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A ‘Constructive Call,’ but
U.S. and Russian
Accounts Differ
By PETER BAKER
and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
WASHINGTON — President
Trump reopened direct communi-
cations with President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia on Tuesday and
sought to reignite what he hoped
would be a special relationship by
agreeing to work together to bro-
ker a cease-fire in war-torn Syria.
In their first telephone conver-
sation since the United States
launched a cruise missile strike on
Syria’s Moscow-backed military
to retaliate for a chemical weap-
ons attack on civilians, Mr. Trump
agreed to send a representative to
Russian-brokered cease-fire talks
that start on Wednesday in As-
tana, Kazakhstan. He and Mr.
Putin also discussed meeting each
other in Germany in July.
But American and Russian offi-
cials offered divergent accounts of
their interest in establishing safe
zones in Syria to protect civilians
suffering from a relentless, six-
year civil war. A White House
statement said the two leaders
had discussed such zones “to
achieve lasting peace for humani-
tarian and many other reasons.”
The Kremlin statement made no
mention of safe zones, and Mr.
Putin’s spokesman said they had
not been discussed in detail.
Still, at the talks in Astana, Mr.
Putin’s envoys plan to propose
that Russia, Iran and Turkey act
as buffer forces separating gov-
ernment and rebel forces in some
areas of Syria. The government of
President Bashar al-Assad is
skeptical of the plan, seeing it as
the first step toward a partition of
the country, according to di-
plomats and analysts.
The call between Mr. Trump
and Mr. Putin was aimed at get-
ting past the rupture of recent
Continued on Page A19
‘Part of the Resistance’
Hillary Clinton sharply ques-
tioned the president’s conduct,
Ivanka Trump said she intended to act as a moderating influence on her father’s administration.
A First Daughter Assembling a Vast Portfolio
This article is by Jodi Kantor, Ra-
chel Abrams and Maggie Ha-
berman.
A month before Donald J.
Trump was elected president, he
and his aides watched his daugh-
ter’s coolly composed surface
crack open.
Inside Trump Tower, the candi-
date was preparing for a debate
when an aide rushed in with news
that The Washington Post was
about to publish an article saying
that Mr. Trump had bragged about
grabbing women’s private parts.
As Ivanka Trump joined the oth-
ers waiting to see a video of the
episode, her father insisted that
the description of his comments
did not sound like him.
When the recording finally
showed he was wrong, Mr.
Trump’s reaction was grudging:
He agreed to say he was sorry if
anyone was offended. Advisers
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Among Mostly Men,
a Trump Takes Aim
at Gender Issues
phatic case for a full-throated
apology, according to several peo-
ple who were present for the crisis
discussion that unfolded in Mr.
Trump’s 26th-floor office. Raised
amid a swirl of tabloid headlines,
she had spent her adult life brand-
ing herself as her father’s poised,
family-focused daughter. She
marketed her clothing line with
slogans about female em-
powerment and was finishing a
book on the topic. As she spoke,
Mr. Trump remained unyielding.
His daughter’s eyes welled with
tears, her face reddened, and she
hurried out in frustration.
Wing confidante, an adviser
whose portfolio appears to have
few parameters, making her
among the highest-ranking wom-
en in a senior staff stocked almost
entirely with men.
The two trade thoughts from
morning until late at night, ac-
cording to aides. Even though she
has no government or policy ex-
perience, she plans to review
some executive orders before
they are signed, according to
White House officials; some earli-
er orders had set off a firestorm.
She calls cabinet officials on is-
sues she is interested in, recently
asking the United Nations ambas-
sador, Nikki R. Haley, about get-
ting humanitarian aid into Syria.
She set up a weekly meeting with
Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury
secretary.
In interviews last week, she
said she intended to act as a mod-
erating force in an administration
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
and REED ABELSON
Fran Cannon Slayton, a chil-
dren’s book author with brain can-
cer, has summoned a hopeful en-
ergy since her diagnosis last year.
But she is near despair about the
resurfaced Republican plan to re-
peal and replace the Affordable
Care Act, which the White House
and Republicans are pushing for a
vote as soon as this week.
“I don’t think people really un-
derstand how serious this is,” said
Ms. Slayton, 50, of Charlottesville,
Va.
Her chief concern is the amend-
ment to the Republican bill that
would allow states to opt out of
several requirements, including
what some say is the crux of the
current health law: the ban on in-
surance companies charging
higher premiums to people, like
Ms. Slayton, with pre-existing
medical conditions.
The complex amendment to the
bill has stunned Ms. Slayton and
other Americans with cancer,
heart disease, diabetes and other
illnesses who rely on the law’s pro-
tections, not least because Presi-
dent Trump and Republican lead-
ers in Congress have consistently
promised to make sure sick peo-
ple will not face the same discrimi-
nation they did in the past.
With most polls finding that
both Republicans and Democrats
favor protecting coverage for peo-
ple, the proposed changes to such
protections have become the flash
point that could derail yet another
attempt by the Trump administra-
tion and Republican lawmakers to
vanquish President Barack Oba-
ma’s signature domestic achieve-
ment.
The change was negotiated as
part of an amendment to attract
the support of conservative House
members who opposed an earlier
Republican health bill because it
retained too much federal insur-
ance regulation. But in gaining
their support, it has repelled a
number of moderates and sent Mr.
Trump flailing as he insisted in a
series of interviews that the bill
would still protect people with
pre-existing conditions.
Most major patient advocacy
groups have come out against it,
and on his late-night talk show, the
Concessions to Freedom
Caucus Are Called a
Deal-Breaker
By THOMAS KAPLAN
and ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — With two
days left before an 11-day recess
and no vote scheduled, House Re-
publican leaders worked on Tues-
day to win votes one at a time for
their latest bill to repeal the Af-
fordable Care Act after an influen-
tial Republican voice on health
care came out against the meas-
ure.
A failure to get the repeal bill to
a vote this week would be the third
time that Speaker Paul D. Ryan
could not rally his considerable
House majority around a legisla-
tive priority that Republicans
have promised for seven years.
Republican leaders were ready
to move on from health care after
the embarrassing collapse of their
measure in March, but President
Trump pressed Mr. Ryan hard to
deliver on a major campaign
promise and personally pressured
House members to fall into line.
If the effort fails, it will greatly
weaken the president’s hand on
Capitol Hill and cast a shadow
across the rest of his legislative
agenda, especially the deep tax
cuts and rewrite of the tax code
that he has proposed — and that
are likely to be no easier to tackle
than health care.
Representative Fred Upton of
Michigan was only the latest Re-
publican defector, but he carries
more sway than most. The former
chairman of one of the House com-
mittees that drafted the American
Health Care Act, as the Republi-
cans call their measure, Mr. Upton
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criticizing his Twitter posts and warned that would not be enough. Seven months later, Ms. Trump swept into office by nationalist comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a Representative Fred Upton of
foreign policy moves. Page A18. Ivanka Trump made an em- is her father’s all-around West Continued on Page A12 Continued on Page A16 Michigan criticized the bill.

Did Tabloids Cause ‘Brexit’? It’s Covered With Inky Fingerprints U.S. Won’t Charge Two Officers
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
LONDON — Tony Gallagher,
editor of The Sun, one of Britain’s
most raucous and influential
tabloids, looks down on the gov-
ernment, literally. From the
height of his 12th-floor newsroom,
all glass and views, the Palace of
Westminster seems like a toy cas-
tle, something to be played with or
ignored at will.
Mr. Gallagher also looks down
on the editor of the more
LOSING LONDON
The Power of the Press
measured Times of London,
whose office is one floor below and
who makes a point of keeping his
blinds drawn. The hierarchy is not
lost on either man.
In Britain after the so-called
Brexit vote, the power of the
tabloids is evident. Their circula-
tions may be falling and their rep-
utations tarnished by a series of
phone-hacking scandals. But as
the country prepares to cut ties
with the European Union after a
noisy and sometimes nasty cam-
paign, top politicians court the
tabloids and fear their wrath.
Broadcasters follow where they
In a 2016 Killing of a Black Man
Tony Gallagher, editor of The Sun, which advocated Britain’s exit from the European Union.
lead, if not in tone then in topic.
Their readers, many of them
over 50, working class and outside
London, look strikingly like the
voters who were crucial to the out-
come of last year’s referendum on
membership in the European Un-
ion. It is these citizens of Brexit-
land the tabloids purport to repre-
sent from the heart of enemy terri-
tory: Housed in palatial dwellings
JOSÉ SARMENTO MATOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
in some of London’s most expen- even though the city that houses
sive neighborhoods, they see them voted the other way.
themselves as Middle England’s Mr. Gallagher made his mark
embassies in London. on three of Britain’s most stri-
In the campaign leading up to a dently pro-Brexit newspapers. He
snap election on June 8, most was editor of The Daily Telegraph,
tabloids can be counted on to act a conservative broadsheet, and
as the zealous guardians of Brexit deputy editor of the more mid-
and as a cheering section for the market Daily Mail, one of The
Conservative government of Sun’s main rivals, before Rupert
Prime Minister Theresa May — Continued on Page A6
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
WASHINGTON — Two white
police officers will not face federal
charges in the fatal shooting of a
black man last year in Baton
Rouge, La., which caused wide-
spread unrest there. The decision
was made while the Trump ad-
ministration is under scrutiny
about how it will handle prose-
cutions in racially charged police
shootings, a priority of the Obama
administration.
The decision in the death of Al-
ton B. Sterling was confirmed
Tuesday afternoon by two people
familiar with it.
Local officials criticized the Jus-
tice Department for not informing
them before the news became
public. And Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, who inherited the Baton
Rouge case, is certain to face fur-
ther attention over how he pro-
ceeds in the fatal shooting Satur-
day of a 15-year-old black student
by an officer near Dallas. The offi-
cer was fired Tuesday. [Page A11.]
The Sterling decision, the Dal-
las killing and an officer’s guilty
plea Tuesday in a fatal 2015 shoot-
ing in South Carolina reignited a
debate over race and criminal jus-
tice that has played out in various
ways since Michael Brown was
killed nearly three years ago by a
police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
Mr. Sessions — who, in the first
months of his tenure, ordered a
broad review of federal agree-
ments with law enforcement
agencies — will oversee the out-
comes of other cases, including
those of Eric Garner, who died af-
ter being placed in a chokehold by
a New York police officer, and 12-
year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
The bar for charging police offi-
cers with federal civil rights vio-
lations is extremely high, and
prosecutions are rare. Even the
Obama administration, which cul-
tivated an aggressive reputation
on such cases, declined to pros-
ecute officers in several high-pro-
file killings, most notably the 2014
shooting of Mr. Brown, and it saw
challenges in bringing charges in
Mr. Sterling’s death.
On Tuesday evening, around
the Triple S Food Mart parking lot
where Mr. Sterling was killed,
people congregated in the same
way they did last summer. Mr.
Continued on Page A11

NATIONAL A10-21 ARTS C1-7 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12

INTERNATIONAL A4-9
Meshal and a Changing Hamas
As Khaled Meshal steps down as senior
leader of the group, he aims to recast it
with a friendlier face. PAGE A9
Abortion’s Fate Uncertain
The outcome of a legal fight in Ken-
tucky, which once had 17 abortion
providers, could make it the only state
without an abortion clinic. PAGE A10
NEW YORK A22-24
From Cover to Cover to Cover
A new map details the city’s 280 miles of
scaffolding — thousands of structures
that irritate many pedestrians. PAGE A22
‘Great Comet’ Shines Brightly
The musical “Natasha, Pierre & the
Great Comet of 1812” has secured 12
Tony Award nominations. A revival of
“Hello, Dolly!” scored 10. PAGE C1
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
More U.S. Jobs for Outsourcer
Infosys, one of India’s leading tech
outsourcing companies, said it would
hire up to 10,000 Americans. PAGE B1
The Queen’s English It’s Not
A young soccer fan gets a lesson in blue
language at the home of Tottenham
Hotspur in London. PAGE B8
Red Sox Apologize for Abuse
FOOD D1-8 The team said it was “sickened” by the
conduct of fans who yelled epithets at
More Greens and Grains Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. PAGE B8
At Loring Place, Dan Kluger revisits the
vegetable-driven cooking he pioneered EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
at ABC Kitchen. A review. PAGE D5
Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A27

New Life for Rights Icon’s Home
A Berlin-based U.S. artist who helped
save Rosa Parks’s home says, “It’s my
job to keep the house alive.” PAGE A7
Foster Father Cleared of Abuse
After over a year in jail, Cesar Gonzales-
Mugaburu was acquitted of endanger-
ing boys on Long Island. PAGE A23
Microsoft Courts Schools
The company, losing ground to Google,
moves to make products more attrac-
tive to educators and students. PAGE B1
Pondering His Next Move
The exacting chef Thomas Keller is
wrapping up his renovation of the
French Laundry. What’s next? PAGE D1
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NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

Kentucky, which had 17 abortion At last year’s Tony Awards, all four
providers in 1978, is today among acting awards for musicals went to
seven states with just one. black actors. This year, just six of the
Battles Lines Outside the Door 40 acting nominees are not white.
Of the Last Abortion Clinic in Kentucky A10 ’Great Comet’ Shines Bright C1
• •
In 1935, the average broiler chicken In parts of the Great Lakes region,
reached the slaughter-ready weight including Chicago, Cleveland,
of 2.86 pounds in 98 days. Today
Mothers are like diamonds.
Minneapolis and Toledo, Ohio, a Both light up a room and
they weigh an average of 6.18 pounds report found that white households
at the time of slaughter, when they
JASON POLAN

on average earned more than twice

are about 47 days old.
A Better-Tasting Bird D1
• a 1314 decree, which warned that
When the musician Alice Coltrane
changed her name to Turiyasangi-
tananda, she announced it to her
children by having them practice
spelling it out with fridge magnets.
The Ashram Recordings of a Coltrane C1
King Edward II of England banned
a forerunner of modern soccer in
“there is great noise in the city
caused by hustling over large balls
from which many evils may arise.”
White on the Pitch, Blue in the Stands B8
neither crack under pressure.
as much as black households. The difference?
Report by Urban League The only thing that shines
Shows Enduring Race Gaps A21 brighter than a Tiffany diamond
• is the woman wearing it.
Roughly a quarter of the global
population of 7.5 billion is Muslim,
the vast majority Sunni.
Saudi Prince Rejects Talks With Iran A9

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Viewers were touched by Mr. Kimmel’s story of the birth and
subsequent emergency surgery of his son, who was found to
have congenital heart disease. The Times shared the story on
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the blue carpet all made the top-10 list on Tuesday.
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what?” “Who can say, really.”
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Plea in Yellow Fever Outbreak: Don’t Kill the Monkeys

Panic in Brazil
At Virus’s Spread
By SIMON ROMERO
RIO DE JANEIRO — As fears
spread in Brazil over the re-
surgence of yellow fever, health
officials are issuing a warning:
Stop killing the monkeys.
Some assailants clubbed mon-
keys to death in panicked reac-
tions to Brazil’s most alarming
outbreak in decades of a virus that
haunted the country in the 19th
and early 20th centuries. Authori-
ties found other monkeys dead
with fractured skulls after having
been being attacked with stones.
One monkey was burned to a
crisp.
Infectious disease specialists
say people are taking aim at the
wrong target. Mosquitoes, not
monkeys, are actually the vector
for the virus, and the monkeys are
dying from yellow fever in much
higher numbers than people in
Brazil. Those who kill the mon-
keys are making matters worse
by depleting primate populations
that serve as beacons for where
yellow fever is spreading,
epidemiologists said.
“They’re putting human beings
at greater risk by killing the mes-
senger,” said Renato Alves, an offi-
cial in Brazil’s Health Ministry
who is tracking the outbreak.
“Monkeys are a crucial alert
mechanism that we monitor to de-
ploy vaccines and prevention ef-
forts to the right places.”
Authorities’ pleas to stop killing
monkeys in Brazil, which has the
richest primate diversity of any
DADO GALDIERI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
country, comes amid widespread
concern over the newfound vigor Joaquim Santos de Oliveira, above, survived yellow fever, but his brother died. Far
of a virus that ranked among the left, a monkey underwent a necropsy. The disease is killing monkeys in high numbers.
largest public health threats here
before mass vaccination pro-
grams began in the 1940s. of Public Health, said a combina-
Yellow fever, which can include tion of factors might be in play, in-
symptoms like jaundice, high cluding climate change and the
fevers and multiple organ failure, deforestation of areas that serve
has killed at least 240 people in re- as buffer zones between tropical
cent months, Brazil’s Health Min- jungles and urban areas.
istry said. The disease, normally “A big concern is for the virus to
found in parts of the Amazon jump the Panama Canal” into Cen-
River Basin, has spread to the tral America, Dr. Durbin said.
country’s most populous states: The virus may also have the po-
Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and tential to spread to Puerto Rico
São Paulo. and cause travel-related cases in
As yellow fever made the leap the continental United States, Dr.
out of the Amazon, the authorities Anthony S. Fauci and Dr.
in several areas of southeastern Catharine I. Paules, both of the
Brazil reported episodes in recent National Institute of Allergy and
weeks of monkeys being killed il- ROBERTA DE OLIVEIRA RESENDE DADO GALDIERI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Infectious Diseases, said recently
legally, involving a range of meth- in The New England Journal of
ods including poisoning and hunt- Medicine. In late April, the Cen-
ing down the primates with rifles fever is on the march often don’t ver into heavily populated areas doses of the vaccine from its emer- with sinusitis,” Ms. Oliveira said. ters for Disease Control and Pre-
or clubs. realize how crucial monkeys are where the virus can be transmit- gency stockpile. “The authorities could have been vention warned of a shortage of
The killings reflect broad mis- in informing us about the disease,” ted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, In addition to urging people to more aggressive about prevent- yellow fever vaccine in the United
understanding in Brazil about said Danilo Simonini Teixeira, the the same devilishly resilient get vaccinated and to stop killing ing this tragedy, but they pre- States because of recent manufac-
how yellow fever spreads. Cases president of the Brazilian Society species that spreads viruses like monkeys, Brazilian officials are ferred to minimize the situation.” turing problems.
that are sylvatic, or in the wild, in- of Primatology. chikungunya, dengue and Zika. telling people to eliminate places Brazil’s health minister, Ricardo As epidemiologists monitor yel-
volve monkeys that are infected Monkeys have died in much While Africa has recently faced with stagnant water where mos- Barros, acknowledged in an inter- low fever’s advance into parts of
by mosquito species inhabiting higher numbers than humans in such urban outbreaks, including a quitoes can breed, like discarded view that fewer people would Brazil, monkeys are still turning
the forest canopy. Brazil’s current sylvatic outbreak. 2016 epidemic in Angola, they are tires or shower floors. Still, in im- have died in recent months had up dead, either at the hand of man
The same mosquitoes then Brazilian authorities estimate rare in South American cities. In poverished parts of Brazil where the government responded more or as a result of the virus. Re-
transmit the virus to humans who that over 4,400 monkeys have 2008, epidemiologists found yel- yellow fever has hit hard, some vigorously in the outbreak’s early searchers say the virus is
make incursions into jungles, like died from yellow fever in recent low fever transmission by Aedes say that the authorities have been stages. threatening species already at
gold prospectors, hunters or log- months; subspecies like southern aegypti in Paraguay’s capital, slow to act. “There may have been a failure risk of extinction, like the golden
gers. Such outbreaks are often rel- brown howler monkeys are espe- Asunción. The last confirmed ur- “It’s clear that hunting mon- in the vaccination blockade after lion tamarin, which lives in the
atively small. While yellow fever cially vulnerable. ban outbreak of yellow fever in the keys is wrong, but when monkeys the first monkeys began showing forests of Rio de Janeiro State.
is often asymptomatic in humans, While the outbreak has many Americas was previously thought started showing up dead from yel- up dead in Minas Gerais,” said Mr. Karen Strier, an anthropologist
patients who develop severe people in Brazil on edge, virus to be during the 1940s. low fever the vaccinations should Barros, referring to the Brazilian at the University of Wisconsin
symptoms can die within seven to specialists fear the possibility that As the authorities grapple anew have started,” said Dalila de state that has been hardest hit in who has studied monkeys in the
10 days. yellow fever could spin out of con- with yellow fever in Brazil, they Oliveira, 30, a manicurist. Her the outbreak, with more than 160 Atlantic Forest in Brazil since the
“People in regions where yellow trol by spreading rapidly around are voicing relief that it has not cousin Watila dos Santos, a 38- fatalities. 1980s, said she had never seen
cities, stirring ghosts of epidemics evolved into an urban outbreak. year-old construction worker, Infectious disease specialists monkeys die from disease in such
Ernesto Londoño contributed re- that devastated urban areas like Nearly 19 million doses of vaccine died in March from the virus in are trying to determine why yel- high numbers. She described a
porting from Cambridge, Mass., Rio de Janeiro more than a cen- are being distributed in areas Casimiro de Abreu, an area in the low fever is emerging with greater “sense of emptiness” in a reserve
Paula Moura from São Paulo, tury ago. where the virus is spreading. The interior of Rio de Janeiro State. ferocity this year in Brazil. Dr. near Caratinga in Minas Gerais
Brazil, and Dom Phillips from Rio In urban outbreaks, infected World Health Organization is also “He went to the public hospital Anna P. Durbin, a researcher at State, where howler monkeys had
de Janeiro. people often introduce yellow fe- providing Brazil with 3.5 million and was mistakenly diagnosed Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School largely vanished.

After 47 Days, a Crew Found

helping the rescue effort. “I went by us-
ing a machete in the jungle,” he said. “I
went by the side of the river. It was risky
for me to go through. I might have lost

Two Bodies. Then One Spoke. my life as well.”

By RAJNEESH BHANDARI
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The rescue
team had nearly given up when it spotted
distant figures on a ledge.
Over the course of 47 days, since two
young Taiwanese trekkers wandered off
the trail in a snowstorm, the searchers
had tried almost everything: aerial sur-
veys by helicopter, bushwhacking
through deep forest, trying to follow the
movements of vultures.
The father of Liang Sheng-Yueh, one of
the missing students, had even con-
sulted an astrologer. But they found
nothing.
Alerted by a fellow searcher who saw
what he assumed were two bodies on the
ledge, the leader of the rescue team,
Madhab Basnet, carefully made his way
to the site, using a handmade ladder the
rescuers had quickly fashioned. When he
reached the ledge, he was shocked when
one of the two, an emaciated and badly
weakened young man, spoke to him.
He said that his girlfriend, Liu Chen
Chi, 19, had died three days before.
“He said his girlfriend was in a lot of
pain and grief,” Mr. Basnet said. “He said
he ate salt and water and that’s how he
survived.”
Ellen Barry contributed reporting from
New Delhi.
Every trekking season in Nepal
produces tales of physical endurance
and heartbreak. They are rarely as ex-
treme, though, as that of Mr. Liang, who
was released from the hospital on Mon-
day. He arrived having dropped to 84
pounds from 150 pounds, his hair infested
with lice and the flesh of one foot being
eating by maggots. Doctors said he most
likely survived because he was able to
replenish the salt in his body and drink
melted snow.
It was not immediately clear where he
got the salt, but Mr. Liang was an experi-
enced climber who might have carried
an extra supply in case of such a disaster.
Ms. Liu appeared to have died of star-
vation, said Dr. Mani Maharjan, who per-
formed an autopsy.
Dr. Chakra Raj Pandey, the medical di-
rector at Grande International Hospital,
said Mr. Liang at one point turned to him
with a strange request.
“He asked me to provide him with a
book that had maps,” Dr. Pandey said. “It
appeared to me that he wanted to look at
a map and recall his trekking journey
and probably find out where the journey
went wrong.”
The two hikers, both students at Na-
tional Dong Hwa University in Taiwan,
arrived in Nepal for their trek in Febru-
ary and were last seen on March 9.
Dr. Chakra Raj Pandey, left, checked Liang Sheng-Yueh last week in Kath-
mandu, Nepal. Mr. Liang, a trekker, was missing for weeks but was rescued.
After becoming disoriented in a snow-
storm, they tried to follow the path of a
river, in hopes that it would lead them to
a settlement, Mr. Liang told his rescuers
and local news media immediately after
the rescue. Since then, he has declined all
interview requests at the behest of the
Taiwanese government.
As they made their way along the
river, they slid into a ravine and became
stuck on the ledge, where they took shel-
ter in a cave. They remained there for
more than six weeks. On either side of
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the ledge were steep rock faces, so they
could not move up or down, and snow
was falling outside, Mr. Liang told the
rescuers. After 10 days, their food ran
out, he said.
Their parents, alarmed not to have
heard from them, hired a search party on
March 26. The team set off the next day
and continued to search for nearly two
weeks. When that failed, a second search
began.
The lost trekkers were first spotted by
Dawa Tamang, 55, a farmer who was
But then he spied the two figures on
the ledge.
“I didn’t touch them,” Mr. Tamang
said. “I came back and went to call my
friends because I was told not to touch
the bodies. I just saw them and then
came back.”
They built a ladder out of a dead tree,
expecting to retrieve the bodies. That is
when Mr. Basnet descended to the ledge
and, to his surprise, found Mr. Liang
alive but too weak to stand. They fed him
noodles hoping to build up his strength.
“We were shocked and afraid,” Mr.
Basnet said. “We were thinking he was
dead.”
They carried Mr. Liang to safety, while
the young woman’s body was airlifted
from the ledge.
Over six days in the hospital, Mr. Liang
gained 13 pounds, the doctor said.
“I feel relaxed now, but can’t recall the
last 47 days,” he told a reporter from The
Himalayan Times.
He celebrated his 21st birthday in the
company of journalists, telling them that
he had survived only thanks to the
prayers of others.
“If you look at his eyes and his face,
you can see that he is excited about a new
life,” Dr. Pandey said. “This is called re-
birth. But the happiness of rebirth is
mixed with the loss of his girlfriend and
the tragedy of staying in the mountains
and enduring so much pain.”

Merkel Presses Putin on Treatment of Gays and Jehovah’s Witnesses
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
and ALISON SMALE
MOSCOW — Germany’s chan-
cellor, Angela Merkel, took the op-
portunity of a rare visit to Russia
to raise human rights issues on
Tuesday with President Vladimir
V. Putin, a noted departure from
their continuing differences over
Ukraine and Syria.
Ms. Merkel said she had talked
to Mr. Putin about her concerns on
civil rights in Russia, including,
among other issues, the persecu-
tion of gay men, a new ban on Je-
hovah’s Witnesses and the arrests
of anti-Kremlin protesters.
“I have, in my talks with the
Russian president, indicated how
important is the right to demon-
strate in a civil society and how
important the role of NGOs is,”
Ms. Merkel said at a news confer-
ence in Sochi, Russia, referring to
nongovernmental organizations.
“I also spoke about the very
negative report about what is hap-
pening to homosexuals in Chech-
nya and asked Mr. President to ex-
ert his influence to ensure that mi-
norities’ rights are protected,” she
added. He hosted her at his resi-
dence in Sochi, her first visit to
Russia since May 2015.
There was no indication during
the news conference that the two
Neil MacFarquhar reported from
Moscow, and Alison Smale from
Berlin.
Czech Premier Offers
To Resign Over Dispute
Roiling Discord With His Finance Minister
By HANA de GOEIJ
PRAGUE — The Czech Re-
public’s prime minister offered his
resignation on Tuesday, saying he
could no longer work with his fi-
nance minister and political rival,
a populist billionaire whose party
is favored in elections set for Octo-
ber.
The prime minister, Bohuslav
Sobotka, said he would meet Pres-
ident Milos Zeman this week to
formally submit his resignation
and that of the cabinet. It was not
immediately clear if Mr. Zeman
would accept the resignations.
At a news conference, Mr.
Sobotka said he could not defend
the conduct of the finance min-
ister, Andrej Babis, a 62-year-old
magnate-turned-politician who
has rejected frequent compar-
isons to President Trump.
Mr. Babis, one of the country’s
wealthiest people, started a fertil-
izer company after the fall of Com-
munism and, over the years,
turned it into the Agrofert con-
glomerate, which now employs
33,000 people across a host of
companies, including two news-
papers, a radio station and a mu-
sic channel on television.
In 2011, Mr. Babis founded his
own political party, ANO (the
name means “Yes” in Czech), and
in the 2013 parliamentary elec-
MARTIN DIVISEK/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Prime Minister Bohuslav
Sobotka plans to submit his
and his cabinet’s resignation
formally to the president.
tions, the party placed second, be-
hind Mr. Sobotka’s Social
Democratic Party. The parties
formed an uneasy coalition, and
Mr. Babis was named finance min-
ister.
In January, the Czech establish-
ment teamed up against Mr.
Babis, enacting a law that would
bar cabinet ministers from own-
ing media companies or more
than one-quarter of any company
seeking government contracts or
European Union subsidies.
Mr. Babis responded by declar-
ing that he would place his busi-
ness holdings in a trust.
The controversy involves cor-
porate bonds that Agrofert issued
in 2012 under a program that al-
lowed buyers of the bonds to enjoy
a tax exemption on the interest.
Mr. Babis bought some of the
bonds himself. The authorities are
looking into how he obtained the
money to buy the bonds, and
whether he benefited improperly
from the transaction.
Mr. Sobotka said that Mr. Babis
had set a bad example.
“It is unacceptable for the fi-
nance minister not to be able to
leaders had made progress on
other topics during their nearly
two-hour meeting, including eco-
nomic problems like sanctions
and differences over Ukraine and
Syria.
Germany has repeatedly
pressed Russia to fulfill the Minsk
peace agreements, which are
meant to end the fighting in
southeastern Ukraine. Although
Mr. Putin endorsed the idea of
their importance, he again ac-
cused Ukraine of fanning the
problems there.
Europe remains Russia’s most
important interlocutor, despite
the Kremlin’s multifaceted at-
tempts to undermine European
Union solidarity and to depict the
region as a caldron of anarchy and
economic problems and as lacking
traditional values. Moscow has re-
peatedly brushed off criticism of
its disinformation and other cam-
paigns in Europe as the product of
“Russophobia.”
In Germany, the talks are im-
portant for the chancellor as she
faces a difficult race for a fourth
term in elections scheduled for
Sept. 24. Gay rights protesters
had engaged in a 48-hour vigil out-
side Ms. Merkel’s office, demand-
ing that she bring up the issue of
gay men in Chechnya.
Asked about recent arrests of
protesters in Russia, Mr. Putin
said, “Our law enforcement and
judicial organs act within the
framework of the laws that exist in
prove the origins of his property,
especially since he is a member of
a government that has built its
program on a fight against tax
evasion,” Mr. Sobotka said at the
news conference. “It is impossible
for the government to chase small
entrepreneurs when a billionaire
is evading taxes.”
Mr. Sobotka said it was a diffi-
cult decision.
“If I ask the finance minister to
resign, I might turn him into a
martyr in the upcoming months,”
the prime minister said. “He has
been preparing for that role for
the past few days already. I chose
the only possible decision.”
Petr Fiala, the head of the cen-
ter-right opposition Civic
Democratic Party, ridiculed Mr.
Sobotka’s logic, calling it an exam-
ple of “cluelessness.” He predicted
that Mr. Sobotka would not be able
to form a governing coalition with-
out Mr. Babis’s support.
“The prime minister’s decision
is a continuation of an absurd po-
litical theater that we have been
witnessing for a few months now,”
Mr. Fiala said in an interview.
“One has to wonder how the prime
minister plans to negotiate with
the current coalition parties —
that is with Andrej Babis, as well
— about a new government with-
out Andrej Babis.”
Mr. Babis, for his part, said he
was stunned by the decision.
“The prime minister just de-
stroyed one of the most successful
governments since the Velvet
Revolution,” he said in a state-
ment, referring to the nonviolent
demonstrations in 1989 that
eventually toppled one-party
Communist rule in what was then
Czechoslovakia.
Mr. Babis said he had sent a let-
ter to Mr. Sobotka explaining that
he had complied with all tax laws.
“Mr. Sobotka has never run any
business of his own, so I under-
stand it is difficult for him to com-
prehend the letter I sent,” Mr.
Babis said.
The Czech Republic joined the
European Union in 2004, and it
has experienced rapid economic
growth. It also has one of the low-
est unemployment rates — 3.2
percent in March — of the 28 na-
tions in the bloc. The Czech cur-
rency, the koruna, dipped slightly
on Tuesday against the euro after
news of the resignations, but it
quickly recovered.
Analysts said that Mr. Sobotka
might have made a shrewd deci-
sion by distancing himself from
Mr. Babis.
“It was a very good move of
Sobotka that will free his hands
for the election campaign, allow
him to stand up against Babis and
allow him to claim that he is not
clinging to power,” said Stanislav
Balik, the head of the political sci-
ence department at Masaryk Uni-
versity in Brno, the second-larg-
est Czech city, after Prague. “The
big unknown now is the president.
Who will he give power to?”
Mr. Zeman, who said through a
spokesman that he had no imme-
diate comment, could reject the
resignations and insist that the
current cabinet stay on until the
elections. Or he could ask some-
one other than Mr. Sobotka to try
to form a caretaker government.
(Mr. Babis said on Tuesday that he
had no interest in doing so.)
“We might have a new govern-
ment next week, or we might have
to wait for five more months,” Mr.
Balik said, referring to the fall
elections.
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Vladimir
Putin of Russia at Tuesday’s news conference in Sochi, Russia.
Russia and will continue to act in
that way, observing order and dis-
cipline.”
Relations between Germany
and Russia have been fraught
since 2014, when Russia seized
Crimea and then destabilized the
rest of Ukraine by its not-so-se-
cret promotion of an insurgency in
the southeast of the country. Rus-
sia also denies interfering in re-
cent elections in the Netherlands
and France, with any such plans
for the German election this fall
probably of particular concern for
Ms. Merkel.
Ms. Merkel has led the effort
Marine Le Pen, center, who is in a runoff for the French presidency, during a rally in Villepinte, France, on Monday.
Le Pen Accused of Plagiarizing Ex-Rival’s Speech
By AURELIEN BREEDEN
PARIS — Marine Le Pen, the
far-right presidential candidate in
France, was battling accusations
on Tuesday that she had plagia-
rized sections of a speech by her
conservative former opponent,
François Fillon, at her May Day
rally.
Supporters of Ms. Le Pen, who
is seeking to broaden her appeal
with French voters before the sec-
ond round of the presidential elec-
tion on Sunday, said that she had
merely “winked” at voters with
remarks that amounted to a
“small loan.”
Ms. Le Pen has focused in part
on persuading voters who backed
Mr. Fillon in the first round of the
election to choose her over Em-
manuel Macron, her centrist op-
ponent and a strong favorite. Polls
show Mr. Macron drawing about
60 percent of the vote.
The plagiarism accusations
came to light Monday evening af-
ter the French news media noted
that several sections of Ms. Le
Pen’s speech at a rally near Paris
that day closely matched an ad-
dress by Mr. Fillon on April 15.
In his speech then at Le Puy-en-
Velay, a small town in central
France, Mr. Fillon referred to
France’s land and maritime bor-
ders, and praised its language and
culture, saying France “is a his-
tory, is a geography, but it is also a
set of values and principles
passed down from generation to
generation, like passwords.”
Ms. Le Pen used very similar
terms on Monday, when she said,
“France is also a set of values and
principles passed down from gen-
eration to generation, like pass-
words.”
She also echoed almost verba-
tim Mr. Fillon’s description of
France’s “three maritime coast-
lines” and his characterization of
France as “something else, and
much more, than the industrial,
agricultural or military power.”
Neither Mr. Macron nor Mr. Fil-
lon has commented directly on the
accusations, but Ridicule TV, a
pro-Fillon Twitter account, posted
side-by-side video comparisons of
the remarks, as did several news
organizations in France.
Asked about the accusations
that Ms. Le Pen had lifted parts of
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among European leaders to keep
Western sanctions in place until
the fulfillment of the peace agree-
ments signed in Minsk, Belarus.
One crucial economic matter is
building a second branch of the
Nord Stream pipeline carrying
Russian gas to Europe. The strat-
egy is to bypass Eastern Euro-
pean countries by shipping
natural gas under the Black Sea in
the south and the Baltic Sea in the
north. If completed, the system of
subsea pipelines would allow Rus-
sia to shut off gas to Eastern Euro-
pean countries during political
disputes without disrupting hard-
Mr. Fillon’s speech, Louis Aliot,
the candidate’s partner and a vice
president of her National Front
party, told the news channel LCI
on Tuesday morning that it was a
“clin d’œil” — meaning a wink or a
nod — to Mr. Fillon’s voters.
“With part of the right, we have
the exact same view on the na-
tion’s identity and on national in-
dependence,” he added.
Mr. Fillon, who drew 20 percent
of the votes in the first round, only
1.3 percentage points less than Ms.
Le Pen, did not qualify for the sec-
ond round and has asked his
supporters to vote for Mr. Macron.
On Tuesday, Mr. Macron also re-
ceived the unexpected backing of
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former
finance minister and a darling of
the political left.
Mr. Varoufakis, writing in an op-
ed for Le Monde, said that
“French progressive voters have
all the reasons to be angry against
Emmanuel Macron” because of
his economic policies, but that it
was crucial to keep Ms. Le Pen
from winning power. Mr. Varo-
ufakis also praised Mr. Macron for
personally reaching out to him at
the height of Greece’s debt crisis
in 2015, to try to reopen talks.
“I think it is my duty to ensure
that French progressives, who are
about to enter (or not enter) the
voting booth in the second round
of the presidential election, be
fully aware of this as they make
their choice,” he wrote.
Many hard-left voters have
been put off by Mr. Macron’s eco-
nomic policies and his support for
labor regulation overhauls when
he was economy minister. So
much so that the France Unbowed
movement of Jean-Luc Mélen-
chon, the hard-left candidate who
came in fourth in the first-round
vote, announced that its members
were not inclined to turn out for
Mr. Macron on Sunday.
In an unscientific online survey
of Mr. Mélenchon’s supporters
conducted by his party, only 34.8
percent said they would vote for
Mr. Macron against Ms. Le Pen.
Nearly two-thirds of the 250,000
who participated in the poll said
they would abstain or cast a blank
ballot in the final round. (Voting
for Ms. Le Pen was not one of the
options.)
currency earnings from
customers in Western Europe.
Germans have been among the
staunchest supporters of the plan,
while European capitals generally
hostile to Moscow are opposed to
increasing dependence on Rus-
sian gas.
The head of the Russian gas gi-
ant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, was
quoted in Russian news reports
last week as saying that the two
sides had agreed on paying for
construction costs, with Russia
paying about half of the more than
$10 billion and five European com-
panies the rest.
The twin issues of Crimea and
Ukraine could block any improve-
ment in relations, Ms. Merkel’s
spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said
before her visit. “These are bur-
densome circumstances which
cannot just be talked away,” he
said.
Berlin also has doubts about
Russia’s intervention in Syria,
particularly its support for Presi-
dent Bashar al-Assad in the face of
repeated evidence that he de-
ployed chemical weapons against
his civilian population.
Mr. Putin also said that the two
sides had discussed settling the
conflict in Syria; later on Tuesday,
he was scheduled to talk by phone
with President Trump about Syr-
ia.
Asked whether he had influ-
ence over Mr. Assad, Mr. Putin
Ms. Le Pen may have an equally
difficult time, no matter whose
words she uses, convincing the
supporters of her vanquished ri-
vals to back her candidacy. Da-
mien Abad, a former spokesman
for Mr. Fillon, told BFM-TV,
“François Fillon’s voters aren’t
fooled. They won’t be bought be-
cause one copies parts of their
candidate’s speech.”
On Twitter, Paul-Marie
Coûteaux, a French writer and ed-
itor, provided a possible explana-
tion for the similarities between
Mr. Fillon’s April speech and Ms.
Le Pen’s comments on Monday:
The words both candidates used
were his, pulled from a book pub-
lished in 1997.
“It is good (and significant) that
Marine Le Pen and François Fil-
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A cease-fire is a top priority, he
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on Wednesday and the next day in
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
Mr. Putin is also scheduled to
hold talks on Wednesday in Sochi
with the Turkish president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, that will most
likely focus on Syria. Mr. Erdogan
said on Tuesday in Ankara, the
Turkish capital, that he would dis-
cuss possible operations against
the Islamic State in Syria with Mr.
Putin.
Ms. Merkel and Mr. Putin last
met in October, when she hosted
him, along with the leaders of
France and Ukraine, for inconclu-
sive talks on carrying out the
cease-fire in Ukraine.
The official reason for the visit
on Tuesday was the agenda of the
Group of 20 summit meeting in
July in Hamburg, Germany,
where Ms. Merkel will be the host.
It will probably be the first face-to-
face encounter between Mr.
Trump and Mr. Putin.
Given the uncertainties of
American policy toward Russia,
which has moved from warmth
from Mr. Trump as a candidate to
something more antagonistic,
Germany might find itself serving
as an intermediary despite its
own qualms over the Trump ad-
ministration’s foreign policy.
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with the same terms,” wrote Mr.
Coûteaux, who founded but no
longer presides over a small far-
right organization close to the Na-
tional Front called Sovereignty,
Identity and Liberties.
“These terms, of a Gaullist in-
spiration, are those of my work
‘Europe’s Road to War,’” he said,
referring to the heritage of former
President Charles de Gaulle, and
adding the hashtag #clind’oeil.
Mr. Coûteaux told the newspa-
per Journal du Dimanche on Tues-
day that he had provided notes to
Mr. Fillon for his speech on April
15, but he had not done so for Ms.
Le Pen.
Still, he said he supported Ms.
Le Pen and was not “displeased”
that the two candidates had used
his words.
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
Inky Fingerprints
Of London Tabloids
Are All Over ‘Brexit’
From Page A1
Murdoch poached him 20 months ago.
Together, these three titles are a central
reason that print coverage of the referen-
dum campaign was skewed 80 percent to
20 percent in favor of Brexit, according to an interview on March 29, the same day
research by Loughborough University.
In the marble-and-glass lobby of the 17- Union leaders in Brussels formally initi-
story News Building, home to Mr. Mur-
doch’s British media empire, there is a
small plaque that commemorates the
building’s 2014 opening by Boris John-
son, then the mayor of London and now
the British foreign secretary.
Mr. Johnson, wild-haired and witty, be-
came a chief architect of Brexit when,
four months before the referendum, he
threw his weight behind a cause until
then most closely associated with the
populist U.K. Independence Party. But
his main contribution to Brexit may go
back more than two decades.
A correspondent in Brussels for The
Daily Telegraph in the early 1990s, Mr.
Johnson was credited by fellow
reporters with pioneering the euroskep-
tic coverage of the European Union that
has since become the default setting for
much of the British press. With little re-
gard for the truth — he was previously
fired by The Times of London for making
up a quote — Mr. Johnson wrote about a
Front-page splashes in The Daily Mail in the
weeks leading up to last year’s Brexit vote.
Europe scheming to impose standard
condom sizes and ban his country’s be-
loved prawn-cocktail-flavored chips
(both untrue).
“Boris invented fake news,” said Mar-
tin Fletcher, a former foreign editor of
The Times, who was in Brussels shortly
after Mr. Johnson. “He turned eur-
oskepticism into an art form that every
news editor in London came to expect.”
Before the referendum, Mr. Fletcher
added, “Boris campaigned against the
cartoon caricature of Brussels that he
himself invented.”
The campaign was marked by a relent-
less drip of anti-immigration rhetoric
and a couple of big lies that stuck: the 350 turned on the nine-month-old govern-
million pounds (about $450 million at
current rates) that Britain paid to the Eu- treated. “It took them less than a week,”
ropean Union every week (false) and the
prospect of millions of Turks’ making
their way to Britain if it stayed in the un- on — Mrs. May’s predecessor as prime
ion (Turkey is not joining the bloc). Two
years ago, the United Nations urged Brit-
ain to deal with hate speech in its news-
papers, specifically citing a column in
The Sun that compared migrants to
cockroaches and the norovirus.
The tabloids say they merely reflect
the concerns and fears of their readers.
But their critics say they poison the de-
bate by playing to people’s worst in-
stincts and prejudices, distorting facts
and creating a propaganda ramp that
‘We campaigned for Brexit. I don’t think we caused Brexit.’
TONY GALLAGHER, editor of The Sun, one of Britain’s most influential tabloids
mainstreams intolerance and shapes
policy.
Respected, and Feared
I had emailed Mr. Gallagher seeking
Britain delivered a letter to European
ating the two-year Brexit negotiations. I
argued that it was difficult to understand
Britain today without understanding the
tabloids. He must have agreed.
The elevator rose past the offices of
The Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones
news agency, The Sunday Times and The
Times, all the way up to The Sun’s news-
room. Mr. Murdoch, proprietor of The
Sun since 1969, sits right above.
At The Telegraph, Mr. Gallagher won
respect for overseeing coverage of one of
the biggest political scandals in recent
British history: More than two dozen
lawmakers resigned after the paper re-
vealed widespread abuse of allowances
and expenses that paid for, among other
things, limed oak toilet seats and the
clearing of a moat.
But he also has a reputation for losing
his temper. “Mail Men,” a new book
about The Daily Mail, where Mr. Galla-
gher spent much of his career, quotes for-
mer colleagues describing him as a “fig-
ure of death” who “put the
fear of the devil into his
reporters.”
A tall, lean figure, he
guided me to a seat opposite
a panoramic view of London.
Throughout our conversa-
tion, he was cautious and
mostly unsmiling, but polite.
(He called the book’s depic-
tion of him “mean.”)
Unprompted, he pointed
to a staircase and explained
that The Sun’s newsroom
was the only one in the build-
ing with direct access to the
management floor. (“They
are up and down those stairs
all the time,” a journalist said
later. “They” are Mr. Mur-
doch, when he is in town, and
his British chief, Rebekah Brooks, a for-
mer editor of The Sun and of the now-de-
funct News of the World who was
charged with criminal offenses related to
phone hacking but was cleared by a jury
in 2014.)
Mr. Gallagher was still enjoying the af-
termath of a recent showdown with the
government. The Sun had printed bump-
er stickers and run an eight-page special
report on how a rise in national insur-
ance contributions for self-employed
people would hurt “White Van Men,”
shorthand for members of the working
class, who, in The Sun’s view, were get-
ting the shaft.
It was the first time the tabloids had
ment of Mrs. May, and she swiftly re-
Mr. Gallagher recalled.
He recounted the fury of David Camer-
minister, who called for the referendum
and campaigned to stay in the European
Union — when The Sun turned against
him on Brexit.
It so happened that Mr. Gallagher had
a meeting with Mr. Cameron — “Just a
catch-up,” the editor recalled. Mr. Camer-
on was cursing “about the coverage that
he was getting in the early stages of the
referendum,” Mr. Gallagher said. “He
was in a red-faced four-letter rage.”
“I put my pen in my mouth because I
Losing London
This article is part of a series examin-
ing whether “Brexit” will sink a great
global city.
thought I was going to burst out laugh-
ing,” he added.
At their best, Britain’s irreverent
tabloids report without fear or favor, ag-
gressively holding the political elite to
account. But they can be selective about
whom they hound — and boastful. In
1992, when the Conservative Party un-
expectedly beat Labour after a ferocious
anti-Labour campaign in The Sun, the
paper’s headline proclaimed, “It’s the
Sun Wot Won It.”
And Brexit? Was it The Sun wot won
it? “We campaigned for Brexit,” Mr. Gal-
lagher said carefully. “I don’t think we
caused Brexit.”
In June, barely an hour after the refer-
endum results were in, he struck a very
different tone in a text message to a jour-
nalist at The Guardian: “So much for the
waning power of the print media.”
Mirroring or Inciting?
The Sun sells only 1.6 million copies to-
day (more than 80 percent of them out-
side London and the country’s wealthy
southeast), down from a peak of 4.7 mil-
lion in the mid-1990s. It lost more than
£60 million, about $75 million, last year.
Why are politicians still so scared?
“It’s a fact that print newspapers, na-
tional newspapers, set the agenda here
far more effectively than broadcasters,
who are essentially a reactive medium,”
said Mr. Gallagher, noting that newspa-
pers can keep hitting certain issues.
“So if you as a newspaper are making
much of the fact that all our laws are
made in Europe, eventually that perme-
ates the national consciousness,” he said.
Britain makes many of its own laws, of
course. But it is an interesting choice of
example. A more obvious one might have
been immigration.
Research by a former Times journal-
ist, Liz Gerard, showed that tabloids
pounded the immigration issue, with at
least 30 hostile front-page splashes in
The Daily Mail in the six months leading
up to the referendum, and 15 in The Sun.
The headlines — “Britain’s Wide Open
Borders” The Daily Mail shouted — often
tended toward histrionic. The Sun
insinuated that child refugees arriving in
Britain were lying about their ages and
should have dental X-rays.
“Tell Us the Tooth,” the headline read.
A week earlier, I had met Kelvin Mac-
Kenzie, a former Sun editor and a col-
umnist who was subsequently sus-
pended for referring to a mixed-race soc-
cer star as a “gorilla.” He said that the pa-
per still reflected the “beating heart of
Britain,” and that Brexit was won on im-
migration “by a thousand miles.”
Mr. Gallagher was more nuanced.
“It was about a combination of migra-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSÉ SARMENTO MATOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tion, sovereignty under the broad um-
brella of taking back control, and a sense
that, as a country, we were no longer able
to control our destiny,” he said.
The Sun, which recruits some
employees straight out of high school,
has an almost personal relationship with
its readers, like that with a trusted friend
down at the pub.
Other newspapers in Mr. Murdoch’s
group supported remaining in the Euro-
pean Union, Mr. Gallagher noted, reflect-
ing the views of their readers. Among
that group was the Scottish edition of
The Sun, which like Scottish voters
backed Remain.
“It makes commercial sense,” said Mr.
Gallagher. But he has also been a pas-
sionate euroskeptic for years.
“Undoubtedly, we fed people’s enthu-
siasm,” Mr. Gallagher said. But, he add-
ed, “the idea that we can somehow drag
otherwise unwilling readers to a point of
view that they don’t otherwise have is
delusional.”
Roy Greenslade, a former features edi-
tor at The Sun, disagreed. In 1975, he
said, the last time Britain held a referen-
dum on membership in what was then
the European Economic Community,
and a time when polls suggested that
most people wanted to leave, all papers
(except the communist Morning Star)
campaigned to stay. People voted to stay.
“Every populist editor will tell you,
‘We are merely reflecting and articulat-
ing the public views,’ ” said Mr.
Greenslade, now a journalism professor
at City University of London. “But they
are publishing inaccuracies and distor-
tions which help people to feel the way
they’re feeling.”
‘Creative’ Headlines
It was 2:30 p.m., and Mr. Gallagher
had already mocked up Pages 3-29 of the
next day’s paper. He expected the front
page to lead with the funeral of the police
officer who had been killed in the recent
Westminster terrorist attack. The offi-
cer’s widow and child would appear in
public for the first time, which could
make for “emotional” pictures, the editor
said. But the decision would not be made
until the daily 5 p.m. Page 1 conference.
Mr. Gallagher said he had once at-
tended a news meeting at The New York
Times. He was not impressed.
“I was shocked at how threadbare and
how little actual discussion there was in
the meeting,” he said. “There was no en-
ergy, there was no creativity. It could not
have been more desultory and perfunc-
tory, the discussion. It was awful.”
The Sun’s news meetings are much
more “lively,” he said.
O.K., I said. Could I attend the Sun
meeting that afternoon?
He stiffened. “No,” he said. “It’s an in-
ner-sanctum meeting.”
A what?
“We have lawyers in the meeting,” he
explained, adding, “We try our headlines
there. It’s quite a creative meeting.”
Britain’s tabloids pride themselves on
Above, the News
Building in London
houses the offices of
The Sun and other
publications in
Rupert Murdoch’s
media empire. Left,
a newspaper shop
in Dagenham, Eng-
land. The Sun sells
only 1.6 million
copies today, down
from a peak of 4.7
million in the
mid-1990s.
their “creativity.” Perhaps The Sun’s
most brazen front-page claim last year
was “Queen Backs Brexit,” a headline
later ruled misleading by Britain’s press
regulator.
The Sun’s unchallenged king of “cre-
ative” headlines is Mr. MacKenzie, once
the paper’s editor. Some of the meeting
rooms are named after his most memo-
rable creations, like “Gotcha,” his take on
the sinking of an Argentine warship dur-
ing the Falklands War that killed more
than 300 people, and “Up Yours Delors,”
telling Jacques Delors, then the presi-
dent of the European Commission,
where to stick a proposed new European
currency.
I had met Mr. MacKenzie a week earli-
er to ask about those headlines. “Your
front pages were sometimes funny and
sometimes outrageous,” I began, at
which point he interrupted and said,
“And sometimes untrue!”
Wow.
I asked what headline he would like to
see in the paper were he still in charge.
“I think the fake news headline that
would give this country the most joy,” he
replied cheerfully, “would be ‘Jeremy
Corbyn Knifed to Death by an Asylum
Seeker.’ ”
Mr. Corbyn is the leader of the Labour
Party. Mr. MacKenzie’s fake news head-
line inevitably brought to mind the mur-
der of Jo Cox, a pro-Remain Labour law-
maker who was killed by a man with far-
right leanings a week before the referen-
dum. Her death prompted a lot of soul-
searching over whether the tone of the
campaign had encouraged hate crimes.
(The next morning, I got a text mes-
sage from Mr. MacKenzie: “Hi Katrin,
Can you change that perfect headline
from ‘Jeremy Corbyn knifed to death by
asylum seeker’ to ‘Jeremy Corbyn De-
frauded by Asylum Seeker.’ In the light of
Jo Cox murder mine is in tol poor taste.”)
Mr. Gallagher left for his “inner-sanc-
tum meeting” but promised to brief me
later. I wandered up to the canteen on the
14th floor.
The servers were all Southern Euro-
pean. An assistant chef strolling by said
the kitchen staff was mostly foreign-
born, too. He could not imagine how they
would staff the kitchen after Brexit. “It
will be chaos,” he said.
It was 5:40 p.m. The lineup for the next
day’s front page had been decided. The
photos of the police officer’s funeral were
found “unsatisfactory” for a full-page
splash. A soccer player, Ross Barkley,
who had been beaten up in a nightclub
and who would later become the subject
of Mr. MacKenzie’s gorilla column, was
the main story. The headline: “Barkley’s
Spank.”
My time was up. Mr. Gallagher had
kept his poker face all afternoon. The
only time I thought he had shifted in his
seat was when I asked about his chil-
dren’s views on Brexit. Two were too
young to vote, he said, but his oldest, who
is 21, cast her ballot for Remain.
He accompanied me to the door. “Don’t
stitch me up,” he said.

Germans Embrace Rosa Parks’s House, Saved for Second Life
By SALLY McGRANE
BERLIN — As twilight fell
over Wedding, a working-class
Berlin neighborhood, the cur-
tained window panes of a small,
dilapidated-looking backyard
house began to glow. Yellow light
spilled through the cracks in the
wooden facade. Children playing
next door looked up as the house
started to vibrate with musical
notes and otherworldly feedback.
Then came the strong, clear
voice of the American civil rights
icon Rosa Parks. She was talking
about Montgomery, Ala., and her
refusal to give up her seat in the
front of a bus.
The house, where Ms. Parks
lived, once sat in Detroit, and
belonged to Ms. Parks’s brother.
But after it was threatened with
demolition, the house was moved
to Berlin, where it was opened to
the public in early April.
Inside, Ryan Mendoza, a
Berlin-based American artist,
has been putting on half-hour-
long sound performances, includ-
ing excerpts from a 1957 radio
interview with Ms. Parks con-
ducted in this very building. “It’s
my job to keep the house alive,”
Mr. Mendoza explained.
He added, “I try to make it
loud enough to annoy the neigh-
bors, but not too much.”
So far, the neighbors do not
seem to be annoyed. On the
contrary, Berlin has embraced
the little house from Detroit,
which Ms. Parks moved to in
1957, and lived in with her broth-
er’s large family after fleeing
death threats and employment
problems in the South.
The house’s unlikely second
life in Mr. Mendoza’s garden in
Berlin has captured the city’s
imagination, making front-page
news and, for some, symbolizing
Germany’s changing role in the
world.
The project came about last
year, when Rhea McCauley, Ms.
Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza
in Detroit. As part of an art
project that explored his own
sense of home, as well as the
American subprime mortgage
crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully
transported an abandoned house
from Detroit to Europe, winning
the trust of Detroit community
members along the way. Ms.
McCauley told him she had man-
aged to buy back the family
house for $500, but she could not
find anyone interested in helping
restore and preserve it.
Mr. Mendoza, who makes his
living as a fine-arts painter,
agreed to help. He raised a little
over $100,000 by selling some of
his paintings, and set out for
Detroit. There, he worked with a
local team to take apart the
house, which had fallen into
extreme disrepair.
He then shipped the wooden
exterior to Berlin, where he
spent the winter painstakingly
rebuilding it, mostly alone, by
hand. “It was an act of love,” he
said.
That the house had to be
shipped to Berlin to be saved is
A Province’s Tax Breaks
Are Shrouded in Secrecy
By DAN LEVIN
VANCOUVER, British Colum-
bia — British Columbia is well
known for its spectacular land-
scape and outdoorsy living, its
swanky urban real estate and
bouillabaisse of cultures.
A fact not so well known? It has
a sweet deal for businesses, offer-
ing them tax breaks in an unusual-
ly opaque arrangement.
Like many places, British Co-
lumbia set up a system of tax in-
centives to lure businesses to the
far western Canadian province in
the hopes of creating jobs and
transforming Vancouver into a
global financial center.
But if the program has been
good for business, it’s been less
beneficial for British Columbia.
Participating companies have
created few jobs, according to
government figures, while more
than 140 million Canadian dollars
($106 million) have been doled out
in tax refunds since 2008, when
the initiative was expanded.
The incentives operate under a
cloak of secrecy that is unusual for
similar efforts in Canada and the
United States, critics say. The
province will not name the compa-
nies that get the breaks. The only
information available about them
is on the website of a nonprofit
that promotes the program.
“This is essentially a temporary
foreign-worker program for the
rich, with secret government sub-
sidies for multinational corpora-
tions,” said Dermod Travis, the ex-
ecutive director of IntegrityBC, a
nonpartisan political watchdog
group based in Victoria, the pro-
vincial capital. “The government
is selling B.C. as a tax haven for
the global elite to park investment
here, but not have to contribute.”
The provincial Ministry of Fi-
Scott Neufeld contributed re-
search.
extraordinary, said Daniel Geary,
a professor of American history
at Trinity College Dublin, given
that, “in general, in the U.S., with
public heroes, there is an attempt
to preserve anywhere they
lived.”
Mr. Geary said that to him, the
neglect of a house like this one
speaks to a contemporary Ameri-
can unwillingness to deal with
racism’s legacy.
“People like to remember Rosa
Parks for one moment, when she
wouldn’t stand up on a bus,” he
said. “They don’t really want to
grapple with the rest of her life.
The death threats, the fact that
nance, which runs the effort, says
it is a success, with 82 companies
participating. Jamie Edwardson,
a ministry spokesman, declined in
an email to identify those compa-
nies or discuss the amount of re-
funds each has received, citing a
ban on publicly disclosing taxpay-
er information in the law that cre-
ated the incentives. He said the
law protected taxpayer privacy.
At one point, the tax breaks
were projected to create more
than 13,000 jobs in British Colum-
bia. According to ministry figures,
though, fewer than 300 have been
created as a result of the program,
and possibly as few as 122.
To illustrate the plan’s success,
Mr. Edwardson pointed to decade-
old data in a consultant’s 2009
analysis, which estimated that
from 2001 to 2007, the additional
investment added anywhere from
124 million to 141 million Canadian
dollars (between $91 million and
$103 million) to the economy. Mr.
Edwardson said these figures
were the most recent available.
Experts say that with few pub-
lic details, it is hard to tell whether
the plan is worth the lost tax reve-
nue. They also say the lack of dis-
closure prevents the public from
knowing if companies are using
the province as a pit stop on a
global quest to avoid taxation.
“There’s a real concern corpora-
tions are just stripping money out
of places,” said Michael Knoll, a
law professor and a director at the
University of Pennsylvania Law
School Center for Tax Law and
Policy. “This lack of transparency
is aiding that process.”
The secrecy is unusual, experts
say. A comparable tax-incentive
plan in Montreal makes more in-
formation public, records show,
including participants’ names.
In the United States, it is stand-
ard practice for state govern-
ments to release the names of
companies receiving targeted tax
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she had to leave Alabama and go
to Detroit. It’s a more compli-
cated story with a less happy
ending. She suffered for her
decision.”
For many here, Germany
provides a strong counterexam-
ple when it comes to approach-
ing painful aspects of a nation’s
past.
“With our history, we have so
many years of guilt and a culture
of practicing not forgetting,” said
Deike Diening, a journalist for
Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper,
who wrote about the project.
“Now, it might be a healing
process to be able to turn it
Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canadian province has an opaque system of tax incentives.
breaks, including credits and re-
bates. Most states also share
other information about
participants that British Colum-
bia does not, like the amount of
money each company has in-
vested and where it has gone,
along with what the state has re-
ceived in return, said Greg LeRoy,
executive director of Good Jobs
First, an American nonprofit that
tracks state tax-break programs.
The International Business Ac-
tivity Act, passed in 1988, allows
companies to claim a refund of up
to 100 percent of their provincial
corporate income taxes on a num-
ber of business activities, includ-
ing lending, foreign exchange
trading and investment manage-
ment, which could bring a compa-
ny’s tax rate down to 15 percent.
Over the years, the plan was ex-
panded several times. In 2010, an
expansion allowed high-paid non-
residents of Canada who work in
British Columbia for participating
companies to receive new gener-
ous tax breaks unavailable to Ca-
nadian residents.
The tax breaks favor foreigners
in other ways, too. Companies can
receive refunds on real estate ac-
Ryan Mendoza, an American artist, with his son and his wife, Fabia, in front of Rosa Parks’s
house in Berlin. Ms. Parks, left on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., lived in the house in Detroit.
around, to give refuge to others.
It feels good.”
But some said it was the tim-
ing of the project that accounted
for its extraordinary resonance.
“I think Berliners, even more
than Germans in general, are
really deeply concerned about
what is going on in the U.S., with
Trump,” said Gero Schliess,
culture correspondent at
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s
international broadcast service.
The United States has long
been a model. But now, he said,
“the political discourse in the
U.S. is not really reflecting
democratic values.”
“I’m proud to have the house
here,” said Mr. Mendoza’s wife,
Fabia, who grew up in Berlin and
has made a documentary about
the project. The couple, who have
a young son, live in a small,
white cube-shaped house right
next to the newly erected clap-
board one. They hope that Ms.
Parks’s house will eventually
find a more permanent home.
For now, Ms. McCauley, Ms.
Parks’s niece, is very happy the
house is in Germany, tucked
away behind a 1960s-era apart-
ment building. Traveling to
Berlin for the unveiling on April
tivities with foreigners, including
mortgages on property in Canada
for foreign buyers. Conducting the
same domestic activities for
Canadians would not qualify for
the refunds. This raises concerns
that the refunds may encourage
banks and other companies to pri-
oritize foreigners over Canadians
in overheated housing markets.
The ministry runs the program.
But the law that set it up requires
participants to join and help fi-
nance a nonprofit, AdvantageBC,
established in 1986 to promote
British Columbia as a business
destination. AdvantageBC ad-
vises its members on how to bene-
fit from the tax breaks. The in-
volvement of this group has also
become a target for critics.
“There is no reason for this or-
ganization to be outside of govern-
ment,” said Duff Conacher, a
founder of Democracy Watch, a
Canadian civic organization, “ex-
cept to escape the ethics, trans-
parency and accountability re-
quirements government institu-
tions have to face.”
Colin Hansen, a former provin-
cial finance minister who helped
expand the program’s tax incen-
8, Ms. McCauley was impressed
with what she described as the
outpouring of love she en-
countered. “I was amazed to find
more knowledge of Auntie Rosa’s
legacy there than here,” she said.
Ms. McCauley was also
pleased with Mr. Mendoza’s
decision to leave the facade in
the condition he found it. “This
house has been through every-
thing,” she said. “I’m glad it’s not
painted nicely, with flowers and a
picket fence. We’re not talking
about a fairy tale, there’s no
Hansel and Gretel here. We’re
talking about a lady who sacri-
ficed so much, who suffered.”
Mr. Mendoza has listed a se-
ries of opening hours — during
which the couple welcome the
public to their garden, often with
live music and an open mike —
on his website. However, some 50
people ring their bell each day,
Mr. Mendoza said. If the couple
are at home, they usually let
them in.
“We’re getting a little worried,”
he said with a laugh. “But it’s
O.K. This was an act of love, and
we want to start a discussion.”
The house is partly visible
from the street, so people can get
a glimpse of it even if the Men-
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tives in 2010, is president and chief
executive of AdvantageBC. He de-
fended the group’s involvement in
the tax-break program. “On all is-
sues, we are fully accountable to
our members, which is where that
accountability should be,” he said
in an email.
As finance minister, Mr. Hansen
repeatedly declared that expand-
ing the program would help at-
tract companies doing interna-
tional business and “create those
jobs in British Columbia.”
In a recent interview, though,
he said that its goal was to enlarge
the local financial services sector.
“The program was not actually
set up to be a job creator,” he said.
Mr. Hansen said most of the
companies listed as “core mem-
bers” on the group’s website were
registered in the program. But he
also said that some joined the
group before seeking the benefits.
He declined to provide a complete
list of businesses. “Some compa-
nies are a little more sensitive
about being included,” he said.
It is unclear which businesses
on AdvantageBC’s website are in
the program and receiving tax
breaks. But a company must be a
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dozas are not at home. Visitors
are not allowed inside the house,
for insurance reasons, but also as
a sign of respect. “This house
was abandoned, people came
inside,” Mr. Mendoza said. “I
want it to have its dignity.”
On a recent Saturday, a dozen
visitors dropped in. “It’s surreal
that it’s here,” said Norberto
Romero, a photographer who
lives in the neighborhood.
“It’s strange no one wants it in
the U.S.,” said another visitor,
Marcus Kelch, who works with
handicapped children, and
looked up Ms. Parks on the inter-
net to find out who she was.
His friend Dennis Lumme
nodded. “In Germany, it’s differ-
ent,” he said. “I just read that in
the Ravensbrück women’s con-
centration camp, people want to
make a monument for lesbians
who were killed. We try to me-
morialize every group that suf-
fered.”
The friends were silent, as
they considered the transplanted
house’s peeling paint and bat-
tered wooden boards. “Berlin is
definitely the right place for this
house,” Mr. Lumme said after a
moment. “Every meter you walk
is full of memory.”
core member to get the refunds.
Provincial officials have
praised the tax breaks as a boon to
ties between China and British Co-
lumbia, and have devoted signifi-
cant time and political capital in
recent years to tailoring it to Chi-
nese investors and the financial
institutions that cater to them.
In 2014, the province expanded
the program for foreign banks,
which it said would raise the po-
tential for investment from Asia,
especially China. “These amend-
ments to the International Busi-
ness Activity Act send a strong
message to foreign companies
that B.C. welcomes their business,
setting the stage for increased in-
vestment,” said Michael de Jong,
the finance minister, according to
a government news release.
Mr. de Jong declined to answer
questions about the program, in-
cluding whether the public should
be able to know which companies
are receiving the tax breaks.
Several of the businesses listed
on AdvantageBC’s site are Chi-
nese, including the Bank of China
and a subsidiary of China Poly
Group, a Chinese state-owned
conglomerate. The companies did
not respond to requests for com-
ment on whether they had re-
ceived any tax breaks.
PacNet Services Ltd., a pay-
ment processing company, had
been a core member of Advan-
tageBC since at least 2006. In Sep-
tember 2016, the United States
Treasury Department listed Pac-
Net as a significant transnational
criminal organization for its
“lengthy history of money laun-
dering,” and froze the company’s
American assets. The company
has denied the accusations.
Rosanne Day, PacNet’s president,
declined to comment on whether
the company was in the tax-incen-
tive program and has received
benefits.
After inquiries by The New
York Times, PacNet, two
associated companies that have
also been sanctioned and several
other firms were removed from
AdvantageBC’s website last
month. Mr. Hansen later said they
were no longer members.
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Students in Australia Fill Chinese Cravings for Goods
Cottage Industry
Attuned to Tastes
By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
and XIUZHONG XU
MELBOURNE, Australia —
Zhang Yuan’s business started
with favors for relatives: an aunt
who wanted baby formula, a cous-
in looking for Ugg boots. She was a
college student here in Australia,
and every dollar helped, so she
mailed the items back to China
and charged a bit of a commission.
But then, through word of
mouth, her business just kept
growing. Between classes, she
would shop for whatever was pop-
ular that week: vitamins, brand-
name jewelry, a fake erectile dys-
function drug called Kangaroo
Essence. And when she could not
find a more lucrative job after
graduation, she stayed in Mel-
bourne and in the booming gray
market for selling Australian
goods to Chinese consumers.
Her business now employs two
buyers, two packers and two peo-
ple in customer service, with of-
fices in Melbourne and Hangzhou,
her hometown in eastern China.
Taking orders online, she sells
mainly to health-conscious and
well-to-do women and says she
makes more than $300,000 a year.
“The Chinese have always had
blind adoration for foreign
things,” said Ms. Zhang, 25. “So
rather than paying for expensive,
made-in-China products that
might lack safety, why wouldn’t
they buy high-quality Australian
ones at lower prices?”
Even as the world has come to
rely on Chinese products,
Australian goods have become
hot commodities in China, and
tens of thousands of young Chi-
nese who are students at
Australian universities or recent
graduates have built a cottage in-
dustry to meet that demand.
The thriving trade — fueled by
Chinese anxiety over counterfeit
goods and product safety at home
— reflects the growing economic
interdependence between China
and Australia, with all the oppor-
tunities and challenges that come
with closer ties between a wealthi-
er nation of 24 million people and a
rising regional power of more
than 1.3 billion. China is now
Australia’s biggest trading part-
ner, and Chinese investment in
Australia set a record last year.
The students, who call them-
selves daigou, or purchasing
agents, are highly attuned to Chi-
nese tastes and move quickly,
sometimes creating spikes in de-
mand in Australia and clearing
out stores of specific products be-
fore shopkeepers know what hit
them. Some analysts estimate
that daigou sent as much as $600
million in Australian products to
China last year.
But their success has also
drawn scrutiny, with officials in
both China and Australia examin-
ing whether they are paying re-
quired taxes and complying with
other regulations.
The business is in many ways a
byproduct of China’s huge interest
in a different kind of Australian
product: international education,
considered one of the nation’s top
exports, worth $15 billion a year.
Nearly a third of the 450,000 for-
eign students in Australia are
from China, and the figure is grow-
ing.
Peter Cai, a fellow at the Lowy
Institute, a think tank in Sydney,
U.S. Antimissile System Goes Live in South Korea Despite Critics’ Complaints
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — An
American missile-defense system
deployed to counter growing
threats from North Korea has
gone into operation in South Ko-
rea, officials said on Tuesday.
The installation of the Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense bat-
tery has roiled the South Korean
presidential campaign, partly
over questions of who will pay for
it, and drawn objections from
China, which said the deployment
undermined its own missile de-
fense abilities.
The United States and South
Korea began installing the radar
and other important components
of the system, known as Thaad,
last week at an abandoned golf
course in Seongju, 135 miles south-
east of Seoul, after reaching an
agreement to deploy it last July.
The system “is operational and
has the ability to intercept North
Korean missiles” and defend
South Korea, said Col. Robert
Manning III, a spokesman with
the United States military in
Seoul, the South Korean capital.
His statement was echoed by the
South Korean Defense Ministry,
whose representative, Moon
Sang-gyun, said the battery “has
acquired an initial capability to
deal with North Korea’s nuclear
and missile threat.”
The announcement came ahead
of a presidential election next
week in South Korea that has been
troubled by tension over the
Chris Buckley contributed report-
ing from Beijing.
Uki Shao, 18, at a Chemist Warehouse in Melbourne last month. She said she enjoyed being a daigou, or purchasing agent.
said the students had become a
powerful force helping Australian
products break into China. “Just
through the daigou’s own person-
al networks, they enable a new
market for a small- and medium-
sized business in Australia,” he
said.
“I think we’re almost entering a
new phase of the China-Australia
economic relationship” requiring
greater understanding of the Chi-
nese market, he added, and the
students provide that understand-
ing.
Chinese purchasing agents first
appeared in Europe, buying and
shipping luxury goods like hand-
bags for China’s growing middle
class. But the trade has shifted to
Australia in recent years as the
Chinese student population in
Australia has expanded and con-
sumers in China have grown more
anxious about food and product
safety.
Worries over infant formula, for
example, surged in 2008 when six
babies died and more than
300,000 children fell ill from drink-
ing Chinese milk products that
had been tainted with melamine, a
toxic chemical. Many in China
turned to imported milk powder in
response, but reports of distribu-
tors or retailers adulterating it
with Chinese formula prompted
consumers to directly seek sup-
plies from overseas.
“There’d be huge amounts of in-
fant powder, 900-gram cans, that
were being bought off the super-
market shelves here and put in
mailbags and sent to China via
students,” said John Droppert, a
senior analyst at Dairy Australia,
an industry group. “Pallet loads
were just disappearing because
people were putting it in the post
and sending it to China.”
Chinese students in Australia
say as many as eight in 10 of them
are involved in the daigou busi-
ness. Some are just trying to make
ends meet with occasional sales.
North’s nuclear weapons program
and confusion about President
Trump’s approach toward the Ko-
rean Peninsula. On Monday, Mr.
Trump declared that he would
meet North Korea’s dictator, Kim
Jong-un, under the right circum-
stances.
Mr. Trump caused alarm in
South Korea on Thursday when he
told Reuters that he wanted the
South Korean government to pay
for the Thaad system, whose cost
he estimated at $1 billion. South
Korea has repeatedly told its peo-
ple that the Americans agreed to
pay for the system and its opera-
tion and maintenance, with South
Korea providing land and support
infrastructure.
On Sunday, the White House na-
tional security adviser, Lt. Gen.
H. R. McMaster, called his South
Korean counterpart, Kim Kwan-
jin. Mr. Kim’s office later said that
the two had “reconfirmed what
has already been agreed” about
the system’s costs.
But the confusion was far from
over.
General McMaster later told
Fox News that the United States
would stick to its word “until any
renegotiation.”
“The last thing I would ever do
is contradict the president of the
United States,” he told Fox News.
“What the president has asked us
to do is to look across all of our
alliances and to have appropriate
burden-sharing, responsibility-
sharing. We’re looking at that with
our great ally South Korea; we’re
looking at that with NATO.”
Such comments led many South
Others have managed to build sig-
nificant export businesses. They
mail their products to customers
in China or ship them to Hong
Kong, where traders can carry
them across the border to avoid
mainland tariffs.
“Shopping for others is like buy-
ing for myself; it gives me the
same pleasure,” said Uki Shao, 18,
a business major in Melbourne
who described herself as the “best
daigou at my college.” She sells
brand-name items like Pandora
jewelry, Michael Kors accessories
and Aesop lotions and said her
main challenge was persuading
customers that her products were
not fake.
“Sometimes, I have to take a
video and post it on WeChat to
show I’m in Australia,” she said,
A thriving trade is
fueled by concern
about knockoffs and
unsafe products.
referring to the dominant messag-
ing app in China, which the stu-
dents also use to process pay-
ments.
The trade has grown so fast in
recent years that Australian com-
panies now hold events to meet
with Chinese students and show
them their products. Many work
with retailers in China, too, but
they are careful not to bypass the
daigou in Australia, whose en-
dorsements and personal net-
works they covet.
Van Diemen’s Land Company,
the Tasmanian diary giant, began
shipping thousands of liters of
fresh milk to China every week
but said in February that it in-
tended to work closely with “the
An American military vehicle arriving in Seongju, South Korea, as part of the Thaad system.
Koreans to suspect that the
Trump administration might try
to renegotiate the Thaad deal or
demand that South Korea in-
crease its annual contribution, es-
timated at $820 million last year,
to help pay for maintaining Amer-
ican troops in the country.
On Tuesday, South Korea’s main
opposition party, the Democrats,
called the government’s decision
to accept the Thaad deployment
ASANKA BRENDON RATNAYAKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
all-important daigou channel” to
promote sales.
The students can often be found
in the aisles of Chemist Ware-
house, a major drugstore chain,
with smartphones in hand, ticking
off items on shopping lists while
filling suitcases full of products
such as concentrated cranberry
extract, marketed by the
Australian natural health com-
pany Blackmores as promoting
urinary tract health.
Mario Tascone, the chief operat-
ing officer of Chemist Warehouse,
said the daigou favored the com-
pany’s stores because they of-
fered competitive prices and
could fill large orders. The chain
also sells directly on the Chinese
e-commerce platform TMall, but
many customers prefer to place
their orders with students.
“They trust the daigou more,”
said Scarlett Liang, 18, an account-
ing and economics student at
Trinity College in Melbourne.
“They want to be convinced of the
authenticity of the product.”
The larger daigou businesses
often buy in bulk directly from a
manufacturer like Blackmores at
a discount and then sell supplies
to smaller student operators at a
markup.
Express delivery companies
that specialize in shipping to
China are now dotted throughout
major Australian cities to keep up.
One of the more popular compa-
nies, Chang Jiang International
Express, which describes itself as
a “direct train from Australia to
China,” sends about 400 tons of
products to mainland China each
month, according to its operations
manager, Lu Wang.
Recently, fresh fruit has been in
demand. “Each year in cherry
season, the Chinese start asking
for more Australian cherries,”
said Angel Nie, 20, a student who
studies politics at the University
of Melbourne.“They’re very ex-
pensive, but the Chinese say, ‘I
“a total failure of diplomacy.”
The party’s presidential candi-
date, Moon Jae-in, is leading polls
by a large margin ahead of the
election next Tuesday to choose
the successor of the recently
ousted President Park Geun-hye.
Ms. Park agreed to the Thaad de-
ployment before she was im-
peached for corruption in Decem-
ber. She was formally removed
from office in March.
just want fresh and full-of-vitamin
cherries.’”
But Ms. Nie said she dropped
out of the business last year be-
cause she was not paying taxes,
never obtained any licenses and
worried it was “kind of like smug-
gling.”
Because most payments are
processed on WeChat and other
Chinese platforms, the authorities
in Australia rely on students to de-
clare the income themselves.
Some daigou also offer lower
prices by evading Chinese import
duties, and there are occasional
reports of arrests in China.
“There’s quite a few that have
grown into quite substantial oper-
ations, and there’d be quite a lot
where they’re perhaps flying un-
der the radar,” said Paul Drum, the
head of policy at CPA Australia,
the national association of
accountants.
Last year, the Agriculture De-
partment said it was investigating
individuals suspected of shipping
infant formula to China without
meeting export requirements.
Small exports of baby formula are
legal, but shipments over 10 kilo-
grams must come from registered
export companies with health cer-
tificates and meet Chinese import
regulations, a spokesman said.
Daigou on student visas in Aus-
tralia are also permitted to work
only 40 hours every two weeks.
Running an informal export busi-
ness in excess of those hours may
violate the terms of their visas, ac-
cording to Rachel Drew, a partner
at the law firm Holding Redlich.
But Ms. Zhang expressed confi-
dence that the market would con-
tinue to expand even as regula-
tors caught up and Australian
companies established new chan-
nels to sell directly to Chinese
customers.
“Everyone’s got family and
friends, and therefore their own
customers,” she said. “That’s why
there are so many daigou around.”
KIM JUN-BEOM/YONHAP, VIA REUTERS
“At first, they said we needed to
provide the land only. Now, while
our country was in the middle of
an election campaign, they
sneaked the Thaad in, and then
demanded that we pay the cost,
too,” Mr. Moon said Monday dur-
ing a campaign speech. “Does this
make sense?”
He has called for an immediate
suspension of the Thaad deploy-
ment. Mr. Moon, a liberal, had al-
E.U. Will Not
Seek Visas
Of Americans
By SEWELL CHAN
The European Commission said
on Tuesday that it would not start
requiring Americans to obtain vi-
sas for travel to the European Un-
ion, at least for now.
Right now, United States citi-
zens generally do not need visas
to enter any of the union’s 28
member nations, but citizens of
five of those nations — Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Ro-
mania — need visas to travel to
the United States.
That disparity has been the sub-
ject of a diplomatic dispute be-
tween Washington and Brussels
that threatened to escalate in
March, when the European Par-
liament asked the commission,
the bloc’s executive body, to retali-
ate by ending visa-free travel to
Europe for Americans.
The Parliament’s resolution
was nonbinding, and the commis-
sion said Tuesday that it would not
comply with the request. Doing so
“would be counterproductive at
this moment, and would not serve
the objective of achieving visa-
free travel for all E.U. citizens,” it
said.
The commission added, “On the
contrary, it would immediately re-
sult in retaliatory measures by the
U.S., leading to the visa require-
ment being imposed on all E.U. cit-
izens.”
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the
commissioner for migration,
home affairs and citizenship, said
that inflaming the dispute would
not help because the union was
making progress on visa issues
through diplomacy. He noted that
Canada had agreed to stop requir-
ing Bulgarian and Romanian vis-
itors to obtain visas as of Dec. 1.
“Our continued engagement
and patient diplomatic contacts
over the past year have brought
tangible results already with Can-
ada, and we are committed to pro-
ceeding in the same way with the
U.S.,” Mr. Avramopoulos said in a
statement. He added, “We are on
the right track.”
The commission said it would
report to the Parliament again on
the matter by the end of the year.
European impatience with the
American visa policy has been
building for years. The commis-
sion considered proposals a year
ago to end visa-free entry for
Americans and Canadians, but it
concluded then that doing so
would “have significant negative
impacts in a wide range of policy
areas, notably on external rela-
tions, trade, tourism and the E.U.’s
economy.”
The commission said on Tues-
day that in recent months, “po-
litical and technical contacts have
been stepped up” with the new
American administration. Mr.
Avramopoulos said he had dis-
cussed the matter with the Home-
land Security secretary, John F.
Kelly, in Washington on Feb. 8.
The subject also came up when
American and European officials
met in Malta in March.
The United States’ Visa Waiver
Program currently allows most
citizens of 38 countries to visit for
business or tourism for up to 90
days without obtaining visas.
Legislation signed by President
Barack Obama in 2015 created an
important exception: Travelers
from countries in the program
who have been to Iran, Iraq, Lib-
ya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yem-
en need visas to enter the United
States.
ready pledged to review South Ko-
rea’s decision to accept the system
if elected. He said South Korea
was already paying a heavy price
for the Thaad deployment, refer-
ring to a boycott of South Korean
brands among angry Chinese.
On Tuesday, China restated its
vehement opposition to the an-
timissile system and warned
there would be consequences.
“We’re opposed to the United
States’ deploying the Thaad an-
timissile system in South Korea,
and we urge all sides involved to
immediately halt deployment,”
Geng Shuang, a spokesman for
the Chinese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, said at a regular news
briefing in Beijing. “As well, we’re
determined to take the necessary
measures to defend our own inter-
ests.”
Mr. Geng did not specify what
those measures might be.
The Thaad battery became op-
erational as tension soared on the
Korean Peninsula after a series of
missile tests by the North and
warnings from the Trump admin-
istration that military action was
not off the table in dealing with the
North.
Two B-1B American strategic
bombers were deployed over the
Korean Peninsula on Monday for
a joint drill with South Korea’s air
force, the South’s Defense Min-
istry said Tuesday. North Korea
condemned it as a “reckless” act
that was pushing the peninsula
“closer to the brink of nuclear
war,” but Seoul said the exercise
was meant to help deter North Ko-
rean provocations.

G.O.P. Pressures Trump to Confront Palestinian Leader
By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — As Presi-
dent Trump hosts the Palestinian
leader, Mahmoud Abbas, at the
White House on Wednesday for
the first time, he faces enormous
obstacles to his new peacemaking
venture — including pressure
from his own party to take a
tougher stance on Palestinian ter-
rorism.
A host of Republican senators
are lobbying Mr. Trump to use his
meeting with Mr. Abbas, presi-
dent of the Palestinian Authority,
to demand the cessation of finan-
cial payments to the families of
Palestinians who commit violence
against Israelis or Americans.
The senators have introduced leg-
islation to cut off American aid if
the Palestinians refuse.
“The president should raise this
with Mahmoud Abbas and he
should push for its passage,” Sen-
ator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a
Republican ally of Mr. Trump’s,
said in an interview on Tuesday.
“It’s a good test of Mahmoud Ab-
bas and the Palestinian leadership
of how serious they are about
wanting peace and not wanting
terrorism.”
The legislation underscored the
complexity of the peace effort that
Mr. Trump is embarking on as he
seeks to negotiate a durable reso-
lution to the generations-old dis-
Hamas Chief
Ends Reign
By Playing
A Final Hand
By DECLAN WALSH
DOHA, Qatar — In the violent
flux of the Middle East, Khaled
Meshal is one of the great sur-
vivors. Down the years other sen-
ior figures in Hamas, the Islamist
militant group that violently re-
sists Israel, have died in hotel
rooms at the hands of Israeli as-
sassins or been crushed by laser-
guided missiles during the wars in
Gaza.
Mr. Meshal, who spent his ca-
reer shifting from one Arab capital
to another, had his own close
scrape: In 1997, a year after he be-
came the leader of Hamas, Israeli
spies sprayed poison into his ear
on a street in Jordan, sending Mr.
Meshal into a coma and setting off
an angry diplomatic showdown
between Jordan and Israel that
ended with the delivery of a life-
saving antidote.
Now Mr. Meshal is stepping
down as the senior leader, ending
a 21-year reign during which Ha-
mas grew into a formidable mili-
tary force and also joined politics
to rule Gaza for the past decade.
Yet it has become an international
pariah for its attacks on civilians.
Mr. Meshal’s parting shot is a
new political document, released
at a luxury hotel in Doha on Mon-
day, that he is pitching as an at-
tempt to pull Hamas from its isola-
tion by presenting a friendlier face
to the world.
A big part of that is its watering
down of the anti-Semitic language
of the original Hamas charter in
1988, with its talk of war between
Arabs and Jews. “We are making
it clear that ours is a liberation
project — not about religion or the
Jews,” Mr. Meshal said in an inter-
view on Tuesday in Doha, his lat-
est home.
His offer found few takers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu of Israel immediately re-
jected the overture as an exercise
in insincerity. “Hamas is attempt-
ing to fool the world, but it will not
succeed,” his spokesman said
Monday. Hamas is loathed in Is-
rael for bombings and rockets
launched indiscriminately into ci-
vilian areas, and critics say the
group spends too much money
preparing for war and not enough
on Gaza’s besieged residents.
The document was also greeted
with silence by Western coun-
tries, a reflection of the fact that
Hamas failed to bend on any of the
factors that have caused it to be
branded a terrorist organization
— and has not even formally repu-
diated the 1988 charter, with its
talk of “obliterating” Israel and
Kremlin Critic Navalny Says an Attack Left Him Mostly Blind in One Eye
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Na-
valny, the Russian opposition
leader, said on Tuesday that a doc-
tor told him he had lost 80 percent
of the sight in one eye after suffer-
ing a chemical burn when an as-
sailant threw a green liquid in his
face last week.
The eye’s vision may improve,
but the outlook is unclear, Mr. Na-
valny wrote on his website, citing
his doctor.
Initially, the attack had ap-
peared less serious; dousing op-
position figures with green dye is
a common occurrence and often
attributed to pro-Kremlin ac-
tivists. Typically, a type of topical
pute between Israelis and
Palestinians that, so far, has
eluded every American president.
During the presidential campaign
and transition, Mr. Trump po-
sitioned himself as an unwavering
ally of Israel but has moderated
some of his positions since taking
office as he courts support from
Arab leaders in the Middle East.
Mr. Abbas’s visit to the White
House will present Mr. Trump
with the Palestinian viewpoint
more directly than he has ever
heard it as president. But at 82,
Mr. Abbas is a weakened political
figure facing public discontent
and divisions at home.
His Palestinian Authority oper-
ates in the West Bank, while the
more militant rival Hamas faction
rules in Gaza. Despite an effort by
Hamas this week to present a
somewhat more moderate face to
the world, the two factions remain
at odds. Even if they did reconcile,
Israel has refused to deal with any
coalition that includes what it and
the United States consider a ter-
rorist organization.
The issue of payments to fam-
ilies of suicide bombers and oth-
ers who commit violence has be-
come a frequent complaint by Is-
rael and its supporters. The Pales-
tinian Authority spends about
$315 million a year to distribute
cash and benefits to 36,000 fam-
ilies, according to Sander Gerber,
Hamas’s leader, Khaled Meshal, waving, in 2012. He said a new political document showed Hamas was open to changing its ideas.
creating an Islamic State on “ev-
ery inch” of historic Palestine.
The failure to achieve even that
cosmetic gesture offers a telling
indication of how Hamas is ham-
strung by its own deep-seated am-
bivalence toward reform, said Na-
than Thrall, an analyst with the
International Crisis Group who is
based in Jerusalem, who noted
that the original charter has long
been a source of quiet embarrass-
ment among more reform-minded
Hamas leaders.
“On one hand, they are attempt-
ing to appeal to hard-liners by not
giving up their core principles,’’
said Mr. Thrall, the author of a
forthcoming book on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict, “The Only
Language They Understand.’’
“On the other, people like Me-
shal were hoping the document
could lead to openings with Sunni
Arab states and the West. It at-
tempts to please everyone, and in
so doing pleases no one.”
Yet the attempted rebranding of
Hamas comes at a moment of sud-
den change in the Middle East.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the
rival Palestinian Authority, is due
to meet with President Trump in
Washington on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump has spoken of his de-
sire to solve the Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict, but his interlocutor,
Mr. Abbas, who is 82, is seen as po-
litically depleted, and his rivals
have started maneuvering to suc-
ceed him.
medical disinfectant has been
used. It is difficult to wash out but
harmless.
Mr. Navalny, who has declared
his intention to run in Russia’s
presidential election next year,
had already been splashed in the
face with green dye once this
spring, without any adverse af-
fects.
But after the attack on Thurs-
day, in which a man threw the
green liquid in the opposition lead-
er’s face and then ran away, Mr.
Navalny was taken to a hospital to
treat burning in his right eye.
In a post on his website on Tues-
day, Mr. Navalny said his ophthal-
mologist had told him that he had
a “chemical burn on the right eye”
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a New York hedge fund executive
and fellow at the Jerusalem Cen-
ter for Public Affairs, who has
studied the issue and brought his
research to American lawmakers.
“The P.A. orchestrated one of
the great diplomatic deceptions of
the last 30 years,” Mr. Gerber said.
“It’s only being exposed now.
President Trump has the opportu-
nity to let the world know that the
A call to end payments
to families of those
who commit violence.
sponsorship of terror is intoler-
able and will have consequences.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu of Israel raised the issue
on Tuesday, making clear it will be
a point of contention in any talks.
“The payment of money to terror-
ists by a sliding scale — the more
you kill the more you get — that’s
the opposite of peace,” Mr. Netan-
yahu said. “It sends exactly the
wrong message to young
Palestinians. We want them to
move towards peace.”
In an Op-Ed piece Monday in
The New York Times, Gilad Er-
dan, Israel’s minister of public se-
Hamas is changing, too: Secret
elections now underway will de-
cide who succeeds Mr. Meshal as
leader in the next two weeks. That
in turn raises the question of what
Hamas might become.
In an hourlong interview, Mr.
Meshal, wearing his usual dark
suit with an open-neck white shirt,
demonstrated the political polish
he has brought to the organization
over two decades, as it has devel-
oped from a localized fighting
group, blowing up buses and cafes
in Jerusalem, to a force that now
posits itself as a potential leader of
all the Palestinian people.
When the document was re-
leased on Monday night, he was
giving interviews in a hotel ball-
room until 1 a.m. — an unusual
flurry of publicity for a secretive
organization.
He said the document — the
product of four years of dialogue
among leaders in Gaza, in prison
and in exile — at the very least
showed that Hamas was open to
changing its ideas.
In recasting itself as a national
liberation movement, rather than
as part of a wider Islamist strug-
gle, Hamas appears to be distanc-
ing itself from the Muslim Broth-
erhood, which was conspicuous
by its absence from the text.
That omission has been inter-
preted as an attempt to curry fa-
vor with President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi of Egypt, whose troops con-
trol part of the border with Gaza
caused by something other than
the green-colored disinfectant.
“There was clearly a mix of disin-
fectant and another, caustic chem-
ical,” Mr. Navalny wrote.
“I am being actively treated,
and there is hope that it will be
cured,” he wrote.
Over the weekend, Mr. Navalny
joked that “we are fighting for the
eye to remain transparent, but if
that doesn’t succeed (and there is
a chance, alas) then Russia will
have a president with a stylish,
white eye.”
Noting that the dousing attacks
were growing more serious, Mr.
Navalny also posted pictures of
Hollywood-style special effects,
humorous suggestions about his
curity and strategic affairs, called
the payments “the most insidious
form of encouragement to vio-
lence,” one effectively subsidized
by American taxpayers and other
countries that finance the Pales-
tinian Authority.
Palestinian leaders defend the
payments, saying they are meant
to help widows and orphans of
“martyrs,” as they call suicide
bombers and others killed in at-
tacks, as well as destitute families
of prisoners, not to promote ter-
rorism. They say Israel effectively
subsidizes violence by encourag-
ing settlers in the occupied West
Bank. “I think the worst kind of
terrorism is the occupation,” Jibril
Rajoub, a top Palestinian official,
said in an interview during a re-
cent trip to Washington.
But Mr. Rajoub also signaled
that Palestinian leaders would be
willing to reconsider the pay-
ments as part of a broader negoti-
ation. “We will discuss everything
with an open mind,” he said.
The legislation sponsored by
Mr. Cotton and other Republican
senators like Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina and Marco Rubio
of Florida is named the Taylor
Force Act after an American grad-
uate student who was killed while
visiting Israel last year.
Mr. Force, 28, was a combat vet-
eran studying at the Owen Gradu-
ate School of Management at Van-
and whose intelligence service de-
termines when and which Hamas
leaders can leave Gaza.
Just as important, Mr. Meshal
said he hoped the document
would bring Hamas closer to
Saudi Arabia, which, like Egypt, is
staunchly opposed to the Muslim
Brotherhood. “We already hold di-
alogue with Western parties, and
if we do so with the West, we might
as well be doing this with our Arab
brothers,” he said.
Yet in the next breath, Mr. Me-
shal acknowledged that such a
rapprochement could be tricky
with Hamas’s mains arms suppli-
er, Iran, which is engaged in proxy
wars against Saudi Arabia in the
region’s most explosive conflicts.
“We are keenly aware of the
amount of anger toward Iran be-
cause of the burning conflicts in
Iraq, Syria and Yemen,” Mr. Me-
shal said. “Our priority is to serve
our own cause without getting
tangled in internal disputes.”
Looking back over his time in
charge, Mr. Meshal lists sheer sur-
vival as one of his greatest
achievements.
“It gives me pride that the peo-
ple of Gaza have remained stead-
fast under Hamas despite three
devastating wars,” he said. Dur-
ing the last conflict with Israel, in
2014, 1,462 Palestinian civilians in
Gaza were killed, according to a
United Nations report, and Ha-
mas rockets killed six Israeli
civilians. But the relative peace of
A splattered liquid
apparently caused a
chemical burn.
possible appearance by the time
next year’s election rolls around.
One depicted Mr. Navalny as
the Terminator character, with
one glowing red eye. Another
showed a man with half his face
melted away, revealing his grin-
ning teeth.
A pro-Kremlin television sta-
tion, Ren-TV, has broadcast video
of the attack, which was appar-
derbilt when he joined other stu-
dents on a March 2016 trip to Is-
rael to learn about global
entrepreneurship. He
stabbed by a Palestinian member
was
of Hamas on a coastal promenade
near Tel Aviv. His family has been
working with American lawmak-
ers like Mr. Cotton to curb the
practice of financial payments to
relatives of such attackers.
Khaled Elgindy, a former advis-
er to the Palestinian leadership on
negotiations with Israel, and now
a scholar at the Brookings Institu-
tion in Washington, said the bill re-
flected a typically one-sided view
of the conflict by American law-
makers of both parties. “Con-
gress’s role on this issue does not
have a strong track record on be-
ing objective,” he said. “There
isn’t really a fair or even honest
hearing of the issue in Congress.”
On Tuesday, Israel celebrated
its 69th independence day, and the
White House hosted a reception to
reinforce its support for an ally.
“If the world knows nothing
else, the world will know this:
America stands with Israel,” Vice
President Mike Pence told guests.
“President Trump stands with Is-
rael for the same reason that ev-
ery freedom-loving American
stands with Israel — because her
cause is our cause. Her values are
our values. And her fight is our
fight.”
HATEM MOUSSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
recent years — with compara-
tively few rockets fired into Israeli
territory from Gaza since 2014 —
also presents challenges.
In the latest chapter of the long-
running fight between Hamas and
the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Ab-
bas recently slashed salaries for
Palestinian Authority employees
in Gaza, the latest blow in a terri-
tory whose miserable living con-
ditions are often compared to a gi-
ant prison camp.
The Egyptian and Israeli block-
ade of Gaza means that its two
million inhabitants feel trapped,
Mr. Thrall, the analyst, said. “Stu-
dents on scholarships, people
wishing to travel abroad — no-
body can leave. It’s one of the
greatest pressures the people of
Gaza feel.”
Doggedness comes with a
price, and Mr. Meshal is trying to
balance that toughness with the
need to open up, in a reflection of
the shifting political landscape —
and just maybe tilt toward more
expansive politics that might one
day bring Hamas out of the cold.
The favorites to succeed Mr.
Meshal are Ismail Haniya, a Ha-
mas leader in Gaza, and Abu Mar-
zouk, who is said to be living in ex-
ile in Cairo.
It is widely assumed Mr. Meshal
will take another senior role in Ha-
mas after stepping down.
Typically tight-lipped, he said
only, “A resistance fighter never
retires.”
ently filmed by an accomplice of
the assailant, whose face is dig-
itally blurred.
Nonetheless, supporters of Mr.
Navalny have said they identified
the man, based on his build and
clothes, as the same pro-govern-
ment activist who last year
splashed urine on photographs by
the American photographer Jock
Sturges at a Moscow art gallery,
forcing the exhibit to close.
Mr. Navalny, in the post on
Tuesday, said he believed that this
identification was correct.
The Moscow police have for-
mally opened an investigation but
appear to be stalling, Mr. Navalny
wrote, as they have not inter-
N A9
Saudi Prince
Rejects Talks
With Iran
By BEN HUBBARD
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi
Arabia’s powerful deputy crown
prince slammed the door Tuesday
on the prospect of dialogue with
Iran, the kingdom’s regional rival,
accusing it of following an “ex-
tremist ideology” and seeking to
take over the Muslim world.
The prince, Mohammed bin Sal-
man, 31, who is second in line to
the throne and serves as defense
minister, said Saudi Arabia would
fight what he called Iran’s efforts
to extend its influence.
“We are a primary target for the
Iranian regime,” Prince Moham-
med said, accusing Iran of seeking
to take over Islamic holy sites in
Saudi Arabia. “We won’t wait for
the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. In-
stead, we’ll work so that the battle
is for them in Iran.”
The two countries, which stand
on opposite sides of the conflicts in
Syria and Yemen, are competing
for religious and political influ-
ence across the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia, ruled by a Sunni
royal family, is a close ally of the
United States and accuses Iran of
spreading its revolutionary ideol-
ogy to destabilize the Arab world.
Saudi leaders have taken heart
from the Trump administration’s
criticism of Iran.
For its part, Shiite-led Iran says
Saudi Arabia’s ultraconservative
religious creed, known abroad as
Wahhabism, endangers minor-
ities and feeds terrorism. Iranian
officials did not immediately re-
spond to Prince Mohammed’s
statements.
The prince said that dialogue
with Iran was impossible because
of its belief in the Imam Mahdi, the
so-called hidden imam, who many
Shiites believe is a descendant of
the Prophet Muhammad who will
return to save the world from de-
struction.
“Their stance is that the
awaited Mahdi will come, and
they need to create a fertile envi-
ronment for the arrival of the
awaited Mahdi, and they need to
take over the Islamic world,” he
said. “Where are the common
points that we might be able to
reach an understanding on with
this regime?”
Prince Mohammed gave a pos-
itive view of the war in Yemen,
where Saudi Arabia and a coali-
tion of Arab countries have been
bombing for more than two years
to try to push Shiite rebels aligned
with Iran out of the capital.
He said that Saudi forces could
uproot the rebels “in a few days,”
but that doing so would kill thou-
sands of Saudi troops and many
civilians. So, he said, the coalition
is waiting for the rebels to tire out.
Aid organizations have been
sounding the alarm about an esca-
lating humanitarian crisis and the
threat of famine in Yemen, the
Arab world’s poorest country,
exacerbated by a Saudi-led block-
ade of rebel-held territory and
airstrikes on a key seaport.
Prince Mohammed said Saudi
Arabia was in no hurry.
“Time is in our favor,” he said.
The prince spoke during an ex-
tended interview that was broad-
cast simultaneously on a number
of Saudi-owned satellite networks
and heavily promoted in advance.
It was his second television inter-
view since his father, King Sal-
man, assumed the throne in 2015.
The king has vested enormous
power in his son, who runs the De-
fense Ministry, oversees the state
oil company, and is spearheading
a program known as Vision 2030
to reduce the kingdom’s depend-
ence on oil and improve the qual-
ity of life for Saudi citizens.
Much of the interview was
aimed at a domestic audience,
with Prince Mohammed assuring
Saudis that the government was
working hard to fight corruption
and improve the economy, which
has been hurt by low oil prices.
The prince’s high public profile
has caused many in the kingdom
to speculate that he wants to suc-
ceed his father on the throne, dis-
placing Mohammed bin Nayef, the
current crown prince.
During the nearly hourlong in-
terview, he did not mention the
crown prince once.
Rick Gladstone contributed re-
porting from New York.
viewed witnesses from among his
supporters, sought surveillance
video or made arrests.
Attacks on Russian opposition
politicians are seldom solved. In
2015, assailants shot to death
Boris Y. Nemtsov, a former deputy
prime minister, on a sidewalk near
the Kremlin. The authorities have
put a man suspected of being the
gunman, along with his accom-
plices, on trial, but they have
made no headway in finding out
who ordered the assassination.
In an attack in 2013 related to in-
ternal politics within the Bolshoi
Theater, an assailant splashed
acid in the face of the artistic di-
rector, Sergei Y. Filin, disfiguring
and partly blinding him.
A10
Battle Lines Outside the Door of the Last Abortion Clinic in Kentucky
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As states across
the nation enact increasingly aggressive
restrictions on abortion, perhaps no-
where has the political climate shifted as
much as here in Kentucky, where the
E.M.W. Women’s Surgical Center, a squat
tan brick building on Market Street, is
the state’s sole abortion clinic.
Over the last year, Gov. Matt Bevin, a
Republican who calls himself “un-
apologetically pro-life,” has blocked a
new Planned Parenthood clinic from per-
forming abortions, shuttered E.M.W.’s
satellite clinic in Lexington and
threatened to close the existing one in
Louisville. Backed by the American Civil
Liberties Union, the clinic has sued the
state; a trial is set for September.
The governor’s forceful moves have
rattled reproductive rights advocates,
made him a hero among abortion oppo-
nents and prompted both sides in the de-
bate to ask a question: Could Kentucky
become America’s only state to lack a
single abortion clinic?
“Kentucky literally stands on the
verge of making redemptive history,”
said the Rev. Rusty Thomas, director of
Operation Save America, a Dallas-based
anti-abortion group that will host its an-
nual national meeting in Louisville in
July. “It could be the first surgically abor-
tion-free state in the United States of
America.”
Dr. Ernest Marshall, 66, who founded
E.M.W. in 1981 and has performed abor-
tions here for 37 years, portrayed the sit-
uation from his perspective this way:
“We are under assault.”
Across the country, the number of
abortion providers has been steadily
dropping for decades, partly because of
better access to birth control but also be-
cause of restrictions that make it difficult
for clinics to stay open.
Kentucky, which had 17 abortion
providers in 1978, is today among seven
states — the others are North Dakota,
South Dakota, Missouri, Mississippi,
Wyoming and West Virginia — with just
one.
Mr. Bevin’s election in 2015 was only
the beginning of the shift in the abortion
landscape here. Republicans, riding
Donald J. Trump’s coattails, took control
of the Kentucky House in November for
the first time in 95 years. Their first order
of business in January was to pass two
measures restricting abortion — one
banning the procedure after 20 weeks
into a pregnancy, and the other requiring
doctors to narrate ultrasounds in detail,
regardless of patients’ wishes.
For Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state
abortion legislation for the Guttmacher
Institute, a nonprofit research organiza-
tion, Kentucky’s turnabout is striking.
“Kentucky for a long time was not on the
policy radar,” Ms. Nash said. “Now Ken-
tucky is following the model of Texas and
Ohio, where they are adopting restric-
tions or making it very difficult to keep
clinic doors open.”
At 7:30 in the morning, every Tuesday
through Saturday, Kentucky’s in-
tensifying battle over abortion plays out
in downtown Louisville, along the side-
walk in front of the E.M.W. clinic.
The clinic’s mirrored doors are
guarded by a volunteer corps of orange-
vested escorts, who station themselves
strategically at street corners so they
can usher patients to the center from
nearby parking lots, past a phalanx of
protesters.
Men in ball caps finger rosary beads
and recite the Lord’s Prayer. Some hold
grisly signs depicting bloody fetuses or
shout religious messages through mega-
phones. On a recent weekday morning, a
young woman arrived, accompanied by
Ex-Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Motorist Pleads Guilty in Charleston
By ALAN BLINDER
CHARLESTON, S.C. — More than two
years after a North Charleston, S.C., po-
lice officer fired eight rounds to the back
of a fleeing and unarmed black motorist
whose burst of gunfire was recorded on
video, the officer stood in a federal court-
room on Tuesday to plead guilty to
charges that he violated the slain man’s
civil rights.
The plea by the officer, Michael T.
Slager, assured a rare conviction of a law
enforcement official for an on-duty
killing, and it left him facing the possibil-
ity of life in prison for the April 2015
shooting of Walter L. Scott. Mr. Slager
pleaded guilty to a single charge of will-
fully using excessive force to deprive Mr.
Scott of his civil rights.
“We asked for justice,” Anthony Scott,
one of Mr. Scott’s brothers, said. “We re-
ceived justice.”
Mr. Slager said little during a brief
hearing in United States District Court
here, but he acknowledged the factual
basis for the plea agreement, which said
he had “used deadly force even though it
was objectively unreasonable under the
circumstances.”
Minutes later, as Mr. Slager was led
from the courtroom in handcuffs, he
passed crying members of Mr. Scott’s
family. Across the courtroom’s center
aisle, members of Mr. Slager’s family
stood silently and tearfully.
The plea deal effectively resolves all of
the pending charges against Mr. Slager,
35, who had also been indicted on a
charge of murder in state court. While
the arrangement offers certain benefits
to Mr. Slager, such as a possible reduc-
Matt Apuzzo contributed reporting from
Washington, and Mitch Smith from Chicago.
her grandmother and carrying a toddler
in her arms.
“You’re bringing a baby into an abor-
tion clinic!” a man shouted, as escorts
hustled them inside. “Where they’re go-
ing to murder the other baby!”
Inside the clinic, soothing music
played. Eleven patients were scheduled
that day, roughly half for “medical abor-
tions” in which pills are used to induce
miscarriage. One by one, they visited
with the clinic’s director and counselor,
Anne Ahola, who joined the center 17
years ago after working with abused
children.
Kentucky law requires that women re-
ceive counseling, either in person or by
video, at least 24 hours before an abor-
tion. Their stories offered a glimpse into
the varied reasons, and often painful de-
cisions, involved in ending pregnancies.
One 37-year-old woman tearfully con-
tion under federal sentencing guidelines
for acceptance of responsibility, the
agreement is mostly a victory for people
who have spent years raising alarms
about police conduct in the nation.
Under the plea agreement,
prosecutors will ask the court to apply
sentencing guidelines that in effect
would be for a second-degree murder
charge. Notably, the deal expressly al-
lows prosecutors to urge Judge David C.
Norton, who did not immediately set a
sentencing hearing, to order Mr. Slager
to spend the rest of his life in prison.
“The Department of Justice will hold
accountable any law enforcement officer
who violates the civil rights of our citi-
zens by using excessive force,” Attorney
General Jeff Sessions said in a state-
ment. “Such failures of duty not only
harm the individual victims of these
crimes; they harm our country, by erod-
ing trust in law enforcement and under-
mining the good work of the vast major-
ity of honorable and honest police offi-
cers.”
The agreement was greeted here with
measured surprise. Although one of
South Carolina’s top lawyers, Andrew J.
Savage III, was in charge of Mr. Slager’s
defense, a jury signaled in December
that it nearly returned a conviction for ei-
ther murder or manslaughter during a
state trial.
Those proceedings ended in a mistrial,
but some people here had wondered
whether they would ultimately prod Mr.
Slager into an agreement with
prosecutors.
It was not publicly clear until Tuesday
morning that it would. But Mr. Slager
abruptly dropped the defense that he
had offered since Mr. Scott’s death in
April 2015: that he had feared for his life
after a traffic stop that went awry and a
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fessed that she had had an affair with a
co-worker, who was married: “I’m his
boss, and this is strictly forbidden; we
could both lose our jobs.” She quietly
asked for a copy of her ultrasound pic-
ture.
Another, 29, appeared nonchalant.
“I’m working,” she said flatly. “It’s not in
my plan right now.”
A third, 31 and a mother of two, said she
was trying to escape an abusive relation-
ship. “It’s been a struggle for me,” she
told Ms. Ahola. “I am a religious person,
I’ve been crying and battling with my be-
liefs, but I also think God understands.”
She said she worried that the clinic
would close: “We need this option.”
Ms. Ahola ended each talk with the
same question: “Are you sure this is the
right decision for you, and did you reach
this decision yourself?”
Reproductive rights advocates say
struggle over a Taser device.
The early moments of Mr. Slager’s fa-
tal encounter with Mr. Scott were not in
dispute. Mr. Slager, a patrolman in North
Charleston, stopped Mr. Scott for a bro-
ken taillight. After a brief, cordial inter-
action, Mr. Scott fled on foot. (His family
has suggested that Mr. Scott ran because
he feared being jailed over outstanding
child support payments.)
Mr. Slager gave chase, and, he later
testified, struggled with Mr. Scott in a va-
cant lot over his Taser. But Mr. Scott
broke free and continued to run. Mr.
Slager then opened fire, striking Mr.
Scott in the back and sending him crum-
pling to the ground.
Part of the episode — some of the most
controversial seconds — unfolded as a lo-
cal barber recorded it on his cellphone
Michael T. Slager, center, at court in 2016, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to
charges that he violated Walter L. Scott’s civil rights in the 2015 killing.
Protesters, and a clinic volunteer, at the E.M.W. Women’s Surgical Center in
Louisville, Ky., the state’s last abortion provider. State Senator Julie Raque
Adams, at left, gave a bill limiting abortion to Gov. Matt Bevin in 2016.
women in Kentucky, especially those in
poor rural parts of the state, have long
faced economic and geographic barriers
to obtaining abortions. Many cannot af-
ford to travel or to pay for the procedure.
“We used to have people who lived in
Bowling Green; the Nashville clinic was
closer than Louisville,” said Patricia
Canon, who volunteers with the Ken-
tucky Health Justice Network, a non-
profit that helps women pay for abor-
tions and transports them to clinics. “But
then Tennessee decided to enact a 48-
hour, in-person waiting period. That
means two trips, two days.”
Yet until recently, advocates hoped
abortion services would expand in Ken-
tucky.
When Mr. Bevin’s Democratic prede-
cessor, Gov. Steve Beshear, was in office,
Planned Parenthood built a new health
care center in Louisville. After Mr. Bevin
became governor, the center briefly of-
fered abortions, following standard state
procedures to obtain a license, said Ta-
marra Wieder, a spokeswoman for
Planned Parenthood here.
The Bevin administration sued, claim-
ing the center was performing abortions
illegally. A judge dismissed the case, but
the state appealed. So while the Planned
Parenthood center is open, it is obeying
the state’s “cease and desist” order not to
perform abortions.
Dr. Marshall’s conflict with the state
began about a year ago, when state in-
spectors showed up at his Lexington
clinic, which he says operated as a
physician’s office and thus did not re-
quire a license. The state insisted it did.
A legal battle ensued, but as the case
while he walked to work. The stark im-
ages ricocheted around the internet,
made newspaper front pages and led
television broadcasts.
Mr. Slager was charged with murder
and swiftly fired, and the City of North
Charleston reached a $6.5 million settle-
ment with Mr. Scott’s family. Meanwhile,
Mr. Slager’s defense team argued that he
was a good officer swept up in an era of
discontent and protest over police tac-
tics, especially in the wake of a white offi-
cer’s killing of an unarmed black teen-
ager in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014.
That defiance vanished on Tuesday.
“Our responsibility today is to be qui-
et,” Mr. Savage said after Mr. Slager en-
tered his plea. Earlier Tuesday, his office
had issued a statement that said, “We
hope that Michael’s acceptance of re-
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
LUKE SHARRETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
dragged on, E.M.W. in Lexington could
not afford to stay open without seeing pa-
tients. It closed in January.
The Kentucky National Organization
for Women declared the clinic “a perma-
nent casualty” of the governor, while
abortion opponents, long beleaguered
under Governor Beshear, cheered.
“Kentucky is a very pro-life state,” said
Mike Janocik, assistant director of the
Kentucky to Right Life Association.
“Abortion providers tend to fly under the
radar, especially when they are in admin-
istrations favorable to their position, as
ours has been for a long time in Ken-
tucky.”
The dispute in Louisville revolves
around the state’s assertion that E.M.W.
lacks adequate “transfer agreements”
with hospitals and ambulance services
to get women help in case of medical
emergency.
Last month, the state threatened to
close E.M.W. within 10 days; Judge Greg
N. Stivers of United States District Court
here issued an emergency order block-
ing the closing, writing that the clinic had
“a strong likelihood of success.”
The case will be an early test of how
federal courts interpret a 2016 Supreme
Court ruling, in which the justices struck
down parts of a Texas law that imposed
similar requirements, saying they posed
an “undue burden” on women, said
Brigitte Amiri, a lawyer with the
A.C.L.U.’s Reproductive Freedom
Project, which also represents the clinic.
“The burden on women in Kentucky if
E.M.W. closed down would be extreme,”
Ms. Amiri said. “There would be an effec-
tive ban on abortion.”
sponsibility will help the Scott family as
they continue to grieve their loss.”
John O’Leary, a defense lawyer in Co-
lumbia, the South Carolina capital, who is
a former director of the state’s Criminal
Justice Academy, said it made sense that
Mr. Slager would want to avoid the trou-
bled state prison system and bring the
cases that surrounded him to a conclu-
sion.
“I think he’s lucky to get it,” Mr.
O’Leary said of the deal.
Scarlett A. Wilson, the local prosecu-
tor, suggested that her decision to accept
a plea arrangement was something of a
strategic choice. But she and Mr. Scott’s
survivors emphasized that they were in
agreement about the outcome that many
people here said would not have been
possible without the bystander’s cell-
phone video, which showed Mr. Slager
standing and firing.
“It’s not a joyous day,” Ms. Wilson said.
“It’s sad to see such an event like this
happen, and to watch it before your very
eyes and to know how many good men
and women in law enforcement are also
paying for what Michael Slager did. It’s
not fair.”
By late afternoon, Mr. Slager had been
processed at the Charleston County jail,
where he will await sentencing and an
eventual transfer to a federal prison.
Standing outside the courthouse, Mr.
Scott’s mother, Judy Scott, said she for-
gave Mr. Slager, and although one of her
sons called for Mr. Slager to be sentenced
to a life term, Ms. Scott was less specific
about what penalty she wanted her son’s
killer to face.
“Michael Slager admitted what he
did,” Ms. Scott said. “That was enough
years for me because no matter how
many years Michael Slager gets, it would
not bring back my son.”

Left, a makeshift memorial of handwritten letters and poems in Jordan Edwards’s football locker at Mesquite High School. Right, the house where Jordan had at-
tended a party before being killed on Saturday night in Balch Springs, Tex., by a police officer. Two Dallas County agencies are conducting a criminal investigation.
Officer Is Fired After Killing Unarmed 15-Year-Old in Texas
This article is by Manny Fernan- plinary record as an officer.
dez, Dana Goldstein and Christine Efforts to reach Mr. Oliver on
Hauser. Tuesday night were unsuccessful.
BALCH SPRINGS, Tex. — It Responding to the officer’s fir-
happened again, this time on a ing, the Edwards family said in a
residential street in this working- statement on Tuesday that they
class Dallas suburb. A police offi- were grateful for Chief Haber’s de-
cer shot and killed a black teen- cision, but added that there was “a
ager on Saturday night under long road ahead” and called for
questionable circumstances, Mr. Oliver to be arrested on a mur-
thrusting him, his department der charge. The statement, re-
and his city onto the national leased by S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer
stage. for the family, criticized the de-
On Tuesday, the chief of the partment’s treatment of Jordan’s
Balch Springs Police Department brothers after the shooting.
announced that he had fired the Jordan was in the car with four
officer who used a rifle to shoot other teenagers: Jordan’s two
into a moving vehicle full of brothers, Vidal and Kevon, and
teenagers and killed Jordan Ed- two friends. After the shooting,
some or all of the teenagers who
wards, 15, as he was seated in the
had been in the vehicle were “im-
front passenger seat.
mediately treated as common
The officer, Roy Oliver, joined
criminals by other officers” and
the department in July 2011. The
“manhandled, intimidated and ar-
police chief, Jonathan Haber, de- rested,” the statement read. It ap-
clined to say what policies had peared that all those who had
been violated, citing Mr. Oliver’s been arrested were released.
right to appeal the termination. It was about 11 p.m. Saturday
Chief Haber said his decision was when Jordan left a house party af-
based in part on the department’s ter the police arrived, responding
internal affairs investigation, to reports of underage drinking.
which has been completed, and The police said officers heard mul-
the body-camera footage from the tiple gunshots coming from out-
two officers at the scene, Mr. Oli- side the residence, causing a cha-
ver and an unnamed officer. otic scene of teenagers fleeing.
“You have my assurances that Jordan and the four others
my department will continue to be climbed into a car. According to
responsive, transparent and ac- the law firm representing the fam-
countable,” Chief Haber said at a ily, they were driving away from
news conference early Tuesday officers, with Jordan in the front
evening. passenger seat, as one officer,
The police chief declined to armed with an AR-15 rifle, opened
specify Mr. Oliver’s race. fire and shot Mr. Edwards in the
Though the internal affairs in- head, killing him.
quiry has been completed, a crimi- There were echoes of the other
nal investigation into the shooting deadly police shootings around
is being conducted by two Dallas the country that have become all
County agencies, the sheriff’s de- too familiar.
partment and the district attor- Tamir Rice in Cleveland was
ney’s office. Chief Haber declined three years younger than Jordan.
to describe Mr. Oliver’s disci- Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.,
was unarmed. Jordan was, too.
Manny Fernandez and Dana Gold- Walter L. Scott in North Charles-
stein reported from Balch Springs, ton, S.C., was fleeing from an offi-
and Christine Hauser from New cer. Jordan was fleeing, too, al-
York. Niraj Chokshi, Matthew though not on foot like Mr. Scott
Haag and Timothy Williams con- but in a car.
tributed reporting from New York. Laquan McDonald in Chicago
Two White Officers Won’t Be Charged in Fatal Shooting of Black Man in Louisiana
Bamberg, lawyers for Mr. Ster-
From Page A1 ling’s family, confirmed that they
Sterling’s face is painted near the had not been told ahead of time.
entrance, with stuffed animals in “We have been promised that
front. Signs advertise specials on we will meet in person with D.O.J.
cigarettes and fried chicken, and before any announcement is
another reads, “Stop the Killing.” made,” they said in a statement.
“I’m not surprised, because it In a Twitter post on Tuesday
happens all the time,” said Kosher night, the Louisiana attorney gen-
Weber, 21, an African-American eral, Jeff Landry, said his office
resident of Baton Rouge, her voice still had not been notified of the
cracking in anger. “Where do Justice Department’s decision.
things go from here? There’s no “Our office will not comment until
justice. There’s no nothing.” that time,” Mr. Landry wrote.
“Over and over again,” said Representative Barbara Lee,
Derrick Brody, 45. “They kill a hu- Democrat of California, said Mr.
man being and they get away with Sterling had been “shot in cold
it, just ’cause they got a blue suit.” blood” and wrote on Twitter, “The
The mayor-president of Baton DOJ’s decision not to pursue jus-
Rouge, Sharon Weston Broome, tice is a travesty.”
expressed outrage that neither A spokesman for the Justice De-
she nor Mr. Sterling’s family had partment declined to comment. A
been told of the decision not to spokeswoman for the Baton
charge the officers before it was Rouge Police Department also de-
reported by The Washington Post. clined to comment and would not
“No one in my office or the gov- confirm the employment status of
ernor’s office has been notified by the two officers who had been un-
the U.S. attorney’s office of a deci- der investigation, referring in-
sion or timeline,” she said in a quiries to the Justice Department.
statement. “When I know some- The officers, Blane Salamoni
thing, the people of Baton Rouge and Howie Lake II, did not re-
will know, and we will get through spond to phone messages. Both
it together.” were put on administrative leave
L. Chris Stewart and Justin last year.
Early on July 5, 2016, Officers
Richard Fausset contributed re- Salamoni and Lake responded to a
porting from Baton Rouge, La., report that a black man in a red
Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman shirt selling CDs outside the Tri-
from Washington, and Alan Blind- ple S Food Mart had threatened
er from Charleston, S.C. the caller with a gun.
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Charmaine Edwards, left, and her husband, Odell, on Monday
as their lawyers talked about the killing of their son Jordan.
was killed by an officer whose col-
leagues’ version of events was
contradicted by dashcam video
footage. In Jordan’s case, too, vid-
eo footage contradicted the police.
And yet, as with all of the fatal
shootings that have stirred a na-
tional conversation about race
and the police in recent years, the
shooting death of Jordan Edwards
was its own unique tragedy.
A high school freshman with a
big smile and a big family, Jordan
would stay late at football practice
to spend extra time lifting
weights. Jordan’s 16-year-old
brother was sitting just a few feet
away in the driver’s seat when
Jordan was shot in the head.
“Not only have Jordan’s broth-
ers lost their best friend; they wit-
nessed firsthand his violent,
senseless, murder,” the Edwards
family said in a statement on
Tuesday. “Their young lives will
forever be altered.”
Outrage spread across Twitter
after the shooting, but his griev-
ing family asked people to refrain
from protests and marches while
they prepare for his funeral on
Saturday.
In Balch Springs on Tuesday af-
ternoon, their wishes appeared to
have been heard. One of the few
A memorial to Alton Sterling at the Triple S Food Mart, where
he was killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, La., in July.
In a cellphone video, an officer
is seen pushing Mr. Sterling onto
the hood of the car and tackling
him to the ground. He is held down
by the officers as one appears to
hold a gun above his chest.
Mr. Sterling had a criminal his-
tory, including convictions for bat-
tery and illegal possession of a
gun, though it was not clear
whether the officers knew that.
The video of Mr. Sterling’s
death — and one of the fatal shoot-
ing of another black man, Phi-
lando Castile, by white officers in
Minnesota the next day — stoked
a debate about race and criminal
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALLISON V. SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
signs that there had even been a
shooting was not a protest banner
or a placard but a makeshift me-
morial of handwritten letters and
poems at Jordan’s football locker
at Mesquite High School.
“He was a phenomenal young
man,” Jeff Fleener, the head foot-
ball coach, said. “He was an exam-
ple of what we would like all our
athletes to be. Great in the class-
room, never got into trouble, was
at school every single day and had
a great attitude.”
Balch Springs, about 15 miles
east of downtown Dallas, is a ma-
jority-minority city that is 46 per-
cent Latinos; 24 percent African-
Americans and 28 percent whites.
With a population of about 25,000,
it had more violent crime than
Texas cities of similar size in 2015,
according to F.B.I. crime data.
Ernest Walker, a Dallas-area
civil rights activist, said that he
did not blame the Police Depart-
ment for Jordan’s death and that
he considered Mr. Oliver’s race ir-
relevant.
“I do believe there’s a propen-
sity to overreact when a call
comes in that there’s a party, and
the party has a large number of
African-Americans,” Mr. Walker
said. Race, he added, “played
WILLIAM WIDMER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
justice that intensified when a
sniper gunned down police offi-
cers, killing five, at a demonstra-
tion in Dallas on July 7.
That protest was among dozens
nationwide in the days after Mr.
Sterling’s death. In Baton Rouge
alone, more than 100 people were
arrested, including DeRay Mckes-
son, a prominent activist for the
Black Lives Matter movement,
who spent time in jail there on ac-
cusations that he ignored instruc-
tions to stay out of the road.
About two weeks after Mr. Ster-
ling’s death, a man attacked police
officers in Baton Rouge, killing
some role, but I don’t think it
played a role in why he was shoot-
ing.”
The Balch Springs police “went
against the grain and fired this of-
ficer,” Mr. Walker said. “This de-
partment from Balch Springs has
done everything they could do.”
William J. Johnson, executive
director of the National Associa-
tion of Police Organizations, said
the officer acted improperly if he
fired into a vehicle that did not
pose an imminent danger.
“If the vehicle was moving
away from the officers and not an
immediate threat to others, it
would seem to be outside any pol-
icy in the United States,” he said.
A number of police depart-
ments, including those in New
York, Denver, Chicago and Los
Angeles, explicitly prohibit offi-
cers from firing at moving vehi-
cles except under a narrow set of
circumstances, including if some-
one inside a car is firing at the offi-
cer. As part of those policies, if the
only threat against an officer is an
oncoming car or truck, the officer
is not authorized to shoot. Instead,
the police are trained to move out
of the path of the vehicle and to en-
sure that others are safe.
The Balch Springs Police De-
partment initially said one of its
officers fired on the vehicle after it
reversed in an “aggressive man-
ner” toward the officers, but on
Monday, Chief Haber said body
camera footage showed that the
killing did not unfold the way the
authorities originally claimed.
The vehicle at first went in re-
verse, but then was moving for-
ward — away from officers —
when the shooting occurred.
On Tuesday, Chief Haber said
the department’s original state-
ment was wrong because of “my
inability to get all the facts like I
should have.” He added, “In a rush
to get the information out — to be
transparent because it’s impor-
tant for us to be transparent be-
cause we have to be responsible to
our community partners — I
missed a step.”
three and wounding three others.
In directing the Justice Depart-
ment to review its agreements
with law enforcement agencies,
Mr. Sessions said “the individual
misdeeds of bad actors should not
impugn” entire departments.
His predecessor, Loretta E.
Lynch, released a report in Au-
gust that illustrated a systemic
pattern of discrimination by Balti-
more’s police department, which
had disproportionately stopped
and searched black residents. And
last summer, President Barack
Obama denounced “the racial dis-
parities that exist in our criminal
justice system,” while emphasiz-
ing that his comments were not an
attack on law enforcement itself.
At a confirmation hearing in Ja-
nuary, Mr. Sessions expounded on
his opposing views, suggesting
that civil rights investigations in-
hibited the police in their duties.
“Law enforcement as a whole
has been unfairly maligned and
blamed for the actions of a few bad
actors and for allegations about
police that were not true,” he told
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Morale has suffered,” he added,
noting that in the face of public
criticism, more police officers had
died on the job. “This is a wake-up
call. This must not continue.”
The Justice Department must
still decide whether to bring char-
ges in other cases, including the
death of Tamir Rice. Officials say
0N A11
Praise
For Victim
Prompts
A Debate
By JOHN ELIGON
Labeling a high school fresh-
man a “great kid” with “awesome
parents” and a 3.5 grade point av-
erage would usually be the ul-
timate compliment.
But when it comes to an un-
armed black teenager who died at
the hands of the police, such re-
membrances become fraught
with questions over how black vic-
tims are perceived.
That is what happened after a
police officer in suburban Dallas
fatally shot Jordan Edwards, 15,
late Saturday night. Jordan was
sitting in the passenger’s seat of a
car that was driving away from
the officer who fired at it, Chief
Jonathan Haber of Balch Springs
said, adding that the shooting “did
not meet our core values.”
In the aftermath, those who
knew Jordan well were quick to
laud the person he was.
“Awesome parents,” Chris
Cano, the father of a friend, told a
local television station, WFAA.
“He was not a thug. This shouldn’t
happen to him.”
Those comments were pub-
lished in a New York Times arti-
cle, and readers were critical of
the narrative that such a quota-
tion painted.
“It implies that there could be a
scenario in which police killing a
person without cause is justifiable
based on the victim’s past experi-
ences,” Cassidy Fogg wrote on
The Times’s Facebook page. “It’s
also a sentence that probably
wouldn’t appear in an article
about a white victim.”
Activists for police accountabil-
ity have long argued that black
people killed by the police are too
often the ones put on trial after-
ward, rather than the officers who
shot them. If the shooting was un-
justified, does it matter whether
the victim had accumulated acco-
lades?
“And besides, how the hell do
the police know his past when
they arrive on a scene and start
shooting,” another reader, Eliza-
beth Anderson, wrote on The
Times’s Facebook page.
Although an array of studies
have shown racial disparities in
the criminal justice system, the
default thinking among many
Americans is often to assume that
black people killed by the police
were up to no good, and that their
pasts somehow contributed to
their fatal interactions with the
authorities, activists and
academics say.
That is a much easier narrative
to swallow than the alternative —
“that we’re looking at faulty polic-
ing,” said Mark Anthony Neal, a
professor of African-American
Studies and English at Duke Uni-
versity.
“There’s a narrative about the
kind of activities that young black
men engage in,” Mr. Neal said.
And the death of black people at
the hands of police officers can of-
ten set off a defense mechanism
among the deceased’s family and
friends. They emphasize that
those killed were not bad people,
that they did not play into soci-
ety’s jaded expectations.
A lawyer for Jordan’s family, S.
Lee Merritt, told The Dallas
Morning News: “We’ve heard ex-
cuses before in the past: You know
why it happens, because the dads
aren’t present. That excuse isn’t
here. Or the kid was violent. That
excuse isn’t present here.”
that case poses challenges be-
cause the boy had a toy gun.
Ms. Lynch authorized prose-
cutors last year to seek charges in
the death of Mr. Garner, who died
after being placed in a chokehold
by a New York police officer. Civil
rights prosecutors have been pre-
senting evidence before a grand
jury in that case. The officer has
said his use of force was justified.
Earlier on Tuesday, an officer in
South Carolina, Michael T. Slager
— charged by the Justice Depart-
ment in the fatal shooting of a
black man, Walter L. Scott —
pleaded guilty to a single count of
using excessive force to deprive
Mr. Scott of his civil rights, under a
plea deal in which officials will not
pursue other charges against him.
Mr. Slager — fired from the
North Charleston police force af-
ter he shot Mr. Scott, who was un-
armed and fleeing, in April 2015 —
could be sentenced to life in prison
after acknowledging that he used
deadly force “even though it was
objectively unreasonable under
the circumstances.”
The Justice Department sought
an indictment of Mr. Slager well
before Mr. Sterling died, and its
lawyers were preparing for trial.
On Tuesday, Mr. Sessions said in a
news release on the plea that his
department would “hold account-
able any law enforcement officer
who violates the civil rights of our
citizens by using excessive force.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team
President’s Daughter
Lays Out Her Agenda,
Aimed at Gender Issues
From Page A1
sentiment. Other officials added that she
had weighed in on topics including cli-
mate, deportation, education and refu-
gee policy.
Even as Ms. Trump said she was seek-
ing to exert more influence, she acknowl-
edged she was a novice about Washing-
ton. “I’m still at the early stages of learn-
ing how everything works,” she said,
“but I know enough now to be a much
more proactive voice inside the White
House.”
Ms. Trump, 35, a former model, entre-
preneur and hotel developer, says she
will focus on gender inequality in the
United States and abroad, by aiming to
create a federal paid leave program,
more affordable child care and a global
fund for women who are entrepreneurs,
among other efforts. Her interest in gen-
der issues grew out of a “Women Who
Work” hashtag and marketing campaign
she devised a few years ago to help sell
$99 pumps and $150 dresses. On Tuesday,
the career advice book she worked on be-
fore the election, whose title echoes her
hashtag, was released.
By inserting herself into a scalding set
of gender dynamics, she is becoming a
proxy for dashed dreams of a female
presidency and the debate about Presi-
dent Trump’s record of conduct toward
women and his views on them. Critics
see her efforts as a brash feat of Trump
promotion — an unsatisfying answer to
the 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording
that surfaced during the campaign and
the seas of pink, cat-eared “pussy hats”
worn by protesters after the inaugura-
tion — by a woman of extraordinary priv-
ilege who has learned that feminism
makes for potent branding. (Ms. Trump
says she will not be promoting her book
for ethics reasons.)
In the two interviews last week, Ms.
Trump talked about unleashing the eco-
nomic potential of women — some of her
phrases sounding uncannily like those of
Hillary Clinton — and effused about find-
ing a new role model in Eleanor Roose-
velt, whose autobiography she is read-
ing. Ms. Trump is reaching out to influen-
tial women like Ginni Rometty, chief ex-
ecutive of IBM, and Mary T. Barra, the
C.E.O. of General Motors, and studying
up on child care policy. She waved away
questions about her motivations for em-
bracing feminist themes.
“Suddenly, after my father declared
his candidacy, it became that all the
things that I was doing that I was praised
for, the same people, the critics, viewed
them through this different lens,” she
said. “Somehow, all the same things they
applauded me for as a millennial, as a fe-
male entrepreneur, were now viewed
very cynically as opportunistic.”
Some former employees express sur-
prise at her new policy interest, saying
she was once reluctant to grant them ma-
ternity leave. But other observers call
her the administration’s best hope for
progress on gender issues and say they
are encouraged to see a presidential
daughter, and a top member of a Republi-
can White House, advocate federal paid
family leave. (She intends to go beyond
her father’s campaign pledge and push
to include both fathers and mothers, ac-
cording to a White House official.)
“I hope she will go on to become a
great champion in this area,” said Jim
Yong Kim, president of the World Bank,
which is working with Ms. Trump on
funding female entrepreneurs.
Ultimately, “the only test is whether
she is able to achieve something other
than personal gain,” said Umber Ahmad,
a banker turned baker and one of several
women quoted in Ms. Trump’s new book
who now say they feel uneasy about be-
ing included in it.
Those close to Ms. Trump say she is
Michael Barbaro and Alison Smale con-
tributed reporting. Kitty Bennett and Ra-
chel Quester contributed research.
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Above left, Ms. Trump as a model at the Maurice Malone fashion show in New York in February 1999; above
right, her ready-to-wear collection on display at Lord & Taylor in New York in 2012; right, Ms. Trump and Presi-
dent Trump took part in a round table in Washington in March with women who own small businesses.
generally business-friendly and socially
liberal. But she says that on many issues,
she does not have strongly held views.
(In the White House, she uses corporate
terms — like “business plan” — as much
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as partisan or political ones.)
She has one skill unmatched by almost
anyone else, family members and aides
say: She can effectively convey criticism
to a man who often refuses it from others,
and can appeal to him to change his
mind.
“I’m his daughter. I’ve known him my
entire life. He trusts me,” she said. “I
don’t have a hidden agenda. I’m not look-
ing to hit him to help myself.”
Though their demeanors are different
— she is guarded where he is unfettered
— Ms. Trump is more like her father than
Ivanka Trump and Donald J.
Trump through the years. Top row,
left to right: a young Ivanka with
her father; a topping-off ceremony
for a Trump hotel in Chicago in
2008; groundbreaking at the Old
Post Office in Washington in 2014.
Right: Ms. Trump speaking to her
father at the Republican conven-
tion in Cleveland in July.
most people realize, according to people
who know them both.
She has his eye for image and brand-
ing, his sensitivity to perceived criticism.
They are both skilled at the art of the
sale. Like him, she sometimes makes
sweeping, and arguably overreaching,
claims: She portrayed Mr. Trump as an
advocate for women in last summer’s
convention speech, and described her
brand as a stereotype-shattering move-
ment. Like him, she appears confident
she can master realms in which she has
little expertise or experience. The two
even speak in similar streams of superla-
tives: “tremendous,” “unbelievable.”
But can she influence his actions as
president? In her 35 years, she has left
little traceable record of challenging or
changing the man who raised her. Mr.
Trump did tape an apology for the “Ac-
cess Hollywood” recording, but by then
doing so had become a political necessi-
ty.
Mr. Trump summons Ms. Trump to the
Oval Office to ask her questions and hear
her ideas. (She calls him “Dad,” not “Mr.
President.”) If he asks his daughter
about an unfamiliar subject more than
twice, she will often do research so she was younger I was going, ‘Did you have her mid-20s, learning her way around fi-
can develop a view. Sometimes she seeks to say that, Dad?’ ” she told Oprah Win- IVANKA’S GUIDE TO LIFE nancing negotiations and construction
out Mr. Trump, telling other staff mem- frey in an interview. “Women Who Work” offers advice and details, she played an authority figure on
bers, “I need 10 minutes alone with my Mr. Trump was always working. “He inspiration pitched to readers with cer- the show, weighing in on contestants’
father.” was not the father to go and play games merits during the tense boardroom
tain advantages. Arts, Page C1.
“A lot of their real interactions happen with them in Central Park or take them scenes.
when it’s just the two of them,” Jared for a walk,” Ivana Trump, Ivanka’s The attention helped her license her
Kushner, Ms. Trump’s husband and fel- mother, told Michael D’Antonio, a biogra- have a normal modeling career because name to products: fine jewelry (2007),
low aide, said in a telephone interview. pher who shared his interviews with The her name was associated with her dad,” shoes (2010), clothing (2010) and hand-
Alone with her father, Ms. Trump Times. But Ivanka would stop by his of- said Audrey Roatta, who worked for the bags (2011), all of which were promoted
makes the case on what she sees as pri- fice to say hello, or accompany him to agency that represented Ms. Trump and on the show. Her business was closely in-
orities, she said. “I’ll go to the mat on cer- construction sites, much as she sees him accompanied her on trips. tertwined with her father’s name and or-
tain issues and I may still lose those,” she now in the West Wing or joins him on Others were sometimes cutting about ganization, where she continued to
said. “But maybe along the way I’ve presidential excursions. She was im- it: “She’s only here because of her dad,” spend much of her time, initially relying
modified a position just slightly. And pressed by her father’s empire; he Jennifer Lopez remarked within earshot on Trump Organization resources: pay-
that’s just great.” praised her constantly to others. of the teenage Ivanka at a movie pre- roll services, information technology
Her older brother, Don Jr., was at miere, Ms. Roatta recalled. (Repre- and lawyers. (A representative for Ms.
boarding school when their parents di-
The Loyal Daughter sentatives for both women said that they Trump said that she had reimbursed her
vorced, and refused to speak to his father did not recall the incident.) father’s company.)
No matter how high-decibel Mr. for a year; her younger brother, Eric, When her father started his own mod- But penetrating the mass market pre-
Trump’s divorces, no matter how outsize was very small. So Ivanka was the child eling agency a few years later, she was sented a challenge: Ms. Trump’s gilded
his statements, his daughter Ivanka who spent the most time with Mr. Trump, upset because he was sweeping into her life felt distant to women who shopped at
rarely if ever rejected him, rebelled or her mother said in an email to The Times. domain — but she suppressed her anger, Macy’s. So, late in 2013, she and her hus-
distanced herself from him. When her Even then, “Donald knew he could trust a friend said. band gathered with a few employees in
parents’ marriage ended before she her!” she added. Just as Ms. Trump joined the family front of a whiteboard in their Upper East
turned 10, photographers snapped her As a teenager, Ms. Trump decided to Side apartment. Sheryl Sandberg’s
picture on the way to school and real estate business in 2005, the Trump
try modeling, to make money and to name became even more of a source of “Lean In” had just topped the best-seller
helicopters circled over Mar-a-Lago, Mr. show what she could accomplish on her power and opportunity because of the charts, and Ms. Trump’s team wanted its
Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. His own. She walked European runways, ap- own catchy yet accessible slogan.
public and private statements raised new glow from the reality television
peared on magazine covers, and was a show “The Apprentice,” in which her fa- The brainstorming solidified into a
eyebrows. co-host of her father’s Miss Teen USA new motto: “Women Who Work.”
“There were definitely times when I ther starred. Even as Ms. Trump was in
Pageant. “She never stood a chance to
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Cultivating an Image
Ms. Trump and her team set about tai-
loring her image to fit the concept. An in-
ternal document lists one of her chal-
lenges as “perceived as rich and unrelat-
able.” (An additional one: Most of her fol-
lowers on social media were men.) Ms.
Trump was told to post more down-to-
earth pictures on her Instagram feed —
less made-up model, more mommy.
She hesitated to showcase her young
children, but “we certainly had conver-
sations about whether it was O.K. to put
her kids on social media and we felt it
was important to show who she was as a
whole person,” said Abigail Klem, presi-
dent of the Ivanka Trump brand.
Her company pitched a never-made
podcast that would feature Ms. Trump as
a chic business guru, interviewing suc-
cess stories and business-feminism lead-
ers like Ms. Sandberg and Sara Blakely,
founder of Spanx. The pitch described
the supposed impact of the “Women Who
Work” brand campaign: “the outdated
caricature of a ‘working woman’ — fraz-
zled, androgynous and entirely one-note
— began to crack.”
But Ms. Trump’s brand had not always
lived up to its progressive image. Ini-
tially, former employees say, Ms. Trump
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had been reluctant to grant maternity
leave, and she did not have a benefits
package when she began hiring people to
work for her.
Marissa Kraxberger, a former execu-
tive who was pregnant when Ms. Trump
offered her a job in the summer of 2013,
recalled asking her future boss about
paid leave. She described Ms. Trump as
saying, “Well, we don’t have maternity
leave policy here; I went back to work
one week after having my child, so that’s
just not something I’m used to.”
Ms. Kraxberger said that she and oth-
ers pushed Ms. Trump to start offering a
paid maternity leave policy. Ms. Klem
said that the business was new when the
issue arose, and that after consulting
employees, the company put in place a
policy for two-month paid family leave,
as well as flexible working hours, in the
summer of 2014.
Ms. Trump had not seemed especially
focused on gender politics or policy, ac-
cording to people who have known her at
various points throughout her life, be-
yond awareness of being the rare woman
in the male-dominated world of real es-
tate.
“Definitely the brand changed her, and
her interests really solidified,” said Ms.
Klem, who took over the day-to-day op-
erations of the Ivanka Trump brand after
the election. Soon, her office had a play
area where children could use crayons
and toys while their parents worked.
An Unfamiliar Role
Later, Ms. Trump and those close to
her described the period just before her
father announced his candidacy as one of
the most fulfilling of her life. She had
managed to update her family’s brand
from the older, flashy days, with sleek de-
signs. She was personally developing a
hotel at the site of the Old Post Office
building in Washington, a historical
property. And Vogue magazine profiled
her as a paragon of millennial taste and
accomplishment — a far cry from the
tabloid coverage of her youth.
But the very first day of her father’s
presidential campaign caused her prob-
lems: His remarks about Mexico’s send-
ing rapists over the border caused two
celebrity chefs to drop out of the Old Post
Office project.
Ms. Trump was shocked by the heat
and fury of the campaign. Before, she
had gotten letters of admiration, calling
her a role model; now many of the letters
she received were scathing. “Everything
that was ascribed to him suddenly, for
my critics, became true of me,” she said.
Last week, speaking in her newly re-
painted West Wing office — stark white
with metallic accents, a contrast with the
creamy traditionalism of the rest of the
West Wing — Ms. Trump appeared alter-
nately energized, defensive and
daunted. Behind the scenes, advisers
say, she has been frustrated, unhappy
about giving up her life in New York, and
determined to prevail and make the best
of a White House tour that she never ex-
pected. That morning, for the first time
since she had moved into her Washing-
ton home, photographers had not gath-
ered outside.
It was her first full week in the role of
assistant to the president, and she had
just hired a chief of staff and was setting
up meetings. “There’s a lot I don’t know
about how government works and how
things get done, but I feel I know enough
now that I can be much more proactive
about the type of change and reform that
I’d like to see happen,” she said.
Ms. Trump was leaving that evening
for Germany, representing the adminis-
tration on the world stage for the first
time. She flew that night on a commercial
jetliner, traveling with her Secret Service
detail and Dina Powell, the former Gold-
man Sachs executive and current deputy
national security adviser who has be-
come Ms. Trump’s all-around guide in
the administration. In Berlin, Ms. Trump
appeared on a panel with some of the
most accomplished women in the world:
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor;
Christine Lagarde, the managing direc-
tor of the International Monetary Fund;
and Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian for-
eign affairs minister. In contrast, Ms.
Trump was introduced as the “first
daughter.”
As she spoke, the audience murmured
with skepticism. (Contrary to some news
reports, Ms. Trump was not loudly
booed.) One moment, however, appeared
more cutting. “The German audience is
not that familiar with the concept of a
first daughter,” the moderator asked. “I’d
like to ask you, what is your role, and who
are you representing: your father as
president of the United States, the Amer-
ican people, or your business?”
“Well, certainly not the latter,” Ms.
Trump said lightly, adding, “I am rather
unfamiliar with this role.”
An Inescapable Shadow
Questions about her father trail Ms.
Trump everywhere now.
Palomarez, the chief executive of the
Javier
United States Hispanic Chamber of Com-
merce, has been in touch with her in re-
cent months about immigration and en-
trepreneurship, but their conversations
have also turned more personal.
In one of their earliest talks, soon after
the inauguration, Ms. Trump hinted at
her frustration. “Let’s talk about your
dad,” she said to Mr. Palomarez. She
asked if he would be “100 percent abso-
lutely proud of everything that came out
of your father’s mouth,” especially when
his father was age 70. She acknowledged
that there was a difference between their
fathers, Mr. Palomarez said — hers is the
president.
Playing the role of centrist advocate in
a right-leaning administration would be
a challenge for anyone, even those
steeped in politics. As is the case with her
father, Ms. Trump’s newness to Washing-
ton and preference for straight-ahead
business negotiations can result in
painful collisions.
During the campaign, Ms. Trump suc-
cessfully pushed her father to praise
Planned Parenthood from a Republican
debate stage, a moment that created a
stir at the time because of the party’s
broad opposition to the organization’s
abortion services. But more recently,
with congressional Republicans
threatening to cut all funding to Planned
Parenthood (even though the women’s
health organization says it receives no
federal funding for abortions), Ms.
Trump approached its president, Cecile
Richards, to start a broader dialogue.
She also had a proposal: Planned Parent-
hood should split in two, Ms. Trump sug-
gested, with a smaller arm to provide
abortions and a larger one devoted to
women’s health services.
White House officials said Ms. Trump
was trying to find a common-sense solu-
tion amid the roar of abortion politics.
But Planned Parenthood officials said
they thought Ms. Trump’s advice was
naïve, failing to understand how central
reproductive choice was to the group’s
mission. Ms. Richards sharply criticized
Ms. Trump for not publicly objecting to
the Republican health care bill that failed
in March, and Ms. Trump felt stung.
Speaking generally, Ms. Trump com-
plained in the interview that many advo-
cacy groups were “so wedded to the
headline of the issue that sometimes dif-
fering perspectives and new informa-
tion, when brought to the table, are
viewed as an inconvenience because it
undermines the thesis.”
Despite the tension, Ms. Trump helped
preserve and increase funding for
women’s health in the government
spending deal devised over the weekend,
a White House official said. (A congres-
sional aide noted that such spending re-
mained the same, and did not increase.)
But the victory may be short-lived: The
coming bill that would repeal the Afford-
able Care Act is likely to include a meas-
ure to strike Planned Parenthood’s fund-
ing. And a State Department budget doc-
ument recently circulated would cut
funding for a women’s rights initiative
the agency participates in.
For now, Ms. Trump acknowledges
how much she has to learn and asks the
public to be patient with her.
“I do believe that in time I’ll get to the
right place,” she said. “In the short run
I’ll have missteps, and, in some cases, I’ll
take shots that I could have avoided if I
had publicly said what I think.”
“I’m really, really trying to learn,” she
added.
Trump’s First Visit Home
Will Not Be a Sleepover
By MICHAEL WILSON
New York City this week pre-
pared for the first return of its na-
tive-son president since he en-
tered the White House, and the
many disruptions sure to appear
in his wake, even as the visit
earned an asterisk on Tuesday
with the disclosure that he would
not be staying at Trump Tower, or
in the city at all.
Earlier in the week, flight re-
strictions announced by the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration indi-
cated that President Trump would
spend Thursday night in the city
after a dinner reception aboard
the Intrepid aircraft carrier on the
West Side of Manhattan. He would
then travel the next day to his
country house in New Jersey, at
the Trump National Golf Course in
Bedminster.
But new restrictions an-
nounced Tuesday showed Mr.
Trump heading straight to Bed-
minster from the Intrepid.
The New York Police Depart-
ment said it had been advised that
Mr. Trump would not be staying in
the city. He is expected to stay in
Bedminster through the weekend.
At least one protest scheduled
to take place outside Trump
Tower, by the New York State Im-
migrant Action Fund and the New
York Immigration Coalition, will
go on as planned, said Steven
Choi, the fund’s executive director.
“The president can’t even face
the music in his own building?” he
said. “New York City is ready for
him, and we’ll be there.”
Mr. Trump has said in recent in-
terviews that he has not returned
to New York because of the high
costs involved with his travel.
“Going back is very expensive for
the country,” he said on Fox News
on Friday. “I hate to see the New
Yorkers with streets closed.”
Mr. Trump is scheduled to fly to
New York on Thursday afternoon
and travel to the Intrepid, the de-
commissioned aircraft carrier
docked in the Hudson River off
West 46th Street, where he will
meet Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull of Australia. The event is
a reception and dinner to mark the
75th anniversary of the Battle of
the Coral Sea, where the two coun-
tries fought alongside each other
against Japan.
The reception on the Intrepid
begins at 6:30 p.m., with dinner to
follow, and by then, judging by so-
cial media, protests outside will
have been well underway.
Several groups announced
protests and marches near the In-
trepid before the reception. Two
groups, the Working Families
Party and Rise and Resist, self-de-
scribed as “new and experienced
activists committed to opposing,
disrupting and defeating any gov-
ernment act that threatens de-
mocracy, equality and our civil lib-
erties,” planned to gather sepa-
rately on streets north and south
of the aircraft carrier and march
toward each other.
Some protests incorporated the
whimsical, with reminders that
Thursday is also Star Wars Day
(May the Fourth) and suggestions
Maggie Haberman, Emily Palmer
and Ford Fessenden contributed
reporting.
Top, the lobby of Trump Tower. Above, Trump National Golf
Club in Bedminster, N.J., where the president is scheduled to
stay Thursday night after attending a dinner in Manhattan hon-
oring American and Australian veterans of World War II.
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that participants dress accord-
ingly. Other marchers were asked
to wear white and to bring pots
and pans to bang.
“We want to get as close as pos-
sible so they hear us inside,” said
Nelini Stamp of the Working Fam-
ilies Party.
That may prove difficult. In
early September, as the presiden-
tial campaign entered its final
weeks, Mr. Trump and Hillary
Clinton visited the Intrepid for a
forum moderated by Matt Lauer
of NBC’s “Today” show, and secu-
rity was tight, with pedestrian
barriers radiating outward for
blocks.
The New York City police de-
clined to provide specific details
regarding road closings and the
managing of protests near the In-
trepid during Mr. Trump’s visit.
The event on the Intrepid, now a
sea, air and space museum, is be-
ing hosted by the American
Australian Association. “The
guests of honor for the evening
are seven surviving veterans
from the Battle of the Coral Sea —
three Americans and four
Australians,” said John Berry, the
group’s president. “They’re all in
their mid-90s.”
The Australian veterans spent
up to 28 hours traveling to New
York for the event, a black-tie af-
fair for 700 guests that is open to
the press, Mr. Berry said.
Dinner includes steak and sea
bass, and Mr. Trump and Mr. Turn-
bull are expected to make re-
marks.
Much of the neighborhood
around the Intrepid still bears the
industrial, worn facade of its nick-
name, Hell’s Kitchen. Residents
Plans to spend the
night in New Jersey,
after a dinner in
Manhattan.
greeted news of the event in their
backyard with mostly bemused ir-
ritation about how it might affect
their business or commute. Mr.
Trump lost overwhelmingly in
Manhattan in last year’s election,
and some showed lingering antip-
athy toward the president on
Tuesday.
“I guess it will be good to see
him off the golf course,” said Paul
Masters, a salesman at Grand Cru
Wine and Spirits, a few blocks
from the museum. “But I hate we
miss the irony. It would have been
much better if he came the next
day — for Cinco de Mayo.”
John Khe, 24, a Pakistani immi-
grant who operates a pretzel cart
across the street from the Intrep-
id, said he would be forced to take
the day off since the museum will
be closed to the public.
“The N.Y.P.D. would move me
around too much, and all of those
V.I.P. people wouldn’t buy from me
anyway,” he said.
But he said it was for a good
cause.
“Trump is my guy,” Mr. Khe
said. “I don’t have a reason. I just
like him.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
For Patients at Risk,
Worries That Waivers
Will Raise Premiums
From Page A1
tearful case for retaining the pro-
tections, recounting his infant
son’s recent open-heart surgery
and noting that before the Afford-
able Care Act, “If you were born
with congenital heart disease, like
my son was, there was a good
chance you’d never be able to get
health insurance because you had
a pre-existing condition.”
While insurers would not be
able to deny coverage altogether
under the Republican bill, the re-
vised legislation allows states to
seek a waiver from the existing
rule that requires them to charge
the same price to everyone who is
the same age in the same region,
regardless of how healthy they
are. People who went uninsured
for 63 days or more in the previous
year could be charged based on
their health status and see their
premiums increase sharply.
Healthier people might see their
prices drop.
To get a waiver, a state would
need some other way to cover peo-
ple with potentially serious medi-
cal conditions, ranging from a re-
‘I don’t think people
really understand how
serious this is.’
insurance program that helps pay
for customers needing very ex-
pensive care to a high-risk pool.
Such pools existed in 35 states be-
fore the Affordable Care Act, but
they served only a small fraction
of the people who needed cover-
age and most were underfunded,
according to an analysis by the
Kaiser Family Foundation.
States could also seek to opt out
of a requirement that all insur-
ance plans cover 10 “essential
health benefits,” including pre-
scription drugs, maternity care,
mental health care and addiction
treatment. By allowing insurers to
cover less, the change could bring
down premium prices, but also
leave people without access to
services that hundreds of thou-
sands have received under the Af-
fordable Care Act, including treat-
ment for opioid addiction.
It is hard to predict how broadly
the waivers would affect the mil-
lions of people with pre-existing
conditions. Many people do have
lapses in coverage between jobs
or at other times, and they could
be priced out of any program a
state set up. Healthy people would
most likely gravitate to plans that
offered minimal coverage, which
could greatly increase costs for
those who need more comprehen-
sive care.
Republicans Scramble for Votes as a Crucial Voice Shuns the Latest Health Care Bill
From Page A1
said the latest version of the
health care bill “torpedoes” pro-
tections for people with pre-exist-
ing medical conditions.
Mr. Upton, who led the House
Energy and Commerce Commit-
tee as the repeal movement built
steam, declared on a local radio
show, “I cannot support this bill
with this provision in it,” just as
Mr. Ryan was insisting that the
legislation would protect the sick.
The loss of Mr. Upton, who has
served in the House for 30 years,
was a huge blow to Republicans,
who had hoped to get the bill
through the House by Thursday,
before lawmakers go home again
and face pressure from
constituents. The Upton decision,
which could give other Republi-
cans cover to defect, came as
party leaders faced an onslaught
of advocacy groups saying the bill
would harm the nation’s most vul-
nerable citizens — and as a late-
night talk show host, Jimmy Kim-
mel, made an emotional appeal.
A tearful Mr. Kimmel on Mon-
day night told the story of his in-
fant son, Billy, who was born with
heart defects and had surgery. Mr.
Kimmel pleaded with Congress
not to undermine the Affordable
Care Act’s ban on discrimination
against people with pre-existing
conditions.
After Mr. Kimmel’s monologue
went viral, former President
Barack Obama weighed in on
Twitter, writing: “Well said,
Jimmy. That’s exactly why we
fought so hard for the ACA, and
why we need to protect it for kids
like Billy.”
House Republican leaders are
also fighting against the clock.
The House is scheduled to be in re-
cess beginning on Friday and is
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Em-
marie Huetteman contributed re-
porting.
Governors have so far re-
mained quiet about whether they
would seek waivers, but for many
people who rely on the individual
insurance market, these provi-
sions hark back to a time when
insurers scrutinized the health of
all individuals before they could
sign up. In some states, policies
were available with riders that ex-
cluded a given condition. Insurers
could also just charge those with
medical conditions much higher
prices.
Larisa Thomason, of New Mar-
ket, Ala., remembers the day 15
years ago when her husband got a
letter from Humana informing
him that his policy would not
cover any cancer care because a
preventive colonoscopy had
turned up several benign polyps.
Likewise, an insurer in Wisconsin
refused to cover any treatment re-
lated to Alice Thompson’s repro-
ductive system, starting in 2003,
because a doctor had written in
her medical record that she
should have a hysterectomy to
eliminate painful menstrual
periods.
“Had I gotten ovarian or uterine
cancer, I wouldn’t have been cov-
ered,” said Ms. Thompson, 62, of
South Milwaukee. “For 10 years, I
was living under this uncertainty
of ‘what if.’”
Ms. Thompson, an envi-
ronmental consultant who is now
being treated for vision problems
and headaches, added that when
she switched to an Affordable
Care Act plan in 2014, “I just re-
member the sense of relief being
huge. Now the specter of all this
coming back is horrifying. I don’t
think I’m being overly paranoid to
think, what if I have to move my
business to a different state to get
coverage?”
Before the Affordable Care Act
mandated essential benefits to
help make sure people had broad
coverage, insurers routinely ex-
cluded various medical services.
Almost two-thirds of people who
bought their own policies did not
have maternity benefits, a third
did not have coverage for sub-
stance abuse services and about a
fifth did not have care for mental
health issues, according to a fed-
eral analysis of coverage before
the law.
Ellen Paquette, 48, remembers
losing her insurance when she
moved back to Pennsylvania in
the late 1990s. A freelance artist
and musician who lives in Warren,
she has never gotten coverage
through an employer. Because she
had depression, “I had a terrible
time finding insurance,” she said,
even though she had never been
hospitalized and was otherwise in
good health.
When Ms. Paquette eventually
found a policy, it had a rider that
excluded any treatment for men-
not set to return until May 16. Re-
publicans who are on the fence are
likely to get an earful from their
constituents.
“I think it’s imperative that we
have a vote before we leave for a
week,” said Representative Mark
Meadows, Republican of North
Carolina and the chairman of the
conservative House Freedom
Caucus.
In the radio interview, Mr. Up-
ton was explicit: Concessions
made to win over the hard-line
members of the Freedom Caucus
were costing the leadership sup-
port from more moderate Republi-
cans. He said “there are a good
number of us that have raised real
A House veteran
withdraws his support
as time dwindles
before a recess.
red flags and concerns.”
Mr. Upton said he wanted to
make sure that people with pre-
existing illnesses like cancer or lu-
pus are “not going to be
discriminated against with a lot
higher premiums.”
Mr. Trump, whose advisers
have been pressing aggressively
for a vote on the health care over-
haul, seemed oblivious of the lat-
est setback for the measure on
Tuesday.
“How’s health care coming,
folks, how’s it doing — all right?”
Mr. Trump said, addressing Re-
publican lawmakers attending a
trophy award ceremony in the
White House Rose Garden for the
United States Air Force Acade-
my’s football team. “We’re moving
along? I think it’s time now,
right?”
After visiting the Capitol on
Debbie Carter of Vigo County, Ind., received a liver transplant in 2012. She said the Affordable Care Act helped her save the farm.
Fran Cannon Slayton, who has brain cancer, receiving physical therapy in Charlottesville, Va.
tal health.
The prospect of allowing
insurers to once again determine
which benefits to cover “feels like
such a raw kind of discrimina-
tion,” she said.
She and her husband, Thomas,
58, are now covered under the fed-
eral law. Studying the details of
the replacement bill, she said,
“I’ve gone through phases where I
feel almost panicky.”
In the past, excluding certain
conditions from coverage some-
times left people with crushing
medical debts. John Gillespie and
Monday, Vice President Mike
Pence returned on Tuesday, try-
ing to corral votes for the repeal
bill. Mr. Ryan insisted that Repub-
lican leaders were “making very
good progress with our mem-
bers,” but he offered no indication
of when a vote might be held.
Republicans were clearly divid-
ed over the adequacy of the bill’s
protections for people who are
sick or disabled.
“There are a few layers of pro-
tections for pre-existing condi-
tions in this bill,” Mr. Ryan said.
At the heart of the debate is an
amendment to the repeal bill pro-
posed by Representative Tom
MacArthur, Republican of New
Jersey. The amendment, which
won over the Freedom Caucus last
week, would give state govern-
ments the ability to apply for
waivers from the existing law’s re-
quired “essential health benefits,”
such as maternity, mental health
and emergency care, and from
rules that generally mandate the
same insurance rates for people of
the same age, regardless of their
medical conditions.
With a waiver, states could per-
mit insurers to charge higher pre-
miums based on the “health sta-
tus” of a person who had experi-
enced a gap in coverage. To qual-
ify for a waiver, a state would have
to have an alternative mecha-
nism, like a high-risk pool or a re-
insurance program, to provide or
subsidize coverage for people
with serious illnesses.
“States can’t leave people with
pre-existing conditions high and
dry,” Mr. MacArthur said Tuesday,
defending his proposal.
But the MacArthur amendment
has distressed some Republicans
because of concerns that it would
allow states to gut protections for
consumers.
Representative Tom Rooney,
Republican of Florida, said he was
“leaning yes” on the repeal bill,
but agonizing over how to explain
his wife, Beth, ran their own small
auto repair shop. In the late 1990s,
the couple, who live in Beaver
Falls, Pa., could not find an insur-
ance company willing to cover her
epilepsy.
At one point, Ms. Gillespie had
to go to the emergency room be-
cause she was having seizures,
and the doctors worried that she
had developed meningitis. She
was in the intensive care unit for
three days. Her seizures were in
fact because of the epilepsy, and
the couple faced nearly $20,000 in
medical bills. “We ended up
If the bill falters, it will be the third time that Speaker Paul D.
Ryan could not rally his House majority around a key priority.
his vote to constituents.
“I have a lot of people who call
my office on a daily basis who are
extremely angry,” he said. “It’s not
just because I’m a Republican, but
because they are sincerely
scared.”
Many people with pre-existing
conditions fear that they may lose
coverage and “are going to die be-
cause of a vote we might be
taking,” Mr. Rooney said.
The Freedom Caucus had
pushed hard to roll back federal
insurance requirements.
“The pre-existing condition de-
bate and discussion in Congress,
far as I’m concerned, is over,” Rep-
resentative Scott Perry, Republi-
can of Pennsylvania and a mem-
ber of the Freedom Caucus, said
Tuesday. “They are covered; we
acknowledge it; we provide for it;
it is done.”
The White House threw a hand
grenade into the delicate negotia-
tions over health care on Tuesday
when Mr. Trump’s budget direc-
tor, Mick Mulvaney, suggested the
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making payments on that for sev-
eral years,” Mr. Gillespie said.
When the couple was finally
able to find a plan that covered her
disease, the premiums were astro-
nomical — about $2,400 a month
for both of them. “It was easily the
single largest expense we had,”
Mr. Gillespie said. The couple
could barely make ends meet, de-
spite his working 60 hours a week
and teaching some night classes.
They refinanced their house three
times.
The couple now pay $1,200 for
coverage. They are both 58 and
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administration might take action
that would undermine the Afford-
able Care Act, with or without
Congress.
Mr. Mulvaney raised doubts
about whether the federal govern-
ment would continue making cer-
tain payments to insurers. The
payments enable insurers to re-
duce deductibles and other out-of-
pocket costs for low-income peo-
ple, a form of assistance known as
cost-sharing reductions.
Discussing a bipartisan agree-
ment in Congress to fund the fed-
eral government for the next five
months, Mr. Mulvaney said,
“There’s absolutely no language
in this bill that requires us to make
any Obamacare bailout pay-
ments, any C.S.R. payments of
any way, shape or form as a result
of this deal, O.K.?”
Asked whether the Trump ad-
ministration would stop making
the payments, he said, “We’ve not
made any decisions at all on May.”
The White House Office of Man-
agement and Budget later said
JAMES BROSHER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
semiretired, with little in the way
of savings if they were to face an-
other medical emergency.
Ms. Slayton and her husband, a
lawyer, are paying nearly $1,500 a
month for a plan that covers their
13-year-old daughter and them.
They earn too much to qualify for
a subsidy to help with the cost.
While more expensive than they
would like, the plan covered her
surgery last year to remove a
brain tumor, and Ms. Slayton, who
has been blogging about her expe-
rience, is doing well.
In the past, even the state high-
risk pools proved an unaffordable
solution to many people. Janice
Elks, 50, a small-business owner
in Omaha, had cervical cancer and
suffered from neuropathy when
she looked for a policy. “I could not
get insurance at all, of any type,
for years,” she said. “I would apply
over and over.”
Her only option was Nebraska’s
high-risk pool. Ms. Elks calculated
it would cost her about $15,000 in
premiums a year for a policy,
while her medical expenses
amounted to only a few thousand
dollars a year for her seizure med-
ications and some steroid shots.
She now pays just $640 a month.
Ms. Elks, who describes herself
as a “liberal-leaning independ-
ent,” says she is “terrified” over
the talk about changing the pro-
tections for people like her. She
now has tachycardia, which
causes her heart to beat faster
than normal when under stress,
and worries she will eventually
need an operation.
“Those kinds of surgeries are
expensive,” Ms. Elks said. But, at
50, she is 15 years away from being
eligible for Medicare. “Will I live
to get Medicare?”
Mr. Mulvaney meant to say that
the administration had made no
commitment to pay the subsidies
beyond May.
The House Democratic whip,
Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, said
Mr. Mulvaney’s comments under-
mined confidence in insurance
marketplaces and added of the
Trump administration, “Its ac-
tions, continuing to sabotage the
Affordable Care Act, will inevita-
bly force premiums to skyrocket,
hurting consumers.”
Congress’s inability to agree on
health care legislation is already
sending tremors through insur-
ance markets, making it much
more difficult for insurers to plan
for 2018.
Monday was the deadline for
insurers in California to file pre-
liminary information on rates and
benefits for next year. Dave Jones,
the California insurance commis-
sioner, said he had taken “the un-
precedented step of authorizing
health insurers to file more than
one set of proposed rates for 2018
— one assuming the A.C.A. is en-
forced and funded, and the other
assuming that President Trump
and House Republican leaders
continue to undermine or repeal
the law and cause unnecessary
premium increases.”
Even as some Republicans have
come out in opposition to the re-
peal bill in recent days, the Trump
administration and House Repub-
lican leaders have also picked up
support from other party mem-
bers.
Representative Paul Gosar, Re-
publican of Arizona, said Tuesday
that he had switched to yes after
receiving assurances that the
Senate would vote on one of his
bills, which would scale back the
federal antitrust exemption for
health insurance companies.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Debate on Pulling Back From Paris Climate Deal Could Turn on a Single Phrase
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
WASHINGTON — The debate
within the Trump administration
over what to do about the Paris cli-
mate agreement has reached a
critical phase, according to people
familiar with the internal negotia-
tions. The decision could hinge on
the interpretation of a single
phrase in a single provision of a
document that took years to write.
The question is whether to walk
away from the agreement sealed
by the Obama administration and
nearly 200 other nations at the
end of 2015 — as Donald J. Trump
promised as a presidential candi-
date to do — or to weaken the na-
tion’s commitment under the deal
to reducing greenhouse gases
while remaining in the accord.
The provision at issue, Article
4.11, states that a nation “may at
any time adjust its existing na-
tionally determined contribution
with a view to enhancing its level
of ambition.” The question is
whether the ability to “adjust” is
like a ratchet, allowing progress
only in one direction — upward —
or if it permits a country to weak-
en its commitment without vio-
lating the terms of the deal.
The fight within the White
House over what to do about the
Paris deal has been going on for
months. One side, led by the presi-
dent’s chief strategist, Stephen K.
Bannon, and Scott Pruitt, the ad-
ministrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, has argued
that the language of the provision
does not allow nations to weaken
their commitments. They urge the
president to withdraw entirely
from the Paris deal.
Another faction, which includes
the president’s daughter Ivanka
Trump and Secretary of State Rex
W. Tillerson and colleagues, be-
lieves that the agreement does al-
low downward adjustments to na-
tions’ goals and targets, and that
the administration should modify
the commitment, not walk away.
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry,
too, has called for the administra-
tion to “renegotiate” the climate
pact without withdrawing from it.
If Mr. Bannon’s side of the de-
bate wins the contest for Mr.
Trump’s approval, the announce-
ment of a decision to withdraw
from the climate deal could come
as early as next week.
The two sides clashed over the
issue in a meeting on Thursday,
when the White House Counsel’s
OVERTURNED
1. Approved the Dakota
Access pipeline. Feb. 7
Republicans in Congress criticized
President Barack Obama for delaying
construction of the pipeline — which
they argued would create jobs and
stimulate the economy — after
protests led by the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe. Mr. Trump ordered an
expedited review of the pipeline, and
the Army approved it.
2. Revoked a rule that
prevented coal mining
companies from dumping
debris into local streams.
Feb. 16
The coal industry said the rule was
overly burdensome, calling it part of
the war on coal. Congress passed a
bill revoking the rule, which Mr.
Trump signed into law.
3. Canceled a requirement
for reporting methane
emissions. March 2
Republican officials from 11 states
wrote a letter to Scott Pruitt, the
administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, saying the rule
added costs and paperwork for oil
and gas companies. The next day,
Mr. Pruitt revoked the rule.
4. Approved the Keystone
XL pipeline. March 24
Republicans, along with oil, gas and
steel industry groups, opposed Mr.
Obama's decision to block the
pipeline, arguing that the project
would create jobs and support North
American energy independence.
After the pipeline company reapplied
for a permit, the Trump
administration approved it.
5. Revoked an update to the
public land use planning
process. March 27
Republicans and fossil fuel industry
Source: Federal Register; Environmental Protection Agency; White House; Columbia Law School’s Climate Deregulation Tracker
Office surprised Ms. Trump by
suggesting that Mr. Pruitt’s fac-
tion might have the law on its side,
Politico reported. The conflict led
to an unusual meeting on Monday
involving lawyers from several
government agencies, reportedly
including the White House, the
Justice Department and the State
Department.
Among the hard-line opponents
of action against climate change
both inside and outside the White
House, the strong resistance to
the notion that the Paris agree-
ment includes downward flexibil-
ity is accompanied by warnings
that efforts to relax commitments
will lead to burdensome lawsuits
from activists.
Christopher C. Horner, a senior
legal fellow at the Energy and En-
vironment Legal Institute, said
liberal state attorneys general
and climate activists would inev-
23 Environmental Rules Rolled Back in Trump’s First 100 Days
President Trump, with help from his administration and
Republicans in Congress, has reversed course on nearly two
dozen environmental rules, regulations and other Obama-era
policies during his first 100 days in office.
Citing federal overreach and burdensome regulations, Mr.
groups opposed the updated
planning rule for public lands, arguing
that it gave the federal government
too much power at the expense of
local and business interests.
Congress passed a bill revoking the
rule, which Mr. Trump signed into law.
6. Lifted a freeze on new
coal leases on public lands.
March 29
Coal companies weren't thrilled
about the Obama administration’s
three-year freeze on new leases on
public lands pending an
environmental review. Ryan Zinke,
the interior secretary, revoked the
freeze and review, though he
promised to set up a new advisory
committee to review coal royalties.
7. Rejected a ban on a
potentially harmful insecti-
cide. March 29
The company that sells the
insecticide, Dow Agrosciences,
strongly opposed a risk analysis by
the Obama-era E.P.A., which found
that the insecticide Chlorpyrifos
poses a risk to fetal brain and
nervous system development. Mr.
Pruitt rejected the E.P.A.’s previous
analysis and denied the ban, saying
that the chemical needed further
study.
8. Overturned a ban on the
hunting of predators in
Alaskan wildlife refuges.
April 3
Alaskan politicians opposed the law,
which prevented hunters from
shooting wolves and grizzly bears on
wildlife refuges, arguing that the
state, not the federal government,
has authority over those lands.
Congress passed a bill revoking the
rule, which Mr. Trump signed into law.
9. Withdrew guidance for
federal agencies to include
greenhouse gas emissions
in environmental reviews.
April 5
Republicans in Congress opposed
the guidelines, which advised federal
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
itably sue over efforts to weaken
the targets. “This will be most ag-
gressive in the Ninth Circuit,
which hopefully triggers some
memories in the minds of admin-
istration lawyers,” he said, refer-
ring to the fight over the adminis-
tration’s immigration plan, which
has been stayed by the California-
based federal appeals court.
“Despite the mad rush to insist
that plain language means either
the opposite of what it says, or else
nothing at all, under any canon of
construction, Article 4 does not
permit revisions downward,” Mr.
Horner said. “The language is de-
liberate and reads only one way:
the way it was written and, as the
context affirms, was plainly in-
tended.”
The officials aligned with Ms.
Trump and Mr. Tillerson, however,
have suggested privately that the
legal theory of a strictly binding
By NADJA POPOVICH and TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG
agencies to account for greenhouse
gas emissions and potential climate
effects in environmental impact
reviews. They argued that the
government lacked the authority to
make such recommendations, and
that it would be impossible to plan for
the uncertain effects of climate
change.
UNDER REVIEW
10. Ordered review and
"elimination" of rule that
protected tributaries and
wetlands under the Clean
Water Act. Feb. 28
Farmers, real estate developers, golf
course owners and many
Republicans opposed this
clarification of the Clean Water Act,
arguing that it created regulatory
burdens. Mr. Trump called it a
"massive power grab" by the federal
government and instructed the E.P.A.
and the Army to conduct a review.
11. Reopened a review of
fuel-efficiency standards
for cars and trucks. March 15
Automakers said it would be difficult
and costly to meet fuel economy
goals they had agreed upon with the
Obama administration and noted
rising consumer demand for sport
utility vehicles and trucks. A
standards review had been
completed by the Obama
administration before Mr. Trump took
office, but the auto industry argued
that it was rushed. The E.P.A. and
Department of Transportation have
reopened the review.
12. Ordered "immediate
re-evaluation" of the Clean
Power Plan. March 28
Coal companies and Republican
officials in many states strongly
opposed the plan, which set strict
limits for carbon dioxide emissions
from existing coal- and gas-fired
power plants. Republicans argued
that the plan — Mr. Obama’s
agreement is little more than a
ploy to force the administration to
pull out of the deal.
Todd D. Stern, the lead climate
negotiator in the Obama adminis-
tration and an expert on the deal,
said negotiators wrote the flexibil-
ity to reduce targets into the
agreement by careful design. “It
wasn’t like, ‘Boy, nobody thought
of that,’” he said.
The issue was discussed in-
tensely in Paris, he explained.
“There were countries that
wanted to say, ‘Thou shalt not, you
are precluded from adjusting
now.’ We did not want to do that,”
he said. Downward adjustment
had already occurred with climate
commitments. Japan, after losing
nuclear power facilities in the
Fukushima disaster, had to adjust
its targets downward.
The United States had feared
that without the ability to adjust
Trump has prioritized domestic fossil fuel interests and
undone measures aimed at protecting the environment and
limiting global warming.
We’ve tracked the major rollbacks — and who wanted
them — in chronological order below.
signature climate change policy —
posed a threat to the coal industry,
and had mounted a legal challenge.
Mr. Trump signed an executive order
instructing the E.P.A. to review and
re-evaluate the rule. An appeals
court recently approved the Trump
administration’s request to put the
lawsuit on hold during the review
process.
13. Rolled back limits on
toxic discharge from power
plants into public water-
ways. April 12
Utility and fossil fuel industry groups
opposed the rule, which limited the
amount of toxic metals — arsenic,
lead, and mercury, among others —
power plants could release into
public waterways. Industry
representatives said complying with
the guidelines would be extremely
expensive. The E.P.A. has delayed
compliance deadlines while it
reconsiders the rule, which had been
challenged in court.
14. Ordered review of rule
limiting methane emissions
at new oil and gas drilling
sites. April 18
Lobbyists for the oil and gas
industries petitioned Mr. Pruitt to
reconsider the rule, which went into
effect last August, limiting emissions
of methane, smog-forming
compounds and other toxic
pollutants from new and modified oil
and gas wells. They argued the rule
was technologically infeasible.
15. Ordered review of
national monuments
created since 1996. April 26
Congressional Republicans said the
Antiquities Act, which allows
presidents to designate national
monuments on federal land, had
been abused by previous
administrations. Mr. Obama used the
law to set aside more than 4 million
acres of land and several million
square miles of ocean for protection.
16. Ordered review of
offshore drilling policies
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
targets, countries would lowball
their commitments, Mr. Stern
said.
He said any downward adjust-
ment would be a “serious mis-
take” that would have grave con-
sequences: “I think it would
produce broad collateral damage
for the U.S. internationally.”
The question of whether the ad-
ministration will leave the climate
agreement has drawn broad oppo-
sition from the nation’s trading
partners and businesses, and
even from fossil fuel companies.
In a recent letter to administra-
tion officials, Exxon Mobil called
the agreement “an effective
framework for addressing the
risks of climate change.” At the
coal company Cloud Peak Energy,
a spokesman, Rick Curtsinger,
said, “We do believe that it needs
to be amended, but think that it’s
important to stay at the negotiat-
and regulations. April 28
Lobbyists for the oil industry were
opposed to Mr. Obama’s use of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to
permanently ban offshore drilling
along the Atlantic coast and much of
the ocean around Alaska, as well as
two regulations around oil rig safety.
IN LIMBO
17. Withdrew a rule that
would help consumers buy
more fuel-efficient tires.
Jan. 26
The rule required tire manufacturers
and retailers to provide consumers
with information about replacement
car tires. The tire industry opposed
several aspects of the rule, but had
been working with the government to
refine it. The Trump administration
withdrew the proposed rule from
consideration, but has not confirmed
whether it may be reinstated.
18. Voted to revoke limits on
methane emissions on
public lands. Feb. 3
The oil and gas industry said that the
rule, which required companies to
control methane emissions on
federal or tribal land by capturing
rather than burning or venting excess
gas, would have curbed energy
development. The House voted to
revoke the rule under the
Congressional Review Act, and
Senate Republicans have until May 8
to take action.
19. Postponed changes to
how oil, gas and coal from
federal lands are priced.
Feb. 22
Lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry
said the changes, meant to ensure
fair pricing on oil, gas and coal on
federal or tribal land and to reduce
costs, were redundant since the
government already has the power to
impose penalties. They also argued
that it created a lot of uncertainty in
the market.
N A17
Demonstrators
near the Wash-
ington Monu-
ment during a
climate march
last week. The
Trump adminis-
tration is dis-
cussing whether
to walk away
from the Paris
climate deal
entirely or to
remain in the
accord but
weaken the
nation’s commit-
ment under the
deal to reducing
greenhouse
gases.
ing table.”
Colin Marshall, the company’s
chief executive, sent a letter to Mr.
Trump on April 6 urging him to re-
main in the Paris agreement, “al-
beit with a much different pledge
on emissions,” and to promote
technologies that can reduce the
greenhouse gases produced by
the use of coal.
Other nations have urged the
United States to remain at the
Paris table, including Britain,
Canada and Australia, where
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
has said his country will stay in
the deal even if the United States
withdraws.
Maros Sefcovic, a vice presi-
dent of the European Commis-
sion, has urged American officials
to stick with the agreement, but
has also said that if not, “we are
ready to continue to provide the
leadership on climate change.”
20. Delayed a rule aiming to
increase safety at facilities
that use hazardous chemi-
cals. March 13
Chemical, agricultural and power
industry groups said that the new
rule, a response to a 2013 explosion
at a fertilizer plant that killed 15
people, did not increase safety and
would have undermined oversight.
The rule is delayed until June 19, and
industry groups have said that they
may sue.
21. Delayed rules increasing
energy efficiency stan-
dards for some appliances
and some federal buildings.
March 15
Republicans in Congress opposed
the rules, which applied to ceiling
fans, heating and cooling appliances
and other devices, as well as
residential buildings owned by the
federal government, saying that they
would place an unfair cost on
consumers.
22. Delayed rules moderniz-
ing the federal highway
system, including environ-
mental standards. March 15
The trucking industry supported the
changes for bridge and pavement
condition guidelines, but strongly
opposed measures aimed at
environmental sustainability and
mitigating climate change.
23. Delayed a lawsuit over a
rule regulating airborne
mercury emissions from
power plants. April 27
Coal companies, along with
Republican officials in several states,
sued the government over this rule,
which regulated the amount of
mercury and other toxic pollutants
that fossil-fuel-fired power plants can
emit into the air. They argued that the
rule helped shutter coal plants, many
of which are already compliant. Oral
arguments in the case have been
delayed while the E.P.A. reviews the
rule.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Trump, in Wake of Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Now, Calls for One Later
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
WASHINGTON — President
Trump said Tuesday that the
United States needed “a good
‘shutdown’” this fall to force a par-
tisan confrontation over federal
spending and suggested that he
might move to reverse longstand-
ing Senate rules that effectively
require a supermajority to ap-
prove most major pieces of legis-
lation.
The declarations, in two posts
on Twitter, appeared aimed at de-
fending a compromise spending
package that Congress is likely to
clear this week, but that fails to ac-
complish many of Mr. Trump’s
stated goals — including allocat-
ing any money to build a wall on
the southern border, a project that
was his most talked-about cam-
paign promise. Conservative
activists have criticized the agree-
ment as one that does not address
their priorities and swells the
deficit, but the White House has
signaled that the president would
accept it rather than set off a gov-
ernment shutdown.
Senate Republicans promptly
and uniformly rejected Mr.
Trump’s threats of a more parti-
san approach in the future.
The Twitter messages were also
an indication of the degree to
which bipartisan negotiations in
Congress on the spending bill and
others, including a health care
overhaul that appeared on Tues-
day to be stalled again, have be-
deviled Mr. Trump at this early
stage of his presidency, forcing
him to bow to political realities to
which he had insisted he was im-
mune.
Mick Mulvaney, his budget di-
rector, conceded as much in a
briefing with reporters later in the
day, saying that Mr. Trump had
made the comments because he
had become “frustrated” that con-
gressional Democrats had de-
cided to “spike the football” and
claim victory on the spending
package.
“The reason for the plan negoti-
ated between the Republicans and
Democrats is that we need 60
votes in the Senate which are not
there!” Mr. Trump said in one
post, apparently a reference to the
measure, which would fund the
government through September.
The solution, he said, was either
to elect more Republican senators
in 2018, the next midterm elec-
tions, “or change the rules now to
51%.” That appeared to refer to
scrapping the filibuster, which al-
lows any senator to insist on a
three-fifths vote, rather than a
simple majority, to act on legisla-
tive matters.
Republicans already moved
last month to eliminate the use of
the tactic for Supreme Court con-
firmations, allowing them to move
forward with the approval of Jus-
tice Neil M. Gorsuch over near-
unanimous Democratic opposi-
tion.
Jennifer Steinhauer, Matt Flegen-
heimer and Jeremy Peters contrib-
uted reporting.
President Trump with Keith Schiller, his director of operations.
Mr. Trump called for “a good ‘shutdown’” in the fall. His budget
director, Mick Mulvaney, right, said the president was frustrated
with Democrats’ celebrating the spending package.
“Our country needs a good
‘shutdown’ in September to fix
mess!” Mr. Trump said.
The Twitter posts set off a
scramble at the White House, up-
ending a frenetic effort by Mr.
Trump’s advisers to portray the
spending agreement as a major
victory for the president. By early
afternoon, Mr. Trump had turned
an appearance with Air Force
Academy cadets in the Rose Gar-
den into a pep rally for the spend-
An attack on the
filibuster, and then
claims of victory.
ing bill, which he declared “a clear
win for the American people.” And
he dispatched Mr. Mulvaney to
brief reporters twice — once by
telephone in a conference call that
devolved into a comedy of errors,
and once in person — to defend it.
The president cited large
spending increases for the mili-
tary and border security con-
tained in the measure, saying that
those resources were “enough
money to make a down payment
on the border wall,” despite the
fact that the bill provides no fund-
ing for the structure.
Later, at a news conference in
the briefing room where he
showed photographs of border
barriers, Mr. Mulvaney told
reporters that money included in
the measure to repair or replace
up to 40 miles of fencing that al-
ready exists would yield a solution
that “works better” than the 1,900-
mile, 30-foot concrete structure
the president has requested. This,
he said, amounted to “a huge win
for border security.”
Mr. Mulvaney argued that the
president had actually outfoxed
Democrats who were eager for a
shutdown.
“They wanted to try and make
this president look like he could
not govern,” Mr. Mulvaney told
reporters in a chaotic call that fea-
tured a shouting budget director,
dueling on-hold music and re-
porters frantically trying to figure
out how to ask questions (mostly
without success). “They wanted
to make this president look like he
did not know what he was doing,
and he beat them on that at the
very, very highest level.”
Democrats, Mr. Mulvaney add-
ed, “were desperate to show that
we were not reasonable, and we
completely destroyed that narra-
tive by negotiating this deal.”
“This is a huge victory for the
president,” he said.
But by publicly courting a gov-
ernment shutdown, an extraordi-
nary move for a sitting president,
Mr. Trump instead seemed to be
confirming his reputation for rash
Clinton Attacks Trump as Struggling and Unprepared
By ALEXANDER BURNS
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday
sharply questioned President
Trump’s conduct in office, criticiz-
ing his foreign policy pronounce-
ments and penchant for posting
on Twitter, and described herself
as “part of the resistance.”
During an interview with the
CNN correspondent Christiane
Amanpour, Mrs. Clinton, who has
kept a relatively low profile since
her defeat in the presidential race,
repeatedly characterized Mr.
Trump as struggling in the presi-
dency. The interview was at an
event hosted by Women for Wom-
en International, a nonprofit
group, in Midtown Manhattan.
Mrs. Clinton voiced disbelief at
what she cast as the White
House’s slapdash approach to is-
sues like health care and the
North Korean nuclear program.
She repeatedly said that Mr.
Trump did little to prepare for the
presidency. And but for the ac-
tions of Russian-backed hackers
and the F.B.I. in late October, Mrs.
Clinton said, she would have won.
“The reason why I believe we
lost were the intervening events
in the last 10 days,” she said, argu-
ing that based on the available
data: “If the election had been on
Oct. 27, I’d be your president.”
On foreign policy, Mrs. Clinton
specifically criticized Mr. Trump’s
suggestion in a television inter-
view that he would be prepared to
meet with Kim Jong-un, the North
Korean leader, mocking the com-
ment as impulsive and naïve.
North Korea, Mrs. Clinton said,
has long tried to lure American
leaders into direct contact “to ele-
vate their status and their posi-
tion, and we should be very care-
ful about giving that away.”
“You should not offer that in the
absence of a broader strategic
framework to try to get China, Ja-
pan, Russia, South Korea to put
the kind of pressure on the regime
that will finally bring them to the
negotiating table,” she said, add-
ing of direct talks: “They have to
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statements that may yield little in
the way of follow-through.
“President Trump may not like
what he sees in this budget deal,
but it’s dangerous and irresponsi-
ble to respond by calling for a
shutdown,” said Senator Patty
Murray, Democrat of Washington
and the ranking member of the ap-
propriations committee. “Hope-
fully, Republicans in Congress will
do for the next budget what they
did for this one: Ignore President
Trump’s demands, work with
Democrats and get it done.”
Indeed, Republicans appeared
eager to ignore Mr. Trump’s latest
outburst and focus on an agree-
ment they said was worth sup-
porting.
“How many times have I had
this: ‘Do you agree with a tweet
this morning?’” the House
speaker, Paul D. Ryan, Republican
of Wisconsin, joked after being
asked about the president’s Twit-
Hillary Clinton described herself in an interview on Tuesday as
“part of the resistance” against the Trump administration.
be part of a broader strategy, not
just thrown up on a tweet some
morning: ‘Hey, let’s get together,
see if we can’t get along.’”
Mrs. Clinton’s thorough rebuke
of Mr. Trump, just after his admin-
istration passed the 100-day mark,
was a remarkably blunt dressing-
down of a new president by his ad-
versary in the last election.
Her remarks came amid a new
wave of criticism of Mr. Trump
from emboldened veterans of the
last administration: Former Vice
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
visited New Hampshire on Sun-
day to rally his party and castigate
Republicans in Washington, and
former President Barack Obama
told attendees at a private event in
New York last week that his signa-
ture health care law was now
more popular than Mr. Trump, ac-
cording to CNN.
But Mrs. Clinton, as her party’s
most recent standard-bearer, has
a special status as an adversary of
Mr. Trump. And while she de-
scribed herself as merely a pri-
vate citizen, she placed herself
publicly on the side of the popular
backlash against her former rival.
In an almost casual aside, she
effectively endorsed the explosion
ter statements.
Mr. Ryan said he did “share the
president’s frustration” but noted
that bipartisan support was re-
quired for spending measures.
“Having said all that, I feel very
good about the wins we got with
the administration in this bill,” Mr.
Ryan said.
Many conservative activists
were not so enthused. Heritage
Action, a conservative group,
urged lawmakers to vote “no,”
saying the measure “woefully
fails the test of fiscal responsibil-
ity and does not advance impor-
tant conservative policies.”
Charles Krauthammer, a con-
servative commentator, said Mon-
day on Fox News: “Trump got
rolled. The Republicans got
rolled.”
Anti-abortion rights groups
also objected because the meas-
ure does not defund Planned Par-
enthood, a goal that Mr. Trump
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of activism on the left, in the lan-
guage activists have embraced.
“I’m back to being an active citi-
zen,” Mrs. Clinton said, “and part
of the resistance.”
Throughout her remarks, she
emphasized how intensively she
had thought through her plans for
governing, while she said Mr.
Trump was plainly straining to
fulfill his campaign promises.
“Health care is complicated,
and so is foreign policy and other
stuff,” she said, drawing laughter
and applause from a supportive
audience. “If it’s easy, it doesn’t
get to the president’s desk.”
She also called on the adminis-
tration not to cut international de-
velopment initiatives, including
aid programs aimed at supporting
women.
And she questioned whether
the missile strikes Mr. Trump or-
dered in Syria would have a mean-
ingful effect on the conflict there.
Mrs. Clinton appeared to be en-
joying herself as she served up
crowd-pleasing lines in a dry and
knowing tone. She won a loud ova-
tion from the audience, which in-
cluded the actress Meryl Streep,
when she observed that Mr.
Trump seemed irked by the fact
has said he shares.
“One has to wonder if the
Democrats are the majority party
in Congress,” said Mathew D.
Staver, the chairman of Liberty
Counsel, a group that promotes
socially conservative policies.
“We urge President Trump to
keep his promise, and we call on
the Republican Congress to start
leading and stop supporting failed
policies.”
Mr. Mulvaney said the move to
defund Planned Parenthood
would wait for enactment of the
health care overhaul, a prospect
that seemed to be growing more
remote, not less, on Tuesday as in-
fluential Republicans said they
could not support it.
And he said the president’s
shutdown threat stemmed from
anger at Democrats. “The presi-
dent is frustrated with the fact
that he negotiated in good faith
with the Democrats and they went
out to try and spike the football
and make him look bad,” he said.
Democrats said Mr. Trump’s ac-
tions assured that partisan rancor
would continue to hang over Capi-
tol Hill in the coming months.
“Threatening to shut down the
government, on the heels of a suc-
cessful bipartisan agreement, is a
sour and shameful note to kick off
negotiations” for the coming year,
said Senator Patrick J. Leahy,
Democrat of Vermont.
Mr. Trump’s comments also
seemed to augur more difficulties
in the months to come with his
own party.
“That will not happen,” Senator
Mitch McConnell, Republican of
Kentucky and the majority leader,
said of Mr. Trump’s threat to elimi-
nate the filibuster, citing an “over-
whelming majority” of support for
the rules in the Senate, where
more than 60 have signed a letter
urging their preservation.
“I just don’t agree” with Mr.
Trump’s suggestion of a shut-
down, said Senator John Cornyn
of Texas, the No. 2 Republican,
who said he would try to stop any
effort to obliterate the filibuster.
“The rules have saved us from a
lot of really bad policy,” he added.
“We all are into short-term gratifi-
cation, but it would be a mistake in
the long term.”
Some House Republicans who
have long chafed at the strictures
of Senate procedure cheered the
efforts to change the rules.
“He understands what is at
stake,” Representative Trent
Franks, Republican of Arizona,
said of the president. “The more
he brings it to the American peo-
ple, the more the American people
will reject this idiocy of no de-
bate.”
Senator Bob Corker, Republi-
can of Tennessee, who said he
planned to vote against the spend-
ing bill, made it clear that he
wished that Mr. Trump would
keep his musings on the subject to
himself.
“I do wish somebody would
take his iPhone away from him,”
Mr. Corker said.
that she had won the popular vote
by several million ballots.
The president, she said, “should
worry less about the election and
my winning the popular vote” and
more about urgent matters of pol-
icy confronting the country.
Pressed by Ms. Amanpour to
reflect on the campaign, Mrs. Clin-
ton said she took “absolute per-
sonal responsibility” for her de-
feat. But she said she believed she
would have won if not for the ac-
tions of Russia and a surprise an-
nouncement in late October by
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. direc-
tor, that the agency was conduct-
ing an additional review of emails
linked to Mrs. Clinton.
In pointed language, Mrs. Clin-
ton said Mr. Trump seemed to be
tightly aligned with President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whom
American intelligence agencies
believe ordered an extensive cam-
paign aimed at influencing the
2016 race.
“He certainly interfered in our
election,” Mrs. Clinton said of Mr.
Putin. “And clearly interfered to
hurt me and to help my opponent.”
Mrs. Clinton said that if you
“chart my opponent and his cam-
paign’s statements,” they appear
“quite coordinated with the goals
of that leader, who shall remain
nameless.”
In another jab at Mr. Trump’s
policies, Mrs. Clinton pointed out
that she had criticized Mr. Putin
for conducting “rigged” elections
during her tenure as secretary of
state. In an apparent allusion to
the Trump administration’s lack of
interest in human rights issues,
Mrs. Clinton said that for secretar-
ies of state, chastising strongman
tactics “kind of goes with the terri-
tory — at least, it did.”
Mrs. Clinton, who said she be-
lieved sexism also played a role in
the 2016 campaign, promised she
would offer a fuller reflection on it
in a book next fall. She said she
was working on the manuscript.
“It’s a painful process, reliving
the campaign,” she said.

THE 45TH PRESIDENT Foreign Relations
Trump’s Turn Toward China Curtails Navy Patrols in Disputed Zones
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — Six weeks
ago, the United States Pacific
Command requested permission
from senior American officials for
a United States warship to sail
within 12 nautical miles of Scar-
borough Shoal, a disputed reef in
the South China Sea that is
claimed by the Philippines and
China.
The Navy had good reason to
think the request would be
granted. During last year’s cam-
paign, Donald J. Trump labeled
President Barack Obama as weak
in defending international waters
in the South China Sea, where Bei-
jing has started a sharp military
buildup to reclaim land, install
runways and haul equipment onto
reefs and shoals it claims as its
own. Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson, during his confirmation
hearing in January, called for
China to be denied access to the
artificial islands. And foreign pol-
icy experts and Asia watchers
braced for a return to routine
Navy patrols within China’s self-
proclaimed territorial waters,
something Mr. Obama allowed
sparingly.
But instead, the Pacific Com-
mand request — and two others
by the Navy in February — was
turned down by top Pentagon offi-
cials before it even made it to
President Trump’s desk. More
than 100 days into the Trump pres-
idency, no American Navy ship
has gone within 12 miles of any of
the disputed islands in the South
China Sea, Defense Department
officials said.
The decision not to challenge
China’s territorial claims repre-
sents a remarkable deference to-
ward Beijing from an administra-
tion that is increasingly turning
toward President Xi Jinping for
help amid the escalating crisis in
the Korean Peninsula. It remained
unclear on Tuesday whether it
was Defense Secretary Jim Mat-
tis; Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; or one of their deputies who
turned down the three requests.
Defense officials said the White
House was not involved.
Robert Daly, the director of the
Kissinger Institute on China and
the United States at the Wilson
Center, said of the Navy excur-
sions, officially known as freedom
of navigation operations, or
Fonops: “All of the language, com-
bined with the fact that the Repub-
lican foreign policy establishment
had been critical of Obama for not
carrying out enough Fonops,
means there was a wide expecta-
tion that Trump would put down a
marker early. And that hasn’t hap-
pened.”
The simmering crisis in North
Korea seems to have changed the
Trump administration’s earlier as-
sumptions on how to handle
China. Mr. Trump campaigned on
being tough on Beijing, promising
that he would label China a cur-
rency manipulator and would go
after Beijing on trade.
But with North Korea escalat-
ing its provocative behavior the
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weeks and beginning to forge a
more collaborative relationship.
Mr. Trump came to office praising
Mr. Putin and making it a priority
to draw closer to Moscow, but his
goal has been hobbled by multiple
investigations into Russian med-
dling in last year’s election and the
clash over Syria’s use of chemical
weapons against its own people.
The initial optimism on both
sides has given way to a sour and
uncertain mood as geopolitical
gravity has pulled Mr. Trump and
Mr. Putin in opposite directions
and lowered expectations. While a
grand bargain now seems out of
reach, the two leaders appeared
intent on finding areas where they
could agree while managing areas
where they did not.
“Still some hopes, disappoint-
ment and caution,” Vladimir Fro-
lov, a prominent foreign policy an-
alyst and columnist, said of the at-
mosphere in Moscow. “And appre-
hension. They are apprehensive
about the way that the Trump ad-
ministration behaves internation-
ally, the unpredictable, unilateral
nature of their steps. But they are
still hoping for some agreement.”
Mr. Trump never gave up, even
after he said relations between the
United States and Russia “may be
at an all-time low.” While senior
members of his team excoriated
Moscow for enabling the Syrian
government to use nerve agents
against civilians, the president
tempered his language, making
sure not to criticize Mr. Putin
Peter Baker reported from Wash-
ington, and Neil MacFarquhar
from Moscow. Anne Barnard con-
tributed reporting from Beirut,
Lebanon; Gardiner Harris from
Washington; and an employee of
The New York Times from Da-
mascus, Syria.
past three months, attempting
nine missile launches on six occa-
sions since Mr. Trump came to
power, his administration has
adopted a more conciliatory air
with Beijing as the president
seeks help to rein in Pyongyang.
With each missile launch, Mr.
Trump’s newfound affection for
the Chinese leader, Mr. Xi, has in-
creased. Last week, after the most
recent launch, Mr. Trump wrote
on Twitter: “North Korea disre-
spected the wishes of China and
its highly respected president
when it launched, though unsuc-
cessfully, a missile today. Bad!”
Decisions to deny the Navy’s re-
quests to sail within 12 nautical
miles of disputed islands in the
South China Sea were fairly rou-
tine during the Obama adminis-
personally and later expressing
optimism that “things will work
out fine between the U.S.A. and
Russia.”
When Mr. Trump met with am-
bassadors from the United Na-
tions Security Council last week,
he told them, “The future of Assad
is not a deal-breaker,” a Russian
diplomat said afterward. And last
weekend, he returned to his past
equivocation on whether Russia
hacked Democratic servers last
A U.S. envoy will
attend Russian-led
talks in Kazakhstan.
year, saying it “could’ve been
China, could’ve been lots of
groups.”
Tuesday’s phone call was the
third between Mr. Trump and Mr.
Putin since the American inaugu-
ration in January. Both sides of-
fered positive assessments, with
the White House characterizing
the conversation as “a very good
one” and the Kremlin calling it
“businesslike and constructive.”
Neither side mentioned the dis-
pute over the chemical attack and
cruise missile strike.
“President Trump and Presi-
dent Putin agreed that the suffer-
ing in Syria has gone on for far too
long and that all parties must do
all they can to end the violence,”
the White House statement said.
The Kremlin said Secretary of
State Rex W. Tillerson and For-
eign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov
would “intensify” their dialogue to
“search for options” in Syria.
“It was a very constructive call
that the two presidents had,” Mr.
Tillerson told reporters. “It was a
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tration. In fact, Mr. Obama came
under sharp criticism from Re-
publicans for suspending such ex-
cursions for more than two years,
out of concern that they would fur-
ther raise tensions with Beijing.
In October 2015, the Obama ad-
ministration sent a guided missile
destroyer, the Lassen, within ter-
ritorial waters near Subi Reef, one
of several artificial islands that
China has built in the disputed
Spratly Islands chain. At the time,
Mr. Obama’s White House played
down the episode and directed De-
fense Department officials not to
talk about it publicly, wanting to
avoid escalating a conflict.
Such hesitancy prompted harsh
words from Mr. Trump during the
presidential campaign. In an in-
terview with The New York Times
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Sochi on Tuesday. He and President Trump spoke by
phone for the first time since the American cruise missile strike on Syria’s military last month.
very, very fulsome call, a lot of de-
tailed exchanges. So we’ll see
where we go from here.”
In a sign of the domestic pres-
sure surrounding a rapproche-
ment, Democrats seized on Mr.
Trump’s phone call with Mr. Putin
to paint him again as a puppet of
the Russian leader.
“Trump’s bromance with Putin
appears to be back on track,” Adri-
enne Watson, the deputy commu-
nications director of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, said in
a statement. “Instead of sending
Putin a tough messaging on back-
ing Assad’s brutal regime, Trump
appears to be opting for a strategy
of appeasement.”
Mr. Trump’s effort to ease ten-
Above, the Chancellorsville, a United States guided missile cruiser, in the Luzon Strait near the
Philippines after a patrol of the South China Sea last year. Left, a sailor aboard the ship.
in March 2016, Mr. Trump said that
Beijing had built in the South
China Sea “a military fortress, the
likes of which perhaps the world
has not seen.”
“Amazing, actually,” he said.
“They do that at will because they
have no respect for our president
and they have no respect for our
country.”
Mr. Tillerson came to office say-
ing that China’s island-building
campaign was “akin to Russia’s
taking of Crimea.” He said that the
Trump administration was “going
to have to send China a clear sig-
nal that, first, the island-building
stops” and, “second, your access
to those islands also is not going to
be allowed.”
That denial of access is now on
the back burner. In fact, said Mr.
Daly, of the Wilson Center, China
has continued to militarize the is-
lands and has bomb-proofed air-
plane hangars that were built on
the reclaimed islands, as well as
brought in additional equipment.
Chinese officials have main-
tained that such action does not
constitute militarizing the islands.
They say the islands are Chinese
territory and Beijing therefore
cannot militarize land it already
owns. The United States and other
countries disagree.
The Chinese have not yet begun
construction on Scarborough
sions coincided with a visit to Rus-
sia by Chancellor Angela Merkel
of Germany, who met with Mr.
Putin in the southern resort city of
Sochi. At a news conference be-
fore his call with Mr. Trump, Mr.
Putin emphasized that coopera-
tion with Washington was critical
to settling the Syria conflict.
“Certainly, without the partici-
pation of such a party as the
United States, it is also impossible
to solve these problems effec-
tively,” Mr. Putin said. “So we are
and will continue to be in contact
with our American partners, and I
hope that we will attain under-
standing there regarding joint
steps in this very important and
sensitive area of international re-
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Shoal. American officials have
long viewed doing so as some-
thing of a red line, and have cau-
tioned Chinese counterparts that
any building on the shoal would be
viewed as provocative.
Mr. Obama warned Mr. Xi at a
March 2016 meeting in Washing-
ton not to start building an island
at Scarborough Shoal. Late last
year, an unusually large number
of Chinese vessels were po-
A surprising shift from
a promise to reverse
an Obama policy.
sitioned close to the disputed reef,
renewing American concerns.
A Defense Department official
described the Pacific Command
request last month to conduct a
naval excursion within 12 nautical
miles of Scarborough Shoal as a
signal to the Chinese that building
on the atoll remained a red line for
the United States. The official,
who spoke on condition of ano-
nymity to discuss sensitive opera-
tions more frankly, added that
Navy officials believed the re-
quest to be in line with what the
POOL PHOTO BY ALEXEY NIKOLSKY
lations today.”
Asked whether he had the influ-
ence to sway Mr. Assad, Mr. Putin
said that Russia, in tandem with
Turkey and Iran, was trying to
“create the conditions for political
cooperation from all sides.”
A cease-fire is the main priority,
Mr. Putin said. It will be the focus
of the multiparty talks that are to
take place in Astana. Until now,
the United States had not had any
important role in those talks,
which Russia, Iran and Turkey set
up outside the previous system of
negotiations in Geneva.
Mr. Putin again dismissed alle-
gations that Russia was seeking to
influence the political landscape
in the West by supporting far-
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Trump administration wanted.
But Defense Department offi-
cials also said that Mr. Mattis and
the Pentagon leadership wanted
to look carefully at the strategic
implications of such excursions on
overall national security policy.
While Mr. Mattis is far from op-
posed to the freedom of naviga-
tion trips, he is reviewing the
American security posture
around the world, Defense De-
partment officials said.
Additionally, Washington’s
hope that China will rein in North
Korea has called into question the
timing of the next freedom of navi-
gation sail.
Andrew L. Oros, the author of
the newly published “Japan’s Se-
curity Renaissance,” said it was
far more important now to ad-
dress North Korea’s missile and
nuclear weapons development
than to pick a fight over the Navy
navigation trips.
“That’s clearly the case,” Mr.
Oros said. But, he said, the Trump
administration still must closely
monitor China’s activities and not
give ground in the disputed is-
lands.
“And I hope this doesn’t give the
Chinese the impression that this is
a tacit acknowledgment of Bei-
jing’s outrageous claims of
sovereignty over international
waters,” he said.
right parties and undercutting
mainstream factions. “We never
interfere in the political life and
the political processes of other
countries, and we don’t want any-
body interfering in our political
life and foreign policy processes,”
Mr. Putin said.
The Astana talks were set up as
a sort of alternative to the process
favored by the United States and
the United Nations in Geneva. But
Staffan de Mistura, the United Na-
tions special envoy on Syria, said
Tuesday for the first time that he
would attend the talks, and Mr.
Trump said he would send a repre-
sentative. The White House would
not say whom, but an American
official said it would be Stuart E.
Jones, the acting assistant secre-
tary of state for the region.
Under the Russian proposal ex-
pected at Astana, forces from Rus-
sia, Turkey and Iran would patrol
dividing lines between Syrian
government and other forces in
what Russia calls “deconfliction
zones.” They would be set up
around rebel pockets in the Da-
mascus suburbs; Idlib Province;
southern Syria, near the Jordani-
an border; and north of the central
city of Homs, according to Sput-
nik, a Russian state-run news out-
let.
But Russia said rebels in those
areas would first have to push out
jihadist groups like the Islamic
State and the former Nusra Front,
which is linked to Al Qaeda. Other
rebel groups, including those sup-
ported by the United States and
Turkey, have shown intermittent
willingness to talk to Russia in As-
tana, seeing Moscow as more
committed to whatever policies it
adopts in Syria than the United
States has been. But they have
also frequently expressed disap-
pointment that Russia has failed
to rein in attacks on civilians by
the Syrian government.
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
West Virginia’s Governor, an ‘Unusual Democrat,’ Fights a Republican Tide
By JESS BIDGOOD
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Even
by the nontraditional standards of
a neophyte politician — a billion-
aire often compared to the one
now occupying the White House
— it was a surprise.
Gov. Jim Justice, a Democrat,
strode into the Capitol rotunda
here, denounced a series of budg-
et cuts approved by Republican
lawmakers and lifted the lid off a
silver platter to reveal an aromat-
ic pile of fresh bull manure atop a
copy of the spending plan.
“We need to be able to not stran-
gle our state into just oblivion,”
Mr. Justice said in a booming
voice before affixing his veto to an
unsullied copy of the budget pro-
posal, which he described as
“nothing more than a bunch of po-
litical bull you-know-what.”
The episode, in mid-April, was
probably not what West
Virginians were expecting from
their new governor — and not just
because of the dung.
Mr. Justice, a businessman who
owns mining and other compa-
nies, cannonballed into the state’s
A billionaire who
counts President
Trump as a friend.
collapsing Democratic Party, win-
ning the governorship in Novem-
ber with vague promises to prop
up the coal industry and turn the
struggling state around, and a
tendency to mention his friend
Donald J. Trump.
Since taking office, however,
Mr. Justice has operated from his
own political playbook. He has
paired his coal-country creden-
tials with an effort to raise some
taxes and other revenue to avoid
painful cuts, moves that have sur-
prised members of both parties.
As Democrats around the coun-
try agonize over their path for-
ward in ever-redder states like
this one, Mr. Justice is facing off
with Republicans while keeping
distance between himself and his
party’s tarnished national brand.
“His style may be different,”
said Senator Joe Manchin III,
Democrat of West Virginia, a for-
mer governor who faces an uphill
re-election battle next year.
But different is crucial for
Democrats in states that are mov-
ing to the right as quickly as this
one.
“You better tell your story” be-
fore someone else does, Mr.
Manchin said.
Mr. Justice, 66, put it this way at
his State of the State address in
February: “You elected me as
your governor, a person that had
never been a politician, in the
wake of me running as a Demo-
crat, at a time when Donald
Trump won our state by 17,000 mil-
lion percent.” (Mr. Trump actually
claimed 67.9 percent of the vote.)
And then, saying that West Vir-
ginia was “dying 50th” and in the
middle of an “18-karat dog’s
mess,” Mr. Justice did something
unexpected for a man who
seemed so similar to Mr. Trump
and who had campaigned on not
raising taxes: He proposed $450
million in new revenue, mostly
through increases in sales and
business taxes.
“He did an absolute U-turn,”
said Mitch Carmichael, the Re-
publican president of the State
Senate, adding: “I think he’s more
Republican in his philosophies.
Where he has gotten away from
that a little bit is his tax-and-spend
policies.”
Mr. Justice followed the address
in February with a “Save Our
State” tour geared toward pro-
moting his budget proposal and a
separate infrastructure plan that
he said would create 48,000 jobs.
The state will need more than
coal, he says, to get back on its
feet.
He has criticized Republican
proposals to cut spending on
health care and higher education
and brought mayonnaise sand-
wiches to the Capitol to illustrate
what he said the Republicans
were offering.
He has called some lawmakers
“knuckleheads” and, at one point,
compared himself to a grizzly
bear and Ryan Ferns, the Republi-
can majority leader of the State
Senate, to a poodle, prompting Re-
publicans to say Mr. Justice is em-
barrassing the state.
Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia, a wealthy mining executive registered as a Democrat, has chal-
lenged Republican leaders in a solidly red state with a plan to raise $450 million in new revenue.
“I think the Legislature thought
they could control him, but they
can’t,” said Terri Ball, 58, a Demo-
crat who said she had voted for
Mr. Justice and Mr. Trump. Ms.
Ball was buying vinyl wall coating
last month in Madison, where
campaign signs showing Mr. Jus-
tice in a coal miner’s helmet still
hung near the center of town.
But when lawmakers return
this week for a planned special
session, Mr. Justice is expected to
push for a compromise that will
generate less revenue and
eventually lower the income tax,
though it is not clear whether it
will make it through the State
House of Delegates.
“It’s trying to protect education,
trying to protect health care, but
at the same time, largely anti-en-
vironment, and you’re doing tax
cuts, changes,” said Simon F.
Haeder, an assistant professor of
political science at West Virginia
University. “He’s in a tough spot.
It’s a shifting state; he’s an un-
usual Democrat.”
Mr. Justice’s supporters say
that in a state with a history of
conservative Democrats, that is
precisely his strength.
“Democrats in West Virginia need
to create their own identity, much
like what Jim Justice is doing,”
said Josh Sword, the president of
the state’s A.F.L.-C.I.O.
More than six and a half feet tall
with a lumbering physical pres-
ence, Mr. Justice is worth $1.6 bil-
lion, according to Forbes. He owns
more than 100 companies in multi-
ple states, including farms, met-
allurgical coal mines and the
Greenbrier, a resort hotel in the
Allegheny Mountains. He is also a
high school basketball coach.
In 2015, a month before Mr.
Trump descended a Trump Tower
escalator and vowed to “make
America great again,” Mr. Justice
held a rally at a civic center down
the street from the Greenbrier
and announced that he was run-
ning for governor with the inten-
tion of raising up his much-ma-
ligned state. “Why not West Vir-
ginia?” he cheered.
The governor’s race certainly
seemed to be the Republicans’ to
lose. West Virginians, alienated
by Democratic orthodoxy on cli-
mate change, energy and social is-
WALTER SCRIPTUNAS II/ASSOCIATED PRESS
sues, blamed President Barack
Obama for the coal industry’s
struggles. Democrats had already
lost control of the State Legisla-
ture and most of the delegation to
Washington, with all three of the
House seats and one of the two
Senate seats in Republican hands.
“I would say the Democratic
Party in West Virginia is in disar-
ray,” said Stephen Skinner, a for-
mer member of the State House of
Delegates who lost a race for State
Senate in the fall. “Justice has ap-
peared, at this moment in time, to
jump into the kind of vacuum.”
Mr. Justice, who has expressed
doubts about human-driven cli-
mate change and kept his distance
from Hillary Clinton, was not any-
body’s idea of a party savior. His
opponents pointed out that he had
only recently joined the party.
“I’ve been both” Republican and
Democrat, Mr. Justice said in an
interview, “but I just feel like that
today the common, everyday guy
is really hurting, and he needs a
voice.”
He declined to release his tax
returns, as did his opponent, and
his businesses have faced claims
of unpaid obligations and safety
fines, which NPR tallied at more
than $15 million. (In a statement,
his son, Jay Justice, said the com-
panies had reduced their out-
standing obligations, but he did
not provide details.)
But he was a wealthy political
outsider whose status as a mining
executive insulated him against
most of the Republican rhetoric
about the Democrats’ so-called
war on coal, and he beat his Re-
publican opponent, Bill Cole — the
Senate president at the time — by
7 points.
And then, Mr. Justice said, he
got into office and realized how
bad things were.
“The state of the being for West
Virginia today is far, far more dire
than I would’ve ever dreamt that
it could be,” Mr. Justice said in an
interview last month, adding:
“You’ve got hopelessness. And
you’ve got a drug epidemic. And
you’ve got a $500 million hole in
the bucket. What are you gonna
do?”
Mr. Justice had few kind words
for national Democrats.
“We’ve gotten to where we leg-
islate, in a lot of ways, for the ex-
ception, and the masses felt left
out,” he said. “If we don’t have
Democratic leaders that can artic-
ulate — and I’m not tooting my
horn — but can’t articulate and be
down to where everybody gets it
and everything — that’s one thing
I can really do.”
And he continued to praise Mr.
Trump.
“We’re good friends,” Mr. Jus-
tice said, “and I think he’s battling
the battle and doing all that he can
do, or he’s trying as hard as he can
try.”
Even if they view Mr. Justice,
with his unorthodox style and per-
sonal wealth, as an outlier, some in
the Democratic Party’s progres-
sive wing feel a measure of relief
at the turn of events in Charleston.
“I’m not sure I know what it
means to be a Democrat at this
time,” said Micah Weglinski, 38, of
Morgantown, who organized a
town-hall-style meeting this year
as part of a swell of activism in the
eastern part of the state. “He’s
probably the best thing that we
could hope for.”

Report by Urban League N.S.A. Culled Fewer Phone Records in ’16: 151 Million
Shows Enduring Race Gaps
By MITCH SMITH
CHICAGO — Progress made
by black Americans in recent
years is threatened by President
Trump and his policies, the Na-
tional Urban League said in a
report released Tuesday.
The Urban League’s annual
review found persistent racial
gaps, but also notable headway
toward equality, during President
Barack Obama’s administration.
The report warned that proposals
to reduce education funding and
limit federal oversight of local
police departments could reverse
those gains under Mr. Trump.
“It would be difficult to pin-
point any moment in recent his-
tory where so much economic
and social progress stood at such
dire risk as it does today,” said
Marc H. Morial, the civil rights
group’s president.
What are the areas of racial in-
equality?
African-Americans and His-
panics continue to lag behind
their white counterparts in em-
ployment, income and education.
There were measurable gains,
however, under Mr. Obama, when
the black unemployment rate fell
and more African-Americans
graduated from high school.
The Urban League calculates
an “equality index” that weighs
economic factors, health, educa-
tion, social justice and civic en-
gagement to compare African-
Americans to whites.
The group found that whites
outgained blacks in all of those
categories except social engage-
ment, and assigned an overall
equality rating of 72.3 percent,
meaning that black people “are
missing about 28 percent of the
pie.” That figure is almost exactly
in line with last year’s rating.
The index for Hispanics com-
pared to whites this year was 78.4
percent.
While the Urban League was
generally complimentary of Mr.
Obama, it said that “the Obama
years were no panacea for Amer-
ica’s longstanding racial inequi-
ties.”
Civil rights advocates have
praised Mr. Obama for expanding
health care and increasing finan-
cial aid for colleges, but his ten-
ure was also marked by in-
creased rates of gun violence in
many cities and several instances
of unrest after police officers
killed black men.
Did the report identify regional
trends?
The racial disparities vary
widely. In the Milwaukee area,
which the report called the na-
tion’s “least equal metro area,”
The National Urban League said gains in racial equality made
under the tenure of President Barack Obama were at risk.
Death Rate for Black People
Continues a Steady Decline
By GINA KOLATA
Black Americans still have a
higher death rate over all than
whites, but the gap is closing, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported on Tuesday.
Black Americans who live to 65
may now expect to live longer
than whites of the same age, the
federal researchers also found.
The narrowing gap in death
rates first emerged at the start of
this century, and it shows no signs
of abating. Both black and white
Americans are living longer, but
the death rate among blacks has
been dropping faster than that
among whites.
In fact, heart disease, the lead-
ing cause of death in the United
States, now kills blacks and
whites at about the same rates.
Fifteen years ago, black Ameri-
cans had a life expectancy at birth
of 71.8 years. For whites, the figure
was 77.3 years.
Blacks now have a life ex-
pectancy of 75.6 years, and whites
can expect to live on average for
79 years.
But disparities remain, the re-
searchers found.
Blacks aged 35 to 64 are 50 per-
cent more likely than whites to
have high blood pressure. The
homicide rate among blacks aged
18 to 34 is nine times as high as the
rate among whites. Among blacks
aged 35 to 49, the homicide rate is
five times as high as it is among
whites.
Why, then, do blacks who are
the unemployment rate among
blacks was 13.8 percent, com-
pared with 2.7 percent among
whites. But around Omaha, the
gap was much smaller, with 4.9
percent unemployment for blacks
and 2.7 percent for whites.
In parts of the Great Lakes
region, including Chicago, Cleve-
land, Minneapolis and Toledo,
Ohio, the report found that white
households on average earned
more than twice as much as black
households.
Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson of
Toledo, a Democrat, said in an
interview that Mr. Trump’s pro-
posed cuts to federal urban devel-
opment and education programs
could be especially harmful to
manufacturing cities like hers.
“His policies, as stated,” Ms.
Hicks-Hudson said, “are not
designed for minorities, for black
people, for urban citizens.”
What has the Trump administra-
tion said?
Mr. Trump has taken repeated
interest in urban issues, espe-
cially violence, and on the cam-
paign trail released a “New Deal
for Black America” that called for
cracking down on crime and
improving education through
school choice.
The attorney general, Jeff
Sessions, has expressed skepti-
cism about consent decrees be-
tween the Justice Department
and local police agencies found to
have engaged in a pattern of
discriminatory practices. In its
report, the Urban League called
the Trump administration’s
stance on consent decrees “a
retreat on common-sense police
reform.”
The consent decree question
has been especially fraught here
in Chicago, a city dealing with
parallel crises of a high murder
rate and a police force that is
mistrusted in some of the most
violent neighborhoods. Shortly
before Mr. Obama left office,
Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago
said he intended to work toward
a consent decree, though one has
not materialized during the
Trump administration.
Mr. Trump has weighed in
frequently on Chicago’s violence,
threatening to “send in the
Feds!” if local officials do not
solve the problem. Shari Runner,
the president and chief executive
of the Chicago Urban League,
said she saw such talk by Mr.
Trump as a barrier to improving
the Chicago Police Department
and addressing some of the city’s
other longstanding problems.
“It’s a talking point,” Ms. Run-
ner said, “and I think there’s very
little knowledge or insight into
what’s happening in Chicago.”
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
older than 65 live longer than
whites?
Timothy J. Cunningham, the
lead author of the report, said the
lower death rate among older
black Americans first emerged in
2011. He attributed it to “weather-
ing.”
Black Americans who are
younger than 65 tend to die more
often than whites from chronic
diseases like diabetes, strokes and
heart disease.
As a result, Dr. Cunningham
said, black Americans who make
it to 65 are comparatively healthi-
er than their white peers, because
many of those who are most sus-
ceptible to chronic diseases have
already died.
This disparity, and the differ-
ences in death rates generally, in-
volve social factors as much as
medical ones, Dr. Cunningham
added.
Black Americans as a group
have lower levels of education and
homeownership as well as higher
rates of poverty and unemploy-
ment, all factors linked to poorer
health.
Individual behaviors like smok-
ing are more common among
younger blacks, compared with
whites, and they contribute to
higher death rates in younger age
groups.
“It is important to invest in the
places where people live,” Dr. Cun-
ningham said, “so they can eat
healthier food and get physical ac-
tivity in safe spaces and quit
smoking if they started.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — The Na-
tional Security Agency vacuumed
up more than 151 million records
about Americans’ phone calls last
year via a new system that Con-
gress created to end the agency’s
once-secret program that col-
lected domestic calling records in
bulk, a report disclosed Tuesday.
Although the number is large on
its face, it nonetheless represents
a massive reduction from the
amount of information the agency
gathered previously. Under the
old system, it collected potentially
“billions of records per day,” ac-
cording to a 2014 study.
The new report, an annual sur-
veillance review published by the
Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, offered the first
glimpse of how the new system is
working. That the National Secu-
rity Agency still collected such a
large volume of calling data, even
if it was only a fraction of what the
agency once gathered, showed
the challenge of conducting 21st-
century surveillance and data
monitoring within constraints set
up to protect Americans’ privacy.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
the agency has analyzed large
amounts of communications
metadata — records showing who
contacted whom, but not what
they said — to hunt for associates
of terrorism suspects. For years, it
did so by collecting domestic call
records in bulk.
That program came to light via
the 2013 leaks by the former intel-
ligence contractor Edward J.
Snowden. Congress enacted the
USA Freedom Act two years later
to end the bulk collection but pre-
serve the program’s analytical
abilities. Now, phone companies
turn over only the calling histories
of people suspected of terrorism
links and everyone with whom
they have been in contact.
The National Security Agency
took in the 151 million records de-
spite obtaining court orders to use
the system on only 42 terrorism
suspects in 2016, along with a few
left over from late 2015, the report
said.
The volume of records was ap-
parently a product of not only the
exponential math involved in
gathering years of phone records
from every caller a step away
from each suspect, but also dupli-
cation: A single phone call logged
by two companies counted as two
records.
Alex Joel, the chief civil liberties
and privacy officer at the Office of
the Director of National Intelli-
gence, acknowledged that the
number of targets seemed small
“when compared to the very large
number of call detail records gen-
erated by those targets.”
But underscoring the duplica-
tion in the records, he said, “We
believe the number of unique
identifiers within those records is
dramatically lower.”
The Freedom Act required the
Office of the Director of National
Intelligence to publish annual re-
ports about surveillance; the new
report included disclosures that
went beyond statutory require-
ments. Mr. Joel said the report
“leans forward” in an effort to “en-
hance transparency” and clarity.
One of the newly disclosed
numbers the government was not
required to make public was re-
markably low: Only once in 2016
did F.B.I. agents working on ordi-
nary criminal cases — as opposed
to foreign intelligence — search
for and read private email mes-
sages involving an American sus-
pect that the National Security
Agency had collected via its war-
rantless surveillance program.
That number may have policy
implications as Congress pre-
pares to take up legislation to re-
authorize the law on which the
warrantless surveillance pro-
gram is based, known as the FISA
Amendments Act. Set to expire at
the end of this year, the law per-
mits the agency to gather from
phone and internet companies,
without warrants, the messages
of foreigners abroad, even when
they communicate with Ameri-
cans.
Privacy advocates have raised
alarms about the government’s
ability to search the raw re-
pository of emails for information
about Americans, a practice they
call a “backdoor search loophole”
in the Fourth Amendment. They
want Congress to require war-
rants for such searches.
In November 2015, a judge or-
dered the F.B.I. to track for the
court successful queries made for
criminal case purposes, and the
government added that informa-
tion to the public report.
Importantly, however, it did not
reveal how often F.B.I. agents
searched for and retrieved Ameri-
cans’ information while working
on foreign-intelligence cases,
which can involve terrorism, espi-
onage, banned weapons prolifera-
tion, and transnational drug traf-
ficking and hacking.
The F.B.I. has said it does not
track such queries, but a senior in-
telligence official said the number
was believed to be more signifi-
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Dan Coats, left, director of national intelligence, at his confirmation hearing in February. A report
from his office offered a peek at how much data the N.S.A. is gathering without bulk collection.
cant. unmasking of certain people in in- 1,200 reports originally had un-
Intelligence agencies with ac- telligence reports who turned out masked identities, and the agency
cess to raw email messages gath- to be associated with the Trump unmasked Americans’ identities
ered via the warrantless surveil- campaign. in 1,934 reports in response to re-
lance program, like the National President Trump went further, quests. By comparison, in 2015,
Security Agency, the C.I.A. and suggesting without evidence that 2,232 unmaskings were re-
the National Counterterrorism Susan E. Rice, who served as na- quested.
Center, do track their searches for tional security adviser under The report also revealed that
Americans’ information within President Barack Obama, might the number of foreigners abroad
the repository. The report said have committed a crime by seek- who have been targeted for war-
that in 2016, agencies other than rantless surveillance continued to
ing to learn the identities. Ms. Rice
the F.B.I. used 5,288 search terms grow in 2016, topping 106,000 — up
associated with Americans for from about 94,000 in 2015.
such queries. But the government’s use of two
The report also offered a look at other surveillance-related powers
how often intelligence reports The volume of records has dropped, the report said. One
written by the National Security
Agency used information about
listed in a report on a was its use of “pen register/trap-
and-trace” orders to collect meta-
Americans that was incidentally new system is partly data about particular targets’
collected via the warrantless sur- communications. The govern-
veillance program. The identities due to duplication. ment obtained such intelligence
of Americans are camouflaged in court orders for 456 targets in 2015
the reports unless they are neces- but only 41 in 2016.
sary to understand foreign intelli- The government also made
has said she did nothing wrong
gence. fewer requests using national se-
The topic of these concealed and has portrayed her unmasking curity letters — a kind of adminis-
names and whether to reveal requests as a routine part of her trative subpoena without court
them, known colloquially as un- job, which required understand- oversight — for subscriber infor-
masking, has received greater at- ing intelligence. mation about who is using email
tention since Representative According to the report, the Na- and phone accounts. The govern-
Devin Nunes, the California Re- tional Security Agency distribut- ment used that authority to make
publican who leads the House In- ed 3,914 reports last year contain- 48,642 requests in 2015 but only
ing information about Americans half that many in 2016.
telligence Committee, said he had
gathered via the warrantless sur-
learned that Obama-era White The report did not explain what
House officials had requested the veillance program. Within those, was behind those falling numbers.
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A22
Commuters Groan as Amtrak Plans for 44 Days of Penn Station Repairs
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
A summer of misery could follow this
springtime of discontent for commuters
who pass through Pennsylvania Station
in Manhattan, judging by Amtrak’s pre-
liminary plan for extensive track repairs
at the station.
The plan, a copy of which was obtained
by The New York Times, calls for the
closing of tracks for two long stretches
that would last for nearly three weeks in
July and almost the entire month of Au-
gust. Amtrak has shared the plan with
the two commuter railroads with which it
shares Penn Station: New Jersey Transit
and the Long Island Rail Road.
Officials of the three railroads are
meeting this week to devise a final
schedule for the work, but there is no
doubt that travel will be disrupted. Penn
Station is the busiest rail terminal in
North America, and New Jersey Transit
and the Long Island Rail Road are two of
the three busiest railroads in the United
States.
The plan presented by Amtrak out-
lined 21 repairs and described their loca-
tions. But it did not explain how the work
would affect train schedules during the
track closings. The work plan appeared
to indicate that at least two tracks at a
time would be closed off during the
periods in July and August.
Navigating
A City Forest:
280 Miles
Of Scaffolding
By WINNIE HU
The big blue dot on the map is not a
subway stop, historical site or destina-
tion restaurant.
Instead, it is another New York City
landmark: scaffolding.
The dot marks a wood-and-steel frame
covering the front of a long-unfinished
project on a brownstone-lined block in
the Park Slope neighborhood of Brook-
lyn. The permit for it was issued by the
city’s Buildings Department in January
2006, and it is now the oldest such scaf-
folding in New York, according to depart-
ment records.
The 11-year-old scaffolding is on a new
map developed by the Buildings Depart-
ment that displays more than 7,700 simi-
lar structures currently parked in front
of city buildings. Many of them have
been up for years, with officials some-
times having no idea when they will
come down or, in some cases, if they are
even needed anymore.
Though intended to protect passers-
by from falling debris, these eyesores
known as sidewalk sheds have often be-
come a blight, drawing a barrage of com-
plaints from residents and businesses
that they block light and views, attract
crime and litter, and impede foot traffic
along congested sidewalks.
“It becomes part of the city landscape;
you dodge it every day,” said Kwanele
Mpanza, 34, a real estate agent who lives
around the corner from the aging Park
Slope scaffolding. “As a user of the city, it
makes it more difficult to get where you
need to go. It’s an additional obstacle.”
A forest of scaffolding has covered
sidewalks in recent years, and city offi-
cials have come under growing criticism
for not doing enough to police the fix-
tures.
Now the City Council is considering
legislation targeting scaffolding that
stays too long, while the Buildings De-
partment is taking a more aggressive ap-
proach. It has taken stock of scaffolding
and created an online system to better
track the structures at a time when there
are more of them than ever as older
buildings need work and a construction
boom produces more towers.
In a sweep last year, building inspec-
tors checked every piece of scaffolding.
While most needed to remain for safety,
about 150 were ordered dismantled be-
cause work had been finished.
The new map marks every building
with scaffolding with a color-coded dot
showing why the structures went up: red
for buildings deemed unsafe, light blue
for repairs, dark blue for new construc-
tion and green for maintenance work.
Clicking on a dot reveals more details, in-
cluding the date a permit was first ap-
proved. The older the scaffolding, the
larger the dot.
“It synthesizes the enormous amount
of information we have,” said Rick D.
Chandler, the city’s buildings commis-
sioner. “We sit on an ocean of data.”
Mr. Chandler said the online system
would help the department direct en-
forcement measures in specific neigh-
borhoods and help identify illegal struc-
tures that went up without a permit. By
the end of the year, permits for sidewalk
sheds will be accepted online and the
database will be updated as structures
go up or come down.
The system makes the department’s
efforts more transparent by providing
ready access to data about scaffolding
that could be found only by searching
two or more of the department’s data-
bases, a time-consuming process even
for those who knew where to look.
Still, Mr. Chandler acknowledged that
these efforts would not necessarily mean
Susan Beachy contributed research.
Evening rush-hour commuters at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan last
month. Amtrak’s preliminary repair plan calls for 44 days of closed tracks.
Asked for details on how commuters
would be affected, Amtrak responded
with a statement that said its executives
would meet again on Thursday with their
counterparts from the commuter rail-
roads. “All groups are working with the
Scaffolding at 277 First Street in
Park Slope, Brooklyn, above and
right, has been in place for 11 years. It
is on a new map that tracks more
than 7,000 such structures in New
York. A neighbor, John Fracet, below
right, said the scaffolding attracted
drug dealers and other criminals.
that scaffolding would come down
sooner. “We’re erring on the side of
safety to keep them in place so no one
gets hurt,” he said.
The city began requiring scaffolding
as part of a 1980 city law that established
regular inspections of building facades.
The City Council passed the law after
Grace Gold, a Barnard College student,
was killed by a piece of terra cotta that
fell from a 1912 apartment house on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan. Today,
there are about 280 miles of sidewalk
scaffolding in front of 7,752 buildings, ac-
cording to the Buildings Department.
But in some cases, scaffolding that
was intended to be temporary has lin-
gered for years as construction stalls or
repairs remain unfinished. City build-
ings officials do not set a specific dead-
line for owners to make repairs and take
down scaffolding, and can issue vio-
lations only if the work is not completed
— leaving what many critics have called
a gaping loophole that allows scaffolding
to stay up indefinitely.
In Midtown Manhattan, where scaf-
folding covers block after block, the
structures have been a longstanding
source of frustration, said Wally Rubin,
the district manager for Community
Board 5. They take up space on some of
the city’s most crowded corridors and
encourage loitering and homeless en-
campments near Pennsylvania Station
and other places.
While Mr. Rubin said the city’s new
scaffolding database would be useful, he
added that it did not go far enough to ad-
dress the problem. “As long as building
owners find it cheaper and easier to keep
up a sidewalk shed, rather than remedy
the dangerous building conditions that
make sheds required, the many prob-
lems that are caused by these ubiquitous
sidewalk sheds will never be solved,” he
said.
City Councilman Ben Kallos, who rep-
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common goal of creating service sched-
ules that minimize impact on the
traveling public when we do the neces-
sary upgrades to Penn Station,” the
statement said. “We will jointly commu-
nicate this information once a unified ap-
resents the Upper East Side, said he was
“underwhelmed” by the Buildings De-
partment’s efforts, adding that it would
do little to address scaffolding that had
overstayed its welcome. “We already
know how big a problem it is, and unless
the city is willing to take steps to get the
scaffolding down, it doesn’t matter,” he
said.
Mr. Kallos has proposed legislation
that would give a building owner three
proach has been agreed to, potentially
next week.”
The plan resulted from Amtrak’s deci-
sion to change its traditional approach to
making repairs at the station, which it
owns and operates. After a 30-day period
in which two trains derailed and another
broke down in a tunnel under the Hudson
River on the Friday before Easter Sun-
day, Amtrak officials decided that their
usual practice of trying to confine repairs
to nights and weekends was not suffi-
cient to keep up with the deterioration of
tracks and equipment.
After one derailment, eight of the sta-
tion’s 21 tracks were taken out of use for
several days. During that closing, New
Jersey Transit was reduced to running
25 trains into Penn Station from 6 a.m. to
10 a.m., down from the normal schedule
of 63 trains.
Steven H. Santoro, the executive di-
rector of New Jersey Transit, told law-
makers at a hearing in Trenton on Friday
that a similar reduction of service during
the summer was “not acceptable.”
On Tuesday, Mr. Santoro posted a let-
ter to customers on the transit system’s
website that said, “Once the planning
analysis is complete, a comprehensive
service plan will be put into place that
will maximize all alternative resources
to keep our customers moving during
months to repair a facade, with the possi-
bility of a three-month extension, so that
scaffolding can be removed within six
months of going up, or sooner when no
work is being done. The legislation has
drawn support from many residents and
business groups, including the New York
State Restaurant Association and the
New York City Hospitality Alliance.
But it has been opposed by many
building owners who say they do not al-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
this challenging time.”
It didn’t take long for commuters to
weigh in on Amtrak’s plan, bemoaning
what promises to be a grueling slog. A
Twitter post from a user named Heather
said, “And this is why my summer com-
mute is going to be a wreck.’’
But two Democratic state senators in
New Jersey, Robert M. Gordon and Lo-
retta Weinberg, were already question-
ing Amtrak’s preliminary plan, wonder-
ing why it did not make use of the Fourth
of July and Labor Day holiday weekends.
The plan called for closing some tracks
from July 7 through July 25 and others
from Aug. 4 through Aug. 28, a total of 44
days.
“We are going to take a hard look at
whether the full 19-day and 25-day rail
service curtailments are absolutely nec-
essary,” Senator Gordon said in a pre-
pared statement. “But it also seems logi-
cal to ask why Amtrak wants to start
shutting down tracks on July 7, rather
than taking advantage of the four-day
Fourth of July weekend to start the work.
“And why not schedule some of the
work for the last week of August, when so
many people take off from work heading
into Labor Day weekend? We know
those are big travel weekends for Am-
trak, but N.J. Transit commuters should-
n’t have to bear the full brunt.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ways have the money to make repairs or
finish projects right away. Frank Ricci,
the director of government affairs for the
Rent Stabilization Association, which
represents 25,000 building owners and
managers, suggested that the city could
instead relieve the burden on building
owners by focusing facade inspections
on the front of the buildings, and con-
ducting them less frequently for other
sides that do not face public spaces.
“Then owners might have more re-
sources to address the critical areas
sooner and the bridgework could come
down,” he said.
City buildings officials said legislation
would be required to change inspection
requirements and noted that the major-
ity of sidewalk scaffolding came down
within one to two years.
In Park Slope, the scaffolding at 277
First Street has stood so long that it has
outlasted some of its critics, who have
died or moved away. It covers the front of
a nearly 15,000-square-foot modern
glass-and-concrete building that was
once planned as a couple’s dream home,
complete with a swimming pool and a car
elevator, neighbors say. But it was never
finished.
The building was sold in November to
a developer, 277 1st Street Ventures,
which is turning it into a six-unit condo-
minium. The developer said it expected
to complete construction — and remove
the scaffolding — by late summer.
Some neighbors cannot wait. For
years, they have put up with an unwant-
ed guest that has dripped water on their
heads and sheltered rats and other ver-
min. Chris Ferrara, 44, a program direc-
tor at the Pratt Institute, said his wife
stamped her feet and clapped her hands
loudly whenever she had to walk under
the scaffolding.
John Fracet, 56, a handyman, said the
scaffolding attracted drug dealers and
other criminals. He said a woman was
mugged last year while walking past the
scaffolding. “It gets to the point where
you just want to go over there with a few
guys and pull it down,” he said.
Mr. Fracet said that he and many other
neighbors had repeatedly complained
about the scaffolding. Nothing ever hap-
pened.
“Come on, how much work can you
do?” he said. “I mean, what are they
putting in there, gold window frames?”

City Cites Gains as Debate to Control Schools Nears Foster Father Acquitted
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
New York City schools Chancel-
lor Carmen Fariña was in Albany
for two days this week, updating
the legislature on the progress of
the city’s public schools. The
meetings offered a preview of the
debate over mayoral control,
which puts power over the schools
in the hands of City Hall, and
which Mayor Bill de Blasio must
convince the state to renew in
what has become an annual ritual.
During Mr. de Blasio’s tenure,
the negotiations have not gone
well for him. While his predeces-
sor, Michael R. Bloomberg, was
granted lengthy periods of
mayoral control — seven years in
2002 and then a six-year exten-
sion in 2009 — Mr. de Blasio has
had to fight for just single-year ex-
tensions.
Last year, the debate got so
tense that Mr. de Blasio skipped a
hearing on the issue held just op-
posite City Hall in Lower Manhat-
tan. Mr. de Blasio sent Ms. Fariña
in his stead. At one point during
the hearings, she suggested that
appearing before the legislature
was a diversion from the business
of running the schools.
On Tuesday, speaking to the
Senate Education Committee, Ms.
Fariña sounded more upbeat.
“I’m really here just to very
quickly say some of the exciting
things we’re doing in New York
City,” she said. As to the de Blasio
administration’s record, she sug-
gested, “when you look at the list
of accomplishments that we’ve
had in just three years, that, I
think, speaks for itself.”
At its core, the mayoral control
debate is largely about politics.
But it has not helped in making the
public case for a longer extension
that, so far, Mr. de Blasio’s record
on education is fairly modest. And
after 12 years of Mr. Bloomberg’s
education policies, New York is,
for better or worse, accustomed to
a mayor who thinks very, very big
on education.
“He’s not in any way radical
with his reforms,” said Priscilla
Wohlstetter, a distinguished re-
search professor at Columbia Uni-
versity’s Teachers College. “It’s all
been fairly incremental given the
national scene.”
Mr. de Blasio’s biggest educa-
tion initiative, and his biggest suc-
cess, has been the rollout of free,
universal prekindergarten for 4-
year-olds. Given its size, the ex-
pansion went smoothly, though
there have been some areas
where children have not been able
to get seats close to home, and
observers say the quality of the
program is generally good. With
his re-election campaign on the
horizon, Mr. de Blasio recently an-
nounced a further expansion,
which would offer free pre-K to all
3-year-olds by 2021 — but how it
Suit Says Durst’s 2nd Wife Helped Hide Killing of First
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
For nearly 20 years, Debrah
Lee Charatan has tried to stay out-
side the media spotlight trained
on her husband, Robert A. Durst,
who is facing trial in Los Angeles
in the killing of Susan Berman, his
confidante.
But that may be ending.
In a $100 million lawsuit filed
Monday in State Supreme Court
in Mineola, N.Y., by Carol Ba-
monte, Mary Hughes and Virginia
McKeon, the three sisters of Mr.
Durst’s first wife, Kathleen Durst,
Ms. Charatan is described as a
“coldblooded opportunist” who in
cooperation with Mr. Durst “con-
spired and agreed to conceal the
whereabouts” of Kathleen Durst’s
body from her family. Ms. Durst
disappeared in 1982. Her body has
never been found.
Ms. Charatan, a real estate ex-
ecutive in New York, controls her
husband’s financial affairs, pays
his team of lawyers and is the
chief beneficiary of Mr. Durst’s
2003 will and an estate worth an
estimated $100 million.
Among the many twists and
turns of Mr. Durst’s 35-year tale is
the fact that Ms. Charatan, 60,
lives with Steven Holm, a real es-
tate lawyer who has worked for
Mr. Durst, 74.
The claims about Ms. Charatan
were made in an amended com-
plaint to a 2015 suit. The new filing
contends that Mr. Durst killed Ms.
Durst and that he, Ms. Charatan
and others violated Ms. Durst’s
family’s right to sepulcher, a
Of Sex Abuse Charges
Carmen Fariña, the New York City schools chancellor, at a joint legislative budget hearing in Al-
bany in February. Ms. Fariña returned this week to share the city’s progress with lawmakers.
will be funded remains a question.
The other major initiative, the
Renewal School program, is Mr.
de Blasio’s effort to turn around
the city’s most troubled schools.
The initiative, which has so far
cost $386 million, centers on
equipping schools with resources
to better deal with students’ needs
outside of the classroom, such as
medical and mental health
services. But many parents were
reluctant to enroll their children
into schools publicly branded as
struggling institutions. Results of
Under Mayor Bill de
Blasio, graduation
rates and test scores
have continued to rise.
the program have been mixed.
Beyond those big-ticket items,
Ms. Fariña has largely relied on
smaller, targeted efforts: A litera-
cy program focuses on getting
students to read on grade level by
the end of second grade. A college
awareness program for middle
schools encourages children to
build higher education into their
expectations. And initiatives like
Algebra for All and AP for All aim
to give more students access to
higher-level classes.
Josh Wallack, a deputy chancel-
lor for strategy and policy at the
city’s Education Department, said
that taken together, these policies
and others create a comprehen-
sive improvement strategy for the
ALAN ZALE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Debrah Lee Charatan, Robert
Durst’s wife, in 2006.
rarely used New York law grant-
ing relatives the right to immedi-
ate possession of a body for burial.
Alan M. Abramson, a lawyer for
Ms. Charatan, declined to com-
ment.
Although investigators have
long suspected Mr. Durst of killing
his first wife, he has never been
charged in connection with her
disappearance.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles say
that Mr. Durst shot Ms. Berman in
the back of head in 2000 to stop
her from telling investigators
what she knew about Ms. Durst’s
killing.
Ms. Berman, a writer, had been
Mr. Durst’s spokeswoman after
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
entire system.
Under Mr. de Blasio, both grad-
uation rates and test scores have
continued to rise. The department
said that last year, there was an 8
percent increase over the year be-
fore in students taking and pass-
ing at least one Advanced Place-
ment exam.
“One initiative builds on the
next,” Mr. Wallack said. “When
you talk about the strategy of the
administration and the way we’re
moving the system, it’s by build-
ing these initiatives on top of each
other and following a child and
their family all the way through,
from pre-K to college and career,
and beyond.”
But others see scattered indi-
vidual efforts in a vast system of 1.1
million students.
“I don’t think we’ve seen a
grand vision,” said Leslie Santee
Siskin, a research associate pro-
fessor at New York University
who focuses on high schools. “De
Blasio has not been as visible on
education, nor has he made edu-
cation as visible on his agenda” as
Mr. Bloomberg did, she said.
Ms. Siskin did say that Mr. de
Blasio deserved credit for con-
tinuing the progress made under
Mr. Bloomberg, as such momen-
tum is easily lost, especially when
leadership changes hands.
One sticking point in the
mayoral control debate is charter
schools, which Republicans, who
control the Senate, tend to sup-
port. Mr. Bloomberg actively pro-
moted the growth of charters,
while Mr. de Blasio has had an
adversarial relationship some of
the sector’s biggest players, like
his first wife vanished. In pretrial
hearings in Los Angeles, several
witnesses testified that Ms.
Berman had told them that she
had helped Mr. Durst conceal his
role in his wife’s disappearance.
Ms. Charatan did not meet Mr.
Durst until 1988, when friends in-
troduced them. The lawsuit con-
tends that Mr. Durst confided in
Ms. Charatan and others the loca-
tion of Ms. Durst’s body and that
she agreed to keep his secrets in
return for cash. But it does not say
how or when he confided in Ms.
Charatan, whom he married in a
secret ceremony in 2000, shortly
after he learned that the authori-
ties had reopened the investiga-
tion into his first wife’s fate.
The suit states that Ms.
Charatan obtained power of attor-
ney from Mr. Durst and supplied
him with tens of thousands of dol-
lars in cash after he fled New York
and rented apartments in Galve-
ston, Tex., and New Orleans under
an alias while posing as a mute
woman.
Mr. Durst was charged with
murder in 2001 after he dismem-
bered the body of a neighbor in
Galveston and led the authorities
on a 45-day hunt before being cap-
tured in Pennsylvania.
At one point, Ms. Charatan tried
to withdraw $1.8 million from one
of Mr. Durst’s bank accounts, but
the account had been frozen by
the authorities.
Mr. Durst was acquitted of mur-
der charges, after he testified that
the neighbor, Morris Black, had
died when shot accidentally as
they grappled over a gun. Mr.
Durst testified that in a panic he
carved up the body and dumped
the pieces into Galveston Bay.
Long estranged from his
wealthy New York family, Mr.
Durst sued the family trust seek-
ing a payout and settled for $65
million in 2006. Ms. Charatan re-
ceived about $20 million.
Dick DeGuerin, who leads Mr.
Durst’s defense team in Los Ange-
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Success Academy.
John J. Flanagan, the State Sen-
ate majority leader, said on Mon-
day that the Senate would look at
the needs of charter schools when
considering mayoral control.
When asked about the link be-
tween the two, Ms. Fariña was re-
sistant. “I think mayoral control is
an important enough issue that it
should stand alone,” she said. “I
certainly feel that we’ve proven
that we’ve done a great job in the
last three years.”
This year, the de Blasio admin-
istration has said that it is again
seeking a multiyear extension.
That may not be a likely outcome,
but nobody appears to be in favor
of going back to the old system, in
which the schools were run by the
board of education. Mayors were
required to fund an organization
over which they had no control,
which encouraged them to send as
little money as possible, and there
was little accountability in the sys-
tem.
Catherine Nolan, a Democratic
Assemblywoman for Queens and
a strong supporter of Ms. Fariña,
disagreed that the administra-
tion’s approach lacked sweep.
“I have seen chancellors come
and go,” said Ms. Nolan, who is the
chairwoman of the Assembly’s
Education Committee. “Carmen
Fariña’s vision is as expansive as
any of them.” She said Ms. Fariña
also “brings a practical focus that
was often lacking in past. That is a
positive in my opinion."
When touring a school with the
chancellor, she added later,
“you’re practically under the ta-
bles” inspecting the details.
les, said his client was innocent.
“It’s been a mystery for over 35
years what happened to Kathie,
for Bob and everybody else,” Mr.
DeGuerin said. “As far as Susan is
concerned, Bob didn’t kill her and
doesn’t know who did.”
Ms. Charatan and her son, Ben-
nat Charatan Berger, are owners
of a number of tenement buildings
in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In
February, Ms. Charatan filed a $10
million defamation suit against 25
people who had posted anony-
mous critical items online about
the management of the buildings.
The lawsuit, which identifies
the online critics only as John or
Jane Doe, says that they posted
false and scurrilous statements
about Ms. Charatan and her son,
including one that described them
as “two most infamous and abu-
sive landlords in New York City.”
Her husband, Mr. Durst, is re-
ferred to in one posting as “a fa-
mous serial killer and sociopath.”
The new complaint from Ms.
Durst’s family also names Mr.
Durst’s friend Susan Giordano,
claiming that he told her the loca-
tion of Ms. Durst’s body. Ms. Gior-
dano got to know Mr. Durst while
he was in jail in Galveston.
Ms. Giordano testified in Febru-
ary in Los Angeles that Mr. Durst
had given her $350,000 to find
what she called a “love nest,”
where she could take care of him
for the rest of his life. Ms. Gior-
dano insisted that their relation-
ship was platonic, and not roman-
tic.
Benjamin Ostrer, a lawyer for
Ms. Giordano, declined to com-
ment, saying he had not seen the
complaint.
A lawyer for Ms. Durst’s sisters,
Robert Abrams of Abrams Fen-
sterman, said that because of the
suit, “Charatan, Giordano and oth-
ers will now have to explain why
they collectively accepted tens of
millions of dollars to help Durst
conceal his involvement in the dis-
appearance of Kathie.”
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8 Boys Testified Against Long Island Man
By ARIELLE DOLLINGER
and ELI ROSENBERG
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — His eyes
wet, Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, a
foster father who opened his Long
Island home to scores of children
with intellectual disabilities and
mental illnesses, walked out of
court here a free man on Tuesday
after he was acquitted of endan-
gering or sexually abusing boys in
his care.
The verdict followed an emo-
tional five-week trial in State Su-
preme Court that included testi-
mony from eight accusers who
had lived with Mr. Gonzales-Mu-
gaburu, 60. It represented a stun-
ning turnaround for him after
more than a year in jail. And it
dealt a blow to the Suffolk County
District Attorney’s Office, which
prosecuted the high-profile case
that had raised questions about
the child welfare system.
Donald Mates, Mr. Gonzales-
Mugaburu’s lawyer, had argued
that his client — so trusted that
New York City’s child welfare
agency had placed 95 boys in his
care over two decades, many of
whom he adopted — was a strict
but not abusive foster parent who
had looked after troubled boys.
Mr. Mates raised doubt about the
credibility of the accusers, argu-
ing that they were coached, and
questioned why a detective who
had interviewed some of the boys
did not testify — a point some jury
members mentioned after deliv-
ering the verdict.
Mr. Mates said his client looked
forward to getting “his good name
back after it’s been smeared over
the past year and a half.” Mr. Gon-
zales-Mugaburu stood beside him
and nodded his head.
“Cesar’s just, obviously, very
happy, very emotional,” Mr. Mates
said.
The jurors, who spent more
than a week deliberating the 16
charges, said they struggled to
stay impartial as they fought
through the strong emotions
stirred by the case. They used a
white board to painstakingly ac-
count for the many details they
were given and built a timeline.
They debated the definition of
“reasonable doubt” and had the
judge redefine it for them.
Jury members fainted, experi-
enced dizziness and stomach
problems, and lost sleep, said
Louise Corcoran, a juror who is a
teacher from West Islip.
But in the end, they decided that
Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu was not
guilty of any of the charges.
“We were, you know, waiting for
the rest of the story,” Ms. Corcoran
said. “It never came.”
Jurors had “to try to finish the
story in your head, which you re-
ally can’t do,” she said.
Tim Carney, the jury foreman,
who is a firefighter from Islip, also
pointed to gaps in the case against
Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu. The
prosecutors “just never built that
bridge, in our eyes,” Mr. Carney
said.
“We can’t ask for evidence to
come in,” he said.
The case began in January 2016,
when two children in Mr. Gonza-
les-Mugaburu’s care told a case-
worker that he had made inappro-
priate comments to them. After he
was arrested, others came for-
ward saying he had sexually
abused them. The case eventually
involved eight boys, who are now
16 to 29; all of them testified.
The indictment against Mr.
Gonzales-Mugaburu included
Arielle Dollinger reported from
Riverhead, and Eli Rosenberg
from New York. Mark Santora and
Nikita Stewart contributed report-
ing from New York, and Susan C.
Beachy contributed research.
Corrections
INTERNATIONAL
An Interpreter article on Tues-
day about how the colonial war in
Algeria that ended in 1962
continues to influence French
politics referred incorrectly to a
law that mandated teaching the
benefits of French colonialism in
schools. The law, enacted in 2005,
was repealed in 2006; it is not still
in effect.
An article on Tuesday about
calls by President Nicolás Maduro
of Venezuela to rewrite his coun-
try’s Constitution misstated the
timing of a Supreme Court deci-
sion to strip power from the Na-
tional Assembly. It was handed
down in March, not April.
An article on April 25 about a
United Nations commission in-
vestigating possible war crimes in
Syria misstated the number of
witnesses and victims it has inter-
viewed. The number is now more
than 5,200, not more than 1,400.
BUSINESS DAY
An article on Friday about Pres-
ident Trump’s plan to end the fed-
eral deduction for state and local
taxes misstated a reason some
taxpayers can deduct sales taxes
from their federal returns. In Ne-
vada and Washington, it is be-
cause the states have no state in-
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charges of predatory sexual as-
sault against a child, criminal sex-
ual acts in the second and third de-
gree, sexual conduct against a
child and endangering the welfare
of a child.
Some of the boys testified that
they had reported abuse to social
workers and police officers over
the years, but earlier investiga-
tions had been quickly closed by
the authorities. One witness, who
is now 29, testified that when he
lived at Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu’s
house in Ridge, the boys were told
to lie in advance of visits from so-
cial service agency workers.
The 29-year-old returned to the
courthouse on Tuesday. He said he
was shocked that Mr. Gonzales-
Mugaburu had been set free.
“Our fight, our testimony, just
went down the drain,” he said,
wiping tears from his eyes. “We’re
not lying.”
Dari Schwartz, the bureau chief
SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, VIA AP
Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu
A high-profile case
that raised questions
about New York City’s
child welfare system.
of the district attorney’s child
abuse and domestic violence unit,
said the office was surprised by
the outcome. In a statement,
Thomas J. Spota, the district attor-
ney, said, “We are extremely dis-
appointed with the Mugaburu
verdict.”
Richard D. Emery, a lawyer rep-
resenting four of the former foster
children involved, said his clients
would still pursue civil cases
against SCO Family of Services, a
nonprofit that had placed children
in Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu’s care
under contracts with the New
York City Administration for Chil-
dren’s Services and the State of
Washington.
“They feel insulted and under-
mined,” he said. “It’s too bad they
can’t get justice in the criminal
court, but they will get justice in
the civil court.”
Rose Anello, a spokeswoman
for SCO Family of Services, de-
clined to comment.
In Ridge, neighbors were upset
that Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu had
returned to his boarded-up home
on Tuesday.
Mike Lange, a former Suffolk
County police officer whose home
is across from Mr. Gonzales-Mu-
gaburu’s and who testified during
the trial, said he used to see one of
the boys left outside for hours at a
time, even in winter. He said he
had told the boys that if they
needed food, they could come to
him.
But his wife, Ann Lange, said
the children were afraid of Mr.
Gonzales-Mugaburu.
“Stunned. Stunned. Stunned by
the outcome,” Ms. Lange said.
come taxes, not “low” income
taxes.
SPORTS
An article on Saturday about
Theo Epstein’s return to Boston
after winning a World Series with
the Chicago Cubs misidentified
the highway he crossed on his
walk to Fenway Park on Friday. It
is I-90, not I-95.
Because of an editing error, an
article on Saturday about soccer
clubs changing their logos mis-
stated the year the Liverpool
Football Club was founded. As an
accompanying picture correctly
showed, it was 1892, not 1872.
OBITUARIES
Because of an editing error, an
obituary on Tuesday about the
American diplomat Malcolm Toon
referred incorrectly to the fate of
SALT II, an arms agreement with
the Soviet Union that Mr. Toon
took part in negotiating. President
Jimmy Carter withdrew it from
Senate consideration; it was not
the case that “the Senate voted
not to ratify it.” Because of an-
other editing error, the obituary
misstated the distance between
Boston and Northborough, Mass.,
where Mr. Toon grew up. It is
about 35 miles, not about 50.
A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
Domonic Whilby in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday. He could serve up to 25 years for the death of William Pena.
Man Gets Maximum Sentence in Bus Driver’s Death
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
A Georgia man who crashed a
stolen truck into a New York City
bus after a night of drinking and
killed the driver was sentenced on
Tuesday to serve at least eight
years and four months in prison,
as a state judge rejected his plea
for leniency and imposed the max-
imum penalty.
The defendant, Domonic
Whilby, 25, remained composed
and calm, his eyes steady on Jus-
tice Gregory
Carro as the
judge handed
down the sen-
tence of 8⅓ to
25 years for
causing the fa-
tal accident in
February 2014.
State Su-
preme Court in
William Pena Manhattan was
packed with
members of the transit workers’
union and relatives of the driver,
William Pena. Some wept bitterly
as they spoke of the loss of a loving
man and urged the judge to take a
hard line.
“Clearly you made a series of
extremely poor choices,” Justice
Carro told Mr. Whilby.
The defendant’s decisions ap-
peared to be fueled not only by al-
cohol, the judge said, but also by
unbridled anger. “Alcohol and an-
ger,” he said. “That mixture never
ends well. Never.”
In March, a jury found Mr.
Whilby, a forklift operator from
Griffin, Ga., guilty of aggravated
vehicular homicide, second-de-
Nancy Rodriguez, the longtime companion of Mr. Pena, asked
the court to give Mr. Whilby the longest sentence possible.
gree manslaughter, vehicular
manslaughter and reckless en-
dangerment after a trial in State
Supreme Court in Manhattan. The
jury acquitted him of the top
charge of second-degree murder.
The case turned largely on
whether Mr. Whilby was too
drunk to understand his actions or
to form the intent in his mind nec-
essary to commit a crime.
Mr. Whilby had gotten drunk on
Feb. 11, 2014, while in the city vis-
iting his uncle, the model Tyson
Beckford. The two men attended a
fashion show and went to a birth-
day party for Mr. Beckford’s girl-
friend at an upscale restaurant.
They ended the night at 1 Oak, a
Chelsea club favored by athletes
and celebrities.
Mr. Whilby told detectives that
BRYAN R. SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
he consumed six to eight vodka
tonics during the night. The last
thing he remembered was leaving
a nightclub to get some air and be-
ing prevented from re-entering by
bouncers, his lawyer said. Wit-
nesses, however, said that Mr.
Whilby was ejected from the club
without his jacket after knocking
over a table.
For the next two hours, he wan-
dered the surrounding streets in
frigid weather. He went into two
hotels, falling asleep in the hall-
way of one of them, and tried to
climb into an off-duty taxi. He also
sought shelter in an apartment
building, according to witnesses
and surveillance cameras.
Then, at 5:22 a.m. on Feb. 12, Mr.
Whilby stole an 18,000-pound
commercial truck from a hotel
BRYAN R. SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
loading dock, running into a car
and a truck as he barreled out onto
the street. A few minutes later, he
ran a red light at 14th Street and
Seventh Avenue and slammed
into a crosstown bus being driven
by Mr. Pena, 49, a 17-year veteran
of the Metropolitan Transporta-
tion Authority. Mr. Pena was
thrown through the windshield
and killed. Mr. Whilby also injured
a man on a motor scooter, a coffee
vendor, a passer-by and a pas-
senger on the bus.
On Tuesday, Mr. Whilby’s law-
yer, Laura M. Miranda, urged the
judge to be lenient, portraying Mr.
Whilby as a recovering alcoholic
who had drunk to drown depres-
sion and anxiety. She said he had
blacked out and was too inebriat-
ed to make conscious decisions.
But the lead prosecutor, Ran-
dolph Clarke Jr., said Mr. Whilby
had acted with clear goals in mind
and ignored the risks to other peo-
ple, hitting other cars and a scoot-
er before colliding with the city
bus.
“He is not a brooding, tortured
soul but a party machine who took
a truck and turned it into an in-
strument of death,” Mr. Clarke
said. “He refused to be denied, de-
terred or stopped by anyone or
anything.”
Just before sentencing, Mr.
Whilby, who has already been in
jail for three years, apologized to
the Pena family and said he
prayed for their pain to be eased.
“Never once did I say it’s not my
fault,” he said. “I always knew that
there must be consequences for
my actions.”
Three Men Face Charges
In ’15 Robbery of Ex-Knick
By ALAN FEUER
Three men, described by fed-
eral prosecutors as members of an
armed robbery crew, were
charged on Tuesday with taking
part in the early morning shooting
and robbery of the former New
York Knicks forward Cleanthony
Early in 2015, after he left a strip
club in Queens.
According to court papers filed
in Federal District Court in Brook-
lyn, the three men — Johan
Antney, 26, of Queens, and
Dashawn Tejada, 26, and
Shaqueel Walker, 25, both of
Brooklyn — drove in separate ve-
hicles to the CityScapes Gentle-
men’s Club in the Maspeth section
of Queens, early on Dec. 30, 2015.
Once they arrived, the papers
said, the men “were informed of
the presence of professional bas-
ketball players in the club” and
waited in their cars until Mr. Early,
26, left with a girlfriend and
climbed into a gray Toyota Camry
driven by an Uber driver.
Prosecutors said that after fol-
lowing the Camry for about a mile,
the three men boxed it in with
their own cars, forcing it stop in
the middle of the road. The men —
wearing ski masks and two carry-
ing small semiautomatic guns —
got out of their cars and ordered
Mr. Early to get out of his, the au-
thorities said. According to the
court papers, Mr. Early was
robbed of two cellphones, several
necklaces and the gold caps from
his teeth, and was shot in the knee
by Mr. Tejada. His companion was
unharmed, and nothing was taken
from her. After the robbery, the
defendants fled.
The crime occurred at an odd
moment for the National Basket-
ball Association, which just the
week before had thrown the
weight of its valuable brand be-
hind an advertising campaign
calling for an end to gun violence,
aligning itself with a group
founded by then Mayor Michael
R. Bloomberg, who had pushed for
stricter limits on firearm sales.
It was not until April 2016 that
city detectives and agents from
the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
Firearms, Tobacco and Explo-
sives made a break in the case, ar-
resting another Brooklyn man,
Delvon Dowling, who later con-
fessed to taking part in the attack.
Mr. Dowling pleaded guilty to rob-
bery charges in Brooklyn last
month. Prosecutors said that in-
vestigators were still searching
for two more possible suspects.
The attack on Mr. Early, who
was waived by the Knicks in Octo-
ber 2016 and played in the N.B.A.
Development League this season,
was not the only one that the men
committed that night, prosecutors
said. According to the court pa-
pers, they had also robbed some-
one outside a barbershop in
Queens, using the same tactic of
surrounding their victim and
brandishing a gun. Two weeks
earlier, the crew had robbed an-
other victim who was sitting in a
CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleanthony Early was shot
during a theft in Queens.
parked car outside a nightclub in
Manhattan, the papers said. And
the month before, Mr. Tejada and
an unnamed partner took part in
an armed robbery of a victim who
was parked outside of CityScapes.
During all of those attacks, Mr.
Antney was on parole after serv-
ing a three-year sentence in con-
nection with a 2012 conviction for
attempted burglary. Mr. Tejada,
the court papers said, currently
has two gun cases pending in
State Supreme Court in Brooklyn,
one of which involved the Novem-
ber 2011 shooting of a German
tourist. Mr. Walker has no prior
criminal convictions, but the court
papers said that a bench warrant
had been issued against him in
Carbon County, Pa., for failing to
appear in court on charges con-
nected to the possession of bur-
glary tools.
All three men pleaded not guilty
at their arraignment in Brooklyn
on Tuesday. Magistrate Judge Ra-
mon E. Reyes Jr. ordered them
held without bail.

Jean Stein, Vivid Chronicler of Fame,
Wealth and Influence, Dies at 83
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Jean Stein, a child of Hollywood
wealth whose restless curiosity
led her to produce oral histories
about Robert F. Kennedy, the
tragic Warhol star Edie Sedgwick
and a group of people and families
who transformed Los Angeles,
died on Sunday in Manhattan. She
was 83.
Her daughter Katrina vanden
Heuvel, the editor and publisher
of The Nation, said her mother
had died in a fall from her 15th
floor apartment at 10 Gracie
Square, on the East Side of Man-
hattan. She had been suffering
from depression, Ms. vanden
Heuvel said. The police said they
were investigating the death as a
suicide.
Ms. Stein, whose father was a
founder of the entertainment gi-
ant MCA, found a vivid subject in
Ms. Sedgwick, an heiress from a
patrician family whose downfall
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esting writers mixed up with trou-
blemakers. She had Daniel Ells-
berg with Adlai Stevenson, or an
ex-general with war protesters.
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had a fistfight there.”
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eclectic mix when she was the edi-
tor and publisher of Grand Street,
a quarterly literary journal, from
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riages — to Mr. vanden Heuvel, a
former American diplomat, and
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biologist who was a co-recipient of
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EDITORIALS LETTERS

The State Department Deserves Better The ‘Surreal Disarray’ of Donald Trump
TO THE EDITOR: would be “honored” to meet.
Rather than maturing and evolv-
Barring a course change, the State Department is expected His delay in waiting until now to engage them has cost him Re “This President Doesn’t Go by
the (History) Book” (White House ing into a reasoned and prudent
to limp along without most of its senior staff until well into credibility and trust among his troops and fueled anxiety
Memo, front page, May 2): leader, Mr. Trump seems to be
2018. That could be more than a year from now. Even citi- amid hints of an institutional upheaval. devolving into an impetuous and
Donald Trump’s vision of Ameri-
zens who are deeply jaded about the government must real- Many State Department officials believe that he has can history, in this case his strange willful one who does not under-
ize that with the world in turmoil, it’s dangerous for one of been inaccessible for far too long, cocooning himself with a analysis of Andrew Jackson’s stand the history of our country, or
the departments most responsible for managing the chaos small group of aides in a process that deprived him of hear- settling the problem of the Civil learn from it. Mr. Trump’s recent
to be treading water. War, strikes me as the perfect behavior makes it abundantly
ing a broader range of views and policy options. Mr. Tiller-
That apparently is what you get when Rex Tillerson, window into his political world- clear that character and tem-
son’s stumbles have been many, including statements that perament really do matter.
the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil who has no gov- view.
conflicted with other administration comments on Syria and He puts outsize individuals at
ernment experience, becomes secretary of state. President KEN DEROW, SWARTHMORE, PA.
Iran and initially failing to meet with employees who staff the center (Andrew Jackson in the
Trump and others have long rhapsodized about the value of American embassies while he was on overseas trips. 19th century; Vladimir Putin,
bringing business skills to government. However valuable TO THE EDITOR:
Until the administration gets Senate confirmations of Rodrigo Duterte and others to-
these skills are, running a business is day); garbles many of the details; Re “Trump Overture to North
the political positions it decides to keep, professional di-
not the same as leading the free world emphasizes deal-making as the Korea Is Full of Risks” (front page,
One of the plomats and civil servants are filling the jobs on an acting way to solve all problems; and May 2):
agencies most in an era of multiple, complex crises.
basis. Mr. Tillerson said he has been pleased with their per- reveals a startling ignorance about With regard to President
responsible for Three months into his tenure, Mr.
formance, even though temporary holdovers often don’t feel underlying issues or principles. Trump’s willingness to meet with
trying to give Tillerson has done almost nothing to se- people such as Rodrigo Duterte of
fully empowered and part of the decision-making. His belief that the wealthy, slave-
order to a world lect nominees for the White House to Serving an inexperienced and erratic president re- holding Andrew Jackson could the Philippines and Kim Jong-un of
in turmoil needs consider for nearly 200 State Depart- quires Mr. Tillerson to spend time developing a close rela- have stopped Southern states from North Korea, I would ask how the
to have a stable ment jobs that require Senate confirma- seceding over the issue of slavery United States’ superior and some-
tionship with the White House. And while Congress seems shows the same blindness about what childish policy of having no
senior staff. tion, The Times’s Gardiner Harris re-
ported. No other federal department is likely to reject the dangerous budget cuts Mr. Trump envi- core beliefs as his embrace of Mr. consort with the leaders of regimes
sions, it makes sense for a new secretary to evaluate Duterte, the Philippine dictator. that behave in ways contrary to
as dependent on political appointees, meaning State is
whether the department’s structure is the one needed to re- our values has done anything to
uniquely affected by such foot-dragging. And even if Mr. NINA SILBER, NEEDHAM, MASS.
change their ways.
Tillerson named all his choices tomorrow, the confirmation spond to current challenges.
The writer is a professor of Civil War In fact, I would guess that for
process usually takes months and months. Mr. Tillerson’s laid-back approach to filling top manage- history at Boston University. someone like Kim Jong-un, our
Mr. Tillerson has no plans to start selecting his choices ment positions, especially the workhorse jobs of assistant disapproving posture may have
for top jobs anytime soon. He told NPR that he first wants to secretary, is nevertheless risky. North Korea, Russia and TO THE EDITOR: exacerbated his aggressive stance.
embark on a departmentwide listening mission to hear what China are getting a lot of top-level attention, but who’s I don’t see how sitting down leader
I was concerned before about to leader with someone considered
his diplomats and civil servants have to say. That effort will watching out for Afghanistan or the Balkan region, which is President Trump’s state of mind a rogue and talking to him trans-
start Wednesday morning, when he has scheduled a general showing signs of unraveling after two decades of American and thinking process, but now I’m lates into an uncritical embrace of
meeting with department employees. leadership helped restore some stability? really worried. The president over
his behavior, or an abandonment of
Many State Department employees will relish the Mr. Tillerson may not have wanted to be secretary, but the last few days has made one
our own principles.
bizarre statement after another,
chance to finally hear from the secretary on how he plans to he accepted the job and bears responsibility for how he car-
moving one presidential historian, ANNE MINICH, NEW YORK
restructure the department in light of Mr. Trump’s demand ries it out. He needs the best possible permanent team to Douglas Brinkley, to refer to a
for draconian budget cuts, and to tell him what they think. help him. “surreal disarray” and “among the TO THE EDITOR:
most bizarre recent 24 hours in
“President Abruptly Ends CBS
American presidential history.”
Interview After Question About
Some political analysts are con-

Mr. Trump’s Excellent Idea: Raise the Gas Tax

Wiretaps” (news article, May 2)
cerned about his seeming mental
notes that the White House on
confusion, as Mr. Trump appears to
Monday released a 30-second
be detached from reality and his-
political advertisement.
Every once in a while, President Trump says something that tory (for example, the Civil War
This must be the first time in our
really makes sense, as when he suggested on Monday rais- could have been avoided if Andrew
nation’s history that a sitting presi-
ing the federal gasoline tax to help pay for his infrastructure Jackson had been president). His
dent, just a few months after
flagrant and frequent flip-flops and
plan. Hold on to that thought, Mr. President. It’s a great idea. taking office, feels the need to
cavalier choice of words are highly
The federal fuel tax — 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline advertise on TV to convince voters
disturbing.
and 24.4 cents for diesel – was supposed to pay to fix and ex- that he knows what he is doing.
Mr. Trump is still expressing
All available evidence points to
pand the country’s roads and transit systems, but Congress admiration and appreciation for
the fact that this man is far beyond
has refused to increase it since 1993. Between inflation and strongmen around the world. He
his skill, intelligence, wisdom and
the higher fuel economy of cars, the tax is hardly up to the has praised Vladimir Putin of
administrative abilities in this role.
Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
job. Highway-related tax revenue was only $37.4 billion in No amount of TV ads will convince
Turkey, Rodrigo Duterte of the
the 2015 fiscal year. any thinking American that we are
Philippines and even the brutal
Small wonder then that many of the country’s roads and erratic dictator of North Ko- in good hands with Donald
rea, Kim Jong-un, who he says is a Trump’s fake leadership.
and transit systems are somewhere between shoddy and
falling apart. The American Society of Civil Engineers re- “pretty smart cookie” whom he JAMES SHANNON, ST. PAUL

cently gave the country’s roads a grade of D and transit sys-

tems a D-. It said the poor state of the roads cost the country
$160 billion in time and fuel in 2014. And the country’s transit
systems have a $90 billion repair backlog, according to a
government report published in January.
Nobody really knows how serious Mr. Trump was when
he floated the idea of raising the gas tax in an interview with
Bloomberg News. His press secretary, Sean Spicer, realizing
that the president might have touched the third rail of na-
tional Republican politics, quickly tried to scale back his
comment, saying Mr. Trump was not endorsing a gas tax in-
crease but merely considering it because the trucking indus-
try had asked him to look into it. Still, even the fact that Mr.
Trump is considering an increase is encouraging.
A higher gas tax is one way to help pay for Mr. Trump’s
$1 trillion infrastructure plan without increasing the federal
deficit. It would benefit Americans by shortening their com-
mutes, creating jobs and reducing costs for car repairs.
Businesses would be able to ship raw materials and goods
faster. All of that would bolster economic growth, which is
probably why, in addition to truckers, the United States
Chamber of Commerce and AAA support an increase.
Many states, tired of waiting for Washington, have
raised fuel taxes. Just last month, lawmakers in California,
Indiana, Montana and Tennessee voted for increases. Alto-
gether, 21 states have done so since 2013, according to the
American Road & Transportation Builders Association. But
states cannot do the job alone. Many large infrastructure
Time for Global Action to Stop Overfishing
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “China’s Appetite Pushes Fish
Stocks to Brink” (front page, April
30):
Few better examples cry out for
effective decision-making — and
the forums in which to make and
enforce those decisions — than
overfishing. Fully 90 percent of the
WREN MCDONALD world’s fisheries are exploited or
facing collapse; the consequences
projects cross state lines and involve multiple modes of for food security, economic well-
being and political stability are
transportation, like road, freight rail and mass transit,
catastrophic.
putting them beyond the capacity of individual states. The United States has made
Of course, there are substantial political obstacles to in- progress, in its waters, because the
creasing the tax. Many conservatives, including the House National Oceanic and Atmospheric
speaker, Paul Ryan, and the anti-tax ideologue Grover Administration regulates fishing
Norquist, oppose the idea. and, often with the cooperation of
local fishermen, takes action to
Mr. Trump has, so far, shown little interest in or aptitude limit the catch where overfishing is
for the kind of effort that gets legislation through Congress. occurring. As a result, the stock
He could seek some inspiration by looking to President Ron- increases, and there is more fish
for everyone.
ald Reagan, who in 1982 persuaded Congress to pass a 5-cent-
On a global level, an organiza-
a-gallon increase in the fuel tax. “The cost to the average mo-
tion to perform that role, with the
torist will be small,” Reagan said, “but the benefit to our
cooperation of governments, is
transportation system will be immense.” critical. The United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization could
do the job if it is properly charged,
receives the support of the entire
body and is sufficiently funded to
perform those duties.
LINDA STAMATO
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
The writer is co-director of the Center
for Negotiation and Conflict Resolu-
tion, Bloustein School of Planning and
Public Policy at Rutgers University.
TO THE EDITOR:
It is not only China’s appetite for
fish, but also our own appetite for
Chinese-caught fish that is contrib-
uting to the depletion of worldwide
fish stocks.
I have been dismayed for several
years that much of the frozen fish
available at the supermarket is
labeled “product of China.” The
Chinese state subsidizes the over-
fishing, and we are subsidizing the
whole works by buying the prod-
uct.
JENNIFER ESH, MILWAUKEE

Two Last Rules Worth Saving From the G.O.P. Hamas and Israel
TO THE EDITOR:
Abuse in Private Schools
TO THE EDITOR:
There’s only about a week to go before time runs out on fast- gress who receive campaign contributions from those inter- Re “Hamas Tempers Extreme Re “Ex-Headmasters Step Aside
track procedures that congressional Republicans have been ests. But its value is indisputable. Capturing methane keeps Stances in Bid for Power” (front After Choate Abuse Report” (news
using to repeal regulations finalized in the last months of the the air cleaner and reduces emissions of a powerful green- page, May 2): article, April 29):
The story of a new Hamas state- While I applaud the continued
Obama administration. But still more damage could be in house gas that contributes to global warming. It would have ment of principles, with all the fuss coverage of the child sexual abuse
store. the support of most Americans, who — regardless of party and anticipation, is much ado scandal at Choate Rosemary Hall, I
So far, President Trump has signed 13 repeal measures affiliation — tell pollsters that measures to restrict emis- about nothing. On the core of am perplexed that attention is not
passed by Congress, harming worker safety, environmental sions are good solutions to climate and pollution problems. Hamas’s attitudes and policies being drawn to the fact that in New
protection and consumer privacy. To put that number into And it could be a benefit for industry, since the captured toward Israel, nothing has York State, private school adminis-
changed. trators do not have to make a
perspective, before now, Congress had revoked only one methane can be sold on the market. After Colorado carried For Hamas, there is only one report to the law enforcement
rule using the fast-track process — in 2001. out a similar rule, natural gas production increased. legitimate authority in the Holy authorities if a child is sexually
Now the fates of two important protections remain Preserving these rules would allow Senate Republicans Land. Israel, according to this abused by a teacher, a staff mem-
threatened as the Senate decides whether to follow the lead to show they have some concerns for the needs of real peo- document, has no rights, no his- ber or a volunteer.
tory, no connection and no future.
of the House and vote to repeal them. ple. The regulatory rollbacks passed by Congress and A bill (A. 5371/S. 4342) that
Hamas’s mention of a sovereign
One of them allows states to establish payroll-deduction signed by President Trump so far have favored broad corpo- would ensure that these protec-
state based on the pre-1967 lines
retirement accounts for private-sector workers who have no rate interests or narrow special interests at the expense of tions for the 475,000 children at-
would be meaningful if it were
tending private schools, and one
retirement coverage at work. human health, safety and security. For example, one of the accompanied by recognition of
Israel and its legitimacy. Instead, that my agency helped write, has
Another makes energy companies limit harmful emis- four major environmental reversals undid a rule that would been passed by the Senate Chil-
Hamas notes that it “rejects any
sions of methane, the main component of natural gas. have required coal companies to keep toxic debris from alternative to the full and complete dren and Families Committee but
The retirement regulation, which allows states to pro- mountaintop mining out of waterways. One of four reversals liberation of Palestine, from the has stalled in the Education Com-
vide millions of employees with a convenient, low-cost way of labor-related rules stopped a regulation that would have river to the sea.” mittee in the Assembly.
And Hamas still justifies vio- It is dumbfounding that there is
to save for retirement, is also consistent with Republicans’ required federal contractors to disclose labor law violations
lence, meaning terrorism against a double standard of reporting
traditional support for states’ rights. So, repealing the rule when bidding for government work. A gun-control rule to child sexual abuse. Children in
the people of Israel.
would violate both the interest of the people and Republi- ensure that mentally incapacitated people would be flagged Hamas remains a purveyor of private schools must have the
cans’ own professed ideology — in order to curry favor with in background checks for firearms purchases was reversed, terrorism, rejectionism and anti- same protections as children in the
big financial firms that fear competition. as was a rule to prohibit internet companies from collecting Semitism, before and after this public schools. Let’s not read about
The vote to repeal the retirement rule, which could and selling customers’ data without their permission. document. another scandal; let’s take action
to prevent it!
come as soon as Wednesday, will be close, with Vice Presi- The Republican-controlled Congress and Mr. Trump JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT
NEW YORK MARY L. PULIDO, NEW YORK
dent Mike Pence possibly having to cast a tiebreaking vote have made their point about deregulation — and Americans
— a dubious victory. will have to live with their decisions. If they spare the two The writer is chief executive and The writer is executive director of the
The rule to curb methane is opposed by powerful oil remaining rules on their hit list, corporate America would do national director of the Anti-Defama- New York Society for the Prevention of
tion League. Cruelty to Children.
and gas interests, and, not surprisingly, by many in Con- just fine and the American people would be helped.

Jackson,
Trump and
Ourselves
Jane Coaston
P
RESIDENT TRUMP believes in
the “great man” theory of history.
Specifically, he believes that a
great man, a man like President
Andrew Jackson, could have stopped the
American Civil War. In an interview with
Salena Zito, a reporter for The Washing-
ton Examiner, on Sirius XM’s “Main
Street Meets the Beltway,” Mr. Trump
said: “Had Andrew Jackson been a little
later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil
War. He was a very tough person, but he
had a big heart, and he was really angry
that he saw what was happening with re-
gard to the Civil War. He said, ‘There’s no
reason for this.’ ”
Setting aside the fact that Jackson died
on June 8, 1845, 16 years before the first
shells were fired on Fort Sumter in South
Carolina — and thus said markedly little
on the subject of the Civil War — it is
clear that Mr. Trump believes in Andrew
Jackson. He sees similarities in himself
with the seventh president: Both are
presidential swashbucklers and
populists. Their hardscrabble roots may
differ, but their attitudes do not.
And so Mr. Trump believes that the
Civil War could have been prevented had
his 19th-century avatar been alive to take
a stand. We also learned from Jon
Meacham, the presidential historian,
that Mr. Trump once boasted that he
could have done a deal to avert the Civil
War.
Many of us believe this. Not about An-
drew Jackson necessarily — the relative
historical merits of eliminating the Bank
of the United States don’t quite stand up
to the horrors committed as a result of
his Indian removal policy, and the Civil
War was almost inevitable even before
We all want to believe
that we could have
changed history.
Jackson’s presidency. But we believe
that history, in its ebbs and flows, could
have been altered for the better by just
one strong person. And quite often, we
imagine that person is us.
We may not believe that Jackson could
have stopped the Civil War, but we be-
lieve that we would have stood alone
against the crushing tides of Adolf
Hitler’s Third Reich or the worst of South
Africa’s apartheid. We would have shep-
herded Freedom Riders across the
American South and taken on the dogs
and water hoses of Eugene Connor,
known as Bull. Our movies tell stories of
those who resisted the worst of human-
ity, and we see ourselves on those
screens. We believe that we are better to-
day than those who lived before us, more
able to take the challenges of history
head-on.
And yet, if history is our guide, we are
often not. Most people did not stand up to
the Nazis as they marched into
Czechoslovakia and Poland and Belgium
and France. Fifty-seven percent of
Americans polled by Gallup in 1961 re-
sponded that lunch counter sit-ins and
other forms of peaceful protest would
hinder the attempts of black Americans
to achieve full equality. A vast majority of
people, regardless of country or creed or
time period, want only to live their lives
and protect their families, to be left alone,
historical resonance be damned. Order,
not righteousness, is our most cherished
value, no matter what we tell ourselves.
But we don’t honor and remember or-
der. We want heroes, not because we
need them, but because we believe that
we would be them ourselves if things
were only different, if we weren’t so busy,
if the right time came. When we select
heroes, we then reject them, casting
them off our self-constructed Mount
Olympus for doing what we almost cer-
tainly would have done in their position.
We are no better than the people who
came before us, heroes or not. We are
more knowledgeable, but not necessar-
ily more moral. We can operate technol-
ogy that would have boggled even the
greatest minds of the early 20th century,
but we are still human, still desiring most
of all to be left alone. We each have our
own Andrew Jacksons, our Martin Lu-
ther Kings, our great men and great
women of history, but we are not them.
Not now. Perhaps not ever.
Fortunately, history does not move on
the machinations of a select group of
great people. It moves on the small
movements of a great many individuals.
For example, think of the thousands of
abolitionists, the millions who voted for
President Abraham Lincoln, and those
who moved West and changed the calcu-
lus of slave versus free states.
We are among those individuals; our
politics, our decisions, our very words
will set us on a course of history we can-
not possibly begin to predict. History
happens while we’re not paying atten-
tion, even while we’re rehashing the his-
tory of something else.
We do not need to be Andrew Jackson
(or, ideally, someone far less likely to
commit crimes against humanity). We
do not need to wait for a hero of our own
making, either. We are what we’ve long
awaited, the mover and shaper of his-
tory, the decider of our fate. If the arc of
history bends toward justice, it is not
bent by the greatest of us — but by the
rest. 0 this benchmark alone, Ueli Steck was the
JANE COASTON is a writer for MTV News
in Washington.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
Chaos Looms Over Venezuela
Hugo Prieto
CARACAS, VENEZUELA
T
HIS episode took place on my
street in downtown Caracas last
week. People were shouting, run-
ning past my building, trying to
escape from a contingent of national
guardsmen who had opened fire a block
away with buckshot, rubber bullets and
tear gas canisters on a peaceful demon-
stration outside the offices of PDVSA, the
state-owned oil company.
One protester, a woman in her 60s,
sought refuge from the tear gas by hiding
behind a tree. We opened the door for her,
but she wasn’t too happy about taking
shelter; she felt that she was shirking her
duty as a citizen by not facing the attack-
ers openly. “We can’t do anything if we’re
dead, Missus,” said a young man who ob-
viously sympathized with her. “And
they’re starving us to death, so nobody
can stop me going out on to the streets to
protest,” the woman said.
That’s what’s new in the protests taking
place in Venezuela — the conviction that
the 21st-century socialism begun by for-
mer President Hugo Chávez has failed
and has left the country in ruins. And
there are other, darker new elements in-
volved — police brutality, mass detentions
and the use of paramilitary groups armed
by the government to carry out the dirty
work the military doesn’t want to handle:
murdering people.
The demonstrations multiplied across
the country. Hundreds of thousands of
people have taken to the streets, knowing
they face armed repression, because they
have realized that the institutions that
make democracy work are in grave dan-
ger and that they must defend themselves
against a despotic government. What
awakened them was the declaration made
early last month by the attorney general,
Luisa Ortega Díaz, concerning two resolu-
tions, 154 and 155, issued by the Supreme
Court’s constitutional division that in ef-
fect voided the National Assembly. She de-
Falling Off the Edge
Michael Wejchert
NORTH CONWAY, N.H.
T
HE Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck was
probably the best mountain
climber in the world. In a sport
where a willingness to take risks
is as crucial as fitness, he combined an
Olympian’s physique and a calculated dar-
ing few could rival.
His death this weekend at age 40 — on a
training foray on the Nepalese Himalayan
mountain Nuptse, which neighbors
Mount Everest — came when he fell
around 3,000 feet while climbing alone.
The equipment and terminology of con-
ventional climbing are often difficult to
convey to the layman. Solo climbing —
which Steck excelled at — is not. It’s as
dangerous as it looks. There is no trick of
the light, no specialized piece of gear. A
mistake is fatal. The more difficult the
climb, the more practiced and disciplined
the climber should be.
Soloists can look at it one of two ways.
Either the risk decreases with years of
dedicated practice, or more simply, the
more one undertakes dangerous climbs
alone, the greater the chance of an acci-
dent. The long list of great mountaineers
who have been killed climbing alone
points toward the latter argument. As
Steck put it in a 2016 video, “The risk is
constantly there — and you deal with it.”
As satellite phones, helicopter access
and a lack of virgin terrain squeeze the un-
known and unexpected out of
mountaineering, alpinists have had to
fight for relevancy. Many have transi-
tioned into completing classic climbs as
quickly as possible. Steck, who often ran
up difficult routes in little more than tights
and a headband, could easily have been
mistaken for a distance runner or Nordic
skier. But try as mountaineering might to
masquerade as a traditional endurance
sport, the risks remain, increasing as gear
is stripped away.
Speed is an easily quantifiable thing.
And if mountaineers were measured by
greatest in history. He climbed the Eiger’s
infamous North Face in 2 hours 22 min-
utes, sprinting up the 6,000-foot-high
nounced the ruling as “breaking the
thread of constitutional continuity,” words
that were translated into a rallying cry for
the protesters: “Maduro, coup-monger!
We didn’t say so — the attorney general
said so!”
In over a month of protests, 29 people
have been killed, and there have been over
1,200 arbitrary detentions, according to
human rights organizations and the
prosecutor’s office. President Nicolás
Maduro’s government went from autocra-
cy to dictatorship in just a few weeks. To-
day, it’s only a step away from tyranny. But
the people aren’t giving up. They’re no
longer afraid. At long last, liberty and de-
mocracy have become an existential
struggle, a matter of life and death.
Lacking the leadership skills of Mr.
Chávez or the unconditional support of his
own followers, Mr. Maduro has given
more and more power to the military.
Liberty and democracy
have become an
existential struggle.
When he appears in public, he seems er-
ratic and disoriented. Over 80 percent of
Venezuelans reject his administration.
But the Chavista ruling class is in denial
over its failure, which springs from its own
ineptitude.
The opposition has been firm in its de-
mands: Open a channel for distributing
food and medicine to alleviate the people’s
suffering; restore the National Assem-
bly’s constitutional roles; set a timetable
for elections; and free political prisoners.
For the government, agreeing on even one
of these points would be like opening a
tiny crack that would soon turn into an
enormous hole through which its control
would slip away.
The greatest fear of Chavismo has al-
ways been the revolt of its own electoral
base: the impoverished segments of the
“Wall of Death” in the time it takes to run a
fast marathon. In 2015, he climbed all 82 of
the peaks in the Alps 4,000 meters or
higher. (That’s 13,123 feet.) It took him 62
days, including the time spent biking and
paragliding between mountains.
His legendary endurance, bolstered by
years of physical training, earned him the
nickname the Swiss Machine, and show-
cased what a talented mountain climber
could do if given the time and funding to
prepare like an endurance athlete. He
challenged the image of the beer-swilling
mountaineer; here was a honed engine
who ran on a Spartan diet and planned his
ascents down to the move. Preparation
trumped danger, or so it seemed.
The availability of Steck’s feats on
YouTube and Vimeo helped bring
mountaineering out of the doldrums.
Watching alpine climbing now felt as fast
and exciting as viewing tennis or soccer.
Ueli Steck pushed the
limits of alpine climbing.
And while the American company Clif Bar
canceled its sponsorship of several
climbers because of discomfort with the
risks they were taking, Steck’s European
sponsors, like Audi, gave him free rein.
Like many of his more traditional ath-
letic counterparts, Steck had his share of
controversial moments. Having ascended
Everest in 2012 without supplemental oxy-
gen, he returned in 2013 with a more ambi-
tious plan, to climb both Everest and a
neighboring peak, Lhotse, in one push. On
the way up, Steck, the Italian climber Si-
mone Moro and the photographer Jon
Griffith passed a group of Sherpas who
were fixing ropes low on Mount Everest.
In doing so, the trio violated an under-
standing held by the Sherpas and Western
guides on the mountain that no one would
climb until the ropes were in place. Steck
and his team had no use for the safety of a
fixed rope; they wished to sprint by. In the
ensuing confrontation, Moro hurling an
insult at the Sherpas didn’t help.
When the climbers returned to camp,
IRENE RINALDI
population who saw in President Chávez a
quasi-religious figure who would redeem
them. The most radical change under
Chavismo was to place “el pueblo” — his
label for the poor — at the center of
Venezuelan politics. In return, “el pueblo”
kept Mr. Chávez the indisputable master
of power from 1999 to his death in 2013.
The people of Petare — Latin America’s
most heavily populated shantytown, with
1.2 million inhabitants — joined the
protests on April 20, when they met vio-
lent repression and clouds of tear gas ex-
tending the length of Caracas’s main traf-
fic artery, the Autopista del Este. Their
slogan was “Listen, Maduro, we’re from
Petare. Do your worst, do your best, you’ll
never, ever, stop our protest.” People from
other low-income quarters of the city, such
as El Valle and La Vega, have also
demonstrated against the government.
The role of Mr. Chávez’s political base in
the demonstrations is unclear, but it could
mark the beginning of the end of Mr.
Maduro’s government.
Is there a way out of this labyrinth? The
possibility of a negotiated transition satis-
factory to the opposition is negligible,
even more at a time when Mr. Maduro has
called for a constituent assembly to re-
write the constitution. But there is still a
small window for dialogue. If that doesn’t
happen, the alternative would be a mili-
tary intervention to install a national unity
government that would organize free and
fair elections — in essence, the plebiscite
that Mr. Maduro refuses to hold. Although
it is dangerous to allow the military to mix
in political matters, it has happened be-
fore in Venezuela; in 1958, a civic-military
alliance toppled the dictatorship of Mar-
cos Pérez Jiménez. There is also the risk of
a Communist-type dictatorship modeled
on Cuba’s.
It’s an enormous challenge to find a po-
litical solution, but we must try. Without
one, we can hope for only a miracle.
HUGO PRIETO is a Venezuelan reporter
and fiction writer. This essay was trans-
lated by Sonia Berah from the Spanish.
they were confronted by angry Sherpas
who shouted insults and hurled rocks at
their tent. Fearing for their lives, they
hoofed it down the mountain and gave up
their attempt. It is difficult not to think
that Steck’s stature encouraged the ex-
change: a clash of the old and new worlds
of mountaineering.
The second blip in Steck’s career also
occurred in the Himalayas. In 2007, he had
tried a mountain called Annapurna,
whose deadly south face had become a
kind of Grail for talented alpinists, com-
bining sheer technical difficulty with high
altitude. The face had claimed the lives of
several pioneers of Steck’s particular, dan-
gerous game, “fast and light” alpinism.
In 1992, the French alpinist Pierre
Béghin fell to his death, leaving his part-
ner Jean-Christophe Lafaille to descend
the face alone in a harrowing multiday or-
deal. Lafaille, too, was hit by a falling
stone, which broke his arm. Steck at-
tempted the south face in 2007, but was
also hit by rockfall and knocked uncon-
scious. “Only luck,” he later wrote, “kept
me from dying.” In 2013 he returned alone,
finishing the route Lafaille and Béghin
had begun, in 28 hours round-trip.
But doubts swirled around his Anna-
purna climb. Why hadn’t Steck, for whom
the camera and altimeter watch been con-
stant companions, better documented his
ascent? He claimed a small avalanche
wrenched the camera away, and his altim-
eter watch had broken. Ultimately, he
brushed the criticisms aside, letting his
actions on later peaks speak for him.
Solo climbing is a specific undertaking.
You either have a success rate of 100 per-
cent, or zero. Soloists who live into old age
are usually the ones who quit.
Steck was killed before attempting to
link Everest and Lhotse in one marathon
effort — his goal from the 2013 expedition.
Ultimately, speed and training weren’t
enough. Steck will be remembered as the
climber who ushered mountaineering into
its latest modern age. But his death is a
reminder that those on the cutting edge
are still subject to mountaineering’s old-
est companion: tragedy.
MICHAEL WEJCHERT is a climbing guide.
N A27
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Trump: Crazy
Like a Fox,
Or Just Crazy?
HAS THE FIRST 100 days of the presidency
made Donald Trump nuts?
I don’t ask that question as a doctor. I
don’t do medical diagnoses. I ask it as a
newspaper reader. You read all of Trump’s
100-day interviews and they are just bi-
zarre.
Out of nowhere Trump tells us he would
be “honored” to negotiate directly with
the leader of North Korea, after weeks of
threatening war. Out of nowhere he says
he would consider a gasoline tax to pay for
infrastructure. Out of nowhere he says he
is considering breaking up the nation’s
biggest banks. He also insists that his
Obamacare replacement legislation con-
tains protections for people with pre-ex-
isting conditions that it doesn’t.
There’s barely a dictator in the world for
whom he doesn’t have praise. And he re-
peats a known falsehood — that Barack
Obama wiretapped him — and tells
reporters they should go find the truth,
when, as president, he could get the truth
from the F.B.I. with one phone call, and
when pressed whether he stands by that
allegation, answers, “I don’t stand by any-
thing.”
Is this a political strategy unfolding or a
psychiatric condition unfolding? I don’t
know — but it tells me that absolutely any-
thing is possible in the next 100 days —
both good and bad. Trump is clearly capa-
ble of shifting gears and striking any deal
with any party on any issue.
Trump was always going to be an un-
predictable work in progress because he
did no homework before coming to office
— which is why he now tells us that he’s
finding so many problems more difficult
than he anticipated — and because he did-
n’t know most of his cabinet members.
They’re sort of a pickup basketball team,
bound not by a shared vision but by a
shared willingness to overlook Trump’s
Recent comments are
simply bizarre.
core ignorance, instability and indecency
and serve in key jobs as much to restrain
him as to be guided by him.
In his first 100 days, allies and adversar-
ies saved Trump and the country from
some of his most extreme, ill-considered
campaign promises. His foreign policy
team stopped him from tearing up the
Iran nuclear deal and moving the U.S. em-
bassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
North Korea’s missile-loving dictator
saved him from declaring China a cur-
rency manipulator and starting a trade
war with Beijing, because Trump discov-
ered he needed China to restrain North
Korea and avoid a war.
Boeing and General Electric restrained
Trump from getting rid of the Export-Im-
port Bank, which would have left U.S.
exporters at a big disadvantage. The fed-
eral courts prevented him from imposing
his Muslim ban. Border-state Republicans
blocked his Mexico wall and other Repub-
licans are blocking his draconian replace-
ment of Obamacare. U.S. farmers, whose
exports to Mexico have soared since Nafta
0 was signed, dissuaded him from walking
out of that trade deal.
As for the next 100 days, who will pro-
tect us? Myself, I am not counting on the
Democratic Party. It’s too weak. On the is-
sues I care about most, I’m actually count-
ing on California. I believe California’s
market size, aspirational goals and ability
to legislate make it the most powerful op-
position party to Trump in America today.
How so? Trump wants to scrap Obama-
era standards requiring passenger cars to
average about 51 miles a gallon by 2025;
today it’s just under 37 miles a gallon. But
as The Los Angeles Times recently noted,
under the Clean Air Act, California “can
impose emissions standards stronger
than those set by the federal government,
and a dozen other states have embraced
the California rules.”
More than one-third of the vehicles sold
in America are subject to the rules Califor-
nia sets. Trump can deregulate U.S. au-
tomakers to make more gas guzzlers all he
wants, but they can’t if they want to sell
cars in California. Trump can sue, but that
will take years.
Ditto California companies: Apple is
now powering 96 percent of its operations
around the world with renewable energy
— 100 percent in 24 countries — including
the U.S. and China. Trump’s pro-coal —
make-America-cough-again — campaign
will never get Apple back on coal.
Also, notes Energy Innovation founder
Hal Harvey: “California has a renewable
portfolio standard requiring that 50 per-
cent of all electricity come from wind, so-
lar and other renewables by 2030. An-
other 15 percent already comes from exist-
ing nuclear and hydro — so our grid will be
65 percent decarbonized in 13 years.”
As Kevin de León, leader of the Califor-
nia State Senate, told me: California has
far more clean energy jobs than there are
coal jobs in all of America, and California’s
now nation-leading growth rate in jobs
gives the lie to everything Trump says:
You can have gradually rising clean ener-
gy standards, innovation, job creation and
G.D.P. growth — all at the same time.
California is also leading the resistance
to Trump’s draconian immigration poli-
cies, with a web of initiatives embracing
tighter border controls while also creating
health care, education and work opportu-
nities for illegal immigrants who have
been living here responsibly and produc-
tively.
“We have made it very clear — we will
protect our economic prosperity and our
values from Trump,” said de León, whose
Legislature recently hired former Attor-
0 ney General Eric Holder to defend it
against Trump suits. Holder is California’s
(and my) secretary of defense. 0
A28 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
Hubert L. Dreyfus,
Who Put Computing
In Its Place, Dies at 87
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Hubert L. Dreyfus, a philoso-
pher whose 1972 book “What
Computers Can’t Do” made him a
scourge and eventually an inspi-
ration to researchers in artificial
intelligence, died on April 22 at his
home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 87.
The University of California,
Berkeley, where he was a long-
time professor of philosophy, said
the cause was cancer.
Professor Dreyfus became in-
terested in artificial intelligence in
the late 1950s, when he began
teaching at the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. He often
brushed shoulders with scientists
trying to turn computers into rea-
soning machines.
“They said they could program
computers to be intelligent like
people,” he recalled in a 2005 in-
terview with the blog Full-Tilt
Boogie. “They came to my course
and said, more or less: ‘We don’t
need Plato and Kant and
Descartes anymore. That was all
just talk. We’re empirical. We’re
going to actually do it.’”
He added: “I really wanted to
know, could they do it? If they
could, it was very important. If
they couldn’t, then human beings
were different than machines, and
that was very important.”
In 1965, after spending time at
the RAND Corporation, he pub-
lished “Alchemy and Artificial In-
telligence,” a slashing attack on
the work of Allan Newell and Her-
bert A. Simon, two of RAND’s
leading artificial intelligence re-
searchers, and followed with the
equally provocative “What
Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of
Artificial Reason.”
Professor Dreyfus argued that
Kenny Sears taking a shot during a 1958 game at Madison Square Garden. Mr. Sears was a two-time All-Star for the Knicks.
Kenny Sears, 83, Sharpshooting Forward for the Knicks
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Kenny Sears, a two-time All-
Star for the Knicks who was the
first basketball player to appear
on the cover of Sports Illustrated,
in 1954, died on April 23 at his
home in Watsonville, Calif. He was
83.
His wife, Eunice Sears, con-
firmed his death.
Sears, a reedy, 6-foot-9 sharp-
shooting forward, was picked for
the cover of Sports Illustrated,
then a new magazine, before he
began his six full seasons with the
The first basketball
player on the cover of
Sports Illustrated.
Knicks. He was chosen because of
his standout play at Santa Clara
University, where he was twice
named West Coast Conference
player of the year.
In college, he went on three im-
pressive N.C.A.A. tournament
runs with the team, reaching the
Final Four in 1952 and the round of
8 in 1953 and ’54. As a senior, he av-
eraged 22.3 points per game and
was named an all-American.
The Knicks chose him as the
fourth overall pick in the National
Basketball Association draft in
1955. He played with the Hall of
Famers Sweetwater Clifton,
Harry Gallatin, Dick McGuire and
Susan C. Beachy contributed re-
search.
the dream of artificial intelligence
rested on several flawed assump-
tions, chief among them the idea
that the brain is analogous to com-
puter hardware and the mind to
computer software.
In this view, human beings de-
velop an accurate picture of the
world by adding bits of informa-
tion and rearranging them in a
procedure that follows predict-
able rules.
Professor Dreyfus, an adherent
of the French phenomenologist
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the
German philosopher Martin Hei-
degger (he had written seminal
introductory works on both men),
posited a different view of human
beings and their interactions with
the world around them.
There was no objective set of
facts outside the human mind, he
insisted. Human beings experi-
enced learning as a partly physi-
cal interaction with their sur-
roundings, and interpreted the
world, in a process of continual re-
vision, through a socially deter-
mined filter.
Inevitably, he said, artificial in-
telligence ran up against some-
thing called the common-knowl-
edge problem: the vast repository
of facts and information that ordi-
nary people possess as though by
inheritance, and can draw on to
make inferences and navigate
their way through the world.
“Current claims and hopes for
progress in models for making
computers intelligent are like the
belief that someone climbing a
tree is making progress toward
reaching the moon,” he wrote in
“Mind Over Machine: The Power
of Human Intuition and Expertise
in the Era of the Computer”
(1985), a book he collaborated on
Richie Guerin and the All-Stars
Carl Braun and Willie Naulls,
competing against N.B.A. stars
like Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Rus-
sell, Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman.
Sears led the Knicks in scoring
for two seasons, averaging 18.6
points per game in 1957-58 and 21.0
in 1958-59. He was chosen as an
All-Star in 1958 and 1959, and twice
led the N.B.A. in field-goal per-
centage, shooting .490 in the 1958-
59 season and .477 in the next.
But the Knicks struggled dur-
ing the mid- and late 1950s, and
Sears’s only playoff appearance
with the team was in 1959, when it
lost in the first round to the Syra-
cuse Nationals.
“Playing a team like Boston,
who we played, like, a dozen
times, we just couldn’t compete
with them,” Sears said in an article
on the Knicks’ website in 2015.
“And then when Chamberlain
came in the league, we were no-
where.”
The Knicks were 21-58 in the
1960-61 season, and Sears missed
several games after breaking his
jaw in a fistfight with George Lee
of the Detroit Pistons. Frustrated
with the team, he decided to leave
for the San Francisco Saints of the
American Basketball League, Abe
Saperstein’s newly formed com-
petitor to the N.B.A.
The Knicks sued Sears for
breach of contract when he left,
and he filed a countersuit against
the team.
The A.B.L., best known for in-
troducing 3-point scoring for long-
distance baskets, lasted only one
full season. Nothing came of the
lawsuits; they were dropped
when Sears returned to the
with his younger brother Stuart, a
professor of industrial engineer-
ing at Berkeley.
His criticisms were greeted
with intense hostility in the world
of artificial intelligence re-
searchers, who remained confi-
dent that success lay within reach
A philosopher who
believed humans will
always be smarter.
as computers grew more power-
ful.
When that did not happen, Pro-
fessor Dreyfus found himself vin-
dicated, doubly so when research
in the field began incorporating
his arguments, expanded upon in
a second edition of “What
Computers Can’t Do” in 1979 and
“What Computers Still Can’t Do”
in 1992.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Sears in an undated photo.
Knicks in 1962, before the A.B.L.
went out of business.
Sears played only 23 games in
his second stint with the Knicks
before he was traded to the War-
riors, who had just moved to San
Francisco from Philadelphia. He
joined a talented squad built
around Chamberlain, but his best
playing was behind him. He re-
tired after the Warriors reached
the N.B.A. finals in 1964, losing to
the Celtics in five games.
“The game passed me up,” he
told Sports Illustrated. “It became
very physical, a lot of pushing and
shoving, and I didn’t weigh much.”
In his eight-season N.B.A. ca-
reer, Sears averaged 13.9 points
per game with a .455 field goal per-
centage. He scored 7,355 points,
before the N.B.A. instituted 3-
point shots.
Kenneth Robert Sears was born
on Aug. 17, 1933, in Watsonville,
near Monterey Bay, to the former
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus,
known as Bert, was born on Oct.
15, 1929, in Terre Haute, Ind. His fa-
ther, Stanley, was in the wholesale
poultry business, and his mother,
the former Irene Lederer, was a
homemaker.
At Wiley High School, his de-
bate coach encouraged him to ap-
ply to Harvard, which he thought
was in England, because of the
Cambridge address. He was more
interested in a different Cam-
bridge school that he thought
might sharpen his talent for
making homemade explosives
and setting them off by remote
control.
“I wanted to go to M.I.T. be-
cause I figured they would help
me make better bombs,” he said in
an interview at the Institute of In-
ternational Studies at Berkeley in
2005.
In the end, he opted for Har-
vard, where he studied physics
initially but switched majors after
hearing a lecture by the American
philosopher C. I. Lewis.
BETTMANN ARCHIVE
Vivian Drown and Mark Sears,
who worked in agriculture. He
graduated from high school there
before heading to Santa Clara,
where he studied history. He mar-
ried Eunice Schiavon in 1959.
After retiring from the N.B.A.,
Sears owned a bar, then sold cars
and later recreational vehicles. He
and his wife split their time be-
tween California and Puerto Va-
llarta, Mexico, where he fished
and distributed hundreds of bicy-
cles he repaired by hand to local
children.
In addition to his wife, he is sur-
vived by a son, Dante; a daughter,
Debra Barry; three granddaugh-
ters; and three great-grandsons.
Sears wrote in The New York
Journal in 1957 that he had been
very self-conscious about his
height as a child — so shy that he
went on only one date in high
school.
“Basketball was my only emo-
tional outlet,” he wrote. “It
dragged me out of the dark cor-
ners where I’d hidden to avoid
stares.”
He added: “During the
glamorous nights of school proms
and balls, I stayed at home and
read. But I was lonely, and doctors
tell me now that at that point I was
dangerously close to a break-
down.”
He finally felt accepted in 1955,
he wrote, when he received a con-
gratulatory telegram after a stel-
lar performance in an A.A.U. bas-
ketball game after his college sea-
son had ended. The telegram had
been signed by nearly the entire
town of Watsonville, and it was ex-
actly 6 feet 9 inches long.
MICHAEL J. OKONIEWSKI
He received a bachelor’s degree
in philosophy in 1951, writing an
undergraduate thesis on causality
in quantum mechanics, and a
master’s degree in 1952. Before
completing his doctorate in 1964,
with a dissertation on Edmund
Husserl — a philosopher he later
dismissed as “boring” — he spent
fellowships in Freiburg, Ger-
many; Louvain, Belgium; and the
École Normale Supérieure in
Paris, absorbing the latest devel-
opments in Continental philoso-
phy.
After returning to the United
States, he taught at Brandeis Uni-
versity and M.I.T. and translated,
with his first wife, the former Pa-
tricia Allen, Merleau-Ponty’s
“Sense and Non-Sense,” pub-
lished in 1964. He joined the philos-
ophy department at Berkeley in
1968.
His first marriage ended in di-
vorce. In addition to his younger
brother, Stuart, an emeritus pro-
fessor of industrial engineering at
Berkeley, he is survived by his
June LeBell, 73, Female Voice
Of WQXR for Three Decades
By SAM ROBERTS
June LeBell, a professional con-
cert soprano who became one of
the first women to be hired as a
staff announcer and interviewer
in the male-dominated realm of
commercial classical music radio
broadcasting, died on Sunday in
Sarasota, Fla. She was 73.
The cause was ovarian cancer,
her husband, Edward L. Alley,
said.
Ms. LeBell produced, wrote and
hosted programs on WQXR in
New York for nearly three
decades beginning in 1973 after
she learned from the station man-
ager that he was looking to hire a
minority announcer. She recom-
mended a black friend, who tried
out for the job and then rejected it.
Ms. LeBell contacted the pro-
gram manager again and asked,
“What do you have against a nice
white girl?” she told The Braden-
ton Herald in Florida in 2012. He
replied that she had misunder-
stood, and that his meaning of mi-
nority included women.
“He said, ‘I offered it to you but
you turned me down,’ ” Ms. LeBell
recalled.
This time, she accepted.
She became a familiar voice on
the station, hosting “IBM’s Salute
to the Arts” and “Kitchen Clas-
sics,” which coupled her favorite
subjects, music and food.
“She changed the face of classi-
cal music radio in this country
from its former somewhat stodgy
and patrician sound and format to
a warmer, friendly and more con-
versational medium,” Mr. Alley
said in an email. “The ‘smile in her
voice’ was verbal honey for her
millions of listeners.”
Ms. LeBell was 29 when she
joined WQXR, an FM station then
owned by The New York Times
Company, becoming what the sta-
tion described as its first full-time
female host and the first woman
on the staff of any major commer-
cial classical radio station.
She built on the work of trail-
blazers like Gertrude Mittelmann,
who was hired by WQXR in 1940 to
adapt her interpretive “Come
Dance Through the Ages” pro-
WQXR ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS
Hubert L. Dreyfus in 1999.
His book “What Computers
Can’t Do” questioned the pos-
sibility of artificial intelligence.
wife, Geneviève Boissier-Drey-
fus, and their two children,
Stéphane and Gabrielle Dreyfus.
Professor Dreyfus went on to
play a major role in explaining
Continental thought in works like
“Michel Foucault: Beyond
Structuralism and Hermeneutics”
(1982), written with Paul Rabinow,
and “Being-in-the-World: A Com-
mentary on Heidegger’s ‘Being
and Time, Division I’” (1989).
With Mark Wrathall, a professor
of philosophy at the University of
California, Riverside, he edited
numerous guides devoted to ex-
istentialism, phenomenology and
Heidegger’s philosophy.
“It is no exaggeration to say
that, insofar as English speaking
philosophers have any access at
all to thinkers like Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty and Michel Fou-
cault, it is through the interpreta-
tion that Dreyfus originally of-
fered of them,” the Harvard phi-
losophy professor Sean D. Kelly
wrote recently on the philosophy
website Daily Nous.
In later years, he turned his at-
tention to new subjects. With Pro-
fessor Kelly, he wrote a surprise
best seller on literature, “All
Things Shining: Reading the
Western Classics to Find Meaning
in a Secular Age” (2011). In “Skill-
ful Coping: Essays on the Every-
day Phenomenology of Everyday
Perception and Action” (2014), an
essay collection edited by Profes-
sor Wrathall, he employed the in-
sights of phenomenology to ex-
plore nonreflexive action and
ethics.
For his 2006 book “Philosophy:
The Latest Answers to the Oldest
Questions,” Nicholas Fearn
broached the topic of artificial in-
telligence in an interview with
Professor Dreyfus, who told him:
“I don’t think about computers
anymore. I figure I won and it’s
over: They’ve given up.”
grams for radio.
June Wendie LeBell was born
on April 29, 1944, in Manhattan to
Irving LeBell, a pediatrician, and
the former Harriet Adler, a paint-
er.
She graduated from the High
School of Music and Art (now Fio-
rello H. LaGuardia High School of
Music & Art and Performing Arts)
and the Mannes College of Music
in New York and attended the
Hartt College of Music (now the
Hartt School of the University of
Hartford).
After performing profession-
ally as a soprano, she was also the
host of a lecture series, “The
Sound of Broadway,” at the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, and com-
piled a book of recipes from musi-
cians titled “Kitchen Classics
A pioneer among
classical station
announcers.
From the Philharmonic: A Culi-
nary & Musical Celebration of the
150th Anniversary of the New
York Philharmonic” (1992), which
was illustrated by Al Hirschfeld.
After the 2001 attack on the
World Trade Center, a few blocks
from where she lived, she retired
to Florida, where she hosted a reg-
ular public radio program and a
series on music at the Sarasota In-
stitute of Lifetime Learning.
Her marriage, in 2009, to Mr. Al-
ley, who met Ms. LeBell when he
was orchestra manager of the
New York Philharmonic, was her
first. When she was 27, she was
engaged to the violinist Michael
Rabin, who suffered from a
neurological condition and whom
she found dead in his apartment at
age 35 after he had slipped on his
freshly waxed floor and struck his
head.
In addition to Mr. Alley, she is
survived by her sister, Barbara
Joseph.
June LeBell on the
job in an undated
photo. She initially
recommended a
friend for the
opening in the
male-dominated
field of commercial
classical radio.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017

In Turnabout, Indian Outsourcing Company Promises U.S. Jobs

By VINDU GOEL and PAUL MOZUR
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing new corporate de-
mands and political pressure from a Trump adminis-
tration that wants to curb immigrant work visas, In-
fosys, one of India’s leading tech outsourcing com-
panies, said Tuesday that it will hire up to 10,000
Americans to serve its clients in the United States.
The move makes Infosys the latest Asian tech-
nology company to portray itself as a jobs creator as
President Trump threatens to take action against
companies he sees as hurting American workers.
Last month, Mr. Trump signed an executive or-
der directing government agencies to review em-
ployment immigration laws to promote “Hire
American” policies. That included offering sugges-
tions for how to reform the H-1B visa program,
which operates as a lottery to bring skilled foreign
laborers to the United States each year — usually
tech workers.
But Infosys is also making its move to hire
American driven by other forces. Its home base of
India has become a less appealing place to do the
grunt work of programming as wages rise there and
skilled labor has become more difficult to find. A
study of 36,000 engineering students at 500 Indian
colleges released last month found that only 5 per-
cent could write software code correctly.
“Building talent pools that define the future of
America is what we want to do,” said Ravi Kumar S.,
Infosys’s president, in a phone interview from
Indiana.
Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike
Pence, will be the first beneficiary of Infosys’s hire-
American efforts. The company intends to open a
new technology and innovation office in or near In-
dianapolis in August, recruiting 100 new workers
this year and several hundred more next year, with a
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Robots painting a car body at the Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. Fiat Chrysler sales fell 7 percent in April.

An Industry in Reverse
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
For seven years, the steadily expanding
auto industry has helped drive the Ameri-
can economy forward, racking up billions in
profit and paying workers hefty bonuses, all
while consumers flocked to dealerships and
drove sales to record heights.
It is a boom that President Trump has
been counting on to add more jobs. But the
industry’s ability to do so is now in question.
On Tuesday, automakers reported the
fourth straight monthly retreat in sales of
new cars and light trucks, the longest
stretch of declines since 2009, when the in-
dustry was embroiled in crisis and bank-
ruptcies. The slump underscores the view
of many that auto sales have peaked and are
set to trend downward.
“The market is tapped out,” said Adam
Silverleib, vice president of Silko Honda, a
dealership in Raynham, Mass. “It’s no long-
er expanding at the rate the manufacturers
thought it would.”
He added that the more optimistic con-
U.S. auto sales, sumer sentiment recorded since Mr.
Trump’s election “hasn’t translated into
after recession what’s happening in dealerships where
we’re trying to sell cars.”
and recovery, Moreover, the top six automakers in the
American market all reported declines
are in retreat from their April sales a year ago, and in ev-
ery case the falloff exceeded analysts’ fore-
this year. casts. Wall Street took notice: Shares of
Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
were down more than 4 percent, and Gen-
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Microsoft Refocuses Political Risks Growing

On U.S. Classrooms But Investors Stay Put
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. that the persistent rise in stocks
By NICK WINGFIELD and NATASHA SINGER
It has become one of the knot- would continue, regardless of
REDMOND, Wash. — Last week, Satya Nadella, the chief election fears in Europe and con-
tier puzzles on Wall Street.
executive of Microsoft, slipped on a glove made of cardboard cerns here that Mr. Trump might
As political risks have in-
and clenched his hand into a fist, causing a robotic hand with not deliver on his ambitious eco-
creased at home and abroad,
fingers made of drinking straws to mimic his movements. nomic agenda.
complacency among investors
The glove was one of several engineering projects built in has rarely been so widespread. “The pricing of risk is at near
a makeshift laboratory on Microsoft’s campus. The company This trend, which began soon historic lows, and the pricing of
spent the last year talking to thousands of teachers and de- after President Trump’s victory the stock market is at near his-
signing high-tech experiments that require mostly low-cost in November, culminated on toric highs,” said Julian Eman-
parts. It will give the designs to schools for free so teachers Monday, when the VIX index, uel, a stock and derivatives spe-
can use them in their lesson plans. known widely as Wall Street’s cialist at the investment bank
The projects are part of a major push the company an- fear gauge, dipped briefly below UBS. “And all of this at a time
nounced Tuesday at an event in New York to make its prod- 10 — the first time it had done so when political risk is very elevat-
ucts more attractive to school administrators, students and in more than 10 years, in the ed — at home and abroad.”
teachers. The push includes a new version of Microsoft’s Win- months before the financial cri- Since the VIX reached a re-
dows operating system for classrooms, tweaks to its Office sis. cent peak of 22 in the days before
applications and a new Surface laptop for students in a col- The VIX measures investor the election in November, it has
lection of bold colors. expectations that stock markets fallen sharply as equity markets
While the dollars available in the education market are will move sharply up or down. have rallied in the belief that the
compelling enough for big technology companies like Micro- On Tuesday, the VIX turned Continued on Page 4
soft, classrooms also offer an opportunity to make a first im- up, to close at about 10.6 — but
pression on young people who could eventually buy their still sharply lower than its his-
products. IAN C. BATES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
torical average of roughly 20. At Eduardo Porter, whose Eco-
“The second-order effects of education, of being relevant In an effort to regain stature in American schools, Microsoft plans current levels, the VIX reflects a nomic Scene column normally
Continued on Page 2 to share designs for low-cost engineering projects with teachers. striking sense among investors appears on this page, is on leave.
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017

Microsoft Refocuses to Regain Ground in the Classroom

From First Business Page
in education, are going to be very,
very key for us,” Mr. Nadella said
in an interview last week. He add-
ed, “The devices the kids take to
their school, or to their college, is
going to be influenced by what
they were familiar with.”
Microsoft remains a force in
classrooms around the globe. But
the company’s relevance in
schools in the United States is in
jeopardy after years of progress
by Google, whose software domi-
nates sales of new devices in
schools.
Google has gained ground in
public schools by offering a tightly
connected system of free class-
room apps, lower-cost laptops
called Chromebooks and a web-
based console that allows schools
to remotely manage thousands of
student devices.
Industry analysts said
Microsoft’s initiative was the com-
pany’s first credible response to
Google’s recent encroachment
into education.
“I am not going to predict that
they are going to take back the en-
tire market or anything like that,
but this is the best move that I
could have seen them making
against Chromebooks,” said J. P.
Gownder, a technology analyst at
Forrester Research, a market re-

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make an impression
on future consumers.

search company, where Microsoft

is one of his clients.
Some of Microsoft’s moves are
intended to make its products
more appealing to educators by
simplifying them and, in some
ways, restricting them. The new
version of its operating system,
Windows 10 S, will run only appli-
cations that have been vetted by
Microsoft and placed in its online
app store, to prevent students
from downloading software that
could slow the performance of
their computers.
Microsoft has also devised a
way for schools to get new
computers running on a network
quickly, without manually config-
uring each one, by plugging in a
USB memory stick. A Microsoft
management system called In-
tune for Education allows schools
to set further limits on classroom
computers, like locking them
down so students cannot cheat by
surfing the web during tests.
The tools are designed to be
easy enough for teachers to use,
since many schools do not have
dedicated technology administra-
tors. “Sometimes school districts
aren’t managing the devices,” said
Terry Myerson, a Microsoft exec-
utive vice president. “Teachers
are on the front lines of managing
the devices.”
The company is also making full
versions of its Office applications,
rather than more limited web ver-
sions, available to schools for free.
It has modified a version of its
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Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, with projects being developed for schools at the company’s campus in Redmond, Wash., last month.
so teachers can collaborate with
students. It is also waiving the
cost of an educational version of
Minecraft, a popular video game it
owns, for the first year schools use
it.
While much of Microsoft’s focus
is on software that makes using in-
expensive devices — often in the
$200 to $300 range — more palat-
able, the company will also re-
lease a $999 device called the Sur-
face Laptop, a twist on its Surface
tablets. The device will run Win-
dows 10 S.
Tech companies are fiercely
competing for business in prima-
ry and secondary schools in the
United States, a technology mar-
ket expected to reach $21 billion by
2020, according to estimates from
Ibis Capital, a technology invest-
ment firm, and EdtechXGlobal, a
conference company.
It is a matter of some urgency Components for high-tech experiments aimed at middle Karon Weber and her team devise tools to help the com-
for Microsoft. school students at Microsoft’s Hacking STEM lab. pany respond to Google’s successful move into education.
Chromebooks accounted for 58
percent of the 12.6 million mobile
19 percent in the United States last manage and faster to boot up than Education. Consortium, a nonprofit group
devices shipped to primary and
year, from 52 percent in 2012. traditional laptops. Google began to win the class- that promotes transparent pricing
secondary schools in the United
Like Microsoft, Apple is not By contrast, Mr. Gownder of room software wars as well. In for technology sales to schools.
States last year, compared with
less than 1 percent in 2012, accord- taking the Chromebook phenom- Forrester Research said that 2014, the company introduced Officials at Omaha Public
ing to Futuresource Consulting, a enon lying down. Apple recently Microsoft software is so feature- Google Classroom, an app that Schools, which spends about
research company. By contrast, introduced an iPad management rich that technology experts in teachers could use to digitize daily $570,000 annually on Microsoft
Windows laptops and tablets app called Classroom, which en- many school districts have had to tasks, like assigning homework or software and is investing $8 mil-
made up 21.6 percent of the mo- ables teachers to assign shared devote their summers to prepar- taking attendance. It quickly be- lion to buy students Windows de-
bile-device shipments to schools iPads to students and create virtu- ing Windows laptops for students came a hub where teachers could vices, welcomed the company’s
in the United States last year, al classrooms to guide students one device at a time. hold class discussions, communi- more comprehensive approach to
down from about 43 percent in through lessons. Apple also intro- And some of Microsoft’s initial cate with individual students and the classroom.
2012. duced lower pricing for educa- attempts to contend with Google’s keep parents updated on class- About 200 teachers in the dis-
Outside the United States, tional institutions on its newest rise in schools stumbled. In 2014, room news. trict have completed professional
Microsoft Windows devices ac- iPad model. The iPad starts at Microsoft announced it would be While Microsoft had success- development activities called the
counted for about 64 percent of $329 for consumers and at $299 going head-to-head with Chrome- fully developed a loyal following Microsoft Innovative Educator
mobile-device shipments to for schools. books by working with device among teachers for certain tools program. Some of those teachers
schools last year, Futuresource Google began to take off in manufacturers to introduce — like Skype and its OneNote are already using the Microsoft
 said. schools in the United States in cheaper Windows laptops. But notebook organizer program — Teams chat service with their stu-
Apple has similarly experi- 2013, when school districts started some schools found the lower- the company had no answer for dents.
making bulk purchases of priced Windows devices too the classroom management sys- “Now it’s not four or five differ-
ed decline in shipments of iPads Chromebooks, which are now cheaply made to withstand stu- tem, which Google had developed ent experiences based on which
and Mac laptops to schools. Its made by Acer, Asus, Lenovo, HP dent use and too low-powered to specifically for teachers. app you are using,” said Rob Dick-
mobile shipments to schools fell to and other computer makers. Be- efficiently run Microsoft software. “The challenge for Microsoft is son, the executive director of in-
cause the laptops run on Google’s “The cheapest of them would that it did not seem to have a co- formation management services
Chrome operating system and re- not work,” said Hal Friedlander, a herent strategy,” said Mr. Fried- for Omaha Public Schools. “It’s a
mond, Wash., and Natasha Singer volve around web-based apps, former chief information officer of lander, who is now chief executive single app with all those experi-
from New York. they are often cheaper, easier to the New York City Department of of the Technology for Education ences within it.”

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Hollywood Writers Kept the Heat on Studios to Win Their Contract
By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — “Victory!!!”
With that single aggressively
punctuated tweet, Phillip Iscove,
a creator of the Fox drama
“Sleepy Hollow,” summed up what
Hollywood writers seemed to be
feeling on Tuesday, after a middle-
of-the night deal between studios
and writers to avert a strike.
Conspicuously not doing a vic-
tory lap was the Alliance of Mo-
tion Picture and Television
Producers, which bargains on be-
half of studios.
A tentative agreement for a new
three-year, master contract with
the producers’ alliance and unions
representing more than 12,000
television and movie writers was
reached at around 1 a.m. on the
West Coast. The previous contract
expired at midnight, and the
Writers Guild of America, West,
and the Writers Guild of America,
East, had vowed to go on strike as
early as Tuesday morning. A
walkout would have immediately
sent late-night comedy shows into
reruns and threatened important
presentations planned by ABC,
CBS, Fox and NBC to attract ad-
vertising.
The unions declared in an email
Debt Relief,
With Pain,
Is on the Way
For Greece
By NIKI KITSANTONIS
ATHENS — Greece and its in-
ternational creditors said on Tues-
day that they had reached a pre-
liminary deal allowing the coun-
try to receive crucial bailout pay-
ments in exchange for promises to
raise taxes and to further cut pen-
sions and social spending.
The agreement — the culmina-
tion of months of talks — paves the
way for the transfer of more than 7
billion euros, or about $7.6 billion,
of emergency funds to Athens. It
also comes before a series of elec-
tions in France, Britain and Ger-
many in the coming days and
months, with European officials
eager to avoid giving fuel to far-
right parties.
Under the terms of the agree-
ment, which is subject to the ap-
proval of eurozone finance min-
isters and the Greek Parliament,
Athens will make changes to its la-
bor and energy markets, cut pen-
sion payouts, and increase taxes.
The deal was a prerequisite for
talks on easing Greece’s enor-
mous debt burden, which is about
€300 billion. The issue is a point of
contention between the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund, which ad-
vocates debt relief for the country,
and European Union members,
notably Germany, which have tak-
en a harder line against Athens.
“There was white smoke,” Eu-
clid Tsakalotos, the country’s fi-
nance minister, told reporters af-
ter 12 hours of talks in the Greek
capital, alluding to the method the
Vatican uses to signal when a new
pope has been selected. “The ne-
gotiation has finished.”
The talks focused on economic
overhauls including further pen-
sions cuts, tax increases and
changes to the labor market. But
they stalled at times as a result of
James Kanter contributed report-
ing from Brussels.
Italy Balks at New Bailout
For Its Struggling Airline
By LIZ ALDERMAN
When the Italian airline Alitalia
went bankrupt in 2008, the gov-
ernment swooped in with taxpay-
er money and Pope Benedict — a
regular rider — offered the carrier
a blessing. Six years later, as Ali-
talia stumbled into debt yet again,
the government engineered an-
other rescue.
But on Tuesday, even a papal
decree would not have been
enough to save Alitalia from what
threatened to be its final stand, as
Europe’s most troubled airline
filed for bankruptcy once more,
this time amid signs that the gov-
ernment, and the Italian people,
were fed up from providing life
support.
The latest drama over one of
Italy’s most visible industrial
symbols has plunged the already
chaotic political and economic en-
vironment into further uncer-
tainty. The country was regroup-
ing after voters, in a populist out-
pouring, rejected constitutional
changes in a December referen-
dum that felled Matteo Renzi, then
Italy’s prime minister.
Uncertainty over the health of
the nation’s banks, plagued with
360 billion euros, or about $390 bil-
lion, in bad debt, has also been rat-
tling global financial markets.
Investors are worried that Italy, a
“too big to fail” member of the eu-
rozone, may set off another round
to members that they had won
“unprecedented gains.” Leaders
added: “Did we get everything we
wanted? No. Everything we de-
serve? Certainly not. But because
we had the near-unanimous back-
ing of you and your fellow writers,
we were able to achieve a deal that
will net this guild’s members $130
million more, over the life of the
contract, than the pattern we were
expected to accept.”
One thing writers wanted and
did not get was uniform pay for
writing done across platforms,
whether that be a traditional
broadcast network, cable channel
or streaming service.
Still, the celebratory whoops of
union members were warranted,
said Miranda J. Banks, a professor
of film and media at Emerson
College in Boston, who followed
the talks closely. Ms. Banks is the
author of the 2014 book, “The
Writers: A History of American
Screenwriters and Their Guild.”
“The union was extremely tacti-
cal in these negotiations, and it
shows in the outcome,” she said.
“They came in with a plan and ex-
pertly executed it.”
The guilds, with David Young
serving as their chief negotiator,
Trade unions staged a 24-hour nationwide strike on Monday to protest looming cuts in pensions and social spending being demanded by Greece’s creditors.
disagreements between Euro-
pean officials and the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund over
Greece’s economic prospects and
its ability to meet budget targets.
As part of the deal announced
on Tuesday, Athens agreed to
raise the equivalent of 2 percent of
gross domestic product by cutting
pensions further in 2019, and in-
creasing tax receipts by reducing
the income threshold at which
taxes must be paid.
Yielding to creditors’ demands
to make the labor market more
of uncertainty for the single cur-
rency should new problems in the
country’s banking system jeopar-
dize its economy.
Like the Italian state, Alitalia
has always been too big to fail. The
carrier has already cost Italian
taxpayers an estimated €7 billion
over the decade.
This time, officials say there
will be no new bailout of the air-
line, which has been a fixture of
the economy and one of Italy’s
largest employers since it was
founded in 1947. No other carriers
have come forward to express in-
terest in taking it over, including
Lufthansa, which had been cited
as a possible white knight.
After the Italian government
approved the bankruptcy filing on
Tuesday, Alitalia will be put into
the hands of special administra-
tors charged with devising a last-
ditch plan to turn around the carri-
er within 180 days, sell it, or put it
into liquidation.
Company officials had said that
in order to keep the carrier alive,
adjustments were needed in the
12,400-strong work force, which
operates about 120 planes and had
22.6 million passengers last year.
By contrast, its low-cost rival
Ryanair has around 11,000
employees for 300 planes and
more than 100 million passengers.
But when unions and manage-
ment negotiated a rescue plan in-
volving 1,600 layoffs, an 8 percent
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
did seem to approach the talks in a
strategic fashion. Bargaining
started on March 13, with writers
asking for a long list of contract
enhancements. After breaking off
on March 24 — each side blamed
the other — Mr. Young and his co-
horts immediately ratcheted up
the pressure, sending letters to TV
Warning about a
potential walkout
before a deadline.
advertisers promising a strike if
no deal was reached by Monday
and asking members to authorize
a walkout.
Writers voted overwhelmingly
to give their unions that cudgel;
6,310 ballots were cast, represent-
ing 68 percent of eligible voters,
with 96 percent in favor of a walk-
out if no palatable deal was offered
by studios.
On Sunday, studios made a new
offer — one reflecting improve-
ments in some areas (health care)
competitive, the deal also makes it
easier for businesses to fire
employees.
Pierre Moscovici, the European
commissioner for economic and
financial affairs, said in a state-
ment that the deal was “a very
positive development.”
“It is time to turn the page on
this long and difficult austerity
chapter for the Greek people,” he
said. “With this agreement, we
need now to write a new story of
stability, jobs and growth for
Greece and for the euro area as a
pay cut and more working days a
year in exchange for €2 billion in
new financing, employees re-
jected it.
They seemed to be gambling
that the state would come to the
rescue, given the political and eco-
nomic consequences of letting Ali-
talia collapse.
Mr. Renzi, who is trying to engi-
neer a political comeback, has
said he will come up with a plan
for Alitalia if he is re-elected
leader of the Democratic Party in
an internal party election this
weekend. (Neither he nor the
party has offered details.)
and scant movement in others
(raises for streaming series) —
and the unions on Monday after-
noon made counteroffers that
held a hard line on multiple de-
mands, according to three people
briefed on the talks, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss private meetings.
“Calm, cool, honest and authen-
tic every step of the way,” Damon
Lindelof, a member of the union’s
negotiating committee, wrote in
an email on Tuesday of the guild’s
leadership. Mr. Lindelof, whose
credits include “The Leftovers,”
“World War Z,” and “Lost,” also
gave credit to studio negotiators
for “being true to their word in
hearing our membership’s con-
cerns about the dramatic shifts in
the way our business now func-
tions.”
Carol Lombardini, who led talks
for the producers’ alliance, de-
clined an interview request.
One big sticking point involved
what is known as “span,” or how
long television writers spend on
each script. There are more shows
than ever, but networks are order-
ing far fewer episodes per season
— as few as six, compared with 22
or more in the past. At the same
whole.”
Greece’s debt first became a se-
rious threat during the global fi-
nancial crisis, and the country has
relied on bailouts since. In return,
Athens has had to push through
painful austerity measures to re-
duce its debt, which stands at
nearly 180 percent of gross domes-
tic product.
That has resulted in hefty cuts
to pensions and benefits for ordi-
nary Greeks, as well as efforts to
increase the number of people in
the country who pay taxes.
ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
The Five Star Movement, a pop-
ulist grouping that has increased
power, has also not commented on
whether it would support the use
of more taxpayer money to save
Alitalia.
In the meantime, the situation
has outraged some Italians, who
took to Facebook and Twitter to
protest spending any more tax-
payer money on top of the billions
already doled out by the govern-
ment.
“Alitalia bankruptcy is due to
bad management and #Con-
sumerChoice. Italian state should-
n’t give any money to save it,”
time, the episodes that are or-
dered are taking longer to
produce — up to three weeks per
episode, rather than the usual two.
So series writers who are paid per
episode often make less while
working more.
Part of the deal involved a union
health insurance plan, which is
running steep deficits, in part be-
cause it provides extremely gen-
erous coverage. Studios agreed to
a bailout, while the union agreed
to cost-saving changes.
To some degree, studios were
concerned about setting a prece-
dent for negotiations with other
Hollywood unions. The actors’
contract with producers expires
on June 30.
Share prices for most major en-
tertainment companies were ei-
ther unaffected or slightly down in
trading on Tuesday. Doug Creutz,
an analyst at Cowen and Com-
pany, wrote in a research note that
the deal with writers was “pos-
itive” for media conglomerates,
“as a strike invited several serious
risk factors,” including “perma-
nent acceleration of audience loss
away from traditional TV and ad
dollars from TV to digital.”
ARIS MESSINIS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
But the measures have hit
hard: Unemployment is close to
25 percent, and the economy has
shrunk by a fifth since the finan-
cial crisis.
The government must now
draft legislation bundling togeth-
er all the measures and push it
through Parliament before euro-
zone finance ministers meet on
May 22. As with similar bills in the
past, they are expected to become
law, but the government of Alexis
Tsipras, the leftist prime minister,
retains a fragile three-seat major-
Luca Bertoletti, the European af-
fairs manager at Consumer
Choice Center, an Italian con-
sumer rights organization, said in
a message on Twitter.
And consumers lit up the air-
line’s Facebook page with angry
complaints after it offered dis-
counts for new bookings just days
after rejecting the rescue offer,
without mentioning that it was
heading into bankruptcy.
Alitalia, which sustained losses
for most of the last decade, had
started to become profitable again
in recent years after the govern-
ment negotiated a 2014 rescue by
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As the entertainment capital
waited for word on down-to-the-
wire talks on Monday, union loy-
alists posted messages on Twitter
using the hashtag #wgaunity. Ei-
leen Conn, whose credits include
the Disney Channel series “K.C.
Undercover” and the 1990s sitcom
“Just Shoot Me,” posted a photo of
Sally Field as the title character
from the film “Norma Rae” and
wrote: “We are strong! We are
united!”
Some prominent politicians
joined them. “I stand with the
Writers Guild of America for fair
pay and decent health care be-
cause it’s the right thing to do —
and because Bruce and I can’t
wait for the next season of
‘Ballers’ to start,” Senator Eliza-
beth Warren, Democrat of Massa-
chusetts, wrote on Facebook, re-
ferring to her husband, Bruce
Mann.
In the last big Hollywood strike,
a decade ago, an enraged Writers
Guild walked out for 100 days over
pay for digitally distributed
shows. Tens of thousands of enter-
tainment workers were idled, and
the action cost the Los Angeles
economy more than $2 billion, ac-
cording to the Milken Institute.
ity in the 300-seat chamber, and
opinion polls show its popularity
falling.
If the measures are enacted, eu-
rozone finance ministers — col-
lectively known as the Eurogroup
— are expected to approve the dis-
bursement of bailout funds for
Athens to make a debt payment
that is due in July.
The ministers are also expected
to discuss debt relief and targets
for Greece’s primary surplus, or
budget surplus not counting debt
financing.
Alitalia employees last month
rejected a plan that would have
cut salaries. The airline filed
for bankruptcy on Tuesday.
Etihad, a carrier based in Abu
Dhabi. Etihad took a 49 percent
stake after Alitalia had stumbled
following a rescue operation by
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
in 2008.
The Middle Eastern airline
made new investments and fi-
nanced a revision of Alitalia’s
business plan to compete better
with low-cost carriers. But losses
started to mount again in 2015, to
nearly €200 million, as Alitalia
failed to ward off fierce competi-
tion from low-cost airlines, and
terrorist attacks in Europe hurt
travel.
Alitalia sought to recover this
year with a plan to slash €1 billion
in costs, cut 2,000 workers and re-
duce salaries by up to 30 percent.
Unions negotiated all those de-
mands down in a deal struck last
month that would have released
new financing.
Instead, pilots and cabin crew
rebuffed the accord, throwing Ali-
talia yet again into an uncertain
future.
“It seems that Alitalia workers
have all gone nuts,” Simone Filip-
petti, a finance and economy re-
porter at the Italian daily Il Sole 24
Ore, wrote in a column. “Why did
they reject a plan that involved a
hard sacrifice but a chance of re-
covering to instead face the risk of
a total company disruption and
liquidation, and ultimately all lose
their jobs anyway?”
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Political Risks Grow in U.S. and Abroad, but Investors Stay in Markets
Market Calm
Despite the political turmoil in the
last year, the stock market is
sanguine.
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From First Business Page
president’s promises to slash reg-
ulations, cut taxes and spend
money on infrastructure would
buoy the economy.
The gauge generally moves in
the opposite direction of the stock
market. So with the major stock
indexes having hit highs, it would
make sense that the VIX would
reach these unusual lows.
But what is less clear is why
investors have been so willing to
ignore so many outcomes that
would send stocks reeling.
Mr. Emanuel contends that
what is driving the decoupling of
increased political risks and in-
vestor lack of worry is a rock-solid
belief in the market that the surge
in so-called soft economic data
(such as a broad increase in
animal spirits among investors
and businesses) will be followed
by better hard economic data —
like a sustained improvement in
wages, investment and ultimately
economic growth.
This means that even as Mr.
Trump has difficulties in getting
his bills passed, investors are not
abandoning the stock market, but
are switching out of stocks tied di-
rectly to a Trump recovery, for ex-
ample, banks and industrial com-
panies.
6 Largest U.S. Automakers Say Sales Fell, Knocking Their Shares Down
By The Associated Press
Despite strong results from in-
dustrial companies, stock mar-
kets in the United States could not
get momentum going Tuesday af-
ter automakers said their sales
were shrinking.
Cummins, an engine maker,
sent shares of manufacturers and
other industrial companies higher
after reporting solid first-quarter
earnings.
But Ford, General Motors and
Fiat Chrysler all fell after they
said sales declined in April. In ad-
dition, the price of oil fell to its low-
est price in almost six months.
Chris Zaccarelli, chief invest-
ment officer for Cornerstone Fi-
nancial Partners, said auto sales
had weaker sales because lenders
were hesitating to make car loans.
“It’s more a story-specific to the
auto sector as opposed to a slow-
down in consumer spending,” he
said.
Thanks to an upturn in the last
few minutes of trading, the Stand-
ard & Poor’s 500-sock index rose
2.84 points, or 0.1 percent, to
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By LIAM STACK
Teenage girls who dislike the
frank sexuality of Cosmopolitan
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Teen Vogue but still want a maga-
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and hairstyles (not to mention ad-
vice on abstinence) are in luck.
This month Focus on the Family
has relaunched Brio, a glossy teen
magazine shut down in 2009.
The organization’s conserva-
tive Christian ethos animates
Brio, which its publisher, Bob De-
Moss, said has so far attracted
over 56,000 subscribers through
ads sent directly to Focus
supporters. Its goal is to address
the topics found in mainstream
teen magazines from “a biblical
worldview,” Mr. DeMoss said.
Focus on the Family has long
been known for its opposition to
abortion, sex outside of marriage
and rights for transgender and
gay people, who it has said can
“leave” homosexuality or change
their gender identity by embrac-
ing Jesus Christ. But within the
evangelical community, its name
is synonymous for many with par-
enting tips like those found in
“Dare to Discipline,” the 1970 book
by its founder, James Dobson.
“What would the Bible have to
say about bullying or peace-
making or peer pressure or sexual
purity?” Mr. DeMoss said. “Focus
on the Family would say and Brio
would reflect: ‘Hey, sex was God’s
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Investors have bought stocks in spite of political ups and downs.
In their place, investors are
loading up on other sectors, like
technology. Consider, for example,
the recent record close of the Nas-
daq composite index with its
heavy weighting in stocks like
Amazon, Facebook and Google.
The net effect of this rotation is
a stock market that goes up and a
VIX that goes down.
“There has been this epic dis-
connect between soft and hard
economic data,” Mr. Emanuel
said. “And investors are just not
willing to sell out of their stocks
right now.”
The Dow Minute by Minute
Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Tuesday.
Previous close
20,913.46
10 a.m. Noon
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2,391.17. The Dow Jones industrial
average added 36.43 points, or 0.2
percent, to 20,949.89.
The Nasdaq composite set an-
other record as it picked up 3.76
points, or 0.1 percent, to 6,095.37.
The six largest automakers in
the United States all reported that
idea so why not follow the game
plan that he laid out in the Bible?’
And you’re not going to get that in
the pages of ‘Seventeen,’ let’s be
clear.”
Indeed, a quick flip through
back issues of Brio quickly reveals
how different it is from other teen
magazines, with covers featuring
stars like Selena Gomez and
breathless updates on Kylie Jen-
ner’s dating life.
The only celebrities to grace
Brio’s cover are those who es-
pouse the Christian worldview of
Focus on the Family, like the 19-
Focus on the Family
revives a publication
shut down in 2009.
year-old “Duck Dynasty” star Sa-
die Robertson, who appears on its
May cover and has marketed a
line of “daddy-approved” prom
dresses.
It has also promoted Christian
musicians like Kyle Matthews and
urged readers to shun singers like
Eminem (a music columnist once
advised readers to seek guidance
from Philippians 4:8 and 1 Thessa-
lonians 5:21-22 instead). An article
in the first issue focuses on Bruno
Mars.
Russell Rhoads, the director of
education at the VIX’s home, the
Chicago Board Options Exchange,
calls the high level of faith
investors have shown in the presi-
dent’s promise to reinvigorate the
economy the Trump put.
When Alan Greenspan was
chairman of the Federal Reserve,
traders came to believe that he
would bail out a sinking market by
cutting interest rates, thus allow-
ing them to take more risks — an
approach that came to be known
as the Greenspan put. A put is an
option to sell at a particular price.
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their sales fell in April. Vehicle
sales have set records the last few
years and analysts are worried
that the streak is ending and that
car companies are relying too
much on discounts and incentives
to keep their sales numbers high.
Ford stock lost 50 cents, or 4.4
And while Teen Vogue recently
published a guide to gifts you can
buy a friend after an abortion,
Brio has featured reader
testimonials on how to avoid the
temptations of premarital sex (“I
began struggling to keep my
thoughts godly when Satan tried
to draw me out of my purity,”
wrote Leah, age 16, in 2009.)
The magazine’s promotional
materials are directed more at
adults shopping for young people
than at teenagers themselves.
That’s because nostalgia is an im-
portant ingredient in the maga-
zine’s relaunch, said Susan B.
Ridgely, a professor of Religious
Studies at the University of Wis-
consin-Madison.
“Kids who grew up with Can-
dace Cameron are now parents,”
she said, referring to the “Full
House” star who was the maga-
zine’s March 1992 cover girl. “Just
like Netflix is trying to get those
viewers with ‘Fuller House,’ Fo-
cus on the Family may be trying to
get them with the return of Brio.”
The magazine had roughly
260,000 subscribers at the end of
its 19-year print run in 2009, Mr.
DeMoss said, making it one of Fo-
cus on the Family’s top-selling
publications. The relaunched ver-
sion is one of five magazines pub-
lished by the group, which also
draws almost 6.3 million listeners
a week on over 1,000 American ra-
dio stations.
Sorcha Brophy, a sociologist at
Now, Mr. Rhoads says,
investors are making a similar
wager on Mr. Trump.
“We used to have the
Greenspan put, maybe it is the
Trump put now,” Mr. Rhoads said,
citing a propensity of investors to
stay in the market despite political
ups and downs. “He is so busi-
ness-friendly — there is a view
that whatever happens he will do
things that spur economic
growth.”
Unlike a stock index like the
Standard & Poor’s 500-stock in-
dex, the VIX is not driven by stock
percent, to $10.92 and GM gave up
$1, or 2.9 percent, to $33.20, while
Fiat Chrysler fell 49 cents, or 4.3
percent, to $10.92. Shares of car re-
tailers, rental companies and
parts suppliers slipped as well.
Industrial companies made
some of the biggest gains. Cum-
mins reported a far bigger profit
and better sales than analysts ex-
pected, and its stock climbed
$9.23, or 6.1 percent, to $160.56.
The company said demand from
construction and mining sales
grew compared with the same pe-
riod a year ago, but truck produc-
tion in North America fell.
Benchmark crude futures for
June delivery lost $1.18, or 2.4 per-
cent, to $47.66 a barrel in New
York. That is its lowest price since
mid-November. Brent crude shed
$1.06, or 2.1 percent, to $50.46 a
barrel in London.
Health care stocks shook off an
early loss. Merck climbed after it
reported strong sales of newer
medications including its cancer
drug Keytruda and hepatitis C
drug Zepatier, and its stock gained
the University of Pittsburgh who
grew up reading Brio, said the
magazine aims to “normalize be-
ing a Christian teen” by telling
readers it can be cool to go to
church and shun drugs and party-
ing.
But she said its emphasis on
moral uprightness can also create
a lot of pressure. As an example,
Ms. Brophy pointed to a feature
she encountered during her re-
search: a pop culture quiz that de-
ducted points from a reader’s
score for correctly answered
questions about mainstream mu-
sic videos and celebrity gossip.
“There’s no suggestion in the
magazine that teenagers should
completely remove themselves
from pop culture and mainstream
society, but at the same time there
is an expectation of constant vigi-
lance about how you engage with
those things and about what
you’re consuming and how you’re
consuming it,” she said. “A lot of
work is expected out of teenage
readers.”
Ms. Ridgely said the magazine
has traditionally “modeled what
Focus sees as the right kind of be-
havior” and avoided mentioning
things of which it disapproves.
It may be unlikely to mention
abortion at all unless it profiled “a
young woman with a young baby
and everything is going swim-
mingly,” she said. “With homosex-
uality, for girls especially, les-
bianism almost never comes up in
prices but by the prices of options
to buy or sell the S.&P. For that
reason, it is a forward-looking in-
dicator — 30 days to be precise —
that measures how volatile
traders think the market will be
before the option expires.
One reason for the gauge’s re-
cent equanimity, Mr. Rhoads said,
is that even when investors pur-
chase options to sell the S.&P. in-
dex at a certain level (betting that
the market will fall) to ensure
against a sell-off, they are at the
same time keeping their broad ex-
posure to stocks.
32 cents to $62.70.
Technology stocks continued
their gains. The S.&P. 500’s tech-
nology index, which includes 69
major companies, is at its highest
levels since March 2000, the peak
of the dot-com boom. However it is
Analysts fear a record
streak for vehicle sales
may be broken.
still well below the records it set
back then.
Apple stock lost 2 percent in af-
termarket trading after the com-
pany reported results that includ-
ed slightly disappointing quar-
terly iPhone sales. Its guidance
also was not as strong as analysts
predicted.
Angie’s List, the consumer re-
views website, soared after it
agreed to be bought by the media
BRIO
any of their material. Girls aren’t
depicted as people with a sex
drive. Their whole job is to keep
young boys’ sex drive under con-
trol.”
Mr. DeMoss, a writer and long-
time “youth culture specialist”
who is vice president for content
development at Focus on the Fam-
ily, agreed that the new incarna-
tion of Brio was unlikely to cover
gay or transgender issues, even
though they have become far
more socially accepted since
Brio’s first issue in 1990. For exam-
ple, he said, Brio probably would
not have joined other magazines
in profiling the reality star Caitlyn
Jenner when she came out as
transgender last year.
“If those topics ever come up in
the pages of Brio they will be han-
dled in a non-shaming, grace-
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It is this tricky balancing act
that has kept the VIX at these low
levels.
Mr. Rhoads, a student of finan-
cial market history, noted that the
index is what is known as “a
means reverting vehicle.” This
means that even if it stays at these
low levels for a while, the index
will spike up when the next bout of
fear hits the market.
“It’s like a rubber band that
stretches and stretches until it
pops,” Mr. Rhoads said. “Every-
one might be too confident right
now.”
company IAC/InterActiveCorp.
IAC/InterActive wants to com-
bine Angie’s List with its Home-
Advisor.com business, which of-
fers resources for home repair
and improvement projects.
Bond prices headed higher. The
yield on the 10-year Treasury note
fell to 2.29 percent, from 2.32 per-
cent.
Gold prices for May delivery
rose $1.80 to $1,255.10 an ounce.
The dollar rose to 112.02 yen
from 111.77 yen. The euro rose to
$1.0924 from $1.0898.
In Europe, Greece and its
creditors agreed that the country
should make another round of
pension cuts in 2019 and commit to
a budget target when its current
bailout program ends next year.
That deal will restart bailout loan
payments, meaning Greece will
not face default.
European stocks also rallied.
The CAC 40 in France added 0.7
percent while the FTSE 100 index
in Britain gained 0.6 percent. In
Germany, the DAX rose 0.6 per-
cent.
Brio tells its young readers it
can be cool to go to church and
shun drugs and partying.
filled, welcoming — and by wel-
coming I don’t mean ‘hey, we have
no standards’ — way,” Mr. DeMoss
said.
And what are those standards?
“We use the Bible as a standard,”
he replied, before quickly chang-
ing the subject to topics like music
reviews and human trafficking.
When it was suggested that he
was avoiding the topic, Mr. De-
Moss laughed and said “we have
more than one instrument in the
band.”
He elaborated, “From what I’ve
read, if you take all the transgen-
der, all the L.G.B.T., you know,
community and the gender fluid
and, you know, that entire popula-
tion — you’re looking at maybe 3
to 5 percent of the entire popula-
tion of the United States,” a figure
broadly in line with a 2012 Gallup
survey.
“We would rather communicate
to the 95 percent or so who are not
dialed into that as a regular kind of
thing,” Mr. DeMoss said.
The magazine has no digital
plans, Mr. DeMoss said, and costs
about $20 per year for 10 print is-
sues. The name means “vigor, full
of life,” Focus on the Family ex-
plains on its site, promising a mix
of entertainment and do-it-your-
self features along with “exciting,
vivacious, faith-based articles”
and “more fuel to energize their
life.” The first copies should arrive
in the mail this week.
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SQUARE FEET

RECENT SALE

$9.8 million
339 East 75th Street (between
First and Second Avenues)
Manhattan
A foreign investor has bought
this 1910 five-story 8,370-
square-foot walk-up with seven
apartments — four two-bed-
rooms, two three-bedrooms and
a six-bedroom that takes up the
entire third floor. One is rent-
stabilized, and the rest are re-
cently renovated market-rate
apartments with ebony hard-
wood floors, recessed lighting,
and washers and dryers. The
ground-floor tenant is Seam-
stress, a trendy craft cocktail
bar. The building sold for 19.5
times the rent roll, and offers a
cap rate of 3.7 percent.
BUYER: ECA Japan
SELLER: Icon Realty Management
SELLER’S BROKERS: Peter Von Der
Ahe, Joe Koicim, David Lloyd
and Danny Handweiler, Marcus
& Millichap
RECENT LEASE

$21.50/sq. ft.
$114,000 approximate annual rent

61 Ninth Street (between Sec-

ond Avenue and Smith Street)
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Abhaya Yoga, a yoga and Pilates
studio, is to open in August in a
5,300-square-foot space with

A Downtown Is Ready to Grow Up

exposed brick walls and 14-foot
ceilings in this single-story ware-
house. The studio has taken a
five-year lease, with three
months rent-free for its build-out
and expects to eventually open a
coffee shop there.
TENANT: Gowanus Yoga Project
LANDLORD: Gowanus Holdings
L.L.C.
BROKER: Alex Robayo, Ideal Prop-
erties Group
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In Washington’s Shadow, Bethesda Is Poised for Another Remake
By MIRANDA S. SPIVACK
For decades, the downtown in Bethes-
da, Md., had little more than a hardware
store, a toy store and a few restaurants.
The small urban core along Wisconsin
Avenue was mostly a place to pass
through on the way to the District of Co-
lumbia a few miles to the south, or the Be-
thesda Naval Hospital or the National In-
stitutes of Health several blocks to the
north.
But in the mid-1980s, as the Metro sub-
way system’s Red Line was extended to
Bethesda, the unincorporated communi-
ty began to take on the characteristics of a
small city. Soon several high-rise build-
ings were constructed. They were filled
by law firms, financial service companies
and trade associations.
Hotels, restaurants and boutiques soon
followed, and a Barnes & Noble bookstore
opened as an anchor in a revitalized retail
area a few blocks from the Metro station.
It was not too long before a bank replaced
the hardware store on Wisconsin Avenue,
movie theaters opened, and dozens of
new restaurants arrived in the new pe-
destrian-friendly streetscape.
Now, Bethesda is about to undergo an-
Top, the Metro station in the heart of the central business district in Bethesda,
Md. Above, the Lauren has luxury condos as large as 6,000 square feet.
during business hours, and the company
expects to build its own underground ga-
rage with about 800 spaces.
Marriott expects to enter into a long-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW MANGUM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
work there. According to county projec-
tions, the proposed changes in Bethesda
could bring another 14,200 new jobs in the
next 20 years. The community is also set
Amanda Farber, an East Bethesda resi-
dent and co-vice president of the East Be-
thesda Citizens Association.
Many nearby public schools are al-
ready overcrowded, according to county
data. Gwen Wright, Montgomery Coun-
ty’s planning director, said the county’s
public school system could opt to reopen
some closed schools for younger students
and might need to whether or not the new
plan brings new students. Eventually,
however, she said the community would
have to come to grips with the need for a
new high school in the Bethesda area.
Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor at
George Washington University and for-
mer chairwoman of the Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission, lives near the new Mar-
riott site and is among those who are wor-
ried about the changes.
“I don’t think any of the residents are
antidevelopment,” she said. “Bethesda
could definitely use some updating and
improving. But it should not be done in
such a way that makes it completely un-
livable.”
Charlie Cook, who lives in the area,
complained on a site maintained by Be-
thesda Magazine that the community

$108.98/sq. ft.
$564,000 approximate annual rent
221 West Broadway (between
White and Franklin Streets)
Manhattan
A 10-year lease is available,
starting in June, for a 5,175-
square-foot recently renovated
restaurant space, which had
been home to White Street
Restaurant, in this 1918 six-story
mixed-use loft building in the
TriBeCa East Historic District.
The ground-floor space, with
13-and-a-half-foot ceilings, can
seat up to 215 people, and has a
liquor license. Its 5,000-square-
foot usable lower level has a prep
kitchen, office space and a pri-
vate dining area. Its frontage
totals 90 feet on White and West
Broadway.
OWNER: Nur Ashki Jerrahi Com-
munity
BROKER: Steven Rappaport, Sin-
vin
By ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY
Email: realprop@nytimes.com
other remake. County planners have
spent the last three years creating a new
plan for Bethesda, one that would extend
the commercial and retail space and
housing throughout the downtown, and
allow a building as tall as 300 feet in one
section. (Currently, according to Gwen
Wright, Montgomery County’s planning
director, the tallest building in Bethesda
is about 200 feet.)
Marriott International, the world’s
largest hotel firm, was among the first to
sign on. The company, based in a subur-
ban office park on the fringes of Bethesda
since 1979, recently announced plans for a
$600 million project in downtown Bethes-
da, a block north of the Metro station. The
company expects to move its 3,500
employees from its 800,000-square-foot
midrise complex near the Capital Belt-
way to a soon-to-be-built office building
with 22 stories.
Marriott also plans to open a hotel with
at least 230 rooms and meeting spaces for
conferences. The site, now occupied by
low-rise commercial buildings, is near the
famous greasy spoon the Tastee Diner, a
popular relic of a bygone Bethesda.
The county and the state have agreed
to provide up to $62 million in subsidies
and tax benefits to keep Marriott in Mont-
gomery County and relocate about five
miles from its current site. Montgomery
County has also agreed to lease Marriott
a public parking garage for weekday use
term lease with the owners/developers,
Boston Properties and the Bernstein
Companies, said Carolyn B. Handlon, ex-
ecutive vice president finance and global
treasurer of Marriott International.
Company officials were excited to be
moving to a more urban setting, where
employees will be able to walk, bike or
take the Metro to work, Ms. Handlon said.
Planners and public officials predict
that other large companies may follow
Marriott.
“All of that land is very desirable,” said
Nancy Floreen, a Montgomery County
council member, chairwoman of the coun-
cil committee that reviewed the new
plans for Bethesda.
Ms. Handlon said: “We asked our
associates what they wanted. There was
a common theme. Besides state-of-the-
art technology, there was a real sense
people wanted that vibrant, mixed-use
urban community that you could walk to.”
Marriott’s decision to get away from its
car-centric office park and move its
employees into an urban setting is the lat-
est in a broader effort by Montgomery
County planners to bring more people to
its existing urban centers, and to create
new ones, like the White Flint develop-
ment a few miles north.
Currently about 10,000 people live in
what is considered Bethesda’s downtown
— an area stretching roughly from Brad-
ley Boulevard to the south to Battery
Lane to the north. About 37,700 people
to become a terminus on the Purple Line,
a proposed light rail currently embroiled
in a court battle.
The new plan, which the Montgomery
County Council accepted much of in a
straw vote on April 25 before an expected
formal vote in late May, also proposes a
series of new, small parks and more bike
lanes and walkways. Council members on
April 25 endorsed limiting heights of com-
mercial buildings closer to residential ar-
eas.
The planners also want to encourage
developers to include more affordable
housing in their plans, by giving them ad-
ditional density if they add extra moder-
ate-priced housing into their mix. Afford-
able housing has been difficult to find in
Bethesda for years.
Many of the condos in downtown Be-
thesda sell for more than $1 million, and
rentals for one-bedrooms can be expen-
sive in newer buildings.
Some residents in neighborhoods just
across Wisconsin Avenue from the Metro
and the Marriott site are worried that the
new development will lead to traffic jams
and other problems. They said they were
fearful even though county planners pro-
posed placing a cap on density that would
allow no more than 4.2 million square feet
in new construction if the plans are ap-
proved, as expected.
“The pace and scale of the develop-
ment has gotten to the point that I feel the
county is unable to keep up with it,” said
was turning into a place he could not en-
joy, noting that Barnes & Noble had an-
nounced plans to close.
“I hate what Bethesda has become —
the overbuilding has hit a saturation point
and traffic is a nightmare,” wrote Mr.
Cook, who is the editor of the Cook Po-
litical Report.
“As best as I can tell, the master plan is
to allow Bethesda and presumably any-
place else with a Metro stop to become
antiseptic places of concrete, steel and
glass, with no charm or personality — just
tax revenue for the county.”
Roger Berliner, the County Council
president, a Democrat whose district in-
cludes Bethesda, has been pushing for
lower building heights in areas near sin-
gle-family neighborhoods like East Be-
thesda.
It is appropriate “to have a compact
with our existing neighborhoods to shield
them from the worst effect of develop-
ment, to have tall buildings right next to
neighborhoods,” he said at a recent coun-
cil meeting.
Ms. Floreen said she thought Bethesda
would remain a desirable place to live,
work, shop and dine even with new build-
ings.
“It is on a Metro line, yet convenient to
suburbia, and an urban location,” she
said. What the new plan will do, she
hopes, is find ways to “create the right in-
centives for people to do interesting
things in Bethesda.”

CNN Turns Down ‘Fake News’ Ad From Trump Campaign

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
The head of President Trump’s
re-election campaign accused
CNN of “censorship” on Tuesday
afternoon after the broadcast net-
work refused to run the group’s
latest advertisement.
CNN said it would run the 30-
second television spot, a celebra-
tion of Mr. Trump’s first 100 days in
office, only if the campaign re-
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
moved a section that featured the
words “fake news” superimposed
over several TV journalists, in-
cluding Wolf Blitzer of CNN, and
others from MSNBC, PBS, ABC
and CBS.
CNN defended the decision in a
statement on Twitter.
“The mainstream media is not
fake news, and therefore the ad is
false,” the network said. “Per our
policy, it will be accepted only if
that graphic is deleted.”
In response, Michael Glassner,
the executive director of Mr.
Trump’s campaign committee,
called the decision “censorship
pure and simple.”
“By rejecting our ad, CNN has
proven that it supports censorship
is biased and fears an opposing
point of view,” Mr. Glassner said in
a statement. “President Trump’s
loyal supporters know the truth:
The mainstream media mislead,
misguide, deceive, and distract.”
In the advertisement, a narra-
tor claims that “America has
rarely seen such success,” before
listing several purported achieve-
ments from Mr. Trump’s first 100
days in office.
“You wouldn’t know it from
watching the news,” he says, be-
fore the words “fake news” are
briefly displayed.
Kyle Pope, the editor and pub-
lisher of the Columbia Journalism
Review, said news organizations
often set standards both in the ad-
vertisements they choose to air or
publish and in what they cover.
“It’s totally within their rights
to set ground rules with how they
deal with this adminstration,” he
said of CNN.
Mr. Pope also noted that the
“fake news” allegation rings hol-
low given Mr. Trump’s frequent in-
terviews with the very organiza-
tions he derides as “fake.”
“It’s telling here that this is in a
political ad by the political cam-
paign because it’s increasingly
clear that this ‘fake news’ mantra
is a political maneuver more than
anything,” he said.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
U.S. Auto Sales, After Recession and Recovery, Are in Retreat in 2017
From First Business Page
eral Motors shares fell almost 3
percent.
In April, automakers sold 1.43
million cars and trucks, down
from 1.5 million a year ago. But
even before those totals were re-
ported, automakers had started
preparing to trim the number of
vehicles they are making, which
almost always means jobs are
eliminated.
Some 1,100 workers at a General
Motors plant in Lansing, Mich.,
are being laid off this month and
will be out of work for at least the
next five months, although about
700 of them are expected to be re-
hired by the end of the year. Three
other G.M. plants are eliminating
shifts, moves that will idle more
than 3,000 other workers.
“We are very cognizant that we
operate in a cyclical industry, and
we are in the eighth year of expan-
sion,” the company’s chief finan-
cial officer, Chuck Stevens, said in
a conference call last week after
the company reported first-quar-
ter earnings. “We are very fo-
cused on acting like we are in a
downturn.”
The automakers’ comeback
since the 2009 crisis had been
driven in large part by low gaso-
line prices that have fed Ameri-
cans’ tastes for sport utility vehi-
cles and trucks — particularly
profitable categories, and the
models more likely to be assem-
bled in the United States rather
than Mexico. Sales also benefited
from pent-up demand as reces-
sion turned to recovery.
Now consumers seem to be
holding off on spending more
broadly — not just on cars, but on
other big-ticket items, a primary
factor in the economy’s tepid first-
quarter performance.
Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler
both saw their sales fall 7 percent
or more in April, while Honda’s fell
6.3 percent and General Motors’
5.8 percent. Toyota declined 3.5
percent, and Nissan dipped 2 per-
cent. (Those figures exclude the
Japanese makers’ luxury brands.)
For General Motors, the domes-
tic downturn compounds difficul-
ties it is dealing with abroad. It
has announced plans to sell off its
Bill Vlasic contributed reporting.
Indian Outsourcing Company Is Promising U.S. Jobs
From First Business Page
goal of adding a total of 2,000
employees by 2021.
Infosys said it would seek out
three other sites for American ex-
pansion, looking for places that
are close to clients and universi-
ties and where state and local gov-
ernments are willing to offer sig-
nificant economic incentives. The
company already has an innova-
tion hub in Silicon Valley.
The majority of Infosys’s busi-
ness is in the United States, and it
typically receives several thou-
sand H-1B visas every year to
bring in mostly entry-level Indian
programmers who move from
project to project at companies in
industries like banking, pharma-
ceuticals, manufacturing and en-
ergy.
Infosys has hired more Ameri-
can college graduates in the last
couple of years, said Mr. Kumar.
And now clients in the United
States want the company to have
even more people on site locally.
So it must expand its American
work force significantly, he said.
“We polled our customers and a
lot of our newest locations require
a lot of presence,” Mr. Kumar said.
“This year, we are taking it to
scale.”
Mr. Kumar declined to say
whether Mr. Trump’s attacks on
immigrant workers had influ-
enced its decisions.
Whether Infosys follows
through on its ambitious goal of
hiring 10,000 Americans in the
next two years remains to be seen.
The company, which employs
more than 200,000 people glob-
ally, has slowed its overall hiring
to a trickle as revenue growth has
stalled. Mr. Kumar said the Ameri-
can expansion plans depend on
expected client demand, as well as
whether it can find and train
enough college graduates with
skills in artificial intelligence and
other technical fields that it needs.
Indiana’s governor, Eric Hol-
comb, aggressively pursued In-
fosys, the company said at a news
conference with Mr. Holcomb. In-
fosys already had a small work
force of about 140 people in the
state.
In February, Indiana state offi-
cials were approached about a po-
tential investment by Infosys ex-
ecutives via the Indiana India
Business Council, a local business
group, according to Jim
Schellinger, the state’s secretary
of commerce.
Mr. Schellinger and his team
traveled to India in mid-March,
meeting with Infosys’s senior
leadership and visiting its cam-
puses in Bangalore and Mysore to
make their pitch for the state. At
the end of the month, Infosys
representatives sat down with Mr.
Henry Gonzalez, a salesman at the Doral, Fla., CarMax lot, showing a car to Wendy Morales. Late-model used cars are in increasing supply, crimping new-car sales.
Opel and Vauxhall operations in
Europe, and on Tuesday it said it
would take a $100 million charge to
write off the value of its factory in
Venezuela, which was seized by
authorities in the volatile country
two weeks ago.
Like G.M., Fiat Chrysler has
idled several thousand workers
this year while it retools factories
in Toledo, Ohio, and Belvidere, Ill.
Further production cuts may be
coming. Many analysts have fore-
cast that auto sales will suffer a
small decline this year — to about
17.2 million vehicles from the
Vishal Sikka, chief executive of Infosys, at the company’s headquarters in India in 2014.
Holcomb and agreed to go ahead
with plans to invest in the state.
“They’re going to hire a wide
variety of people including people
with four year degrees as well as
two-year ones,” said Mr.
Schellinger. “These are high wage
jobs, including software
developers and architects.”
Mr. Holcomb was ebullient at
Tuesday’s announcement in Indi-
anapolis, thanking Infosys for
showing confidence in the state’s
tech work force.
“You can’t even spell Indiana
without starting with India,” he
said. “Today is just the beginning
of a great partnership.”
The state is offering Infosys in-
centives worth up to $31 million
for the project. Indiana intends to
give the company $500,000 in
training funds and $15,250 in con-
ditional tax credits per new job
created.
Infosys argues that it saves
money for major American com-
panies and allows them to operate
more efficiently.
Critics say that companies like
Infosys have taken advantage of
the H-1B program, which is de-
signed to complement the Ameri-
can skilled labor force, by bring-
ing in workers who ultimately un-
dercut it by taking lower wages.
While the program is relatively
small, accounting for about 85,000
visas per year, it has become a
lightning rod in the debate about
large companies outsourcing
American jobs.
The proposed changes to the
H-1B visa program have alarmed
Indian companies and govern-
ment officials, since Indians re-
ceive about two-thirds of those vi-
record of 17.5 million sold in 2016.
But some expect the industry to
see larger declines after that. Alix-
Partners, a consulting firm, is pre-
dicting that sales will decline to
16.6 million vehicles in 2018, and
15.2 million in 2019.
Mark Wakefield, a managing
partner at Alix, said such declines
would force manufacturers to
lower production further.
“They’re doing it already,” he said.
“When the manufacturers take
capacity out, that means less
overtime, or actual layoffs.”
The trend toward lower produc-
sas. The country’s prime minister,
Narendra Modi, discussed the
visa issue with Mr. Trump in Feb-
ruary, and Indian tech executives
raised it with members of Con-
gress during a visit to Washington
about two months ago.
“Our objective was to make
sure that a well-thought-out
process was put in place,” said R.
Chandrashekhar, president of the
National Association of Software
and Services Companies, India’s
leading tech trade group, in a
Pressure from a
Trump White House
intent on curbing
immigrant work visas.
phone interview after Mr. Trump’s
executive order.
Like American tech companies,
the Indian outsourcers have trou-
ble finding enough qualified
Americans to fill jobs, he said. “If
the Indian companies are not able
to get the skills that are needed in
the U.S. and not bring in skilled
workers from somewhere else,
then the only option is to move the
job out of the United States or
leave the job undone,” he said.
As one of the largest beneficia-
ries of the H-1B program, Infosys
could be hit hard by changes to the
system. Major American technol-
ogy companies like Facebook and
Qualcomm also use the program
to hire foreign talent, arguing that
they cannot find enough skilled
tion runs counter to the wishes of
Mr. Trump, who has been pushing
carmakers to make more cars in
the United States and import
fewer from other countries, in-
cluding Mexico and Canada.
Slowing sales is not the only
trouble the industry is facing. In-
ventories on dealer lots are rising.
As of the end of April, G.M. had
enough cars to last 100 days at the
current rate of sales. The industry
considers 60 days ideal.
Interest rates, if they rise later
this year as the Federal Reserve
intends, could crimp sales further.
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workers in the United States. Still,
outsourcing companies like In-
fosys have caused the most con-
troversy.
One suggestion — that H-1B vi-
sas be given to companies paying
the highest wages — could partic-
ularly affect outsourcing compa-
nies like Infosys, which usually do
not offer wages as high as the likes
of Facebook. To that end, new op-
erations in America could help off-
set those difficulties.
Mr. Trump’s nationalistic ap-
proach to business puts interna-
tional companies in a difficult po-
sition. But for many Asian compa-
nies, it is a position they are famil-
iar with, with the rhetoric
reminiscent of the politics of busi-
ness in their home countries. In
recent years, India has introduced
a so-called Make in India industri-
al policy to push companies like
Apple to build out manufacturing
plants in the country. Both Japan
and China often exhibit the kind of
economic nationalism that the
Trump administration has cham-
pioned.
In response to Mr. Trump’s ap-
proach, Alibaba Group of China
and SoftBank of Japan have simi-
larly made vows to hire large
numbers of Americans. In Al-
ibaba’s case, it has said its busi-
nesses will help create one million
jobs. The promises are so large
that many experts doubt all the
jobs will materialize.
Still, their pledges won an en-
dorsement from Mr. Trump. It is
not clear whether such moves will
ultimately help win political ad-
vantages from a president who
has been skeptical about the bene-
fits of trade agreements.
Automakers are also resorting
to ever sweeter incentives to sell
models like small and midsize
cars, which have been eclipsed by
larger vehicles. In April, Hyundai
Motor, the South Korean au-
tomaker, offered discounts of
$5,000 or more on its Sonata se-
dan. “Midsized cars are really
struggling,” said Andrew DiFeo,
owner of a Hyundai franchise in
St. Augustine, Fla.
Another challenge comes from
the increasing supply and falling
prices of late-model used cars.
Some 3.6 million leased vehicles
Insurance Provider Ousts
Its C.E.O., a Trump Critic
By REED ABELSON
Dr. J. Mario Molina, the outspo-
ken chief executive of the Califor-
nia health insurance company
founded by his father, was
abruptly removed from his posi-
tion at Molina Healthcare, accord-
ing to an announcement by the
company on Tuesday. His brother,
John, the company’s chief finan-
cial officer, was also immediately
replaced.
Dr. Molina, the subject of a pro-
file in The New York Times earlier
this year, was one of the foremost
critics of the steps taken by the
Trump administration and Repub-
licans in Congress to overhaul the
federal health care law. Under his
leadership, Molina, which special-
izes in providing care to low-in-
come individuals under the Med-
icaid program, had become a
mainstay of the individual insur-
ance markets created by the law.
The company signed up about one
million customers in the state
marketplaces, and it offers Medic-
aid plans in 12 states and Puerto
Rico.
Attempts to reach Dr. Molina
for comment were unsuccessful,
and the company declined to
make any executives available for
interviews.
But Molina had been struggling
financially in the individual mar-
ketplaces and stunned investors
when it reported that it had lost
hundreds of millions of dollars last
year, for which executives blamed
a flawed government formula. Dr.
Molina repeatedly warned that
the company could withdraw from
the markets if federal officials
failed to make changes to the pro-
gram. Molina’s stock fell signifi-
cantly on the news of its 2016 re-
sults.
The ouster of two brothers did
not seem to be an indication that
the company’s financial perform-
ance in the marketplaces had
worsened, with executives em-
phasizing on a call with analysts
on Tuesday that its results had im-
proved this year and were in line
with earlier expectations.
Like other insurers, Molina also
stressed the uncertainty over the
individual market’s future, point-
ing to the lack of clarity over
whether the federal government
will provide critical funding for
low-income customers. Just last
week, Dr. Molina had written a let-
ter to Congress urging them to
fund the subsidies.
“We are currently evaluating all
our options,” said Joseph W.
White, who had been the compa-
ny’s chief accounting officer. He
will temporarily fill the role of
chief executive. He was also
named the company’s chief finan-
SCOTT MCINTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
are due to be turned in this year,
according to Manheim, an auto
auction company. Another 4.1 mil-
lion are due back in the market
next year. Most will end up on
dealer lots, where they make less
expensive alternative to new cars.
Mr. Silverleib, the Honda dealer
in Massachusetts, is seeing the
impact already. In April, his deal-
ership sold 104 used cars, com-
pared with 65 a year ago. It sold 99
new vehicles, four fewer than a
year ago.
“What that tells me is new sales
are stagnant,” he said.
cial officer as part of the manage-
ment changes.
Like other insurers, Molina in-
dicated it would make decisions
about whether to sell plans and at
what price in the coming weeks,
although Mr. White said it would
be difficult to continue without the
subsidies.
Analysts on the conference call
Tuesday pressed for an explana-
tion as to why the Molinas were
removed, and were told that the
board wanted to improve the com-
pany’s performance and pay more
attention to day-to-day details.
Dale B. Wolf, a former health in-
surance executive and board di-
rector who was named chairman
as part of the changes, assured an-
alysts that the company’s “busi-
ness remains strong.”
The head of Molina
had issues with the
Republicans’ attempt
at a health overhaul.
“It was just our sense, all things
considered, that this was neces-
sary and a right thing to do,” he
said. Mr. Wolf declined to specify
any further changes Molina might
be contemplating.
The company said it would be
conducting a search for a chief ex-
ecutive. The Molina brothers re-
main directors, and Dr. Molina is
up for re-election at the next annu-
al meeting, which was postponed
until next week.
The family no longer has a ma-
jority ownership in the company,
founded by Dr. C. David Molina in
1980.
On Tuesday, analysts specu-
lated that the board could also be
preparing the company for a pos-
sible sale. The megamergers by
some of the nation’s largest health
insurers, including Anthem and
Aetna, were blocked by the Jus-
tice Department as being harmful
to consumers. As a result, the
large insurers remain on the
prowl for possible acquisitions.
Among the potential buyers, ac-
cording to Ana Gupte, an analyst
with Leerink Partners, is Well-
Care Health Plans or Aetna, al-
though UnitedHealth Group, An-
them and Centene could also be
interested if they thought they
could pass the possible regulatory
scrutiny.
Molina’s shares rose sharply on
the news, closing Tuesday at
$59.75 a share, an increase of
about 18 percent.
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Composite 7226.88 + 28.83 + 0.40 + 14.77 + 4.70
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Pfizer (PFE) 33.61 ◊0.17 ◊0.5 400446 Molina Health (MOH) 59.75 +8.95 +17.6 108827 Heska (HSKA) ◊15.66 ◊14.2 6375
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Abbott (ABT) 36.76 45.84 43.60 + 0.12 + 12.23 + 13.5 Du Pont (DD) 61.12 82.37 79.94 + 0.45 + 20.99 + 8.9 Kinder Mor (KMI) 16.63 23.36 20.45 ◊ 0.09 + 16.26 ◊ 1.3 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 34.00 49.07 49.05 + 1.51 + 25.70 + 24.3
Accenture (ACN) 108.66 126.53 120.68 ◊ 0.57 + 5.49 + 3.0 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 102.79 83.00 ◊ 0.13 + 12.45 + 6.6 Kraft Hein (KHC) 78.00 97.77 89.00 ◊ 0.47 + 11.92 + 1.9 Qualcomm (QCOM) 50.13 71.62 53.29 ◊ 0.31 + 4.27 ◊ 18.3
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Amazon.com (AMZN) 656.00 954.40 946.94 ◊ 1.29 + 38.47 + 26.3 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 37.70 34.46 + 0.13 ◊ 1.80 ◊ 2.9 Mastercard (MA) 86.65 119.71 118.12 + 1.75 + 20.81 + 14.4 Simon Prop (SPG) 163.55 229.10 168.79 + 0.18 ◊ 17.47 ◊ 5.0
American E (AXP) 57.15 82.00 79.54 + 0.31 + 21.10 + 7.4 Ford Motor (F) 10.90 14.04 10.92 ◊ 0.50 ◊ 19.82 ◊ 10.0 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 142.79 141.23 + 0.08 + 10.16 + 16.0 AT&T (T) 36.10 43.89 38.95 ◊ 0.15 ◊ 0.38 ◊ 8.4
Boeing (BA) 122.35 185.71 183.44 + 1.05 + 36.89 + 17.8 Facebook (FB) 108.23 153.44 152.78 + 0.32 + 28.85 + 32.8 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 46.40 43.74 ◊ 0.32 ◊ 1.29 ◊ 1.3 Target (TGT) 52.72 80.51 56.16 + 0.39 ◊ 29.91 ◊ 22.3
Bank of Am (BAC) 12.05 25.80 23.53 ◊ 0.08 + 59.31 + 6.5 FedEx (FDX) 145.00 201.57 189.03 + 0.80 + 12.79 + 1.5 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.27 84.75 + 1.01 + 6.81 + 19.0 Time Warne (TWX) 68.97 100.60 99.33 + 0.27 + 31.88 + 2.9
Biogen (BIIB) 223.02 333.65 271.34 + 0.31 + 7.63 + 3.9 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 29.85 + 0.16 ◊ 1.29 + 9.5 MetLife (MET) 36.17 58.09 52.02 + 0.05 + 13.48 ◊ 3.5 Texas Inst (TXN) 56.19 82.92 79.25 ◊ 0.04 + 36.99 + 8.6
BONY Mello (BK) 35.72 49.54 47.12 ◊ 0.06 + 15.58 ◊ 0.6 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 30.43 + 0.04 + 0.23 + 8.5 3M (MMM) 163.17 197.12 196.53 + 1.72 + 16.75 + 10.1 UnitedHeal (UNH) 128.53 176.14 174.14 ◊ 0.45 + 31.82 + 8.8
BlackRock (BLK) 317.60 399.46 384.50 + 1.50 + 6.36 + 1.0 General Dy (GD) 132.68 196.97 194.07 + 0.92 + 36.83 + 12.4 Altria Gro (MO) 60.82 76.55 70.83 + 0.03 + 12.21 + 4.8 Union Paci (UNP) 80.68 115.15 111.09 ◊ 0.51 + 26.07 + 7.2
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 77.12 55.95 ◊ 0.36 ◊ 22.25 ◊ 4.3 GE (GE) 28.19 33.00 28.99 + 0.05 ◊ 6.15 ◊ 8.3 Monsanto (MON) 88.76 117.33 116.90 + 0.03 + 22.22 + 11.1 United Par (UPS) 100.05 120.44 106.92 + 0.38 + 2.06 ◊ 6.7
Berkshire (BRKb) 136.65 177.86 166.05 + 0.61 + 13.04 + 1.9 Gilead Sci (GILD) 65.38 89.45 68.59 + 0.48 ◊ 22.93 ◊ 4.2 Merck & Co (MRK) 53.06 66.80 62.70 + 0.32 + 13.38 + 6.5 US Bancorp (USB) 38.48 56.61 51.57 ◊ 0.13 + 20.01 + 0.4
Citigroup (C) 38.31 62.53 59.71 + 0.25 + 27.91 + 0.5 GM (GM) 27.34 38.55 33.20 ◊ 1.00 + 4.57 ◊ 4.7 Morgan Sta (MS) 23.11 47.33 43.35 ◊ 0.39 + 59.02 + 2.6 UTC (UTX) 96.89 119.70 119.32 + 0.40 + 14.32 + 8.9
Caterpilla (CAT) 69.04 105.98 101.51 ◊ 0.49 + 30.41 + 9.5 Alphabet (GOOG) 663.28 920.77 916.44 + 3.87 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 48.04 69.71 69.30 ◊ 0.11 + 36.93 + 11.5 Visa (V) 73.25 92.80 92.54 + 1.28 + 17.95 + 18.6
Celgene (CELG) 94.42 127.64 123.82 ◊ 0.24 + 17.96 + 7.0 Alphabet (GOOGL) 672.66 942.99 937.09 + 4.27 + 31.17 + 18.3 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 134.33 134.02 + 0.98 + 13.52 + 12.2 Verizon (VZ) 45.76 56.95 45.91 + 0.03 ◊ 10.54 ◊ 14.0
Colgate (CL) 63.43 75.38 70.76 ◊ 1.04 ◊ 2.22 + 8.1 Goldman Sa (GS) 138.20 255.15 225.12 + 0.27 + 35.47 ◊ 6.0 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.33 55.07 + 0.08 ◊ 7.59 + 8.3 Walgreens (WBA) 75.74 88.00 85.81 ◊ 0.65 + 6.52 + 3.7
Comcast (CMCSA) 29.81 40.62 39.34 + 0.15 + 28.50 + 14.0 Halliburto (HAL) 38.24 58.78 45.30 ◊ 0.47 + 7.73 ◊ 16.3 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 46.99 45.13 + 0.08 + 11.99 + 17.4 WalMart (WMT) 62.72 75.77 75.52 + 0.29 + 11.73 + 9.3
Capital On (COF) 58.03 96.92 82.46 + 0.89 + 12.07 ◊ 5.5 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 156.27 154.95 + 0.74 + 13.89 + 15.6 Occidental (OXY) 59.39 78.48 60.04 ◊ 0.78 ◊ 21.34 ◊ 15.7 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 54.54 + 0.08 + 7.81 ◊ 1.0
ConocoPhil (COP) 38.80 53.17 46.70 ◊ 0.78 ◊ 0.32 ◊ 6.9 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 135.00 131.19 + 0.29 + 15.06 + 13.2 Priceline (PCLN) 1148 1891 1881 + 10.60 + 38.61 + 28.3 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 80.30 95.55 82.05 ◊ 0.01 ◊ 7.94 ◊ 9.1
Costco Who (COST) 138.57 178.94 178.59 + 0.73 + 18.33 + 11.5 IBM (IBM) 142.50 182.79 159.10 + 0.26 + 9.52 ◊ 4.2 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 114.61 112.29 + 0.01 + 8.57 + 7.3
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 25.81 34.53 34.24 + 0.27 + 25.10 + 13.3 Intel (INTC) 29.50 38.45 36.97 + 0.66 + 20.78 + 1.9 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 37.39 33.61 ◊ 0.17 + 2.47 + 3.5

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

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 5%
8% high yield +5.87% +15% high yield +13.88% Total Issues Traded 7,994 5,506 2,276 212 T-BILLS
Advances 4,271 3,125 1,062 84
3 4 3-mo. Aug 17 ◊ ◊ 0.86 0.86 +0.05 0.81
Declines 3,233 2,179 935 119 6-mo. Nov 17 ◊ ◊ 0.99 0.98 +0.01 0.98
Unchanged 153 42 103 8
6 +10 52 Week High 311 81 208 22 3 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 130 77 49 4 2 2-yr. Apr 19 1ü ◊ 99.98 99.98 +0.03 1.28
Dollar Volume* 28,427 18,087 9,438 901 5-yr. Apr 22 1~ ◊ 100.31 100.32 +0.16 1.84
2 10-yr. Feb 27 2ü ◊ 99.66 99.67 +0.28 2.32
4 + 5 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 30-yr. Feb 47 3.000 ◊ 100.45 100.47 +0.53 3.00
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 22 [ ◊ 100.41 100.51 –0.02 0.04
2 0 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 27 ] ◊ 99.75 99.85 +0.01 0.40
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 29 2ø ◊ 122.34 122.59 +0.02 0.53
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017 30-yr. Feb 47 ~ ◊ 97.89 98.14 +0.08 0.96
0 invest. grade +3.64% – 5 invest. grade +2.15% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2016 2017 2016 2017 Standard & Poor’s.

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

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0654 15.2800 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7535 1.3271
One Dollar in Yen
Bank Amer Corp (BAC.HBM) 5.750 Dec’17 Baa1 BBB+ 102.615 101.550 102.337 –0.088 1.647 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1449 6.9000 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9154 China (Yuan) .1450 6.8949 120 yen $1 = 111.96
Royal Bk Cda (RY) 1.875 Feb’20 Aaa NR 99.706 99.586 99.706 0.274 1.985 Brazil (Real) .3173 3.1514 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1285 7.7807
United Technologies Corp (UTX) 3.125 May’27 A3 A– 100.456 100.008 100.390 0.164 N.A. Canada (Dollar) .7296 1.3707 India (Rupee) .0156 64.1500
At&t Inc (T) 5.700 Mar’57 Baa1 BBB+ 106.378 105.213 106.015 0.865 5.332 Chile (Peso) .0015 667.35 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0089 111.96
115
United Technologies Corp (UTX) 2.800 May’24 A3 A– 100.416 99.903 100.405 0.318 N.A. Colombia (Peso) .0003 2939.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2312 4.3260
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.200 Jul’21 Baa2 BBB 99.029 96.938 97.463 –0.104 2.843 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0212 47.1500 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .6933 1.4424
At&t Inc (T) 5.450 Mar’47 Baa1 BBB+ 103.206 102.598 103.165 0.461 5.237
Synchrony Finl (GE) 3.700 Aug’26 NR BBB– 97.680 95.944 96.196 –1.062 4.200
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.68
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1363 7.3390 Philippines (Peso) .0200 49.9890 105
Bank Nova Scotia B C (BNS) 2.700 Mar’22 Aa3 A+ 101.150 100.691 100.836 0.063 2.515
Honduras (Lempira) .0426 23.4500 Singapore (Dollar) .7178 1.3932
Sanofi S A (SNY) 1.250 Apr’18 A1 AA 100.004 99.620 99.986 0.067 1.265
Mexico (Peso) .0533 18.7510 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1128.2
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0341 29.3500 Taiwan (Dollar) .0333 30.0370
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5559.0 Thailand (Baht) .0290 34.4600
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 6.875 Feb’22 Caa1 CCC+ 90.165 84.550 87.750 1.500 10.193 Peru (New Sol) .3088 3.2386 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22700 95
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 11.000 Sep’25 B1 B+ 100.750 95.918 98.000 1.300 11.371 Uruguay (New Peso) .0356 28.1000
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 8.000 Nov’19 Caa1 CCC+ 100.509 98.000 100.063 0.123 7.869 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 7.125 Jul’20 Caa1 CCC+ 95.813 93.750 94.875 0.625 9.000 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6577 .3763
Royal Bk Scotland Group Plc (BNPQF) 3.875 Sep’23 Ba1 BBB– 100.624 100.107 100.624 0.394 3.763 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1511.0
Norway (Krone) .1165 8.5857 Egypt (Pound) .0553 18.0900
Charter Communications Operating, Llc (CHART) 4.464 Jul’22 Ba1 BBB– 106.653 106.359 106.465 0.138 3.072 Britain (Pound) 1.2935 .7731 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7499
Poland (Zloty) .2603 3.8424 Iran (Rial) .00003 32440
Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC) 6.750 Jun’23 Caa1 CCC+ 99.563 98.500 98.625 –0.375 7.029 So. Africa (Rand) .0750 13.3400
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0406 24.6100 Russia (Ruble) .0175 57.0095 Israel (Shekel) .2774 3.6048
Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC) 8.125 Apr’22 Caa1 CCC+ 105.050 103.938 104.500 2.250 7.022 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6729
Denmark (Krone) .1470 6.8040 Sweden (Krona) .1136 8.8022 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4122 .7081
Harrahs Oper Inc (CZR) 10.000 Dec’18 NR D 88.500 86.000 87.000 –1.125 N.A.
Europe (Euro) 1.0924 .9154 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0088 .9913 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 102.95
Banco Do Brasil S A Grand Cayman Branch (CPMA) 3.875 Oct’22 Ba2 BB 97.875 96.744 96.840 –0.135 N.A. Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 285.40 Turkey (Lira) .2836 3.5260 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2900 .3040
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Molina Healthcare Inc (MOH) 1.125 Jan’20 NR NR 156.105 151.687 155.542 21.167 –14.868
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) 2.125 Sep’26 NR B– 169.550 151.000 151.800 –35.230 –2.719
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
2.375
1.250
Mar’22
Mar’21
NR
NR
B–
B–
115.094
107.000
113.340
103.100
113.383
104.750
–1.797
–1.429
–0.352
0.003
FUTURES
Intel Corp (INTC.GE) 3.250 Aug’39 A2 A 178.612 176.530 178.458 3.898 –0.199 Monetary
Nxp Semiconductors N V (NXPI) 1.000 Dec’19 Ba2 BB– 116.720 116.580 116.670 0.670 –4.992 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $47.66 a barrel
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.000 Jul’20 NR 114.800 113.000 114.022 0.678 –3.188
Array Biopharma Inc (ARRY) 3.000 Jun’20 NR NR 127.910 124.946 125.075 –13.468 –4.516 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 460.00 332.50 May 17 367.25 369.75 362.25 364.00 ◊ 5.25 5,535
Microchip Technology Inc (MCHP) 1.625 Feb’25 NR B+ 146.999 144.580 146.561 –1.689 –3.525 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1116.00 872.00 May 17 958.50 967.75 955.00 958.00 ◊ 1.00 5,699
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC) 3.750 May’21 NR BBB– 103.375 102.000 102.442 –0.512 3.100 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 646.75 398.50 May 17 445.75 450.75 438.75 441.50 ◊ 1.25 1,380 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 127.13 91.30 Jun 17 124.10 127.13 124.08 127.05 + 2.93 175,964
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 76.53 62.50 May 17 66.50 67.13 66.50 66.95 + 0.83 2,065
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3326.00 1805.00 May 17 1836.00 1866.00 1836.00 1805.00 ◊ 7.00 38 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 228.00 123.20 May 17 134.10 134.10 132.75 134.00 + 0.40 69
Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 22.09 12.07 Jun 17 16.19 16.49 15.80 15.88 ◊ 0.30 379,229
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1295.30 1197.20 May 17 1256.20 1256.20 1251.20 1255.10 + 1.80 418 45
Silver COMX $/oz 20.95 14.35 May 17 16.86 16.95 16.76 16.77 ◊ 0.01 1,464
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.84 1.97 May 17 2.65 2.65 2.62 2.63 ◊ 0.02 5,202
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 93.23 36.18 Jun 17 48.78 49.28 47.35 47.66 ◊ 1.18 565,908 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.67 1.11 May 17 1.49 1.51 1.46 1.47 ◊ 0.02 129,242
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.10 2.37 May 17 3.23 3.27 3.18 3.20 ◊ 0.02 270,394 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Tuesday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 0.91% 0.37% Source: Thomson Reuters
Industrial Production +6%
Prime rate 4.00 3.50 Change from
15-yr fixed 3.09 2.73 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: LONG- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM GOVERNMENT BONDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.07 3.67 March ’17 +1.5% –4
Feb. ’17 +0.3 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.89 3.60 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.42 4.04 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.17 3.02
Consumer Confidence 140
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Adm(VBTLX) CI +1.6 +0.9 +2.2 0.05 75,214 PIMCO Long-Term Credit Institutional(PTCIX) CL +4.8 +8.0 +7.2 0.55 2,792
Conference Board PIMCO Total Return Instl(PTTRX) CI +2.4 +3.0 +2.8 0.46 52,531 Morgan Stanley Inst Core PlsFxdInc Ins(MPFIX) CI +2.4 +6.6 +5.4 0.43 225
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.61 3.14 survey Metropolitan West Total Return Bd I(MWTIX) CI +1.6 +1.3 +3.6 0.42 49,322 Guggenheim Investment Grade Bond A(SIUSX) CI +2.6 +5.7 +4.7 1.00 164
Dodge & Cox Income(DODIX) CI +1.9 +3.9 +3.4 0.43 48,863 Nuveen Core Plus Bond I(FFIIX) CI +2.4 +4.7 +3.3 0.52 271
1-year adj. rate 3.17 2.80 Apr. ’17 120.3 T. Rowe Price New Income(PRCIX) CI +1.7 +1.3 +2.3 0.58 28,786 Loomis Sayles Investment Grade F/I(LSIGX) CI +4.0 +4.7 +3.7 0.48 416
40
Fidelity Total Bond(FTBFX) CI +2.1 +3.6 +3.2 0.45 22,153 Touchstone Flexible Income Y(MXIIX) CI +3.4 +4.5 +4.5 0.84 474
March ’17 124.9 ’12 ’17 American Funds Bond Fund of Amer A(ABNDX) CI +1.9 +1.4 +2.3 0.61 19,351 PIMCO Long Duration Total Return Instl(PLRIX) CL +4.6 +4.5 +4.9 0.50 2,784
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard GNMA Adm(VFIJX) GI +1.0 +0.9 +2.0 0.11 17,346 BMO TCH Core Plus Bond I(MCBIX) CI +2.2 +4.4 +3.9 0.34 482
Vanguard Inflation-Protected Secs Adm(VAIPX) IP +1.6 +1.9 +0.6 0.10 13,557 Spirit of America Income A(SOAIX) CL +3.0 +4.3 +4.8 1.10 213
$75K line good credit* 4.88% 4.39%
Inventory-Sales Ratio 2.0 Fidelity US Bond Index Instl Prem(FXNAX) CI +1.7 +0.9 +2.2 0.05 13,289 Columbia Inflation Protected Secs A(APSAX) IP +1.5 +4.2 +0.2 0.80 54
$75K line excel. credit* 4.63 4.25 Vanguard Interm-Term Bond Index Adm(VBILX) CI +2.4 +1.0 +2.8 0.07 12,564 Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond A(NEFRX) CI +2.4 +4.2 +3.5 0.73 729
Monthly Fidelity Series Investment Grade Bond(FSIGX) CI +2.0 +2.4 +2.6 0.45 12,438 JHancock Bond R6(JHBSX) CI +2.5 +4.1 +4.4 0.42 520
$75K loan good credit* 4.25 4.19 Seasonally adjusted JPMorgan Core Bond R6(JCBUX) CI +1.8 +1.4 +2.4 0.34 11,633
LAGGARDS
Baird Aggregate Bond Inst(BAGIX) CI +1.8 +1.8 +3.3 0.30 11,129
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.25 4.17 Feb. ’17 1.35 1.0 Baird Core Plus Bond Inst(BCOIX) CI +2.0 +2.7 +3.4 0.30 10,861 Wasatch-Hoisington US Treasury(WHOSX) GL +2.2 ◊4.2 +3.2 0.69 328
Prudential Total Return Bond Z(PDBZX) CI +2.8 +3.6 +3.9 0.54 10,230 Vanguard Extended Duration Trs Idx Ins(VEDTX) GL +3.2 ◊4.1 +4.5 0.06 595
Jan. ’17 1.35 ’12 ’17 Fidelity Investment Grade Bond(FBNDX) CI +1.9 +3.1 +2.7 0.45 8,877 T. Rowe Price US Treasury Long-Term(PRULX) GL +2.6 ◊2.8 +2.7 0.49 407
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TIAA-CREF Bond Index Institutional(TBIIX) CI +1.7 +0.8 +2.1 0.12 7,538 Dreyfus US Treasury Long-Term(DRGBX) GL +2.5 ◊2.8 +2.5 0.65 53
TCW Total Return Bond I(TGLMX) CI +1.5 +0.9 +4.0 0.49 7,072 AIG US Government Securities A(SGTAX) GI +0.6 ◊2.5 * 0.99 146
36-mo. used car 3.33% 3.26% Leading Indicators +8% PIMCO Real Return Instl(PRRIX) IP +2.1 +2.9 +0.6 0.45 6,226 Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bd Idx Pr(FLBAX)
Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Inv(VUSTX)
GL
GL
+2.8
+2.8
◊2.5
◊2.4
+3.3
+3.2
0.09
0.20
1,021
994
Vanguard Shrt-Term Infl-Prot Sec Idx I(VTSPX) IP +0.6 +1.6 NA 0.04 6,150
60-mo. new car 3.23 3.36 Change from Federated Total Return Bond Instl(FTRBX) CI +2.0 +3.2 +2.9 0.37 5,796 Vanguard Long-Term Government Bd Idx I(VLGIX) GL +2.9 ◊2.2 +3.4 0.05 173
previous year Fidelity GNMA(FGMNX) GI +0.9 +0.8 +1.8 0.45 5,328 First Investors Government A(FIGVX) GI +0.9 ◊1.3 +0.4 1.08 240
Fidelity Advisor Government Income C(FVICX) GI +0.9 ◊1.2 +0.4 1.54 74
CD’s and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 March ’17 +3.5% 0 Average performance for all such funds +1.7 +1.6 +2.1 American Century Zero Coupon 2025 Inv(BTTRX) GL +2.8 ◊1.0 +3.0 0.56 134
Number of funds for period 407 407 397 T. Rowe Price US Treasury Interm(PRTIX) GI +1.6 ◊0.9 +1.0 0.50 386
Feb. ’17 +3.1 ’12 ’17
Money-market 0.30% 0.23%
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: CI-Interm-Term Bond. CL-Long-
$10K min. money-mkt 0.28 0.26 Term Bond. GI-Interm. Government. GL-Long Government. IP-Inflation-Protected Bond. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar
New Home Sales 1.0
6-month CD 0.38 0.34
Annual rate, in millions
1-year CD 0.62 0.54 Seasonally adjusted
2-year CD 0.79 0.73 March ’17 0.62 0.0 ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS
5-year IRA CD 1.52 1.42 Feb. ’17 0.59 ’12 ’17
Information on all United States stocks, plus bonds, mutual funds, commodities and foreign stocks along
*Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850. Source: Bankrate.com with analysis of industry sectors and stock indexes: nytimes.com/markets
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Tottenham fans celebrated after a match on Sunday against Arsenal. A recording on Spurs’ ticket line warns buyers not to support the visiting team.

ESSAY

White on the Field,

Blue in the Stands
By DANNY HAKIM
LONDON — There’s a helpful sign on the
backs of seats in the family section at White
Hart Lane, home of Tottenham Hotspur.
“Mind your language,” it begins.
“The north stand is our family stand,” it
continues, with the second part of the sen-
tence boldfaced. “Therefore, our club would
like to remind supporters to show considera-
tion for the large number of children and
families that occupy this area.”
Then, more boldface.
“Please refrain from using foul and abusive
language or behavior of a threatening na-
ture.”
When my younger son, Eli, pointed out this
stern, bright yellow notice to me, he had a
huge grin on his face. He had just turned 10,
was earning an allowance for the first time
and was ready to expand his vocabulary. This
was our second Spurs game since moving to
London, and we knew what was coming. As
far as he was concerned, White Hart Lane
was a safe space where he could learn to
cuss.
Sure enough, the obscenities began to rain
down a minute or two later, and my two sons
could not contain their glee. A player for
Manchester City had broken away toward
the goal, but at his moment of opportunity he
stumbled over, collapsing and then recoiling,
his face contorted in agony. We were in the
third row, so this happened almost at our
feet.
The crowd, already standing, began to
erupt, as if the ancient Romans had returned
to rule the city and a fallen gladiator was
before us. Our section began heaping all CHRIS J RATCLIFFE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
manner of abuse on this hapless invader. Spurs fans shouted at Arsenal supporters. “Keep the passion. Lose the
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A Flashier Cricket Faces the Specter of Doping
By TIM WIGMORE
LONDON — For two decades, cricket
has been familiar with the specter of
match-fixing, which brought scandals
and suspensions to a sport that consid-
ered itself a gentlemen’s pastime. Now,
though, as cricket embraces the faster,
flashier version of the game known as
Twenty20, which rewards explosive
power, the sport is grappling with a new
threat to its integrity: doping.
In January, Andre Russell of Jamaica,
one of the world’s leading Twenty20
players, was barred for a year for failing
to file his whereabouts with doping offi-
cials three times in a year, resulting in a
series of missed tests. Then on April 13,
the International Cricket Council an-
nounced that Mohammad Shahzad of Af-
ghanistan, ranked the world’s seventh-
best T20 batsman, had tested positive for
the banned substance clenbuterol in an
out-of-competition test. On Sunday, he
was provisionally suspended.
While doping suspensions in cricket
remain rare, antidoping officials and the
sport’s governing body have expressed
concern that these two incidents reflect
how the rise of T20, and the explosion of
cash it has brought to the sport, has
made cricket more vulnerable to doping
than ever before.
“Cricket is a high-risk sport for per-
formance-enhancing drug use,” said
Richard Ings, the former head of the
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Author-
ity, who described the game’s testing
protocols as “porous and inconsistent.”
“I would rate the risk of doping in
cricket as high,” Ings added, “and the
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Mohammad Shahzad, one of the best batsmen in Twenty20, tested positive
for a banned substance and was provisionally suspended on Sunday.
quality of the sport’s coordinated global
antidoping efforts as poor.”
The I.C.C., which governs the game
worldwide, said it conducted 547 drug
tests in 2016 — suggesting that a reason-
able proportion of top male international
cricketers were tested, although testing
is less common at lower levels and in the
women’s game.
The council has announced plans to in-
troduce blood testing starting in June,
largely to monitor the potential use of hu-
man growth hormone, which does not
show up in urine samples.
“I don’t think you can possibly say
drug free, but we are doing all that we
can to police cricket,” said Sally Clark,
the senior legal counsel for the I.C.C.
The fear inside the game is that while
cricket has had spasmodic concerns with
drugs before, it now faces a much more
sustained threat, perhaps similar to
what baseball encountered two decades
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Red Sox Take Firm Stance
After Oriole Hears Epithets
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
BOSTON — The city of Boston
alternated between anger and
apology on Tuesday as it dealt
with revelations that Adam Jones,
the star center fielder for the Bal-
timore Orioles, had reported be-
ing the subject of racial abuse at
Monday night’s game against the
Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Hours after hearing that Jones,
who is African-American, had told
reporters that he had been the tar-
get of racial epithets and that a
bag of peanuts had been thrown at
him, John Henry, the principal
owner of the Red Sox, met with
Jones to apologize personally and
express his outrage at the events.
Sam Kennedy, the Red Sox
president, was also part of the
meeting, and he said that Henry
thanked Jones for speaking up
and promised to beef up security
in the wake of the episode.
Kennedy said that during their
conversation, Jones, one of the
more respected and outspoken
players in baseball, said that such
behavior comes with the territory
and that Henry cut him off.
“John Henry said, ‘No, it should-
n’t go with the territory,’” Ken-
nedy recounted. “‘It’s not O.K.
You should speak out.’”
Massachusetts political leaders
echoed the anger expressed by
the Red Sox. Martin J. Walsh,
Boston’s mayor, issued a state-
ment calling the abuse unaccept-
able, and he labeled the unknown
perpetrator or perpetrators
“nothing but a racist.” Gov. Char-
lie Baker said on his Twitter ac-
count: “Fenway fans behavior at
the #RedSox game last night was
unacceptable & shameful. This is
not what Massachusetts & Boston
are about.”
Meanwhile, Commissioner Rob
Manfred issued a statement con-
demning Monday’s events and
said similar behavior “will not be
tolerated at any of our ball parks.”
Jones, in turn, said he appreci-
ated the swift response from the
Red Sox, who first reached out to
him Tuesday morning to arrange
a face-to-face meeting with him,
Henry, Kennedy and Buck
Showalter, the Orioles’ manager.
Henry and Kennedy first met with
Red Sox players to discuss the
matter and heard from some of
them that they had also experi-
enced abuse at Fenway.
Boston has a tortured history of
race relations. The Red Sox were
the last pre-expansion major
league team to integrate, doing so
only when Pumpsie Green made
his debut for the team in 1959, 12
years after Jackie Robinson broke
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Hit Hard by Injuries, Yankees Respond With Five Homers
By WALLACE MATTHEWS
Tuesday did not start out well
for the Yankees. Well before the
first pitch of that night’s game
against the To-
YANKEES 11 ronto Blue
BLUE JAYS 5 Jays at Yankee
Stadium, two
of their everyday players had re-
ceived magnetic resonance imag-
ing examinations, and by game
time, one of them was on the dis-
abled list with the other possibly
ready to join him.
Greg Bird, the first baseman,
was placed on the 10-day D.L. with
a bone bruise on his right ankle,
and center fielder Jacoby Ells-
bury was shelved for at least the
next couple of days, and perhaps
longer, with an elbow injury after
a collision with the outfield wall
the previous night.
It seemed like no way to go into
a game against the Blue Jays, who
had roughed up Luis Severino and
belted three home runs in a 7-1 vic-
tory Monday.
But once again, the Yankees
showed there is no ill they can suf-
fer that the home run cannot cure.
Make that multiple home runs.
For the third time in their past five
games, the Yankees put on a long-
ball barrage, hitting five home
runs, including two more by the
rookie Aaron Judge, in an 11-5 vic-
tory.
Judge now has 12 home runs,
the most in baseball, and more
than a few chants of “M.V.P.!”
were heard from the Yankee Sta-
dium crowd even before he hit his
second home run of the game.
But Judge was not alone; Brett
Gardner, who had gone nine
months and 261 at-bats without a
home run before hitting two Satur-
day, hit two more, in the second
and fourth innings, and Ellsbury’s
replacement, Aaron Hicks, hit one
leading off the seventh.
Four of the home runs came off
Blue Jays starter Mat Latos, who
lasted only four innings. Judge’s
second home run came off Jason
Grilli in the seventh.
Twenty-five games into the 2017
season, the Yankees’ power num-
bers have been surprising, and in
some cases, eye-popping. After
having hit five home runs in Fri-
day’s 14-11 win and four more in
Saturday’s 12-4 win, both over the
Baltimore Orioles, the five home
runs they hit Tuesday night in-
creased their season’s total to 42,
tops in the American League.
Hicks’s home run was his fifth of
the season, a total he did not reach
until Aug. 12 last season. And the
combined total of the two Aarons
— Judge and Hicks — of 17 home
runs is one more than the Boston
Red Sox have managed so far.
Most remarkably, Judge’s 12
home runs in 84 at-bats translates
to one homer every seven at-bats,
Harvey and the Mets Struggle Again
By JAMES WAGNER
ATLANTA — The 2017 season,
at least the beginning, was not
supposed to be easy for Matt Har-
vey. After he underwent an opera-
tion last July to
BRAVES 9 alleviate tho-
METS 7 racic outlet
syndrome, the
Mets believed it would take 10
months before he regained his full
strength and velocity.
Although he showed signs of
improvement late in spring train-
ing and even flashes in April,
Tuesday’s start in a lethargic 9-7
loss to the Atlanta Braves seemed
to provide evidence that he was
not yet back in peak condition.
Harvey surrendered six runs on
eight hits over five and a third in-
nings, walking three batters and
striking out only two. The Mets’
home run-dependent offense was
exactly that against Braves start-
er R. A. Dickey; the only runs
came on shots by Jay Bruce and
Asdrubal Cabrera.
Bruce’s grand slam with two
outs in the ninth inning off reliever
Matt Wisler trimmed the Mets’
deficit to two runs and injected the
game with late hope. But Jim
Johnson, the Braves’ closer, re-
placed Wisler and struck out Neil
Walker to end the game.
And, because it was a Mets
game, it involved an injury.
Catcher Travis d’Arnaud, who has
provided some power at the plate
this season, left the game in the
sixth inning with what the team
called a sore right wrist.
It was not immediately clear if
that was related to the same inju-
ry that relegated d’Arnaud to
pinch-hitting duties two weeks
ago. On April 19, d’Arnaud hit his
right hand, his throwing hand, on
the bat of an opposing hitter while
throwing to second base on a stol-
en-base attempt. He returned to
catching a week later.
D’Arnaud did not appear to
have any discomfort crouching
behind the plate for Harvey, but he
left the game with the Mets trail-
ing, 6-3.
Harvey’s recent progress has
been difficult to evaluate, as each
of his two previous starts were
moved up a day on short notice be-
cause of injuries to Jacob deGrom
and Noah Syndergaard. But some
trends have emerged.
Above, Brett Gardner hitting
the first of his two home runs,
a two-run shot in the second
inning. Right, Masahiro Tana-
ka (4-1) earned the victory, al-
lowing four runs and eight hits
in six and a third innings.
a pace that projects to 86 home
runs over the course of a typical
600-at-bat season. His first home
run, off Latos, was decidedly non-
Judgelike, an opposite-field fly
ball that landed just beyond the
right-field wall, a mere 314 feet
away, and just inside the foul pole.
But his second one, off Grilli, was
more in line with what Yankee
fans have become accustomed to:
a healthy shot into the left-center-
field seats that came on a 3-2 pitch
at the end of a tense, 10-pitch at-
bat.
The Yankees took a 7-0 lead af-
ter four innings, a cushion which
temporarily dulled the sting of los-
ing Bird and Ellsbury on the same
day.
Working behind that generous
Matt Harvey (33) walked off the mound in the first inning after
giving up a two-run homer to the Braves’ Freddie Freeman.
Harvey’s fastball velocity en-
tering Tuesday’s game was 93.8
miles per hour, according to Fan-
Graphs.com. That is just under
one mile per hour below his mark
from last season, and two lower
than his 2015 season.
Lower velocity was to be ex-
pected after the second major
arm-related surgery of Harvey’s
career, so it was clear that he
would need strong command to
survive.
He did not have that on Tues-
day, coughing up a long two-run
homer to Freddie Freeman in the
first inning on a slider that caught
too much of the plate. In the fourth
inning, Harvey gave up three
runs, including two on a single on
a similar pitch to Ender Inciarte.
In all, Harvey has struck out
only five batters over his past
three starts. Over 35 innings this
season he has fanned 20 while
walking 13 and surrendering sev-
en home runs.
Entering Tuesday night, Har-
vey had a swinging strike percent-
age of 7.5 percent, according to
FanGraphs, which is a sign of the
swing-and-miss quality of his
pitches. That figure was close to 10
percent in 2016, and around 12 per-
cent the previous three years that
Harvey pitched.
Once Harvey left the game,
relievers Josh Smoker and Fer-
nando Salas combined to allow
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BASEBALL
cushion, starter Masahiro Tanaka
— who had allowed a hard-hit dou-
ble to Kevin Pillar on his first pitch
of the game — cruised until the
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three runs. Josh Edgin closed out
the sixth inning after Harvey left,
and Paul Sewald pitched a score-
less ninth.
With the pitching staff battling
inconsistencies and injuries, the
Mets’ offense needs to carry the
team. But the offense has been un-
even, with hitters such as Walker
and Curtis Granderson struggling
at the plate. Granderson, who is
hitting .124, got Tuesday night off
while Juan Lagares started in cen-
ter field.
Bruce has been one of the bright
spots of the Mets’ offense, and he
did his best to help by driving in
six runs. But Harvey and the
bullpen fell short.
INSIDE PITCH
SETH LUGO and STEVEN MATZ,
two starting pitchers dealing with
elbow injuries, threw off the
mound without discomfort on
Tuesday at the Mets’ spring train-
ing facility in Port St. Lucie, Fla.,
Manager TERRY COLLINS said. . . .
First baseman LUCAS DUDA hit off
a tee after pausing his minor
league rehabilitation assignment
with a setback regarding his hy-
perextended elbow. . . . Outfielder
BRANDON NIMMO and infielder
WILMER FLORES continued their
minor league rehabilitation as-
signments in Class AAA Las Ve-
gas. Flores could rejoin the Mets
by the weekend.
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fifth inning, when he surrendered
a solo home run to Steve Pearce
and an R.B.I. single to Chris Cogh-
lan to cut the Yankees’ margin to
P R O B A S K E T B A L L N. B . A . P L AYO F F S
Thomas Passes 50 Points in Celtics Win
By The Associated Press
Isaiah Thomas scored 53 points,
including 9 in overtime, to help the
Boston Celtics beat the visiting
Washington Wizards, 129-119, on
Tuesday night to take a two-
games-to-none lead in the best-of-
seven Eastern Conference
semifinals.
Fiddling with the mouth guard
he began using after he lost one of
his front teeth in Game 1, Thomas
became the fifth player in the his-
tory of the Celtics to score at least
50 points in a postseason game.
John Wall had 40 points and 13
rebounds for the Wizards.
The series moves to Washing-
ton for Games 3 and 4, set for
Thursday and Sunday.
It has been a rough postseason
for Thomas, whose sister died the
day before the Celtics’ first-round
opener. He attended her funeral
on Saturday and returned to Bos-
ton early Sunday morning — just
hours before the Celtics beat the
Wizards, 123-111, in a game in
which he had a tooth knocked out.
Team doctors jammed the tooth
back in, but Thomas spent part of
Monday and Tuesday in the den-
tist’s chair to have it repositioned.
In Game 2, Thomas banged his
face on the court in the third quar-
ter and spent the next few min-
utes adjusting his teeth.
Two others needed medical at-
tention: Washington’s Otto Porter
Jr. left the court with blood gush-
ing from his nose, and Celtics
guard Avery Bradley needed
treatment for a hip pointer in the
second half.
Al Horford scored 15 points with
12 rebounds for Boston, and Brad-
ley and Jae Crowder each scored
14 points.
Marcin Gortat had 14 points and
10 rebounds for the Wizards, and
Markieff Morris scored 16 points,
but both fouled out in overtime.
The Wizards, who in their previ-
ous game took a 16-0 lead only to
fall behind by 15 in the third quar-
ter, erupted for 42 points in the
first quarter and opened a 13-point
lead. Wall had 19 points in the first,
to Thomas’s 15, but Boston erased
the deficit in the second quarter
and took a brief lead with just over
a minute left before halftime.
7-2. Pearce, who had not homered
all season, took Tanaka deep
again leading off the seventh.
Tanaka (4-1) went six and a
third innings, allowing eight hits
and four runs, the final one scor-
ing on an unusual balk when the
ball apparently stuck in Dellin Be-
tances’s hand and fell to the
ground a few feet from the mound
with the bases loaded, causing the
runners to advance. The Blue
Jays added a fifth run on an
eighth-inning groundout.
INSIDE PITCH
The Yankees recalled utility
player ROB REFSNYDER from
Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-
Barre to replace Bird on the roster.
Refsnyder batted for MATT HOLLI-
DAY in the eighth and flied out . . .
catcher GARY SANCHEZ homered
on the first pitch he saw playing
for Scranton in the first game of a
rehabilitation assignment.
Sanchez, who has been on the D.L.
since April 8 with a biceps strain,
also had an R.B.I. double.
Boston’s Isaiah Thomas shooting against Washington’s Bradley
Beal during the first half at TD Garden on Tuesday night.
Washington went ahead by 14 in
the third quarter, but Boston led
by 112-111 with 33 seconds left in the
fourth. Porter hit a 3-pointer to
give the Wizards the lead, but
Thomas was fouled going to the
basket and made two free throws
to tie the score before both Wall
and Bradley Beal missed short
jumpers that could have lifted the
Wizards in regulation.
The game had a testy moment:
Thomas and Morris got into it
midway through the third quarter,
drawing double technicals. Thom-
as appeared to be having words
with someone on the Wizards’
bench, and Morris tried to push
him away.
At the same time, Porter and
Thomas appeared to bang heads,
and Porter headed to the locker
room, bleeding from the nose.
RAPTORS LOOK TO FIGHT BACK
LeBron James dazzled with soar-
ing dunks, outside shots and even
a beer chaser in a Game 1 victory
by the Cleveland Cavaliers on
Monday.
And he did it all — 35 points, 10
rebounds, 4 assists and an amus-
ing sideline exchange with a beer
vendor — at the expense of the
Raptors.
Toronto Coach Dwane Casey
has seen this happen before —
with Michael Jordan.
A day after the Raptors fell into
a familiar postseason hole with a
0N B9
Bush Group,
With Jeter,
Is Confident
On Marlins
By KEN BELSON
The Miami Marlins, one of the
most forlorn franchises in base-
ball, are inching closer to being
sold.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida
governor, said he was confident
that he and his fellow investors,
including the retired Yankees
shortstop Derek Jeter, would com-
plete a deal to buy the team. Bush
said he expected a resolution to
their bid soon.
“Given the interest that we
have inside of Miami, and among
people who are potential limited
partners, I’m really excited about
it,” Bush said at a conference on
Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Jeter and Bush have lined up
Citibank to help them pay for the
team, which is owned by Jeffrey
Loria, a New York art dealer who
has often conducted fire sales of
expensive talent. The club is ex-
pected to sell for about $1.3 billion,
but about $400 million of that
amount is debt on the team. Bush,
Jeter and their fellow investors
would need to raise $800 million to
$900 million to cover the rest.
Baseball Commissioner Rob
Manfred said recently that the
Bush-Jeter group was not the only
bidder for the Marlins, who have
consistently ranked near the bot-
tom of the major leagues in at-
tendance and payroll. The other
major bidder remaining is a group
that includes Tagg Romney, the
eldest son of Mitt Romney, the Re-
publican nominee for president in
2012. Tagg Romney has worked in
marketing at Reebok and with the
Los Angeles Dodgers.
If it can complete the details of
its financial plan to buy the team,
the Bush-Jeter group is the favor-
ite to win the bidding because of
Jeter’s prestige inside baseball
and Bush’s standing in Florida.
“The team will be sold,” said a
person with knowledge of the
process who was not authorized to
speak publicly about the matter.
“It’s just a question of when.”
If the Marlins are sold for $1.3
billion, it will represent the sec-
ond-highest price paid for a major
league team, after the $2 billion
paid for the Dodgers in 2012.
The Marlins’ buyers could re-
coup some of their investment by
selling the naming rights to the
team’s stadium, which could bring
in several hundred million dollars.
They could also restructure the
team’s media-rights deal.
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116-105 loss in the opener of the
teams’ Eastern Conference semi-
final series, Casey was asked if his
players might be awed by James,
who is on a mission to make his
seventh straight N.B.A. finals.
As an assistant coach with Se-
attle, Casey urged his players not
to bow to Jordan, he recalled.
“I think that’s natural,” Casey
said. “It’s human nature to watch
a Michael Jordan or a Karl Ma-
lone, spectate until they hit you in
the mouth.
“When a guy hits you in the
mouth a few times — now what
are you going to do? That’s the
mentality we have to have: They
punched us.”
In Game 1, the Cavaliers landed
a vicious uppercut on the Raptors,
who lost their 10th straight series
opener.
But Toronto has shown it can
take a big shot and deliver one. A
year ago, the Raptors were blown
out in the first two games of the
Eastern Conference finals by
Cleveland before winning two
straight at home. And while they
were eliminated in six games, the
Raptors do not feel nearly as
groggy as they did in 2016.
“The way we lost last year, it hit
a lot harder,” guard DeMar
DeRozan said. “This time around,
we have kind of that confidence
and understanding of how to get
back on our feet.”
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H O C K E Y S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S

Rangers Regain Their Footing at the Garden and March Back Into the Series
By BEN SHPIGEL
J. T. Miller charged into the Ot-
tawa Senators’ zone late in the
second period Tuesday night, and
he controlled the puck as he
whirled at the top of the circle to
shake one de-
RANGERS 4 fender, and he
SENATORS 1 controlled it as
he juked past
Ottawa leads another, and
series, 2-1 he controlled it
even as he
fended off a check and zoomed to-
ward the net. The puck lingered
along his stick blade for a good
five seconds as he wove through a
discombobulated defense, and he
gave it up only when he was ready,
not because anyone had dis-
lodged, it or had even come close.
Miller’s pass resulted in a goal
for the Rangers — and of course it
did, because his team, after open-
ing an Eastern Conference semi-
final series with two narrow de-
feats, played in a 4-1 win as if it had
spent the past three days reliving
its foibles and vowing never to re-
peat them.
“There is no question, I think,
that we were the better team to-
night,” goaltender Henrik Lund-
qvist said.
The evidence was indisputable:
goals from all four lines, crammed
in the first two periods; defensive
commitment and accountability;
and a brand of hockey — speedy
but not reckless, physical but not
undisciplined — that had eluded
the Rangers for stretches in Otta-
wa. Not only did they neutralize
Erik Karlsson, the Senators’ star
defenseman, but they managed to
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exploit him, scoring their final
three goals with him on the ice. Rangers right wing Michael Grabner, right, scoring on Senators goaltender Craig Anderson at 13 minutes 24 seconds of the first period to give his team a 2-0 lead.
The last of those, Oscar Lind-
berg’s tally off that feed from tween games, they recharged — the Rangers’ desperation, they seized control, first on the ice, and tucked the puck into the net at regroups for the next game. In
Miller, punctuated a victory that mentally and physically, Coach could not counter it. then on the scoreboard. They 13:24. front of him, the Rangers’ defense
possessed restorative powers. Alain Vigneault said — and pro- “I think our players knew,” Otta- went ahead at 5 minutes 31 sec- “They were fast, and we were cleared screens, reducing the po-
“I don’t think we should change claimed themselves both ready wa Coach Guy Boucher said, “but onds when Zuccarello, stationed behind on everything,” Boucher tential for deflections, and allowed
a lot,” Lundqvist said. “There’s a and desperate. to know and to feel is two different low between the circles, con- said. “Behind on our thinking, be- him to see the shooter. Rarely
lot of things that we should feel re- The rhetoric emanating from things.” verted a nifty centering pass from hind on our execution, behind on tested, Lundqvist most likely
ally good about.” the dressing rooms before Tues- Zibanejad. On the pass, Zibanejad our physicality, behind on every- never noticed his lone blemish —
Instead of chasing the puck, the
Chief among them is their new- day’s game revolved around a sin- circled the net and fended off the thing.” by Jean-Gabriel Pageau, who
Rangers started with it, and they
found standing in the series, still gular theme: luck. The Senators 6-foot-6 rookie defenseman Ben The Rangers led by two goals scored four goals in Game 2, off a
swarmed in Ottawa’s zone. Nine
tilted in Ottawa’s favor, but with profited from it, believing they Harpur, who had the reach, but for the first time since Game 2,
shots pelted Craig Anderson in the no-look, behind-the-back pass
the Rangers having avoided a were fortunate to have won. The not the speed, to keep up. which they bungled in the final
first nine minutes, with still others from Bobby Ryan — until it was
course toward oblivion — only Rangers lacked it, believing their The Rangers abused him later 3:19 of regulation before losing in
skittering wide, and they were su- behind him.
four times in N.H.L. history had a performance had merited a split. in the period, when Zuccarello double overtime. Every playoff, it
team won a best-of-seven series Mika Zibanejad, who assisted perb chances: one-timers from seems, Lundqvist entitles himself “We made sure that if they were
wheeled the puck around the
after dropping the first three on Mats Zuccarello’s opening the slot, wristers from the circle boards, behind the net, in the gen- to a dud, a game when he surren- going to get anything,” said Lund-
games. goal, said only that there were “a and rebounds near the crease. eral direction of Michael Grabner. ders rebounds or does not track qvist, who had 26 saves, “they had
Despite losing the first two, in- lot of words” that could describe The Senators had bemoaned the It evaded Anderson, who left the the puck well or move with grace, to earn it by working really hard.”
cluding a six-goal, double-over- how the Rangers needed to play. five goals they ceded in Game 2, crease to play the puck, and also and the result reflects it. His six By then, though, the Rangers
time fiasco in Game 2, the One possibility, however simple: but their defensive lapses re- Harpur, who could have stopped goals allowed matched a playoff led by three goals. In 20 minutes’
Rangers derived confidence from better. mained unresolved. it, or advanced it, but did neither. worst. time, they would trail the series by
their play. Gifted two days be- Even if the Senators anticipated With room to skate, the Rangers Grabner wrapped around and But almost always, Lundqvist one game.

SOCCER

ESSAY

Rooting for White on the Field. Hearing Plenty of Blue in the Stands.
From First Sports Page
Fans yelled insults about his
backside, insults about his front
side, insults about his tender
parts and insults about his men-
tal health.
“That man across the aisle just
used the F-word!” Eli said in a
loud whisper.
Yes, I got that. Because it was
hard to miss. So was the guy
screaming the same word right
behind us. Even the British child
in front of us, who had probably
been to a hundred of these
games, turned around with a
look of awe and excitement.
I went back to reading the rest
of the sign on the chair.
“Stewards will be monitoring
this area closely . . . ”
Sure they will.
“ . . . and any supporter who
does not comply with this re-
quest risks being ejected from
the stadium . . . ”
Let’s not kid ourselves. That’s
not going to happen.
“ . . . and having their season
ticket or club membership can-
celed without a refund.”
I highly doubt that.
Soccer is hard for many Amer-
icans to embrace. Even the
British were a bit conflicted at
first. A forerunner of the modern
game was banned by King Ed-
ward II in a 1314 decree warning
that “there is great noise in the
city caused by hustling over
large balls from which many
evils may arise.” PAUL CHILDS/REUTERS
A half-century later, his son
King Edward III tried again. Tottenham Hotspur players celebrated a goal against Bournemouth last month at White Hart Lane in London. Tottenham is in second place in the Premier League.
While his archery law required
bow and arrow practice on Sun- America, saw us in the crowd joined a crowd at a local tennis Tottenham’s ticket line. It was a League final in Belgium. Rioting until we’re on the Northern line.”
days and holidays, he forbade as more than once. club watching England’s national woman’s voice, speaking in the by Spurs fans in 1974, at a cup It would take three trains to get
distractions sports like football It was my older son, Casey, team. After about 20 minutes — manner of a stern headmistress. final in Rotterdam, prompted the home, and the Northern line was
and cockfighting “under pain of now 14, who first latched onto which at that point was more “Tickets purchased on this line club’s chairman to implore them the last one. He had learned that
imprisonment.” Tottenham after we arrived in televised soccer than I had ever are for home matches at White on the stadium’s loudspeaker, making any comments after a
I, too, had mixed feelings, until 2013. It was a middling club at watched at one time — I got up Hart Lane and home supporters “You are disgracing the British loss was sort of like joking about
we went to see Spurs play. Our the time, but Casey dismissed to leave. The club’s cook, who only,” the recording said. “Any- people.” a bomb at the airport. I couldn’t
seats were right behind one of supporting Arsenal, the north had bonded with me over a mu- one found supporting the visiting Our family has learned to take remember my son ever lecturing
the goals, which had the disad- London team preferred by most tual appreciation for heavy met- team will be ejected from the the game seriously. When Totten- me about anything. I was
vantage of making action at the of his friends, as akin to rooting al, shot me a stricken look. He stadium and will not be re- ham’s star striker, Harry Kane, touched.
far end of the field a distant for the Yankees. And we were began gesturing, out of view of funded.” scores, we join in a guttural
Eli was more interested in
muddle. But when the game Mets fans. the other men, in a downward Opposing fans at White Hart chant: Ees-un-of-er-own, ees-un-
came to our end, it felt as if we other details. After we reached
As he put it, “I wanted a team motion. “Danny,” he mouthed. Lane and at all other Premier of-er-own, ay-ree-kane, ees-un-of-
were in the middle of something “Sit down.” er-own. our seats for the game, he
that wasn’t the utter best but League stadiums are segregated
profound. We ducked at errant that wasn’t the utter worst.” As it Clearly, walking out on the into special sections, often sur- And we know when to keep pointed up to the scoreboard and
shots and ricocheting corner happened, he picked Spurs just home country’s World Cup game rounded by phalanxes of security quiet. A couple of years ago, began reading a message flash-
kicks; my brother-in-law, watch- as their fortunes began to im- before the final whistle was a guards in bright orange coats. before we entered the stadium to ing on it.
ing the match on television in prove; this season, Tottenham is breach of protocol. I sheepishly There is reason for vigilance. watch Spurs play Manchester “Keep the passion” the words
in second place in the Premier obeyed. In 1985, English clubs were City, Casey paused for a moment, said. “Lose the language.”
Danny Hakim is a London-based League. The gravity of being a soccer banned from European competi- uncharacteristically attuned to He was giddy with anticipa-
reporter for The New York Times. The full cultural significance of spectator was further driven tions after 39 people died when his surroundings. tion. Spurs lost that day. We kept
He previously served as bureau soccer took a while to sink in. home after I heard a warning rioting by Liverpool fans led to a “If we lose,” he advised me and our ears open and, afterward,
chief in Albany and Detroit. During the 2014 World Cup, I issued by a recorded voice on stampede during the Champions his brother, “you can’t say a word our mouths shut.

The Red Sox Take a Firm Stance After an Opponent Hears Racial Epithets
From First Sports Page
baseball’s color barrier as a mem-
ber of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Over the ensuing decades, the
city has sometimes been viewed
skeptically by African-American
athletes, at least a few of whom
have expressed reservations
about playing for Boston teams.
And while Boston has had its
share of great African-American
athletes — from Bill Russell to Jim
Rice to Paul Pierce — Russell him-
self has cited ugly instances of ra-
cial harassment that he endured
‘Things like this don’t
have a place in the
game,’ a player says.
in Boston while becoming a Hall of
Fame center for Celtics teams that
often dominated the N.B.A.
For Boston, a city known for its
many universities, the issue has
been vexing, even befuddling. The
current Red Sox team, which won
the American League East last
season and is favored to do so
again, is propelled in no small part
by two African-American outfield-
ers — Mookie Betts and Jackie
Bradley Jr.
That fact was cited by Jones in
his remarks to reporters on Tues-
day. “Two of their best players are
African-Americans,” he said, re-
ferring to Betts and Bradley. “I
come here nine or 10 times a year.
They play at this place 81 times a
year. They are the ones that have
Wallace Matthews contributed re-
porting from New York.
Flashier Type of Cricket
Brings Explosion of Cash
And Specter of Doping
From First Sports Page
ago.
“The I.C.C. and the World Anti-
Doping Agency view that the
power-based skill set required in
T20 makes it a sport that fits a
similar profile to baseball,” said
Tony Irish, the executive chair-
man of the Federation of Interna-
tional Cricketers’ Associations.
Test cricket, the most tradi-
tional and slowest form of the
game, rewards scoring runs while
taking minimal risk; matches last
Twenty20 faces a
threat baseball has
already encountered.
five days. But in T20 cricket, the
goal is different. With matches
completed in only a few hours,
teams try to score as quickly as
possible, with shots that are hit
over the boundary for six runs be-
ing particularly important. The
emphasis on the power those big
hits require — over more careful
shot-making — means that per-
formance-enhancing drugs have
the potential to make a big differ-
ence for batsmen.


 

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Adam Jones (10) with his teammates Craig Gentry, right, and Joey Rickard after the Orioles’ vic-
tory at Fenway Park on Monday night, when Jones said he was the target of racial abuse by fans.
to endure this kind of thing and
understand that kind of behavior
is around them.”
Betts called on Boston fans to
cheer for Jones in Tuesday’s
game, and when Jones came to
the plate for his first at-bat he re-
ceived a sustained ovation.
Boston’s starting pitcher, Chris
Sale, even stepped off the pitch-
er’s rubber to allow the ovation to
build.
The moment was a noticeable
departure from the tension that
surrounded the series even before
Jones reported being the target of
also could be appealing to
bowlers, just as they were to some
baseball pitchers seeking to
match the increasing strength of
batters. Bowlers have an espe-
cially high risk of injury, so drugs
that increase endurance could
help them bowl more, and there-
fore play a fuller part in T20
leagues.
But for cricketers of all types,
the use of performance-enhanc-
ing drugs has become more at-
tractive because of the sheer
amount of money available in T20
leagues. Contracts in the region of
$1 million are common in the Indi-
an Premier League, a six-week
tournament. The popularity of
T20 cricket has led to the forma-
tion of other leagues, too, and all of
them compete for the services of
the world’s best players.
So where once leading
cricketers might have expected to
have almost half a year off, now
they can play virtually nonstop,
moving from one T20 league, and
one rich contract, to the next. Rus-
sell, for example, played for seven
T20 teams in 2016, winning five ti-
tles.
“Risk is a function of motive and
opportunity,” Ings said. “Motive in
cricket exists because selections
are highly competitive, contracts
involve massive sums of money
and injuries are common.” A play-
er who gets injured, he said, risks
THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
BASEBALL
abuse. On Monday 34 people were
ejected from the stadium, about
three times more than during a
typical game.
The tension stemmed from an
April series between the two
teams in Baltimore in which
Manny Machado of the Orioles
slid hard into Boston’s Dustin Pe-
droia, injuring him, and Boston
retaliated by throwing a pitch be-
hind Machado’s head. The Orioles
seemingly retaliated for that on
Monday when Dylan Bundy hit
Betts in the leg with a pitch.
Despite his gesture toward
CRICKET
his next one.
Effective antidoping education
has been made trickier by the dif-
fusion of top T20 leagues, which
sprawl from India, Australia and
Hong Kong to England and the Ca-
ribbean. Since many players are
based in their home countries less
frequently, that “makes educating
players consistently harder,” Irish
said while acknowledging “more
could be done from a global educa-
tional perspective to prevent is-
sues arising and avoid the need
for punitive punishment.”
Enforcement also remains an
CHARLES KRUPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jones, Sale added to the ill feelings
by throwing a fastball behind
Machado’s legs on Tuesday. That
led Machado, who later homered
off Sale in a contest won by the
Red Sox, 5-2, to launch into a pro-
fanity-laced tirade against the en-
tire Red Sox team after the game.
Jones, meanwhile, said Tues-
day’s ovation was “much appreci-
ated,” and said he felt a majority of
Boston fans supported him for
speaking out.
Still, he added: “I don’t want no
love and support. I don’t need all
that stuff. Just be normal.”
in 2015, Russell played on for 11
months — a period in which he
helped the West Indies win the
World Twenty20 tournament —
before he was suspended.
With the number of domestic
T20 leagues growing, it may be
impossible for the I.C.C. to moni-
tor antidoping efforts in cricket.
The I.C.C. conducts out-of-compe-
tition testing on cricketers who
have played international
matches in the previous two
years. But players who have not
played international cricket in
this period, or have retired from
Boston fans cheered Adam Jones on Tuesday. Earlier in the day
Jones met with John Henry, the principal owner of the Red Sox.
The outfield bleachers on Tues-
day — where many fans were rela-
tively close to Jones for much of
the game — were populated with
many families, and there was no
noticeable abuse directed toward
Jones, although one fan expressed
dismay when Jones did not toss
him a ball.
Nevertheless, the 31-year-old
Jones, who made his major league
debut in 2006, said he did not have
enough fingers and toes to count
how many times he had heard ra-
cial taunts in Boston over the
years.
“Things like this don’t have a
place in the game,” he said. “I
thought we moved past that a long
time ago.”
The Monday episode prompted
another African-American player
— the veteran Yankees pitcher
C. C. Sabathia — to relate his own
unhappy experiences at Fenway.
Before the Yankees played on
Tuesday night, Sabathia told
reporters that Fenway was the
only stadium where he has heard
BIKAS DAS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
subject to I.C.C. testing.
For such cricketers, drug test-
ing depends on national govern-
ing bodies and antidoping authori-
ties. Although all 10 full-member
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the ugly racial epithets that Jones
said he had heard. Sabathia said
that he has spoken to other
African-American players who
share the same experiences.
“We all know,” Sabathia said.
“When you go to Boston, expect
it.”
Reggie Jackson, the longtime
slugger who played 122 games as
an opponent at Fenway from 1967
to 1987, said he was heartbroken to
hear what had happened to Jones.
“I never got those name-calling,
not in Boston,” he said. “But you
always knew that Boston was a
difficult place for minorities.”
Some Boston fans who were at
the game Monday night said they
had not heard any abuse, and
some hosts on local sports radio
shows questioned whether Jones
was telling the truth, remarks that
clearly bothered him.
“Walk in my shoes and you’ll
understand it,” Jones said. “For
people to defend other people who
act like this, it just shows there is a
bigger problem.”
Andre Russell, a Twenty20
player, was barred for a year
for not filing his whereabouts
with officials and missing a se-
ries of tests.
countries in the I.C.C. have anti-
doping codes in place, there are in-
consistent standards of testing
across the different leagues. So
players in less-heralded competi-
tions could have particular reason
to be tempted, knowing how good
performances could increase
their chances of being picked up
by a more lucrative league.
Even in England, which consid-
ers itself more vigilant against
drug use than other leading
cricket nations, only 193 drug tests
were conducted on professional
male or female cricketers in the 12-
month period that ended in
March, meaning that around two-
thirds of players were not tested.
In England, no tests were con-
ducted in domestic women’s com-
petitions last year (although there
were tests in international
matches).
“It seems a low number and not
much of a deterrence,” said Paul
Dimeo, an expert on doping in
sport from the University of Stir-
ling. “It also makes it to hard to as-
certain if there is a risk of doping
behaviors occurring.”

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Ronaldo’s Hat Trick Propels Real Madrid PRO BASKETBALL

N.B.A. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

PRO HOCKEY

N.H.L. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

BASEBALL
A.L. STANDINGS
SECOND ROUND SECOND ROUND East W L Pct GB
MADRID (AP) — Cristiano All Times EDT All Times EDT
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Yankees 16 9 .640 —
Ronaldo scored a hat trick to lead host
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
Real Madrid to a commanding 3-0 win Cleveland 1, Toronto 0 Ottawa 2, Rangers 1
Baltimore 16 9 .640 —
over Atlético Madrid on Tuesday in the Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto 105
Wednesday, May 3: Toronto at Cleveland,
Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, Rangers 1
Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, Rangers 5, 2OT
Boston 14 12 .538 2{
first leg of 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 2: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1 Tampa Bay 14 14 .500 3{
REAL MADRID 3 their Cham- Friday, May 5: Cleveland at Toronto, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4: Ottawa at Rangers, 7:30
Sunday, May 7: Cleveland at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. Toronto 9 18 .333 8
ATLÉTICO MADRID 0 pions League p.m. Saturday, May 6: Rangers at Ottawa, 3 p.m.
x-Tuesday, May 9: Toronto at Cleveland, x-Tuesday, May 9: Ottawa at Rangers, TBD Central W L Pct GB
semifinal. TBD x-Thursday, May 11: Rangers at Ottawa, TBD
Champions League Ronaldo x-Thursday, May 11: Cleveland at Toronto, Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1 Chicago 14 11 .560 —
TBD Thursday, April 27: Pittsburgh 3, Washington
Semifinal scored on a x-Sunday, May 14: Toronto at Cleveland, 2 Minnesota 13 11 .542 {
header in the TBD Saturday, April 29: Pittsburgh 6, Washington 2 Cleveland 14 12 .538 {
First leg 10th minute,
Boston 2, Washington 0 Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
Sunday, April 30: Boston 123, Washington Wednesday, May 3: Washington at Detroit 14 12 .538 {
on a strike into the top corner in the 111 Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 2: Boston 129, Washington Saturday, May 6: Pittsburgh at Washington, Kansas City 8 17 .320 6
73rd, and on a close-range shot in the 119, OT TBD
Thursday, May 4: Boston at Washington, x-Monday, May 8: Washington at Pittsburgh, West W L Pct GB
86th to give Real Madrid, the defend- 8 p.m. TBD
ing champions, a comfortable lead Sunday, May 7: Boston at Washington, x-Wednesday, May 10: Pittsburgh at Houston 17 9 .654 —
6:30 p.m. Washington, TBD
headed into next week’s second leg at x-Wednesday, May 10: Washington at WESTERN CONFERENCE
Los Angeles 14 13 .519 3{
Atlético’s Vicente Calderón Stadium. Boston, TBD Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1 Seattle 11 15 .423 6
x-Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington, Wednesday, April 26: Edmonton 5, Anaheim 3
Monaco hosts Juventus in the first TBD Friday, April 28: Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1 Oakland 11 15 .423 6
leg of the other semifinal on Wednes- x-Monday, May 15: Washington at Boston, Sunday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Edmonton 3
DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3: Anaheim at Edmonton, Texas 11 15 .423 6
day. Cristiano Ronaldo (7), with his teammate Sergio Ramos, after Ronaldo WESTERN CONFERENCE 10 p.m.
Real Madrid, which is looking to Houston 1, San Antonio 0 Friday, May 5: Edmonton at Anaheim, 10:30 TUESDAY
reach its third final in four seasons,
scored the opening goal against Atlético Madrid in the 10th minute. Monday, May 1: Houston 126, San Antonio 99 p.m. Yankees 11, Toronto 5
Wednesday, May 3: Houston at San x-Sunday, May 7: Anaheim at Edmonton, TBD Boston 5, Baltimore 2
was in control from the start at Santia- Antonio, 9:30 p.m.
Friday, May 5: San Antonio at Houston,
x-Wednesday, May 10: Edmonton at
Anaheim, TBD Detroit 5, Cleveland 2
go Bernabéu Stadium. Ronaldo had than Atlético has scored since 1992, for the fourth consecutive time in the 9:30 p.m. Nashville 2, St. Louis 1 Tampa Bay 3, Miami 1
scored five goals in the two legs of the when the competition’s new format Champions League, the top European Sunday, May 7: San Antonio at Houston, Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3 Minnesota 9, Oakland 1
8 p.m. Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2
quarterfinals against Bayern Munich, was introduced. club competition. Real Madrid de- x-Tuesday, May 9: Houston at San Antonio, Sunday, April 30: Nashiville 3, St. Louis 1 Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 0
TBD Tuesday, May 2: St. Louis at Nashville Texas at Houston
including a hat trick in the second leg Real Madrid controlled possessions feated Atlético in the final last season x-Thursday, May 11: San Antonio at Friday, May 5: Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
at Bernabéu. and caused problems for Atlético’s de- and in 2014, and in the quarterfinals in Houston, TBD x-Sunday, May 7: St. Louis at Nashville, TBD L.A. Angels at Seattle
He opened the scoring on Tuesday fense with set pieces taken by mid- 2015.
x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio,
TBD
x-Tuesday, May 9: Nashville at St. Louis, TBD WEDNESDAY
Toronto (Stroman 2-2) at Yankees
after Atlético’s defense failed to fully fielder Toni Kroos. Real Madrid had 11 Real Madrid, which won its record Golden State vs. Utah
Tuesday, May 2: Utah at Golden State RANGERS 4, SENATORS 1 (Sabathia 2-1), 7:05
clear a cross. Real Madrid midfielder attempts against one for Atlético in the 11th title last year, is trying to become Thursday, May 4: Utah at Golden State, Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 1 0—1 Baltimore (Gausman 1-2) at Boston
Casemiro sent the ball back in with a first half. Atlético improved in the sec- the first team to win back-to-back 10:30 p.m. Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 0—4 (Pomeranz 2-1), 7:10
Saturday, May 6: Golden State at Utah,
bouncing shot, and Ronaldo got ahead ond half, keeping Real Madrid from Champions League titles since the 8:30 p.m. FIRST PERIOD—1, Rangers, Zuccarello Cleveland (Carrasco 2-2) at Detroit
Monday, May 8: Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m. 4 (Girardi, Zibanejad), 5:31. 2, Rangers, (Boyd 2-1), 7:10
of defender Stefan Savic to knock it threatening as much, but it was unable competition’s new format began. No x-Wednesday, May 10: Utah at Golden Grabner 4 (Zuccarello), 13:24. Penalties—
Miami (Conley 1-2) at Tampa Bay
past Atlético goalkeeper Jan Oblak. to create many scoring opportunities. team has even reached the final as the State, TBD None.
(Snell 0-2), 7:10
x-Friday, May 12: Golden State at Utah,
Real Madrid added to its lead after “We’re going to try to do something defending champion since Manches- TBD
SECOND PERIOD—3, Rangers, Nash
3 (Vesey, Stepan), 12:21. 4, Rangers, Oakland (Graveman 2-1) at Min-
Atlético defender Filipe Luís lost the practically impossible next week,” ter United in 2009. x-Sunday, May 14: Utah at Golden State, Lindberg 1 (Glass, Miller), 18:17. 5, Ottawa, nesota (Santiago 2-1), 8:10
TBD Pageau 6 (Ryan, Ceci), 18:49. Penalties—
ball to Ronaldo, who entered the pen- Atlético Coach Diego Simeone said. Atlético, the third major power in Dzingel, OTT, (closing hand on the puck),
Texas (Martinez 0-0) at Houston
alty area and fired a shot past Oblak “We’re Atlético Madrid, and maybe, Spanish soccer behind Real Madrid (Morton 2-2), 8:10
N.B.A. PLAYOFF LEADERS 2:59; Kreider, NYR, (slashing), 3:41.
Chicago White Sox (Pelfrey 0-1) at
into the upper corner of the net. just maybe, we can do it.” and Barcelona, is trying to win its first THIRD PERIOD—None. Penalties—B.
Kansas City (Karns 0-2), 8:15
Smith, NYR, (high sticking), 2:57; Claesson,
Ronaldo scored his 10th Champions Atlético’s best chance of the match title and avenge the heartbreaking Scoring OTT, (tripping), 7:23; Skjei, NYR, (holding), L.A. Angels (Nolasco 2-2) at Seattle
G FG FT PTS AVG
League goal of the season with a low came in the 17th minute, when forward losses to Real Madrid in a penalty Westbrook, OKC. . .5 59 56 187 37.4
8:32; Pageau, OTT, (slashing), 8:32; Miller, (Iwakuma 0-2), 10:10
NYR, (roughing), 8:32; Dzingel, OTT,
shot from inside the penalty area after Kévin Gameiro received the ball inside shootout last year and after extra time James, CLE . . . . . .5 63 29 166 33.2 (slashing), 11:20.
a pass from Lucas Vázquez. Ronaldo the penalty area but was not able to get in 2014. Atlético also lost the final in Harden, HOU . . . . .6 50 71 186 31.0 N.L. STANDINGS
Curry, GOL . . . . . .4 37 26 119 29.8 Shots on Goal—Ottawa 5-12-10—27.
now has 103 goals in the Champions it past Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor 1974, to Bayern Munich. Leonard, SAN . . . .7 62 67 208 29.7 Rangers 15-9-6—30. Power-play
East W L Pct GB
Wall, WAS . . . . . . .7 72 43 197 28.1 opportunities—Ottawa 0 of 3; Rangers
League, not counting one he scored in Navas in a one-on-one situation. Tuesday’s loss at Bernabéu was the George, IND . . . . .4 34 26 112 28.0 0 of 3. Goalies—Ottawa, Anderson 6-3 Washington 17 9 .654 —
the qualifiers, which is three more The crosstown rivals are meeting first for Atlético in 16 away games. Lillard, POR . . . . . .4 39 24 111 27.8 (30 shots-26 saves). Rangers, Lundqvist
Beal, WAS . . . . . . .7 69 26 182 26.0 5-4 (27-26). A—18,006 (18,200). T—2:27. Philadelphia 12 12 .500 4
Paul, LAC . . . . . . .7 67 29 177 25.3 Referees—Chris Rooney, Francois St
Irving, CLE . . . . . .5 46 23 125 25.0 Laurent. Linesmen—Steve Barton, Jonny Miami 11 14 .440 5{
Antetokounmpo, MIL.6 60 25 149 24.8 Murray.
Conley, MEM . . . . .6 50 31 148 24.7 Atlanta 11 14 .440 5{
Schroder, ATL . . . .6 50 31 148 24.7
Thomas, BOS . . . .7 54 49 171 24.4 TENNIS Mets 11 15 .423 6
Millsap, ATL. . . . . .6 50 43 146 24.3
Hayward, UTA . . . .7 53 43 166 23.7 Central W L Pct GB
DeRozan, TOR . . . .7 54 51 160 22.9 ESTORIL OPEN Chicago 13 12 .520 —
Butler, CHI . . . . . .6 46 38 136 22.7
McCollum, POR . . .4 32 15 90 22.5 Estadio Nacional
OEIRAS, PORTUGAL Milwaukee 14 14 .500 {
Field Goal Percentage Singles St. Louis 13 13 .500 {
FG FGA PCT First Round
Hilario, HOU . . . . . . . . . 30 37 .811 Taro Daniel, Japan, d. Renzo Olivo, Cincinnati 12 14 .462 1{
McGee, GOL . . . . . . . . . 18 23 .783 Argentina, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-5. Nicolas
Jordan, LAC . . . . . . . . . 43 61 .705 Almagro, Spain, d. Benoit Paire (8), Pittsburgh 12 14 .462 1{
Lopez, CHI . . . . . . . . . . 34 52 .654 France, 6-3, 6-2. Joao Domingues,
Horford, BOS . . . . . . . . . 47 75 .627 Portugal, d. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 6-4, 3-6, West W L Pct GB
Favors, UTA. . . . . . . . . . 31 50 .620 7-6 (2). Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, d. Elias
Grant, OKC . . . . . . . . . . 19 31 .613 Ymer, Sweden, 7-5, 6-4. Bjorn Fratangelo, Colorado 16 10 .615 —
Capela, HOU . . . . . . . . . 24 40 .600 United States, d. Joao Sousa, Portugal,
6-3, 6-4. Ryan Harrison (7), United States, Arizona 17 11 .607 —
Gibson, OKC . . . . . . . . . 21 35 .600
Durant, GOL . . . . . . . . . 16 27 .593 d. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 6-3, 2-6,
6-2. Juan Martin Del Potro (5), Argentina, Los Angeles 14 13 .519 2{
Rebounds d. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, 6-1, 6-3. Pedro
Sousa, Portugal, vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu, San Diego 11 16 .407 5{
G OFF DEF TOT AVG
Jordan, LAC . . . . .7 25 75 100 14.3 France, 3-6, 6-4, 0-0 retired. San Francisco 10 17 .370 6{
Thompson, CLE . . .5 29 29 58 11.6
Westbrook, OKC. . .5 9 49 58 11.6
BMW OPEN TUESDAY
Gortat, WAS . . . . .7 29 48 77 11.0 Atlanta 9, Mets 7
Howard, ATL . . . . .6 18 46 64 10.7 MTTC Iphitos
James, CLE . . . . . .5 4 45 49 9.8 Arizona 6, Washington 3
MUNICH
Antetokounmpo, MIL6 10 47 57 9.5 Singles Pittsburgh 12, Cincinnati 3
Green, GOL . . . . . .4 3 35 38 9.5 First Round Tampa Bay 3, Miami 1
Millsap, ATL. . . . . .6 9 47 56 9.3 Hyeon Chung, South Korea, d. Maximilian
Love, CLE . . . . . . .5 7 39 46 9.2 Marterer, Germany, 7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-3.
St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1
Jeremy Chardy, France, d. Jozef Kovalik, Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs
Assists Slovakia, 6-2, 6-4. Marius Copil, Romania,
G AST AVG Colorado at San Diego
d. Thiago Monteiro, Brazil, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Wall, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . .7 78 11.1 Mischa Zverev (6), Germany, d. Dustin San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers
Westbrook, OKC . . . . . . . .5 54 10.8 Brown, Germany, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3. Horatio
Paul, LAC . . . . . . . . . . . .7 69 9.9 WEDNESDAY
Zeballos, Argentina, d. Andreas Seppi,
Harden, HOU . . . . . . . . . .6 49 8.2 Italy, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5. Guido Pella, Argentina, Mets (deGrom 1-1) at Atlanta (Colon
James, CLE . . . . . . . . . . .5 40 8.0 d. Cedrik Marcel Stebe, Germany, 6-0, 1-2), 7:35
Schroder, ATL . . . . . . . . .6 46 7.7 6-2. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, d. Nicolas
Green, GOL . . . . . . . . . . .4 30 7.5 Arizona (Ray 2-1) at Washington
Kicker, Argentina, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Philipp
George, IND . . . . . . . . . .4 29 7.2 Kohlschreiber, Germany, d. Casper Ruud, (Gonzalez 3-0), 7:05
Conley, MEM . . . . . . . . . .6 42 7.0 Norway, 6-4, 6-3. Miami (Conley 1-2) at Tampa Bay
Horford, BOS . . . . . . . . . .7 49 7.0
(Snell 0-2), 7:10
PRAGUE OPEN Pittsburgh (Taillon 2-0) at Cincinnati
N.B.A. TOP PLAYOFF (Davis 0-1), 7:10
TK Sparta Praha
GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS PERFORMERS PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Philadelphia (Eickhoff 0-2) at Chi-
Singles cago Cubs (Arrieta 3-1), 8:05
The Penguins’ Sidney Crosby being hit by the Capitals’ Matt Niskanen in the first period of Monday’s game. Most Points: 51, Russell Westbrook,
Oklahoma City, First Round Game 2 vs. First Round Milwaukee (Anderson 2-0) at St.
Houston, April 19. Caroline Wozniacki (2), Denmark, d. Louis (Wainwright 2-3), 8:15
Most Rebounds: 18, Marcin Gortat, Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-0, 7-5. Sam Stosur
Washington, First Round Game 4 vs. Atlanta, (4), Australia, d. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, Colorado (Senzatela 3-1) at San
HOCKEY 6-2, 6-4. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, d. Diego (Weaver 0-2), 10:10
April 24.
Most Assists: 16, John Wall, Washington, Christina McHale, United States, 6-3, 6-4.
Barbora Strycova (3), Czech Republic,
San Francisco (Samardzija 0-4) at

Crosby to Sit Out Game 4 With a Concussion

Second Round Game 1 vs. Boston, April 30. L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-0), 10:10
Most 3-Pointers Made: 7, Stephen Curry, d. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-4, 6-0.
Golden State, First Round Game 4 vs. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, d.
Portland, April 24; Kawhi Leonard, San Magda Linette, Poland, 6-3, 6-4. Natalia
Vikhlyantseva, Russia, d. Viktorija
BRAVES 9, METS 7
Antonio, First Round Game 4 vs. Memphis,
April 22. Golubic, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-1. Katerina New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
Siniakova (8), Czech Republic, d. Danka Conforto lf 4 2 2 0 1 0 .344
Sidney Crosby walked around the Pittsburgh Pen- highest standards of officiating and technical equipment Most Free Throws Made: 19, Jimmy Butler,
Kovinic, Montenegro, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. Kristyna Cabrera ss 4 2 1 1 1 1 .247
Chicago, First Round Game 4 vs. Boston,
guins’ practice facility Tuesday, trying to encourage his could be guaranteed; the athlete had been subject to an April 23; Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio, First Pliskova, Czech Republic, d. Jelena Bruce rf 5 2 2 6 0 0 .293
Round Game 2 vs. Memphis, April 17. Jankovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-4. Mona Barthel, Walker 2b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .211
teammates as they prepared to go forward in their increas- agreed number of doping control tests in the months lead- Most Turnovers: 9, Russell Westbrook, Germany, d. Zhang Shuai (6), China, 6-0, d’Arnaud c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .203
ingly caustic playoff series against the Washington Capi- ing up to it; and the doping control sample taken after the Oklahoma City, First Round Game 1 vs. 6-3. Lucie Safarova (5), Czech Republic, Plawecki c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .167
Houston, April 16. d. Kristina Kucova, Slovakia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Reyes 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .172
tals without Crosby, their captain and star. record was stored and available for retesting for 10 years. Most Steals: 6, Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio, Ana Konjuh (7), Croatia, d. Jana Cepelova, Rivera 1b 2 0 1 0 1 0 .226
Slovakia, 6-2, 6-2. Jelena Ostapenko,
Crosby is out for at least Game 4 on Wednesday as he The I.A.A.F. only started storing and retesting blood First Round Game 4 vs. Memphis; Thaddeus
Latvia, d. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-3.
Lagares cf
Harvey p
4
2
1 1
0 0
0 0 0 .179
0 0 1 .000
Young, Indiana, First Round Game 2 vs.
recovers from yet another concussion, this one coming and urine samples in 2005, so any records achieved before Cleveland, April 17. Edgin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Most Blocks: 6, Draymond Green, Golden Granderson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .122
from being crosschecked in the head by Capitals defense- that date would not pass the test. State, First Round Game 3 vs. Portland, April TRANSACTIONS Smoker p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
man Matt Niskanen in the first period of Washington’s 3-2 22. Salas p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
overtime victory on Monday night. N.F.L. Sewald p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Reynolds ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
BAS EBALL
Penguins Coach Mike Sullivan said Crosby would be SOCCER ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released CB Brian Totals 35 7 9 7 4 4
Dixon. Agreed to terms with WR Carlton Atlanta ab r h bi bb so avg.
evaluated daily. There is no timetable for his return. “He’s Agudosi, DT Collin Bevins, C Lucas Crowley, Inciarte cf 5 0 3 3 0 0 .257
very positive, and we’re very optimistic and we’re hopeful 9 Strikeouts, 8 Walks, and the Rays Win M.L.S. STANDINGS S Ironhead Gallon, CB Gump Hayes, WR
Krishawn Hogan, S Drico Johnson, LB
Phillips 2b
Freeman 1b
5
3
1 1
1 1
0 0 1 .329
2 2 0 .378
EAST W L T Pts GF GA
that we’ll get him back in a timely fashion,” Sullivan said. Edinson Volquez struck out nine but allowed a career- Orlando City 6 1 0 18 10 5 Tre’Von Johnson, QB Trevor Knight, CB Kemp lf 4 1 1 0 1 0 .344
Ryan Lewis, OT Jonathan McLaughlin, S Markakis rf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .295
The defending champion Penguins lead the series, 2-1, high eight walks, and the Tampa Bay Rays took advantage Red Bulls 5 3 1 16 11 10
Cyril Noland-Lewis, TE Ricky Seals-Jones, Garcia 3b 4 2 2 1 0 0 .237
New York City FC 4 3 1 13 14 9
an advantage they built thanks in large part to Crosby. He of his historically uneven performance to beat the Marlins, Columbus 4 4 1 13 13 13 CB Sojourn Shelton, RB James Summers, Suzuki c
Swanson ss
2
2
2 1
1 1
0 1 0 .200
1 1 0 .158
Toronto FC 3 1 4 13 12 7 DT Pasoni Tasini and TE Steven Wroblewski.
scored twice in Game 1 and dished out two assists in a blow- 3-1, in Miami. Atlanta United FC 3 3 2 11 18 11 CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OL Bradley Dickey p 2 0 0 1 0 0 .167
out victory in Game 2. Chicago 3 3 2 11 11 12 Sowell to a one-year contract. Bonifacio ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .150
Logan Morrison hit his sixth home run and was one of D.C. United 3 3 2 11 9 13 DENVER BRONCOS — Signed RB Jamaal Ramirez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Charles. Adams ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .400
only five batters to put the ball in play against Volquez New England 2 3 4 10 14 14
DETROIT LIONS — Exercised the fifth-year O’Flaherty p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Montreal 1 3 4 7 11 14
PR O FOOTBALL (0-4). But the Rays still managed three runs off him before Philadelphia 0 4 4 4 8 14 option on TE Eric Ebron. Waived CB Ian Wisler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Wells. Johnson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
he left the game with a thumb blister after four and a third WEST W L T Pts GF GA Totals 33 9 13 9 5 3
Charles Signs With the Broncos innings. Portland
Kansas City
5 2
4 1
2 17 20 12
3 15 9 3 BASEBALL
New York
Atlanta
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30x—9 13 0
Volquez threw just 42 of 91 pitches for strikes and be- FC Dallas 4 0 3 15 10 5 LOB—New York 6, Atlanta 7. 2B—Walker
Declaring, “I still have more in my tank,” Jamaal came the first starter to walk at least eight batters and Houston 4 3 1 13 15 13 YANKEES 11, BLUE JAYS 5 (5), Inciarte (6), Markakis (7). HR—Bruce
San Jose 3 3 3 12 9 10
Charles, the Kansas City Chiefs’ career rushing leader, strike out at least nine while pitching less than five innings Vancouver 3 4 1 10 11 14 Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg.
(8), off Dickey; Cabrera (3), off Dickey;
Bruce (9), off Wisler; Freeman (10), off
signed a one-year deal with the A.F.C. West rival Denver since 1900, the Marlins said, citing information from the Eli- Seattle 2 2 4 10 14 11 Pillar cf 5 0 2 0 0 0 .304 Harvey. RBIs—Cabrera (11), Bruce 6 (22),
Real Salt Lake 2 5 2 8 9 15 Bautista rf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .194
Broncos for a chance to prove it. as Sports Bureau. Minnesota United 2 5 2 8 13 25 Martin c 3 0 0 0 1 2 .209
Inciarte 3 (15), Freeman 2 (16), Garcia (10),
Swanson (6), Dickey (5), Adams (1). SF—
Charles played in just eight games over the last two Los Angeles 2 5 1 7 8 13 Maile c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Swanson. DP—New York 2; Atlanta 2
AROUND THE MAJORS Ervin Santana struck out seven in six Colorado 1 5 1 4 5 11 Morales dh 5 0 0 0 0 1 .224 New York ip h r er bb so np era
seasons after tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament in NOTE: Three points for victory, one point Smoak 1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .271
shutout innings and Brian Dozier hit two of Minnesota’s six for tie. Pearce lf 4 2 4 2 0 0 .224
HarveyL2-2 5Í/¯ 8 6 6 3 2 99 5.14
October 2015, leading the Chiefs to cut him this winter. Edgin Î/¯ 1 0 0 0 0 3 2.45
home runs to lead the Twins to a 9-1 victory over the Oak- Sunday's Game Goins ss
Travis 2b
4
4
0
2
0 1 0 1 .192
2 0 0 1 .165
Smoker Í/¯ 2 2 2 0 0 6 7.90
D.C. United 3, Atlanta United FC 1 Salas Î/¯ 2 1 1 1 0 17 7.50
land Athletics in Minneapolis. Santana (5-0) lowered his Coghlan 3b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .257 Sewald 1 0 0 0 1 1 15 7.71
Wednesday's Games
DOP IN G earned run average to 0.66 for the season. • Miguel Cabr- Red Bulls at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30
Barney ph-3b
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0 0 0 0 .286
11 4 2 7
Atlanta ip h r er bb so np era
p.m. DickeyW3-2 6 4 3 3 4 3 96 3.94
era hit his 450th homer in his first game off the disabled list Orlando City at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m.
New York ab r h bi bb so avg. RamirezH5 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1.38
Gardner lf 5 3 3 3 0 1 .232
A Proposal to Rewrite Record Books and the Tigers went on to a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Friday's Game Headley 3b 5 0 2 1 0 2 .307
O’Flaherty
Wisler
1 1 0 0 0 0 15 4.00
Î/¯ 4 4 4 0 0 19 9.82
Indians in Detroit. Corey Kluber gave up five runs and sev- Vancouver at Colorado, 10 p.m. Holliday dh 4
Refsnyder ph-dh 1
0
0
3 1 0 0 .274
0 0 0 0 .000
JohnsonS5-7 Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 6 4.50
The man spearheading a proposal to wipe out all world en hits with a walk in three innings before being removed Castro 2b 5 1 2 0 0 1 .360
T—2:55. A—21,359 (41,500).
records achieved in track and field before 2005 said it will ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
with discomfort in his lower back. • Jake Lamb and Chris Gregorius ss 4 1 0 0 1 2 .304
mark the start of a “new, clean, credible era” for a sport Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
Judge rf 3 3 2 4 2 1 .313 A.L. LEADERS
Herrmann homered off Tanner Roark, and the Arizona Dia- Chelsea . . . . . 34 26 3 5 72 29 81
Hicks cf 5 1 2 2 0 1 .300
tainted by doping scandals. “It’s just the evolution of the mondbacks bounced back from an early deficit to beat the Tottenham. . . . 34 23 8 3 71 22 77
Carter 1b 3 2 1 0 1 1 .220 BATTING—Garcia, Chicago, .368; Trout, Los
Romine c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .316 Angeles, .364; Castro, New York, .358; Haniger,
sport,” said Pierce O’Callaghan, chairman of the European Nationals, 6-3, in Washington.
Liverpool . . . . . 35 20 9 6 71 42 69 Higashioka c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Seattle, .342; Benintendi, Boston, .333; Gurriel,
Manchester City 34 19 9 6 65 37 66 Totals 39 11 16 11 4 10
Athletics task force. Man.United . . . 34 17 14 3 51 25 65 Houston, .329; Altuve, Houston, .326.
HOME RUNS—Davis, Oakland, 10; Judge,
Arsenal . . . . . . 33 18 6 9 64 42 60 Toronto 000 020 210—5 11 1
World-record holders such as the former marathoner Everton. . . . . . 35 16 10 9 60 40 58 New York 141 101 30x—11 16 1
New York, 10; Cruz, Seattle, 7; Gallo, Texas, 7;
T ENNIS Lindor, Cleveland, 7; Moustakas, Kansas City,
Paula Radcliffe and the ex-triple jumper Jonathan Ed- West Bromwich 34 12 8 14 39 43 44
7; Sano, Minnesota, 7; Springer, Houston, 7;
Southampton . . 33 11 8 14 39 44 41 E—Pearce (1), Headley (5). LOB—Toronto
wards have reacted with dismay following European Ath- Bournemouth . . 35 11 8 16 50 63 41 8, New York 8. 2B—Pillar (8), Bautista Trout, Los Angeles, 7; 3 tied at 6.
letics’ announcement that its ruling council had accepted Kvitova Is Back Practicing Again Leicester. . . . . 34
Stoke . . . . . . . 35
11
10
7
10
16
15
42
37
54
50
40
40
(4), Pearce (1), Travis (4), Gardner (4),
Holliday 2 (5), Castro (4). HR—Pearce (1),
STOLEN BASES—Altuve, Houston, 8;
Dyson, Seattle, 8; Ellsbury, New York, 7;
recommendations to rewrite world and European record Watford . . . . . 34 11 7 16 37 55 40 off Tanaka; Pearce (2), off Tanaka; Hicks Cain, Kansas City, 6; Andrus, Texas, 5;
lists. The two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is Burnley . . . . . . 35 11 6 18 35 49 39 (5), off Latos; Gardner (3), off Latos; Judge DeShields, Texas, 5; Dozier, Minnesota, 5;
Gardner, New York, 5; Mondesi, Kansas
back at practice, less than six months after being attacked West Ham . . . . 35 10 9 16 44 59 39 (11), off Latos; Gardner (4), off Latos;
City, 5; Trout, Los Angeles, 5; 5 tied at 4.
The European body said it would now forward the rec- Crystal Palace . 35 11 5 19 46 56 38 Judge (12), off Grilli. RBIs—Pearce 2
by a knife-wielding intruder. Kvitova posted a photo on In- Hull . . . . . . . . 35 9 7 19 36 67 34 (3), Goins (9), Coghlan (3), Gardner 3 (7),
ommendations to the International Association of Athletics Swansea. . . . . 35 9 5 21 40 69 32 Headley (9), Holliday (15), Judge 4 (25), N.L. LEADERS
stagram showing herself swinging a racket. She included
Federations, track and field’s international governing body, Middlesbrough . 35 5 13 17 26 45 28 Hicks 2 (11). CS—Pillar (4). DP—Toronto 1
for ratification in July, ahead of the world championships in the message: “I hope this picture makes you as happy as it Sunderland . . . 34 5 6 23 26 60 21 Toronto ip h r er bb so np era BATTING—Zimmerman, Washington, .421;
Harper, Washington, .391; Turner, Los
LatosL0-1 4 10 7 7 1 5 84 6.60
London. makes me! I am in Monaco and guess what? I’m back on Sunday's Games Leone 2 2 1 1 1 3 38 4.72 Angeles, .387; Freeman, Atlanta, .379; Murphy,
Manchester United 1, Swansea 1 Washington, .343; Thames, Milwaukee, .341.
the tennis court, hitting with some proper balls.” Grilli 0 2 3 3 1 0 19 10.38
Under the new standards, a world record would be rec- Middlesbrough 2, Manchester City 2 Loup 2 2 0 0 1 2 35 0.84 HOME RUNS—Thames, Milwaukee, 11;
ognized only if the performance was achieved at a competi- Kvitova has missed all season while recovering from Chelsea 3, Everton 0 New York ip h r er bb so np era Zimmerman, Washington, 11; Freeman, Atlanta,
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‘Last Men in Aleppo’ sifts a Mythology, ‘this

war’s rubble. BY GLENN KENNY
3 ARTS, BRIEFLY
primal drama,’ is fuel
Netflix will add a warning to for Christopher
its show ‘13 Reasons Why.’ Williams’s pieces.

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JENNIFER SENIOR
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

Inspiration ‘Great Comet’ Shines Bright

From Ivanka,
Humility-Free
How to run your life. (It’s
much easier with a staff.)
THE PREFACE OF Ivanka Trump’s new book,
“Women Who Work,” is anodyne enough.
But something about the third paragraph
stuck deep in my craw. I didn’t see it com-
ing, at first. “Over the last year and a half,” it
begins, “I’ve had the honor of traveling
across our country, meeting the men and
women of our great nation and listening to
their hopes and dreams, their challenges
and concerns.”
So far, so bueno. It’s the next sentence
that’s the real lulu. After so many months of

Women Who Work:

Rewriting the Rules
for Success
By Ivanka Trump

sustained exposure to
the anxieties of aver-
age Americans, you’d
think Trump would
have been humbled.
Her response was
slightly different. “I
have grown tremen-
dously as a person,” she continues, “and the
experience has been life changing.”
For Donald J. Trump’s eldest daughter,
the campaign trail was simply a switchback
in the long, golden path toward self-actual-
ization.
Self-actualization is the all-consuming
preoccupation of “Women Who Work.” In
this way, the book is not really offensive so
much as witlessly derivative, endlessly re-
capitulating the wisdom of other, canonical
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The Ashram
Recordings
Of a Coltrane
Transcendental hymns, shaped
by black gospel tradition. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES

By MIKE RUBIN
Surya Botofasina, 39, a keyboardist who
lives in Brooklyn, has fond memories of
growing up at the Shanti Anantam Ashram
in Agoura, Calif., which was established in
1983 by Alice Coltrane, the jazz pianist,
harpist and widow of the saxophone immor-
tal John Coltrane.
Mr. Botofasina’s favorite times were Sun-
days at 1 p.m., when 40 to 50 participants
would crowd into the ashram’s temple and
sit on pillows on the floor, with men on the
left side of the room, women on the right and
elders on chairs against the wall. Students
wore white, while on the stage Ms. Coltrane
— known to her students as Swamini
Turiyasangitananda — wore orange robes
so “incredibly bright,” Mr. Botofasina said,
“that I felt like I had to hide from it, bright
like the sun.”
After a spiritual discourse, Ms. Coltrane
would begin to play a massive Hammond
organ, cuing the singing of transcendental
hymns called bhajans.
This week, 10 years after Ms. Coltrane’s
death in 2007 at age 69, Luaka Bop will re-
lease the sounds of the ashram on “World
Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music
of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda,” a
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Clockwise from top left, Josh Groban in a scene from “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” with 12 nominations; Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!,” with 10; Ben Platt, center, in
“Dear Evan Hansen,” with, from left, Will Roland, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Kristolyn Lloyd and Michael Park; Laurie Metcalf, left, and Condola Rashad in “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”
The musical based on Tolstoy’s
‘War and Peace’ has earned the
most Tony Award nominations.
By MICHAEL PAULSON
Ill-advised flirtations among 19th-century
Russian aristocrats. An anxiety-ridden ado-
lescent who benefits from the bereavement
of a grieving family. A Canadian town that
welcomes travelers stranded on Sept. 11.
And a caddish weatherman forced to relive
the same day, over and over again.
On Tuesday, four very different Broad-
way shows were nominated for the most
valuable prize in theater: the Tony Award
for best new musical, which can dramati-
cally alter the financial fortunes of the win-
ning production. But all share significant
artistic ambition, as the 43 nominators
spurned more commercial fare in favor of
risky projects nurtured in the nonprofit
world.
The day was dominated by “Natasha,
Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” an offbeat
pop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s “War
and Peace.” A raucous and eye-popping pro-
duction that marries an avant-garde cre-
ative team to a top-selling pop star, the show
won a best actor nomination for that bold-
face name, Josh Groban, who taught him-
self to play accordion for his Broadway de-
but. The musical earned 12 Tony
nominations, more than any other show,
capping a remarkable journey from an 87-
seat Off Broadway theater to New York’s
biggest stage.
But “The Great Comet” remains an un-
derdog in the race for best new musical, fac-
ing off against the two leading contenders,
“Dear Evan Hansen,” about the struggling
teenager, and “Come From Away,” about the
Canadian town that sheltered stranded
travelers, as well as “Groundhog Day,” an
adaptation of the Bill Murray movie.
About 840 voters, most of them finan-
cially or professionally involved in the the-
ater industry, now have five weeks to finish
seeing the nominated shows and cast their
ballots before the awards are announced on
June 11.
This was an especially competitive
Broadway season, with 37 Tony-eligible
shows, but the nominators narrowed the
field considerably and concentrated their
affection on a handful of productions.
An old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing revival
of “Hello, Dolly!” scored 10 nominations, in-
cluding ones for its stars, Bette Midler and
David Hyde Pierce, and immediately
vaulted to the lead in the race for best musi-
cal revival. It will face revivals of “Falset-
tos” and “Miss Saigon.”
And four American writers, each making
a Broadway debut, will vie for the best new
play prize.
The front-runners in the play category
are “Oslo,” by J. T. Rogers, an unexpectedly
crackling drama about a Norwegian couple
who helped broker the 1993 Middle East
peace accords, and “Sweat,” by Lynn Not-
tage, which depicts the impact of a declining
manufacturing plant on friends and family
in Reading, Pa. Not to be counted out: “A
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Dance

PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Garden of Fantastical Delights

Christopher Williams retells
the affair of Venus and Adonis.
By MARINA HARSS
The choreographer Christopher Williams’s
works are a bit like a cabinet of curiosities.
They reflect his fascination with very old
stories, particularly ones that include
mythological beings and magical transfor-
mations. He has made phantasmagorical
dances inspired by the lives — and violent
deaths — of the early saints, by Greek my-
thology and by Scottish fairy tales, among
other wild tales. To say he is an artist of pe-
culiar obsessions is an understatement.
The thing is, he believes that these stories
have much to tell us about our relation to
worlds unknown and to our prehistory.
“They have this primal drama we can all re-
late to,” Mr. Williams said recently over veg-
etarian borscht at an East Village cafe near
St. Mark’s Church, where his newest work,
“Il Giardino d’Amore,” will have its pre-
miere this week. “We’re all beings that ex-
perience things in a similar way because of
our evolutionary history.”
For Mr. Williams, 41, dance — wordless
and based in the body — is the logical medi-
um for telling these stories; as he sees it,
dance is “a ritual we use to tell our mythol-
ogy.” A ritual that he reinforces by dressing
his dancers in fantastical designs, usually
involving sculptural adornments that make
them look not quite human.
The focus on visual detail (and on musi-
cality) gives his stagings an air of sumptu-
ousness. That he constructs such illusions
within the financial constraints and pared-
down aesthetics of the avant-garde dance
scene makes him an anomaly. His dances
can feel closer to those of Mark Morris, say,
than to some of his contemporaries. But the
craftsmanlike aspect of his work makes
more sense when you learn that, besides be-
ing a dancer and choreographer, he is a seri-
ous puppeteer, used to making things with
his hands. (He has collaborated for years
with Basil Twist.)
Mr. Williams developed his elaborate the-
atrical approach to dance at the École Inter-
nationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in
Top, Christopher Williams at
Danspace Project in St. Mark’s
Church, where his newest work,
“Il Giardino d’Amore,” will have
its premiere. Above, Justin
Lynch, left, and Kyle Gerry.
Myth, transformation
and androgyny in ‘Il
Giardino d’Amore.’
Paris, during a yearlong break when he was
a Sarah Lawrence undergraduate. “I under-
stood there for the first time,” he said, “that
art forms could overlap and you could have
a commingling of elements and they didn’t
have to have their own boundaries.”
The new piece is an evening-length re-
telling of the affair between Venus and
Adonis, as interpreted by the Italian com-
poser Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in his
serenata of the same name. In Mr.
Williams’s staging, Venus is a symbol of fer-
tility, bare-skinned and long-braided, her
body padded with prosthetic breasts of
graduated size and face framed by a beard
of flowers. (Mr. Williams developed the de-
signs with Andrew Jordan, with whom he
has worked for almost 10 years.)
The look alludes to both the ancient Ro-
man Venus Barbata — or bearded Venus —
and to the Ephesian Artemis, a Greek deity
depicted in statues with row upon row of
breasts, or maybe eggs (or even, possibly,
bull’s testicles). “It feels like an empowered
animal femininity,” said Christiana Axelsen,
who is playing Venus.
Wings sprout from the arms and legs of
Amore (Cupid), the driver of the story, and
his two minions. Layered and stiff, their
feathers are more reminiscent of an igua-
na’s crest than of a bird’s soft plumage. The
characters’ reptilian qualities are height-
ened by the choreography: vigorous, even
aggressive jumps, punctuated by flicks of
the shoulders and wrists. Their sharp
twitches are in dramatic contrast to the soft,
languid, flattened movements of the lovers.
They look “as if they were pressed into a
frame,” Mr. Williams said.
Scarlatti’s Baroque serenata is a short en-
tertainment for two voices and small musi-
cal ensemble meant to be performed in the
home or garden of an aristocratic family.
This gentle love story set in a forest glen
was written for a low female voice and a cas-
trato, a male singer castrated as a child to
preserve his ability to produce the high,
pure notes of a boy soprano. In the 1964 re-
cording selected by Mr. Williams, by the
Munich Chamber Orchestra, both singers
are women. (The castrato part, sung here
by a woman, can also be given to a counter-
tenor.) Curiously, at least to the modern ear,
the lower voice (a contralto) represents Ve-
nus, while the soprano line is given to Adon-
is.
This pairing of a high female voice with a
male character encouraged Mr. Williams to
play with the idea of gender and androgyny.
Adonis’s movements are almost passively
lovely — “he’s very feminized, on purpose,”
he said. In addition, he has given both Venus
and Adonis doubles, performed by dancers
of the opposite sex. In typical Baroque style,
the opening section of each aria is repeated;
at that point, the character’s double
emerges, like an apparition. “It’s almost as
if the character were refracted through a
prism,” he explained, “and suddenly you see
both their genders.”
These doublings and mythical flights of
fancy fit surprisingly neatly into Scarlatti’s
lovely, but rather slender, serenata. Mr.
Williams has listened closely to the music,
and tied each character to an individual in-
strument or voice. The vocal lines find di-
rect physical expression in the movement.
The words, too, are echoed by the dancer’s
gestures. When the contralto speaks of her
love pains, Ms. Axelsen staggers slightly, as
if in physical distress; when the two lovers’
voices express sadness, the dancers cover
their faces and curve forward, as if weighed
down by emotion. The effect is subtle — less
like mime and more like painterly gesture.
By combining faithfulness to the music
with imagery plumbed from his myth-
drenched imagination, Mr. Williams has
added otherworldly, almost feral dimension
to this placid love story. “And that’s really
what I want to be doing,” he said, before
rushing back to rehearsal. “Making com-
plete works of art. Worlds unto themselves
in which everything is interconnected.”

BRIAN SEIBERT DANCE REVIEW

Prescribing Shock Therapy for Humdrum Ballet

A film about the criminally
insane gets an unusual revival.
FREDERICK WISEMAN’S judgment of what’s
wrong with ballet is far from crazy. That es-
teemed filmmaker, having directed his in-
quisitive gaze on American Ballet Theater
and Paris Opera Ballet in documentaries,
has expressed dissatisfaction with the nar-
row subject matter of most ballets: the fairy
tales, the antique love stories, the avoid-
ance of contemporary life. That’s an old
complaint, long shared by ballet insiders,
experts and reformers.
Mr. Wiseman’s proposed treatment,
though, is extreme, almost the equivalent of
electroshock therapy. As a fellow with the
Center for Ballet and the Arts, he suggested
a ballet based on “Titicut Follies,” his notori-
ous 1967 documentary about a state prison
for the criminally insane.
It’s easy to imagine how that idea could
go offensively wrong. But James Sewell, a
Minneapolis-based choreographer, bravely
took up the challenge, and at the Skirball
Center for the Performing Arts last week-
end, his company gave the New York pre-
miere of his “Titicut Follies: The Ballet.” It
wasn’t a disaster. That’s too strong a word
for a work this mild.
The ballet borrows scenes and figures
from the film, sensibly starting and ending
with the part that’s already theatrical, the
inmate-and-staff musical revue that gives
the documentary its title. This introduction
of artifice is a hopeful sign, since so much of
the film’s power isn’t transferable: the sad
setting; the close-ups; above all, the ambi-
guity and shock of fact. The ballet has to rely
on the powers of ballet.
Austin Lam, upside down,
performing with members of
the choice to stop short of actual nakedness
seems a failure of nerve. Both of those
James Sewell Ballet in an shortcomings prove typical.
adaptation of “Titicut Follies.” The ballet’s boldest scene shows us some-
thing the film can’t. After Lenny Pickett’s
score samples an inmate’s bewildered vocal
confession to sexually abusing his own
Titicut Follies: The Ballet child, Mr. Sewell gives us a creepy father-
Performed April 28 through 30 daughter pas de deux. Here, the stylization
at the Skirball Center for the of ballet allows it to represent, with disturb-
Performing Arts at New York ing clarity, something that a naturalistic ap-
University. proach would likely shy away from or blur.
At the same time, the heinousness of the act
implicates the form in which it’s presented:
the manipulative, splayed-leg duets that
are troublingly ubiquitous in ballet. After
this, they all feel ickier.
For the most part, though, the multiple al-
lusions to canonical ballets feel gratuitous
— ingenious but discrete, like many of the
production’s ideas. And that’s a more signif-
HIROYUKI ITO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
icant flaw than the nearly unavoidable awk-
wardness of less-than-extraordinary actors
One of Mr. Sewell’s methods is to draw on pretending to be mentally disturbed.
dance history. He recasts the film’s humili- The work’s true disappointment lies in
ating strip search as the famous “Kingdom how it misses the big opportunity of the un-
of the Shades” entrance in “La Bayadère,” common subject matter to force ballet into
with its infinity mirror of ballerinas. This is some new expressiveness. Between that
clever, setting that idealized beauty in ten- deficiency of invention and the proliferation
sion with the rudeness of rectal inspections. of self-references, “Titicut Follies” makes
But the concept, by not developing, be- ballet seem more self-absorbed than ever, a
comes tedious rather than disturbing, and condition you could diagnose as narcissism.
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Arts, Briefly
N E W S F R O M T H E C U LT U R A L W O R L D

theater is taking up Stephen

Trigger Warning Added Sondheim’s mantle of exquisite Ready, Set, Go
ambivalence.”
To ‘13 Reasons Why’ Later in the season, Rachel
YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX

Netflix will add a warning to the Chavkin — who just received a

start of “13 Reasons Why,” its
series about a teenager’s suicide,
as an extra precaution for view-
ers, the streaming network an-
nounced on Monday. The move
came after mounting criticism
from mental health experts who
say the show’s portrayal of sui-
cide is incorrect and potentially
dangerous for vulnerable
adolescents.
On Tuesday, Netflix would not
disclose what the newest warn-
ing will say. Episodes depicting
Tony Award nomination for
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great
Comet of 1812” and directed the
musical “Hadestown” at New
York Theater Workshop — will
direct “Light Shining in Bucking-
hamshire,” a new drama by the
British playwright Caryl Church-
ill (“Escaped Alone”).
YURI KOCHETKOV/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Other productions include
to Showtime. Their most recent Hammaad Chaudry’s “An Ordi-
conversation was in February. nary Muslim,” directed by the
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
“If Vladimir Putin is indeed Obie Award winner Jo Bonney,
and “The House That Will Not Alan Gilbert, in his final
the great enemy of the United ANDREW MEDICHINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

rape or the suicide of the charac-
ter Hannah Baker already have
warnings, and the show is rated
TV-MA.
“While many of our members
find the show to be a valuable
driver for starting important
conversation with their families,
we have also heard concern from
those who feel the series should
carry additional advisories,”
Netflix said in a statement on
Monday that did not mention
suicide.
In recent weeks, school
counselors have recommended
that students with a history of
suicidal thoughts refrain from
watching, for fear that the series
may spur copycat behavior.
On Tuesday, Netflix did not say
whether the new advisory would
suggest that teenagers with a
history of mental illness or sui-
cidal behavior refrain from
watching “13 Reasons Why.”
CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
‘The Putin Interviews’
To Run on Showtime
Showtime announced on Tuesday
that it would broadcast a four-
hour special featuring interviews
between President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia, top left, and the
Academy Award-winning film-
maker Oliver Stone, top right.
Mr. Stone, a provocative and
politically minded director and
writer (“Platoon,” “Born on the
Fourth of July,” “Snowden”),
interviewed Mr. Putin “more
than a dozen times over the
course of two years,” according
States, then at least we should
try to understand him,” Mr. Stone
said in a news release.
The interviews probe Mr.
Putin’s relationship with Ameri-
can presidents starting with Bill
Clinton, as well as hot-button
topics like Edward J. Snowden’s
quest for asylum in Russia and
accusations of Russian meddling
in the 2016 presidential election.
The conversations will be
shown over four nights starting
on June 12 as part of a special,
“The Putin Interviews.”
SOPAN DEB
New Works This Fall
From Anne Kauffman
Expect to see the director Anne
Kauffman’s name often at New
York Theater Workshop this fall.
The Off Broadway company’s
2017-18 season, which includes
five productions, will open with a
play and a musical, both directed
by Ms. Kauffman, whose recent
credits include “A Life” and
“Marjorie Prime.”
Amy Herzog’s play “Mary
Jane,” about a single mother
Stand,” written by Marcus Gard- weeks as this orchestra’s
caring for a sick child during a ley and directed by Lileana director, leads Beethoven’s
rain-drenched summer in New Blain-Cruz (nytw.org). Ninth Symphony. 7:30 p.m. at
York, reunites her with Ms.
Kauffman after their critically
JOSHUA BARONE David Geffen Hall.
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successful run of Ms. Herzog’s
“Belleville” at New York Theater
Workshop in 2013. Next, Ms. BRIC Festival Unveils
Kauffman is set to direct “Hun- Summer Lineup
dred Days,” a musical by the
The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
married duo the Bengsons that
Festival will be back at the
had its premiere at the Public
Prospect Park Bandshell this
Theater this year. Ben Brantley
summer with free concerts from
wrote in The New York Times
Lake Street Dive, Esperanza
that Shaun and Abigail Bengson
Spalding, left, and a hometown
“offer luminous hope that a new
star, Talib Kweli. The season will
generation of talent in American
kick off on June 7 with Lake
Street Dive playing sunny, har-
mony-rich Southern rock. Alice
Smith, alongside the opening
acts Bilal and Kris Bowers, will ‘MOURNING BECOMES
follow on June 10. ELECTRA’ Opening night for
Andrew Bird will share a bill this six-hour staging of Eu-
with Ms. Spalding on July 28. gene O’Neill’s epic trilogy. 3
And Mr. Kweli, who grew up p.m. at Abrons Arts Center.
close by in Park Slope, will join
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the brass ensemble the Soul
Rebels onstage on June 24, as
will two other New York City
rappers, Pharoahe Monch and
Kirk Knight.
The 2014 film “Selma” will be
screened on Aug. 10, with a live
score performed by the pianist
Jason Moran — who wrote the
film’s music — and the Wordless
Music Orchestra. And Garth
Fagan Dance, in its 45th season,
will perform on June 30.
Several benefit concerts, which
sell tickets and help fund the rest ‘MARILYN MINTER: PRETTY/
of the shows, have starrier DIRTY’ This engrossing
names, including the Shins (June
15) and Sufjan Stevens (July 18). survey, at the Brooklyn
(BRICartsmedia.org) Museum, closes on May 7.
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C4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
A Syrian man, identified only as Khaled, a member of the White Helmets, with his children, in the documentary “Last Men in Aleppo.”
Bombs Are Not Beautiful
An essential look at every day’s
aftermath in the Syrian war.
AFTER PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD of Syr-
ia was accused of using sarin gas in an at-
tack on his country’s people, and images of
dead children shocked the world, a missile
strike on a military airfield ordered by Pres-
ident Trump was celebrated in some of the
United States media. The conventional wis-
dom held that standing up to Mr. Assad
would teach a lesson. More than one jour-
nalist invoked the notion of beauty in de-
scribing the attack.
But missiles and bombs do not teach, and
are not beautiful. All they make are corpses
and rubble. “Last Men in Aleppo,” a docu-
mentary both urgent and mournful, opens
in the ancient Syrian city of the title, in the
aftermath of a barrel-bomb attack by Rus-
sian aircraft. Members of the search-and-
rescue group known as the White Helmets
BROADWAY
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GLENN KENNY
— which was also profiled in an Oscar-win-
ning 2016 short, now streaming on Netflix —
comb through the ruins of a building,
eventually extracting a baby who survived
its collapse. This is only the first of many
such scenes. The repetition would be numb-
ing if each did not yield a new horror. An in-
fant, dead, its neck snapped, its head flop-
Last Men in Aleppo
Not rated. In Arabic, with English subtitles.
Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes.
ping, as a volunteer hoists the body. A calico
cat with its back limbs pulverized, trying to
scurry out of a corridor and into shelter —
where? Nowhere. And so it goes.
The movie, directed by Feras Fayyad,
with Steen Johannessen as co-director,
takes a direct, often galvanizing cinéma
vérité perspective, some artfully shot open-
ing and interstitial footage notwithstand-
LET THE MEMORY LIVE AGAIN
CATS
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CONTENTMENT AND RAUCOUS JOY.”
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Roald Dahl's
CHARLIE AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
THE NEW MUSICAL
Book by DAVID GREIG
Music by MARC SHAIMAN
Lyrics by
SCOTT WITTMAN & MARC SHAIMAN
Starring CHRISTIAN BORLE
Scenic & Costume Design by
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Directed by JACK O'BRIEN
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BEST MUSICAL
GROUNDHOG DAY
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Starring Andy Karl
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FILM REVIEW
10 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
INCLUDING
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BEST ACTRESS - BETTE MIDLER
BEST ACTOR - DAVID HYDE PIERCE
TODAY AT 2 & 8, TOMORROW AT 7
“A PALPABLE BONDING FESTIVAL
OF HOT-TICKET EXCITEMENT,
- Linda Winer, Newsday
BETTE
MIDLER
HELLO,
DOLLY!
also starring DAVID
HYDE
PIERCE
Based on The Matchmaker by
THORNTON WILDER
Book by
MICHAEL STEWART
Music & Lyrics by
JERRY HERMAN
Original Production
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GOWER CHAMPION
Choreographed by
WARREN CARLYLE
Directed by
JERRY ZAKS
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3 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
including BEST PLAY
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INDECENT
By Pulitzer Prize Winner Paula Vogel
Directed By Rebecca Taichman
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“A COLOSSAL BROADWAY HIT!”
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KINKY BOOTS
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TODAY AT 2 & 8
BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
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MISS SAIGON
THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME
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Broadway Theatre (+), 1681 Broadway
ing. In one scene, the movie’s central fig-
ures, Khaled, a warm, bearish father of two,
and Mahmoud, an intense younger man,
are trying to douse a car fire when their
White Helmets crew, and a camera opera-
tor, come under attack and have to run for
cover. It’s terrifying. Khaled’s sweet young
daughters provide respite, but their pres-
ence also increases a sense of dread. These
are beautiful, kind human beings. We don’t
want anything bad to happen to them.
But from where we sit in a movie theater,
there’s nothing to be done.
This is an essential film, but it is also a ter-
ribly dispiriting one. We all navigate chal-
lenges and endure loss, but “Last Men in
Aleppo” is likely to make you almost
ashamed of your comforts and leave you
with a feeling of impotence. I suspect it’s the
filmmakers’ wish that once those initial
feelings ebb, moviegoers will ask what they
can do to help. This picture doesn’t offer
hope; its aim is to compel us to create some.
Today at 2 & 8
THE MUSIC IS IRRESISTIBLE.
THE STORY IS UNFORGETTABLE.
ON YOUR FEET!
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Directed by JERRY MITCHELL
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Marquis Theatre(+)210 W.46th St.
7 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS incl.
BEST PLAY
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Lincoln Center Theater Presents
OSLO
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BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
BEST ACTOR - KEVIN KLINE
BEST COSTUMES - SUSAN HILFERTY
TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
KEVIN
KLINE
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PRESENT LAUGHTER
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ALLISON JANNEY
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GLENN CLOSE
SUNSET BOULEVARD
Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Book & Lyrics by DON BLACK &
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
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BEST PLAY
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SWEAT
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Winner of 9 Tony Awards
including BEST MUSICAL!
“This is to all the doubters and deniers out
there, the ones who say that heaven on
Broadway does not exist, that it's only
some myth our ancestors dreamed up.
I am here to report that a newborn,
old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical
has arrived at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre,
the kind our grandparents told us left
them walking on air if not on water.
So hie thee hence, nonbelievers (and
believers too), to 'The Book of Mormon,'
and feast upon its sweetness.
'The Book of Mormon' achieves
something like a miracle. Trust me when I
tell you that its heart is as pure as that of a
Rodgers and Hammerstein show.
All the folks involved in 'Mormon' prove
themselves worthy, dues-paying
members of the church of Broadway.
The best musical of the century.”
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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DISNEY presents
THE LION KING
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“COMIC GOLD!”
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THE PLAY THAT
GOES WRONG
OLIVIER WINNER! BEST NEW COMEDY
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NOW STARRING SARA BAREILLES
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WAITRESS
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre (+), 256 W 47 St
DANIEL M. GOLD MOVIE REVIEW
When the Clock
Finally Runs Out
Chronicling an N.B.A. Anderson is candid, rueful and
self-knowing. He acknowledges
athlete’s midlife crisis. the therapy he undergoes for the
sex abuse he endured as a young-
Basketball came naturally to ster and the depression he fights.
Kenny Anderson. A sensational He says he wasn’t there for his
point guard from Queens, he was children, and is only now learning
named a high school all-American to be a better father and husband.
four years running. After Ander- Still, the film, like its subject, frus-
son spent two years at Georgia trates in its inability to focus;
Tech, the New Jersey Nets made there is no deep inquiry into what
him the No. 2 pick in the 1991 makes Anderson tick. It’s like
N.B.A. draft. He was all of 20. skimming a stone across a lake.
Yet as “Mr. Chibbs,” Jill Camp-
bell’s documentary, notes, Ander- Mr. Chibbs
son’s career plateaued. He was an Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 26
All-Star in 1994 and made tens of minutes.
millions of dollars. Even so, he
bounced around, playing for nine
teams over 14 seasons. The last Ms. Campbell follows Anderson
time he made any real basketball on a memory tour, visiting places
news, it was as a member of the and people from his past. At the
team Dennis Rodman took to LeFrak City housing complex,
North Korea in 2014. where he grew up, former neigh-
“Mr. Chibbs” — the nickname bors still love him. His onetime
Anderson’s mother gave him — agent, David Falk, suggests that
chronicles a pro athlete in midlife
crisis. Now in his 40s, he ticks off
his situation: father of eight; mar-
he mentor N.B.A. rookies about
the hazards of early wealth.
Kenny Smith, another great guard
ried three times; a bankruptcy fil- from Queens, urges him to figure
ing. He briefly coached at a out what he wants to do next and
Florida high school, a job he loved “jump in the pool, man.” You still
but lost after a D.U.I. arrest. “I’m a got game, Kenny, his friends tell
walking mistake,” he says. him. Just drive.
ABRAMORAMA/BMG BROKERS
Kenny Anderson speaking at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens.
Tony Nominee Tony Nominee
Best Actress Best Actress
PATTI CHRISTINE
LUPONE EBERSOLE
“A MAJOR MUSICAL.
RICH, EPIC AND THRILLING.”
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“BROADWAY'S BIGGEST
BLOCKBUSTER”
-The New York Times
Today at 2 & 7
WICKED
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Winnie Holzman
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire
Musical Staging by Wayne Cilento
Directed by Joe Mantello
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OFF−BROADWAY
LAST CHANCE TO SEE CAGNEY
IN NEW YORK - CLOSING MAY 28
CAGNEY
Hollywood's Tough Guy In Tap Shoes
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ERNEST SHACKLETON
LOVES ME
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Tony Kiser Theatre (+), 305 W. 43rd St.
Last 7 Performances!
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Lincoln Center Theater Presents
HOW TO TRANSCEND A
HAPPY MARRIAGE
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Mitzi E.Newhouse Theater(+),W.65th St.
FINAL 3 WEEKS! MUST CLOSE MAY 21
Max McLean as
C.S. LEWIS ONSTAGE:
THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT
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‘Great Comet of 1812’ Shines Bright
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
Doll’s House, Part 2,” by Lucas Hnath,
which was the last show of the season to
open, and did so to uniformly positive re-
views, and “Indecent,” by Paula Vogel,
which reconstructs the controversy over
“The God of Vengeance,” which opened on
Broadway in 1922.
Ms. Nottage and Ms. Vogel are both Pul-
itzer Prize winners arriving on Broadway
after years of success Off Broadway and at
regional theaters.
Ms. Nottage, whose play was written be-
fore last year’s election and is set years be-
fore the emergence of Donald J. Trump as a
serious contender for the presidency, said
the election results had changed the way
her play is seen.
”Initially, when we did the play, a certain
segment of the audience felt somewhat dis-
tant from the people onstage,” she said.
“Now, audiences can no longer separate
themselves from the struggles of what’s
happening in Middle America because
those struggles have really impacted our
day-to-day lives.”
Twelve shows — including the costly
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” — got
zero Tony nominations.
Can Bette or Ben Be Beat?
Two performances have become indis-
putable must-sees this season: that of the
23-year-old Ben Platt in a devastating star-
is-born turn as the decompensating adoles-
cent in “Dear Evan Hansen,” and that of the
71-year-old Ms. Midler in a delirious, career-
capping turn as the meddlesome match-
maker in “Hello, Dolly!”
They were each nominated for awards on
Tuesday, he as best leading actor in a musi-
cal, she as best leading actress in a musical.
Can either be beat?
Ms. Midler seems like a lock. The reviews
were nearly unanimous in their praise, de-
spite some concerns about the quality of her
singing voice; audiences have been wor-
shipful and are paying top dollar to see her.
(Premium seats are being sold for $748.)
Her competitors include two much-
honored Broadway mainstays, Patti
LuPone and Christine Ebersole, competing
in the awards derby for playing the rival
cosmetics executives Helena Rubinstein
and Elizabeth Arden in “War Paint.”
Also nominated were two actresses
making their Broadway debuts: Denée
Benton in “The Great Comet,” and Eva No-
blezada in “Miss Saigon.”
Mr. Platt has been universally acclaimed,
and has accomplished the rare feat of creat-
ing an original role that speaks to young
people. He was delighted with the news of
his nomination.
“It’s pretty nuts,” Mr. Platt said. “I’ve
been watching the Tonys since I was a little
kid. This musical theater world is all I’ve
ever wanted to be part of. It’s a dream, with-
out a caveat.”
His main challenger is Mr. Karl, who stars
as the weatherman Phil Connors in
“Groundhog Day.” Mr. Karl’s magnetic per-
formance has come to seem almost heroic,
given that he tore his anterior cruciate liga-
ment three days before the show opened
and is performing in a knee brace.
“I’ve been making extreme progress for
the type of injury I had,” Mr. Karl said. “I’m
back in all eight shows this week and could-
n’t be happier.”
Other men nominated in lead roles: Mr.
Groban, wowing critics and fans with his
Broadway debut in “Great Comet”; Mr.
Hyde Pierce, daffy and winning as the feed
store owner in “Hello, Dolly!”; and Chris-
tian Borle as the gay man trying to juggle
his relationships with his ex-wife, his son
and his lover in a moving revival of “Falset-
tos.”
Mr. Groban, who is leaving “The Great
Comet” in July, said he was already thinking
about his next Broadway appearance — af-
ter some time away to record a new album
and go back on tour.
“There’s no question I’ll come back,” he
said.
In general, it was a good day for many of
the best-known performers. In addition to
Ms. Midler, Mr. Groban and Mr. Hyde
Pierce, Tony nominations were given to
Kevin Kline (“Present Laughter”) and Lau-
rie Metcalf (“A Doll’s House, Part 2”) for two
of the best-reviewed performances of the
season, as well as to Cate Blanchett (“The
Present”), Sally Field (“The Glass Me-
nagerie”), Danny DeVito (“The Price”), Na-
than Lane (“The Front Page”), and Laura
Linney and Cynthia Nixon (“The Little
Foxes”).
Multiple newcomers were celebrating as
well, including Rachel Chavkin, the much-
heralded downtown director who shep-
herded “The Great Comet” from the mar-
gins to the mainstream, and Denis Arndt,
nominated for his Broadway debut, at the
age of 77, in “Heisenberg.”
A handful of shows did particularly well
in the acting categories. All four members
of the cast of “A Doll’s House, Part 2” were
nominated, as were all four actors at the
heart of “Falsettos,” and four actors in the
cast of “Hello, Dolly!” And there were three
acting nods each for “Oslo,” “The Little
Foxes,” “Dear Evan Hansen” and “The
Great Comet.”
Diversity, to a Point
The last Broadway season — the one with
“Hamilton,” “The Color Purple,” “On Your
Feet!” and “Allegiance” — was widely cele-
brated for its diversity, and all four acting
awards for musicals went to black actors.
This season, the successes were less flashy
but still noteworthy.
“Jitney,” the only piece of August Wilson’s
10-play Century Cycle never before staged
on Broadway, was given a sterling produc-
tion by the Manhattan Theater Club, and
was nominated for six Tony Awards on
Tuesday, including for best play revival. The
playwright, the director and the entire cast
were African-American.
Ms. Nottage, an African-American play-
wright who was unable to reach Broadway
with “Ruined,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning
play about rape in the Democratic Republic
of Congo, got there this spring with “Sweat.”
The play’s critical reception was mixed, but
it won Ms. Nottage a second Pulitzer Prize,
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and on Tuesday it garnered three Tony
nominations, including one for best new
play.
And a revival of “Miss Saigon,” with a pre-
dominantly Asian-American cast, served as
a reminder of how much attitudes toward
casting have changed: The leading role of
the Engineer, controversially originated by
a white British actor, Jonathan Pryce, in
1991, has since been played by actors of
Asian heritage, and the revival stars a Fil-
ipino-American, Jon Jon Briones, who was
in the original British ensemble. The cur-
rent production was nominated for best mu-
sical revival.
Of the 40 performers nominated for
acting awards this year, 34 are white.
From top, a scene from the
musical “Come From Away,”
about Canadian hospitality to
travelers stranded by the Sept. 11
attacks; Jennifer Ehle and
Jefferson Mays in “Oslo,” set
against the backdrop of the 1993
Middle East peace accords; Andy
Karl in the musical “Groundhog
Day,” based on the film with Bill
Murray; Brandon J. Dirden, left,
and John Douglas Thompson in
“Jitney,” by August Wilson.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the Tony-
nominated director of “Jitney,” said Broad-
way had made some progress on diversity,
but not enough.
“It’s getting better, but we need to be in
decision-making positions so we can con-
sider people other than the status quo,” he
said. “People of color have sung and danced
forever, but you can’t get to five fingers
naming black Broadway directors. We need
to do a better job of that.”
What Happens Next
Now that the nominations have been an-
nounced, it’s up to the voters. Over the fol-
lowing weeks, they must wrestle with their
choices, and then they have until 6 p.m. on
June 9 to submit their ballots.
Who are the voters? Those eligible in-
clude theater investors and producers, as
well as actors, directors, designers, journal-
ists and others whose economic or profes-
sional lives intersect with Broadway. Many
of them have financial interests in one or
more of the nominated productions.
There is campaigning, of a sort.
Producers send glossy souvenir books, and
often compendiums of positive reviews, to
remind voters of what they’ve seen, and
some send gag gifts as well. Shows that
opened in the fall — “The Great Comet” and
“Dear Evan Hansen,” for example — invite
voters who attended months ago to see
them again.
Nominees, meanwhile, show up for, or
perform at, gala fund-raisers for nonprofit
organizations that have Tony voters in the
crowd. And there is an invariable battle for
media coverage as well.
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The Nominations
A complete list is at nytimes.com/tonys.
Best Musical
“Come From Away”
“Dear Evan Hansen”
“Groundhog Day”
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of
1812”
Best Play
“A Doll’s House, Part 2”
“Indecent”
“Oslo”
“Sweat”
Best Revival of a Musical
“Falsettos”
“Hello, Dolly!”
“Miss Saigon”
Best Revival of a Play
“Jitney”
“The Little Foxes”
“Present Laughter”
“Six Degrees of Separation”
Best Book of a Musical
“Come From Away,” Irene Sankoff and
David Hein
“Dear Evan Hansen,” Steven Levenson
“Groundhog Day,” Danny Rubin
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of
1812,” Dave Malloy
Best Original Score
“Come From Away,” music and lyrics:
Irene Sankoff and David Hein
“Dear Evan Hansen,” music and lyrics:
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“Groundhog Day,” music and lyrics: Tim
Minchin
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of
1812,” music and lyrics: Dave Malloy
Best Leading Actor in a Play
Denis Arndt, “Heisenberg”
Chris Cooper, “A Doll’s House, Part 2”
Corey Hawkins, “Six Degrees of Separa-
tion”
Kevin Kline, “Present Laughter”
Jefferson Mays, “Oslo”
Best Leading Actress in a Play
Cate Blanchett, “The Present”
Jennifer Ehle, “Oslo”
Sally Field, “The Glass Menagerie”
Laura Linney, “The Little Foxes”
Laurie Metcalf, “A Doll’s House, Part 2”
Best Leading Actor in a Musical
Christian Borle, “Falsettos”
Josh Groban, “Natasha, Pierre & the
Great Comet of 1812”
Andy Karl, “Groundhog Day”
David Hyde Pierce, “Hello, Dolly!”
Ben Platt, “Dear Evan Hansen”
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Denée Benton, “Natasha, Pierre & the
Great Comet of 1812”
Christine Ebersole, “War Paint”
Patti LuPone, “War Paint”
Bette Midler, “Hello, Dolly!”
Eva Noblezada, “Miss Saigon”
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Michael Aronov, “Oslo”
Danny DeVito, “The Price”
Nathan Lane, “The Front Page”
Richard Thomas, “The Little Foxes”
John Douglas Thompson, “Jitney”
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Johanna Day, “Sweat”
Jayne Houdyshell, “A Doll’s House, Part
2”
Cynthia Nixon, “The Little Foxes”
Condola Rashad, “A Doll’s House, Part 2”
Michelle Wilson, “Sweat”
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Gavin Creel, “Hello, Dolly!”
Mike Faist, “Dear Evan Hansen”
Andrew Rannells, “Falsettos”
Lucas Steele, “Natasha, Pierre & the
Great Comet of 1812”
Brandon Uranowitz, “Falsettos”
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Kate Baldwin, “Hello, Dolly!”
Stephanie J. Block, “Falsettos”
Jenn Colella, “Come From Away”
Rachel Bay Jones, “Dear Evan Hansen”
Mary Beth Peil, “Anastasia”
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compilation culled from four cassettes she
recorded between 1982 and 1995. Only avail-
able at the ashram, and now out of print, the
cassettes have long been sought by col-
lectors, selling for as much as $450 apiece
on the internet. The collection illuminates a
missing phase in Ms. Coltrane’s remarkable
musical journey from bebop to free jazz to
New Age.
“On most of the records we work on, the
music isn’t as revered as this is already,”
said Yale Evelev, Luaka Bop’s president.
“This has a certain amount of other weight
that comes with it. It’s sacred music.”
The newly remastered recordings fea-
ture Ms. Coltrane singing for the first time
on record, leading a large choir through
Eastern-influenced devotional music, with
lyrics chanted in Sanskrit but shaped by the
African-American church tradition. “That
touch of gospel feeling in there never ex-
isted with the Hare Krishnas, I can promise
you that,” said Baker Bigsby, a Los Angeles
audio engineer who worked with Ms.
Coltrane for over 30 years. “It’s a little bit of
Detroit inserted into this Indian music.”
The bhajans would begin with a call-and-
response chant of the names of Hindu gods,
and then singers like Panduranga John
Henderson, who toured with Ray Charles,
would solo as the songs built in an improvi-
sational way. “You never knew how long the
song was going to be,” said Michelle
Coltrane, Ms. Coltrane’s daughter. “There
was hand percussion, Indian drums, high
Alice Coltrane, above, circa
1970. Luaka Bop is releasing an
album, right, culled from
cassettes she recorded
between 1982 and 1995.
Illuminating a missing
phase in a remarkable
musical journey from
bebop to free jazz to
New Age.
voices and low voices and children’s voices,
and once you got to the right number it all
blended in and sounded very beautiful.”
Alice Coltrane’s great-nephew, Steven El-
lison, who records as Flying Lotus, also
visited Auntie, as he called her, on Sundays
at the ashram. “That was my church experi-
ence,” he said in a 2010 interview for The
New York Times. “She was really inspiring.
I’ve never met anyone like her, ever.”
As Ms. Coltrane wrote in an insert for “Di-
vine Songs,” a cassette released in 1990,
“chanting is a devotional engagement, one
that allows the chanter to soar to higher
realms of spiritual consciousness.”
Ms. Coltrane had long been an ecumeni-
cal spiritual seeker. She began playing the
organ in Mount Olive Baptist Church in De-
troit at 9, and made her first album appear-
ance in 1963 on “Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish
Melodies in Jazztime.” She soon met and be-
gan playing with John Coltrane, who died in
1967, leaving her a widow with four young
children. In “Monument Eternal,” her 1977
memoir of her spiritual awakening, Ms.
Coltrane describes the period after her hus-
band’s death as one of “tapas,” or austerity,
“the taking upon one’s self of a voluntary
suffering for some spiritual good.” She ex-
perienced sleeplessness, extreme weight
loss, visions and, she wrote, “meetings and
confrontations with both disembodied souls
and phantasmagoric entities.”
After two years of tapas, she found peace
in the counsel of Swami Satchidananda, the
Indian guru who had given the opening re-
marks at Woodstock. Ms. Coltrane made
several pilgrimages to India, where she re-
ceived a revelation to leave her secular life
behind. She founded the Vedantic Center in
1976 in San Francisco, which eventually re-
located to the Agoura ashram in 1983. She
changed her name to Turiyasangitananda
(“the transcendent bliss of God’s highest
song”), having her children practice spell-
ing it out with fridge magnets.
Ms. Coltrane released seven albums on
the Impulse! label in the late 1960s and
early ’70s and five more for Warner Bros.,
pushing beyond jazz into what might be
termed “cosmic music,” the title of the 1968
album credited to her and Coltrane. After
1978, she devoted herself to the study of Ve-
dic scriptures, and to the bhajans on the Lu-
aka Bop collection. “This is music that she
was playing every Sunday, so this was her
life now,” Michelle Coltrane said. “She was-
n’t really going back.” (In 2004, however,
Ms. Coltrane was coaxed by her son Ravi to
record one final jazz album, “Translinear
Light,” and perform a few shows.)
As part of the New York edition of the Red
Bull Music Academy Festival, Luaka Bop is
presenting two concerts on May 21 in
Queens that will try to recreate the
ashram’s vibe. Mr. Botofasina is the musical
director of the first portion of the event,
which will take place at sunset and feature a
seven-member choir from the ashram, now
called Sai Anantam. (Ravi Coltrane, himself
an acclaimed saxophonist, will lead a trib-
ute to her jazz achievements.) “This is the
first time that we’ll be attempting to stay
very consistently with what she recorded,”
Mr. Botosafina said, “and pay homage and
re-enact that as accurately as possible.”
But just as the music is finally reaching a
larger audience, the fate of the ashram,
which is down to about a dozen members, is
in doubt: The Coltrane estate put the land
up for sale in 2015, though there have been
no takers at the $5 million asking price.
“The ashram is ending, but the music is
now becoming what the spiritual practice
is, and I think that’s an amazingly timed
thing,” Mr. Evelev said. “This music then
also takes on this other life and hopefully
gets to tour around the world, and the peo-
ple who sang it then will continue to sing it.”

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self-help and business books — by Stephen
Covey, Simon Sinek, Shawn Achor, Adam
Grant. (Profiting handsomely off the hard
work of others appears to be a signature
Trumpian trait.) For a while, it reads like the
best valedictorian speech ever. Pursue your
passion! Make sure you, and not others, de-
fine success! Architect a life you love to fully
realize your multidimensional self!
And because Ivanka alone can fix our
problems, she opens her book with a pas-
ture full of straw men, including the argu-
ment that our culture isn’t having nuanced
conversations about working mothers.
“The time to change the narrative around
women and work once and for all is long
overdue,” Trump writes. This will come as a
shock to Sheryl Sandberg and Anne-Marie
Slaughter — both of whom Trump later
quotes at length.
Eventually, though, a pair of related ex-
istential questions emerge. Namely: For
whom is Ivanka Trump writing? And what
did she write “Women Who Work” for? As
Sinek likes to ask, What is the why of this
book?
Just looking at “Women Who Work” gives
you a clue. It’s a strawberry milkshake of
inspirational quotations. Lee Iacocca ap-
pears two pages before Socrates. Toni Mor-
rison appears one page after Estée Lauder.
A quotation from Nelson Mandela intro-
duces the section that encourages women
to ask for flextime: “It always seems impos-
sible until it’s done.”
The book is manifestly the descendant of
many TED Talks and lifestyle websites.
(“Women Who Work” was the name of an
initiative Trump started on her website,
providing advice to working-girl
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millennials, before it became the title of this
book.) It’s perfect for a generation weaned
on Pinterest and goop.com — you can easily
imagine its many pink-tinted pages appear-
ing on Shoshanna’s manifestation board in
“Girls.” In a crowded marketplace of free-
lance thought leaders and spiritualists,
Trump, with her social-media following of
millions, is carving her own niche as a glam-
bition guru, with an explicit aim to “inspire
and empower women to create the lives
they want to live.”
This is the sort of feminism that drives
some women bananas, having less to do
with structural change than individual ful-
fillment and accessorizing properly; per-
haps it can even be achieved by wearing her
fine jewelry or apparel, which she repeat-
edly mentions throughout the book (as well
as her family’s tremendous hotels). There’s
certainly a market for it. There’s also family
precedent for empty-headed self-help
guides. Her father nearly annihilated his
millions, and went on to write many suc-
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cessful business books. Why not Ivanka?
Better yet, these personal-best and atta-
girl bromides offer the advantage of being
apolitical, and Trump is nothing if not prac-
ticed in the art of generic, apolitical speech,
as John Oliver has shrewdly observed.
So the “why” of her book becomes easy to
discern. She’s extending the Trump brand.
The intended audience for “Women Who
Work” is a more mysterious question.
Trump starts out presuming a wide range of
female readers.
But a class bias at some point begins to
reveal itself, and it’s not just in the business
leaders she profiles — who, like Trump, are
often the daughters of New York City’s elite.
It’s in her discussion of Covey’s four-quad-
rant time-management grid, when she
identifies grocery shopping as neither ur-
gent nor important. (Do the groceries just
magically appear in her fridge? Oh, wait.
They probably do.) It’s in her confession
that “honestly, I wasn’t treating myself to a
massage or making much time for self-
care” during the 2016 presidential cam-
paign. (Too busy.)
It’s in her description of her daily life, in
which she somehow — until the election,
anyway — managed to run her own com-
pany, serve as an executive vice president
in the Trump Organization, train for a half-
marathon and spend time alone with each of
her three children. Absent locating a worm-
hole in space, there’s really only one way to
find time for all of these commitments, and
that is with the aid of staff. Yet her house-
hold help barely rates a mention in this dis-
cussion.
By the time Trump gets to her primer on
maternity leave, she is, consciously or not,
addressing an imaginary cohort of upper
management and C.E.O.s. Back at work,
she expects you to have a team. It is amaz-
ing how many times “Women Who Work”
talks about the importance of Your Team.
There are more teams in this book than
there are in the N.F.L. In the case of ma-
ternity leave, she advises “to be present
with your little one, and not wondering
whether or not your team is floundering
without you.” She adds that you should
“Find someone trustworthy and capable on
your team to act as a gatekeeper once you
go on leave.” That way, they’ll bother you
only when it’s truly important.
But here’s what really matters about pa-
rental leave, as far as Ivanka Trump is con-
cerned: She seems to still believe — as she
did during the campaign — that Americans
ought to be paid for it. She waits until the
penultimate page to say so. But she does.
(She talks about affordable child care, too.)
These final pages were written before
Nov. 8, 2016. (Trump says in the preface that
she turned in her manuscript before she
knew the election results.) And what’s re-
markable is that she wrote them as if she
thought her father was going to lose: “We
need to fight for change, whether through
the legislature or in the workplace.”
Well, her father didn’t lose. Ivanka Trump
now has a formal White House role, as a
special adviser to the president. She has se-
curity clearance and an office in the West
Wing. She has access to the ultimate C-
suite. At any moment, she could walk in and
demand her father put forward a plan that
mirrors precisely what she provides her
own employees: Eight weeks of paid ma-
ternity leave. By European standards, that
may be paltry. By American ones, that is it’s
extremely generous and a very big deal.
While she’s at it, she might want to show
him the part of her book about how the best
leaders identify the gaps in their knowl-
edge. But that, I’m guessing, may be far too
much to ask.
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SHO . Spy Game (2001). Robert Red- Disaster Movie (2008). Matt Lanter. Disposable Fifty Shades of Black (2016). Marlon Wayans. Making Casino Royale (2006). Daniel Craig, Eva Green.
ford, Brad Pitt. (R) (5:50) parody of many disposable Hollywood movies. (PG-13) fun of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Scattershot satire. (R) (PG-13) (11:05) goodies, including an hourlong interview
SHO2 . A Bronx Tale (1993). Robert De The Boy (2016). Nanny is hired to care for life-size . It Follows (2014). Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist. Shape-shifting horror . Lincoln (2012). Lincoln plots to with Mr. De Palma by the filmmaker Noah
Niro, Chazz Palminteri. (R) (6) doll. Satisfying for horror fans. (PG-13) (8:05) stalks teenager. Cool and controlled. (R) (9:45) abolish slavery. Thrilling civics lesson. Baumbach, as well as Mr. De Palma’s “Mur-
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You (2000). (5:39) socialite wife suffers. Brilliant Blanchett. (PG-13) (7:19) the Enemy.” (Part 1 of 8) (MA) Minds.” (Part 2 of 8) (MA) (Part 3 of 8) (MA) (10:56) (PG-13) (11:56)
from 1968, centered on a cheating porn
STZENC . True Lies (1994). Jamie Lee Curtis. Wife learns mild-mannered hus- .
Hope Floats (1998). Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr. Prom queen goes In & Out (1997). Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack. (PG-13)
band is international spy. Lively, satiric eye-filler. (R) (6:37) home again. Pajama-party romance. (PG-13) (10:57) director, blackmail and an ice pick that
TMC Paranoia (2013). Liam Hemsworth, The Bank Job (2008). Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows. Thieves tunnel Southpaw (2015). Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker. Boxing champ who Code 46 (2003). makes a cameo appearance in “Blow Out.”
Harrison Ford. (PG-13) (6) into bank vault in 1971 London. Wham-bam caper flick. (R) lost everything tries to come back. Strictly undercard. (R) (R) (12:05)
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bad situation, arrives in Antibes, on the
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FXM The Croods (2013). Voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone. Animated. The Croods (2013). Voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone. Animated. The Sitter (2011). Jonah Hill, Max Records. Adventures bathing suit or nothing — is surely one of
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her perfect foil and complement, as large
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IFC Zombieland (2009). Woody Harrel- Borat (2006). Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson. A foreign reporter Brockmire “Road Borat (2006). Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson. A foreign reporter
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OWN Greenleaf “Point of No Return.” (14) Greenleaf “The Royal Family.” (14) Greenleaf “Born to Trouble.” (14) Greenleaf (N) (14) OWN Tonight! (N) (14) Greenleaf (14) rey Esparza). In “Law & Order: Special Vic-
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and streams. 50° MON. YESTERDAY low 50° An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
Lighter rain will fall over the northern far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
April 2017 was abnormally warm across the eastern half of the country. Average Plains. Much of the West can expect a Yesterday ..................................................................... 5
temperatures were 4 or more degrees higher than normal from the Gulf Coast to New sunny, warm day. 40°
Record So far this month .......................................................... 5
low 37° So far this season (since January 1).......................... 39
York State. The only region that was cooler than normal was the interior Northwest. (1903) Normal to date for the season ................................... 11

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Little Rock 81/ 56 0 71/ 49 R 62/ 50 R New Delhi 104/ 74 0 102/ 79 C 103/ 78 PC
Cities Los Angeles 84/ 60 0 87/ 61 S 84/ 60 S Riyadh 98/ 75 0 103/ 73 S 104/ 76 S Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 72/ 48 0.01 63/ 54 C 67/ 48 T Seoul 82/ 53 0 86/ 59 S 78/ 58 C Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 80/ 60 0 79/ 50 R 56/ 48 Sh Shanghai 70/ 59 0.31 74/ 67 C 76/ 61 Sh from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 86/ 75 0.02 86/ 77 T 87/ 77 S Singapore 88/ 78 0.04 89/ 78 C 88/ 77 C this month ............. +7.5° this year ................ +3.2°
Milwaukee 51/ 37 0.05 55/ 40 PC 53/ 40 PC Sydney 76/ 60 0.05 68/ 59 PC 68/ 57 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 59/ 42 0.01 64/ 47 Sh 66/ 42 S Taipei 85/ 73 0.06 85/ 73 T 87/ 74 PC 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 77/ 53 0 78/ 60 PC 66/ 46 T Tehran 85/ 62 0 79/ 63 PC 80/ 60 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 84/ 65 0 80/ 60 T 72/ 56 C Tokyo 70/ 54 0 70/ 59 PC 71/ 60 PC
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 80/ 61 0.50 77/ 59 S 73/ 64 PC Yesterday ............. 100% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 78/ 54 0 61/ 47 C 68/ 45 S Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T .......... Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 98% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 65/ 43 0 61/ 44 Sh 67/ 43 S Amsterdam 59/ 44 0.72 59/ 47 T 56/ 45 Sh
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 84/ 60 0 80/ 61 S 80/ 62 S
Orlando 85/ 65 0.16 88/ 66 PC 90/ 65 PC
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 75/ 52 0.06 64/ 46 PC 66/ 53 PC Berlin 53/ 45 0.13 62/ 46 C 53/ 47 Sh
Sh ................... Showers –.............. Not available Phoenix
Pittsburgh
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Brussels
Budapest
54/ 40 0.36
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Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 61/ 44 0.04 60/ 38 PC 60/ 42 S Copenhagen 56/ 40 0 55/ 42 PC 55/ 42 C
New York City 75/ 65 Tr 61/ 46 PC 61/ 50 PC Portland, Ore. 61/ 54 0.01 81/ 58 PC 82/ 54 T Dublin 55/ 44 0 56/ 45 PC 56/ 43 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 70/ 59 0.08 63/ 45 PC 61/ 49 PC Providence 72/ 49 0.05 62/ 42 PC 63/ 45 S Edinburgh 54/ 45 0.06 57/ 43 PC 55/ 41 PC
Caldwell 70/ 61 0.10 61/ 42 PC 63/ 49 PC Raleigh 79/ 55 0 78/ 55 S 77/ 61 PC Frankfurt 52/ 45 0.58 60/ 47 T 60/ 47 T Full Last Quarter New First Quarter
Danbury 68/ 57 0.06 56/ 35 PC 62/ 43 PC Reno 79/ 53 0 82/ 55 S 86/ 57 PC Geneva 49/ 36 0.47 59/ 41 R 59/ 40 T Today’s forecast
Islip 70/ 59 0.12 62/ 43 PC 61/ 48 PC Richmond 77/ 55 0.45 73/ 51 S 72/ 60 T Helsinki 59/ 32 0 53/ 34 PC 51/ 34 S
Newark 72/ 63 0.10 62/ 45 PC 61/ 51 PC Rochester 55/ 42 0.12 55/ 36 C 57/ 47 R Istanbul 72/ 55 0 72/ 56 S 72/ 56 S White
Trenton 70/ 62 0.07 62/ 42 PC 63/ 49 PC Sacramento 92/ 64 0 95/ 62 S 92/ 56 S Kiev 64/ 43 0 65/ 45 PC 69/ 47 PC May 10 May 18 May 25 June 1 41/27 Cooler with a shower
White Plains 69/ 60 0.05 59/ 43 PC 62/ 46 PC Salt Lake City 64/ 44 0.07 68/ 47 S 75/ 53 S Lisbon 81/ 49 0 83/ 60 PC 73/ 56 PC 5:42 p.m. 3:45 p.m.
San Antonio 89/ 71 0 85/ 59 T 81/ 54 S London 62/ 46 0 56/ 48 C 59/ 47 C Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow 33/23 Showers of rain and snow
San Diego 74/ 61 0 74/ 61 PC 74/ 60 PC Madrid 73/ 41 0 80/ 50 S 84/ 57 PC Sun RISE 5:52 a.m. Moon S 2:12 a.m.
Albany 63/ 46 0.24 55/ 38 C 65/ 46 PC Moscow 75/ 53 0 56/ 37 PC 50/ 33 C
San Francisco 79/ 56 0 78/ 56 PC 72/ 54 PC SET 7:54 p.m. R 12:53 p.m. Adirondacks
Albuquerque 78/ 48 0 75/ 45 S 74/ 49 PC Nice 64/ 49 0 64/ 51 PC 65/ 53 T
San Jose 90/ 62 0 91/ 63 S 84/ 56 S NEXT R 5:51 a.m. S 2:50 a.m.
Anchorage 53/ 40 0.02 51/ 40 C 50/ 36 C Oslo 64/ 36 0 60/ 37 S 61/ 40 S 45/23 Spotty showers 40s
San Juan 84/ 77 0.14 87/ 77 Sh 86/ 77 Sh
Atlanta 78/ 57 0 83/ 61 S 68/ 49 T Paris 62/ 46 0.10 57/ 45 Sh 65/ 45 Sh Jupiter S 4:57 a.m. Mars R 7:08 a.m.
Seattle 61/ 54 0 73/ 54 PC 75/ 53 T Berkshires
Atlantic City 70/ 55 0.08 64/ 48 PC 59/ 53 PC Prague 56/ 42 0.08 65/ 47 T 60/ 45 T R 5:22 p.m. S 10:02 p.m.
Sioux Falls 62/ 39 0 63/ 40 C 66/ 43 S 49/32 Mostly cloudy and cooler
Austin 91/ 68 0 88/ 57 T 81/ 51 S Rome 68/ 46 0 68/ 51 PC 67/ 49 PC
Spokane 60/ 44 0 68/ 50 PC 80/ 56 S Saturn S 8:41 a.m. Venus R 4:08 a.m.
Baltimore 76/ 53 0 65/ 46 S 65/ 55 R St. Petersburg 53/ 34 0 48/ 36 C 48/ 36 PC
St. Louis 70/ 48 0 53/ 46 R 53/ 46 R R 11:17 p.m. S 4:27 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 88/ 61 0 80/ 57 T 72/ 53 C Stockholm 61/ 36 0 54/ 33 S 53/ 34 S
St. Thomas 85/ 75 0.10 85/ 76 Sh 85/ 76 Sh 44/29 Partly sunny and cooler
Birmingham 80/ 57 0 85/ 60 S 68/ 50 T Vienna 63/ 44 0 65/ 45 R 68/ 48 T
Syracuse 57/ 41 0.12 53/ 34 C 60/ 44 R Boating
Boise 66/ 46 0 74/ 52 S 84/ 60 S Warsaw 56/ 39 0 56/ 49 T 56/ 50 T 50s
Tampa 87/ 72 0.28 92/ 73 PC 88/ 69 PC Poconos
Boston 72/ 50 0.30 62/ 43 PC 59/ 46 S
Toledo 50/ 37 0.21 59/ 43 PC 51/ 42 R North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 47/35 Clouds and sun, breezy
Buffalo 52/ 40 0.13 52/ 37 PC 55/ 46 R
Tucson 91/ 61 0 94/ 64 S 98/ 67 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
Burlington 62/ 46 0.25 54/ 38 Sh 63/ 47 S Tulsa 76/ 54 0 59/ 43 R 67/ 47 S Acapulco 86/ 72 0 89/ 75 PC 87/ 76 T
Casper 53/ 29 0.01 57/ 33 PC 68/ 39 S York Harbor. Southwest Pa. 60s
Virginia Beach 78/ 60 0.60 73/ 58 S 68/ 64 PC Bermuda 74/ 70 0 75/ 70 PC 74/ 69 C
Charlotte 76/ 54 0 80/ 58 S 74/ 54 T Washington 77/ 57 0 68/ 50 S 67/ 58 R Edmonton 52/ 36 0.03 66/ 39 PC 72/ 44 PC Wind will be from the west at 10-20 knots; gusts to 25 52/41 Clouds and sun, breezy
Chattanooga 77/ 53 0 82/ 59 S 68/ 49 T Wichita 72/ 49 0 58/ 45 R 68/ 45 S Guadalajara 90/ 54 0 91/ 54 PC 91/ 57 PC knots. Waves will be 3-5 feet on the ocean, 2-3 feet on
Chicago 52/ 36 0.07 58/ 42 PC 50/ 41 R Wilmington, Del. 73/ 51 0 63/ 44 PC 64/ 52 PC Havana 89/ 70 0 89/ 70 S 89/ 73 S Long Island Sound and 1-2 feet on New York Harbor.
Cincinnati 65/ 42 0 60/ 50 C 64/ 45 R Kingston 88/ 76 0.02 88/ 77 PC 87/ 77 PC
West Virginia 70s
Visibility will be mainly unrestricted.
Cleveland 56/ 44 0.10 57/ 46 C 60/ 54 R Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 87/ 76 0.06 87/ 74 Sh 87/ 75 Sh 59/46 Partly sunny and breezy
Colorado Springs 55/ 37 0 56/ 35 W 67/ 42 PC Algiers 70/ 48 0 76/ 55 S 84/ 59 S Mexico City 83/ 55 0 82/ 59 PC 81/ 55 T High Tides
Columbus 63/ 42 0.03 61/ 47 C 65/ 52 R Cairo 84/ 67 0 85/ 64 S 86/ 64 S Monterrey 88/ 59 0 99/ 68 PC 83/ 57 Sh Color bands
Concord, N.H. 67/ 44 0.06 58/ 34 C 67/ 41 S Cape Town 71/ 57 0 82/ 59 S 83/ 59 S Montreal 58/ 54 0.43 53/ 32 W 59/ 43 S Atlantic City ................... 1:59 a.m. .............. 2:50 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 87/ 66 0 75/ 53 R 74/ 53 S Dakar 79/ 69 0 78/ 67 PC 76/ 68 S Nassau 89/ 74 0.07 86/ 74 PC 88/ 75 PC Barnegat Inlet ................ 2:06 a.m. .............. 2:55 p.m. 67/48 Partly sunny and breezy temperature.
Denver 63/ 37 0 57/ 34 PC 68/ 40 PC Johannesburg 68/ 45 0 71/ 48 S 72/ 48 S Panama City 88/ 73 0.05 89/ 75 PC 90/ 75 PC The Battery .................... 2:46 a.m. .............. 3:32 p.m.
Des Moines 64/ 41 0 60/ 43 C 67/ 46 S Nairobi 75/ 58 0.07 75/ 58 T 76/ 60 C Quebec City 55/ 39 0.30 51/ 32 C 58/ 39 S Beach Haven ................. 3:33 a.m. .............. 4:17 p.m.
Detroit 52/ 39 0.09 61/ 44 PC 48/ 43 R Tunis 73/ 57 0 78/ 60 S 85/ 63 S Santo Domingo 84/ 70 0.04 85/ 71 PC 86/ 72 PC
El Paso 89/ 60 0 87/ 56 S 83/ 59 PC Toronto 56/ 48 0.05 59/ 36 PC 49/ 41 R
Bridgeport ..................... 5:48 a.m. ..............
City Island ...................... 6:20 a.m. ..............
6:29 p.m.
7:06 p.m.
A cold front will bring clouds and spotty
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Fargo
Hartford
67/ 43 0
72/ 46 0.14
65/ 40 Sh
59/ 38 Sh
70/ 39 S
66/ 44 PC Baghdad 94/ 74 0.02 95/ 67 PC 96/ 69 PC
Vancouver 57/ 42 0 60/ 50 R 66/ 54 PC Fire Island Lt. ................. 3:01 a.m. .............. 3:45 p.m. showers, mainly in the morning, from the
Winnipeg 62/ 39 0 63/ 39 C 66/ 46 S
Honolulu 85/ 71 0.01 85/ 72 PC 84/ 73 S Bangkok 94/ 82 0.06 98/ 81 T 98/ 81 C Montauk Point ................ 3:35 a.m. .............. 4:13 p.m. Poconos to the Green and White Moun-
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 5:55 a.m. .............. 6:40 p.m.
Houston
Indianapolis
89/ 69 0
61/ 40 0.02
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56/ 47 R
76/ 54 S
58/ 45 R
Beijing
Damascus
86/ 52 0
82/ 52 0
81/ 59 PC
81/ 50 S
80/ 52 S
82/ 50 S Buenos Aires 77/ 56 0 77/ 55 T 78/ 59 PC Port Washington ............ 6:17 a.m. .............. 7:04 p.m. tains. Clouds should break for some
Jackson 83/ 57 0 82/ 53 T 63/ 49 C Hong Kong 85/ 73 0 84/ 75 T 84/ 75 T Caracas 86/ 78 0.14 86/ 78 C 88/ 79 PC Sandy Hook ................... 2:15 a.m. .............. 2:59 p.m. sunshine in the afternoon. Farther south,
Jacksonville 85/ 55 0 86/ 62 PC 86/ 56 T
Kansas City 66/ 48 0 53/ 43 Sh 65/ 46 PC
Jakarta
Jerusalem
90/ 77 0.16
72/ 56 0.11
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Lima
Quito
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68/ 51 0.21
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71/ 53 R
75/ 67 PC
67/ 53 Sh
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 1:59 a.m. ..............
Stamford ........................ 5:51 a.m. ..............
2:39 p.m.
6:32 p.m.
it will be dry and partly sunny. Highs will
Key West 85/ 78 0 85/ 78 PC 85/ 77 S Karachi 93/ 81 0 97/ 82 S 97/ 81 S Recife 84/ 77 0.11 84/ 78 Sh 85/ 77 PC Tarrytown ....................... 4:35 a.m. .............. 5:21 p.m. range from the 40s to the upper 60s.
Las Vegas 92/ 71 0 92/ 71 S 96/ 72 S Manila 97/ 82 0.02 93/ 80 T 93/ 80 T Rio de Janeiro 79/ 64 0 81/ 67 S 80/ 68 S Willets Point ................... 6:16 a.m. .............. 7:03 p.m.
Lexington 70/ 45 0.01 63/ 54 C 67/ 47 T Mumbai 90/ 77 0 91/ 77 PC 91/ 77 S Santiago 70/ 46 0 78/ 43 S 80/ 43 S
5 RESTAURANTS
Loring Place loves its
vegetables. BY PETE WELLS
5 HUNGRY CITY
Burmese specialties at
Together. BY LIGAYA MISHAN
RESTAURANTS RECIPES WINE SPIRITS
Chef at a Crossroads
Thomas Keller, the
exacting founder of
the French Laundry,
contemplates his
next chapter.
French Toast
Worth Staying
At Home For
A rich, fluffy version with a
lacy brown crust (just like at
a restaurant!) is right at hand.
IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, when it comes to French
toast, you’re a slosher, someone who just
throws the ingredients together. Your
method might go something like this: Slosh
milk into bowl (I stock the 2 percent kind),
add a couple of eggs and whisk until it looks
right. Soak the bread, and sizzle in butter
until done. Sometimes it’s delicious, and
sometimes it’s disappointing. But it’s rarely
worth the $12 price and the hour’s wait,
sometimes in the rain, that the mobs sign up
for every Sunday at brunch destinations
like Egg, in Brooklyn, and Sqirl, in Los An-
geles.
By KIM SEVERSON
In the tight confines of a New York cab,
Thomas Keller leaned against his inter-
viewer’s shoulder. It was an intimate move
for a chef whose hallmarks are precision,
decorum and control.
Mr. Keller wanted to talk about children
and the Easter egg hunt his team hosts ev-
ery year at Addendum, a garden and take-
JULIA MOSKIN
JESSICA EMILY MARX FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
French toast that good demands a recipe.
And, fortunately, it’s one that calls for no
new ingredients, tools or technology. You
don’t even need stale bread.
When I set out to make a travel-worthy
French toast, my first call was to the ace of
the new American breakfast: Jessica
Koslow, the chef and owner of Sqirl.
CONTINUED ON PAGE D7
7 NOT YOUR $1 SLICE
Pizza with a high-rising crust,
and price. BY ARTHUR BOVINO
4 WINE SCHOOL
Lambrusco, all joking aside.
BY ERIC ASIMOV
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 D1
N
BEN SKLAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
out spot just down the street from the 23 years. As the architect of his restaurants’ Thomas Keller at the site of his
French Laundry, his flagship restaurant in precise, casually elegant style of service 200-seat restaurant that will
Yountville, Calif.
Watching other people’s children glee-
and later at the helm of the company’s
brand, she has done more to build the Keller
go up in the Hudson Yards
development in Manhattan.
fully scramble for eggs was both wonderful empire than anyone besides Mr. Keller. To- At 61, Mr. Keller is wondering
whether some change in his
and sad this year. He and Laura Cunning- gether, they have spent their lives feeding
ham, the woman he calls his life partner, and employing hundreds of thousands of life may be in order.
were never able to share that kind of pleas- people.
ure with a child of their own. Mr. Keller thinks, at least for him, a
Ms. Cunningham has been with him for CONTINUED ON PAGE D6
A Better-Tasting Bird
A new breed of chicken grows
slowly and has a healthier life.
But will consumers pay for it?
By STEPHANIE STROM
SALISBURY, MD. — The chickens in one pen
were, for the most part, doing what they
usually do toward the end of their lives on a
factory farm: resting on the floor, attacking
the feeding pan, getting big fast.
MATT ROTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
But in the next pen over, smaller, leaner
birds of the same age ran around, raising a A slow-growth chicken, left, alongside a
ruckus as they climbed on haystacks, conventional one at a Maryland testing farm.
perched on roosts and gave themselves dirt
baths. that could help change the way Americans
The kind of French toast eat, and think about, poultry.
“We’re going to have to come up with a
you line up for on a Perdue Farms, one of the country’s larg-
sturdier water line,” said Dr. Bruce Stewart-
Sunday morning, even if est chicken producers, has been raising
Brown, a veterinarian and senior vice presi-
it’s raining. what are known as slow-growth chickens
dent of Perdue Farms, as he watched two of
them swing the tube that supplies water to side by side with the breeds that have made
the pen. the company so successful. The new birds, a
The frisky birds and their more seden- variety known as Redbro, take 25 percent
tary neighbors here in a barn on the Del- longer, on average, to mature than their
marva Peninsula are part of an experiment CONTINUED ON PAGE D3
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017

MELISSA CLARK A GOOD APPETITE

Tarragon, the Herb You Don’t Know

It’s a perfect match for chicken.
Just ask the French.
LACKING THE SUN-DRENCHED allure of basil
and the practical ubiquity of parsley, tar-
ragon will never win any herbal popularity
contests in the United States.
It’s not that we don’t like its earthy, lico-
rice flavor. It’s just that most of us don’t
think to use it, at least not to the degree that
cooks in Europe do. This is especially true in
France, where tarragon is everywhere:
simmered into soups, steeped in vinegars
and mustards, strewed on fish, tossed with
salads of soft lettuces.
But perhaps its most constant companion
is chicken. The tarragon perfumes the bird’s
flesh and mingles with its meaty juices. In
many French chicken recipes, the tarragon
is whisked into the pan drippings along with
butter or cream to create a sauce.
This is a different take, starting with the
fact that there is no sauce whatsoever.
Instead, the tarragon flavor infuses the
chicken through lengthy marinating. Plan
on at least six hours. Or better, start mari-
nating the chicken the night before. It will
keep in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours
and just gets more delicious as it sits in the
pungent mix of tarragon and grated garlic.
That’s just about it for the prep, all done in
advance. The only chopping left to do is slic-
ing a couple of onions just before cooking,
which makes this an ideal after-work meal if
you’ve done a little planning.
Those onions are roasted in the same pan
as the chicken, benefiting both parties. The
onions soak up the rendering chicken fat;
the chicken absorbs the heady onion steam.
A few thyme sprigs scattered on top add
their woodsy perfume.
As the chicken skin crisps, the onions car-
amelize, turning golden and very sweet. To
balance out their sweetness, add a little acid PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
before serving; that will sharpen things up.
You could reach for tarragon vinegar if you . ....................................................................................................................................................................................

have some on hand, and stay within the tar- AND TO DRINK ...
ragon theme. But I prefer sherry vinegar, TARRAGON CHICKEN WITH SHERRY VINEGAR ONIONS
which adds a subtle nuttiness along with the TIME: 1 HOUR, PLUS 6 HOURS' MARINATING toss to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and chill Ordinarily, chicken thighs
tang. Lemon or lime juices are also nice, YIELD: 6 SERVINGS for at least 6 hours, and up to overnight. imbued with the mild anise
adding a clean, fruity sharpness. Then you
flavor of tarragon would be a
can use the same vinegar or citrus juice to ½ cup finely chopped tarragon (leaves 2. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Spread onions
dress whatever kind of salad you serve good candidate for reds or
and tender stems), plus 4 whole sprigs out on a rimmed baking sheet, drizzle with oil
alongside the chicken. whites. But the vinegar tang of
2 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced and sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss well.
While you could substitute basil or rose- the onions suggests that a white may work
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, more Clear spaces on the baking pan, then place
mary here, try this with the tarragon at better. A good restrained chardonnay or
for drizzling chicken pieces in the cleared spaces so the
least once. Then maybe this delightful herb white Burgundy; an herbal, minerally
onions surround the chicken. Strew thyme and
will come to mind a little more often. 1½ teaspoons kosher salt, more as needed sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley; a
tarragon sprigs over onions and chicken.
½ teaspoon ground black pepper, more as fine white Bordeaux, with its waxy texture;
ONLINE: A FRENCH TWIST needed 3. Roast, tossing the onions after 15 minutes, or a dry chenin blanc from Savennières or
In a new video, Melissa Clark discusses the 3 pounds bone-in chicken thighs (skin until chicken is cooked through and the onions South Africa would be delicious. If you do
power of tarragon (use it as you would basil): on) tender, 25 to 35 minutes. If the chicken skin or prefer a red, I would suggest a St.-Joseph
nytimes.com/food
2 large onions, peeled and sliced (about onions are not as brown as you’d like, run pan or Crozes-Hermitage, syrah wines from the
4 cups) under the broiler for 1 to 2 minutes at the end northern Rhône Valley; an Oregon pinot
4 thyme sprigs of cooking. noir; or perhaps a nebbiolo from the alpine
Sherry vinegar, to taste 4. Place chicken on a platter. Drizzle onions regions of northern Italy, like Valtellina or
with sherry vinegar and more salt and pepper if Carema. Sherry lovers will know that a fine
1. In a large bowl, stir together tarragon, garlic, needed. Spoon onions around the chicken and amontillado would also be a great choice.
oil, salt and pepper. Add chicken thighs and serve. ERIC ASIMOV

DAVID TANIS CITY KITCHEN

Light Noodles, Deep Flavor

Herbs and lettuce complete
this Vietnamese meal.
IN VIETNAM, the breakfast choice for many
is a steaming bowl of brothy pho, purchased
from early-morning vendors who dispense
the beloved spicy noodle soup until their
supply is sold out, then close up shop for the
day.
For lunch, it may well be noodles again,
prepared in a different way. A bowl of room-
temperature rice vermicelli, called bun,
may be served with various cooked-to-or-
der toppings and bright add-ons for a satis-
fying, simple meal. . ......................................................................................

Festooned with lemongrass-scented

shrimp, beef, pork or chicken, the noodles
are flavored with nuoc cham (the classic
sweet-and-spicy dipping sauce), pickled
vegetables and crushed peanuts.
The vital accompaniment to this rice noo-
dle bowl, and many other Vietnamese dish-
es, is a platter of lettuce leaves and tender,
fragrant fresh herbs.
The herb mixture usually includes Thai
basil, mint, cilantro, sawtooth culantro,
Vietnamese coriander, fish herb, red perilla
and dill, among other lemony, peppery,
freshly picked and highly aromatic leaves.
The lettuce leaves are often used as wrap-
pers: One may fill a leaf with herbs, noodles
and a bit of meat, roll it into a tight bundle
and give it a quick dip in nuoc cham before
conveying it mouthward.
A less formal alternative is to incorporate
the lettuce and herbs from the beginning.
For example, start with a pile of torn lettuce
leaves and herbs in the bottom of each bowl.
Add the room-temperature noodles and top-
pings, then let guests give it a toss with their
chopsticks. This gives it a bit more of a sal-
adlike feel.
As far as the cooking of the rice noodles is
concerned, choose the technique you like
best. I prefer letting them steep in a pot of
boiling-hot water for five to eight minutes,
until just done.
Others recommend soaking them in hot
tap water, which works, too, but takes a little
longer. And then there are the cooks who
prefer to boil them like pasta.
In any case, for best results, they must be
rinsed in cold water once drained to keep
them from becoming mushy or sticky.
Healthy, light and packed with mouthwa-
tering flavor, a rice noodle bowl like this one
is easy to love.
VIETNAMESE RICE NOODLES WITH
LEMONGRASS SHRIMP
TIME: 1 HOUR
YIELD: 4 SERVINGS
For the pickled vegetables:
1 cup finely julienned carrot
1 cup finely julienned daikon
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
For the dipping sauce:
3 tablespoons light brown sugar PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
4 tablespoons lime juice
leaves separated, rinsed and patted dry 4. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to boil.
3 tablespoons Vietnamese fish sauce, CORRECTIONS
3 cups mixed herb sprigs, such as Turn off heat and add rice noodles. Soak
like Red Boat
cilantro, mint, basil, watercress and noodles, stirring occasionally, until softened, An article last Wednesday
3 garlic cloves, minced about the intricacies of salt
tender celery leaves usually about 7 to 8 minutes. Drain and rinse
1 tablespoon minced or grated ginger misstated how Maldon sea salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil with cold water. Leave in colander at room
1 medium-hot red chile pepper, such as is made. It is produced by
4 scallions, slivered temperature.
Fresno, finely chopped drying seawater indoors; it is
4 tablespoons crushed roasted peanuts 5. Prepare a platter of lettuce leaves and herb not dried in the sun.
1 red or green bird chile pepper, thinly 
sliced, or substitute half a thinly sliced Handful of bean sprouts (optional) sprigs for the table. Keep cool, covered with a
A review last Wednesday
damp towel.
serrano pepper about Union Square Cafe
1. Make the pickled vegetables: Put carrot and misstated, in some editions,
6. Put oil in a wok or frying pan over
daikon in a small bowl and sprinkle with sugar the lowest star rating that the
For the shrimp and noodles: medium-high heat. When oil is hot, add shrimp
and salt. Add rice vinegar, toss well and set restaurant has received from
1½ pounds shrimp, preferably wild, peeled without crowding (work in batches if
aside. The New York Times. It was
and deveined necessary). Cook for about 2 minutes per side, two stars, not one.
2 tablespoons Vietnamese fish sauce 2. Make the dipping sauce: In a small bowl, stir until lightly browned.
1 tablespoon light brown sugar together brown sugar, vinegar, lime juice, fish
7. To serve, divide noodles among 4 large soup
sauce, garlic, ginger and chiles. Stir in ½ cup
3 garlic cloves, minced bowls, then top each with hot shrimp, pickled
cold water and let mixture sit for 15 minutes.
3 tablespoons finely chopped vegetables and a tablespoon or so of dipping
(Leftover sauce will keep up to 3 days,
lemongrass, pale tender center part sauce. Sprinkle with scallions and peanuts (and
refrigerated.)
only beans sprouts if using). Pass herb platter and
1 pound rice noodles, preferably rice 3. Marinate the shrimp: Put shrimp in a shallow remaining dipping sauce at the table, and
vermicelli dish. Add fish sauce, brown sugar, garlic and encourage guests to customize bowls as
1 or 2 small lettuce heads, with the lemongrass. Mix well to coat. desired.
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TO EXPLORE TO TREAT

Specialty Butcher Shop Is That Thing a Popsicle

Opens Uptown Branch
Hudson & Charles, the West
Village butcher, has opened a
branch on the Upper West Side.
It specializes in grass-finished
beef, lamb and pork, and offers
more esoteric choices like
boned oxtail meat, petite tender
and flatiron steaks, ready-to-
roast marrow bones and guan-
ciale. Free-range chickens are
available, and rabbits will be on
hand soon. The store carries
duck fat, house-made sausages,
pâtés and stocks made from
duck, lamb, chicken and beef.
Kevin Haverty, who owns the
shop with J. Fox (right), said
they opened uptown because
they had many customers from
the neighborhood, and wanted
more space: Hudson & Charles,
555 Amsterdam Avenue (87th
Street), 212-799-1269,
hudsonandcharles.com.
TO APPRECIATE
Art of Food Is on View
At Park Avenue Armory
There is a Dalí on display in the
exhibition, “A Surrealist Banquet,”
at the European Fine Art Fair in
the owner of the gallery that
bears his name, has assembled
more than 50 pieces of food-
themed American and Euro-
pean art on and around a dining
table in one of the Armory’s
wood-paneled rooms. Paintings
and sculptures by Picasso,
Thiebaud (below left) and Ma-
gritte (below right) are includ-
ed. The exhibition will move to
Mr. Di Donna’s gallery after the
show: “A Surrealist Banquet,”
Tefaf New York Spring, Thurs-
day to Monday, Park Avenue
Armory, 643 Park Avenue (67th
Street), tefaf.com; Di Donna
Or a Gelato Sandwich?
Popbar’s gelato on a stick now
comes in an ice-cream-sandwich
variation. Crisp chocolate cookies,
about the size of the bar, are
smeared with chocolate and
applied to each side of the pop.
Sorbet, chocolate dip and nut
garnishes are options: PopWich,
$4.25 to $5.99, Popbar, 5 Carmine
Street (Avenue of the Americas),
212-255-4874, pop-bar.com.
TO INDULGE TO FATHOM
Elegant Italian Cakes How-To Manual Tackles
Made With Nut Flours Culinary Conundrums
Francesca Spalluto, a This breezy little
native of Taranto, Italy, primer will show you
abandoned banking to how best to eat that
become a baker. Her crustacean on your
elegantly simple, deli- plate and also bone a
cious little nut-flour fish, carve a chicken
cakes are sold in shops and properly consume
in Brooklyn and Manhat- artichokes,
tan, including Fleishers pomegranates and even
Craft Butchery, Union Mar-
durians. The book covers the
ket and G-Free NYC. There’s a
etiquette of setting a table, or-
light limoncello cake, a hazelnut
dering at the sushi bar and send- DANNY GHITIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (BUTCHER);
cake, a pistachio cake and a choc- JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (POPBAR);

the Park Avenue Armory this
week, but not all the works are
Surrealist. Emmanuel Di Donna,
Galleries, May 11 to June 2, 744
Madison Avenue (65th Street),
212-259-0444, didonna.com.
ing food back in restaurants: PATRICIA WALL/THE NEW YORK TIMES (BOOK); TONY
olate-almond torte. All are gluten- CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES (CAKES); SASHA
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dolcidifranci.com. Edible Enigmas Explained,” by ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, WAYNE THIEBAUD/LICENSED BY
VAGA, NEW YORK (ART, LEFT); RENÉ MAGRITTE,
TO TREASURE Ashley Blom (Quirk Books, L’EXPLICATION, 1962, GOUACHE ON PAPER, 35.6 BY 27.3 CM
(1418 BY 1034 IN.) , 2017 C. HERSCOVICI/ARTISTS RIGHTS
$12.99).
Vintage Cast-Iron Pieces, SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK (ART, RIGHT)

Restored and on Sale

My vintage 12-inch Griswold
skillet was a yard-sale find, but
those who are interested in ac-
quiring vintage cast iron do not
have to wait for tag-sale season.
Best Made, a shop in TriBeCa, has
acquired hundreds of mostly
Griswold pieces, made between
1900 and 1960 and fully restored,
including Dutch ovens, corn-stick
pans and waffle irons. They will
be on sale at the store only on
Saturday and Sunday, and sold
online on Monday: Vintage cast
iron, $50 to $250, Best Made, 36
White Street (Church Street),
888-708-7824, bestmadeco.com.

Toward a Slow-Growing, Better-Tasting Chicken

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
conventional cousins, and so are more ex-
pensive to raise.
Perdue is trying to find just the right
slow-growth breed, and it has a strong in-
centive: A fast-growing cohort of compa-
nies that buy vast quantities of poultry, in-
cluding Whole Foods Market and Panera
Bread, are demanding meat from slow-
growth chickens, contending that giving
birds more time to grow before slaughter
will give them a healthier, happier life —
and produce better-tasting meat.
“We want to get back to a place where
people don’t have to put a marinade on their
chicken to make it taste like something,”
said Theo Weening, who oversees meat
purchasing for Whole Foods and recalls
how his mother bought chicken by breed in
the Netherlands, where he grew up.
Mr. Weening is realistic, though. “We
have to figure out how can we make this
happen so we’re not ending up with a
chicken nobody can afford,” he said.
That is the big challenge for chicken
producers. Dr. Stewart-Brown, of Perdue,
said it cost about 30 percent more to feed
the Redbro birds; the expense can run even
higher for other slow-growth breeds, some
of which can take as much as twice as long
to reach full weight as conventional birds.
Differences in their musculature may cut
into a producer’s profits as well. The Redbro
chickens, for instance, have skinnier wings
Still being tested, but
already in demand
by major stores.
than their conventional cousins, and wings
command a high price by weight.
“I don’t know that we’ll be selling any of
these kinds of birds in pieces,” Dr. Stewart-
Brown said.
Consumers would also have to accept
some trade-offs: While the new chickens
have a fuller flavor, their meat tends to be
distributed differently over the body, with
more generous thighs and smaller breasts
than the chicken most Americans are used
to.
Perdue has been testing different breeds
for about the last 18 months, using insights it
has gained since it acquired Petaluma Poul-
try, a boutique business that produces slow-
growth, pastured and organic chickens.
Perdue expects to start selling a slow-
growth chicken in grocery stores sometime
in the next few years.
There are already several smaller com-
panies selling such chickens, including Em-
mer & Company, Pitman Family Farms,
White Oak Pastures and Crystal Lake
Farms, which was bought in February by
the meat supply company West Liberty
Foods.
But Perdue appears to be the first, and so
Conventional birds at a Perdue Farms test facility in Maryland, above left. Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown is a company veterinarian.
far the only, major chicken supplier to test
slow-growth birds. The other four big
producers have expressed little interest,
though Tyson Foods, the country’s largest
chicken producer, owns Cobb-Vantress, one
of three large genetics companies that
maintain a sort of library of bird types that
they continue to tweak in response to de-
mand from chicken producers. (It sells eggs
or chicks with the genetic components for
slower-growing chickens.)
Last year, Bon Appétit Management,
which supplies many college kitchens and
runs a chain of restaurants, announced that
by 2024 it would sell meat only from slow-
growth chickens.
“The reaction I got from the mainstream
chicken suppliers at that time was kind of
deadpan,” said Maisie Ganzler, who is Bon
Appétit’s vice president for strategy. “They
essentially said: ‘Well, it’s interesting that
you want to go in that direction. We don’t.’”
Since then, Bon Appétit has been joined
by companies like the Compass Group,
which owns Bon Appétit; its competitor,
Aramark; Nestlé; Starbucks; Chipotle
Mexican Grill; and, last Friday, Subway, the
nation’s largest fast-food chain.
The Global Animal Partnership, which
sets standards for the welfare of animals
raised for meat, said that by 2024 it would
give animal-welfare certifications only to
slow-growth chickens, a move that would
affect some 270 million broilers, or about 3
percent of the nation’s flock.
The chicken industry, fearing that the
string of announcements might force the
kind of rapid changes that snowballed in the
egg business after companies demanded
eggs from cage-free birds, quickly produced
a report that predicted dire consequences if
there was a similar move to produce slow-
growth chicken. Compiled by the animal
medicine division of Eli Lilly & Company, it
estimated that a shift to slow-growth pro-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT ROTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Birds of Different Feathers
Here’s how two of the breeds in the Perdue Farms experiment compare:
CONVENTIONAL SLOW-GROWTH
BREED Cobb 500 Redbro
BODY Short legs, top-heavy Longer legs, upright posture
FEATHERS Often bare-chested from Chest is covered
frequent nesting
MEAT Bigger breast and wings Bigger thighs
MATURITY Ready for slaughter at about Ready for slaughter at about
48 days 60 days
Source: Perdue Farms
duction would require more land, water and
feed. The industry also contends that with-
out the efficiency of today’s chickens, which
pack on more pounds with less feed over
fewer and fewer days, the world will be un-
able to feed its growing population.
Today’s conventional broiler chickens
have been bred over the years to produce
the most amount of meat in as short a time
as possible, reducing a farmer’s costs and
increasing profits. In 1935, the average
broiler chicken reached the slaughter-
ready weight of 2.86 pounds in 98 days, ac-
cording to the National Chicken Council. To-
day’s broilers are an average of 6.18 pounds
at the time of slaughter, when they are
about 47 days old.
Food is the largest cost for chicken
producers, and the Redbro birds don’t eat as
much as the two conventional chickens Per-
due is using for comparison, Dr. Stewart-
Brown said. “They’re bred to put on as
much weight as possible in as little time, so
they have quite an appetite,” he said of the
conventional chickens.
But because the Redbros take longer to
mature and are far more active than the
conventional birds, they will eat more to
produce each pound of meat, he said. And
because they are more active, they need
more space, which Dr. Stewart-Brown esti-
mated would mean limiting the population
of a chicken barn to 22,000, or about 3,000
fewer birds than is standard with today’s
breeds.
The Redbro birds stand taller and drink
less water — “I like that,” Dr. Stewart-
Brown said. Their higher activity levels also
help aerate the litter that covers the floor of
chicken houses; drier pens, he said, are less
likely to create food-safety problems.
Conventional birds need larger feet and
shorter legs to support the fast develop-
ment of their musculature, which is the
meat. Their muscles grow faster than their
skeletons, so by the time they are slaugh-
tered, they cannot move around easily for
long and end up nesting in litter, which can
lead to sores on their sternums, and foot
and leg problems.
“The breeding companies have done a
great job of giving their customers, the
chicken producers, what they want, which
has been fast growth with lots of muscle tis-
sue,” said Anne Malleau, the executive di-
rector of the Global Animal Partnership.
The group is working on a protocol for as-
sessing genetics so that it can then establish
a list of breeds or standards that will qualify
as slowgrowth.
Mike Cockrell, the chief financial officer
at Sanderson Farms, a large chicken
producer, noted that it’s already possible to
produce a conventional bird with a longer
life span. Sanderson and other chicken com-
panies produce what are called “big birds”
— conventional chickens that weigh
roughly nine pounds when slaughtered at
about 56 days.
“So is that a slow-growth chicken?” Mr.
Cockrell asked. “Of course we’ll respond to
customers, but I’m not really sure we know
what we’re talking about here.”
In marketing slow-growth chickens, Per-
due and others will have to make con-
sumers understand why they are paying a
higher price. Emmer, for instance, sells two
3.25 pound birds for $59 on its website,
while the suggested retail price of a Sonoma
Red (from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry) that
weighs four pounds is $16.
Shoppers often say they want better wel-
fare for the animals they eat, then balk at
the cost that adds to the price of a pork chop
or chicken breast. Ms. Malleau said she be-
lieved, however, that a growing number of
consumers were diversifying the proteins
they ate.
“As a society, we’re going to be making
different choices than we did 20 years when
it comes to protein in our diets, and in some
ways, this move to slow-growth chicken is a
gamble on that,” she said. “We’ll see how it
turns out.”
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WINE SCHOOL ERIC ASIMOV
Smile When You Say Lambrusco
The sparkling red wine I noticed this, and alerted the shop. I then
left New York for a vacation in Brazil. When
surprised some naysayers.
I returned to New York and arranged for the
correct bottles to be sent to me, the wrong
bottles were delivered yet again. The wrong
NO, IT WAS NOT an April Fools’ trick, and it
Chiarli was also photographed by The
most definitely was not a joke.
Times, although we had double-checked to
Contrary to the suspicions of some read-
ers, our focus on Lambrusco was abso- make sure the photographer would receive
lutely, joyously serious. the correct bottle from the shop.
Welcome back to Wine School, where we It turned out that because of a cataloging
trust primary-source material rather than error by the wine’s wholesaler, all com-
accept popular notions. For us, the primary puterized references to the Grasparossa di
sources are the bottles themselves, and for Castelvetro in the New York area led in-
stead to the Dry VS. After the shop discov-
Lambrusco, which has spent years on the
list of reviled wines, the proof was in the ered the problem, it concluded that the
Grasparossa di Castelvetro was unavail-
drinking.
You know how Wine School works. Each able in New York. In the end, I drank the
month, we focus on a particular genre of Dry VS, as did some readers.
wine. I suggest three examples, which you The Dry VS, in my opinion, was a far cry
drink at home in a relaxed setting with fam- from the lively, dry, refreshingly bitter wine
ily, friends and food. Then we discuss the I had in mind. Instead, it seemed straight-
wines. forward and one-dimensional. While not as
My selection of Lambrusco was met with cloying as the bad Lambruscos of old, it
skepticism by those whose impression of gave the undeniable impression of sweet-
the wine was formed years ago, when ness. Several readers, including George Er-
sweet, mass-produced Lambruscos were dle of Charlotte, N.C., and Dan Barron of
the best-selling wines in the country. As New York, noted this. Mr. Erdle’s group con-
with so many wine drinkers, these skeptics cluded that the Chiarli was “not a food
haven’t kept up with the news. wine.”
What has been true for several years now But Mr. Barron, while allowing that the
bears repeating: Real Lambrusco is back. Chiarli was “accessible, candied and a bit
These wines have little to do with the sickly oversweet,” had a surprising experience
sweet beverages that dominated the mar- when he paired it with white asparagus
ket in the 1980s. Real Lambrusco is a fresh, served with a “black-truffle fondue.”
dry, earthy, effervescent red, with a slight “It was the night’s best pairing,” he said,
bitterness that goes beautifully with the “lovely with the creamy, lightly tangy
rich cuisine of Emilia-Romagna, its home sauce.”
region in north-central Italy. That’s an open mind. I found both the
Even though we are well into the 21st cen- sense of sweetness and the wine’s one-di-
tury, the wisdom of the past — that aspira-
tional wine drinkers should avoid Lambr-
usco as they would rosés and Sicilian wines,
to cite two other shibboleths — still has a
hold on people. Fortunately, even the skep-
tics approached the wines with open minds.
“Fun, great in warm weather, easy to
drink, versatile, low prices — have changed
my mind about Lambrusco,” wrote VSB, a
reader in San Francisco.
Many readers seemed to like the
wines. Even so, I must offer an apol-
ogy: One of the three wines I chose was
an impostor. Let me explain.
I recommended three bottles: Camillo
Donati Lambrusco dell’Emilia I.G.P. 2014,
Vigneto Saetti Lambrusco dell’Emilia I.G.P.
2015 and Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Gras-
parossa di Castelvetro Pruno Nero NV.
The Donati and the Saetti were not prob-
lems. But the retail shop where I bought the
Cleto Chiarli sent me the wrong bottle, the
Chiarli Pruno Nero Dry VS, rather than the mensionality an obstacle to pleasure with
Grasparossa di Castelvetro Pruno Nero. either pizza or sautéed pork chops.
For me, the Saetti is the gold standard in
EMAIL asimov@nytimes.com. And follow Eric New York-area Lambruscos these days.
Asimov on Twitter: @EricAsimov. The 2015 was savory yet floral, with flavors
of dark fruits and earth, and a meaty under-
tone. It was beautifully produced, and I
have found it to be wonderful year after
year. Those who were able to find this wine
largely loved it. With the combination of the
Saetti and the pizza, Martin Schappeit of
Forest, Va., had an epiphany.
“It gave me a ‘This Planet is a beautiful
place to live’ moment, surrounded by green
trees and singing birds,” he said. “My best
slice of pizza so far.”
Despite the Chiarli mixup, it was the third
bottle, the Camillo Donati, that was the
most polarizing of the group. On opening
the Donati, most readers noted what might
politely be called a barnyard, animal smell.
It was the most powerful note in a complex
set of aromas that also included flowers,
dark fruits and savory meats.
In Mr. Barron’s group, the wine was
likened to both a barnyard and horse sweat.
Still, the members enjoyed it with pap-
pardelle and braised duck.
“Barnyardy and sophisticated?” Mr. Bar-
ron asked. “Definitely fun.” On another
night, though, Mr. Barron said the wine fell
flat.
Mr. Erdle described the Donati as “not
pleasant, despite its good body and offer-
ings of dark fruit.” Yet, with ravioli, prosciut-
to and ramps, his group found it likable.
“This was not a finesse wine,” he con-
cluded, “but it was our second favorite.”
What is that barnyard flavor? My best
guess is that it is brettanomyces, a yeast
that as a modest accent can add interest to a
wine, but in excess can ruin it. Most main-
stream winemakers eliminate any trace of
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had requests from customers who wanted to be able to dine, to sit
down,” he said. The result is 72 seats in the garment district, with spots
at a counter facing the team of chefs, and a bar that will serve beer,
wine and sake by the glass, the bottle and in cocktails this summer.
Dove-gray recycled wood is a prominent feature, as are the high ceil-
ings. The sushi is largely made of grains, vegetables and fruit. There
are also rice-paper wraps, salads, noodle bowls, dumplings and a new
line of soups. And the offerings have broader appeal: Mr. Vaknin said a
recent informal survey of his customers indicated that about 60 per-
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0869, beyondsushinyc.com.
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Paolo Nozzoli’s menu features tribute to summer at the shore is tucked into a courtyard in the
wood-fired pizzas in addition to the latest theme for Good Story, financial district. Brunch is
antipasti, pasta and main dishes. the indoor-outdoor rooftop on the served every day until 4 p.m.,
The thin-crust pizzas are made hotel where Harold Moore runs followed by small plates of cheese
from a special blend of high-fiber his restaurant, Harold’s Meat & and charcuterie along with coffee
flour and shaped as ovals, the Three. The menu looks to Baja drinks and cocktails: 15 Cliff
better to stay crisp, Mr. Alavian California with tacos, a burger
Street (Fulton Street), 212-602-
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YOUR NEXT LESSON: SPÄTLESE RIESLING
Prepare to Be Thrilled
NOW THAT WE’VE TACKLED a sparkling red, let’s move on to another
contentious category: sweet German rieslings.
Seldom will you see a style that is so beloved by critics, sommeliers
and other wine authorities, yet so ignored by the public. It’s not that
riesling is unpopular, though public acceptance never quite matches
critical plaudits. But this particular wine, riesling with discernible
sweetness, is an especially difficult sell.
Partly it’s the sweetness, which even in Germany is a style in de-
cline. For English speakers, another huge obstacle may be the German
language, with its syllabic pileups.
Nonetheless, we’re plunging in. These wines are too thrilling, too
delicious and too versatile with food to allow us to be deterred by a
bunch of umlauts. There’s no accounting for taste, of course. But you’ve
got to try the wines first. And if you already think you know these
wines, why not try them again? Tastes evolve.
Here are the three wines I recommend:
ILLUSTRATIONS BY SERGE BLOCH
brettanomyces by filtering the wine or add-
ing sulfur dioxide, a commonly used stabi-
lizer, during the production process.
But the Donati is a natural Lambrusco.
Its proprietor does not use sulfur dioxide,
which means there is the possibility of bret-
tanomyces or some other sort of microbio-
logical incursion.
Interestingly, the Saetti, too, is a natural
Lambrusco made without sulfur dioxide,
and it was perfectly clean. If winemakers
decide to work without sulfur dioxide, it’s
crucial that they work meticulously to
avoid the possibility of contamination.
I have had different vintages of the
Donati with little trace of bret-
tanomyces. I am not sure what hap-
pened this time. As I said, a touch as an ac-
cent can add interest to a wine, but this ex- TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ample was too much. Joh. Jos. Prüm Carl Loewen Mosel Dönnhoff Nahe
Aside from sharing a natural approach, Mosel Riesling Riesling Spätlese Riesling Spätlese
the Saetti and Donati have another charac- Spätlese Leiwen Oberhäuser Brücke
teristic in common. They are both small- Bernkasteler Laurentiuslay 2015 2015 (Terry Theise
production wines, and both achieve their ef- Badstube 2015 (Rudi (Terry Theise Estate
fervescence in a traditional manner, with Wiest/Cellars Estate Selection/Skurnik
fermentation completed in the bottle. The International, Selection/Skurnik Wines, New York),
byproduct of this fermentation is carbon di- Carlsbad, Calif.), $37 Wines), $26 $43
oxide, which, unable to escape the sealed
bottle, carbonates the wine.
By contrast, the Chiarli is produced in far
greater quantity and, like most Lambrus- Can’t find these wines, or other spätlese cuvées from these
cos, is carbonated in bulk in pressurized producers? Don’t worry. Dozens of exceptional wines are available.
tanks. It is a different sort of wine, and while The key words to look for are “riesling spätlese,” which indicate very
mass-produced Lambruscos can be very ripe riesling grapes fermented to leave some discernible sweetness in
good, they are rarely as distinctive as the the wine. Avoid any spätlese also labeled “trocken,” which indicates a
artisanal versions.
dry wine.
Lambrusco can be made from about a
half-dozen grapes, and indeed, each of these Along with additional spätlese cuvées from these winemakers, other
three bottles was made with a different one. German producers to look for include: Julian Haart, Weiser-Künstler,
The Chiarli was made of the grasparossa Schloss Lieser, Schäfer-Fröhlich, A. J. Adam, Dr. Loosen, Fritz Haag,
(as was the Chiarli I had intended to drink). Maximin Grünhaus, Selbach-Oster, Alfred Merkelbach, Joh. Jos.
The Donati was made of the maestri, and Christoffel, Willi Schaefer and Leitz.
the Saetti of the salamino. I selected the 2015 vintage, which has received a great deal of hype,
The notion of sparkling red wines strikes partly because it is now in the market. But if you find older vintages,
some as a bit weird. But in Italy, they are not do not hesitate to buy them. They may be even better.
uncommon. Lambrusco is just one of a
What to serve with these wines? Just about anything you like. Light
handful of reds in Italy that are called viva-
ce, or lightly sparkling. Wine School read- seafood and poultry dishes would be fine, as would many spicy dishes.
ers had no problem with it. Why not test the frequently repeated notion that spätlese rieslings go
MindWanderer of New York said Lambr- wonderfully with Asian cuisines?
usco was now part of a regular rotation of Now, let me repeat the usual caution: Don’t serve these wines too
rooftop wines, while Ferguson of Princeton, cold. If they are icy, the nuances will be difficult to detect. Take the
N.J., said, “The texture was good, definitely bottles out of the fridge about half an hour before serving.
not weird.” ERIC ASIMOV
If this was your first exposure to good
Lambrusco, I hope you will take it as an in-
vitation to find your own favorites among
the many different styles. Characteristics to Consider
Inadvertently, these Lambruscos offered
two lessons. First, natural wines are like Texture
any other genre of wine: Some are really How do the wines feel in the mouth?
. .............................................................................................................................................
good, and some are not for everybody, or
anybody, really. Residual Sugar
Second, and this is true whether you are Was sweetness an obstacle in any way?
buying wines retail or in a restaurant, al- . .............................................................................................................................................
ways read the label and make sure you are Versatility
getting what you ordered. How did the wines go with food?
FLORENCE FABRICANT
Freek’s Mill will open this casual Harbor, on Fire Island, and his
Mexican restaurant next month wife is the manager.
nearby in the former Pines
space: 284 Third Avenue (Carroll AWARDS
Street), Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Le Coucou was named Best New
EMP Summer House The pop-
Restaurant at the James Beard
up that Daniel Humm and Will
Foundation’s annual awards
Guidara of Eleven Madison Park
ceremony, held Monday evening
will run in East Hampton, N.Y.,
at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The
will open June 24. Reservations
chef, Daniel Rose, owns Le
are being accepted from
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A Vegetable Patch of His Own
The chef Dan Kluger relies on
grains and lessons learned.
ABC KITCHEN SIGNIFIED a small turning
point in the appetites of New Yorkers when
it opened seven years ago. We had snuffled
through much of the previous decade in
search of pork shoulders, lamb belly, rib-
eyes and marrow bones, and if we didn’t ex-
actly wake up on the first day of 2010 dou-
bled over with regret, some of us were start-
ing to wonder why the bed smelled like ba-
con.
Then that spring we got ABC Kitchen,
with Dan Kluger in the kitchen, Jean-
Georges Vongerichten whispering in his
ear and a new way of filling our stomachs on
the menu.
Mr. Kluger wasn’t cooking health food,
not with that mayo-spritzed cheeseburger.
But a sizable chunk of the nearly 50 dishes
were salads or saladlike constructions.
Vegetables were everywhere, including on
top of the whole-wheat pizzas. The plates
jangled with flavor, and very little of it came
from animal fat. We might have called the
food “vegetable forward” if that term had
been invented.
When diners stood up at the end of the
night, you could almost hear them sighing
with relief that they’d had an entire meal in
a hot downtown restaurant without eating
lard.
The two chefs teamed up again for ABC
Cocina, which opened a new front on the
culture wars by mashing peas into guaca-
mole, before Mr. Kluger left Mr.
Vongerichten’s synchronized-swimming
team to splash around in a pool of his own.
After two years of preparation, he opened
Loring Place in December in an expansive
space on West Eighth Street, where the
shoe stores used to be.
There’s a long and busy bar to the right of
the entrance where the drinks list offers you
very well-made classic cocktails as well as
innovations that taste like classics in the
making. On the left are two dining areas:
one that sits on a platform in the window,
and another, bigger one off the kitchen. De-
signed by Cycle Architecture & Planning,
the rooms are full of handsome expanses of
white brick and stained walnut.
Yes, these hard surfaces amplify the
noise. Yes, they’re trying to fix it.
Mr. Kluger has said in interviews that at
Loring Place he is bringing back some of the
tricks he picked up before he learned his
ABC’s, while he was working under Floyd
Cardoz and Tom Colicchio. That may be true
of the recipes, but the template of the menu
comes unmistakably from ABC Kitchen, all
the way down to the whole-wheat pizzas.
There are more salads at Loring Place,
and the saladlike constructions are even
more saladlike. At the end of winter, I loved
the combination of crisp Bosc pears with
soft roasted leeks over thick yogurt, and
some sugar-glazed walnuts for ballast. A
couple of weeks ago, with pollen in the air, I
appreciated the arrival of sweet sugar snap
peas, lightly charred and served with bright
pink breakfast radishes and shreds of
pecorino.
In this herbivorous decade, Loring Place
isn’t the only restaurant to try grinding
flour from local grains, or the only one to get
mixed results. The emmer crackers, ar-
mored with sunflower seeds, are terrific
with a schmear of the excellent and lightly
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Bracing Burmese Food, Full of Contradictions
At Together, a diverse set
of flavors comes together.
THE LONE BURMESE RESTAURANT in New
York City opened in March in Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, bringing the rings and chain links
of the Burmese alphabet to a street other-
wise inscribed in English, Russian and Chi-
nese.
Among its neighbors are a Sicilian bil-
liard-table dealer, an Albanian butcher and
a Universal Enlightenment Temple. Ben-
sonhurst has the borough’s highest concen-
tration of foreign-born residents, which
might explain why the chef Aye Myint,
known as Oscar, named his restaurant To-
gether. “He wanted it to be a gathering of
different people,” his elder daughter said.
Burmese cooking shares ingredients
with Thailand’s, but it also draws from the
Chinese province of Yunnan to the north-
east, rejoicing in vegetables pickled to a
deep, abiding sourness, and from India to
the northwest, embracing seeds and pulses
and favoring mild, turmeric-stained curries
that radiate warmth without alarming the
heart. The food makes allies of opposing fla-
vors and textures, which retain their indi-
vidual contours while contributing to a
greater whole.
A partial ingredient list for laphet thoke, a
dish commonly categorized as a salad (such
are the limitations of the English language),
includes mulchy fermented tea leaves with
enough caffeine to twang the nerves like a
harp, set against strips of fresh, crunchy
cabbage; garlic in translucent teardrops
and disks of green chile, flaunting their per-
ilous seeds; a briny spoor of dried shrimp
and fish sauce; tomatoes in skinny slurs, for
just a squeeze of juice, and bright lashings
of lime; and pops of sesame seeds and
roasted peanuts, buttery wholes and halves
alongside crunchier, roughly broken
shards.
All this, in a few spoonfuls. Other salads
are less visually kaleidoscopic but equally
bracing, with one ingredient ascendant —
perhaps lime, not just juice but flesh, or
shredded green mango on the cusp of
sweetness — but still beholden to a rabble of
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RESTAURANTS
sweet hummus. So are the breakfast
radishes lodged in the surface of the hum-
mus.
A friend who knows her grains looked du-
bious when I ordered the house-made
whole-wheat spaghetti. I was skeptical, too.
(It is almost never as good as it sounds.)
Loring Place gets it right, though, and lets it
be, tossing it with basil, chiles, grated
cheese and some velvety leaves of spinach.
The whole-wheat bread, on the other
hand, isn’t quite at the point where Loring
Place should be charging $6 for a loaf
smaller than a football. The crust is impres-
sively sturdy, but the interior is neither
tender nor elastic — it’s dry and crumbly.
I liked the whole-wheat pizza crust
enough to wish it had been allowed to
HUNGRY CITY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY GHITIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
happily conflicting tastes. A tangle of yellow
noodles and three shapes of rice noodles
(skinny, broad, flat) is disarmingly fun to
eat, with its snaking textures.
Ngapi, fermented fish or shrimp paste, is
entwined in the DNA of nearly every dish.
(Before Myanmar started taking steps to-
ward democracy, a general in the governing
junta reportedly said, “We are not scared of
Western sanctions; we will survive as long
as we have rice, salt and ngapi.”) Mr. Myint
makes his own, from a powder of pulverized
shrimp the size of fingernails, simmered
PETE WELLS
Clockwise from top: diners at
Loring Place, the chef Dan
Kluger’s new restaurant in
Greenwich Village; Mr. Kluger
has said he is bringing back
some of the tricks he picked up
while working under Floyd
Cardoz and Tom Colicchio;
radishes with a lightly sweet
hummus and emmer crackers;
a nostalgic dessert menu
includes a sly update on the
Hostess CupCake; and halibut
and mixed mushrooms in miso
and lemon juice.
LIGAYA MISHAN
Clockwise from top left, the
exterior of Together on a
diverse street in
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn;
inside, the dining room has a
boat-shaped table; laphet
thoke; and mohinga, which
contains broken chickpea
fritters and coils of rice
vermicelli in a fish stock.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASEY KELBAUGH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
breathe a little more under a mass of shaved
asparagus, maitake mushrooms, jalapeños
and three kinds of cheese.
But I have to admit I had a hard time keep-
ing up my interest in the other pies at Loring
Place once I’d eaten a square of what the
menu calls “grandma-style pan pizza.” Like
a less doughy Sicilian baked with canned to-
matoes, not sauce, the grandma has been
slowly expanding its range west of its tradi-
tional breeding grounds in Nassau County.
The Loring Place grandma crust is thicker
than in the archetypal versions, but flavor-
ful, light and nongreasy. I hope Mr. Kluger
has stocked up on pizza pans because he
runs a serious risk of selling a grandma pie
to every table in the restaurant.
Its only close rival on the menu is the
with tomato and chile. Half its potency lies
in its reek, suggesting simultaneous ripe-
ness and rot.
One soup, ohnot kaukswe, arrives look-
ing like boiling gold, thickened by coconut
milk and soybean powder, with half a boiled
egg breaking the surface and a ravel of yel-
low noodles below. It is soul-deep. Mohinga
is redder, glowering under a wreckage of
broken chickpea fritters, with slinky coils of
rice vermicelli in a fish stock fortified by fish
sauce and crushed lemongrass stalks.
When Mr. Myint can get it, he adds the pith
of the banana stem, made up of leaves
tightly rolled together; the tenderest, at the
core, add crunch and a faint, grassy bitter-
ness.
When Mr. Myint immigrated to the
United States 17 years ago, he found work
alongside other Burmese immigrants as a
sushi chef at supermarkets around the
N D5
LORING PLACE ★★
21 WEST EIGHTH STREET (FIFTH AVENUE), GREEN-
WICH VILLAGE; 212-388-1831; LORINGPLACENYC.COM
. ......................................................................................
Atmosphere White brick walls and whitewashed
floors give the attractive dining room the airy
brightness of a gallery.
Service Attentive and outgoing.
Sound level Rough between 7 and 10 p.m.
Recommended Hummus and radishes; sugar
snap peas; fluke crudo; whole-wheat spaghetti;
grandma-style pizza; halibut with braised mush-
rooms; cheeseburger; chocolate “Hostess
CupCake”; vanilla ice-cream sundae.
Drinks and wine Mixed drinks are thought-out
and put together unusually well; the wine list is
smart and often affordable.
Prices Appetizers, pizza and pasta, $6 to $17;
main courses, $19 to $37.
Open Saturday and Sunday for brunch; nightly
for dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair access The main dining room and
accessible restroom are on the sidewalk level.
What the stars mean Ratings range from zero to four
stars and reflect the reviewer’s reaction primarily to
food, with ambience, service and price taken into
consideration.
cheeseburger, which comes with bacon
made on site, a likably combative pickled-
pepper aioli and a cast-iron pan of thick-cut
fries that seem to get crunchier as they got
cooler, a neat feature.
I don’t imagine Mr. Kluger wants us to
think of Loring Place as a place for
cheeseburgers and square pizza, but a lot of
the other main courses aren’t as compelling
for one reason or another. Halibut with a
market’s worth of mixed mushrooms in
miso and lemon juice was an ideal example
of how to cook and serve fish, but I can’t say
the same about the nondescript king salm-
on or the sea scallops in a sauce whose na-
ked acidity was intensified by apples
marinated in vinegar.
Grilled chicken breast with carrot barbe-
cue sauce sounded more exciting than it
was; the sauce never kicked in hard enough
to rouse the warm peas and rice that
seemed to have settled down under the
chicken for a long winter’s nap.
As much as I want to take Loring Place on
its own terms, the menu makes compar-
isons with ABC Kitchen inevitable, and Lor-
ing Place comes off as slightly less interest-
ing. It’s not just that a lot of it feels familiar
now; some of it is also unfocused and busy.
The plates have more going on, but there’s
not as much happening.
To be fair, very few restaurants are as in-
teresting as ABC Kitchen was when it
opened, and there are solid reasons that
reservations at Loring Place are hard to
come by. They include the wine list, which
packs a few nice surprises, not the least of
which is the attention it pays to the $40 to
$60 range. And they continue through the
smartly nostalgic dessert menu. There’s a
sly update on the Hostess CupCake, a tin of
cookies, and a vanilla ice-cream sundae
with pretzels, toffee and whatnot, modeled
on the Dairy Queen Blizzard.
O.K. It’s kind of like the sundae at ABC
Kitchen. It’s still good.
TOGETHER
2325 65TH STREET (WEST FOURTH STREET ),
BENSONHURST, BROOKLYN; 347-587-6302
. ......................................................................................
Recommended Mohinga (fish noodle soup);
ohnot kaukswe (coconut noodle soup); laphet
thoke (fermented tea-leaf salad); lime salad;
mango salad; tomato salad; cabbage salad;
chicken curry with paratha; shwe yin aye (coco-
nut-milk dessert).
Drinks and Wine No alcohol.
Prices $3.99 to $7.99 for Burmese dishes,
$2.99 to $19.99 for Japanese dishes; cash only.
Open Friday to Wednesday for breakfast, lunch
and dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair Access The entrance is at a small
slant from the sidewalk. The narrow restroom
does not have a handrail.
country. For a while, he ran a sushi bar in
Catskill, N.Y., occasionally sneaking
Burmese curries onto the lunch buffet.
At Together, which he opened after a brief
run selling Burmese food in a bodega on Av-
enue U, he is still gauging the neighbor-
hood’s appetite. So three-quarters of the
menu is sushi, including two pages of rolls
listed from Alaska to Zodiac, which on my
visits I never saw anyone order.
The restaurant is not quite cozy, with
neon-lit photographs of dishes posted on
high, as if it were a takeout joint. But the
burgundy floor and saffron walls suggest
the serenity of a monk’s robes. Small tradi-
tional embroidered tapestries face a TV
playing videos from Burmese MTV. One ta-
bletop is a wooden boat, a souvenir from
parties at Mr. Myint’s upstate restaurant.
Elsewhere in town, you may find a few
Burmese dishes at pop-ups and outdoor
food markets. But Together is the only place
I have seen shwe yin aye: chilled coconut
milk poured over tapioca pearls, knobs of
sticky rice and coconut jelly. On top, slabs of
white bread soak up the coconut milk and
slowly turn into cake. For a moment, I felt I
could eat it every day until the end of time.
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An Exacting Chef at a Crossroads

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
change may be in order. “At some point you
want to say, ‘I gave, I gave, I gave — now it’s
time for us,’” he said.
Mr. Keller is 61, an age when other suc-
cessful chefs of his generation have started
to plot exit strategies and consider legacies.
“Everyone is kind of charting their own
course on this,” said Emily Luchetti, a pas-
try chef and author who is about to turn 60.
“When we all started out, there were no real
mentors to look at and say, ‘That’s how I
want to do it when I’m in my 60s or 70s.’ The
only thing we had were old European chefs
who could no longer cook anymore because
their knees were giving out.”
Mr. Keller, so meticulous that one imag-
ines he would like to plan the exact moment
and nature of his own death, has yet to fig-
ure out his course.
“I go back and forth on the level of intensi-
ty I want to continue to dedicate to my pro-
fession, because I’ve done it now for the
past 44 years, and that’s a long time,” he
said. “When is taking care of everybody
else less important than taking care of your-
self?”
Like all Keller decisions, what comes
next will be carefully considered and very
likely won’t come soon. He is in what he
calls the seductive stage of his newest ven-
ture, a 200-seat restaurant, tentatively
called the TAK Room, in the huge Hudson
Yards development on the West Side of
Manhattan. Opening in fall 2018, it will be his
first new restaurant in almost 10 years.
The menu will reflect a time when the fan-
ciest food in America was called continental
cuisine. Imagine, he said, the great restau-
rants of the “Mad Men” era, with someone
like Bobby Short at the piano. Mr. Keller is
helping select six premier chefs and restau-
rateurs to join him in the complex.
The rest of his portfolio includes several
Bouchon bakeries and restaurants around
the country, and a plethora of side hustles. BEN SKLAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

He has designed plates and pots, and makes

olive-oil-infused chocolate with the Tuscan
oil producer Armando Manni.
He oversees food on the Seabourn Cruise
Line. He sells knives, garden seeds and sil-
ver clothespins at a store in Yountville
called Finesse and a gluten-free flour mix

The importance of a
generational passing of
the baton consumes him.

called Cup4Cup at grocery stores. (Much of

it has been executed under the watchful eye
of Ms. Cunningham, who declined to be in-
terviewed, saying she preferred to keep the
focus on Mr. Keller.)
The couple have spent part of the last
year buffing Per Se, the Michelin-starred
showpiece in the Time Warner Center that
took a hit in January 2016 when it was de-
moted to two stars from four by the New
York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells.
“The long-held perception of Per Se as one
of the country’s greatest restaurants, which
I shared after visits in the past, appears out
of date,” Mr. Wells wrote.
Shortly afterward, Mr. Keller posted a let-
ter of apology to customers on his website.
He remains protective of his employees,
and traveled to each of his restaurants to
speak with them. Although he is quick to
highlight aspects of the criticism that he
thinks were wrong, he used the review as a
pivot point.
“He saw it as a wake-up call, certainly — a
defining moment,” said Russ Parsons, the
retired food editor of The Los Angeles
Times, who does some work for Mr. Keller.
THE CHEF’S CENTRAL FOCUS these days are
the final touches on what he envisions as
the physical representation of the Keller
legacy: a nearly $11 million renovation of the
kitchen and property at the French Laun-
dry, which he bought in 1994 and trans-
formed from a beloved local inn into one of
the greatest restaurants in the world.
With its playful take on classic dishes,
casual but refined service and luxe, pristine
ingredients — many from its garden across
the street — the restaurant cemented his
reputation and proved, finally, that Ameri-
can chefs had stepped from the shadow of
their European elders.
For the remodeling, Mr. Keller turned for
inspiration to the Louvre’s mix of old and
new architecture. Snohetta, the design firm
behind the expansion of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and the reconfigu-
ration of Times Square as a largely pedestri-
an zone, created a soaring kitchen ceiling
that evokes a white tablecloth floating down
to a tabletop. Looming large on one wall is a
clock and his favorite motivational mantra:
“Sense of Urgency.”
There are solar panels and deep geother-
mal wells and a 16,000-bottle wine cellar.
The counters are a few inches taller than be-
fore, so cooks don’t have to bend down as
much. Mr. Keller has even made extra space
to accommodate people who want to see the
kitchen and take a picture, which 80 percent
of the guests do.
Although the grounds are still under con-
struction, the kitchen has been in full swing
for several weeks. It looks perfect, but Mr.
Keller continues to tinker. On a recent night,
even a thread hanging from the toque of a
chef on the fish station caught his attention,
so he walked down the line and yanked it off.
All the changes have affected him more
than he had anticipated.
“You spend two and a half years getting
to a place, you’re almost there and then you
begin feeling the emotional effect of nostal-
gia,” he said. “In some ways it makes me
happy, and in other ways it makes me des-
perately sad. I look at it and I go, ‘Wow, this
is extraordinary.’ But sometimes I look at it
and go: ‘Why did I do this? Did I really set
an example for future generations of chefs
and what they can achieve?’”
The importance of a generational passing
of the baton consumes him. There is no ob-
vious successor, and the French Laundry
has yet to establish an identity independent
of his. “The French Laundry is Thomas Kel-
ler,” he said. “My job is to change that.”
ALL OF THIS COMES at a time when the expe-
rience at Per Se or the French Laundry —
nine or more courses of artfully rendered
French-influenced food spread over three
or four hours at a cost that starts at more
than $300 a person — is being challenged as
anachronistic.
“Per Se, Daniel, Le Bernardin — those
aren’t the places that people talk to me
about wanting to go to,” said Peter Meehan,
who has just ended a partnership with the
chef David Chang as editor of Lucky Peach,
the cookbook and magazine publisher
whose last issue will come out in the fall.
“There’s always going to be a place for ex-
pense-account dining like that, but it’s not
central to the conversation about food or
Below, inspirational notes and
reminders that time is of the
essence are all around the
French Laundry kitchen.
cooking or being a chef.”
Even Mr. Keller’s most devoted friends
say it may be time to change.
“Charging so much money for that long of
a meal is kind of ludicrous in this day and
age; it needs to evolve,” said the chef Jona-
than Waxman, a longtime friend who
showed Mr. Keller the French Laundry
when it came up for sale in the 1990s. “I
think he gets that intrinsically. But when
you’re in the middle of the Panama Canal,
you can’t turn the boat around right away.”
In an era when authenticity, cultural ap-
propriation and gender and racial imbal-
ance in the kitchen are on the minds of
many cooks and diners, Mr. Keller’s style of
dining and the largely white, male crew of
young chefs he mentors are inviting tar-
gets.
Preeti Mistry, 40, a classically trained
chef with a modified Mohawk who cooks el-
evated Indian street food at her Juhu Beach
Club in Oakland, Calif., and her new spot,
Navi Kitchen in nearby Emeryville, was in
culinary school when she discovered Mr.
Keller’s “French Laundry Cookbook.” It had
become an instant professional and
spiritual guide for cooks of her generation.
In 2004, she visited the French Laundry.
At the time, she thought it was the most
amazing meal she had ever eaten. She even
got to shake hands with Mr. Keller. “I left
feeling like I just met Drake or something,”
she recalled.
But now? She views fine dining as disin-
genuous, built from a system steeped in op-
pression and hierarchy in which women,
gays and other minorities — whether
customers or cooks — are not treated the
same.
“It’s essentially haute couture, and we
know haute couture appropriates from mi-
norities and urban communities,” she said.
Chefs as powerful as Mr. Keller, she said,
have a responsibility to address those is-
sues. “You need to go on your woke jour-
ney.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CRAIG LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Top, Thomas Keller in the Hudson Yards
development. Left, the exterior of the French
Laundry in California, and above, its renovated
kitchen, with Eric Jefferson, foreground,
getting the pass table ready. Above left,
Michael Minnillo, left, Angus McIntosh, Mr.
Keller and Joe Papach in the French Laundry
kitchen, where, far left, there is a live feed from
the Per Se kitchen in New York.
Mr. Keller smiled when presented with
that lens on his profession.
“I pushed against convention when I was
young,” he said. “Then you realize there is
no reason to push against things. There is
no value in it.” Hard work and dedication to
craft, he said, will right all wrongs.
“I came from a broken family,” said Mr.
Keller, whose father was a Marine drill
sergeant, and who continues to support vet-
erans’ causes. “My mother worked at night
to support us, and I moved out of the house
at 15 and supported myself. No matter what
your circumstance, you need to find your
own way out. In order to get ahead, you
have to work hard. It’s pretty simple.”
RAISING A GENERATION of chefs to cook as
he does has become a vital part of his work.
He sits on the board of the Culinary Insti-
tute of America, and helped start a founda-
tion called Ment’or to further the profes-
sional culinary standards he learned at the
hands of the French masters.
That effort began as a way to help Amer-
ica perform better at the Bocuse d’Or, the
biennial international cooking competition
held in Lyon, France, that is wrapped in so
many obscure rules and requires such in-
tense training that it brings to mind
Olympic-level dressage competition.
The contest was named after Paul Bo-
cuse, 91, who is widely considered the father
of modern French cuisine and who has
great affection for the United States. He
been both mentor and father figure to Mr.
Keller.
The day before the competition in Janu-
ary, Mr. Bocuse was sick. Mr. Keller visited
him and wrapped a red, white and blue scarf
around his neck as the old chef rested in
bed. Mr. Keller promised to return a few
days later with the first-place trophy, a gold-
en effigy of Mr. Bocuse.
In an office at Per Se two weeks ago, Mr.
Keller pulled up a photograph of the two of
them after the team’s victory, the scarf still
around Mr. Bocuse’s neck.
“You get to a certain age and you realize
your own mortality, and realize those who
paved the way are gone,” Mr. Keller said.
“There is a great sadness to that.”
That great sadness can creep in, too,
when he surveys the new French Laundry
kitchen at the peak of a busy dinner service.
If he could, he would still be cooking there
every night. It’s where life is simple and he
is the happiest. But he knows he has a differ-
ent job now.
“I have to prepare myself to let go, which
is a very, very difficult thing for me,” he said.
“It breaks my heart.”
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JULIA MOSKIN

French Toast Worth Staying at Home For

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
At Sqirl, the French toast is cut so thick
that it’s cooked like a steak: seared on the
stove, then roasted in the oven. (It’s also
stuffed with a pocketful of jam.) I wasn’t in-
terested in adding more steps to my
process, but, knowing that Ms. Koslow’s
judgment on morning flavors is spot on, I
asked what home cooks could do to make
their French toast more like hers. “Cream,”
she said immediately. Many cooks think of
French toast as an egg dish, but restaurant
recipes lean just as heavily on cream and
milk, preferably whole.
“But that’s so rich!” I hear you wailing.
There’s a lot of confusion about the fat con-
tent of milk. Whole milk seems like an indul-
gence on a par with Double Stuf Oreos these
days, but the difference between whole and
reduced fat isn’t that great; a cup of 2 per-
cent milk has five grams of fat, while a cup
of whole milk has eight, and makes for . ......................................................................................

SKILLET FRENCH TOAST

TIME: 20 TO 30 MINUTES
YIELD: 4 SERVINGS

White bread is best. The
golden brown look of
caramelized sugar is
what you’re seeking.
much better French toast.
While whole milk may not be as rich as
one might think, cream, it must be admitted,
is full of fat, with 10 grams in two table-
spoons.
But, Ms. Koslow said, “A little cream goes
a long way.” She suggests adding a couple of
tablespoons to the milk-egg mixture. And,
she said, the bread shouldn’t be soaked,
only dunked, making it possible to use fresh
bread, which is less absorbent. “You want to
just fill the pores of the bread to make it sup-
ple and fluffy,” she said. “You don’t want to
cream-log it.”
French toast that has been oversoaked
stays damp and gooey in the middle even
after the outsides are crisp and brown. A dip
lasting for a few Mississippis on each side is
enough to coat the slices and keep them
from falling apart, especially if you’re using
fresh bread.
Of course, stale is the traditional choice.
Like panzanella in Tuscany or chilaquiles in
Mexico, French toast is a classic in part be-
cause it uses an ingredient that people tend
to keep around. But I have found thick slices
of fresh bread to work just as well. They
soak up slightly less liquid than stale bread,
but, if the bread itself is delicious, the result
is just as good. (Heresy alert: Maybe even
better.)
While freshness may not matter as much,
the type of bread does. As a child of the food
revolution, I was raised exclusively on
whole-grain bread, and I’m here to tell you
that nothing ruins the custardy pleasure of
French toast faster than a stray rye grain or
wheat berry between the teeth. Sourdough,
with its chewy crust and tang, is almost as
bad. French toast is simply not the place for
them.
Basic white bread is the clear choice, as
are brioche or challah, which have extra fat
in the dough. If challah is hard to find where
you live, go shopping on a Friday; many su-
permarkets receive shipments that day. I
have no problem with packaged, sliced
white bread, except that the slices are
usually too thin. It’s worth seeking out a
whole loaf, so you can make substantial
slices. Many bakeries, even the kind that
grind their own flour and brag of centuries-
old sourdough starter, stock whole Pullman
loaves, white bread in an artisanal disguise.
Whether French toast should be sweet it-
self, or unsweetened, is a matter of taste.
Many recipes include sugar (alongside
Grand Marnier, amaretto and other cloying
concoctions) in the egg-milk mixture. I pre-
fer it unsweetened, to let the deliciously ba-
sic egg-milk-bread flavors shine through —
the better to enjoy with maple syrup, pre-
serves, sugared fruit and the like. Either
way, French toast is not a dessert, so skip
the whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
2 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
2 cups whole milk, or 1¾ cups milk, plus
2 to 4 tablespoons cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
Pinch of salt
Unsalted butter, for cooking
8 slices white bread, such as Pullman,
brioche or challah, sliced ½- to ¾-inch
thick
Cinnamon sugar or granulated sugar
(see note)
1. Heat oven to 200 degrees, and place a wire
rack on a sheet pan inside.
2. In a shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, additional
yolks, milk, vanilla (if using) and salt until
foamy and smooth. Set aside. Place a small
lump of butter (enough to coat the bottom of
the skillet when melted) in a large, heavy
nonstick skillet over low heat. It will melt very
slowly.
3. When butter is just melted and bubbling,
raise heat and bring to a sizzle. Place 2 slices of
bread in the bowl with the egg mixture. Turn
them a few times in the mixture until evenly
saturated, about 5 seconds on each side. Do
not soak.
4. Lift a slice out of the egg mixture, gently
shake off any excess, and place in the pan.
Repeat until the skillet is full, and let the slices
cook at a sizzle for about 2 minutes, until just
turning golden brown on the bottom.
5. Add another small lump of butter to the pan
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSICA EMILY MARX FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES and flip the slices over, swirling the pan so that
the fresh butter coats the bottom. (This will
The final, irresistible flourish of restau- allow the second side to brown.)
rant French toast is in the lacy brown crust
6. Continue cooking over low heat until the
that adorns both sides. You’re looking for
second side is golden brown. Dust with
the golden brown of caramelized sugar, not
the dull brown of overcooked egg whites, cinnamon sugar, flip again, and dust the other
which often gives the dish a tough texture side. Test for doneness by pressing the center:
and a sulfurous taste. Adding egg yolks to
The dent should slowly spring back. If it
the custard is part of the solution. Dusting remains, the interior is not yet cooked.
the French toast with sugar at the end of the
Continue cooking at low heat, flipping
cooking, flipping it often to build a crisp
crust, is another. This step is optional, but it occasionally, until done. Serve immediately, or
does make people mad with lust — for more transfer to the oven to keep warm while
French toast. cooking remaining bread. Serve as soon as
But if a slosher you are, and a slosher you possible. Top with maple syrup, berries, jam,
wish to remain, think of these instructions sliced bananas, orange supremes — whatever
not as a recipe, but as a formula. For every you'd like.
four slices of bread, slosh in about cup of
milk (or milk with some cream). Add an egg Note: Dusting the slices with sugar gives them
and an egg yolk. Whisk vigorously. Dunk a lacy, brown crust; plain or cinnamon can be
quickly. Cook slowly. used. To make cinnamon sugar, combine ¼
Eat immediately, and be glad you’re not cup granulated sugar with 1 tablespoon ground
standing out in the rain. cinnamon. Shake or mix to combine.

The Rise of the $38 Pizza, Exclusive and Elusive

A bold yet fluffy counterweight
to the $1 slice: a limited-edition
pie that requires reservations.
By ARTHUR BOVINO
New York is well known for its obsession
with cheap pizza: the $1 slice, the sporadic
price wars, the hand-wringing over each
new increase in the average cost.
Then there is the other, pricier side of the
city’s pizza addiction: the $7 slice (with a
specialty topping) at the revered Di Fara
Pizza in Midwood, Brooklyn. Or the ad-
vance tickets required for a $25 lunch at
Margot’s Pizza, a pop-up that opens about
once a month in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
This week, the Sofia Pizza Shoppe, in the
well-heeled Sutton Place section of Manhat-
tan, is upping the ante, with a $38 pizza that
requires an online ticket purchase and is
available only a few nights each week, for a
limited number of seatings. Only one pie PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

will be made for each seating.

The pie, called the DoughDici, is a two-
inch-tall, puffy-crust pizza with a crisp edge
and a blanket of red sauce, fresh mozzarella
and grated cheeses. Pizza obsessives may
liken it to a soufflé for its dough, which traps
air to form an elevated structure.
Thomas DeGrezia, who opened the shop
last July with Matthew Porter, said he cold-
fermented the dough for about three days
before letting it rise in an oil-lined pan with
grated cheese for 12 hours. (The name is a
play on “dodici,” Italian for “12.”) It is cooked
for 10 minutes without stretching the dough,
resulting in a collapsed, airy crumb. The re-
sult is a six-slice pizza that Sofia will sell
only by the pie.
If all that seems a lot of bother for pizza,
the partners say it reflects the time, labor
olive oil,” said Mr. DeGrezia, who traces his
pizza heritage to J& V Pizzeria, which his
grandfather helped found in Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, in the 1950s. “Of the four cheeses
on it, one is a daily-hand-made, fresh moz-
zarella, and another is a 36-month red cow
Parmigiano-Reggiano that gets shaved on
top right before serving.”
The first round of four tickets, for two
nights this week, sold out on the day they
were announced. The partners plan to offer
additional dates for the remainder of May,
and to serve the DoughDici a few days
weekly through the end of summer.
“We didn’t set out to create a pizza event,
but once we realized that we wanted it to be
an in-house-only pie to best ensure quality,
we decided it needed to be a bit more experi-
Above, the DoughDici pizza.
Above right, Rachel Meakins,
Vinay Tolia, Carly Sullivan
and Ross Goodhart watching
on Monday as Thomas
DeGrezia, an owner of Sofia
Pizza Shoppe in Manhattan,
sliced their pie. Mr. DeGrezia
lets the dough rise for 12
hours before cooking.
cludes two nonalcoholic drinks.)
On Monday, four friends with 40 years of
New York City pizza-eating experience
were the first DoughDici customers. Rachel
Meakins, 30, a model and a doula, bought
the ticket after seeing the pizza on Insta-
gram. She knew that her friends Vinay To-
lia, 38, and Ross Goodhart, 37, both pizza fa-
natics, had to try it.
“She knows that we have a problem with
pizza,” said Mr. Tolia, a hedge fund manager
for Bengal Capital Trading. “There’s a lot of
dough, and the sauce is not as tangy and
present as on some other pizzas that I’ve
had. But this is really about the crust, and
that’s really original.”
Of the price, Mr. Tolia said: “I’m not the
right person to ask. I’m a sucker for these
much work for the price. It’s not going to
skyrocket, but it is going to be a bit more.”)
Adam Kuban, who runs Margot’s Pizza
and sampled an early trial of the DoughDici,
said he hadn’t seen anything like it. “It’s a
tightrope walk, letting that dough rise so
high for so long,” Mr. Kuban said. “Some-
how they manage to cross to the other side
and come out with a pretty special pizza.”
Whatever customers think of the
DoughDici, Mr. DeGrezia says, they can
still count on Sofia’s traditional pizzas,
which range in price from $21 to $35.
“Our everyday pies are still our
favorites,” he said. “This is a fun, once-in-a-
while treat, but it is not an everyday pie.”
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and cost of making the pies. ential,” Mr. DeGrezia said. “Since our shop kinds of things.” (And the price will rise. Sofia Pizza Shoppe, 989 First Avenue. Tickets:
“We use all imported flours, and we also is so small, we added the stools, “This is an introductory price for the month eventbrite.com/e/the-doughdicitm-
use an imported, unfiltered, organic Sicilian reservations and drinks.” (The price in- of May,” Mr. DeGrezia said. “It’s just way too experience-tickets-33848417528
D8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017