. White guy hires black guy for Claws “Ambrosia.” Desna scram- Claws “Ambrosia.” Desna scram- Good Behavior “So You’re Not an Tower Heist (2011).
prison-survival lessons. Could have been worse. (R) (6:45) bles to get out of trouble. (N) (MA) bles to get out of trouble. (MA) English Teacher.” (MA) (PG-13) (12:06) ONLINE: TELEVISION LISTINGS
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“Learning Curve.” (14) “Internal Affairs.” (14) “Girls Disappeared.” (14) “Fashionable Crimes.” (14) “Marco Polo.” (PG) (PG)
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VICE Quantum of Solace (2008). Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko. (PG-13) (6:30) What Would Di Nuts & Bolts (14) Huang’s World “Cape Cod.” (14) King of the Road (14) What Would Di ★ Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
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Scenes of teenagers with Growing up posh, with mice.

style, on the streets of SoHo. BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS

6 TODAY ON TWITTER 4 AN ATTRACTIVE APP

A thank-you that didn’t go Youth and beauty by the

over well. BY KATHERINE ROSMAN hour. BY BEN WIDDICOMBE

LIFESTYLE RELATIONSHIPS SOCIETY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

LAURA AUSTIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Yifat Oren is in an elite class of event planners.

Instagram
Isn’t Invited
Yifat Oren’s meticulously
planned Hollywood parties
are expensive, and discreet.
By MARIELLE WAKIM
LOS ANGELES — As the evening sky faded to
bluish white, Yifat Oren, 45, surveyed her
handiwork. “Don’t light the candles just
yet,” the event producer said to one of her
assistants. “We need to wait for the wind to
die down.” Another assistant was sent to
fetch the seating chart for a quick re-
arrangement.
In only half an hour 50 or so guests, in-
cluding the Los Angeles restaurateur Jon
Shook and his wife, the “UnREAL” actress
Shiri Appleby; a founder of Baby2Baby, No-
rah Weinstein; the celebrity interior de-
signer Molly Isaksen; and the actress
Natasha Gregson Wagner, would arrive for
a backyard soiree held in the Hancock Park
neighborhood. The party was being given
by Ms. Oren in conjunction with two close
friends, the jewelry designer Lena Wald
and an owner of Andy Lecompte salon,
Leanne Citrone, who offered up her Tudor-
style abode for the occasion.
For Ms. Oren, a party is never fully
planned; she makes tweaks and changes
until the lights go up and the band stops
playing. “She sweats the details like there’s
no tomorrow,” said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the
former longtime chief executive of Dream-
Works Animation who started WndrCo, a
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JUSTIN T. GELLERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

AT HOME WITH
JEANNET TE WALLS

Far From the Noise

When her memoir became a hit, she left her New York media career in the dust.
his jalopy. her father’s childhood home. Jeannette Walls, the
By RUTH LA FERLA
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Hasty retreats are a theme in the film, as A life on the move seems to suit her. More author of “The Glass
ORANGE, VA. — Early in the “The Glass Cas- they are in Ms. Walls’s 2005 book of the than a decade ago, with her memoir in its Castle,” at her home

The Tweet Behind tle,” the movie based on Jeannette Walls’s

memoir of growing up destitute, Rex Walls
same title. It is an alternately wrenching
and exhilarating yarn of a childhood spent
seven-year run on the New York Times
best-seller list, Ms. Walls chose to ditch
office in Orange, Va.
She spent more than

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and bandaged in a hospital bed.
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shuttling with her willfully shiftless parents
from one parched Southwestern locale to
another, and finally, when the family’s re-
sources dry out, settling in Welch, the dilap-
idated West Virginia mining town that was
New York, not to mention her career of
more than 25 years as a gossip writer.
25 years as a gossip
writer.
She had few qualms about abandoning
the cocktail-fueled chatter and red-carpet
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new Hollywood venture. Mr. Katzenberg
hired Ms. Oren to plan both of his children’s
weddings. “I love how unflappable she
was,” he said in an email, adding, “Given the
circumstances and the customers, that’s
pretty herculean.” At the wedding last sum-
mer in Florence, Italy, of David and Stellina
Katzenberg, guests like Nicole Richie sat at
banquette tables adorned with pink and
purple flowers, beneath a canopy of lights.
Ms. Oren is one in an elite class of event
planners based in Los Angeles whose serv-
ices are commissioned by the rich and fa-
mous. Unlike some of her contemporaries,
though, she hasn’t courted much press at-
tention and doesn’t often promote her work
on social media. In an era in which the num-
ber of double-taps a business garners on In-
stagram is a measure of its success, she is
somewhat blasé about it all. Her business,
Oren Co., has just over 4,000 Instagram fol-
lowers — significantly fewer than other
event planners like Sharon Sacks (more
than 27,000 followers) or Mindy Weiss
(over 179,000), who were behind the nup-
tials of Kim Kardashian to Kanye West and
Ellen DeGeneres to Portia de Rossi, respec-
tively. Ms. Oren’s inconspicuousness has
positioned her as an ally for clients who
don’t want coverage of their parties, such as
Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston.
The event in Ms. Citrone’s backyard was
for Ms. Oren a personal affair, a birthday
party turned excuse to gather with friends,
whom Ms. Oren rarely sees because of the
nights-and-weekends nature of her work.
Peach begonias, fig branches and honey-
scented candles lined two long wooden ta-
bles, each set with custom runners and nap-
kins made by the former fashion designer
Gregory Parkinson (who was, of course, in
attendance).
In lieu of place cards, first names were
handwritten on the table in a coral chalk
script. At one end of the yard were fresh-cut
peaches, sliced prosciutto and crusty ba-
guettes accompanied by a pile of French
Normandy butter; over by the pool, the Hol-
lywood Farmers’ Market’s resident “oyster
guy” stood over a trough of ice, shucking. “I
don’t want to go to a dinner and have it look
like a Pinterest party,” Ms. Oren said with a
shrug.
She was born in Tel Aviv but spent the
majority of her formative years here in the
San Fernando Valley. Early in her career
212 . 585. 42 0 0 she worked in catering; some patrons of the
(now-defunct) company took note of her
meticulousness and hired her to plan bar
mitzvahs and weddings on the side. She fell
into the business she was meant to be in. “I
was pretty O.C.D. to begin with,” she said.
Every good Los Angeles story has a big
break. Ms. Oren’s came in 2001 when she
landed Jason Bateman’s wedding to
Amanda Anka (though pre-“Arrested De-
velopment”). Three years later she found
herself at Kevin Costner’s Colorado ranch
arranging the actor’s nuptials to Christine
Baumgartner (though post-“Waterworld”).
Still. A celebrity is a celebrity regardless of
where they land on the bell curve of fame.
As Hollywood types dipped into their
Rolodex on Ms. Oren’s behalf, her acolytes
skewed more notable: Reese Witherspoon,
Anne Hathaway, Donna Langley, Mariska
Hargitay, Drew Barrymore, Adam Levine,
Natalie Portman, George Lucas and Mel-
lody Hobson.
The list goes on. Try cajoling names out of
Ms. Oren, though, and she’ll deflect. (She
says her events end up in the tabloids only
when stars or their guests share informa-
tion of their own accord.) With clients drop-
ping a minimum of $2,000 per guest, no pre-
caution is too outrageous: code names, con-
fidentiality agreements, casual espionage.
Whatever prevents the paparazzi from
showing up with long lenses.
“She is not someone who just plans for
people,” Ms. Barrymore said in an email.
“She is reliable and respected. She’s tough,
and you know she’s got your back.”
Ms. Oren has 10 people on her staff full
time, though she will sometimes bring on up
to 40 part-time employees depending on a
party’s scope. (Earlier this year, Ms. Oren
filed a lawsuit against a former employee,
one she had promoted to managing partner,
after their business relationship dissolved.
The suit is being arbitrated.)
The parties may take place in the middle
of a desert, in an art gallery or on a private
yacht. Sometimes events have themes
(“One of our favorite clients had a New
Year’s Eve party and was like, ‘Let’s do a lit-
tle Marie Antoinette situation,’” Ms. Oren
said), but most are an extension of the
customer. “The more you know about them,
the more you know about the type of event
they’d throw,” she said. “Are these people
who would go to Tangier or Istanbul? Tulum
or Cabo? What kind of hotels do they stay
in? I take in what they wear, I look how they
decorate their house.”
Ms. Oren’s clients often have sizable re-
quests, but it helps that they usually have
the budget to match. One three-day “Bohe-
mian Burning Man”-inspired event in Mex-
ico required her to hire a team of local
macramé artisans. In planning a bar mitz-
Scenes from a Yifat
Oren party for
which “she sweats
the details like
there’s no
tomorrow,” said
Jeffrey Katzenberg,
a client. She scours
the farmers’ market
and, in this case,
used names in chalk
for place cards.
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vah for twins, she had mirror images of
their silhouettes printed onto invitations,
custom guitar picks and the two sides of a
Ping-Pong table. “If I had to do the same
thing over and over again in three of the
same hotel ballrooms or ugly country clubs,
this would not be appealing,” she said.
Maha Dakhil and Michael Kives, both
agents at Creative Artists Agency, hired Ms.
Oren to work with the agency’s in-house
events group to produce its Oscar party.
“On our first phone call, she declared that
our party needed to be held at Kayne Griffin
Corcoran gallery,” Mr. Kives said of Ms.
Oren in an email. “People are still talking
about how she turned each room into a dif-
ferent sensation.”
Ms. Oren is not a yes-person. “We would
have an idea, and Yifat would be quick to tell
us we were wrong,” Ms. Dakhil said. “She is
so assertive about her vision, and her confi-
dence gave us great confidence.”
The dinner held in Ms. Citrone’s backyard
was low key by Ms. Oren’s standards, but
had a celebratory spirit. “My whole thing is
celebrating life,” she said. “Every year
something happens. Someone gets sick, or
God forbid, someone gets divorced or dies.
So here it is, another summer, and I’m so
happy I get to do this. I just love a good
party.”
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Five Tips for Giving a Summer Party
LIGHT IT UP Candles are not enough. “You
have to do some sort of lighting outside. The
simplest is string lights — buy them at
Home Depot, Amazon Prime them, what-
ever you need to do,” Ms. Oren said.
PLAY HOST “To really be a wonderful host,
receive your guests, greet them — and put a
cocktail in their hand.”
HAVE A MENU STRATEGY “If you’re not going
to hire a caterer, put a menu together that’s
room-temp. Then you’re not going to freak
out about the timing.”
RAISE A GLASS “At some point you have to
reel it in and give a good toast. You don’t
have to be very formal, but clink your
glasses, thank people, be a gracious human.
Be jovial and anecdotal, but do not go on and
on.”
TAKE A SEAT “I love a good seated dinner.
I’m really big on seating the right people to-
gether: who can bring out the best in each
other? And don’t let dinner go on too long.
No one likes to be stuck at the table. Finish
and get the party started.”
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Rather than produce fashion on the fast-
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Gaining entry to present during haute
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body, which requires brands to submit
information on sales and annual turnover,
as well as previous look books. Ms. Nielsen
had none of that, and instead submitted
sketches and photos from fittings. She was
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and last month she presented her second
collection alongside other guest labels,
including Proenza Schouler and Rodarte.
The Danish-Korean designer, 40, studied
in Denmark before graduating from Royal
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on to work at Givenchy, and served as head
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Above, a ’90s
hip-hop-style
fade is what
drew them to
photograph
Nakassee
Williams, 15. At
right are Ari
Zamler, 12, and
Kenyon
Rezendes, 13.
Glamour? There’s an App for That
Surkus lets buzz seekers hire
aspiring models and other
attractive people for events.
By BEN WIDDICOMBE
When the vibrating yoga pants were
switched on, the party perked up consider-
ably. “Oh, I like this,” said Briana Siaca, fac-
ing the floor in a downward dog pose, as
electronic sensors pulsed along her legs.
Ms. Siaca, 23, a two-time Miss New York
runner-up with more than 6,200 Instagram
followers, was one of several fit young wom-
en who attended a private shopping party in
Little Italy last week for Wearable X, a high-
tech clothing company that embeds haptic
technology within its garments.
It wasn’t by chance that the sculpted
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DINA LITOVSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
women in that Mulberry Street penthouse
looked as if they had been shaken, like sub-
scription cards, from the pages of an Allure
magazine. Six of the small clutch of party
guests had been recruited through Surkus,
an app that matches demographically de-
sirable civilians — including aspiring mod-
els, actors-in-waiting and social media
dwarf stars — with club promoters, market-
ers and other clients willing to pay for an
attractive human garnish at their events.
Members can make as much as $100 for a
couple of hours of hanging around a night-
club. The app is a marketplace where influ-
encers, the talent and the merely lovely can
connect with buzz seekers who want to rent
such youthful glamour, with Surkus taking
50 percent of the fee.
In addition to shopping parties, Surkus
The Look
SoHo
Rebecca Pietri and the photographer Jeffrey Henson Scales
wanted to see where stylish teenagers were gravitating in
New York City. They found that just as music and fashion
brought young people together in the past, streetwear and
skater brands are bringing them together today.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFFREY HENSON SCALES
members have been paid to attend restau-
rant openings, off-nights at clubs (where
they are known as “atmosphere models”)
and promotional parties for products. Some
get cast for film and modeling work.
Members join the app by linking their
Facebook profiles and are then “crowdcast”
for clients, based on demographic details
like their age, interests and number of In-
stagram followers. Eighteen months into
operation, the app is still building its busi-
ness; it approached Wearable X to provide
its services, at no cost.
Ms. Siaca earned a modest $10 for her at-
tendance, and her Instagram post from the
party (“When @wearablex launches new
technology embedded yoga pants, ya gotta
check it out!”) garnered over 115 likes and
three emoji comments, including one from
Scott Lipps, an influential model agent.
“For me, it’s not about the money,” said
Ms. Siaca, who works in digital marketing
for Clarins, and has earned about $600 at-
tending 12 Surkus events. “It’s what kind of
Left, Briana Siaca, a people can I meet, what kind of, like, envi-
member of Surkus, ronment is it? Is it a cool brand that I might
at the Marmara be interested in?”
hotel in Midtown Surkus is run by Stephen George, a 30-
Manhattan. year-old who lives in Los Angeles and rides
Above, Stephen a Onewheel (a sort of motorized skateboard
George, the chief and unicycle) to the company’s Hollywood
executive, center, at offices each morning. A subdued tech mil-
the same event. lionaire, with apple cheeks and searching
brown eyes, he makes an unlikely conduc-
tor of cool.
Mr. George started his career in 2008, as
an intern at the company that became
Groupon. After making almost $10 million
from the stock options, he traveled the
world for three years before investing
$250,000 in Surkus in 2015, becoming chief
executive last November.
According to Mr. George, Surkus has
150,000 members who have attended 4,200
From left: Brenn
Lorenzo, 18, and
Tre-Vaughn
Fullerton, 19;
Jack Burkman,
13, was visiting
from Chicago
and in the area
for a Supreme
release.
Above center,
Avery Feliciano,
15, mixed hip-hop
with a subtle hint
of a skater look.
Above, Christoph
Grosse, 20,
representing the
ultimate evolution
of the new geek
style. Left, Sam
Saslow, 12, in retro
Nirvana Kurt
Cobain sunglasses
and his Kanye
West Pablo
hoodie.
events for 750 clients, mainly in New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and
Miami. Power users, he said, can earn
$4,000 a year.
It’s not all beautiful people doing beauti-
ful things. “We’ve had some very fun one-off
events,” said Mr. George, citing one movie
extra casting “where they needed senior
citizens, 65-plus, and so we acquired mem-
bers to do that.”
How, exactly? “We may have organically
hacked that, and reached out to a couple of
senior citizen homes in L.A.,” he said, sup-
pressing a giggle.
But O.K., it’s mostly beautiful people do-
ing beautiful things.
The next night, Surkus supplied 10 wom-
en, all in their mid-20s, for a party promot-
ing Patrón tequila at the Marmara hotel in
Midtown Manhattan.
The Surkus guest list, as displayed on its
app, recalled Mitt Romney’s line from the
2012 presidential campaign about having
“binders full of women.” It was a grid of al-
luring social-media portraits (“thirst traps,”
as the kids say) packing enough tousled
hair extensions to spring Rapunzel from 1
World Trade Center.
The members, each of whom would re-
ceive a star rating at the end of the night in-
dicating how she had comported herself,
were a cross section of ambitious young ar-
rivals to the city. They included a Rockland
County native, Vanessa Wilson, 25, a recep-
tionist at Chanel’s Midtown offices, and
Kristin Taylor, 24, an actress from Kansas
City, Kan., who makes a living impersonat-
ing Jennifer Lawrence on YouTube.
Each received $10, and was told to be dis-
creet about how they came to be there. The
client, a downtown “experiential agency”
called Bowery Collective, charged every-
one else up to $85 to attend.
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MODERN LOVE

A Friend’s Pain Inspires a Love for Life

To help entertain her
hospital-bound friend, a
woman turns to Match.com.
By VICTORIA REDEL
When my best friend since childhood
wound up back on the oncology unit for her
third relapse, I decided it was time to start
online dating. I knew from Nance’s prior
hospitalizations that talking about lym-
phoma and PET scans was not her idea of
fun. A far better entertainment would be for
me to get on Match.com so we could hang
out together on her hospital bed scrolling
through potential dates.
For 42 years, our friendship had been pri-
mary. We helped each other through every
crisis — her separation, my divorce — along
with our everyday worries as mothers.
Putting myself back on the dating market
for her pleasure was the least I could do. It
would be just like what we had done since
our shared fourth-grade crush on Tommy
H.: having a blast checking out boys.
But there was another reason. I had be-
gun hearing myself say, “This is not a dress
rehearsal.” This meaning our lives. After a
divorce 22 years earlier and a long post-
marriage relationship, I had kept all poten-
tial romance light, which mostly meant dat-
ing charming but impossible men, not any-
one with whom to spend the rest of my life.
With Nance’s uncertain prognosis, “the rest
of my life” took on new meaning.
“Let’s do it,” Nance said. “You deserve a
big love.”
“You don’t deserve this,” I said as her doc-
tor and a flock of medical students crowded
into her room.
“Life’s for the living,” she said. “Let’s both
get a new protocol for life.”
First, I needed to create a profile. The
name I chose for myself? Darkbird9. BRIAN REA

“I understand the dark part,” Nance said,

twirling my near-black hair. “And 9 is for
your birthday. But what’s up with the bird?”
She frowned to indicate it didn’t sound allur-
ing.
“I thought it gave me glamour and mys-
tery,” I confessed.
“Maybe if you’re hoping to date an orni-
thologist,” she said, shaking her head.
She and I composed a straightforward
profile. No mention of beach walks. No
glasses of fine wine. I said I was a book nerd
despite Nance claiming that “nerd” isn’t a
tantalizing word on a dating site.
Right away Nance wanted me to “wink”
at a cute and much younger guy.
“I’m not winking,” I said. “And I’m not go-
ing on dates with men 15 years younger.”
She conceded that that made practical
sense, but it was far less of a vicarious thrill
for her. Luckily, because thrills on the can-
cer unit were my immediate concern, mes-
sages piled up in Darkbird9’s inbox. It was
easy to weed out the unsuitable.
“You’re perfect,” one man wrote. “Marry
me.”
“You’d look great in something silky,” an-
other declared.
I didn’t reply to the gentleman who wrote,
“I you want date and bring you to restau-
rant nice.”
It took discipline not to reconsider my
ban on younger men, and not just because
Nance kept saying, “This is bleak, Vik,” as
we scrolled through the age-appropriate
ones. There were paunchy men who penned
letters tinged with sad, wry hopefulness.
And fit guys in tight cycling shirts who
asked to take me out between a scuba trip to
VICTORIA REDEL is a poet and novelist whose
most recent novel, “Before Everything,” was
published in June.
EMAIL modernlove@nytimes.com
the barrier reef and training for a triathlon
in Utah. Their notes sounded aerobic.
Eventually I scheduled myself for five
dates in a week: one at lunch each day, fol-
lowed by a debrief on the oncology unit.
The next week Nance and I were sitting in
an alcove on her floor, the Hudson River
glimmering out the window. I was telling
her how date No. 1 had proposed a second
date as we finished our Cobb salads. As
someone who had been online dating for
months, he had assured me that our date
was pretty much perfection.
A chemo drip in her arm, Nance said,
“You don’t have to sleep with him, but would
you go out again?”
“Perfectly nice,” I said. “But he’s not for
me.”
In fact, the whole dating game seemed
more and more like a pathetic diversion.
“Let me look at him again,” she said, tilt-
ing the screen.
I clicked on his profile.
“What were we thinking?” she said, winc-
ing. “Show me tomorrow.”
By Wednesday I stumbled back to the
hospital exhausted from my whirlwind dat-
ing life. Tuesday had been a doubleheader
— lunch with one man, coffee with another.
One asked if he could call from his business
trip so we could keep the momentum going.
“You’re a dating success,” Nancy said,
but her boast had no oomph. She was ex-
hausted, too. We were both trying to keep
the charade going.
She was tortured by the recurrence of her
illness, by being pulled out of her life again,
stuck in a hospital and made into a full-time
patient. It seemed beyond wrong that I de-
served anything, let alone a “great love,”
while she once again lost her hair and pre-
pared to endure a stem-cell transplant.
So it was with zero expectations that I
waited on a restaurant stoop in SoHo the
Her face, one next day for Mr. Thursday. My plan: An-
other quick salad and onto the subway. A
I knew better friend would be joining Nance and me to
than my own, hang out for the afternoon and evening.
Suddenly a pair of red sneakers appeared
offered absolute beside me on the stoop. I looked up and —
oh! — a wonderfully present and handsome
confidence. face smiled down at me.
“Hey,” he said. “I’m Bruce.” Within mo-
‘Trust me,’ ments, at a back table, we were laughing,
talking books and children. He was smart,
Nance said, curious and beyond funny, with pale blue-
green eyes and a naughty smile. Ridicu-
holding my lously cute. And sexy. Ridiculously.
hand. ‘This is “This is really great,” I said shyly, return-
ing from the bathroom.
the one.’ “Yeah,” Bruce said with a shrug. “It’s a
great room.”
When I told Nance about this moment,
she gasped and said, “No, no,” exhibiting
that same protective disappointment as
when my high school crush rejected me, as
if she couldn’t imagine someone not falling
for her best friend.
“Exactly,” I said. “First guy I actually like
and he’s clearly not feeling it.” I paused to
elevate the drama. “But 20 minutes later, he
announces, ‘I wasn’t expecting lunch to go
like this at all.’ ‘That’s what I was saying,’ I
say. ‘I know,’ he says with a crooked smile,
‘but I got a little freaked out.’”
“Vik, this is the one,” Nance said, radiat-
ONLINE: FLOWERGATE ing a love and certainty that I have basked
in since I was 8. Her face, one I knew better
On this week’s Modern Love
than my own, offered absolute confidence.
Podcast, the actress June Diane
Raphael (“Grace and Frankie” “Trust me,” she said, holding my hand.
from Netflix) reads Ellen “This is the one.”
Urbani’s story about a There was a next date with Bruce, and an-
well-intentioned gift that goes other. And by the time Nance left the hospi-
horribly awry: tal, her lymphoma in remission and a stem-
nytimes.com/modernlove cell transplant scheduled, she had pro-
claimed that I had found my real match.
She was right. I was falling in love with
him, open to what might be possible.
But soon the joy of shaping a life with
Bruce began to feel like betrayal. How could
I fall in love at 50 while my best friend strug-
gled to hold on to her life?
After a successful stem-cell transplant,
months of post-transplant quarantine, a
hopeful year and a half of health, the disease
returned along with new protocols and ter-
rible side effects. Often it felt impossible to
create a future with Bruce when Nancy’s
life was increasingly compromised. And
yet, we did.
It seemed incongruous that our hospital
dating game eventually led to the day, 18
months later, that I called her to say, “Bruce
and I are getting married.”
“I told you,” Nance said with the know-it-
all tone she had bossed me around with
since grade school. “This is exactly what
was supposed to happen. Now tell me ev-
erything.”
I took a long breath and began. Because,
forget dress rehearsals or any notion of “de-
served,” this was life. And because telling
each other everything is what we had done
since we were girls, and would continue to
do until we couldn’t.
Now, as I wake each morning to a cup of
coffee from Bruce and his hilarious morn-
ing monologue, I remember how Nance
helped me find this late-life surprise. And
how Bruce’s strong, clear love helped me
through the darkness of losing my best
friend.
“Life is for the living,” Nance would say.
I laugh hard at Bruce’s wicked humor, be-
cause it feels so good to laugh. And because
I would do anything for Nance, even make a
life of true happiness without her there to
share it.

Wired Thanks Women, to Groans

A male-dominated magazine,
a male-dominated industry
and a social-media hubbub.
By KATHERINE ROSMAN
In the August issue of Wired magazine, un-
der the rubric “Colophon,” is a note to read-
ers headlined “Wonder Women Who
Helped Get This Issue Out,” which thanks,
among many others, the Supreme Court
justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the actress
Elisabeth Moss, the former first lady Mi-
chelle Obama and “my eight-months-preg-
nant CrossFit coach.”
It caught the eye of Christie Aschwanden,
a science writer for FiveThirtyEight.
Around lunchtime on Thursday, she posted
a photo of it on her Twitter account, with the
caption “Wired just published another issue
in which all the features were written by
men.” By the end of the workday, it had been
retweeted nearly 1,000 times. For a few
hours at least, social media was distracted
with the expression of outrage about some-
thing unrelated to President Trump.
“This reminds me of when Jon Stewart
responded to Jezebel’s criticism by having
his fem support staff sign a letter saying he
was not sexist,” said Emily Nussbaum, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for
The New Yorker, in a tweet that was later
deleted.
Anna Holmes, the former editor of Jeze-
bel, responded to Ms. Nussbaum with a
tweet of her own, saying, “It’s almost
worse: this both tries to deflect criticism
*and* directly panders via ultimately
empty name-checking of Obama, Moss,
RBG, etc.”
On cue, a Wired spokeswoman emailed
me a link to tweets by Lexi Pandell, a female
writer for Wired, who defended Colophon.
“Both men and women on the staff submit
to Colophon,” she noted.
In a brief phone interview, Nicholas
Thompson, the editor of Wired, described
the Colophon column as a group enterprise
among staff members.
“This is a group of liner notes by the
staff,” he said.
BRIAN ACH/GETTY IMAGES FOR WIRED
“Wonder Women Who Helped Get This
Issue Out” was written as a list. In addition
to those mentioned above, it included: “my
acupuncturist”; “senior editor Lauren Mur-
row”; “Thelma and Louise”; the actress
Constance Wu; “Coconut the dog”; “the su-
perheroic all-female Wired photo depart-
Nicholas Thompson,
editor of Wired, said
the list was a group
enterprise.
ment”; and “the moms working at Saigon
Sandwich.”
Had the interpretation been different
from the one Mr. Thompson expected when
he signed off on the page? “Yes. Com-
pletely,” he wrote in an email.
As the online hubbub crescendoed, Mr.
Thompson tweeted a statement from the
Wired executive editor, Maria Streshinsky,
that made reference to the recent release of
the movie “Wonder Woman” and said, in
The subject of female
representation continues
to vex the tech world.
part, “It seemed like a good time to honor
our ‘wonder women’ who get the magazine
out, and that simply isn’t support staff.”
Driving the reaction, presumably, is the
subject of female representation that has
vexed every facet of the technology indus-
try, including the publications that cover it.
As Ms. Aschwanden noted, the four main
articles in the August issue’s feature well
were written by men. In addition, a politics
column was written by Clive Thompson,
who is Ms. Nussbaum’s husband.
Lest readers think Wired is a bro-gazine,
the issue opens with a two-page essay by
the feminist writer Laurie Penny on how
automation may take over traditional male
jobs like construction and farming.
Perhaps the unsung women were pleased
to be mentioned. Perhaps not. Sam Yip, an
owner of the Saigon Sandwich shop near
Wired’s New York offices, confirmed that
indeed five “moms” work there. He also
said they were not aware that they had been
mentioned in Wired. “They don’t speak
English,” Mr. Yip said.
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On the Farm, Far From New York’s Noise

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
extravaganzas for the verdant seclusion of
a 205-acre horse farm in Virginia.
“When something doesn’t work for you,
you just get up and leave,” she said. “I
skedaddled out of Welch, and I skedaddled
out of New York. There’s nothing wrong
with that.”
Ms. Walls, 57, got her start at New York
magazine in the 1980s. She worked as the
assistant to the editor Edward Kosner and
eventually became the main writer of the
Intelligencer column, a widely devoured ri-
val to The New York Post’s Page Six then.
“She was very self-contained,” Mr. Kos-
ner recalled. “She was always a grown-up.
With that kind of harrowing childhood, she
had to be.”
He added: “There was always a degree of
distance there. Nobody knew really very
much about her.”
Not that Ms. Walls goes out of her way to
cultivate mystery. “Ask me anything,” she
offered brightly the other day at her Virgin-
ia home.
The move away from Manhattan, initiat-
ed by her husband, the writer John Taylor,
was daunting at first. “I didn’t think I’d like

‘I’d come to terms with

the idea that I would
never fall in love.’

it out here,” she said. “But I thought, let’s

give it a shot.” Tucking a stray wisp of russet
hair behind one ear, she added: “I will say
that I have always had the compulsion to
put down roots. I love having a house. I love
belonging someplace.”

IT TOOK HER A WHILE to adapt to a setting

that some would consider an idyll. Spirits
rising, she found herself refurbishing the
19th-century Greek Revival house with por-
ticoes that is set on a slope overlooking the
barns, pastures and hayfields of a working
farm.
Strolling the grounds, the crunch of wood
chips underfoot, Ms. Walls gazed at her
plump hydrangeas. “I’m more obsessive
than I realized,” she said. “This little garden
patch, it just keeps on expanding.” JUSTIN T. GELLERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Her mother, Rose Mary, a radiant figure

with no gift for conventional parenting,
lives in a cottage on the property. (Naomi
Watts plays her in the film.) An unabashed
hoarder, she has filled her place and a neigh-
boring shed with the vibrant art works she
has painted over a lifetime.
While the farm has given Ms. Walls a sta-
bility that long eluded her, she knows better
than to count on it. Years of roving the coun-
try in junk cars, foraging for food in school
trash bins, being pelted with rocks by bul-
lies and being eyed with contempt by neigh-
bors have left her wary.
“If you grew up very self-conscious, feel-
ing that you’re not as good as other people, I
think that it defines you,” she said.
A sense of shame has never entirely de-
parted. “Owning it, I don’t know if that’s a
bad thing,” Ms. Walls said. “It’s important to
tap into it and be in touch with it. For me, it’s
part of process of storytelling.”
With the writing of her memoir, she let go
of trying to bury the fact that she slept in a
rope bed, defecated in a ditch and lived in
ramshackle quarters whose ceilings and
floorboards threatened to crumble at any
hour.
“Somebody told me the secret to happi-
ness is low expectations,” she said. “I still
can’t believe that I have flush toilets, that I
can go to a grocery store and buy whatever
I want, which will never fail to amaze me.”
She was sipping nothing more lethal than
tap water in her kitchen, its generous win-
dows affording a view of undulating fields of
grass bordered by a low rail fence.
“The green rolling hills have always held
some sort of spell for me,” she said. “I feel at
home here now.”
In retrospect, the transition to the coun-
try was perfectly timed. The long years of
mining celebrity dish for New York, Esquire
and MSNBC had soured her on the beat.
“I grew up without television; I don’t re-
ally care about celebrities,” said Ms. Walls,
who as a girl aspired to writing about poli-
tics, poverty and social justice.
She maintained a zest for reporting and
grew accustomed in those days to sa-
shaying to galas sheathed in a lustrous
dresses, her sharply sculptured features
softened by an up-do and triple-strand
pearls. “I loved the glamour,” she said.
Still, she couldn’t shake off a gnawing un-
ease. “I think I was playing a role,” she re-
called, “acting the part of this perfect New
York City media flinty gal, wearing this little
dress-for-success outfit. Really, I was trying
to fit in. The first time I was on a red carpet, I
couldn’t believe it.”
At the time, “I was all about work,” she
said. “I would get to my office at 9 o’clock
and I’d leave at 11. I was all about deadlines.”
The rise of social media threw her. “I real-
ized, I can’t call people for comment any-
more, because some of those people now
have their own website,” she said. “TMZ
was taking off, and things just started get-
ting iffy. Gossip was starting to cross into
this really ugly zone, and I thought, ‘Why
would anybody want to be famous?’ I didn’t
want to do this anymore.
“I thought, ‘What am I going to do?’ I was
looking into dog-walking: I’m good with big
dogs and I don’t mind picking up poop.”
She fretted about the casualties she left in
her wake.
“I was snarky,” she said. “I don’t know the
degree to which I hurt anybody. My column
— these flip little paragraphs that combined
hero worship and schadenfreude — they
might have been accurate. But I was telling
half-truths. And I wanted to dig deeper.”
SHE WROTE MUCH of the memoir while still
at MSNBC. “I thought I was going to get
fired from my job,” she said.
She is well aware that her story strains
credulity — a stretch for even the most ac-
commodating imagination. Destin Daniel
Cretton, the “Glass Castle” director, said,
“At first, I honestly thought, ‘Oh, some of on a novel about a businesswoman in the out mimeographed columns. That was just Jeannette Walls on her
these stories are so extreme, they might be 1920s. an eye-opener for me.” property in Orange, Va. She
slight fictionalization of memory. It wasn’t “I know I’ll be O.K. here,” she said. “In Nothing doing for Ms. Walls. “I wanted a said it took a while to adapt to
until I heard the details for the first time New York, I’m not so sure. A lot of those gos- place where I could go broke and still grow the setting.
from her lips, in her own vernacular, that I sip columnists, they lose their platform. vegetables, bail water out of the creek and
realized, ‘Oh, maybe it was true.’” Walter Winchell spent the last part of his life shoot deer,” she said. “If worse comes to
For Mr. Cretton, the film and memoir hanging out on street corners and handing worst, I’ll survive.”
were essentially about the near-unbreach-
able bond between Ms. Walls and the father
she doted on and came to reject when she
bolted for New York at 17.
A rangy figure who modeled himself after
the ace pilot Chuck Yeager, Rex Walls, until
his death in the mid-1990s, was given, be-
tween reckless bouts of drinking or slam-
ming Rose Mary around, to sketching elab-
orate plans for a glass-walled, solar-pow-
ered family abode. Only its foundation saw
light of day, gradually transformed into an
outsize trash pit, an eyesore even in falling-
down Welch.
The performance of Woody Harrelson,
who plays Rex in the movie, which has its
release on Aug. 11, struck Ms. Walls as eerie,
especially in his interactions with Jean-
nette, who is played as an adult by Brie Lar-
son.
“During the filming, Woody was asking
all the time: ‘Tell me about your dad. Did he
look you in the eye? What did he do with his
hands?’” Ms. Walls said. “I said, ‘Daddy
liked to squeeze beer cans — not the wimpy
beer cans that we make now — hard beer
cans from the ’60s, like ‘Cool Hand Luke.’
“When I watched the performance on
tape, I was crying. I was trembling, pound-
ing on the shoulder of the guy next to me. In
the scene where he and Brie were getting
into fights about her leaving, I was freaking
out. Woody was saying things that Dad had
said to me, things I’d never told him.”
Ms. Walls ultimately married her father’s
antithesis, settling for a time on Park Ave-
nue with her first husband, Eric Goldberg, a
well-meaning “suit,” as he comes off in the
film, who was thrown, if not outright embar-
rassed, by her oddball relations, and, as it
seemed to Ms. Walls, by the burn scars she
‘Somebody told me the
secret to happiness is
low expectations.’
carried since girlhood. Grappling with
whether to leave him, she told her brother,
Brian, “He never wrote a bad check; he’s a
good, honest guy, keeps a daily journal of his
activities.”
Brian’s reply still rings in her ears:
“You’re talking about a good accountant,”
he told her. “I’m not hearing the word love.”
Ms. Walls said: “I’d come to terms with
the idea that I would never fall in love. I did-
n’t need anybody. I had a career. I was inde-
pendent. I had gay friends for intimacy.”
Her deepening friendship with Mr. Tay-
lor, who worked with her at New York and at
Esquire, spurred a change of heart. They
married in 2002, and he teased the memoir
out of her, bit by painful bit. The globe-trav-
eling son of a diplomat, he was not put off by
her background or the burn scars that cov-
ered her torso.
“John told me: ‘Don’t ever apologize that
you have scars. They give you texture,’” she
said. “That was such a revelation, that
somebody would not only forgive me for
what was wrong with me but see it as some-
thing to be admired.”
The two plan to stay put, though she has a
soft spot for New York. “The city is like an
old boyfriend with whom I amicably split,”
she said. o br
Life on the farm has its merits. She has
found the serenity there to write two more C Y 1
books, “Half-Broke Horses: A True Life
Novel” and “The Silver Star.” She is working
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ENCOUNTERS

Of Mice and Mick Jagger

Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni’s
refreshingly frank memoir
was inspired by Andy Warhol.
By ALEXANDRA JACOBS
One might reasonably assume that Natasha
Fraser-Cavassoni, the youngest daughter
of the English historian and novelist Lady
Antonia Fraser and the late politician Sir
Hugh Fraser, had a posh upbringing. Pri-
vate schools. Pretty clothes. A retreat in
Scotland.
But “there were always mice,” Ms. Fra-
ser-Cavassoni protested on Wednesday
from a corner booth at Sant Ambroeus, an
Upper East Side trattoria. “We couldn’t get
rid of them. My mother was interviewing
someone quite glam, and there was a mouse
there, and the visitor was frozen, and she
was like ‘La, la, la.’”
She recalled one of her five siblings shov-
ing a slice of white — “never brown” —
bread into the family’s toaster at breakfast
time. “There was this awful smell. Burning
mouse.”
A waiter came over brandishing a Tower
of Pisa-size pepper mill, and Ms. Fraser-
Cavassoni cheerfully accepted a few grinds
over her pesce.
“Another time — great excitement — we
found a mouse, and we cornered it, and it
keeled over,” she said. “Had a heart attack.”
Mem’ries!
Though she now lives in Paris, Ms. Fra-
ser-Cavassoni, 54 (“Studio 54,” she said),
had returned to New York, where she
worked and caroused decades ago, to pro-
mote her new autobiography, “After Andy:
Adventures in Warhol Land.” This she is do-
ing with the fervor she learned canvasing
for her father, and a refreshing frankness.
For example: “I did cocaine, and I don’t re-
gret that.”
She was hired by Andy Warhol days be-
fore his death in 1987, back when the words
“coffee shop” indicated not Starbucks nor
Stumptown, but a Greek diner like one of his
favorites, Three Guys, down the street.
“There was something about Andy and
his lot that was Knights of the Roundtable-
ish,” Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni said. “I love all
those knights, and the dark knights, like
Larry Gagosian,” the art dealer.
She has written several previous books,
including one about the producer Sam
Spiegel, another former employer. But this
one fills in most colorfully the lines of her
own life, offering a dollybird’s-eye view of,
among other matters, her mother’s affair
with the playwright Harold Pinter.
“She’s very stoic,” Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni
said. “She’s got this thing, ‘what can’t be
cured has to be endured,’ and my genera-
tion, we’re the moaners.”
Though Mr. Pinter eventually became
her stepfather, her literary tastes ran more
toward another Harold — Robbins.
“He really had a grasp of how people
could have it all, and it was never enough,”
she said.
Before marrying Jean-Pierre Cavassoni,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE ETHEREDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES she had high-profile dalliances of her own,
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni visiting the Ettore Sottsass exhibit at the Met Breuer. with Mick Jagger and the punk polymath

Social Q’s P H I LI P G A LA N E S

Bigotry, Defused
I walked into a deli and saw a transgender
woman, with a little girl, paying at the counter.
Behind her, a man was screaming that she was
a “piece of trash” and that he was going to “beat
her” — except with profanity. The woman was
rattled, and so was the boy behind the counter,
who looked about 18. When her transaction was
finished, she and the child left quickly. I wanted
to step in and shut this man down, but I didn’t
dare. Advice for next time?
SUSAN

I love your kind impulse (as has concocted an elegant solution

much as I hate this story), but
let’s rethink it: Tangling with
angry bigots is never your go-to
move. This man was shouting
fiery epithets at a woman, with a
small child in tow, because of her
gender. He is hateful. Who
knows how his behavior may
have escalated if you challenged
him?
Your better option is to sup-
port the woman. Walk right up
to her, as if a lunatic were not
screaming at her, and help her
finish the transaction (or aban-
don it) and get her out of that
deli as quickly as possible. Bag
to feed his hungry brother and
the other guests, too.
Take Your Nice Pills
I live in a high-rise building. We
have three elevators, but there is
often a wait. Recently I got onto
the elevator in the lobby and
pressed the button when I heard
someone yell, “Hold the eleva-
tor!” Normally I would, but I was
in a rush, so I didn’t. The woman
sent her child running to hold the
door. She proceeded to berate me
for 10 floors. I responded calmly
that I was in a hurry and that she
could always catch the next eleva-
tor. This enraged her; her entitle-
ment bothered me. How much
kindness do I owe neighbors at
the expense of my convenience?
ANONYMOUS

We love our neighbors too. And

her groceries; pay for them, if
she has not; squeeze her hand in
solidarity. But ignore the loon.
(Call 911, if you like. But the
parties will probably have scat-
tered by the time the police
arrive.)
In my experience of irrational
hatred, engaging madmen and
madwomen only gives them
more room to seethe. Better to
neutralize the ugliness by plac-
ing it alongside normal behav-
ior: Chat calmly with the woman
about the weather, and the nasty
man is more likely to recede. Be
like a firefighter: Get potential
victims to safety first, then
tackle the trash-can blaze. Walk
with her until she feels safe and
encourage her to report the
incident to the police. The only
known antidote to hatred is love.
Stuffing a Brother-in-Law
We host an annual reunion for
my husband’s family. His
brother, an avid runner, has a
voracious appetite. When he
comes, he finishes almost every-
thing we put out. Once, he ate
five servings of salmon for
lunch! My husband prefers that
we simply count him as three
people when we prepare food for
the party. I would rather speak
to him. Is it proper to comment
on his intake?
ANONYMOUS
Your husband is a wise man.
Flare-ups between siblings are
practically inevitable. (It is
always wildfire season with
mine.) Don’t light matches over
issues as petty as portion con-
trol. You are free to blow up
relationships with your own
siblings, but stay out of your
husband’s. Especially when he
when they turn up their music
really loud, we invite the police to
listen. I kid, because neighbors
can have a big impact on the
quality of our lives. When we are
generous with them, they are
more likely to be generous with
us in return. Think of it as sacri-
fice born of self-interest.
No matter how foul a mood I’m
in, I hold the elevator if someone
asks or if I see someone coming.
On top of that, I smile at neigh-
bors when they saunter on board
(excruciatingly slowly). It’s a
small price to pay for community.
My question for you: Exactly
what kind of rush were you in
that waiting 35 seconds would
make a difference?
Leftovers, So Festive
My husband and I were invited to
a backyard barbecue. Our hosts
asked us to bring beer, which we
did with pleasure. I also wanted
to bring the leftover half of a
delicious cake from our fridge.
My husband insisted this would
be in poor taste. So I deferred.
And when I polled the party, I was
shocked to find that many
thought it would be downright
rude. But I maintain that, among
friends, bringing half a cake (in
addition to beer) is better than no
cake at all. Who is right?
RACHEL
It seems a bit overdramatic to
label the gift of half a cake “rude.”
You come in peace, right? Still,
when we entertain, we often like
to put our best feet forward. (A
little makeup and some jewelry
— and that’s just the men.) In
that light, your used cake may
not be quite up to snuff. Limit
leftovers to potlucks with your
besties, O.K.?
. ...................................................................
For help with your awkward situation,
send a question to SocialQ@nytimes
.com or SocialQ on Facebook.
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Malcolm McLaren, who said “‘I love you,
Natasha, because you take the cobwebs out
of my brain,’” she recalled. “How many
times did I hear about Sid Vicious’s mother
carrying around his ashes and dropping
them in the fish and chip shop?” She made a
brisk “get on with it” motion.
On her right wrist glittered a bracelet of
facing serpent’s heads, a gift to her mother
from the English decorator Nicky Haslam,
which Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni purloined in
part because it reminded her of her twin
teenage daughters, born in the Year of the
Snake. “Sometimes they hiss,” she said. On
the table idled a Chanel purse circa 1990,
covered in Warhol-inspired splotches, the
spoils of an apprenticeship to Karl La-
gerfeld. “From the first collection I worked
on,” Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni said. “Isn’t that
funny?”
A plate of cookies had been brought over.
Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni ignored them but in-
sisted the maître d’ let her take a photo of
“After Andy” in the pastry case, artfully
nestled between the profiteroles and the
opera cakes.
She strode out onto Madison Avenue, to-
ward the Brutalist but blissfully chilled
building of the Met Breuer, the contempo-
rary outpost of the Metropolitan Museum
that once housed the Whitney Museum of
American Art. There were major Warhol
An author who
recalls high-profile
affairs and artist
apprenticeships.
shows there in 1971 and 1979, the latter in-
cluding a series about Mr. Jagger.
Today Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni was
pleased to see an exhibition devoted to the
Austrian-Italian architect Ettore Sottsass,
the founder of the Memphis Group of de-
sign championed by Mr. Lagerfeld and an-
other mutual friend, Jean Pigozzi, the busi-
nessman and collector who once held a ma-
jority interest in Spy magazine.
Ms. Fraser-Cavassoni photographing her book at Sant Ambroeus. “I spent a weekend with him — several,
actually,” she said of Mr. Sottsass, stepping
into the large elevator.
Upstairs, her peep-toe espadrilles pad-
ding quietly on the stone floors, Ms. Fraser-
Cavassoni examined a large abstract neck-
lace (“kind of Egyptian,” she said) and
some garish prints. “I feel for very rich peo-
ple, art is their couture,” she said. “I can’t
afford it.”
There was a dresser in the shape of an
ornate cathedral laid on its side, and a
rather penitent-looking single bed. “I’m
tempted to lie on that,” she said, “but I
won’t.”
On a nearby screen, images of Mr.
Sottsass with Einstein-like mustache were
flashing. “He was grumpy,” Ms. Fraser-
Cavassoni whispered. “I remember him
saying in Italian that I spoke too much.”
But when a 1999 drawing of his titled
“Electronic Instruments For the Produc-
tion of the Ego” popped up, she turned mag-
nanimous.
As with Warhol, she said, “I didn’t realize
to what point he was prophetlike.”

NOTED

Who Owns a Tweet?

ANGELA WEISS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

Frank Ocean performing at the Panorama Music Festival on July 28.

Male to start speaking up again

By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA
Frank Ocean gave a rare, intimate
performance at Panorama Music
Festival late last month that en-
raptured his fans — and had some
unexpected consequences that
went far beyond music.
Since then, the event has raised
questions around the issue of
copyright in an era of viral sharing
and what happens to a young, cre-
ative business when placed in the
spotlight.
But in the beginning, everyone
was just excited about his T-shirt.
Simple and white, the shirt
asked, in black capital letters:
“Why be racist, sexist, homopho-
bic or transphobic when you could
just be quiet?”
Twitter quickly discovered that
it was produced by Green Box
Shop, an online operation founded
last year by Kayla Robinson, 18.
On the two days after the show,
the website received 5,500 orders
over all (Ms. Robinson did not
share specific figures for the T-
shirt Mr. Ocean wore), compared
with the 100 it would usually see. It
seemed like a Cinderella story.
“My business started in a really
small apartment,” Ms. Robinson
said. “I was living with my mom. It
was infested with roaches. I
started by myself and later I hired
some friends.” She moved to a
warehouse in South Florida re-
cently, and Mr. Ocean’s endorse-
ment has been her business’s big-
gest unintended marketing coup
to date. “It was so surreal,” she
said. “I did not believe it until I
saw photographic evidence.”
And that wasn’t even the first
time the shirt — which is made of
organic cotton and costs $18.99 —
had gone viral on social media. In
January, a user who goes by the
handle @lustdad posted an image
of himself in the T-shirt, garnering
more than 87,000 retweets and
over 191,000 likes.
Yet criticism was brewing as
well. It turned out the quotation on
the shirt originated from a tweet
sent out in August 2015 by Bran-
don Male, 18, a student from North
Syracuse, N.Y. Mr. Male was frus-
trated that he had not been prop-
erly paid or credited for Green
Box Shop’s use of his quotation.
The first time he saw the shirt,
earlier this year, Mr. Male said he
had contacted Green Box Shop
and was met with mostly dismiss-
al. “They told me I needed to calm
down and said they credited me
on Instagram one time,” he said. “I
ended up letting it slide after that.”
Ms. Robinson said she did not
handle her company’s social me-
dia until recently and was not
aware of Mr. Male’s requests or
that he had written the quote. In
fall 2016, “someone direct mes-
saged us and said you should put
this quote on a shirt,” she said.
“They didn’t send me a screen-
shot or anything.”
Though other famous figures
like Zendaya and Jessica Williams
have endorsed Ms. Robinson’s de-
signs, she said, “Frank Ocean was
the biggest response in terms of
sales.”
The response also inspired Mr.
about his original Twitter post. “I
started tweeting about it, and a lot
of my followers came to my de-
fense,” he said. “And people who
don’t follow me came to my de-
fense, too.”
Christine E. Weller, an associate
at Griesing Law who specializes
in intellectual property and tech-
nology, said: “People will often
take images they find online and
reproduce them because they
think they have the right to. But
that’s not the case. It’s generally
not permitted without the permis-
sion of the copyholder.”
Copyright is an opt-out system,
she said, which means your intel-
lectual property is yours unless
you specifically allow others to
use it (through the Creative Com-
mons license, for example).
But there are fair-use excep-
tions that allow people to appro-
priate content for purposes like
commentary, criticism or schol-
arship. If the result could be rea-
sonably considered transforma-
tive, the appropriator is within his
or her legal rights. Ms. Weller
pointed to lawsuits that have been
brought against the artist Richard
Prince for his use of other artists’
‘It does look like I was
just throwing money at
him to keep him quiet.’
work in a 2014 installation. Vari-
ous courts have offered mixed
judgments on the cases.
If someone uses another’s work
for commercial purposes, howev-
er, it becomes much easier for the
owner of the content to file a
cease-and-desist order or to argue
that compensation is necessary.
Still, Ms. Weller added, “There’s
an open question about whether a
short, pithy tweet falls under
copyright protection.” Her sug-
gestion: When in doubt, reach out.
The day after Mr. Ocean’s con-
cert, Ms. Robinson did — kind of.
She sent $100 to Mr. Male on
Venmo. He said, “They threw me
$100 and told me to go away.” He
calculated that $100 was less than 1
percent of the revenue Green Box
Shop had pulled in over two days.
Green Box Shop also added a link
to his tweet on the product page.
“It was an impulsive decision,”
she said. “I hadn’t looked at the
number of sales, and I wasn’t
thinking about it portionwise. It
does look like I was just throwing
money at him to keep him quiet.”
Ms. Robinson said she called
Mr. Male to apologize and set up a
time to discuss numbers.
“Moving forward when people
message me with shirt ideas, I
should do more investigating,”
she added. “It would be pretty ir-
responsible of me to just take it.
Being a creator myself, people
have copied my shirts before, I to-
tally understand Brandon. Even if
it’s a tweet, I have to respect that.”
And given the music industry’s
history of questions regarding in-
tellectual property and copyright,
Mr. Ocean would probably under-
stand as well.
10 ST THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

SCENE CITY

At the Watermill Center

summer benefit, from left:
Robert Wilson, the
center’s founder, with the
honorees Laurie
Anderson, left, and
Isabelle Huppert; Ms.
Anderson performs;
Robert Downey Jr.

Shopping
For a Cause Also at the Watermill
Center benefit, from left:
Matty Davis and Eryka
Dellenbach; Abel
The Watermill Center hosted its summer benefit and auction
on July 29 in Water Mill, N.Y. The Ovarian Cancer Research Daniel, Alina Baikova,
Fund Alliance held its annual shopping charity known as Su- Mariella Everett and
per Saturday, also on July 29 in Water Mill. That same day, the Katherine Keating.
Good+ Foundation and Net-a-Porter held a benefit dinner at
the East Hampton home of Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld. More
photos at nytimes.com/styles. DENNY LEE

At the Super Saturday

benefit for the Ovarian
Cancer Research Fund
Alliance, from left: Dr.
Rachel Grisham (in
purple) with her
children; Heba Abedin;
Gabby Karan de Felice
and Donna Karan, two of
the hosts.

Also at the Super

Saturday benefit, from
left: Stephanie Redhead,
John Simon and Akela
Moore; Rachel Zoe,
another of the shopping
charity’s hosts; Ann
Liguori.

At the Good+
Foundation dinner at
the Seinfelds’ East
Hampton house, from
left: Jerry Seinfeld and
Howard Stern; Alison
Loehnis, Jessica
Seinfeld and Brooke
Shields; Joseph
Altuzarra.

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Vows
LIZ AX E LR OD a nd JAME S OLSON

A 20-Year Age Gap Makes No Difference

By ALIX STRAUSS
It was early 2012 when Liz Axelrod met
James Olson at a Manhattan bar near the
New School, where both were getting Mas-
ter of Fine Arts degrees; she in poetry, he in
fiction. She thought he was cute. He thought
she was pretty. They saw each other a few
more times, after their Wednesday night
class. Finally they talked. And talked. And
talked.
“We went from one bar to another and
ended up at Around the Clock diner talking
about everything until 3 a.m.,” said Ms. Ax-
elrod, an adjunct English professor and
grant manager. “It was like kismet. We just
connected. He was good friends with two of
my best guy friends, so I felt really safe. It
just felt right.”
Ms. Axelrod was going to Florida the next
day, so the two kissed good night outside the
diner, and she went to Pennsylvania Station
to catch the 3:19 a.m. train home to Long Is-
land.
These were some of the conversation
highlights: She was divorced; he had never
married. At the time, her daughter was 17;
he had no children. She lived in Port Wash-
ington, N.Y.; he resided in Brooklyn. She
‘When he proposed, I
knew after that I
wouldn’t be alone.’
was from New York; he was raised in Den-
ver. She was 47; he was 20 years younger.
Both liked punk rock, Allen Ginsberg and
Jack Kerouac, among other things.
“Our ages didn’t come up until the end of
the evening,” she said. “I remember think-
ing we have so many things in common, but
the age difference could be problematic.
When I asked James about it, he said it did-
n’t bother him, so it didn’t bother me.”
Mr. Olson recalls their all-night talkathon
a little differently.
“There were several kisses during the
evening,” said Mr. Olson, now 33, who is also
an adjunct English professor. “The age
thing came up early in the evening. When
she told me how old she was, I was shocked.
I didn’t think she was older than 35. But I
liked her and wanted to date her, so I was
going to roll with it. And I remember her ta-
king the 5:19 train home.”
What they agree on was that they
planned to get together the next Friday at
her place.
They texted while she was gone, and
when she returned, she asked him to dinner.
The food was good. So was the company.
The date lasted until Sunday, when Mr. Ol-
son went home. “We both knew this was
something special,” he said. “I didn’t feel the
need to leave or get away for a few hours. I
felt comfortable and happy.”
Valentine’s Day was that week. They
went out for dinner, and didn’t make a big
deal over the romantic holiday. Though they
both knew they were done looking, the age
difference was still a consideration.
“We were both really scared,” Ms. Axel-
rod said. “Neither of us knew if this would
work, or how we’d handle the age gap. It’s a
big gap. But then it became, ‘What’s so dif-
ferent?’ Six months later, it took a back seat.
Now we don’t think about it. We’re pretty
equal everywhere else. We challenge each
other, debate, argue and inform. I’m a really
strong woman, but he’s a strong man.”
Things progressed quickly, but another
possible roadblock emerged: having chil-
dren.
“We talked a lot about having kids,” Mr.
Olson said. “I really had to figure out if I bio-
logically needed to have my own. Internally,
it took me a month to decide that I didn’t.
Top, Liz Axelrod and James Olson exchanging vows with the Hudson River in the background.
Above, the groom and bride surrounded by their wedding party at the Rhinecliff.
That we could adopt. I don’t know if I want
to. We can make that decision down the
road.”
Ms. Axelrod agreed, stating that she
would not be having another child biologi-
cally, but that adoption was a possibility.
They graduated in 2013. The logical next
step was moving in together. Ms. Axelrod’s
home was larger, and at the time, her
daughter, Maxine, lived with her. For an all-
girls home, making room for Mr. Olson
proved challenging.
“When a new person comes into your
home, it’s hard making space and giving
them their own space,” Ms. Axelrod said.
“Maxine and I have lived here for 12 years.
I’m a girlie girl, and I own a lot of jewelry. I
had a dresser full of it, so I had to give up
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAUREN LANCASTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
half of that. There were flowered curtains I
got rid of.”
Moving from a studio apartment, Mr. Ol-
son arrived with only his desk, TV, comput-
er and 100 books.
She took down some pictures; he put
some up.
“We had a lot of tiffs about whose stuff
goes where,” he said. “But we created a rou-
tine. It was hard. I kept asking myself, ‘How
do I fit into their pattern or create my own
space?’”
Personal and shared space was found.
Books, however, were kept separated on his
and her shelves.
“Even though we both teach, I write notes
in my books, and that makes her a little
crazy,” Mr. Olson said. “It’s an ongoing
process.”
On July 10, 2015, Mr. Olson packed a knap-
sack with freshly sliced peaches, a bottle of
wine, two Mason jars and a ring. Then he
asked Ms. Axelrod to take a walk on the
small beach across the street from their
home.
“We had looked at rings on the internet,
and she’d found one she liked,” he said. “I
thought she knew and was playing along. I
didn’t realize how shocked she was until I
got down on one knee and asked her to
marry me.”
Ms. Axelrod accepted.
“When he got down on one knee, I
thought, ‘How did he do this without my
knowing?’” she said. “We’d been talking
about this for at least a year and had looked
online at rings. I didn’t know he had ordered
the one I liked.”
Then they watched the sun set and drank
peach-flavored prosecco.
“This had always been my beach that I
walked by myself, but I always wished I had
someone to walk with, and then he was
there,” Ms. Axelrod said. “When he pro-
posed, I knew after that I wouldn’t be
alone.”
For Mr. Olson, the decision to propose
happened when he started turning down
teaching offers from other countries. “I re-
alized I wanted to stay in New York,” he
said. “I love her, and she had a daughter and
couldn’t move. The job wasn’t important to
me anymore. It was being with the person I
love.”
On July 20, a Thursday, William Sanchez,
a justice of the Village of Rhinebeck, N.Y.,
officiated at the Rhinecliff hotel before 50
guests. The bride walked down the aisle to a
song Mr. Olson wrote in 2008.
ON THIS DAY “I’ve always loved writing music,” he
When July 20, 2017 said. “We couldn’t decide on a song, so I
. .......................................................... went back to some that I had written, and
Where The Rhinecliff, a hotel in we both liked this one.”
Rhinecliff, N.Y. The ceremony took only three minutes,
. .......................................................... and rain fell just as the couple were told to
Self-Starters The bride created kiss.
the tropical floral “When my mom started going out with
arrangements, headpieces and James, she was just so happy,” said Maxine
boutonnieres, which took two Axelrod, 22, the bride’s daughter. “I think
days to complete. Five dresses they’re really good for each other. They
laugh all the time. They just have this great
were ordered from Amazon, two
connection.”
were kept. “I don’t like to shop,
Noah Beigelmacher, 33, a special-educa-
so I found this flapper one on tion teacher who knew both the bride and
the web,” Ms. Axelrod said of the groom separately from school, spoke
the dress she was married in. similarly about the newlyweds.
“When I tried it on for my “I could really see them together as a
mother, she said, ‘That’s the unit,” he said. “When you know each person
one.’ Then I bought one to independently, know their quirks, and then
dance in.” to see them fit so well together, and look out
. .......................................................... for each other, and take care of each other,
Playlist The couple also acted that’s really special.”
as D.J., creating three different Mayan Axelrod, 43, the bride’s younger
lists: cocktail, dinner and brother, felt the union is about “making
dancing, for a compilation of each other better while helping the other in
the areas they might be weak in,” he said.
more than 80 songs. “We both
“They complement each other very well.”
gave up one song we each Before the couple sat down to dinner, the
hated,” Mr. Olson said. “Mine bride slipped off her first dress and changed
was an old punk song from Bow into a white one with gold sequins. Glasses
Wow Wow. I can’t remember appeared on her smiling face, her hair fell
what hers was.” loosely onto her shoulders, and the rose
crown she had assembled the night before
was removed.
“My head feels so much lighter now that
I’m not wearing the flowers, and these are
for dancing,” she said, pointing to a pair of
gold-colored shoes.
As “1963,” by Rachael Yamagata, played
for the first dance, Ms. Axelrod looked at
her husband lovingly and he dipped her
ever so slightly. “The music is gorgeous and
jazzy, which we both love,” Mr. Olson said.
“It felt perfect for us.”
They continued through the night, danc-
ing to the beat of the music and of their love,
which was clearly ageless.
12 ST THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

Vows
WEDDINGS

Ann Wright,
Manish Engineer
. ................................................................................

Ann Carolyn Wright and Manish Shirish

Engineer were married Aug. 5 at the Mc-
Donald Observatory in Fort Davis, Tex.
Judge Bryant Culpepper, a family court
judge in Perry, Ga., officiated. Earlier in MICHAEL SKI, PREMIER DIGITAL

the day, Krishnaswamy Bhattar, a Hindu

Liadan Donnelly, priest, led a ceremony that incorporated Jessica Sleater,
Aaron Plavnick Hindu wedding traditions at the Capri, Jorge Montalvo
an event space in Marfa, Tex.
. ................................................................................ The bride, 38, is an architect for Enne- . ................................................................................

Liadan Elizabeth Donnelly and Aaron ad Architects in New York. She graduat- Jessica June Sleater and Jorge Isaac
Daniel Plavnick were married Aug. 5 at ed from the University of Texas and re- Montalvo were married Aug. 4 in Man-
the Columbus Park Refectory in Chicago. ceived a master’s degree in architecture hattan. Msgr. Kevin Sullivan performed
The officiant was Lt. Cmdr. Keith D. from the University of Pennsylvania. the ceremony at the Roman Catholic
Plavnick of the United States Navy, the She is a daughter of Eugenia J. Wright Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.
groom’s father, who was ordained by the and Dr. Francis H. Wright Jr. of San Anto-
Ms. Sleater, 36, is a partner in Ander-
American Marriage Ministries. nio. The bride’s father is a transplant sur-
sen Sleater Sianni, a law firm, and man-
The bride and groom met at the Uni- geon at Methodist Specialty and Trans- GEORGE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

plant Hospital in San Antonio. Her ages its Manhattan office. She graduated
versity of Chicago, from which they grad-
uated. mother is a county court judge for Bexar cum laude from Truman State University Jessica Morganoff,
County Court 7 in San Antonio. in Kirksville, Mo., and received her law Gideon Sims
Ms. Donnelly, 28, is a staff lawyer for degree from St. Louis University.
the Family Defense Center, an organiza- The groom, 39, is an associate director
of applications for the Museum of Mod- She is the daughter of June I. Sleater ...............................................................................................................................................................
tion in Chicago that provides legal aid to
families in abuse and neglect cases. She ern Art in New York, where he oversees and William W. Sleater IV, both of Kirk-
wood, Mo. The bride’s father retired as a
received her law degree from George-
town.
the museum’s e-commerce platform, in-
ventory systems and financial systems. sales executive in the St. Louis office of Losing an Auction Resulted in a Win
She is the daughter of Anne P. Rice of He graduated from Ohio State, received AIM Transportation Solutions, a tractor- Jessica Hope Morganoff and Gideon Yaacov Sims were married on
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and T. Rory Don- an M.B.A. from Duke, and received a trailer truck leasing company. Her Aug. 5 at Battery Gardens in New York. Cantor Neil A. Berris led
nelly of Manhattan. The bride’s father re- master’s degree in contemporary art mother is a floral designer in Ladue, Mo., the ceremony.
tired as a residential renovations con- from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New for Schnucks Markets, a grocery store Ms. Morganoff, 37, who is taking the groom’s name, is a resource-
tractor in Manhattan. Her mother is an York. chain.
room teacher for math and reading for kindergarten to second grade at Memo-
assistant professor of African and Af- He is a son of Harsha S. Engineer and Mr. Montalvo, also 36, is the associate
Shirish C. Engineer of Cleveland. The rial Elementary School in Emerson, N.J. She graduated from Boston University
rican-American studies at Lehman Col- commissioner for the New York State Of-
lege in the Bronx. groom’s mother retired as an echocardi- fice for Temporary and Disability Assist- and received a master’s degree in childhood and special education from Ford-
Mr. Plavnick, 27, is a developer of ology technician at Marymount Hospital ance, and works in the Manhattan office. ham.
quantitative computer programs that ex- in Cleveland. His father retired as a He graduated from Dartmouth. The bride is a daughter of Fern B. Morganoff and Dr. Abraham D. Morganoff
ecute trades in the Chicago office of project engineer for Gojo Industries, a He is the son of Esmeraldas Echever- of Watchung, N.J.
Tower Research Capital, an electronic manufacturer of hand hygiene products ria Montalvo and Abelardo Montalvo of Mr. Sims, 40, is the senior director of digital marketing, focusing on cardiac
trading firm. and skin care products in Cleveland. the Bronx. The groom’s father retired as surgery, at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He is also the administra-
He is also the son of Connie McDaniel The couple met in 2014 on a blind date a member of the maintenance staff at
Plavnick, who lives with the groom’s fa- at the Belfry, a cocktail bar in New York. tive director of the nonprofit Mitral Foundation, which is affiliated with Mount
B & H Photo and Video, a camera shop in Sinai and dedicated to the treatment of mitral valve disease.
ther in Gulfport, Miss. The groom’s Manhattan.
mother is a physical therapist in the Dia- The groom is a son of Shirley A. Sims of Monticello, N.Y., and the late J. Bur-
The couple met in Manhattan in 2013 at
mondhead, Miss., center of Community Ashley Graf, a fund-raiser for the New Leaders Coun-
ton Sims.
Rehab, a company that operates physical The couple met in February 2016 at a charity event in New York.
therapy centers in Mississippi and Ala- Jonathan Spagnola cil, which helps people with progressive
views get involved in politics. “I was volunteering at the silent auction, and Gideon had come over to the
bama. His father is the operations officer
at the Naval Meteorology and Oceanog-
. ................................................................................ table, and I asked him to bid on an ice cream party for friends,” Ms. Morganoff
raphy Professional Development Center, Ashley Gainer Graf and Dr. Jonathan said.
in Gulfport. Frederick Spagnola were married on At the end of the evening, Mr. Sims stopped by her table to ask if he had won.
Aug. 5 in New Hope, Pa. The Rev. Samuel He did not, but he came away with her phone number.
Massengill, a Presbyterian minister, offi-
“I guess I won after all,” he said. He texted her the next day.
ciated at Hotel du Village, an event
space. On Feb. 29, leap day, they met for drinks at an Upper East Side bar. “We only
The bride, 29, is the New York regional have an anniversary every four years,” she said with a laugh.
marketing manager for JetBlue. She “It was a natural, easy conversation from the start,” she said, and they
graduated magna cum laude from N.Y.U. quickly discovered they both enjoyed running and exploring the city.
She is a daughter of Tracy G. Graf and That weekend, they went to the orchid show at the New York Botanical Gar-
Steven M. Graf of Sanibel, Fla.
den, and a week later, they had what she called their “best date ever” — milk-
The groom, 30, is a cardiology fellow at
Staten Island University Hospital. He shakes at Black Tap on West 14th Street, a walk along the High Line, and lunch
graduated from Colgate and received his and dinner near Union Square Park.
Caroline Peck,
medical degree from St. George’s Uni- “It was so much fun,” she said. “We didn’t want it to end.”
Caroline Corbett, versity in Grenada. Robert Love After she mentioned that she led a running club for third to sixth graders at
He is the son of Victoria Spagnola and
Nicholas Sizer Frederick J. Spagnola of Manhattan.
. ................................................................................ her school, Mr. Sims offered to join them for their five-kilometer race in Fort
Caroline Lindsay Peck, a daughter of Lee, N.J., in May.
. ................................................................................
The couple met through mutual
friends in 2012 at a St. Patrick’s Day party Linda M. Peck and Staunton Peck of “My longest run was a half marathon,” he said. “She had done a half Iron-
Caroline Alicia Corbett and Nicholas in Manhattan. Summit, N.J., was married Aug. 5 to man.”
Budd Sizer were married July 31 at the Robert Henry Love, a son of Joanne E. They soon began running together — twice around the reservoir or around
Marriage Bureau in Manhattan. Angel L. Love of Bernardsville, N.J., and James R. the lower loop in Central Park — a couple of evenings during the week, and on
Lopez, a staff member in the New York Love of New York. The Rev. Craig Swan,
City Clerk’s Office, officiated. weekends, followed by dinner or brunch.
an Episcopal priest, performed the cere- At that 5K race, he came in fourth in his age group, 11 seconds behind third
On Aug. 12, the couple are to take part
mony in Narragansett, R.I., at St. Peter’s place, while she supervised the children.
in a celebration ceremony at Tatnuck
Country Club in Worcester, Mass. Tony by-the-Sea, where he is the rector.
She soon came up with another marathon of sorts: a list of 101 things for them
Richardson, a former player in the Na- Mrs. Love, 27, is a marketing analyst in
to do around the city that summer, including a tour of the Hallett Nature Sanc-
tional Football League and a friend of the New York at American Express. She
graduated from Trinity College in Hart- tuary in Central Park and Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar in Battery Park City for
couple, is to lead the ceremony.
ford. She is also a volunteer for the New huge goblets of prosecco with ice pops in them.
The bride, 26, and the groom 27, met at
Connecticut College, from which they York Junior League. “Somehow we managed to do an insane amount of things,” said Mr. Sims,
graduated. The bride's father is a managing direc- whose membership at five museums and the New York Botanical Garden came
Mrs. Sizer is a business development tor in New York at Tradeweb Markets, a in handy.
associate at RSE Ventures, an invest- Amber Katherine, global provider of fixed income, deriva- Activities slowed down once school began, only to rev up during Christmas
ment firm in Manhattan. Kimberly Russo tives and exchange-traded funds mar- week when he insisted they visit the American Museum of Natural History,
She is a daughter of Sharyn L. Corbett ketplaces. Her mother is a sales associ- where Ms. Morganoff was ready to call it a day after the dinosaur exhibition. He
and James C. Corbett of Norwood, Mass. . ................................................................................ ate at Prominent Properties Sotheby’s
The bride’s father is an independent elec- then persuaded her to go to the hall of gems.
Amber L. Katherine and Kimberly International Realty in Summit.
trical contractor based in Norwood. Her “I think this one will do,” he recalled her saying, a bit snarkily, as she pointed
Kathryn Russo are to be married Aug. 6. Mr. Love, also 27, is a senior data ana-
mother is a medical record clerk at An- lyst in New York at Wellpartner, a health to a diamond while they circled a display.
Richard Amir Tahvildaran-Jesswein, a
gell Animal Medical Center in Boston. care technology services company. He He then quickly pulled out a diamond engagement ring from his pocket.
Mr. Sizer is a director of marketing friend who is a minister of the First Na-
tion Church, is to officiate on the beach in graduated from Roger Williams Univer- “So how about this one?” he said, as he subtly placed it on her finger.
partnerships at the Madison Square Gar-
den Company in Manhattan. Santa Monica, Calif. Derek Hogen Dieter, sity. ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY
He is a son of Susan B. Sizer and Har- a Zen Buddhist priest, will take part in Until April, the groom’s mother owned
old F. Sizer of Manhattan. The groom’s the ceremony. Cambridge Street Papers, a stationery
mother was a librarian at Canton Middle Dr. Katherine (left), 54, is a philosophy store in Madison, N.J. His father is the
School in Canton, Conn. His father, who professor at Santa Monica College. She chief executive, in New York, of Well-
works in Manhattan, is an account exec- graduated from the University of Illinois partner.
utive in employee benefits at Unum, an and received a doctoral degree in philos- The bride and groom met and started Kathleen Ashby, Sarah Wallace,
insurance company based in Chatta- ophy from Michigan State. She is the edi- dating during their junior year at Sum- Lukas Kohoutek Ian Schwartz
nooga, Tenn. tor of “Greening Philosophy: A Fresh In- mit High School.
. ................................................................................ . ................................................................................
troduction to the Field,” a philosophy
textbook. Kathleen Victoria Ashby and Lukas Ko- Sarah Rose Wallace and Ian Gary
Lara Crystal, She is the daughter of Kathryn houtek were married Aug. 5 at the Schwartz are to be married Aug. 6 in
Mowrer Phillips of Topanga, Calif., and of Church of St. Wenceslas in Mikulov, Beverly Hills, Calif. Rabbi Jesse M.
Robert Saliterman Michael P. Toliuszis of Bradley, Ill. Dr. Czech Republic. The Rev. Oldrich Cho- Olitzky is to officiate at the Beverly
. ................................................................................ Katherine’s father retired as an inde- cholac, a Roman Catholic priest, per- Hills Hotel.
pendent financial adviser and insurance formed the ceremony. The bride, 34, is the director of ac-
Lara Elizabeth Crystal and Robert War- agent in Chicago. Her mother retired as The bride, 32, is a registered nurse at count management in Los Angeles for
ren Saliterman were married Aug. 5. GumGum, an artificial intelligence
an associate professor of art and the Pegasus Health 24 Hour Surgery, a medi-
Cantor Bruce L. Ruben officiated at the company. She graduated from Tulane
chairwoman of the program for first- cal facility in Christchurch, New Zea-
Pierre, the New York hotel. University.
Ms. Crystal, 35, is a founder and a chief year students at Otis College of Art and land. She graduated from Georgetown.
Design, which is in Los Angeles. Dr. She also worked in New York as a regis- She is a daughter of Janice B. Wal-
executive of Minibar Delivery, an online lace and Dr. Daniel J. Wallace of Studio
marketplace for wine, beer and spirits, Katherine is also the stepdaughter of Da- tered nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital from
vid M. Phillips, who retired as a psychol- 2007 to 2013. City, Calif. The bride’s father is a
with offices in New York. She graduated Patricia Lee, rheumatologist in Los Angeles and the
cum laude from Cornell and received an ogy professor at Santa Monica College. She is the daughter of Amy Donnelly
Ms. Russo, also 54, is the associate David Martorana Ashby and Christopher Cox Ashby Sr. of medical director of the Wallace
M.B.A. from the University of Pennsyl- Rheumatic Study Center in Beverly
vania. provost for academic administration at Houston. The bride’s father is a former
. ................................................................................ Hills.
She is a daughter of Carole J. Crystal Otis College of Art and Design. She is Marine who went on to a 25-year career
Patricia Lee, the daughter of Phoebe Y. The groom, 33, is a vice president in
and Richard P. Crystal of Palm Beach, also an artist whose drawings are in the as an international banker with Chemi-
Los Angeles for the financial services
Fla. The bride’s father retired as the permanent collections of the New Mex- Lee and Chao L. Lee of Fullerton, Calif., cal Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). He
group of the Aon Corporation, a Chi-
chairman and chief executive of New ico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and the was married Aug. 5 to David Michael also served as the United States ambas-
York & Company, a women’s clothing re- cago insurance and financial services
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, which is at Martorana, the son of Roberta Mar- sador to Uruguay from 1997 to 2001. Her
tailer in New York. company. He graduated from the Uni-
Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. She torana of Richmond, Va., and Ronald mother is a founder of a law firm in Hous- versity of Wisconsin, Madison, and re-
Mr. Saliterman, also 35, is a global ad- graduated from Indiana University, K. K. Sakimura of Honolulu. Alexandra ton that bears her name.
vertising agency partner in New York for ceived an M.B.A. from the University of
where she also received a master’s de- M. Armstrong, a Universal Life minister, The groom, 30, is a machine operator Southern California.
Snapchat, the image messaging app. He gree in painting. officiated at the home of the bride’s par- at Brand Logging, a company in
graduated from Columbia and received He is the son of Marcia A. Schwartz
She is a daughter of Dorothy L. Ten- ents. Christchurch. He is also a bull rider who and Jeffrey B. Schwartz of Monmouth
an M.B.A. from Harvard. gler of Harleysville, Pa. Ms. Russo’s The couple, both 26, met at Duke, from competes in the New Zealand rodeo cir- Junction, N.J. The groom’s mother re-
He is the son of Dr. Laura S. Saliterman
mother is a freelance writer and editor which they graduated, she with a degree cuit. He graduated from Labska tired as a Spanish teacher from J. P.
and Richard A. Saliterman, both of Min-
on medical issues whose work is pub- in political science and he with degrees in Hotelova Skola, a college in Pardubice, Stevens High School in Edison, N.J. His
netonka, Minn. His mother is a pediat-
rician at South Lake Pediatrics, a group lished on MultiBriefs, an online source of economics and mechanical engineering. Czech Republic. father is the executive vice president
medical practice, and sees patients in the industry-specific news. Ms. Russo is also Mrs. Martorana works at The New He is the son of Ivana Kohoutkova and and general counsel in Secaucus, N.J.,
Maple Grove, Minn., office. His father is a daughter of Francis L. Russo. York Times, where she is the manager of Jiri Kohoutek, both of Prelouc, Czech Re- for Maurice A. Auerbach, a produce
a founder and the managing partner of Ms. Katherine’s previous marriage United States digital acquisition, over- public. The groom’s mother retired as a distributor. He is also the president of
Saliterman & Siefferman, a law firm in ended in divorce, as did Ms. Russo’s. seeing subscriber growth. supervisor in the Czech Army. His father the Jewish Federation in the Heart of
Minneapolis. The couple met in 2015 through OkCu- Mr. Martorana is a trader at Bridge- was a machinist and a mechanic at V.O.P. New Jersey.
The couple met through the League, a pid, where both had listed “Harold and water Associates, a hedge fund in West- Prelouc, a factory. The couple met through a mutual
dating app, in July 2015. Maude” as their favorite movie. port, Conn. The couple met on Tinder in 2015. friend in Los Angeles in October 2014.
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Vows
WEDDINGS

Charles Sellew,
David Fiocco
. ................................................................................

Charles Samuel Sellew and David An-

drew Fiocco were married Aug. 5 at the
Mill City Museum in Minneapolis. The
Rev. Jane McBride, a United Church of
HOWARD BERNSTEIN Christ minister, officiated.
Mr. Sellew, 28, is to begin work in Octo-
Joelle Silverman, ber as a strategy and operations consult- Rimsha Ahmed,
Vladyslav Golyk ant in Arlington, Va., for Deloitte’s fed- Michael Santos
eral practice. He graduated from the Uni-
. ................................................................................ . .................................................................................
versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Joelle Marisa Silverman and Vladyslav and received a master’s degree in public Dr. Rimsha Ahmed and Dr. Michael Ar-
Alexander Golyk are to be married Aug. policy from Harvard. thur Santos were married Aug. 5 at the
6 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Rabbi He is the son of Melissa H. Sellew of St. Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. Imam
Paula Mack Drill is to officiate. Paul and the late Kathleen S. Sellew. Me- Hamad A. Chebli, a Muslim cleric, offici-
In May, the bride, 24, received a mas- lissa Sellew is a classics professor at the ated.
ter’s degree in corporate communica- University of Minnesota. Kathleen The couple met in 2009 at Pennsylva-
tions from N.Y.U. She graduated from Sellew was the associate director of the nia State University, from which they re-
Boston University. office of international programs at the ceived medical degrees. IRA LIPPKE STUDIOS

The bride, 30, is the chief resident in ob-

She is the daughter of Holly A. Rosen- University of Minnesota.
stetrics and gynecology at the Penn State
Carla Nasr,
thal of New York and Barry E. Silverman Mr. Fiocco, 30, is an associate partner
of Tappan, N.Y. The bride's father is a pri- Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Levi Quaintance
in the Minneapolis office of McKinsey & in Hershey, Pa. She graduated from the
vate banking credit consultant in New Company, where he focuses on the firm’s ...............................................................................................................................................................
York. Her mother developed and mar- University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
global agriculture and sustainability She is a daughter of Dr. Bina Ahmed
keted MidNite Sleep Remedy, which is
now owned by Mylan. The bride’s stepfa-
practices. He graduated from Duke.
He is the son of Dr. Marilynn A. Prince-
and Dr. Asad Ahmed of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The groom, 32, practices internal medi- Firming Up Tentative Plans
ther, Dr. Howard H. Bernstein, who is re- Fiocco and Dr. Guy P. Fiocco of Leland, Carla Nasr and Levi Watson Azia Quaintance were married Aug. 5
cine at the WellSpan Good Samaritan
tired, was an associate professor at the N.C. His mother is a pulmonologist, and Hospital in Lebanon, Pa. He graduated at Jefferson Market Garden in Manhattan. Erin E. Reitz, a friend of
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai his father is a rheumatologist. Both work from the University of Pittsburgh.
Medical Center and a director of obstet- the couple who was ordained by the American Marriage Ministries,
at the New Hanover Regional Medical He is a son of Lorna P. Santos and Dr. officiated.
ric anesthesia. Arthur M. Santos of Pittsburgh.
Physician Group in Wilmington, N.C. The couple met at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
The groom, 28, is a manager with
The couple met in May 2008 at a Dem- from which each received an M.B.A. degree.
McKinsey & Company, a management
ocratic primary event where Barack Ms. Nasr, 32, is a manager and a strategy consultant in the New York office of
consulting firm in New York. He gradu-
Obama and Hillary Clinton were speak-
ated with highest honors from V. N. Bain & Company. She graduated from Northwestern.
ing. Though Mr. Fiocco was a Clinton
Karazin Kharkiv National University in
supporter and Mr. Sellew was an Obama
Ariel Herm, She is a daughter of Norma Nasr and Dr. Suhayl J. Nasr of Michigan City, Ind.
Kharkiv, Ukraine, from which he also re- Adam Koshkin Her father, a psychiatrist, practices in Michigan City. He is also the chief of
ceived a master’s degree in theoretical supporter, and the two were attending ri-
val universities, both were recipients of behavioral health at Beacon Health Systems, a hospital, and a staff psychiatrist
and mathematical physics. He received a . ................................................................................ at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center, both in South Bend, Ind.
Ph.D. in that subject from the Massachu- the Robertson scholarship, a program
designed to foster ties between Duke and Ariel Rebecca Herm and Adam Levin The bride’s mother manages her husband’s private practice.
setts Institute of Technology.
U.N.C., and they soon realized they had Koshkin were married on Aug. 5 at the Mr. Quaintance, 32, is an associate in the corporate restructuring group at
He is a son of Liliya B. Golyk and Dr. Squaw Valley resort in Olympic Valley,
Oleksandr Golyk of Kharkiv. The much in common. Lazard, the financial advisory and asset management firm in New York. He
Calif. Cameron L. Scherer, a friend of the graduated from Amherst College.
groom's father is a professor and chief couple who introduced them, became an
senior researcher at the Materials Insti- He is a son of Jane M. Azia and Robert F. Quaintance Jr. of Manhattan. The
American Marriage Ministries minister
tute, Tubitak Marmara Research Center groom’s mother is the chief of the New York State attorney general’s Bureau of
to officiate.
in Gebze, Turkey. Lindsay Thomson, In September, Ms. Herm, 29, will begin Consumer Frauds and Protection. His father retired as a partner in Debevoise
The couple met at a party in Boston in Samuel Brill working as a consultant in health educa- & Plimpton, the New York law firm, and is now a director of the International
April 2012. tion at the Permanente Medical Group in Legal Foundation, an organization in New York that helps countries emerging
. ................................................................................
Oakland, Calif. She graduated from Hav- from conflict to establish public defender systems. He was also an associate
Lindsay Sanders Thomson and Samuel erford, and received a master’s degree in producer of “Letters From Baghdad,” a 2016 documentary.
Malcolm Brill were married Aug. 5 at the public health from the University of The couple met when Ms. Nasr’s roommate from graduate school had a get-
bride’s family home in South London- Michigan. together. The host emailed Mr. Quaintance to let him know that he would proba-
derry, Vt. Bharat Ayyar, a friend of the She is a daughter of Miranda S. Spi-
bly be the only man attending, adding that it would be fine if he backed out.
couple, received permission from the vack and Stephen R. Herm of Bethesda,
Md. The bride’s father, a former labor or- “My reaction was, ‘Absolutely not; that sounds great,’” he said.
Vermont secretary of state to officiate. But when the party commenced, the women assembled — all recently or soon
ganizer, retired in January as senior
The couple, both 29, met at Hunter Col- to be married — began discussing their prewedding preparations.
counsel in the Office of International Af-
lege, where each received a master’s de- fairs at the Securities and Exchange “A major topic of conversation for the first hour of the party was, ‘What juice
gree in education, with honors. Commission in Washington. Her mother cleanse do you recommend?’” Mr. Quaintance recalled. “‘Did you make sure to
Mrs. Thomson-Brill is a management is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished go to your gyno visit? How was that?’ A lot of details that we couldn’t relate to
associate in the new ventures division at Visiting Professor of Journalism at De- at the time.”
McKinsey & Company, the management Pauw University. She was a reporter and
Melissa Kovner, consultancy, in New York. She graduated editor at The Washington Post, and now
He remembers that he caught Ms. Nasr’s eye in what he believed to be com-
Nicholas Levine with honors from Bates College. works as an independent journalist. mon cause. “The initial connection, we sort of looked at each other,” he said, as
She is the daughter of Kim H. Thom- Also in September, Mr. Koshkin, 28, the conversation turned to shopping for a starter home after marriage. “Neither
. ................................................................................
son and William B. Thomson of Bloom- will begin a clerkship for United States of us could contribute to this conversation, and I rolled my eyes a little bit, and I
Melissa Mae Kovner and Nicholas Brian field, Conn. The bride's father is the District Court Judge Judith E. Levy of thought that she was reciprocating.”
Levine were married Aug. 5, at Allaire owner and manager of Doune Capital, a the Eastern District of Michigan, with Ms. Nasr said: “I wasn’t paying attention to him at all. I didn’t even remem-
Studios at Glen Tonche in Shokan, N.Y., a private investment fund in Bloomfield. chambers in Ann Arbor. He graduated ber that we had talked.”
22-acre estate built in 1928 by Raymond He formerly served on the board of the from Swarthmore and received a law de- Nonetheless, he felt they had had a connection, and after their first encounter,
Pitcairn and used in recent years as a Stratton Foundation in Stratton, Vt. Her gree from the University of California, they passed each other on campus a few times and waved. But Mr. Quaintance
music recording studio. Richard Vogel, a mother is a registered nurse with Hart- Berkeley.
saw his first real opportunity a few weeks later, when both were walking home
Universal Life minister and a friend of ford HealthCare at Home. He worked as a research assistant for
Representative Elijah E. Cummings, from campus. They chatted a bit, and later made a tentative plan to see each
the couple, officiated. Mr. Brill is a third-year law student at other at a business school social event.
Ms. Kovner, 30, works in New York at Democrat of Maryland, as a member of
Yale, from which he graduated summa the staff of the House Oversight and Gov- She didn’t show up.
Half Yard Productions, a television pro- cum laude. He is also a summer associ- ernment Reform Committee. They made another tentative plan, and she didn’t show up again. The third
duction company. She is the production ate at the Manhattan law firm Davis Polk He is the son of Barbara H. Levin and time they agreed to meet, she emailed him in advance telling him that she
manager on the TLC television series & Wardwell, and works as a special con- Sandy M. Koshkin of Oakland, Calif. His wouldn’t be showing, and since spring break was approaching, she said that
“Say Yes to the Dress.” She graduated sultant to Ritchie Torres, a member of father is the president of Admecell, a perhaps they would see each other after the break.
from Boston University. the New York City Council from the biotech company in Alameda, Calif., that
She is a daughter of Victoria A. Chesler Bronx. “Maybe? That’s not acceptable,” he recalled replying. “Why don’t we get a
he founded with Ms. Levin.
and Matthew R. Kovner of Olivebridge He is the son of Cynthia Brill and The couple met in Washington in 2011. coffee? And she said, ‘Well, I could do a coffee or a drink.’”
N.Y. The bride’s parents co-founded The Steven Brill of Manhattan. The groom’s “We got drinks,” he said, “and hit it off and have been dating ever since.”
Cooperator, a monthly magazine about mother is a lawyer in Manhattan. She is Soon enough, prewedding preparations became a part of their own rapport.
co-ops and condominiums published in also the board president of Neighbors NINA REYES
New York. Her parents also own High- Link, a Westchester-based nonprofit or-
point Ventures, a business marketing
ganization that helps immigrants inte- Rina Pal,
and communications firm, also in New
York.
grate into their new communities. His fa- Jan Götzen
ther is a journalist who founded The
Mr. Levine, 31, is a manager at Brook- . ................................................................................
American Lawyer magazine and Court
lyn Bowl, a music venue and bowling al-
ley in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
TV. He is also the author of “America’s Rina Pal and Jan Mirco Götzen were Melissa Milich,
Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom married Aug. 5 at the Faculty Club at the Brian Bush
He is the son of Beth Levine and Brian
Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken University of California, Berkeley. The
Levine, both of Huntington Beach, Calif. Rev. Bruce O’Neill, an Episcopal priest,
Healthcare System.” . ................................................................................
His mother is the account manager for officiated at a German Protestant cere-
BatchMaster Process Manufacturing Melissa Brooke Milich and Brian Dev-
mony, which followed a Bengali Hindu
Software in Irvine, Calif. His father ceremony led by Arabinda Chakrabarti, ereaux Bush were married Aug. 5 at the
works in Huntington Beach, where he re- a Hindu priest. Loeb Boathouse in Central Park. Rabbi
stores classic cars. Alison Macbeth, The bride, 37, was until recently the Lisa Rubin officiated.
The couple met in 2009 while working Daniel Cook head of international health policy for C R PHOTOS Ms. Milich, 29, is an associate in the
at the House of Blues restaurant and mu- Bayer, the pharmaceutical company in New York office of the Washington law
sic venue in Boston. . ................................................................................
Leverkusen, Germany. She graduated
Amy Schwartz, firm Kozusko Harris Duncan, where she
Alison Carol Macbeth and Daniel David from U.C. Berkeley and received a mas- Jonathan Klein specializes in estate and succession
Cook were married Aug. 4. The Rev. Egill ter’s degree in criminology and criminal planning. She graduated magna cum
Hallgrimsson, a Lutheran pastor, offici- justice from Oxford. She received her law . ................................................................................ laude from the University of Pennsylva-
Allison Zeilinger, ated at the Budir Church in Budir, a ham- degree from Arizona State. Amy Lynn Schwartz and Jonathan Da- nia and received a law degree magna
Taylor Greason let on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Ice- She is the daughter of Anita M. Pal and vid Klein were married Aug. 5 at the Me- cum laude from Fordham. She also re-
land. Deb K. Pal of Danville, Calif. The bride’s morial Art Gallery in Rochester. Rabbi ceived a master of law degree in taxation
. ................................................................................ father retired as an electrical engineer Mark Shulman officiated. from N.Y.U. School of Law.
Ms. Macbeth, 30, is an associate archi-
and manager for the Lawrence Liver- The bride, 31, works in New York as a She is a daughter of Robin Milich and
Allison Eileen Zeilinger and Taylor Kosa tect at DXA Studio in Manhattan. She
more National Laboratory in Livermore, vice president in the fixed income divi- Lee Milich of Boca Raton, Fla. The
Greason were married Aug. 5 in Vail, graduated from the University of Ten- Calif. Her mother retired as an English sion of Stifel, a financial services holding bride’s parents are lawyers.
Colo. The Rev. Jose Maria Quera, a Ro- nessee. literature professor for Diablo Valley company in St. Louis. She graduated Mr. Bush, 30, is a project leader in the
man Catholic priest, performed the cere- She is a daughter of Gerry Allen Mac- College in Pleasant Hill, Calif. from Hobart and William Smith Colleges New York office of the Boston Consulting
mony at the Vail Chapel. beth and Glenn S. Macbeth of Murfrees- The groom, also 37, is a general man- in Geneva, N.Y., and is pursuing an Group, where he advises companies in
Mrs. Greason, 35, is the head of corpo- boro, Tenn. The bride’s father is the pres- ager for microTEC, a company based in M.B.A. degree at the University of Roch- the health care sector and financial spon-
rate brand strategy in San Francisco for ident of Gateway Title Services there. Duisburg, Germany, that provides three- ester. sors conducting due diligence on poten-
Twitter. She graduated from Dartmouth, Her mother is the chief financial officer dimensional printing for microstruc- She is a daughter of Doreen L. tial acquisitions. He graduated magna
where she also received an M.B.A. at Southwestern Investment Group in tures and microelectronic systems. He Schwartz and Richard A. Schwartz of cum laude with honors from Middlebury
She is a daughter of Susan R. Zeilinger Nashville. graduated from the University of Duis- Rochester. The bride’s father is a securi- College, and was the goalkeeper for the
and John S. Zeilinger of Omaha. The Mr. Cook, 30, is the director of product burg and received a master’s degree in ty officer at Monroe 2-Orleans Boces, a men’s soccer team in 2007, when it won
bride’s father is a senior counsel there for management at Blue Apron, a meal-kit physical chemistry from Ruhr-Univer- technical school in Spencerport, N.Y. Her its first N.C.A.A. Division III champi-
the law firm Baird Holm. service in Manhattan. He graduated sity Bochum in Germany. He received a mother is a nurse at the University of onship. He received an M.B.A. from
Mr. Greason, 35, is a product manager from Georgetown University. Ph.D. in physics from Philipps Univer- Rochester Medical Center.
Northwestern, where he graduated with
in San Francisco at LinkedIn. He gradu- He is the son of Kelly J. Cook and David sity Marburg, also in Germany, and com- The groom, also 31, is an engineer for
distinction.
ated cum laude from Princeton and re- A. Cook of Los Altos, Calif. The groom’s pleted a postdoctoral fellowship with the Pioneer Industries, a company in Carl-
German Research Foundation at the de- stadt, N.J., that manufacturers steel He is a son of Sue Bush and Tom Bush
ceived a master’s degree in science from mother is a nurse practitioner in cardiac of Madison, Wis. The groom’s mother, a
partment of mechanical engineering and doors and frames. He graduated from
Stanford. electrophysiology at the Mills-Peninsula retired certified public accountant,
materials science at Yale. the Rochester Institute of Technology,
He is a son of Barbara K. Greason and Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif. His serves as board chairwoman of the Attic
He is the son of Brigitte Götzen and from which he also received a master’s
Thomas T. Greason of Bozeman, Mont. father is the vice president for manufac- Reiner Götzen of Duisburg. The groom’s degree in engineering management. Angel Association and Attic Angel Place,
The groom’s mother retired as a counsel- turing at Gigamon, a data security tech- mother assists children with special He is the son of Dr. Michele L. Klein nonprofits based in Madison that focus
or in Bozeman for schools in Gallatin nology company in Santa Clara, Calif. needs in public elementary schools in and Dr. Andrei Klein of Bedford Hills, on health and human services.
County. His father retired as a supervi- The couple met in 2012 at a party at Rumeln, Germany. His father is the N.Y. His mother is a psychiatrist and as- His father is the executive vice presi-
sor in Bozeman for Montana Fish, Wild- Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brook- founder and chief executive of mi- sistant medical director for Arms Acres, dent of Food Concepts, an equipment
life and Parks. lyn. They were dancing and she said, croTEC. a medical clinic in Carmel, N.Y. His fa- wholesaler and fulfillment service
The couple were introduced through “What was your name again?” and then, The couple met through mutual ther is a physician at Arms Acres. provider, in Middleton, Wis.
mutual friends in January 2012 in San “I think you’re cute.” They had their first friends in November 2015 in Düsseldorf, The couple met through a mutual The couple met in February 2013 at a
Francisco. date a few days later. Germany. friend in 2010. bar in New York.
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Vows
WEDDINGS

Rebecca Mann,
James Platts
. ................................................................................

Rebecca Mann and James Thayer Platts

were married Aug. 5 at Ray’s Boathouse
in Seattle. Bradley L. Tytel, a friend of the
couple who became a Universal Life min-
NATURAL EXPRESSIONS NY ister for the occasion, officiated.
The bride, 34, and the groom, 38, met
Justine Anania, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Lauren Haffer,
J. D. Gross in Seattle, where she is a senior program Jonathan Birnbaum
officer in the financial services for the
. ................................................................................ poor division and he is a strategy advis- . ................................................................................
er.
Justine Elizabeth Anania and Jeremy Lauren Paige Haffer and Jonathan
David Gross were married Aug. 5 in Bri- Ms. Mann graduated from the Univer- Adam Birnbaum are to be married Aug. 6
arcliff Manor, N.Y. Rabbi Nicole Auer- sity of Sydney with bachelor’s degrees in in Farmingdale, N.Y. Rabbi Michael
bach officiated at the Sleepy Hollow economics and law. She also holds a mas- Klayman is to officiate at the Carlyle on
Country Club. ter’s of public administration from the the Green, an event space.
Mrs. Gross, 28, is a senior sales ac- London School of Economics and is The bride, 29, is a sales development
count executive in New York for Goods studying for a Ph.D. in political science at manager in New York for Google. She
and Services Showroom, a multi-line the University of Oxford. graduated from Babson College and re- DEBORAH K. O'BRIEN PHOTOGRAPHY

showroom that manages sales for de- She is the daughter of Pamela Mann ceived a master’s degree in marketing
signers. She graduated from Hobart and and Timothy W. Mann of Wollongong, in management from the Fashion Institute
John Abbott Jr.,
William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. New South Wales, Australia. The bride’s of Technology. E. Gerald Dabbs
She is the daughter of Sheryl H. Ana- parents are physiotherapists in a shared She is the daughter of Sylvie Haffer
nia and Michael L. Anania of New York. private practice in Wollongong. and Gary E. Haffer of Belmont, Mass. ...............................................................................................................................................................

The bride’s father is the managing part- Mr. Platts graduated from Harvard, The groom, 31, works in Westport,
and received an M.B.A. and a master’s
ner of the New York law firm Ford Mar-
rin Esposito Witmeyer & Gleser. Her degree in public health from the Univer-
Conn., as the head of fixed income execu-
tion for Bridgewater Associates. He A Combined 171 Years, but Young in Love
mother is an executive assistant district sity of California, Berkeley. graduated from the Massachusetts Insti- Dr. John Vincent Abbott Jr. and Dr. E. Gerald Dabbs were married
attorney in the Nassau County District He is a son of Elizabeth Platts and H. tute of Technology and received an Aug. 5 in the ballroom of Dr. Abbott’s home in Ridgefield, Conn.
Attorney’s Office, in Mineola, N.Y. Gregory Platts of Bethesda, Md. The M.B.A. from Columbia. Patricia E. Henry, a retired State Supreme Court justice in Brook-
Mr. Gross, 30, is known as J. D. He is groom’s mother retired as a kindergar- He is the son of Ellen W. Birnbaum and
ten teacher at the Maret School in Wash- lyn, officiated.
the operations manager at By Chloe, a Mark D. Birnbaum of Great Neck, N.Y.
ington. His father retired as the senior Dr. Abbott (left), 92, is the owner and chief executive of Valley Behavioral
vegan fast-casual restaurant chain of Es- The couple met in 2014 on the dating
quared Hospitality, which is in New York. vice president and treasurer at the Na- app Hinge. Medicine, a mental health clinic in Goshen, N.Y. During World War II, he served
He graduated from the University of tional Geographic Society, also in Wash- in the Navy as a meteorologist, and upon his discharge in 1946, he enrolled at
Connecticut. ington. the University of Iowa, where he graduated with high distinction. He later
He is a son of Laurie K. Gross and Joe received his medical degree from Cornell.
M. Gross of New York. The groom’s He was in private practice in New York from 1960 to 1998, and in Warwick,
mother is a residential real-estate broker Natalie Gontcharova, N.Y., from 1991 to 2000. He is the son of the late Ethel Prudence Bonser Abbott
for Bond New York. His father works in
Newburgh, N.Y., as an aircraft mainte-
Nicholas Carbone and the late John V. Abbott, who both lived in Ridgewood, N.J.
Dr. Abbott was a widower.
nance technician in the corporate flight . ................................................................................
department of General Electric. Dr. Dabbs, 79, retired from his private psychiatric practice for adults, children
The couple were introduced at the urg- Natalie Gontcharova and Nicholas An- and adolescents in New York. He is also retired as a member of the clinical staff
ing of the bride’s aunt, Audrey Kaplan, drew Carbone were married Aug. 5 at the of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital but remains the emeritus
who had also been the groom’s fourth- Meridian House, a mansion in Washing- associate clinical professor in the psychiatry department of Weill Cornell Medi-
grade teacher, and had had a reunion at ton. The Very Rev. David B. Lett, a priest MATTHEW WOLFF
cine, the biomedical research unit and medical school of Cornell. He graduated
the 20-year anniversary of her musical with the Old Catholic Diocese of New Jer-
sey, officiated. Anja Crowder, from Texas Technological College and received his medical degree from the
theater company, which the groom had University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
joined as a child. “A day later I got a text The bride, 32, is a lifestyle writer and Peter Morice He is a son of the late Thelma Christine Martin Dabbs and the late Herman
from her and she said, ‘I have someone I editor specializing in weddings, travel
think you’d love meeting up with,’” he and home décor for the online publica- . ................................................................................ Rufe Dabbs, who both lived in Post, Tex.
said. tion Refinery29 in Manhattan. She grad- His first marriage ended in divorce.
Anja Ramme Crowder and Peter Gun-
uated from George Washington Univer- Dr. Abbott was previously in a committed relationship for 61 years to Dr.
ther Alexander Morice were married
sity and received a master’s degree in in- Peter Guggenheim, whom he had met in medical school. They were legally
Aug. 5 in Combourg, France. Christiane
teractive journalism from American Uni-
Guervilly, the mayor of Erquy, France, married in Toronto in 2007
versity.
officiated, with the Rev. Gareth Randall, After Dr. Guggenheim’s death in 2012, Dr. Abbott was encouraged by a friend
She is the daughter of Elena
an Anglican priest, leading a spiritual to join Match.com, and in September 2013, he got onto the dating app.
Gontcharova and Alexander F.
ceremony at the Château du Grand Val. “During Peter's chronic illness and subsequent death, I continued my psychi-
Gontcharov of Bethesda, Md. The bride’s
Mrs. Morice, 27, is the talent booker for
father is a senior geophysicist at the Car- atric practice but curtailed my equine activities,” said Dr. Abbott, who bred
political and current events guests for
negie Institution of Washington, special- Hanoverian dressage horses at his farm in Warwick.
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
izing in spectroscopy. Her mother Dr. Dabbs was also recovering emotionally after the end of a 16-year relation-
Until recently she was a producer at ABC
worked for the World Bank Group in ship with a younger man, and had decided to try online dating.
News in New York for “This Week With
Washington as a program assistant in
George Stephanopoulos.” She graduated “I was hoping to meet a man closer to my age and with similar interests and
ELIZABETH LaDUCA
the writing and speaking skills depart-
cum laude from Macalester College. background,” he said.
ments.
Kailan Sierra-Davidson, The groom, 29, is a domain-expert
She is the daughter of Jutta R. Crow- In January 2014, Dr. Abbott and Dr. Dabbs found each other’s profile online
der and Jimm L. Crowder of St. Paul. The
Alexander Loomis manager at Dataminr, a Twitter-based
bride’s father retired as the director of in-
and were thrilled to see that each shared a love of theater, restaurants, travel
breaking news and analysis company in and art. (Dr. Abbott and Dr. Guggenheim were renowned art collectors.)
ternational admissions at Macalester
. ................................................................................
Manhattan. He graduated from North- “Although we had both been in practice in Manhattan and knew some of the
College there. Her mother is a high
Kailan Alysabeth Sierra-Davidson and western. same colleagues, we had never met or heard of each other,” Dr. Dabbs said.
school German teacher at St. Paul Acad-
Alexander Hale Loomis were married He is the son of Karen M. Carbone and That same month, they went on a date to a restaurant and later made their
emy and Summit School.
Aug. 5. The Rev. Gail W. Wright, a min- Michael Carbone of Randolph, N.J. The
Mr. Morice, also 27, is the chief operat- way to a hotel bar in Midtown, where Dr. Dabbs said they were “propositioned
ister of the United Church of Christ, offi- groom’s mother is the head physical
ing officer in New York at the TEG Ener- by a working girl in a black mink coat.”
ciated at David’s Folly Farm in therapist at Regional Day School, a cen-
gy Group, which specializes in automa- “I told her we were lovers,” Dr. Abbott said, laughing.
Brooksville, Me. ter in Morristown, N.J., for those with se-
tion and control systems for industrial From there, they began “some old-fashioned dating, a movie here, a dinner
The couple met at Harvard, from vere special needs from kindergarten
power generation in New York. He grad-
which they graduated cum laude. through age 21. His father is the product there,” as Dr. Dabbs put it. By August, they were spending weekends together
uated summa cum laude from Columbia.
Dr. Sierra-Davidson, 26, is a second- development engineer at the Berliss amid the construction noise of new homes each had recently bought, Dr. Ab-
He is a son of Rikke A. Dierssen-
year student at Harvard Medical School. Bearing Company, a family-run manu- bott’s in Ridgefield, and Dr. Dabbs’s in Old Saybrook, Conn.
Morice and Pierre Morice of Stillwater,
She received a doctoral degree in bio- facturer of roller bearings and seals in But their relationship became complicated in February 2015, when Dr. Dabbs
Minn. The groom’s mother is a partner in
medical sciences from Oxford University Livingston, N.J.
the Minneapolis law firm Faegre Baker experienced a recurrence of cancer, which led to surgery at Memorial Sloan
in England. The couple met at a speed-dating
Daniels and serves as honorary consul of Kettering in New York, followed by recuperation at Dr. Abbott’s apartment in
She is a daughter of Lisa M. Sierra-Da- event in Brooklyn in February 2011.
the Kingdom of Denmark for Minnesota New York and at his home in Ridgefield.
vidson and Col. Paul G. Davidson of Fort and the Dakotas. His father retired as a
Belvoir, Va. The bride’s father is a direc- By October 2015, Dr. Dabbs had been nursed back to health by Dr. Abbott, and
professional soccer player who began his
tor in the National Reconnaissance Of- career with Football Club de Nantes, the they began spending more time together on trips to Florida and Puerto Rico,
fice at Fort Belvoir. Her mother is a yoga team that won the French Division 1 and in their respective homes.
instructor and wellness coach in Wash- League championship in 1983. “People may ask, ‘Why at the combined age of 171 years are you getting mar-
ington and Alexandria, Va. The couple met in seventh grade at St. ried?’ ” Dr. Dabbs said. “Like any couple who are in love, we want to make the
Mr. Loomis, 27, received a law degree Paul Academy and Summit School and public, legal and personal commitment to each other, as we desire to spend the
magna cum laude from Harvard. In Sep- began dating in high school. future together till death do us part.’”
tember, he is to become a law clerk for
VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Judge Debra A. Livingston at the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit in New York.
He is a son of Alexandra M. Plotkin
and John D. Loomis of Sudbury, Mass. Jessie Cohan,
The groom’s mother retired as the com- Jared LeBoff Alyson Maugeri,
munications coordinator at the United Jordan Albert
Methodist Church in Sudbury. His father . ................................................................................

is a vice president for information tech- Jessie Krane Cohan, a daughter of Cher- . ................................................................................
nology in the Quincy, Mass., office of yl L. Krane of Lake Oswego, Ore., and
State Street Corporation, a Boston bank. Alyson Isadora Maugeri and Jordan
Robert D. Cohan of Newton, Mass., was Harris Petersen Albert were married
JCPENNEY PORTRAITS
married Aug. 5 to Jared Benjamin Aug. 4. Lauren M. Seber, a Universal
LeBoff, a son of Shelley F. LeBoff and Jay
M. LeBoff of Beverly Hills, Calif. Larry
Khendi White, Life minister, officiated at the Nassau
Michelle Arbour, Sanitsky, a cousin of the groom and a Adebanjo Solaru Inn in Princeton, N.J. ALEXANDER ROSENTHAL

Ryan Scoggins Universal Life minister, officiated at the Mrs. Albert, 29, is a lawyer in Manhat-
Christiana Stephenson,
home of the groom’s parents. . ................................................................................ tan in the labor relations department of
. ................................................................................
Mrs. LeBoff, 36, is a fashion stylist, fo- Dr. Khendi Tahira White and Adebanjo the Metropolitan Transportation Au- Matthew Aks
Michelle Arbour and Dr. Ryan Hoffman cusing on editorial work and advertising, Oluwafolayimika Solaru are to be mar- thority’s Metro-North Railroad. She
. ................................................................................
Scoggins were married Aug. 5 in Oak- in New York and Los Angeles. She gradu- ried Aug. 6 at the Ariel International graduated from the University of Wis-
dale, N.Y. The Hon. Eileen Rakower, a ated from Brown. Center in Cleveland. The Rev. Larry consin and received her law degree from Christiana Elizabeth Stephenson and
justice of the Supreme Court in New The bride’s father is a partner in the Green, a Baptist minister, is to officiate. Yeshiva University. Matthew Louis Aks were married Aug. 5
York, officiated at the Bourne Mansion. law firm Cohan Rasnick Myerson Plaut The bride, 31, is a third-year cardiology She is a daughter of Ann S. Maugeri in Manning Chapel at Brown University
The bride, 29, is a lawyer at Pryor in Boston and is on the board of the Jew- fellow at the Cleveland Clinic. She gradu- and Salvatore J. Maugeri of Freehold, in Providence, R.I. The Rev. Jamie P.
Cashman in New York. She graduated ish National Fund of New England in ated from Swarthmore, and received a N.J. The bride’s father retired as a biol- Washam, a Baptist minister, performed
summa cum laude from the University of Boston. Her mother works in Portland, medical degree from Howard, where she ogy and chemistry teacher at Tottenville the ceremony.
Southern California and received a law Ore., as an investment adviser to start- was valedictorian of its College of Medi- High School in Staten Island. Her The couple met at Brown, from which
degree from Georgetown. up companies. The bride is also a step- cine. mother retired as a chiropractor in they graduated, he magna cum laude.
She is the daughter of Hye Ran Ki Ar- daughter of Dr. Phuli L. Cohan. She is a daughter of Janice W. White Brooklyn. Ms. Stephenson, 27, is the communica-
bour and Normand S. Arbour of Bell- Mr. LeBoff, 36, is a producer in Univer- and Alonzo W. White, both of Washing- Mr. Albert, 29, is a vice president in tions director for the Massachusetts Un-
more, N.Y. The bride’s parents own a sal City, Calif., at Marc Platt Productions, ton. The bride’s father is a senior project Manhattan for project and infrastruc- ion for Human Service Workers and Ed-
Burger King and a Thai Express in Mont- a production company for television, film manager in Washington for the General ture finance at Citigroup. He graduated ucators, SEIU Local 509, in Marlbor-
real. and theater. He graduated from Yale. Services Administration. Her mother re- from Georgetown University. ough, Mass.
The groom, 33, is a resident physician The groom’s mother is an interior de- tired as an English teacher at Parkdale She is a daughter of Rosemary
He is a son of Joan B. Wheeler and Mi-
at Mount Sinai West in New York. He signer in Beverly Hills. His father works High School in Riverdale, Md. Matchak and Charles K. Stephenson of
chael S. Albert of Easton, Conn. The
graduated from Northeastern and re- there as the chief executive of StemPilot, The groom, also 31, is an operations Seal Harbor, Me. The bride’s father re-
groom’s mother is an art teacher at tired as a lawyer in Granby, Mass. Her
ceived a medical degree from Touro Col- an education company in Waterbury, team leader at Quicken Loans in Cleve-
lege. Conn. Ridgefield Academy, a private school in mother retired as a reference librarian at
land. He graduated from the University
He is the son of Deborah Hoffman- The couple met through the dating app of Michigan. Ridgefield, Conn. His father owns Nor- the West Springfield Public Library in
Scoggins and Kim C. Scoggins of Hilton Hinge. On their first date they discov- He is the son of Wanda R. Solaru and walk Luggage in Norwalk, Conn. Massachusetts.
Head, S.C. His mother retired as a school ered that their paternal grandparents Ademola O. Solaru of Cleveland. The The couple met at Princeton Univer- Mr. Aks, 28, is studying for an M.B.A.
psychologist and guidance counselor at live in the same retirement community groom’s mother is the deputy registrar at sity in the summer of 2007 when they degree at Harvard.
Merrimack High School in Merrimack, in Florida. They each called their grand- the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles office were advisers and resident assistants He is a son of Nancy B. Rubini-Aks and
N.H. His father retired as the owner of mothers the next day, and learned that in Independence, Ohio. His father is the for high-school students participating in Richard M. Aks of Scarsdale, N.Y. The
Arc Associates, a corporate recruiting they play in a weekly bridge game. Jayne chief executive of Parthenon Globalsys- the Junior State of America program, for groom’s mother is the executive director
firm in Londonderry, N.H. Cohan and Phyllis LeBoff gave each tems, a health care technology company students interested in civics and gov- of the White Plains Library Foundation
The couple met in the summer of 2015 other a discreet thumbs up as they sat for in Cleveland. ernment. Both bride and groom had par- in White Plains. His father is the vice
at 10 Degrees Bar, a wine bar in New their next game, and soon their grand- The couple met through the dating ticipated in the program while in high president for finance and the associate
York. children were the talk of the community. website eHarmony in September 2015. school. treasurer at Rutgers University.
2 OPINION 6 OPINION 4 NEWS ANALYSIS 9 OPINION

Is this the end of the tech In Venezuela, a date with no These dogs save Detroit in 1967 and America
bubble? BY RUCHIR SHARMA dinner. BY CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ in 2017. BY MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
4 OPINION 8 EDITORIAL
lives. All they want 10 OPINION

Stop calling motherhood the The great negotiator hasn’t is a squeaky toy in Feminist bridezillas fight
hardest job. BY KAREN RINALDI closed any deals. return. BY KATE MURPHY back. BY KELSEY M C KINNEY

IDEAS OPINION NEWS ANALYSIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

K

Should I Help My
Patients Die?
Last year, California allowed medical aid
in dying. As a palliative care specialist,
how am I supposed to deal with it?

OAKLAND, CALIF. I could see my own discomfort mirrored in OPINION

I
WAS leafing through a patient’s chart
last year when a colleague tapped me on
the shoulder. “I have a patient who is
asking about the End of Life Option Act,”
he said in a low voice. “Can we even do that
here?”
I practice both critical and palliative care
medicine at a public hospital in Oakland. In
June 2016, our state became the fourth in the
nation to allow medical aid in dying for pa-
tients suffering from terminal illness. Ore-
gon was the pioneer 20 years ago. Washing-
ton and Vermont followed suit more re-
cently. (Colorado voters passed a similar law
in November.) Now, five months after the
law took effect here in California, I was fac-
ing my first request for assistance to shorten
the life of a patient.
That week, I was the attending physician
on the palliative care service. Since pallia-
tive care medicine focuses on the treatment
of all forms of suffering in serious illness, my
colleague assumed that I would know what
to do with this request. I didn’t.
his face. “Can you help us with it?” he asked
BY JESSICA NUTIK
me. “Of course,” I said. Then I felt my stom- ZITTER
ach lurch.
California’s law permits physicians to pre- A critical care and
palliative medicine
scribe a lethal cocktail to patients who re- doctor at Highland
quest it and meet certain criteria: They
Hospital and the author
must be adults expected to die within six of “Extreme Measures:
months who are able to self-administer the
Finding a Better Path to
drug and retain the mental capacity to make the End of Life.”
a decision like this.
But that is where the law leaves off. The
details of patient selection and protocol,
even the composition of the lethal com-
pound, are left to the individual doctor or
hospital policy. Our hospital, like many oth-
ers at that time, was still in the early stages
of creating a policy and procedure. To me
and many of my colleagues in California, it
felt as if the law had passed so quickly that
we weren’t fully prepared to deal with it.
That aside, the idea of hastening death is
uncomfortable for many doctors. In its origi-
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CHRIS SILAS NEAL

The Policies of White Resentment

Trump won on the politics of racial backlash. Now it’s at the core of his agenda.

W
HITE resentment put Donald
Trump in the White House. And
there is every indication that it
will keep him there, especially as
he continues to transform that seething, ir-
rational fear about an increasingly diverse
America into policies that feed his supporters’
worst racial anxieties.
If there is one consistent thread through Mr.
Trump’s political career, it is his overt connec-
tion to white resentment and white national-
ism. Mr. Trump’s fixation on Barack Obama’s
birth certificate gave him the white nationalist
street cred that no other Republican candidate
could match, and that credibility has sustained
him in office — no amount of scandal or evi-
dence of incompetence will undermine his fol-
lowers’ belief that he, and he alone, could Make
America White Again.
The guiding principle in Mr. Trump’s govern-
ment is to turn the politics of white resentment
into the policies of white rage — that calculated
mechanism of executive orders, laws and
agency directives that undermines and pun-
ishes minority achievement and aspiration. No
wonder that, even while his White House sinks
deeper into chaos, scandal and legislative mis-
management, Mr. Trump’s approval rating
among whites (and only whites) has remained
unnaturally high. Washington may obsess over
Obamacare repeal, Russian sanctions and the OPINION
debt ceiling, but Mr. Trump’s base sees some-
BY CAROL ANDERSON
thing different — and, to them, inspiring.
Like on Christmas morning, every day A professor of
brings his supporters presents: travel bans African-American studies at
against Muslims, Immigration and Customs Emory University and the
Enforcement raids in Hispanic communities author of “White Rage: The
and brutal, family-gutting deportations, a Unspoken Truth of Our
crackdown on sanctuary cities, an Election In- Racial Divide.”
tegrity Commission stacked with notorious
vote suppressors, announcements of a ban on
transgender personnel in the military, approv-
al of police brutality against “thugs,” a denial of
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2 SR
When Will the
Tech Bubble
Burst?
OPINION
BY RUCHIR SHARMA
Author of “The Rise and Fall of
Nations: Forces of Change in
the Post-Crisis World,” the chief
global strategist at Morgan
Stanley Investment
Management and a
contributing opinion writer.
MAT T
CHAS
E brainpower than to increase productivity has already
A
T the height of a market mania in 1967, the author
George Goodman captured the mood per-
fectly, comparing it to a surreal party that ends
only when “black horsemen” burst through the
doors and cut down all the revelers who remain. “Those
who leave early are saved, but the ball is so splendid no
one wants to leave while there is still time. So everybody
keeps asking — what time is it? But none of the clocks
have hands.”
Every decade since, the global markets have relived
this party. In the late 1960s the mania was for the “nifty
50” American companies like Disney and McDonald’s,
which had been the “go-go” stocks of that decade. In the
late 1970s it was for natural resources, from gold to oil. In
the late 1980s it was stocks in Japan, and in the late 1990s
it was the dot-com boom. Last decade, investors flocked
to mortgage-backed securities and big emerging mar-
kets from Brazil to Russia. In every case, many
partygoers were still in the market when the crash
came.
Today, tech mania is resurgent. Investors are again
glancing at a clock with no hands — and dismissing the
risk. The profitless start-ups that were wiped out in the
dot-com crash have consolidated into an oligopoly com-
posed of leading survivors such as Google and Apple.
These are giants with real earnings, yet signs of a ir-
rational euphoria are growing.
One is pitchmen bundling investments with very dif-
ferent outlooks into a single package. Last decade they
bundled Brazil, Russia, India and China to sell as the
BRICs. More recently they packaged Facebook, Ama-
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zon, Netflix and Google as FANG, then, as names and
prospects shifted, subbed in Alphabet, Apple and Micro-
soft to make Faama. Others are hyping the hottest tech
companies in China as BAT, for Baidu, Alibaba and Ten-
cent. Whatever the mix, acronym mania is usually a
sign of bubbly thinking.
Seven of the world’s 10 most valuable companies are
in the tech sector, matching the late 1999 peak. As the
American stock market keeps marching to new highs —
the Dow hit 22,000 this week — the gains are increas-
We are clearly entering the late
stages of this market boom.
ingly concentrated in the big tech stocks. The bulls say it
is inevitable that Apple will become the first trillion-dol-
lar company.
No matter how surreal the endgame, booms tend to
begin with real innovation. In the past, manias have
been triggered by excitement about canals, the tele-
graph and the automobile. But not since the advent of
railroads incited market booms in the 1830s and 1840s
has the world seen back-to-back booms like the dot-com
bubble of the 1990s and the one we are in now.
The dot-com era saw the rise of big companies that
were building the nuts and bolts of the internet — in-
cluding Dell, Microsoft, Cisco and Intel — and of start-
ups that promised to tap its revolutionary potential. The
current boom lacks a popular name because the innova-
tions — from the internet of things to artificial intelli-
gence and machine learning — are sprawling and hard
to label. If there is a single thread, it is the expanding
capacity to harness data, which the Alibaba founder,
Jack Ma, calls the “electricity of the 21st century.”
Market excitement about authentic technology inno-
vations enters the manic phase when stock prices rise
faster than justified by underlying economic growth.
Since the crisis of 2008, the United States economy has
been recovering at the rate of around 2 percent, roughly
half the rate seen for much of the past century. The areas
of growth are limited in this environment. Oil’s not very
euphoric, with prices depressed, while regulators are
forcing banks to keep the music down. In the most direct
echo of 1999, technology is once again seen as the best
party in town.
I
T is true that prices today are not quite as widely
overvalued as in 1999. Large technology stocks are
up 350 percent this decade, the low end of the range
for the hot stocks from earlier booms, which saw
gains of 300 to 1,900 percent. Only a few select technol-
ogy companies — mainly the internet giants — are trad-
ing close to the valuations of the dot-com era, when the
average price-to-earnings ratio for tech companies hit
50. The average ratio for that sector today is 18.
However, the scale of today’s tech boom is not readily
visible because much of the investment action has
moved into the hands of big private players. In 1999,
nearly 550 start-ups went public, and after many
ended in disaster, the government tightened regu-
lation of public companies. In part to avoid that
red tape, this year only 11 tech companies have
gone public. Many are raising money instead
from venture capitalists or private equity
funds. Venture capitalists have poured more
than $60 billion into the technology sector
every year for the past three years — the
highest flows since the peak in 2000 —
and private equity investors say there
has never been a better time to raise
money.
These new private funding chan-
nels are creating “unicorns,” companies that haven’t
gone public but are valued at $1 billion or more. Uni-
corns barely existed in 1999. Now there are more than
260 worldwide, with technology companies dominating
the list. And if signs emerge that the privately owned
unicorns are faltering, the value of publicly owned tech
companies is not likely to hold up either.
We can never know when the end will come. Still,
there are three critical signals to watch for.
The first is regulation. The tech giants are seen today
as monopolizing internet search and commerce, and
they are angling to take over industries such as publish-
ing and automobiles, raising alarms at antitrust agen-
cies in Europe and the United States. Fear that new in-
ternet technologies are doing more to waste time and
provoked a backlash in China, where officials recently
criticized online gaming as “electronic heroin.” A regu-
latory crackdown on tech giants as either monopolies or
productivity destroyers could pop the allure of tech
stocks.
The other signals are more familiar. Going back to the
“nifty 50” stocks of the 1960s, nearly every big market
mania ended after central banks tightened monetary
policy and many people who had borrowed to get in the
game found themselves in trouble. The dot-com bubble
peaked in 2000, after the Federal Reserve had increased
interest rates multiple times. The current boom will
likewise be at risk if an increase in inflation compels the
Fed to raise interest rates beyond the modest rise the
market currently expects.
Finally, watch for tech earnings to start falling short
of analyst forecasts. The dot-com boom was driven in
part by increasingly optimistic predictions for technol-
ogy company earnings, and it imploded when earnings
started to miss badly. Investors realized then that their
expectations about profits from the internet revolution
had become unreal.
Of course, no two booms will unfold exactly the same
way. We are now eight years into this bull market, ma-
king it the second longest in history, behind only the run-
up of the late 1990s. No bull market lasts forever, and
while it is clear that we are entering the late stages of
this cycle, it is impossible to say whether this moment is
like 1999, or 1998 — or earlier.
The clocks have no hands, and the black horsemen
may appear at any time.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 SR 3

The Walls We Won’t Tear Down

O
NEhundred years ago, in a major advance for
human dignity, the Supreme Court struck down
a racial zoning law in Louisville, Ky., that prohi-
bited nonwhites from moving into homes in ma-
jority-white areas.
Laws like these, which existed in numerous cities at the
time, are part of a larger, shameful history of government-
OPINION sponsored racial segregation. In Buchanan v. Warley, the
court ruled that such ordinances violate the 14th Amend-
BY RICHARD D.
ment and related statutes that “entitle a colored man to
KAHLENBERG
acquire property without state legislation discriminating
A senior fellow at against him solely because of his color.”
the Century But this hardly ended racial discrimination in housing,
Foundation and as whites adopted biased policies like economic zoning
the author of “All that banned apartment buildings in areas designated for
Together Now: single-family homes, often adding minimum lot size re-
Creating quirements to boot. Because African-Americans were dis-
Middle-Class proportionately low-income, economic zoning was in ef-
Schools through fect exclusionary, accomplishing much of the same re-
Public School sults as explicit racial zoning.
Choice” and a new “Such economic zoning was rare in the United States
come African-Americans and Latinos from wealthier
white communities. And growing numbers of poor whites
are affected as well. As Paul Jargowsky, a professor of
public policy at Rutgers University, notes, African-Ameri-
cans and Hispanics remain much more likely to live in
concentrated poverty than whites, but since 2000, there
has been a 145 percent increase among non-Hispanic
whites living in high-poverty neighborhoods.
Economic segregation matters because where you live
affects so much in life — your access to transportation,
employment opportunities, decent health care, and good
schools. In Montgomery County in Maryland, which re-
quires developers to set aside units for low-income fam-
ilies, disadvantaged students attending good local
schools cut the math achievement gap with their middle-
class peers in half between 2001 and 2007, according to a
study by Heather Schwartza of the RAND Corporation..
To bolster the 1968 Fair Housing Act, we need a new
“economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage local
ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire
neighborhoods and their schools. Given political realities
larly pernicious stripe. Economists across the political
spectrum agree that current exclusionary policies create
an artificial scarcity of housing, driving up prices beyond
what the market would naturally dictate.
Research finds that racial diversity lowers residential
property values. Therefore, exclusionary zoning also un-
fairly increases the property values in white neighbor-
hoods by reducing the number of minority residents. The
flip side of the equation is that modest drops in property
values to genuine market levels will be a boon to young
and minority purchasers, as the elimination of unfair gov-
ernment restrictions makes housing more affordable.
Wealthy property owners usually win in American poli-
tics, but not always, as an important 2010 vote in Massa-
chusetts suggests. Back in 1969, the state passed an “anti-
snob” zoning law that empowered state officials to alter
local zoning laws in communities where less than 10 per-
cent of housing stock was deemed affordable. In 2010, an
effort to overturn the law through a statewide referen-
dum was opposed by 58 percent of voters.

report, “An before World War I,” Richard Rothstein of the Economic
Policy Institute notes in his new book, “The Color of Law,”
Economic Fair
“but the Buchanan decision provoked urgent interest in
Housing Act,” from zoning as a way to circumvent the ruling,” a ploy that
which this essay is would be used for decades. For example, as Mr. Rothstein
adapted. notes, in 1953, shortly after about 250 African-Americans
were transferred to work in a nearby Ford auto plant, the
town of Milpitas, Calif., adopted a policy allowing the city
council to ban apartments.
Developers challenged economic zoning in the courts,
but with a different ultimate result. In the case of Village
of Euclid v. Ambler Realty, a federal court struck down a
zoning ordinance in a Cleveland suburb that prohibited
apartment buildings in an area zoned for single- and two-
family homes. The court noted that “the result to be ac-
complished is to classify the population and to segregate
them according to their income or situation in life.”
But when the case reached the Supreme Court in 1926,
the justices declared that excluding apartment buildings
was constitutional. In language laden with class bias, the
court reasoned that an apartment house can be “a mere
parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of open
spaces and attractive surroundings created by the resi-
dential character of the district.”
The Supreme Court’s comparative willingness to toler-
ate explicit economic discrimination is mirrored in Amer-
ican public policy. In 1968, in another great advance for
human equality, the Fair Housing Act outlawed discrimi-
in Washington, we could begin with laws in friendly states
and build toward a moment, sometime in the future, when
the federal government would take on the issue. In its
strongest form such a law would ban unjustified and per-
vasive exclusionary zoning that prohibit townhouses or
apartments in single-family areas or impose minimum lot
sizes. These ordinances, Lee Anne Fennell of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Law School notes, have become “a central
organizing feature in American metropolitan life.”
If we can’t achieve a ban, we should assess a penalty on
municipalities that engage in discriminatory zoning, ei-
ther by withholding infrastructure funds or limiting the
tax deduction that homeowners in those towns can take
for mortgage interest. At the same time, inclusionary zon-
ing laws of the type used in Montgomery County are
needed to promote mixed-income housing.
There would, of course, be fierce political and legal op-
position from many property owners in exclusive neigh-
borhoods who have enjoyed an unwarranted inflation of
their home values through social engineering of a particu-
A
ND, in this populist moment, it is possible that inter-
esting alliances could coalesce around an eco-
nomic fair housing act. On the left, civil rights
groups, affordable housing advocates and anti-
sprawl environmentalists could ally with groups on the
right, including libertarians who oppose government reg-
ulation on principle and developers who chafe at restric-
tions on building density. Primary beneficiaries would in-
clude Republican working-class white constituencies and
Democratic working-class communities of color. The stat-
ute would be in the classic tradition of anti-discrimination
laws, yet would radically reorder an exclusionary system
that has been widely accepted as given.
Just as it is shameful for government regulation to ex-
clude people from neighborhoods on the basis of race, it is
similarly deplorable for local governments to exclude en-
tire groups of adults and children from communities on
the basis of income. We can either make this problem bet-
ter and integrate more fully or we can let it worsen and
allow our society to disintegrate further.

Zoning policies that promote

segregation should be scrapped.
nation in the sale and rental of housing units by such fac-
tors as race, national origin and religion. But the law, like
the Buchanan decision almost 50 years earlier, did noth-
ing to address economically exclusionary zoning.
The differing treatment of racial and economic dis-
crimination in housing laws has had a predictable result.
Racial segregation by residence, while still high, is falling
as the Fair Housing Act has allowed middle-class black
people to escape ghettos. The black-white dissimilarity
index (in which zero is perfect integration and 100 is abso-
lute segregation), has shrunk from a high of 79 in 1970 to
59 in 2010, according to an analysis of Census data. Be-
tween 2000 and 2010-2014, black-white segregation de-
clined in 45 of 52 metropolitan areas.
But in recent decades, as Robert D. Putnam, a political
scientist at Harvard, notes in his book “Our Kids,” “while
race-based segregation has been slowly declining, class-
based segregation has been increasing.” In fact, Profes-
sor Putnam says, “a kind of incipient class apartheid” has
been sweeping across the country. In 2015, in a panel dis-
cussion with Mr. Putnam, President Barack Obama ob-
served that “what used to be racial segregation now mir-
rors itself in class segregation.”
Rising class segregation by residence is partly related
to rising income inequality, but it is also the result of an
expansion of exclusionary zoning. Research by Jonathan
Rothwell and Douglas Massey has found that “a change in
permitted zoning from the most restrictive to the least
would close 50 percent of the observed gap between the
most unequal metropolitan area and the least, in terms of
neighborhood inequality.”
Exclusionary zoning frustrates the Fair Housing Act’s
aim by erecting barriers that exclude millions of low-in- GOLDEN COSMOS

Trump and the Policies of White Resentment

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citizenship to immigrants who serve in
the armed forces and a renewed war on
drugs that, if it is anything like the last
one, will single out African-Americans
and Latinos although they are not the
primary drug users in this country. Last
week, Mr. Trump and Attorney General
Jeff Sessions put the latest package un-
der the tree: a staffing call for a case on
reverse discrimination in college admis-
sions, likely the first step in a federal as-
sault on affirmative action and a deter-
mination to hunt for colleges and univer-
sities that discriminate against white ap-
plicants.
That so many of these policies are
based on perception and lies rather than
reality is nothing new. White resentment
has long thrived on the fantasy of being
under siege and having to fight back, as
the mass lynchings and destruction of
He doesn’t want to make things better.
He wants to stoke racial fears.
thriving, politically active black commu-
nities in Colfax, La. (1873), Wilmington,
N.C. (1898), Ocoee, Fla. (1920), and Tulsa,
Okla. (1921), attest. White resentment
needs the boogeyman of job-taking,
maiden-ravaging, tax-evading, crimi-
nally inclined others to justify the poli-
cies that thwart the upward mobility and
success of people of color.
The last half-century hasn’t changed
that. The war on drugs, for example,
branded African-Americans and Latinos
as felons, which stripped them of voting
rights and access to housing and educa-
tion just when the civil rights movement
had pushed open the doors to those op-
portunities in the United States.
Similarly, the intensified war on immi-
grants comes, not coincidentally, at the
moment when Latinos have gained visi-
ble political power, asserted their place
in American society and achieved great-
er access to schools and colleges. The
ICE raids have terrorized these commu-
nities, led to attendance drop-offs in
schools and silenced many from even
seeking their legal rights when abused.
The so-called Election Integrity Com-
mission falls in the same category. It is a
direct response to the election of Mr.
Obama as president. Despite the howls
from Mr. Trump and the Republicans,
there was no widespread voter fraud
then or now. Instead, what happened
was that millions of new voters, over-
whelmingly African-American, Hispanic
and Asian, cast the ballots that put a
black man in the White House. The pun-
ishment for participating in democracy
has been a rash of voter ID laws, the
purging of names from the voter rolls, re-
drawn district boundaries and closed
and moved polling places.
Affirmative action is no different. It,
too, requires a narrative of white legiti-
mate grievance, a sense of being
wronged by the presence of blacks, Lat-
inos and Asians in positions that had
once been whites only. Lawsuit after law-
suit, most recently Abigail Fisher’s suit
against the University of Texas, feed the
myth of unqualified minorities taking a
valuable resource — a college education
— away from deserving whites.
In order to make that plausible, Ms.
Fisher and her lawyers had to ignore the
large number of whites who were admit-
ted to the university with scores lower
than hers. And they had to ignore the siz-
able number of blacks and Latinos who
were denied admission although their
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
SAT scores and grade point averages
were higher than hers. They also had to
ignore Texas’ unsavory racial history
and its impact. The Brown decision came
down in 1954, yet the Dallas public school
system remained under a federal deseg-
regation order from 1971 to 2003.
The university was slow to end its
whites-only admissions policy, and its
practice of automatically admitting the
top 10 percent of each Texas public high
school’s graduating class has actually
led to an overrepresentation of whites.
Meanwhile, African-Americans repre-
sent only 4 percent of the University of
Texas student body, despite making up
about 14 percent of the state’s graduating
high school students.
Although you will never hear this from
Mr. Sessions, white men are the greatest
beneficiaries of affirmative action in col-
lege admissions: Their combination of
test scores, grades and achievements is
simply no match for that of women,
whose academic profiles are much
stronger. Yet to provide some semblance
of gender balance on campuses, admis-
sions directors have to dig down deep
into the applicant pool to cobble together
enough males to form an incoming class.
Part of what has been essential in this
narrative of affirmative action as theft of
white resources — my college accept-
ance, my job — is the notion of “merit,”
where whites have it but others don’t.
When California banned affirmative ac-
tion in college admissions and relied
solely on standardized test scores and
grades as the definition of “qualified,” A flag for sale
black and Latino enrollments plum- outside a Trump
meted. Whites, however, were not the
beneficiaries of this “merit-based” sys-
rally in Texas
last year.
tem. Instead, Asian enrollments soared
and with that came white resentment at
both “the hordes of Asians” at places like
the University of California, Los Angeles,
and an admissions process that stressed
grades over other criteria.
That white resentment simply found a
new target for its ire is no coincidence;
white identity is often defined by its
sense of being ever under attack, with
the system stacked against it. That’s why
Mr. Trump’s policies are not aimed at
ameliorating white resentment, but
deepening it. His agenda is not, funda-
mentally, about creating jobs or protect-
ing programs that benefit everyone, in-
cluding whites; it’s about creating pur-
ported enemies and then attacking them.
In the end, white resentment is so my-
opic and selfish that it cannot see that
when the larger nation is thriving, whites
are, too. Instead, it favors policies and
politicians that may make America white
again, but also hobbled and weakened, a
nation that has squandered its greatest
assets — its people and its democracy.
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Medical Aid in Dying

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nal version, the Hippocratic oath states, “I will
not administer poison to anyone when asked to
do so, nor suggest such a course.” The Ameri-
can Medical Association, the nation’s largest
association of doctors, has been formally op-
posed to the practice for 23 years. Its ethical
and judicial council has recently begun to study
the issue further.
At a dinner shortly after the law went into ef-
fect, I polled 10 palliative care colleagues on
their impressions of it. There was a chorus of
groans. Like me, they were being asked about it
with increasing frequency, yet hadn’t found an
answer that felt right. It wasn’t necessarily that
we disapproved, but we didn’t want to automat-
ically become the go-to people on this very
complex issue, either.
This first patient of mine was not a simple
case. When I walked into his room, he glared at
me. “Are you here to help me with this aid-in-
dying thing?” he asked. He was in his early 60s,
thin and tired, but in no obvious distress. From
my read of his chart, he met all criteria to qual-
ify. Terminal illness, decision-making capacity,
ability to self-administer the medications. And
he had made the requisite first request for the
drugs two weeks earlier, as procedure dictates.
When I asked why he wanted to end his life
early, he shrugged. “I’m just sick of living.” I
asked about any symptoms that might lie be-
hind his request: unrelenting pain, nausea,
shortness of breath. He denied them all. In pal-
liative care, we are taught that suffering can
take many forms besides the physical. I probed
further and the floodgates opened.
He felt abandoned by his sister. She cared
only about his Social Security payments, he
said, and had gone AWOL now that the checks
were being mailed to her house. Their love-hate
relationship spanned decades, and they were
now on the outs. His despair had given way to
rage.
“Let’s just end this,” he said. “I’m fed up with
my lousy life.” He really didn’t care, he added,
that his sister opposed his decision.
His request appeared to stem from a deep
family wound, not his terminal illness. I felt he
wanted to punish his sister, and he had found a
way to do it.
At our second meeting, with more trust es-
tablished, he issued a sob, almost a keening. He
felt terrified and powerless, he said. He didn’t
want to live this way anymore.
I understood. I could imagine my own dis-
tress in his condition — being shuttled like a bag
of bones between the nursing home and the
hospital. It was his legal right to request this in-
tervention from me. But given how uncomfort-
able I was feeling, was it my right to say no?
made him something of a bedside pharmacolo-
gist. In his experience, both the medications
used and their dosages should be tailored to in-
dividual patients. While all patients enter a
coma within minutes of ingesting the lethal
cocktail, some deaths take longer, which can be
distressing for the family and everyone else in-
volved. One of his patients, a serious athlete,
experienced a protracted death that Dr. Shavel-
son attributes to the patient’s high cardiac func-
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tion. After that experience, Dr. Shavelson be-
gan to obtain an athletic history on every pa-
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tient, and to add stronger medications if indi-
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In another patient, a mesh stent had been de-
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ployed to keep his intestines from collapsing.
publisher of the
This stent prevented absorption in key areas,
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slowing the effect of the drugs and prolonging
his death. Dr. Shavelson now routinely asks
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about such stents, something that a doctor less
experienced in this process might miss.
Dr. Shavelson strives to mitigate all symp-
toms and suffering before agreeing to assist
any patient in dying. He recounted many cases
where patients no longer requested the medi-
cations once their quality of life improved. He
counts these cases among his greatest suc-
cesses. This demonstrates that his commit-
ment is to the patient, not the principle.
When I asked Dr. Shavelson how he might
have proceeded with my patient, he said he
would have tried everything to relieve his dis-
The idea of hastening death is
uncomfortable for many doctors.
tress without using the lethal medication. But if
in the end the patient still wanted to proceed, he
would have obliged, presuming his depression
was not so severe as to impair his judgment. “I
don’t have to agree with a patient’s reasoning
or conclusions,” he said. “Those are hers to
make, just as much as turning down chemo-
therapy or opting not to be intubated would be.”
I recently called colleagues at other hospitals
to learn how they were handling this law. Like
me, most of them hadn’t yet had much experi-
ence with it, but their involvement has mostly
been positive. They described the few cases
they had handled as “straightforward” — pa-
tients had carefully thought through the deci-
sion and had full family support. Most patients
were enrolled in hospice care and supported
throughout the ingestion process by trained
personnel, almost always in their homes. My
colleagues reported that they were free to opt
out of the program if they were uncomfortable
prescribing the medications. (Catholic health
systems do not participate.)
Dr. Meredith Heller, director of inpatient pal-
liative services at Kaiser Permanente San
Francisco, said that while she understood my
ambivalence, she herself felt significantly bet-
ter about it than she had expected to. “Surpris-
ingly, the vast majority of cases here have gone
smoothly,” she told me.
A little over a year after the law went into ef-
fect, I am heartened by the positive responses I
am hearing from my colleagues around the
state. I am relieved that most cases seem
straightforward. I am grateful that there are
dedicated physicians like Dr. Shavelson willing
to do this work. And I am reassured by the
knowledge that patients in California now have
the legal right to exercise this power when they
feel there is no other path.
But I am also concerned. As our population
continues to grow older and sicker and more
people learn that this law exists, we will need a
highly trained work force to steward patients
through this process.
The Selfishness of M
I
WAS taking a few weeks’ break from
work over the summer. My family
and I — my husband and my sons,
then 9 and 7 — planned to spend the
time at our house on the New Jersey
shore. When my mother asked what we
would be doing on our vacation, I told her
OPINION we would be together — going to the
beach and the nearby amusement park,
RINALDI
cooking, playing in the yard.
In response, my mother said: “Oh,
that’s not much of a vacation for you. I’ll
bet you can’t wait to get back to work.
Motherhood, it’s the hardest job in the
world. All sacrifice!”
“Really?” was all I could say in re-
sponse.
imprint at
I was looking forward to uninterrupt-
ed time with my boys. We would spend
days by the ocean and take trips to the
boardwalk, where they would scream
with delight while riding the roller coast-
er — the same one I’d ridden when I was
their age, then ridden alongside them un-
til Hurricane Sandy deposited it into the
Atlantic. We’d ram one another with
bumper cars; we’d ride the old-fashioned
merry-go-round, waiting until my
youngest son’s favorite horse, bright-
blue Freddy, became available. Some
days were sure to end in tears of exhaus-
tion, but the tears didn’t outweigh the joy.
Even on the bad days.
My mother was only trying to be sym-
pathetic to my life as a working mother,
but the self-satisfied way she proclaimed
the sacrificial nature of motherhood
grated. I don’t believe for one second that
motherhood is the hardest job in the
world nor that it is all sacrifice. Still, it
wasn’t fair to blame her; she was merely
parroting a common refrain. Once my
It’s not a sacrifice, but a privilege —
one that many of us choose.
annoyance lifted, in its place spread a
kind of clarity that helped me to under-
stand how these linguistic tropes re-
inforce the disempowerment of mothers
and women.
The assertion of motherhood as sacri-
fice comes with a perceived glorification.
A woman is expected to sacrifice her
time, ambition and sense of self to a
higher purpose, one more worthy than
her own individual identity. This leaves a
vacuum in the place of her value, one that
others rush to fill.
When a woman becomes pregnant,
she seems to become public property.
Perhaps because bearing children en-
sures the continuation of the species, it is
often prioritized as part of a larger social garet Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
contract. Not only does this logic lead to offers a cautionary tale of womanhood as
an attempt to legislate women’s bodies, sacrifice. In this dystopic novel, women
but also in smaller, everyday gestures, are grouped according to the uses men
boundaries get crossed. Many friends determine for them: namely, sterile
tell stories about being touched by wives married for appearance or fertile
strangers during pregnancy, as if a wom- “handmaids,” who are raped routinely
an’s maternal status turns her into a ves- for procreation. One male character de-
sel to handle. clares that the woman must “learn in si-
Written more than 30 years ago, Mar- lence with all subjection” and that “she

CHRIS SILAS NEAL
In the end, he gave me an out. He agreed to a
trial of antidepressants. “I’ll give you four
weeks,” he said. He would follow up with his pri-
America Is Running O
My patient deserved an evaluation by a phy-
sician like Dr. Shavelson, not someone like me,
with no training in this area and ambivalence to
boot. We need formal protocols, official pro-
cedures, outcome measurements, even a cer-
tificate of expertise issued by an oversight
SAN ANTONIO Europe.

mary care doctor. I couldn’t help feeling re-
lieved.
The patient died in a nursing home, of natural
causes, three months later. And I haven’t had
another request since. But the case left me wor-
ried. What if he had insisted on going through
with it?
I’ll admit it: I want this option available to me
and my family. I have seen much suffering
around death. In my experience, most of the
pain can be managed by expert care teams fo-
cusing on symptom management and family
support. But not all. My mother is profoundly
claustrophobic. I can imagine her terror if she
were to develop Lou Gehrig’s disease, which
progressively immobilizes patients while their
cognitive faculties remain largely intact. For
my mother, this would be a fate worse than
death.
But still. I didn’t feel comfortable with the
board. None of these are in place in any partici-
pating state, according to Dr. Shavelson. Yet all
medical procedures require training. Why
should one this weighty be an exception?
What about payment? Providers can bill for
an office visit and the cost of the medication.
But because there are no specific codes estab-
lished for this procedure, reimbursement does-
n’t come close to covering any effort to do this
well. On top of that, many insurers won’t cover
it, including federal programs like Medicare
and the Veterans Health Administration.
And will this new “right” be available to ev-
eryone? Most communities won’t have a Dr.
Shavelson, who offers steep discounts to low-
income patients. I worry that public hospital
patients like mine will not be able to afford this
degree of care. These are inequities we must
address.
I
F within the past few years you re-
ceived a package, roamed a shop-
ping mall, boarded a plane, train,
ferry or cruise ship, went to a major
sporting event, ran a marathon, attended
a concert, gambled at a casino or visited
a tourist attraction, chances are a dog
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With terrorists increasingly attacking
BY KATE
MURPHY
so-called soft targets, the demand for de-
tection dogs that can sweep large areas
A journalist in for explosives has soared. So have
Houston who prices, which can exceed $25,000 for one
writes frequently dog. Security experts warn that the sup-
for The New York ply of these dogs is dwindling worldwide
Times. and that the United States is especially
vulnerable because it relies primarily on
brokers who source dogs from Eastern
Technological alternatives have so far
proven inadequate. Despite decades of
trying, researchers have yet to develop a
machine as exquisitely sensitive and dis-
cerning as a dog’s nose. Nor can a robot
rove with the agility and ease of a dog.
Spend time at the Transportation Se-
curity Administration’s sprawling Na-
tional Canine Training Center here at
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio
and you’ll be struck by the intensity and
intelligence of the four-legged students.
Rushing around mock airport terminals
and train cars, the dogs abruptly sit,
eerily still, when they pick up a whiff of
explosives planted on one of the actors
pretending to be passengers or secreted
in an abandoned suitcase. And all the

idea of helping to shorten the life of a patient
because of depression and resentment. In
truth, I’m not sure I am comfortable with help-
ing to intentionally hasten anyone’s death for
any reason. Does that make me a hypocrite?
I realized it was past time to sort out my
thinking and turned to the de facto specialist in
our area on this issue for counsel. Dr. Lonny
Shavelson, an emergency medicine and prima-
ry care physician in Northern California, has
been grappling with the subject for many years.
Given his interest in the topic, Dr. Shavelson
felt a personal obligation to ensure that this
new practice would be carried out responsibly
after the law was passed. He founded Bay Area
End of Life Options, a consulting group that ed-
ucates physicians, advocates on patients’ be-
half and prescribes the lethal concoction for
some patients who meet the criteria for partici-
pation.
He has devised a process for his patients that
not only adheres to the letter of the law, but goes
far beyond it. His patient intake procedures are
time-consuming and include a thorough history
and physical, extensive home visits, a review of
medical records and discussions with the pa-
tients’ doctors. He assesses the medical illness,
the patient’s mental and emotional state and
family dynamics.
He does not offer the medications to most of
the patients who request them, sometimes be-
cause he deems them more than six months
away from death or because he is worried that
they have been coerced or because he believes
that severe depression is interfering with their
judgment. Since starting his practice, he has
been approached by 398 patients. He has ac-
cepted 79 of those into his program and over-
seen ingestion and death for 48.
Dr. Shavelson’s careful observations have
T
HERE is another question I feel com-
pelled to raise. Is medical aid in dying a
reductive response to a highly complex
problem? The over-mechanization of
dying in America has created a public health
crisis. People feel out of control around death. A
life-ending concoction at the bedside can lend a
sense of autonomy at a tremendously vulnera-
ble time.
Yet medical aid in dying will help only a tiny
fraction of the population. In 2016, just under
four-tenths of 1 percent of everyone who died in
Oregon used this option. Other approaches
such as hospice and palliative care, proven to
help a broad population of patients with life-
limiting illness, are still underused, even stig-
matized. The American Society of Clinical On-
cology recommends that patients with ad-
vanced cancer receive concurrent palliative
care beginning early in the course of disease. In
my experience, far too few of these patients ac-
tually get it.
Unlike medical aid in dying, which will be
used by a small proportion of the population,
palliative interventions can improve the lives of
many. My patient hadn’t been seen by a pallia-
tive care physician before he made his request.
Although recommended, it isn’t required by
law. And yet this input gave him another option.
Medical aid in dying is now the law in my
home state, and I am glad for that. But our work
is just beginning. We must continue to shape Bobby, a 2½-
our policies and protocols to account for the nu- year-old wire-
anced social, legal and ethical questions that haired vizsla, at
will continue to arise. We must identify the cli- the Canine
nicians who are best qualified and most willing Training Center
to do this work and then train them appropri- on Lackland Air
ately, not ad hoc. And we must remember that Force Base in
this is just one tool in the toolbox of caring for
the dying — a tool of last resort. 2016.

Motherhood
shall be saved by childbearing.” In this
scenario, the act of motherhood is sub-
verted for the benefit of those in power,
and they get away with it because of the
concept of motherhood as sacrifice.
When we cling to the idea of mother-
hood as sacrifice, what we really sacri-
fice is our sense of self, as if it is the price
we pay for having children.
Motherhood is not a sacrifice, but a
Out of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
dogs want in return is a tennis ball or
squeaky toy.
The T.S.A. has 1,000 dogs (German
shorthaired pointers, German shep-
herds, Belgian Malinois, Labradors,
golden retrievers and vizslas) in its work
force and needs to acquire 350 new dogs
every year to replace those that age out
at around 8 to 10 years. To do that, T.S.A.
agents make quarterly buying trips to
Europe along with buyers for the United
States military, which has around 1,600
dogs deployed worldwide.
They are competing with buyers from
Customs and Border Protection, the
State Department, various federal and
local law enforcement entities, private
security companies, agencies requiring
search and rescue dogs, companies in
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privilege — one that many of us choose
selfishly. At its most atavistic, procreat-
ing ensures that our genes survive into
the next generation. You could call this
selfishness as biological imperative. On a
personal level, when we bring into the
world a being that is of us, someone we
will protect and love and for whom we
will do everything we can to help thrive
and flourish, it begets the question, How
the hospitality industry that need dogs to
sniff out bed bugs, health care providers
that use dogs to sniff breath, blood and
biopsies to make medical diagnoses —
and, of course, foreign governments.
“The top dogs bred globally go to who-
ever has the most money, and that’s
likely the Chinese and Saudis,” said Scott
Thomas, who resigned from the T.S.A.
last month after 15 years. For 10 of those
years, he oversaw the agency’s breeding
program, which was eliminated for
budgetary reasons in 2012. The remain-
ing five years, he worked with vendors to
procure dogs. He is now starting his own
detection-dog breeding and training con-
sulting business.
According to the T.S.A. and the De-
partment of Defense, the transactions
occur mainly in Germany and the
Netherlands, but the dogs come predom-
inantly from former Eastern Bloc coun-
tries like Croatia and Romania. The re-
gion has a long history of breeding and
training working dogs. Competitions
that test dogs’ obedience, tracking and
protection (bite and hold) capabilities
are popular weekend sporting events
there, and the furthest thing from the
American notion of a show characterized
by poofy dogs prancing around a ring.
“The supply of working dogs in Eu-
rope is strained from all the demand,”
said Erik Wilsson, an animal behaviorist
who retired in June from his job manag-
In a world plagued by
terrorism, a single canine
can cost $25,000.
ing dog breeding for the Swedish Armed
Forces. “The U.S. is buying a lot of dogs
and, for sure, you’re not getting the best
ones. It’s not about finding the dogs you
need — it’s finding the good dogs,” which
countries like Germany, he said, are
keeping for themselves and breeders in
less prosperous countries sell to the
highest bidder.
It’s why, Dr. Wilsson said, Sweden in
2005 reinstated its military dog-breeding
program, which had been disbanded in
the ’90s. “The program was brought
down because decision makers thought
private breeders could do it, but after a
couple of years the military and police
had huge problems finding high-quality
dogs,” he said.
Indeed, T.S.A. agents and United
VIVIENNE FLESHER
is this selfless? Selflessness implies that
we have no skin in the game. In mother-
hood, we’re all in.
By reframing motherhood as a privi-
lege, we redirect agency back to the
mother, empowering her, celebrating her
autonomy instead of her sacrifice.
Granted, some of us have more autono-
my than others. There are many mothers
who would not have chosen motherhood,
States Army officers who go on overseas
buying trips say they are lucky if they
look at 110 dogs and have 50 pass their
preliminary behavioral and medical
screenings. Of those dogs, another 15 to
20 percent don’t make it through training
in the United States to be put into serv-
ice. The ones that wash out are shopped
to other agencies or put up for adoption.
“We are looking for the SEAL team of
dogs,” Mr. Thomas said, referring to the
Navy’s elite special forces unit.
Contributing to the high failure rate is
the fact that the dogs aren’t purchased
until they are around 1 or 2 years old,
when they are mature enough for the rig-
orous training. While they may come
from fine stock, there’s no telling how
they were raised or what neuroses they
may have developed. According to Karen
Overall, a veterinarian and senior re-
search scientist at the University of
Pennsylvania who has studied canine
behavior for the Department of Defense,
early life experience can make or break a
dog, “just as it can for a human being.”
“We are supporting a giant puppy mill
industry in Europe, which is producing
less than optimal dogs,” Dr. Overall said.
“What you’re getting is a dog that has
probably been fairly roughly handled,
certainly is scared and, our data shows,
can be fairly hyper-reactive, and those
aren’t going to be the best dogs.”
The American Kennel Club convened a
conference this year to discuss the possi-
bility of creating a cooperative of private
dog breeders in the United States to pro-
SR 5
for financial or personal reasons. Still, by
owning our roles as mothers and refus-
ing the false accolades of martyrdom, we
do more to empower all women.
In my experience, when women talk
among women, our ambivalence or frus-
tration is rarely about our roles as moth-
ers. (That doesn’t mean our kids don’t
drive us crazy sometimes.) Rather, con-
versations turn to questions of how to
manage the best part of our lives (those
very kids who are driving us crazy) with
our partners, careers and other respon-
sibilities. And while many women derive
their deepest fulfillment as mothers, it
doesn’t preclude their ambition or fly in
the face of leaning in or out or sideways.
Calling motherhood “the hardest job in
the world” misses the point completely
because having and raising children is
not a “job.” No one will deny that there is
exhaustion, fear and tedium. Raising a
family is hard work, but so is every other
meaningful aspect of our lives.
The language surrounding child rear-
ing as a job surely derived from care-
givers’ and homemakers’ efforts to be
acknowledged as fulfilling an important
role. And clearly raising children is one
of the most important things we do — for
both women and men — but that does not
make it a job. In a job, an employer pays
for services an employee agrees to per-
form. And there is a boss to whom the
employee reports. In the case of parent-
ing, who would that be?
That doesn’t mean we don’t want sup-
port — paid parental leave, more flexible
working hours, publicly funded day care.
But the cultural shift has to happen for
the policies to follow. Martyrs, after all,
don’t need or expect public services.
Fathers are rarely, if ever, spoken
about in the same way that mothers are.
It’s culturally acceptable for men to have
children and professional identities with-
out having to choose between the two.
These unspoken biases run deep.
It reminds me of a friend whose hus-
band complained about having to
“babysit” the children while she went to
dinner with friends. Has a woman ever
“babysat” her own children? Things are
changing, but the insidious inferences
persist.
Further, with “women” and “family”
as go-to cultural corollaries, studies
show, terrifyingly, that these biases are
being adopted by artificial intelligence,
too. Calling motherhood a woman’s “job”
only serves to keep a woman in her place.
The priorities of mothers who work out-
side the home are often questioned. It’s
as if women are forced to choose be-
tween ambition (or simply earning a liv-
ing wage) and family.
If we start referring to motherhood as
the beautiful, messy privilege that it is,
and to tending to our children as the most
loving yet selfish thing we do, perhaps
we can change the biased language my
mother used. Only when we stop talking
about motherhood as sacrifice can we
start talking about mothers the way that
we deserve.
A T.S.A. agent
training Hector,
a 2-year-old
chocolate lab, in
2016.
ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
vide the military and law enforcement
agencies with high-quality dogs. An-
other idea that is gaining traction is to
have a large federally funded breeding
program, akin to those run by nonprofit
service dog organizations like Canine
Companions for Independence and the
Seeing Eye, which annually produce 900
and 500 dogs, respectively. Those pup-
pies are raised for the first year or so by
volunteers, to make sure the dogs have
good early life experiences and expo-
sures.
Senate hearings were held last year
about this issue. Representative Mike
Rogers, Republican of Alabama, has
been critical of the T.S.A. for shuttering
its breeding program and thinks he can
get funding for an even larger program
that will make the United States self-suf-
ficient when it comes to detection dogs.
“We are not going to have a choice as a
country,” he said. “We are going to have
to find a way to provide canines for the
evolving terrorist threat.”
Talk to those who work with or study
detection dogs and they express a kind of
awe for the dogs’ capabilities. “These
dogs save lives. That’s the reality of it,”
said Lt. Col. Matthew Enroth, an Army
veterinarian who for the past four years
has screened and cared for detection
dogs at Lackland Air Force Base. “Peo-
ple go home at night because of these
dogs, and people have parts of their bod-
ies that they might not have if these dogs
didn’t exist.”
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“What would you like?”
He was sitting at one of the tables
by himself, drinking a beer and check-
ing his phone. His head was shaved.
He wore a black T-shirt with the logo
of the restaurant, the name
“Portofino” in white letters with a long
curly “P” that made the silhouette of a
guitar. It had just stopped raining; the
tables and the brick floor were wet.
The street lamps there have never
worked well, and the dim lighting,
which might have been pleasant un-
How do you flirt when
your country is
collapsing around you?
der other circumstances, brought out
the drabness of the place. Reggae mu-
sic played in the background.
“Would you like some beers? I’ve
got Polar.”
“What else do you have?”
“That’s all I’ve got. The delivery
truck didn’t come today.”
“Soft drinks?”
“No soft drinks.”
And certainly no pizza.
That Tuesday was the 116th day of
protests since the government-con-
MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
trolled Supreme Court stripped the
opposition-led National Assembly of
its powers, and more than 100 people
had since died in clashes between
demonstrators and police forces or
paramilitary groups.
The day before, the opposition had
announced more protests. It called for
a national strike starting Wednesday,
and for barricading city streets
throughout the country, for 48 hours.
On Friday, there would be a massive
protest in Caracas. After that, who
knew what. Tuesday was a day for us
to stock up on supplies and brace our-
selves. A truce of sorts.
For a moment in the restaurant that
They gauged political instability by
how often a new head of government
was installed or more than half of the
cabinet was changed out (or both). The
greater the frequency of these
changes, they found, the less overall in-
vestment there tended to be in physical
capital like factories, and the lower the
rate of growth.
The United States isn’t an unstable
Third World republic. But with a White
House plagued by remarkably high
staff turnover, and with constitutional
crises lurking around every corner, the
country and economy aren’t exuding
predictability either. If you were a judi-
cious chief executive, you might be
more restrained in pushing to expand
amid the political turmoil, whatever
JUN CEN
the administration’s interest in cutting
regulatory red tape and slashing cor-
porate taxes.
If the United States achieves the
growth rate now projected by the
I.M.F., it won’t be terrible. But it won’t
be anything like the productivity
spurts that policy makers and the pub-
lic grew accustomed to in the second
half of the 20th century. A vigorous, ex-
panding economy meant jobs, reliably
filled tax coffers, real recovery from
downturns and continual improvement
in the quality of life. Today, more mod-
est growth rates have become the new
normal.
There are several schools of eco-
nomic thought on why growth has been
in the doldrums — but unfortunately,
evening, María and I weren’t sure
whether to sit down at a table or just
leave. There wasn’t much to do there,
but it was truce day and a date.
The owner started talking about
how difficult it was to keep the restau-
rant going. “People don’t feel safe
enough to leave their homes,” he said.
I said that people didn’t go out be-
cause they didn’t have enough money,
and before I knew it we were talking
about how the country was falling
apart, just what I hadn’t wanted to do
that night. María and I sat down any-
way: My brother, our ride, wasn’t an-
swering his phone. The owner kept
talking, complaining that the crisis
was killing business. He said that be-
cause of several shootings, only two
out of four bars were left on Caruachi
Street. He called it “Tarantino Street.”
María doesn’t drink, but I asked for
a beer, so that we hadn’t come for
nothing.
“We recently hired a comedian
from Valencia and had to cancel the
show,” the owner said, referring to a
city a 12-hour drive away. “He couldn’t
come because the streets were
blocked.”
“If this continues, I’m closing up
and going to Puerto Rico. I’ve got fam-
ily there.”
That morning I’d gone out to buy
whatever I could find. The supermar-
ket was full of people doing the same
thing. But food shortages are not as
bad today as they were a year ago:
Many Venezuelans have become too
poor to even shop. I got rice, wheat
flour, bananas, yuccas and potatoes. I
saw several people carrying just two
or three kilograms of rice in their
arms — their groceries for the apoca-
lypse, and they didn’t need a cart.
They will have run out of that by now.
By 8 p.m. we were ready to leave the
restaurant. The owner charged me
half price for the beer: He didn’t have
change. Another cash crisis.
Outside, businesses were closing,
the streets were emptying out. María
and I decided to go to the main shop-
ping mall: With any luck we’d find a
place that wasn’t about to go broke. It
was almost deserted, but we were
able to catch the last movie screening
of the day, “Wonder Woman.” We had
two hours and 20 minutes of not think-
ing about three-digit inflation, mass
emigration and people feeding on
garbage. But that bubble burst as
soon as we walked out: Children were
waiting around, begging for money to
buy food.
María and I never got to eat that
night, but we agreed to meet again.
Last Sunday, the vote for the con-
stituent assembly was held. It was a
horrible day, the worst, I think, since
the protests started in March. Be-
tween 10 and 16 deaths, and many
other casualties, were reported
throughout the country. I found out
about them mostly through What-
sApp, listening to voice messages left
by frightened people, with the sounds
of detonations in the background.
That day, several people were shot
and wounded in Ciudad Guayana, my
city, the quiet city.
few offer solutions that are viable in an
atmosphere of political instability.
For example, Lawrence Summers,
the Treasury secretary under Bill Clin-
ton, has developed a theory called “sec-
ular stagnation.” The core idea is that
the advanced economies of the world,
including the United States, have en-
tered a phase where there is too much
saving and not enough new invest-
ment, keeping interest rates and infla-
tion lower than they should be.
Mr. Summers points out that it costs
a lot less to start a company in the inter-
net age than when the only way to
make money was through manufactur-
ing. So there’s less investment demand.
With a nod to the New Deal econo-
mist Alvin Hansen, who wrote about
the relationship between population
size and interest rates, Mr. Summers
notes as well that population growth in
Europe and the United States has
steeply declined. Without new workers
and consumers coming onto the rolls,
there’s an upper limit to domestic prof-
it-making opportunities.
Mr. Summers believes there’s a way
out of the low-growth trap. He argues
for a major debt-financed infrastruc-
ture spending program, coupled with
tax reform, policies to address rising
inequality (since when income gains go
almost entirely to those at the top, it’s
hard to get a broad-based rise in con-
sumer demand) and efforts to counter
protectionist trade practices.
The thing is, nothing like what he
proposes will be possible so long as we
have a president whose inflammatory
language, egregious actions and ad-
ministrative incompetence continue to
alienate voters and members of Con-
gress. President Trump campaigned
for infrastructure spending, but at this
point neither Democrats or Republi-
cans are likely to get completely on
board. As for the other pro-growth sug-
gestions, the president and his cabinet
of billionaires couldn’t care less about
inequality and seem to be gunning for a
trade war with China. And it’s anyone’s
guess whether Mr. Trump has the disci-
pline to negotiate corporate tax reform.
The bottom line is that while Wall
Street is happy for the moment, the
United States economy isn’t reaching
its full potential. A tumultuous Trump
administration will have a hard time
getting us there.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 SR 7

The 30-Something’s Guide to Real Estate

LINCOLN, NEB.

M
Y parents threw me a surprise party when I
graduated from college. I was the first in my
family to do so, and it was, in many ways, a
party for all of us. They rented a banquet
hall, invited everyone they felt had played a key part in
my arriving at that moment — and told me we were go-
ing to a cousin’s baby shower. Shortly after everyone
OPINION yelled “surprise,” my dad took the microphone and
started the festivities by introducing one of the few
BY JENNINE white American families there.
CAPÓ CRUCET “Do you recognize these people?” he asked, pointing
The author of the to them. I did not. “Those are the people who sold us our
novel “Make Your house. Because we lived in that house, you went to the
Home Among schools you went to, had the teachers you had, every-
Strangers,” an thing. We would not be standing here today had they
assistant professor never sold us the house.” The family waved from their
of English and table.
ethnic studies at My parents still live in that house. When my dad paid
the University of it off, he celebrated by burning various house-related
Nebraska in documents over a charcoal grill in the backyard. He
Lincoln and a made us all come outside to watch. Within no time, he
contributing would decide to borrow against the house to help me pay
opinion writer. for college.
This sentiment — that a house is so much more than a
house, that a house means destiny, opportunity — has
played out in various ways throughout my life. While
married, I saved for a house, “house” becoming synony-
mous with future, with family. But when I bought my
first home, in Tallahassee, Fla., the closing coming a
month shy of my 30th birthday, my dad made an omi-

I didn’t want to be tied to a house and all the

baggage I thought came along with the keys.
nous pronouncement: “You guys aren’t house people.
You’re condo people.” I took this as an insult, though
now I understand he meant it as an indictment of a mar-
riage he sensed was destined to fail.
The house in Tallahassee came with a cautionary tale.
I bought it from a lawyer who had been given the house
as a wedding present from his parents, who just so hap-
pened to live in the house next door. For reasons that
were never made clear but about which the town’s real
estate agents loved to speculate, the house had been on
the market for more than a year, the rumor being that
the seller’s father (also a lawyer, well known in the com- KATHERINE LAM

munity and famous in part for being fired by the serial

killer Ted Bundy) had put out a warning that no one
should buy it. I’d moved there from Los Angeles; his
warning hadn’t made it that far.
Everyone who came to work on the house had a story.
One contractor told me that when the previous owners
had put up the “for sale” sign, the seller’s mother came
over with a marker and defaced it, scrawling “AT THE
COST OF OUR LOVE” across it. The seller’s father
would often knock on my door and ask after the baby,
forgetting over and over again that I did not have chil-
nancials of my life. “You need to buy some property. In
Lincoln, that probably means a house.”
I did what anyone under 35 does in a moment like
that: I tweeted, “Someone tell me if I should buy a
house?” Among the responses was a direct message
from my former husband, who hadn’t been in contact in
months: “No, you should not buy a house. Condo,
though, maybe. 2€”
last. I was sitting in her office in pajama pants and a
shirt that said “TEAM GG” and had sketches of all four
“Golden Girls.”
It took almost a year for Lana to help me rewrite the
narrative that had been keeping me from buying a
home. In the one I would eventually buy, I stood next to
my realtor in its bathroom and freaked out at the site of
an oversize custom tub from 1939, which — with its built-
in seats — looked perfect for bathing a couple of tod-

dren. He would glance past me into the living room with
a look on his face that said, Then why do you need all this
space?
And he was right: With that house came expectations
— there was a room that used to be a nursery and boom,
now it was the nursery forever. When the marriage
ended and the house was sold, with it went everything
the house was supposed to become. I’d written a novel in
a bright, spacious office in that house, but it’s the empty
nursery that haunted me when I moved to Lincoln,
Neb., single and singing the praises of renting forever.
That is, until Lana intervened. A financial planner,
she’d been recommended to me by my accountant, who
sensed from my shoe box of receipts and my habit of
bringing every official-looking paper mailed to me to
our meetings that I needed some financial guidance.
Lana was in her mid-50s and about a foot taller than
me. She had a wide smile and personalized coasters on
her desk. She was originally from Mitchell, S.D. I’d been
to Mitchell’s famed Corn Palace once. We hit it off in-
stantly.
“First things first,” Lana said after reviewing the fi-
F
OR the first time in my life, I had a stable income,
no debt and no financial dependents — and I’d
just sold a house. I knew I was very lucky and
that I was supposed to do something responsi-
ble.
I asked Lana if I could buy a condo or a loft, or maybe
a warehouse. I joked I wanted to be able to roller skate
inside of whatever property I owned.
Lana wrote all of this down. She looked up from her
notepad and said, “I’d say Lincoln’s got another 15, 20
years before we’re a funky enough city to support ware-
house living.”
I showed her the message from my ex-husband, and
told her that I’d crowdsourced the question to begin
with. “From everything I’m putting together about
you,” she said, “it sounds like your No. 1 priority with a
property is what I’d call ease of exit.” Meaning: getting
out of something quickly if I needed to. In Lincoln, she
said, that’s a single-family home.
“But that’s not for me,” I argued. Homes are for fam-
ilies. Homes determine everything, from where your
kids might go to college to how long your marriage will
dlers. I shook my head and said: “I can’t buy this house.
This is for a family. I see kids in this tub!”
She shrugged. “I see a great tub.”
I met with Lana again after closing on the house. I
brought many official-looking papers she did not need.
She said the next thing I needed to do was draw up a will.
I said no thanks, and she very calmly and with her typi-
cal wisdom explained why I was being ridiculous. She
sent me follow-up emails with links.
A week later, I got an email saying Lana had passed
away unexpectedly. The email’s third sentence stated
that “the firm is prepared to partner with you and to
continue serving your wealth management needs.”
I wrote back asking about a memorial service, but it
was Lana I wanted to reply to — after learning from her
obituary about the myriad boards she sat on and the
millions she raised for various charitable causes in Lin-
coln. I had so many new questions for her: about what
really mattered, about what versions of wealth really
needed managing. I wanted to know who else had loved
her, whom to call to say I was sorry she was gone. I
wanted to know her address.

Hire Women Your Mom’s Age

T
HERE’S something haywire
about how women are expected
to crunch our most celebrated
achievements into a timetable
that frequently lasts fewer than 20 years.
Find a partner. Raise some chicks. Zoom
to the top of your field. Check each box by
OPINION 50.
BY SALLY
We may mistake this Acela for our life
KOSLOW until it whooshes past, stranding us with
other gut-kicked women whose jobs
The former editor
have ended for reasons H.R. never ad-
in chief of McCall’s
mits are age-related. Going forward,
and the author of
many employers ignore this mature
five novels, most work force, most likely because they
recently, “The don’t want to pay the salaries experience
Widow Waltz.” deserves, despite the fact that women
earn, on average, 80 percent of men’s
wages.
According to the Bureau of Labor Stat-
istics, nearly half — 48.8 percent — of
women aged 55 to 64 are among the long-
term unemployed.
Hey, I’ve been there. I loved going to
an office, where satisfaction was
wrapped in camaraderie garnished by a
salary, health care, paid vacation and
sick days I never used. In my mid-50s I
was shown the door. Opportunities came
along, far from my home. I held out for a
situation that did not involve relocation
while I watched my industry — maga-
zine publishing — start to disappear as if
it were written in vanishing ink. Remain-
ing jobs went to editors with three years
of experience, not 33.
Which is why I joined the gig economy.
For the past decade I’ve worked hard,
hoping to write books as long as editors
and readers will buy them. My second
act has gone well, perhaps because I re-
port to a taskmaster: me. I’ve also been
lucky, and for that I’m grateful, but self-
employment is hardly an option for ev-
eryone, nor does it offer any benefits be-
yond the chance to work in dollar-store
leggings while Facebook “likes” replace
human contact.
The numbers can be deceiving. The
census reports that nearly 18 percent of
HANNAH K. LEE
women ages 70 to 74 continue to work,
with even higher stats for the 65-to-69
tier. No manager has pushed them aside
for younger models, perhaps because
they’re tenured academics, or therapists
whose wrinkles equal wisdom, or the
other select few with job security. When
the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin
and Lawrence Katz studied such women,
they discovered that many haven’t re-
tired because they find work fun and,
perhaps, because they’re making money.
According to a report from the National
Institute on Retirement Security, women
are 80 percent more likely than men to be
impoverished at age 65 and older.
Recently I celebrated my aunt’s 100th
birthday. Whoa, is Ruth sharp. Manages
her finances. Follows politics. Remem-
bers everything, including that in 1984 I
failed to thank her when she cared for my
Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother so that her
brother — my dad — could visit me. Mea
culpa, Aunt Ruth.
Ruth explained how she and her hus-
band grew a tiny North Dakota shop into
a mini-Tiffany’s, taking afternoons off for
bridge, to which she credits her mental
muscle. How the couple got wind of a 55-
plus community sprouting in Arizona.
How after prairie winters, Sun City was
Nirvana.
It’s 45 years since Ruth retired. That’s
a heap of bridge. As I toasted her, my
mind wandered: If I knew I had 45 lucid
years left, what would I do?
I can safely say bridge would not be in-
volved; I’ve been led to believe most
games beyond Pictionary pivot on logic
and math savvy, neither of which star in
my skill set. Ask me to name who wrote
“Moo,” and I’ll spit out Jane Smiley, but
trafficking in numbers is a nonstarter.
When my husband programmed a seem-
ingly random code into our phone to re-
trieve messages, I snarled, “Why those
numbers?” Another woman might have
recognized her wedding date.
Nor would social sports make my cut.
My eye-hand coordination ends with typ-
ing. If forced to live among a tribe of
friends, based on their ability to team up
to play tennis, I’d organize a book club.
The one-two punch of my agenda: I’ll
decide when I “retire,” along with when I
become “old.” If I want to rock long hair
into my 90s, I will. Likewise for hanging
with friends half my age. I’ll study his-
tory, take up painting and in the company
of my husband — who in my eyes will al-
ways be a shaggy sophomore — go danc-
ing and see every art-house film and as
many plays as we can afford. (Damn you,
Broadway, for tickets that cost what we
paid for our first car.) We’ll travel be-
cause I don’t want to be the last Ameri-
can to visit Reykjavik. I’ll take my grand-
children to museums, throw parties and
get out the vote, lest my life be one big
orgy of me time.
But all of this needs to fit around my
nonretirement retirement: work. Some
sidelined women can afford to be ladies
of leisure and happily fulfill conventional
For many of us, work
is where we get our
superpowers.
expectations, finding joy at gardening
clubs and golf courses. The rest of us?
Hello, darkness, my old friend. Got
Lexapro? The old saw goes that on a
deathbed nobody wishes they’d spent
more time at the office, but I suspect
many women, whose careers stop pre-
maturely, do. Work is where we get our
superpowers and not incidentally, our in-
come. How else will we afford a ticket to
Iceland?
My aunt’s centenarian club is far from
exclusive. About 55,000 Americans are
at least 100, and according to census
data, they’re almost all female. After jobs
end, the fortunate among us may find
ourselves with 40 or 50 years looming. In
the world I imagine, benefit-free self-em-
ployment, endless leisure or poverty
won’t be the only options. Inevitable “30
Under 30” lists (“Erin Epstein, 26, has
created an app to draft Meryl for presi-
dent”) will be replaced by reports of “60
After 60,” chockablock with inspiration.
But women can’t just imagine change.
They need to speak up about this issue,
just as female managers should think
about hiring women the age of their
mother. Today’s 30- and 40-somethings
can’t “lean in” forever. If they don’t ad-
dress embedded ageism, they’ll blink,
pass 50, and possibly see their success
evaporate faster than a boss can say,
“Sorry, we’re going in another direction.”
A younger direction.
8 SR THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

LETTERS

Democratic Slogan: Your Choices

A common theme was clear
as readers offered more than
1,200 alternatives to the Demo-
crats’ new slogan, “A Better
Deal”: The party needs to offer
a positive, inclusive, empathetic
EDITORIALS
message. Variations of “We the
People” and “The Real Deal”
were especially popular.
Yes with constructive, positive
answers to address the con-
cerns of those who have been
driven out, left out and left
behind.
CLAUDE SHOSTAL, NEW YORK
“You Deserve Better”

What’s the Deal, Mr. Trump?

This slogan points out that
Democratic leaders, are you the public certainly deserves
listening? better political representation
than it is getting . . . but it also
“We’re With You: We’re Demo- requires the Democrats to
President Trump promised he’d make so many great deals yet to take their calls. He’s promoting a sweeping package of crats” admit that they need to do
that we’d all get “tired of winning.” He’s certainly left Ameri- tax cuts, but there aren’t many details to go on there, either. We’ve got to identify with better as well. It is an admis-
cans feeling worn out, but not because of any transactional the voters and show empathy. sion that they somehow man-
“We hope to get taxes and then infrastructure,” he said
And we’ve got to shake off the aged to miss the anger and
whirlwind. in an interview with The Wall Street Journal not long ago. label “elitist.” We, too, work,
In reluctantly signing a bill last week imposing sanc- anxiety of a large swath of
“And then I’m going to do a very big — we’re doing very big pay our bills, worship, love our America and, in the process,
tions on Russia that he cannot lift without congressional re- trade deals, and we’re looking forward to that. But we want families and respect the Consti- disaffected millions to the
view, Mr. Trump complained that it “makes it harder for the to do, ideally, this first. You know, a lot of people said you tution. The slogan is upbeat degree that many were willing
United States to strike good deals for the American people” and rings true to our history of to look to Donald Trump as an
should have started with taxes or you should have started standing up for labor, economic
and that “Congress could not even nego- with infrastructure. Well, infrastructure, I’ll actually have acceptable alternative.
growth, health care, public
The president tiate a health care bill after seven years bipartisan support, and I can use infrastructure to carry schools and other social goods. MARILYN J. BELLOCK, NEW YORK
calls himself a of talking.” other things along. So I don’t want to waste it at the begin- ROBERT SEIDENSTEIN
deal maker. But The legislation is actually proof that
“Make America Great Again”
ning, if that makes sense.” LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. How about if the Democrats
any skills he Congress has learned not to trust Mr.
had have failed No, it didn’t. turn the tables on President
Trump to strike good deals and has seen “For the People”
Things make more sense if we remember that despite Trump and make their new
him in the Theodore Roosevelt stood
slogan “Make America Great
quite enough of his negotiating skills. his gilded penthouse and branded country clubs, Mr. Trump for the “Square Deal,” his dis-
White House. Again.” Wait, what?
Six months in, Mr. Trump can’t get has had a business career filled with questionable deals that tant cousin Franklin pledged to
Now Congress is Here’s why it’s genius: 1) It
legislation passed on anything much the American people that they
pushing him to gives Democrats a golden
bigger than naming a post office. Indif- would get a “New Deal,” and
the side. his successor, Harry S. Tru-
opportunity to highlight Mr.
ferent to negotiating with Democrats Trump’s broken promises and
man, believed in a “Fair Deal.”
and ham-handed in dealing with Republicans, he’s getting present their better solutions.
“A Better Deal” clearly wilts
rolled on the major promises of his campaign — health care, 2) It will generate plenty of
alongside its three powerful
infrastructure, taxes and jobs. free media exposure. 3) It
predecessors.
co-opts Trump followers into
The president’s preferred image of himself as a shrewd, A strong, simple and mean-
being unwitting Democratic
hard-nosed negotiator took a hit last week when The Wash- ingful phrase such as “For the
proponents. 4) Bonus: It will
People” could work well for the
ington Post published transcripts of his phone conversa- make Trump supporters’ heads
Democratic Party in these
tions in January with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mex- explode. In guerrilla warfare
times of economic inequality.
ico and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia. Mr. circles, this is known as a false
TED PERLE flag attack.
Trump admitted to Mr. Peña Nieto that he couldn’t make LAKE FOREST, CALIF.
PAUL KRANTZ
Mexico pay for a border wall, as he had promised many The writer is a member of the URBANDALE, IOWA
times to roaring crowds at his rallies, but he implored Mr. executive board of the California
Peña Nieto to maintain the fiction in public, seemingly obliv- Democratic Party. “Make Reading the Newspaper
ious that the Mexican president had every reason not to do Relaxing Again”
“The Real Deal”
so. His bullying tone with Mr. Turnbull could not hide his “A Better Deal” rests on a PETER GORDON
lack of understanding of the refugee pact with which Mr. case of one-upmanship: What GREAT NECK, N.Y.
Turnbull wanted him to comply. we offer doesn’t have to be
“We’re By Your Side”
This is the man who opened his 1987 book, “The Art of good, just better. That’s danc-
This can be easily worked
the Deal,” by boasting: “Other people paint beautifully on ing to someone else’s tune.
into broader messages. For
“The Real Deal” reminds
canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, pref- example: “When you need help
voters that Democrats are
erably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.” with your medical bills, we’re
serious about governance; it
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES by your side. When you’re
Providing reliable health care coverage to tens of mil- isn’t all hyperbole and empty
worrying whether your child
lions of Americans could have been the biggest kick of Mr. rhetoric. It suggests that Dem-
can afford to go to college,
almost ruined him and led to multiple bankruptcies. ocrats know how to deliver —
Trump’s life. we’re by your side. And when
He does deserve credit for one thing: His incompetence on health care, job growth,
A week before his inauguration, Mr. Trump said he had you’re discriminated against
and futile bullying seem to have led his own party to begin banking protections, equality
a plan “very much formulated down to the final strokes” to for any reason, we’re by you
under the law. It showcases
making deals without him. side.” Not government on your
provide “insurance for everybody.” In the same interview, reality and the task of finding
With nothing to show for themselves, and with Mr. back. Government by your
he promised to negotiate lower drug prices, “just like” he’d real solutions to America’s
side. The Democrats need a
forced Lockheed Martin to produce cheaper F-35 fighter Trump’s approval ratings in the 30-something range, Repub- problems. The president will
message that shows they care.
licans have begun working with Democrats on fixing the continue to whine about “fake
jets. And they need to drop their
news,” while doing his best to
In fact, Lockheed let Mr. Trump take credit for negotiat- flaws in Obamacare, on legislation that would protect the “we know better” (even if it is
gaslight the nation. This leaves
special counsel, Robert Mueller, from being fired by the true) attitude.
ing F-35 cost savings that were already in the pipeline. He Democrats with the great
caved on his promise to empower the government to negoti- president, and on the sanctions Mr. Trump was practically opportunity to define them- JEFF LOWELL, NEW YORK

ate lower drug prices — an effort Democrats support — af- forced to sign. selves as the enemies of unre-
ality: We are . . . “the real deal.” “For the Many, Not the Few”
ter a single meeting with big pharmaceutical makers. They’ve also set up a system that would prevent any re- I was going to suggest a
cess appointment of a new attorney general, should Mr. DAVID HAVEN BLAKE slogan along the lines of the
And then he kicked the whole “complicated” health care
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J.
deal to Republicans in Congress. After months of Trump Trump sack Jeff Sessions. They might be able to find a way British Labour Party’s widely
promises of “a beautiful picture” on health care, the seven- to work on a bipartisan infrastructure plan and immigration “Stop the Madness” popular “For the Many, Not the
As much as I love my state’s Few,” but that would require
year Republican crusade to end Obamacare seems to have reform, too. that the Democrats actually
come to its own end. Congress is showing signs of understanding what Mr. senior senator, Chuck Schumer,
“A Better Deal” just doesn’t do embrace that ethos.
The $1 trillion infrastructure overhaul Mr. Trump Trump clearly does not: that politics is not “The Art of the it for me. Democrats, the last WILLIAM BURSTEIN, NEW YORK
promised is another big deal that Democrats like, but he has Deal,” but the art of the possible. nine months have been rough.
But stop trying so hard. Speak “The New American Dream”
from the heart, and say what The basic middle-class prom-
we are all thinking. Stop this ise — if you work hard, you can
reality show. The kids have have a decent home, a good
thrown their party, but now the job, affordable health care,

Evolving Attitudes on Solitary for Juveniles parents must come home be-
fore the house burns down.
Stop the madness.
quality education for your kids
and a secure retirement — has
been steadily eroding for dec-
ades. Democrats need to em-
The Justice Department took a farsighted step last year The barbaric conditions of solitary may cause or wors- MARK KAPLOWITZ, ALBANY
brace a set of policies to bring
when it banned the use of solitary confinement for young en depression, paranoia and outbursts of anger that often back these five core elements
“Make America America
people in federal prisons. The decision — based on research result in even more time in isolation. The report also notes Again” for anyone willing to work hard
showing that isolation promotes mental illness and self- that more than half of suicides in juvenile justice facilities This slogan addresses the — not by bringing back the
harm — followed the widely publicized suicide of Kalief take place when the young person is alone. fact that we have gotten away jobs of yesterday but by grow-
Browder, a young man who had been unjustly accused of a from the values that make ing the jobs of tomorrow and
The federal courts are increasingly taking issue with extending them to more and
minor crime and sent to New York’s infamous Rikers Island America great — inclusiveness,
this brand of barbarism. Last month, for example, a federal more people: millennials,
the rule of law, opportunity for
jail complex, where he spent judge in Madison, Wis., re- everyone, innovation, our minorities, women and, yes,
two traumatic years in soli- quired the state to scale back can-do attitude, our work ethic white working-class men. The
tary confinement. punitive solitary confine- and our faith in democracy. American dream still res-
The Justice Department ment to seven days — from The Democrats would do well onates, but in the 21st century
to inspire us to embrace these it’s different. It’s new.
ban has pushed several the earlier maximum of 60 —
states to place new limits on values again, and show how PETER CUNNINGHAM, CHICAGO
and to also cut back on the every program they propose
their use of punitive isolation use of pepper spray, hand- would further these values. “BetterTogether”
for young people. Federal cuffs and shackles. BetterTogether strikes at the
ROBERT W. BAKER
courts have also started to A federal judge in Ten- MANHASSET, N.Y. heart of the deep divisions in
weigh in, pressing states and nessee issued a similar in- our country that have inhibited
counties to roll back extreme junction — aimed at Ruther- “It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry if I our ability to govern our coun-
Want To” try effectively, and makes the
isolation measures. ford County — in March.
I think that this slogan sums point that we can do better
Taken together, these This summer, the New York only if we unite and do it to-
up my general frustration with
developments show that the Civil Liberties Union and a the Democrats (with apologies gether. This is what the Demo-
country’s attitudes are evolv- public defenders group in to Lesley Gore). cratic Party must convey in
ing and that the goal of abol- Syracuse settled a class-ac- order to succeed.
CARLA RECZEK, OAK PARK, MICH.
ishing punitive isolation for tion lawsuit with the Onon- MICHAEL D. BUTTERMAN
juveniles is now a realistic daga County jail, which “Make America Work Again!” STAMFORD, CONN.
one. agreed to stop putting 16- I like it because it can refer
to jobs and the economy — and “Draw the Circle Wide”
That the country still and 17-year-olds into solitary I can’t claim it as mine. It’s
is also a commentary on the
has a long way to go is docu- confinement. Republican Party’s inability to part of a hymn: “Draw the
mented in a new report from And late last month, Le- get anything done. It is also a circle, draw the circle wide. No
the Juvenile Law Center, a le- gal Services of Central New play on President Trump’s one stands alone, we’ll stand
gal advocacy organization in slogan and can imply that he side by side.” I believe it to be a
York, a public defenders
has not been successful in simple statement of what our
Philadelphia. Among other group, sued officials at the national attitude and priorities
achieving his goals.
things, the report shows that Broome County jail for what should be, and what it will take
solitary confinement for chil- NANCY T. ROCKWELL, BROOKLYN
it described as “dehumaniz- to make this country work for
dren is still common, even in NIV BAVARSKY ing” abuses connected to everybody.
“The Party of Yes”
states that are trying to elim- solitary confinement. Ac- For the entire Obama presi- DIANNE JACKSON
inate it, because policies governing isolation are riddled cording to the complaint, juveniles taken to the solitary unit dency, the Republicans reveled RICHMOND, VA.
with loopholes. are strip-searched, allowed one hour of exercise per day and in being the Party of No. Now
that they are the governing “Justice, Compassion and
In a national survey conducted by the law center, two- permitted showers only every other day. Court documents Jobs!”
party, they continue to be
thirds of public defenders reported that their juvenile clients further assert that children, many of whom suffer from men- purely negative, accomplishing It speaks to the core values
had spent time in solitary confinement — ranging from just tal disabilities, are regularly held in tiny cells for 23 hours a nothing, excluding nearly and, in the end, it’s the econ-
a few hours to seven months — as a form of punishment, to day, for weeks or even months on end. everyone. Their only core omy, stupid!
protect them from other inmates or for administrative rea- Furthermore, the suit says, “Juveniles who reach their belief is that government is not WYNN SCHWARTZ, BOSTON
the answer, another negative,
sons. breaking point and want to kill themselves are stripped na- and to mindlessly cut taxes No slogan.
The defenders reported that their clients were routinely ked and put in a ‘suicide cell.’” simply to “starve the beast.” It’s better because people
deprived of basic necessities like mattresses, sheets, show- The New York State Department of Corrections has al- They do not have a single want action, not slogans.
ers, eating utensils and mental health treatment. Personal ready agreed to stop using solitary confinement against ju- “yes” idea, as their failure on THOMAS JAVORCIC
belongings like pens, computers or radios are typically pro- veniles in state prisons. Having concluded that the practice health care vividly displayed. BERWYN, ILL.
Building on the Obama slogan,
hibited, leaving the young people to pace the confines of a is counterproductive and inhumane, state officials must now Yes We Can, the Democrats A wider sampling of slogans
barren cell with only their thoughts for company. prevail on the county officials to take the same approach. need to become the Party of is at nytimes.com/opinion.

ROSS DOUTHAT
An Elusive
Immigration
Compromise
T
HE last time Gallup asked Ameri-
cans if they thought immigration
to the United States should in-
crease or decrease, 35 percent
chose a decrease, 24 percent an increase,
and 38 percent preferred the present rate.
Support for increasing immigration has
been rising for a decade, but it remains rel-
atively low. To the extent that there is a
middle-ground position, it is for some-
thing like the status quo.
From polling like this you would imag-
ine that recent immigration reform efforts
would have worked in that middle space,
trying to tweak the mix of new arrivals
without increasing the immigration rate.
But instead, most recent attempts at a
“comprehensive” bill have sought not only
amnesty for illegal immigrants, but an in-
crease in low-skilled immigration, above
the already brisk post-1960s pace.
Bipartisan bills dramatically at odds
with the shape of public opinion are gener-
ally bad for both parties. And sure enough,
the attempts at immigration reform under
George W. Bush and Barack Obama
helped give us both a much-reduced Dem-
ocratic Party and a G.O.P. helmed by Don-
ald Trump.
They also helped give us the new re-
form proposal authored by Senators Tom
Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of
Georgia and endorsed by the president.
The Cotton-Perdue bill is written for the 35
percent of Americans who want less immi-
gration, which it achieves by creating a
points-based system for applications
(with points for English proficiency, edu-
cation, a good job offer, and so on), limiting
family-based migration, and cutting the
number of legal immigrants we take by
roughly half.
The case for such cuts runs as follows.
We are nearing our historical peak for the
foreign-born share of the population, as-
similation looks slower than for prior co-
horts and may be stalling, growing diver-
sity may be increasing social distrust, and
our partisan landscape is increasingly
shaped by ethnic patronage and white-
identity politics. An immigration slow-
down would make assimilation somewhat
easier and give American politics time to
adjust to the country’s transformation. It
would also modestly curb the growth of in-
equality, reduce some strain on social pro-
grams, and offer a slight wage boost to
less-educated natives, who are presently
in dire socioeconomic straits.
But of course there are counterargu-
ments. Immigration may hurt the wages
of high school dropouts, but it offers mod-
est economic benefits to most natives, and
obvious benefits to the immigrants them-
selves. And some of the trends that worry
immigration skeptics have improved over
the last decade. Illegal immigration from
Mexico and points south has slowed sub-
stantially since the mid-2000s. The future
of immigration looks more Asian than Lat-
in American. Conservative fears of a dis-
appearing southern border or an ever-ex-
panding Spanish-speaking underclass
should be tempered somewhat by these
shifts.
Moreover, as writers like Robert Ver-
Bruggen of National Review and Lyman
Stone at The Federalist have pointed out,
you can address many of the costs of mass
immigration by embracing the new bill’s
points system without also making its
steep cuts.
That’s because a system that focused
more on skills and education and job
prospects would automatically put less
pressure on wages at the bottom. It would
increase immigration’s economic bene-
fits, and reduce its fiscal costs. And it
would presumably bring in a more diverse
pool of migrants, making balkanization
and self-segregation less likely.
So that’s probably the immigration
compromise we’re waiting for: a version
of the Cotton-Perdue points system, the
shift to high-skilled recruitment, that
keeps the overall immigration rate close
to where it is today.
But there are two obvious impediments.
The first problem is that the Cotton-Per-
due proposal is associated with a presi-
dent whose ascent was darkened by race-
baiting, and whose ability to broker any
deal is seriously in doubt. By making im-
migration central to his campaign, Trump
helped make this bill possible. But his
campaign rhetoric also makes it more po-
larizing than its substance deserves, and
his incompetence makes its legislative
prospects dim.
The second problem is that mainstream
liberalism has gone a little bit insane on
immigration, digging into a position that
any restrictions are ipso facto racist, and
any policy that doesn’t take us closer to
open borders is illegitimate and un-Amer-
ican.
That’s how we got the strange spectacle
of CNN’s Jim Acosta, ostensibly a nonpar-
tisan reporter, hectoring the White
House’s Stephen Miller last week with the
claim that Emma Lazarus’s poem about
the “huddled masses” means that the U.S.
cannot be self-interested in screening new
arrivals.
It was a telling moment, as was Acosta’s
self-righteousness afterward. Liberalism
used to recognize the complexities of im-
migration; now it sees only a borderless
utopia waiting, and miscreants and rac-
ists standing in the way.
As long as these problems persist — a
right marred by bigotry, a liberalism mad-
dened by utopianism — it is hard to imag-
ine a reasonable deal.
But as long as a deal eludes us, the cha-
otic system we have is well designed to
make both derangements that much more
powerful, both problems that much worse.
Nicholas Kristof is off today.
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President
Trump has
plenty to say
and Robert
Mueller, the
special counsel,
is taking it all in.
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Bobby Sticks It to Trump
WASHINGTON
A
S we contemplate crime and punish-
ment in the Trump circle, it
should be noted that our Russia-
besotted president does share
some traits with Dostoyevsky’s spiraling
protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov.
Both men are naifs who arrive and think
they have the right to transgress. Both are
endlessly fascinating psychological stud-
ies: self-regarding, with Napolean-style
grandiosity, and self-incriminating. Both
are consumed with chaotic, feverish
thoughts as they are pursued by a relent-
less, suspicious lawman.
But it is highly doubtful that Melania
will persuade Donald to confess all to spe-
cial counsel Robert Mueller III and slink
off to Siberia.
We are in for an epic clash between two
septuagenarians who both came from
wealthy New York families and attended
Ivy League schools but couldn’t be more
different — the flamboyant flimflam man
and the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy
scout. (And we know the president has no
idea how to talk to scouts appropriately.)
One has been called America’s straight-
est arrow. One disdains self-promotion
and avoids the press. One married his
sweetheart from school days. One was a
decorated Marine in Vietnam. One counts
patience, humility and honesty as the
virtues he lives by and likes to say “You’re
only as good as your word.”
And one’s president.
Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio
says the president has been lying reflex-
ively since he was a kid bragging about
home runs he didn’t hit. He gets warped
satisfaction from making up stuff, like
those calls from the head of the Boy Scouts
and the president of Mexico that the White
House just admitted never happened.
Back when he was a Page Six playboy,
Trump even invented two P.R. guys to play
on the phone with reporters, so he could
boast about himself three times as much,
including fictitious claims of dating Carla
Bruni and being hit on by Madonna.
He is never deterred by the fact that he
can be easily caught. But considering he
survived the “Access Hollywood” video,
Racial Violence on the Screen
I
N the thick of “Detroit,” a new film by
Kathryn Bigelow about the uprising
in that city — my native city — 50
years ago, a white cop kills a black
man. His partner then asks a witness, a
black man, what he saw. The witness says
he saw nothing. The partner puts the
OPINION same question to another witness, a black
teen, who refuses to play along.
BY MICHAEL
“You killed him,” the teen responds.
ERIC DYSON
“I don’t see anything,” the cop says.
The author of “It’s a dead guy right there,” the black
“Tears We Cannot teen angrily insists. Moments later the
Stop: A Sermon to cop shoots and kills the defiant witness.
White America” The stakes are clear: There is a penalty
and a contributing for telling the truth about what we see of
opinion writer. police brutality.
There is a depressing similarity be-
tween the racial trauma that this film
faithfully revisits and the painful events of
today caught on cellphones and police
dashcams. The cost is staggering for black
people, who are told that what we see with
our own eyes is not true — the vicious toll
of being repeatedly disbelieved.
Then a more vexing question arises:
What will the country be unwilling or un-
able to see next?
Take what has happened in recent
months.
In May, we learned that no federal
charges would be filed against the two
white officers responsible for the 2016
killing of Alton Sterling — a black man
who, when he was shot by one of the offi-
cers, was already pinned to the ground.
We saw it with our own eyes. A couple of
weeks later, a jury in Oklahoma found a
white female officer not guilty of a Sep-
tember 2016 shooting of an unarmed black
man, an incident that was also recorded
on camera.
In June, a Minnesota jury acquitted the
former policeman Jeronimo Yanez of all
charges in the killing of the black motorist
Philando Castile. That death had been
captured on film twice — in a Facebook
live stream, taken by his girlfriend, and in
MAUREEN DOWD
it’s no wonder he has a distorted sense of
what is an existential threat.
Going hammer and tong after hammer
and sickle, Mueller has crossed Trump’s
Red Lline, using multiple grand juries and
issuing subpoenas in a comprehensive in-
quiry covering not only possible cam-
paign collusion but also business dealings
by Trump and his associates with Russia.
The Times reported Friday that Mueller’s
investigators had asked the White House
for documents related to Michael Flynn.
A White House adviser told me recently
about how scary Mueller’s dream team is,
and how Jared Kushner should be ner-
vous. Every time Mueller adds a legal ce-
lebrity to his crew, the music gets cued for
an “Ocean’s Eleven” or “Dirty Dozen” ar-
What’s with Trump’s
Russian evolution?
ray of talent. One lawyer helped destroy
the New York City mafia; another helped
bring down Nixon; another tackled En-
ron; others are experts on foreign bribery
and witness-flipping. As GQ’s Jay Willis
wrote, “If these people were coming for
you over a parking ticket, you’d be think-
ing about liquidating your life savings.”
Even before his panting, bodice-ripper
of a report came out, Ken Starr was get-
ting dismissed as a partisan Javert. He’s
still risible, warning Mueller on CNN Fri-
day that “we do not want investigators
and prosecutors out on a fishing expedi-
tion.” You know you’re in trouble when Mr.
Rod & Reel warns you about going fishing.
Mueller is taken seriously as Mr. Clean
Marine, a Republican willing to stand on
principle even against other Republicans,
as when he and James Comey resisted W.
on warrantless wiretapping. Mueller is
seen as incorruptible, so his conclusions
will most likely be seen as unimpeachable.
Trump does not yet seem to fathom that
Mueller is empowered in a way no one else
is to look at all sorts of things. This isn’t
some tiff over a casino, where Trump can
publicly berate opposing counsel and
draw him into a public spat. Mueller won’t
police dashcam footage.
Last month, a white Australian, Justine
Ruszczyk, was killed in Minnesota by a
police officer. It’s a tragedy, and impossi-
ble not to see through the lens of race; the
outrage on behalf of the white victim and
the suspicion cast on the officer, of Somali
descent, was markedly different from past
deaths at the hands of the police.
Bias and distortion have also mangled
the racial views of President Trump. What
he seems to see is truly frightening. Last
week in a speech to police officers in Long
Island, Mr. Trump told them to be rougher
with suspects. When cops put their hands
over the heads of alleged assailants as
they fit them into police cars, the presi-
dent said, “You can take the hand away,
O.K.?”
Mr. Trump’s logic informs the Justice
Department’s new effort to scrutinize and
We can witness brutality
without really seeing it.
probably contest affirmative action poli-
cies in college admissions. This gesture
grows in part from the white nationalist
resentments that helped put Mr. Trump in
office. The irony is that affirmative action
is like rap music: Originally intended for a
black audience, it has been largely en-
joyed by white America. White women are
apparently the biggest beneficiaries of
such policies.
The way the president sees black Amer-
ica is mirrored in the way many whites
still see black folk: through a troubling
lens of racial nostalgia. Such nostalgia
can’t be literally evoked, though it can be
symbolically re-enacted.
In recent months, the fearsome iconog-
raphy of lynching visited our nation’s capi-
tal: Three museums in Washington, in-
cluding the National Museum of African
American History and Culture, have had
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take the bait.
At a boisterous West Virginia rally
Thursday night, Trump was back in fiery
campaign mode, mocking the idea that he
was the Siberian candidate.
“Are there any Russians here tonight?”
he said. “Any Russians?”
All I can say is: Hurry up, Bobby Three
Sticks. (Mueller got this moniker from
F.B.I. agents because of the three Roman
numerals at the end of his name.)
There may be no more bizarre, byzan-
tine mystery in the history of American
politics than Trump’s insistence on danc-
ing with the red devil in the pale moon-
light. Even for this most unlinear, illogical,
uninformed president, it is flummoxing.
When I talked to Trump about the Rus-
sians in 1987, when Mikhail Gorbachev
made his first visit as Soviet leader to
America and invited businessmen to meet
with him in New York, Trump seemed nor-
mal, saying he was willing to listen but
was suspicious and we should not be
overly eager to make a deal.
But something happened to give him a
Blame America First attitude when it
comes to the Russians. How transcend-
entally strange that the new president’s
own party has to help the Democrats box
him in both on sanctions against the Rus-
sians and on a measure preventing him
from firing Mueller.
On Thursday, the president pout-
tweeted that it was Congress’s fault that
“our relationship with Russia is at an all-
time & very dangerous low.” So he was
blaming lawmakers who punished Russia
for a cyberattack on our election rather
than blaming Russia for sticking a saber
in the heart of our democracy.
Hustle, Bobby Three Sticks.
correction
A caption accompanying Maureen
Dowd’s column last Sunday misidenti-
fied the work shown. It was inspired by
Hieronymus Bosch’s The Last Judg-
ment, but was painted by another, un-
identified artist.
nooses left on or near their grounds.
Black bodies in the early to mid-20th
century often swung from trees, offering
the strange fruit Billie Holiday sang about.
The optics of lynching were rooted in both
seeing, and not seeing, black life. White
people photographed themselves at the
lynchings and made postcards of the may-
hem.
White America is connected, whether it
wishes to be or not, to a history that has
shot and lynched black folk into silence.
When visual evidence of police brutality
circulates widely, it is a warning to black
folk to keep in place.
Black life now more than ever is the vis-
ible invisible. That’s the sad effect of
smartphone videos of police officers
shooting black people without, it seems,
ever really being held accountable.
It is society saying “I don’t see any-
thing,” like that cop in Ms. Bigelow’s film. I
had the chance this summer to speak with
her about the project. She said the racial
violence she re-created — a history that
doesn’t feel too distant — was “a way of
honoring the tragedies of our time.” Of the
violence on screen, she said, “There’s po-
tentially a valuable empathy that can be
gleaned from the story.”
As a native Detroiter, I find the film
rings true and haunts me. It aggressively
captures the catastrophe that seared the
city that, for decades, had been engulfed
in racial misery. Some have accused the
film of being torture porn or questioned
whether it was Ms. Bigelow’s story to tell,
since she is white.
Yet she has done what we black folk of-
ten demand white folk do: Take responsi-
bility for your actions and a legacy of hate
that is often silently transmitted.
In that way the film is more than cathar-
sis; it attempts to show what happened,
with the hope that it won’t be ignored. Our
country must reckon with this history, our
history, before we are all history.
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The Unusual Places Americans Go

P
EOPLE living in Arkansas are far more likely to
visit the Marshall Islands than the average Amer-
ican. In Kansas, they’re more likely to visit Ger-
many. And for Virginians? Bolivia is the top desti-
nation.
These are the findings in new data from Facebook,
which has tracked where users “check in” when they’re
Stuart A. traveling abroad during the summer since 2012.
Thompson and The results don’t necessarily reflect the most popular
Jessia Ma are in destinations outside the United States — those are over-
The New York whelmingly Mexico and Canada — but instead show
Times Opinion which locations are unusually popular with people in a
graphics given state, compared with where most Americans travel
department. during the summer.
For many states, the most distinct travel spots are sim-
ply whatever is nearby, namely Canada and Mexico. But
for others, the most distinct travel spots are tied to immi-
grant populations in the state. Tonga might seem like an
unusual choice for Utahns, but there are more Tongans
living there than in any other state, which helps explain
why the tiny Polynesian island ranks so high.
Viewed together, the destinations reveal the hidden
patchwork of global travel that can be found only in a
country as big and diverse as the United States.
Asia
Of all the destinations on the list, none were more surpris-
ing than Tonga, a tiny Polynesian island in the South Pa-
cific with a population of just 107,122. Despite the island’s
small footprint, it was the most unusual summer travel
spot for Utahns compared with Americans overall. The
state is home to the largest share of Tongan-Americans in
the United States.
The reason? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, which became popular in Tonga in the late 19th
century. Utah has an L.D.S. population of more than two
million — about 30 percent of all L.D.S. followers in the
United States.
Europe
Bosnians make up the largest Eastern European group in
Missouri. The Bosnian population is so prominent that St.
Louis has a neighborhood called Little Bosnia. Immigra-
tion from Bosnia swelled during the early 1990s as ref-
ugees fled the war there.
The peak season for Bosnians traveling to their country
of origin is July, which coincides with the anniversary of
the Bosnian genocide of 1995, when thousands of people
were killed. “We have people who will go there to bury the
remains of their loved ones, or to visit the graves of the
massacre,” said Akif Cogo, president of the local nonprofit
St. Louis Bosnians. The anniversary probably explains
the high rankings in the neighboring states Iowa and Ken-
tucky, too.
Africa
There were about 84,000 Somalis in the United States in
2015, and about 30 percent of them live in Minnesota.
Ryan Allen, a professor at the University of Minnesota
who has studied this populatio, said immigrants have con-
tinued to travel home despite an ongoing civil war.
“They saw an opportunity — once they’d become estab-
lished in the United States and specifically in Minnesota
— to go back, not only to reconnect with family and
friends, but also to try and help the country,” he said.
South Africa held the top spot in Delaware, and the larg-
est driver is probably tourism: Travel from the Americas
grew by 10 percent between 2014 and 2016, according to
South Africa Tourism. Gustav Visser, a professor who
studies tourism at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University,
noted traveling to the country isn’t cheap, so wealthier
Americans might account for a higher share of visitors.
One possible attraction for them: big-game hunting.

A Feminist Defense of Bridezillas

F
OR many of the thousands of
American weddings that have
taken place so far this summer,
there have been two unspoken
requirements: 1) that the events be stun-
ning, awe-inspiring, love-filled, unique
and fun all at once, and 2) that they ap-
OPINION pear to have occurred miraculously, with
zero effort or emotional output on the
BY KELSEY
McKINNEY
part of the bride.
The consequences of breaking the first
A writer in rule are bad. Risks include an anemic
Washington. hashtag, utterly forgettable vows and
underwhelming Snapchat footage of a
dance floor populated only by ring bear-
ers and a few dutiful guests doing an un-
enthusiastic Wobble.
But the punishment for failing to live
up to the second requirement is worse: A
woman (nobody will be surprised to
learn that this is only a risk for women)
will be labeled a “bridezilla.”
The dreaded descriptor solidified itself
in popular discourse back in 2004, thanks
to a reality show dedicated to document-
ing pre-wedding temper tantrums. Be-
fore long, any bride who dared to reveal
any fraction of the stress that went into
planning the best day ever (the bar for
which has risen to impossible heights
thanks to Pinterest pressure and social
media scrutiny) ran the risk of being de-
scribed as a monster.
Despite a long list of tasks to complete
and her venue double-booking her wed-
ding date, Carley Musser, who got mar-
ried in February, tried to be as “flexible
The person doing all the
work should get to say
what she wants.
and laid back as possible,” she said. “If I
knew someone referred to me as a
bridezilla, it would have killed me.”
Fortunately, a growing group of wom-
en have decided they won’t in fact die if
they’re described with that wedding-sea-
son slur. After all, when you realize it
simply reflects the latest in no-win situa-
tions devised for just one gender, it really
does take some of the air out.
Just as a competent, civil presidential
candidate was called a “nasty woman”
and little girls who show leadership skills
are scolded for being “bossy,”
“bridezilla” is specifically designed to
condemn a woman who puts any energy
and authority toward trying to achieve
entirely reasonable goals. It’s efficient
shorthand to remind her, “Hey, the world
actually likes you a lot better without
opinions.” You might ask: But how is she
supposed to communicate, let alone
meet ever-loftier wedding day expecta-
tions, without expressing those opin-
ions? It’s impossible.
Many brides have wised up, though,
saying that they think “bridezilla” is just
a word that tries to mutate their per-
fectly normal emotions into uncontrolla-
ble hysteria. Mahalia Jessup, a wedding
planner in Alexandria, Va., knows that
well. “I just think that when brides are
particular, they get called this,” she said.
The catch is that to plan a wedding
that’s anything more elaborate than a
Las Vegas drive-through ceremony,
there’s no way to avoid being particular.
This event, if not the most important
event of a person’s life, is often among
the most expensive. Last year, according
to a survey by the wedding website The
Knot, the final bill now typically hovers
around $35,329. Turning that budget into
a multipart, multihour experience is a
job not unlike being the C.E.O. of a small
company: The person in charge has to
set the vision, crosscheck the delightful
CARI VANDER YACHT
details to ensure they’re not featured on
blogs about “wedding trends that are so
last year,” find caterers who will leave
neither the Whole 30 crowd nor the
newly minted vegans starving, and en-
sure that it’s all executed on time and
with panache. A bride whose social circle
and income put her at the impossible
center of a Venn diagram with “high ex-
pectations” on one side and “can’t afford
a planner” on the other is especially out
of luck.
In her 2007 book “One Perfect Day,”
Rebecca Mead argues that the bridezilla
taboo is just one component of a prof-
itable industry: Get women as stressed
out as possible and they’ll spend any
amount of money to get what they want.
Even modern couples who shun tradi-
tion or would rather save for a down pay-
ment on a house must choreograph their
alternative ceremonies. Potluck meals
have to be assigned, volunteer photogra-
phers have to be coordinated, and the
“you” in D.I.Y. isn’t just any old “you.” It’s
— you guessed it — the bride. In any het-
erosexual relationship, no matter how
progressive, women are often still ex-
pected to lead the wedding-planning
charge. One bride told me her male part-
ner was effectively ignored by vendors,
his ideas and questions unac-
knowledged. It’s like pay-
back for sexist office
dynamics! Except,
well, women lose
here, too.
Plenty of peo-
ple have made light of the familiar con-
flicting priorities of a woman caught in
this sexism-fueled trap: trying desper-
ately to appear cool and casual, all while
revealing herself to be exactly the oppo-
site, and overwhelming bridesmaids
with requests to provide the kind of help
that professionals charge for.
Certainly, pending nuptials shouldn’t
give anyone license to be unkind to their
loved ones. But “bridezilla” is often used
to condemn behavior that falls far short
of cruel or selfish. At more than one brid-
al shower I’ve attended, the term has
been thrown out very early in the
process as an apparent warning to a
bride-to-be who is showing early signs of
simply making her needs or preferences
known. (You want what? Cake before
gifts? O.K., but, wow . . . don’t be a
bridezilla, now!)
How exactly do people think it comes
to be that the table runners match the
flowers, which were shipped across the
country on a bed of ice because they are
out of season but the groom had a vision
of purple ties and they were the only
flowers that would match the color
scheme? Is there possibly a fake news
story circulating about how women,
upon engagement, are assigned a flock of
tiny Cinderella birds who flutter
around, making sure that no
one is seated at a table
with any of their ex-
boyfriends and that no
one is separated
from the plus-one
they decided to
bring three days
ago because they
assumed that, un-
less the bride was
a bridezilla, it
would be no prob-
lem?
(Warning: Any re-
sponse other than “no
problem” to inevitable
wedding-day fiascos and
breaches of etiquette will get you
labeled with one of two B-words — and
probably both.)
Many women are over it, and rightly
so. Brittany Rathge, who planned a 250-
person wedding for November 2016,
spent months stressing over brides-
maids dresses that were arriving too late
before bucking up and getting confronta-
tional, embodying the stereotype she
had been so worried she’d become and
leading her to the realization that “may-
be a woman being called a ‘bridezilla’ is
just a woman who is trying her best to
get stuff done.”
The criticism is all the more bizarre at
a time when men in politics are engaging
in regular public tantrums. Imagine if
brides, so often mocked for demands
couched in nicety-laden emails, chose to
tweet desires and disappointments (in
all-caps) instead? Would there be any
supporters to praise them for showing a
refreshing new brand of leadership by
telling it like it is?
Eyes opened to double standards, Ms.
Jessup said that many of the brides who
hire her are choosing to see “bridezilla”
for what it is, and even reclaim it. If
you’re going to pitch a fit, she said, “your
wedding day is the day to do that.” It
might be hard to identify with such a
monstrous word, but in modern parlance
all it really means is that you’re the boss
and acting like it.
And as the boss, you have the power to
make an executive decision to refuse to
worry about being called a sexist name
simply for completing the task at hand.
That’s even more reason to celebrate —
and a lesson that’s applicable long after
the big day.
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The Nomads of Summer

Since New York rents often rise during the warmer months, savvy tenants
avoid signing a lease until the weather and the prices cool.
By JACLYN PEISER
Twenty-five years old, employed and en-
gaged, Elana Rosman had not envisioned
moving back to her childhood home in
Great Neck, N.Y., on Long Island.
She is not in a quarter-life crisis, seeking
a safe haven to figure out her next step. It’s
much simpler than that. To avoid taking on
a new lease this summer, Ms. Rosman is
“going nomad” and has moved home with
her parents.
The summer rental season is notorious
for being the priciest time of year in New
York, because demand shoots up as recent
graduates flock to the city looking for a
place to live, and prices naturally follow
suit. As a result, some people do whatever
they can to put off signing a lease until fall.
Temporary strategies include couch-
surfing, house-sitting, finding a short-term
rental or a boardinghouse, or moving in
with relatives — as Ms. Rosman did. She fig-
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rental season, she may find rents as much
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when she starts apartment-hunting in the
fall.
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Thank you.
Many thanks to the speakers, Can a Co-op Ban Strollers
supporters and attendees who
participated in The New York From the Front Entrance?
Times Cities for Tomorrow
conference. We look forward to About a month ago, my husband and I
reconvening in 2018 and hope bought a co-op in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
you’ll join us once again. Several times a day, we put our baby in a
stroller and leave the building through the
front door. As we returned home through
that door recently, a person, who we believe
works for the managing agent, told us that
strollers must use a back entrance. An avid
rule follower, I reread the resident handbook
and found no rule about this. If a rule is not
written, must it be followed?
Getting around the city with a baby in a
stroller is not an easy task. You have to
contend with cumbersome stairs, crowded
sidewalks and narrow stores. Arriving at
your doorstep should mark the end of your
obstacle course, not another twist in the
journey.
If this rule exists, I am surprised other
Top: Ernest J. Moniz, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy. young parents in the building have not put
Right: John Leguizamo, Actor, Writer, Activist. Bottom up a fight.
left: Margarette Purvis, President and C.E.O., Food
“I find it hard to believe that a co-op
Bank For New York City and Christine C. Quinn.,
President and C.E.O., Win would have a rule that babies cannot enter
the building’s front door if they are in a
To watch full discussions from
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& Berkey.
Such a rule could be discriminatory if it
is not applied evenly to all residents. For
example, if residents are allowed to pull
wheeled grocery carts through the front
entrance, why not strollers?
Regardless, the only enforceable rules
are the ones in the governing documents.
So it is possible that the rule exists but is
not listed in your resident handbook. If you
do not have these documents, ask the man-
aging agent for copies.
However, you do not need to go digging
for answers. You could simply continue
pushing the stroller through the front en-
trance. If you encounter the employee
again, introduce yourself as a shareholder
and ask for his or her name and title. If the
stroller rule is mentioned again, request a
copy to review.
Speak with other parents in the building
and ask where they stand on the policy, if
they are even aware of it. As a group, you
could contest any such policy with the
co-op board, arguing that it unfairly dis-
criminates against families with children.
You may also be able to file a discrimina-
tion claim with the New York City Commis-
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On the Market
STEFA NO S CHEN

UPPER EAST SIDE CO-OP

$1,799,000
MANHATTAN 59 East 75th
Street, No. 5B
A duplex co-op with two bedrooms,
two bathrooms, a rare wood-burning
fireplace, a sizable outdoor deck and
lots of sunlight. White oak floors
throughout. Rory Clark, Halstead,
212-381-4225; halstead.com
MAINTENANCE $2,451 a month
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PROS Tall windows and a skylight
at the top of the stairs fill the space
with natural light. The downstairs
bedroom is suitable for an artist’s
studio. The private outdoor space is
large enough for alfresco dining.
CONS The staircase has no railing.
A bathroom adjoins the kitchen.

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TWO-BEDROOM IN WESTPORT

$699,000
FAIRFIELD 6 Pondside Drive
A pond-side house with two
bedrooms and one bath, wood floors,
an open living area with a new
kitchen and skylight, a stone
fireplace, central air, a deck, a gravel
patio and a two-car garage on 0.39
acre at the end of a cul-de-sac.
Susan Vanech, William Pitt Sotheby’s
TAXES $7,806
PROS The wooded setting is
peaceful. The garage and an
adjoining space can easily be
finished to add more living space.
CONS The washer and dryer are on
PARK SLOPE DUPLEX
full display in the kitchen. The garage

$1,850,000
International Realty, 203-685-2348; can be reached only from the
williampitt.com outside.

BROOKLYN 640 10th Street, No. 2

A duplex with three bedrooms, two baths and a
deck on the top two floors of a two-unit
brownstone co-op. Jessica Buchman, Corcoran
Group, 718-832-4193; corcoran.com

MAINTENANCE $585 a month

PROS The bedroom floor has a laundry room

and multiple closets. The deck is large enough
for a table and chairs for six.

CONS No dogs are permitted.

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ROSLYN HEIGHTS CONTEMPORARY

$1,880,000
MURRAY HILL CO-OP

NASSAU 15 Shelter Lane

A 1991 house with seven bedrooms,
seven full and two half baths with a
first floor master suite, a butler’s
pantry, a finished basement and a
two-car garage on a 0.35-acre lot.
Aileen Murstein, 516-317-6007, and
Jodi Cohen, 917-902-7599, Douglas
Elliman Real Estate; elliman.com
TAXES $45,387 a year
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PROS The double-height foyer has
a glass ceiling that fills the space
with light. The kitchen has two center
$990,000
islands and a skylit breakfast area,
and opens to a family room. The MANHATTAN 10 Park Avenue, No. MAINTENANCE $1,887 a month
master bathroom and two upstairs 26S
baths have steam showers. An apartment with one bedroom and PROS Handsome casement
one bath with original iron casement windows in the living room and
CONS The backyard is narrow. windows near the top of a former bedroom open to a terrace with room
1930s hotel. Samuel Austin Hoffman, for plants in urns. Nine-foot ceilings,
917-881-1449, and William Bolls, reclaimed wood built-ins and matte
212-875-2910, Corcoran Group Real concrete floors add flair.
Estate; corcoran.com
CONS The sound of traffic below.
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Big Ticket
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Slept Here

By VIVIAN MARINO
The Park Avenue duplex where Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis lived as a child has sold
for $25,250,000, one of the city’s most ex-
pensive closed sales in July. But the price
for the apartment was far below what it was
first listed for three summers ago.
This grand home is on the sixth and sev-
enth floors of 740 Park, the venerable co-op
building on the corner of 71st Street, de-
signed by Rosario Candela and developed
by James T. Lee, a grandfather of Mrs.
Onassis. Mrs. Onassis, then Jacqueline
Bouvier, resided there with her family from
1932 to 1938.
Its newest occupant, according to prop- ALLYN BAUM/THE NEW YORK TIMES

erty records, is Jacob M. Safra, a financier
and member of one of the world’s wealthiest
banking families. Mr. Safra bought the
apartment from the former hedge fund
manager David K. Ganek and his wife, Dan-
ielle, a novelist. The couple paid $19.1 million
for the unit in 2005, and returned it to the
market in 2014, initially seeking $44 million.
The most recent asking price was $29.5 mil-
lion.
The most expensive closed sale in July, at
$32.71 million, was a three-bedroom four-
and-a-half-bath sponsor unit on the 86th
floor of 432 Park Avenue, the tallest resi-
dential tower in the Western Hemisphere,
between East 56th and 57th Streets. The
buyer’s identity was shielded by a limited
liability company.
In other notable transactions last month,
some of which were also discounted, the co-
median and actress Rosie O’Donnell ac-
quired a penthouse in Turtle Bay. The ac-
tress Meg Ryan sold her full-floor SoHo loft;
Robert Charles Duffy, a founder of the Marc
Jacobs fashion house, sold a Greenwich Vil-
lage townhouse; and the comedian and ac-
tress Tracey Ullman sold her Upper East
Side co-op.
In Brooklyn, Ian Schrager, the hotelier
and a founder of the Studio 54 nightclub,
bought a condominium in Dumbo. And the
actress Lena Dunham sold her Brooklyn
Heights “starter” apartment.
MRS. ONASSIS’S CHILDHOOD HOME, a couple
of blocks from Central Park, would likely be
unrecognizable to the former first lady to-
day. The apartment has been fully renovat-
ed. There are now 12 rooms instead of 14, in-
cluding four en-suite bedrooms and a media
room at the top level, and formal living and
dining rooms and a library on the main floor.
The kitchen, just off the dining room, is
equipped with stainless-steel appliances
and a breakfast area; two staff rooms with a
bath are nearby. The immense master suite,
which overlooks Park Avenue, contains two
of everything: baths, offices and dressing
TOP, ABOVE AND RIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHERINE MARKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
rooms.
The apartment was listed by the brothers
Tal and Oren Alexander of Douglas Elliman
Real Estate and Serena Boardman and
Jeremy Stein of Sotheby’s International Re-
alty; Ms. Boardman also represented the
buyer. The monthly maintenance fee is
$13,278.
Nineteen-story, limestone-clad 740 Park,
long regarded as one of Manhattan’s most
glamorous residences, has been home to
many wealthy and powerful people, includ-
ing John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the fashion
designer Vera Wang.
MS. O’DONNELL PURCHASED her penthouse,
at the Sterling Plaza, at 255 East 49th Street
near Second Avenue, for $8 million. She
went into contract on the unit just six days
after it was listed for $8.495 million, accord-
ing to StreetEasy.com.
Ms. O’Donnell, a former host of “The
View,” had owned another penthouse, a du-
plex at 130 West 12th Street in Greenwich
Clockwise from top left, the
front exterior of 740 Park
Avenue; Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, who lived there from EVAN JOSEPH IMAGES
1932 to 1938; the redesigned
apartment that was her
THE GREENWICH VILLAGE TOWNHOUSE sold by
childhood home; the
Mr. Duffy, a longtime business partner of
comedian Rosie O’Donnell
Marc Jacobs, was an 1839 Federal-style
bought the penthouse at the
brick building at 62 West 12th Street. The
Sterling Plaza; Ms.
closing price was $9.5 million, $750,000 less
O’Donnell; the exterior of the
1839 Federal-style brick than what Mr. Duffy paid for the house in
building that Robert Charles 2013 and below the recent $12 million asking
Duffy, a founder of the Marc price. Mr. Duffy first listed the townhouse
Jacobs fashion house, sold. for $17 million last year.
The 20-foot-wide, four-story house has
five bedrooms and four and a half baths.
The restored front stoop opens to the parlor
floor, where there are dining and living
rooms. The garden level, just below, con-
tains an en-suite bedroom off the kitchen,
which could be used as staff quarters, and a
family room that opens to a private yard.
The other bedrooms are on the top two
floors, including the master suite, which
Village, but sold it about a year and a half features a terrace.
ago for $9 million. This was not the first house Mr. Duffy has
Her new apartment has four bedrooms owned on 12th Street: He bought No. 35 in
and three baths over 3,563 square feet, and 2011 for $5.2 million, and sold it for $5.5 mil-
is on the top two floors of the 32-story con- lion four years later.
dominium. On the roof is an additional 1,620 Across town, Ms. Ullman, a seven-time
square feet, with panoramic East River Emmy Award winner, sold her 12th-floor
views. The terraced space has a butler’s apartment at 3 East 69th Street, with two
pantry, an outdoor kitchen and a bar, and ar- bedrooms and two and a half baths, for
eas for lounging and dining. $2.35 million. The unit was listed for around
MS. RYAN’S FIFTH-FLOOR LOFT at 84 Mercer $2.5 million.
Street sold for $9.8 million, below her $10.9 AMONG THE OTHER NOTEWORTHY July sales,
million asking price. The 4,100-square-foot Mr. Schrager paid around $4.3 million for a
apartment features a long gallery with seat- loftlike apartment with three bedrooms and
ing, three bedrooms, three baths and a me- two and a half baths, at 31 Washington
dia room. The master suite has eight clos- Street in Dumbo. The sellers were Laura Fr-
ets. erer-Schmidt, the publisher of Women’s
This sale comes a month after Ms. Ryan, Health magazine, and her husband, Brian
whose movies include “When Harry Met CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGES
Schmidt. In Brooklyn Heights, Ms. Dun-
Sally” and “You’ve Got Mail,” bought a new ham, star of the HBO series “Girls,” made a
condo with three bedrooms and three and a handsome profit on the sale of her one-bed-
half bathrooms at 443 Greenwich for $9.4 room at 145 Hicks Street. She paid $500,000
million. for it in 2012, and sold it for $850,000.

360 VIEW

A Month Rent-Free: Deal or Gimmick?

Landlords are offering discounts, but most renters just want lower monthly payments.
Michele Balsam, in the living
room of her home in
Washington Heights, on
landlord incentives: “I don’t
need somebody to give me $100
at Home Depot. What I need to
know is that I’m living in a
functional, reliable apartment.”
By RONDA KAYSEN
Scroll through any New York City rental
website and you will be bombarded with
listings offering what landlords call conces-
sions: months of free rent, gift cards and
broker fees paid by the landlord. Some ten-
ants have another word for such offers.
They call them gimmicks.
Consider a one-bedroom apartment in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, listed on the website
Nooklyn for $2,677 a month. The ad men-
tions skyline views, hardwood floors and
“net effective” pricing, a phrase that comes
up in a lot of listings and basically means
that the rent advertised is not what you ac-
tually pay each month.
To find out what that Greenpoint apart-
ment would really cost, I contacted Andrew
Pratt, a principal broker at Nooklyn and the
listing agent for the property. He told me
that it rents for $2,900 a month, with one
month free. So if I rented that apartment, I
would not pay rent the second month, but
for the other 11 months I would write a check
EMON HASSAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
for $2,900. And when that lease came up for
renewal, any rent increase would be based
on the larger amount. I checked back a
week later, and found the apartment still
available, but advertised for $2,566 a
month. The landlord had shaved $100 off the
base rent.
In other words, the flashy offer had be-
guiled no one. At some point, you have to
wonder if a free month is such a good deal.
Maybe it would be better to just rent an
apartment that actually costs $2,677 a
month. Or, better yet, $2,566 a month.
Michele Balsam, 27, a middle school his-
tory teacher who was apartment hunting
this spring, was not wooed by the discounts
when she started looking in Upper Manhat-
tan. “I’m not looking for bells and whistles,”
she said. “I’m looking for an apartment that
I can live in.”
Ms. Balsam grew up in the West Village
and TriBeCa, and after years of living with
roommates, she wanted a place of her own.
Her must-have list was practical. She
wanted a one-bedroom apartment, with a
separate living room and an updated
kitchen, in a well-managed building. In
June, she found one in Washington Heights
that met her criteria for $1,800 a month, with
a broker’s fee of 12 percent of the annual
rent.
“I don’t need somebody to give me $100 at
Home Depot,” she said. “What I need to
know is that I’m living in a functional, reli-
able apartment.”
Landlords, however, would prefer you
take the gift card.
The past three years have seen a bonanza
of discounts, as rents stagnate in many
parts of the city, and landlords use the deals
to avoid actually lowering the rent. But that
may be changing. In June, rents in Brooklyn
fell 1 percent, to $2,850 a month, from the
same time a year ago, with 17.1 percent of
listings offering a concession, according to a
report by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
That slip may be small, but June is peak
rental season, and concessions have been
stuck in the high teens for months, said Jon-
athan J. Miller, the author of the report and
the president of Miller Samuel Real Estate
Appraisers and Consultants. If the dis-
At some point, you have
to wonder if a free
month is such a good
deal.
counts are not actually getting the apart-
ments rented, maybe the time has come for
landlords to lower rents, which are hover-
ing near historic highs in Brooklyn and
Manhattan.
“There’s a point where concessions be-
come tone-deaf to the market,” Mr. Miller
said. “A large swath of renters can’t afford
the apartment without the concession.”
Mr. Pratt, Nooklyn’s director of leasing
for Williamsburg and Greenpoint, has also
noticed the falling rents. “Over all, rents are
coming down,” he said. “One way or an-
other, everything that’s getting rented is
$100 or $200 less than it was last year or the
year before.”
A cheaper lease, not a month or two of
free rent, is a more secure deal for a tenant.
A renter who wanted to pay $2,500 a month
but ended up signing a lease on a $3,000-a-
month apartment because the first two
months were free, could face an unmanage-
able rent increase when the lease gets re-
newed. “Shiny, flashy concessions don’t
provide assurance that somebody is going
to be able to live there for more than a year,”
Mr. Miller said.
These discounts offer a good deal for a
transient population. A student in New York
for a year could benefit from a few months
of free rent more than someone who wants
to live in an apartment for five years. “If
you’re only going to be there one year, play
the incentives as much as you can,” said
Erin Whitney, a saleswoman at Bohemia
Realty Group, which specializes in Upper
Manhattan. “But if you want a place to set
up a home for a while, you want a lower
rent.”
Indeed, teaser rents can upend your life.
In May 2016, Abigail Case and her
boyfriend, Christopher Gurr, moved into a
rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment in
Washington Heights that was listed for
$1,695 a month. The rent they paid was what
is known as a preferential rent, meaning
that the apartment’s legal rent was actually
higher. A landlord who cannot find a tenant
willing to pay the full rent on a rent-stabi-
lized apartment often markets the unit at a
lower price. But when the lease is renewed,
the landlord could raise the rent up to the
full amount.
Last February, Ms. Case and Mr. Gurr,
both 25, were offered a lease renewal at
$2,499 a month, the maximum allowed by
law. When the couple said they would move
at the end of the lease instead, the managing
agent offered them two months of free rent,
lowering the net-effective rent to $2,082 a
month. Ms. Case, who works in arts admin-
istration, was not impressed. “I basically
scoffed at them and said, ‘This is ridicu-
lous,’” she said. According to Ms. Case, the
managing agent’s response was “every-
body is doing this.”
Ms. Case and Mr. Gurr, a musician,
started looking for a rent-stabilized apart-
ment for less than $2,000 a month. Limiting
the search to apartments within their budg-
et proved challenging, as many listings ad-
vertised net-effective rents for apartments
that were more expensive, which Ms. Case
found misleading. “You have to read all of
the descriptions,” she said of her search for
an apartment where “I would just be paying
that legal rent every month.”
In March, she and Mr. Gurr found a rent-
stabilized one-bedroom in Inwood for $1,900
a month, with no broker’s fee. As for the
Washington Heights apartment, soon after
the couple moved out, Ms. Case saw it listed
on StreetEasy. The asking rent was $1,695 a
month.
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WHAT I LOVE
BETSY WOLFE

Star of ‘Waitress’ Finds a Home of Her Own

By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Growing up in central California, Betsy
Wolfe was so infatuated with real estate
that she routinely collected the circulars
that listed homes for sale, fanning them out
on the living room floor and mooning over
the possibilities.
“I’d say: ‘Mom! Dad! Look, this house
has just been reduced by $20,000,’” said Ms.
Wolfe, who took over the lead in the Broad-
way musical “Waitress” in mid-June. “And
my father would say, ‘Betsy, we are not look-
ing to buy a house.’”
It just goes to show how little Father
knew, because here’s the thing: Betsy was
looking. Through the years, the desire for
property ownership continued to burn hot
and bright. Finally, in March of 2016, a mere
two days before she sang at Carnegie Hall
with the New York Pops, Ms. Wolfe and her
fiancé, Adam Krauthamer, a French horn
player, closed on a one-bedroom co-op in
Morningside Heights. They moved in last
December.

Name Betsy Wolfe

Age 35

Occupation Actress

Whatever You Say, Dear

“When I saw this apartment, I told my fi-
ancé, ‘The bones are great, it’s got great
bones.’ He’d been through eight months of
me seeing other places and hearing me say,
‘It’s not a good foundation.’ He was going to
let me do my thing.”

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

“It has been quite the dream and quite the reluctant to make significant investments
journey,” said Ms. Wolfe, 35, who moved to in furniture, because there was no assur-
New York in 2004, straight from college, ance that a sofa purchased for one apart-
landing in a Bronx apartment complete ment would fit in another. Finally a member
with a Christmas tree (even though it was of the maintenance-paying class, she is at
April) and enough mice to staff “The Nut- play in the fields of ABC Carpet & Home,
cracker.” (There was lots of Christmas supplier of the blue sectional, the console
candy strewn about.) Understandably, she and the reclaimed wood bed.
embraced the opportunity to move to a tiny “For a while, I think my style was Scandi-
studio in a luxury high-rise on Wall Street. navian midcentury modern boho,” Ms.
“I couldn’t afford much at the time, so I’d Wolfe said thoughtfully. “And then I added
collect items from the refuse rooms that the word ‘eclectic.’ It’s an extremely forgiv-
were on every floor,” Ms. Wolfe said, with ing word.”
charming forthrightness. “With so many Eclectic is sufficiently elastic to include
apartments, there were people moving out the many antique rugs, the round wood ped-
every weekend. I found a dining room table estal dining table from Housing Works and
and gorgeous pots and pans.” the copper desk she fell in love with while
The scavenging didn’t stop when Ms. starring in a show in La Jolla, Calif., and had
Wolfe finished decorating. She turned it into shipped to New York. (“Can’t we just bring
a business called 45 Treasures, a nod to her back some seashells?” Mr. Krauthamer
building’s address. “I realized that people asked plaintively.)
were always looking to buy things in Man- Last season, Ms. Wolfe had a featured
hattan, so I would collect things from the Top, Betsy Wolfe in the co-op — 700 square feet, 30 rooms — that un- role in the Broadway revival of “Falsettos.”
refuse rooms, take pictures, post them on- kitchen of the home she doubtedly perplexed many would-be buyers. Her character didn’t turn up until the sec-
line, and invariably someone would call and shares with her fiancé “We walked into the apartment, and there ond act, so while some of her fellow cast
say, ‘I’ve just moved to the city, I need a ton in Manhattan’s was a beamed ceiling,” Ms. Wolfe said. “I members were on stage singing “Making a
of stuff and I’ve got a van,’” said Ms. Wolfe, Morningside Heights. know this is going to sound cheesy, but my Home,” Ms. Wolfe was up in her dressing
who at one point had six desks on display in Above left, a pair of soul was smiling and I remember thinking, ‘I room busily trawling the internet for light
her apartment. “You have no idea what peo- prized botanical prints. could make this a home.’” fixtures, rugs and throw pillows to make her
ple will pay for already-put-together Ikea Above, the couple’s She has done exactly that, after a gut reno- home.
furniture. living room, where a vation about which the less said the better. The bookcase in the living room has yet to
“My parents were worried about my custom bookcase has Here is the very short version: long delays be built, which means many of the couple’s
moving to New York City,” added Ms. Wolfe, yet to be built. Left, a and a purloined French door. books are still in boxes, and a pair of botani-
who closed 45 Treasures when she moved Bundt pan once But let’s take the high road and focus on the cal prints aren’t situated where Ms. Wolfe
out of the building. “But they were never belonging to Ms. results: The bathroom was enlarged to the thinks they ought to be. Vexing, yes, but
worried about my finding a way to make a Wolfe’s grandmother. couple’s specifications; the tidy galley she’s trying to rise above it.
living.” kitchen has the ceramic subway tile Ms. Wolfe “I’ve looked forward to my first home so
That can-do spirit came in handy during mandated, as well as shelves for displaying much,” she said, “and as much as I want ev-
the search for a co-op. Ms. Wolfe and Mr. copper mugs and antique crocks; and the erything done, I have to be O.K. with the fact
Krauthamer, 36, were frequently out- bedroom now has a windowed walk-in closet that it isn’t finished and might never be fin-
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LIVING IN BROOKFIELD, CONN.

Scenic Lakes and, Soon, a Town Center

New
N e Milford
LONG MEADOW
H I L L R D.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By SUSAN HODARA
When two of their three children had moved
out and were living on their own, Anthony
and Kristen Papucci knew it was time to
downsize. They also knew they wanted to
stay in Brookfield, Conn., where they had
owned a four-bedroom house since 2000.
They liked the small-town feel, and they es-
pecially liked the proximity to Candlewood
Lake.
Last summer, Ms. Papucci, who works as
a banker in Ridgefield, Conn., and Mr.
Papucci, a director at a media company in
Manhattan, bought a 1,900-square-foot,
three-bedroom ranch house in Candlewood
Shores, a private lakeside community. The
couple, both 51, paid $260,000 for the house,
which was built in 1960 on a third of an acre.
Now, they and their 15-year-old son enjoy
lake views from the kitchen and living PHOTOGRAPHS BY EVA DEITCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

room. “When I wake up in the morning, I
feel like I’m on vacation drinking my cof-
fee,” Mr. Papucci said. “Then it’s like, ‘Oh,
wait, I live here year-round.’”
Candlewood Lake is one of two lakes that
bookend Brookfield, a 20-square-mile town
of about 17,000 residents in northern Fair-
field County. The largest lake in Connecti-
cut, it forms part of Brookfield’s western
border. Along the eastern edge is the long,
narrow Lake Lillinonah, a dammed section
of the Housatonic River. In between, resi-
dential neighborhoods line roads that wind
through open fields and rolling woods. “It’s
hilly here,” Patty McManus, an associate
broker with William Pitt Sotheby’s Interna-
tional Realty, said. “Flat lots with flat drive-
ways are hard to find.”
A stretch of strip malls and office parks
near Brookfield’s southeastern border with
Danbury is filled with big-box stores, fast-
food chains and businesses to satisfy most
needs. Yet despite decades of thwarted in-
tentions, there is no walkable downtown.
That is about to change. In late June,
ground was broken at an intersection called
Four Corners, currently the site of four gas
stations. What’s to come is a three-phase re-
vitalization, beginning with a $6 million in-
stallation of pedestrian lighting, a bike path
and sidewalks with benches and planters. A
four-building complex of mixed-use retail
and residential rentals called Brookfield
Village is already underway, aimed at mil-
lennials and empty-nesters. The vision for
the area is a quaint town center with shops,
restaurants and gathering places.
“We have two beautiful lakes, beautiful
residential areas and great schools,”
Stephen C. Dunn, Brookfield’s first select-
man, said. “What is the only thing we don’t
have that a Darien, Westport or Ridgefield
has? A real downtown. And now we’re do-
ing it. We talked about it for 30 years, and
now we’re actually doing it.”
Residents and their guests on the beach at Candlewood Lake in Brookfield, Conn. Plans for a quaint downtown area are underway for the private lakeside community.
What You’ll Find
Of Brookfield’s roughly 6,500 homes, about
three-quarters are single-family: colonials
beside raised ranches beside farmhouses.
Tucked among them are subdivisions,
many built in the 1980s. Most of the 18th-
and 19th-century houses sit close to what
was originally Brookfield’s center. Hun-
dreds of smaller homes, built as summer
cottages in the 1950s, are clustered around
Candlewood Lake. Along Lake Lillinonah,
lots are larger and houses more secluded.
The other homes are primarily condo-
miniums. The new rental buildings part of
the Four Corners renewal are welcome,
said Linda McCaffrey, a broker with Cold-
well Banker Residential Brokerage: “They
support our young people staying in town
and drive industry to move in.”
What You’ll Pay
Ms. McCaffrey, a Brookfield resident since
1981, described the real estate market as
“vibrant” and “active.” “We sold more
houses in Brookfield last year than we did
in any year since 2006,” she said.
On July 17, there were 114 single-family
homes on the market, including a three-
bedroom, 1961 ranch listed for $170,000 and
a five-bedroom 2003 farmhouse listed at
$2,885,000. There were also 33 condomini-
ums, including a one-bedroom ranch listed
at $139,000 and a two-bedroom townhouse
listed for $459,000.
The median sales price for single-family
homes during the 12-month period ending
July 17 was $387,500, up from $367,500 the
previous 12 months; the median sales price
for condominiums was $240,000, up from
$209,500 the previous year.
The Vibe
In addition to the lakes, with their swim-
ming beaches and glorious vistas, Brook-
field is home to 1,300 acres of open space
and parks that include the new Still River
Greenway, a two-mile paved walkway. Art
exhibitions and an annual film festival are
organized by the Brookfield Arts Commis-
sion, which also arranged funding for the
three larger-than-life horse sculptures by
Peter Busby that grace the Municipal
Center’s entrance.
The Brookfield Craft Center offers
classes in blacksmithing, ceramics and
other crafts. Theater lovers can attend
performances at the 60-year-old Brookfield
Theater for the Arts, housed in a historic
stone building.
The Schools
Brookfield’s nearly 2,800 school-age chil-
dren are served by the Brookfield Public
School District, which includes Center
Elementary for prekindergartners through
first graders, Huckleberry Hill Elementary
for second through fourth graders, Whis-
conier Middle School for Grades 5 through
8 and Brookfield High School.
On 2016 fourth-grade state assessment
tests, 70 percent met English language arts
standards, compared with 55.6 percent
statewide; 63 percent met math standards,
compared with 48 percent statewide.
Mean SAT scores for the graduating On the Market
class of 2017 were 575 in evidence-based
reading and writing and 550 in math; state-
wide equivalents were 524 and 505.
The Commute
Brookfield is less than an hour’s drive from
Hartford and Stamford, in Connecticut, and 19 Cove Road
White Plains in New York. “We’re equidis- A four-bedroom, four-bath
tant from these major employment areas,” contemporary home, built in
1986 on nearly two acres,
Ms. McCaffrey said. “So if people change
jobs, they don’t have to move again.” listed at $995,000.
Commuters to Manhattan, 70 miles 203-790-9500
southwest, can drive about 20 miles into
New York to catch Metro-North Railroad’s
Harlem line at the Southeast, Brewster or
Purdys stations. Rush-hour trains between
Southeast and Grand Central Terminal take
80 to 95 minutes; to and from Brewster, 75
to 92 minutes; to and from Purdys, 66 to 84
minutes. Monthly fare is $422.
24 Riverford Road
A three-bedroom, one-bath
The History
ranch-style house, built in
For more than three decades, a rusty old 1958 on 3.2 acres, listed at
railroad bridge over Junction Road has $325,000.
served as an ever-changing D.I.Y. commu- 203-240-6115
nity billboard. Painted mostly by high
school students, it has announced coming
events and celebrated sports victories.
Known as Graffiti Bridge, it was built in
1915 and is owned by the Housatonic Rail-
road. It was painted to memorialize the
victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and, later,
those of the nearby Sandy Hook shooting.
“After Sandy Hook, we did the bridge and
nobody touched it for years,” Mr. Dunn
said. “But then time moves on.”

INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE

SICILY

A Condo in the Center of Palermo

By KEVIN BRASS
This condominium, with three bedrooms
and four bathrooms, is on the second floor of
a historic building in the heart of Palermo,
the capital of Sicily. The neo-Classical stone
building was constructed in the late 1800s
for a noble Sicilian family, said Elisa
Macaluso, an agent with the local office of
Engel & Völkers, which has the listing.
The building is in “one of the most presti-
gious” neighborhoods in Palermo, Ms.
Macaluso said. It is a short walk to the city’s
most important theaters, restaurants and
shopping streets, which is why the area is
known as “the lounge of Palermo,” she said.
The six-story building features a lobby
with granite columns and a large interior
courtyard. This apartment can be reached
by either an elevator or stairs; it is one of
two apartments on the second floor.
The main portion of the 3,014-square-foot
apartment is laid out on a rectangular floor
plan, with the living room and a formal din-
ing room on one end, the kitchen in the mid-
dle and two bedrooms on the other end.
From the kitchen, a hallway connects to
stairs that lead to a mezzanine area with a
bedroom, a living room, a small second
kitchen and a bathroom. This area has its
own entrance.
The master bedroom has a balcony and
stairs to a small loft, which is used as a clos-
et. There are two bathrooms in the main
portion of the apartment, one with a
whirlpool tub and one of Verona marble.
The Giardino Inglese, a popular park, is a
short walk away. The international airport
is within a 30-minute drive.
Market Overview
Prices are down about 20 percent from 2012,
$1.57 MILLION
(1.34 million euros)
A three-bedroom condo in a
neo-Classical building that was
once the palazzo of a noble
Sicilian family is within walking
distance of stores, restaurants
and the Giardino Inglese, a
popular park. Many original
details remain.
said Diletta Giorgolo Spinola, the head of
sales in Southern Italy for Sotheby’s Inter-
national Realty.
Many buyers are looking for bargains in
the center of the city, agents say. The in-
crease in sales in recent months can be at-
tributed to “the reduction of prices, afford-
able mortgages, the willingness of sellers to
accept lower offers and a good inventory of
properties on market for sale,” said Danilo
Ruvituso, an agent with RE/MAX Hunters,
a real estate agency.
At the high end, defined as properties
above 200,000 euros (about $235,000), sales
are up 15 percent in 2017 from a year earlier,
said Alessandro Calì, a partner in Engel &
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUSAN WRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Völkers’s Palermo office.
“Our market is a healthy one, despite the
crisis of recent years,” Mr. Calì says. Prices
at the high end have increased by 2 to 4 per-
cent in the last year, outpacing the overall
market, he said.
Engel & Völkers predicts sales in Paler-
mo will increase by another 10 percent in
2017, with prices starting to rise 3 to 6 per-
cent in the next two years, Mr. Calì said.
Who Buys in Palermo
Most buyers are Italians looking for a pri-
mary residence.
International buyers looking for second
homes in Sicily tend to prefer the country-
side and small coastal towns, agents say.
Older, historic properties are popular.
Buyers “renovate them and put them on
the market as a B & B or tourist rentals,”
Ms. Spinola said.
About 40 percent of Engel & Völkers’s cli-
ents in Sicily are international, primarily
from the United States, Germany, Britain,
Austria and France, Mr. Calì said.
“They are looking for the Italian way of
life,” Mr. Calì said.
Buying Basics
There are no restrictions on foreigners buy-
ing property. The prospective buyer must
set up a codice fiscale, a tax account, Mr.
Calì said. Foreign buyers can apply for a re-
newable elective residence visa, if they can
show they won’t be working in Italy.
The buying process is centered on a nota-
ry, who is hired to research the title deed.
After the contract is signed, the buyer typi-
cally pays a deposit of 20 to 30 percent of the
sale price.
Taxes and Fees
Buyers are responsible for a registration
tax, typically between 2 percent and 9 per-
cent, depending on whether it is a primary
home or a second home. Broker fees, paid
by the buyer, are 3 to 4 percent of the sale,
plus a 22 percent value-added tax on the
commission.
Owners of this apartment should expect
to pay between 300 and 350 euros a month
for building fees and concierge service, Ms.
Macaluso said.
Contact
Elisa Macaluso, Engel & Völkers Palermo
Mondello, 011-39091-584-002; engelvolker-
s.com
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The Hunt
Neighborhood With Soundtrack Preferred

A musician, seeking a home of
her own, gravitates toward
musical neighborhoods.
By JOYCE COHEN
After graduating from Berklee College of
Music in Boston in 2010, Tansu Akman-
Duffy came to New York. Her housing situa-
tion was unsettled.
After a bad experience with Lower East
Side bedbugs, she drifted between her par-
ents’ house in Darien, Conn., and Bushwick,
Brooklyn, where she cat-sat for a touring
musician friend.
Buying an apartment meant the stability
of a real home as well as a good investment.
About two years ago, Ms. Akman-Duffy
went on the hunt for a two-bedroom, two-
bathroom place, planning to have a room-
mate to defray expenses. “My mother finds
comfort in me living with someone,” she
said. What’s more, “if my life changes, that
two-bedroom is able to accommodate it.”
She needed an elevator so her elderly father
could visit. Her budget was up to $1 million.
She preferred a condominium building.
“A co-op is like an audition, and I already go
through that enough in my line of work,”
said Ms. Akman-Duffy, 30, a vocalist and
voice-over artist who will perform Aug. 10 at
Drom, 85 Avenue A.
First up was Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
where she had many friends; she sought
help from Jacob Cohen, a college friend and
a salesman at the Corcoran Group.
But she was ambivalent about the neigh-
borhood, crowded with hipsters and tran-
sients.
“Everyone was there because it was a
place to be seen, not a place they were
from,” she said. “As a renter, you don’t think
of it as your long-term neighborhood be-
cause you can just move.” Buying, however,
made for a different mind-set. “I wanted to
come home and say ‘hi’ to people I knew.”
She liked the music scene of Lower Man-
hattan. She found a Chinatown duplex for
$1.08 million. Monthly charges were under
$1,100.
“The photos look terrible and it’s been on
the market for a long time, but the layout is
great,” Mr. Cohen said.
The building’s passenger elevators were
out of service — temporarily, according to
the listing agent. They took the stairs to the
10th floor.
“Wow, this is worth the climb,” Mr. Cohen
said.
The view was mesmerizing. Ms. Akman-
Duffy returned with her mother, who hoofed
it up the stairs and noted “a few creaks and
Chinatown
A broken elevator at a ‘wow’
place was just one of several
red flags. The prospective
buyer moved on.
The Buyer In her new home, Tansu Akman-Duffy has a terrace with sweeping views of the city.
‘As a renter, you don’t think of it as your long-term
neighborhood because you can just move. I wanted to
come home and say “hi” to people I knew.’
Harlem
A full-floor unit in a brown-
stone sold in a bidding war.
The buyer was discouraged by
‘the real estate blood bath.’
PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHANIE DIANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Harlem
In a newly built condo, she at
last found a place with two
bedrooms, a full-size washer-
dryer and a terrace.
dents,” she said. “I was too excited to even
be worried about the elevator.” Her offer of
the asking price was accepted.
She insisted on an inspection, which un-
covered many issues, including a leaky
dishwasher, a non-flushing toilet and bro-
ken doors.
“We couldn’t get a firm grasp on what
was wrong with the elevator,” she said.
Alarmed, she rescinded her offer. “To live on
the 10th floor with a nonfunctioning eleva-
tor is not really an option.”
(According to the Department of Build-
ings, the most recent elevator complaint
was investigated and no violations were
found.)
A friend had moved to Harlem and urged
Ms. Akman-Duffy to consider the neighbor-
hood.
On West 126th Street, she liked a fully ren-
ovated unit that covered the entire ground
floor of a brownstone. It was listed for
$819,000, making a bidding war inevitable.
Monthly charges were less than $1,100.
“It was so underpriced,” Mr. Cohen said.
“It was difficult for my client to stomach the
idea of offering so much above the price.”
Ms. Akman-Duffy was indeed put off. “If
it was worth so much, why wasn’t it listed
for more?” she said. “There is always a
catch. I was unprepared for the real estate
blood bath that is New York.” In the end, the
place sold for $977,000.
On StreetEasy, she saw ads for the newly
constructed Aurum in Central Harlem. Bat-
tle-weary, she had resigned herself to rais-
ing her budget and paying the mansion tax
on units over $1 million, and what she called
the “new construction tax,” or the high
taxes and closing costs common to new con-
dos.
She liked Aurum, choosing a two-bed-
room, two-bath with an L-shaped terrace
for $1.16 million and monthly charges of
$1,125. She closed in the winter and is now
looking for a roommate. “I’ve done the
whole friends-of-friends thing, and it hasn’t
worked,” she said.
She was surprised that even new build-
ings have maintenance issues — hers in-
cluded a leak in the living room and creaky
floors. It was easy to add floor coverings.
“Because I’m Turkish, my mother had a lot
of Turkish carpets to give me,” she said.
She has been learning about the neigh-
borhood and meeting her neighbors. “I
have my bar, my bodega, my McDonald’s,”
she said. “As a lover of blues and jazz, I was
excited to move to Harlem and find it a hum-
bling experience as a musician, because ev-
erybody is so good.”
Email: thehunt @ nytimes.com
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The High End

At Hudson Yards, Here Comes the Neighborhood

By C. J. HUGHES
The Hudson Yards mega-project, rising
atop rail yards on the Far West Side, can
seem a perpetual work in progress. Years
after the first groundbreaking at the mixed-
use minicity being developed by the Relat-
ed Companies and Oxford Properties
Group, few buildings have opened.
But around the edges of the 28-acre site,
apartment buildings are going up. The lat-
est, from Related and Abington Properties,
is One Hudson Yards, a 33-story, 178-unit
rental at 530 West 30th Street, near 10th Av-
enue.
Though it may be peripheral, the tower —
which glitters with finishes not seen in
many condos and boasts a trove of ameni-
ties — hardly feels like a side project. And
its arrival, brokers say, helps the slow and
steady effort to create a neighborhood.
“It’s a virtuous cycle,” said Hayim Nom-
maz, an associate broker with the Corcoran
Group, who lives in West Chelsea and often PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHERINE MARKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

works in the area. “You have to build some- Clockwise from far left: One
thing beautiful, for people to come. And as Hudson Yards, at 530 West 30th
more and more people come, the neighbor- Street, is angled to
hood will become more beautiful.” accommodate a bend in the
Angled to accommodate a bend in the High Line; the lobby; a view
popular High Line, which practically from the roof, looking south;
brushes the building, One Hudson Yards the den in unit 10D.
seems to have made a stab at blending in
with its industrial surroundings. Its facade,
by the architecture firm Davis Brody Bond,

‘You have to build

something beautiful, for
people to come.’

is lined with red bricks like older ware-
houses nearby, even as most of the high-
rises in the area seem to favor gleaming
glass.
If the building’s exterior pays homage to
the neighborhood’s manufacturing roots,
its interiors, by Andre Kikoski Architect,
evoke those of a boutique hotel — especially
the lobby. Brazilian quartzite, lighted from
behind, covers a wall, while other panels
were formed by molten bronze poured over
fabric to create swirling patterns. As Mr.
Kikoski explained on a recent tour, Related
officials asked him to “show us materials we
haven’t seen before.”
The building’s one- to four-bedroom units
sport 10-foot ceilings, wine refrigerators
and washers and dryers. Outside air is
pumped into each apartment to keep things
fresh when windows are closed, and many
kitchens have steam ovens, which some
consider to be a better alternative to a mi-
crowave, said Benjamin Joseph, an execu-
tive vice president at Related. “Health and
wellness is a lot of what we are trying to ac-
complish with this building,” said Mr. Jo-
seph, who has been working on the One
Hudson Yards project for 12 years.
Recreational options also seem designed
to draw attention. One Hudson Yards offers
19,000 square feet of amenities, inside and
out, with most tucked in the bottom of the
building. Those downstairs offerings in-
clude an 82-foot lap pool; a smaller, high-sa-
linity pool for easy floating; a half-size bas-
ketball court; a two-lane bowling alley; and
1980s-issue video games like Ms. Pac-Man.
And down a long hall that passes under
the High Line, residents have access to the
Abington House, a 33-story, 312-unit rental
from the same team behind One Hudson
Yards. For $125 a month, tenants can avail
themselves of all the amenities at One Hud-
son Yards and some at the Abington House,
including an Equinox gym.
One Hudson Yards, of course, isn’t for
bargain hunters. The one-bedroom apart-
ments, which are about 750 square feet, are
priced around $5,400 a month, while two-
bedrooms, with 1,250 square feet, are about
$8,500 a month, according to Related. Leas-
ing began late last month, with move-ins
scheduled for the end of this month.
And Related is confident enough about
demand that it is not offering the typical
freebies, like a month or two of rent, Mr. Jo-
seph said. He declined to share how much it
cost Related to build its spare-few-expenses
project, though he admitted, “It’s not our
cheapest building.”
While the prices at One Hudson Yards
may be steep, the deep-pocketed seem to
have already expressed a willingness to live
in the transitional area, in buildings like the
Eugene, an 844-unit spire from Brookfield
Property Partners at 435 West 31st Street,
which opened this year.
With 55,000 square feet of indoor and out-
door amenities, many of which require a
monthly fee of $175, the snazzy rental is the
most obvious competitor to One Hudson
Yards. One-bedrooms there start at $4,825 a
month, said Andrew Brent, a Brookfield
spokesman, while two-bedrooms start at
$8,150, though a couple of months of free rent
One Hudson Yards is now being dangled as an incentive for
some leases.
Rentals from Since March, when the leasing office
opened, the building has rented about half of
$5,400 a month its market-rate apartments, or 320 of 675
units, Mr. Brent said.

What’s Selling Now

AROUND $750,000

$678,012 $675,000 $775,000

120 Carteret Street 2696 Clubhouse Road 313 East 56th Street, No. 4AB
Glen Ridge Merrick Sutton Place

New Jersey Long Island Manhattan

11 weeks on the market 17 weeks on the market 37 weeks on the market
$499,000 list price $679,000 list price $775,000 list price
36% above list price 1% below list price 0% above list price
Size 4 bedrooms, 2 baths Size 4 bedrooms, 3 baths Size 2 bedrooms, 2 baths
Details A Cape Cod with a living Details A raised ranch with an Details A brick prewar co-op with
room fireplace, a kitchen with a eat-in kitchen with a tile floor and hardwood floors, two fireplaces, a
breakfast bar, central air-condi- stainless-steel appliances, a formal dining room and a master
tioning, an enclosed back porch, a dining alcove with a mirrored wall, bedroom with an en-suite bath in
deck and an attached garage. a deck, a patio and a pool. a non-doorman building.
Costs $13,264 a year in taxes Costs $19,701 a year in taxes Maintenance $1,530 a month
Listing broker Prominent Proper- Listing broker Douglas Elliman Listing broker Douglas Elliman
ties Sotheby’s International Realty Real Estate Real Estate

$649,000 $729,000
119 Villa Avenue
Mamaroneck

Connecticut
38 Rapids Road
Stamford
6 weeks on the market
$649,000 list price
0% above list price
Size 3 bedrooms, 2 baths
Details A 77-year-old clapboard,
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with a kitchen with a vaulted
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walled family room, and a home
office.
Costs $9,388 a year in taxes
Westchester
15 weeks on the market
$679,000 list price
7% above list price
Size 3 bedrooms, 2½ baths
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basement, a patio and an atta-
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13 weeks on the market
$749,000 list price
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Size 3 bedrooms, 2 baths
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family house with inlaid parquet
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Costs $5,827 a year in taxes
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The Nomads of Summer
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
uate school, and Max Scharf, who just grad-
uated from law school, chose to delay their
move to Manhattan until September, when
Mr. Scharf starts a new job as a first-year
associate in the city. Their nomadic solu-
tion: moving into an Airbnb basement
apartment in a house in Paramus, N.J., for a
month and a half.
Ms. Leonor and Mr. Scharf, both 25,
started an apartment search in New York in
May. “Almost everything was over $2,000 a
month for places that didn’t have a good liv-
ing space or even a complete kitchen,” Ms.
Leonor said. “We knew it wouldn’t meet our
needs.”
With Ms. Leonor studying for her social
worker licensing exam, and Mr. Scharf for
the New York state bar exam, they needed
an apartment with enough room for each of
them to hit the books.
Since finding a suitable rental seemed out
of the question, the couple changed tactics
and started looking for a short-term Airbnb
rental. Their search in Manhattan was brief.
Ms. Leonor realized “this is silly — we’re
not even working and it feels like with rent
and cost of living, we would just be throwing
money away.”
They eventually found the Paramus
Airbnb, which is just a few towns over from
where her parents live in Teaneck. “We got
more bang for our buck,” Ms. Leonor said.
Although Ms. Leonor and Mr. Scharf have
enjoyed the perks of living in New Jersey
for the summer (cheaper grocery stores
and restaurants, more space), Mr. Scharf
has not wavered on their plan to relocate to
Manhattan come fall, especially as he antic-
ipates some long workdays. “I lived in Tea-
neck and interned in Midtown last summer,
and it takes at least an hour each way,” he
said. “The Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour
is the stuff of nightmares.”
Their time in the Airbnb ran out late last
month and they have moved in temporarily
with Ms. Leonor’s parents. They have
started their online search for Sept. 1 rentals
and estimate that the number available
within their budget is almost double what
they found previously.
Summer is the most common time of year
to move for three reasons, according to
Grant Long, the senior economist at
‘I don’t think I stayed
anywhere for a full
week.’
StreetEasy: graduation, the weather and
employment cycles.
“A big factor is school turnover,” he said.
New graduates moving to the city for a job
or college provide a steady flow of new resi-
dents through the summer.
People generally don’t want to move in
the slushy, frigid New York winter weather,
he said. Job turnover — specifically in the
finance and insurance industries — is an-
other factor. “Bonus season in finance
comes from January to March, depending
on the company,” Mr. Long said. “It’s typical
for people to wait until they get their bonus,
give it a couple of months, and then find a
new job over the summer.”
But then begins the vicious cycle. A year
or two later, those same people have de-
cided to move when their leases run out and
are once again on the hunt for a new place.
Daniel Reisner, 25, and his two room-
mates were presented with a rent increase
of several hundred dollars a month when
the lease on their Upper West Side apart-
ment expired this spring. Unable to take on
more rent, Mr. Reisner, a third-year law stu-
dent, decided to move into a two-month sub-
let with his girlfriend, a college senior, who
was in New York for the summer.
“We found it on Craigslist,” Mr. Reisner
said. “It was around the corner from my
apartment. We needed a place to live for a
few months and this was perfect.”
Mr. Reisner’s next housing solution as he
enters his final fall semester of law school
will be a bunk under the parental roof in
Merrick, N.Y., on Long Island. “I’m going
back to sharing a room with my brother,
who just graduated from college and moved
home, which will be interesting.”
Despite the extra burden of the commute
to the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in
Greenwich Village and a hit to his social life,
Mr. Reisner said the move home is a neces-
sity. “I’ve had other people ask me to move
into their apartments this summer, but it
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dollar amount.”
Daniel Gallant, 41, has considerable expe-
rience in short stays. Over the years, “there
have been several times when I was no-
madic,” he said. In the summer of 2000, Mr.
Gallant and his two roommates were pre-
paring to re-sign the lease for their Turtle
Bay apartment, only to learn that the rent
had doubled.
At the time, Mr. Gallant, now the execu-
tive director of Nuyorican Poets Cafe, was
directing a play with daily rehearsals in
Midtown. With the help of friends, Mr. Gal-
lant found a series of short-term sublets. “I
don’t think I stayed anywhere for a full
week,” he said. “Remember — this was a
time before Airbnb.”
He had a college buddy who let him stay
at his place while he was out of town. And
when he ran out of places to crash, Mr. Gal-
was too expensive.
lant convinced New Dramatists, a play-
“My plan is to move back into the city in wrights organization where he had once in-
January, when rent is a little bit lower,” he
terned, to let him sleep in rooms reserved
said. for members — when they were empty, of
The rental cycle is deliberate, said Gary
course. He also spent some time at Pening-
Malin, the president of Citi Habitats. “Own- ton Friends House near Union Square, a
ers can try to stagger leases to have them
Quaker boardinghouse, and at Menno
expire during the May and June months, House, a Mennonite boardinghouse also
knowing full well it’s the highest demand for near Union Square. He is neither Quaker
apartments.” Savvy renters try to negotiate nor Mennonite.
a summertime lease beyond the typical 12 “There are a lot of places like this, but
months to push their tenancy into the fall, each has its own rules,” Mr. Gallant said.
when demand and prices drop. “There’s a yoga place in the West Village
Even “D.I.Y. landlords,” who rent and that was a combo yoga studio and a resi-
manage, at most, a few properties, often try dence. These places were not incredibly
to maximize their rental income when de- luxurious, but they are all clean and safe
mand is high, said Ryan Coon, the chief ex- places to stay.”
ecutive of Rentalutions, an online property For Mr. Gallant, this uncertain lifestyle
management platform. was thrilling at times. “I was constantly try-
“As a D.I.Y. landlord myself, I’ve experi- ing to figure out the next place that I would
enced that first hand,” said Mr. Coon, who is be staying, he said. “It was exciting, it was
based in Chicago. “If I have units that are nomadic, it was a little bit frightening. But I
being rented during the summer, I am able had the luxury of knowing I was in this situ-
to charge 10 to 20 percent more in rent. So in ation by choice.” He was comforted by the
big cities like New York, Chicago, San Fran- thought that “if I didn’t need to keep pursu-
cisco, 10 to 20 percent is a very meaningful ing this directing project, I could have gone
From top: Daniel Reisner, right,
25, moves out of a New York
sublet with the help of his
father, Steve Reisner. Below, his
destination, his childhood home
in Merrick, N.Y. He plans to
return to the city in the winter,
when rents will be cheaper.
Center, Lisa Feierman, 25, and
Daniel Feinberg, 26, eat
breakfast in the Chelsea
apartment they rented last fall
after careful study of the rental
cycle. Bottom, Daniel Gallant,
41, in a parlor at Penington
Friends House near Union
Square, where he stayed during
a nomadic period some years
back.
home to my family” in Maryland.
Going nomad is an attempt at beating a
system that can seem to peg the renter as
the loser.
Lisa Feierman, 25, an associate producer
at MSNBC of “The Last Word With
Lawrence O’Donnell,” kept an eye on rent-
als for months before moving to a new place
last fall with Daniel Feinberg, 26. They both
lived with a roommate when their search
for a home of their own began.
“The fact that we really got a look at the
market and what was out there was really
helpful,” Ms. Feierman said. “I was on the
summer cycle, having moved here after
graduation, but my boyfriend, Dan, was on
a different cycle.”
Even though she had just re-upped on her
lease, it quickly became clear to Ms. Feier-
man that they should go with Mr. Feinberg’s
cycle because his lease would expire in the
fall. Hunting for a Nov. 1 vacancy, “we found
out a lot more was out there,” she said.
“Maybe there was not as much inventory,
but the apartments were more affordable.”
When the couple found a reasonably
priced one-bedroom in Chelsea in mid-Sep-
tember last year with a Nov. 1 lease, she
moved out of her apartment early, having
found someone to take her place there. She
and Mr. Feinberg now have high ceilings,
exposed brick, a nice bathroom and a reno-
vated kitchen with a dishwasher and
washer/dryer.
“We kind of thought we would give up on
those amenities,” Ms. Feierman said.
Searching during the fall and winter
months can be to a renter’s advantage, es-
pecially in bigger, luxury buildings that of-
fer concessions.
Mr. Long said listings lately include any-
where from one to three months of free rent.
“I’ve seen a Netflix subscription, Amazon
Prime subscription, or Uber credits and
other crazy things they offer,” he said. “As
far as the concessions go overall, we did see
a peak over the winter.”
Real estate brokers warn, though, that
trying to outfox the system doesn’t always
work out. “Just because you want to wait
out the market doesn’t necessarily mean
you will win,” said Mr. Malin of Citi Habitats.
“It’s a trade-off — there’s a risk and reward
on both ends,” he said.
A renter who puts off a hunt in hopes of
cheaper apartments in a few months could
miss out on an ideal place. “Sometimes the
reality is when you go see something you
love and want, and if you can afford it, it’s
hard to turn it away,” Mr. Malin said. The
strategy could also backfire if the market
shifts and rents go up across the board,
even when the weather cools.
Mr. Long said that being open to compro-
mise will serve you well while apartment
hunting. “One of the things to keep in mind
is that renting and finding a good deal can
favor those who are flexible,” he said. “So if
you have the flexibility to stay on a friend’s
couch for a while, and it gives you a better
chance to get what you want, do it.”
Ms. Feierman believes her willingness to
be flexible with moving dates made it easier
to find a decent apartment. “We realized
whatever we needed to do, we could make it
work — like we could move out of our places
a month early if we needed to,” she said.
“Having the time and money to do that
made our process better. We didn’t feel like
we needed to settle or jump on the first
thing we found.”
For her part, Ms. Rosman spent part of
the summer commuting from Great Neck to
her job as a physician assistant at Lenox
Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She plans to
move into an apartment with her fiancé in
November, around the time of their wed-
ding. “It started out as a joke,” Ms. Rosman
said, referring to a conversation the couple
had about her moving in with her parents
on Long Island.
But the concept turned serious when they
realized they couldn’t afford the summer
leases they were finding online. “When I go
on StreetEasy and put in my specifications
and my budget, there are fewer options
available for this time of year than in the
spring and fall,” she said.
Ms. Rosman says going nomad has been
a good move. “It’s definitely stressful mov-
ing home,” she said. “But I think it’s worth
it.”
Looking ahead, she knows she won’t have
to be stingy when moving day arrives. “I
don’t need to stress about nickel and diming
my move,” she said. “I’m saving in rent and
I can move out in style.”
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The rapper ASAP Ferg takes A store with charts, clocks

a break from Trap Lord duty. and all-things maritime.
2 I WAS MISINFORMED 4 DAY TRIP

A support group for the poor The gritty style (or stylish
soul with a summer house. grit?) of Asbury Park.

NEW YORK CITY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017

PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Secret Life of the City Banana

Millions and millions arrive
in New York every week.
And it takes a lot to get
them from the boat
to the bodega.
By ANNIE CORREAL
On a hot day in June, the Hermann Hesse
slipped into New York Harbor and headed
for the Red Hook Container Terminal in
Brooklyn. The 550-foot container ship, fly-
ing the Liberian flag, had come some 3,000
miles from Ecuador. It had gone through the
Panama Canal, picked up cargo in the Ca-
ribbean and weathered a few squalls.
Its arrival in Brooklyn was only the be-
ginning for the bananas on board.
Every week, a ship like this one brings 40
container loads of bananas — or about four
million — to the Red Hook terminal, a fifth of
the 20 million bananas distributed around
New York City each week.
When bananas arrive in New York, they
begin a second journey, traveling in a large
loop around the city. They may be handled
by customs officials in Brooklyn, blasted
with a ripening gas in New Jersey, haggled
over at an enormous produce market in the
Bronx and finally taken in an unmarked
truck, at night, to a fruit stand near you.
“If you ever saw what it took . . . ,” said Joe
Palumbo, the owner of Top Banana, a
wholesaler in the Bronx.
In most of the country, the unseen, noc-
turnal business of ripening and distributing
bananas is performed by grocery chains
like Safeway. In New York, though things
may be headed in that direction, much of the
work still falls to local banana purveyors.
They can trace their roots back to Antonio
Cuneo, an Italian immigrant who cornered
Clockwise from top left: the
Hermann Hesse at the Red
Hook Container Terminal in
Brooklyn; newly delivered
bananas being loaded into
ripening rooms; the fruit stand
at 96th Street and Broadway on
the Upper West Side; and some
bananas for sale there.
An uncertain future
for everyone in
the trade.
the market in the late 19th century and be-
came known as the Banana King.
Cuneo was the first New Yorker to get
rich supplying the city with bananas, and
perhaps the last. Today, small family-owned
businesses can make as little as a dollar a
box as they convey bananas along the sup-
ply chain to grocery stores, hospitals, air-
ports, and every last bodega.
“It’s 24/6,” Mr. Palumbo said. “And
there’s no money in it.”
AFTER THE HERMANN HESSE came to port,
Michael Stamatis, president of the Red
Hook Container Terminal, stood in his suit,
on the waterfront, watching as a container
was lifted off the ship’s deck.
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Amid Store Closings, Businesses Protest a City Tax on Rents

LATE LAST MONTH came
GINIA news of three restaurant
closings in downtown Man-
BELLAFANTE hattan, these commercial
disappearances, driven
BIG CITY largely by limitless escala-
tion in rent, now more and
more common and aggrieving. Both Re-
public and Blue Water Grill, each across
from Union Square since the 1990s, were
set to go; annual rent on the second,
whose new owners, a Texas conglomerate,
had closed another restaurant on the
Upper West Side in the spring after 30
years in business, was said to be veering
into the territory of $2 million.
In Greenwich Village, French Roast, a
cafe of the same vintage that had offered a
simulation of Left Bank fantasy, was de-
parting as well. Even though it was owned
by a corporation rather than, for instance,
a charming older couple named Jean-
Pierre and Anouk who remembered which
one of your children always ate all of his
haricot verts, the eulogies were numerous.
We are at the point now that we mourn the
loss of even those places, which years ago
may have spurred debates about inau-
thenticity and fears of dull professional-
class invasion. At a recent conference on
A charge the Council
seeks to amend; the
mayor isn’t going along.
urbanism, convened by The New York
Times, the chef David Chang suggested at
the potential fading away of midpriced
restaurants altogether.
As empty storefronts, even — or per-
haps especially — in the most affluent
neighborhoods in the city, have become
such a distinguishing and unwelcome
element of street life in recent years, ques-
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A Rapper Stays Close to His Harlem Home
ASAP Ferg is hardly ever home. The
rapper and fashion designer, born Darold
Ferguson Jr., just wrapped up a tour,
visited Russia last month and will soon go
to South Africa and Australia. His second
mixtape, “Still Striving,” will be released
this month, which will mean more trips.
Rarely is he able to sneak a few days in
Harlem, where he grew up and still lives.
Even then, he’ll often stay busy, with
studio sessions and appearances in be-
tween shows that cause the days to blur
together. But Sundays are for him. He
recharges and catches up with his friends
and family and, among other things, sits
very still on his couch. If you squint, his
Sundays kind of look like ours.
GREG HOWARD
DEFINE ‘EARLY’ I wake up early. Well, I say
early. Probably like 12 in the afternoon, or 10.
And then, I eat breakfast. I eat healthy. Egg
whites, turkey bacon, chicken sausage. If
not, I just go to the corner store, and I get me
a turkey bacon, egg and cheese.
ON THE REGULAR I just do my little stroll
through Harlem. I sometimes go to a trust-
worthy restaurant — I call it my trusty. I go
there, you know, every other Sunday. Mar-
cus Samuelsson, he’s the owner of Red
Rooster, and he’s my neighbor. I read up on
him and saw him saying, “I’m opening a
restaurant in Harlem.” It was interesting
that he was opening the Red Rooster in
Harlem, which was also open back in the
day. He just brought it back. And I was just
like, “Man, I’ve got to go try this out.”
GROOM I definitely get a haircut every Sun-
day. I have a few different barbers. I have a
barber in L.A. I got two barbers in New
York, just in case one is not available. Bar-
bers are important. They come to my house,
and they set up and they give me facials and
massages. I have one pretty busy one; he
cuts a lot of celebrities. The other one is just
as good, but he has a shop in the Heights.
Sunday Routine readers can follow ASAP Ferg
on Twitter or Instagram @asapferg.
I WAS MISINFORMED
Help Us Save This Summer Host
WELCOME TO THE Catskill Mountains
Summer Host Sanctuary, a nonprofit
70-acre refuge where vacation home own-
ers, many of them victims of the worst
kind of exploitation, come to be healed.
The tour will begin in just a few min-
utes, but first let me ask: Have any of you
owned beachfront property or a vacation
home with three or more bedrooms and a
pool? No one? Then let me give you some
background: Summer hosts, particularly
those with pools, wraparound decks and
outdoor pizza ovens, are routinely subject
to a level of brutalization and subjugation
that we who have never experienced it
cannot imagine. Wi-Fi complaints, week-
end visits that turn into weeks, other
people’s grandchildren — it’s no surprise
that by mid-August many collapse, too
weakened to even defend themselves by
silencing their cellphones.
So as we walk the property we ask that
you follow a few rules:
Haggard though some may look, do not
give the hosts treats. They carry distress-
ing reminders of hostess gifts.
Never approach a host. They have been
programmed to fear and distrust visitors
and may become agitated and even bite.
And finally, in the rare case where a
host is comfortable enough to approach
you, never, ever say, “So what do you do
here all day?” It may induce seizures.
Last month one of our hosts, a young
woman, had to be medevacked to Albany
Medical Center. We will be visiting her
grave at the end of the tour.
Now, let’s begin.
In this room we have Emily, one of our
saddest cases. She was spotted running
wildly through the streets of Sag Harbor
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ASAP FERG
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES
FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
JOYCE WADLER
shortly before the July 4 weekend — many
of our rescues occur in the days preceding
a holiday. We got a call from the police
asking if we could take her in, and of
course we said we would.
Emily was terrified of people when she
came to us. Despite having spent 10 years
as a television commentator she could
speak only one phrase, which she re-
peated obsessively: “Fourteen loads of
laundry. Fourteen loads of laundry.” The
sight of one of our volunteers changing
her sheets caused her to break out of her
room and flee into the woods, confirming
our suspicions that Emily had been a
victim of abuse.
There, there, Emily, we’re not staying;
we’re just passing through.
This is Charles, who once ran a success-
ful auction house on the Upper East Side.
Does anyone notice anything unusual
about Charles? That’s right: His fists and
arms are raised in a boxerlike stance in
front of his chest.
Can anyone guess what caused this
condition? You, the woman not wearing an
off-the-shoulder top?
“Years of fighting off self-invited guests
with boundary issues?”
You’re not far off. Charles inherited an
eight-bedroom Victorian on Martha’s
Vineyard. He spent so many successive
days shucking corn for houseguests that
his arms became locked in the position
you see today. After surgery proved un-
successful, his doctors sent him to us.
We hope to train Charles for a career as
a lawn ornament, a profession in which he
could regain his self-esteem. But that will
require a level of comfort with visitors he
may never achieve.
This is Andrea’s room. Can anyone spot
Andrea? Very good. She’s covered herself
with a maple stain to blend in with the
floors. Perhaps we’ll be able to coax her
closer later by imitating the sound of a car
receding in the distance, and you’ll be able
SIGNATURE LOOK I was going to Kendrick’s
concert later. And I wanted to jazz up my
jeans, so I was like, “A’ight, I need an outfit.
I’m going to get real creative.” I’m in the
middle of painting some canvas pieces, so I
have paint in the crib. I just pulled it out.
And I just started painting on my jeans. I
went to art school, so I’ve been painting for
some years now. I probably would have to
say about 10 years.
TRAVELING MAN Even when I’m off tour, like
right now, I’ve still got to fly out to different
places to do one-off shows. I went to Africa,
and I spent two weeks out there. West Point,
Liberia, where the Ebola had hit. It was this
brand that I’m creative director for. The
proceeds that we get from the clothes that
we design and sell put a uniform on a kid’s
back in Africa. I just went out there to make
sure the operation was running smooth. I al-
ways felt, in my heart, just to give. I’ve al-
ways been given. My moms always gave
me, provided for me, and my father always
provided for me. So I always felt like it was
my duty to give back, and to inspire other
people to give back.
DINNER ANYTIME You know, I’m a rapper so
I’m not too programmed. I don’t have a set
time that I eat. I just eat when I’m hungry.
I’ll probably go out to Carmine’s. Or I’ll have
some home-cooked food that my family
made for me or something.
UNWIND I got this projector in my crib. I just
watch TV because it makes me feel like a kid
again. I’ve always been interested in docu-
mentaries. I like “The Defiant Ones,” I love
“Dark Days,” I love “Children of the Under-
ground,” I love “Rubble Kings,” I love “Style
Wars.” Every Sunday “Power” comes on so
I watch “Power.” I may catch up on some-
thing ratchet like “Love & Hip Hop,” just be-
cause it stops me from thinking for a hot
second. It’s just like bliss, you know what
I’m saying?
IN BED BY MONDAY I usually get in bed late.
Yesterday I came in the house at 5 in the
morning. I was in the studio. On a Sunday, I
probably get in bed like around 2, I’ll have to
say. Like from 2 to 3. Yeah.
JULIETTE BORDA
to get a better look.
Andrea owned a remote mountaintop
home in upstate New York for decades. By
summer 2015, she was showing a classic
sign of the abused host, mouthing the
words “No, no, it’s no bother” in her sleep.
Her husband, as is so often the case, did
not notice. And so one morning, after a
guest asked for soy milk, Andrea crawled
out onto the roof of her home and jumped.
With patience we have been able to
teach her the concept of Labor Day, but
she will never be able to own a summer
home again.
I am about to show you one of our most
damaged hosts. Please try not to stare.
This is Jan. She does not have a drinking
problem; the dozens of wine bottles
around her are filled with water. She is too
far gone to even know, poor thing.
Once Jan was a sought-after social
media coach, but now she spends her days
obsessively counting and recounting wine
bottles. She has 60 in there, including a
case of the rosés that are so popular this
summer. Although Jan has been with us
for four years, like many of our hosts she
has an uncanny ability to sense what’s
being served in vacation houses hundreds
of miles away.
You’ll notice that Jan is also talking to
herself. It took us some time to figure out
what she was saying — the frozen smile
she was forced to hold for three months a
year had compromised the muscles in her
jaw. But eventually we got it:
“Do we have enough white or do I need
to go to the store?”
We have been working on her language
skills, trying to teach her that “hello” does
not mean we are expecting an invitation
for the weekend, but so far we have been
unsuccessful. She does, however, respond
positively to the word “bye-bye.”
Shall we try it together?
“Bye-bye, Jan. Bye-bye.”

NEIGHBORHOOD JOINT
An ‘Epicenter’ for Charting Global Waters
By LISA M. COLLINS
Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy captain,
and his daughter, Mary Kate Brennan,
hunched over a table as the duo — both
maritime lawyers — scoured a chart of To-
kyo Bay in Japan, days after a container
ship had collided with the U.S.S. Fitzgerald,
a Navy warship, in June.
Mr. Brennan was charting the ships’
courses. He had traveled that morning from
his home in Metuchen, N.J., to New York
Nautical, a store in TriBeCa that’s been
around for almost 100 years, to examine the
$44 chart. If a legal battle over the wreck
were to take place and his services were
needed, he said, he wanted to be prepared.
“This is the epicenter for charts and navi-
gation on the East Coast, if not the entire
United States,” said Mr. Brennan, who
teaches admiralty law at Fordham Law
School. “When it comes to charts, this is the
holiest of holies.”
Michael Jackson played over the radio
station. It was humid, and a fan was blow-
ing. Magnetic compasses the size of soft-
balls trembled periodically as trains rum-
bled underground. Wooden cabinets with
rows of long skinny drawers sat staggered
in the room. Globes here, barometers there.
Two men worked at desks piled with papers.
Shelves exhibited titles such as “The Law
of Tug and Tow” and “Heavy Weather Tac-
tics,” as well as a $220 brass yacht lamp and
$645 night-vision binoculars.
Mr. Brennan first visited New York Nau-
Q.
Game shows used
to be filmed almost
exclusively in New
York. When and
why did they move to Los
Angeles?
A. Funny you should ask: I recently
traveled to Las Vegas to tape an ap-
pearance on “Who Wants to Be a Million-
aire,” a show that until a few years ago was
filmed in New York. Starting with the radio
debut of “Truth or Consequences” in 1940,
New York was, indeed, the center of the
game show universe. In the 1960s, however,
productions began moving west to Califor-
nia.
When Dick Clark’s “The $50,000 Pyra-
mid” made the jump in 1981, New York was
without a game show to call its own for the
first time in more than four decades.
These production companies were driven
to relocate mainly by the desire for bigger
and flashier sets.
After a hiatus of nearly two decades,
game shows returned to New York in 1999
with “Millionaire,” the ABC megahit hosted
by Regis Philbin. (The syndicated version
moved to Stamford, Conn., in 2014 before
heading to Nevada.)
Other recent shows filmed in New York
include Discovery Channel’s “Cash Cab”
and ABC’s revivals of “Match Game” and
“The $100,000 Pyramid.”
When the game show industry left New
York, it took with it an avenue for instant,
widespread recognition.
As illustrated by Robert Redford’s Oscar-
nominated film “Quiz Show,” which re-
counted the game show fixing scandal of the
late 1950s, one appeal of these early game
shows was their casting of regular, every-
day people — and the possibility that you, as
a regular, everyday person, could find your-
self propelled into fame and fortune.
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was a 10-year-old naval history buff. The
shop relocated twice more before docking
at 200 Church Street in 2014, but it already
needs a new address. “Rent is a problem,”
said James Smith, known as Smitty, who
has run the shop for 37 years.
A young couple from Milwaukee stood to-
ward the back of the store.
“We’re rebuilding a 1961 sailboat to sail
around the world,” said Yuliya Sorin, 26,
browsing with Ari Wolf, 27, her husband.
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work company, she does landscape design
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looking for colorful people they could re-
cruit as contestants. And who knew what
doors such an appearance might open?
Mr. Redford did, in fact: he received his
acting break in 1959 as an “impostor” —
someone who pretended to be a different
person — on “Play Your Hunch.” (For his
performance, as a starving artist, Mr. Red-
ford received $75 worth of fishing gear.)
Perhaps the best-known example of
someone who turned a chance encounter
into a productive career was the psycholo-
gist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who won the top
prize on “The $64,000 Question” by answer-
ing questions about the sport of boxing. She
soon had a television show of her own.
There were a few reasons for this west-
ward shift, said Adam Nedeff, a producer
for several recent shows and a historian of
the genre. The chief impetus, he said, could
be summed up in a single word: elevators.
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Refurbished Mansions of Glory
This beach town offers
boardwalk kitsch, upscale
restaurants and a music scene.
By JULIE BESONEN
Asbury Park embraces the ocean, its salty
scent mixed with eau de sunscreen on sum-
mer days. The city’s mile-long beach is car-
peted by bright towels and canopied by a
pageant of umbrellas. Along the wooden
boardwalk is a cavalcade of bare limbs,
baby strollers, a blue booth promising for-
tunes told by “Madam Marie” and stalls
hawking flip-flops, fruity drinks, cold-brew
coffee, Korean-style tacos and just about ev-
erything else under the sun.
Convention Hall, a brick whale of a build-
ing at the north end, completed in 1930, has
been reinvigorated by contemporary stores
and food stands. The complex, which in-
cludes the Paramount Theater, features a
regular lineup of entertainment.
Not so long ago — say, the early 2000s —
this Jersey Shore resort 60 miles south of
Manhattan was a gritty ghost town.
Danny Clinch, 53, a music photographer
and lifelong New Jerseyite, used to favor
Asbury Park for shooting album covers.
“The old school, seaside architecture was so
cool,” he said, “like a huge, natural-light stu-
dio. It was basically empty and we’d have
the run of the whole boardwalk.”
Asbury Park’s comeback has not sur-
prised him. “How could it not come back?”
he asked. “It’s a city on the sea. It just had a
rough time. All of a sudden I have to fight for
a parking space.”
A new wave of venues includes a glass-
walled gallery attached to a year-old bou-
tique hotel, the Asbury. The social hub
stocks vinyl records and vintage rock 'n' roll
T-shirts from Sweet Joey’s, a satellite of its
flagship shop at 523 Bangs Avenue. On ex-
hibit there through at least Sept. 15 are
roughly 70 arresting photographs of music
icons shot by Mr. Clinch, such as local hero
Bruce Springsteen, as well as Johnny Cash,
Stevie Nicks, Tom Waits and Tupac Shakur.
The gallery, at Kingsley Street and Fifth
Avenue, also books musicians (invited by
the singer-songwriter Rachel Ana Dobken)
for free on Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m., a con-
venient time for those who can’t linger for
evening shows at the Stone Pony. The audi-
ence, a mixture of boho-chic locals and
bronzed day-trippers, lounge on midcen-
tury modern furnishings — a Jens Risom
walnut armchair, for instance, had a $550
price tag.
“You never know who’s going to show
up,” said Tina Kerekes, who runs the
gallery. (Yes, Springsteen has paid a visit.)
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tions have arisen about what sort of inter-
ventions might be made at the level of
municipal government to stanch the
bloodletting. One obvious measure of relief
would be to reduce or restructure the
obscure commercial rent tax, a burden
imposed on business tenants whose rent
exceeds $250,000 a year, a figure it is
shockingly easy to reach in the current
“Hunger Games” landscape.
Created in 1963, the tax was devised to
generate revenue when the city was ap-
proaching its constitutional limit on prop-
erty taxes. The law affects business own-
ers in Manhattan below 96th Street
(though areas around the World Trade
Center were exempted after Sept. 11), who
must give the city 3.9 percent of what they
pay in rent, with the bill rising as leases
are renegotiated and fees to landlords go
up. Often a tenant is paying this tax in
addition to a real-estate tax already levied
A LIVE BOOK CLUB EVENT
The Big City Book Club
will kick back into action
this fall with a special
event. We are taking
things live on Sept. 19 to
discuss “Another Brook-
lyn,” Jacqueline Woodson’s best-selling
novel of coming of age in Brooklyn during
the 1970s. The event will be a partnership
with RestorationART. Information about
ticket sales and how those unable to
make it can participate online will be
available soon.
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DAY TRIP ASBURY PARK
Top, the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J., as seen
from the roof of the Asbury Park Convention
Hall. Above, Will Evans performing at a Danny
Clinch exhibit in the Asbury Hotel gallery.
Above right, the interior of the convention hall.
The unexpected can also occur just by
strolling around, encountering charming
Victorian and Craftsman houses or a spir-
ited game of dodge ball on the beach.
New to downtown is Reyla, a modern
Mediterranean restaurant at 603 Mattison
Avenue, which opened in July. The focus is
on small plates, such as cashews dusted
with ras el hanout (a North African spice
mix) and tender pork souvlaki. Prices
range from $3 to $15. Cocktails include a
stirred, smooth martini made from gin
crafted at the nearby Asbury Park Distilling
Co., another new business.
“When we first started coming in 2000
there was one restaurant, and now there are
dozens,” said Victor Corbo, 55, an insurance
executive sampling the food at Reyla, who
counted himself among the “gay-oneers”
‘There are still landlords
with hearts out there.
Maybe three of them,
and we have one.’
if, say, the tenant is occupying ground-
floor space in a co-op building.
On a recent visit to San Francisco Cloth-
ing, which has sold crisp shirts, cardigans,
dresses and other garments suitable to its
Upper East Side location since the late
1960s, I went through the math with the
owner Howard Partman. When he moved
to the store’s current location on Lexing-
ton Avenue in 1973, his rent was about
$1,500 a month; he now pays close to 20
times that much, with rising taxes on top
of it. Although his is largely a story of
success, he is dealing as well, he said, with
diminished foot traffic in part because the
ever-rising fortunes of the neighborhood
take greater numbers of people away on
the weekends and in part because the
shopkeepers who have not been able to
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who spurred the turnaround.
Around the corner is the hip Barrio Cos-
tero (610 Bangs Avenue), Reyla’s 18-month-
old sister restaurant. The food is billed as
“coastal Mexican,” with delicious fish tacos,
tuna ceviche and “daily escape” drink spe-
cials, such as a tart, $6 margarita rimmed
with lip-numbing chipotle salt.
Bruce Springsteen, who has sung about
Asbury Park a time or two, noted in his 2016
memoir, “Born to Run,” that the town is not
the same. He wrote, “I now play the role of
the Ghost of Christmas Past as the city and
its exciting new development passes me
by.”
Getting there Drive, though parking has
become challenging. Track repairs currently
plague the rail system, but a recent 10:01 a.m.
North Jersey Coast train from Pennsylvania
Station arrived in Asbury Park on time at 11:27
a.m. A transfer at Long Branch, N.J., is usually
required. Adult fares are $32.50 round-trip. It
takes two minutes to walk downtown, 12 to
reach the boardwalk.
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stay afloat produce the empty retail
spaces that leave fewer incentives for
turning off your computer, leaving the
house and going out with the ambition to
buy something. In Mr. Partman’s case, the
commercial rent tax seems especially
unfair, given that he works to sustain local
garment manufacturing by making what
COMMENTS
Life Among the Boldface Names
In Metropolitan last Sunday, John Leland wrote about the gossip col-
umnist Liz Smith in his Lions of New York series. Readers responded
on nytimes.com; comments have been edited for length and clarity.
WHAT A THRILL to read. All
through high school in the 1970s
and ’80s, I read Liz’s column in
The Daily News and watched her
on TV. Always interesting, never
nasty, it was clear Liz only ca-
vorted with the A-list. We miss
you Liz, but don’t be blue —
you’ve led a very exciting life, and
so have we for being lucky
enough to read about it.
JONATHAN, NEW YORK
GOSSIP COLUMNISTS WERE al-
ways looked down upon in the
world of journalism. But in the
age of TMZ, they look like Pulitz-
er Prize winners!
JOHN, BROOKLYN
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, Liz, it’s
time to let go of your former self,
discover other enjoyments and
give back some of your talent and
wisdom by mentoring writers and
content creators. If you pursue
this path, you’ll recover more
quickly, enjoy the rest of your life
and be remembered for your
generosity of spirit rather than
selfish preoccupation with former
celebrity and alleged power.
RICHARD SCHWARTZ, MINNEAPOLIS
SHE SEEMS LIKE a nice person,
but I chuckle ruefully at her dis-
may at being “forgotten.” Being a
full-time gossip isn’t exactly
honorable work; its practitioners
would do well to expect oblivion
when their mutually parasitic
relationships with famous people
have run their course.
JIM, WESTCHESTER COUNTY
I HOPE ALL THE FOLKS making
snarky remarks live long enough
to know what it is like to be
shunned, isolated and ridiculed
just because you are old. I wrote a
poem a while ago. The refrain of
which goes “I was somebody once
. . . but now I am invisible.” We old
ones have a lot to offer. Some
societies revere their elders. In
our culture, the younger ones
can’t seem to wait until we die
and stop taking up space on the
Top, Howard Partman in his
store, San Francisco Clothing,
on Lexington Avenue and East
71st Street. Many of the stores
in the area are having to close
or relocate because of rent
increases. Above, an empty
storefront on Third Avenue.
planet. Liz was a legend in her
day. and I’m glad she’s alive and
(relatively) well.
DOLORES KAZANJIAN,
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.
Voodoo Symbols
A professor commented on Alex
Vadukul’s article on voodoo sym-
bols in an East Harlem park:
THE ARTICLE BROUGHT to light
the religious iconography forged
into the gate that graces the
entrance to the Dream Street
Park on 124th Street. This heart-
shaped symbol is a veve, or sa-
cred drawing in the Afro-Haitian
traditional religion. It is time to
retire phrases like “occult activi-
ty,” and it is counterproductive to
quote a Baptist bishop who sees
the tradition as demonic, needing
“the blood of Jesus to run it out.”
Afro-Haitian traditional religion is
a sacred ancestral system pre-
cious to a great number of our
citizens hailing from Haiti.
ELIZABETH McALISTER, PROFESSOR
OF RELIGION, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Not Serving Gentrification
Readers also weighed in on Ginia
Bellafante’s column on a new
culinary center in Brownsville
that is backed by a renowned chef
and is meant to serve the poor:
THIS IS AN ADMIRABLE PROJECT,
but some things need to be re-
thought. If the founders want this
to be a place for people in
Brownsville to dine with friends
and family, the $22 prix fixe three-
course menu item is an odd
choice. I know that’s more than
reasonable in New York. But in a
neighborhood with the greatest
number of people living in pov-
erty, that cost will be prohibitive.
A. CLEARY, N.Y.
I HOPE THE MODEL can be rep-
licated in other neighborhoods
with community input.
KAREN, NEW YORK
Owners struggle with
diminished foot traffic
and rising payments
to their landlords.
he designs in New York, rather than
getting it fabricated cheaply abroad.
Across town, Danny Koch, the owner of
the lingerie store Town Shop, which has
remained on the Upper West Side, under
his family’s supervision, since 1936, told
me that his grandmother, on her death
bed, made him promise that the store
would never cross from the west side of
Broadway to the east. He broke that
promise when he had an opportunity to
move the shop into a building owned by
the Zabar family, which had long ties to
his own. “There are still landlords with
hearts out there,” Mr. Koch said. “Maybe
three of them, and we have one.” Still, the
taxes have been onerous, and he can’t
foresee a situation in which his own chil-
dren would be able to afford to take over
the store, as the fifth generation in line.
“We have 38 employees,” he said. “We
make money to spend money.”
Earlier this year, the City Council, in a
move spearheaded in part by Daniel R.
Garodnick, who represents parts of Mid-
town and most of the East Side, proposed
raising the threshold at which the com-
mercial rent tax comes into play to
$500,000, from $250,000, an idea that had
support on the Council as well as from
state and federal officials. This would cost
the city approximately $55 million. Al-
though he has talked about the impor-
tance of small businesses to the city’s life
and character, Mayor Bill de Blasio did
not include the measure in his most re-
cent budget. This is something simple
that could help certain retailers remain
vibrant and keep people employed, inde-
pendent of any approval from Albany, and
yet it has not been done.
In May, Natasha Amott, who owns a
cooking supply outfit called Whisk, with a
branch in the Flatiron district, called into
the Brian Lehrer radio program, on which
the mayor appears weekly, to ask Mr. de
Blasio why it was that he had not sup-
ported such a reform. Her rent on the
Manhattan store is $26,000 a month. Two
years ago, she was socked with a bill for
back taxes she hadn’t known about, she
told me, plus interest, that amounted to
$20,000. It took her two years to pay it off.
If she could hold on to that kind money
she said, she would raise the pay in her
store to $19 an hour and $22 an hour,
wages considerably above the minimum
offered at so many chains.
The mayor told Ms. Amott that he
would look into it, but didn’t imagine
“taking a major action” at the moment.

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They station themselves at
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many people go to get married.
By VIVIAN WANG
Some approach from the flower booth. Oth-
ers wait on the stairs. On hot, sunny days,
still others appear as if out of thin air, step-
ping out of the shade of a nearby phone
booth as they look for brides and grooms
entering the Office of the City Clerk.
“Photographer?” they ask.
The petal-strewn sidewalk outside 141
Worth Street is not only Manhattan’s gate-
way to quick-and-affordable wedding cere-
monies, but also the gathering place for en-
terprising photographers. A group of eight
or so regulars works the area Monday
through Friday, 52 weeks a year, except for
holidays.
The photographers come from China, Ec-
uador and Jamaica. So do their subjects:
The Manhattan Marriage Bureau is a major
wedding and elopement destination for
couples from around the world, in part be-
cause of its low price for a marriage license
and ceremony ($35 and $25) and brief re-
quired waiting period between the two (24
hours). The city clerk, Michael McSweeney,
said the bureau had probably married cou-
ples from every country.
Summer brings the bureau’s busiest
days, with nearly 200 couples lining up ev-
ery Friday.
The photographers wheedle, barter and
coax. They show off photo albums and slip
between their native languages and Eng-
lish, trying to persuade couples to invest a
little more money in their special day.
“Photographer?” called Braulio Cuenca,
51, as he handed out business cards one re-
cent Friday. “Fotógrafo?”
Sometimes couples say yes out of admin-
istrative necessity. Out-of-town couples of-
ten forget to bring a witness, said Jegede
Bishop, 27, who has been hawking his serv-
ices outside of the bureau for nearly a year.
A photographer, Mr. Bishop tells them, can
do double duty.
“I’ve met people from London, couples
from Dubai, couples from African countries,
couples from Asian countries,” said Mr.
Bishop, who immigrated from Nigeria.
The photographers take advantage of
this global arena, promoting their own na-
tionalities and mother tongues as selling
points.
Asian couples sometimes favor Wai
Mark, who is from China. Couples who
speak Spanish may gravitate toward Mr.
Cuenca, who is Ecuadorean.
Mr. Cuenca likes to pose couples on a
CitiBike, and he offers to decorate the back
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one in Spanish.
Mr. Bishop said, “When you see some-
body that you can actually identify with, it’s
easier for you to communicate with them.”
He also seeks out shared interests. He
persuaded his last English couple to hire
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him after discovering a mutual love of Man-
chester United, a professional soccer club in
the English Premier League. Alton Martin,
36, who began photographing outside the
bureau soon after arriving from Jamaica
four years ago, offers a veterans’ discount;
he is a Navy medic.
Mr. Martin has another edge over the
competition: He is licensed to officiate wed-
dings. At least once a week, he said, a couple
shows up just as the clerk’s office is closing
— it enforces a strict 3:45 p.m. cutoff — and
he performs the marriage instead.
He officiates in a small park across Worth
Street, where he holds a brief ceremony and
signs the marriage certificate as an or-
dained minister of the Church of God (Sev-
enth Day). Sometimes he takes their photo-
graphs, too.
“I’ll have them simulate the ceremony af-
ter, putting on the rings,” he said. “There’s
no minister in the picture, but no one knows
the difference.”
Goran and Nikola Veljic, a father-and-son
team, offer all-inclusive packages, includ-
ing one in which they deliver the marriage
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solo violinist to play for them in Central
Park.
Mr. Veljic, 47, was one of the earliest pho-
tographers to set up outside the bureau
when it opened in its new location in 2009.
He had arrived from Serbia just days before
and was passing by when he saw a parade
of women dressed in white.
“I thought it was Fashion Week or some-
thing,” Mr. Veljic said.
Since then, Mr. Veljic and his son, who
joined him in the United States in 2010, have
photographed more than 7,000 weddings.
The elder Mr. Veljic was at the bureau on
July 24, 2011, the first day the city began per-
forming marriages for same-sex couples.
He was there on Nov. 11, 2011, and also Dec.
12, 2012.
“Twelve-12-12 was the busiest day ever,”
he said. “Eleven-11-11 was O.K., but 12-12-12,
and to get married at noon,” he smiled.
The photographers have seen couples get
married in their pajamas or in military uni-
forms. They have seen couples dressed as
dolphins, or as medieval knights. They have
seen couples elope on a whim, and they
have seen couples formalize relationships
that predate the photographers them-
selves.
The competition to document these sce-
narios can be fierce. The photographers
said they were all cordial with each other,
but, with a few exceptions, stopped short of
calling themselves friends.
“There’s no guarantee for standing out
here,” Mr. Martin said.
But Mr. Veljic said the photographers all
had different styles and offered different
packages, which eases competition. Mr.
Martin and Mr. Bishop said their starting
rate was $100 for photographs inside the
marriage chapel, and more for photos else-
where. Mr. Veljic’s is around $150. Mr.
Cuenca is happy to oblige couples who want
just a single photograph, printed on the ma-
chine he carries with him; he charges $10.
“I have for everybody here: poor, rich,”
Mr. Cuenca said. “People say one photo?
O.K., one photo.”
The most important wedding that Mr.
Veljic has seen at 141 Worth, though, was one
he did not photograph.
It was his own.
He met his future wife while on duty as
usual in front of the Marriage Bureau. She
was there to serve as witness for another
wedding.
“She was a friend of the couple, who was
late,” Mr. Veljic said, adding as he gestured
to the steps behind him, “She was sitting
right there.”
He asked if she needed a photographer.
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Veljic recalled. “But just in case, I gave her
my business card.”
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Once a major banana port, New York now
gets most of its bananas by truck from out-
of-state ports like the one in Wilmington,
Del., where Dole and Chiquita moved their
operations years ago.
The Hermann Hesse, part the Seaboard
Marine fleet, is one of the city’s few banana
boats. It delivers Ecuadorean bananas with
not-quite-household names: Belinda,
Bonita, Selvatica.
“This is a mom-and-pop terminal,” Mr.
Stamatis said.
The ship is a far cry from the old banana
boats, steamships and schooners that
crowded New York Harbor, like the one that
reached the pier in August 1897, its decks
“slimy with bananas.” The fruit now comes
in refrigerated containers.
Like all cargo, the containers of bananas
go through a radiation detector at the termi-
nal. Mr. Stamatis pointed out the twin col-
umns of the “radiation portal.” (Bananas,
which contain potassium, are slightly radio-
active and have been known to set it off, he
said.)
A few containers from each shipment are
taken to a warehouse at the terminal, where
they are opened and inspected by United
States Customs and Border Protection.
Mr. Stamatis, as it turns out, worked for
decades importing bananas for Bonita, an
Ecuadorean producer, and came to Red
Hook when Bonita fell on hard times and the
shipping line shut down. He brought ba-
nanas with him, starting up the new ship-
ping line and even importing some of his
own — Belindas.
“I’m a banana guy, right?”
His first job, at 19, was chalk-marking
boxes of ripe bananas as they came from
the ships on conveyor belts, at Port Newark.
A single yellow banana could turn the whole
box.
It was a rowdier time, he said. “I can tell
you, we had spiders, snakes, crickets, cock-
roaches,” he said. “We’d open the hatches
and just hear the crickets chirping.”
“And in the old days, there were stow-
aways,” he added, “so when you opened up
the hatches, people would come running
out. On many occasions, we’d be chasing
people down the block.”
THE BANANAS’ NEXT STOP was a ripening
warehouse in North Bergen, N.J. It be-
longed to EXP Group, the company that im-
ports most of the bananas arriving in Red
Hook.
As the trucks arrived, Emil Serafino and
Anthony Serafino, father and son, came out
from an office onto the warehouse floor.
They wore short-sleeved green shirts with
the company name on the breast pocket.
The Serafinos started out as just another
produce wholesaler in Brooklyn, but over a
decade ago they got into import and export, PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

moved to New Jersey and became EXP

Group. Five years ago, they started ship-
ping their own bananas to New York from
farms near Guayaquil, Ecuador, and built
this facility.
They have become one of the biggest im-
porters of bananas from Ecuador, though it
is still a comparatively modest operation. If
Dole and Chiquita and Del Monte are Big
Banana, this is Little Banana.
“They would love to eliminate people like
us,” the elder Mr. Serafino said.
It was 83 degrees outside, and the ba-
nanas had to be unloaded quickly so the
fruit wouldn’t get hot. A worker on a minia-
ture forklift zipped the boxes across the
warehouse, while two other workers
stacked them onto pallets.
You could see the bananas through the
gaps in the cardboard boxes. They were not
taxi yellow, but greener than an outer-bor-
ough cab and as hard as hammers.
On the tree, bananas take weeks to ripen.
Commercial bananas, however, are
chopped down and shipped while they are
still green, so the delicate fruit won’t be ru-
ined on the voyage.
Now they were ready for ripening. The
Serafinos walked down a broad passage-
way lined with tall, rolling doors painted
bright yellow: the ripening rooms.
The name suggested a warm place suf-
fused with orange light, to mimic the South
American sun. But when the younger Mr.
Serafino opened one of the doors, the room
inside was dark and cool; less like a tanning
booth, more like a garage.
Banana boxes were stacked from floor to
ceiling, and a medical-looking device stuck
out from one, trailing a cord. “A pulp ther-
mometer,” he said.
The ripening rooms are filled with ethyl-
ene, a synthetic version of the hormone that
naturally sets off ripening.
The thermometer tracks the banana’s in-
ternal temperature, or its pulp level, which
tells the ripeners how to adjust the ethyl-
ene, humidity and temperature in the room.
This art of ripening took time to perfect.
And there were some accidents along the
way. Ethylene is combustible, and in 1936,
the Pittsburgh Banana Company building
exploded, causing it to rain bananas in the
city’s Strip District.
Today ripening can be slowed or sped up
by tapping a touch-screen. “If sales are up,
we increase the temperature,” Mr. Serafino
said. “If sales are down, we decrease the
temperature.” The range was three degrees
up or down, he said.
“You don’t want to stress the bananas.”
The ripening rooms are kept between 56
and 66 degrees. Too cool, and the bananas
get chilled, turning gray and bark-like, he
said. Too warm, and though they might look
fine, they would be mushy inside.
The process takes about four days. When
it is done, the Serafinos deliver ripe ba-
nanas to restaurant suppliers, wholesalers
and grocery stores. To make sure everyone
is on the same page, they refer to a ripeness
chart, where shades of ripeness are num-
bered from one to seven — one being flag-
of-Brazil green and seven a buttery yellow,
with brown spots. No one buys sevens. “If
I’ve got a bunch of sevens,” the elder Mr.
Serafino said, “I’m not sleeping.”
It was perhaps to sell ripe bananas that
United Fruit Company had Miss Chiquita
sing in the 1940s and 1950s: “When bananas
are flecked with brown and have a golden
hue, bananas taste the best and are the best
for you.”
The jingle seems to have influenced a
generation. “I like to eat it just yellow,” said
Emil Serafino, 61.
But times have changed. His son Antho-
ny Serafino, 25, said, “I like them yellow
with a green stem.”
That, he said, was the Millennial Banana.
FROM THE TIME BANANAS began to be im-
ported to the East Coast in the late 19th cen-
tury, they were in high demand. Along with
pineapples, they were particularly popular
when local fruit was out of season. They
came off ships in giant bunches, still on the
stalk, and thousands sold within hours.
They were so plentiful that in some cities,
peels became a hazard. Yes, seriously. Peo-
ple fell and were injured. At least one man
actually died from slipping on a banana
peel. A headline in The New York Times in
1896 declared a “War on the Banana Skin.”
It wasn’t just peels. Parts of Manhattan
were covered in a thick layer of sludge: or-
ange rinds, potato peels, hay, manure. But
calls for action often focused on the danger
of banana peels.
This went on for years.
In 1889, a Times reporter described “a tall,
heavyset man” who had “started briskly
across the street . . . only to plant his foot on
a mound of banana skins and black muck,
which slid like soft soap from under him.”
That, of course, is the origin of the gag,
said Dan Koeppel, the author of the popular
history “Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that
Changed the World.” (Mr. Koeppel is now
employed at The Wirecutter, a product-re-
view site owned by The New York Times
Company.)
New York’s first street-sweeping opera-
tion helped clean up the streets, but the no-
tion of slipping on a banana peel made its
way into American culture, Mr. Koeppel
said, thanks to Yiddish theater, Vaudeville
and, eventually, silent films.
Banana peels also captured the imagina-
tion of local con artists. In 1910, according to
The Times, one woman, Anna H. Sturla, was
arrested after claiming she had slipped on a
banana peel — for the 17th time in four
years.
For a while, a variety of bananas were
available in New York City. There were
dwarf bananas, and red ones from Cuba. As
the United Fruit Company (which later be-
came Chiquita) monopolized the industry
and expanded throughout Latin America,
one variety took over: the Gros Michel.
United Fruit was a ruthless corporate
empire, but it was also vulnerable. Wherev-
er the company went, it was pursued by
Panama Disease, which causes banana
trees to rot from the inside, and which it un-
wittingly spread in the soil that stuck to its
tools. By 1960, the pathogen had all but de-
stroyed the banana crop. “The Gros Michel
was rendered commercially extinct,” said
Mr. Koeppel, the banana historian.
The breed chosen by the industry to re-
place it, the Cavendish, was resistant to that
particular strain of Panama Disease, but it
wasn’t as sturdy as the Gros Michel. It
transformed the industry into the one we
know today, Mr. Koeppel said, requiring
boxes, refrigeration and advanced ripening
technology.
Clockwise from top left: empty
containers stacked at the Red
Hook terminal; Charles
LoGiudice of Top Banana at
Hunts Point Produce Market in
the Bronx; Lot C at Hunts
Point; leftover bananas at the
fruit stand at 96th Street and
Broadway around midnight; a
United Fruit freighter on the
Hudson River in 1971; a
customer at the fruit stand; and
fresh baby bananas.
By nightfall, a pile of
empty boxes lay on the
curb, and on the table
just a few lonely
bananas remained.
MICHAEL EVANS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Today, almost all export bananas in the
world are Cavendish. Chosen more for its
disease resistance, it is not necessarily the
most flavorful variety, according to Mr.
Koeppel. He called it the McDonald’s of ba-
nanas. In India, where there are hundreds
of banana breeds, the Cavendish is known
as the hotel banana.
ONCE THE BANANAS had ripened in New Jer-
sey, they were loaded into trucks again.
Some went to Hunts Point Produce Market
in the Bronx, where they were unloaded at
Top Banana.
The Hunts Point market is a vast distri-
bution center where trucks line up at ware-
houses a quarter-mile long.
In Area D, Top Banana’s owner, Joe
Palumbo, sat at a large desk on a recent af-
ternoon. Around him were dozens of framed
photos of his five children, some Mets para-
phernalia and little pyramids of fresh ba-
nanas. Top Banana has its own ripening
rooms, and the too-sweet smell of ripe ba-
nanas was inescapable.
Some of Mr. Palumbo’s bananas come
from the ripening warehouse in New Jer-
sey; others arrive green from the big im-
porters that ship to Wilmington. “Chances
are if you bought a Dole or a Chiquita,” he
said, “it came out of here.”
Mr. Palumbo sells bananas “to everyone,”
he said, “from your Costco to your mom-
and-pop store.”
Among his buyers are a group he calls the
Turks. They are, in fact, mostly Turkish.
They serve a very specific market.
On a recent night, one of them, Dogan
Ferahoglu, stood between towers of boxes,
leaning against a hand truck while his
brother did the bargaining. “My brother
and partner walks around, and whoever
gives him the best price,” he said, shrug-
ging.
Their customers: Manhattan fruit stand
vendors.
Bananas were their No. 1 selling product,
Mr. Ferahoglu said, followed by blueberries
and strawberries. A box cost the delivery-
men about $16 at the market. There are
about 100 bananas in a box.
ACCORDING TO MR. PALUMBO, there were
once many banana families around New
York. “It’s down to a handful,” he said.
Long Island Banana Corporation shut
down not long ago, after the owner was im-
plicated in the death of a prostitute, who
overdosed during what a news report
called“a drug-fueled sex romp.” (He also
embezzled his employee’s pensions.)
Most businesses closed for less dramatic
reasons. The younger generation didn’t
want to carry on the family tradition, Mr.
Palumbo said. It was a tough business: noc-
turnal, low profit, full of headaches. “What
goes on,” he said, shaking his head. “Rain-
storms, snowstorms, the Jersey Turnpike.”
Personally, he had diversified. In addition
to huge quantities of the Cavendish, Top Ba-
nana dealt in green plantains, pineapples,
cantaloupes, watermelons, limes, toma-
toes, aloe vera and even exotic root vegeta-
bles like yautia.
“It’s not enough, bananas.”
And the future is uncertain for everyone
in the banana trade.
The Cavendish is susceptible to a new
strain of Panama Disease known as Tropi-
cal Race 4, or TR4. The Cavendish is essen-
tially a clone, and while genetically identi-
cal bananas that look and act alike are good
for business, Mr. Koeppel said, “when one
gets sick, they all get sick.
“There is no question that the Cavendish
banana is going to be severely stricken by
Panama Disease,” Mr. Koeppel said. “There
are reputable plant pathologists saying this,
not just banana-loving journalists.”
He added: “Nobody knows when.”
Some in the industry play down the
threat; others are looking for a replacement
banana. In Asia, they’re trying to breed a re-
sistant Cavendish, Mr. Koeppel said. “But
you can’t just breed in resistance. You might
be breeding out other stuff, like flavor.”
IN THE MEANTIME, the hustle continues. In
the wee hours of the morning, the Fera-
hoglus leave Hunts Point and make their
rounds in a box truck, unloading several
boxes of bananas on the corner of 96th
Street and Broadway on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan. It is one of the busiest
fruit stands in the city, open day and night,
four umbrellas long.
“This is the best spot in the city for street
selling,” said Oktay Suleyman, one of the
dayside vendors, on a recent weekday.
Bananas were typically four for $1, and on
a good day they sold as many as 15 boxes, or
roughly 1,500 bananas, Mr. Suleyman said.
Monday, after people had run through their
weekend supply, was their busiest day.
Mr. Suleyman had half a lemon handy,
which he used to wet his fingers to more
easily open plastic bags. “In the rush hour, I
have to be fast,” he said, as commuters be-
gan to spill out from a nearby subway stop.
He sold bananas to an Irish carpenter, a
retiree from Puerto Rico, a business school
student.
Sandeep Dusa, the student, picked out
some bananas and handed Mr. Suleyman a
dollar. Mr. Suleyman swiped his hand on the
lemon, opened a bag and dropped them in.
“I have to take them out of the bag,” Mr.
Dusa said. “If you have a ripe banana,
you’re going to upset the other bananas.
“They sync up,” he said. “Smart fruit.”
By nightfall, a pile of empty boxes lay on
the curb, and on the table just a few lonely
bananas remained, flecked with brown and
with a golden hue. The supply would be re-
plenished, in just a few hours.
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PARENTING LETTING GO
How Do I Love Thee?
As my sons went off to college,
a soulless big box store was
the only entity that seemed to
understand what I was feeling.
BY CAITLIN FLANAGAN
E
VERYONE assumed I was going to
fall into a depression after my twin
sons went off to college — and so
did I. I heard stories about women lying
down on the distant child’s bed and sob-
bing and I thought, “That’s going to me.”
To my surprise and everyone else’s,
nothing like that happened; I found I
thoroughly enjoyed my new life. But
before I arrived at that happy discovery,
one unusual thing did happen: For sev-
eral months, starting in the summer and
extending all the way through November
of their first semester away, I developed
a strange relationship with Bed Bath &
Beyond. For a while, that soulless ware-
house full of sheets, towels and “as seen
on TV” gimmicks seemed to be the only
entity in the world that really understood
how I was feeling in those delicate days.
There was a time in my life when I
thought I would never get through a
week without stepping barefoot on the
sharp side of a Lego. Then there came a
time when I looked around and realized
there wasn’t a single Lego in the house
anymore. One minute I was feeding
quarters into little bouncy cars that my
sons were sitting in, the next minute they
were driving away from me in a real car. I
started counting their time left at home in
weeks, and a gloom descended on me. In
a funk of sadness and loss, I grabbed one
of my sons and headed over to the Bed
Bath & Beyond on Hollywood and Vine —
where my mood began to improve.
Inside the big, windowless store, I was
directed to the little office where engaged
people register for weddings. A cheerful
young man behind a desk shook our
hands and asked my son where he was
going to college. It seemed silly — we
were just there for sheets and towels! —
but it made going to college seem as big a
life step as getting married.
The salesman asked him the name
of his college and assigned dorm, then
typed them into the computer. There was
the click and whir of a printer, and then
he handed us a miraculous document:
a sheet of paper listing what we needed
to know about dorm rooms at Kenyon
College, what items the college would
Caitlin Flanagan is a contributing editor
of The Atlantic and author of “To Hell With
All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner
Housewife.”
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provide, what we could and could not
bring, and what we might want to buy.
Here we were in Hollywood, Calif.,
and yet we were already linked to the
BB&B in Columbus, Ohio, with turn-
by-turn directions from his dorm to the
store, where on move-in day we were to
pick up the things we’d chosen. It was
many months later, poking around on
the store’s website, that I realized that
the hundreds of lists in the database are,
of course, essentially the same — every
dorm provides a dresser, a desk and
chair, a wastebasket; every college al-
lows you to bring an alarm clock but not
an “open coil appliance.”
But with my son beside me — during
his last weeks as a full citizen of my
home — BB&B had performed a bit of
profitable magic. The latest thinking in
retail is that a brand exists, ideally, within
a relationship. You aren’t exchanging
money with McDonald’s for a hamburger.
You are making McDonald’s part of your
life story.
I have always hated this kind of con-
Let Me Count the Sheets
sumer manipulation;
yet looking at that
piece of paper, I felt
that what was once
merely an impersonal
chain store was now
a group of people who
understood what I was
feeling.
I was not feeling a
sadness about losing
contact with my boys.
In this age of texting,
the Sunday-night
phone call and
long-awaited letter are
things of the past. What
I was sad about was
losing their physical
presence in my life,
which I’d been thinking
about and caring for
since I made up their
cribs a month before
they were born. Bed
Bath & Beyond wasn’t
saying, “Get over
yourself!” Bed Bath
& Beyond was saying,
“You go, girl!”
I
F you ever happen
to be near a fresh-
man dorm in early
May when students
muck out their rooms
in preparation for going
back home, you will
see an astonishing,
growing mountain of
consumer goods, still
in their boxes. The
students haven’t seen
ABBEY LOSSING
these things since
their mothers stowed them away in their
dorm room drawers and closets back in
August: Dustbusters, first-aid kits, irons,
collapsible hampers, organizing bins
and baskets, extra blankets, flashlights,
extension cords, drying racks. And much
of this will end up in the rummage sale or
charity drive organized by some campus
club.
These mountain ranges of stuff rep-
resent good news to big-box America,
where back-to-college shopping is an
even bigger business than back-to-school
shopping. According to the National Re-
tail Federation, these shoppers will spend
a record amount this school year: $54.1
billion on items like clothes ($8 billion),
shoes ($4.5 billion) and electronics ($12.8
billion). They also will spend more than
$5.9 billion on bedding, coffee makers
and mini-microwaves, what retailers call
“dorm room essentials.”
One profit center is the bed itself, for
the new college mattress is quite a bit
different from the one I confronted in the
fall of 1979, which was lumpy, stained,
covered in gray and white ticking, and
resting on a set of wire bed springs, an
unsightly object that my mother quickly
covered with a mattress pad and fitted
sheets — both taken from her linen closet
— and my favorite quilt.
The modern dorm mattress looks like
something you’d find in a gymnastics
class: a rectangle of unyielding foam
with springs deep inside, all of it covered
in dark blue vinyl or waterproof nylon.
It’s a mattress that keeps its secrets,
requiring only a spray of disinfectant by
the summer cleaning crew to make it an
unstained object without a past (it has
typically passed something called the
ASTM Method F-1670 Liquid and Syn-
thetic Blood Penetration Test).
Because colleges use twin XL mat-
tresses (on the assumption that there
must be enough students over 6 feet 6 to
necessitate everyone getting an 80-inch-
long bed), there’s a brisk business in
selling sheets and bedding to fit. The
blocky firmness is the reason many
students now have mattress toppers —
padded layers of foam or down to set atop
the mattress. They vary in price, all the
way up to the Cadillac of the category:
the Tempur-Topper Supreme that costs
close to $300.
Why would anyone spend $300 to make
a dorm bed softer? The short answer is
that in our country of savage inequalities
there are plenty of people who can afford
to pad their college experiences against
any possible hardship, even a too-firm
mattress. The longer answer is that chil-
dren’s departure from the family home
evokes a rich mix of potent emotions of
the kind that marketing experts spend
considerable effort trying to exploit.
Everyone is going to try to get you to
shop your feelings away — sometimes
even the college itself. New York Uni-
versity told us several times that Bed
Bath & Beyond was a good place to buy
things for the dorm — and to prove it, the
store hosts an annual all-night shopping
party open only to N.Y.U. students and
their credit-card-wielding parents. (I was
given a cold shoulder from the company
on the nature of its relationship with the
university, but I did learn that 15 percent
of all sales go to the N.Y.U. student gov-
ernment’s activities fund.)
In the manner of a public service, allow
me — as someone who has awoken from
the expensive, temporary spell of dorm
room madness — to tell you that what
you really need to buy for your kid’s
dorm room is … almost nothing.
You should get the XL twin sheets be-
cause its easier to make the bed that way,
but the rest of the bedding can come from
home. Ditto the towels. If the bed’s too
hard, turn the mattress over: Many are
constructed so one side is firmer. If you
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The Well-Equipped Dorm Room

about 20 models, the Sweethome
decided that almost any mini-
fridge will get the job done, so
long as it has a real compressor

T
HERE’S nothing as daunt-
ing as a naked dorm room
waiting to be outfitted. What
to buy? The folks at the Sweet-
home, a product review site
owned by The New York Times
Company, know what you’re going
through. They’ve spent more than
150 hours evaluating dorm essen-
tials. Here are a few of their picks.
More product choices and details
are at thesweethome.com.
• XL twin sheets are on every
residential-life list. You probably
won’t use them for more than a
few years, so you shouldn’t spend
much. But that doesn’t mean you
need to settle for scratchy, stiff
linens. Target’s Threshold sheets
in 400- or 300-thread counts,
around $30 for a set, are nearly as
soft, durable and wrinkle-resistant
as top performers. But shop early:
Extra-long sheets sell out fast.
• Dorm beds are hard and un-
forgiving. The best way to fix this
is a mattress pad. Most colleges
give you the option of buying an
egg-crate foam topper at the
start of the school year. If you
want something more luxurious,
fiber is the way to go (a low-end
memory foam topper holds heat
like an oven and can smell like
chemicals). The Sweethome
chooses the Pinzon Hypoallergenic
Microplush, at $35, as the best
inexpensive XL pad.
• Yes, condoms are probably an
essential. LifeStyles Skyn wins
as best average-fit according to
several blush-worthy attributes.
Test-driven by 32 volunteers.
• When your roommate pulls
all-nighters, you’ll be glad for the
light-blocking Nidra Deep Rest
mask, with deep eye cups that
allow your eyes to flutter during
REM and won’t smudge makeup.
• Among four promising totes, the
Sweethome picked the Saltwater
Canvas Mesh Shower Bag for
shuttling stuff to the shower. It’s
made of mildew-resistant mesh
that’s thicker and stronger than
that in other caddies, including the
popular Honey-Can-Do Quick Dry
Shower Tote, which tended to sag.
• A mini-fridge can make a
Spartan dorm room feel more like
home, not to mention keeping
leftovers from turning into a sci-
ence experiment. After considering
(opposed to an inefficient ther-
moelectric cooling element) and
has only one door (for consistent
temperatures). So get whatever
is cheap and available, which
probably means buying used from
someone moving out. Want new
anyway? The 4.4-cubic-foot Danby
beat out the five top-rated models.
• A small microwave lets you enjoy
late-night leftovers, popcorn and
meals for one in the comfort of
your room. Among eight popular
models, the 0.7-cubic-foot Danby
Designer Stainless was selected
as the best option: It has a handle
instead of a less durable push-but-
ton mechanism, an intuitive button
layout, and fits perfectly on top of
that mini-fridge.
• You get better, louder sound
from desktop computer speakers,
but for most dorm needs, a porta-
ble Bluetooth speaker will be good
enough and a lot more versatile. A
test of more than 80 found the UE
Roll 2 to be loud enough to annoy
your neighbors, not to mention
your roommate.
• After a survey of more than
1,100 readers and a test of 19 top
models, thewirecutter.com, anoth-
er product review site owned by
the Times company, found Anker’s
PowerPort 4 to be the best USB
wall charger for most students.
At $26, it costs a little more than
Apple’s single-port 12W USB
power adapter, but it can push out
more than three times as much
power and charge four devices at
once. And it plugs directly into an
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PROFILE BARBARA OAKLEY
You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain
Lessons in learning from an engineering professor who ‘flunked’ her way through high school math and science.
BY JOHN SCHWARTZ
T
HE studio for the world’s most
successful online course is tucked
into a corner of Barb and Phil
Oakley’s basement, a converted TV room
that smells faintly of cat urine. (At the
end of every video session, the Oakleys
pin up the green fabric that serves as the
backdrop so Fluffy doesn’t ruin it.)
This is where they put together “Learn-
ing How to Learn,” taken by more than
1.8 million students from 200 countries
via Coursera. The course provides practi-
cal advice on tackling daunting subjects
and on beating procrastination, and the
lessons engagingly blend neuroscience
and common sense.
Dr. Oakley, an engineering professor at
Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.,
created the class with Terrence Sejnows-
ki, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute
for Biological Studies, and with the Uni-
versity of California, San Diego.
Prestigious universities have spent
millions and employ hundreds of profes-
sionally trained videographers, editors
and producers to create their massive
open online courses, known as MOOCs.
The Oakleys put together their studio
with equipment that cost $5,000. They
figured out what to buy by Googling “how
to set up a green screen studio” and “how
to set up studio lighting.” Mr. Oakley runs
the camera and teleprompter. She does
most of the editing.
“It’s actually not rocket science,” said
John Schwartz is a staff writer at The Times.
Four Techniques to Make You Smarter
B arbara Oakley’s free online course “Learn-
ing How to Learn” ($49 for a certificate
of completion) provides basic techniques for
enhancing learning. Skills are interconnected
and build on each other. Highlights:
FOCUS/DON’T The brain has two modes
of thinking that Dr. Oakley simplifies as “fo-
cused,” in which learners concentrate on the
material, and “diffuse,” a neural resting state
in which consolidation occurs — that is, the
new information can settle into the brain.
(Cognitive scientists talk about task-posi-
tive networks and default-mode networks,
respectively, in describing the two states.) In
diffuse mode, connections between bits of
information, and unexpected insights, can
occur. That’s why it’s helpful to take a brief
break after a burst of focused work.
TAKE A BREAK To accomplish those periods
of focused and diffuse-mode thinking, Dr.
Oakley recommends what is known as the
Pomodoro Technique: Set a kitchen timer
for a 25-minute stretch of focused work,
followed by a brief reward, which includes a
6 Sunday, August 6, 2017
Dr. Oakley — but she’s careful where she
says that these days. When she spoke at
Harvard in 2015, she said, “the hackles
went up”; she crossed her arms sternly
by way of grim illustration.
This is home-brew, not Harvard. And it
has worked. Spectacularly. The Oakleys
never could have predicted their success.
Many of the early sessions had to be
trashed. “I looked like a deer in the head-
lights,” Dr. Oakley said. She would flub
break for diffuse reflection. (“Pomodoro” is
Italian for tomato — some timers look like
tomatoes.) The reward — listening to a song,
taking a walk, anything to enter a relaxed
state — takes your mind off the task at
hand. Precisely because you’re not thinking
about the task, the brain can subconsciously
consolidate the new knowledge. Dr. Oakley
compares this process to “a librarian filing
books away
on shelves for
later retrieval.”
As a bonus,
the ritual of
setting the
timer can also
help overcome
procrastina-
tion. Dr. Oakley
notes that
even thinking
about doing
things we dis-
like activates
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her lines and moan, “I just can’t do this.”
Her husband would say, “Come on. We’re
going to have lunch, and we’re going to
come right back to this.” But he confessed
to having had doubts, too. “We were in
the basement, worrying, ‘Is anybody
even going to look at this?’”
Dr. Oakley is not the only person
teaching students how to use tools drawn
from neuroscience to enhance learning.
But her popularity is a testament to her
the pain centers of the brain. The Pomodoro
Technique, she says, “helps the mind slip
into focus and begin work without thinking
about the work.” She adds: “Virtually anyone
can focus for 25 minutes, and the more you
practice, the easier it gets.”
PRACTICE “Chunking” is the process of cre-
ating a neural pattern that can be reactivated
when needed. It might be an equation or
a phrase in
French or a
guitar chord.
Research
shows that
having a men-
tal library of
well-practiced
neural chunks
is necessary
for developing
expertise.
Practice
brings proce-
dural fluency,
HOME VIDEO Dr. Oakley in her base-
ment studio. Below, the “octopus of
attention” from her online course, the
most popular of all time on Coursera.
skill at presenting the material, and also
to the course’s message of hope. Many of
her online students are 25 to 44 years old,
likely to be facing career changes in an
unforgiving economy and seeking better
ways to climb new learning curves.
Dr. Oakley’s lessons are rich in meta-
phor, which she knows helps get complex
ideas across. The practice is rooted in the
theory of neural reuse, which states that
metaphors use the same neural circuits in
the brain as the underlying concept does,
so the metaphor brings difficult concepts
“more rapidly on board,” as she puts it.
She illustrates her concepts with goofy
animations: There are surfing zombies,
metabolic vampires and an “octopus of at-
tention.” Hammy editing tricks may have
Dr. Oakley moving out of the frame to the
right and popping up on the left, or cring-
ing away from an animated, disembodied
head that she has put on the screen to
discuss a property of the brain.
Sitting in the Oakleys’ comfortable liv-
ing room, with its solid Mission furniture
and mementos of their world travels, Dr.
Oakley said she believes that just about
anyone can train himself to learn. “Stu-
dents may look at math, for example, and
say, ‘I can’t figure this out — it must mean
I’m really stupid!’ They don’t know how
their brain works.”
Her own feelings of inadequacy give
her empathy for students who feel hope-
says Dr. Oakley, who compares the process to
backing up a car. “When you first are learning
to back up, your working memory is over-
whelmed with input.” In time, “you don’t even
need to think more than ‘Hey, back up,’ ” and
the mind is free to think about other things.
Chunks build on chunks, and, she says,
the neural network built upon that knowl-
edge grows bigger. “You remember longer
bits of music, for example, or more complex
phrases in French.” Mastering low-level math
concepts allows tackling more complex men-
tal acrobatics. “You can easily bring them to
mind even while your active focus is grap-
pling with newer, more difficult information.”
KNOW THYSELF Dr. Oakley urges her stu-
dents to understand that people learn in dif-
ferent ways. Those who have “racecar brains”
snap up information; those with “hiker brains”
take longer to assimilate information but, like
a hiker, perceive more details along the way.
Recognizing the advantages and disadvan-
tages, she says, is the first step in learning
how to approach unfamiliar material. 
PROFILE BARBARA OAKLEY
less. “I know the hiccups and the troubles
people have when they’re trying to learn
something.” After all, she was her own lab
rat. “I rewired my brain,” she said, “and it
wasn’t easy.”
As a youngster, she was not a diligent
student. “I flunked my way through
elementary, middle school and high school
math and science,” she said. She joined
the Army out of high school to help pay
for college and received extensive train-
ing in Russian at the Defense Language
Institute. Once out, she realized she would
have a better career path with a technical
degree (specifically, electrical engineer-
ing), and set out to tackle math and
science, training herself to grind through
technical subjects with many of the tech-
niques of practice and repetition that she
had used to let Russian vocabulary and
declension soak in.
Along the way, she met Philip Oakley
— in, of all places, Antarctica. It was 1983,
and she was working as a radio operator
at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
(She has also worked as a translator on a
Russian trawler. She’s been around.) Mr.
Oakley managed the garage at the station,
keeping machinery working under some
of the planet’s most punishing conditions.
She had noticed him largely because,
unlike so many men at the lonely pole, he
hadn’t made any moves on her. “You can
be ugly as a toad out there and you are
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the most popular girl,” she said. She found
him “comfortably confident.” After he left
a party without even saying hello, she told
a friend she’d like to get to know him bet-
ter. The next day, he was waiting for her
at breakfast with a big smile on his face.
Three weeks later, on New Year’s Eve, he
walked her over to the true South Pole
and proposed at the stroke of midnight.
A few weeks after that, they were “off the
ice” in New Zealand and got married.
Dr. Oakley recounts her journey in
both of her best-selling books: “A Mind
for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and
Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra)”
and, out this spring, “Mindshift: Break
Through Obstacles to Learning and
Discover Your Hidden Potential.” The new
book is about learning new skills, with a
focus on career switchers. And yes, she
has a MOOC for that, too.
Dr. Oakley is already planning her next
book, another guide to learning how to
learn but aimed at 10- to 13-year-olds. She
wants to tell them, “Even if you are not a
superstar learner, here’s how to see the
great aspects of what you do have.” She
would like to see learning clubs in school
to help young people develop the skills
they need. “We have chess clubs, we have
art clubs,” she said. “We don’t have learn-
ing clubs. I just think that teaching kids
how to learn is one of the greatest things
we can possibly do.” 
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still want a mattress topper, Walmart and
Target sell them dirt cheap. If he needs
an iron, you can have it to him in days —
hours — via the power of online shopping.
If she left a winter coat at home, stick it in
a box and mail it to her.
The best recommendation my boys got
was from my sister, who advised them to
bring a couple of sentimental items from
home. And so it was that my old copy
of “Franny and Zooey” went to college
again, and (I noticed) was the first thing
pulled from the suitcase and propped up
on the bookcase.
These college freshmen are not eager
to start ironing and vacuuming. They’re
eager to put you back in the rental car and
to get started.
The best thing you can do in these tense
final hours is to breathe deeply and re-
mind yourself: A semester is four months
long. This isn’t induction in the armed
services; it’s basically sleep-away camp,
with better food and the same vinyl-cov-
ered mattress.
On move-in day, the doors of the
freshman dorm rooms are open, and up
and down the hallway you can peer into
them and see mothers making their last
stand. Fathers are mulling around making
suggestions that are batted away, and are
occasionally handed boxes for the Dump-
FIND
YOUR
GRIT
ster, while mothers are making beds with
an emotional intensity that is only under-
stood by one another.
Then they all run outside, grabbing
their purses for some last-minute shop-
ping, making purchases that are not
spurred by rational thinking. The Brita
filter is bought as a complicated way of
saying something best expressed in a line
of Delmore Schwartz poetry that I kept
trying not to think about in those delicate
last hours:
“Abide with me: do not go away.”
I had only one moment of the kind of
reckoning I’d been dreading all summer,
or perhaps for the past 18 years. We’d
dropped the first son off in Ohio, the sec-
ond in New York, and I’d stayed around
for a couple of extra days in case I was
needed (I wasn’t). On my last day, I met
him at a coffee shop near his dorm. We sat
in the sunshine with cold drinks, and he
seemed to me impossibly young to be left
there — as young, I’m certain, as I must
have seemed to my own parents in 1979.
And then it was time to go to the air-
port. I hailed a cab, and my son heaved
my suitcase into the trunk. I hugged him
one last time, as quickly as possible, and
got in the cab.
And then I watched him disappear into
a jostling New York crowd, headed in the
general direction of his memory foam
mattress topper and his new life. 
John Sink
EDUCATION LIFE 7
 Why Kids Can’t
BY DANA GOLDSTEIN
Write
O
Should there be a return N a bright July morning in a windowless
conference room in a Manhattan bookstore,
to basics, with a focus on several dozen elementary school teachers
were learning how to create worksheets that
grammar and mechanics? would help children learn to write.
Judith C. Hochman, founder of an organization called
But won’t that stifle the the Writing Revolution, displayed examples of student
work. A first grader had produced the following phrase:
writerly voice? “Plants need water it need sun to” — that is, plants need
water and sun, too. If the student didn’t learn how to cor-
rect pronoun disagreement and missing conjunctions,
by high school he could be writing phrases like this one:
“Well Machines are good but they
take people jobs like if they don’t
know how to use it they get fired.”
That was a real submission on the
essay section of the ACT.
“It all starts with a sentence,”
Dr. Hochman said.
Focusing on the fundamentals of
grammar is one approach to teach-
ing writing. But it’s by no means
the dominant one. Many educa-
tors are concerned less with sen-
tence-level mechanics than with
helping students draw inspiration
from their own lives and from lit-
erature.
Thirty miles away at Nassau
Community College, Meredith
Wanzer, a high school teacher and
instructor with the Long Island
Writing Project, was running a
weeklong workshop attended by
six teenage girls. The goal was to
prepare them to write winning college admis-
sions essays — that delicate genre calling for
a student to highlight her strengths (without
sounding boastful) and tell a vivid personal sto-
ry (without coming off as self-involved).
Ms. Wanzer led the students in a freewrite, a
popular English class strategy of writing with-
out stopping or judging. First, she read aloud
from “Bird by Bird,” Anne Lamott’s 1995 clas-
IM E S sic on how to write with voice. “You get your
ORK T
NEW Y intuition back when you make space for it,
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SKOVA FO
NA PA
TOP, YA when you stop the chattering of the rational mind,”
the memoirist writes. “Rationality squeezes out much
that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
Ms. Wanzer then asked the students to spend a few
minutes writing anything they liked in response to the
GRAMMAR LESSON A pre-assessment in
Lamott excerpt. Lyse Armand, a rising senior at West-
social studies by a Staten Island ninth grader,
part of a Writing Revolution program
emphasizing fundamentals. Dana Goldstein is an education reporter for The Times.
8 Sunday, August 6, 2017
bury High School, leaned over her notebook. She was
planning to apply to New York University, Columbia and
Stony Brook University and already had an idea of the
story she would tell in her Common Application essay. It
would have something to do, she thought, with her fami-
ly’s emigration from Haiti following the 2010 earthquake
that devastated the island. But she was struggling with
how to get started and what exactly she wanted to say.
“What voice in my head?” she wrote in her response to
the Lamott essay. “I don’t have one.”
Lyse needed a sense of “ownership” over her writing,
Ms. Wanzer said. Lyse had solid sentence-level skills.
But even when Ms. Wanzer encounters juniors and se-
niors whose essays are filled with incomplete sentences
— not an uncommon occurrence — she limits the time
she spends covering dull topics like subject-verb agree-
ment. “You hope that by exposing them to great writing,
they’ll start to hear what’s going on.”
T
HREE-QUARTERS of both 12th and 8th grad-
ers lack proficiency in writing, according to
the most recent National Assessment of Ed-
ucational Progress. And 40 percent of those
who took the ACT writing exam in the high
school class of 2016 lacked the reading and writing skills
necessary to successfully complete a college-level En-
glish composition class, according to the company’s data.
Poor writing is nothing new, nor is concern about it.
More than half of first-year students at Harvard failed
an entrance exam in writing — in 1874. But the Common
Core State Standards, now in use in more than two-thirds
of the states, were supposed to change all this. By requir-
ing students to learn three types of essay writing — ar-
gumentative, informational and narrative — the Core
staked a claim for writing as central to the American
curriculum. It represented a sea change after the era of
No Child Left Behind, the 2002 federal law that largely
overlooked writing in favor of reading comprehension
assessed by standardized multiple-choice tests.
So far, however, six years after its rollout, the Core
hasn’t led to much measurable improvement on the page.
Students continue to arrive on college campuses needing
remediation in basic writing skills.
The root of the problem, educators agree, is that teach-
ers have little training in how to teach writing and are
often weak or unconfident writers themselves. Accord-
ing to Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on
Teacher Quality, a scan of course syllabuses from 2,400
teacher preparation programs turned up little evidence
that the teaching of writing was being covered in a wide-
spread or systematic way.
A separate 2016 study of nearly 500 teachers in grades
three through eight across the country, conducted by
Gary Troia of Michigan State University and Steve Gra-
ham of Arizona State University, found that less than half
had taken a college class that devoted significant time to
the teaching of writing, while less than a third had tak-
en a class solely devoted to how children learn to write.

BACK TO WORKSHEETS A Writing Revolution course for teachers focuses on the (sometimes dry) mechanics of writing rather than creativity and self-expression.
Unsurprisingly, given their lack of preparation, only 55
percent of respondents said they enjoyed teaching the
subject.  struggle with the mechanics of simple sentences.
“Most teachers are great readers,” Dr. Troia said.
“They’ve been successful in college, maybe even gradu-
ate school. But when you ask most teachers about their
comfort with writing and their writing experiences, they
don’t do very much or feel comfortable with it.”  ing center for training teachers in process-oriented litera-
There is virulent debate about what approach is best.
So-called process writing, like the lesson Lyse experi-
enced in Long Island, emphasizes activities like brain-
storming, freewriting, journaling about one’s personal
experiences and peer-to-peer revision. Adherents worry
that focusing too much on grammar or citing sources will
stifle the writerly voice and prevent children from falling
in love with writing as an activity.
That ideology goes back to the 1930s, when progressive
educators began to shift the writing curriculum away
from penmanship and spelling and toward diary entries
and personal letters as a psychologically liberating activ-
ity. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, this movement took on
the language of civil rights, with teachers striving to em-
power nonwhite and poor children by encouraging them
to narrate their own lived experiences.
Dr. Hochman’s strategy is radically different: a return
to the basics of sentence construction, from combining
fragments to fixing punctuation errors to learning how
to deploy the powerful conjunctive adverbs that are com-
mon in academic writing but uncommon in speech, words
like “therefore,” “although” and “nevertheless.” After
all, the Snapchat generation may produce more writing
than any group of teenagers before it, writing copious
text messages and social media posts, but when it comes
to the formal writing expected at school and work, they
The Common Core has provided a much-needed “wake-
up call” on the importance of rigorous writing, said Lucy
M. Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing
Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, a lead-
cy strategies. But policy makers “blew it in the implemen-
tation,” she said. “We need massive teacher education.”  leen Sokolowski, the Long Island program’s co-director
One of the largest efforts is the National Writing Proj-
ect, whose nearly 200 branches train more than 100,000
teachers each summer. The organization was founded in
1974, at the height of the process-oriented era.
As part of its program at Nassau Community College,
in a classroom not far from the one where the teenagers
were working on their college essays, a group of teachers
— of fifth grade and high school, of English, social stud-
ies and science — were honing their own writing skills.
They took turns reading out loud the freewriting they had
just done in response to “The Lanyard,” a poem by Billy
Collins. The poem, which is funny and sad, addresses the
futility of trying to repay one’s mother for her love:
Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.
Most of the teachers’ responses pivoted quickly from
praising the poem to memories of their own mothers,
working several jobs to make ends meet, or selflessly
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caring for grandchildren. It wasn’t sophisticated literary
criticism, but that wasn’t the point. A major goal of this
workshop — the teacher-training component of the Long
Island Writing Project — was to get teachers writing and
revising their own work over the summer so that in the
fall they would be more enthusiastic and comfortable
teaching the subject to children.
“I went to Catholic school and we did grammar work-
books and circled the subject and predicate,” said Kath-
and a third-grade teacher. She found it stultifying and
believes she developed her writing skill in spite of such
lessons, not because of them.
Sometimes, she said, she will reinforce grammar by
asking students to copy down a sentence from a favor-
ite book and then discuss how the author uses a tool like
commas. But in general, when it comes to assessing stu-
dent work, she said, “I had to teach myself to look beyond
‘There’s no capital, there’s no period’ to say, ‘By God, you
wrote a gorgeous sentence.’ ”
Mrs. Sokolowski is right that formal grammar instruc-
tion, like identifying parts of speech, doesn’t work well.
In fact, research finds that students exposed to a glut of
such instruction perform worse on writing assessments.
A musical notion of writing — the hope that the ear can
be trained to “hear” errors and imitate quality prose —
has developed as a popular alternative among English
teachers. But what about those students, typically low
income, with few books at home, who struggle to move
from reading a gorgeous sentence to knowing how to
write one? Could there be a better, less soul-crushing way
to enforce the basics?
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 I
N her teacher training sessions, Dr. Hochman
of the Writing Revolution shows a slide of a cute
little girl, lying contentedly on her stomach as
she scrawls on a piece of composition paper. It’s
the type of stock photograph that has probably
appeared in a hundred educators’ PowerPoint presen-
tations, meant to evoke a warm and relaxed learning
environment, perhaps in one of the cozy writing nooks
favored by the process-oriented writing gurus.
“This is not good writing posture!” Dr. Hochman ex-
claimed. Small children should write at desks, she be-
lieves. And while she isn’t arguing for a
return to the grammar lessons of yes-
teryear — she knows sentence diagram-
ming leaves most students confused and
disengaged — she does believe that chil-
dren should spend time filling out work-
sheets with exercises like the one below,
which demonstrates how simple con-
junctions like “but,” “because” and “so”
add complexity to a thought. Students
are given the root clause, and must com-
plete the sentence with a new clause fol-
lowing each conjunction:
Fractions are like decimals because
they are all parts of wholes.
Fractions are like decimals, but
they are written differently.
Fractions are like decimals, so they
can be used interchangeably.
Along the way, students are learning
to recall meaningful content from math,
social studies, science and literature.
By middle school, teachers should be
crafting essay questions that prompt so-
phisticated writing; not “What were the
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES events leading up to the Civil War?” —
which could result in a list — but “Trace
NOT THE BASICS In a Long the events leading up to the Civil War,” which requires a
Island Writing Project historical narrative of cause and effect.
workshop, Lyse Armand “Freewriting, hoping that children will learn or gain
analyzes essays and a love of writing, hasn’t worked,” Dr. Hochman told the
teachers, many of whom work in low-income neighbor-
literature to find her own hoods. She doesn’t believe that children learn to write
voice. The project stresses well through plumbing their own experiences in a jour-
freewriting and revision. nal, and she applauds the fact that the Common Core
asks students to do more writing about what they’ve
read, and less about their own lives.
“I call it a move away from child-centered writing,” she
said approvingly, and away from what she considers fac-
ile assignments, like writing a poem “about a particular
something they may have observed 10 minutes ago out
of the window.”
“I don’t mean to be dismissive,” she continued, “but ev-
ery instructional minute has its purpose.”
Her training session lacks the fun and interactivity of
the Long Island Writing Project, because it is less about
prompting teachers to write and chat with colleagues
and more about the sometimes dry work of preparing
worksheets and writing assignments that reinforce ba-
sic concepts. Nevertheless, many teachers who learn Dr.
Hochman’s strategies become devotees.
Molly Cudahy, who teaches fifth-grade special educa-
tion at the Truesdell Education Campus, a public school
in Washington, D.C., said she appreciates Dr. Hochman’s
explicit and technical approach. She thought it would
free her students’ voices, not constrain them. At her
school, 100 percent of students come from low-income
families. “When we try to do creative and journal writ-
ing,” she said, “students don’t have the tools to put their
ideas on paper.”
There is a notable shortage of high-quality research
on the teaching of writing, but studies that do exist point
toward a few concrete strategies that help students per-
form better on writing tests. First, children need to learn
how to transcribe both by hand and through typing on a
computer. Teachers report that many students who can
produce reams of text on their cellphones are unable to
work effectively at a laptop, desktop or even in a paper
notebook because they’ve become so anchored to the
small mobile screen. Quick communication on a smart-
phone almost requires writers to eschew rules of gram-
mar and punctuation, exactly the opposite of what is
wanted on the page.
Before writing paragraphs — which is often now part
of the kindergarten curriculum — children do need to
practice writing great sentences. At every level, stu-
dents benefit from clear feedback on their writing, and
from seeing and trying to imitate what successful writing
looks like, the so-called text models. Some of the touchy-
feel stuff matters, too. Students with higher confidence in
their writing ability perform better.
All of this points toward a synthesis of the two ap-
proaches. In classrooms where practices like freewriting
are used without any focus on transcription or punctua-
tion, “the students who struggled didn’t make any prog-
ress,” Dr. Troia, the Michigan State professor, said. But
when grammar instruction is divorced from the writing
process and from rich ideas in literature or science, it be-
comes “superficial,” he warned.
Considering the lack of adequate teacher training,
Lyse may be among a minority of students exposed to
explicit instruction about writing.
In Ms. Wanzer’s workshop, Lyse and her classmates
went on to analyze real students’ college essays to de-
termine their strengths and weaknesses. They also read
“Where I’m From,” a poem by George Ella Lyon, and
used it as a text model for their work. Lyse drafted her
own version of “Where I’m From,” which helped her re-
call details from her childhood in Haiti.
Lyse wrote: “I am from the rusty little tin roof house,
from washing by hand and line drying.” It was a gor-
geous sentence, and she was well on her way to a moving
college application essay. 

Steve Graham, a professor at

Arizona State University’s Teachers
College, has been researching how
young people learn to write for
more than 30 years. He is a co-au-
thor of numerous books on writing
instruction, including “Powerful
Writing Strategies for All Students.”
He talked with Dana Goldstein
about nurturing good writers.
How does reading at home help
children become better writers?
Reading is really critical, but it’s
not enough. We don’t have much
evidence that if you just read more,
you’ll be a better writer. But ana-
lyzing text does make a difference.
So when we read to kids, we can
also have conversations with them
What Parents Should Know
about the author’s craft. How did — and parents are guilty of this,
this author make this place seem too — sometimes overwhelm kids
real in terms of description? What with more feedback than they can
words did they use? How did they absorb all at once. The other thing
present this idea or this argument? that’s really important, particularly
for parents, is to remember that
Should a parent correct a child’s they don’t own this piece. It’s their
writing, or just be encouraging? child’s. Asking questions, instead of
Sometimes when kids come to saying “Do this,” can be a more ef-
you to share what they’re writing, fective approach. It gives the child
they’re not coming for feedback. the opportunity to make decisions
They are coming for affirmation. about the text.
It’s really important we emphasize
first and foremost what we really Is social media hurting children’s
like about it. And if you’re going writing at school?
to give feedback, just pick one I don’t think so. Kids are con-
or two things. English teachers stantly creating text when they are
at home. They tweet, they text,
they Facebook. Each of those
has its own rules, and one of the
advantages is that students learn
that you write in different registers
in different situations. We can use
that to our advantage, working with
kids on how we’d put that writing in
a more formal situation. Changing
register is a skill kids need to learn.
What should parents look for to
assess the writing instruction at
their child’s school?
After about third grade, very little
time is devoted to explicit writing
instruction. It’s like we’ve imagined
that kids have acquired what they
need to know to be good writers by
then! In middle and high school, the
most common activities are fill-in-
the-blanks on worksheets, writing
single sentences, making lists or
writing a paragraph summary. When
you start talking about persuasive
essays or an informative paper,
those things occur infrequently in
English class and even less so in
social studies and science.
So the first questions are: “Is my
kid writing at school, and was he
given writing assignments to work
on at home? Do those require writ-
ing more extended thoughts for the
purposes of analysis and interpre-
tation?” That’s what they need to
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TEACHER’S NOTEBOOK COMPOSITION

Conquering the Admissions Essay

you up at night. That might be cars, or coffee. It might be
BY RACHEL TOOR your favorite book or the Pythagorean theorem. It might
be why you don’t believe in evolution or how you think

Your goal: to make someone
fall in love with you
(or at least your writing).
GETTING PERSONAL
Estela Laureano, at a
Long Island Writing Project
workshop, honing her
college-essay writing skills.
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES er. Write about whatever keeps
P
ICTURE this before you plop yourself down
in front of your computer to compose your
college application essay: A winter-lit room
is crammed with admissions professionals
and harried faculty members who sit around
a big table covered with files. The admissions people, of-
ten young and underpaid, buzz with enthusiasm; the pro-
fessors frequently pause to take off their glasses and rub
their eyes.
These exhausted folks, hopped up from eating too
many cookies and brownies, have been sitting in commit-
tee meetings for days after spending a couple of months
reading applications, most of which look pretty similar:
baseball = life, or debate = life, or “I went to a developing
country and discovered poor people can be happy.”
They wade through long lists of candidates, state by
state, region by region. The best applications and the
weakest don’t come to committee. It’s the gigantic stack
in the middle that warrants discussion.
The truth is, most essays are
typical. Many are boring. Some
are just plain bad. But occasion-
ally one will make an admissions
officer tear down the hallway to
find a colleague to whom she can
say, “You have to read what this
Math Olympiad girl said about
‘Hamlet.’ ” Your goal is to write
an essay that makes someone
fall in love with you.
Once you commit the time and
emotional energy to get your
butt in the chair to write, you
face a daunting task — figuring
out what to write about. If you’re
stuck, you’re in good company.
With so much freedom, this is a
challenge for most students.
Here’s a tip: Choose a topic
you really want to write about.
If the subject doesn’t matter to
you, it won’t matter to the read-
kale must have hired a PR firm to get people to eat it.
A good topic will be complex. In school, you were prob-
ably encouraged to write papers that took a side. That’s
fine in academic work when you’re being asked to argue
in support of a position, but in a personal essay, you want
to express more nuanced thinking and explore your own
clashing emotions. In an essay, conflict is good.
For example, “I love my mom. She’s my best friend. We
share clothes and watch ‘The Real Housewives’ of three
different cities together” does not make for a good essay.
“I love my mom even though she makes me clean my
room, hates my guinea pig and is crazy about disgusting
food like kale” could lead somewhere
While the personal essay has to be personal, a reader
can learn a lot about you from whatever you choose to fo-
cus on and how you describe it. One of my favorites from
when I worked in admissions at Duke University started
out, “My car and I are a lot alike.” The writer then de-
scribed a car that smelled like wet dog and went from 0 to
60 in, well, it never quite got to 60.
Another guy wrote about making kimchi with his mom.
They would go into the garage and talk, really talk: “Once
my mom said to me in a thick Korean accent, ‘Every time
you have sex, I want you to make sure and use a condo.’
I instantly burst into laughter and said, ‘Mom, that could
get kind of expensive!’ ” A girl wrote about her feminist
mother’s decision to get breast implants.
A car, kimchi, Mom’s upsizing — the writers used these
objects as vehicles to get at what they had come to say.
They allowed the writer to explore the real subject: This
is who I am.
Don’t brag about your achievements. Instead, look at
times you’ve struggled or, even better, failed. Failure is es-
sayistic gold. Figure out what you’ve learned. Write about
that. Be honest and say the hardest things you can. And
remember those exhausted admissions officers sitting
around a table in the winter. Jolt them out of their sugar
coma and give them something to be excited about. 
Rachel Toor is a creative writing professor at Eastern
Washington University in Spokane. This essay is adapted
from her new book, “Write Your Way In: Crafting an Un-
forgettable College Admissions Essay.”

REPEATING THE PROMPT
Admissions officers know what’s on
their applications. Don’t begin, “A
time that I failed was when I tried
to beat up my little brother and I
realized he was bigger than me.”
You can start right in: “As I pulled
my arm back to throw a punch, it
struck me: My brother had gotten
big. Bigger than me.”
LEAVE WEBSTER’S OUT OF IT
Unless you’re using a word like
“prink” (primp) or “demotic”
(popular) or “couloir” (deep gorge),
you can assume your reader
knows the definition of the words
you’ve written. You’re better off not
starting your essay with “According
to Webster’s Dictionary . . . .”
What Students Should Avoid
THE EPIGRAPH Many essays start SOUND EFFECTS Ouch! Thwack!
with a quote from another writer. Whiz! Whooooosh! Pow! Are you
When you have a limited amount thinking of comic books? Certainly,
of space, you don’t want to give good writing can benefit from a
precious real estate to someone little onomatopoeia. Clunk is a
else’s words. good one. Or fizz. But once you
start adding exclamation points,
YOU ARE THERE! When writing
about past events, the present you’re wading into troubled waters.
tense doesn’t allow for reflection. Do not start your essay with a
All you can do is tell the story. This bang!
happens, then this happens, then ACTIVE BODY PARTS One way to
this happens. Some beginning make your reader giggle is to give
writers think the present tense body parts their own agency. When
makes for more exciting reading. you write a line like “His hands
You’ll see this is a fallacy if you pay threw up,” the reader might get a
attention to how many suspenseful visual image of hands barfing. “My
novels are written in past tense. eyes fell to the floor.” Ick.
CLICHÉS THINK YOUR
THOUGHTS FOR YOU Here’s one:
There is nothing new under the
sun. We steal phrases and ideas all
the time. George Orwell’s advice:
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or
other figure of speech which you
are used to seeing in print.”
TO BE OR NOT TO BE Get rid of
“to be” verbs. Replace “was” in “The
essay was written by a student; it
was amazing and delightful” and
you’ll get: “The student’s essay
amazed and delighted me.” We’ve
moved from a static description to
a sprightlier one and cut the word
count almost in half.
WORD PACKAGES Some phrases
— free gift, personal beliefs, final
outcome, very unique — come
in a package we don’t bother to
unpack. They’re redundant.
RULES TO IGNORE In English
class, you may have to follow a
list of rules your teacher says are
necessary for good grammar: Don’t
use contractions. No sentence
fragments. It’s imperative to always
avoid split infinitives. Ending on a
preposition is the sort of English up
with which teachers will not put.
And don’t begin a sentence with a
conjunction like “and” or “but” or
“because.” Pick up a good book.
You’ll see that the best authors
ignore these fussy, fusty rules. 

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 ONSTAGE Students rehearse a
piece by Peter London, a mem-
ber of the dance faculty
at New World School of the
Arts in Miami.
BY LIZETTE ALVAREZ
W
HEN Bre-Yanna Cameron
was in middle school, sing-
ing and acting meant one
thing to her: escape. Per-
forming was the only time
she felt liberated — no bullies, no fights, no
peer pressure, no doubts.
A dedicated drama teacher saw in Ms.
Cameron’s clear, soulful voice a lifeline out of
the inner city and encouraged her to apply to
New World School of the Arts, a small, rigor-
ous magnet high school in Miami that draws
a diverse group of talented actors, musicians,
dancers and visual artists. Auditions (or
portfolios) are the only way into the school —
grades and attendance are irrelevant.
With lots of coaching and confidence
boosting from her teacher, Ms. Cameron beat
out hundreds of students for one of 16 spots
in the musical theater program. Now, after
juggling daily 90-minute bus commutes,
study sessions interrupted by stress-induced
crying jags and whirlwind school rehearsals,
most recently as Ursula in “Bye Bye Birdie,”
Ms. Cameron is headed for Florida State Uni-
versity on a full scholarship with a 3.7 grade-
point average. She plans to major in pharma-
cy, or maybe switch to a B.F.A. program in
musical theater.
“I’m the first to go to university, and my
mother tells everyone she sees,” she said,
smiling one recent afternoon as she head-
ed off to watch the senior dance group’s
Lizette Alvarez is a correspondent for The
Times in Miami.
12 Sunday, August 6, 2017
Giving
showcase. Without New World, she said, “it interest, be it science and technology or the
wouldn’t have happened. I wouldn’t have had arts, from both high-performing and under-
the grades I have. I wouldn’t have been in performing schools.
theater but in band. And my friends in my old Most of the schools accept large numbers
school were not a good influence in my life.” of minority and low-income students. Of New
Performing and visual arts high schools World’s approximately 500 students, about
like New World inspire a fierce devotion 60 percent are Hispanic and 13 percent black,
A Ch
among students and graduates. It is no generally reflecting the makeup of Miami.
wonder. Many serve as springboards to Thirty-six percent are poor enough for free
the professional world. Just as important, or reduced-price lunch.
graduation and college attendance rates are The list of success stories is long.
typically high (100 and 96 percent for New Tarell Alvin McCraney grew up in one of
World), particularly impressive considering Miami’s toughest neighborhoods, Liberty
the schools’ urban setting. The best of these City, and lost his mother to AIDS-related
schools offer a conservatory-style training complications. A 1999 New World graduate,
ground that helps budding artists win ad- he went on to receive a MacArthur “genius” Public schools where color, s
mission to an undergraduate arts program grant and share a screenwriting Oscar for
— training that is expensive, requiring a cad- “Moonlight,” the best picture winner based are beside the point.
re of specialized teachers and money for stu-
dent performances.
Funding remains a perpetual battle, espe-
cially in a climate of cutbacks: The Trump
administration has proposed significant cuts
in specialized arts programs that could affect
state and district funding. This year, New
World, which opened in 1987, was bracing for
no state funding — until alumni fury on social
media pressured the legislature to reverse it-
self and allocate $500,000, a 23 percent drop
from last year.
Though Democrats and Republicans are
at sharp odds over the direction, funding and
effectiveness of public education and school
choice, schools of the arts often bridge the
partisan divide.
Many of them are magnet schools, which
grew out of a hard-fought battle: deseg-
regation. The hope was that by removing
geographic barriers to admission, magnet
schools would attract students with a special

g Talent
on his semi-autobiographical play.
Robert Battle grew up in the same neigh-
borhood. A graduate of New World in 1990
and then the Juilliard School, he is the artistic
director for the Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater.
Alex Lacamoire, a 1992 New World grad-
hance
uate, is a two-time Grammy and three-time
Tony winner (for orchestration for “In the
Heights,” “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Han-
son”). His father was partially paralyzed by
an aneurysm; to pay the bills, his mother had
to work odd jobs, including at a grocery store
and funeral parlor. But his parents’ devotion
to his talent was boundless.
sexual identity and ZIP code Other arts schools advertise their own
heady roster of graduates. Fiorello H.
. But not academics. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
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Performing Arts in New York, setting for the
1980 film “Fame,” counts Jennifer Aniston,
Isaac Mizrahi and Al Pacino as alumni. The
Baltimore School for the Arts boasts Jada
Pinkett Smith and Tupac Shakur. Norah Jones
and Erykah Badu went to Booker T. Washing-
ton High School for the Performing and Visu-
al Arts in Dallas.
Graduates remember school days filled
with impromptu singing in stairwells, drum-
ming on tables and pirouetting down hall-
ways. Looking back, they point to one crucial
ingredient, beyond intensive, daily training:
talent. That was the common denominator —
skin tone, sexual identity and ZIP code were
often beside the point. “If you are surround-
ed by people who are excelling and pushing
themselves to be great, that is infectious,”
said Mr. Lacamoire, a Cuban-American.
The schools function largely as meritocra-
cies; an admission policy based on auditions
offers a nontraditional path for those whose
talents lay outside chemistry, math and En-
glish, and helps even the playing field for stu-
dents from low-income neighborhoods.
Evonne S. Alvarez, New World’s principal,
said students from this year’s graduating
class of 114 received multiple scholarship of-
fers adding up to $36 million. They were ad-
mitted to numerous Ivies (two are Harvard
bound), the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, Stanford and top-tier conservatories
at Juilliard and Carnegie Mellon. About half
will pursue the arts in college, be it theater,
dance, music or visual arts, Ms. Alvarez said.
New World students can also slide right
into its college program, administered with
its partners, Miami Dade College and the
University of Florida, although only a hand-
ful take this path.
OFFSTAGE Tributes to alumni, be-
low, line the halls of New World,
where art students, bottom left,
work on self-portraits and musi-
cal theater students practice.
I
NSIDE New World classes, energy
and focus are infectious. In one room,
juniors rehearse harmonies at the
piano, again and again. A few rooms
away, sophomores sit on the floor and
listen to classmates taking turns doing scenes
from “Romeo and Juliet.” Art students paint
complicated experimental self-portraits. At
wood shop, students build a set for “Anon(y-
mous),” a play about a young refugee. And in
dance, they leap and spin as they rehearse
their spring recital.
“To the front,” said their teacher, Peter
London. “Get in the air. Stay together. Stay
together.” They gather in a line, tumble to the
ground and rise up again.
After school lets out, students spend hours
rehearsing or working backstage. They write
plays. They plan for art exhibits. When they
finally get home, sometimes late at night,
they turn their attention once again to aca-
demics, a grueling schedule for even the most
adept student.
Because grades are not a factor in admis-
sion, students from underperforming schools
often arrive unprepared, Ms. Alvarez said.
They must maintain a C average academical-
ly and a B average in arts. It helps that class-
es are small and students have close relation-
ships with their teachers, tutors and mentors.
Teachers, mindful of long rehearsals and per-
formances, will sometimes juggle tests and
papers to accommodate their schedules.
“It was so stressful,” acknowledged Ms.
Cameron, who woke at 5:30 a.m. to take the
bus to school and, during busy rehearsal or
performance weeks, sometimes stayed up
until 4 a.m. doing homework. “I cried over so
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EDUCATION LIFE 13
HOW THEY GOT THERE THE ARTS
Star Pupils
Three graduates of New World School of the Arts share advice
for students interested in pursuing a dream.
INTERVIEWS BY LIZETTE ALVAREZ
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ALEX LACAMOIRE has won two
Grammys and three Tonys for
his orchestration on “Hamilton,”
“In the Heights” and “Dear Evan
Hanson.” He attended Berklee
College of Music after New
World.
Q The arts is one of the few fields
where college is not altogether
necessary. Is a Bachelor of Fine Arts
the right move?
Lacamoire The pros of college are
that you need experience being away
from home, growing up and becom-
ing an adult. But if you have what it
takes and there is an amazing oppor-
tunity — let’s say you get offered the
national tour of “Wicked” — take it.
De Pablo There are many roads to
achieve success. I have worked with
tremendous actors who work with
no training and with some who have
gotten the most incredible training.
But I don’t think I would have gotten
into a place like Carnegie Mellon
if my talents had not been guided
by these teachers at New World
and certainly by the students I was
surrounded by.
McCraney If going to college is
important to the artist, then it’s im-
portant. But if not, then not.
Q ater
Getting into a good college the-
or music program is painful-
ly competitive. Some take only 12 to 16
students, based largely on auditions.
What advice do you offer?
De Pablo It’s a muscle. The more
you do it, the more comfortable you
get. In the professional world, hope-
fully you are auditioning every day.
The big advice is when you audition,
especially if you have time, try to get
the material memorized. Get your
eyes off the page. Try to connect.
14 Sunday, August 6, 2017
CLIFF LIPSON/CBS
COTE DE PABLO is best known for
her role as Ziva David on the
hit television series “NCIS.”
She attended Carnegie Mellon
School of Drama.
One teacher said to me, “When you
leave yourself alone, you can be
absolutely compelling.” Get out of
your own way.
McCraney I auditioned for New
World three times. I didn’t get in
until the last, and even then it was
through a waiting list. The first audi-
tion, I was nervous and unprepared.
The piece I had had no relevance
to my life at all. It was Christopher
Durang’s “Baby With the Bathwa-
ter.” I found it in a monologue book.
I started to write my own pieces
then. Even then, I knew work was
not made for gay, poor, dark-skin
teenagers.
Q Were your parents supportive of
your desire to pursue the arts, a
profession where jobs are scarce?
McCraney Most of the time — not
about dancing but acting and writ-
ing, yes.
De Pablo My parents came from a
comfortable reality in South America
and they thought every reality was
going to be a comfortable one. You
want to go to this school — fantastic.
They were incredibly kind, but a
little ignorance is bliss, too.
Lacamoire They were extremely
supportive. My mom especially
would listen to the teachers, who
would say your son is special, your
son is doing things that other people
can’t. She never said to me, study
dentistry instead. Somewhere in
there she was concerned and wanted
KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES
TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY, who
went on to DePaul University
and Yale School of Drama,
shared an Oscar for best adapted
screenplay for “Moonlight.”
He began a new job in July as
chairman of Yale’s department of
playwriting.
to make sure I had a backup. She
never really pushed it on me. In high
school my mom would drive me to all
my gigs because I couldn’t drive.
Q alAsworld,
students enter the profession-
what are the challenges
and how do you overcome them?
Lacamoire You are in the busi-
ness because you have to be in the
business, because there is a need
to perform, communicate, express
yourself. It’s such a hard road. There
is so much rejection. The means are
meager. You have to share a plate of
spaghetti with someone because you
can’t afford it yourself. You continue
on because there is nothing else you
want to be doing. You have to have
that drive. You are allowed to get to
a point where you get exhausted and
you can’t anymore. If you get to that
point and there is rejection, if there is
still nothing else you would want to
be doing, you keep going. But
you have to figure out what are you
not doing to get gigs. Are you not
strong enough at jazz? Get a jazz
teacher. Are you not good at reading
music? Once you stop learning, you
are dead.
McCraney “The only thing new you
bring to the art is you” — Alvin Ailey.
Know yourself, your true desires,
your limitations, and your capacity
for change. 
Interviews are edited and condensed.
Giving Talent a Chance
Continued From Page 13
many assignments.”
But instead of letting poor grades defeat her, Ms.
Cameron pushed harder. She attended long study ses-
sions with classmates. Losing a coveted spot at the
school was not an outcome she was willing to risk.
Traditional public schools often don’t tap into stu-
dents’ passion and motivation to succeed, whether
arts or specific subjects, said Chris Ford, director of
the Baltimore School for the Arts, a public school that
opened in 1980. At his school, which is 47 percent Af-
rican-American, 50 percent of ninth graders arrive at
below grade level, he said. By the end of senior year,
97 to 100 percent graduate on time and are college
bound. This year’s 90 graduates were offered a total
of $14 million in scholarships, and many are headed
to top-tier colleges, including Juilliard, University of
Chicago, Vassar, Middlebury and the Royal Academy
of Music in London.
“That is not what you expect in an urban public
school,” he said. “Our students do that because our
school connects with their future.”
Linda F. Nathan, the founding headmaster of Bos-
ton Arts Academy and author of books on urban
education, said something else is at play and it is
important. Underprivileged students are studying,
rehearsing, dancing, painting and having lunch with
middle-class or wealthy ones; each group learns from
the other. Boston Arts Academy, a pilot school man-
dated to try new and different approaches to improve
learning for at-risk students, is more than two-thirds
low income, and most students are black or Hispanic.
“But the fact that you have one-third of the school
that is not high-needs changes everything,” Ms. Na-
than said. “Rising tides lift all boats.”
Of this year’s graduates, 92 percent are bound for
a two- or four-year college — Bunker Hill Communi-
ty College, University of Hartford and University of
Massachusetts among them. Because of insufficient
financial aid offers, some won’t be attending their
first-choice college — one student had to pass on
Berklee College of Music.
Mr. McCraney said he went to New World with
the children of the Bee Gees and the Cuban-Ameri-
can musician Willy Chirino. That window into how
others live and work was eye-opening and helped
him embrace the importance of his own Liberty City
narrative. “I had classmates whose parents sent driv-
ers to pick them up,” Mr. McCraney said. “I also had
classmates who were sleeping at their ‘drag mother’s’
house for protection from their biological family. I
knew what it was to struggle to eat, or to worry about
clothes — not designer, just whether you had any. But
there were many teachers and my classmates who
helped me realize that my story was as important as
everyone else’s. It took me a minute — but I did.”
Another lesson: The arts command a tremendous
amount of teamwork and discipline, skills that would
serve in any profession. Students learn to accept and
apply a constant stream of constructive criticism. En-
ter a ballet class and teachers are forever tweaking
and adjusting students’ bodies. In theater, students
hear feedback on line delivery and character inter-
pretation. “Try again” is everyday vocabulary, and
that is one of life’s most important lessons.
“Critique is the key in anything,” Ms. Nathan said.
“You learn how to do something very hard: You learn
to take criticism.” 
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POP QUIZ AMERICAN HISTORY

Students’ ‘Hamilton’ Hip-Hop: Fill in the Rap

You can draw a direct line from the founding fathers to issues and concerns of today in these verses. In a curriculum created by the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, students study how Lin-Manuel Miranda used primary source documents to write raps for
his Broadway show on Alexander Hamilton. They then choose a founding-era person or event on which to base their own creation. One
presentation from each participating school gets stage time before students attend a performance of the show. As the “Hamilton” national tour
expands (next opening: Los Angeles on Aug. 11), so does the curriculum. The institute, which has been integrating history into classrooms for
more than 20 years, expects its Hamilton Education Program to reach 250,000 public school students across the country.
We created this issue’s Pop Quiz by excerpting snippets of student presentations and dropping out the key word(s). Fill in the blanks.

1. It was the year 1750 and I had escaped
from slavery
No cloak on my back
No home to relax
Just pursuit from my master like a
panic attack
They put out an ad that rewarded my
capture
Land of the free?
More like land of disaster
My name’s __________,
The first death of the Boston Massacre.
Jose Avalus, Nicholas Jaochico and
Jeremiah Juzix (pictured, from left),
Mount Eden High School, Hayward, Calif.
2. My children, fortunate enough to have
three,
All died from disease
My husband has been taken away
from me
But still I rise
I am __________, the first of many
African writers to grace the pages
with my ink
Broken down barriers, stereotypes,
discrimination and accomplishments
“Remember, Christians, Negroes,
black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic
train.” Alyssa Martinez,
Renaissance High School for Musical
Theater and Technology, the Bronx
2.
6. Coming home from the war and in
1. need of some whiskey
Then I got some news that really
upset me
A __________ on liquor? What were
they thinking?
Cause now I’m mad and I wanna start
drinking. Osariemen Uwaifo
and Christopher Zaragoza,
Broome Street Academy, New York
7. I learn about presidents when I’m in
school.
__________ was president No. 2.
Graduated from Harvard Law School.
Did one term he couldn’t do two.
Amir Ferguson, Jerimiah Williams
and Se’von Young (from left),
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, VIA VIMEO Urban Prep Academies for Young Men,
West Campus, Chicago
3. It was a harsh winter 4. I am on the $1 bill
When we settled at __________. I am on the quarter.
7.
The air was crisp, the ground I once said “__________ may be taken
covered with snow. away, and dumb and silent we may
My troops, suffering. be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
Was this a test for us? Tyreek Brown and Ralik McPherson,
Or was this the end? High School for Civil Rights, Brooklyn
12,000 men,
Many lacking 5. WASHINGTON: All right, I call this
shoes, __________ to session.
clothes, 3. We need to quickly make some new
blankets and law to cure this tension.
food. Shays’ Rebellion made Boston spend a
12,000 men few too many dollars,
Fighting diseases So if anyone’s got anything better, let
and hunger. me hear you holla!
12,000 men MADISON: Your honor, I have a
In need of way to end these shenanigans.
salvation. Named the __________, by yours truly,
Congress, James Madison.
please Two Houses, combined with represen-
Help our poor tation by population,
souls For the fate of our nation, I think it’s
survive the a great foundation.
cold winter HAMILTON: Hold it right there! 8. You were new to the country,
And fight for our Giving only big states all the power? an immigrant don’t you see.
freedom. I think you need to reconsider your life I took you in as a friend,
12,000 men in the shower! Long Tran, then you went and betrayed me.
continued to Kevin Do and Aaron Tran (from left), How dare you choose Thomas
train KIPP San Jose Collegiate (Calif.) Jefferson over me!
for battle, Don’t worry this can all be settled.
Just take back your words,
The promise of liberty 5.
keeping us alive. and then we can go back to being
the old Hamilton and __________.
It was a harsh winter
Janea Herbert and Mina Bunch,
down by __________,
Thornton High School, Mount Vernon, N.Y.
A frozen hell.
But a small price to pay
for freedom.
Cassandra Gatica, Answers are on Page 24.
Thurgood Marshall High School, Watch video of full performances at
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 Intellectually Challenged,
And in College
Work-readiness programs are preparing students with developmental disabilities for their dream jobs — ones that
don’t involve stocking shelves or handing out fliers. Less than half will find them.

BY KYLE SPENCER

H
ALF a dozen students, some in Syracuse
University T-shirts, sat around a confer-
ence table joking about appropriate job in-
terview outfits. No bathing suits, pajamas
or Halloween costumes. Added their in-
structor, not joking: “No tank tops.”
Then Brianna Shults, leading the workshop with a
kindhearted but no-nonsense approach, launched into
the Q. and A. section. “So if I identify my interview outfit,
should I wear it to bed the night before so I’m all dressed
and ready?”
“No!” the group responded in unison.
“And before you put your clothes on, what’s the most
important step?”
“Shower!” a few called out.
Ms. Shults, an internship and employment coordina-
tor, closed the conversation with a sartorial tip that ex-
perience has taught her needs mentioning: “No dirty
clothes!”
Why not? Meghan Muscatello piped in: “Because then
you’d be smelly.” The room erupted in laughter. “And if
you have a cat or a dog, make sure you leave it hanging
so they don’t get it all hairy.”
This might sound like a typical lesson in the age of
anything-goes office wear, but these millennials aren’t
so typical. Ms. Muscatello and her peers belong to a pi-
oneering group of students with significant intellectual
disabilities who are enrolled in Syracuse’s InclusiveU.
The students — about 60 are expected this fall — have
various degrees of disability, often with related develop- HEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

mental disorders. One communicates through a picture
board and an iPad; a helper supports her arm as she taps
out words. Another, a movie buff who wrote a play for his
theater class, has Asperger’s syndrome. A sports enthu-
siast who interned this past spring with the Syracuse Or-
ange men’s basketball team has Down syndrome.
During the first three years, the students choose “ma-
jors” and audit five to six college classes that align with
their interests. They complete homework and take tests,
ungraded, with the help of note takers, who are supplied
by the university to sit with them in class. Popular ma-
jors: disability studies, sport management and food stud-
ies. Favorite classes: first aid, “Animals and Society” and
“Peoples and Cultures of the World.” The students also
take a spattering of electives, like hip-hop dance, jewel-
ry-making and photography. For their fourth year, they
intern on campus. All the while, they attend workshops
— on email etiquette, workplace chitchat and résumé
writing — and spend time with student volunteers at
trampoline parks, basketball games and pizza parlors.
The goal: to become employable.
Fifty years ago, young people with intellectual disabil-
ities were often institutionalized or kept home, out of the
public eye. Thanks to the 1975 Individuals With Disabili-
ties Act, more than 90 percent of them now go to public
schools with mainstream students.
Kyle Spencer writes frequently for The Times on education.
INTERNING Meghan Muscatello working with files at a campus office, guided by Kimberly Lantry, rear.
And that, experts say, has altered expectations around
what they ought to achieve.
Brian Skotko, the co-director of the Down syndrome
program at Massachusetts General Hospital, sees 250
patients with the condition a year. He makes this obser-
vation: “Parents with newborn babies now want to know,
‘What are the possibilities for school? What are the col-
lege and independent living opportunities?’ ”
The hope for their children is that they can learn to
shoulder jobs and live quality lives.
Today, there are some 265 work-readiness college pro-
grams for students like the ones at InclusiveU, according
to Think College, a federally funded coordinating center
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. That’s a big
leap from 2004, when there were just 25. Unlike pro-
grams for high-functioning students on the autism spec-
trum, these award certificates, not degrees.
What the students want upon graduation are good
jobs, not short-term gigs restocking shelves or handing
out fliers on street corners but employment that relates
to their interests and plays to their strengths. Therapists,
economists and philosophers have long equated happy,
fulfilling lives with meaningful work, no matter one’s in-
tellectual ability.
Some research indicates that college helps. A 2015 sur-
vey by Think College of some 900 intellectually disabled
students found that those who spent most of their time
in traditional classes, soaking up campus culture and
fine-tuning their social skills, had better job rates than
those who spent most of their time in specialized classes.
The length of time a student spent in a program also in-
creased their chances of employment.
But the same survey found that only 40 percent of stu-
dents exiting programs in 2015 were in paid jobs within
90 days of leaving. That’s a lot better than the 7 percent
employment rate for similarly disabled adults within the
general population, as reported in a 2011 study. But it’s
still a dispiriting number.
Syracuse University, which has offered a loosely mon-
itored class-auditing program since 2009, has struggled
to get its students paid positions. It has not tracked em-
ployment, but informal interviews with 30 certificate re-
cipients indicated that only about a third were employed
for at least two days a week this past spring, making at
least a minimum wage. One graduate had landed a posi-
tion in the campus parking permit office after an intern-
ship there. Not so lucky was a 2012 graduate who got a
job wearing a billboard sign outside a pizza chain. He
promptly quit. Another did volunteer work checking pa-
tients in at a hospice.
To improve outcomes, the university overhauled the
program in 2014, rebranding it as InclusiveU. And with a

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$2 million federal grant, Ms. Shults was hired to de-
sign the internship year and workshop curriculum,
which replaced a fourth year that had been purely
academic. The first class will graduate in 2019, but
already Cate Weir, Think College’s program direc-
tor, cites InclusiveU as a model.
Syracuse has a longstanding reputation for
commitment to disability advocacy, starting in
1946 when it opened a special education research
department and began attracting top talent in
the field. In recent years, the university has done
high-profile work in communication methods for
individuals with disabilities, and now has 10 disabil-
ity-related centers. One is the Lawrence B. Taishoff
Center for Inclusive Higher Education, which hous-
es InclusiveU.
Beth A. Myers, the director of the Taishoff Cen-
ter, said that students in the newly revised program
begin brainstorming their career plans when they
arrive as freshmen, and are guided to think deep-
ly about their interests, their strengths and their
weaknesses.
The challenge is striking an honest balance be-
tween being too optimistic and not stretching them
enough. “Low expectations is a serious issue with
this population,” said Bud Buckhout, who oversees
the program. “But you don’t want to overwhelm
people, either.”
For some, striking that balance has led to disappoint-
ment. Bob Pangborn, a 22-year-old dramaturge with au-
tism, spent his teens performing in community theater.
At Syracuse he learned that acting was an unreliable pro-
fession. He was encouraged to consider something more
practical, like ushering at a movie theater.
The conversations led Kaitlyn O’Reilly, who was born
with a rare chromosome abnormality, to take a disabili-
ty studies class popular among sociology majors. Her
end-of-semester assignment was an evaluation of cam-
pus crosswalks unfriendly to visually impaired students.
She and her note taker had created a map showing where
to put raised street markings and audio boxes.
The room was silent as Ms. O’Reilly, who has a speech
impairment that can make it difficult to understand her,
stood next to a podium and went through the locations on
the map, displayed on a whiteboard.
“These ones are good, these ones are bad and these
ones are half not O.K., half good,” she said, pointing at
green, yellow and red dots on the map — a color-coded
grading scale.
After her presentation, her professor wondered if
crosswalks deep inside the campus were more problem-
atic than ones in areas popular with visitors. Ms. O’Reil-
ly said yes. Then a student told the class that she herself
BUILDING SKILLS
Left, Bud Buckout,
director of Inclu-
siveU at Syracuse
University, helping
a student in an
internship prepa-
ration class. Below,
a poster on work-
place behavior.
Right, Olivia Mira-
bello and Max
Zukin in a food
and nutrition
course taught by
Gina Frisina in
New York Institute
of Technology’s
Vocational Inde-
pendence Program.
ALEXANDER BERG
When mayonnaise jars broke or one-pound bags
of flour cracked open, it was Ms. Muscatello who
was asked to do the cleanup. “I’d go home all cov-
ered in flour,” she said. “You could stick me in the
oven and bake me like a cake.” She would cut her
hands when cleaning up glass. Her mother, a labor
and delivery nurse, wanted more-challenging work
for her daughter and more respect. “I wanted more
of a people job for her.” Ms. Muscatello did, too.
This past year, she participated in three campus
internships. In the fall, she interned in the repair
shop. The first few days, the program’s job coach
shadowed her as she learned how to fill out work
order forms when complaints came in that light
switches or elevators weren’t working. Once on her
own, Ms. Muscatello found the work manageable
but boring. For her second job, she worked in the
day care center reading to preschoolers, helping
them with yoga poses and, once, calming them when
a raccoon got stuck in the playground. But she found
the work exhausting.
She found her sweet spot in her third internship,
working as an assistant in the quiet, carpeted offices
of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families.
HEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The hope was that maybe she could stay on after the
internship.
had noticed how unsafe one of the crosswalks Ms. O’Reil- I first met Ms. Muscatello in the office break room
ly had mentioned was, even for students who are not im- at the institute. She was learning how to deliver mail and
paired. Ms. O’Reilly nodded knowingly. “Yeah, you don’t deal with the stubborn paper shredder, and trying to re-
know where you can walk across the street.” member who was whose assistant.
Ms. O’Reilly, who is in her first year in the program, When an officemate teased her that the boxes she was
said the presentation had given her a sense of her own delivering might be too heavy for her, she insisted: “I’m
power. “I felt very proud of myself,” she told me. Ms. capable of carrying some of the heavy boxes.” She does
Shults sees her getting an internship at one of the cam- not want to be underestimated.
O
pus’s disability centers. Ms. O’Reilly says she thinks she’d
like to work with children. NE spring morning on the North Shore of
Ms. Muscatello, who at 28 is in her final year, knows ex- Long Island, dozens of eager parents, some
actly what kind of career she wants. She envisions herself from as far away as Illinois, meandered
in an office wearing nice clothes, answering phones, filing around the tree-lined campus of New York
papers and having lunch with colleagues. Institute of Technology, which houses the Vo-
InclusiveU helped her develop that vision. cational Independence Program, a three-year residential
With an I.Q. around 65, she finds simple things like program with about 45 students. Staff members stood be-
work manuals and basic textbooks challenging. Big hind folding tables inside a sprawling lobby to hand out
words confuse her, and her math skills don’t go past third glossy promotional material, while parents nibbled on
grade. But she is funny and warm, with an easy smile. muffins and bagels. More than 1,000 students have en-
She likes Harry Potter books, natural disaster movies rolled since its inception in 1987.
and her cat. And “I love it here,” she said of the campus. Once the group had settled in the auditorium, Paul
Ms. Muscatello spent her teens in a special program Cavanagh, the senior director, told parents about the 3:1
in high school and then entered a life skills program for student-to-staff ratio, the extensive job training (tradi-
students with intellectual disabilities. On completion, she tional college classes, internships at nearby hotels and
landed a job at a Price Chopper, stocking shelves. At first, restaurants) and life skills classes (banking, budgeting,
she liked unloading jars of applesauce and cans of tomato
soup. But eventually the work felt demeaning. Continued on Page 22
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 RESIST!
social
injustice
marginalization
white
supremacy
conservatives Where ‘Everything
Trump Is Under Attack’
Students are demanding more control over faculty,
cultural curriculums and their own identities.

appropriation DEFY AND DEMAND

A message claiming cultural BY LAURA PAPPANO

L
appropriation, painted on the
“free speech wall” at Pitzer AST semester was a stormy one for the Claremont

free speech College, above, was one of

several polarizing episodes in
a strife-filled semester at the
Colleges, a consortium of seven elite institutions in
suburban Los Angeles.
As the 2017 school year came to a close, protest-

liberals
Claremont Colleges. ers at Pomona College staged a sit-in, symbolically
unregistered themselves from sociology classes and called
for rescinding a visiting scholar post that was awarded to Al-
ice Goffman, a white sociologist who chronicled the impact

closed minds
of prison and policing on black youth. In an open letter to the
sociology department they demanded “peer-appointed influ-
ential student positions on the hiring committee.”
By then, students were already well practiced in making
their demands known.

immigration A few weeks earlier, at Claremont McKenna, so many had

protested the appearance of Heather Mac Donald, a Black
Lives Matter critic, that she ended up addressing a mostly
empty hall while the event was live-streamed. Several black

diversity ... students then wrote David W. Oxtoby, Pomona’s outgoing

president, demanding an apology for the “patronizing” email
he sent on academic freedom in response to the Mac Donald
protest and asking what “steps the institution will take and
the resources it will allocate” for “marginalized students.”
They also ordered action against student journalists at the
conservative Claremont Independent “for its continual per-
petuation of hate speech, anti-Blackness, and intimidation
toward students of marginalized backgrounds.”
The previous month, a call-out painted in looping yellow
letters on a Pitzer College “free speech wall” against cultur-
al appropriation — “White Girl, Take OFF your hoops!!!” —
had escalated into widespread criticism of the wall painters.
Campuses that have prided themselves on increased di-
versity in admissions are now wrestling with students who

Laura Pappano is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Center

for Women at Wellesley College.

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want more control over the institutions they attend, in-
cluding a say in hiring (even of visiting professors), hous-
ing (a theme house at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, must be painted in Pan-African colors) and curric-
ulum (among nearly 50 demands presented to the Uni-
versity of Chicago: the creation of courses on the Islamic
golden age, sequences on Caribbean and Southeast Asian
civilizations, and a required diversity/inclusion course).
All this might remind old-timers of calls in the late
1960s and ’70s to institutionalize a more diverse view-
point, leading to the establishment of black studies de-
partments. Ralph F. Young, a historian who runs weekly
“Dissent in America Teach-ins” at Temple University,
predicts that “we will have the 1960s all over again.” But
where that era’s activists focused on a few issues, he said,
“now it is about everything — everything is under attack.”
Students are demanding official recognition of their
identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious,
first-generation, low-income or immigrant. When fresh-
men step onto campus, they aren’t necessarily assuming
the mascot and identity of their future alma mater, said
Dwaine Plaza, a sociology professor at Oregon State Uni-
versity. “O.S.U. is not what students are now embracing”;
instead they are “seeing themselves as important being
Jamaican-American, as being Indian-American.”
Dr. Plaza, who taught a course last winter called “Af-
rican-American Resistance in the Era of Donald Trump,”
sees that embrace as recognition that “no matter how
hard they try — yes, they can go to Costco and buy a
house in your neighborhood — they still feel like a peren-
nial outsider even if they wear a baseball cap and eat a
hot dog.” The new tone, he said, reflects “the conscious-
ness raising that has taken place on campuses — it is
O.K. to be different.” And the Trump modus operandi of
singling out particular identity groups has fed a sense of
vulnerability and urgency.
María José Vides, president of the Associated Students
of Pomona College, does not appreciate the way institu-
tions treat diversity. “We sprinkle a little bit of color on
the top of an institution like icing but we don’t look under-
neath where there is not enough faculty that understands
the experiences the students are bringing in — that is a
problem.” Nationally, blacks and Hispanics made up just
under 10 percent of full-time college faculty in fall 2015,
according to federal data that also show nearly 30 per-
cent of students from those backgrounds.
“It is not just about admitting students, but supporting
them,” Ms. Vides said. Students want to “make sure that
academic departments, academic and health resources,
career resources reflect our needs and our histories.”
Dr. Oxtoby sees a generation of socially connected stu-
dents for whom the personal becomes political: “If some-
thing happens to someone I know, I want to show my soli-
darity.” On campus, he said, students demand that leaders
“appreciate me for all the dimensions of my identity.”
Last academic year he met with 10 student groups.
“Each wanted a center, a room, staff.” One student came
1. 2.
3. 4.
A Widening Political Divide
Last year’s freshman class was the most polarized in half a century. Of 137,456 first-year students surveyed by the
Higher Education Research Institute, only 42 percent — the fewest ever — identified their political views as middle of
the road. The survey also revealed a sharp ideological divide between young women and men.
’70s ’80
’80s ’90s ’00s
PERCENTAGE
IDENTIFYING AS:
WOMEN
Middle of
the road
Liberal
Conservative
Far left
Far right
Source: Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles; figures are rounded.
twice. “In one meeting they wanted to talk about their
identity as a queer student and in another their identity
as a Latino student.”
Many professors are spending the summer trying to
figure out how to discuss the campus climate in class
without raising the ire of this audience. In the last few
months, at least a half-dozen professors have been
threatened or fired for airing controversial positions on
issues of color or, in the case of Dr. Goffman at Pomona,
researching the subject.
As student demands have grown more politically
charged, the divisions on campus have sharpened. At Po-
mona, Ms. Vides noted “a radicalizing of both ends of the
spectrum.” Students have been pushed from the middle
path to the left or right. Last fall’s entering class was the
most polarized cohort in the 51-year history of the fresh-
man survey by the Higher Education Research Institute.
That can play out in every aspect of student life, as
William Gu, an Asian-American who writes for The Cla-
remont Independent, found out after some of his articles
showed up on conservative news sites. He received Face-
Klansmen Survive Campus Upheavals
Racist historical figures have had a legacy-lashing on campus
over the last year. Statues have been toppled and buildings
rebranded across the land. After student protests and internal
review, at least five universities, from the University of Texas
at Austin to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
have renamed buildings that originally honored Ku Klux Klan
members. Other universities have not.
1. Students at the University of Alabama unsuccessfully
petitioned its president last year to rename Morgan Hall —
named for John Tyler Morgan, the KKK grand dragon and a
senator — after the alumna Harper Lee.
2. Buildings named for David Bibb Graves, former governor
of Alabama and grand cyclops of the KKK’s Montgomery
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60%
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book messages accusing him of “threatening marginal-
ized communities” and was told at a party that “people are
uncomfortable with you being here, please leave.”
Mr. Gu, a sophomore, said each incoming class “is get-
ting progressively more radical.” He recalled a panel dis-
cussion during orientation at which a student said, “We
should burn down Pomona” because “elite colleges rep-
resented white supremacist patriarchy.” Mr. Gu found the
idea absurd. “You are going to a $60,000-a-year school
and you’re either there because your parents are wealthy
or the school has given you a full ride and you are saying
it’s a dangerous environment for you,” he said. “There is a
strange sense of entitlement.”
It can be hard to separate intense advocacy from intol-
erance, particularly for students who, Dr. Plaza said, ar-
rive “empowered to feel they should have their say.”
How equipped are colleges and faculty to address all
these student demands?
Some faculty members “want to hold onto curriculum
and don’t want to do the work.” But, Dr. Plaza said, “we
have to step up our game. Our campus is changing.” 
chapter, are at Auburn, the University of Alabama and at least
nine other universities. Two, paradoxically, are historically
black schools — Alabama A&M and Alabama State University.
3. Nathan Bedford Forrest is believed to be the KKK’s
first grand wizard. While Middle Tennessee State University’s
board of regents voted to remove his name from Forrest Hall
after years of student protests, they await a lengthy decision
process from a state panel.
4. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia organized and led
a West Virginia Klan chapter in the 1940s and filibustered
the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd eventually apologized for his
Klan activities and went on to vote for civil rights measures.
His name remains attached to buildings at West Virginia
University, Marshall University, University of Charleston and
Bethany College. KATE SINCLAIR
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 The Semester of
Hate
When far right meets far left,
sparks fly.
BY ANDREW BEALE AND SONNER KEHRT
L
AST semester’s protests at the University of
California, Berkeley, challenged liberal pre-
sumptions about who exactly the good guys
were. Anti-fascists, or Antifa, clad like nin-
jas and hellbent on silencing a speaker (the
provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos), smashed windows and
set fires. Clashes with right-wingers erupted again at
free-speech rallies in March and April (a “messy pepper
spray mosh pit,” as one anti-fascist described it).
The Antifa collective, fueled by an emboldened right
wing, has become a growing subculture, particularly on
West Coast campuses. Fearful of being doxxed (personal
information posted online) by “alt-right trolls,” anti-fas-
cists are cautious about their identity. Most don’t even
communicate over social media or phone. And many pro-
test as a black bloc, a tactic ascribed to 1980s Germany
in which a group protests anonymously, faces concealed
by T-shirts, bandannas or masks to avoid detection and
protect from pepper spray.
Antifa is actually more label than organization, its be-
lievers connected by calls to action on websites like It’s
Going Down. Anarchist, communist or just liberal, they
oppose fascism with militant zeal. But some formalize
into affinity groups like the Pastel Bloc; dressed in pas-
tels — a play on the head-to-toe uniform of black bloc —
they offer medical attention during protests.
Black bloc is often seen as mostly white males looking
to wreak havoc for a cause. A half-dozen Berkeley Anti-
fa members who agreed to speak on record saw merit in
that stereotype, but since the Trump inauguration, they
said, those behind the masks represent the spectrum
of gender and race. “People showing up to the protests
are the ones with the most to lose,” said Neil Lawrence,
a Berkeley student. Part of his decision to go public as a
transgender anti-fascist is to counteract the stereotype.
Andrew Beale and Sonner Kehrt are graduate journalism
students at the University of California, Berkeley.
ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/GETTY IMAGES
FLAME FANNERS Black bloc protesting against Milo
Yiannopoulos at University of California, Berkeley.
20 Sunday, August 6, 2017
SONNER KEHRT
‘When the nonviolent tactics have been exhausted —
what is left?’
Neil Lawrence, Antifa member and linguistics major,
University of California, Berkeley
T S
HE night before the April 15 Patriots’ Day protest,
Mr. Lawrence stayed up most of the night making
sandwiches. Before he headed out to meet up with
other anti-fascists, he grabbed a box of matzos, too — it
was Passover. The Antifa wanted to show up en masse to
demonstrate opposition at an alt-right free-speech rally.
Announcements on fliers around campus called for a De-
fend the Bay Bloc Party and Cookout, with a request to
“Bring friends, a mask and food to share if ya can.”
“Nobody wanted a street fight,” Mr. Lawrence said.
When the Antifa got there, some with makeshift weap-
ons and M-80 firecrackers, fighting broke out (each side
blames the other). Mr. Lawrence didn’t engage. “I’m 5
feet 2. I know what my assets are in this movement, and
being able to throw down physically isn’t one of them.”
His role: “There’s power to being a body in the mass.”
Mr. Lawrence has been involved with the anarcho-
punk scene since high school. His first black bloc protest
was last winter. “Violence is frightening,” he said. “I get
it. Violence is messy. It’s not elegant.” But he argues that
today’s high political stakes justify violence. “Whatever
you can do to throw a wrench in the gears is valuable.”
Mr. Lawrence allowed his full name to be used to
bolster his credibility in explaining a movement he be-
lieves is misrepresented in the media. In particular, he
wants his experiences as a trans student to illustrate its
increasing diversity. “That is who the hammer falls on,”
he said. “That’s whose existence in public is being crim-
inalized in so many state legislatures right now. I never
felt like a target walking down the street until the climate
shifted so radically in the age of Trump.”
Mr. Lawrence is graduating this summer, nearly a year
early, a decision reinforced by how Berkeley has dealt
with the turmoil. “I don’t want to be on a campus where
I’m looking over my shoulder all the time, but the people
I’m constantly looking over my shoulder for can stand on
the steps of Sproul” — where the Free Speech Movement
was born, in 1964 — “and give a press conference.”
“Everyone just kind of wants to keep their head down,
and the administration is really hypocritical about what’s
going on, for all their talk about wellness and campus cli-
mate. A pretty big part of me feeling safe on my campus,
it doesn’t seem crazy to say, is that there not be any Na-
zis here.”
ANDREW BEALE
‘People need to understand this whole thing, this whole
conflict isn’t about free speech.’
Dan, Antifa member and political science major,
University of San Francisco
ITTING in his dorm room at the end of the school
year, surrounded by tomes by anarchist thinkers,
a freshman of Muslim descent named Dan was ex-
plaining his political journey. Suharto’s forces had killed
his grandfather during the Communist purge in Indone-
sia. The family immigrated to Southern California but
was never political, fearful of suffering repression again.
So Dan discovered Marx on his own, in the high school
library. He moved on to Noam Chomsky and Peter Kro-
potkin. “I started to realize: What’s the use of reading
about things when you don’t really apply them in real
life? And so, you know, the 2016 presidential came on and
this was the first time I really got in politics.”
At a Trump campaign rally in Costa Mesa, he and
friends, still in high school, began shouting obscenities
and “Viva Mexico!” and got into some scuffles. “People
were yelling at us and spitting on us and trying to physi-
cally attack us, and if it weren’t for security we probably
wouldn’t get home in one piece.” At Berkeley, he contends
he didn’t start any confrontation. “I did get a few punches
at me and I did return them in kind. A biker for Trump
tried to run me over with a motorcycle, and another one
tried to pull a knife on me. I remember throwing a traffic
cone at one person, which was pretty funny.”
The Antifa didn’t protest at the April 27 rally support-
ing Ann Coulter, whose talk was canceled for that day by
a university fearful of violence. “Someone like Coulter,
she’s pretty much nothing to us,” Dan explained. “There’s
a different level of threat here. Milo Yiannopoulos, he’s at
the vanguard of a new right movement that’s much more
dangerous than the conservative establishment.” Yian-
nopoulos supporters, he said, had displayed anti-Semitic
posters and Nazi salutes at the free speech rallies.
Dan said he supports the right of conservatives to
speak on campus, but fascism must be stopped — by vi-
olence, if necessary. “We’ve seen in history that the very
fact that we allow certain people to talk normalizes their
speech, and there’s the possibility of their narrative being
accepted and even being widespread in the society.”
He predicts more violence for the new school year. Mr.
Yiannopoulos has announced a weeklong tent city on
Sproul Plaza this fall, vowing in a Facebook post to “bring
an army if I have to.” And the conservative commentator
Ben Shapiro plans to speak in September.
 their students to greater exposure to ideas
they are censoring on campus, to bring a
greater amount of literature into classes,
to expand the speakers they’re bringing in.
The Back End of
Organizing
There’s quite a bit of strawmanning on cam-
pus in regard to what it is we truly believe.”
Mr. Damigo joined the Marine Corps after
high school, serving two tours in Iraq. Re-
integration was difficult. One night, in what
he believes was a PTSD flashback, he pulled
a gun on a cabdriver of Middle Eastern de- A night with Portland State activists
scent and took $43. “I freaked out, didn’t
know where I was, thought this guy was try- as they plan for a new school year.
ing to come through my checkpoint and just
flipped out on him,” Mr. Damigo said. “After
it happened, I felt very guilty about it.”
In prison on a four-year sentence for BY LAURA PAPPANO

MAX WHITTAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ti-immigration youth group Génération Iden-
‘Diversity is the result of differences, and the more differences there
are in a society between people, the more polarized things become.’
Nathan Damigo, Identity Evropa founder and social science major,
California State University, Stanislaus
armed robbery, he began reading, taking a
particular interest in race. His reading list
included “White Identity” and “The Bell
Curve,” whose co-author Charles Murray
was prevented from speaking at Middlebury
College earlier this year. “And yes, I read Da-
vid Duke.” From the other side of the argu-
ment was Richard Lewontin’s “Triple Helix.”
He earned an associate degree in social and
behavioral sciences while incarcerated and
on release enrolled in Cal State.
Mr. Damigo started Identity Evropa last
year after watching videos of the French an-
titaire. “Policies of mass immigration have
been called by the new right ‘the great re-
placement.’ There’s a paradox in screaming
racism at a people while promoting policies
that would lead to the destruction of their
T
HE Portland State University Student Union
explains itself on Twitter as “your friendly,
neighborhood, radical student action team.”
One evening in June, its leaders convened
at a cafeteria table in the basement of the
student union to talk recruiting strategy for the new ac-
ademic year. Each meeting begins the same way: They
say their names and preferred gender pronouns and
then respond to an oddball question. Today it was: Matte
or glossy? One preferred matte, one glossy and a third
favored glossy in summer, matte in winter.
The discussion then turned to tabling on campus, fli-
ers, banner drops and their 1,000-student list-serve.
Kaitlyn Dey, organizer for PSUSU (pronounced sue-
sue), pointed out that membership surged after mem-
bers stopped the president’s convocation speech in 2015
and led the auditorium in a chorus of protests.
“I literally wrote down ‘Convocation Disruption 2.0,’ ”

N
ATHAN DAMIGO was caught on video punching identity and their culture.” He was attracted, he said, “to said Ms. Dey, a social work major and advocate for the
a woman in the face and he’s not apologizing for the group’s willingness to go where most right-wing peo- houseless (because the street can be home). Michael
it. “I feel that I was completely within reason,” ple hadn’t gone before, which is into the activist front.” Richardson, a graphic design major, reminded Ms. Dey
Mr. Damigo said via Skype from his home in California’s “I spent years researching the history of left-wing agi- they would get a new university president in August.
central valley. The punch that went viral was during the tation,” he said. “The reality is that the narrative regard-
Patriots’ Day rally in Berkeley last semester, in support ing race and identity and diversity today is the way it is
of free speech. Mr. Damigo said he had seen the woman because of the activism of left-wing groups. Our counter-
swinging a foot-long bottle at Trump supporters. “It was ing narrative on it, like Milo Yiannopoulos, Christina Hoff
swing or get swung on,” he said of the punch. Sommers, Jordan Peterson, they’re getting shut down. So
The video helped elevate Mr. Damigo to the pantheon I said, there is a superior strategy to coordinated action,
of young, influential white nationalists. His organization, and that’s something we have to replicate.”
Identity Evropa, which advocates racial separation, now When school resumes, Mr. Damigo plans to “step it up”
has 450 dues-paying members on dozens of campuses. by setting up tables on campuses with Identity Evropa
“We are organizing people to put pressure on the insti- T-shirts and banners. And at U.C. Berkeley? Mr. Damigo
tutions to engage us in dialogue,” he said, “to challenge laughed. “We’ve got some plans.”

family fled the state. After an investigation, Trinity’s president,

Targets of Internet Outrage
Professors have been expressing views about race that have
made them targets of left and right. Nothing is too abstrusely
academic to seed an attack campaign fueled by websites
that surveil social media to find gotcha-worthy gems. Some
even send out alerts to subscribers. The latest casualties:
• Sarah E. Bond, professor of classics at the University of
Iowa, wrote an academic piece challenging white suprem-
acists’ use of marble antiquities, which had originally been
painted colors, to suggest a classical ideal (Identity Evropa
uses Greek figures to promote its brand). After columns in
Campus Reform and National Review, she was barraged with
threats and calls for her dismissal.
• A Texas A & M philosophy professor, Tommy Curry, received
death threats after a column in The American Conserva-
tive drew on a 2012 podcast in which Dr. Curry made an
academic argument about violence against blacks by whites
versus violence against whites by blacks. The column was
headlined “When Is It O.K. to Kill Whites?”
• Trinity College in Hartford put Johnny Eric Williams on leave
after he shared a provocative article about race and violence
and then posted Facebook messages with an anti-white
hashtag: #LetThem[expletive]Die. The threats were so virulent
that the campus closed for a day, and Dr. Williams and his
Joanne Berger-Sweeney, concluded in July that his posts had
been misconstrued by conservative media. He was free to
speak out, but she said: “I do not condone the hashtag he
chose to use.” He will remain on leave through the fall term.
• In the heat of a pro-Muslim rally, as a group of counter-
demonstrators dispersed, a Syracuse University professor,
Dana Cloud, tweeted for others to join and “finish them off.”
The facile energy of social media transformed the personal
outburst into a national issue. The tweets — shared by the
conservative star Ann Coulter — led to calls to fire Dr. Cloud.
• Students at Evergreen State College want Bret Weinstein DISORIENTATION Student guides offer a break from the
fired for objecting to a change in the traditional “Day of barrage of orientation-day optimism, plus politics.
Absence,” in which blacks avoid campus to show their value;
whites were to leave instead. The professor also challenged “There’s not any dirt on him yet,” Ms. Dey conceded,
faculty hiring that assessed candidates’ contributions to but added that PSUSU could make a list of demands like,
diversity. Protests shut the college for several days. “Here, new president, this is what we expect from you.”
• Colleges may say they uphold free speech, but untenured This is the back end of organizing, 2017. And these
teachers are vulnerable. After defending on Fox News a days there’s usually a long list of demands.
blacks-only event (“Boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry PSUSU, founded four years ago to rage against stu-
because you couldn’t use your white privilege card to get in- dent debt and spur empowerment, has expanded its fo-
vited”), Lisa Durden was let go as an adjunct at Essex County cus. In the past year, the group led a walkout and die-in
College in Newark. Judy Morelock, a lecturer at the University to oppose the arming of campus security. They rallied for
of Tennessee, lost her job after a student challenged her a $15 minimum wage for campus workers, against a tui-
teaching on the impact of slavery, and wrote about their
charged conflict on Facebook. LAURA PAPPANO Continued on Page 22

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tion increase, repeatedly counter-protested a pro-Trump
campus group and heckled Chadwick Moore, a gay con-
servative speaker. They also joined the protests by Port-
land’s Resistance, a community group formed in 2016 to
oppose Trump policies and build a Tea Party of the left.
“If you wanted to, you could protest every day in Port-
land — there would be an event for you,” said Gregory
McKelvey, a co-founder of the Resistance and a student at
Lewis & Clark Law School.
Some broadening is strategic: If you want people to
show up to your protest, you have to show up to theirs.
But to recruit you have to use words like “‘resistance’ and
‘Trump’ — and people are like, ‘Yeah!’” said Ms. Dey, who
joined Portland’s Resistance last fall.
Around the cafeteria table, PSUSU members planned
their Disorientation Guide, a popular recruiting tool. The
zines add bite (“The Board of Oppressors…Oops I Mean
Trustees”) to the barrage of institutional information at
LAURA PAPPANO
HOT SPOT Kaitlyn Dey, an activist at Portland State.
new-student orientation. This fall Portland State’s zine
will include a map of gender-neutral bathrooms, loca-
tions of the food pantry and places to get medicine and
condoms. Most important, it will be framed around “What
does resistance look like during Trump?” with articles on
knowing your rights and what to bring to a protest.
Student activists around the country publish Disori-
entation Guides to educate new students on the “sneaky
truths” about their campuses, in the words of one distrib-
uted at Long Island University, Brooklyn. They highlight
issues of concern (“a lack of accountability and transpar-
ency in the investment system at Vanderbilt”), offer tips
(“If you do drugs at Tufts, how to do them smart”) and,
above all, urge new students to activism.
One PSUSU edition offered a road map for the future.
It featured a 1970 photo of Portland State students march-
ing after the shootings of Kent State protesters with these
words: “YOU, the students of Portland State University,
have the power to change everything — the rules of the
game; how it’s played; heck, even the game itself.”

Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America

Radjy, who graduated in May. Yet the election made clear
BY LAURA PAPPANO Change comes with dogged, on-the- that, “as a generation, we are not as politically trained as

M
we should be.”
ARSHALL GANZ, shirt sleeves rolled ground work, not a list of demands, “Politics requires in-person, face-to-face interactions,”
up, spread his arms wide with a “join she said, which is why homework assignments call for
me.” Hands came together, slowly at says Harvard’s Resistance School. live conversations and group gatherings. “If you are not
first, then in a flurry of rapid, synchro- used to negotiating and listening to the other side, it’s easy
nized thwacks. A member of the old formation. “I think we sort of lost the idea that there was to caricature the other side,” she said. Many students are
left — he dropped out of Harvard in 1964 to fight for civil a need for organizing,” said Nina Vyedin, Vassar class of not listening; anger has been elevated to a philosophy.
rights in Mississippi and for California farmworkers with 2011. Co-founder of Indivisible Somerville, a chapter of In the first session, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, who
Cesar Chavez — Dr. Ganz was teaching the unity clap, the the Indivisible project directing communities in opposing teaches politics and social movements at Harvard, cued
audible calling card of the United Farmworkers of Ameri- the Trump agenda, she and her under-30 group had been up the tensions that brought them all there. He spoke
ca 50 years earlier. “passively active,” donating to a campaign or posting a about the prickly subject of values. “Some of us need to go
“It’s not a trivial thing at all,” said Dr. Ganz, who had re- Facebook status. “We have lost community,” said Ms. into what they are calling Trump Country and understand
turned to his studies and is now a Harvard professor. Clap- Vyedin, who works at Microsoft. “We need to rebuild it.” the white working class,” he said. “Some of them need to
ping is a collective action that builds cohesion and gets The point of the Resistance School is to support groups come to our bubbles.”
attention, and chanting is “a way of celebrating and honor- like Ms. Vyedin’s in promoting progressive values, includ- “This particular moment,” he said, “feels like a crisis
ing the values that are being enacted through this work.” ing in city councils and state legislatures. “We feel it is point, an inflection point, where we are called to action in
This was the fun stuff. Political organizing is tedious. It a mistake to make it all about the presidency,” said Ms. bigger and bolder ways than before.” 
involves gathering people, setting group norms, defining
roles and goals. And dogged on-the-ground labor.
These also happen to be the core aims of Dr. Ganz’s au-
dience, members of an unsanctioned “school” created last
spring by Harvard graduate students cold-cocked by the
Trump victory. For those on the left, the election yanked
away the scrim of sweet reason.
“For a long time we have been able to think that things
have been pretty O.K.,” said Yasmin Radjy, one of 11
founders of the Resistance School, four sessions on polit-
ical advocacy and action held in a lecture hall at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government. Opposing forces now
look more threatening. It is what spurred the students to
invite professors and political veterans to lecture on the
tools necessary to drive sustainable political change. Se-
mester two is in the works.
The Resistance School focuses on “practical skills for
taking back America” at a moment when front-porch pol-
iticking seems lost to likes and shares, online memes and
long lists of diversity demands.
A 50-person army, many in their navy blue Resistance
School T-shirts, operated in teams with elflike efficiency
at the Kennedy School, working at odd hours to produce
video highlights, lecture notes, syllabus materials and
homework assignments. During lectures, students gath-
ered in the “war room,” its conference table dotted with
room-temperature pizza slices, to live tweet and select
questions for the speaker from Facebook submissions.
In a wave of interest that surprised the founders, the
videos have had more than 175,000 views; Yale and Grin-
nell students held “watch parties.” M. SCOTT BRAUER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

To the audience, the Resistance School offered fresh in- RESISTANCE TRAINING Michael Blake, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, lectures on tactics.

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cooking, apartment living). But the school
has not kept records of postgraduate em-
ployment.
Parents took notes. During the ques-
tions segment, one parent wanted to know
whether there were enough athletic activ-
ities. (Yes, baseball and volleyball games
are organized by the students.) Was there
an I.Q. cutoff? (No.) What is the screen-
time policy? (Students manage their own
screen use.)
Touring classrooms, computer labs and
a coffee house where students hold meet-
ings, talent nights and parties, parents
talked about their dreams and concerns. A
New Jersey mother of an 18-year-old with
a developmental disability thought the
time away from home would be good. “For
him, not me,” she said woefully.
Many of the parents said they were
looking for something new for their sons
or daughters: an environment where not
everybody catered to their every whim,
where they were allowed to stumble a bit
and take some risks, which they hoped
would allow them to build the kind of resil-
ience necessary for independent lives and
fulfilling jobs.
New York Institute of Technology has
the priciest of the programs, at $50,730 in
tuition a year (plus $12,220 for room and
board). The Syracuse program averages
around $23,200, depending on what class-
es a student takes. (It will host its first
boarder this fall.) Both fees include the
cost of mentors and note takers. National-
ly, the average cost without support staff,
according to Think College, is $11,000.
Such revenue contributes to the prolif-
eration of work-readiness programs. The
growth is also a result of a 2008 rewrite
of the Higher Education Opportunity Act,
which led to the establishment of Think
College. It allowed these students, many
without a high school diploma or compara-
ble, to use federal financial aid for the first
time if they attend an approved program.
Syracuse expects to be able to award fi-
nancial aid by this fall. (Students in some
states can use a special Medicaid fund to
pay their expenses. School districts — re-
quired by law to support educational op-
portunities for disabled students until age
21 — also help foot some of the bills.)
Some take issue with the programs for
supporting what they consider an imprac-
tical but prevalent idea — that everyone
should go to college — and giving students
a false sense of academic accomplishment
while costing taxpayers and parents. In-
stead, they believe these students ought
to be funneled into more cost-effective and
targeted vocational training programs
and apprenticeships.
“If we are going to really help people
with significant disabilities, it’s not by
pretending they can go to college and do
college work,” said James M. Kauffman,
a professor emeritus of education at the
University of Virginia who has written ex-
tensively on special education.
Ms. Weir of Think College says such
KEEPING PACE Josh Howard and Meghan Muscatello, InclusiveU classmates, stroll
along University Avenue in Syracuse. Delvon Waller gets help studying for an exam.
thinking too narrowly defines how a col-
lege education benefits students, ignor-
ing much of the socio-emotional learning
that happens for those in their late teens
and 20s — with disabilities and without —
while clocking time on a campus. Further,
she says, just because students don’t get
100 percent of what is taught in a class
does not mean they haven’t benefited.
“This isn’t for everybody,” Ms. Weir
said. “But it should be a choice. Students
with disabilities shouldn’t be told, ‘You
can’t have a choice other people have.’ ”
But even as she stridently supports
the existence of the programs, Ms. Weir
concedes that there are serious challeng-
es. Programs are not accredited, leaving
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many families more or less in the dark
about their quality. For the past few years,
a 15-person task force organized by Think
College has worked to develop a set of
accreditation standards. The report was
delivered to Congress last year. Ms. Weir
says the next step is to persuade colleges
to agree to an accreditation process.
Advocates say that the biggest issue
isn’t so much with the programs as with
the work force. Many employers worry
about the expense and training required
when hiring someone with a disability.
And low-skilled jobs that might have once
been appropriate for this population are
disappearing in our increasingly tech-cen-
tered economy.
Jonathan Lucus, managing director of
the Arc, a job-training service that con-
nects companies with applicants who have
intellectual and developmental disabilities,
says college programs need to do intense
outreach with local businesses. “You’ve
got to constantly go out there,” he said,
“and shake hands and greet people and
kiss babies and talk to these employers
and say: ‘Look what we are doing. How
can we work together?’ ”
Ms. Muscatello’s journey illustrates
how hard that can be.
When I went to visit her a second time
at her internship, she was sitting quiet-
ly behind the front desk dressed in black
slacks and golf shirt. She had a laminated
cheat sheet on the desk by her side that
her job coach, Angela McPheeters, had
made for her. It had all the staff names,
their job titles and their extensions in
large print.
An administrative assistant sat by her
side, giving her the day’s assignment: to
empty black binders that had been used
for a recent conference, remove the tabs,
and place them in a box on the floor. Ms.
Muscatello also worked the phones. But
Some take issue with
the college programs as
impractical and expensive
for taxpayers and parents.
when she picked up a call for someone in
the entrepreneurship office, she got con-
fused and couldn’t say the word. Another
time, pressing the buttons gave her trou-
ble. Her supervisor had told her that if she
got better with the phones, there was a
good chance they’d hire her.
When Ms. McPheeters got wind of this,
she sent Ms. Muscatello home to practice
with a photocopy of a telephone with the
numbers pad on it and her cheat sheet.
She spent days on it, after work and on
weekends, announcing: “Hi, I.V.M.F. This
is Meghan. Can I help you?” She tapped
on the paper numbers with her index fin-
ger, as if she were transferring the calls.
But when the semester ended, the su-
pervisor said that funding had been cut
and they were not going to be able to hire
Ms. Muscatello. “I was a little bit disap-
pointed,” she told me.
A few weeks later, in a cap-and-gown
ceremony at a chapel on the main quad,
this year’s graduates received their cer-
tificates. One now has a job doing clerical
work in a municipal office. Another has a
position as a shop technician at a carpet
cleaning company.
As for Ms. Muscatello, she spent weeks
eagerly waiting, her résumé, letter of rec-
ommendation and interview outfits, free
of cat hair, ready to go. Then one morning
she was called in for an interview — and
aced it. This month she is expected to be-
gin working the front desk at a YMCA.
She got her dream job. 
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Questions are on Page 15.
1. Crispus Attucks. Attucks is widely con-
sidered the first person killed when Brit-
ish soldiers opened fire on a mob in what
became known as the Boston Massacre.
With the massacre often described as the
“beginning” of the American Revolution,
that would make an African-American the
first casualty of the war.
2. Phillis Wheatley. The first published
African-American poet, Wheatley is a
popular research subject with students in
the program. She was sold into slavery as
a child to a Boston family, the Wheatleys,
who taught her to read and write, and
eventually emancipated her. Her book,
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious
and Moral” (1773), brought her fame in
England as well as the colonies.
3. Valley Forge (both blanks). George
Washington chose Valley Forge as
the winter encampment for his troops
because its location made it a natural
fortress close enough to British-occupied
Philadelphia to prevent sneak attacks on
settlements. No battle was fought there,
but from January to June 1778 chilling
temperatures, disease and lack of food
and adequate clothing took their toll. The
number who died has been estimated to
be as high as 3,000.
4. Freedom
of speech.
In 1783,
a group
of army
officers
in New-
burgh, N.Y.,
threatened
to mutiny
over back
pay and
pensions.
One anony-
mous paper
circulating NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
through the
camp recommended they ignore Wash-
ington, the “man who would advise to
more moderation.” At a meeting called
to deal with the Newburgh Conspiracy,
Washington rebuked the writer, estab-
lishing his own right to be heard. He
also acknowledged the officers’ right to
express their grievances but absolutely
rejected any action that would threaten
the security of the United States.
5. Constitutional Convention. Virginia
Plan. Massachusetts farmers suffered
from debt as they tried to start new farms
postwar, but the state had not passed
laws to protect them from debt collection.
The uprising, known as Shays’ Rebellion
(1786-87), underscored the limitations of
the Articles key Rebellion was the first true challenge
7. 8. of Confed- to federal authority.
eration and
7. John Adams. Adams served as Wash-
shaped the
ington’s vice president, and won the elec-
debate at the
tion of 1796 when Washington declined to
Constitution- run for a third term. Adams lost a second
al Conven- term to Jefferson, a fierce critic of his
tion on the policies.
power of
the federal 8. Burr. Hamilton urged fellow Federal-
government ists to support Jefferson over Aaron Burr
over states. in the tied presidential election of 1800
To address and opposed Burr’s run for governor of
this issue, New York in 1804. When insulted parties
Madison challenged offenders to a duel, such
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY drafted the affairs of honor were usually settled with
Virginia an apology. Hamilton refused to apolo-
Plan, a proposal for a strong federal gov- gize, and the rest is history. Hamilton was
ernment of three branches, a two-cham- killed in a duel with Burr in July 1804.
ber legislature and representation based Charged with murder, Burr went into
on population. The plan was opposed hiding, but eventually returned to Wash-
by representatives at the convention ington to resume his responsibilities as
of smaller states, who called for equal Jefferson’s vice president (the runner-up
in those days got that job). 
representation. The resolution: the Great
Compromise, which guaranteed popula-
tion-based representation in the House
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