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Trump’s Words U.S. AIDES OFFER

Hinting at War MIXED MESSAGES
Were Offhand
ON KOREA RISKS
‘Fire and Fury’ Wasn’t
Run by His Team ALARM AFTER A THREAT
By GLENN THRUSH
and PETER BAKER
Administration Seems
WASHINGTON — President Divided on Spiral of
Trump’s aides knew he planned to
deliver a tough message to North Verbal Sparring
Korea on Tuesday, but they did not
expect a threat that rivaled the
apocalyptic taunts often used by By PETER BAKER
his target, Kim Jong-un. and GARDINER HARRIS
The president’s language, BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Sen-
which aides say he had used in pri- ior American officials sent mixed
vate, escalated the long-running signals on North Korea on
dispute with North Korea to a new Wednesday as President Trump’s
level and left members of the “fire and fury” warning rattled al-
Trump administration scrambling lies and adversaries alike, a sign
on Wednesday to explain what he of his administration’s deep divi-
meant.
sions as the outcast state once
But the process, or lack of one,
again threatened to wage nuclear
that led to the ad-libbed com-
war on the United States.
ments embodied Mr. Trump’s
overall approach to foreign policy, The president’s advisers cali-
an improvisational style that often brated his dire warning with
leaves his national security team statements that, if not directly
in the dark about what he is going contradictory, emphasized differ-
to say or do, according to several ent points. Secretary of State Rex
people with direct knowledge of W. Tillerson stressed diplomacy
how the episode unfolded. and reassured Americans that
KIM WON-JIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
The president was in a con- they could “sleep well at night,”
A rally Wednesday in Pyongyang in support of the North Korean government in its escalating war of words with the United States. frontational mood on Tuesday af- while Defense Secretary Jim Mat-
ternoon after The Washington
Post reported that Pyongyang
had developed nuclear warheads

STATE PARTY FIGHT Russia Wants Innovation, but Jails Innovators small enough to be placed on bal-
listic missiles. His team assumed
that he would be asked about

IS ALSO A WARNING
The Private Business
Rift in California Echoes
Democrats’ Issues
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
SACRAMENTO — For Demo-
crats across the nation, California
has offered a bright if lonely light
this year. The party controls every
statewide office and commands
supermajorities in the Legisla-
ture. Gov. Jerry Brown and legis-
lative leaders have become na-
tional voices, steering the party as
it pushes back against President
Trump on issues as varied as the
environment and immigration.
But in recent weeks, California
Democrats have emerged as
something else: a cautionary tale
for a national party debating how
to rebuild and seize back power.
Even at a time of overall success,
state Democrats are torn by a bit-
ter fight for the party leadership,
revealing the kind of divisions —
between insiders and outsiders,
liberals and moderates — that un-
settled the national party last year
and could threaten its success in
coming years.
“What we are seeing in Califor-
nia is similar to what we are see-
ing on the national level,” said
Betty T. Yee, the Democratic state
controller. “If we don’t do our work
to really heal our divide, we are
going to miss our chance to moti-
vate Democrats.”
The fight pits Eric C. Bauman, a
longtime party leader, against
Kimberly Ellis, a Bay Area activ-
ist. Mr. Bauman won the election
by just over 60 votes out of 3,000
cast at the party convention in
May, but Ms. Ellis has refused to
concede, claiming voting impro-
prieties, like permitting ineligible
people to vote for Mr. Bauman.
The party is expected to issue a
Continued on Page A11
New York City Scraps 644,000 Old Warrants for Minor Offenses
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
For years, beginning in the
1990s, aggressive enforcement of
minor offenses, like riding a bike
on a sidewalk or drinking in pub-
lic, was a fundamental part of po-
licing in New York. But one of the
lasting consequences of that en-
forcement has become a major
By ANDREW HIGGINS
AKADEMGORODOK, Russia
— Dmitri Trubitsyn is a young
physicist-entrepreneur with a pa-
triotic reputation, seen in this part
of Siberia as an exemplar of the
talents, dedication and enterprise
that President Vladimir V. Putin
has hailed as vital for Russia’s fu-
ture economic health.
Yet Mr. Trubitsyn faces up to
eight years in jail after a recent
raid on his home and office here in
Akademgorodok, a Soviet-era
sanctuary of scientific research
that was supposed to showcase
how Mr. Putin’s Russia can har-
ness its abundance of talent to cre-
ate a modern economy.
A court last Thursday extended
Reckoning With the Confederacy
The University of Mississippi is trying to put its racist history in context, not erase it. Page A10.
policy dilemma, as more and more
people lived with the threat of jail
time for long-ago, low-level
charges.
On Wednesday, in a sweeping
coda to those policing practices,
more than half a million outstand-
ing warrants for minor charges
dating back at least 10 years were
dismissed in a coordinated effort
by New York prosecutors to ease
Sector Clashes With
State Security
Mr. Trubitsyn’s house arrest until
at least October, which bars him
from leaving his apartment or
communicating with anyone
other than his immediate family.
Mr. Trubitsyn, 36, whose com-
pany, Tion, manufactures high-
tech air-purification systems for
homes and hospitals, is accused of
risking the lives of hospital pa-
tients, and trying to lift profits, by
upgrading the purifiers so they
would consume less electricity.
the enduring effects of that era.
The district attorneys for
Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan
and Queens collectively moved to
dismiss about 644,000 warrants,
the latest in a string of actions to
reduce the number of people pass-
ing through the criminal courts
and city jails on charges that
would otherwise merit little more
than a fine or community service.
Most important, he is accused
of doing this without state regula-
tors certifying the changes.
It is a case that highlights the
tensions between Mr. Putin’s aspi-
rations for a dynamic private sec-
tor and his determination to en-
hance the powers of Russia’s secu-
rity apparatus. Using a 2014 law
meant to protect Russians from
counterfeit medicine, investiga-
tors from the Federal Security
Service, the post-Soviet KGB, and
other agencies have accused Mr.
Trubitsyn of leading a criminal
conspiracy to, essentially, inno-
vate too fast and too freely.
The situation has outraged fel-
low scientists, would-be en-
trepreneurs and others in
Continued on Page A9
TIMOTHY IVY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Police Department, in the
face of a federal lawsuit, has
greatly scaled back its practice of
stopping and searching people in
high-crime neighborhoods. The
police and the district attorneys
have reduced the number of peo-
ple prosecuted on minor marijua-
na charges; the City Council pas-
sed a law last year creating civil
Continued on Page A17
North Korea during a scheduled
media appearance tied to a meet-
ing the president was planning to
hold at his golf club in Bedminster,
N.J., about the opioid epidemic.
But during a conference call be-
forehand that focused on North
Korea, Mr. Trump did not offer a
preview of what he planned to say
— and aides did not press the
president, who resists being told
what to say, even on a tinderbox
issue that has induced his prede-
cessors to seek the safety of a
script.
He told his aides only that he
wanted to signal to Mr. Kim, the
North Korean leader, that he was
not backing down — while turning
up the pressure he has tried to
place on China to tame its trouble-
some neighbor and on-and-off
ally.
Mr. Trump’s aides braced as he
began to speak at the opioid event
— his arms folded, jaw set and
eyes flitting on what appeared to
be a single page of talking points
set before him on the conference
table where he was sitting. The
Continued on Page A7
CLOSE-UP ON GUAM The Pacific island, a U.S. territory, was thrust into
the spotlight when North Korea threatened it with attack. PAGE A8
DOLLAR DOUBTS In the age of Trump, the dollar no longer seems to be
a sure thing for investors seeking a safe haven. PAGE B1
F.B.I. Searches Manafort’s Home
As Russia Investigation Widens
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ADAM GOLDMAN
WASHINGTON — Investiga-
tors for the special counsel lead-
ing the Russia inquiry executed a
search warrant late last month at
the Northern Virginia home of
President Trump’s former cam-
paign manager, Paul J. Manafort,
for tax documents and foreign
banking records, according to a
person familiar with the matter.
The search is a sign that the in-
vestigation into Mr. Manafort has
broadened, and is the most signifi-
cant public step investigators
have taken since the special coun-
sel, Robert S. Mueller III, was ap-
pointed in May. Investigators are
expected to deploy a wide array of
similar measures — including in-
terviews and subpoenas — in the
coming months as they move for-
ward with the intensifying inqui-
ry.
It was not clear why Mr. Muel-
ler did not simply ask Mr. Man-
VINCENT THIAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secretary of State Rex W. Till-
erson on Tuesday in Malaysia.
tis said North Korea risked “the
end of its regime and the destruc-
tion of its people” if it did not
“stand down.”
North Korea gave no indication
that it would do so. In a statement
late Wednesday, the North Korean
military dismissed Mr. Trump’s
fire-and-fury warning on Tuesday
as a “load of nonsense” and said
only “absolute force” would work
on someone so “bereft of reason.”
The military threatened to “turn
the U.S. mainland into the theater
of a nuclear war” and added that
any American strike on North Ko-
Continued on Page A7
afort’s lawyers for the documents.
Executing a search warrant is
considered among the most ag-
gressive steps used by authori-
ties, who must first demonstrate
they have probable cause to be-
lieve they will find evidence that a
crime occurred. The searches also
often become public.
Legal experts said that Mr.
Mueller might be trying to send a
message to Mr. Manafort about
the severity of the investigation,
and to pressure him into cooperat-
ing.
A spokesman for Mr. Mueller
declined to comment. The person
familiar with the inquiry spoke on
the condition of anonymity be-
cause he did not want to be identi-
fied discussing a continuing fed-
eral investigation.
The warrant, demanding tax
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Back in January, when I wrote a profile of
Sean Spicer, President Trump’s first press
secretary, I wanted to introduce readers to
the man occupying a key position in the
White House, the administration’s public
face and its chief liaison to the news media.
I didn’t expect to be writing about his
replacement so soon.
Last week, I returned to the West Wing
— a little more than six months since Mr.
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someone’s buddy” — and sat down with his
former deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
who was promoted to press secretary in
July after Mr. Spicer abruptly resigned.
It was Ms. Sanders’s final meeting be-
fore the West Wing closed for a summer
renovation, and her office was almost bare.
A lone houseplant, an Obama-administra-
tion holdover, drooped from a high shelf.
“I’ve kept it alive until the last month and
now it’s just fallen apart,” she said.
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the plant — it just didn’t make it.”
As a media correspondent for The
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who at 34 is among the youngest people to
hold the title, must manage the message of
her administration and liaise with dozens
of reporters, while also acting as a frequent
vessel of Mr. Trump’s anti-media ire.
“I’ve grown up with the press, in the
press,” she told me, referring to her up-
bringing as the daughter of Mike Huck-
abee, the Republican former governor of
Arkansas and a two-time presidential
candidate. “I’ve never seen the level of
hostility that this press corps has to the
president.”
In person, Ms. Sanders was polite, pa-
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If It Endangers U.S.
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heard round the world: President Trump’s off-the-cuff quote
warning North Korea against training its warheads on the
United States. The remark shocked commenters on
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The Times, was joined by the actresses Aubrey Plaza and
Elizabeth Olsen and the director Matt Spicer for a TimesTalk
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Melissa Eddy’s report on the “Wandergesellen” — the young,
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their services — was Wednesday’s most emailed article.
Logan Hill Do you think that social media just kind of
puts gasoline on the fire?
Aubrey Plaza I do. For me, the movie was never, like,
“the Instagram movie.” I was so conscious of trying
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commentary or a clever wink-wink to the audience. I
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like, ‘How does this affect a character like that — when
they’re now dealing with a device like their phone that
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Logan Hill I keep installing all the blocking apps.

TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Aubrey Plaza Every app sucks. We don’t need them.
We never did.
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Ill., to name a few. These three books, epic Iliad and Odyssey.
chosen by the Newsbook columnist Con-
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cepción de León, offer historical context
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and insight on this month’s event.
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the astronomer Maria Mitchell was deter- point in Einstein’s career, as well as in our
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How European Leaders Spend Their Summer Vacations as Crises Loom
By JASON HOROWITZ
ROME — It would be an understate-
ment of the obvious to say that Euro-
peans cherish their summer break.
But after an intense spring of negoti-
ations over Britain’s impending exit
from the European Union, the incessant
influx of illegal migrants, repeated
terrorist attacks alongside banking
crises and populist uprisings, can the
Continent’s political class really afford
weeks of slow and steady recharging?
Prime Minister Theresa May of Brit-
ain and much of the European Union
leadership in Brussels have, as in years
past, decamped for extended getaways.
But others, perhaps more mindful of
the negative optics of frolicking as
crises loom, have left the long beach
holidays of yore to quiver like mirages
in the Mediterranean sun.
Emmanuel Macron, the newly
elected president of France, who is
already suffering a postelection plunge
in the polls, will take but a “few days of
vacation in France” after a cabinet
meeting on Wednesday, according to
the Élysée press officer. Mr. Macron’s
aide declined to specify exactly when or
where the president would go, but
insisted he would remain “available at
any time.”
The newspaper Le Parisien wrote
Tuesday that the young leader, who
seeks to upend the nation’s labor code
by September, must avoid the “bling
bling” holidays enjoyed by his prede-
cessors, and noted, “The president is
applying to himself the same self-denial
that he has demanded of the French
people.”
Mr. Macron gave his cabinet min-
isters two weeks off along with instruc-
tions to remain within striking distance
of Paris in case of emergency. They are
apparently unaffected by a new law
allowing workers to disconnect from
work email when out of the office.
Belying the image of a France that is
shuttered for all of August, Mr. Macron
is in fact largely following in the steps
of his Socialist predecessor, François
Hollande. The butt of bad press over his
seaside vacation during a French eco-
Belt-tightening and ‘bling
bling’ during a cherished
August break.
nomic downturn in 2012, Mr. Hollande
started whittling down his holidays to
about a week per summer.
And France is not the only wine
country practicing summer sobriety.
Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy,
facing a daunting migration crisis that
intensifies with the summer heat, has
kept his government cooped up in
August cabinet meetings and has held
talks this week with Libyan envoys.
Officials in Mr. Gentiloni’s office said
this week that he had several public
appearances coming up, including one
on Monday, the day before the national
Ferragosto holiday, which almost ev-
eryone in Italy observes as the linchpin
of a long, long weekend. Meanwhile,
Italian news reports of infighting and
maneuvering among ministers, includ-
ing its workaholic interior minister,
continue apace.
The Italian gossip magazines, filled
during Prime Minister Silvio Berlusco-
ni’s tenure with pictures of him donning
bandannas in Sardinia, have had to
content themselves with images of Mr.
Berlusconi’s ex-wife in a boat and Mr.
Berlusconi’s ex-minister of Equal Op-
portunities, a former Miss Italy, splash-
ing on the beach with a politician.
In many ways, Rome is the spiritual
Palko Karasz contributed reporting from
London, Aurelien Breeden from Paris and
Gaia Pianigiani from Rome.
From Syrian Prison, Cloth Scraps Immortalize Detainees’ Names in Rust and Blood
By AVANTIKA CHILKOTI
BOWIE, Md. — Under the clinical
white lights of a Maryland conservation
center on Tuesday, Mansour Omari care-
fully laid out five scraps of worn material
that had traveled within the collar of his
shirt — past Syrian government forces
and across oceans — covered in blood
and rust, and in the fading names of the
disappeared.
A human rights activist fighting for
freedom of speech and chronicling the
missing, Mr. Omari was arrested in Feb-
ruary 2012 in his Damascus office and
went on to spend about a year in a series
of prisons, including nine months at a
site under the supervision of Maher al-
Assad, the brother of President Bashar
al-Assad of Syria.
It was in that fetid underground jail
that Mr. Omari and four of his fellow in-
mates set out to record the names of all
82 prisoners there, in the hope of inform-
ing their families and documenting the
atrocities.
“When I was inside, I saw myself what
I was documenting,” he said. “I saw it
firsthand. I felt it was my duty, actually.”
The resulting lists, which included the
prisoners’ contact details, were sewn
into the collar and cuffs of a shirt and
smuggled out by Mr. Omari, who was the
first among the group to be released.
center of Europe’s summer shutdown.
Public workers in Italy have 32 days
off a year, according to the Ministry for
Simplification and Public Administra-
tion. They can take off whenever they
like, but many choose to escape the
intense August heat.
As the city’s army of lawyers and
bureaucrats deploys elsewhere, many
government offices slow down. Coffee
bars, gelaterias, cleaners, hardware
stores and other small shops often cut
their hours, too, or close entirely.
Customer service slips into the abyss.
But even that is changing a bit.
Denise Verdi, manager of a clothing
store in Rome’s center, said she stayed
open this season to cash in on tourists
when there was less competition.
What Americans might consider a
Protestant work ethic also extends now
to the Vatican, where Pope Francis,
unlike his predecessors, does not go on
vacation.
Still, many northern leaders, de-
prived of sun for much of the year, are
refusing to let political and economic
The scraps of material are now being
lent to the United States Holocaust Me-
morial Museum for an exhibition in
Washington.
In that Syrian prison, with ruthless
government guards watching over them,
Mr. Omari and his friends had set about
quietly improvising writing materials:
Small panels of fabric were cut carefully
from the backs of their shirts. Broken
chicken bones were used as pens. And
when the tomato sauce from their ra-
tions proved too thin for makeshift ink,
the friends used blood from their ailing
gums mixed with flakes of rust from the
prison’s iron bars.
“We did it almost secretly,” Mr. Omari,
37, said, explaining how groups of cell-
mates formed close friendships in the
prison. “We didn’t want other people to
know, because there is a danger that
some of them would tell the general.”
He added, “We were going to some
groups, sitting with them, asking for
their names.”
Conservationists at the museum are
preparing to study the fabric and are re-
searching how best to preserve it. The
chief conservator, Jane E. Klinger, said
her team was looking to construct con-
tainers to hold the documents — perhaps
from plexiglass fitted with ultraviolet
lights — which have so far been buried
within a notebook Mr. Omari bought at
MEMO FROM EUROPE
POOL PHOTO BY ANTONIO CALANNI
challenges get in the way of their rest
and recreation.
Prime Minister May, after a disap-
pointing showing in Parliamentary
elections in June, has exited the Brexit
morass for three weeks in Switzerland
and Italy, where she led a hotel lobby
full of tourists in a rendition of “God
Save the Queen.” (She rewarded her
piano accompanist, Davide Foroni, with
a pair of No10 cuff links, the Sun re-
ported.)
David Davis, Ms. May’s secretary of
state for Exiting the European Union,
cited Parliament’s summer recess as
explanation for his declining to answer
questions before the Committee on
Exiting the European Union. A spokes-
man for the committee, while allowing
that it was unusual to meet during
recess, told The Financial Times that
given the high stakes, they “felt it was
appropriate to continue their scrutiny.”
(Mr. Davis’s office declined to discuss
his summer plans.)
A spokeswoman for Jean-Claude
Juncker, the European Commission
LEXEY SWALL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mansour Omari, a human rights ac-
tivist, was imprisoned in Syria.
the civilian prison to which he was
moved in late 2012.
“That’s a very good solution for a lay
person because they’re protected, flat;
there’s an amount of cushioning,” Ms.
While a generous
vacation is a tradi-
tional part of life
for many in Eu-
rope, some poli-
ticians are revising
those habits.
Above, beachgoers
last month in Nice,
France, and at left,
Prime Minister
Theresa May of
Britain in northern
Italy with her hus-
band, Philip, part
of a three-week
vacation.
president, said at the end of July that
Mr. Juncker had asked that officials
involved in Brexit be “ready every day,
throughout the coming weeks, through-
out the month of August, to engage
with our British counterparts.”
The president of the European Parlia-
ment nevertheless notified Mr. Juncker
in a letter that the legislature would be
gone fishing for much of the month.
Mr. Juncker himself headed off to
vacation in Austria, where, he told
Politico, his reading list includes a
crime thriller “that talks about Trump,
Clinton, Bush,” and “1913: The Year
Before the Storm,” by Florian Illies,
about the last year of peace before
World War I.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Ger-
many, whom few have ever accused of
slacking off, is recharging during a
three-week vacation in the Italian Alps.
(Magazines have carried pictures of
her in hiking boots.)
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, a professor
at Goethe University in Frankfurt, said
it was “totally culturally accepted” that
Klinger said, using white gloves and
small metal tools to look through Mr.
Omari’s notebook.
About an hour’s drive from Washing-
ton on Tuesday at the museum’s David
and Fela Shapell Family Collections,
Conservation and Research Center, Mr.
Omari unveiled the names of the pris-
A document of atrocities
is slated for an exhibit at
the Holocaust Museum.
oners to a group of conservationists.
Flipping through the notebook’s worn
pages, he revealed memories, all dated
carefully on the top of every page.
Scribbled neatly on the book’s tattered
front are the words “la dolce vita,” or “the
good life.”
“I don’t take it out so much,” he said in
slow, hushed English. “It’s so emotional
for me when I see it.”
He added, “I was writing it for myself,
trying to see that life is beautiful even af-
ter all that happened.”
Some pages are filled with Arabic,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS
Ms. Merkel took a long break. An au-
thor of a recent study that showed
Europeans work 14 percent fewer hours
on average than Americans, in part
because of vacation days, Professor
Fuchs-Schündeln added, “It’s seen as
completely natural and healthy that
politicians go on vacation.”
Ms. Merkel’s Italian excursion may
also be an astute political move. She is
leading in opinion polls ahead of elec-
tions Sept. 24, and being away may help
avoid potential missteps that could
change that.
Politicians’ vacations and their dis-
contents provide fodder for a perennial,
and universal, summer story. President
Trump’s insistence that his 17-day en-
sconcement at his New Jersey golf club
is not actually a vacation has revived
the trans-Atlantic debate over who is
working hard and who is hardly work-
ing.
But what is an apparent cultural
divide between the United States and
its European allies is at least as much
about the divergence of labor laws and
traditions over the last 50 years: the
strength of European unions, the disap-
pearance of American pensions, and
attitudes toward social mobility and
productivity.
As recently as the early 1970s, Euro-
pean and American workers put in
about the same number of hours. As of
2015, the typical French person worked
at least 300 fewer hours per year, ac-
cording to the Organization for Eco-
nomic Cooperation and Development.
Labor scholars have suggested that a
boom of American consumerism in the
1970s and 1980s required more hours of
work. Others have noted that Euro-
peans, who are heavily taxed, pri-
oritized vacation over more income that
would bring more taxes.
Also, there’s the weather.
“It’s hot and it’s less productive to
work in this time of year,” said William
Broussen, a 24-year-old Parisian con-
tractor who was suffering through a
heat wave called Lucifer on his Roman
holiday. “We work all year. There is
nothing bad about taking time off.”
lessons in journalism and poetry that Mr.
Omari taught an illiterate prisoner.
There are also lines of basic English —
“She knows her nose is big” — used to
teach others.
“I convinced people,” he said. “We are
detained. We don’t know how long we
will be there. But when you are released,
if you have a language, that will help
you.”
“You are in a place that you have all the
time,” he said. “You have nothing. You
are doing nothing. You have nothing to
do. So we had a lot of activities.” Inmates
sometimes created “televisions” by hold-
ing up a sheet and taking turns perform-
ing in front of it, he added.
Mr. Omari, who now lives in Sweden,
estimates that 100,000 people have been
held by government forces in Syria,
where half the population is thought to
have been displaced since the war began
more than six years ago.
Scraps of documentation are slowly
emerging, including letters from inmates
and more names of missing people, as
well as photographs smuggled out of the
country by a Syrian police photographer
that show widespread torture.
Mr. Omari was arrested for his contact
with foreign entities, among other
things. And though the reasons for his re-
lease remain unclear, he said pressure
from overseas probably helped.
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Kenya Election Hacked,

Opposition Leader Says
Comments Renew Fears of Deadly Unrest
By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
KISUMU, Kenya — The Ken-
yan opposition leader, Raila
Odinga, threw early results of the
country’s presidential election
into doubt on Wednesday, claim-
ing that the electoral commis-
sion’s servers had been hacked to
award the incumbent, Uhuru Ken-
yatta, a significant lead.
Given Kenya’s history of post-
election violence, Mr. Odinga’s
comments renewed fears of
deadly unrest, although he asked
supporters to remain calm. Rights
organizations have also warned of
discrepancies in the preliminary
results.
Protests followed shortly after-
ward in parts of Kisumu, one of
Kenya’s biggest cities and an op-
position stronghold.
Demonstrators also burned
tires, set up roadblocks and
clashed with the police in parts of
Nairobi, the capital, The Associ-
ated Press reported. Earlier, at
least one protester was killed by
Mr. Odinga said hacking had
taken place between 12:37 p.m.
and 4 p.m. on the day of the elec-
tion. The hackers, he said, had
used the credentials of Mr.
Msando to instruct the servers of
the electoral commission to doc-
tor results from polling stations.
“They loaded an algorithm which
is a formula to create a percentage
gap of 11 percent between our
numbers,” he said, adding that the
figure was “a function of a for-
mula.”
Mr. Odinga, 72, who is running
for a fourth time, said that his par-
ty’s tallying showed that he
should be leading, although he re-
fused to produce results to con-
firm that. He also declined to re-
veal the source of the hacking alle-
gations.
Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu, a co-
alition of rights groups coordi-
nated by the Kenya Human
Rights Commission, said in a
statement that the voting had
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police gunfire in Kisii County, The
A.P. said, citing a regional police
commander, Leonard Katana.
Kenyan elections in 2007,
widely believed to have been
flawed, touched off bloodshed that
left at least 1,300 people dead and
600,000 displaced. After elections
in 2013, when voting systems were
afflicted by widespread malfunc-
tions and there were again accu-
sations of vote rigging, more than
300 people were killed.
In the prelude to this year’s
vote, campaigns were dominated
by concerns about the potential
for vote rigging, and a senior elec-
tion official in charge of voting
technology, Christopher Msando,
was killed.
The election was largely con-
ducted in peace on Tuesday, with
just a few technical glitches re-
ported at polling stations.
But Mr. Odinga told a news con-
ference in Nairobi, “The 2017 gen-
eral election was a fraud.”
“The electoral fraud and fabri-
cation of results was massive and
extensive,” he said.
Preliminary results showed
that with more than 90 percent of
votes counted, Mr. Kenyatta was
10 percentage points ahead of Mr.
Odinga, with a share of votes well
ahead of the 50 percent needed to
avoid a runoff.
were “completely unverifiable”
and that their publication risked
“serious political instability.”
The coalition of rights groups
cited as examples discrepancies
between nationally announced
figures and official written tallies
made at five polling places. At one,
in Nandi County, northwest of Ki-
sumu, the group said that the local
written tally had shown nine re-
jected votes and that the electoral
commission had reported 439.
The chief executive of the Inde-
pendent Electoral and Bound-
aries Commission, Ezra Chiloba,
said at a news briefing, however,
that the commission was “com-
fortable where they are.’’
“I wish to confirm that our elec-
tions management system is se-
cure,’’ Mr. Chiloba said. “There
were no external or internal inter-
ferences with the system at any
point before, during and after the
voting.”
According to the election com-
mission, the two main candidates
were separated by nearly 1.4 mil-
lion votes.
The mood was tense in Kisumu,
where residents said they were fu-
rious about what they called a
hacked election.
Large parts of the city were
calm, but in the Kondele neighbor-
hood, crowds were being dis-
persed by police officers using
tear gas.
Part of a nearby road was
blocked, and tires had been set on
fire. Some residents were seen
running away.
MARCO LONGARI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
“You cannot keep stealing votes Milama Obwanda, 37, as a crowd
at every election,” said Frank quickly formed around him.
Opondo, 38, who was at the scene, “We’re not going to relax until the
while other people shouted, “No decision we made yesterday is re-
Raila, no peace!” spected.”
“The elections are not fair,” said His friend Doreen Atieno said
Opposition supporters pro-
tested against Kenya’s national
election results in Nairobi on
Wednesday. Below, the moth-
er of a man shot in the head,
reportedly by the Kenyan po-
lice, covered her son’s body.
that the hacking accusations and
the killing of the election official
needed to be investigated if the
authorities and institutions in
Kenya were to be trusted.
“We want to know,” she said.
“We want leaders with clean
hands. We’re not going to take it
anymore.”
Throughout his campaign, Mr.
Odinga stirred up supporters by
warning that the election could be
stolen. He said he had been
robbed of victory in the previous
two contests. In 2013, Mr. Kenyatta
won by a margin so tiny that Mr.
Odinga sought unsuccessfully to
have the Supreme Court invali-
date the election.
Fred Matiangi, the acting interi-
or minister and a member of Mr.
Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party, called on
Kenyans to wait for the final re-
sults from the electoral commis-
sion. “Until then, we remain com-
mitted to do our part in ensuring
that the country is secure and
safe,” he told a news conference.

A Risky Trip by Pakistan’s Ousted Leader

By SALMAN MASOOD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pa-
kistan’s ousted leader, Nawaz
Sharif, began a homecoming jour-
ney on Wednesday, leaving for the
eastern city Lahore along with
thousands of his supporters in a
bold display of political power.
Weeks after Mr. Sharif, the for-
mer prime minister, was removed
from office by the Supreme Court,
he is traveling to Lahore, his
hometown, which is about 150
miles from Islamabad, the capital.
He is expected to reach Lahore by
Friday, given the slow pace of the
convoy, party officials said.
The court disqualified Mr.
Sharif from holding office last
month. It also ordered the opening
of corruption cases against him
and his three children.
Mr. Sharif left Islamabad
around noon and was seen off by
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a party
loyalist who was elected as prime
minister last month. Several gov-
ernment ministers also joined Mr.
Sharif’s convoy and led the chant-
ing in their leader’s support.
Mr. Sharif may be taking a con-
siderable risk with the public de-
parture. Officials warned of secu-
rity threats, and political violence
and terrorist attacks are not un-
common in the country. In 2007
Benazir Bhutto, a former prime
minister, was assassinated after a
political rally in Rawalpindi.
But Mr. Sharif was undeterred
and said he was going back to his
people. Hundreds of supporters
gathered along the route of his
convoy in Islamabad, cheering
and waving party flags.
“Look who is here: Lion! Lion!”
they shouted, referring to symbol
of his political party, the Pakistan
Muslim League-Nawaz.
“I am not a PML-N supporter,
but I fully support Nawaz Sharif
and his struggle for civilian su-
premacy,” said Arslan Shahid, 29,
an accountant who was at the
rally in Islamabad.
Many party supporters have ac-
cused the military, which has had
a turbulent relationship with Mr.
Sharif, of being behind his ouster.
“Nawaz Sharif is the only anti-es-
tablishment leader in the coun-
try,” Mr. Shahid said. “The rest
have turned into pawns of the mil-
itary establishment.”
The military has denied playing
a role.
Mr. Sharif denounced the Su-
preme Court ruling but stopped
short of criticizing the military.
Without offering any details, he
said his removal was the result of
Sameen Khan contributed report-
ing from Lahore, Pakistan.
FAROOQ NAEEM/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s former prime minister, waved to sup-
porters on Wednesday as he left Islamabad for his hometown.
a conspiracy.
In recent interviews, Mr. Sharif
maintained that he was not guilty
of corruption. His failure to dis-
close his role in a Dubai-based
company run by one of his two
sons led the court to cite a clause
of the Constitution that requires
public office holders to be “honest
and faithful.”
On Wednesday, it took Mr. Shar-
if’s convoy, consisting of at least
500 vehicles, six hours to reach
neighboring Rawalpindi by
evening because of the crowds,
A homecoming seen
as a bold display of
political power.
though the turnout in Rawalpindi
was smaller than party leaders
had expected.
After midnight, Mr. Sharif
spoke from behind bulletproof
glass and lashed out at the court’s
ruling. “It is an insult to your
vote,” he said, referring to his
ouster, as the crowd in front
roared. But he told his supporters,
“I am going to my home and do not
want you to get me restored.”
Opponents criticized his rally,
saying it showed contempt for the
court’s ruling.
“We cannot ignore the fact that
Nawaz’s party is still in power and
such rallies are nothing but an ef-
fort to influence the accountability
process by using political pres-
sure,” said Fawad Chaudhry, a
senior spokesman of the political
party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Mr. Sharif chose to go to Lahore
by the Grand Trunk Road, which
connects several cities of Punjab
Province. His party has a strong
hold over almost all cities along
that highway, and he was hoping
for a large turnout that would help
him reclaim his position as a popu-
list leader.
Lahore is the capital of Punjab,
the most populous and politically
significant province. Mr. Sharif
and his younger brother Shehbaz
Sharif have held sway there for
decades. Party workers there
made elaborate arrangements for
the former prime minister’s arriv-
al. Main thoroughfares of the city The Awakening
were festooned with banners and
posters welcoming him home. Anatole Vély
Chaudhry Majid Asghar War-
raich, a senior party worker in La- Monumental size. Salon favorite. Artistic tour
hore, said a grand reception
de force. A masterpiece of French genre
awaited his leader. “It will be a re-
ality check for some people,” Mr. painting, this original oil on canvas by Anatole
Warraich said. Vély is the most important work in this
Some analysts said Mr. Sharif’s
celebrated artist’s oeuvre. Entitled Le Coeur
political strategy was laden with
uncertainty. S’Éveille (Awakening of the Heart), the dramatic
“Nawaz Sharif wants to give his composition achieved significant critical and
party members a message that he
popular acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1880,
is around and he will manage the
party’s affairs,” said Hasan Askari where it earned a second-class medal and was
Rizvi, a prominent political ana- touted in the press as the “must-see” painting
lyst based in Lahore. “He also
of the year. Signed and dated 1880 (lower
wants to put a little bit of pressure
on the judiciary and the military
right). Frame: 1141/2”h x 751/2”w. #30-6510
and show to them that people are
with him.”
But the confrontational ap-
proach might backfire, he warned.
“I don’t think the judiciary or
the military will change their ap-
proach,” Mr. Rizvi said. “The judi-
ciary will assert itself, and the mil-
itary has its own way of doing
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TENSIONS WITH NORTH KOREA
Asian Nations Shaken by President’s Warning on Korean Nuclear Program
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
and CHOE SANG-HUN
BEIJING — President Trump’s
threat to unleash “fire and fury”
against North Korea sent a shud-
der through Asia on Wednesday,
raising alarm among allies and
adversaries and, to some observ-
ers, making the possibility of mili-
tary conflict over the North’s nu-
clear program seem more real.
With North Korea responding
that it would, if attacked, strike
American military forces on
Guam, analysts warned that the
escalating statements increased
the likelihood of war — perhaps
one based on miscalculation,
should one side’s fiery statements
be misread by the other.
Some played down Mr. Trump’s
remark on Tuesday as simply a
warning not to attack the United
States, albeit one whose tone was
more typical of North Korean pro-
pagandists than it was of past
American presidents. Officials in
South Korea and Japan said that
while the situation was tense, it
had not reached a crisis point.
Secretary of State Rex W. Tiller-
son played down any imminent
threat from North Korea, saying
Wednesday, “I think Americans
should sleep well at night, have no
concerns about this particular
rhetoric of the last few days.”
Still, some in the region said the
danger of war had not seemed as
clear and present in decades.
What was unthinkable just years
ago no longer seems so, they said.
“We’re going to see a confronta-
tion between the United States
and North Korea that will be fero-
cious and strong and bloody,” said
Cheng Xiaohe, an associate pro-
fessor of international relations at
Renmin University of China in
Beijing who called Mr. Trump’s
language “explosive.”
Professor Cheng said he was
puzzled by the timing of Mr.
Trump’s remark, just days after
the United Nations Security Coun-
cil imposed the toughest eco-
nomic penalties yet on North Ko-
rea for its nuclear and missile pro-
grams. That unanimous vote,
which overcame China’s historical
reluctance to punish its ally
harshly, has been widely de-
scribed as the Trump administra-
tion’s greatest diplomatic accom-
plishment so far.
“Usually, the U.S. government
is willing to give more time for a
resolution, to see how the resolu-
tions bite,” Professor Cheng said.
Across the region on Wednes-
day, analysts reacted with con-
cern and even foreboding about
the tone of Mr. Trump’s com-
ments, and about the unimpeded
progress that North Korea ap-
pears to be making toward becom-
ing a full-fledged nuclear power,
able to strike the United States or
other far-off adversaries.
While Mr. Trump’s warning that
North Korea, if it kept threatening
the United States, would “be met
with fire and fury like the world
has never seen” clearly reflected
growing American frustration
over the North’s advances, ana-
lysts said it was not clear that he
had fully considered the implica-
Steven Lee Myers reported from
Beijing, and Choe Sang-Hun from
Seoul, South Korea. Jonathan
Soble contributed reporting from
Tokyo, and Jane Perlez from Bei-
jing. Iris Zhao and Adam Wu con-
tributed research from Beijing.
With Incendiary Language, Trump Takes a Detour From Presidential Tradition
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
WASHINGTON —
Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to
When
force North Korea into negotia-
tions to end the Korean War, he
sent a secret message to Pyong-
yang and Beijing threatening a
nuclear strike if they did not come
to the table for talks with Seoul.
After North Korea in 1968 seized
an American Navy intelligence
ship off its east coast with 83 crew
members aboard, Lyndon B.
Johnson called for diplomacy to
defuse the crisis, and began 11
months of clandestine talks to seal
the deal.
Bill Clinton used bland but
strong admonitions — backed up
by the clear threat of a missile
strike — to get Pyongyang to halt
its efforts to process plutonium in
1994 and submit to talks on freez-
ing its nuclear program.
President Trump’s incendiary
remarks on Tuesday, warning of
“fire and fury” if North Korea con-
tinued threatening the United
States, were a jarring hint that he
might be willing to discard a dec-
ades-old principle against the pre-
emptive use of nuclear weapons.
It also broke with a long tradi-
tion of American presidents using
strongly worded warnings, care-
fully calibrated threats and urgent
— sometimes secret — diplomacy
to quell brewing crises with North
Korea.
“We never threatened — nor
would we ever have threatened —
to use nuclear weapons,” said
William J. Perry, who was sworn
in as defense secretary months
before Mr. Clinton’s 1994 con-
frontation with North Korea. “Be-
South Korean soldiers last week in Panmunjom, straddling the North Korean border. Few in the South want war, one analyst said.
tions of such strong language.
That, they said, raised ques-
tions about the administration’s
strategy, and about whether Mr.
Trump recognized the price that
some staunch allies, especially Ja-
pan and South Korea, could pay
for carrying out his threat.
“Trump doesn’t seem to under-
stand what an alliance is, and
doesn’t seem to consider his ally
when he says those things,” said
Lee Byong-chul, a senior fellow at
the Institute for Peace and Co-
operation in Seoul, South Korea’s
capital. “No American president
has mentioned a military option
so easily, so offhandedly as he has.
He unnerves people in South Ko-
rea, few of whom want war in Ko-
rea.”
Mr. Trump’s warning followed a
A ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan, on Wednesday, the 72nd anniversa-
ry of the United States’ dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War II.
yond that, I, and many of my mili-
tary colleagues, believe that it’s a
big mistake to make empty
threats. It weakens your credibil-
ity if you don’t follow through, and
it may stimulate the regime on the
other side, which has to be very
nervous at this moment, to take
some reckless actions.”
Instead, when the North Kore-
ans ejected United Nations in-
spectors from their nuclear re-
search reactor in Yongbyon and
declared their intention to process
plutonium there, Mr. Perry said he
and Mr. Clinton decided their
strategy would be to make clear
that the United States would
never allow such an action. They
would press for diplomacy but
plan for a military strike to de-
stroy the reactor if talks failed.
“We wanted to be clear, but we
didn’t want to be explicit about the
threat, although they knew and
we knew what the plan was,” said
Mr. Perry, who conceived the plan
for a cruise missile strike if such
action became necessary.
The North Koreans were pub-
licly defiant, calling Mr. Perry a
“war maniac” — “you don’t forget
something like that,” he said in an
interview — but they also recog-
nized the threat was real. A stra-
tegically timed op-ed in The
Washington Post by Brent
Scowcroft, a former national secu-
rity adviser to Gerald R. Ford and
George Bush, that recommended
a military strike against North Ko-
rea of precisely the sort the ad-
ministration had privately been
considering helped make the case
to Pyongyang that the Americans
were serious.
“I’ve always believed that Kim
Japan’s new defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, said “we have
to monitor vigilantly” North Korea’s nuclear advances.
Il-sung actually believed that I
had planted that story,” Mr. Perry
said, referring to North Korea’s
leader at the time. “There’s no
doubt that our threat, which was
incidentally buttressed by this op-
ed, was very clear and very plain
and very concerning to them.
Within a few days, we had negoti-
ations.”
Eisenhower, too, used the lever-
age of a possible military strike to
push the North Koreans and the
Chinese toward a peace agree-
ment to end the Korean War. Hav-
ing campaigned on ending the
conflict, he spent three days on
the Korean Peninsula before his
inauguration, touring the battle
front in a trip that he later said so-
lidified his view that the situation
had reached a stalemate and
could not be sustained.
William J. Perry, then President Bill Clinton’s special envoy to
North Korea, talking to reporters in South Korea in 1999.
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A history of threats,
warnings and often
secret diplomacy.
“He sent a secret message to
the North Koreans and the Chi-
nese that he would use atomic
bombs against them if they didn’t
come back to the peace table, and
it frightened them into returning
to the negotiations, which re-
sulted in a truce that exists to this
day,” said the presidential histori-
an Robert Dallek. “This kind of
bluster and bombast that we hear
from Donald Trump is not calcu-
lated, and it is not how presidents
have generally dealt with these
threats.”
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report that American intelligence
agencies believe that North Korea
has made a nuclear weapon that
can fit on the tip of a ballistic mis-
sile. Such drastic advances have
already led Japan and South Ko-
rea to consider deploying new,
more powerful weapons to
counter the threat, after decades
of relying on American military
might for strategic security.
Itsunori Onodera, Japan’s new
defense minister, said Wednesday
that Japan found it credible that
North Korea had succeeded in
miniaturizing a nuclear warhead,
or that it would do so in the near
future. “At the very least, whether
they have them now or will have
them soon, it’s reached a level
where we have to monitor vig-
ilantly,” he said.
Officials in Asia and beyond
have grown used to provocative
musings by Mr. Trump, particu-
larly on Twitter, and they tend to
treat them as inaccurate reflec-
tions of American policy. But ana-
lysts saw his “fire and fury” re-
mark as dangerous and unlikely
to deter North Korea’s leader.
“We are used to painting North
Korea as ‘unpredictable,’ but in-
creasingly it is the U.S. that is in-
troducing strategic unpredictabil-
ity into a volatile dynamic,” Euan
Graham, an analyst at the Lowy
Institute in Sydney, Australia,
wrote in an email.
Professor Cheng of Renmin
University said that North Korea’s
defiance in response to the Securi-
ty Council’s latest sanctions indi-
cated that it had no intention of
slowing its program. He said that
nations across the region, includ-
ing his own, needed to prepare for
the consequences of a conflict.
“We are in a very dangerous
time, and China is going to need to
take notice and prepare for the
worst,” he said.
China’s Foreign Ministry, re-
Johnson also sought to dial back
tensions with North Korea when a
crisis arose that coincided with
the height of the Vietnam War,
when he could ill afford to delve
into another major military con-
frontation, Mr. Dallek said. In Jan-
uary 1968, North Korean gun
boats seized the Navy intelligence
ship Pueblo, taking the crew of 83
captive.
Dean Rusk, then the secretary
of state, said the episode fell into
“the category of actions to be con-
strued as an act of war.”
“My strong advice to the North
Koreans,” Mr. Rusk said, “is to
cool it.”
Johnson called the seizure of
the Pueblo a “wanton and ag-
gressive act,” adding that “clearly,
this cannot be accepted.”
But as he took the matter before
the United Nations Security Coun-
cil, Johnson threatened no mili-
tary action. He said the United
States would “continue using ev-
ery means available to find a
prompt and peaceful solution to
the problem,” adding that he had
taken “precautionary measures to
make sure that our military forces
are prepared for any contingency
that might arise.”
What followed was 11 months of
secret negotiations between
American and North Korean offi-
cials, with the United States insist-
ing that the Pueblo and its crew be
released and Pyongyang refusing
to do so without an official apology
from a high-ranking official for
what it characterized as the delib-
erate intrusion into North Korean
territory of American spies.
Wary of spooking or provoking
the North Koreans as the talks be-
sponding Wednesday to an inqui-
ry about Mr. Trump’s threat, re-
stated its position that the North
Korean nuclear issue should be re-
solved by political means and that
“all relevant parties” should avoid
“remarks and acts that may esca-
late the conflict.”
The South Korean government
sought on Wednesday to ease con-
cern, saying that the North’s re-
cent posturing, including its
threat to attack Guam, appeared
to be aimed at tightening solidari-
ty among its own population and
causing its neighbors anxiety.
“The situation has become
more serious on the Korean Pen-
insula,” a senior official at the
presidential Blue House told
South Korean reporters, speaking
in a briefing on the condition of an-
onymity. “But we don’t think it has
reached a crisis stage yet.”
Also on Wednesday, Pyongyang
released a Canadian pastor, the
Rev. Lim Hyeon-Soo, who had
been sentenced to a life of hard la-
bor. Nearly two months ago an-
other former prisoner, Otto F.
Warmbier, an American college
student, died after being freed.
“North Korea appears to signal
that it could be flexible amid this
standoff with the international
community,” said Kim Yong-hyun,
a professor of North Korean stud-
ies at Dongguk University in
Seoul. He added that the freed
pastor is Canadian, “so the North
may find it easier to release him”
than to be perceived as capitu-
lating to a bellicose American
president.
In Japan, a senior government
official sought to frame Mr.
Trump’s remark as an effort to
warn the North’s government that
military action remained a possi-
bility, even as the new sanctions
begin going into effect.
“He’s saying that the United
States is putting all options on the
table,” said the official, Chief Cab-
inet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
“Our government approves of
that stance. It’s extremely impor-
tant that the Japan-U.S. alliance
further strengthens its ability to
deter and respond.”
Even so, Mr. Trump’s language
resonated deeply in Japan, which
on Wednesday commemorated
the 72nd anniversary of the drop-
ping of an American atomic bomb
on Nagasaki, three days after one
was dropped on Hiroshima.
“The world has seen American
fire and fury in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki 72 years ago,” Kiichi Fu-
jiwara, a professor of interna-
tional politics at Tokyo University,
wrote bitingly on Twitter. He add-
ed that for Mr. Trump to use such
language was “reckless and un-
wise, even as an act of deter-
rence.”
Tong Zhao, a nuclear policy ex-
pert at the Carnegie-Tsinghua
Center for Global Policy in Bei-
jing, said that China still believed
that a deal to defuse tensions
could be reached, with North Ko-
rea agreeing to suspend its nucle-
ar and missile tests in exchange
for a halt to joint American and
South Korean military exercises.
China has raised that possibility
repeatedly.
“It’s already a fact on the
ground that North Korea has a
credible nuclear deterrence,” he
said. “The best we can do at the
moment is to deter North Korea’s
use of nuclear weapons and con-
tain the growth of their nuclear
and missile capabilities.”
gan, Johnson called the captain of
the Enterprise, an American air-
craft carrier that had been in Ja-
pan when the Pueblo was taken
and headed north afterward, to
ask him to turn around.
As the talks wore on, Johnson
would ultimately launch a buildup
of American forces on and near
the Korean Peninsula, sending an
armada to the Sea of Japan and
100 warplanes to South Korea in
an unmistakable signal to the
North Koreans that the United
States was ready to attack. But be-
hind the scenes, the president was
taking a diplomatic route.
“On the one hand, he was rat-
tling the saber pretty loudly. But
on the other hand, he launched
these secret negotiations with the
North Koreans to try to find a solu-
tion,” said Jack Cheevers, the au-
thor of “Act of War,” a book about
the Pueblo capture. “Johnson
came under a lot of fire during that
11 months for not doing enough to
get the crew back, but in fact, the
secret talks were going on and he
did succeed in getting them back.”
In the end, diplomacy worked,
but only after United States offi-
cials engaged in a bizarre maneu-
ver: having a high-ranking Army
official, Maj. Gen. Gilbert H.
Woodward, submit an apology for
“grave acts of espionage” commit-
ted by the Pueblo against North
Korea, which he signed only after
holding a news conference declar-
ing that the document was full of
lies.
“This has been a most frustrat-
ing episode,” Mr. Rusk said upon
their release. “But the great ma-
jority of our people have kept their
heads.”

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Trump’s Words Hinting at War Were Improvised, Catching Aides Off Guard
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piece of paper, as it turned out,
was a fact sheet on the opioid cri-
sis.
“North Korea best not make
any more threats to the United
States,” Mr. Trump told reporters
in remarks broadcast on televi-
sion and around the globe. “They
will be met with fire and fury like
the world has never seen.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the
White House press secretary, said
Mr. Trump’s national security
team was “well aware of the tone
of the statement of the president
prior to delivery.”
“The tone and strength of the
message were discussed before-
hand,” she said. The words he
used, she added, “were his own.”
And they revealed what some
longtime associates of Mr. Trump
say is a simmering frustration
with the velvet handcuffs slapped
on him by John F. Kelly, his new
White House chief of staff, who
has cracked down on walk-in vis-
itors to the Oval Office and keeps
tabs on some of the president’s af-
ter-hours phone calls to ensure
that he is not being fed bad infor-
mation or reckless advice.
Mr. Trump has embraced the
new, more disciplined approach of
Mr. Kelly, a former Marine gen-
eral, but he has made it clear that
he will not cede control of what he
says or tweets to anybody. If noth-
ing else, Tuesday’s statement
proved that he cannot be muzzled
by his staff or by decorous diplo-
matic protocol.
The president, people close to
him say, believes he has a better
feel for Mr. Kim than his advisers
do. He thinks of Mr. Kim as some-
one used to pushing people
around, and Mr. Trump thinks he
Glenn Thrush reported from
Washington, and Peter Baker from
Bridgewater, N.J.
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rean missile and nuclear targets
would be “mercilessly repelled.”
The statement also said that
the North Korean military would
finalize a plan by mid-August to
fire four midrange missiles into
the waters off the Pacific island of
Guam, a United States territory
used as a strategic base, to create
a “historic enveloping fire.”
The spiral of fighting words left
the Trump administration debat-
ing how to handle a standoff that
has defied three presidents and
only grown more ominous in re-
cent weeks as North Korea suc-
cessfully tested intercontinental
ballistic missiles for the first time.
Neither Mr. Tillerson nor Mr. Mat-
tis had reviewed in advance Mr.
Trump’s threat on Tuesday, when
he said North Korea “will be met
with fire and fury like the world
has never seen.” And the disso-
nance in their own follow-up
statements reflected the struggle
inside the Trump administration.
“I don’t think there is a single
policy at work,” said Ellen L.
Frost, a longtime Asia specialist
at the East-West Center, a Hono-
lulu-based research organization.
“I’m not even sure that Trump
cares about having a consistent
policy on any subject.” Instead,
she said, the president’s fire-and-
fury threat was a play to show
toughness to his political base
“followed by more nuanced clean-
up operations on the part of Tiller-
son and Mattis, who are walking a
political tightrope.”
Mr. Trump remained out of pub-
lic sight on Wednesday at his golf
club in Bedminster, N.J., where he
is spending most of a 17-day work-
ing vacation. But he posted a link
on Twitter to a news report on his
threat, and followed up by boast-
ing that he had ordered the mod-
ernization of America’s nuclear
arsenal.
“Hopefully we will never have
to use this power,” he wrote, “but
there will never be a time that we
are not the most powerful nation
in the world!”
American allies in Japan and
South Korea were caught off
guard by Mr. Trump’s threat, as
were other regional players like
China and Russia. Analysts re-
ported deep anxiety over the
prospect that a war of words could
easily turn into a real one.
But some discounted Mr.
Trump’s comments as the sort of
bombast they have become ac-
customed to from a president who
has publicly assailed not just ene-
mies, but even allies like Ger-
many, Canada and Mexico. The
difference is that Germany is un-
likely to respond to a presidential
tirade with an attack on Guam, as
North Korea threatened after Mr.
Trump’s warning.
Mr. Tillerson took on the role of
soother, telling reporters as he re-
turned from a trip to Asia that he
saw no reason to believe that war
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water, and Gardiner Harris from
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eileen
Sullivan contributed reporting
from Washington.
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President Trump had menacing words for North Korea during a briefing at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on Tuesday.
needs to show that he cannot be
pushed.
The episode also reflects an
evolving and unsettled approach
to one of the world’s most danger-
ous hot spots as Mr. Trump and his
team debate diplomatic, economic
and military options, none of them
particularly attractive.
The president’s aides are divid-
ed on North Korea, as on other is-
sues, with national security veter-
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was imminent. He urged North
Korea to engage in talks about its
nuclear program.
“I think Americans should
sleep well at night, have no con-
cerns about this particular rheto-
ric of the last few days,” Mr. Tiller-
son said as his plane stopped to
refuel in Guam, the very island
that North Korea threatened to
target. He added, “Nothing I have
seen and nothing I know of would
indicate that the situation has
dramatically changed in the last
24 hours.”
Mr. Tillerson said Mr. Trump
ans like Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis and Lt. Gen. H. R. McMas-
ter, the national security adviser,
on one side and Stephen K. Ban-
non, the president’s chief strat-
egist, and his allies on the other.
While General McMaster and
Mr. Mattis consider North Korea a
pre-eminent threat that requires a
tough response, Mr. Bannon and
others in the nationalist wing ar-
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simply chose the sort of attention-
grabbing words that Mr. Kim
would use. “What the president is
doing is sending a strong mes-
sage to North Korea in language
that Kim Jong-un would under-
stand, because he doesn’t seem to
understand diplomatic lan-
guage,” Mr. Tillerson said.
Hours later, Mr. Mattis issued a
written statement that, while not
as florid as Mr. Trump’s com-
ments on Tuesday, still held out
the possibility of a strong retalia-
tion that could destroy much of
North Korea.
the administration’s conflict with
China and that Mr. Trump should
not give more prominence to an
unstable rogue operator like Mr.
Kim.
In the North Korea debate, like
a similar one over Afghanistan,
Mr. Bannon has been arguing
against what his side considers
the overly aggressive approach of
the “war party” of General Mc-
Master. While Mr. Bannon has his
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“While our State Department is
making every effort to resolve
this global threat through diplo-
matic means, it must be noted
that the combined allied militar-
ies now possess the most precise,
rehearsed and robust defensive
and offensive capabilities on
Earth,” Mr. Mattis said. North Ko-
rea’s military, he added, “will con-
tinue to be grossly overmatched
by ours and would lose any arms
race or conflict it initiates.”
At the urging of the Trump ad-
ministration, the United Nations
Security Council unanimously ap-
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own channel to the president, he
has been shut out of most formal
discussions of North Korea by the
national security team.
But neither camp, the hawks or
the doves, advocated language
like “fire and fury,” according to
the people involved.
Among those taken by surprise,
they said, was Mr. Kelly, who has
accompanied the president on his
working vacation.
proved new sanctions against
North Korea last Saturday. But
even as China and Russia sup-
ported the measure, it was un-
clear how hard they would work
to enforce it. Some saw Mr.
Trump’s message as aimed at pro-
viding an incentive to Beijing to
do more to avoid war, although it
also risked disrupting the very
alignment he had been trying to
forge.
“Clearly, there is not a coordi-
nated messaging strategy,” Evan
Medeiros, the managing director
at the Eurasia Group and a former
Asia adviser to President Barack
Obama, said by telephone from
Tokyo. “This is being put together
incrementally and of all the coun-
tries and all the issues you deal
with, North Korea is not the one to
be kludging together statements
by the president and cabinet sec-
retaries because the risk of mis-
calculation is so high.”
Alexander Vershbow, a former
ambassador to South Korea, said
the Trump administration “policy
seems incoherent” and the threat
of military action “will likely hard-
en the North Koreans’ stance”
and make it more difficult to get
China to follow through on its sup-
port for the United Nations sanc-
tions.
“If denuclearization is still the
goal, the only way to get there is
through increased Chinese pres-
sure,” Mr. Vershbow said. “Since
there is no viable military option,
the only other course of action is
to develop a long-term deterrence
and containment strategy — but
that means accepting the unac-
ceptable,” North Korea as a nucle-
ar power.
Trump has made clear he would
not accept. His administration
has sent conflicting signals about
whether it would entertain direct
talks with the North Korean gov-
ernment. Vice President Mike
Pence has said no such talks are
being considered, while Mr. Tiller-
son has said they could happen as
long as the North Koreans demon-
strate their sincerity by pausing
their missile tests. How long such
a pause needs to last, he has re-
fused to say.
Mr. Tillerson emphasized on
Wednesday that he was engaged
in a continuing diplomatic effort
and that “our telephone lines re-
main open, certainly to China,
Russia as well as our allies.”
Mr. Tillerson said that his strat-
egy of gradually increasing the di-
plomatic and economic costs for
the North Korean government
was working. “I think in fact the
pressure is starting to show,” he
said. “I think that’s why the rheto-
ric coming out of Pyongyang has
gotten louder and more threat-
ening.”
Mr. Medeiros questioned
whether Mr. Trump’s warning,
combined with sanctions, would
prompt North Korea to return to
the negotiating table. “That’s the
big strategy question here,” he
said. “Trump has clearly calcu-
lated that it will. But that’s a huge
gamble, and it’s one that it’s not
clear to me that the Chinese
would necessarily agree with.”
N A7
The “fire and fury” line, which
echoed biblical passages and
President Harry S. Truman’s
statement after the United States
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiro-
shima, Japan, in 1945, was Mr.
Trump’s idea — despite similar-
ities to the end-of-days style of his
chief speechwriter, Stephen
Miller, people with knowledge of
the situation said.
Mr. Trump has used the phrase
repeatedly in private to express
his anger at North Korea’s pursuit
of nuclear weapons — one of the
few public policy problems he has
been focused on since his prepolit-
ical days in the 1990s.
After his comments on Tuesday,
Mr. Trump headed into an hour-
long meeting on opioids, but his
national security team huddled to
figure out how to proceed. Secre-
tary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who
has been trying to induce Pyong-
yang to negotiate, became the ob-
vious choice to calm the waters,
which he did during a refueling
stop in Guam, the same island
threatened by North Korea.
Mr. Tillerson told reporters that
“Americans should sleep well at
night” and that nothing indicated
that relations with North Korea
had “dramatically changed in the
last 24 hours.”
Mr. Trump seemed pleased with
the uproar caused by his remarks,
and he was in good spirits on
Wednesday. And some of his aides
did not back off from the sharp
language.
“He’s saying don’t test America
and don’t test Donald J. Trump,”
Sebastian Gorka, a hard-line ad-
viser and one of the president’s fa-
vorite surrogates, told Fox News
on Wednesday. “We are not just
the superpower. We were a super-
power, we are now a hyperpower.
Nobody in the world, especially
not North Korea, comes close to
challenging our military capabili-
ties.”
FACT CHECK
Trump Claims
Undue Credit
On an Arsenal
By LINDA QIU
WASHINGTON — In an early-
morning tweet Wednesday, Presi-
dent Trump claimed undue credit
for revamping the nation’s nucle-
ar arsenal, wrongly suggested
tremendous progress had been
made since he took office, and
misrepresented the sequence and
scope of his executive actions.
“My first order as President
was to renovate and modernize
our nuclear arsenal. It is now far
stronger and more powerful than
ever before,” he wrote on Twitter,
after exchanging escalating state-
ments with North Korea this
week.
Efforts to modernize the na-
tion’s nuclear arsenal — including
intercontinental ballistic missiles,
submarine-launched ballistic mis-
siles, strategic bombers, war-
heads and infrastructure — began
under President Barack Obama,
and will span three decades at a
cost of about a trillion dollars.
The size and strength of the
United States’ nuclear arsenal re-
mains virtually unchanged since
Mr. Trump took office. Since Janu-
ary, when the United States had a
stockpile of 4,018 warheads, “a
small number of warheads are
thought to have been retired for
an estimated 4,000 remaining in
the stockpile,” according to the
Federation of Atomic Scientists.
The Arms Control Association, a
Washington-based group, has re-
ported no change in its estimate
since January.
Many of the modernized weap-
ons will not be available for use
until the 2020s or later.
There has been no significant
change in nuclear modernization
plans under Mr. Trump, said Todd
Harrison, a defense analyst at the
Center for Strategic and Interna-
tional Studies. “In fairness, there
has not been time for such plans to
have been prepared, reviewed
and implemented, so this is not a
surprise,” he said.
Mr. Trump’s “first order” refers
to a Jan. 27 presidential memoran-
dum ordering a new Nuclear Pos-
ture Review, characterized by the
Pentagon as “legislatively man-
dated” and the basis of nuclear
policy. While the review may rec-
ommend changes, as a 2010 re-
view by Mr. Obama did, it has yet
to be completed.
Eight other memorandums and
four executive orders — including
ones terminating the Trans-Pa-
cific Partnership and urging the
repeal of the Affordable Care act
— preceded it.
Similarly, it is also premature
for Mr. Trump to consider his pro-
posed 11 percent increase to the
National Nuclear Security Admin-
istration’s budget a fait accompli.
Even if Congress passes Mr.
Trump’s budget without changes,
it does not apply until the start of
the next fiscal year on Oct. 1.
A8 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

A Tiny Territory Caught in a Global War of Words

By NANCY BOROWICK
and MEGAN SPECIA
It is a small slice of America, it
just happens to be in the middle
of the Pacific. And within striking
range of North Korean missiles.
That’s why the island of Guam
was thrust into the spotlight
Wednesday after North Korea
threatened a strike that would
create “an enveloping fire”
around it and said an attack
would come this month.
But on the island, home to a
strategic American air base, life
continued as normal. Patrons
packed local restaurants, barely
glancing at televisions bearing
news of Pyongyang’s latest
threat against their home.
Residents of the tiny territory
— just 12 miles at its widest point
and circled with beautiful
beaches — find themselves again
caught in the middle of a war of
words launched between North
Korea and the United States,
including pointed threats of nu-
clear action.
“Everyone is going about doing
the same routine, but everyone is
talking about the threat,” Josie
Sokala, who lives in the village of
Mangilao on the eastern shore of
Guam, said in a message.
Like other Guam residents, Ms.
Sokala has been inundated with
text messages from friends on
the mainland — islanders’ term
for the continental United States
— asking how she was doing.
“Everyone is nervous, but I
think it is our families out there
stateside that are more nervous
for us,” Ms. Sokala said.
Still, early Thursday morning,
she found herself unable to sleep.
Guam has been an American
territory since 1898, when Spain
ceded it in the wake of the Span-
ish-American War. It has a popu-
lation of around 163,000 — com-
parable to a small city in the
Midwest.
The island has been the focus
of North Korean threats in the
past, as the home base for nucle-
ar-equipped bombers that have
the capacity to strike the reclu-
sive nation. Tests of North Ko-
rea’s own missiles suggest that
now the island is within their
reach.
Guam is about 2,100 miles
southeast of Pyongyang, and
3,800 miles west of Honolulu. But
it is as steeped in American cul-
ture as any small city on the
mainland — even if shoppers at
its Kmart (the biggest in the
world) can look outside and see a
lush Pacific island setting.
The majority of islanders are NANCY BOROWICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

ethnically Chamorro — the indig-
enous group that has lived on the
island for thousands of years —
and their culture is a touchstone
for the islander’s way of life.
Life on Guam is also deeply
tied the military bases and the
service members stationed at
them. Andersen Air Force Base
and Naval Base Guam house an
estimated 13,000 military mem-
bers and their dependents. One-
third of the island is owned by the
United States military.
On Wednesday, officials in
Daniel Victor contributed report-
ing.
Clockwise from top: An Applebee’s in Tamuning, Guam, on Wednesday; protesters on Marine Corps Drive after President Trump’s inaugura-
tion; tourists on Gun Beach last month. Guam was thrust into the spotlight after North Korea threatened a strike against it.
Guam scrambled to release state- The archdiocese also asked residents or visitors. Guam, in weighed in. She called the most strongly urge the president to
ments urging calm, even if just a Catholics to “pray that the Holy addition to being a strategic base, recent threats from both sides explore every avenue to peace-
day earlier President Trump Spirit will instill in the leaders of is also a tourist destination, and a “dangerous” and said they had fully respond to it and avoid
vowed to unleash “fire and fury” our country and all nations the record number of visitors arrived heightened tensions in the region. further escalating this situation.”
on North Korea. virtues of wisdom and under- this past June. She noted that similar threats in Whatever their doubts about
The church is an influential standing to promote peace rather “There’s been a lot of rhetoric 2013 led to an advanced missile those on the world stage, some
force on the island, where the than war.” coming out,” Mr. Calvo said at a defense system — known as
residents seemed to have more
vast majority of residents are The governor of Guam, Eddie news conference on Wednesday. Thaad, for Terminal High Alti-
confidence in their local leaders.
Catholic, and the Archdiocese of Baza Calvo, said there had been “And it’s important to bring that tude Area Defense — to be per-
Agana — the capital of Guam, no change to the threat level on message out to the people of manently placed on the island as “Our governor assures us that
also known as Hagatna — has the island, despite the harsh Guam that this is not a time to a deterrent. this threat is nothing to panic
advised residents to “look to God words. Mr. Calvo stressed in a panic.” “Kim Jong-un’s reckless behav- about, and we trust him,” Ms.
during these difficult times when statement that there was no Guam’s congresswoman, ior cannot be tolerated,” she said Sokala said. “We’re just trying
world peace is threatened.” imminent threat to the safety of Madeleine Z. Bordallo, also of the North Korean leader, “and I not to think about it too much.”

Dozens of Migrants Drown North Korea Drawing Up Plan for a Strike Near Guam
After Being Thrown in Sea
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The mi-
grants — average age 16 — were
fleeing two desperate places,
Ethiopia and Somalia. They were
headed to the shores of another,
Yemen.
But early Wednesday morning,
as they were about to reach land,
they were thrown into the Arabian
Sea by a boatman they had paid to
take them across the water, ac-
cording to the United Nations mi-
gration agency.
At least 50 of them drowned.
Their attempted flight to a
country consumed by war was a
measure of the desperation of
thousands of people from the
Horn of Africa, where successive
droughts have led to acute short-
ages of food and water and to out-
breaks of disease. Thousands
Survivors blame a
smuggler who saw
some ‘authority types’
near Yemen’s coast.
have fled, usually paying smug-
glers to take them to Persian Gulf
countries in search of work.
The route, across the Gulf of
Aden and the Red Sea, takes them
through Yemen, one of the world’s
most dangerous war zones, where
airstrikes and mortar shelling
have become routine, and a cho-
lera outbreak has affected more
than 400,000 people.
And Yemen, too, is on the brink
of famine. Nearly seven million
residents rely entirely on food aid,
the World Food Program says.
On Wednesday, the Interna-
tional Organization for Migration,
a United Nations agency, said in a
statement that it had found 27 sur-
vivors from among the people
thrown into the sea. They de-
scribed how their smuggler had
tossed them overboard as their
boat approached Shabwa, on the
Yemeni coast.
“The survivors told our col-
leagues on the beach that the
smuggler pushed them to the sea
when he saw some ‘authority
types’ near the coast,” Laurent de
Boeck, the agency’s Yemen chief
of mission, said in a statement.
“They also told us that the smug-
gler has already returned to So-
malia to continue his business and
pick up more migrants to bring to
Yemen on the same route. This is
shocking and inhumane.”
The migration agency reported
finding 29 bodies hastily buried on
the beach. Another 22 people were
still missing.
The agency estimates that this
year alone, 55,000 people have left
the Horn of Africa and come
through Yemen seeking work in
the wealthy countries of the Gulf.
More than half were children.
In addition to Yemen, Somalia is
one of the four countries around
the world at risk of famine, ac-
cording to the United Nations, a
determination made on the basis
of specific criteria, including the
number of hunger-related deaths.
Some 6.7 million people require
humanitarian assistance, and
more than 760,000 people are dis-
placed within the country, accord-
ing to the United Nations.
Ethiopia also faces acute
hunger, though it has not reached
the near-famine threshold; the
United Nations says at least 8.5
million Ethiopians are in need of
immediate food aid and children
suffer from a debilitating form of
diarrhea.
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — North
Korea said Thursday that it was
drawing up plans to launch four
intermediate-range ballistic mis-
siles into waters near Guam in the
Western Pacific to teach Presi-
dent Trump a lesson, a day after
the president warned of “fire and
fury” against the North if it per-
sisted in threatening the United
States.
If the North were to follow
through on its threat to launch an
“enveloping strike” in the vicinity
of Guam, it would be the first time
that a North Korean missile
landed so close to an American
territory. The North’s official Ko-
rean Central News Agency re-
ported that, according to the plan,
four of the country’s Hwasong-12
intermediate-range ballistic mis-
siles would fly over the three
southern Japanese prefectures of
Shimane, Hiroshima and Koichi
before hitting the ocean about 19 to
25 miles from the coast of Guam.
In addition to serving as a warn-
ing to the United States, the pro-
In ‘Deliberate Act,’ Car Slams Into Soldiers in Paris Suburb
By AURELIEN BREEDEN
and ALISSA J. RUBIN
PARIS — A usually quiet Paris
suburb became the scene of a ter-
rorist attack early on Wednesday,
when a driver plowed his vehicle
into a military patrol as the sol-
diers were walking to their vehi-
cles, injuring six of them.
It was the sixth attack on
French military forces since 2015,
Interior Minister Gérard Collomb
said after the attack, underscor-
ing the extent to which uniformed
officers appear to be a focus for
terrorists.
“We know this was a deliberate
act,” said Mr. Collomb, describing
posed missile firings would also
be a challenge to Japan. Some of
the North Korean missiles
launched in recent months have
fallen in waters near Japan, but
none of them have actually flown
over the country. The North has
said it launched its previous test
missiles at highly lofted angles so
that they would not fly over Japan.
North Korea will fine tune its
launching plans by the middle of
this month and wait for a final or-
der from its leader, Kim Jong-un,
the North’s official news agency
said, citing Gen. Kim Rak-gyom,
commander of the Strategic Force
of the Korean People’s Army.
General Kim’s remarks came a
day after Mr. Trump warned that
North Korea would be met with
“fire and fury, and frankly power
the likes of which the world has
never seen before” if it continued
to expand its nuclear and missile
programs. The North test fired
two intercontinental ballistic mis-
siles, or ICBMs, last month, dem-
onstrating an ability to fire a mis-
sile that eventually could hit the
continental United States with a
how the car had approached the
military patrol slowly, but then
sped up, striking the soldiers.
In the afternoon, police officers
in the Pas-de-Calais department
captured a man driving the vehi-
cle that was used in the attack,
which had been identified through
surveillance footage. President
Emmanuel Macron said on Twit-
ter that the man was the “author
of the attack” in Levallois-Perret,
a suburb north of Paris.
Three of the soldiers were
slightly injured, Defense Minister
Florence Parly said, and the other
three were in better condition
than had initially been reported
and their prognosis was good.
nuclear payload.
“Sound dialogue” is not possible
with someone “bereft of reason,
and only absolute force can work
on him,” General Kim said, accus-
ing Mr. Trump of having spoken “a
load of nonsense.” He said Mr.
Trump, who he said was spending
his time on the “golf links,” was
failing to “grasp the ongoing
grave situation.”
North Korea first mentioned its
plans to fire missiles into the wa-
ters off Guam on Wednesday,
three days after the United Na-
tions Security Council adopted an-
other set of tough sanctions that
American officials said could de-
prive the North of as much as one-
third of its total export revenues.
General Kim, who is in charge of
North Korean missile units, re-
leased more details of the missile
plan early on Thursday.
He said the four Hwasong-12
missiles would fly 2,086 miles in 17
minutes and 45 seconds to reach
their target in the ocean near
Guam, which would serve as an
air base for American strategic
bombers if war with North Korea
The Paris prosecutor’s office
opened a terrorism investigation.
The attack was a reminder both
of the extent to which France re-
mains a target for terrorists and of
the fraught debate over how best
to combat the threat. Does it make
sense to deploy large numbers of
heavily armed soldiers to patrol
streets and high-profile places?
Or does their presence draw fire
as much as it deters it?
“This is the paradox,” said Elie
Tenenbaum, a research fellow at
the French Institute for Interna-
tional Research. The initial de-
ployment of about 10,000 soldiers
across the country (7,000 soldiers
are now deployed), he said, had
were to break out. General Kim
said he was disclosing the details
of the plan to “give stronger confi-
dence in certain victory and
courage to the Korean people and
help them witness the wretched
plight of the U.S. imperialists.”
In recent months, B-52 and B-1B
bombers from Andersen Air Force
Base in Guam have flown over the
Korean Peninsula on flights that
the North has denounced as exer-
cises for launching a nuclear
strike. North Korea said its Hwa-
song-12 missiles were designed to
interdict such an attack from the
American base in Guam.
The military option the Trump
administration has threatened
against North Korea could involve
shooting down North Korean mis-
siles over international waters,
said Cheon Seong-whun, a visiting
research fellow at the Asan Insti-
tute for Policy Studies in Seoul
who served as a presidential sec-
retary for security strategy until a
few months ago. Any move more
aggressive than that could lead to
an armed clash with North Korea,
analysts say.
“before anything else a psycho-
logical and political goal.”
“It was to show military force
and reassure the population,” he
said. “It has finally reached its
limits.”
Mr. Tenenbaum and other ter-
rorism experts have argued that
the money, time and resources be-
ing spent on the deployment of
soldiers could do more to prevent
attacks if they were spent on intel-
ligence and police work.
The threat in France “is a clan-
destine threat, and to counter a
clandestine threat, there are no
two ways about it: You need intel-
ligence gathering, not firepower,”
Mr. Tenenbaum said.

Russia’s Innovators
Stymied at Many Turns
From Page A1
Akademgorodok, a freethinking
settlement of broad avenues,
forested pathways and 35 Soviet-
era research institutes near the Si-
berian city of Novosibirsk. They
see it as the Russian government
undermining its own stated eco-
nomic goal — to nurture enter-
prises that harness Russian brain
power instead of sucking oil, gas
and minerals out of the ground.
More than 5,000 people have
signed a petition appealing to Mr.
Putin to stop “this shameful ex-
ample of force-
ful pressure on
a law-abiding
business.” Mr.
Trubitsyn and
his company
“are, without
exaggeration,
the pride of
Akadem-
Dmitri gorodok,” it
Trubitsyn said. “They are
a strong symbol
of a prospering Russia in which
real technological business can
develop to world standards.”
Aleksei Okunev of Novosibirsk
State University in Akadem-
gorodok, who has worked closely
with Mr. Trubitsyn’s company,
called the situation “incompre-
hensible.” He added, “We have
very few success stories in Rus-
sia, and this explains why.”
Mr. Putin did not respond, but in
a statement, his business ombuds-
man, Boris Titov, called Mr. Tru-
bitsyn “a young, energetic repre-
sentative of the innovation sector,
the development of which is most
needed for a modern Russia.”
But Mr. Titov has made similar
statements before, to little effect.
Despite official state support for
innovation under Mr. Putin, the
growing power of Russia’s securi-
ty services and rampant official
corruption frequently push in the
opposite direction.
The first sign of the storm ap-
proaching Akademgorodok came
early in 2016, when Mr. Trubitsyn
and his colleagues began hearing
that their competitors were telling
hospitals that Tion’s air purifiers
were dangerous and were being
investigated by Roszdravnadzor,
a state agency that regulates med-
ical equipment.
State television then broadcast
a report accusing the company of
jeopardizing the health of hospital
patients. State hospitals began re-
moving Tion devices.
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“For years we were praised as a
success story and then all these
strange things suddenly started
happening,” said Mikhail
Amelkin, Tion’s chief technical of-
ficer.
Mr. Amelkin said the company
was approached by the regulatory
agency and said that it had
changed its design and removed a
supplementary filtering device
that laboratory tests had shown
was redundant and wasted elec-
tricity. The company then
amended its registration docu-
ments and thought the matter was
over, Mr. Amelkin said. But armed
police officers showed up in June
to arrest Mr. Trubitsyn and search
for evidence of what later court
documents described as a “con-
spiracy” to produce counterfeit
medical supplies. (No co-conspir-
ators have been named, but a con-
spiracy charge allows prosecutors
to seek more jail time.)
Natalia Pinus, Akadem-
gorodok’s elected representative
to the regional council, is one of
many local residents who see Mr. JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Trubitsyn’s troubles as the fault of
unscrupulous operators able to Dmitri Verkhoved, a mathematician, ran the technopark in Akademgorodok, a Soviet-era sanctuary of scientific research in Russia.
manipulate law-enforcement
agencies to wipe out competitors. so elusive: The Russian state, the few Russian companies out-
“This is not just about a single which is Mr. Putin’s main vehicle side the energy sector that export
company,” she said, but “whether for his plans for the nation’s re- to China, Tion grew steadily to
you can conduct honest business surgence, often stifles growth. employ 250 people in Akadem-
in Russia or whether that is im- A bureaucracy empowered by a gorodok, Moscow, China and Ka-
possible.” steady erosion of democratic zakhstan by 2017. It has tributes
Police raids and arrests figure checks and balances can often from government-linked bodies,
prominently in many Russian smother new ideas. Grand state- including being named Innova-
business struggles, particularly directed projects to promote inno- tion Company of the Year by a Si-
those involving assets like oil, vation — like Skolkovo, a Moscow- berian forum in 2012.
over which the state has steadily area technology park set up by (Mr. Verkhoved is entangled in
reasserted control under Mr. Kremlin fiat as Russia’s answer to a separate dispute and was fired
Putin. Private companies that Silicon Valley — have mostly fall- in January as director of the
clash with Rosneft, Russia’s state- en flat. Akademgorodok technopark.)
owned energy giant, for example, Mr. Trubitsyn’s company began Irina Travina, the founder of a
often face criminal investigation. in such a state-funded park, one of software start-up and head of the
The decline in global oil prices a dozen such zones set up across local technology-business associ-
has, however, also meant less Russia after Mr. Putin visited In- ation, said Akademgorodok was
money is available for siphoning dia’s tech hub in Bangalore in “the best place in Russia,” with
JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
by venal officials. That has turned 2005. Mr. Putin so enthusiastic “outstanding schools, low crime
even relatively small companies A class in 3-D design for children is offered by the technopark. about what he saw in Bangalore and a high concentration of very
into attractive targets by the po- that he stopped in Akadem- smart people.”
lice and the courts operating in or what was behind the investiga- asset on which it can build a vi- gorodok on his way back to Mos- But she said Mr. Trubitsyn’s ar-
partnership with business. tion. “If you try to find out who is brant and diversified economy. cow to talk with scientists and offi- rest had delivered a grave blow to
Anton Latkin, a computer pro- responsible for anything in this Last month, at a meeting of his cials about how Russia could copy the community’s sense of security.
grammer who has known Mr. Tru- system, you will only find an echo Council for Strategic Develop- India’s example. “In principle, anyone can fall
bitsyn since boyhood science in the cave,” he said, adding that ment, Mr. Putin again lectured of- Dmitri Verkhoved, a mathema- into this situation,” Ms. Travina
clubs, said Tion had fallen prey to the Russian state “is not a single ficials on the need to move Rus- tician who was appointed to run said, praising Mr. Trubitsyn as a
attack by government officials organism with one brain” but a sia’s faltering economy — now the operation, said Tion was “one patriot because he had not moved
who “don’t understand anything sprawling mass of separate and smaller than that of Italy and 11 of our first start-ups,” opening in abroad and had invested time and
about physics, don’t understand often competing fiefs. other countries — beyond its reli- 2006, and had proved that innova- money in science education for lo-
anything about chemistry and Mr. Putin has been a forceful ad- ance on natural resources. “We tive Russian companies can com- cal children. “It can happen to
don’t understand anything about vocate of ending Russia’s long need a breakthrough, and we pete on the global market. anybody,” she added. “Everyone
biology.” record as an economic also-ran in must ensure it,” he said. The objective, he added, was “to has some sort of skeleton in their
Mr. Amelkin, Tion’s chief tech- all spheres other than oil and gas, Mr. Trubitsyn’s troubles, show that you can do business and closet. Maybe nothing big, but
nical officer, said he and his staff repeatedly hailing Russia’s tech- though, may help explain why make money here in Russia and they can always find something to
had been unable to figure out who nical and scientific prowess as an such a breakthrough has proved don’t need to go abroad.” One of throw you in jail for.”
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A10
A monument to Confederate soldiers stands near the entrance to the Ole Miss campus. “Why is that needed?” a student said. “You have students here who are offended by it.”
Edging Out of a Confederate Shadow, Gingerly
Ole Miss tries to put its racist
past in context, not erase it.
By STEPHANIE SAUL
OXFORD, Miss. — Other than William
Faulkner and the father and son quarter-
backs Archie and Eli Manning, few figures in
this town’s history are better known locally
than Lucius Q. C. Lamar.
A professor at Ole Miss before and after
the Civil War, he served in both chambers of
Congress and as a Supreme Court justice.
Oxford’s main thoroughfare, lined with
stately homes and towering oaks, is named
Lamar Avenue. His home, restored as a mu-
seum, is on the National Register of Historic
Places. In 1977, Ole Miss dedicated a major
building as Lamar Hall.
That building will soon get a plaque more
fully describing Lamar’s legacy.
Lamar drafted the state’s orders of seces-
sion, funded his own Confederate regiment
and held 31 slaves. After the war, he re-
mained a divisive figure, delivering
speeches that riled up whites in a violent 1875
election that he said “involved the suprema-
The Oxford home of Lucius Q.C. Lamar, a slavehold-
er who opposed Reconstruction, is now a museum.
cy of the unconquered and unconquerable
Saxon race,” according to one newspaper ac-
count of the day.
Across the country, universities are trying
to reckon with their ties to slavery and its
champions. Georgetown recently apologized
for its ownership and sale, in 1838, of 272
slaves. Yale said it would rename a building
honoring an alumnus, John C. Calhoun, a fer-
vent supporter of slavery. Harvard erected a
plaque memorializing four slaves owned by
Harvard presidents during the 1700s.
But perhaps no college has had to handle
the effort as gingerly as Ole Miss. Though
the Confederate flag was banished from the
campus two decades ago and “Dixie” is no
longer played at football games, the ghosts of
the Old South still roam the magnolia-
scented campus, and many alumni hold fast
to traditions.
The Lamar Hall plaque is one of five new
ones to be installed to honestly describe the
offensive history associated with campus
landmarks and acknowledge the contribu-
tions of slaves. The university announced
the moves last month following the recom-
mendation of a committee that included fac-
ulty and alumni with a range of views.
The committee recommended the renam-
ing of one building — Vardaman Hall, named
for Gov. James K. Vardaman, who openly ad-
vocated lynching.
The moves put the University of Missis-
sippi, as the college is formally known, near
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIMOTHY IVY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the forefront of a movement called contextu-
alization. “Our whole framework is predi-
cated on the principle that it’s better to edu-
cate and contextualize rather than remove
or move or erase,” said the school’s chancel-
lor, Dr. Jeffrey Vitter.
But at Ole Miss, even that middle ground
can be excruciatingly slow and painful to
reach. One plaque, placed at the monument
to a Confederate soldier, was thrown out and
redone last year. Both the campus N.A.A.C.P.
and some history professors objected to its
original wording because it failed to mention
slavery as the cause of the Civil War.
And on the other side, members of the stu-
dent senate pushed through a resolution to
try to “pause” the committee process.
Hovering over deliberations was the fact
that descendants of some of the historical
figures remain in Mississippi. Don Barrett, a
lawyer from Lexington, who called himself
the representative of conservative alumni on
the committee, described a series of compro-
mises and called his fellow committee mem-
bers, some of them faculty, “liberal as hell.”
“We struggled for months,” he said.
Ole Miss’s identity is intertwined with
slavery and the Jim Crow era, partly because
of the state’s history, but also because the
school vigorously embraced Confederate
symbols.
It was partly the university’s difficulty in
recruiting top black athletes that led to the
removal of the most offensive symbol. Two
decades ago, the chancellor at the time,
Robert Khayat, received death threats after
he decided to eliminate the Confederate flag.
By 1979, the mascot had been changed
from a student dressed in a gray Confederate
uniform to a friendly looking Disneyesque
character named Colonel Reb. Eventually
he, too, was replaced by Rebel Black Bear, a
reference to a short story by Faulkner. A stained glass window at the university’s Ventress Hall depicts a Civil War battle.
“Dixie” was played less frequently, then
banned in 2016.
“It’s called gradualism,” said Greg Stew- think it comes from the name that slaves alization because “I think it’s important for
art, heritage defense director of the state’s called the plantation owner’s wife. A consult- people to understand.”
Sons of Confederate Veterans. ant in 2014 advised the university to consider Paul B. Johnson III, a lawyer in Hatties-
Mr. Stewart, whose group sued the school the name’s implications, a move the alumni burg, Miss., got a call before the name of Paul
in an attempt to block the plaque at the Con- probably would never entertain. B. Johnson Commons was tweaked, accord-
federate statute, argues that the university Nor would they change the team’s name, ing to Mr. Barrett, the committee member.
is defiling historic objects. “They just kind of Rebels. Instead, the school is trying to re- As lieutenant governor in 1962, Paul B.
do a little bit here, a little bit there, and may- frame it. Johnson Jr. physically blocked James Mer-
be you’ll forget about it,” he said. “We’re not Rebels in the old sense,” Dr. Vit- edith as he sought, ultimately successfully, to
Despite the school’s progress, including ter said. “We’re Rebels in a very positive enroll as the school’s first black student.
the election of several black student body sense. We will always continue using that Paul B. Johnson Jr. parlayed his defiance
presidents, the baggage remains, said Tony brand because it’s one of the most positive into a victory in a campaign for governor in
Gray, a freshman offensive lineman from Lo- images nationally among all colleges.” 1963, running on the slogan “Stand Tall With
ganville, Ga. Mr. Gray said he chose Ole Miss Efforts at contextualization gathered Paul.” Some students wondered why the uni-
despite warnings from friends. steam after a campus disturbance in Novem- versity would honor him.
“People around the neighborhood said it’s ber 2012 in which students protested Presi- In reality, the building was named after
racist,” Mr. Gray said. dent Barack Obama’s re-election, some Johnson’s father, himself a former governor.
Other black students said they were yelling racial epithets. Rather than being contextualized, a “Sr.” will
warned, too, but ultimately had positive ex- Besides the dispute over the statue, the be added to the building’s name, the commit-
periences on campus, where about 13 per- biggest argument involved George Hall, tee decided.
cent of undergraduates are black. Yet they named after James Zachariah George, a “Paul Johnson III is a dear friend of mine,”
wondered why some Confederate symbols United States senator who historians say Mr. Barrett said. “He laughed and was good-
remain. helped lay the foundation for Jim Crow by natured about it. He said his father made it
“The Confederate soldier is mind-baf- placing a clause in the State Constitution re- very clear during his lifetime that the build-
fling,” said Jaquann King, a marketing major quiring that voters be able to read or under- ing was named for his father.”
from Port Gibson, Miss., referring to the stat- stand it. The rule disenfranchised thousands The renaming of Vardaman Hall requires
ue on campus. “Why is that needed? You of Mississippi blacks for decades, and spread approval of the state’s college board. Var-
have students here who are offended by it.” to other Southern states. daman’s open advocacy of lynching was
Other traditions are tied to the Confedera- Several committee members wanted deemed “exceptional” by the committee —
cy, often in esoteric ways. As prospective George Hall renamed, even though George meaning that his behavior was beyond the
students toured the campus one day last is an ancestor of a popular retired vice chan- norm even for his day.
month, a guide explained why Ole Miss fans cellor, Gloria Kellum, who has worked to re- As for Lamar Hall, its plaque will mention
wear church clothes to football games. store his home, Cotesworth. Lamar’s slaveholding, adding that “his
The football team, he said, represents the One member suggested that Dr. Kellum’s prominence obscured the active role he
troops heading off to battle, harking back to kinship was a factor in the decision not to re- played in dismantling Reconstruction in
1861 when students enlisted en masse in the name the building. Mississippi to the detriment of the state’s Af-
Confederate Army. Their families, the tradi- Dr. Kellum, who said she had not been in- rican-American citizens.”
tion goes, saw them off wearing their Sunday volved in the deliberations, acknowledged Mr. Barrett said: “I think L.Q.C. Lamar
best. that “George is a name that’s associated with was one of the greatest statesmen Missis-
Even the nickname Ole Miss may be an a lot of history that’s disturbing to people.” sippi has ever produced and I don’t like the
ode to the way things were; some historians She said that she supported the contextu- plaque, but it was a compromise.”

In Wary Baltimore,
Presence of Police
Offers Scant Comfort
Fear, Mistrust and a Surge in Violence
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
BALTIMORE — The pop-pop of
gunfire echoed through the Druid
Heights neighborhood several
times on Saturday, but a volunteer
cleanup crew barely reacted to the
familiar sound. Instead, the volun-
teers noted what was missing: In
the hours they spent clearing
waist-high weeds and broken
glass from a vacant lot, they saw
no sign of the police.
They would have liked to have
seen a patrol car roll by, but they
were also well aware of recent re-
minders of the mistrust many Bal-
timore residents have of the po-
lice. In the last three weeks, vid-
eos became public that appeared
to show officers planting drugs in
two separate incidents, prosecu-
tors were forced to drop dozens of
cases that relied on the testimony
of officers in those videos, and two
detectives pleaded guilty to fed-
eral racketeering charges.
“People want the police to do
their job and make the community
safe, but then when the police
show up, people are afraid of what
they’re going to do,” said Darlene
Cain, one of the volunteers and the
president of a local advocacy
group, Mothers on the Move. She
knows those conflicted feelings
better than most people; nine
years ago, her son was killed in a
confrontation with Baltimore offi-
cers.
Since Freddie Gray died in April
2015 from injuries sustained in po-
lice custody, this city has endured
rioting, the failed prosecution of
six officers charged in Mr. Gray’s
death, a surge in violent crime and
a jump in drug overdose deaths. A
lacerating Justice Department re-
port documented systematic ra-
cial bias and abuse by the Balti-
more Police Department, drawing
we-told-you-so’s from the city’s
black majority.
City officials have made vow af-
ter vow to change, including
agreeing to a consent decree with
the Justice Department to over-
haul the way the police operate.
The former mayor fired the police
commissioner and appointed a
new one, Kevin Davis, who has
made changes like equipping offi-
cers with body cameras, imposing
mandatory 12-hour shifts to in-
crease staffing, and eliminating
plainclothes units in hopes that
uniforms would promote better
behavior.
On Wednesday, Mayor Cather-
ine E. Pugh announced new anti-
violence measures, including in-
creasing street patrols by moving
officers out of clerical and admin-
istrative posts, improving the
analysis of crime data and supply-
ing the police with equipment that
other cities take for granted, like
data terminals in patrol cars. But
she said improvement would also
require the help of “people whose
ears are on the ground.”
“We know that we’ve got to
drive these numbers down, but we
also recognize that we can’t do
A Bitter Democratic Dispute in California Is a Warning for the National Party
From Page A1
final ruling on Ms. Ellis’s allega-
tions by Aug. 20; in an interview,
she said she would go to court if
the party ruled against her. This
has left Mr. Bauman, who encoun-
tered a barrage of shouts of “not
my chairman” when he delivered
his victory speech, struggling to
put behind him a contest that has
been the subject of recounts even
as he seeks to position Democrats
for a challenging congressional
election in 2018.
“The truth of the matter is, Kim-
berly Ellis cannot accept that she
lost the election,” Mr. Bauman
said. “She’s willing to allow the
party to be torn asunder in an ef-
fort to prove that she really did
win. My attitude about this is, I
was elected chair under the rules.
I have attempted to be the most
open and transparent chair this
party has ever seen.”
Ms. Ellis, 44, has from the start
presented herself as an outsider:
It is her first run for party leader-
ship. She has spent the past eight
years as the executive director of
Emerge America, which recruits
and trains women to run for office.
Ms. Ellis — who backed Senator
Bernie Sanders in the Democratic
primary race last year — pre-
sented her candidacy as a chal-
lenge to the way the Democratic
Party in California does business,
starting with an animating prom-
ise: “Giving the Democratic Party
Back to the People.” If she had
been elected, she would have been
the first African-American to lead
the state party.
By contrast, Mr. Bauman has
spent 30 years working for the
Democratic Party, including lead-
ing the Los Angeles County Dem-
ocratic Party. He was a delegate
this work by ourselves,” said Ms.
Pugh, who took office in Decem-
ber.
So far, residents like Yolanda
Savoy, who lives in the rowhouse
next to the lot cleared by Ms. Cain
and the volunteers, see no sign of
improvement — either in police
conduct or in crime-fighting. “I
don’t expect too much, honestly,”
she said.
Ms. Savoy, 37, does not let her
children play outside — not since
her daughter Jezell, then 8, was
shot in the foot last year by a stray
bullet. The man suspected of
shooting her was fatally shot two
months later.
“There’s been a lot of talk of re-
form but serious reform hasn’t ac-
tually started yet,” said Kirsten
Gettys Downs, chief of the city’s
public defender’s office. “Instead
what is happening is people are
getting caught up on the prob-
lems.”
Even activists who are sharply
critical of the police say to give it
time. The department is still ad-
justing to the body cameras first
issued last year; the consent de-
cree was not finalized by a federal
judge until April; and a court-ap-
pointed independent monitor for
the Police Department has not
been named yet.
Baltimore is on pace for a
record-high homicide rate this
year — roughly double the rate
per 100,000 people in Chicago, a
city often described as plagued by
violence. A three-day Baltimore
Ceasefire organized by communi-
ty groups ended on Sunday with
two homicides — an improvement
on the city’s recent average of al-
most one per day.
“The violence makes reform so
much harder, but we have to try to
make it work before we say it can’t
work,” said Ray Kelly, co-director
of No Boundaries Coalition, a
community advocacy group in
west-central Baltimore. “There’s
a mix of feelings here, between
guarded hope, and despair that
nothing’s going to change.”
The recent videos recorded by
body cameras actually represent
a step forward, because they cap-
ture actions that would previously
have remained secret, said City
Councilman Brandon M. Scott,
chairman of the public safety com-
mittee. “They are doing exactly
what we wanted them to do, which
is to hold people accountable.”
Sgt. Bob Cherry, former presi-
dent of Fraternal Order of Police
Lodge 3, which represents Balti-
more officers, said body cameras
were “something that our guys
are buying into, more than they
thought they would.” He cau-
tioned against making too much of
the videos, arguing that the offi-
cers had forgotten to turn their
cameras on before finding the
drugs, and then turned the cam-
eras on and re-enacted the drug
discoveries.
“If the camera goes off and then
comes back on, it raises doubts,”
Mr. Davis said at a recent news
for Hillary Clinton in last year’s
presidential election. With his
gruff demeanor and a strong-as-
ever Bronx accent — no matter
that he came here 40 years ago —
he has been called “Boss Bau-
man,” as Mr. Bauman himself
noted in an interview.
Ms. Ellis said Mr. Bauman and
other Democratic leaders repre-
sented an old-school, top-down
style of party leadership that had
been rejected by the new wave of
Democrats brought into the party
by Mr. Sanders last year and by
Ms. Ellis this year.
“The Democratic Party is in
many ways right now where the
Republican Party was when the
Tea Party took over many years
ago,” she said. “We are in a re-
building moment.”
“There are a lot of things that
have gone on here that have really
caused folks to feel that leader-
ship doesn’t care about them or
their voices,” Ms. Ellis added.
“The Democratic Party is not only
changing but has changed. There
are folks who haven’t gotten that
memo. The way that we did things
before is not going to work going
forward.”
For many Democrats, what is
particularly worrying is the ex-
tent to which the lingering battle
illustrates the bitterness between
supporters of Mr. Sanders and
those of Mrs. Clinton. The Califor-
nia Democratic Party has seen a
surge of active members since
Election Day, not only in response
to Mr. Trump and his policies, but
also because of Mr. Sanders’s suc-
cess in stirring enthusiasm.
But in some ways, these are the
kind of internecine fights — be
they between the old guard and
new faces, or between liberals and
moderates — that are common in
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
conference. “We don’t want to
raise any doubts, because I’m con-
vinced that the defendants we are
arresting, the people we are ar-
resting for drugs and guns, are
people we need to be arresting.”
Eric C. Bauman, the chairman of the California Democratic
Party, at the party’s headquarters in Sacramento last week.
Democratic circles, usually
mainly of interest to the most in-
side of insiders. “Remember: We
are Democrats. We do this all the
time,” said Christine Pelosi, a sup-
porter of Ms. Ellis who is the head
of the California Democratic
Women’s Caucus and a daughter
of Representative Nancy Pelosi,
the House minority leader.
But the stakes appear higher in
this case. For one thing, California
Democrats face a critical political
challenge in 2018 as they seek to
capture as many as seven Repub-
lican congressional seats, most of
them in Southern California, a
central part of the national party’s
effort to win back Congress. Cali-
fornia is heading into a potentially
turbulent governor’s race next
year as Mr. Brown — a widely re-
spected, stabilizing force in Dem-
ocratic politics — steps down after
two terms. The party could also be
enmeshed in a Senate race if Di-
anne Feinstein, who is 84, does not
The videos are still under inves-
tigation, he added, and until that
process is complete, “it’s irrespon-
sible to jump to a conclusion that
these officers were engaged in
criminal misconduct.”
MAX WHITTAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
seek re-election next year.
The fight in this bluest of states
has national repercussions for
Democrats facing similar strug-
gles about what the party should
stand for — and how aggressive it
should be in challenging Republi-
cans — as it prepares for the 2018
congressional elections.
For all that, Mr. Bauman, 58, is
hardly your run-of-the-mill party
leader. He is openly gay and an Or-
thodox Jew, a nurse by training
who sprinkles his remarks with
Hebrew and tears up when talking
about his late mother and the time
he heard Bill Clinton, running for
the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation in 1992, appealing for gay
support at a rally in Hollywood at
the height of the AIDS crisis.
But as much as Ms. Ellis is por-
trayed by her supporters as the fu-
ture of the Democratic Party, Mr.
Bauman is perceived as the face of
the establishment Democratic
Party they blame for the party’s
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT ROTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
There is widespread agreement
that the Baltimore police have be-
come less aggressive since Mr.
Gray’s death. That has put the city
at the heart of a national debate
about the Ferguson effect, the the-
setbacks in Washington. “He has a
style that is sometimes not the
most warm,” said Ms. Yee, who
supported Ms. Ellis. “That’s a fact.
And I think he knows that. He can
be abrasive. He can be dismis-
sive.”
Ms. Ellis said Mr. Bauman was a
product of the environment creat-
ed by the state Democratic Party.
“And the environment includes
bullying and a lot of bad behavior,”
she said.
Mr. Bauman did not dispute
that as he sat behind glass walls in
an office of a sleek two-story
building with an outdoor terrace
that serves as the state party
headquarters here. “A lot of peo-
ple perceive me as a Tammany
Hall kind of guy,” he said. “Be-
cause I do have that personality.
And it works. And I use it.”
For the most part, the fight in
California’s Democratic Party is
over tactics, style and person-
alities. But there are some differ-
ences over issues as well.
The leader of the California
State Assembly, Anthony Rendon,
came under fire after he blocked a
bill that would have created a
state single-payer health care sys-
tem. Mr. Rendon called the legisla-
tion, which had passed in the Sen-
ate, “woefully incomplete,” saying
it failed to account for how to fi-
nance a hugely expensive idea.
His move was attacked by, among
others, the powerful state nurses’
union — and by Mr. Bauman, who
called it an “unambiguous disap-
pointment.”
Party leaders have urged Ms.
Ellis and her supporters to unite
the party.
“It’s basically up to those who
supported Kimberly: Do they
want to help elect Democrats,
0N A11
Above, Jezell Savoy, 9, was
struck on the foot last year
by a stray bullet. Left, vol-
unteers cleaning a city-
owned lot in West Balti-
more on Saturday.
ory that more intense scrutiny
and criticism — like the upheaval
in Ferguson, Mo. after the police
shooting of Michael Brown in 2014
— has made officers more cau-
tious.
Arrests here dropped sharply
even as violence rose; this year,
arrests are running more than 40
percent below the rate three years
ago. But there is disagreement
about what lies behind the num-
bers, and whether it is good or bad
— or both.
The police make far fewer of the
low-level stops, searches and ar-
rests that black residents, in par-
ticular, described as a kind of or-
ganized abuse, and the consent
decree formalizes limits on those
stops. “That’s most of the decline
— the nuisance arrests,” said
William H. Murphy, Jr., a promi-
nent lawyer who represented Mr.
Gray’s family.
But some critics suspect that of-
ficers have intentionally shirked
crime-fighting in order to under-
mine changes. “It’s almost like
they’re allowing anarchy to hap-
pen,” Mr. Kelly said.
Several officers, who refused to
speak on the record, denied that,
but said they feared that the police
being less aggressive on more mi-
nor offenses would lead to higher
crime. Several studies on that
question from around the country
have been inconclusive, and in
Baltimore, “no one can say with
any confidence” why violence has
worsened, or how it is linked to the
drop in arrests, said Stephen L.
Morgan, a professor of sociology
at Johns Hopkins University who
studies the issue.
The activists who have spent
years demanding that the police
here change say they understand
the pessimism, but refuse to give
in to it.
“This is just the beginning right
now,” Ms. Cain said. “I can’t give
up. That’s not allowed.”
move the state forward, or do they
want to sit at home and suck their
thumbs?” said John L. Burton, the
departing Democratic chairman
in California, who did not endorse
a successor. “It was a hard-fought
election. She did better than any-
body thought she would do. But
she lost. I’ve lost an election. It
ain’t fun. You’ve got to get up and
dust yourself off and start all over
again.”
Ms. Ellis rejected that argu-
ment as she pledged to continue
her fight.
“One of the false narratives that
has been promoted is that if we
don’t unify that we are going to
break the party,” she said.
Steve McMahon, a Democratic
consultant who advised Howard
Dean, the Vermont governor,
when he ran for president in 2004,
compared what is happening with
Democrats in California to the Tea
Party’s emergence in heavily Re-
publican districts in 2010.
Mr. McMahon said these strug-
gles would probably move the
party to the left, with one immedi-
ate result: Democrats in places
like California will come under in-
creasing pressure to support sin-
gle-payer health care, much the
same way opposition to the Iraq
war, a central issue for Mr. Dean,
became a litmus test issue for
Democrats in 2004.
“You tend to see these kinds of
things first in areas where there is
single-party dominance,” Mr. Mc-
Mahon said. “You’re going to start
seeing this in other parts of the
country in Democratic primaries
— typically in districts where
there is not an effective voice on
the right. There will be those left-
further left primaries in those dis-
tricts where the further-left nomi-
nee will win.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
V.A. Signals Move to Fire Its Washington Medical Director, Again
By NICHOLAS FANDOS
WASHINGTON — The head of
the Veterans Affairs Department
told lawmakers he intends to try
out a new law that makes it easier
to fire — and keep fired — defi-
cient department employees. The
test case: the former director of
the agency’s main medical center
here.
The center’s director, Brian
Hawkins, oversaw an operation
that the department’s inspector
general said was plagued by the
“highest levels of chaos.” After the
inspector general findings were
released in a rare interim report in
April, the department immedi-
ately transferred Mr. Hawkins to a
job at its nearby headquarters. It
then fired him in late July, saying
in a statement that he had “failed
to provide effective leadership at
the medical center” or live up to
the department’s values.
But now, the government’s
Merit Systems Protection Board
has issued a stay on the removal
proceedings, buying Mr. Hawkins
time to build a defense that he was
wrongly terminated and return to
work.
That, in turn, has opened the
door for David Shulkin, the secre-
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Russia Case
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and foreign banking records, sug-
gests that investigators are look-
ing at criminal charges related to
the federal Bank Secrecy Act,
which requires Americans to re-
port their foreign banking ac-
counts.
It was already known that Mr.
Manafort was under investigation
for his business dealings with his
son-in-law; his role in a meeting
on June 9, 2016, between Trump
campaign officials and Russians;
and whether his work for the
Ukrainian government violated
the Foreign Agents Registration
Act.
Mr. Manafort’s spokesman con-
firmed that an F.B.I. raid was car-
ried out around July 25, but pro-
vided no details on the documents
that might have been taken.
“Mr. Manafort has consistently
cooperated with law enforcement
and other serious inquiries and
did so on this occasion as well,”
said Jason Maloni, the spokes-
man. News of the search warrant
was first reported on Wednesday
by The Washington Post.
The warrant is the latest trou-
bling development for Mr. Man-
afort, a longtime Republican oper-
ative who has spent the last cou-
ple of decades working abroad as
a consultant to foreign govern-
ments.
Mr. Manafort was hired by Mr.
Trump’s campaign in early 2016 as
it prepared for a potential dele-
gate fight at the Republican Na-
tional Convention. In June, he was
named campaign chairman but
resigned just two months later
amid reports that he had received
millions of dollars in off-the-book
payments for his consulting work
in Ukraine.
Since then, Mr. Manafort has
been battered by a series of disclo-
City in Maryland May Let Noncitizens Vote, a Practice With U.S. Precedent
By MAGGIE ASTOR
As a federal commission
searches for evidence of voter
fraud and many states try to im-
pose new voting restrictions, a
city in Maryland may move in the
opposite direction: allowing non-
citizens to vote in local elections.
In College Park, home to the
University of Maryland’s flagship
campus, the City Council is debat-
ing a measure introduced by
Councilwoman Christine Nagle
that would give noncitizens — a
broad category that includes
green-card holders, students with
visas and undocumented immi-
grants — the right to cast ballots
for the city’s mayor, council mem-
bers and other local officials.
Startling though it may seem,
the proposal has extensive prece-
dent both in the United States and
worldwide: Forty states used to
allow noncitizen voting, and doz-
ens of countries currently do.
“Our neighbors have children in
school, work, pay property taxes
and income taxes, and make their
home in College Park just like we
do,” Ms. Nagle wrote in an email.
“As residents of our community, I
think, they also should be able to
have a say in electing the city’s
leadership.”
From 2011 to 2015, according to
the United States Census Bureau,
21.1 percent of College Park’s pop-
ulation was foreign-born. That
number includes naturalized citi-
tary of veterans affairs, to put to a
high profile test the powers of the
new law, signed in June by Presi-
dent Trump. The law is meant to
help the secretary remove bad ac-
tors and restore trust in the more
than 350,000-person agency.
To do so, Mr. Shulkin has indi-
cated to congressional leaders
that he plans to abandon the earli-
er effort to oust Mr. Hawkins. In-
stead, he would remove Mr.
Hawkins with fresh evidence from
the inspector general and do it us-
ing the new law, which affords
fewer protections for the accused.
It was unclear when Mr.
Shulkin intends to make such a
move. Mr. Hawkins could chal-
lenge the action in court or appeal
it to a new, internal review board
composed of his fellow senior ex-
ecutives. A lawyer representing
Mr. Hawkins could not immedi-
ately be reached for comment.
In a statement on Wednesday,
the department said it had com-
plied with the stay but would
“quickly” reassess Mr. Hawkins’s
employment given the new evi-
dence and authority.
“No judge who has never run a
hospital and never cared for our
nation’s veterans will force me to
Paul Manafort, then Donald J. Trump’s campaign chairman, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016. Mr. Manafort resigned a month later.
sures that have raised questions
about his business dealings, as
well as his participation in the
June 2016 meeting between
Trump campaign officials and
Russians claiming to have damag-
ing information on Hillary Clin-
ton.
The search was carried out at
Mr. Manafort’s home in Alexan-
dria, Va., shortly after he met with
investigators for the Senate Intel-
ligence Committee on July 25. In
that meeting, Mr. Manafort an-
swered questions and provided in-
vestigators with notes from the
June 2016 meeting with the Rus-
zens as well as the residents af-
fected by the proposal.
Many opponents of such meas-
ures say they will devalue citizen-
ship, perhaps leading fewer immi-
grants to seek it. Others argue
that it will diminish the voting
process by including people who
are not invested in or loyal to
America.
“The feedback that I’ve gotten
from my residents in District 4 has
been almost overwhelming
against the proposed change in
our charter,” said Councilwoman
Mary C. Cook, who noted that her
husband and brother were natu-
ralized citizens.
Many of her constituents, Ms.
Cook said, believe that before vot-
ing, people should “be in the coun-
try for a certain length of time so
they can acquire a familiarity with
the city, the country, the language,
and pledge their allegiance to
America.”
At a City Council meeting on
Tuesday, residents voiced opposi-
tion and support. One attendee,
Larry Provost, said that the pro-
posal “threatens to dilute the
meaning of citizenship in our
country,” according to The Wash-
ington Post. Another, Olivia De-
laplaine, said, “These are people
who live here and who are af-
fected by decisions this council
makes.”
Council members postponed a
vote to Sept. 12. They will meet a
put an employee back in a position
when he allowed the facility to
pose potential safety risks to our
veterans,” Mr. Shulkin said in a
statement.
The Washington Medical Cen-
ter, one of the nation’s largest and
most prominent, employs more
than 2,000 people and counts al-
most 100,000 veterans among its
patients. Mr. Hawkins became its
director in 2011, after a long run
through a series of other veterans
medical sites.
The current case against Mr.
Hawkins predates the new law,
meaning that, like most federal
employees, he was able to appeal
the department’s decision to the
independent Merit Systems Pro-
tection Board. A judge for the
board placed a stay on Mr.
Hawkins’s proposed removal on
August 2 for 45 days to allow the
special counsel representing him
to conduct an investigation into
whether Mr. Hawkins’s was im-
properly retaliated against as a
whistle-blower.
Under the new law, the Ac-
countability and Whistleblower
Protection Act, senior department
executives like Mr. Hawkins are
no longer allowed to appeal ad-
sians.
“A search warrant is very brac-
ing for the person who is being
searched,” said Jack Sharman, the
former special counsel to the
House Banking Committee during
its Whitewater investigation of
President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
“It’s very invasive and sends a
loud statement from the prosecu-
tors to the person that there
should be no doubts about the se-
riousness of the investigation.”
“The government will be inves-
tigating something like public cor-
ruption, and it knows that you
know something about it,” said
Voters in College Park, Md., in 2008. The City Council may open local elections to noncitizens.
week before, on Sept. 5, to discuss
whether to put the measure to a
referendum in November.
The College Park proposal is
not the first of its kind. Ten munici-
palities in Maryland, mostly in the
Washington metropolitan area,
have already adopted similar
ones; the most recent, Hyattsville
and Mount Rainier, did so within
the past nine months. San Fran-
ciscans voted in November to al-
low noncitizens to vote in school
board elections if they have a child
in their district’s public schools.
Four municipalities in Massa-
verse actions, including demo-
tions and firings, to the independ-
ent board. Instead, they have just
21 days to appeal such a decision
to an internal board composed of
fellow senior executives or take
the matter to court.
Rank and file department em-
ployees can continue to appeal to
the Merit Systems Protection
Board, but they have only 180 days
An agency’s chief may
test a new law signed
by the president.
to do so and will no longer be paid
during the appeals process.
Federal employees unions have
adamantly opposed the account-
ability law. They say it a danger-
ous precedent for eroding worker
protections and opens employees
up to unfair or arbitrary retalia-
tion by managers.
The inspector general, Michael
J. Missal, said he issued the April
interim report because he had a
Mr. Sharman, now a white-collar
criminal defense lawyer at Light-
foot, Franklin & White. “The gov-
ernment will then come after you
on something unrelated, where
you have criminal exposure, in the
hopes that you will cooperate on
their public corruption investiga-
tion.”
One of the issues the special
counsel’s office has already exam-
ined is whether Mr. Manafort’s
work for the Ukranian govern-
ment violated the Foreign Agents
Registration Act. It is not clear
how seriously prosecutors are ta-
king that matter, in part because
chusetts — Amherst, Brookline,
Cambridge and Newton — have
statutes that would allow legal
permanent residents to vote, but
cannot put them into effect unless
the state passes legislation.
One reason these policies are
disproportionately common in
Maryland is that local officials
there can implement them with-
out state permission.
Under the Illegal Immigration
Reform and Immigrant Responsi-
bility Act of 1996, noncitizens are
barred from voting in national
elections. However, states and
“lack of confidence” in the Veter-
ans Health Administration, which
knew about some of the problems,
to properly deal with the matter.
There were $150 million in sup-
plies that could not be accounted
for because the center had no ef-
fective inventory system. Storage
facilities for sterile supplies were
found to be dirty. And critical man-
agement vacancies had pre-
vented any meaningful action,
even though the department
knew about many of the problems.
Mr. Missal’s office is expected to
issue a final report, including yet
undisclosed findings, this fall.
In the meantime, though, the of-
fice publicly released a separate
report on August 1 that concluded
that Mr. Hawkins had violated the
department’s policies by sharing
sensitive information about his
employees and administrative de-
cision making in his and his wife’s
personal email accounts.
The probe was unable to sub-
stantiate another allegation that
Mr. Hawkins had “attempted to
impede” an investigation into
whether or not he had given thou-
sands of dollars in bonuses with-
out proper justifications. It did
find, though, that investigators
the government rarely brings
those cases to trial. In July, Mr.
Manafort’s consulting firm retro-
actively filed forms with the Jus-
tice Department to be in compli-
ance with the act.
According to financial records,
Mr. Manafort had bank accounts
in Cyprus — a well-known tax ha-
ven that is often used for money
laundering. The banks were used
during the years Mr. Manafort
worked in Ukraine as a consultant
to the pro-Russia Party of Re-
gions.
In his July filing, Mr. Manafort
disclosed his lobbying efforts in
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municipalities can set their own
policies, and state and federal
courts have held that noncitizen
voting laws are constitutional.
For a large part of American
history, suffrage for noncitizens in
local elections was the rule, not
the exception. From 1776 to 1926,
40 states allowed it in some form,
at some point. When voting was
restricted to white, male property
owners, citizenship was not the
central qualification.
But as millions of people from
the southern and eastern regions
of Europe — people whom, at the
“experienced significant delays”
because staff from the medical
center were unusually slow in pro-
ducing requested documents.
Mr. Shulkin indicated to the con-
gressional leaders that he would
use these findings to initiate the
new removal proceedings, con-
gressional aides said.
After he was removed from his
post, Mr. Hawkins was temporar-
ily reassigned to the Office of Dep-
uty Undersecretary of Health for
Operations and Management,
where according to the merit
board, he has not been assigned
any “substantive duties.”
Mr. Hawkins appeal contends
that beginning in January he
sought help to address the logis-
tics lapses later raised in the in-
spector general’s report, first with
the department’s acting procure-
ment officer and later with the in-
spector general’s office.
The stay order indicated that
Mr. Hawkins would be reinstated
to “the position he held prior to re-
moval” for the duration of the 45-
day stay. In its statement, the de-
partment specified that it had re-
turned him to an administrative
position at headquarters, not to
the medical center.
RICK WILKING/REUTERS
Ukraine through early 2014, when
his main client there, President
Viktor F. Yanukovych, was ousted
in a popular uprising and fled to
Russia.
The New York Times reported
in June that federal authorities
were examining real estate deals
by Mr. Manafort’s son-in-law, Jeff-
rey Yohai, for luxury homes in
New York and California. The
deals were funded by Mr. Man-
afort, and F.B.I. agents have re-
viewed financial records related
to Mr. Yohai, who has been ac-
cused in a lawsuit of defrauding
investors.
time, Americans did not univer-
sally regard as “white,” and whose
political views were deemed sus-
pect — flowed into the United
States in the late 19th and early
20th centuries, anti-immigrant
sentiment drove the country away
from noncitizen voting, said Ron
Hayduk, an associate professor of
political science at San Francisco
State University and an expert on
noncitizen voting laws.
The repeal of these laws co-
incided with the enactment of
other restrictions, like poll taxes,
literacy tests and voter registra-
tion requirements. And the return
of these laws in scattered munici-
palities has also coincided with a
shift in the way immigrants are
viewed.
Ms. Nagle, the sponsor of the
College Park measure, said she
understood why some people
“feel that voting is a right tied to
citizenship.” In fact, she said, she
once felt that way, too.
But “about two years ago,
someone mentioned that it didn’t
seem right for students who are
here for a short time to have the
right to vote and residents who
have lived here many years not
have the ability to vote because
they are not U.S. citizens,” she
wrote in her email. “As I thought
about it, I began to think, ‘Why
wouldn’t we want our neighbors
who live in this community to
have the ability to vote?’”

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Even on Break, Congress Gets No Respite From President
No Way to Escape
Twitter Fatigue
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
WASHINGTON — Washington
needs a vacation from itself.
“Doing nothing is exhausting,”
said Jason Chaffetz, the former
Republican congressman from
Utah, whose head start began
with a surprise resignation in
June.
Yet for those who remain in
Congress — and across the city’s
motley roster of aides, journalists,
consultants and lobbyists — the
collective exhaling over this Au-
gust recess has been complicated,
as ever, by President Trump.
No commander in chief in re-
cent memory has rendered
elected officials more vacation-
ready. Nor has any exacted a
greater psychic toll on them once
they got away.
The result has been a recess on
edge, with daily prayers to the
swamp gods that the president re-
frain from any sudden move-
ments that would upset the hard-
won quiet.
“Under this presidency, every
hour feels like a day. Every day
feels like a week. Every week feels
like a month,” said Representative
Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of
New York. “Both the American
people and the Congress do need a
mental health break.”
It has indeed been a particu-
larly long seven-twelfths of a year,
by any measure except math.
Tweets have been tweeted. Resist-
ers are resisting. Bills have rarely
become laws, but the journey has
been taxing.
Of course, the first rule of Wash-
ington vacation is that it must not
be labeled a vacation.
“Meetings and calls!” Mr.
Trump posted on Twitter from his
club in Bedminster, N.J., over the
weekend, describing his getaway
plans as he began a 17-day out-of-
town residency. A social media
spy soon spotted him in a golf cart.
Among members of Congress,
“district work period” is the pre-
ferred euphemism, though many
do spend much of their month vis-
iting with constituents.
Already, Mr. Trump has found
ways to encroach.
It is clear by now that Twitter
cannot be left unmonitored. Even
workaday cable news appear-
ances run the risk of rousing the
First Viewer, especially if adverse
weather upends executive tee
times in New Jersey.
On Monday morning, with con-
ditions soggy in Bedminster, Sen-
ator Richard Blumenthal, Demo-
crat of Connecticut, spoke with
CNN about investigations into Mr.
Trump and his team.
5 Transgender Service Members Sue Trump Over Military Ban
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — Five trans-
gender people serving in the
United States military sued Presi-
dent Trump and top Pentagon offi-
cials on Wednesday, asking that
transgender troops be allowed to
stay in the military.
The lawsuit was filed in re-
sponse to Mr. Trump’s ban
abruptly announced last month on
Twitter.
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit
under pseudonyms — “Jane Doe”
Nos. 1-5 — in the United States
District Court for the District of
Columbia. The case was orga-
nized by two rights groups, the
National Center for Lesbian
Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advo-
cates & Defenders, or GLAD.
Other rights groups — like
Lambda, Outserve and the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union — have
also said they are preparing law-
suits but are holding off until the
Trump administration takes a
step to put the ban into effect, such
as issuing formal guidance to the
military or beginning the process
of changing military rules.
But Shannon Minter, the legal
director for the National Center
for Lesbian Rights, said he be-
lieved the case was already ripe
for a lawsuit because active trans-
gender service members — such
as those deciding whether to re-
enlist — were already being
harmed by the uncertainty creat-
ed by Mr. Trump’s statements on
Twitter.
“It is critical to act now because
the harms are happening now,”
Mr. Minter said. “These service
members deserve to know where
they stand.”
A 2014 study by the Williams In-
stitute at the University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles, estimated that
about 8,800 transgender people
were serving on active duty, with
thousands more in the National
Guard and reserve; a 2016 study
by the RAND Corporation esti-
mated that there were about 2,450
such active-duty troops.
In 2016, the Obama administra-
tion, after extensive study, lifted a
prior ban on transgender troops.
Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, arrived at the Capitol last week for a final vote before Congress took its August recess.
A short while later, an aide
reached the senator with an up-
date: The president was at it
again.
“Interesting to watch Senator
Richard Blumenthal of Connecti-
cut talking about hoax Russian
collusion when he was a phony
Vietnam con artist!” Mr. Trump
wrote. Before joining the Senate,
Mr. Blumenthal made misleading
remarks about having “served in
Vietnam” when in fact he served
in a Marine Reserve unit in Wash-
ington. Mr. Trump himself re-
ceived five deferments from the
draft, including one for bad feet.
Asked hours later how his re-
cess was going, Mr. Blumenthal
drew a long breath.
“Well,” he said by phone. “It
feels like it’s barely begun.” He
added that he was on the way to
visit a veterans’ health center.
For Republicans, the break has
delivered a different kind of angst
after a failed health care repeal ef-
fort in the Senate. Most have cho-
sen to avoid the types of raucous
town hall settings that could pro-
voke confrontations with voters.
But at least they are home.
Initially, Senator Mitch McCon-
nell, Republican of Kentucky and
Demonstrators gathered in front of the White House in July to protest a possible ban.
That permitted transgender
members currently serving to
come out openly; openly trans-
gender people are set to be al-
lowed to join the military starting
next year.
But on July 26, without warn-
ing, Mr. Trump stated on Twitter
that the government “will not ac-
cept or allow transgender individ-
uals to serve in any capacity in the
U.S. Military.” The announcement
caught the military off guard, and
there was no plan for what to do
about those now serving openly.
Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, responded to Mr. Trump’s
Twitter statements by saying the
current policy about who was al-
lowed to serve had not changed
and would remain in place until
the White House sent the Defense
Department new rules and Jim
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
the majority leader, said that the
chamber would remain in session
until midmonth. Mr. Trump him-
self had insisted that lawmakers
stay in town until the health care
impasse was resolved. (He also
called out Mr. McConnell on
Wednesday in a tweet expressing
further disappointment in the re-
peal stumble.)
By last Thursday, three days
into August, bipartisan consensus
reigned inside the Capitol in the
case of Washington v. Anywhere
Else.
Sensing the prospect of mass
exodus, lawmakers swiftly passed
important legislation to finance
the Food and Drug Administra-
tion, approved dozens of presiden-
tial nominees and set off on their
“state work period.”
No votes, no caucus meetings,
no reporters lurking around every
corner of their workplace.
No shoes, no shirt, no problem.
Except, well.
“It’s hard for me to say that they
shouldn’t be there right now,” said
Jason Pye, the vice president of
legislative affairs at Freedom-
Works, a conservative advocacy
group, echoing a widespread view
among activists angry with the
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Mattis, the defense secretary, is-
sued new guidelines.
“In the meantime, we will con-
tinue to treat all of our personnel
with respect,” General Dunford
said in a letter to the military serv-
ice chiefs.
On Aug. 4, The Blade, a newspa-
per for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people, reported, cit-
ing unnamed sources, that a pol-
icy guidance for reinstating the
ban had been approved by the
White House counsel’s office and
by Mr. Trump and was expected to
be delivered to Mr. Mattis.
Mr. Minter said that based on
that report, “We wanted to move
as quickly as possible to nip that in
the bud.” The lawsuit’s complaint
stated that “upon information and
belief, the White House turned
that decision into official guid-
ance, approved by the White
output of a Republican-led Con-
gress. “There’s not a lot of sympa-
thy there at all, especially on the
Senate side.”
At the same time, lawmakers
have grown defensive, perhaps
justifiably, at the suggestion that
their time at home is not produc-
tive.
Representative Beto O’Rourke,
Democrat of Texas, said that while
he was spending the recess cam-
paigning to unseat Senator Ted
Cruz next year, he would “much
rather be at work.”
Representative Dan Donovan,
Republican of New York, said
members were “just working in a
different place.”
“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, Con-
gress is on vacation for five
weeks,’” Mr. Donovan said, de-
scribing a recess that has already
included constituent meetings
and an effort to change toll policy
on the Verrazano-Narrows
Bridge, and which will soon fea-
ture a speech in Norway spon-
sored by the Aspen Institute. “It’s
not a vacation.”
Those who have left this life be-
hind seem disinclined to turn
back.
Mr. Chaffetz, who joined Fox
House counsel’s office, to be com-
municated to the Department of
Defense.”
Still, as of Wednesday, the
White House had yet to send any
specific policy directive to the
Pentagon, said Lt. Col. Paul Ha-
verstick, a military spokesman.
He said General Dunford’s state-
ment from two weeks ago re-
mained in effect.
“There is no change,” he said.
“We are still waiting for more
guidance from the White House.”
The lawsuit complaint argued
that banning transgender people
from serving in the military would
be unconstitutional discrimina-
tion, violating their rights to equal
protection and due process. It also
argued that the Pentagon could
not end people’s military careers
for coming out openly as trans-
gender because they did so in re-
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News as a contributor upon leav-
ing office, said he had quit in part
because he grew weary of stalled
progress on signature policies.
“I didn’t leave because I got
tired of winning,” he said, though
not before detailing his post-con-
gressional ventures: “I’ve been to
Hawaii, going to Africa, reintro-
duced myself to my family. It’s
been great.”
He will not be there in Septem-
ber, when the tussles over tax pol-
icy boil over, when the debt ceiling
deadline is nigh. He will probably
not miss it.
And already by Tuesday
evening, lawmakers had been
compelled to snap to attention
once more. Mr. Trump told report-
ers at his golf club that he would
unleash “fire and fury” against
North Korea if it endangered the
United States.
Instantly, staff members
strained to catch up, hustling in
their home offices. Statements
were prepared in their bosses’
names. The city stirred, grudg-
ingly.
Washington had not been sleep-
ing. It was just resting its eyes.
And it was time, like it or not, for
meetings and calls.
lying on the Pentagon itself saying
they would be permitted to serve.
Colonel Haverstick said the mil-
itary was “aware of the lawsuit;
however, we are not able to com-
ment due to the pending litiga-
tion.”
Other rights groups preparing
similar legal challenges said on
Wednesday that they were still
holding off. Among them are both
Outserve and Lambda, which
have said they are recruiting
plaintiffs for a joint lawsuit when
the matter is ripe, a legal term
meaning the facts of a case have
developed enough for a decision.
“We have not yet filed suit, al-
though we stand ready to do so,”
Jon Davidson, the Lambda legal
director, said on Wednesday. “We
have been awaiting confirmation
that the White House has trans-
mitted a final guidance, directive
or other instructions to the De-
partment of Defense, which, to the
best of our knowledge, has not yet
occurred.”
James D. Esseks, director of the
American Civil Liberties Union’s
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgen-
der & HIV Project, said that his
group was also holding back, but
noted that it had sent a letter to the
White House asking it to preserve
all documents related to the mat-
ter in anticipation of future litiga-
tion.
Even if the administration has
not yet transformed Mr. Trump’s
Twitter announcement into policy,
it remains possible that it will do
so by the time a judge has to de-
cide whether the new lawsuit is
ripe for adjudication or should be
dismissed, experts said.
Regardless, Mr. Minter ex-
pressed confidence that the suit
had not been filed too quickly. He
noted that defending against the
case would force the White House
to talk about the status of plans to
reinstate the ban, and he argued
that there was “no downside” to a
strategy of moving ahead now.
“I don’t think we will get dis-
missed on ripeness because peo-
ple are being harmed now,” he
said. “But if we do, we will be right
back as soon as there is any addi-
tional movement.”
N A13
Trump, Angry
At Criticism,
Lashes Out
At McConnell
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
and MAGGIE HABERMAN
WASHINGTON — President
Trump lashed out on Wednesday
at the Senate majority leader,
Mitch McConnell, Republican of
Kentucky, who suggested this
week that the president harbored
“excessive expectations” about
the pace of congressional
progress.
“Senator Mitch McConnell said
I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but
I don’t think so,” Mr. Trump wrote
on Twitter on Wednesday after-
noon, as he and lawmakers took
time away from Washington dur-
ing the August recess. “After 7
years of hearing Repeal & Re-
place, why not done?”
The executive scolding fol-
lowed the president’s bitter disap-
pointment with the Senate’s fail-
ure to dismantle the Affordable
Care Act last month — and sup-
plied perhaps the most potent evi-
dence yet that Mr. Trump,
seething over the lack of major
achievements in his first year, will
not hesitate to train fire on allies.
Before Mr. Trump’s tweet, he
spoke by phone with Mr. McCon-
nell to express his disappointment
in the senator’s comments, ac-
cording to a person with knowl-
edge of the call.
Growing animated, Mr. Trump
emphasized that he would contin-
ue to push for a repeal, the person
said, and suggested Mr. McCon-
nell do the same.
Mr. McConnell’s office declined
to confirm the call or address
questions about it.
The president’s message ech-
oed the criticisms in recent days
from many conservative news
media figures and activists, who
blame Mr. McConnell for failing to
corral the necessary 51 votes to
keep the repeal effort alive.
Yet by antagonizing Mr. McCon-
nell, the president’s often inscru-
table Senate partner in conserva-
tive policy making, Mr. Trump
risks upending an already
charged relationship with law-
makers who have joined him in
this shotgun marriage of unified
Republican government.
Mr. McConnell’s team sought to
play down any animosity, noting
that he also hopes to proceed on a
repeal of the Affordable Care Act,
despite the setbacks.
“The leader has spoken repeat-
edly about the path forward re-
garding Obamacare repeal on the
Senate floor, at media availabil-
ities multiple times and in Ken-
tucky,” his spokeswoman, Antonia
Ferrier, said in an email. “If he has
any new statements, I’ll be sure to
pass them along.”
Mr. McConnell’s initial remarks
were pointed, but hardly scorch-
ing. Speaking at a gathering this
week in Kentucky, Mr. McConnell
mounted a defense of the cham-
ber’s work, arguing that compli-
cated legislation takes time.
“Part of the reason I think that
the story line is that we haven’t
done much is because, in part, the
president and others have set
these early timelines about things
need to be done by a certain
point,” the senator said. “Our new
president, of course, has not been
in this line of work before. And I
think he had excessive expecta-
tions about how quickly things
happen in the democratic
process.”
Though he has generally been a
loyal steward of the president’s
agenda, Mr. McConnell has
tweaked him at times this year, in-
cluding several pointed dismiss-
als of Mr. Trump’s calls to do away
with the legislative filibuster.
Mr. McConnell has also repeat-
edly encouraged the president to
tweet less.
On Wednesday, Republicans in
Washington were reminded why,
particularly as the party seeks to
confront tax policy, a debt ceiling
deadline and perhaps a revived
health care repeal push when law-
makers return next month.
“Attacking the Senate majority
leader of your own party is utterly
incomprehensible and completely
wrongheaded,” said Michael
Steel, a Republican strategist who
was an aide to the former House
speaker John A. Boehner and to
Jeb Bush, a Republican presiden-
tial candidate in 2016. “There is no
positive result for the president or
his agenda in these attacks.”
It is unclear how Mr. McCon-
nell’s remarks, made Monday at a
Rotary Club event, hit the presi-
dent’s radar. As recently as Tues-
day evening, Mr. Trump was de-
ploying his Twitter account for a
cause Mr. McConnell cherishes,
endorsing Senator Luther
Strange of Alabama, a week be-
fore his Republican primary in a
special election. Mr. McConnell
has been seeking to boost Mr.
Strange, who took office after Mr.
Trump named Jeff Sessions as his
attorney general.
Matt Flegenheimer reported from
Washington, and Maggie Ha-
berman from New York.
A14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
This telescope in South Africa failed to observe the passage of the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 in June. Scientists succeeded a month later from Argentina.
Chasing Shadows of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto
By KENNETH CHANG
This summer, scientists criss-
crossed two oceans, braved wind
and cold and deployed two dozen
telescopes — all for five blinks of
starlight that lasted a second or
less.
For the team working with
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft,
which made a spectacular flyby of
Pluto two years ago, those smidg-
ens of data provide intriguing
hints about the spacecraft’s next
destination, a distant frozen world
that is believed to be a pristine,
undisturbed fragment from the
earliest days of the solar system.
New Horizons will fly past it on
Jan. 1, 2019.
But the object is so far away — a
billion miles beyond Pluto — and
so small — no more than 20 miles
wide — that almost nothing was
known about it.
From the five blinks, obtained
with exhausting effort, scientists
now know that it has an odd
shape.
Instead of round like a ball it ap-
pears to be more like a long,
skinny potato — or maybe two ob-
jects in close orbit around each
other, possibly even touching.
“It’s like, wow, this is going to be
really cool,” said Marc W. Buie, an
astronomer at the Southwest Re-
search Institute in Boulder, Colo.,
who led the observations. “We
don’t know what we’re going to
find.”
While Pluto is the biggest object
in the ring of icy debris beyond
Neptune known as the Kuiper
belt, this object with the designa-
tion 2014 MU69 is among the
smallest. It orbits more than four
billion miles from the sun, and it is
like a time capsule, promising
clues about how the planets
formed.
Astronomers using the Hubble
Space Telescope first spied it
three years ago as they searched
When Dinosaurs Roved,
Mammals Took to Sky
By CARL ZIMMER
The Mesozoic Era, from 252 mil-
lion years ago to 66 million years
ago, is often called the Age of Di-
nosaurs. To generations of paleon-
tologists, early mammals from the
period were just tiny nocturnal in-
sect-eaters, trapped in the shad-
ows of leviathans.
In recent years, scientists have
significantly revised the story.
Mammals already had evolved
into a staggering range of forms,
fossil evidence shows, foreshad-
owing the diversity of mammals
today.
In a study published on
Wednesday, a team of paleontolo-
gists added some particularly fas-
cinating new creatures to the
Mesozoic Menagerie. These
mammals did not lurk in the shad-
ows of dinosaurs.
Instead, they glided far over-
head, avoiding predatory dino-
saurs on the ground — essentially
flying squirrels of the Jurassic Pe-
riod, from an extinct branch of
mammals that probably still laid
eggs.
The fossils “are most primitive-
known mammal forerunners that
took to air,” said Zhe-Xi Luo, a pa-
leontologist at the University of
Chicago who led the research.
The first Mesozoic mammal fos-
sils came to light in the early
1800s, but for generations, paleon-
tologists struggled to find more
for somewhere for New Horizons
to visit after Pluto.
All Hubble could see was a
slowly moving speck of light —
enough to calculate an orbit and
determine that New Horizons
could reach it. But almost every-
thing else about MU69 was a mys-
tery or a guess. Not even the larg-
est, most powerful telescopes on
Earth can see it at all.
The New Horizons scientists
could, however, learn more about
it during a few chance moments
when a star in the night sky mo-
mentarily vanished because
MU69 passed in front of it.
From the distance to MU69, its
speed and how long the star winks
out, astronomers can calculate the
width of the object.
It turned out that a bonanza of
three such events, known as oc-
cultations, were expected to occur
within a two-month period this
year, on June 3, July 10 and July 17,
as MU69 passed in front of three
different stars.
“That’s just crazy,” Dr. Buie
said. “That’s just how the dice
rolled on this one.”
But they did not have the data
— sufficiently precise star loca-
tions — to know exactly where to
set up telescopes.
“We say it’s hard, and it is,” Dr.
Buie said. “If you’re not in the
shadow, you don’t see it. Even a
year ago, this would have been
categorically impossible.”
But they were lucky again be-
cause a European Space Agency
mission called Gaia was method-
ically mapping more than a billion
stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
New Horizons scientists got an
early look at the catalog in late
April.
Dr. Buie had been scrambling to
gather equipment and observers,
and on June 3, 50 team members
turned 24 telescopes on two conti-
nents, in Argentina and South Af-
than teeth and bits of bone. In the
late 1990s, they hit the jackpot.
At a site in northeastern China,
hillside after hillside turned out to
contain stunning mammal fossils,
most dating back about 160 million
years. Researchers were sud-
denly able to examine entire skel-
etons, some still bearing impres-
sions of skin and hair.
As new fossils get unearthed,
scientists are using them to draw
in many previously unknown
branches on the mammal family
tree.
All living mammals are divided
into three main branches. Platy-
puses, which still lay eggs, belong
to the oldest; their ancestors split
off from those of other living mam-
mals roughly 170 million years
ago.
Millions of years later, the other
branch split. One lineage
produced the marsupials, such as
kangaroos and opossums, which
finish development in a pouch.
The other lineage, our own,
makes up the vast majority of liv-
ing mammal species. Placental
mammals all develop inside a
uterus, drawing blood from their
mothers.
Some of the newly discovered
mammal fossils belong to these
three groups. Others belong to
branches no one knew about be-
fore. Of those, some diverged from
the common ancestors of living
HENRY THROOP, ABOVE, AND ALEX PARKER, BELOW, BOTH VIA NASA, JOHNS HOPKINS APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY AND SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
A rendering of one possible version of 2014 MU69, the next
flyby target for NASA’s New Horizons mission.
rica, to the sky.
The telescopes took more than
100,000 images of the star, waiting
for MU69 to pass in front of it.
But the star never vanished.
The scientists had completely
missed the shadow.
“I was physically and emotion-
ally exhausted, psychically dam-
aged,” Dr. Buie said.
In late June and early July, Hub-
ble made additional observations
of MU69 that refined the orbit.
The July 10 occultation track
mostly passed over the southern
Pacific. This time, the New Hori-
zons scientists took off from
Christchurch, New Zealand, in So-
fia, a NASA 747 equipped with an
8.2-foot-diameter telescope. They
headed north, toward Fiji, to inter-
cept the shadow and returned 10
hours later.
Again, the star never disap-
peared. They had missed the op-
portunity again.
They immediately headed back
to Argentina for one more try.
S. Alan Stern, the principal in-
vestigator of New Horizons, said
ZHE-XI LUO/UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
A fossil of a Maiopatagium, left, one of two newly discovered species of gliding mammals from
China that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs. Right, a rendering of a mother and baby of the species.
mammals, but more primitive
mammals split off even earlier.
When paleontologists looked at
the size and shape of these fossils,
they found that many did not fit
the simple picture of early mam-
mals as tiny insect-eaters. To the
researchers’ surprise, a number
of extinct species independently
evolved bodies resembling those
of living mammals.
Some swam like otters, for ex-
ample. Others scavenged, like rac-
coons, or dug into insect nests like
today’s aardvarks.
In 2007, Jin Meng, a paleontolo-
gist at the American Museum of
Natural History, and his col-
leagues reported finding the fossil
of a 160-million-year-old mammal,
called Volaticotherium, that
he was confident, with the addi-
tional Hubble measurements, that
they would capture the vanishing
of a star this time. But mission
managers also always worry
about the so-called unknown un-
knowns. Perhaps something un-
anticipated in the Hubble data
was deceiving them about MU69’s
position.
The July 17 shadow was pre-
dicted to pass over Comodoro Ri-
vadavia, a city along the Atlantic
coast of South America. Comodo-
ro’s nickname is “the capital of
wind.” In the middle of winter, the
weather was also cold.
“It was a pretty intense event,”
Dr. Stern said. “Your telescopes
were shaking.”
At several observing sites, trac-
tor-trailer trucks served as wind-
breaks, as did contraptions made
of poles and canvas.
A highway was shut for a couple
of hours so that the headlights of
cars and trucks would not spoil
the observations.
The skies were clear, and the
time of the shadow, 12:50 a.m.,
looked as if it could glide.
Today, placental mammals like
flying squirrels and marsupials
like sugar gliders travel through
the air from tree to tree. But Vo-
laticotherium belonged to a differ-
ent lineage and independently
evolved the ability to glide.
They were not the only mam-
mals to do so, it turns out. Dr. Luo
and his colleagues have now dis-
covered at least two other species
of gliding mammals from China,
which they described in the jour-
nal Nature.
The fossils of the new species,
Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon,
are exquisitely preserved, reveal-
ing many details of their anatomy.
Winglike sheets of skin
stretched from their cheeks to
passed.
A few hours later, Amanda M.
Zangari, a Southwest Research
Institute scientist on the New Ho-
rizons team, was staring blearily
at her laptop analyzing the data
from one of the telescopes.
In her exhaustion, the data was
not making sense to her. Then it
hit her. “I realized it didn’t make
any sense, because the occulta-
tion star was missing,” she said.
Five telescopes, it turned out,
had detected the star’s vanishing
for up to about a second.
The success also confirmed that
the Sofia observations a week ear-
lier had barely missed the occulta-
tion and were close enough to the
shadow to be useful. Preliminary
analysis found no signs of dim-
ming, indicating there are no
clouds of debris in the neighbor-
hood of MU69 that could imperil
New Horizons.
The five blinks established the
odd shape. If it is one skinny pota-
to, MU69 is no more than 20 miles
long. If it is two spheres circling
each other, each is about nine to 12
miles wide.
Many Kuiper belt objects in this
region are binaries, although most
are considerably larger than
MU69. If one this small can be a
binary, that may change the un-
derstanding of how Kuiper belt
objects formed.
Mission managers can still
tweak the flyby time of the New
Horizons spacecraft by a couple of
hours. Ideally, they want to view
the broad side of MU69 and opti-
mize geometry of tracking sta-
tions on Earth during the flyby.
“We’re working through all
those mathematical issues,” Dr.
Stern said.
Another occultation is possible
in August next year. The scientists
have not decided whether they
will chase the shadow one more
time.
APRIL I. NEANDER/UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
their legs and tails. They also had
remarkably flexible shoulders
needed to climb up trees and then
maneuver through the air during
a glide.
Dr. Luo and his colleagues dis-
covered that the two new species
are even more distantly related to
living gliders than Vo-
laticotherium. They belong to an
extinct lineage called haramiyi-
dans, which diverged from the an-
cestors of all living mammals over
200 million years ago.
As a result, they had only some
of the traits that define mammals
today.
While they had fur and were
warm-blooded like living mam-
mals, they were more like reptiles
in some respects. They had not yet
Forecasters
Say Season
For Storms
Won’t Relent
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Government forecasters said
Wednesday that the Atlantic
hurricane season, already a
busy one, may be the busiest
since 2010 and is likely to
produce two to five major hurri-
canes.
“There’s a possibility that the
season could be extremely ac-
tive,” said Gerry Bell, the lead
seasonal hurricane forecaster
with the Climate Prediction Cen-
ter, a division of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration. In all, he said, the
center was forecasting 14 to 19
named storms, with winds of 39
miles per hour or higher, includ-
ing five to nine hurricanes.
Major hurricanes are defined
as Category 3 and above, with
sustained winds of 111 m.p.h. or
higher.
The hurricane season, which
runs from June through Novem-
ber, has already been active,
with six named tropical storms.
The latest, Franklin, is expected
to reach hurricane strength
Wednesday night, Dr. Bell said,
with winds above 73 m.p.h., be-
fore making landfall in the Yu-
catán Peninsula in Mexico.
But the season normally is
most active from August
through October, which is why
the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration of-
fers a midseason update each
year.
In May, Dr. Bell and his team
forecast an above-normal sea-
son, with 11 to 17 named storms
and as many as four major hurri-
canes. In a typical year, the At-
lantic will have 12 named storms
and three major hurricanes. The
2010 season was exceptional,
with 12 hurricanes, including five
major ones, among 19 storms.
Dr. Bell said that as the season
has progressed, the forecast has
become more confident, with a
60 percent likelihood that the
season will be above normal,
compared with 45 percent in
May. The likelihood of a below-
average season is now only 10
percent, down from 20 percent.
Dr. Bell said conditions that
were predicted before the sea-
son have developed and are
likely to persist. Those include
warmer-than-average ocean
temperatures, which add energy
to storms, and weaker-than-av-
erage trade winds and wind
shear. Adding to the confidence
is that there is even less likeli-
hood that El Niño will develop.
El Niño can result in wind shear,
which disrupts storms as they
develop.
The forecasters made no pre-
dictions about whether storms
may make landfall or whether
they would track into the Gulf of
Mexico or along the Atlantic
coast. Storm direction is affected
by the weather patterns in place
as the storm develops and
moves. Those are predictable
only five to seven days in ad-
vance, Dr. Bell said.
But usually, he said, in a more
active season more storms form
farther south, in the tropical At-
lantic. “Those are storms that
typically track further west-
ward,” he said. “They’re also in
conducive conditions for longer,
so they have a greater chance of
becoming hurricanes.”
evolved the tiny chain of bones
that allow living mammals to hear,
for example.
The newly discovered fossils
demonstrate unusual adapta-
tions. To support gliding muscles,
the animals’ collarbones joined in
a V shape — “like the wishbone in
a chicken,” said Dr. Guillermo W.
Rougier, a paleontologist at the
University of Louisville who was
not involved in the new studies.
Dr. Meng said that the growing
number of fossil gliders showed
that many different kinds of mam-
mals followed the same evolution-
ary path. “They did their own ex-
periments,” he said.
There must have been some
benefit that drove the repeated
evolution of gliding, Dr. Luo said.
Some tree-dwelling mammals
only eat food from certain species,
for example.
Running on the ground might
have put them at risk of getting
killed by a predator. Soaring may
have kept them out of harm’s way.
What makes this repeated evo-
lution all the more striking is that
the earliest mammal gliders
evolved in forests very different
from those found on Earth today.
Flowering trees did not yet ex-
ist, so there was no fruit to eat. In-
stead, the earliest mammal glid-
ers may have leapt from tree to
tree to feed on the cones of conifer
trees or the soft parts of giant
ferns.
The new fossils demonstrate
just how many surprises early
mammals have left to deliver, Dr.
Rougier said. “I expect we’re go-
ing to keep finding more strange
things.”
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Atmospheric Anomalies Caused Rapid Sea Level Rise in Southeast

Study Explains
Tidal Flooding
By JUSTIN GILLIS
For people in the southeastern
United States, and especially in
Florida, who feel that annoying
tidal flooding has sneaked up on
them in recent years, it turns out
to be true. And scientists have a
new explanation.
In a paper published online
Wednesday, University of Florida
researchers calculated that from
2011 to 2015, the sea level along the
American coastline south of Cape
Hatteras rose six times faster
than the long-term rate of global
increase.
“I said, ‘That’s crazy!’” Andrea
Dutton, one of the researchers, re-
called saying when a colleague
first showed her the figures. “‘You
must have done something
wrong!’”
But it was correct. During that
period of rapid increase, many
people in Miami Beach, Fort Lau-
derdale and other coastal commu-
nities started to notice unusual
“sunny-day flooding,” a foot or two
of salt water inundating their
streets at high tide for no apparent
reason.
In the paper, published in the
journal Geophysical Research
Letters, the scientists proposed a
mechanism to explain the rapid
increase: Two large-scale atmos-
pheric patterns had intersected to
push up the water off the South-
east coast, causing a “hot spot” of
sea-level rise.
This new mechanism, if it holds
up to scientific scrutiny, might ul- HUNTER MCRAE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
timately give researchers the abil- Flooding in Charleston, S.C., last summer. From 2011 to 2015, the sea level along the southeastern coast rose six times faster than the long-term rate of global increase.
ity to predict tidal flooding more
accurately and warn communities
what to expect months in ad- et caused by the human release of since the late 1940s, the scientists rise. strong correlations, going back and down the American coastline.
vance. greenhouse gases like carbon di- found. It amounted to about three- Instead, they found that two decades, between particular at- The paper indicates the Southeast
William V. Sweet, a sea-level re- oxide. quarters of an inch of sea-level large atmospheric patterns most mospheric patterns and the high may now see some relief — even if
searcher at the National Oceanic The excess heat trapped by rise per year from 2011 to 2015, likely accounted for the hot spot sea levels. sea level does not fall, which sev-
and Atmospheric Administration those gases accumulates primari- which may not sound like much off the Southeast coast: the El Dr. Sweet, critiquing the paper, eral of the scientists described as
who was not involved in the new ly in the ocean, and the seawater but equates to billions of extra gal- Niño cycle and the North Atlantic said he felt that the correlations unlikely, the pace of the increase
work, pointed out that the long- expands as it warms. Land ice is lons of water just off the coast. Oscillation, which is a shift in at- were indeed suggestive, but he may slow for a while.
term trend in sea level was a re- also melting into the sea because That water inundates streets and mospheric pressure over the found the paper somewhat weak But communities that have al-
lentless increase, but that much is of the planetary warming, con- lawns when the tides and winds ocean that can have large effects in explaining the exact mecha- ready started to experience se-
unknown about the variations tributing to the rise, which ap- conspire to push it inland. on the winds blowing toward the nisms by which the atmospheric vere tidal flooding, like Miami
that can occur over short periods. pears to be accelerating over time. Cape Hatteras is geographi- American coast. shifts may be causing water to Beach, should not relax their
“The more we can understand But within that long-term trend, cally significant. The Gulf Stream, The paper suggests that the two bunch up. “It’s a little bit short, I guard, the scientists warned.
what’s causing those, the more we sea level in particular regions can a swift current carrying espe- sometimes interact in a way that think, in terms of physical under- These towns can expect contin-
can be prepared for the next influx sometimes rise more rapidly or cially warm water from the Gulf of causes water to pile up. The work standing,” he said. ued rising seas over the long term,
of tidal flooding events,” Dr. Sweet more slowly than the global aver- Mexico toward the North Atlantic, confirms and extends two earlier Dr. Valle-Levinson, one of the even if the rise occurs in a step-
said. age. It can even fall for a few runs close to the coast for hun- papers, including one published in authors, acknowledged this point. wise fashion.
Many people think the ocean months or years. dreds of miles. But when it passes 2015 by a group led by Gerard D. “How the system is working is not “Even if it does get a little better
works something like a bathtub, In previous research, scientists Cape Hatteras, it veers off into the McCarthy of Britain’s National crystal clear to us yet,” he said. for a while,” Dr. Dutton said, “that
with sea level being the same all had noticed big jumps that tended deeper ocean. That had led scien- Oceanography Center in Liver- Still, the paper is likely to open should be a period that people use
the way around. In reality, the to occur either north or south of tists to suggest that changes in the pool. up new research about why sea- to their advantage, to prepare for
ocean is lumpy, with winds, cur- Cape Hatteras, on the North Car- Gulf Stream might account for The new work is based on level hot spots seem to wander up the next hot spot.”
rents and other factors pushing olina coast. For instance, a notable some of the rapid variations in sea
water around to produce substan- jump occurred along hundreds of level.
tial variations in sea level from miles of shoreline north of Cape But now, three University of
place to place. Hatteras in 2009 and 2010, fol- Florida scientists — Dr. Dutton,
Worldwide, the average level of lowed by a sharp increase south of Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, and Jon-
the ocean is rising at a rate of the cape from 2011 to 2015. athan B. Martin — suggest that
about a foot per century, a conse- The increase in the Southeast the Gulf Stream was not the pri-
quence of the warming of the plan- was the largest sudden jump there mary culprit in the 2011 to 2015

True Cost of Cheap Lighthouse?

Should Be Visible a Mile Away
By CHRISTINA CARON
Waterfront views, a cozy interi-
or and old-world charm — all at a
price as low as $10,000. One cav-
eat: The properties need a lot of
work.
Bidding is underway for six de-
commissioned lighthouses built
before 1930 that the federal gov-
ernment has put up for auction.
Five overlook the Great Lakes in
Michigan, and the sixth is on the
Chesapeake Bay.
It’s a tempting prospect, per-
haps, for those who yearn for sce-
nic surroundings — and who have
the stamina to tackle periodic ren-
ovations.
So far there are a few interested
parties. Prospective owners
should be aware, however, that
maintenance costs can be sub-
stantial. In fact, the high cost of
ownership is part of the reason
these historic properties are being
sold to begin with, according to a
2015 government report.
Although the Coast Guard will
continue to visit auctioned light-
houses to maintain lamps that are
crucial to navigation, the rest of
the property will be the responsi-
bility of the new owner.
Nick Korstad discovered just
how time consuming it can be
when he purchased the Borden
Flats Lighthouse in Fall River,
Mass., for $56,000 at a public auc-
tion in 2010.
Faced with renovating, he re-
ceived contractors’ estimates “be-
tween $300,000 and $400,000,” Mr.
Korstad said in a phone interview
from the lighthouse. So he decided
to do the work himself.
“Honestly, it’s crazy,’’ he said.
“It only cost about $30,000 to put it
back together.”
He estimated that he spends
about 300 hours and $15,000 a
year to keep the 136-year-old
structure looking good, and he
continues to do much of the work.
“It’s always falling apart,” he
said. “If you fix something, you
know you’re going to fix it again.”
The new government auctions,
which started in July, are listed on
the General Services Administra-
tion’s website. They include the
Detroit River Light, built in 1885,
The Detroit River Light, on Lake Erie, is one of six lighthouses
currently up for auction by the federal government.
Six decommissioned
properties are on the
auction block.
in Lake Erie; the Craighill Chan-
nel Lower Range Front Light Sta-
tion on the Chesapeake Bay,
which was first lit in 1873; and the
Lansing Shoal Light, constructed
in 1928, one of the last offshore
lights built on the Great Lakes.
Four of the six lighthouses are
currently $15,000, one is $27,000
and the cheapest is $10,000.
The National Historic Light-
house Preservation Act, passed in
2000, helps the government pre-
serve lighthouses that are no long-
er needed by the Coast Guard.
When the time comes to find a
new owner, officials search for
stewards like nonprofits and edu-
cational agencies. But if there are-
n’t any acceptable organizations
stepping up to the plate, the prop-
erty is then offered to the public
for sale by auction.
Since 2000, the government has
parted with 133 lighthouses: Pres-
ervationists have received 78 of
them at no cost, and 55 have been
auctioned to the public, the Gen-
eral Services Administration said
in a news release.
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The pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel has seen better days. The owner says he hopes to clean up the contaminated ruins and build a new resort that would draw guests from a nearby casino.

Dreams of Revival at Resort That Inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’

Owner applies for help cleaning up the
grounds of a former borscht belt jewel.

By SARAH MASLIN NIR

There is graffiti in the ballrooms where
Johnny might have taught the cha-cha, and the
ceiling is falling down in the dining room like
the one where Baby was fatefully seated in a
corner.
But the long-defunct Catskills resort that
served as the inspiration for “Dirty Dancing,”
the fictional Kellerman’s in which Baby and
Johnny had the time of their lives, stands to be
reborn after the owner applied for state help to
clean up the contaminated ruins. It is the first
step in a plan to bring a glamorous resort back
to the site, and perhaps, with it, a bygone luster
to the storied but tattered Catskills itself.
The resort, Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Ho-
tel, began its life in the 1910s, and in its heyday
was the fulcrum of the swirling midcentury va-
cation scene in the Catskills. It was a region
where New Yorkers, predominately Jews,
spent their summers in one of more than 500
hotels that thrived in the area. All are now
gone.
In the spring, Louis R. Cappelli, a Westch-
ester-based real estate developer who has
owned the complex for two decades, applied to
the State Department of Environmental Con-
servation requesting that a portion of the prop-
erty be designated a brownfield, or contami-
nated site. The former resort is now a hodge-
podge of scores of crumbling buildings on hun-
dreds of acres, land he says is laden with
chemicals spilled by dry-cleaning and ma-
chine repair shops. Such a designation would
make the property eligible for state funds to
help with remediation of the soil and ground-
water, a necessary first step, Mr. Cappelli says,
to bring back the world-class resort.
Grossinger’s was considered the most glam- BETTMANN ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES
orous of the Catskills’ resorts. It was visited by
politicians and celebrities and was where Ed- Above, the pool plex task, according to Robert Schick, who di-
die Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor were married. in 1960. Gross- rects the conservation department’s envi-
And while it never in fact hosted Jennifer Grey inger’s was con- ronmental remediation division. To rid soil of
or Patrick Swayze, the stars of “Dirty Danc- chemicals like perchloroethylene, or perc,
sidered a leading used in dry-cleaning, air is sucked out of the
ing” (the movie set was in fact spread out
across several Southern resorts), it was
resort in the earth to extract the contaminant, he said. To
among the resorts that are said to have in- Catskills, and it treat groundwater contaminated with gaso-
spired the writer of the film, Eleanor Berg- was among the line, workers force oxygen into aquifers, which
stein, cementing its reputation for another resorts that are causes the gasoline to break down into less
generation. said to have harmful components.
Today its swimming pool and gazebos sit in inspired Eleanor The application for remediation at Grossing-
ruin outside the village of Liberty, N.Y. Vines Bergstein to er’s is still pending, said Julia Tighe, the de-
and grass are reclaiming it, fighting with graf- write “Dirty partment’s chief of staff; Mr. Cappelli’s com-
fiti to cover the tumbledown bungalows. pany applied to have 72 acres designated a
Dancing,” star- brownfield, but has not sufficiently demon-
“It was much grander than anyone could
imagine today, especially looking at what re- ring Patrick strated that all of it was contaminated, she
mains there,” said John Conway, the historian Swayze and said. On July 26, the state sent a letter asking
of Sullivan County, where Grossinger’s is. Jennifer Grey. for more information.
According to Mr. Conway, it was the advent But Mr. Cappelli’s plans continue — the golf
of the “three As” that caused the demise of the course is already undergoing refurbishment
region and the hotel. “Airfare,” he said. As fly- — though what shape the future resort will
ing became more accessible, the Catskills take is still in flux.
could not compete with more exotic destina- “Do you want to bring back the old and have
tions. “Air-conditioning.” Who needed to es- some flavor of what was there in the ’50s?” he
cape the city heat when you could just push a BRYAN ANSELM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES VESTRON PICTURES, VIA HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES said, referring to the options he has consid-
button for a cool breeze? And “assimilation.” ered. “I want to build what is a 2017 model of
The Catskills as recreation center was born, chalet-style lodging. It is a bet that piggybacks no is in fact going to be opening up there, I Grossinger’s — with some sort of memories
Mr. Conway said, because “Jews were not wel- on the crowds that he hopes will come to the think the opportunity now exists to have this still there.” Instead of bungalows where Baby
come in a lot of areas, so they created their Resorts World Casino, a $750 million complex kind of original dream come true.” and Johnny carried out their romance, he
own.” The need for the Catskills diminished, he opening next year in another former borscht A first step, he says, would be cleaning the imagines Napa Valley-style chalets set deep in
said, as Jews became more accepted into gen- belt destination, the Concord Resort Hotel in soil. To qualify the land as a brownfield, devel- the woods. Recreation would be more like yoga
eral society. nearby Kiamesha Lake. opers must demonstrate that certain contami- than the rumba.
Mr. Cappelli, who bought the place in 1999, “For 17 years I’ve been a lone wolf trying to nants are present up to a certain threshold. As Max Kellerman, the fictional resort
more than a decade after the Grossinger fam- do this, and I really haven’t been able to ac- The designation allows developers to get tax owner in the 1987 film, said, “You think kids
ily had ceased operations, envisions a grand complish it because of the enormity of the credits to offset the cost of cleanup. want to come with their parents and take fox
future: a conference center, housing, spa and task,” Mr. Cappelli said. “But now that the casi- Remediating soil and groundwater is a com- trot lessons?”

State Democrats’ Rift Looms Larger as Cuomo’s Star Rises
By SHANE GOLDMACHER
As he looks to heighten his na-
tional profile, criticizing the Re-
publican health care bill and Pres-
ident Trump’s immigration policy,
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New
York has been forced to confront a
political schism far closer to
home.
For five years, a group of rene-
gade Democrats has enabled Re-
publicans to control the State Sen-
ate, even though they are in the
minority. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat,
has at times benefited from that
strange reality: Having a divided
Legislature allowed him to posi-
tion himself as a deal-making cen-
trist.
But after the election of Donald
J. Trump, pressure has mounted
on Mr. Cuomo to reunite his party.
Reunification was the agenda of
a strategy session last month in
Mr. Cuomo’s Midtown Manhattan
office, attended by nearly two doz-
en Democratic state senators.
When the discussion turned to
how to best win elections, Mr.
Cuomo suggested to the assem-
bled lawmakers — many of them
from New York City — that the
leader of eight breakaway Demo-
crats, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein,
had a better understanding of the
suburbs than they had.
That was all Senator Andrea
Stewart-Cousins, the Senate mi-
nority leader who represents the
suburbs of Westchester County,
needed to hear.
“You look at me, Mr. Governor,
but you don’t see me. You see my
black skin and a woman, but you
don’t realize I am a suburban leg-
islator,” Ms. Stewart-Cousins said,
according to the accounts of five
people who were in the room. “Jeff
Klein doesn’t represent the sub-
urbs,” she said. “I do.”
Mr. Cuomo reacted in stunned
silence.
The pointed exchange, which
has not previously been reported,
captures the raw tensions around
the fractured Democratic coali-
tion in Albany that threaten to dog
Mr. Cuomo as he looks to his 2018
re-election, and possibly beyond.
Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for
the governor, played down the mo-
ment.
“The comment you describe
was not of particular note,” said
Ms. Lever, who was not at the
meeting. “Certainly no one took
any offense because it was a
friendly and positive meeting on
all levels.”
That is not how those in attend-
ance reacted, describing it as pro-
found moment in a fractious rela-
tionship.
Ms. Stewart-Cousins herself
said in a statement, “My com-
ments were in the context of sub-
urban representation — there was
no racial tension whatsoever; it
was a good and productive meet-
ing.”
The issue of New York’s divided
government has attracted atten-
tion from national leaders, includ-
ing Representative Nancy Pelosi,
the leader of the House Demo-
crats, and Representative Keith
Ellison, the Democratic National
Committee deputy chairman, who
urged a united Democratic front
against President Trump.
“There’s this new awareness
about what was formerly a rather
insider parlor game,” said State
Senator Brad Hoylman, a Man-
hattan Democrat. “The winds
shifted on Nov. 8. The No. 1 con-
cern I hear from my constituents
on the street isn’t Donald Trump.
It’s what the Senate’s going to do,
and how the Democrats can win it
back.”
Democrats hold 32 of the 63
seats in the Senate, yet Republi-
cans control the chamber. The me-
chanics and math of bringing Sen-
ate Democrats together are com-
plex: Ms. Stewart-Cousins leads a
group of 23 Democrats, while Mr.
Klein leads the breakaway group
of eight. The 32nd elected Demo-
crat, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn,
caucuses with the Republicans
but has left the door open to rejoin-
New York City Scraps 644,000 Old Arrest Warrants for Minor Offenses
From Page A1
tickets for minor offenses that
used to lead to criminal sum-
monses; and in June, the Manhat-
tan district attorney’s office an-
nounced it would no longer pros-
ecute most people arrested on
fare-beating charges.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhat-
tan district attorney, said in court
on Wednesday that the outstand-
ing warrants had driven apart the
police and the communities they
serve and created unnecessary
obstacles for people seeking jobs
and apartments.
“New Yorkers with 10-year-old
summons warrants face unneces-
sary unemployment risk, housing
and immigration consequences,”
Mr. Vance told Criminal Court
Judge Tamiko A. Amaker in Man-
hattan. “And because they fear
they will be arrested for the old in-
fraction, they often don’t collabo-
rate with law enforcement.”
Judge Amaker assented to the
motion brought by Mr. Vance, dis-
missing 240,472 Manhattan war-
rants. Similar scenes played out in
courthouses in Brooklyn, Queens
and the Bronx.
“The people who have these
State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, above, clashed with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo during a strategy session over how to help
Democrats win more elections. A breakaway faction of Democrats continues to stymie the party’s agenda in the State Senate.
ing the Democrats.
As Senator Kevin Parker, a
Brooklyn Democrat, put it, “How
can you be one of the top Demo-
crats in the country and not have
resolved this in your own back-
yard?”
The governor has built his repu-
tation as a master manager and
bipartisan deal maker, and the Re-
publican-led Senate has pre-
vented him from facing the poli-
tically precarious choice of veto-
ing or signing more liberal legisla-
tion that would inevitably emerge
from a fully Democratic Legisla-
ture.
But as he looks to 2018 and a
possible 2020 presidential bid, Mr.
Cuomo must appeal to a restive
Democratic electorate that is in-
creasingly aware and unhappy
that Republicans hold power in
the State Senate during such po-
larized times.
“The governor spent a lot of
time and energy and successfully
brought the two sides together in
2014, but the Democrats failed to
win an overall majority,” said Me-
lissa DeRosa, the governor’s top
aide. “He is working very hard
again to end the personal agendas
and infighting that is causing the
divide and unify the factions,
which is more important than
ever when our democratic values
are under attack by the Trump ad-
warrants have not been in trouble
with the law for a decade or more,
and it is time that they are given
the opportunity to live productive
lives, free from summonses hang-
ing over their heads,” Darcel D.
Clark, the Bronx district attorney,
said in court. “As a result, I move
to vacate and to dismiss these
matters in the interest of justice.”
The mass dismissal of sum-
monses had the support of Mayor
Bill de Blasio, who said in a state-
ment that old outstanding war-
rants “can derail lives, disrupt
families and lead to job loss.”
The warrant amnesty may be a
boon in particular for undocu-
mented immigrants, who immi-
gration lawyers say face a greater
risk of deportation under the
Trump administration, which has
reversed rules created by former
President Barack Obama pri-
oritizing the arrests of serious
criminals.
The dismissal of the warrants is
“very significant in terms of the
immigration consequences,” said
Muzaffar Chishti, the director of
the Migration Policy Institute at
the New York University School of
Law.
Alone among the city’s five
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ministration.”
In recent weeks, the state Dem-
ocratic Party adopted a resolution
to cut off party funds from the
eight members of Mr. Klein’s Inde-
pendent Democratic Conference;
New York’s Democratic congres-
sional delegation asked Mr.
Cuomo behind closed doors for ac-
tion during his recent visit to
Washington; and, on a Manhattan
street in July, an activist with a
camera confronted Mr. Cuomo
about his plans for the breakaway
Democrats.
“I can perform marriages,” Mr.
Cuomo said in the video, posted on
YouTube, “but I can’t force them.”
That has largely been Mr. Cuo-
mo’s laissez-faire posture when it
comes to the I.D.C., though many
Democrats accuse him of tacitly
supporting the arrangement.
Mr. Klein lauded the legislative
achievements since the I.D.C.’s in-
ception in 2011, among them a
higher minimum wage, paid fam-
ily leave and legalization of gay
marriage.
“I think the entire political es-
tablishment has a lot to learn from
the Independent Democratic Con-
ference about getting things
done,” said Mr. Klein, whose dis-
trict is drawn mostly from the
Bronx, where he lives, and in-
cludes a sliver of Westchester.
He had only praise for Mr.
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., requested
the dismissal of 240,472 arrest warrants for low-level offenses.
prosecutors, the Staten Island dis-
trict attorney, Michael McMahon,
did not join in the effort. Like his
counterparts, he is a Democrat,
but he represents a more conser-
vative borough, home to many po-
lice families, where a tough-on-
crime tone has long resonated.
“I believe that issuing blanket
amnesty for these offenses is un-
fair to those citizens who respon-
sibly appear in court and sends
the wrong message about the im-
portance of respecting our com-
Cuomo: “I consider the governor
a fantastic leader.”
Mr. Klein and Ms. Stewart-
Cousins, however, do not enjoy a
warm relationship. “I can count
on a couple fingers how many
times I’ve spoken to Senator
Cousins,” Mr. Klein said.
Many Democrats believe Mr.
Cuomo could broker an agree-
ment between the warring Demo-
cratic factions, as he did during
his last run for governor — if it
served him politically.
“At this point, he is the solution,”
said Mr. Parker, the Democratic
senator.
Behind the scenes, Mr. Cuomo
has begun getting more involved,
including arranging a dinner in
Manhattan last week, a gathering
that lasted more than two hours
and was attended by only Mr.
Cuomo, Ms. Stewart-Cousins and
Mr. Klein, according to a person
who spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity.
“The governor is a ferocious ad-
vocate when he chooses to be,”
said Bill Lipton, state director of
the Working Families Party,
which pushes Democrats to adopt
more liberal positions. “He has
$25 million in the bank and he’s
the leader of the Democratic
Party. There’s no question if he put
his foot to the pedal here, he could
have a decisive impact.”
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
munity and our laws,” Mr. McMa-
hon said in a statement.
The dismissals affected a siz-
able share of the 1.6 million out-
standing summons warrants city-
wide. As a practical matter, arrest-
ing people on summons warrants
is not a high priority for the Police
Department, but such warrants
can prompt an arrest if someone is
stopped for another reason.
Court officials said there was no
process in place to notify people
whose warrants had been dis-
NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The closed-door confrontation
with Ms. Stewart-Cousins high-
lighted another sensitive factor:
race.
Mr. Cuomo has had an up-and-
down history with New York’s
black political leadership dating to
his 2002 primary challenge
against H. Carl McCall, who was
seeking to become the state’s first
black governor. (Mr. Cuomo has
since appointed Mr. McCall as
board chairman for the State Uni-
versity of New York.) New York
has never had a black woman lead
a legislative chamber, and if Dem-
ocrats could unite, Ms. Stewart-
Cousins would be the first. (The
Assembly currently has an Af-
rican-American leader, Speaker
Carl E. Heastie.)
In the Manhattan meeting last
month, Mr. Cuomo went around
the room to ask Ms. Stewart-Cous-
ins’s members if each was willing
to join with Mr. Klein’s team to
form a united Democratic front.
“The question was, ‘Are Demo-
crats prepared to form a coalition
with the I.D.C. to govern the Sen-
ate?’ and the answer was a re-
sounding yes from every senator
in the room,” Mr. Hoylman re-
called.
But Mr. Cuomo told them that
Mr. Klein was still resistant. The
meeting ended without resolu-
tion.
missed. In addition, it will take at
least three weeks for court clerks
to process the dismissals and noti-
fy the Police Department, a
spokesman for the state office of
court administration said.
All five district attorneys have
been hosting events at which peo-
ple can go before a judge to clear
up old warrants for minor of-
fenses, usually by having the
charges dismissed.
Still, the total of 644,494 sum-
monses dismissed on Wednesday
dwarfs the number resolved at
such events. The plan for a mass
dismissal of summonses had been
in the works since early 2014 and
required extensive negotiations
with the Police Department and
the mayor’s office.
Mr. Vance said the district attor-
neys had balanced leniency with
concerns for public safety. He
noted that exceptions were made
for people who had warrants for
felonies or who were under inves-
tigation for other crimes — 60,000
cases in Manhattan alone.
The warrants that were dis-
missed, he said, were for people
who had not had another brush
with the law in the last decade.
“This is a group I think we can
take a risk on,” he said.
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A Rezoning
Is Approved
For a Section
Of Midtown
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
The City Council on Wednesday
unanimously approved a rezoning
for a section of Midtown Manhat-
tan that is likely to make the area
even more densely packed with
high-rise office buildings but that
promises to yield improvements
to subway stations and public
spaces.
The change will also allow sev-
eral buildings with landmark sta-
tus, including St. Patrick’s Cathe-
dral, to transfer their unused de-
velopment rights to building sites
anywhere in the affected 78-block
area. The rezoned blocks, known
as East Midtown, run from East
39th Street to East 57th Street,
from Third to Madison Avenues.
The rezoning, which has been in
the works for five years, is in-
tended to revitalize what was once
the core of corporate activity in
New York City. The area is home
to more than 250,000 jobs and gen-
erates about 10 percent of the
city’s property tax revenue. But
the buildings are relics of the
“Mad Men” era, with an average
age of 75 years, according to city
officials.
Large employers have been
leaving that part of Midtown for
state-of-the-art buildings at the
Hudson Yards project on the Far
West Side or at the new World
Trade Center complex in Lower
Manhattan. City officials have
been seeking ways to increase
East Midtown’s appeal since Mi-
chael R. Bloomberg was mayor.
Mr. Bloomberg’s proposal to re-
zone the area failed amid opposi-
tion from Council members and
community leaders who said the
plan was too generous to develop-
ers without ensuring sufficient
benefits to the public. Mayor Bill
de Blasio, who supports the re-
vised plan, said it linked the con-
struction of big buildings in the
area to “real-time improvements
in its public transit and public
realm.”
Councilman Daniel R. Garod-
nick, a Democrat who represents
the area and was the main spon-
sor of the bill that was approved
on Wednesday, said that the re-
zoning would allow more inten-
sive development near subway
stations, which he described as
“certainly the right place to put
lots of new density.”
The change could result in more
ultra-tall towers like One Vander-
bilt, which is going up near Grand
Central Terminal and will be
nearly as tall as the Empire State
Building. When all of the addi-
tional development rights have
been used in a decade or two, the
Chrysler Building could cease to
stand out on the Midtown skyline.
Before all of the new towers can
sprout, developers must strike
deals with the owners of landmark
buildings like St. Patrick’s. The ca-
thedral has not made full use of
development rights for the block it
occupies on Fifth Avenue opposite
Rockefeller Center, and can now
sell the rest, totaling about 1.1 mil-
lion square feet.
How much are the so-called air
rights worth? The market will de-
cide. But the rezoning calls for the
city to collect a tax of at least
$61.49 per square foot from the
sale of such rights.
Officials said the proceeds
would be used to finance the city’s
commitment to spend up to $50
million on improving public
plazas and streets in East Mid-
town.
“The goal is to improve East
Midtown not to simply keep it as it
is,” Mr. Garodnick said.
Corrections
NATIONAL
An article on Wednesday about
President Trump’s endorsement
of Senator Luther Strange in the
special Senate election in Ala-
bama misidentified the position
that Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
holds in the Senate. He is the ma-
jority leader, not the minority
leader.
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EDITORIALS LETTERS

Fears of Missiles, and Words Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Warning

On some emotional level, one might be able to see why Don-
ald Trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury” against
North Korea if it endangered the United States. The North’s
nuclear program is a growing menace, its warmongering ti-
rades are unquestionably unnerving, and peaceful solutions
to the threat it poses have been maddeningly elusive over
many years and many American administrations.
But Mr. Trump is president of the United States, and if
prudent, disciplined leadership was ever required, it is now.
Rhetorically stomping his feet, as he did on Tuesday, is not
just irresponsible; it is dangerous. He is no longer a busi-
nessman trying to browbeat someone into a deal. He com-
mands the most powerful nuclear and conventional arsenal
in the world, and any miscalculation could be catastrophic.
Even if Mr. Trump’s provocative remarks were part of a
deliberate strategy for ratcheting up pressure on North Ko-
rea — and on China, which as the North’s main food and fuel
supplier has more influence on it than any other nation —
they would be at odds with the measured approach of his
predecessors. This is a president with no prior government
or military experience who has shown
President no clear grasp of complex strategic is-
Trump’s reckless sues.
statement on As The Times reported Wednesday,
North Korea his inflammatory words were entirely
may make the improvised and took his closest associ-
confrontation ates by surprise. Intentionally or not,
over nuclear they echoed President Harry Truman’s
weapons harder 1945 pledge to inflict a “rain of ruin from
to resolve. the air” if Japan did not surrender after
the first atomic bomb was dropped at
Hiroshima, which made them seem even more ominous.
Mr. Trump and his aides must have anticipated that he
would be asked by reporters about North Korea after the
United Nations Security Council tightened sanctions on Sat-
urday after the North’s latest missile tests. Why, then, didn’t
his team of generals — John Kelly, the new chief of staff; Lt.
Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser; and Jim
Mattis, the defense secretary, who know well the perils of
war — caution him about the role of nuclear weapons in na-
tional security strategy, about better ways to signal tough-
ness and about the dangers of idle threats?
It is hard to believe that they would condone Mr.
Trump’s risky approach, and on Wednesday, the damage
control began. While Mr. Mattis reinforced his boss’s bellig-
erent tone and expressed confidence that North Korea
would “lose any arms race or conflict it initiates,” he more
prudently focused on the North’s concrete “actions” rather
than on vague threats and voiced support for a diplomatic
solution. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he saw no rea-
son to believe that war was imminent. Meanwhile, some
White House aides reportedly urged reporters not to read
too much into the president’s remarks.
It may be too late for that. Mr. Trump’s words speak the
loudest; the North Koreans have heard them and, in re-
sponse, warned that they were examining plans to attack
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “In Chilling Nuclear Terms,
Trump Warns North Korea” (front
page, Aug. 9):
I understand why President
Trump foments furor over North
Korea; it is his modus operandi,
and it works. But the notion that
North Korea is preparing an offen-
sive war seems an utter fantasy
divorced from historical precedent
or logic.
This third generation of family
rule in North Korea is interested in
self-preservation, period. It is a
nasty regime, but not unintelligent.
It recognizes that any external
aggression would mean its extinc-
tion, and it remembers well the
Muammar el-Qaddafi example in
Libya. It rattles its sabers.
For evidence that any imminent
war is fantasy we need look no
further than the reaction of the
South Koreans. There calm largely
prevails, and new initiatives for
dialogue with the North have lately
begun.
The danger, it seems to me,
would lie in so impoverishing the
AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES North with sanctions that it sells
President Trump at the Trump National Golf Club in atomic weaponry to nonstate actors
Bedminster, N.J. on Tuesday. that are our real enemies.
DAVID ROHN, PUTNEY, VT.
Guam, an American territory with a military base. Mr.
Trump’s comments also heightened fears in the region and TO THE EDITOR:
provided more fodder for hawks in South Korea and Japan On Tuesday, in the midst of the
who are pressing their governments to beef up defenses or week that marks the 72nd anniver-
sary of the atomic bombing of
even develop their own nuclear weapons.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President
Since Truman, presidents have largely avoided the kind Trump warned North Korea that
of militaristic threats issued by Mr. Trump because they any further threats to the United
feared such language could escalate a crisis. The Hiroshima States “will be met with fire and
fury like the world has never seen.”
and Nagasaki bombings chastened the world about the con-
Really, Mr. Trump? Never? I
sequences of nuclear war to such an extent that firing an-
understand that you are not much
other nuclear weapon has become, for most people, unthink-
of a reader, but might I suggest one
able. The Trump administration is now reviewing American exception to peruse during your
nuclear policy and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will working vacation: “Hiroshima,” by
change. John Hersey, a firsthand account of
Mr. Trump has again made himself the focus of atten- the devastation of that city.
Since your rhetoric seems to
tion, when it should be Kim Jong-un, the ruthless North Ko-
channel that of President Truman
rean leader, and his accelerating nuclear program that, The from 72 years ago, you really
Washington Post reported, may have succeeded in miniatur- should inform yourself of the un-
precedented misery his action
izing a warhead to fit on a missile and may have accumulat-
unleashed. Please, Mr. Trump, read
ed as many as 60 nuclear weapons. Mr. Trump’s threats
— or listen to — this book.
have also diverted attention from a genuine accomplish-
ment, the new Security Council sanctions. PERRIE L. RIDLEY
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.
Tougher sanctions, coupled with Mr. Tillerson’s contin-
ued efforts at a diplomatic solution, are the best path to a
TO THE EDITOR:
peaceful end to this conflict. That is what Mr. Trump should
Re “How Trump Can Contain North
also be focused on. Engaging in a war of words with North
Korea Without ‘Fire and Fury’,” by
Korea only makes it harder for both sides to de-escalate. Evelyn N. Farkas (Op-Ed,
nytimes.com, Aug. 9): President
Trump is many things, but he is not
“oblivious to America’s dominant
Of course a pre-emptive strike
would have dire consequences; no
one disputes that. The real question
is what are the consequences of the
alternative — doing nothing —
which I would contend are much
more grave.
Had we abolished all of North
Korea’s nuclear weapons programs
in 1999, we’d be in much better
shape than we are today. Mr. Trump
was dead right to have said in an
interview that year that we should
consider a pre-emptive strike, as
North Korea now appears to have
warheads that can reach the United
States.
Advocating an increased military
presence in South Korea and Japan
in combination with sanctions will
only further provoke the regime
and its determination in advancing
its nuclear apparatus.
Ms. Farkas’s initiatives are com-
parable to throwing a thimble of
water on a house fire; if history has
taught us anything it’s that this
issue will never be solved through
soft power. Military confrontation is
inevitable, and the longer we wait,
the worse it will be when it does
happen.
DANIEL S. SMITH
NORTHVILLE, MICH.
TO THE EDITOR:
The more aggressively we act
toward North Korea, the more it
feels threatened and behaves ac-
cordingly. We need to convince it
that we have zero interest in invad-
ing the country or bringing about
regime change. Maybe Donald
Trump is just the person to do this.
Invite the North Korean leader, Kim
Jong-un, to visit Mar-a-Lago. Invite
Dennis Rodman to join them so that
Mr. Kim feels comfortable.
A new approach is needed. Let’s
try this. What is there to lose?
CHARLES BLEIFELD
SAG HARBOR, N.Y.
TO THE EDITOR:
Where is the morality in a stance
that says: We have weapons; you
cannot have those weapons as you
can’t be trusted not to use them; if
you acquire them and threaten to
use them, we will use our weapons
on you?
ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON, TORONTO
TO THE EDITOR:
If “fire and fury” for North Korea is
anything like “shock and awe” was
for Iraq, God help us.

Closing the Courthouse Door economic, political and military

strength.”
WILLIAM PELSTER
PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y.

The Trump administration is moving to deny Americans shunted into arbitration. Class-action lawsuits are often the
their day in court when they have been wronged. only way to hold corporations to account for wrongdoing in
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services want which thousands or millions of customers lose amounts that Women and Retirement U.A.E. and the Taliban
to reverse an Obama-era regulation that bars most nursing may be meaningful for each customer, though not enough to TO THE EDITOR: TO THE EDITOR:
homes from forcing residents to agree to resolve disputes in warrant an individual fighting a corporation. Arbitration, in
Re “Hire Women Your Mom’s Age” “U.A.E. Competed With Qatar to
private arbitration, instead of in court. The Department of contrast, is so clearly stacked against customers that most (Sunday Review, Aug. 6): Host Taliban Embassy, Leaked
Education recently announced that it was working to re- people don’t even bother. And yet, arbitration has been the Although I understand Sally Emails Show” (news article, Aug.
verse an Obama-era rule that prevents most for-profit col- only recourse even in cases where customers were de- Koslow’s frustration with being 1) had only half the story about
leges and other schools from enforcing arbitration agree- frauded, like those caught up in the still-unfolding scandals cast aside from a work force that how the Taliban came to call Qatar
ments when resolving loan disputes by students. at Wells Fargo who could not sue because of the bank’s man- she found so rewarding, I’m dis- their second home.
Now, congressional Republicans are getting into the act datory arbitration requirement. heartened that work still looms so At the encouragement of the
large as a source of identity. As United States, the United Arab
by attacking a new rule, issued by the Consumer Financial The first attempt to derail the rule failed recently, but it Emirates was prepared to host a
someone approaching 60, I wonder
Protection Bureau, that will let Americans bring class-ac- underscored the administration’s support for industry argu- Taliban presence in Abu Dhabi.
when it’s socially acceptable to
tion lawsuits against banks instead of being forced into ments. Keith Noreika, a bank lawyer appointed by President move away from “leaning in” to But the U.A.E. offer also had firm
arbitration. Without the rule, which is scheduled to ap- Trump to oversee national banks until a Senate-confirmed stepping away gracefully. conditions:
ply to transactions next year, banks could continue regulator is in place, asked the financial protection bureau to Assuming that working for a First, the Taliban must denounce
to profit from abusive products and practices delay the rule on the ground that more time was needed to paycheck isn’t financially neces- Al Qaeda and its founder, Osama
sary, I’m surprised there’s no bin Laden.
without ever facing a court challenge, determine if it would destabilize the banking system. The bu-
recognition of any other options for Second, the Taliban must recog-
and aggrieved customers reau refused, for good reason. The rule — which will cost nize the Afghan Constitution.
would continue to be banks about $1 billion a year out of more than $171 billion this stage of life. There’s more to
retirement than golf, bridge and Third, the Taliban must re-
in profits, according to analysis by the bureau — does gardening clubs. Just as gratifying, nounce violence and lay down
not threaten the banks’ survival; it only threatens their weapons.
if not more, is sharing one’s talents
their impunity. Moreover, neither the agency that The Taliban refused all three
for causes and institutions that
Mr. Noreika temporarily heads, the Office of the conditions, and the U.A.E. with-
feed our souls.
drew its offer. True to form, Qatar
Comptroller of the Currency, nor other financial MERRI ROSENBERG, ARDSLEY, N.Y. imposed no restrictions, and the
regulators raised safety-and-soundness con- Taliban eagerly set up shop in
cerns during the long rule-making process. Doha, which remains the region’s
Congressional Republicans continue most active financing, ideological
to threaten the rule. Before their summer and media hub for extremists.
Vote Using a Paper Ballot
break began, House Republicans pas- YOUSEF AL OTAIBA, WASHINGTON
TO THE EDITOR:
sed legislation to scrap it, using the The writer is the United Arab Emir-
fast-track procedures of the Con- Re “To Protect Voting, Use Open-
ates’ ambassador to Washington.
Source,” by R. James Woolsey and
gressional Review Act. Companion Brian J. Fox (Op-Ed, Aug. 3):
legislation has been introduced in the I make a living finding software
Senate. Before this year, the review security bugs and reporting them
act’s procedures had been used only to publishers. Because of that Capturing Adolf Eichmann
once, by the Republican-controlled Con- experience, I believe that voting is
TO THE EDITOR:
gress of 2001, to invalidate a workplace safety a problem best solved without
computers. Re “A Most-Wanted Nazi in His
rule from the Clinton administration. This year, Re- All we need are paper ballots, Glass Cage,” by Jason Farago
publicans have used it to roll back 14 rules finalized near pens, card tables and patriotic (Exhibition Review, Aug. 4):
the end of the Obama years, including labor and envi- citizens to count ballots by hand. I had to read it twice to believe
ronmental protections. The difference this time is that they Paper ballots are easy to produce, it. Argentina harbored Adolf Eich-
are hard to hack in volume and mann, the criminal who ran the
want to repeal a rule from Mr. Trump’s watch, albeit by an
don’t change themselves once most outrageous genocide in his-
Obama-appointed regulator of the financial protection bu- tory, and The New York Times
printed.
reau, an agency Republicans love to loathe. Pens and card tables are cheap, publishes an article in which an art
If Senate Republicans, once again blinded by their antip- and officials can easily get more if critic questions the morality and
athy to President Barack Obama, vote to repeal this rule, a surge of voters appears. Also, legality of Israel’s capturing him
pens and tables don’t fail when the and bringing him to trial?
they will join their House colleagues and the Trump adminis-
power goes out, and they can’t be Talk about a missing moral
tration in closing the courthouse door to vulnerable, victim- compass!
hacked from Moscow.
ized and defrauded Americans. This system is the most “open ALAN STEIN, NATICK, MASS.
source” of all: Anyone can under-
stand it; anyone can participate in
it; and anyone can supervise it.
Let’s turn off the computer, put
away the voting machines and vote
the simplest, most secure and most ONLINE: MORE LETTERS
economical way yet devised: by More about the Korea crisis.
hand. Also: Costly long-term care,
RONALD E. CRANE Medicaid planning and ethics.
ALEX MERTO SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. nytimes.com/opinion

Glen
Campbell,
Omnivore
Bill Friskics-Warren
NASHVILLE
G
LEN CAMPBELL’s variety
show, “The Glen Campbell
Goodtime Hour,” was a fixture
on the black-and-white Zenith
console TV set in the den of my childhood
home in suburban Chicago. It was my fa-
ther’s show, being much too corny and
strait-laced for an emerging adolescent
like me to embrace, certainly not when
the more subversive likes of the Beatles
and Jimi Hendrix were to be had.
Mr. Campbell, who died on Tuesday of
Alzheimer’s, had his legions of fans, and
his show, which ran on CBS from 1969 to
1972, was a hit. But most folks in the mu-
sic establishment saw him as I did.
Rolling Stone wouldn’t review him. He
was a sellout, turning his back on his
rock ’n’ roll instincts to produce middle-
of-the-road pop. He was soulless, deriva-
tive. But we were wrong.
As a member, in the 1960s, of Holly-
wood’s celebrated Wrecking Crew, an ex-
pansive circle of studio musicians akin to
Motown’s Funk Brothers or Nashville’s
A-Team, Mr. Campbell played guitar on
iconoclastic recordings produced by Phil
Spector, as well as others made by West
Coast pop hitmakers like the Mamas and
the Papas and the Association. He briefly
replaced Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys
while the group was on tour in 1964 and,
two years later, contributed to the ses-
sions that yielded their psychedelic
touchstone, “Pet Sounds.”
Mr. Campbell, though, was always a
musical omnivore, his sensibilities
steeped not only in the unvarnished
country music of his native Arkansas but
also in the sophisticated jazz of virtuoso
guitarists like Barney Kessel and Django
Reinhardt. Even a baroque-pop vehicle
like “Classical Gas,” a Top 10 instrumen-
tal hit for the guitarist Mason Williams in
1968, found a home in Mr. Campbell’s big-
tent repertoire.
Recording under his own name, he
seamlessly brought it all together, espe-
cially when collaborating with another
Wrecking Crew alum, Al DeLory, an em-
pathetic arranger who also worked on
“Pet Sounds” and on several of Mr. Spec-
tor’s girl-group epiphanies of the early
’60s.
Mr. Campbell’s honeyed tenor and Mr.
DeLory’s swooning string arrangements
on the likes of “Wichita Lineman” and
He embraced music of
all kinds, but was
dismissed as a sellout.
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix” were at
once earthy and elegant — just the right
accompaniment for the mystical-exist-
ential, though unabashedly quotidian,
musings of the great songwriter Jimmy
Webb.
Beauty likewise abounds in the rip-
pling rhythms of the bluegrass-inflected
“Gentle on My Mind,” a 1967 hit written
by the freewheeling banjoist John Hart-
ford, and in Mr. Campbell’s mournful gui-
tar and anguished vocals on “Galveston,”
yet another composition of Mr. Webb’s to
achieve classic status.
One of the most subtle and trenchant
songs ever recorded about the Vietnam
War — about the high price of any war —
“Galveston” is sung from the perspective
of a conflicted young recruit who, having
just bid his sweetheart goodbye before
shipping out, is cleaning his newly issued
rifle even as he confesses that he’s “so
afraid of dying.”
Of course, in the late 1960s, it was easy
to ignore Mr. Campbell’s depth and
breadth if all you saw was his crooning
and cutting up on the “Goodtime Hour.”
He seemed the very opposite of the coun-
terculture and its explosive, mind-ex-
panding musical scene. To kids like me,
he was the sound of the silent majority.
Then one afternoon before the show
was about to air, my dad brought home a
copy of Mr. Campbell’s 1968 album,
“Wichita Lineman.” He bought the
record, he told me, as a gift for my
mother because it included a song called
“Ann,” which is my mother’s name,
among its 11 tracks.
The album also, to my surprise and de-
light, included versions of Otis Redding’s
“(Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay” and the
Bee Gees’ “Words,” giving it at least a
modicum of the hip credibility that I
might otherwise have found wanting.
My dad, though, felt that “Ann,” a sen-
timental love song written by the West
Virginia folk singer Billy Edd Wheeler,
would strike the perfect note, and of
course he was right, trusting in Mr.
Campbell’s unwavering commitment to
beauty, however simple or accessible its
expression.
When Elvis Presley first ventured into
Sun Studios in the early 1950s, Marion
Keisker, Sam Phillips’s trusted assistant,
asked him, “What kind of singer are
you?” Elvis’s immediate response was,
“I sing all kinds.”
The King’s answer could well have
served Mr. Campbell, not only as a rejoin-
der to those who never seemed to find his
country-pop sensibilities edgy enough,
but as a testimony to his prodigious and
wide-ranging talent. 0 An Op-Ed article on Aug. 5 by Ariel Dorf-
BILL FRISKICS-WARREN is the co-author of
“Heartaches by the Number: Country
Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
When Government Defames
Aziz Huq
CHICAGO
I
MAGINE that a senior gov-
ernment official takes to Twit-
ter, makes a call to a national
news outlet or goes on national
television to disparage you. Imag-
ine that he tells lies about you to a
national audience, lies harmful to
your professional or personal future.
What could you do to remedy the situ-
ation?
You might seek a retraction. Per-
haps you would go to colleagues and
friends to privately plead your side of
the case. Or if you were lucky enough to
have a national platform of your own,
maybe you would try to correct the de-
famatory statement in public.
But one thing you couldn’t do is sue. No
judicial remedy exists when a federal offi-
cial defames someone. This gap in the law
isn’t a result of a conscious decision by
Congress or federal judges to protect the
government’s ability to defame you. It was
created inadvertently. In an age when the
political lie is being weaponized to in-
creasing effect, it’s an oversight Congress
should redress.
Today, if a news outlet like The New
York Times, CNN or Breitbart News ut-
ters a slander, or if a private citizen cam-
paigning for office does so, the courts
stand open. Certainly, remedies are not
unlimited. Worried about defamation’s
chilling effects on the press, the Supreme
Court has rightly erected high hurdles to
defamation damages.
But if a government official makes an
intentional, false and harmful utterance,
there is nothing to be done. In February,
for example, hours after reporting criti-
cally on the Trump administration’s press
operations, Alex Isenstadt of Politico
found himself accused (apparently false-
ly) by anonymous White House officials of
jeering at and dismissing the death of a
Navy SEAL — the sort of cruel and vulgar
act that might get a journalist fired. Under
current defamation law, Mr. Isenstadt
would have no recourse in that event.
How did this gap in defamation law
arise?
When the government harms someone,
a 1946 law called the Federal Tort Claims
Act generally provides a judicial remedy.
In 1988, in the Westfall Act, Congress
amended the earlier act to cover most per-
sonal injury claims brought against fed-
eral officials. These laws, however, carve
out immunities for government officials
when it comes to “libel, slander, misrepre-
sentation” as well as “deceit.”
Why those exceptions? Simple caution,
explained Alexander Holtzoff, a special
assistant in the office of the attorney gen-
eral, in testimony to the House of Repre-
sentatives in 1940. Better, he warned, to
“take it step by step.” Torts of the slip-and-
fall variety are more straightforward
than, say, a slander case. Congress would
presumably get around to addressing
those torts as well — except that it hasn’t.
In a 1976 case, Paul v. Davis, which in-
volved a police flier with photographs of
people “known to be active” as shoplifters,
the Supreme Court held that the Constitu-
tion’s due process clause does not protect
reputation. Chief Justice William H. Rehn-
quist expressed alarm about the flood of
cases that might follow if people were al-
lowed to sue their local and state officials
for libel and slander.
But the court simply failed to account
for the consequences of its ruling on fed-
It’s Not Too Late on North Korea
Susan E. Rice
N
ORTH KOREA’S substantial
nuclear arsenal and improving
intercontinental ballistic missile
capacity pose a growing threat
to America’s security. But we need not
face an immediate crisis if we play our
hand carefully.
Given the bluster emanating from
Pyongyang and Bedminster, N.J., Ameri-
cans can be forgiven for feeling anxious.
Shortly after adoption of new United
Nations sanctions last weekend, North
Korea threatened retaliation against the
United States “thousands of times” over.
Those sanctions were especially potent,
closing loopholes and cutting off impor-
tant funding for the North. August is also
when the United States and South Korea
conduct major joint military exercises,
which always set Pyongyang on edge. In
August 2015, tensions escalated into cross-
border artillery exchanges after two
South Korean soldiers were wounded by
land mines laid by North Korea. This jux-
taposition of tough sanctions and military
exercises has predictably heightened
North Korea’s threats.
We have long lived with successive
Kims’ belligerent and colorful rhetoric —
as ambassador to the United Nations in
the Obama administration, I came to ex-
pect it whenever we passed resolutions.
What is unprecedented and especially
dangerous this time is the reaction of
President Trump. Unscripted, the presi-
dent said on Tuesday that if North Korea
makes new threats to the United States,
“they will be met with fire and fury like the
world has never seen.” These words risk
tipping the Korean Peninsula into war, if
the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, believes
them and acts precipitously.
Either Mr. Trump is issuing an empty
threat of nuclear war, which will further
erode American credibility and deter-
CORRECTION
man misstated the title of his forthcoming
book. It is “Homeland Security Ate My
Speech,” not “Homeland Security Ate My
Homework.”
No judicial remedy
exists if a federal
official slanders you.
eral officials, who are fewer in number
and who generally have more access to
national media platforms. And no one was
really imagining that the White House
would slander people.
Many decades have passed. In that
time, courts have had ample experience
with injury claims against the federal gov-
ernment. Yet no steps have been taken to
protect against the damage of official
speech that falsely impugns a person’s
character in the national media.
There is a simple solution. Congress
should enact a judicial remedy for any per-
son defamed by an official of the federal
government speaking or writing to the
public. To foreclose the need for burden-
some discovery or depositions, liability
would turn on whether a reasonable per-
son in the official’s position would have
known the statement was false (and not
on what the official in fact knew). Discov-
ery would be allowed in exceptional cases
where a defense relied on factual as-
sertions that could be tested only by care-
ful judicial inquiry into what the official
knew.
Limiting the remedy to federal officials
would address Chief Justice Rehnquist’s
rence, or he actually intends war next
time Mr. Kim behaves provocatively. The
first scenario is folly, but a United States
decision to start a pre-emptive war on the
Korean Peninsula, in the absence of an im-
minent threat, would be lunacy.
We carefully studied this contingency.
“Preventive war” would result in hun-
dreds of thousands, if not millions, of casu-
alties. Metropolitan Seoul’s 26 million peo-
ple are only 35 miles from the border,
within easy range of the North’s missiles
and artillery. About 23,000 United States
troops, plus their families, live between
Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone; in total,
at least 200,000 Americans reside in South
Korea.
Japan, and almost 40,000 United States
military personnel there, would also be in
the cross hairs. The risk to American terri-
Absent an imminent
threat, attacking Kim
would be lunacy.
tory cannot be discounted, nor the
prospect of China being drawn into a di-
rect conflict with the United States. Then
there would be the devastating impact of
war on the global economy.
The national security adviser, H. R. Mc-
Master, said last week that if North Korea
“had nuclear weapons that can threaten
the United States, it’s intolerable from the
president’s perspective.” Surely, we must
take every reasonable step to reduce and
eliminate this threat. And surely there
may be circumstances in which war is
necessary, including an imminent or actu-
al attack on our nation or our allies.
But war is not necessary to achieve pre-
vention, despite what some in the Trump
administration seem to have concluded.
History shows that we can, if we must, tol-
erate nuclear weapons in North Korea —
the same way we tolerated the far greater
threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear
weapons during the Cold War.
It will require being pragmatic.
First, though we can never legitimize
North Korea as a nuclear power, we know
it is highly unlikely to relinquish its sizable
NICOLAS ORTEGA
worry about a flood of minor lawsuits
against local and state officials. Further,
public officials would not be chilled from
anything other than reckless and false
statements. For one thing, it would typi-
cally be hard for a plaintiff to show that an
official should have known a statement
was false. Only outright fabrication with
no plausible basis in fact would meet this
test.
In addition, the remedy if a plaintiff
were to win would not be damages. No of-
ficial would personally pay out of pocket.
Rather, the court would issue a declara-
tory judgment finding the statement false
and defamatory. Where the shaming ef-
fect of this finding seemed insufficient, a
court would have discretion to order an
apology.
President Trump has talked about
opening up libel law, though I doubt that
this is what he had in mind. Nonetheless,
legislators who want to keep our national
political life civil and stable would do well
to think about libel reform — for govern-
ment speech.
AZIZ HUQ is a professor of law at the
University of Chicago.
arsenal because Mr. Kim deems the weap-
ons essential to his regime’s survival. The
North can now reportedly reach United
States territory with its ICBMs. The chal-
lenge is to ensure that it would never try.
By most assessments, Mr. Kim is vi-
cious and impetuous, but not irrational.
Thus, while we quietly continue to refine
our military options, we can rely on tradi-
tional deterrence by making crystal clear
that any use of nuclear weapons against
the United States or its allies would result
in annihilation of North Korea. Defense
Secretary James Mattis struck this tone
on Wednesday. The same red line must ap-
ply to any proof that North Korea has
transferred nuclear weapons to another
state or nonstate actor.
Second, to avoid blundering into a
costly war, the United States needs to im-
mediately halt the reckless rhetoric. John
Kelly, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, must as-
sert control over the White House, includ-
ing his boss, and curb the Trump surro-
gates whipping up Cuban missile crisis
fears.
Third, we must enhance our antimissile
systems and other defenses, and those of
our allies, which need our reassurances
more than ever.
Fourth, we must continue to raise the
costs to North Korea of maintaining its nu-
clear programs. Ratcheting up sanctions,
obtaining unfettered United Nations au-
thority to interdict suspect cargo going in
or out of the North, increasing Pyong-
yang’s political isolation and seeding in-
formation into the North that can increase
regime fragility are all important ele-
ments of a pressure campaign.
Finally, we must begin a dialogue with
China about additional efforts and contin-
gencies on the peninsula, and revive diplo-
macy to test potential negotiated agree-
ments that could verifiably limit or elimi-
nate North Korea’s arsenal.
Rational, steady American leadership
can avoid a crisis and counter a growing
North Korean threat. It’s past time that
the United States started exercising its
power responsibly. 0 In Seattle, in a week or so, a big wind will
SUSAN E. RICE was the national security
adviser from 2013 to 2017 and the United
States ambassador to the United Nations
from 2009 to 2013.
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LINDY WEST
We’re Choking
On Smoke
In Seattle
THE WEATHER FORECAST for Seattle on
Wednesday reads “89 degrees, smoke.”
We first noticed the smoke, drifting down
from wildfires still burning in British Co-
lumbia, around Aug. 2, just as a heat wave
sent temperatures spiking well into the
90s (the historical average for that week is
77) and the ubiquitous Pacific winds dwin-
dled to a standstill. “Nature’s air-condi-
tioning is broken,” the National Weather
Service told the Seattle Times.
The sky turned brown and opaque. The
neighboring city of Bellevue, which nor-
mally glitters above Lake Washington to
the east, disappeared. The mountains dis-
appeared. I haven’t seen a tree move in a
week. It’s as though a giant cloche has
been placed over the whole region, like
God is playing molecular gastronomy and
we are her smoked langoustine cotton
candy duck balloons. You can feel the air
on your skin, powdery and wrong, some-
how both sweltering and clammy. Resi-
dents have been warned not to exercise;
people with asthma are clutching their in-
halers, white-knuckled.
There’s a mental health impact, too. To
live in Seattle is to exist, perpetually, in the
bargaining stage of grief. From October
through May, generally speaking, it driz-
zles. Every day. This past fall and winter,
we broke a 122-year-old record for rain and
had only three sunny, mild days in six
months. What gets us through the gray,
like a mantra, is the promise of summer.
Summers in Seattle are perfect, bright
blue and fresh, and all winter long we as-
sure ourselves, over and over, “This is
worth it, for that.” Please let this one be a
good summer, a long summer, a real Se-
attle summer. We need it. It’s our medicine.
This smoke is stealing our summer. Peo-
ple are on edge. Traffic seems worse. Yes-
terday, in the car, my husband was telling
me about two guys he saw fighting on the
street, when I got distracted by two guys
fighting on the street. It’s been a freaky,
tense time.
It was evocative, to put it mildly, to read
in The Times about a forthcoming federal
climate change report while choking on
hot, brown smoke.
Not only are human behaviors “primari-
ly responsible” for climate change, the re-
port says, but the repercussions are not
some vague abstraction for distant equa-
torial communities or our faceless de-
scendants to deal with. Americans are
feeling the impacts of climate change right
this second.
“In the United States,” Lisa Friedman
wrote, “the report concludes with ‘very
high’ confidence that the number and se-
verity of cool nights have decreased since
the 1960s, while the frequency and severity
of warm days have increased.” The report
also notes that cold waves are less com-
mon and heat waves are more common.
Scientists are nervously awaiting the
Trump administration’s reaction to the re-
port, citing fears that it might be changed
or even suppressed altogether in order to
appease President Trump’s denialist base
and dystopian corporate bedfellows.
I don’t mean to imply that these wild-
0
fires and this smoke are the direct result of
human-made climate change. I have no
idea. I am not a scientist. What I mean is
that they have thrown formerly intangible
feelings of dread into stark perspective. All
week I have stared at the low, dirty sky and
thought, “What if this never left? What if it
got worse?”
Irrespective of their cause, the fires’ im-
pact — the claustrophobia, the tension, the
suffocating, ugly air — feels like a preview
(and a mild one) of what’s to come if we
don’t take immediate and drastic steps to
halt and mitigate climate change. Tem-
peratures will almost certainly rise. Air
Could this city’s brown
skies be what’s in store
for everyone?
quality will almost certainly decline. I do
not want to live like this, and you don’t ei-
ther.
It’s easy, if you are not in immediate dan-
ger of being swallowed by the sea or stran-
gled by drought, to slip into normalcy. Mo-
ment to moment, for a lot of people in
America, everything still feels fine, un-
changed. Even if you genuinely believe
that doom is coming, it is possible to set
aside your panic for a while and, say, go get
a coffee. Wash your dog. Bicker with your
spouse. The stoplights still work and you
can still buy avocados at the supermarket
and life is still as mundane and tedious as
it’s always been. Boredom is somehow
even more reassuring than happiness.
But we’re well past the window of pro-
crastination. This is the time.
Seattle this week looks like one of those
old photos of America’s smog-socked sky-
lines from before the Clean Air Act and the
Environmental Protection Agency, an
echo as oddly hopeful as it is horrifying.
The thing about human-made climate
change is that it’s human-made, which
means that humans, to some degree, can
unmake it. It will take more than good lib-
erals composting their pizza boxes. We
need to make profound changes to the way
that industry, commerce and corporations
function in this country, which means that
we need government intervention, which
means, unfortunately, that we need a dif-
ferent government. Let your representa-
tives know that, and remember it in 2018.
come and give us our blue sky back. Some-
day, though, it won’t. 0
Gail Collins and Nicholas Kristof are off
today.
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By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — Disney set off a
sonic boom in Hollywood by unveiling
plans to start two Netflix-style services:
For the first time in the streaming age,
the world’s largest media company had
decided that embracing a new business
model was more important than cling-
ing to its existing one.
Disney’s decision to better align itself
with consumer trends — deemed “a rare
and impressive pivot” by RBC Capital
Markets — instantly reverberated
through the entertainment industry.
Disney’s cable channels, which include
ESPN, have long been seen as the rea-
son many viewers were refraining from
cutting the cord entirely. If Disney was
going all in on streaming, the impact
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As part of its announcement on Tues-
day, Disney said that it would spend
heavily on original programming for its
entertainment streaming service and
pull future Disney and Pixar movies
from Netflix. That sent Netflix shares
downward. The question seemed to be,
how would Netflix, even with its head
start in terms of audience and reach,
manage without the mighty mouse?
And would Disney’s plunge into stream-
ing encourage the likes of Discovery
and Viacom to do the same, intensifying
competition?
And would viewers who want to es-
chew traditional cable subscriptions
eventually find themselves over-
whelmed by the sheer number of
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streaming services they would need to
cobble together to watch what they
wanted to watch?
On Wednesday, as analysts and in-
vestors scratched for answers, few firm
ones emerged. In a research report,
Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowen and
Company, summed up Disney’s stream-
ing plans, especially for movies and
television, as “aggressively” pushing
“the traditional content business into
terra incognita.”
Underscoring the uncertainty, Dis-
ney’s shares declined by more than 4
percent on Wednesday, to $102.83. The
company reported a 9 percent decline in
quarterly profit on Tuesday, which may
have led to the sell-off. Wider weakness
in financial markets did not help.
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thought that the decision came much
too late.
While a few ardent Disney critics held
that view, most analysts applauded the
company’s move.
“What Disney is doing is a really big
deal in terms of trying new things, and I
don’t think it even has answers to some
of these questions, including what the
services will cost,” said Michael
Vorhaus, president of Magid Advisors, a
media and digital video consultancy.
“But it’s clearly not the end of linear
television. It’s not the end of Netflix.”
Disney’s streaming plans call for the
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
A Currency
Safe Haven
Is Feeling
Less Safe
By PETER S. GOODMAN
LONDON — It is the closest thing to
a certainty in the global economy. When
trouble flares and anxiety mounts, peo-
ple who manage money traditionally
entrust it to a seemingly indomitable
refuge, the American dollar.
Yet on Wednesday, in the hours after
President’s Trump’s threat to unleash
“fire and fury” on North Korea if it con-
tinued to menace the United States,
global investors sold the dollar. The
same dynamic played out in June, as
Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations
imposed an embargo on Qatar, deliver-
ing a fraught crisis to the oil-rich
Persian Gulf. And the dollar dipped in
July after President Vladimir V. Putin
of Russia expelled 755 American diplo-
mats, ratcheting up tensions between
the two nuclear powers.
Since the beginning of the year, the
dollar has surrendered nearly 8 percent
against a basket of major currencies.
The dollar remains the dominant in-
strument for global trade, a role it is un-
likely to surrender anytime soon. Yet
those who trade in currencies see tenta-
tive signs that the dollar may be losing
some status as markets grapple with
the unorthodox actions of the man lead-
ing the nation printing the money.
Donald J. Trump’s presidency has
been so full of departures from the
norms of international relations that
uncertainty has seeped into the calcula-
tion of America’s plans. That has sub-
jected the dollar to additional skepti-
cism, enhancing the fundamental fac-
tors pulling it down, from worries about
the strength of the American economy
to improved fortunes in Europe and
Asia.
The dollar has in some sense become
an international medium of expression
about the American political envi-
ronment. Its value offers a gauge of sen-
timent for Mr. Trump’s prospects in
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Remain Calm,
But Investors
Nod to Caution
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
President Trump threatened nuclear
war with North Korea, and the markets
yawned.
While stocks in Asia sold off initially,
the main market measures in the
United States fell less than half a per-
cent on Wednesday and ended the day
nearly unchanged, as investors stuck to
focusing on buoyant economic funda-
mentals and ignoring the chaos of
American politics.
But beneath the calm there were
signs that investors — who have been
conditioned since the presidential elec-
tion in November to embrace risk in-
stead of running from it — are becom-
ing more cautious.
The price of gold, a traditional safe in-
vestment, has been rising, and on
Wednesday it continued its march, in-
creasing more than 1 percent on the day.
Gold’s strong move pushed it just
barely ahead of the benchmark Stand-
ard & Poor’s 500-stock index for the
year — up 10.75 percent, compared with
10.69 percent for the S.&P., according to
Y Charts, a data-gathering company.
On Wednesday, the S.&P. 500 and the
narrower Dow Jones industrial aver-
age ended the day virtually flat.
Earlier, the Nikkei index in Japan
closed down 1.29 percent, while the
Kospi index in South Korea ended down
1.10 percent. European stocks were also
lower, with London down 0.56 percent
and Frankfurt down 1.12 percent.
Prices of United States Treasury se-
curities — often in demand in times of
turmoil — rose early in the day, driving
their yields, which move in the opposite
direction, lower. But Treasury prices
gave up ground in the afternoon, and
the yield on the benchmark 10-year
Treasury note slipped to 2.25 percent,
from 2.26 percent on Tuesday.
Gold futures rose 1.59 percent, to
$1,282.40 an ounce.
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In Uncertain Trump Era,

A Currency Safe Haven
Feels Risky to Investors
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achieving his economic goals, as
well as worries about his poten-
tially impulsive declarations.
“At the margin, investors may
be a little more cautious in treat-
ing the dollar as safe haven,” said
Jeremy Cook, chief economist at
World First, a London-based com-
pany that handles foreign ex-
change transactions. “Certainly,
the sentiment toward the viability
of the Trump administration has
not helped. There’s the risk that at
3 a.m., Trump tweets something
and the dollar gets hit.”
Before Mr. Trump was even
sworn in, many investors were
buying into the so-called Trump
trade, a bet that the new presi-
dent’s plans for tax cuts, deregula-
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tion and a hefty dose of infrastruc-
ture spending would spur eco-
nomic growth. This formulation
has earned favor in the stock mar-
ket. During the Trump adminis-
tration, American shares have
reached new highs, propelled by
strong corporate profits and exec-
utives exuding optimism.
Yet the Trump trade was also a
wager that the dollar would climb
as investment flooded into the
United States to exploit fresh
growth opportunities.
Those expectations have been
overwhelmed by the turbulence of
the Trump presidency. Senior gov-
ernment officials have been hired
and fired at the pace of a reality
television show. Myriad disclo-
sures have intensified questions
about whether Mr. Trump’s cote-
rie colluded with Russia to influ-
ence the American election. Big
parts of his agenda have stalled.
All the while, Mr. Trump has un-
leashed his signature Twitter
rants, sometimes undercutting
the positions of his cabinet mem-
bers and sowing confusion. In the
estimation of many economists,
the dollar’s fall reflects an as-
sumption that his administration
will be hard-pressed to deliver on
key goals.
“The potential for serious in-
vestment and tax reform and eco-
nomic growth in the United States
is unlikely to be realized,” said Ian
110.8 Goldin, a former World Bank vice
president and now professor of
globalization and development at
the University of Oxford. “There’s
just a mood that gets amplified ev-
ery time we have a disaster in the
White House, or a new tweet.”
Currency values are both vola-
tile and relative. The dollar’s
worth must be understood as a re-
flection of contrasting economic
Aug.
prospects in the United States and
other lands.
Mr. Trump’s pro-growth initia-
tives have been sidelined just as
the Federal Reserve has lifted in-
terest rates, constraining Ameri-
can expansion. At the same time,
Europe — long a morose topic in
the global economic conversation
— has shown encouraging signs of
vigor.
Spain has seen its economy re-
turn to pre-crisis size. France
elected a new president, Emman-
uel Macron, who has engendered
hopes he will deliver growth. Even
Greece, still saddled with gargan-
tuan debts, has lately flashed
signs of improvement.
Given these shifts in fortune, in-
vestors have been inclined to sell
dollar holdings while shifting the
88.5 proceeds into euros. Since Janu-
ary, the dollar has lost more than 11
percent against the euro.
“Foreign exchange markets
were persistently discounting Eu-
rope’s strength,” said Adam S. Po-
sen, a former official at the Bank
of England, and now president of
the Peterson Institute for Interna-
Aug.
tional Economics in Washington.
“They are playing catch-up.”
But the dollar has slipped even
against currencies of nations in
precarious positions.
Since early January, it has lost
more than 6 percent compared
with the Japanese currency, the
yen. The strength is perhaps a tes-
tament to recent signs of burgeon-
ing activity in Japan’s economy
even as the government contends
with a series of scandals.
After Britain’s decision to aban-
don the European Union, the
pound plunged last year, lifting
the price of imports while dimin-
ishing growth. Britain is now con-
sumed with fractious divorce pro-
ceedings that seem likely to end
its inclusion in Europe’s vast com-
mon marketplace, threatening its
exports. Still, the pound has
gained more than 7 percent
against the dollar since the middle
of January.
For American exporters, a
weaker dollar effectively makes
goods cheaper on world markets.
The dollar is no longer
the sure thing it once
was.
Not coincidentally, multinational
companies based in the United
States have seen their earnings
soar.
A weaker dollar also makes va-
cations in the United States
cheaper, attracting more interna-
tional tourists and bolstering em-
ployment in the hospitality indus-
tries.
But given that the United States
imports more than it exports, a
cheaper dollar effectively in-
creases prices on wares for Amer-
ican consumers, from clothing to
electronics to tools.
ANDY WONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A weaker dollar may be pleas-
ing to Mr. Trump. He has previ-
ously called for a cheaper green-
back to make it easier for Ameri-
can companies to sell goods
abroad. He has railed against
countries that have large trade
surpluses with the United States,
such as China and Germany, while
accusing them of profiting from
undervalued currencies.
Yet if a weaker dollar is part of
the administration’s designs, it
does not appear to be jibing with
other elements of its plans. Since
January, the dollar has slipped
nearly 4 percent against China’s
currency, the renminbi. At the
same time, Trump administration
officials have been readying a
case aimed at punishing China for
unfair trade practices.
Currencies tend to be nudged
by scores of factors that play out
at once, rendering speculative
YUYA SHINO/GETTY IMAGES
Foreign exchange traders, top,
watching Donald J. Trump
give his victory speech last No-
vember. At left, driving past a
display board outside the
North Korean embassy in Bei-
jing. Investors must account
for American uncertainty now.
any conversation about daily
price movements. Evidence is
mixed on whether the dollar is
less of a safe haven. While the val-
ue of the American currency has
dropped, so has another tradi-
tional refuge, the Swiss franc. This
may indicate that geopolitical
events have simply not reached a
point at which investors are seek-
ing shelter.
“Risk factors are playing out as
opposed to ‘head for the hills’ kind
of panic,” said Lutfey Siddiqi, a
visiting professor at the London
School of Economics. “What has
certainly happened is that the out-
look for the United States is dra-
matically less clear than it was at
the start of the year.”
But the reaction on Wednesday
to the latest tensions on the Kore-
an Peninsula bolstered the notion
that the dollar is functioning dif-
ferently. The yen rallied, and so
did gold — both safe havens. The
dollar dipped.
The fate of the dollar is now sub-
ject to the influences of a presiden-
tial administration that has given
markets an expectation for the un-
expected. As traders seek to di-
vine the risks of geopolitical hot
spots, this appears to be weighing
on the American currency.
“There is some erosion in the
relative stability of the United
States in light of this administra-
tion’s inconsistency on global af-
fairs,” said Mr. Posen of the Peter-
son Institute. “The U.S. is at rela-
tively more risk than we thought
in the past.”

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Gold tends to outperform
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What is driving this anomaly,
some say, is a recognition that
eventually investors will not be
able to ignore recent headline
risks — whether nuclear tensions
with North Korea, a trade war
with China or a debt ceiling crisis
in Washington.
“There has been a Pavlovian re-
sponse by investors to disregard
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in volatility, and that has been a
very profitable strategy,” said
Russ Koesterich, a portfolio man-
ager for BlackRock’s $39 billion
Global Allocation Fund. “But we
do think that there are risks in the
world that are not being priced in.”
To Mr. Koesterich’s point, some
of the best-performing invest-
ments in the world this year have
been exchange-traded vehicles
that investors can use to bet
against the VIX, the Chicago
Board Options Exchange Volatili-
ty Index, better known as Wall
Street’s fear gauge.
The VIX rose nearly 9 percent
on Wednesday after Mr. Trump’s
comments about North Korea, be-
fore settling up just 1.37 percent, at
11.11 for the day. The index has been
trading at historically low levels,
and many investors continue to
wager that lots of money pouring
into markets and an improving
global economy will keep the in-
dex quiescent.
Mr. Koesterich, however, has
been taking the opposite side of
that trade. Since the beginning of
the year, he has been adding to his
gold position, and it is now the
Global Allocation Fund’s second-
largest position, according to Y
Charts.
“Gold can help especially if the
dollar is not a safe haven any-
more,” he said, referring to how
the dollar has weakened in re-
sponse to the spate of news from
Washington. “It is a good headline
hedge.”
Mr. Koesterich is not alone in
adopting a wary stance, espe-
cially now in August, when trad-
ing desks on Wall Street empty
out and lower levels of buying and
selling can result in sharper
downward moves in the market.
The Dow Minute by Minute
Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Wednesday.
Previous close
22,085.34
10 a.m. Noon
Source: Reuters
While few people are predicting
an actual crash, a growing num-
ber of stock market specialists are
warning that in the coming
months, markets are likely to start
reacting more to so-called macro
events such as political volatility
and the realization that central
bankers in Europe and the United
States are moving toward a more
restrictive stance on interest rates
and intervening in markets.
That is because the benign mar-
ket conditions of recent months
have been spurred by better eco-
nomic news, and, in particular, by
a very good spate of second-quar-
ter earnings.
Once investors return from va-
cation, the theory goes, and with
no good earnings news to inspire
them, they will be more sensitive
to headline events.
That could result in sharper
moves downward in stock market
indexes.
“There are risks,” said Marko
Kolanovic a market strategist and
derivatives specialist at JPMor-
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gan Chase, who warned in a re-
cent report about an increase in
trading volatility this fall. “China,
North Korea and the normaliza-
tion of policies by central banks,
which has been underappreciated
by the market.”
Since 2012, after a sharp rise
during the financial crisis, gold, as
an investment, has not performed
well as investors have chased re-
turns in buoyant stock and bond
markets.
But while many investors have
shaken off scares such as Britain
exiting the European Union or po-
litical unrest in Washington, the
view is taking hold that gold can
be a very good hedge against
more serious threats like nuclear
confrontation in Asia.
“There has been a wall of
money supporting markets so
far,” said Stuart Culverhouse, a
market strategist at Exotix Capi-
tal in London. “But this time we
are not just talking about a macro
surprise — we are talking about
full-on military action.”
Agency Takes Step to Delay
A Rule on Financial Advisers
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
Regulators are seeking to delay
the deadline for financial advisers
to fully comply with a rule that
would require them to act in their
customers’ best interest, accord-
ing to a federal court filing on
Wednesday.
The Labor Department, which
sent the proposal to the Office of
Management and Budget, said it
wanted to push back the full im-
plementation of the so-called fidu-
ciary rule to July 1, 2019, from Jan.
1, 2018, according to a court docu-
ment filed in Federal District
Moving to push back
a deadline for a
regulation meant to
protect consumers.
Court in Minnesota.
The first part of the fiduciary
rule took effect in June, and re-
quires brokers, financial advisers
and insurance agents to put their
customers’ interests ahead of
their own, at least when they are
handling their retirement ac-
counts.
But the final pieces that are not
yet in place are what gives the rule
its teeth: Among other things, the
rule would require financial pro-
fessionals with conflicts of inter-
est to sign a contract with
customers, making the rule le-
gally enforceable.
The court document had few de-
tails, but was part of a lawsuit filed
by Thrivent Financial for Lu-
therans against the Labor Depart-
ment, which oversees retirement
accounts. A spokesman said the
proposal would be published in
the Federal Register on Thursday,
but declined further comment.
Just a month after President
Trump took office, he ordered a re-
view of the regulation, which has
been strongly opposed by the fi-
nancial services and insurance in-
dustries.
Some consumer advocates said
they were not surprised by the
proposed delay but were con-
cerned the move would give the
Trump administration more time
to weaken the fiduciary rule,
which was crafted by the Obama
administration over roughly six
years.
“American workers want and
expect retirement advice in their
own best interest, and this further
and unwarranted enforcement
delay does not serve anyone who
is working hard to save for retire-
ment,” said Cristina Martin
Firvida, director of financial secu-
rity at AARP.
A research note circulated by
Compass Point Research & Trad-
ing, which provides analysis on
the financial services sector, said
the 18-month window “sets the
stage for a substantial rewrite” —
and should provide sufficient time
for the Labor Department to
“meaningfully soften the rule.”
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
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A Missing Tycoon’s Links to Dalian Wanda, China’s Troubled Conglomerate
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE
Dalian Wanda, the Chinese con-
glomerate that owns the AMC
movie theater chain and nurtures
Hollywood ambitions, has some-
times turned to the secretive busi-
ness network of a politically con-
nected Chinese billionaire in
times of need.
Now both Wanda and that bil-
lionaire, Xiao Jianhua, are under
official pressure in China — and
one Wanda insider says that may
not be a coincidence.
Mr. Xiao was escorted out of a
Hong Kong hotel in January in the
middle of the night in a wheelchair
by unidentified men. He is now be-
lieved to be across the border in
mainland China helping the au-
thorities with investigations into
the financial industry. His legal
status is unclear: China’s govern-
ment has not made any announce-
ment about whether he is in cus-
tody.
Half a year after Mr. Xiao’s dis-
appearance, Wanda is selling off
large portions of its empire of
malls, hotels and amusement
parks, as big Chinese companies
are under increasing pressure
from regulators to shed debt.
Chinese authorities have not
discussed Mr. Xiao’s situation
publicly. But Tony Saich, a profes-
sor at the Kennedy School of Gov-
ernment at Harvard University
and a director of Wanda’s AMC
Entertainment arm, said Mr. Xi-
ao’s work with the authorities and
Wanda’s problems might be con-
nected.
“I think virtually all these
things that are unfolding now are
possibly related to Xiao’s trip
across the border,” Mr. Saich said.
Keith Bradsher contributed re-
porting.
Layers of Loans Funded
Deal for Australian Dairy
By JANE PERLEZ
and RYAN McMORROW
SMITHTON, Australia — Not
long after China’s leader, Xi Jin-
ping, visited the remote island
state of Tasmania, a little-known
Chinese entrepreneur with big
ambitions followed in his foot-
steps, buying Australia’s largest
dairy, with 20,000 cows and rolling
green pastures, for more than
$200 million.
It looked like a good match.
Australia was hungry for Chinese
money. And the businessman, Lu
Xianfeng, presented himself as a
well-heeled investor, promising to
protect jobs and add even more.
Like much of the splashier over-
seas spending by Chinese con-
glomerates, the acquisition of the
dairy was financed by layers upon
layers of debt, the type of financial
complexity and opaque deal ma-
king that worry regulators in
China and around the world.
Mr. Lu paid for the purchase
with three loans, one from a lend-
er in Australia and two from Chi-
nese lenders, including the big-
gest state-run bank, the Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China,
according to the filings of his pub-
licly traded company. He then
pledged shares in the public com-
pany, Ningbo Xianfeng New Ma-
A type of opaque
deal-making that
worries regulators.
terials, to raise even more money.
Lately, his businesses have been
on shaky financial footing, with
Ningbo Xianfeng halting trading
in its shares in China, citing a re-
structuring.
The deal is part of a problematic
pattern as indebted Chinese com-
panies buy marquee assets in the
United States, Europe, Canada
and Australia. China was Austral-
ia’s largest source of foreign in-
vestment in 2016, as measured by
approved deals.
China has started to rein in big
players like the Anbang Insur-
ance Group, Fosun International,
the HNA Group and Dalian
Wanda, concerned that their piles
of debt, largely from state-run
banks, threaten the financial sys-
tem and economic growth. For-
eign governments, too, are wary
of the flood of Chinese deals, with
complex ownership structures
that make it difficult to discern the
strategic motivations and finan-
cial health of the buyers.
While Australian politicians
generally view Chinese invest-
ment as advantageous, there are
increasing worries that the gov-
ernment is approving deals by
problematic companies aligned
with a potential adversary. The at-
titudes toward Chinese money
have been complicated by recent
controversies about election-cam-
paign donations from Australians
of Chinese descent with links to
Mr. Saich has played host to
Wanda’s chairman, Wang Jianlin,
at Harvard and knows Mr. Xiao
because of his donations to the
university.
Mr. Saich said that Mr. Xiao
might be laying out for govern-
ment regulators the complex and
interlocking web of debts and
shareholding ties among many
companies that could pose a dan-
ger to China’s financial stability. In
the months ahead of an important
Communist Party meeting this
autumn, the Chinese leadership —
led by Xi Jinping, China’s presi-
dent — has placed an even bigger
emphasis on stability, leaving an
impression that the government
is tightening its grip.
“My sense is this has gone up
the system to Xi and they are just
staggered by what is going on,”
Mr. Saich added.
Neither Wanda nor Mr. Xiao has
ever publicly discussed whether
they have a relationship. But a re-
view of documents indicates that
business associates of Mr. Xiao
were involved both in the process
leading up to Wanda’s 2014 initial
public offering in Hong Kong and
its privatization less than two
years later, according to numer-
ous corporate filings in China and
Hong Kong.
It is not clear whether Wanda
actively sought his help or
whether Mr. Xiao’s connections in
the Chinese business world are so
extensive that they could be diffi-
cult to avoid. Mr. Xiao, 45, did not
respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for Wanda would
not comment when asked about
ties between Mr. Xiao and the
company.
Wanda is one of a number of
companies in China that have
come to be known as gray rhinos:
the Chinese government.
The acquisition of the Tasma-
nian dairy, known as Van
Diemen’s Land Company, or VDL,
is spurring questions about
whether the Australian govern-
ment is fully assessing the risks.
Major purchases by overseas
buyers are vetted by Australia’s
Foreign Investment Review
Board. While the board analyzes
deals for threats to the country’s
national interests, its mandate
does not require deep due dili-
gence on the buyers’ finances.
“The Australian assumption
has been that Chinese business
operates like Australian ones,”
said Peter Jennings, executive di-
rector of the Australian Strategic
Policy Institute. “But they operate
in ways that don’t fit with how we
do business in the Australian
economy.”
The review process, he said, ap-
pears to lack basic due diligence
on potential foreign buyers. “If
they have the capacity, they are
very good at hiding it,” he said.
Mr. Lu is not the only Chinese
buyer with precarious finances.
A Chinese company, Land-
bridge, which leased the strategic
port in Darwin in 2015, is facing fi-
nancial troubles. Landbridge is
trying to secure loans from lend-
ers, including China’s Export-Im-
port Bank, raising concerns about
why a facility near Australian and
American defense forces may be-
come tied up with a state-run Chi-
nese lender dedicated to carrying
out Beijing’s policy goals.
In a sign of the growing sensi-
tivity, the Australian government
rebuffed two offers from Chinese
companies to buy the nation’s big-
gest cattle ranch, S. Kidman and
Co., on the grounds the deal was
against the country’s interest. A
year later, a Chinese buyer took a
minority interest with an Austral-
ian businesswoman, Gina Rine-
hart.
Mr. Lu did not respond to re-
quests for comment sent through
his Chinese and Australian com-
panies. A spokeswoman for his
Chinese company, Ningbo Xian-
feng, declined to comment.
A spokesman for the Australian
treasurer, Scott Morrison, said in a
statement that “the government
considers a broad range of factors
against the national interest when
assessing foreign investment pro-
posals,” including financing ar-
rangements and impact on the
economy.
Chinese money has poured into
Australia, where buyers are seek-
ing wide-open spaces, fresh
produce and a stable economy. In
the last decade, Australia was the
second-biggest recipient of Chi-
nese money, just behind the
United States, according to a
study by the accounting firm
KPMG.
Chinese players vied for cattle
ranches, wineries, ports and
mines. Tens of thousands of
homes were snapped up.
The Tasmanian government
has been courting Chinese invest-
ors since it hosted President Xi
with fanfare in 2014. Bolstered by
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A mall owned by Dalian Wanda in Wuhan, China. The company is selling off parts of its empire.
politically connected private com-
panies that have invested billions
of dollars abroad and borrowed
heavily from Chinese banks.
Wanda, with its substantial debts
and extensive financial ties to the
families of China’s Communist
Party elite, is the prototypical
gray rhino.
Wanda involvement with com-
panies connected with Mr. Xiao
goes back more than eight years.
A business partner of Mr. Xiao,
Yang Hongwei, held a senior posi-
tion at an investment firm that
helped oversee a Wanda private
share sale in 2009. That deal
brought in politically powerful in-
vestors, including the older sister
Lu Xianfeng, top, bought Australia’s largest dairy, known as VDL, above left, for over $200 million in 2016. President Xi Jinping of
China, above right, visited Hobart, Tasmania, in 2014. The Tasmanian government has been courting Chinese buyers.
an Australia-China free trade
agreement, Tasmanian exports of
fresh produce to China have
soared.
From the outset, the deal for the
lush land perched high above the
southern Pacific Ocean attracted
attention. The roots of VDL, Aus-
tralia’s most prestigious dairy,
stretch back to the settlement of
Tasmania by the British in the
early 1800s. The British owned it
for more than a century; the dairy
was owned by a New Zealand
company before Mr. Lu bought it.
Mr. Lu, whose main business in
China is manufacturing window
shades, created an Australian
company, Moon Lake Invest-
ments, to buy the dairy. He
promised to invest an additional
100 million Australian dollars, pre-
serve the existing 140 jobs and add
up to 95 others. He vowed to ex-
port fresh milk from the farm to an
expanding Chinese middle class
desperate for quality assurances
and covetous of imported food.
“Here was a proposal from a
savvy Chinese investor,” said the
chief executive of VDL Farms,
Evan Rolley, a former state gov-
ernment official. “He could take
the Tasmanian product right into
of Mr. Xi, Qi Qiaoqiao, and her hus-
band, Deng Jiagui, as sharehold-
ers in Dalian Wanda Commercial
Properties, Chinese corporate
records show. That Wanda unit,
the company’s flagship, owns
shopping malls across China.
Mr. Yang at the time ran the
China operations of the invest-
ment banking arm of China Con-
struction Bank, a huge state-run
lender, and that investment bank
was itself once one of Wanda’s big-
gest shareholders.
Mr. Yang also had extensive ties
with Mr. Xiao. The two founded an
internet company in 2000, then
Mr. Yang went on to run another
technology company that counted
BRENDON THORNE/BLOOMBERG
the consumer markets in China.”
To help gain acceptance in tight-
knit Tasmania, where the popula-
tion is just 500,000, Mr. Lu chose a
well-connected former politician,
David Crean, as the deputy chair-
man of Moon Lake. Mr. Lu im-
pressed officials with his pledge to
honor the cultural heritage of Ab-
original people on the property,
Mr. Rolley said.
“They have a naïve fixation”
with China, Mark Harrison, asso-
ciate professor of Chinese Studies
at the University of Tasmania,
said of the state government.
“Mr. Lu’s financial problems
were well covered in the Chinese
press and in financial filings,” he
said. “I know about them. Why
doesn’t the government?”
After striking an agreement to
buy the dairy in late 2015, Mr. Lu
established Kaixin Investment, a
Ningbo-based company, to ac-
quire the assets. That company
obtained loans of $74 million from
the Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China and $22 million
from the China Zheshang Bank to
finance the purchase.
The loans were guaranteed by
Ningbo Xianfeng, which in turn
was backed by all the dairy farm’s
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one of the companies in Mr. Xiao’s
fleet as a top investor.
Mr. Yang, Mr. Xiao and Mr. Xi’s
family had other business connec-
tions, corporate records show.
While Mr. Yang was at China Con-
struction Bank’s investment
bank, it formed a joint venture
with Ms. Qi and Mr. Deng to make
China investments. In 2013, after a
Bloomberg News report showed
the wealth accumulated by Mr.
Xi’s family, the company co-
founded by Mr. Xiao and Mr. Yang
bought the joint venture stake
owned by Mr. Xi’s relatives.
In a statement to The New York
Times in June 2014, a spokeswom-
an for Mr. Xiao said the purchase
assets, according to corporate fil-
ings. Separate public filings
showed that a $56 million loan
from Rabobank in Australia also
funded the deal, debt that was also
backed by the dairy’s assets.
The Chinese loans were not pre-
sented to the review board, ac-
cording to the managing director
of Moon Lake, Sean Shwe, who
helped prepare documents for the
board. Mr. Shwe said he was not
aware of the loans from the Chi-
nese lenders.
Around the same time, Mr. Lu
began arranging other funding in
China. He handed over blocks of
shares in Ningbo Xianfeng to
lenders as collateral for loans,
eventually pledging 95 percent of
his shares, according to corporate
filings.
Such loans are generally ex-
tended at high interest rates. They
can sour quickly if shares plunge
in value, a possibility in China’s
seesawing stock market.
In an interview, the spokesman
for Mr. Morrison, the Australian
treasurer, said that Mr. Morrison
was “comfortable with the advice
provided by the review board on
the dairy acquisition.”
The Australian review board
N B3
was done to help the couple exit
their investments following Mr.
Xi’s elevation to the top leadership
post. The sale was done “for the
family,” the spokeswoman said.
Mr. Yang, 54, didn’t respond to a
request for comment.
Wanda later took the commer-
cial properties business public, in
2014. Then, when Wanda took it
private again less than two years
later in a $4.4 billion deal, a busi-
ness connected to Mr. Xiao played
a crucial role.
One firm that helped Wanda fi-
nance the buyout was an invest-
ment vehicle controlled by a part-
nership called Pohua JT Capital
Partners, according to corporate
records in Hong Kong. Those
records show the partnership
shared management with a simi-
larly named firm called JT Capital
Management. JT Capital Manage-
ment has recently been the source
of funds for a scholarship program
at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government sponsored by the To-
morrow Foundation, the charita-
ble arm of Mr. Xiao’s main holding
company, the Tomorrow Group.
Patrick McKiernan, a spokes-
man for Harvard, said in an email
that JT Capital’s donation in 2014
went to support programs at the
Kennedy School, including the To-
morrow Foundation Fellows. The
Wall Street Journal previously re-
ported on the connection between
JT Capital Management and Po-
hua JT Capital Partners. Li
Haifeng, a director at Pohua JT
Capital in Hong Kong, didn’t re-
spond to an email and fax seeking
comment.
Until recently, the office next
door to the one used by JT Capital
Management in New York was oc-
cupied by the United States office
of another Chinese company.
CHRIS CRERAR
WILLIAM WEST/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
said the documents presented by
the Chinese buyer were confiden-
tial.
Rabobank declined to com-
ment.
After the purchase closed in
March 2016, Mr. Lu tried to sell the
dairy to his publicly traded com-
pany in a deal that would have
paid off the Chinese loans. But the
China Securities Regulatory Com-
mission barred that transaction,
citing “uncertain” future profits
from the dairy, a decision based on
declining earnings prompted by
plunging worldwide milk prices.
Mr. Lu’s businesses have been
struggling. Ningbo Xianfeng has
not traded since April. It an-
nounced in July that profits were
expected to drop at least 70 per-
cent in the first six months of 2017.
The window-shade business
Mr. Lu owns in Perth, Australia,
has failed to turn an annual profit
since Ningbo Xianfeng acquired it
in 2014.
Last month, Ningbo Xianfeng
announced it would sell an online
auto-parts business in Shanghai.
Employees had staged a revolt,
saying Mr. Lu didn’t live up to his
pledges, according to press re-
ports and public filings.
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
A Definitive Guide to Setting Up Your Smart Home
By BRIAN X. CHEN
Nearly everything in your home —
air-conditioners, thermostats, lights
and garage doors, among other things
— can today be connected to the inter-
net and remotely controlled with a
mobile device or smart
speaker.
TECH FIX
That sounds ideal,
but there’s a problem:
Setting up a so-called smart home can
be mind-boggling. There is a plethora of
different accessories that work only
with certain products, and some work
better than others.
Privacy is also a concern. While big
companies like Amazon, Google and
Apple offer smart home controllers
with strong security in mind, some
third-party home accessory makers
might not be as diligent about protect-
ing your privacy.
So here’s a guide to help you sort
through the jumble and become accli-
mated to your first smart home.
First, Choose an Assistant
Virtual voice-controlled assistants like
Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and
Amazon’s Alexa make it easy to control
smart home products by speaking
simple commands like “Alexa, turn on
the lights.”
AMAZON’S ALEXA Alexa is the virtual
assistant powering Amazon’s Echo
products. You summon it by saying
“Alexa.”
PROS
• Amazon’s Echo products are easy to
set up and plug in anywhere that you
need to summon Alexa.
• At $50, Echo Dot, the smaller speaker,
is one of the cheapest smart home
controllers on the market.
• Alexa has more than 10,000 “skills,” or
third-party capabilities, making it the
most broadly supported smart home
hub.
CONS
• Amazon’s Alexa app for iPhones and
Android phones, required for setting up
some smart home products, can be
clunky.
• Alexa sometimes has difficulty re-
sponding to what you ask it to do.
• The speakers on Echo products are
generally mediocre.
• In its privacy policy, Amazon says it
takes no responsibility for third-party
products that work with Alexa. In other
words, the onus is on you to find out
what third-party home-accessory com-
panies can do with the data they collect
from you.
GOOGLE’S ASSISTANT Google’s Home
smart speaker and some Android
smartphones include Google Assistant.
To summon it, just say, “O.K., Google.”
PROS
• The Home speaker and smartphones
running newer versions of Android
include Assistant.
• At $130, Google Home costs $50 less
than Amazon’s standard Echo speaker.
• Assistant is generally smarter than
Alexa and Siri because it is powered by
the brains of Google search, meaning
you can ask a broader array of ques-
tions and are more likely to get a cor-
rect response.
CONS
• Saying “O.K., Google” to summon
Assistant gets annoying.
• Google Home’s audio quality is just
mediocre.
• While Assistant is slightly smarter
than other virtual assistants, it is still
flawed and sometimes does not know
the answers to your questions.
• Google’s privacy policy on the data it
collects with Google Home is vague. It
says: “Google collects data that’s
meant to make our services faster,
smarter, more relevant and more useful
to you.”
APPLE’S SIRI Apple’s iPhones and iPads
include Siri, which can be summoned
by saying “Hey Siri,” or by holding
down the home button.
PROS
• With privacy in mind, Apple worked
with home accessory makers to ensure
that the data transferred between ac-
cessories and Apple devices is secure
and encrypted.
• The integration of HomeKit into Ap-
ple’s mobile devices makes it easier to
set up Siri with home accessories.
CONS
• Partly because of Apple’s stringent
privacy requirements, it has taken
longer for smart home accessories
supporting Siri to reach the market,
meaning there are fewer available.
• Siri sometimes has trouble under-
standing what you ask it to do.
• Siri is exclusive to Apple products.
Next, Choose Hardware
After you pick your virtual assistant,
you’ll be able to choose a piece of hard-
ware that will become your primary
smart home controller. Amazon’s Alexa
works with Echo Dot, Echo and Echo
Show; Google’s Assistant works with
Google Home and newer Android
smartphones; and Apple’s Siri works
with iPhones, iPads and Apple Watch.
Then, the fun begins. With your virtu-
al assistant you can set up your home
in a number of ways to make it “smart-
er.” Here’s a rundown of the different
assistants and some products that work
well with them.
Putting Alexa to Work
To set up your Alexa product, you’ll
first need to download the Alexa app
onto your phone. This app allows you to
add “skills” to control accessories or
increase your assistant’s set of capabili-
ties.
CONTROLLING YOUR LIGHTS A wide
variety of smart lighting is on the mar-
ket. While some systems require a
so-called bridge, a device that connects
PERSONAL TECH
with a Wi-Fi router and talks to the
smart light, there are also smart light
bulbs with a built-in Wi-Fi connection.
Lifx, a smart bulb with built-in Wi-Fi,
doesn’t require a bridge — so setting it
up is relatively simple.
To use Alexa to control a Lifx bulb,
you will need: 1.) an Amazon Echo
product; 2.) a Lifx bulb like the A19; 3.)
an Apple or Android smartphone for
setting up Alexa to talk to the bulb.
• Screw the Lifx bulb into the socket
and flip on the light switch.
• On your smartphone, download the
Lifx app from the Apple or Android app
store.
• Open the Lifx app. On the screen, tap
the + or Add Bulbs button and follow
the setup instructions to connect the
bulb to your Wi-Fi network. Give the
bulb a name that is easy to understand,
like “Lamp.”
• Open the Amazon Alexa app. Tap the
menu icon and select Skills. Search for
the Lifx skill and enable it.
• Tap the menu icon and select Smart
Home. Tap Devices, then tap Discover.
The app will scan for devices and dis-
cover the smart bulb named Lamp.
• Test the light. Make sure the light
switch is on. With your Echo nearby,
say, “Alexa, turn off the lamp.” Then
say, “Alexa, turn on the lamp.” Then try
things like “Alexa, dim the lamp” and
“Alexa, brighten the lamp.”
CONTROLLING A FAN There are many
plug-in appliances, like fans, electric
water kettles and coffee makers, that
you probably wish were smarter. By
plugging them into a smart plug, you
use a personal assistant to do things
like switch the power on or off remotely.
For this hypothetical example, we
will set up a fan to work with Alexa and
a smart plug from TP-Link. You will
need 1.) an Amazon Echo product; 2.) a
TP-Link smart plug; 3.) a plug-in fan
with a physical power switch that can
stay in the “on” position; 4.) an Apple
or Android smartphone for setting up
Alexa to talk to the smart plug.
• On your smartphone, download the
Kasa app from the Apple or Android
app store.
• Open the Kasa app and register for an
account. Once logged in, tap the Smart
Plug icon.
• Plug the smart plug into a power
outlet. Plug your electric fan into the
smart plug. The light on the plug will
turn amber.
• In the Kasa app, follow the instruc-
tions to connect your smartphone to the
plug. Give the smart plug a name like
“Fan.” Turn on the Remote Control
option and follow the instructions to
connect the plug to your Wi-Fi network.
• Open the Amazon Alexa app. Tap the
menu icon and select Skills. Search for
the TP-Link Kasa skill and enable it.
Tap the menu icon and select Smart
Home. Tap Devices, then tap Discover.
The Alexa app will scan for devices and
discover the smart plug labeled Fan.
• Now test the fan. Make sure the fan’s
power switch is in the “on” position.
With your Echo nearby, say, “Alexa,
turn off the fan.” Then say, “Alexa, turn
on the fan.”
Putting Siri to Work
Setting up home accessories to work
with Siri is relatively easy, partly be-
cause HomeKit is integrated into Ap-
ple’s mobile products. To find compati-
ble products, look for accessories that
are labeled “Works with Apple Home-
Kit” on the packaging or in the product
description.
Here are steps for setting up Siri to
control lights and an electric fan.
CONTROLLING THE LIGHTS You will
need: 1.) an iPhone or iPad; 2.) a Phil-
ips Hue lighting kit that works with
HomeKit.
• Follow the instructions to connect a
Hue bridge with a Hue light bulb.
• Open the Home app on your iPhone.
Tap the + symbol in the upper-right-
RICHARD BORGE
hand corner and then tap Add Acces-
sory.
• Wait for the accessory to be discov-
ered. If asked to Add Accessory to
Network, tap allow. Use the camera to
scan the accessory setup code on the
bottom of the Philips Hue Bridge. Fol-
low the instructions in the app to finish
setting up your light and give it a name
like “Lamp.”
• Now test the light. With your iPhone
nearby, say “Hey, Siri, turn on my
lamp.” Then say “Hey, Siri, turn off the
lamp.”
CONTROLLING A FAN You will need: 1.)
an iPhone or iPad; 2.) an iHome smart
plug; 3.) a plug-in fan.
How to Control an Electric Fan With Siri
Using iHome’s SmartPlug
• Plug the SmartPlug into a power
outlet. The green light will blink.
• On your iPhone, open the Home app.
Tap the + symbol in the upper-right-
hand corner and then tap Add Acces-
sory. Wait for the accessory to be dis-
covered. If asked to Add Accessory to
Network, tap allow. Use the camera to
scan the accessory setup code on the
bottom of the SmartPlug. Name the
plug “Fan.”
• Now test the fan. Make sure the fan’s
power switch is in the “on” position.
With your iPhone nearby, say “Hey,
Siri, turn on the fan.” Then say, “Hey,
Siri, turn off the fan.”
Putting Assistant to Work
Though Google Assistant is included on
newer Android devices, Google’s Home
speaker is the simplest way to control
home accessories. Here are steps for
setting up Google Home to control
lights and an electric fan.
CONTROLLING THE LIGHTS You will
need: 1.) a Google Home speaker; 2.) a
Lifx bulb like the A19; 3.) an Apple or
Android smartphone for setting up
Google Home to talk to the bulb.
• Screw the Lifx bulb into the lamp
socket and flip on the light switch.
• On your smartphone, download the
Lifx app. Open the app. On the screen,
tap the + or Add Bulbs button and
follow the setup instructions to connect
the bulb to your Wi-Fi network.
• With Google Home set up, you should
have already installed the Google
Home app on your smartphone. Open
the app and tap the menu icon in the
upper-left corner. Then tap Home Con-
trol. Tap the + sign to add a device. Tap
Lifx and sign into your Lifx account.
• Tap the Authorize button to let Google
Assistant control the light. Assign the
light to a room, like the living room.
• Now test the lamp. With Google Home
nearby, say, “O.K., Google, turn on the
light in the living room.” Then say,
“O.K., Google, turn off the light in the
living room.”
CONTROLLING A FAN You will need: 1.) a
Google Home; 2.) an iHome Smart-
Plug; 3.) an Android device or iPhone
to set up the Google Home to talk to the
smart plug; 4.) a plug-in fan.
• On your smartphone, download the
iHome Control app and open it.
• Plug the SmartPlug into a power
outlet. Plug the fan’s cord into the
SmartPlug. The green light on the
SmartPlug will blink.
• In the iHome Control app, tap the
Devices tab, tap Add Device and follow
the directions to finish the setup. Use
the app to scan the accessory setup
code on the bottom of the SmartPlug.
Give the plug a name like “Fan.”
• On your smartphone, open the Google
Home app. Tap the menu button in the
top left corner. Tap Home control. In the
devices tab, tap Add. Select iHome and
log into your iHome account to autho-
rize Google Assistant to control the
smart plug.
• Now test the fan. Make sure the fan’s
switch is in the “on” position. With your
iPhone nearby, say, “O.K., Google, turn
off the fan.” Then say, “O.K., Google,
turn on the fan.”
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B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
The Alt-Right Finds a New Enemy in Silicon Valley
When James Damore, a Google engi-
neer, was fired this week for writing a
10-page manifesto spelling out his
grievances with the company’s progres-
sive values and positing that biological
differences explained the
KEVIN tech industry’s gender
gap, it might have
ROOSE seemed like the end of a
bizarre, short-lived mo-
THE
SHIFT rality tale.
But for the alt-right,
the battle was just beginning.
Minutes after Mr. Damore’s firing
was announced, a flurry of right-wing
websites, message boards and social
media cliques sprang into action, eager
to paint the episode as another example
of liberal political correctness run
amok. A headline on Breitbart, the
conservative news site, screamed in
capital letters about “blacklists.” Users
on Twitter and 4chan, the message
board beloved by pro-Trump types,
began to organize a boycott of Google’s
services. Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-
right provocateur, called Mr. Damore’s
firing “disgusting” in a Facebook post,
and offered to help him land on his feet.
For alt-right activists, who occupy
the rightmost flanks of a powerful
conservative internet subculture,
Google’s response to Mr. Damore’s
memo was low-hanging fruit for mock-
ery. But there is another reason that the
alt-right’s opposition campaign ap-
peared so quickly, with such well-prac-
ticed maneuvers.
For the last several months, far-right
activists have mounted an aggressive
political campaign against some of
Silicon Valley’s biggest players. Extend-
ing their attacks beyond social net-
works like Facebook and Twitter, tech’s
typical free-speech battlegrounds, they
have accused a long list of companies,
including Airbnb, PayPal and Patreon,
of censoring right-wing views, and have
pledged to expose Silicon Valley for
what they say is a pervasive, industry-
wide liberal bias.
Complaints like these might once
have been easily dismissed. But in the
Trump era, as the right wing’s internet
warriors have refined their tactics and
gained legitimate political influence,
they are putting Silicon Valley in an
uncomfortable position.
The tensions escalated this spring,
when PayPal restricted the accounts of
several prominent far-right figures,
including Hunter Wallace, a white
nationalist blogger, and Kyle Chapman,
an alt-right personality known as Based
Intruder or Pet? The Security Cams That Can Tell
By DAMON DARLIN
I have a Nest camera for inside my
house — basically to watch my dog sleep
on the couch while I’m at work. I’m
thinking about a camera for outside, so I
turned for advice to Rachel Cericola,
who tests internet-connected devices for
The Wirecutter, the New York Times site
for product evaluations.
How practical and necessary is it to put
an internet-connected security camera
outside a home?
I think having an outdoor camera is
more practical than an indoor one. I do
enjoy watching my dog move from the
couch to the floor 20 times a day, but
having one outside will let you know if
someone is lurking about or trying to
break in. Over all, I think the decision
to buy an outdoor camera may depend
a lot on where you live, if you’re away a
lot and how paranoid you are about
prowlers and packages left on the
doorstep.
When I say “paranoid,” it doesn’t
necessarily mean you’re like Jimmy
Stewart in “Rear Window.” If you have
a lot of outdoor critters getting into
trash cans, sheds or other areas, it can
provide answers and peace of mind. I
also have a milkman, so it’s nice to
know when things are in the box.
A milkman!
Yes. He’s awesome, too.
What do you recommend camera-wise,
not milk-wise?
The best one I’ve seen so far is the
Nest Cam Outdoor. It has killer picture
quality and 24/7 recording. Many cam-
Speaking Up
To Windows 10
Q. Does Windows 10 come with its own
dictation function like the Mac does?
A. Windows 10 does have an integrated
speech-recognition feature that you can
use for things like dictating text into a
word-processing program or giving
vocal commands to navigate the system.
(Windows 7 also includes speech recog-
nition functions in the Ease of Access
settings.)
To set up a Windows 10 computer to
take dictation, go the search bar next to
the Start menu, enter “speech recogni-
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computer-based technology to
techtip@nytimes.com. This column will
answer questions of general interest, but
letters cannot be answered individually.
Google’s offices in
Mountain View, Calif.
A Google engineer’s
firing has become a
cause for right-wing
activists online.
Stickman. In a statement, PayPal said
that its policy was “not to allow our
services to be used for activities that
promote hate, violence or racial intoler-
ance.”
A similar fight occurred in July when
Patreon and GoFundMe, two crowd-
funding sites, banned several accounts
associated with the alt-right. One of
them was used by Lauren Southern, a
Canadian activist and journalist who
made a name for herself with inflam-
matory stunts like disrupting a refugee
rescue mission in the Mediterranean
Sea. Patreon banned Ms. Southern’s
account after deciding that her activi-
ties were “likely to cause loss of life,”
but emphasized that it was the nature
of Ms. Southern’s work, not the political
views behind it, that had violated its
terms.
Security cameras attached to a porch for testing. The Nest Cam Outdoor
records all the time, so you don’t have to worry about missing something.
eras record just when there’s motion.
This one records all the time, so you
don’t have to worry about missing
something. Then, when something does
happen, you get a little notification on
your phone or you can view a timeline
of videos in the cellphone app. That
type of service does require a subscrip-
tion, which may scare some people off,
but it’s not as scary as someone walk-
ing right in front of the camera and
having your camera miss it.
How did you test the cameras?
I mount them to a board that’s atta-
ched to my front porch. I think the most
I had mounted there at once was seven.
tion” and choose the Windows Speech
Recognition control panel from the
search results. A link in the control
panel takes you through a tutorial on
using voice commands and dictation.
When you use the onscreen tutorials,
the software begins to learn your voice.
If you plan to do a lot of dictation, con-
sider using a headset microphone so
your voice comes in loud and clear.
Another option in the Speech Recogni-
tion control panel guides you through
setting up an external microphone.
The experimental Microsoft Garage
group recently released Dictate, an
add-on for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
and Outlook that uses the same speech-
recognition technology as the Windows
Cortana assistant so you can “type with
your voice.” Google Docs has a similar
voice-typing feature for those who pre-
fer to dictate their thoughts, rather than
pound them out through a keyboard.
The Dictation feature within the Mac
PERSONAL TECH
“The decision to remove a creator
page has nothing to do with politics and
ideology,” Jack Conte, Patreon’s chief
executive, said in a YouTube video
about the incident.
Some company decisions are more
explicitly political. At Airbnb last week,
the company discovered that several
writers and activists affiliated with The
Daily Stormer, a white supremacy
website, had used its website to book
lodging for a right-wing rally in Char-
lottesville, Va., and were planning to
use rented houses as after-party ven-
ues. Airbnb officials canceled the book-
ings and deleted the users’ accounts,
saying that the gatherings violated the
company’s “community commitment.”
YouTube, which hosts a thriving
community of right-wing personalities
— and, not coincidentally, is owned by
Google — has come under particularly
aggressive criticism from conservative
activists, who have accused the site of
placing them in a “ghetto” by suppress-
ing their videos.
This month, YouTube announced a
new slate of content policies that sub-
jected “controversial religious or su-
premacist content” to additional restric-
ASK THE WIRECUTTER
RACHEL CERICOLA/THE WIRECUTTER
This spot gets a lot of action. Some-
times it’s too much action, and some
cameras will catch every car that
drives by. I’ve tested cameras that have
sent me over 100 notifications a day.
That’s why it’s important to look for a
camera that has a way to adjust the
camera’s sensitivity.
I’ve also put them in the back of my
house and have found that my back-
yard is quite the late-night hotbed for
stray cats and rabbits.
Did the neighbors get worried when they
saw all those cameras going up?
I have them in a spot where you can’t
really notice until you get up close. But
TECH TIP
operating system converts speech into
text and can also be used to orally com-
mand the computer. To enable it, click
on the System Preferences icon in the
Mac’s desktop dock, select Keyboard
and then click the Dictation tab. Older
versions of the Mac operating system
keep these settings on the Dictation &
Speech preferences.
Protecting
Your Accounts
Q. Which is better to use for two-step
verification: getting the codes sent by
text message or using an authentication
app?
A. Two-step verification — also known
as two-factor authentication, or 2FA for
short — makes your online accounts
safer by requiring a separate numeric
code to be typed in after you fill in the
MICHAEL SHORT/BLOOMBERG
tions, including hiding those videos
from user recommendations. The poli-
cies did not explicitly mention any
political ideology, but conspiracists at
sites like Infowars and Breitbart cried
foul, claiming that YouTube’s true intent
was to stop the spread of right-wing
views. One far-right journalist, Mike
Cernovich, announced on Twitter that
he was planning a protest outside
Google’s offices.
“We’re just doing what the left has
done for a while,” Mr. Cernovich told
me. “You use activist tactics to apply
pressure to corporations, and the cor-
porations respond.”
It’s a tech company’s right, of course,
to bar whomever it wishes. The First
Amendment, often cited by right-wing
activists as a bulwark against censor-
ship, does not apply to the activities of
companies, and tech companies almost
always have terms in the fine print that
give them the right to cut off access to
users for any reason.
But the latest wave of right-wing
activism has still forced the hands of
large Silicon Valley companies, many of
which have tried to avoid the appear-
ance of partisanship even as they pro-
NEST
I’m pretty sure some of the neighbor-
hood kids thought I was a drug dealer
or something.
The frequent notifications can be annoy-
ing. Are any of the cameras good at
recognizing what are people and what
are raccoons?
typical password. The codes you need
for that second security step can be
supplied by SMS text message to your
phone or from a special authenticator
app connected to that account.
Preprinted backup codes and voice mail
messages are other ways to confirm
your identity in a two-factor situation.
There are pros and cons to getting
codes by text message or an authentica-
tion app. Using the text-message
method means a quicker setup, and you
don’t have to download and configure a
separate app just to log into an account.
You typically get text alerts immediately
when someone is trying to hack into
your account.
But going with an authenticator app
means you do not need a network con-
nection to get a fresh code — which can
be helpful when traveling outside of
your carrier’s network. Some security
experts consider the app approach safer
because you do not have to worry about
mote progressive values.
The alt-right isn’t necessarily wrong
when it claims, as its followers often do,
that Silicon Valley is steeped in social
liberalism. These are companies that
emerged out of Bay Area countercul-
ture, that sponsor annual floats in gay
pride parades and hang “Black Lives
Matter” signs on the walls of their
offices. Silicon Valley’s policy prefer-
ences aren’t always liberal, but tech
executives routinely side with progres-
sives on hot-button social issues like
immigration, the Paris climate accords,
and President Trump’s recent decision
to bar transgender people from military
service. In today’s political climate,
these are partisan positions, and it’s no
big shock that they have drawn suspi-
cion from the other side.
There is a certain poetic justice in the
alt-right, largely an internet-based
political movement, turning against the
companies that enabled it in the first
place. Like most modern political move-
ments, the alt-right relies on tech plat-
forms like YouTube and Twitter to rally
supporters, collect donations and orga-
nize gatherings. In that sense, Silicon
Valley progressivism isn’t just an ideo-
logical offense to the alt-right — it’s an
operational threat.
In an attempt to build a buffer
against censorship, some alt-right
activists have begun creating their own
services. Cody Wilson, who describes
himself as a “techno-anarchist,” re-
cently opened Hatreon, a crowdfunding
site that bills itself as a free-speech
alternative to Patreon. Gab, a Twitter
clone, was started last year after Twit-
ter barred several conservative users.
RootBocks, a right-wing Kickstarter
knockoff, bills itself as “a crowdfunding
site that won’t shut you down because
of your beliefs.”
These companies are still tiny by
Silicon Valley standards, but their sup-
porters say that one day they could
serve as the foundation for a kind of
parallel right-wing internet where all
speech is allowed, no matter how nox-
ious or incendiary.
It’s unlikely that any alt-right protest
will make a dent in the bottom lines of
multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley behe-
moths. But by forcing these companies
to take sides in an emerging culture
war, these activists have already
achieved a kind of perverse goal. They
have found a new punching bag, and
they have proved that in the hyper-
polarized Trump era, there is no such
thing as neutrality.
This is one of the reasons I love the
$170 Nest Cam Outdoor. The Nest
Aware feature can tell the difference
between people and pets. Also, like
everything else in the Nest family, this
camera is always learning. It will actu-
ally start to recognize people in your
family. Again, that type of service starts
at $10 a month for one camera, which
includes 10 days of video history. If you
don’t want to pay for that, the Netatmo
Presence has a feature that will alert
you to people or animals. That one is
good, but not as versatile or easy as the
Nest.
Any tips on where to put them and where
to point them?
Viewing angle, Wi-Fi strength and
whether the camera is wired or wireless
may determine how close or far away
you can get. If the camera has a wide
viewing angle and a clear image, you
may be able to cover the entire front of
a house with one or two cameras. Entry
points are the No. 1 thing to consider,
such as the front and back door. The
SkyBellHD can combine a camera and
a doorbell to see who’s approaching.
But some people may want to cover a
shed, a boat or the driveway.
I like to have the front door covered
so I can see who’s coming and going. I
keep the camera close so I can get a
nice, clear image. I prefer to point it at
the front door, but that typically covers
my front porch as well.
The milkman doesn’t mind?
He doesn’t seem to. I’m sure barking
dogs are way more startling than the
cameras. He’s pretty quick, though.
the phone’s SIM card becoming compro-
mised or messages getting intercepted,
as the app generates the security codes
locally on the phone. Authy, Google
Authenticator and Microsoft Authentica-
tor are three popular programs in this
category.
While it is much better than using a
single password, two-factor authentica-
tion is not completely uncrackable.
Skilled criminals have hijacked authenti-
cation text messages sent to mobile
phone numbers, and the National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technology re-
cently stopped recommending that
users get their codes by text message
because of underlying security issues.
Authenticator apps are not infallible,
either. Having both your accounts and
your codes on the same device can
provide one-stop shopping for thieves,
but the apps are still widely considered
harder to crack than code sent by text.
J. D. BIERSDORFER

Devices at Home
To Monitor Asthma
And Heart Ailments
By CAROL POGASH
BERKELEY, Calif. — He could
have been surfing in Cabo. In-
stead, Tyler Crouch, then a 21-
year-old mechanical-engineering
student, spent spring break of
2013 building a digitized stetho-
scope and thinking, “This better
be worth it.”
Since then, he and two class-
mates from the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, have formed a
company — Eko Devices, which is
based here — raised nearly $5 mil-
lion and sold 6,000 digital stetho-
scopes, used in 700 hospitals. The
wireless stethoscopes can trans-
fer a patient’s heart rate and other
vital signs directly to Eko’s secure
portal, where it can, among other
things, be shared with other doc-
tors for a second opinion.
Now they have built something
with a potentially larger market:
It is the Duo, a digital stethoscope
for home use, which could change
how heart patients are monitored,
the entrepreneurs say. It is sched-
Telemedicine is a
$9.2 billion business
with room to grow.
uled to become available by pre-
scription in the fall.
The product, which fits in your
hand, combines electrocardio-
gram, or E.K.G., readings and
heart sounds into a device that al-
lows patients to monitor their
health at home and send data to
their physicians.
The partners behind Eko De-
vices are all young. Connor Land-
graf, 26, is a bioengineer and for-
mer president of Berkeley’s stu-
dent body. Jason Bellet, 24, a busi-
ness school graduate, ran for
president the following year, and
lost. None have a medical back-
ground.
But from the start, physicians
have guided them. The Eko team
relies on cardiologists at the Mayo
Clinic, Stanford University’s
School of Medicine, Massachu-
setts General Hospital and the
University of California, San Fran-
cisco, School of Medicine.
The Duo gives at-home heart
patients “a cardiology-level
exam” said Dr. Ami B. Bhatt, di-
rector of outpatient cardiology at
MGH and an assistant professor
of medicine at Harvard Univer-
sity.
Dr. Bhatt, who is a scientific ad-
viser to Eko and will be compen-
sated with a small stock option for
her work, said that tracking pa-
2 Senators Question Effects
Of a Reverse Mortgage Plan
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
Advocates for the elderly per-
suaded federal housing officials
two years ago to offer more rights
and protections to the spouse of a
borrower who takes out a reverse
mortgage and later dies.
Now there is concern that a
small wording change in the
Trump administration’s proposed
budget request for the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban De-
velopment could undo some of
those protections — potentially in-
creasing the chances that a sur-
viving spouse who did not sign the
mortgage documents could lose a
home in a foreclosure.
Two United State senators sent
a joint letter to Ben Carson, the
secretary of HUD and Mick Mul-
vaney, director of the Office of
Management and the Budget two
months ago, seeking clarity on the
proposed wording in the budget
request. The two — Senator
Marco Rubio, Republican of Flor-
ida, and Senator Catherine Cortez
Masto, a Nevada Democrat —
asked whether the agency was
seeking to reverse the earlier pol-
icy change.
The senators have yet to re-
ceive a response from the housing
agency about its intent for reverse
mortgages, investment products
that allow the elderly to tap the eq-
uity they have built up in their
homes. And that is causing some
concern.
“Our sense is it is bad drafting,
but when bad drafting goes
through, it can lead to bad policy,”
Alys Cohen, a staff lawyer in
Washington with the National
Consumer Law Center, said Tues-
day. “And you can lose control of
things once you have new lan-
guage.”
The three-decade-old market
for reverse mortgages is a niche
one — there are about one million
such loans outstanding.
tients, wherever they live, would
allow cardiologists to intervene
“before a crisis.”
Other doctors say it is too soon
to tell how helpful telemedicine
devices — which include home
monitoring devices for diabetes,
asthma and sleep disorders — will
be, given the many obstacles. For
one, patients can’t always be re-
lied on to use them consistently or
correctly.
“Medicine is experiencing a po-
tentially tectonic shift,” said Dr.
Jeffrey Olgin, professor and chief
of cardiology at the U.C. San Fran-
cisco School of Medicine, who con-
ducts research into mobile and
digital health. “There is a huge
amount of venture investment in
these kinds of things. People are
betting this is going to happen —
but it hasn’t happened yet.”
Telemedicine is a $9.2 billion
business, said Bruce Carlson, pub-
lisher of Kalorama Information, a
health care market-research firm
in New York. The field is growing
at 8 percent annually, nearly three
times as fast as other medical de-
vices.
The Duo enters a competitive
field. The more established Kardia
Mobile, which is the size of a stick
of gum and attaches to the back of
a smartphone, takes an E.K.G.
reading in 30 seconds. It sells on
Amazon for $99. This spring,
AliveCor, the maker of the device,
received over $30 million in fund-
ing, including an undisclosed
amount from the Mayo Clinic,
which is collaborating with the
company on development of its
devices.
The competition does not deter
Eko’s founders.
Mr. Bellet said the Duo could be-
come “Shazam for the heartbeat,”
referring to the hugely popular
song-identification app. “If you
can walk into a Walmart and find
out what someone is playing on
the radio, why can’t a doctor iden-
tify unusual heart sounds?” Mr.
Bellet said.
“Fun fact,” he added: The
founders of Shazam are early in-
vestors.
If Eko’s devices reach even 10
percent of its target market, Mr.
Bellet said, “It turns it into a $1.2
billion company.” But there are
plenty of ifs.
The $350 Duo (which does not
include a $45 monthly charge) is
not for Fitbit aficionados. It is a
prescription-only device for heart
patients.
From Eko’s airy Berkeley of-
fices, Mr. Landgraf demonstrated
the Duo. “l’ll just slip it under my
shirt,” he said, scooping up the
one-button device, which resem-
bles a cellphone for preschoolers.
He held it to his chest for 15 sec-
But reverse mortgages are
viewed as crucial pieces in help-
ing an aging population plan for
retirement, and new lenders are
coming into the market. The loans
permit an elderly person to bor-
row against the equity in his or her
home and avoid making any
monthly payments until the bor-
rower either dies or sells the
house.
Before the change in policy two
years ago, a surviving spouse who
had not signed the mortgage doc-
ument often had to pay what was
left on the loan in full or risk being
evicted in a foreclosure.
In their May 31 letter, the sena-
tors referred to the old policy as a
“loophole” that had “compounded
the stress faced by widows and
widowers at a time when they
were already grieving the loss of
their spouse.”
The language that concerns the
senators and advocates for the
elderly is a proposed change in the
National Housing Act that says, in
regard to reverse mortgages, that
a mortgagor “shall not include the
successors and assigns of the
original borrower under a mort-
gage.”
The phrase appears in a section
of the housing act discussing what
kinds of reverse mortgages are el-
igible for insurance guarantees
from the Federal Housing Admin-
istration, a division of HUD.
The revised wording would
seem to suggest that a surviving
spouse is not necessarily entitled
to stay in the home. At the same
time, however, the budget pro-
posal includes a new line that
would give the secretary of HUD
wide discretion to determine
when a loan is payable after the
death of the borrower.
“HUD’s proposed changes to
reverse mortgages included in the
last budget raised concerns that
the administration may be seek-
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The founders of Eko
Devices, from left at
top, Tyler Crouch,
Jason Bellet and Con-
nor Landgraf, in
Berkeley, Calif.
Above, the company’s
digital stethoscope.
onds as he watched the Duo’s
iPhone app display a graph of his
heart sounds and electrocardio-
gram, which tests the heart’s elec-
trical activity.
“I can also analyze it,” he said,
clicking to another screen. “This
is one of the features we’re work-
ing on.” That next step, an algo-
rithm, will send data to the cloud,
where it will be analyzed for heart
abnormalities.
The Eko team has discovered
that medicine is not like other in-
dustries. “It’s a five-to-10 year cy-
cle to get a product to market, be-
STEVE MARCUS/LAS VEGAS SUN, VIA A.P.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, left, and
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, have expressed
concern over wording in a Trump administration proposal.
ing to undo hard-fought existing
protections,” Ms. Cortez Masto
said in an emailed statement on
Tuesday. “I hope the administra-
tion can make clear that they’re
not looking to push seniors out of
their homes after the death of
their spouse.”
H.U.D. declined to comment.
Making the wording change all
the more perplexing is that the
National Reverse Mortgage Lend-
ers Association, the industry’s pri-
mary trade group, has not pushed
for any regulatory changes over
the ability of a surviving spouse to
stay in a home after the death of a
spouse.
HUD extended the protections
to surviving spouses after a series
of lawsuits and critical news cov-
erage about spouses losing their
homes after the death of a partner.
Controversy over reverse mort-
gages is not new.
It is an industry that has drawn
its fair share of scorn for using
Hollywood actors to hawk its
loans on late-night television ad-
vertisements. Some consumer ad-
vocates have complained that the
reverse mortgage business preys
on the financially ill-informed,
who might be better off simply
selling their homes and banking
cause it’s so highly regulated and
a slow-moving industry,” Mr. Bel-
let said.
The Duo and other telemedicine
devices address a common medi-
cal problem. “There is a black
space,” said Dr. Robert Pearl, a
lecturer on health care policy at
Stanford University’s medical and
business schools and, until re-
cently, the chief executive of Kai-
ser Permanente Medical Group,
which represents 10,000 physi-
cians.
Many small companies are de-
veloping devices for home moni-
toring, he said, “but doctors do not
want continuous information.”
They only want to know when
there’s a problem, Dr. Pearl said.
Physicians tend to want more
time talking to patients and less
time scanning screens — and
some of them are tech averse.
“Some doctors are still faxing pre-
scriptions,” Mr. Bellet said.
Telemedicine data must seam-
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the cash.
Yet for those over age 62 who
want to stay in their homes and
owe little to nothing on a mort-
gage, these investment products
have some appeal. The loans,
which the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration guarantees against
default, are also known as home
equity conversion mortgages.
The market peaked in 2008,
when the industry funded 114,923
loans, but it fell off sharply during
the financial crisis, according to
Reverse Market Insight. The in-
dustry has slowly rebounded with
48,732 loans funded in 2016 and
24,000 this year as of the end of
May.
The most active reverse mort-
gage lenders this year, according
to Reverse Market Insight, are:
the American Advisors Group; Fi-
nance of America Reverse, an af-
filiate of the private equity giant
the Blackstone Group; and Re-
verse Mortgage Funding, a rela-
tive upstart in the business.
Many predict that with home
prices rising again and a growing
number of baby boomers reach-
ing retirement age, there will be a
revival in this market as the eld-
erly look to supplement their liv-
ing expenses.
lessly reach patients’ records,
which is something he and his
partners are working on, he said.
And insurance companies must
agree to reimbursement, another
work-in-progress.
Dr. Olgin, the U.C. San Fran-
cisco cardiologist, said he be-
lieved “very strongly that it’s not
enough to do consumer-grade
evaluations of telemedicine de-
vices.”
“They should be held up to the
same level as drugs, because
there are always unintended con-
sequences,” he said.
The market potential for prod-
ucts that address heart failure is
great. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention estimates
that 610,000 people die of heart
failure in the United States every
year, making it the leading cause
of death. Half of heart-failure pa-
tients who leave a hospital return
within six months. They keep tabs
on themselves by weighing them-
selves daily, looking for sudden
weight gain that can mean water
retention — a sign the heart is not
functioning properly.
The Duo received clearance in
May from the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, and the new device
will ship in the fall. Over the next
two years, the company will par-
ticipate in two studies at U.C. San
Francisco.
“If you compare Eko to Uber, it
looks like we’re moving at a snail’s
pace,” Mr. Bellet said. “But if you
look at health care as a whole,
we’re actually making quite a
splash.”
Charvi Shetty, a Berkeley class-
mate and friend of Mr. Landgraf’s,
has followed a similar path as the
Eko Devices team. For her senior
design project in bioengineering,
Facebook Chases Ad Dollars
By Making It Easy to Tune In
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook
is coming for broadcast television.
And YouTube. And Netflix. And
every other place for video.
On Wednesday, Facebook intro-
duced Watch, a dedicated home
for videos in the social network.
Watch is a redesign of the site’s
current video tab, altered in a way
intended to entice people to watch
for longer stretches and return
regularly to view shows, including
the first programs funded by the
company. The idea is that when
users open Watch, the latest
episodes of their favorite shows
will be there waiting for them.
The redesign is part of a push
for Facebook to be more than a re-
pository of one-off viral videos by
offering higher-quality shows that
appeal to deep-pocketed TV ad-
vertisers and give viewers a rea-
son to keep coming back. The
company said it was rolling out
Watch to a limited group of users
in the United States before a wider
release in the future.
Facebook is betting that adding
a social component to online video
consumption — the ability to chat
with people in your network dur-
ing a show or knowing what’s pop-
ular among your friends — will
make the experience notably dif-
ferent from YouTube and Netflix.
For example, Watch will high-
light different shows under cate-
gories such as “Most Talked
About” or “What’s Making People
Laugh.” Facebook said the videos
that will appear in Watch will be
pulled from creators and publish-
ers who have created “Show”
pages on Facebook — akin to how
some small businesses create a
dedicated page.
Facebook said the show pages
would also provide a way for dedi-
cated fans to interact with the
shows’ creators beyond merely
watching the episodes.
“More and more people are
N B7
she built a device for asthma pa-
tients. Five years later, she is chief
executive of Knox Medical Diag-
nostics, a San Francisco start-up
that has developed a device for
children with asthma to monitor
their health at home, sending re-
sults to a smartphone app.
She said her device, called the
Aeris, replaces the commonly
used peak flow meter, which she
said, “doesn’t show what’s fully
going on in children’s lungs.” Her
product is undergoing testing at
the U.C. San Francisco School of
Medicine, where the pediatric pul-
monology department is helping
with development and funding.
Ms. Shetty’s device is a portable
spirometer that measures airway
obstructions and the severity of
inflammation in a child’s lungs
and, she said, alerts a parent be-
fore a child has an asthma attack.
More than 8 percent of children
in the United States have asthma,
according to the C.D.C. While they
are a fourth of all asthma patients
in the nation, a study conducted in
2010 found that children make up
nearly a third of asthma patients
who are hospitalized annually.
After testing her device with
asthmatic children, Ms. Shetty
added a video game to the app, to
encourage young patients to use
the device effectively while keep-
ing them engaged. “Some 6-year-
olds are able to understand better
what’s going on with the app than
the adults,” she said.
In November, the Aeris will be-
come available for research pur-
poses, she said, for $99 plus a $10
monthly subscription for the mo-
bile application. She expects to
seek clearance from the Food and
Drug Administration later this
year.
coming to Facebook with the in-
tention of watching videos,” said
Fidji Simo, who leads Facebook’s
video efforts. “This is the next
step.”
To encourage more people to
create shows for Watch, Facebook
said it would expand its video ad-
vertisement monetization pro-
gram, which shares revenue from
commercials that appear during
videos. Facebook has limited the
number of content creators who
can take advantage of the pro-
gram during a testing phase.
Many Facebook users see vid-
eos only as they scroll past a
friend’s wedding photos or a cous-
in’s political rant, unlike YouTube
users who visit that site for the
purpose of watching videos. As
advertising dollars earmarked for
television move online, Facebook
is seeking a way to coax its huge
audience — two billion users
monthly — to see it as a destina-
tion for video.
YouTube has said its mobile
viewers watch videos for more
than an hour a day on average.
Facebook has not disclosed the
time its users spend viewing, but
it is expected to be much less. The
Watch initiative could change
that; Facebook said it expects the
videos within Watch to be longer
than the videos users find in their
Newsfeeds.
The shows that will appear in
Watch are a mix of videos that are
already popular on Facebook —
like “Nas Daily,” a series that
chronicles the travels of a social
media star around the world —
and original programs funded by
Facebook.
Among the shows Facebook is
paying for are “Returning the Fa-
vor,” a show about inspiring peo-
ple starring Mike Rowe, who was
the host of “Dirty Jobs.”
Watch will also feature live pro-
gramming, including one Major
League Baseball game a week.
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Cinematographer Is the Film Academy’s New President
By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood
has a new de facto mayor: John
Bailey, a cinematographer, who
was elected to a one-year term as
president of the Academy of Mo-
tion Picture Arts and Sciences on
Tuesday night.
The academy’s 54-member
board, which includes luminaries
like Steven Spielberg and Whoopi
Goldberg, chose Mr. Bailey, 74,
whose credits stretch from “Ordi-
nary People” in 1980 to “How to Be
a Latin Lover” in April, to succeed
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who was in-
eligible for re-election. Ms. Boone
Isaacs, who turns 68 this month,
was president for four consecu-
tive one-year terms, the maxi-
mum. She also left the academy’s
board.
The job of academy president is
largely ceremonial. It is unpaid
and meant to be part time. The ac-
tual running of the organization
falls to Dawn Hudson, who works
under contract (one that was re-
cently renewed through 2020) as
chief executive. It was primarily
Ms. Hudson, for instance, who
handled the fallout in February,
when a bungled envelope handoff
led to the wrong film being an-
nounced as best picture at the
Academy Awards. (The winner
was “Moonlight” and not “La La
Land.”)
But Mr. Bailey will serve as the
public face of an institution that
faces an array of challenges.
The academy’s long-delayed
movie museum is finally rising on
Wilshire Boulevard in Los Ange-
les, but the organization still
needs to raise a large portion of its
$388 million cost.
The Academy Awards have ex-
perienced slumping ratings, in
part because members ignore
mass-market films in favor of art-
house nominees. Will the group fi-
nally embrace Netflix as a mem-
ber of the Hollywood club? Some
hard-liners say no way, no how;
others point out that Netflix plans
to make 50 original movies a year.
Suspended Fox News Host Sues Over Lewd-Photo Story
By EMILY STEEL
Eric Bolling, the suspended Fox
News host, initiated a $50 million
defamation lawsuit on Wednes-
day against the author of a Huff-
Post report that said Mr. Bolling
had sent lewd photographs to
three female colleagues.
The article, by Yashar Ali, cited
a dozen unidentified people who
said that Mr. Bolling had “sent an
unsolicited photo of male genitalia
via text message to at least two
colleagues at Fox Business and
one colleague at Fox News.” On
Saturday, a day after the article
was published, Fox News said it
had suspended Mr. Bolling pend-
ing an investigation into the accu-
sations. The network said it had
learned about the allegations fol-
lowing an inquiry from HuffPost.
Mr. Bolling is seeking at least
$50 million in reputational, mone-
tary and punitive damages and
other costs, according to a sum-
mons filed in State Supreme Court
in Manhattan. The summons cites
what it calls Mr. Ali’s “efforts to in-
jure the plaintiff’s reputation
through the intentional and/or
highly reckless publication of ac-
With Shift by Disney to Streaming, New Video Era Begins
From First Business Page
introduction early next year of a
subscription service to be built
around ESPN’s sports program-
ming. It will be powered by
BamTech, a technology company
that handles direct-to-consumer
video for baseball teams and
HBO, among others. Disney paid
$1 billion a year ago for a 33 per-
cent stake in BamTech. On Tues-
day, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief
executive, announced that Disney
had accelerated an option to
spend $1.58 billion for an addi-
tional 42 percent share.
But this still-unnamed sub-
scription service is designed to
protect the cable bundle, at least
initially. The service will offer only
sports programming that is not
available on ESPN’s traditional
channels. Only people who also
pay to receive ESPN the old-fash-
ioned way (via a cable or satellite
hookup) will be able to stream ES-
PN’s core offerings, including
N.F.L. and N.B.A. games.
Mr. Iger has also made an im-
portant calculation that Disney —
unlike most of its competitors —
has programming that is must-
have in the old model (cable and
satellite) and in the new (stream-
ing). Put another way, Disney has
the power to introduce streaming
offerings around ESPN, Pixar
films and Disney Channel shows
without worrying about being
dropped by third-party distribu-
tors, including upstarts like Sling
TV and PlayStation Vue.
PlayStation Vue, for instance,
tried to introduce a “skinny” tele-
vision package without ESPN in
March 2015 and drew little con-
sumer interest. When PlayStation
Vue started offering ESPN in
spring 2016, the distributor
quickly started gaining traction.
John Bailey’s election is a victory for the academy’s “below the line” artists — those who are not
actors, writers, directors or producers — many of whom have felt overlooked in Hollywood.
Most of all, Mr. Bailey will be ex-
pected to serve as a voice on the
topics of race and gender — two
things few people in Hollywood
want to discuss in the open, large-
ly because the entertainment in-
dustry has such a long history of
exclusion.
In wake of the #OscarsSoWhite
storms, Ms. Boone Isaacs helped
mount an effort to double female
and minority membership in the
organization by 2020. But even af-
ter two years of the initiative, the
academy remains 72 percent male
and 87 percent white.
Ms. Hudson and Ms. Boone
Isaacs often clashed, with Ms.
Boone Isaacs seen as taking a
more conservative approach to
tionable false and misleading
statements about the plaintiff’s
conduct and character.”
Mr. Bolling, who was most re-
cently a host of “The Fox News
Specialists,” is represented by Mi-
chael J. Bowe of the law firm Ka-
sowitz Benson Torres. Marc E. Ka-
sowitz, one of the firm’s partners,
is a longtime personal lawyer for
President Trump who has also
represented Bill O’Reilly, the for-
mer Fox News host who was
ousted in April amid allegations of
sexual harassment.
“This anonymously sourced
and uncorroborated story is false,
defamatory, and obviously in-
tended to destroy this good man’s
career and family,” Mr. Bowe said
in a statement. “We will defend
Eric aggressively in court, where
actual facts, based on evidence,
testimony and cross-examination,
will belie these anonymous accu-
sations.”
Mr. Ali, in a series of messages
posted on Twitter on Wednesday,
said he stood by his reporting and
would protect his sources.
“Not going to stop reporting on
Eric Bolling or anyone else,” he
An image from the 2016 Disney/Pixar film hit “Finding Dory.”
Disney will pull future Disney and Pixar movies from Netflix.
Children’s programming, an ob-
vious strength for Disney, has
proved especially important for
streaming services. Amazon last
year acquired a significant
amount of PBS’s library of original
series to exclusively stream on its
service, and Netflix has said it ex-
pects to have 75 original children’s
programs by the end of next year.
Disney’s announcement had an
immediate impact on Netflix, as
the news media raced to pit the
two companies against each other,
and some investors worried about
Disney taking back its movies.
(Starting in late 2019, new-release
Disney and Pixar films will move
to Disney’s entertainment-fo-
cused streaming service.) On
Wednesday, Netflix shares de-
clined 1.5 percent, to $175.78.
Omar Sheikh, an analyst at
Credit Suisse, said Disney’s move
“arguably reduces the consumer
value of Netflix.”
But most analysts contended
that the news was less worrisome
for Netflix than it would initially
seem. “We don’t view this as a
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academy affairs. Whether Mr.
Bailey will have a better working
relationship with Ms. Hudson is
unknown. He has been on the
academy’s board for 14 years, re-
cently serving as a vice president.
He has never been nominated for
an Oscar.
His election represents a vic-
tory for the academy’s less-visible
contingent of “below the line” art-
ists — those who are not actors,
writers, directors or producers —
many of whom have felt over-
looked in Hollywood.
Under the academy’s some-
times stuffy rituals, board mem-
bers are not allowed to openly
seek the job of president. But
whisper campaigns are rampant,
said in one post. “I’ve had family
members killed/jailed in Iran, a
lawsuit isn’t going to scare me.”
Mr. Ali is a freelance writer
whose work has been published
by New York magazine and
Mother Jones in addition to Huff-
Post.
Lydia Polgreen, HuffPost’s edi-
tor in chief, said the news organi-
zation stood by the story. “Yashar
Ali is a careful and meticulous re-
porter,” she said in a statement.
HuffPost is not named in the
summons; Mr. Ali said he was in-
demnified by the news organiza-
tion.
Fox News said its investigation
into Mr. Bolling was continuing.
Word of the pending lawsuit
came as the parent company of
Fox News, 21st Century Fox, re-
ported mixed quarterly earnings.
Even as scandal has engulfed Fox
News over the past year, the net-
work has continued to fuel growth
at the company.
For the quarter that ended June
30, 21st Century Fox beat ana-
lysts’ expectations for profit but
fell just short of revenue targets.
The company reported net in-
PIXAR/DISNEY
strike at Netflix, as the content be-
ing pulled is actually rather lim-
ited,” said Mr. Creutz of Cowan
and Company.
Disney has not yet decided
whether to pull its Marvel or “Star
Wars” movies from Netflix. Net-
A move by a media
giant stirs the world
of entertainment.
flix will not lose access to Marvel-
branded television shows like
“The Defenders” because Netflix
is a co-producer of them.
Executives at Disney and Net-
flix declined to comment publicly
on Wednesday. In a statement on
Tuesday, Netflix said, “We contin-
ue to do business with the Walt
Disney Company on many fronts,
including our ongoing deal with
Marvel TV.”
and most Hollywood insiders had
expected the actress Laura Dern
to be named president. Other con-
tenders included the documenta-
ry filmmaker Rory Kennedy and
David Rubin, a longtime casting
director.
Mr. Bailey, who received the
American Society of Cinemato-
graphers Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2014, will help lead the
academy with the assistance of
Lois Burwell, an Oscar-winning
makeup artist who was elected
first vice president. Serving as
vice presidents will be Kathleen
Kennedy, the Lucasfilm chief; Mi-
chael Tronick, a music editor; and
Nancy Utley, president of Fox
Searchlight.
come of $476 million, or 26 cents a
share, down from $567 million, or
30 cents a share in the same peri-
od a year earlier, which included a
$60 million tax benefit.
Total revenue for the quarter
was $6.75 billion, up 1.5 percent
from the same period last year.
Fueling that growth was a 10.4 per-
cent increase in revenue at the
company’s cable network group,
which includes Fox News, FX Net-
works and its FS1 sports network.
Results in the company’s broad-
cast division and film divisions,
however, were lackluster. Reve-
nue in the broadcast television
group slipped 3.6 percent to $1 bil-
lion, reflecting a decline in adver-
tising sales. Revenue in the com-
pany’s film group dropped 11.5 per-
cent from the same period last
year, when it was bolstered by the
strong performance of the “Dead-
pool” movie.
On Wednesday, 21st Century
Fox executives said they re-
mained optimistic about the com-
pany’s $15 billion bid for Sky, the
European satellite giant. The
company is awaiting regulatory
approval on the deal, which was
announced in December.
Notably, Netflix has been build-
ing up a huge original movie oper-
ation, including spending the $90
million “Bright,” a forthcoming
Will Smith movie. Netflix plans to
start making as many as 50 of its
own movies annually.
BamTech, which Disney plans
to use as the backbone of its
streaming services, has substan-
tial operations. But Disney faces a
steep learning curve. By the time
Disney even introduces its enter-
tainment-based service in 2019,
Netflix will have about 64 million
subscribers in the United States
and 158 million worldwide, accord-
ing to BTIG Research.
Disney would probably contend
that Netflix’s head start is irrele-
vant.
“It’s high time we got in this
business,” Mr. Iger told analysts
on a conference call on Tuesday.
“The profitability, the revenue-
generating capability of this initia-
tive is substantially greater than
the business models we’re cur-
rently being served by.”
In the end, there was only one
aspect of Disney’s move that ev-
eryone seemed to agree on: The
streaming boom is only begin-
ning.
Netflix, Amazon, HBO Now,
CBS All Access and Hulu (part-
owned by Disney) are all barrel-
ing ahead online. FX is dipping a
toe in the water with Comcast.
AMC has done the same. And now
comes Disney with two services,
which will undoubtedly prod other
entertainment giants to move be-
yond niche direct-to-consumer of-
ferings.
The race for streaming suprem-
acy, Mr. Creutz said, “may well ac-
celerate problems for the whole
ecosystem via atomization of con-
tent and an overpopulation of con-
tent apps.”
What Is Your
Opposite Job?
BY QUOCTRUNG BUI
What if you could start over and take the career path most different from
the one you’re on? Here are some examples.
The opposite job of a news editor is a model.
The opposite job of a kindergarten teacher is a physicist.
The opposite job of a chief executive is an agricultural grader.
The opposite job of a writer and author is a mobile home installer.
The opposite job of an
an architect is a slaughterer and meat packer.
The opposite job of a survey researcher is a car washer.
The opposite job of an
an aircraft mechanic is a locker room attendant.
an
The opposite job of an auto mechanic is a high school principal.
The opposite job of a chef is a physicist.
The opposite job of a bill and account collector is a surgeon.
The opposite job of a member of the clergy is a car washer.
The opposite job of a customer sales representative is a lumberjack.
The opposite job of a family doctor is a model.
The opposite job of a heavy and tractor-trailer truck driver is a physicist.
The opposite job of a tool maker is a community service manager.
The opposite job of an
an occupational therapist is an airline pilot.
The opposite job of a mathematician is a mine car operator.
The opposite job of a machinist is a chief executive.
The opposite job of a travel agent is a lumberjack.
The opposite job of a fashion designer is an agricultural grader.
The opposite job of a surveyor is a locker room attendant.
The opposite job of an
an air cargo handling supervisor is a telemarketer.
The opposite job of a fine artist is a physicist.
The opposite job of a judge is a model
model.
an
The opposite job of an iron and steel worker is a high school principal
principal.
The opposite job of a forester is a model
model.
The opposite job of a financial examiner is a car washer.
The opposite job of a customer service representative is a lumberjack
lumberjack.
an
The opposite job of an astronomer is an agricultural grader.
The opposite job of a highway maintenance worker is a physicist
physicist.
The opposite job of a film and video editor is a mobile home installer.
The opposite job of a model is a physicist.
The opposite job of a set and exhibit designer is a proofreader.
an
The opposite job of an electrician is a high school principal
principal.
an
The opposite job of an animal scientist is a lumberjack
lumberjack.
The opposite job of a nurse midwife is an agricultural grader.
The opposite job of a commercial diver is a locker room attendant.
The opposite job of a barber is a physicist
physicist.
The opposite job of a secretary is a surgeon.
The opposite job of a parking lot attendant is a physicist
physicist.
an
The opposite job of an agent is a lumberjack.
The opposite job of a subway and streetcar operator is a physicist.
The opposite job of a physicist is a model.
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The Labor Department keeps sharing skills that you learn in
detailed and at times delightfully preschool.
odd records on the skills and Some skills are important for
tasks required for each job. Some both relatively high-paying and
of them are physical: trunk low-paying jobs. The most promi-
strength, speed of limb move- nent skill for waiters and wait-
ment, the ability to stay upright. resses is influencing others and
Others are more knowl- selling, which is also an important
edge-based: economics and ac- skill for writers, salespeople and
counting, physics, programming. fashion designers.
Together, they capture the es- The dynamic nature of our
economy makes it difficult to cap-
sence of what makes a job distinc-
tive. ture the nuances in every job. Our
We’ve used these records to estimates simply point to which
determine what each job’s polar skills are used most or least, rela-
opposite would be. tive to other jobs.
Besides being an amusing ex- The most distinctive jobs in
ercise, exploring an opposite job the American work force are
has some value. Breaking a job physicist and model, at least ac-
into its component parts helps us cording to the data. They’re the
look beyond the obvious and two opposite jobs that appear
think clearly about the things most frequently on our list.
that people actually do. Chances are you won’t reinvent
For instance, does your job re- yourself as a nuclear physicist or
quire a lot of social skills, as is as the next Gisele Bündchen. But
true for social workers, priests the good news is that government
and psychologists? You’re in luck. data shows there is a fair amount
Many of the jobs with the most of overlap in skills between many
employment growth in the last jobs. A new start may not be as
few decades require listening and daunting as you might think.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 N B9

MARKET GAUGES
S.&P.  DOW  NASDAQ  CRUDE  GOLD  THE 
TREASURY YIELD 
2,474.02 22,048.70 6,352.33 10-YEAR 2.25% $49.56 $1,273.00 $1.1755
500 –0.90 INDUSTRIALS –36.64 COMPOSITE –18.13 –0.01 OIL +$0.39 (N.Y.) +$16.60 EURO +$0.0006

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

6,800
+10% +10% 23,000 +10%
2,600 6,600

2,500 + 5% 6,400 + 5% 22,000 + 5%

6,200
2,400 21,000
0% 0% 0%
6,000
2,300
5,800 20,000
– 5% – 5% – 5%

June July June July June July

When the index follows a white line, it is changing at a constant pace; when it moves into a lighter band, the rate of change is faster.

STOCK MARKET INDEXES MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS

% 52-Wk YTD % 52-Wk YTD % Volume % Volume % Volume
Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100)

DOW JONES NASDAQ 20 MOST ACTIVE 20 TOP GAINERS 20 TOP LOSERS

Industrials 22048.70 ◊ 36.64 ◊ 0.17 + 18.97 + 11.57 Nasdaq 100 5919.39 ◊ 6.96 ◊ 0.12 + 23.43 + 21.71 AMD (AMD) 12.83 ◊0.28 ◊2.1 587602 Natera (NTRA) 10.35 +2.19 +26.8 11179 Surgery Part (SGRY) 12.15 ◊7.00 ◊36.6 49918
Transportation 9235.41 + 2.56 + 0.03 + 17.85 + 2.12 Composite 6352.33 ◊ 18.13 ◊ 0.28 + 21.56 + 18.00 Bank of Ameri (BAC) 24.74 ◊0.16 ◊0.6 564714 Hertz Glo Hld (HTZ) 17.57 +3.29 +23.0 288188 Vitmn Shpe (VSI) 6.10 ◊3.50 ◊36.5 51455
Utilities 732.89 ◊ 2.79 ◊ 0.38 + 6.12 + 11.11 Industrials 5128.20 ◊ 24.84 ◊ 0.48 + 17.46 + 15.37 Valeant Pharm (VRX) 14.07 ◊1.57 ◊10.0 389719 Zynerba Phar (ZYNE) 7.60 +1.33 +21.2 43037 Maiden Hldgs (MHLD) 7.73 ◊2.83 ◊26.8 21326
Banks 3680.47 ◊ 48.47 ◊ 1.30 + 26.36 ◊ 4.46 Vonage Holding (VG) 8.42 +0.14 +1.7 377993 Silver Sprin (SSNI) 13.38 +2.17 +19.4 13997 Fossil Group (FOSL) 8.87 ◊2.97 ◊25.1 195412
Composite 7509.73 ◊ 11.23 ◊ 0.15 + 16.37 + 8.80
Ford Motor (F) 10.92 +0.03 +0.3 320479 Precipio (PRPO) 5.17 +0.79 +18.0 168 Wesco Air Hl (WAIR) 7.85 ◊2.50 ◊24.2 26296
Insurance 8659.12 ◊ 32.63 ◊ 0.38 + 12.67 + 3.66 25.77
Mylan NL (MYL) 32.08 +0.29 +0.9 320214 Envestnet (ENV) 44.60 +6.35 +16.6 14875 Vectrus (VEC) ◊7.53 ◊22.6 3808
Other Finance 7303.97 ◊ 11.84 ◊ 0.16 + 23.39 + 12.92 GE (GE) 25.71 +0.15 +0.6 295557 Sanchez Enrgy (SN) 5.13 +0.66 +14.8 37953 ChemoCentryx (CCXI) 7.85 ◊2.29 ◊22.6 6674
100 Stocks 1095.14 ◊ 0.08 ◊ 0.01 + 13.26 + 10.46 Telecommunications 301.67 ◊ 1.34 ◊ 0.44 + 5.85 + 4.64 Hertz Glo Hld (HTZ) 17.57 +3.29 +23.0 288188 Omeros (OMER) 24.90 +3.18 +14.6 18149 Calix (CALX) 5.35 ◊1.50 ◊21.9 12686
500 Stocks 2474.02 ◊ 0.90 ◊ 0.04 + 13.40 + 10.51 Computer 3662.73 ◊ 0.38 ◊ 0.01 + 30.68 + 25.19 Walt Disney (DIS) 102.83 ◊4.15 ◊3.9 276509 Green Dot (GDOT) 45.92 +5.57 +13.8 15062 Bellicum Pha (BLCM) 8.44 ◊2.28 ◊21.2 28371
Mid-Cap 400 1735.94 ◊ 12.07 ◊ 0.69 + 11.10 + 4.54 Snap (SNAP) 13.56 +0.54 +4.1 267002 Medifast (MED) 50.02 +5.81 +13.1 4277 Theravance (TBPH) 23.88 ◊5.91 ◊19.8 15201
Small-Cap 600 844.00 ◊ 7.48 ◊ 0.88 + 13.16 + 0.72 OTHER INDEXES Brocade Comm (BRCD) 12.05 ◊0.20 ◊1.6 262948 Leap (LPTX) 7.15 +0.80 +12.5 813 ClearOne (CLRO) 8.00 ◊1.65 ◊17.1 205
American Exch 2526.23 ◊ 4.71 ◊ 0.19 + 5.19 + 9.45 Apple (AAPL) 161.06 +0.98 +0.6 260266 ACADIA Pharm (ACAD) 33.21 +3.67 +12.4 79004 FTD Companies (FTD) 16.02 ◊2.93 ◊15.4 11272
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 25634.29 ◊ 35.75 ◊ 0.14 + 13.23 + 9.43 Intel (INTC) 36.59 +0.18 +0.5 227556 Everi Holdin (EVRI) 8.34 +0.92 +12.4 34090 Progenics Ph (PGNX) 5.13 ◊0.93 ◊15.3 42288
JC Penney (JCP) 5.16 ◊0.23 ◊4.3 217975 Tucows (TCX) 59.20 +6.45 +12.2 3182 Coca Cola bo (COKE) 206.84 ◊35.62 ◊14.7 1483
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 5528.03 ◊ 31.19 ◊ 0.56 + 12.12 + 5.06
Microsoft (MSFT) 72.47 ◊0.32 ◊0.4 209288 TPI Composit (TPIC) 21.40 +2.31 +12.1 11739 Natures Suns (NATR) 10.50 ◊1.75 ◊14.3 487
NYSE Comp. 11929.46 ◊ 20.50 ◊ 0.17 + 10.41 + 7.89 Russell 2000 1396.95 ◊ 13.20 ◊ 0.94 + 13.41 + 2.93 Staples (SPLS) 10.16 ◊0.03 ◊0.3 204418 Regenxbio (RGNX) 20.80 +2.10 +11.2 6309 TrueCar (TRUE) 16.73 ◊2.78 ◊14.2 88355
Tech/Media/Telecom 8288.62 ◊ 49.72 ◊ 0.60 + 5.40 + 6.56 Phila Gold & Silver 82.84 + 1.13 + 1.38 ◊ 25.44 + 5.05 AT&T (T) 38.36 0.00 0.0 197004 Triple S Mgt (GTS) 21.26 +1.97 +10.2 2768 Zogenix (ZGNX) 10.65 ◊1.70 ◊13.8 5931
Energy 10269.78 ◊ 15.34 ◊ 0.15 ◊ 2.36 ◊ 10.73 Phila Semiconductor 1090.49 ◊ 3.28 ◊ 0.30 + 40.03 + 20.30 Transocea (RIG) 8.32 ◊0.25 ◊2.9 196157 Immersion (IMMR) 7.28 +0.67 +10.1 2932 PRA Group (PRAA) 34.55 ◊5.50 ◊13.7 22507
Financial 7652.71 ◊ 19.00 ◊ 0.25 + 22.65 + 9.93 KBW Bank 96.55 ◊ 0.54 ◊ 0.56 + 38.05 + 5.19 Fossil Group (FOSL) 8.87 ◊2.97 ◊25.1 195412 Eldorado (ERI) 21.95 +2.00 +10.0 48529 Ultra Ptrlum (UPL) 7.76 ◊1.20 ◊13.4 51953
Healthcare 13525.95 + 27.28 + 0.20 + 4.24 + 13.59 Phila Oil Service 126.13 ◊ 1.51 ◊ 1.18 ◊ 23.20 ◊ 31.37 Citigroup (C) 68.43 ◊0.45 ◊0.7 191833 Array Biopha (ARRY) 8.66 +0.76 +9.6 52534 Hackett Grou (HCKT) 13.80 ◊2.13 ◊13.4 6703

S&P 100 STOCKS

52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD
Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg
Apple (AAPL) 102.53 161.83 161.06 + 0.98 + 48.02 + 39.1 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 98.44 79.43 + 0.86 ◊ 18.49 + 0.7 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 109.32 137.08 133.23 + 0.96 + 7.94 + 15.6 Procter Ga (PG) 81.18 92.00 91.92 + 0.34 + 6.90 + 9.3
AbbVie (ABBV) 55.06 75.04 72.02 + 0.55 + 7.88 + 15.0 Chevron (CVX) 97.53 119.00 110.89 + 0.54 + 9.45 ◊ 5.8 JPMorgan (JPM) 64.86 95.22 93.53 ◊ 0.15 + 41.99 + 8.4 PMI (PM) 86.78 123.55 115.41 + 0.74 + 17.29 + 26.1
Abbott (ABT) 37.38 51.13 48.77 ◊ 0.11 + 8.19 + 27.0 Du Pont (DD) 66.02 86.36 81.33 + 0.21 + 18.21 + 10.8 Kinder Mor (KMI) 18.31 23.36 19.75 0.00 ◊ 3.42 ◊ 4.6 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 36.30 61.30 59.67 + 0.19 + 56.61 + 51.2
Accenture (ACN) 108.83 130.67 129.62 + 0.49 + 14.83 + 10.7 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 88.01 80.23 ◊ 0.04 ◊ 1.19 + 3.1 Kraft Hein (KHC) 79.69 97.77 86.46 + 0.30 ◊ 3.70 ◊ 1.0 Qualcomm (QCOM) 51.05 71.62 52.77 + 0.48 ◊ 14.87 ◊ 19.1
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 256.80 237.97 ◊ 1.77 ◊ 5.23 + 13.3 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 102.83 ◊ 4.15 + 6.37 ◊ 1.3 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.43 45.59 ◊ 0.01 + 4.88 + 10.0 Raytheon (RTN) 132.89 179.59 179.30 + 4.50 + 27.96 + 26.3
AIG (AIG) 57.35 67.47 64.01 ◊ 0.56 + 8.00 ◊ 2.0 Dow (DOW) 51.57 67.50 63.50 + 0.09 + 18.94 + 11.0 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 82.57 + 0.60 + 1.31 + 12.3 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 64.87 53.74 ◊ 0.78 ◊ 2.64 ◊ 3.2
Allstate (ALL) 66.55 94.70 94.70 + 0.49 + 36.51 + 27.8 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 86.20 ◊ 0.40 + 1.73 + 11.1 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 305.54 305.22 + 5.12 + 17.10 + 22.1 Schlumberg (SLB) 64.15 87.84 65.49 0.00 ◊ 19.97 ◊ 22.0
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 173.55 ◊ 0.14 + 0.85 + 18.7 Emerson El (EMR) 49.22 64.36 60.03 ◊ 0.40 + 10.49 + 7.7 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 86.25 78.34 + 1.13 ◊ 3.69 + 10.2 Southern C (SO) 46.20 53.73 48.85 ◊ 0.27 ◊ 7.55 ◊ 0.7
Amazon.com (AMZN) 710.10 1083.31 982.01 ◊ 7.83 + 27.81 + 31.0 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 38.78 37.70 ◊ 0.51 + 5.16 + 6.2 Mastercard (MA) 94.41 132.20 129.72 ◊ 0.12 + 34.15 + 25.6 Simon Prop (SPG) 150.15 221.37 163.41 ◊ 0.68 ◊ 25.93 ◊ 8.0
American E (AXP) 59.50 86.67 85.69 ◊ 0.25 + 31.04 + 15.7 Ford Motor (F) 10.67 13.27 10.92 + 0.03 ◊ 11.29 ◊ 10.0 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 159.98 154.92 0.00 + 30.94 + 27.3 AT&T (T) 35.81 43.48 38.36 0.00 ◊ 10.96 ◊ 9.8
Boeing (BA) 126.31 246.49 234.31 ◊ 5.19 + 76.68 + 50.5 Facebook (FB) 113.55 175.49 171.18 ◊ 0.05 + 36.88 + 48.8 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 47.23 43.47 ◊ 0.17 ◊ 0.11 ◊ 1.9 Target (TGT) 48.56 79.33 57.87 ◊ 0.87 ◊ 20.30 ◊ 19.9
Bank of Am (BAC) 14.70 25.80 24.74 ◊ 0.16 + 62.87 + 12.0 FedEx (FDX) 158.20 219.99 206.18 ◊ 0.82 + 25.47 + 10.7 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.72 83.95 + 0.12 ◊ 4.32 + 17.9 Time Warne (TWX) 74.27 103.34 102.28 + 0.11 + 29.21 + 6.0
Biogen (BIIB) 244.28 329.83 288.74 ◊ 0.52 ◊ 0.30 + 10.5 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 27.51 ◊ 0.20 + 5.08 + 1.0 MetLife (MET) 39.50 58.09 48.31 ◊ 0.46 + 31.33 + 0.6 Texas Inst (TXN) 66.30 84.65 82.28 ◊ 0.17 + 17.12 + 12.8
BONY Mello (BK) 38.68 54.59 54.04 + 0.25 + 34.16 + 14.1 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 27.90 ◊ 0.13 + 9.50 ◊ 0.5 3M (MMM) 163.85 214.57 206.48 + 0.05 + 15.75 + 15.6 UnitedHeal (UNH) 132.39 196.04 194.83 ◊ 0.07 + 37.38 + 21.7
BlackRock (BLK) 336.84 442.84 431.34 + 2.52 + 17.01 + 13.4 General Dy (GD) 148.10 205.90 201.00 + 2.20 + 35.29 + 16.4 Altria Gro (MO) 60.01 77.79 65.31 ◊ 0.07 ◊ 1.97 ◊ 3.4 Union Paci (UNP) 87.06 115.15 103.77 + 0.71 + 11.50 + 0.1
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 62.25 57.40 + 0.49 ◊ 6.83 ◊ 1.8 GE (GE) 25.26 32.38 25.71 + 0.15 ◊ 17.86 ◊ 18.6 Monsanto (MON) 97.35 118.97 117.34 + 0.08 + 10.18 + 11.5 United Par (UPS) 102.12 120.44 112.41 + 0.52 + 2.52 ◊ 2.0
Berkshire (BRKb) 141.92 179.99 178.06 + 1.63 + 20.95 + 9.3 Gilead Sci (GILD) 63.76 82.10 73.90 + 0.63 ◊ 6.84 + 3.2 Merck & Co (MRK) 58.29 66.80 62.49 + 0.17 0.00 + 6.2 US Bancorp (USB) 42.17 56.61 53.23 + 0.04 + 24.28 + 3.6
Citigroup (C) 45.16 69.86 68.43 ◊ 0.45 + 49.08 + 15.1 GM (GM) 30.13 38.55 35.28 ◊ 0.11 + 13.55 + 1.3 Morgan Sta (MS) 28.86 48.90 47.65 ◊ 0.28 + 62.41 + 12.8 UTC (UTX) 97.62 124.79 117.20 ◊ 0.99 + 8.18 + 6.9
Caterpilla (CAT) 79.93 115.46 114.34 ◊ 0.07 + 38.04 + 23.3 Alphabet (GOOG) 727.54 988.25 922.90 ◊ 3.89 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 55.61 74.42 72.47 ◊ 0.32 + 24.52 + 16.6 Visa (V) 75.17 101.72 100.97 ◊ 0.31 + 26.12 + 29.4
Celgene (CELG) 96.93 139.00 135.57 + 0.30 + 19.13 + 17.1 Alphabet (GOOGL) 743.59 1008.61 940.08 ◊ 4.11 + 16.42 + 18.6 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 148.19 147.24 ◊ 0.11 + 16.79 + 23.3 Verizon (VZ) 42.80 54.83 48.22 ◊ 0.38 ◊ 10.14 ◊ 9.7
Colgate (CL) 63.43 77.27 71.57 ◊ 0.13 ◊ 4.29 + 9.4 Goldman Sa (GS) 157.77 255.15 231.01 ◊ 1.04 + 41.34 ◊ 3.5 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.53 59.90 + 0.44 + 7.41 + 17.8 Walgreens (WBA) 75.18 88.00 81.28 + 0.20 + 0.48 ◊ 1.8
Comcast (CMCSA) 30.02 42.18 40.63 + 0.71 + 21.46 + 17.7 Halliburto (HAL) 40.12 58.78 41.29 + 0.26 ◊ 6.27 ◊ 23.7 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 51.85 49.06 ◊ 0.04 + 19.37 + 27.6 WalMart (WMT) 65.28 81.99 81.61 + 0.02 + 10.97 + 18.1
Capital On (COF) 66.61 96.92 85.14 ◊ 0.37 + 25.61 ◊ 2.4 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 160.86 155.26 + 1.91 + 14.07 + 15.8 Occidental (OXY) 57.20 78.48 61.66 + 0.31 ◊ 16.31 ◊ 13.4 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 52.79 + 0.08 + 7.89 ◊ 4.2
ConocoPhil (COP) 39.00 53.17 45.65 + 0.02 + 10.69 ◊ 9.0 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 140.21 139.00 + 0.33 + 20.24 + 20.0 Priceline (PCLN) 1392 2068 1907 ◊142.20 + 35.52 + 30.1 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 78.27 93.22 80.21 + 0.25 ◊ 9.57 ◊ 11.1
Costco Who (COST) 142.11 183.18 156.86 ◊ 0.89 ◊ 2.78 + 1.9 IBM (IBM) 141.19 182.79 141.77 ◊ 0.34 ◊ 12.36 ◊ 14.6 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 118.24 116.63 ◊ 0.08 + 7.71 + 11.5
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 29.12 34.60 31.62 ◊ 0.05 + 2.20 + 4.6 Intel (INTC) 33.23 38.45 36.59 + 0.18 + 4.78 + 0.9 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 35.38 33.45 + 0.17 ◊ 4.65 + 3.0

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

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 5%
8% high yield +5.74% +10% high yield +8.95% Total Issues Traded 7,338 5,002 2,160 176 T-BILLS
Advances 3,175 2,417 689 69
3 4 3-mo. Nov 09 ◊ ◊ 1.05 1.04 –0.01 1.06
Declines 3,745 2,411 1,238 96 6-mo. Feb 08 ◊ ◊ 1.15 1.14 –0.02 1.17
Unchanged 122 39 79 4
6 52 Week High 184 81 97 6 3 BONDS & NOTES
+ 5 52 Week Low 184 101 72 11 2 2-yr. Jul 31 1] ◊ 100.06 100.07 +0.02 1.36
Dollar Volume* 24,992 15,696 8,132 1,163 5-yr. Jul 31 1~ ◊ 100.32 100.33 +0.05 1.82
2 10-yr. May 15 2] ◊ 101.09 101.11 +0.11 2.26
4 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.
30-yr. May 15 3.000 ◊ 103.50 103.52 +0.38 2.84
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
0 active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 15 [ ◊ 100.27 100.33 +0.09 0.09
2 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jul 15 ] ◊ 99.50 99.59 +0.13 0.44
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 15 2ø ◊ 121.62 121.86 +0.14 0.56
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017 30-yr. Feb 15 ~ ◊ 98.63 98.88 +0.37 0.94
0 invest. grade +3.52% – 5 invest. grade +1.05% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
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) .0566 17.6790
One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7886 1.2681
One Dollar in Yen
Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) 1.900 Jul’18 A3 A+ 100.500 99.960 99.960 –0.629 1.943 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1451 6.8900 1.00 euros $1 = 0.8507 China (Yuan) .1499 6.6720 120 yen $1 = 110.06
At&t Inc (T) 5.150 Feb’50 Baa1 BBB+ 102.250 98.784 99.047 0.108 5.211 Brazil (Real) .3169 3.1556 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1280 7.8152
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 3.150 Oct’26 Baa3 BBB 93.500 90.914 93.370 1.823 4.024 Canada (Dollar) .7875 1.2698 India (Rupee) .0157 63.8550
At&t Inc (T) 3.400 Aug’24 Baa1 BBB+ 101.635 99.636 100.000 –1.325 3.400 Chile (Peso) .0015 647.87 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0091 110.06
115
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 4.100 Oct’46 Baa3 BBB 88.483 84.922 85.113 0.193 5.085 Colombia (Peso) .0003 3001.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2333 4.2870
Mylan N V (MYL) 3.950 Jun’26 Baa3 BBB– 100.228 99.252 100.151 –0.144 3.929 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0213 47.0200 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .7337 1.3630
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.800 Jul’23 Baa3 BBB 96.299 94.178 94.596 0.226 3.826
Comcast Corp New (CMCS) 4.000 Aug’47 NR A– 101.403 98.233 98.672 0.408 4.077
El Salvador (Colon) .1147 8.7220 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0095 105.25
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1375 7.2740 Philippines (Peso) .0198 50.6250 105
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 3.650 Feb’26 A3 A– 105.021 103.076 103.200 –1.900 3.204
Honduras (Lempira) .0429 23.3200 Singapore (Dollar) .7335 1.3634
At&t Inc (T) 3.900 Aug’27 Baa1 BBB+ 102.203 99.238 99.360 –0.131 3.978
Mexico (Peso) .0557 17.9435 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1138.4
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0341 29.3600 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.2050
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5571.0 Thailand (Baht) .0301 33.2500
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 7.375 Jan’27 B1 BB– 111.088 108.500 109.000 0.050 6.104 Peru (New Sol) .3082 3.2443 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22729 95
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 8.375 May’21 B1 BB– 113.250 111.550 112.625 0.125 4.684 Uruguay (New Peso) .0349 28.6500
Hertz Corp (HTZ.AS) 6.750 Apr’19 B3 B– 100.000 94.125 100.000 1.250 6.742 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 6.125 Jan’22 B1 BB– 105.600 103.901 105.250 –0.100 4.793 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6537 .3768
Nrg Energy, Inc. (NRG) 6.625 Jan’27 B1 BB– 107.500 105.625 105.640 –0.735 5.629 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1505.7
Norway (Krone) .1257 7.9550 Egypt (Pound) .0563 17.7500
Noble Energy Inc (NBL) 3.850 Jan’28 NR 100.053 99.671 99.866 0.203 N.A. Britain (Pound) 1.3004 .7690 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7501
Poland (Zloty) .2757 3.6277 Iran (Rial) .00003 32822
Delta Air Lines Inc Del (DAL) 3.625 Mar’22 Baa3 BB+ 103.411 102.865 102.865 –0.325 2.941 So. Africa (Rand) .0745 13.4189
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0449 22.2480 Russia (Ruble) .0166 60.0860 Israel (Shekel) .2781 3.5952
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 11.000 Sep’25 B2 B 89.335 85.400 88.250 –1.250 13.420 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6727
Denmark (Krone) .1581 6.3255 Sweden (Krona) .1223 8.1752 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4144 .7070
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 10.500 Sep’22 B2 B 92.275 90.500 90.750 –1.500 13.038
Europe (Euro) 1.1755 .8507 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0380 .9634 Kenya (Shilling) .0096 103.80
Csc Hldgs Inc (ALLVF) 7.625 Jul’18 B2 B 104.920 103.490 104.893 0.268 2.216 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0039 259.64 Turkey (Lira) .2828 3.5366 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.3151 .3016
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Red Hat Inc (RHAT) 0.250 Oct’19 BBB 139.924 137.000 138.670 –2.010 –14.565
Radius Health Inc (RDUS) 2.750 Sep’24 NR 100.500 97.547 100.000 100.000 N.A.
Cobalt Intl Energy Inc (CIE)
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc (BMRN)
3.125
0.599
May’24
Aug’24
NR
NR
D 29.000
100.400
25.250
96.813
28.938
97.500
2.688
0.375
25.960
N.A.
FUTURES
Monetary
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN)
Jazz Invts I Ltd (JAZZ)
0.900
1.875
Sep’21
Aug’21
NR BBB+
B+
120.850
106.776
115.513
105.483
115.864
105.827
–1.249
–3.107
–2.742
0.406 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $49.56 a barrel
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 1.250 Mar’21 NR B– 119.510 118.250 118.707 –0.043 –3.642
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 1.000 Mar’18 NR BBB+ 216.090 197.000 198.520 –18.890 –88.034 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 432.00 348.25 Sep 17 369.00 372.50 368.75 372.25 + 2.50 400,254
Mercadolibre Inc (MELI) 2.250 Jul’19 NR NR 202.371 200.623 202.371 –4.629 –32.712 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1088.00 876.00 Aug 17 964.00 965.25 958.00 963.00 0.00 399
Cobalt Intl Energy Inc (CIE) 2.625 Dec’19 NR D 30.375 29.000 30.375 2.875 64.915 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 590.00 430.75 Sep 17 457.25 461.50 454.00 459.50 + 2.50 148,965 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 127.65 89.88 Aug 17 112.30 112.45 109.88 110.00 ◊ 2.47 16,941
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 85.38 66.33 Aug 17 83.80 84.18 83.73 84.13 + 0.60 14,897
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3295.00 1767.00 Sep 17 2011.00 2021.00 1971.00 2002.00 ◊ 16.00 56,234 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 191.20 115.50 Sep 17 142.00 143.40 140.25 142.65 ◊ 0.10 66,886
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 21.32 12.27 Sep 17 13.80 13.90 13.59 13.64 ◊ 0.14 392,304
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1391.50 1133.30 Aug 17 1276.60 1276.60 1276.40 1273.00 + 16.60 2,306 45
Silver COMX $/oz 17.73 15.13 Aug 17 16.51 16.85 16.48 16.83 + 0.47 110
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.94 2.49 Aug 17 2.93 2.94 2.92 2.93 ◊ 0.01 1,971
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 88.27 41.55 Aug 17 49.00 49.72 48.90 49.56 + 0.39 411,744 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.52 1.20 Aug 17 1.62 1.66 1.61 1.65 + 0.02 112,600
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 5.89 2.41 Aug 17 2.81 2.90 2.80 2.88 + 0.06 276,246 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Wednesday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Source: Thomson Reuters
Federal funds 1.16% 0.40% Durable Goods Orders +40%
Prime rate 4.25 3.50 Change from
15-yr fixed 2.97 2.66 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: WORLD STOCKS
15-yr fixed jumbo 3.68 3.40 June ’17 +16.2% –40
May ’17 +4.0 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.77 3.37 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.10 3.85 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.15 2.83
Consumer Borrowing +8%
Vanguard Total Intl Stock Index Inv(VGTSX) FB +18.7 +17.7 +7.6 0.17 109,524 Oakmark International Investor(OAKIX) FB +22.3 +33.8 +13.0 0.96 30,308
Change from American Funds Capital Income Bldr A(CAIBX) IH +9.7 +7.8 +7.4 0.59 71,518 Evermore Global Value Institutional(EVGIX) SW +17.9 +33.5 +15.3 1.24 458
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.34 2.96 previous year Dodge & Cox International Stock(DODFX) FB +18.9 +24.7 +10.1 0.64 64,391 ALPS|Red Rocks Listed Private Equity I(LPEIX) SW +23.6 +30.9 +16.4 1.25 129
1-year adj. rate 3.14 2.78 American Funds Capital World Gr&Inc A(CWGIX) WS +15.8 +15.8 +10.9 0.77 55,362 Vanguard International Growth Adm(VWILX) FG +32.2 +28.1 +11.2 0.32 22,021
June ’17 +5.7% 0 American Funds New Perspective A(ANWPX) WS +20.7 +19.0 +12.7 0.76 40,162 Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Y(OGIYX) SW +25.8 +27.9 +17.5 0.92 1,411
May ’17 +5.8 Oakmark International Investor(OAKIX) FB +22.3 +33.8 +13.0 0.96 30,308 PIMCO RAE Fundamental PLUS Intl Inst(PTSIX) FV +19.0 +27.6 +9.9 0.82 1,224
’12 ’17 Harbor International Institutional(HAINX) FB +16.9 +13.4 +6.1 0.77 28,994 Oakmark Global Investor(OAKGX) WS +16.3 +27.4 +12.4 1.16 1,761
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Funds Europacific Growth A(AEPGX) FG +22.5 +19.3 +9.2 0.85 28,050 Franklin Intl Small Cap Growth R6(FCAPX) FQ +25.8 +27.3 NA 1.00 492
DFA International Core Equity I(DFIEX) FB +18.6 +20.4 +10.1 0.32 23,571 Oakmark Global Select Investor(OAKWX) WS +14.7 +26.7 +14.3 1.14 2,057
$75K line good credit* 4.95% 4.43%
Producer Prices +4% Vanguard International Growth Adm(VWILX) FG +32.2 +28.1 +11.2 0.32 22,021 Oakmark International Small Cap Invest(OAKEX) FQ +23.0 +26.3 +11.9 1.38 2,129
$75K line excel. credit* 4.74 4.36 American Funds SMALLCAP World A(SMCWX) SW +15.7 +15.3 +12.4 1.07 20,763 Hartford International Value Y(HILYX) FV +17.0 +25.4 +13.3 0.84 620
Change from Old Westbury Large Cap Strategies(OWLSX) WS +12.7 +11.5 +10.6 1.11 16,783 Oppenheimer Global Y(OGLYX) WS +23.3 +25.0 +13.3 0.89 1,529
$75K loan good credit* 4.64 4.07 previous year BlackRock Global Allocation Instl(MALOX) IH +9.8 +10.3 +6.6 0.80 16,209
DFA International Small Cap Value I(DISVX) FA +19.1 +24.3 +14.1 0.68 15,669 LAGGARDS
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.63 4.04 June ’17 +2.2% –6 First Eagle Global A(SGENX) IH +8.1 +7.4 +8.1 1.11 15,091 Voya Global Real Estate A(IGLAX) GR +5.6 ◊4.3 +5.7 1.33 311
T. Rowe Price International Stock(PRITX) FG +21.8 +19.0 +8.8 0.83 13,609 T. Rowe Price Global Real Estate(TRGRX) GR +4.0 ◊4.1 +6.4 1.05 167
May ’17 +2.6 ’12 ’17 Oppenheimer International Growth Y(OIGYX) FG +18.7 +13.4 +9.3 0.87 13,512 EuroPac International Value A(EPIVX) FV +12.3 ◊3.9 ◊2.4 1.75 64
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DFA International Small Company I(DFISX) FQ +20.2 +20.8 +12.6 0.53 13,134 DFA Global Real Estate Securities Port(DFGEX) GR +5.0 ◊3.4 +8.2 0.24 6,377
Vanguard Developed Markets Index Admir(VTMGX) FB +17.9 +17.7 +8.9 0.07 13,086 Franklin Global Real Estate A(FGRRX) GR +6.8 ◊3.1 +6.4 1.40 80
36-mo. used car 3.03% 3.19% Real Hourly Earnings +1% T. Rowe Price International Value Eq(TRIGX) FV +16.9 +15.5 +7.6 0.83 11,902 Hussman Strategic Total Return(HSTRX) TV +1.6 ◊2.8 +0.7 0.71 371
T. Rowe Price Overseas Stock(TROSX) FB +20.0 +21.1 +8.8 0.83 11,424 Prudential Global Real Estate C(PURCX) GR +5.8 ◊2.6 +5.7 1.97 103
60-mo. new car 3.12 2.93 Change from Templeton Growth A(TEPLX) WS +11.6 +18.3 +9.8 1.06 11,197 American Century Global Real Estate In(ARYVX) GR +8.7 ◊1.9 +7.4 1.12 67
previous year Fidelity Diversified International(FDIVX) FG +19.7 +15.6 +9.3 0.92 11,175 DFA International Real Estate Sec I(DFITX) GR +9.4 ◊1.6 +6.4 0.28 5,288
Brookfield Global Listed Real Estate I(BLRIX) GR +6.2 ◊1.2 +9.3 0.95 423
CD’s and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 July ’17 +0.3% –1 Average performance for all such funds +16.6 +15.5 +8.8 Invesco Global Real Estate A(AGREX) GR +8.2 ◊1.2 +6.5 1.36 178
Number of funds for period 646 646 633 Northern Multi-Manager Glbl Real Estat(NMMGX) GR +6.7 ◊0.5 +6.4 0.96 169
June ’17 +0.3 ’12 ’17
Money-market 0.27% 0.25%
*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: FA-Foreign Small/Mid Val.
$10K min. money-mkt 0.28 0.24 FB-Foreign Large Blend. FG-Foreign Large Growth. FQ-Foreign Small/Mid Bl.. FR-Foreign Small/Mid Gr.. FV-Foreign Large Value. GR-Global Real Estate. IH-World Allocation. MQ-Miscellaneous
Existing Home Sales 6
Region. TV-Tactical Allocation. WS-World Large Stock. SW-World Small/Mid Stock. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar
6-month CD 0.43 0.33
Annual Rate, in millions
1-year CD 0.76 0.56 Seasonally adjusted
2-year CD 0.87 0.75 June ’17 5.5 4 ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS
5-year IRA CD 1.69 1.41 May ’17 5.6 ’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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ROBBIE JAY BARRATT/AMA, VIA GETTY IMAGES

No Longer Just Any Old Town

In lesser-known areas, the true value of a promotion
to England’s Premier League goes beyond the monetary.

HUDDERSFIELD, England — It was not The Terriers, it appears, will have a

just the size of its new fan base that caught
Huddersfield Town by surprise this sum-
mer, but the size of its new fans.
Early in July — little more than a month
after the club had secured entry
RORY to the Premier League’s promised
land, and with little more than a
SMITH month to go until it made its de-
but — Huddersfield revealed its
ON jerseys for the season ahead.
SOCCER
Within two weeks, all three
editions of the jersey had all but sold out —
even though the shirts were available only
through the club’s online shop and at one of
its two stores here.
The club quickly contacted Puma, its
apparel supplier, with an urgent request to
deliver a new batch as quickly as possible.
It will not arrive until September, but when
it does, it will be in a greater variety of
larger audience in more ways than one this
season.
Huddersfield the town, like Huddersfield
the club, will need some time to get used to
the spotlight. Both had their heyday in the
1920s, when the team won three English
championships and the town was thriving
and prosperous, its wealth rooted in the
textile industry. Since then, said Raj Bains,
the author of “Underdog,” a book charting
the club’s rise last season, “their fortunes
run almost in sync.” Slowly, inexorably,
town and team faded.
Now, he says, both are “in the healthiest
state they have been for a while.” The tend-
ency, when discussing those Premier
League clubs rooted away from the bright
lights and the big cities, is to cast their
towns as rust-belt relics, still reeling and
resentful from the devastating loss of heavy LYNNE CAMERON/GETTY IMAGES

sizes than before: In another surprise, industry in the 1980s. Fans on the streets of Huddersfield to toast the city’s soccer team, Huddersfield
there had been a surge of requests for The cliché rarely holds true. Huddersfield Town, after it won promotion to the Premier League in May. A sign in Turf Moor sta-
jerseys in 3XL and 4XL. Continued on Page B13 dium, where Burnley, the smallest city in the league, hosts its Premier League games.

Yanks Get Opportunity the Bambino Never Had Time Is No Friend

By BILLY WITZ
For nearly a century, the Yankees’ uni-
forms have remained distinctly uniform:
white with navy blue pinstripes at home,
traveling grays with navy trim on the road.
They are the only major league franchise
that has never placed names on the back of
their jerseys at home or on the road.
While the Houston Astros may have
sported tequila sunrise uniforms, the Pitts-
burgh Pirates pillbox caps and the Chicago
White Sox short pants, the Yankees have
been impervious to the sport’s fashion
trends.
For the Yankees, it is a point of pride that
Babe Ruth did not dress much different
from Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reg-
gie Jackson, Don Mattingly or Derek Jeter.
But later this month, the Yankees will
play a home series against the Seattle Mar-
iners looking like something else altogeth-
er. As part of a Major League Baseball-
wide “Players Weekend,” from Aug. 25 to
27, the Yankees will wear an alternate uni-
form with a script “Yankees” across the
front, gray caps and — take a deep breath
here — the players’ nicknames on the back
of their jerseys.
Clint Frazier will be wearing a jersey
with “Red Thunder” on the back. Aaron
Judge will wear “All Rise” on the back of
his. C. C. Sabathia will wear “Dub” — short
for Double C. And Todd Frazier, the proud
Jersey guy, will wear “The Toddfather” on
his back. It will also be the first time the
Yankees — the only franchise to never have
veered away from buttoned jerseys — will
wear pullover tops.
In addition to the uniforms, players will
be allowed to wear individually designed
In Spieth’s Slam Bid
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pres- youngest man to win all four
sure? What pressure? At first, majors or the sixth over all to
Jordan Spieth took the long view complete the feat — ahead of
From Aug. 25 when asked about completing Rory McIlroy, who is missing
to 27, the the career grand slam at this only the Masters green jacket,
uniforms of week’s P.G.A. Champi- and Phil Mickelson, who is short
C. C. KAREN onship, a prospect
made possible by his
a United States Open title.
Sabathia, left, At Spieth’s age, it would be
and Aaron CROUSE victory last month at easy to view the future as a
the British Open. highway that he can drive on
Judge will be ON
“If I’m healthy and cruise control all night long. But
among those GOLF
playing well, I play in
the road is never smooth. There
with 30 of them, I believe I’ll have will be blind curves and detours,
nicknames. plenty of chances to win them, flat tires and overheated engines,
but it doesn’t have to be this starless nights and sunless days.
year,” Spieth said before trying to The proof is all around him.
win his third tournament in a
MLB Look at Jimmy Walker, who
row last week at the Bridgestone became a first-time major winner
Invitational.
spikes, batting gloves, wristbands, com- M.L.B.-apparel licensee, which is selling at last year’s P.G.A. Champi-
By the end of the week, Spieth onship and then helped the
pression sleeves, catcher’s masks and bats. the replica uniforms for $200. had revised his thinking. As he
And each uniform will have a blank patch “Their tradition is so rich that a little bit United States to the Ryder Cup.
put the final strokes on a tie for He anticipated a luminous 2017,
on the right sleeve for players to write the of change in the tradition won’t upset the 13th, his first finish outside the
name of a person or organization that was apple cart,” Allen Adamson, a branding and but a Lyme disease diagnosis in
top 10 since the United States
instrumental in his development. marketing expert, said of the effect the April sidelined him for over a
Open in June, Spieth found his
In the past, the Yankees have worn weekend might have on the Yankees’ im- month. It continues to sap his
mind wandering.
throwback uniforms and tweaked their age. “I’m not suggesting the Yankee go to strength. Walker has one top-10
“I was thinking about it a little
look to conform with whatever Major polka dots, but the iconic nature of the finish in 19 official tour events,
today on the course,” he said
League Baseball might have designed for a brand is so sharp, they have the latitude to and he can’t be sure how he’ll
Sunday in Akron, Ohio. “You
holiday commemoration. But it is unlikely shake it up a bit.” know, if you don’t win next week, feel from one round to the next.
that the Yankees, who carefully police the The weekend initiative by baseball is an next year obviously you focus on “This is just life, and bad
length of their players’ hair and do not al- acknowledgment of — and an attempt to the majors, but the P.G.A. does things happen sometimes,”
low beards, would have gone along with address — the notion that the sport does become kind of that one that’s Walker said.
something like Players Weekend if they not engage young fans in the way that starred and that’s so long away, “I’m just glad that I’m feeling
had not been obligated to do so. other sports, particularly the N.B.A., do. In 365 days away.” better,” he added, “but there’s
In this instance the team has no choice an interview with ESPN The Magazine last Spieth, 24, is wise to sense the still a lot of stuff that is linger-
but to be part of an initiative driven by the year, the Washington Nationals star Bryce urgency, even if he says he is not ing.”
players’ union and Majestic Athletic, the Continued on Page B12 obsessed with becoming the Continued on Page B14
 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 0N B11

BASEBALL

The Prospects Should Be the Must-See Mets Bruce

So no one told you life was
gonna be this way . . . .
CLAP-CLAP-CLAP-CLAP!
As long as Wilmer Flores uses
the “Friends” theme song before
he hits, Mets fans will have a
TYLER
KEPNER
reason to applaud.
Yes, it is contrived.
But these days, it is
better than nothing.
The Mets shuffled
ON
BASEBALL off for a long week-
end late Wednesday
afternoon, bound for a four-game
visit to the Philadelphia Phillies,
the only team behind them in the
National League East. They left
town quietly, losing, 5-1, to the
Texas Rangers and collecting
just three hits. Except for a
homer by Flores, the Mets never
moved a runner past first base.
“Real chopped-up game,’’ right
fielder Jay Bruce said. “We spent
a lot of time in the field and not
much time in the dugout.”
Hours after the game, Bruce
was shipped off to another dug-
out, that of the Cleveland Indi-
ans. The Mets traded him for a
prospect — and salary relief —
as they rightly prioritize their
future over their dreary present.
This was Wednesday’s bleak
story: The Rangers’ Martin
Perez threw 89 pitches in eight
innings. The Mets’ Rafael Mon-
tero threw 87 in three. Montero
hit two batters, balked in a run,
allowed two stolen bases to Elvis
Andrus, an upper-deck home run
to Joey Gallo — you get the idea.
“I think it’s just a bad day,”
Montero said through an inter-
preter. “I’ll keep working hard.
Anyone can have a bad day, and
today was one of them.”
Montero (1-8) has had a lot of
them, like so many of his team-
mates. The Mets’ rotation has a
5.11 earned run average. The staff
issued eight walks on Wednes-
day and has handed out nearly
400 this season, with 51 games to
go. Last year, the Mets tied for
the fewest walks allowed in the
majors, 439.
“We have not walked people in
the past,” Manager Terry Collins
said. “Obviously, this year, home
runs are everywhere. But you
can’t put runners on base. You
can’t do it. Hitting’s a tough art,
and you’ve got to make them
swing the bat. If you’re at this
level, you ought to be able to
throw a strike when you need to.”
It is too easy to say that the
Mets fell apart because their
pitchers were hurt. Montero was
not much more than a depth
option this season, but the Mets
counted on Matt Harvey, Steven
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Matz, Zack Wheeler and Robert
Gsellman. They have combined
for 55 starts and a 5.58 E.R.A.
Indeed, no one told the Mets
life was gonna be this way. This
was supposed to be their third
playoff season in a row, a modest
streak the franchise has never
reached. Yet they headed to
Philadelphia with a 50-61 record
and a strikingly dull product.
Wednesday’s highlight was
One of the Mets’ top prospects, Amed Rosario, above, ending his 0-for-13 stretch with an eighth-
inning hit in a 5-1 loss to Texas on Wednesday. Wilmer Flores, left, homered for the only run.
Amed Rosario’s eighth-inning
single, which snapped his 0-for-13
stretch. Rosario is hitting .179 —
Aaron Judge’s average last sea-
son, across town — and he has
not walked in his first eight ma-
jor league games. He sought out
the hitting coach, Kevin Long, to
help him let the ball travel far-
ther before he swings, which
should improve pitch recognition
and allow him to use the whole
field.
Rosario’s development is ta-
king place in the majors, which is
how it should be for a team like
the Mets. This is the time to
make adjustments and learn the
rigors of a new life.
“Minor league players, when
they’re in a league where they’ve
obviously shown it’s time to go,
it’s time to give ’em another
challenge,” Collins said. “They
need to be moved. Amed Rosario
will be a better player down the
road when he realizes what it
takes to deal with failure. You
have to fail to understand how to
get through it.”
Fans can tolerate a losing team
if they believe they can glimpse a
better future. A lineup of veteran
placeholders, unwanted by other
teams at the nonwaiver trading
deadline, offers little appeal.
Trading Bruce — a free-agent-to-
be — underscores the reality that
the kids are the show. Maybe the
Mets can also find takers for
Curtis Granderson and Neil
Walker before the end of the
month.
“It’s fun to watch young guys
kind of get their feet wet and
figure all of it out,” Bruce said,
presciently, after the game.
Speaking of Rosario, he added:
“He’s got so much to learn — in a
positive way. He’s got all the
tools, all the talent, and I hope
we just all continue to let him
play and develop and become
who he is.”
For now, it is all about Rosario,
but that should change soon.
Outfielder Brandon Nimmo
has not started at all since the
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Mets activated him from the
disabled list July 28; Collins said
he knew what Nimmo had to
offer, after his 73-at-bat trial last
season. Maybe trading Bruce
clears some space for a longer
look.
Collins knows much less about
Dominic Smith, who has not
made his debut. The Mets plan to
promote Smith, their 22-year-old
first-base prospect, this month —
and Smith should be here al-
ready. Through Tuesday, he had
hit .301 with a .398 on-base per-
centage in a five-year minor
league career, and his power
continues to rise.
The Mets have tested several
young arms this season, and the
lackluster results still help, if
only as a guide to understanding
just what they have. The Mets
should commit fully to finding
out as much as they can about
their young players. That is the
best way to use the rest of their
season, and the best reason to
pay attention.
Is Traded
To Indians
For Pitcher
By JAMES WAGNER
Amid a disappointing season,
the Mets on Wednesday swung
another trade of a veteran for
young talent as they retool their
roster with an eye toward 2018.
This time, the deal involved a
large cash savings, the clearing of
a roster spot, and their best power
hitter, Jay Bruce, who was in-
formed that he was sent to the
Cleveland Indians.
In exchange, the Mets received
low-level relief prospect Ryder
Ryan, whose fastball was clocked
in the mid-to-high 90s this year.
The Indians also assumed the
remainder of Bruce’s $13 million
salary this year, according to a
person familiar with the deal who
requested anonymity because the
money in the deal was not made
public. This saves the Mets about
$5 million.
Bruce was going to be a free
agent at the end of this season.
The Mets failed to deal him ahead
of the July 31 nonwaiver trade
deadline, saying that the market
for position players was weak but
that the franchise was open to
more moves in August.
Bruce recently cleared waivers,
which meant the Mets were free to
trade him to any team.
Bruce, 30, hit .256 and led the
Mets with 29 homers and 75 R.B.I.
The Mets acquired him from the
Cincinnati Reds at the trade dead-
line last summer, and he struggled
in his first two months in New
York, but he rebounded to help the
Mets reach the National League
wild-card game.
The Mets exercised the $13 mil-
lion option on Bruce’s contract,
and he was among the team’s big-
gest bright spots this season. Nor-
mally a right fielder, he played ev-
ery day, and even switched to first
base when necessary.
He was a candidate to receive
an $18 million qualifying offer at
the end of this season, but the
Mets decided to trade him now. If
Bruce had received the offer,
turned it down and signed else-
where, the Mets would have re-
ceived draft pick compensation.
Now the Mets save money, and
they add another relief prospect
— the fifth they have acquired via
deals in the past few weeks.
Trades of Lucas Duda and Addi-
son Reed, also pending free
agents, netted four relief

Yanks Generate a Lot of Runs, and a Lot of Ugliness Along the Way
By BILLY WITZ American League East.
As for any signs that the Yan-
TORONTO — Everywhere you
kees are emerging from their
looked Wednesday, there were ex-
post-trade deadline funk, it would
amples of what kind of night it was
for the Yankees. require some pinstriped-colored
glasses to see that.
There was the third base coach,
Joe Espada, For an offense that has strug-
YANKEES 11 crumpling gled to score over the last week —
to
BLUE JAYS 5 the artificial and for a lineup that lost Clint Fra-
turf as he zier as a late scratch because of an
waved a runner home. (He oblique injury — the Yankees
needed tending to from a trainer were handed a gift in the form of
but remained in the game.) There Toronto’s emergency starter, Nick
were the Yankees’ needing five Tepesch, who had been released
throws to execute (barely) a 5-2- by five organizations over the pre-
6-2-6-1 rundown between third vious 14 months.
and home. There was Ronald Tor- Gary Sanchez, Todd Frazier
reyes being thrown out at home and Didi Gregorius pelted Te-
standing up, Jeremy Giambi- pesch for solo home runs, and the
style. And there was Masahiro Ta- Yankees finally pulled away
naka (rightly) getting the hook against a depleted Blue Jays
with a three-run lead, nobody out bullpen. Their six pitchers includ-
in the fifth and having surren- ed Taylor Cole, whose major
dered only two hits. league debut was a forgettable ex-
The Yankees walked away with perience as he gave up four runs
a 11-5 victory against the Toronto and took a smash from Gregorius
Blue Jays, but it was an arduous, off his foot.
laborious slog that seemed to But aside from Garrett Cooper’s
have only one redeeming quality: four hits, there was little artistic
It kept the Yankees four games be- about the night, beginning with
hind first-place Boston in the the Little League-esque rundown
MARK BLINCH/THE CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar was tagged out at home after a
rundown between third and home during the second inning.
in the second inning that ended
with Gregorius throwing to Tana-
ka, who tagged Kevin Pillar just
before he reached home with a
dive.
Tanaka, given a 6-2 lead, sur-
rendered a solo home run to Jose
Bautista to begin the fifth, then
walked Josh Donaldson on four
pitches — his fifth walk of the
night. This was enough for Man-
ager Joe Girardi to turn to the
bullpen. The Blue Jays then crept
within 6-5 in the sixth when Chad
Green gave up a run-scoring dou-
ble to Ryan Goins and Tommy
Kahnle yielded a run-scoring sin-
gle to Donaldson.
The Yankees began to pull away
in the eighth, but it was not alto-
gether painless. When Torreyes
singled up the middle to drive in
two runs, Espada appeared to roll
his ankle as he was shuffling along
the third-base line to wave home
Cooper. He stayed on the turf for a
moment until he was attended to
by a trainer and Girardi, and then
hobbled back to his position.
In a little more than 24 hours
here, the Yankees have lost Clint
Frazier, have had Todd Frazier
(Wednesday) and Sanchez (Tues-
day) hit by pitches on their elbow
and hand, and had C. C. Sabathia
leave Tuesday’s start with a knee
injury.
Sabathia learned Wednesday
after having a magnetic reso-
nance imaging test on his degen-
erative right knee that there was
no further damage. And while it is
uncertain whether he will pitch
Sunday night against the Red Sox,
it might qualify as the best news of
the day for the Yankees.
prospects ahead of the nonwaiver
deadline. The deals in total saved
the Mets $10 million to $11 million.
Ryan, 22, a 30th-round pick last
year by the Indians who was an in-
fielder at the University of North
Carolina, has a 4.79 E.R.A. at Class
A Lake County this season, but
one scout said he was an intrigu-
ing pitcher who looked better than
his numbers. He was not ranked in
MLB.com’s top 30 Indians
prospects, making it appear as if
the Mets mostly wanted the cash
savings and the roster spot
cleared. The Yankees reportedly
made an offer to the Mets for
Bruce, but the Mets chose the In-
dians’ proposal.
In trading Bruce, the Mets have
freed one spot in a crowded out-
field rotation that also included
Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Con-
forto, Brandon Nimmo and Curtis
Granderson, another pending free
agent who could also be traded. It
also opens up a spot in the lineup
for the awaited call-up of the first-
base prospect Dominic Smith.
After the trade of Reed last
week, the Mets called up their top
prospect Amed Rosario, a short-
stop. As the Mets roster is
changed again, Smith may not be
far behind.

SOCCER

Mexico’s Márquez Accused Márquez’s assets “that are under

U.S. jurisdiction or are in the con-
trol of U.S. persons” have been
of evidence to take action.
Márquez, 38, is one of Mexico’s
greatest soccer players. A center

Of Aiding a Drug Kingpin

By KEVIN DRAPER
and ELISABETH MALKIN
The Mexican soccer star Rafael
Márquez and several of his busi-
nesses have acted as fronts and
held assets for a major drug traf-
ficking organization, the United
States Treasury Department said
Wednesday after it added the
player’s name to a list of people
and entities that face financial
penalties and possible forfeitures
for such ties.
Márquez, who plays for the
Mexican club Atlas and has repre-
sented Mexico at the last four
World Cups, was placed on a Spe-
cially Designated Nationals list by
the Treasury Department’s Office
of Foreign Assets Control.
Márquez appeared voluntarily in
the Mexican attorney general’s of-
fice today to make a statement,
Randal C. Archibold contributed
reporting.
the attorney general’s office in a
news release. The office added
that it was working closely with
the Treasury Department in a
continuing investigation.
Márquez and nine businesses
linked to him, including his soccer
school and charitable foundation,
were among the 22 individuals
and 42 entities added to the list by
the Treasury Department on
Wednesday. All were accused of
providing support to, or being un-
der the control of, another Mexi-
can national, Raúl Flores
Hernández, and what the depart-
ment called the “Flores drug traf-
ficking organization.”
In March, Flores Hernández
was indicted on a federal drug
trafficking charge.
At a news conference at Atlas’s
practice facility on Wednesday,
Márquez denied any connection
to the drug trafficking organiza-
tion and promised to cooperate
HECTOR GUERRERO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
The Treasury Department said Rafael Márquez and nine busi-
nesses linked to him have provided support to drug traffickers.
with the authorities in the investi- Treasury Department to freeze
gation. “I clarify that I have not the assets of foreign nationals it
now or ever participated in any of believes to be involved in interna-
the organizations that have been tional narcotics trafficking and to
mentioned,” he said. prosecute Americans who handle
The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin drug trafficking money. Accord-
Designation Act, better known as ing to a Treasury Department
the Kingpin Act, was passed by news release announcing
Congress in 1999 and allows the Wednesday’s actions, all of
frozen.
In addition to having assets
frozen, once an individual or enti-
ty is designated as a specially des-
ignated national, according to the
Treasury Department's descrip-
tion of the list, “U.S. Persons are
generally prohibited from dealing
with them.”
The United States sees the act
as an important tool to disrupt the
finances of organized crime and
drug-trafficking groups, and to
expose the vast web of dummy
businesses that allow criminals to
obscure and launder their ill-got-
ten gains. But defense lawyers
and some people named to the list
— which now totals more than
2,000 individuals and entities —
have complained that it is rife with
errors and tarnishes reputations
with scant evidence and no due
process.
A number of businesses added
to the list still manage to operate,
because the authorities outside of
the United States do not always
follow up on the Treasury Depart-
ment’s designation or find a lack
back and defensive midfielder, he
has appeared for his national
team 142 times over the last 21
years, and was Mexico’s captain
at each of the last four World Cups.
His club career has taken him to
Europe, where he won four league
titles and two Champions League
trophies while playing for the
Spanish powerhouse Barcelona,
and to the United States, where he
played two years with the Red
Bulls of Major League Soccer.
The news that Márquez had
been linked to the drug trade,
even peripherally, was met with
disbelief in Mexico. Márquez’s ca-
reer in Barcelona was a source of
pride for Mexican football fans,
proof that the country produces
world-class players. At the height
of his career, his personal life was
closely followed by Mexico’s ce-
lebrity magazines, and he ap-
peared in commercials for every-
thing from Gillette razors to a
Mexican pension fund.
Neither Atlas nor the Mexican
soccer federation responded to re-
quests for comment.
 B12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

BASEBALL

With Names on Uniforms, the Yanks Get a Chance the Bambino Never Had
spring training for not cutting his
From First Sports Page hair to Yankees standards, said he
Harper said: “Baseball’s tired. It’s would have spikes with an outline
a tired sport because you can’t ex- of his face, and other surprises.
press yourself.” “I think a lot of guys are keeping
The World Baseball Classic in it pretty bland,” he said with a
March drew raves for the flair and smile. “But I’m not doing that.”
passion that many countries be- Judge said he was just going to
sides the United States displayed put his last name, or his childhood
— be it an audacious bat flip by nickname on the back of his jersey,
Wladimir Balentien of the Nether- until Todd Frazier told him that
lands, the dyed blond hair of the would be too vanilla.
Puerto Rican players or the rau- “I said: ‘Man, are you kidding
cous Dominican Republic fans me? Get your brand out there. Ev-
(and reliever Fernando Rodney’s erybody loves you,” Todd Frazier
good-luck golden plantain). said. “You put ‘All Rise’ on there,
Sabathia, who often wears an 1), you know how many people are
Oakland Raiders cap or jersey to MLB going to buy that jersey? and 2), if
the ballpark and organizes trips to Nickname jerseys for the Yankees’ Didi Gregorius and Todd Frazier, and the Mets’ Curtis Granderson and Noah Syndergaard. you have Judge, you’re going to be
N.B.A. games with his team- Plain Jane out there.”
mates, says he is keenly aware of But in an era when nicknames
the criticisms of his sport, particu-
players,” Sabathia added. “It al-
lows you to show your personality
The N.B.A., which in 2014 al-
lowed players to wear uniforms
An M.L.B.-mandated “Unlocking the individual char-
acteristics of the players is one of
are often contrived or colorless —
larly compared with how well the where have you gone Mudcat
N.B.A., via social media and other
a little bit, show what you would with nicknames on the back for a effort to bring younger the levers they need to push,” Ad- Grant and Blue Moon Odom? — it
do if you had no rules. I think it will selected game, has recently done amson said. “The story is richer if
platforms, has connected with
young fans. be fun to see that and to see the away with home and road uni- fans to the ballpark. each player has his own unique
is not easy to come up with some-
thing attention-getting and clever.
“This is the first step in getting imagination that some guys forms, giving teams an option of story.” Yankees Manager Joe Girardi,
there,” said Sabathia, who is have.” four uniforms to wear. In the Yankees’ clubhouse, re- hardly the frivolous type, said he
among 11 major leaguers who Todd Radom, a graphic de- “It’s the Oregon Ducks syn- Adamson, the branding expert, liever Tommy Kahnle, who wore a was not sure what he would put on
served on an advisory committee signer who has designed the logos drome writ very specific for said that while baseball had much print short-sleeve shirt with his uniform. Though he gives just
for the coming weekend. Among for the Los Angeles Angels and M.L.B.,” Radom said. “I think work to do to draw younger fans to Darth Vader logos to the ballpark about all his players a nickname
the others are the Chicago Cubs’ the Nationals, and a patch hon- you’re seeing the barriers erode of the ballpark — including speeding on Tuesday, said he would not — borrowing from the hockey tra-
Javier Baez, Baltimore’s Manny oring the inaugural season of the traditional notions, and I think it the pace of games and making have a nickname on the back of his dition of adding a y to their last
Machado, Toronto’s Jose Bautista new Yankee Stadium, says he sees does stem quite a bit from college tickets more affordable — the jersey, but he is having Marvel name — he said he never had one.
and Cleveland’s Francisco Lindor. this move as following a greater football. Seeing it bleed into base- Players Weekend is a modest, Comic-themed spikes made. Clint “The players might have one for
“It shows a different side of the trend in sports. ball isn’t surprising.’’ fleeting step in the right direction. Frazier, who got in hot water in me,” he said. “I personally don’t.”

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east states. This pocket of dry air will
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H area of high pressure moves offshore. Record Yesterday ............... 0.00

JET STREAM L Showers and thunderstorms will continue 100°
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warm cool Dry air will expand over the northern 70°
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San Francisco 72/ 61 0 71/ 59 PC 71/ 59 PC SET 8:01 p.m. R 9:47 p.m.
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Atlanta 79/ 70 0.29 83/ 71 T 86/ 72 T Paris 66/ 54 0.36 69/ 55 T 73/ 56 C Jupiter R 11:06 a.m. Mars R 5:36 a.m.
Seattle 90/ 62 0 90/ 61 PC 85/ 58 PC
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Sioux Falls 78/ 58 0.55 76/ 55 T 77/ 58 PC L.I. North Shore
Austin 94/ 73 0 97/ 75 PC 99/ 76 PC Rome 93/ 73 0 89/ 71 PC 82/ 64 S
Spokane 95/ 64 0 96/ 66 PC 96/ 66 PC Saturn S 1:47 a.m. Venus R 3:04 a.m.
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Baton Rouge 87/ 75 0.24 88/ 75 T 87/ 76 T Stockholm 72/ 57 0.20 72/ 56 PC 78/ 57 PC
St. Thomas 88/ 79 0.06 89/ 79 Sh 89/ 80 Sh
Birmingham 81/ 72 0.33 84/ 72 T 85/ 73 T Vienna 86/ 66 0 94/ 64 T 79/ 59 T L.I. South Shore 60s
Syracuse 81/ 60 0 83/ 64 PC 78/ 64 Sh Boating
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Boston 83/ 66 0 82/ 64 S 77/ 65 PC Toledo 82/ 58 0 83/ 63 S 81/ 58 PC
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 80/ 61 0 84/ 64 PC 78/ 65 Sh Tucson 103/ 78 0 100/ 78 PC 99/ 78 C N.J. Shore
Burlington 79/ 61 0.08 85/ 64 PC 84/ 62 C nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 86/ 71 0 90/ 71 T 85/ 72 T Acapulco 87/ 78 0.21 82/ 73 T 88/ 78 PC 80/65 Sunny to partly cloudy
Casper 78/ 49 0 76/ 49 PC 79/ 49 PC Harbor.
Virginia Beach 79/ 70 0 79/ 69 S 79/ 72 C Bermuda 87/ 79 0 87/ 79 PC 87/ 81 PC
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Chicago 84/ 65 0 83/ 66 PC 79/ 61 PC 70s
Wilmington, Del. 84/ 62 0 83/ 66 PC 80/ 69 T Havana 93/ 73 0 89/ 74 PC 90/ 74 PC Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility will largely be
Cincinnati 81/ 62 0 81/ 64 PC 80/ 65 T Kingston 92/ 79 0.03 92/ 81 PC 89/ 80 PC clear to the horizon. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 84/ 62 0 84/ 66 S 83/ 64 T Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 89/ 78 0.21 89/ 78 Sh 90/ 77 Sh 77/67 Turning cloudy
Colorado Springs 76/ 56 0 77/ 57 T 74/ 58 PC Algiers 95/ 73 0 87/ 70 PC 86/ 68 PC Mexico City 73/ 55 0.04 66/ 56 T 74/ 56 T High Tides
Columbus 83/ 61 0 81/ 64 PC 81/ 65 PC Cairo 96/ 80 0 98/ 78 S 98/ 79 S Monterrey 95/ 71 0 90/ 73 PC 93/ 70 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 85/ 55 0 87/ 58 S 83/ 56 C Cape Town 63/ 41 0 62/ 53 W 59/ 45 R Montreal 74/ 59 0 81/ 61 C 83/ 63 PC Atlantic City .................... 9:54 a.m. ............ 10:08 p.m. indicate water
79/69 Turning cloudy
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Denver 79/ 55 0 79/ 56 T 82/ 56 PC Johannesburg 67/ 46 0 69/ 45 S 72/ 47 S Panama City 86/ 73 0 87/ 76 T 87/ 76 T The Battery ................... 10:41 a.m. ............ 10:48 p.m.
Des Moines 86/ 66 0 86/ 63 T 82/ 60 PC Nairobi 72/ 53 0 74/ 52 PC 74/ 56 PC Quebec City 71/ 54 0.05 76/ 59 PC 79/ 60 Sh Beach Haven ................ 11:34 a.m. ............ 11:47 p.m.
Detroit 85/ 63 0 84/ 65 S 83/ 63 PC Tunis 106/ 80 0 99/ 76 PC 88/ 71 S Santo Domingo 90/ 75 0.10 90/ 74 PC 89/ 75 PC
El Paso 95/ 74 0 96/ 75 PC 97/ 77 PC Toronto 80/ 61 0 80/ 66 PC 78/ 63 T
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T R AC K A N D F I E L D

A World-Record Holder May Finally Win a Title

LONDON — After hurdling for
redemption at London Stadium
last year, and getting plenty of it,
Keni Harrison is back in the
same place, hurdling for a title
and only a title.
CHRISTOPHER For now, Har-
rison, a 24-year-
CLAREY old American
from a family of
ON TRACK 13, is in the un-
AND FIELD
common position
of being a world-record holder
who has yet to win a medal of
any color in a major global cham-
pionship.
That could change in a hurry
on Saturday at the world champi-
onship final in the 100-meter
hurdles — the tricky, technical
and spectacular event that Harri-
son redefined last year when her
time of 12.20 seconds at a Dia-
mond League meet here broke
Yordanka Donkova’s 28-year-old
world mark of 12.21, long consid-
ered untouchable.
“Being back in London is
definitely a confidence booster,”
Harrison said in an interview at
the United States team’s hotel in
central London. “I know the
crowd is going to be amazing. I
love the track. It is fast, obvi-
ously, so I’m just getting ready
for that moment and to live it
fully.”
Harrison, whose first name is
Kendra but who prefers her
nickname Keni, considers herself
an introvert. She projected calm
on Wednesday for a nearly hour-
long interview, speaking thought-
fully and seldom shifting in her
seat.
Anyone who grew up with 10
siblings — she is the middle child
— can clearly handle pandemo-
nium. But sangfroid is not yet
her trademark in the biggest
races. In her first world champi-
onships in 2015, she did not reach
the final. Her world record in
London last year came just two
weeks after she had faltered as
the favorite at the United States
Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore.,
finishing sixth and failing to
make the team for the Games in
Rio de Janeiro.
It was a brutal blow to Harri-
son and an illuminating moment
to her coach, Edrick Floréal, who
had been convinced that Harri-
son, who had already set an
American record, 12.24, was in
the right place and head space
Keni Harrison, center, at last year’s U.S. Olympic team trials. She failed to make the Rio team but set a record two weeks later.
and blamed himself for not sens-
ing the trouble.
He and Harrison stayed up
until “4 or 5 in the morning” the
night after the defeat, he said,
talking it through. He insisted
that she report the next morning
to the track.
“I’m pretty sure I was crying
throughout the workout because
I didn’t want to be there,” she
said. “The reality hits you: ‘You
didn’t make the team. You are
No. 1 in the world. You didn’t
make the team. You even broke
the American record. You didn’t
make the team.’ All those
thoughts in your mind, but he
kept pushing me, and that’s what
got me through.”
Floréal told her he would trav-
el to London for last year’s Dia-
mond League meet on one condi-
tion.
“He said, ‘If you don’t think
you’re going to do something
amazing, then I’m not going to
go,’” Harrison said.
Once there, he shepherded her
through her routines. “Basically
24/7: breakfast, lunch and dinner
together,” Floréal said in an
interview this week. “She was
embarrassed about the
Olympics, had her head down,
didn’t want anyone to see her
face.”
But after the first round, he
said, her confidence returned.
“And when the gun went off in
the final, she was determined to
make a statement that ‘I’m not a
choker. I just had a bad meet,’”
he said. “And I think had that
meet and that moment not hap-
pened, I’m not sure that world
record would ever have been
broken. It was the perfect
storm.”
Will it thus be impossible to
generate another one?
“I do think it could happen
again,” Floréal said. “I think
she’s in the right place right
now.”
Harrison has the world’s lead-
ing time again in 2017: a 12.28 last
month in Hungary. She also feels
fresh, partly because she broke
her left hand warming up at a
Diamond League meet in Doha,
Qatar, in May (she still won the
ensuing race), forcing her to take
time off.
“I don’t feel tired,” she said. “I
don’t feel like I ran too many
meets, so I think it was probably
a blessing in disguise.”
Win or lose, Harrison has quite
a cheering section in London.
Her parents, Karon and Gary,
and six of her siblings made the
journey.
“We’re a traveling road show,”
Gary Harrison said on Wednes-
day amid touring London in the
rain. “We’re kind of overwhelm-
ing when we show up.”
The Harrison children range in
age from 19 to 34. The oldest,
Casey, and youngest, Kara, are
ANDY LYONS/GETTY IMAGES
the Harrisons’ biological chil-
dren. “If you want to irritate your
wife, get a mother of 10 preg-
nant,” Gary Harrison joked.
The Harrison’s other nine
children were adopted in a wide
range of circumstances.
“I have two siblings who are
African-American, two that are
biracial, two that are Korean, two
that are Bolivian and two that
are my parents’ biological kids,”
Keni Harrison said. “I don’t even
think about it.”
“My family came to visit this
morning, and a lot of people on
the team don’t really know I’m
adopted, and they were like,
‘Who are these people, Keni?’
And I’m like, ‘It’s my family,’ and
they’re like, ‘O.K.!’ Clearly peo-
ple on the outside see it, but I
don’t really see it as different
races.”
Gary Harrison, a former Navy
pilot who recently retired after
20 years, once bought a Marriott
Hotel shuttle bus to transport the
family, which featured a seat
near the front called “the timeout
seat.” He never quite got around
to painting over the “Marriott”
on the side of the bus, he said.
Remembering all of the chil-
dren’s current ages remains a
challenge. “I have a spread-
sheet,” he said.
Keni Harrison, born prema-
turely to a black single mother,
was adopted as a newborn
shortly after her sister Tasha had
been adopted. “They are like
twins in terms of their ages, so
we got two babies in like a
month,” Gary Harrison said.
“Keni was in the I.C.U. for 30
days, and I picked her up on Day
31.”
She did not grow tall — she is 5
foot 3 inches, short for an elite
sprinter — but she did grow up
to be agile and fast, and her
speed on the soccer field eventu-
ally caught the attention of track
coaches in Clayton, N.C.
She received a full track schol-
arship to Clemson, and then
transferred to Kentucky, where
she is now part of an elite profes-
sional group training under
Floréal that includes Omar Mc-
Leod, the reigning world and
Olympic champion in the men’s
110 hurdles.
Harrison volunteers as an
assistant and helped recruit
Sydney McLaughlin, the 18-year-
old from New Jersey who com-
peted in the Olympics in the 400
hurdles last year. McLaughlin,
the youngest track and field
athlete in 26 years to make the
United States Olympic team, will
attend Kentucky this fall.
Harrison will have to wait for
her Olympic moment (she
watched at her parents’ house on
television last year as the Ameri-
can women swept the medals in
the 100 hurdles in Rio). But the
former Olympic stadium in Lon-
don has already provided her
with quite a showcase for her
fast-twitch talents.
Time for an encore?
“Coach Flo put it this way: He
said breaking that world record
is the hardest thing you can do,”
Harrison said. “The next thing is
to go get some medals. That’s a
lot easier than trying to chase
the record. That’s how I’m think-
ing of it, anyway.”

SOCCER

No Longer Just Any Old Town After Premier League Promotion

From First Sports Page
— to take one example — has a
growing craft beer industry.
Some of the unused mills on the
town’s outskirts have been given
over to creative spaces and start-
ups. In the picturesque villages
of the Holme Valley, a few miles
outside town, there are craft
shops and coffee bars offering
social media courses. Yorkshire
flags flutter from almost every
other building, a white rose on a
sky-blue field. This is not a hope-
less place.
And yet — both Bains and
Steven Leigh, of the Mid York-
shire Chamber of Commerce,
agreed — it is a place trying to
shake off the sense of being a
waypoint, a place defined not by
what it is, but by what it is near.
“It does not want to be some-
where in between Leeds and
Manchester,” Leigh said. “It is a
place in its own right.”
The value of a spot in the
Premier League, with its global
reach and its lucrative television
rights, tends to be described in
financial terms. Even if Hudders-
field spends only one season
among English soccer’s elite, it
stands to receive somewhere in
the region of 165 million pounds
($214 million) plus, in the event
of relegation, two years of para-
Huddersfield Town fans in late May. Shortly after the team’s
promotion, it saw a surge of demand for Huddersfield’s jerseys.
had seen a surge in applications
since it earned the right to call
itself a Premier League city. “I
speak to some of the people who
travel the world to recruit stu-
dents, and as soon as they hear
the word Swansea, they associ-
ate it with football,” he told Wales
Online.
The evidence is anecdotal —
one 2008 study found no correla-
tion between the presence of a
Premier League team and uni-
versity applications — but the
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response, too. In 2013, Burnley
was voted the most entrepre-
neurial place in Britain.
Now, on the verge of its team’s
third season in the Premier
League in the last four, it is well
positioned to assess what being
part of the competition can do to
C A L E N DA R
a place. Mike Garlick, the Burn-
ley F.C. chairman, points out the
economic transformation, the
“away fans and journalists, all
needing somewhere to stay,” and
the physical one, too: Burnley
has spent £12 million building a
state-of-the-art training center at
Gawthorpe Hall, just outside
town.
But he lingers more on the
psychological impact. He sees
the chairman’s role, which he has
occupied for the last five years,
as almost a civic one (“You’re a
custodian. You own it, techni-
cally, but really you’re just look-
ing after it.”) and as his way of
giving something back to his
hometown.
He takes immense pride in the
work Burnley does in the com-
munity — sports facilities and
educational programs, financed
in no small part by Premier
League grants — but also in
what the club does for the com-
munity just by being a Premier
League team.
“It is a great feel-good factor,”
he said. “Burnley won the en-
trepreneurship award the same
year as we were promoted. That
sort of thing gives a place a
winning mentality. It shows you
can go and do things for your-
self.”
It is that self-confidence, he
believes, that is the greatest
benefit of a place in the Premier
League, of being a Premier
League place. Garlick lives in
Hertfordshire, just north of Lon-
don. Yet when he mentions his
hometown, “the first thing people
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Andrus ss 6 1 0 0 0 1 .292 Second Round
Mazara lf-rf 5 2 3 1 0 1 .247 Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, d.
Spieth is on the kind of roll that Yankees 60 52 .536 4
Beltre 3b 5 0 2 0 0 2 .295 Peter Polansky, Canada, 6-2, 6-1.
Walker imagined for himself when he Tampa Bay 58 57 .504 7{ Gallo 1b 2 1 1 2 3 1 .212 Roberto Bautista Agut (12), Spain, d.
Gomez cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .252 Ryan Harrison, United States, 7-5, 6-2.
held aloft the Wanamaker Trophy last Baltimore 56 58 .491 9 Robinson 2b-lf 3 0 0 1 2 3 .182 Robin Haase, Netherlands, d. Ernesto
summer. In 18 starts this season, Toronto 53 60 .469 11{
Nicholas c 5 0 1 0 0 1 .143 Escobedo, United States, 6-4, 6-1.
Perez p 4 0 0 0 0 4 .000 Gael Monfils, France, d. Kei Nishikori
Spieth has eight top-10 finishes, in- Odor ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .215 (5), Japan, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (6). Denis
Central W L Pct GB Totals 37 5 10 4 8 15
cluding three victories. New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
Shapovalov, Canada, d. Juan Martin
del Potro, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (4). David
With momentum comes a kind of Cleveland 60 51 .541 — Conforto cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .289 Ferrer, Spain, d. Jack Sock (15), United
Reyes 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .220 States, 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-1. Grigor Dimitrov
amnesia. Even the best are served Kansas City 57 55 .509 3{
Cespedes lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .270 (7), Bulgaria, d. Mischa Zverev, Germany,
reminders that they are mortals, not Minnesota 55 56 .495 5 Bruce rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .256 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Kevin Anderson, South
Flores 1b 3 1 1 1 0 0 .281 Africa, d. Pablo Carreno Busta (11),
magicians. Detroit 52 61 .460 9 Walker 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (6). Nick Kyrgios (16),
For Ernie Els, that moment came Chicago 43 68 .387 17
Rivera c
Robles p
2
0
0 0 0 0 0 .239
0 0 0 0 0 ---
Australia, d. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-2,
6-3. Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, d.
on the Sunday of the 1995 P.G.A. Nimmo ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .280 Richard Gasquet, France, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (3).
West W L Pct GB Bradford p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, d. Borna Coric,
Championship. Els, then 25 and al- Rosario ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .179 Croatia, 6-1, 6-2. Adrian Mannarino,
Houston 71 42 .628 —
ready a United States Open winner, Montero p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 France, d. Milos Raonic (6), Canada,
Lugo ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .158 6-4, 6-4. Chung Hyeon, South Korea, d.
shot sub-70 scores at Riviera Country Seattle 59 56 .513 13
Smoker p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 David Goffin (9), Belgium, 7-5, 6-3.
Club in Los Angeles in each of the Los Angeles 57 58 .496 15 d'Arnaud c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .240
Totals 29 1 3 1 0 7
first three rounds to take a three- Texas 54 59 .478 17 WTA ROGERS CUP
Texas 310 001 000—5 10 0
stroke lead into the final day. He Oakland 50 64 .439 21{ New York 000 010 000—1 3 0 Aviva Centre
closed with a two-over 72 to finish TORONTO
WEDNESDAY LOB—Texas 15, New York 2. 2B—Choo Singles
tied for third. In 74 subsequent Yankees 11, Toronto 5 (11), Gomez (15). HR—Gallo (32), off Second Round
Montero; Flores (13), off Perez. RBIs— Garbine Muguruza (4), Spain, d. Kirsten
rounds at the P.G.A. Championship, ROSS KINNAIRD/GETTY IMAGES Texas 5, Mets 1 Mazara (69), Gallo 2 (61), Robinson (5), Flipkens, Belgium, 7-5, 6-2. CiCi Bellis,
Els has never again held the lead. Colorado 3, Cleveland 2, 12 innings Flores (34). SB—Andrus 2 (22). CS— United States, d. Svetlana Kuznetsova
He won a second U.S. Open in 1997, Jordan Spieth greeted fans on Monday during a practice for the 2017 Seattle 6, Oakland 3 Mazara (2). DP—Texas 1 (8), Russia, 6-4, 7-5. Caroline Garcia,
Texas ip h r er bb so np era France, d. Varvara Lepchenko, United
three years after his first, and added P.G.A. Championship. A win would give him a career Grand Slam at 24. L.A. Angels 5, Baltimore 1 PerezW6-10 8 3 1 1 0 5 89 5.18 States, 6-1, 6-4. Lucie Safarova,
Boston 8, Tampa Bay 2 Claudio 1 0 0 0 0 2 13 2.37 Czech Republic, d. Dominika Cibulkova
the 2002 and 2012 British Open titles. New York ip h r er bb so np era (11), Slovakia, 6-2, 6-4. Ashleigh
Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 0 MonteroL1-8 3 5 4 4 3 5 87 6.06 Barty, Australia, d. Elena Vesnina (16),
Els’s four major titles propelled him thirds in majors that Woods won. in which they are played during the Smoker 2 5 1 1 2 3 52 7.17 Russia, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Karolina Pliskova
Chicago White Sox 7, Houston 1
into the World Golf Hall of Fame. But “I could have had a couple more, year, starting with the Masters and Minnesota at Milwaukee Robles 3 0 0 0 2 5 50 4.72 (1), Czech Republic, d. Anastasia
Bradford 1 0 0 0 1 2 21 4.63 Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Venus
Els expected to be farther along definitely, without him around,” Els then the U.S. Open in 2015. Kansas City at St. Louis T—3:07. A—34,222 (41,922). Williams (9), United States, d. Katerina
Glory Road by now. said with a rueful smile. “Do I have to be the youngest?” he THURSDAY
Siniakova, Czech Republic, 7-5, 7-5.
Agnieszka Radwanska (10), Poland, d.
“In ’95, I had a three-shot lead YANKEES 11, BLUE JAYS 5
On the road that Spieth is speeding said. “No, I don’t feel that kind of Yankees (Gray 6-6) at Toronto (Es- Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-0, 6-1. Naomi
going to the P.G.A., couldn’t get it along now, who is to say that he won’t pressure. Would it be really cool?
trada 4-7), 7:07 New York ab r h bi bb so avg. Osaka, Japan, d. Anastasija Sevastova
(15), Latvia, 6-3, 6-4. Ekaterina
Gardner lf 5 0 1 0 1 1 .257
done and in ’96 missed out on an- be passed at some point by Hideki Absolutely.”
Pittsburgh (Cole 9-8) at Detroit
Headley dh 5 0 1 0 0 3 .272 Makarova, Russia, d. Johanna Konta (7),
(VerHagen 0-1), 1:10 Britain, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Simona Halep
other very narrow loss,” Els said, Judge rf 4 1 0 0 1 1 .294
Matsuyama of Japan? Or by some Spieth added: “I’m here, so I’m Cleveland (Salazar 4-5) at Tampa Gregorius ss 5 3 3 1 0 0 .311 (2), Romania, d. Magdalena Rybarikova,
referring to his tie for second at the Bay (Snell 0-6), 7:10 Sanchez c 5 2 2 1 0 2 .265 Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4.
teenager from China who pops up on going to go ahead and try. But I be-
British Open, two strokes behind Tom Kansas City (Hammel 5-9) at St. Frazier 3b 4 4 3 3 0 0 .213
the horizon? lieve I’m going to have plenty of Wade 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .128
Lehman. “And I kind of stalled.” Louis (Lynn 10-6), 7:15 Ellsbury cf 5 0 1 2 0 1 .243 TRACK AND FIELD
Of course, Spieth should savor chances, and I’m young enough to Cooper 1b 5 1 4 2 0 0 .364
Around the same time, a youngster Houston (Peacock 10-1) at Chicago
named Tiger Woods materialized like what he has already accomplished. believe in my abilities that it will White Sox (Rodon 1-4), 8:10 Torreyes 2b-3b 5
Totals 43
0
11
2
17
2 0 1 .289
11 2 9 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
a boulder in his path. “When Tiger “It was only two weeks ago that I happen at some point.” Minnesota (Gibson 6-9) at Milwau- Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg.
LONDON
kee (Davies 13-5), 8:10 Bautista rf 5 1 1 1 0 0 .216
came in ’97, and him winning the was able to get the third leg, and But he knows not to take his foot Donaldson 3b 2 0 1 1 3 0 .249 Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Baltimore (Miley 5-9) at Oakland 1. Karsten Warholm, Norway, 48.35
Masters in the way he did,” Els said, that’s so fresh in my mind,” he said off the gas or his eyes off the Wana- (Blackburn 3-1), 10:05
Smoak 1b 4 0 0 0 1 4 .296
2. Yasmani Copello, Turkey, 48.49
Pearce dh 3 1 1 1 1 1 .267
referring to Woods’s 12-stroke victory Wednesday, referring to the British maker Trophy. The road that looks so L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-2) at Seattle Pillar cf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .245 3. Kerron Clement, United States, 48.52
4. Kemar Mowatt, Jamaica, 48.99
seductive now can rise up to defeat Aoki lf 4 0 1 1 0 0 .270
for the first of his 14 major titles, “that Open. “I’m so happy about that that I (Paxton 12-3), 10:10
Barney 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 .230 5. TJ Holmes, United States, 49.00
FRIDAY 6. Juander Santos, Dominican Republic,
kind of threw me off a little bit. I can’t add pressure to this week. I’m him. Carrera ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .302
49.04
Boston at Yankees, 7:05 Refsnyder 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143
thought I was really one of the top free-rolling, and it feels good.” “If I don’t win one in the next 10 Goins ss 3 1 1 1 1 0 .221 7. Abderrahaman Samba, Qatar, 49.74
Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7:07 Lopez c 2 1 0 0 1 2 .000 8. Kariem Hussein, Switzerland, 50.07
players, which I was, but that was a With a victory, Spieth can surpass years,” Spieth said, referring to the Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 Totals 31 5 6 5 7 9 Women's 400m Final
P.G.A. Championship, “then maybe 1. Phyllis Francis, United States, 49.92
pretty special display of golf.” Woods as the youngest to win all four Minnesota at Detroit, 7:10 New York 021 030 023—11 17 1 2. Salwa Eid Naser, Bahrain, 50.06
Els finished second to Woods at the majors. And he’d do it in a fashion there’s added pressure then. Hope- Houston at Texas, 8:05 Toronto 011 012 000—5 6 0 3. Allyson Felix, United States, 50.08.
4. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamas, 50.49
United States and British Opens in that befits his fastidiousness on the fully we don’t have to have this con- Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 E—Sanchez (11). LOB—New York 8, 5. Shericka Jackson, Jamaica, 50.76
2000. He also recorded a couple of course — chronologically in the order versation in 10 years.” Baltimore at Oakland, 10:05 Toronto 9. 2B—Gardner (18), Gregorius 6. Stephenie Ann McPherson, Jamaica,
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 (17), Frazier (16), Ellsbury (10), Cooper (4), 50.86
Pillar (26), Goins (15). HR—Sanchez (18), 7. Kabange Mupopo, Zambia, 51.15
off Tepesch; Frazier (19), off Tepesch; 8. Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaica, 51.48
N.L. STANDINGS Gregorius (18), off Tepesch; Bautista
(18), off Tanaka. RBIs—Gregorius (55),
Women's Shot Put Final
1. Lijiao Gong, China, 19.94
Sanchez (53), Frazier 3 (52), Ellsbury 2 2. Anita Marton, Hungary, 19.49
East W L Pct GB (23), Cooper 2 (5), Torreyes 2 (30), Bautista 3. Michelle Carter, Unites States, 19.14
(50), Donaldson (41), Pearce (33), Aoki (22), 4. Danniel Thomas-Dodd, Jamaica, 18.91
Washington 67 45 .598 — Goins (41). SF—Pearce. DP—New York 1 5. Yang Gao, China, 18.25
Miami 53 59 .473 14 New York ip h r er bb so np era 6. Brittany Crew, Canada, 18.21
Tanaka 4 2 3 2 5 2 88 4.92 7. Yuliya Leantsiuk, Belarus, 18.12
Atlanta 51 61 .455 16 GreenW2-0 1Í/¯ 2 2 2 0 3 27 2.06 8. Yaniuvis Lopez, Cuba, 18.03
KahnleH10 Î/¯ 1 0 0 1 1 19 2.38 9. Geisa Arcanjo, Brazil, 18.03
Mets 50 61 .450 16{ RobertsonH2 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.44 10. Raven Saunders, United States, 17.86
BetancesH16 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 2.36 11. Melissa Boekelman, Netherlands,
Philadelphia 42 69 .378 24{ Warren 1 1 0 0 1 1 22 1.89 17.73
Toronto ip h r er bb so np era 12. Ka Bian, China, 17.60
Central W L Pct GB TepeschL0-2 4Í/¯ 8 5 5 1 4 81 9.00
Campos Î/¯ 2 1 1 0 1 18 2.89
Chicago 59 54 .522 — Loup 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.71 PRO FOOTBALL
Milwaukee 59 56 .513 1 Leone 1 1 1 1 0 0 14 2.63
Howell Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 6 8.10
St. Louis 57 56 .504 2 Cole 1 6 4 4 1 1 41 36.00 N.F.L. PRESEASON SCHEDULE
Barnes Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 7 3.13
Pittsburgh 56 58 .491 3{ T—3:44. A—39,554 (49,282). All Times EDT
Wednesday
Cincinnati 47 67 .412 12{ Carolina 27, Houston 17
West W L Pct GB
TRANSACTIONS Thursday
Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles 79 33 .705 — Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.
M.L.B. Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
Arizona 64 48 .571 15 Jacksonville at New England, 7:30 p.m.
American League Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Colorado 65 49 .570 15 BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned LHP New Orleans at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Donnie Hart to Norfolk (IL). Reinstated DH Philadelphia at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
San Diego 50 63 .442 29{ Mark Trumbo from the 10-day DL. Friday
BOSTON RED SOX — Sent RHPs Ben Pittsburgh at Giants, 7 p.m.
San Francisco 46 70 .397 35 Taylor and Carson Smith to Pawtucket (IL) Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
for rehab assignments.
WEDNESDAY CLEVELAND INDIANS — Acquired OF Jay
San Francisco at Kansas City, 9 p.m.
Saturday
Texas 5, Mets 1 Bruce from the New York Mets for RHP Tennessee at Jets, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado 3, Cleveland 2, 12 innings Ryder Ryan. Placed OF Michael Brantley Dallas at L.A. Rams, 9 p.m.
on the 10-day DL. Recalled INF Erik Oakland at Arizona, 10 p.m.
San Francisco 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Gonzalez from Columbus (IL). Sunday, Aug. 13
Washington 10, Miami 1 DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned 3B Jeimer Detroit at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m.
Candelario to Toledo (IL). Seattle at L.A. Chargers, 8 p.m.
Cincinnati 8, San Diego 3 HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned 1B Tyler
Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 0 White to Fresno (PCL). Reinstated OF
Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2 George Springer from the 10-day DL.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed LHP
PRO BASKETBALL
Minnesota at Milwaukee Adalberto Mejia on the 10-day DL. Recalled
Kansas City at St. Louis 1B/DH Kennys Vargas from Rochester (IL). W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona YANKEES — Sent OF Aaron Hicks to
Trenton (EL) for a rehab assignment. EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
THURSDAY SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned RHP
Connecticut 16 9 .640 —
Mets (deGrom 12-5) at Philadelphia Cody Martin outright to Tacoma (PCL).
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed RHP Alex Washington 15 10 .600 1
(Velasquez 2-6), 7:05 Cobb on the 10-day DL. Recalled LHP Liberty 13 12 .520 3
San Diego (Lamet 6-4) at Cincinnati Blake Snell from Durham (IL). Atlanta 10 16 .385 6{
KAI PFAFFENBACH/REUTERS Chicago 10 16 .385 6{
(Castillo 2-5), 12:35 TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Nick
Indiana 9 18 .333 8
Raven Saunders of the United States competing in the women’s shot put final at the world championships. Pittsburgh (Cole 9-8) at Detroit
Martinez to Round Rock (PCL). Recalled
INF Tyler Smith from Round Rock. WESTERN CONFERENCE
(VerHagen 0-1), 1:10 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed RHP W L Pct GB
Miami (Straily 7-8) at Washington Cesar Valdez on the 10-day DL. Recalled x-Minnesota 21 3 .875 —
G OLF (Roark 9-7), 7:05
RHP Leonel Campos from Buffalo (IL). Los Angeles 18 7 .720 3{
Selected the contract of RHP Nick Phoenix 13 12 .520 8{
Kansas City (Hammel 5-9) at St. Tepesch from Buffalo. Dallas 13 14 .481 9{

Woods Reaches Plea Deal in His D.U.I. Case

Louis (Lynn 10-6), 7:15 National League Seattle 10 16 .385 12
Minnesota (Gibson 6-9) at Milwau- ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF San Antonio 6 21 .222 16{
Rey Fuentes to Reno (PCL) for a rehab x-clinched playoff spot
kee (Davies 13-5), 8:10 assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Wednesday's Games
L.A. Dodgers (Darvish 7-9) at Arizona Andury Acevedo on a minor league No games scheduled.
(Banda 1-1), 9:40 contract.
Tiger Woods has agreed to plead guilty to reckless driv- Sox in an 8-2 road victory over the Tampa Bay Rays that ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed SS Johan Thursday's Games
extended Boston’s winning streak to a season-high eight, FRIDAY Camargo on the 10-day DL. Recalled SS Phoenix at Dallas, 8 p.m.
ing and enter a diversion program that will allow him to Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 Dansby Swanson from Gwinnett (IL). San Antonio at Chicago, 8 p.m.
have his record wiped clean, a prosecutor said Wednesday. the team’s longest run since it captured 11 in a row last Sep- San Francisco at Washington, 7:05 CHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Koji Friday's Games
Uehara on the 10-day DL. Recalled RHP
Woods, 41, was charged with driving under the influ- tember. After being struck, Odorizzi hobbled off with assist- Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7:07 Justin Grimm from Iowa (PCL).
Liberty at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
ence in May when he was found asleep in his Mercedes- ance from Rays Manager Kevin Cash and an assistant Colorado at Miami, 7:10 CINCINNATI REDS — Designated OF/INF
Scott Van Slyke for assignment. Claimed
Benz, apparently under the influence of a prescription trainer. Tampa Bay said that Odorizzi had sustained a Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 RHP Luke Farrell off waivers from the L.A. W.N.B.A. LEADERS
painkiller and sleeping medication. No alcohol was found in bruise and that X-rays showed no serious injuries. Atlanta at St. Louis, 8:15 Dodgers and optioned him to Louisville (IL).
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to
Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 9:40 Scoring
his system. Prosecutor Adrienne Ellis said Woods, who did NATIONALS’ ZIMMERMAN HAS BIG NIGHT Ryan Zimmerman had terms with 3B Jose Brizuela on a minor G FG FT PTS AVG
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 league contract. Griner, PHO . . . . . 18 143 116 402 22.3
not appear at the Palm Beach County courthouse for his four hits, including two solo home runs, drove in five runs MIAMI MARLINS — Placed LHP Chris Fowles, MIN. . . . . 24 189 118 496 20.7
arraignment, is to plead guilty at an Oct. 25 hearing and and became the franchise’s career R.B.I. leader as the Na- A.L. LEADERS O'Grady on the 10-day DL. Selected the Stewart, SEA . . . . 25 175 121 511 20.4
contract of RHP Javy Guerra from New Charles, Liberty . . 25 197 93 503 20.1
enter the county’s program for first-time D.U.I. offenders. tionals defeated the Miami Marlins, 10-1, in Washington. BATTING G AB R H BA Orleans (PCL). Agreed to terms with LHP Ogwumike, LAS . . 25 179 116 490 19.6
Altuve, HOU . . . 108 427 78 156 .365 Carlos Diaz on a minor league contract. Taurasi, PHO . . . . 23 130 104 441 19.2
Correa, HOU . . . . 84 325 64 104 .320 MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Chase Delle Donne, WAS 20 121 112 376 18.8
Hosmer, KC. . . . 112 431 69 135 .313 Anderson to Wisconsin (MWL) for a rehab Diggins-Smith, DAL27 155 148 496 18.4
TR ACK AN D FIE L D T ENNIS Ramirez, CLE. . . 110 426 75 133 .312 assignment. Loyd, SEA . . . . . . 26 150 108 446 17.2
Springer, HOU . . . 93 368 82 114 .310 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled RHP
Zach Eflin from Lehigh Valley (IL). Rebounds
Sprinter Belatedly Qualifies for 200 Final Federer and Nadal Win in Rogers Cup HOME RUNS
Judge, Yankees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms
with RHP Jordan Lyles on a minor league Jones, CON . . . .
G OFF DEF TOT AVG
. 25 97 189 286 11.4
Gallo, TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 contract. Fowles, MIN. . . . . 24 89 151 240 10.0
After five push-ups to prove he had beaten a stomach Top-seeded Rafael Nadal and No. 2 Roger Federer Moustakas, KC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent OF Charles, Liberty . . 25 49 188 237 9.5
Smoak, TOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
virus, Isaac Makwala of Botswana made the most of a be- cruised to easy victories in their opening matches at the Davis, OAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Michael Taylor to Harrisburg (EL) for a
rehab assignment.
Thomas, WAS . . . 25 81 150 231 9.2
Johnson, DAL . . . 27 63 169 232 8.6
lated chance to compete in the 200 meters at the world Rogers Cup in Montreal. Nadal breezed past Borna Coric, RUNS BATTED IN
championships in London. 6-1, 6-2, to advance to the third round, and Federer routed
Cruz, SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 N.B.A. Assists
Schoop, BAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 G AST AVG
Makwala was first allowed to race alone ahead of the Peter Polansky, 6-2, 6-1. Davis, OAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ATLANTA HAWKS — Signed F Luke Babbitt Vandersloot, CHI. . . . . . . 19 147 7.7
Judge, Yankees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 to a one-year contract. Clarendon, ATL . . . . . . . 26 177 6.8
evening session, two days after the other sprinters had Upton, DET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Bird, SEA . . . . . . . . . . . 24 158 6.6
NO. 1 PLISKOVA STRUGGLES IN VICTORY Karolina Pliskova be- MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Named Frank
done so. He finished 0.33 of a second under the qualifying EARNED RUN AVG. Johnson assistant coach, Milt Newton Diggins-Smith, DAL . . . . . 27 154 5.7
gan her reign as world No. 1 with a ragged 6-3, 6-3 second- assistant general manager, David Mincberg
mark. Then, on a wet track, he powered through a tough Sale, BOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.57
director of basketball strategy, Tony Bollier
round win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the Rogers Kluber, CLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.65
inside lane assignment to qualify second from his heat. The Severino,Yankees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.91 director of basketball operations and SOCCER
Cup in Toronto. (REUTERS) Stroman, TOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.17 Ronald Dupree scout.
400 champion Wayde van Niekerk got through as the last
Andy Murray has WON-LOST M.L.S. STANDINGS
qualifier after finishing third in his heat. MURRAY WITHDRAWS FROM TOURNAMENT Sale, BOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-4 N.F.L.
pulled out of next week’s Western & Southern Open in Ma- Vargas, KC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6 EAST W L T Pts GF GA
In the women’s 400, Phyllis Francis of the United States Paxton, SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3 ATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms Toronto FC 12 3 8 44 42 23
upset the favorites. The Olympic champion Shaunae son, Ohio, because of a lingering hip injury. The top-ranked Santana, MIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7 with RB Devonta Freeman on a five-year Chicago 12 5 5 41 44 25
contract extension. NYCFC 12 7 4 40 43 33
Miller-Uibo looked poised to win gold until she slowed in Murray has not played since his Wimbledon quarterfinal CINCINNATI BENGALS — Released WR Atlanta United 10 7 5 35 42 29
loss to Sam Querrey on July 12. N.L. LEADERS Jake Kumerow. Signed P Will Monday. Red Bulls 11 9 2 35 34 29
the final meters. Salwa Eid Naser swept past the American DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed P Chris Columbus 10 12 2 32 34 39
BATTING G AB R H BA
veteran Allyson Felix near the line and lunged for silver. Turner, LAD . . . . . 86 302 52 106 .351
Jones to a four-year contract extension Orlando City 8 9 6 30 24 33
through 2021. Philadelphia 8 10 5 29 32 28
The biggest surprise came in the 400 hurdles. Karsten PR O FO OT BALL Blackmon, COL . 112 463 102 154 .333 DETROIT LIONS — Waived TE Brandon Montreal 7 8 6 27 32 37
Murphy, WAS . . . 103 395 73 131 .332
Warholm of Norway held off Yasmani Copello of Turkey Harper, WAS . . . 103 393 90 128 .326
Barnes. Signed TE Tim Wright.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released DE
New England 7 10 5 26 37 38
D.C. United 5 14 4 19 19 43
and Kerron Clement of the United States for gold. Goldschmidt, ARI 111 397 86 128 .322
Falcons and Star Back Reach a Deal Posey, SF . . . . . 102 357 50 115 .322
Kendall Langford. Waived/injured WRs
Chris Briggs and Tevaun Smith. Signed WEST W L T Pts GF GA
HOME RUNS WR Valdez Showers and RB George Winn. Kansas City 9 4 10 37 29 18
The defending N.F.C. champion Atlanta Falcons agreed Stanton, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released OL Houston
FC Dallas
9 7
9 5
7 34 39 32
7 34 33 26
BASEBALL Bellinger, LAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Jeremy Zuttah. Signed LB Sean Porter to a
to terms on a five-year, $41.25 million extension with Dev- Votto, CIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 one-year contract. Seattle 9 7 7 34 36 31
onta Freeman, making him the highest-paid running back Bruce, Mets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Portland 9 8 7 34 42 39
Homer Lifts Rockies Over Indians in 12 in the league in terms of the overall package.
Harper, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 M.L.S.
San Jose
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RUNS BATTED IN Real Salt Lake 7 12 5 26 30 44
COLUMBUS CREW — Traded M Ethan
Charlie Blackmon homered in the 12th inning, atoning Arenado, COL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Finlay to Minnesota for targeted and
Los Angeles 6 11 5 23 32 40
Lamb, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Minnesota United 6 13 4 22 29 49
for a baserunning blunder and lifting the Colorado Rockies PR O BAS K ET BALL Goldschmidt, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 general allocation money. Colorado 6 12 3 21 22 31
Ozuna, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 D.C. UNITED — Acquired M Zoltan Stieber
over the Indians, 3-2, in Cleveland. Colorado tied the score on permanent transfer from Kaiserslautern
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
EARNED RUN AVG. for tie.
in the ninth when Carlos Gonzalez singled with one out and Nets to Play Two Games in Mexico City Kershaw, LAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.04
(Germany-2. Bundesliga).
Saturday's Games
FC DALLAS — Signed M Luis Gonzalez.
came home on Jonathan Lucroy’s double off Cody Allen. Scherzer, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.23 LOS ANGELES FC — Announed F Carlos Orlando City at Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m.
Gonzalez, WAS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 Vela will join the club as designated NYCFC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
RAYS’ ODORIZZI IS HURT IN RED SOX WIN Eduardo Nunez
The Nets will travel to Mexico City in December for two Greinke, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10 player from Real Sociedad (Spain-La Liga), Kansas City at Seattle, 4 p.m.
chased Jake Odorizzi when he lined a single off the pitch- regular-season games as part of the 25th anniversary of WON-LOST effective Jan. 1. Portland at Toronto FC, 6 p.m.
MINNESOTA UNITED — Loaned M Rasmus Real Salt Lake at D.C. United, 7 p.m.
er’s right foot, starting a five-run fifth inning for the Red the first N.B.A. game in Mexico. The league announced that Kershaw, LAD .
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the Nets and the Oklahoma City Thunder would play in Greinke, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4 (Veikkausliiga-Finland) for the remainder of Colorado at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.
Montreal at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
Davies, MIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5 the MLS season.
Mexico City on Dec. 7. The Nets will play the Miami Heat Scherzer, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 RED BULLS — Loaned F Anatole Abang to Vancouver at New England, 8 p.m.
San Jose at Houston, 9 p.m.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. there on Dec. 9. deGrom, Mets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 Astra Giurgiu (Romania-Liga 1).
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 N B15

George Bundy Smith, 80, A New York judge lost

his job after his ruling
Influential Jurist, Is Dead on the death penalty.
By SAM ROBERTS bany Law School wrote in an
George Bundy Smith, a former email. college professor; his sister, Inez,
civil rights activist who in 2004 The 2004 capital punishment
a senior judge on the District of
wrote the benchmark decision by decision was the fourth time the
Columbia Court of Appeals; his
New York’s highest court that, in Court of Appeals had overturned a brother, Dr. Sidney R. Smith; and
effect, voided the state’s death death sentence since a new stat- two grandchildren.
penalty, died on Saturday at his ute was passed in 1995 to over- Governor Pataki, who was
home in Harlem. He was 80. come the constitutional shortcom-
vexed by Judge Smith’s 2004 opin-
His death was confirmed by his ings of earlier measures. ion in the death-penalty case, did
son, George Bundy Smith Jr. No Judge Smith had foreshadowed
not appoint him to a second term
cause was specified. his doubts about the statute’s le-
in 2006.
As the third black person ap- gality in 2003, when he expressed After leaving the court, as a
pointed to the state’s highest concerns that in most states the partner in the Manhattan law firm
court, the Court of Appeals, Judge death penalty had been imposed of Chadbourne & Parke, Judge
Smith wrote the 4-3 ruling declar- disproportionately on blacks. Smith sued the state in 2007 on be-
ing unconstitutional a central pro- “New York is no less deserving half of judges who argued that be-
vision of a capital punishment bill of a badge of shame for the role cause they had not received a pay
that had been championed a dec- race played in capital punish- raise since 1999, inflation had, in
ade earlier by the state’s incoming ment,” he wrote at the time. effect, unconstitutionally dimin-
Republican governor, George E. The ruling written by Judge ished their compensation. In 2008,
Pataki. Smith directly affected four in- a State Supreme Court justice or-
While Judge Smith was consid- mates on death row, including NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES dered the Legislature to grant the
ered a liberal lion, he also repeat- Stephen LaValle, a former Long state’s 1,250 judges a raise.
edly demonstrated his independ- Island roofer who raped and killed Judge George Bundy Smith, whose decision nullified capital punishment in New York, in 2006. It was not the first time Judge
ence as a jurist. In 2006, he joined a schoolteacher, Cynthia Quinn, in Smith had defended the independ-
the majority in rejecting the argu- 1997, and whose appeal was before Phillips Academy in Andover, elected to the Supreme Court, considering each case on its mer- ence of the judicial branch. Re-
ment by gay and lesbian couples the court. Mass., where he was the only where he sat from 1980 to 1986; its.” sponding to the criticism generat-
that denying them the right to Writing for the slim majority, black student in his class. In 1959 and then appointed to the Appel- Judge Smith and his wife, the ed by the death-penalty decision,
marry violated the state Constitu- Judge Smith affirmed the convic- he earned a bachelor’s degree in late Division. Gov. Mario M. former Alene Lohman Jackson, a he acknowledged that second-
tion. For nearly a century, the tion, but said a so-called deadlock history from Yale, where he was Cuomo appointed him to the Court retired professor at Hunter Col- guessing court decisions is a nor-
court said, the New York State provision unique to New York had one of the few black students. of Appeals in 1992. lege of the City University of New mal part of the legal process.
Legislature intended to limit mar- coerced jurors in the penalty With his twin sister, Inez, he grad- At the time, Guido Calabresi, York, wrote “You Decide!: Apply- “It is the attacks on the judicia-
riage to a union between a man phase of deliberations to vote for uated from Yale Law School in the dean of Yale Law School, who ing the Bill of Rights to Real ry itself which I think are cause for
and a woman, and had a rational death. According to that provi- 1962. He later received a master’s had taught him torts in 1959, said: Cases” in 1992. She and his son, a concern,” he said. “I think that
basis for doing so. sion, if a jury failed to decide be- and a doctorate from New York “I couldn’t tell you very much television sportscaster for WFLD judges have to do the job that they
In 2011, the Legislature legal- tween death and life without par- University. about his politics, and that’s the in Chicago, survive him, as do have been selected and appointed
ized same-sex marriage, a right ole, the judge would have to im- In 1961, before graduation, he way it should be. George is not Judge Smith is survived by his to do, and can’t fear the criticism
later upheld by the United States pose a sentence that would qualify enlisted in the civil rights move- doctrinaire, and he is known for daughter, Beth Beatrice Smith, a of anyone.”
Supreme Court. the defendant for parole after as ment at the urging of the Rev.
In almost three decades on the little as 20 years. William Sloane Coffin Jr., the Yale
bench, Judge Smith opposed tele- “The deadlock instruction,” chaplain. He was one of about 10 Deaths Deaths Deaths
vision coverage in protesters, includ- BRAHAM—Marvin, FORSYTH—Louise Joy, Braham, Marvin Haverkamp Sokol, Marilyn
most courtrooms. ing Dr. Coffin, the June 8, 1923 - August 7, 2017. May 15, 1947 - August 7, 2017, Cook, Barbara McConnell, Wilbur Stalter, David
Services to be held Friday, died on a rainy afternoon af-
He temporarily up- Rev. Ralph Aber- August 11, 2017 at 12:30pm at ter a valiant two year battle Dean, Lea McEnroe, Katherine Taub, Carol
held the city’s right nathy and the Rev. Sinai Chapels, 162-05 Horace with cancer. She was sur- Forsyth, Louise Morawetz, Cathleen
Harding Expwy, Fresh Mea- rounded and held by Denis,
to hospitalize a Wyatt Tee Walker, dows, NY 11365. Burial to fol- her companero of seven Gold, Arlene Pincus, Ann
mentally disturbed who were arrested low at Mt. Lebanon Cemete-
ry in Glendale, NY.
years, her brother, David, her Greenberg, Bert
two daughters, Leonora and
Schindler, Sidney
homeless woman when they ordered Micaela, and her daughter-
in-law, Amy, listening to the McCONNELL—Wilbur E., Jr., PINCUS—Ann, 82, died peace-
involuntarily. (An- coffee at a whites- Bach Cello Suites and other age 62 of Saylorsburg, PA for- fully on August 5th in Bethes-
other judge re- only lunch counter music she loved. Louise was merly of Byram Township, da, MD, surrounded by her fa-
COOK—Barbara.
leased her after in the Montgomery, Dear Barbara: The heavens atory, scholar and teacher of his- NJ passed away August 7th
a world traveler, and a peacefully at home. He was
mily. Ann was the devoted
wife of the late Dr. Murray
trial.) Ala., bus terminal. are so fortunate as they now
have a truly heavenly voice
fighter for social justice. She born in Dover, NJ on July 28, Pincus, loving mother of Beth
was a person with a singular 1955 son of Theresa (Ruggie- (Andrew) and Lynn, and
He ruled that de- (Their convictions and a heavenly being to lead hunger for learning and life, ri) McConnell of Saylorsburg, adoring grandmother of Jake
fendants in New on civil disobedi- the Lord's choir. Somewhere
in your Georgia church sing-
with an inspiring passion for PA and the late Wilbur E. Mc-
culture and new experiences.
and Rachel. She is also sur-
Connell Sr. Wil worked for the vived by her beloved sister
York City had to be ence charges were ing roots, you found the puri- Louise ate life to the marrow, New York Times in the Data Joan and brother-in-law Wil-
ty, innocence and pristine and then went for seconds.
arraigned within 24 overturned in 1965 crystal beauty of face and She was an alumna of Mid- partment for over 30 years. In liam Button.
Storage Reconciliation De-

hours of their ar- by the United voice, brought it to Broadway wood High School, received addition to his mother, There- SCHINDLER—Sidney.
and, you made it. And then, it her B.A. from the University
rest, that the Legis- States Supreme all unraveled. But you of Rochester, her M.A. from sa, he is survived by his sister: Passed away August 8, 2017
Darlene Francomacaro and of Boca Raton, FL, formerly
lature could not ar- Mr. Smith, a Yale law student, was arrested in Alabama Court.) climbed out of your despair
and your hell with little, if
City College and did doctoral her husband Anthony of Scio-
work at the Graduate Center.
of Oceanside, NY. Loving
ta, PA and their children, nep-
bitrarily kill bills it Observing Mr. anything, to show what you She was a teacher for nearly hews, Joel and David Franco- husband of Lorraine to whom

had already ap-

in 1961 during a protest at a whites-only lunch counter. had gone through except that 30 years at Poly Prep Country
Smith studiously you made it back to the world Day School, a participant in Francomacaro. Wil was years. Adored father of Bon-
macaro and niece, Melissa
he was married to for 63

proved, and that review his class of the living with two invisible many NEH programs includ- gentle and loving and will be nie (George) Ribet and Peg-
gy (Jeffrey) Elias. Cherished
but incredibly valuable trea-
the state had shortchanged New Judge Smith wrote for the major- notes during the dangerous Free- sures. These treasures sus- ing the Bach Institute, an au-
thor of AP European History
dearly missed. Services and grandfather of Barrie (Mar-
Interment will be private and tyn), Carley, Sammy and Jes-
York City’s schools. He also ity, “gives rise to an unconstitu- dom Ride, Dr. Coffin, by his ac- tained you and maintained
you and your God-given in-
guides and a committed doer at the convenience of the fa- sica, great-grandfather of
of The New York Times mily. Gower Funeral Home &
awarded back pay to a police offi- tionally palpable risk that one or count, marveled at the young strument, that remarkable, “double-cross stick,” in pen. Crematory, Inc., Rt. 209, Gil- Max and Mia. Beloved broth-
er of Pearl (Irwin) Gordon.
cer who had been fired because more jurors who cannot bear the man’s equanimity — to which Mr. fragile strong
and delicate but
and magnificent
Louise was beloved by a
community of friends, col-
bert, PA in charge of services
www.gowerfuneralhome.
she posed nude for a magazine. thought that a defendant may Smith replied, “Sticks and stones voice...willed one of your treasures. leagues, family and students com SOKOL—Marilyn.
The Officers and members of
In 1999, Judge Smith insisted walk the streets again after serv- can break my bones but law ex- You your singing to
reinvent itself from the les-
who gathered around her in
her last days to read poems, McENROE—Katherine Tres- the Board of Directors of the
that Ralph J. Tortorici was men- ing 20 to 25 years will join jurors ams will kill me.” sons you learned in the hel- play music, and share how ham, 81, passed away on
Wednesday, August 2, 2017.
Jewish Home Family, note
with profound sorrow the
lish world you had visited. she had changed their lives.
tally incompetent and should not favoring death in order to avoid As a newly minted lawyer, Mr. That world gave you insights There will be a service Sun- She was the mother of John, passing of our longtime sup-
Mark and Patrick McEnroe. porter and wife of Jewish
have been tried — without a com- the deadlock sentence.” Smith joined the NAACP Legal strument with new expres- day,
which served your in- August 13, 1pm, at the
Picnic House in Prospect Kay Tresham was the class Home Family board member
petency hearing — on charges of Defense and Education Fund and sion, with new understanding, Park followed by a reception valedictorian of Greenport and very dear friend, Marilyn
The court concluded that “un- High School, and graduated Sokol. Marilyn, and her be-
holding 35 students and a profes- helped the civil rights lawyer Con- with one who had seen and in her home. If you feel
from the Lenox Hill Hospital loved husband's association
der the present statute, the death felt and knew pain, anguish moved, please donate to the
sor hostage in a State University stance Baker Motley draft briefs and the meaning of every SPLC, Planned Parenthood, School of Nursing in 1955. with the Jewish Home spans
of New York classroom in Albany. penalty may not be imposed.” The for James Meredith’s successful tegrated your descent into Park Alliance or spend some she met John P. McEnroe, rosity extended to many Jew-
word you sang. When you in- the ACLU or the Prospect While working at Lenox Hill, over two decades. Her gene-

Six months after the Court of Ap- Legislature never revised the law challenge to the University of Mis- that gifted throat, you be- time cleaning up a park you who would become her hus- ish and communal causes.
love. Tonight, drink a glass of band of almost 60 years. Kay
peals upheld the conviction, Mr. to pass judicial muster. New York sissippi’s refusal to admit black able, the one-of-a-kind Barba- wine, listen to music you love, was a volunteer with the Le- tend our deepest sympathy
came the great, the remark- She will be missed. We ex-

Tortorici hanged himself in a psy- last executed an inmate in 1963. students. ra Cook... we all remember. or fight for a cause you be- gal Aid Society of New York, to her beloved husband Leon,
Your support team consisted lieve in, in her honor. a Chair of the Lenox Hill Hos- her children Randy and
chiatric hospital. George Bundy Smith was born He then became a law secretary really only of Wally Harper, GOLD—Arlene, pital Auxiliary, and a member Shawn, Deborah, Laura and
of the Board of Trustees of
“George Bundy Smith had the on April 7, 1937, in New Orleans to to several New York judges and er. He didn't just accompany 80
who wasn't just a piano play- William, her six grandchild-
years old, of Englewood Lenox Hill Hospital. Kay ren, her brother, and sister.
Cliffs, NJ. Beloved wife of the joined the Cosmopolitan Club
independence and the courage the Rev. Sidney R. Smith Sr. and served as the administrator of you, Wally became an exten-
sion of you. Both of you were
late Arthur Gold; devoted
May her memory be for a
in 1998 and in 2015, became its blessing.
among all his colleagues to stick the former Beatrice Bundy, a Model Cities, a federally funded blessed that a visionary Jerry mother of Russell Gold,
Sheree Linker and her hus-
President, a position she held Eli Ungar, Chairman
his neck out and say that this man teacher. Kravat made it his life's mis- upon
antipoverty program in New York sion to get the world not to band, David; loving grand- Tresham McEnroe is sur- her death. Katherine Carol Silver Elliott,
President and CEO
mother of Lacee Gold, Yael
should not have been prosecuted,” Raised in segregated Washing- City. He was appointed and then look on you with disdain or to and Jacob Linker; dear sister vived by her son John, his
wife, Patty Smyth McEnroe, STALTER—David Edward IV,
Prof. Vincent M. Bonventre of Al- ton, he won a scholarship to elected to the Civil Court in 1975; think you were the same Bar-
bara Cook they once knew
of Gary Bender and his wife, and their children, Ruby, Ke- of New York and formerly of
Sondra; loving aunt of Kelli vin, Sean, Emily, Anna and
but to rediscover who you and Eric Bender. Service at Seattle, WA. Beloved son of
had become. He realized that Ava; son Mark, his wife, Mary Graves Stalter and of
the Sanctuary of Abraham Diane Crosson McEnroe, and
the magic you could weave and Sarah at Cedar Park Ce- David Edward Stalter III, and
with your songs would reso- their children, Liam, Maria of his sister, Mary Stalter
metery, Paramus, NJ, Friday and Ciaran; and son Patrick,
nate with the audience. They at 10:45am. Memorial contri- Radsch. David was a gentle-
thought that they knew the his wife, Melissa Errico, and

Dick MacPherson, 86; Coached at Syracuse

lyrics, they thought they
knew how a song should be
sung. Jerry believed in the
strength of who and what you
were and your gifts and the
By The Associated Press
“new” Barbara. He told me,
you had a Stradivarius in your
Dick MacPherson, who resur- throat and had become flaw-
rected a declining football pro- less in your breathing, phras-
ing, articulation and intel-
gram at Syracuse University and ligent interpretation which
made you a virtuoso... He
returned it to national promi- said “She's Paganini, her
nence, died on Tuesday at his voice is her Strad.” Those of
us who knew you knew that it
home in Syracuse. He was 86. was only because of the pain
you had suffered, the losses,
His death was announced by the descent to the depths that
the university, which did not gave you the strength, forti-
tude and faith to climb out of
specify the cause. that and then open your
mouth and sing out with fresh
MacPherson had a relatively insights and make every
brief coaching career in profes- song we ever heard sound
new again and we under-
sional football, including a disap- stood what the songs really
pointing stint as head coach of the meant. Your choice of reper-
tory was prescient. It was
New England Patriots. But it was painfully so at the Carlyle Ho-
tel. It was another Barbara
in college ball that he made his Cook opening. Many celebs
greatest mark. were present. So were Marty
and Jerry and so were we.
He arrived at Syracuse before Jerry stood where you could
see him. Jerry smiled so that
the 1981 season, replacing Frank you could see his smile. We
Maloney and taking over a pro- were all there. The concert
butions should be directed to
Jewish National Fund in me-
mory of Arlene Gold at
www.jnf.org. Funeral under
the direction of Gutterman
and Musicant, 201-489-3800.
GREENBERG—Bert,
passed away on August 7,
2017 from pneumonia. He
was born on December 29,
1922 in Brooklyn, NY to Jack
and Etta Greenberg. He gra-
duated from The New School,
studied playwriting at Yale,
and served in India and Bur-
ma during WWII. Married in
1950, Bert and his first wife
Betsy moved from Manhat-
tan to Great Neck and had
four children. He worked as
an apparel manufacturer and
importer, and his most recent
passion was writing poetry. In
1995, Bert married Nicolette
Zamparini. Together they
traveled extensively and
lived in China, France, and
Manhattan. Bert is survived
by his wife Nicolette Green-
berg; his children, Andrew
Greenberg and his wife Carol
Prendergast, Daniel Green-
berg and his wife Joann Alvis,
Lee Greenberg, and Kather-
ine Gabbay and her husband
Ken Franz; and his grand-
children, Emma, Julia, Will
their children, Victoria, Diana
and Juliette. Her husband
passed away in February
2017. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made to The
Katherine Tresham McEnroe
Surgical Nurse Scholarship
Fund, c/o Lenox Hill Hospital,
Foundation Office, 100 East
77th Street, New York, New
York 10075; Attention: Andrea
Dowd.
MORAWETZ—Cathleen
Synge,
94, died peacefully at her
longtime home in Greenwich
Village on August 8, 2017. A
woman of extraordinary
man in every sense of the
word. His friends commented
on his sweetness and kind-
ness. His wonderful smile,
laugh, and sense of humor
will be greatly missed. He
was brave, strong, and un-
complaining through long
hospital and nursing home
stays. He passed away when
his gallant heart stopped. In
Seattle he attended Shoreline
Community College. He was
a member of the Washington
State Sons of the Revolution
and the Seattle Tennis Club. A
private family service will be
held in Graham, North Caroli-
na. Memorial Donations may
be made to the Glaucoma
Research Foundation, 251
Post Street, Suite 600, San
Francisco, CA 94108-5017.
TAUB—Carol.
We mourn the passing of our
dear friend Carol. A more
devoted, sincere person
would be hard to find.
Love, The Finkelstein Family
TAUB—Carol.
Our vivacious friend who
epitomizes love and beauty.
June and Ira Gelb

gram that had slumped through a

was lovely. Then you sang
one last song. The song you
sang was “For All We Know”.
decade of mediocrity, in which it There was Jerry, light from
produced only three winning sea- KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
the stage reflecting on him
standing in the back beaming
sons. By the time he left, in 1990,
Dick MacPherson in 2009. His Syracuse record was 66-46-4. and smiling. We knew what
he had compiled a 66-46-4 record you did not know. The three
of us knew what Jerry also
and was the school’s second-win- knew but you did not know —
An undefeated season ing a 6-24 record over two seasons that the very next day, Jerry
ningest coach. would go into Sloan Kettering
In 1987, he led Syracuse to a and retired from coaching. for very risky and problema-
and Philip Greenberg Anna
Adelstein and her husband
Yosef Adelstein, and Natasha
Gabbay. Funeral services will
be held at 10:30am, Friday,
August 11th at the chapel at
New York-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell Medical Center, 525
East 68th St, New York, NY
(east of York Avenue).
HAVERKAMP-
BEGEMANN—Egbert.
The trustees of the Robert
achievement, she was an in-
spiration to her large and
In Memoriam
growing family. She loved
sailing in Lake Muskoka, had SOMKIN—Lawrence B.
a wonderful sense of humor
and was as much at home
We are frequently reminded
of how wonderful you were.
proving a complex theorem Your Loving Family
as getting down on the floor
to play with her grandchild- SUTTER—Beatrice
ren. As a pioneering woman Weinberger. August 10, 1992.
in mathematics, she served
as Director of the Courant In-
Forever loved.
Your Family
stitute of Mathematical

No. 4 national ranking and an 11-
0-1 mark, blemished only by a tie
marred by a tie on a MacPherson is survived by his
wife, Sandra; his daughters, Mau-
tic surgery. As you eyeballed
Jerry, you were concluding
your song: “So love me to-
Lehman Foundation and the
staff of the Robert Lehman
Sciences at New York Uni-
versity, President of the
America Mathematical So-
Collection at the Metropolitan

with Auburn in the Sugar Bowl;
he was named national college
coach of the year by several orga-
nizations.
MacPherson’s success was in
part owed to the Carrier Dome.
The stadium had recently been
built on the Syracuse campus
when he arrived in 1981, and with
its roof alleviating the burden of
playing in the harsh late fall, when
heavy snowfalls were common, it
enabled him to recruit more
widely, particularly in the South.
MacPherson was born in Old
Town, Me., on Nov. 4, 1930. He was
a three-sport star in high school
and played football at Springfield
College in Massachusetts before
serving in the Air Force during the
The New York Times contributed
reporting.
late Auburn field goal.
Korean War.
After working as an assistant
with the Denver Broncos from
1967 to 1970, he became head coach
at the University of Massachu-
setts, in Amherst, where he re-
mained for seven years before re-
turning to pro football in 1978 as
linebackers coach for the Cleve-
land Browns.
He left the Browns to become
Syracuse’s head coach. His career
college coaching record at Syra-
cuse and UMass was 111-73-5.
Although he adopted Syracuse
as his second home, he seized the
opportunity to become head
coach of the Patriots in 1991. But
his tenure there was brief: He was
fired in January 1993 after compil-
reen and Janet; and four grand-
children. His grandsons, Macky
and Cameron, played football at
Syracuse, where Macky is cur-
rently in his second season as a
graduate assistant coach.
Of all the games MacPherson
coached, the Sugar Bowl tie with
Auburn, spoiling an undefeated
season, may have rankled him the
most. The game ended when
coach Pat Dye of Auburn decided
to attempt a 30-yard field goal
with four seconds left rather than
try to win the game with a touch-
down. The kick was successful, ty-
ing the score at 16-16.
MacPherson was bitter about
the rival coach’s call. “What did
they come here for in the first
place?” he said. He added, “I gotta
believe his menu was to stop us
from being 12-0.”
night. Tomorrow was made
for some. Tomorrow may
never come, For all we
know.” As the audience
screamed and applauded,
you never saw Marty, Myrna
and Freddie were crying. Jer-
ry kept smiling and beaming
with pride at you, nodding his
approval. Barbara, may the
good Lord bless and keep
you.
Your friends,
Myrna and Freddie Gershon
and Marty Kravat
DEAN—Lea King,
88, of Flushing, New York,
passed away peacefully on
August 8, 2017. She was pre-
ceded by her devoted hus-
band Bernie of over 50 years
and her cherished son Andy,
MD PhD. She is survived,
mourned and celebrated by
her beloved children Mary,
Alan, Arnold and Grace
Heckman, and grandchildren
Dean, Caroline and Kather-
ine, Paul, Jennifer Lloyd-
Harris and Laura Heckman.
The family will receive
friends at Fox Funeral Home,
98-07 Ascan Avenue, Forest
Hills, New York from 2 to 5pm
on Sunday, August 13. Her life
will be celebrated at 11am on
Monday, August 14 at Fox
Funeral Home.
Museum of Art mourn the
death of our friend and advi-
sor Egbert Haverkamp-
Begemann, John Langeloth
Loeb Professor Emeritus in
the History of Art at NYU's In-
stitute of Fine Arts. For the
best part of three decades,
Egbert oversaw the prepara-
tion and publication of the
scholarly catalogue of the
Robert Lehman Collection
from its early stages to the
publication of the fifteenth, fi-
nal volume in 2012. He did so
with unsurpassed dedication,
scholarship, collegiality and
patience, for which we and all
students of art history will
forever be in his debt. We will
miss him.
ciety, where she was the first
woman to deliver their distin-
guished Gibbs lecture, and
was a recipient of the Nation-
al Medal of Science. She was
twice a Guggenheim Fellow
and served as a Trustee of
Princeton University and the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Her
degrees
numerous
include
honorary
Brown,
Princeton, Trinity College
Dublin, Duke, Smith and New
York University. She was
deeply proud of her Irish heri-
tage, including her great-
uncle, the playwright John
Millington Synge and her
father, the distinguished
mathematician John Lighton
Synge. She is survived by her
husband of 71 years, Herbert
Morawetz, her sister, Isabel
Seddon, her children, Pegeen
Rubinstein (David), John
Morawetz, Lida Jeck
(James), Nancy Morawetz
(Manuel Vargas), her grand-
children, Eric (Lauren), Wil-
liam (Abigail), Daniel (Tiffa-
ny), Alicia, Marisa, her step-
grandchildren, Jeremy, Chris,
Aupala and Keenan, her
great-grandchildren, Xavier,
Linus and Peter, and adoring
relatives around the world.
Contributions in her memory
can be made to the Cathleen
Synge Morawetz Post -
Doctoral Fellowship at the
Courant Institute of Mathe-
matical Sciences.
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EVAN AGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES
Cameron Diaz wearing Fred Leighton jewelry in 2007; and
Fred Leighton earrings worn in 2016 by Patricia Arquette.
Fred Leighton, 85, Jeweler;
Made Stars Glitter at Oscars
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Fred Leighton, a so-called jew-
eler to the stars whose antique
jewelry became coveted acces-
sories for actresses like Nicole
Kidman and Lupita Nyong’o when
they walked the red carpet of the
Academy Awards, died on July 26
in Manhattan. He was 85.
His death was confirmed by his
daughter Mara Leighton.
A cabdriver’s son from the
Bronx, Mr. Leighton was not born
to a life in gemology or high fash-
ion. But through shrewd buying
and gregarious salesmanship, he
turned Fred Leighton in Manhat-
tan into a retail mecca for those
seeking Art Deco, Art Nouveau,
Victorian, Indian Mughal, royal
jewels and 18th century ship-
wreck emeralds.
From the outside, the store, at
Madison Avenue and 66th Street,
looked like “an outsized brooch
with precious stones,” The New
Yorker wrote in 2005.
Inside, Mr. Leighton thought of
it as partly a gallery.
“We’ll put out a necklace that’s
19th century, a bracelet that’s 18th
century and a pair of earrings that
were made in India,” he told
Martha Stewart in a videotaped
interview on her website, “and
people look at it as art.”
The jewelry — acquired from
estates, dealers, individuals and
auction houses — found their
greatest visibility on red carpets.
Models wore some of his finest
baubles on runways, and ac-
tresses donned them for awards
ceremonies like the Oscars, the
Tonys and the Golden Globes, and
high-profile events like the Met
Gala at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
Mark Badgley, co-owner of the
fashion designer Badgley Mis-
chka, regularly decked his models
and clients in Leighton jewels.
“He’d come down when we’d do
fittings on models, sit there for
hours, and when a gorgeous mod-
el would come out in a new gown,
he would just gasp,” Mr. Badgley
said in an interview. “He got so
much joy out of seeing something
beautiful, and he would enhance it
with his jewelry.”
Like other elite jewelers, among
them Harry Winston and
Chopard, Mr. Leighton regularly
lent jewels to celebrity clients. For
Mr. Leighton, the practice began
in 1996 when Miuccia Prada se-
lected a 19th-century Australian
opal choker for Ms. Kidman to
wear as she walked the red carpet
at the Oscars with Tom Cruise,
then her husband.
“That moment was very im-
pactful in elevating vintage jew-
elry around the world,” Greg
Kwiat, whose family company ac-
quired the Leighton store in 2009,
said in a telephone interview.
The moments kept coming as
some of the stars of Leighton’s in-
ventory turned up routinely at the
Oscars, even if Mr. Leighton him-
self did not.
In 1999, Sophia Loren was wear-
ing one of his diamond necklaces
when she presented the Oscar for
best actor to Roberto Benigni. In
2000, Vera Wang designed a tan-
gerine gown for Charlize Theron
around diamond dress clips from
Leighton. In 2001, Jennifer Lopez
wore his cascade diamond ear-
rings. In separate years, Ms. Ny-
ong’o and Natalie Portman wore
his diamond headbands. And in
2005, Mr. Badgley borrowed two
Art Deco diamond clips to use on
the straps of Kate Winslet’s blue
gown.
Mr. Badgley typically showed
Mr. Leighton sketches, photo-
graphs or the actual dresses he
was designing for stars heading to
red carpets, he said, and “he
would go down into his archives,
search the store and come back
with a selection of the most amaz-
ing pieces.”
Although the comedian Joan
Rivers frequently excoriated ac-
tresses’ fashion choices at the Os-
cars, she also wore Leighton.
“I distinctly remember a beauti-
ful big pair of emerald and dia-
mond earrings that she wore on
the red carpet,” Rebecca Selva,
the chief creative officer and pub-
lic relations director for the store,
said in an interview.
Fred Leighton was not, for most
of his life, Fred Leighton. He was
born Murray Mondschein in the
Bronx, on July 23, 1932. Besides
ANNABELLE HARRON
driving a taxi, his father, Irving,
collected rent for his landlord
brother’s buildings. His mother,
the former Renee Sosnowsky, was
a homemaker. Murray Mond-
schein served in the Army in Italy,
where, he told his daughter, he
was in charge of camp beautifica-
tion.
He opened a florist shop in Los
Angeles and later, back in New
York, bought a store that sold
Mexican arts and crafts on Mac-
dougal Street in Greenwich Vil-
lage in 1959. It was called Fred
Leighton, after its former owner
— the name he would take as his
own.
He added wedding dresses to
his store, and later Mexican and
Native American silver jewelry.
But when a dealer gave him some
Victorian-era jewelry to sell, and
he saw the prices he could get, he
began to envision a different fu-
ture.
Although the jewelry that en-
tranced him were not considered
too fashionable in the 1960s and
’70s, Mr. Leighton loved it. He did
not want to remove the diamonds
from their vintage settings and re-
cycle them into new, contempo-
rary ones. He wanted to sell them
as they were.
“I was drawn to Art Deco
A screenshot from a Martha
Stewart interview with Mr.
Leighton, who was known as a
“jeweler to the stars.”
Pieces for Kidman,
Nyong’o, Winslet,
Theron and Loren.
things, jewelry from the 1920s,” he
told Ms. Stewart.
Fascinated but largely unedu-
cated in jewelry, he bought what
he liked.
He moved his store to Lexing-
ton Avenue for a brief time in the
1970s before finding the first of
three locations on Madison Ave-
nue. Along the way, he attended
gemological school.
And, in 1986, he legally changed
his name to Fred Leighton. It was
a logical decision: Customers
were asking to speak to Fred
Leighton. His daughter and his
wife, Glorya, also changed their
surnames. But friends and fam-
ily? They still called him Murray.
In addition to his daughter, Mr.
Leighton is survived by two
grandchildren and his sister, Glo-
ria Feuerman. His wife, the for-
mer Glorya Krauss, died in 2015.
They had met after his store
and one of her clothing shops, in
Greenwich Village, had been vic-
timized by a group of neighbor-
hood shoplifters, one of whom was
apprehended carrying a bag with
merchandise from both stores.
Mr. Leighton sold the business
in 2006, a year after his company
pleaded guilty to tax fraud for fail-
ing to collect sales tax on millions’
of dollars of jewelry. Ralph Esme-
rian, the buyer, filed for bank-
ruptcy in 2008 and was subse-
quently sentenced to six years in
prison for bankruptcy and wire
fraud and concealing assets as
part of an embezzling scheme.
For a year after selling his em-
porium, Mr. Leighton had a con-
sulting deal. He then became a
regular visitor, traveling from his
apartment above the store. “He’d
stop by, look at the windows and
come in for a cup of coffee,” Ms.
Selva said.
And on his own, he continued to
buy and sell vintage jewelry.
“He was talking about jewelry
until just before he died,” Ms.
Leighton said.
Alan Peckolick, Leading Logo Designer, Dies at 76
By SAM ROBERTS
Alan Peckolick, who overcame
a failed art school career to
emerge as a leading designer of
some the world’s most distinctive
logos, died on Aug. 3 in Danbury,
Conn. He was 76.
The cause was brain damage
sustained after a fall, his wife, Jes-
sica Weber, said. He had Parkin-
son’s disease.
A protégé and partner of the in-
fluential graphic designer Herb
Lubalin, whose acolytes also in-
cluded the art director George
Lois and the photographer Art
Kane, Mr. Peckolick was a virtu-
oso man of letters.
His typography distinguished
familiar logos, like GM’s ( just the
two initials underscored by a mus-
cular solid bar), and the typefaces
for company names, including Pfi-
zer, Revlon and Mercedes-Benz,
and institutions like New York
University and the City College of
New York.
A poster featuring blue block
lettering and the word “free” in
bright red announcing late-night
museum openings in New York
City, sponsored by Mobil, is in the
permanent collection of the Gu-
tenberg Museum in Mainz, Ger-
many.
“Basically, for me, if a word was
a beautiful word, it wasn’t the
sound of the word that intrigued
me but the look of the word,” Mr.
Peckolick (pronounced PECK-oh-
lick) told The Huffington Post in
A graphic artist who
was intrigued by ‘the
look of the word.’
2015. “I saw each letterform as a
piece of design. Cat is not ‘cat’ —
it’s c-a-t. That’s what led to the be-
ginning of the expressive topogra-
phy.”
Seymour Chwast, a fellow de-
signer and illustrator, said in an
email that Mr. Peckolick “was to-
tally dedicated to design, its his-
tory, its function and what it might
offer in the future.”
Eventually fed up with being a
rainmaker for the advertising
agencies he worked for, diverting
his creative his energies to court-
ing clients, Mr. Peckolick took up
painting. As an artist, he was cap-
tivated by weathered billboards
and their faded evocations of a
vanishing cityscape.
“Signage has been covered so
often by photography that as a
subject it is a commonplace,”
Grace Glueck of The New York
Times wrote in reviewing an ex-
hibition of his work at a SoHo
gallery in 2002, “but Mr. Peck-
olick, good at the colors and tex-
tures of erosion, nicely captures
the sense of time past that gives
these brief messages their nostal-
gic appeal.”
Alan Jay Peckolick was born on
Oct. 3, 1940, in the Bronx to
Charles Peckolick, a letter carrier
(actual letters, not the kind his son
would work with) and the former
Belle Binenbaum.
“I never knew anything about
design or graphics or any of those
fancy words,” Mr. Peckolick re-
called in 2015. “But I used to draw.
I used to draw everything. When
my mother used to send me out to
get groceries, by the time I was
back there were little drawings on
Haruo Nakajima, 88, Who Terrorized Tokyo as Godzilla
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Haruo Nakajima, the Japanese
actor who played the movie mon-
ster Godzilla in a dozen films and
whose booming steps in a 200-
pound rubber suit sent the deni-
zens of Tokyo running into cine-
matic history, died on Monday. He
was 88.
His daughter, Sonoe Nakajima,
said the cause was pneumonia.
She did not say where he died.
Mr. Nakajima was a 25-year-old
stunt actor with just four movies
to his credit when he was cast in
what are perhaps Japan’s two
most famous films of that era, both
released in 1954: Akira Kurosa-
wa’s masterpiece “Seven Samu-
rai,” in which he had a bit part, and
“Godzilla.”
In “Godzilla” he played the title
character: a gigantic, irradiated
lizard whose mutated form and
destructive power wreak havoc
on Tokyo. The first movie in a
long-running franchise, it was re-
leased nine years after the bomb-
ings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
as a not-so-thinly veiled fable
about the dangers of nuclear
weapons.
“One might remotely regard
him as a symbol of Japanese hate
for the destruction that came out
of nowhere and descended upon
Hiroshima one pleasant August
morn,” Bosley Crowther of The
New York Times wrote of the
monster in a 1956 review of
“Godzilla: King of the Monsters,”
the English-dubbed version of the
film released in North America.
“But we assure you that the qual-
ity of the picture and the childish-
ness of the whole idea do not indi-
cate such a calculation. Godzilla
was simply meant to scare peo-
ple.”
Mr. Nakajima would eventually
ALAN PECKOLICK
Alan Peckolick discussing the
future of typography at the In-
ternational Typeface Corpora-
tion in an undated photo.
the grocery bags.”
He graduated from Elmont Me-
morial High School on Long Is-
land, just across the Queens bor-
der, after which, he said: “My
mother put together a portfolio
which was made of anything I
drew on — handkerchiefs, scraps,
whatever — and put it literally
into a brown paper bag. She sent
me out into the world to go to
places like Cooper Union and the
School of Visual Arts. Both
schools, he said, “immediately
saw there was no talent here, and
they rejected me.”
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn ac-
cepted him, in the illustration de-
partment. But three months later,
he was told to leave because his
work was not improving. A school-
mate discovered him in a coffee
shop, dejected.
JUNJI KUROKAWA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Haruo Nakajima in 2014. Mr.
Nakajima had the title roles in
“Godzilla” (1954), right, and
“King Kong Returns” (1967).
put on the heavy rubber monster
costume 12 times from 1954 to 1972
in a series of movies that became
an international phenomenon.
The success of Godzilla kicked
off Japan’s golden age of tokusa-
tsu, or “special filming” movies, in
which rubber-costumed actors
portraying colossal, terrifying
creatures typically destroyed
scale-model sets, creating illu-
sions of reality that would one day
be generated even more spectacu-
larly by computers.
“We had to improvise, and
make it all look real on screen,”
Mr. Nakajima told The Times in
2013.
He recalled Godzilla’s creator,
Eiji Tsuburaya, struggling amid
Japan’s postwar shortages and ra-
tioning to find enough rubber and
latex to construct the costume.
“You don’t learn this from a
textbook but by doing,” Mr. Naka-
jima said of those early days.
“There is no chance to learn now.”
ALAN PECKOLICK
ALAN PECKOLICK
“I explained to him,” he re-
called, “that I was kicked out of art
school because I couldn’t draw
very well. He said: ‘Well that’s no
problem. Why don’t you just be-
come a graphic designer?’ I said,
‘What’s that?’ He said, ‘Don’t
worry about what it is, but you
don’t have to know how to draw!’”
Mr. Peckolick graduated from
Pratt in 1964 and opened his own
office. In 1972 he joined Lubalin,
Smith & Carnase (the firm later
became Pushpin Lubalin Peck-
olick Associates). Through his
Wearing a 200-pound
rubber suit to play a
monster in 12 movies.
Wearing a hot, heavy suit be-
neath the soundstage’s bright
lights had him sweating so much,
he said, that at the end of a day’s
shooting he could wring enough
perspiration from his undershirt
to fill half a bucket.
To perfect the monster’s de-
structive gait, Mr. Nakajima spent
hours at the zoo studying how ele-
phants and bears walked. He
wanted the monster to be believ-
able, he said in interviews.
Mr. Nakajima was born on Jan.
1, 1929, in Yamagata, Japan. He
was 16 when Japan surrendered to
the Allies, ending World War II.
His first credited acting role was
ALAN PECKOLICK
VIA A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES
Mr. Peckolick’s designs includ-
ed posters and the GM logo —
two initials and an underscore.
mentor, Mr. Lubalin, Mr. Peckolick
recalled, “I discovered other peo-
ple like Saul Bass, Lou Dorfsman,
George Lois — people who could
think as well as design.”
“Then,” he added, “I was in the
lap of luxury; I could steal from
the best.”
He and Ms. Weber, who is also a
graphic designer, lived in Manhat-
tan and Sherman, Conn. In addi-
tion to her, he is survived by his
brother, Paul, and his sister, Gael
Rae-Garwood.
Mr. Peckolick was the author of
several books, including “Teach-
ing Type to Talk” (2013), and illus-
trated a number of others.
Despite his growing fame for
defining corporate identities and
designing annual reports, book
jackets and posters (for, among
others, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958
thriller “Vertigo”), his longevity
at advertising agencies mirrored
his art school experience.
“I kept getting fired from these
agencies,” he recalled, “because I
spent too much time worrying
about what the type looked like in-
stead of selling the soap.”
After taking an afternoon off to
go to a movie, he found himself
standing in front of an art supply
store in the late 1990s.
“I thought, I’ve never painted
before, I’ve never held a paint-
brush in my hand, let’s start some-
thing fresh,” he said.
But fine art proved to be chal-
lenging in its own way.
“When you are working for a
graphic design client, you are
solving the client’s problem,” Mr.
Peckolick said. “When you are a
fine artist, you have to come up
with the problem and the solution.
When I started, there was nothing
more frightening than looking at a
blank canvas.”
He began painting profession-
ally in 1998, a few years before he
learned he had Parkinson’s dis-
ease.
“It’s a hard disease,” he said,
“but I always say to people, ‘If it
really gets bad, I can become an
abstract painter.’”
TOHO CO. LTD.
in “Sword for Hire,” in 1952, when
he was 23.
As a contract actor for the Japa-
nese studio Toho, Mr. Nakajima
starred in dozens of other monster
movies, including “King Kong Re-
turns,” a 1967 Japanese production
in which he again played the title
character, this time in an ape cos-
tume.
He retired from acting in 1973.
Beginning in the 1990s, he made
frequent appearances at conven-
tions of comic-book and movie
fans. He lived in a suburb of To-
kyo. There was no immediate in-
formation on survivors, besides
his daughter.
Mr. Nakajima was the first iter-
ation of Godzilla but not the last.
Toho produced 27 more Godzilla
films after Mr. Nakajima hung up
his rubber suit in 1972. Since then,
Hollywood has produced three
“Godzilla” movies. The next will
star Ken Watanabe and is sched-
uled for release in 2019.
5 MUSIC
Bruce Springsteen plans
‘intimate’ Broadway shows.
2 MOVIES
Ozploitation on film: Death
and mayhem Down Under.
NEWS CRITICISM
Ready for Another Round?
Bill Murray relives a signature role by attending
‘Groundhog Day’ on Broadway.
By SOPAN DEB
Bill? Bill Murray? I thought that was you!
There he was in the audience at the Au-
gust Wilson Theater in New York City on
Tuesday night, taking in a performance of
“Groundhog Day,” the Broadway musical
based on the 1993 movie that he starred in.
It was Mr. Murray’s first time seeing the
musical — Watch out for that first step, it’s a
doozy! — and he was accompanied by his
brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, who played
A World
In Woe
And at War
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA — For those who were
dizzied by the artist William Kentridge’s
frenetic productions of “The Nose” and
“Lulu” at the Metropolitan Opera, he starts
his extraordinary new “Wozzeck” with a
self-deprecating joke. As the opera opens,
the title character, a cruelly exploited sol-
dier who murders his lover in a fit of jeal-
ousy, is screening a very Kentridge kind of
animated film: jittery black-and-white
Wozzeck
Salzburg Festival
drawings, surreal juxtapositions and
swiftly flowing images.
“Slowly, Wozzeck, slowly!” the bullying
Captain shouts at him, watching the
footage. “One thing at a time. You make me
quite giddy.”
He’s speaking for many in the entranced,
sometimes mystified audiences for Mr.
Kentridge’s stagings, which place boldly
layered films, still images, fractured de-
signs and onstage hordes on top of already
complex works.
CONTINUED ON PAGE C2
Mauro Peter, left, as Anders, and
Matthias Goerne in the title role
of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck.”
Buster in the film, as well as Danny Rubin, a
co-writer of the screenplay for the movie
and the writer of the book for the musical.
“Groundhog Day” — a story about a self-
absorbed weatherman who keeps repeat-
ing the same day over and over again in
Punxsutawney, Pa. — is one of the most crit-
ically acclaimed comedies in history and
one of Mr. Murray’s best works.
Mr. Murray exhibited a range of emotions
throughout the night. At first, it was quirky
one-liners to gleeful fans who suddenly rec-
ZACHARY WOOLFE
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ognized him. There were gestures and guf-
faws during the first act. But by the end of
the performance, Mr. Murray was visibly
sobbing.
When he arrived, he went to the bar to get
a glass of water. The bartender, Janet
Polanco, offered him a bottle — but Mr. Mur-
ray wanted a glass and gave a $50 tip. Then
he whispered, “This is too much for a glass
of water.” Mr. Murray walked to his seat
mostly unnoticed. One audience member
told him he looked “taller and thinner.” Mur-
ray responded, “Yeah, I’ve been working
out.”
Minutes later, Mr. Murray got a brief
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OPERA REVIEW
4 BOOKS
In Dina Nayeri’s
‘Refuge,’ a woman in
exile tries to change.
BY JENNIFER SENIOR
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 C1
N
Legal Chains
Still Bind
Kesha
A battle with her longtime
producer shadows an album.
By JOE COSCARELLI
Three years into an acrimonious legal and
public relations battle between the pop
singer Kesha and her longtime producer Dr.
Luke, who was once one of the industry’s
most untouchable titans, the pair remain
deeply, uncomfortably entwined not just in
court, but in business.
On Friday, Kesha will release “Rainbow,”
her first album since “Warrior” in 2012,
chronicling, with an inspirational bent, her
years of personal and professional turmoil
on songs like “Bastards,” “Let ’Em Talk”
and “Learn to Let Go.” But she will do so un-
der the same extensive recording and mu-
sic publishing contracts with Dr. Luke (born
Lukasz Gottwald) that existed before she
claimed in a 2014 lawsuit that he had for
years “sexually, physically, verbally and
emotionally abused” her. (Dr. Luke has
strongly denied the accusations and no
criminal charges have been filed.)
Though #FreeKesha became a cause
célèbre — at its height, Taylor Swift said she
would donate $250,000 to support the sing-
er — and her comeback has been greeted by
fans as a victory and a rebirth, it follows a
string of legal defeats that prevented Kesha
from releasing music outside of her deals
with Dr. Luke. While her own contract
claims were largely rejected by the court or
withdrawn, she continues to face a lawsuit
for defamation and breach of contract from
Dr. Luke, who argues that her campaign
against him has caused his work to dry up.
(Though Dr. Luke has contributed to 40 Bill-
board Top 10 hits in his career, he has not
CONTINUED ON PAGE C5
Bill Murray on
Tuesday at the bar of
the August Wilson
Theater before the
musical “Groundhog
Day,” based on the
film in which he
starred. Left, Danny
Rubin, a co-writer of
the screenplay and
the writer of the
musical’s book.
RICHARD SHOTWELL/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kesha’s “Rainbow,” her first album since
2012, chronicles her years of personal
and professional turmoil.
RUTH WALZ/SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE
C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

Deranged Down Under

Predatory trucks, bloodthirsty
boars and psychopaths are
part of a film series exploring
the world of Ozploitation.
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
“Is that about Dorothy or Down Under?”
That’s the question a friend posted on
Facebook in response to my search for hor-
ror geeks who would talk to me about the
exploitation subgenre Ozploitation. I’ll for-
give him for not knowing that the Oz here
refers to Australia, not Munchkinland. Oz-
ploitation remains an under-the-radar mon-
ster, at least in the United States.
The IFC Center in New York hopes to
change that with “To Hell and Outback,” an
introduction to Ozploitation debauchery
that runs through Sept. 30. The comprehen-
sive series includes proto-Ozploitation
films, like Peter Weir’s disappearance mys-
tery “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975), but
also modern oddballs like Sean Byrne’s
twisted-prom dark comedy “The Loved
Ones” (2009).
What passes for exploitation in Austral-
ia? Marauding packs of bullies and car
chases shot through a “fetishistic lens,” as
the director Quentin Tarantino said in the
2008 Ozploitation documentary “Not Quite
Hollywood.” Another common subject? The
menace that is the country’s dangerously
rugged terrain.
Australia “was a Western culture that
was founded by convicts stranded in an in-
credibly hostile natural environment,” said
Colin Geddes, a curator for the horror
streaming service Shudder and a former in-
ternational programmer for the Toronto In-
ternational Film Festival. “Their cinema
embraces this and is filled with death-defy-
ing challenges, threat and survival from
both man and nature.” SEVERIN FILMS

Unlike blaxploitation, a genre that had its

heyday in the ’70s, Ozploitation continues to
thrive. There are horror movies, like the
mother-protector fable “The Babadook”;
the newly released killer-hillbilly thriller
“Killing Ground”; and action films like the
Oscar-winning “Mad Max: Fury Road,”
with its throbbing emphasis on survival and
tricked-out vehicles. Here are other Oz-
ploitation films to check out; three can still
be seen at the IFC Center.

‘Patrick’ (1978)
Set at a Melbourne hospital, this creepy
spine-tingler is about a handsome young
man who uses his psychic powers to throw
people into the air and otherwise interfere
in the life of a nurse he’s fallen in love with.
As “Carrie” did two years before, “Patrick”
tapped into the cinematic fascination with
diabolical telekinesis that surfaced in the
late ’70s. Mr. Tarantino said the movie in-
spired part of his “Kill Bill, Vol. 1.” (Stream-
ing on Fandor and available on DVD and
Blu-ray) RIALTO PICTURES/STUDIOCANAL DANIEL GUERRA/WEINSTEIN COMPANY

‘Road Games’ (1981)

This down-and-dirty psychological white
knuckler is about a poetry-loving truck
driver (Stacy Keach) who picks up a hitch-
hiker (a post-”Halloween” Jamie Lee Cur-
tis) as he hunts down the killer of young
women along deserted stretches of the Aus-
tralian nowhere. Initial reaction was mixed.
One fan praised it as “‘Rear Window’ on a
highway.” But The New York Times, ques-
tioning the film’s American cast, wrote:
“The Outback might as well be the New Jer-
sey Turnpike.” (Friday and Saturday at IFC
and available on DVD and Blu-ray)
‘Razorback’ (1984)
Tapping into the exploitation genre’s love
of animals gone wrong, this intense chiller
tracks the path of a giant wild boar — “as big
as a rhino,” as it’s described in the film —
that goes on a killing rampage in the out-
back. The film is often compared to “Jaws”
in how it sparingly yet viciously shows the
animal in attack. When it was released the-
atrically in New York, it was on a double bill
with perhaps Australia’s most famous cine-
matic export: “Mad Max.” (Sept. 22-23 at
IFC)
‘Dead End Drive-In’ (1986)
Set in a futuristic 1995, this psycho-
shocker is about a drive-in cinema where
punks and other young misfits are held cap-
tive and fed a diet of drugs, music and
cheeseburgers as the world outside crum-
bles. A mix of ’80s rebellion film and dysto-
pian political parable — “‘The Road War-
rior’ crossed with ‘The Exterminating An-
gel’” as The Los Angeles Times put it — the
movie also touches on Australia’s history of
racial tensions. (Available on Amazon via
Shudder)
‘Wolf Creek’ (2005) The Ozploitation horror
subgenre includes, clockwise
Evil that lurks in Australia’s rocky and
from top, Robert Thompson in
rough landscape continues to feed the mod-
the film “Patrick”; John Jarratt
ern Ozploitation film. Set in the outback,
in “Wolf Creek”; and Stacy
this grisly pageant of suffering tells an ul-
Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis in
traviolent story of backpackers who be-
“Road Games.”
come the victim of a torture-loving loner.
The director, Greg McLean, said he took
cues from the life of Ivan Milat, an Austral-
ian serial killer in the 1990s. The film
spawned both a sequel and a TV series.
(Aug. 18-19 at IFC)

ZACHARY WOOLFE OPERA REVIEW

A Darkened World, in Woe and at War

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
But while hardly serene or simple,
“Wozzeck,” written by Alban Berg between
1914 and 1922, is a more focused piece than
the composer’s “Lulu” or Shostakovich’s
“The Nose.” And Mr. Kentridge has given it
his most elegant and powerful operatic
treatment yet, in a production that opened
on Tuesday at the Salzburg Festival and will
travel to the Met in the 2019-20 season. (It is
also shared with the Canadian Opera Com-
pany in Toronto and Opera Australia.)
Berg’s opera was based on Georg Büch-
ner’s 19th-century play “Woyzeck,” but was
crucially shaped by its composer’s experi-
ences on the front during World War I. So
Mr. Kentridge sets the work on and near a
battlefield of that conflict.
The stage is dominated by a precarious
mountain of platforms, staircase fragments
and discarded furniture that, with the help
of stage-filling, smoky charcoal animations,
shifts during Berg’s brooding interludes
from inside to outside, from tavern to bar-
racks to bombed-out heath. The searing fi-
nal D minor interlude is echoed onstage in
an orgy of charcoal explosions. (The sets
are by Sabine Theunissen; costumes, Greta
Goiris; video, Catherine Meyburgh; and
lighting, Urs Schönebaum. Mr. Kentridge’s
co-director is Luc De Wit.)
This is a world of crashed airplanes, flick-
ering maps of troop movements and the
tension and violence born of endless wait-
ing. Other directors have made of
“Wozzeck” a more general societal indict-
ment; Mr. Kentridge indicts war, war, war. A
recurring image shows the young son of
Wozzeck and Marie, his common-law wife,
aging into a soldier, his face thickened by in-
juries, like something out of the grotesque
battlefield prints of Otto Dix or George
Grosz.
That son is depicted onstage by a gangly
puppet in a gas mask, perhaps a nod to one
of Mr. Kentridge’s first collaborative ven-
tures: a 1992 adaptation of the Büchner play
called “Woyzeck on the Highveld,” with the
Handspring Puppet Company of South Af-
rica. (Rich evidence of the full sweep of his
artistic career — the theater central from
The Lithuanian soprano
Asmik Grigorian sings
the role of Marie. The
son she has with
Wozzeck is portrayed by
a puppet in a gas mask.
the beginning — is on view until November
in a retrospective at Salzburg’s Museum
der Moderne.)
Beyond that melancholy puppet, Mr.
Kentridge doesn’t stint the piece’s forlorn,
savage humor, with the office of the Doctor
(Jens Larsen) jammed into an armoire and
the helmet of the Captain (the piercing Ger-
hard Siegel) detonating in an enormous
feather plume. But for all its antic fanciful-
ness, this is also the truest, least over-the-
top “Wozzeck” I’ve seen.
Played with mellow disbelief and sung
with parched, wounded tone by the baritone
Matthias Goerne, the title character doesn’t
start off, as he does in many stagings (and
RUTH WALZ/SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE
often by Mr. Goerne), as a wild-eyed lunatic.
He’s rather a kind of stymied artist on
whom, and in whom, pressure slowly
builds. Marie, here the young, penetrating
soprano Asmik Grigorian, is a more girlish
and irresponsible, less sympathetically ma-
ternal presence than usual. Theirs is not a
collision of archetypes, but of people.
This was the third opera I heard here over
the past few days featuring the Vienna Phil-
harmonic, the Salzburg Festival’s house
band, in the pit. Led with relentless re-
straint by Vladimir Jurowski, the orchestra
was as virtuosic as it was under Mariss Jan-
sons for Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of
the Mtsensk District” and Riccardo Muti for
Wozzeck
Through Aug. 27 at the Salzburg Festival;
salzburgerfestspiele.at.
Verdi’s “Aida.”
There is no ensemble quite as colorfully
brutal yet agile in the dyspeptic accompani-
ment of the opening scene, issuing angular
interjections and then dissolving into trem-
bling electricity as Wozzeck bemoans how
difficult it is for the poor to be virtuous. The
frosty vaporization of the strings as
Wozzeck is about to murder Marie had ter-
rifying precision and poise.
But unlike in “Lady Macbeth” and “Aida”
— and unlike in the “Wozzeck” I heard this
ensemble play as the orchestra of the Vien-
na State Opera a few years ago — here vir-
tuosity was the means, not the end. Sonic
effects didn’t seem detached from what was
happening onstage, a vision of the pit as its
own private world of hermetic beauties; in-
stead, the orchestra acted as an enhancer
and interlocutor. The violin solo as Marie
read to her child from the Bible wasn’t self-
regarding, as some of the Philharmonic’s
opera playing has been this week, but inten-
sifying.
Despite this orchestra’s myriad seduc-
tions, Mr. Jurowski resisted the urge to
overplay; the emphasis was on guiding a
coherent, accumulating drama. Climaxes —
like the unison B note that crescendos to
full-ensemble fury, and that final D minor
outpouring — earned their impact honestly.
The partying tavern crowd not long be-
fore the opera’s end is a danse macabre, one
of the sprawling parades of humanity that
Mr. Kentridge has long taken as a theme.
But where is the procession headed? The
production aptly captures the Europe of the
early 1920s, the world in which “Wozzeck”
was born: a dazed shambles, on the verge of
still more suffering.
The audience seemed stunned at the end,
yet grateful. For my part — and this doesn’t
often happen, even after the rawest operas
— I needed a walk in the mild evening, some
deep breaths and a beer.
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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

Sean Baker (“Tangerine”), and

Jennifer Lawrence’s “The Square,” by Ruben Ready, Set, Go
Ostlund, had their premieres at
New Vogue Cover Cannes before going on to New
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No airbrushing controversy here. York. (“The Square” won the

Jennifer Lawrence is fully
brushed in a new painting by the
artist John Currin. The portrait is
one of four different cover im-
ages commissioned by Vogue for
its September issue, marking the
magazine’s 125th anniversary.
Despite Mr. Currin’s reputation
for eroticism, his portrait of Ms.
Lawrence, below, is demure. She
appears wearing a simple tan
chemise and a Miu Miu pat-
terned fur hat, holding a purple
and green purse. “To be in a
situation of producing a cover for
this famous magazine, I’m a little
scared,” Mr. Currin said in an
interview. “I do worry about
decorum.”
The other three covers will
feature photographs of Ms.
Lawrence, by Annie Leibovitz,
Bruce Weber and the duo Inez
and Vinoodh. This is the actress’s
third appearance on Vogue’s
cover.
The painting puts Mr. Currin’s
many influences on full display.
Ms. Lawrence is depicted in a
Mannerist pose, unnatural but
elegant. Perspective is min-
imized and a Rococo palette
competes with a hint of Dutch
old master sobriety. The hat
provides the element of the ab-
surd that Mr. Currin is known for.
And all of this is filtered through
a pictorial style that evokes
classic magazine illustrations
from the 1930s and 1940s.
“One of the reasons I thought
John would be good for the cover
was that fashion was a huge
influence on his work early on,”
JOHN CURRIN/VOGUE
said Dodie Kazanjian, a contrib-
uting editor at Vogue who often
writes about art.
Mr. Currin deviated from his
normal method for the portrait of
Ms. Lawrence. He doesn’t usu-
ally worry about likenesses, he
said. But for the portrait of Ms.
Lawrence, he had to be faithful to
a very well known face. “It has to
look like her,” he said.
While this is the first painted
September cover, Vogue has a
long history of commissioning
artwork.
Salvador Dalí contributed four
covers showcasing his trade-
mark style from the 1930s to the
1970s. Giorgio de Chirico created
a slyly subversive cover for the
November 1935 issue that en-
dowed a traditional fashion still
life with a hint of Surrealist men-
ace. Andy Warhol, a natural
choice for a fashion magazine,
created an image of Caroline of
Monaco for the December 1983
issue of the French edition.
PETER LIBBEY
‘Bandstand’ to Close
Next Month
“Bandstand,” a swing-inspired
Broadway musical set after
World War II, will end its run on
Sept. 17 after 166 performances.
The musical was directed and
choreographed by Andy
Blankenbuehler, who won a Tony
this June for the show’s choreo-
graphy. His victory, combined
with the cast’s high-energy
performance on the Tonys
broadcast, provided a momen-
tary bump in ticket sales, with
grosses peaking at $642,594 the
week of June 18. But sales have
declined steadily since, with the
show earning just 51 percent of
its gross potential last week. The
production did not recoup its
initial investment of $13.5 mil-
lion.
“We always knew that it
would be difficult to find an
audience, because it wasn’t
branded material,” Tom Smedes,
the lead producer, said in an
interview. “We seem to have
gotten lost in the noise.”
“Bandstand” premiered at the
Paper Mill Playhouse in 2015 and
opened on Broadway this April.
(In her review for The Times,
Alexis Soloski called it “an un-
dercooked slice of apple pie.”)
The musical depicts the life of
soldiers returning home from
war and turning to swing music
as a reprieve. Laura Osnes and
Palme d’Or.) Two other selec-
tions — Dee Rees’s “Mudbound”
and Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me
by Your Name” — were both
Sundance favorites and also
count among this season’s more
anticipated releases.
In addition to Ms. Rees, the
female directors in the main
lineup include Ms. Varda, with
“Faces Places,” a collaboration
with the artist JR, and Ms. Ger-
SEE IT BIG! 70MM This
wig, with the comedy “Lady
series at the Museum of the
Bird.”
Moving Image continues
The New York Film Festival,
with the 1962 Oscar-winning
presented by the Film Society of
Lincoln Center, runs Sept. 28 to film “Lawrence of Arabia.”
Oct. 15. For the lineup and more 7 p.m.
details, go to filmlinc.org.
movingimage.us
CARA BUCKLEY
The Coen Brothers
Come to Netflix
NETFLIX
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,”
Corey Cott starred; Richard the first television series di-
Oberacker wrote the music and rected by the Oscar-winning
Robert Taylor and Mr. Oberacker filmmakers Joel and Ethan
wrote the book and lyrics. Coen, will have its premiere on
Netflix in 2018.
The cast’s performance on the
The series, which Netflix said
Tonys was introduced by Jill
will be a six-episode anthology
Biden, who paid tribute to veter-
set during the frontier era in the ‘THE TERMS OF MY SURREN-
ans returning home. A tour of
American West, will star Tim DER’ Opening night for
the musical is currently in the
Blake Nelson (“O Brother, Michael Moore’s debut on
works.
Where Art Thou?”) in the title Broadway. 6:30 p.m. at the
ANDREW R. CHOW
role. Each episode will depict a
Belasco Theater.
different character and story
michaelmooreonbroadway
line.
New York Film Festival “The Coens are visionary .com
directors, masterful storytellers
Fills Out Its Lineup and colorful linguists,” Cindy
New movies from Noah Baum- Holland, Netflix’s vice president
bach, Todd Haynes, Greta Ger- of original content, said in a
wig, Richard Linklater, Woody statement. “We are thrilled for
Allen and Agnès Varda are Netflix to become home to the
among the 25 films — including full range of their talents.”
eight directed by women — that The show will be produced by
will be featured in the main Annapurna Television, with the
lineup of the 55th New York Coen brothers as executive
Film Festival this fall. producers, writers and direc-
Several of the pictures have tors.
gotten healthy buzz at earlier With this series, the Coens
festivals, among them Mr. will join other big-screen direc-
Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz tors who have recently dipped DANISH STRING QUARTET
Stories (New and Selected)” their toes into TV, including Works by Beethoven at the
(photo above), starring Adam Woody Allen (“Crisis in Six Mostly Mozart Festival. 7:30
Sandler and Ben Stiller, and Mr. Scenes”), Baz Luhrmann (“The
p.m. at Alice Tully Hall.
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JENNIFER SENIOR
The Reinvention of an Exile
A character strains to remake
her life and to hold on to a
connection with her father.
ON A MAP, the path of an exile is easy enough
to trace. He or she flees one country, goes to
another. But the geography of an exile’s in-
terior life defies traditional cartography. “I
am not caught between two points,” André
Aciman wrote in “False Papers,” a col-
lection of essays published in 2000. “I am
two points caught in the same spot. Correc-
tion: I am two points caught in different
spots.” The self splits.
Many of the characters in Dina Nayeri’s
second novel, “Refuge,” are estranged from
themselves, but none more so than its pro-
tagonist, Niloo. When we meet her at 30, she
has willed her world into one of orderly pre-
cision and hospital corners; she’s an anx-
ious striver, a workhorse, a maker of lists.
“Wanna show you love me? Waste some
time,” her husband, Gui, writes to her in a
teasing and slightly exasperated email.
“Have some pointless fun with all that crazy
energy.”
Once, Niloo was capable of such things.
The hardened crust she has developed is
adaptive, meant to protect her from that
“forever refugee feeling” of suspicion that
she’s unwelcome wherever she goes. Never
mind her fancy Yale degree. Never mind
her French and American passports. (Gui
was raised in New York and Provence.) At 8
years old, she left Iran, along with her
mother and brother. It was the last time she
experienced joy. It was also the last time she
shared a home with her father. She has seen
him just four times over the course of the
last 22 years.
Reinvention may be a necessity for most
exiles, but it does not always come natu-
rally; the new identity can graft roughly
onto the old. The strains and indignities that
come with remaking a life are what give
“Refuge” poignancy and relevance. The
world is now flooded with the displaced, and
the countries best positioned to receive
them are increasingly hostile. In Amster-
dam, where much of the novel takes place
(Niloo has moved there with Gui), the real-
life, far-right politician Geert Wilders
makes several appearances, exploiting and
fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment. Nayeri
even quotes him directly: “You will not
make the Netherlands home.”
Gui dismisses this blunt warning as poli-
tics as usual. Niloo fumes. Her husband
hasn’t a clue what a privilege it is to lead a
life unburdened by politics, unbent by the
strongmen of history.
If displacement demands extraordinary
accommodations of personality, so does re-
maining in a country run by a brutal auto-
crat. Niloo’s father, one of the most exciting
reasons to read this book — he’s a dentist,
an atheist and, above all, a hedonist, an exu-
berant devotee of opium and poetry and
drink — feels terrible shame about his pas-
sivity in the face of Ahmadinejad’s Iran. But
he’s too afraid to uproot, “unable to leave be-
hind his practice, his reputation, his warm
village.”
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@jenseniorny
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And his opium. What we learn about the
specifics of opium addiction in this book —
“ei vai,” as Nayeri’s characters say. Oh dear.
So the story of Niloo’s dispersed clan un-
folds, crisscrossing both time and time
zones, with scenes in Oklahoma, where
Niloo seeks asylum with her mother and
brother; in Iran, where Niloo’s father is em-
broiled in an impressively nasty divorce
from his third wife (ei vai); in the Nether-
lands, where Niloo’s own marriage suffers
as her buried identity reasserts itself; and
in the various cities where Niloo sees her fa-
ther those four times.
Their visits are some of the most painful
episodes in the book. Each time, Niloo’s fa-
ther cannot reconcile the serious person in
front of him with the happy and mis-
chievous girl he once knew, or make the
proper mental adjustments to account for
her maturation, her new habits. When, at 14,
she recoils from his touch, as teenagers are
wont to do, he squirms in distress. “He
KNUD ADAMS
looked straight ahead, hungrily chewing his Austin Pendleton, center right, as a playwright who teaches a course in dramatic writing in
mustache,” Nayeri writes, “as if trying to Torrey Townsend’s “The Workshop.” The tight confines are used to create and sustain tension.
calculate his real daughter’s coordinates.”
Niloo, for her part, finds her father em-
Aspiring Writers:
barrassing. She flinches every time he
makes a pungent goulash of the English lan-
guage, especially when it’s in the service of
his excesses. “Miss, please come with the
Meet Acerbic Wit
quickness,” he tells a waitress in London,
hoping to order another 11 a.m. beer.
Nayeri’s prose can be rich and colorful,
bolts of words prettily unfurling; it can also
be florid, melodramatic — she sometimes Austin Pendleton portrays a these millennials waffle between passive-
aggression and mere passivity, with little
writes with a heavy hand as well as a heavy playwright who spins discernible passions and interests besides
heart, particularly in the last third of her
book. Opium addiction becomes an over- hilarious, self-serving tales. their navels.
The director Knud Adams craftily uses
chewed metaphor for the lulling security of the tight confines to create and sustain ten-
one’s native home. Niloo’s omnipresent THE CHARACTERS OF “The Workshop” are
sion, and the actors portraying the students
backpack becomes a crude symbol of inse- prone to delivering speeches with a pro- are all excellent. But “The Workshop” isn’t
curity in one’s adopted country. fane, irreverent verve reminiscent of
a satire of creative-writing factories but a
And Gui, clueless though he may be about Quentin Tarantino’s. The dialogue is a suc- play about ideals, especially of the crushed
Niloo’s suffering, is far too saintly. He ab- cession of quick jabs and uppercuts, and ref-
kind. A visual clue sits in the middle of the
sorbs her hooks and uppercuts without erences abound. Except that here they are bookshelf standing behind the table: a
once falling to the ground. not about B movies or the Royale with framed Obie Award from 1979, acknowledg-
cheese, à la “Pulp Fiction,” but theater. This
But “Refuge” also has the kind of immedi- ing Stein and his play “Deaf Snowlight.”
acy commonly associated with memoir, is the kind of show that lands jokes about
which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere. Eugene O’Neill, David Mamet and The New
The Workshop
This is no accident. “My own story is similar York Times’s own Ben Brantley, and where
Through Sunday at the Bank Street
to Niloo’s,” Nayeri writes in an author’s people are so passionate about Tony Kush- Theater, Manhattan; softfoc.us.
note. She also left Iran when she was 8, lived ner that they physically fight over his artis- Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.
in Amsterdam and visited with her father tic worth.
just four times in 30 years. At the same time, “The Workshop” does
The novel may indulge in a few purple not feel overly insidery. Yes, this Torrey Throughout the evening, we’ve watched
paragraphs too many. But that won’t stop Townsend Off Off Broadway play, brought Stein alternate between patronizingly ta-
many readers from responding to it with af- by the new producing outfit softFocus, can king the students to task for their ignorance
fection — and perhaps recognition. What milk a laugh from the current popularity of and spinning hilariously self-serving tales
person, in adulthood, doesn’t feel him- or the avant-director Ivo van Hove. But as an about his own accomplishments and fa-
herself twisting into impossible shapes? incisive and insightful tale of ambition and mous friends. His monologue about fixing
In Amsterdam, Niloo finds refuge in Za- envy, inspiration and mediocrity, the show the end of “Glengarry Glen Ross” (“it took
khmeh, a Persian squat filled with exiles should resonate with a wide swath of thea- another artist — me! — to figure it out”) is a
who tell stories in their native Farsi, eat tergoers. terrific comic set piece.
lemon-barley soup and protest Wilders’s The entire action takes place around a ta- But the writing, bolstered by Mr. Pendle-
nationalism. It is there that she begins to re- ble, a few feet from the audience of about 40. ton’s poignant performance, transcends the
locate herself, finding a mirror in the “mis- That table is where the playwright Ward chuckles as it depicts a man staring at the
fits with whom she shares noses and dark Stein (Austin Pendleton, himself a beloved abyss of his failure. Stein keeps prattling on
hair, restless fits and native tastes.” director and acting teacher) leads a gradu- about “Deaf Snowlight,” which was his first
It is the beginning of a slow awakening ate seminar in dramatic writing attended play, a success that he never repeated. The
that stretches over the course of the novel. by two women (Claire Siebers and Laura name-dropping and humblebrags, the dis-
When Niloo’s father hears about her in- Lassy Townsend) and two men (Cesar J. dain for “commercial” theater are his way
volvement in this den of refugees, he is not Rosado and Tim Platt) in their mid-20s. The to cover up for his inability to come any-
surprised. “When you’ve lost something,” play’s general setup is similar to Theresa where near the high-art accomplishments
he silently reasons, “you return to the place Rebeck’s Broadway show “Seminar.” As Mr. of his hero O’Neill. Stein cannot, so he
you last saw it and you search, turning that Townsend, who holds an M.F.A. in playwrit- teaches. Let us wish the promising Mr.
room upside down.” ing from Columbia University, paints them, Townsend a better outcome.
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Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Broadway
By BEN SISARIO
MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J.,
can accommodate well over 50,000 people
for a concert. The Walter Kerr Theater on
Broadway is a fraction of that size, with
room for just under 1,000.
What they have in common is Bruce
Springsteen, who sold out MetLife three
times last year and is coming to the Walter
Kerr in October for eight weeks of solo
shows that he wants to be “as personal and
intimate as possible.”
“I chose Broadway for this project be-
cause it has the beautiful old theaters which
seemed like the right setting for what I have
in mind,” Mr. Springsteen said in a state-
ment. “In fact, with one or two exceptions,
the 960 seats of the Walter Kerr Theater is
probably the smallest venue I’ve played in
the last 40 years.”
The show, “Springsteen on Broadway,”
will run five nights a week, Tuesday to Sat-
urday, at the Walter Kerr, the rose-and-gold-
decorated jewel box on West 48th Street
that last housed the short-lived “Amélie: A
New Musical.” The official opening is set for
Oct. 12, and the run is planned through Nov.
26. Preview performances begin on Oct. 3.
In addition to his music, the show will fea-
ture Mr. Springsteen, 67, reading excerpts
from his 2016 autobiography, “Born to Run,”
and performing other spoken reminis-
cences written for the show.
“My show is just me, the guitar, the piano
and the words and music,” he said. “Some of
the show is spoken, some of it is sung. It
loosely follows the arc of my life and my
work.”
The show has been perhaps the worst-
kept secret on Broadway since news of it
Legal Chains Are Still Binding Kesha
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
been credited on one since 2015.)
For the last year, as the cases wound
slowly through the system, Kesha and com-
panies closely affiliated with Dr. Luke have
worked together on completing “Rainbow.”
The album will be released by Kemosabe
Records — a subsidiary of Sony Music
started in 2012 as a joint venture with Dr.
Luke — and RCA, another Sony label, with
Dr. Luke still standing to profit off an artist
he first signed more than a decade ago. Be-
low is a breakdown of where things cur-
rently stand between the parties.
Will Kesha’s success benefit Dr. Luke?
The short answer is yes — any commercial
triumphs Kesha experiences with “Rain-
bow” are, on paper, a win for Dr. Luke as
well, given the ongoing contracts that cover
both her recorded music and her songwrit-
ing royalties (or publishing).
Although Dr. Luke’s term as chief execu-
tive of Kemosabe expired in March and was
not renewed by Sony, Kesha’s deals with Ke-
mosabe and RCA are entirely dependent on
earlier agreements she made beginning in
2005, at the age of 18, with Dr. Luke’s Kasz
Money Inc. (KMI). She is also signed to his
publishing company, Prescription Songs. So
even if Sony is distancing itself from the
producer — he has worked on just one song,
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
Pop Music
leaked in June. But one aspect of it has still weed out bots and high-volume scalpers
held some suspense: How would Mr. from the ticketing-buying process. The sys-
Springsteen, who has had well-documented tem, which Ticketmaster has been using
frustrations with scalpers, handle what will since February, asks prospective buyers to
surely be a crushing ticket demand? register in advance, and checks users’ pur-
The answer is Verified Fan, a new tech- chase histories and even social media activ-
nology from Ticketmaster that is meant to ity to confirm their legitimacy.
Kesha performing Big Boi’s “All Night,” by a Sony artist this
last year at year — he may profit from her affiliation
Warsaw in with Kemosabe via KMI, which ultimately
Brooklyn. owns her work. (Sony declined to comment
for this report.)
Why is the album coming out now?
On tour last summer, Kesha told fans: “I
can’t share my new music with you. Please
bear with me and keep praying that soon
that day will come.”
In court, lawyers for Sony and Dr. Luke
had said that the companies were willing to
facilitate recording sessions for the singer
with other producers, but her team argued
that Dr. Luke had effectively blocked Kesha
from making and releasing music because
of her allegations. “Dr. Luke promised me
he would stall my career if I ever stood up
for myself for any reason,” she wrote in a
2015 affidavit. “He is doing just that.”
According to her collaborators, including
Ricky Reed and Ben Folds, Kesha began re-
cording demos of new songs on her own
and, as the legal quagmire continued, even-
tually handed over 22 tracks in various
states of completion to her labels. From
there, executives at both Kemosabe and
RCA helped to steer the album process,
jointly approving producers; lawyers for
Dr. Luke said Kesha was paid a “substantial
recording advance,” as stipulated in her
NICOLE FARA SILVER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Bruce Springsteen
and the E Street Band
at Madison Square
Garden last year.
contract, while Dr. Luke was still Ke-
mosabe’s chief executive.
“It was a collaborative process, just like
the making of a typical album,” said Chris-
tine Lepera, a lawyer for the producer, add-
ing, “Everything proceeded with the full
support of Luke.”
His team argues that this arrangement —
with Dr. Luke working in an approval capac-
ity, but not hands-on with the album — could
have happened all along. “Nothing changed
legally that allowed her to release this al-
bum,” Ms. Lepera said. “Nobody was stop-
ping her from doing this years earlier.”
While Kesha’s contracts stipulate that Dr.
Luke must produce at least six songs on any
album she releases, he has forgone that re-
quirement on “Rainbow” and will instead
pursue the equivalent producer royalties in
court.
Representatives for Kesha declined to
comment for this report.
Is Kesha barred from mentioning Dr. Luke?
Lawyers for the producer say no. Kesha’s
promotion of her raw new music — includ-
ing op-eds she has written for publications
like Rolling Stone and Mic — has relied on
not-so-veiled allusions to her oppressors
without mentioning Dr. Luke explicitly.
“This song is about coming to feel empathy
N C5
To cut down on scalping, tickets to
the Boss’s Kerr Theater shows will
be sold via a new technology.
Like everything Ticketmaster does, the
system has drawn plenty of gripes online.
But the company has been promoting the
technology as its best effort to eliminate the
plague of online ticket bots, which are now
banned by federal law.
According to Ticketmaster, 90 percent of
the tickets it has sold through Verified Fan
were kept from immediately appearing on
secondary markets. But with secondary
ticket sales estimated at $8 billion a year,
that market may never been fully elimi-
nated.
Ticket registration for “Springsteen on
Broadway” begins Wednesday and will
close on Aug. 27. Lucky fans will be notified
on Aug. 29, and the tickets, priced at $75 to
$850, will go on sale the next day.
For Mr. Springsteen, whose last tour with
the E Street Band sold an estimated $268
million in tickets around the world, the
show’s economics may be less important
than the simple lure of playing to fans in
close contact. Jon Landau, his longtime
manager, said the plans for the show have
been in the works since last year.
“Bruce has had this specific idea in mind
since last December. It came into focus
slowly and then all at once last January,” Mr.
Landau said in a statement.
“All of it together,” Mr. Springsteen add-
ed, “is in pursuit of my constant goal to pro-
vide an entertaining evening and to com-
municate something of value.”
DEVIN YALKIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
for someone else even if they hurt you or
scare you,” she wrote of the single “Pray-
ing” in Lenny Letter.
Where do the lawsuits stand now?
Dr. Luke’s allegations against Kesha, which
include breach-of-contract claims and two
claims for defamation, are still in the early
phases of fact discovery, expert discovery
and depositions, with a trial unlikely until
2018. Kesha has appealed the dismissal of
her own claims (infliction of emotional dis-
tress, gender-based hate crimes, employ-
ment discrimination), as well as her request
for a preliminary injunction, which would
have allowed her to release music apart
from Sony and Dr. Luke; there has been lit-
tle movement on either appeal.
In yet another tabloid-baiting subplot,
lawyers for Dr. Luke are demanding a depo-
sition from Lady Gaga, whom they say re-
ceived defamatory text messages about the
producer from Kesha. Lady Gaga has re-
sisted, citing her demanding schedule, with
a spokesman arguing that she is “at most an
ancillary witness.” (She is on tour promot-
ing her most recent album, “Joanne.”)
Barring any surprises, like a settlement
or a third-party buyout of Kesha’s contracts,
the singer owes Dr. Luke two more albums
after “Rainbow.”
C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

A No. 1 Film With Pros and (a Lot of) Cons

Why the big-screen version of
the Stephen King series ‘The
Dark Tower’ was not exactly
what fans had hoped for.
By GILBERT CRUZ
On one level, “The Dark Tower,” the big-
screen Stephen King adaptation released
Friday, should have been a gimme. It’s
based on a seven-book series by one of the
world’s most popular writers. A fantasy-sci-
fi-western-action-adventure, it’s full of
enough genre elements to please most mov-
iegoers. The story’s detailed mythology is
seemingly tailor-made for these franchise-
obsessed times.
The film debuted atop the weekend box
office, but it was savaged by critics and was
the weakest No. 1 premiere of the season.
And while its producers are developing a
TV series that will depict the main charac-
ter in his youth, it’s hard to imagine future
installments in the series. It’s easy, howev-
er, to do a post-mortem and assess the ele-
ments of the film that did and did not work.
(Spoilers follow.)

Bad: The Structure

The film is derailed by two foundational
issues. The first is that the movie is essen-
tially a sequel to the books. (Without ruin-
ing the novels too much, they end after
thousands of pages in a manner that sug-
gests the story can and will continue.) This
is a problem. “The Dark Tower” is full of im-
ages, tossed-off phrases and concepts that
make sense only to book readers and are
never explained to viewers new to the se-
ries. Want to know what a “house demon”
is? Curious about what a “beam-quake”
refers to? Confused by all the graffiti refer-
ring to the “Crimson King”? Sorry, go read
Wikipedia. (Or, you know, the books.)
The second problem is the decision to es-
sentially make the movie into a familiar-
feeling young adult film, focused on a teen-
ager, Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), who
discovers that he has special powers. The
story becomes more about him than the
gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) or
his eternal enemy the Man in Black
(Matthew McConaughey). It’s a commonly
stated maxim in Hollywood that audiences
need a surrogate to serve as their guide
through confusing genre worlds. But Jake,
with his predictable teen outsider angst,
feels more like an audience barrier.
Great: Idris Elba
Based in part on Clint Eastwood’s Man
With No Name in the Sergio Leone trilogy,
Roland Deschain is the last surviving mem-
ber of what is essentially an order of medi-
eval knights. He is taciturn, focused and
preternaturally good at shooting guns. Mr.
Elba is simply fantastic in the role — he sells
the burden of being the last gunslinger,
plays his moments of humorous dislocation
well and looks smashing in a neckerchief,
vest and leather duster.
Bad: Matthew McConaughey
As a wizard who can kill people by saying
“stop breathing,” or make little girls angry
by whispering “hate” to them, Mr. McCon-
aughey somehow manages to go big and
small at the same time, both all powerful
and incredibly boring. It doesn’t help that
he’s saddled with dialogue like “Have a
great apocalypse” and “You ain’t seen noth-
ing yet.”
Good: References to Other Movies
Sharp-eyed fans might have spotted the
following nods to other King stories —
Jake’s “shine” and a picture of the Overlook
Hotel from “The Shining” come up several
times; a quickly glanced rusted carnival
sign references Pennywise, the clown from
“It”; there’s a toy version of the 1958 red
Plymouth Fury from “Christine”; the same
Rita Hayworth poster from “The Shaw-
shank Redemption” appears here; the co-
ordinates of one portal are “14-08,” which is
the title of a short story and film about a
haunted hotel room. (Look, you have to get
your pleasures where you can.)
Bad: World Building
It’s telling that the film’s title structure
appears only briefly, maybe four times. If
you name your movie “The Dark Tower”
and assert that it stands at the center of the
universe, maybe make it more of a pres-
ence? It’s of a piece with the film’s minimal
approach to setting. The first time we really
see Mid-World, which runs parallel to our
own, it’s a desert with magical, mystical,
wondrous . . . tornadoes. Further along, we
ILZE KITSHOFF/SONY PICTURES
see a forest, what looks like a Depression- Idris Elba in “The Dark
era shantytown and the Man in Black’s Tower,” which won the
C.G.I. mountain fortress. There are refer- box-office race this past
ences to Earthlike amusement parks and weekend but with a
radiation poisoning, hints of a full world relatively small take of
with history and conflict — but the just under $20 million.
offhanded way in which everything is han-
dled undercuts any attempt to inspire audi-
ence curiosity.
Huh? The Ending
At the end of the film, Roland invites Jake
back to Mid-World, arguing that since the
boy’s entire family is dead, he should join
the gunslinger back in his hellscape of a
wasteland and go on adventures. Given that
they’ve just defeated the one person who is
ever established as a villain and saved the
Dark Tower from destruction, it’s a mystery
as to what those adventures could be. And
at this rate, at least on the big screen, it’s
doubtful we’ll ever know.

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Are You Ready for Another Round?

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round of applause from the crowd. Once the
show started, he immediately started bob-
bing his head to the music. During a scene
in which Ned Ryerson, a pushy insurance
salesman, meets Phil Connors, the lead of
the show (played by Andy Karl in the musi-
cal), Mr. Murray pumped his fist.
At intermission, Mr. Murray headed back
to the bar to get a beer. On his way, he de-
cided to climb over a woman in a mostly
empty row, rather than walk up the aisle.
“He said, ‘Excuse me, don’t move,’” said
Toby Arbel, who came in from New Jersey
to see the show. “‘I’ll walk over you,’ and
then he did and got stuck because my bag
was here. And he said, ‘You have a suitcase
with you.’”
In the lobby, Mr. Murray took selfies with
fans as they lined up to greet him. At one
point, he reached into his pocket and gave
two young boys pieces from a Junior Mints
box.
During the second act, he could be heard
yelling, “Wow!” after a performance of
“Playing Nancy,” sung by Rebecca Faulken-
berry. By the time the cast was bowing on
stage, Mr. Murray was in tears. He waited a
minute to compose himself before joining
the rest of the audience to cheer the cast.
Afterward, Mr. Murray took more pic-
tures with fans. When Zoey Jacobs, 11, ap-
proached him on crutches, Mr. Murray told
her: “Don’t sell short on the rehab. Other-
wise, you’ll limp and gimp for a long time.”
Then Mr. Murray, Mr. Doyle-Murray and
Mr. Rubin went backstage to greet the cast
and take pictures. Mr. Murray was clearly
still moved by the show, telling the conduc-
tor, David Holcenberg, “It really killed me.”
To Sean Montgomery, who played the sher-
iff, he said: “It was really beautiful. You got
me. You really got me.”
Eventually, he addressed the whole cast.
“As actors, I can’t respect enough how
Clockwise from top left: Bill
Murray with a fan Tuesday
night; Andy Karl in the starring
role onstage in March; and Mr.
Murray greeting the cast and
crew after the show.
disciplined you are and how serving you are
of the process,” Mr. Murray said. “There’s
nothing worse than seeing someone that’s
out for themselves. And you are all in it for
each other.”
He did have some suggestions, though.
“When you ever feel you don’t know what
to do, sing to the person next to you,” Mr.
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Murray said. “And that person will sing to
the person next to that person, and then you
will have this force that’s even stronger.”
In an interview afterward, Mr. Murray
said it was the message behind the story
brought to life on stage that made him weep.
“The idea that . . . ” Mr. Murray trailed off
as he paused to collect his thoughts. “The
‘As actors, I can’t respect
enough how disciplined
you are and how serving
you are of the process.’
BILL MURRAY
ADDRESSING THE CAST
OF ‘GROUNDHOG DAY.’
idea that we just have to try again. We just
have to try again. It’s such a beautiful, pow-
erful idea.”
The movie was considered by many crit-
ics to be a comic masterpiece. The New
York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that it
showed Mr. Murray in “top form,” as he
smoothly alternated between nihilism and
the traditional physical comedy that the
script required. It became an oft-quoted
classic and added another strong showing
to the partnership of Mr. Murray and Har-
old Ramis, the film’s director. The men had
previously collaborated on “Meatballs”
(1979), “Caddyshack” (1980) and “Ghost-
busters” (1984).
Mr. Ramis and Mr. Murray clashed often
during filming about the direction of
“Groundhog Day” and did not speak for
decades afterward. They never worked to-
gether again. Mr. Ramis died in 2014 of com-
plications from autoimmune inflammatory
vasculitis.
“They were pretty far apart on what the
movie was about — Bill wanted it to be more
philosophical, and Harold kept reminding
him it was a comedy,” Mr. Rubin told The
New Yorker in 2004.
When asked what Mr. Ramis would have
thought of the musical, Mr. Murray did not
skip a beat.
“I think he would’ve been flabbergasted,”
Mr. Murray said. “Brian and I are flabber-
gasted. It’s really something.”
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DINA LITOVSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Luxury
For The
At the Wrecking Club in Manhattan, a
television screen lies in shards after a
reporter took a bat to it.

The Fun
A Crowbar
Can Bring
Alpha
By PENELOPE GREEN
Smashing things may not seem at first
blush to be a winning idea to wrap a busi-
ness around. Since March, however, nearly
1,500 people have shown up to break house-
Male
wares, electronics and furniture at the
Wrecking Club, two reinforced rooms in the
basement of a building in the garment dis-
trict of Manhattan.
Many of this number are couples looking
for something more piquant than the usual
date-night fare, said Tom Daly, the Wreck-
ing Club’s proprietor. But rage is not con-
fined to matrimony and other romantic un-
ions, as Mr. Daly has also found.
“That’s the cool thing about addressing
an instinct,” he said on a recent steamy af-
ternoon. “Everyone’s got it.”
The Wrecking Club is not the first rage-
based enterprise. Last fall, politics drove
the business at the Anger Room, which
opened in Dallas in 2008. Clients showed up
by the hundreds to batter human effigies of
Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump. Three

Paying to smash things to

pieces is popular with
very angry people and
those on dates, too.

Trump mannequins and two Clintons were

utterly destroyed, according to the owner,
Donna Alexander, and had to be replaced.
The Rage Room, which first opened in To-
ronto in 2015, now has licensees in Buda-
pest, Singapore, Australia and Britain.
“We’ve helped a lot of angry couples,” said
Stephen Shew, the owner. (His date-night
package, $70 for two electronic devices and
20 items of crockery, from lawn gnomes to
ceramic vases, is wildly popular on Valen-
tine’s Day.)
For those who would rather act out at
home, the online marketplace presents an
armory’s worth of what are known as ther-
apy tools. Foam anger bats, for example,
start at about $10. At the high end, a pair of
well-padded, cherry-red canvas, German-
made, jumbo encounter bats cost about $210
and look like something the performance
artist Leigh Bowery might have designed
as a special kind of evening wear.
CONTINUED ON PAGE D6 MAJLEND BRAMO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Stefano Ricci, the tightly held family business that outfits the 0.001 percent,
is expanding eastward and catering to the unapologetic strongman.
By ALEX WILLIAMS
At the Stefano Ricci boutique on Park Ave-
nue, Filippo Ricci, the brand’s creative di-
rector, was recounting a story about one of
his clients, a wealthy industrialist.
“He had his first son’s wedding one year,
so he bought a pair of three-carat diamond
cuff links that we made in our workshop,”
said Filippo, the younger son of the label’s
founder.
The cuff links, he added, cost $100,000.
“A year later,” he continued, “his other
son got married. So we presented him with
an $80,000 tie, with 100 diamonds on it. We
made six of them. One of them is owned by
KRISTA SCHLUETER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Elton John. When we went personally to de-
liver it, we said, ‘Are you happy with the cuff
Finishing Touches links?’”
The father responded with a shrug. “‘You
At Cipriani 42nd Street, know what?’” he said, according to Filippo,
34. “ ‘I lost them at the wedding. I partied
accessories were the main too much.’”
event. By Taylor Harris, Page 5. Such mishaps are bound to arise when
your client base is the 0.001 percent.
After nearly four decades, the Stefano
Ricci label has come to occupy a unique
place in the fashion firmament. Makers of
hypermasculine, hyperexpensive men’s
wear and accessories, this tightly held fam-
ily business has outfitted Kremlin power
brokers, Middle Eastern oil scions, celebri-
ties (Andrea Bocelli, Tom Cruise) and world
leaders (Nelson Mandela, Helmut Kohl).
It is not so well known in the United
States as its fellow Florence-based luxury
brands Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo,
given its focus on emerging markets like
Russia, China and the Middle East.
But at a time when the balance of power is
tipping eastward, and leaders like Donald J.
Trump and Vladimir V. Putin have revived
the concept of the unapologetic strongman,
the time might be right for Stefano Ricci’s
sumptuous brand of oligarch chic.
CONSIDER THE EAGLE: a predator among
predators that symbolizes not just fierce in-
Stefano Ricci, the man dividualism in the United States, but
behind the label, in his strength in China, dynastic glory in the Mid-
castle in the Tuscan dle East and ruling authority in Russia go-
hills. ing back to the czars.
Which explains, in a roundabout way,
why the eagle is an apt logo for Stefano
Ricci, popping up on $5,000 Stefano Ricci
crocodile sneakers, $1,950 silk-and-croco-
dile baseball caps and $2,000 matte croco-
dile sunglasses. The company even uses
bronze eagle heads in place of the standard
human ones for its in-store mannequins.
“I’m emotionally tied to the concept of the
eagle, with its elegance,” Stefano Ricci, 67,
said in an interview last week. “The eagle
stands for a sense of strength, control.”
That matters when you’re selling $25,000
custom suits to heads of state or $120,000
crocodile shirts for nightclubbing industri-
alists. To the Stefano Ricci client, clothing
serves a psychological function as much as
a sartorial one — it must remind everyone,
the wearers most of all, that they stand be-
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D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
The Sweet Spot
How to Become a Writer? Start Writing
Dear Sugars,
My career path has been shaped by fear and expectation. I
had a fortunate upbringing, sheltered from financial struggles,
but when I was in college, my mother went through bankruptcy
and I began to understand financial insecurity. I dropped my
pursuit of journalism to become a C.P.A. because seeing what
my mom went through scared me. I convinced myself that I
wanted to be an accountant. Isn’t it funny how we trick our-
AVENTURA • BOSTON • DALLAS • GARDEN STATE PLAZA • GREENWICH selves into seeing the silver lining? I’m not tricking myself any-
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SAN FRANCISCO • SOUTH COAST PLAZA • WASHINGTON, DC more. I’m just 25, and yet I feel as though parts of me have been
LONGCHAMP.COM | 1866-LONGCHAMP obliterated: my creativity, my genuineness, my passion.
A few months ago, I had a dream that I wrote a book. The
dream was so powerful that it woke me from my sleep in tears.
Money Betrayal When I have a bad day at work or feel hopeless about figuring
out what’s next, I think about that dream. How do I get closer to
Trauma Dating it? Do I quit my mediocre-paying job with benefits to work as a
barista and figure it out, or do I stay in it, though I feel depleted?
Sex Forgiveness Do I find a way to care less about work?
CAREER PURGATORY
Rejection Loss Cheryl Strayed I think you had that dream
because writing is for you a powerful call,
Fathers Abuse
C. P. Listen to that. But also remember
there’s a whole lot between having a
dream and making it come true. Writing a
Friendship Jobs
book is drudgery. It requires an appren-
ticeship. I suggest that you begin by doing
it. Sign up for a workshop or take a vaca-
tion and spend it writing. See where that
Empathy is the leads you. You don’t have to immediately
quit your job to become a writer. You need
only to start writing.
best medicine. Steve Almond Adam Smith talked about
the invisible hand of the market. What
you’re experiencing is the invisible hand of
art, the desire to pursue a life of creativity.
That’s beautiful. But it’s unlikely to lead to
financial security, at least in the short
term, which is important to you because of
your mother’s experiences. So you have to
do what every artist does: find a patron. It
might help to think of your accounting gig
Dear Sugars is a podcast hosted by as that patron, at least for now. It will
Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond that gives underwrite your apprenticeship and help
listeners the guidance, perspective and
. ......................................................................................
understanding needed to shake the baggage.
This column is an edited excerpt from the Aug.
nytimes.com/dearsugars 5 “Dear Sugars” podcast, which contains an
extended conversation and more letters.
The Gilded Touch
A curator teams with his
mother to run an art advisory.
Age 23
THE BRIGHTEST Hometown Paris
Now Lives In an art-covered, two-bedroom
STARS. THE SMARTEST house in the Chelsea neighborhood of Lon-
don.
CONVERSATIONS. Claim to Fame Lawrence Van Hagen is a
dashing, shaggy-haired art adviser and cu-
Watch the interviews you might have missed rator known for his gilded touch and a roam-
ing exhibition called “What’s Up,” which
from our remarkable library of memorable videos.
showcases 50 young contemporary artists. It
Cumberbatch, Winslet, Fey, Ansari ... browse helps that handling Picassos is in his blood.
among your favorite stars at TimesTalks.com. His mother is Susanne Van Hagen, the well-
heeled art connoisseur. “I have been in the
arts since I was a little kid,” he said, recount-
ing visits to Sotheby’s and Christie’s by age 6.
Together they operate LVH Art, a mother-
and-son art advisory that places expensive
works in even more expensive homes.
Big Break After years of playing behind-
the-scenes matchmaker for artists and col-
lectors, Mr. Van Hagen decided to curate his
first “What’s Up” show last year. “I wanted to
know what’s up today,” he said. “What are
the artists my friends should be looking at
now?” The show was a hit: 85 percent of the
works sold.
CORRECTION
An article on July 27 about the decline of shop-
ping malls, and nostalgia for them, misidenti-
fied the network that broadcast the opening of
WATCH AT TIMESTALKS.COM the Owings Mills Mall in Maryland. It was
NBC, not ABC, though the station in question,
Baltimore’s Channel 2, is now an ABC affiliate.
ST EV E A L MO ND and CHERYL ST R AYED
you uncouple your artistic aspirations
from financial expectation, so you can
write what you feel called to write with-
out worrying about whether it will make
money. It’s worth thinking, too, about the
role you want writing to play in your life
and what you’re willing to sacrifice to
make that happen. I realize this doesn’t
sound very romantic, but there is a prac-
tical aspect to the pursuit of our dreams.
You have to ask yourself a few candid
questions about what you consider essen-
tial, whether it’s a decent car or a nice
place to live or enough financial security
to keep anxiety at bay. The last thing you
want is for writing to become a source of
stress, because you’ll come to resent it as
you do your current job.
CS In asking these questions, you’re
undoing some of the ideas you absorbed
that led you down the wrong career path,
C. P. That’s exactly what you’re supposed
to be doing at this moment in your life.
There’s an enormous sense of regret in
your letter, but your job as an accountant
is a part of your experience that will
likely contribute to your writing someday
rather than detract from it. For many
years, I envied writer peers who spent
UP NEXT
LAWRENCE VAN HAGEN
Lawrence Van Hagen in May at his “What’s Up” show in New York.
Latest Project The first stateside “What’s
Up” was staged in May in New York to co-
incidence with Frieze New York, held in a
three-story building in the Chelsea gallery
district. To create “a dialogue” between
young and more establishment artists, he
paired John Chamberlain sculptures with
those of Ernesto Burgos. “I’m not as well
known in New York,” he said. “So it was im-
portant to have the right space in a prime lo-
cation.”
Next Thing He hopes to take “What’s Up” to
Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Hong Kong.
“I don’t believe in the gallery model,” he said.
“Things are changing so quickly and people
HEIDI YOUNGER
their youths nurturing their artistic inter-
ests — getting to take lessons and go to
camp and such. I was jealous of people
who hadn’t spent their teenage summers
working a full-time, minimum-wage job
like I did — I worked at a Dairy Queen,
among other things. And I felt the same
resentment as I waited tables all through
my 20s while writing on the side. I re-
member being sure that I’d be a better
writer if I’d had those creative, literary
opportunities that some others got. But in
more recent years, I’ve come to believe
with all my heart that I was the lucky
one. I learned so much about the nature
of our existence by working the sorts of
jobs I did: mopping floors at 11 p.m., deal-
ing with customers and bosses. I thought
I was spinning my wheels, but now I see I
was learning and developing my craft.
SA What matters to artists, and writers in
particular, isn’t the quality of a particular
life, but the quality of the attention paid to
that life. And that includes your own life,
Career Purgatory. I think it’s awesome
that you’re a C.P.A. That’s a world I know
nothing about. The creative impulse is
ultimately driven not by your personal or
professional history, but by a kind of
uninhibited curiosity, the capacity to let
yourself improvise, to play around with-
out imposing judgment. So in addition to
finding time to write, you’re going to have
to find a way to let go of the fear and
expectation you mention, because those
feelings will crush your creative impulses
and sap your energy and lead you down
all kinds of false alleys. It’s a delicate
balance, even a paradoxical one. You
have to lower your expectations at the
keyboard, so that you can free up your
imagination and finish those first drafts.
At the same time, you have to get your-
self to the keyboard, which means you
have to become your own boss.
CS So what you’re hearing from us is go.
But know that going in the direction of
becoming a writer may look different
than you imagine it will. Maybe you need
to quit your job as an accountant to pur-
sue your writing. Maybe you don’t. It isn’t
all or nothing. You haven’t wasted a
minute. You don’t have to feel hopeless
about what’s next. You get to decide what
it is by doing the work you feel called to
do. Now is a great time to begin.
DANIEL WEISS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
are getting bored of going to one gallery after
another.” Instead, he wants to try his hand at
virtual exhibitions. “Today it’s very tricky to
buy art online, and I don’t think it’s working
as it should,” he said. “A dream of mine would
be to become the go-to guy in that space.”
Like Mother, Like Son Working with his
mother comes with advantages and disad-
vantages. “My mother loves young people
and has more energy than I do,” he said. “At
art fairs, she gets along with all of my friends,
and I get along with all of hers. Although, of
course, sometimes it can be irritating when
your mother wants to go out later than you at
a party. I’m like, ‘Mom, it’s time to go home.’”
ALEX HAWGOOD
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Browsing
HAYLE Y PHE LA N

L.A. GIRL UNIFORM A RETURN

• The best way to simplify your TO TIE-DYE
morning routine is to have a uni-
form. Lacausa, a Los Angeles label • When fashion’s top designers need
with sustainable and ethical produc- a truly original color, they turn to
tion practices baked in, makes one Audrey Louise Reynolds, an arti-
for modern-day tomboys and cool sanal dyer in Brooklyn who mixes
girls alike. This month, the company dyes using all natural ingredients
released the aptly titled Uniform foraged from the most unexpected
collection, a line of T-shirts cut from places, including the mundane (soil,
lightweight vintage jersey and gauze flowers, minerals) and the exotic
jersey in core colorways like black, (squid ink, shells, seaweed). Natu-
navy and white, as well as seasonal rally, it didn’t take Ms. Reynolds long
one-offs in tie-dye and specially to go out on her own. Her line of
formulated pinks. basics, available at her website, are
steeped in her unusual craft.
Lacausa vintage cotton T-shirt, $55
at lacausaclothing.com. Audrey Louise Reynolds cotton
T-shirt, $65 at alrdyeing.com.

SI MP L I C I T Y
W I T HO U T B EI NG
CO NV ENT I O NA L .

A Guide to Finding the Perfect Summer T-Shirt

Neuroscience be damned. It seems a truth self-evident that our brains don’t work as well in the summer. Therefore, when it comes
to getting dressed, it’s best to think as little as possible to save our neurons for more noble tasks (like deciding between the rosé
from Provence or Sancerre). And it doesn’t get much easier than your basic T-shirt. Dress it up. Dress it down. Wear it at the office,
to the gym or out at night. The challenge is finding one that fills the bill. It sounds simple, but as is so often the case, the simplest
things are the hardest to perfect. Here, a few labels doing their darnedest to try.

THRASHER LIVES
• Vetements may have put Thrasher
on the map for some of the fashion
pack, but the skate magazine has
been around for decades. Vans is
celebrating that heritage — and
cashing in on its newly chic rep —
with a line of apparel and footwear
emblazoned with the publication’s
classic flame logo, introduced in
1981. Though technically a men’s
style, the long-sleeve shirt is sure to
be a hit with Demna fans. Best of
all, it will set you back a good deal
less than the high-fashion version.
Vans x Thrasher cotton T-shirt, $30
at vans.com.
THE BOYFRIEND
T-SHIRT
• Californians sure do know their
T-shirts. No wonder Amanda Blake,
a designer who lives in the Venice
neighborhood of Los Angeles, does
them so well. Her roomy Calder
Blake boyfriend T-shirt is exactly the STYLE, BY THE DAY
kind of tee you’d like to steal from a
• Every day of the week has its own
significant other — without the
particular feeling — and now its
messy complications of an actual
own T-shirt, courtesy of the Parisian
relationship.
label Maje. The company recently
Calder Blake supima cotton jersey introduced seven graphic styles,
T-shirt, $98 at calderblake.com. each imprinted with a French
phrase that pays tribute to a day of
the week. So if you’re stumped
about what to wear, just consult
your calendar.
A LO O K Maje cotton T-shirt, $110 at Maje;
W I T H NO maje.com.
ST R I NG S
AT TAC HED.

ON THE RUNWAY

A Designer Who Left Still Captivates the Scene

Saint Laurent behind him,
Hedi Slimane isn’t going away.
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Why is fashion so obsessed with Hedi Sli-
mane?
Sixteen months after he left his post as
creative director of Saint Laurent, the for-
mer designer-turned-photographer-
turned-designer-turned-etc. is once again
all over the industry after an extensive
“California” photography portfolio for Ital-
ian Vogue and an interview he gave (via
email) to the magazine’s editor at large,
Luke Leitch. Amid a discussion of his art
and life, he once again left the door open to
returning to the business of clothes, causing
a flurry of breathless headlines from i-D to
WWD and multiple Vogues along the lines
of “Is Hedi Ready to Return?”
But let’s be honest, people: He’s been say-
ing this since he left Saint Laurent, most of-
ten in the context of his photography being
published in a fashion magazine. He said it,
for example, in The New York Times early
this year, when another portfolio was pub-
lished in V Magazine.
It’s a dysfunctional relationship neither
party can quite bring itself to sever. Among
all the very talented designers currently
without a big job — Alber Elbaz, Stefano Pi-
lati, Peter Copping, Bouchra Jarrar, to name
a few — he has remained the most in-fash-
ion out-of-fashion. But before this goes any
further, perhaps it’s time for a reality check:
to ask why we can’t quite let go (nor, appar-
ently, can he), and whether it is time to put
the myth in perspective.
It would be easy, in answer to the first
question, to say it’s because Mr. Slimane
was so talented or so successful, and why
should anyone turn their back on success?
But while there’s no question that he
pressed the reset button on Saint Laurent,
making it relevant again and supercharging
its sales figures, it is also worth pointing out
that his departure has not hurt the house or
its image.
In the most recent financial reports from
Saint Laurent’s parent company, Kering,
sales at the brand rose 28.5 percent in the
first half of 2017 (this, after they were up
25.5 percent in 2016). The industry, in other
words, misses Mr. Slimane more than the
consumer does.
Meanwhile, before he left, there was grip-
ing within the house that Mr. Slimane’s in-
sistence on ironclad control over every as-
pect of the brand created roadblocks to
growth (there’s only so much one man can
do in a day). While there are obvious rea-
sons for this kind of spin from Saint Lau-
MARTIN BUREAU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
rent, the company also didn’t seem to fight
too hard to keep him.
And while he brought a new silhouette to
men’s wear during his time at Dior Homme
(another brand he left, back in 2007), nar-
row and sharp, he never really changed
how women dressed. Rather, his greatest
contribution during his Saint Laurent ten-
ure was arguably to change how brands
were conceived, starting the vogue for
handing full creative control to a designer
(see: Gucci, Calvin Klein, Givenchy).
Which is no small thing. Except then he ex-
ited his creation, declaring that he had done
what he came to do, which made it seem like
the whole thing had been a conceptual ex-
periment as opposed to a commitment to
helping his customers understand how to
express themselves in an ongoing way
through dress.
And while fashion then invented lots of
reasons Mr. Slimane might have wanted to
leave, largely centering on better and big-
ger jobs, none of them have come to pass.
Which raises the question of whether they
were rooted in our own fantasies of Hedi,
rather than in reality.
As to where those fantasies came from:
Well, you always want what you cannot
have, and in this period of insecurity
(whither fashion? whither fashion weeks?),
absolute belief in your own absolute right-
ness is a powerfully seductive weapon to
wield.
Mr. Slimane was a genius at appearing to
reject the industry while never actually
turning his back on it. He refused to give in-
terviews, but invited journalists backstage
after shows to pay their respects. He in-
sisted on moving the Saint Laurent design
studio to Los Angeles, but he also created a
new maison in Paris. He swapped elegance
for grunge on the runway, but actually mer-
chandised his collections to the hilt, so there
was plenty for everyone hidden under the
post-angst aesthetic. He has left fashion —
Hedi Slimane at a Saint
but not fashion magazines. You know what I
Laurent show in 2013. He
mean.
left his creative director
And the worse he treated fashion, the
post 16 months ago.
more fashion tried to win his favor. It’s been
almost like an extended piece of perform-
ance art, conceived to see how far he could
push the industry and keep it coming back
for more.
Maybe we should just wait until Mr. Sli-
mane stops teasing his re-entry and actu-
ally makes a return. It seems pretty clear
he’s interested; otherwise, why keep agree-
ing it’s possible?
Then he can be welcomed back, his work
judged on its merits instead of on his per-
sonal mystique.
D4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017
Is the Best Pedicure in New York Worth $85?
IS THERE ANYTHING EASIER to sell than a
pedicure to a sweaty New Yorker? Plop
down, let someone soak and exfoliate and
massage and moisturize your feet, and all
that is asked of you is to stare into space,
read that week’s tabloid or, in my case, gen-
tly stalk your high school crush’s wife on In-
stagram. It’s a respite, a meditation, a way
for me to incorporate some color into my
wardrobe.
It’s even relaxing to experience second-
hand. Chanel used to have a manicure tuto-
rial video on its site that was so soothing I
had it bookmarked on my computer to use
during cases of severe nerves.
Much has rightly been made about the
conditions of workers in nail salons, partic-
ularly after a 2015 investigation published in
this paper. In the years since, many nail-
care enthusiasts have started to pick salons
for not just the quality of their work, but also
for their values: nontoxic polishes, ethical
labor conditions, medical training. They
tend to come with a higher price tag, too.
I’ve paid $40 for room-service breakfast,
but when I saw that Shen Beauty, a beauty
store and salon in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn,
was offering $85 pedicures, I came down
with a case of sticker shock, then booked an
appointment. It was a pop-up for Dr. Krista
Archer, a podiatric surgeon whose office is
on the Upper East Side.
Dr. Archer is the only podiatrist I’ve ever
met, but I feel confident saying she’s the
hippest in the city, if not the planet. The day
of my appointment, she wore tiny diamonds
snaking up the multiple piercings in her
ears and casually mentioned being a super-
fan of Pearl Jam. If names are destiny, Dr.
Archer heeded the call: Her line of natural
foot products are simply called Arch.
What she offers is a medical pedicure,
performed by nail technicians she trains
and supervises who use sterilized and sin-
gle-use instruments. In practice, the pedi-
cure doesn’t seem all that different from the
typical upscale one: There’s cleaning the
feet, filing the nails, grooming the cuticles
and nail beds, moisturizing and massaging
and polishing. What you’re really paying
for, besides guaranteed sterility, is a kind of
Type A pedicure in its thorough and exact-
ing approach.
There was a glycolic peel, followed by a
soak with pink Himalayan sea salts and Dr.
Archer’s own Sole Savour Scrub that has
fine bits of pumice in it and a slightly herba-
ceous scent. After my heels and cuticles
were polished and pushed back, there was a
cream, a balm and an antifungal tea tree
nail oil.
I Fought ‘Dad Bod,’ and ‘Dad Bod’ Won
For many men, the dream
of the perfect body falls short
by five to 15 pounds.
By SRIDHAR PAPPU
Over avocado toast and coffee at Cafe Cluny
in the West Village, Michael Bailey held up
his iPhone to show an image of himself tak-
en 15 years ago, back when he was a fit mod-
el for a major clothing line. This was the
photo he recently posted on his Facebook
wall on his 52nd birthday.
“I named that photo ‘Target,’” said Mr.
Bailey, an interior designer for kitchens.
“Because it’s still my target. I know I will
never have that skin again, and I know that
I’ll never be as cut and ripped as I was in
that photo. But it’s a nice goal to have. A nice
visual to work toward.”
Mr. Bailey is dealing with something that
many men deal with — not obesity, exactly,
but being five to 15 pounds heavier than he
would like to be. In other words, he has the
slightly doughy look known as “dad bod.”
Although the term is not necessarily meant
as an insult, Mr. Bailey would like to leave
that look behind.
What frustrates Mr. Bailey, like others
with this affliction, is that he believes he is
so close to getting his body to where he
wants it to be. And yet he keeps falling
short.
In Mr. Bailey’s case, the need to drop from
his current weight, 190 pounds, to his ideal
weight, 178, has real consequences. As
someone with a prediabetic condition, he
knows the risk of not losing the weight. And
although he survived a bout with colon can-
cer, diagnosed in 2015, those extra pounds
have proved a tough foe indeed.
Mr. Bailey said his perhaps quixotic quest
may be complicated by the fact that he is
gay. Half the photos he showed me from the
social media accounts he follows featured
friends who look trim, if not cut. When Mr.
Bailey is around them, he knows he is being
judged, just as he once judged other people.
“Having a crazy-hot body is so important
in gay culture,” he said. “You go on Face-
book, especially in the summer, and every-
one is just posting shirtless photos. It’s a lit-
tle intimidating.
“Going to a gay beach is crazy intimidat-
ing,” he continued. “It’s always in my face.
One of the best things in the world for a gay
man is to go to a straight beach. I would
much rather stay at a gay beach, because I
like what I am looking at, but to be at a non-
gay beach, I feel like the hottest dude on the
planet.”
Speaking from almost 1,200 miles away, in
Minnesota, Casey Peterson, 34, said he had
never felt like the hottest man on the planet.
Not even close. As an athlete in high school,
he played football, basketball and baseball,
and even did his turn at wrestling. But still
he was stocky. When he applied for the
Peace Corps after college, he was initially
turned away because of his weight. His doc-
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‘The irritation has . . . more to do with knowing I
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‘I know that I’ll never be as cut and ripped as I was
in that photo.’ MICHAEL BAILEY
tor had to write a letter saying he was in fine
The feeling of being a shape.
“I would have to tell myself, ‘I’m not fat,’”
few pounds away from
Mr. Peterson said of his youthful build. “But
the ideal weight can be I would ask myself: ‘Why am I not more de-
summed up in one fined? Why do I just sort of look thick?’”
word: failure. He still has those questions, although he
bikes 12 miles to and from his home in St.
Paul to Minneapolis, where he works as a
social strategist at an advertising firm. He
also runs four to six miles at least three
times a week and puts himself through the
grueling Insanity workout as often as he
can. And while he enjoys the internal re-
wards, the external ones that people seek —
whether they will admit it or not — still
elude him.
“I can’t find pants,” said Mr. Peterson,
who, at 5 feet 11 inches and 200 pounds,
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANTONY HARE
‘I’ve actually had a French saleswoman say, “You
are enormous.”’ KIRK READ
would like to weigh 190. “My natural waist is
a 31, but I have to buy pants that actually fit
over my butt and my thighs. So then I am
always the guy in baggy pants.”
When Jamyn Edis, 41, was coming up as a
management consultant in London, he
watched his older colleagues’ stomachs
loom large over their Savile Row suits as
they smoked cigars in their offices. He told
himself he would never be one of those men
— and for the most part, he hasn’t been. He
has competed in three marathons and one
triathlon. But that led to foot and shoulder
surgeries and even a spinal fusion pro-
cedure. And then there’s the weight.
At 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, Mr. Edis, the
chief executive and a founder of the smart-
car start-up Dash, cuts an impressive figure
to other people. But when he takes off his
MY FEET
W ERE L A ST
THAT SOF T
AT BI RTH.
I ended the pedicure with a rose beige in
LeChat’s B-52, but it was almost an after-
thought given that my feet had probably
last been that soft at birth. It was an indul-
gence but one that I felt good about. I swore
I’d never let anyone else touch my feet
again.
It was a memorable pedicure, the best
I’ve ever had, but no matter how much you
spend, nails grow and polish chips. Two
weeks later, my feet were returning to their
usual hooflike appearance, and I don’t have
the kind of bank balance that could justify
pedicures that cost nearly three figures. So
I made an appointment at the NoMad loca-
tion of Sundays, a new nail studio that has
its own in-house line of nontoxic, vegan,
cruelty-free polishes.
SUNDAYS IS A STEP UP from the usual neigh-
borhood salon, but with comparable prices.
The vibe is Instagram chic, with cowhide
chairs, pillows with a Memphis-style print,
and the leafy plants that are so ubiquitous in
businesses catering to a certain millennial,
city-dwelling, female clientele. It’s also cas-
ually luxurious, with pedicures starting at
$45. I had to stop myself from showing too
much visible excitement when I was given a
whole bottle of green juice from Pressed
Juicery and puffed rice snacks. There are
no magazines to be found; instead, a single
copy of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidy-
ing Up” by Marie Kondo sat on a side table
as an invitation to get one’s life in order.
Self-improvement is big at Sundays. It of-
fers a guided meditation you can listen to on
headphones while technicians in blush pink
cardigans work on your nails. And they cer-
tainly know what they’re doing. Your feet
are thoroughly attended to: There’s a soak
with sea salt, a lot of attention to sloughing
off rough spots and repairing cuticles with
sterile tools, and a massage with a home-
made cream.
French language songs played faintly in
the background, and I listened to a woman
in a Chanel jacket tell her companion that
“orange is the one color that looks good on
everyone.” I didn’t test out her questionable
theory, instead opting for No. 14 polish, a
raspberry shade from the house line.
I then put my pedicure to the test, going
on a beach trip and walking through tide
pools. My polish didn’t budge. But when it
does, I can afford to keep going back.
black V-neck T-shirt, he can see the extra
pounds (he would like to be down to 185).
And he is not fine with it.
“The question is, what am I going to do
about it?” Mr. Edis said over lunch at Mar-
ket Table on Carmine Street.
As with others, Mr. Edis, who said he
weighed himself at most four times a year,
may not have much say in the outcome. The
extreme exercise he endured in his 20s and
30s has limited how far he can physically
push himself these days. In 2015, his doctor
told him to stop running.
“I think this is where the irritation has
less to do with 10 to 15 pounds and more to do
with knowing I am losing control of my
body,” Mr. Edis said, “through age, not con-
trol of choices that I can make anymore.”
Kirk Read, a 58-year-old professor of
French and Francophone studies at Bates
College in Lewiston, Me., summed up how
he felt about being five pounds away from
his ideal weight with one word: failure.
“In every other aspect of my life, I know
what to do,” Dr. Read said. “I follow my little
plan. I make a list. I check them off. People
are happy. And I move forward. This is one
where it’s just me and my will. And it’s em-
barrassing to me that, in this aspect of my
life, I don’t have control.”
Much of that has to do with what he de-
scribed as a “chubby” boyhood. Dr. Read,
who weighs 205 pounds, recoils at the mem-
ories of shirts-and-skins football games.
He said that in his teenage years, shop-
ping for jeans was traumatizing. After he
tried several options with no luck, his
mother decided the best solution was to buy
some denim and make a pair for him her-
self. When another boy at school realized
that his jeans were homemade, Dr. Read
was embarrassed.
In time, he stretched out to more than six
feet. But his work often takes him to Paris,
that city of fashion and cruelty.
“I’ve actually had a French saleswoman
say, ‘You are enormous,’” he said. “And you
say: ‘Thank you very much. Are you trying
to shun me out of the store?’ Over there, I’m
just surrounded by people who make me
feel like I don’t want to be the enormous guy
walking into the store.”
Dr. Read said he sees the role played by
his own vanity in all this. Unlike many aca-
demics, he likes to dress up. And he feels
better when he looks thinner and healthier.
Standing on the scale recently, he said he
asked himself: “What would it be like to
weigh 200 pounds, or even 199? How would
it feel?”
“I know men in my life who stride
through the world with confidence, even if
they have a little paunch,” he said. “You can
tell they’re not holding in their gut, which I
do most of the time. That’s a natural pose for
me.
“I assume they feel attractive and sexy,”
he continued. “They exude self-confidence.
That’s a place I would love to get to. Because
I’m not fat. I’m corpulent. In some ways,
that feels worse.”
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SCENE CITY

Betsey Johnson Gets a Cake With Her Style Icon Award

The A.C.E. Awards honored
the designer and the year’s
best in fashion accessories.
By TAYLOR HARRIS
Betsey Johnson took the stage at 9:30 p.m.
on Monday, ostensibly to accept the style
icon award from the Accessories Council, a
trade organization for the $54-billion-a-year
industry. But she had other plans.
“I’m not doing anything for my birthday
except I’m going to be in bed with my
boyfriend and have dinner with my family,”
said Ms. Johnson, who was dressed in a
black T-shirt and gold lamé miniskirt. “But I
would so love it if you all sang ‘Happy Birth-
day.’ That would make my 75th birthday.”
As the audience of 600 broke into song, a
hot pink birthday cake was rolled out and
Ms. Johnson did her trademark split.
It was midway through the annual Acces-
sories Council Excellence Awards ceremo-
ny at Cipriani 42nd Street, during which 13
honors were bestowed before an industry-
heavy crowd that included luminaries like
Eva Longoria, Victoria Justice and Grand-
master Flash.
“I’m on a sugar rush from the cake,”
Garance Doré, the French fashion photog- From top: Eva Longoria accepts the style PHOTOGRAPHS BY KRISTA SCHLUETER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
rapher, said before presenting the brand of ambassador award from Robert Verdi; Carol
the year award for footwear to Jessie Ran- Alt, left, and Brooke Shields, who presented
dall of Loeffler Randall. the sustainability award. Below, Grandmaster
She was followed by Brooke Shields, who Flash was honored as a style influencer.
presented the sustainability award to
Manny Chirico, the chairman of PVH Cor-
poration, the fashion conglomerate that
owns Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
“He’s my new crush,” Ms. Shields said.
“Tall, dark and handsome. I was told I could
say that.”
Other notable pairings included Joseph
Altuzarra and Barneys New York’s fashion
director Marina Larroudé, who presented Above, Fern Mallis, left, and Kendra Scott
Mr. Altuzarra with the designer of the year attended the A.C.E Awards ceremony, as did,
award, and Robert Verdi and Ms. Longoria, below, Jessie Randall, left, and Garance Doré,
who was given the style ambassador who presented Ms. Randall with the brand of
award. Katy Perry, who was supposed to the year award for footwear.
present the business visionary award to Ja-
son Rabin of Global Brands Group, pulled
out at the last minute.
Over the course of the three-hour dinner, the occasion. “Well, I’ve got a lot going on From top: Betsey Johnson
which included an arugula salad and here. It’s a marriage of a disco ball and tin- does a split over her birthday
branzino, attendees compared their sel,” said Ms. Penick, referring to her cake with Victoria Justice;
minaudières, necklaces and other shiny ac- sparkly jumpsuit by Temperley London and Marina Larroudé presents
cessories. Should anyone have felt under- velvet heels by Aquazzura. “I think that ac- Joseph Altuzarra with the
dressed, the bedazzled napkins rings, cour- cessories have the power to make an entire designer of the year award;
outfit and make a woman feel really good from left, Danielle Kosann,
tesy of Swarovski, could have doubled as
walking out the door.” Monica Rich Kosann and
makeshift bracelets.
Ms. Longoria would agree, though maybe Laura Kosann.
Darcy Penick, the chief executive of
Shopbop, who accepted the award for re- not exactly in the way the fashion trade
tailer of the year, went without jewelry for group might hope. “Wait,” she said onstage.
“Do Spanx count as an accessory?”

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stride the world like a colossus.
It is that very swashbuckling sensibility,
in fact, that Stefano Ricci himself relied on
to build his business.
Since 1972, this Falstaffian Florentine —
who hunts buffalo in Tanzania, keeps fal-
cons on his Tuscan country estate, and
wears a set of ivory cuff links presented to
him by a shaman in Africa — has charted
his own course, one that seems to cry out for
satellite navigation, given that, among its
54 stores worldwide, the company operates
boutiques in Yerevan, Armenia; Baku,
Azerbaijan; and Astana, Kazakhstan, in ad-
dition to those in the standard fashion capi-
tals like Milan and London.
That eastward expansion — a reversal, of
sorts, of the Silk Road that once led from
Asia to Italy — has been a company strat-
egy since it opened its first outpost in China
in 1993, when a Stefano Ricci tie cost about
four months’ salary of the average Chinese
worker, Stefano said.
“Everybody thought that I was crazy,” he
said. “They were not wrong.”
But he said the potential was obvious to
him when he walked the streets of Beijing
and Shanghai back then.
“I had the opportunity to see all these
young people that were just walking faster
than how I was used to seeing the people
walking,” Stefano said. “When I looked into
their eyes, I found an energy. I decided, my
God, these people are going to conquer the
world.”
As China’s cities grew into forests of
gleaming skyscrapers over the next quar-
ter-century, the company opened another 11
boutiques there, including the 22,000-
square-foot “mansion” in Shanghai that fea-
tures an upstairs private club available to
clients who spend more than $100,000 a
year, offering Cohiba cigars and white truf-
fle ravioli courtesy of Florentine chefs,
among other amenities.
Stefano also jumped in early on the Rus-
sian market, forging ties with its emergent
industrialist class in the 1990s and opening
a Moscow boutique in 2004. Seven years lat-
er, the company celebrated the opening of
its second Moscow boutique, a short stroll
from the Kremlin, with a lavish fashion
show for 5,000.
The interior of the Kremlin, in fact, al-
ready featured sumptuous silk curtains and
upholstery from the Antico Setificio
Fiorentino, an 18th-century silk factory pur-
chased by Stefano Ricci in 2009. It still uses
a warping machine designed by Leonardo
da Vinci and has become a popular stop for
vacationing plutocrats like Jeff Bezos. Last
year, the company presented a silk damask
casula made of fabric from this artisanal
workshop to Pope Francis on a visit to Flor-
ence.
The historic mill also supplies the compa-
ny’s Stefano Ricci Home division with ex-
quisite fabrics like Ermisino — a shimmer-
ing silk taffeta woven from different color
threads that has been a favorite of the aris-
tocracy since the Renaissance. Customers
use it to decorate the interiors of their
20,000-square-foot pleasure domes, as well
as their 230-foot yachts.
“How do you say, ‘maximize’?” said Fil-
ippo, explaining the company’s business in
yacht interiors. “What is the most luxurious
thing that you can buy for yourself? It’s the
mega-yacht. It’s more than a plane, more
than a car. You use it, what, two or three
weeks a year? And it can be $100 million. It’s
over-the-top luxury.”
The brand also specializes in the kind of
customer service meant to impress its al-
pha-male clientele.
One client, a “world leader” whom Fil-
ippo declined to name, as a matter of com-
pany policy, needed a new power suit a few
years ago for an important appearance at a
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There is no such cosseting at the Wreck-
ing Club. The bats and crowbars are solid
metal. A starter session costs $30 for 30
minutes with two or three electronic de-
vices and a bucket of dishes. A menu of add-
ons — advertised on a white board like daily
specials at a restaurant — includes boxes of
dishes ($20 for one box; two for $35); lap-
tops ($15); computer monitors ($20); cell-
phones ($5); and large-screen TVs ($25).
The most requested items are laptops, mon-
itors, printers and extra dishes. (Mr. Daly
estimates he runs through about 60 to 70
electronic devices each week.)
Finding these materials is one of his big-
gest challenges. Companies going out of
business are an irregular source. Some-
times people donate things, Mr. Daly said,
adding that everything smashed at the
Wrecking Club is properly recycled.
A year or so ago, Mr. Daly, 29, was bored
with his finance job in Stamford, Conn. He
quit before it was too late, he said, “to do
something really cool.” A cheerful, fresh-
faced guy wearing a backward black base-
ball cap, blue polo shirt and blue linen pants,
Mr. Daly has happy memories of demolish-
ing a swing set in his parents’ backyard, at
their request, after he and his siblings had
left home, and these sparked his imagina-
tion. “It was more fun than playing on the
swing set,” he said. “The memory stayed
with me and that’s what made me think
about breaking things.”
The vibe and aesthetic of the Wrecking
Club is part CBGB’s basement circa 1977,
part Stasi interrogation room. Each room is
clad in pocked cement and plywood for
maximum “smash effect,” as Mr. Daly put it.
Drywall, he pointed out, wouldn’t be hard
enough to break stuff against. Hanging on
an entry wall is a still photograph from the
cult turn-of-the-millennium movie “Office
Space”: the beloved printer-smashing
conference of the Group of 8 industrialized
countries. Stefano Ricci flew a tailor to the
G8 meeting, where he produced one in two
days.
Another client from East Asia used to
send a plane to Florence every month to
pick up 100 silk shirts at a cost of about
$1,000 apiece. “He only wears silk shirts,”
Filippo said. “But a month only has about 30
days; that’s three shirts a day.”
Even when client requests push the
boundaries of good taste, the company is
happy to satisfy them — up to a point.
One well-heeled Ukrainian client, for ex-
ample, asked the label to design a crocodile
trench coat with a mink collar in a custom
shade of lemon yellow to match his Harley-
Davidson. “We convinced him, and he got it
in black,” Filippo said.
With clients like these, it is little wonder
that the typical Stefano Ricci boutique looks
more like a genteel private club than a sell-
ing floor.
The two-story Park Avenue store in New
York, which opened in 2004, features gleam-
ing brown walnut paneling, travertine
floors and a staircase featuring banisters
lined with crocodile skin. There are also
$60,000 chairs — “thrones” is probably a
more apt term — upholstered in crocodile
for lounging clients. (Given the annual de-
mand of 20,000 crocodile skins, the com-
pany recently started its own crocodile
farm in Darwin, Australia.)
“There is a magic about the crocodile, be-
ing one of those very strong predators,” Fil-
ippo explained. “People are afraid but very
fascinated by them.”
While some may consider such design
flourishes overkill (of more than just
swamp-dwelling reptiles), this no-expense-
spared mentality is appropriate to a brand
whose custom suits start around $8,000 and
can quickly climb past $25,000.
In a sense, you get what you pay for. Ste-
fano still renders the designs by hand, in
pencil. “He doesn’t even have an iPhone,”
Filippo said. Many suits are made from lim-
ited-edition fabrics, “so there might be may-
be 10 suits around the world made of that
fabric,” Filippo added. Adding to the sense
of exclusivity, the company chooses to
shred thousands of unsold items each year
— shirts, jeans, even suits — rather than of-
fer them at reduced prices in sales.
And while other brands’ business suits
scene. The rooms have been lightly embel-
lished in black and orange spray paint by
Derrick Gutierrez, a graffiti artist who is
also Mr. Daly’s FedEx delivery guy. “He
tagged the place as if it were a bridge,” Mr.
Daly said admiringly. “I wanted it to have a
Brooklyn-in-the-1990s vibe. I think he
crushed it.”
There were some early setbacks, like the
time a couple destroyed Mr. Daly’s laptop.
He had left it in the room after showing the
two a safety video and did not think to tell
them it wasn’t part of their package. “All I
can say is, ‘Thank God for the Cloud,’” he
said, shaking his head. “I didn’t tell the
customers what they’d done, because I did-
n’t want them to feel bad.” But new
customers will see that some areas and ob-
jects in the rooms are now marked with an X
for “Please don’t smash.”
Mr. Daly is keeping the building’s location
a secret (after you sign up for a session on-
line, your confirmation email contains the
address): not to protect his landlords, but to
maintain the atmosphere of a speakeasy.
Close-toed shoes are required, and long
pants and long sleeves suggested.
Customers who are visibly drunk or stoned
will be turned away and their deposit for-
feited. Mr. Daly provides safety goggles,
hard hats, work gloves and black nylon
smocks.
He seemed surprised when this reporter
arrived alone. “It’s just more fun with two,”
he said. But inviting a new boyfriend to
what surely constitutes end-stage relation-
ship behavior did not appeal (I was not ea-
ger to fast-track into Martha and George
territory). And breaking crockery seemed
too intimate an activity to share with even
an old friend.
Indeed, there are two things that propel
people into the Wrecking Club, Mr. Daly
said. “One is to have some fun, and the other
is to work something out.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
for the straphanger-class executive are
typically made from relatively heavy, dura-
ble fabrics like Super 100-grade wool, Ste-
fano Ricci’s suits start at the finer, more deli-
cate Super 150, and go all the way to an ul-
trafine Super 240, woven from fibers one-
fifth the size of a human hair, creating a fab-
ric that is highly sensitive to humidity and
wear.
“They are beautiful to look at,” he said,
“but it’s like preserving a fine wine.”
It is interesting, then, that Stefano Ricci’s
most famous client, Nelson Mandela, es-
chewed such attire when attended a 1996
banquet in his honor at Buckingham Palace
with Queen Elizabeth II. The South African
president raised eyebrows by greeting the
queen in a look that might be described as
Stefano Ricci casino casual: a black
jacquard silk shirt and slacks. But as he lat-
er recounted to the Ricci family, Filippo
said, the queen told him, “You have a very
nice shirt.”
AS MUCH AS Milan has come to dominate the
Italian fashion landscape, locals consider
Florence a cradle of Italian fashion, and, in a
sense, of capitalism itself, thanks to ruling
families of the Renaissance like the Medicis.
Stefano Ricci the label would be unthink-
able without Florence as home, the patri-
arch said in a telephone interview last week
from the family’s 1,800-acre country estate,
I ordered a monitor, a large flat-screen
TV, a chair and a box of dishes. Mr. Daly said
that most customers play music, and I
looked to Dina Litovsky, the photographer
who had accompanied me to document the
proceedings, for assistance. “Metallica, ob-
viously,” she said, and cued up the thrash
anthem “Battery” on her phone.
In a corner were a metal bat and a long
crowbar. Dina and I were stymied by the
heat — the air-conditioning wasn’t working
— and our goggles kept fogging up as our
eyes stung with sweat. I picked up a bat, ap-
proached the TV, and, then, I am ashamed
to say, I hit the thing like a girl. Minor crack.
James Hetfield of Metallica barked and
howled: “Hungry violence seeker, feeding
off the weaker.” Really, it was embarrassing.
Clockwise from top, Filippo
Ricci, creative director and a
son of Stefano Ricci, in the New
York store; shirt jackets for
sale; a crocodile-skin bag
displayed with an eagle, a
symbol for the company.
The company chooses
to shred thousands of
unsold items each year
rather than put them
on sale.
DINA LITOVSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Penelope Green takes a metal
bat to a television at the
Wrecking Club in the garment
district. She found that it was
difficult to destroy.
Poggio ai Segugi, nestled in the Tuscan hills
north of Florence.
The label’s powerful clientele “is literally
connected to the city where I was born,” Ste-
fano said. “If you are in Florence, you get
used to excellence. You get used to the emo-
tion of the sculpture, of the paintings, the
detail of the roofs. I approach my job from
the only side that I was able to approach it. I
don’t know any other way.”
Stefano, whose family has family roots in
the apparel industry (his mother made silk
sleepwear for ladies), tends to dress the
part of the country squire, padding around
his refurbished 17th-century castle, outside
of which he keeps 22 hunting dogs and bags
wild boar, in earth-tone jackets and gentle-
manly hunting attire.
Given the brand’s easy relationship with
capitalism, it is no wonder the Ricci family
loves to joke about how the bearded patri-
arch is a dead ringer for Karl Marx.
Humor is hardly the only thing that binds
the Ricci family, which also includes Ste-
fano’s wife, Claudia, and the eldest son, Nic-
colo, 40, who serve as the company’s co-
chief executives. “Like all Italian families,
the boss is mama,” Filippo said.
The family races together, driving mu-
seum-quality automobiles like an Aston
Martin Le Mans from 1933, or a Jaguar
XK120 from 1952, in the Mille Miglia vintage
car race.
The family also hunts together, stalking
moose on horseback in the Canadian Rock-
ies, or the elusive Bongo, a species of ante-
lope, on journeys down the Congo River
with Pygmy guides. Donald Trump Jr.
tagged along on a family hunt in Namibia
some 15 years ago, Filippo said, although
back then, “he was just a developer’s son.”
Despite his endless world travels, for
both fun and business, Stefano hardly con-
siders the United States an afterthought.
This year, the company plans to open bou-
tiques in Miami and Las Vegas, bringing the
total in this country to five.
The Miami location, in the budding lux-
ury and art enclave of the Design District,
will feature a brighter, breezier interior de-
sign and an emphasis on sportswear, not
just suits, to cater to a younger clientele.
The same goes for the second Las Vegas
boutique, in Wynn Plaza, where the oppor-
tunities are considerable, Filippo said: “If
they win, they will spend money to cele-
brate. If they lose, they will spend money to
feel less depressed.”
As with any expansion, this one is not
without risks, particularly in a time of great
economic uncertainty, with wobbliness in
the luxury sector.
If nothing else, however, Stefano always
feels as if he can look to the skies for guid-
ance. Throughout his travels, he said, in the
Northwest Territories, the Yukon, the Alps,
South America, “I always had over my
head, an eagle flying,” he said. “And I was
always begging the eagle, help me to go
home safe.”
So maybe that’s the real meaning of the
eagle in his collection — the eagle as guard-
ian angel.
“Maybe I don’t deserve as much an an-
gel,” he said with a hearty smoker’s cough.
“But I appreciate the presence.”
I pined for something more jolly; Blondie’s
“Heart of Glass,” say, or that very satisfying
Carrie Underwood song in which she crows
about demolishing her cheating ex’s car
with a bat and a set of keys.
“Most people are hesitant at first,” Mr.
Daly said. “They’re a little timid. They say,
‘Can I break that?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, you can
break that.’ Usually after the first hit, they
go crazy.”
Here’s what I have to report: Hastening
an object toward entropy isn’t as easy as
you might think. Televisions are extremely
hard to destroy, even with a metal bat. Ap-
ple monitors are even more durable. Chairs
are impossible. And unlike David Bowie, I
don’t like the sound of breaking glass; it
makes my teeth hurt. And it’s scary as hell
when a mist of tiny shards sprays back at
you. The deep reservoir of rage I was hop-
ing to tap turned out to be a dry creek,
drained by time — who can remember the
hurts of yore? — and self-consciousness.
There would be no primal screaming on
West 38th Street that hot summer day. Two
people breaking things seems festive; a
solo smasher is just weird.
I found a bit of a rhythm, finally, with my
bat, and systematically worked my way
over the TV screen — pop, pop, pop — until
the floor sparkled with black glass. I stifled
an urge to ask for a dustpan and broom.
Mr. Daly has learned a thing or two about
human nature in the last few months.
“From my very humble and limited edu-
cation, I think that part of what’s going on
here is that breaking stuff gives people back
their edge,” he said. “It lets people take their
power back. Imagine getting fired. It sucks.
It’s defeating. Or you got dumped, or you
didn’t get into the college you wanted, or
imagine whatever it is that makes you feel
weak. This is a place where you can get back
your power.”