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Obama Policy F.B.I. FIRING ROILS

Survives Vote,
For a Change
With Republicans’ Aid,
Methane Limit Stays
By CORAL DAVENPORT
WASHINGTON — In a surpris-
ing victory for President Barack
Obama’s environmental legacy,
the Senate voted on Wednesday to
uphold an Obama-era climate
change regulation to control the
release of methane from oil and
gas wells on public land.
Senators voted 51 to 49 to block
consideration of a resolution to re-
peal the 2016 Interior Department
rule to curb emissions of methane,
a powerful planet-warming green-
house gas. Senators John McCain
of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina and Susan Collins
of Maine, all Republicans who
have expressed concern about cli-
mate change and backed legisla-
tion to tackle the issue, broke with
their party to join Democrats and
defeat the resolution.
The vote also was the first, and
probably the only, defeat of a
stream of resolutions over the last
four months — pursued through
the once-obscure Congressional
Review Act — to unwind regula-
tions approved late in the Obama
administration.
It also could worsen the Trump
administration’s problems on
Capitol Hill, where there are signs
the president’s grip on his party is
loosening.
“People of America and people
of the world can breathe a sigh of
relief,” said Senator Chuck Schu-
mer of New York, the Democratic
leader.
In anticipation of Republican
defections, President Trump sent
Vice President Mike Pence to the
Senate floor to break a tie vote.
But with three members of his
own party breaking away, Mr.
Pence could do nothing.
“We were surprised and thrilled
to win on this,” said Tiernan Sit-
tenfeld, senior vice president of
the League of Conservation
Voters, which, along with other
environmental groups, has been
lobbying Republicans for weeks to
vote against the repeal of the
methane rule. “This is clearly a
huge win for our health and our
climate.”
While Ms. Collins and Mr. Gra-
ham had publicly announced their
opposition to the measure, Mr.
McCain’s vote was a surprise.
Continued on Page A18
President Trump met with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, left, and Sergey I. Kislyak,
the ambassador. American journalists were barred, but Russia released photographs.
How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in Firing
This article is by Maggie Ha-
berman, Glenn Thrush, Michael S.
Schmidt and Peter Baker.
WASHINGTON — By the end,
neither of them thought much of
the other.
After President Trump accused
his predecessor in March of wire-
tapping him, James B. Comey, the
F.B.I. director, was flabbergasted.
The president, Mr. Comey told
associates, was “outside the realm
of normal,” even “crazy.”
For his part, Mr. Trump fumed
when Mr. Comey publicly dis-
missed the sensational wiretap-
ping claim. In the weeks that fol-
lowed, he grew angrier and began
talking about firing Mr. Comey. Af-
ter stewing last weekend while
watching Sunday talk shows at his
New Jersey golf resort, Mr. Trump
decided it was time. There was
“something wrong with” Mr.
Comey, he told aides.
The collision between president
and F.B.I. director that culminated
Watching Sunday Talk
Shows, the President
Decided to Act
with Mr. Comey’s stunning dis-
missal on Tuesday had been a long
time coming. To a president ob-
sessed with loyalty, Mr. Comey
was a rogue operator who could
not be trusted as the F.B.I. investi-
gated Russian ties to Mr. Trump’s
campaign. To a lawman obsessed
with independence, Mr. Trump
was the ultimate loose cannon,
making irresponsible claims on
Twitter and jeopardizing the bu-
reau’s credibility.
IN CONGRESS James Comey’s firing presents a distraction for G.O.P.
lawmakers struggling to deliver on a conservative agenda. PAGE A12
VOTERS’ REACTIONS Some people who voted for the president were
wary, but many supported the F.B.I. director’s ouster. PAGE A16
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY
The White House, in a series of
shifting and contradictory ac-
counts, first said Mr. Trump de-
cided to fire Mr. Comey because
the attorney general and his depu-
ty recommended it. By Wednes-
day, it had amended the timeline
to say that the president had ac-
tually been thinking about getting
rid of the F.B.I. director as far back
as November, after he won the
election, and then became
“strongly inclined” after Mr.
Comey testified before Congress
last week.
For public consumption, Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, a White
House spokeswoman, said on
Wednesday that Mr. Trump acted
because of the “atrocities” com-
Continued on Page A14
CAPITAL AS TRUMP
CALLS OUT CRITICS
Sense of Deepening In Last Days as Chief,
Crisis as President Comey Sought Aid
Defends Ouster in Russia Inquiry
This article is by Michael D.
Shear, Jennifer Steinhauer and
Matt Flegenheimer.
WASHINGTON — President
Trump’s abrupt dismissal of the
F.B.I. director roiled Washington
on Wednesday and deepened the
sense of crisis swirling around the
White House. Republican leaders
came to the president’s defense,
and Mr. Trump lashed out at
Democrats and other critics, call-
ing them hypocrites.
On Capitol Hill, at least a half-
dozen Republicans broke with
their leadership to express con-
cern or dismay about the firing of
James B. Comey, who was four
years into a decade-long appoint-
ment as the bureau’s director. Still,
they stopped well short of joining
Democrats’ call for a special pros-
ecutor to lead the continuing in-
vestigation of Russian contacts
with Mr. Trump’s aides.
At the White House, Mr. Trump
shrugged off accusations of presi-
dential interference in a counter-
intelligence investigation. He
hosted a surreal and awkwardly
timed meeting in the Oval Office
with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Rus-
sian foreign minister, and Sergey
I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassa-
dor to the United States. Mr.
Kislyak’s private meetings with
Mr. Trump’s aides are a key part of
the sprawling investigation.
White House officials denied
American reporters permission to
witness the Oval Office meeting or
take photographs, but Russian
state news outlets published im-
ages taken by their official pho-
tographer of a beaming Mr.
Trump shaking hands with the en-
voys. The pictures quickly spread
on Twitter.
Stunned by the sudden loss of
their leader, agents at the F.B.I.
struggled throughout the day to
absorb the meaning of Mr.
Comey’s dismissal, which the
White House announced Tuesday
evening. Veteran agents and
other F.B.I. employees described
a dark mood throughout the bu-
reau, where morale was already
Continued on Page A12
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
and MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON — Days before
he was fired as F.B.I. director,
James B. Comey asked the Justice
Department for more prosecutors
and other personnel to accelerate
the bureau’s investigation into
Russia’s interference in the presi-
dential election.
It was the first clear-cut evi-
dence that Mr. Comey believed
the bureau needed more re-
sources to handle a sprawling and
highly politicized counterintelli-
gence investigation.
His appeal, described on
Wednesday by four congressional
officials, was made to Rod J.
Rosenstein, the deputy attorney
general, whose memo was used to
justify Mr. Comey’s abrupt dis-
missal on Tuesday.
It is not yet known what became
of Mr. Comey’s request, or what
role — if any — it played in his fir-
ing. But the future of the F.B.I.’s in-
vestigation is now more uncertain
than at any point since it began in
late July, and any fallout from the
dismissal is unlikely to be con-
tained at the bureau.
Two separate congressional in-
quiries into Russian meddling are
relying on evidence and intelli-
gence being amassed by the F.B.I.,
and if the bureau’s investigation
falters, the congressional inquir-
ies are likely to be hobbled. Per-
haps for this reason, Mr. Comey’s
firing appears to have imbued the
Senate Intelligence Committee
with a renewed sense of urgency.
The committee issued its first
subpoena in the Russia investiga-
tion on Wednesday, ordering Mi-
chael T. Flynn, President Trump’s
former national security adviser,
to hand over records of any
emails, phone calls, meetings and
financial dealings with Russians.
It was an aggressive new tack
in what had been a slowly unfold-
ing inquiry. A day earlier, the Sen-
ate panel began pressing a little-
known government bureau that
tracks money laundering and ter-
rorism financing for leads in the
Continued on Page A13

Steel Industry Cheers a ‘Perfect Administration’ for a Comeback Fiscal Disaster in Puerto Rico
By PATRICIA COHEN
HUGER, S.C. — Safely sta-
tioned in the control pulpit, Chris
St. Amand is watching the pot boil.
Working the day shift at the
sprawling Nucor Steel plant along
the Cooper River here, Mr. St.
Amand monitors a four-foot-wide
lasagna noodle of steel as it is
dunked into a molten broth of pro-
tective shimmering zinc.
He tracks every step of this gal-
vanization process — from the cal-
dron’s 865-degree temperature to
the line speed — on a bank of
flashing screens. Except, that is,
for the screen at the bottom right.
“I watch our stock and the Dow
Jones on that one,” he said.
Mr. St. Amand, whose pay pack-
age includes profit-sharing, likes
what he sees. Since Election Day,
Nucor is up 13 percent.
Across the steel industry, stock
prices — and spirits — have been
on the rise, lifted by President
Trump’s vow to protect American
manufacturers against cheaper
imports and invest as much as $1
trillion in infrastructure over the
next decade.
“If you could design a perfect
administration from the perspec-
tive of the steel industry, this
would be it,” said Thomas Gibson,
president of the American Iron
and Steel Institute, ticking off the
Claims New Casualty: Schools
A bucket preparing to dump scrap metal into a furnace at the Nucor Steel plant in Huger, S.C.
president’s promises to hack
away regulations and lower taxes,
while fending off foreign competi-
tors and embarking on a “Buy
America” building program.
Even before a single presiden-
tial vote was cast, American steel
makers had been buoyed last year
by record automotive sales and a
series of penalties slapped on for-
eign producers like China for ille-
gally dumping subsidized steel in
the United States. “We expect our
sheet and plate steel mills will
benefit from trade actions taken
over the last year,” said John Fer-
riola, Nucor’s chief executive.
Mr. Ferriola, one of the business
STEPHEN B. MORTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
leaders who met with Mr. Trump
at the White House in February to
discuss American manufacturing,
is looking for further improve-
ments. “We believe our full year
2017 could significantly exceed the
level achieved for 2016,” he said,
Continued on Page A19
By FRANCES ROBLES
AGUAS BUENAS, P.R. — Na-
talia Hernández stood before
dawn with a bullhorn in her hand
in front of the mountainside ele-
mentary school that four genera-
tions of her family attended, rat-
tling off its academic accomplish-
ments.
More than half the pupils are on
the honor roll. There are tutors, a
social worker and even a speech
therapist, she said. But there has
been an exodus of families from ERIKA P. RODRIGUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Puerto Rico in the face of its eco- A first grader in Puerto Rico.
nomic collapse, so little Luis San-
taella School has a big problem:
The school will join the shut-
Only 146 children are enrolled
compared with about 250 in the tered businesses and abandoned
past. homes as yet another indicator of
And so, like 178 other schools the emergency gripping Puerto
across the island, it is set to close Rico and the desperate efforts to
after the last day of the school stop the hemorrhaging. For some,
term this week, in part to help the closings represent not just an-
Puerto Rico battle debt and pen- other chip at Puerto Rico’s na-
sion obligations of $123 billion. The tional budget, but also an opportu-
school, perched alongside a wind- nity to transform a struggling ed-
ing two-lane road 1,400 feet above ucation system in which some
sea level, will join the many casu- schools are infested with termites,
alties of a fiscal crisis that forced enrollment has dropped by nearly
Puerto Rico to declare a form of a third since 2010, and just 10 per-
bankruptcy last week and sent cent of eighth graders passed the
hundreds of thousands of people standardized math test.
packing in the past decade. Continued on Page A20

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NEW YORK A21-23
Anxiety Over ‘3-K for All’
The mayor’s plan to expand prekinder-
garten to 3-year-olds has some providers
worrying about staffing. PAGE A21
Crackdown on Migrant Taxi
New York State won penalties against a
taxi operator who overcharged for trips
to the border with Canada. PAGE A21
Deportation Saga, Part 2 Dispute Over Tribal Artifacts Jeter to Take His Place
A woman who became a symbol of the A seminary joining Yale Divinity School Derek Jeter, the former captain and
immigration debate after a 2010 traffic is accused of failing to follow a law to face of the Yankees, will have his num-
stop in Georgia is again at risk of being ensure the return of artifacts to Native ber retired on Sunday. PAGE B9
sent back to Mexico. PAGE A10 American tribes. PAGE C1
A Veteran Steps Up
Brain Defect May Start in Gut An Indie Label Lives On BUSINESS DAY B1-8 In the N.B.A. playoffs, the Spurs leaned
Researchers have traced the cause of a Six months after one of its founders on Manu Ginobili, 39, and he gave a
baffling brain disorder to a surprising died, the scrappy Norton Records will
An Outside-the-Box Success vintage performance. PAGE B9
source: a bacteria in the gut. PAGE A20 release a lost album by Dion. PAGE C1 Stitch Fix, a mail-order clothing service
that offers customers little choice, has EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25
defied conventional wisdom. PAGE B1
INTERNATIONAL A4-9 THURSDAY STYLES D1-12
Bret Stephens PAGE A25
Pro-Nazis in German Military Twins Peak on HGTV Bumpy Start for Snap
Authorities are scrambling to address How the Property Brothers, Drew and The social media service lost $2.2 billion
cases of racism and far-right extremism
in Germany’s armed forces. PAGE A4
Jonathan Scott, are capitalizing on a
fascination with real estate. PAGE D1
in the first quarter and missed almost
all Wall Street expectations. PAGE B1
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By STEPHEN HILTNER rawski’s machine” — Ms. Murawski is the
Two hours before news broke of James B. content editor for print — “and she showed
Comey’s firing — before the F.B.I. director me the actual letter from the president,
which I hadn’t seen yet.” FACEBOOK LIVE
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Trump’s letter arrived at F.B.I. headquar- not least of all because of the second para- Mirrors,” is in its final week at the
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Democrats led a renewed push for an inde- over the F.B.I.’s inquiries into Russia. ing thousands of visitors. Join us
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New York Times began its diurnal life as it tell the story in a way that was much more May 14. Thursday at 6:15 p.m. E.T.
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At 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when Tom Bod- emerged a page that was dominated by Mr.
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firing at 5:41 p.m. (By luck, a Times corre- dates to the days of Allan M. Siegal, a for-
spondent was at the White House at the mer assistant managing editor who is much
time, and he heard of Mr. Comey’s firing revered in the newsroom.
directly from Sean Spicer, the White House “Al always used a green pen when he was
press secretary.) Seven minutes later, at marking up copy, so that people would
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Wednesday concerned President Trump’s unceremonious
dismissal of Mr. Comey. Readers learned of the firing at more
or less the same time Mr. Comey did — he was delivering
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news on television.
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one of the gunshot victims, what’s going through your
head? How are you connecting with that person?

3. How a 23-Year-Old With Mild Anxiety and a Charmed Life Dr. Selwyn Rogers, Jr. It often saddens me that the
Became the Lying, Sobbing, Lovesick Toast of Broadway victims I’m standing over look like me, or look like one
Audiences swooned over Ben Platt, the wunderkind and star of of my three sons. I often think, could this next person
the Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen.” Joel Lovell’s profile be my son? That actually propels me to action; it
of Mr. Platt (look for it on Sunday) testified to the actor’s well- doesn’t paralyze me.
honed craft and rising reputation with his peers.

But it makes me really concerned about the set of

structural factors that put some people, who are
mostly people of color, at risk to be in situations where
they are more likely to be injured by gun violence or
any form of intentional violence.

Marc Lacey You were telling me how surprised

you were by the proximity of prosperity to poverty
in this city.

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Dr. Selwyn Rogers, Jr. Eighty-five years of age is the

4. How Homeownership Became the Engine average life expectancy of a resident in the Loop.
Of American Inequality Sixty-nine years of age is the life expectancy in
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of Washington Park. Eight miles, seven stops on the El,
the nation’s racial wealth gap,” writes Matthew Desmond. His separates those two geographies. What drives that?
article, to run in The Times Magazine this Sunday, explains that It’s profound. We have opportunities to do much 'LRUDPDEDJLQEODFNODPEVNLQZLWKVWXGGHGDUFKLFDQQDJH
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BY JOEL FAGLIANO HOW TO CHOOSE A CHILD’S FIRST SMARTPHONE

1 2 3 4 WHEN IT COMES to parental supervision,

which mobile platform is best for a child’s
first smartphone — Android or iOS? J. D.
5
Biersdorfer, the Tech Tip columnist, gives
the rundown:
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When choosing a smartphone for your
child, factor in the amount of parental
7 control you want to have over the device,
and the types of phones already used by
8
other family members. Cost and flexibility
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used for — and how to behave with it. to keep children from running up the
1 It’s faced during the Google’s Android system has looser credit card bill with unsupervised in-app
Pledge of Allegiance control over what app developers can do, purchases.
5 Second-largest city in Africa, but there are a greater number of versatile Both Android and iOS include built-in
with roughly 20 million people third-party parental control apps available. device tracking for locating the phone.
6 Item often dropped on In comparison, Apple generally keeps a For many parents, buying that first
Wile E. Coyote tighter grip over its iOS system and the phone for a child is the easy part, but there
7 Knight’s horse apps that run on it. are plenty of resources online for dealing
8 Units of corn Google includes parental controls for its with the social and safety aspects of
Google Play Store. Apple’s restrictions smartphone ownership. For example, the
DOWN settings for iOS not only block access to Common Sense Media site has a “Cell
1 Orange soda brand the App Store (and certain types of con- Phone Parenting” section with a collection
2 “What am I, chopped ____?” tent), but also control built-in apps, fea- of articles to help parents manage their
3 Zodiac sign tures and settings on the iPhone. In a children’s smartphones.
4 Treasure chest contents phone-to-phone comparison late last year,
5 iPhone protector For more tech advice,
the Tech Fix column found iOS superior to
visit nytimes.com/personaltech.
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Tank soldiers at a training area in Grafenwöhr, Germany. Starting in July, every applicant for the military will undergo a security check aimed at weeding out potential extremists.
The German Armed Forces Confront a Rise in Pro-Nazi Recruits
By MELISSA EDDY
BERLIN — It started with an investi-
gation into a suspected terrorist plot by
an army soldier aimed at top govern-
ment officials. But it quickly uncovered a
larger problem.
Military police officers searching
through barracks turned up Nazi-era
military memorabilia that revealed a
much broader presence of far-right ex-
tremists in the German Army’s ranks,
something commanders are now ac-
cused of having long ignored.
They are investigating 275 cases in-
volving accusations of racism or far-
right extremism stretching back six
years, according to the Defense Ministry.
The number represents a small minority
in a force of nearly 180,000. But nearly 70
percent of cases have emerged in the last
year and a half, pointing to an accelerat-
ing problem that the German military
authorities are only now scrambling to
address.
“In the past, individual cases were al-
ways examined, but it wasn’t seen or un-
derstood that these cases are not iso-
lated, but there are networks and con-
nections, also to extremists on the out-
side of the armed forces,” said Christine
Buchholz, a member of Parliament from
the opposition Left party.
“Now it is glaringly obvious to every-
one that this problem has existed for a
long time and poses an immediate threat
to people,” she added.
The revelations, in the middle of an
election year, have set off sniping be-
tween the civilian and military authori-
ties bordering on scandal. They have
also added a disturbing new dimension
to Germany’s effort to address a surge of
extremist activity since the country took
in nearly one million refugees in 2015.
With Europe facing a host of chal-
lenges — including populism and the
propaganda machine of President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — the investi-
gation has revived questions about
whether Germany can step beyond the
shadow of its Nazi past and become a
“normal” country, one that assumes a
A Berlin Hostel Runs Afoul
Of Penalties on North Korea
By ALISON SMALE
BERLIN — The City Hostel Berlin op-
erates out of a large, anonymous building
in what was Communist East Berlin, but
it’s a short walk from Checkpoint Charlie
and other attractions and has become a
popular place to stay, with good ratings
on TripAdvisor and Yelp.
The only tip-off that this hostel differs
from others in a city long a magnet for
the world’s youth is the dreary embassy
next door, where North Korea’s flag flaps
from a pole near a poorly tended garden
and that country’s ruling family, the
Kims, is enshrined in a photo display on a
gray metal fence.
The hostel, a former diplomatic quar-
ters, has been earning the Kim govern-
ment tens of thousands of euros a month
over the past decade, but it will soon be
closed to comply with the latest United
Nations sanctions imposed over North
Korea’s nuclear tests.
The German government confirmed
Wednesday that it was acting “as swiftly
as possible” to cut off the currency flow
after German news outlets reported that
North Korea was charging an unnamed
MICHAEL KAPPELER/DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR, VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen of Germany, at a news conference on
Wednesday, vowed to review and make changes to disciplinary structures.
fuller leadership role on the Continent,
including a military one.
In particular, the widening scandal has
revived concerns about Germany’s shift
to a volunteer force, which began in 2011.
That step, some have warned, could nar-
row the ranks to youths susceptible to
Nazi nostalgia, or to other extremists
looking for free training and access to
guns and ammunition in a country with
strict weapons laws.
Starting in July, all applicants seeking
to join the military will have to undergo
security checks aimed at weeding out po-
tential extremists. But that raises ques-
tions about how to handle those cur-
rently serving, at a time when the mili-
tary is struggling to attract recruits.
Last week, the inspector general or-
dered a search of all military installa-
tions for displays of souvenirs or images
glorifying the Nazi-era military, the
Wehrmacht.
Michael Wolffsohn, a professor of
modern history at the University of the
German businessman €38,000 a month
(about $41,000) to operate the hostel.
Some years after the fall of the Iron
Curtain, North Korea, in a classic capital-
ist maneuver, leased the building, which
had been the home of dozens of its di-
plomats. Its prime location in the center
of Berlin made it popular with backpack-
ers and students on field trips.
Martin Schäfer, a spokesman for Ger-
many’s Foreign Ministry, said the hostel
would be closed in compliance with
stiffer sanctions passed in November by
the United Nations that specifically ban
any commercial dealings with North Ko-
rean embassies or on their property. The
German authorities are acting as fast as
they can within German law, Mr. Schäfer
added.
Philipp Lengsfeld, a Berlin deputy for
the center-right Christian Democrats in
Parliament, said the North Korean con-
nection “was an open secret — every
cabdriver knew that.”
The unusual rental arrangement be-
gan in the 2000s, according to various
German news outlets. Mr. Lengsfeld,
who visited North and South Korea with
German Armed Forces in Munich, said
the decision to scrap the draft had driven
the military from the center of society.
“As soon as society in general retreats
from the armed forces, it opens the way
and the place for fringe groups on one
hand, and highly motivated idealists on
the other,” Mr. Wolffsohn said.
“We have to ask ourselves if we can af-
ford to leave the way open for extremists,
not only right-wingers, but also Islamic
and maybe even left-wing extremists.”
After World War II, the reconstituted
German Army was formed in 1955 in the
former West Germany as a conscription
force, with the aim of ensuring peace by
defending the national borders.
Since its founding, the military has in-
stituted measures to distance itself from,
and stigmatize, its Nazi-era antecedent.
Since 1982, a 30-point decree has stipu-
lated which traditions and norms guide
the forces, and which do not.
Yet many barracks were built in the
1930s. A few, like the Rommel Barracks in
a German parliamentary delegation in
2015, declined in a brief telephone inter-
view to say whether the government of
Chancellor Angela Merkel should have
acted sooner to end it.
North Korea has relatively few embas-
sies in Europe, and many of them are
holdovers from Communist times. Its
Berlin mission stands on Glinkastrasse,
once a central thoroughfare in the gov-
ernment district of East Berlin. A mid-
CHRISTOF STACHE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
the western city of Lippe, still bear the
names of Hitler’s generals.
The shadow of that past informs much
of what the armed forces can and cannot
do. The Constitution limits them from
taking part in any conflict, with the ex-
ception of missions led by allies. Only in
1994 did the constitutional court issue a
ruling allowing the military to take part
in armed missions led by either NATO or
the United Nations.
The investigation stemming from the
terrorism case came as military officials
released a report detailing episodes of
some soldiers’ extremist sympathies.
One soldier attached a Nazi-era war
flag to the hood of his car and drove past
a refugee shelter, while drawing his hand
across his throat. Another posted a photo
of two soldiers in SS uniforms to a chat
group. A handful of others were reported
to have shouted “Sieg heil” and “Heil
Hitler.”
The episodes are among several dozen
displays of far-right extremism, xeno-
phobia or anti-Semitism that military of-
ficials investigated last year at the re-
quest of the Left party, which has long in-
sisted that far-right sympathies in the
military were part of a wider societal
problem.
The soldier who drove past the shelter
was discharged before he had completed
his service, but a soldier who gave a Nazi
salute was only reprimanded, leading to
criticism that the armed forces were not
taking the threat of extremism seriously
enough.
Last week, the defense minister, Ursu-
la von der Leyen, rankled many soldiers
when she said, “The German military
has an attitude problem, and it appears
there are weaknesses in the leadership
we must address systematically.”
But she has also come under fire for
failing to address the very problems that
she was pointing out. Members of the
parliamentary opposition have ques-
tioned her connection to the troops she
oversees and demanded an apology.
Ms. von der Leyen has since retreated
from her statement, saying the majority
of soldiers do an “outstanding job,” and
FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS
dle-aged woman emerged after a report-
er rang the bell during office hours. In
halting English, she said diplomats in au-
thority were not around.
In the hostel, the young German
employees were also reticent, referring
reporters to the hostel’s website, which
promises “cheap accommodation in the
city center,” and even covering their
name badges.
The rooms range from singles and
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared
her “full support” for the minister.
The suspect in the terrorism case was
arrested on April 27 after posing, im-
probably, as a Syrian refugee. He has
been identified only as Franco A. in keep-
ing with German privacy laws.
The day before his arrest, Ms. von der
Leyen fired the military’s head of train-
ing after reports about hazing rituals and
charges of sexual harassment from fe-
male recruits at several bases.
Last week, Ms. von der Leyen sum-
moned 100 generals to Berlin for talks
that resulted in a call to examine disci-
plinary measures and the hiring of an
outside investigator.
On Wednesday, she testified about the
affair before the defense committee in
Parliament, vowing a thorough review
and changes to disciplinary structures
and how problems should be reported.
An initial investigation by the Defense
Ministry found that Franco A.’s extreme-
right sentiments had been known for
years. As early as 2014, a master’s thesis
he submitted at a French military acad-
emy where he studied drew the attention
of his superiors for its nationalist, racist
language.
Yet even after a review by the German
authorities, who noted the “drastically
extremist language” in his thesis, no dis-
ciplinary action was taken.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors said
they had arrested a second soldier, iden-
tified as Maximilian T., whom they sus-
pect of plotting the attack with Franco A.
They also said that the plot was aimed at
prominent politicians, including former
President Joachim Gauck, whom the
suspects had derided as engaging in
“failed” policies toward refugees.
Prosecutors said that the two soldiers,
and a third suspect identified as a stu-
dent from the western city of Offenbach
who was also arrested last month, had in-
tended “to contribute to the general
sense of a threat” by staging a terrorist
attack that would appear to have been
carried out by a registered asylum
seeker.
City Hostel Berlin is known for its
low prices. Not so well known is its
pedigree as a property of North Ko-
rea. Germany is closing it to comply
with United Nations sanctions.
doubles to bunks for four or eight guests
in a room, according to the hostel’s web-
site. Prices are listed as low as €17 a bed
(about $18.50), rising to €59 (about $64)
for a single room. A man answering the
telephone at the hostel said it was
booked on Wednesday and most coming
days.
Guests came and went at lunchtime on
Wednesday. Three teenagers on a school
trip from Pforzheim in southwestern
Germany were smoking in the court-
yard, unaware of the North Korean con-
nection. They, like other guests, did not
seem perturbed when told about it.
The lively reception area boasts a ter-
race with a beer garden, an electronic
baby grand piano and vivid signs, all of
which enlivens the distinctive unifor-
mity of East German architecture.
But a mural on the back wall might up-
set the landlords back in Pyongyang,
where rigid Marxism still reigns. In car-
toon style, it depicts a slice of Berlin’s
Cold War history. Jagged fragments of a
structure litter the picture while a quiet
sign off to the left announces: “Construc-
tion of the Wall, 1961. Wall falls, 1989.”
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In Visit to Baltics, Mattis

Affirms Pledge to NATO
Concern Grows Over Russian Cyberattacks
By GARDINER HARRIS had “fulfilled their obligations to
PABRADE, Lithuania — If a us.”
shooting war ever breaks out be- Standing with President Dalia
tween Russia and the NATO alli- Grybauskaite of Lithuania at the
ance, it could well be in a place like presidential palace on Wednes-
Pabrade, a little town near the day, Mr. Mattis said, “Have no
edge of a little nation. But a differ- doubt that we stand with you
ent sort of conflict, waged with united in a common cause.”
bytes rather than bullets, is al- Ms. Grybauskaite described
ready being fought here. Mr. Mattis as “a good friend of
Jim Mattis, the American secre- Lithuania,” saying that “he under-
tary of defense, visited this stands the threats facing us” and
Lithuanian town on Wednesday to that “we can trust him.”
see how NATO is faring in that During his Senate confirmation
fight, and his guide was a German hearings, Mr. Mattis described the
officer who has been a target in NATO alliance as essential. But he
that war, falsely accused of being a has also said since then that the
rapist and a Russian spy. amount of American support for
the alliance could depend on
“What’s the spirit of your
whether other member countries
troops?” Mr. Mattis asked, walk-
meet their commitments on mili-
ing past camouflaged tanks as sol-
tary spending. In that regard, the
diers with green-painted faces
Baltic nations “rightly stand as an
stood at attention. example for all NATO allies,” Mr.
He was assured by his guide, Lt. Mattis said, because they have
Col. Christoph Huber, commander
of the German battalion that re-
cently took up station here, that
Lithuania seeks a
OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER
morale could not be higher.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, arriving at a Revolutionary Guards Corps graduation in Tehran on Wednesday. Colonel Huber and his soldiers
have been the subjects of two re- permanent U.S.
cent cyberattacks: false claims of
Vowing a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Election Disrupters wrongdoing that officials believe
were put in circulation by an in-
creasingly aggressive Russian in-
military presence and
Patriot missiles.
By THOMAS ERDBRINK of strictly vetted candidates. controlled. Street rallies are not leaders of what was known as the telligence operation that is meant
TEHRAN — Iran’s highest But the candidates still provide allowed. Instead, the candidates Green Revolution, Iran’s estab- to sow doubts and resentment of
leader said on Wednesday that significant choices compared with speak to their followers in stadi- lishment concluded that the entire NATO’s growing presence in the rapidly expanded their military
any disrupters of national elec- elections in many other Middle ums and halls. episode had been plotted by for- Baltics. budgets.
tions, which are less than two Eastern countries. Ayatollah Khamenei used the eigners. The first attack came on Feb. 14. The actions of President
weeks away, would receive a “slap The incumbent president, Has- speech on Wednesday to reinforce “An evil American and rich Zi- Emails sent to the president of the Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in
in the face,” underscoring the po- san Rouhani, promotes economic his determination that anyone onist said that he managed to turn Lithuanian Parliament and vari- Ukraine and elsewhere have left
litical tensions lurking behind the and social freedoms. His main op- “wanting to take any measure everything upside down in Geor- ous local news media outlets false- the Baltic nations deeply uneasy,
vote. against the country’s security in gia with $10 million,” Ayatollah ly claimed that German soldiers prompting them to call on NATO
The warning came in a widely the election will certainly receive Khamenei said, referring to Mr. had raped a girl. The story rippled to fortify its defenses against a
publicized speech by the leader, a hard reaction and slap in the Soros and his alleged role in the through the country before the po- possible Russian invasion. The al-
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to gradu- Remarks by Iran’s face.” 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia. lice determined that it was untrue. liance responded by stationing
ating cadets of the Islamic Revolu- A few weeks later, another se-
tionary Guards Corps, the power- highest leader reflect In accounts of the speech re-
ported by the Tasnim News
“In 2009, he was foolish enough
to try to affect the Islamic repub- ries of emails circulated with what
four additional battalions in the
region, one in each of the three
ful paramilitary force, in which he
emphasized that security was the
political tensions as Agency and other Iranian news lic, but he slammed against a seemed to be photos of Colonel
Huber among a group of Russian
Baltic nations and one in Poland.
outlets, including Ayatollah Kha- strong wall of national will and de- A parade of prominent Ameri-
most important issue in the May
19 election, when Iranians will
voting approaches. menei’s own website, he also ac- termination,” Ayatollah Khame- partisans. The photos were faked. cans, including Senator John Mc-
cused George Soros, the multi- nei said. “It is the same today.” Then, in early April, came a Cain, Republican of Arizona, have
choose a new president and city phony story about a supposed
billionaire Hungarian-American Mr. Soros’s representatives did visited the Baltics in recent
and village councils. chemical assault on American
investor, of having tried to influ- not immediately respond to an months to offer reassurances, but
Ever since unprecedented anti- ponent, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of troops in nearby Estonia, which
ence the elections of 2009. emailed request for comment. Mr. Mattis’s visit was the most ea-
government protests after the dis- the country’s wealthiest religious appeared mysteriously on a popu-
That year, millions of Iranians Ayatollah Khamenei is not the gerly awaited.
puted 2009 presidential vote, elec- foundation, opposes many such lar Lithuanian news site.
tions have become delicate mo- took to the streets in protest, an- only leader who has accused Mr. “It’s a historic visit,” said Mr.
ideas and wants Iran to become How did it feel to be the target of
ments in Iran. more self-sufficient. gered by what demonstrators said Soros of interference. Right-wing Karoblis, the defense minister.
these attacks? Colonel Huber He and other Lithuanian offi-
The political atmosphere before Televised debates this year was fraud in the suspiciously lop- groups in the United States have
shrugged. cials said they were hoping for a
this year’s election seems rela- have been held with new restric- sided re-election of the incum- also spoken out against him. In
“We don’t know for sure who promise from Mr. Mattis for a per-
tively free and open on the sur- tions, in contrast to the live de- bent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. April, Hungary’s government
was behind it,” he said, bundled up manent American military pres-
face, in part to ensure that many bates in 2009 that helped polarize After a crackdown, a series of sought to close a university
against an unseasonable spring ence and a Patriot missile battery
Iranians turn out to vote for a set the country. Campaigning is also mass trials and the house arrest of founded by Mr. Soros.
snowfall that was blanketing the to bolster the country’s air and an-
country. “But we take everything timissile defenses.
in the information environment The alliance is expected to con-
quite seriously.”
A City Fears the Worst as the Taliban Close In Again Darius Jauniskis, director gen-
eral of Lithuania’s intelligence
duct a large air defense exercise in
Lithuania in July, and Pentagon
officials have said that a Patriot
agency, said that part of the coun- battery could be moved into the
By NAJIM RAHIM try’s response to the incidents had region as part of that exercise, but
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — The residents been to openly discuss Russia’s ef- that the deployment may be tem-
of this northern Afghan city have been dis- forts to undermine the NATO mis- porary.
placed twice by Taliban assaults in just a sion in the country. Mr. Mattis was asked by a re-
little over a year, each time returning to “We cannot remain silent and porter about the Patriot missiles,
damaged homes and clinging to the hope that say everything’s all right,” Mr. but said only that “the specific
their lives wouldn’t be disrupted again. Jauniskis said in an interview in a systems that we bring are those
Now they fear that a third invasion is windowless conference room in that we determine are necessary,”
coming. his agency’s headquarters in Vil- and that decisions would be made
The Taliban still control about 85 percent nius, the capital. “We need to talk in consultation with the
of the province’s territory, according to pro- about that, so that the people and Lithuanian government. Presi-
vincial security officials. Last week, the leaders know the threats are real.” dent Grybauskaite made clear
insurgents captured the district of Qala-e-Zal. Mr. Jauniskis and other Baltic that Lithuanians would welcome
There is fighting outside the city of Kunduz’s such a deployment. “We need all
eastern gates, so close that the sound of necessary means for defense and
gunfire can be heard inside the city all night. for deterrence,” she said.
The fighting this year so far has already Years of warnings to The Russians have been
displaced more than 88,000 people across strengthening their own forces in
Afghanistan, according to the United Na- PHOTOGRAPHS BY NAJIM RAHIM/THE NEW YORK TIMES the West about the region, and recently deployed
Sayed Karim Khadija Nabiyar
tions, with roughly 40 percent of that in the
north and northeast where Kunduz is. Offi-
menacing activity nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic
missiles to Kaliningrad, a de-
cials in Kunduz say about 4,000 families have from Russia. tached wedge of Russian territory
been displaced in the province in the past between Lithuania and Poland.
three weeks of fighting alone. Russian air and naval forces
have aggressively patrolled the
SAYED KARIM, 37, sells vegetables. leaders have been warning their region in recent months, further
The first time Kunduz fell, it was early in the counterparts in the West for sev- rattling nerves. For some in the
morning and we heard shots. When we woke eral years about the growing men- Baltics, Russia’s annexation of
up, the Taliban were here. The roads were ace they saw from Russia. Their Crimea and its military interven-
still open, so we went to Takhar Province. warnings were often dismissed as tion in eastern Ukraine confirmed
There are eight of us — myself, my wife, my alarmist. But after the apparent fears that Mr. Putin wants to re-es-
five children and my mother. We stayed at a Russian efforts to influence elec- tablish Russian dominance in the
camp there for 10 days. It was cold, the chil- tions in the United States, France Baltics; the online and propagan-
dren got sick. Then we moved to Khanabad and elsewhere, no one needs con- da efforts that preceded those
district for five days, before returning home vincing any more. Russian moves are seen as fur-
to Kunduz City. Our house was looted by the “We can’t be glad that we were ther proof.
city’s addicts. ... right all along,” said Raimundas The nightmare that keeps offi-
Karoblis, the Lithuanian defense cials up at night in the Baltics is
During the second fall of Kunduz, my
minister. “It’s not always comfort- that Russia manages to disguise
family was visiting relatives in Takhar. I was
able to remind people we’ve been an invasion with a barrage of
alone at home with one of my children. The
Mohammed Popalzai, left Farzana Sadat telling them about the Russians cyberattacks and fake news.
rockets were scaring my son, so we left again
for years.” “Other countries now see Rus-
to Khanabad and my family came there, too.
Part of Mr. Mattis’s reason for sia’s cyberattacks as a problem,
The situation now is not good. We have with health and food problems at a camp. The city might fall again. At night, I wake
visiting the Baltic region was to and that’s good,” said Eitvydas
no expectations of this government. On nor- One of my brothers stayed in Kunduz to up several times to listen to what is happen-
reassure allies who were rattled Bajarunas, a Lithuanian diplomat
mal days, I could work and make about $70 guard the house. When we returned after 16 ing. Believe me, when I wake up for dawn
when President Trump said the who coordinates the govern-
— these days, I can’t even make $20. People days, those people who had abandoned their prayer and leave for the mosque, I leave with
NATO alliance was “obsolete” and ment’s responses to what it calls
are afraid. Last year, they were stuck, hun- homes found them damaged. a lot of concern — it could be the Taliban
suggested that the United States “hybrid” threats. “But it’s an ex-
gry, there was no food in the city. I was in The situation in Kunduz is critical again. outside.
might protect only countries that istential threat for the Baltics.”
Khanabad and people from the city would When the Taliban have enough force to con- FARZANA SADAT, 26, works at the provincial
call and ask me to send them food. People trol four districts, they obviously have directorate of women’s affairs.
don’t want to be stuck again. enough men and equipment. Officials are
There is fighting in Charkh, in the east of We have kept a temporary rental house in
saying we will not let the city fall, but the
the city. This morning my family was scared, Kabul, out of fear that Kunduz might fall
people are living in fear. Many people have again. My mother and younger brothers
so they called me to say there was fighting. taken their loved ones out of the city. We hear
But this time we just don’t have the patience went back to Kabul. I stayed, with my father
the sound of fighting on the outskirts of the and some siblings, because I work for the
to move again — or the money. If the govern- city every night. government — I can’t take leave all the time.
ment can’t do it, they should leave it to the
PIR MOHAMMED POPALZAI, 61, has been Believe me, I have no sleep at night.
people. The people will figure out a way to
a school headmaster for 33 years. During the day, you don’t hear much fighting.
protect the city. What kind of government is
But when it is silent at night, you hear all
this? We were displaced twice in the recent fight- these sounds — rockets and explosions and
ing. The first time the Taliban took over the small weapons. When we heard all the sound,
KHADIJA NABIYAR, 25, is a civil society
city, we moved houses just down the road — we almost decided to leave but then we said
activist and university instructor.
because close to us was a security depart- let’s just submit to God’s will.
The second time Kunduz fell, we went to the ment and the Taliban said that was their Our fear increased in recent days be-
city of Mazar-i-Sharif on the sixth day of target. There was also a tall building just cause the government dismissed the univer-
fighting. We were lucky to be able to rent a across from our house, so we thought the sity — that is not a good sign, that increases
house there — those who couldn’t were living Taliban might take over that and fight from our concerns. The government is basically
there. Then the fighting continued, and we showing its weakness, saying, “I can’t defend MINDAUGAS KULBIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed contributed re- were forced to leave there, too — first to you against them.” And when the govern- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis with NATO troops in Lithuania,
porting from Kabul, Afghanistan. Sayedabad, then to Kabul. ... ment shows weakness, I get scared. where there is fear that Russia will try to re-establish dominance.

MEMO FROM TURKEY
Arming Syrian Kurds
Could Come at a Cost
By ANNE BARNARD
and PATRICK KINGSLEY
ISTANBUL — President Re-
cep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey
lost his first major political battle
with the Trump administration,
which is arming the Syrian
Kurds who the Turks consider
enemies. The question now is
what Mr. Erdogan, a headstrong
leader, will do next.
The White House made the
move to arm the Kurdish fight-
ers, despite vociferous objections
from Turkey, because it considers
them an effective military proxy
in the fight against the Islamic
State.
But doing so comes at a cost.
Angering Turkey risks a rupture
with an important NATO ally
that is being courted by Russia,
and could have an unpredictable
impact on the battle against the
Islamic State and the wars in
Syria and Iraq.
Mr. Erdogan and his aides
have warned for months about
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The decision could have far-
reaching effects on the region.
taking more aggressive, though
unspecified, actions against
Kurdish militants — though in a
different stronghold, Iraq. And
analysts say such a plan would
make some strategic sense.
On Wednesday, Mr. Erdogan’s
prime minister, Binali Yildirim,
added another warning: that
arming the Kurds could have
“consequences” for the United
States and a “negative result.”
He did not go into detail, promis-
ing only that Mr. Erdogan would
elaborate when he meets Presi-
dent Trump at the White House
next week.
Mr. Erdogan also sharply
criticized the Trump administra-
tion’s decision in remarks quoted
by Turkish news media, and said
he hoped it would be “reversed
as soon as possible.”
Analysts believe Mr. Erdogan
could now seek a quid pro quo in
return for swallowing the Ameri-
can decision to work ever more
closely with the Kurds in Syria.
In return, Mr. Erdogan could
seek an American green light for
Tim Arango contributed reporting
from Baghdad, Maher Samaan
from Paris and Karam Shoumali
from Istanbul.
Green Party to Shift Balance
Of Power in British Columbia
By DAN LEVIN
A progressive environmental
political party is poised to claim
the balance of power in British Co-
lumbia, home to Canada’s fastest-
growing economy and the front
line in battles over oil pipelines,
soaring real estate prices and the
economic benefits of extractive
resources.
Voters on Tuesday handed
three provincial legislative seats
to the Green Party, in its best-ever
electoral performance nationally,
denying a majority to the ruling
British Columbia Liberal Party or
its main opponent, the left-leaning
New Democratic Party.
The win underscores mounting
discontent with a two-party sys-
tem in the province, and offers the
Green Party a new influence over
provincial politics.
During the campaign, the party
vowed to ban corporate and union
donations, increase provincial
taxes on foreign buyers of Canadi-
an property, stop an oil pipeline to
the coast and broaden envi-
ronmental regulations.
“We’re attracting voters from
across the political spectrum who
want politics to be done differ-
ently in British Columbia,” An-
drew Weaver, the Green Party
leader in the province, said in an
interview on Wednesday. “People
are sick and tired of corporate in-
fluence in B.C.”
For now, the Liberals, who de-
spite their name are conservative,
will try to form a minority govern-
ment — the first time the province
has had one in 65 years. That
could change after absentee bal-
lots and judicial recounts in cer-
tain districts are tallied later this
month. But Premier Christy
Clark, leader of the Liberals, has
signaled her willingness to adapt
to a new political reality.
“Whatever the outcome is,
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a newly forceful intervention
against Turkey’s Kurdish foes in
Iraq, the P.K.K.
Experts said that would
mostly consist of Turkey increas-
ing its periodic bombing runs on
the militants. But in the most
extreme case, the Turks could
coordinate a ground operation
likely carried out by rival Kurd-
ish forces friendly to Turkey, said
Soner Cagaptay, a Turkey expert
at the Washington Institute for
Near East Policy.
For decades, the P.K.K. has
fought an on-and-off insurgency
inside Turkey, aided by its bases
in northern Iraq. The group has
been coordinating lately with
Iraqi militias that are backed by
Iran, another power that Turkey
views as a threat.
“I tend to take the Turkish
president at his word,” said Aar-
on Stein, a Turkey specialist at
the Atlantic Council, a Washing-
TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE
ton think tank. “If he keeps
telling everybody that he could President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey addressed members of his Justice and Development Party in Ankara this month.
do something in Iraq, I tend to
think he could do something in Syrian affiliate so closely that the Eastern interventions.
Iraq.” Kurdish fighters help call in U.S. That leaves Iraq, where Tur-
Striking in Iraq would accom- airstrikes. And those Syrian key would face fewer obstacles.
plish some Turkish goals, several militants will now receive heavy The P.K.K. there does not operate
analysts said. While it would do machine guns and armored under the cover of Syrian Kurds
little to prevent the Kurdish vehicles from the Pentagon. and would therefore not be sup-
autonomous areas inside north- Turkey’s foreign minister, ported by Washington.
east Syria from consolidating, it Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Mr. Erdogan could likely count
would isolate those cantons from Wednesday that “every weapon” on the backing of the dominant
Kurdish areas in Iraq. It could that goes to the Syrian Kurdish Kurdish faction in northern Iraq,
stop the Kurds from expanding group is “a threat against Tur- which controls Iraqi Kurdistan
their power in the region further key.” and has a difficult relationship
and from possibly bolstering the Taking on the Syrian Kurds with the main Kurdish groups in
Kurdish nationalist movement more forcefully would be diffi- Turkey and Syria.
inside Turkey — Mr. Erdogan’s cult. Besides the militants’ close But if Turkey did move on
ultimate worry. relations with the United States, Mount Sinjar, easing one geopo-
It would also make it harder the Turkish Army is considered litical headache for Washington
for Iran, a rival for power in the too weak, and Kurdish militias in in Syria, it would create new
region whose proxies are
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friendly with the P.K.K., to keep a Militarily, “the Turks are not in can partner, the Iraqi govern-
continuous corridor of influence
American soldiers and Kurdish Y.P.G. fighters in Syria near the
a position to take this on,” said ment in Baghdad.
stretching from Tehran through Turkish border in April. Turkey considers the group an enemy.
Naz Durakoglu, who helped In yet another indication of the
Iraq and northern Syria to the develop Turkey policy at the complexity of the battlefield, the
Mediterranean. month that Turkey was obliged Syrian Kurds. “Erdogan looking State Department during the United States works indirectly
Underscoring the complexity to keep attacking the P.K.K. on the other way as Trump moves Obama administration. with Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite
of alliances in the region, the Mount Sinjar “until the last ter- to take Raqqa” with the Syrian After at least a dozen Turkish militias against the Islamic State.
P.K.K. is a parent organization of rorist is eliminated.” Kurds, while Mr. Trump looks the attacks on the Syrian Kurdish The Iraqi government, which
the Americans’ newly official “They will do everything they other way, or even helps behind militants last month, the United balances ties between the United
Syrian Kurdish partner. The can do to take it out before it the scenes, as Mr. Erdogan States took emphatic steps to States and Iran, relies heavily on
Syrian group, known as the becomes P.K.K. headquarters No. strikes in Iraq. prevent further clashes, by mov- those Iran-backed militias to
Y.P.G., has used the chaos of war 2,” Mr. Cagaptay said. A central contradiction now ing troops to the border in assist its military. Baghdad
to carve out de facto semiautono- “I think this could be the basis bedeviling United States-Turkey Humvees as a buffer between would not look kindly on a Turk-
mous zones inside Syria. of the Trump-Erdogan deal,” Mr. relations is that, while the United Turks and Syrian Kurds. ish incursion into its territory,
Mr. Erdogan “can live with a Cagaptay, who is Turkish, said States agrees with Ankara that They even flew American which it would see as a provoca-
Y.P.G. statelet in northern Syria,” after the Trump administration the P.K.K. is a terrorist group, flags, a symbolic and provocative tive act and a disruption of its
said James F. Jeffrey, a former announcement about arming the American forces work with its move usually avoided in Middle fight against ISIS.
American ambassador to Turkey.
“He can’t live with a Y.P.G.
statelet that is supported by the
U.S. and is linked with Iran.”
Analysts say Turkey could
move against the P.K.K. around
Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.
Turkish officials worry that the
group is trying to establish new
headquarters there that could
give it control of a strategic route
between Syria and Iran. (The
group’s existing Iraqi headquar-
ters are in the Qandil mountains,
in another part of northern Iraq.)
Mr. Erdogan declared just last
whether it’s a minority or a major-
ity, I do intend to work across
party lines,” she told reporters on
Wednesday. The Liberals, in
power in British Columbia since
2001, won the most seats.
But the bitter election provides
important lessons about a prov-
ince hankering for new leadership
amid rising costs, cuts to educa-
tion and distrust over the Liber-
als’ embrace of unlimited political
donations, said Hamish Telford, a
political-science professor at the
University of the Fraser Valley in
Abbotsford, British Columbia.
“The Liberals lost a lot of their
more liberally inclined voters,
particularly around Vancouver,”
he said. “Even now that the econ-
omy has improved and the books
are balanced, there was a narra-
tive that the Liberals had been in
power for too long and had grown
too comfortable.”
If the Liberals remain in a mi-
nority government, their chances
of sustaining long-championed
policies and costly infrastructure
projects vehemently opposed by
the New Democrats and even
more progressive Greens will be
reduced. While the province waits
for the final vote tally to begin on
May 22, the parties are likely to be
embroiled in furious negotiations
aimed at forming a coalition.
The Greens’ leader, Mr. Weaver,
has made clear that his first pri-
ority will be to ban corporate and
union political donations, which
the Liberal Party has steadfastly
refused to do.
The New Democrats are more
ideologically aligned with the
Greens, but a coalition may come
down to whether the Liberals are
prepared to sacrifice core policies
for power.
“The Liberals want to govern,”
Dr. Telford said. “The question is
what price are they willing to pay
to continue governing?”
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Trump’s Mixed Signals on South China Sea Create Anxiety Among Asian Allies
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
BEIJING — South Korea wants
to discuss unease about an Ameri-
can antimissile system on its soil.
Taiwan is eager to buy weapons.
The Philippines hopes to find out
whether the United States plans
to challenge China in the South
China Sea.
Leaders across Asia are looking
to Washington for guidance on a
variety of pressing diplomatic is-
sues.
But President Trump’s erratic
approach to policy making and his
focus on one issue — North Ko-
rea’s nuclear weapons program —
are creating anxiety and confu-
sion in the region.
In South Korea, Mr. Trump has
angered the public with several
remarks, including his suggestion
that the country, an ally for over
six decades, pay for an antimissile
system built by the Americans to
deter North Korea. Moon Jae-in,
who was elected president on
Tuesday, has vowed to seek a
more conciliatory approach with
the North, setting up a potential
rift with American policy.
In other parts of Asia, including
the Philippines, Taiwan and Viet-
nam, Mr. Trump’s willingness to
bend to China is fueling worries
that the United States will stop
trying to counter China’s growing
influence in the region.
Washington has been the main
critic of China’s efforts to build
fortresses atop reefs, rocks and is-
lands in the South China Sea. But
the Trump administration, appar-
ently wary of angering Beijing, re-
cently decided to suspend patrols
of islands and reefs claimed by
China. “The South China Sea is
now China’s lake,” said Carlyle A.
Thayer, an emeritus professor at
the University of New South
Wales in Australia.
Mr. Trump’s credibility among
Asian allies is now at stake, di-
plomats and analysts say. He may
jeopardize longtime economic and
security alliances if he does not
show a willingness to look beyond
Poland’s Holocaust Victims Struggle for Restitution
By NINA SIEGAL
AMSTERDAM — Hania Rosen-
berg was born in 1934 in Oswie-
cim, an industrial town in the Gali-
cia region of southern Poland. The
concentration and extermination
camp the Germans built there af-
ter their 1939 invasion, called
Auschwitz-Birkenau, would take
the lives of 1.1 million people.
Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea last month. China now has the ability to deploy war-
planes and mobile missile launchers on several islands in the region, according to satellite images.
North Korea, they say.
The president also risks push-
ing countries in the region closer
to Beijing if he does not demon-
strate that the United States in-
tends to vigorously challenge Chi-
na’s territorial claims in the sea.
Mr. Trump’s supporters say his
unpredictable style and willing-
ness to rethink decades of ac-
cepted policy may be an asset, es-
pecially in dealing with an in-
tractable leader like Kim Jong-un
of North Korea. But his lack of as-
surances to Asian allies and his ef-
forts to please China have created
the appearance that his foreign
policy is negotiable.
Antonio T. Carpio, a Supreme
Court justice in the Philippines
and a critic of China, said he un-
derstood Mr. Trump’s focus on
North Korea. But he said he wor-
“No one was poor, no one was
rich: We were all about average,
like any small town,” Ms. Rosen-
berg, 82, recalled. “I remember
our backyard, with dogs, hens and
geese, where we had a cow, which
my father bought when I was born
because he said you should have
your own milk. It was a happy
childhood.”
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ried about the “permanent con-
cessions China may extract from
the U.S.”
“Trump’s emerging transac-
tional foreign policy is not re-
assuring,” he wrote in an email.
South Korea represents one of
the more serious rifts that Mr.
Trump will confront. Mr. Moon
rose to power by vowing a
conciliatory approach to North
Korea, saying efforts by the
United States and others to im-
pose strict sanctions had fallen
short. Mr. Trump favors applying
maximum pressure on Mr. Kim’s
government.
In Taiwan, officials worry that
the Trump administration may
delay arms sales, including F-35
stealth fighter jets, for fear of in-
flaming tensions with China.
China considers Taiwan part of is
Her father imported and ex-
ported straw, hay and coal. He
died in the camps, along with most
of the town’s Jewish community.
Ms. Rosenberg and her mother
survived the war — she hid with a
gentile family, and her mother en-
dured forced labor at a munitions
plant. They later made their way
to Sweden.
territory, and it has repeatedly
warned the United States against
selling weapons to the island.
Mr. Trump has already shown a
willingness to use Taiwan as a bar-
gaining chip with China. Before he
took office, he publicly questioned
whether the United States should
uphold the “One China” policy. But
he later backed down, apparently
in an effort to curry favor with
President Xi Jinping of China.
China has used Mr. Trump’s
first few months in office to re-
inforce its position in the sea, a
vast waterway through which
over $5 trillion in trade passes
each year. China says historical
maps show it owns virtually the
entire sea, despite overlapping
claims by several smaller coun-
tries, including Indonesia, the
Philippines and Vietnam.
Her grandparents had a three-
story house and a general store,
farmland and two garden plots in
the nearby town of Ledziny. Dur-
ing the Communist era, the house
and store were expropriated. A
shopping mall and new houses
stand on what was once farmland.
But two garden plots — still in the
name of her grandfather — re-
main, and Ms. Rosenberg is fight-
ing for their ownership, so that
she can give them to the family
who saved her.
“In Poland, there was no official
process for this: You have to go to
the courts,” she said in a phone in-
terview from Stockholm. “We did
go to the courts, but it was like a
carousel: You go around and
around and around and around.
You have to produce the docu-
ments that they need, and then it’s
not enough. There are always
more documents you need to pro-
vide.”
Poland is the only European
Union nation that has not estab-
lished formal procedures to re-
solve claims made by people
whose property was seized during
the Holocaust, according to a new
report by the European Shoah
Legacy Institute, based in Prague.
The report, more than 1,200
pages, was based on three years of
research in 47 countries that en-
dorsed a 2009 pledge, known as
the Terezin Declaration, to estab-
lish a restitution process for “im-
movable property” like land,
homes and businesses.
It found that Poland had only
partly complied with an obligation
to return communal Jewish prop-
erty like synagogues and ceme-
teries.
The issue of restitution is espe-
cially fraught for Poland, which
had Europe’s largest Jewish com-
munity before the war. About
three million Polish Jews were
murdered in the Holocaust, along
with at least 1.9 million other Pol-
ish civilians.
The report says that Holocaust
victims across Europe — not only
Jews, but also Roma, gays, dis-
abled people and others — “had to
navigate a frequently unclear
path to recover their property
from governments and neighbors
who had failed to protect them,
and often, who had been complicit
in their persecution.”
It added, “Law was not the sur-
vivors’ ally; more often it was
their enemy, providing impunity
for thieves and those who held
stolen property.”
In Poland, the injustice was
compounded because “compre-
hensive private property restitu-
tion legislation in the post-Com-
munist era” was never enacted,
according to the report.
Although the issue is longstand-
ing, it has been complicated by the
rise to power in 2015 of the right-
wing Law and Justice Party. Party
officials acknowledge the enor-
mity of the Holocaust, but they
emphasize that Poland was the
victim of both German and Soviet
oppression and that many minor-
ities suffered; debates over re-
membrance have bedeviled
projects like a new World War II
museum in the seaside city of
Gdansk.
“On what basis should Poland
China now has the ability to de-
ploy warplanes and mobile mis-
sile launchers on several islands,
according to satellite images pro-
vided by the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in
Washington. It has recently put
the finishing touches on airport
hangars and radar systems.
Mr. Trump’s young administra-
tion has sent mixed signals on
how it will approach the dispute.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump
criticized China’s actions in the
sea. Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson has suggested that
China should be denied access to
the islands it built.
But The New York Times re-
ported last week that top Penta-
gon officials recently turned down
a request for an American war-
ship to sail within 12 nautical miles
of Scarborough Shoal, a disputed
reef claimed by the Philippines
and China.
Mr. Trump has said that the
threat posed by North Korea’s
missile tests and nuclear weapons
development is so grave that it
may require temporarily setting
aside contentious issues with
China, in exchange for Beijing’s
exerting more political and eco-
nomic pressure on Pyongyang.
Cheng Xiaohe, an associate pro-
fessor of international studies at
Renmin University in Beijing, said
the Trump administration’s deci-
sion to halt patrols would send a
message that “China’s claims in
the sea should be respected and
the United States will not chal-
lenge that.”
Other countries that claim terri-
tory in the sea disagree. Many see
it as a patriotic mission to defend
territory there against China, and
they have grown angry over fre-
quent confrontations with Chi-
nese ships.
Diplomats in the region saw
hope in President Barack Oba-
ma’s talk of sending more Ameri-
can military and economic re-
sources to Asia. But they were dis-
appointed as China’s building
Hania Rosenberg, who lives in Stockholm, says she has been
trying for 26 years to reclaim her family’s properties in Poland.
decide that those with Jewish an-
cestors get compensated, where-
as Belarussians, Poles, Ukraini-
ans or Crimean Karaites, or Tatars
and Germans — all of whom used
to live here before the war —
shouldn’t be compensated?” Jaro-
slaw Kaczynski, the leader of the
governing party, asked
supporters last year. (The
Karaites and Tatars are minority
groups that speak Turkic lan-
guages.)
“Is Poland able to turn back
time and compensate all those
who suffered in those tragic
events?” he asked. “Does it mean
that the descendants of poor Poles
are supposed to pay the
descendants of those who were
An effort to recover
property is ‘like a
carousel’: around
and around.
rich? This is what it comes down
to.”
There is also a morass of legal
issues. Poland says it is not to
blame for the crimes of Nazi Ger-
many, and it points to a 1952 agree-
ment in which West Germany
agreed to pay Israel reparations
for wartime crimes. Communist-
era governments also reached
agreements with several coun-
tries, including the United States,
to resolve wartime property
claims, Polish officials say.
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, a his-
torian who has written about
restitution issues, said the report
focused too narrowly on Jewish
victims. While Polish Jews “faced
the extraordinary terror of total
extermination,” he said, Polish
Christians “faced the ordinary
terror of partial annihilation.”
Last year, Poland’s constitu-
tional court upheld a 2015 law that
significantly limits the restitution
rights of those whose property in
Warsaw was seized during the
war.
“Polish law treats everyone
equally,” the foreign minister,
Witold Waszczykowski, said in Is-
rael last year. “Any legal or natural
person, or their heir, is entitled to
projects continued unabated.
Mr. Trump’s tough talk on China
promised a fresh start. Mr. Tiller-
son went as far as to say during
his confirmation hearing that Chi-
na’s island-building in the South
China Sea was “akin to Russia’s
taking of Crimea” and pledged to
block access to the islands.
But the administration has yet
to follow through. And power
dynamics are quickly shifting,
with the Philippines, once one of
America’s strongest allies in the
region, publicly distancing itself
from the United States and em-
bracing China.
Mr. Trump’s credibility in the re-
gion has also been hurt by his de-
cision to abandon the Trans-Pa-
cific Partnership, a trade pact that
was expected to have significant
benefits for Southeast Asia.
China, on the other hand, has
promised to double down on its in-
vestment in the region. “China
sees a golden opportunity to step
into the vacuum of leadership in
the region,” said Alexander L.
Vuving, a professor at the Daniel
K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for
Security Studies in Honolulu.
Mr. Trump has spoken in recent
days with leaders of the Phil-
ippines, Singapore and Thailand,
inviting each to the White House.
Mr. Tillerson has tried to reassure
allies that freedom-of-navigation
patrols will continue.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a pro-
fessor at Chulalongkorn Univer-
sity in Bangkok, said Mr. Trump
seemed to be showing genuine in-
terest in building a strategic net-
work in the region. He said Mr.
Trump was wise to de-emphasize
human rights concerns with coun-
tries like Thailand and the Phil-
ippines; otherwise, it would “fur-
ther push both countries and the
rest of the region into China’s or-
bit.”
“Once the United States regains
some weight and credibility in the
region,” he added, “then it can re-
balance and reconsider U.S. inter-
ests and values.”
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recover prewar property unlaw-
fully seized by the Nazi German or
the Soviet authorities, or the post-
war Communist regime.”
However, Leslaw Piszewski,
chairman of the board of the Un-
ion of Jewish Religious Communi-
ties in Poland, said current poli-
cies made it far too difficult for
claimants — effectively denying
justice by delaying it.
“Attitudes have not changed at
all,” he said. “Courts issue nega-
tive decisions or prolong the
process to the extent that the
claimant resigns from the
process.”
The new report was presented
at a conference in Brussels orga-
nized by Holocaust survivors and
groups that represent them, and
hosted by the European Parlia-
ment.
Gideon Taylor, the operations
chairman of one of the groups, the
World Jewish Restitution Organi-
zation, said he hoped the confer-
ence would be a “rallying call” be-
fore time ran out for survivors, 72
years after the war’s end.
“We have a very narrow win-
dow of time, while survivors are
still alive, to carry out some kind
of symbolic justice, some kind of
recognition of what has hap-
pened,” he said.
The issue is not just symbolic
but also practical, said Mr.
Piszewski, whose group repre-
sents nine officially recognized
Jewish communities, with an esti-
mated 10,000 to 20,000 members.
(Precise figures are hard to come
by.)
“Restitution is the only financial
tool to maintain Jewish communi-
ties as well as the Jewish heritage,
including 1,200 cemeteries,” he
said.
Ms. Rosenberg told her story at
the conference, after much hesita-
tion. The family that saved her has
been recognized by Yad Vashem,
the Holocaust remembrance cen-
ter in Jerusalem, as being among
the Righteous of the Nations, non-
Jews who risked their lives to
save Jews. A house her father
owned in Oswiecim has been giv-
en to the family.
“Maybe this conference will
make a difference,” she said. “I re-
ally hope so. We have been trying
on our own for 26 years. They say
that maybe something will
change in 20 years, but none of us
has 20 years to wait.”

‘Undignified’ End for Respected Israeli News Shows
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — It felt a bit like
a coup. After 49 years of nightly
broadcasts, the Israeli govern-
ment shut down the state broad-
casting authority’s time-honored
television news program with
only one hour’s notice.
Stunned and tearful, the staff of
the program, “Mabat Le’had-
ashot” (A Glance at the News),
crowded into the studio on Tues-
day night and sang the national
anthem, concluding what it had
just learned would be its last
broadcast.
By Wednesday, Israel Radio’s
current affairs anchors were also
choking up on air, bidding their
farewells. After 81 years of broad-
casting, the station said it would
be playing music and providing
hourly news bulletins until next
week, when it is to be replaced by
a new public corporation.
The moves came after years of
political wrangling and months of
intensive involvement by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Long preoccupied with his cover-
age in the news media, he had
tried to bring changes to how the
broadcasting authority was run.
But on Wednesday, his office is-
sued a statement critical of the
timing and sudden nature of the
shutdown.
A shake-up of the overarching
Israel Broadcasting Authority —
widely considered an outdated
and wasteful enterprise — has
been decades in the making. At
one point it was said to have had
up to 18 unions for about 1,800
employees. Israeli officials and
experts across the political spec-
trum said that reform was essen-
tial.
But the way it is unfolding ap-
pears chaotic and uncertain. And
many Israelis were outraged by
the abrupt termination of Channel
1’s “Mabat,” the grande dame of Is-
rael’s news programs.
Mr. Netanyahu’s office denied
responsibility, describing the
swift closing in a statement as
“undignified and disrespectful.”
“The prime minister heard
about this from the media and the
matter was not carried out with
his knowledge or approval,” the
statement added.
Three years ago, Mr. Netanya-
hu championed the establishment
of a corporation to replace the au-
thority. Plans were made, laws
were passed and it was named
Kann, Hebrew for “here.” But in
recent months, Mr. Netanyahu
changed his mind and tried to dis-
band the corporation, saying it
was preferable to maintain and re-
South Korean Leader Aims
To Build Trust With North
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — South
Korea’s newly elected president
vowed on Wednesday to play a
more assertive role in resolving
the North’s nuclear crisis through
dialogue, saying that he was will-
ing to meet with its leader, Kim
Jong-un, if the circumstances
were right.
President Moon Jae-in also
pledged to strengthen the alliance
with Washington, expressing an
eagerness for an early summit
meeting with President Trump,
whose military posturing and di-
plomatic overtures toward the
North in recent weeks have both
rattled and confused South
Koreans.
But Mr. Moon also hinted at bal-
ancing diplomacy between the
United States and China, his coun-
try’s largest trading partner, over
the contentious deployment of an
American missile defense system
here.
Mr. Trump called Mr. Moon
hours after he was formally sworn
in on Wednesday. The two leaders
agreed to maintain a strong alli-
ance and cooperate in dealing
with North Korea’s nuclear and
missile threats, Mr. Moon’s office
said. They also agreed to hold a
summit meeting in Washington at
the earliest opportunity, it said.
“The alliance with the United
States is and will always be the
foundation of our diplomacy and
national security,” Mr. Moon was
quoted as telling Mr. Trump. “The
alliance is more important than
ever, given the rising uncertainty
surrounding the Korean Peninsu-
la.”
Mr. Moon’s comments ap-
peared aimed at easing fears that
his new liberal government and
its eagerness for diplomatic and
economic engagement with North
Korea might create a rift with
Washington.
Compared with his two conser-
vative predecessors, who had em-
phasized a united front with
Washington in punishing the
North, Mr. Moon has often called
for his country to take the lead in
easing tensions on the divided
peninsula through dialogue.
“I will do whatever it takes to
help settle peace on the Korean
Peninsula,” Mr. Moon said during
a speech at the National Assem-
bly, where he was formally sworn
in on Wednesday. “If necessary, I
will fly immediately to Washing-
ton.”
A day after winning the presi-
The staff of “Mabat Le’hadashot” on Tuesday at the end of the news program’s final broadcast.
After a 49-year run, the program was shut down on an hour’s notice from the Israeli government.
form the authority.
“Netanyahu did not like the in-
dependence that the corporation
was showing,” said Tehilla
Shwartz Altshuler, director of the
media reform program at the Is-
rael Democracy Institute, a non-
partisan research center in Jeru-
salem. “They told him from
square one that they would do
what they wanted, in accordance
A shake-up that was
decades in the making
unfolds with chaos
and uncertainty.
with the authorities given to them
by the law.”
The law, Mr. Netanyahu found,
limits government influence. Mr.
Netanyahu threatened to break
up his government coalition over
the new corporation, after his co-
alition partners refused to go
along with its cancellation. In a
compromise, it was decided to
take the news division out of Kann
and to set up a separate news cor-
poration.
Employees and experts worry
that the confusion resulting from
the two parallel corporations will
dential election, Mr. Moon took of-
fice by reconfirming the broad
changes he promised during his
campaign, including curtailing
the powers of the presidency and
eliminating corrupt ties between
government and business.
He also vowed to “get busy for
the sake of peace on the Korean
Peninsula.” Mr. Moon said he was
also willing to travel to Pyong-
yang, the capital of North Korea,
to meet with Mr. Kim. But he cau-
tioned that for such a trip to take
place, “the circumstances have to
be right.” He had earlier said that
dialogue would become difficult if
the North raised tension with an-
other nuclear test.
The last inter-Korean summit
meeting was in 2007, between Mr.
Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, and the
president of South Korea at the
time, Roh Moo-hyun, Mr. Moon’s
Seeking a diplomatic
balance between the
U.S. and China over
missile defense.
closest friend and ideological ally.
Mr. Moon is widely expected to
introduce a modified version of
Mr. Roh’s so-called sunshine pol-
icy of engaging North Korea with
dialogue, humanitarian aid and
joint economic projects.
The idea behind the sunshine
policy was to build trust with the
North so that it would negotiate
away its nuclear and ballistic mis-
sile programs. But that policy was
thrown out in the last nine years.
The two last presidents in Seoul,
both conservatives, joined hands
with Washington to try to isolate
Pyongyang with sanctions and
pressure, as the North advanced
its weapons programs by conduct-
ing a series of nuclear and missile
tests.
Mr. Moon’s election signaled the
return of the liberals to the center
stage of South Korean diplomacy.
They believe that sanctions alone
have failed to persuade North Ko-
rea to give up its nuclear weapons
programs. They also do not want
South Korea to be dragged into a
hegemonic struggle between the
United States and China — an atti-
tude exemplified by their ambigu-
ous stance over the deployment in
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weaken public broadcasting in Is-
rael. Days before going live, it was
unclear how the operation would
function. One radio employee,
who asked not to be identified be-
cause of the political uncertainty
around his job, said he did not
even know which city he was sup-
posed to be broadcasting from.
The whole nature of the process
has stoked apprehension. In a
show of support, President
Reuven Rivlin of Israel, an old po-
litical rival of Mr. Netanyahu,
made a point of coming in person
to the studio for an interview on
Israel Radio’s midday news pro-
gram. Thanking the workers, he
called it the end of an era.
“Without public broadcasting
there is no democracy,” Mr. Rivlin
said. “Without public broadcast-
ing, the state of Israel isn’t the
state of Israel.”
Mr. Netanyahu’s opponents of-
ten describe his dealings with the
press as “obsessive.” He fre-
quently attacks by name Israeli
journalists who are critical of him.
And he is under police investiga-
tion after tapes surfaced in which
he and a long-hostile Israeli news-
paper baron tried to negotiate a
deal to benefit the newspaper, at
the expense of a competitor, in re-
turn for better coverage for the
prime minister.
This week, Mr. Netanyahu re-
leased a scathing video accusing
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea after his inauguration in
Seoul. He took office without the usual two-month transition.
South Korea of an American an-
timissile battery, the Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense sys-
tem, known as Thaad.
Thaad went operational last
week, despite angry protests from
China, which said that Thaad’s
powerful radar undermined its
own security. Chinese consumers
have begun a boycott of many
South Korean brands. Many South
Koreans fumed over the economic
retaliation by China, considering
it the price of protecting the alli-
ance with Washington. But others
accused the United States of foist-
ing the weapon on their country,
especially after Mr. Trump said
that Seoul should pay $1 billion for
the Thaad battery, contrary to an
earlier agreement.
During his campaign, Mr. Moon
said he would review the deploy-
ment, a stance he reaffirmed as
president.
“I will engage in sincere negoti-
ations with the United States and
China to find a solution to the
Thaad problem,” he said.
Mr. Moon’s victory on Tuesday
capped months of political turmoil
marked by the impeachment,
ouster and arrest on corruption
charges of his predecessor, Park
Geun-hye. The country has been
led by an acting president since
Ms. Park was removed on March
10, and Mr. Moon took office with-
out a customary two-month tran-
sition.
In his first day in office, Mr.
Moon rushed to build his govern-
ment, appointing Lee Nak-yon, a
provincial governor, as his prime
minister.
He also selected Suh Hoon, a
former intelligence official, as di-
rector of the National Intelligence
Service.
Mr. Suh has spent his career
monitoring North Korea and was
involved in the negotiations that
resulted in the two summit meet-
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among others, of “fake news” for
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were raised about his representa-
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Mr. Netanyahu rebuffs accusa-
tions that he is trying to limit free-
dom of expression or control the
local news media market. He says
he would like to see more plural-
ism and diversity, and more com-
mercial television and news chan-
nels to compete with the existing
ones.
For Israelis, the end of “Mabat”
prompted an outpouring of nostal-
gia. Although its ratings had
dropped in recent years to around
3 or 4 percent, as the news pro-
grams of two competing commer-
cial channels, 2 and 10, became
more popular, it remained a much
loved national institution. The
journalists and staff were dis-
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Caught Anew
In the Struggle
Over Immigration
A Threat of Deportation Is Revived
By MIRIAM JORDAN
Jessica Colotl embodied the debate
over illegal immigration when she was
locked up for 37 days and nearly sent
back to Mexico after an Atlanta-area po-
lice officer caught her driving without a
license in 2010.
To supporters, including her sorority
sisters, the president of her college and
the immigrant advocates who publicized
her case, hers was an example of police
overreach and the need to safeguard am-
bitious young students from deportation.
To others, she was an illegal immigrant,
plain and simple, who also was abusing
the system by attending a public college
at discounted tuition.
She returned to college — paying full
price, because of a new Georgia law in-
spired by her case — completed her de-
gree and qualified for a program started
by President Barack Obama in 2012,
known as Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals, or DACA, which protects some
undocumented youth from deportation.
“Since then, I have been working and
doing well for myself,” Ms. Colotl, now 28,
said in an interview this week. “I thought
that all the legal battles were behind me.”
That was until Ms. Colotl, who was
brought to the United States by her par-
ents as a child, learned Monday that her
DACA status had been revoked, thrust-
ing her into the national immigration de-
bate anew.
With a new president in the White
House, she is once again facing deporta-
tion.
Dustin Baxter, Ms. Colotl’s lawyer, on
Tuesday requested that a federal judge
in Atlanta intervene and reinstate her
DACA protection.
“We are taking an innocent girl who
has done nothing but contribute to the
society she has been a part of since she
was 11 and making her a villain and post-
er child for Trump’s deportation poli-
cies,” Mr. Baxter said in an interview.
About 750,000 immigrants have bene-
fited from DACA, and even as he has
promised to crack down on illegal immi-
gration, President Trump has said re-
peatedly that he will not target DACA re-
cipients, also known as Dreamers.
But since 2012, more than 1,500 Dream-
ers have had their DACA status revoked
new administration appears less willing
to overlook her record.
“Jessica Colotl, an unlawfully present
Mexican national, admitted guilt to a
felony charge in August 2011 of making a
false statement to law enforcement in
Cobb County, Ga.,” said an ICE state-
ment. “Ms. Colotl was subsequently al-
lowed to enter a diversionary program
by local authorities; however, under fed-
eral law her guilty plea is considered a
felony conviction for immigration pur-
poses.”
Ms. Colotl’s original case became em-
blematic of hot-button immigration
questions, like whether young undocu-
mented immigrants deserved a pass,
whether they should benefit from in-
state tuition and whether an enforce-
ment program designed to identify vio-
lent criminals for removal was ensnar-
ing other immigrants as well.
During her junior year at Kennesaw
State University, on March 28, 2010, Ms.
Colotl was pulled over for blocking traffic
in a parking lot at the college.
She had no license, so within days she
was transferred to federal immigration
custody under a program known as
287(g), which lets local officials act as im-
migration-law enforcers and cooperate
with deportation authorities.
She spent more than a month in an
Alabama detention facility until being re-
leased, thanks to campaigning on her be-
half. She became a symbol of the long
and ultimately unsuccessful fight to pass
the federal Dream Act, which would have
legalized immigrants like Ms. Colotl who
entered the United States as children,
and which opponents criticized as an am-
nesty measure.
“Jessica has a dream,” read a sign at a
rally held by Lambda Theta Alpha, the
Latina sorority she had helped establish
at the college. “Support the Dream Act.”
Nine days after her release, the Cobb
County sheriff, Neil Warren, pressed
charges against Ms. Colotl, saying she
had supplied a false address to a deputy
who had booked her into jail, a felony.
“Ms. Colotl knew that she was in the
United States without authority to be
here and voluntarily chose to operate a
vehicle without a driver’s license,” Sher-
iff Warren said at the time, adding that
she had “further complicated her situa- AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

for criminal activity, according to Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement.
After her arrest for driving without a
license, Ms. Colotl had been charged with
providing a false address to a law en-
forcement officer, a felony. She admitted
guilt and had the case dismissed after
completing community service, a com-
mon outcome for low-level offenses.
Though she was not convicted, under im-
migration law her admission to the crime
was enough to initiate the loss of DACA
status.
While the Obama administration al-
lowed Ms. Colotl into the program in 2013
— and allowed her to renew in 2015 — the
tion with her blatant disregard for Geor-
gia law by giving false information.”
Mr. Warren championed his county’s
participation in 287(g), a program that
groups like the American Civil Liberties
Union of Georgia derided for snagging a
“promising student” like Ms. Colotl,
rather than hardened criminals, and for
promoting racial profiling. Nationally, an
outcry against the program prompted
the Obama administration to scale it
back. Mr. Trump wants it used more of-
ten.
State legislators who became aware
that Ms. Colotl was paying in-state tu-
ition passed a law to make undocument-
Jessica Colotl became a symbol of the immigration debate after a 2010 traffic stop at her college.
ed students pay out-of-state rates when
attending public colleges. Some candi-
dates for governor invoked Ms. Colotl in
their calls for curbing illegal immigra-
tion in Georgia.
Ms. Colotl finished college and began
working as a legal assistant at the law of-
fice of Charles Kuck, an Atlanta immigra-
tion attorney whose firm represents her
now. (Her parents have since moved
back to Mexico.)
Mr. Obama began DACA, letting young
undocumented immigrants like Ms.
Colotl stay in the United States and work
legally. But while the failed Dream Act
could have eventually let Ms. Colotl be-
come a permanent resident, DACA pro-
tection must be renewed every two years
and can more easily be revoked.
The Trump administration so far has
not used that power often. In the first
three months of 2017, the government re-
voked DACA protections from 179 recipi-
ents for criminal activity and other rea-
sons, a rate similar to that of the final
year of the Obama administration.
But Ms. Colotl, apparently, is not get-
ting a pass.
She said that just last week she had do-
nated platelets at a hospital to help peo-
ple in need. Now, she said, she feels per-
sona non grata, unable to work and
threatened with ejection from the coun-
try.
“I plan to continue fighting,” she said.
“This has to be a mistake.”

Trial Opens for Oklahoma Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver
By LUCIA WALINCHUS
TULSA, Okla. — The prosecu-
tion and the defense agreed on
this: On Sept. 16, 2016, a white po-
lice officer fatally shot a black
driver on a street in north Tulsa.
Beyond that, the two sides dis-
agreed on why the shooting had
taken place as they made their
opening statements Wednesday
in the manslaughter trial of Betty
Jo Shelby, the Tulsa officer
charged in the death of the driver,
Terence Crutcher.
The prosecutor, Kevin Gray,
told jurors that Officer Shelby had
panicked and used deadly force
against an unarmed man who had
his hands up.
The officer’s lawyer, Shannon
McMurray, countered that Officer
Shelby had simply done what she
had been trained to do when fac-
ing someone who refused to com-
ply with her orders to stop and
who could have been reaching for
a gun.
Officer Shelby sat stoically at
the defense table Wednesday as
her trial opened before a jury of
three men and nine women. At
least two of the women are black.
Mr. Crutcher’s family took up
three rows in the courtroom, sit-
ting across from Officer Shelby’s
family and a throng of reporters.
Outside, a wall of cameras lined
the hall.
In his statement, Mr. Gray high-
lighted the note of panic in Ms.
Shelby’s voice when she called in
the shooting. That proved, he said,
that she had overreacted.
“You will hear her voice on that
radio traffic. ‘Shots Fired!’ she
will say,” Mr. Gray said, pausing.
“Shots fired! You don’t need an of-
ficer to testify that you can tell a
difference in her voice. You can
hear it.”
Ms. McMurray countered that
the district attorney was the one
who overreacted when he filed
charges against the officer. Dur-
ing a recess, Ms. McMurray said
that many commentators had
tried to paint it as a case of racism,
when it was actually a case of sex-
ism: Officer Shelby was essen-
tially on trial for being too emo-
tional.
To the jury, Ms. McMurray de-
picted her client as being an offi-
cer with a stellar record who fired
her gun for the first time in her 10-
year career at the same time that
another officer discharged his
Taser, because he also thought the
victim could be reaching for a gun.
The fatal shooting last Septem-
ber played out amid a series of
deaths across the country at the
hands of the police that have
raised questions about officers’
use of force, particularly against
African-American men.
Officer Shelby, 43, was respond-
ing to a domestic violence call
when she passed an intersection
in north Tulsa and noticed Mr.
Crutcher standing in the street
and his S.U.V. partly blocking traf-
fic. Officer Shelby told investiga-
tors that she asked Mr. Crutcher if
the vehicle belonged to him and
whether it was disabled, but he
only mumbled to himself and did
not answer.
Mr. Crutcher, 40, kept putting
his hands in his pockets, accord-
ing to the account, even as Officer
Shelby told him to show his hands.
She fired when Mr. Crutcher
reached into the driver’s side win-
dow. Video cameras in the police
cars and the helicopter circling
above recorded the encounter.
Lawyers for Mr. Crutcher’s
family have disputed some of the
account. They said the window of
Mr. Crutcher’s vehicle was up, not
down, and so he could not have
been reaching into the vehicle be-
Officer Betty Jo Shelby and her husband, David, at the Tulsa County Courthouse on Wednesday.
fore he was shot.
Pastors and community leaders
say a public reaction that empha-
sized prayer over vengeance and
a government response that em-
phasized transparency over se-
crecy has helped to ease tensions
in the city.
The Rev. Anthony L. Scott, sen-
ior pastor at First Baptist Church
in North Tulsa, said the city’s rela-
tive calm had been the product of
hard work on the part of church
leaders and politicians, and the
ties forged with the community as
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a whole. his hands up and he’s dead —
“I’m very thankful for the that’s what this means in the city,”
community’s passionate response Mr. Lewis said. “People feel if they
and protest,” Mr. Scott said, “and have a breakdown they cannot
also thankful that it didn’t escalate call an officer for help.”
to the point of violence and rioting Melvin Cooper, the senior pas-
that it did in other cities.” tor at World Won Ministries, a
Marq Lewis, organizer of the prominent African-American
grass-roots group We the People Pentecostal church, described Mr.
of Oklahoma, agreed, but cau- Crutcher as “a nice young man,”
tioned that Americans would be who was the son of a minister. “I’m
tuning in closely to the outcome of not saying he was perfect,” Mr.
the trial. Cooper said.
“People are seeing a person He joined the Rev. Tom Harri-
with a broken-down vehicle with son of Asbury United Methodist
Church, one of Tulsa’s largest con-
gregations, in organizing a prayer
service that included a former
Tulsa police officer.
“It’s like marriage counseling,”
Mr. Harrison said, describing the
interaction of the community with
the former officer as a moment of
both pain and love.
Tulsa’s thorny history of racial
injustice can be counted as among
the most perilous in America. In
1921, a white mob killed 150 to 300
black people and destroyed 1,100
homes and businesses.
In April 2015, a Tulsa County re-
serve deputy fatally shot an un-
armed African-American man,
Eric Harris, during an arrest. The
deputy, Robert Bates, 73, testified
that he had meant to draw his
Taser, rather than his gun. Mr.
Bates was convicted last year of
second-degree manslaughter and
sentenced to four years in prison
and nine months of probation.
Days after Mr. Crutcher’s shoot-
ing, city officials released police
videos first to the victim’s family
and later to more than 50 black
leaders, pastors and officials. The
mayor at the time, Dewey F. Bart-
lett Jr., and the police chief, Chuck
Jordan, who are both white, apolo-
gized and answered questions on
behalf of the city.
Mr. Bartlett said that in his eight
years as mayor, he and his wife
had attended about 300 services
throughout the city, including
about 30 at black churches. “As a
consequence of that, over the
years, we developed a very true
friendship, not just a political rela-
tionship, with many of the pas-
tors,” Mr. Bartlett said.
The city took another step in the
healing process on Wednesday
night with a large prayer service.
The trial is expected to last at least
into next week.

Around a Dwarf Star,
Researchers Discover
A Celestial Harmony
By KENNETH CHANG
In February, astronomers
announced the discovery of a
nearby star with seven Earth-
size planets, and at least some
of the planets seemed to be in a
zone that could provide cozy
conditions for life.
The finding of these planets
circling the star Trappist-1 40
light-years away came with a
bit of mystery. The orbits of the
planets are packed tightly, and
computer calculations by the
discoverers suggested that the
gravitational jostling would
send the planets colliding with
each other or flying apart,
some to deep space, others spi-
raling into the star and de-
struction.
Now new research provides
an explanation for the
dynamics of how this planetary
system could have formed and
remained in stable harmony
over billions of years.
“It’s actually a very special
system,” said Daniel Tamayo, a
postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Toronto Scarbor-
ough and the lead author of a
paper appearing in The Astro-
physical Journal Letters.
The scientist in the office
next door to Dr. Tamayo found
musical inspiration from the
Trappist-1 planets. Matt Russo,
an astrophysicist who is also a
musician, turned to Dr.
Tamayo’s computer simula-
tions for help turning the orbits
into notes, and they have
produced a sort of music of the
spheres for the 21st century.
“I think Trappist is the most
musical system we’ll ever dis-
cover,” Dr. Russo said. “I hope
I’m wrong.”
While the planets are
roughly the size of Earth, the
Trappist-1 system is very dif-
ferent from our solar system.
Trappist-1 is a dwarf star that is
How seven planets
stayed together all
these years.
much smaller and colder than
our sun, and all seven of the
planets orbit within six million
miles of the star. By contrast,
Mercury, the innermost planet
of our solar system, is 36 mil-
lion miles from our sun. Earth
is nearly 93 million miles away.
Since the Trappist-1 planets
are so close to their star, they
orbit quickly, and their “year”
— the time to complete one or-
bit — ranges from 1.5 days to 19
days.
The original discoverers
noted that those orbits were al-
most exactly in what scientists
call “resonance.” That is, the
second planet completes five
orbits in almost exactly the
time the first planet makes
eight. The third planet com-
pletes three orbits for every
five orbits of the second planet,
and the fourth planet makes
two orbits for every three or-
bits of the third. The other
planets are also in resonance.
(In our solar system, Pluto is in
resonance with Neptune, with
Pluto making two orbits for ev-
ery three of Neptune.)
Yet when they plugged the
data into computer simula-
tions, the orbits quickly be-
came unstable, falling apart in
less than a million years. Even
when they added the effects of
tides on the planets, which
tend to push planets toward
more circular, stable orbits, the
system still often fell apart
within a few million years, a
cosmic instant compared with
the estimated age of the Trap-
pist-1 star (three billion to eight
billion years).
“We were missing some
physics,” said Amaury H.M.J.
Triaud, an astronomer at the
University of Cambridge in
England and a member of the
team that described the Trap-
pist-1 planets. Also missing: ex-
act information about the
shape and tilt of the orbits.
Dr. Tamayo and his col-
Scientists believe they have cracked the mystery of why
seven closely packed planets have maintained stable or-
bits around Trappist-1, a dwarf star 40 light-years away.
leagues took a different ap-
proach.
Instead of just looking at the
orbits of the planets today, they
looked at possible ways that
the planets got to where they
are now. The planets formed
out of a disk of gas and dust. Af-
ter that formation, the remain-
ing disk would have nudged
the planets inward, and those
nudges tend to push the
planets toward the stable reso-
nances.
Dr. Tamayo offered the anal-
ogy of musicians in an orches-
tra. “It’s not enough for mem-
bers to merely keep time,” he
said.
The missing information
about orbits is like musicians
playing out of tune, he said. “By
contrast,” Dr. Tamayo said,
“simulating the formation of
the system in its birth disk is
analogous to the orchestra tun-
ing itself before playing. When
we create these harmonized
systems, we find that the ma-
jority survive for as long as we
can run our supercomputer
simulations.”
In more than 300 computer
runs, each simulating five mil-
lion years, the vast majority
stayed stable, Dr. Tamayo said.
Then they ran 21 simulations
each tracing about 50 million
years of orbits, and 17 of those
were stable. Each of the longer
simulations consumed a week
of supercomputer time. That
suggests the orbits are stable
for several billion years, al-
though it does not provide de-
finitive proof.
“That’s basically as long as
we can hope to run our simula-
tions,” Dr. Tamayo said.
Jack J. Lissauer, a planetary
scientist at the NASA Ames Re-
search Center who works on
the space agency’s Kepler
planet-finding mission, said
the new results fit what was ex-
pected. “If the planets are in-
deed locked in resonances, it’s
quite reasonable for them to be
stable for very long times,” he
said. “This wasn’t a surprise,
but it wasn’t shown previ-
ously.”
Dr. Triaud said the new re-
sults could help refine their ob-
servations. “It’s a really beauti-
ful analysis,” he said of Dr.
Tamayo’s approach. “We will
be looking at our data to see if
they match what they pro-
pose.”
The resonant orbits also in-
spired Dr. Russo, a guitarist in
the indie pop group Rvnners.
He and a bandmate, Andrew
Santaguida, started playing
around with the data. They ar-
bitrarily assigned a particular
musical note — C — to the out-
ermost planet. That set the
notes for the other planets
based on their relative orbital
periods, although they are not
exactly in tune.
The resonances drift over
time, probably because of more
complicated gravitational in-
teractions and tidal effects.
“You can tell something is a
bit twisted,” Dr. Russo said.
“The notes are little wonky.”
In the musical animation,
each planet plays its note each
time it passes in front of the
Trappist-1 star, with the orbit of
the outer planet set at two sec-
onds.
In addition, they assigned a
specific percussion sound for
each time a planet caught up
with its neighbor. “It turned out
to be very similar to a very
natural drum progression,” Dr.
Russo said.
So far, Trappist-1 is the only
musically enchanting
planetary system in the galaxy.
In no other system are the
planetary orbits stacked in res-
onance. Dr. Russo did a similar
musical treatment of Kepler
90, another star with seven
planets. “It’s just horrendous,”
Dr. Russo said. “It’s very un-
comfortable to listen to.”
That may turn out to indicate
something different about how
planets form around dwarf
stars versus larger stars.
The scientists are releasing
the computer software for any-
one to explore the music of
planetary orbits.
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MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Xi Xiaoxing, a Temple University physics professor, had been accused of illegally sending sensitive technology to China.
A Former Suspect Points a Finger Back at the F.B.I.
In Suit, Professor Accuses Lead Agent of Falsifying Evidence in Dropped Espionage Case
By MATT APUZZO evidence as soon as he heard it. But the Justice Department has constant fear. “We always are
When the Justice Department “The very first word I said was made several mistakes. In De- afraid that, everything we’re do-
dropped charges against a Temple ‘absurd,’” he recalled. cember 2014, prosecutors dropped ing, the F.B.I. is listening and
University physics professor in Dr. Xi said his arrest cast un- charges against two former Eli some of the things we say or do
2015, it was an embarrassing ac- warranted suspicion over him and Lilly scientists who had been ac- may be twisted,” he said. “That
knowledgment that F.B.I. agents his work. He was suspended from cused of giving proprietary infor- fear is in the back of our mind all
and prosecutors had misunder- his job, lost his title as the depart- mation to a Chinese drugmaker. the time.”
stood the complicated technology ment’s interim chairman and was Three months later, prosecutors His lawsuit does not specify
that they accused him of illegally prohibited from entering campus dropped a case against a Chinese- how much he is seeking in dam-
sending to China. or speaking with students. He said American hydrologist who had ages. He said he hoped it would
The professor, Xi Xiaoxing, now his arrest was part of a law en- been charged with secretly down- force the government to be more
says it was not an innocent mis- forcement mind-set that views loading information about dams. careful in future investigations.
take. In a federal lawsuit he filed Chinese-Americans as uniquely Each case raised the specter of “My case has made so many sci-
on Wednesday, he accused the suspicious. Chinese espionage without explic- entists scared,” he said. “It has
lead F.B.I. agent of falsifying the Prosecutors view Chinese espi- itly charging the suspects as made so many Chinese-Ameri-
key piece of evidence and ignor- onage as a major threat, both to spies. Because prosecutors cited cans and Asian-Americans
ing repeated warnings that he government secrets and valuable routine crimes such as wire fraud, scared. That’s why we are doing
was investigating an innocent corporate information. Experts national security experts at Jus- this. We need some accountabil-
man. say the government in Beijing has
an official policy encouraging the
tice Department headquarters did
not oversee the cases. Last year,
ity.”
And he said he would like an
The lawsuit is a sharp rejoinder
to the government’s crackdown theft of trade secrets. Prosecutors the department issued new rules apology — for storming his house
have charged Chinese workers in giving Washington greater con- with guns drawn, handcuffing him
on Chinese spies, which has been
undermined by a series of high- the United States with stealing trol over such cases. in front of his children and casting
profile missteps, including Dr. Xi’s Boeing aircraft information, spe- Dr. Xi returned to teaching after suspicion over his life. “But I do
case. The Justice Department re- cialty seeds and even the pigment the case was dismissed, but he understand,” he said, “they will
organized its staff in recent years used to whiten Oreo cookie cream. said he and his family remained in probably never apologize.”
to focus on preventing the theft of
American trade secrets and other
acts of espionage by China and
other nations.
“They are paid with taxpayer
money to catch spies. And they
catch people like me, who have
done nothing wrong,” Dr. Xi said in
an interview. “I wish they’d catch
more spies.”
The F.B.I. investigated Dr. Xi as
a potential spy, using orders ob-
tained from a federal surveillance
court, his lawyers said. Just after
dawn one day in May 2015, agents
stormed Dr. Xi’s house in the Phil-
adelphia suburbs and arrested
him.
Prosecutors ultimately pre-
sented no evidence of espionage.
Instead, they accused Dr. Xi of the
lesser crime of giving Chinese re-
searchers the blueprints for a sen-
sitive piece of laboratory equip-
ment known as a pocket heater.
The heater, which is useful in
superconductor research, was
covered by a nondisclosure agree-
ment Dr. Xi had signed.
The case collapsed months lat-
er, when leading physicists testi-
fied that the blueprints at the
heart of the case were not for a
pocket heater after all. They in-
stead showed a device that Dr. Xi
had invented and said he shared
with Chinese researchers as part
of normal academic collaboration.
The Justice Department
dropped the charges and has re-
turned all the evidence it seized,
his lawyers said. The underlying
evidence that made agents suspi-
cious and justified has never been
made public.
Dr. Xi’s lawsuit asserts that the
F.B.I. agent, Andrew Haugen,
knew what the blueprints showed
from the beginning. Lawyers for
Dr. Xi said that an inventor of the
pocket heater told Mr. Haugen
that he had misread the blue-
prints.
“It’s like comparing a mi-
crowave to a toaster,” said David
Rudovsky, one of Dr. Xi’s lawyers.
“They’re completely different
technologies but, well, they both
warm food. It was on that level
that the government got the sci-
ence wrong.”
A spokesman for the F.B.I. de-
clined to comment on the lawsuit.
Federal agents are immune from
most lawsuits related to their jobs,
and Mr. Haugen can argue that
the lawsuit should be dismissed
on that ground. Dr. Xi is suing for
violations of his constitutional
rights. The Supreme Court has
said people can sue individual
government employees like police
officers and F.B.I. agents for such
alleged violations.
Dr. Xi came to the United States
in 1989 and is a naturalized Ameri-
can citizen. He has always main-
tained his innocence and said he
knew the agents had conflated the
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Change at the F.B.I.
Firing Could Grind
Republican Agenda
In Congress to a Halt
WASHINGTON — President
Trump’s stunning firing of the
F.B.I. director, James B. Comey,
injected another volatile ingredi-
ent into the partisanship already
engulfing the
CARL capital and
threatened to
HULSE overwhelm Repub-
lican efforts to
ON convert their
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government con-
trol into legislative success.
The decision to oust Mr.
Comey also increased the
prospect of another confirmation
fight in the Senate, as Mr. Trump
promised to move quickly to
replace Mr. Comey, who had
overseen the inquiry into Rus-
sian meddling in the election.
And the White House’s handling
of the dismissal — and apparent
failure to anticipate the severe
backlash it would generate —
renewed questions about the
competence of administration
officials and their ability to navi-
gate Washington.
After the House finally man-
aged to pass a Republican health
care proposal last week, divisive
as it was, congressional Republi-
cans suddenly found themselves
trying to explain how Mr. Trump
was within his rights in jettison-
ing Mr. Comey. Democrats
quickly coalesced around a push
for a special prosecutor to take
control of the Russia inquiry,
saying the leadership of the
Justice Department could not be
trusted with the job after the
termination of the F.B.I. chief on
what they considered spurious
grounds.
“Clearly, the time is now for an
independent prosecutor,” Sena-
tor Christopher Murphy, Demo-
crat of Connecticut, said
Wednesday. “The Senate, de-
signed by the founding fathers
as the guardian of democratic
norms, must now rise to meet
the gravity of this moment.”
To emphasize that gravity,
Senator Chuck Schumer of New
York, the Democratic leader,
summoned his colleagues to sit
at their desks as the Senate
convened Wednesday morning
to take in whatever the majority
leader, Senator Mitch McCon-
nell, Republican of Kentucky,
had to say about the firing.
Sense of Crisis Deepens in Washington as Trump and Allies Offer No Regrets
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low from months of being pum-
meled over dueling investigations
surrounding the 2016 presidential
election.
Mr. Trump plans to go to the
F.B.I. headquarters in Washing-
ton on Friday as a show of his com-
mitment to the bureau, an official
said, though he is not expected to
discuss the Russia investigation.
The president and his allies ex-
pressed no regrets over Mr.
Comey’s removal, insisting that
F.B.I. agents had been clamoring
for it. Mr. Trump’s decision, they
said, was unrelated to Mr. Co-
mey’s oversight of the investiga-
tion into Russian meddling and
possible connections to Trump
advisers.
In an email to F.B.I. agents on
Wednesday, Mr. Comey said he
would not dwell on the reasons for
his firing or how it was carried out.
“I have long believed that a
president can fire an F.B.I. direc-
tor for any reason, or for no reason
at all,” he wrote in the email, which
a law enforcement official read to
The New York Times on the condi-
tion of anonymity.
“I have said to you before that,
in times of turbulence, the Ameri-
can people should see the F.B.I. as
a rock of competence, honesty and
independence,” Mr. Comey wrote.
He added, “It is very hard to leave
a group of people who are commit-
ted only to doing the right thing.”
Top Justice Department offi-
cials were hurrying to install an
interim director to run the F.B.I.
while a permanent replacement
for Mr. Comey is chosen. Among
those under consideration for the
temporary role were several ca-
reer law enforcement officials, in-
cluding Andrew G. McCabe, who
was named acting director upon
Mr. Comey’s firing.
White House officials refused to
comment on reports that, days be-
fore he was fired, Mr. Comey had
asked the Justice Department for
a significant increase in resources
for the Russia investigation. Dem-
ocrats cited the news of Mr. Co-
mey’s request as added reason to
be suspicious about the presi-
dent’s motive for firing him.
“Was this really about some-
thing else?” Senator Chuck Schu-
mer of New York, the Democratic
leader, asked in remarks on the
Senate floor.
Adam Goldman and Maggie Ha-
berman contributed reporting.
Mr. Schumer also requested
that Mr. McConnell call a closed-
door and possibly classified
all-senators briefing with top
Justice Department officials on
the state of the investigation.
Such a session could underscore
what Democrats view as the
seriousness of the president’s
decision and give senators in
both parties a private opportuni-
ty to confront their differences.
But if Democrats were hoping
that the uproar surrounding the
firing was going to push Mr.
McConnell in their direction,
they were badly mistaken.
Although other senior Repub-
licans expressed some misgiv-
ings about the firing, the major-
ity leader showed no sign of
budging or joining the call for a
special prosecutor. Instead, he
said that any new investigation
would only impede current in-
quiries being conducted by the
House and Senate Intelligence
Committees and the F.B.I. He
also noted that Democrats, in-
cluding Mr. Schumer himself,
had made clear their dissatisfac-
tion with Mr. Comey over the
inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s
email practices during the presi-
dential campaign.
“This is what we have now,”
Mr. McConnell said. “Our
Democratic colleagues com-
plaining about the removal of an
F.B.I. director whom they them-
selves repeatedly and sharply
criticized.”
Mr. McConnell also issued a
veiled warning to Democrats,
who are likely to try to use the
confirmation hearing for a new
F.B.I. director to air their griev-
ances about the firing and push
for a special prosecutor if one is
not in place by then. He said
Senate Republicans anticipated
a “full, fair and timely” confirma-
tion of the person selected by
Mr. Trump to take over the
agency.
But Democrats were already
setting the stage for a confirma-
tion showdown. “The Senate
must stand firm,” Senator Mi-
chael Bennet, Democrat of Col-
orado, wrote in a post on Twitter.
“We will only confirm an FBI
Director who pledges a vigorous
investigation of Russian interfer-
ence & connections.”
“Nothing less is at stake than
the American people’s faith in our
criminal justice system and the in-
tegrity of the executive branch of
our government,” he said.
The outrage over Mr. Comey’s
firing was a political turnabout for
many Democrats, who had previ-
ously expressed anger and frus-
tration at his handling of the in-
vestigation into Hillary Clinton’s
use of a private email server when
she was secretary of state. It was
that investigation that Mr. Trump
cited as the reason for dismissing
Mr. Comey.
Days before last fall’s election,
Mr. Comey announced that the
F.B.I. was examining newly found
emails potentially related to the
investigation. “I do not have confi-
dence in him any longer,” Mr.
Schumer said at the time.
“I am asking that he step down,”
Representative Steve Cohen,
Democrat of Tennessee, said.
Many Democrats, including
Mrs. Clinton, have since placed
much of the blame for her loss on
Mr. Comey’s actions.
On Wednesday, in a series of
visceral posts on Twitter, Mr.
Trump seized on those earlier
comments to highlight Mr. Co-
mey’s “scandals.” He also sug-
gested that Senator Richard Blu-
menthal, Democrat of Connecti-
cut, be investigated, moments af-
ter Mr. Blumenthal appeared on
television to condemn the presi-
dent’s action.
An ouster creates a
maelstrom at the
F.B.I. and Capitol.
“Watching Senator Richard
Blumenthal speak of Comey is a
joke,” Mr. Trump wrote. “‘Richie’
devised one of the greatest mili-
tary frauds in U.S. history.”
For years, “as a pol in Connecti-
cut, Blumenthal would talk of his
great bravery and conquests in
Vietnam — except he was never
there,” Mr. Trump added. When
“caught, he cried like a baby and
begged for forgiveness . . . and
now he is judge & jury. He should
be the one who is investigated for
his acts.”
The president was referring to a
2010 article in The Times that said
Mr. Blumenthal had presented
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Despite Mr. McConnell’s ef-
forts to move past the firing,
Democrats and some Republi-
cans are going to be unwilling to
do so. The bipartisan leadership
of the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee invited Mr. Comey to
testify next week, and on
Wednesday, Senator Rob Port-
man, Republican of Ohio, was
among those in the president’s
party challenging the White
House’s explanation.
“Given the timing and circum-
stances of the decision, I believe
the White House should provide
A protest erupted on Wednesday over the firing of James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I.
himself as a Vietnam veteran dur-
ing his first Senate campaign,
when he had actually served in
the Marine Reserves at home and
never gone to war. The story did
not say that Mr. Blumenthal had
boasted of bravery or conquests.
Republican leaders echoed Mr.
Trump’s Twitter attacks on Demo-
crats throughout the day. At one
point, the president wrote that his
adversaries were pretending to be
aggrieved by Mr. Comey’s firing.
“Phony hypocrites!” Mr. Trump
wrote, signaling the growing frus-
tration inside the White House
about the backlash.
Senator Mitch McConnell, Re-
publican of Kentucky — who, as
majority leader, wields vast power
over the focus of the Senate — de-
fended the decision. Many other
top Republicans agreed.
Senator Richard M. Burr, Re-
publican of North Carolina and
chairman of the Intelligence Com-
mittee, stopped short of directly
criticizing the president. But his
committee announced that it had
issued its first subpoena to de-
mand records from Michael T.
Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former na-
tional security adviser, in connec-
tion with his emails, phone calls,
meetings and financial dealings
with Russians. It was an ag-
gressive new tack for what had
been a slow-moving inquiry.
JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS
a fuller explanation regarding
the president’s rationale,” he
said.
Democrats view this as an
opportunity to force the appoint-
ment of a special prosecutor,
which they have sought since
serious questions were first
raised about Russian meddling
in the election. They have, at
least for the moment, relegated
their push for a special congres-
sional committee or independent
commission to the back burner.
Though most Republicans
continued to oppose the idea of a
Vice President Mike Pence defended the move on Capitol Hill,
where at least a half-dozen Republicans expressed concerns.
The maelstrom is sure to sap
the Senate’s time and energy, de-
tracting from a Republican agen-
da that includes a budget, health
care, a tax overhaul and infra-
structure.
“Today, we’ll no doubt hear calls
for a new investigation,” Mr. Mc-
Connell said on the Senate floor as
most Democrats looked on. He
predicted that such a move could
“only serve to impede the current
work being done.”
Above, Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, at the
Capitol after meeting Wednesday with fellow Democrats about
President Trump’s firing of the F.B.I. director. At left, Senator
Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, defended Mr. Trump.
special prosecutor, some small
cracks in the resistance gave
Democrats hope that they could
prevail while, at a minimum,
forcing Republicans to defend
their opposition to the public.
The tension over Mr. Comey is
certain to spill into other issues
and could make it harder for
Republicans to maintain the
unity they need if lawmakers are
leery of the president. As if on
cue, they suffered an embarrass-
ing defeat on an attempt to roll
back an Obama administration
environmental rule on Wednes-
day when three Senate Republi-
cans broke with the party. The
fight is also likely to color the
coming consideration of Mr.
Trump’s nominees to the federal
bench: The White House an-
nounced a slate of conservative
judges this week, and this is one
area where it could have some
success. There could also be an
impact on the administration’s
emerging plan for major tax
cuts.
All in all, the firing turned
Washington on its head and
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In the House, the Republican
chairman of the Oversight and Re-
form Committee asked the Justice
Department’s inspector general
to review Mr. Comey’s firing. The
chairman, Representative Jason
Chaffetz of Utah, said the review
would be included in an internal
Justice Department inquiry into
the F.B.I.’s disclosure of its investi-
gation of Mrs. Clinton’s emails be-
fore the election.
Despite their concerns about
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resurrected a sense of adminis-
tration scandals past, with their
drumbeat of calls for special
prosecutors and swirling ques-
tions about exactly who did what
when.
Though Democrats can keep
public pressure on Republicans,
their minority status limits their
ability to force action. They can
slow the Senate to a crawl, as
they tried to do Wednesday by
refusing to give consent to hold-
ing a daylong slate of hearings.
But changes in Senate practices
instituted by Democrats in 2013
mean that a new F.B.I. director
can ultimately be put in office on
a straight majority vote.
Still, the firing presented a
formidable new distraction for a
White House and congressional
Republicans struggling badly to
deliver on their pledge to enact a
conservative agenda. They
already faced opposition from
Democrats with little trust in the
president’s motives or inten-
tions. The sudden departure of
Mr. Comey made a bad situation
much worse.
Mr. Comey’s actions last year,
Democrats said his dismissal
evoked the days of President
Richard M. Nixon, who ordered
the firing of the special prosecutor
looking into the Watergate case.
They called for the appointment of
a special counsel to lead the Rus-
sia inquiry.
Democrats exerted as much
pressure as they could on their
Republican colleagues on Wed-
nesday, using procedural moves
available to the minority to block
or delay hearings on Russia,
cybersecurity, presidential no-
minees and several other matters.
When Senator Susan Collins,
Republican of Maine, asked for
unanimous consent to permit a
scheduled meeting of the Special
Committee on Aging, Mr. Schu-
mer objected. Ms. Collins, clearly
angry, said: “This makes no sense
whatsoever. This is an example of
the dysfunction of the Senate.”
For months, Republican law-
makers have been left to defend,
sometimes haltingly, presidential
behavior they often strain to un-
derstand or support. But even
some of Mr. Trump’s most vocal
defenders questioned the timing
of the firing.
“It surely would have been sim-
pler and cleaner to do so in Janu-
ary,” said Senator Ted Cruz, Re-
publican of Texas, who defended
Mr. Comey’s removal nonetheless.
White House officials said that
Mr. Trump had been considering
firing Mr. Comey since the day he
was elected president.
But though Mr. Trump had lost
confidence in Mr. Comey, the Jus-
tice Department’s recommenda-
tion to fire him was not ordered by
the president, a White House
spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, said.
Ms. Sanders said that Rod J.
Rosenstein, the deputy attorney
general, had acted on his own
when he recommended to Mr.
Trump during a meeting on Mon-
day that Mr. Comey be dismissed.
At that meeting, the president di-
rected Mr. Rosenstein to put the
recommendation into writing, Ms.
Sanders said.
After meeting with the Russian
officials, Mr. Trump said he had
fired Mr. Comey because “he was-
n’t doing a good job.”
“Very simply — he was not do-
ing a good job,” he said.
Asked whether the furor over
the firing had affected his meeting
with Mr. Lavrov, Mr. Trump said,
“Not at all.”

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James B. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., has been invited to testify in a closed session with Senate investigators. He has not yet said whether he will attend.
Days Before Firing, Comey Sought Aid for Russia Inquiry
From Page A1
Russian investigation.
Senator Richard M. Burr of
North Carolina, the Republican
chairman of the Intelligence Com-
mittee, and Senator Mark Warner
of Virginia, the Democratic vice
chairman, also invited Mr. Comey
to testify in a closed session — a
setting that would allow Mr.
Comey to discuss classified infor-
mation and any meetings he held
with superiors at the Justice De-
partment or with Mr. Trump. Mr.
Comey has not yet said whether
he will attend.
The Senate’s rush to press for-
ward with its investigation set up
a potential showdown with the
Trump administration over the fu-
ture of the F.B.I. investigation.
While it appears unlikely that the
Justice Department or the White
House would move to shutter the
investigation outright, the presi-
dent and other administration of-
ficials have called for it to end,
sowing concerns at the F.B.I. and
among some in Congress that it
could be starved of needed re-
sources.
Still, the White House insists
that Mr. Comey’s dismissal had
nothing to do with the Russia in-
vestigations, and Sarah Isgur Flo-
res, the Justice Department
spokeswoman, said that “the idea
that he asked for more funding”
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Charlie
Savage contributed reporting.
FACT CHECK
White House Offers
Justifications for Firing
By LINDA QIU
The White House, in its efforts
to defend the firing of the F.B.I.
director, James B. Comey, has
alleged Democratic hypocrisy
over the decision and cited a
letter from Deputy Attorney
General Rod J. Rosenstein to
justify it.
Mr. Rosenstein noted that Mr.
Comey’s handling of the investi-
gation into Hillary Clinton’s use
of a private email server had
earned bipartisan criticism and
was out of step with Justice
Department protocol.
But these arguments are not
new, leading many to question
what exactly prompted Mr.
Comey’s dismissal.
Here’s an assessment of the
White House’s responses to that
question.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
deputy press secretary, said Mr.
Rosenstein had acted alone and
followed protocol.
“This is something that, as
coming into this new position and
being a person that would oversee
the director of the F.B.I., that
would be part of this process, to
do a review and to make a recom-
mendation based on that review.”
NO EVIDENCE The deputy attor-
ney general does oversee the
F.B.I. and its director, but there is
no evidence that it is typical for a
new deputy to conduct a review.
The Justice Department does
not list a routine review of the
F.B.I. — or any other oversight
for the Russia inquiry was “totally
false.” She did not elaborate.
But Democrats were uncon-
vinced, and Mr. Comey’s firing
was quickly taken up as Exhibit A
in the case for the Justice Depart-
ment to appoint a special prosecu-
tor to take over the case.
“I’m told that as soon as Rosen-
stein arrived, there was a request
for additional resources for the in-
vestigation, and that a few days
afterward, he was sacked,” said
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Demo-
crat of Illinois. “I think the Comey
operation was breathing down the
neck of the Trump campaign and
their operatives, and this was an
effort to slow down the investiga-
tion.”
According to the congressional
officials, the Senate Intelligence
Committee learned of Mr.
Comey’s request on Monday
when Senators Burr and Warner
asked the F.B.I. director to meet
with them. They wanted him to ac-
celerate the bureau’s investiga-
tion so they could press forward
with theirs. Congressional investi-
gators do not have the authority to
collect intelligence that agencies
like the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.
possess.
Mr. Rosenstein is the most sen-
ior law enforcement official super-
vising the Russia investigation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-
cused himself because of his close
ties to the Trump campaign and
his undisclosed meetings with
Russia’s ambassador to the
United States.
protocols — on its website detail-
ing the duties of the deputy.
Former prosecutors told The
New York Times they were not
aware of such reviews happen-
ing under other new deputy
attorneys general.
“What is most certainly not
routine is for the deputy attorney
general to take on the role of
investigating contested allega-
tions of misconduct by D.O.J.
personnel, let alone the director
of the F.B.I. That job falls to the
D.O.J.’s Office of Inspector Gen-
eral,” said Lauren Ouziel, a law
professor at Temple University
and an expert in institutional
dynamics in investigations.
The Justice Department’s
inspector general launched its
own inquiry into Mr. Comey’s
actions in January. The Times
has reported that President
Trump himself initiated Mr.
Comey’s ouster.
She called reactions from
Democrats “the purest form of
hypocrisy.”
“Most of the people declaring
war today were the very ones that
were begging for Director Comey
to be fired.”
THIS NEEDS CONTEXT Democrats
have certainly criticized Mr.
Comey, but very few have called
for his sacking.
The White House pointed to
several comments made by
Senator Chuck Schumer of New
York, the Democratic leader. Mr.
Schumer said he was “appalled”
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At the meeting with the sena-
tors, Mr. Comey said he had made
the request because he believed
the Justice Department had not
dedicated enough resources to the
investigation, a fact partly stem-
ming from the unusual situation
under which the inquiry was be-
ing run. Until two weeks ago,
when Mr. Rosenstein took over as
deputy attorney general, the in-
vestigation was being overseen
by Dana Boente, who was acting
as the deputy and had limited
power.
As recently as last week, Mr.
Comey said he hoped he would
A request for help to
the official whose
memo would be used
to justify his dismissal.
find a supportive boss in Mr.
Rosenstein. In congressional tes-
timony last week, Mr. Comey
called Mr. Rosenstein “a very in-
dependent-minded, career-ori-
ented person” and said he had
briefed Mr. Rosenstein on the Rus-
sia investigation on his first day in
office.
To a president who puts a pre-
mium on loyalty, Mr. Comey repre-
sented a fiercely independent offi-
cial who wielded enormous power.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House deputy press secretary, briefed reporters Wednesday.
by Mr. Comey’s actions, that he
had “lost confidence” in him and
that Mrs. Clinton would have
won the election “if Comey was-
n’t there.” But he did not say that
Mr. Comey should be fired.
Representative Nancy Pelosi,
the House minority leader, said
shortly before the election that
Mr. Comey was perhaps “not in
the right job,” but declined to
state whether he should resign
or be fired.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Inde-
pendent of Vermont, said “it
would not be a bad thing for the
American people if he did step
down,” — a more tempered re-
mark than Ms. Sanders’ charac-
terization.
Representative Steve Cohen of
Tennessee is one of the only
But if the White House was hoping
Mr. Comey’s firing would provide
relief from the pressure of the
Russia investigations, the Senate
Intelligence Committee appeared
eager to fill any temporary void.
Late last month, it asked a num-
ber of high-profile Trump cam-
paign associates to hand over
emails and other records of deal-
ings with Russians, and the com-
mittee’s subpoena of Mr. Flynn on
Wednesday made good on its
threat to legally compel anyone
who failed to voluntarily comply
with its request.
Russia’s efforts to meddle in the
presidential election are also
likely to be a focus of the Senate
Intelligence Committee’s annual
hearing on worldwide threats on
Thursday, which is ordinarily a
wider-ranging and policy-focused
event.
Also on Wednesday, Mr. Burr
and Mr. Warner asked the Treas-
ury Department’s Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network for
financial information on Mr.
Trump and some of his associates
that was relevant to the Russia in-
vestigation.
Both Mr. Warner and Senator
Ron Wyden of Oregon — the rank-
ing Democrat on the Finance
Committee with jurisdiction over
the Treasury Department and
also a member of the Intelligence
Committee — have said they will
block the confirmation of Sigal
Mandelker, Mr. Trump’s nominee
to be the top Treasury official for
terrorism and financial crimes,
congressional Democrats to have
explicitly called for Mr. Comey to
resign. Senator Harry Reid of
Nevada, the former minority
leader, did so as well before he
retired.
She claimed Mr. Comey’s
congressional testimony last
week was among the reasons for
his dismissal.
“I think one of the big things
that took place was the process
and the hearing on Wednesday.”
THIS IS MISLEADING In a press
briefing Wednesday afternoon,
Ms. Sanders was asked why
Sean Spicer, the White House
press secretary, had said “the
president has confidence in the
GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
until the network delivers the in-
formation.
“I have stated repeatedly that
we have to follow the money if we
are going to get to the bottom of
how Russia has attacked our de-
mocracy,” Mr. Wyden said on
Wednesday. “That means thor-
oughly review any information
that relates to financial connec-
tions between Russia and Presi-
dent Trump and his associates,
whether direct or laundered
through hidden or illicit transac-
tions.”
The little-known bureau, which
operates out of a toilet bowl-
shaped building in the suburbs of
Washington, serves as the finan-
cial intelligence network of the
United States, gathering and
maintaining a vast collection of
data on transactions and suspi-
cious financial activity that can
yield valuable leads and help ex-
pose hard-to-find networks.
The financial crimes network
would not confirm its participa-
tion in the inquiry, in line with its
policy not to comment on investi-
gations or even confirm that they
exist, said Steve Hudak, a spokes-
man.
But financial intelligence ex-
perts, including several former
employees of the bureau, said its
database, which contains more
than 200 million records, can be a
treasure trove of information
about financial ties between indi-
viduals and companies for law en-
forcement agencies pursuing
complex investigations.
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
director” as recently as last
week.
She replied that new develop-
ments, including Mr. Comey’s
testimony last Wednesday, had
altered the president’s opinion.
But her timeline presents some
question marks.
Mr. Comey testified to Con-
gress the morning of May 3, and
remarked at about 12:45 p.m.
that he had decided to speak
directly to the news media about
Mrs. Clinton’s emails in July
after then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch met with former
President Bill Clinton.
Mr. Spicer’s briefing did not
begin until 2:25 p.m. that day.
During the briefing, he said that
the president still had confidence
in Mr. Comey.
N A13
Firing Puts
Public Split
Over Media
On Display
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
On CNN, the legal journalist
Jeffrey Toobin was in red-alert
mode, denouncing President
Trump’s firing of the F.B.I. direc-
tor, James B. Comey, as “a gro-
tesque abuse of power” and “the
kind of thing that goes on in non-
democracies.”
Over on Fox News, the mood
was more sanguine — even cele-
bratory. “This was overdue, and
everyone in Washington knows
that,” Tucker Carlson declared at
the top of his broadcast before in-
troducing a series of guests who
echoed his excitement.
The nation’s political divide has
been on full display in the news
media in the hours since Mr.
Comey’s abrupt ejection from his
post on Tuesday evening — and
the lines are brighter than ever.
By Wednesday, the left-leaning
HuffPost featured a one-word, all-
capital headline: “Nixonian.” The
right-leaning Breitbart News ap-
provingly declared Mr. Trump’s
move “the latest in a political out-
sider’s crusade against en-
trenched Washington.”
In an interview that dominated
its home page on Wednesday, Bre-
itbart quoted a former assistant
director of the bureau, James Kall-
strom, saying of Mr. Comey, “He
threw the reputation of the F.B.I.
under the bus.” Mr. Kallstrom was
also a guest on Fox News on Tues-
day, telling the anchor Martha
MacCallum that Mr. Comey
“danced with the devil.”
Rachel Maddow’s monologue
on MSNBC invoked the firing of
Archibald Cox, President Richard
M. Nixon’s special prosecutor
during the Watergate scandal, one
of many comparisons to Nixon’s
so-called Saturday Night Massa-
cre in the traditional news media.
The political divide
over journalists’ role is
now especially wide.
She then raised serious concerns
that Mr. Trump was interfering
with an investigation into his cam-
paign’s ties to Russia.
Sean Hannity of Fox News ex-
pressed deep gratitude for the
president’s action — “Comey
Fired!!! Finally,” he posted on
Twitter — and he said on the air
that he hoped Mr. Comey’s re-
placement would reopen an inves-
tigation into Hillary Clinton’s
emails. Fox News initially re-
ported that Mr. Comey had re-
signed before correcting itself
minutes later to make clear he
was dismissed.
The Fox News worldview was
echoed on Wednesday in the
White House briefing room,
where Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
the deputy press secretary, de-
fended Mr. Trump’s decision and
denounced Mr. Comey as having
“shown a lot of missteps and mis-
takes.”
Ms. Sanders was substituting
for her boss, Sean Spicer, the
White House press secretary, who
had said late Tuesday that he
would be on previously scheduled
Navy Reserve duty for the rest of
the week. Ms. Sanders, in only her
second time at the lectern, was
smooth and assured under pres-
sure, mixing her answers with a
few deft jokes about her daugh-
ter’s birthday.
Still, she drew some criticism
for saying that Mr. Comey had
committed “atrocities” while lead-
ing the F.B.I., and White House
reporters were clearly skeptical
about her explanation that Mr.
Trump had merely asked Justice
Department officials to list their
concerns about Mr. Comey in writ-
ing, rather than explicitly order-
ing the director’s dismissal.
Into this ideological breach
came a bracing report on Wednes-
day from the Pew Research Cen-
ter that said that Democrats’ and
Republicans’ attitudes toward the
news media’s role in society were
more divided than at any point in
the last 30 years.
About 89 percent of Democrats
said the news media played a
watchdog role in holding political
leaders to account. About 42 per-
cent of Republicans said the same.
That gap — 47 percentage points
— was the widest ever recorded in
the Pew survey, which stretches
back more than three decades.
The gap is also a sharp contrast
from only a year ago. In the first
months of 2016, 74 percent of
Democrats and 77 percent of Re-
publicans agreed on the watchdog
role of the news media, Pew said.
The presidential campaign sea-
son and the early days of the
Trump administration seem to
have fueled this divide. (The Pew
survey, conducted March 13 to 27
among 4,151 adults online, has a
margin of sampling error of plus
or minus 2.7 percentage points.)
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‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in a Firing

From Page A1
mitted by Mr. Comey during last
year’s investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s email. But in private,
aides said, Mr. Trump has been
nursing a collection of festering
grievances, including Mr.
Comey’s handling of the Russia in-
vestigation, his seeming lack of in-
terest in pursuing anti-Trump
leaks and the perceived disloyalty
over the wiretapping claim.
“He’d lost confidence in Direc-
tor Comey and, frankly, he’d been
considering letting Director
Comey go since the day he was
elected,” Ms. Huckabee Sanders
said.
Mr. Comey’s fate was sealed by
his latest testimony about the bu-
reau’s investigation into Russia’s
efforts to sway the 2016 election
and the Clinton email inquiry. Mr.
Trump burned as he watched, con-
vinced that Mr. Comey was grand-
standing. He was particularly
irked when Mr. Comey said he
was “mildly nauseous” to think
that his handling of the email case
had influenced the election, which
Mr. Trump took to demean his
own role in history.
At that point, Mr. Trump began
talking about firing him. He and
his aides thought they had an
opening because Mr. Comey gave
an incorrect account of how Huma
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Abedin, a top adviser to Mrs. Clin-
ton, transferred emails to her hus- Above, the White House on Tuesday. Mr. Trump initially discussed his decision to fire Mr. Comey
band’s laptop, an account the with a close circle, including Jared Kushner, left. Stephen K. Bannon, center, questioned whether
F.B.I. later corrected. the time was right, and Reince Priebus, center right, mulled similar concerns but was supportive.
At first, Mr. Trump, who is fond
of vetting his decisions with a blamed for Mrs. Clinton’s loss. had been his obsession over the a conclusion that the F.B.I. direc-
wide circle of staff members, Another Democrat he reached investigation Mr. Trump believes tor was wrong to announce
advisers and friends, kept his was Senator Dianne Feinstein of is threatening his larger agenda. shortly before the election that he
thinking to a small circle, venting California. “When I talked to the The White House was rocked by was re-examining the email case,
his anger to Vice President Mike president last night,” she recalled, the backlash to the announce- which would call into question the
Pence; the White House counsel, “he said: ‘The department’s a ment. Three senior White House legitimacy of Mr. Trump’s victory.
Donald F. McGahn II; and his son- mess. I asked Rosenstein and Ses- officials conceded that its public While Mr. Trump publicly in-
in-law, Jared Kushner, who all told sions to look into it. Rosenstein explanation was an unmitigated sisted that he had confidence in
him they generally backed dis- sent me a memo. I accepted the mess, blaming the communica- Mr. Comey, the hostility toward
missing Mr. Comey. recommendation to fire him.’” tions shop, with one describing it the F.B.I. director in the West
Another early sounding board Mrs. Feinstein noted that Mr. as the “weakest” element of the Wing in recent weeks was palpa-
was Keith Schiller, Mr. Trump’s Rosenstein had just been con- West Wing. ble, aides said, with advisers de-
longtime director of security and firmed by the Senate. “I mean, my Looking back, the two men may scribing an almost ritualistic need
now a member of the White House goodness. This is a man who’s have been destined to clash. Five to criticize the Russia investiga-
staff, who would later be tasked been there for two weeks. So I’m a days after Mr. Trump was elected, tion to assuage an anxious and an-
with delivering the manila bit turned off on Mr. Rosenstein.” he said in an interview on CBS’s gry president.
envelope containing Mr. Comey’s DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES In letters released Tuesday “60 Minutes” that he had not Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime in-
letter of dismissal to F.B.I. head- evening, Mr. Trump explained the made up his mind about keeping formal adviser to Mr. Trump who
quarters, an indication of just how cial. On Monday, Mr. Trump met events of Monday and Tuesday firing by citing Mr. Comey’s han- Mr. Comey. But during the transi- has been under F.B.I. scrutiny as
personal the matter was to the with Mr. Sessions and Deputy At- represented the start of a much- dling of the investigation into Mrs. tion, Mr. Trump and his aides part of the Russia inquiry, was
president. torney General Rod J. Rosenstein. needed weeklong respite from the Clinton’s use of a private email asked Mr. Comey to remain on as among those who urged the presi-
The chief strategist Stephen K. White House officials insisted Mr. staff’s nonstop work over the past server — a justification that was director. dent to fire Mr. Comey, people
Bannon, who has been sharply Sessions and Mr. Rosenstein were few months. rich in irony, White House officials Despite Mr. Trump’s apparent briefed on the discussions said.
critical of the F.B.I., questioned the ones who raised concerns As the announcement was im- acknowledged, considering that endorsement, Mr. Comey re- Mr. Trump denied on Twitter on
whether the time was right to dis- about Mr. Comey with the presi- minent, Mr. Trump called several as recently as two weeks ago, the mained skeptical about his future. Wednesday morning that he had
miss Mr. Comey, arguing that do- dent and that he told them to put congressional leaders from both president appeared at a rally He believed his unwillingness to spoken to Mr. Stone about the
ing it later would lessen the back- their recommendations in writ- parties to let them know. He where he was serenaded with put loyalty to Mr. Trump over his F.B.I. director, and Mr. Stone de-
lash, and urged him to delay, ac- ing. caught Senator Lindsey Graham, chants of “Lock her up!” role as F.B.I. director could ulti- clined to describe his interactions
cording to two people familiar At the same time, he signaled Republican of South Carolina, on On Wednesday, the president mately lead to his ouster. with the president in an interview.
with his thinking. Reince Priebus, his thinking on Twitter, essentially his mobile phone as the lawmaker and his staff added to their criti- “With a president who seems to But two longtime Trump
the White House chief of staff, at calling for the investigation into was walking home after a vote. cism of Mr. Comey’s conduct on prize personal loyalty above all associates with knowledge of the
one point mulled similar con- the Russian meddling to be halted. Mr. Graham told him that a fresh the Clinton inquiry to include a else and a director with absolute matter said the two had recently
cerns, but was supportive of the “The Russia-Trump collusion start was good for the F.B.I. wider denunciation of his per- commitment to the Constitution discussed their dissatisfaction
move to the president. story is a total hoax, when will this But Senator Chuck Schumer of formance. “He wasn’t doing a and pursuing investigations with Mr. Comey and his inquiry.
The Justice Department began taxpayer funded charade end?” New York, the Democratic leader good job,” Mr. Trump said. wherever the evidence led, a colli- Whatever the specifics, Mr.
working on Mr. Comey’s dismiss- he wrote on Monday afternoon. who had been harshly critical of Yet even in his letter to Mr. sion was bound to happen,” Daniel Stone ultimately reflected the
al. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Early Tuesday, he made his fi- Mr. Comey for his conduct during Comey, the president mentioned C. Richman, a close Comey advis- president’s view of Mr. Comey. As
instructed his deputies to come up nal decision, keeping many aides last year’s election, told Mr. the Russia inquiry, writing that “I er and former federal prosecutor, Mr. Stone put it shortly after the
with reasons to fire Mr. Comey, ac- in the dark until news of the firing Trump it would be a mistake. Mr. greatly appreciate you informing said on Wednesday. dismissal became public on Tues-
cording to a senior American offi- leaked out late in the afternoon. Trump seemed surprised by the me, on three separate occasions, Still, according to associates, day, “There was a sense in the
About an hour before the news reaction, possibly assuming that that I am not under investigation.” Mr. Comey thought the president White House, I believe, that
Matt Flegenheimer contributed re- broke, an administration official Democrats would be happy to re- And that reflected, White House was unlikely to get rid of him be- enough was enough when it came
porting. joked that the relatively news-free move the F.B.I. director some aides said, what they conceded cause that might be interpreted as to this guy.”

Inside F.B.I., a Darkening Mood and Rising Doubts About an Investigation

By ADAM GOLDMAN
and CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — These are
not happy times at the F.B.I.
Morale at the country’s premier
law enforcement agency plum-
meted months ago, after James B.
Comey, its director, revived the in-
vestigation into Hillary Clinton’s
use of a private email server in Oc-
tober and plunged the bureau
back into the political maelstrom
just before the election.
Then President Trump fired Mr.
Comey on Tuesday, saying he had
mishandled the Clinton investiga-
tion, and the mood darkened
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again.
Agents said they were stunned
that Mr. Trump would fire Mr.
Comey in the midst of an F.B.I. in-
vestigation into whether any of
the president’s associates had
conspired with Russia to swing
the election in favor of Mr. Trump.
Some said in interviews that news
of the firing felt like a gut punch.
Others wondered whether they
would be able to continue the in-
quiry.
One senior F.B.I. official said
that the president had severely
damaged his standing among
agents, many of whom are conser-
vative and supported Mr. Trump
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as a candidate. Agents were an- JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

gered by the way Mr. Trump fired
Mr. Comey, who learned of his dis-
missal from television reports
while he was in Los Angeles. They
called it disrespectful.
And agents flatly rejected the
assertion Wednesday by a White
House spokeswoman, Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, during a brief-
ing with reporters that the F.B.I.’s
rank-and-file supported the sud-
den firing of Mr. Comey.
A strained relationship with the
F.B.I. can make life difficult for a
president. The White House relies
Matt Apuzzo contributed reporting.
Agents say morale at the F.B.I. building in Washington, above, has taken a hit with the firing of its director. Paul Abbate, top right, of the bureau’s Criminal, Cyber,
Response and Services Branch, and Michael J. Anderson, who runs the Chicago field office, are two of the people being considered as an interim director.
on the bureau for regular security tion — and as loyal to Mr. Comey. a veteran F.B.I. agent and previ- tor. He is under consideration for Criminal, Cyber, Response and
updates and for unvarnished in- But if firing Mr. Comey was ous deputy director who was at the role of interim director, who Services Branch; and Michael J.
formation during crises. meant to help restore the bureau’s Mr. Comey’s side as he navigated will stay in place until Mr. Trump’s Anderson and Adam Lee, who run
The Justice Department was credibility and put the work force the politically perilous currents of eventual nominee is confirmed by the Chicago and Richmond, Va.,
rushing to put in place an interim at ease about the F.B.I.’s future, as the Clinton and Russia investiga- the Senate, the Justice Depart- field offices, respectively.
director, with Attorney General Justice Department officials said, tions that ultimately brought him ment official said. The official cautioned that the
Jeff Sessions and the deputy attor- it has had the opposite effect. down. Mr. McCabe held confer- The four candidates being inter- list was not exhaustive.
ney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, “People are stunned right now,” ence calls with the F.B.I.’s top viewed Wednesday for the inter- Whatever happens, another
expected to interview at least four said Frank Montoya Jr., a former agents late Tuesday and on im role were William Evanina, the senior F.B.I. official said stoically,
candidates on Wednesday, a de- senior F.B.I. official. An F.B.I. Wednesday and told them to stay director of the National Counter- the bureau will continue to inves-
partment official said. All are well- spokesman declined to comment focused on their work. It was to be intelligence and Security Center tigate crimes. The day Mr. Comey
regarded within the F.B.I. and are about bureau morale. business as usual, he said. at the Office of the Director of Na- was fired was no different from
seen as unlikely to allow politics to For the moment, the bureau is It is not clear whether Mr. Mc- tional Intelligence; Paul Abbate, the day before, the official in-
influence the Russian investiga- being run by Andrew G. McCabe, Cabe will stay on as acting direc- assistant director of the F.B.I.’s sisted.

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Trump’s Meeting With Russian Foreign Minister Comes at Awkward Time
By DAVID E. SANGER
and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
WASHINGTON — What a day
for President Trump’s first face-
to-face meeting with a top Rus-
sian official.
Only hours after dismissing
James B. Comey as director of the
F.B.I., amid an investigation into
the Trump campaign’s contacts
with Russian officials, the presi-
dent met with Russia’s foreign
minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, at the
White House. The Russian ambas-
sador to the United States, Sergey
I. Kislyak — best known to many
Americans as the man who dis-
cussed lifting sanctions on Russia
with Mr. Trump’s former national
security adviser — was also in the
Oval Office for the meeting.
The world’s only glimpse of this
session came from the Russian
news agency Tass, which distrib-
uted photos of the meeting, with a
grinning Mr. Trump shaking
hands with the two visitors. No
reporters were allowed in to ask
questions — though they were
ushered in minutes later for Mr.
Trump’s session with Henry A.
Kissinger, the former secretary of
state.
And, at the State Department,
there was no briefing on an earlier
meeting between Mr. Lavrov and
Secretary of State Rex W. Tiller-
son. Mr. Tillerson is famously re-
luctant to talk with the press. So
that left the field clear for Mr.
Lavrov, who has now sat opposite
four American secretaries of state
and knows how to work the news
media well, to describe the con-
versations.
And he did exactly that, inviting
reporters to the Russian Embassy
in Washington while Mr. Tillerson
said almost nothing.
The firing of Mr. Comey was the
main subject from the start: When
Mr. Tillerson greeted his Russian
counterpart in the diplomatic re-
ception room on the seventh floor
of the State Department, a report-
er shouted a question about
whether Mr. Comey’s dismissal
“cast a shadow” on the meeting.
Mr. Lavrov, known for a puckish
sense of humor, shot back: “Was
he fired? You’re kidding! You’re
kidding!” He then disappeared
into Mr. Tillerson’s office.
For all of Mr. Lavrov’s jovial
spin, though, the optics were not
what the Kremlin had in mind.
Instead of basking in the glow of
questions focused on Russia’s
plans to bring peace to Syria, Mr.
Lavrov faced a battery of queries
about the effect of the Comey fir-
ing on relations with Russia. Mr.
Lavrov last visited Washington in
2013.
“They view this as an uncom-
fortable distraction that pushes
the Russia story up a few steps,”
said Vladimir Frolov, a foreign-
policy analyst and columnist. “It
escalates the feeding frenzy.”
Mr. Trump’s decision to sack
Mr. Comey and then meet Mr.
Lavrov and Mr. Kislyak the next
morning — while cable television
David E. Sanger reported from
Washington, and Neil MacFar-
quhar from Moscow. Sophia
Kishkovsky contributed reporting
from Moscow.
Career Prosecutor Faces
Political Baptism by Fire
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
WASHINGTON — Before he
was confirmed last month as dep-
uty attorney general, the nation’s
No. 2 law enforcement official,
Rod J. Rosenstein was cast as an
evenhanded career prosecutor
who had transcended partisan
politics.
“Political affiliation is irrele-
vant to my work,” Mr. Rosenstein
said at his confirmation hearing in
March, pledging to impartially
handle the Justice Department in-
vestigation into possible ties be-
tween the Trump campaign and
Russia, which he would oversee.
“It’s my job to make sure that all
investigations are conducted in-
dependently.”
Now, Mr. Rosenstein, a former
United States attorney in Mary-
land who served under Presidents
Barack Obama and George W.
Bush, has been thrust into the cen-
ter of a bitter political firestorm
over his pivotal role in President
Trump’s decision on Tuesday to
fire James B. Comey as director of
the F.B.I.
Mr. Rosenstein wrote a three-
page memo that Mr. Trump cited
as the basis for the ouster, and he
met with Mr. Trump and Attorney
General Jeff Sessions on Monday
and discussed “reasons for re-
moving the director,” according to
the White House. People close to
Mr. Trump said the president had
been openly talking about firing
Mr. Comey for at least a week.
It was unclear Wednesday what
had prompted Mr. Rosenstein to
Jennifer Steinhauer and Matt Fle-
genheimer contributed reporting.
“Was he fired? You’re kidding!” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, joked about James Comey on Wednesday, when he met Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
news was showing wall-to-wall
coverage of the firing — was a sign
of amateurish scheduling, Mr.
Frolov argued.
But to Mr. Trump and adminis-
tration officials, solving the prob-
lem of the F.B.I. director was a
separate issue.
When Vladimir V. Putin, the
Russian president, was asked on
Wednesday about the implica-
tions of Mr. Comey’s firing, he
seemed to agree.
“We don’t have anything to do
with this,” Mr. Putin said. “Presi-
dent Trump is acting within his
competence, the Constitution and
the law. What do we have to do
with this?”
Mr. Putin then begged off to go
play in a gala hockey event he
founded. (The two teams con-
sisted of senior officials, oligarchs
and various hockey greats, with
Mr. Putin’s side winning, 17-6. The
Russian president scored seven
goals, and for some reason no-
body pushed him into the boards.)
Back in Washington, when Mr.
Lavrov was asked if he was re-
lieved that Mr. Comey had been
fired, given that the F.B.I. director
was pursuing accusations of Rus-
sian efforts to influence an Ameri-
can election, the foreign minister
laughed.
“I never thought I’d have to an-
swer such questions, all the more
write the memo, which enumerat-
ed ways in which Mr. Comey had
done “substantial harm” to the
reputation of the F.B.I. Mr. Rosen-
stein did not respond to inquiries.
But some of his former col-
leagues, who would not speak on
the record, and those who have
followed his career said they won-
dered how he, a prosecutor who
took pains to be apolitical, had be-
come the legitimizing force be-
hind Mr. Trump’s decision to dis-
miss Mr. Comey days after the
F.B.I. director had told Mr. Rosen-
stein that he wanted to put more
resources into the Russia investi-
gation.
“His reputation is a consum-
mate professional,” said Carl Tobi-
as, a professor at the University of
Richmond School of Law. “He’s a
career prosecutor who enjoyed a
very fine reputation for a very
long period. But how could he not
understand the politics? He is
part of the administration. How
could he be ignorant of that?”
Democratic lawmakers ex-
pressed surprise that Mr. Rosen-
stein’s recommendation had been
given such weight. “I mean, my
goodness — this is a man who’s
been there for two weeks,” Sena-
tor Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of
California, told reporters in the
basement of the Capitol. “I’m a bit
turned off on Mr. Rosenstein.”
Defenders of Mr. Trump’s deci-
sion seized on Mr. Rosenstein’s
reputation for nonpartisanship as
crucial validation for the firing.
“He was supported by Republi-
cans and Democrats,” Senator
Charles E. Grassley, Republican of
Iowa and the chairman of the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee, said of
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in the United States of America,
with your greatly developed
democratic and political system,”
he said, a tinge of sarcasm in his
voice.
He said Russia was aware that
relations with the United States
were sputtering against an “ab-
A day after the F.B.I.
director’s firing amid
an inquiry into the
president’s campaign.
normal background” and all the
“noise” raised about the nature of
those relations.
“I think that it is even degrading
for the American people to hear
that Russia is managing the do-
mestic policy of the U.S.,” Mr.
Lavrov said. “How can a great na-
tion, a great country, succumb to
this and think in such catego-
ries?”
Then he was asked again about
the firing and whether Mr. Trump
had raised concerns about Rus-
sian behavior. He paused and then
said, “We spoke with President
Trump about concrete things and
did not touch on this bacchanalia.”
Rod J. Rosenstein, center, at his confirmation hearing to be deputy attorney general in March.
Mr. Rosenstein on Wednesday. “I
presume you’ve got to have confi-
dence in Rosenstein.”
In his memo, Mr. Rosenstein
criticized Mr. Comey for announc-
ing in July that the investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s email use
would be closed without prosecu-
tion while calling her “extremely
careless” in her handling of classi-
fied information. It was not Mr.
Comey’s role to make such a de-
termination, Mr. Rosenstein said,
but rather the attorney general’s.
“Derogatory information some-
times is disclosed in the course of
criminal investigations and prose-
cutions,” Mr. Rosenstein wrote,
“but we never release it gratu-
itously.”
But former federal prosecutors
who worked with Mr. Rosenstein
in Maryland said that while his
central role in the political turmoil
was unusual, the objections he
Mr. Trump told reporters he had
a “very, very good meeting” and
that both nations wanted to end
“the killing — the horrible, horri-
ble killing in Syria as soon as pos-
sible and everybody is working to-
ward that end.”
He offered no thoughts on
whether the United States should
participate in “de-escalation
zones” in Syria, part of a proposal
by Russia to designate certain re-
gions as safe areas for refugees.
Mr. Lavrov said that “the devil is
always in the details,” and added
that “at this stage there is an
agreement in conceptual terms
and even to a certain degree in
practical terms in what regards
the geographical parameters of
these de-escalation zones.”
The United States has been un-
comfortable with the idea of par-
ticipating in security zones in Syr-
ia because of the involvement of
Iran, not to mention the govern-
ment of President Bashar al-As-
sad, in carrying out that plan.
Mr. Lavrov remained deter-
mined. “I think that the Ameri-
cans are also interested in this,” he
said. “We are proceeding from the
assumption that they will take an
initiative in this process.”
And he paid a compliment to the
Trump administration.
“Right now our dialogue is free
from the ideological bias that was
raised over how Mr. Comey had
behaved — making public state-
ments about an investigation “as
if it were a closing argument, but
without a trial” — were consistent
with his by-the-book philosophy.
“When prosecutors in this state
ask Rod for assistance, he does
not care if you are a ‘D’ or an ‘R,’”
Scott D. Shellenberger, the state’s
attorney in Baltimore County,
Md., and president of the Mary-
land State’s Attorneys’ Associa-
tion, wrote in a letter to the Senate
Judiciary Committee in advocat-
ing Mr. Rosenstein’s confirmation.
“He has only cared about making
this state a safer place.”
Paul J. Fishman, a former
United States attorney in New
Jersey, said Wednesday that he
had known Mr. Rosenstein for a
long time and called him “an expe-
rienced career prosecutor who’s
made hard decisions.”
characteristic of the Obama ad-
ministration,” Mr. Lavrov said.
“The Trump administration, the
president himself and the secre-
tary of state, I have become con-
vinced of this once again, are peo-
ple who mean business. They
want to reach agreements.”
He said that American sanc-
tions on Russia related to events
in Ukraine — the United States ac-
cuses Moscow of aggression there
— were not discussed, and his an-
noyance showed as the questions
continued.
“I just answered that President
Trump says publicly that this is all
fiction,” he said. “Put at least one
fact on the table and then we can
at least react somehow.”
He concluded, “Guys, this is not
serious.”
Maxim Trudolyubov, a Russian
political analyst and a senior fel-
low with the Kennan Institute,
wrote on its blog that “politicians
of all colors will only increase
their scrutiny of the Russia
probe.” He added, “Journalists
will find it hard not to draw con-
nections between the Russia
probe and the Trump administra-
tion’s intensified contacts with
Russia.”
Mr. Kislyak, the Russian am-
bassador in Washington, has been
a central figure in the questions
surrounding the contacts between
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“The question isn’t whether
he’s capable of making this deci-
sion,” he said of the recommenda-
tion to fire Mr. Comey. “The ques-
tion is, given all that’s transpired,
will the country trust it?”
Mr. Rosenstein’s experience
with leak investigations, a stated
priority for Mr. Trump, may have
won him particular admiration
from Mr. Sessions, who first called
him in November about the job,
two months before Mr. Trump
nominated him to be deputy attor-
ney general.
Last year, Mr. Rosenstein won a
guilty plea in the high-profile leak
case of James E. Cartwright, a re-
tired four-star Marine general and
former vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Rosenstein,
along with another prosecutor,
was asked by Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr. to handle the in-
vestigation after the Obama ad-
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the Trump campaign and the
Kremlin. Michael T. Flynn was
forced to resign as national securi-
ty adviser in February after it was
revealed that he had talked to Mr.
Kislyak about lifting American
economic sanctions on Russia and
then lied about it to senior admin-
istration officials.
And Russia had clearly hoped
for some progress with the Trump
administration, especially on Syr-
ia, after Mr. Putin called Mr.
Trump last week to discuss the is-
sue.
“For now there are more ques-
tions than answers, and there was
likely a desire as it were to some-
how coordinate at least part of
these questions,” said Aleksei V.
Makarkin, the deputy head of the
Center for Political Technologies,
a think tank based in Moscow.
Whether anything concrete will
emerge from the meetings in
Washington is not yet clear, but in
Moscow, at least, the meeting
could be used to show that Russia
was welcome in the White House.
“For the Russian domestic audi-
ence,” said Mr. Frolov, the foreign-
policy analyst in Moscow, “it is a
demonstration that the approach
is working, that there is still hope
to work constructively with the
Trump administration, that
Putin’s foreign policy is working
great.”
A reputation for
being apolitical is
quickly tested.
ministration was accused of leak-
ing classified information on
cyberattacks and drone strikes to
reporters.
Mr. Rosenstein’s entire career
has been in government. After
graduating from the University of
Pennsylvania and Harvard Law
School, where he was an editor of
the Harvard Law Review, he
clerked for a federal judge, Doug-
las H. Ginsburg of the Court of Ap-
peals for the District of Columbia,
a Reagan appointee.
Mr. Rosenstein was appointed
United States attorney for the Dis-
trict of Maryland by Mr. Bush in
2005 and stayed on for all of the
Obama administration, a biparti-
san rarity among scores of United
States attorneys.
During his 12 years as the top
federal prosecutor in Maryland,
Mr. Rosenstein emphasized pros-
ecutions of violent crimes and saw
a bigger decrease in statewide
murders than the national aver-
age. He has stressed the impor-
tance of applying special scrutiny
to repeat offenders and of
collaborations among law en-
forcement agencies to stem crime.
At his confirmation hearing in
March, Mr. Rosenstein said that
he had learned to respond to diffi-
cult issues by considering three
questions.
The first, he said: “What can we
do?”
The second: “What should we
do?” He explained that law en-
forcement officials had to appreci-
ate “the intended and unintended
consequences” of their actions.
“The final question is,” he said,
“how will we explain it?”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Change at the F.B.I.
Trump Voters React to Comey Ouster With Cheers, and Fears
This article is by Trip Gabriel,
Alan Blinder and Jack Healy.
MEDIA, Pa. — As Ralph Neary
waited for a hot dog outside the
Delaware County courthouse here
on Wednesday, he chewed over
the big surprise out of Washing-
ton: President Trump’s firing of
the F.B.I. director, James B.
Comey.
Mr. Neary, a 61-year-old county
maintenance man, had voted for
Mr. Trump and liked his “vision
for America.” But now his mind
raced back to his youth, and to the
dark days of Richard M. Nixon.
“Tricky Dick,” Mr. Neary called
him, dredging up memories of
how Nixon “lied to the American
people.”
“If it’s found true that President
Trump is covering up,” Mr. Neary
said flatly, “then I think he should
be impeached.”
The man serving up his frank-
furter, Augie Pantellas, a onetime
prizefighter, could not have dis-
agreed more. Mr. Pantellas, 73,
said Mr. Comey needed to go,
plain and simple, for failing to rec-
ommend criminal charges against
Hillary Clinton last year in the in-
vestigation of her use of a private
email server while secretary of
state.
“I really believe — you might
think I’m going overboard — she
was probably one of the biggest
criminals in American history,”
Mr. Pantellas said.
Delaware County, like the Phila-
delphia suburbs as a whole, has
trended blue in recent years, but it
remains Republican-controlled,
and Media itself is steeped in Re-
publican lore: Ronald Reagan ral-
lied supporters here in 1984, and
John McCain and Sarah Palin
drew throngs in 2008.
Trump voters are in abundance
in county offices. But among those
who crisscrossed the courthouse
plaza on Wednesday, roughly as
many championed the president’s
dismissal of Mr. Comey as were
troubled by it.
“I think it was long overdue,”
Jack Deorio, who works for a secu-
rity company, said of the dismiss-
al. “If I was Trump, I would have
fired him on my first day.”
“I was in the military,” Mr. Deo-
rio added, pointing to Mrs. Clin-
ton’s handling of classified infor-
mation as the real outrage. “If I
had done the same thing, I’d have
been in Leavenworth.”
But Mr. Neary, among others
who had voted for Mr. Trump, ech-
oed the criticism of congressional
Democrats in saying that the fir-
ing suggested an effort to squelch
the F.B.I.’s investigation of ties be-
tween Russia and the Trump cam-
paign in 2016. The president “is
not above the law,” he said. “Once
you start lying to the American
people, you’re going to finally get
caught and nothing good’s going
to come of it.”
Ken Miniman, 67, a semiretired
dentist, said he was having sec-
ond thoughts about having voted
for Mr. Trump. “There’s got to be
more to it than meets the eye,” he
said. “I believe it may be a cover-
up.”
James Compton, 70, entering
the courthouse wearing a Viet-
nam veterans ball cap, saw the fir-
ing of Mr. Comey as the latest evi-
dence of bipartisan dysfunction.
He voted for Mr. Trump, but
said an independent prosecutor
was in order. “I think that’s where
they need to go,” he said. “And go
all the way. I think there’s bad stuff
all the way.”
But Michael J. O’Doherty, an ac-
countant in a pinstripe suit, said
Democrats calling for a special
prosecutor were just grandstand-
ing. “Chuck Schumer five months
ago was basically calling for
Comey’s ouster,” Mr. O’Doherty
said. He predicted the whole busi-
ness would blow over, like so
many other uproars of the young
administration, to be replaced by
Trip Gabriel reported from Media,
Pa., Alan Blinder from Dahlonega,
Ga., and Jack Healy from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Citizens of ‘Clintonworld’ Find Little Satisfaction in an Adversary’s Downfall
By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — For Hillary
Clinton, the sudden fall of James
B. Comey is wrapped in multiple
layers of irony.
Mrs. Clinton blames Mr. Comey
for tilting the presidential election
against her in the closing days of
last year’s campaign by announc-
ing that the F.B.I. might reopen its
investigation of her email prac-
tices while she was at the State
Department.
Yet her satisfaction at seeing
him lose his job, friends said, is off-
set by worries that it could derail
the F.B.I.’s investigation of ties be-
tween the Trump campaign and
Russian officials.
Mrs. Clinton, these people said,
puts no stock in President
Trump’s stated rationale for dis-
missing Mr. Comey as the F.B.I. di-
rector — that he mishandled the
bureau’s investigation of her
email case — even though she fun-
damentally agrees with that
Augie Pantellas, at his food cart in Media, Pa., said that James B. Comey needed to go as F.B.I. director for failing to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton.
“whatever topic comes up next
week.”
‘Not Afraid to Take Action’
DAHLONEGA, Ga. — Dan
Dieterle used to keep a cutout of
Mr. Trump at his barbecue restau-
rant here in the north Georgia
mountains.
The display is gone these days
— a friend wanted it for his “man
cave” — but Mr. Dieterle’s passion
for Mr. Trump has not crested. On
Wednesday afternoon, less than
24 hours after the sudden firing of
Mr. Comey, Mr. Dieterle was reso-
lute in his support for the presi-
dent and his decision to oust the
F.B.I. director.
“I think it’s something that
needed to be done,” said Mr.
Dieterle, 58. The firing, he said,
proved that Mr. Trump was “a
man of action, and he’s not afraid
to take action.”
Mr. Dieterle all but laughed
away liberal critics’ argument
that Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey to
poison the Russia inquiry.
“Do I believe that Donald
Trump is in bed with the Rus-
sians? Oh, hell no,” he said. “Do I
Jack Deorio, left, said Mr. Comey’s firing was long overdue. “If I was Trump, I would have fired him on my first day,’’ he said, add-
ing that Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified information was the real outrage. Ken Miniman, right, with Karen Warner, said he
was having second thoughts about having cast his vote for President Trump. “I believe it may be a cover-up,” he said.
damning assessment.
One person who spoke with
Mrs. Clinton after the White
House’s announcement said she
has a “mixed mind” about his fir-
ing. While Mrs. Clinton believes
that Mr. Comey interfered with
the election, this person said,
“taking him out of his job at this
point only reinforces the point
that he was on to something.”
Mrs. Clinton has said nothing
publicly about the F.B.I. director’s
dismissal. In her most recent Twit-
ter post, on May 7, she celebrated
the victory of Emmanuel Macron
in France’s presidential election,
which she said was a “defeat to
those interfering w/democracy.”
Top officials from her campaign
said there was no joy in Hil-
laryland at Mr. Trump’s startling
decision. They worry that the
president will nominate a more
pliable figure than Mr. Comey to
run the F.B.I.; that Mr. Trump will
be able to muscle that person
think it’s a lie that’s trying to be
perpetrated by the left? Abso-
lutely.”
He said he trusted “the powers
that be” and the information that
fueled the decision to fire Mr.
Comey, and expected the next
F.B.I. director to have “impecca-
ble character and integrity.”
Mr. Dieterle was not alone in
Lumpkin County, where Mr.
Trump won 78 percent of the vote
last fall.
“If you have to fire an F.B.I. di-
rector, there’s no good time to do
it,” said Josh Cagle, the owner of a
dry-cleaning shop. He said that
former President Barack Obama
should have fired Mr. Comey last
summer — and that he believed
Mrs. Clinton would have fired Mr.
Comey if she had been elected.
“Either way, he went,” Mr. Cagle
said. “I think it was his own fault
for getting political. I think he
brought it on himself.”
At Rusted Buffalo, an eclectic
retail shop on the Dahlonega town
square, Marie Garrett saw Mr.
Comey’s dismissal as a necessary,
inevitable product of Mr. Trump’s
vow to clean house in Washington.
Working one of her three jobs,
Ms. Garrett, 40, said she merely
through a Republican-controlled
Senate, which needs only 51 votes
to confirm the nominee; and that
the new F.B.I. director may not
pursue the evidence in the Rus-
sian investigation as aggressively
as Mr. Comey did.
“There is no one I have en-
countered in Clintonworld who
views this as a positive develop-
ment,” said Jennifer Palmieri, the
campaign’s former communica-
tions director. “When I heard the
news, my first thought was, ‘They
must be getting close.’”
One potential benefit, she said,
is that the furor surrounding Mr.
Comey’s ouster may put a greater
spotlight on Russia’s meddling in
the election. The Clinton cam-
paign struggled before the elec-
tion to generate interest in Rus-
sia’s role beyond core Democrats,
Ms. Palmieri said.
How big a role Mr. Comey
played in Mrs. Clinton’s defeat is a
subject of debate, even within her
wanted familiar figures like Mr.
Comey gone from government, no
matter Mr. Trump’s rationale.
Ms. Garrett, who said she had
become more supportive of Mr.
Trump since he took office in Jan-
uary, said that some of the presi-
dent’s backers had expected
quicker action to advance his
agenda, including his pledge to
“drain the swamp.”
“People thought it was going to
happen immediately, and it
hasn’t,” she said. “I feel like he’s
losing support. People think it
needs to be done right now, right
now, right now, and I feel like his
supporters were expecting some-
thing way sooner.”
The dismissal of Mr. Comey, she
said, might help.
Ms. Garrett said her support for
Mr. Trump would not waver.
“I’m going to back up him no
matter what,” she said. “He’s our
president.”
She added that she had not giv-
en all presidents such backing.
‘I’d Like the Truth’
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Over
coffee and rounds of late-morning
inner circle. In the immediate af-
termath of the vote, she told
donors, “Our analysis is that
Comey’s letter raising doubts that
were groundless, baseless, proven
to be, stopped our momentum.”
She has continued to emphasize
the F.B.I.’s role. Her friends say
she believes that but for Mr.
Comey and the Russians, she
would be president.
In a recent interview, Mrs. Clin-
ton was asked how she felt when
watching Mr. Comey tell Congress
he believed it was inappropriate
before the election to disclose the
F.B.I.’s investigation of the Trump
campaign’s ties to Russia, which
began in July. She responded,
dryly, “That was one of the high
points of the last weeks.”
Other officials, however, said
the F.B.I. intervention was one of a
torrent of negative developments
for the Democratic campaign, in-
cluding the release of campaign
emails by WikiLeaks, that sapped
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
pinochle, the tables of mostly old-
er, Republican voters in a super-
market cafe here in eastern Iowa
were beginning to split on the
question of whether the president
they had supported was right to
abruptly fire his F.B.I. director.
“He should have been fired a
long time ago,” said Mel Trotter,
76, a Vietnam veteran and former
car lot owner who was still angry
that the F.B.I. had not supported
federal criminal charges against
Mrs. Clinton over the email issue.
“If he wasn’t doing his job, he
should’ve been fired,” said Steve
David, 68, a retired bricklayer.
But as he nursed a paper cup of
coffee, Frank Wagner, 72, a retired
industrial worker, represented a
potential danger to Mr. Trump’s
support, particularly in Iowa, a
swing state that flipped into the
Republican column after twice
voting for Mr. Obama.
“I think he is knee-deep in Rus-
sia,” Mr. Wagner said about Mr.
Trump. “There are too many
things that tell you, where there’s
smoke, there’s fire.”
Mr. Wagner, “a Republican but
not a Trump guy,” said he had
voted for Mr. Trump and was still
glad that Mrs. Clinton was not the
its momentum in the weeks after
the third debate between Mrs.
Clinton and Mr. Trump. “We had a
lot coming at us, and it was one too
many things,” Ms. Palmieri said.
In recent conversations,
Democratic officials have faulted
the Clinton campaign’s message
and her use of a private email
server as secretary of state. They
have also cited structural impedi-
ments, like gender bias and Mrs.
Clinton’s identity as an establish-
ment figure in a “change election.”
Whatever the other factors, Mr.
Comey has become a singularly
baleful figure to people who
worked on her campaign.
When Mr. Comey testified last
week that he felt “mildly nau-
seous” at the idea that he might
have swayed the election, John D.
Podesta, who was the campaign’s
chairman, wrote on Twitter, “The
American public is getting mildly
nauseous listening to Jim Comey.”
Jake Sullivan, who was Mrs.
president. But he was suspicious
of Mr. Trump’s continuing refusal
to release his tax returns, and said
that firing Mr. Comey had the
whiff of an effort to squelch the in-
vestigations into ties between the
Trump campaign and Russia.
Mr. Wagner was unmoved by
the Nixonian comparisons drawn
by many Democrats. He said that
he hadn’t paid much attention to
politics during the Watergate era,
but that he was dialed in now, add-
ing, “I’d like the truth to come out.”
He said Mr. Trump’s bluster
was “scary as hell,” and made him
concerned about his children and
grandchildren, as well as relatives
who are the children of immi-
grants. He said he would not vote
for a liberal Democratic chal-
lenger to Mr. Trump, but could
support a conservative primary
challenger, or even a moderate
Democrat.
“I want to get Donny out,” he
said. “I wouldn’t mind if he got
kicked out tomorrow — he’s that
bad. Once was enough.”
Yet Barbara Hames-Bryant,
president of a manufactured-
home retailer in Marion, Iowa,
saw a business owner’s decisive-
ness at work.
“That’s points for Trump,” she
said. “Whether Comey is right or
wrong, he handled it quickly.”
On Wednesday Ms. Hames-
Bryant sat in her-ground floor of-
fice, her desk cluttered with an
obituary, a death certificate and
other papers from her father, Troy
Hames, who died on April 30 at the
age of 92. Her father was a strong
supporter of the state’s Republi-
can congressional delegation, she
said.
She herself was not an early
supporter of Mr. Trump, but said
she was encouraged by his pro-
business posture. Cutting ties
with employees or contractors
was part of the job, she said, and
she gave Mr. Trump credit for
what she called an unequivocal
break.
“People who don’t run a busi-
ness don’t understand the reality
of those decisions,” she said.
Clinton’s senior policy adviser,
said he was still assessing the im-
plications of Mr. Comey’s dismiss-
al. “Most see it as a transparent
abuse of power,” he said. “I’m not
sure what to make of it or what its
implications will be.”
As news of Mr. Comey’s dis-
missal spread, other veterans of
the campaign reacted on social
media with a mix of lingering bit-
terness about the email case and
foreboding about the future.
“Twilight zone,” Robby Mook,
the former campaign manager,
said on Twitter. “I was as disap-
pointed and frustrated as anyone
at how the email investigation
was handled. But this terrifies
me.”
Brian Fallon, a campaign
spokesman, wrote on Twitter
early Wednesday: “The descent
into authoritarianism does not an-
nounce itself with the blaring of
trumpets. It happens via events
like today.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Change at the F.B.I.

As Chaos Grips Capital, Ryan Talks Taxes in Ohio

By ALAN RAPPEPORT
NEW ALBANY, Ohio — As the
fallout from President Trump’s
sudden firing of James B. Comey,
the F.B.I. director, consumed
Washington on Wednesday, the
House speaker, Paul D. Ryan,
wandered through an Ohio pack-
aging plant admiring innovations
in fish bait technology and smiling
at workers as they stuck labels on
soap wrappers.
Brushing off questions about
the latest drama that threatened
to stall the Republican agenda,
Mr. Ryan tried to stay focused on a
subject that is dear to his heart
and his party’s goals: tax cuts.
“We have a tax system that pe-
nalizes job creation, economic
growth, saving,” Mr. Ryan, tieless
with his white shirt sleeves rolled
up, said during a round-table dis-
cussion with local business lead-
ers and lawmakers outside Co-
lumbus. “We want to fix that so we
have more of the things we need in
this country.”
Mr. Ryan’s optimism that the
most sweeping overhaul of the tax
code in 30 years would be accom-
plished this year stood in stark
contrast to the chaos he left be-
hind in the capital. That turmoil in-
tensifies the challenge he faces in
trying to sell ambitious pieces of
legislation in a country that is in-
creasingly polarized and dis-
tracted by White House intrigue.
Some analysts warned on
Wednesday that the way Mr.
Comey was fired was a sign that a
tax overhaul could be too big of a
lift for lawmakers in this political
environment.
“The Comey firing does not kill
tax reform,” analysts at the finan-
cial services firm Keefe, Bruyette
and Woods wrote to clients. “But it
does reinforce our view that the
Trump administration is not oper-
ating as effectively and efficiently
as it could be, and that it has been
slow to learn important political
lessons in the past four months.”
The analysts noted, “Some of its
actions continue to appear impul-
sive and create distractions from
achieving important policy vic-
tories.”
Surrounded by local business
leaders in one of the country’s
most critical swing states, Mr.
Ryan offered only broad brush
strokes about the tax plan. He
spoke of lowering tax rates for
American companies so that they
can be more competitive globally,
simplifying the tax code for regu-
lar workers and getting an intru-
sive Internal Revenue Service off
people’s backs.
While factory workers in red
shirts stood and listened with
their arms crossed, the full opposi-
tion to Mr. Ryan’s plans was on
display outside.
Dozens of protesters from
liberal groups marched along the
road in front of the building where
Mr. Ryan was speaking. They ac-
cused Republicans of promoting
tax cuts that would benefit the
rich and loudly criticized Mr. Ryan
for pushing through a health care
bill that they said would take away
insurance from the sick. “Because
of Ryan, people are dyin’!” the
protesters chanted.
Prominent Ohio Democrats
also gave Mr. Ryan a frosty wel-
come, organizing an event before
his arrival to warn that Republi-
can tax policies would not lift the
state’s sluggish economy. David
Pepper, the chairman of the Ohio
Democratic Party, said the Buck-
eye State was a case study of why
Mr. Ryan’s plans should be aban-
doned. “He’s coming to a state
that has lived through seven years
of trickle-down tax policy,” Mr.
Pepper said. “It hasn’t worked in
Ohio.”
It is not only people outside
Washington to whom Mr. Ryan
must sell his plan. Congressional
Republicans have been in talks
with the White House over how to
bridge differences between the
ideas Mr. Ryan laid out in his “Bet-
ter Way” plan last summer and
the tax outline Mr. Trump re-
leased last month. Members of the
House Ways and Means Commit-
tee are expected to hold their first
hearings on tax legislation this
month.
One of the main points of con-
tention between the plans is the
border adjustment tax on imports
that Mr. Ryan and House Republi-
cans want. The tax would be a big
boon to American exporters, but
companies like retailers that rely
heavily on imported parts and
products have warned that it
would be a major burden for them
and their customers.
MADDIE M c GARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Ryan told the assembled
group in Ohio that he was working House Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Wednesday at a factory in Ohio.
on ways to ensure that the new tax He discussed tax cuts with business leaders and lawmakers.
did not harm American indus-
tries. But opponents of the idea re- tial headwinds if a border tax were day, said she was concerned that a
main deeply wary. imposed on imports. He said it tax on imports would have a prob-
“We’re gravely concerned with would probably force him to cut up lematic “trickle-down” effect on
the impact it will have on con- to 30 percent of the 300 workers her company.
sumer prices and on retail sales in he employs at the company’s Co- However, she said she was
Ohio,” Gordon M. Gough, the pres- lumbus offices. hopeful that Republicans in Wash-
ident of the Ohio Council of Retail “Imports and exports are not a ington would focus their energy
Merchants, said in a conference zero-sum game,” said Mr. Federi- on making changes to the tax code
call before Mr. Ryan’s visit. co, whose company sources parts that would help small businesses,
Domenic Federico, the presi- from around the world. and would not be consumed by po-
dent of BriskHeat Corporation in Even Tara Abraham, a founder litical squabbling.
Ohio, warned that his global busi- and chief executive of Accel Inc., “I’m cautiously optimistic,” Ms.
ness, which produces heating the contract packaging company Abraham said. “But I’m always
components, would face substan- that hosted Mr. Ryan on Wednes- worried about the distractions.”

Call for ‘special prosecutor’ or similar

0 ■ Republicans
Call for independent investigation
5 Republicans How Lawmakers Neutral or support
73 Republicans
125 0 Democrats or Independents 81 Democrats or Independents
Have Reacted So Far
0 Democrats or Independents

0 Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Wis.
‘need a special prosecutor to
lead a comprehensive and
independent investigation’
0 Rep. Pete Aguilar, Calif.
‘enough is enough’
0 Rep. Nanette Barragán, Calif.
0 Rep. Ted Lieu, Calif.
‘deeply shocking’
0 Rep. Alan Lowenthal, Calif.
■ Rep. Justin Amash, Mich.
reviewing ‘independent
commission’
■ Rep. Barbara Comstock, Va.
0 Rep. Ro Khanna, Calif.
‘I support a bipartisan,
independent commission’
0 Rep. Dan Kildee, Mich.
■ Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tenn. ■ Rep. Andy Biggs, Ariz.
To Trump’s Firing Of Senate should have ‘thorough
hearings’ on new nominee
‘I think it was appropriate’
■ Rep. Mike Bishop, Mich.
■ Sen. Roy Blunt, Mo.

The F.B.I. Director

0 Sen. Michael Bennet, Colo.
‘need for an independent special
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Richard Blumenthal,
Conn.
‘catastrophically compromised
the FBI’s ongoing investigation’
0 Sen. Cory Booker, N.J.
‘should set off alarm bells’
0 Sen. Maria Cantwell, Wash.
‘need a special independent
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Md.
‘I’m calling for a
#SpecialProsecutor and an
independent commission’
0 Sen. Bob Casey, Pa.
‘this is Nixonian’
0 Sen. Chris Coons, Del.
‘it may well be time for us to
have a special counsel
appointed’
0 Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto,
Nev.
‘Americans deserve to know the
truth’
0 Sen. Joe Donnelly, Ind.
‘the American people deserve
answers’
0 Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Ill.
‘an independent counsel and a
special commission’
0 Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Calif.
‘the appointment of a special
counsel’
0 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, N.Y.
‘we need an independent special
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Kamala Harris, Calif.
‘this cannot wait’
0 Sen. Maggie Hassan, N.H.
‘a special prosecutor as well as a
thorough Congressional
investigation’
0 Sen. Martin Heinrich, N.M.
‘smacks of President Nixon’s
Saturday Night Massacre’
0 Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, N.D.
‘raises far more questions than it
answers’
0 Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
‘a special prosecutor and an
independent investigation’
0 Sen. Tim Kaine, Va.
‘inescapable comparisons to the
Nixon era’
0 Sen. Angus King, Me.
‘necessary to appoint a Special
Counsel’
0 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minn.
‘we need an independent
commission and a special
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vt.
‘Nixonian’
0 Sen. Joe Manchin III, W.Va.
‘This person would allow report
directly to Congress on their
investigation and findings’
0 Sen. Edward J. Markey, Mass.
‘reminiscent of the Saturday
Night Massacre during the
Watergate scandal’
0 Sen. Claire McCaskill, Mo.
‘important we have an
independent prosecutor’
0 Sen. Christopher S. Murphy,
Conn.
‘it simply defies logic’
0 Sen. Patty Murray, Wash.
‘the public deserves the truth’
0 Sen. Gary Peters, Mich.
the firing is ‘latest in long list of
reasons why’
0 Sen. Jack Reed, R.I.
‘shocking and disturbing’
0 Sen. Brian Schatz, Hawaii
‘every patriotic American should
demand a Special Prosecutor’
0 Sen. Chuck Schumer, N.Y.
‘appoint special prosecutor’
0 Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, N.H.
‘very disturbing’
0 Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Mich.
‘a potential threat to our national
security’
0 Sen. Tom Udall, N.M.
‘special counsel’ and
‘independent, bipartisan
investigation’
0 Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Md.
‘immediately appoint a special
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Mark Warner, Va.
‘deeply troubling’
0 Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mass.
‘we need an independent
prosecutor’
0 Sen. Ron Wyden, Ore.
‘special counsel must be
appointed’
0 Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, Fla.
‘cries out for a special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Alma Adams, N.C.
‘troubling sequence of events’
‘stunning and troubling’
0 Rep. Karen Bass, Calif.
‘a special prosecutor,’ ‘an
independent investigation’
0 Rep. Don Beyer, Va.
‘an abuse of power’
0 Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Ore.
‘we need an independent
prosecutor NOW!’
0 Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester,
Del.
‘suspect to say the least’
0 Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, Pa.
‘a Special Prosecutor’ and
‘formal independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Robert A. Brady, Pa.
‘we need an independent special
prosecutor more than ever’
0 Rep. Anthony G. Brown, Md.
‘special counsel and
independent commission’
0 Rep. Julia Brownley, Calif.
‘the very foundation of our
democracy is at stake’
0 Rep. Cheri Bustos, Ill.
‘undermines the public trust’
0 Rep. Tony Cárdenas, Calif.
‘I am outraged and disgusted’
0 Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, N.Y.
‘follow the facts’
0 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, Mo.
‘the American people deserve a
special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Va.
‘only way to restore credibility’
0 Rep. Jim Cooper, Tenn.
‘calls to mind the worst days of
Nixon’
0 Rep. Charlie Crist, Fla.
‘the timing is extremely suspect’
0 Rep. Joseph Crowley, N.Y.
‘extremely troubling’
0 Rep. John Delaney, Md.
‘we need an independent special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, Calif.
‘an independent commission’
and ‘a special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Ted Deutch, Fla.
‘a disgraceful abuse of power’
0 Rep. Debbie Dingell, Mich.
‘need for a truly independent
investigation and a special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Mike Doyle, Pa.
‘suspicious’
0 Rep. Keith Ellison, Minn.
‘a Constitutional crisis’
0 Rep. Eliot L. Engel, N.Y.
‘need for a special prosecutor
and an independent commission’
0 Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, Calif.
‘an independent commission or
special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Adriano Espaillat, N.Y.
‘a 9/11 style commission and a
special independent prosecutor’
0 Rep. Elizabeth Esty, Conn.
‘sets our nation on course for a
constitutional crisis’
0 Rep. Bill Foster, Ill.
‘deeply disturbing’
0 Rep. Lois Frankel, Fla.
‘deeply disturbed’
0 Rep. Ruben Gallego, Ariz.
‘looks an awful lot like a
cover-up’
0 Rep. John Garamendi, Calif.
‘a special prosecutor’ or ‘an
independent commission’
0 Rep. Gene Green, Tex.
‘the American people deserve an
answer’
0 Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez, Ill.
‘President Trump is up to no
good’
0 Rep. Colleen Hanabusa,
Hawaii
‘let’s appoint an independent
commission or special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Jim Himes, Conn.
‘deeply troubled’
0 Rep. Jared Huffman, Calif.
‘we need a special prosecutor +
indep commission’
0 Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, N.Y.
‘we DEMAND immediate
appointment of Independent,
Special Prosecutor’
0 Rep. Hank Johnson, Ga.
‘conduct an independent and
immediate investigation’
0 Rep. Robin Kelly, Ill.
‘cannot afford anymore
diversions or double speak’
0 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ill.
‘need for an independent
commission or a fully
independent prosecutor’
0 Rep. Jim Langevin, R.I.
‘it is imperative’
0 Rep. Al Lawson, Fla.
‘the American people deserve to
know the truth’
‘preserve our democracy’
0 Rep. Nita M. Lowey, N.Y.
‘an independent, bipartisan
Congressional commission’
0 Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Mass.
‘a bipartisan, independent
commission’
0 Rep. Doris Matsui, Calif.
‘we must have an independent
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Betty McCollum, Minn.
‘unprecedented decision’
0 Rep. Jerry McNerney, Calif.
‘we need a special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, N.Y.
‘need to appoint a special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Seth Moulton, Mass.
‘a special prosecutor’ and ‘an
independent, bipartisan
commision’
0 Rep. Jerrold Nadler, N.Y.
‘a special prosecutor and an
independent 911-style
investigative panel’
0 Rep. Richard E. Neal, Mass.
‘virtually unprecedented in
American history and deeply
troubling’
0 Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Tex.
‘time for Congress to do it’s part’
0 Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., N.J.
‘impartial special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Ed Perlmutter, Colo.
‘we need an independent special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Chellie Pingree, Me.
‘I’ve called for an outside, special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Mark Pocan, Wis.
‘it’s imperative we have a special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. David E. Price, N.C.
‘rash and unprecedented’
0 Rep. Mike Quigley, Ill.
‘I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it
again’
0 Rep. Jacky Rosen, Nev.
‘only beholden to the truth’
0 Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio
‘yet another disturbing
development’
0 Rep. C.A. Dutch
Ruppersberger, Md.
‘the rule of law and justice are
backbones of our country’
0 Rep. Bobby L. Rush, Ill.
‘we need a special prosecutor’
0 Rep. Adam B. Schiff, Calif.
‘independent prosecutor must be
appointed’
0 Rep. Kurt Schrader, Ore.
‘we needed a special prosecutor
yesterday’
0 Rep. Terri A. Sewell, Ala.
the decision ‘should set off an
alarm’
0 Rep. Brad Sherman, Calif.
‘what’s Trump trying to hide?’
0 Rep. Albio Sires, N.J.
‘a special prosecutor and
independent commission’
0 Rep. Adam Smith, Wash.
‘get to the bottom of what
happened’
0 Rep. Darren Soto, Fla.
‘destroying our democracy’
0 Rep. Jackie Speier, Calif.
‘akin to Nixon & Watergate’
0 Rep. Tom Suozzi, N.Y.
‘appointed immediately’
0 Rep. Mark Takano, Calif.
‘we need an independent
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Mike Thompson, Calif.
‘urgent need for special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Dina Titus, Nev.
‘what are you hiding?’
0 Rep. Paul Tonko, N.Y.
‘time to appoint special
prosecutor’
0 Rep. Niki Tsongas, Mass.
‘puts our nation in an untenable
position’
0 Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, N.Y.
‘appoint a special counsel
immediately’
0 Rep. Tim Walz, Minn.
‘we need a #SpecialProsecutor &
#IndependentCommission’
0 Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, Fla.
‘a dark day for justice in America’
0 Rep. Peter Welch, Vt.
‘an independent prosecutor or a
nonpartisan commission’
0 Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, Fla.
‘an independent prosecutor
should be named’
0 Rep. John Yarmuth, Ky.
‘absolutely dire need’
‘there must be an independent
investigation’
■ Rep. Carlos Curbelo, Fla.
‘establish a Select Committee’
■ Sen. John McCain, Ariz.
‘I have long called for a special
congressional committee’
■ Rep. Erik Paulsen, Minn.
‘an independent investigation’
0 Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio
‘need an independent
investigation’
0 Sen. Thomas R. Carper, Del.
‘need an independent
commission’
0 Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Ill.
‘the American people deserve
answers’
0 Sen. Al Franken, Minn.
‘we need an independent
investigation’
0 Sen. Robert Menendez, N.J.
‘American ppl still deserve the
truth’
0 Sen. Bill Nelson, Fla.
‘need an independent
commission’
0 Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vt.
‘we need an independent
investigation’
0 Sen. Jon Tester, Mont.
‘urgent need for an independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman,
N.J.
‘zero confidence in the ability of
any Trump-appointed FBI
Director’
0 Rep. Ami Bera, Calif.
‘now more than ever’
0 Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr.,
Ga.
‘shocked’
0 Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Ore.
‘we must have an independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Salud Carbajal, Calif.
‘anything less would imperil our
democracy’
0 Rep. Kathy Castor, Fla.
‘a blatant attempt to stall’
0 Rep. Joaquin Castro, Tex.
‘extremely suspicious’
0 Rep. Judy Chu, Calif.
‘nothing normal’ about the firing
0 Rep. David Cicilline, R.I.
‘I am deeply concerned by this
news’
0 Rep. Katherine M. Clark,
Mass.
‘an immediate independent
investigation’
0 Rep. William Lacy Clay, Mo.
‘#IndependentInvestigationNow’
0 Rep. Steve Cohen, Tenn.
‘our democracy is in danger’
0 Rep. John Conyers Jr., Mich.
‘must have an independent,
non-partisan commission’
0 Rep. Jim Costa, Calif.
‘to get to the bottom of this’
0 Rep. Joe Courtney, Conn.
‘we need an immediate and
independent investigation’
0 Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Md.
‘Congress must restore
credibility’
0 Rep. Susan A. Davis, Calif.
‘we won’t get to the truth’
0 Rep. Diana DeGette, Colo.
‘too many unresolved questions’
0 Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Conn.
‘demand an independent
commission’
0 Rep. Suzan DelBene, Wash.
‘merit an independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Tex.
‘Nixonion dismissal’
0 Rep. Josh Gottheimer, N.J.
‘I have some serious questions
and concerns’
0 Rep. Al Green, Tex.
‘It just doesn’t look right, it
doesn’t smell right’
0 Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, Ariz.
‘#IndependentInvestigationNow’
0 Rep. Denny Heck, Wash.
‘this will not stand’
0 Rep. Brian Higgins, N.Y.
‘a full and formal independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Wash.
‘need a fully bipartisan and
independent investigation’
0 Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
‘this is a flash back to the days of
Richard Nixon’
0 Rep. William Keating, Mass.
‘this shatters public confidence
in our systems’
0 Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III,
Mass.
‘need independent
#TrumpRussia investigation now’
‘we need an independent &
bipartisan investigation’
0 Rep. Rick Larsen, Wash.
‘urgent need for an independent
commission’
0 Rep. John B. Larson, Conn.
‘it shouldn’t be about Democrat
or Republican, it should be about
America’
0 Rep. Brenda Lawrence, Mich.
‘we need an independent
commission’
0 Rep. Barbara Lee, Calif.
‘history will remember their
actions.’
0 Rep. Sander M. Levin, Mich.
‘shocking action’
0 Rep. Daniel Lipinski, Ill.
‘firing of #Comey troubling’
0 Rep. Dave Loebsack, Iowa
‘an abuse of power’
0 Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Calif.
‘Congress must create
independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham,
N.M.
‘now more than ever’
0 Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, N.Y.
‘outrageous’
0 Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney,
N.Y.
‘it’s a Tuesday night massacre’
0 Rep. A. Donald McEachin, Va.
‘you can’t make this stuff up’
0 Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, N.H.
‘an independent nonpartisan
investigation’
0 Rep. Grace Meng, N.Y.
‘a fair and impartial investigation’
0 Rep. Gwen Moore, Wis.
‘independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Stephanie Murphy, Fla.
‘follow the evidence wherever it
leads’
0 Rep. Grace F. Napolitano,
Calif.
‘independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Rick Nolan, Minn.
‘independent commission’
0 Rep. Donald Norcross, N.J.
‘independent investigation’
0 Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton,
D.C.
‘independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Tom O’Halleran, Ariz.
‘independent select commission’
0 Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., N.J.
‘a fully independent investigation’
0 Rep. Jimmy Panetta, Calif.
‘independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr., N.J.
‘Trump is staring scandal in the
face’
0 Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Calif.
‘an independent, bipartisan
commission’
0 Rep. Scott Peters, Calif.
‘something that happens in
dictatorships’
0 Rep. Jared Polis, Colo.
‘absolutely vital’
0 Rep. Jamie Raskin, Md.
‘the strongest possibility for the
truth to come out’
0 Rep. Kathleen Rice, N.Y.
‘Congress must immediately
appoint an independent
commission’
0 Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, La.
‘this Administration can’t be
trusted to investigate itself’
0 Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard,
Calif.
‘commission to investigate
#TrumpRussia NOW’
0 Rep. Linda T. Sánchez, Calif.
‘independent investigation’
0 Rep. John Sarbanes, Md.
‘establish an independent,
bipartisan commission’
0 Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Ill.
‘need for an independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Brad Schneider, Ill.
‘deeply troubling’
0 Rep. Robert C. Scott, Va.
‘Congress must establish a
non-partisan commission’
0 Rep. José E. Serrano, N.Y.
‘we need an independent
investigation’
0 Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, N.H.
‘highly unusual action’
0 Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, Ariz.
‘it’s painfully obvious’
0 Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, N.Y.
‘we need an independent
commission’
0 Rep. Juan C. Vargas, Calif.
‘many red flags’
By Audrey Carlsen, Kenan Davis, Troy
Griggs, Jasmine C. Lee, K.K. Rebecca Lai,
Ford Fessenden and Adam Pearce
After President Trump fired James B.
Comey, the F.B.I. director, on Tuesday,
congressional reaction ranged from
support to calls for a special prosecutor
or an independent investigation to
examine the ties between Trump’s
associates and the Russian government.
Here are statements that were compiled
as of 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Questions or concerns
34 Republicans
15 Democrats or Independents
■ Sen. John Boozman, Ark.
‘Americans deserve a full
explanation’
■ Sen. Richard M. Burr, N.C.
‘troubled’
■ Sen. Shelley Moore Capito,
W.Va.
‘I think we need to find out what’s
happened and why’
■ Sen. Bob Corker, Tenn.
‘will raise questions’
■ Sen. Jeff Flake, Ariz.
can’t find ‘an acceptable
rationale’
■ Sen. John Hoeven, N.D.
‘timing of his dismissal raises
questions’
■ Sen. James Lankford, Okla.
‘deserve an explanation’
■ Sen. Jerry Moran, Kan.
‘deserve more information’
■ Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
‘serious cause for concern’
■ Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio
‘should provide a fuller
explanation’
■ Sen. Marco Rubio, Fla.
‘I do have questions’
■ Sen. Ben Sasse, Neb.
‘very troubling’
■ Sen. Dan Sullivan, Alaska
‘The timing of the president’s
firing of Director Comey raises
questions’
■ Sen. John Thune, S.D.
‘I think there are questions about
timing’
0 Sen. Jeff Merkley, Ore.
‘downright Nixonian’
0 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
R.I.
‘raises massive questions’
■ Rep. Mike Coffman, Colo.
the timing ‘does concern me’
■ Rep. Ryan A. Costello, Pa.
‘the explanation for the firing has
been insufficient’
■ Rep. Rodney Davis, Ill.
‘the most surprising move that
I’ve seen out of that
administration’
■ Rep. Charlie Dent, Pa.
‘confounding and troubling’
■ Rep. Dan Donovan, N.Y.
‘raises natural questions’
■ Rep. John J. Faso, N.Y.
‘the facts must be known’
■ Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Pa.
‘his removal clearly raise
questions’
■ Rep. Mike Gallagher, Wis.
‘serious concerns and
unanswered questions’
■ Rep. French Hill, Ark.
‘a reasonable cause for concern’
■ Rep. Will Hurd, Tex.
‘the timing of James Comey’s
firing is troubling’
■ Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Kan.
‘there are too many conflicting
reports within the Administration’
■ Rep. John Katko, N.Y.
‘a clear explanation into the
rationale and timing’
■ Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Ill.
‘the American people deserve
answers’
■ Rep. Martha E. McSally, Ariz.
‘deeply concerning’
■ Rep. Mark Sanford, S.C.
‘it simply raises questions’
■ Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker, Pa.
‘raises serious and legitimate
questions’
■ Rep. Elise Stefanik, N.Y.
‘I have concerns about the
timing’
■ Rep. Scott Taylor, Va.
‘troubled by the timing of the
Director’s dismissal’
■ Rep. Pat Tiberi, Ohio
‘many questions about Director
Comey’s firing’
■ Rep. Fred Upton, Mich.
‘not privy to the justification nor
the details behind the firing’
0 Rep. Joyce Beatty, Ohio
‘wait... what?!?’
0 Rep. Michael E. Capuano,
Mass.
‘remember result of Nixon-Cox’
0 Rep. André Carson, Ind.
‘this raises a lot of questions’
0 Rep. Dwight Evans, Pa.
‘I’m skeptical of how we can have
an independent investigation’
0 Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, Ohio
‘the American people deserve
answers’
0 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Md.
‘deeply troubling’
0 Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Tex.
‘raises deep constitutional
concerns’
0 Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson,
Tex.
‘provide a full accounting and
justification for this decision’
0 Rep. Ron Kind, Wis.
‘grotesque abuse of power’
0 Rep. Ben Ray Luján, N.M.
‘staggering’
0 Rep. Eric Swalwell, Calif.
‘should send a chill down the
spine of every American’
0 Rep. Norma J. Torres, Calif.
‘only raises more questions’
0 Rep. Maxine Waters, Calif.
‘#nocredibility’
‘will restore confidence’
■ Sen. Bill Cassidy, La.
‘he had become the issue’
■ Sen. Thad Cochran, Miss.
■ Sen. Susan Collins, Me.
‘inevitable conclusion’
■ Sen. John Cornyn, Tex.
‘Ds were against Comey’
■ Sen. Tom Cotton, Ark.
‘the most important thing now is
that the President nominate a
new director’
■ Sen. Michael D. Crapo, Idaho
■ Sen. Ted Cruz, Tex.
Comey ‘lost the confidence of
both Republicans and
Democrats’
■ Sen. Steve Daines, Mont.
‘regain public trust’
■ Sen. Michael B. Enzi, Wyo.
‘leave it to the administration to
answer questions about its
decision’
■ Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa
‘this decision was up to President
Trump to make’
■ Sen. Cory Gardner, Colo.
‘The next director of the FBI, like
Comey, must be an independent
voice for the bureau’
■ Sen. Lindsey Graham, S.C.
‘a fresh start’
■ Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa
‘the FBI Director serves at the
pleasure of the president’
■ Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
‘time for new leadership at the
FBI’
■ Sen. Dean Heller, Nev.
‘I’m committed to protecting our
democratic process’
■ Sen. James M. Inhofe, Okla.
‘I think it was the right thing to
do’
■ Sen. Ron Johnson, Wis.
‘I thank Director Comey for his
service’
■ Sen. John Kennedy, La.
‘the White House timing on this
was less than impeccable’
■ Sen. Mike Lee, Utah
‘The real test now is finding a
candidate that can restore trust
in the FBI.’
■ Sen. Mitch McConnell, Ky.
Democrats ‘repeatedly and
sharply criticized’ Comey
■ Sen. Rand Paul, Ky.
‘couldn’t happen soon enough’
■ Sen. David Perdue, Ga.
‘@POTUS acted decisively &
within his authority’
■ Sen. Jim Risch, Idaho
‘will review the facts’
■ Sen. Pat Roberts, Kan.
‘a swift confirmation of a new FBI
Director’
■ Sen. Michael Rounds, S.D.
‘his termination will not be
allowed to impede in these
investigations’
■ Sen. Tim Scott, S.C.
‘I want to personally thank
Director Comey’
■ Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Ala.
‘the President has the right to
fire anyone with cause’
■ Sen. Luther Strange, Ala.
‘I support General Sessions and
Rosenstein’
■ Sen. Thom Tillis, N.C.
‘attempted to lead the FBI to the
best of his ability’
■ Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, Pa.
‘next FBI director should
continue pursuing ongoing
investigations’
■ Sen. Todd Young, Ind.
‘will help restore Americans’
confidence’
■ Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, Ala.
‘I trust and respect Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and this
action came from his
recommendation’
■ Rep. Jim Banks, Ind.
‘Comey lost the trust of both Rs
and Ds’
■ Rep. Lou Barletta, Pa.
‘confident that the FBI will
continue to do its job’
■ Rep. Andy Barr, Ky.
‘his prerogative to dismiss the
director’
‘ensure the next director can
lead with the integrity and
confidence’
■ Rep. Rod Blum, Iowa
‘it’s probably time for Comey to
go’
■ Rep. Vern Buchanan, Fla.
■ Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyo.
‘Best. Termination. Letter. Ever.’
■ Rep. Chris Collins, N.Y.
Comey ‘serves at the pleasure of
the President’
■ Rep. Warren Davidson, Ohio
‘unquestionably led divisive and
complex investigations’
■ Rep. Ron DeSantis, Fla.
‘made the right decision’
■ Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Fla.
‘the FBI Director should be above
controversy’
■ Rep. Blake Farenthold, Tex.
Comey’s face ‘was on TV way too
much’
■ Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen,
N.J.
‘I guess in this business, nothing
is too surprising’
■ Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, Va.
‘President’s prerogative’
■ Rep. Trey Gowdy, S.C.
‘appreciate his service’
■ Rep. Andy Harris, Md.
‘I trust the judgment of Mr.
Rosenstein’
■ Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Mo.
‘Comey had become a lightning
rod of controversy’
■ Rep. Darrell Issa, Calif.
‘Comey had lost my confidence
long ago’
■ Rep. Mike Johnson, La.
‘Director Comey was a faithful
public servant’
■ Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio
‘you have to be crazy not to have
lost confidence’ in Comey
■ Rep. Darin M. LaHood, Ill.
‘I am interested in learning more
about the reasons for his
dismissal’
■ Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo, N.J.
‘actively seeking additional info’
■ Rep. Roger Marshall, Kan.
‘gathering available information
tonight’
■ Rep. Thomas Massie, Ky.
‘Hillary Clinton would have done
it sooner’
■ Rep. Cathy McMorris
Rodgers, Wash.
‘the President must have
confidence in those who work for
him’
■ Rep. Mark Meadows, N.C.
‘it could have come at a better
time’
■ Rep. Luke Messer, Ind.
‘we all need to hit the pause
button and make sure we get the
facts’
■ Rep. Bruce Poliquin, Me.
‘continue to closely monitor this
issue’
■ Rep. John Ratcliffe, Tex.
‘he lost the faith and trust of
American people’
■ Rep. Todd Rokita, Ind.
‘nothing unprecedented, or
exceptional’
■ Rep. David Rouzer, N.C.
‘difficult circumstances require a
fresh start’
■ Rep. Steve Russell, Okla.
‘he serves at the pleasure of the
president’
■ Rep. Claudia Tenney, N.Y.
‘clear that Director Comey had
lost the confidence of members
of both parties’
■ Rep. Scott Tipton, Colo.
Mr. Comey’s actions were ‘not in
keeping with standard
Department of Justice protocol’
■ Rep. Jackie Walorski, Ind.
‘I appreciate James Comey’s
service’
■ Rep. Joe Wilson, S.C.
‘fully respect the President’s
decision’
■ Rep. Don Young, Alaska
‘well within the President’s
authority’
■ Rep. Lee Zeldin, N.Y.
‘a fresh start’
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed graduates at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Wednesday.
Graduates Meet DeVos With Their Backs Turned
By ERICA L. GREEN
Betsy DeVos went to Bethune-
Cookman University on Wednes-
day, knowing her first commence-
ment address as secretary of edu-
cation could get ugly at the his-
torically black institute of higher
education.
It did — fast. Over sporadic
heckling, and at some points to the
backs of gown-clad graduates re-
fusing to face her, Ms. DeVos im-
plored: “One of the hallmarks of
higher education, and of democra-
cy, is the ability to converse with
and learn from those with whom
we disagree. And while we will un-
doubtedly disagree at times, I
hope we can do so respectfully.
Let’s choose to hear each other
out.”
The crowd obliged only a hand-
ful of times during her roughly 20-
minute-speech.
Since squeaking through Sen-
ate confirmation on the tiebreak-
ing vote of Vice President Mike
Pence, Ms. DeVos has appeared at
times to carry the weight of every
Trump administration contro-
versy on her shoulders. She was
turned away by a handful of pro-
testers at her first school visit as
secretary. She was goaded into an
Ohio public school visit by an an-
tagonist, the president of the
American Federation of Teachers,
Randi Weingarten.
And in the days before her ad-
dress at Bethune-Cookman, in
Daytona Beach, Fla., opponents
made it clear with petitions and
protests that she would not be all
that welcome.
The school’s president, Edison
O. Jackson, had to pause the cere-
mony about one minute into Ms.
DeVos’s address to tell the crowd
of students, “If this behavior
continues, your degrees will be
mailed to you.”
Above the jeers, Ms. DeVos de-
livered the standard exhortation
to graduates to live a life of serv-
ice, with courage and grace in the
spirit of their school’s namesake.
It was a message that thou-
sands believed Ms. DeVos — who
many contend represents an ad-
ministration that has shown only
superficial knowledge of and sup-
port for historically black colleges
and universities — was in no posi-
tion to deliver to the 380 gradu-
ates of the school, which was
founded by the educator and civil
rights activist Mary McLeod Be-
thune.
He Won the House Health Care Battle, but Democrats Hope He’ll Lose the Re-election War
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
WILLINGBORO, N.J. — It took
a moderate Republican from New
Jersey to wrestle a compromise
out of his party’s hard-right nay-
sayers and resuscitate the House
health care plan.
And for that, he may pay dearly.
Less than a week after Repre-
sentative Tom MacArthur helped
legislation that would repeal the
Affordable Care Act clear a grid-
locked House, he faced hundreds
of outraged constituents and pro-
testers on Wednesday in his dis-
trict’s Democratic stronghold. He
has to defend the measure bear-
ing his name that would under-
mine protections for patients with
pre-existing conditions.
The so-called MacArthur am-
endment wooed the conservative
House Freedom Caucus by allow-
ing states to receive waivers from
certain federal insurance require-
ments in the Affordable Care Act.
With a waiver, a state could permit
insurers to charge higher prices to
people with pre-existing condi-
tions who allowed their coverage
to lapse.
But that amendment drove a
wedge between Mr. MacArthur
and members of the caucus of
moderate Republicans he leads,
the Tuesday Group. It forced vul-
nerable Republicans from swing
districts to vote on a bill that
would erode one of the most popu-
A protester was escorted out during Ms. DeVos’s first com-
mencement speech, where some students refused to face her.
Critics of Ms. DeVos pointed to
missteps from the outset of her
tenure: from her office’s mis-
spelling the name of W.E.B. Du-
Bois in an attempted tribute, to a
statement she issued calling seg-
regation-era historically black col-
leges and universities “pioneers
of school choice.” The gaffes, cou-
pled with President Trump’s
seemingly wavering support for
black higher education and a
strained relationship with Afri-
can-Americans, made Ms. DeVos
an especially prickly choice.
Jeers for an address
at a historically black
university.
“Even though she apologized,
she has shown how tone deaf she
is, and how disconnected she is
from our community,” said Dom-
inik Whitehead, a 2010 graduate of
Bethune-Cookman, who generat-
ed the first petition calling for Ms.
DeVos to be replaced as this year’s
graduation speaker.
Activists dropped off boxes of
petitions, which they said had
more than 50,000 signatures, to
the school’s administration on
Tuesday night in a last-ditch effort
to stop Ms. DeVos from speaking.
In a letter to the community de-
fending the choice of Ms. DeVos,
Mr. Jackson wrote, “I am of the be-
lar parts of President Barack Oba-
ma’s health care law. And it of-
fered powerful ammunition to a
Democratic Party eager to re-
claim the House next year.
For more than three years, Mr.
MacArthur has largely made his
name by fighting for the federal
government to fulfill its responsi-
bility to victims of Hurricane
Sandy in 2012. That endeared him
to constituents who are still strug-
gling to rebuild their lives. Sand-
wiched between the Philadelphia
suburbs and the retirement com-
munities of the Jersey Shore, his
district was hit hard by the storm,
which left tens of thousands of
buildings damaged or destroyed.
On Wednesday, though, pro-
testers lined up for hours in the
late afternoon sun to vent their
frustrations with Mr. MacArthur.
Some held signs that bore his like-
ness with the words “I took your
health care” emblazoned on his
forehead — right where Repre-
sentative Nancy Pelosi of Califor-
nia, the Democratic leader, had
warned Republicans their plan
would be “tattooed.”
A hostile crowd assailed Mr.
MacArthur, who by turns pleaded
for respect and fell silent, a smile
frozen on his face as attendees
shouted over him. A man who
identified himself as a resident of
Fort Pleasant expressed concern
about what would happen if he
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lief that it does not benefit our stu-
dents to suppress voices that we
disagree with, or to limit students
to only those perspectives that are
broadly sanctioned by a specific
community.”
Other prominent black leaders
also defended the university’s de-
cision to invite Ms. DeVos. Mi-
chael Lomax, president and chief
executive of the United Negro
College Fund, wrote on Twitter
shortly after Ms. DeVos was
named speaker, “I believe we
should hear Secretary DeVos at
@bethunecookman, just as we
want her and President Trump to
hear the voices of #HBCUs.”
The jeers crescendoed when
Ms. DeVos said that she would vis-
it the childhood home and grave
site of Ms. Bethune.
“Her commitment to service is
what has brought us together to-
day. This inspired daughter of
slaves refused to accept repulsive
and systemic racism,” Ms. DeVos
said. “She moved mountains,
changing the lives and futures of
countless students and families
across generations.”
But Ms. DeVos drew cheers
when she highlighted individual
Bethune-Cookman graduates by
name and described the chal-
lenges they overcame to gradu-
ate, and when she praised gradu-
ates who were pursuing a career
in teaching.
She also used the opportunity to
reiterate her support for histori-
cally black higher education. Last
week, after Mr. Trump questioned
the constitutionality of a 25-year-
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FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Representative Tom MacAr-
thur, a moderate Republican.
lost his job and Gov. Chris Christie
opted out of the law’s protections.
“That’s a problem, and this is
your amendment, sir,” the man
said. “You brought it back from
the dead. It’s yours. You own it.”
After a vow to take everyone’s
questions, Mr. MacArthur’s town
hall stretched on for more than
four hours.
It was a sobering conclusion to
a victory lap that started with
backslaps in the White House
Rose Garden shortly after the
House’s 217-213 vote. As his fellow
Republicans grinned and shook
hands with a beaming President
Trump, Mr. MacArthur quietly
slipped in on stage left.
After half an hour of jubilant
thank-you speeches, Mr. MacAr-
thur recounted the profound ef-
old program that helps black col-
leges finance, renovate and re-
place their buildings, Ms. DeVos
swiftly issued a statement saying
she would fight for the colleges
and universities. A backlash
forced Mr. Trump to pledge his
“unwavering support” for Afri-
can-American higher education.
In her speech, Ms. DeVos said
she wanted to reaffirm the admin-
istration’s commitment and cited
its decision to restore year-round
Pell Grants, which many low-in-
come students use to finance their
college educations.
“I am at the table fighting on
your behalf, and on behalf of all
students across this great nation,”
she said.
But Jasmine Smith, 21, a rising
junior at Bethune-Cookman, said
she was worried about other
measures Ms. DeVos’s depart-
ment had taken that could affect
the next two years at Bethune-
Cookman. Her biggest worry was
Ms. DeVos’s decision to roll back
protections for student loan bor-
rowers.
Ms. Smith was among about 100
protesters who gathered at Be-
thune-Cookman several hours be-
fore Ms. DeVos was to deliver her
address Wednesday morning.
“I’m protesting because she will
continue to directly affect me after
this and make it harder for me to
get to graduation,” she said.
Mr. Whitehead said he did not
believe that Ms. DeVos’s speech
contained any promises of sub-
stance, and called the graduates’
demonstration of contempt for
her “an amazing moment.”
“I’m proud of what happened,”
Mr. Whitehead said. “I hope for
the sake of the institution, the
sake of the students and the grad-
uates, that regardless of the
protests and the petitions, she re-
ally wants to build this relation-
ship — that this is the real thing.”
Ms. DeVos ended her speech by
encouraging the students to main-
tain grace as they face adversity
and dissent.
“The natural instinct is to join in
the chorus of conflict, to make
your voice louder, your point big-
ger and your position stronger,”
she said. “But we will not solve the
significant and real problems our
country faces if we cannot bring
ourselves to embrace a mind-set
of grace.”
fect of watching his father strug-
gle to pay off his mother’s medical
bills years after her death.
“I watched him all my life work-
ing three jobs to pay off medical
bills because he had no insurance
when my mother died of cancer
when I was 4,” Mr. MacArthur said
at the time. “He paid those bills off
when I was in college.”
Mr. MacArthur reluctantly re-
vealed in news media interviews
another motivator behind his
commitment to health care: the
death, decades ago, of his 11-year-
old daughter, who was born with a
rare neurological disorder.
Their painful experience with
the health care system gave Mr.
MacArthur, who had a 28-year ca-
reer in insurance, an appreciation
for the struggles of other families.
“How do you negotiate with a
hospital who just did surgery on
your daughter, but you’re ques-
tioning how a two-hour surgery
can cost 15 or 20 thousand dol-
lars?” he said in an interview
Wednesday. “I was in that boat.”
“That’s tough for him to bring
up, but I think it’s necessary for
him to do that,” said Mark Aus-
sicker, a longtime colleague and
friend who attended Mr. Mac-
Arthur’s daughter’s funeral. “He’s
doing that just to help people un-
derstand he’s been there, too, to
some degree.”
But his attempts to paint him-
Obama Policy on Climate
Survives Vote in Senate
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It came as Senator Mitch Mc-
Connell of Kentucky, the majority
leader, was advancing the nomi-
nation of the trade lawyer Robert
Lighthizer to be the United States
trade representative. Mr.
Lighthizer harshly criticized Mr.
McCain during the senator’s 2008
presidential campaign, saying his
free-trade views were not in the
best traditions of American con-
servatism. Mr. McCain has since
sought to block Mr. Lighthizer’s
nomination, objecting to a waiver
granted to him to skirt the presi-
dent’s prohibition on lobbyists
serving in his cabinet.
Mr. McCain also was the target
of significant lobbying on the cli-
mate issue. Last week, a group of
retired generals from the liberal
Vet Voice Foundation sent a letter
to all senators, framing the roll-
back of the methane regulation as
a national security threat. The
group said the venting of the emis-
sions from fuel wells could dimin-
ish the natural gas supply. Mr. Mc-
Cain, who is chairman of the Sen-
ate Armed Services Committee,
has spoken of climate change and
the energy supply as a national se-
curity issue.
Oil lobbyists pressed their case
that the methane rule was oner-
ous and duplicative, since many
oil-producing states already have
state-level methane regulations.
On Tuesday, Gwen Lachelt, a
county commissioner from La
Plata County, Colo., which sits
near the Four Corners where the
state abuts New Mexico, Utah and
Arizona, buttonholed Mr. McCain
in a Senate elevator to tell him
that county residents have suf-
fered from methane pollution
drifting over from New Mexico,
and she noted that the same pollu-
tion could affect his state.
“I’m not taking credit for sway-
ing Senator McCain’s vote, but I
told him that right across the state
line from my county are 35,000 oil
and gas wells in New Mexico,” she
said. “We all share an airshed and
the winds that bring methane pol-
lution our way, and without this
federal rule, I have no way as a
county commissioner to protect
the people in my county. In the
Four Corners, we all live under the
largest methane cloud.”
Mr. McCain made a similar
point in a statement on the rea-
sons for his vote.
“Improving the control of meth-
ane emissions is an important
public health and air quality issue,
which is why some states are
moving forward with their own
regulations requiring greater in-
vestment in recapture technol-
ogy,” he wrote. “I join the call for
strong action to reduce pollution
from venting, flaring and leaks
associated with oil and gas pro-
duction operations on public and
Indian land.”
Nevertheless, Mr. McCain did
Methane pipes at a Southwestern Energy training facility.
self as a relatable, sympathetic
figure have seemingly fallen flat.
Even a longtime local newspaper
columnist, Tom Moran, who once
bonded with Mr. MacArthur over
his own son’s death savaged him
for having made the bill “even
more brutal.”
While Mr. Obama won Mr. Mac-
Arthur’s swing district twice, Mr.
Trump carried it in 2016, making it
no easy pickup as Democrats seek
to take back the House. But the
Republican health care plan has
provided an opening for
Democrats, who had little early
success against Mr. MacArthur.
As soon as the details of Mr.
MacArthur’s amendment em-
erged, the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee re-
leased digital ads in 30 districts to
“educate voters” — reserving a
five-figure buy for Mr. MacAr-
thur’s.
“He was already in a vulnerable
position this cycle, and the fact
that he was willing to rip away
protections for people with pre-
existing conditions is a game-
changer for our ability to compete
in this district,” said Meredith
Kelly, the D.C.C.C. spokeswoman.
Mr. MacArthur’s decision to ne-
gotiate with the hard-right House
Freedom Caucus, the other clus-
ter of “no” votes on the first ver-
sion of the Republican health care
plan, irked many of his fellow
say he would support an effort by
the Trump administration to re-
write the Obama rule. Had Con-
gress repealed the Obama-era
rule entirely, the administration
would have been precluded from
issuing any similar regulation un-
der the terms of the Congressional
Review Act.
The Independent Petroleum
Association of America, which
represents smaller oil and gas
producers, criticized the vote.
“We’re disappointed the Senate
wasn’t able to stop President Oba-
ma’s unworkable rule by a federal
agency that does not have the con-
gressionally granted authority to
regulate air quality,” said Barry
Russell, the group’s president.
Oil-state Republican lawmak-
ers vowed to push Interior Secre-
tary Ryan Zinke to act on his own.
“I call on Interior Secretary
Zinke to withdraw the rule imme-
diately,” said Senator John Bar-
rasso of Wyoming, who is chair-
man of the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works.
“If left in place, this regulation will
only discourage energy produc-
tion, job creation and economic
opportunity across the West.”
The failure of the effort to roll
back the methane rule is a small
but significant victory for envi-
ronmentalists in the Trump era, as
the president has pushed ag-
gressively to dismantle most of
his predecessor’s environmental
legacy.
The methane rule was one of a
suite of environmental regula-
tions put in place by Mr. Obama as
he sought to use his executive au-
thority to tackle climate change
across the economy. While meth-
ane vented from oil and gas wells
accounts for only a small portion
of the nation’s greenhouse gas pol-
lution, environmental advocates
urged Mr. Obama to tackle the
emissions, because methane is
over 25 times more potent than
carbon dioxide in trapping heat in
the earth’s atmosphere.
The failure to repeal the meth-
ane rule, which required a simple
majority of 51 votes to pass, comes
as the Senate nears the end of its
window to use the Congressional
Review Act to undo major regula-
tions. Under that law, which was
used successfully only once be-
fore this year, Congress can vote
to erase new executive-branch
regulations within 60 legislative
days of their completion. Since Mr.
Trump’s inauguration, the White
House has successfully pushed
Congress to roll back more than a
dozen Obama-era rules.
Included in those rollbacks
were regulations that would have
limited the way coal mining com-
panies could dump debris into
streams after blowing up moun-
taintops to gain access to coal de-
posits, and a requirement for oil,
gas and mining companies to dis-
close payments made to foreign
governments in exchange for ac-
cess to drilling or mining rights.
ANDREA MORALES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
moderates, many of whom wor-
ried that the final version lacked
protections for Americans with
pre-existing conditions. Repre-
sentatives Frank A. LoBiondo,
Leonard Lance and Christopher
H. Smith, also of New Jersey,
voted against it.
With Senate Republicans mak-
ing no secret of their intention to
rewrite the bill, the question is
whether Mr. MacArthur traded
his moderate credentials for
doomed legislation.
“If they send back any bill at
all,” Representative Charlie Dent
of Pennsylvania said, “it will be in
a form that will likely be rejected
by those who were just appeased
in the House in order to move the
first bill.”
Mr. MacArthur is among a
small group of Republicans hold-
ing town halls during this one-
week recess. Some have already
faced their own crowds and were
often drowned out by boos as they
tried to explain their stances.
As protesters waved a skeleton
outside, Mr. MacArthur acknowl-
edged that he was not expecting to
change minds.
“I don’t think I’ll convince peo-
ple necessarily, but they deserve
to know where I’m coming from,
they deserve to know how I think
about things,” he said. “They de-
serve to be able to tell me what
they think.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Economy
A supervisor monitoring a bucket of molten steel at the Nucor Steel plant. The steel will be rolled and dunked into a broth of zinc.
Steel Cheers a ‘Perfect Administration’
Chris St. Amand, left, overseeing the galvanization process under the watchful
gaze of his boss. Mr. St. Amand said he also kept an eye on Nucor’s stock price.
At the finish mill, above, rollers flatten long sheets of hot steel, right. Nucor
uses electric arc furnaces to recycle steel instead of making it from scratch.
Preparing a roll of steel for shipment to a customer. Workers at the Nucor plant
earn an average of $80,000, including performance bonuses, in a good year.
From Page A1
noting that “imports and inventories are down.”
Through the years, American producers’
main grievance has been that China treats its
highly subsidized steel industry as a giant gov-
ernment jobs programs. The plants are paid to
churn out steel — regardless of demand. The re-
sult is excess capacity, some of which China tries
to ease by selling steel on the world market at
Groupon-like discount prices.
Last month, Mr. Trump reaffirmed his resolve
to crack down on dumping and investigate
whether foreign-made steel endangered United
States security. He also championed the use of do-
mestic steel, promising to pursue an infrastruc-
ture plan under which “new ships, bridges, tun-
nels and airplanes will be constructed with Amer-
ican hands, American steel and, yes, American
tools.”
Mr. Trump’s attention to trade and manufac-
turing — which helped him gain the White House
— means more here than any of the stumbles and
missteps that feed late-night television comics. At
this Berkeley County mill, neither the administra-
tion’s backtracking on a promise to use Ameri-
can-made steel in the Keystone XL Pipeline nor
its messy battles with congressional Republicans
and low approval ratings have damped optimism
about the president or his agenda.
“My confidence hasn’t been shaken at all,”
said Mr. St. Amand, 37, who moved from Ken-
tucky 16 years ago to take an entry-level job at Nu-
cor as a packager. “Trump is good for business,”
he said, repeating a sentiment expressed by 20
other employees interviewed — including a hand-
ful who voted for his opponent. (Mr. Trump won
56 percent of the county’s votes, to Hillary Clin-
ton’s 39 percent.)
Jeffrey Goude, 29, nicknamed Strawberry for
the curly red beard and hair that peeks out of his
green hard hat, agreed. “All of them get criticism,”
he said of politicians. “Trump is No. 1 for this in-
dustry. He’s trying to make America great again.”
That phrase not only echoes Mr. Trump’s
campaign slogan, but also the title of a 2015 book
by Nucor’s former chief executive, Dan DiMicco,
who was a senior economic adviser during the
campaign and a member of the president’s trade
transition team. In the book, “American Made:
Why Making Things Will Return Us to Great-
ness,” Mr. DiMicco argues that trade policies and
the reluctance to impose punishing tariffs have
cost the United States millions of manufacturing
jobs.
With more than 200 facilities and $16 billion in
sales last year, Nucor is well positioned to take
advantage of an upswing in domestic demand.
The company uses advanced technology to turn
scrap metal into skyscraper-worthy support
beams, paper-thin water heater linings and deli-
cate sheets that can be molded into Christmas or-
naments and fishing lures.
“We’re very flexible,” said Giff Daughtridge,
the Huger plant’s general manager and vice pres-
ident. “We can take cold scrap and turn it into
product very quickly.”
The fiery showers of orange sparks, mam-
moth tipping buckets and pounding rollers are
roaring round the clock here, staffed by four ro-
tating teams that work 12-hour shifts.
“It’s hot; it’s dirty. It’s hard work,” said Leigh
Kemp, 48, who switched from an office job to the
plant floor tending a ladle metallurgy furnace two
decades ago. “But you make good money.”
The plant employs 940 workers, yet most of
the acreage is occupied by highly automated ma-
chinery rather than people.
If trade policies have eaten away at steel in-
dustry jobs, so have technological advances like
Nucor’s electric arc furnaces, which recycle exist-
ing iron and steel instead of making it from
scratch. The old-style blast-furnace steel plants
that resembled volcanic Mordor from “The Lord
of the Rings” and employed legions of
boilermakers, electricians, steamfitters and more
are on the decline in the United States.
In the 1980s, for example, making a finished
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ton of steel required about 10 human-hours of
work. Now the Huger plant can make that same
ton from recycled material in 0.4 human-hours,
said Mr. Daughtridge, who has worked for Nucor
for 33 years.
The jobs that do exist are coveted. Workers
stay one, two and three decades with the com-
pany while encouraging family and friends to join
them.
There is no union at Nucor, not in this anti-
union state or any other where the Charlotte-
based manufacturer has a plant. But good bene-
fits and pay-for-performance bonuses that have
raised the average salary to $80,000 in a good
year inspire loyalty. (Nucor did not release spe-
cific information about the wage scale.)
In lean times, pay can fall by a third, but the
job remains. A no-layoff tradition, even during the
Great Recession, means Nucor can keep trained
workers who are ready to stoke up when demand
picks up.
That approach has enabled company workers
in Berkeley and elsewhere to hold on to a prize
that has slipped away from millions of blue-collar
employees throughout America: a middle-class
lifestyle that is both stable and secure.
Yet if Nucor’s strategy is admired by many,
few other corporations mimic it, often because of
relentless pressure from Wall Street to whittle
down labor costs in order to post bigger earnings.
When the recession hit in 2008, “the board of
directors thought we had lost our minds” for not
cutting staff, Mr. Daughtridge said. “But we
spend a lot of time, money and effort hiring and
training,” he explained, detailing a process that
takes 12 to 18 months, includes strict alcohol and
drug testing, and involves as many as seven in-
terviews and vetting by a psychologist. Keeping
those workers saves money in the long run, he
said: “We have the highest wages and the lowest
cost per ton.”
Business cycles are familiar to longtime
employees. “The steel industry always had its
ups and downs,” said Nina Jones, 62, a 19-year
veteran at the plant who inspects the shiny zinc-
coated steel after it hardens. Ms. Jones, who
wears gray-and-blue Kevlar gloves and steel-
toed boots that had to be specially ordered in a
small size for her, said that her father worked in
the industry and her brother works the same shift
schedule at Nucor that she does. The ceaseless
and conflicting reports coming out of Washing-
ton, more than 500 miles away, have left her
weary of politics, but cautiously optimistic about
the industry’s prospects.
“I want to stay positive and hope manufactur-
ing will come back,” she said. “I’m waiting and
seeing.”
Certainly, the type of divisions over budget
deficits and program cuts that have shadowed the
Republicans’ health care bill could also interfere
with policies the steel industry is counting on —
corporate tax cuts, tougher enforcement of trade
rules and an expensive infrastructure bill. At the
same time, uncertainty about the future may slow
overall growth.
Still, for all the contention that has dogged Mr.
Trump since the election, Mr. Daughtridge said
that none of the suppliers and workers that he
regularly spoke with were having second
thoughts about voting for him. “I don’t hear any
buyer’s remorse from them,” he said.
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Puerto Rico Crisis Claims
A New Casualty: Schools
From Page A1
But for parents like Ms.
Hernández, the cuts feel both cat-
astrophic and capricious.
“She closed this school without
visiting it!” Ms. Hernández said,
explaining the parents’ decision to
park themselves at the school’s
front gates to prevent teachers,
students or the principal from go-
ing inside. Her son, Javian, 10,
missed class all week.
By “she,” Ms. Hernández was
referring to Julia Keleher, the
Washington-based consultant
who was recently named secre-
tary of education in Puerto Rico.
Ms. Keleher took control of the
school system in January, a few
months after Puerto Rico’s affairs
were taken over by a governing
board in New York.
The oversight board has
warned that the government must
save up to $40 million a month,
suggesting that about 300 schools
close and that teachers be fur-
loughed two days a month.
As a former federal education
official with experience in Detroit
and Washington, Ms. Keleher
said, the concept of receivership is
not foreign to her.
“We have to close schools,” Ms.
Keleher said in an interview on
Monday. “We are going to close
schools.”
The plan Ms. Keleher an-
nounced is less draconian than the
one the fiscal board had sug-
gested. She insists that the con-
solidation — which many princi-
pals learned of as she announced
it on television — is not just about
saving money, but also about im-
proving student performance and
A Malformation in the Brain Is Linked to Bacteria in the Gut, Scientists Say
By GINA KOLATA
Researchers have traced the
cause of a baffling brain disorder
to a surprising source: a particu-
lar type of bacteria living in the
gut.
Scientists increasingly suspect
that the body’s vast community of
bacteria — the microbiome —
may play a role in the develop-
ment of a wide variety of diseases,
from obesity to perhaps even au-
tism.
The new study, published on
Wednesday in Nature, is among
the first to suggest convincingly
that these bacteria may initiate
disease in seemingly unrelated or-
gans, and in completely unexpect-
ed ways.
Researchers “need to be think-
ing more broadly about the indi-
rect role of the microbiome” in in-
fluencing even diseases that have
no obvious link to the gut, said Dr.
David Relman, professor of micro-
biology and immunology at Stan-
ford.
The researchers studied heredi-
tary cerebral cavernous malfor-
mations — blood-filled bubbles
that protrude from veins in the
brain and can leak blood or burst
at any time.
empowering local officials to be
accountable for what happens at
their schools.
She has covered her office’s
long conference room table with
spreadsheets. She whipped out a
tablet with pie charts and bus
routes as she laid out the possibili-
ties she said would be opened
when waste is eliminated. (She
wrote her doctoral dissertation on
data-driven decision-making.)
She said schools built for 800
students had just 300 enrolled.
The district was still paying for
water and power for abandoned
school buildings. There are
teacher shortages in some schools
and surpluses in others. School fa-
cilities are rotting and infested
with rats.
If two $1 million schools merge,
Ms. Keleher said, the new $2 mil-
lion school can afford computer
labs that twice as many students
could use.
“It has been a nearly impossible
conversation,” she said. “This is
not about closing schools. This is
about creating these kinds of op-
portunities with this savings in
budget.”
Aida Díaz, the president of a
teachers’ union, says that while
everyone recognizes some
schools are in deplorable condi-
tion and others are underutilized,
Ms. Keleher’s data-driven ap-
proach fails to consider nuances.
Looking at the list of closings,
she noted that two schools whose
communities were longtime rivals
were being merged. Another
school populated mostly by chil-
dren who live in public housing
was being merged with a school 10
minutes away by highway — but it
is unlikely that their parents have
The findings do not point to a
cure, but they do suggest a way to
prevent these brain defects in chil-
dren who inherit a mutated gene
that can cause them.
Researchers warned, though,
that it is too soon to say whether
the potential treatment — antibi-
otics, followed by a fecal trans-
plant — will work.
“Caution, caution, caution,”
urged Dr. Mark Ginsberg, a pro-
fessor of medicine at the Univer-
sity of California, San Diego, who
was not involved in the new study.
Still, he added, “The findings
are very convincing.”
When Dr. Mark Kahn, professor
of cardiovascular medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania’s Per-
elman School of Medicine, began
this work, the microbiome was the
last thing on his mind.
Dr. Kahn and his colleagues
studied cerebral cavernous mal-
formations as part of a larger ef-
fort to understand the develop-
ment and function of blood ves-
sels.
These brain defects occur in as
many as one in 100 people, most of
whom have no known genetic ab-
normality. Most learn they have
the condition when they have a
cars.
Ms. Keleher said some schools
did remain open for reasons just
like those, including avoiding long
commutes for children in rural ar-
eas. The list of closings dropped
by five just since Friday.
“There is no sense in getting
mad: Schools will have to close,”
Ms. Díaz said. “There are schools
that really are so obsolete, with
good ones next to it with empty
classrooms.”
Emilio Nieves Torres, who
heads a different teachers’ union,
said government officials were
misleading the public about the
Parents, teachers and students protest at a school scheduled to close in Aguas Buenas, P.R.
brain M.R.I. for something unre-
lated, like a blow to the head.
Some experience a symptom,
like a seizure, because the bubble
is leaking blood, or a stroke be-
cause it bursts. (An aneurysm is
similar, but it forms in an artery.)
The only treatment is surgery,
assuming the malformation is in
an accessible area of the brain.
Up to 20 percent of patients
have a family history of this brain
defect, and in them the disease is
much more aggressive.
They may have a few of these
malformations — or thousands.
Even babies can have strokes
when the blood-filled bubbles
burst.
Three genes have been linked to
the disorder, and Dr. Kahn and his
colleagues tried to figure out what
these mutations really do. The sci-
entists were able to mimic the con-
dition in mice by deleting a gene
that is mutated in many patients.
A year ago, the scientists
moved to a new building, and
something unexpected happened.
The experimental mice stopped
developing the brain malforma-
tions.
Dr. Kahn’s student, Alan T.
Tang, had been deleting the gene
cuts. Although Ms. Keleher has
vowed “not to fire anybody,” at
least 5,000 teachers work on year-
to-year contracts, and in order for
the consolidation to result in real
savings, thousands of contracts
by injecting a drug into the
abdomens of the mice. Sometimes
a mouse would get an infection
that would lead to an abscess, and
bacteria leaked from the gut into
the blood.
In the new building, only those
mice still developed the brain de-
fect. The other gene-deleted mice
did not.
“When it happens three or four
times, you realize this isn’t
chance,” Dr. Kahn said.
He and his colleagues finally
identified the culprit: Gram-nega-
tive bacteria, named for the way
they stain, that carry a molecule in
their cell walls, a lipopolysaccha-
ride. Without a functioning gene,
the lipopolysaccharide can signal
veins in the brain to form blood
bubbles.
In the old lab, mice without the
gene carried enough Gram-nega-
tive bacteria to set off the disease.
But in the new building, the mice
were not exposed to the bacteria
in sufficient amounts.
Only those that developed ab-
scesses, which let large numbers
of Gram-negative bacteria leak
into their blood, developed the
brain defect. And antibiotics that
kill these common bacteria com-
pletely protected the mice from
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIKA P. RODRIGUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
will not be renewed, he said.
Responding to the board’s de-
mands, the government pre-
sented a fiscal plan that would
freeze teacher salaries until 2021
— meaning that teachers, who
the brain defect.
Replacing their microbiomes
with different bacteria — as is
done in humans with fecal trans-
plants — prevented the brain dis-
ease from recurring. But the re-
searchers could not eliminate
malformations that had already
formed.
Dr. Kahn was thrilled with the
discovery but worried about its
applicability. “We wanted to make
sure this is not just some crazy
mouse phenomenon and that it
has relevance to human disease,”
he said.
The mutation causing the brain
defect is carried by a large His-
panic population in New Mexico.
But while some have hundreds of
blood-filled bubbles in their
brains, others living elsewhere in
the state are perfectly fine.
Dr. Kahn contacted researchers
who study this group and with
their help is obtaining fecal sam-
ples from them. He and his col-
leagues have begun to examine
the samples for Gram-negative
bacteria.
The families were all too happy
to help. Sandra Gallegos, a 49-
year-old customer service agent
in Santa Fe, discovered she had
the mutated gene after her 9-year-
Camila Rivera during a
math class at a school in
Bayamón, P.R. Her school
will absorb about 190 stu-
dents as part of a cost-
saving consolidation.
earn about $21,000 a year and
whose salaries have been frozen
since 2008, would not get raises
for 13 years, he said.
“Our biggest preoccupation is
that all of this will be in the hands
of a judge, named by the Supreme
Court of the United States, and we
don’t know if she’s going to take
into account basic essentials of
safety, health and education,” Mr.
Nieves said. “Right now, that
board has proposed cutting school
two days a month. That’s a month
of classes. That impacts educa-
tion.”
On Friday, Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. tapped Judge Laura
Taylor Swain, of the United States
District Court for the Southern
District of New York, to preside
over Puerto Rico’s filing for a form
of bankruptcy relief from its many
creditors.
For now, the savings is just $7
million in water and power bills.
But Ms. Keleher acknowledged
that many teacher contracts will
not be renewed, and more cost
savings will come when others
quit in frustration.
“You’ll see a natural attrition
with the kinds of changes we’re
going to make,” she said. “I think
people who are close to retirement
will look at changes and say: ‘Do I
want to do this? I’m not in my
school anymore.’ Maybe they will
choose to do something else.”
Ms. Keleher has a six-month
contract for what she estimates to
be an eight-year task.
“Everybody wanted something
to change about public education
in Puerto Rico,” she said, “up until
we knocked on their door.”
old daughter died from a sudden
brain hemorrhage.
Her older son does not carry the
gene, but the younger one, Joel,
now 15, does. He has had seizures,
and three years ago he underwent
brain surgery to remove a blood-
filled bubble in a vein in the frontal
lobe.
Mrs. Gallegos has at least three
brain malformations. So far, her
only symptom has been occa-
sional headaches, but she knows
that at any moment one of the
bubbles could burst and cause a
stroke.
“It’s very hard to live with this,”
she said.
If the research holds up, Dr.
Kahn said, it may one day be pos-
sible to prevent the development
of the malformations in suscepti-
ble newborns by manipulating
their microbiome — perhaps with
a simple fecal transplant.
The form of the disease that
strikes most patients is “spo-
radic,” meaning they have not in-
herited a mutated gene. Usually
they have just one malformed
vein in their brain.
It is not impossible that fecal
transplants might help them, too,
Dr. Ginsberg said. “It should be
looked at.”
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Some Spirits Sink Over de Blasio’s ‘3-K for All’ Plan
An effort to expand
preschool to 3-year-olds
draws diverse concerns.
By KATE TAYLOR
James Matison runs five Brooklyn
preschools for low-income children that
get most of their money from New York
City. But when he heard that Mayor Bill
de Blasio was about to announce a plan
to offer free preschool to every 3-year-
old in the city, his response was not en-
thusiasm, but concern.
“No one who runs a community-based
organization has said, ‘Oh, that’s great
news,’” Mr. Matison said of the initiative,
which Mr. de Blasio labeled “3-K for All”
when he announced it at a news confer-
ence in the Bronx last month.
For Mr. Matison, the executive direc-
tor of the nonprofit Brooklyn Kindergar-
ten Society, the issue is teachers.
Since the mayor created 13,000 seats
for 4-year-olds in public schools and city-
run prekindergarten centers, Mr. Mati-
son has seen more than half of his lead
teachers leave. The city’s Education De-
partment offers higher salaries than he
can, in some cases tens of thousands of
dollars more, and summers off, while his
program operates year-round.
Mr. de Blasio said his new initiative
would build off the success of his univer-
sal prekindergarten program for 4-year-
olds, which has enrolled almost 70,000
children. He also said it would require
hiring 4,500 more teachers, leaving Mr.
Matison worried that he could lose even
more staff members.
“It is really a frightening prospect,” he
said.
In the weeks since the mayor revealed
his proposal, questions about whether
the new program can succeed have been
raised by preschool providers, state leg-
islators and critics who say he is setting a
lofty and politically popular goal that he
Surge Pricing for Migrants Heading North Ends in Penalty for a Taxi Owner
By LIZ ROBBINS
For the last several months, the route
north has been marked by desperation.
Migrants lacking legal status in the
United States have been fleeing to Cana-
da by taking buses to Plattsburgh, N.Y.,
and then hailing taxis to a country road
that dead-ends in an unofficial border
crossing.
It is a 25-mile cab ride to a new life, for
which the going rate is $50 to $75. But
one cabdriver was keeping the meter off
and charging $100 to $300 in cash, de-
pending on his mood. And his pas-
sengers were not in a position to com-
plain.
But after a two-month investigation
into the price-gouging practices of sev-
eral taxi companies ferrying passengers
to the border in Champlain, N.Y., the New
York State attorney general, Eric T.
Schneiderman, announced on Wednes-
day that he had obtained a court order
against Christopher Ray Crowning-
shield, the owner and operator of North-
ern Taxi.
Mr. Crowningshield had to pay the
Rick Rojas contributed reporting.
Lydia Guerrero-Barlow reading to 3-year-olds in an EarlyLearn
class at Union Settlement, a provider of early education in East
Harlem. In the class, top, pupils learned about animals last week.
has no realistic plan to achieve.
In addition to hiring staff, the expan-
sion to 3-year-olds would require hun-
dreds of classrooms, including some in
the most crowded — and expensive —
parts of the city.
Most critical, to actually make the pro-
gram universal, Mr. de Blasio needs to
secure $700 million in state and federal
funding. On its own, the administration
has said, the city can fund the program in
only eight of its 32 school districts. It is
starting with a pilot program this fall in
just two districts, in the South Bronx and
the Brownsville neighborhood in Brook-
lyn.
Some state legislators have said that
they are not prepared to pay for pre-
school for 3-year-olds in New York City
until there is free prekindergarten for all
4-year-olds in the rest of the state. Cur-
rently, according to the State Education
Department, roughly a third of New
York’s 4-year-olds do not have access to
public prekindergarten.
state $2,500. He must also post fares in
the two taxis he operates, cannot charge
more than 10 times the Plattsburgh maxi-
mum fare, $7.50, and must call the attor-
ney general’s office each time he picks up
a passenger headed for Roxham Road.
“This case sends a strong message:
We won’t hesitate to protect our most
vulnerable neighbors, in Plattsburgh, or
New York City, or anywhere else around
New York,” Mr. Schneiderman said in an
email.
Two other companies, C & L Taxi, and
Town Taxi and Medical Transport, in-
curred lesser fines and were told to post
fares.
Mr. Schneiderman has been forceful
about cracking down on those seeking to
take advantage of undocumented immi-
grants, whether in New York City or the
northeastern tip of the state.
“It’s no surprise that a frightened
refugee family might pay an exorbitant
fare to get to the border — but that does-
n’t make it legal, and we will continue to
crack down on those looking to take ad-
vantage of fear for financial gain,” he
said.
When reached for comment on the
“I respect the mayor and his plan, but I
would say that we have a lot of work to do
statewide first,” State Assemblyman
Kenneth P. Zebrowski, a Democrat from
Rockland County, said in an interview.
He noted that Rockland County had
enough prekindergarten seats to serve
only about half of its 4-year-olds.
Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for
Mr. de Blasio, said that while there were
hurdles, “The science is clear that the
earlier we reach our youngest children,
the better chance they have to succeed
later in life.”
She added that there were “still impor-
tant program development discussions
to be had, but the mayor refuses to wait.”
New York City’s publicly financed
early education system is complex and
fragmented. Mr. de Blasio’s universal
prekindergarten program is free and
serves all 4-year-olds, regardless of fam-
ily income, in schools and community-
based organizations. These programs
run six hours and 20 minutes daily and
The state cracks down on
those taking advantage of
illegal immigrants.
number posted on his car, Mr. Crowning-
shield, 48, hung up the phone.
Glen Michaels, an assistant attorney
general based in Plattsburgh, said Mr.
Crowningshield had complied with the
order by posting fare sheets in his taxis.
Mr. Michaels said he was told a check
was forthcoming.
The civil order, obtained in New York
State Supreme Court last week, may
have targeted what Mr. Michaels said
was the most egregious offender, but he
said the investigation would continue.
Across the border in Montreal, an im-
migration lawyer, Stéphane Handfield,
applauded the steps by New York State,
but he was skeptical it would be effective
in cracking down on what he viewed as a
widespread practice.
“I don’t think it’s only one cabdriver
who does this,” he said.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
operate only when school is in session.
Then there are early education centers
that specifically serve low-income fam-
ilies through the city’s EarlyLearn pro-
gram. They mostly take children be-
tween the ages of 2 and 4, and, because
they are intended to provide child care to
working parents, are open eight to 10
hours a day and don’t close during school
holidays. The program is free to the poor-
est families; others pay sliding-scale
rates based on their incomes. Mr. Mati-
son’s organization, the Brooklyn Kinder-
garten Society, is an EarlyLearn
provider.
Prekindergarten teachers in city
schools or in centers directly run by the
Education Department belong to the
United Federation of Teachers union.
They earn salaries that start at $54,000
and max out, after 22 years, at $113,372.
Those who teach in EarlyLearn pro-
grams belong to a different union, Dis-
trict Council 1707. These teachers went
without a raise for nine years, until a new
contract was signed last fall. Under the
new contract, the salaries of certified
teachers in EarlyLearn programs start
at $40,456 and top out at $51,700.
David Nocenti, the executive director
of Union Settlement, which serves
roughly 400 children through Ear-
lyLearn in seven centers in East Harlem,
said that of 29 classrooms, he currently
had five vacancies for certified teachers
as well as one vacancy for a center direc-
tor. He said that the previous center di-
rector had left to earn a higher salary
teaching in the Education Department,
as had most of the teachers he was look-
ing to replace.
“Unless the mayor’s proposal includes
funding to eliminate the disparate treat-
ment of nonprofit teaching staff, all of us
will lose the teachers that we currently
have,” Mr. Nocenti said, “and the entire
structure’s going to collapse, period.”
Shariffa Martinez, 40, went to work for
the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society in
2011 teaching 2-year-olds and then 4-
Not only do cabs line up at the Platts-
burgh bus station waiting for arrivals, he
said, but he also had four clients tell him
they were charged $1,000 by a taxi com-
pany to be driven directly from New
York City to the now well-known location
on Roxham Road, which becomes
Chemin Roxham on the northern side of
the border.
“It’s criminal to put people in that situ-
ation,” Mr. Handfield said. “I know peo-
ple who try to come to Canada, they fear
for their life and they don’t want to go
back to their country of citizenship, and
people will profit off their misfortune.”
Since January, the flow of migrants
has nearly tripled across the Quebec bor-
der, according to the Canada Border
Services Agency. In January, the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police recorded 245
interceptions. In March, the number
jumped to 644. April figures have not yet
been released.
On March 21, Mr. Crowningshield
picked up an undercover investigator for
the attorney general’s office in Platts-
burgh.
According to an affidavit, despite be-
ing asked the fare several times, Mr.
Crowningshield told the investigator
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N
year-olds. She said she loved it. Still,
three years later, when Ms. Martinez had
an opportunity to teach kindergarten in a
city school, she jumped at it. It was partly
the salary difference, which she said was
close to $30,000. But it was also the op-
portunity to spend summer and other
school vacations with her son, now 5.
“I worked all year-round with just 15
days of vacation,” Ms. Martinez said of
her job at the Brooklyn Kindergarten So-
ciety. “I wouldn’t go back to where I have
less time with my personal family.”
Ana Aguirre, the executive director of
United Community Centers, which runs
a center serving 114 children in East New
York, Brooklyn, said that having such
frequent vacancies inevitably took a toll
on her program’s quality.
“Your energy is constantly in replac-
ing certified teachers,” she said.
Some early childhood center directors
were also upset that they had not been
consulted about the program, or even no-
tified that its announcement was coming
before the morning of Mr. de Blasio’s
news conference.
Josh Wallack, a deputy chancellor for
strategy and policy at the city’s Educa-
tion Department, said that the depart-
ment had helped early childhood centers
with recruitment and professional devel-
opment and would continue to do so.
“We recognize that there are chal-
lenges with an implementation like this,
but we’ve done it before with pre-K, and
we are going to collaborate with all the
providers to get this done,” Mr. Wallack
said. “They’re essential partners here.”
Some early childhood education advo-
cates who support the mayor’s “3-K for
All” initiative agreed that the salary gap
was a serious issue, but said they ex-
pected that the expansion would create
pressure to resolve it.
“In my view,” said Jennifer March, the
executive director of the nonprofit Citi-
zens’ Committee for Children of New
York, “it’s a real opportunity to tackle all
those challenging problems.”
how much the ride would cost only after
they were en route to Roxham Road. He
said it was $200. She paid him $180 in
cash — he did not seem to notice the dis-
crepancy — and then he drove hastily
away.
One time he charged $300 to take three
passengers, and on another occasion,
$200 for a family of five, case records
showed.
Northern Taxi made $15,000 in the first
three months of this year, compared with
$7,000 in the last half of 2016, Mr. Crown-
ingshield’s first several months in busi-
ness, according to the court papers.
In interviews in February, when he
told a reporter for The New York Times
his last name was Crowningshiele, Mr.
Crowningshield said that he charged
“around $75” — sometimes more or
sometimes less, he said — though it “de-
pends on how many people” were in the
car and also where he picked them up.
But he admitted it was a lucrative busi-
ness to shuttle migrants to the border,
rather than just take locals around
Plattsburgh.
“It’s better money, and it’s not a lot of
wear and tear,” Mr. Crowningshield said.
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Democrat Is Biggest Spender by Far in New Jersey Governor Race Kushners
By NICK CORASANITI
As he muscled his way into the
pole position in the New Jersey
governor’s race, Philip D. Murphy,
a Democrat, has consumed a hefty
part of his campaign’s consider-
able war chest, spending more
than $18 million, $16.6 million more
than his nearest competitor, ac-
cording to financial disclosure re-
ports released on Wednesday.
Mr. Murphy’s latest report ce-
mented his status as the fund-rais-
ing leader in the race. He took in
more than $7.7 million in the first
reporting period of 2017, which
ended May 5, most of it in the form
of $5.5 million he lent his cam-
paign. In all, his campaign has
raised more than $19 million, but
he enters the final weeks before
the June 6 primaries with less
than $1 million left.
Among Republicans, Lt. Gov.
Kim Guadagno raised $2.2 million
in the period for her campaign,
which began in January, and had
$1.5 million on hand. Her main
challenger, Assemblyman Jack M.
Ciattarelli, raised nearly $1.3 mil-
lion and had $461,051 left.
The filings come as the cam-
paign approaches an important
moment. While news media atten-
tion and voter interest have been
somewhat low — nearly 60 per-
cent of voters say they “don’t
know enough” about the leading
candidates on either side — there
is less than a month left until the
primary.
New Jersey offers a matching
funds program for candidates
who initially raise more than
$450,000 and commit to spending
At New Jersey Rivals’ Debates, Parties Differ on Policy and in Tone
By NICK CORASANITI
GALLOWAY, N.J. — After
months of a campaign fought
largely in town halls and mail-
boxes and on scattered commer-
cial airwaves, the candidates for
governor of New Jersey met here
at Stockton University on Tues-
day for the first televised primary
debates. And while the Republi-
can candidates sparred over tax
policy and achievements, the
Democratic candidates found
themselves largely in agreement.
Voters looking for a substantive
debate about the many issues
plaguing New Jersey — including
critically underfunded pension
and school systems, record prop-
erty taxes and a transportation
network on the brink of failure —
were treated largely to candidate
indictments of Gov. Chris
Christie’s stewardship of the
state.
In a Democratic debate that
was more peaceful than acrid, the
candidates transitioned from
making biting opening state-
ments to standing in unison in
support of legalizing marijuana,
supporting alternative energy
sources such as wind turbines,
paying for the entire school fund-
ing formula, investing in the
state’s failing infrastructure and
countering President Trump.
One of the few divisive mo-
ments in the Democratic debate
came as Phil Murphy, a former
Goldman Sachs executive and
ambassador to Germany who is
leading comfortably in early
polling, offered his proposal of a
public bank, run by the state, as a
method to combat unemploy-
ment.
John Wisniewski, a state as-
semblyman, countered: “A state
bank for New Jersey would be a
disaster. If Mr. Murphy wants to
create a state bank, maybe he
should go back to Wall Street.”
Jim Johnson, a former under-
secretary of the United States
Treasury, said, “We cannot adopt
Wall Street gimmicks to address
Main Street problems.”
In his opening statement, Mr.
Johnson had repeatedly framed
Mr. Murphy’s experience through
the lens of Goldman Sachs, an in-
vestment bank frequently vilified
by progressives.
At the outset, it appeared that
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wisniewski,
trying to chip away at Mr. Mur-
phy’s polling lead, would frame
their arguments as a con-
at least $430,000. Those who qual-
ify receive $2 in public financing
for each dollar raised from private
sources, with a limit of $6.4 million
in expenditures for primary races,
and $13.8 million for the general
election.
Mr. Murphy is the only candi-
date who has opted not to partici-
pate in the program, so his fund-
raising figures reflected only what
he received in donations or lent to
his campaign. The other candi-
dates reported a combination of
donations and matching funds.
Jim Johnson, a Democrat who
surprised some by becoming the
first candidate to qualify for
matching funds, raised $1.9 mil-
lion in the first period, bringing his
campaign’s total to $2.3 million.
Donations from outside New
Jersey accounted for a large por-
tion the money raised by Mr. John-
son, a former Treasury undersec-
retary in the Clinton administra-
tion. Excluding matching funds,
Mr. Johnson raised about $153,000
in New Jersey, and about $626,000
from out of state, $437,000 of it
from New York, including $1,000
from Eliot Spitzer, the former gov-
ernor of New York.
Among the other Democrats in
the race, Assemblyman John S.
Wisniewski raised $1.1 million, and
State Senator Ray Lesniak, raised
just over $500,000, with slightly
more than half of it coming from
Mr. Lesniak himself.
For his part, Mr. Murphy re-
ceived contributions from 5,030
donors during the filing period.
His campaign said that 55 percent
of those donors had pledged $100
State Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno after facing off Tuesday at Stockton University in New Jersey.
Republicans seeking
to be governor spar,
but Democrats find
common ground.
demnation of the “political ma-
chine” that had thrown its early
support behind Mr. Murphy and
would portray him as an out-of-
touch banker. But the early ani-
mosity largely faded.
Mr. Murphy weathered the at-
tacks, claiming support from Sen-
ator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
for a public bank. Perhaps aware
of the coming Goldman refer-
ences, he introduced his family
story as one of the “working poor.”
Several of the questions fo-
cused on the environment, and
Mr. Murphy emphasized that he
had a plan “that envisions a 100
percent clean energy economy by
the year 2050.”
Philip D. Murphy, in Jersey City this month, has spent over
$18 million on his campaign to become New Jersey’s governor.
or less to the campaign, but the
majority of Mr. Murphy’s contri-
butions have come from larger
donors, including the candidate
himself. Of the roughly $19 million
his campaign has raised, only
about $455,000 has come from do-
nations of $300 or less.
Mr. Murphy, who announced his
candidacy last May, has had a long
time to fill his coffers, which has
given him a significant advantage
but has also forced him to spend
much more than his rivals.
A former banker at Goldman
Sachs, Mr. Murphy has tried to
distinguish himself from another
former Goldman Sachs banker
and New Jersey governor, Jon S.
The fourth Democratic candi-
date, Raymond J. Lesniak, a state
senator of about 40 years, pointed
to his extensive experience in
Trenton — particularly fighting
for environmental legislation —
and his frequent battles with Mr.
Christie.
“On Monday there’s another
deal I’m going to stop,” Senator
Lesniak said, asserting that he
was going to put a “temporary re-
straining order” on the governor’s
proposed $300 million renovation
of the State House.
On the Republican side, Jack
Ciattarelli, a state assemblymen,
kicked off the debate with a blunt
warning, and harsher blame.
“We’re on the brink, and you all
know the crisis: They ruined our
economy and punished New
Jerseyans every single day,” Mr.
Ciattarelli said, adding: “Kim
Guadagno and the Christie ad-
ministration had seven-plus years
to fix New Jersey. They just
haven’t been able to get it done.”
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Corzine, who was did not win re-
election after one term and re-
mains unpopular in the state. Mr.
Murphy told The New York Times
that comparing him to Mr. Corzine
was like saying “A-Rod and Jeter
were both Yankees.”
Nonetheless, Mr. Corzine and
his wife each gave Mr. Murphy’s
campaign $4,300.
Mr. Murphy’s rivals have cited
his using his personal wealth for
his campaign as evidence that he
was behaving like Mr. Corzine. In
the first televised primary debate
on Tuesday, Mr. Wisniewski derid-
ed the primary process as an “auc-
tion.”
“There’s only one candidate
Ms. Guadagno, the lieutenant
governor and the other Republi-
can candidate at the debate, found
herself in the delicate dance she
has performed for most of her
nascent campaign: embracing the
few successes of her tenure with
Mr. Christie at the helm while fre-
quently pointing out where she
disagreed with the governor. She
said that she was “not a climate
denier” and that the current Re-
publican plan in Congress to re-
peal the Affordable Care Act was a
“disaster.” But she also said she
opposed the gas tax.
The two Republican candidates
repeatedly sparred over taxes.
Ms. Guadagno tried to frame Mr.
Ciattarelli’s plan to solve the prop-
erty tax crisis with a reorganiza-
tion of the school funding formula
as a potential tax. “I have never
seen a job that was created with a
tax,” she said.
She offered instead her “circuit
breaker” program, which would
provide a direct tax credit to
port the preservation of the Col-
orado River referred incorrectly
at one point to the Rev. Helia Mar-
tinez, who explained how the area
was dependent on the water. Rev.
Martinez is a woman.
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who keeps bidding up the price,”
Mr. Wisniewski said, alluding to
Mr. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy has invested a total
of $20 million into his political ef-
forts, $15 million directly into his
primary campaign and $5 million
on two nonprofit groups he
started. But that sum is still well
below the amount that Mr. Corzine
spent in 2005, when he poured
more than $43 million of his
money into his campaign, accord-
ing to the New Jersey Election
Law Enforcement Commission, a
state agency.
Ms. Guadagno’s campaign, in a
statement announcing its fund-
raising figures, also criticized Mr.
Murphy’s war chest and called for
a spending cap for the general
election.
“We challenge Phil Murphy or
whoever wins their primary to
agree to a spending cap so the
race is focused on the issues New
Jerseyans care about most like af-
fordability and lower taxes,” Dave
Huguenel, Ms. Guadagno’s cam-
paign manager, said in a state-
ment.
New Jersey and Virginia are the
only two states with governors’
races this year. Gov. Chris
Christie, a Republican, is in his
second term and is prohibited
from running again.
Given Mr. Christie’s unpopular-
ity, the Democratic registration
edge in the state and a history of
swings in political power at the
statehouse, many have looked to
whoever wins the Democratic pri-
mary as an early favorite to win
the general election on Nov. 7.
CHARLES MOSTOLLER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
residents with excessive property
taxes in proportion to their in-
come, although she never offered
a detailed explanation of the plan.
“I’ve presented a circuit
breaker plan that will help those
who are in need of making pay-
ments for their property taxes
now,” she said, “not in two or three
years when Jack tries to get his
school funding formula through
the legislature.”
But speaking with the rapid,
metronomic clip of a candidate
armed with an arsenal of prac-
ticed responses, Mr. Ciattarelli
was relentless as he attacked Ms.
Guadagno. He said she refused to
address issues “with any specifici-
ty” and called her circuit breaker
plan “irresponsible,” her position
against the gas tax “hypocritical”
and her pledge to never support a
tax increase as “pandering of the
worst kind.”
Mr. Ciattarelli even looked to
the moderator at one point, alert-
ing her when he saw that Ms.
Guadagno had gone over her al-
lotted time as she was answering
a question about marijuana legis-
lation.
“Thank you for reminding me
about the time, Jack,” the
moderator said.
The debate came at a pivotal
time in the race to succeed Mr.
Christie, a Republican whose
historically low approval ratings
indicate an electorate anxious for
a change.
Yet no candidate has been able
to break through and excite
voters: A Quinnipiac poll last
month found that 57 percent of
state residents remained undecid-
ed.
Participants in the debate were
determined by the New Jersey
Election Law Enforcement Com-
mission, which sponsors the de-
bates.
Candidates qualifying for the
state’s matching funds program,
which is available to any cam-
paign that has raised at least
$430,000, are required to take part
in the debate. Mr. Murphy, who
has opted out of the matching
funds program, agreed to partici-
pate.
Confront
Turbulence
In Jersey City
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
The Kushner real estate family,
whose scion Jared Kushner is
President Trump’s son-in-law and
close adviser, has run into more
turbulence in Jersey City, where it
has placed a major bet on develop-
ment.
The Kushners have six projects
under development in Jersey City
— with square footage equivalent
to two Empire State Buildings —
the once blue-collar town that sits
a mile across the Hudson River
from Manhattan.
Now, after making the highest
offer last year for a 95-acre water-
front parcel that would have been
their seventh project, the
Kushners said they have dropped
out of the bidding for the site,
where a Honeywell factory once
stood.
Kushner Companies, which is
led by Jared’s father, Charles
Kushner, had bid as much as $125
million for the Honeywell site,
which had been contaminated by
chromium, with plans to build
3,000 apartments catered to
Orthodox Jews who are being
priced out of the Williamsburg
neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Honeywell suspended the sale
last year to obtain environmental
approvals from the state and
expects to resume negotiations
later this year.
“A decision was made late last
year not to pursue the project,”
James Yolles, a spokesman for the
Kushners said Wednesday,
“because the company was not
persuaded by the economics of
the deal.”
The Kushners’ decision to drop
out of the bidding was first
reported by Bloomberg.
But the mayor of Jersey City,
Steven Fulop, also cast a shadow
over an existing Kushner project:
the $820.8 million, twin-towered
complex known as One Journal
Square.
A joint venture of Kushner
Companies and KABR Group, the
complex would entail 1,476
apartments, shops and office
space. A third company, WeWork,
which builds shared office spaces,
recently dropped out of the
project. Kushner Companies is
negotiating to buy WeWork’s
stake in the project, according to
the group’s spokesman, Mr.
Yolles.
A real estate company
backs out of bidding
for a planned
residential project.
Mr. Fulop announced Sunday
on social media that the city would
not support Kushner’s recent
application for additional
subsidies, including tens of
millions of dollars in property tax
breaks over 30 years and $40
million in city bonds.
The development had already
obtained state approval for more
than $90 million in tax credits for
the 10-story base of the complex
and one of the two towers. With
the loss of WeWork, that number
has been cut to $34 million.
Last week, the city
provisionally rejected the
developers’ request for additional
subsidies because the
components of the complex have
changed over time and the total
subsidy package would have
exceeded anything the city has
given other projects in that
neighborhood. The plans, to be
built in two phases, now call for
more apartments and less office
space than originally proposed.
“Our current proposal for One
Journal Square would provide
4,000 sorely needed union jobs
and $180 million in tax revenue for
Jersey City over the next 30
years,” Mr. Yolles said. He said
that the developers had changed
the project to focus more on
residential and retail based on the
market.
Jared Kushner was chief
executive of Kushner Companies
until he joined the White House in
January. But last weekend, his
sister Nicole Meyer alluded to the
family’s ties to the Trump
administration when she pitched
the Journal Square project to
prospective investors in China.
Kushner and KABR recently
eliminated some of the office
space, which had garnered the
state tax breaks, and expanded
the number of apartments. Those
changes will have to be approved
by the city planning board,
according to city officials,
although Kushner disputes the
necessity of that step.
The Kushners opened Trump
Bay Street, a 53-story residential
tower, in Jersey City last year.
They have two commercial
projects in the planning stages
and a third residential tower in
Journal Square, which would rise
72 stories with 741 units.

Council Speaker Calls for Resignation of New York City’s Jails Commissioner
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Melissa Mark-Viverito, the New
York City Council speaker and a
vocal advocate of closing the jail
complex on Rikers Island, on
Wednesday called for the resigna-
tion of the city’s Correction De-
partment commissioner, Joseph
Ponte, citing a “lack of leadership
and a lack of confidence” in him
within the agency.
Her comments represented a
sharp break with Mayor Bill de
Blasio, who has defended Mr.
Ponte amid two scandals, one in-
volving the misuse of city-issued
vehicles by the commissioner and
his top leadership and one involv-
Scuba divers entering the Reservoir in Central Park on Wednesday as the police sought to make sure no other bodies were there.
2 Bodies Found This Week in Central Park Waters
By BENJAMIN MUELLER
and EMILY PALMER
The bodies floated to the sur-
face on consecutive days, maca-
bre signposts of suffering amid
the spring foliage in Central Park.
Around noon on Tuesday, a park
worker spotted a man’s body, na-
ked and badly decomposed, in the
vast Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Reservoir near East 86th Street.
Around 7:20 a.m. on Wednesday,
more than a mile south, a man’s
body bobbed to the surface of the
Pond, this one clothed only in
pants and looking as though it had
not been in the water as long.
Almost every year, the break in
weather at the beginning of spring
brings dead bodies to the surface
of New York’s rivers and harbor,
the disquieting result of speeding
decomposition in warm waters.
But floaters, as the police call such
cases, are much rarer in Central
Park.
The discoveries this week drew
hordes of investigators, rattling
some tourists and joggers in a
park where crime is rare but
where any signs of tragedy attract
a lot of attention.
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ing eavesdropping on calls be-
tween city corruption investiga-
tors and inmate informants.
“I believe that Commissioner
Ponte should not be leading the
Department of Correction,” Ms.
Mark-Viverito told reporters dur-
ing an unrelated news conference.
She cited “the fact that he’s out of
town during critical moments in
time when we really are dealing
with a very serious issue.”
The agency has been roiled in
recent days by a report from the
city’s Department of Investiga-
tion that found that Mr. Ponte and
20 other correction officials had
routinely misused their city vehi-
cles for personal trips including,
Late Wednesday morning, the
New York Police Department’s
chief of detectives, Robert K.
Boyce, said investigators did not
believe a crime had been commit-
ted in either man’s death. In nei-
ther case was there any sign of
trauma on the body.
“There’s no signs of criminality
as of now to make this anything
other than coincidence,” Chief
Boyce said of the two bodies. “But
it is unusual for the park.”
The city medical examiner’s of-
fice on Wednesday did an autopsy
on the first body, but said no deter-
mination had been made regard-
ing the cause and manner of
death, pending further examina-
tion and police inquiries. The body
recovered on Wednesday was ex-
pected to be further examined on
Thursday.
The last floater found in Central
Park, in September 2015, was a 27-
year-old man who the medical ex-
aminer determined had drowned.
Investigators found an ID on
the body recovered on Wednes-
day but did not release the man’s
name. They believe that he was in
his 30s and had been in the water
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in Mr. Ponte’s case, frequent trips
to Maine, where he had a home.
The commissioner spent 90 days
out of New York City last year, the
investigators found, and he
charged the city for $1,800 in gas
and tolls during those trips.
Mr. Ponte, during testimony to
the City Council on Monday, said
he would repay the city; Mr. de
Blasio said city taxpayers would
be “made whole” by those who
misused city resources.
On the heels of that revelation,
the Department of Investigation
said its investigators had been
spied on by the Correction De-
partment’s head of internal af-
fairs, Gregory Kuczinski, and his
— about seven feet deep in the
Pond — for two weeks at the most.
The body discovered in the res-
ervoir on Tuesday was so badly
decomposed that the police were
unable to get fingerprints, Chief
Boyce said. The reservoir is an av-
erage of 37 feet deep and has a
heavy current. The police said
they believed the man was in his
20s or 30s and had been in the wa-
ter for at least one month.
Around noon on Wednesday, po-
lice officers set out a ladder on the
railing around the reservoir, and a
scuba team dove in. A senior offi-
cer at the scene told reporters that
the divers were making sure there
were no other bodies under the
surface.
Joggers wove around officers
on foot patrol, and a family of
tourists decided to walk around
the park rather than through it on
the way to a museum Wednesday
morning. But even amid flashing
lights and caution tape, routines
continued. A man blew bubbles
near the reservoir, and tour
guides handed out bus passes.
Gillian de Sève, a chef and long-
time New Yorker, stopped to
watch the divers from the railing

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subordinates. Mr. Kuczinski, who
was also found to have used his
city vehicle for personal business,
was removed from his position
and placed on modified duty on
Monday.
Two of Mr. de Blasio’s Republi-
can challengers in this year’s
mayoral election have also sug-
gested that Mr. Ponte be fired.
In Ms. Mark-Viverito’s call for
Mr. Ponte to step down, she re-
proached him and Mr. de Blasio
for not having read a lengthy re-
port, prepared by an independent
commission convened by the
Council last year, that proposed
shuttering the Rikers Island com-
plex. Both have said publicly that
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
near East 88th Street.
“I never thought for once that
there was a body,” she said.
Margaret Berenson, a resident
of the Upper East Side, who loops
the reservoir as part of her daily
routine, said the discovery of the
bodies was “a little unsettling.”
“I knew about the first body, but
when you hear about a second
body, that’s even more creepy,”
she said. “But I love the park. I’m
not giving it up.”
The police said they did not
track the number of bodies pulled
from waters citywide, but in past
years officials have said roughly
half of those discovered were re-
covered in spring months.
Marcella Sorg, a forensic an-
thropologist at the University of
Maine who examines decom-
posed bodies for several medical
examiners in the region, said
warm waters allow bacteria to
grow in the gut or chest cavity,
producing gases that make a body
more buoyant. But if creatures
like lobsters or crabs start scav-
enging, the gases can be released
and a body might never come up,
she said.
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they did not read the report. smooth. The rate of violence
“I’d have expected that the re- among inmates on the island has
port would have been read by been rising, with an increase in
now,” Ms. Mark-Viverito said. stabbings and slashings, accord-
Mr. de Blasio has backed the ing to the mayor’s preliminary
closing of Rikers Island but has management report.
said that he and the commission “We respect Speaker Mark-
differ on some of the details of how Viverito’s view,” said a spokes-
to do so. woman for the mayor, Natalie
The mayor has defended Mr. Grybauskas. “The mayor and
speaker have shared goals when it
Ponte’s record in instituting re-
forms to end solitary confinement comes to reforming and
for young inmates amid federal eventually closing Rikers Island.
oversight of the jail complex. “Ob- That’s our focus, and we appreci-
viously he’s done a very good job,” ate the speaker’s dedicated and
Mr. de Blasio said on Friday, citing important role in that process.”
the declining population in the A spokeswoman for Mr. Ponte
city’s jails. at the Correction Department re-
But the transition has not been ferred questions to City Hall.
Construction Firms’ Owner
Charged in Laborer’s Death
By ALAN FEUER store to a five-story structure in-
The owner of two Brooklyn con- tended to house a shoe store and
struction companies was charged apartments, the indictment said.
with manslaughter on Wednesday Shortly before noon that day, a
because the authorities said he ig- wall of the adjacent building gave
nored complaints about a poorly way, sending a cascade of ma-
maintained retaining wall that sonry blocks and debris onto
collapsed at a work site in 2015, three of his workers. Mr. Vanegaz
killing an 18-year-old laborer and died; two others were injured.
injuring two others. The death came amid a surge in
The companies’ owner, Michael fatal construction accidents in
Weiss, 47, was also charged with New York, and Mr. Gonzalez said
criminally negligent homicide in that 33 workers had died in the
the death of the laborer, Fernando five boroughs since January 2015.
Vanegaz, an immigrant from Ec- That spate of deaths prompted a
uador. In an indictment issued in crackdown on shoddy builders
State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, both by local district attorneys’ of-
Mr. Weiss was further accused of fices and by the city’s Investiga-
reckless endangerment, assault, tion Department, which assisted
grand larceny, tax fraud and falsi- in the inquiry into Mr. Weiss.
fying business records. He could Mr. Weiss was not a licensed
face up to 15 years in prison if con- builder himself, Mr. Gonzalez
victed of the charges. said, and used the license of an un-
Mr. Weiss pleaded not guilty to named co-conspirator to get the
all the charges and was released project approved by the city. He
on bail. began working at the site in June
“Fernando Vanegaz should be 2015, the indictment said, and
alive today,” Eric Gonzalez, the hired seven workers with little or
acting Brooklyn district attorney, no training and without federal
said at a news conference an- safety certifications to conduct
nouncing the charges. “Construc- the demolition.
tion site deaths such as his are be- Throughout the project,
coming all too common as prosecutors said, several workers
builders ignore safety protocols complained to Mr. Weiss that the
and hire untrained workers to excavation was unsafe because
maximize profits.” Mr. Gonzalez the exposed walls of the adjacent
added, “We cannot allow this ro- building were unstable and, in one
bust housing market to come at case, cracked.
the cost of worker safety.” But Mr. Weiss ordered his work-
According to the indictment, on ers to perform the job anyhow, the
Sept. 3, 2015, Mr. Weiss ordered indictment said, ignoring the
several employees of his compa- plans that he had filed with the
nies, RSBY NY Builders Inc. and Buildings Department. On the day
Park Ave Builders Inc., to conduct before the accident, the workers
excavation in an area of a lot at had already dug more than six
656 Myrtle Avenue where they feet below the foundation of the
had not received permission from adjacent structure, prosecutors
city buildings officials to work. said, undermining its strength.
Despite repeated requests from Then, on the day the wall col-
his workers — and federal regula- lapsed, one worker asked Mr.
tions requiring him to do so — Mr. Weiss for two-by-fours to shore
Weiss did not provide materials to the wall up, but Mr. Weiss told his
shore up an exposed wall of a team that it was working too
building adjacent to the site, slowly and ordered the workers to
which his companies were con- keep digging near the wall,
verting from a one-story fruit prosecutors added.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED PROJECTS AND ISSUANCE OF REVENUE
BONDS UNDER THE INTERAGENCY COUNCIL POOLED LOAN PROGRAM BY
THE DORMITORY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR GENERAL HUMAN
OUTREACH IN THE COMMUNITY INCORPORATED, HASC CENTER, INC., HUMAN CARE
SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN, INC., LIFE’S W.O.R.C., INC., NEW HORIZONS
RESOURCES, INC., SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED, INC., SUS – DEVELOPMENTAL
DISABILITIES SERVICES, INC., SUS – MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS, INC. AND
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY, INC.
Public notice is hereby given that, at the time and place designated below, the Dormitory Authority of the State of
New York (“DASNY”) will conduct a public hearing for the purpose of giving interested persons an opportunity to be
heard on the projects described below and the proposed issuance by DASNY of its InterAgency Council Pooled
Loan Program Revenue Bonds (the “Bonds”) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $27,260,000 in one or
more series or issues (from time to time) as part of a plan of financing pursuant to Section 147(f)(2)(C) of the Internal
Revenue Code. The public is invited to comment either in person or in writing with respect to the projects and the
issuance of the Bonds.
The proceeds of the Bonds are expected to be used to make separate loans to General Human Outreach in the
Community Incorporated (“GHO”), HASC Center, Inc. (“HASC Center”), Human Care Services for Families & Chil-
dren, Inc. (“Human Care Services”), Life’s W.O.R.C., Inc. (“Life’s W.O.R.C.”), New Horizons Resources, Inc. (“New
Horizons”), Services for the UnderServed, Inc. (“SUS, Inc.”), SUS – Developmental Disabilities Services, Inc. (“SUS-
DDS”), SUS – Mental Health Programs, Inc. (“SUS-MHP”, and together with SUS, Inc. and SUS-DDS, “SUS”), and
United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Inc. (“UCP-NYC”; and together with GHO, HASC Center, Human Care
Services, Life’s W.O.R.C., New Horizons and SUS, each, a “Participant”) and used to finance and/or refinance
certain existing taxable and tax-exempt indebtedness used to finance all or a portion of the cost of acquiring, con-
structing, renovating, repairing, equipping, purchasing or otherwise providing for the projects described below, in-
cluding the acquisition of land, as applicable, and related site improvements, together with other related costs, in-
cluding costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds, funding required reserve funds and, if applica-
ble, fees for credit enhancement (each, a “Project” and, collectively, the “Projects”). Each Participant is a not-for-
profit corporation, formed under the laws of the State of New York (the “State”), to provide human services programs
in the State consisting of one or more of educational, vocational, intervention and residential human services for
individuals with developmental disabilities or otherwise in need of mental health and rehabilitation services, educa-
tional services, substance abuse services, and residential services.
GHO - The approximate aggregate principal amount of the Bonds proposed to be issued for the GHO Project is
$1,460,000. The actual principal amount of Bonds issued for the GHO Project may differ from such amount. The
GHO Project includes the financing and/or refinancing of certain existing indebtedness used to finance the acquisi-
tion, construction, renovation, furnishing and/or equipping of the first and second floors of a 2-story approximately
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SUS - The approximate aggregate principal amount of the Bonds proposed to be issued for the SUS Project is
Soiffer Haskin $8,360,000. The actual principal amount of Bonds issued for the SUS Project may differ from such amount. The SUS
Project includes the financing and/or refinancing of certain existing indebtedness used to finance the acquisition, con-
317 West 33rd Street, NYC struction, renovation, furnishing and/or equipping of the following properties: (i) ($5,700,000) the 17th floor and part of
the 18th floor of a leased 22-story approximately 408,511 s.f. building located at 463 Seventh Avenue, New York,
(Just west of 8th Avenue) NY 10018 (Borough of Manhattan) to serve as administrative offices of SUS, (ii) ($1,320,000) the first and second
floors of a 2-story approximately 2,000 s.f. building located at 141-06 123rd Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11436 (Borough
of Queens) to serve as an IRA for 6 individuals, and (iii) ($1,340,000) the basement, first and second floors of a 2-
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(American Express, Visa or MasterCard). UCP-NYC - The approximate aggregate principal amount of the Bonds proposed to be issued for the UCP-NYC
Project is $7,000,000. The actual principal amount of Bonds issued for the UCP-NYC Project may differ from such
All Sales Final. amount. The UCP-NYC Project includes the financing and/or refinancing of certain existing indebtedness used to
Strollers not allowed. No children under 12 will be admitted. finance the acquisition, construction, renovation, furnishing and/or equipping of the following properties: (i)
($2,850,000) a 2-story approximately 3,835 s.f. building located at 845 Seton Place, a/k/a 841 Seton Place, Brook-
lyn, NY 11230 (Borough of Brooklyn) to serve as an IRA for 8 individuals, and (ii) `($4,370,000) approximately 26,557
(917) 562-2140 www.soifferhaskin.com s.f. of leased space on the first floor of an 8-story approximately 574,000 s.f. building located at 630 Flushing Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11206, a/k/a 461-475 Marcy Avenue, a/k/a 592-650 Flushing Avenue, a/k/a 216 Tompkins Avenue,
a/k/a 733-133 Hopkins Street (Borough of Brooklyn) to serve as a day habilitation facility. UCP-NYC is the owner,
except where indicated as leased, and/or operator of the UCP-NYC Project.
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Broadway, Albany, New York 12207 at 10:00 a.m. on May 30, 2017. Written comments must be received at the
Office of Counsel at the above address no later than such date. Materials relating to the proposed issuance of the
Bonds are available for inspection at such location from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on any business day preceding the
hearing and at the hearing. Further information may be requested from DASNY’s Office of Counsel at the above
address or by calling (518) 257-3120.
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EDITORIALS LETTERS

A Letter to the Deputy Attorney General
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:
It’s rare that any single person has to bear as much re-
sponsibility for safeguarding American democracy as you
find yourself carrying now. Even before President Trump’s
shocking decision on Tuesday to fire the F.B.I. director,
James Comey, a dark cloud of suspicion surrounded this
president, and the very integrity of the electoral process
that put him in office. At this fraught moment you find your-
self, improbably, to be the person with the most authority to
dispel that cloud and restore Americans’ confidence in their
government. We sympathize; that’s a lot of pressure.
Given the sterling reputation you brought into this post
— including a 27-year career in the Justice Department un-
der five administrations, and the distinction of being the
longest-serving United States attorney in history — you no
doubt feel a particular anguish, and obligation to act. As the
author of the memo that the president cited in firing Mr.
Comey, you are now deeply implicated in that decision.
It was a solid brief; Mr. Comey’s misjudgments in his
handling of the F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton’s pri-
vate email server were indeed serious. Yet you must know
that these fair criticisms were mere pretext for Mr. Trump,
who dumped Mr. Comey just as he was seeking more re-
sources to investigate ties between the Trump campaign
and the Russian government.
You must also know that in ordering you to write the
memo, Mr. Trump exploited the integrity you have earned
over nearly three decades in public service, spending down
your credibility as selfishly as he has spent other people’s
money throughout his business career. We can only hope
that your lack of an explicit recommendation to fire Mr.
Comey reflects your own refusal to go as far as the president
wanted you to.
In any case, the memo is yours, and that has compro-
mised your ability to oversee any investigations into Rus-
The Furor Over the Comey Firing
TO THE EDITOR:
troubled as well by the broader pattern of this president’s Re “Trump Fires Comey Amid
Russia Inquiry” (front page, May
behavior, including his contempt for ethical standards of
10):
past presidents. He has mixed his business interests with Regarding President Trump’s
his public responsibilities. He has boasted that conflict-of-in- outrageous and precipitous firing of
terest laws do not apply to him as president. And from the James Comey, the F.B.I. director: If
moment he took office, Mr. Trump has shown a despot’s will- Mr. Trump has nothing to hide, why
ingness to invent his own version of the truth and to is he is working so hard to suppress
any real investigation of himself
weaponize the federal government to confirm that version,
and his cohort? The notion that Mr.
to serve his ego and to pursue vendettas large and small. Comey was fired so summarily
When Mrs. Clinton won the popular vote by nearly because of his mishandling of the
three million votes, for instance, he created a Voter Fraud
Hillary Clinton email affair is belied
by the timing of the move. This just
Task Force to back up his claim that the margin resulted
from noncitizens voting illegally (the task force has done doesn’t pass the straight-face test.
nothing to date). When there was no evidence for his claim Congress must move quickly to do
three things:
that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower,
1) An investigation into the cir-
Mr. Trump demanded that members of Congress put their cumstances of Mr. Comey’s firing
work aside in order to dig up “facts” to support it. must be started immediately.
Firing Mr. Comey — who, in addition to leading the Rus- 2) The Senate must refuse to
sia investigation, infuriated Mr. Trump by refusing to give confirm any new F.B.I. director
any credence to his wiretapping accusation — is only the lat- unless that person is absolutely
above reproach, not beholden to the
est and most stunning example. The White House can’t even
Trump administration or either
get its own story straight about why Mr. Trump took this ex- political party, and willing and able
traordinary step. to stand up to any pressure from
Few public servants have found themselves with a the White House and its minions.
choice as weighty as yours, between following their con- 3) A special counsel must be
science and obeying a leader trying to evade scrutiny — El- appointed with broad independent
powers to investigate any ties
liot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus, who behaved no-
between the Trump administration
bly in Watergate, come to mind. You can add your name to and Russia.
this short, heroic list. Yes, it might cost you your job. But it This is a time of great peril to the
would save your honor, and so much more besides. Republic. All citizens must do ev-
erything in their power to protect
the core values of American democ-
racy from this demagogue.
RICHARD S. PETRETTI, NEW YORK
when new evidence came to light.
It may be politically expedient for
the left or the right, or in this case
both, to pillory a devoted public
servant simply for doing his job in a
difficult situation. But we will get
what we deserve when all hon-
orable women and men are chased
out of government, replaced by
acolytes without judgment or char-
acter.
BARRY E. ADLER, NEW YORK
The writer is a professor of law at New
York University.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “The Firing of James Comey”
(editorial, May 10):
During a perilous time in our
nation’s history, when a president
acts with wanton disregard for the
time-honored institutions and pro-
cesses of government in a blatant
attempt to quash an investigation,
all Americans must stand up for the
rule of law and squarely against
this effort to impede an important
inquiry.
It is at a time like this that the
true colors of our elected officials
will reveal themselves. Whether a
member of Congress acts in a poli-
tically partisan manner or as an
impartial officer of our government
will become clear in the coming
days and weeks. The country and
the world will be watching very
closely.
ALAN SAFRON
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J.

sian meddling. But after Attorney General Jeff Sessions re- TO THE EDITOR:
cused himself from these matters, because of his own con-
Until today James Comey was a
tacts during the campaign with the Russians, the power to villain to the Democrats and the
launch a truly credible investigation has fallen to you, and liberal media, No. 1 of the excuses
for why Hillary Clinton did not win
you alone.
the 2016 presidential election. Now
You have one choice: Appoint a special counsel who is that Mr. Comey has been fired, he is
independent of both the department and the White House. portrayed by these same
No one else would have the standing to assure the public it is Democrats and liberal media as a
getting the truth. While a handful of Republican senators hero, a victim of the Trump admin-
and representatives expressed concern at Mr. Comey’s fir- istration, an Archibald Cox to Presi-
dent Trump’s Nixon, someone who
ing, there is as yet no sign that the congressional investiga-
had to go as part of the Trump
tions into Russian interference will be properly staffed or administration’s cover-up of its
competently run. And Americans can have little faith that collusion with the Russians.
the Justice Department, or an F.B.I. run by Mr. Trump’s It is sometimes said that the
handpicked replacement, will get to the bottom of whether enemy of my enemy is my friend.
and how Russia helped steal the presidency for Mr. Trump. That aptly describes why Mr.
In theory, no one should have a greater interest in a Comey has gone from villain to new
best friend of the Democrats and
credible investigation than the president, who has repeat-
the liberal media.
edly insisted the suspicions about his campaign are base-
DONALD NAWI, SCARSDALE, N.Y.
less. Yet rather than try to douse suspicions, he has shown
he is more than willing to inflame them by impeding efforts
to get to the truth. TO THE EDITOR:
With Sergei Lavrov, the Russian
Given your own reputation for probity, you must be GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
foreign minister, arriving for a visit
with President Trump, the firing of
James Comey looks awfully like a
TO THE EDITOR:
Why fire James Comey now? Be-
cause he gave an impassioned
public performance last week de-
fending his unconventional actions
regarding the Clinton emails. He
demonstrated that his personal
sense of morality makes him a
dangerously loose cannon. Clearly,
the president and his team, in the
midst of the Russia hacking investi-
gation, cannot afford an F.B.I. direc-
tor whom the Justice Department
cannot control.
STEPHANIE DOBA, BROOKLYN
TO THE EDITOR:
I am not qualified to determine
whether James Comey’s termina-
tion was justified. What I do know
is that Mr. Comey was in the middle
of giving a talk to F.B.I. colleagues
on the West Coast when he learned
that he was fired from a TV news
report. The lack of class in the way
his relationship with the govern-
ment was severed concerns me.
Why not wait until he’s back in

No Time for Friction With South Korea

gift to cement a relationship.
Washington, privately let him know
MARK WALFORD, LONDON of the coming change and then
make it public?
Moon Jae-in was not president-elect for long. He won the South Korea, which the liberals opposed. The opposition has TO THE EDITOR: When the chief executive of the
South Korean election on Tuesday and was in office on been intensified by China’s furious reaction, including a boy- At the University of Chicago Law United States thinks it’s O.K. to
Wednesday. Normally, he would have had a two-month tran- cott of South Korean brands, and President Trump’s state- School in the 1980s, I was taught, treat employees this way, it sends a
sition period, but his impeached predecessor, Park Geun- ment last month — promptly pulled back — that Seoul along with Jim Comey, that good powerful message to other compa-
should pay $1 billion for the battery. Mr. Moon has said he lawyers distinguish precedent nies on how to do business. Firings
hye, is in jail facing corruption charges. But then, it could be are sometimes necessary, but can
argued that no amount of time could fully prepare Mr. Moon will review the deployment, though he insists he will fully when changed circumstances jus-
tify a different conclusion. So what- be done with civility.
for what lies ahead as he and his fellow liberals take charge consult with the United States before making any decision
ever the F.B.I.’s past practice, when DAVE EPSTEIN, NATICK, MASS.
after years of conservative rule. on this or any other North Korean matter. President Barack Obama’s attorney
The many South Koreans who took part in the street In general, Mr. Moon has tried hard to reassure Wash- general, Loretta Lynch, announced TO THE EDITOR:
protests over the corrupt status quo that preceded Ms. ington. In an interview with The Washington Post this that she would follow the F.B.I.’s
recommendation in its investigation Donald Trump tweeted last week:
Park’s fall are impatient for thorough economic and political month, he said the American-South Ko-
of the Hillary Clinton email inquiry, “The Russia-Trump collusion story
reforms. On the North Korean front, the steady escalation of South Korea’s rean alliance “is the most important is a total hoax, when will this tax-
foundation for our diplomacy and na- Mr. Comey had reason to explain
tensions could become worse over potentially sharp differ- new leader and publicly the bureau’s decision in payer funded charade end?” The
President tional security.” And while he argued that matter. And after Mr. Comey same could be said for his own
ences on strategy between Mr. Moon and President Trump,
that it was desirable for South Korea to presidency.
with his fast-shifting views on North Korea. Trump need to testified before Congress that the
Mr. Moon’s conservative predecessors generally shared press ahead and take the initiative in dealing with the investigation was closed, he had JAMES P. PEHL
find a common North, and that he was prepared to reason to correct this testimony MARLBOROUGH, MASS.
America’s approach to North Korea, which is basically to
strategy on the meet with Mr. Kim if it might help, he
pressure the North through sanctions and other measures
North. said he believed that he and Mr. Trump
to abandon its nuclear program. Mr. Moon is closer in out- were “on the same page.” Indeed, Mr.
look to his late friend and ideological ally Roh Moo-hyun, Internet Regulation Public Lands Under Threat
Trump said this month that he’d be “honored” to meet with
who as president from 2003 to 2008 pursued a “sunshine Mr. Kim if the conditions were right. TO THE EDITOR: TO THE EDITOR:
policy” of seeking to engage North Korea through dialogue, In the end, neither carrots nor sticks have diverted Re “Invoking Internet Freedom to Re “What Is the Antiquities Act,
aid and joint projects. Though much has changed since then Kill It” (editorial, April 30): and Why Does the President Want
North Korea so far from its single-minded pursuit of a nucle-
— including the rise of Kim Jong-un, the third ruler of the Internet providers have long to Change It?” (news article, April
ar deterrent, and a rift among the United States, South Ko- 27):
Kim dynasty, and the relentless development of nuclear offered an open internet experi-
rea and China would only encourage the North to barrel ence. Along with web companies America’s public lands are under
weapons in the North — the liberals Mr. Moon leads believe ahead. Mr. Moon’s openness to dialogue need not be at odds threat from a variety of extractive
like Facebook and Google, internet
sanctions alone have failed to deter North Korea, and are with a tough stance in Washington, if Mr. Moon and Mr. service providers support open industries. Some narrow-minded
wary of being drawn into a struggle between the United Trump meet and forge a clear and common overall strategy. internet rules preventing blocking, people want to privatize all Western
States and China. throttling or unfair discrimination lands; others wish to rescind the
The two leaders need to make sure this happens as quickly
protections on beloved national
An immediate source of friction with Washington is a as possible. As with Mr. Moon’s election, a transition period of online traffic.
monuments and parks.
potent antimissile system the United States has deployed in is a luxury the region cannot afford. There is little objection to these
President Trump’s hypocritical
common-sense consumer protec- executive order to review the na-
tions, but widespread resistance to tional monument designations in
the fiction that the government the name of overturning a “massive

An Invitation to Wage Theft needs to impose outdated public

It’s called the “Working Families Flexibility Act,” but it
would accommodate only employers and could cheat fam-
ilies. The bill, which the House recently passed, would sup-
posedly let employees who work overtime choose paid time
off rather than time-and-a-half wages.
But the time off would come at the convenience of
employers, who would have 13 months to schedule it.
This is not allowed under current law, for good reason:
Most employers would prefer to postpone pay whenever
possible, and employees are likely to go along with their
boss’s wishes regardless of their own. Current law avoids
any such coercion by requiring overtime to be paid in the
pay period it’s earned.
The Republican bill would not only make employees
vulnerable to wage delays, but to wage theft. An employer
could deny a time-off request by deeming it “unduly” dis-
ruptive — a vague standard that basically gives employers
total control over when the time off is taken. If an employee
tires of waiting and asks, instead, for the pay, employers
could take up to 30 days to honor the request. If any employ-
ee quits or a company goes out of business, unpaid overtime
utility regulation to assure open-
ness.
could be difficult or impossible to extract from the employer. What we object to is regulating
Besides, current law already allows for flexibility in dynamic internet networks in the
workers’ schedules. Employers can let employees vary their same way we regulate failing
infrastructure like electricity, wa-
start and end times, or schedule four 10-hour workdays with
ter, roads and bridges. Public util-
an extra day off each week, or nine-hour workdays with a ity regulation has failed America,
day off every other week.
and it’s foolish to apply it to the
Supporters of the bill point out that public workers al- internet, the one infrastructure
ready have the options it provides. But those workers are of- bright spot that has fueled Ameri-
ca’s global competitiveness.
ten unionized and a government employer does not have the
The Federal Communications
profit incentive that might tempt a private-sector employer
Commission is right to work to-
to coerce workers into delaying their overtime pay.
ward restoring light-touch regula-
In the past 16 years, House Republicans have intro-
tion before the information super-
duced bills like the Working Families Flexibility Act seven highway becomes marked with
times, but the Senate has remained lukewarm, and in 2013 potholes.
President Barack Obama said that he would veto a similar MICHAEL K. POWELL, WASHINGTON
bill if it ever reached his desk. This time around, President The writer, a former chairman of the
Trump has already said he will sign it if it comes to him. Federal Communications Commission,
That would be a raw deal. And it would be fraudulent, is president and chief executive of
because it would purport to help working people while doing NCTA, the Internet and Television
no such thing. Association.
federal land grab” is part of a thinly
disguised recycling of the rhetoric
of the so-called Sagebrush Rebel-
lion of the 1970s and 1980s in sup-
port of the fringe right and its
agenda to appropriate or sell off
public land and resources.
Their goal is succinct: They want
to take down the signs that read
“Welcome to Your Public Lands”
and replace them with new ones
that read “Private Property: No
Trespassing.”
It is questionable if this action
would even temporarily increase
the fortunes of extractive industries
in Western states. It would cer-
tainly impoverish all Americans
through the degradation of fragile
landscapes and the disposal of the
public domain.
ROBERT CRIFASI, BOULDER, COLO.
The writer is the author of “A Land
Made From Water: Appropriation and
the Evolution of Colorado’s Landscape,
Ditches and Water Institutions.”

Don’t Send
Us Back to
The Closet
Praveen Fernandes
I
N my roughly 20 years working in the
federal policy arena, few things have
become clearer to me than the im-
portance of data. If something is not
counted, it is neither seen nor under-
stood. For all intents and purposes, it
does not exist.
That’s why the Trump administra-
tion’s decision not to collect data on the
lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-
gender Americans threatens these com-
munities in ways that are both symbolic
and practical.
It was announced Tuesday that the
Census Bureau director, John H. Thomp-
son, had abruptly stepped down from his
job, drawing national attention to the
agency. But I and others in the L.G.B.T.
community have been focused on the bu-
reau’s work for months — for reasons re-
lated not to its leadership, but to the col-
lection of information.
In March, when it published a list of
planned subjects for data collection that
included a proposed question on these
topics, many of us were optimistic. After
years of advocating this very change,
there was a possibility that we might be
more fully counted. But that cheer was to
be short lived. The Census Bureau
quickly clarified that it had “inadver-
tently listed sexual orientation and gen-
der identity as a proposed topic” and
made changes to the online document
within hours.
During the same month, the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services
eliminated questions about L.G.B.T. peo-
ple from drafts of two critical surveys:
the National Survey of Older Americans
Act Participants, which helps inform so-
cial and nutritional support programs for
seniors; and the Centers for Independ-
ent Living Annual Program Perform-
ance Report, which helps inform pro-
grams designed to allow people with dis-
abilities to live independently.
This is concerning, because sound pol-
icy relies on good data, which in turn re-
lies on robust data collection.
That’s why the U.C.L.A. School of
Law’s Williams Institute and SAGE, an
organization dedicated to improving the
lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-
gender older adults, have called for bet-
ter data on older L.G.B.T. people.
Given the discrimination, social isola-
tion, health disparities and economic fra-
gility that L.G.B.T. populations as a
whole face, this need is especially ur-
gent. The data collection rollbacks don’t
just prophesy bad policy. They recall a
time of deep discrimination and pain that
we have spent decades trying to reverse.
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay
elected official in a major American city,
famously urged gay Americans in 1978 to
come out to their relatives, neighbors,
friends and co-workers to “break down
the myths” and “destroy the lies and dis-
tortions” about this community.
The national coming-out movement
was premised in part on the notion that if
L.G.B.T. Americans went from a “them”
The government can’t
serve L.G.B.T. people if
it won’t count us.
to an “us” — people’s own brothers,
sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles,
neighbors and colleagues — it would re-
duce callousness and undercut the abil-
ity to deny them rights. When people
came out, it made it harder for others to
cling to the belief that they did not have
L.G.B.T. people in their families, or that
no L.G.B.T. people lived in their neigh-
borhoods, attended religious services
with or worked alongside them.
Failing to collect good data on sexual
orientation and gender identity allows
policy makers and elected officials to
hold the utterly false belief that no
L.G.B.T. people use their services and
that no L.G.B.T. people live in their elec-
toral districts. It robs policy makers of
the ability to understand us and it makes
evidence-based policy more difficult. It
puts L.G.B.T. Americans as a group back
into the closet.
Without collecting data on sexual ori-
entation or gender identity, we don’t
know the size of the L.G.B.T. population
or how that population is geographically
distributed. We aren’t able to learn about
how many L.G.B.T. individuals have chil-
dren, or whether that differs in urban
versus rural areas. We have no official in-
formation about the component groups
that make up the L.G.B.T. community
and no insight into their income or hous-
ing status — topics that are especially sa-
lient for transgender people. And we
can’t possibly know how sexual orienta-
tion or gender identity combines with
other identities (such as race) and
whether that correlates to differences in
employment, housing or geographic lo-
cation. This information affects the way
the federal government designs and de-
livers services to the American people.
Policy implications aside, the news
also stings for personal reasons. The
census is a snapshot of the American
family. The administration’s recent deci-
sions cut L.G.B.T. individuals out of the
family portrait, calling into question our
membership in the family. Many of us
know that feeling all too well. 0 well-defined range of services, including
PRAVEEN FERNANDES is a lawyer and
principal at the Raben Group. He served
as senior counsel and adviser to the
general counsel at the Office of Personnel
Management under President Barack
Obama.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Did Trump Unleash
The Next Deep Throat?
Beverly Gage
O
NCE again, Donald Trump has
done something that no presi-
dent before him dared to do.
This time, he has fired an F.B.I.
director engaged in an active and continu-
ing investigation of his own campaign.
The decision reflects President Trump’s
most autocratic instincts, showcasing his
contempt for the independence of federal
investigators as well as for the basic
search for truth.
Given his frequent calls to prosecute
Hillary Clinton for using a private email
server, the anger he directed at the F.B.I.
director, James Comey, for giving her a
“free pass,” and reports that he directed
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find a
reason to fire Mr. Comey, it’s hard to be-
lieve the president’s claim that he made
his decision out of concern for Mr.
Comey’s harsh treatment of Mrs. Clinton
during the campaign.
But if Mr. Trump actually hopes to shut
down or limit the F.B.I. investigation into
his campaign’s ties to Russia, he may be
disappointed. History suggests that his
decision is likely to backfire, producing
new leaks and inquiries that will be more
difficult to control than he imagines.
President Trump may think he has sent
a stern warning to leakers and independ-
ent bureaucrats unwilling to toe the White
House line. Instead, he may well have in-
cited an internal rebellion.
That’s what happened in 1972, when
President Richard Nixon suddenly found
himself in a position to replace J. Edgar
Hoover, the long-serving and infamous
F.B.I. director. Suspicious of the F.B.I.’s in-
dependence, Nixon tried to appoint a suc-
Spain’s Solution on Health Care
Carolyn McClanahan
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
F
IRST came the Affordable Care
Act, then the American Health
Care Act — time and again, poli-
ticians talk about controlling
health care costs but end up missing the
point.
Based on the historical rate of inflation,
health care spending could could consume
nearly 50 percent of gross domestic prod-
uct in 30 years — an unsustainable trend
that can’t be solved through changing the
insurance landscape.
The A.C.A., or Obamacare, focused on
expanding coverage, with very little to ad-
dress cost of care in the early stages. That
was a fatal flaw: Voters saw already expen-
sive health care costs rise and were unhap-
py being forced into the system.
The A.H.C.A., which the House passed
last week, focuses on the cost of coverage,
but in the wrong way. Cutting billions from
Medicaid will reduce government expendi-
tures, but only by cutting care for millions
of people. The move back to underwriting
for pre-existing conditions will reduce the
cost of insurance for healthy people but will
drastically increase the cost of insurance
for people with underlying health prob-
lems.
Instead, we have to tackle insurance it-
self. In the United States, we pay a large
amount of money to insurance companies
for the privilege of being the middleman in
uninsurable primary care transactions.
Other industrialized countries, where
health care costs per capita are less than
half of what they are in America, offer
MATT CHASE
cessor who would bring the bureau under
White House influence. To his surprise, he
set in motion the events that led to the Wa-
tergate scandal — and ultimately to his
own resignation.
Nixon did not fire Hoover. Indeed, no
president had the chutzpah to fire Hoover,
who took office in 1924 under Calvin Cool-
idge and went on to serve seven other
presidents — four Democrats and three
more Republicans. According to popular
myth, Hoover achieved this astonishingly
long tenure by blackmailing politicians
with tidbits from his secret files. In truth,
though he was hardly above arm-twisting
If the president hopes to
limit an F.B.I. inquiry, he
may be disappointed.
and gossip-mongering, much of his power
came from more mundane sources, in-
cluding his skill at promoting the F.B.I.’s
nonpartisan image.
Nixon knew Hoover’s political talents
well. Since working together on the Alger
Hiss case in 1948, they had become fast
friends and allies, swapping secrets and
exchanging holiday presents. Hoover
quietly supported Nixon during the 1968
campaign. When Nixon won the election,
he vowed to keep Hoover on, despite the
fact that the F.B.I. director was over the
mandatory retirement age of 70.
Once in office, however, Nixon discov-
ered that Hoover was not nearly as pliable
as he might have hoped. In 1970, when
Nixon sought a more aggressive surveil-
lance campaign against antiwar pro-
testers, Hoover put up resistance.
lessons. Americans spend about 25 percent
to 30 percent on administrative costs; if we
brought that in line with those other coun-
tries, to about 15 percent, we could save
about $320 billion of the $3 trillion our
country spends on health care.
Countries that provide good primary
care have better health outcomes and
lower costs because they provide efficient
care of common and chronic illnesses. In
America, the high cost of medical educa-
tion, a reimbursement system that favors
specialists and a poorly supported primary
care network have decimated our primary
Its community centers
provide quality, low-cost
care.
care work force.
In the 1980s, Spain created taxpayer-
funded community health centers located
within a 15-minute radius of every citizen.
This dramatically improved health
measures and provided a good base of pri-
mary care for everyone in the country.
In the United States, community health
centers could be funded directly by the
government based on population, not fee
for service. They would provide a broad,
primary care, with weekend and evening
hours, telemedicine, basic pharmaceuti-
cals and education for management of
chronic illness. Mental health care would
be provided, including management of
drug addiction. And they could serve as a
The following year, Hoover and Nixon
came into conflict over the investigation of
the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ells-
berg. Nixon discussed the possibility of
firing Hoover, convinced that the director
was too old and cautious — and too inde-
pendent of White House influence. But
Nixon worried that Hoover knew too
much, and he recognized the political dan-
gers inherent in firing an F.B.I. director.
Then Hoover died, of a heart attack, on
May 2, 1972. For Nixon, it appeared to be a
moment of serendipity — a chance to do
what he had long wanted to do. Instead, it
turned out to be the beginning of a long na-
tional nightmare.
Nixon made his first mistake almost im-
mediately. Faced with the solemn duty of
replacing Hoover, he chose L. Patrick
Gray, an assistant attorney general
and former Navy man with no
F.B.I. experience, to serve as
acting director. The Nixon ad-
viser John Ehrlichman articu-
lated the reasons behind the
decision in a “talking points”
memo for the president soon
after Hoover’s death. “Gray’s
primary assignment is to con-
solidate control of the F.B.I.,”
Ehrlichman wrote, “making
such changes as are necessary to
assure its complete loyalty to the
administration.”
The F.B.I.’s Watergate investi-
gation was not yet underway. But
Nixon already believed that control
of the F.B.I. would be critical for his po-
litical future. He hoped especially that a
newly cooperative bureau would help to
dam the fast-flowing stream of leaks from
the executive branch. Instead, he inspired
one of the great leakers of all time: the
F.B.I. associate director W. Mark Felt.
As the historian Max Holland has
shown, Felt hoped to become director
himself and took Nixon’s decision as a per-
sonal affront. In June 1972, when Washing-
ton police arrested five men connected to
the Nixon campaign during a break-in at
Democratic National Committee head-
quarters in the Watergate office complex,
Felt recognized an opportunity. He turned
on Nixon in the summer of 1972, feeding
information to The Washington Post as
the legendary informer Deep Throat.
Felt’s leaks served in part to counter in-
tense pressure from the White House,
which sought to end the F.B.I. investiga-
tion. The F.B.I. proceeded nonetheless,
digging into Nixon’s campaign and its ties
to the Watergate burglars. Felt leaked
some of those discoveries to the press,
keeping the story alive at a moment when
Republicans hoped it would disappear.
Nixon won re-election in a landslide in
1972, yet the F.B.I. problem refused to go
away. In 1973, Nixon nominated Gray to be
permanent F.B.I. director, but the confir-
mation hearings turned into a debacle, fu-
eling rather than calming suspicions of a
Watergate cover-up. Gray resigned in dis-
grace, and was replaced by another acting
director. Things got steadily worse for
Nixon, as congressional investigations
gained momentum and a newly appointed
independent prosecutor, Archibald Cox,
demanded the release of White House
tapes. In October 1973, Nixon fired Cox in
an attempt to shut down that investigation
— but this, too, failed to stop the rolling
disaster of Watergate.
Many commentators have pointed to
Cox’s dismissal as the closest precedent
for Mr. Comey’s firing: the last time a
president tried to use his executive power
to stop an investigation — and failed to get
what he wanted. The story of the F.B.I.’s
succession crisis raises still more trou-
bling prospects for Mr. Trump in the
months ahead. Despite having political
skills far superior to President Trump’s,
Nixon never managed to “consolidate
control of the F.B.I.” in 1972, at the peak of
his popularity. To the contrary, his at-
tempts to do so fatally undermined his
presidency, setting in motion a political
and bureaucratic backlash from which
Nixon — indeed, the presidency itself —
never fully recovered. 0
BEVERLY GAGE is a professor of American
political history at Yale. She is the author
of “The Day Wall Street Exploded: A
Story of America in Its First Age of Ter-
ror” and is writing a biography of the
former F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover.
base for managing crises such as epi-
demics and bioterrorism events.
Anyone could use a community health
center without income verification, free.
People could still use private primary care
providers, but they would have to pay for
them, directly. Insurance would be re-
served for emergencies, through inexpen-
sive catastrophic coverage. Even Medicaid
and Medicare could eventually be moved
into a catastrophic-only model.
Such centers already exist throughout
the country, many providing state-of-the-
art primary, mental and dental care for
low-income people at about $1,000 each a
year. At that price, the entire country could
be covered for $325 billion a year.
The savings would more than pay for the
program: Right now, the government
spends $250 billion a year on tax credits for
employer-based coverage. Since insurance
costs would decrease significantly, the rev-
enue lost by this credit would decrease pro-
portionately. And about 11 percent of Medi-
care payments are for physician services
and another 27 percent are for Medicare
Advantage payments, totaling $240 billion
per year. Since a good chunk of that is for
primary care, it could be diverted to com-
munity health care services.
America has spent almost a decade
making dramatic changes in its health in-
surance system, without addressing the
real problem. We have the capacity to
tackle the underlying costs with a tried-
and-true solution. The only question is, do
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BRET STEPHENS
The Comey
Canning’s
Easy Tells
WITH DONALD TRUMP, the tells are always
easy.
When the president says, “I’m, like, a
smart person,” you know he nurses deep
insecurities about his intelligence. When
he says, “I’m really rich,” you know that he
knows that you know that, really, he prob-
ably isn’t.
And when he writes, as he did in his let-
ter to the now-former F.B.I. director,
James B. Comey, that “while I greatly ap-
preciate you informing me, on three sepa-
rate occasions, that I am not under investi-
gation,” you know what keeps him up at
night, too.
That wasn’t the only tell in Trump’s
Comey canning. First there was its
abruptness. Rod Rosenstein, deputy attor-
ney general as of two weeks ago, delivered
his memorandum detailing Comey’s mis-
feasance in the Hillary Clinton email saga
on Tuesday. Trump fired the director the
same day.
Come again? This is the same adminis-
tration that waited 18 long days to fire a
national security adviser profoundly vul-
nerable to Russian blackmail. Why? Be-
cause, as Press Secretary Sean Spicer ex-
plained earlier this week, the White House
felt it owed Michael Flynn an “element of
due process.”
For Comey, not so much. He learned of
his dismissal from a TV screen, while de-
livering a speech to bureau employees.
Firings on “The Apprentice” had more
class and ceremony than this.
Then there is Rosenstein’s memo,
which makes a solid case that Comey bun-
gled nearly every aspect of the Clinton in-
vestigation — a revelation to nobody in
Washington, left or right, except perhaps
Comey himself. Nor was there any mys-
tery about any of this when Trump gave
the director his very public blessing at a
White House ceremony in January, resist-
ing the advice of prominent conservative
voices to fire him back then.
But if the memo broke no new ground,
there was something crassly novel about
the political uses to which the administra-
tion was willing to put Rosenstein and his
reputation for ethical behavior.
In a CNN interview Tuesday, Kellyanne
Conway stressed Rosenstein’s service as
United States attorney in Maryland under
Barack Obama, along with the Senate’s
94-6 vote to confirm him. This is another
A president who seeks to
hide a scandal may be
willing to risk an uproar.
tell, since the ordinary practice of this
White House is to impugn the motives of
anyone suspected of enjoying the favor of
Democrats. Just look at Sean Spicer’s
Tuesday denigration of the former acting
attorney general Sally Yates as an alleged
Hillary hack for her prescient warnings to
the White House about Flynn.
In other words, the White House
needed the cover of an honorable man
making an honest case against Comey to
disguise its own case against him, which is
neither honorable nor honest. How do we
know? By following @realDonaldTrump
on Twitter.
“F.B.I. Director Comey was the best
thing that ever happened to Hillary Clin-
ton in that he gave her a free pass for
many bad deeds!” the president wrote on
May 2. “The phony Trump/Russia story
was an excuse used by the Democrats as
justification for losing the election. Per-
haps Trump just ran a great campaign?”
Tell: After the president publicly im-
pugned his own F.B.I. director, it meant
Rosenstein’s memo was a pro forma, pre-
textual exercise.
Tell: When the president boasts about
his great campaign, you know he’s less
than sure about just how great it really
was.
Tell: When the president calls news
“fake” or a story “phony,” you know the
truth quotient is likely to be high. And,
again, you know he knows you know it.
All the more so thanks to reporting from
The Times’s Matthew Rosenberg and
Matt Apuzzo, who revealed Wednesday
that Comey had only recently asked
Rosenstein “for a significant increase in
resources for the bureau’s investigation
into Russia’s interference in the presiden-
tial election.” For the record, the Justice
Department denies the claim.
For the administration’s apologists, the
fallback line is that the Russia investiga-
tion will continue no matter who succeeds
Comey. That might be credible if, say, the
former New York Police Department com-
missioner Ray Kelly gets the job. And if
Chris Christie or Rudy Giuliani gets it?
In all this, the riddle wrapped in a mys-
tery inside an enigma is Russia.
Golf courses: Russia. Mike Flynn’s lies
to the vice president: Russia. Jeff Ses-
sions’s lies to the Senate: Russia. Paul
Manafort, Carter Page and Roger Stone:
Russia. WikiLeaks: Russia. Donald
Trump Jr.: Russia. The Bayrock Group:
Russia. Erik Prince’s diplomatic back
channel: Russia.
No one piece in this (partial) list is in-
criminating. And with Trump, the line be-
tween incompetence and nefariousness,
misjudgment and misdirection, is usually
a blurry one.
Still, Jim Comey’s firing now brings two
points into high relief. First, the adminis-
tration is not being truthful when it claims
the director was dismissed for what he did
last summer. Second, Donald Trump is
afraid. A president who seeks to hide a
scandal may be willing to risk an uproar.0
Gail Collins and Nicholas Kristof are off
today.
A26 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
 Questioning a Wall Street Maxim
Dangers of the Dip
A growing tendency to invest
big during market drops worries
some money managers.
A Wardrobe by Mail
Stitch Fix Is Thriving
While Fashion Stores
And Web Rivals Falter
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
and KATIE BENNER
SAN FRANCISCO — The retail land-
scape is littered with the casualties of
changing consumer behavior. Shoppers
are bargain hunting online, department
stores are struggling, and once-mainstay
brands are closing out permanently.
Then there is Stitch Fix, a mail-order
Which Tech Overlords
Can You Live Without?
A few weeks ago, I bought a new televi-
sion. When the whole process was over, I
realized something incredible: To navi-
gate all of the niggling details surround-
ing this one commercial
FARHAD transaction — figuring out
what to buy, which acces-
MANJOO sories I needed, how and
where to install it, and whom
STATE OF
THE ART to hire to do so — I had dealt
with only a single ubiquitous
corporation: Amazon.
It wasn’t just the TV. As I began comb-
ing through other recent household deci-
sions, I found that in 2016, nearly 10 per-
cent of my household’s commercial trans-
actions flowed through the Seattle re-
tailer, more by far than any other
company my family dealt with. What’s
more, with its Echos, Fire TV devices,
audiobooks, movies and TV shows, Ama-
zon has become, for my family, more than
3 flights from Europe.
clothing service that offers customers little
choice in what garments they receive, and
shies away from discounts for brand-name
dresses, pants and accessories.
Despite a business model that seems to
defy conventional wisdom, Stitch Fix
continues to grow.
For the fiscal year that ended last July,
the company recorded sales of $730 mil-
lion. It has been profitable since 2014 and
has raised just $42 million from outside
investors, a relatively modest sum for a
high-flying Silicon Valley start-up.
And while Stitch Fix executives say they
have no specific plans to go public, the
company is well positioned to file for an ini-
a mere store. It is my confessor, my
keeper of lists, a provider of food and
culture, an entertainer and educator and
handmaiden to my children.
This may sound over the top. But what
about you? I suspect that if you closely
examine your own life, there’s a good
chance some other technology company
occupies the same role for you as Ama-
zon does for me: as warden of a very
comfortable corporate prison.
This is the most glaring and underap-
preciated fact of internet-age capitalism:
We are, all of us, in inescapable thrall to
one of the handful of American technol-
ogy companies that now dominate much
of the global economy. I speak, of course,
of my old friends the Frightful Five:
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and
Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
The five are among the most valuable
Continued on Page 6
More In-Flight Headaches
Laptop Ban May Grow
The U.S. says it could soon
prohibit carry-on laptops on
8 and he stepped up.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
At the Stitch Fix tial public offering as soon as this year.
Should Stitch Fix go public, it will be the
warehouse
south of San biggest retail offering since Etsy two years
Francisco, work- ago. Perhaps more important, it would be a
Silicon Valley rarity: a profitable company
ers retrieve and that did not raise money at a sky-high valu-
package gar- ation, and one that could potentially tap the
ments to fill
public markets at a price many times
orders.
greater than its current value.
Stitch Fix is not the first company to try
this business model. Similar start-ups,
from the clothing rival Trunk Club to the
cosmetics specialist Birchbox, have found
a market mailing consumers a grab bag of
items and offering free returns for any-
Continued on Page 8
SportsThursday Page 9-13
Ginobili as Savior
The Spurs leaned on the oldest
player left in the N.B.A. playoffs,
9
N B1
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Snap Loses
$2.2 Billion
In 2 Months
Since I.P.O.
By KATIE BENNER
SAN FRANCISCO — When Snap listed
its shares on the New York Stock Ex-
change in March, the floor of the exchange
was festooned in the company’s signature
yellow. Family members of Snap execu-
tives posed for photographs; some wore
the company’s video-recording Spectacles.
And as Snap’s two 20-something founders
rang the opening bell, the crowd — includ-
ing one of the founder’s fathers and a
supermodel fiancée — applauded.
Yet just two months into its life as a pub-
lic company, Snap’s celebration may al-
ready be ending.
On Wednesday, Snap, the parent of the
messaging app Snapchat, reported earn-
ings that missed Wall Street expectations
in almost every regard. Not only did Snap
record a $2.2 billion loss for the first quar-
ter, its revenue was lighter than expected,
and the company disclosed that its user
growth was decelerating sharply.
Investors punished the company, sending
its stock down more than 25 percent in af-
ter-hours trading.
The results represented a bumpy start
for Snap after its much-celebrated initial
public offering, the biggest for a technol-
ogy company in recent years. Snap’s earn-
ings illustrate how difficult it is for smaller
social media companies to compete in the
age of Facebook, the social network run by
Mark Zuckerberg, which has sucked up
Continued on Page 2
Whole Foods,
Under Duress,
Shuffles Board
By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
John Mackey, a founder of Whole Foods
Market, took the helm as sole chief execu-
tive last year in a bid to single-handedly re-
vive the upscale grocer’s fortunes.
On Wednesday, facing growing pressure
from restless shareholders, he brought in
reinforcements.
A month after an activist hedge fund
took a stake in Whole Foods and began to
agitate for change, the company unveiled a
sweeping overhaul of its board, replacing
five directors, naming a new chairwoman
and bringing in a new chief financial offi-
cer. It also laid out plans to improve opera-
tions and cut costs.
The defensive maneuvering comes as
Whole Foods, an organic foods pioneer
that helped change the way Americans
shop and eat, faces the greatest crisis of
confidence in its 37-year history. It also un-
derscores the growing influence of activist
shareholders, who continue to press corpo-
rate executives.
“We pay attention to what our
shareholders tell us,” Mr. Mackey said in
an interview.
“We’ve been told for some time that we
needed to address governance issues,” he
said, adding that a main concern from
shareholders was that the board was not
independent enough.
Among those joining the Whole Foods
board is Ronald Shaich, the founder, chair-
Continued on Page 3
DOUG CHAYKA
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017

Hulu Hires AMC Veteran as First Chief Content Officer Harassment Allegations
By JOHN KOBLIN
Hulu announced on Wednesday
that Joel Stillerman, AMC’s long-
Hulu has been ramping up its
original programming slate — Jeff
Daniels and Alec Baldwin have
Cost Fox $45 Million
time head of programming, would signed up for its “Looming Tower”
By BROOKS BARNES those of his ousted predecessor.
become the streaming service’s project about Sept. 11 and Stephen
LOS ANGELES — Twenty- But Mr. Carlson still wins his time
first chief content officer. King and J.J. Abrams are teaming
up for an anthology series — just First Century Fox disclosed on slot, and Fox News’s ratings
The news was months in the across the board remain higher
making: Hulu has been looking to as it introduced a live TV service a Monday that it had incurred costs
week ago. of $10 million “related to settle- than a year ago. (The company
create and fill the position for also said in the filing that no sums
some time as it tries to make up Mr. Stillerman will relocate ments of pending and potential lit-
from AMC’s New York offices to igations” during its fiscal third paid in settlements “or reserved
ground on rival streaming for pending or future claims”
services like Netflix and Amazon. Los Angeles for the job. Hulu said quarter in the aftermath of sexual
he would start in the summer. harassment allegations at Fox would have a “material” impact
Mr. Stillerman, 55, has been the
“Over the past several years, News. on its finances.)
head of programming at AMC
we’ve grown our audience and our That revelation was made in a For the quarter that ended on
since 2008. He was involved with
the later seasons of “Mad Men” content offering exponentially, regulatory filing to the Securities March 31, 21st Century Fox re-
and “Breaking Bad” and then FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES
and now is the right time to add and Exchange Commission in ported net income of $799 million,
helped the network make the tran- Joel Stillerman, in a 2015 photo, had served as the head of pro- Joel’s creative and strategic lead- which 21st Century Fox said it or 43 cents a share, down from
sition to a new era by bringing hits gramming at AMC since 2008 before his move to Hulu. ership to the team and drive the “has also received regulatory and $841 million, or 44 cents a share, in
like “The Walking Dead,” “Better next phase of Hulu’s content busi- investigative inquiries relating to the same period a year earlier.
Call Saul” and “Into the Badlands” ness,” said Mike Hopkins, Hulu’s these matters and stockholder de- Excluding one-time items, in-
viewership figures — making it and will report to Mr. Stillerman. cluding $37 million in unspecified
to life. chief executive. mands to inspect the books and
difficult to know if a show is Hulu is owned by several media restructuring charges, the enter-
While Netflix and Amazon have In a statement, AMC’s presi- records of the company which
broadly popular — the show has companies — Comcast, 21st Cen- dent, Charlie Collier, said, “Joel tainment conglomerate earned 54
made, for the last several years, could lead to future litigation.” The
dramas and comedies that have received nearly universal praise tury Fox, Time Warner and Dis- has played a major role in the cents a share in the most recent
company said that in the nine
been at the heart of the cultural from critics. As Hollywood kicks ney each have a stake — and sev- transformation of AMC from a quarter. Analysts had expected 48
months leading up to March 31, it
conversation and have taken into high gear for Emmy Award eral entertainment executives movie channel into an established cents a share.
had incurred $45 million in costs
home prestigious awards, Hulu campaigning, “The Handmaid’s noted that its unusual ownership leader in original programming.” tied to litigation related to har- Revenue totaled $7.56 billion, a
has been left behind. Tale” could give Hulu a long- structure made this new job a bit AMC said it would begin assment allegations. 5 percent increase. Analysts had
Hulu did, however, get a boon awaited viable candidate at the tricky to sell. searching for Mr. Stillerman’s re- The New York Times on April 1 expected $7.63 billion.
last month with its new drama awards. Still, the draws of running pro- placement as head of program- disclosed financial settlements in- An 8 percent increase in sub-
“The Handmaid’s Tale.” Though Craig Erwich, Hulu’s head of gramming at a streaming service ming at both AMC and Sundance volving multiple women who had scriber fees — led by those for Fox
streaming services do not release content, will remain in his position at this moment are significant. TV. accused Bill O’Reilly, the top- News, Fox Sports 1, a roster of re-
rated Fox News personality, of gional sports channels and the FX
sexual harassment or behaving networks — contributed to a 5 per-

Snap Loses $2.2 Billion in Difficult 2 Months Since I.P.O. inappropriately. Fox News ousted
Mr. O’Reilly on April 19 after ad-
vertisers left his show in droves.
cent increase in operating income,
to $1.45 billion, at the company’s
vast cable division. Domestic ad
He has denied any wrongdoing. sales were flat, which was better
From First Business Page The housecleaning continued on than the declines reported in the
more than two billion people May 1 with the dismissal of one of past week by companies like Time
worldwide and has made the size the network’s co-presidents, Bill Warner, Viacom and NBCUniver-
of its network a primary selling Shine, a protégé of Roger Ailes, sal.
point. who was pushed out as the chair- Indeed, 21st Century Fox’s en-
For Snap, the challenge is tricky man of Fox News last summer tertainment businesses are rela-
because the company approaches amid his own sexual harassment tively healthy. Its television studio
social networking differently. In- scandal. Mr. Ailes has also denied
stead of emphasizing the number any wrongdoing.
of people users know, Snapchat fo- Reporting its first quarterly
cuses on fewer connections and earnings since Mr. O’Reilly’s de- Executives say they
the quality of friends on the net- parture, 21st Century Fox execu-
work. Yet with Wall Street and tives managed to avoid discussing are confident in a
others using Facebook as a bench-
mark, the comparisons for Snap
the upheaval almost entirely on
Wednesday. In a 34-minute call
news network’s future.
are tough. For now, Snap looks with analysts, Lachlan Murdoch,
more like Twitter, the social media the executive chairman, and
service that has had rough times James Murdoch, the chief execu- supplies the hit drama “This is
because of anemic user growth. tive officer, steered attention to- Us” to NBC. Its FX cable channel
Snap’s weak results so soon af- ward climbing subscriber fees for has found a steady stream of hit
ter its I.P.O. appeared to shock the company’s cable channels and shows, including “Atlanta” and
many — even though it had their high expectations that regu- “Feud: Bette and Joan.” In the
warned investors that owning lators would approve the compa- most recent quarter, the R-rated
Snap stock would not be an easy ny’s $14.3 billion buyout of Sky, the superhero film “Logan” and the
path to riches. In its I.P.O. filing, British satellite TV giant. space-race drama “Hidden Fig-
Snap had highlighted slowing Ben Swinburne, a Morgan Stan- ures” were both hits for its 20th
growth and huge losses that were ley analyst, posed the lone ques- Century Fox movie studio.
not expected to end. Snap’s execu- DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
tion about Fox News, asking The lone problem — and it is a
tives had cautioned that results A Snap sign at the New York Stock Exchange in March for the company’s initial public offering. about “volatility” at the network big one — involves the Fox broad-
would be “lumpy and unpredict- and whether they had discussed it cast network. The Super Bowl
able.” with distributors. “The channel
Evan Spiegel, Snap’s chief exec- A prediction of ‘lumpy short time,” Mr. Spiegel said. He
added that people were highly en-
pearing messages and add-ons
like lenses and filters. continues its ratings dominance,”
propped up its most recent quar-
ter, but Fox’s post-“American
utive, had said, “One of the chal-
lenges we’ve encountered over and unpredictable’ gaged with Snapchat, with users In the last year, Facebook has Lachlan Murdoch responded.
“We’re very confident in the fu-
Idol” entertainment lineup has
creating on average more than copied some of Snapchat’s fea- been severely challenged. The
time is explaining to people why
bigger isn’t better.”
results proves true. three billion snaps, or short pieces tures and inserted them into its ture of that business.” network in recent days has can-
of content, every day, up from 2.5 apps, including Instagram and the Still, 21st Century Fox’s filing celed dramas like “Rosewood”
But the excitement over a social
billion the previous quarter. messaging app WhatsApp. Given with the S.E.C. noted that the Fox and “Pitch.” A high-profile reboot
media entity with young founders
of $158.6 million. Ali Mogharabi, an analyst at Facebook’s immense size, the News “prime time lineup has sig- of “24” has been a disappoint-
(Mr. Spiegel is 26; his co-founder,
And while Snap said its number Morningstar Research, said moves have created concern that nificantly changed, which could ment. “Empire” remains a hit, but
Bobby Murphy, is 28), an even
of daily users had increased to 166 Snap’s argument was that “if us- Snapchat will not seem suffi- have a negative impact on our rat- its ratings have recently plunged
younger user base and quirky
million in the first quarter, up 36 ers are spending more time in the ciently different and attractive to ings.” Since Mr. O’Reilly’s exit, at an alarming rate.
digital advertising products had
percent from a year ago, that was app, no matter the growth rate, users. Fox News has retained the top Lachlan Murdoch, apologizing
drowned out those warnings.
down from 53 percent growth in that by itself could attract adver- When asked during the call on spot in cable news, but its com- for a cold at the start of Wednes-
“They told us all of this,” Brian
the first quarter of 2016. tisers.” Still, he said, “at this early Wednesday about whether he was petitors are closing in. Rachel day’s call, said that weakness at
Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Re-
Snap’s shares plunged in after- stage, growth in both user time worried about Facebook, Mr. Maddow on MSNBC has started the Fox broadcast network “has
search, said of Snap’s executives.
hours trading to about $17.27, just spent on the platform and in the Spiegel said innovative compa- to win her time slot by certain been frustrating for us all.” He
“With Snap in particular, there’s
above the company’s I.P.O. price number of users are both very im- nies needed to “basically enjoy measures. Tucker Carlson, who added, however, that he was “en-
always been a greater fool ele-
ment — a lot of people bought it of $17 a share. portant.” the fact that people are going to replaced Mr. O’Reilly at 8 p.m., has couraged” by new shows in the
because they thought someone Snap emphasized on a call with Snap’s results were also viewed copy your products if you make seen his numbers fall off from works for the fall season.
else would pay more for it. That’s analysts on Wednesday that peo- as a referendum on whether it great stuff.”
impossible to ignore.” ple were spending more time than would be able to fend off Face- The issue of slowing user
growth has been evident for Snap
Fox Picks Ad Sales Head
Snap’s $2.2 billion loss for the ever on Snapchat, more than 30 book, which wanted to buy Snap in
first quarter, which included a $2 minutes a day, seeking to con- 2013 and is trying to crush the for some time. The company’s av-
billion expense related to stock vince investors that loyalty to its young company. For years, Snap erage number of daily users grew
by 48 percent in the fourth quarter

Who Founded Digital Firm

compensation, was far above its products matters more than the — which is based in Venice, Calif.,
$104 million loss a year ago. Reve- size of its user base. outside the orbit of Silicon Valley of 2016, by 63 percent in the third
nue was $149.6 million, almost four “We still have a lot of work to do, companies — had turned certain quarter and by 66 percent in the
times as much as a year ago, but but I’m excited by the amount of social media norms on its head by second quarter, Snap said in its
fell short of Wall Street estimates progress we’ve made in such a pioneering features like disap- public offering filing. By SAPNA MAHESHWARI
In March, Snap said its financial Fox Networks Group, days be-
performance would depend more fore the start of the annual adver-
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, Schedules; (v) include supporting documentation for the claim or an explanation as to on its “ability to elevate user en- tising selling season, named a
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (2) You are a person or entity whose claim has been paid in full, includ- why such documentation is not available; and (vi) be signed by the claim-
In re: Chapter 11 ing but not limited to any claim of an employee of the Debtors for ordinary ant or, if the claimant is not an individual, by an authorized agent of the gagement” if the number of users new head of ad sales on Wednes-
ANGELICA Case Nos.: 17-10869 (JLG) course wages or benefits to the extent already paid by the Debtors after the claimant. did not grow significantly. The day.
CORPORATION, et al., Through 17-10873 (JLG) Commencement Date pursuant to an order of the Court; IF YOU ARE ASSERTING A CLAIM AGAINST MORE THAN ONE DEBTOR,
Debtors. (Jointly Administered) (3) You hold an equity security interest in the Debtors, which interest SEPARATE PROOFS OF CLAIM MUST BE FILED AGAINST EACH SUCH DEBTOR company generates most of its
exclusively is based upon the ownership of common or preferred stock, AND YOU MUST IDENTIFY ON YOUR PROOF OF CLAIM THE SPECIFIC DEBTOR Joe Marchese, previously the
NOTICE OF DEADLINE FOR FILING PROOFS OF CLAIM revenue by selling space to adver-
Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases concerning the debtors listed below (the
membership interests, partnership interests, or warrants, options, or rights AGAINST WHICH YOUR CLAIM IS ASSERTED AND THE CASE NUMBER OF THAT group’s head of advanced adver-
“Debtors”) were filed on April 3, 2017. You may be a creditor of one of
to purchase, sell, or subscribe to such a security or interest; provided, that DEBTOR’S BANKRUPTCY CASE. A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE DEBTORS AND tisers who want to reach a young
if you assert such claim (as opposed to an ownership interest) against the THEIR CASE NUMBERS IS SET FORTH ABOVE. tising products, will fill a promi-
the debtors. On May 3, 2017, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Debtors (including a claim relating to an equity interest or the purchase or Your Proof of Claim form must not contain complete social security audience that spends a lot of time
Southern District of New York (the “Court”), having jurisdiction over the sale of such equity interest), a Proof of Claim must be filed on or before the numbers or taxpayer identification numbers (only the last four digits), a nent industry role that has been
chapter 11 cases, entered an order (the “Bar Date Order”) establishing looking at images and stories in
June 26, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) as the last date and time for
applicable Bar Date as set forth in this Notice;
(4) You hold a claim allowable under section 503(b) and 507(a)(2) of
complete birth date (only the year), the name of a minor (only the minor’s
initials), or a financial account number (only the last four digits of such the app. vacant since the longtime execu-
each person and entity (including individuals, partnerships, corporations, the Bankruptcy Code as an administrative claim (other than a holder of a financial account). tive Toby Byrne left in September.
joint ventures, and trusts, but not governmental units (as defined in section claim under section 503(b)(9), which are subject to the Bar Date); Additional Proof of Claim Forms may be obtained at www.uscourts.gov/ Snap is also spending hand-
101(27) of the Bankruptcy Code) (“Governmental Units”)) to file a proof (5) You hold a claim that has been allowed by order of the Court entered bkforms or https://cases.primeclerk.com/Angelica. somely to create products to en- Mr. Marchese, 36, joined the group
of claim (“Proof of Claim”) based on prepetition claims, including, for the
avoidance of doubt, secured claims, priority claims, and claims arising under
on or before the applicable Bar Date;
(6) You hold a claim for which a separate deadline has been fixed by the
YOU SHOULD ATTACH TO YOUR COMPLETED PROOF OF CLAIM
FORM COPIES OF ANY DOCUMENTS UPON WHICH YOUR CLAIM IS gage users. It spent $805.8 million two years ago after its parent
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section 503(b)(9) of chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the
“Bankruptcy Code”), against the Debtors listed above (the “General Bar
Court; BASED. IF THE DOCUMENTS ARE VOLUMINOUS, YOU SHOULD ATTACH
on research and development in company, 21st Century Fox, ac-
Date”); and (ii) September 30, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) as the
(7) You hold a claim for which you already filed a Proof of Claim with the A SUMMARY.
quired TrueX, a digital ad technol- Joe Marchese joined Fox Net-
Clerk of the Court or Prime Clerk against any of the Debtors with respect to 6. CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM BY the first quarter, 28 times higher
last date and time for each Governmental Unit to file a Proof of Claim based
on prepetition claims against any of the Debtors (the “Governmental Bar
the claim being asserted, utilizing a claim form that substantially conforms THE BAR DATE. ANY HOLDER OF A CLAIM THAT IS NOT EXCEPTED
than a year ago. Marketing costs ogy firm of which he was a works Group two years ago.
to the Proof of Claim Form or Official Form B410; FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BAR DATE ORDER, AS SET FORTH
Date,”and, together with the General Bar Date, the“Bar Dates”).
The Bar Date Order, the Bar Dates, and the procedures set forth below for
(8) You are a person or entity whose claim exclusively is limited to IN SECTION 2 ABOVE, AND THAT FAILS TO TIMELY FILE A PROOF OF skyrocketed to $219.7 million, from founder, in a deal valued at $200
the repayment of principal, interest, and other fees and expenses (the CLAIM IN THE APPROPRIATE FORM WILL BE FOREVER BARRED FROM
the filing of Proofs of Claim apply to all claims against the Debtors (other “Prepetition Senior Loan Obligations”) under or in connection with ASSERTING SUCH CLAIM AGAINST THE DEBTORS AND THEIR CHAPTER $14.7 million a year ago. million. viewership.
than those set forth below as being specifically excluded) that arose prior to
April 3, 2017, the date on which the Debtors commenced their cases under
that certain Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of July 15, 2011 (as 11 ESTATES, FROM VOTING ON ANY PLAN OF REORGANIZATION FILED
Snapchat still has an ace: Its us- He will oversee advertising for “We’re having consumers sit
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, IN THESE CHAPTER 11 CASES, AND FROM PARTICIPATING IN ANY
chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
If you have any questions relating to this Notice, please feel free
the “Prepetition Senior Loan Agreement”); unless you wish to assert DISTRIBUTION IN THE DEBTORS’ CASES ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH CLAIM. ers are demographically attrac- properties including the Fox Tele- through almost 20 times the ads in
a claim arising out of or relating to the Prepetition Senior Loan Agreement 7. THE DEBTORS’ SCHEDULES, ACCESS THERETO, AND
to contact Prime Clerk LLC (“Prime Clerk”) at (844) 276-3030 (toll other than a claim for the Prepetition Senior Loan Obligations, in which CONSEQUENCES OF AMENDMENT THEREOF. You may be listed as the tive. Many are between 18 and 34, vision Group, Fox Sports and FX, some cases as a YouTube or Face-
free) or by e-mail at angelicainfo@primeclerk.com.
YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY IF YOU HAVE ANY
case you are required to file a Proof of Claim with respect to such claim on or holder of a claim against the Debtors in the Debtors’ Schedules of Assets
a group that is particularly allur- expanding his previous focus on book might over the same period
before the Bar Date, unless another exception identified herein applies; or and Liabilities and/or Schedules of Executory Contracts and Unexpired
QUESTIONS, INCLUDING WHETHER YOU SHOULD FILE A PROOF OF (9) You are a person or entity whose claim exclusively is limited to Leases (collectively, the “Schedules”). To determine if and how you are ing to advertisers, said Sean Cor- the group’s “nontraditional” ad — we’re not making 20 times the
CLAIM.
NOTE: The staff of the Bankruptcy Clerk’s Office, the Office of the United
the repayment of principal, interest, and other fees and expenses (the listed in the Schedules, please refer to the descriptions set forth on the
coran, executive director for the ventures and revenue sources,
States Trustee, and the Debtors’ Claims and Noticing Agent cannot give legal
“Prepetition Junior Obligations”) under or in connection with that cer- enclosed Proof of Claim Form regarding the nature, amount, and status of money,” he said. “There’s a mis-
tain Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2016 (as your claim(s). If you received postpetition payments from the Debtors (as Americas at MullenLowe Medi- like Fox’s shows on Hulu and its
advice. amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, authorized by the Court) on account of your claim, the enclosed Proof of conception about where people
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Name of Debtor, Case Number, Tax Identification Number: Angelica are spending time with marketing
Textile Services, Inc.—NY, 17-10869 (JLG), 43-1096508; Angelica claim arising out of or relating to the Prepetition Junior Credit Agreement that you hold claims against more than one Debtor, you will receive multiple
“It’s close to 80 million people, sponsible for Fox News, which op-
Corporation, 17-10870 (JLG), 43-0905260; Clothesline Holdings, Inc., other than a claim for the Prepetition Junior Obligations, in which case you Proof of Claim Forms, each of which will reflect the nature and amount of messages, and I want to get that
17-10871 (JLG), 26-2971081; Angelica Textile Services, Inc.—CA, are required to file a Proof of Claim with respect to such claim on or before your claim against each Debtor, as listed in the Schedules. spanning high school to young erates separately.) The selection
the Bar Date, unless another exception identified herein applies. As set forth above, if you agree with the nature, amount, and status of focused.”
17-10872 (JLG), 95-2505010; Royal Institutional Services, Inc., 17-10873
YOU SHOULD NOT FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A your claim as listed in the Debtors’ Schedules and if your claim is not listed moms and dads, and they are in- of Mr. Marchese, who also re-
(JLG), 04-3088906. OTHER NAMES USED BY THE DEBTORS IN THE PAST
CLAIM AGAINST ONE OF THE DEBTORS. in the Schedules as“disputed,”“contingent,” or“unliquidated,” you need not cently helped Fox forge a data Fox Networks Group tapped
8 YEARS: Angelica; Angelica Healthcare; Angelica Image Apparel; Angelica credibly hard to reach because
Textiles; Royal. THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS NOTICE DOES NOT MEAN file a Proof of Claim. Otherwise, or if you decide to file a Proof of Claim, you
partnership with its rivals Viacom Mr. Marchese ahead of its upfront
Attorneys for Debtors: WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP, 767 Fifth THAT YOU HAVE A CLAIM OR THAT THE DEBTORS OR THE COURT must do so before the Bar Date in accordance with the procedures set forth their media habits are frag-
BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE A CLAIM. in this Notice.
and Turner, highlights the TV in- presentation on Monday, the an-
Avenue, New York, New York 10153, Telephone: (212) 310-8000, Facsimile:
3. EXECUTORY CONTRACTS AND UNEXPIRED LEASES. If you hold a Copies of the Schedules may be examined by interested parties on mented,” Mr. Corcoran said.
(212) 310-8007, Matthew S.Barr, Jill Frizzley, Kevin Bostel
DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF MEETING OF CREDITORS claim arising from the rejection of an executory contract or unexpired lease, the Court’s electronic docket for the Debtors’ chapter 11 cases, which is “Snapchat is one of the few places dustry’s shifting landscape, as it nual star-studded events held by
PURSUANT TO BANKRUPTCY CODE SECTION 341(a) : May 12, 2017 at you must file a Proof of Claim based on such rejection by the later of (i) the
Bar Date and (ii) such date as the Court may fix, which date shall not be less
posted (i) on the website established by Prime Clerk for the Debtors’ cases
at https://cases.primeclerk.com/Angelica and (ii) on the Court’s website you can get to them in a mass contends with ad-free platforms TV networks in May to attract ad-
10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). Location: United States Bankruptcy Court, SDNY,
One Bowling Green, Room 511, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10004-1408. than 30 days following the date of entry of an order approving the rejec- at www.nysb.uscourts.gov. (A login and password to the Court’s Public
way.” like Netflix, competition from vertising dollars.
Address of the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court: Clerk of the United tion of such executory contract or unexpired lease, or you will be forever Access to Electronic Court Records (“PACER”) are required to access the
States Bankruptcy Court, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004-1408, barred from so doing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you are a party to information on the Court’s website and can be obtained through the YouTube and Facebook, and the James Murdoch, the chief exec-
Telephone: (212)-668-2870. Vito Genna, Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court. an executory contract or unexpired lease and you wish to assert a claim with
respect to unpaid amounts accrued and outstanding as of April 3, 2017
PACER Service Center at www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov). Copies of the
Schedules also may be examined between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 challenge of tracking viewership utive of 21st Century Fox, joined
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1. WHO MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM. You MUST file a Proof of pursuant to such executory contract or unexpired lease (other than a rejec- p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday at the Office of the Clerk of the across a range of devices. the board of TrueX before the ac-
Claim to vote on a chapter 11 plan filed by the Debtors or to share in any tion damages claim), you must file a Proof of Claim for such amounts on or Bankruptcy Court, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
distributions from the Debtors’ estates if you have a claim that arose prior before the Bar Date unless an exception identified above applies. of New York, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Copies of the Debtors’ The current TV ad model “does- quisition after being introduced to
to April 3, 2017 and it is not one of the types of claims described in Section 4. WHEN AND WHERE TO FILE. Except as provided for herein, all
Proofs of Claim either must be filed (i) electronically through Prime Clerk’s
Schedules also may be obtained by written request to the Debtors’ claims
agent, Prime Clerk, at the address and telephone number set forth below: n’t properly value what we’re do- Mr. Marchese through a mutual
2 below. Claims based on acts or omissions of the Debtors that occurred
before April 3, 2017 must be filed on or prior to the Bar Date, even if such website using the interface available on such website located at https:// Angelica Corporation Claims Processing Center, c/o Prime Clerk LLC, ing and kind of turns consumers friend. TrueX works on commer-
claims are not now fixed, liquidated, or certain or did not mature or become cases.primeclerk.com/Angelica under the link entitled “Submit a Claim” 830 3rd Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022.
fixed, liquidated, or certain before April 3, 2017. (the “Electronic Filing System”) or (ii) by delivering the original Proof of In the event that the Debtors amend or supplement their Schedules sub- off to our storytelling,” Mr. Mar- cials that viewers can interact
Pursuant to section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code and as used in this Claim form by hand, or mailing the original Proof of Claim form, as follows: sequent to date of entry of the Bar Date Order, the Debtors shall give notice with.
Notice, the word“claim”means: (a) a right to payment, whether or not such If by overnight courier, hand delivery, or first class mail to: Angelica of any amendment or supplement to the holders of claims affected by such chese said in an interview. “Is
right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, Corporation Claims Processing Center, c/o Prime Clerk LLC, 830 3rd amendment or supplement within ten days after filing such amendment or there a way we can get back to Advertising makes up about 30
matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022; OR If by hand delivery to: United supplement, and such holders must file a Proof of Claim by the later of (i) the
unsecured; or (b) a right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance States Bankruptcy Court, SDNY, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Bar Date and (ii) 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date that is 30 days fol- making brands heroes because percent, or $7.7 billion, of 21st Cen-
if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to
an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured,
Proofs of Claim will be deemed timely filed only if actually received
by Prime Clerk or the Court as set forth in section 4 above, in each case, on
lowing the date such notice is served, or be forever barred from so doing, and
such deadline shall be contained in any notice of such amendment or sup- %86,1(66 they’re the ones making the pro- tury Fox’s annual revenue. The
unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured. Further, claims
include unsecured claims, secured claims, and priority claims.
or before the Bar Date. Proofs of Claim may not be delivered by facsimile,
telecopy, or electronic mail transmission (other than Proofs of Claim filed
plement of the Schedules provided to the holders of claims affected thereby.
A holder of a possible claim against the Debtors should consult
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5. WHAT TO FILE. If you file a Proof of Claim, your filed Proof of Claim including whether the holder should file a Proof of Claim.
of Claim if:
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(ii) you do not dispute the amount, nature, and priority of the claim as applicable, as of April 3, 2017); (iii) substantially conform to the form pro-
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set forth in the Schedules, and (iii) you do not dispute that the claim is an DEBTORS AND DEBTORS IN POSSESSION
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Buying Into the Turmoil: Investors Set Aside Fear and Reap the Rewards
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Buy the dip.
Be it stocks, bonds or more com-
plex derivative bets, investors fol-
lowing this Wall Street maxim
have reaped robust rewards in re-
cent years.
Such buying has been evident
in the shares of large American
companies since March 2009,
when the Standard & Poor’s 500
stock index touched a low of 666.
(It closed on Wednesday at
2,399.63.) It also appeared when
investors piled into European
stocks after Britain’s vote to leave
the European Union last summer.
And the phenomenon has been
amply illustrated by the wagering
that the VIX index, a measure of
how sharply investors think
stocks will shoot up and down, will
continue to move lower as it has
done in recent weeks.
Yet as stock markets hit record
highs and the yields on volatile
junk and emerging market bonds
plunge, this view that market cor-
rections should be seen as a buy-
ing opportunity, as opposed to a
warning to be heeded, has begun
to worry investors.
The fear is that each subse-
quent rebound will embolden ex-
cessive risk taking and inflate
richly valued stock and bond mar-
kets.
Investors have repeatedly
shaken off the risks of political tur-
moil, including the latest shock,
President Trump’s firing of James
B. Comey, the director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation, on
Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the
S.&P. 500 ended the day up 0.11
percent, while the VIX was still
near its decade lows, at 10.21.
Whole Foods, Pressured
By Restless Shareholders,
Shuffles Its Upper Ranks
From First Business Page
man and co-chief executive of
Panera Bread Company. The oth-
ers are Ken Hicks, a former chief
executive of Foot Locker; Joe
Mansueto, the founder and chair-
man of Morningstar; Sharon Mc-
Collam, a former chief financial of-
ficer of Best Buy; and Scott Pow-
ers, a former vice president of
State Street Corporation.
Gabrielle Sulzberger, a private
equity executive, will become the
company’s chairwoman, Whole
Foods said in a statement. Ms.
Sulzberger is married to Arthur O.
Sulzberger Jr., the chairman and
publisher of The New York Times.
John B. Elstrott Jr., who has
served as chairman of the Whole
Foods board since 2009, will step
down.
Keith Manbeck, a former vice
president of Kohl’s, will become
the company’s new chief financial
officer.
The moves by Whole Foods
came after Jana Partners, an $8.5
billion hedge fund, announced a
major investment and proposed
four nominees to the company’s
board.
Neuberger Berman, another
major shareholder, has also
pushed for change at Whole Foods
over the past year, at one point
even turning to activist hedge
funds for help.
Jana went public with its fight
against Whole Foods last month.
Its targets included customer
service and brand development at
the company, which has faced
added competition from tradi-
tional grocers in recent years.
The hedge fund, arguing that
the board was stale and in need of
fresh blood, proposed a slate of di-
rectors that included Glenn Mur-
phy, a former chief executive of
Barclays Chief Apologizes for Seeking Out a Whistle-Blower
By CHAD BRAY
LONDON — Barclays share-
holders vented their frustrations
with James E. Staley, the British
bank’s chief executive, on
Wednesday after he was caught
up in a regulatory inquiry last
month over his treatment of a
whistle-blower complaint.
At the bank’s annual meeting in
London, one shareholder called
for Mr. Staley to step down from
the stage — John McFarlane, the
Barclays chairman, declined the
request — and another later asked
for Mr. Staley to resign immedi-
ately.
On Wednesday, Mr. Staley of-
fered another in a series of public
apologies for his actions.
“I feel it is important that I ac-
knowledge to you — our
shareholders — that I made a mis-
take in becoming involved in an is-
sue which I should have left to the
business to deal with,” Mr. Staley
told investors on Wednesday. “I
have apologized to the board, and
I would today like to apologize to
“No one has been penalized for
buying the dip,” said Bill Luby, an
independent investor and active
blogger who specializes in trades
connected to the VIX.
Until recently, he has been an
active participant in Wall Street’s
most popular trade: Betting
against VIX futures with the ex-
pectation that market volatility
will remain quiescent.
Now, he is worried about what
will happen when the dip becomes
something more severe than just a
temporary dip, and the index bolts
higher as investors panic.
“That trade is really loaded up,”
Mr. Luby said. “It won’t take much
of a spike to cause a lot of pain.”
Shorting, or betting against, the
VIX is not the only trade of late
where investors have been hand-
somely compensated for setting
aside their fears.
Investors have been snapping
up government bonds issued by
countries like Russia, Turkey and
even Mongolia, enticed by mouth-
watering yields and a perception
that economic and political risks,
which previously warned
investors away, are no longer so
severe.
And in the United States stock
market, stock pickers continue to
ignore sky-high valuations of
stocks and the market as a whole,
buying up index giants like Ama-
zon, which has a price-to-earnings
ratio of 136, Apple and Facebook at
the slightest sign of weakness.
Few are predicting an outright
market collapse.
Economic growth, at home and
abroad, is picking up, and the
earnings for companies listed on
the S.&P. 500 have been strong.
Gap Inc., and Mark Bittman, a for-
mer food columnist for The New
York Times. The potential direc-
tors bought their own stakes in the
company.
Whole Foods tried to broker a
peace with Jana, offering to ac-
cept two of the hedge fund’s no-
minees if Jana would refrain from
publicly agitating for change for
two years. Jana refused, a spokes-
man for the hedge fund said.
On Wednesday, Whole Food un-
veiled its own new picks for the
board, foreshadowing what could
be a showdown with some
shareholders.
“If Jana wants to have their own
directors on the board, then they
ought to be willing to sign a co-
operation agreement,” Mr.
Mackey said.
Jana, for its part, said it wanted
to remain nimble rather than
strike a compromise with the
company.
“We decided we’d rather keep
all options on the table,” the Jana
spokesman said in a statement.
“Now we’ll be waiting to see if the
newly reconstituted board can
show a real commitment to fixing
the operations at Whole Foods
and pursuing all avenues to share-
holder value creation.”
Whole Foods detailed the
changes as it announced quar-
terly earnings and subjected its fi-
nancial health to the market’s mi-
croscope. Sales for the quarter
met expectations, but the com-
pany pared back its forecast for
earnings this year.
The Whole Foods brand was
once synonymous with organic
and natural foods, and the com-
pany staked its reputation on a
culture of healthy eating and liv-
ing. It stood out for offering fresh,
local produce, but its products
came with a hefty price tag, earn-
you as well, for that error.”
British regulators are investi-
gating Mr. Staley after he sought
to learn the identity of a whistle-
blower last year after the com-
pany received two anonymous let-
ters that involved a former col-
league at JPMorgan Chase whom
he had hired.
The bank has previously said it
would formally reprimand Mr.
Staley, who is known as Jes, and
make a “very significant compen-
sation adjustment” to his bonus
after investigators completed
their work.
Mr. McFarlane said that Mr.
Staley mistakenly believed at the
time that the matter was closed
and he could proceed with efforts
to learn the individual’s identity.
Mr. McFarlane said Mr. Staley
only wanted to contact the indi-
vidual to get him or her to stop
writing letters, because he be-
lieved they were malicious.
“He thought he had a green
light. He went through the green
light and it was actually red,” Mr.
McFarlane said. “The action for
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10-Year Treasury Notes
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auction.
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And even with the political up-
heaval in Washington, most mar-
ket participants remain con-
vinced that the Trump adminis-
tration’s pledges for lower taxes
Shoppers leaving a Whole Foods store in Manhattan last month. The company faces increasing competition in the grocery sector.
ing the grocer the nickname
“whole paycheck” among some
shoppers.
Whole Foods faces fierce com-
petition and has been forced to
slash prices as national retailers
like Costco, Safeway and Walmart
have begun offering their own or-
ganic produce and kitchen sta-
ples.
Wall Street started to lose faith
in Whole Foods amid the shifting
landscape, and the company’s
shares slumped, although they
have regained some of the lost
ground since Jana announced its
investment.
Whole Foods pledged on
going through a red light is
usually you do not lose your li-
cense.”
The disclosure of the inquiry
prompted Institutional Share-
holder Services, the influential
Shareholder anger is
directed at the boss at
an annual meeting.
proxy adviser, to recommend last
month that investors withhold
their votes for his re-election to
the board.
Mr. Staley was re-elected to the
board on Wednesday, receiving
97.2 percent of the votes cast.
Votes representing about 1.7 bil-
lion shares were withheld.
Mr. McFarlane dismissed the
call for Mr. Staley’s resignation,
noting the bank’s prospects have
improved under his leadership.
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and lighter regulation will provide
ballast to the market.
And with bank deposits and
bonds from developed countries
still offering meager returns,
stocks and higher-risk fixed-in-
come securities have come to be
seen as the default option for in-
vestment managers looking to the
long term.
Nevertheless, the combination
of complacency and rising mar-
kets has prompted a growing
number to become more cautious.
“We have been in a long up cy-
cle and valuations are above aver-
age,” said Bradley J. Vogt, a port-
folio manager who invests in large
capitalization United States
stocks for the Capital Group, the
Los Angeles-based fund giant that
oversees $1.4 trillion. “I am hold-
ing more cash than I usually hold
in my funds right now.”
To be sure, some of this recent
Wednesday to accelerate a
planned customer loyalty pro-
gram, after shareholders, includ-
ing Jana and Neuberger Berman,
had criticized it for being slow to
adopt one. It also said it would cut
$300 million in additional costs
over the next four years.
And the grocer told investors
that it would buy back $1.25 billion
in shares.
But some shareholder demands
remain. Neuberger Berman sent a
letter to the board last week not-
ing its concern that employees
would be “distracted from their
primary responsibilities” amid
the flurry of public pressure. Neu-
“If I believed a chief executive
should go, you know me, he would
go,” Mr. McFarlane said.
In addition to the British regula-
tors, the Financial Conduct Au-
thority and the Prudential Regula-
tory Authority, the New York De-
partment of Financial Services is
looking into the matter.
The inquiry has emerged at a
pivotal time for Barclays, which
has large operations in New York
and in London.
Mr. Staley is the bank’s third
chief executive after it was caught
up in a scandal involving the ma-
nipulation of a key benchmark in-
terest rate, the London interbank
offered rate, or Libor.
Barclays paid $450 million in
penalties and became the first
bank to admit to wrongdoing in
2012 related to Libor, with the re-
sulting scandal costing Robert E.
Diamond Jr. his job.
Antony Jenkins was brought in
to change the bank’s culture, but
he was ousted two years ago after
directors lost faith in his ability to
spate of buying can be explained
as investors looking for bargains
in beaten-down areas — like
emerging markets.
Having lagged the broader rally
in recent years, these markets
took a further hit in the wake of
Mr. Trump’s election. Currencies
tumbled and investors took flight,
fearful of the administration’s
anti-trade policies and a resurgent
dollar, not to mention the usual
dose of political turmoil.
Nishant X. Upadhyay, an
emerging market bond investor at
HSBC Global Asset Management,
took the opportunity late last year
to buy Turkish government
bonds, betting that worries about
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
and his political ambitions were
overdone.
It was a winning trade — bond
yields have fallen and the lira has
strengthened substantially. Now,
billions of dollars (Mr. Upadhyay
estimates over $30 billion last
quarter) are flowing into emerg-
ing market bonds as investors
rush in to get a piece of the action.
“No doubt the spreads are tight-
ening,” he said, in describing how
the recent boom in the asset class
has made them less attractive rel-
ative to lower-yielding bonds in
developed markets. “And there
are risks out there. But the ques-
tion is: Do you want to be sitting in
cash right now or investing your
dollars in alternative markets?”
Fund managers with a long
memory argue that while it may
be true that markets are richly
priced, it would be a mistake for
investors to try to predict when
markets will fall and remove their
berger Berman, which manages
$267 billion for pension funds, sov-
ereign wealth funds and individu-
als, urged Whole Foods to con-
sider “possible strategic mergers,
partnerships, joint ventures,
alliances” in addition to making
internal investments.
It was the second time that Neu-
berger Berman had sent a letter to
the Whole Foods board. A month
after its first letter, in September,
the company announced a series
of management changes.
Those changes included the
elimination of the company’s co-
chief executive structure and the
appointment of Mr. Mackey as the
Barclays plans to formally reprimand James E. Staley and make
a “very significant compensation adjustment” to his bonus.
turn around the company.
Mr. Staley joined the bank in
December 2015 and has moved ag-
gressively to sell off businesses
the bank does not consider core
operations in the future and re-
solve legacy misconduct issues
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funds accordingly.
Especially now, when cash and
safe government bonds are such
unattractive alternatives in terms
of investment returns.
Indeed, for all the ups and
downs in the stock market over
the last five years, the total return
of the S.&P. 500 stock index is up
close to 15 percent — beating most
of the opportunities available to
investors.
“The view we frequently hear
today is, ‘aren’t stocks expensive
now given S.&P. price to earnings
multiple,’ which is at a 15 to 20 per-
cent premium to the historical av-
erage,” said William C. Nygren,
Concern that market
rebounds could
embolden risk takers.
who has been investing in United
States stocks, under the Oakmark
Funds brand, at Harris Associates
in Chicago for more than 30 years.
Making market timing bets
have been a “kiss of death” for
investors over the years as stocks
continue to rise over the long
term, he said.
And that holds true for today, he
believes.
“We have better economic
growth looking forward the next
five years than we do looking
backward,” Mr. Nygren said. “And
alternative asset classes offer re-
turns that are exceedingly low.”
JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
sole chief executive. Walter Robb,
the previous co-chief executive,
continued to serve on the board.
Whole Foods also brought Mary
Ellen Coe, the vice president for
sales and product operations at
Google, onto the board. And it an-
nounced that Glenda Flanagan,
the chief financial officer, would
retire at the end of 2017.
In a statement on Wednesday,
Neuberger Berman said, “We look
forward to understanding the new
board’s sense of urgency and
timeline in assessing all strategic
opportunities to maximize share-
holder value.”
LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS
that have dragged on its results.
In February, the British bank
said that it was on the verge of
closing a unit that houses its non-
core operations and would no
longer be in a restructuring mode
by later this year.
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017

MARKET GAUGES
S.&P.  2,399.63 DOW  20,943.11 NASDAQ  6,129.14 10-YEAR 2.41% CRUDE  $47.33 GOLD  $1,217.30 THE  $1.0864
500 +2.71 INDUSTRIALS –32.67 COMPOSITE +8.56 TREASURY YIELD  +0.01 OIL +$1.45 (N.Y.) +$3.00 EURO –$0.0008

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

2,600 6,400

2,500 +10% 6,200 +10% 22,000 +10%

6,000
2,400 + 5% + 5% 21,000 + 5%
5,800
2,300
0% 0% 20,000 0%
5,600

2,200
5,400
– 5% – 5% 19,000 – 5%
March Apr. March Apr. March Apr.

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 20943.11 ◊ 32.67 ◊ 0.16 + 16.82 + 5.97 Nasdaq 100 5681.68 + 3.37 + 0.06 + 29.07 + 16.82 AMD (AMD) 10.79 +0.61 +6.0 658937 INC Rsrch Hl (INCR) 52.80 +9.15 +21.0 46608 Vitmn Shpe (VSI) 12.70 ◊6.30 ◊33.2 43714
Transportation 9072.35 ◊ 57.93 ◊ 0.63 + 15.84 + 0.31 Composite 6129.14 + 8.56 + 0.14 + 27.43 + 13.86 Valeant Pharm (VRX) 12.68 +0.63 +5.2 642915 Array Biopha (ARRY) 8.43 +1.41 +20.1 174671 Aqua Metals (AQMS) 12.31 ◊4.34 ◊26.1 17810
Utilities 696.90 + 0.97 + 0.14 + 5.11 + 5.65 Industrials 5021.26 + 5.81 + 0.12 + 20.58 + 12.97 NVIDIA (NVDA) 121.29 +18.35 +17.8 531318 Calpine (CPN) 11.89 +1.82 +18.1 177849 Hackett Grou (HCKT) 15.65 ◊4.59 ◊22.7 11951
Banks 3715.14 ◊ 2.19 ◊ 0.06 + 34.34 ◊ 3.56 Bank of Ameri (BAC) 24.15 +0.17 +0.7 484622 NVIDIA (NVDA) 121.29 +18.35 +17.8 531318 Fossil Group (FOSL) 14.44 ◊3.71 ◊20.4 115597
Composite 7199.78 ◊ 17.32 ◊ 0.24 + 14.48 + 4.31
Chesapeake En (CHK) 5.75 +0.35 +6.5 474796 Crocs (CROX) 7.28 +1.08 +17.4 73657 Yelp (YELP) 28.33 ◊6.37 ◊18.4 471357
Insurance 8269.65 ◊ 1.34 ◊ 0.02 + 11.01 ◊ 1.00 6.91
Yelp (YELP) 28.33 ◊6.37 ◊18.4 471347 Calithera (CALA) 13.25 +1.95 +17.3 9629 PCTEL, Inc. (PCTI) ◊1.25 ◊15.3 8504
Other Finance 6795.96 ◊ 11.07 ◊ 0.16 + 21.39 + 5.07 Snap (SNAP) 22.98 ◊0.34 ◊1.5 444768 Impax Labs (IPXL) 16.55 +2.35 +16.5 48515 Dermira (DERM) 27.27 ◊4.89 ◊15.2 48949
100 Stocks 1059.10 ◊ 1.52 ◊ 0.14 + 14.57 + 6.83 Telecommunications 312.91 ◊ 0.19 ◊ 0.06 + 23.90 + 8.54 Spirit Realty (SRC) 7.59 +0.25 +3.4 405391 Natera (NTRA) 10.67 +1.51 +16.5 10234 Silver Sprin (SSNI) 9.91 ◊1.75 ◊15.0 22582
500 Stocks 2399.63 + 2.71 + 0.11 + 15.12 + 7.18 Computer 3500.63 + 13.52 + 0.39 + 40.58 + 19.65 Ford Motor (F) 11.04 ◊0.12 ◊1.1 349771 Everi Holdin (EVRI) 7.03 +0.97 +16.0 38805 Time (TIME) 12.95 ◊2.15 ◊14.2 79604
Mid-Cap 400 1738.56 + 10.73 + 0.62 + 18.29 + 4.70 Pfizer (PFE) 33.03 ◊0.35 ◊1.0 330454 Almost Famil (AFAM) 57.30 +7.65 +15.4 3454 Yangtze Rive (YERR) 8.50 ◊1.30 ◊13.3 708
Small-Cap 600 851.31 + 4.08 + 0.48 + 22.79 + 1.59 OTHER INDEXES U. S. Steel (X) 20.97 +0.18 +0.9 297140 Surgery Part (SGRY) 20.95 +2.75 +15.1 5901 CECO Environ (CECE) 10.38 ◊1.45 ◊12.3 3571
American Exch 2551.97 + 13.56 + 0.53 + 9.48 + 10.57 Micron Tech (MU) 29.32 +0.51 +1.8 292175 Farmer Mac (AGM) 64.33 +8.09 +14.4 2025 Qualstar (QBAK) 7.19 ◊0.94 ◊11.6 1474
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 24977.56 + 44.66 + 0.18 + 16.01 + 6.62 Fox (FOXA) 27.90 ◊0.33 ◊1.2 275061 Lumber Liquida (LL) 24.78 +3.09 +14.2 32039 Triumph Group (TGI) 21.60 ◊2.70 ◊11.1 25701
GE (GE) 28.70 ◊0.23 ◊0.8 260434 Electro Sci (ESIO) 8.50 +1.05 +14.1 12703 A-Mark Preci (AMRK) 15.15 ◊1.82 ◊10.7 473
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 5533.72 + 25.90 + 0.47 + 19.98 + 5.16
Apple (AAPL) 153.26 ◊0.73 ◊0.5 257791 Coherent (COHR) 251.02 +30.97 +14.1 12704 ACADIA Pharm (ACAD) 29.06 ◊3.20 ◊9.9 74920
NYSE Comp. 11598.99 + 31.47 + 0.27 + 11.27 + 4.90 Russell 2000 1399.59 + 7.73 + 0.56 + 23.99 + 3.13 Intel (INTC) 36.01 ◊0.36 ◊1.0 251030 ITI (ITCI) 10.52 +1.26 +13.6 19111 TPI Composit (TPIC) 16.80 ◊1.80 ◊9.7 2179
Tech/Media/Telecom 8178.79 ◊ 10.88 ◊ 0.13 + 8.86 + 5.14 Phila Gold & Silver 81.51 + 1.31 + 1.63 ◊ 4.77 + 3.36 AT&T (T) 38.45 +0.23 +0.6 226061 Electronic Art (EA) 108.16 +12.15 +12.7 111651 Altimmune (ALT) 5.55 ◊0.59 ◊9.6 1698
Energy 10628.23 + 120.29 + 1.14 + 4.11 ◊ 7.61 Phila Semiconductor 1038.92 + 21.42 + 2.11 + 61.25 + 14.61 Coty (COTY) 19.95 +2.12 +11.9 224730 Atwood (ATW) 8.72 +0.96 +12.4 102128 Matrix Servi (MTRX) 10.00 ◊1.00 ◊9.1 6863
Financial 7249.63 + 28.92 + 0.40 + 18.86 + 4.14 KBW Bank 92.60 + 0.18 + 0.19 + 36.60 + 0.88 Weatherford (WFT) 5.19 +0.12 +2.4 221783 Abercrombie (ANF) 14.22 +1.55 +12.2 160649 Sparton (SPA) 18.48 ◊1.84 ◊9.1 3501
Healthcare 13109.42 + 7.35 + 0.06 + 6.49 + 10.10 Phila Oil Service 151.69 + 2.38 + 1.59 ◊ 7.57 ◊ 17.47 Freeport Mcmo (FCX) 11.72 +0.09 +0.8 205003 Vectrus (VEC) 29.80 +3.20 +12.0 4845 Wesco Air Hl (WAIR) 8.35 ◊0.80 ◊8.7 23387

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 R
B
Apple (AAPL) 89.47 154.88 153.26 ◊ 0.73 + 64.05 + 32.3 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 106.35 80.94 ◊ 0.16 ◊ 23.71 + 2.6 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 109.32 129.00 122.81 ◊ 0.40 + 7.10 + 6.6 Procter Ga (PG) 79.41 92.00 86.49 + 0.09 + 4.86 + 2.9
C
AbbVie (ABBV) 55.06 68.12 65.98 ◊ 0.19 + 3.51 + 5.4 Chevron (CVX) 97.53 119.00 106.50 + 1.42 + 5.16 ◊ 9.5 JPMorgan (JPM) 57.05 93.98 87.43 + 0.68 + 40.93 + 1.3 PMI (PM) 86.78 115.63 110.83 ◊ 1.10 + 8.77 + 21.1
C
Abbott (ABT) 36.76 45.84 44.50 ◊ 0.17 + 16.80 + 15.9 Du Pont (DD) 61.12 82.37 79.18 ◊ 0.31 + 21.83 + 7.9 Kinder Mor (KMI) 16.82 23.36 20.19 + 0.29 + 17.52 ◊ 2.5 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 34.00 49.80 49.79 + 0.57 + 24.13 + 26.2
D
Accenture (ACN) 108.66 126.53 121.20 + 0.13 + 3.64 + 3.5 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 102.79 83.21 + 0.04 + 11.66 + 6.9 Kraft Hein (KHC) 79.69 97.77 89.33 + 0.13 + 3.70 + 2.3 Qualcomm (QCOM) 50.84 71.62 55.33 + 0.18 + 6.10 ◊ 15.1
H
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 261.27 229.72 ◊ 8.79 + 2.10 + 9.4 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 109.66 ◊ 2.41 + 2.87 + 5.2 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.01 43.57 + 0.06 ◊ 4.77 + 5.1 Raytheon (RTN) 128.40 160.91 159.20 ◊ 0.86 + 20.64 + 12.1
AIG (AIG) 48.41 67.47 61.37 ◊ 0.45 + 8.91 ◊ 6.0 Dow (DOW) 47.51 65.42 61.71 ◊ 0.12 + 19.73 + 7.9 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 81.05 + 0.26 + 5.42 + 10.2 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 61.94 60.66 ◊ 0.32 + 5.51 + 9.3
Allstate (ALL) 65.27 86.03 84.29 + 0.12 + 23.99 + 13.7 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 82.48 + 0.37 + 3.02 + 6.3 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 276.64 271.74 ◊ 2.13 + 11.20 + 8.7 Schlumberg (SLB) 70.22 87.84 72.67 + 0.39 ◊ 2.14 ◊ 13.4
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 160.51 ◊ 2.71 + 2.08 + 9.8 Emerson El (EMR) 48.45 64.36 58.93 + 0.08 + 10.15 + 5.7 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 86.25 86.06 + 0.21 + 11.78 + 21.0 Southern C (SO) 46.20 54.64 49.87 ◊ 0.11 ◊ 0.54 + 1.4
Amazon.com (AMZN) 682.12 957.89 948.95 ◊ 3.87 + 34.97 + 26.6 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 37.70 33.76 + 0.17 ◊ 4.09 ◊ 4.9 Mastercard (MA) 86.65 119.71 116.65 + 0.24 + 19.47 + 13.0 Simon Prop (SPG) 160.45 229.10 165.65 + 3.19 ◊ 22.56 ◊ 6.8
American E (AXP) 57.15 82.00 78.65 + 0.21 + 21.30 + 6.2 Ford Motor (F) 10.90 14.04 11.04 ◊ 0.12 ◊ 18.16 ◊ 9.0 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 144.98 144.52 + 0.16 + 9.82 + 18.7 AT&T (T) 36.10 43.89 38.45 + 0.23 ◊ 2.19 ◊ 9.6
Boeing (BA) 122.35 187.21 183.18 ◊ 3.73 + 35.97 + 17.7 Facebook (FB) 108.23 153.60 150.29 ◊ 0.19 + 24.72 + 30.6 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 46.40 44.25 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 1.75 ◊ 0.2 Target (TGT) 52.72 80.51 58.41 + 0.33 ◊ 27.03 ◊ 19.1
Bank of Am (BAC) 12.05 25.80 24.15 + 0.17 + 68.88 + 9.3 FedEx (FDX) 145.00 201.57 189.75 ◊ 1.04 + 16.23 + 1.9 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.27 82.89 ◊ 0.45 + 2.04 + 16.4 Time Warne (TWX) 68.97 100.60 98.74 + 0.61 + 32.01 + 2.3
Biogen (BIIB) 223.02 333.65 257.92 ◊ 3.36 + 2.47 ◊ 1.3 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 27.68 ◊ 0.28 ◊ 7.79 + 1.6 MetLife (MET) 36.17 58.09 52.21 ◊ 0.10 + 18.90 ◊ 3.1 Texas Inst (TXN) 56.58 82.92 80.49 + 1.04 + 39.67 + 10.3
BONY Mello (BK) 35.72 49.54 47.16 + 0.04 + 17.20 ◊ 0.5 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 27.90 ◊ 0.33 ◊ 6.25 ◊ 0.5 3M (MMM) 163.17 199.90 196.64 ◊ 1.32 + 15.49 + 10.1 UnitedHeal (UNH) 128.53 176.14 173.39 + 0.15 + 29.81 + 8.3
BlackRock (BLK) 317.60 399.46 382.27 + 1.77 + 6.13 + 0.5 General Dy (GD) 132.68 197.00 194.39 ◊ 2.20 + 33.41 + 12.6 Altria Gro (MO) 60.82 76.55 70.31 + 0.02 + 8.84 + 4.0 Union Paci (UNP) 80.68 115.15 109.32 ◊ 0.64 + 26.97 + 5.4
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 77.12 55.14 ◊ 0.18 ◊ 22.91 ◊ 5.7 GE (GE) 28.19 33.00 28.70 ◊ 0.23 ◊ 5.84 ◊ 9.2 Monsanto (MON) 88.76 117.33 116.02 ◊ 0.03 + 27.24 + 10.3 United Par (UPS) 100.05 120.44 105.10 ◊ 1.41 + 1.40 ◊ 8.3
Berkshire (BRKb) 136.65 177.86 163.72 + 0.26 + 13.08 + 0.5 Gilead Sci (GILD) 65.38 88.85 66.92 ◊ 0.69 ◊ 22.35 ◊ 6.6 Merck & Co (MRK) 53.59 66.80 63.94 + 0.65 + 16.93 + 8.6 US Bancorp (USB) 38.48 56.61 51.97 + 0.39 + 23.56 + 1.2
Citigroup (C) 38.31 62.53 60.37 + 0.14 + 34.63 + 1.6 GM (GM) 27.34 38.55 34.23 ◊ 0.03 + 9.19 ◊ 1.8 Morgan Sta (MS) 23.11 47.33 43.10 + 0.27 + 61.85 + 2.0 UTC (UTX) 96.89 121.95 121.02 ◊ 0.44 + 18.46 + 10.4
Caterpilla (CAT) 69.04 105.98 100.36 + 1.07 + 38.41 + 8.2 Alphabet (GOOG) 663.28 937.50 928.78 ◊ 3.39 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 48.04 69.71 69.31 + 0.27 + 35.85 + 11.5 Visa (V) 73.25 92.98 92.25 + 0.25 + 16.48 + 18.2
Celgene (CELG) 94.42 127.64 119.68 ◊ 0.42 + 15.91 + 3.4 Alphabet (GOOGL) 672.66 962.20 954.84 ◊ 1.87 + 29.14 + 20.5 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 135.21 134.17 + 0.40 + 12.18 + 12.3 Verizon (VZ) 45.76 56.95 46.38 ◊ 0.04 ◊ 10.01 ◊ 13.1
Colgate (CL) 63.43 75.38 71.80 + 0.30 ◊ 0.55 + 9.7 Goldman Sa (GS) 138.20 255.15 224.88 + 1.12 + 39.31 ◊ 6.1 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.33 54.56 ◊ 0.33 ◊ 7.84 + 7.3 Walgreens (WBA) 75.74 88.00 85.62 ◊ 0.36 + 5.81 + 3.5
Comcast (CMCSA) 29.81 40.62 39.10 + 0.02 + 24.84 + 13.3 Halliburto (HAL) 38.60 58.78 45.81 + 0.78 + 17.95 ◊ 15.3 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 46.99 45.53 + 0.05 + 13.77 + 18.4 WalMart (WMT) 62.72 77.05 76.70 ◊ 0.02 + 11.50 + 11.0
Capital On (COF) 58.03 96.92 81.67 ◊ 0.65 + 14.80 ◊ 6.4 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 158.15 158.13 + 0.45 + 15.00 + 17.9 Occidental (OXY) 57.20 78.48 61.33 + 1.45 ◊ 19.74 ◊ 13.9 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 54.72 + 0.04 + 10.77 ◊ 0.7
ConocoPhil (COP) 38.80 53.17 47.61 + 1.34 + 11.06 ◊ 5.1 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 135.00 131.74 ◊ 0.17 + 15.27 + 13.7 Priceline (PCLN) 1148 1927 1825 ◊ 86.36 + 43.88 + 24.5 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 80.30 95.55 81.91 ◊ 0.40 ◊ 8.98 ◊ 9.3
Costco Who (COST) 138.57 183.18 171.35 ◊ 1.33 + 19.20 + 11.4 IBM (IBM) 142.50 182.79 151.25 ◊ 0.86 + 0.85 ◊ 8.9 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 114.61 112.84 + 0.12 + 5.88 + 7.9
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 26.41 34.60 33.74 ◊ 0.16 + 24.82 + 11.7 Intel (INTC) 29.50 38.45 36.01 ◊ 0.36 + 19.48 ◊ 0.7 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 37.39 33.03 ◊ 0.35 ◊ 2.28 + 1.7

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 that
· or ·
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 +5.95% +20% high yield +14.80% Total Issues Traded 7,907 5,406 2,284 217 T-BILLS
Advances 3,890 2,707 1,068 115
3 4 3-mo. Aug 17 ◊ ◊ 0.90 0.88 –0.01 0.92
Declines 3,549 2,532 922 95 6-mo. Nov 17 ◊ ◊ 1.04 1.03 +0.01 1.03
+15 Unchanged 144 40 100 4
6 52 Week High 278 82 165 31 3 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 162 90 67 5 2 2-yr. Apr 19 1ü ◊ 99.79 99.80 –0.02 1.35
+10 Dollar Volume* 30,995 19,741 10,008 1,246 5-yr. Apr 22 1~ ◊ 99.72 99.73 –0.05 1.93
2 10-yr. Feb 27 2ü ◊ 98.61 98.63 –0.11 2.40
4 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.
30-yr. Feb 47 3.000 ◊ 99.30 99.31 –0.20 3.03
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
+ 5 publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 22 [ ◊ 99.87 99.95 +0.13 0.18
2 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 27 ] ◊ 98.43 98.52 +0.02 0.54
0 credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
20-yr. Jan 29 2ø ◊ 120.63 120.88 –0.04 0.66
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017
*Par value in millions. 30-yr. Feb 47 ~ ◊ 95.52 95.77 –0.13 1.05
0 invest. grade +3.67% – 5 invest. grade +1.93% 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) .0645 15.5000
One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7363 1.3581
One Dollar in Yen
Actavis Fdg Scs (ACT) 4.750 Mar’45 Baa3 BBB 105.614 104.306 104.425 2.408 4.468 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1449 6.9000 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9205 China (Yuan) .1449 6.9011 120 yen $1 = 114.27
Capital One Finl Corp (COF) 2.500 May’20 NR BBB 100.253 100.063 100.073 –0.102 N.A. Brazil (Real) .3158 3.1666 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1284 7.7861
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 3.650 Feb’26 A3 A– 103.125 101.349 101.691 0.035 3.418 Canada (Dollar) .7324 1.3653 India (Rupee) .0155 64.5900
At&t Inc (T) 3.400 May’25 Baa1 BBB+ 99.675 96.789 96.913 0.042 3.852 Chile (Peso) .0015 672.90 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0088 114.27
115
Kraft Heinz Foods Co (BRK) 4.375 Jun’46 Baa3 BBB– 95.166 94.558 94.589 –0.090 4.719 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2940.9 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2301 4.3450
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) 4.125 Mar’27 Baa1 BBB+ 103.918 101.623 101.846 0.124 3.897 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0212 47.0800 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .6940 1.4409
Viacom Inc New (VIA) 4.375 Mar’43 Baa3 BBB– 86.841 83.967 86.454 –0.178 5.348
Actavis Fdg Scs (ACT) 3.800 Mar’25 Baa3 BBB 102.405 101.809 102.078 0.360 3.486
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.70
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1363 7.3370 Philippines (Peso) .0200 49.9360 105
Discovery Communications Llc (DISC) 3.800 Mar’24 Baa3 BBB– 99.500 98.964 98.964 –0.094 3.974
Honduras (Lempira) .0427 23.4000 Singapore (Dollar) .7090 1.4104
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 4.100 Oct’46 Baa2 BBB 87.482 85.312 85.788 –1.584 5.031
Mexico (Peso) .0526 19.0090 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1131.0
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0340 29.4100 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.2430
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5603.5 Thailand (Baht) .0288 34.7600
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 11.000 Sep’25 B1 B+ 95.396 90.339 92.563 –0.495 12.452 Peru (New Sol) .3037 3.2930 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22738 95
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 6.250 Mar’23 Ba3 BB– 104.542 102.000 102.500 0.375 5.653 Uruguay (New Peso) .0356 28.0800
Intelsat Jackson Hldgs S A (I) 7.250 Oct’20 Caa2 CC 93.800 91.125 92.500 0.500 9.886 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Costco Wholesale Corp New (COST) 3.000 May’27 NR 99.875 98.976 98.976 –0.243 N.A. Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6539 .3768
Costco Wholesale Corp New (COST) 2.150 May’21 NR 100.109 99.802 99.802 –0.107 N.A. EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1506.5
Norway (Krone) .1160 8.6199 Egypt (Pound) .0553 18.0700
Chemours Co (CC) 5.375 May’27 NR B+ 101.750 100.375 101.500 1.125 N.A. Britain (Pound) 1.2936 .7730 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2666 3.7503
Poland (Zloty) .2582 3.8726 Iran (Rial) .00003 32449
Royal Bk Scotland Group Plc (BNPQF) 3.875 Sep’23 Ba1 BBB– 101.279 99.862 101.228 0.987 3.655 So. Africa (Rand) .0743 13.4665
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0409 24.4410 Russia (Ruble) .0174 57.4259 Israel (Shekel) .2778 3.6001
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 10.500 Sep’22 B1 B+ 100.729 96.500 97.000 –2.000 11.255 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6726
Denmark (Krone) .1461 6.8442 Sweden (Krona) .1121 8.9214 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4114 .7085
Barclays Plc (BCS) 4.836 May’28 NR 101.455 100.962 101.081 0.174 4.699
Europe (Euro) 1.0864 .9205 Switzerland (Franc) .9913 1.0088 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 103.30
Sabine Pass Liquefaction Llc (LNG) 6.250 Mar’22 Ba1 BBB– 112.589 112.448 112.580 0.111 3.272 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 285.49 Turkey (Lira) .2788 3.5864 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2830 .3046
Source: Thomson Reuters
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Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 0.350 Jun’20 NR BBB+ 150.250 143.601 143.601 –3.529 –11.113
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 1.000 Mar’18 NR BBB+ 193.022 191.239 191.490 –9.786 –63.951
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN)
Jds Uniphase Corp (VIAV)
0.900
0.625
Sep’21
Aug’33
NR
NR
BBB+
NR
113.580
115.241
112.858
114.950
113.290
114.951
–1.710
–0.387
–2.019
–10.158
FUTURES
Monetary
Vipshop Hldgs Ltd (VIPS)
Liberty Media Corp (LINT)
1.500
3.500
Mar’19
Jan’31
NR
B2
NR
BB
103.444
54.000
102.825
53.750
103.280
53.750
1.030
0.000
–0.283
3.757 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $47.33 a barrel
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc Del (ISIS) 1.000 Nov’21 NR 102.823 98.539 100.900 –1.172 0.796
Iconix Brand Group Inc (ICON) 1.500 Mar’18 NR NR 97.837 97.000 97.700 1.700 4.338 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 460.00 332.50 May 17 358.75 365.00 358.25 365.25 + 7.00 1,132
Blackstone Mtg Tr Inc (BXMT) 4.375 May’22 NR 101.500 98.850 99.000 –2.500 4.602 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1116.00 872.00 May 17 965.25 980.00 958.50 961.75 ◊ 3.50 396
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.250 Oct’18 NR NR 146.647 145.129 146.574 2.537 –24.276 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 646.75 398.50 May 17 424.00 424.00 420.75 424.00 + 2.25 56 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 134.55 91.30 Jun 17 124.98 125.13 122.23 124.20 ◊ 0.77 108,838
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 76.53 62.50 May 17 70.72 71.35 70.72 71.05 + 0.75 1,463
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3326.00 1805.00 May 17 1836.00 1866.00 1836.00 1984.00 ◊ 6.00 23 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 228.00 123.20 May 17 132.90 133.00 132.40 134.30 + 1.50 4
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 22.09 12.07 Jun 17 15.48 15.89 15.45 15.84 + 0.40 376,529
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1295.30 1197.20 May 17 1219.80 1220.20 1217.80 1217.30 + 3.00 75 45
Silver COMX $/oz 20.95 14.35 May 17 16.15 16.24 16.10 16.15 + 0.14 232
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.84 1.97 May 17 2.49 2.50 2.48 2.49 0.00 2,909
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 93.23 36.18 June 17 46.18 47.78 46.01 47.33 + 1.45 447,630 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.67 1.11 May 17 1.44 1.49 1.44 1.48 + 0.03 111,671
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.10 2.37 May 17 3.21 3.35 3.20 3.29 + 0.07 217,810 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.
Federal funds 0.91% 0.37% Durable Goods Orders +40% Source: Thomson Reuters

Prime rate 4.00 3.50 Change from

15-yr fixed 3.14 2.70 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: INTERNATIONAL BONDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.14 3.73 March ’17 +4.8% –20
Feb. ’17 +5.9 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.95 3.58 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 4.46 4.12 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.21 2.95
Consumer Borrowing +8%
Vanguard Total Intl Bd Idx Admiral(VTABX) IB +0.3 +1.0 NA 0.12 30,339 Templeton Global Total Return R6(FTTRX) IB +5.4 +14.5 NA 0.69 982
Change from DFA Five-Year Global Fixed-Income I(DFGBX) IB +1.1 +0.2 +1.9 0.27 13,152 Fidelity Series Emerging Mkts Debt F(FEDFX) EB +5.9 +13.8 +6.3 0.71 707
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.64 3.13 previous year American Funds Capital World Bond A(CWBFX) IB +2.9 ◊0.7 +0.7 0.24 5,780 Fidelity Advisor Emerging Mkts Inc I(FMKIX) EB +6.3 +13.8 +5.8 0.83 4,413
1-year adj. rate 3.12 2.79 Fidelity New Markets Income(FNMIX) EB +6.3 +13.8 +5.9 0.83 5,624 Fidelity New Markets Income(FNMIX) EB +6.3 +13.8 +5.9 0.83 5,624
March ’17 +6.0% 0 T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond(PREMX) EB +6.0 +12.9 +5.5 0.92 5,187 T. Rowe Price Instl Emerging Mkts Bond(TREBX) EB +5.9 +13.3 +6.3 0.70 305
Feb. ’17 +6.2 DFA Two-Year Global Fixed-Income I(DFGFX) IB +0.5 +0.6 +0.6 0.17 4,980 TCW Emerging Markets Income I(TGEIX) EB +6.4 +13.3 +5.0 0.87 2,878
’12 ’17 Fidelity Advisor Emerging Mkts Inc I(FMKIX) EB +6.3 +13.8 +5.8 0.83 4,413 PIMCO Emerging Markets Bond Instl(PEBIX) EB +6.4 +12.9 +4.3 0.83 1,398
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T. Rowe Price International Bond(RPIBX) IB +3.2 ◊3.6 ◊0.9 0.84 4,163 T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond(PREMX) EB +6.0 +12.9 +5.5 0.92 5,187
AB Global Bond Advisor(ANAYX) IB +1.6 +3.3 +3.6 0.58 3,881 MainStay Emerging Markets Debt A(MGHAX) EB +6.1 +12.7 +4.4 1.22 101
$75K line good credit* 4.87% 4.40%
Producer Prices +4% Templeton Global Total Return Adv(TTRZX) IB +5.3 +14.2 +5.0 0.82 3,047 DoubleLine Emerging Markets Fixed Inc (DBLEX) EB +4.9 +12.3 +4.9 0.93 800
$75K line excel. credit* 4.61 4.26 Change from
Hartford World Bond I(HWDIX) IB +0.9 +0.3 +2.2 0.81 2,910 Payden Emerging Markets Bond(PYEMX) EB +5.9 +10.8 +5.1 0.75 456
TCW Emerging Markets Income I(TGEIX) EB +6.4 +13.3 +5.0 0.87 2,878 Western Asset Emerging Markets Dbt I(SEMDX) EB +5.5 +10.6 +3.1 0.85 73
$75K loan good credit* 4.64 4.19 previous year Dreyfus/Standish Global Fixed Income I(SDGIX) IB +2.1 +2.5 +3.7 0.52 2,272
LAGGARDS
PIMCO Emerging Markets Bond Instl(PEBIX) EB +6.4 +12.9 +4.3 0.83 1,398
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.63 4.16 March ’17 +3.7% –6 SEI Emerging Markets Debt F (SIT)(SITEX) EB +7.6 +8.7 +1.0 1.39 1,384 Laudus Mondrian Intl Govt Fxd Inc Inst(LIFNX) IB +3.8 ◊5.7 ◊2.6 0.75 96
DFA Selectively Hedged Global F/I I(DFSHX) IB +1.4 +1.6 +0.4 0.17 1,070 Columbia Global Bond A(IGBFX) IB +1.5 ◊5.6 ◊2.1 1.08 56
Feb. ’17 +3.7 ’12 ’17 DFA World ex US Government Fxd Inc I(DWFIX) IB +0.9 +1.7 +4.2 0.22 845 American Century International Bond In(BEGBX) IB +3.1 ◊5.1 ◊1.9 0.80 440
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DoubleLine Emerging Markets Fixed Inc (DBLEX) EB +4.9 +12.3 +4.9 0.93 800 PACE Global Fixed Income Investments P(PCGLX) IB +1.9 ◊5.1 ◊0.2 0.87 405
Fidelity Series Emerging Mkts Debt F(FEDFX) EB +5.9 +13.8 +6.3 0.71 707 Wells Fargo International Bond A(ESIYX) IB +4.2 ◊4.4 ◊1.3 1.03 63
36-mo. used car 3.31% 3.24% Real Hourly Earnings +1% PIMCO Foreign Bond (Unhedged) I(PFUIX) IB +3.2 ◊1.1 ◊0.1 0.50 584 T. Rowe Price International Bond(RPIBX) IB +3.2 ◊3.6 ◊0.9 0.84 4,163
Loomis Sayles Global Bond Instl(LSGBX) IB +2.9 ◊0.2 +0.6 0.75 508 T. Rowe Price Instl Intl Bond(RPIIX) IB +3.3 ◊3.5 ◊0.5 0.55 352
60-mo. new car 3.21 3.34 Change from Wells Fargo International Bond Inst(ESICX) IB +4.1 ◊4.1 ◊0.9 0.70 461 PIMCO Foreign Bond (Unhedged) A(PFUAX) IB +3.1 ◊1.5 ◊0.5 0.90 66
previous year Payden Emerging Markets Bond(PYEMX) EB +5.9 +10.8 +5.1 0.75 456 JHFunds2 Global Bond 1(JIGDX) IB +2.5 ◊1.3 +0.7 0.81 58
Dreyfus International Bond A(DIBAX) IB +4.6 ◊0.8 +1.0 1.23 79
CD’s and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Apr. ’17 0.0% –1 Average performance for all such funds +3.6 +5.0 +2.5 American Funds Capital World Bond A(CWBFX) IB +2.9 ◊0.7 +0.7 0.24 5,780
Number of funds for period 79 79 73 Hartford World Bond C(HWDCX) IB +0.5 ◊0.7 +1.1 1.79 122
March ’17 –0.3 ’12 ’17
Money-market 0.31% 0.23%
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: EB-Emerging Market Bond. IB-World
$10K min. money-mkt 0.28 0.23 Bond. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar
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6-month CD 0.38 0.33
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Vape Shops Fear Effects
Of New F.D.A. Rules
Keith Mautner, at his shop Empire Mods in Queens, says customers
expect innovation. “If you’re not two steps ahead, you’re in trouble.”
By CAITLIN KELLY
Like so many entrepreneurs
who have opened vaping shops
lately, Stephen D’Angelo was a
heavy smoker who finally kicked
nicotine after switching to elec-
tronic cigarettes, which he viewed
as a healthier — and less smelly —
alternative.
Mr. D’Angelo runs a 500-
square-foot store on a suburban
corner in Hartsdale, N.Y., and, af-
ter seven months in business, has
just started to turn a profit. But
now his future — and those of
thousands of other vaping en-
trepreneurs who have gotten into
the business recently — is cloudy,
since new Food and Drug Admin-
istration regulations seem poised
to clamp down on e-cigarettes for
health reasons.
The regulations, which the
agency imposed in August 2016
and are set to go into full effect in
August 2018, require costly testing
of all vaping products, and offer
new guidelines on manufacturing,
sales, packaging and advertising
of e-cigarettes. The agency said it
would begin to review the health
risks of all e-cigarettes introduced
since early 2007, and potentially
ban products it deemed harmful.
Some people anticipate that
President Trump, with his oft-
stated pro-business stance, will
slow the regulations or stop them
from going into effect. But that is
small comfort to those whose
livelihoods depend on e-cigarettes
and who credit vaping with turn-
ing their lives around.
“Before I quit smoking, I was
coughing like crazy,” said Mr.
D’Angelo, whose mother, a three-
pack-a-day smoker, died of em-
physema at age 69. Vaping, he
said, “really helped me get off cig-
arettes.”
“Now if I can help someone stop
smoking and add five or six years
to their life,” he added, “I’ve ac-
complished something.”
Several public health
physicians, asked if vaping is safe,
were unanimous: It is safer than
smoking tobacco — which in-
volves inhaling tar and 7,000-plus
chemicals, 50 of which are
carcinogens — but not definitively
harm-free.
“The jury’s still out,” said Dr.
Michael Fiore, founder and direc-
tor of the University of Wisconsin
Center for Tobacco Research and
Intervention, a 25-year-old pro-
gram.
“One issue has remarkably di-
vided the public health communi-
ty,” Dr. Fiore said. “Some feel e-
cigarettes are a remarkably pos-
itive force” for weaning smokers
from tobacco use, “and some feel
they are a remarkably negative
force.”
“The thing pretty much every-
one agrees on,” he said, “is that all
youth should be protected from
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Abercrombie & Fitch in Talks to Sell Itself
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
and RACHEL ABRAMS
Abercrombie & Fitch, the once-
popular purveyor of fashion for
teenagers that has since fallen on
harder times, said on Wednesday
that it has begun talks to sell itself.
In a statement, Abercrombie
said that it was in “preliminary
discussions” with unnamed
suitors after it received expres-
sions of interest. The retailer cau-
tioned that it may not reach an
agreement to sell.
The statement came after
Reuters and The Wall Street Jour-
nal said that the company was
weighing a sale of itself.
Shares of Abercrombie had fall-
en 49 percent in the 12 months that
SASHA MASLOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
any tobacco or nicotine products.
There’s lots of data to support
that.”
A government report found that
16 percent of high school students
said they had used e-cigarettes in
2015, up from 1.5 percent in 2011.
Particularly worrisome to the
medical community are e-cig-
arettes marketed in child-friendly
flavors like bubble gum and cotton
candy.
“E-cigarettes are markedly less
dangerous than combustible to-
bacco, but markedly less danger-
ous doesn’t mean safe,” Dr. Fiore
said.
The products have certainly be-
come widely available. Vape
shops have popped up all over the
country, in part because the
barriers to entry are low. Accord-
ing to the American Vaping Asso-
ciation, there are 10,000 to 15,000
vape shops nationally, employing
50,000 to 100,000 people. The busi-
ness is profitable, according to the
association.
For many vape store owners,
it’s not just a business but a mis-
sion, a way to help others stop
Wanting to do good,
but concerned their
businesses won’t be
able to do well.
smoking, as they have. Yet the
looming F.D.A. deadline has up-
ended the industry and left many
business operators frustrated and
confused.
Kim Thompson has owned
three brick-and-mortar vape
shops in Tacoma, Wash., since
January 2011, in addition to an on-
line store. Her shops, ranging in
size from 700 to 3,000 square feet,
were doing well — until the F.D.A.
rules came down, she said.
“The industry is not stable,” Ms.
Thompson, 47, said. “My
employees are very concerned,
and some of my best people are
looking for new jobs as a result.
Even though the regulations
haven’t gone into effect, I’m see-
ing difficulty.”
She predicted — emphatically
— that the regulations would put
her out of business. “There’s no
ifs, ands or buts about it,” Ms.
Thompson said. “I’m not sure
where I’ll turn next. It’s over-
whelming.”
Business is down 40 percent
since the 2016 regulations, Ms.
Thompson said, and she has had
to lay off 15 of her 25 full-time
employees.
Like Mr. D’Angelo’s, much of
her business is selling equipment
to smokers who want to quit and
who crave emotional support, ad-
vice and guidance as they do.
“You won’t be successful quit-
ting if you don’t have a hands-on
ended Tuesday, before the news
reports about a potential sale
emerged. As of Wednesday’s clos-
ing prices, the retailer had a mar-
ket value of about $969 million and
its shares were $14.22.
Retailers for teenagers have
been hit particularly hard by trou-
bles within the industry. Many
malls, where stores like Aber-
crombie and American Eagle are
ubiquitous, have faced declining
traffic, as department stores
struggle to attract a steady
stream of shoppers.
Brands have also faced more
pressure from operations like
H&M and Forever 21, which churn
out inexpensive, on-trend items.
Abercrombie has also struggled
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017 N B5
experience,” Ms. Thompson said.
“They have to learn how to vape,
and it’s a different process than
smoking.”
Like so many other vaping en-
trepreneurs, Keith Mautner came
to the business after a long career
doing something else, in his case
importing and exporting wine. A
former two-packs-a-day cigarette
smoker, he began vaping in 2009.
“This is a very effective way to
quit smoking,” he said. “I tried
patches and Chantix. Nothing
worked.”
Mr. Mautner, 40, began his vap-
ing business in 2011, shipping on-
line only, having created a device
with a friend who is a machinist.
His sales were $500,000 the first
year, he said. In 2016, he opened
his first physical store, Empire
Mods, in Flushing, Queens. Now
he has a second store, with a part-
ner, in Tamarac, Fla.
“The first year was really
tough,” he said. “There was much
more competition there. Now that
we’re better established, we’re do-
ing pretty well.”
Like Ms. Thompson and Mr.
D’Angelo, Mr. Mautner knows
that vapers form a tight-knit and
enthusiastic community. They
also crave novelty, spurring con-
stant innovation, he added.
“You have to be on top of
things,” he said. “If you’re not two
steps ahead, you’re in trouble.”
For vaping supply
manufacturers like Nicholas De-
Nuccio, founder of a three-year-
old firm, Propaganda E-Liquid,
the business has proved lucrative.
Mr. DeNuccio, at 22, already has
25 full-time employees in Irvine,
Calif., and has sold more than two
million units through 2,000 vape
shops in 40 countries. His most
popular flavor is Illuminati, a
blend of blood orange, pineapple
and strawberry. The juices are a
mix of 40 percent propylene glycol
and 60 percent vegetable glyc-
erin.
The vaping industry, currently
worth about $3.5 billion, is project-
ed to grow to $40 billion in annual
sales globally, Mr. DeNuccio said.
He plans to comply with the F.D.A.
regulations, and is bracing to fill
out hundreds of the F.D.A.’s re-
quired “premarket tobacco appli-
cations.”
“It’s really an extensive
process, and it’s going to weed out
a lot of people who aren’t doing it
correctly,” Mr. DeNuccio said.
Even the largest tobacco com-
panies are concerned that August
2018 is too soon to comply with the
F.D.A.’s many demands, said
Gregory Conley, president of the
American Vaping Association.
The largest players in the indus-
try — like the Altria Group and the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
— also make e-cigarettes.
Bonnie Herzog, a Wells Fargo
analyst who tracks the vaping in-
dustry, agreed. “Even Altria have
been somewhat public on pushing
back on this,” she said. “They’re
fighting along with the little guy.”
to reinvent itself after the depar-
ture of Mike Jeffries, the chief ex-
ecutive who transformed a sput-
tering sports brand into a staple of
high school wardrobes in the
1990s, but had more recently been
blamed for alienating customers
through a variety of scandals.
In 2004, Abercrombie paid $40
million to settle a class-action dis-
crimination lawsuit, and Mr. Jef-
fries came under fire for deroga-
tory remarks about customers, in-
cluding saying that the brand did
not make clothes for fat people.
Mr. Jeffries retired in 2014, after
the company split the roles of
chairman and chief executive and
added to its board as part of a set-
tlement with an activist investor.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
The Power of a Scale and a 1970s Cuisinart
By EMILY WEINSTEIN
How do New York Times journalists
use technology in their jobs and in their
personal lives? A deputy food editor at
The Times discussed the tech she’s us-
ing.
As a food editor, you must come across
many kitchen gadgets. What’s your favor-
ite tool for cooking?
I’m not much of an equipment geek
— the gadget I tend to use most is my
humble, small, cheap digital scale. I
love to bake, and using the scale is the
fastest, most accurate and most con-
venient way to measure ingredients,
not to mention the neatest: no puffs of
flour settling all over the counter as you
dig around in a container or level off a
measuring cup.
We keep our scale accessible in the
cabinet because we use it every morn-
Resistance Is Futile:
Which Tech Overlords
Can You Live Without?
From First Business Page
companies on the planet, collectively
worth trillions. (Apple reached $800
billion in market capitalization this
week, the first of any public company
to do so, and the others may not be far
behind.) And despite the picture of
Silicon Valley as a roiling sea of disrup-
tion, these five have gotten only strong-
er and richer over time.
Their growth has prompted calls for
greater regulation and antitrust inter-
vention. There’s rising worry, too, over
their softer, noneconomic influence
over culture and information — for
instance, fears over how Facebook
might affect democracies — as well as
the implicit threat they pose to the
jurisdictions of world governments.
These are all worthy topics for dis-
cussion, but they are also fairly cold
and abstract. So a better way to appre-
ciate the power of these five might be
to take the very small view instead of
the very large — to examine the role
each of them plays in your own day-to-
day activities, and the particular grip
each holds on your psyche.
So, last week I came up with a fun
game: If an evil, tech-phobic monarch
forced you to abandon each of the
Frightful Five, in which order would
you do so, and how much would your
life deteriorate as a result?.
When I went through the thought
experiment, I found that dropping the
first couple of tech giants was pretty
easy — but after that the process be-
came progressively more unbearable.
For me, Facebook was the first to go. I
tend to socialize online using Twitter,
Apple’s messaging system, and Slack,
Email: farhad.manjoo@nytimes.com;
Twitter: @fmanjoo
Emily Weinstein, a deputy food editor at The Times, making dinner in the kitchen of her apartment in Brooklyn.
ing, after one of the writers I work with
persuaded me that the best way to
consistently brew excellent coffee at
home was to weigh the grounds, since
you have to measure them one way or
another. And he was right.
The equipment that I personally
cherish is a 1970s Cuisinart that be-
longed to my husband’s grandmother,
which is still going strong, and the
Vitamix that my wonderful colleagues
in Food gave me as a wedding present,
which makes me feel fancy every time I
blend.
What could be better about the digital
scale?
The reaction time could be a little
better. One of the most satisfying as-
pects of using a scale is that you can
see the numbers tick up as you add
ingredients. Mine has the tiniest lag
the office-chat app, so losing Mark
Zuckerberg’s popular service (and its
subsidiaries, Instagram, WhatsApp
and Messenger) was not such a big
deal.
Next, for me, was Microsoft, which I
found slightly more difficult to quit. I
don’t normally use any Windows de-
vices, but Microsoft’s word-processing
program, Word, is an essential tool for
me, and I’d hate to lose it.
In third place, full of regrets: Apple.
There’s nothing I use more than my
iPhone, and close behind are my Mac-
Book and iMac 5K, which may be the
best computer I’ve ever owned. Aban-
doning Apple would prompt deep and
truly annoying rearrangements in my
life, including braving Samsung’s bad
software. But I could do it, grudgingly.
It’s when I imagine getting down to
the last two that life becomes some-
thing else. It’s here that you begin to
confront how thoroughly the Frightful
Five have woven their way into our
lives, and how completely we’ve come
to depend on them.
In fourth place, for me, was Google. I
just can’t fathom living without it.
Without the world’s best search engine,
my job would become well nigh impos-
sible. Without YouTube, it would be-
come significantly less entertaining.
Without everything else Google makes
— email, maps, calendar, translation
software, photo storage and the An-
droid mobile operating system, which
I’d need after ditching Apple — I’d be
relegated to a life of some poor soul
from long ago (say, 1992).
And then, finally, we confront the
master of my domain. I have been
shopping at Amazon almost since the
moment it went online in the 1990s. (I
was a curious college student; I liked
to experiment.) Every year since, as
PERSONAL TECH
TECH WE'RE USING
between the addition and the number
as it registers on the scale.
You’ve edited a lot of recipes for The
Times, and adapted some, too. What is
one of your favorite recipes you made
recently and which tool was crucial for
perfecting it?
There isn’t really one single tool that
helps me think about or execute a reci-
pe, at least not as an editor — and that’s
what I’m usually doing, cooking a reci-
pe that I’m editing. Generally speaking,
anything that helps you be more accu-
rate as you work through a recipe —
like an instant-read digital thermom-
eter — is worth having.
You also regularly work with testers who
thoroughly assess a recipe before it goes
to print. Do they use a special kitchen or
special tools for testing?
We don’t have a test kitchen here at
my life got busier and accreted more
responsibility (in other words, as I
became more and more of a ster-
eotypical dad), Amazon took on an
ever-greater role in my life.
When the kids were born, it became
my household’s Costco — supplier of
diapers and other baby gear. Then it
began a series of services designed to
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the Times building — instead we rely
on our writers and a small but fierce
team of freelance recipe testers, all
working in their own kitchens. I would
be thrilled to have a test kitchen, but
the upside of the way we do things lies
in the very fact that our writers and
testers don’t have special equipment,
and certainly not the kind of equipment
you find in a restaurant kitchen. These
are recipes for home cooks, made using
the same tools home cooks have.
What tech product are you currently
obsessed with using in your daily life?
My husband bought a Sonos speaker
for our kitchen. I wouldn’t have thought
to buy it; when it arrived I wondered
aloud whether we needed it. Now I love
it.
What do you and your family do with it?
I mostly listen to podcasts while I
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remove any decision-making from
shopping: My toilet paper, paper
towels and other consumables now
come to my house on schedule, no
thinking required. Then Amazon moves
into media, and I was more hooked: It
had me for packaged goods, so why not
movies and TV shows, too?
A few years ago I would have
cook, which on the weekends could be
for hours on end.
What could be better about it?
I wish the podcast experience were
more seamless. Maybe I’m missing
something, but I have yet to find a way
to play podcasts from my iPhone using
the Sonos that does not involve down-
loading the podcasts.
When you have no time or do not want to
cook, do you turn to a delivery app? If so,
what’s your go-to meal to order?
If you’d asked a year ago, I would’ve
said Indian food (I use Seamless). But
I’ve recently discovered the joys of
takeout chicken parm from a local
red-sauce place. They’re not on a deliv-
ery app, as far as I can tell, so you
actually have to call them to get all that
melted cheese.
Facebook advertising in
China, top, and an Amazon
distribution center in New
Jersey, above. These and
other tech behemoths are
extending their reach.
thought that was the limit. Then came
Echo, the company’s talking computer,
which speaks through a persona known
as Alexa, and which has infected my
family like a happy virus.
Echo has a way of ingratiating itself
into one’s most mundane moments. I
rewired my household’s lights to be
able to control them through Alexa. I
changed the kind of coffee I buy so that
I could tell Alexa to reorder it. When
Amazon announced, this week, a new
screen-enabled Echo, and a feature to
let Echos act as phones, I experienced
another frisson of possibility. Amazon, I
see now, is well on its way to becoming
my household’s brain, a kind of butler
in the sky that runs the place for me.
Which brings me back to my new TV.
Did you know that Amazon now sells
not just goods but also home services?
If you buy a TV, it will offer to sell you
a wall mount, and if you buy the mount,
it will offer to send someone to your
house to install the equipment for a
surprisingly reasonable fee. What
might, in the past, have taken a trip to
several stores, a truck, some tools,
some friends, and many hours now
gets done in a handful of clicks.
One evening three days after I’d
ordered the TV, the Amazon men came
by and set up the whole thing while I
cooked dinner.
If such a future makes you blanch,
that’s the right reaction. I have fallen
victim to the convenience trap, and
you’re right to laugh at me, and also to
spin dystopian visions from my behav-
ior — a future in which many others do
as I do, in which vast portions of com-
mercial activity flow through this sin-
gle online store. And sure, you can
decide to opt out; you can drive to
Target, your life won’t end if you don’t
patronize Amazon.
But if it’s not Amazon for you, it’ll be
another of the five. Or more likely, it
already is. It’s too late to escape.

VIDEO GAMES
Fans Pledge Millions
For a Chance to Play
Chris Roberts, right, the founder of Cloud Imperium Games. His company
has raised $148 million for Star Citizen, a crowdfunded spaceflight simula-
tion game, top and above, that lets players explore a sprawling universe.
By LAURA PARKER
Mark Kearns, 38, a web designer and
gamer from Chicago, stumbled upon a
new video game called Star Citizen
while online in late 2013. The game,
which was in development, promised to
revive the spaceflight simulation genre
with a sprawling universe for players to
explore.
Intrigued, Mr. Kearns decided to
pledge money to see the game come to
fruition. In total, he donated $175, which
gained him access to Star Citizen’s
alpha version — a playable version of
the game in its early stages — plus a
virtual ship to use in the game.
Mr. Kearns and others have now
vaulted Star Citizen into the record
books. Since 2013, the game has quietly
amassed more than $148 million in
funding — all from regular people who
have donated either through the crowd-
funding site Kickstarter or through the
game’s online donations page. The
amount is a record for a crowdfunded
video game, and one of the largest for
any crowdfunded project. Star Citizen’s
developer, Cloud Imperium Games, has
not taken any money from traditional
financiers.
“My expectation was that we’d raise
around $4 million,” said Chris Roberts,
48, the founder of Cloud Imperium
Games. “I had investors lined up to
help with the rest but Sandy, my wife,
told me not to worry about investors —
that we’d make it to $20 million. I told
her she was crazy, and then it kind of
went from there.”
Yet the gigantic sum of money has
created issues for Star Citizen, which
began with a modest goal of raising
$500,000 in 2012. As the dollars have
mounted, the ambitions of Cloud Impe-
rium Games have grown, and the
game’s official release has repeatedly
been pushed back. Some gamers have
demanded refunds. One even filed a
formal complaint with the Los Angeles
County district attorney’s office last
year.
“I’m already building the best game I
can,” said Mr. Roberts, who acknowl-
edged the bumps. “But imagine — the
game I can build with $140 million is
going to be very different to the one I
could build with $10 million. If I can
Making Maps Mark
Where You Parked
Q. I thought Apple Maps on my iPhone
was supposed to automatically show me
where I parked my car, but I don’t think
it’s working. Am I not doing something I
should? Location Services was on.
A. Apple added the parked-car marker
to its Maps app with iOS 10, but you
need an iPhone 6 or later for the feature
to work. You also need to pair your
iPhone to the car’s dashboard audio
system over a Bluetooth connection or
have a vehicle equipped with Apple’s
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computer-based technology to
techtip@nytimes.com. This column will
answer questions of general interest, but
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build a bigger and more robust experi-
ence, I will.”
Star Citizen’s tale highlights the
promise and perils of crowdfunded
video games, which have become in-
creasingly popular in recent years.
Creators have flocked to crowdfunding
to make niche games for specific audi-
ences of passionate fans and to interact
with gamers earlier in development.
Crowdfunding has helped spawn a
revival of classic role-playing games
like Baldur’s Gate and Divinity, which
were popular in the late 1990s and early
2000s.
According to Eedar, a video game
market research company owned by
the NPD Group, about 30,000 success-
fully funded video game projects were
on Kickstarter as of February, and more
than $593 million had been pledged to
them.
Yet several prominent crowdfunded
video games have failed to live up to
expectations. Mighty No. 9, a game
pitched by the developer Keiji Inafune
as a “spiritual successor” to the classic
Mega Man action series, raised $4
million, but was delayed several times
before being released in 2016 to luke-
warm reviews. In 2014, a first-person
sword-fighting game called Clang that
had raised $500,000 in crowdfunding
was canceled when the developer failed
to secure additional funding.
“Crowdfunding projects, even those
from established developers, are not
seen by consumers as a sure bet as
they were five years ago,” said Patrick
Walker, vice president for insights and
analytics at Eedar.
Still, for players, giving money to
help develop a video game like Star
Citizen offers a way into exclusive
content — as well as something more
emotional.
“Investing in Star Citizen gives you
the tantalizing pleasure of looking
forward to a deferred enjoyment, a
slow, continuous build that stretches
out the anticipation and taps into the
power of our imagination to fill out the
details of its imaginary world,” said
Frank Lantz, director of the New York
University Game Center.
Cloud Imperium Games was founded
in 2011 by Mr. Roberts, who has a long
CarPlay software. The app does not
mark parking spots you use regularly,
like the one in your garage or your
space at the office lot.
If you have met all the requirements
so far, go to the iPhone’s home screen,
open the Settings and tap Privacy. When
Locations Services is enabled, scroll to
the bottom of the screen and tap System
Services. In that screen, make sure
Frequent Locations is on. Tap your way
back to the main Settings screen and
select Maps this time. At the bottom of
the Maps screen, make sure the button
next to Show Parked Location is on.
Once you have done all that, the
iPhone should sense when your car
stops moving and you break the Blue-
tooth connection with the dashboard.
Once you do, the app automatically
records the current location and pro-
vides directions back to that spot later
when you tap the parked-car icon.
PERSONAL TECH
history in the video game business. He
started making games as a teenager in
England, and later gained renown with
the Texas-based video game company
Origin Systems, where he made the
game Wing Commander. Released in
1990, the sci-fi spaceflight simulation
game was a critical and commercial
success and produced several sequels.
Mr. Roberts later left the games
industry to focus on producing film and
television projects in Los Angeles.
Among other things, he directed the
1999 feature film version of Wing Com-
mander, which starred Freddie Prinze
Jr.
After thinking about making Star
Citizen for many years, Mr. Roberts
was inspired this decade by the success
of Minecraft, the hugely popular sand-
box game from the Swedish game de-
signer Markus Persson. Mr. Persson
first released an alpha version of
Minecraft in 2009 for a small sum, then
used the proceeds to make adjustments
and upgrades. (Mr. Persson sold his
video game company Mojang, which
makes Minecraft, to Microsoft in 2014
for $2.5 billion.)
“I wanted to do the same thing, with-
out having to deal with a big video
game publisher,” Mr. Roberts said. “Star
Citizen certainly doesn’t fit the block-
buster video game mold. I love the idea
TECH TIP
Google recently updated its Google
Maps app for Android and iOS with an
improved parking-spot tool. You do not
need to have the phone connected to the
car with Bluetooth, but can just tap to
mark your spot. The Google app for
Android also shows the parked location
of your car if you have Driving set as
your transportation choice for commut-
ing, and Microsoft’s Windows Maps app
for its own phones includes a parking-
location reminder.
Moving Bookmarks
To a New Browser
Q. I would like to transfer my book-
marks (favorites) from Internet Explorer
to Chrome. IE keeps malfunctioning and
I’ve heard that Chrome is more reliable.
My operating system is Windows 7. How
that people can support a game that
wouldn’t probably be made by a big
studio.”
Star Citizen began with a dual crowd-
funding effort on its website, plus a
Kickstarter campaign in 2012 to in-
crease interest in the project. The Kick-
starter campaign ended with just over
$2 million raised. From then on, Cloud
Imperium Games relied on donations
through the Star Citizen site.
The minimum donation to support
the game was $5, but players couldn’t
get a ship to play in the game until they
had given at least $30. The highest
donation amount was $10,000. Cloud
Imperium Games said many people
contacted the studio to ask about giving
even larger amounts.
By the end of 2013, Star Citizen had
raised $35.5 million. At the end of 2015,
the amount stood at $104.4 million.
The success of the crowdfunding
campaign allowed Mr. Roberts to hire
developers worldwide. Cloud Imperium
Games has now opened four studios: in
Los Angeles; Austin, Tex.; Manchester,
England; and Frankfurt. It has hired
more than 400 people.
For Matthew Slattery, 18, a Star Citi-
zen backer from South Australia, the
idea of being able to play the game
while it was still in development was a
big draw. He has pledged about $100 to
would I go about transferring them?
A. Most browsers these days are very
good at importing bookmarks from their
competitors, so start by installing
Google Chrome, which can be down-
loaded free at google.com/chrome. Once
you install the new browser, open it.
If Chrome does not ask if you want to
make it your default browser and import
your existing bookmarks from other
programs, it can be done manually. Go
to the top-right corner of the window
and click the icon for the More menu;
the icon looks like a vertical stack of
three dots. On the More menu, select
Bookmarks and then Import Bookmarks
and Settings.
In the box that opens, select Internet
Explorer from the drop-down menu.
Under Select Items to Import, area, turn
on the checkboxes next to Favorites/
Bookmarks. You can also choose to
import your browsing history file from
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date.
“Getting to learn the process of game
development, communicate with the
developers and ask questions directly
to the best in the field is a very rare
opportunity,” Mr. Slattery said.
Clifford Zernicek, a 36-year-old de-
signer from Houston, has pledged more
than $15,000 to Star Citizen. He said he
liked that the development of the game
“isn’t behind closed doors, like normal
publishers.”
For now, both donors are willing to
wait for Star Citizen — even though its
initial release of 2014 was pushed back
to 2016, and has been pushed back
again. It now has no set release date.
Even so, gamers know Mr. Roberts is
adding more features to the game. Mr.
Roberts said he was investing in film-
level graphics for Star Citizen, as well
as building an ever-increasing universe
with multiple solar systems and planets
for players to explore — all rendered in
elaborate detail.
“Of course I have reservations about
whether or not Cloud Imperium Games
can meet their goals,” said Mr. Kearns,
the web designer in Chicago. But he
added that “after a few updates and
patches, I considered my pledge money
well spent and anything else that came
from the game was a bonus.”
Internet Explorer, so you can quickly
return to previously viewed pages in
Chrome. Click the Import button when
you are finished.
If you plan to use the Chrome browser
on multiple computers or devices, there
is an option to sync bookmarks, history,
stored passwords and other settings to
all your hardware. To get everything in
sync, you need a Google Account; if you
do not already have one from using
Gmail or YouTube, you can sign up at
accounts.google.com/signup.
Once you have a Google Account
name and password, use it to sign into
Chrome by selecting your name or
profile icon in the top-right corner of the
window and clicking the sign-in button.
To adjust what data is synced with
Chrome, go to the Menu button, select
Settings, then pick Advanced Sync Set-
tings.
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Stitch Fix Thrives While Fashion Stores and Web Rivals Falter Journalist
From First Business Page
thing unwanted.
But many such start-ups have
had trouble keeping costs down
and customers around. Nord-
strom, which bought Trunk Club
in 2014 for a reported $350 million,
wrote down nearly $200 million
from the business’s value last
year.
“Those businesses have mostly
struggled to grow and remain
profitable over a long period of
time,” said Mark Cohen, a profes-
sor at Columbia Business School
who previously served as chief ex-
ecutive of Sears Canada. “Will a
loyalist want to receive this every
month? Is anyone interested in
consuming this much apparel and
accessories?”
So far, Stitch Fix has found suc-
cess where other online clothing
start-ups have struggled. To the
company’s founder, Katrina Lake,
success comes down to delivering
what consumers want: making it
easier to shop.
“There’s been a lot of innovation
around being the cheapest or fast-
est,” she said in an interview at
one of the company’s warehouses
south of San Francisco. In her
view, what was important was
helping customers find clothing
they liked without taking lengthy
shopping trips and returning
dozens of items.
Stitch Fix was founded in 2011
and was initially run out of Ms.
Lake’s apartment in Cambridge,
Mass. At first the company ca-
tered only to women, but has since
expanded to offer men’s clothing,
plus sizes and maternity wear.
Each box contains a handful of
selections from trendy brands like
Citizens of Humanity, Scotch &
Soda and Barbour. Up next is a
“luxe” offering featuring clothes
from higher-end labels like The-
ory, with price tags going from
$150 to about $500 per item.
Expansion plans like that drive
home the diverging fortunes of
struggling traditional retailers
and fast-growing online rivals.
Online retailers who sell luxury
products for less are undercutting
sales at high-end department
stores like Neiman Marcus. Nord-
strom recently announced layoffs
and told investors it plans to focus
on e-commerce, despite its Trunk
Club write-down. And J. Crew,
which has hundreds of stores
around the country, has suffered
three straight years of losses and
is deeply in debt.
While early e-commerce start-
ups like One Kings Lane, Gilt
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For Katrina Lake, the founder of Stitch Fix, success comes down to delivering what consumers want: making it easier to shop.
Groupe and Fab were failures for
investors, the category has picked
up steam in the past few years as
traditional retailers have looked
to start-ups to lift their busi-
nesses. Jet sold itself to Walmart
for $3 billion. Last year the sub-
scription razor service Dollar
Shave Club sold to Unilever for $1
billion. And the online pet store
Chewy.com was acquired by PetS-
mart, reportedly for more than $3
billion. Some start-ups have also
moved away from models that
compete for customers on price or
rely on fads, like flash sales, for
traction.
Stitch Fix’s pitch is straightfor-
ward enough: Trust the company
to pick out your tops, bottoms,
shoes or accessories for you.
When customers sign up, they
fill out an extensive form detailing
style preferences, clothing needs
and price points. The start-up’s al-
gorithms then churn out a set of
potential choices, which one of its
3,400 stylists — most of them part
time — then tailors to the individ-
ual customer before sending out
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five items in a package. Anything
a customer does not want can be
returned free of charge, and
customers receive a 25 percent
discount when they buy every-
thing in the box.
At the company’s warehouse,
Eric Colson, formerly a top data
scientist at Netflix, spoke to the
role that data science — once the
province of high-tech giants —
plays in nearly every aspect of the
Stitch Fix business.
Mr. Colson excitedly illustrated
on whiteboards how the compa-
ny’s systems can narrow down a
broad range of women’s pants to a
relative few that each individual
customer is statistically likely to
keep.
“Customers say, ‘This thing you
picked out for me, I would never
have picked it out for myself,’” he
said.
Algorithms have even cut the
number of steps needed for work-
ers to pick out clothes for individ-
ual clients.
“Some people call this the ‘Mon-
eyball’ of fashion,” said Bill Gurley
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of the venture capital firm Bench-
mark, who sits on Stitch Fix’s
board. “The level of data science
done at this company compared to
the incumbent set is incompara-
ble.”
But that data-driven approach
has also been yoked to Ms. Lake’s
insistence on running a finan-
cially healthy company. Given her
early troubles raising money from
outside investors, Ms. Lake
worked toward becoming prof-
itable early.
“We had a ‘lean plan’ and a
‘lean-lean plan,’” Ms. Lake said of
the business model.
Stitch Fix declined to say what
percentage of items are returned.
Running so cheaply meant not
taking out ads during Stitch Fix’s
early days. But word of mouth
helped the company grow — and
eventually drew investors like Mr.
Gurley, whose interest was piqued
by the number of assistants at his
firm who swore by the service.
Yet the question remains
whether customers who are ini-
tially thrilled by receiving a
U.S. May Restrict Laptops
On All Flights From Europe
By RON NIXON
and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — The Depart-
ment of Homeland Security is con-
sidering banning laptops and
other large electronic devices
from carry-on bags on flights from
Europe to the United States, a de-
partment spokesman said on
Wednesday.
The action would extend a
limited ban that was put in place in
March. At that time, the United
States and Britain barred pas-
sengers traveling through air-
ports in 10 Muslim-majority coun-
tries from carrying laptop
computers, tablets and other de-
vices larger than cellphones
aboard direct inbound flights. The
larger items were to be stowed
with checked luggage.
The ban was put in place after
intelligence showed that the Is-
lamic State was developing a
bomb that could be hidden in port-
able electronic devices.
David Lapan, a spokesman for
the Department of Homeland Se-
curity, said the agency had not de-
cided whether to extend the ban.
“We’ll likely expand the restric-
tions,” he said.
John F. Kelly, the Homeland Se-
curity secretary, is to brief sena-
tors on security topics on Thurs-
day, according to a Senate aide.
Officials did not say when a new
ban might be imposed.
A senior official with a United
States airline said that carriers
had been in talks with govern-
ment officials for weeks about the
possibility of an expanded ban,
mainly over the logistics of carry-
ing it out. The particular problem
is passengers connecting in Eu-
rope from flights originating in the
Middle East and Africa.
An intelligence official, who,
like the airline official, was not au-
thorized to speak publicly about
the potential ban, said it was being
considered because of concerns
that radicalized citizens of Euro-
CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
customized box of clothing will re-
main customers for months or
even years.
Lauren Rivellino, an optome-
trist in Charlotte, Va., was a Stitch
Fix enthusiast when she sub-
scribed in 2015. She loved trying
clothes on at home rather than a
poorly lit dressing room, and most
items were flattering and re-
flected her style.
But a year later, Ms. Rivellino
stopped using the service. “I re-
ally have nothing bad to say about
them,” she said in a recent email.
“I just don’t shop a lot.”
Stitch Fix executives declined
to share their retention statistics,
but claim that they are above in-
dustry averages. Ms. Lake and
Mr. Colson acknowledged that
clients stop using the service for a
variety of reasons, from dissatis-
faction to their closets simply fill-
ing up.
But the two argued that the
company can analyze scores of
data points to figure out ways to
coax these customers back to the
fold.
pean Union nations or people with
dual citizenship could target
United States-bound fights.
American officials have tried in
recent years to increase the vet-
ting of those traveling into the
country. Last year, the Obama ad-
ministration revised a program
that allowed citizens of about 38
countries, mostly in Europe, to
visit the United States without a
visa on trips of 90 days or less.
The changes made it harder for
travelers to enter the United
States from Europe if they had
dual citizenship in Iran, Iraq, Su-
dan or Syria, or had visited one of
those countries in the previous
five years. The rules were later ex-
tended to those who had visited
Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
Another government official,
also speaking on the condition of
anonymity, said the new ban was
being considered because the
American government consid-
ered immigration policies in Eu-
rope to be lax. There is also a con-
cern that the ban adopted in
March might not stop a terrorist
with a bomb-rigged laptop from
simply flying to Europe to catch a
United States-bound flight.
The American government has
had problems detecting explo-
sives in laptops, intelligence offi-
cials said. In some tests, fake ex-
plosives hidden in laptops had
gotten through security scanners
almost without fail, they said.
Extremist groups have tar-
geted transportation hubs in the
past two years, including the
bombing of an airliner in Egypt in
October 2015, and, last year, the at-
tempted downing of a plane in
Somalia and armed attacks on air-
ports in Brussels and Istanbul.
When the Trump administra-
tion announced the restrictions on
flights from the Middle East in
March, officials said they did not
signal a credible, specific threat of
an imminent attack. They re-
peated that on Wednesday.
Is Arrested
For Quizzing
U.S. Official
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
As Tom Price, the secretary of
the Department of Health and Hu-
man Services, headed to a meet-
ing at the West Virginia State Cap-
itol in Charleston on Tuesday, a re-
porter from the Public News Serv-
ice trailed after him in a hallway.
The reporter, Dan Heyman,
wanted to ask about the health
care legislation the House passed
last week to replace the Afford-
able Care Act.
With his Android smartphone in
hand to use as an audio recorder,
Mr. Heyman said in an interview
on Wednesday, he reached over
some of the staff and security
members surrounding Mr. Price.
According to an audio recording
Mr. Heyman provided, he asked
whether domestic violence was
going to be a pre-existing condi-
tion under the new legislation.
“Do you think that’s right, or
not?” he called out.
He asked twice more and when
there was no response, Mr. Hey-
man said: “You refuse to answer?
Tell me no comment.”
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to
President Trump, was with Mr.
Price, and at one point in the re-
cording, a man’s voice is heard
saying: “Do not get close to her.
Back up.”
After persisting for nearly a
minute, Mr. Heyman was pulled
aside by officers of the West Vir-
ginia Division of Protective
Services, also known as the Capi-
tol Police, handcuffed and
charged with a misdemeanor
A reporter ends up in
handcuffs after his
persistent questioning.
count of willful disruption of gov-
ernmental processes. He spent
eight hours in jail before the news
service posted bail of $5,000.
The arrest stirred suspicions
that officers were trying to thwart
his effort to ask questions, though
a criminal complaint said he
“tried aggressively to breach the
security of the Secret Service” and
was “causing a disturbance by
yelling questions.”
His lawyer, J. Timothy DiPiero,
said at a news conference on Tues-
day that the case was “highly un-
usual,” adding, “I’ve never had a
client get arrested for talking too
loud or anything similar to that.”
And in a statement, the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union of West
Virginia called Mr. Heyman’s ar-
rest “a blatant attempt to chill an
independent, free press.”
As for whether the security offi-
cials were deliberately trying to
block him, Mr. Heyman said on
Wednesday that he did not think
so but added that their actions fit a
broader pattern of antipathy to-
ward the press.
“It’s getting to the point where
the security is more interested in
protecting than they need to be,”
he said. “I think that’s a mistake.”
“Their job is not to protect him
from uncomfortable questions,”
he added.
The Secret Service referred
questions to the local authorities.
Lawrence Messina, a spokesman
for the West Virginia Department
of Military Affairs and Public
Safety, which oversees the Capitol
Police, said there was no effort to
silence Mr. Heyman.
Mr. Heyman, 54, who has writ-
ten freelance articles for The New
York Times, has been a corre-
spondent for the Public News
Service since 2009.
He said he pressed the question
of domestic violence because it’s
an important public policy ques-
tion. “I wasn’t doing this to just
make points,” he said.
Alleigh Marré, a spokeswoman
for the Department of Health and
Human Services, said Mr. Price
was visiting with officials and
community members in West Vir-
ginia as part of a “listening tour”
about the opioid epidemic.
Mr. Heyman said he was there
to cover demonstrators who were
protesting Mr. Price’s visit and
was holding out his cellphone
“like a reporter in a scrum.”
His recording captured his
voice echoing in the hall, footfalls
and his labored breathing as offi-
cers took him into custody.
A man who identified himself as
Lt. Tim Johnson with the Capitol
Police says, “Let me tell you
something right now” — before
he’s interrupted by Mr. Heyman.
Mr. Heyman can be heard say-
ing that he had been screened go-
ing into the building and was
wearing a press pass. On the re-
cording, Mr. Heyman says he was
in a public space at the time, but
Lieutenant Johnson counters that
it was not a public area when Mr.
Heyman was getting into the
space of Secret Service agents.
“So the Capitol of the state of
West Virginia is no longer a public
space?” Mr. Heyman asks. “Be-
cause you guys have got a prob-
lem if that’s the case.”
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N.B.A. PLAYOFFS

The Dunk The Block

“I found myself pretty Stopping the Rockets’
close. So I went for it. James Harden:
But I didn’t expect to “It was a risky play,
see one of those in the but it was also risky to
playoffs.” let him shoot.”

SOOBUM IM/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS

Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginobili after a shot against the Houston Rockets
during a playoff victory in San Antonio on Tuesday night.
ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO — Manu Ginobili is not a

young man by professional basketball
Ginobili Channels machine. Not the Spurs’ Danny Green, who
called the dunk “one for the record books.”

His Younger Self

standards. He is 39. He is bald. He tweets
about reading his young children bedtime
books, including one written by his friend
and former teammate Boris
SCOTT Diaw. (“Good job, Bobo!”
Ginobili wrote, referring to
CACCIOLA Diaw by his nickname.)
With the San Antonio Spurs
ON PRO
BASKETBALL
this season, Ginobili has been
— and forgive the suggestion
— an almost ornamental presence. He is a
link between eras, the team’s swingman
emeritus, more instructor than player. He
shot 39 percent from the field during the
regular season. When the Spurs faced the
Memphis Grizzlies in the first round of the
N.B.A. playoffs, Ginobili collected 14 points
in a series that went six games.
All of which is to say, Coach Gregg
Popovich no longer leans on Ginobili the
way he once did. The explosion, the lift, the
quickness, the energy — those are physical
39-Year-Old Is a Savior Again as Spurs
Come Back Against the Rockets
gifts that belong to the past.
But occasionally there are still big nights,
like Tuesday’s at AT&T Center when Gino-
bili, with a dunk and a block, reached back
to resuscitate the Spurs in their Western
Conference semifinal series against the
Houston Rockets.
“He was a stud,” Popovich said after the
Spurs’ 110-107 overtime victory, which gave
them a three-games-to-two lead in their
best-of-seven series.
First, there was the dunk, which Ginobili
described as a sort of out-of-body experi-
ence: a wrong-footed, soaring slam as he
sliced between defenders late in the first
half. Nobody saw it coming. Not the Rock-
ets, who took halfhearted swipes at the ball
as Ginobili traveled to the rim in his time
And not even Ginobili.
“That was very unexpected,” he said. “I
don’t know. I just wanted to go hard at the
rim, and I found myself pretty close. So I
went for it. But I didn’t expect to see one of
those in the playoffs.”
From that point forward, Green said, he
could sense that Ginobili was “locked in,”
that he had been sipping some sort of
magic potion that his teammates call
Grandpa Juice. Sure enough, Ginobili re-
mained engaged through the final pos-
session of the game, when he preserved the
win by blocking a 3-point attempt by the
Rockets’ James Harden. As Harden rose for
the shot, Ginobili reached over the top with
his left hand and stripped the ball away.
“I tried to bother him as much as I could,
and I found myself very close to the ball, so
I went for it,” Ginobili said. “It was a risky
play, but it was also risky to let him shoot.”
Continued on Page B13

Players for
Brazil, fore-
ground, and
Face of Yanks’ Glory Days
their opponents,
from Chile,
watched a pen-
Will Get a Lasting Tribute
alty shootout to The Yankees will honor Derek
determine the Jeter this weekend, having
winner of their played a series in Cincinnati, a
city with an unlikely significance
World Cup in their recent history. It was
match in 2014. there, in 1976, that
Brazil won the
shootout, 3-2.
TYLER they first played in
the World Series
KEPNER with George Stein-
brenner as their
ON principal owner.
BASEBALL
A generation later,
in 2003, they were back there in
the regular season and seemed
listless to Steinbrenner. As a
remedy, he abruptly named
Derek Jeter captain.
“Why Cincinnati?” catcher
Jorge Posada, Jeter’s buddy,
wondered aloud that day. “Why POOL PHOTO BY JOHN MUNSON
not do it in New York?” Derek Jeter last year at a cere-
A reasonable question, but for mony for the 1996 team. His
Steinbrenner, of course, every
moment was urgent. Jeter had No. 2 will be retired Sunday.
been the unofficial captain for
GUSTAVO ANDRADE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES years by then, with four champi- a good time for Derek Jeter to
onship rings to prove it. And he assume leadership,” Steinbren-

UEFA Tinkers With the Order of Penalty Shootouts

By VICTOR MATHER
International soccer is trying something
new with the penalty shootout this week.
At the European men’s under-17 champi-
onship in Croatia and the women’s under-17
event in the Czech Republic, knockout
games ending in a tie will go to a shootout
as usual. And, as usual, a coin toss will de-
termine who goes first — but only for the
first kick. Instead of one team kicking first
in each round, the teams will alternate go-
ing first, round by round.
Looking at it another way, instead of the
kicks going AB, AB, AB, AB, AB until a win-
ner is determined, they will go AB, BA, AB,
BA, AB and so on.
Yes, sort of like a fantasy league’s snake
draft.
The change is an experiment: Soccer’s
rulemakers are tinkering with the rules of
the shootout to try to address what they
feel is a clear issue of fairness.
The penalty shootout is far from beloved
by players and fans. As a way to determine
the winner of a crucial match, it almost al-
ways feels unsatisfying and random, more
of a lottery than a true test of the teams’
skill, endurance and tactics over 90 — or
120 — minutes of open play.
But it is a lottery that is not entirely ran-
had withstood off-season criti-
cism from Steinbrenner, turning
a test from the boss into a mar-
keting opportunity for them both
dom. Studies have shown that the team — they appeared in a Visa com-
lucky enough to kick first wins about 60 mercial together, dancing in a
percent of the time. Since the teams shoot
conga line. Jeter, indeed, was
at the same net, why this advantage? It ap-
Steinbrenner’s kind of guy.
pears to be entirely psychological.
The Yankees were in first
“Both teams should have the same prob- place when Steinbrenner
ability of winning regardless of the kicking
anointed Jeter, but they had
order; yet, we find a systematic first-kicker
fallen hard after a furious start,
advantage,” wrote two professors, Jose losing 17 of 27 games. They had
Apesteguia and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, lost in the first round of the play-
in a paper, “Psychological Pressure in Com- offs the year before, and lost in
petitive Environments: Evidence from a the World Series the year before
Randomized Natural Experiment,” pub- that, and Steinbrenner wanted a
lished in 2010 by The American Economic jolt. He went with a hunch.
Continued on Page B13 “My gut tells me this would be
ner said. “He is a great leader by
the way he performs and plays. I
told him I want him to be the
type of cavalry officer that sits in
the saddle. You can’t be a leader
unless you sit in the saddle. I
think he can.”
We know the rest. Those Yan-
kees quickly resumed their domi-
nance and returned to the World
Series, with Jeter starting the
famous rally off a tiring Pedro
Martinez in Game 7 of the Ameri-
can League Championship Series
against Boston. Six years later,
Jeter led the Yankees all the way,
meaning that when Steinbrenner
Continued on Page B11
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Penguins Shut Out the Capitals in Game 7 PRO BASKETBALL

N.B.A. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

PRO HOCKEY

N.H.L. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

BASEBALL

A.L. STANDINGS
SECOND ROUND SECOND ROUND
WASHINGTON (AP) — Marc-An- All Times EDT All Times EDT
East W L Pct GB
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
dre Fleury turned back the clock with EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
Yankees 21 10 .677 —
a brilliant 29-save effort, Bryan Rust Cleveland 4, Toronto 0 Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3 Baltimore 22 11 .667 —
Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto Thursday, April 27: Pittsburgh 3,
and Patric Hornqvist scored and the 105 Washington 2 Boston 17 15 .531 4{
Pittsburgh Penguins beat the host Wednesday, May 3: Cleveland 125, Toronto
103
Saturday, April 29: Pittsburgh 6,
Tampa Bay 17 19 .472 6{
Washington 2
Washington Capi- Friday, May 5: Cleveland 115, Toronto 94 Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh
PENGUINS 2 Sunday, May 7: Cleveland 109, Toronto 102 Toronto 13 21 .382 9{
tals, 2-0, in Game Boston 3, Washington 2
2, OT
Wednesday, May 3: Pittsburgh 3,
CAPITALS 0 7 on Wednesday Sunday, April 30: Boston 123, Washington Washington 2 Central W L Pct GB
111 Saturday, May 6: Washington 4, Pittsburgh
to advance to the Tuesday, May 2: Boston 129, Washington Cleveland 18 15 .545 —
Pittsburgh wins Eastern Confer- 119, OT
2
Monday, May 8: Washington 5, Pittsburgh 2 Minnesota 16 14 .533 {
series, 4-3 ence finals.
Thursday, May 4: Washington 116, Boston
89
Wednesday, May 10: Pittsburgh 2,
Washington 0 Detroit 16 15 .516 1
The defending Sunday, May 7: Washington 121, Boston Ottawa 4, Rangers 2
102 Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, Rangers 1 Chicago 15 16 .484 2
champion Penguins are eight victories Wednesday, May 10: Boston 123, Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, Rangers 5,
Washington 101 2OT Kansas City 12 21 .364 6
away from another Stanley Cup and Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington, 8 Tuesday, May 2: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1
will have the home-ice advantage p.m. Thursday, May 4: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1 West W L Pct GB
x-Monday, May 15: Washington at Boston, Saturday, May 6: Ottawa 5, Rangers 4, OT
against the Ottawa Senators. The Cap- 8 p.m. Houston 23 11 .676 —
Tuesday, May 9: Ottawa 4, Rangers 2
itals, who had the league’s best record WESTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle 17 17 .500 6
San Antonio 3, Houston 2 Anaheim 3, Edmonton 3
in the regular season, failed to get be- Monday, May 1: Houston 126, San Antonio Wednesday, April 26: Edmonton 5, Los Angeles 17 19 .472 7
99
yond the second round for the seventh Wednesday, May 3: San Antonio 121,
Anaheim 3
Oakland 16 18 .471 7
Friday, April 28: Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1
time in seven chances in the Alex Houston 96 Sunday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Edmonton 3 Texas 14 20 .412 9
Friday, May 5: San Antonio 103, Houston Wednesday, May 3: Anaheim 4, Edmonton
Ovechkin era. GEOFF BURKE/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS 92
Sunday, May 7: Houston 125, San Antonio
3, OT WEDNESDAY
Sidney Crosby, who assisted on Bry- Bryan Rust after scoring for the Penguins in the first period Wednesday. 104
Friday, May 5: Anaheim 4, Edmonton 3, Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, ppd.
2OT
an Rust first-period goal, said of Tuesday, May 9: San Antonio 110, Houston Sunday, May 7: Edmonton 7, Anaheim 1, Seattle 11, Philadelphia 6
107, OT
Fleury: “We’re not in this position Thursday, May 11: San Antonio at Houston,
Wednesday, May 10: Edmonton at Anaheim Houston 4, Atlanta 2
back to even the series and seemed to Shattenkirk and Ovechkin. The puck Nashville 4, St. Louis 2
Oakland 3, L.A. Angels 1
moving on if he doesn’t play the way he 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3
have all the confidence. ended up on the stick of Hornqvist, x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio, Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2 Tampa Bay 12, Kansas City 1
did. There were times where they had 3:30 p.m.
When the Capitals had the game’s who beat Holtby on the short side with Golden State 4, Utah 0
Sunday, April 30: Nashiville 3, St. Louis 1 Washington 7, Baltimore 6
sustained pressure throughout games Tuesday, May 2: Nashville 2, St. Louis 1
first four shots, Fleury was there to a backhander 4:14 into the third period Tuesday, May 2: Golden State 106, Utah 94 Friday, May 5: St. Louis 2, Nashville 1 Toronto 8, Cleveland 7
and he made some big saves that al- to make the score 2-0.
Thursday, May 4: Golden State 115, Utah Sunday, May 7: Nashiville 3, St. Louis 1 San Diego at Texas
lowed us to stay in the game and al- weather the storm, and the Penguins 104
The Capitals tried everything, in- Saturday, May 6: Golden State 102, Utah 91 Boston at Milwaukee
lowed us to stay patient. He was huge responded with the next six. It took un- Monday, May 8: Golden State 121, Utah 95 Detroit at Arizona
til 8 minutes 49 seconds of the second cluding Brooks Orpik fighting Scott TENNIS
for us all series long.” Wilson midway through the third, but THURSDAY
period for Pittsburgh to silence the N.B.A. TOP PLAYOFF
Rust was again a hero in a crucial could not mount a comeback. Fans MADRID OPEN Houston (Keuchel 5-0) at Yankees
crowd as a failed clearing attempt by PERFORMERS (Pineda 3-1), 7:05
game for Pittsburgh, scoring his booed the final seconds of another At Caja Magica
Matt Niskanen led to Rust’s fifth goal INDIVIDUAL MADRID, SPAIN Boston (Rodriguez 1-1) at Milwau-
eighth goal in 12 career games facing home Game 7 loss. Most Points: 53, Isaiah Thomas, Boston, Singles kee (Nelson 1-2), 1:10
elimination or with the chance to elimi- of the playoffs, on assists from Crosby Second Round Game 2, May 2. Men Kansas City (Vargas 4-1) at Tampa
The Capitals are now thrust into an Most Rebounds: 18, Marcin Gortat,
nate an opponent. Fleury looked like and Jake Guentzel. Second Round
Bay (Odorizzi 2-1), 1:10
off-season of change. T. J. Oshie, Karl Washington, First Round Game 4 vs. Kei Nishikori (6), Japan, d. Diego
his old self from the start of the series Holtby and Fleury went save for Alzner, Shattenkirk and Daniel Winnik
Atlanta, April 24. Schwartzman, Argentina, 1-6, 6-0, 6-4. Baltimore (Bundy 5-1) at Washing-
Most Assists: 16, John Wall, Washington, Milos Raonic (5), Canada, d. Gilles Muller, ton (Cole 1-0), 7:05
in frustrating the Capitals. save, with the Penguins’ goaltender are unrestricted free agents, and with Second Round Game 1 vs. Boston, April Luxembourg, 6-4, 6-4. Nick Kyrgios (16),
30. Seattle (Iwakuma 0-2) at Toronto
Braden Holtby made 26 saves for getting the shaft of his stick on a shot several restricted free agents due Most 3-Pointers Made: 7, Stephen Curry,
Australia, d. Ryan Harrison, United States,
(Estrada 1-2), 7:07
6-3, 6-3. Thomas Berdych (11), Czech
the Capitals. by Ovechkin in the second period. The raises, it will be almost impossible to Golden State, First Round Game 4 vs. Republic, d. Robin Haase, Netherlands, San Diego (Richard 2-4) at Texas
Portland, April 24; Kawhi Leonard, San 7-6 (5), 6-3. David Ferrer, Spain, d. Jo-
Despite it being the second round, shot came so close to scoring that keep this team together. Antonio, First Round Game 4 vs. Memphis, (Perez 1-5), 8:05
Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, walkover.
this Game 7 had the feel of a deciding Ovechkin started to raise his arms April 22. Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, d. Nicolas Minnesota (Tepesch 0-1) at Chicago
“Without goals, you can’t win the Most Free Throws Made: 19, Jimmy Butler, Almagro, Spain, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5. Rafael White Sox (Gonzalez 3-2), 8:10
game of the Stanley Cup finals, with thinking it was good, but Fleury’s wide game,” said Ovechkin, who was on the Chicago, First Round Game 4 vs. Boston, Nadal (4), Spain, d. Fabio Fognini, Italy, Detroit (Fulmer 3-1) at L.A. Angels
April 23; Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio, First 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4. Feliciano Lopez, Spain,
the teams with the best records in the smile could be seen through his mask. ice for each goal. “Plenty of chances to Round Game 2 vs. Memphis, April 17. d. Gilles Simon, France, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3). (Ramirez 3-2), 10:07
N.H.L. facing off. After Pittsburgh took It remained a one-goal game until score. Just didn’t do it. Made a couple Most Turnovers: 9, James Harden, Houston,
Second Round Game 5 vs. San Antonio
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, d. Nicolas Mahut, FRIDAY
France, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. Borna Coric, Croatia,
a 3-1 series lead, Washington roared another failed clearing try, by Kevin mistakes, and it cost us.” May 9; Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City, d. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 7-5, Houston at Yankees, 7:05
First Round Game 1 vs. Houston, April 16. 6-4. Grigor Dimitrov (12), Bulgaria, d. Seattle at Toronto, 7:07
Most Steals: 6, Kawhi Leonard, San Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-3, 7-5. Alexander
Antonio, First Round Game 4 vs. Memphis; Zverev, Germany, d. Marin Cilic (7),
Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10
Thaddeus Young, Indiana, First Round Croatia, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4. Benoit Paire, Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10
Game 2 vs. Cleveland, April 17. France, d. Stan Wawrinka (3), Switzerland, Oakland at Texas, 8:05
Most Blocks: 6, Draymond Green, Golden 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.
State, First Round Game 3 vs. Portland, Women San Diego at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
April 22. Third Round Baltimore at Kansas City, 8:15
TEAM Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, d. Lara
Most Combined Points: 248, Boston 129, Detroit at L.A. Angels, 10:07
Arruabarrena, Spain, 7-5, 6-2. Svetlana
Washington 119, Second Round Game 2, Kuznetsova (8), Russia, d. Wang Qiang,
May 2.
Most Points By Team: 129, Boston, Second
China, 6-4, 7-5. Coco Vandweghe, United N.L. STANDINGS
States, d. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 5-7,
Round Game 2 vs. Washington, May 2. 6-4, 7-5. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, d. Irina-
Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-1, 7-5. Sorana
East W L Pct GB
N.B.A. TEAM PLAYOFF Cirstea, Romania, d. Misaki Doi, Japan, Washington 22 12 .647 —
7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Simona Halep (3), Romania,
STATISTICS d. Sam Stosur (16), Australia, 6-4, 4-6, Mets 16 17 .485 5{
6-4. Kristina Mladenovic (14), France, d.
Oceane Dodin, France, 6-1, 6-1. Eugenie Philadelphia 13 19 .406 8
Team Offense Bouchard, Canada, d. Angelique Kerber
G Pts Avg (1), Germany, 6-3, 5-0 retired. Miami 13 20 .394 8{
Golden State . . . . . . . . . .8 922 115.2
Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . .8 916 114.5 Doubles Atlanta 11 20 .355 9{
Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1110 111.0 Men
Washington . . . . . . . . . . 10 1107 110.7 Second Round Central W L Pct GB
Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 435 108.8 Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo
Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1063 106.3 Melo (4), Brazil, d. Brian Baker and St. Louis 19 14 .576 —
San Antonio . . . . . . . . . . 11 1165 105.9 Nicholas Monroe, United States, 6-3, 6-4.
Atlanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 633 105.5 Jamie Murray, Britain, and Bruno Soares Cincinnati 18 15 .545 1
Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . .5 521 104.2 (3), Brazil, d. Juan Sebastian Cabal and
Robert Farah, Colombia, 6-3, 7-6 (4). Bob Milwaukee 17 16 .515 2
Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 406 101.5
Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1076 97.8 and Mike Bryan (2), United States, d.
Fabrice Martin, France, and Daniel Nestor, Chicago 17 17 .500 2{
L.A. Clippers . . . . . . . . . .7 684 97.7
Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 967 96.7 Canada, 5-7, 6-2, 10-7. Nicolas Mahut Pittsburgh 14 19 .424 5
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 579 96.5 and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (6), France,
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 578 96.3 d. Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Albert West W L Pct GB
Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . .6 559 93.2 Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3).
Women Colorado 22 13 .629 —
Team Defense Second Round
G Pts Avg Anna-Lena Groenfeld, Germany, and Los Angeles 19 14 .576 2
Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . .6 563 93.8 Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, d.
Golden State . . . . . . . . . .8 790 98.8 Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Xu Yifan, Arizona 18 16 .529 3{
L.A. Clippers . . . . . . . . . .7 692 98.9 China, 6-4, 6-4. Timea Babos, Hungary,
and Andrea Hlavackova (5), Czech San Diego 13 21 .382 8{
San Antonio . . . . . . . . . . 11 1124 102.2
Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1024 102.4 Republic, d. Lara Arruabarrena and Sara San Francisco 12 23 .343 10
Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1128 102.5 Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-0, 3-6, 10-3.
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 620 103.3 Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, and Johanna WEDNESDAY
Larsson, Sweden, d. Bethanie Mattek-
Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1046 104.6
Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova San Francisco 6, Mets 5
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 628 104.7
Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . .8 839 104.9 (1), Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Lucie Seattle 11, Philadelphia 6
Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1058 105.8 Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova (6), Houston 4, Atlanta 2
Atlanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 640 106.7 Czech Republic, d. Sam Stosur, Australia,
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and Zhang Shuai, China, 6-2, 7-5. Colorado 3, Chicago Cubs 0
Washington . . . . . . . . . . 10 1076 107.6
Novak Djokovic in his win over Nicolás Almagro in Madrid, in which he overcame a 3-0 third-set deficit. Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 451 112.8 Washington 7, Baltimore 6
Oklahoma City . . . . . . . . .5 564 112.8 St. Louis 7, Miami 5
Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 478 119.5 TRANSACTIONS San Diego at Texas
TEN N IS Boston at Milwaukee
N.B.A. PLAYOFF SCORING M.L.B. Detroit at Arizona
LEADERS Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers

Djokovic Rallies for Victory; Nadal Struggles

American League
G FG FT PTS AVG BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled LHP
Westbrook, OKC. . .5 59 56 187 37.4 Vidal Nuno from Norfolk (IL). Optioned THURSDAY
James, CLE . . . . . .8 93 67 275 34.4 RHP Logan Verrett to Norfolk. Boston (Rodriguez 1-1) at Milwau-
Harden, HOU . . . . 10 88 97 303 30.3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed C kee (Nelson 1-2), 1:10
Wall, WAS . . . . . . 10 103 66 288 28.8 Geovany Soto on the 10-day DL,
Baltimore (Bundy 5-1) at Washing-
Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, recovered 2028 option. The consolation prize would leave the city with George, IND . . . . .4 34 26 112 28.0 retroactive to May 8. Recalled C Kevan
ton (Cole 1-0), 7:05
Leonard, SAN . . . 11 99 84 306 27.8 Smith from Charlotte (IL).
from a 3-0 deficit in the third set to defeat Nicolás Almagro, challenges including maintaining public interest and re- KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the San Diego (Richard 2-4) at Texas
6-1, 4-6, 7-5, and reach the third round at the Madrid Open casting deals for stadiums, arenas and housing that have contracts of RHPs Al Alburquerque
and Seth Maness from Omaha (PCL).
(Perez 1-5), 8:05
on Wednesday. been in the works for months and even years. SOCCER Designated INF Christian Colon and L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 1-4) at Colorado
Djokovic rallied in the final set by breaking Almagro to 1b-OF Peter O’Brien for assignment. (Anderson 2-3), 8:40
M.L.S. STANDINGS Optioned RHP Jakob Junis to Omaha. Pittsburgh (Cole 1-3) at Arizona
go up, 6-5, and served out to earn his 15th win of the season. EAST W L T Pts GF GA
MINNESOTA TWINS — Claimed LHP
(Greinke 3-2), 9:40
HO C K EY Adam Wilk off waivers from the New
The victory left Djokovic on track to play a semifinal Toronto FC 6 1 4 22 17 9 York Mets. Cincinnati (Arroyo 3-2) at San Fran-
Orlando City 6 3 0 18 11 11
against Rafael Nadal, the four-time Madrid champion and YANKEES — Optioned RHP Chad Green cisco (Blach 0-2), 10:15
home-crowd favorite, who struggled in a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4 Islander’s Two Goals Power U.S. Team New York City FC 5
Columbus 5
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5
1 16 17 10
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to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
SEATTLE MARINERS — Selected the FRIDAY
Red Bulls 5 5 1 16 11 15
win over Fabio Fognini of Italy. Brock Nelson of the Islanders scored twice as the Chicago 3 3 3 12 13 14
contract of RHP Sam Gaviglio from
Tacoma (PCL). Placed RHP Hisashi
Mets at Milwaukee, 8:10
Nadal will play Nick Kyrgios, who defeated Ryan Harri- United States cruised to its third win of the ice hockey Atlanta United FC 3 4 2 11 19 14 Iwakuma on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05
D.C. United 3 4 2 11 9 14
son, 6-3, 6-3. The second-seeded Djokovic will play Feli- May 7. Transferred RHP Evan Marshall to Atlanta at Miami, 7:10
world championship with a 3-0 defeat of Italy in Cologne, New England 2 4 4 10 14 16 the 60-day DL.
Montreal 2 3 4 10 12 14 San Diego at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
ciano López, who got past Gilles Simon, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3). Germany. Nelson broke the deadlock with a wrist shot to National League
Philadelphia 1 4 4 7 11 14 CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15
It was an important opening-round win for Djokovic as the top right corner early on and then scored a short- Rookie Davis to Louisville (IL). L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:40
WEST W L T Pts GF GA
he tries to turn around his season and regain his form going handed goal in the second period, minutes before Anders FC Dallas 5 0 3 18 13 5
MIAMI MARLINS — Placed SS Adeiny
Pittsburgh at Arizona, 9:40
Hechavarria on the 10-day DL. Selected
into the French Open this month. Lee completed the scoring on a power play. The Americans Kansas City 5 2 3 18 11 5 the contract of INF Stephen Lombardozzi Cincinnati at San Francisco, 10:15
Portland 5 3 2 17 20 15
“I’m still finding my way to that consistency level and moved to second in Group A behind Latvia. Houston 5 3 1 16 19 13
from New Orleans (PCL). Designated RHP
Joe Gunkel for assignment.
quality of tennis that I’m looking for,” Djokovic said. “I’m San Jose 4 3 3 15 12 10 SAN DIEGO PADRES — Claimed RHP GIANTS 6, METS 5
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believing in myself and the process. Eventually the game S O C C ER Seattle 2 3 4 10 14 12 Paso (PCL). Transferred LHP Christian Panik 2b 4 1 0 0 1 0 .278
Los Angeles 2 5 2 8 10 15 Friedrich to the 60-day DL. Nunez 3b 5 1 2 0 0 1 .256
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In the women’s draw, Eugenie Bouchard advanced to American Women Will Host Tournament Colorado 1
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Mets Lose Out on a Sweep as Familia and Flores Don’t Have It
By JAMES WAGNER
The frustration showed on
Jeurys Familia’s face as he walked
off the mound in the ninth inning.
Some boos
GIANTS 6 rained down
METS 5 from the
stands, where
fans headed toward the exits after
Familia’s first blown save of the
season.
The Mets were two outs away —
or, rather, one fielded ground ball
away — from completing their
first series sweep in a month.
Tommy Milone, the fill-in starter
picked up this week, pitched sol-
idly in his Mets debut Wednesday
against a struggling San Fran-
cisco Giants lineup. The Mets’ of-
fense provided just enough to win.
Their overworked bullpen, aside
from Familia, was stout.
Familia, however, let it slip
away, unaided by Wilmer Flores’s
defense. Familia had shown signs
of finding a groove after initially
stumbling when he returned from
his 15-game domestic-abuse sus-
pension three weeks ago. Com-
mand struggles returned in
Wednesday’s 6-5 loss to the Gi-
ants.
It was the Giants’ first win
when trailing after eight innings
in two years.
“Just one of those days,” Fa-
milia said.
Coming on in the ninth, Familia
walked Joe Panik with one out, but
got Eduardo Núñez to hit a ground
ball to Flores for what opti-
mistically could have been a dou-
ble play and, if not, at least the sec-
ond out. But Flores bobbled the
ball and then threw too high to
Neil Walker at second base.
“I was just trying to catch it,”
Flores said. “Once I knocked it
down, I didn’t put myself in a good
position to make a throw to second
base.”
The miscues quickly proved
critical. The next batter, Hunter
Pence, tied the score with a run-
scoring single past a diving Flo-
res. Familia then walked Buster
Posey to load the bases to set up
the backbreaking blow.
Face of Yankees’ Glory Days Will Get a Lasting Tribute
From First Sports Page
died, in July 2010, he went out a
champion.
Steinbrenner now has the
biggest display in Monument
Park, his bronze portrait cen-
tered on the back wall, his stars
forever in his view. A keen un-
derstanding of the value of stars,
more than anything else, was
Steinbrenner’s most important
instinct. It sometimes helped the
Yankees win, and it always
helped them make money.
Jeter’s retirement, after the
2014 season, left the team with-
out its most recognizable face.
That likeness will now be pre-
served with a plaque in the
Bronx — another will surely
follow in Cooperstown in 2020 —
and no Yankee will ever again
wear Jeter’s No. 2. The captaincy
has also been vacant since he
left.
This is not unusual; until
Jeter’s appointment, the position
had been vacant since Don Mat-
tingly’s final game in 1995. What
the team has really struggled to
Lundqvist and the Rangers
May Hear a Ticking Clock
It never gets easier. Henrik
Lundqvist, a living, breathing
symbol of lost opportunity, sat
alone at his locker Tuesday night
with pads on and head lowered,
20 minutes after
FILIP another season
ended. A Rangers
BONDY public-relations
official stood
ON
HOCKEY guard, chasing
away a reporter in
the vicinity, providing more
protection than many of the
goaltender’s own defensemen
during a lost series.
“We played well enough to win
games,” Lundqvist said at last,
after the 4-2 defeat to the Ottawa
Senators and yet another playoff
elimination, four games to two, in
the N.H.L.’s Eastern Conference
semifinals. “Sometimes it’s not
about playing your best game, it
is about finding a way to win
games. They did that better than
we did.”
The countdown, or count up,
continues. Lundqvist, a special
talent, will be at least 36 years
old before he gets another post-
season opportunity. You want a
modern equivalent? Martin
Brodeur captured his last Stan-
ley Cup at age 31, though he
remained effective and reached
the finals with the Devils at 40.
There is still some time for Lund-
qvist, though every biological
clock ticks at a different pace.
Jeurys Familia, leaving with one out in the ninth, allowed four runs after Wilmer Flores bobbled a potential double-play grounder.
The rookie infielder Christian
Arroyo drilled a 95-mile-per-hour
sinker over the heart of the plate
into left field for a three-run dou-
ble. As Arroyo pumped his fists at
second base, Mets Manager Terry
Collins emerged from the dugout
to remove Familia.
“My command today wasn’t
there,” Familia said. “I feel great.
My arm feels good. I just don’t
have it today.”
Flores nearly erased his field-
ing mistake with one swing in the
bottom of the ninth. He sent a ball
deep to center field, a few feet
short of what would have been a
replace is the standing Jeter had
as a compelling, must-see player,
the kind so vital to sustaining the
Yankees’ upscale brand.
For a while, the Yankees still
had a certified celebrity on the
roster: Alex Rodriguez, whose
fame was partly notoriety. The
wholesome and humble leading
He is still sharp enough. Lund-
qvist finished the playoffs with a
.927 save percentage and a 2.25
goals-against average over 12
games, very close to his career
marks in the postseason. Lund-
qvist was extraordinary against
Montreal in the first round, then
merely good against the Sena-
tors.
Good wasn’t enough. At Madi-
son Square Garden on Tuesday
night, when the Rangers were
sloppy and shockingly unin-
spired early on, their goalie
couldn’t quite bail them out. The
second goal was the one he
might have saved. It was an
unscreened wrist shot by Mark
Stone from the top of the circle
that beat Lundqvist to the stick
side. The puck glanced off his
body into the net.
The other goals were virtually
unstoppable. The first was a
deflection by Mike Hoffman off a
hard Erik Karlsson shot. The
killer score arrived just 2 min-
utes 21 seconds after the Rangers
had closed the gap to 2-1 in the
second period. On a bang-bang
play over the length of the rink,
Chris Kreider failed to thor-
oughly backcheck Karlsson, the
wrong player to ignore. The
Senators star took a pass from
Bobby Ryan and fired the puck
past Lundqvist from close range.
The fourth goal was an empty
netter, with Lundqvist on the
THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
BASEBALL
game-tying three-run homer. It
fell in for a two-run double, and
then Kevin Plawecki grounded
out to end the threat.
“I knew I hit it well,” Flores said.
“I was hoping it was going out.”
An optimistic fan would look fa-
vorably on the Mets’ past two
weeks. Despite injuries, inconsis-
tencies, off-the-field drama and
Wednesday’s late collapse, the
Mets won eight of t 12 games. They
moved up from last place to sec-
ond in the National League East.
The offense has been a strength.
The bullpen has solidified of late.
In addition, the Mets were
POOL PHOTO BY MATT YORK
man — with attention-grabbing
talent to match — is a rare find,
but now the Yankees just might
have him.
As they celebrate Jeter, the
Yankees are suddenly thriving
again, robust in the standings
while generating positive buzz.
Their record is 21-10. Aaron
H O C K E Y S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S
bench. Nobody could blame him
for that one. Still, just as Carey
Price had failed to carry the
Canadiens beyond the first
round, Lundqvist hadn’t quite
mustered enough magic to res-
cue the Rangers.
Lundqvist said he would begin
a performance self-analysis in
due time. For now, two things
stood out to him as the reasons
the Rangers dropped their sec-
ond playoff series, out of three, in
two years.
“Odd-man rushes, they kind of
took advantage, and our six-on-
five play,” he said. “Other than
that, I thought we played really
well. Obviously, losing all three
up in Ottawa, where we had a
chance to win a couple, hurt us
big time in this series.”
Those two blown late leads on
the road were both fatal and
unforgivable. The Rangers pan-
icked, failed to clear out traffic in
front of the net and iced the puck
too willingly. Throughout this
series, some baffling deficiencies
occurred on faceoffs and power
plays. The home Garden crowd,
too, was typically inconsistent
and too easily quieted. Oppo-
nents know: Score one goal
against the Rangers, and all the
noise and towels go away.
The end result probably does-
n’t bode well for several players
who disappeared for long
stretches in this series, like Krei-
hopeful that shortstop Asdrubal
Cabrera (sore thumb and legs)
and outfielder Michael Conforto
(mild hamstring tightness) could
return to the lineup Friday after
two days of rest. Collins said first
baseman Lucas Duda (hyperex-
tended elbow) might come off the
disabled list this weekend, when
the team begins a trip in Milwau-
kee.
But there is still much to im-
prove with this team. The starting
rotation — without Noah Synder-
gaard (latissimus tear) and en-
during the struggles of Matt Har-
vey and Robert Gsellman — must
Derek Jeter,
near left, with
George Stein-
brenner, then
the Yankees’
owner, after the
team won the
A.L. pennant in
1999. Steinbren-
ner formally
made Jeter the
Yankees’ captain
in 2003.
Judge, their soft-spoken, home-
grown rookie slugger, is on the
cover of the latest issue of Sports
Illustrated. Another young cor-
nerstone, catcher Gary Sanchez,
even has his own fragrance,
#IAmGary — at least in a playful
mock ad produced by the Yan-
kees’ social media team.
Henrik Lundqvist after the Rangers were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs on Tuesday.
der, Kevin Hayes and Derek
Stepan. Alain Vigneault, the
Rangers coach, said he would not
analyze any individual quite yet,
that he would wait until emotions
cooled. His own players, howev-
er, understood the ramifications.
“It’s disappointing when you
have a team that’s this good and
an opportunity like we did,” Rick
Nash said. “You only get so
many cracks at this.”
Nash is 32. While the Rangers
are not an old team, their key
scorers are now on the downside
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find some consistency. A domino
effect has been a heavy load on the
bullpen. Collins also likes to play
matchups often, which has added
more work.
The Mets were in need of a tem-
porary fix for a battered starting
rotation until Seth Lugo or Steven
Matz return at the end of the
month from elbow injuries. So
they claimed the left-handed
Milone, who had struggled with
the Brewers, off waivers Sunday.
Milone, 30, a veteran of seven
major league seasons, allowed
two runs to a Giants lineup that
had scored the fewest runs in the
We’ll pause here to tactfully
remind you that the Mets —
whose young pitching stars have
repeatedly embarrassed them
this season — are not quite as
adept at social media. (Just ask
catcher Kevin Plawecki.) After
two postseason appearances in a
row, the Mets may be reassum-
ing their secondary position in
the city’s baseball hierarchy.
Jeter solidified the status of
the two teams in 2000, as the
most valuable player of the
crosstown World Series. It could
not have been anyone else. The
Yankees were his team, and that
was his stage. Nobody else
seemed made for it in quite the
same way.
The Mets had one sliver of
hope in that Series, when they
grabbed Game 3 after the Yan-
kees had won twice. Then Jeter
belted the very first pitch of
Game 4 for a home run, and the
next night, the Yankees were
champions. When Jeter doused
his boss in the boozy postgame
celebration, Steinbrenner played
along.
of most expected performance
charts. Mats Zuccarello and
Michael Grabner will both be 30
at the start of next season.
It’s difficult to put the Rangers’
history, and recent achieve-
ments, into perspective. After
failing to make the playoffs for
seven straight years, they have
earned a postseason berth in 11 of
the last 12 seasons, including the
last seven. That’s a remarkable
accomplishment, yet the bottom
line is that this franchise has won
exactly one Stanley Cup title in
N B11
N.L. He left with two runners on
and no outs in the sixth inning to a
standing ovation from the crowd
at Citi Field.
Because he had not pitched in a
major league game since April 29,
Milone was unsure how he would
perform Wednesday. “I’m happy
with how it turned out,” he said.
Milone left with a 3-1 lead
thanks to his run-scoring single, a
run-scoring double by Curtis
Granderson and a solo home run
by Jay Bruce.
With a slim margin, the Mets’
bullpen nearly finished the win.
Fernando Salas replaced Milone
and completed the inning, giving
up a sacrifice fly that trimmed the
Mets’ lead to one run.
Collins mixed and matched. He
used the left-handed reliever Josh
Edgin, who has been surprisingly
effective despite barely making
the team out of spring training, for
one batter.
Hansel Robles, who has not
been scored upon since April 12,
finished the seventh inning.
Collins pieced together the eighth
with the right-hander Addison
Reed, who has yet to walk a batter
this season, and the left-hander
Jerry Blevins.
All of this has added up to a
bullpen that had the logged a high
number of innings. Blevins leads
the majors with 20 appearances,
while Reed and Salas have 19 each,
and Robles 18. Wednesday was the
third straight day of pitching for
Reed, Blevins and Familia.
All three pitched in Tuesday’s
6-1 win, which felt unnecessary at
the time, but Collins said he did so
because “we had to win.” Collins
brushed aside questions about Fa-
milia’s usage as a reason for his
command issues Wednesday. He
had thrown only 15 pitches in the
previous two nights of work.
“That was not the issue,” Collins
said. “He didn’t have his com-
mand. The walk to Panik hurt us.
The error hurt us. And they got a
big hit.”
“He’s allowed,” Steinbrenner
said.
Now, Jeter hopes to follow
Steinbrenner’s example and buy
a stake in a team of his own. He
is part of a group, with the for-
mer Florida governor Jeb Bush,
trying to arrange financing to
buy the Miami Marlins. Doing so
would fulfill a well-known ambi-
tion for Jeter, although it would
represent something new.
Jeter has never worked for
another organization, spending
two decades in uniform for the
Yankees, who drafted him in the
first round in 1992. So who do you
think happens to be in town this
weekend? The Houston Astros,
the first team that passed on
him.
Four more teams let Jeter go
by: the Cleveland Indians, the
Montreal Expos (now the Wash-
ington Nationals), the Baltimore
Orioles and the Cincinnati Reds.
None of those teams have won
the World Series since.
Call it the Curse of the Captain,
a No. 2 who should have been
No. 1.
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the past 77 years. No other pro
team in New York can match
such extended futility, not even
the Knicks or the Jets.
“Right now, all you feel is
disappointment, and it’s a numb
feeling,” Lundqvist said. “You
realize how much work and how
many hours you put into this to
put yourself in this spot to get
this chance. You started in July,
last summer, to start to train and
to prepare.”
His season ended again in
May, one month too soon.
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high 94° Record .................... 2.10
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Cities Los Angeles 68/ 56 0 70/ 57 PC 72/ 57 PC Riyadh 99/ 75 0 99/ 78 PC 95/ 73 T Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 86/ 68 0 81/ 62 T 67/ 53 R Seoul 68/ 55 0.01 79/ 63 PC 77/ 55 S Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 87/ 67 0 82/ 64 PC 73/ 55 R Shanghai 89/ 63 0 91/ 66 PC 74/ 63 T from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 89/ 71 0 91/ 73 S 91/ 76 S Singapore 86/ 77 0.66 87/ 79 C 87/ 79 C this month .............. –2.3° this year ................ +2.7°
Milwaukee 60/ 46 0 57/ 44 C 58/ 44 PC Sydney 70/ 52 0 70/ 57 PC 69/ 57 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 68/ 47 0.01 68/ 47 PC 71/ 53 S Taipei 92/ 73 0 92/ 75 C 90/ 75 PC 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 87/ 64 0 85/ 63 PC 74/ 56 R Tehran 90/ 62 0 91/ 70 S 85/ 65 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 83/ 66 0 83/ 68 PC 79/ 63 T Tokyo 63/ 59 0.44 77/ 64 PC 79/ 63 PC
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 73/ 58 0 68/ 56 R 66/ 61 R Yesterday ............. 100% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
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Portland, Me. 56/ 42 0.01 54/ 43 C 58/ 42 C Copenhagen 45/ 41 0.59 51/ 43 Sh 57/ 46 PC
New York City 63/ 49 0 63/ 50 PC 59/ 50 C Portland, Ore. 76/ 54 0 60/ 46 R 57/ 45 T Dublin 59/ 35 0 58/ 44 PC 60/ 47 Sh Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 63/ 46 0 63/ 48 PC 59/ 49 C Providence 61/ 44 0.02 59/ 45 PC 58/ 43 C Edinburgh 57/ 41 0 61/ 46 PC 59/ 48 Sh
Caldwell 65/ 44 0 65/ 46 PC 58/ 47 C Raleigh 82/ 63 0.13 83/ 59 PC 72/ 60 T Frankfurt 66/ 37 0 71/ 55 T 69/ 53 C Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Danbury 59/ 36 0 61/ 42 PC 57/ 43 C Reno 82/ 52 0 77/ 50 PC 62/ 37 PC Geneva 70/ 39 0.03 65/ 51 T 66/ 51 T Today’s forecast
Islip 62/ 44 0 61/ 47 PC 59/ 48 C Richmond 76/ 56 0 64/ 52 R 62/ 54 R Helsinki 40/ 27 0.48 45/ 28 Sh 50/ 32 PC
Newark 64/ 48 0 63/ 49 PC 59/ 51 C Rochester 54/ 36 0 57/ 45 PC 60/ 48 Sh Istanbul 64/ 54 0.21 71/ 57 S 74/ 63 PC White
Trenton 67/ 43 0 66/ 47 PC 59/ 48 R Sacramento 74/ 53 0 72/ 48 PC 72/ 47 S Kiev 47/ 35 0.01 58/ 42 Sh 59/ 48 R May 18 May 25 June 1 June 9 47/38 A passing shower
White Plains 61/ 43 0 62/ 46 PC 58/ 47 C Salt Lake City 76/ 54 0 82/ 62 S 85/ 53 S Lisbon 64/ 58 0.72 66/ 57 T 68/ 56 T 3:45 p.m. 9:10 a.m.
San Antonio 85/ 71 0.04 83/ 65 T 85/ 60 S London 66/ 42 0 70/ 55 T 64/ 52 Sh Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow 42/32 A passing shower
San Diego 68/ 60 0 69/ 59 PC 68/ 60 PC Madrid 72/ 56 0.05 66/ 50 T 66/ 50 T Sun RISE 5:43 a.m. Moon S 6:29 a.m.
Albany 60/ 42 0 65/ 47 PC 63/ 47 C Moscow 41/ 29 0.30 46/ 29 R 49/ 30 PC
San Francisco 65/ 53 0 66/ 51 C 64/ 50 W SET 8:03 p.m. R 8:45 p.m. Adirondacks
Albuquerque 61/ 46 0.04 74/ 51 PC 79/ 56 S Nice 66/ 57 0 68/ 58 W 67/ 57 T
San Jose 72/ 53 0 70/ 52 PC 67/ 49 W NEXT R 5:42 a.m. S 7:05 a.m.
Anchorage 55/ 41 0 59/ 44 S 59/ 41 S Oslo 43/ 34 0.39 44/ 36 PC 53/ 39 PC 56/38 Mostly cloudy 40s
San Juan 84/ 76 0.19 84/ 76 Sh 86/ 76 PC
Atlanta 88/ 65 0 89/ 65 S 81/ 62 R Paris 70/ 42 0 70/ 53 T 68/ 53 T Jupiter S 4:24 a.m. Mars R 6:57 a.m.
Seattle 71/ 54 0 58/ 46 R 58/ 45 T Berkshires
Atlantic City 63/ 49 0 60/ 49 PC 56/ 51 R Prague 59/ 34 0 66/ 48 PC 64/ 51 T R 4:47 p.m. S 9:57 p.m.
Sioux Falls 62/ 43 0.27 69/ 41 S 75/ 50 S 58/42 Clouds and sun
Austin 83/ 70 0.02 85/ 64 C 85/ 57 S Rome 70/ 50 0 76/ 59 PC 74/ 55 PC
Spokane 75/ 54 0 74/ 44 T 55/ 37 C Saturn S 8:08 a.m. Venus R 3:54 a.m.
Baltimore 72/ 50 0 61/ 50 R 57/ 50 R St. Petersburg 43/ 27 0.33 45/ 33 R 45/ 34 R
St. Louis 87/ 68 0.04 78/ 56 R 71/ 53 PC R 10:44 p.m. S 4:19 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 86/ 64 0 84/ 68 PC 81/ 61 T Stockholm 41/ 22 0.21 48/ 29 PC 51/ 32 PC
St. Thomas 82/ 74 0.21 83/ 75 Sh 84/ 76 PC 58/41 Sun giving way to clouds
Birmingham 90/ 63 0 87/ 65 S 77/ 61 T Vienna 59/ 32 0 71/ 52 PC 72/ 54 T
Syracuse 55/ 35 0 62/ 45 PC 60/ 45 C Boating
Boise 80/ 56 0 86/ 52 PC 59/ 39 C Warsaw 52/ 28 0.04 55/ 42 PC 63/ 45 C
Tampa 92/ 70 0 91/ 71 S 88/ 75 PC Poconos 50s
Boston 57/ 46 0.01 54/ 46 C 52/ 44 C
Toledo 63/ 49 0 55/ 46 R 61/ 42 C North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 57/44 Some sun, then clouds
Buffalo 57/ 39 0 59/ 45 C 58/ 47 Sh
Tucson 75/ 55 0.01 85/ 61 S 95/ 64 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
Burlington 58/ 41 0 61/ 45 C 64/ 47 C Tulsa 81/ 65 0.06 78/ 57 T 74/ 51 PC Acapulco 87/ 77 0 88/ 73 PC 87/ 77 PC
Casper 66/ 37 0.02 74/ 42 PC 83/ 51 S York Harbor. Southwest Pa.
Virginia Beach 69/ 59 0 63/ 55 R 62/ 59 R Bermuda 73/ 66 0.05 72/ 66 PC 71/ 65 Sh
Charlotte 88/ 64 0 89/ 63 PC 84/ 63 C Washington 74/ 54 0 62/ 52 R 58/ 53 R Edmonton 66/ 41 0 74/ 49 PC 68/ 45 C Wind will be from the northeast, then southeast at 7-14 58/49 Cooler with a few showers
Chattanooga 87/ 61 0 88/ 61 PC 78/ 60 R Wichita 79/ 58 0.05 71/ 51 R 73/ 49 PC Guadalajara 91/ 56 0 93/ 57 PC 93/ 56 PC knots. Waves will be 1-3 feet on the ocean and a foot
Chicago 69/ 49 0 59/ 43 Sh 65/ 43 PC Wilmington, Del. 70/ 47 0 65/ 48 PC 59/ 48 R Havana 84/ 63 0 90/ 67 S 92/ 69 S or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. 60s
Cincinnati 78/ 63 0.13 75/ 53 R 64/ 47 R Kingston 90/ 76 0.01 89/ 73 PC 89/ 75 S
West Virginia
Visibility will largely be unrestricted.
Cleveland 66/ 50 0 60/ 51 Sh 59/ 48 C Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 86/ 77 0.07 87/ 76 Sh 86/ 76 Sh 70/56 Some rain and a thunderstorm
Colorado Springs 60/ 44 0.03 60/ 41 C 68/ 47 PC Algiers 81/ 59 0 81/ 57 PC 77/ 55 PC Mexico City 78/ 58 0 81/ 59 PC 81/ 59 PC High Tides
Columbus 73/ 58 0 72/ 54 Sh 64/ 47 R Cairo 106/ 76 0 91/ 64 S 90/ 66 S Monterrey 92/ 66 0 99/ 70 PC 95/ 66 PC Color bands
Concord, N.H. 62/ 39 0.04 59/ 42 C 58/ 40 C Cape Town 70/ 45 0 63/ 48 PC 69/ 45 S Montreal 55/ 35 0 58/ 43 C 63/ 48 C Atlantic City ................... 8:37 a.m. .............. 8:54 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 83/ 68 0 84/ 61 T 79/ 58 PC Dakar 82/ 70 0 79/ 70 PC 78/ 70 S Nassau 87/ 72 0 88/ 73 S 88/ 74 S Barnegat Inlet ................ 8:53 a.m. .............. 9:08 p.m. 76/58 Some rain and a thunderstorm temperature.
Denver 55/ 42 0.20 62/ 42 C 77/ 48 PC Johannesburg 71/ 46 0 71/ 49 S 71/ 42 T Panama City 89/ 75 0.06 87/ 73 T 88/ 76 T The Battery .................... 9:33 a.m. .............. 9:44 p.m.
Des Moines 75/ 55 0.90 68/ 49 C 74/ 52 S Nairobi 75/ 57 0.12 75/ 58 PC 76/ 61 T Quebec City 45/ 36 0.11 52/ 41 C 60/ 41 PC Beach Haven ............... 10:17 a.m. ............ 10:33 p.m.
Detroit 64/ 48 0 56/ 46 R 62/ 43 C Tunis 82/ 60 0 94/ 63 PC 86/ 63 PC Santo Domingo 88/ 71 0.01 88/ 71 PC 88/ 71 S Bridgeport ................... 12:07 a.m. ............ 12:37 p.m.
El Paso 72/ 53 0 83/ 58 S 87/ 63 S Toronto 53/ 35 0 56/ 43 C 58/ 44 PC City Island .................... 12:35 a.m. .............. 1:07 p.m.
A low-pressure system off the New Eng-
Fargo 68/ 37 0 69/ 45 S 75/ 44 PC Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 61/ 48 0.01 58/ 45 R 58/ 43 Sh
Hartford 62/ 42 0 64/ 45 PC 61/ 44 C Baghdad 104/ 70 0 107/ 73 S 102/ 69 S Fire Island Lt. ................. 9:45 a.m. ............ 10:01 p.m. land coast will bring a mostly cloudy sky
Winnipeg 52/ 36 0 60/ 34 PC 59/ 35 S
Honolulu 84/ 73 0.02 83/ 71 Sh 84/ 73 PC Bangkok 91/ 77 0.46 91/ 77 T 91/ 79 T Montauk Point .............. 10:14 a.m. ............ 10:25 p.m. to the Green and White Mountains along
Houston 85/ 70 0 86/ 72 C 85/ 62 PC Beijing 88/ 54 0 86/ 48 W 87/ 57 S South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 12:17 a.m. ............ 12:45 p.m.
Indianapolis 79/ 63 0.09 73/ 51 R 66/ 46 C Damascus 97/ 60 0 90/ 50 S 89/ 56 S Buenos Aires 61/ 43 0 63/ 55 R 65/ 56 Sh Port Washington .......... 12:40 a.m. .............. 1:11 p.m. with passing showers. A storm system will
Jackson 87/ 61 0 82/ 65 PC 77/ 58 T Hong Kong 86/ 77 0 86/ 75 PC 86/ 77 C Caracas 89/ 79 0.33 87/ 78 PC 86/ 80 PC Sandy Hook ................... 8:59 a.m. .............. 9:15 p.m. spread rain across West Virginia and
Jacksonville 95/ 63 0 97/ 63 S 93/ 65 PC Jakarta 88/ 77 0.21 89/ 74 C 90/ 76 T Lima 86/ 67 0 77/ 67 PC 76/ 66 PC Shinnecock Inlet ............ 8:39 a.m. .............. 8:56 p.m.
Kansas City 83/ 59 0.05 67/ 52 R 72/ 49 S Jerusalem 90/ 65 0 79/ 56 S 78/ 57 S Quito 66/ 51 0.38 66/ 53 Sh 67/ 54 Sh Stamford ...................... 12:10 a.m. ............ 12:40 p.m.
Virginia, with a few afternoon showers in
Key West 84/ 76 0 84/ 76 S 84/ 78 PC Karachi 95/ 82 0 96/ 82 PC 94/ 82 PC Recife 84/ 76 0.14 85/ 75 PC 85/ 77 PC Tarrytown ..................... 11:22 a.m. ............ 11:33 p.m. Pennsylvania and southwestern New
Las Vegas 83/ 64 0.02 90/ 69 S 91/ 65 S Manila 95/ 80 0 95/ 79 PC 96/ 80 S Rio de Janeiro 84/ 70 0 77/ 67 R 78/ 65 PC
Lexington 83/ 66 0 80/ 60 T 65/ 50 R Mumbai 91/ 80 0 93/ 79 PC 95/ 79 PC Santiago 59/ 47 0.04 56/ 46 R 60/ 43 R
Willets Point ................. 12:31 a.m. .............. 1:05 p.m. York.

A Farewell to a Stadium, and to a Champions League Run
By RAPHAEL MINDER
MADRID — In the first leg of
their Champions League semi-
final last week, Real Madrid’s fans
unfurled a banner meant to re-
mind Atlético Madrid and its fans
ATLÉTICO MADRID
REAL MADRID
Semifinals
Real Madrid advances, 4-2, on
aggregate
of Real’s recent dominance over
their city rivals in the tournament.
“Decidme qué se siente,” it read.
“Tell me how it feels.”
Just before Wednesday night’s
second leg at Vicente Calderón
Stadium, Atlético’s fans gave their
response: “Orgullosos de no ser
como vosotros,” their banner said.
“Proud to not be like you.”
For the next quarter of an hour,
at least, Atlético’s players did
much more than make their fans
proud. They also created a belief
that they all might be celebrating
the mother of all European
farewells to their cherished sta-
dium by staging a spectacular
comeback. But despite two goals
in the first 16 minutes, Atlético had
to settle for a 2-1 win on the night
that was not enough to overcome
their 3-0 deficit from the first leg.
Atlético jumped out to a perfect
start. In the 12th minute, Saúl
Ñíguez opened the scoring with a
firm header at the near post off a
corner kick. Three minutes later,
Fernando Torres was tripped in
the penalty area by Raphaël
Varane, Real’s French defender.
As Antoine Griezmann, who last
year missed a crucial penalty in
the Champions League final
against Real, prepared to take the
kick, the crowd chanted in Span-
ish, “Yes you can!”
This time, he was more fortu-
nate. Griezmann slipped in his
run-up and Keylor Navas, Real’s
goalkeeper, touched the ball, but it
still ended up in the back of the
net.
Suddenly, the daunting task of
overturning last week’s deficit ap-
peared in reach. But instead of
shocking Real, this early double
blow helped awaken the team. Af-
ter Griezmann’s goal, Real’s Luka
Modric and Isco took charge of the
midfield, pinning back Atlético
and increasingly threatening its
keeper, Jan Oblak.
In the 42nd minute Karim Ben-
zema, Real’s French forward,
Ginobili Channels His Younger Self, Resuscitating Spurs
From First Sports Page
Ahead of Game 6 on Thursday
night in Houston, the Spurs are
holding themselves together with
a combination of duct tape and
chewed gum. They lost Tim
Duncan to retirement before the
start of the season. They lost
Tony Parker, their starting point
guard, when he ruptured his left
quadriceps tendon in Game 2
against the Rockets. And they
lost Kawhi Leonard, their do-
everything forward, to an ankle
injury late in Game 5. Leonard
watched overtime from the
bench.
“He didn’t want to come out,
obviously,” Popovich said of
Leonard. “We let him play a little
while, just to see what it was like,
but it was obvious that he could-
n’t go.”
Leonard’s status for Game 6 is
unclear. He said he was planning
to play, but even if he does, his
effectiveness is likely to be di-
minished.
That will be playoff game No.
12 for the Spurs, who are rapidly
shedding parts. The Golden State
Warriors, however, needed only
eight games to advance to the
conference finals after sweeping
the Portland Trail Blazers and
the Utah Jazz in the first two
rounds.
But the mistake, as always, is
to underestimate the Spurs, to
take their resolve for granted. On
Big First-Quarter Run Fuels Rout as Celtics Take Series Lead
CJ GUNTHER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Boston’s Avery Bradley, who
had 29 points, driving against
Washington’s Otto Porter Jr.
2 Shootouts
1
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crafted a goal out of nowhere to
puncture the hopes of the home
team. He snaked past three
defenders before laying the ball
back for Toni Kroos. Oblak parried
Kroos’s initial shot, but he was
then helpless when the ball fell
back at the feet of Isco, who scored
from close range.
In the second half, Atlético cre-
P R O B A S K E T B A L L N. B . A . P L AYO F F S
The Spurs’ Manu Ginobili, with Patty Mills, after he blocked a
last-second shot by the Rockets’ James Harden in overtime.
Tuesday, as they worked to slow
an opponent with a plutonium-
fueled offense, they proved it
again.
BOSTON (AP) — Avery Brad-
ley scored 29 points, his career
high in the playoffs, and the
Celtics beat the Washington Wiz-
ards, 123-101, in Boston on Wednes-
day night to
take a three- CELTICS 123
games-to-two WIZARDS 101
lead in their
Eastern Con- Boston leads
ference semi- series, 3-2
final series.
Al Horford contributed 19
points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds
for the Celtics while Isaiah Thom-
as had 18 points and 9 assists.
Game 6 is set for Friday night in
Washington, where the Wizards
easily won two games. If the
Celtics win, they will move on to
face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the
Eastern Conference finals.
A Celtics-Wizards Game 7
would be in Boston on Monday.
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SOCCER
Isco (22) after scoring Real Madrid’s goal against Atlético Madrid in the Champions League
semifinals on Wednesday. Fernando Torres, left, of Atlético Madrid battling Sergio Ramos.
ated a few good chances but were
repeatedly thwarted by Navas. In
the 67th minute, Navas produced
a spectacular double save, beat-
ing away Yannick Carrasco’s shot
and then a powerful header from
Kevin Gameiro. Navas’s perform-
ance secured advancement for
Real, but also probably bolstered
his own value amid speculation
that Real would soon renew its bid
for Manchester United goal-
keeper David de Gea, after a
botched transfer attempt in 2015.
In their most recent encounters
in the Champions League — in-
cluding last year’s final — Atlético
has come tantalizingly close to
beating Real. This time, however,
Atlético left itself with a mountain
to climb after producing an un-
characteristically meek perform-
ance last week, when they allowed
Cristiano Ronaldo to score three
times.
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Consider the Spurs’ hodge-
podge lineup in overtime.
LaMarcus Aldridge (a five-time
All-Star) was joined by Green (a
At one point in the fourth quar-
ter on Wednesday, Boston led by
26, negating Washington’s physi-
cality by spreading the floor and
knocking down 16 shots from 3-
point range for the game.
John Wall had 21 points for the
Wizards, who have not won a
playoff game in Boston since 1982.
The Wizards scored the first 4
points of the game, but the Celtics
countered with a 16-0 run. It was
the fourth time in the series that
one of the teams had gone on a run
of at least 16 straight points; three
of those came in the first quarter
of a game. (Washington had a 16-0
spurt to start Game 1, a 22-0 run in
Game 3 and a 26-0 burst in Game
4.)
During Boston’s first-quarter
surge on Wednesday, the Wizards
missed eight straight shots before
their futility streak was ended by
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A decade ago, a Madrid derby at
this stage of Europe’s main club
competition would have been un-
thinkable. But since taking over as
Atlético’s manager in late 2011,
Diego Simeone has rebuilt the
team with a budget that is
dwarfed by that of Real. What
Atlético has lacked in individual
talent, it has made up for with
team spirit and structure, built
around a tough defense and a
counterattacking style now led by
Griezmann, the French interna-
tional who previously played for
Real Sociedad.
But stars like Ronaldo have
spearheaded Real’s progress in
the Champions League — he
scored five times against Bayern
Munich in the quarterfinals. On
Wednesday, it was Benzema who
drew praise from Manager Zine-
dine Zidane for his masterly assist
on Isco’s goal.
The oldest player left
in the playoffs gives a
vintage performance.
second-round draft pick), Patty
Mills (a second-round draft
pick), Jonathon Simmons (un-
drafted) and Ginobili (the oldest
player left in the playoffs).
Green scored the Spurs’ final 7
points. Simmons came on in
relief of Leonard to defend Hard-
en, who finished with nine
turnovers. And Ginobili had the
game-saving block.
“Manu’s one of the great all-
time competitors and winners,”
Popovich said. “He helped us do
it again.”
At his postgame news confer-
ence, Rockets Coach Mike D’An-
toni seemed to wear the hol-
lowed-out expression of someone
who had seen a ghost, and per-
haps that was understandable.
Years ago, when D’Antoni was
coaching the Phoenix Suns, he
had three meetings with the
Spurs and Ginobili in the play-
offs. Three times, the Suns lost.
On Tuesday, Ginobili was back at
it. Little had changed.
“I figured that Manu would at
least have one or two good
games,” D’Antoni said. “You
knew that was going to happen.
a basket from Otto Porter Jr.
The Celtics did a good job of
sharing the ball, recording assists
on 12 of 13 baskets in the opening 12
minutes. Thomas had five assists
in the quarter, one more than
Washington’s entire team.
The Wizards responded with
more energy after halftime, but
each of their rally attempts was
quickly beaten back by the Celtics,
who continued to share the ball
and take advantage of their fast-
break opportunities.
The Wizards, who shot just 24
percent from the 3-point arc, fell to
2-9 in their postseason history on
the road against the Celtics. Wash-
ington had 13 turnovers, leading to
23 Boston points.
The Celtics shot 53 percent (46
of 87) from the field for the game,
their best mark of the postseason.
Zidane, who took the helm of
Real in January 2016, will lead
Real against Juventus in the final
on June 3 as it tries to become the
first team to retain the Champions
League trophy since the current
format began in 1992.
For Atlético, however, it is the
end of another European run at
the hands of their city rivals. As
Wednesday’s game entered its
last stretch, the weather turned
and the final minutes were played
amid lightning and in a downpour.
Still, a large section of Atlético’s
fans stayed in the stadium for a
quarter of an hour, coaxing their
players to come back out onto the
field for a final round of applause.
Wednesday was not the re-
markable victory that Atlético
had hoped for, but the win
wrapped in defeat still felt like a
fitting farewell to European
matches at the Calderón.
That’s why he’s a champion. He’s
great. He’s been great his whole
life.”
Ginobili had 12 points, 7 re-
bounds and 5 assists in 32 min-
utes — the most minutes he had
played in a game since 2014.
“I don’t feel like I had a huge
game,” he said. “I felt better than
the previous ones, for sure. But I
guess the standards are a little
lower.”
He was right, of course. The
standards are different now. No
one expects Ginobili to be a
savior anymore. But the Spurs
still expect to compete and suc-
ceed, no matter the obstacles.
For one night, Ginobili was there
to carry them across the finish
line. Just like the old days.
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B14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Is Dead at 85
By ALAN COWELL
LONDON — Hugh Thomas, a
British historian and associate of
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher whose magisterial work
chronicled great upheaval in the
Hispanic world, from Spain’s im-
perial expansion to its civil war,
died here on Sunday. He was 85.
His son, Isambard, said the
death was preceded by a stroke.
Mr. Thomas produced a broad
canon of work, including novels
and studies of the American slave
trade, the history of Mexico, disar-
mament (he had worked in the
British Foreign Office as a young
man) and the beginnings of the
Cold War.
But it was his vast explorations
of Spain on which his reputation
was built, beginning with “The
Spanish Civil War” in 1961. Banned
in Spain during the Franco era, it
won the prestigious Somerset
Maugham Prize in 1962 and is re-
garded as a classic, remaining in
print, with several revisions, to
this day.
“Thomas has long belonged to
the elite of Spanish studies,” Pub-
lisher’s Weekly said in 2005. But
while his assessment of the civil
war seemed “strongly sympathet-
ic” to the Republican side, the
magazine said, he was portrayed
in later years as shifting toward
“an increasingly conservative vi-
sion of the Spanish past.”
Mr. Thomas produced a series
of definitive works, including the
huge “Cuba: Or the Pursuit of
Freedom” (1971), which ran to
more than 1,700 pages.
Later, he seemed to strike a
wistful or even angry tone about
developments in Cuba. Writing in
The New York Times in 1980 as
tens of thousands of Cubans fled
the island, he said their status as
refugees “must be the most vivid
condemnation of a Communist
system since the Hungarian re-
volt in 1956.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, above left, dancing at the Whisky a Go Go in 1965. The club, above in 1980, drew stars among
its crowds. For a time, the Doors were the house band. Later on came Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Metallica.
Mario Maglieri, 93, Coddled Rockers at His Clubs
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Mario Maglieri, who presided
over a rock ’n’ roll mini-empire on
the Sunset Strip in West Holly-
wood at the Whisky a Go Go and
the Rainbow Bar & Grill, where he
nurtured generations of musi-
cians with encouragement, food
and tough love, died on May 4 in
Los Angeles. He was 93.
His death was confirmed by his
son Mikeal.
The Whisky was opened in 1964
by a former policeman named
Elmer Valentine, who soon asked
Mr. Maglieri, a friend from Chi-
cago, to help run the club. It be-
came a critical part of the Los An-
geles rock scene.
For a time, the Doors were the
house band. Jimi Hendrix and
Janis Joplin played there. So did
Led Zeppelin, the Byrds, the Who,
Otis Redding, the Turtles and Neil
Young. Later on came Guns N’
Roses, Motley Crue and Metallica.
The Beatles demanded to visit
the Whisky when they toured the
United States in 1964. Jayne Mans-
field and Steve McQueen were
regulars. “Everybody was there,”
the singer Johnny Rivers, who
performed there, told Vanity Fair
in 2000. “I mean, you’d look up,
and there was Cary Grant danc-
ing.”
And one day Mr. Maglieri’s sec-
retary alerted him to an intimidat-
ing man who was decamped in a
booth, writing. “What are you do-
ing here?” Mr. Maglieri asked the
man, who turned out to be Charles
Manson, according to the Vanity
Fair article. “We’re closed. You
can’t be here.”
“He looked at me and says, ‘I
can have you killed,’” Mr. Maglieri
said, after which he grabbed Mr.
Manson and threw him out of the
club.
The silver-haired, cigar-smok-
ing Mr. Maglieri was more accom-
modating to the musicians who
played at the Whisky or ate at the
nearby Rainbow Bar, with its sig-
nature Italian food. He under-
stood that some needed a free
meal and others a kind word.
“To play the Whisky a Go Go
was the holy grail coming up,”
It was, he said “fitting, if infin-
itely sad, to consider how this sys-
tem came to be established in
Cuba.”
In 2011, Mr. Thomas published
“The Golden Empire,” the second
of three volumes chronicling the
era from the first voyage of Chris-
topher Columbus to the Americas
in 1492 to the reign of King Philip II
in the late 16th century. The Amer-
ican historian Charles C. Mann de-
scribed the book as belonging to
“the genre of Nobody Does This
Anymore.”
“For better or for worse,” Mr.
Mann wrote in The New York
Times Book Review, the 646-page
volume was “history of the type
critics dismiss as ‘old-fashioned’:
a story in which the narrative en-
gines are human character and
action rather than the impersonal
forces of economics, culture and
the environment.”
“This is a history of the
conquerors, rather than the con-
quered,” Mr. Mann wrote. “A great
majority of the protagonists are
white, European and male.”
Mr. Thomas completed his tril-
ogy in 2014 with “World Without
End.” (The first volume, “Rivers
of Gold,” almost 700 pages long,
was published in 2004.) This final
volume illuminated the breadth
and reach of Spain’s global ambi-
tion, borne across the earth by its
navigators and conquistadors. At
one point, the empire spanned
Iberia; much of Italy; the Low
Countries; the Americas as far
north as California; the Caribbe-
an; and the Philippines.
Reviewing “World Without
End” in the British newspaper
The Daily Telegraph, the author
and critic Jeremy Treglown wrote,
“Thomas doesn’t disguise the bru-
tality of Spanish imperialism,
though he doesn’t, either, question
imperial ambitions of them-
selves.”
Mr. Thomas had earlier encom-
Mario Maglieri ran the Whisky a Go Go, where even the Beat-
les demanded to visit when they toured the United States.
Nikki Sixx, the bassist for Motley
Crue, told the Los Angeles radio
station KLOS-FM last week. “He
would talk to me. He would sit
down and I’d play him our demo.
He’d say, ‘Nikki, you’ve got some-
thing there.’ One day at the
Whisky, he said, ‘Kid, I think
you’re going to make it.’ It meant
so much to me.”
But Mr. Maglieri worried that
some of the musicians and other
stars who came through his doors
were drinking too heavily or
taking too many drugs. He told
The Los Angeles Times in 1993
that he had warned Jim Morrison,
the lead singer of the Doors, and
Joplin to straighten out, without
success.
Morrison, he said, “was a good
boy” who “would look at me all
goofed up and say, ‘Oh, Mario, I
love you.’ The reprimanding I
gave him didn’t do any good.”
In the book “Straight Whisky”
(2004), by Erik Quisling and
Austin Williams, Mr. Maglieri is
quoted as saying that Morrison
exposed himself during a per-
formance at the club. “Big deal,
right?” he said. “That son of a
bitch. Too bad he’s not alive. I’d
give him a spanking.”
After the actor River Phoenix
collapsed and died of a drug over-
dose in 1993 outside the Viper
Hugh Thomas in 2010. His 1961 work, “The Spanish Civil War,” is regarded as a classic.
passed global history in a single
700-page volume, published in the
United States in 1979 as “A History
of the World” but in Britain as “An
Unfinished History of the World.”
David Gress, a Danish histori-
an, described it as “a fascinating
catalog of inventions, ideas, devel-
opments, habits and forms of or-
ganization, the massive parapher-
nalia of human social existence
which make up what one might
call the framework of history, the
tools that make things work.”
Hugh Swynnerton Thomas was
born on Oct. 21, 1931, in Windsor,
just west of London, the son of
Hugh Whitelegge Thomas, a sen-
ior colonial official, and the former
Margery Swynnerton. Mr. Thom-
as was made a life peer in 1981 as
Baron Thomas of Swynnerton,
taking his mother’s maiden name
as his title.
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Room, a club on the Sunset Strip,
Mr. Maglieri told The Los Angeles
Times: “I’m 70 years old and I’ve
never smoked a joint in my life.
People ask me and I tell them,
‘Dope is for dopes.’ People want to
fight me on that, I’ll fight them.
I’ve seen too many lives de-
Some musicians
needed a free meal,
others a kind word.
stroyed by drugs.”
Mario Mikeal Maglieri was
born on Feb. 7, 1924, in Sepino, Ita-
ly, to Alfonso and Christina
Maglieri. The family moved to
Chicago, where his father opened
a nightclub, when Mario was 4
years old.
As a teenager, he drove a beer
truck. He later served in the Army
and took part in the D-Day inva-
sion of Normandy. Back in Chi-
cago, he got jobs as a court bailiff
and nightclub manager before
opening his own clubs.
In 1964 he moved to Los Ange-
les, where he was helping a friend
open the Playboy Club when he
In 1962, he married Vanessa
Jebb, a painter. They had three
children, Inigo, Isambard and Isa-
bella. All survive him.
Mr. Thomas was educated at
An expert in ‘the
genre of Nobody Does
This Anymore.’
the fee-paying, boys-only Sher-
borne School in southern England
and went on to study history at
Cambridge University in the early
1950s. After graduation, he
worked at the British Foreign Of-
fice and was secretary to the
British delegation at major disar-
GEORGE ROSE/GETTY IMAGES
got a call from Mr. Valentine.
Mr. Maglieri recalled, in
“Straight Whisky,” that Mr. Valen-
tine urged him to join him at the
Whisky because his employees
were helping themselves to the
club’s till. “So I say, ‘No problem.’ I
go down to the Whisky and fire ev-
eryone in the place. That’s how it
all started.”
Mr. Maglieri opened the Rain-
bow in 1972 with Mr. Valentine and
the music impresario Lou Adler,
who also owned a piece of the
Whisky. Mr. Adler and Mr. Valen-
tine subsequently opened the
Roxy Theater on Sunset Boule-
vard, which also became a musi-
cal mecca; Mr. Maglieri managed
it for 25 years but did not have an
ownership interest.
“I don’t think it was innate in
him to love rock and rock ’n’ roll
people,” Mr. Adler said in a tele-
phone interview on Monday. “But
being around it for all the years
that he was, he just took a fatherly,
grandfatherly, godfatherly feeling
toward these people. He loved the
kids, the great ones with the prob-
lems, like Morrison and Axl Rose.”
In addition to his son, Mr.
Maglieri is survived by his wife,
the former Scarlett Tribolet; sev-
en grandchildren; and five great-
grandchildren.
Mr. Quisling, the author, said in
an interview that Mr. Maglieri
was especially fond of Led Zep-
pelin, whose members would call
ahead to get their special table at
the Rainbow after their concerts
at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
“They were notorious for their
hard partying,” he said, “and
Mario made sure they were pro-
tected from the prying eyes of the
paparazzi and made sure things
didn’t get too out of hand.”
Of course, he added, when
things did get out of hand, Mr.
Maglieri took control. The band’s
drummer, John Bonham, once
punched his chauffeur and some
customers, and took a swing at
Mr. Maglieri, who decked Bonham
with a punch to the jaw.
“He felt bad that it happened,”
Mr. Quisling said of Mr. Maglieri.
“They were still friends until John
died.”
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mament talks. At the time, he also
wrote two novels, “The World’s
Game” (1957) and “The Oxygen
Age” (1958). He published a third
work of fiction, “Klara,” in 1988.
Alongside his early writing, Mr.
Thomas lectured at the Royal Mil-
itary Academy in Sandhurst,
Britain’s premier officer training
establishment, and sought unsuc-
cessfully to win election to Parlia-
ment as a Labour Party candidate
before espousing a more conser-
vative political outlook in the
1970s.
“Hugh Thomas has been some-
thing of a cuckoo in the Tory nest
for two decades,” the critic Rich-
ard Gott wrote in the British paper
The Independent in 1997. “His
writings suggest he is one of the
surviving romantic historians of
an earlier, liberal school.”
In 1979, Mr. Thomas became
Jack Tilton, 66, Art Dealer
With an Eye for the New
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Jack Tilton, an art dealer whose
gallery was instrumental in dis-
covering or giving crucial early
exposure to Marlene Dumas, Kiki
Smith, David Hammons and other
artists who later became promi-
nent, died on Sunday in Manhat-
tan. He was 66.
The cause was complications of
cancer, his wife, Connie Rogers
Tilton, said.
Mr. Tilton, who began his career
as an assistant to Betty Parsons at
her renowned 57th Street gallery,
had an eye for the new and a thirst
for discovery. He was particularly
keen on finding young artists just
coming into their own and giving
them the needed push.
Several artists who are now
well established, including Fran-
cis Alys, Glenn Ligon, and Fred
Holland, who died last year, bene-
fited from his backing. He was
also a prescient, intrepid explorer
of Chinese art, using his gallery to
showcase work by artists like
Huang Yong Ping and Zhang Peili.
Mr. Tilton operated in a low-key,
sometimes quirky style. In 1992 he
mounted an exhibition of virtual-
reality art, and in 2005 he trolled
graduate painting studios at
Hunter College, the Yale School of
Art and Columbia University to
assemble work for an all-student
exhibition, “School Days.” All the
work sold.
John Havemeyer Tilton Jr. was
born on April 25, 1951, in Littleton,
N.H. His father, who had studied
art at Yale and at one point de-
signed Christmas cards, served
for many years in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature. His mother, the
former Marjory Seidler, was a
homemaker.
He attended the Tilton School in
Tilton, N.H. (with which he had no
family connection) and studied
business at Babson College in
Wellesley, Mass., earning a bache-
lor’s degree in 1974. With a bank-
ing career in mind, he took
courses at the University of New
Hampshire’s graduate school of
business. But boredom set in, and
he dropped out.
After moving to Manhattan, he
made his way to the Betty Parsons
Gallery. Ms. Parsons, a family
friend, had championed the lumi-
naries of the New York School,
artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark
Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Barnett
Newman. She was known as an in-
dependent-minded explorer, indif-
ferent to trends. Her example was
not lost on Mr. Tilton, who more or
less stumbled into his position at
the gallery.
“I got the job because Betty and
her secretary were in the galleries
trying to unwrap and hang some
paintings,” he said in an interview
last year with the Art Dealers As-
sociation of America. “The art
handlers and assistants didn’t
show up, and I offered to work for
free. By the time they showed up, I
worked myself up to a job, making
$80 a week.”
He was Ms. Parsons’s director
until her death in 1982. A year later
he took over her space and opened
chairman of the Center for Policy
Studies, a right-wing policy insti-
tute whose supporters included
Margaret Thatcher before and af-
ter she was elected prime min-
ister, serving from 1979 to 1990. It
was she who elevated Mr. Thomas
to the peerage, and he, in turn,
played a behind-the-scenes role in
her administration.
In 1982, according to newspaper
reports, he acted as her adviser
during the Falklands war against
Argentina, enlisted because of his
deep knowledge of South Amer-
ica.
That same year, Mr. Thomas
and his wife, who lived in London,
hosted a private dinner to enable
Mrs. Thatcher to meet literary fig-
ures of the day, Nigel Farndale
wrote in The Guardian in 2013.
“The guest list read like a who’s
who of literary London,” including
the poets Philip Larkin, Stephen
Spender and A. Alvarez, the nov-
elist Anthony Powell and the play-
wright Tom Stoppard, Mr. Farn-
dale wrote, adding, “Thomas was
seen as a bridge between their
world and the world of Tory poli-
tics.”
The gathering was supposed to
be secret and remained so for sev-
eral years, according to Mr. Farn-
dale. Mrs. Thatcher’s intention, he
said, was to promote her political
views among the group as a coun-
terweight to her literary foes, in-
cluding the playwright Harold
Pinter.
Several of the guests were im-
pressed by Mrs. Thatcher, Mr.
Farndale wrote, but Mr. Thomas’s
effort to broker a following for her
in the world of letters and learning
yielded ambivalent results.
“As it turned out, the attempt
was futile,” Mr. Farndale said.
“Three years later, Oxford dons
snubbed her by refusing to award
her the honorary doctorate that
they traditionally bestowed upon
prime ministers.”
M. BRENDON M ac INNIS
Jack Tilton in 2008 at his
gallery, a 19th-century town-
house on the Upper East Side
of Manhattan.
the Jack Tilton Gallery (later the
Tilton Gallery), determined to
pursue his own offbeat course.
In his first show he hung the
work of three foreign artists — a
Scot, an Italian and an Austrian —
and one American, Joseph Nech-
vatal. John Russell, reviewing the
show for The New York Times,
praised Mr. Tilton’s “personal and
international taste for the new
and unfamiliar,” which he said
“owes nothing to fashion.”
Mr. Tilton moved the gallery to
Greene Street in SoHo in the early
A gallery owner who
got his start
unwrapping and
hanging the art.
1990s, and in 1999 he joined with
Bennett and Julie Roberts to cre-
ate Roberts & Tilton in Culver City,
Calif., which represents, among
other artists, Kehinde Wiley and
Ed Templeton. In 2005 he relo-
cated to the Upper East Side, set-
ting up in the landmark town-
house on East 76th Street where
Eleanor and Franklin D. Roose-
velt had been married.
In the 1990s, his growing inter-
est in China led to shows for Liu
Wei, Huang Yong Ping and Xu
Bing. For a time he ran the China
Project, an artists’ residency pro-
gram in Tongzhou, an art district
on the fringes of Beijing. In 2006
he organized the comprehensive
exhibition “Jiang Hu: 34 Contem-
porary Chinese Artists.”
In addition to his wife, he is sur-
vived by a sister, Mary Ann
Tilton; a brother, Frederick; and
two sons, Jamie and Robbie.
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
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California and is writing a book
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Citizen in Pennsylvania in 1941 and
later worked for United Press. Af-
ter working as a correspondent on
Navy combat ships in the Pacific
during World War II, he joined
The Providence Journal in Rhode
Island in 1952 and The Times as a
copy editor two years later.
He covered national politics in
the early 1960s and was the news
editor in Washington from 1965 to
1974, during the frenzied 1968 pres-
idential campaign and The
Times’s publication of The Penta-
gon Papers, the secret history of
the Vietnam War.
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later vice president of Affiliated
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company.
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Phelps was the editor of Nieman
Reports, published by the Nieman
Foundation at Harvard, which
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est standards of journalism. He
never stopped writing.
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his own advance obituary. It be-
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eyed 86-year-old retired newspa-
per editor who hobbled around a
patch of grass in Lincoln, Mass.,
trying to raise a few apples,
peaches, plums, and blueberries.
His wife Elizabeth, who died in
2003, said they would have
starved if he had been a farmer.”
and in “Grindhouse” (2007).
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themes like “The Happening,” a
1967 comedy about a group of hip-
pies who kidnap a mobster played
by Anthony Quinn, and “Bus Ri-
ley’s Back in Town,” a 1965 drama
with Ann-Margret in which he
played a man struggling to re-
adjust to civilian life after three
years in the Navy.
Mr. Parks starred as a disillu-
sioned motorcycle-riding ex-re-
porter in the series “Then Came
Bronson,” seen on NBC in the
1969-70 season. He also sang the
show’s closing theme song, “Long
Lonesome Highway,” a Top 20 hit
in 1970. He recorded a number of
albums throughout his career.
Mr. Parks found what were per-
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Michael Parks in the 1960s.
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movies followed fame
in the 1960s.
haps his most famous parts
thanks to Mr. Tarantino, Mr. Smith
and Mr. Rodriguez, all of whom
turned to him again and again for
meaty supporting roles.
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parts of “Kill Bill” (2003 and 2004)
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roles in his horror comedy “Tusk”
(2014), which also starred Justin
Long and Johnny Depp, and “Red
State” (2011), in which he played a
murderous preacher. On Wednes-
day he called Mr. Parks “my cin-
ematic muse” and “the best actor
I’ve ever known.”
“I wrote both ‘Red State’ and
‘Tusk’ for Parks, I loved his acting
so much,” Mr. Smith wrote on In-
stagram, adding that Mr. Parks
“brought out the absolute best in
me every time he got near my set.”
B16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
2 NEWS
Juilliard’s new leader: the
ballet star Damian Woetzel.
5 MUSIC
Paramore takes its pop-punk
to the ’80s. BY JON CARAMANICA
NEWS CRITICISM
Miriam Linna in the loft in Brooklyn that she shared with her husband, Billy Miller, below, before his death in November. The couple founded Norton Records, which is releasing Dion’s “Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965” this week.
Keeping the Dream Kickin’
After the death of her
partner, the owner of a
New York record label
presses on with a
high-profile release.
A Storyteller’s Private Dystopias
A drama and an installation
conjure desperate characters.
THE FINE IRISH TRADITION of spinning a
good yarn rattles with desperation in Enda
Walsh’s “Arlington,” which has turned St.
Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn into an elec-
tric shock ward for the narratively chal-
lenged. In this riveting fever dream of a
play, which opened on Wednesday night,
Arlington
St. Ann’s Warehouse
Rooms
Cybert Tire
the three characters we meet are the hu-
man equivalents of caged songbirds.
Quarantined alone in an institutional
chamber that suggests a waiting room in
hell, with its fishless aquarium and pathetic
plastic plant, the inhabitants of “Arlington”
are coaxed, prodded and — if the word fits,
and it does — tortured into what amounts to
singing for their supper. And their sleep.
And their very existence.
But just what are they supposed to say?
It’s not state secrets that their captors are
after. Apparently, all that’s required of these
prisoners is that they shape remembrance
of things past into entertaining anecdotes.
That’s a problem, though, when you’re not
even sure what your past was.
CONTINUED ON PAGE C2
By BEN SISARIO
Six months after the death of Billy Miller,
his wife, Miriam Linna, still keeps his ashes
in their only appropriate place: next to the
couple’s gigantic collection of 45 r.p.m.
records.
For nearly 40 years, Mr. Miller and Ms.
Linna reigned as the king and queen of New
York record collectors. They hunted for rare
rockabilly singles, chronicled lost scenes in
their magazine Kicks, and founded Norton
Records to reissue some of their greatest
and most bizarre finds, with liner notes that
had scholarly depth but also showed the ex-
citement of true fans.
When Mr. Miller died in November, at 62,
BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW
Charlie Murphy as one of three characters in “Arlington.” Fitful waiting is crucial to the plot of this play, by Enda Walsh.
6 BOOKS
Midlife angst on
campus in Richard
Russo’s ‘Trajectory.’
BY JENNIFER SENIOR
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017 C1
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of complications of multiple myeloma, kid-
ney failure and diabetes, Ms. Linna was left
to ponder her life alone as well as the future
of their sprawling business, which includes
not only the label but a book publishing im-
print and the tiny Norton Record Shop in
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
“People say, ‘You’re independent, you can
do this on your own,’ but that independence
thing was two people,” Ms. Linna, 61, said in
a recent interview at her Brooklyn loft. With
jukeboxes, pulp paperbacks, records and B-
movie posters everywhere, the apartment
doubles as a virtual museum of rock ’n’ roll
ephemera.
“Working as a fan, as a label owner, mag-
CONTINUED ON PAGE C4
Seminary
Under Fire
Over Artifacts
Native Americans are awaiting
the return of sacred items.
By LESLIE MACMILLAN
and TOM MASHBERG
NEWTON, MASS. — A 210-year-old seminary
here that is in the process of joining Yale Di-
vinity School is coming under fire from fed-
eral regulators for failing to follow a law de-
signed to ensure the return of sacred and
other special artifacts to Native American
tribes.
The Newton Andover Theological School
has a collection of 158 Native American
items, including locks of hair, wampum
belts, “peace pipes” and finely beaded cere-
monial garb, mostly gathered in the 19th
century by Christian missionaries. For
about 70 years, the artifacts have been
housed at the Peabody Essex Museum in
Salem, Mass.
But the museum alerted the United
States Department of the Interior two years
ago when the Newton school, which is
struggling with low enrollment, proposed
selling some items to raise money. Officials
quickly warned the school that a sale would
violate a federal law that says any organiza-
MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
tion that receives federal funding must
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A Storyteller’s Private Dystopias
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Storytelling under duress has long been
the motor of Mr. Walsh’s finest work. He is
best known to mainstream audiences for
his Tony Award-winning book for the
charming musical “Once,” but his usual
brand of whimsy is far more subversive.
In his “Bedbound,” “Misterman,” “Penel-
ope” and the riotous “Walworth Farce,” peo-
ple spew long, convoluted reminiscences as
if their lives depended upon it. And so they
do, Mr. Walsh might argue, since it is
through such deluded self-portraiture that
we are able to function in a world always
threatening to erase our identities.
Theatergoers desiring full immersion in
this singular auteur’s universe of unreliable
narrators have before them both “Arling-
ton” and an environmental theater project,
“Rooms,” also written and directed by Mr.
Walsh. This haunting installation has been
set up above a garage in the wild west of
Midtown Manhattan, the future home of the
Irish Arts Center. (The related theater
works, produced by the center and St. Ann’s
Warehouse, are presented under the um-
brella name “Enda Walsh in NYC.”)
“Rooms” asks its audiences to step into
three self-contained spaces (designed by
Paul Fahy): a kitchen, a hotel room and a
little girl’s bedroom. They are precisely fur-
nished chambers, shabby but tidy, that
seem suspended in a murky twilight.
A distinct, self-hypnotized voice fills each
room, describing its environment as a limbo
where life is frozen, even as it drifts into
nothingness. The voices belong to Charlie
Murphy, Eileen Walsh and Niall Buggy, and
they are guaranteed to take up residence in
your head, too.
The contemplative “Rooms” might be
called disturbingly relaxing. There is noth-
ing whatsoever soothing about “Arlington,”
which jolts the system through some of the
most sophisticated visual and sound effects
on display in New York. Jamie Vartan is the
designer here.
But give full credit to an entire team —
including Adam Silverman (lighting), Hel-
en Atkinson (sound) and Jack Phelan (vid-
eo) — that knows just how to play with our
senses. Along with the composer Teho
Teardo, whose music panders to our inner
sentimentalists, these collaborators func-
tion as instruments of the Devil, or of the un-
seen arbiters of Mr. Walsh’s version of an
Orwellian future.
What they conjure is an ocean of images
and noises, meant to urge the isolated souls
in that infernal waiting room into describ-
ing life as it was. The subjects of these
experiments are portrayed by Ms. Murphy
(shattering as Isla, the only character with
a name), Oona Doherty and Hugh O’Conor,
in bravura performances in which frantic
but exactly staged movement becomes the
embattled life force.
Emma Martin’s choreography is as im-
portant to defining these desperate charac-
ters as are Mr. Walsh’s warp-speed
speeches. Dance is what remains of the
spirit of resistance, and of an essence of in-
dividuality beyond the autobiographical
spiels that are coerced from Ms. Murphy
and Mr. O’Conor’s characters. Ms. Doherty
never says a word, as I recall, which is not to
say that she isn’t supremely eloquent.
For the first two-thirds of “Arlington,”
which runs a dense 85 minutes, the nature
of the world that gave birth to this dystopia
is revealed only by indirection. The effect is
of an episode of “Black Mirror,” the omnibus
sci-fi series, scripted by Samuel Beckett.
BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW
ARLINGTON and ROOMS
Tickets Both run through
May 28. “Arlington” at St.
Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn;
866-811-4111, stannswarehouse
.org; “Rooms” at Cybert Tire, Man-
hattan; 866-811-4111,
irishartscenter.org. Running time,
“Arlington”: 1 hour 25 minutes.
Running time, “Rooms”: 40 minutes.
“Arlington” Credits Written and
directed by Enda Walsh;
choreography by Emma Martin;
music by Teho Teardo; designed by
Jamie Vartan; lighting by Adam
Silverman; sound by Helen Atkinson;
video by Jack Phelan; production
manager, Tom Rohan; stage director,
Fiona Kennedy; stage manager,
Sophie Flynn; technical manager,
Colm Robinson; produced by Anne
Clarke and Paul Fahy; associate
Like the tramps of “Waiting for Godot,”
the residents of “Arlington” hope for a deliv-
erance that will surely never come, invent-
ing histories of dubious provenance and au-
thenticity. The difference is that Mr. Walsh’s
characters are denied even the comforts of
companionship. And Isla and company are
not waiting for deliverance by the disem-
bodied Godot, but from an inhumanly hu-
man Big Brother (or perhaps Big Sister, as
it develops).
In the play’s final sequence, Mr. Walsh
lets this entity explain itself, in a “how we
got this way” history lesson, and I wish he
hadn’t, despite the dazzling video montage
that accompanies the scene. It’s as if Beck-
ett had stepped aside to let J. J. Abrams take
over the authorship.
The devil you don’t know is always scari-
er than the devil you do. And such explicit-
ness demystifies the production’s seductive
and sadistic air of nightmare verisimilitude.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
producer, Sara Cregan. A Landmark
Productions and Galway Interna-
tional Arts Festival production, pre-
sented by St. Ann’s Warehouse,
Susan Feldman, artistic director; Erik
Wallin, general manager; Elizabeth
Moreau, production manager.
Cast Charlie Murphy (Isla), Hugh
O’Conor (Young Man), Oona Doherty
(Young Woman) and Eanna Breath-
nach, Olwen Fouéré, Helen Norton
and Stephen Rea (Voices).
“Rooms” Credits Written and di-
rected by Enda Walsh; designed by
Paul Fahy. A Galway International
Arts Festival production, presented
by Irish Arts Center.
Cast Niall Buggy (voice of Old Man),
Charlie Murphy (voice of Girl) and
Eileen Walsh (voice of Wife).
As a whole, though, “Arlington” is as
creepy and compelling a vision of a blasted
tomorrow as you’re going to find these
days, and there’s plenty of competition
around. And it’s unconditionally true to Mr.
Walsh’s distinctive worldview, in which
power comes from controlling the narra-
tive.
At one point, Isla sees a silent loop from a
talk show projected on the walls, and it
causes her to wonder: “I can’t reconcile
why people would sit around on comfy seats
and talk about what has already happened,”
she says. Perhaps, she adds, “they started
talking about what could possibly happen:
what a day could build into, the hope of that
day, talking out their dreams in the way that
people like me are told to talk them out —
these lies.”
Isla then slaps herself soundly. That kind
of speculation isn’t going to help a bit in a
world where nobody owns her own story.
Top, Hugh O’Conor in
“Arlington.” Mr. Walsh’s
“Rooms” installation, above,
features a young girl’s space
and distinct voices.
Creepy and compelling,
contemplative and
disturbing. Right in a
director’s wheelhouse.
Juilliard
Announces
New Leader
Damian Woetzel, a former
ballet star, will be its chief.
By MICHAEL COOPER
The Juilliard School reached outside
academia for its next leader: It an-
nounced on Wednesday that it had se-
lected Damian Woetzel, the former
New York City Ballet star, to be its
seventh president.
His appointment to lead a presti-
gious school with a $110 million annual
budget, a $1 billion endowment, and
more than 800 students is unusual,
given that Mr. Woetzel, who now di-
rects the Aspen Institute Arts Pro-
gram and the Vail International
Dance Festival, has never worked in
academic administration.
But the Juilliard board of trustees
was impressed, said Bruce Kovner, its
chairman, by both his artistic back-
ground, and his post-ballet career: He
has injected new life into the Vail festi-
val, earned a master’s degree in pub-
lic administration from the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard, taught as a visiting lecturer
at Harvard Law School, and served on
President Obama’s Committee on the
Arts and Humanities, where he
worked to bring arts to public schools.
The appointment, which is to take
effect in 2018, will be a homecoming of
sorts for Mr. Woetzel, 49. He studied
dance as a teenager in the Juilliard
building, which then housed the
School of American Ballet, where he
completed his dance studies before
joining City Ballet. “I walked into Juil-
liard,” he recalled of his first class
there, “and you heard music in the
halls, and it was this kind of magical
place.”
Mr. Kovner said: “One is always
looking for a perfect mix of qualities,
and Damian is an unusual mix — but
I’m not bothered by it, and our faculty
and board was not bothered by the un-
RICHARD TERMINE
The appointment will be a homecoming
of sorts for Damian Woetzel, who danced
as a teenager in the Juilliard building.
conventionality of Damian’s back-
ground. Because he personally em-
bodies these qualities — these intel-
lectual qualities and these artistic
qualities — to a degree that is really
unusual.”
Juilliard faces major challenges. It
is one of the most prestigious conser-
vatories in the world, and has a huge
endowment, but costs continue to rise
— tuition and board is now north of
$60,000 a year — at a moment when
the job prospects for even the best
trained artists is murky. Competitors,
including the Curtis Institute of Music
in Philadelphia and the Yale School of
Music, offer free tuition to attract tal-
ented students. Juilliard has been
working to bring in new revenue by
developing curriculums for private
primary and secondary schools, cre-
ating online education products, and
by making plans to build the Tianjin
Juilliard School in China.
Mr. Woetzel will become president-
designate at Juilliard next school
year, giving him the chance to work
with its outgoing president, Joseph W.
Polisi, who transformed the school
during his more than three decades
there. Mr. Woetzel said he wanted to
build on the school’s efforts to prepare
a new generation for what he called
the “D.I.Y. world,” where they must
create their own opportunities.
He said that while he had never
been responsible for such a big insti-
tution, his recent career — toggling
between Aspen and Vail and Harvard
— had taught him to balance the
needs of different stakeholders.
“While it hasn’t been concentrated,
I’ve been responsible for such a varie-
ty of things at the same time that this
is somehow bringing the orchestra to-
gether,” he said.
One noted alumnus, the cellist Yo-
Yo Ma, called the appointment of Mr.
Woetzel “an inspired and thoughtful
choice.” The two men worked togeth-
er on the campaign to bring arts edu-
cation to Chicago’s public schools, and
Mr. Ma said he was a compelling advo-
cate for culture.
Mr. Woetzel’s path to becoming a
college president was an unusual one:
His father, a professor, had been sur-
prised when he decided to forgo
college to dance ballet. Mr. Woetzel re-
called a visit from his father to see him
take a class at the School of American
Ballet. “As we left he said to me, ‘Do
you know, it’s a beautiful world that
you’re entering,’” he recalled. “And I
knew what he was talking about be-
cause we were walking by open rooms
with music going on, and it was just
that art of the possible existing in one
place.”
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Arts, Briefly
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African artists.”
Cannes to Change Rules Mr. Ehikhamenor said he Ready, Set, Go
thought the Hirst work was close
Over Netflix Protest to the original and yet Mr. Hirst
YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX

Facing pressure from French celebrated it as contemporary

theater owners upset that Netflix
films would go straight to
streaming, the Cannes Film
Festival said Wednesday that it
would change its rules to require
all future competition films to
commit to distribution in French
movie theaters.
Among the films vying for the
Palme d’Or in the festival, which
begins next Wednesday, are “The
Meyerowitz Stories,” directed by
Noah Baumbach, and Bong
Joon-ho’s “Okja,” both produced
by Netflix. Neither is getting a
theatrical release in France, and
the federation of French cinema
owners has protested because
the films wouldn’t be shown in
theaters.
“The Festival de Cannes is
aware of the anxiety aroused by
the absence of the release in
theaters of those films in
France,” the festival said in a
statement on Wednesday.
It added: “The festival asked
Netflix in vain to accept that
these two films could reach the
audience of French movie the-
aters and not only its sub-
scribers. Hence the Festival
regrets that no agreement has
been reached.”
Netflix has bristled at a French
rule requiring a 36-month delay
between a film’s release in the-
aters and on streaming plat-
forms. “Okja” is being released in
American theaters on June 28.
An American theatrical release is
also planned for “The Mey-
erowitz Stories.”
A spokeswoman for Netflix’s
European operations, Lindsay
Colker, said the company had no
comment. A spokesman for Net-
flix in Los Angeles did not return
a request for comment.
(The statement from the festi-
val confirmed that the films
would remain in competition.)
RACHEL DONADIO
‘Downton Abbey’ Star
Is Coming to Broadway
Elizabeth McGovern — best
known as Lady Cora in “Down-
ton Abbey” — will return to
Broadway this fall in a rare re-
vival of “Time and the Conways.”
The J. B. Priestly play, which
Sign of the Times
When Justin Peck choreographed “The Times Are Racing” for New York City Ballet, he designed a lead role with the
chief stylistic feature of tap dancing in sneakers. And though he gave the initial run of performances in January to
Robert Fairchild, perhaps the company’s biggest star, he announced that the role would also be danced by Ashly Isaacs,
a company soloist. It appears to be the first time a role at City Ballet has been conceived both ways.
Ms. Isaacs, above right, with Taylor Stanley, has danced the role twice. On Tuesday night, she transformed the ballet.
“The Times Are Racing” is an urban piece with references to protest movements, but in its January and February
showings it felt slick. From the very opening incidents, Ms. Isaacs brings it vulnerability.
ALASTAIR MACAULAY
hasn’t been seen on Broadway
since its premiere in 1938, is to
run from Sept. 13 through Nov. 26
at Roundabout Theater Compa-
ny’s American Airlines Theater.
Ms. McGovern, an Emmy and
Golden Globe nominee for
“Downton Abbey,” and an Oscar
nominee for Milos Forman’s 1981
film “Ragtime,” made her Round-
about debut in 1992 as Ophelia in
“Hamlet.”
In this play she will star as
Mrs. Conway, a mother who, in
the opening moments — in 1919
Britain, around the same time
“Downton” takes place — is
celebrating her daughter’s 21st
birthday with postwar optimism
and plenty of wealth. The play
fast-forwards 19 years, to a time
when the family’s fortunes have
changed drastically. Rebecca
Taichman, who recently made
her Broadway directing debut
with Paula Vogel’s play “Inde-
cent,” and earned a Tony Award
nomination for it, is to direct.
JOSHUA BARONE
Hirst Controversy
At Venice Biennale
There’s controversy in Venice for
Damien Hirst, the British artist
who has drawn accusations that
his pieces are not always wholly
original.
At the Venice Biennale this
week, the Nigerian artist Victor
Ehikhamenor said Mr. Hirst had
copied an ancient Nigerian brass
artwork, “Head of Ife,” found in
1938 in Ife, Nigeria, without
giving it proper historical recog-
nition. Mr. Hirst’s work, a
sculpted head called “Golden
Heads (Female)” is part of his
“Treasures From the Wreck of
the Unbelievable” show that fills
the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta
della Dogana museums.
Regarded as a comeback for
Mr. Hirst, the Biennale exhibition
is his first major show of new
work in 10 years. It is a kind of
underwater fantasy of art and
artifacts, including a bronze
art. In a statement, Mr. Hirst’s
office said that Ife was refer-
enced in accompanying text and
in the exhibition guide.
“The Treasures are a collection
of works influenced by a wide
range of cultures and stories
from across the globe and
throughout history — indeed
many of the works celebrate
original and important artworks
from the past,” the statement LISA MOORE One of the
said.
most valuable new-music
GRAHAM BOWLEY
pianists today performs a
program curated by the
composer John Luther Ad-
Animated ‘Deadpool’ ams. 7 p.m. at Symphony
Planned for FXX Space.
symphonyspace.org
Two of the most creatively fertile
PAUL KOLNIK
forces in entertainment — Mar-
vel and Donald Glover — are
teaming up, Avengers style, to
bring yet another superhero
show to television. Mr. Glover is
producing an animated series
featuring Marvel’s Deadpool for
FX, the cable network an-
nounced Wednesday. The 10-
episode series, which is still
untitled, will debut in 2018 on
FXX, the network’s comedy-
focused channel.
Deadpool, a profanely sardonic
statue of Mickey Mouse, that, so antihero, has been one of Mar- NEW YORK CITY BALLET A
Mr. Hirst’s tongue-in-cheek vel’s most popular characters
since his debut in 1991. As por-
Justin Peck masterpiece,
narrative goes, were part of a “Rodeo: Four Dance
fictional shipwreck. trayed by Ryan Reynolds, Dead- Episodes,” is back. 7:30 p.m.
The written description along- pool crossed over into film with
at Lincoln Center.
side “Golden Heads (Female)” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” in
2009. Last year’s gleefully vulgar 212-496-0600, nycballet.com
mentions Ife amid a broader
story about the Hirst sculpture. “Deadpool” was a surprise hit,
But there is no mention of Ife on breaking box-office records for
postcards at the show, Mr. R-rated movies.
Ehikhamenor said in a phone FX suggested the series would
interview. His own Biennale be tonally similar, describing it
exhibition, “A Biography of the as an “animated adult action-
Forgotten,” he said, looks “at our comedy.” It joins a robust field of
history and classical artists that Marvel TV adaptations, including
tend to be forgotten.” FX’s “Legion,” as well as the
After visiting the Hirst show, Netflix series “Luke Cage,” “Jes-
he took to Instagram. “For the sica Jones,” “Daredevil,” “Iron
thousands of viewers seeing this Fist” and, soon, “The Defenders.”
for the first time, they won’t The Deadpool series also ex-
think Ife, they won’t think Ni- pands the already considerable ‘THE PRICE’ This star-stud-
geria,” he wrote. “Their young portfolio of Mr. Glover, whose
ones will grow up to know this “Atlanta,” also for FX, was argu-
ded take on Arthur Miller
work as Damien Hirst’s.” ably the most acclaimed new closes on Sunday. 8 p.m. at
In the interview, Mr. show of 2016. He and his brother, American Airlines Theater.
Ehikhamenor said the Ife head Stephen, a writer on “Atlanta,” roundabouttheatre.org
is “one of the most intricate and will serve as showrunners and
most beautiful works of art that writers on the Deadpool series.
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Keeping the Dream Alive and Kickin’
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
azine publisher, whatever — it’s always
been side by side, and having a blast with
it,” she added, holding back tears. “It’s a lit-
tle harder having a blast by yourself.”
This week, Ms. Linna is pressing on with
perhaps Norton’s highest-profile release:
Dion’s “Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album
1965,” a collection of folk-rock songs that
represented a maturing phase for the sing-
er of “Runaround Sue,” but were mostly re-
jected by his label at the time, Columbia
Records.
“Kickin’ Child” was the last album that
Mr. Miller worked on, and it will be Norton’s
first release since his death. The label
worked closely with Sony Music, which
owns Columbia, to prepare and manufac-
ture the album, but by Dion’s choice it is
coming out on Norton.
“Passion’s worth more than money in the
‘I know without a doubt
in my mind that if it was
me, not Billy, Billy
would not let go of the
dream.’
MIRIAM LINNA
NORTON RECORDS
music game, and I know they have passion,”
Dion said of Norton and the couple behind
it.
If record collectors have storybook ro-
mances, Ms. Linna and Mr. Miller lived it.
They met at a record fair in 1977 and soon
began publishing Kicks, following a path
laid by earlier fanzines like Bomp! in dig-
ging excitedly into the little-known corners
of rock history.
By 1986, when Ms. Linna and Mr. Miller
started Norton — named after Jackie Glea-
son’s neighbor on “The Honeymooners” —
they had already started to dig much
deeper than most, and the Norton catalog
swelled with unusual artifacts like reissues
of the wild one-man band Hasil Adkins and
exhaustively researched studies of regional
garage-rock scenes.
“I think of them like archaeologists, going
through the layers of this music to find its
root source,” said Lenny Kaye, the guitarist,
rock historian and compiler of the 1972 al-
bum “Nuggets,” another precursor to the
Norton method. “They have found just
beautiful, beautiful people whose purity of
expression is why we listen in the first
place.”
Norton’s taste has attracted superstar
fans like Elton John and Robert Plant, who
was named the label’s customer of the year
in 2006. Norton also became a precursor to
what is now a broad field of young labels,
like Light in the Attic and the Numero
Group, that specialize in tasteful, “curated”
reissues of obscure recordings.
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But Ms. Linna, whose blond bangs hang
just above her eyes, loathes the highfalutin
word “curator,” and she isn’t wild about “col-
lector” either. Waving at the wall of records
she accumulated with Mr. Miller, she alter-
nately calls it junk, stuff and “crapola,”
which she means lovingly.
“I can guarantee you,” she said proudly,
“that every record in there is good.”
As an example, she pulled out a Velvet
Underground disc that she believes may be
the only one of its kind: An acetate record
containing the song “Heroin” that she said
Mr. Miller found while poking through a box
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At home, above, Miriam Linna
keeps a collection of 45 r.p.m.
records, and a candle by a
photo of her husband, Billy
Miller, who died last year.
Dion’s new “Kickin’ Child: The
Lost Album 1965” was the last
album that Miller worked on.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
of doo-wop records. When talking about
their work together, Ms. Linna sometimes
catches herself still referring to her hus-
band in the present tense.
Mr. Miller’s death is not Norton’s first set-
back. In 2012, its warehouse in Red Hook,
Brooklyn, was flooded by Hurricane Sandy,
destroying most of the label’s 250,000
After losing her king,
the queen of New York
record collectors protects
their labor of love.
records, along with paperwork, master
tapes and much of the stock of their book
imprint, Kicks Books.
“It took a lot of gusto out of the game to
see stuff floating around there,” Ms. Linna
recalled. Drawing on decades of good will in
the business, they got much of the label’s
catalog back into print, and Norton now
sells discount “Sandys” records — jacket
gone, vinyl fine — in bins outside the shop.
Last year, they heard some of the tracks
that Dion recorded in 1965 with Tom Wilson,
Bob Dylan’s producer, and were stunned.
Songs like “Now” had keening harmonies
and a crisp sound that only die-hard fans
knew about. Through a mutual friend, Scott
Kempner of the band the Dictators, they got
in touch with Dion, who told them that he
had planned an entire album.
“Columbia said, ‘What are you doing?’”
Dion recalled. “And I said, ‘I’m making mu-
sic that cannot be denied.’ And they said,
‘These aren’t hit records,’ and they just
tossed it aside.”
Norton worked with Dion and Sony to as-
semble the album, using original mixes that
in some cases have never been released.
When Mr. Miller died, the Dion project
was in midstream, and Ms. Linna said she
was considering whether to close the shop.
Then the vultures started swarming, asking
if she wanted to sell the label. Even now she
sounds surprised at how defiantly she re-
sponded.
“I got a little bit ragged but righteous with
them,” Ms. Linna said. “I did tell them, in no
uncertain terms, that we were going to be a
label” — her voice rose to a yell — “long af-
ter they were going to be food for the cock-
roaches and dinosaurs! I don’t even know
what that means, but it was like, good-bye!”
The store remains open, and Norton is go-
ing full steam. The next project is to produce
expanded reissues of some of the label’s
landmark albums, like Mr. Adkins’s “Out to
Hunch,” Norton’s first album. Next year,
Ms. Linna plans to release a book on the De-
troit label Fortune Records that Mr. Miller
spent seven years researching, with the
musician and writer Michael Hurtt.
“I know without a doubt in my mind that if
it was me not Billy, Billy would not let go of
the dream,” Ms. Linna said. “And the dream
is not like something far off in the future.
This is the dream. We’re living it.”
No day is complete
without
The New York Times.
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 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017 N C5

Pop Music

JON CARAMANICA ALBUM REVIEW

Seeking Clarity
On a Journey
To the 1980s
On its fifth album, Paramore
splits with its pop-punk past.
THE LAST DECADE has been a hostile time
for rock bands, which have lost their cen-
trality to rappers, country stars, D.J.s, inter-
net sensations and more. Even the most im-
portant rock bands of the day don’t much
sound like rock. That made the ascent of Pa-
ramore from the Warped Tour pop-punk
trenches into the mainstream even more re-
markable.
On its way to becoming one of the most
influential bands of the 2000s, Paramore
made the case for pop-punk at arena scale,
and the band’s DNA — and especially that of

From left, Taylor York,

Hayley Williams and Zac
Farro of the band Paramore.

Paramore
“After Laughter”
(Fueled By Ramen)

its frontwoman, Hayley Williams, one of the

most signature yelpers in mainstream rock
— has been heard in musicians across the
pop spectrum: Best Coast, Taylor Swift,
Grimes, Hey Violet and beyond.
“After Laughter” is Paramore’s fifth al-
bum, but more important its first since its
self titled 2013 album, the group’s least cen-
tered release and the one that all but com-
pletely did away with Paramore as it was,
beginning with its 2005 debut album. That
band was a taut pop-punk missile, and espe-
cially on its first two albums, it didn’t stray
far from its mission.
On “After Laughter,” Paramore is single-
minded again, but not of the same mind as it
once was. Ms. Williams and her bandmates,
Zac Farro and Taylor York have remade
themselves into a 1980s pop-rock outfit: ERIC RYAN ANDERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tinny digital percussion, synthesizers and
mostly constrained, saccharine singing Colored Boy”) and the music of John you”). And sometimes she thrives despite (a movement this band would be well-
from Ms. Williams. Hughes films (“Forgiveness”), but also re- musical chaos, like on “Idle Worship,” a sly suited to) and also to split so definitively
One of the shortcomings of mid-period cent club-pop revivalists like La Roux and song about who, and what, we value: “We with the pop-punk and emo of the band’s
Paramore was the way Ms. Williams was Kiesza (“Told You So”), or attitudinal pop all got problems don’t we?/We all need he- past just as those sounds are beginning to
de-emphasized — she is best when allowed stars like Charli XCX. roes don’t we?/But rest assured there’s not thrive again.
to emote largely uncamouflaged, and when Ms. Williams isn’t as signature, or as ef- a single person here who’s worthy.” Instead, Paramore has removed itself
her singing veers toward sneers. fective, in this universe. She’s still a strong With each album, Paramore became a lit- from the narrative, making an album that
Her vocals on this album are closer to singer, especially on “Told You So,” but tle bolder and strayed a little further from mostly reveals how fatigued it was with its
that idea than on the last album, but even some of her essential grit is lost to the ma- its comfort ground. “After Laughter” feels old idea of itself, and the conversations that
though her lyrics are as aggrieved as ever chines. She has impressive moments on the like a break with that arc, and not a wholly came with it. Perhaps the least surprising
— maybe more so — the jubilation of the least varnished songs here, like “Tell Me explicable one. It is an odd choice to release thing about it is that one of the biggest rock
music works against it. This album sug- How,” a gloomy and piercing piano ballad a 1980s revival album just when a 1990s re- bands of the 2000s isn’t much interested in
gests, in places, early-80s Blondie (“Rose- (“I can’t call you a stranger/But I can’t call vival is moving to the center to pop culture being a rock band at all.

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There’s Plenty to See Here. (And to Listen To.)

The Colmbian singer Juanes
releases 12 new tunes, along
with a visual album.
THE COLOMBIAN SONGWRITER Juanes, a su-
perstar across Latin America, could easily
have released his new album, “Mis Planes
Son Amarte” (“My Plans Are to Love You”),
on its own terms: as a set of a dozen gleam-
ing, tuneful, good-natured songs about love,
featuring his amiable voice and his stra-
tegically syncopated guitars. Instead, he
added another layer of ambition.
“Mis Planes Son Amarte” arrives on Fri-
day as a “visual album,” the digital heir to
the movie musical and Broadway’s jukebox
musicals that Beyoncé brought to the main-
stream with her 2016 release, “Lemonade.”
It’s the first visual album for a major Latin
performer, with its 12 songs strung together
in a narrative about love, time, space, magic
and links between the indigenous and the
extraterrestrial. On May 19, HBO Latino
will show a documentary on the making of
the album, “The Juanes Effect: De Can-
ciones Y Transformaciones,” followed by a
concert performance of songs from the al-
bum.
“For me it’s so important to give dignity
to the concept of the album,” Juanes said
Wednesday by telephone from Medellín,
Colombia, where he was born.
“Everything has changed so much and
everybody is consuming just songs, so the
culture of the album is becoming a concept
of the past. For me it was important to put a
face to every song and just tell a story.”
Juanes (shortened from his full name,
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez) has
deftly merged Latin and Caribbean
rhythms with rock instruments. His songs
have regularly zoomed to No. 1 on Spanish-
language radio stations inside and outside
the United States. He has been showered
with 21 Latin Grammy Awards since he re-
leased his first solo album, “Fíjate Bien,” in
2000, and he won Grammy Awards for Best
Latin Pop album in 2009 and 2013.
He has sung about matters of conscience
as well as affairs of the heart. In 2008 and
2009, Juanes headlined concerts under the
rubric Peace Without Borders, calling for
cultural exchange across Latin America. A
2009 concert, in Cuba, was televised inter-
nationally but drew criticism that he was
lending support to the totalitarian Castro
government. In Miami, where he has lived
since 2003, he drew death threats and
protests before the event.
“It was a really rough time, getting
there,” he recalled. “Many people were try-
ing to put us on one or the other side of poli-
tics. But once we got there and did the
songs, it was one of the most beautiful days
of my life. We believe in the power of music.
We just try to connect people through mu-
sic. I believe that Cuba is going to change
from the inside, and it’s going to take time.”
“Mis Planes Son Amarte” comes across
as Juanes’s most lighthearted album. At the
beginning of “Actitud” (“Attitude”), over
sinewy rock guitar chords, he sings, “The
news says that everything is bad/But I pre-
fer to be more optimistic/In my hands I
carry only a guitar and a good attitude.” Lat-
er in the song, his children join him to sing
about the healing power of love.
His new songs concentrate on love: find-
ing it, losing it, letting it go, carrying it to the
world. “The world is crazy, if you look at
who is running the world now,” Juanes said.
“Everywhere, when you see what is hap-
pening, it’s a very tough moment. But I re-
ally want to concentrate on the positive
side. To me music is a cure of my soul. I want
people to listen to this music and to this al-
bum and just to feel better, just for a mo-
ment.”
On the visual album, Juanes plays an ar-
chaeologist turned astronaut and cosmo-
naut, traversing decades and taking a
shaman’s ayahuasca potion to find his way
back to the indigenous soul mate who
haunts his dreams. The visuals give the
songs a broader mission; they also, in a
brief stop in 1977 during the title song, allow
Juanes to wear his most outlandish disco
outfit. Timelines get tangled, but romance
prevails.
The album also has the first song Juanes
has recorded in English, “Goodbye for
Now.” After living in the United States since
the late 1990s, Juanes speaks English flu-
ently, but writing and singing in English are
still a challenge, he said. Although he has re-
corded songs in Italian, Portuguese and
German, it took five years of experimenting
with English — and Jason Boyd, known for
his work with Justin Bieber, to help with the
lyrics — until he felt he was ready.
“It’s hard when you have to change the
way your muscles work,” he said. “I don’t
JORGE MUNIZ/EUROPEAN
PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
‘I want people to
listen to this music
and to this album and
just to feel better, just
for a moment.’
JUANES
SINGER AND SONGWRITER
want to go full crossover — that’s not my
plan — but I just wanted to do it someday.”
Juanes, 44, made his previous studio al-
bum, “Loco de Amor” in 2014, with the Eng-
lish producer Steve Lillywhite, who has
worked with U2 and Peter Gabriel. For “Mis
Planes Son Amarte,” he switched to a
younger generation of Colombian musi-
cians from Medellín: the hip-hop and reg-
gaetón producers Mosty, Sky and Bull
Nene.
They have written hits with J. Balvin
(“Ginza”) and others, and Juanes collabo-
rated with them on both production and
songwriting — a shift for Juanes, who has
written songs alone for the past decade.
“They understood who I was, where I was
coming from,” he said. “They were not pre-
tending to take me to another place, I was
not pretending to go to their place. We were
just trying to find a place between us to do
the right thing for my music. We were try-
ing to combine the organic side and the elec-
tronic side.”
The sound of the album is both welcom-
ing and futuristic, with programmed
sounds twitching and buzzing alongside
Juanes’s human presence and grooves that
extrapolate from both old (disco, doo-wop)
and new (cumbiareggaetón). The young
producers, he said, reminded him to open
up musical space, stripping away parts.
But for all the streamlined electronics
and sleek hybrids, at the music’s core are
sounds that Juanes grew up on: cumbia,
salsa, vallenato and rural music called
guasca, “the music that my parents listened
to when I was a kid,” he said. “It’s something
that I really enjoy — to have the opportunity
to use this information, to build my crafting
process and just to get to a totally different
place. It’s important to know that I am close
to my roots and I am using that to build
something new.”
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JENNIFER SENIOR
Alphas and Betas,
And Their Egos
In ‘Trajectory,’ the cast
includes average men
and one big star.
FEW AUTHORS do male vulnerabil-
ity as well as Richard Russo. Even
his rascals you want to wrap in tis-
sue paper for safekeeping. (Well,
not all of them. But most.) He may
be renowned for his cuddly
rogues, but he also specializes in
their opposites — unentitled men
who are unassuming and hopeless
around women and rumbling with
uncertainty. Russo is the trouba-
dour of self-deprecation.
You want a typical Russo beta
male? Here’s an example: Nate,
an English professor who’s been
whisked out of his university with
a broom, and not under pleasant
circumstances. “He wonders if
people actually see him differ-
ently now, or if he’s just seeing
himself differently,” Russo writes.
“Maybe it’s his own low self-es-
teem that people are picking up
on, self-recrimination his new de-
fault mode.”
Nate is the protagonist of
“Voice,” one of the quartet of
thoughtful, soulful stories that
make up Russo’s new collection,
“Trajectory.” Three of them
originally appeared elsewhere;
one, “Milton and Marcus,” is new,
and it’s such a tart, dishy portrait
of a famous Hollywood actor that
it’s a wonder that it isn’t being
served at Spago.
The stories in “Trajectory” are a
guided tour through the author’s
preoccupations: the follies of aca-
demia. (Fighting words, but I’d pit
Russo’s “Straight Man” against
any of the novels in David Lodge’s
“Campus Trilogy.”) The disap-
pointments of midlife. (A theme in
virtually every Russo novel, but if
you’re new in these parts, grab
“The Risk Pool” or “Nobody’s
Fool” or “Empire Falls”; the last
one earned the Pulitzer Prize in
2002.) How marriage devolves
into a two-headed Kabuki drama.
How children recapitulate the
mistakes of their parents. And,
most notably — most persistently
in this collection — how the world
neatly divides into those who be-
lieve they are special, and those
who do not.
The egos of all the main charac-
ters in “Trajectory” fall on the in-
visible ends of the electromag-
netic spectrum. At some point,
each of these characters collides
with another whose self-regard is
of a far more vivid hue.
In “Voice,” Nate has to endure
the mockery of his slick older
brother, who repeatedly describes
Nate’s fragile state with an adjec-
tive that’s as vulgar as it is emas-
culating. In “Horseman,” a smug
frat boy tells his professor, “Don’t
hold back,” as she contemplates
how to punish him for plagiarism.
(“How brash men are, she told
herself. How controlled, even in
defeat.”) In “Intervention,” a real
estate agent in Maine listens,
somewhat incredulously, as a cli-
ent tells him that she always be-
lieved it when her father told her
that she was special. (Only re-
cently has she concluded other-
wise.) The idea is foreign to the
agent, who, even after receiving a
cancer diagnosis, never got angry
or succumbed to self-pity. “He’d
simply concluded,” Russo writes,
“that he wasn’t special.”
But the real revelation in “Tra-
jectory” is “Milton and Marcus,”
the story of a down-on-his-luck
novelist and sometime screen-
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writer who’s summoned to the
home of a legendary actor named
William Nolan.
To be clear: Richard Russo is
not down on his luck. And I hope —
pray — that his wife is not, and has
never been, as ill as the narrator’s
is here. But Russo has written and
doctored a number of screenplays
before, including an adaptation of
Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the
Woods.” One of the two stars of
that film was Robert Redford.
There’s really no question that
Russo’s William Nolan character
is based on Redford.
Nolan insists on being called
“Regular Bill.” (People call Red-
ford “Ordinary Bob,” a holdover
from his “Ordinary People” days.)
Nolan’s place is in Jackson Hole,
Wyo. (Sundance, Jackson Hole;
tomayto, tomahto.) Nolan is 15
years older than the author. (Red-
ford is 13 years older than Russo;
close enough). Nolan made a se-
ries of buddy movies with another
actor, now dead, “the first and best
about two Depression-era con
artists.”
The guy is about as well dis-
guised as Inspector Clouseau.
“Milton and Marcus” also fea-
tures a brief and affectionate cam-
eo of a character who is clearly
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Paul Newman, with whom Russo
collaborated three times. Nolan is
not imbued with nearly the same
affection. He comes across as a se-
cret cheapskate and overt narcis-
sist, a man who’s shrewdly selec-
tive about dialing up his sincerity,
which itself is a mask for ruthless-
ness.
Don’t let the wickedness of
“Milton and Marcus” fool you. It
happens to be the most beautiful
story in the book. And how much
of it is true is beside the point.
What matters is how it reflects the
larger themes of Russo’s work.
Jackson Hole is the ultimate foil to
the decaying mill towns of Russo’s
novels, and actors the ultimate
foils to the low-esteem schlubs
Russo writes about so well.
“More than their beauty, wealth
and talent,” the narrator observes,
“we envied their moral freedom,
their ability to trade up and up
again, while avoiding the conse-
quences of doing so.”
Boy, do these people believe
they are special.
Russo’s insight into the differ-
ences between Redford’s and
Newman’s styles is also one of the
best snippets of film criticism
you’ll read this year. Newman —
here referred to as “Wendy” —
was a risk-taker and emotional
anarchist, playing characters who
either screwed up or “got sucker
punched by circumstance and had
to take a standing eight count.”
Whereas Redford — “Regular
Bill” — is an emotional conserva-
tive, “the reliable, competent
American Everyman, the Nick
Carraway who would never un-
derstand or accept or like himself
half as much as Gatsby did.”
Now reconsider all the New-
man and Redford films you’ve
watched with this in mind. Recon-
sider Russo’s novels, while you’re
at it. The author may as well be de-
scribing the two male archetypes
that dominate his fiction.
Unfortunately, Nolan could be
an Everyman only onscreen.
“Ironically, it was in real life that
being ‘regular’ had become un-
attainable,” the narrator con-
cludes. Regular Bill disappears
into the sunset by the story’s end,
presumably to continue with his
charmed, bespoke life. But the
narrator — a genuine Everyman
and substitute for so many of us —
will go on to face a reality far more
brutal and complicated. It will
abruptly break your heart. That’s
what Richard Russo does, without
pretension or fuss, time and time
again.
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JESSE GREEN
Sean Carvajal and Flor De Liz Perez in “Seven Spots on the Sun,” which weighs moral action versus passivity in the context of a vicious civil war.
Too Much Blame to Go Around
SEVERAL PLAYS ARE struggling to be heard
from within the overwrought architecture
of Martín Zimmerman’s “Seven Spots on
the Sun,” which opened on Wednesday
night at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
One is about Luis and Mónica, a young
married couple living under a dictatorship
in a South American country a lot like Ar-
gentina. Luis, having joined the army to get
away from the coal mines, quickly rises to
sergeant as the government provokes a vi-
cious civil war. Mónica keeps herself only as
aware as she needs to be of Luis’s deterio-
rating moral and physical condition, prefer-
ring to busy herself with their infant daugh-
ter and new washing machine.
Another play within “Seven Spots on the
Sun” concerns a couple running a clinic in
another part of the country. As the war
rages, Belén, a nurse, finds she can no long-
er ignore the suffering of rebels whom the
government’s forces leave for dead in the
town plaza. Knowing the danger, she never-
theless persuades Moisés, a doctor, to help
her treat a young man whose broken body
the rest of the populace ignores. The pun-
ishment for that humane act is horrible.
What connects the stories thematically,
and eventually narratively, is Mr. Zimmer-
man’s exploration of the contagion of culpa-
bility that spreads across communities and
also through time. To what extent are we re-
sponsible for the evil we tolerate? For the
characters represented here as the Town —
a kind of Greek chorus — the answer is
somewhat vague; their story is unmoored.
But in Belén’s case, the answer is uncom-
promising: Her own body rebels against in-
action by depriving itself of sensation.
“Every time they left a corpse en la
plaza,” she cries poetically, “I told my
tongue my eyes my nose my ears not to
taste see smell hear what was right in front
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Seminary Is Under Fire Over Artifacts
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
make every effort to return any spiritual or
culturally significant items it holds to the
tribes.
Last week, federal officials sent another
warning letter to the seminary because it
still has not complied by sending inven-
tories of the items to tribes, as required.
“Is Andover being negligent or incompe-
tent?” David Tarler, a federal official tasked
with enforcing the law, said in an interview.
“Are they confused about the law but acting
in good faith? I can’t answer that question.”
School officials said they “abruptly
pivoted” after the initial warning in 2015 and
decided that no sale would take place. They
blame delays on the difficulty of searching
spotty historical records to determine
which objects might belong to what tribes.
“We’re trying to play catch up and do the
right thing,” said the Rev. Martin B. Co-
penhaver, the seminary’s president. He said
the school intends to return items when the
research is completed.
Gregory E. Sterling, the dean of the Yale
Divinity School, said in an email that the
university supports the “proper treatment
of Native American artifacts and respect for
Native American culture and dignity.”
Under the federal law known as the Na-
tive American Graves Protection and Repa-
triation Act, only sacred items, objects of
cultural significance, funerary items and
human remains must be returned to the
tribes. More everyday items — like a pair of
moccasins — do not need to be returned.
But the full inventory must be completed
and sent to the affected tribes for their re-
view.
The seminary has inventoried about half
of the 158 items, building on earlier work
done by the museum. Mr. Tarler acknowl-
edged that the law could be a burden for in-
stitutions that were “short-staffed or not ex-
perienced” with ethnographic research.
Tribes have long been frustrated by the
pace of repatriation under the law. Muse-
ums, scholarly institutions and other orga-
nizations continue to retain possession of
182,000 items classified as human remains,
as well as untold millions of ritual artifacts,
according to federal records. Many objects
were collected decades ago by archaeolo-
gists, missionaries and souvenir hunters;
others were unearthed during industrial ex-
cavations or reclamation projects on lands
inhabited by native tribes.
Rosita Worl, a Tlingit tribe member and
THEATER REVIEW
SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN
Tickets Through June 4 at Rattlestick Play-
wrights Theater, Manhattan; 866-811-4111,
rattlestick.org. Running time: 1 hour 20 min-
utes.
Credits By Martín Zimmerman; directed by
Weyni Mengesha; sets by Arnulfo Maldonado;
costumes by Fabian Aguilar; lighting by Amith
Chandrashaker; sound by Tei Blow; props by
Charles Bowden; production manager, Rebecca
Key; production stage manager, Nicole Mar-
coni; assistant director, Alessandra Mesa; fight
choreography by UnkleDave’s Fight-House.
Presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater,
Daniella Topol, artistic director; Annie Middle-
ton, managing director; Victor Cervantes Jr.,
associate producer; in collaboration with the
Sol Project, Jacob G. Padrón, artistic director;
David Mendizábal, artistic producer.
Cast Claudia Acosta, Cesar J. Rosado and
Socorro Santiago (the Town); Sean Carvajal
(Luis); Flora Diaz (Belén); Peter Jay Fernandez
(Eugenio); Flor De Liz Perez (Mónica); and Rey
Lucas (Moisés).
of them and finally they’ve started to obey.”
This is not the last we will hear of sym-
bolic retributions; the play is bruised pur-
ple with metaphors. Aside from handprints,
pineapples and the titular sunspots, there
are, most consequentially, boils. After the
war, when the government announces a
blanket amnesty, a fatal plague sweeps the
nation’s children, or possibly only the chil-
dren of people who committed or abetted
atrocities. Moisés’s magical ability to cure
the “inocente” by touch finally brings
Mónica and Luis to his clinic for rough jus-
tice and a shaggy denouement.
Mr. Zimmerman, who is 31 and of Argen-
tine heritage on his mother’s side, has had
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM, DEPOSIT OF THE ANDOVER NEWTON
THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, 1976
A fishhook from the early half of the 19th
century from the Newton Andover collection
at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute
in Alaska, said her tribe is seeking the re-
turn of a halibut fishhook that it deems sa-
cred and that is now part of the seminary’s
collection. She said she had contacted the
seminary several times in 2015 to urge it to
“act in accordance with their own stated
mission in recognizing our spiritual beliefs,”
but “never received a single, direct re-
sponse.”
While federal officials have the ability to
levy fines to enforce the law, they rarely do
against institutions that are making an ef-
fort, officials said.
Newton Andover, just outside Boston, is
the oldest graduate seminary in the coun-
try. Its notable graduates include Thomas
Hopkins Gallaudet, the founder of educa-
tion for the deaf. It is selling its prime hilltop
real estate to move to Yale’s campus where
it will function as a “school within a school”
and focus on training candidates for Con-
gregationalist ministries.
Dean Sterling declined to comment on
whether Yale, as a condition of its partner-
ship with the seminary, would end up as-
suming control of the collection.
Displaying ceremonial artifacts is a par-
ticular affront to tribe members. “We
shouldn’t have to go to some big-city mu-
seum to view our stuff behind glass,” said
Donovin Sprague, an archivist and member
of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, which
has requested a hair lock from the Newton
seminary’s collection.
Some museums, mindful of tribal sensi-
tivities, exhibit only so-called everyday
items like clothing, headdresses and cook
pots, while others still showcase ritual
items that have not been claimed under the
act.
MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
only one previous play, “On the Exhale,”
produced in New York. In February, Ben
Brantley in The New York Times called it
“carefully wrought” but said it “never quite
fulfills its potential to unsettle.” That poten-
tial is certainly fulfilled in “Seven Spots on
the Sun”; I must warn you away if you don’t
want to watch a woman being tortured with
a car battery.
But the play is also unsettling un-
intentionally, in the clash between its flor-
idness and its heavy burden of witness.
Each short-circuits the other, and the result
is too often bathos if not outright confusion.
The staging, by Weyni Mengesha, making
her New York directorial debut, is about as
unsubtle as it could be, which most likely
means that it’s not an oversight but an aes-
thetic choice. Taking cues from the height-
ened language and the extreme events in
Mr. Zimmerman’s script, she encourages
the actors to go big; they often overshoot.
Only in simpler moments, especially those
involving the domestic life of Mónica (Flor
De Liz Perez) and Luis (Sean Carvajal), is
the story able to land convincingly.
Still, it would not be an adequate re-
sponse to “Seven Spots on the Sun” merely
to criticize its shortcomings. That Mr. Zim-
merman has taken on important (if fiction-
alized) events, and engaged the painful
questions that arise from them, is in part
what we ask theater to do. That the play has
been produced — by Rattlestick and the Sol
Project — is something of a miracle.
The Sol Project was founded last year
with the aim of deepening the bench of
Latino theater makers by pushing 12 plays
through a development pipeline that is too
often closed to them. (Hilary Bettis’s “Alli-
gator,” produced with New Georges in De-
cember, was the first; “Seven Spots of the
Sun” is the second.) It should not be so sur-
prising that when marginalized artists are
finally given a chance to tell a story, they
sometimes have too many to tell.
In 2015, when the seminary had the Na-
tive American items appraised, Peabody
Essex museum officials objected to the pro-
posed sale, which Dan Monroe, the museum
director, called a “break of trust” between
the institutions. He said the museum had
spent roughly $700,000 curating the arti-
facts over the years, including photograph-
ing them.
“We hadn’t expended that energy, money
and effort over the decades so they could
monetize the collection,” he said of the semi-
nary.
Mr. Monroe has told the seminary that it
must remove the artifacts from the mu-
seum soon. It is unclear what will happen to
the collection then, but the seminary said
the artifacts would be safeguarded as it
worked to repatriate them.
Mr. Copenhaver said that Newton And-
over has considered donating the artifacts
and has been in discussions with two insti-
tutions that he declined to identify. Mr. Tar-
ler said that even if the collection were
transferred, Andover would still be respon-
sible for complying with the federal law to
track the items and possibly return them to
the tribes.
The seminary would not comment on the
appraised value of the collection, but one of
the more valuable pieces would appear to
be a wampum belt that has already been
claimed by the Onondaga tribe. Similar
wampum belts held by private collectors
have fetched nearly $100,000 at auction.
In a 2015 letter to federal officials, the
seminary said it planned to reach out to the
tribe about returning the belt, but the tribe’s
representative, Tony Gonyea, said they
have not heard from the school as yet.
When the missionaries first collected the
artifacts, Mr. Monroe said, “The attitude
was: They worship this mask, they think
this fishhook is important. They’re quaint
and primitive and thank God we’re here to
save their souls.”
But times have changed, said Mr.
Sprague of the Sioux tribe. There is more re-
spect these days for tribes reclaiming their
cultural heritage from museums and fed-
eral repositories. Still, the process isn’t easy,
he said. Mr. Sprague said the Sioux have
been working with the seminary for
roughly a year on returning the hair lock.
“At one point, it was all green light — come
and get it, but it’s a strange case,” he said,
adding “it’s still limping along.”
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away.” (N) (G) (N) (14) (9:01)
and Ben must face their pasts.
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13 WNET PBS NewsHour (N) N.Y.C. Arts MetroFocus Bee Gees: One Night Only Las Vegas concert. (G) Eat to Live With Joel Fuhrman, MD Dr. Fuhrman’s Charlie Rose (N)
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FLIX . No Country for Old Men (2007). What Women Want (2000). Mel Gibson. Accidental electric shock turns . The Illusionist (2006). Edward Norton. A magician and a prince vie for Open Your Eyes
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HBO Babylon A.D. Vice News Chris Gethard: Career Suicide The comic/talk-show The Fight Game Now You See Me 2 (2016). Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo. Four Las Ve- Silicon Valley riots after Freddie Gray, a black man, died
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MAX Warcraft (2016). Travis Fimmel, I Am Legend (2007). Lone plague survivor battles zom- . 28 Days Later (2002). Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley. Virus-crazed zom- Black Mass (2015). Johnny Depp,
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STARZ Untraceable . Lost in Translation (2003). Bill Murray, Scarlett The White Princess “The Pre- Don’t Breathe (2016). Jane Levy. Teenage criminals try American Gods “The Secret of LESTER HOLT INTERVIEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP
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A Perfect Day (2015). Benicio Del Zero Days (2016). Documentary. Exploring origins of Stuxnet worm. Chappie (2015). Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel. Criminals get ahold of think- Paranoia (2013).
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FOOD Chopped “Oodles of Noodles.” (G) Chopped “Something Dumpling.” Chopped “Jump for Bok Choy.” (G) Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Chopped (G)
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FREEFRM My Best Friend Burlesque (2010). Iowa girl dances at L.A. club. Dull and squeaky-clean tease-o-rama. (PG-13) Pretty Little Liars “Power Play.” The 700 Club (G) LOL (2012). THE ROAD TRICK on Red Bull TV. In this new
FS1 U.F.C. Main Event U.F.C. Reloaded Stipe Mioic faces Alistair Overeem. M.L.B. Whiparound (N) (Live) Speak for Your series, Adam Trent travels across Europe
FUSE Fluffy Movie: Laughter Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) and North Africa, where he uses magic as a
FX Transformers: Age of Extinction The Maze Runner (2014). Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario. Boys are trapped inside giant The Maze Runner (2014). Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario. Boys are way to meet the residents: partying with a
(2014). Mark Wahlberg. (PG-13) (4:30) labyrinth. Doles out answers craftily. (PG-13) trapped inside giant labyrinth. Doles out answers craftily. (PG-13)
boat regatta in Budapest, performing tricks
FXM Noah (2014). Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly. God tips off one man to the flood. As crazy as its hero. (PG- 47 Ronin (2013). Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada. Masterless samurai seek revenge. Duti-
13) (7:15) ful American adaptation. (PG-13) (10:05) in a Vienna opera house, tripping across
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GOLF Live From the Players 2017 Players Championship first round. From Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Players shaman — who introduces him to a magic
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HGTV Beach Bargain Beach Bargain House Hunters House Hunters Flip/Flop Veg. Flip/Flop Veg. House Hunters Hunters Int’l House Hunters Hunters Int’l Flip/Flop Veg.
HIST Swamp People “Time’s Running Swamp People: Blood and Guts Swamp People “The Hunt Ends.” Troy’s future is on Swamp People “The Hunt Ends.” Troy’s future is on Swamp People:
Out.” (PG) “Racing Sundown.” (N) (PG) the line. (N) (PG) the line. (PG) (10:33) Blood and Guts
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(14) woman sets her sights on a doctor. a Dead End.” (N) (14) Greed.” (N) (14) woman sets her sights on a doctor. bor (14)
IFC Zombieland (2009). Woody Harrel- Inception (2010). Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Thieves enter people’s dreams. Lots to see, little Zombieland (2009). Survivors of apocalypse join
son, Jesse Eisenberg. (R) (6) to think about. (PG-13) forces against zombies. Minor diversion. (R) (11:15)
LIFE Married at First Sight “The Wed- Married at First Married at First Married at First Sight “Honeymoons Part 2.” Three Married at First Sight: Second Chances “Take Me or Married at First
ding Night.” (14) Sight (Part 1 of 2) Sight (N) (8:45) couples go on honeymoons. (N) (Part 2 of 2) (14) Leave Me.” Discussing past mistakes. (N) (14) (10:17) Sight (Part 1 of 2)
LMN Mommy’s Little Boy (2017, TVF). Boy Secrets of My Stepdaughter (2017, TVF). Josie Davis, Tiera Skovbye. A The Wrong Mother (2017). Vanessa Marcil, Brooke Nevin. A nurse goes Secrets of My
battles mother’s debilitating grief. (6) woman suspects that her teenage stepdaughter is a killer. to work for the woman she donated eggs to. Stepdaughter
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LOGO . Scream (1996). Neve Campbell, Fire Island “Let’s Go to Tea.” The RuPaul’s Drag Race “9021-HO.” A Fire Island “Not in the Face.” Com- Fire Island “Let’s Go to Tea.” The . Scream
David Arquette. (R) (5:30) guys throw a house party. (N) (14) ’90s high school drama. (14) peting in a dodgeball tournament. guys throw a house party. (14) (1996). (R) SUZANNE HANOVER/NETFLIX

MLB M.L.B. Regional Coverage. M.L.B. Tonight Quick Pitch Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust.
MSG Hahn, Humpty & Canty 30 for 30 Hahn, Humpty & Canty U.F.C. Countdown Hahn, Humpty
MSGPL World Team Tennis From July 31, 2016. Tennis PowerShares Legends Charleston. From Charleston, S.C. Focused LOVE on Netflix. As a teenager in Iowa, Paul
MSNBC Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour Rachel Maddow Rust imagined his dream girl: someone
MTV Friends (14) Friends (14) O Love & Basketball (2000). Childhood friends want pro sports careers. Obvious, but Lathan scores. (PG-13) Freedom Writers (2007). Hilary Swank. (PG-13) who liked underground punk rock and had
NBCS Nascar Racing Nascar Racing Grudge Race Grudge Race Grudge Race Grudge Race Grudge Race Grudge Race Grudge Race the “spirit of an artist,” he said this week in
NGEO Africa’s Deadliest (PG) Africa’s Deadliest “Killer Tactics.” Battle for the Pride (PG) Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs. Dogs (N) Africa’s Deadliest “Ganglands.” Africa a Times interview. Then he met Lesley
NICK Henry Danger Thundermans Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009). Zachary Levi. (PG) Full House (G) Full House (G) Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Arfin, a writer for HBO’s “Girls,” who —
NICKJR Hey Duggee (Y) Kuu Kuu Har. Shimmer, Shine Shimmer, Shine Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Blaze, Monster Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi you guessed it — liked punk rock, had that
NY1 Road to City Hall (N) New York Tonight News Road to City Hall News Sports on 1 The Last Word. (11:35) spirit he craved and was beautiful to boot.
OVA The Method (N) Anger Management (2003). Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson. (PG-13) Fools Rush In (1997). Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek. (PG-13) And together, with some help from Judd
OWN 20/20 on ID (14) 20/20 on ID (14) 20/20 on OWN “Faith Betrayed.” 20/20 on ID (14) 20/20 on ID (14) 20/20 on OWN Apatow, they ended up writing this rom-
OXY NCIS “A Desperate Man.” (6:59) NCIS “Life Before His Eyes.” (14) NCIS “Secrets.” (14) NCIS “Psych Out.” (PG) NCIS “Need to Know.” (PG) NCIS (PG) (12:01) com loosely based on their courtship and
SCIENCE Unearthed (PG) Unearthed “Mayan City of Blood.” Impossible Engineering (N) (9:02) Mysteries of the Abandoned (N) Unearthed (PG) (11:06) Engineering starring Mr. Rust as Gus, a dweeby screen-
SMITH WWII’s Most Daring Raids (PG) Mighty Planes “Skibirds.” (PG) Mighty Ships “Fram.” (G) Hell Below “Hitler’s Revenge.” (PG) Mighty Planes “Skibirds.” (PG) Mighty Ships (G) writer, and Gillian Jacobs as Mickey, a
SNY 50 Great Mets Mets Classics Flores Walk-Off from July 31, 2015. SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite beautiful but damaged recovering alcoholic.
SPIKE The Longest Yard (2005). Adam Sandler, Chris Rock. (PG-13) (6:30) Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Joe Dirt (2001). David Spade. (PG-13) (11:02) “Sometimes, ‘Love’ suggests, romance
STZENF The Game Plan (2007). Dwayne Johnson, Madison Pettis. (PG) (7:05) Cold River (1982). Suzanne Weber. (PG) (8:57) The Black Stallion Returns (1983). (PG) (10:31) War Room (2015). doesn’t need candlelight to grow so much
SUN Law & Order “Severance.” Stone Law & Order “Admissions.” Coed’s Law & Order “Gunshow.” Murders Law & Order “Killerz.” A girl may Law & Order “DNR.” A judge is Law & Order as an honest fluorescent glare,” the Times
jeopardizes murder case. (14) (6:59) death points to her professor. (7:58) in Central Park. (14) (8:57) have killed a boy. (14) (9:56) gunned down in her garage. (10:55) “Merger.” (11:54)
critic James Poniewozik wrote when the
SYFY The Da Vinci Code (2006). Tom Armageddon (1998). Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton. Mavericks out to save earth from asteroid. Not a believ- The Core (2003). Earth’s, and it’s stopped spinning.
Hanks, Audrey Tautou. (PG-13) (5) able moment in it. (PG-13) Monumentally dumb disaster flick. (PG-13) (11:03) series, now in its second season, debuted
TBS Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The Seinfeld (Part 1 Seinfeld (Part 2 The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Conan Actor Charlie Hunnam. (N) Seinfeld (Part 1 last year.
Trip.” (Part 1 of 2) Trip.” (Part 2 of 2) of 2) (PG) of 2) (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) (14) of 2) (PG) KATHRYN SHATTUCK
TCM The Wacky World of Mother Rodan (1957). Kenji Sawara, Yumi Shirakawa. Flying The Black Scorpion (1957). Richard Denning, Mara The Deadly Mantis (1957). Craig Stevens, Alix Talton.
Goose (1967). (6:15) Japanese monster. If that’s your dish. Corday. Giant, too. All right, no more. (11:15)
TLC My 600-Lb. Life “June’s Story.” My 600-Lb. Life: Supersized “Dottie & June.” (N) (14) Skin Tight: Transformed (N) (14) My 600-Lb. Life: Supersized “Dottie & June.” (11:01)
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TNT Law Abiding Citizen (2009). Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler. Prosecutor is O American Race “Baltimore Ris- O American Race “Muslim Is the Con Air (1997). Nicolas Cage. Innocent parolee tries
embroiled in prisoner’s revenge scheme. Blunt and sadistic. (R) ing.” (Series Premiere) (N) (14) New Black.” (N) (14) to stop convicts’ hijacking. Big-budget lark. (R) Daily television highlights, recent reviews by
TRAV Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (N) (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at The Times's critics, series recaps and what to
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Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Impractical Jokers (Season Finale) (N) (14) Game Show Imp. Jokers
TVLAND M*A*S*H (PG) M*A*S*H (7:36) M*A*S*H (PG) (8:12) Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens
USA Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Inside the F.B.I.: New York “The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Definitions of symbols used in Ratings:
“Delinquent.” (14) “Smoked.” (14) “Community Policing.” (14) New F.B.I.” (N) (14) “Liberties.” (14) SVU the program listings: (Y) All children
VH1 Basketball Wives (14) Space Jam (1996). Michael Jordan. (PG) . White Men Can’t Jump (1992). Two basketball hustlers. Juicy, motor-mouthed and appealing. ★ Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
✩ Recommended series (G) General audience
WE Braxton Family Values “Opposing Braxton Family Values “Donde Braxton Family Values “The Other Braxton Family Values “The Other Braxton Family Values “The Other Mrs. Braxton.” ● New or noteworthy program (PG) Parental guidance
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TODD SPOTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

They Have a Hammer

The Property Brothers have gone from aspiring celebrities to HGTV headliners.
By KATHERINE ROSMAN
GALVESTON, TEX. — Inside a bungalow un-
der renovation, Jonathan Scott, one half of
the squeaky-clean Property Brothers, was
yanking a toilet out from the floor.
“Let’s do it one more time,” said a
producer, watching from a nearby monitor.
Mr. Scott walked into the small bathroom
again, acting surprised as he spied the toi-
let. Then he pulled it from the floor.
The scene was being shot for the fifth sea-
son of “Brother vs. Brother,” the HGTV pro-
gram in which the highly competitive Scott
brothers use equal sums of their own
money (in this case $600,000) to buy, reno-
vate and then sell houses in the same town.
All proceeds go to charities like Habitat for
Humanity. This Galveston season will make
its premiere on May 31.
Mr. Scott, who is a perfect mix of rugged
and well coifed, a man who gets his work
boots dirty even as his hair stays untousled,
went for a house that could be considered a
major fixer-upper. His identical twin
brother, Drew, who is as handsome if not
quite as hair-sprayed, and favors suits and
ties over Timberlands, opted for a ram-
shackle heap that was larger and had better
access to some of the island’s canals.
“He’s desperate to win,” said Jonathan,
who has won on the last two seasons of the
show. “I was also born first, so I also won
that competition,” he said, a joke typical of
the brothers’ repartee both on- and off-
screen.
Around the corner, in a different bayside
house sitting high up on stilts, Drew was
dealing with dislodged materials for his
own renovation. The day before, strong
winds had ripped a thin metal chimney from
the roof. It had landed to the side of the
Drew and Jonathan Scott, 39,
star in, and even produce, some
of the most popular television
shows in America.
driveway. Now it was time to recreate the
scene. “This is a high-intensity moment,” a
production assistant whispered.
The director called to the house, “I need
some workers out front!” A crew of trades-
men walked out onto a second-floor porch
and pretended to work.
“Bang!” the director said.
Drew ran from the house. He looked at
the chimney with feigned shock. He rubbed
his eyes.
“Let’s do the run out again,” the director
said.
CONTINUED ON PAGE D5

The Next Big Digital Shopping Experience

Ian Rogers, a former roadie
for the Beastie Boys, is helping
LVMH take on Amazon.
By ELIZABETH PATON
PARIS — Ian Rogers, chief digital officer of
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, sat in
his sunlit office on Avenue Montaigne last
month, alongside a large cactus with a
mélange of Pucci-pattern skateboards and
black and white rock band photographs ar-
rayed on the walls behind him. Using a tat-
tooed finger, he punched in a pass code that
would unlock access to “Babylon”: the code
name for the top secret project he has been
working on since his arrival 18 months ago
at the world’s largest luxury group.
SASHA ARUTYUNOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES “We believe we are on the cusp of reveal-
ing something very exciting,” Mr. Rogers,
The Chris Kraus Effect 44, said in hushed tones.
The “we” was the project’s 60 employees,
How the author of ‘I Love Dick’ be- many of whom have been hired from the
Paris technology sector and who are hidden
came a feminist patron saint. far from the corporate headquarters in new
By Bonnie Wertheim, Page 6. offices in the 15th Arrondissement. Mr.
Rogers rolled up the sleeves of his navy V-
neck sweater and added, “I guess it’s time
to see if the customers think so, too.”
DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
He was referring to the imminent unveil-
CONTINUED ON PAGE D10 Ian Rogers, the chief digital officer of LVMH, is working to introduce 24 Sèvres, a shopping website and mobile app.
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
UNBUTTONED
Influencers Run Into Consequences
Fame isn’t just your face on the
cover of a magazine. Personal
accountability enters into it.
I NEVER REALLY expected to write these
words, but: It was Kendall Jenner who did it
for me.
Or, to be fair, not Kendall Jenner herself —
or not entirely Kendall Jenner — but rather
the 10th-anniversary Indian Vogue cover
that featured Kendall Jenner, as conceived
and photographed by Mario Testino. When
released last week on the magazine’s social
media accounts, it almost immediately be-
came the center of a storm of social media
ire, most of it along the lines of this tweet:
“Disgustingly inappropriate. Were ALL the
Indian women unavail-
able??”
Which was then fol-
lowed, as these things so
often are, by a host of head-
lines like CNN.com’s
“Vogue India Cover Lands
Kendall Jenner in More
Trouble.”
But here’s the thing:
Was it really Ms. Jenner’s
fault? Was she in any way
culpable for this bad
choice? After all, she was
being used as work for
hire: a body and a face to
sell a magazine.
Or was she? Associations that came with trouble: Bella Hadid, above left, appeared in a promotional video for the failed Fyre
Therein lies the prob- Festival; Kendall Jenner, above right, posed for this month’s Vogue India, prompting critics to wonder if all the
lem. Because the obvious Indian models were booked; Selena Gomez, top, was criticized for being the face of too many brands.
assumption — the one
made by all the worked-up
folks in the Twittersphere — was that she
had been employed not just as a clothes
hanger (as models used to be known), but,
at least in part, as herself: a public figure
with an immediately recognizable name
and face and family back story, along with
approximately 80.3 million Instagram fol-
lowers. An — and I cringe at the word, but it
is in the Cambridge English Dictionary —
Influencer. And that influence was part of
what Indian Vogue was paying for by pay-
ing her to be on its cover.
It’s the same thing that the Fyre Festival,
the famously failed music festival in the
Bahamas, was paying for when it paid Ms.
Jenner, along with Bella Hadid (12.7 million
Instagram followers), Hailey Baldwin (10
million) and Emily Ratajkowski (12.8 mil-
lion), to drum up excitement via promo-
tional posts with said women cavorting in
bikinis on a beach. It’s what, to a certain ex-
tent, Pepsi was paying for when it hired Ms.
Jenner (sense a theme here?) and put her
in an ill-conceived ad in which she uses a
soda to soften up a police officer at a riot. It’s
what Vogue Arabia was paying for when it
put an only-semi-veiled Gigi Hadid on the
cover of its first issue.
Whether it is obviously an ad, whether a
Federal Trade Commission-required hash-
tag admission goes with it or not (and the
F.T.C. is increasingly cracking down on in-
fluencer posts, recently writing to 45 celeb-
rities to warn them about necessary disclo-
sures), there is, as Lucie Greene, the world-
wide director of the Innovation Group at J.
Walter Thompson, said, “an implied individ-
ual choice.”
And that means that those involved are
perceived as having a personal — not
merely professional — relationship with the
thing they are selling. Which in turn means
CORRECTION
An article last Thursday about the style of
Emmanuel Macron misstated the name of the
school where Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, an
expert on fashion semiotics, is a senior re-
search fellow. It is London College of Fashion,
not London School of Fashion.
VANESSA FRIEDMAN
they bear some responsibility for it. There is
a downside to the upside of being an influ-
encer.
Sometimes it’s literal: The Fyre Festival
is now facing a class-action lawsuit in which
the defendants include not only the
organizers, but also a number of “Jane
Does” who helped promote the festival.
Sometimes it’s reputational: After Selena
Gomez, the proud possessor of the most In-
stagram followers badge (she had 120 mil-
lion as of Wednesday), signed on to repre-
sent Coach — after having been an ambas-
sador for Louis Vuitton, a brand with a very
different aesthetic, one nonfan tweeted:
“Selena Gomez, the previous face of Coca
Cola, Louis Vuitton, Verizon, and the cur-
rent face of Pantene and Coach . . . a joke to
the industry???”
Either way, it’s real. As with all slippery
slopes, it’s easy to hop on but also easy to
end up in a heap at the bottom. Which raises
the possibility that we are on the verge of a
new (hopefully more considered) age in the
evolution of Influencer culture.
“The influencer bubble will totally col-
lapse in the next 12 months if people aren’t
very careful about the money being thrown
around as brands try to buy influencer
placement,” said Caroline Issa, the fashion
director and chief executive of Tank maga-
zine and a street-style star-turned-occa-
sional Influencer.
Since being what used to be called a
“tastemaker” became a job, and word-of-
mouth tips became known as “influencer
marketing,” attention has been focused
largely on the risks to brands in linking up
with individuals. See, for example, the les-
son of PewDiePie, a YouTube star who had
signed deals with Disney and Google and
then was discovered to have made anti-Se-
mitic statements. (The corporate brands
cut all ties, not surprisingly.)
But while it’s easy to be distracted by the
siren call of Influencer culture — Money for
just being you! Free trips to sit front row at
fashion shows! Global branding laying out
the red carpet for your delicately pointed
feet! — what the cases of Kendall et al.
make clear is that there are also risks to in-
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dividuals.
As Meridith Valiando Rojas, the co-
founder and chief executive of DigiTour Me-
dia, the live entertainment company that
runs Digifest, the Coachella of the YouTube
generation, said, being an Influencer means
you are often thought of as a “friend” by
your followers. And that comes with a host
of expectations that may not attach to a
more traditional kind of talent.
“Youth culture can see through anything
they think is inauthentic,” Ms. Greene said.
And because followers have what at least
seems to be direct access to their “friend”
on Twitter or Instagram, they can respond
directly. Also publicly.
As we go further down the rabbit hole of
personal branding, new agencies are
springing up with the mission of connecting
brands to influencers and monetizing social
media presence (names like MuseFind, UP
Influence and Instabrand), and traditional
talent agencies like CAA and WME/IMG
are signing up YouTube stars or helping
their clients transform themselves into so-
cial media mavens. (Maye Musk, the 69-
year-old mother of Elon Musk who is enjoy-
ing a career boom as a model, told me her
agent at IMG insisted she get on Insta-
gram.) Magazines and ad agencies are
measuring a model’s attraction not just by
his or her physical dimensions, but also by
the number of followers. It is increasingly
clear that a disconnect exists between the
imperative to make as much money as pos-
sible out of your influence as fast as possi-
ble, and the need to be highly selective
about how you wield your influence in order
to preserve its equity.
The generation that grew up on social
media, the digital natives at whom Digifest
is aimed, understands this viscerally. The
older generation, the ones who Ms. Rojas
said “were born not on social platforms but
as traditional celebrities, and have migrat-
ed to social afterward,” seems to be learning
the hard way. And that may, in the end,
change the equation. Or at least . . . well, in-
fluence it.
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
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Browsing
HAYLE Y PHE LA N

Mother’s Day Gifts That Say You Get Her

As all of us good children are aware, Sunday is Mother’s Day. Phone calls, flowers and thoughtfully worded cards are certainly in order, but to go the
extra mile, a gift is the ticket. Sentiment is important, to be sure, but only insofar as it is attached to an object worthy of the receiver. A cool mom will
appreciate stylish gifts that don’t underestimate her own good taste. Here, a selection of items that are sure to impress.

TOO COOL FOR TWIN SETS

• Pearls are a classic on Mother’s Day, but designs from
the likes of Alexis Bittar and Saskia Diez prove that the
ladylike stone is not fusty in the least. Used sparingly with
minimal gold, or mixed with other stones, pearls are fresh
and design-forward.
Alexis Bittar jewelry, $275 to $475 at alexisbittar.com;
Saskia Diez freshwater pearl and 14-karat-gold earrings,
$335 at Maryam Nassir Zadeh, mnzstore.com.

THINK INSIDE THE BOX

• The chic maternity-wear label Hatch
has teamed up with Simone LeBlanc,
whose impeccably curated namesake
site has helped bring gift boxes into the
21st century, on a fail-safe Mother’s
Day gift. Filled with the kind of things
she didn’t know she needed — cash-
mere socks, a jersey nightgown, an
ember votive candle, a rose quartz
geode, a journal, organic tea — it’s a
great solution if you’re stumped to find
a gift for the mom who already has
everything, or the mother-in-law whose
interests remain a mystery.
Hatch x Simone LeBlanc Good to Glow
gift box, $168 at hatch.com.
BUILD A BAG
FOR HER
• Show her you know her fashion
idiosyncrasies through and through by
designing her a bag as unique as she
is. Anya Hindmarch’s Build a Bag con-

EXPECTING, WITH STYLE

• Maternity clothing has come
a long way since the days of
tent dresses and overalls, yet
only a few brands are doing it
right. One such company is
Storq, which makes elevated
basics in high-quality, supersoft
fabrics with thoughtful details,
like screen-printed labels and
as few seams as possible to
maximize comfort. Everything
is knitted, dyed, cut and sewn
in Los Angeles, and designed to
be worn throughout pregnancy,
and beyond. Even women who
aren’t expecting will appreciate
cept, which will be introduced at Bar-
neys New York on Friday, gives shop-
pers a chance to completely customize
the line’s minimalist shapes
this bucket bag, choosing from all
and lack of cutesy details.
manner of fabrics, colors, straps and
Storq Basics Bundle containing charms. After its Barneys debut, Build
a black dress and skirt, a white a Bag will roll out at Anya Hindmarch
tank top and black leggings, shops on Monday. This is about as
$250 at storq.com. close to a homemade gift as a luxury
lover is likely to get.
Anya Hindmarch Build a Bag, starting at
$1,150 at Barneys New York.

COLOR ME NOSTALGIC A DAY TO

• A new capsule collection from the
Finnish design house Marimekko
will let her relive the heady days of
the 1960s and ’70s. There are five
archival garments — four dresses
and a skirt — that are near
likenesses of vintage designs, as
well as 11 styles that serve as
modern interpretations of those
items. They may evoke memories
or, for those on the younger end P OU R ON THE
of the spectrum, fanciful day- CHA RM S.
dreams. Either way, make use of
the moment, pull up a chair and
start listening.
Marimekko cotton maxi-dress,
$398 at Anthropologie;
anthropologie.com.
D4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
A Takeout Addict Tries Clean Eating
IT STARTED WITH a favorite pair of white Ra-
chel Comey jeans. Before the holidays, they
buttoned; after the holidays, the top two
buttons did not meet. I blame three different
bûches de Noël.
I am also a reluctant cook. I will gladly
bake a berry crisp or grill salmon for friends
on a Saturday night, but the very idea of
boiling quinoa or putting together a halfway
decent salad on a weeknight depresses me.
I end up turning, like so many city dwellers,
to takeout.
But green curries and Cuban sandwiches
were not going to get me into my clothes
again, so I focused on delivery services of-
fering healthy meals. For people like me
who are too proud to say they’re dieting and
too busy (and hungry) for a juice cleanse,
the idea that you can have several meals
packed full of leafy greens and healthy fats
prepared and delivered to your door in a
two-hour window seems like the answer to
a problem. Though a really expensive one.
The first service I tried was Provenance
Meals, whose website teases that it offers
gluten-free and dairy-free foods, including
something called Purple Forest Paleo
Muffins (made with puréed beets, cacao
and cherries) and a salad made with a
whole grain I’ve never heard of — coix
seeds — and I like to think of myself as up on
ancient grains.
Breakfast was steel-cut oats with quince
and cranberry. Could I make oatmeal my-
self? Yes. Do I like it better when someone
makes it for me and tops it with various
dried and stewed fruit? Yes! The following
mornings I had mulberry ginger granola
with Brazil nut milk and Mexican chocolate
coconut yogurt. I awakened every day like a
child on Christmas, so eager to eat some-
thing more exciting than toast.
I wasn’t as thrilled with the rest of the
food. The kale chicken caesar with nutty
herb croutons was easy to eat between
meetings, but I’ve had better kale salads.
The lemongrass ginger chicken soup was
well suited for lunch on an overcast day, but
not quite enough to keep me full until din-
ner, which was wild mushroom shepherd’s
pie. At lunch on Day 3, I picked at my vegan
caldo verde with focaccia (focaccia, for the
record, doesn’t translate very well sans
gluten), fed the rest to my dog and ate a
toaster waffle.
Next up was Market. Kitchen. Table. I
had seen its delivery bags around my
Brooklyn neighborhood. This service does-
A variety of meals delivered by Sakara Life, which is
vegan-, gluten- and dairy-free.
ME TIME
Danielle DuBoise, left, and Whitney Tingle, the founders of Sakara Life.
n’t offer breakfast, but my first day’s lunch
(eggplant salad with crumbled feta, roasted
red peppers and arugula) and dinner
(baked coconut shrimp with sweet chili kelp
noodles) came with two snacks (trail mix
and edamame hummus and carrots) and a
dessert (banana cream pie chia pudding). I
ate them at intervals while powering
through deadlines and didn’t once think
about cookies.
I liked the amount of food and the variety
of ingredients but was confused by the food
philosophy. Everything was surely packed
with nutrients, but some items were gluten-
free (raw Mexican brownies) while others
were not (chocolate zucchini muffins);
some meals were vegetarian (mushroom
beet and bean burgers over greens with
baked sweet potato fries and sriracha aioli),
while others contained meat (chicken
enchiladas with red pepper sauce and avo-
cado crema). If gluten isn’t the enemy here,
then may I at least have had a whole-wheat
Sakara Life’s Chaga Chai Detox Bowl,
Breezy Berry Scone and Detox Tea.
MARISA MELTZER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY GHITIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
bun on my veggie burger?
And I started to miss hot food. All of the
deliveries come cold and can be eaten as is,
although items like veggie burgers or
shrimp can be plucked off their beds of
greens to be heated up.
Last up was Sakara Life, which counters
leaving out a lot of fun stuff by being vegan,
gluten- and dairy-free with its wild popular-
ity with beautiful people on social media. It
has a granola that comes with a bright-
green nut milk tinted with spirulina that
guarantees your photographs will get great
play when you post them.
It’s also the company with the most life-
style bells and whistles. Meals come with
Beauty Water that contains rose and silica,
a rooibos-based Detox Tea, a guide (“Get
excited for greens”) and a stick of palo
santo wood to burn. Included in my delivery
was information on a new Level II program,
which eliminates even more foods (night-
shades, grains, nuts) and gives you broths
The company’s Niçoise salad has an
“egg” fashioned from cashew and
macadamia nuts.
SOM E FOOD
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SERVI CE S
EN COU RAGE
WI LLP OWER.
for dinner. Masochists, I have found your
new favorite way to detox!
Once again, breakfast was my favorite. I
toasted the berry nut scone and slathered it
with the homemade apple butter (made
mostly with a blend of apples and coconut
oil). The next day, while eating the chaga
chai detox bowl (a creamy pudding spiked
with trendy mushrooms) and topped with a
buckwheat granola, I whispered “Oh, this is
good” aloud, to myself.
I don’t go out of my way to order cold
soups, but I gladly drank the honeydew gaz-
pacho after a sweaty boot camp class. And
Sakara’s niçoise had an “egg” molded from
cashew and macadamia nuts that was so
adorable I forgave the company for substi-
tuting adzuki bean tempeh for tuna.
After my meal delivery foray was up, my
skin looked dewier, I think. I stopped feeling
as if I needed a two-hour nap after lunch.
My digestive system was, without being too
descriptive, doing a spectacular job.
Not that I continued to live in my edenic
state of clean living. I was all too excited to
welcome cheese, wine and refined sugar
back into my life, if in moderation. I never
Provenance Meals did manage to give up coffee for three days
Philosophy “Gluten-free, dairy- straight, but at least I drank it with almond
free, with no refined sugars” milk.
Cost Starting at $65 a day Having these meals delivered was maybe
Delivery New York metro area the first time in my life I didn’t have an am-
provenancemeals.com bient concern about whether I was consum-
............................................................. ing enough vegetables. And eating a bowl of
chickpeas and sweet potatoes felt a little
Market. Kitchen. Table.
like being at a spa, even if I was sitting at my
Philosophy “Farm-Fresh. Nutri- kitchen table staring out at the rain.
ent Dense. Real Food.” Meal deliveries may never be a viable
Cost From $200 for three days way to eat all the time, but they work as a
Delivery Manhattan and Brook- reboot to the system. A slight one, that is:
lyn My pants are only one button closer to fit-
marketkitchentable.com ting.
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Sakara Life ONLINE: PUT DOWN THAT BIG MAC
Philosophy “Plant-rich, gluten- On Thursday on Facebook Live, Marisa
free, superfood diet” Meltzer will do a tasting and take questions for
Cost $255 for three days Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle, the
Delivery Nationwide founders of Sakara Life:
sakara.com facebook.com/nytimesstyles
Honeydew Gazpacho and the White
Bean Sandwich, also from Sakara.
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They Have a Hammer

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
Drew walked back inside and ran out house-renovation sets in his Chrysler 300.
again. He pretended to notice the chimney They do, however, enjoy many perks.
again, and looked up toward the workmen. Just a few days before Barack Obama left
“Go inside, guys! I don’t want you to work the White House, the brothers took a pri-
outside; it’s too windy!” vate tour of the Oval Office and West Wing.
(“There is a lot of great character you would
The workers went back inside, and then
want to keep,” Drew said, “but there are a
came back out, and went in, for a third take.
lot of things that are due for an update.”)
“At the end of the day, it has to be interest-
They recently visited NASA and experi-
ing television,” Drew said later. “But when
enced virtual reality with astronauts. While
we find a load-bearing wall, we are really
filming in Galveston, they took in a Houston
finding a load-bearing wall.”
Rockets game and played Ping-Pong with
AT A TIME when politics have riven the na- the team’s general manager.
tion, an old-fashioned, wholesome shelter
WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN, they said,
show is something many can agree on. In
they performed frequently in comedy and
seven years, Drew and Jonathan Scott, 39,
improv, and as clowns for hire. The brothers
have gone from aspiring celebrities on a
began buying, renovating and flipping real
small Canadian cable network to HGTV
estate when they were 18. The idea was to
headliners who star in, and in some cases
use real estate as a vehicle to finance ca-
produce, some of the most popular televi-
reers in entertainment.
sion shows in America.
In 2009, producers in Canada saw an op-
They know that some of their fans are
portunity to get in on the reality TV real es-
supporters of President Trump, but Jona-
tate boom. The pitch, Jonathan said, was
than is not a fan. “I believe our show is about
“two good looking guys in tight jeans doing
finding solutions for the little guy, and I home renovations; we said, ‘Sure, we’ll do
think the current administration is doing that.’” The show aired on Canadian cable in
stuff that is counterproductive to serving 2010 and in 2011 was picked up by HGTV.
the little guy,” he said.
Their ambitions go much further than
Property Brothers programming is now posts and beams.
international, on the air in more than 150
They would like to do a talk show, and say
countries. The brothers live in a constant
they have been approached by “several big
cycle of product promotion and never tire of PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD SPOTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES broadcast networks” but don’t think the
posing for selfies with fans from San Anto-
nio to Singapore, where they were met by
thousands when they visited. This was ini-
tially a surprise to them, since Asian hous- ‘At the end of the day, it has to be interesting television.’
ing stock and ways of living differ so greatly
from those of North America. But, Jonathan
pointed out, “Everyone lives somewhere.”
In their hallmark show, “Property Broth-
ers,” Drew, a real estate agent, helps a fam-
ily buy a new home and Jonathan, a con-
struction contractor, helps them renovate.
It is among HGTV’s highest-ranking pro-
grams. The last season of “Brother vs.
Brother,” which is produced by Scott Broth-
ers Entertainment, drew more than 14 mil-
lion viewers. These are just two of their
HGTV programs.
Their shows are part of a popular HGTV
lineup which includes “Flip or Flop,” with
Tarek El Moussa and Christina El Moussa,
and “Fixer Upper,” with Chip and Joanna
Gaines, who appeared on the cover of Peo-
ple magazine last October, before the Scotts’
first cover in April. “No, we’re not jealous of
them,” Drew said. “They are phenomenally
successful, the audience loves them and our
fans have been asking for us to do some-
thing together.” The Scotts asked the Gaine-
ses to appear on an episode of “Brother vs. than, who comes off as a Type A-minus at Top, Drew Scott of the Property deadline, and he wrote the screenplay on a timing is right. Jonathan said he was “very
Brother” in Galveston, but they were busy. best. Brothers, far right, preparing typewriter. They say they plan to produce into conservation and solar energy.” He has
In the past, other HGTV stars have “I am so anal about everything,” Drew for a scene in “Brother vs. the film one day. written a documentary series about renew-
popped up; Rob Van Winkle (also known as said. Brother.” Above left, Jonathan Joanne Scott, 73, spends a lot of time fol- able energy, and would like to write more in
Vanilla Ice, who stars in the HGTV show, They are the first to admit that their fam- Scott, who has won on the last lowing her sons on social media platforms the future, moving beyond his usual output
“The Vanilla Ice Project”) appeared in an ily and work lives overlap more than most. two seasons of the show. Above and looking for comments left by followers of “inspirational things and cheesy things
episode called “Nice, Nice Baby.” Drew is engaged to marry Linda Phan, the right, the construction site for that might be off-Scott-brand. “If there is for our fans.”
The Scott brothers have numerous brand creative director of Scott Brothers Enter- Team Drew. anything I think needs their attention,” she Drew would like to resume his acting ca-
extensions, many of which fall under their tainment, and the coming season of “Prop- said, “I’m on the phone.” reer, but time has been short. He and Jona-
Scott Living company: wine fridges and erty Brothers at Home: Drew’s Hon- The Scott brothers realize that their than had cameo roles on the USA Network’s
electric fireplaces, sold at Lowes, and in- eymoon House” will feature the couple as wholesomeness is the key to their appeal. “Playing House,” and say they have been of-
door-outdoor rugs and patio furniture, sold they renovate their first home together, in “It’s safe programming,” Drew said over a fered guest roles on shows like “Castle.”
through QVC, to name a few. There is a new Los Angeles. Jacinta Kuznetsov, Jonathan’s gluten-free lunch quickly eaten amid the Together, the brothers have also written
luxury-home building project in Las Vegas. girlfriend, also works for the company. A filming of “Brother vs. Brother.” “The shows two screenplays, which they plan to
They released two country music songs, third brother, J. D. Scott, works as the host are not so foofy that guys don’t want to produce (in addition to their father’s cow-
which they promoted on “Property Broth- of HGTV’s online coverage of life behind the boy picture). The first one they would like to
watch, kids want to watch because we’re
ers at Home on the Ranch.” They have a scenes on “Brother vs. Brother.” make, Jonathan said, is “a dark comedy that
goofy and women appreciate it because
book coming out in September from Hough- The Scotts’ mother and father are in- follows the life of a professional ‘hook up’
you’re getting real design knowledge.”
ton Mifflin Harcourt called “It Takes Two: volved in the family business too. artist as he discovers his own loneliness
They say they are basically just ordinary through the romantic misery of others — it’s
Our Story.” Jim Scott, 83, immigrated from Scotland,
eventually settling in western Canada, folks. “People think because you’re a celebri- kind of like ‘Hitch’ meets ‘The Hangover.’”
Though both brothers are constantly pro-
where he worked as a horse stuntman, then ty, because you’re on TV, because you’re Another, he added, “is about a band of broth-
moting themselves, they agree that Drew is
as a director’s assistant on the set of Holly- People magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive, things ers who come from a small-town upbring-
more high-strung, a man who took a confer-
wood movies shot on location near Vancou- like that, that we’re bathing in champagne ing with wholesome values.”
ence call while atop the Eiffel Tower, and
who won’t attempt a leisure activity without ver. He has told his sons about an idea for a and taking limos door to door. But we’re Who might they envision playing the lead
taking lessons (currently: Ping-Pong, gui- film in which a cowboy is unjustly sent to literally the same guys, just with much busi- roles? Originally Drew envisioned his
tar and golf ). prison and struggles to adapt to a changed er schedules,” Jonathan said, as he drove brother and himself as the stars. But what
“I’m very good at relaxing,” said Jona- world upon his release. His sons gave him a both brothers back to their respective he really wants to do is direct.
 D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017

ENCOUNTERS

Not a Stranger in Her Fiction

An Amazon series brings
Chris Kraus wider acclaim.
By BONNIE WERTHEIM
When Chris Kraus walked into the New
York Botanical Garden on a recent rainy
Saturday, it felt like a homecoming. Ms.
Kraus, a writer, has lived in Los Angeles
since 1995, but the first chapter of her life
was set in the Bronx, and her last apart-
ment in New York was a short subway ride
from the garden. Its flora and fauna were fa-
miliar friends.
“This is a classic,” she said, looking up at a
just-bloomed cherry blossom tree. “This is
‘ON A C E RTAIN my Facebook cover photo.”
LEVEL, YO UR Ms. Kraus, 62, spends little time on social
FIR ST media, but she is well aware that her first
REAC TIO N IS novel, “I Love Dick,” has become an inter-
TO C R IN G E .’ net phenomenon. Young readers post pho-
tos of its cover on Instagram with the hash-
tag #chriskraus. (Moderators have cen-
sored #ilovedick.) They quote from the nov-
el in posts on Twitter. The writer Emily
Gould even started a Tumblr account where
she solicits selfies from the book’s growing
audience, a group that includes Lena Dun-
ham, Tavi Gevinson and Lorde.
Ms. Gevinson, the editor and actress, has
been a fan of Ms. Kraus’s since 2013, when
she was 17 years old and working on the sec-
ond Rookie Yearbook. “I have two journals
where the spines say something like
‘Mostly “I Love Dick” Quotes: Part 1’ and
‘Mostly “I Love Dick” Quotes: Part 2,’” she
said in a phone interview.
First published in 1997 by Semiotext(e),
the book had anemic sales. It was
reintroduced in 2006 with a foreword by the
poet Eileen Myles and, according to its pub-
lisher, sold over 50,000 copies worldwide in
2016 after a steady drumbeat of endorse-
ments from n+1, Jezebel and other
publications. Now it will get an even bigger
publicity boost from its adaptation by Ms.
Myles’s former girlfriend, Jill Soloway, into
an Amazon mini-series that begins stream-
ing Friday. It stars Kathryn Hahn, Griffin
Dunne and Kevin Bacon, and has an all-fe-
male writing staff.
“On a certain level, your first reaction is
to cringe,” Ms. Kraus said of the increased
exposure, “especially because the charac-
ter names in the book are not changed.”
“I Love Dick” tells the story of Chris
Kraus, a 39-year-old experimental film-
maker who sees herself as more of an “aca-
demic groupie” than an artist. She and her
husband, a 56-year-old professor named
Sylvère Lotringer, invite a fellow scholar
(named in New York magazine as Mr.
Lotringer’s colleague Dick Hebdige) out for
a casual sushi dinner that turns into an in-
tellectual ménage à trois, and then more.
The book unfolds in an epistolary format,
and Dick becomes Chris’s “perfect reader,”
reflecting her desire to be taken seriously as
an artist.
In real life, Mr. Lotringer was the founder
of Semiotext(e), and he is still an editor at
the press, along with the writer Hedi El
Kholti and Ms. Kraus. He married Ms.
Kraus in 1988, a few years after she invited
him to see her first avant-garde perform-
ance, “Disparate Action/Desperate Ac-
tion.”
“I wrote letters to 10 famous people that I
wanted to have see my work,” Ms. Kraus
said. “Susan Sontag was one, Richard Fore-
man was another. Sylvère was the only one
who came.”
She has always been open about the auto-
biographical elements of “I Love Dick,”
which include obsession, consummation
and rejection at the hands of the title char-
acter.
“It seemed so stupid to us that we would
have to dissemble it any other way,” Ms.
Kraus said. “I mean, who hasn’t had an af-
fair? Who hasn’t had a crush? What is the
big secret?”
She and Mr. Lotringer lived on separate
coasts in 1995, when Ms. Kraus moved to
California for a job at ArtCenter College of
Design in Pasadena. They had an open mar-
riage, and they eventually met other part-
ners and divorced in 2013. They remain
close, however, and now live “around the
corner from each other” in Los Angeles.
Both have homes in Baja California, Mex-
ico, where they often retreat to write.
Her background is fairly traditional, if
itinerant. Her father, Oswald, worked for
Cambridge University Press, and her
mother, Ruth, had a series of clerical jobs.
Chris was born in 1955, and her sister, Carol,
followed three years later. They lived in the
Bronx until 1960, and then Milford, Conn.
When Ms. Kraus was 13, the family
moved to New Zealand on the Assisted Pas-
sage Migration Scheme, and after a whirl
through high school, she enrolled at the Vic-
toria University of Wellington when she
was 16. “Maturity is being increasingly de-
layed and deferred these days,” she said.
“Here, you’re on your parents’ health insur-
Chris Kraus in the New York Botanical

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Radio lies within spit-
ting distance of
Williamsburg’s loom-
ing hotels and overflowing night-
clubs, this makeshift hangout,
which began as an internet radio
station and coffee shop, conjures
a charmingly antediluvian era.
Housed in a shipping container
without running water, it began
selling alcohol in January, and
has shown that something spon-
taneous and genuine can still
thrive here.
“We didn’t want a place that
was that impressive,” said Fran-
cois Vaxelaire, the founder. On a
sunny Monday, he sat at a wood-
en table as muted house music
blooped. Nearby, a woman with
gold teeth and a Black Flag-
inspired shirt cracked open a
drink. “We have a lot of old regu-
lars who come with their dogs.”
The Place
A triangular patch along Nassau
Avenue, hemmed in by ware-
houses, a public school and a
church. The black shipping con-
tainer is split into a D.J. booth
and a kiosk. In the yard, mis-
matched chairs, stacked pallet
tables and umbrellas rest on a
bed of gravel and cigarette butts.
There is a portable toilet and,
sometimes, a fire pit. It would not
be out of place next to a flea
market in the Catskills.
The Crowd
Eclectic weekend throngs: indie
rock dudes, women in overalls
and Spielberg caps, tourist fam-
ilies, meandering bros in board
shorts caught in the limbo be-
tween nearby Berry Park and
Spritzenhaus. “It’s not a bar,” said
Lloyd Harris, a director, who D.J.s
under the name Lloydski. “But,
oddly enough, there is no other
place for you to chill outside and
have a beer and a conversation.”
Playlist
The emphasis on electronic mu-
sic, disco and soul is a buzzing
undercurrent, but there is rarely
dancing, even when D.J.s like
Nina Kraviz, Francois K and
Busy P spin (programming from
8 a.m. to midnight). “It’s not a
spectacle,” Mr. Vaxelaire said. In
recent months, the Lot broadcast
from Marfa and held its anniver-
sary party at Brooklyn Bazaar.
Getting In
All ages. Must be over 21 to drink.
Drinks
Cheap. Warsteiner cans are $4.
Wine is sold by the glass ($7) or,
preferably, the bottle ($30) and
shared in paper cups. Coffee and
pastries, $4 or less. BEN DETRICK
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(between Banker and North 15th
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weekdays, 8 a.m. to midnight; from
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ance until you’re 26. But in New Zealand, at

16, you’re pretty much an adult.”
After graduation, Ms. Kraus became a
journalist but was ambivalent about how
she had to “bond with people and then be-
tray them by writing about them.”
At 21, she moved to the East Village in
New York and studied acting. “I wrote a lot
for a feminist newspaper called Majority
Report, where they paid you in restaurant
vouchers and subway slugs,” she said. To
pay her rent, she took up odd jobs and artist
assistantships, including one with Louise
Bourgeois.
In the early ’80s, she began writing and
directing films, but they weren’t successful
commercially or critically, causing frustra-
tion that she later explored in “I Love Dick”
and her second novel, “Aliens & Anorexia.”
Then, in 2006, Ms. Kraus published “Tor-
por,” a well-received prequel of sorts about a JESSICA BROOKS/AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
faltering couple (with different names)
seeking to heal their marriage through the Kathryn Hahn, Griffin Dunne and Kevin Bacon in the Amazon adaptation of “I Love Dick.”
adoption of a Romanian child, prompting
Mr. El Kholti to reintroduce “I Love Dick.” long to write about her.” Paul Giamatti appear in the artist Frances
It was a “moment where all of these bril- Watching a white-dress-and-veil wed- Scholz’s “Amboy,” a 2015 film about a fic-
liant people who hadn’t published books yet ding amid an Earth Day parade in the gar- tional artist.
were keeping blogs,” Ms. Kraus said. den, Ms. Kraus described her compara- “We staged this thing at Cal Arts where I
Continuing to draw from life, she will in tively modest wedding to Philip Valdez, a was going be giving a lecture as part of their
September publish “After Kathy Acker,” a psychologist, a little over two years ago. series to the art students, about the Ameri-
book that “may or may not be a biography” The ceremony took place in front of a dozen can artist Amboy,” she said. “They all
of Ms. Acker, an experimental novelist who or so friends, on the patio of their home in showed up for it, and they didn’t know it was
died in 1997 after a battle with breast cancer. Los Angeles, with decorations from a 99- fake.” In fact, they pretended they had
She appears as a figure throughout Ms. cent store, a homemade cake and an offici- heard of him.
Kraus’s novels and was also once involved ant they found online. The neighborhood where she and Mr.
with Mr. Lotringer. Ms. Kraus continues to teach part time at Valdez live, near MacArthur Park, is “as
“But that’s a long time ago, and that cer- ArtCenter, subsidizing her salary with close as you can come” to New York in Cali-
SASHA ARUTYUNOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tainly isn’t why I chose to write about her,” money she makes as a property manager. fornia, Ms. Kraus said with a touch of wist-
Ms. Kraus said. “In fact, that’s why it took so And she hasn’t given up acting: She and fulness. “But it’s not the same.”
l Garden. “I mean, who hasn’t had an affair? Who hasn’t had a crush?” she said.

Scouting
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Mother’s Day
There’s still time to
find that gift for
mom like, say, an
ALISON LOU “Mama”
ring with a diamond set in 14-
karat gold ($975). At 20 East 69th
Street. . . . At BLOOMINGDALE’S on
59th Street, you can buy flowers
to be planted in Central Park in
your mother’s name ($5) and pick
up a limited-edition floral silk
scarf ($225); $50 from each sale
will benefit the Conservatory
Garden restoration. On the first
floor. . . . The new L’OFFICINE UNI-
VERSELLE BULY concession at
BERGDORF GOODMAN offers Eau
Triple water-based perfumes in 12
exotic notes like Berkane Orange
Blossom and Peruvian Heliotrope
($158 for 75 milliliters), with a
calligrapher on hand to per-
sonalize the label. . . . Five dollars
from the sale of each pair of TOMS
X EVERY MOTHER COUNTS mommy
($59) and me ($36 to $42)
espadrilles with an orange rose,
the universal symbol of maternal
health, will benefit the Christy
Turlington Burns nonprofit dedi-
cated to making pregnancy and
childbirth safer in the developing
world. At 264 Elizabeth Street. . . .
And at BROOKFIELD PLACE, the fash-
ion illustrator Blair Breitenstein
will create a custom Mother’s Day
card free of charge daily through
Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m.,
with proof of any purchase. At 230
Vesey Street, Level 1.
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Openings and Events

At PROJECT:OM, the aim is to create
the world’s largest yoga event in
support of the Susan G. Komen
Foundation fight against breast
cancer, with 13 donation-based
events scheduled this weekend,
including one at 6 p.m. on Thurs-
day on the Great Lawn in Central
Park. People can register for the
yoga session at projectOM.com
. . . On Friday, the ARTISTS & FLEAS
mini-chain will unveil a SoHo
market with 40 vendors offering
New York vintage and artisan
products like a ’70s paisley print
dress ($628) and Soap for Sinners
coffee body scrub ($16). At 568
Broadway. . . . On Monday, the
Colombian label PEPA POMBO will
open a pop-up at BERGDORF GOOD-
MAN with flattering and versatile)
knits like a strapless reversible
dress/skirt ($1,400). . . . Also on
Monday, Lauren Conrad’s PAPER
CROWN line will breeze into the
rotating pop-up shop at the LORD &
TAYLOR DRESS ADDRESS with summer
bits like a one-shoulder rose dot
dress ($258) and a chambray
cutout dress ($230).
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D8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017
Helping Haiti, and a Friend, Too
Admirers of Sean Penn turn
out to help him reforest the
earthquake-damaged country.
By JACOB BERNSTEIN
How many red carpet interviews did Sean
Penn give for his Haiti charity, J/P HRO
(short for Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Or-
ganization), which held its first major New
York gala at Sotheby’s last Friday?
Zero.
Instead, Mr. Penn rolled in at 7:30 p.m. in
his dark blue suit, posed for photos and
headed upstairs to the banquet center,
which was filled with art world types, fash-
ionistas and entertainment industry big-
wigs.
Combativeness may be built into Mr.
Penn’s personality, but among his peers, he
is a popular guy.
Just ask Gayle King, the night’s M.C., who
was asking guests for stories about her
host. “Sean wrote me a letter,” she said.
“And when Sean Penn writes you a letter,
you say yes.”
Or Donna Karan, who wore a
sleeveless black jumpsuit, her
hair pulled back in a ponytail.
WHEN
She has raised funds for Mr.
Penn’s charity to help it rebuild
T HE AC TOR
WRITES A
homes for displaced residents
L ET T ER , ‘ YOU
in Haiti, although she knew lit-
SAY Y E S.’
tle about Haiti before the devas-
tating 2010 hurricane. “I said,
‘Where’s Haiti?’” she said.
Around 8:30 p.m., Naomi Campbell,
Andy Cohen, Tom Freston and Carey Low-
ell moved toward the dining area. Ms. King
hit the stage and talked about Haiti’s grind-
ing poverty and environmental decline, as
well as Mr. Penn’s new initiative to reforest
the country.
After smoking a cigarette at his table as if
it were the last one on earth, Mr. Penn ex-
pressed his gratitude toward people in the
room, making numerous off-color jokes
about his persona.
He even pointed out what a “bad idea” it
was to allow him to speak in front of an audi-
ence “after 5 o’clock” when “the bar is full.”
Attention turned to the live auction, fea-
turing works by Deborah Kass, Ed Ruscha
and Jonas Wood, as well as various vacation
packages.
Barry Diller got into a bidding war for a
tour of James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Ari-
zona, and ultimately won it for $90,000.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who made a surprise
entrance around 9 p.m., won a $25,000 trip
of his own to see Cristiano Ronaldo compete
in a soccer tournament. Mr. DiCaprio was
seated next to Mr. Penn and wore his cus-
tomary newsboy cap.
A grilled chicken dinner was served and
the soul singer Andra Day performed for
the crowd, who collectively brought in more
than $1 million for the organization, which to
date has raised more than $90 million for
Haitian relief.
During dessert, friends like Bryan Lourd
and Ms. Karan continued to sing Mr. Penn’s
praises. A reporter introduced himself for a
quick chat, and Mr. Penn agreed, continuing
to fret.
While he was glad so many people in Hol-
lywood continue to stand by him, Mr. Penn
said he worried about his ability to reach
others. “We’ve got to do better at getting the
word out to people who can’t afford
$25,000,” he said.
And that doesn’t get easier as more geo-
political issues compete for attention. “The
world is a mess,” he said.
The changing media landscape adds a
wrinkle, too. “I’m an old-school guy,” he
said. “I’m never going to be the guy that
knows how to use social media.”
SCENE CITY UP NEXT
KELVIN GONCALVES
His Boutique
Blurs Gender
Age 25
Hometown Poços de Caldas, Brazil
Now Lives In a three-bedroom apartment
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which he
shares with a freelance designer and a
yoga instructor.
Claim to Fame Kelvin Goncalves is a fash-
ion retailer and designer behind Elkel, an
upstart boutique that features up-and-
coming designers with a distinctly queer
sensibility. The cutting-edge items have
gotten the attention of some celebrities,
too, including Bjork and Will.i.am, who
bought a high-concept shirt with detach-
able arms by the gender-blurring brand
MLTV ($299).
Big Break An avid internet shopper, Mr.
Goncalves would go online to buy avant-
garde brands like Julian Zigerli from
Zurich and Dusty from Finland, because
he couldn’t find them for sale in New York.
“I realized: ‘Oh. Here’s a business oppor-
tunity. There’s a niche there,’” Mr. Con-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
calves said. Inspired by his father who
opened a bakery in New Jersey, he started
Elkel in 2015 as an online boutique devoted
to new, gender-bending brands. To gener-
ate buzz, he opened a tiny pop-up on Stan-
ton Street with a window display created
by the transgender artist Bizzy Barefoot.
“It can’t be just a store,” he said. “It needs
to be an experience and needs to be
visually interesting.”
Top, from left: Sean Penn, Bryan Lourd, Naomi Campbell and Andy Cohen at a benefit for Mr. Penn’s charity for Haiti, J/P
HRO, at Sotheby’s on Friday. Above, Donna Karan, far left, with Gayle King, the night’s M.C.; right, Mr. Penn thanks his guests.
DANIEL DORSA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Latest Project In April, Elkel opened a
permanent storefront at 48 Hester Street,
a minimalist white box to display a colorful
mélange of innovative brands like Walter
Van Beirendonck and Julian Zigerli. While
the store carries mostly men’s wear, some
items are decidedly unisex, like a sheer
black-mesh basketball jersey by Krizia
Robustella ($229).
Next Thing A designer himself, Mr. Goncal-
From left: Ellie Goulding and John Varvatos; Mr. Lourd, center, with Barry Diller; the musician Damien Rice, center.
ves is working on a T-shirt project with the
artist Mars Hobrecker. Due in June for gay
pride month, the shirt is made from a
single panel of triangular fabric, and will
feature politically charged images and
slogans. “It’s battle time,” he said of
making fashion with a message.
Tattoo Inspiration Designers like Vivienne
Westwood and Jean-Paul Gaultier are his
heroes, but Mr. Goncalves’s artistic muse
is Keith Haring. He has a Haring-inspired
tattoo on his right bicep, featuring one of
the artist’s trademark cartoonlike figures.
Much like Mr. Haring, Mr. Goncalves uses
happy things to address serious subjects.
“People are more likely to listen when you
show up with a smile rather than start
ranting right away,” he said.
BRIAN SLOAN
Leonardo DiCaprio, far left above, who made a late entrance; Mr. Cohen on the red carpet; Andra Day performed for the crowd.

How Sephora Thrives Amid a Retail Crisis
The beauty giant is embracing
technology and transforming
its stores into playgrounds.
By LAURA M. HOLSON
It was hard to tell if the opening of Sephora’s
new store near Herald Square was a red
carpet affair or a girl’s night out at the spa. A
D.J. played techno-pop while guests sipped
Moët Champagne and dabbed Jo Malone on
their wrists. One 20-something wrapped
her hair in a paper headband while an at-
tendant dabbed cream on her cheeks. An-
other stood before a screen with a front-fac-
ing camera and sampled virtual eyelashes,
swiping left to explore an array of styles be-
fore committing to the real thing.
“Oh! Do another!” said her friend, who
was snapping photographs. “This is so
much fun.”
Much has been written about the crisis in
retail, with shoppers deserting department
stores for e-tailers and fast fashion, if they
shop at all. The beauty business, though,
has not had the same fate. Prestige beauty
sales in the United States rose 6 percent in
the 12 months ending in February, tallying
$15.9 billion, according to the market re-
search company NPD Group. Makeup
alone is up 11 percent, totaling $7.3 billion.
But that industry, too, is in the midst of its
own upheaval, driven in part by the success
of stores such as Sephora, the No. 1 specialty
beauty retailer in the world according to Eu-
romonitor International, which tracks
beauty sales.
Bloggers and YouTube stars, Instagram
videos and virtual assistants are replacing
department store sales clerks, whose
customers now know as much as they do (or
more) about mermaid eyes and ombré lips.
Brand loyalty is out, replaced by Sephora’s
try-more-buy-more ethos. Friends hold as
much sway these days as trained experts.
“For the older consumer it can be confus-
ing,” said Karen Grant, the global beauty in-
dustry analyst at the NPD Group. “But for
the younger consumer, it’s like, ‘Wheeeee!
Look at that! Look at that!’ It’s all about
play. And the more time you stay in the store
or online, the more money you are likely to
spend.”
Ms. Grant estimates that two out of five
women between ages 18 and 54 wear five or
more makeup products every day. “It de-
fines the selfie-obsessed, image-driven cul-
ture of our time,” she said.
Deborah Yeh, Sephora’s senior vice presi-
dent for marketing and branding, said:
“The lady at the counter has been replaced
by hundreds of people on YouTube. There
are more voices. And we are trying to cut
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through the confusion,” in part by allowing
customers to try before they buy.
Sephora, which is owned by the French
luxury conglomerate LVMH and has more
than 2,300 locations in 33 countries, offers
digitally savvy customers enough
technological doodads and computer dis-
plays to make a Silicon Valley engineer
blush. Want to try 50 shades of lipstick with-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
out getting chapped lips? There is a mobile
app using augmented reality for that.
Customers can scan their faces to get their
Color IQ, a reference number used to find
products that match their skin tones, or sit
at digital workstations to take classes in
contouring cheekbones. Sephora even has
its own version of Smell-O-Vision, a touch
screen with a fan that lets visitors smell the
scents — floral, earthy — that characterize
most fragrances.
Rebecca Pahle, a writer and editor in
Manhattan, visits the two Sephora stores
near her Times Square office twice a month.
“It is easy to kill time, play around with
things and then spend more money than I
should,” Ms. Pahle said. “I am ex-
perimenting a lot, trying to figure out what I
like.” She doesn’t shop at department
stores. “I don’t associate them with make-
up,” she said.
What she appreciates most is autonomy.
“At Sephora they ignore me, which I like,”
Ms. Pahle said. “I don’t like the hard sell.”
In 2015, Sephora opened its Innovation
Lab in a converted warehouse in San Fran-
cisco to experiment with ways to combine
mobile apps and in-store shopping into a co-
hesive experience. As a result of their ef-
forts, customers can have as little or as
Melissa Feliciano, above, tries
out the Sephora Virtual Artist
and a worker helps Carly
Griffin, left, use the Color IQ at
Sephora’s new store near
Herald Square in Manhattan.
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much personal contact they want in stores
like the one at Herald Square, which Ms.
Yeh called the company’s “store of the fu-
ture.”
Now department stores are scrambling
to follow suit. In a few months, Blooming-
dale’s will begin a major renovation of its
cosmetics department, which could take as
much as a year to complete. “The new in-
store experience will have more technology
and an ability to ‘play,’” said Francine Klein,
who oversees cosmetics at Bloomingdale’s.
“The challenge is to keep pace.”
Macy’s, long the domain of beauty coun-
ters for established brands like Estée Lau-
der and Lancôme, has begun displaying
“staff favorites” in its Dallas store. Sales-
people, explained Muriel Gonzalez, the ex-
ecutive vice president and general mer-
chandising manager for beauty, are shifting
away from promoting only one brand. Ma-
cy’s also recently acquired Bluemercury, a
spa and beauty boutique, in an effort to ex-
pand its cosmetics business.
Kohl’s, meanwhile, has revamped all of its
beauty stores, adding high-end brands like
Lorac and Bliss. And last year, Barnes & No-
ble began testing the Glossary, its beauty-
store-within-a-bookstore, on college cam-
puses, among them William & Mary, Emory
and Tulane. There, students can test brands
without having to leave campus.
But at the moment Sephora faces its stiff-
est competition from Ulta Beauty, a cosmet-
ics retailer, which is the No. 1 specialty
beauty retailer in the United States (and
No. 2 in the world, behind Sephora), accord-
ing to Euromonitor. Founded by a former
drugstore chain executive, Ulta sells high-
end and drugstore-brand cosmetics to
customers who want prestige brands and
salon service.
Naturally, the changing industry makes
traditional brands nervous. Of particular
discomfort to some is that Sephora is owned
by LVMH, and thus stocks many of the
brands the group owns, including Make Up
For Ever, Fresh, Benefit, Givenchy, Guer-
lain and Dior. This has led to complaints
among beauty companies that fear an even
more powerful Sephora will favor LVMH
brands or new cosmetic makers that appeal
more to millennials than heritage brands.
Ms. Yeh pointed to Sephora’s partnership
with Estée Lauder to create the Estée Edit,
a line of brightly colored lipsticks and eye
shadows marketed to millennials, as an ex-
ample of the company’s broad-mindedness.
Even so, an update doesn’t mean much if
those young consumers don’t buy it.
“Now everything is agnostic, and you
have to play differently,” said Ms. Grant, the
NPD Group analyst. “You just have to get
the traffic.”
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The Next Big Digital Shopping Experience
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
ing of LVMH’s high-stakes foray into multi-
brand luxury e-commerce. Rumors of a
shopping platform that would fall under the
branding umbrella of Le Bon Marché,
LVMH’s upmarket department store, have
swirled for months. Now 24 Sèvres, a bou-
tique shopping website and mobile app
named after the Paris street that Le Bon
Marché is on, goes live in under a month.
It is a gamble that has divided many of
the fashion industry’s power players. On
the one hand, 24 Sèvres will be yet another
contender in an already crowded sector,
where established rivals such as Yoox Net-
a-Porter, FarFetch and MatchesFashion
.com have long been jostling for the world’s
wealthiest consumers. Anticlimactic
performances by more recent entrants like
Style.com, Condé Nast’s multimillion-dollar
digital boutique, indicated that even the
most reputable names in fashion can strug-
gle when arriving late to the game.
A successful entry by LVMH, however,
could shake up everything.
Controlled by the French billionaire
Bernard Arnault, the conglomerate owns 70
luxury brands, including Christian Dior,
Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, Fendi and Givenchy.
LVMH wields hefty firepower thanks to its
financial footing, a monopoly over so many
labels (including where and how they can
be sold) and hundreds of bricks and mortar
stores worldwide.
“Le Bon Marche is already a multibrand
physical retailer; moving that store online
is a clear and natural next step,” said Luca
Solca, a luxury goods analyst with Exane
BNP Paribas. “Of course, the natural ad-
vantage for LVMH is that they can get so
many brands to play ball straight away, be-
cause the businesses belong to them. Easy,
no?”
Not so fast. LVMH has previously fal-
tered in the multibrand luxury space. The
website eLuxury, closed in 2009, was a rare
and high-profile misstep. What makes the
group think it can succeed now where it has
failed before?
“One word: Timing,” Mr. Rogers said.
Other people, though, might say that he is
the answer.
Born in Goshen, Ind., Mr. Rogers has a ré-
sumé rarely seen in haute luxury. He is a
computer science graduate and onetime
roadie for the Beastie Boys who first be-
came a father at 17 (that daughter, now 26, is
finishing her Ph.D. in genetics in the United
States).
He spent the early part of his career as
president of new media for the band’s
record label Grand Royal. (“I wouldn’t be
anywhere without those guys,” he said of
the Beastie Boys, looking affectionately to
their picture up on the office wall).
Then came a stint at digital music group
Nullsoft, a period at the helm of Yahoo Mu-
sic and later the position of chief executive
of Beats Music, which he held during its $3
billion takeover by Apple in 2014 before be-
coming head of iTunes Radio.
But, he said: “I was ready to move on
from music because it felt like a solved prob-
lem. The main players are now established.
The space has gone from science fiction to
mainstream, from an industry in denial to
an industry in free-fall to an industry in
growth.
“And I just had this feeling about retail,
that it would be the next frontier to really
change, where the real winners are yet to be
determined. Then LVMH approached me
with this opportunity. And I realized if I re-
ally believed that, there could be no place
better to go.”
SINCE HIS ARRIVAL in Paris from California,
where he lived for 20 years, Mr. Rogers has
made steps to adapt to life in the French
capital. He takes his 10-year-old daughter
climbing at the MurMur Escalade, and has
sampled as many great restaurants as pos-
sible, citing Miznon, Le 21 and Le Bon
Mothers Becoming Fast Friends, With a Swipe
The Peanut app is intended
to help parents connect,
but some see downsides.
By SOPHIA KERCHER
At the end of a first date, Jamie Kolnick, a
business owner in Manhattan, didn’t want it
to end. She walked her new companion
home to keep talking. “I’d invite you in, but
it’s a mess,” her date said.
Except the two weren’t on just any date.
The afternoon was what Ms. Kolnick calls “a
mom date,” and a meetup between their 1-
year-olds. The women matched on Peanut,
an app designed for like-minded mothers to
connect.
On the app, users can swipe up to wave
and swipe down to move to the next
“mama.” If two users wave, it’s a match.
Katie Cox, a mother of two young children
who works in marketing in Dallas, said this
gamelike quality was part of the reason she
joined. “I never had the chance to experi-
ence any fun dating apps, so I wanted to
check it out,” she said.
Similar to Tinder, Peanut users log in with
their Facebook accounts, and a geolocation
tool allows them to connect with mothers
nearby. The free app uses an algorithm to
match mothers with similar interests — us-
ers can choose from cheeky badges like
“Fitness Fiend,” “Wine Time” and “Music Is
My Medicine” — and experiences, whether
it’s having a child with special needs or be-
ing a single mother. It also syncs with the
calendar on a smartphone for easy schedul-
ing.
“I like that it doesn’t take a lot of brain
work,” Ms. Cox said. “I can just sit there and
flip through while I’m making lunch.” She
explained that although she has plenty of
friends in Dallas, most of them have older
Georges as highlights. He has skated the
mini-ramp at République, done graffiti at
the Bercy skatepark and trained for numer-
ous marathons. Of his work at the company,
Bernard Arnault has been “incredibly sup-
portive,” Mr. Rogers said. He added that Mr.
Arnault’s digitally attuned son, Alexandre,
25, had been his “key ally.”
“A lot of the stuff we’ve been working on, I
just wouldn’t have been able to do without
Alex,” Mr. Rogers said, emphasizing that his
responsibilities extend far beyond the intro-
duction of 24 Sèvres, where day-to-day op-
erations are run by its chief executive, Eric
Goguey. He also oversees the LVMH
brands’ e-commerce strategies, customer
data management upgrades, the building of
the online wholesale business in perfumes
and spirits and LVMH’s China digital strat-
egy.
“There is a lot on our plate right now,” Mr.
Rogers said. “And Alex, outside of his full-
time day job, is very switched on as to
where this business needs to go.” The
younger Mr. Arnault is the chief executive
of Rimowa, a luggage brand owned by
LVMH.
Still, there is no question that this e-com-
merce endeavor is extensive and eagerly
anticipated. Mr. Rogers said LVMH had
considered every branding possibility for
24 Sèvres, which will initially stock only
woman’s wear, but settled on maintaining a
connection to Le Bon Marché because of its
160-year history as a pioneer in catalog
sales.
“I find it interesting that the Parisian per-
children. Peanut has helped her connect —
and make fast friends — with mothers in
her neighborhood in the same situation.
The app is the brainchild of Michelle Ken-
nedy, a London entrepreneur who was inte-
gral to the start of the dating app Bumble
(she named it) and a former executive of
the highly successful Badoo, Europe’s ver-
sion of OkCupid. Ms. Kennedy, 34, created
the app when she was a new mother and
discovered she couldn’t find mothers with
similar interests to connect with.
“From an emotional perspective, I felt
quite isolated, and I don’t think that’s a very
comfortable thing to say,” Ms. Kennedy
said.
She decided to fix that by creating a
digital space where women could form
meaningful relationships while balancing
the new, and often transformational, act of
parenting.
“When it’s 2 a.m., you’re feeding and your
baby has been up for an hour, there are very
few people who understand how scary and
lonely that can be,” Ms. Kennedy said. “But
a mama who is on Peanut and using it at the
exact same time, she gets it.” She added that
it’s the kind of interaction you can’t get by
simply making friends with a neighbor, or
even another mother from day care.
Peanut, of course, is no substitute for
meeting beyond a screen, and Ms. Kennedy
said the app was created for people to meet
in real life. But she noted that society had
changed, that we no longer live with family
and friends nearby. “They say it takes a vil-
lage,” she said. “We are helping you to find
the village. What could be wrong with
that?”
Well, for Sherry Turkle, a psychologist
and professor at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, parent-focused apps
conjure unsettling images. Dr. Turkle has
spent more than 30 years interviewing hun-
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spective on fashion has been missing from
the e-commerce landscape until now,” he
said. “In my view it is a conspicuous ab-
sence and a huge market gap that we intend
to fill.” He declined to reveal the exact cost
of this investment for LVMH to date other
than to say that it was relatively “modest —
a brick-by-brick, start-up style approach.”
He added that 24 Sèvres is also the name of
the current loyalty program run by the de-
partment store, with legions of existing
members. That program will also now be
shared with users of the website and app.
In many ways 24 Sèvres shares charac-
teristics with its more established rivals, in-
cluding fast delivery times to scores of in-
ternational locations; chatbots or stylists-
on-demand; glossy packaging, complete
with Eiffel Tower cutout pop-ups and love
notes from Paris; and an efficient checkout
process. Luxury e-commerce has become
about the price of the consumer’s time, Mr.
Rogers said, leading to an increasingly
competitive field in terms of service across
the retail spectrum. But there are differ-
ences, too.
“The move toward social media plat-
forms like Instagram and Snapchat comes
hand-in-hand with the rise of the internet as
a more visual medium and of mobile domi-
nation,” Mr. Rogers said, his hand on “Louis
Vuitton Windows,” a suitcase-size As-
souline tome by the Louis Vuitton visual im-
age director, Faye McLeod, that sits as a
touchstone in the middle of his office (Ms.
McLeod has been heavily involved in the
creative direction of 24 Sèvres). “Increas-
MARC PIASECKI/GC IMAGES
Top, Le Bon Marché. Above
left, Alexandre Arnault and his
father, Bernard, who controls
LVMH. Above right, packaging
for items from 24 Sèvres,
LVMH’s new shopping site and
mobile app.
‘Increasingly
consumers want
pictures over
words.’
DAN WILTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ingly consumers want pictures over words,”
he said. As a result, he added, “if you look at
our site, we lean far further toward visually-
led merchandising than the more editorial
skew of our competitors.”
Tiny exquisite illustrations by Hadrien
Durand-Baïssas and colorful tongue-in-
cheek GIFs are scattered throughout the
site. Each product category header is a
monochrome photograph of artists’ models
contorted into various sculptural shapes, a
quiet nod to LVMH’s dizzying array of cul-
tural efforts. Yet of the 150 brands initially
on 24 Sèvres, only around 20 to 30 will be
LVMH owned (that will include Louis Vuit-
ton and Dior, neither of which are available
via any other multibrand online boutique).
In the case of LVMH-owned businesses, it
will be possible to source inventory from
across those brands’ independent retail net-
works. For non-LVMH labels, inventory
with either be acquired wholesale or con-
trolled by those brands that operate their
own shop-in-shop style retail channel, the
same model operated by the store.
“Don’t think of this as the LVMH e-com-
merce project; think of this as us taking Le
Bon Marché international via the internet,”
Mr. Rogers said, playing down expectations
for the first step of an overhaul of the
group’s approach to reaching customer. The
initial success of the project will be
measured by sales, although he empha-
sized that LVMH is a group that consis-
tently takes a long-term view.
“Where I am from, people always said to
me, ‘You’re late,’” he said. “It’s already too
crowded a space. But with Beats, we
showed them they were wrong. I’ve walked
that path before. I see that path here again.”
PLENTY WILL BE WATCHING that journey
closely, from established multibrand luxury
rivals like Yoox Net-a-Porter and FarFetch,
to technology platforms like Amazon, which
has long expressed its clear intention to
dominate the online fashion market, though
with a limited degree of success to date.
“We actually currently have more Vuit-
ton stores in the U.S. than Amazon does dis-
tribution points, which is great,” Mr. Rogers
said. “In context, it means that hy-
pothetically we could have as much logis-
tics capacity in the U.S. as Amazon does.
And as for our rivals, well, it is a big sky.
There is still plenty of room for growth for
all the players.”
Referring to eLuxury, he added: “We
don’t want to be early adopters. We have
been before and we paid the price for that.
And when it comes to the internet
specifically, there isn’t necessarily a reward
for being first. There is, however, currently
a major focus on omnichannel and experi-
ence, and we are moving from a mass cul-
ture to a mass of niches. If there’s quality in
what you do, you’re not threatened. Timing-
wise, this is exactly where LVMH wants to
be.”
Michelle Kennedy, a London
entrepreneur, created the app
Peanut. “They say it takes a
village,” she said. “We are
helping you to find the village.”
dreds of children and parents (and has writ-
ten two acclaimed books) as research into
our relationship with technology.
“I’m not saying that being a mom doesn’t
have some lonely times when adult com-
panionship would be welcome.” she said.
“But right now the pendulum has swung
away from finding companionship with
your child.”
She described scenes of mothers texting
while pushing their baby’s stroller, and oth-
ers too occupied with their phones to recog-
nize that their child was trying to get their
attention. She encourages mothers to check
in with their children to be sure that they
aren’t feeling isolated.
The child psychological researcher Yalda
Uhls, the author of “Media Moms & Digital
Dads,” has similar advice. “You have to
make it clear to children that you are going
to put away the device and be there with
them,” Dr. Uhls said. She also questions why
Peanut is only for mothers. What about fa-
thers? Caretakers? Grandparents? “It feels
a bit gendered,” she said.
The question of fathers resonates with
Meghan Springmeyer, who works in mar-
keting and is the mother of a 2-year-old. She
recently moved from New York to Raleigh,
N.C., and used Peanut to find a new commu-
nity in a place where she didn’t “know a
soul.” She said her husband was a little jeal-
ous that she kept making new friends.
“I think he is starting to feel a little left
out,” Ms. Springmeyer said. “That could be
Peanut Round 2: Peanut for dudes.”
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At Frieze, Money Talks and Impersonators Walk

By GUY TREBAY
Two men stand inside the Gavin Brown’s
Enterprise booth at the sixth edition of the
mammoth Frieze New York art fair on Ran-
dalls Island. The walls are hung with Insta-
gram-worthy canvases by the Swedish art-
ist Karl Holmqvist. Written on each is a
jaunty phrase like “Hug a Hippie, They’re
All That!” Or “Hug a Hustler, He’ll Like It”
and “Hug a Hooker You Know!”
The two men are in conversation. The
subject is that mysterious genus, the rich.
“They buy houses they don’t need, furni-
ture they don’t like and art they don’t under-
stand,” the first man says.
“To show off to people they don’t know,”
his friend says with a laugh.
There are those who attend art fairs with
the serious purpose of building col-
lections. There are those who go to
A CO LLIS IO N O F shop for expensive things to cover a
CO LLEC TO R S ,
hole in the wall. There are those
G ALLE R ISTS ,
who appear in order to make their
presence known to fellow travelers
ARTISTS AN D PHOTOGRAPHS BY HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
on a seemingly unending global
S C E N E STE R S Frieze New York, clockwise from left: Honor Fraser with works by Kenny Scharf; a chat by a Kevin Beasley piece; posing with an Ernesto Neto work.
caravan. And there are those, like
A M O N G BO OTH S
this reporter, whose magpie ambi-
AT AN ART FAIR .
tion is to collect random shiny con-
versational oddments like the one
above.
“We have, like, an Italy-Minneapolis con-
nection,” says a woman in expensively tat-
tered bluejeans and fur-lined Gucci mules.
She is scuffing past Casey Kaplan’s booth,
where a collection of works by the Ameri-
can artist Kevin Beasley is installed.
Made from detritus and old frocks, the
pieces are haunting, resembling, as a critic
noted, “mysterious, vacuum-packed matter
from some other universe,” as so many
things at art fairs seem to do.
Seated in bright sun at a picnic table be-
side a Roberta’s Pizza pop-up, the Miami
collectors Don and Mera Rubell are enjoy-
ing a Coke. Mr. Rubell is wearing his cus-
tomary dark jeans and sneakers; Mrs.
Rubell, an all-black uniform topped with a
mesh bubble cap.
A person in their party is carrying an ex-
pensive Goyard tote bag. The bag is sten-
ciled with the Rubell name.
“We are all such clichés,” a passer-by re- Clockwise from top left: Anaïs de Contades wearing nothing but a canvas; photographing a work by Michelangelo Pistoletto; the artist team Liz-N-Val.
marks, apropos of what it is not exactly
clear. threshold of a booth installed by his dealer, blobs. izing the works by price. “That’s $40,000,
Just then a man walks by dressed in the Larry Gagosian, talking to someone in his “This is the actual phone that Keith Har- that’s $250,000, that’s $100,000,” he says.
natty pinstripes worn by the coked-up coterie: “You need to lay off the helium,” he ing and Kenny Scharf used in 1979 when This calls to mind an observation once
stockbroker Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of says. they were talking together,” the dealer says. made by Andy Warhol about art collecting,
Wall Street.” The man is one of three actors A short walk away, the curator Clarissa “How much is this?” someone inquires of as recorded in “The Philosophy of Andy
commissioned by the artist Dora Budor to Dalrymple peers into Honor Fraser’s booth a period radio similarly customized by the Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).”
parade around the fair impersonating in the Spotlight section, where each booth is artist. “Say you were going to buy a $200,000
Leonardo DiCaprio in his more emblematic dedicated to the work of one artist, in this “The boom box is $40,000,” the dealer painting,” wrote Mr. Warhol (or whoever it
roles. In a different section is a man clad in case the American Kenny Scharf. says. was who actually did his writing). “I think
the crisp white pilot’s uniform of “Catch Me Ms. Fraser is meeting with a cluster of po- “Oh, that’s not bad at all,” a collector says. you should take that money, tie it up and
if You Can” and another attired in the trap- tential clients, who gather reverentially At the Aicon booth, where the featured hang it on the wall. Then when someone
per rags of “The Revenant.” around a Cortelco 2500 touch-tone covered artist is the Indian painter Francis Newton visited you the first thing they would see is
The artist John Currin is standing at the with paste gems and excremental pink Souza, the dealer Harry Hutchison is item- the money on the wall.”
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