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Israel Imagines In Chilling Nuclear Terms,

Major Change:
No Netanyahu
Leader Loses Ground
as Inquiries Intensify
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — A black cur-
tain went up a few months ago
near Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s official residence on
Jerusalem’s leafy Balfour Street.
It screened pesky protesters from
Mr. Netanyahu’s view — and pre-
vented the public from seeing law-
yers and detectives come and go
as criminal investigations of the
prime minister intensified.
Now, with one of Mr. Netanya-
hu’s closest former aides having
turned state’s witness in two cases
involving suspicions of bribery,
fraud and breach of trust, Israelis
across the political spectrum are
trying on the idea of the curtain
coming down on Mr. Netanyahu’s
durable political career.
For the past eight years, Mr. Ne-
tanyahu has dominated the Israeli
political scene and become nearly
synonymous with the state on the
world stage. Long called “the ma-
gician” for his survival skills, he
has quashed rivals from right and
left despite never enjoying partic-
ular popularity in the street.
Yet Mr. Netanyahu, the longest-
serving prime minister since Is-
rael’s first, David Ben-Gurion,
suddenly appears not so invinci-
ble after all.
“All the alliances, discussions
and thinking about the day after
have taken on much more signifi-
cance,” said Yoaz Hendel, the
chairman of the Institute for Zion-
ist Strategies, a right-leaning re-
search group, and a former
spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu.
“For the first time, people are
thinking that Netanyahu won’t be
the prime minister next time
around, whether elections take
place in a few months’ time or a
year and a half.”
Mr. Netanyahu has fought off
swirling scandals for much of his
public life, but experts say that
‘They will be met with fire and fury
like the world has never seen.’
Maduro Struggles to Maintain Military’s Loyalty
By NICHOLAS CASEY
and ANA VANESSA HERRERO
Fugitive Venezuelan soldiers
have declared a rebellion against
“the murderous tyranny” of the
president. Dissident officers have
fled the country, seeking asylum.
AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
king up weapons.
More Officers Break “They speak of resistance, now
they think that the model is to use
Ranks as Venezuela arms,” Cliver Alcalá, a retired
Venezuelan general and govern-
Rips Apart ment critic, says of those who
have rebelled.
Venezuela has a history of
Trump Warns North Korea
Pyongyang, Facing Prospect of Pre-emptive
Strike by U.S., Says Guam Is a Target
By PETER BAKER and CHOE SANG-HUN
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Presi-
dent Trump threatened on Tues-
day to unleash “fire and fury”
against North Korea if it endan-
gered the United States, as ten-
sions with the isolated and impov-
erished nuclear-armed state esca-
lated into perhaps the most seri-
ous foreign policy challenge yet of
his administration.
In chilling language that
evoked the horror of a nuclear ex-
change, Mr. Trump sought to de-
ter North Korea from any actions
that would put Americans at risk.
But it was not clear what specifi-
cally would cross his line. Admin-
istration officials have said that a
pre-emptive military strike, while
a last resort, is among the options
they have made available to the
president.
“North Korea best not make
any more threats to the United
States,” Mr. Trump told reporters
at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.,
where he is spending much of the
month on a working vacation.
“They will be met with fire and
fury like the world has never
seen.”
Referring to North Korea’s vola-
tile leader, Kim Jong-un, Mr.
Trump said, “He has been very
threatening beyond a normal
state, and as I said, they will be
met with fire and fury, and frankly
power the likes of which this world
has never seen before.”
Undaunted, North Korea
warned several hours later that it
was considering a strike that
would create “an enveloping fire”
around Guam, the western Pacific
island where the United States op-
erates a critical Air Force base. In
recent months, American stra-
tegic bombers from Guam’s An-
dersen Air Force Base have flown
over the Korean Peninsula in a
show of force.
“Will only the U.S. have option
claimed by it?” the Strategic
Force of the North’s Korean Peo-
ple’s Army, or K.P.A., said in a
statement. “It is a daydream for
the U.S. to think that its mainland
is an invulnerable Heavenly king-
dom.”
“The U.S. should clearly face up
to the fact that the ballistic rockets
of the Strategic Force of the K.P.A.
are now on constant standby, fac-
ing the Pacific Ocean and pay
deep attention to their azimuth
angle for launch,” the statement
said.
Mr. Trump’s stark comments
went well beyond the firm but
measured language typically pre-
ferred by American presidents in
confronting North Korea, and in-
deed seemed almost to echo the
bellicose words used by Mr. Kim.
Whether that message was
mainly a bluff or an authentic ex-
pression of intent, it instantly
scrambled the diplomatic equa-
tion in one of the world’s most per-
ilous regions.
Supporters suggested that Mr.
Trump was trying to get Mr. Kim’s
attention in a way that the North
Korean leader would understand,
while critics expressed concern
that the American president could
stumble into a war with devastat-
Continued on Page A7
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Friday’s signing of a state’s wit-
ness agreement by Ari Harow,
who served as Mr. Netanyahu’s
chief of staff and directed his 2015
re-election campaign, could be a
game changer.
Mr. Harow was offered a light
sentence in an unrelated matter in
return for information about Mr.
Continued on Page A8
Hybrid Stylist
Grenades have been fired at the
Supreme Court and, last weekend,
assailants under the command of
a mutinous captain attacked an
army base, making off with weap-
ons.
As Venezuela reels from a crip-
pling economic crisis and deadly
street protests, the military has of-
ten served as the guarantor of
GLEN CAMPBELL, 1936-2017
President Nicolás Maduro’s con-
tinued power over the country.
But daring challenges to his
rule in recent weeks have laid
bare a split within the military
that could ultimately determine
the nation’s fate: A growing num-
ber of officers are openly breaking
ranks with the president and ta-
coups and attempted overthrows
at times of crisis, and many in the
country now wonder if this is one
of those times.
But the nation’s leaders are
keenly aware of that, too, and as
they face their greatest turmoil in
years, they appear to have come
prepared: The government has
Continued on Page A8
called ‘preventive war’ as is Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
Uneven Gains Rising Dissent
For Graduates From the Right
Of Walmart U. In SiliconValley
By MICHAEL CORKERY By NICK WINGFIELD
FULTON, N.Y. — The proces- The culture wars that have con-
sion started in toys, marched sumed politics in the United
through electronics, down into
grocery and past the registers at
States have now landed on Silicon
Valley’s doorstep.

Bridged Pop the front end.

And Country
By MICHAEL POLLAK
Glen Campbell, the sweet-
voiced, guitar-picking son of a
sharecropper who became a re-
cording, television and movie star
in the 1960s and ’70s, waged a pub-
licized battle with alcohol and
drugs and gave his last perform-
ances while in the early stages of
Alzheimer’s disease, died on Tues-
day in Nashville. He was 81.
Tim Plumley, his publicist, said
the cause was Alzheimer’s.
Mr. Campbell revealed that he
had the disease in June 2011, say-
ing it had been diagnosed six
months earlier. He also an-
nounced that he was going ahead
with a farewell tour later that year
in support of his new album,
“Ghost on the Canvas.” He and his
wife, Kimberly Campbell, told
People magazine that they
wanted his fans to be aware of his
condition if he appeared disori-
ented onstage.
What was envisioned as a five-
week tour turned into 151 shows
over 15 months. Mr. Campbell’s
last performance was in Napa,
Glen Campbell on NBC’s “The Midnight Special” in 1975. He sold an estimated 45 million records.
Calif., on Nov. 30, 2012, and by the
spring of 2014 he had moved into a
long-term care and treatment cen-
ter near Nashville.
Mr. Campbell released his final
studio album, “Adiós,” in June.
The album, which included guest
appearances by Willie Nelson,
Vince Gill and three of Mr. Camp-
bell’s children, was recorded after
his farewell tour.
That tour and the way he and
his family dealt with the some-
times painful progress of his dis-
ease were chronicled in a 2014 doc-
umentary, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be
Me,” directed by the actor James
Keach. Former President Bill
Clinton, a fellow Arkansas native,
appears in the film and praises Mr.
Campbell for having the courage
to become a public face of
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Alzheimer’s.
At the height of his career, Mr.
Campbell was one of the biggest
names in show business, his ap-
peal based not just on his music
but also on his easygoing manner
and his apple-cheeked, all-Ameri-
can good looks. From 1969 to 1972
he had his own weekly television
show, “The Glen Campbell Good-
Continued on Page A15
Fifty-one men and women,
dressed in shimmering blue and
yellow caps and gowns, walked
through the Walmart to receive
certificates on a stage set up in the
store’s lawn and garden depart-
ment. A bagpiper, wearing a kilt,
led the graduates through the
aisles.
For Roy Walts, it was the first
time he had ever graduated from
anything.
He dropped out of school in the
ninth grade after his father died of
cancer and his stepmother told
him to leave the house. At 15, he
lived in a Salvation Army clothing
collection box. One Christmas
night he ate cookies from a Dump-
ster.
So as Mr. Walts, 53, crossed the
stage that April morning in front
of the local mayor; Walmart’s re-
gional manager for upstate New
York; and his son, who had
worked overnight stocking freez-
ers, he had butterflies in his stom-
ach.
“I thought for sure I would trip
walking up on that stage,” recalled
Mr. Walts, the automotive depart-
ment manager.
Mr. Walts is a graduate of Wal-
mart Academy, one of the largest
employer training programs in
the country. Since March 2016,
Continued on Page A10
That became clear this week af-
ter Google on Monday fired a soft-
ware engineer, James Damore,
who had written an internal
memo challenging the company’s
diversity efforts. [Page B1] The
firing set off a furious debate over
Google’s handling of the situation,
with some accusing the company
of silencing the engineer for
speaking his mind. Supporters of
women in tech praised Google.
But for the right, it became a po-
tent symbol of the tech industry’s
intolerance of ideological diversi-
ty.
Silicon Valley’s politics have
long skewed left, with a free-mar-
kets philosophy and a dash of lib-
ertarianism. But that goes only so
far, with recent episodes putting
the tech industry under the micro-
scope for how it penalizes people
for expressing dissenting opin-
ions. Mr. Damore’s firing has now
plunged the nation’s technology
capital into some of the same de-
bates that have engulfed the rest
of the country.
Such fractures have been build-
ing in Silicon Valley for some time,
reaching even into its highest ech-
elons. The tensions became evi-
dent last year with the rise of Don-
ald J. Trump, when a handful of
people from the industry who pub-
licly supported the then-presiden-
Continued on Page A15

NATIONAL A9-15 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 ARTS C1-7

INTERNATIONAL A4-8
Kenyan Vote Peaceful but Tense
While Kenya’s presidential election was
quiet, fears remained widespread that
results would set off violence. PAGE A4
Men, Keep Your Shirts On
A Croatian island that has seen its
share of stars is taking a harder tone
with the partiers streaming in. PAGE A6
Report Puts Trump on Spot
The release of a climate report means
the president will have to choose be-
tween his scientists’ findings and the
demands of his skeptical base. PAGE A14
Foster Care v. Gun Rights
A couple has challenged a Michigan law
that bars foster parents from carrying
concealed weapons. PAGE A9
NEW YORK A16-17, 20
Newark Revival, for Some
The city is welcoming new businesses
and residents — and, with them, new
challenges. PAGE A16
Fewer Immigrants? Be Afraid
The president aims to reduce low-skilled
foreign workers, but research shows
their value. Economic Scene. PAGE B1
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12
A Sprinter’s Burden
Justin Gatlin was once suspended for
steroids, but the outrage edges to the
absurd. Sports of The Times. PAGE B8
FOOD D1-8
Thinking Outside the Cone
Asian frozen treats, ready for their
social media close-up, are finding their
way to American sweet shops. PAGE D1
The Return of Letterman
David Letterman will be back on TV,
this time on his own Netflix show, con-
ducting long-form interviews and en-
gaging in other exploits. The beard, he
said, isn’t going anywhere. PAGE C3
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Barbara Cook, Lyric Soprano Critics at The New York Times have
Ms. Cook, who was 89, sang “Till There several entertainment recommenda-
Was You” in the original Broadway tions for Mr. Trump, from women’s
production of “The Music Man” and had wrestling to Broadway, in the event he
a long career in cabaret. PAGE B14 has some vacation downtime. PAGE C1
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Ashley VanHorn, an employee at the Walmart near Fulton, N.Y., stocking shelves.
The Graduates of Walmart Academy
By MICHAEL CORKERY
When Walmart invited me to visit one of its
job training programs in late June, I wasn’t
sure it was a story.
But new to the retail beat, I decided to
take the chance and visit Fulton, N.Y., a
small city near Syracuse, where the giant
retailer runs one of its regional training
centers called Walmart Academy. I wanted
to understand how the nation’s largest
private employer was imparting new skills
on its vast work force of 1.2 million people.
When I got there, an academy teacher
stood at a whiteboard discussing various
inventory and merchandising challenges
with about a dozen store supervisors. After
only a few minutes, I was lost in soup of
corporate acronyms, slogans and minutiae
— and no closer to determining whether
this training will actually help Walmart
workers get ahead in life (or just make
them better at selling things). I feared the
trip had been a waste.
But it turned out — as it so often does —
that the story was somewhere else entirely.
As we left the academy class, one of the
managers pointed out a pile of bricks dis-
played on a cabinet in the back of the store,
painted with the yellow Walmart sunshine
212 . 585. 42 0 0 logo. One of them had a plaque that read
“Walmart Academy: Building a Solid
Foundation for Our Future Leaders.”
“Where did the bricks come from?” I
asked.
The manager said they had been pulled
out of the former Nestlé factory that was
being demolished in Fulton. It had made
chocolate for generations and employed
hundreds of people before it closed in 2003,
devastating the local economy. Many of the
employees working in the Walmart, he
said, are the grandchildren or relatives of
former Nestlé workers.
And from there, the story began to take
shape: It wasn’t so much about job train-
ing, but about what it looks like when
Walmart becomes the equivalent of the
new factory in a ruined factory town.
The Walmart representatives took me
around the Fulton store to introduce me to
some recent graduates of the academy. I
spent most of the day talking with more
than a dozen employees.
I met Mac Guile, whose grandparents
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Fluffy shaved ice was first In Barcelona, the mayor has allowed
mentioned in Japanese literature La Boqueria, the city’s famous food
about a thousand years ago. market, to forbid large tour groups,
Begging for a Close-Up D1 which clog its narrow aisles.
• Island Beset by Partying Backpackers
Makes Appeal to Tourists to Behave A6
The children of immigrants
contribute more to state fiscal •
coffers than do their parents On any given day, there are
(first-generation immigrants) or roughly 428,000 children in foster
other native-born Americans, care in the United States, according
according to a report by the to Children’s Rights, a national
National Academies. nonprofit advocacy group.
Why U.S. Should Fear Less Labor Gun Rights and Foster Care Restrictions
JASON POLAN
By Migrants B1 Collide in Michigan A9

• In the late 19th century, the •

Roads are the largest category of
public works, accounting for about
a third of annual public works
spending. The federal gas tax, at
18.4 cents a gallon, is the largest
source of funding for those projects.
As Financing Dries Up,
Infrastructure Crumbles A14
vineyards of Europe were devastated
by the phylloxera aphid, which
preyed on their roots. Eventually,
phylloxera was stopped by grafting
European vines onto American
rootstocks. Virtually all European
vines are now grafted.
Where the Vineyards Snake Through the Sand D4
Only 18 percent of the people who
hold jobs in Newark live there,
according to a report from the New
Jersey Institute for Social Justice;
in other large cities that figure is
often between 30 and 50 percent.
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1. Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss A Google engineer was fired on Monday for a memo he wrote
Blunt Climate Report that made the case that there were fewer women in technical
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tained by The Times, were of tremendous interest on Monday
evening and Tuesday. In thousands of comments on our site
and social media, many readers expressed concern over
scientists’ fears, related in the article, that the Trump admin-
istration might change or suppress the report. “I can’t decide
which is more worrying: the report’s findings, or the fact that
scientists felt compelled to ‘leak’ the report. Either way, the
news isn’t good,” one wrote on The Times’s website.
crimination. Katie Benner, a technology reporter covering
venture capital and startups, reflected on discrimination in
Silicon Valley on Twitter. Her lightly edited tweets follow.
When I moved to San Francisco about 4 years ago,
sexist/racist writings like the Google memo rarely
broke through beyond tech into the wider world.

So much has changed here in a short period of time

re: consciousness about sexism and racism. There
was Gamergate, Kleiner Perkins, Uber.

Each episode building on the next, a sense that

systemic issues needed to be addressed.

Part of it seems because tech employees, relatively

TONY GUTIERREZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS speaking, have the upper hand in the job market and
thus more leverage to speak out.
2. What Music Do Americans Love the Most?
50 Detailed Fan Maps
Music aficionados from across the country flocked to the
Upshot’s interactive graphic exploring the regional popularity But a large part of it is also Trump and the wider sense
of the 50 most watched acts on YouTube for the first quarter that the country is pushing back against gains made by
of this year. Enthusiastic fans of BTS, a Korean pop group women and minorities.
particularly beloved in Hawaii, California and a pocket of
Wisconsin, comprised a huge swath of this article’s readers:
About a dozen posts on BTS fan pages on Facebook drove a
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Kenyans Vote Peacefully, but Fears Remain of Violence Over Results
By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
KISUMU, Kenya — Kenyan officials
were compiling the results early
Wednesday after millions of Kenyans
went to the polls to pick their next presi-
dent, the culmination of a campaign
dominated by concerns about the poten-
tial for vote-rigging and fears that the
country would be plunged into violence
once the winner was announced.
In the days leading to this year’s vote,
fake news reports, candidates’ accusa-
tions of peddling hatred and electoral
fraud, and the killing of a top election offi-
cial cast further doubt on the fairness of
the race between President Uhuru Ken-
yatta, 55, leader of the Jubilee Party, and
Raila Odinga, 72, a former prime min-
ister who was making his fourth, and
possibly last, bid for the presidency.
Early Wednesday, with more than 75
percent of the votes counted, the election
commission’s website showed Mr. Ken-
yatta leading with just over 55 percent
and Mr. Odinga with nearly 44 percent.
But Mr. Odinga contended that the vote-
counting process was flawed, and he dis-
puted the partial results. “The system
has failed,” he said, according to The As-
sociated Press.
The election was carried out peace-
fully, and there were few technical
glitches compared with the previous
poll, in 2013, when voting machines were
afflicted by widespread malfunctions.
An election in 2007, widely believed to
have been flawed, touched off bloodshed
that left at least 1,300 people dead and
600,000 displaced.
Efforts were made to head off potential
violence once voting ended: The elector-
al authorities used biometric technology
to prevent fraud and to instill confi-
dence; the two leading candidates made
pleas for peace; and even former Presi-
dent Barack Obama, whose father was
born in the country, called on Kenyans to
reject violence.
Most Kenyans say they do not want to
see the kind of violence that nearly
tipped the country into a civil war after
the 2007 presidential election, and thou-
sands have fled cities to avoid potential
clashes. The police and troops were de-
ployed to areas believed to be at risk of
turning violent if there is a perception
that the vote has been manipulated.
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election observers were looking toward
the next step: ensuring that ballots were
properly counted, which was being done
manually, and matched with the elec-
tronic data in an effort to ensure no ballot
stuffing. Results are then sent to a na-
tional tallying center in Nairobi.
“The voting and tech side have so far
been a success,” said Brian Manasseh,
23, an opposition party official assigned,
along with other observers, to make sure
there was no meddling.
“If something is wrong,” said his col-
league, Felix Otieno, 22, “we will go to the
judiciary. There is no need for fighting.”
Even so, just hours after polling sta-
tions opened, there were some signs of
voting irregularities. Hundreds of voters
discovered that their names were not on
the register; there were reports that vot-
ing materials in some constituencies had
not been delivered; and voting kits were
not working properly in other areas.
One polling station had mixed up the
password for its electronic voting system
with one for a neighboring unit, causing
delays, according to an election observer.
Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city, and
the port city of Mombasa, the second-
largest, were considered “hot spots,” and
both were eerily quiet in recent days be-
cause many residents left.
Shops were closed. Roads, usually
jammed with traffic and pedestrians,
were empty. In the Rift Valley, ethnic
Luos and Luhyas, aligned with Mr.
Odinga, headed farther west. Kikuyus,
the base of support for Mr. Kenyatta,
went east from Kisumu, a port city on
Lake Victoria.
Kenyans, of whom more than half get
their news from social media, according
to Africa Check, lined up to vote while di-
gesting the latest unverified news and
opposition claims. Those cast the elec-
tion in warlike terms: the police had
been provided with body bags; hundreds
Heartthrobs Cast as the Heroes
Of Chinese History, to Jeers
By AMY QIN
BEIJING — Commissioned by the
government to commemorate the 90th
anniversary of the founding of the Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army, China’s latest
propaganda film was meant to be a patri-
otic tale about the young soldiers who
served their country in its earliest days.
But when it came time to find actors to
play some of the Communist Party’s
most venerated military commanders,
the filmmakers behind “The Founding of
an Army” made an unusual — some say
disrespectful — casting decision: They
piled on the “little fresh meat.”
Known in Chinese as xiao xian rou, “lit-
tle fresh meat” refers to Chinese teenage
idols and boy band members, famous
mostly for their manicured good looks
and sculpted physiques.
Since the movie opened in the last
week of July, at least one descendant of a
figure portrayed in the film has criticized
the filmmakers for what he called their
“shameful” casting decisions.
“Someone is trying to make a fortune
off these important historical events,” Ye
Karoline Kan contributed research.
Lines on Tuesday in Kibera, Kenya’s biggest slum, for the election pitting President Uhuru Kenyatta against Raila Odinga, a former prime minister.
Checking identification at a polling station in Saikeri, Kenya, on Tuesday. In 2007, a disputed vote touched off blood-
shed that left at least 1,300 people dead. In this year’s race, concerns about possible vote-rigging were widespread.
of grenades had been transported in an
aircraft on a “suspicious mission”; the
government was secretly planning to
switch off electronic devices used to
identify voters.
“Are we going for war today or are we
going for elections?” demanded Silas
Owiti, 30, a voter in Kisumu and a youth
leader for the National Super Alliance,
the opposition umbrella group led by Mr.
Odinga.
Mr. Owiti said he was skeptical that the
elections would be credible, having al-
ready spotted the names of two dead
people, both acquaintances, on the vot-
ing register. One died last November and
Daying, a grandson of Ye Ting, a Com-
munist military commander, wrote on
Weibo, a microblogging site.
“Who is this effeminate boy who can
hardly stand up straight playing my
grandfather?” Mr. Ye added, referring to
Oho Ou, the 24-year-old actor and singer
who plays the army officer. “Who are you
trying to humiliate?”
Mr. Ye’s grandfather was a Nationalist
turned Communist general who helped
lead the Northern Expedition, the battles
that unified China in the 1920s.
Chinese producers have taken to regu-
larly casting xiao xian rou (pronounced
shao-shin-ro) as a strategy for attracting
young moviegoers.
Lu Han, formerly of the boy band EXO,
exemplifies this phenomenon. In addi-
tion to “The Founding of an Army,” Mr.
Lu was cast in last year’s “The Great
Wall.”
Other teenage idols in “The Founding
of an Army” include Zhang Yixing, also
of EXO, and Ma Tianyu, a pop singer who
portrays Lin Biao, an army marshal who
later became minister of defense under
Mao Zedong.
Directed by Andrew Lau, a Hong Kong
the other two years ago, he said. “Kenya
is sitting on a bombshell,” he added. “If
these elections don’t reflect the majority
of Kenyans, believe me, the bombshell
will explode.”
However, others said the voting had
gone smoothly.
Joseph Obongo, a 28-year-old banker,
was impressed by the process, which, he
said, had taken three minutes at a polling
station in Kisumu. “I gave my ID, then
my thumbprint, and that was it,” he said.
“It’s very difficult for the election to be
rigged because everything is digitized.”
Throughout his campaign, Mr. Odinga
roused supporters by warning that the
filmmaker best known for “Infernal Af-
fairs,” “The Founding of an Army” opens
with the Nanchang Uprising of 1927, the
first major battle between the National-
ists and the Communists during the Chi-
nese Civil War.
Since its premiere less than two weeks
ago, the film has taken in just $51.8 mil-
lion, according to data from Cbooo.cn, a
website that tracks Chinese box office
revenues.
CARL DE SOUZA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
election could be stolen. He said he had
been robbed of victory in the previous
two contests. In 2013, Mr. Kenyatta won
by a margin so tiny that Mr. Odinga
sought unsuccessfully to have the Su-
preme Court invalidate the election.
Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga were vir-
tually tied in recent polls. If no candidate
crosses the 50 percent threshold, there
will be a second round. Voters also cast
ballots on Tuesday for members of Par-
liament, governors and local offices.
Given the tightness of the presidential
race, the concerns expressed by Mr.
Odinga increased the chances of opposi-
tion supporters protesting in the streets,
THE FOUNDING OF AN ARMY
On Monday night, “Wolf Warrior 2,”
another patriotic action film that de-
buted on the same day as “The Founding
of an Army,” became China’s highest-
grossing movie. As of Tuesday after-
noon, the movie, about a former Chinese
special forces operative in war-torn Af-
rica, had taken in $522 million.
The promoters of “The Founding of an
Army” have rebutted reports that offi-
cials ordered cinemas to screen the mov-
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
ANDREW RENNEISEN/GETTY IMAGES
followed by a crackdown by security
forces. In 2007 and 2013, residents of Ki-
sumu said they saw the police fire live
ammunition into crowds of opposition
supporters after the election.
Vestiges of that violence remain: A
once-popular hotel stands empty, its win-
dows smashed and its insides gutted. A
bookstore, also attacked by rioters, is
derelict, its walls papered over with post-
ers and advertisements.
Lagathe Naftali, an officer at the Kon-
dele police station in Kisumu, said more
than 600 police officers in uniform and in
plainclothes had been deployed in the
city. He expected violence to be con-
tained this year. “We’ve taken protective
measures,” he said.
In 2013, there were “only 50 police offi-
cers,” outnumbered by protesters, he
said, many of whom went on a looting
spree, burning and attacking shops.
“There will be skirmishes and looting
this time again,” Officer Naftali said.
“They’re good looters, you’ll see,” he
added somewhat slyly. “I’m nervous.”
Nearby, John Cox Lorionokou, who
leads the local office of the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commission in
Kisumu, said there were irregularities,
including names that were missing from
the register, or names that had been en-
tered twice and therefore struck from the
database, “because the system thinks it
wants to duplicate your identity.”
Of the 600,000 or so eligible voters in
Kisumu, as many as 4,000 may not find
their names on the register, Mr. Lori-
onokou said. But he was confident that
the technology would ensure a free and
transparent election.
Election officials, of whom 10,000 were
in Kisumu, were better trained and pre-
pared than in previous elections, Mr. Lo-
rionokou said. Those who are caught
helping to rig an election face jail time.
The commission has routinely been
accused of helping the campaigns of both
Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga.
“People here use anything and every-
thing that will give them the ability to
control the process if they can, whether
by scaring or whatever you do,” Mr. Lori-
onokou said. “That’s what we have to
fight all the time.”
Oho Ou, top left, an actor and sing-
er, plays Ye Ting, top right, a Com-
munist military leader; Ma Tianyu,
bottom left, a pop singer, portrays
Lin Biao, an army marshal who later
became minister of defense.
ie, and its relative success at the box of-
fice was most likely helped by China’s an-
nual summer ban on Hollywood movies.
Reviews of the movie, the third in a
trilogy of government-backed films
about Chinese history, were better than
expected, given the film’s propagandism.
In a review for The Hollywood Reporter,
Clarence Tsui described it as “a genre-fu-
eled spectacle with scintillating action
scenes and self-sacrificing heroes
aplenty.”
Despite the outrage over casting,
many critics have come to the defense of
the xiao xian rou, arguing that their par-
ticipation helped make young people in-
terested in their history.
“Even though the little fresh meats in
the movie still have delicate skin, their
military stances are tall and straight,” a
commentator named Yu Xiaodong wrote
in The Beijing Morning Post.
“They may not know what it was like
for our forebears to use their own flesh to
carry the destiny of our country and our
people,” the commentator wrote, “but at
least they are making an effort to draw
closer to our elders.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 N A5

French Farmer Who Aided Migrants Is Defiant After Sentencing
By AURELIEN BREEDEN
PARIS — A French farmer who
smuggled migrants across the
Italian border was sentenced on
Tuesday to a suspended four-
month prison term in a case that
has shone a light on the govern-
ment’s immigration policies.
The farmer, Cédric Herrou, an
olive grower who lives in the Roya
Valley in southeastern France,
said after the sentence was
handed down that he would con-
tinue to help African migrants
crossing from Italy to seek asylum
in France, or to travel farther
north to other destinations.
Mr. Herrou was convicted in
February by a court in Nice,
which gave him a suspended fine
of 3,000 euro, about $3,500. He did
not have to pay if he stayed out of
trouble for five years.
The same conditions will apply
to the four-month sentence, which
was handed to him by an appeals
court in Aix-en-Provence. The
prosecutor in Nice, who had re-
quested an eight-month prison
term at Mr. Herrou’s initial trial,
had appealed the February sen-
tence, saying it was too lenient.
Mr. Herrou, speaking Tuesday
to reporters, was defiant. “A four-
month suspended prison sen-
tence, why don’t they put me in
prison directly, it will be simpler,”
he said, adding that he would con-
tinue to help migrants because of
the French government’s “fail-
ure” to do so. He also said he
would appeal the decision.
“I will continue my actions be-
cause it must be done,” he said.
The Aix-en-Provence court said
Mr. Herrou had gone beyond the
scope of a 2012 law that makes it
legal for citizens to aid migrants
on humanitarian grounds, accord-
ing to the news agency Agence
France-Presse. The law has en-
abled Mr. Herrou and his associa-
tion to legally help hundreds of mi-
grants file asylum requests.
But the court found that in this
case, which dates to 2016, Mr. Her-
rou had not simply provided hu-
manitarian aid to migrants. He
had instead acted like a “militant”
seeking to protest government
policy by helping about 200 mi-
grants avoid police checks, by
smuggling them across the border
and housing them on his farm.
Unlike the lower court in Nice,
the appeals court also found Mr.
Herrou guilty of illegally shelter-
ing Eritrean migrants last Octo-
ber in an unoccupied resort be-
longing to the national railway
company, and the appeals court
ordered him to pay 1,000 euros, or
about $1,200, in damages.
Mr. Herrou is supported by sev-
eral local aid groups and left-wing
politicians. But Eric Ciotti, a right-
wing representative for the Alpes-
Maritimes department in the
Roya Valley, wrote on Twitter af-
ter the ruling that Mr. Herrou’s ac-
tions were “dangerous.”
“The judiciary finally says
clearly that Mr. Herrou is a crimi-
nal who is exploiting human dis-
tress,” Mr. Ciotti said.
Mr. Herrou had been arrested
multiple times since 2016. He was
most recently charged in a similar
but separate case in July, after his
arrest at the Cannes train station,
where he was accompanying
more than a hundred migrants to
register for asylum in Marseille.
Mr. Herrou was ordered to stay on
French territory and barred from
going near a train station.
The French government is
working on a proposal to speed up
the process for asylum seekers
and provide them with more tem-
porary housing, but it has also
drawn a strict line between mi-
grants it says qualify for asylum
and those it says are coming for
“economic” reasons.
Around Calais, in northern
France, where a migrant camp
was dismantled in October, asy-
lum seekers and aid groups re-
cently alleged that police officers
routinely used pepper spray, lim-
ited access to food and destroyed
shelters to harass migrants.

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Island Beset by Partying Backpackers Makes Appeal to Tourists to Behave
By RICK LYMAN
HVAR, Croatia — The bucolic
island of Hvar has a new, slightly
threatening message to welcome
this year’s tourist throng: Be-
have, or else.
Men, keep your shirts on in
town, warn posters on prominent
public display around the sun-
swept island’s main town — or
risk a fine of 500 euros (nearly
$600). No drinking, eating or
sleeping in public spaces (or risk
paying 700 euros, about $825).
Similar messages are embedded
in the informational video shown
on the ferry from the mainland,
and featured in leaflets distribut-
ed along the pier.
“We are genetically disposed
to tourism,” said Riki Novak,
mayor of the island’s main town,
also called Hvar. “But this party
tourism is not something that we
asked for. It’s not something we
wanted.”
The island, with a permanent
population of about 11,000, was
for decades a beloved watering
hole for the summer yacht crowd
and global celebrities. After
abandoning the British throne
for the woman he loved, King
Edward VIII and his paramour
stopped by for a swim in 1936.
Jacqueline Onassis visited,
shortly after President John F.
Kennedy’s assassination, and
over the years so have Orson
Welles, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Tom
Cruise and Bono, among others.
But the mayor and other resi-
dents say those glittering guests
have recently been nudged aside
by party boats, all-night clubs
and hostels full of wobbly back-
packers, changing the character
of the island.
Tourists were responsible for
about 700,000 overnight stays on
Hvar last year, plus an additional
200,000 day trips, putting mil-
lions into the local economy on a
wave of tourism that has been
growing from 7 to 10 percent
each of the last five years. The
first seven months of 2017
showed a 20 percent increase in
visitor arrivals over the same
period last year and a 10 percent
increase in overnight stays.
“We have a problem that a lot
of our longtime guests, who
came with their yachts and
rented the big villas, don’t see
themselves here anymore,” Mr.
Novak said. “They are finding
other versions of Hvar else-
where.”
While still fairly serene during
the day, the town can become a
swarm of public drunkenness,
partial nudity and endless din
late into the night. Eight years
ago, there were no youth hostels
on the island, said Paul Brad-
bury, a British expatriate who
founded Total Croatia News, an
English-language news site.
Today, there are more than 30.
“There used to be art galleries
along the pier,” Mr. Bradbury
said. “Now, it’s all bars.”
There is still high-end tourism
as well. In the next year, three
hotels are scheduled to open on
Hvar — all five-star resorts, the
island’s first. Events like Ultra
Europe, a music festival in
nearby Split that holds its “after
parties” on Hvar, keep the archi-
pelago teeming through the hot
months.
Hoping to keep it that way, the
mayor and local business owners
came up with this summer’s
campaign to alert visitors that
the town would be taking a hard-
er line on enforcing its public
behavior statutes than in the
past.
Mr. Novak, 47, said the cam-
paign, which was rolled out
slowly in late June, would focus
at first on spreading the word
about the renewed enforcement,
with only egregious violators
being fined. So far, the police
have been able to maintain order
with the warnings, said George
Buj, a member of the Hvar Tour-
ism Board, and no one has been
Joseph Orovic contributed report-
ing from Split, Croatia.
In South Africa, Zuma Beats Back No-Confidence Vote, but Standing Is Impaired
By KIMON de GREEF
and SEWELL CHAN
CAPE TOWN — President Ja-
cob Zuma of South Africa sur-
vived a no-confidence motion in
Parliament on Tuesday, but by a
much narrower margin than ex-
pected, revealing the extent to
which accusations of graft and
mismanagement have weakened
his party’s hold on power.
After hours of heated debate,
the motion was defeated, with 177
lawmakers voting yes, 198 voting
no and nine abstaining.
If Mr. Zuma had lost, he would
have had to resign, along with his
cabinet. Although he prevailed,
his standing within the African
National Congress, which has
governed South Africa since the
end of apartheid, has eroded, per-
haps beyond the point of repair.
Mr. Zuma called the vote a vic-
tory, telling jubilant supporters in
Cape Town that “the A.N.C. is sup-
Kimon de Greef reported from
Cape Town, and Sewell Chan from
London.
At the Ultra Europe music festival in Split, which holds its “after parties” to the south on Hvar, Croatia. For decades Hvar drew an affluent celebrity crowd.
fined.
“The police say they’re making
fewer interventions and seeing
fewer incidents during the day,”
Mr. Buj said. “There are still
individuals, especially in the
evening and night time, but over
all there’s a noticeable differ-
ence.”
Hvar is not the only European
vacation mecca to be having
second thoughts about the huge
wave of hedonistic revelers un-
leashed by bargain airlines.
Venice has limited the number of
cruise ships. In Barcelona, the
mayor has allowed La Boqueria,
the city’s famous food market, to
forbid large tour groups, which
clog its narrow aisles.
But the crowds continue to
grow, perhaps in part because
A calm spot frequented by Hvar’s locals, seeking to avoid beaches packed with tourists.
ported by the overwhelming ma-
jority” of South Africans.
It was the fourth no-confidence
vote in Parliament that Mr. Zuma
has survived — but the first to be
conducted by secret ballot.
Opponents had hoped that
anonymous voting would embold-
en disaffected A.N.C. loyalists to
defect and vote against Mr. Zuma
without fear of reprisal. It ap-
peared that many did so: The
party controls 249 seats in the
400-member National Assembly,
the lower and more powerful
house of Parliament; the motion
needed 201 votes to pass, and it fell
only 24 votes short.
Some party members argued
that removing Mr. Zuma would set
a destabilizing and dangerous
precedent, but they did not defend
his tenure, which has been
marred by accusations of corrup-
tion and incompetence.
Crowds massed in Cape Town,
the seat of the legislature, to listen
to the proceedings, which were
streamed and broadcast live. Pro-
testers also gathered in Johan-
HVAR JOURNAL
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAURA BOUSHNAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
terrorist attacks have made
some vacationers shy away from
formerly popular resorts in
North Africa or the Middle East.
Recent waves of refugees have
also made some European trav-
elers wary of resorts in Greece
and Italy.
“Because of our neighbors’
troubles, tourists are coming
here instead,” said Eduard An-
dric, 66, president of the Tourism
and Services Union of Croatia.
“Last year was a record-breaker,
and this year promises to be one,
too.”
Croatia’s national economy has
become overwhelmingly depend-
ent on tourism. Too dependent,
some believe.
Ljubo Jurcic, president of the
Tourists at the Hula Hula beach bar on the island of Hvar. Party Croatian Association of Econo-
boats and all-night clubs are changing the island’s character. mists, said that, ideally, tourism
should account for about 10 per-
cent of the nation’s gross domes-
tic product. Instead, recent esti-
mates put it around 18 percent,
which Mr. Jurcic said is a sign of
the weakness of other segments
of the economy, like manufactur-
ing.
In the modern competition for
tourists, Croatia started out
behind its Mediterranean neigh-
bors, because of the collapse of
communism and the violent
dissolution of the former Yugo-
slavia. But by the 1999 opening of
Carpe Diem, Hvar’s first upscale
night spot with its own private
beach, tourism was already
beginning to assume a dominant
role in the country’s economy.
Carpe Diem was “initially high
class,” Mr. Bradbury said. But as
other clubs opened, spreading
into the town and transforming
once-peaceful cafes into techno-
thumping nuisances, the crowds
became increasingly younger
and rowdier.
Instead of Jackie O casting an
elegant shadow across the deck
of her yacht, there was Yacht
Week, in which several hundred
visitors, mostly young people,
drink their way down the Dalma-
tian Coast, putting into Hvar
nesburg and Pretoria. need you the most,” said Mmusi percent and rising. While living
“This president must just be re- Maimane, the leader of South Af- conditions have improved since
moved,” said one marcher, God- rica’s main opposition party, the the end of apartheid in 1994, the
frey Dromp, 54, a supporter of the Democratic Alliance, which intro- gains have slowed. Public debt is
left-wing Economic Freedom duced the no-confidence motion..” rising, and experts say the coun-
Fighters. “It doesn’t matter who He urged lawmakers to “re- try needs to restructure ineffi-
replaces him.” move this corrupt and broken cient state-owned enterprises.
A.N.C. loyalists held a rival president from office.” Municipal elections last year
march outside City Hall, where Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 88, a delivered a major blow to the
Nelson Mandela addressed huge veteran of the struggle to topple A.N.C.’s control of Johannesburg
crowds after being released from apartheid and the leader of the and several other cities. After Mr.
prison in 1990. “This is where our Inkatha Freedom Party, said that Zuma summarily dismissed a fi-
democracy began,” a party activ- misrule by Mr. Zuma had nance minister considered a bul-
ist, Nobuntu Kuse, told support- “reached the point that the un- wark against corruption in March,
ers. “The A.N.C. freed this coun- thinkable became possible.” ratings agencies downgraded the
try. We aren’t going anywhere.” Under Mr. Zuma, he said, the country’s debt to junk status.
Mr. Zuma’s opponents said the nation is for sale “to the highest Mr. Zuma’s term runs until 2019,
vote was vital to restoring confi- bidder.” but in December the party is to
dence in the government and im- Nhlanhlakayise Moses Khu- meet to choose new party leaders
proving the economy. They re- bisa, the leader of the tiny Na- for the next five years. Mr. Zuma’s
peatedly cited a controversy in- tional Freedom Party, said funda- narrow victory on Tuesday could
volving the Guptas, a powerful mental problems like poverty and empower his critics in the party
family so close to Mr. Zuma that unemployment as well as inade- and weaken supporters like his
they were commonly called the quate electricity, water and roads ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-
Zuptas. Leaked emails have led to plagued South Africans. “Eco- Zuma, a contender to succeed him
accusations of influence peddling nomic resources keep shrinking as party leader.
and calls for inquiries. and our economy is not growing,” “We can expect mass mobiliza-
“I am asking you today to over- he said, while job losses relegate tions across the country and a
come your fears, to show courage South Africans “to utter despair.” massive battle within the A.N.C.
when the people of this country The unemployment rate is 27.4 before December,” William
three times a week.
“They arrive at 5 p.m., 300 or
400 people who have already
been drinking all day,” Mr. Brad-
bury lamented. “They drink
some more in Hvar and then
wander around the village. There
are bodies just everywhere. And
then, at midnight, they get on the
boat and go to Carpe Diem or
one of the other nightclubs.”
Katia Zaninovic Dawnay, 57,
works for a real estate firm and
said it had become unpleasant in
the summer to wander the old
town and step over the recum-
bent bodies, or to wake up and
find your doorstep has been
urinated on.
“Or even worse,” she said.
Tourists have been coming to
Hvar since the creation of the
Hygenic Association of Hvar in
1868 spurred a rapid rise in ho-
tels, restaurants and other tour-
ist facilities. But it has taken
more than a century for the
island to recognize that perhaps
not all forms of tourism are
equal.
“The idea isn’t to have so
many people,” Ms. Dawnay said.
“The idea is to have fewer people
who spend more money.”
Many of the hostels and most
of the restaurants and cafes have
joined the crusade to improve
behavior on the island.
Senka Halebic, 31, the spokes-
woman for Hula Hula, one of the
most popular beach clubs, said
she had seen an improvement
since the mayor’s campaign
began.
“This new generation that’s
coming in, who come to rollick,
who come to drink cheap alcohol,
we don’t want that type of cli-
entele,” she said.
“When someone comes to
Hvar, they expect a cultured,
quality town,” Ms. Halebic said.
“These folks sleep in hostels,
drink alcohol out of bottles
around town. Some exclusive
guest in his large yacht doesn’t
want to see young drunks sleep-
ing on the pier in the morning.”
Gumede, a scholar at the Univer-
sity of the Witwatersrand, pre-
dicted. “This will send an ex-
tremely negative message to in-
vestors and ratings agencies.”
In Parliament on Tuesday, Mr.
Zuma’s defenders were fairly
muted. Puleng Mabe, an A.N.C.
lawmaker, said that if the motion
was enacted, it would amount to a
coup d’état. “The outrage in the
public over the levels of real and
perceived corruption must be ad-
dressed by this Parliament,” he
said, adding that the proper re-
sponse was independent over-
sight, not toppling Mr. Zuma.
“The court of public opinion
must not be allowed to become the
benchmark of decision making,”
Mr. Mabe said.
Ralph Mathekga, a political an-
alyst, said he was struck by the so-
ber tone of the A.N.C. lawmakers.
“The A.N.C. I saw in today’s de-
bate was very different from the
arrogant party we normally see in
Parliament,” he said. “It was a
complete shift in tone from previ-
ous motions of no confidence.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 0N A7

Wary Neighbors Weigh Deadlier Weapons to Counter Threat From Pyongyang

By JONATHAN SOBLE
and CHOE SANG-HUN
TOKYO — North Korea’s rap-
idly advancing nuclear program
has prompted politicians in Japan
and South Korea to push for the
deployment of more powerful
weapons, in what could lead to a
regional arms race.
Some of the new capabilities un-
der consideration in Tokyo and
Seoul, Washington’s closest Asian
allies, are politically contentious.
Adopting them would break with
decades of precedent and could
require delicate diplomatic finess-
ing. Other military options are al-
ready being rolled out or will be
soon.
In a military policy review pub-
lished on Tuesday, the Japanese
government focused on the threat
from North Korea, whose leader,
Kim Jong-un, has ordered more
than a dozen missile tests this
year. Some of those missiles have
splashed into waters close to Ja-
pan.
“North Korea’s development of
ballistic missiles and its nuclear
program are becoming increas-
ingly real and imminent problems
for the Asia-Pacific region includ-
ing Japan, as well as the rest of the
world,” the government in Tokyo
said in its annual defense white
paper. “It is possible that North
Korea has already achieved the
miniaturization of nuclear weap-
ons and has acquired nuclear war-
heads.”
That bleak assessment is likely
to feed a growing debate in Japan
about whether the country should
acquire the means to launch pre-
emptive military strikes — at-
tacks that could destroy North Ko-
rean missiles on the ground before
they are fired at Japan or other
targets. Lawmakers are already
pushing for such capacities; ac-
quiring them would amount to a
profound change for Japan, whose
post-World War II Constitution re-
nounces war.
Japan has long limited its mili-
tary to a strictly defensive role. Al-
though successive governments
have argued that, in theory, strik-
ing an enemy pre-emptively to
thwart an imminent attack would
be an act of self-defense, and
therefore constitutional, the coun-
try has mostly avoided acquiring
the kind of armaments it would
Jonathan Soble reported from To-
kyo, and Choe Sang-Hun from
Seoul, South Korea.
Japanese tanks in an exercise last August in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo. Japan has long limited its military to a defensive role.
need to do so. They include long-
range cruise missiles, air-to-
ground missiles and refueling air-
craft that extend the range of
fighter jets.
Some senior officials are now
arguing that Japan should acquire
such weapons.
“North Korea’s missile
launches have escalated tensions,
both in terms of quality and quan-
tity,” Itsunori Onodera, Japan’s
new defense minister, said on Fri-
day, a day after Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe installed him in the
post in a cabinet reshuffle. “I
would like to study if our current
missile defense is sufficient.”
In March, Mr. Onodera led a
committee of lawmakers from the
governing Liberal Democratic
Party in recommending that Ja-
pan consider acquiring the ability
to carry out pre-emptive strikes.
His views could be reflected in an
updated five-year military strat-
egy that is to be published by the
Defense Ministry next year.
Japan has already committed to
buying advanced F-35 fighter
planes, and it is shopping for an
upgraded land-based missile de-
fense system to improve its
Members of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces marching last October
during an annual ceremony at Asaka Base, near Tokyo.
chances of shooting down any in-
coming North Korean missiles.
North Korea escalated its
standoff with the United States
and other nations on Tuesday,
warning that it would take un-
specified “physical action” in re-
taliation for new sanctions the
United Nations Security Council
TORU YAMANAKA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
KIM KYUNG HOON/REUTERS
adopted over the weekend.
Officials and analysts say they
still doubt that North Korea has
mastered all of the technologies
needed to deliver a nuclear pay-
load on an intercontinental ballis-
tic missile. But the country’s latest
ICBM test, on July 28, was none-
theless alarming, showing that its
missiles now have a potential
range that could extend to much
of the continental United States.
Even more than Japan, South
Korea is working to build its moni-
toring and striking abilities, in-
cluding with radar and remote-
controlled reconnaissance planes
to track and neutralize North Ko-
rean missiles in pre-emptive at-
tacks.
Some want to go further. On
Monday, South Korea’s conserva-
tive opposition group, the Liberty
Korea Party, issued a statement
favoring the deployment of Amer-
ican tactical nuclear weapons in
the country, the Yonhap news
agency reported.
“Peace will come when we
achieve a balance of power, not
when we are begging for it,” the
party’s leader, Hong Joon-pyo,
was quoted as saying.
After the North’s ICBM tests,
South Korea’s new president,
Moon Jae-in, reversed his deci-
sion to suspend the deployment of
an advanced American missile de-
fense system. He also asked the
United States to let the South build
more powerful ballistic missiles, a
move that would require Wash-
ington’s approval under the terms
of a bilateral treaty.
Some opinion surveys have in-
dicated that most South Koreans
favor their country’s developing
nuclear weapons of its own, to
counter the North’s, though Mr.
Moon opposes the idea.
Hideshi Takesada, a specialist
on defense issues at the Institute
of World Studies at Takushoku
University in Tokyo, said that if
South Korea acquired nuclear
weapons, Japan might rethink its
longstanding aversion to them —
despite its traumatic experiences
at the end of World War II, when
American atomic bombs devas-
tated the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
“If South Korea went nuclear,
that debate would happen in Ja-
pan, too,” Professor Takesada
said.
On Sunday, at an event com-
memorating the 72nd anniversa-
ry of the Hiroshima bombing,
journalists pressed Mr. Abe about
the debate over developing the ca-
pacity for pre-emptive strikes
against North Korea.
In a carefully hedged answer,
the prime minister said, “At the
present time, we are not planning
any specific deliberations about
possessing” weapons for a pre-
emptive strike. But he added that
Japan needed to strengthen its de-
fenses generally, “given that the
security situation surrounding Ja-
pan is becoming increasingly se-
vere.”
Professor Takesada said that
Mr. Abe would have to tread care-
fully on the issue. Opposition to
his goal of undoing the Constitu-
tion’s restrictions on the military
has contributed to a recent slide in
his approval ratings. And extend-
ing Japan’s military reach could
antagonize not only North Korea
but also the South, where distrust
of Japan, the Korean Peninsula’s
former colonial occupier, remains
entrenched.
Despite such risks, Professor
Takesada said, Japan should ac-
quire the capacity for pre-emptive
strikes, if only for its potential de-
terrent effect. An unsettled North
Korea policy in Washington under
President Trump, he added,
makes maximizing Japan’s own
capacities more urgent.
“Short of getting nuclear weap-
ons, which very few Japanese
support, this is the best conven-
tional way to make Kim Jong-un
think twice about attacking,” he
said.

In Chilling Nuclear Terms,

Trump Warns North Korea
It Risks ‘Fire and Fury’
From Page A1
ing consequences.
“This is a more dangerous mo-
ment than faced by Trump’s pred-
ecessors,” said Mark Dubowitz,
chief executive of the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies, a
nonprofit group in Washington.
“The normal nuanced diplomatic
rhetoric coming out of Washing-
ton hasn’t worked in persuading
the Kim regime of American re-
solve. This language underscores
that the most powerful country in
the world has its own escalatory
and retaliatory options.”
But Senator Dianne Feinstein,
Democrat of California, said it
would be counterproductive.
“President Trump is not helping
the situation with his bombastic
comments,” she said in a state-
ment. Senator John McCain, Re-
publican of Arizona and chairman
of the Armed Services Committee,
also took exception. “All it’s going
to do is bring us closer to some
kind of serious confrontation,” he
told KTAR News radio.
North Korea has accelerated its
progress toward a working nucle-
ar-tipped missile force since Mr.
Remarks that go well
beyond the firm but
nese government also said in an
annual threat assessment on
Tuesday that “it is possible that
North Korea has already achieved
the miniaturization of nuclear
weapons and has acquired nucle-
ar warheads.”
But experts said the main prob-
lem for North Korea is not minia-
turization; the bombs are already
judged small enough to fit on a
ballistic missile, as a famous pic-
ture of Mr. Kim with an odd war-
head resembling a disco ball
seemed to make clear. The real
test is whether a warhead can sur-
vive the intense heat of re-entry as
it plunges through the atmos-
phere from space, a hurdle North
Korea is not believed to have over-
come.
The United Nations Security
Council unanimously adopted a
new sanctions resolution against
North Korea over the weekend,
the eighth since the country con-
ducted its first nuclear test in
2006. Backers of the resolution
said the new sanctions would cut
North Korea’s meager annual ex-
port revenue by about a third, im-
peding its ability to raise cash for
its weapons programs.
The sanctions ban the import of
coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore
and seafood from North Korea.
They also prohibit United Nations
member nations from hosting any
additional workers from the North
above their current levels. Wash- A photo distributed by North Korea’s government last month was said to show the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

measured language of ington called the restrictions “the

past presidents.
Trump, who has vowed not to let
that happen, took office. Last
month, the North successfully
tested for the first time an inter-
continental ballistic missile that
could reach the continental
United States.
The Washington Post reported
on Tuesday that American intelli-
gence agencies had concluded
that North Korea had miniatur-
ized a warhead that could fit on
top of one of its missiles. The Japa-
Peter Baker reported from Bridge-
water, and Choe Sang-Hun from
Seoul, South Korea. Reporting was
contributed by David E. Sanger
from Alaska, Jane Perlez from Bei-
jing, Rick Gladstone from New
York and Thomas Kaplan from
Washington.
most stringent set of sanctions on
any country in a generation.”
But strong doubts remain over
how rigorously China and Russia,
the North’s two neighboring allies,
will enforce the sanctions.
Even before Mr. Trump’s com-
ments, North Korea’s militant re-
sponse to the sanctions on Tues-
day was the strongest indication
yet that it could conduct another
nuclear or missile test, as it has of-
ten done in response to past
United Nations sanctions.
“Packs of wolves are coming in
attack to strangle a nation,” the
North Korean statement said.
“They should be mindful that the
D.P.R.K.’s strategic steps accom-
panied by physical action will be
taken mercilessly with the mobili-
zation of all its national strength,”
it added, using the initials for the
Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea.
Mr. Trump’s “fire and fury” re-
sponse echoed the kind of lan-
guage the North Koreans them-
selves have used in the past. In the
last few years, North Korean offi-
cials and the government news
agency have repeatedly warned
the United States and South Korea
against any pre-emptive attack,
with “sea of fire” a favorite phrase.
At one point, North Korea
vowed that “everything will be re-
duced to ashes and flames the mo-
ment the first attack is un-
leashed”; at another, it vowed to
“turn Washington, the stronghold
of American imperialists and the
nest of evil, and its followers, into
a sea of fire.”
This week, after the United Na-
tions vote, North Korea’s state-
run Rodong Sinmun newspaper
said, “The day the United States
dares tease our nation with a nu-
clear weapon and sanctions, the
mainland United States will be
catapulted into an unimaginable
sea of fire.”
While Mr. Trump’s statement is
among the most militant a presi-
dent has made about North Korea,
it may have been aimed as much
at Beijing as at Pyongyang. By
discussing military options, the
administration may be trying to
convince China and its president,
Xi Jinping, that the status quo is
dangerous because it risks war.
“It may be a message to Xi Jin-
ping that you have to be doing
more than just sanctions at the
U.N.,” said Joseph S. Nye Jr., a
Harvard scholar who once ran the
American government’s National
Intelligence Council. “It may be a
very rational, thought-out mes-
sage,” rather than an emotional
outburst, he added.
But after so many warnings of a
trade war with China and other
belligerent statements, Mr.
Trump’s threat will probably be in-
terpreted by Mr. Xi as “another
thumping-the-table” exercise,
said Shi Yinhong, a professor of in-
ternational relations at Renmin
University in Beijing.
“I guess Xi would not believe it
as more than 30 to 40 percent
true,” Mr. Shi said of the possibil-
ity that Mr. Trump would unleash
a nuclear strike on North Korea.
While Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson has kept the door open
for talks with North Korea during
his travels in the region, other ad-
ministration officials have said
Mr. Trump is being presented with
options for war. “The president
has been very clear about it,” Lt.
Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national
security adviser, said in an inter-
view aired on MSNBC last week-
end. “He said he’s not going to tol-
erate North Korea being able to
threaten the United States.”
General McMaster added, how-
ever, that the administration
would first explore “what can we
do to make sure we exhaust our
possibilities, and exhaust our
other opportunities to accomplish
this very clear objective of denu-
clearization of the peninsula short
of war.”
In South Korea, some conserva-
tive politicians and analysts have
called for the reintroduction of
American tactical nuclear weap-
ons to establish a “balance of ter-
ror” against the North. The United
States withdrew nuclear weapons
from the South in the early 1990s,
but it occasionally sends nuclear-
capable bombers and submarines
in exercises.
But President Moon Jae-in on
Monday warned against military
action. “Above all, President
Moon emphasized that South Ko-
rea can never accept a war erupt-
ing again on the Korean Peninsu-
la,” his office said in a statement
describing a 56-minute phone call
with Mr. Trump. “He stressed that
the North Korean nuclear issue
must be resolved in a peaceful, di-
plomatic manner through a close
coordination between South Ko-
rea and the United States.”
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Maduro Struggles to Hold
Loyalty of His Military
From Page A1
spent years ensuring that the mili-
tary’s top commanders are deeply
invested in the status quo.
In a single day Mr. Maduro pro-
moted 195 officers to the rank of
general. Venezuelan generals,
more than 2,000 strong, enjoy a
range of privileges, from lucrative
control of the food supply to favor-
able rates for exchanging dollars.
Eleven of the 23 state governors
in Venezuela are current or re-
tired generals, along with 11 heads
of the 30 ministries, giving them
an extraordinary stake in pre-
serving the government’s control
over the country.
And the defense minister,
Vladimir Padrino López, an army
general, has been granted an even
more lucrative arrangement, with
expanded powers to control the
country’s ports, as well as parts of
the oil and mining industries.
“Maduro has made sure to give
many rewards to senior military
officers in exchange for loyalty,”
said John Polga-Hecimovich, a po-
litical scientist who studies Vene-
zuela at the United States Naval
Academy. “While he is completely
dependent on them to stay in
power, they have much to lose if he
is gone.”
Mr. Maduro’s crackdown
against the street protests is
drawing widespread condemna-
tion. On Tuesday, the United Na-
tions said that the government
had used excessive force against
demonstrators and that security
forces and pro-government
armed groups had caused more
than half of the 124 deaths that
have accompanied this year’s pro-
tests. Eight members of the secu-
rity forces have been killed, the
United Nations said.
Mr. Polga-Hecimovich pointed
to what he called the “four P’s” —
purges, promotions, politics and
profit — that have kept many mili-
Patricia Torres and Nick Cum-
ming-Bruce contributed reporting.
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Netanyahu in what the police
have called Case 1000 and Case
2000.
In Case 1000, investigators are
looking at whether Mr. Netanyahu
offered favors in return for gifts of
expensive cigars, pink Cham-
pagne and other goods from
wealthy friends, including Arnon
Milchan, the Israeli Hollywood
producer.
Case 2000 involves back-room
dealings with a local newspaper
magnate. Mr. Netanyahu was re-
corded negotiating with the pub-
lisher of Yedioth Ahronoth for fa-
vorable coverage in exchange for
curtailing the circulation of a free
competitor, Israel Hayom.
The police came across record-
ings of Mr. Netanyahu’s talks with
the newspaper while searching
Mr. Harow’s belongings, the Is-
raeli news media has reported.
Mr. Hendel, who worked in the
prime minister’s office during the
first of Mr. Harow’s two stints
there, said Mr. Harow worked in
the “very broad, gray area” be-
tween Mr. Netanyahu’s personal,
familial and national obligations.
He added, “Someone like Ari
would see it all.”
Mr. Netanyahu has vehemently
denied any wrongdoing, and on
Tuesday he made a statement
about terrorism after a hospital
visit to the victim of a recent at-
tack, with no mention of the crimi-
nal investigations. He and his of-
fice have repeatedly lashed out at
the news media and his critics, as-
serting that the focus on the inves-
tigations is meant to topple him
under the weight of baseless accu-
sations, rather than at the ballot
box.
There is, as yet, no clear con-
tender to replace Mr. Netanyahu,
who is serving his third consecu-
tive term and fourth over all. An
Israel without Mr. Netanyahu at
the helm would, in any case, be an
unfamiliar place for its inhab-
itants, the Middle East and the
world.
Mr. Netanyahu has had abra-
sive relationships with some in-
ternational leaders, including
President Barack Obama, partic-
ularly over his championing of
settlement expansion and his ef-
forts to thwart Iran’s nuclear pro-
gram. President Trump’s victory
came as a great relief to Mr. Ne-
tanyahu and his coalition — the
most right wing in Israel’s history
— alleviating the pressure from
Washington.
In May, Mr. Trump paid a bond-
ing visit to Israel. But Mr. Netan-
yahu has not been given totally
free rein on settlement building,
and Mr. Trump’s election promise
of moving the United States Em-
bassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv
remains unfulfilled.
Mr. Netanyahu has also built
strong alliances with other lead-
ers, including President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi of India,
and has expanded Israel’s global
reach based on its prowess in in-
tary leaders loyal to the govern-
ment. The purges and promotions
date back to President Hugo
Chávez, who picked Mr. Maduro to
be his successor before he died in
2013.
Mr. Chávez participated in an
unsuccessful uprising against the
government when he was an
army lieutenant in 1992. A decade
later, he was also the victim of a
coup attempt as president.
After regaining control, Mr.
Chávez embarked on a major ef-
fort to rid the military of anyone
who might challenge him again.
He also instituted a new brand of
military education to indoctrinate
the armed forces to his Socialist-
inspired movement, even requir-
ing soldiers to attend rallies. Pro-
motions became based less on
performance and more on leftist
leanings, former soldiers say.
“There was an ideological filter
to the most senior ranks,” said
Harold Trinkunas, a Venezuelan
political scientist and a fellow at
the Brookings Institution.
By most accounts, Mr. Maduro,
a civilian who lacks the charisma
and popular support of his prede-
cessor, went even further to
strengthen ties with the military’s
top brass, promoting Néstor
Reverol, a former National Guard
head accused of drug trafficking
in the United States, to head the
Interior Ministry.
The president also elevated
more than 800 officers to the rank
of general or admiral, not only en-
suring the loyalty of those who get
promotions but also diluting the
authority of individual officers
who might challenge the presi-
dent, according to Mr. Polga-Heci-
movich.
Even the food supply has be-
come a source of patronage, ex-
perts say. In June 2016, faced with
food shortages and riots spread-
ing across the country, Mr. Madu-
ro put the military in charge of fac-
tories and gave it control over dis-
tribution. While that helped with
the looting, experts say, it also al-
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated the Israeli political scene for years, and fought off assorted scandals.
A black curtain has prevented the public from seeing visitors
approach Mr. Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem.
telligence, counterterrorism and
technology.
The Israeli leader has also be-
come a fixture at the annual meet-
ings of the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly, showcasing a com-
bative, theatrical style of diplo-
macy. A peak — or nadir,
depending on the perspective —
of his leadership was his March
2015 speech against the Iran nu-
clear deal in front of a joint meet-
ing of Congress.
His tenure has been one of im-
passe in the Palestinian peace
process. But inside Israel, he is
credited with having maintained
stability as Arab neighbors de-
scended into chaos. A departure
would leave Israel, its allies and
its enemies in uncharted terrain.
It could take many months for
Mr. Harow’s information to be
substantiated. Any police recom-
Rebels clashed with the National Guard on Sunday in Valencia, a large city west of Caracas, as resistance turns to armed defiance.
lowed top officers to gain control
over the profitable black market
in food.
Most midlevel officers, howev-
er, are far removed from the high
ranks or patronage systems on of-
fer from the government. Instead,
said Raúl Salazar, a retired gen-
eral who served as defense min-
ister under Mr. Chávez, they see a
deepening poverty caused by the
food and medicine shortages that
are plaguing the country.
“Their families, their friends,
their acquaintances, everyone is
suffering and they begin to ask
themselves if it’s getting better or
worse,” General Salazar said. “Ev-
eryone has the same voice that
talks to them each day, and that is
their conscience.”
On Sunday, a fugitive army cap-
tain named Juan Carlos Caguari-
pano released a video of himself
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mendation for an indictment
would have to be approved by the
state prosecutor and attorney
general; there is no precedent in
Israel for a sitting prime minister
to be charged.
But one or more of Mr. Netanya-
hu’s coalition partners may bolt
before that to protect their own
reputations. There are already
some signs of unease from within
his own Likud Party.
On Friday, when Mr. Harow
signed his deal, the anchor of Is-
raeli public radio’s noon news pro-
gram said that the only one of
Likud’s 30 Parliament members
willing to discuss the case was Da-
vid Amsalem, a novice elected in
2015.
Since then, the coalition whip
has threatened the others that
they would pay a price in party
primaries if they kept silent. One
standing before a group of armed
men he declared were in “legiti-
mate rebellion” and demanded a
“transitional government and free
general elections.”
Around that time, a group of 20
people launched an assault on a
military base in the state of
Carabobo, near the capital, Cara-
cas, an attack the government
said had been organized by the
rebel captain. Soldiers fought the
group for three hours and at least
half of them made away with a
number of weapons, they said.
On Monday, Mr. Padrino, the de-
fense minister, said the weapons
included high-powered assault ri-
fles and grenade launchers. The
attackers reached them with help
of a lieutenant at the base, he said.
Mr. Alcalá, the retired general,
who headed the base for several
years, said: “They would have
by one, Likud ministers have ex-
pressed support, many in Face-
book posts. A political cartoon
published Tuesday showed the
whip holding a gun to the heads of
several ministers while ordering,
“Again — with feeling!”
A Likud rally in support of Mr.
Netanyahu is scheduled for
Wednesday evening.
Late Monday, Israeli news out-
lets reported that the attorney
general would soon announce
charges against Mr. Netanyahu’s
wife, Sara, on accusations that
public funds were misused in the
family residences. And, respond-
ing to a journalist’s freedom of in-
formation request, Israel’s Su-
preme Court has given Mr. Netan-
yahu two weeks to disclose the
call logs of his conversations with
executives of Israel Hayom, a
newspaper widely considered to
have been established to support
him.
Yehuda Ben Meir, an expert in
national security and public opin-
ion at the Institute for National Se-
curity Studies at Tel Aviv Univer-
sity, said that recent political polls
showed “a degree of erosion in the
support” for Mr. Netanyahu, but
that “there are no indicators at
this moment that his position has
been dealt a fatal blow.”
Mr. Netanyahu’s durability can
be attributed at least in part to the
fractured field of potential rivals.
Naftali Bennett, leader of the far
right Jewish Home party, and
Avigdor Lieberman, of the nation-
alist Yisrael Beiteinu, would like
to contend for the premiership but
have relatively small parties that
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needed someone inside the unit
with the key. There are so many
personnel problems within the
armed forces, so many problems
with morale.”
Indeed, even before the attack,
Captain Caguaripano seemed to
be gaining a following. In a July 26
video, a rogue soldier named
Javier Nieto Quintero pledged al-
legiance to him from an undis-
closed location in the jungle,
where he said he was in exile. Mr.
Nieto, who is believed to have
lived in Miami and Colombia, en-
couraged Venezuelans to rise up
against government.
“The only thing we should be
negotiating is what jail Maduro
will be in,” he said.
Still, as the attacks continue
without the support of senior offi-
cers, the unrest is looking more
like guerrilla warfare than a coup.
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make it difficult.
The Likud has several people
jostling for the top spot, including
Yisrael Katz, the minister of trans-
portation and intelligence affairs;
Gilad Erdan, the minister of public
security; and Gideon Saar, a for-
mer education minister who re-
cently returned to public life.
Support for Yair Lapid, a former
finance minister, and his centrist
Yesh Atid party has grown over
the past year. Avi Gabbay has in-
jected new spirit into the Labor
Party after being elected its chair-
man last month, replacing Isaac
Herzog.
“There are no two ways about
it,” Mr. Gabbay wrote in a recent
Facebook post. “There is only be-
ing for or against the corruption
and the rot.”
Dahlia Scheindlin, a political an-
alyst, said all the chatter was not
so different from what she heard
before the election two years ago.
“Then, too, people were complain-
ing that Bibi had been in for too
long, that it was time for change,”
she said, referring to Mr. Netanya-
hu by his nickname. “But in the
same breath they would say, ‘But
there’s nobody else.’ It’s the same
thing now.”
Gadi Wolfsfeld, a professor of
political communications at the
Interdisciplinary Center in Her-
zliya, said, however, “At some
point, people in his party are going
to say enough is enough.”
The notion that there is nobody
to replace Mr. Netanyahu holds
“until it happens,” Professor
Wolfsfeld said. “They said nobody
could replace Ben-Gurion.”
On June 27, a pilot from Venezue-
la’s police corps named Óscar
Pérez commandeered a helicopter
and shot grenades at the Supreme
Court. Mr. Pérez also released a
video urging Venezuelans to
rebel.
Attacks by security forces
aligned with the opposition are
troubling to Mr. Trinkunas, the po-
litical scientist, who notes that the
government has armed civilian
squads known as colectivos and
independent militias that could
find themselves in conflict with
rogue soldiers as they try to de-
fend Mr. Maduro.
To General Alcalá, the attacks
represent a departure from the
military order that he spent years
trying to defend.
“We have to reject this, all Vene-
zuelans who believe that the solu-
tion must come from the Constitu-
tion,” he said.
Buzzes U.S. Jet
Over the Gulf
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — An unarmed
Iranian drone buzzed an Ameri-
can Super Hornet fighter jet as it
circled an aircraft carrier in the
Persian Gulf, Defense Depart-
ment officials said on Tuesday.
A statement released by the
military’s Central Command said
that despite repeated radio calls
demanding that Iran keep the
drone clear of American flight op-
erations in the vicinity of the air-
craft carrier Nimitz, the Iranian
vehicle came within 100 feet of the
fighter jet, which had to swerve to
avoid a collision.
At the time of the incident, the
jet had been in a holding pattern
and was planning to land on the
carrier, the statement said.
“The dangerous maneuver cre-
ated a collision hazard and is not
in keeping with international
maritime customs and laws,” the
statement said. The American
military said this was the 13th “un-
safe” or “unprofessional” interac-
tion between American and Irani-
an maritime forces this year.
In June, the United States
downed two Iranian-made drones
that the Pentagon said were ap-
proaching American-backed
troops on the ground in Syria.
There have been a series of
clashes in a potential proxy war in
Syria that has pitted Iranian-
backed militias that support Pres-
ident Bashar al-Assad against
Syrian fighters who have been
trained by American, British and
other coalition military advisers.
In the Persian Gulf, there have
been an increased number of close
calls and incidents as the United
States has stepped up assistance
to Saudi Arabia and other allies
fighting Iranian-backed Houthis
in Yemen.
Tensions between the United
States and Iran, which had
seemed to be easing after the re-
cent nuclear agreement, now
seem to be back on the rise.
But President Trump, who has
adopted a hard line on Iran since
taking office, has sought to penal-
ize Iran with sanctions not di-
rectly covered by the nuclear
agreement. The administration
announced sanctions on July 18
that are related to Iran’s develop-
ment and testing of missiles,
along with its support for Syria’s
government and theft of software.
The White House and Congress
have each penalized Iran with ad-
ditional sanctions.
The new sanctions led Iran to
lodge a complaint with the com-
mission that assesses possible vi-
olations of the nuclear accord, ac-
cusing the United States of
breaching the 2015 agreement,
known as the Joint Comprehen-
sive Plan of Action, among Iran
and six world powers, including
the United States.
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Bill Johnson with his handgun. He and his wife, Jill, are suing Michigan, which would bar them from carrying concealed weapons if they became their grandson’s foster parents.
Gun Rights and Foster Care Restrictions Collide in Rural Michigan
A couple has challenged a state law
that bars foster parents from
carrying concealed weapons.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — Bill Johnson’s
grandfather taught him how to shoot
when he was just 9 years old, and gave
him his first gun — a Mossberg 16-gauge,
bolt-action shotgun — when he turned 14.
When Mr. Johnson joined the Marines at
17, he was issued an assault rifle. And he
has carried a concealed handgun, with a
permit, for the past decade.
But now Mr. Johnson says he has been
forced to give up carrying his gun “under
duress.” The reason? He wants to be-
come a foster parent to his grandson.
In a case that could have implications
for gun owners nationwide, Mr. Johnson
and his wife, Jill, are suing their home
state, Michigan, which bars foster par-
ents from carrying concealed weapons.
At issue is whether the state’s rules
amount to a “functional ban” on owning a
firearm, in violation of the Constitution’s
Second Amendment.
“This is not a case that’s outlandish or
off the wall,” said Adam Winkler, a law
professor at the University of California,
Los Angeles, and author of a book on the
gun rights movement. “Foster parents
do have constitutional rights, and they
don’t forsake those rights just because
they become foster parents.”
Most states have regulations govern-
ing gun ownership for foster parents;
having guns locked and stored in safes,
with ammunition locked and stored sep-
arately, is a standard requirement. The
goal is to ensure the safety of children,
many of them troubled, in foster care.
But around the country, some foster
parents and lawmakers, as well as gun
rights advocates, are pushing back, es-
pecially in states that bar concealed per-
mit-holders from carrying their weapons
if they are caring for foster children.
In 2011, Texas lawmakers passed a
measure explicitly allowing foster par-
ents to carry weapons in their cars. In
Nevada, the State Legislature adopted a
bill in 2015 that overturned state regula-
tions and explicitly allowed foster par-
ents to possess guns if they are law en-
forcement officers or have permits to
carry concealed weapons.
“We felt that it wasn’t right for them to
have this ridiculous ruling, because
there are so many families out there that
use firearms for protection,” said Valerie
Wilson, 42, who, along with her husband,
Brian, was denied a foster license in Las
Vegas because Mr. Wilson carried a gun
with a concealed carry permit.
The couple successfully lobbied the
Legislature to change the law, but have
been barred from reapplying under the
new rules, Ms. Wilson said. “We didn’t
get our family,” she said, “but I know
we’ve helped a lot of kids and families.”
On any given day, there are roughly
428,000 children in foster care in the
Mrs. Johnson owns a fishing tackle shop in Ontonagon, a hamlet in northwest Michigan. The Johnsons’ case, which could have implications for gun
owners nationwide, centers on whether the state’s rules amount to a “functional ban” on owning a firearm, in violation of the Second Amendment.
United States, according to Children’s
Rights, a national nonprofit advocacy
group. The group’s executive director,
Sandy Santana, said states had a legiti-
mate right to regulate gun ownership
among foster parents, just as they had a
right to require other “common sense
safety measures,” like smoke detectors,
emergency evacuation plans and back-
ground checks.
“Becoming a foster parent is not a
right, it’s a privilege,” Mr. Santana said.
The Michigan lawsuit has set off in-
tense debate in foster parent circles, said
John DeGarmo, a consultant to foster
care agencies. When he posted a news
article about the case on his Facebook
page, he said, “the discussion was very,
very heated among foster parents, and I
found that foster parents are very much
in agreement that they deserve to have
guns in their home.”
Irene Clements, executive director of
the National Foster Parents Association,
Photos of Mr. Johnson and his 5-year-old grandson on display in the tackle shop. Mr. Johnson, a disabled
veteran who said he owned nine weapons, hopes to teach the boy how to use the BB gun he has bought him.
said the debate had intensified as more
people around the country apply for con-
cealed carry permits.
“Foster families have been able to
have guns in the house to go hunting,
that sort of thing, so long as they’re
locked up and the bullets are in a sepa-
rate room,” she said. “But personal carry
is a whole different thing.”
The Michigan case is backed by the
Second Amendment Foundation, a na-
tional advocacy group that makes ag-
gressive use of the courts in an effort to
expand gun rights. It is the third of a trio
of similar cases the group has brought
seeking to prod state child welfare agen-
cies into rolling back gun safety require-
ments.
The first suit, against the Oklahoma
Department of Human Services, was dis-
missed by a federal judge in May; the
court deemed the case moot because the
state had abandoned a requirement that
foster parents sign a “weapons safety
agreement.” A spokeswoman for the Ok-
lahoma agency said the agreement,
drafted by an employee, did not consti-
tute official policy; the agency is now re-
viewing and updating its gun regula-
tions.
A second case, in Illinois, is set for a
court hearing next year. It is similar to
the Michigan case, which argues that the
state’s regulations — including a require-
ment that ammunition be stored sepa-
rately from unloaded weapons — are
tantamount to an unconstitutional ban
on gun ownership for foster parents.
In its handbook for foster and adoptive
parents, the Michigan Department of
Health and Human Services requires
that firearms be “stored in a locked metal
or solid wood gun case, or trigger-locked
and stored without ammunition in a
locked area.” The agency also requires
that all ammunition be locked up and
that handguns be registered.
“This is not about coffee tables, this is
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not about leaving it on the nightstand,”
said David Sigale, the lawyer for the
Johnsons. “This is about being able to
carry it on your person both in and out of
the home.”
A spokesman for the Michigan agency
declined to comment, citing the pending
litigation.
The Johnsons’ suit, filed in July in the
United States District Court for the West-
ern District of Michigan, raises “pretty
significant constitutional concerns,” said
Clark Neily, an expert on the Second
Amendment at the Cato Institute, a liber-
tarian-leaning research organization in
Washington.
For the Johnsons, who live in a rural
hamlet in northwest Michigan near Lake
Superior, guns are a way of life. Bill John-
son is a disabled veteran; Jill Johnson
owns a fishing tackle shop. Mr. Johnson
said he had fond memories of hunting
with his grandfather, who hunted and
fished to feed his family. He has already
purchased a BB gun for his 5-year-old
grandson, and hopes to teach him how to
use it.
“It’s a tradition,” he said. “My grandfa-
ther taught me, and my grandfather’s
grandfather taught him.”
The Johnsons say the state asked
them to become foster parents to the
child, who was removed from his moth-
er’s care. Mr. Johnson said he had nine
weapons, which he keeps for self-de-
fense, not only against humans, but also
against the animals — coyote and bear —
that roam the woods near his home. With
the exception of his handgun, his prac-
tice has been to keep all the weapons
locked up, he said.
In court documents and in an inter-
view, he described heated exchanges
with state officials over it.
“They told me flat out, ‘You are going
to have to give up some constitutional
rights here if you want to keep that boy,’ ’’
he said.
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Uneven Gains for Graduates of Walmart U.
From Page A1
Walmart has put more than 150,000 of its
store supervisors and department manag-
ers through the training, which, over sev-
eral weeks, teaches skills like merchandis-
ing and how to motivate employees.
An additional 380,000 entry-level work-
ers have taken part in a separate training
program called Pathways. Most of these
workers receive a $1-an-hour raise for com-
pleting the course.
American companies spend about $170
billion a year on formal employee training,
but most of that instruction focuses on
workers with college degrees.
Walmart has spent $2.7 billion on training
and raising wages for 1.2 million of its store
workers over the past two years — an in-
vestment that reflects the pressures the
company faces in the retail industry.
Fighting Amazon for sales, Walmart is
trying to make its stores more pleasant
places to shop. That requires a well-trained
work force with a sense of purpose and self-
worth, qualities that can be difficult to nur-
ture in lower-wage workers.
But it’s not clear whether all this training
is teaching workers valuable skills that
could enable them to move into the middle
class, or whether it is mostly making them
better Walmart employees.
And even with more skills, many retail
workers may never be able to earn what
factory workers made in places like Fulton,
a faded manufacturing hub near Syracuse.
“It is going to be very hard to replace
what we’ve lost,” said Fulton’s mayor, Ron-
ald Woodward. “Retail jobs don’t compare
to manufacturing.”
In a study funded by Walmart, re-
searchers at the National Skills Coalition, a
nonprofit group that promotes investment
in training, found that 60 percent of retail
workers are not proficient in reading and 70
percent have difficulty working with num-
bers.
The Pathways program addresses some
of these issues by teaching “retail” math, or
basic numerical skills a worker might need
at the register or stocking shelves.
The academy is geared to more-
experienced supervisors and department
managers. Working in classrooms set up in
150 Walmarts around the country, employ-
ees learn how to calculate profit and loss
statements and how to run their depart-
ment like a small business.
Managers are also taught to get to know
their employees and understand their home
life.
A Rebranding
Walmart was once considered to be a pa-
riah of rural America, vilified by some — es-
pecially people who shopped elsewhere —
for wiping out local businesses by selling
cheap goods made in China. Now, Walmart
is rebranding itself as a company focused
on the needs of its workers and the fate of
small towns and hardscrabble cities.
In the past year, Walmart has spent about
$650,000 running television ads about Wal-
mart Academy, according to Alphonso, a TV
data company. It has spent $17.6 million on
an ad highlighting the company’s commit-
ment to buy $250 billion in goods made or
grown in America. That ad features scenes
of factory workers and their families set to
the squeals of Aerosmith’s “Dream On.”
“The caps and gowns, the symbolism,
these are not trivial things,” said Anthony
Carnevale, director of the Georgetown Uni-
versity Center on Education and the Work-
force.
“They are trying to create this feeling
among employees that ‘we are the store.’
They are taking small-town America and
putting it into Walmart. Is that a bad thing?
No.”
Other researchers say what many Wal-
mart workers need most is not training, but
higher wages. The training programs, they
say, may be helpful in enhancing employee
loyalty and performance, but increasing
pay would benefit the workers most.
Two years ago, the company raised its
starting wage to $9 an hour, a $1.75 increase
from the federal minimum wage.
“If Walmart really wanted to invest in its
workers, it would start people at $15
companywide and adequately staff its
stores so they can service customers,” said
Robert Gebeloff and Sapna Maheshwari
contributed reporting.
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Judy Conti, federal advocacy coordinator
for the National Employment Law Project,
which lobbies for low-wage workers.
Fulton, a city of about 11,400 people, was
once known for producing one very impor-
tant thing: chocolate.
Specifically, Fulton was home to a factory
that made Nestlé Crunch bars. On humid
days, before a summer rain, the smell of
chocolate wafted through the city.
Missing the Smell of Chocolate
The company shut the factory and moved
operations to Wisconsin in 2003 to consoli-
date its production facilities and “increase
the utilization of assets,” a Nestlé spokes-
woman said in an email.
“I think what everyone misses most,”
said Geoff Raponi, manager of the Fulton
Walmart Supercenter, “is the smell.”
They also miss the jobs — more than 1,500
of them when the factory was booming in
the mid-1980s, according to Mayor Wood-
ward. The local Walmart has about 300 em-
ployees.
Mac Guile, 24, was not quite 6 years old
when the chocolate works closed. He was
living with his grandmother, who poured
molten chocolate into bars, and his grandfa-
ther, who delivered supplies to the factory.
They lived in a spacious house across from a
McDonald’s, where Mr. Guile was known as
the store’s mascot because of his name —
Mac — and the fact that he ate breakfast
there almost every day.
After Nestlé left town, Mr. Guile moved
with his grandparents into a trailer. There
were no more daily McDonald’s breakfasts,
and often there was little food at all. Mr.
Guile and his younger brother took baths
with water warmed on the stove.
At 19, Mr. Guile got a job at the Fulton Wal-
mart Supercenter as a part-time janitor,
earning $7.50 an hour. He didn’t have
enough money to pay for utilities in his
apartment for the first few months, so he
showered at a relative’s house.
He now runs the meat department, a wall
of refrigerated shelves, spanning from
chicken thighs to Hofmann’s hot dogs, a
Syracuse-area favorite.
He likes meat because of the fast pace
and customer demands. He has memorized
the internal temperature that pork, chicken
and beef need to reach for safety, and rec-
ommends a variety of sauces and rubs.
The Walmart Academy classes appealed
to Mr. Guile because they were more like
discussions than lectures. Instead of being
scolded for using their phones, students
were encouraged to look things up. He was
impressed that the program was held in a
real classroom equipped with tablets.
The most useful lesson Mr. Guile learned
at the academy was how to motivate his
workers. “Have more one-on-one conversa-
tions, that is key,” said Mr. Guile, who has a
brown beard and a tattoo that proclaims, “It
is what it is.”
He now earns about $15 an hour, has a
401(k) retirement account with matching
contributions from Walmart, and receives
bonuses.
His former supervisor recommended
him for the assistant store manager pro-
gram, which could put him on track to man-
age a store one day — a job that pays an av-
erage of $170,000 a year.
Many of Mr. Guile’s family members also
work in the store. His sister works in the
deli, his cousin’s mother works at the front
end and his girlfriend is a cake decorator in
the bakery.
Some of his relatives who don’t work at
the store ask him for help. He buys some
family members new shoes and clothing for
school.
“The whole town can’t work at Walmart,”
Mr. Guile said.
When Fulton’s Walmart Academy gradu-
ated its first class, the store presented the
mayor with a gift. It was a brick pulled from
the rubble of the Nestlé factory, which is be-
ing demolished 14 years after Nestlé left.
“A piece of Nestle History,” read the in-
scription on the brick. “Presented this day
25th of April 2017.”
Mr. Woodward, who is serving his third
four-year term as mayor, appreciates Wal-
mart’s training program but says it will take
more to save his city’s economy.
“Anytime a company offers training, that
is good,” Mr. Woodward said. “But they are-
n’t all going to run the store.”
Mr. Woodward, a former maintenance su-
pervisor at Nestlé who made $89,000 a year,
says he was one of the last two workers to
leave the plant when it closed. His second-
floor office in City Hall is like a time capsule,
frozen in Fulton’s glorious industrial past.
There are black-and-white photos of a
campaign banner for Theodore Roosevelt
hanging over a downtown street, and of a
long-gone horse racing track teeming with
spectators in suits and bowler hats.
A few years ago, Fulton tried to restart
chocolate production. A confectionery com-
pany, owned partly by a consortium of co-
coa suppliers from Ivory Coast, revived the
Nestlé property with help from the state.
But the venture failed.
The site’s most recent owner stripped the
factory of wiring to sell for scrap and
walked away, the mayor said, leaving
empty brick buildings behind.
From his office, Mr. Woodward, 68, talks
on a flip phone and peers out over his
glasses with eyes like an owl’s.
He is busy working to dredge a public
lake that is choked by algae and closed to
swimming at the height of another summer.
“I love this town,” Mr. Woodward said. “I
will do anything to help it.”
That includes showing up one morning at
the Walmart to attend the academy gradua-
tion.
Mr. Woodward didn’t have the heart to
tell the store employees that the Walmart
was not technically in his city.
The store lists a Fulton mailing address
but is actually in the neighboring town of
Granby. That means Fulton misses out on
the property tax revenue the store gener-
ates.
The retailer does pay Fulton for water
and sewage, an average of $11,703 a year, ac-
cording to the city. But that pales next to the
$364,218 the Nestlé plant spent on those
services in 2002. The chocolate company
was also paying Fulton $166,253 in annual
property taxes.
Mr. Woodward appreciates that the su-
percenter provides steady jobs during a
tough economic time. But in his mind, these
are not the kind of jobs that earned Fulton
the nickname “the largest small city in the
state.” In the past few decades, Birds Eye
foods and Miller Brewing also closed plants
in the Fulton area that once employed hun-
dreds of people.
“You could graduate from high school,
work at a place like Nestlé, buy a car and
send your kids to college,” Mr. Woodward
said.
When the Nestlé plant was roaring in
1985, the average wage in Oswego County,
which includes Fulton, was about $51,000.
Today, the average pay is 18 percent less, ac-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROGER KISBY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Recent graduates of cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a
federal agency.
the Fulton, N.Y., Wal-
mart Academy includ- Walmart declined to disclose the wages
at the Fulton store. But the company said
ed, from left, Courtney that at its stores in New York State, full-time
Gazda, Mac Guile and workers earned an average of $14.10 an
Melissa Gigliotti. Be- hour. Part-time workers make an average of
low, Ashley VanHorn $11.10 an hour.
and Mr. Guile stocked The company says its training programs
shelves at the store. are intended to help employees advance
into higher-paying jobs at Walmart or in
other industries.
“Whether they are coming to us for two
years or 20 years, we want them to have the
skills that allow them to create opportuni-
ties,” said Kathleen McLaughlin, who runs
A huge retail chain the Walmart Foundation and also holds the
offers training to title chief sustainability officer.
many hundreds of Walmart has been working with the Na-
tional Retail Federation, a trade associa-
thousands of tion, to help devise standards for a certifi-
employees, but what cate that retail workers could earn for gain-
they learn may have ing certain interpersonal skills like how to
limited value outside deal with angry customers. The hope is that
certificate holders will have an easier time
its stores. finding a job or getting promoted.
The challenge is that there are only so
many jobs that a retail worker can be pro-
moted to — which means many workers
may not be able to move up. Since the start
of the year, about 71,000 jobs have been lost
in the retail sector nationwide.
Walmart points out that more than a
quarter of its 1.2 million store workers are in
supervisory and manager positions and
that there are frequently openings for
managerial jobs.
And Walmart workers who stay in entry-
level jobs over many years can earn up to
$17 an hour nationwide.
Activists and unions say the starting
wage should be higher. But Ms. McLaugh-
lin, who worked for two decades at McKin-
sey, the global consulting company, said in-
creasing entry-level wages could do more
harm than good. If the starting wage is too
high, she said, employers will be less likely
to hire unskilled, inexperienced workers.
“In contrast to only increasing wages,”
Ms. McLaughlin said in an email, “we be-
lieve investing in people and developing
their skills gives them access to more
choice of jobs that reflect their particular
talents and passions.”
‘You Can Do Better Than This’
About a month ago, Ashley VanHorn was
stocking shelves in the Fulton store when
she overheard two little girls tell their fa-
ther they wanted to work at Walmart one
day.
“You can do better than this,” Ms. Van-
Horn recalled the man telling them.
Working at Walmart was never part of
Ms. VanHorn’s plan, either. She remembers
going with her father to register at Cayuga
Community College in Fulton. They rode
their bikes to the campus because they did-
n’t have a car.
Ms. VanHorn, 27, described her father as
someone “who could build a house with his
bare hands” but had faced some financial
challenges. He was so insistent on enrolling
his daughter in college that he filled out
most of the paperwork himself.
Ms. VanHorn wanted to be a social
worker, but a few credits shy of getting her
degree, she became pregnant and dropped
out of college. Soon after, she got a job at
Walmart.
“I know I let my dad down,” she said.
She started out in the health and beauty
department and eventually moved to gro-
cery, where she now manages dry goods.
Her manager says Ms. VanHorn, who earns
about $15 an hour, has what it takes to be a
salaried assistant manager overseeing sev-
eral departments and making nearly
$20,000 more a year.
But Ms. VanHorn worries that the longer
hours as an assistant manager would mean
less time with her two children. She also
hopes to go back to college someday.
On graduation day, Ms. VanHorn didn’t
know what to expect. Like many of the grad-
uates in her Walmart Academy class, she
had never taken part in a graduation cere-
mony because she didn’t finish high school.
As the procession made its way through
the aisles and the bagpiper played, Ms. Van-
Horn spotted her father, sitting on a folding
chair in the lawn and garden section.
After the ceremony, he told Ms. VanHorn
he was proud of her.
“This was not the dream,” she said. “But
the dream does change.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 N A11

Chicago Professor Held

After Stabbing Death
By MATTHEW HAAG
For more than a week, the grue-
some killing of a young hairstylist
in a downtown Chicago luxury
high-rise has captivated the re-
gion, the case’s surprising twists
mystifying even the detectives
who eventually tracked down two
suspects.
It started with an anonymous
phone call late on July 27 to the
front desk of the Grand Plaza, a 57-
story apartment building near the
Chicago River. There had been a
crime committed on the 10th floor,
the caller said.
The police soon entered Unit
1004 to find blood nearly every-
where and the body of Trenton
Cornell-Duranleau, 26, who had
been stabbed so violently that the
blade broke off the knife used in
the attack, the authorities said.
Missing were the apartment’s
owner, Wyndham Lathem, an as-
sociate professor at Northwestern
University, and a British man seen
on the building’s surveillance
cameras with him, Andrew War-
ren.
Over the next week, detectives
with the Chicago Police Depart-
ment cast a wide net, eventually
involving federal authorities and
British law enforcement officials
as they tracked the two men’s
movements across the western
shackled and wearing a red jump-
suit, smiled at supporters who
waved and blew kisses, The Asso-
ciated Press reported. Mr. Wine
said his client would plead not
guilty to murder charges.
A court hearing for Mr. Warren
has not been scheduled. Neither
man has been formally charged in
the death of Mr. Cornell-Duran-
leau, with whom, the police said,
Mr. Lathem had been in a person-
al relationship.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokes-
man for the Chicago Police De-
partment, said investigators were
preparing to interview the men
and hoped to learn more about
what happened on July 27.
“We have many, many unan-
swered questions,” Mr. Guglielmi
said in an interview on Monday
night. “We have ideas about what
has taken place and the physical
evidence, but we have a little bit
more follow-up work to do.”
The detectives’ questions in the
case span from England to Califor-
nia. Mr. Warren abruptly left his
home in Oxfordshire without
telling his partner or his family,
who reported him missing. They
asked neighbors to look out for
him, but Mr. Warren had in fact TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
traveled to the United States for
the first time, arriving on July 24 The Senate gallery in in Austin, Tex. Businesses oppose a restrictive bathroom bill, fearful of repeating North Carolina’s experience.
and meeting up with Mr. Lathem

Transgender Bathroom Bill Is Hobbled in Texas

half of the United States. Along
the way, developments in the case
— a donation in the victim’s name
at a Wisconsin library and a re-
morseful video recorded by Mr.
Lathem — puzzled investigators
and added to their urgency.
The winding manhunt came to
an end late last Friday in North-
SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT, VIA A.P.
ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, VIA A.P.
Andrew Warren, top, and
Wyndham Lathem were ar-
rested in California on Friday.
ern California, more than 2,000
miles from Chicago. Mr. Warren, a
56-year-old administrator at Ox-
ford University in England,
walked into a police station near
Golden Gate Park in San Fran-
cisco and said he was wanted for a
crime.
Across the San Francisco Bay,
Mr. Lathem, 42, surrendered to
United States marshals outside a
federal building in Oakland. At a
court hearing on Monday, Mr.
Lathem waived extradition. He
could be escorted back to Illinois
by the Chicago police as early as
Tuesday.
His lawyer, Kenneth H. Wine,
called Mr. Lathem a “gentle soul”
accused of a crime that was “to-
tally contrary” to the person his
friends and colleagues knew. At
the court hearing, Mr. Lathem,
in Chicago.
Mr. Guglielmi said it was un-
clear how Mr. Lathem, a micro-
biologist at Northwestern who
had studied the plague, met Mr.
Warren, a senior treasury assist-
ant at Somerville College at Ox-
ford University. Northwestern
fired Mr. Lathem on Monday. In a
statement last week, Oxford said
that Mr. Warren’s “colleagues at
Somerville College have now all
been informed and are shocked to
learn of the case.”
It is also unclear whether Mr.
Warren knew Mr. Cornell-Duran-
leau, who grew up in Michigan
and had recently taken a job at a
Chicago salon.
But the authorities said there
was no doubt all three men were in
the 10th-floor apartment around 5
a.m. on July 27 when Mr. Cornell-
Duranleau was stabbed repeat-
edly. Mr. Guglielmi said the attack
was so vicious and expansive that
the police were still processing the
crime scene.
Shortly after the attack, securi-
ty cameras at the Grand Plaza
captured Mr. Warren and Mr.
Lathem leaving the building to-
gether, Mr. Guglielmi said. Inves-
tigators believe they drove that
same day to Wisconsin, where a
man entered the Lake Geneva
Public Library and presented a
$1,000 donation in Mr. Cornell-Du-
ranleau’s name.
From there, they made their
way west, ignoring phone calls
from investigators and from
Northwestern University trying
to reach Mr. Lathem, the police
said. While on the run, according
to the police, Mr. Lathem sent a re-
morseful video to close friends
and family, making reference to
“the biggest mistake of his life.”
As the search expanded, the
Chicago police enlisted the help of
the United States Marshals Serv-
ice. Through an associate of Mr.
Lathem’s, marshals made contact
with him late last week and
worked to get the men to surren-
der, the authorities said.
They finally did on Friday. Mr.
Warren was dropped off outside a
San Francisco police station
house. A short time later, federal
agents spotted Mr. Lathem, ex-
hausted and unshaven, standing
outside the Oakland courthouse.
“He looked a little disheveled,
like he hadn’t slept much the last
couple of days, but at the same
time there was a look of relief,” Mi-
chael McCloud, a fugitive task
force commander with the United
States Marshals Service, told The
Chicago Tribune. “Relief because
of stress, of being on the run for a
week.”
Major Corporations Take Lead in Opposing an Effort by Social Conservatives
By DAVID MONTGOMERY
AUSTIN, Tex. — With little
more than a week left in Texas’ 30-
day special legislative session, a
barrage of corporate advertising
and activism has the potential to
sink legislation restricting trans-
gender bathroom use that has
been a flash point in the state’s cul-
ture wars.
Social conservatives and the
state’s powerful lieutenant gover-
nor, Dan Patrick, have backed the
legislation. Gay rights groups,
business groups and the House
speaker, Joe Straus, one of the few
powerful moderate voices in the
Texas Legislature, have opposed
it. But after the State Senate,
where Mr. Patrick presides, pas-
sed a bill, a narrower one is show-
ing few signs of life in the 150-
member House.
The effort is now focused on the
House version, but State Repre-
sentative Jonathan Stickland, one
of the bill’s 46 co-authors and a
member of the Tea Party-backed
Freedom Caucus, said he was pes-
simistic about its chances of being
allowed to advance to a vote.
“I think the Straus team has al-
ready decided that they are not
going to let it out,” said Mr. Stick-
land, who, like other members of
the staunchly conservative cau-
cus, persistently defies the speak-
er’s leadership. “This is clearly
part of a national agenda that is
being pushed by the progressive
left, and I think that that is just all
coming to a head here.”
The Senate bill would require
transgender people to use bath-
rooms in schools and local govern-
ment buildings corresponding to
the gender listed on their birth
certificates or state-issued identi-
fication cards. The House bill
would prevent school districts and
county or local governments from
adopting or enforcing nondiscrim-
ination ordinances that would al-
low transgender people to use
bathrooms of their choice. The or-
dinance override provision is also
an element in the Senate bill.
Although law enforcement, reli-
gious groups and transgender ad-
vocates have all been part of the
opposing coalition, big business
has been a dominant force
throughout the debate.
“Corporate America is stepping
forward, speaking loudly about
the fact that this will have a chill-
ing effect on business opportunity
in this state,” said State Repre-
sentative Byron Cook, a Republi-
can and the chairman of the
House State Affairs Committee,
who has thus far refused to call a
hearing on the bill. “I’m hearing
from many major corporations
about this bill and the effect it will
have.”
Corporations active in Texas
that have opposed the measure in-
clude IBM, Amazon, Apple, Dell,
Microsoft, Intel, Capital One, Ben
& Jerry’s, Facebook, American
Airlines, Southwest Airlines and
United Airlines.
More than 650 businesses,
chambers of commerce, and con-
vention and visitors’ bureaus
have come out against the bill, ac-
cording to the Texas Association
of Business, which is leading the
charge to defeat the legislation.
The list includes 50 Fortune 500
companies and more than 400
small businesses, according to the
group.
The association is the most
powerful business lobby in the
state, representing companies
with more than two million em-
ployees and $8 billion in business.
The group’s president, Chris Wal-
lace, said the association moved
quickly to form a coalition, Keep
Texas Open for Business, against
legislation when it became appar-
ent that the bathroom battle was
heading to Texas.
“We do not want to do anything
to tarnish Texas’ brand,” he said.
The strategy has included a
seven-figure radio ad buy, stra-
tegically targeted letters signed
by prominent chief executives,
lobbying blitzes throughout the
Capitol and rallies on the Capitol
grounds.
Several dozen women, predom-
inately business owners and exec-
utives, many accompanied by
their children, gathered on the
south steps of the state Capitol on
Tuesday as 15 speakers attacked
the legislation as the work of “ex-
tremist” politicians that will blunt
the economy and foster discrimi-
nation and hate crimes.
“I don’t want my child to be a
statistic of the 2017 special ses-
sion,” said Kimberly Shappley, a
registered nurse and ordained
minister from the Houston sub-
urbs who was accompanied by
her 6-year-old transgender
daughter, Kai.
Business executives repeatedly
cite North Carolina as Exhibit A in
opposing the bill, pointing to mil-
lions of dollars in economic losses
through boycotts and the cancel-
lations of sports events and con-
certs after a similar bill passed
there in 2016. A study commis-
sioned by the business association
also projects billions of dollars in
losses in Texas.
Mr. Patrick and other support-
ers of the legislation say the pro-
jections in Texas and the impact in
North Carolina have been vastly
exaggerated.
IBM, which has 10,000 employ-
ees in Texas, has been at the fore-
front of the drive to kill the legisla-
Radio ads, targeted
letters, lobbying
blitzes and rallies.
tion. The corporation placed a full-
page ad against the measure in
major Texas newspapers the day
before the session started and has
staged two “fly-ins” of company
executives to appeal to lawmak-
ers. Virginia M. Rometty, the com-
pany’s chief executive, has spoken
with Gov. Greg Abbott and Mr.
Straus on the phone to air the
company’s concerns.
Business’s involvement has in-
creasingly become a target for
proponents as they accelerate
their efforts in the remaining days
of the session.
“I don’t think anybody has seen
corporations engage on an issue
like this outside the framework of
taxes and regulations in our mem-
ory,” said Dave Welch of the Texas
Pastor Council, which is a leading
supporter of the legislation. “I
think it’s a combination of a rising
moral bankruptcy in corporate
America, in which the only thing
they support is their image and
their bottom line.”
A video ad campaign titled “Big
Business Hypocrisy,” sponsored
by Family Research Council Ac-
tion, says major corporations, ho-
tels and airlines are demanding
that “Texas expose women and
children to policies that could en-
danger them in the most private of
places” — the bathroom — while
refusing to “enact the same un-
safe policies in their own facili-
ties.”
If the session goes all 30 days —
and it could end earlier — law-
makers would adjourn on Aug 16.
Mr. Abbott, a Republican, has giv-
en no hints on whether he would
call another session, although he
has been particularly insistent
that lawmakers give Texans new
safeguards against rising prop-
erty taxes.
As for the bathroom legislation,
the governor told The Austin
American-Statesman newspaper
on Friday that it was “way prema-
ture” to conclude that the House
bill wouldn’t come up for a vote.
The intensity of the debate has
raised questions about the future
relationship between business
groups and the state’s Republican
leadership, which have shared a
decades-long bond. Mr. Wallace,
president of the Texas business
association, said the bond would
remain unbroken despite the dif-
ferences in the current show-
down.
“Ninety-plus percent of the
time we are in agreement,” he
said. “We just happen to disagree
on this issue.”

‘Credible’ Claims Found Against an Ex-Headmaster

By JESS BIDGOOD
The Williston Northampton
School, a private boarding school
in Western Massachusetts,
named this week its former head-
master, Robert Ward, as the sub-
ject of credible reports of sexual
misconduct that occurred during
the 1970s, marking a rare instance
of such allegations reaching a
prep school’s highest level.
A letter written by school offi-
cials on Monday said that an in-
vestigator appointed by the
school was given four firsthand
accounts from credible sources of
sexual misconduct by Mr. Ward.
He was the school’s headmaster
from 1972 to 1979 and died in 1986.
The letter, which was sent to
Williston alumni and current par-
ents and was posted on the
school’s website, did not provide
details of the accusations, and
school officials on Tuesday de-
clined to offer any further details
about what had happened, citing
privacy issues.
The letter from Williston was
Katharine Q. Seelye contributed
reporting.
the latest in a crush of revelations
detailing allegations of sexual
misconduct by adults at New Eng-
land’s prestigious prep schools.
But it was not the first time Willis-
ton had examined allegations of
sexual misconduct on campus. A
2015 inquiry by an investigator,
prompted by claims against a dif-
ferent faculty member, failed to
produce any firsthand accounts
about Mr. Ward, school officials
said.
The flurry of investigations into
past abuse at private schools has
led to still more investigations, in
part because some of those ac-
cused of wrongdoing worked at
multiple schools.
It was not until Loomis Chaffee,
a private school in Connecticut,
named Mr. Ward in its own letter
earlier this year that Williston offi-
cials hired a new investigator to
take a look at the former head-
master. Mr. Ward had worked at
Loomis Chaffee in the 1960s.
“The four firsthand reports in-
dicate that Mr. Ward violated the
standards of professional bound-
aries, standards that would have
been in effect at the time, and
standards that are universally un-
derstood today,” the letter from
Williston officials said. The letter
was signed by Robert W. Hill III,
the current head of the school, and
John Hazen White Jr., the presi-
dent of the board of trustees.
The allegations against Mr.
Ward add to a small but growing
number of claims against top lead-
ers of schools. Other high-ranking
Sexual misconduct
allegations reach a
Massachusetts school.
administrators — notably, a for-
mer admissions officer at Phillips
Exeter Academy in New Hamp-
shire — have pleaded guilty to
sexual violations. And other
heads of schools where sexual
abuse has been documented —
notably at St. George’s School in
Rhode Island — have been ac-
cused by some alumni of perpetu-
ating cover-ups, either actively or
passively.
But claims that a headmaster
has been directly involved in sex-
ual abuse of students are still rare.
In a letter from officials at
Loomis Chaffee earlier this year,
school officials cited “credible re-
ports” that said Mr. Ward had
“sexually assaulted and made ad-
vances toward students.” At that
school, Mr. Ward had worked as a
guidance counselor, English
teacher and member of the admis-
sions office in the early 1960s.
Ann Hallock, the director of
communications for Williston, is-
sued a written response to ques-
tions.
“We are saddened by these
findings, but they only strengthen
our commitment to the emotional
and physical safety of our stu-
dents today and to creating and
maintaining a safe environment in
which all students feel completely
comfortable reporting any type of
inappropriate behavior,” she said.
“In deference to privacy issues re-
lated to the alumni who came for-
ward, we are not releasing further
details about the credible ac-
counts of sexual misconduct that
were reported.”
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team
A New Press Secretary, for a President at War With the Press
Calmer Presence
In West Wing
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
WASHINGTON — Pickle did
not go as planned.
When Sarah Huckabee Sand-
ers, the newly minted White
House press secretary, began her
first official briefing by reading a
child’s letter to President Trump
— “Everybody calls me Pickle,
I’m 9 years old, and you’re my fa-
vorite president” — the backlash
was swift.
Reporters called it a transpar-
ent attempt to distract from nu-
merous scandals roiling the White
House. Theories surfaced that Mr.
Trump, who once impersonated
his own spokesman, had written
the missive himself. (He didn’t.)
“I didn’t know it was going to be
such a controversy,” Ms. Sanders
said during an interview last week
in her spartan West Wing office. “I
was like, what has happened in
America when a kid writes a very
innocent, nice letter and it turns
into, like, handwriting specialists
and psychologists?”
Absurd as it was, the Pickle af-
fair offered a low-stakes micro-
cosm of the deep distrust that has
developed between the Trump ad-
ministration and the journalists
whose work the president derides
as “fake news.” And it under-
scored the why-would-you-want-
this nature of Ms. Sanders’s new
job: defending a president who is
at war with the news media and an
administration that has repeat-
edly been denounced for playing
loose with facts.
Now Ms. Sanders, who inher-
ited her position when her celebri-
ty predecessor Sean Spicer quit, is
stepping into the glare, trying to
manage coverage of a tumultuous
White House while mollifying a
boss who believes he is his own
best spokesman.
“It’s a challenging position un-
der any president, much more so
under President Trump,” said
Scott McClellan, a former press
secretary to President George W.
Bush. “She can help the president
advance his agenda and broaden
his appeal beyond his base, if —
and it’s a big ‘if’ — he will avoid un-
dermining her.”
In a White House of outsize
characters, Ms. Sanders, 34, has
flown under the radar — Mr.
Trump, for all his social media log-
orrhea, has never posted on Twit-
ter about her by name. If Mr.
Spicer’s gaffe-prone briefings mu-
tated into an unhelpful spectacle,
Ms. Sanders’s sessions tend to be
flat and uneventful, not necessar-
ily a bad thing for a stormy admin-
istration.
An evangelical who reads from
a book of Christian devotionals be-
fore every briefing — and the
daughter of the pastor-turned-
presidential-candidate Mike
Huckabee, the former Republican
governor of Arkansas — Ms.
Sanders is an unlikely public face
for Mr. Trump, a twice-divorced
connoisseur of grievance.
“I certainly didn’t approve of a
couple of the comments,” Ms.
Sanders said of her time on Mr.
Trump’s campaign, where she
served as an adviser and on-air
surrogate. “But at the same time,
we were looking for a commander
Nevada Senator Faces
Test in G.O.P. Primary
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — Senator
Dean Heller, Republican of Neva-
da, quickly found the limits of
party loyalty on Tuesday when a
businessman with a famous name
in the state announced he was
challenging him in a primary.
Mr. Heller, after weeks of pub-
licly agonizing over Republicans’
drive to repeal the Affordable
Care Act, stuck with party leader-
ship and voted for a pared-down
version of the legislation.
But Mr. Heller’s support was
not enough to get the bill passed,
as three other Republicans torpe-
doed the measure.
On Tuesday, Danny Tarkanian,
a Nevada businessman and serial
candidate for elected office, an-
nounced that he would take on Mr.
Heller, who was already the most
vulnerable Senate Republican in-
cumbent on the ballot next year.
Mr. Tarkanian — the son of
Jerry Tarkanian, the legendary
former Nevada college basketball
coach — fiercely criticized Mr.
Heller, calling him the personifica-
tion of a wavering politician.
“He has no convictions, he does-
n’t stand by his word,” Mr. Tarka-
nian said in an interview, citing
the health care bill, federal fund-
ing for Planned Parenthood and il-
legal immigration.
And he said Mr. Heller would
pay the price with conservative
Nevada voters for refusing to
back President Trump in last
year’s campaign.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a briefing in July. Speaking of her time on the Trump campaign, she said, “We were looking for a commander in chief, not a pastor.”
in chief, not a pastor.”
“Oftentimes, people want to
make politicians perfect,” she add-
ed. “And that’s one of the actual
beauties of Christianity, is under-
standing that no one is.”
She is the first mother to serve
as press secretary, and among the
youngest to occupy the role. At the
lectern, she is folksy, but nimble:
She recently deflected questions
about “chaos” in the White House
by inviting reporters to visit the
three preschoolers in her living
room. There were laughs, even as
Ms. Sanders clearly sidestepped
the subject.
She is also unafraid to call out
reporters and news coverage that
she deems unfair. Asked in the in-
terview if the establishment me-
dia is biased against Mr. Trump,
she replied, “Absolutely.”
“I’ve never seen the level of
hostility that this press corps has
to the president,” she said.
Behind the scenes, reporters
who cover the West Wing say Ms.
Sanders can be friendly and warm
— the good cop to Mr. Spicer’s
barking sergeant. Last week, sev-
eral dozen journalists and White
House aides, including Kellyanne
Conway, toasted Ms. Sanders’s
promotion at an all-female “wom-
en of the White House” happy
hour at a Washington hotel bar.
But like Mr. Spicer, Ms. Sanders
“I didn’t run away from the
president when I ran last time
when I had all sorts of pressure, so
I’m certainly not going to this time
when I think he’s doing lots of
good things,” said Mr. Tarkanian,
who narrowly lost a 2016 House
race and was one of the few high-
profile Nevada Republicans to not
back away from Mr. Trump.
Mr. Heller, who is facing what is
expected to be a well-funded op-
position from Representative
Jacky Rosen, a Democrat, greeted
the news of his challenger with
ridicule.
“Danny Tarkanian is a perenni-
al candidate who has spent mil-
lions of dollars on five campaigns
over the last decade,” said Tommy
Ferraro, a spokesman for Mr.
Heller’s campaign. “Nevada vot-
ers have rejected him every time
— including less than a year ago
against Jacky Rosen. He’s wasted
conservatives’ time and cost the
Republican Party seats up and
down the ballot. If he ultimately
files for U.S. Senate he will lose in
the primary.”
Mr. Tarkanian declared his can-
didacy in an early-morning inter-
view on “Fox & Friends,” well be-
fore most Nevada voters were
awake but with the assumption
that Mr. Trump was tuning in from
his summer vacation in New Jer-
sey.
“We’re never going to make
America great again unless we
have senators in office that fully
support President Trump and his
has drawn criticism for some du-
bious assertions. Confronted with
Mr. Trump’s call for law enforce-
ment agents to rough up gang sus-
pects, she said that the president
“was making a joke.” While de-
nouncing CNN, she urged Ameri-
cans to watch a video critical of
the network by a right-wing activ-
ist, James O’Keefe, “whether it’s
accurate or not.”
When a reporter asked if Mr.
Trump had lied about a laudatory
phone call from the Boy Scouts,
Ms. Sanders shot back: “That’s a
pretty bold accusation.” She also
conceded that the call had not
happened.
The president’s volatility has
caught her off guard. In May, Ms.
Sanders, then deputy press secre-
tary, told reporters that Mr. Trump
had not made up his mind to fire
his F.B.I. director, James B.
Comey, until after he received a
recommendation from the Justice
Department. The next day, Mr.
Trump said the opposite.
“Her predecessor to a large de-
gree was willingly sacrificing his
credibility, and he was put in a bad
position,” Mr. McClellan said.
“The challenge will be not to sacri-
fice the strength that she brings.”
He added, “I’m thankful my
president didn’t have a Twitter ac-
count.”
Ms. Sanders was enjoying a rel-
Dean Heller, above, is being challenged by Danny Tarkanian, a businessman and serial candidate.
‘America First’ agenda,” said Mr.
Tarkanian, the skyline of the pre-
dawn Las Vegas Strip glowing be-
hind him.
Mr. Heller has had something of
a tense relationship with Mr.
Trump, dating to last year’s elec-
tion. It got rockier this summer af-
ter the senator and Gov. Brian
Sandoval of Nevada used a heav-
ily publicized Las Vegas news
conference to excoriate a version
of the Republican health care bill
that would have phased out the
Medicaid expansion.
A political group aligned with
the White House began airing ads
atively quiet Twitter day during
the interview, her last meeting be-
fore the West Wing closed tempo-
rarily for renovation. She said she
was looking forward to some
downtime with her husband and
their three children, whose art-
work hangs above her desk.
Asked about Mr. Trump’s un-
Sarah Huckabee
Sanders steps into
the capital’s glare.
predictability, Ms. Sanders stayed
on message. “We have no two
days that are alike, which I love,”
she said. (Mike Huckabee was
more candid on a radio show in
June, saying, “He makes my
daughter’s job very difficult with
tweets like that.”)
Steeped in politics since grade
school, Ms. Sanders remembers
poring over poll results with the
consultant Dick Morris at the fam-
ily’s kitchen table. “Looking back,
that was probably not the most
normal thing in the world,” she re-
called.
At 25, Ms. Sanders helped her
father win an upset victory in the
in Nevada criticizing Mr. Heller,
only to pull them when Senator
Mitch McConnell, the majority
leader, and other Republican sen-
ators complained to Mr. Trump.
Yet Mr. Trump made life more
difficult for Mr. Heller, the only
Senate Republican running next
year in a state carried by Hillary
Clinton, a few weeks later in the
White House.
Sitting next to the senator as
cameras rolled, the president
jabbed a thumb in Mr. Heller’s di-
rection and said, “This was the
one we were worried about.”
Predicting that the Nevadan
2008 Iowa caucus. In 2016, she
managed his presidential bid until
he dropped out; “that didn’t go so
well,” she said, wryly.
She wakes up at 5 a.m. to spend
time with her children and talk
with her father, who texts her
feedback after briefings. “She’s
not easily rattled,” Mr. Huckabee
said of his daughter’s calm de-
meanor at the lectern. “She’s not
going to throw punches just be-
cause she can.”
Not every reporter is pleased
with her approach. “I don’t want
to hear anymore about the chaos
in her home,” said Brian Karem, a
White House correspondent for
the Sentinel newspapers in Mary-
land who has clashed with Ms.
Sanders. “If she tells me one more
story about how three pre-
schoolers can be more chaotic
than a hundred and some odd re-
porters in the White House press
office, I’ll even volunteer to
babysit.”
Dana Perino, Mr. Bush’s fourth
press secretary, said such criti-
cism missed the mark. “The re-
porters will roll their eyes,” she
said. “But Sarah isn’t doing that
for the press — she’s doing it for
their supporters and their base.
The more they make fun of it, the
more she’ll do it.”
Ms. Sanders said that talking
about family came naturally —
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would eventually fall in line, Mr.
Trump offered an assessment of
Mr. Heller’s political calculation
that was notably short on subtlety.
“Look, he wants to remain a
senator, doesn’t he?” the presi-
dent said, drawing an exaggerat-
ed laugh from Mr. Heller. “And I
think the people of your state,
which I know very well, I think
they’re going to appreciate what
you hopefully will do.”
Just how much Mr. Trump ap-
preciates Mr. Heller’s vote will
play a crucial role in the primary.
While conservative challengers in
recent years have defeated a
AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“That’s just kind of who I am” —
and she scolded some journalists
for seeking “gotcha” moments.
“We may from the outside seem
more adversarial” than past ad-
ministrations, Ms. Sanders said,
“but you should see the hundred
stories I deal with before going out
there. Some of the most out-
rageous claims with no facts, no
sourcing. It’s like, ‘an unnamed
source close to the White House.’
I’m like: ‘What does that mean?
The guy that works at the coffee
shop across the street?’ You have
to give me more than that.”
White House advisers say that
Ms. Sanders has grown closer
with Mr. Trump, who approves of
her even-keeled briefings.
Still, the president’s affections
are fickle, and in the interview,
Ms. Sanders heaped praise on Mr.
Trump, calling him “a great guy”
and “a fighter.” Twice, she said “I
love the president,” echoing a fa-
vorite phrase of Anthony Scara-
mucci, who briefly served as com-
munications director.
Mr. Huckabee, asked if he had
qualms about his daughter’s rep-
resenting Mr. Trump, said that he
was proud.
“I know she’s doing everything
she can to be straightforward and
honest,” Mr. Huckabee said. “I
know that she is going to be loyal
to a fault.”
handful of Senate Republicans,
and given even more a scare, that
was before Mr. Trump took office.
His decision about whether to in-
tervene in Nevada and in Arizona,
where Senator Jeff Flake is ex-
pected to face Republican opposi-
tion next year, will partly deter-
mine how much money and atten-
tion these primaries draw.
Mr. Tarkanian said he had not
been in touch with the president
and had not received encourage-
ment from the White House.
Asked about what could be one
of the most hard-fought primaries
in the country, a senior White
House official would not offer a
firm declaration but did point out
that Mr. Heller had ultimately
sided with party leaders on the
health care push.
What is clear is that the senator
will have both the Senate Republi-
can campaign arm and the well-
funded “super PAC” run by Mr.
McConnell’s allies at his disposal.
Mr. Tarkanian argued that he
would make his challenge a “na-
tional race” and gleefully noted
that Fox was already replaying
his interview. But he was candid
when asked how he would raise
enough money to muster a com-
petitive statewide race: “I don’t
know,” he said.
He invoked the example of his
father, whose birthday would
have been Tuesday, when pressed
about his track record of losing
races. He noted that the Univer-
sity of Nevada, Las Vegas, lost
year after year to more estab-
lished college basketball powers
before trouncing Duke in the 1990
national championship.
“Just like my dad, we’re going to
persevere and we’re going to win,”
he vowed.

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Vowing Again to Attack Opioids, Trump Faults Obama
No Declaration
Of Emergency
By PETER BAKER
and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Presi-
dent Trump promised again on
Tuesday to tackle the growing epi-
demic of opioid abuse in the
United States after blaming his
predecessor for not doing more to
stem the surge of drug overdoses.
But he offered no specific ideas for
how he would do so.
Meeting with top advisers dur-
ing his working vacation in New
Jersey, Mr. Trump cited statistics
saying that deaths stemming
from opioid overdoses had sky-
rocketed in recent years and had
become the leading cause of acci-
dental death in the United States.
He spoke generally about better
health care and law enforcement
action as well as guarding the
southern border.
“It’s a tremendous problem in
our country, and I hope we get it
taken care of as well as it can be
taken care of — hopefully better
than any other country that also
has these same problems,” he told
reporters at his golf club in Bed-
minster, N.J. “Nobody is safe from
this epidemic that threatens all —
young and old, rich and poor, ur-
ban and rural communities. Ev-
erybody is threatened.”
He pointed to the administra-
tion of President Barack Obama.
“At the end of 2016, there were 23
percent fewer federal prosecu-
tions than in 2011, so they looked at
this surge and they let it go by,” he
said. “We’re not letting it go by.
The average sentence for a drug
offender decreased 20 percent
from 2009 to 2016. During my cam-
paign, I promised to fight this bat-
tle because, as president of the
United States, my greatest re-
sponsibility is to protect the
American people and to ensure
their safety, especially in some
parts of our country. It is horrible.”
Mr. Trump did not use the occa-
sion to declare a national opioid
emergency, as his presidential
commission on the epidemic rec-
ommended. The bipartisan panel,
led by Gov. Chris Christie, Repub-
lican of New Jersey, concluded
that about 142 Americans died ev-
ery day from opioid use. The panel
also called the emergency decla-
ration its “first and most urgent
recommendation,” one that could
Peter Baker reported from Bridge-
water, and Michael D. Shear from
Washington. Abby Goodnough and
Michael S. Schmidt contributed re-
porting from Washington.
Justice Dept. Backs Ohio Effort to Purge Rolls of Infrequent Voters
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — The Justice
Department has thrown its
weight behind Ohio in a high-pro-
file legal fight over the state’s
purging of infrequent voters from
its election rolls, reversing the
federal government’s position un-
der the Obama administration
that the practice was unlawful.
The move was the latest in a se-
ries of changes the department
has made in how it enforces civil
rights law under the Trump ad-
ministration. The dispute centers
on an aggressive practice used in
Ohio, a crucial swing state in pres-
idential elections, that removes
voters who sit out three election
cycles and fail to respond to a
warning.
Last year, when the state
sought to delete several hundred
thousand registrations of infre-
quent voters ahead of the presi-
dential election, civil-liberties
groups filed a lawsuit against
Ohio’s secretary of state, Jon
Husted. After the Obama-era Jus-
tice Department filed a friend-of-
the-court brief calling the purging
practices unlawful, a federal ap-
peals court ordered Ohio to let
those people vote.
But, seeking to resume the
practice in future elections, Ohio
appealed to the Supreme Court.
And late Monday, the Trump ad-
ministration filed a brief arguing
that the justices should reverse
the appeals court and find that
Ohio is within its rights to prune
its voter rolls.
“After this court’s grant of re-
view and the change in adminis-
trations, the department recon-
sidered the question” and has
“now concluded” that Ohio’s purg-
ing practices are legal, the brief
said.
Justin Levitt, a professor at
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles,
who was a deputy in the Justice
Department’s civil rights division
under the Obama administration
and worked on the Ohio case, said
he disagreed with the new inter-
pretation, while stressing that it
was particularly extraordinary
for “the solicitor general’s office to
switch its own position on what
the statute means” in the middle
of the case.
Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, spoke to the news media after a meeting about the opioid crisis.
force more attention on the prob-
lem from Congress and from the
public.
White House officials said the
president and his team were still
reviewing the commission’s inter-
im report.
Tom Price, the secretary of
health and human services, said,
“We will treat it as an emergency,”
but noted that such declarations
were typically reserved for spe-
cific, geographically limited out-
breaks of infectious diseases.
“We believe that, at this point,
that the resources that we need or
the focus that we need to bring to
bear to the opioid crisis at this
point can be addressed without
the declaration of an emergency,
although all things are on the table
for the president,” he told report-
ers.
But Democrats did not wait for
Mr. Trump’s event in New Jersey
to criticize him for failing to live up
to his own promises to take action
to stop the epidemic, accusing him
of nothing more than “empty rhet-
oric.”
“Trump promised he’d come to
the aid of communities ravaged by
Voters in Columbus, Ohio, where they could be de-registered if they sit out three election cycles.
“This is not merely a policy
change,” he said. “It is a change by
the office that has the role in the
courts of deciding what the law
says on behalf of the federal gov-
ernment. Every time the office of
the solicitor general changes posi-
tion, without an intervening
change in the law, it damages its
credibility a little bit.”
Lauren Ehrsam, a Justice De-
partment spokeswoman, said the
new position “was supported by
the National Voter Registration
Act’s text, context and history,”
and she stressed that a ruling al-
lowing Ohio’s practice would not
force other states to do likewise.
For years, Republicans have
been trying to impose various
new restrictions on voting and
claiming that tighter limits on ac-
cess to the ballot box are neces-
sary to prevent voter fraud. Dem-
ocrats — who note that there is no
evidence of significant levels of
voter impersonation fraud —
maintain that the efforts are in-
stead an attempt to suppress par-
ticipation by groups of voters who
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
the opioid epidemic, but so far he’s
done nothing for them,” Daniel
Wessel, a spokesman for the Dem-
ocratic National Committee, said
in a statement.
“In fact, Trump’s budget pro-
posal and the Medicaid cuts he
supported as part of the Republi-
can health care repeal would both
make this crisis even worse.”
Meeting with the president at
the Trump National Golf Club
were Mr. Price, as well as a num-
ber of presidential aides, includ-
ing John F. Kelly, the chief of staff;
Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-
in-law and senior adviser;
Kellyanne Conway, the presiden-
tial counselor; Robert Porter, the
White House staff secretary; and
Richard Baum, the acting director
of the Office of National Drug Con-
trol Policy. Melania Trump, the
first lady, also attended.
Not present was Chuck Rosen-
berg, the acting director of the
Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion, or anyone else from his
agency, which has taken the lead
in fighting the spread of opioids.
Mr. Rosenberg crossed the
White House late last month when
may have disproportionate trou-
ble complying with the hurdles.
After President Trump made
his groundless claim that he lost
the popular vote in the 2016 elec-
tion to Hillary Clinton only be-
cause millions of illegal ballots
were cast, the White House ap-
pointed a panel to investigate
claims of fraud. In June, its vice
chairman and day-to-day leader,
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secre-
tary of state, asked officials in 50
states and the District of Colum-
bia to voluntarily provide person-
al records about their voters, but
was met with a bipartisan rebuke
and lawsuits.
The issue in the Ohio case cen-
ters on an ambiguous and convo-
luted set of statutory provisions
created by the National Voter
Registration Act of 1993 and the
Help America Vote Act of 2002.
They require states to keep voter
rolls up to date by deleting the reg-
istrations of voters who move
away, but bar states from de-reg-
istering people simply because of
voting inactivity.
he sent an agencywide email say-
ing that the president had improp-
erly “condoned police miscon-
duct” by telling an audience of law
enforcement officers not to “be
too nice” to criminal suspects. He
told his agents to show “respect
and compassion” to those they en-
countered, including victims and
defendants.
Aides have said Mr. Trump was
joking, but they offered no expla-
nation for Mr. Rosenberg’s ab-
sence from the opioid meeting, in-
stead referring questions to the
agency. Mr. Rosenberg is a close
ally of James B. Comey, whom Mr.
Trump fired as F.B.I. director in
May, and previously worked for
Robert S. Mueller III, the special
counsel investigating ties be-
tween Mr. Trump’s team and Rus-
sia.
A spokeswoman for the D.E.A.
said none of its employees at-
tended the meeting. “The D.E.A.
stands in support of the adminis-
tration’s efforts to combat the opi-
oid crisis,” said the spokeswoman,
Mary Brandenberg, declining to
comment further.
Politicians, law enforcement
and health care officials across the
MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Under Ohio’s process, if regis-
tered voters have sat out elections
for two years, the state mails
warnings to their addresses. If the
recipients then do not cast ballots
in the next two federal elections or
have some other contact with
elections officials in that time, the
state purges them from the rolls.
The Obama-era Justice Depart-
ment argued that before sending
the warning, the state should have
“reliable evidence” that a voter
may have moved — such as regis-
tering a forwarding address at the
post office. It said starting the
process simply because people
failed to vote risked illegally purg-
ing voters “based purely on inac-
tivity rather than actual ineligibil-
ity.”
But the Trump-era Justice De-
partment argued that Congress
wanted states to make sure voter
registration rolls were up to date
in order to curb the risk of fraud,
and that Ohio’s approach was a
permissible means of doing that.
“Registrants are sent a notice
because of that initial failure, but
AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
country are struggling to confront
the surging crisis of addiction and
death associated with opioids —
painkillers like Vicodin, Percocet
and OxyContin as well as syn-
thetic drugs imported from China
like fentanyl.
An emergency declaration
could help free federal money to
combat the epidemic and force
agencies to do more to confront it,
said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-di-
rector of opioid policy research at
the Heller School for Social Policy
and Management at Brandeis
University.
He said that more than 300,000
Americans had died from opioid
overdoses since 1999 and that the
problem was getting worse.
Other public health experts said
such a declaration was mostly
symbolic.
“In terms of saving lives, states
are already all-in on this issue,”
said Michael Fraser, executive di-
rector of the Association of State
and Territorial Health Officers,
which represents public health
agencies and health professionals
in the United States and its territo-
ries.
they are not removed unless they
fail to respond and fail to vote for
the additional period,” the new
brief said.
Georgia uses a similar tactic for
purging voter rolls, which is also
the subject of litigation.
The new Supreme Court brief in
the Ohio case was signed by Jeff-
rey B. Wall, the acting solicitor
general, and John M. Gore, the ac-
ting assistant attorney general for
the Justice Department’s civil
rights division. It was not signed
by any career attorneys in the civ-
il rights division, unlike last year’s
brief with the appeals court.
Kristen Clarke, the president of
the liberal Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, con-
demned the new position as an ef-
fort to obstruct voting rights that
could open the door to “wide-scale
unlawful purging.” She also called
the reversal “just the latest exam-
ple of an agency whose leadership
has lost its moral compass.”
The civil rights division has
been at the center of culture-war
fighting in recent decades when
Republican and Democratic ad-
ministrations take over from each
other. Under the Trump adminis-
tration, it has taken steps this year
that push the agency in a more
conservative direction.
This year, the department
switched its position in a lawsuit
challenging Texas’ strict voter
identification law, dropping the
claim that the law was intention-
ally discriminatory and later de-
claring that the law had been
fixed.
It has backed off using consent
decrees to impose reforms on
troubled police departments. It
has urged an appeals court not to
interpret the ban on sex-based
discrimination in the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 as covering sexual ori-
entation.
And it is now asking division
lawyers to volunteer for a special
project taking on affirmative ac-
tion practices in college and uni-
versity admissions that try to
maintain diversity in student bod-
ies. The department has said that
project is looking at a complaint
filed in 2015 about Harvard Uni-
versity on behalf of Asian-Ameri-
can applicants.
0N A13
Trump Backs
Senator’s Bid
In Alabama
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — President
Trump intervened Tuesday in the
special Senate election in Ala-
bama, bestowing a coveted en-
dorsement on Senator Luther
Strange a week before a Republi-
can primary that has been fought,
in part, over who has been the
most loyal to the president.
In a surprise move that caught
many in the Republican Party off
guard, Mr. Trump wrote on Twit-
ter that Mr. Strange “has done a
great job representing the people
of the Great State of Alabama. He
has my complete and total en-
dorsement!” His decision to wade
into the race to fill the seat left va-
cant by Attorney General Jeff Ses-
sions will test just how much clout
the president enjoys among Re-
publicans in a state where he re-
mains highly popular.
Mr. Strange has been locked in a
close race with Representative
Mo Brooks and Roy Moore, a for-
mer State Supreme Court justice.
There are also a number of other,
lesser-known Republicans vying
for the nomination. If nobody gets
over 50 percent in the Aug. 15 vote,
the party’s nominee will be de-
cided in a September runoff.
Mr. Strange, who heard from
the president about his plans ear-
lier Tuesday, had been lobbying
for weeks to win Mr. Trump’s sup-
port, singing the president’s prais-
es in TV ads, online and through
as many Fox News appearances
as he could schedule. Mr. Strange
and his allies have also made Mr.
Brooks’s attacks last year on Mr.
Trump’s presidential campaign a
centerpiece of the primary.
Mr. Trump threw caution to the
wind with his Tuesday night en-
dorsement, dealing Mr. Brooks a
devastating blow. The endorse-
ment of Mr. Strange, a 6-foot-9
lawmaker known to many as Big
Luther, was also sure to delight
Senator Mitch McConnell, Repub-
lican of Kentucky and the minor-
ity leader.
Tuesday’s prime-time presiden-
tial endorsement was the best
news Mr. Strange had gotten since
he was appointed to the Senate
seat under a cloud this year by
Robert Bentley, then the governor.
Even with Mr. Trump’s backing,
Mr. Strange will find it hard to win
the nomination outright on Tues-
day. But having the president in
his corner would hand him a siz-
able advantage next month: Mr.
Strange’s aides said Tuesday that
they were eager to find a date to
bring Mr. Trump to Alabama be-
fore a runoff.
Missouri Arrest
Ends Manhunt
After a Killing
By MATTHEW HAAG
A Missouri man accused of
killing a police officer during a
routine traffic stop on Sunday
night was arrested on Tuesday af-
ter eluding the authorities in a
sweeping two-day manhunt, the
police said.
A Missouri state trooper caught
the man, Ian McCarthy, around
7:40 p.m. after responding to a call
about a person walking in the mid-
dle of a rural road near Urich, Mo.
Mr. McCarthy, 39, who had been
on the run after he abandoned his
car near the scene of the shooting
in Clinton, was taken to a hospital
for evaluation, the police said.
Urich is about 15 miles west of
Clinton.
Officials with the Missouri State
Highway Patrol were scheduled
to hold a news conference late
Tuesday to discuss his arrest.
Mr. McCarthy was pulled over
by Officer Gary Michael, 37,
around 10:45 p.m. on Sunday in
Clinton, a town of 9,000 about 75
miles southeast of Kansas City,
Mo. During the stop, the police
said, Mr. McCarthy drew a gun
and fatally shot Officer Michael.
Local and state law enforce-
ment officials started an expan-
sive search in Clinton and else-
where in Henry County for Mr.
McCarthy, who was charged with
murder. The authorities thought
they were closing in on him earlier
Tuesday, but a search of a home in
Chilhowee came up empty.
Mr. McCarthy, who had moved
to Clinton from New Hampshire,
was convicted of first-degree as-
sault in New Hampshire for stab-
bing a minor in June 2001. A war-
rant for his arrest was issued in
2013 in New Hampshire after he
failed to show up for sentencing
on a disorderly conduct charge,
The Associated Press reported.
Officer Michael, who was a life-
long resident of Clinton, had
joined the Clinton Police Depart-
ment less than a year ago. He was
married and had two stepsons.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
and BRAD PLUMER
WASHINGTON — The im-
pending release of a key govern-
ment report on climate change
will force President Trump to
choose between accepting the
conclusions of his administra-
tion’s scientists and the demands
of his conservative supporters,
who remain deeply unconvinced
that humans are the cause of the
planet’s warming.
A White House official said on
Tuesday that it was still reviewing
the draft document that was writ-
ten by scientists, some of whom
have said they feared Mr. Trump
would seek to bury it or alter its
contents before it is formally re-
leased. Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
the White House press secretary,
said the administration would not
comment on the report before its
scheduled release this fall.
But the looming publication of
the climate report — which con-
cludes that “evidence for a chang-
ing climate abounds, from the top
of the atmosphere to the depths of
the oceans” — once again raises a
contentious policy issue that has
deeply divided Mr. Trump’s clos-
est advisers since he arrived in
the Oval Office.
Like his June decision to with-
draw from the Paris climate ac-
cord, Mr. Trump’s response to the
scientific conclusions in the forth-
coming Climate Science Special
Report will have broad implica-
tions for the American scientific
community; local and state gov-
ernments; and the global effort to
combat the effects of rising tem-
peratures that are already unfold-
ing.
“We’ll be watching the adminis-
tration very carefully on this,” said
Kassie Siegel of the Center for Bio-
logical Diversity, which sued Pres-
ident George W. Bush after his ad-
ministration repeatedly stalled
the release of a previous climate
change assessment. Ms. Siegel
said her group would be “assess-
ing all legal options, and returning
to court at the earliest possible
time to ensure that this essential
report is released as required.”
The special report is part of the
National Climate Assessment,
which presidents are required by
law to conduct every four years.
The assessment details the risks
that climate change poses to the
United States, so as to inform fed-
eral agencies and local policy
makers as they prepare for
droughts, rising sea levels and
other effects. But presidents have
historically had wide latitude in
how to play the findings.
For Mr. Trump, that means de-
ciding whether his message on
the campaign trail will guide his
actions as president. In a speech
in South Carolina in December
2015, Mr. Trump criticized Presi-
dent Barack Obama for talking
about climate change, suggesting
strongly that he would take a dif-
ferent approach if elected.
“A lot of it’s a hoax, it’s a hoax,”
said Mr. Trump, then a Republican
primary candidate. “I mean, it’s a
moneymaking industry, O.K.? It’s
a hoax, a lot of it.”
Since taking office, Mr. Trump
and his advisers have argued that
the global fight against climate
change is a threat to the American
Lisa Friedman contributed report-
ing.
As Financing Dries Up,
Infrastructure Crumbles
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
WASHINGTON — It’s basical-
ly the opposite of a major govern-
ment infrastructure program.
Government spending on trans-
portation and other public works
is in decline as federal funding
stagnates and state and local gov-
ernments tighten their belts.
Such spending equaled 1.4 per-
cent of the nation’s economic out-
put in the second quarter of 2017,
the lowest level on record, accord-
ing to Census Bureau data.
In West Virginia, where Presi-
dent Trump on Thursday touted a
vague $1 trillion infrastructure
plan, public works spending has
fallen for five straight years.
Nate Orders, who runs a con-
struction company founded by his
grandfather to build bridges for
the state, said he had been forced
to scramble for other kinds of
business. Only three of the 15
projects on his current slate are
bridges in West Virginia.
“My grandfather would not rec-
ognize the business we have to-
day,” he said.
What’s worse, he said, is that he
recently hit a highway pothole and
had to replace a wheel. “We’re for-
tunate, I suppose, that we don’t
have a growing population, so we
don’t have a lot of congestion is-
sues,” Mr. Orders said. “Our prob-
lem is safety.”
The deterioration of the nation’s
infrastructure has raised wide-
spread concerns about safety,
quality of life and the impact on
economic growth. Politicians in
both parties have declared the is-
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President Trump, top on Tuesday, may have to decide how to play a coming government report on climate change. Scientists worry
that events such as flooding in Virginia, left, and fires in Montana, right, from this year may be a result of climate change.
economy. In his speech withdraw-
ing from the Paris accord, the
president said the agreement im-
poses “draconian financial and
economic burdens” that are “un-
fair, at the highest level, to the
United States.”
Mr. Trump could quietly publish
the special report this year and
the broader assessment when the
final version is due in 2018. He
could also make the case that the
findings should be tempered by
the economic effects that fighting
climate change could have on
American workers and busi-
nesses.
Or, as some scientists fear, he
could try to alter or suppress the
special report before it is actually
released.
President Bill Clinton’s admin-
istration released the first Na-
tional Climate Assessment in 2000
to little fanfare, wary of injecting
the scientific report into an ongo-
ing presidential campaign. Mr.
Bush’s administration delayed for
years on releasing an updated
version until the environmental
groups successfully sued it. A final
sue a priority. So far, there is no
sign of a solution.
In 34 states, spending on gov-
ernment construction projects
was lower last year than in 2007,
adjusting for inflation. The trend
has continued this year. Public
construction spending in June
was 9.5 percent lower than during
the same month last year.
Ken Simonson, chief economist
for the Associated General Con-
tractors of America, said many
states were struggling financially.
Illinois, for example, briefly sus-
pended work on 900 projects in
early July during a standoff over
the state’s budget.
“It’s always easier to defer new
construction than to stop paying
people who are on the payroll or
the welfare rolls,” he said. “A lot of
states are under real stress.”
Governments have cut back
most sharply on new construction
projects. Even so, the nation’s ex-
isting infrastructure continues to
age and deteriorate.
The average road surface was
28 years old in 2015, up from 23
years old in 2000. Schools, power
plants and airports also are get-
ting older. Slower population
growth means less demand for
new construction — but also fewer
tax dollars for repairs.
Arizona has reduced spending
on public construction every year
since 2007. State lawmakers, re-
luctant to raise taxes, have di-
verted money from highway work
to pay for public services like
Medicaid and prisons. One Ari-
zona county, Navajo, has shifted
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version was quietly released be-
ginning in May 2008.
The Obama administration, by
contrast, trumpeted the third ver-
sion of the assessment in 2014,
with the government building a
graphics-heavy website to tout
the findings and Mr. Obama con-
ducting TV interviews on weather
White House split on
how to frame future
climate report.
networks about the effects of
global warming.
The draft special report on cli-
mate change now under review by
the White House focuses primari-
ly on the physical science of global
warming, and will feed into a
much broader evaluation of the
potential social and economic con-
sequences of climate change.
The current draft of the climate
Public works projects, like this one in Somerville, Mass., last month, have slowed across the country.
from aiming to repave roads ev-
ery 20 years to repaving every 40
years.
Roads are the largest category
of public works, accounting for
about a third of annual public
works spending. The federal gas
tax, at 18.4 cents a gallon, is the
largest source of funding for those
projects, but it is not indexed to in-
flation and has not been raised
since 1993. It would need to be 31
cents a gallon to restore its buying
power.
Chris Spear, the president of the
American Trucking Associations,
said his group had testified before
Congress at least 19 times since
2006 in favor of raising the tax.
But the price of gasoline has
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science report was written by sci-
entists inside and outside govern-
ment, with input from the public
and the National Academy of Sci-
ences, which praised an earlier
draft and recommended relatively
minor changes.
The report will now go before a
White House committee staffed
by political appointees from 13
agencies who are expected to
complete their review by Aug. 18.
Ms. Sanders said the issue was
still under consideration inside
the administration, and she criti-
cized The New York Times for
writing about a draft that was not
yet complete.
Scientists who fear that the
White House could tamper with
the report have focused on this re-
view, noting that political appoint-
ees could demand major changes
or deletions, or simply refuse to
approve the report at all.
So far, there are no signs of such
tampering, said Robert M. Kopp of
Rutgers University, one of the con-
tributing authors of the draft. “I
would be surprised if they chose
outsize importance in the Ameri-
can psyche, and Congress has
demonstrated an extreme reluc-
tance to consider a gas tax in-
crease.
Since 2012, 31 states have en-
acted some kind of increase in
transportation funding, according
to Transportation for America, an
advocacy group.
Indiana in April increased its
gas tax and indexed it to future in-
flation.
California in April also passed
its first gas tax increase in more
than two decades.
And last month, West Virginia
passed a package of higher taxes,
including an increase in its gas
tax, estimated to lift road funding
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to make major changes, given that
the report is already public,” he
said. “I suspect we will know more
later this month.”
A bigger question is whether
Mr. Trump will choose to discuss
the climate science report and the
broader National Climate Assess-
ment when they are finally re-
leased — or if he will play them
down.
“At some point, the political and
communications staff gets in-
volved and decides how they want
to handle the report,” said Paul
Bledsoe, who coordinated com-
munications strategy in the Clin-
ton White House for the first as-
sessment report in 2000.
In past administrations, the
White House science adviser has
been closely involved in these dis-
cussions, working with both the
president and political operatives
to map out a strategy for talking
about the report. But Mr. Trump
has not yet selected a science ad-
viser, and his Office of Science and
Technology Policy, which typi-
cally oversees the release of these
reports, remains mostly empty.
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by $140 million a year.
The Trump administration says
it is still working on an infrastruc-
ture plan that would supplement
the increases in state funding. Mr.
Trump’s budget proposed just
$200 billion in new infrastructure
spending, plus unspecified incen-
tives for private investment that it
hopes will add another $800 bil-
lion over 10 years. But he also pro-
posed larger cuts in projected
public works funding.
However the details end up, Mr.
Trump’s sagging popularity and
his souring relationship with Re-
publicans in Congress have jeop-
ardized his ability to win their sup-
port.
At a minimum, there are some
Detroit Mayor
Wins Primary
For 2nd Term
By MONICA DAVEY
Voters in Detroit on Tuesday
narrowed their choices for the
city’s next leader to two: Mike
Duggan, the incumbent mayor
who has overseen the city as it has
emerged from bankruptcy, and
Coleman A. Young II, the son of
Detroit’s longest serving mayor.
With a vast majority of
precincts counted, Mr. Duggan,
59, who was elected in 2013 as the
city’s first white mayor in four
decades, had a wide lead among
eight candidates in the nonparti-
san primary late Tuesday. Mr.
Young, 34, a state senator whose
father was Detroit’s first black
mayor, was running a distant sec-
ond. The two men, who are Demo-
crats, will face each other in a gen-
eral election on Nov. 7, The Associ-
ated Press said.
The election will be a test of dis-
parate issues in a city that, in a
matter of only a few years, has ex-
perienced the nation’s largest
ever municipal bankruptcy, a
downtown building boom, and a
struggle to rid itself of thousands
of vacant, crumbling buildings.
Critics had predicted that the
city might take years to emerge
from bankruptcy, and that any
glimmer of a renaissance would
take even longer. But signs of im-
provement have piled up. Street-
lights are on. Police response
times have dropped. And some
home sales prices have risen.
“This city is coming back to the
way it was before,” said Rondo
Johnson, 91, who has lived in De-
troit for decades. “It’s certainly
better than it was five years ago,
but there’s more to do.”
Some residents said race will be
a factor in the election to lead this
city, which is 82 percent black. Mr.
Young’s father, who died in 1997 af-
ter serving as mayor for two dec-
ades, is widely remembered as
giving African-American resi-
dents a voice at this city’s munici-
pal building, which now bears his
name, and through the ranks of
the city departments.
“You can’t talk about the Ameri-
can political story and race not be
at the center of it,” Mr. Young, the
candidate, said in an interview in
July. “I’m not against Mike Dug-
gan because he’s not black. That’s
God’s plan. But I am against
someone who fundamentally is
clueless on issues that are affect-
ing African-American people.”
At the center of Mr. Young’s
campaign is the notion that the
city’s improvements only have
benefited areas like downtown,
leaving other neighborhoods to
wrestle with high crime, blighted
homes and empty blocks.
But some black leaders — in-
cluding the Black Slate, a long-
standing political group, and some
officials who had worked with Mr.
Young’s father — have lined up be-
hind Mr. Duggan. Mr. Duggan,
who drew attention in May for a
speech he made about the role of
racism in the Detroit’s history,
said in an interview before the pri-
mary that he believed that “the
great majority of people who live
in the city care more about results
than race.” He added, “I’m about
to get a report card.”
other issues that Congress needs
to handle first.
Senate Democrats in January
unveiled their own $1 trillion infra-
structure plan, which calls for the
federal government to provide all
of the funding.
Another challenge is that work-
ers are getting harder to find. Jobs
in highway construction in July
were 2.6 percent below the prere-
cession level. With fewer people
working in road-building — and
when almost everyone who wants
a job has one — the industry can’t
simply restock from the pool of un-
employed workers. Skilled work-
ers, in particular, are in short sup-
ply.
Total construction spending has
climbed above the prerecession
peak thanks to stronger activity in
the private sector, particularly in
commercial construction.
Tom Brown, the president of Si-
erra Pacific West, a construction
company based in Vista, Calif.,
said that the company had seen a
significant decline in state road
work, but that it had managed to
keep busy with building construc-
tion and military contracts.
Public construction spending in
California last year was down 27
percent from 2007.
“We haven’t been able to make
it all up,” Mr. Brown said, referring
to the decline in road construction
projects, “but we have gotten a lot
more diversified lately.”
Mr. Brown said he sympathized
with people who didn’t want their
taxes to rise.
“It’s hard pill to swallow,” he
said. “I don’t want to pay more
money, either. On the other hand,
it’s the lifeblood of what supports
this firm. And I want the trash to
get picked up and the sewage to go
down the drain, and I want the
roads to drive on.”

OBITUARIES
Glen Campbell Dies;
Star Who Bridged Pop
And Country Was 81
From Page A1
time Hour.” He sold an estimated
45 million records and had numer-
ous hits on both the pop and coun-
try charts. He was inducted into
the Country Music Hall of Fame in
2005.
Decades after Mr. Campbell re-
corded his biggest hits — includ-
ing “Wichita Lineman,” “By the
Time I Get to Phoenix” and
“Galveston” (all written by
Jimmy Webb, his frequent collab-
orator for nearly 40 years) and
“Southern Nights” (1977), written
by Allen Toussaint, which went to
No. 1 on pop as well as country
charts — a resurgence of interest
in older country stars brought him
back onto radio stations.
Like Bobbie Gentry, with whom
he recorded two Top 40 duets, and
his friend Roger Miller, Mr. Camp-
bell was a hybrid stylist, a cross-
over artist at home in both coun-
try and pop music.
“A change has come over coun-
try music lately,” he explained in
1968. “They’re not shuckin’ it right
off the cob anymore. Roger Miller
opened a lot of people’s eyes to the
possibilities of country music, and
it’s making more impact now be-
cause it’s earthy material, stories
and things that happen to every-
day people. I call it ‘people mu-
sic.’ ”
Glen Travis Campbell was born
on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles
southwest of Little Rock, Ark., be-
tween Billstown and Delight,
where his father sharecropped 120
acres of cotton. He was the sev-
enth son in a family of eight boys
and four girls. When he was 4, his
father ordered him a three-quar-
ter-size guitar for $5 from Sears,
Roebuck. He was performing on
local radio stations by the time he
was 6.
Picking up music from the radio
and his church’s gospel hymns, he
“got tired of looking a mule in the
butt,” as Mr. Campbell put it in an
interview with The New York
Times in 1968. He quit school at 14
and went to Albuquerque, where
his father’s brother-in-law, Dick
Bills, had a band and was appear-
ing on both radio and television.
After playing guitar and singing
in what he called “fightin’ and
dancin’ clubs” in Albuquerque
with Mr. Bills’s band, Mr. Camp-
bell moved to Los Angeles at 22
and in 1960 got a job playing with
the Champs, a rock ’n’ roll group
best known for its 1958 hit “Te-
quila.” There were stints with
other, smaller bands, for smaller
money.
But his skills eventually took
him into the recording studios as a
session musician, and for six
years he provided accompani-
ment for a host of famous artists,
including Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin, Nat King Cole, Elvis Pres-
ley, Rick Nelson and groups like
the Beach Boys and the Mamas
and the Papas.
Although he never learned to
read music, Mr. Campbell was at
Left-Leaning Silicon Valley Joins Culture War, Seeing Dissenters From Right
From Page A1
tial candidate faced blowback for
their political decisions.
At Facebook, Peter Thiel, an in-
vestor and member of the social
network’s board of directors, was
told he would receive a negative
evaluation of his board perform-
ance for supporting Mr. Trump by
a peer, Reed Hastings, the chief
executive of Netflix. And Palmer
Luckey, a founder of Oculus VR, a
virtual reality start-up owned by
Facebook, was pressured to leave
the company after it was revealed
that he had secretly funded a pro-
Trump organization.
Scott Galloway, a professor of
marketing at New York Universi-
ty’s Stern School of Business, said
Mr. Damore’s comments carried
additional weight to people on ei-
ther side of the political spectrum
because he was an engineer at
Google, one of the world’s biggest
technology companies.
Alongside other giants such as
Facebook, Amazon and Apple,
these companies “are seen as pil-
lars of our society,” Mr. Galloway
said. “Controversy and state-
ments that emanate from these
employees take on a different
heft.”
The technology industry has
long marched in lock step on is-
sues such as supporting immigra-
tion and diversity, even though
their companies remained largely
male, white and Asian. But last
year’s election of Mr. Trump —
with his broadsides against poli-
tical correctness, his coarse lan-
guage toward women and his ac-
tions to restrict immigration and
deny climate change — seemed to
threaten many of those ideals.
At the same time, Mr. Trump’s
Daisuke Wakabayashi contributed
reporting.
ease not just on guitar but also on
banjo, mandolin and bass. He
wrote in his autobiography,
“Rhinestone Cowboy” (1994) —
the title was taken from one of his
biggest hits — that in 1963 alone
his playing and singing were
heard on 586 recorded songs.
He could be a cut-up in record-
ing sessions. “With his humor and
energetic talents, he kept many a
record date in stitches as well as
fun to do,” the electric bassist Car-
ol Kaye, who often played along-
side Mr. Campbell, said in an inter-
view in 2011. “Even on some of the
most boring, he’d stand up and
sing some off-color country song
— we’d almost have a baby trying
not to bust a gut laughing.”
After playing on many Beach
Boys sessions, Mr. Campbell be-
came a touring member of the
band in late 1964, when its leader,
Brian Wilson, decided to leave the
road to concentrate on writing
and recording. He remained a
Beach Boy into the first few
months of 1965.
Mr. Campbell had made his first
records under his own name in the
early 1960s, but success eluded
him until 1967, shortly after he
signed with Capitol Records,
when his recording of John Hart-
ford’s “Gentle on My Mind” hit the
charts. Shortly after that, his ver-
sion of “By the Time I Get to
Phoenix” reached the Top 40. Na-
tional recognition, four Grammy
Awards in 1968 and television ap-
pearances quickly followed.
After Tommy Smothers of the
Smothers Brothers saw Mr.
Campbell on Joey Bishop’s late-
night show in 1968, Mr. Campbell
was signed as the host of the
Smothers Brothers’ summer re-
placement show, whimsically ti-
tled “Summer Brothers Smothers
Show.” In his review for The
Times, George Gent called Mr.
Campbell “a handsome, talented
and relaxed host who appeared in
complete control of some of the
crazy goings-on.”
The success of that show led to
his own series, “The Glen Camp-
bell Goodtime Hour,” which made
its debut on CBS in January 1969.
It soon became a hit, despite
memos from the front office
telling Mr. Campbell to stop book-
ing so many country stars. (One
complaint came after a show that
featured Mr. Campbell, Buck Ow-
ens, Merle Haggard and Johnny
Cash.)
Mr. Campbell had his most fa-
mous movie role in 1969, in the
original version of “True Grit.” He
had the non-singing part of a
Texas Ranger who joins forces
with John Wayne and Kim Darby
to hunt down the killer of Ms. Dar-
by’s father. (Matt Damon had the
role in a 2010 remake.) The next
year, Mr. Campbell and the New
York Jets quarterback Joe Na-
math played ex-Marines in “Nor-
wood,” based on a novel by
Charles Portis, the author of “True
Grit.”
Mr. Campbell made his Las Ve-
words may have made dissenters
in the tech industry more comfort-
able about speaking out.
“Trump, in a sense, licensed
people to express what some peo-
ple would call politically incorrect
thoughts,” said Adam Galinsky, a
professor at Columbia Universi-
ty’s Business School. “Then
there’s the other force that a lot of
Trump’s policies go against the in-
clusive ideals these companies es-
pouse.”
At Google, Sundar Pichai, the
chief executive, said in an email
on Monday that Mr. Damore was
fired for violations of the compa-
ny’s code of conduct, specifically
his perpetuation of “harmful gen-
der stereotypes” in the workplace.
Mr. Damore had argued that bio-
logical reasons might explain the
underrepresentation of women in
the tech industry, causing wide-
spread outrage inside and outside
Google. In his defense, Mr. Damo-
re said he had a right to express
himself and said he was consider-
ing legal action against Google for
firing him.
Amy Siskind, president of the
New Agenda, a women’s advoca-
cy group, tweeted that Mr. Damo-
re is “every white male Trump
voter feeling threatened” that
women and people of color, “if giv-
en an equal chance, will reveal his
mediocrity.”
Mr. Damore’s memo and dis-
missal transformed him into a
hero on right-wing news sites like
Breitbart, which has long criti-
cized the political leanings of the
tech industry.
Julian Assange, the founder of
WikiLeaks, said on Twitter that
“censorship is for losers” and of-
fered to hire Mr. Damore. Steven
Pinker, a Harvard University cog-
nitive scientist, said on Twitter
that Google’s actions could in-
crease support for Mr. Trump in
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At top, Glen Campbell performing at the Country Music Association Music Festival in Nashville
in 2012. Above, from left, John Wayne, Kim Darby and Mr. Campbell in “True Grit,” in 1969.
gas debut in 1970 and, a year later,
performed at the White House for
President Richard M. Nixon and
for Queen Elizabeth II in London.
But his life in those years had a
dark side. “Frankly, it is very hard
to remember things from the
1970s,” he wrote in his autobiogra-
phy. Though his recording and
touring career was booming, he
began drinking heavily and later
started using cocaine. He would
annoy his friends by quoting from
the Bible while high. “The public
had no idea how I was living,” he
recalled.
In 1980, after his third divorce,
he said: “Perhaps I’ve found the
secret for an unhappy private life.
Every three years I go and marry
a girl who doesn’t love me, and
then she proceeds to take all my
money.” That year, he had a short,
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Peter Thiel, left, was told by Reed Hastings that he would receive a negative evaluation of his per-
formance on Facebook’s board of directors because of his support for Donald J. Trump.
the tech industry.
“Google drives a big sector of
tech into the arms of Trump: fires
employee who wrote memo about
women in tech jobs,” Dr. Pinker
wrote.
One of the most outspoken sup-
porters of Mr. Trump in Silicon
Valley has been Mr. Thiel, a
founder of PayPal, who has since
faced derision from other people
working in tech for his political
stance. In a sign of how deep that
ill feeling runs, Netflix’s Mr. Hast-
ings warned Mr. Thiel last August,
a few weeks after Mr. Trump had
accepted the Republican nomina-
tion for president, that he would
face consequences for backing
Mr. Trump.
Mr. Thiel, also one of the origi-
nal investors in Facebook, had
tempestuous and very public af-
fair with the singer Tanya Tucker,
who was about half his age.
He credited his fourth wife, the
former Kimberly Woollen, with
keeping him alive and straighten-
ing him out — although he would
continue to have occasional re-
lapses for many years. He was ar-
rested in November 2003 in
Phoenix and charged with ex-
treme drunken driving and leav-
ing the scene of an accident. He
pleaded guilty and served 10
nights in jail in 2004.
Ms. Woollen, who, like Mr.
Campbell, was an evangelical
Christian, married him in October
1982. They had both been baptized
on a chilly December day in 1981 in
Mr. Campbell’s old swimming hole
in Billstown.
Throughout the 1990s, Mr.
given a prime-time speech sup-
porting Mr. Trump at the Republi-
can convention. In contrast, Mr.
Hastings, a supporter of Hillary
Clinton, said earlier last year that
Mr. Trump, if elected, “would de-
stroy much of what is great about
America.”
Mr. Hastings, the chairman of a
committee that evaluates Face-
book’s board members, told Mr.
Thiel in an email dated Aug. 14
that the advocacy would reflect
badly on Mr. Thiel during a review
of Facebook directors scheduled
for the next day.
“I see our board being about
great judgment, particularly in
unlikely disaster where we have
to pick new leaders,” Mr. Hastings
wrote in the email to Mr. Thiel, a
copy of which was obtained by
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Campbell remained influential.
He released a series of gospel al-
bums in the 1990s and in later
years made frequent appearances
on evangelical TV shows. In 1992
he began performing in Branson,
Mo., and in 1994 he opened the
Glen Campbell Goodtime Theater
there. (The theater was renamed
in the 1990s after he ended his as-
sociation with it.)
“Still in command of his voice
and his guitar prowess, he helped
launch the careers of such con-
temporary country stars as Alan
Jackson and Bryan White in the
1990s,” Robert K. Oermann wrote
in “A Century of Country” (1999).
In 2005, Mr. Campbell and
Jimmy Webb performed a pro-
gram of Mr. Webb’s songs in New
York. Stephen Holden of The
Times wrote in his review that Mr.
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The New York Times. "I’m so
mystified by your endorsement of
Trump for our President, that for
me it moves from ‘different judg-
ment’ to ‘bad judgment.’ Some di-
versity in views is healthy, but cat-
astrophically bad judgment (in
my view) is not what anyone
wants in a fellow board member.”
Mr. Thiel and Mr. Hastings de-
clined to comment through their
spokesmen; neither challenged
the authenticity of the email. Both
of the men remain on Facebook’s
board.
Another prominent Trump sup-
porter affiliated with Facebook,
Mr. Luckey, did not last at the com-
pany. Last September, The Daily
Beast published a story saying
that Mr. Luckey had been secretly
funding a pro-Trump political or-
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Campbell’s “sloppiness detracted
only minimally from the power of
his voice; at 69, he still conveys
the manic optimism of a garrulous
rhinestone cowboy crowing under
the open skies.”
He also continued to record. On
his 2008 album, “Meet Glen
Campbell,” seemingly an invi-
tation to a younger audience, he
covered songs by U2, Green Day,
John Lennon and others. “Ghost
on the Canvas” was released in
2011. “See You There,” containing
tracks Mr. Campbell had recorded
informally during the “Ghost”
sessions — including stripped-
down versions of many of his old
hits — was released two years lat-
er. He entered the studio for the
last time after completing his
farewell tour to record the col-
lection of what his daughter Ash-
ley called “his go-to” songs that
became “Adiós.”
In addition to her and his wife,
Mr. Campbell is survived by seven
other children, Debby, Kelli, Trav-
is, Kane, Cal, Shannon and Dillon;
three sisters, Barbara, Sandra
and Jane; two brothers, John Wal-
lace and Gerald, and many grand-
children, great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren. Three
of his children were in the band
that backed him on his farewell
tour.
Mr. Campbell often acknowl-
edged his debt to the many song-
writers behind his hits, notably
Mr. Webb; he recorded “Reunion:
The Songs of Jimmy Webb” in 1974
and returned to Mr. Webb for the
title track to “Still Within the
Sound of My Voice” in 1988. But he
also wrote: “I can think of only
two or three songs out of hundreds
I’ve recorded that I performed as
originally written. I like to become
intimate with the material, and
change it to suit me.”
He added: “I’ve done the
‘William Tell Overture’ a thousand
times on my live show. That, too, is
a challenge, and I don’t think I’ve
ever played it perfectly. If I ever
do, fans might grow to expect it
that way every time.”
ganization called Nimble Amer-
ica. Subsequent reports and social
media posts accused Mr. Luckey
of financing sexist and racist
“memes,” viral internet content.
Mr. Luckey, whose company
was acquired by Facebook for $2
billion, said in a Facebook post
that the stories misrepresented
his views, though he apologized
for the negative coverage it
brought to Oculus.
Mr. Luckey, through mutual
agreement with his employer,
stayed away from the Oculus of-
fices to let the controversy die
down, according to three people
with knowledge of the episode
who asked for anonymity because
of confidentiality agreements. In
December, before returning
briefly to the office, he told col-
leagues he was committed to stay-
ing at the company, according to a
copy of a message he posted on an
internal discussion board, which
was reviewed by The Times.
But by the end of March, Oculus
said he was no longer working
there.
A Facebook spokeswoman re-
iterated an earlier company state-
ment saying that Mr. Luckey’s de-
parture was unrelated to his poli-
tical views. Mr. Luckey declined to
comment on his departure from
Facebook.
Some prominent Silicon Valley
figures are concerned there is too
much political conformity in the
tech industry. On a podcast in
May, Marc Andreessen, the ven-
ture capitalist, said he knew of
only two Trump supporters in Sili-
con Valley, Mr. Thiel and Mr.
Luckey.
“What does it do to somebody
when they feel like they literally
can’t express themselves?” said
Mr. Andreessen, a Facebook
board member who backed Mrs.
Clinton last year.
A16
A Revival Comes
To Lift Newark,
But Just for Some
New Challenges for a Symbol of Decay
Above, a downtown high-rise building being constructed on the corner of Park Place and Center St. stands in contrast to some areas of Newark that remain neglected, top.
By RICK ROJAS
NEWARK — The old department
store has been transformed into luxury
apartments with high ceilings, bike park-
ing and, as the developers boast, an op-
portunity to be in downtown Newark, a
neighborhood “on the brink of something
great.”
A Whole Foods has moved in, and Mar-
cus Samuelsson, the celebrity chef, is
opening a restaurant. A public park that
recently underwent a multimillion-dollar
renovation is a short stroll away, and a
little farther another luxury apartment
building is joining the skyline.
It has been a long time coming, but
New Jersey’s largest city is finally turn-
ing a corner.
For decades, Newark has been a sym-
bol of America’s decaying cities, with ev-
ery box on the list of urban ills checked
off: violence, entrenched poverty, van-
ishing jobs, struggling schools, blighted
blocks. Those problems certainly per-
sist, but they mask a sunnier view of the
city: Newark’s slow but steady transfor-
mation into a hub for the arts and higher
education and the growing vibrancy of
its bustling ethnic neighborhoods.
“We are at a precipice,” Mayor Ras J.
Baraka said. “This is our moment, and
when you come here, people feel that.”
But it is also a tense moment, punctu-
ated by fears that the renaissance could
bypass, if not push out, many of those
who have endured this city’s protracted
period of distress. Now, Newark is
wrestling with a problem faced by plenty
of reviving urban centers before it: An
influx of development is spreading un-
evenly, widening the disparity between
the places where gleaming new towers
have risen and the parts of the city where
opportunity has yet to arrive.
“They’re coming back strong, but it’s
basically not for us,” said Jerome Berry,
who is in his 50s and has lived in Newark
for much of his life. He waited to board a
bus in the Central Ward between a busy
new shopping center and grass-covered
plots that have been bald since the
bloody racial upheaval he remembered
from his childhood that convulsed the
city 50 years ago.
“The doors we kicked down, they’re
walking through them,” Mr. Berry added.
“We did a lot and kept Newark surviv-
ing.”
Those worries have been fueled by the
consequences of gentrification that resi-
dents have seen nearby, in New York
City, as well as on their side of the Hud-
son River, where real estate is booming
along the riverbank, including in Jersey
City and Hoboken. Descriptions of New-
ark as “the next Brooklyn” are bandied
about regularly but just as often swatted
down by city leaders, who say they have
looked to other cities’ experiences not as
potential road maps but as cautionary
tales.
Mr. Baraka announced a set of initia-
tives this summer meant to encourage
larger companies in the city to hire resi-
dents and buy from local businesses, ex-
tend development beyond downtown to
the rest of the city’s five wards and per-
suade people who work in the city to
move here. The centerpiece of the effort
is a job program, Newark 2020, which
aims to have 2,020 unemployed resi-
dents working full time and earning a liv-
ing wage within the next three years. He
has partnered with the largest employ-
ers in Newark, including Prudential,
RWJBarnabas Health, United Airlines
and Audible.
Poverty in Newark remains at a rate
well above the national average, and
only 18 percent of the people who hold
jobs in Newark live here, according to a
report from the New Jersey Institute for
Social Justice; in other large cities that
figure is often between 30 and 50 per-
cent.
“We knew that, ultimately, in order to
transform the city, we had to attack pov-
erty and unemployment,” Mr. Baraka
said. “I think we have an opportunity
Choir members of the Maranatha French Seventh Day Adventist Church wash cars to raise money.
here, because everybody is at the table,
and they probably haven’t been at the ta-
ble in this magnitude in a very long time,
if ever.”
Mr. Baraka is pushing the City Council
to pass a measure requiring that at least
20 percent of large developments be set
aside for affordable housing. One mixed-
use development, Teachers Village, was
built largely for educators in the city, and
other projects are aimed at artists. The
downtown development carrying the
name of the long-closed department
store it once housed, Hahne & Company,
includes a 50,000-square-foot “arts incu-
bator” run by Rutgers-Newark, as well
as 64 units of affordable housing.
“We welcome everyone to the city,”
said Kimberly McLain, the chief execu-
tive of the Newark Alliance, an organiza-
tion focused on the city’s economic revi-
talization. “We want you to do business
here, to visit, to live here. We also want it
to be an inclusive place, so we’re not the
next Brooklyn, so the people who are
here are not edged out at the expense of
opportunity.”
Newark’s new chapter also has a racial
tinge: The city has been dominated by its
large African-American population after
decades of white residents leaving for
the suburbs, but many of the people
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drawn by the city’s resurgence are white.
But some argue that there is plenty of
room for newcomers, considering the
city’s spacious footprint, the abandon-
ment of many neighborhoods and that
most development is focused downtown,
where few people had lived and that es-
sentially became deserted at the end of
the business day. “I think it gives it a leg
up in trying to do this kind of work,”
Nancy Cantor, the chancellor of Rutgers-
Newark, said of the city’s geography.
“There’s so much empty, available real
estate that, at least initially, the wave of
development doesn’t require displacing
people.”
Despite the progress Newark has
made, many of the city’s troubles are re-
sistant to solutions, having fermented
over generations and likely to require
nearly as long to overcome. “It’s going to
take us a while to turn it around, and
frankly, the residents of Newark have a
right to hold us in some suspicion,’’ Ms.
Cantor said.
The drain of the city’s white population
started with the advent of the highway
system and the rise of the suburbs. But
the unrest in 1967, triggered by anger
over racism and police brutality, with
days of deadly demonstrations, intensi-
fied the exodus and cemented the nega-
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
tive view of Newark that it is still trying
to shake.
Some credit the companies that main-
tained a presence in Newark even as oth-
ers fled, like Prudential, the insurance
and financial services company whose
name is a prominent fixture in the city,
attached to its towering downtown head-
quarters, a sports arena and a perform-
ance hall.
But even the layout of infrastructure
was meant to allay outsiders’ fears of
Newark. Walkways were created to al-
low commuters to avoid the streets and
an entrance to the sports arena was de-
signed with easier access from the train
station than city streets.
Those design choices “enabled them to
stay in the city,” said Max Herman, an as-
sociate professor of sociology at New
Jersey City University, who wrote an oral
history on the 1967 riots in Newark and
Detroit and studies gentrification. “But it
did not contribute to the vitality of the
city.”
Over the last decade, the city has re-
cruited businesses like Panasonic and
Audible.com, the audiobook company,
and major retail companies, including
Nike, have moved into the city’s increas-
ingly refurbished core. “There’s been a
vast improvement,” Professor Herman
said. “The downtown is a much safer
place. It’s a much more interesting
place.” But, he added, “The rest of New-
ark has not benefited.”
Mr. Baraka, a native of Newark who is
the son of the radical poet Amiri Baraka,
has become a popular figure as he strad-
dles a delicate line between helping fulfill
the needs of developers and businesses
and maintaining his base of support in
the city’s wards. “He’s a practical pro-
gressive,” said John Schreiber, the presi-
dent and chief executive of the New Jer-
sey Performing Arts Center. “He’s as at
ease in a neighborhood town hall as he is
with the chairman of Prudential.”
The Performing Arts Center, a sprawl-
ing complex with about 450 events a
year, has been an anchor downtown
since 1997 and was designed without
walkways connecting a parking struc-
ture to the center, forcing visitors to walk
on the streets. Now, the center is in-
volved in the development of a 22-story
project called One Theater Square,
which will include 245 housing units and
ground-floor retail space. Mr. Schreiber,
a veteran film and music producer, said
Newark had the potential to become
more of a destination, where opportuni-
ties for growth loom larger than its diffi-
cult past.
“We are a city with a long, long his-
tory,” Mr. Schreiber said from his corner
office with a sweeping view of down-
town, “but we are on the brink of becom-
ing.”

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Jeffrey Lichtman after defend-
ing John Gotti Jr.
El Chapo
Hires Lawyer
Who Aided
Gotti’s Son
By ALAN FEUER
Giving up his taxpayer-funded
public defenders, Joaquín
Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug
lord best known as El Chapo, has
hired a private lawyer: Jeffrey
Lichtman, a combative legal de-
fense specialist who is himself
best known for keeping the Mafia
scion, John Gotti Jr., out of prison
at a trial 12 years ago.
While traveling in Israel on
Tuesday, Mr. Lichtman confirmed
in an email that he had been re-
tained by Mr. Guzmán, whom he
will now defend against a sprawl-
ing international conspiracy in-
dictment that was filed against
him in January by federal pros-
ecutors in Brooklyn. In a brief
phone interview, Mr. Lichtman
said he had taken the case with
three other lawyers: Marc Fer-
nich, who helped him successfully
defend Mr. Gotti against racket-
eering charges in 2005; A. Ed-
uardo Balarezo, who represented
one of Mr. Guzmán’s chief rivals,
the Mexican trafficker Alfredo
Beltrán Leyva; and William Pur-
pura, a lawyer for the notorious
Baltimore drug kingpin Richard
Anthony Wilford.
The task of defending Mr.
Guzmán, who stands accused by
the government of killing thou-
sands of people and smuggling
tons of drugs into the United
States in a rotating fleet of planes,
yachts, fishing boats and sub-
mersibles, is likely to be the chal-
lenge of Mr. Lichtman’s legal ca-
reer. After all, before he was extra-
dited to Brooklyn this winter, Mr.
Guzmán was convicted of drug
trafficking charges in Mexico and
twice served time in — and twice
escaped from — high-security
prisons in his homeland. While he
was on the run last year, he also
gave an interview to the actor
Sean Penn for Rolling Stone mag-
azine — “El Chapo Speaks” — in
which he proudly stated: “I sup-
ply more heroin, methamphet-
amine, cocaine and marijuana
than anybody else in the world.”
Mr. Lichtman suggested that
what seemed to be a confession by
his client might not be entirely rel-
evant to the charges Mr. Guzmán
faces in Brooklyn.
“The man has been convicted in
the court of public opinion times
100, but it doesn’t mean he’s guilty
of the crimes that he’s been
charged with,” Mr. Lichtman said.
“Whatever he said to Sean Penn, I
don’t know that it suggests he did
anything wrong in the Eastern
District of New York.”
Though Mr. Lichtman said he
had already met with Mr. Guzmán
on numerous occasions, he has
not yet filed an official notice of ap-
pearance in Federal District Court
in Brooklyn. That is because, as
part of its case, the government is
seeking to seize from Mr. Guzmán
$14 billion in alleged drug profits.
Given that the forfeiture claim
could easily impoverish his client,
Mr. Lichtman is naturally con-
cerned about getting paid. But he
said that he is also concerned
about Mr. Guzmán who, since ar-
riving in New York, has been held
in severe confinement in the ultra-
secure solitary wing of Manhat-
tan’s federal jail.
“The conditions he’s been suf-
fering under since January are the
most horrific I’ve ever seen — ter-
rorists at Guantánamo Bay have it
easier than this guy does,” Mr.
Lichtman said. “It’s easy to just
bury him, but he’s still a human
being and still deserves his
rights.”
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Wrongful Convictions Are Set Right, but Few Fingers Get Pointed
By ALAN FEUER
When the Brooklyn district at-
torney’s office asked a judge last
month to toss out the guilty ver-
dict of a man who had been wrong-
fully convicted of murder, the
prosecutors making the request
did something they rarely do:
They held someone responsible
for bungling the case.
It was July 12 and Mark Hale,
the chief of the office’s Conviction
Review Unit, announced in court
that the wronged defendant, Jab-
bar Washington, had spent 20
years in prison because of griev-
ous errors at his trial. But then,
Mr. Hale went further, telling the
judge that the prosecutor who had
overseen the trial intentionally
withheld evidence and coaxed a
witness into giving testimony that
was purposefully misleading.
“There’s a lot of — perhaps
blame is maybe the wrong word —
but responsibility that goes
around on that,” he said.
It might seem like an obvious
step for prosecutors seeking to re-
verse a tainted conviction to de-
clare in open court who in law en-
forcement had a role in compro-
mising the case. But assigning
blame, at least in public, doesn’t
happen often — even in troubled
cases.
In the last three years, the Con-
viction Review Unit, or C.R.U., in
Brooklyn has asked judges 23
times to free defendants who
should not be in prison, making it
by far the busiest and most effec-
tive unit of its kind in New York
State. But in only a handful of the
cases have lawyers in the unit
held anyone accountable.
Compare Mr. Washington’s
court appearance with a much
more typical proceeding, one for
Darryl Austin and Alvena Jen-
nette, who were freed in May 2014
after being locked up for decades
in connection with the 1985 mur-
der of a drug dealer. At that hear-
ing, Mr. Hale told the court that
the prosecution’s chief witness, a
troubled drug addict, was “so
problematic that the fact-finding
process of the jury” had been “un-
dermined.” But he never fully ex-
plained how the witness passed
muster with the police and pros-
ecutors and was allowed to testify
against the men at trial.
By virtue of the C.R.U.’s man-
date to re-examine cases from the
past, most of the matters that it
considers are decades old and
emerged from an era when evi-
dence from surveillance cameras
or DNA was far less common. Be-
cause such cases frequently relied
on shaky witnesses whose memo-
ries may have faded over time —
or who may be dead — it has been
difficult for the unit to prove that
detectives or prosecutors, work-
ing years ago, committed miscon-
duct.
And yet with a decisive Demo-
cratic primary election for Brook-
lyn district attorney approaching
in September, the question of who,
if anyone, in the criminal justice
system has paid a price for the nu-
merous wrongful convictions in
the borough has suddenly become
a political issue.
Earlier this summer, Ama
Dwimoh, one of six challengers
seeking to defeat Eric Gonzalez,
the acting district attorney, called
for a sweeping review of how Mr.
Gonzalez has handled bungled
cases. And at the end of July, Ms.
Dwimoh, who once worked in the
district attorney’s office, accused
her former employer of never
holding anyone accountable for
the many botched convictions it
has helped overturn.
Mr. Gonzalez has himself
worked in the district attorney’s
office for more than 20 years,
though he has been in charge of it
Internet Archive in January; it
was not first made public by The
New York Times.
NATIONAL
An article on Monday about
presidents who have been caught
in lies gave an incorrect date for
the height of the Watergate scan-
dal, when President Richard M.
Nixon was accused of lying, ob-
structing justice and finally re-
signed. It was 1974, not 1972.
THE ARTS
Because of an editing error,
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Jabbar Washington, center, at Brooklyn Supreme Court after his wrongful murder conviction was overturned on July 12.
only since his predecessor, Ken
Thompson, died of cancer in Octo-
ber. He pushed back last week, ap-
pearing in public with members of
the borough’s congressional dele-
gation, all of whom praised his
work undoing wrongful convic-
tions.
The politicians noted that police
officers and prosecutors enjoy im-
munity from criminal and civil li-
ability for much of what they do in
the courtroom and as law enforce-
ment agents. They also said that it
was difficult to punish those who
send people to prison wrongly be-
cause even if misconduct is dis-
covered, it is often too late to pros-
ecute.
On at least two occasions, pros-
ecutors in the district attorney’s
office have left their jobs under a
cloud from tainted cases before
they could be reprimanded.
Even so, sloppy police or trial
work rarely rises to the level of a
crime. And while experts agree
that there should be a way to hold
the police and prosecutors ac-
countable for unethical behavior
— especially in the most egre-
gious cases — they are almost
Prosecutors and the
police are rarely
blamed in Brooklyn.
never prosecuted in Brooklyn or
anywhere else.
Complicating matters is the fact
that most wrongful-conviction
cases are sealed after defendants
are released, meaning that the
C.R.U.’s internal reports, laying
out in detail the findings of who
may be responsible, are almost
never made public. That leaves
so-called exoneration hearings —
or occasionally, court papers — as
the only public forums in which
prosecutors are required to give
their version of what went wrong.
Take the case of William Lopez,
who served 23 years in prison af-
ter being convicted of murdering
a man in a crack house before he
was cleared by a federal judge in
Brooklyn in January 2013. In his
order freeing Mr. Lopez, the
judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, noted
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schedule information on Tuesday
with a review of Anna Netrebko’s
first performance in the title role
of “Aida” at the Salzburg Festival
misidentified the location of the
performance. The opera is in
Salzburg, Austria — not in Vienna.
SCIENCE TIMES
An image on Tuesday with an
article about studies in mice that
suggest a reproductive hormone,
F.S.H., may be involved in meno-
pausal weight redistribution as
well as bone loss was published in
error. It showed a hip X-ray of a
ANTHONY LANZILOTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Convictions on cases investigated by Louis Scarcella, left, a re-
tired detective, are being reviewed by the Brooklyn district attor-
ney’s office, which is led by Eric Gonzalez, right.
that the chief trial witness
changed her account of the killing
three times and eventually con-
fessed that her testimony was “a
pure fabrication” made under du-
ress from the police and prosecu-
tors. Judge Garaufis also criti-
cized Mr. Lopez’s lawyers and
even the judge in the case, Car-
olyn E. Demarest, who, he said,
made a string of bad decisions.
Judge Garaufis was scathing in
his order, writing that the wrong-
doing in Mr. Lopez’s case “ranged
from an overzealous and deceitful
trial prosecutor; to a series of in-
dolent and ill-prepared defense at-
torneys; to a bewildering jury ver-
dict; and to the incomprehensible
Justice Demarest, who so regret-
tably failed time and time again.”
And yet a year later, when the
Brooklyn district attorney’s office
filed a formal motion to dismiss
the case, it held no one responsi-
ble, and the language that it used
was bloodless.
“The district attorney’s office
has recently conducted a thor-
ough re-evaluation of the facts,”
the motion said. “As a result of
that re-evaluation, the district at-
torney’s office has concluded that
there is a sufficient possibility that
Lopez is not guilty.”
Perhaps the best-known series
of wrongful convictions in Brook-
lyn involves the retired detective
Louis Scarcella, who during the
high-crime era of the 1980s and
’90s was the New York Police De-
partment’s go-to investigator for
patient with osteoarthritis, not os-
teoporosis, or bone loss. In addi-
tion, the caption, using informa-
tion from a photo agency, misiden-
tified the image as an M.R.I.
OBITUARIES
An obituary on Tuesday about
the former Philadelphia Phillies
catcher Darren Daulton omitted a
reporting credit. Daniel E. Slotnik
contributed.
More New York news
appears on Page A20.
AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
some of the hardest-to-solve mur-
ders in the borough. In 2013, pros-
ecutors began an inquiry into
more than 70 cases that Mr. Scar-
cella worked on and have since
gone into court eight times to
overturn the convictions of de-
fendants whom he helped put
away.
Last year, at an exoneration
hearing for one of those defend-
ants, Vanessa Gathers, the Con-
viction Review Unit noted that the
only evidence against her at her
manslaughter trial was a brief
confession that she gave to Mr.
Scarcella and then repeated to an
assistant district attorney. But in
describing the confession, the
chief of the unit, Mr. Hale, used an
oddly passive phrase: It was, he
said, “an acquiescence to various
scenarios that were put to her.”
It was not the only time that Mr.
Hale used accusatory words in de-
scribing Mr. Scarcella. At the
hearing for Mr. Washington last
month, he said that Mr. Scarcella
had testified “improperly” at Mr.
Washington’s trial, leaving a mis-
impression about the only witness
who identified him. And yet, since
the start of its investigation, the
district attorney’s office has main-
tained that Mr. Scarcella has
never broken the law.
But detectives do not run crimi-
nal cases — prosecutors do. And
lawyers for the wrongfully con-
victed have questioned if, by in-
vestigating but refusing to con-
demn Mr. Scarcella, the district at-
JOHN MARSHALL MANTEL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
N A17
BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
torney’s office is trying to avoid a
deeper examination of the role its
own lawyers may have played.
“He pulled the trigger, he fired
the bullets,” the lawyer Ronald
Kuby said of Mr. Scarcella while in
court last month representing Mr.
Washington. “But other people
gave him the gun. They gave him
the ammunition, and they didn’t
much care who he hit.”
It is no secret what causes
wrongful convictions. Eight years
ago, the New York State Bar Asso-
ciation published a report deter-
mining that most occur after wit-
nesses misidentify suspects or the
police and prosecutors pressure
people into testifying falsely or
withhold important evidence from
the defense. Some lawyers have
described the process as a run-
away train: When crime was high,
police officers, under pressure, of-
ten strong-armed witnesses into
identifying defendants; prosecu-
tors were focused on securing
convictions; and judges were re-
luctant to upend the trials of de-
fendants who might be guilty.
Still, experts on wrongful con-
victions have suggested that ac-
countability is best obtained not
by punishing law enforcement
agents for their mistakes, but
rather by having them take part in
analyses of what went wrong and
training them to avoid similar er-
rors in the future.
Under Mr. Thompson, the
Brooklyn district attorney’s office
hired a retired state judge, Robert
K. Holdman, to serve as an ethics
officer providing guidance to
prosecutors on questionable
cases. And under Mr. Gonzalez,
the office has increased its train-
ing on how to handle exculpatory
evidence and avoid false confes-
sions. It has also established a pol-
icy requiring prosecutors to seek
approval from a supervisor if a
case is based on only a single wit-
ness.
“The accountability thing is of-
ten what stops people from em-
bracing this process,” said John
Hollway, a professor at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania Law
School who studies wrongful con-
victions. “They think that ac-
countability means punishment,
but it can also mean improving the
system.”
Alvena Jennette,
far left, was freed
in May 2014 after a
judge vacated his
conviction for the
1985 murder of a
drug dealer, while
William Lopez,
left, served 23
years in prison
before his murder
conviction was
tossed out in
January 2013.
A18 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017

LETTERS

Trump, Symphonies, ISIS and Pop Music

TO THE EDITOR:
Re “A President’s Ill-Informed
Grandiosity” (Critic’s Notebook,
July 31), about President Trump’s
extolling Western culture by say-
ing, “We write symphonies”:
It was appalling to hear Mr.
Trump invoke the Western musical
tradition in furtherance of his
Islamophobic agenda. Equally
depressing, though, has been the
rush of music critics practically
tripping over themselves in at-
tempting to distance those re-
marks from the image of artistic
egalitarianism carefully cultivated
in the popular and academic musi-
cal press over the last few decades.
Anthony Tommasini’s article
struck me as a particularly egre-
gious example of this obsessive
anti-elitism: a well-intentioned but
ultimately unfortunate phenom-
enon for the long-term health of
American classical music.
BIANCA BAGNARELLI
There can be no question that
EDITORIALS using Western art to belittle other
cultures will further alienate the
general public, but so too will the
that argument, Mr. Tommasini —
while Gustav looks down shaking
his head in disbelief!
HOWARD CHARLES YOUROW
NEW YORK
TO THE EDITOR:
I have long admired Anthony
Tommasini’s thoughtful, insightful,
well-written reviews of musical
performances. I was surprised,
nay stunned, that he devoted an
entire article to expound on politics
and culture because of three words
(“We write symphonies”) uttered
by President Trump in Poland!
Perhaps there were no musical
events for Mr. Tommasini to re-
view.
MARY MCGAGH, WESTON, MASS.
TO THE EDITOR:
Although I am no fan of President
Trump, he is correct to highlight
artistic achievements like sym-
phonies in contrast to ISIS’s eager-
ness to eradicate Western art,
including music. Nor would antiq-

The Mayor’s Subway Tax

idea that what we do is no better or
uities be spared, as the destruction
worse than any other cultural
in Palmyra, Syria, has shown.
offering.
In an ISIS-controlled society,
We need not swing from one
There is finally some good news for New York commuters in islature about these and other proposals. If Mr. Cuomo and there would be no concert halls or
extreme to the other, and if we do
this summer of hell: Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Bla- Mr. Flanagan don’t like Mr. de Blasio’s tax they should opera houses, and music critics
— if we accept, as Mr. Tommasini
like Anthony Tommasini would be
sio and Albany lawmakers are at last talking about how to produce credible ideas of their own. Calling on the city to suggests, that “Eleanor Rigby” “is out of a job.
pay for vital improvements to the city’s crumbling subways. simply fork over more money to the M.T.A. does not amount just as profound as Mahler’s ‘Res-
On Monday, the mayor said he wanted to raise taxes on to a plan. New York City’s modest budget surplus of $4 bil- urrection’ Symphony” — we’re BERNARD F. DICK, TEANECK, N.J.

the richest New Yorkers and use the money to upgrade the lion in the 2016 fiscal year could disappear in a recession, or digging our own professional
graves. After all, who would volun- TO THE EDITOR:
signaling system, buy new subway cars and give half-price if Congress and President Trump cut programs that the tarily sit through an 80-minute, or
MetroCards to the poor. The governor and the State Senate state and city rely on. If President Trump is holding up
even a 30-minute, symphony if one
majority leader, John Flanagan, quickly rejected the idea, Experts say, and many politicians privately agree, that our production of symphonies with
could have an equally profound such pride, why does he propose
saying the Legislature would never go for it. They floated the M.T.A. needs a stronger guaranteed stream of revenue experience with a two-minute pop cutting funding for the National
various half-measures of their own, including — predictably — not one-off appropriations from the state and the city. The song? Endowment for the Arts?
— telling the mayor to use some of the city’s budget surplus subways are falling apart because the authority deferred I appreciate Mr. Tommasini’s
and others’ willingness to speak SHELLEY GRUSKIN, DULUTH, MINN.
to cut a check to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, needed maintenance and upgrades for
out against Mr. Trump’s co-opting The writer was on the music faculty at
which Mr. Cuomo controls, as well as increasing surcharges Mr. de Blasio at years. The Times recently reported that of Beethoven et al., but we need to the College of St. Scholastica.
on taxis and other for-hire cars. least has a plan 14 percent of the scheduled trains on the be careful that, in doing so, we
This might not sound like progress, but at least New to pay for Lexington Avenue line, the busiest in don’t slide into the same anti-
TO THE EDITOR:
York politicians are publicly tossing around ideas. improvements. the system, are effectively canceled intellectualism and petulant rela-
even as ridership has increased. And tivism that led to his election in the Anthony Tommasini quotes a
Let’s start with the details of Mr. de Blasio’s plan. It The governor colleague’s report that President
would raise about $700 million a year by increasing margin- must do more experts say it will take the M.T.A. a half- first place.
Trump “lightly bobbed his head
al tax rates on individuals who earn more than $500,000 and than tell the city century or more to upgrade its antiquat- DAVID CREAN, DAYTON, OHIO along to the boisterous scherzo” of
couples who make more than $1 million. In addition to pay- to cut a check. ed signaling system at its current pace. The writer is university organist at Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I
ing for physical improvements to the subways, it would ad- Even Mr. Cuomo and the M.T.A. chair- Wittenberg University and a music wonder what this president, who
dress a growing problem by making mass transit more af- man, Joseph Lhota, agree that that is unacceptable. instructor at Wright State University. doesn’t seem to be able to concen-
fordable for the city’s poorest residents. And it would raise Of course, money alone will not be sufficient. Mr. Lhota trate on anything for more than a
few minutes, was doing during the
taxes modestly on 32,000 affluent people who can clearly af- and his team need to make the authority more efficient and TO THE EDITOR:
very long slow movement.
ford to pay more — a single person earning $1 million annu- productive. Many of its construction projects and purchases Anthony Tommasini argues that
RUTH ALBERT SPENCER, NEW YORK
ally would pay $2,700 more a year in taxes, or about $7 a day, of new trains, for example, take much longer than expected, “Eleanor Rigby” is just as pro-
according to the mayor’s office. The mayor, who is up for re- according to a 2015 report by the city’s independent budget found as Mahler’s “Resurrection” The writer is on the music faculty at
election in November, proposed a similar tax during his 2013 office. And the M.T.A. spends vastly more to build new lines Symphony. Go ahead and make City College of New York.
campaign to fund a universal prekindergarten program. and stations than do mass transit systems in cities like Lon-
That said, there are other proposals out there, among don and Paris, according to the Regional Plan Association.
them the Move NY Fair Plan, which would raise $1.35 billion Mr. de Blasio’s millionaire’s tax could well fail to garner
a year through bridge tolls, congestion pricing and a per- the support it needs in the Legislature, which has the final Don’t Ignore the Dire Threat of Climate Change
mile surcharge on taxi rides. The obvious advantages are say in the matter. Lawmakers are likely to resist any pro- TO THE EDITOR: internal temperatures efficiently.
that it would cut traffic and greenhouse gas emissions in ad- posal that raises taxes and fees if they are not convinced the Re “Climate Report Full of Warn- To take a giant step away from
dition to helping pay for mass transit improvements. The money will be spent wisely. Great leaders persuade others ings Awaits President” (front page, the brink of more disastrous future
plan would also include money to finish the Second Avenue to back policies that will advance the common good. The Aug. 8): heat, we can insist on clean, healthy
subway and build lines to transit-starved neighborhoods. We should all fear the possibility energy sources like solar and wind,
mayor has made an opening bid, flawed as it is. Now, Mr.
that President Trump will dismiss and stronger support for govern-
What is needed now is a substantive debate in the Leg- Cuomo, Mr. Flanagan and others need to step up. ment agencies and programs
the draft climate change report by
government scientists. The odds charged with protecting public
health.
that this report is wrong are ex-

Frustration Over a War and Its Crimes

The Centers for Disease Control
tremely remote, but the chances
and Prevention, the National Insti-
that life on Earth will be perma-
tutes of Health and health profes-
nently affected by global warming sionals can lead the way toward
Carla del Ponte has spent most of her professional life bust- are high. healthier, more climate-secure
ing war criminals and fighting organized crime, so when she Any reasonable cost-benefit communities. They deserve support
quits the United Nations panel investigating atrocities in analysis demands that we address from our elected officials and more
Syria in disgust, she deserves a hearing. this existential threat immediately. robust budgets, so they can provide
“I am frustrated. I give up,” she told a Swiss newspaper. Perhaps if we rename the danger health protections for years to come
“pending calamity,” elected officials in a changing climate.
Everyone in the Syrian civil strife was on the “bad side,” she
will be able to recognize the threat
said, the murderous Assad regime and the “extremists and to civilization posed by climate
KIM KNOWLTON, NEW YORK
terrorists” fighting it, and the United Nations Security Coun- change rather than politicizing The writer is a senior scientist at the
cil has failed to act on the reports on war crimes and crimes scientific facts. Natural Resources Defense Council
against humanity her panel produced. and an assistant professor at the
EDWIN ANDREWS, MALDEN, MASS.
Ms. del Ponte knows the bad side. After making her Mailman School of Public Health,
name as a mafia-busting attorney general in her native Columbia University.
TO THE EDITOR:
Switzerland, she was appointed prosecutor for the war-
Re “Hotter Summers, Once Excep-
crimes courts, for the former Yugoslavia and then for
tional, Become the Norm” (news
Rwanda. The crimes she has investigated over the past five article, July 29):
years on what is formally known as the Independent Inter- Climate change is fueling that A ‘Better Deal’ for Whom?
national Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Repub- FABRICE COFFRINI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES dangerous summer heat. As a TO THE EDITOR:
lic, she said, were worse than anything she had seen in Carla del Ponte lost hope investigating Syria atrocities. health scientist, I know that heat Re “New Sales Pitch by Demo-
Rwanda or Yugoslavia. isn’t just an inconvenience: It can crats, for Audience of Trump Vot-
It is impossible not to share her frustration. The Syrian kill. America’s 76 million aging baby ers” (front page, July 25):
not been made public. boomers — including me — are
war has taken over 400,000 lives and displaced millions of In announcing their “Better
It is up to the International Criminal Court to make use increasingly at risk, since aging
people since erupting in 2011; all sides have committed innu- Deal” political agenda, leading
of the evidence from either body. But because the court can- bodies struggle harder to regulate Democrats offered strategies they
merable war crimes, including murder, torture and rape; ci-
not take action on its own against a nonmember like Syria say will result in better jobs, higher
vilian populations have been massacred
(the United States has also refused to join), cases must be wages and more skills training for
A stack of by barrel bombs, gassed and deliber-
referred by the Security Council, and Russia and China have the American worker.
reports on ately denied food and health services; These are worthy goals, but the
atrocities in the Islamic State has spread unspeak-
blocked that idea. Investing in Infrastructure outline ignores the one thing nec-
able terror in areas it conquered. This is deeply frustrating for victims of atrocities and
Syria and two TO THE EDITOR: essary to accomplish them: pri-
But the Security Council’s inaction for investigators. But international organizations and inter- vate investment. Better jobs,
investigative Re “Let’s Get Excited About Main-
has not been for lack of trying. It is be- national justice are inherently dependent on the political tenance!,” by Andrew Russell and higher wages and, increasingly,
panels, but no
cause Russia, often joined by China, has will of those involved, and the Syrian conflict is an infernal Lee Vinsel (Sunday Review, July more training are a result of grow-
clear path to ing businesses. Yet the Better Deal
obstinately propped up President Ba- tangle of political goals, ideologies and actors. Scores of 23):
justice. While I agree wholeheartedly is silent on a host of policies that
shar al-Assad of Syria, using its veto armed groups are at war, backed variously by Russia, the
that maintenance is the neglected would encourage that new invest-
eight times in the Council so far to block measures against United States, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The
stepchild of infrastructure, I also ment, like tax reform and regula-
him. The latest veto came on April 12, blocking a resolution Trump administration has yet to formulate a coherent strat- think that we place a skewed value tory reform.
introduced by the United States, France and Britain de- egy for Syria, though the C.I.A. recently abandoned efforts on catastrophic risks that may Instead of a pro-growth ap-
manding that Mr. Assad cooperate with an investigation into to train some opposition groups. seem remote but are costly when proach, the agenda targets Ameri-
a deadly gas attack. Against these odds, the panel on which Ms. del Ponte they do occur. can employers with more regula-
worked and the new body might appear almost quixotic. Somehow the immediate reward tion, more government and more
With Security Council action blocked, the General As- of “cutting costs” is more enticing
Fighting in some areas of Syria is abating, in part through penalties.
sembly, where there is no veto, voted in December to set up than the uncertain reward of pre- Business leaders agree that it’s
another body, the International, Impartial and Independent agreements reached between President Trump and Presi- vention. It doesn’t feel like a re- time to act on serious policies that
Mechanism, charged with building cases for any court that dent Vladimir Putin of Russia in July. But that is still a long ward because if you do it right, will benefit all Americans. A plan
might have jurisdiction. A French judge experienced in war- way from peace, and it leaves in place those most responsi- nothing happens. that discourages the central role of
crimes tribunals, Catherine Marchi-Uhel, was named its ble for war crimes, like Mr. Assad. The only hope for a real Perhaps fear of future pain is not private investment in creating a
end to the carnage is to keep seeking a diplomatic solution. as strong as the impulsive desire stronger economy is no deal at all.
head and began work on Tuesday.
for savings today. So we kick the
With General Assembly backing, the new body presum- The investigations of atrocities also need to continue. can down the road and hope that JOSHUA BOLTEN, WASHINGTON
ably has more clout than Ms. del Ponte’s, which was set up The remaining members of Ms. del Ponte’s commission, the mess ends up in someone else’s The writer, a former chief of staff to
by the Human Rights Council, and its drill includes building Paulo Pinheiro of Brazil and Karen Koning AbuZayd of the lap. President George W. Bush, is president
actual cases against specific individuals. It will have access United States, said they have an obligation to keep working REBECCA FIRESTONE and chief executive of the Business
to the first panel’s voluminous findings, most of which have on behalf of the victims. There must be a reckoning. OAKLAND, CALIF. Roundtable.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Democrats,
Start Aiming
For the Gut
I WAS TALKING the other day to a wise ex-
ecutive friend and he recalled for me
something his favorite boss liked to say:
When people rise to the top of an organiza-
tion and get power, they usually do one of
two things: “They either swell or they
grow.”
Donald Trump has swollen.
Every character flaw he had before ta-
king office — from his serial lying to his
intellectual laziness to his loyalty just to
himself and his needs — has grown only
larger and more toxic as he has been pres-
ident. He seems not to have grown a whit
in the job. He has surprised only on the
downside — never once challenging his
own base with new thinking or appearing
to be remotely interested in being presi-
dent of all the people, not just his base.
What strikes me most about Trump,
though, is how easily he still could become
more popular — fast — if he just behaved
like a normal leader for a month: if he
reached out to Democrats on health care,
taxes or infrastructure; stopped insulting
every newsperson who writes critically
about him; stopped lying; stopped tweet-
ing inanities; and actually apologized for
some of his most egregious actions and
asked for forgiveness. Americans are a
forgiving people.
With the Dow at 22,000 and unemploy-
ment at 4.3 percent, oh my God, this guy
could actually become more popular out-
side his base without much effort. That’s
scary. But, as I said, it would require
Trump doing something he has shown no
ability or willingness to do — to grow in
office, not just swell.
Still, Democrats would be wise not to
count on Trump swelling forever or on
Robert Mueller taking him down. What-
Trump’s campaign genius
was pushing the right
buttons with voters.
ever happens, Democrats need to win the
argument with at least some Trump/
G.O.P. voters. There are many ways for
Democrats to counter any new and im-
proved Trump. I’d start by acknowledging
a simple fact: Some things are true even if
Donald Trump believes them!
That is, Trump’s core base of support —
those people who he says would stick by
him even if he shot someone “in the mid-
dle of Fifth Avenue” — are people who
have heard and appreciated all his nativist
dog whistles: from his slur that Barack
Obama was not born in America to his fo-
cus on voter suppression to his restricting
transgender people in the military to his
reversing affirmative action and imposing
immigration restrictions. That white na-
tionalist constituency is beyond the reach
— for good reason — of any Democratic
candidate.
But Trump did not win, and could not
win again, with that group alone. His gen-
ius was expanding beyond that nativist
core with just enough votes in the right
places to get him over the top — by push-
ing other buttons. These were things that
many conservative and centrist voters be-
lieve in their guts, even if they don’t articu-
late them.
Trump connects with these gut issues
and takes them in a destructive direction.
It’s vital for Democrats to connect with
them and take them in a constructive di-
rection.
What issues? Here’s my list:
• We can’t take in every immigrant who
wants to come here; we need, meta-
phorically speaking, a high wall that as-
sures Americans we can control our bor-
der with a big gate that lets as many peo-
ple in legally as we can effectively absorb
as citizens.
• The Muslim world does have a problem
with pluralism — gender pluralism, reli-
gious pluralism and intellectual pluralism
— and suggesting that terrorism has noth-
ing to do with that fact is naïve; counter-
ing violent extremism means construc-
tively engaging with Muslim leaders on
this issue.
• Americans want a president focused on
growing the economic pie, not just redis-
tributing it. We do have a trade problem
with China, which has reformed and
closed instead of reformed and opened.
We have an even bigger problem with au-
tomation wiping out middle-skilled work
and we need to generate more blue-collar
jobs to anchor communities.
• Political correctness on college cam-
puses has run ridiculously riot. Americans
want leaders to be comfortable expressing
patriotism and love of country when glob-
alization is erasing national identities.
America is not perfect, but it is, more often
than not, a force for good in the world.
Voters don’t listen through their ears.
They listen through their stomachs. And
when you connect with voters in their
guts, they feel respected, and when they
feel respected, they will listen to anything
— including big issues that are true even if
Democrats believe them. Such as the fact
that a majority of Americans like Oba-
macare and want to see it built to last, and
a majority of Americans do not like the
way Trump is despoiling the environment
and bringing back coal.
Indeed, the biggest wind power states
in America — Texas, Iowa, Kansas, South
Dakota, Oklahoma and North Dakota —
are all red states. The Democrats literally
have the wind at their backs on health care
and clean energy.
But to be heard, they need candidates
who can pass a gut check with the more
moderate Trump/G.O.P. voters. Just 10
percent of Trump voters would suffice.
Trump’s core base is solid, but he’s clearly
losing the soft support around his core.
Democrats can grow into the soft support
— as long as they’re smart and Trump
continues to just swell. 0 only 11 percent of executive positions at
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
The Incurious President
Sarah Vowell
T
HERE are an infinite number of
questions to ask of history. For in-
stance, is Frederick Douglass be-
ing recognized more and more?
(Yes, partly because he’s doing an amaz-
ing job but mostly because he’s dating
Taylor Swift.) Or here’s a basic question
we as a species should pose to the 20th
century every Aug. 6 (the anniversary of
Hiroshima) through 9 (Nagasaki): What
if fewer children were killed?
On Aug. 10, 1945, that query was on
President Harry Truman’s mind. Accord-
ing to a cabinet secretary’s diary, the day
after the five-ton nuclear weapon nick-
named Fat Man obliterated Nagasaki,
Truman “didn’t like the idea of killing, as
he said, ‘all those kids.’ ”
Lately, President Truman has been in
my thoughts. Not because Franklin
Roosevelt’s death drop-kicked him into
the Oval Office unprepared, though that
does resonate, but because of his secre-
tary of war, Henry L. Stimson. He had vis-
ited Kyoto in the 1920s and persuaded the
president to take the city off the list of po-
tential targets for atomic bombs. As Stim-
son recalled in Harper’s in 1947: “Although
it was a target of considerable military im-
portance, it had been the ancient capital of
Japan and was a shrine of Japanese art
and culture. We determined that it should
be spared.”
Kyoto happens to be my favorite foreign
city. I don’t know how other Americans
are coping with watching our government
disintegrate in real time, but one way I
lower my blood pressure after reading the
news is to get out one of my books on the
gardens of Kyoto and scrutinize photos of
artfully arranged clumps of rocks and
moss. Especially the dry gardens de-
signed by Mirei Shigemori, who is, to me,
the Rolling Stones of stationary stones.
But for me to indulge in this harmless
hobby of studying Buddhist landscape ar-
chitecture, about a quarter of a million
mostly civilian inhabitants of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki had to die.
On his Restricted Data blog, about nu-
clear issues, the historian Alex Wel-
lerstein suggests that when Stimson
How to Disrupt Silicon Valley Sexism
Anita Hill
T
HE recent leak of a Google engi-
neer’s screed against the compa-
ny’s diversity initiatives is a re-
minder that the notion of Silicon
Valley as the seat of human progress is a
myth — at least when it comes to the way
women behind the latest in technology
are treated.
Google’s decision to fire the employee
responsible for the memo neither dispels
the notion that a systemic problem exists
nor solves it. The tech industry is stuck in
the past, more closely resembling “Mad
Men”-era Madison Avenue or 1980s Wall
Street than a modern egalitarian society.
It may take the force of our legal system
to change that.
The leaked memo, titled “Google’s
Ideological Echo Chamber,” called on the
company to abandon its efforts for gen-
der diversity and replace them with a fo-
cus on “ideological diversity.” The author
even claimed that biological differences
make women poorly suited to engineer-
ing. While the document may be unusual
in its explicit embrace of this kind of
backward thinking, the attitudes that un-
derlie it are nothing new in Silicon Valley.
Since a former Uber employee pub-
lished her blog post detailing her experi-
ence with the ride-sharing company’s
toxic, male-dominated culture, a stream
of female coders, engineers and others
have come forward to discuss their expe-
riences with sexual harassment and hos-
tile, discriminatory workplace cultures.
Companies like Google, Tesla, Twitter,
Microsoft and Oracle face allegations of
sexism in the form of individual lawsuits
and Labor Department inquiries.
There’s also a gap in pay and promo-
tions, which has devastating effects on
women’s tech careers. Women under 25
earn on average 29 percent less than
their male counterparts. Women of all
ages receive lower salary offers than
men for the same job at the same com-
pany 63 percent of the time. They hold
urged Truman to remove Kyoto from the
list of target cities because of its cultural
and therefore civilian heritage, the presi-
dent may have gotten the impression that
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were more ap-
propriate industrial and military targets.
In his diary on July 25, Truman, either
too preoccupied or too oblivious to con-
sider that even industrial cities are
packed with noncombatants, records that
he instructed Stimson to proceed “so that
military objectives and soldiers and sail-
ors are the target and not women and chil-
dren.” Anyone who has ever visited the
Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima
and lingered over the frayed shoe of
slaughtered 12-year-old Kazuhiko Sasaki
knows how that turned out.
“I don’t think Stimson attempted to pur-
posely mislead Truman, though,” Mr. Wel-
lerstein added. “Rather, I think the root of
Truman’s misunderstanding was that he
was a very incurious man when it came to
nuclear matters.” He continued, “He
rarely questioned his advisers, rarely ana-
Before threatening ‘fire
and fury,’ Trump should
read some history books.
lyzed the issues with independent judg-
ment, and he never grappled with the big
ideas.”
But when he saw the devastation the
bomb wreaked, Truman became a sober
steward of these destroyers of worlds. He
insisted on keeping the decision to use nu-
clear arms in the hands of the president —
seemed like a good idea at the time — and
proclaimed in his farewell address, “Start-
ing an atomic war is totally unthinkable
for rational men.” In a paper Mr. Wel-
lerstein delivered last week at a confer-
ence in Hiroshima, he said that after 1945,
the president became “dedicated to the
idea of a level of control that he had not
exhibited during the war — a Truman,
perhaps, who saw that lack of control, and
lack of understanding, as a fundamental
turning point in his life.”
After 1945, every subsequent president
knew what nuclear holocaust looked like
Silicon Valley companies and own only 5
percent of tech start-ups. Only 7 percent
of partners at the top 100 venture capital
firms are women. It is no wonder that the
rate at which women quit tech jobs (41
percent) is more than twice as high as
the corresponding rate for men.
We can’t afford to wait for the tech in-
dustry to police itself — and there are few
indications that it will ever do so. Con-
sider what lawyers for Google said in
May, in testimony in a suit alleging wage
discrimination against women: It would
be too burdensome for the company to
collect data on salaries. Given recent De-
partment of Justice decisions to limit
protections against gender and race dis-
crimination, it’s hard to foresee serious
Class actions could
create change in the
tech industry.
government intervention coming from
the current administration. Nor can we
wait for bad press and shareholder class
actions to force out C.E.O.s responsible
for cultures of inequality.
Instead, women in the industry should
collectively consider class-action dis-
crimination cases against employers.
The tech sector is not the first white-
collar “boys’ club” to demand an indus-
trywide correction. In the 1990s, Wall
Street firms faced a slew of class-action
discrimination lawsuits. Perhaps the
most notable was the 1996 “Boom-Boom
Room” case. A group of 23 women filed a
class-action lawsuit against the Smith
Barney stock brokerage firm, charging it
with rampant harassment and gender
discrimination. By the time Smith Bar-
ney settled the case for $150 million,
nearly 2,000 women had joined the suit
and helped expose a culture of sexism to
the outside world.
As a result of this and other cases that
similarly challenged systemic practices
REBEKKA DUNLAP
and thus to avoid it. How they did so can be
instructive. For example: President John
F. Kennedy’s thoughtful if lucky handling
of the Cuban missile crisis, warding off nu-
clear war by ignoring his more trigger-
happy military advisers. Having just read
Barbara Tuchman’s book “The Guns of
August,” about the madcap rush into
World War I, Kennedy said, “I am not go-
ing to follow a course which will allow any-
one to write a comparable book about this
time, ‘The Missiles of October.’ ”
Would a more curious mind like Ken-
nedy have made different decisions from
Truman in 1945? Probably not — once “the
Gadget” worked, it was going to be used.
But he might have asked more questions
beforehand. What we do know is that in
1962, nuclear holocaust was averted in
part because a president read a book and
learned from it.
We know that our current president
reads neither books nor the Australian
prime minister’s mood. And thanks to a
leaked talk to congressional interns last
week, we know that his son-in-law and ad-
viser, Jared Kushner, the administration’s
supposed voice of reason who is charged
with ending the opioid epidemic, broker-
ing peace between Israelis and Palestin-
ians, and presumably proving the exist-
ence of God, actually said these words, out
loud, to people with ears: “We’ve read
enough books.”
On Sunday, the 72nd anniversary of the
bombing of Hiroshima, the CNN news
scrawl blared, in customary if alarming all
caps, a statement from the North Korean
state-run newspaper that the United
States “will sink into an unimaginable sea
of fire on the day when it dares to touch
our country by stupidly causing mischief
and brandishing its nuclear and sanctions
clubs.”
On Tuesday, President Trump told re-
porters that North Korean threats would
be “met with fire and fury like the world
has never seen.”
Oh, dear. Better drag out the Japanese
garden books. As with literally every
other kind of book, I will never, ever read
enough of those. 0
SARAH VOWELL is the author, most re-
cently, of “Lafayette in the Somewhat
United States.”
at other Wall Street firms, many of these
companies now have more extensive hu-
man-resource policies addressing sexual
harassment and gender discrimination.
While pay and promotion discrimination
still exists, more women on Wall Street
are advancing in their careers to manag-
ing directorship and other leadership
roles. The lesson of these cases is clear:
Class-action lawsuits can force industry-
wide change, even in the most en-
trenched, male-dominated industries.
Women in tech no doubt have hurdles
to bringing class-action lawsuits, includ-
ing the requisite preponderance of stat-
istical evidence and the prevalence of
confidentiality clauses and arbitration
agreements, which are, in effect, de-
signed to pre-empt class actions. But this
challenge doesn’t mean the suits cannot
be brought, or won.
Hundreds of female former employees
of the Signet Jewelers conglomerate, for
example, recently alleged in a class ac-
tion that the company’s chief executive
and other leaders presided over a corpo-
rate culture that promoted unbridled
sexual harassment and pay and promo-
tion discrimination. The case is still be-
ing adjudicated. Last month, Signet’s
chief executive stepped down.
It’s not just the female plaintiffs who
would win if they were to be victorious in
court. The economic benefits could be re-
markable. Advancing women’s equality,
which includes minimizing the gender
gap in labor force participation, holds the
potential to add $12 trillion to global
gross domestic product by 2025.
The male-dominated leadership of Sili-
con Valley has proved unwilling or un-
able to solve systemic gender inequality,
and the leaked Google memo is an alert
about how deeply and passionately anti-
equality attitudes are held. It’s time
women in tech consider taking advan-
tage of the law to disrupt the industry
once and for all. 0
ANITA HILL is of counsel to Cohen Milstein
Sellers & Toll, a national plaintiffs’ law
firm.
N A19
FRANK BRUNI
Sorry,
Mike Pence,
You’re Doomed
THE OTHER DAY, from the Naval Observa-
tory in Washington, you heard a howl of
such volume and anguish that it cracked
mirrors and sent small forest animals
scurrying for cover. Vice President Mike
Pence was furious. He was offended.
Someone — namely, my Times col-
leagues Jonathan Martin and Alexander
Burns — had dared to call him out on the
fact that he seemed to be laying the
groundwork for a presidential bid.
Problem No. 1: His president is still in
the first year of his first term. Problem
No. 2: That president is Donald Trump,
who doesn’t take kindly to any glimmer
that people in his employ are putting
their vanity or agenda before his. Just
ask Steve Bannon. Or Anthony Scara-
mucci. They were too big for their
britches, and Trump snatched their
britches away.
The Times report put Pence in similar
peril, so he pushed back with an operatic
outrage that showed just how close to
the bone it had cut. When a story’s actu-
ally wrong, you eviscerate it, exposing
its erroneous assertions without ever
breaking a sweat. When it’s a stink bomb
at odds with your plotting, you set your
jaw, redden your face and proclaim it
“disgraceful,” never detailing precisely
how.
That was Pence’s route. And his ran-
cor, I suspect, reflects more than the in-
convenient truths that Martin and Burns
told. It’s overarching. It’s existential. On
some level, he must realize that he’s in a
no-win situation. Without Trump he’s
nothing. With Trump he’s on a runaway
train that he can’t steer or brake. If it
Faust made a better
bargain than the vice
president did.
doesn’t crash, Trump can scream down
the tracks straight through 2020. If it
does, Pence will be one of the casualties.
So why has Pence formed a political
action committee, the only sitting vice
president ever to do so? Why is he taking
all these meetings, building all these
bridges? I guess there could be some im-
aginable future in which Trump falls and
Pence is left standing strong enough to
soldier on. But mostly he’s in denial, and
he’s living very dangerously.
Many Republicans wonder if Trump
will remain in the picture and viable in
2020. He could implode — even more
than he already has, I mean. He could be
run out of town, one way or another. He
could stomp off. The scenarios are myri-
ad, and to prepare for them, Pence in-
deed needs an infrastructure and a net-
work of his own. But there’s simply no
way to assemble those without looking
disloyal to Trump and courting the wrath
of alt-right types who know how to go on
a Twitter jihad.
Other would-be successors to Trump
aren’t in the same bind. They don’t owe
Trump what Pence does. They never
pledged Trump complete allegiance.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, whose unoffi-
cial 2020 campaign commenced even be-
fore Trump’s inauguration, can raise
money, stage news conferences, take up
residence on CNN and pick apart
Trump’s proposals all he wants. It won’t
endear him to Trump’s base, but it won’t
make him a marked man.
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska can
style himself as a humble, homespun
remedy to Trump’s cupidity and histri-
onics. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
can take a calibrated approach, more
hawkish than Trump on foreign policy
but eager to link arms with him on immi-
gration.
Pence, though, is squeezed tight into a
corner of compulsory worship. And de-
spite his behind-the-scenes machina-
tions, he has done a masterful job of ap-
pearing perfectly content there.
In news photographs and video, you
catch other politicians glancing at the
president in obvious bafflement. Not
Pence. Never Pence. He moons. He
beams. It’s 50 shades of infatuation.
Daniel Day-Lewis couldn’t muster a
more mesmerizing performance, and it’s
an unusually florid surrender of princi-
ples.
I’m not referring to policy and the fact
that before he agreed to become Trump’s
running mate, he blasted Trump’s pro-
posed Muslim ban, tweeting that it was
“offensive and unconstitutional,” and
fiercely advocated free trade. I’m refer-
ring to Pence’s supposed morality.
He trumpets his conservative Christi-
anity and avoids supping alone with any
woman other than his wife, then turns
around and steadfastly enables an
avowed groper with a bulging record of
profanely sexual comments.
He publishes a testimonial, “Confes-
sions of a Negative Campaigner,” in
which he invokes Jesus while vowing
never to repeat such political ugliness in
the future, then turns around and collab-
orates with a politician whose ugliness
knows no limit.
No wonder he wants and expects a re-
ward as lavish as the White House itself:
He sold his soul. But I don’t think he stud-
ied the contract closely enough and
thought the whole thing through.
There’s no political afterlife in this
equation, just the loopy, mortifying
limbo in which he and so many of
Trump’s other acolytes dwell.
Maybe the howling is cathartic. Won’t
change a thing. 0
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
M.T.A. Tries a New Tack
During Delays: The Truth
By MAGGIE ASTOR
On my way home from work
two Thursdays ago, the No. 3
train I was riding stopped sud-
denly, just before the 72nd Street
station.
This, on the New York City
subway, was not particularly
unusual. But what happened
afterward was.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” began
the voice over the loudspeaker,
sounding rattled. “I have bad
news. A passenger just jumped
in front of the train.”
Several people gasped. A wom-
an near me jerked her head up
from her phone, wearing an
expression of horror. We riders
did something not normally
acceptable: We made eye contact
with one another.
A train conductor or operator
speaking of a death on the tracks
without euphemism: We had
never heard that before.
He was speaking with supervi-
sors about how to proceed, the
voice continued. There would be
major delays. He was very sorry.
Nobody seemed annoyed
about waiting. And that was
most unusual of all.
The Metropolitan Transporta-
tion Authority is not New York’s
most popular agency. Fares are
rising as service is deteriorating.
Search Twitter and you will find
legions of frustrated commuters
A policy adopted in
response to a train’s
particularly
harrowing delay.
late for work because of train
traffic ahead or a sick passenger
on board or because the dis-
patcher said so. Inside the sub-
way cars, delays are greeted
with rolled eyes and audible
groans.
But not on this day, on this
train. And that stems from a
policy the M.T.A. adopted in
response to a train’s particularly
harrowing delay in June: Tell
riders the truth.
The New York City subway
has always had a code. Delays
are explained with stock phrases
that may or may not actually
apply — “we are delayed be-
cause of train traffic ahead of
us”; “we are being held momen-
tarily by the train’s dispatcher.”
There might be “police activity”
or “an investigation,” which are
often used to mean someone has
been struck by a train. New
Yorkers know this perfectly well,
but the words have no emotional
force.
So the bluntness of “a pas-
senger just jumped in front of the
train” did something. This time,
what we were experiencing was
a human tragedy instead of a
personal inconvenience. Some-
one, a living person who had
been standing unhurt on the
platform just moments earlier,
had been struck mere yards
away. Later, news reports would
confirm what we had already
guessed: The victim had died.
And so we did not complain that
we were stuck underground in a
packed rush-hour subway car.
The specificity was not a one-
off, the M.T.A. confirmed, but a
new policy: part of a shift from
recorded to live announcements.
“We’re rolling it out, and it’s
the direction we’re going to go
in,” Joseph J. Lhota, the M.T.A.’s
new chairman, said through a
spokesman.
Crystal Young, chairwoman of
the conductor/tower division of
the Transport Workers Union
chapter representing M.T.A.
workers, said the change
The morning rush-hour commute at the subway station at
Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan this month.
stemmed from a dramatic and
much-publicized delay in June,
when a train on the F line broke
down, and riders were stuck in
darkness and stifling heat for 45
minutes. At first, passengers
reported, the only explanation
they were given was the “train
traffic ahead of us” recording,
even though the problem was
clearly more serious. The next
morning, The New York Daily
News called that line “the big-
gest lie told in New York City
each day.”
Now, Ms. Young said, “conduc-
tors have to give more detailed
announcements, and they can’t
play the automated announce-
ments.”
Examples of the new approach
have been popping up on social
media and elsewhere over the
past two months.
“ ‘And to your left, you’ll see
the stalled train causing us to be
delayed’- my @MTA conductor,
like we’re on a safari” of crum-
bling infrastructure, one rider
wrote on Twitter on July 25. JUSTIN GILLILAND/THE NEW YORK TIMES
“ ‘We are delayed because of a
fight going on in the subway
train ahead of us,’ ” another rider
recounted in The New York
Times’s “Metropolitan Diary”
Business Is Booming on 125th Street. So’s the Trash.
By JEFFERY C. MAYS ary market for the big metal items
feature on Aug. 2. “ ‘They are
that get thrown away, and also for
waiting for the police to break it
up.’ ”
When Barbara Askins started
the 125th Street Business Im-
Some See Harlem Corridor as Test Case wood and paper,” Ms. Fuchs said.
Kathryn Garcia, the city’s sani-
“A-train conductor at W4: provement District 24 years ago, a
tation commissioner, said the de-
‘There is a feral cat inside the river of trash flowed down
train, police are trying to remove Harlem’s busiest commercial cor- partment is already thinking
the cat, when they do, we can ridor at the end of most days. widely and acting broadly on
move again,’ ” Daniel Roberts, a some of the issues.
writer at Yahoo Finance, tweeted
“It was total chaos,” Ms. Askins
said. “The trash was blowing ev- “We think that cleanliness is
during the Thursday morning
rush last week, prompting a
erywhere. It would hit you in the
face while walking down the
very important for quality of life
and economic growth across the
smattering of that rarest of New street.” city,” said Ms. Garcia.
The city already collects bulk
York City phenomena: praise for After hiring a team to sweep lit-
the M.T.A. ter and empty trash cans, Ms. paper and earns $35 per ton,
“For once a legitimate commu- Askins felt like things were under which is up from $33 per ton just
nication from the MTA conduc- control — until 125th Street last year. The revenue goes back
tor,” Andrew Weakland re- started to boom again in the last into the sanitation department’s
sponded to the tweet. “Get them few years. A resurgence in street budget.
a medal or something. Or a cat.” vendors, along with new busi- The department is also con-
Another user, Laura Nahmias, nesses such as Whole Foods and ducting two studies of its own. One
commented, “I am so down for malls filled with national retailers, is looking at whether clustering
this new ultra-honest policy.” has added to the almost 160,000 commercial trash pickups would
Of course, transparent an- pedestrians who cross 125th make them more efficient. The
nouncements can do only so Street each week and created
JUSTIN GILLILAND/THE NEW YORK TIMES
other, with the American Institute
much to placate riders. The big more trash. A new study found that 125th Street, above and top, could be of Architects, is looking at the im-
problem is the delays them- “With our growth, the trash is- a laboratory for dealing with the city’s sanitation challenges. pact of development on sanitation
selves; whatever the cause, sues have returned. It’s not clean,” policy.
they’re still making you late for Ms. Askins said. “We want to insure we are part
public affairs and political science noticed the increased garbage.
work. Mr. Roberts’s A train — But it doesn’t have to be that of the conversation when a devel-
at Columbia University who was a “You go to Midtown or the Up-
sitting in a station, West Fourth way. A study released on Tuesday oper is developing a building,”
co-author of the study. per West Side and it’s cleaner,”
Street, served by six other sub- by Columbia University’s School said Ms. Garcia.
Spurred by a 2008 rezoning that Ms. Nicoleau said.
way lines — quickly emptied of International and Public Affairs Upper Manhattan already re-
allowed taller buildings on 125th The trash problems on 125th ceives three trash pickups per
after riders were informed about found that the 125th Street Busi- Street, 10 projects valued between Street were not what most people week, which is more than other
the cat. ness Improvement District, which
$14 million and $95 million have expected to find in the area visited parts of the city, Ms. Garcia said.
Asked whether riders seemed stretches from Morningside Ave-
been completed since 2011. An- by 8.5 million pedestrians last But she said she is also aware of
to appreciate the honesty, Ms. nue to Fifth Avenue, could be a
other 10 projects, some with budg- year, the study said. But it said the the “challenges with a very large
Young, the union representative, laboratory for dealing with the
ets of $100 million or more, are un- district’s “clean teams” do a good homeless population” on Lenox
said that while some did, still sanitation challenges of a city ex-
der construction. job of picking up litter on the Avenue and 125th Street, which
“most of the time, passengers pected to grow to 9 million resi-
dents from 8.5 million by 2040. On a rainy Monday afternoon, ground, which was mostly left by the city is trying to address with
are upset because of the delays.”
The study’s suggestions include members of the business im- homeless people and loiterers. more resources.
Under certain circumstances,
monetizing the collection of recy- provement district collected four And the study found that busi- “We really need the public to
though, bluntness can bring what bags of trash and placed them at nesses on 125th Street do not fol-
it did nearly two weeks ago: a clable items, including some not litter and not throw things on
forms of loose paper, glass and 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, low the guidelines for commercial the ground,” Ms. Garcia said.
humanity almost never found on showing the volume of trash even pickup, placing trash on the street
the subway. metal trash, that do not already To that end, four solar-powered
have a deposit attached to them.. on a day with fewer pedestrians. for pickup at unauthorized times. trash cans were placed on Lenox
Perhaps 10 minutes after the
It also recommended deputizing Then someone dumped a plastic Some smaller businesses, which Avenue on Tuesday. The cans,
first announcement, the pas-
visitors to 125th Street to report chair beside the trash, a violation are supposed to hire private which hold up to 150 gallons and
sengers in the first few cars of
problems more consistently to 311, of the sanitation code. carters, also illegally place their send a notification when full, were
my train, which were in the
New York City’s hotline, and to the Ms. Askins said the business trash in cans meant for pedestri- secured by the business improve-
station, were allowed to get off.
improvement district to help the improvement district would call ans, the study said. Unlicensed ment district and are wrapped in
We in the back, still in the tunnel,
city develop better strategies for the sanitation department to col- street vendors also use trash re- works by local artists, Ms. Askins
awaited our turn with a patience
tackling problems such as illegal lect the chair, but it could be there ceptacles, the study found. said.
that I found remarkable. When
dumping. until Wednesday’s regular pickup, The study suggested that the “If the streets are not clean,
the door between our car and the which might invite more dump- 125th Street Business Improve-
“One-Twenty-Fifth Street is hot. nothing makes sense,” said Ms.
one in front of it slid open an- ing. ment District begin a recycling
There are all these investments, Askins.
other 10 minutes or so later, the Regular visitors to 125th Street, program for paper or metal.
and tourists are coming. Now you
scores of us walked through, like Sabine Nicoleau, an adminis- “There are all kinds of glass and
need new policies to keep up with
single-file. No one jostled. No one
demand and change behaviors,” trator for City Health Works plastic bottles that don’t have a de-
More New York news
spoke. We stepped carefully over
said Ester Fuchs, a professor of whose office is in the area, have posit on them. There is a second- appears on Page A17.
the gaps between cars, holding
the doors for the people behind
us.
Up on the sidewalk, I checked
my phone. The language on the
M.T.A.’s website matched the
announcement we had heard: “a
person struck by a train.”
But change can be slow. Later
that evening, I checked again
and found that the M.T.A. had
slipped back into euphemism.
There were residual delays on
the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 lines, the
website said, after an earlier
customer “injury.”
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
 Ingredient’s Safety in Focus
A Burger vs. the F.D.A.
A meatless product’s quest for
approval highlights challenges
faced by food start-ups.
Why U.S.
Should Fear
Less Labor
By Migrants
Let’s just say it plainly: The
United States needs more low-
skilled immigrants.
You might consider, for start-
ers, the enormous demand for
low-skilled workers,
which could well go
EDUARDO unmet as the baby
PORTER boom generation
ages out of the labor
ECONOMIC force, eroding the
SCENE labor supply. Eight of
the 15 occupations
expected to experience the fast-
est growth between 2014 and
2024 — personal care and home
health aides, food preparation
workers, janitors and the like —
require no schooling at all.
“Ten years from now, there are
going to be lots of older people
with relatively few low-skilled
workers to change their bed-
pans,” said David Card, a profes-
sor of economics at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley. “That
is going to be a huge problem.”
But the argument for low-
skilled immigration is not just
about filling an employment hole.
The millions of immigrants of
little skill who swept into the
work force in the 25 years up to
the onset of the Great Recession
— the men washing dishes in the
back of the restaurant, the wom-
en emptying the trash bins in
office buildings — have largely
improved the lives of Americans.
The politics of immigration are
driven, to this day, by the propos-
ition that immigrant laborers
take the jobs and depress the
wages of Americans competing
with them in the work force. It is
a mechanical statement of the
law of supply and demand: More
workers spilling in over the
border will inevitably reduce the
price of work.
This proposition underpins
President Trump’s threat to get
rid of the 11 million unauthorized
immigrants living in the country.
It is used to justify his plan to cut
legal immigration into the coun-
try by half and create a point
system to ensure that only immi-
grants with high skills are al-
lowed entrance in the future.
But it is largely wrong. It
misses many things: that less-
skilled immigrants are also con-
sumers of American-made goods
and services; that their cheap
labor raises economic output and
also reduces prices. It misses the
fact that their children tend to
have substantially more skills. In
fact, the children of immigrants
contribute more to state fiscal
coffers than do other native-born
Americans, according to a report
by the National Academies.
What is critical to understand,
in light of the current political
debate, is that contrary to con-
ventional wisdom, less-skilled
immigration does not just knock
less-educated Americans out of
their jobs. It often leads to the
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Despite an outcry over drug costs, generic prices
have been dropping. But is anyone saving money?
By CHARLES ORNSTEIN and KATIE THOMAS
Not all drug prices are going up.
Amid the public fury over the escalating costs of
brand-name medications, the prices of generic drugs
have been falling, raising fears about the profitability
of major generic manufacturers. Last week, Teva
Pharmaceuticals reported that it had missed ana-
lysts’ earnings estimates in the second quarter and
planned to lay off 7,000 workers. Its share price plum-
meted 24 percent in one day as investors worried
there was no end in sight.
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Share prices of other generic drugmakers also
declined, as did those of wholesalers, which profit
from the sales of generic drugs and have said they
expect prices to continue declining.
Mylan, another large generic drugmaker, will re-
port its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. My-
lan also sells the EpiPen, the brand-name allergy
treatment whose price increases have stoked outrage
over the past year, but the company’s primary busi-
ness is as a seller of generic drugs.
This may seem like good news for consumers, but
Continued on Page B3
A Contentious Memo
Ripples Beyond Google
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
SAN FRANCISCO — After
leaving Harvard’s doctorate pro-
gram in systems biology to join
Google as a software engineer in
2013, James Damore joked on his
Facebook page that he knew he
had made the right move as he en-
joyed a morning smoothie with
oats. It was the type of workplace
perk that is standard for Google
employees.
That initial assessment of
Google seemed far removed from
the contentious memo written by
the 28-year-old Mr. Damore last
week that has enraged advocates
of greater diversity in the technol-
ogy industry. The memo has also
served as a rallying cry for con-
servatives and the alt-right who
view Google — and Silicon Valley
— as a bastion of groupthink
where people with different opin-
STEPHEN LAM/REUTERS ions are shamed into silence.
His 10-page memo, titled
SportsWednesday Pages 8-12
A Résumé’s Missing Piece
Karolina Pliskova, having taken
over tennis’s top ranking in July,
10
N B1
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Disney
Introduces
Streaming
Services
By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — The Walt
Disney Company, under pressure
to address threats to its vast tele-
vision business, unveiled its an-
swer on Tuesday: two Netflix-
style streaming services.
“I would characterize this as an
extremely important, very, very
significant strategic shift for us,”
Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief ex-
ecutive, told analysts on a confer-
ence call to discuss quarterly
earnings. Underscoring the need
for Mr. Iger to reposition his com-
pany for growth, Disney reported
a slight decline in revenue and a 9
percent drop in net income.
The two still-unnamed stream-
ing services — one built around
sports programming from ESPN,
the other on Disney and Pixar
movies and television shows —
will be powered by BamTech, a
technology company that handles
direct-to-consumer video for
An entertainment
giant under pressure
challenges Netflix.
baseball teams and HBO, among
others. Disney paid $1 billion a
year ago for a 33 percent stake in
BamTech. On Tuesday, Mr. Iger
announced that Disney had accel-
erated an option to spend $1.58 bil-
lion for an additional 42 percent
share.
Disney’s move online could put
the company in conflict with Net-
flix, which will lose access to new
Disney and Pixar films, and with
cable providers, which pay Dis-
ney handsomely for the right to
distribute ESPN and other chan-
nels. Mr. Iger said Disney had not
yet talked to cable providers. He
added, however, that he had “all
the confidence in the world” in
Disney’s ability to maintain favor-
able deals with them.
The ESPN streaming service
will arrive early next year, Mr.
Iger said. It will include baseball,
hockey, tennis and college sports
— about 10,000 regional and na-
tional events in its first year. Users
will be able to access the service
through an enhanced version of
ESPN’s current app, which in-
cludes news, highlights and
scores. People who pay to receive
ESPN the old-fashioned way (via
a cable or satellite provider) will
be able to access standard ESPN
programming through the same
app.
Mr. Iger said Disney had lately
noticed “a dramatic increase in
app-based media consumption,”
and not just for its own offerings.
Continued on Page B4
“Google’s Ideological Echo
Chamber,” argued that “person-
ality differences” between men
and women — like a woman hav-
ing a lower tolerance for stress —
help explain why there were
fewer women in engineering and
leadership roles at the company.
He said efforts by the company to
reach equal representation of
women in technology and leader-
ship were “unfair, divisive, and
bad for business.”
The memo was originally
posted on an internal mailing list
and was shared widely inside the
company and throughout Silicon
Valley. It struck a nerve and was
harshly criticized inside a com-
pany and an entire industry
struggling to explain why women
are underrepresented in key en-
gineering ranks and are often un-
derpaid when compared with
their male peers.
Continued on Page B6
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
By Buying Mobileye, Intel
Enters Driverless Car Race
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
About three years ago, the chip
giant Intel seemed like a bystand-
er in Silicon Valley’s race to de-
velop self-driving cars.
Google was zooming ahead,
producing and testing autono-
mous cars of its own design and
racking up millions of miles in test
drives. Uber, the ride-hailing serv-
ice, was close behind. Tesla intro-
duced its Autopilot feature to its
electric cars, using technology
from the Israeli firm Mobileye.
Even in microchips, its
strength, Intel was scrambling to
catch up to its rival Nvidia, whose
superfast processors were at-
tracting automakers because of
their ability to fuse images from
the cameras and radar sensors to
detect obstacles.
But Intel is betting that it can re-
shape the competitive landscape
with its acquisition of Mobileye,
which makes cameras, sensors
and software that enable cars to
detect what is ahead. With the
$15.3 billion deal, which closed
Tuesday, Intel gains instant credi-
bility because Mobileye already
supplies technology to most major
automakers and is a leader in ar-
eas like digital mapping and sen-
sors.
“Intel now has a very big foot-
print in all parts of the autono-
mous vehicle, the brains, the sen-
sors, the information side, the
mapping,” said Mike Ramsey, a
Gartner analyst who tracks the
development of self-driving cars.
The chip giant stakes
$15.3 billion on
autonomous driving.
“The acquisition clearly puts Intel
in the conversation. It guarantees
they will be a player.”
Mobileye will remain based in
Israel, and its co-founder Amnon
Shashua will head all of Intel’s au-
tonomous-vehicle efforts. The
other founder, Ziv Aviram, is retir-
ing from Mobileye to focus on an-
other company he started, Or-
Cam, which makes artificial-vi-
sion devices that allow the visu-
ally impaired to understand text
and identify objects.
Intel announced its intention to
acquire Mobileye in March. The
two companies have been work-
ing with BMW on self-driving cars
and are partners with Delphi Au-
tomotive, a supplier of advanced
automotive electronics and soft-
ware.
Big investments and outright
acquisitions are increasingly
prominent in the autonomous-ve-
hicle development race. Ford Mo-
tor announced in February that it
would invest $1 billion in Argo, an
artificial-intelligence start-up fo-
cused on driverless cars. And last
year General Motors acquired an-
other software firm in the sector,
Cruise Automation. On Tuesday,
Cruise announced that it had de-
veloped a ride-hailing app for
Intel and Mobileye will begin working on a new self-driving sys-
tem that combines Intel chips and Mobileye’s digital mapping.
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driverless cars being tested by its
employees on the streets of San
Francisco.
Partnerships have not always
gone smoothly. The Cruise appli-
cation could bring G.M. into con-
flict with the ride service Lyft, a
strategic partner. And last year a
public split arose between Mobil-
eye and Tesla after an Ohio man
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gaged. Mr. Shashua said publicly
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nology. Tesla has since begun
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Intel and Mobileye aim to dem-
onstrate the strength of their com-
bined capabilities in the next sev-
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100 self-driving test vehicles.
“This is our way to put the tech-
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Such a fleet would give Intel
something to rival Google’s auton-
omous driving division, now
called Waymo. Over the past year,
Waymo has built a sizable test
fleet using minivans made by Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles, and it is op-
erating them in several cities.
Uber is running tests in Pitts-
burgh, while General Motors,
Ford Motor and other traditional
automakers are creating their
own test fleets.
At the same time, the combina-
tion of Intel and Mobileye will be-
gin working on a new self-driving
system that combines Intel chips
and Mobileye’s technology. Mr.
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would be about twice as powerful
as Mobileye’s current product
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The system will include several
key components of a self-driving
car — cameras, image-processing
capabilities, microprocessors and
mapping technology, as well as
software that determines how to
react to driving situations, pedes-
trians and other vehicles, known
as “driving policy.”
The technology will be de-
signed to allow automakers to add
their own self-driving software.
“Car manufacturers will want to
imprint their own characteristics
on the system, how they want it to
feel and how they want it to drive,”
said Brian M. Krzanich, Intel’s
chief executive.
Still, it will not be easy for Intel
to pull automakers away. Nvidia
offers chips with more raw pro-
cessing power, which “have been
getting a lot of wins lately,”’ Mr.
Ramsey said.
Toyota recently chose Nvidia
technology for the self-driving
cars it is developing.
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The Impossible Burger contains soy leghemoglobin, which the Food and Drug Administration has yet to confirm is safe to eat.
Meatless Burger’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Hits a Regulatory Snag
By STEPHANIE STROM
One of the chief selling points of
the Impossible Burger, a much
ballyhooed plant-based burger
patty, is its resemblance to meat,
right down to the taste and
beeflike “blood.”
Those qualities, from an ingre-
dient produced by a genetically
engineered yeast, have made the
burger a darling among high-end
restaurants like Momofuku Nishi
in New York and Jardinière in San
Francisco, and have attracted
more than $250 million in invest-
ment for the company behind it,
Impossible Foods.
Now, its secret sauce — soy
leghemoglobin, a substance found
in nature in the roots of soybean
plants that the company makes in
its laboratory — has raised regu-
latory questions.
Impossible Foods wants the
Food and Drug Administration to
confirm that the ingredient is safe
to eat. But the agency has ex-
pressed concern that it has never
been consumed by humans and
may be an allergen, according to
documents obtained under a Free-
dom of Information request by the
ETC Group as well as other envi-
ronmental and consumer organi-
zations and shared with The New
York Times.
“F.D.A. believes the arguments
presented, individually and col-
lectively, do not establish the
safety of soy leghemoglobin for
consumption,” agency officials
wrote in a memo they prepared
for a phone conversation with the
company on Aug. 3, 2015, “nor do
they point to a general recognition
of safety.”
Impossible Foods can still sell
its burger despite the F.D.A. find-
ings, which did not conclude that
soy leghemoglobin was unsafe.
The company plans to resubmit
its petition to the agency.
“The Impossible Burger is
safe,” Rachel Konrad, a spokes-
woman for Impossible Foods, said
in a statement. “A key ingredient
of the Impossible Burger — heme
— is an ancient molecule found in
every living organism.”
Impossible Foods is finding out
what happens when a fast-moving
venture capital business runs
headlong into the staid world of
government regulation.
Investors like Bill Gates and
Khosla Ventures have poured
money into a variety of so-called
alt meat companies. Silicon Valley
has noble goals, applying techno-
logical solutions to address major
Indexes Take Late Tumble After Day of Listless Trading
By The Associated Press
Losses in health care and con-
sumer-focused companies pulled
stocks broadly lower on Tuesday,
snapping a 10-day winning streak
for the Dow Jones industrial aver-
age.
Energy stocks also fell, along
with the price of crude oil. Only
utility stocks eked out a gain on a
day of mostly listless trading as in-
vestors watched the latest com-
605 pany earnings and geopolitical
news.
The market slide accelerated
slightly in the last half-hour of
trading as President Trump de-
nounced North Korea’s nuclear
program.
He spoke after a new report as-
serted that United States intelli-
gence had determined that
Pyongyang had produced a nucle-
ar warhead that could fit inside its
missiles.
“That may have weighed a little
bit” on markets, said Phil Guarco,
global investment specialist at J.P.
Morgan Private Bank.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-
stock index fell 5.99 points, or 0.2
percent, to 2,474.92. The Dow slid
33.08 points, or 0.2 percent, to
22,085.34. The S.&P. 500 and Dow
were both coming off record
highs.
The Nasdaq composite index
issues like climate change, farm
animal welfare and food security.
But food is not an app. It is far
more heavily regulated by gov-
ernments and much more heavily
freighted with cultural and emo-
tional baggage.
“This rush to market is the Sili-
con Valley mind-set,” said Michael
Hansen, a food safety expert who
is the senior staff scientist at Con-
sumers Union, an advocacy
group. “They think because
they’re doing something disrup-
tive, the regulations that apply to
other companies don’t apply to
them.”
For now, few food start-ups are
selling their products to con-
sumers. Only Beyond Meat, which
uses a traditional pea protein to
make its Beyond Burger; Hamp-
ton Creek, which makes plant-
based sandwich spreads and sal-
ad dressings; and Impossible
Foods have any notable presence
in the market.
Like Impossible Foods, Hamp-
ton Creek faced problems with the
F.D.A., which challenged its use of
the word “mayo” in the name of its
vegan spread, Just Mayo. Federal
definitions of foods require may-
onnaise to contain eggs.
The agency ultimately allowed
Hampton Creek to keep the name
but required it to use bigger type
on the front of the label to say it
was egg-free. The label now de-
fines “just” to mean “guided by
reason, justice and fairness,” in-
stead of suggesting that it is a rep-
lica of mayonnaise.
In the case of Impossible Foods,
the debate centers on its use of soy
leghemoglobin, which the compa-
ny’s engineered yeast produces
and forms an important ingredi-
ent behind the business.
The company was started in
2011 by Pat Brown, a chemist at
Stanford University. His ap-
proach, involving genetics, micro-
biology and cutting-edge chem-
istry, attracted venture capitalists
also eager to find plant-and lab-
based replacements for hamburg-
ers and chicken wings.
Impossible Foods sought to woo
top chefs with a splashy sales
pitch about how the burger mim-
icked the aroma, attributes and
taste of real beef. When soy leghe-
moglobin breaks down, it releases
a protein known as heme, giving it
that meatlike texture.
Within three years of its found-
ing, Impossible Foods landed big-
name investors like Khosla, Mr.
Gates and the Hong Kong billion-
STOCKS & BONDS
The Dow Minute by Minute
Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Tuesday.
Previous close
22,118.42
10 a.m. Noon
Source: Reuters
lost 13.31 points, or 0.2 percent, to
6,370.46.
Bond prices were little changed.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury
note held steady at 2.26 percent.
The market indexes wavered
between small gains and losses
for much of the morning, then
veered lower by afternoon. The
slide deepened after Mr. Trump’s
remarks on North Korea were
broadcast.
At a briefing at his golf course in
Bedminster, N.J., on opioid addic-
tion, Mr. Trump warned North Ko-
rea not to make more threats
aire Li Ka-Shing. This month,
Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s
sovereign wealth fund, joined an
investment round that added $75
million to the company’s coffers.
“I love V.C.s and particularly
the ones that invested in us,” Mr.
Brown said at a TechCrunch con-
ference in May, referring to ven-
ture capital firms. “But it’s truly
astonishing how little diligence
they do in terms of the actual sci-
ence that underlies some tech
companies.”
The F.D.A.’s approval is not re-
quired for new ingredients. Com-
panies can hire consultants to run
tests, and they have no obligation
to inform the agency of their find-
ings, a process known as self-affir-
mation.
Impossible Foods adhered to
that procedure, concluding in 2014
that soy leghemoglobin was safe.
But it went further, seeking the
regulator’s imprimatur.
“We respect the role the F.D.A.
plays in ensuring the safety of our
food supply, and we believe the
Highlighting the
challenges faced by
food tech companies.
public wants and deserves trans-
parency and access to any infor-
mation they need to decide for
themselves whether any food
they might eat is safe and whole-
some,” Ms. Konrad wrote in an
email.
The F.D.A., however, wanted
the company to show the ingredi-
ent was safe specifically for hu-
mans. It told Impossible Foods to
establish the safety of the more
than 40 other proteins that make
up part of its soy leghemoglobin.
F.D.A. officials said the company’s
assessment of the potential for the
ingredient to be an allergen was
deficient.
“This product has been touted
as the ‘secret sauce’ in the Impos-
sible Burger,” said Jim Thomas,
program director at the ETC
Group, the Canadian environmen-
tal organization that started the
Freedom of Information request.
“Now we know that the F.D.A. had
questions about it, but it was put
on the market anyway.”
Ms. Konrad defended the bur-
ger, saying it “is entirely safe to
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against the United States, adding
that North Korea would be “met
with fire and fury like the world
has never seen.”
The Volatility Index, a measure
of how much volatility investors
expect in stocks, jumped 10.4 per-
cent.
Beyond geopolitical concerns,
investors continued to assess
company earnings reports.
Avis Budget Group, the car
rental company, slumped 9.9 per-
cent after cutting its guidance fol-
lowing a weak second quarter.
The stock fell $3.30 to $30.09.
JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
eat” and “fully compliant with all
F.D.A. regulations.” She said the
company was “voluntarily taking
extra steps beyond what’s strictly
necessary so that our extensive
testing data is in the public
record.”
“We are taking these additional
steps because the public wants
and deserves full transparency
about the foods they eat — and be-
cause transparency is a core part
of our company’s DNA,” she said.
Impossible Foods, she said, has
tested its ingredient on rats fed
“well above” the amount of soy
leghemoglobin in its burger. Ms.
Konrad said the company’s expert
panel had determined those tests
also demonstrated the ingredient
was safe, and that the company
would thus resubmit its petition
for F.D.A. confirmation this
month.
Companies have “no require-
ment” to notify the F.D.A. of a food
being determined safe, Megan
McSeveney, an agency spokes-
woman, said in an email. She add-
ed, however, that the F.D.A. could
question the basis for any such
conclusion and “take appropriate
action to protect public health.”
Consumer advocates say the
experience of Impossible Foods
highlights longstanding concerns
about the F.D.A.’s oversight of food
safety. Congress gave it the re-
sponsibility for policing food addi-
tives under the Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act of 1938. Twenty
years later, it added an exemption
to allow a company to sell a prod-
uct without the agency’s review if
the additives were deemed safe.
In 2010, the Government Ac-
countability Office raised con-
cerns about the agency’s interpre-
tation of its responsibilities under
the law. A study by the Pew Chari-
table Trusts found in 2013 that the
F.D.A. was unaware of roughly
1,000 of some 10,000 ingredients
used in food because companies
had used the self-affirmation
process. And in May, the Center
for Food Safety and other groups
sued the F.D.A. over that process.
“The exemption was meant to
cover ingredients that had long
been used in the food supply, so
that companies didn’t have to
come in every time they made a
new product,” said Tom Neltner,
chemicals policy director at the
Environmental Defense Fund, an
advocacy group that is one of the
plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “It wasn’t
meant to allow companies to sim-
ply bypass the F.D.A.”
SeaWorld Entertainment slid
6.2 percent after reporting sec-
ond-quarter revenue that fell
short of Wall Street’s expecta-
tions. The stock fell 85 cents to
$12.76.
Traders snapped up shares of
companies that delivered strong
quarterly results.
Michael Kors, the luxury hand-
bag and apparel designer and re-
tailer, climbed 21.5 percent after
its latest quarterly results beat
analysts’ forecasts as sales im-
proved. The stock was the biggest
gainer in the S.&P. 500, adding
$8.02 to $45.25.
Ralph Lauren gained $10.39, or
13.3 percent, to $88.53, while
LendingClub, a peer-to-peer loan
company, added 99 cents, or 18.1
percent, to $6.45.
Henry Schein, a health care
equipment and services company,
declined amid a slide by health
care stocks. Its shares slid $9.77,
or 5.3 percent, to $174.02.
Benchmark United States
crude fell 22 cents to $49.17 a bar-
rel on the New York Mercantile
Exchange. Brent crude, the inter-
national standard, lost 23 cents to
$52.14 a barrel in London.
Gold fell $1.80 to $1,256.40 an
ounce. Silver gained 14 cents to
$16.39 an ounce. Copper rose 4
cents to $2.94 a pound.

Fox Declined to Settle
Suits for $60 Million
Gender and Racial Bias Claims at Issue
By EMILY STEEL
The sexual harassment scandal
at Fox News has cost its parent
company 21st Century Fox tens of
millions of dollars, untold reputa-
tional damage and some of its big-
gest personalities. And the drama
is far from over.
At a confidential mediation pro-
ceeding in late July, the lawyer
Douglas H. Wigdor asked for
more than $60 million to settle
several disputes with Fox News
and 21st Century Fox, according to
two people familiar with the mat-
ter. Mr. Wigdor proposed that the
settlement be paid in a lump sum,
giving him the discretion to dis-
tribute the payments, according
to one of the people.
Those cases included gender-
and racial-discrimination law-
suits against the company that
Mr. Wigdor had filed on behalf of
more than 20 current and former
employees in the last several
months and at least one explosive
complaint that had not yet been
made public.
The company would not accept
Mr. Wigdor’s offer and no resolu-
tion was reached, said the people,
who requested anonymity to dis-
cuss a confidential matter. Mr.
Wigdor’s proposal to settle the dis-
parate cases altogether is consid-
ered unusual, as it is rare that
there are multiple suits with the
same lawyer against the same
party. Also, cases typically vary
greatly in their merit, making
them difficult to value as a group.
After mediation failed, Mr. Wig-
dor went public last week with
that explosive case, filing a defa-
mation and racial-discrimination
lawsuit against 21st Century Fox
and Fox News that focused on an
article about the death of Seth
Rich, a young aide for the Demo-
cratic National Committee. The
suit included allegations that the
White House and a wealthy
Trump supporter pushed Fox
News to publish an article on its
website as part of a scheme to end
speculation about the president’s
ties to Russia. Mr. Wigdor brought
the suit on behalf of Rod Wheeler,
a private detective involved in the
Sinclair Bid to Acquire Tribune Media Draws Opposition From Conservative Outlets
By SYDNEY EMBER
The Sinclair Broadcast Group’s
proposed acquisition of Tribune
Media has ignited expected oppo-
sition from left-leaning advocacy
groups that deplore news media
consolidation and the right-lean-
ing commentary the company
pushes out to its local television
stations.
But a more unlikely group has
recently joined the chorus of crit-
ics: conservative media outlets
that say that the merger will limit
competition and wipe out inde-
pendent voices.
This week, Newsmax, whose
founder, Christopher Ruddy, is a
close associate of President
Trump, filed a petition urging the
Federal Communications Com-
mission to deny the Sinclair-Trib-
une combination. One America
Generic Drug Prices Have Been Dropping. But Are Consumers Saving Money?
From First Business Page
it’s unclear how much they will
save.
Why are generic prices falling?
Generic drugs are copycat
versions of brand-name products
and — to a point — their prices
are expected to drop over time.
When a brand-name drug first
loses its patent protection, prices
fall slowly. Over the next couple
of years, as more competitors
enter the market, the prices drop
even more, until the pills become
commodities and sell for pennies.
Blockbuster drugs that have
recently taken this path include
Lipitor and Plavix, the choles-
terol-lowering and blood-thin-
ning pills that now cost as little
as $10 for a monthly prescription.
Generic drug prices have been
declining in the United States
since at least 2010, according to
an August 2016 report by the
Government Accountability
Office.
They have fallen even in the
face of high-profile exceptions:
Dozens of old generic drugs have
risen in price in recent years, for
reasons that include supply
disruptions and competitors’
leaving the market.
For example, the price that
pharmacies paid for the antibi-
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ProPublica, an independent,
nonprofit investigative journalism
organization. This article was
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case who said that Fox News had
fabricated quotations from him in
the article. Fox News, which later
retracted the article, has denied
the claims.
Mr. Wigdor then announced on
Monday that he had sent a letter
to the British authority scrutiniz-
ing 21st Century Fox’s $15 billion
bid for Sky, a European satellite
giant. In the letter, he outlined evi-
dence that he said showed that the
company had not been transpar-
ent during the regulatory review;
failed to adequately clean house in
the wake of its harassment scan-
dals; knowingly disseminated
fake news, including the Seth Rich
article; and did not live up to an
earlier agreement to change its
corporate culture.
Britain’s culture ministry an-
nounced on Tuesday that it had
written to the Office of Communi-
cations, or Ofcom, seeking clarifi-
cation on its earlier review of
whether the company had met
British broadcasting standards.
In June, Ofcom ruled that Rupert
Murdoch, executive chairman of
21st Century Fox, and other com-
pany executives were “fit and
proper” to hold broadcasting li-
censes in Britain, even as it con-
cluded that the sexual har-
assment scandal at Fox News had
amounted to “significant corpo-
rate failures.”
On Tuesday, a spokesman for
21st Century Fox declined to com-
ment. In an earlier statement, the
company said, “We welcomed the
recent statement by the Secretary
of State that ‘Ofcom is unequivo-
cal’ regarding 21CF’s genuine
commitment to broadcasting
standards, following advice from
the independent regulator which
found ‘there are no broadcasting
standards concerns which may
justify a reference by the Secre-
tary of State to the Competition
and Markets Authority.’”
The continuing drama illus-
trates how messy the situation at
Fox News remains more than a
year after allegations of systemic
sexual harassment burst into pub-
lic view. The scandal led to sweep-
ing changes at the top of the net-
News Network, a cable network
that has championed the Trump
administration’s agenda, and The
Blaze, a news and entertainment
network started by Glenn Beck,
have also pressed for a careful as-
sessment of the merger.
“A free and diverse press, a bed-
rock principle of American de-
mocracy, will be crippled by this
proposed merger,” Newsmax said
in its filing. “The level of media
concentration proposed by this
transaction will homogenize the
content available to U.S. con-
sumers, eliminate unique view-
points and reduce press diversity,
especially in the delivery of local
news.”
In a separate filing, One Amer-
ica News Network and The Blaze,
along with several other inde-
pendent programmers from
across the political spectrum, pre-
otic doxycycline hyclate in-
creased to $3.65 a pill in 2013
from 5.6 cents in 2012, according
to an analysis of pricing data by
Adam J. Fein, president of Pem-
broke Consulting, who re-
searches the drug-distribution
industry. The spike in prices of
doxycycline and other generic
drugs led to a congressional
investigation as well as state and
federal inquiries into price-fixing
that are still underway. A coali-
tion of state attorneys general
have accused a number of com-
panies of colluding to keep prices
high.
Mr. Fein said the price of doxy-
cycline has since declined to 60
cents a pill. “That’s a big switch,”
he said.
Despite these cases, the trend
toward deflating generic prices
appears to have accelerated as
companies have more ag-
gressively undercut each other’s
prices.
Making matters worse for the
generics companies, they are
missing out on peak profit poten-
tial because not as many brand-
name products are losing patent
protection. The six-month period
after a drug goes generic is
typically the most lucrative time
for the first company to market.
And the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration has been clearing out a
backlog of generic-drug approv-
als, meaning more competitors
are now entering markets for
certain drugs.
In a recent call with Wall
Street analysts, George S. Bar-
rett, the chairman and chief
executive of Cardinal Health, a
major drug distributor that re-
ported declining profits last
week, said generic deflation was
not new, but that the company
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Douglas H. Wigdor, center, reportedly asked for more than $60 million to settle disputes with Fox News and 21st Century Fox.
work, including the ousting of the
network’s founding chairman,
Roger Ailes; Bill O’Reilly, the top-
rated host on cable news; and sev-
eral other employees.
Yet issues regarding workplace
culture continue to plague the
company.
Over the weekend, Fox News
suspended the longtime host Eric
Bolling pending an investigation
into reports that he sent lewd pho-
tographs to three female col-
leagues. The development fol-
lowed the suspension of Charles
Payne, an anchor on Fox Busi-
ness, pending an investigation
into claims of misconduct against
him. Mr. O’Reilly, Mr. Bolling and
Mr. Payne have denied the allega-
tions against them, as did Mr.
Ailes, who died in May.
On Monday, Mr. Bolling took to
Twitter to thank his fans and de-
fend his reputation. “I look for-
ward to clearing my name ASAP,”
he said in a post.
Mr. Wigdor, a New York em-
ployment lawyer who repre-
sented the hotel maid in the Domi-
nique Strauss-Kahn sexual as-
sault case, has brought a number
of cases against Fox, including a
race, gender and pregnancy dis-
Concerns about the
power of a fellow
right-leaning voice.
sented a similar case.
“Regardless of political affili-
ation, we should agree that robust
democracy demands a variety of
viewpoints from a myriad of
sources,” they wrote. “Yet the
wave of consolidation across the
industry threatens this core value.
And the Sinclair-Tribune merger
would exacerbate this troubling
tendency.”
Sinclair declined to comment.
The outlets may also have an-
other reason for opposing the
merger: Sinclair’s expansion
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A pharmacy in Blacksville, W.Va. Overall spending is up be-
cause of the skyrocketing prices of new brand-name drugs.
historically had been able to
anticipate it. “It just looked a
little different than we had seen,”
he said.
In recent years, generic com-
panies have gone on acquisition
sprees in an effort to head off
some of these challenges. But
they have been outmaneuvered
by those who buy their products,
a trend that has been intensi-
fying. Major pharmacy chains,
drug wholesalers and pharmacy
benefit managers (which operate
drug plans for insurers) have
united into colossal buying
groups. For example, Express
Scripts, a large pharmacy benefit
manager that runs its own mail-
order pharmacy, teamed up with
Walgreens Boots Alliance in May
to purchase generics.
“What we’re seeing is incredi-
ble competition — and we’re
causing it,” said Dr. Steve Miller,
the chief medical officer for
crimination and hostile work envi-
ronment suit; a class-action racial
discrimination suit; an additional
gender discrimination suit and
the defamation lawsuit filed last
week. (Mr. Wigdor’s firm also rep-
resents clients in a racial discrimi-
nation suit against The New York
Times.)
Mr. Wigdor declined to com-
ment on the mediation or the set-
tlement amount he sought, citing
the confidentiality of the proceed-
ings. But he pointed out that 21st
Century Fox had paid $40 million
to Mr. Ailes and $25 million to Mr.
O’Reilly, both of whom were
ousted after allegations of sexual
harassment.
“Outside the context of the me-
diation, any amount under what
Ailes and O’Reilly got in total
would be unjust,” he said.
21st Century Fox declined to
comment on the mediation or Mr.
Wigdor’s tactics.
In his letter to Ofcom, Mr. Wig-
dor outlined the allegations made
in the defamation suit, including
that Fox News had published the
article at the urging of the White
House and fabricated quotations
to support it.
Mr. Wigdor also questioned Of-
could hurt their own aspirations.
With a president in the White
House who has consistently tried
to discredit the mainstream news
media, and with Fox News, the
longtime king of conservative pro-
gramming, still powerful but hav-
ing lost some of its biggest stars,
conservative news outlets have a
unique opportunity to extend
their influence.
“Even though they may be ideo-
logically aligned, Newsmax and
others see Sinclair is going to be
so big that they’ll swallow up ad
dollars and starve the conserva-
tive competition,” Craig Aaron,
the president of the consumer ad-
vocacy group Free Press, which
opposes the merger, said in an
email.
Among the others who have ob-
jected to the merger is Dish Net-
work.
Express Scripts.
Are consumers saving money?
The declining prices are
broadly beneficial to the health
care system, and may put some
slight brake on rising premiums.
But most of those with health
insurance pay a fixed co-pay-
ment — $10, for example — for
each generic prescription, and
therefore don’t pay more or less,
regardless of any fluctuation in
the actual price. And even those
who pay cash for generics may
not notice a drop in price be-
cause many are already cheap.
Retail drug prices dropped 2.4
percent over the last year, based
on a weighted average of 92
generics that have been on the
market for at least a year, ac-
cording to an analysis conducted
for The New York Times and
ProPublica by GoodRx, a site
that tracks prices that con-
com’s assessment that it had
found “no clear evidence” that
senior executives were aware of
the misconduct before they were
informed of it in July 2016, when
Mr. Ailes was ousted. As evidence,
he pointed to a 2006 consent de-
cree reached as part of a settle-
ment of a United States Equal Op-
portunity Commission sex-dis-
crimination suit against Fox
News.
As the Wigdor cases proceed
through the legal system — a
process that could cost millions in
legal fees and take years — the
state of affairs could grow even
uglier for all parties. That is al-
ready apparent in the class-action
discrimination suit, in which a
number of employees made alle-
gations that Judith Slater, the
company’s longtime comptroller,
had engaged in racist behavior. In
February, Fox News fired Ms.
Slater, who has denied the allega-
tions.
In a June court filing, lawyers
for Ms. Slater raised credibility is-
sues about Monica Douglas, one
of the plaintiffs, who worked in the
credit and collections department
at Fox News. The documents filed
with the court references the
Should the $3.9 billion acquisi-
tion close, Sinclair would have as
many as 233 local television sta-
tions and would reach more than
70 percent of households in the
United States. It would also gain a
toehold in major markets like Los
Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Sinclair has also drawn criti-
cism for demanding that its local
stations broadcast “must-runs”
that include conservative com-
mentary from Boris Epshteyn, a
former spokesman for Mr. Trump,
as well as centrally produced
news segments that some at local
stations have complained take up
time that could otherwise be used
for local news.
“It just gives them a huge path-
way right into the home,” said Mi-
chael G. Fletcher, the chief execu-
tive of Ride Television Network,
an equestrian-focused cable net-
sumers pay at the pharmacy.
(Weighted averages account for
how often each drug is pre-
scribed.)
But that figure hides vast vari-
ations. The retail price for clopi-
dogrel, the generic for Plavix,
dropped 37 percent, to $3.77 from
$6.03 a pill, GoodRx found. Con-
versely, the blood pressure drug
metoprolol went up about 70
percent, to 59 cents a pill from 35
cents. But GoodRx noted that
consumers can almost always do
better than paying the retail
price, or sometimes even their
co-payments, using websites —
like its own — that offer dis-
counts.
So have high drug costs eased?
Overall drug spending is still
on the rise because of the sky-
rocketing price of new, brand-
name drugs.
For example, a report by Quin-
tilesIMS, an industry research
firm, found that in 2016, drug
spending increased by nearly 5
percent, after accounting for
discounts and rebates paid by
manufacturers. Generic drugs
accounted for 89 percent of pre-
scriptions dispensed in 2016, but
only 26 percent of the costs,
according to QuintilesIMS. Each
year, generic drugs make up a
larger share of the prescriptions
filled, while accounting for a
smaller portion of drug costs,
said Chester Davis Jr., the presi-
dent of the Association for Acces-
sible Medicines, the generic
industry trade group.
New treatments for conditions
like cancer and multiple sclerosis
often enter the market with annu-
al price tags in the tens of thou-
sands — and sometimes hun-
dreds of thousands — of dollars.
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ALEX WROBLEWSKI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
criminal record of Ms. Douglas,
who pleaded guilty to one count of
grand larceny in the third degree
in 1995 after she was charged in
the theft of more than $62,000
from a former employer. She was
sentenced to six months impris-
onment and probation.
At the same time, he said that as
the case proceeded, he planned to
do a wide sweep for evidence re-
garding allegations of har-
assment, discrimination and re-
taliation at Fox News, past and
present.
Mr. Wigdor said that he had giv-
en Fox a list of several steps it
should take to clean up its work-
place. That included firing the top
lawyer at Fox News and a senior
human resources executive, hir-
ing an ombudsman for har-
assment issues and making sure
that diversity and anti-discrimi-
nation were part of the business
criteria for employee evaluations.
“We went public with Rod
Wheeler’s complaint, and we did
that because they weren’t willing
to take certain steps that we
thought were warranted,” Mr.
Wigdor said. “Since we went pub-
lic with it, of course we let Ofcom
know about it.”
work whose audience is largely
conservative. “To think that they
will have the ability to put what-
ever programming and content
and messaging into all of those
homes is, to me, a scary thought.”
Ride Television was among the
independent programmers that
objected to the merger. The dead-
line for filing petitions to deny the
Sinclair-Tribune merger was at
midnight on Monday.
But the desire for competition is
nonpartisan.
“The real concern here is:
When you have an entity with ex-
cessive, unbalanced power in the
marketplace, which Sinclair argu-
ably has now, the market doesn’t
work,” Charles Herring, whose
family company Herring Net-
works owns One America News
Network, said on a call with re-
porters on Monday.
Many manufacturers also raise
the price once or twice a year,
compounding the problem.
“Generic drugs are among the
best-value products in health
care,” said Dr. Aaron S. Kessel-
heim, an associate professor at
Harvard Medical School. But for
those who must take a brand-
name drugs because there is no
other alternative, “they’re the
ones bearing the burden or the
brunt of the drug price increases
in recent years.”
Is this trend likely to continue?
Generic manufacturers say
they expect it will, and are wor-
ried that lower prices could put
pressure on profits and threaten
the viability of the companies.
This could lead to a wave of
mergers and acquisitions, reduc-
ing competition and leading to
higher prices.
David Maris, an analyst for
Wells Fargo, dismissed the idea
that companies would go out of
business. “Right now we have a
very healthy generic market,” he
said.
The new commissioner of the
Food and Drug Administration,
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, has made
increased competition in the
drug market a key part of his
policy platform. He said he
wanted to make it easier for the
generics manufacturers to get
clearance for hard-to-copy prod-
ucts like eye drops, topical
creams and asthma inhalers.
And he wants to reduce barriers
to ensure new players can enter
the market for existing generic
drugs, possibly lowering prices
further.
“We’re looking to create com-
petition where there isn’t compe-
tition,” he said.
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SQUARE FEET

Making a Brand-New Start of It, in Westchester

RECENT SALE

$9 million
43-35 and 43-39 42nd Street
(between Queens Boulevard and
43rd Avenue)
Sunnyside, Queens
A real estate investment firm has
purchased these contiguous four-
story 1931 walk-ups, with a total of
25,600 square feet and 34 apart-
ments — two studios, 22 one-
bedrooms, eight two-bedrooms
and two three-bedrooms. Twenty-
eight apartments are rent-stabi-
lized, five are rent-controlled and
one is market rate. The building,
which sold for 16 times the rent roll,
is the firm’s third acquisition in
Queens.
BUYER: Margules Properties
SELLER: QPI-XXXII L.L.C.
BROKERS: Michael Tortorici and Vic
Sozio, Ariel Property Advisors
RECENT LEASE
LINDA JAQUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Flurry of Development
Amid New York Crunch
By C. J. HUGHES
For decades, Westchester County’s cit-
ies seemed stuck in a peculiar limbo, too
sleepy to be New York, too gritty to be
suburban.
But as a housing crunch continues to
grip neighborhoods in Manhattan and
Brooklyn, some midsize cities just north
of New York are pushing to take advan-
tage.
In a flurry of activity, developers are
adding apartments, stores, restaurants,
theaters and even a brewery to Mount
Vernon, New Rochelle and Yonkers,
where local leaders are embracing ag-
gressive growth policies.
“The question is, What took them so
long?” said Marco Lala, a commercial
real estate broker at the firm Marcus &
Millichap. Mr. Lala grew up in Yonkers
and today frequently works in the area.
“New York has gotten so expensive
that by sheer force, people are looking
farther and farther north,” he said.
The biggest bet might be on Mount Ver-
non, a densely settled city of about 68,000
people that has struggled with crime,
blight and unemployment. About 21 per-
cent of the population is considered im- add 40,000 square feet of shops, still re-
poverished, according to 2015 census fig- quires approvals, the groundbreaking is
ures, about double the county as a whole. planned for next year.
But the city, which shares a border with
Separately, RXR is part of a team that
the Bronx, has an enviable location, said
is now building a 28-story, 280-unit rental
Sam Mermelstein, a founding member of
tower on Main Street. The project, which
Enclave Equities, a development firm ac-
also involves Brause Realty and ABS
tive there. About 30 minutes from Grand
Partners Real Estate, will include 15,000
Central Terminal by way of the Metro-
square feet of stores and a 10,000-square-
North commuter railroad, Mount Vernon
foot theater.
is closer to Midtown Manhattan than
Also this summer, after a bidding
many Brooklyn neighborhoods.
process, the city selected Macquesten
Enclave is at work on a five-building,
Development, the firm behind one of the
179-unit residential rental project on for-
Mount Vernon high-rises, for a 27-story,
mer industrial property near the Fleet-
282-apartment tower that will include of-
wood station that will offer Manhattan-
style extras like rooftop terraces and fices and a restaurant. That project will
gyms. And, in a break with recent nearby cost $110 million, said Joe Apicella, a

$59/sq. ft.
$488,815 approximate annual rent
1040 Avenue of the Americas (be-
tween West 39th and West 40th
Streets)
Manhattan
New York Building Congress, a
membership association and lobby-
ing group for the construction in-
dustry, which also collects con-
struction data and organizes con-
ferences, has signed a 10-year
lease for the entire 21st floor in this
24-story office tower built in 1950.
TENANT: New York Building Con-
gress
TENANT’S BROKERS: Jonathan Bock,
Wayne Siegel and Eric Siegel,
Coldwell Banker Commercial Advi-
sors
LANDLORD: Skyline Developers
LANDLORD’S BROKERS: William Co-
hen, Andrew Weisz and JD Cohen,
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
FOR LEASE
$100.40/sq. ft.
$650,000 approximate annual rent
815 Broadway (at Ellery Street)
Bushwick, Brooklyn
A 15-to-20-year lease is available
for 6,474 square feet of ground-
floor retail space, with a 1,408-
square-foot mezzanine and a
4,237-square-foot lower level, in a
five-story 1926 building. The space
was formerly a Conway department
store.
OWNER: 815 Broadway Equities
L.L.C.
BROKER: Faith Hope Consolo, Doug-
las Elliman Real Estate
By ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY
Email: realprop@nytimes.com
projects, the $48 million development, set
to open next year, will offer all market-
rate units.
The rents for its one-bedrooms will be
about $1,700 a month, which is less than
half of what new-construction units cost
in Lower Manhattan, according to online
ads. “It makes no sense that this area is
not booming,” Mr. Mermelstein said.
One complaint from Mr. Mermelstein
and others is that Mount Vernon’s retail
corridors, packed with discount clothing
stores, nail salons and takeout restau-
rants, could use more variety.
One new option this fall will be the
Mount Vernon Brewery, which will serve
beers made on site, as well as upscale pub
food, in a brick 250-seat building where
artificial Christmas trees were once man-
ufactured. The restaurant, across the
street from the Mount Vernon East train
station, one of three Metro-North stops in
the city, will open this fall, according to
Steve Nallen, one of the brewery’s co-
owners.
Mr. Nallen has also bought a building
across town, a low-slung former veteri-
nary clinic a few steps from the Mount
Vernon West station, where on a bleak
stretch he plans to open a combination
deli, beer store and bar.
“We saw a void,” said Mr. Nallen, who
grew up in the Bronx. He initially sought
to open his business there, but after
searching for years, he could not find an
affordable site.
Other projects are in various stages of
planning. Around the corner from the
planned deli, the firm Macquesten Devel-
opment has proposed a 17-story tower
with 189 mostly market-rate units on the
former site of a gas station, according to
company officials. The company also
plans to raze the train station next door,
which it already owns, and replace it with
a more contemporary version with
stores, the officials said. But both plans
still require approvals.
Developers credit local leaders for
helping push the changes. In Mount Ver-
non, for example, Mayor Richard Thomas
compressed the time it takes to get a
building permit; a process that could
sometimes take years can now take as lit-
tle as 65 days.
In New Rochelle, a city of about 80,000,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW SENG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Top, Larkin Plaza, a three-
building project in Yonkers,
will have 440 apartments
and 35,000 square feet of
stores. Middle, the Yonkers
train station. Above, the
future site of a 28-story
tower in New Rochelle.
pro-development leadership also seems
to be helping redevelopment efforts. In
December 2015, the city, which sits on
Long Island Sound, rezoned 279 acres,
including most of its commercial areas,
to encourage taller construction.
The loftiest structure had been a 40-
story rental tower built by AvalonBay
Communities in 2007 in an earlier at-
tempt at reinventing the city. And Ava-
lonBay had to get special permission to
go that high, said Luiz Aragon, the city’s
commissioner of development.
Now, though, in the area by a Metro-
North station, a developer can build up to
40 stories without any signoffs, and even
go an additional eight stories in ex-
change for certain community-serving
amenities, Mr. Aragon said.
Since those rules were changed, 13
projects, with 1,633 apartments and
115,000 square feet of commercial and re-
tail space, have been approved for the
downtown, he added.
RXR Realty, a development company
based on Long Island, is one of the com-
panies involved. In exchange for drafting
the rezoning plan for New Rochelle,
which will allow for 12 million square feet
of development, RXR won exclusive
rights to build on seven parking lots
across the city.
In late July, RXR announced its first
plan to develop one of those sites, a rust-
flecked two-level parking structure,
which would give way to a pair of gleam-
ing 28-story towers with up to 700 apart-
ments.
Although the project, which would also
managing director of the company.
“You have to treat this holistically. You
can’t just plop one project down,” Mr.
Apicella said. “There has to be resi-
dential and retail to create an overall en-
vironment. In all these cases, the city is
doing it.”
One city that’s no stranger to renewal
efforts is Yonkers, the fourth-largest in
the state. In the past decade, new apart-
ment buildings have been built down-
town, even as plans for a baseball sta-
dium there fizzled.
The scale of the projects seems to be
growing as city officials have made de-
velopment a priority. They often hold
weekly meetings with developers over
the course of projects to keep them mov-
ing briskly, said Wilson Kimball, the
city’s planning commissioner.
Among those now taking shape is
Modera Hudson Riverfront, a six-story,
324-unit waterfront complex from Mill
Creek Residential, a company whose
portfolio includes properties in Califor-
nia, Texas and Georgia. Modera is set to
open this fall.
Other national companies with at least
partly approved residential projects in-
clude the Extell Development Company
and AvalonBay Communities.
And the city also now seems to have
caught the attention of overseas invest-
ors. The developer of a 24-story, 213-unit
rental tower now rising downtown is
Strategic Capital, a subsidiary of China
Construction America. That company is
itself a unit of China State Construction
Engineering, one of the largest construc-
tion companies in the world.
But the most significant project so far
might be Larkin Plaza, a three-building,
$190 million juggernaut from RXR and
Rising Development that will have 440
apartments and 35,000 square feet of
stores when it opens next year.
“I always thought that Yonkers was an
interesting city, but it was clearly a city
with its best days behind it,” said Seth
Pinsky, an RXR executive vice president
who previously worked on redevel-
opment projects in the Bloomberg ad-
ministration. Mr. Pinsky was also born in
Yonkers. “I don’t think anybody,” he add-
ed, “ever believed it could turn itself
around.”

Disney, Under Pressure, Will Introduce Two Streaming Services to Challenge Netflix
From First Business Page
Disney will also offer a separate
entertainment-oriented stream-
ing service. (With traditional ca-
ble hookups, people are usually
forced to pay for sports channels
even if they do not watch them.) It
will arrive in 2019 and provide ex-
clusive access to new Disney
films, including a sequel to
“Frozen,” a live-action version of
“The Lion King” and “Toy Story
4.” (Netflix currently has rights to
new Disney-branded films; Dis-
ney will take back those rights.)
The Disney-branded entertain-
ment service will also include a
vast amount of library content, in-
cluding movies and television pro-
gramming from Disney Channel,
Disney Junior and Disney XD. Mr.
Iger said that Disney would also
make a “significant” investment
in original movies and shows for
the service, which will not have
advertising.
Mr. Iger said that Disney had
not decided whether to include
films from its Marvel and Lucas-
film (“Star Wars”) labels, in part
because of their different fan
bases.
“It’s possible we will continue to
license them to a pay service like
Netflix, but it’s premature to say,”
he said. “There has been talk
about launching a proprietary
Marvel service and ‘Star Wars’
service.” He added, however, that
Disney was cautious about stand-
alone services for those film
brands, in part because a large
amount of content would be
needed to satisfy subscribers.
Disney declined to say how
much subscriptions would cost.
Mr. Iger said the goal was a price
low enough to encourage wide-
spread adoption but not so low
that it would cannibalize tradi-
tional cable and satellite subscrip-
tions. In the past, Mr. Iger has
hinted about a “dynamic” model,
with viewers able to pay based on
how much they want to watch.
In some ways, Disney is late to
this party. CBS, for instance, intro-
duced a direct-to-consumer sub-
scription streaming service in
2014. But Disney is a media super-
power, and its decision to ag-
gressively pursue streaming
could speed the entertainment in-
dustry’s adoption of the platform.
Disney and Pixar films like “Inside Out“ will be a focus of a
streaming service planned by the Walt Disney Company.
“No one is better positioned to
lead the industry into this dynam-
ic new era,” Mr. Iger said, noting
his company’s trove of popular
content and unrivaled connection
to its audience — particularly chil-
dren, who are a huge driver for
streaming services.
Most analysts responded favor-
ably, but Disney’s stock price de-
clined 4 percent in after-hours
trading, to about $102.95. The re-
DISNEY/PIXAR
action might have been better had
Disney not simultaneously re-
ported lackluster quarterly re-
sults. Netflix shares declined
more than 3 percent after hours,
to $172.53.
For the last two years, as the ca-
ble business has dealt with a loss
of subscribers, Mr. Iger has not
been able to convince investors
that ESPN, the company’s long-
time growth engine, will keep
chugging away. As Wall Street has
continued to fret, Disney has
found itself at the center of specu-
lation about ways to keep its pro-
gramming relevant in the online
age. Some suggested it should buy
Netflix outright or consider sell-
ing itself to Apple.
Meantime, cord-cutting contin-
ues to affect ESPN. Traditional
subscriptions declined 3.5 percent
in the most recent quarter; in the
year-ago period, ESPN had a 2
percent decline.
For its fiscal third quarter, the
company had a profit totaling
$2.37 billion, or $1.51 a share, com-
pared with $2.6 billion or $1.59 a
share, a year earlier. Disney had
revenue of $14.2 billion in the quar-
ter, down slightly from a year ear-
lier.
Adjusting for a one-time charge
related to a legal settlement, Dis-
ney had per-share earnings of
$1.58 in the most recent quarter.
Analysts had expected $1.55.
Among the biggest challenges
for Disney in the quarter were
costs at ESPN, which recorded
about $400 million in incremental
expenses because of a new con-
tract with the National Basketball
Association. As a result, operating
income at Disney Media Net-
works, which includes ESPN, fell
to $1.84 billion, a 22 percent de-
cline.
Expenses also increased at
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts,
which opened an attraction in
Florida based on “Avatar” and
brought one of the Disney cruise
ships in for refurbishment. But the
theme park unit nonetheless re-
ported an 18 percent increase in
operating income, to $1.17 billion,
because of the timing of the Easter
holiday and improved results at
overseas parks, including Disney-
land Paris.
Disney’s movie studio had a dif-
ficult quarter. Its operating in-
come fell 17 percent, to $639 mil-
lion, because of a lineup of films
that could not match last year’s
highs. In the most recent quarter,
Disney released “Cars 3,” “Pirates
of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell
No Tales” and “Guardians of the
Galaxy Vol. 2.” In the year-ago
quarter, the studio’s blockbusters
included “Finding Dory,” “The
Jungle Book” and “Captain Amer-
ica: Civil War.”
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Prosecutors Drop a Stock-Manipulation Case Against a New York Financier
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
Federal prosecutors have dis-
missed securities fraud charges
against the New York financier
Benjamin Wey after a judge
tossed out much of the evidence
against him in June.
The request to dismiss the in-
dictment against Mr. Wey was
made in a brief court filing on
Tuesday afternoon. Soon after the
request was made, Judge Alison J.
Nathan of the Federal District
Court in Manhattan signed the or-
der
Prosecutors sought the dis-
missal just a few months before
Mr. Wey was scheduled to go on
trial on charges that he orches-
trated a stock-manipulation
scheme that generated tens of
millions in illegal profits.
The move to dismiss was not
surprising after Judge Nathan, in
an earlier 92-page ruling, had
A Contentious Memo
Ripples Beyond Google
From First Business Page
Google fired Mr. Damore on
Monday and said that he had vio-
lated the company’s rules by “ad-
vancing harmful gender ster-
eotypes.”
In a short email exchange on
Monday after his firing, Mr. Da-
more, who was a senior software
engineer in Google’s search divi-
sion, said he had not expected this
type of reaction when he shared
his missive last week.
“As far as I know, I have a legal
right to express my concerns
about the terms and conditions of
my working environment and to
bring up potentially illegal behav-
ior, which is what my document
Views that are ‘all
around the culture’
of Silicon Valley.
does,” he said. Mr. Damore said he
would probably take legal action
against the company.
Like many new hires at Google,
Mr. Damore boasted an impres-
sive academic background. A
competitive player of chess and
computer strategy video games,
he studied molecular and cellular
biology at University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, according to
an online résumé. He conducted
research in computational biology
at Harvard, Princeton and the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology before joining a Ph.D. pro-
gram at Harvard. He dropped out
before completing the program.
In a footnote for his memo, Mr.
Damore said he considered him-
self a “classic liberal,” an ideology
associated with advocacy of free
market economics and libertari-
anism.
Mr. Damore’s memo was re-
Why the U.S. Should Fear
A Decline in Migrant Labor
From First Business Page
creation of new jobs — at better
wages — for natives, too. Nota-
bly, it can help many Americans
to move up the income ladder.
And by stimulating investment
and reallocating work, it in-
creases productivity.
Immigration’s bad reputation
is largely due to a subtle yet
critical omission: It overlooks
the fact that immigrants and
natives are different in consis-
tent ways. This difference shields
even some of the least-skilled
American-born workers from
foreign competition.
It’s more intuitive than it
seems. Even American high
school dropouts have a critical
advantage over the millions of
immigrants of little skill who
trudged over the border from
Mexico and points south from
the 1980s through the middle of
the last decade: English.
Not speaking English, the
newcomers might bump their
American peers from manual
jobs — say, washing dishes. But
they couldn’t aspire to jobs that
require communicating with
consumers or suppliers. Those
jobs are still reserved for the
American-born. As employers
invest more to take advantage of
the new source of cheap labor,
they will also open new commu-
nications-heavy job opportunities
for the natives.
For instance, many servers
and hosts in New York restau-
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found that federal law enforce-
ment officials had botched a day-
long search of Mr. Wey’s office and
home in Lower Manhattan by in-
discriminately seizing items un-
der a poorly drafted search war-
rant. The judge ruled that none of
the documents, email messages,
business receipts, computer hard
drives and other records gathered
by the F.B.I. in those searches
could be used against Mr. Wey at
his trial.
Last week, federal prosecutors
in Manhattan said in a filing that
they were awaiting word from the
Office of the United States Solici-
tor General for approval to appeal
Judge Nathan’s sweeping sup-
pression order. Prosecutors said
at the time that if the solicitor gen-
eral decided against an appeal,
the indictment against Mr. Wey
would probably be dismissed.
“The government made the cor-
rect decision to drop charges in
buked by a number of his fellow
employees. Few Google employ-
ees came out publicly in defense of
him, but some surreptitiously
showed their support by leaking
screenshots from internal Google
posts of employees saying they
planned to create blacklists of
people who did not support the
company’s diversity efforts. The
screenshots appeared on Breit-
bart News, which has champi-
oned Mr. Damore’s memo.
“Despite what the public re-
sponse seems to have been, I’ve
gotten many personal messages
from fellow Googlers expressing
their gratitude for bringing up
those very important issues
which they agree with but would
never have the courage to say or
defend because of our shaming
culture and the possibility of get-
ting fired,” Mr. Damore wrote in
an addendum to his original
memo. “This needs to change.”
Others outside the company
came to Mr. Damore’s defense.
Eric Weinstein, a managing direc-
tor at Thiel Capital, an investment
firm run by Peter Thiel, a billion-
aire and supporter of President
Trump, said Google was sending
the wrong message to women.
Separately, a group started a
crowdfunding page to raise
money on Mr. Damore’s behalf.
And Julian Assange, the Wiki-
Leaks founder, offered him a job.
Women account for only 31 per-
cent of Google’s work force and 20
percent of its technical staff, ac-
cording to the company’s latest di-
versity reports. But the company
does have a rich history of foster-
ing top technology talent like
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s
chief operating officer; Marissa
Mayer, Yahoo’s former chief exec-
utive; and Susan Wojcicki, who
runs YouTube. Megan Smith, a
former vice president at Google
who recently served as the chief
technology officer for the United
States under President Barack
Obama, said the views promoted
rants owe their jobs to the lower-
paid immigrants washing the
dishes and chopping the onions.
There are many more restau-
rants in New York than, say, in
Oslo because Norway’s high
wages make eating out much
more expensive for the average
Norwegian.
Similar dynamics operate in
other industries. The strawberry
crop on the California coast owes
its existence to cheap immigrant
pickers. They are, in a way, sus-
taining better-paid American
workers in the strawberry patch-
to-market chain who would have
to find a job somewhere else if
the United States imported the
strawberries from Mexico in-
stead.
One study found that when the
Bracero Program that allowed
farmers to import Mexican work-
ers ended in 1964, the sudden
stop in the supply of cheap for-
eign labor did nothing to raise
the wages of American farm-
workers. From the cotton crop to
the beet crop and the tomato
crop, farmers brought in ma-
chines rather than pay higher
wages.
Another found that manufac-
turing plants in regions of the
United States that received lots
of low-skill immigrants in the
1980s and 1990s were much
slower to mechanize than plants
in low-immigration regions.
A critical insight of the new
research into the impact of immi-
gration is that employers are not
the only ones to adapt to the
arrival of cheap foreign workers
by, say, investing in a new restau-
rant or a new strawberry-pack-
light of the significant constitu-
tional violations described by
Judge Nathan in her ruling,” said
David Siegal, a lawyer for Mr. Wey
and a partner with Haynes &
Boone.
In a statement, Mr. Siegal add-
ed, “This case should serve as a
A botched raid sinks
an attempt to
prosecute Wey.
powerful reminder for years to
come that the government must
adhere to fundamental safe-
guards of our privacy and liberty
when conducting searches.”
A spokesman for Joon H. Kim,
the acting United States attorney
After Google fired an engineer on Monday, it said he had violated the company’s rules by “advancing harmful gender stereotypes.”
by Mr. Damore were common in
Silicon Valley.
“It’s insidious and it’s all around
the culture,” Ms. Smith said in an
interview with Bloomberg Televi-
sion.
The flap over Mr. Damore’s crit-
icism of Google’s diversity efforts
comes as the company has tan-
gled with the Labor Department
over its pay practices. The depart-
ment has not charged Google with
any wrongdoing, but a depart-
ment official said there was evi-
dence that the company system-
atically paid women less than
men. Google denies this is the
case.
Mr. Damore’s comments also
raised another issue around
Google’s peer-review system.
Employees at the company are ex-
Where Immigrants Do the Work
Immigrants take up a disproportionate share of many lower-skill occupations — such as farm or janitorial work
— as well as some higher-skill ones, like computer science.
Top 10 occupational groups by
immigrant share of workers, 2014
Farming, fishing and forestry
Building/grounds cleaning and maintenance 16
Construction and extraction
Computer and mathematical science
Production
Food preparation and related service
Life, physical and social science
Personal care and service
Health care support
Transportation and material moving
Source: Pew Research Center. Note: Totals calculated prior to rounding.
ing plant. American-born work-
ers react, too, moving into occu-
pations that are better shielded
from the newcomers, and even
upgrading their own skills.
“The benefits of immigration
really come from occupational
specialization,” said Ethan Lewis,
an associate professor of eco-
nomics at Dartmouth College.
“Immigrants who are relatively
concentrated in less interactive
and more manual jobs free up
natives to specialize in what they
are relatively good at, which are
communication-intensive jobs.”
Looking at data from 1940
through 2010, Jennifer Hunt, a
in Manhattan, declined to com-
ment.
Mr. Wey’s case was the second
prominent securities indictment
that Mr. Kim asked a judge to toss
out in recent weeks. Mr. Kim’s of-
fice last month moved to dismiss
charges against two former JP-
Morgan Chase bankers charged in
the “London Whale” trading scan-
dal after a key witness had given
conflicting testimony in a civil
deposition.
The dismissals are a blow to the
legacy of Preet Bharara, the for-
mer United States attorney in
Manhattan, who had overseen the
investigations that led to the in-
dictments in those cases. Mr. Bha-
rara was fired by President
Trump in March and has since tak-
en to Twitter and become an out-
spoken critic of the Trump admin-
istration.
Also in July, a federal appeals
pected to judge their colleague’s
work in a peer-review process
that is essential to deciding
whether someone gets promoted.
By expressing certain beliefs —
such as that women are more
prone to anxiety — the concern
was that he could no longer be im-
partial in judging female co-work-
ers.
For a company steeped in a rich
history of encouraging unconven-
tional thinking, the problem was
not that he expressed an unpopu-
lar opinion, but a disrespectful
one, according to Yonatan Zunger,
who left Google last week after 14
years at the company to join a
start-up.
“We have a long history of dis-
agreement over everything from
technical issues to policy issues to
UNAUTHORIZED
IMMIGRANTS
26%
19
15 12
5 19
9 14
10 12
4 18
5 16
4 16
6 13
professor of economics at Rut-
gers, concluded that raising the
share of less-skilled immigrants
in the population by one percent-
age point increases the high
school completion rate of Ameri-
cans by 0.8 percentage point, on
average, and even more for
minorities.
Two economists, Giovanni Peri
of the University of California,
Davis, and Chad Sparber of
Colgate University, compared the
labor markets of states that
received lots of low-skilled immi-
grants between 1960 and 2000
and those that received few. In
the states that received many
court overturned the 2015 convic-
tion of Sheldon Silver, once the
powerful speaker of the New York
State Assembly, after finding er-
ror with the trial judge’s instruc-
tions to the jury. Federal prosecu-
tors have vowed to retry Mr. Sil-
ver, whose conviction was one of
the highlights of Mr. Bharara’s
crackdown on public corruption.
The dismissal of the securities
charges against Mr. Wey closes a
matter that has dogged him for
several years. He was indicted on
securities fraud and money-laun-
dering charges in 2015.
The founder of New York Global
Group, Mr. Wey made a fortune
helping Chinese companies ac-
quire what are known as shell
companies — often the remnants
of publicly traded companies — in
deals called reverse mergers.
Prosecutors said he had secured
secret ownership stakes in some
of those companies and manipu-
the most mundane aspects of
building management, and over
all, that has been tremendously
valuable,” Mr. Zunger said in an
email. “The problem here was
that this was disrespectful dis-
agreement — and there’s really no
respectful way to say, ‘I think you
and people like you aren’t as quali-
fied to do your job as people like
me.”
Wesley Chan, a venture capital-
ist at Felicis Ventures and an early
Google employee who left the
company in 2014, said Google had
no choice but to fire Mr. Damore.
“It’s not about free discourse,”
said Mr. Chan. “It’s about advanc-
ing a fringe viewpoint which is
hurtful to a large population of the
company.”
The legal argument for Mr. Da-
LEGAL TOTAL
IMMIGRANTS
20% 46%
35
27
25
23
22
22
21
20
19
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such immigrants, less-educated
American-born workers tended
to shift out of lower-skilled jobs
— like, say, fast-food cooks —
and into work requiring more
communications skills, like
customer-service representa-
tives.
Interestingly, the most vulner-
able groups of American-born
workers — men, the young, high
school dropouts and African-
Americans — experienced a
greater shift than other groups.
And the wages of communica-
tions-heavy jobs they moved into
increased relative to those re-
quiring only manual labor.
lated the share prices to reap big
profits.
But Mr. Wey made headlines
outside finance. A few months be-
fore a federal grand jury indicted
him, a Swedish model who had
worked for Mr. Wey was awarded
$18 million in a sexual-harassment
lawsuit against him. The judge re-
duced the reward to $5.6 million.
Mr. Wey, who also calls himself
an investigative journalist, has
frequently taken to Twitter to de-
fend himself and criticize the ac-
tions of law enforcement in other
cases for unfair prosecutions. He
has also gone after his critics in ar-
ticles published in an online maga-
zine.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr.
Wey said, “This ordeal devastated
our employees and our families,
has done irreparable harm to our
lives and closed our prospering
businesses.”
JEFF CHIU/ASSOCIATED PRESS
more’s dismissal is more compli-
cated. On one hand, there may be
a way to argue that the memo and
its recommendations — such as
“stop alienating conservatives” —
constitute a “concerted activity”
to aid and protect his fellow work-
ers, which may be protected un-
der federal labor law. However,
Google can argue that his memo
created a hostile workplace for
women.
“There’s no free speech in the
private sector workplace,” said
Katherine Stone, a labor and em-
ployment law professor at Univer-
sity of California, Los Angeles.
“Clearly, the company was con-
cerned that he was making the en-
vironment difficult for people to
do their jobs.”
Foreign workers can
help Americans move
up the income ladder.
It is not crazy for American
workers who feel their wages
going nowhere, and their job
opportunities stuck, to fear immi-
gration as yet another threat to
their livelihoods. And yet for all
the alarm about the prospect of
poor, uneducated immigrants
flocking across the border, this
immigration has been mostly
benign.
Take the Congressional Budget
Office’s analysis of the immigra-
tion reform bill submitted with-
out success by a bipartisan
group of eight senators in 2013.
By 2033, it estimated, the plan
would have increased average
wages by 0.5 percent, and do
next to nothing to the wages of
the least skilled. It would have
made the economy some 5 per-
cent bigger, over the long term,
mainly because there would be 16
million more people.
If there is anything to fear, it is
not a horde of less-educated
workers ready to jump over the
border. The United States’ main
immigration problem, looking
into the future, is that too few
low-skilled immigrants may be
willing to come.
As the National Academies
noted about its report, “The
inflow of labor supply has helped
the United States avoid the prob-
lems facing other economies that
have stagnated as a result of
unfavorable demographics, par-
ticularly the effects of an aging
work force and reduced con-
sumption by older residents.”
There will be an employment
hole to fill.
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Small-Cap 600 851.48 ◊ 3.27 ◊ 0.38 + 14.19 + 1.61 OTHER INDEXES Endo Intl (ENDP) 8.18 ◊1.13 ◊12.1 220778 Esperion The (ESPR) 52.13 +6.96 +15.4 41463 Capitala Fin (CPTA) 10.96 ◊1.85 ◊14.4 4770
American Exch 2530.94 ◊ 5.28 ◊ 0.21 + 5.65 + 9.66 Microsoft (MSFT) 72.79 +0.39 +0.5 220294 MyoKardia (MYOK) 36.20 +4.75 +15.1 36894 Amplify Snac (BETR) 8.11 ◊1.33 ◊14.1 10608
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 25670.04 ◊ 75.35 ◊ 0.29 + 13.44 + 9.58 Micron Tech (MU) 28.84 +0.25 +0.9 218122 Ralph Lauren (RL) 88.53 +10.38 +13.3 49596 Dermira (DERM) 22.43 ◊3.46 ◊13.4 19154
Sirius XM Ho (SIRI) 5.55 ◊0.05 ◊0.9 216430 Douglas (PLOW) 34.40 +3.85 +12.6 2923 Spark Energy (SPKE) 17.90 ◊2.75 ◊13.3 2354
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 5559.22 ◊ 19.70 ◊ 0.35 + 12.67 + 5.65
NVIDIA (NVDA) 170.30 ◊2.05 ◊1.2 187922 Tactile Sys (TCMD) 33.33 +3.65 +12.3 7682 Kura Oncolog (KURA) 9.00 ◊1.35 ◊13.0 1338
NYSE Comp. 11949.97 ◊ 37.80 ◊ 0.32 + 10.77 + 8.08 Russell 2000 1410.15 ◊ 4.02 ◊ 0.28 + 14.61 + 3.91 Depomed (DEPO) 6.15 ◊3.09 ◊33.4 169545 Snyders Lanc (LNCE) 39.08 +4.18 +12.0 17294 Herc Holdings (HRI) 39.76 ◊5.74 ◊12.6 9848
Tech/Media/Telecom 8338.34 ◊ 33.51 ◊ 0.40 + 6.59 + 7.20 Phila Gold & Silver 81.71 ◊ 0.22 ◊ 0.27 ◊ 25.98 + 3.61 Regions Fincl (RF) 14.86 ◊0.01 ◊0.1 168510 Galmed Pharm (GLMD) 7.93 +0.80 +11.2 433 Novelion The (NVLN) 8.09 ◊1.13 ◊12.3 3321
Energy 10285.12 ◊ 38.18 ◊ 0.37 ◊ 2.48 ◊ 10.59 Phila Semiconductor 1093.77 ◊ 4.48 ◊ 0.41 + 41.60 + 20.66 Citigroup (C) 68.88 ◊0.16 ◊0.2 166330 Twilio (TWLO) 33.58 +3.05 +10.0 125911 Fulgent Gene (FLGT) 5.39 ◊0.75 ◊12.2 529
Financial 7671.71 ◊ 19.19 ◊ 0.25 + 23.34 + 10.20 KBW Bank 97.09 + 0.15 + 0.15 + 38.72 + 5.77 Encana (ECA) 9.89 +0.16 +1.6 163892 Myers Industr (MYE) 17.65 +1.60 +10.0 1522 Endo Intl (ENDP) 8.18 ◊1.13 ◊12.1 220778
Healthcare 13498.67 ◊ 52.30 ◊ 0.39 + 4.44 + 13.37 Phila Oil Service 127.64 ◊ 2.44 ◊ 1.88 ◊ 23.26 ◊ 30.55 Pfizer (PFE) 33.28 ◊0.03 ◊0.1 160324 Fiesta Rest (FRGI) 18.50 +1.65 +9.8 14541 PDC Energy (PDCE) 39.70 ◊5.37 ◊11.9 42536

S&P 100 STOCKS

52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD
Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg
Apple (AAPL) 102.53 161.83 160.08 + 1.27 + 47.72 + 38.2 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 98.44 78.57 ◊ 0.55 ◊ 19.15 ◊ 0.4 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 109.32 137.08 132.27 ◊ 0.59 + 6.97 + 14.8 Procter Ga (PG) 81.18 92.00 91.58 + 0.14 + 6.79 + 8.9
AbbVie (ABBV) 55.06 75.04 71.47 + 0.25 + 7.73 + 14.1 Chevron (CVX) 97.53 119.00 110.35 + 0.57 + 9.04 ◊ 6.2 JPMorgan (JPM) 64.86 95.22 93.68 ◊ 0.34 + 41.72 + 8.6 PMI (PM) 86.78 123.55 114.67 ◊ 1.19 + 16.36 + 25.3
Abbott (ABT) 37.38 51.13 48.88 ◊ 0.42 + 8.57 + 27.3 Du Pont (DD) 66.02 86.36 81.12 ◊ 0.67 + 17.06 + 10.5 Kinder Mor (KMI) 18.31 23.36 19.75 ◊ 0.40 ◊ 4.96 ◊ 4.6 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 36.30 61.30 59.48 ◊ 0.14 + 56.90 + 50.7
Accenture (ACN) 108.83 130.67 129.13 ◊ 0.55 + 13.59 + 10.3 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 88.01 80.27 ◊ 1.16 ◊ 1.24 + 3.1 Kraft Hein (KHC) 79.69 97.77 86.16 ◊ 0.86 ◊ 2.92 ◊ 1.3 Qualcomm (QCOM) 51.05 71.62 52.29 ◊ 0.41 ◊ 15.09 ◊ 19.8
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 256.80 239.74 ◊ 1.48 ◊ 3.45 + 14.2 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 106.98 + 0.63 + 11.73 + 2.7 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.43 45.60 ◊ 0.04 + 4.97 + 10.0 Raytheon (RTN) 132.89 174.92 174.80 + 1.29 + 24.89 + 23.1
AIG (AIG) 57.35 67.47 64.57 ◊ 0.41 + 8.72 ◊ 1.1 Dow (DOW) 51.57 67.50 63.41 ◊ 0.47 + 18.30 + 10.8 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 81.97 ◊ 0.10 + 0.45 + 11.5 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 64.87 54.52 ◊ 1.11 ◊ 1.52 ◊ 1.8
Allstate (ALL) 66.55 94.59 94.21 ◊ 0.03 + 36.20 + 27.1 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 86.60 + 0.34 + 2.19 + 11.6 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 300.42 300.10 + 2.95 + 15.34 + 20.1 Schlumberg (SLB) 64.15 87.84 65.49 ◊ 1.06 ◊ 20.62 ◊ 22.0
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 173.69 ◊ 0.89 + 0.78 + 18.8 Emerson El (EMR) 49.22 64.36 60.43 ◊ 0.48 + 11.27 + 8.4 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 86.25 77.21 ◊ 1.11 ◊ 5.40 + 8.6 Southern C (SO) 46.20 53.73 49.12 + 0.12 ◊ 6.78 ◊ 0.1
Amazon.com (AMZN) 710.10 1083.31 989.84 ◊ 2.43 + 29.13 + 32.0 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 38.78 38.21 ◊ 0.01 + 5.82 + 7.7 Mastercard (MA) 94.41 132.20 129.84 ◊ 0.54 + 34.16 + 25.8 Simon Prop (SPG) 150.15 222.37 164.09 ◊ 2.28 ◊ 25.40 ◊ 7.6
American E (AXP) 59.50 86.67 85.94 + 0.09 + 30.55 + 16.0 Ford Motor (F) 10.67 13.27 10.89 ◊ 0.03 ◊ 10.59 ◊ 10.2 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 159.98 154.92 ◊ 0.05 + 30.97 + 27.3 AT&T (T) 35.81 43.48 38.36 ◊ 0.16 ◊ 10.65 ◊ 9.8
Boeing (BA) 126.31 246.49 239.50 ◊ 0.73 + 81.18 + 53.8 Facebook (FB) 113.55 175.49 171.23 ◊ 0.75 + 36.70 + 48.8 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 47.23 43.64 ◊ 0.35 + 0.51 ◊ 1.6 Target (TGT) 48.56 79.33 58.74 + 0.86 ◊ 21.68 ◊ 18.7
Bank of Am (BAC) 14.70 25.80 24.90 ◊ 0.06 + 64.57 + 12.7 FedEx (FDX) 158.20 219.99 207.00 ◊ 1.37 + 26.45 + 11.2 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.72 83.83 ◊ 0.54 ◊ 3.60 + 17.7 Time Warne (TWX) 74.27 103.34 102.17 ◊ 0.26 + 29.76 + 5.8
Biogen (BIIB) 244.28 329.83 289.26 ◊ 1.75 + 0.12 + 10.7 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 27.71 ◊ 0.13 + 5.64 + 1.7 MetLife (MET) 39.50 58.09 48.77 + 0.24 + 32.00 + 1.6 Texas Inst (TXN) 66.30 84.65 82.45 + 0.28 + 17.55 + 13.0
BONY Mello (BK) 38.68 54.59 53.79 + 0.08 + 32.52 + 13.5 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 28.03 ◊ 0.17 + 10.31 ◊ .0 3M (MMM) 163.85 214.57 206.43 ◊ 1.01 + 15.60 + 15.6 UnitedHeal (UNH) 132.39 196.04 194.90 + 0.12 + 37.13 + 21.8
BlackRock (BLK) 336.84 442.84 428.82 + 0.95 + 15.37 + 12.7 General Dy (GD) 147.80 205.90 198.80 ◊ 2.34 + 34.22 + 15.1 Altria Gro (MO) 60.01 77.79 65.38 ◊ 0.61 ◊ 1.67 ◊ 3.3 Union Paci (UNP) 87.06 115.15 103.06 + 0.49 + 9.80 ◊ 0.6
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 63.65 56.91 + 0.61 ◊ 5.62 ◊ 2.6 GE (GE) 25.26 32.38 25.56 ◊ 0.07 ◊ 18.26 ◊ 19.1 Monsanto (MON) 97.35 118.97 117.26 ◊ 0.19 + 9.85 + 11.5 United Par (UPS) 102.12 120.44 111.89 + 0.03 + 2.69 ◊ 2.4
Berkshire (BRKb) 141.92 179.99 176.43 ◊ 1.61 + 21.21 + 8.3 Gilead Sci (GILD) 63.76 82.10 73.27 ◊ 0.17 ◊ 8.11 + 2.3 Merck & Co (MRK) 58.29 66.80 62.32 ◊ 0.52 ◊ 0.86 + 5.9 US Bancorp (USB) 42.17 56.61 53.19 + 0.07 + 23.87 + 3.5
Citigroup (C) 45.16 69.86 68.88 ◊ 0.16 + 49.87 + 15.9 GM (GM) 30.13 38.55 35.39 + 0.09 + 14.60 + 1.6 Morgan Sta (MS) 28.86 48.90 47.93 ◊ 0.38 + 64.59 + 13.4 UTC (UTX) 97.62 124.79 118.19 ◊ 0.33 + 9.65 + 7.8
Caterpilla (CAT) 79.93 115.25 114.41 ◊ 0.30 + 37.12 + 23.4 Alphabet (GOOG) 727.54 988.25 926.79 ◊ 2.57 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 55.61 74.42 72.79 + 0.39 + 25.37 + 17.1 Visa (V) 75.17 101.72 101.28 ◊ 0.21 + 26.68 + 29.8
Celgene (CELG) 96.93 139.00 135.27 ◊ 1.79 + 19.04 + 16.9 Alphabet (GOOGL) 743.59 1008.61 944.19 ◊ 1.56 + 17.26 + 19.2 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 147.84 147.35 + 0.26 + 16.95 + 23.4 Verizon (VZ) 42.80 54.83 48.60 ◊ 0.26 ◊ 9.31 ◊ 9.0
Colgate (CL) 63.43 77.27 71.70 ◊ 0.04 ◊ 3.67 + 9.6 Goldman Sa (GS) 157.77 255.15 232.05 ◊ 0.87 + 42.51 ◊ 3.1 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.53 59.46 ◊ 0.33 + 6.22 + 17.0 Walgreens (WBA) 75.18 88.00 81.08 ◊ 0.43 + 0.56 ◊ 2.0
Comcast (CMCSA) 30.02 42.18 39.92 + 0.31 + 19.04 + 15.6 Halliburto (HAL) 40.12 58.78 41.03 ◊ 0.42 ◊ 7.30 ◊ 24.1 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 51.85 49.10 ◊ 0.54 + 19.29 + 27.7 WalMart (WMT) 65.28 81.86 81.59 + 0.31 + 11.25 + 18.0
Capital On (COF) 66.61 96.92 85.51 + 0.36 + 25.44 ◊ 2.0 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 160.86 153.35 0.00 + 12.58 + 14.4 Occidental (OXY) 57.20 78.48 61.35 ◊ 0.48 ◊ 17.50 ◊ 13.9 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 52.71 + 0.17 + 7.77 ◊ 4.4
ConocoPhil (COP) 39.00 53.17 45.63 + 0.46 + 9.79 ◊ 9.0 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 140.21 138.67 ◊ 0.29 + 20.19 + 19.7 Priceline (PCLN) 1392 2068 2049 + 6.36 + 45.84 + 39.8 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 78.27 93.22 79.96 ◊ 0.20 ◊ 9.74 ◊ 11.4
Costco Who (COST) 142.11 183.18 157.75 + 0.80 ◊ 1.96 + 2.5 IBM (IBM) 142.00 182.79 142.11 ◊ 1.36 ◊ 12.30 ◊ 14.4 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 118.24 116.71 ◊ 0.25 + 7.92 + 11.6
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 29.12 34.60 31.67 ◊ 0.17 + 2.13 + 4.8 Intel (INTC) 33.23 38.45 36.41 ◊ 0.02 + 3.91 + 0.4 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 35.38 33.28 ◊ 0.03 ◊ 4.72 + 2.5

Prices shown are for regular trading for the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange which runs from 9:30 a.m., Eastern time, through the close of the Pacific Exchange, at 4:30 p.m. For the Nasdaq stock market, it is through 4 p.m. Close Last trade of the day in regular trading. + – indicates stocks 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 +5.66% +10% high yield +9.73% Total Issues Traded 7,647 5,313 2,150 184 T-BILLS
Advances 2,787 1,835 864 88
3 4 3-mo. Nov 09 ◊ ◊ 1.06 1.05 ◊ 1.06
Declines 4,419 3,282 1,047 90 6-mo. Feb 08 ◊ ◊ 1.17 1.15 +0.01 1.15
Unchanged 121 40 79 2
52 Week High 251 80 155 16 3 BONDS & NOTES
6 + 5 52 Week Low 173 100 68 5 2 2-yr. Jul 31 1] ◊ 100.04 100.05 ◊ 1.36
Dollar Volume* 26,672 16,935 8,684 1,052 5-yr. Jul 31 1~ ◊ 100.27 100.28 –0.02 1.81
2 10-yr. May 15 2] ◊ 100.98 101.00 –0.05 2.26
End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.
30-yr. May 15 3.000 ◊ 103.13 103.14 –0.14 2.84
4 Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
0 active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 15 [ ◊ 100.18 100.24 +0.09 0.11
Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jul 15 ] ◊ 99.38 99.47 +0.13 0.45
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
2 unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017
20-yr. Jan 15 2ø ◊ 121.48 121.66 +0.19 0.57
*Par value in millions. 30-yr. Feb 15 ~ ◊ 98.26 98.51 +0.33 0.96
– 5 invest. grade +1.25% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
0 invest. grade +3.52% 2016 2017 Standard & Poor’s.

2016 2017
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) .0565 17.6970
One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7912 1.2639
One Dollar in Yen
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 3.150 Oct’26 Baa3 BBB 93.500 91.200 91.547 0.147 4.277 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1451 6.8900 1.00 euros $1 = 0.8511 China (Yuan) .1491 6.7049 120 yen $1 = 110.30
At&t Inc (T) 3.400 Aug’24 Baa1 BBB+ 101.745 99.752 101.325 1.167 3.183 Brazil (Real) .3198 3.1266 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1278 7.8232
Cisco Sys Inc (CSCO) 1.650 Jun’18 A1 AA– 100.264 100.135 100.194 –0.015 1.417 Canada (Dollar) .7896 1.2665 India (Rupee) .0157 63.6870
Dow Chem Co (DOW.BB) 4.125 Nov’21 Baa2 BBB 107.471 106.847 107.312 –0.035 2.210 Chile (Peso) .0015 648.33 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0091 110.30
115
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.800 Jul’23 Baa3 BBB 95.877 93.110 94.370 0.122 3.869 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2996.5 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2334 4.2840
Bnp Paribas / Bnp Paribas Us Medium Term (BNPQF) 2.400 Dec’18 A1 A 100.992 100.883 100.960 0.062 1.670 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0213 47.0200 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .7327 1.3648
At&t Inc (T) 5.150 Feb’50 Baa1 BBB+ 102.250 98.800 98.939 –1.091 5.218
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 4.100 Oct’46 Baa3 BBB 87.655 84.468 84.920 –0.089 5.099
El Salvador (Colon) .1147 8.7220 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0095 105.15
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1375 7.2720 Philippines (Peso) .0198 50.5450 105
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.200 Jul’21 Baa3 BBB 96.894 94.950 95.615 –0.065 3.397
Honduras (Lempira) .0428 23.3400 Singapore (Dollar) .7337 1.3629
At&t Inc (T) 4.900 Aug’37 Baa1 BBB+ 102.957 99.695 99.771 –0.265 4.918
Mexico (Peso) .0560 17.8445 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1128.1
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0337 29.6800 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.1780
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5549.0 Thailand (Baht) .0301 33.2700
Genesis Energy Lp (GEL) 6.500 Oct’25 NR BB– 100.500 99.875 100.063 –0.188 N.A. Peru (New Sol) .3089 3.2373 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22725 95
Duke Energy Corp New (DUK) 3.150 Aug’27 NR 99.951 99.489 99.659 –0.082 N.A. Uruguay (New Peso) .0350 28.5400
Concho Res Inc (CXO) 5.500 Apr’23 Ba2 BB+ 103.095 102.845 102.845 –0.235 4.491 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Regions Finl Corp New (RF) 2.750 Aug’22 NR 100.051 99.775 99.935 0.000 N.A. Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6538 .3768
Aircastle Ltd (AYR) 5.125 Mar’21 Ba1 BB+ 106.250 105.470 105.500 –0.233 3.483 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1505.6
Norway (Krone) .1257 7.9557 Egypt (Pound) .0563 17.7500
Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC) 6.750 Jun’23 Caa1 CCC+ 97.875 96.250 96.250 –0.750 7.553 Britain (Pound) 1.2989 .7699 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7501
Poland (Zloty) .2755 3.6298 Iran (Rial) .00003 32811
Petrobras Intl Fin Co (PTRB) 5.375 Jan’21 B1 BB– 104.000 101.257 102.740 –1.385 4.510 So. Africa (Rand) .0748 13.3664
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0450 22.2390 Russia (Ruble) .0167 59.8595 Israel (Shekel) .2773 3.6061
Cna Finl Corp (L) 3.450 Aug’27 NR 100.016 99.396 99.438 –0.335 N.A. U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6727
Denmark (Krone) .1580 6.3295 Sweden (Krona) .1223 8.1740 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4138 .7073
American Wtr Cap Corp (AWK) 3.750 Sep’47 NR 99.998 98.876 98.876 –1.014 N.A.
Europe (Euro) 1.1749 .8511 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0264 .9743 Kenya (Shilling) .0096 103.90
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 8.375 May’21 B1 BB– 113.500 111.200 112.500 –0.370 4.725 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0039 258.77 Turkey (Lira) .2831 3.5326 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.3148 .3017
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Blackstone Mtg Tr Inc (BXMT) 4.375 May’22 NR 103.131 100.350 101.125 –0.675 4.110
Depomed Inc (DEPO) 2.500 Sep’21 NR B– 76.500 72.900 73.250 –10.649 10.822
Webmd Health Corp (WBMD)
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Co Llc (TEVA.GJ)
2.500
0.250
Jan’18
Feb’26
NR
Baa3
NR
BBB
106.520
93.100
105.890
91.780
106.010
92.291
–0.384
–0.459
–9.711
1.210
FUTURES
Monetary
Intel Corp (INTC.GE)
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc (BMRN)
3.250
1.500
Aug’39
Oct’20
A2
NR
A
NR
178.125
116.875
176.951
115.000
177.197
115.003
–1.683
–0.414
–0.189
–2.967 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $49.17 a barrel
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 2.375 Mar’22 NR B– 129.592 126.875 129.258 2.181 –3.447
Veeco Instrs Inc Del (VECO) 2.700 Jan’23 NR 97.920 93.848 94.140 –1.582 3.908 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 432.00 348.25 Sep 17 372.50 374.25 368.25 369.75 ◊ 2.50 440,436
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 1.250 Mar’21 NR B– 119.340 118.000 118.750 1.194 –3.641 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1088.00 876.00 Aug 17 967.00 967.50 962.50 963.00 + 3.25 633
Citrix Sys Inc (CTXS) 0.500 Apr’19 NR NR 118.125 116.500 116.500 –1.669 –8.445 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 590.00 430.75 Sep 17 463.75 468.00 454.75 457.00 ◊ 6.50 162,532 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 127.65 89.88 Aug 17 112.98 113.40 112.15 112.48 ◊ 0.27 19,250
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 85.38 66.33 Aug 17 83.68 83.93 83.35 83.53 + 0.13 15,886
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3295.00 1767.00 Sep 17 2023.00 2065.00 2010.00 2018.00 ◊ 11.00 64,458 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 191.20 115.50 Sep 17 142.05 143.75 141.90 142.75 + 0.70 74,036
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 21.32 12.27 Sep 17 13.97 14.10 13.75 13.78 ◊ 0.09 392,646
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1391.50 1133.30 Aug 17 1260.20 1260.20 1260.20 1256.40 ◊ 1.80 2,512 45
Silver COMX $/oz 17.73 15.13 Aug 17 16.36 16.42 16.34 16.36 + 0.14 77
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.94 2.49 Aug 17 2.91 2.94 2.91 2.94 + 0.03 2,015
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 88.27 41.55 Aug 17 49.31 49.79 48.86 49.17 ◊ 0.22 472,032 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.52 1.20 Aug 17 1.64 1.65 1.61 1.63 ◊ 0.01 118,691
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 5.89 2.41 Aug 17 2.81 2.83 2.78 2.82 + 0.02 307,589 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Tuesday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 1.16% 0.40% Industrial Production +6% Source: Thomson Reuters

Prime rate 4.25 3.50 Change from

15-yr fixed 2.99 2.68 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: SPECIALIZED STOCK FUNDS AND COMMODITIES
15-yr fixed jumbo 3.71 3.43 June ’17 +2.0% –4
May ’17 +1.9 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.80 3.40 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
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In Position
To Win?
Glance
Upward
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
LONDON — When Kori Carter took
the track for her opening heat in the 400-
meter hurdles at the world track and
field championships Monday, her coach,
Edrick Floréal, sent her out with some
untraditional instructions. Go as hard as
you can out of the blocks, Floréal said,
and then take a look around — or rather,
up.
“My coach told me to get out the first
six hurdles like it’s the final and then told
me to be smart from there, check the
screen so I knew where everyone was,”
Carter said.
In ways large and small, the two huge
screens inside London Stadium have be-
come as much a part of the nightly action
here as the runners wearing spikes. The
monitors display the replays, the stat-
istics and, most dramatically, the final re-
sults shortly after a tight finish, allowing
runners huddled together on the track
and gazing upward — chests heaving —
to get clarity, and confirmation, from on
high almost as soon as their races end.
But the screens also display live cover-
age of events in progress, and because
the screens are positioned at opposite

MARTIN MEISSNER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Forget looking around,

runners look to the video
boards to check on rivals.
An Athlete of His Time, ends of the stadium — in the curves —

Painted as a Top Villain

The sprinter Justin Gatlin is a tailor-
made stand-in for the doping ills of track
and field.
He served a four-year suspension after
testing positive for steroids. He came back
and continues to run fierce-
MICHAEL ly in his 35th year, laying
down the fastest times ever
POWELL for a runner his age. Last
weekend, in London, he
SPORTS spoiled the retirement run
OF THE TIMES
of the great Olympic cham-
pion Usain Bolt, whom some writers re-
vere as the symbol of a clean sport. Gatlin
ran 9.92 seconds in the 100 meters on
Saturday night at the world champi-
onships, and took the gold medal. Bolt
Booed by fans and criticized by a track
and field official, Justin Gatlin can’t
escape a sport’s complex doping history.
settled for the bronze.
Fans showered Gatlin with boos; British
sportswriters waxed righteous about their
pantomime villain (“Gatlin is a shameless
fraud” was one of the milder takes); and
Sebastian Coe, president of track and
field’s international governing body, was
beside himself for having to award a med-
al to Gatlin.
“I’m not eulogistic at the thought of
somebody who has served two bans in our
sport walking off with one of the biggest
prizes,” Coe said.
This narrative is fractured and self-
righteous. Gatlin has sinned, but the out-
rage, particularly from those who know
better, edges toward the absurd.
Let’s start with what is, by now, the
standard indictment: Gatlin is a “two-time
drug cheat,” with “unrepentant” added as
Justin Gatlin, top center, with the silver medalist Christian Coleman, left, the bronze medalist
Usain Bolt, and Sebastian Coe, the president of track and field’s governing body, at the world
championships medal ceremony Sunday in London. Gatlin (8) in the 100 meters Saturday.
the adjectival chaser.
This is inaccurate. His first offense was
no offense at all.
In the summer of 2001, after his fresh-
man year at the University of Tennessee,
Gatlin tested positive for a very small
trace of amphetamine after running as an
amateur in an event sponsored by USA
Track & Field. Amphetamines are ingredi-
ents in Adderall, for which Gatlin has
KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
carried a prescription since he was 7 years
old and learned he had an attention deficit
disorder. He took Adderall while preparing
for summer midterms three days before
the race.
His decision was consistent with
N.C.A.A. rules and guidance given to
professional athletes. Nonetheless, Coe’s
organization, the International Association
Continued on Page B11
the athletes running in either straight-
away can get a high-definition look at the
state of play if they choose to sneak a
peek.
“It is kind of weird sometimes: It is like
you’re trapped in a video game, but it’s
awesome,” said Sparkle McKnight, a
women’s 400-meter hurdler from Trini-
dad and Tobago.
For 10 days at least, the 21st-century
debate about screen time and exercise
involves two items that are not mutually
exclusive. Carter, a hurdler from the
United States who qualified for the final
on Tuesday night, acknowledged that
she was among those who take full ad-
vantage of the video boards whenever
practical. “I definitely use the screen,”
she said.
Floréal, her coach, said that the
screens are particularly useful in the pre-
liminary rounds.
“You don’t want to go out and run too
fast unless you have to,” he said Tuesday.
“Obviously, looking left and right to find
out where everybody is can distract you,
and with the screen you are always look-
ing ahead, so you don’t have to do that.”
But the screens also can be helpful as a
real-time tool when medals are at stake.
On Friday night, the British distance
star Mo Farah looked up at the display at
the start of the bell lap of the 10,000-me-
ter final. Farah was in the lead and
wanted to get a better sense of where his
rivals behind him were positioned. What
he learned from a quick glance helped
him hold off the chase pack and win his
latest world title.
Other distance runners who have not
used the technology in the past have
sometimes paid the price. During the fi-
nal of the women’s 10,000 at the last
world championships, in Beijing in 2015,
Molly Huddle of the United States was in
the homestretch and in bronze medal po-
sition. She looked over her right shoul-
der, saw no trouble closing on the outside
and eased up as she neared the finish
Continued on Page B11

New PGA Calendar Still Lacks Downtime

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two of golf’s
leaders sat side by side at Quail Hollow
Club on Tuesday and spoke about their
shared goal of building the game. But
the changes to the calendar that they
had convened to announce,
KAREN though welcome, didn’t go far
enough in addressing the
CROUSE scheduling issues that are
thwarting the sport’s poten-
ON tial.
GOLF
In 2019, the P.G.A. Champi-
onship will move from August, when it
is the fourth and most forlorn major, to
May, a more desirable position between
the Masters and the United States
Open.
Pete Bevacqua, the chief executive of
the P.G.A. of America, said that the
switch was in the best interest of the
game because the teaching profession-
als that make up the bulk of the organi-
zation’s membership will have the
entire summer to build on the buzz
created by the P.G.A. Championship.
ERIK S. LESSER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
to contest our major championship,”
Bevacqua said.
He also noted that the change bene-
fited the top players in the world, who,
with the addition last year of the
onship was played in July last year, on
the heels of the British Open, to accom-
modate the Olympics.
The talk of growing the game had
limits, though. Bevacqua said the cham-
pionship would remain in the United
States for the foreseeable future, de-
spite golf’s greatest growth occurring in
Asia. Proof of that was provided by Si
Woo Kim of South Korea, who won the
Players Championship in May, and
Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, who has
climbed to No. 3 in the rankings with a
multiple-win season.
“Will we ever do an international
P.G.A. Championship?” Bevacqua
asked. “I think the answer is not in the
next 10 years, but it’s something we will
always consider because, potentially at
the right time for the organization, it
could be an interesting move.”
In the men’s world rankings, seven of
the top 10 players are not from the
United States, suggesting that the time
might be right to hold a men’s major in MIKE EHRMANN/GETTY IMAGES

“For an organization whose strategic Olympic competition every fourth a non-English-speaking country. Pete Bevacqua, left, the chief executive of the P.G.A. of America. The P.G.A.
mission is to grow this game, we feel summer, were faced with a blur of big But it took years of discussion and “a Championship will move to May in 2019, while the Players Championship
May is a far more powerful date for us events in August. The P.G.A. Champi- Continued on Page B10 will be played in March. Rory McIlroy, above, supports an off-season in golf.

Sabathia’s Resurgence
Falls Into a Regression
By BILLY WITZ
TORONTO — When C.C.
Sabathia’s premier fastball aban-
doned him and years of carrying
300 pounds took its toll on his
knees, an overhaul was in order.
So he de-
BLUE JAYS 4 veloped a
cut fastball
YANKEES 2 Sabathia said this was the worst
and a
sinker, put a brace on his balky
right knee and became a dedi-
cated student of video, something
he never felt he needed to do.
The transformation was not im-
mediate, but Sabathia has proved
to be more than a veteran pres-
ence in the Yankees’ clubhouse
this season. He has buttressed the
emerging ace Luis Severino atop
the rotation, turning in his best
season in five years.
Still, for all the work Sabathia
has done, he is still a big 37-year-
old man on a bum knee. And on
Tuesday night, his fragile founda-
tion crumbled a bit more, as he left
a 4-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays
after three innings with an injury
to his right knee.
Sabathia, who allowed two
home runs to Josh Donaldson and
whose velocity and command
were both diminished, will head
back to New York on Wednesday
to be examined by doctors to de-
termine the extent of the injury.
While it is uncertain whether
Sabathia is headed for the dis-
abled list for the second time in
Mets Win
For a Pitcher
From Out
Of the Blue
By WALLACE MATTHEWS
In a perfect baseball world,
Chris Flexen would most likely
still be mowing down minor
league hitters for the Binghamton
Rumble Ponies, or, perhaps, con-
sidering
METS 5 how effec-
tively he
RANGERS 4 pitched for
the Mets’
Class AA affiliate earlier this sea-
son, proving himself in Class AAA.
But the Mets have hardly inhab-
ited a perfect baseball world this
season, which is how Flexen came
to find himself on the mound at
Citi Field on Tuesday night, facing
the Texas Rangers.
“Certainly, things haven’t gone
the way we wanted, but it was nice
to see Noah in the clubhouse to-
night, and Harv,” Manager Terry
Collins said, referring to Noah
Syndergaard and Matt Harvey,
two of the Mets’ injured starters
whose absence made Flexen’s
rise to the major leagues possible.
Then, referring to Flexen,
Collins said, “He’s one of those
guys that’s the future here.”
But Flexen’s future arrived be-
fore anyone was ready for it, a
move born of necessity when Zack
Wheeler became the sixth Mets
starter to go on the disabled list
July 24. And in his first two starts,
against the San Diego Padres and
the Colorado Rockies, Flexen got
no further than the third inning,
and his earned run average sat at
12.00 entering Tuesday night’s
game.
But in his Citi Field debut,
Flexen seemed like a pitcher
transformed, helped tremen-
dously by a Mets offense that gave
him a 4-0 cushion before the third
inning.
“I think I’ve grown a lot,” he
said. “What have I learned? Don’t
leave the ball over the middle of
the plate.”
Buoyed by a home run from Mi-
Harvey Advances Toward a Return This Year
By WALLACE MATTHEWS
The last time Matt Harvey took
the mound at Citi Field, there were
nearly 35,000 fans in the stands,
the defending champion Chicago
Cubs were in the visitors’ dugout,
and the Mets’ 2017 playoff chances
had yet to be pronounced dead.
On Tuesday, Harvey’s only op-
ponent was his teammate Bran-
don Nimmo, and the spectators
were a small crowd that included
Manager Terry Collins, the pitch-
ing coach Dan Warthen, a handful
of early-arriving members of the
news media and stadium vendors.
And in contrast with that June
14 game against the Cubs, Harvey
did not leave the mound against
his will, nor was his outing cut
short by injury.
“It was finally fun to throw a
baseball again,” Harvey said.
Whether you call it a simulated
game, live batting practice or a
glorified bullpen session, Har-
vey’s first appearance on a mound
since that June game was yet an-
other step in the process that he
three months — he missed three
weeks with a hamstring strain in
June — Sabathia, a typically reso-
lute pitcher, was despondent af-
terward.
“It wasn’t one pitch, it was the
whole time,” he said. “Right now, I
just want to pitch. I want to get out
there and be healthy and pitch.”
his degenerative right knee had
felt since he began wearing the
brace in September 2015. He
plants on his right knee as he de-
livers to the plate.
Though Sabathia said the knee
was bothering him throughout,
Manager Joe Girardi said he no-
ticed Sabathia grabbing at his
knee brace in the third inning.
“He’ll feel it one pitch every
once in a while, but when he came
off, he said he was feeling it every
pitch, and that’s why I pulled him,”
Girardi said.
Girardi said the team would de-
cide whether to place Sabathia on
the disabled list after the doctor’s
evaluation. Even though Sabathia
missed time with the hamstring
injury, he was enjoying a renais-
sance season in the final year of
his seven-year, $161 million con-
tract, having built a 9-4 record and
a 3.81 earned run average before
Tuesday’s loss.
“He’s a very important piece to
this team,” catcher Gary Sanchez
said. “As you guys know, he’s a
veteran who knows how to pitch.
He’s been pitching in the big
Asdrubal Cabrera hitting a run-scoring double in the seventh inning. The Mets’ offense helped Chris Flexen to his first major league victory in his Citi Field debut.
chael Conforto leading off the bot-
tom of the first, a solo home run by
Yoenis Cespedes later that inning,
and a two-run blast by Travis d’Ar-
naud in the second, Flexen took
the Mets two outs into the sixth in-
ning. When he left, with a 4-2 lead,
he received a warm ovation from
the crowd, and the end of the game
and Collins think will culminate in
a return to action before the end of
this season.
“I think you’ll see Matt back on
the mound this year,” Collins said.
“No one has an answer for when,
but I know that he’s driven and he
wants to get back on the mound.”
Harvey threw 25 pitches to
Nimmo, who made little solid con-
tact but did line a couple of singles
to right field.
“I haven’t faced Harvey before,
so I didn’t have too many precon-
ceived notions,” Nimmo said. “But
obviously you know the name and
go in there expecting good stuff. It
looked like good stuff to me.”
Harvey seemed to agree. “I got
after it pretty good today,” he said.
“I was obviously a little rusty at
first, but then towards the end I
was able to get the ball down and
finish the pitches that I wanted to.
Everything felt great.”
Harvey made just 13 starts this
season, with a 4-3 record and ca-
reer-high 5.25 earned run aver-
age, before sustaining a shoulder
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BASEBALL
leagues for such a long time, and
he’s been doing it at a really good
pace for us.”
Sanchez, returning to the lineup
after being benched on Sunday for
his poor defensive habits, also had
an injury scare, getting hit on the
left wrist by a pitch from reliever
Ryan Tepera in the eighth inning.
Sanchez remained in the game
and did not require an X-ray after-
ward, but he wore a wrap on his
hand.
brought another prize for Flexen:
his first major league victory, as
the Mets held on for a 5-4 win over
the Rangers.
“Once in a while, you’ve got to
have some patience and give them
a little chance to get a sense of
what it takes to pitch in the big
leagues,” Collins said. “It was a
injury. This is the third injury-
shortened season of Harvey’s
five-year career; he missed all of
2014 after undergoing Tommy
John surgery and much of 2016 be-
cause of thoracic outlet syndrome,
requiring more surgery.
But Collins said that Harvey,
who was also suspended by the
team after failing to show up to a
game in May, had shown a strong
commitment to his rehabilitation
this year.
“He’s got himself in tremendous
shape, and he’s done everything
we’ve asked him to do,” Collins
said. “He’s determined to be back,
and I think he will be back.”
Harvey, 28, left that June 14
game after four innings, having al-
lowed four earned runs and three
home runs. His fastball was
clocked at 87 miles per hour, a
number Harvey said he had not
seen since high school.
The next day, a magnetic reso-
nance imaging test revealed a
stress injury to the scapula in his
pitching shoulder. Harvey was
treated with a platelet-rich
FRED THORNHILL/CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
The injuries were not all that
wiped away the good vibes the
Yankees had built after managing
a split of their four-game series in
Cleveland during the weekend.
The defeat bumped them to four
games behind Boston in the
American League East, and their
offense — after an eight-run out-
burst in a victory Sunday — con-
tinued its recent feckless ways.
The Yankees put 14 runners on
base, but they did not have an ex-
good win for Chris. He’s got a good
arm and good stuff, and I think
this kind of thing may get him go-
ing to where you’ll see a lot better
stuff in the next few outings.”
In keeping with this season’s
custom, Flexen was presented
with the crown and robe given to a
Mets star of the game. The crown
Matt Harvey in his last outing, against the Cubs on June 14,
which he left after four innings because of a shoulder injury.
plasma injection and shut down.
The long-term prospects for
Harvey’s Mets career are still in
doubt — his status in the rotation
has been supplanted by Noah
Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom
— and although he is under team
control for one more season, there
is no guarantee the Mets will try to
retain him when he becomes a
free agent.
tra-base hit and could push across
runs only on Garrett Cooper’s two-
out, second-inning single and his
eighth-inning sacrifice fly.
But both of those innings could
have delivered far bigger returns.
Todd Frazier grounded into a dou-
ble play with runners on first and
second and none out in the second,
preceding Cooper’s hit. And when
the Yankees loaded the bases in
the eighth on two hit batters and a
walk, Ronald Torreyes followed
was slightly askew on his head,
and he struggled to tie the robe
correctly before giving up with a
shrug. “Good enough,” he said.
That also describes how Flexen
was on the mound. He was
charged with three runs in five
and two-thirds innings, walked
three, struck out four and allowed
MIKE STOBE/GETTY IMAGES
In the short term, Collins cau-
tioned that Harvey faced plenty of
work before he could return to the
majors. “You’re going to have in-
crease the pitches, you’re going to
have to increase the effort, he’s go-
ing to have to see hitters, and he’s
got to find his off-speed pitches,”
Collins said.
He added, “It’s going to be a
process.”
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Josh Donaldson, far left, hit
two homers off the Yankees’
C. C. Sabathia, this one in the
first. Sabathia left after three
innings with a knee injury.
Cooper’s sacrifice fly by lining out
to center field. It was the last, best
chance for the Yankees, who were
retired in order in the ninth by
Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna.
While Cooper, who singled
twice, delivered both Yankees
runs, he had an opportunity to de-
liver more but flied out with the
bases loaded to end the sixth in-
ning.
If there was some good news for
the Yankees’ ailing offense, it is
that some injured Yankees are
getting healthier. Outfielder Aar-
on Hicks, who has been out since
late June with an oblique injury,
could return Friday for the series
against Boston at Yankee Sta-
dium, and first baseman Greg
Bird and second baseman Starlin
Castro could be headed for rehab
assignments in about a week.
But Sabathia’s injury, if it
proves to be serious, could be a big
problem for the Yankees. Donald-
son belted a 2-0 changeup over the
center-field wall for a two-run
homer in the first, and smacked a
3-0 cut fastball just inside the left-
field foul pole in his next at-bat in
the third inning. The four runs
were all the Blue Jays needed.
“It’s just hard to land; it’s hard
for me to finish my pitches,”
Sabathia said of the injury. “It’s
hard for me to get over my front
side and finish my pitches. When I
can’t do that, I don’t know where
the ball is going.”
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two solo home runs, to Joey Gallo
and Adrian Beltre. He also col-
lected his first major league hit, a
line-drive double into the left-field
corner against an outfield playing
him barely deeper than Little
League depth.
“That first win’s always the
toughest, especially with my first
two outings being a little rough,”
he said. “But any time you’re
pitching with a lead, it makes you
a lot more comfortable out there.”
Flexen, a 14th-round selection
in the 2012 amateur draft, had
toiled in rookie and Class A ball
until this season, when he was
promoted to Binghamton. There
he excelled in seven starts, com-
piling a 6-1 record with a 1.66
E.R.A. He is the first Mets starting
pitcher to leapfrog two levels,
from Class AA to the major
leagues, since Mike Pelfrey in
2006.
Still, his call-up to the Mets
came as a surprise to everyone,
including himself. “I wasn’t ex-
pecting it this soon,” Flexen had
said before his first big-league
start against the Padres at Petco
Park on July 27, a 7-5 Mets defeat
in which he took the loss. “I hoped
to be up here, whenever it hap-
pened. But it was pretty shocking.
I was pretty stunned.”
The win was the Mets’ first
since last Wednesday in Col-
orado; they had lost four in a row,
including being trounced in a
three-game series at home
against the red-hot Los Angeles
Dodgers, who outscored them,
21-4, over the weekend.
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Karolina Pliskova in her second-round loss to Magdalena Rybarikova at Wimbledon. She later clinched the No. 1 ranking when Simona Halep lost her quarterfinal.
No. 1 Ranking in Hand, Pliskova Aims for a Major Title
By BEN ROTHENBERG
Becoming No. 1 in women’s ten-
nis did not happen the way
Karolina Pliskova had dreamed it.
She clinched the top ranking
five days after losing in the second
round of Wimbledon, when Si-
mona Halep, ranked second, lost
in the quarterfinals.
Pliskova was in Monaco on va-
cation with her boyfriend, Michal
Hrdlicka, and wanted to clear her
mind of tennis thoughts. But she
could not avoid messages from
friends saying that she was one
result away from being No. 1.
So, Pliskova said, she checked
the score after Halep’s match on
July 11, a 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4 loss to
Johanna Konta, and learned she
had become world No. 1.
“It was a little bit of a strange
situation,” Pliskova said in a
phone interview Monday from To-
ronto, where she will play her first
match as No. 1 on Wednesday at
the Rogers Cup. “At first I was not
really happy or sure if I wanted to
get there like this.”
Gradually, her sense of gratifi-
cation mounted.
“With time passed by, I just felt
happy that I got there,” she said. “I
was proud. For my family and ev-
erybody, it was a quite huge thing
in the Czech Republic because I
was the first one who got there
with Czech nationality.”
Pliskova, 25, has had a rela-
tively quick ascent over the last 12
months. Ranked 17th at this time
last year, she rose with a title in
Cincinnati and a runner-up finish
at the United States Open.
Before the Open, Pliskova had
New PGA Calendar
Still Lacks Downtime
From First Sports Page
full-blown analysis,” as Bevacqua
described it, to make a schedule
change that, on the surface,
seems pretty obvious. Maybe in
another 10 years, if eight of the
top 10 players in the men’s rank-
ings are from Asia, as is the case
on the L.P.G.A. Tour, the suits can
reconvene and open a yearslong
discussion about a continent
change.
Bevacqua shared the dais with
the PGA Tour commissioner, Jay
Monahan, who announced that
the Players Championship,
which has been held in May
since 2007, will return to its
March date in 2019 — a move
that “will greatly enhance the
golf calendar,” he said. The date
switch involving the Players
Championship will place the
men’s main events at more regu-
lar intervals, like steppingstones
to navigate more easily the com-
petitive calendar from March to
August.
But the more the schedule
changes, the more men’s profes-
sional golf remains the same:
one endless loop of competition,
with no downtime for the players
to recover from nagging injuries,
or overhaul their swings, or try
out new equipment.
Jimmy Walker, who will try to
defend his P.G.A. Championship
title here this week, was ready to
relax after his major break-
not made it past the third round in
her 17 previous Grand Slam tour-
naments. Then she became only
the fourth woman to beat both
Williams sisters at the same
Grand Slam event, ousting Venus
in the fourth round and top-ran-
ked Serena in the semifinals.
The ranking points from Cincin-
nati and New York last year, which
will fall off her ranking within the
next month, helped form the foun-
dation for her rise. Pliskova
started this year ranked No. 6.
With no dominant player in
women’s tennis this year after Se-
rena Williams went on maternity
leave, Pliskova’s steady game of
powerful serves and crisp ground-
strokes has been enough to claim
the top spot. She reached the
quarterfinals at the Australian
Open and the semifinals at Roland
Garros, and claimed titles at three
WTA tournaments.
Much of Pliskova’s ranking was
built while working with her pre-
vious coach, Jiri Vanek. She began
working with David Kotyza late
last year. He acknowledged that
the moment of her ascent to the
top spot was anticlimactic.
“My first reaction was a bit of
mixed feelings, as getting to No. 1
wasn’t connected to an emotional
celebration of winning a match or
a tournament,” Kotyza said. “But I
am very happy that I can be part
of it. The fact is that Karolina de-
serves this accomplishment
thanks to impressive, consistent
results over the past 12 months.”
Kotyza said he believed Plisko-
va’s restless perfectionism would
be an asset at the No. 1 ranking.
through, which was followed by
the FedEx Cup playoffs, which
were capped off by the Ryder
Cup. He had three weeks without
a tournament before he opened
his 2016-17 season in Shanghai in
October.
“We seem to play golf 24/7, 365
anymore,” Walker said.
He was forced to take a month-
long break this spring after con-
tracting Lyme disease. He said
that not a single PGA Tour offi-
cial reached out to him after his
diagnosis to see how he was
doing.
“No calls, no texts, nothing,”
Walker said.
It gave him pause. Are the
players partners with the PGA
Tour, or thoroughbreds ridden by
the tour until they break down
and are replaced by younger,
fresher horses?
Walker said he would welcome
an off-season, if only so the
schedule could save him from his
competitive self, which struggles
to sit out a tournament (or a few)
because he worries he will fall
behind in the points race for the
FedEx Cup playoffs. If nobody is
grinding, everybody is recharg-
ing.
“I think they’ll get more people
to play golf that way,” Walker
said, adding, “Don’t water down
your game.”
Top-ranked Dustin Johnson
said the fans as well as the play-
ers could benefit from an off-
season.
TENNIS
Pliskova with Serena Williams at the 2016 U.S. Open, where
she defeated both Williams sisters before losing in the final.
A top ranking was
initially met with
mixed emotions.
She is rarely complacent about
her level of play.
“However Karolina plays, she is
almost always unsatisfied with
her game, which I think in this sit-
uation can be a plus,” he said. “She
can focus on growing her game in-
stead of getting distracted with
outside pressure.”
Blocking out distractions and
adversity proved pivotal for
Pliskova and her twin sister,
Kristyna, who is ranked 37th. In
their early teens, prime years in
GOLF
“Look at football,” he said.
“You don’t have that for seven
months. I know I can’t wait till it
comes back, and I’m definitely
not the only person.”
Rory McIlroy, who counts two
P.G.A. Championships among his
four major titles, is serving two
tours — the PGA and the Euro-
pean — which means his down-
time is limited to the weeks
between Thanksgiving and
Christmas. That is his window
for renewing his enthusiasm and,
if necessary, retooling his game.
He doesn’t consider it a co-
incidence that after a calendar
year in which he had little time
off, he sustained a rib injury in
early 2017 that forced him to the
sideline for more than a month.
“I’ve always thought that an
off-season in golf would be good,”
said McIlroy, who won the FedEx
Cup last year. “Not just for the
players to get a little bit of rest
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their tennis development, their fa-
ther, Radek Plisek, was impris-
oned for two years on charges re-
lated to his failure to pay taxes.
“It was very tough,” Pliskova
said in June. “We were 13, and he
was working, so we had all the
money from him, all our coaches
from him.”
Plisek returned from jail for
several years before being incar-
cerated again in 2013. He served
another year behind bars as his
daughters ascended through the
game’s professional ranks, follow-
ing their results as best he could
from newspapers and word of
mouth.
Pliskova added that the painful
experiences of separation made
her and her family stronger.
“We somehow found a way,” she
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and work on their games and
whatever, but just from a fan
perspective. You know, create a
little bit of hype before the sea-
son starts again.”
He added: “People don’t un-
derstand how difficult it is.
You’re playing from January till
November. You have December
off, but you want to spend time
with family, have a nice Christ-
mas, Thanksgiving, whatever
else. We need a world tour at
some point. That’s the only way
it’s going.”
Surely the officials of the
world’s various golf tours can
figure out some scheduling com-
promises that work for the McIl-
roys and the Walkers and the
Johnsons who, after all, mingle
with their sponsors and play in
their pro-ams and generate
interest in the game.
Further schedule changes are
expected, including moving up
said in June. “I don’t think there is
any player who has everything
coming easy, you know? I think
for me, I don’t regret it. Obviously
we were missing him, but it gave
us — my family, my mother, my
sister — it gave us so much power
to fight. Personally, for me, it
helped a lot. You just have to find a
different way. Until then, we had
everything, and then in one mo-
ment we didn’t have anything.”
Becoming the 23rd woman to
achieve the No. 1 ranking,
Pliskova said, was an achieve-
ment that they could celebrate to-
gether.
“I think everyone has this
dream when you’re little — the
parents and the kids,” she said.
“So I think it was great for the
whole family that they got one
daughter there.”
The next goal for Pliskova is to
win a Grand Slam title. Though a
player reaching No. 1 without a
major championship is often
treated derisively, it has become
the norm in the WTA. Four of the
last six and six of the last 11 women
who reached the No. 1 ranking did
so before winning a Grand Slam ti-
tle. Two of those women, Kim Cli-
jsters and Amélie Mauresmo, lat-
er supplemented their résumés
with major wins. Dinara Safina,
Jelena Jankovic and Caroline
Wozniacki reached No. 1 and have
not won a Grand Slam event.
“I think that’s the only thing I’m
missing right now,” Pliskova said
of a Grand Slam championship.
“Those are the titles you play for,
so I’d like to have a Grand Slam ti-
tle in my life, and I’ll do my best to
do it.”
Jimmy Walker,
who won last
year’s P.G.A.
Championship,
said, “We seem
to play golf 24/7,
365 anymore.”
Walker favors an
off-season to
recharge as well
as to protect him
from himself in
not wanting to
sit out tourna-
ments.
the FedEx Cup tournaments so
they end by Labor Day and thus
holding biennial team events like
the Ryder Cup and the Presi-
dents Cup earlier. Another bene-
fit of such a calendar: Golf would
not compete with pro and college
football for attention in the fall.
But one benefit Monahan was
not interested in was a longer
off-season, insisting golf was
better off as a year-round affair.
“I think that works very well
for our product, and candidly, as
a sport, a true international
sport, being on all the time and
showcasing the world’s best
players over that period of time,”
he said.
Even if an off-season is what
the players want?
“As a whole,” Monahan said,
“there are a lot of players who
are very happy with the FedEx
Cup schedule and our entire
season.”
T R AC K A N D F I E L D
A Sprinter
Is Barred
For Illness
At Worlds
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
LONDON — On a chilly sum-
mer night, the South African star
Wayde van Niekerk successfully
defended his 400-meter title at the
world track and field champi-
onships on Tuesday.
But his biggest potential obsta-
cle to winning gold, Isaac Mak-
wala of Botswana, was missing
from the final after being barred
from competing by the sport’s
governing body because of an ill-
ness.
The unusual decision spurred
debate and frustration in the track
and field community and made for
an unpleasant scene when the 30-
year-old Makwala, upset at being
excluded, arrived at London Sta-
dium and was stopped by security
from using the athletes’ entrance.
About 30 athletes and support
staff members staying at one of
the event’s official hotels in Lon-
don near Tower Bridge have fallen
ill with a gastrointestinal virus,
according to Public Health Eng-
land, an agency of the United
Kingdom’s Department of Health.
The ill include members of the Ca-
nadian, German and Irish teams,
some of whom reportedly have
been separated from other ath-
letes in their hotel.
Two of the cases, according to
the public health agency, were
confirmed by laboratory testing to
be norovirus, which is often trans-
mitted by close contact or by
touching contaminated surfaces.
It was unclear whether Mak-
wala was one of those with
norovirus. In a statement re-
leased on Tuesday night, the
sport’s governing body, the Inter-
national Association of Athletics
Federations, said it was following
government health regulations in
requesting that Makwala be
“quarantined in his room for 48
hours.”
It said the quarantine was set to
end by 2 p.m. Wednesday, too late
for Makwala, one of the top con-
tenders in the 200 and the 400, to
continue participating in either
event. He was withdrawn from the
opening round of the 200 on Mon-
day because of the illness.
“The I.A.A.F. is very sorry that
the hard work and talent of Isaac
Makwala won’t be on display to-
night, but we have to think of the
welfare of all athletes,” the federa-
tion said in its statement.
Makwala told the BBC that al-
though he had vomited before the
200 heats, he was able to compete.
Though he said he had not been
tested, the I.A.A.F. indicated that
the decision to withdraw him from
the two events had been made af-
ter an examination conducted at
the stadium on Monday by “a
qualified doctor.”
In an interview with Britain’s
ITV News, Makwala suggested
that he might have been allowed
to compete if he had been from the
host nation.
“I asked myself, ‘What if I was a
Great British guy, would they not
allow me to run?’” he said. “I don’t
think they would not allow me to
run. If they saw the guy had po-
tential, they are going to allow him
to run.”
Van Niekerk, who will run in the
200-meter final on Wednesday,
might very well have still won
with Makwala present and at full
strength. Van Niekerk, 25, did
break Michael Johnson’s 17-year-
old world record in the 400 by win-
ning gold in 43.03 seconds at last
year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Still, Makwala has been in rare
form this season.
Last month in Madrid, he be-
came the first man to run a sub-20-
second time in the 200 and a
sub-44-second time in the 400 on
the same day, as he finished in
19.77 and 43.92. Makwala also
came close to beating Van Niek-
erk in a 400 in Monaco.
But only one men’s double at the
world championships is still possi-
ble. Van Niekerk won the gold
medal in the 400 on Tuesday, eas-
ing off to finish in 43.98 seconds.
Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas
was a distant second at 44.41, with
Abdalelah Haroun of Qatar third
in 44.48.
“He was in great, great form,”
van Niekerk said of Makwala. “I
believe he would have done very
well in these championships. I
have so much sympathy for him.”
Van Niekerk seemed uncon-
cerned about having come into
close contact with Makwala.
“I saw him just before the 200-
meter heats, and the only think I
could think of was just wrapping
my arms around him and saying
he should get well soon,” he said.
Van Niekerk now has a chance
to become the first man to com-
plete the 200-400 double at the
world championships since John-
son in 1995. Van Niekerk will run
in the 200 semifinals on Wednes-
day night and, if he qualifies, the
final on Thursday night.
“The body seems to be ready,
and I’ll give it my best shot,” he
said.

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From First Sports Page
line, raising her arms in celebra-
tion. As she did, she was passed on
the inside by her American team-
mate Emily Infeld.
But the new-age tools are not
suited to every occasion, includ-
ing Monday night’s manic, tightly
packed finish to the women’s 1,500
meters, which Faith Kipyegon of
Kenya won after holding off late
charges from Jenny Simpson of
the United States and Caster Se-
menya of South Africa. Simpson
ended up with the silver, her third
medal in the 1,500 at a world
championships. Semenya took the
bronze.
“I don’t watch the screen at all,
because it can be a little bit de-
layed and the perspective can be
strange,” Simpson said. “And hon-
estly, a race like tonight, I’m run-
ning as hard as I can, and it’s hard
enough for me to stay lucid and
make good decisions looking at
everything going on in front of
me.”
But Simpson was coming from
behind.
“If you’re in front, the screen
may be the only data you get,” said
Simpson’s coach, Heather Bur-
roughs. “I think there are races,
particularly longer races or more
tactical races, where it’s useful.
But I think in a race like this 1,500,
where the last 600 meters is so
frenzied, you really can’t look at
the screen without making a mis-
take.
“You’re more likely to make
contact with someone, and it
would take a while to kind of get
perspective and positioning after
looking at it,” Burroughs said.
“You would be at risk of missing
some move that is made by failing
to respond. Things happen very,
very quickly.”
The same is true of other
events. There is simply not
enough time for screen time in a
100-meter final, and even less in
the sprint hurdles, where there
are obstacles to clear every few
strides.
“Absolutely no using the screen
— that would be a disaster,” said
Floréal, who also coaches the
American Keni Harrison, the
world-record holder in the 100 hur-
dles, and the Jamaican Omar Mc-
Leod, the reigning Olympic cham-
pion. McLeod added another gold
here in the 110 hurdles on Monday
night.
Gatlin, an Athlete of His Time, Is Painted as a Sport’s Top Villain
From First Sports Page
of Athletics Federations, handed
down a two-year ban. Gatlin
appealed and got the suspension
cut to a year. The grand execu-
tioners in the press corps might
want to page to the decision’s
conclusion:
“Mr. Gatlin neither cheated
nor intended to cheat,” the ap-
peals panel wrote. “He is cer-
tainly not a doper.”
So Gatlin is a one-time doper.
In 2006, he tested positive for a
steroid and was suspended for
eight years, a sentence reduced
to four years after he cooperated
with federal investigators. He
would lose four peak years and
millions of dollars in earnings, a
considerably tougher penalty
than those meted out to athletes
in pro baseball, basketball or
football. (World soccer has
adopted the Olympic Code and
consequently levies tough penal-
ties.)
That seems a suitably stiff
sentence for a first offense.
Let me now back off a step or
three and interrogate my own
righteousness.
A month ago, I talked with the
American high jumper Chaunté
Lowe about the moment last
November when she learned she
had won a bronze medal in the
2008 Olympics. The international
antidoping agency, taking advan-
tage of technological advances,
retested the blood of three
jumpers (two Russians and a
Ukrainian) who finished ahead of
her at those Games. It disquali-
fied all three. Lowe learned of
this by Facebook and felt caught
between elation and sorrow,
aware of opportunities lost, not
least that joyous moment atop a
podium.
A year ago, I sat atop a moun-
tain outside Oslo and heard two
top American biathletes, Susan
Dunklee and Lowell Bailey, talk
about the frustration of compet-
ing to their lung-straining best
and suspecting that some of the
athletes a few paces ahead of
them might have a chemical
advantage.
These athletes work too hard
to think we can just slap them on
the back and murmur que será,
será. They enjoy precious few
years at their peak. Several of
them told me they would like to
see career suspensions for first
doping offenses.
There is, too, the peculiar
challenge presented when na-
tions or Olympic committees
cover their eyes, with all the
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Mo Farah had glanced at the video boards during the 10,000 meters Friday to make sure he knew where his rivals were. That knowledge helped him to victory.
A slight sensation
of being ‘trapped
in a video game.’
But the hurdlers in the 400 have
more running and thinking room:
35 meters between obstacles.
“Still, I’d only advise it for profes-
sionals who have a keen sense of
stride length and stride rate and
exactly where they are on the
racecourse,” said Floréal, the
head track and field coach at the
Gatlin, far right, finished third as Usain Bolt won the 100 meters at the London Games in 2012.
advantages and subterfuge that
implies. The United States
Olympic Committee, for many
years in the 1980s, enabled a
pervasive doping problem. Its
leaders knew that American
swimmers, runners and jumpers
were doping with the complicity
of top Olympic coaches.
The United States has cracked
down hard. But Russia has taken
Why the urgency to
fit a sprinter for a
crown of thorns?
on the mantle and gone far be-
yond, running a state-sponsored
doping program with a thuggish
insistence that gives its athletes
and coaches little choice. This
represents an existential threat
to clean sport.
I called Max Cobb, the presi-
dent of U.S. Biathlon and an
insistent reformer, and asked
about the question of appropriate
penalties for athletes like Gatlin.
He is not by temperament the
sort who favors blanket lifetime
suspensions, and he sees consid-
erable mitigating factors in
Gatlin’s case. He also sees a
place for lifetime bans as a
threat.
“If you are engaged in system-
atic blood manipulation, you are
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University of Kentucky.
He said video screens at many
Athletes in the field events in
London also are taking advantage
other venues are poorly posi- of the screens, just not while they
tioned for in-race use, including are in the act of throwing or jump-
the one at Hayward Field in Eu- ing. Many use the displays to re-
gene, Ore. view their attempts, and they find
“The N.C.A.A. screen at Eugene the screens particularly useful
is so much higher, so you have to considering that their access to
take your eyes a little bit off the other technology — iPads, laptops
track and go 60 to 70 feet up,” he and even smartphones — is
said. “Whereas in London and all banned during competition.
the world championships and “They are very strict here —
Olympics, the screens are typi- you can’t get anything by them,”
cally directly in the middle of the said Joe Kovacs, the American
turn and are so big you can see all who won a silver medal in the
the lanes.” men’s shot-put on Sunday. “Even
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deliberately trying to cheat the cated world.
system,” Cobb noted. “It cannot Coe’s rhetoric is steely, and he
be an accident, and that’s where has accomplished some good
the option of a lifetime ban would since becoming chief of the inter-
really help.” national federation. He was also
Track and field’s reputation as forced to acknowledge in 2015
irreparably tarnished by doping that Nike had paid him $150,000
may be unfair and owe para- annually to serve as a company
doxically to its growing ability to “ambassador.” French prosecu-
ferret out offenders. The doping tors are examining whether
era may have reached its body-
distorting peak before the turn of
this century, when athletes from
many nations imbibed all sorts of
steroids. Olympians break
records with less regularity now;
some women’s records set in that
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watch footage of his throws al- was wrong. It definitely helps us.”
most immediately after each at- Humans remaining humans,
tempt when they are replayed on though, there are other benefits of
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nitely think it’s something that back home.”
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track officials to steer the 2021 would have finished far behind
world championships to Eugene, Bolt. He is tested randomly by
Ore. the United States Anti-Doping
Shadows, too, have fallen Agency; screeners checked his
across the sporting goods com- blood four times and his urine 10
panies, which wield great influ- times last year before the
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pre-eminent power, runs a top He passed all of those.
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in Oregon, and its coach Alberto track Gatlin to earth. When I saw
Salazar has faced repeated re- him in Oregon in May, he ac-
ports suggesting his approach is knowledged mental fatigue and
tainted by chemicals. hamstrings and thighs that growl
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Knicks Add Beasley, a Vagabond Forward BASEBALL

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By MIKE VORKUNOV and G-League operations, while Ger- East W L Pct GB MONTREAL
Gardner cf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .257
C.Frazier lf 4 0 1 0 0 3 .243 Ernesto Escobedo, United States, d.
Michael Beasley has had a well- ald Madkins was named assistant gen- Boston 64 49 .566 —
Ellsbury ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
traveled career. Once the No. 2 overall eral manager. Yankees 59 52 .532 4 Judge rf 3 0 0 0 2 2 .297 Borna Coric, Croatia, d. Mikhail Youzhny,
Sanchez c 2 1 0 0 1 1 .263 Russia, 6-2, 6-4. Chung Hyeon, South
pick in the 2008 N.B.A. draft, Beasley Harold Ellis was announced as the Tampa Bay 58 56 .509 6{ Headley dh 2 1 1 0 1 0 .273 Korea, d. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 6-1, 4-6,
new director of player personnel, and Gregorius ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .307 7-6 (3). Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, d. Frances
was seen as a star in the making. In- Baltimore 56 56 .500 7{ T.Frazier 3b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .207 Tiafoe, United States, 7-6 (3), 0-6, 6-2. David
stead, he became a basketball vaga- Michael Arcieri was named the direc- Cooper 1b 3 0 2 2 0 0 .286 Goffin (9), Belgium, d. Yuichi Sugita, Japan,
Toronto 53 59 .473 10{ Torreyes 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .287 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Sam Querrey, United States,
bond, and by the end of last season, he tor of basketball strategy. Each spent Totals 31 2 7 2 5 6 d. Vincent Millot, France, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5.
Central W L Pct GB
had played for five N.B.A. teams along the past five years in Orlando, where Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg. Pablo Carreno Busta (11), Spain, d. Karen
Bautista rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .216 Khachanov, Russia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Denis
with spending two years in China. they worked for much of that time with Cleveland 60 50 .545 —
Martin c 3 1 1 0 0 0 .227 Shapovalov, Canada, d. Rogerio Dutra Silva,
Perry before he moved on to the Sacra- Kansas City 57 55 .509 4 Donaldson 3b 4 2 2 4 0 0 .247 Brazil, 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4. Kevin Anderson,
Now Beasley can put one more ad- Smoak 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .299 South Africa, d. Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-3, 7-6
mento Kings and then the Knicks. And Minnesota 54 56 .491 6 Morales dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .251 (1). Jack Sock (15), United States, d. Pierre-
dress on his résumé. He has reached a Pearce lf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .266 Hugues Herbert, France, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Fred Cofield, a Knicks fourth-round Detroit 51 61 .455 10 Second Round
deal with the Knicks, the team an- Carrera pr-lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .302
draft pick in 1985, is also joining the 68 .376 18{
Pillar cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .245 Jared Donaldson, United States, d. Benoit
nounced. It is only for one year, and it Chicago 41 Refsnyder 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .143 Paire, France, 6-2, 7-5.
franchise, as a scout. Goins ph-ss 1 0 1 0 0 0 .219 Doubles
will be for the veteran’s minimum, ac- West W L Pct GB Barney ss-2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .234 First Round
The abundance of new executives Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, and
cording to multiple sources with Houston 71 40 .640 — Totals 33 4 10 4 2 3
has also led to other moves. Clarence New York 010 000 010—2 7 2 Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, d. Ryan Harrison,
knowledge of the contract. Beasley, a Gaines Jr., formerly the vice president Seattle 57 56 .504 15 United States, and Michael Venus, New
Toronto 202 000 00x—4 10 0 Zealand, 6-3, 6-2. Lucas Pouille and Jo-
6-foot-9-inch, left-handed forward, will for player personnel, has been demot- Los Angeles 55 58 .487 17 Wilfried Tsonga, France, d. Feliciano
E—Mitchell 2 (5). LOB—New York 10,
thus make about $2.1 million. ed to scout. He was the lone basketball Texas 53 59 .473 18{ Toronto 8. 2B—Bautista (19), Smoak (18),
Lopez and Marc Lopez, Spain, 6-3, 6-4.
Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer,
The addition of Beasley fills out the Morales (19), Pearce (10). HR—Donaldson Spain, d. Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil,
operations executive brought in by the Oakland 50 62 .446 21{ (14), off Sabathia; Donaldson (15), off Canada, 4-6, 6-4, 10-2. Jean-Julien Rojer,
Knicks’ 15-man roster. Beasley has al- former team president Phil Jackson, Sabathia. RBIs—Cooper 2 (3), Donaldson Netherlands, and Horia Tecau, Romania,
TUESDAY 4 (40). SF—Cooper. S—Martin. DP—New
ways been a talented scorer — he aver- and he was credited with recommend- Toronto 4, Yankees 2 York 2; Toronto 2
d. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Donald
Young, United States, 7-6 (7), 7-5. Juan-
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game with the Milwaukee Bucks last Michael Beasley, the No. 2 pick in Knicks decided to draft him. Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3 Mitchell 4 3 0 0 1 0 67 3.60
Carreno Busta, Spain, d. Nikola Mektic,
Croatia, and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan,
season — but has struggled to put to- the 2008 draft, has played for five Meanwhile, Mark Warkentien, who Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0 Robertson
Toronto
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6-2, 5-7, 10-8.
gether an all-around skill set. He has N.B.A. teams before the Knicks. had been the director of player person-
Cleveland 4, Colorado 1 HappW5-8
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Beasley will join the Knicks one sea- Tuesday for the Knicks. They contin- In a statement, Perry said that the Seattle at Oakland T—2:50. A—41,596 (49,282). First Round
CiCi Bellis, United States, d. Julia Goerges,
son after the top pick in his draft class, ued to remake their front office, an- day after he was hired, he “started a Baltimore at L.A. Angels METS 5, RANGERS 4 Germany, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Caroline Garcia,
Derrick Rose, played a year in New nouncing still more hires, as Steve full evaluation of the entire basketball WEDNESDAY Texas ab r h bi bb so avg.
France, d. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 6-2, 6-7
(4), 6-4. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, d. Oceane
York before moving on to the Cleve- Mills, the new team president, and operations staff.” Yankees (Tanaka 8-10) at Toronto Choo rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Dodin, France, 5-0 retired. Magdalena
(Valdez 1-1), 7:07 Andrus ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .296 Rybarikova, Slovakia, d. Mirjana Lucic-
land Cavaliers. Beasley will give the Scott Perry, his new general manager, “My first goal was to build up the Texas (Griffin 5-2) at Mets (Montero Mazara lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Baroni, Croatia, 7-5, 6-0. Elena Vesnina
Knicks additional depth in the front- moved to further put their imprint on highest-level front office in the N.B.A,’’ 1-7), 12:10 Beltre 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .292 (16), Russia, d. Alison Riske, United States,
Odor 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .216 6-3, 6-3. Donna Vekic, Croatia, d. Eugenie
court, which could become a factor if the club. he added. “We are adding a host of Colorado (Senzatela 10-4) at Cleve- Leclerc p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Bouchard, Canada, 6-3, 6-4. Ekaterina
the team finally arranges a trade that land (Bauer 10-8), 12:10 Gomez cf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .251 Makarova, Russia, d. Peng Shuai, China, 6-1,
Craig Robinson, who is the brother highly regarded and respected basket- Gallo 1b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .210 6-3. Agnieszka Radwanska (10), Poland, d.
Seattle (Gallardo 5-7) at Oakland
will send Carmelo Anthony to another of Michelle Obama, was named the ball people to work with the Knicks to (Cotton 5-8), 3:35
Chirinos c 3 1 2 1 1 0 .217 CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, 6-3, 6-2.
Griffin p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, d.
club. vice president for player development fortify the franchise for years to come.” Baltimore (Gausman 8-7) at L.A. Barnette p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Alize Cornet, France, 6-0, 6-1. Timea Babos,
Angels (Scribner 1-0), 3:37 DeShields ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .272 Hungary, d. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 6-4, 6-1.
Grilli p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Second Round
Boston (Porcello 5-14) at Tampa Bay Robinson 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Elina Svitolina (5), Ukraine, d. Daria
(Odorizzi 6-4), 7:10 Totals 32 4 6 4 3 10 Kasatkina, Russia, 7-6 (4), 6-4. Barbora
Pittsburgh (Nova 10-8) at Detroit New York ab r h bi bb so avg. Strycova, Czech Republic, d. Daria
Conforto cf 2 2 1 1 2 0 .293 Gavrilova, Australia, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
(Verlander 7-7), 7:10 Cabrera 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .258 Caroline Wozniacki (6), Denmark, d.
Houston (McHugh 0-0) at Chicago Bruce rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .258 Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 6-3, 6-0.
White Sox (Gonzalez 5-10), 8:10 Cespedes lf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .274 Doubles
Walker 1b-2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .253 First Round
Minnesota (Colon 3-9) at Milwaukee Reyes 2b 2 1 0 0 1 1 .220 Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, and
(Woodruff 1-0), 8:10 Blevins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Kveta Peschke (8), Czech Republic, d.
Kansas City (Cahill 4-3) at St. Louis Granderson ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Nao Hibino, Japan, and Alicja Rosolska,
(Leake 7-10), 8:15 Ramos p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Poland, 6-3, 0-6, 10-8. Lauren Davis and
d'Arnaud c 3 1 1 2 0 1 .242 Alsion Riske, United States, d. Charlotte
THURSDAY Rosario ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .160 Robillard-Millette and Carol Zhao, Canada,
Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 Flexen p 2 0 1 0 0 1 .250 6-1, 6-4. Chuang Chia-jung, Taiwan, and
Goeddel p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, d. Lucie
Pittsburgh at Detroit, 1:10 Flores 1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .280 Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova (6), Czech
Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 Totals 29 5 6 5 4 8 Republic, 7-5, 6-1. Julia Goerges, Germany,
Texas 000 012 001—4 6 0 and Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, d. Ashleigh
Kansas City at St. Louis, 7:15 Barty and Casey Dellacqua (7), Australia,
Houston at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 New York 220 000 10x—5 6 0 3-6, 6-4, 13-11. Eugenie Bouchard, Canada,
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10 LOB—Texas 5, New York 4. 2B—Gallo and Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, d.
(13), Chirinos (6), Cabrera (18), Flexen (1). Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, and Kirsten
Baltimore at Oakland, 10:05 Flipkens, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2
HR—Gallo (31), off Flexen; Beltre (11), off
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 Flexen; Chirinos (13), off Ramos; Conforto
(23), off Griffin; Cespedes (12), off Griffin;
TRACK AND FIELD
N.L. STANDINGS d'Arnaud (10), off Griffin. RBIs—Beltre (43),
Gallo 2 (59), Chirinos (29), Conforto (58),
East W L Pct GB
Cabrera (34), Cespedes (31), d'Arnaud 2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
(36). CS—Cabrera (2). DP—New York 1
Washington 66 45 .595 — Texas ip h r er bb so np era LONDON
GriffinL5-3 5 4 4 4 3 3 88 5.40 Men's 400m Final
Miami 53 58 .477 13 Barnette 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 5.40 1. Wayde Van Niekerk, South Africa, 43.98
Grilli 1 1 1 1 1 2 14 6.16 2. Steven Gardiner, Bahamas, 44.41
Atlanta 51 60 .459 15 Leclerc 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 2.88 3. Abdalelah Haroun, Qatar, 44.48
New York ip h r er bb so np era 4. Baboloki Thebe, Botswana, 44.66
Mets 50 60 .455 15{ FlexenW1-1 5Î/¯ 4 3 3 3 4 89 8.49 5. Nathon Allen, Jamaica, 44.88
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6. Demish Gaye, Jamaica, 45.04
Philadelphia 41 69 .373 24{ BlevinsH13 1Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 3 30 2.78 7. Fred Kerley, United States, 45.23
RamosS21-23 1 1 1 1 0 2 15 4.12 Men's 800m Final
Central W L Pct GB T—2:51. A—37,326 (41,922). 1. Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, France, 1:44.67
Chicago 59 52 .532 — 2. Adam Kszczot, Poland, 1:44.95
3. Kipyegon Bett, Kenya, 1:45.21
Milwaukee 59 55 .518 1{ PRO FOOTBALL 4. Kyle Langford, Great Britain, 1:45.25
5. Nijel Amos, Botswana, 1:45.83
St. Louis 57 56 .504 3
N.F.L. PRESEASON SCHEDULE 6. Mohammed Amana, Ethiopia, 1:46.06
7. Thiago Andre, Brazil, 1:46.30
Pittsburgh 56 57 .496 4 8. Brandon McBride, Canada, 1:47.09
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Cincinnati 46 67 .407 14 Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
Wednesday 1. Conseslus Kipruto, Kenya, 8:14.12
West W L Pct GB Houston at Carolina, 7:30 p.m. 2. Soufiane Elbakkali, Morocco, 8:14.49
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Thursday 3. Evan Jager, United States, 8:15.53
Los Angeles 79 32 .712 — Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m. 4. Mahiedine Mekhissi, France, 8:15.80
Real Madrid’s Marcelo with the trophy after his team’s 2-1 victory over Manchester United in the Super Cup. Arizona 63 48 .568 16
Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.
Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
5. Stanley Kipkoech Kebenei, United
States, 8:21.09
Jacksonville at New England, 7:30 p.m. 6. Matthew Hughes, Canada, 8:21.84
Colorado 64 49 .566 16 Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m. 7. Tesfaye Deriba, Ethiopia, 8:22.12
SOCCER New Orleans at Cleveland, 8 p.m. 8. Tafese Seboka, Ethiopia, 8:23.02
San Diego 50 62 .446 29{ Philadelphia at Green Bay, 8 p.m. 9. Getnet Wale, Ethiopia, 8:25.28
Friday 10. Albert Chemutai, Uganda, 8:25.94
San Francisco 44 70 .386 36{

Real Madrid Overpowers Manchester United

Pittsburgh at Giants, 7 p.m. 11. Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenya, 8:29.38
TUESDAY Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m. 12. Jairus Kipchoge Birech, Kenya, 8:32.90
San Francisco at Kansas City, 9 p.m. 13. Yoann Kowal, France, 8:34.53
Mets 5, Texas 4 Saturday 14. Jacob Araptany, Uganda, 8:49.18
Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3 Tennessee at Jets, 7:30 p.m. Men's Pole Vault Final
Cleveland 4, Colorado 1 Dallas at L.A. Rams, 9 p.m. 1. Sam Kendricks, United States, 5.95
Real Madrid eased to a 2-1 victory over Manchester FO OT BALL San Diego 7, Cincinnati 3
Oakland at Arizona, 10 p.m. 2. Piotr Lisek, Poland, 5.89
3. Renaud Lavillenie, France, 5.89
United to win the Super Cup on Tuesday, with goals in each Miami 7, Washington 3 4. Changrui Xue, China, 5.82
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half from Casemiro and Isco. Cristiano Ronaldo watched Cutler Practices With the Dolphins Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 2 5. Pawel Wojciechowski, Poland, 5.75
6. Axel Chapelle, France, 5.65
most of the end-to-end action from the bench while his St. Louis 10, Kansas City 3
M.L.B. 7. Kurtis Marschall, Australia, 5.65
teammates outclassed United on a hot night in Skopje, Jay Cutler, the Miami Dolphins’ new quarterback prac- Milwaukee at Minnesota 8. Shawnacy Barber, Canada, 5.65
American League 9. Armand Duplantis, Sweden, 5.50
Macedonia. ticed for the first time since December, marking the start of L.A. Dodgers at Arizona
BOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Blaine Women's Javelin Final
his comeback from a brief retirement. When the workout Chicago Cubs at San Francisco 1. Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic, 66.76
Casemiro, a Brazilian, hit the bar with a header and Boyer on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Aug.
2. Lingwei Li, China, 66.25
fired a shot over the top before scoring in the 24th minute. ended, the 34-year-old Cutler said he had no second WEDNESDAY 6. Reinstated 2B Dustin Pedroia from the
10-day DL. 3. Huihui Lyu, China, 65.26
Texas (Griffin 5-2) at Mets (Montero 4. Sara Kolak, Croatia, 64.95
He slid in for a left-foot finish, served up by Dani Carvajal. thoughts about deciding to renew his working relationship 1-7), 12:10
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed 3B Matt
Davidson on the 10-day DL, retroactive to 5. Eda Tugsuz, Turkey, 64.52
Isco extended the lead for Zinedine Zidane’s European with Coach Adam Gase and return for another season. Colorado (Senzatela 10-4) at Cleve- Aug. 4. Reinstated OF Avisail Garcia from 6. Tatsiana Khaladovich, Belarus, 64.05
7. Katharina Molitor, Germany, 63.75
the 10-day DL.
champions with a cool shot in the 52nd, after Gareth Bale “It felt right,” Cutler said. “Going into work and getting land (Bauer 10-8), 12:10 DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled 3B Jeimer 8. Shiying Liu, China, 62.84
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 4-4) at San 9. Martina Ratej, Slovenia, 61.05
helped him run through United’s defense. here and going through the motions of the practice, it felt Candelario from Toledo (IL).
10. Kelsey-Lee Roberts, Australia, 60.76
Francisco (Bumgarner 1-5), 3:45 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reinstated INF
Making amends for an earlier miss, United’s new good.” Miami (Conley 4-4) at Washington Cheslor Cuthbert from the 10-day DL. 11. Asdis Hjalmsdttir, Iceland, 60.16
12. Elizabeth Gleadle, Canada, 60.12
Optioned INF Ramon Torres and RHP Jake
striker Romelu Lukaku made it 2-1 in the 62nd, beating Cutler, who parted with the Chicago Bears in March, (Gonzalez 9-5), 7:05 Junisto Omaha (PCL).
goalkeeper Keylor Navas after Navas had blocked a power- agreed to delay his fledgling network TV career when he Pittsburgh (Nova 10-8) at Detroit YANKEES — Recalled RHP Bryan Mitchell
PRO BASKETBALL
(Verlander 7-7), 7:10 from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
ful shot from Nemanja Matic. signed a $10 million, one-year contract with Miami. He’s ex- OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned OF
“Key to winning this game was two things we do well,” pected to start in place of Ryan Tannehill, who is out with a
San Diego (Wood 2-3) at Cincinnati Boog Powell to Nashville (PCL). Assigned W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
(Wojciechowski 2-1), 7:10 C Ryan Lavarnway outright to Nashville.
Zidane said. “We hold and control well, and we finish our knee injury likely to sideline him for the season. Philadelphia (Eickhoff 2-7) at Atlanta Recalled 1B Matt Olson from Nashville. EASTERN CONFERENCE
SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed RHP David W L Pct GB
chances at the right moment.” He added: “The second half (Newcomb 1-6), 7:35 Phelps on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Connecticut 16 9 .640 —
was not great, but the first half was spectacular. We have Minnesota (Colon 3-9) at Milwaukee Aug. 7. Optioned RHP Cody Martin to Washington 15 10 .600 1
G O LF (Woodruff 1-0), 8:10 Tacoma (PCL). Liberty 13 12 .520 3
talented players who want to win every challenge.” TEXAS RANGERS — Placed RHP Keone Atlanta 10 16 .385 6{
Kansas City (Cahill 4-3) at St. Louis
The Super Cup matches the previous season’s Champi- Kela on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Aug. Chicago 10 16 .385 6{
ons League winners against the Europa League holders. Woods Will Not Attend Arraignment (Leake 7-10), 8:15
L.A. Dodgers (Wood 13-1) at Arizona
5. Purchased the contract of RHP Ricky
Rodriguez from Frisco (TL).
Indiana
WESTERN CONFERENCE
9 18 .333 8

(Greinke 13-4), 9:40 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 3B Chris W L Pct GB

The lawyer for Tiger Woods said Woods will not attend Coghlan to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehab x-Minnesota 21 3 .875 —
THURSDAY assignment. Los Angeles 18 7 .720 3{
BASEBALL his arraignment on a driving under the influence charge. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 National League Phoenix 13 12 .520 8{
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed LHP
Under court rules, Woods’s lawyer can enter a not guilty San Diego at Cincinnati, 12:35 Robbie Ray on the 10-day DL.
Dallas 13 14 .481 9{
Red Sox’ Sale Dominates Rays plea on his behalf Wednesday. Any other plea would re- Pittsburgh at Detroit, 1:10 CINCINNATI REDS — Placed C Devin
Mesoraco on paternity leave. Recalled RHP
Seattle
San Antonio
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6
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quire Woods’s attendance. Miami at Washington, 7:05 Austin Brice from Louisville (IL).
x-clinched playoff spot
Chris Sale allowed two hits in eight innings and struck Kansas City at St. Louis, 7:15 LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Tuesday's Games
out 13, and the visiting Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay CREAMER ADDED TO SOLHEIM CUP TEAM Paula Creamer will re- Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10 Brock Stewart from Oklahoma City (PCL). Liberty 81, Indiana 76
Placed LHP Luis Avilan on the paternity Minnesota 81, Atlanta 72
Rays, 2-0, for their seventh straight victory. place Jessica Korda, who has a forearm injury, on the L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 list. Connecticut 84, Seattle 71
Sale (14-4) reached double digits in strikeouts for the United States team at next week’s Solheim Cup in West Des PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed Wednesday's Games
C Andrew Knapp on the 10-day DL,
15th time this season, the first time that’s been done since Moines, Iowa. A.L. LEADERS retroactive to Aug. 4.
No games scheduled.

Randy Johnson in 2002. The win pushed Boston’s Ameri- BATTING—Altuve, Houston, .364; Correa, W.N.B.A. LEADERS
Houston, .320; Ramirez, Cleveland, .317; N.B.A.
can League East lead over the Yankees to four games. PR O BAS K ET BALL Hosmer, Kansas City, .315; Segura, Scoring
Seattle, .311; Springer, Houston, .310; KNICKS — Signed G Ramon Sessions and
Dustin Pedroia, back in the Boston lineup as a designat- Reddick, Houston, .310; Gregorius, F Michael Beasley. Named Gerald Madkins G FG FT PTS AVG
assistant general manager; Craig Robinson Griner, PHO . . . . . 18 143 116 402 22.3
ed hitter after a stint on the disabled list with left knee in-
flammation, scored the first run on a fielder’s choice in the
Charles Scores 26 in Liberty’s Victory New York, .308; Pedroia, Boston, .307;
Simmons, Los Angeles, .304. vice president, player development and G
League operations; Harold Ellis director,
Stewart, SEA . . .
Fowles, MIN. . . .
. 24
. 23
169
182
116 494 20.6
105 469 20.4
HOME RUNS—Judge, New York, 35; Charles, Liberty . . 24 189 84 477 19.9
player personnel; Michael Arcieri director,
fourth. A bad throw by Austin Pruitt (6-3) prevented a pos- Tina Charles scored 26 points and the Liberty over- Moustakas, Kansas City, 32; Smoak,
basketball strategy; and Fred Cofield Ogwumike, LAS . . 25 179 116 490 19.6
Toronto, 31; Gallo, Texas, 30; KDavis,
sible inning-ending double play on Rafael Devers’ chopper came Erica Wheeler’s 33 points for an 81-76 victory over the Oakland, 29; Morrison, Tampa Bay, 28; scout.
to the mound. visiting Indiana Fever. Shavonte Zellous added 16 points for Springer, Houston, 27; Sano, Minnesota, SOCCER
25; Schoop, Baltimore, 25. N.F.L.
INDIANS RALLY IN NINTH Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer the Liberty (13-12). STOLEN BASES—Dyson, Seattle,
ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed RB Kelvin M.L.S. STANDINGS
27; Maybin, Los Angeles, 25; Altuve,
with two outs in the ninth inning off closer Greg Holland as Houston, 24; RDavis, Oakland, 23; Taylor.
EAST W L T Pts GF GA
Andrus, Texas, 20; Cain, Kansas City, 20; DETROIT LIONS — Signed CB Tramain
the Cleveland Indians rallied for four runs in their last at- T ENNIS DeShields, Texas, 19; Buxton, Minnesota, Jacobs and WR Dez Stewart. Waived- Toronto FC 12 3 8 44 42 23
Chicago 12 5 5 41 44 25
bat for Corey Kluber and beat the visiting Colorado Rock- 18; Merrifield, Kansas City, 18; Betts,
Boston, 17.
injured CB Des Lawrence and WR Ryan
Spadola. NYCFC 12 7 4 40 43 33
ies, 4-1. Atlanta United 10 7 5 35 42 29
Querrey Wins Opener in Rogers Cup PITCHING—Sale, Boston, 13-4; Vargas,
Kansas City, 13-5; Paxton, Seattle, 12-
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released DT
Letroy Guion. Red Bulls
Columbus
11
10
9
12
2 35 34 29
2 32 34 39
STANTON HITS 38TH HOMER IN VICTORY Giancarlo Stanton hit 3; Santana, Minnesota, 12-7; Bundy, JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed OT
Orlando City 8 9 6 30 24 33
his career-high and major league-leading 38th home run Sam Querrey overcame a sluggish start to defeat the Baltimore, 11-8; Pomeranz, Boston, 11-4. Branden Albert on the reserve/retired list.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed QB Jay Cutler Philadelphia 8 10 5 29 32 28
Frenchman Vincent Millot, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5, in a first-round Montreal 7 8 6 27 32 37
and drove in three runs as the Miami Marlins beat the Na- N.L. LEADERS
to a one-year contract.
New England 7 10 5 26 37 38
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived/injured
tionals, 7-3, in Washington. match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. (REUTERS) CB Zach Franklin. Signed CB Asa Jackson D.C. United 5 14 4 19 19 43
BATTING—JTurner, Los Angeles, .349; to a one-year contract. WEST W L T Pts GF GA
UMPIRE WEST IS SUSPENDED Joe West, the major leagues’ sen- BOUCHARD LOSES IN STRAIGHT SETS The midseason nose dive Murphy, Washington, .333; Blackmon,
Kansas City 9 4 10 37 29 18
Colorado, .331; Harper, Washington, .327;
ior umpire, has been suspended for three days without pay of the Canadian Eugenie Bouchard continued as she was Goldschmidt, Arizona, .323; Posey, San N.H.L. Houston 9 7 7 34 39 32
Francisco, .320; LeMahieu, Colorado, .319; FC Dallas 9 5 7 34 33 26
for comments he made about Texas third baseman Adrian swept aside, 6-3, 6-4, by the Croatian qualifier Donna Vekic Arenado, Colorado, .317; Votto, Cincinnati, ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed a one-year Seattle 9 7 7 34 36 31
Beltre. despite having home advantage and the backing of an ex- .314; Taylor, Los Angeles, .312. affiliation agreement with Tulsa (ECHL) for Portland 9 8 7 34 42 39
HOME RUNS—Stanton, Miami, 37; the 2017-18 season. San Jose 9 9 5 32 26 35
In a USA Today report published June 20 timed to co- cited crowd in a first-round clash at the Rogers Cup in To- Bellinger, Los Angeles, 32; Votto, Vancouver 9 8 4 31 32 31
incide with the umpire’s 5,000th regular-season game, ronto. (REUTERS) Cincinnati, 30; Bruce, New York, 29; SOCCER Real Salt Lake 7 12
Los Angeles 6 11
5 26 30 44
5 23 32 40
Harper, Washington, 29; Ozuna, Miami, 26;
West said “it’s got to be Adrian Beltre” when asked who Rizzo, Chicago, 26. U.S. SOCCER — Named Matt Dacey boys' Minnesota United 6 13 4 22 29 49
STOLEN BASES—Hamilton, Cincinnati, 44; development academy technical adviser for Colorado 6 12 3 21 22 31
was the biggest complainer in the major leagues. Gordon, Miami, 40; TTurner, Washington, 35; the Pacific Northwest and Rob Elliot Atlantic NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
HO C K EY Villar, Milwaukee, 20; Broxton, Milwaukee, region technical adviser. Saturday's Games
MARINERS TO BE WITHOUT HERNANDEZ In the midst of the A.L. 19; Nunez, Boston, 18; Goldschmidt, Major League Soccer NYCFC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
wild-card chase, the Seattle Mariners will be without start- Former N.H.L. Player Olczyk Has Cancer Arizona, 15; Peraza, Cincinnati, 15; Pham,
St. Louis, 15; Pollock, Arizona, 15.
ATLANTA UNITED — Placed D Zach Loyd
on the injury list. Traded a 2017 international
Orlando City at Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas City at Seattle, 4 p.m.
er Felix Hernandez for three to four weeks because of bur- PITCHING—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-2; roster spot to San Jose for targeted Portland at Toronto FC, 6 p.m.
Davies, Milwaukee, 13-5; Greinke, Arizona, allocation money. Real Salt Lake at D.C. United, 7 p.m.
sitis in his right shoulder. The former N.H.L. forward and coach Eddie Olczyk has 13-4; Wood, Los Angeles, 13-1; Scherzer, COLUMBUS CREW — Added M Pedro Chicago at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
colon cancer. Olczyk, who turns 51 on Aug. 16, had surgery Washington, 12-5; deGrom, New York, 12-5; Santos as designated player. Colorado at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.
Arrieta, Chicago, 11-8; Chacin, San Diego, D.C. UNITED — Traded D Bobby Boswell Montreal at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
last week. Olczyk is a color analyst for Blackhawks games 11-8; Freeland, Colorado, 11-7; Wainwright, to Atlanta for a 2019 third-round draft pick. Vancouver at New England, 8 p.m.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. and nationally for NBC. St. Louis, 11-5. MINNESOTA UNITED — Signed G Alex Kapp. San Jose at Houston, 9 p.m.
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Christian Millau, 88, Whose Guide A publication aimed

Championed Nouvelle Cuisine, Dies
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Christian Millau, a founder of
the influential Gault-Millau
restaurant guide, which led the
way in making nouvelle cuisine a
global force in the early 1970s, died
on Saturday at his home in Paris.
He was 88.
Côme de Chérisey, the manag-
ing director of Gault & Millau, an-
nounced his death.
Mr. Millau was an editor at the
afternoon newspaper Paris-
Presse in 1969 when he and one of
his writers, Henri Gault, started
Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau
(pronounced go-mee-YO), a
monthly magazine filled with
restaurant reviews.
“We agreed on nothing,” Mr.
Millau said in an interview last
year for the Gault & Millau web-
site. “Neither politics, nor religion,
nor music. Nothing except taste.”
The upstart guide, aimed at
younger readers with a yen for cu-
linary adventure, took dead aim at
the sedate Michelin Guide, which
Mr. Millau liked to dismiss as “a
telephone book.” He and Mr.
Gault, who died in 2000, knocked
revered dining establishments off
their perch; elevated unknown,
often humble bistros and cafes;
and offered their readers free-
wheeling reviews, rather than Mi-
chelin’s terse lists of dishes.
“There was no such thing as se-
rious gastronomic journalism,”
Mr. Millau told The New York
Times in 1978. “Restaurant re-
views were a function of advertis-
ing.”
The approach was personal and
passionate, the style “lean, mean,
snappy and witty,” as the British
newspaper The Independent put
it in its obituary of Mr. Gault. The
guide, published in book form be-
ginning in 1972, once described
“an absolutely lethal purée of peas
DANIEL JANIN/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES
Christian Millau in 2004.
and green beans whose strings
could be woven into a bulletproof
vest.”
Instead of stars, the guide
awarded toques, the traditional
French chef’s hats, along with a
numerical rating from 1 to 20, the
same system used in French
schools and universities. Al-
though a few restaurants were
awarded the maximum five
toques, none ever received a rat-
ing of 20, on the theory that only
God achieved perfection.
In their search for new and ex-
citing young chefs, Mr. Millau and
Mr. Gault championed a new style
of cooking, practiced by chefs like
Michel Guérard, Frédy Girardet
and Joël Robuchon, that became
known as nouvelle cuisine.
In 1973 the guide issued a mani-
festo for the new cooking, “Vive la
Nouvelle Cuisine Française,” lay-
ing down 10 commandments that
began “Thou shalt not overcook,”
“Thou shalt use fresh, high-qual-
ity products” and “Thou shalt
lighten thy menu.”
The guide highlighted restau-
rants adhering to the command-
ments with red rather than black
toques.
By beating the drum for nou-
velle cuisine, the guide helped
usher in the age of the celebrity
chef. Its favorites emerged from
the anonymity of the kitchen and,
encouraged by the guide, ex-
plained their food to the public,
making guest appearances on ra-
dio and television and publishing
cookbooks.
“The revolutionary thing that
Millau accomplished with Gault
was really the style and the story,”
Marc Esquerré, Gault & Millau’s
editor in chief, told Le Monde this
week. “They brought a human di-
mension to reviewing and, by ac-
ting as an intermediary between
the customer and the restaurant
owners, did a lot to bring these two
worlds together.”
Mr. Millau was born Christian
Dubois-Millot on Dec. 28, 1928, in
Paris to Paul Dubois and the for-
mer Anne Masur, a Russian
émigré. The birth was not regis-
tered until Jan. 1, leading to confu-
sion in some sources. The sur-
name Millot, the basis for his pen
name, was his paternal grand-
mother’s maiden name.
After taking courses at Sciences
Po, a leading university in Paris
for political science, he set his
sights on a career in journalism,
although his internship at Le
Monde came to grief when he mis-
spelled François Mitterrand’s last
name in an article on local elec-
tions. He landed on his feet at
Opéra, a literary journal edited by
Roger Nimier, a leader of the con-
servative literary group known as
the Hussars.
Mr. Millau later described this
milieu in “Galloping With the Hus-
sars: In the Literary Whirlwind of
the Fifties” (1999), which the
French Academy awarded its
Mr. Millau, right, and Henri Gault, his collaborator, in a Paris
restaurant in 1977 to promote a new edition of their guide.
grand prize for biography, and in
the memoir “Paris Told Me: The
Fifties, End of an Era” (2000).
In 1959, he married Arlette Con-
rad, who died last year. He is sur-
vived by two sons, Jérôme and
Alexis; a daughter, Marianne Du-
bois-Millau; and five grandchil-
dren.
Mr. Millau was a deputy editor
of Paris-Presse, a lively afternoon
newspaper, in the early 1960s
JACQUES LANGEVIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
when he met Mr. Gault and as-
signed him to write a weekly col-
umn on food and travel. The Jul-
liard publishing house later issued
a collection of the columns in book
form and then asked the two men
to write a Paris guidebook.
“Guide Julliard de Paris,” pub-
lished in 1964, sold more than
100,000 copies. Odyssey Press
brought out an American edition a
year later. “Its style is breezy but
at younger readers
awarded restaurants
not stars but toques.
authoritative — and it often bites
back at the cuisine,” Life maga-
zine wrote in 1967.
The two men produced a series
of guidebooks for Julliard before
starting “Le Nouveau Guide
Gault-Millau.” Early on the guide
dealt only with restaurants in
France, but in 1981 a New York
guide was published, followed by
guides to Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
Mr. Millau and Mr. Gault sold
the guide to the magazine Le Point
in 1983. It later went through
many changes of ownership. In re-
cent years Millau-Gault guides to
dozens of countries around the
world have been published.
With the business sold, Mr. Mil-
lau turned his attention to writing
books. After learning that his ma-
ternal grandfather had been a
Russian Jew, and that several of
his family members had been sent
to labor camps, he wrote the fam-
ily history “Greetings From the
Gulag: Secrets of a Family”
(2004). His other books include “A
Lover’s Gastronomic Dictionary”
(2008) and a rollicking memoir,
“Rude Journal: 2011-1928,” pub-
lished in 2011.
Mr. Millau took great pleasure
in stirring up trouble and laying
down the law. After he feuded with
Paul Bocuse, a former ally whose
namesake restaurant near Lyon
had always received 19 points, the
guide awarded a rival 19.5 points.
Later it named Mr. Bocuse one of
its chefs of the century.
“What authorized us to decide
and to make ratings in such a cate-
gorical fashion?” Mr. Millau said
to Jean-Robert Pitte, the author of
“French Gastronomy: The His-
tory and Geography of a Passion”
(2002). “Let us be frank: abso-
lutely nothing.”

Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths

BOBROW—Betty J.
Passed away August 6, 2017
at the age of 95. Beloved wife
of the late Aaron, dear moth-
er of Stephen and Jane,
proud grandmother of Aaron,
John Stuart and Alexandra.
Beautiful, elegant lady, de-
voted to family, loyal to
friends who had a wonderful,
loving, glamorous life. Servi-
ces Tuesday, August 15,
9:30am at “The Riverside,”
76th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
BRUNN—Richard A.,
97, born on September 9, 1919
in New York City, died on Au-
gust 7, 2017 of Upper Saddle
River, NJ. Richard grew up in
Manhattan and attended Al-
len Stephenson School in
Manhattan, Trinity Pauling
School in Pauling, NY, Augu-
sta Military Academy in Vir-
ginia and Washington and
Lee University in Virginia. He
served honorably in the US
Army, was wounded and re-
ceived The Purple Heart
along with other combat me-
dals in the WWII battle of The
North Apennines in Italy. He
was a fourth generation
member of the New York
Athletic Club and served as
Treasurer and founded the
club Endowment Fund. His
great Love was playing
Snooker and helped cofound
the International Snooker
League which conducted
tournaments all over the
world. In retirement he
travelled extensively around
the world on the Queen Eli-
zabeth 2 with his wife. A me-
morial celebration of life will
be held on Saturday, Septem-
ber 9, 2017 at 11am at The Old
Stone Church in Upper Saddle
River, NJ followed by a re-
ception at his home. Please
feel free to send donations to
your favorite charity in
Richard's memory. Please
send tributes, memories
and condolences to
vanemburghsneider.com.
COOK—Barbara.
The members of The Lotos
Club mourn the loss of
their distinguished colleague
and friend, Barbara Cook,
and send condolences to
her family.
FRIEDMAN—James Lionel,
of New York City, died peace-
fully on July 29 at age 97. A
kind and loving man, son of
Rabbi Benjamin and Mary
Friedman, devoted husband
of Irma Lesser Friedman,
father of Jonathan (Brenda)
and Anne, grandfather of Na-
talie, Julia and Benjamin. A
friend to all the world.
FUTTER—Joan.
My condolences to Ellen,
Deb, Jeff and their families
on the passing of their won-
derful mother and grand-
mother. Our relationship at
Weber formed the basis of an
enduring friendship and I will
always remember her wis-
dom, kindness and zest for
life.
Diana Phillips
FUTTER—Joan.
The Trustees and the entire
community of the American
Museum of Natural History
are greatly saddened by the
death of Joan Futter, mother
of Ellen V. Futter, our be-
loved and inspiring president.
We express deepest sym-
pathies to all her family on
their loss.
Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman
GAFFNEY—Ann Walker, 79,
of Brooklyn Heights, NY, and
Rehoboth Beach, DE, died
peacefully in her sleep on Au-
gust 2, 2017. The daughter of
Elizabeth Powell Dunlop and
Oliver Mallory Walker, she
was raised in Washington,
DC, and attended the Poto-
mac School, Mount Vernon
Seminary, Vassar College
and Parsons School of De-
sign. She worked in Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn as a
commercial graphic designer
and artist and was a and Jules and brother Robert
dedicated historic preserva-
tionist throughout her career.
Predeceased by her husband,
Richard Waring Gaffney and
her partner of seven years,
Bronson Binger, Ann is sur-
vived by her siblings O. Mal-
lory Walker and Elizabeth
Walker Edgeworth, both of
Washington, DC; her son,
Walker Laird Gaffney, of St.
Louis, MO; her daughter, Eli-
zabeth Mallory Gaffney, of
Brooklyn, NY; her son-in-law,
Alexis Boro; and her grand-
children, Rynier, Oona, Oliv-
er, Lucy and Willa. Her creati-
vity and love of family and
friends knew no bounds and
surrounds them still. A me-
morial service will be held at
Grace Church Brooklyn
Heights, 254 Hicks Street, at
11 am on Saturday, Septem-
ber 9, 2017. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to
the Juvenile Diabetes Re-
search Fund at www.jdrf.org.
Bobrow, Betty Malone, Warren
Brunn, Richard McCarthy, William
Cook, Barbara McEnroe, Katherine Taub, Carol
Friedman, James Peckolick, Alan
Futter, Joan Pincus, Ann
Gaffney, Ann Roth, Arthur
Haverkamp Schuman, Olga
Hruza, Zdenek Sokol, Marilyn
HAVERKAMP-
BEGEMANN—Egbert.
Renowned historian of Ne-
therlandish art of the 17th
Century, Egbert Haverkamp-
Begemann died at his home
in Manhattan, 5 August 2017.
Born in Naarden, Nether-
lands, on 6 March 1923, Eg-
bert spent the majority of his
childhood in the Soviet Union
where he and his family lived
in Siberia with his engineer
father. After a year in Moroc-
co, the family settled in the
Netherlands in the late 1930's
where Egbert completed the
Gymnasium (Dutch high
school) in Dordrecht. His Uni-
versity studies began in the
field of law but shifted to art
history, his true intellectual
passion, which he studied at
Amsterdam and Utrecht Uni-
versities, culminating in his
PhD with a dissertation mo-
nograph on Willem Buytew-
ech. Living under Nazi occu-
pation during WWII disrupted
his studies and molded his
life-view. Egbert began his
career in the early 1950's as a
curator at the Museum Boij-
mans Van Beuningen, Rotter-
dam, Netherlands, later mov-
ing to the United States with
his wife, Clarice Pennock, and
their young family. After
brief periods at Princeton and
Harvard Universities, in 1960
the family moved to Connec-
ticut where Egbert curated
prints and drawings at the
Yale University Art Gallery
and was a professor in the
Department of the History of
Art. In 1978 Egbert moved to
New York City, a city he al-
ways admired and loved, to
teach at the Institute of Fine
Arts at New York University,
becoming the John Lange-
loth Loeb Professor of the
History of Art in 1984. He re-
mained active as Professor
Emeritus, advising students
and holding positions at the
Pierpont Morgan Library and
the Metropolitan Museum of
Art where he was coordinat-
ing scholar of the Robert
Lehman Collection. His final
project, cataloging the com-
plete drawings of Aelbert
Cuyp, continued until his
death. Over his career Egbert
assembled a 10,000 volume
collection of monographs, ca-
talogs, and a considerable
number of rare 17th century
books which are a resource
for future generations of art
historians. Professor/Egbert-
/Dad/Opa will be remem-
bered for his encyclopedic
knowledge, astounding me-
mory, dedication to rigorous
work, keen observational
skills, mentorship, and kind
and wise words to loved ones,
colleagues, friends and stran-
gers. His four children and
ten grandchildren, among
many others, have been
shaped by his profound love
and care, which inspired a re-
spect for all things and all
people, no matter how see-
mingly different from our-
selves. A celebration of his
life is being planned. Dona-
tions in Egbert's honor can be
made to the Environmental
Cooperative at the Vassar
Barns https://environmental
cooperative.vassar.edu/ Box
370 Vassar College, Pough-
keepsie, NY 12604.
Stalter, David
Tanenbaum, Abe
Unger, Howard
Winans, Thomas
Zeiger, Martin
HAVERKAMP-
BEGEMANN—Egbert.
The trustees, faculty, staff,
students, and alumni of the
Institute of Fine Arts of New
York University deeply
mourn the loss of our col-
league, mentor and friend
Egbert Haverkamp - Bege -
mann who died in New York
on August 5. Born in the Ne-
therlands in 1923, Professor
Begemann received his PhD
cum laude in art history from
the University of Utrecht in
1958 and came to the U.S. the
following year, spending six
months at the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton
and six months at Harvard.
His long and distinguished
career as a scholar, curator
and teacher of the art of the
Low Countries in the seven-
teenth century continued at
Yale (1960-1974; where he
served as curator of Draw-
ings and Prints at the univer-
sity's Art Gallery and depart-
ment Chair from 1970 to
1974), and, since 1978, at NYU.
Begemann nurtured several
generations of scholars of
Dutch and Flemish art who
have continued his legacy in
museums and universities
throughout this country and
abroad. One of his former
students, Mariet Wester-
mann, former Director of the
Institute of Fine Arts and cur-
rently Executive Vice Pres-
ident of the Andrew W. Mel-
lon Foundation stated, on
learning of his passing, “What
a remarkable and wonderful
life he led, and legacy he
leaves.” Begemann was an
expert on both famous and
less well-known artists of the
Dutch and Flemish Golden
Age and his books and essays
on Rembrandt, Rubens, Van
Dyck, Vermeer, Hercules Se-
gers and others, are founda-
tional texts for modern stu-
dies of the art of the Nether-
lands. The history of prints
and drawings, their styles and
techniques, was his most be-
loved pursuit. Begemann was
named Honorary Fellow of
The Pierpont Morgan Library
where, from 2001 to 2004 he
was Acting Head in the De-
partment of Drawings and
Prints. He was a Guggenheim
Fellow, and held the post of
Curator of Seventeenth-Cen-
tury Dutch and Flemish
Paintings at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for a number
of years. Also at the Metropo-
litan, Dr. Begemann was
coordinating scholar of the
Robert Lehman Collection
from 1980 to 2014. At the time
of his death, Dr. Begemann
was the John Langeloth Loeb
Professor Emeritus at the In-
stitute of Fine Arts. A me-
morial will be organized at
the Institute later in the fall.
HRUZA—Zdenek T.,
MD, PhD, 90, March 7, 2017 in
St. Louis, MO. Physician,
scientist, mentor, and patriot.
As a teenager he fought the
Nazis on Prague's streets; as
a young father he and his be-
loved wife Judita (prede-
ceased) sacrificed all and,
with two young children, es-
caped communism. With
only their diplomas they built
new lives in their adopted and
loved country. As a professor
at the Czechoslovak Acade-
my of Sciences and NYU
School of Medicine he pub-
lished 100+ scientific articles
and books on the processes
of aging and shock. His
children: Eva (Mark) Horn,
George (Carrie) Hruza,
and grandchildren: David,
Audrey, Stephanie, Paul,
Hope and Rose miss him ter-
ribly. He leaves a legacy of
love and inspiration. He will
be remembered — always.
MALONE—Warren J.,
62, tragically died August 2,
2017. Service at All Souls
Church, August 10, 2017,
10:30am. In lieu of flowers
gifts may be made to the
JED Foundation
(www.jedfoundation.org).
McCARTHY—William F.,
98, passed away peacefully in
New York on August 7, 2017
Bill was a Captain in the US
Army Air Force in WWII. He
will be deeply missed. Bill is
survived by his devoted sister
Helen Braun. And Cherished
uncle of Winifred Mullaly,
Joseph Bradt, William Bradt,
Anne Marie Reichert, great-
uncle of 10 and great-great
uncle of five. Bill had worked
in retailing and started out at
Lord & Taylor. He later
worked at Brooks Bros. be-
fore joining Bonwit Teller. At
Bonwit's he was Vice Pres-
ident of Advertising during
the late fifties through the
seventies, before retiring. He
was known and well respect-
ed in the field. Bill loved the
theatre, opera, ballet, philhar-
monic, art galleries and mo-
vies. He would reminisce and
tell us about time he first saw
a play or movie and recalled
the names of the original cast
members. Bill enjoyed mak-
ing and drinking whiskey
sours, talking politics and was
a die-hard Democrat. Funeral
from Frank E. Campbell “The
Funeral Chapel,” 1076 Madis-
on Ave. (at 81st St), family
and friends will be received
Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9pm.
Mass of Christian Burial St
Vincent Ferrer R.C. Church,
East 66th St and Lexington
Ave., Thursday 10am. Inter-
ment St. John's cemetery.
McENROE—Katherine Tres-
ham, 81, passed away on
Wednesday, August 2, 2017.
She was the mother of John,
Mark and Patrick McEnroe.
Kay Tresham was the class
valedictorian of Greenport
High School, and graduated
from the Lenox Hill Hospital
School of Nursing in 1955.
While working at Lenox Hill,
she met John P. McEnroe,
who would become her hus-
band of almost 60 years. Kay
was a volunteer with the Le-
gal Aid Society of New York,
a Chair of the Lenox Hill Hos-
pital Auxiliary, and a member
of the Board of Trustees of
Lenox Hill Hospital. Kay
joined the Cosmopolitan Club
in 1998 and in 2015, became its
President, a position she held
upon her death. Katherine
Tresham McEnroe is sur-
vived by her son John, his
wife, Patty Smyth McEnroe,
and their children, Ruby, Ke-
vin, Sean, Emily, Anna and
Ava; son Mark, his wife,
Diane Crosson McEnroe, and
their children, Liam, Maria
and Ciaran; and son Patrick,
his wife, Melissa Errico, and
their children, Victoria, Diana
and Juliette. Her husband
passed away in February
2017. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made to The
Katherine Tresham McEnroe
Surgical Nurse Scholarship
Fund, c/o Lenox Hill Hospital,
Foundation Office, 100 East
77th Street, New York, New
York 10075; Attention: Andrea
Dowd.
PECKOLICK—Alan.
We are deeply saddened by
the loss of our wonderful
friend and author. All of us at
Pointed Leaf Press will miss
his charm, warmth, and crea-
tive genius.
Suzanne Slesin
Dominick Santise Jr.
Frederico Farina
Kelly Koester
PINCUS—Ann, 82, died peace-
fully on August 5th in Bethes-
da, MD, surrounded by her fa-
mily. Ann was the devoted
wife of the late Dr. Murray
Pincus, loving mother of Beth
(Andrew) and Lynn, and
adoring grandmother of Jake
and Rachel. She is also sur-
vived by her beloved sister
Joan and brother-in-law Wil-
liam Button.
ROTH—Arthur.
High Ridge Country Club
acknowledges with sorrow
the passing of our esteemed
member, Arthur Roth. We ex-
tend our deepest sympathy
to his beloved wife, Nancy,
and their family.
Stuart Albrecht, President
Harvey Karofsky, Secretary
SCHUMAN—Olga.
Survivor of Auschwitz and
Stutthof. Beloved wife of the
late Dr. Walter Z. Schuman.
Devoted mother of the late
Dr. Norman (Varda) Schu-
man, Dr. Mitchell (Ellen
Blank) Schuman, Dr. Joel
(Carole) Schuman, and Beth
(Mark) Rosenman. Grand-
mother of Lloyd (Daphne),
Stefanie (Brian), Randi
(Stuart), Jason (Amy), Laura
(Richard), Alexandra, Eric,
Ari, Josh and Liana. Great-
grandmother of Kacie, Ash-
ley, Ethan, Niles, Miles, Juliet,
Colin and Benjamin.
SOKOL—Marilyn, 80, of Tea-
neck, New Jersey and Spen-
certown, New York died Au-
gust 8, 2017 in Englewood,
New Jersey after a brief ill-
ness. A graduate of Erasmus
Hall High School in Brooklyn,
Marilyn started her profes-
sional career as a dental hy-
gienist. While raising her
three daughters she received
a degree in English and Jour-
nalism from Fairleigh Dickin-
son University and was the
first professional hired when
the New Jersey Film and
Television Commission was
formed. In that capacity she
organized the Commission's
extensive files on locations,
which are still used today and
have made New Jersey a fa-
vored locale by film and tele-
vision production companies.
Marilyn later worked as a
literary publicist with Solters,
Roskin & Friedman where
she specialized in represent-
ing authors and magazines. A
lifelong learner, she again
went back to school, complet-
ing studies at Fordham Uni-
versity in Gerontology and
wrote a weekly column on
aging for The Record of New
Jersey for many years. Upon
retirement she devoted her-
self to her children and
grandchildren. Marilyn was
passionate about theater,
dance, museums and all oth-
er arts. She was an avid read-
er and an expert Scrabble
player. She could complete
the Sunday New York Times
crossword puzzle in record
time. Born on June 2, 1937 in
Brooklyn, New York, Marilyn
is survived by her husband of
58 years Leon, her loving
daughters Randy Sweeney
(husband Shawn), Deborah
Sokol and Laura Cole (hus-
band William), and her six
grandchildren who she ido-
lized, Jake, Jaron, Luke, Zoe,
Alec and Lucy. She is also
survived by her brother Ed-
ward Goldstein and sister
Elaine McConnell. Marilyn
was predeceased by her
parents Ada and Harry Gold-
stein. Marilyn's family would
like to thank the doctors and
nurses at Englewood Hospi-
tal for the expert care provid-
ed to Marilyn. In lieu of flow-
ers, the family requests dona-
tions can be made to Nature
Israel, 28 Arrandale Avenue,
Great Neck, NY 11024 or the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
10 Link Drive, Rockleigh, NJ
07647. Memorial service will
be held at Gutterman and
Musicant, 402 Park Street,
Hackensack, NJ on Friday,
August 11, 2017 at 12:00 noon.
For additional information
please visit the website at
www.guttermanmusicant
wien.com.
STALTER—David Edward IV,
of New York and formerly of
Seattle, WA. Beloved son of
Mary Graves Stalter and of
David Edward Stalter III, and
of his sister, Mary Stalter
Radsch. David was a gentle-
man in every sense of the
word. His friends commented
on his sweetness and kind-
ness. His wonderful smile,
laugh, and sense of humor
will be greatly missed. He
was brave, strong, and un-
complaining through long
hospital and nursing home
stays. He passed away when
his gallant heart stopped. In
Seattle he attended Shoreline
Community College. He was
a member of the Washington
State Sons of the Revolution
and the Seattle Tennis Club. A
private family service will be
held in Graham, North Caroli-
na. Memorial Donations may
be made to the Glaucoma
Research Foundation, 251
Post Street, Suite 600, San
Francisco, CA 94108-5017.
TANENBAUM—Abe, age 97,
died peacefully at his home in
Boca Raton, FL, formerly of
Roslyn, NY, on August 6, 2017.
Beloved husband of the late
June, father of Carol Belth
and Ted Tanenbaum, grand-
father of Michael, Jonathan
and Jesse Tanenbaum and
Dana Hall and Eric Belth,
great-grandfather of Jaxon
Hall and loving companion of
Beverly Franklyn.
ZEIGER—Martin, 80,
TAUB—Carol,
(nee Siegel) passed on Au- on August 8, 2017. Martin, lo-
gust 7. Carol Taub, beloved vingly known as “Hoppy” by
his family, lived every day to
wife of Melvin for 66 years,
devoted mother of Stevi its fullest. He is survived by
Gurkoff and Jill Drury, sons- his devoted wife Ellen David,
his son Scott, daughter-in-law
in-law Jon and Chris, cher-
ished grandmother of Gene Kathy, his daughter Elise, and
Gurkoff, Genna Farber, Jack, his grandsons; Josh, Ethan,
and Jonah. Marty is also sur-
Mike and Kate Drury; adored
great-grandmother of Avi vived by his brother, noted
and Elliott Farber and Max media personality, Larry
Gurkoff; dearest sister-in-law King and his family. Marty
Nancy Siegel, predeceased was an attorney and was
by treasured parents Pearl widely known as an expert in
the generic drug field. Marty
Siegel. Carol was a graduate always marveled with delight
of West Hampton College, in that his family all made their
Richmond, VA, committed to way back to New York City.
Jewish philanthropy, a for- He was never happier than
the times he spent surround-
mer board member of the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and ed by Ellen, his children and
a homemaker. Carol was the his grandchildren. Ellen's ex-
tensive family also live near-
heart and soul of our family
and will be deeply missed. by and the Fridovich in-laws,
She lived life not for “Some- nieces, nephews, brother-in-
law, sister-in-law and grand-
day,” but for every day. In lieu
of flowers, donations can be children made every occa-
made to www.aftau.org sion a memorable event in
his life. His warmth, humor,
intelligence and charitable
UNGER—Howard, of Port heart were apparent to any-
Washington, NY and Boca one who got to know him.
Raton, FL, 87, passed away Martin “Hoppy” Zeiger will be
peacefully, surrounded by his deeply missed by those that
loved him. The family sug-
family on Monday, August 7,
gests donations to the follow-
2017 from complications re-
ing charities: St. Jude Child-
lated to a stroke. Born Sep-
ren's Research Hospital,
tember 18, 1929 in Woodside,
Save the Children, Jewish
Queens. He was co-owner of
Braille Institute. Service
Unger Bros. Auto Sales in
Thursday, August 10th,
Woodside, Queens and
9:45am at “The Riverside,”
owned and managed com-
76th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
mercial Real Estate proper-
ties. Mr. Unger served as an
MP in the Korean War and ZEIGER—Martin.
was on bodyguard detail of The Board of Trustees and
General Van Fleet, head of staff of JBI International, Inc.
allied forces, and the Pres- (established in 1931 as The
ident of Korea, Sigmund Jewish Braille Institute)
Rhee. A passionate yach- mourn the passing of Martin
tsman, he and his wife, Helen, Zeiger, beloved husband of
sailed Long Island Sound and longtime JBI Volunteer and
then the Caribbean Sea in Trustee, Ellen David. Our
their 42 foot ketch for 10 heartfelt condolences go out
years. They were avid trave- to Ellen and the rest of Mr.
lers and trekked the world. Zeiger's family. May his me-
Golfer, sportsman, teacher of mory serve as a blessing.
navigation, boating magazine Judy E. Tenney
author. A great “trouble- Co-Chairman of the Board
shooter” and Mr Fix-it. A Steven P. Polivy
wonderful husband, father Co-Chairman of the Board
and grandfather, he will be Dr. Ellen Isler
remembered with love. Mr President & CEO
Unger is survived by his wife, Israel A. Taub
Helen, of almost 63 years, his Vice President & CFO
daughter, Diane, with hus-
band Ken Yormark, his son,
In Memoriam
Lawrence with wife Suzette
Unger and five grandchild-
ren, Michael, Rachel, Adam,
BURGIN—David.
Rebecca and Sam. Funeral
My sweetheart and
Services will be held at River-
husband forever.
side-Nassau North Chapel, 55
North Station Plaza, Great
Neck, NY 11021. In lieu of
flowers, donations can be FRAUST—Howard.
made to the National Stroke Sept. 5th 1946-August 9th 2005
Association or to a charity of We are still one, as ever and
your choice. Always, Joan
MILSTEIN—Paul.
WINANS—Thomas.
After 7 years, we
honor your memory.
Phyllis and Jerry
On Thursday, August 3, 2017,
our beloved husband, father
and grandfather, Thomas
Jennings Winans, passed
away unexpectedly, sur-
rounded by family and
friends. Keeping with his fa-
mily's tradition of military
service (as he was a direct
descendant of Ulysses S.
Grant), he served as a Cap-
tain in the United States Ar-
my. Later, he worked as a
lawyer at Mobil Oil Corpora-
tion for close to 30 years. He
graduated from both Prince-
ton University (1955) and
Yale Law School (1959). Tho-
mas was an avid reader and
a die-hard Yankees fan. Of-
ten, he could be found outside
with binoculars spotting birds,
especially woodpeckers and
hummingbirds. He enjoyed
traveling throughout the
country and the world, parti-
cularly to Turkey and En-
gland. Thomas is survived by
his wife, Jane Stubenbord
Winans, his son, Thomas, his
daughter, Susan, his daugh-
ter-in-law, Stefanie, and his
beloved grandchildren, Bran-
don, Joseph, Tyler, Abby and
Ethan. Services will be held
on Saturday, August 12, at
11:00am at Immanuel Pres-
byterian Church, 1125 Savile
Lane, McLean, Virginia. In
lieu of flowers, memorial do-
nations may be made to The
Lab School of Washington,
4759 Reservoir Road, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., 20007.
B14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Barbara Cook Dies at 89;
Lyric Soprano Excelled
In Musicals and Cabarets
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Barbara Cook, a lyric soprano
whose rousing songs and roman-
tic ballads touched America’s
heart in an odyssey that began in
the golden age of Broadway musi-
cals, overcame alcoholism, de-
pression and obesity, and forged a
second life in cabarets and concert
halls, died early Tuesday at her
home in Manhattan. She was 89.
Adam LeGrant, her son and
only immediate survivor, said the
cause was respiratory failure.
In 2011, six decades after her
Broadway debut in a short-lived
musical, Ms. Cook received Ken-
nedy Center Honors from Presi-
dent Barack Obama. It had been a
remarkable journey from a bro-
ken home in Atlanta to national re-
nown as a singer who never
learned to read music but became
one of the finest emotive inter-
preters of the Great American
Songbook.
While her voice had darkened
over the years, critics said that
even in her mid-80s it retained the
richness, clarity and expressive-
A singer who battled
alcoholism, obesity
and depression.
ness of the Broadway ingénue she
had been in 1957, when she ren-
dered “Goodnight, My Someone”
and a soaring “Till There Was
You” as the original Marian, the li-
brarian, in Meredith Willson’s
blockbuster “The Music Man.”
Ms. Cook was an ideal leading
lady in the musicals of the 1950s
and ’60s. She was slender and
blond, with a scrubbed schoolgirl
charm and a radiant voice that
ranged from the patter of comedy
to the edges of aria. She won a
Tony Award for “The Music Man”
and starred in Leonard Bern-
stein’s “Candide” (1956), “She
Loves Me” (1963) and revivals of
“Carousel” (1957), “The King and
I” (1960) and “Show Boat” (1966).
She also appeared on Broadway
in nonmusical roles, including
“Any Wednesday” (1965) and
Jules Feiffer’s “Little Murders”
(1967), and on television on dra-
matic anthology series like “Arm-
strong Circle Theater” and “The
United States Steel Hour” and in a
production of the Victor Herbert
operetta “Babes in Toyland.”
But her private life — she mar-
ried a drama coach, David
LeGrant, in 1952, had a son in 1959
and lived in a house with a garden
on Long Island — was not the sub-
urban idyll portrayed by the en-
tertainment media. The couple
were divorced in 1965. In the late
’60s and early ’70s, Ms. Cook
A Singer Whose Voice Could Make You Feel Grateful to Be Alive
In 1982, when I first reviewed
her, the great soprano Barbara
Cook commanded, even then, an
intense emotional rapport with
her audience —
STEPHEN which that evening
consisted almost
HOLDEN entirely of hand-
some gay men who
AN
APPRAISAL looked up to her as
a mother figure.
The AIDS epidemic was just
underway, and I’ve long won-
dered how many in that audience
on that magical evening have
survived.
That memory is one reason my
heart was broken with the news
of her death on Tuesday at her
home on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side. She was 89. This
honey blonde with a honey-
colored voice whose textures
thickened and darkened over the
years poured out a lifetime of
accumulated emotional wisdom
at once farsighted and empathet-
ic.
Over the decades, Ms. Cook
changed from a Broadway in-
génue into a kind of sybil pouring
drank more and worked less. In
1973, her teenage son went to live
with his father.
By then, as she acknowledged
in an interview with The New
York Times Magazine in 2005, she
was virtually unemployable, an
alcoholic mired in depression. She
went on eating binges and grew to
250 pounds.
“I was not some lady drunk,”
she said. “I was a real nonfunc-
tioning alcoholic. Dishes, always
in the sink. The kitchen a mess.
The bathroom a mess. Everything
a mess.”
It might have been the end of
her career. But in 1974 she be-
friended the pianist and composer
Wally Harper, and they began a
30-year collaboration that would
restore her voice and re-establish
her professional credentials, albe-
it in a new direction: in nightclubs,
cabarets and concert halls.
They started at a theater-dis-
trict supper club. Luciano Pava-
rotti’s manager heard them and
arranged a Carnegie Hall concert
in 1975. Ms. Cook went on in a caf-
tan, and the performance was a
sensation — and the beginning of
a long road back. Soon they had a
contract with CBS Records, for
which they recorded songs from
the musical theater and other
American standards.
Ms. Cook stopped drinking in
1977, and the crippling effects of
depression subsided. But she con-
tinued to struggle with obesity.
She lost some weight, but realized
she would never return to the
svelte 106-pound figure of the
1950s and resolved to continue her
comeback whatever her weight.
“I decided that I had to try to be
comfortable with my body as it
was, because otherwise you just
live in a closet, you don’t go out,”
she told The Times.
Over the next few years, she
sang at cabarets in New York and
London. Another Carnegie Hall
concert in 1980 revealed that she
had found a new, more mature
identity as a singer. Paying less
heed to the technical virtuosity
that had thrilled audiences in big
Broadway theaters, she now em-
phasized phrasing and styling to
project a song’s emotions in
smaller, more intimate settings.
The effect was striking. She had
made no secret of her personal
problems. But character and
hard-won experience seemed to
suffuse her songs, and it con-
nected with audiences and critics.
The reviewers took up a refrain,
with phrases like “simple hon-
esty,” “simplicity and directness”
and “straightforward and declam-
atory.”
Looking back after Ms. Cook’s
85th-birthday concert at Carnegie
Hall in 2012, Anthony Tommasini,
in an assessment in The Times,
wrote, “Long ago Ms. Cook fig-
ured out what really matters in
out compassion gleaned from her
own personal ups and downs. At
first, Ms. Cook made her name as
a coloratura, singing “Glitter and
Be Gay,” the fiercely challenging
comic showpiece from the 1956
musical “Candide.”
But that performance, memo-
rialized on the show’s original
cast album, proved to be just the
icing of a singing career that saw
her voice gain substance as she
reached into the heart of the
American songbook, transform-
ing standards into piercingly
truthful expressions of her tu-
multuous personal life.
Her musical director Wally
Harper encouraged her to widen
her horizons, swing lightly and
dip into jazz and blues. (His
death in 2004 devastated her.)
And as Ms. Cook became a main-
stay at New York clubs like the
now-long-gone Michael’s Pub
and later Café Carlyle and Fein-
stein’s at 54 Below, she was
discovered and embraced by a
whole new audience. The crucial
turning point was her now leg-
endary role in September 1985 at
singing: to put lyrics across as if
she were confiding in you, to bend
melodic phrases to expressive
ends, to inflect her sound with
heartache, happiness, sass, bitter-
ness or whatever the moment
calls for.”
Barbara Cook was born in At-
lanta on Oct. 25, 1927, the older of
two daughters of Charles Cook, a
traveling salesman, and the for-
mer Nell Harwell, a telephone op-
erator for Southern Bell.
Growing up, Barbara blamed
Barbara Cook in 2007. Her singing unlocked her emotional wis-
dom and experience and shared them with the audience.
Lincoln Center in a concert pro-
duction of “Follies.” Playing Sally
in this all-star resurrection of the
1971 Stephen Sondheim musical
and backed by the New York
Philharmonic, she immortalized
the Sondheim songs “In Buddy’s
LEO FRIEDMAN
herself for two crushing events in
her childhood. Her 18-month-old
sister, Patricia, died after con-
tracting pneumonia and whoop-
ing cough at a time when Barbara,
3, had whooping cough. And in the
stressful time that ensued, her
parents divorced.
Barbara sang at Elks and U.S.O.
clubs, danced at amateur-night
performances in theaters and lat-
er got a job as a chorus girl and
sang on the radio. She graduated
from Girls’ High School in 1945,
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Eyes” and “Losing My Mind.”
Her glorious performances on
the original cast album fully
capture the splendor of that
moment.
This was when the essence of
the mature Barbara Cook fully
Barbara Cook in concert at Carnegie Hall, above, in 2006 and
as Marian, the librarian, left, with Robert Preston in the 1957
Broadway play “The Music Man,” in which she sang “Till There
Was You.” In 2011, Ms. Cook received Kennedy Center Honors.
and in 1948 moved to New York.
She worked as a typist and file
clerk, auditioned for musical parts
and had her first singing engage-
ment in a Boston nightclub in 1950.
She made her Broadway musi-
cal debut in 1951 in “Flahooley.”
Despite lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
and an eclectic cast that included
the singer Yma Sumac and the co-
median Irwin Corey, it closed after
40 performances. But Brooks At-
kinson, in his review for The
Times, called Ms. Cook “espe-
cially winning.”
In 1953 she appeared in a re-
vival of “Oklahoma!,” singing a
spirited “I Cain’t Say No” and “All
er Nothin’.” In 1955 she played an
Amish girl in the Broadway hit
“Plain and Fancy,” and a year later
she enchanted audiences as Cune-
gonde in “Candide.”
In 1957, she starred in what be-
came one of Broadway’s biggest
hits, “The Music Man,” as Marian
Paroo, the prim librarian of River
City, Iowa, who charms and re-
forms the fast-talking, heart-of-
gold con man Harold Hill, played
by Robert Preston. Ms. Cook, Mr.
Preston and the show all won
Tonys. It ran for more than three
years, although Ms. Cook with-
drew in 1959 to give birth to her
son.
Her comeback in nightclubs
and concert halls, with Mr. Harper
as pianist and arranger, led to her
reincarnation as an interpreter of
standards and musical theater
songs, particularly those of
Stephen Sondheim. In 1985, she
appeared with the New York Phil-
harmonic in a concert version of
A celebrated ingénue
who matured into a
poignant interpreter.
revealed itself. Attached to the
glowing voice was the suggestion
of a sigh from a woman looking
back with a mixture of wistful
regret and acceptance, without a
trace of bitterness. It was a voice
that invited you to nestle in her
arms for mutual comfort. Only
one other singer in recent dec-
ades — Rosemary Clooney —
offered a similar mixture of
consolation and understanding,
an assurance that in the great
scheme of things, all will be
forgiven.
The “Follies” concert began
her association with Mr. Sond-
heim, which helped both their
careers soar. Because the pas-
sage of time is a major theme for
both the singer and the com-
poser, Ms. Cook became, to an
extent, his voice. Listening to her
RICHARD TERMINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Sondheim’s “Follies.”
Ms. Cook recorded dozens of al-
bums, toured America and gave
concerts all over the world. She
sang at the White House for Presi-
dents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Rea-
gan, George Bush and Bill Clinton.
She won a 1987 Drama Desk
Award for a solo Broadway show,
“A Concert for the Theatre.” For
her 70th birthday, in 1997, she sang
at the Albert Hall in London, and
in 2001 she performed “Barbara
Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim” at
Carnegie Hall, to rave reviews.
In 2005, a year after Mr.
Harper’s death, she recorded
“Tribute,” an album dedicated to
him. In 2006 she became the first
female pop singer to give a full
concert at the Metropolitan Opera
since its founding in 1883, al-
though she had made her Met de-
but in 2003 as a special guest solo-
ist. She gave two sold-out concerts
with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra at Lincoln Center in
2007.
Teaching master classes at the
Juilliard School in recent years,
Ms. Cook often waved off her stu-
dents’ preoccupation with vocal
perfection, pushing them instead
to get at the pain and joy beneath
the notes.
“What is this song about?” she
demanded of one bewildered
class.
A student with a lovely voice
tried singing “Can’t Help Lovin’
Dat Man,” from “Show Boat.”
But Ms. Cook cut her off, and
rendered a hard judgment: “You
do not have the life experience to
really, really sing this song.”
sing “Send in the Clowns,” “Not a
Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m
Around,” and “No One Is Alone,”
only a few of his many songs she
performed, is akin to tuning in to
an urbane, secular gospel cere-
mony preaching a message of
friendship, loyalty and human
values. You left every Cook per-
formance feeling warmed and
grateful to be alive.
One of Barbara Cook’s last
great signature songs was
“Here’s to Life,” a summing-up
and looking back anthem by
Artie Butler and Phyllis Moli-
nary that has become an almost
de rigueur signoff number for
nightclub singers with enough
life experience to make the lyrics
count. When I first heard Ms.
Cook sing it at an all-star Car-
negie Hall event, her rendition
brought the auditorium to a
hushed silence.
James Taylor, the next singer
to perform, offered the perfect
comment. Briefly turning his
head to gaze offstage, he said,
“There’s only one.”
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David Letterman will have a
new show on Netflix.
4 ARTS, BRIEFLY
‘The Great Comet’ will close
on Broadway in September.
NEWS CRITICISM
Clockwise from top left, Marco D’Amore in the Italian series “Gomorrah”; the concert film “Neil Young: Heart of Gold”; and Alison Brie in “GLOW.”
DWIGHT GARNER BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Siblings Changed
By Love and Jihad
A British family of Pakistani
descent straddles two worlds.
KAMILA SHAMSIE’S NEW NOVEL, longlisted
for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is a bold
retelling of Sophocles’ “Antigone.” Its epi-
gram (“The ones we love . . . are enemies of
the state”) is from Seamus Heaney’s 2004
translation and reworking of the play. The
novel begins with an airport interrogation.
A Londoner of Pakistani descent, Isma,
has a student visa and is flying to study soci-
ology at Amherst College. Because she’s
Muslim and wears a hijab, she knows to ex-
pect delays and perhaps worse at security.
Dark wit plays beneath her trepidation.
She has prepped for this moment with her
sister. If you’re asked about the queen, her
sister has said, respond, “As an Asian I have
to admire her color palette.”
The interrogation is no joke. It lasts
hours. Isma’s clothes are frisked so thor-
oughly that the security hirelings seem to
be “not so much searching for hidden pock-
ets as judging the quality of the material.”
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EMANUELA SCARPA/SUNDANCE TV
13 Phish Shows. No Repeats.
How the long-running jam band
pulled off the ‘Baker’s Dozen.’
By JESSE JARNOW
The veteran Vermont quartet Phish is
known for long jams, unexpected cover
songs and clever performance concepts,
but over 13 nights at Madison Square Gar-
den called the “Baker’s Dozen,” the group
achieved a new milestone: It played 237
songs (or 239, depending on your source of
Phish-obsessive statistics) with no repeats
— without using set lists — over the course
of its longest residency yet.
“The whole thing became such a blur,” the
Home Fire
guitarist and singer Trey Anastasio said on
By Kamila Shamsie Monday, recovering from the final show on
Sunday night, which like the rest of the run
blended rigorous compositions and classic
rock with absurdism, improvisation and oc-
casional flashes of total earnestness. “I re-
member getting in the car on the way home
one night and somebody said, ‘Oh, great
version of “Possum,” ’ and I didn’t even re-
member playing ‘Possum.’ ”
A long-running in-joke about mashing up
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2 DANCE
Screen dreams of a girls’ step
team. BY GIA KOURLAS
2 DANCE
Choreographers at play in
Vail. BY ALASTAIR MACAULAY
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Vacation
Selections
KEN REGAN/PARAMOUNT CLASSICS
For Trump
Our critics’ ideas
of entertainment
for presidential tastes.
President Trump has nearly two weeks left
on his working vacation in New Jersey.
That’s a lot of hours for one of his favorite
pastimes — watching television. But there’s
only so much news that one man can take.
So a few of our critics weighed in with rec-
ommendations of streaming shows and
movies for the nation’s consumer in chief of
cable television. And since Mr. Trump plans
to spend some time in New York City, our
co-chief theater critic had a couple of sug-
gestions as well.
‘Neil Young: Heart of Gold’
The president is on record as being a Neil
Young fan — he told Rolling Stone in 2006,
“He’s got something very special.” So Mr.
Trump might enjoy Mr. Young’s moving,
fiercely honest performances in this beauti-
ful concert film directed by Jonathan
Demme.
Or he might not: More recently, Mr.
Trump called Mr. Young a “total hypocrite”
for objecting to the use of one of his songs at
a Trump campaign event.
MIKE HALE
‘Miss Congeniality’
What movie combines two of President
Trump’s interests — beauty pageants and
the F.B.I. — better than “Miss Congenial-
ity”? In this 2000 comedy (available for
rental on iTunes) Sandra Bullock plays an
F.B.I. agent who goes undercover by be-
coming a contestant in a pageant, which the
bureau believes is going to be the target of
some sort of attack.
Of course, she’s successful, suggesting a
degree of competence on the part of the
F.B.I. that may or may not suit Mr. Trump at
the moment.
NEIL GENZLINGER
‘GLOW’
Given the president’s interest in the WWE,
he should try the Netflix series “GLOW,” an
inspired-by-true-events dramedy about the
early days of women’s professional
wrestling in the ’80s. Episodes are only half
an hour, so it’s pretty breezy. Come for the
women in high-cut leotards, stay for the
well-developed exploration of their interior
ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX lives and experiences, including their re-
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A WORD WITH
TREY ANASTASIO
CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Trey Anastasio said Phish prepared for its residency, but in the end the shows were “a blur.”
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Dance

Bonding, Rhythm and Identity Meet

A group of girls express their I’m in my computer science classes, and
there’s that question that I don’t under-
hopes, dreams and fears in the stand, I’m not afraid to ask it.”
documentary ‘Step.’ Ms. Grainger said she planned to join
Johns Hopkins’s step team, Eruption, this
fall. Ms. Solomon, however, has no plans to
By GIA KOURLAS
resume stepping — though she’s still per-
When Amanda Lipitz started filming the forming as part of the film’s publicity. “We
girls at the Baltimore Leadership School for actually thought that we were done after
Young Women, they were 11. It was two graduation,” she said. “Then the movie blew
years before Blessin Giraldo, by then a for- up, and we were like, ‘We’ve got to bring the
midable eighth grader, approached her. boots out of the closets.’”
“She said, ‘Next time you come to school On Aug. 14, the Lethal Ladies team will
with the cameras, you need to film our step appear on “So You Think You Can Dance.”
team,’” Ms. Lipitz recalled. “‘You’re going In the film, though, it’s not just members of
to love us.’” the step team who are critical to the story;
Ms. Lipitz, 37, a Baltimore native and it’s also their mentors — counselors, teach-
Broadway producer, was making short ers and, above all, the team’s coach, Gari
films about the progress of Baltimore Lead- McIntyre.
ership, a charter school, which her mother
A Baltimore native and the first in her
started in part to help get young women into
family to graduate college, Ms. McIntyre in
college.
the film talks to the girls about Freddie
Though she had heard about the step
Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sus-
team — Ms. Giraldo, now 18, formed it when
tained a fatal spinal cord injury while in po-
she was in sixth grade — Ms. Lipitz knew
lice custody in 2015. Ms. McIntyre’s goal
almost nothing about step, a percussive-
was not solely to transform the group’s
movement tradition that uses the entire
choreography, but she is the reason it began
body as well as the voice and is popular in FOX SEARCHLIGHT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

African-American fraternities and soror- to focus on themes of empowerment and on

ities. But Ms. Lipitz knows good theater
when she sees it.
“It was a musical,” she said. “The music is
their claps and their stomps, and the lyrics
are the words, and the book is who they are.
When they can’t speak about who they are
in their everyday lives, they step. In a musi-
cal, you express your hopes and your fears
and your dreams through song.”
In “Step,” Ms. Lipitz’s documentary fea-
ture, she follows the school’s 19-member
team, the Lethal Ladies, during their senior
year. The girls prepare for a competition —
and for the rest of their lives. Will they get
into college? And if they do, will they be able
to afford it? All the while, step is their re-
lease, their lifeline.
“I believe you see who they really are
when they step,” Ms. Lipitz said.
And in the case of the Bob Fosse-ob-
sessed Ms. Giraldo, who has never taken a
formal dance class, you see what natural
talent looks like. For her, step was always
easy. “You don’t have to rely on the beat,”
she said in an interview. “You are the beat.
You create the beat. So whatever you want
A scene from Amanda Lipitz’s
documentary “Step,” featuring
the Lethal Ladies step team of
the Baltimore Leadership
School for Young Women.
‘When they can’t speak
about who they are in
their everyday lives,
they step.’
AMANDA LIPITZ
DIRECTOR OF ‘STEP’
it to be, whatever direction you want it to go
in, you can put it in that direction. It’s cre-
ativity.”
“Step” — a hit at the Sundance Film Festi-
val, where it won the special jury award for
inspirational filmmaking — also shows the
girls’ sometimes difficult home lives. Ms.
Giraldo struggles with keeping her grades
up at school and not having enough to eat at
home. The focus is also on two other Lethal
Ladies: Cori Grainger, her class’s quiet
valedictorian; and Tayla Solomon, who is as
dry as her mother, a corrections officer, is
exuberant. “I’m, like, a notch down from Be-
yoncé,” Ms. Solomon says in the film, “be-
cause I do still mess up.”
As we get to known the girls and their
families, Ms. Lipitz upends stereotypes —
about Baltimore, single mothers and young
black girls in urban communities. Little is
sentimental or sugarcoated; Ms. Lipitz is
interested in nuance. “You have the correc-
tions officer who tells you that as a black
woman in Baltimore, the police were her
biggest heroes,” she said. “When I saw an
opportunity to turn something on its head I
did.”
Ms. Lipitz said one of her biggest lessons
making “Step” had to do with understand-
ing poverty, not race. “Poverty is having a
home and going to school and having a job
and a car and living on food stamps,” she
said. “I don’t think people really understand
that.”
As she sees it, an activity like step — but
any creative outlet in the arts or sciences
will do — can be a game changer for young
people. “You must have something that
keeps kids connected to school that is not
academic,” she said. “Blessin will flat out
tell you there were many days she did not
want to come to school, but she did because
she knew if she didn’t go to school she didn’t
go to step practice, and she needed to go to
step practice.”
Step gave Ms. Grainger, who now attends
Johns Hopkins University, something else:
confidence.
“I literally had to raise my voice,” she
said. “And that’s not something that I would
be comfortable doing before.” That carried
over to her life beyond the stage, too. “When
subjects like Black Lives Matter. Before she
arrived, the team performed tributes to art-
ists like Beyoncé.
“My job was to mentor these young ladies
first,” she said. “Their step coaches before
me were great with choreography, but I
think that they were missing the whole
piece about the solidarity, the discipline, the
self-esteem, the education. I think they
were missing the one-on-one connection
that is the essence of step. I knew that com-
ing in.”
For viewers, that transformation among
the girls is palpable. “It was the Freddie
Gray riots and our passion for stepping and
the way people look at us when we per-
form,” Ms. Giraldo said. “They don’t listen
to us most of the time because we’re these
black girls from the ’hood or however peo-
ple want to label us.”
But when they’re onstage, they’re fear-
less. “You’re going to watch us,” she contin-
ued. “We’re demanding your attention.
That’s why we included a message. It was
our last year.” Ms. Giraldo smiled brightly.
“We had to leave with a bang.”

ALASTAIR MACAULAY DANCE REVIEW

Women, Choreographing but Not Conforming

Mixing tap, ballet and jookin,
and playing games with gender.
VAIL, COLO. — Is the sociology of the dance
world changing? The last two years have
brought many more commissions for female
choreographers.
English National Ballet made a splash in
2016 with an entire program of new choreo-
graphy by women. And this year’s “NOW:
Premieres” program at the Vail Dance Fes-
tival here was subtitled “Celebrating Wom-
en Choreographers.” Does this sound like
mere tokenism? It’s worth pointing out that
all four of these female dance-makers — Mi-
chelle Dorrance (this year’s artist in resi-
dence), Lauren Lovette, Claudia Schreier
and Pam Tanowitz — have worked at the
festival before.
Ms. Dorrance, the tap prima, proves the
most mature and engaging of the four. Her
piece, “we seem to be more than one,” occu-
pying the whole second half of the program,
turned the motley crew of guests at Vail,
which draws performers from all over the
country, into a true company. Dancers of fla-
menco, Memphis jookin, virtuoso modern
dance, tap and from several ballet compa-
nies — as well as the clown Bill Irwin — were

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all put through their tap paces. Ms. Dor-

rance gave them room to show their home
idioms, but demonstrated how these other
tributaries fed into the great tap river.
So Tiler Peck, a principal at New York City
Ballet, appeared in point shoes and later in
tap ones; James Whiteside (American Bal- PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIN BAIANO

let Theater) and Roman Mejia (soon to be a

City Ballet apprentice) knocked off double
air turns as if erupting irrepressibly. Elena
Heiss delivered the rapid-fire footwork of
her flamenco specialty as if it were tap’s
closest cousin. Ms. Dorrance danced a
charming vaudeville-type trio with Mr. Ir-
win and the festival director, Damian Woetz-
el (a former City Ballet star). Herman
Cornejo (American Ballet Theater) did a cir-
cuit of low jumps, as if concentrating on the
friction between shoes and ground. Nobody
looked gauche; everyone seemed released.
In a marvelous finale, the dancers be-
came a three-part tap orchestra, with front,
middle and back rows making quite differ-
ent physical styles combine, polyphonically.
(You have to smile when you see a final en-
semble in which Mr. Cornejo, Ms. Peck and
Mr. Whiteside — top ballet stars — are in the
second and third rows.) And “we seem to be
more than one” wasn’t just festival fun. It
also showed Ms. Dorrance’s skill with geom-
etries and overlapping group rhythms.
The most experimental of the four choreo-
graphers was Ms. Tanowitz, who contribut-
ed two premieres. A modern-dance choreo-
grapher who uses aspects of the ballet vo-
cabulary, she said in an interview with The
New York Times last year: “There is the fa-
mous quote from Balanchine: ‘Ballet is
Woman.’ Well, it’s a woman made by a man.”
For the “NOW” program, she used for the
first time ballet’s single most defining fea-
ture: pointwork. This was in “For Patricia,”
a solo conceived and created at short notice Above, from left, Jeffrey Cirio,
for Patricia Delgado (former principal of Jared Angle, Calvin Royal III
Miami City Ballet) to Bartok music for two and Melissa Toogood in Pam
violins. Pointwork apart, it abounded in pi- Tanowitz’s “Entr’acte.” Left,
quant, intricate changes of rhythm and di- Michelle Dorrance and Dario
rection: Ms. Delgado looked elegant, wholly Natarelli in Ms. Dorrance’s
unpredictable, commandingly playful. “we seem to be more than
In Ms. Tanowitz’s other creation, “En- one.”
tr’acte,” she played games with gender. Jar-
ed Angle, Jeffrey Cirio and Calvin Royal III
took turns partnering one another in differ-
ent ways, and each had vividly individual
steps. (They all did, in unison, gargouillades
— foot-flourishing sideways jumps that
used to be exclusively for female dancers.)
When Melissa Toogood arrived, she seemed
at once central and peripheral, a forceful
presence unsure of how to fit into this group
until she danced a duet with Mr. Angle. Yet
that didn’t resolve matters. In the dance’s
most memorable image, the men, backs to
the audience, slowly but steadily paced to
the back of the stage while she, facing us, played pizzicato; another keeps the violin in her own poems, exercises in sentimental
moved in a sharper, livelier tempo — sepa- the highest section of its register. emotionalism, with a throbbing, exaggerat-
rate but strong. Ms. Lovette, a City Ballet principal, has ed tremolo.
The scores for “Entr’acte” (string quar- often visited Vail as a dancer; this time, she Claudia Schreier’s “Tranquil Night,
tet) and Ms. Lovette’s “Angels of the Get- was here as a choreographer, too. It was im- Bright and Infinite” was a neat dance quin-
Through” (solo violin and spoken poetry) pressive how nonconformist her “Angels of tet (three men, two women) to Leonard
were by Caroline Shaw, another returning the Get-Through” work was: four women, Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano,
Vail artist, who is to be next year’s composer with some sequences of mutual partnering with lovely little moments of geometry and
in residence. Though her “Angels” score re- and supportiveness, moving to a combina- musical timing. But everything looked too
sembles Arvo Pärt too much for comfort, tion of poetry and music (with no men). But concerned with tastefulness. Politeness and
her “Entr’acte” music has a marvelous the spoken word usually upstages dance. polish ruled; human energies were reduced
range of sonorities: One whole section is Certainly, it did so here. Andrea Gibson read to inoffensive good form.
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MIKE HALE TELEVISION REVIEW

Letterman to Have
A New TV Show
The former late-night
host will begin an
hourlong Netflix series.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
David Letterman is preparing to
return to television in his first
continuing series since stepping
down as the host of CBS’s “Late
Show” in 2015.
Netflix announced on Tuesday
that it had picked up a new show
from Mr. Letterman, the comedi-
an and broadcaster.
Each hourlong episode of the
series, which will run for six
episodes next year, will feature a
long-form interview between Mr.
Letterman and a guest, as well as
segments in which he explores
the wider world.
Mr. Letterman said on Tuesday
in a phone interview that ever
since he signed off from his “Late
Show” duties, “Everybody would
come to me and say, ‘What do you
JAMES BRIDGES/AT&T AUDIENCE NETWORK
want to do?’ And I kept saying,
Brendan Gleeson plays Bill Hodges, a recently retired detective who can’t let go of an unsolved massacre, in “Mr. Mercedes.” ‘Well, jeez, I did what I wanted to
do.’”
But his new series, which does
ing is pretty much infinite. It’s a
perfect fit for me.”
His current stage of planning,
Mr. Letterman said, was to “write
down a list of people that you
know you’re not going to be able
to talk to, and those are the people
that I want to try to get to talk to.”
He said he had already booked
one such guest “that I’m de-
lighted about, that I’m told I can’t
reveal.”
Since his departure from “Late
Show,” where he was succeeded
by Stephen Colbert, Mr. Letter-
man has made only a handful of
TV appearances. Last year he
was a celebrity correspondent on
“Years of Living Dangerously,” a
climate-change documentary se-
ries on the National Geographic
Channel, for which he traveled to
India and met with Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi. (He also
grew a copious beard.)
Citing his experience on “Years
‘There’s no time limit. I
can just talk the ears off
people, until they call
the police.’

A Shift in Stephen King Storytelling
An officer, unable to solve a
crime, is taunted by the killer.
IT’S ALWAYS STEPHEN KING season on-
screen, but this summer the yield has been
particularly abundant. A new television ad-
aptation of “The Mist” is playing on Spike, a
feature film based on the “Dark Tower” se-
ries opened last week and now a 10-episode
version of “Mr. Mercedes” begins Wednes-
day on the Audience Network.
Through four episodes, “Mr. Mercedes” is
probably the most enjoyable, even though
— or perhaps because — it’s the least King-
like of the productions.
Part of the difference lies in the source
material. In “Mr. Mercedes,” his 62nd novel,
Mr. King took leave of supernatural horror
(“The Mist”) and fantasy action (the “Dark
Tower” books) to try his hand at a more or
less traditional detective story.
A bigger factor, though, is the TV show’s
creator, David E. Kelley, who developed the
series and wrote the first two episodes. He’s
in good form, and “Mr. Mercedes” has the
Kelley hallmarks — snappy dialogue, credi-
ble characters, a story that adds up, an
overall feeling of polished craftsmanship. It
may lack King’s intensity, but it holds on to a
measure of his dark humor.
Being a King story, “Mr. Mercedes” is a
mystery predicated on an act of extreme
carnage. In a fading Ohio industrial city in
2009, a driver in a clown mask plows a Mer-
cedes through a crowd of people waiting
outside a job fair. The story then jumps
ahead two years and burrows into the life of
Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson), a recently
retired detective unable to let go of the still
unsolved massacre.
Mr. Mercedes
Wednesdays on the Audience Network
In its early episodes, at least, “Mr. Mer-
cedes” is a show soaked in decline. The sag-
ging economy makes an easy target of the
desperate job seekers, camped out on a
walkway. The killer, whose identity is re-
vealed early on, works for a big-box elec-
tronics store that’s being driven out of busi-
ness. Saddest of all is Hodges, shuffling
around his empty house, and Mr. Gleeson
and Mr. Kelley combine to give an unusual-
ly honest portrayal of middle-age depres-
sion and decrepitude.
The story slowly kicks into gear when the
killer, calling himself Mr. Mercedes — he’s
actually a 20-something victim of a terrible
childhood named Brady, played by Harry
Treadaway (Dr. Frankenstein on “Penny
not yet have a title, “feels like ex-
actly what I want at this stage of
my life,” he added.
Dreadful”) — begins sending the detective In his 33-year tenure as a late-
taunting emails about his failure to solve night host, Mr. Letterman, 70,
the case. These have the dual effect of stok- pushed the format well beyond
ing Bill’s post-traumatic stress over the the boundaries established by
case while reinvigorating him, and soon predecessors like Johnny Carson,
he’s independently investigating, like a the genial M.C. of NBC’s “The To-
Philip Marlowe brought back from the night Show.”
dead. At NBC’s “Late Night” (which
“Mr. Mercedes” is full of people who are
he created and hosted from 1982
off, on a spectrum from mildly antisocial to
to 1993) and CBS’s “Late Show”
psychopathic, and Mr. Kelley works hard to (from 1993 to 2015), Mr. Letter-
humanize them, making even the sadistic man helped introduce many inno-
Brady sympathetic. He mostly reins in his
vative comedy bits, as well as an
propensity for quirkiness for its own sake,
acerbic, cockeyed style that still
though a character added for the series, a permeates the genre.
sexually aggressive neighbor of Bill’s He also appeared in segments
played by Holland Taylor, is a little too good taped outside his studios where
to be true. he amused himself with explora-
(Ms. Taylor is fun to watch, though, and tions of quotidian life and interac-
the cast includes a number of distinctive ac- tions with everyday people.
tresses, including Kelly Lynch as Brady’s As Mr. Letterman described it,
mother, Breeda Wool as his co-worker and his Netflix series would not much
Mary-Louise Parker as the woman who resemble his past network late-
hires Bill to pursue the case.) night shows.
The problem with “Mr. Mercedes,” at “I can’t stop talking, so there’s
least early on, is a version of Netflix bloat: it no time limit,” he said, explaining
dawdles, and through the first four episodes its format. “I can just talk the ears
it feels like the story is still getting started. off people, until they call the po-
So far Mr. Kelley has put together a decent lice. As with many things, I’m
character study, but whether he’ll pull off a coming from a position of great ig-
hard-boiled thriller remains a mystery. norance, so the well of question-
of Living Dangerously” and his
friendship with Senator Al Frank-
en, Democrat of Minnesota, the
comedian turned politician, Mr.
Letterman said he would like to
do work that might “affect people
and help people — that notion to
me, as high-minded as that might
be, is a great motivator here.”
(Asked if Mr. Franken was
among the guests he was consid-
ering, Mr. Letterman said: “No,
no. We’d have to do so much bet-
ter than Al Franken as a guest. He
wouldn’t even make the junior
varsity, I’m sorry.”)
Mr. Letterman was also ada-
mant that he would keep his
beard for the Netflix series.
“Between you and me, the
beard is to cover up botched plas-
tic surgery,” he said. “The beard
has to stay. It would be hideous.
Children would be frightened.”
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
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C4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
‘The Great Comet’
To Close on Broadway
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great
Comet of 1812,” the acclaimed
Broadway musical that had more
Tony Award nominations than
any other last season, will close
on Sept. 3 after struggling to
overcome a recent casting con-
troversy, the show’s producers
announced on Tuesday.
The role of Pierre, once played
by Josh Groban (above left), had
been performed by the “Hamil-
ton” veteran Okieriete
Onaodowan (above center),
known as Oak, since mid-July.
But about two weeks ago, the
producers said Mr. Onaodowan
would “make room” for the stage
and screen star Mandy Patinkin
(above right) to step in as Pierre
from Aug. 15 through Sept. 3. The
backlash was almost immediate
as people took issue with a black
actor’s stepping aside to be re-
placed by a white one.
Mr. Patinkin later withdrew
from “The Great Comet,” and Mr.
Onaodowan said he would leave
the production on Aug. 13 — the
same week that another high-
profile cast member, the pop
singer Ingrid Michaelson, is
scheduled to depart.
Amid the uproar, Dave Malloy,
the show’s Tony-nominated
composer and creator, wrote on
Twitter: “The show was in des-
perate shape; sales after Ingrid
leaving Aug. 13 were catastrophi-
cally low. Show would have
closed.”
Last week, “The Great Comet”
brought in $875,614 in ticket sales
BROADWAY
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SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
— down from $905,514 one week
earlier and from $923,571 the
week before the controversy
broke out. To be clear, $875,614 is
still a high amount for a Broad-
way show, and 81.5 percent of the
production’s potential box office
sales. Comparatively, it fared
better than stalwarts like “Chi-
cago” and “The Phantom of the
Opera” last week.
But August is typically a slow
month for the theater box office,
and “The Great Comet” has no
plans to add another celebrity to
the cast. Instead, Scott Stang-
land, who has appeared regularly
as the understudy for Pierre, will
step in for the week following Mr.
Onaodowan’s departure. Mr.
Malloy will then perform as
Pierre for the show’s final weeks.
JOSHUA BARONE
Musicians Protest
Guest Conductor
It was supposed to be a dazzling
opportunity for the Santa Monica
Symphony Orchestra — a volun-
teer ensemble of professionals
and semiprofessionals led by
Guido Lamell — to play the Walt
Disney Concert Hall in Los Ange-
les for a fund-raiser. Mr. Lamell,
the orchestra’s music director,
invited the conservative radio
host and columnist Dennis
Prager as guest conductor.
But that decision caused out-
rage among some musicians in
the symphony, who are refusing
to play. They say that allowing
the orchestra to be conducted by
Mr. Prager, who has suggested
“OUT OF CONTROL AMAZING!”
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Arts, Briefly
N E W S F R O M T H E C U LT U R A L W O R L D
that same-sex marriage would
lead to polygamy and incest,
among other contentious state-
ments, would be tantamount to
endorsing and normalizing big-
otry. Some are encouraging
others not to attend.
But conservatives are crying
foul. Some right-wing media
outlets have brought attention to
the symphony, with some paint-
ing the musicians as intolerant.
Mr. Prager has turned the con-
cert into a rallying cry for the
right, writing in National Review
that people should attend, since
it would give them “a chance to
defeat the illiberal left.”
Mr. Prager said in an email,
“To the extent that the event has
been rendered political, it was
done solely by the people who
chose to make it political.”
Mr. Prager has a deep love of
classical music and has been a
guest conductor for orchestras in
Southern California. He is to lead
Haydn’s Symphony No. 51.
His political views are divisive.
Last month, Mr. Prager posted
on Twitter that “the news media
in the West pose a far greater
danger to Western civilization
than Russia does.” In 2014, he
wrote that the “heterosexual
AIDS” crisis was something
“manufactured by the Left.” Mr.
Prager also suggested that if
same-sex marriage were legal-
ized, then “there is no plausible
argument for denying polyga-
mous relationships, or brothers
and sisters, or parents and adult
children, the right to marry.”
These opinions have caused
consternation among the musi-
cians.
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HELLO,
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also starring DAVID
HYDE
PIERCE
Based on The Matchmaker by
THORNTON WILDER
Book by
MICHAEL STEWART
Music & Lyrics by
JERRY HERMAN
Original Production
Directed & Choreographed by
GOWER CHAMPION
Choreographed by
WARREN CARLYLE
Directed by
JERRY ZAKS
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“A COLOSSAL BROADWAY HIT!”
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KINKY BOOTS
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Music & Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
Direction/Choreography by Jerry Mitchell
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Eugene O'Neill Theatre (+), 230 W 49th St
“A MUST-SEE!” -The Star-Ledger
TODAY AT 2 & 8
Janeane Garofalo Lili Taylor
Celia Weston
MARVIN'S ROOM
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Ready, Set, Go
YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX
LAWRENCE BROWNLEE This
tenor sings with accompani-
ment from the MacArthur-
NICOLE CRAINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ANGELA WEISS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY
IMAGES winning jazz pianist Jason
Zach Zyskowski, 29, a violinist, edition of the Fall for Dance Moran. 7:30 p.m. at the Park
said, “Being a gay person who Festival, City Center’s annual Avenue Armory.
has been discriminated against, I series of affordable and diverse armoryonpark.org
don’t want to perform with some- performances. The festival,
body who has written some planned for Oct. 2 through 14, will
pretty awful things about gay feature five programs and five
people, women and minorities.” world premieres, as well as re-
Local officials have weighed in, vivals of works by prominent
including the mayor of Santa choreographers, including Alexei
Monica, Ted Winterer, who has Ratmansky, Christopher Wheel-
said that he will not attend, but don and Trisha Brown, who died
added by email, “It’s not the role this year at 80.
of government and its officials to As usual, all tickets will cost
endorse or demean artistic per- $15, but they often sell out the
formances.” day they become available. They
Mr. Lamell and the orchestra’s go on sale at 11 a.m. on Sept. 10.
board of directors are standing Troy Schumacher will create a
behind the invitation to Mr. new dance, which doesn’t have a JOSHUA BELL, STEVEN
Prager. The performance is to be title yet, for Miami City Ballet on ISSERLIS AND ANA-MARIA
held next Wednesday. the festival’s first program (Oct.
VERA At the Mostly Mozart
SOPAN DEB 2 through 3). That evening will
also include the premiere of Ms. Festival. 10 p.m. at the Stan-
Dorrance’s “Myelination,” a ley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
version of her Fall for Dance- lincolncenter.org
Fall for Dance Festival commissioned work of the same
Announces 5 Premieres title in 2015, danced by her com-
pany. The Trisha Brown Dance
Mark Morris, Michelle Dorrance
and Kyle Abraham are among
Company will also present Ms.
Brown’s “You can see us” (1995)
the choreographers who will and dedicate the performances
create new works for this year’s to her memory.
Two other premieres are in
store for the fourth program
(Oct. 11 through 12): “Drive,” by
Mr. Abraham and performed by
his company, Abraham.In.Mo-
tion, and “No. 1,” a collaboration
between the New York City
Ballet principal Sara Mearns and MALPASO DANCE COMPANY
the duo Sébastien Ramirez and One of Cuba’s finest troupes
Honji Wang. (From far left, Ms.
performs at SummerStage. 8
Wang and Ms. Mearns.) Mr.
Morris’s new work, “Twelve of p.m. at Rumsey Playfield.
’em,” will have its premiere on cityparksfoundation.org
the festival’s final program (Oct.
13 through 14).
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Mo,Tu & Th 7; We 2&7; Fr & Sa 2&8
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 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 N C5

BEN RATLIFF CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Take the Familiar and Try to Add Adventure

In concert, Phish encourages
its audiences to listen hard and
focus on the long view.
YOU GO TO A PHISH CONCERT — or maybe all
13 of its doughnut-themed, no-song-re-
peated “Baker’s Dozen” concerts at Madi-
son Square Garden — because you want to
be inside the improvised and therefore inef-
fable space of, say, Minute 21 of a half-hour-
long jam, like “Lawn Boy” on July 25, dur-
ing which the thought may have occurred to
you that the song had changed profoundly
since it started.
In those and similar moments of the Bak-
er’s Dozen concerts — I attended the final
two, on Saturday and Sunday nights — it is
the type and degree of that change that oc-
cupies your hearing, in a retrospective way.
Perhaps it does so even more than what’s
actually happening in the music when you
think the thought, which might include
some faults: weedy singing, as if for chil-
dren’s music; tepid lyrics; obvious, kill-me-
now buildups toward a payoff; some
ghastly synthesizer tones from Page Mc-
Connell’s keyboard rig.
But the thing is, last you’d noticed, the
song was in a different key with a different
beat and a different mood. Now it’s moving
again toward a different place through a
melodic pattern or a diffusion of harmonic
relationships or a gradual surge in density
or speed. And so the value of the concert
lives in the music’s imperative of motion.
That quality can’t really be bought or sold.
That quality is its spirit.
Wait. Did the first paragraph contain, be-
sides a value judgment, five commas, two
em-dashes and only one period? Did we
start going in about spirit before we really
explained why we’re here? Is that itself a
fault? Or is it, statistically and in the aggre-
gate, a rarity? Is this like a late-’90s, first-
set Phish jam, going wide right out of the
gate, pointing toward interludes and even-
tual reconnection with the theme? Is this
basically 11/17/97 McNichols Arena, Den-
ver?
Phish is a jam band initiated in Vermont
in 1983, more or less led by Trey Anastasio,
its guitarist, singer and principal song-
writer. It has had two hiatuses: Since 2009
we are in what fans call Phish 3.0. Its music
is wending, ludic, full of ‘70s and ‘80s FM-
radio homage, averse to moral judgment,
almost never dark or emotionally demand-
ing, and popular among two generations of
American college-educated glow-stick ad-
venturers.
It likes long jams in long sets, and encour-
ages its audience to listen hard in the long
view, to slot the performance of one song
into a grid containing all the other perform-
ances of that song. Phish’s music is adven-
turesome exactly to the extent that it is fa-
miliar. It is adventurously familiar.
The 13 concerts of “Baker’s Dozen” repre-
sents the longest run in a single place that
Phish has ever undertaken — a different or-
der from previous four-show runs at the
Garden around New Year’s Eve. You’d think
this would have happened with Phish al-
ready: longer residencies suit improvisers.
Residency was once a clinical word. Now
it is a chic one, for good reason. It is possi-
ble, if not provable, that by showing up on
the same stage repeatedly, improvising art-
ists grow deeper and more complex, or at
least remember their own standards of ex-
cellence. Historically, residencies could
help a band develop a relationship of trust
and respect with repeat customers and lo-
cal musicians: Think of Thelonious Monk at
the Five Spot in 1957, or the Allman Brothers
at the Beacon in recent decades, where the
residencies ran to 15 nights. But of course a
stage before 20,000 people at the Garden is
on a different scale of trust from 100 in a
club; and you can live-stream or buy a
Phish concert from any location, by stream-
ing from livephish.com.
In any case: What I saw was a purposeful
band in energetic form, better than I’ve
seen and heard recently, more willing to let
songs assume their own proportions, and
going far into its own catalog. Most of all,
they did not repeat a song in 13 shows. There
were nearly 240 songs played, including
covers of David Bowie, Prince, the Rolling
Stones, and so on. That takes rehearsing,
and resolve.
The burden on Phish, after 34 years, is to
keep adding value, because their fans are
also advanced-level consumers who know
what it means to be satisfied. Therefore,
residencies. Therefore, doughnuts. Each
concert at the Garden had a theme, an-
nounced that afternoon, roughly corre-
sponding with musical references to a par-
ticular type of doughnut, produced and giv-
en out to the early arrivers by Federal Do-
nuts of Philadelphia. My nights were
Boston Cream and Glazed. During the Bos-
ton Creme night the band played a short,
clever and limited mash-up of several songs
by the bands Boston and Cream, arranged
to be in the same key, gradually superim-
posed until their lyrics became interleaved.
But I didn’t want a doughnut; I wanted
the spirit of the band. Right, spirit! You go
for the spirit. But it seems that you also go
for the opposite reason, for the body: You
The band Phish took over
Madison Square Garden in
New York for 13 nights,
performing a residency
called the “Baker’s Dozen.”
are collecting artifacts of sound and memo-
ry, amassing your own capital. A Phish con-
cert is a goodie bag of songs with titles and
lyrics and repeatable themes. You put your
hand in and attach your desires to the ones
you haven’t heard live yet, or that few man-
age to do. “I’m glad I got ‘The Lizards’ and
‘The Sloth,’” said the young docent I went
with on Saturday night.
Both songs are part of Mr. Anastasio’s
early “Gamehendge” suite. (I won’t explain
that.) Both semi-rare. Rarity is an absolute
value. But Phish, and their fans, don’t wait
around for absolute value. They create it.
Nearly everything in the Phish universe is
valuable on some level. Everyone gets a tro-
phy. This is a working proposition within
Phish-world; it is also, I guess, why Phish
often sounds unimpressive to many people
outside of that world. That includes me. I do
not like Phish’s songs as such: I find too
many of them basic in the name of complex-
ity, and don’t connect with their humor. I
don’t really want the body. I’ll take the invi-
tation to create some value. But I’ll refuse
some, too.
On Saturday, I liked the slow build of
“Gotta Jibboo,” the whomping energy of
“Ghost,” and the long-haul intricacy of “Pe-
trichor.” I had some time for “You Enjoy My-
self” on Sunday, with its many parts and its
improvised a cappella vocal closer. I am
sorry that I can’t report from the “Jam-
filled” night — July 25 — because a Phish
concert, finally, even with all its variations,
is so ritualized that it is thrilling to not quite
know where you are in the course of one.
That night delivered at least two “where are
we” moments: “Lawn Boy” and a version of
the Talking Heads’ “Crosseyed and Pain-
less.” But I heard it online. I know what hap-
pened. I’m satisfied.

A WORD WITH
TREY ANASTASIO

13 Phish Shows. No Repeats. Pulling Off ‘Baker’s Dozen.’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
songs by the bands Boston and Cream trig-
gered the concept — the group conceptu-
alized each night vaguely around a dough-
nut du jour; Saturday was Boston Creme —
and Mr. Anastasio said that during the resi-
dency he was struck by feelings of affection
and appreciation for his bandmates of 34
years: the drummer Jon Fishman (also
known as Fish), the bassist Mike Gordon
and the keyboardist Page McConnell.
“When we’re up there just playing, it’s
something that feels like I know what
they’re thinking,” he said. “It’s crazy, and
it’s so intimate.”
Staying put at one venue meant “there’s
no adjustment period” each night to exter-
nal circumstances, Mr. Anastasio said, “so
the interplay between the four band mem-
bers becomes heightened based on the fact
that that’s the only place changes are
made.” In a phone call, he discussed how the
band prepped for the shows, why he’s par-
tial to covers, and the group’s relationship to
the other artist best known for a lengthy
residency at the Garden: Billy Joel. These
are edited excerpts from the conversation.
How did you plan out almost 240 songs
without a repeat?
I sort of live and breathe Phish 24 hours a
day and have since I was 18. Months ago, I
would get up and start sketching [song
lists]. But this is the key part: I try to always
keep it in sort of an improv head space. So
that the overriding rule, is when you cross
the line at the top of the stairs up to the stage
— there’s actually physically a line — if I
have a paper in my hand, I throw it on the
ground. And if I have stuff in my mind, I let
go.
It’s like in “The Last Samurai” with Tom
Cruise, he’s trying to learn to do this kind of
martial arts fighting and they’re all laugh-
ing at him, ’cause he’s getting his ass kicked.
And they keep saying, “Too many mind, too
many mind.” So the whole idea when we
walk on stage is to not think. But martial
arts is a discipline, with thousands of hours
that go into not thinking. You don’t just walk
into a ring and start doing judo.
If we’re doing a 13-night run, I live and
breathe it for six months, and then I really
get to the point where when we walk on-
stage, I completely forget it. I have no idea
what the next song is going to be. So it’s like
half and half. I had sketched out sort of a 13-
night view. But as soon as Night 1 was over,
we changed [our plans].
OZIER MUHAMMAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Trey Anastasio, left, and
Mike Gordon of Phish at
Madison Square Garden in
1996. The band’s recent
13-night residency at the
Garden was a milestone.
But you rehearsed the material?
This is what I mean about the discipline
thing. A month before the Baker’s Dozen, I
went alone to Fish’s house. I flew up to
Maine, and I sat in the room with him and
played 15 songs [by the band’s side
projects] that Phish doesn’t play, so that
he’d know them on the drums. Eight of
those we didn’t end up doing at the Baker’s
Dozen. Then a week later, I went to Burling-
ton and got all four band members together
at Page’s house, and we learned all 15 of
those songs. Practiced them, recorded
them, forgot them.
We played “Frost” on Night 12 sort of
spontaneously. What happened was we
played that Boston/Cream thing, and it was
so funny. We’re, like, dying. And so I’m
standing there and I’m like, “Well, how do
you follow that up?” But what went through
my mind was, “You don’t follow it up, let’s do
something really quiet and really elegant.” I
kind of leaned over to Page and was like,
“What about ‘Frost’?” And he was, like,
“Great, great.” It would be a gross oversim-
plification to say that we just walk out there.
How did you keep track of what you played?
I had two different people reminding me be-
fore we went onstage. Like, I’d run things by
them. Then there’d be a whole pile of songs,
and I was pretty sure that we didn’t play any
of these and could pick and choose from that
group.
At what point did the covers come in to the
equation?
At every point. Meaning, some of them re-
ally early. Some of them in reaction to things
people would say. One of the doughnuts was
going to be lemon and everybody was like,
“Oh you’re going to play ‘The Lemon
Song,’” and I don’t want to play “The Lemon
Song,” it’s too obvious. Everybody was ex-
pecting some lemon thing — well, let’s do
Radiohead because it’s just more fun. [The
band covered “Everything in Its Right
Place,” which has a lemon reference in its
lyrics.]
Sometimes, I think it could be seen about
Phish [snooty voice] “Oh, they play a lot of
covers.” Over the years, we’ve played 280
original songs but we also like to have
played a lot of covers. For a while we did a
second band that only played jazz stand-
ards, the Johnny B. Fishman Jazz Ensem-
ble. We just played “Jump Monk” and
“Four” and “Moose the Mooche” and all of
those songs because we felt like it was im-
portant as American musicians to be famil-
iar with that style of music. We did the same
thing as a bluegrass band for a while. It was-
n’t good, but we feel like it’s part of our her-
itage.
And one of the things I was thinking dur-
ing this run was that I was always a fan of
swing bands, of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke
Ellington and Benny Goodman. I like that
era of music because the musicianship was
really high. But they called themselves
dance bands first — all those bands played
the popular songs of the day. Charlie Parker
and Django Reinhardt and all my favorite
musicians played covers and got better as a
result.
I couldn’t help notice Billy Joel’s “New York
State of Mind” playing after the show on the
final night.
We always laugh about that; we wonder if
people notice what’s playing on the way out.
Absolutely no hostility at all. We love Billy.
C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Our Critics’ Choices for a President
USA NETWORK
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productive choices and frustrating employ-
ment options.
There’s even a United States vs. Russia
showdown in the ring.
MARGARET LYONS
‘Monk’
This long-running USA series about a
crime investigator with obsessive-compul-
sive disorder had its premiere 15 years ago
this summer and went on to become a
breakthrough show that demonstrated the
possibilities of basic cable. The president
might find Episode 10 of Season 8 especially
enjoyable. A man dies on a golf course,
seemingly because of some loose outdoor
stone steps. But — good news for someone
who owns golf courses, like President
Trump — a negligence case isn’t always
what it seems, as Monk (Tony Shalhoub) re-
alizes. The episode saw the return, in a
guest-starring role, of Bitty Schram, who
had played Monk’s assistant, Sharona
Fleming, in the first three seasons.
NEIL GENZLINGER
‘Gomorrah’
Mr. Trump’s taste for gangster sagas — he’s
cited “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” as
favorites — might draw him to this Italian
television series, available on Netflix. It’s an
exciting, operatic crime drama centered on
a Naples boss whose pride and megalo-
mania put him at odds with everyone, in-
cluding his own son.
MIKE HALE
‘Hamilton’
Mr. Trump has already reviewed this jug-
gernaut Broadway musical, on Twitter last
November, as “highly overrated.” But he
has yet to see it. His dismissal — in re-
sponse to a cast member’s remarks, during
a curtain call, addressing Vice President-
elect Mike Pence, who was in the audience
— may have been premature. Ivanka
Trump had said the show “surpassed ex-
pectations” when she saw it earlier. Be-
sides, for those who aren’t avid book read-
ers, “Hamilton” offers a musically irresist-
ible alternative for absorbing American his-
tory. And shouldn’t a born New Yorker who
preaches the gospel of success check out
the biggest hit Broadway has seen in dec-
ades?
BEN BRANTLEY
Lives Changed by Immigration, Love and Jihad
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
Her browser history is audited. This nov-
el dilates on what Shamsie calls GWM —
“Googling While Muslim.” An officer wants
to “know her thoughts on Shias, homosexu-
als, the Queen, democracy, ‘The Great
British Bake Off,’ the invasion of Iraq, Is-
rael, suicide bombers, dating websites.”
Dame Edna and “Brexit” are about the only
topics omitted from this pop quiz.
It’s a scene that sets the tone for this in-
genious and love-struck novel. Isma is
eventually allowed to take off. “Home Fire”
takes flight as well.
This novel may seem to wobble in the
minutes after its landing gear retracts.
There are lurching shifts of tone as it moves
between matters of the heart and of state.
Do not panic. Order something from the
drinks cart. Shamsie drives this gleaming
machine home in a manner that, if I weren’t
handling airplane metaphors, I would call
smashing.
“Home Fire” is set in contemporary Lon-
don, in Amherst, Mass., and in the Middle
East. It plays freely with Sophocles’ drama
but hews to its themes: civil disobedience,
fidelity and the law, especially as regards
burial rights.
Isma has left behind in London younger
siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, 19-year-old
twins. Isma raised them after their mother’s
death.
They barely knew their father, a jihadist
who died after being tortured at Bagram Air
Base in Afghanistan. His fame has tainted
their lives in the West. Parvaiz is adrift and
haunted, however, by his father’s legacy.
He is recruited by ISIS. He joins its media
division in Syria. He quickly discovers he
has made a mistake. “Home Fire” is largely
about Aneeka’s attempts to help her twin
come home.
Louise Glück, in her poem “Tango,” ob-
served, “Of two sisters/one is always the
watcher,/one the dancer.” While Isma looks
on from America, Aneeka begins to whirl.
Aneeka falls into an affair with Eamonn,
the son of Britain’s new home secretary,
Karamat Lone, a man of Muslim back-
Follow Dwight Garner on Twitter:
@DwightGarner
‘Come From Away’
The president may have passed up the op-
portunity to see this Canadian-born show
with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when it
opened on Broadway in March. But Mr.
Trump might have a good time at this tune-
ful, sentimental musical about a Newfound-
land town’s accommodation of thousands of
DWIGHT GARNER
Home Fire
By Kamila Shamsie
276 pages. Riverhead Books.
$26.
A father’s legacy taints
the lives of the children
who barely knew him.
stranded international airline passengers
on Sept. 11, 2001. Its score is as upbeat and
catchy as an FM Lite radio play list, and the
script eschews easy jabs at political targets.
And without being preachy, it extols the
virtues of learning to get along with people
unlike yourself, surely a good lesson for
anyone in the business of politics.
BEN BRANTLEY
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
ZAIN MUSTAFA
ground.
Eamonn is wealthy and beautiful, with
“perfect half-moons in his fingernails.” Is
this love? Or is Aneeka maneuvering to win
his father’s help in getting her brother
home? Or both?
Lone, the home secretary, is among
Shamsie’s most sophisticated creations.
He’s had to thread many needles while ris-
ing in British politics. He’s mocked by some
for becoming “Mr. British Values. Mr.
Strong on Security. Mr. Striding Away from
Muslim-ness.”
Shamsie humanizes him. She writes
about his “extravagant snort, which his chil-
dren were always amazed he could restrain
from in public life.” The best story told about
Lone is probably the one about the time Ea-
monn was pining over a lost love, a woman
his father found diffident. We read about a
moment reminiscent of “The Godfather”:
“The door of his bedroom had been
kicked open and Karamat Lone had walked
in, knees buckling slightly under the weight
of the halibut in his arms, ice chips glinting
on its skin. He had lowered the massive fish
onto his son’s bed, with the single word ‘re-
placement.’”
Shamsie, who was raised in Karachi, in
Pakistan, and lives in London, is vastly bet-
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Clockwise from top left, Tony
Shalhoub as the title character
in “Monk”; Javier Muñoz,
center, in the Broadway
musical “Hamilton”; and Jenn
Colella in the musical “Come
From Away.”
ter known in England than in the United
States. This is her seventh novel. Twice a fi-
nalist for the Orange Prize, she was one of
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in
2013, and writes essays and criticism for
The Guardian.
There are occasional small blunders in
“Home Fire.” A consideration of grief, for
example, becomes a word goop. “Grief
spread its wings large like an eagle, grief
huddled small like a porcupine,” Shamsie
writes, “grief needed company, grief craved
solitude; grief wanted to remember, wanted
to forget.” Grief wants to be left alone.
These moments are rare. Her humor
mixes freely with her intellection. There is a
disquisition on “ecosystem beards,” so
named because they are so large they con-
tain entire small worlds.
The humor fades into fatalistic medita-
tions on life lived while straddling worlds.
Aneeka comes up with a plan to get her
brother home, a plan that will have conse-
quences for everyone in this novel.
It’s a plan so intrepid that Aneeka is
asked if she or her brother stopped “to think
about those of us with passports that look
like toilet paper to the rest of the world who
spend our whole lives being so careful we
don’t give anyone a reason to reject our visa
applications? Don’t stand next to this guy,
don’t follow that guy on Twitter, don’t down-
load that Noam Chomsky book.”
“Home Fire” builds to one of the most
memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel
this century. It takes place live on interna-
tional television.
I won’t give away what happens, but
something about this scene reminded me of
a scene from Satyajit Ray’s 1955 film
“Pather Panchali,” as described by Salman
Rushdie in his essay collection “Imaginary
Homelands” (1991).
“When he shows his wife, Sarbajaya, the
sari he has brought for the dead girl, she be-
gins to weep,” Rushdie wrote, “and now he
understands, and cries out, too; but (and
this is the stroke of genius) their voices are
replaced by the high, high music of a single
tar shehnai, a sound like a scream of the
soul.”
There is high, high music in the air at the
end of “Home Fire.”
FILM REVIEWS
AFTER LOVE
Not rated. In French, with English subti-
tles. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes.
. ...........................................................................
The Belgian director Joachim Lafos-
se’s “After Love” is an irritating mov-
ie about irritating people. The mar-
ried Boris and Marie are breaking up
but for economic reasons are still
sharing the same living space (to
which the entire movie is confined;
good thing there’s an outdoor patio).
They have lovely twin daughters in
front of whom they mostly argue —
vehemently and with little regard for
how these displays will affect the
girls. Money is an issue; Marie comes
from affluence, while Boris, a contrac-
tor who refers to himself as an archi-
tect, rarely has any. He incessantly
confronts Marie over the labor he’s
put into their apartment.
Marie, a narrowly conceived char-
acter nevertheless played well by
Bérénice Bejo, is uptight and with-
holding; Boris, by turns warmly
bearish and broadly truculent as
played by Cédric Kahn, is controlling
and manipulative, not to mention
aggressively self-pitying. When he
responds sympathetically to Marie’s
vulnerability, it’s hard to tell if he is
being sincere in his affection, or just
exploiting a weakness. (Marthe Kel-
ler makes a welcome contribution as
Marie’s mother, whose voice-of-expe-
rience advice to her daughter falls on
willfully deaf ears.)
Not unlike an expensively tattooed
panhandler, the couple elicit only a
skeptical kind of sympathy. The
American filmmaker John Cassavetes
was able to make this kind of hate-
love-hate scenario compulsively
watchable (in movies like “A Woman
Under the Influence”), partly because
he made his characters operatically
brash, their actions relentlessly emo-
tionally combustible. “After Love,”
written by Mazarine Pingeot, Fanny
Burdino and Mr. Lafosse, and origi-
nally titled the less evocative but
frankly more apt “L’économie du
couple,” is too polite by half ever to
generate any such sparks.
GLENN KENNY
MACHINES
Not rated. In English and Hindi, with
English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour
12 minutes.
. ...........................................................................
Following in the footsteps of other
documentaries from the last decade
and a half — including “Behemoth,”
“Darwin’s Nightmare” and “Working-
man’s Death” — Rahul Jain’s “Ma-
chines” casts an unflinching eye on
dire poverty, trafficking in the dis-
junction between surreal, aestheti-
cally striking images and sounds and
the squalor those images depict.
As the movie begins, lengthy
Steadicam shots survey the layout of
a textile factory in Sachin, India, and
introduce its workers. The scenery is
so gray that fabrics, embers and dyes
are just about all that pops against
the background. The ideological
charge leveled for decades at this
strain of filmmaking is that such
eye-catching tableaus romanticize
poverty, but prettified squalor has
become sadly familiar in global docu-
mentary filmmaking. In “Machines,”
even at barely more than an hour, the
LINO LORBER
A scene from “Machines.”
style leads to diminishing returns.
“Machines” is at its strongest when
interviewing the workers, who aren’t
named and who, the film not so subtly
implies, have become cogs in the
machinery themselves. One man says
he has taken loans to travel for work
and rides a standing-room-only train
on his 1,000-mile journey to the fac-
tory. In his view, this situation would
only be exploitation if he were forced
to work there. Another worker asks,
“Why would I get angry if I am being
paid for the work I do?” The shifts
pay next to nothing and last 12 hours.
The imperious bosses openly dis-
dain their employees. One dismisses
his workers as careless with money
and, in many cases, uninterested in
their families (although we’ve al-
ready heard otherwise).
The film — Mr. Jain’s first feature
— seems to argue that the workers,
facing few or no other options, have
succumbed to a form of Stockholm
syndrome, and points to unionization
as a potential corrective. “If the work-
ers unite, they can get the bosses to
yield,” one worker says. “But the
laborers are not united.”
If they are parts in a machine,
maybe they can form a whole. And
even then, success is not guaranteed.
BEN KENIGSBERG
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(N) (Part 1 of 2) (14) News at 11 (N) Damson Idris. (N) (14) (11:35) What’s on TV
9 WWOR Family Feud The Big Bang Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Family Feud iWitness (PG) Chasing News Inside Edition Anger Manage-
(PG) Theory (PG) A man who can freeze objects. (PG) “Face My Enemy.” (PG) (PG) (N) (N) (PG) ment (14)
11 WPIX Two and a Half Two and a Half Arrow “Kapiushon.” Prometheus at- Supernatural “The British Inva- PIX11 News at Ten (N) Seinfeld “The Seinfeld (Part 2 Friends (PG)
Men (14) Men (14) tempts to break Oliver. (14) sion.” (14) Pez Dispenser.” of 2) (PG)
13 WNET PBS NewsHour (N) Dick Cavett’s Watergate Dick The Roosevelts: An Intimate History “The Fire of Life (1910-1919).” Charlie Rose (N) (PG) Tavis Smiley
Cavett’s Watergate coverage. (PG) World War I affects the family. (Part 3 of 7) (PG) (N) (G)
21 WLIW MetroFocus Business Report Downton Abbey on Masterpiece (PG) Time Goes By EastEnders (PG) EastEnders (PG) MetroFocus World News Lady Vanishes
25 WNYE 92Y on N.Y.C.Life Secrets Blueprint: N.Y.C. Neighborhood Eating Harlem $9.99 Asian American Speakeasy Singer Frankie Valli. America: From
31 WPXN Law & Order “The Wheel.” (14) Law & Order “Mother’s Day.” (14) Law & Order “Chosen.” (14) Law & Order “Under God.” (14) Law & Order “Absentia.” (14) Law & Order (14)
41 WXTV La Rosa de Guadalupe (N) (14) Enamorándome de Ramón La Doble Vida de Estela Carrillo La Tierra Prometida Noticias 41 Noticiero Uni Deportivo
47 WNJU Caso Cerrado: Edición Estelar (N) Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso (N) (14) El Señor de los Cielos (N) (14) Noticiero Tele Titulares y más Sin Senos Sí
48 WRNN Newsline (N) Operation Smile Skin Care Bissell Laugh-In Tummy Tuck Paid Program Know the Cause Paid Program Aching Joints?
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50 WNJN One on One NJTV News Host Michael Feinstein Grantchester on Masterpiece (14) Secrets of Scotland Yard (14) NJTV News Classroom Charlie Rose (N) Brendan Gleeson
55 WLNY 2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls Dr. Phil (14) WLNY News at 9PM (N) Judge Judy (PG) Judge Judy (PG) Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Ent. Tonight
63 WMBC Signs of aging Regrowth Bible School Change-World WMBC News & Christian CEOs Paid Program No Aging Balding Darkspots Regrowth MR. MERCEDES 8 p.m. on Audience Network.
68 WFUT La Candidata Totalmente Diva Rosario Tijeras (14) Noticias Univision 41 (N) Laura (14) Stephen King’s 2014 novel “Mr. Mercedes”
PREMIUM CABLE — his 62nd, and a departure from his usual
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HBO Enough (2002). Vice News To- Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington. Conscientious objector wins Game of Thrones “The Queen’s Game of Thrones “The Spoils of luxury car into a crowd at a job fair in 2009.
(PG-13) (5:30) night (N) Medal of Honor at Okinawa. Bluntly effective. (R) Justice.” Daenerys holds court. (MA) War.” (MA) (11:35)
Then it jumps ahead two years to find
HBO2 Independence Day: Resurgence Real Time With Bill Maher Former Last Week Tonight Room 104 “Pizza Brillo Box (3 Jason Bourne (2016). Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones. Ex-C.I.A. opera-
(2016). Liam Hemsworth. (PG-13) (6) Vice President Al Gore. (MA) With John Olver Boy.” (MA) Cents Off) (2016). tive is back on the run. Welcome but weary return. (PG-13) (10:45) Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson),
MAX . Death Race (2008). Jason Sta- The Scorpion King (2002). The Rock, Steven Brand. The Purge: Election Year (2016). Frank Grillo. Anti-purge candidate tries The Last Boy Scout (1991). Bruce taunted out of retirement and into private-
tham, Tyrese Gibson. (R) (6:15) (PG-13) to survive purge night. Takes care of brutal business. (R) (9:35) Willis, Damon Wayans. (R) (11:25) eye mode by the killer behind the case he
SHO Comet (2014). Justin Long, Emmy The Babadook (2014). Essie Davis. A widow discov- Ray Donovan “Abby.” Ray begins I Am Number Four (2011). Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant. Hunted alien never solved: the deranged Brady Harts-
Rossum. (R) (6:30) ers a monster is lurking around the house. anger management. (MA) (9:35) teens hide on earth. Turgid schedule filler. (PG-13) (10:35)
SHO2 1408 (2007). John Cusack, Samuel Snowden (2016). Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley. Dramatiza- Risk (2016). Documentary. Story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Feels The Hateful
field (Harry Treadaway), a computer tech-
L. Jackson. (PG-13) (6:15) tion of Edward Snowden story, via Oliver Stone. Crisply drawn. (R) necessarily unfinished. (10:15) Eight (2015). (R) nician and ice cream truck man with a
STARZ Power (MA) Black Sheep (1996). Gubernatorial candidate’s slov- Power “You Lied to My Face.” Dre Turistas (2006). Stranded travelers find danger in the . Trainspotting (1996). Ewan Mc- terribly sad childhood. The cast includes
(6:30) enly brother. No laughing matter. (PG-13) (7:31) talks himself into a promotion. (MA) Brazilian jungle. The old splatter and scream. (R) (10:01) Gregor, Ewen Bremner. (R) (11:38) Holland Taylor as Bill’s sexually aggressive
STZENC The X-Files (1998). David Ducho- The World Is Not Enough (1999). Pierce Brosnan. James Bond vs. vil- Survivor’s Re- Survivor’s Re- Phantoms (1998). Peter O’Toole. Entire Colorado ski
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TMC The Final Cut (2004). Robin Wil- . Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). John Cusack, Minnie Driver. Hit man Bangkok Dangerous (2008). Hit man falls for deaf-mute No Escape (2015). Owen Wilson, client; Jharrel Jerome as the Harvard-
liams, Mira Sorvino. (PG-13) (6:25) goes to high school reunion. Winsome and coolly preposterous. (R) Asian woman. Insipid update of shallow original. (R) Lake Bell. (R) (11:40) bound whiz who wants to be Watson to
CABLE Bill’s Holmes; and Kelly Lynch as Brady’s
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 inappropriately loving mother. David E.
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“VR the World.” “Great Scotland!” “Rick-Rolled.” (PG) (8:27) (PG) (PG) (N) (PG) (10:01) (PG) (10:32) (PG) (11:03) (PG) (11:33) (PG) (12:03)
A. M. Homes and Dennis Lehane contribut-
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ed a couple of episodes), “and he’s in good
AMC Focus (2015). Will Smith, Margot . GoodFellas (1990). Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta. Pileggi-Scorsese’s Mafia. Cold-eyed, breathless, brilliant. . The Italian Job (2003). Superthieves team up to re-
Robbie. (R) (5:30) (R) cover the gold they stole. Sleek, witty remake. (PG-13) form,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York
APL Treehouse Masters (PG) Treehouse Masters: Branched Out “Soothing Sky-high Retreats.” (N) Treehouse Masters (PG) Treehouse Masters: Branched Out (PG) Times. “‘Mr. Mercedes’ has the Kelley
BBCA Van Helsing (2004). Hugh Jackman. World-weary monster hunter in Transylvania. Sloppy, hectic spectacle. (PG-13) Broadchurch (N) (14) Van Helsing (2004). Hugh Jackman. (PG-13) (11:05) hallmarks — snappy dialogue, credible
BET The Perfect Holiday (2007). Gabrielle A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996). Martin Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield. Rich woman stalks cad who Martin (Part 1 of Martin (Part 2 of Martin (Part 3 of characters, a story that adds up, an overall
Union, Morris Chestnut. (PG) (5:30) betrayed her. Like a bad date. (R) 3) (PG) 3) (PG) 3) (PG) feeling of polished craftsmanship. It may
BLOOM Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia (N) (Live) The David Rubenstein Show Charlie Rose (PG) Bloomberg Technology Chuck lack the King intensity, but it holds on to a
BRV The Real Housewives of New The Real Housewives of New The Real Housewives of New Odd Mom Out Sweet Home Watch What The Real Housewives of New measure of his dark humor.” But, Mr. Hale
York City “Tequila-thon.” (14) York City (N) (14) York City (Season Finale) (N) (14) “Jury Doody.” (N) Oklahoma (14) Happens Live York City (14)
added, “whether he’ll pull off a hard-boiled
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thriller remains a mystery.”
CMT Last-Standing Last-Standing 17 Again (2009). Worn-out adult reverts to 17-year-old self. Efron works what he’s got. (PG-13) 17 Again (2009). Zac Efron, Leslie Mann. (PG-13)
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THE STORY OF DIANA 9 p.m. on ABC. As the
We Bare Bears We Bare Bears King of the Hill American Dad Cleveland Show American Dad Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14)
Robot Chicken
CNBC Shark Tank The sharks fight over a Shark Tank A capsule that keeps Shark Tank A new dating app. (PG) Jay Leno’s Garage “Keys to Happi- Jay Leno’s Garage “Child atJay Leno’s Ga- 20th anniversary of the death of Princess
product. (PG) beverages hot. (PG) ness.” (N) (PG) Heart.” (PG) rage (PG) Diana approaches, ABC and People team
CNN Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (PG) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (PG) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N)
Anderson Coo- up on this two-night special, a mixture of
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interviews with Diana and those who knew
COM South Park (MA) South Park (MA) South Park (14) South Park “All Hood Adjacent- Hood Adjacent- South Park “Le South Park The Daily Show The Daily Show South Park “Gin-
(6:50) (7:25) About Mormons.” James Davis James Davis Petit Tourette.” “More Crap.” ger Cow.” (12:01) her, as well as reporting from the magazine,
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CSPAN2 Public Affairs Events Republic Cass Sunstein looks at social media. The Swamp False Black Power? (10:45) After Words “Naomi Klein.” (11:20)
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DIY Barnwood Builders (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G) Pool Kings (G)
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E! E! News (N) (PG) Hollywood Medium Hollywood Medium Hollywood Medium E! News E! News Late Night. (N) (PG)
ELREY Snake Eyes (1998). (R) (6) Lucha Underground “Bloodlines.” Lucha Underground “Bloodlines.” Sabotage (2014). D.E.A. agents steal from cartel. High giggle-to- bullet ratio. W. Craven
ESPN M.L.B. Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays. SportsCenter SportsCenter SportsCenter
ESPN2 Little League Baseball Southwest Regional. Baltimore Boys Morningside 5 High school teammates find redemption. 30 for 30
ESPNCL College Football College Football From Oct. 18, 2003. College Football From Nov. 5, 2011. College Football AMAZON

FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games (G) Guy’s Grocery Games (G) Guy’s Grocery Games (G) Cooks vs. Cons (N) (G) Cooks vs. Cons (G) Guy’s Games Jeffrey Tambor
FOXNEWS The Story With Martha MacCal- Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) The Five (N) Hannity (N) Tucker Carlson Tonight The Five
lum (N) TRANSPARENT 10 p.m. on SundanceTV. A Los
FREEFRM Zookeeper (2011). Kevin James. (PG) (6:10) Coming to America (1988). Eddie Murphy. African prince seeks bride. Listless. (R) (8:20) The 700 Club (G) Good Burger Angeles family deals with long-held secrets
FS1 Golf U.S. Women’s Amateur, Round of 64. (6) 2016 U.S. Open Speak for Yourself M.L.B. Whiparound (N) (Live) BIG3 Basketball when its aging patriarch, Mort Pfefferman
FUSE Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Moesha (PG) Puppet S.show Puppet S.show Tupac: Resurr. (Jeffrey Tambor), reveals that he is begin-
FX Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Colin Firth, Michael Caine. Spy agency hides behind tailor shop. Ex- Snowfall “A Long Time Coming.” Snowfall “A Long Time Coming.” The Strain “New
treme violence, delivered with a shrug. (R) (N) (MA) (MA) (11:04) Horizons.” (12:08)
ning a gender transition in Jill Soloway’s
FXM Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014). Penguins of Madagascar (2014). Voice of Benedict Cumberbatch. Ani- The Longest Ride (2015). Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson. Bull rider and art student in Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning semiau-
Voice of Ty Burrell. (PG) (6) mated. Penguins try to thwart octopus’s plot. Diverting. (PG) love, “‘a la Nicholas Sparks. (PG-13) (9:50) tobiographical dark comedy, created for
FXX Grown Ups (2010). (PG-13) (6) Grown Ups 2 (2013). Adam Sandler, Kevin James. (PG-13) Grown Ups 2 (2013). Adam Sandler, Kevin James. (PG-13) Archer (MA) Amazon. The show’s first two seasons will
FYI Tiny House Nation (PG) Tiny House Nation (PG) Tiny House Tiny House Tiny House Tiny House Tiny House Tiny House Tiny House be shown, with three back-to-back episodes
GOLF Live From the P.G.A. Championship Live From the P.G.A. Championship Live coverage of the P.G.A. Championship. airing on Wednesdays. Judith Light plays
GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Emogenius (N) Emogenius (N) Idiotest (N) (PG) Idiotest (N) (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Emogenius (PG) Shelly, the ex-wife of Mort, now Maura.
HALL Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls And Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass and Amy
HGTV Property Brothers (G) Property Brothers (PG) Property Brothers: Buying House Hunters Hunters Int’l Listed Sisters (N) (G) Property Bros. Landecker are their children, who are as
HIST American Pickers “Can’t Catch a American Pickers “Full Speedo American Pickers “Fan Favorites.” American Pickers “The Great American Pickers “The King’s Ran- American Pick- confused as their parents.
Break.” Mike makes deal after deal. Ahead.” (PG) A collection of fan favorites. (N) (PG) Pumpkin Showdown.” (PG) (10:11) som.” (PG) (11:10) ers (PG) (12:03)
YOUNGER 10 p.m. on TV Land. Liza (Sutton
HLN Forensic Files Forensic Files Primetime Justice Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files
ID Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda The Perfect Murder “Love and Murder by Numbers “Grave Se- Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda The Perfect Mur-
Foster) finds Charles (Peter Hermann)
“Eyes Wide Shut.” (14) “Metal on Metal.” (14) Death.” (N) (14) crets.” (N) (14) “Metal on Metal.” (14) der (14) infiltrating her dreams. Then she discovers
IFC I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Happy Gilmore (1996). Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald. Failed hock- Baroness Von Portlandia (14) Happy Gilmore (1996). Failed hockey player becomes a promising author (Jennifer Westfeldt)
Larry (2007). (PG-13) (5:30) ey player becomes sensation of pro-golf circuit. Sub-par comedy. (PG-13) Sketch Show (N) sensation of pro-golf circuit. Sub-par comedy. (PG-13)
whose book pitch could upend everything.
LIFE Little Women: LA “Couples Re- Little Women: LA “Couples Retreat: Little Women: LA “Couples Re- So Sharp “Not His First Rodeo.” Little Women: LA “Couples Re- Little Women:
treat: Trouble in Paradise.” (14) A Little Extra: Express Yourself.” (N) treat: Breakfast Beef.” (N) (14) Todd pushes the girls. (N) (10:02) treat: Breakfast Beef.” (14) (11:02) LA (14) (12:02) And Kelsey (Hilary Duff ) tries to escape
LMN The Husband She Met Online The Perfect Girlfriend (2015, TVF). Adrienne Frantz, Jon Cor. Woman Open Marriage (2017, TVF). Tilky Jones, Nikki Leigh. Couple agrees to The Perfect Girl- the stress at Empirical by heading upstate.
(2013, TVF). Jason Gray-Stanford. (6) goes online to impersonate employee’s mate. open things up. friend (2015, TVF).
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00
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(7:05) (7:38)
Three’s Compa- Three’s Company “In Like Larry.”
ny (PG) (8:10) (PG) (8:43)
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MLB M.L.B. Tonight (6:30) M.L.B. Regional Coverage.
MSG Giants Chron. NY Giants Train 30 for 30 Shorts People Sports People Sports 30 for 30 Shorts NY Giants Train JB Smoove People Sports People Sports People Sports
MSGPL World Poker BIG3 Basketball From Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky. People Sports People Sports Focused
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MTV Catfish: The TV Show (PG) Catfish: The TV Show (PG) Catfish: The TV Show (PG) Catfish: The TV Show (N) (PG) Catfish: The TV Show (PG) (11:01) Catfish: The TV
NBCS American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) Ninja Warrior
NGEO Lockdown (14) Lockdown “Newbies.” (14) Lockdown “Chaos in California.” Locked Up Abroad (N) (14) Lockdown “Inmate U.” (PG) Locked Up
NICK Henry Danger Henry Danger Thundermans Thundermans Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Friends (14) Friends “The Last One.” (14)
NICKJR Rusty Rivets (Y) Bubble Guppies Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Blaze, Monster Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi
NY1 Road to City Hall (N) New York Tonight News All Evening Road to City Hall News at Eleven Sports on 1 (11:35)
OVA Notting Hill (1999). Julia Roberts. London bookstore owner and Hollywood star. Lots of glossy charm. (PG-13) The Karate Kid (1984). Pat Morita. Victimized student aided by karate master. Cluttered. (PG)
WALTER PRESENTS
OWN Greenleaf “Point of No Return.” (14) Greenleaf “The Royal Family.” (14) Greenleaf “Born to Trouble.” (14) Greenleaf (14) Greenleaf “The Royal Family.” (14) Greenleaf (14)
A scene from “Cover Story.”
OXY CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Cri. Scene
SCIENCE BattleBots (Part 1 of 2) (PG) BattleBots (Part 2 of 2) (PG) Outrageous Acts of Science (N) BattleBots (PG) (10:04) BattleBots (Part 2 of 2) (PG) (11:06) Acts of Science
COVER STORY on Walter Presents. In this
SMITH Flying High With Phil Keoghan Honey Badger Grit (N) (PG) Lions in Battle (PG) Aerial America “On the Water.” (G) Honey Badger Grit (PG) Lions in Battle
streaming site’s first Icelandic thriller, a
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young woman is found dead after partying
SPIKE Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (14)
at the home of one of the country’s wealthi-
STZENF That Thing You Do! (1996). (6:11) Sweet Home Alabama (2002). Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas. (PG-13) Hope Floats (1998). Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr. (PG-13) (9:50) Enchanted (2007).
est businessmen. Suspected of her murder,
SUN Alice in Wonder- . Overboard (1987). Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell. Amnesiac heiress in reduced circum- O Transparent O Transparent “The Letting Go.” O Transparent . Overboard
land (2010). (5:02) stances. Sprightly caper. (PG) (Series Premiere) (N) (MA) (10:44) (N) (MA) (11:25) (1987). (PG) (12:06) he then hires a tabloid journalist to help
SYFY . Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton. Now he’s the good guy. Blood Drive “The Chopsocky Spe- Devil (2010). Five sinners trapped on elevator. Ups prove his innocence. But when stories
Fast, exciting special-effects epic. (R) cial.” Grace tests her kung fu. (N) (camerawork) and downs (story). (PG-13) (10:57) surface fingering him for the assault of
TBS Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal With Conan Actor Wesley Snipes. (N) Seinfeld “The other women, he buys the paper.
Blood.” (PG) Junk Mail.” (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Samantha Bee (14) Slicer.” (PG)
KATHRYN SHATTUCK
TCM Imitation of Life (1959). Lana That Funny Feeling (1965). Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin. Pretty bonbon The Restless Years (1959). John Saxon, Sandra Dee. The multiplying Romanoff and
Turner, Sandra Dee. (5:45) that weighs a ton. suds. Juliet (1961).
TLC I Am Jazz “Face Your Demons.” I Am Jazz: More Jazz (N) (14) I Am Jazz “In the Line of Fire.” (N) Growing Up Evancho (N) (10:03) I Am Jazz (PG) (11:06) Evancho
TNT Bones “The Skull in the Desert.” . A Few Good Men (1992). Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson. Marines and code on trial. Hard-breathing and famil- American Sniper (2014). Navy SEAL sniper racks up ONLINE: TELEVISION LISTINGS
Counterfeiting ring. (14) iar, with wonderfully nasty Nicholson. (R) kills in Iraq. Blunt, effective and troubling. (R) (11:01)
Daily television highlights, recent reviews by
TRAV Expedition Unknown (PG) Expedition Unknown (PG) Expedition Unknown (N) (PG) Expedition Unknown (PG) Expedition Unknown (PG) Expedition Un.
The Times's critics, series recaps and what to
TRU Carbonaro Eff. Carbonaro Eff. Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Inside Jokes I’m Sorry (N) I’m Sorry (MA) Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers watch recommendations. nytimes.com/tv
TVLAND M*A*S*H (PG) M*A*S*H (PG) M*A*S*H (PG) Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond O Younger (N) Love-Raymond King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens
USA Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Suits “Brooklyn Housing.” Mike The Sinner “Part II.” Cora tries to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Suits “Brooklyn
“Psycho/Therapist.” (14) “Surrendering Noah.” (14) juggles his work obligations. (N) (14) block the investigation. (N) (10:01) “Lost Reputation.” (14) (11:02) Housing.” (12:02) Definitions of symbols used in Ratings:
VH1 Black Ink Crew: Chicago (14) Black Ink Crew: Chicago (N) (14) Signed “Watch Your Back.” (N) (14) Black Ink Crew: Chicago (14) Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (14) Ink: Chicago the program listings: (Y) All children

VICE Dead Set on Dead Set on Bong Appetit Bong Appetit Huang’s World “Cape Cod.” (14) Huang’s World “South Korea.” (N) Desus & Mero What Would Di Huang’s World ★ Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
✩ Recommended series (G) General audience
WE Law & Order “Wages of Love.” Ac- . Bridget Jones’s Diary (2000). Renée Zellweger. Determined 30ish Brit- . Bridget Jones’s Diary (2000). Renée Zellweger. Determined 30ish British singleton on ● New or noteworthy program (PG) Parental guidance
cused of killing husband. (PG) ish singleton on romantic self-improvement kick. Absolutely irresistible. (R) romantic self-improvement kick. Absolutely irresistible. (R) (10:15) (N) New show or episode suggested
(CC) Closed-caption (14) Parents strongly cautioned
WGN-A Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (PG) (HD) High definition (MA) Mature audience only
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Highlight: Comfortable Conditions in the Northeast National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac

High pressure slowly Torrential downpours and flooding will In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
crossing the mid-Atlantic continue today from parts of Northeast
coast will provide dry and Texas to the Carolina and Georgia coasts. Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
comfortable conditions The downpours will occur near the bound- Yesterday ............... 0.00
across the Northeast Record .................... 2.60
ary between cool, dry air over the Mid- 100°
through Thursday. Nights west and Northeast and warm, humid air
Record For the last 30 days
high 99° Actual ..................... 3.03
will be clear and cool, and farther south. The humidity will increase (2001) Normal .................... 4.71
days will be sunny and across the north-central states.
90° MON. YESTERDAY For the last 365 days
mild. Temperatures will As a storm system moves east, heavy Actual ................... 50.18
average a few degrees showers and thunderstorms will stretch Normal Normal .................. 49.94
below normal, and New York high 84°
from the Dakotas and Minnesota to Kan- 77° LAST 30 DAYS
humidity levels will be easy Philadelphia sas. Much of the rest of the Midwest and 80° 4 p.m. Air pressure Humidity
to take. the Northeast will be dry. There may be High ........... 30.01 1 p.m. High ............. 96% 1 a.m.
Low ............ 29.90 4 a.m. Low .............. 55% 4 p.m.
Dayton DRY AND Washington spotty showers in northern New England.
COMFORTABLE H Scattered storms are in the forecast for 70°
Normal
low 69°
Cooling Degree Days
the Rockies as a heat wave moves over An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
Roanoke Norfolk the Northwest. Smoke from wildfires will far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
contribute to poor air quality across the 65°
Yesterday..................................................................... 6
region. Sunshine and dry air will continue 60° So far this month........................................................ 78
6 a.m.
Record So far this season (since January 1) ........................ 781
in the Southwest. low 54° Normal to date for the season ................................. 728
(1903)
4 12 6 12 4
p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Little Rock 84/ 69 0 85/ 69 PC 87/ 72 T New Delhi 97/ 80 0.31 94/ 83 T 94/ 81 C
Cities Los Angeles 86/ 67 0 85/ 67 PC 85/ 66 PC Riyadh 108/ 80 0 113/ 84 S 114/ 84 S Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 84/ 61 0 85/ 67 PC 85/ 70 PC Seoul 87/ 75 0 90/ 77 PC 88/ 77 T Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 85/ 70 0 86/ 72 PC 88/ 72 T Shanghai 95/ 86 0.11 91/ 81 R 94/ 83 T from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 93/ 81 0.02 91/ 80 T 90/ 81 T Singapore 84/ 79 0.32 86/ 79 T 87/ 79 T this month.............. –2.0° this year ................ +1.5°
Milwaukee 82/ 63 0 81/ 65 PC 80/ 65 PC Sydney 66/ 50 0 69/ 49 S 75/ 59 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 84/ 64 0 80/ 64 T 76/ 62 Sh Taipei 98/ 83 0 100/ 83 PC 100/ 82 PC 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 83/ 66 0 84/ 69 PC 84/ 69 PC Tehran 104/ 78 0 99/ 80 S 97/ 78 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 90/ 76 0 89/ 76 T 89/ 76 T Tokyo 94/ 81 0.09 93/ 79 S 91/ 78 PC
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 79/ 69 1.03 81/ 70 PC 79/ 72 PC Yesterday ............... 92% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 85/ 65 0 88/ 71 PC 93/ 71 T Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 86% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 82/ 63 0 78/ 64 T 83/ 63 PC Amsterdam 66/ 57 0.72 68/ 53 T 66/ 54 R
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 99/ 83 0 93/ 81 PC 95/ 79 PC
Orlando 91/ 77 0.08 91/ 77 T 90/ 76 T
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 79/ 58 0 80/ 60 PC 73/ 60 R
Philadelphia 80/ 63 0 83/ 63 S 84/ 67 PC
Sh ................... Showers –............... Not available Brussels 66/ 57 0.38 69/ 53 T 65/ 54 R
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
109/
76/
84
56
0
0
112/ 87 S
81/ 61 S
107/
80/
89
65
PC
PC Budapest 79/ 55 0 94/ 71 PC 99/ 70 PC
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 71/ 56 0.33 82/ 60 S 82/ 62 PC Copenhagen 72/ 61 0 70/ 58 PC 70/ 57 PC
New York City 77/ 65 0 82/ 67 S 82/ 69 PC Portland, Ore. 93/ 65 0 95/ 64 PC 94/ 64 PC Dublin 63/ 48 0.01 67/ 47 PC 66/ 53 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 78/ 64 0.42 81/ 65 S 81/ 66 PC Providence 75/ 59 0.83 82/ 62 S 82/ 63 PC Edinburgh 66/ 46 0 66/ 46 PC 64/ 53 PC
Caldwell 77/ 61 0.27 82/ 59 S 82/ 61 PC Raleigh 80/ 67 0.22 85/ 67 PC 84/ 70 T Frankfurt 75/ 58 0.09 76/ 56 PC 67/ 53 R Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Danbury 77/ 60 0.47 81/ 57 S 83/ 60 PC Reno 90/ 62 0 90/ 62 PC 93/ 66 PC Geneva 69/ 62 0.56 74/ 55 Sh 69/ 53 Sh Today’s forecast
Islip 77/ 65 0.57 81/ 64 S 81/ 66 PC Richmond 81/ 64 0.09 85/ 64 PC 83/ 67 PC Helsinki 72/ 50 0 71/ 59 PC 72/ 55 PC
Newark 81/ 66 0.30 82/ 64 S 83/ 66 PC Rochester 76/ 60 0 82/ 61 PC 84/ 64 PC Istanbul 85/ 77 0 88/ 76 S 90/ 76 S
Trenton 79/ 64 0.39 82/ 60 S 83/ 64 PC Sacramento 91/ 61 0 93/ 62 S 94/ 61 S Kiev 73/ 56 0.09 79/ 59 S 84/ 62 S Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 29 Sep. 6
White Plains 78/ 62 0.49 81/ 61 S 82/ 63 PC Salt Lake City 87/ 67 0.08 90/ 67 PC 92/ 71 PC Lisbon 76/ 60 0 75/ 62 W 86/ 63 S 2:30 p.m. 3:03 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 93/ 75 0.20 95/ 76 PC 97/ 78 PC London 64/ 57 0.16 62/ 53 R 68/ 53 PC Kennebunkport
San Diego 80/ 69 0 79/ 69 PC 78/ 69 PC Madrid 86/ 65 0 87/ 53 S 83/ 56 S Sun RISE 6:00 a.m. Moon S 7:46 a.m. 80/58 Mostly sunny, warmer
Albany 76/ 55 0.15 82/ 60 PC 83/ 62 PC Moscow 73/ 56 0 73/ 53 PC 76/ 59 PC
San Francisco 72/ 60 0 72/ 59 PC 71/ 60 PC SET 8:02 p.m. R 9:15 p.m.
Albuquerque 87/ 66 0.04 93/ 69 S 92/ 69 PC Nice 84/ 76 0 84/ 70 S 83/ 67 PC
San Jose 80/ 61 0 80/ 61 PC 79/ 60 PC NEXT R 6:01 a.m. S 8:49 a.m. Cape Cod 60s
Anchorage 69/ 56 0 65/ 57 R 65/ 52 C Oslo 66/ 51 0 62/ 56 R 74/ 54 Sh
San Juan 91/ 79 0.15 89/ 78 Sh 89/ 77 Sh 78/63 Mostly sunny, warmer
Atlanta 76/ 70 0.88 80/ 70 T 83/ 71 T Paris 70/ 58 0.45 68/ 53 T 69/ 54 Sh Jupiter R 11:09 a.m. Mars R 5:37 a.m.
Seattle 89/ 62 0 90/ 63 PC 92/ 62 PC
Atlantic City 77/ 64 0 80/ 63 S 80/ 66 PC Prague 79/ 54 0 80/ 60 PC 81/ 55 PC S 10:33 p.m. S 7:54 p.m.
Sioux Falls 80/ 61 0 74/ 60 T 75/ 56 T L.I. North Shore
Austin 93/ 71 0.55 94/ 73 PC 97/ 75 PC Rome 91/ 70 0 91/ 73 PC 90/ 69 PC
Spokane 95/ 65 0 95/ 65 PC 96/ 66 PC Saturn S 1:51 a.m. Venus R 3:03 a.m.
Baltimore 80/ 58 0.15 82/ 62 S 83/ 66 PC St. Petersburg 69/ 55 0.02 74/ 58 PC 75/ 58 PC 82/64 Mostly sunny, warmer
St. Louis 84/ 64 0 86/ 67 PC 88/ 71 PC R 4:27 p.m. S 5:53 p.m.
Baton Rouge 87/ 75 0.04 88/ 75 T 89/ 76 T Stockholm 73/ 54 0 72/ 58 R 72/ 55 PC
St. Thomas 88/ 79 0.34 89/ 80 Sh 89/ 79 Sh
Birmingham 78/ 71 1.17 80/ 71 T 83/ 73 T Vienna 78/ 60 0 85/ 68 PC 93/ 62 T L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 72/ 57 0.02 81/ 60 PC 83/ 64 PC Boating
Boise 93/ 66 0 94/ 67 PC 93/ 66 T Tampa 91/ 79 0 92/ 79 T 91/ 79 PC Warsaw 77/ 54 0 85/ 66 PC 92/ 68 T 80/68 Mostly sunny
Boston 71/ 62 0.64 82/ 65 S 83/ 66 PC Toledo 81/ 55 0 83/ 59 S 84/ 61 PC
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 75/ 61 0.03 80/ 61 PC 83/ 64 PC Tucson 103/ 78 0 104/ 78 S 100/ 78 PC N.J. Shore
Burlington 75/ 59 0.12 80/ 62 PC 84/ 62 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 86/ 66 0 87/ 71 PC 91/ 72 T Acapulco 92/ 76 0.04 88/ 77 PC 82/ 77 T 80/63 Mostly sunny, breezy
Casper 79/ 49 0 78/ 50 PC 78/ 51 PC Harbor.
Virginia Beach 75/ 68 0.66 79/ 69 PC 79/ 71 PC Bermuda 86/ 78 0.03 86/ 80 S 86/ 80 S
Charlotte 78/ 67 0.25 81/ 66 T 81/ 69 T Washington 82/ 65 0.15 84/ 66 S 83/ 70 PC Edmonton 67/ 47 0 74/ 45 PC 74/ 46 PC Wind will be from the northwest, becoming southeast at Eastern Shore
Chattanooga 82/ 69 0.37 82/ 70 T 82/ 70 T Wichita 83/ 64 0 85/ 69 T 88/ 68 T Guadalajara 83/ 64 0.04 88/ 63 PC 80/ 62 PC 5-10 knots. Waves will be 2-4 feet on the ocean and 1 82/62 Mostly sunny
Chicago 83/ 62 0 84/ 65 PC 83/ 65 PC Wilmington, Del. 80/ 60 0 82/ 62 S 82/ 66 PC Havana 91/ 73 0.04 93/ 74 PC 91/ 74 PC foot or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor.
Cincinnati 79/ 57 0 81/ 63 PC 81/ 65 PC Kingston 90/ 79 0 90/ 79 PC 92/ 80 PC Ocean City Md. 70s
Cleveland 79/ 61 0 84/ 62 S 85/ 67 T Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 90/ 76 0.12 89/ 78 Sh 88/ 77 Sh 79/63 Partly sunny
Colorado Springs 70/ 55 0.30 76/ 55 T 77/ 54 T Algiers 99/ 75 0 94/ 74 S 86/ 69 PC Mexico City 78/ 57 0 74/ 59 PC 65/ 55 T High Tides
Columbus 79/ 57 0 82/ 61 S 81/ 66 T Cairo 96/ 79 0 97/ 78 S 98/ 78 S Monterrey 85/ 73 0 93/ 73 PC 87/ 71 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 75/ 51 0.28 85/ 57 S 87/ 58 PC Cape Town 70/ 46 0 66/ 48 S 61/ 53 C Montreal 72/ 57 0.09 76/ 62 S 81/ 63 PC Atlantic City .................... 9:16 a.m. .............. 9:30 p.m. indicate water
79/69 Partial sunshine
Dallas-Ft. Worth 90/ 73 0.07 91/ 75 PC 96/ 79 PC Dakar 88/ 78 0.06 87/ 79 PC 86/ 78 C Nassau 93/ 81 0.02 91/ 79 Sh 92/ 80 PC Barnegat Inlet ................. 9:28 a.m. .............. 9:42 p.m. temperature.
Denver 78/ 55 0.12 79/ 56 T 78/ 56 T Johannesburg 66/ 42 0 68/ 45 S 69/ 46 S Panama City 88/ 77 0.02 87/ 76 T 88/ 76 T The Battery ................... 10:04 a.m. ............ 10:09 p.m.
Des Moines 85/ 60 0 83/ 64 PC 82/ 64 T Nairobi 73/ 53 0 73/ 53 PC 73/ 53 PC Quebec City 72/ 52 0.01 73/ 53 PC 76/ 57 Sh Beach Haven ................ 10:55 a.m. ............ 11:07 p.m.
Detroit 84/ 61 0 85/ 63 PC 85/ 65 PC Tunis 104/ 77 0 103/ 79 PC 98/ 75 PC Santo Domingo 82/ 73 0.96 91/ 76 PC 91/ 74 PC Bridgeport .................... 12:47 a.m. .............. 1:14 p.m.
El Paso 93/ 72 0 95/ 74 S 97/ 76 PC Toronto 76/ 56 0 81/ 62 C 82/ 67 PC City Island ..................... 12:31 a.m. ............ 12:56 p.m.
High pressure will provide mainly sunny
Fargo 83/ 59 0 78/ 57 T 73/ 54 PC Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 74/ 60 0 77/ 61 S 77/ 62 S
Hartford 78/ 56 0.19 84/ 60 S 85/ 61 PC Baghdad 122/ 87 0 122/ 89 S 121/ 86 S Fire Island Lt. ................ 10:23 a.m. ............ 10:35 p.m. sky and dry conditions today along the
Winnipeg 69/ 55 0.05 70/ 51 C 75/ 50 PC
Honolulu 89/ 77 0 89/ 77 Sh 88/ 76 PC Bangkok 91/ 79 0.10 95/ 80 T 95/ 80 PC Montauk Point .............. 11:03 a.m. ............ 11:11 p.m. coast. Highs will be in the 70s from the
Houston 85/ 75 0.68 92/ 76 T 92/ 78 T Beijing 94/ 72 0 85/ 71 C 91/ 74 PC South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 12:48 a.m. .............. 1:14 p.m.
Indianapolis 80/ 59 0 82/ 62 S 83/ 66 PC Damascus 108/ 68 0 109/ 71 S 107/ 67 S Buenos Aires 60/ 54 0.12 65/ 55 C 64/ 56 R Port Washington ........... 12:37 a.m. .............. 1:03 p.m. coast of Maine to Long Island, with tem-
Jackson 82/ 73 1.00 85/ 73 T 88/ 73 T Hong Kong 93/ 85 0.27 93/ 85 T 94/ 85 T Caracas 92/ 80 0.09 91/ 79 PC 90/ 81 PC Sandy Hook .................... 9:37 a.m. .............. 9:49 p.m. peratures in the 80s throughout the rest
Jacksonville 90/ 75 0 89/ 74 T 88/ 75 T Jakarta 90/ 79 0.01 90/ 76 PC 89/ 76 PC Lima 68/ 58 0 70/ 59 PC 70/ 58 C Shinnecock Inlet ............. 9:26 a.m. .............. 9:42 p.m.
Kansas City 79/ 60 0 81/ 65 PC 82/ 65 PC Jerusalem 90/ 70 0 91/ 73 S 90/ 72 S Quito 74/ 51 0 74/ 52 R 73/ 52 R Stamford ...................... 12:50 a.m. .............. 1:17 p.m.
of the region. High pressure keep the sky
Key West 90/ 83 0.06 90/ 83 PC 90/ 84 T Karachi 90/ 82 0.12 88/ 80 C 88/ 81 C Recife 82/ 73 0.02 82/ 72 PC 82/ 72 R Tarrytown ..................... 11:53 a.m. ............ 11:58 p.m. clear overnight, with lows in the 60s.
Las Vegas 105/ 82 0 107/ 82 S 107/ 84 S Manila 88/ 81 0.05 91/ 80 T 92/ 80 S Rio de Janeiro 88/ 61 0 88/ 66 S 77/ 65 Sh
Lexington 80/ 57 0 82/ 64 PC 79/ 66 PC Mumbai 88/ 81 0.09 87/ 80 Sh 87/ 80 Sh Santiago 70/ 36 0 56/ 40 R 54/ 38 R
Willets Point .................. 12:33 a.m. .............. 1:00 p.m. Tomorrow will remain sunny.
2 CITY KITCHEN
The best of the season in a
single supper. BY DAVID TANIS
3 A GOOD APPETITE
For standout tacos, light up
the grill. BY MELISSA CLARK
RESTAURANTS RECIPES WINE
Begging for a Close-Up
Wildly creative
frozen treats from
Asia are surfacing
in places across the
United States —
and popping on
social media.
A Salmon Fishing Free-for-All
At this Alaska river, just bring
a net and expect a crowd.
By JULIA O'MALLEY
KENAI, ALASKA — Wenceslous Fru, a physi-
cian assistant from Anchorage, stood on the
sandy shore of the Kenai River and imag-
ined the dinner he would put together once
he felt the jostle of a salmon in his long-han-
dled dip net. He would make it the way they
do back home in Cameroon, splitting it
SPIRITS
By JULIA MOSKIN
The slushy-sweet frappés at Okamoto
Kitchen, a food truck in Los Angeles, begin
with ice — not plain, but enriched with heavy
cream, milk powder and simple syrup. The
snowy shavings are layered with caramel,
whipped cream and melting bits of fragrant
jellied coffee, Earl Grey tea or matcha, in a
lush new variation on ancient Japanese
kakigori (shaved ice) and modern Japanese
parfaits.
At Taiyaki NYC in Chinatown, tall swirls of
down the belly and opening it like a book,
rubbing it with ginger, garlic and spices,
and then slipping it under the broiler.
Fishing nearby, Raviwan Dougherty, an
Anchorage restaurant worker from Thai-
land, envisioned steaming hers and bathing
it in fish sauce, lime juice and chiles.
Lyubov Miroshnick, who works in a den-
tal office in Wasilla, planned to smoke her
catch after a soak in her Ukrainian grand-
parents’ brine recipe.
“Mainly, we fish for the winter,” said Ms.
pale green matcha and black sesame soft-
serve ice creams are piled in warm, fluffy
waffle cones shaped like fish, their mouths
yawning wide enough to add fresh strawber-
ries and a skewer of multicolored mini-
mochi.
Blossom, a shop across the river in Cobble
Hill, Brooklyn, mixes Oreo-banana Thai ice
cream rolls on an icy metal plate, topping
them with a drizzle of condensed milk, mini-
chocolate peanut butter cups, strawberry
and green tea Kit Kats and a blowtorch-
toasted marshmallow.
Miroshnick, who had a dozen family mem-
bers with her. “That’s how most people sur-
vive here. It’s the cheaper way.”
There is no more popular fishery in
Alaska than the Kenai (KEEN-eye), a three-
hour drive southwest of Anchorage, where
millions of sockeye salmon ripple through
the silty turquoise water each summer to
spawn.
And there is most likely no more demo-
cratic fishing spot in America — a place
CONTINUED ON PAGE D7
3 FRONT BURNER
Tree-ripened cherries at your
door. BY FLORENCE FABRICANT
5 RESTAURANTS
Nur plays with a Middle
Eastern palette. BY PETE WELLS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 D1
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (SNOCRAVE)
Top, from left: a sundae at Ice &
That’s the concoction Rachel Lee, a stu-
dent at Pratt Institute, was trying to capture Vice; Thai ice cream rolls at
last weekend before the summer evening
turned dark. “I hope it doesn’t melt before I
Frozen Sweet; unicorn cone at
Taiyaki NYC. Center: egg
can eat it,” she said, turning the cup this way waffle cone at Wowfulls; ube
halo-halo at Ube Kitchen; Thai
and that to find the best angle for Snapchat,
and then a different one for Facebook. “But tea soft serve in a waffle bowl at
posting it is part of the point.” Bingbox. Bottom: Jenga tower
Icy, pretty frozen treats from Asia — Thai at SnoCrave; cotton candy cone
at Wu Kong; watermelon
ice cream rolls, Korean-style honey soft
serve, Hong Kong egg waffle sundaes, Japa- bingsoo at Sweet Moment.
nese parfaits, Chinese ice-cream-filled buns,
CONTINUED ON PAGE D8
JOSHUA CORBETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dip-netters wade chest-high in the waters of the Kenai River in Alaska.
 D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017

DAVID TANIS CITY KITCHEN

A Cool Solution for Hot Summer Nights . ......................................................................................

Capture the best of the season
in five vibrant, simple salads. TOMATOES WITH BASIL AND ANCHOVIES
TIME: 20 MINUTES
FOR SOME, a cold supper’s main virtue is ex- YIELD: 4 TO 6 SERVINGS
pedience — a less-than-exciting but con-
venient way to get food on the table with no 2 small garlic cloves, minced
cooking required. 1 small shallot, diced
My friend from upstate New York, how- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar or sherry
ever, has fond memories of summer eve- vinegar
nings and cold suppers eaten on the 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
screened-in porch. His family’s small farm Salt and pepper
supplied everything but the cold cuts, 12 anchovy fillets
which were picked up in town. Potato salad,
½ cup milk (optional)
macaroni salad and deviled eggs were al-
ways served, along with sliced tomatoes 3 pounds ripe tomatoes, any size, cut in
from the garden, a green salad and home- wedges, slices or halves
made pickles. A tall, frosty Tom Collins was 1½ cups basil leaves, not too big, washed
the beverage offered to grown-ups. The kids and dried
drank lemonade. Pinch of crushed red pepper (optional)
But even this sort of idyllic farm supper
requires some cooking. Water must be 1. Make the vinaigrette: Put garlic, shallot and
boiled, at the very least. No, you don’t want vinegar in a small bowl. Whisk in 3 tablespoons
the oven on all day, but plan to make some olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
use of your stovetop and grill if you want a
good summer meal. 2. Put anchovies in a small bowl and cover with
The urge to boycott the kitchen entirely milk. Leave for 5 minutes, then carefully rinse
during the summer months is understand- with water and blot with paper towels.
able, especially for city dwellers enduring (Alternatively, skip the milk and simply rinse
heat waves. The irony is that high summer
anchovies with water and blot.) Transfer to a
is when ingredients are at their best. If ever
there was a moment to have a meal straight small plate and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive
from the farm or garden, that time is now. oil.
When I returned from the farmers’ mar- 3. About 5 or 10 minutes before serving, place
ket the other day, my bags were filled with tomatoes in a large, deep platter or low-sided
glistening eggplants, truly ripe tomatoes,
serving bowl. Season generously with salt and
tender young green beans, just-picked okra
and colorful summer squash. I was deter- pepper, then add vinaigrette and toss gently to
mined to make them all into five simple sal- coat.
ads and to serve them later in the day at 4. Just before serving, add the basil leaves and
room temperature. That’s my kind of cold toss gently. Garnish with anchovy fillets and a
supper.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES sprinkling of crushed red pepper, if desired.
Working somewhat in advance is the
trick to hot-weather cooking. Grab an hour
in the early morning or midafternoon to get . ......................................................................................

a little vegetable prep done or make a vinai-

grette. But be sure to leave herb-chopping GREEN BEANS WITH HERBS AND OLIVES
for the last minute — your herbs will taste
and look brighter. TIME: 20 MINUTES
Freshly picked green beans are a true YIELD: 4 TO 6 SERVINGS
summer treat. Whatever the color — green,
Salt and pepper
purple or pale yellow — choose smaller
beans, which are naturally more tender. 1½ to 2 pounds small green beans, or a
(Midsize Blue Lake beans or tender Ro- mixture of different colors, topped and
mano beans are other options.) I pair mine tailed
with a mustardy vinaigrette, toss them with 2 small garlic cloves, minced
green olives, then shower them with 1 small shallot, diced
snipped dill and chives. 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar or sherry
A great tomato salad starts with sweet, vinegar
ripe tomatoes. Good news: They are here. I
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
chose a mix of midsize heirlooms in as-
sorted colors, from green to red to bur- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
gundy to golden. Dressed with olive oil and 1 cup good-quality pitted green olives,
red wine vinegar, with a touch of garlic, this halved
salad is draped with anchovy fillets, the per- 2 tablespoons chopped dill
fect counterpoint to the tomatoes’ sweet- 1 tablespoon chopped chives
ness. I toss the salad with large handful of
fragrant basil leaves just before serving. 1. Bring a large saucepan of well-salted water
I’m an okra fan, whether it is fried, pick- to a boil. Add beans and cook for 2 minutes,
led or simmered in gumbo. Another way to until firm-tender. Drain and rinse beans with
love okra is barely cooked. For this salad,
cool water, then blot with a kitchen towel. Set
the okra boils for only two minutes in salted
water, which gives it a texture reminiscent aside.
of asparagus. Seasoned with a warm and 2. Make the vinaigrette: Put garlic, shallot and
earthy Moroccan spice blend, it pleases vinegar in a small bowl. Add a good pinch of
even avowed okra-phobes. salt and a smaller pinch of pepper; let
The happy mix of eggplant, peppers and
macerate for 5 to 10 minutes. Add mustard and
onions is found throughout the Mediterra-
nean. Ideally the vegetables are cooked whisk to dissolve, then whisk in olive oil.
over hot coals, which adds a welcome smok- 3. Assemble the salad: Put cooked beans in a
iness, but I charred mine on a stovetop grill serving bowl and season lightly with salt and
for a similar effect. Then I chopped them to-
pepper. Add olives and half the vinaigrette. Toss
gether in roughs chunk and added olive oil, essence. Sometimes I add a pinch of pow-
lemon, capers and oregano — simple but dered sumac, too. well, then taste and adjust seasoning. Sprinkle
glorious when made with superfresh ingre- Lined up on the table, these salads made salad with dill and chives and serve.
dients. an impressive buffet. But you can also use
A salad of julienned raw zucchini dressed this little collection for five nights of sum- . ......................................................................................
in yogurt, with a generous amount of lemon mer dining, with a different salad each
juice and zest, is extremely refreshing. My night. Since none of the vegetables were LEMONY ZUCCHINI SLAW
favorite herb vendor at the market had ever refrigerated, they had that straight-
chervil, mint and a type of sorrel with tiny from-the-garden sweetness. It made this TIME: 30 MINUTES
leaves, all of which enhanced the lemony city boy think about moving upstate. YIELD: 4 TO 6 SERVINGS

1½ pounds small zucchini or summer

squash, preferably a mix of colors
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
1 tablespoon thinly sliced chives
2 tablespoons roughly chopped chervil
2 tablespoons roughly chopped mint
2 tablespoons roughly chopped sorrel
. ...................................................................................... 4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled, for

OKRA SALAD WITH TOASTED CUMIN Prepping in advance garnish

makes cooking in the 3 tablespoons pine nuts, lightly toasted,
for garnish
TIME: 20 MINUTES heat bearable.
YIELD: 4 TO 6 SERVINGS
1. Top and tail the zucchini. Julienne with a
1 teaspoon cumin seeds large knife, mandoline, food processor or
½ teaspoon coriander seeds spiralizer.
½ teaspoon caraway seeds 2. Transfer zucchini to a large bowl. Season
2 teaspoons paprika or pimentón generously with salt and pepper. Add lemon
Pinch of cayenne zest and juice and toss well. Set aside for 10
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil minutes.
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3. Add yogurt and toss to coat well. Taste and
1 tablespoon cider vinegar or white wine
adjust seasoning. Add chopped herbs and mix
vinegar
gently. Garnish with feta and pine nuts to serve.
Salt and pepper
1½ pounds okra, not too big, left whole
½ cup oil-cured black olives, for garnish
½ cup roughly chopped cilantro leaves,
.....................................................................................................................................................................................
plus additional sprigs, for garnish
GRILLED EGGPLANT, PEPPERS AND ONIONS 1. Make the dressing: Put cumin, coriander and
caraway seeds in a small dry skillet over
TIME: 45 MINUTES 1. Prepare a bed of hot coals in a charcoal grill,
medium-high heat. Shake pan and toast seeds
YIELD: 4 TO 6 SERVINGS or heat a stovetop grill to medium-high.
until fragrant and lightly browned, about 2
Arrange eggplants, onions and peppers on a
4 small eggplants (about 2 minutes. Let seeds cool, then grind to a coarse
baking sheet. Paint vegetables lightly on both
pounds), sliced into ¾-inch rounds powder in a mortar or electric spice mill.
sides with olive oil.
2 medium onions, sliced into ¾-inch Transfer to a small bowl and add paprika and
rounds 2. Working in batches, grill all vegetables on cayenne. Whisk in olive oil, lemon juice and
both sides until softened and lightly charred, vinegar. Season with salt and pepper.
2 ripe bell peppers (or another type of
about 5 to 6 minutes per side. When all
large sweet pepper), halved and 2. Bring a large saucepan of well-salted water
vegetables are cooked, chop them into rough
seeded to a boil. Add okra and cook for 2 minutes, until
chunks and place in a mixing bowl. Drizzle with
Extra-virgin olive oil firm-tender. Drain and rinse with cool water,
3 tablespoons olive oil and the vinegar. Season
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar then blot with a kitchen towel. Set aside.
well with salt and pepper and toss to coat. Add
Salt and pepper capers and toss again. 3. To serve, place okra in a serving bowl.
1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and roughly Season lightly with salt and toss with dressing.
chopped 3. Transfer mixture to a serving dish and
(Leave to marinate for up to 1 hour if desired.)
sprinkle with oregano and crushed red pepper.
Pinch of dried oregano Garnish with olives, chopped cilantro and some
Serve at room temperature.
Pinch of crushed red pepper cilantro sprigs.
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TO ENJOY

There’s Still Time

For Cherry Season
These dark, glossy cherries are
firm and sweetly complex. Sev-
eral varieties are grown in Ore-
gon at high altitudes, handpicked
and shipped by air. Because the
cherries are tree-ripened, the
season is later, with some avail-
able until the end of August:
$89.95 for a five-pound box, in-
cluding shipping, Hood River
Cherry Company, 800-709-4722,
hrcherrycompany.com.

TO MIX

A Martini With an Olive,

But Without the Pit
Yes, you could add a splash of
the liquid from a jar of olives to
your martini. Or you could pop
open a bottle of olive juice for-
mulated for cocktails by Gaea, a
Greek food company that sells
fine olive oils. The juices are
made using brines left over from
the company’s olive and oil
production. Green olive juice is
for use with gin. Brine from
pimento-stuffed olives is desig-
nated for vodka, and it has a
nice little kick: Gaea Dirty Mar-
tini Juice, $2.49 for 8.5 ounces,
gaeaus.com.
TO SPOON
A Winning Spread
Of Marmalades
Gregory Benjamin Conocchioli,
63, has pursued several careers,
but his latest was born from a
wedding gift. Five years ago, he
made 150 jars of preserves for his
niece’s wedding, and afterward
he received requests for more. So
he rented a church kitchen in his
village, Carversville, Pa., and
went into business. For the past
three years, his marmalades and
preserves have won medals in
the World’s Original Marmalade
Awards in Cumbria, England.
Orange-almond-apricot and
citrus-blend marmalades are just
two of the outstanding choices:
Gregory Benjamin Artisan Pre-
serves and Marmalades, $9 to
$16.50, preservesandmarmalade
.com.
TO INDULGE
A Scandinavian Twist
For Frozen Desserts
Would some consider rye-and-
gooseberry ice cream a tasty
treat or not? For me, it’s an
earthy, nutty delight. A tart-sweet
golden sorbet, made from sea
buckthorn berries and carrots,
and a richly herbal sorrel ice
cream are the other Scandinavian
flavors at the new Great Northern
Creamery, a cart tucked near the
herb garden in the Great North-
ern Food Hall. Fear not if your
tastes are more conventional.
Chocolate and buttermilk ice
creams and a raspberry sorbet
are also available by the scoop or
inside a warm, toasted brioche:
Great Northern Food Hall, Grand
Central Terminal, 89 East 42nd
Street, 646-568-4020,
greatnorthernfood.com.
aprons are made of sturdy yet
TO SAVOR TO PROTECT
lightweight Turkish denim with
Fresh Crab Cakes Sleek Cover-Ups
a waxy stain-resistant coating.
By Way of Maryland For the Home Cook Each is named for a different
Cameron’s, a Maryland seafood The chef Angelo Sosa has just culinary personality, and some
company that has specialized in introduced a line of well-de- of them have a charitable
blue crabs and crab cakes since signed aprons in white, pink, donation built into the price:
1985, has started shipping its navy, gray, blue or black fabric Art of Simplicity by Sosa, $88 to
products fresh nationwide. The with contrasting stitching. The $98, aosbysosa.com.
crab cakes, generous with chunks
of snowy meat, require a simple
sauté in butter. They are a hefty
eight ounces each and can easily
be divided into smaller portions.
The company also sells luxurious
cream of crab soup (below),
whole steamed crabs, king crab
legs, jumbo lump crab meat,
shrimp and other seafood: Crab
cakes, $9.99 each for four ounces,
$19.99 each for eight ounces;
cream of crab soup, $19.99 for one
quart, cameronsseafood.com.
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES (CHERRIES, CRAB SOUP, PRESERVES, APRONS);
JAMES NIEVES/THE NEW YORK TIMES (JUICE); WILL GLASER/THE NEW YORK TIMES (ICE CREAM)

MELISSA CLARK A GOOD APPETITE

Fiery Tacos Straight From the Grill

A stint over the flame
brings out the bold,
bright flavors of summer.
IT’S NOT THE warm tortilla or the tender fill-
ing that makes a taco for me — it’s the condi-
ments. The main protein almost doesn’t
matter, be it fish, beef tongue or crisp pork
carnitas. As long as there are several kinds
of salsas and hot sauces, alongside the lime
wedges, sliced radishes and chopped onions
available at the taco truck, you’ll find me
happily dabbing, squeezing and layering be-
fore taking a bite.
At home, though, your choice of taco
condiments is usually more limited. How
many salsas are you willing to make?
Your best move, then, is to make a well-
considered salsa that works with the protein
at hand, and to put out a crisp vegetable or
two as a counterpart to the soft filling in the
warm tortillas.
In this summery recipe, grilled skirt
steaks, marinated with garlic, coriander,
cumin, chile powder and lime zest, serve as
the protein. The longer you let the meat sit in
the seasonings, the more intense the flavors
will become. Marinating overnight is best, if
you can plan ahead, but just an hour or so
makes a difference.
Even if you don’t get around to putting it
into tacos, the steak itself is flavorful enough
to stand alone. Serve it with a salad, and en-
joy its beefy simplicity.
That said, the salsa is worth the effort, and
you can make it as the meat marinates.
To make it, first grill the onion, garlic and a
jalapeño. This caramelizes their flesh, ma-
king them tender and sweet. Then, add an-
other jalapeño — this one raw — and a squirt
of lime juice for bracing, fiery notes that you
can adjust to taste. The jalapeño seeds will
make everything spicier; adding more or
less lime juice controls the acidity.
For a bit of richness, I add avocado cubes
to the salsa bowl. It’s not a common move;
usually, if they are paired with tacos, avoca-
dos are mashed into guacamole or neatly
sliced on the side. But their gentle flavor and
CORRECTION
An article last Wednesday about the 40-
year history of the River Café in Brooklyn
misstated the decade when its owner, Mi-
chael O’Keeffe, first visited the restau-
rant La Grenouille. It was the 1960s, not
the 1950s.
A flavorful marinated
steak calls for a
well-considered salsa.
. ....................................................................................................................................................................................
GRILLED STEAK TACOS WITH CHERRY TOMATO-AVOCADO SALSA
TIME: 40 MINUTES, PLUS AT LEAST 1 HOUR'S 1. Prepare the steak: In a small bowl, mix
MARINATING together the salt, chile powder, coriander,
YIELD: 8 SERVINGS cumin, garlic and lime zest. Rub mixture all
For the steak: over the steaks, cover and refrigerate for at
2 teaspoons kosher salt least 1 hour or preferably overnight.
2½ teaspoons New Mexican or other mild 2. Prepare the salsa: Light the grill or heat to
chile powder medium-high (or heat the broiler). Grill onion,
1½ teaspoons ground coriander garlic and 1 jalapeño until tender and charred
½ teaspoon ground cumin on all sides, 5 to 10 minutes (or place on a
1 large garlic clove, finely grated or broiler pan and broil). Remove from heat until
minced cool enough to handle, then roughly chop
Finely grated zest of 1 lime (cut lime onions, peel garlic and remove seeds and stem
into wedges for serving) from jalapeño.
2½ pounds skirt steak (usually 2 steaks)
3. Transfer grilled onion, garlic and jalapeño to
a blender or mini food processor. Halve the
For the salsa:
fresh jalapeño and seed it, if desired, then add
1 white onion, peeled and sliced into
it to the blender. Process to a chunky paste.
1-inch-thick slices
Scrape into a serving bowl and toss with
2 large garlic cloves, unpeeled
tomatoes, avocado, cilantro, lime juice and
2 jalapeños
salt.
1 quart cherry tomatoes, quartered
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
1 avocado, diced 4. Add more charcoal to the grill, if needed, and
grill the steaks until done to taste, about 2
buttery texture work well here. Be sure to ¼ cup chopped cilantro leaves and stems
stir gently after adding them: You want 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, more to minutes per side for rare (or broil). Let meat
them to remain little velvety pillows until taste rest on a cutting board covered with foil for at
you bite in. ¾ teaspoon kosher salt, more to taste least 7 minutes. Meanwhile, grill or broil the
Once you’ve got the meat, salsa and torti- Corn or flour tortillas, for serving tortillas until warm.
llas, you can garnish your tacos with any Sliced radishes, for serving
crisp vegetables on hand. I love radishes, 5. To serve, slice the meat across the grain,
Mexican crema or sour cream, for and serve with the warm tortillas, radishes,
but pickled carrot rounds, sliced onions or
serving (optional) lime wedges, salsa and crema. Let people
shredded cabbage are welcome. Then mix it
all up, and garnish to your heart’s content. assemble their own tacos at the table.
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THE POUR ERIC ASIMOV

Where the Vineyards Snake Through the Sand

Grapes from a remarkable adapted to its unusual environment.
“I have never heard of ramisco being able
wine region in Portugal face to grow anywhere else, and I know a lot of
unusually taxing conditions. people tried,” said Nuno Ramilo, whose
family business, Casal do Ramilo, has been
COLARES, PORTUGAL — The vineyards in
making wines from the clay soils since 1937.
this small wine region west of Lisbon on the When he and his brother, Pedro, took over
Atlantic coast look like something that slith- the business, they decided they wanted to
ered up from the sea. make Colares, too.
Trained low to avoid the biting wind that “We looked at our region and the sand,
blows incessantly off the ocean, the vines and we said, ‘Let’s do what people used to
resemble green serpents snaking along the do here,’” Nuno Ramilo said.
sand. It’s as if vines from a more conven- So, in 2015, the brothers planted about
tional region had come to the beach on vaca- five acres of grapes on a windy, sandy lot
tion and had collapsed in a deep slumber. where their mother had wanted to build a
Colares, one of the world’s singular wine condominium, a project they said was
regions, emits a sleepy timelessness. The blocked by the government. Nuno Ramilo
grapes are grown today just as they have got a little creative, too, training the vines
been for centuries, except far fewer of them on low wires rather than along the sand,
can be found. As recently as the 1940s, vines thus avoiding having to splint the vines.
covered almost 2,500 acres of these sandy “If you want to work in Colares,” he said,
soils. “you have to plant, because the old people
Only about 50 acres remain, spread over who have the vineyards won’t be working
a narrow swatch west of the Sintra area, them forever.”
where the royal families of Portugal es- At the airy, well-ventilated warehouse of
caped the steamy Lisbon summers for col- the co-op, around 75 huge wooden tanks
orful wind-cooled palaces. Much of the vine- made of mahogany, imported from Brazil,
yard territory was lost in the 1960s and ’70s and other “exotic woods,” as Mr. Figueiredo
to suburban expansion. calls them, are a reminder of what produc-
Yet Colares produces what may well be tion was like in the 1940s. Now, except for a
Portugal’s most distinctive still wines. The PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOAO PEDRO MARNOTO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

reds, made of the ramisco grape, are high in

acid and powerfully tannic, so much so that
they are aged for years in the cellars before
they are released. The current vintage on
the market is 2007.
For all their initial intensity, the wines
soften after 10 years of aging, revealing a
graceful complexity, with savory kaleido-
scopic flavors: herbal, balsam and saline.
The wines are low in alcohol, too, seldom
reaching 12.5 percent.
The white wines — made from the malva-
sia de Colares grape, which is genetically
distinct from other grapes called malvasia
— are fresh, rich and likewise herbal and sa-
line with depth and character. They do not
require quite as much aging as the reds; the
current vintage is 2012.
The Colares vineyards, the westernmost
wine region in continental Europe, are often
said to be on the verge of extinction,
doomed by a relentless appetite for seaside
housing. For the moment, the threat seems
to have abated.
The 2008 financial crisis slowed the real
estate boom, said Francisco Figueiredo, a
viticulturist and enologist who runs the
Adega Regional de Colares, the co-op that
produces the vast majority of Colares
wines. Part of the region is within the Sintra
district, a Unesco World Heritage site, and
within a Portuguese park, which is pro-
tected from further development.
In the last few years, about five more
acres of vineyards were planted and will
soon come into production, the first sign of
growth in Colares in a long time. Interest in
the wines is increasing, too.
“I’m a little more optimistic,” Mr. Figuei-
redo said as we walked through a vineyard
in June. “There’s more interest abroad. We
used to be a little bit forgotten.”
IT WAS NOT ALWAYS that way. Back in the
late 19th century, the vineyards of Europe
were devastated by the phylloxera aphid,
which preyed on their roots. The vines of
Colares were unaffected because phyllox-
era cannot live in sand, and the wines came
to be in great demand.
Eventually, phylloxera was stopped by
grafting European vines onto American
rootstocks, which are immune to the bug,
and vineyards could be replanted. Virtually
all European vines are now grafted, but Co-
lares vines remain on their own roots.
In the early 20th century, this was an indi-
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Asimov on Twitter: @EricAsimov.
Clockwise from left, Francisco
Figueiredo, of the Adega
Regional de Colares co-op,
which ferments virtually all
the wine in the region; Diogo
Baeta, who helps his father,
Everything about growing the ramisco scant few, they sit unused.
José, run Adega Viúva Gomes,
and malvasia grapes is hard work. To plant The same is true at Viúva Gomes, where
which buys wine from a local
the vines, growers must dig trenches in the 10,000-liter vats are displayed like museum
co-op and then matures it in
sand, which can be roughly 3 to 15 feet deep, pieces.
their barrels; Nuno Ramilo’s
to the chalky clay below. The roots need to “It’s good for Colares, but we don’t have
family business, Casal do
grow in the clay to survive. As the vines get 10,000 liters of Colares anymore,” said
Ramilo, has been making
taller, the growers gradually fill in the sand, Diogo Baeta, who helps his father, José, run
wines from the soils in the
aided no doubt by the ceaseless wind, which Viúva Gomes. They age about 1,000 liters a
Colares since 1937; to protect
blows back its share. year in smaller barrels.
the grapes from burning on
The wind is the enemy of the vine, Mr. Fi- Mr. Baeta said he is happy with Mr. Fi-
the hot summer sand or from
gueiredo said. The salt it carries can burn gueiredo’s winemaking but hopes to do it
rotting during the rainy
the leaves. So in addition to keeping the himself one day.
season, farmers raise the
vines low, growers also plant apple trees “Francisco and I, we share the same phi-
grapes off the ground.
cation of purity and quality for Colares. among the vines, and erect fences made of losophy of making the wine in the tradi-
Fraud abounded as unscrupulous stone along with maintaining barriers of tional manner of the region,” he said. “But
producers and merchants in other regions wild-growing cane. my goal is to make all our wines in the near
used the Colares name for their wines. In Once the grape bunches fill out, growers future.”
1934, the authorities decided that, to pre- must raise the vines off the sand to facilitate Viúva Gomes uses a facsimile of an old la-
vent fraud, only wine made by the co-op air circulation. They achieve this by pains- bel on its bottles, from the days when the
could be called Colares. This was the law un- takingly placing wooden splints under the spelling was sometimes rendered “Col-
til 1994. vines that elevate them like trestles under a lares.”
Now, Mr. Figueiredo said, just two other road. The Colares wines were traditionally sold
producers make Colares. Adega Viúva in 600-milliliter bottles, an awkward size
Gomes, which is the only other Colares label PLENTY OF OTHER GRAPES, like castelão and that is illegal in some markets, including the
I have seen sold in the United States besides tinta roriz (tempranillo in Spain), are grown United States. So now, Colares, both red and
the wines of the co-op, does not make wine. conventionally on clay-based soils in the white, is largely sold in 500-milliliter bot-
Instead, Viúva Gomes buys wine from the Colares area. These wines, which carry the tles, which are legal. The wines can be found
co-op and then ages it in its own cellar be- appellation Vinho Regional de Lisboa, can for $25 to $45.
fore bottling. That apparently makes a dif- be quite good. But only wines made from “It’s a homage to the old bottles but also a
ference. Viúva Gomes wines are subtly dis- ramisco or malvasia grown on the sand can recognition that there’s not a lot of wine to
tinct, particularly the white, which emerges be called Colares. go around,” Mr. Figueiredo said. “Rather
in the bottle even more briny than the co- The ramisco grape, which makes up 75 than push prices up, they reduced the size of
op’s. percent of the Colares plantings, is superbly the bottle.”

OFF THE MENU FLORENCE FABRICANT

OPENING LOOKING AHEAD

Fairfax Gabriel Stulman wasted
no time in turning Perla into an
all-day cafe that starts with
breakfast and becomes a wine bar
just before noon. The Perla chef
Jack Harris is still in the kitchen,
but he’s now preparing casual
Mediterranean fare, mostly as
small plates ($20 with a glass of
wine until 7 p.m.). The décor is
homey, like someone’s living
room, if that living room also had
a bar and a communal table: 234
West Fourth Street (West 10th
Street), 212-933-1824, fairfax.nyc.
Golda All-day dining from break-
fast to early supper is what
JAMES ESTRIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Danny Nusbaum, whose family
HEADLINER KarVér Brasserie and Bakery Café owns Pick a Bagel, is offering at
KarVér Hospitality, a new restaurant company owned by a group of this cafe bearing his grandmoth-
investors and the chef Lisa Brefere (left), the Culinary Institute of er’s first name. Sandwiches, small
America graduate behind the food programs at Barclays Center and plates and a few more substantial
Nassau Coliseum, isn’t starting small. This 4,800-square-foot Brooklyn dishes combining Middle Eastern
restaurant is the first of several projects for which Ms. Brefere is the and American flavors dominate
culinary director. A sleek, modernized brasserie with an open kitchen the menu. (Thursday): 504
and seats for 120, it also has a separate retail bakery and cafe. The Franklin Avenue (Fulton Street),
company’s executive chef, Rostislav Kemelman (right), who worked at Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
restaurants owned by Bobby Flay, April Bloomfield and Shelly Fire- 718-484-7065, goldakitchen.com.
man, relies on local purveyors whenever possible, and the restaurant P.S. Kitchen This might be the
proudly lists more than a dozen. The menu includes dishes like bouill- ultimate feel-good restaurant. The
abaisse, pot-au-feu, salmon choucroute and French onion soup. food, from the executive chef
Lighter fare, like a croque-monsieur and various tartines, will also be Gary Barawidan, is all plant-
served. In the fall, there will be a bigger KarVér (pronounced kar- based, with specialties like ginger
VAIR) opening in Chelsea, and another in Downtown Brooklyn. Ms. rice congee, fennel tartine and a
Brefere said the location for the company’s first restaurant was cho- veggie burger. The owners, Craig
sen because many of the investors were Russian-Americans with Cochran and Jeffrey LaPadula,
roots in the neighborhood. “It also makes for a good testing ground for will donate all profits to charities
the launch before we go into Manhattan,” she said. (Opens Wednes- with a mission to reduce poverty:
day): 1809 Emmons Avenue (19th Street), Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 246 West 48th Street, 212-651-7247,
718-521-2777, karver.com. ps-kitchen.com.
Au Cheval Brendan Sodikoff, the
chief executive of the Chicago
restaurant group Hogsalt Hospi-
tality, which opened 4 Charles
Prime Rib in the West Village this
year, has confirmed that he is
bringing a branch of the group’s
Au Cheval to New York. It will
have 75 seats, he said, and will
share the space with a coffee bar.
He expects it to open next year in
late summer: 79 Walker Street
(Cortlandt Alley).
Smorg Square A generous lot
that borders SoHo and TriBeCa
will become a Smorgasburg later
this month. Eric Demby, a
founder and developer of the
Smorgasburg markets, expects
that it will be able to remain open
a good part of the year, weekdays
as well as weekends. He has lined
up 20 vendors, including C Bao
Asian Buns (Chinese), Ramen
Burger, Bon Chovie (anchovies)
and Red Hook Lobster Pound: 76
Varick Street (Canal Street, Grand
Street), smorgasburg.com.
CHEFS ON THE MOVE
Corey Chow will be the new chef
de cuisine at Per Se, replacing Eli
Kaimeh, who is leaving for a
three-month sabbatical on Sun-
day. Mr. Kaimeh has been chef de
cuisine since 2010, when Jonathan
Benno left.
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A Spirited Swirl of Middle Eastern Flavors
Meir Adoni unveils his
expansive vision in New York.
NEW YORK IS SUPPOSED to be tough on out-
of-town chefs who go into business here. In
reality, it’s tough on chefs of all kinds. Dis-
tance simply multiplies the difficulties, and
competition weeds out the unprepared.
For long commutes, few chefs can top the
one that Meir Adoni has been making since
he opened a Middle Eastern restaurant
called Nur on East 20th Street in April. He
splits his time between Manhattan; Tel
Aviv, the site of his two other restaurants;
and his home outside Jerusalem. In Israel,
he’s got a full dance card; he has published a
cookbook app and has a leading role in a
popular Israeli cooking-contest show called
“Game of Chefs,” where he is both a mentor
to one of the teams and a judge. (Television
viewers in Israel must have different ideas
about impartiality.)
Running a new restaurant in New York
tends to be more than a half-time job, and
yet Nur doesn’t have the lethargy and me-
chanical quality of a kitchen run by remote
control. The plates have energy. At times, in
fact, they don’t know when to quit. The
sauces and powders and garnishes prolifer-
ate so quickly that it’s hard to keep count.
But it’s easier for a new restaurant to settle
down after an excess of high spirits than to
recover from a tentative start.
The swirl of flavors also reflects Mr.
Adoni’s expansive definition of the food of
the Middle East. Nur’s menu embraces Mo-
rocco and Libya in North Africa, in addition
to Israel, Yemen and Syria; again, it’s hard
to keep count. His vision of his part of the
globe is pluralistic.
Inspired by the Arab cooks working in
Mr. Adoni’s Tel Aviv restaurants, Nur’s Pal-
estinian tartare begins with mounds of raw
beef and adds layer upon layer of complica-
tion. Pine nuts, tender young favas, pickled
onions, slices of green chiles, broccolini flo-
rets, sumac powder and micro-sprouts are
strewn over at least three sauces, including
a pitch-dark and smoky eggplant purée and
a very good sheep-milk yogurt. All of this
flirts with chaos, but it doesn’t topple over.
Nur turns an Arab dessert, the folded
pancakes called qatayef, into fried savory
pies filled with a mince of spiced lamb.
There is some sweetness in the dough and a
fair amount of delicious fat in the lamb, so a
break from the richness comes in the form
of cucumber spears and salted green al-
monds. Maybe the yogurt-mint sauce
would work better as a dip than a “chaser”
served in a shot glass, but the flavors are
right.
Born in southern Israel to a Moroccan
family, Mr. Adoni draws on some of the
cooking of that culture. The Moroccan frit-
ters known as sfenj are the basis of an odd
and appealing appetizer he calls a date
doughnut. Although it is sweetened by
dates it could just as easily be seen as a
smoked trout beignet, or, when you get right
down to it, a fish cake. The sauce is an in-
tense sweet-and-sour citrus vinaigrette
with curry powder lurking in it; a few drops
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When Bad Drinks Go Good
Fussy bartenders upgrade
cocktails like the Midori sour.
By ROBERT SIMONSON
Just as the cocktail renaissance has
brought renewed fame to classics like the
martini, the manhattan and the Negroni, it
has heaped fresh infamy on a rogues’
gallery of less classy concoctions, most of
which emerged during the final decades of
the last century.
Now a backlash of sorts has begun, as
some high-end bartenders apply their skills
to a new challenge: doing bad drinks well.
Chaim Dauermann, the head bartender
at the Up & Up, a Greenwich Village cocktail
bar, has taken up the cause of what many of
his colleagues consider a trashy disco drink
— the Midori sour — by giving it a full mod-
ern-mixology makeover. He was driven in
part by a love for the taste of melon. (Midori
is the only melon-flavored liqueur of note.)
But there were other, more political motiva-
tions.
“I hate pretense,” he said. “I particularly
hate the dividing of products that happened
for a time in our industry. ‘Here’s something
we carry and celebrate for reasons; and
here’s something we don’t carry and don’t
celebrate for other reasons.’”
Bars like Holiday Cocktail Lounge in New
York; Pépé Le Moko in Portland, Ore.; and
the Automatic in Cambridge, Mass., where
the martini shares space on the menu with a
blue margarita, have risen to this curious
challenge.
Jeffrey Morgenthaler, the bar manager of
Pépé Le Moko and Clyde Common (also in
Portland), is arguably the high priest of this
populist trend. His new-and-improved ren-
dition of the lowly amaretto sour, now
served at bars around the world, began as a
secret, under-the-bar special he would
serve only to friends.
“It wasn’t cool to say you liked amaretto
sours,” Mr. Morgenthaler said. “I didn’t
want to be excommunicated from the cock-
tail world for serving it.”
When Pépé Le Moko opened in 2014, how-
ever, he let his democratic colors fly. “We
had reached the maximum density on cock-
tail snobbery,” he said. “People were getting
fed up with the cocktail nerd who would
judge your drink order.” Joining the
amaretto sour on the menu were reimag-
ined recipes for the Grasshopper and the
Blue Hawaii.
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RESTAURANTS
Nur, above, serves dishes with flavors that
embrace Morocco, Libya, Israel, Yemen and
Syria. Top, the small dining room at the
restaurant, which opened in Manhattan in
April. From above right: Casablanca chraime;
a large sesame-blitzed Jerusalem bagel; and
scallop ceviche pani puri.
go a long way.
Like the chatter of a nervous guest at a
party, the hyperactivity of certain dishes
probably comes from a desire to impress.
But the quieter plates can be just as remark-
able, sometimes more so. There is a suave
and very good seafood stew that is a cross
between bouillabaisse and chraime, the Mo-
Just referring to any cocktail as bad is
enough to get Mr. Morgenthaler’s back up.
(“There are no bad drinks, only bad bar-
tenders,” he has said.) But generally speak-
ing, in mixology circles, cocktails are
deemed subpar for any number of reasons:
a lack of subtlety or balance; an overre-
liance on alcohol or sugar; the past use of
poor ingredients, including spirits with arti-
ficial colors or flavors; silly names; or just a
negative reputation as a favorite of undis-
criminating bars and drinkers.
The new versions of these shady drinks,
however, are not the cocktails your parents
knew. While some bartenders may cham-
pion underdog cocktails, they are also
PETE WELLS
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Top, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, the
bar manager at Pépé Le Moko
in Portland, Ore., and his
versions of, from left: an
amaretto sour, a Blue Hawaii, a
Long Island iced tea and a
Grasshopper. Above, at Up &
Up in Greenwich Village,
Chaim Dauermann, the head
bartender, pours his fine-tuned
Midori sour.
N D5
NUR ★★
34 EAST 20TH STREET (PARK AVENUE), FLATIRON;
212-505-3420; NURNYC.COM
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Atmosphere The dining room is attractive and
stylish despite being shaped like a shoe box.
Service Enthusiastic and familiar.
Sound level Like a cocktail party in a studio
apartment after the third round of martinis.
Recommended All breads; date doughnuts;
scallop ceviche pani puri; Damascus qatayef;
Palestinian tartare; Casablanca chraime; Ba-
harat spiced lamb; chocolate cassata.
Drinks and wine Cocktails reach for Middle
Eastern flavors without straining; the wine list is
far-flung but tilts toward the Mediterranean.
Prices Appetizers, $7 to $24; main courses,
$33 to $36.
Open Daily for dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair access The dining room is three
steps below sidewalk level; the restrooms are
downstairs and not accessible.
What the stars mean Ratings range from zero to four
stars and reflect the reviewer’s reaction primarily to
food, with ambience, service and price taken into
consideration.
I recommend trying all three. Probably
not on the same night.
With all the ideas zinging around Nur’s
menu, a few are bound to veer off in the
wrong direction. The brazenly trayf gefilte
shrimp, buried under pebbles of dashi jelly,
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doesn’t open up the way it should; both it
and the jelly are too firm to melt on the
roccan braise of fish in spicy tomato sauce. tongue. A main course of octopus shimmers
On the side is a bowl of what has to be the under a fine spice glaze, but gets wrong-
finest couscous I’ve ever eaten in a restau- footed by a jumble of sauces.
rant. Mr. Adoni says he learned to make the Sea scallops, another main course, get
fluffy little semolina crumbs from a Libyan along better with just one good sauce, a tart
woman. Also from Libya is the scoop of ter- sorrel purée with an undercurrent of cumin.
shi that sits atop the couscous. Made from If the kitchen can do something about the
pumpkin, eggplant and harissa, it is sweet, awful, overcooked nuggets of ricotta gnudi,
spicy and terrific. it would be onto something.
One factor in Nur’s early success — the Lisa Meisenger, the pastry chef, is cer-
small dining room has been thronged every tainly with the program. For a recent spe-
time I’ve gone — is Mr. Adoni’s business cial, she scattered some juicy, dark straw-
partner and guide to local customs, Gadi Pe- berries over a bay-leaf custard with candied
leg. The owner of Breads Bakery, a cham- walnuts and pine-nut brittle. Rounded out
pion producer of babka and rugelach, Mr. with a scoop of mastic ice cream and deco-
Peleg found the space, which crouches rated with flowers and edible gold, it was
three steps below grade, beneath an eye- one of the more straightforward desserts.
lash-extension salon. Something going by the name of choco-
The ceilings are low. The layout is tight. late cassata is made up of three small sand-
The service is familiar and opinionated wiches of pistachio ice cream between al-
about the menu. (Almost all the opinions mond cookies. They are nearly engulfed by
are positive.) The place looks and acts, in chocolate foam, cherries in syrup, orange
other words, like a New York restaurant. It zest and candied pistachio. It is hectic, but
sounds like one, too, when all the seats are delicious.
taken and raised voices start careening off Mr. Adoni said he would like to open a sec-
the ceiling. Oddly enough, the bar is rela- ond New York restaurant. Selfishly, I’m
tively quiet, and not a bad place to eat if you hoping it will be North African; he could
want to have a conversation. build an entire menu around that Libyan
Mr. Peleg had a hand in the menu, and couscous. But he has his sights on a kosher
makes all the breads at his bakery from Mr. restaurant. If he can use ingredients as vi-
Adoni’s recipes. There is a miniature loaf of brant as those at Nur, and keep the prices
challah brushed with honey, salt and golden from soaring out the window, it would be a
flakes of garlic; a kind of Yemenite monkey real achievement.
bread, flecked with nigella seeds, called ku- . ......................................................................................
baneh; and a sesame-blitzed Jerusalem ba- Ligaya Mishan’s Hungry City reviews will return
gel the size of a small bath mat. on Aug. 23.
ABOVE AND LEFT, THOMAS PATTERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
. ......................................................................................
aware that the drinks need a little work un-
AMARETTO SOUR der the hood. Mr. Morgenthaler’s amaretto
sour is bolstered by a dose of bourbon. Mr.
ADAPTED FROM JEFFREY MORGENTHALER, PÉPÉ LE
Dauermann’s Midori sour calls for gin,
MOKO, PORTLAND, ORE.
homemade lime cordial and egg white. And
YIELD: 1 DRINK
the hue of the blue margarita at the Auto-
matic comes not from blue Curaçao but
1½ ounces amaretto from butterfly pea flower.
¾ ounce cask-proof bourbon, such as “I can’t do it poorly,” said Dave Cagle, an
Booker’s owner of the Automatic. “I can’t look people
1 ounce fresh lemon juice in the face and sell them an $11 cup of food
1 teaspoon rich simple syrup (2 parts coloring and corn syrup.”
The Long Island iced tea may be the cock-
sugar to 1 part water; see note)
tail that most often inspires quixotic bar-
½ ounce egg white, beaten
tenders to don their lifeguard gear. Mr. Mor-
Lemon twist, for garnish
genthaler improves his with Mexican Coke,
Brandied cherries, for garnish which contains cane sugar, not corn syrup.
The Long Island iced tea at Holiday Cocktail
Combine the amaretto, bourbon, lemon juice, Lounge uses vodka infused with actual tea,
simple syrup and egg white in a cocktail shaker and has no Coke in it at all.
and shake without ice, about 10 seconds, to If a cocktail requires so much surgery to
integrate. Add ice and shake until chilled, about make it suitable, why bother with it at all?
15 seconds. Strain over fresh ice in an “I’m someone who thinks you can get
more out of something by adding more to
old-fashioned glass. Garnish with the lemon
peel and brandied cherries. it,” Mr. Dauermann said. “I’m just saying
my Midori sour is a way to showcase the po-
Note: To make rich simple syrup, warm 1 cup
tential of the flavor in Midori in a way that
sugar in ½ cup water in a saucepan over low
does it more service than just serving Mi-
heat until dissolved. Cool to room temperature
dori.”
before using. (There will be extra syrup; Also, customers order the things.
refrigerate if not using immediately.) “We sell so much of it,” Mr. Cagle said.
“Mudslides, blue margaritas, Miami Vices.
They’re right up with Sazeracs, martinis
and manhattans. I think it’s the irony thing.
And they do taste great.”
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A Salmon Fishing Free-for-All

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 ditional 10 for each family member per sea-
where any Alaska resident, from an oil com- son — limits enforced by state officers who
pany executive to a carwash attendant, can patrol the beach.
fill a freezer with premium salmon for only The average dip-net fisher in the Cook In-
the cost of gas and gear. let — the 180-mile finger of ocean that runs
Most of the Kenai’s fish are caught by along the Kenai Peninsula from Anchorage
commercial boats and sold around the to the Gulf of Alaska — brings home 60 to 70
world. The rest go to sport fishermen, who pounds of salmon each summer, said Ricky
catch them with a rod and reel, and, increas- Gease, the executive director of the Kenai
ingly, a wildly diverse group of mostly ur- River Sportfishing Association. Even in
ban dip-netters, who crowd the river’s Alaska, this is a bargain: Although wild
mouth for three weeks in July, hoping to salmon can sell for more than $25 a pound in
score a winter’s supply of wild salmon that the lower 48, here it will still cost $10 or more
most can’t afford to buy. In the roughly 20 at the grocery.
years since the state started regulating dip- An estimated 90,000 people, fishers and
net fishing in the region, the number of per-
mits it issues has doubled, to more than
30,000. There may be no more
Now, when the dip-netters descend, the democratic fishing spot in
beach takes on the motley, slightly claustro-
phobic feel of a music festival. Whole fam-
America than the Kenai.
ilies set up camp in the sand, hauling tents,
chairs, dogs, children and nets by four- their families, share about 400,000 sockeye
wheelers from the packed parking lot. annually, Mr. Gease said, which breaks
This year, a church group brought in a down to 2.4 million meals, the majority of
bouncy house and grilled hot dogs. A cart fish coming from the Kenai. Food-bank
sold espresso. People on the beach spoke workers in Anchorage say salmon has also
Hmong, Korean, Tagalog, Spanish and Thai. become a supplemental source of protein
They played Christian rock, reggaeton and for the city’s hungry.
Pacific Island R&B. “Outside the revenues generated from
July’s dip-net army lifts the economy in oil,” Mr. Gease said, “this is the largest sin-
the town of Kenai, but it also clogs the high- gle shared natural resource in Alaska for
residents.”
Over the years, the town has become bet-
ter at managing the parking, the trash and
the fish waste. The number of dip-netting
permits has dropped a bit the past few
years, leading to speculation that the fish-
ery has reached its saturation point.
On July 29, on the last weekend of the sea-
son, fishers lined up in the sun under a noisy
tangle of gulls. Sina Tulimasealii, wearing a
protective skirt made from a garbage bag,
cleaned salmon on top of a plastic container,
a coral-colored heap of roe at her feet.
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way and litters the beach with fish heads

and guts that have to be raked to the water
at night by special tractors. Hundreds of
gulls cry overhead, diving to feast on en-
trails. On weekends, when crowding is at its
worst, there are dust-ups over fishing terri-
tory, tangled gear, pilfered bags of ice and
stolen coolers. Differences in culture, lan-
guage and notions of personal space some-
times fuel the conflicts.
“It used to be 200 people — now it’s 5,000”
on a given day, said Scott Turney, an An-
chorage telecommunications engineer who
has been fishing on the beach for more than
30 years. “There never used to be any con-
flicts, but the newcomers don’t have the
same courtesy. As soon as you drag a fish
out, one or two people will come take your
place.”
Even with the crowds, he said, landing a
big haul of fish is worth the hassle: “l still
love it. I’ll never stop.”
To fish, most people stand elbow to elbow
along the shoreline, wearing waders, chest-
high in the cold river. Each holds a long steel
pole with a five-foot-wide net basket on the
end. When a fish hits the net, the fisher
drags it onto the beach and bonks it on the Above, a haul of fish is laid out on the beach; hand, must sometimes stop work for a few naise, lemon pepper and green onion, she
head with a short bat. Some people also fish right, Sina Tulimasealii, left, fashioned a days at the direction of state biologists who said. Her Anchorage church, Manai Fou As-
by boat to avoid the crowd, holding their skirt from a garbage bag to protect her monitor the number of fish in the river for sembly of God, holds services in Samoan.
nets overboard as they drift with the cur- clothes and skin from salmon debris. conservation purposes. They don’t love About 30 church members were catching
rent. watching the dip-netters filling their cool- fish that day to share with the congregation,
Occasionally, a commercial boat putters ers. she said.
by. There’s always a little tension. “It’s always hard to not be catching fish,” They used the Samoan word “mafutaga”
Commercial fishermen catch salmon by said Hannah Heimbuch, who runs a 32-foot — fellowship — to describe what it feels like
stretching large nets in the inlet near the aluminum commercial boat, Salmon Slut, in to be on the beach with so many people.
mouth of the river. When things are slow, the inlet. “I feel like our harvest is pretty re- “Some of our elders cannot fish, so we fish
dip-netters grumble that the larger boats sponsible and pretty moderate.” for them,” Ms. Tulimasealii said. “It’s not all
take too many fish. A single dip-netter is allowed to take about fishing, though. It’s about having
The commercial fishermen, on the other home 25 sockeye, or red, salmon, and an ad- fun.”
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Just Begging for a Close-Up

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Taiwanese bubble tea floats, and Filipino
and Indonesian shaved ice — are popping
up in more and more places in the United
States, where they put the basic American
scoop shop to shame.
But the point of lining up for a limited-edi-
tion treat like Taiyaki’s taro slush unicorn
float may be followers, not flavors. Some of
these treats are delicious, some are per-
fectly pleasant and many are achingly, ined-
ibly sweet. Yet in a social-media-dominated
world, the picture can be more satisfying
than the dessert.
On summer nights, lines stretch out the
door at Bingbox in the East Village, where
fluffy “snow cream” is topped with caramel

Elaborate confections are

putting the American
scoop shop to shame.

popcorn, and Wowfulls on the Lower East

Side, where bubbled waffles are wrapped
around sundaes. Ice cream innovators have
figured out how to swirl a tutu of cotton
candy around a cone of soft serve, shape ice
into pleats and turn a baby watermelon into
a bowl for shaved ice, watermelon balls and
meringues.
Cathy Erway, an expert on Taiwanese-
American food, said that as thousands of
Asian students have arrived in the United
States, vendors of their favored foods have
followed.
“A lot of the new little shops selling buns,
fried chicken, bubble tea and shaved ice are
in college towns,” she said, beyond Asian-
American enclaves where the shops are
also thriving, like the San Gabriel Valley in
Southern California, the Bay Area and New
York City’s three Chinatowns. Some are
franchisees of Asian chains, but many be-
long to young entrepreneurs who smell op-
portunity in sugar and sprinkles.
Most of the new creations are based on
American treats like sweet coffee drinks,
soft-serve ice cream and red velvet cake,
said Woojae Lee, an owner and the chief ba-
rista of Sweet Moment in SoHo. “But then
we add Asian ingredients and Asian cre-
ativity,” he said.
Using tiny pens filled with chocolate
sauce, Mr. Lee paints a baby animal face on
each of the shop’s chilled lattes, which are
flavored with red velvet, chocolate or green
tea and tinted in corresponding colors.
(This “cream art,” an offshoot of latte art,
was taken to Seoul, South Korea, by the ce-
lebrity barista Lee Kang Bin, who paints
full-color van Gogh masterpieces and Dis-
ney characters on coffee drinks.)
Mr. Lee said that in Seoul, where he lived
until 2009, competition to come up with the
next big treat is fierce: “Every summer,
people are looking for something cold that’s
new.”
WHEN ADMIRING a parfait of green tea
gelato, diced mango and edible paper-sugar
butterflies at Oddies Foodies in Hong Kong,
or a majestic Jenga honey toast tower at
SnoCrave, a Taiwanese-style chain in Cali-
fornia, it is hard to believe that ice cream ar-
rived in Asia less than 100 years ago.
Asian diets were never completely dairy-
free. In ancient times, the Korean royal
household kept cows to supply milk for the
court. Both meat and milk were scarce in Ja-
pan and China (and sometimes banned by
Buddhist edict) but available to the wealthy
for special dishes and medicinal purposes.
Milk for mass consumption arrived with
British colonizers, who took their addiction
to milky tea and creamy custards to Hong
Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. In 1885, a
determined doctor imported cattle to Hong
Kong from his native Scotland and estab-
lished a dairy farm to supply the island with
fresh milk. (It’s still standing.)
Soon afterward, canned condensed milk
arrived as a milk substitute for colonial ex-
patriates, but Asian consumers took to the
stuff and repurposed it in creative ways,
such as a sweet drizzle for shaved ice.
Mooncakes, popular treats for the lunar
Mid-Autumn Festival, were one of the early
adopters of Western-style ice cream, re-
placing lotus seeds and red beans as fillings.
But elaborate frozen desserts are nothing
new in Asia: Fluffy shaved ice was first
mentioned in Japanese literature about a
thousand years ago. Even then, it was a
summer treat flavored with different saps
and syrups; later, it was scattered with top-
pings like red azuki beans, ripe fruit and
sweet jellies made with agar, the natural gel
harvested from algae. These originals are
still popular, like the cendol served from
roadside stands in Indonesia, fragrant with
pandan and palm sugar.
Shaved ice has steadily been trans-
formed by new ingredients and in new
places: milk tea in Malaysia, bananas in Ha-
waii, grated ube (purple yam) in the Phil-
ippines (and in Brooklyn, where Ube
Kitchen piles sundaes of frozen ube in drag-
on fruit bowls at two Smorgasburg food
markets). It has recently absorbed flavors
such as Oreo and Nutella, swelled into tow-
ers and mountains, called “monster ice” in
Japan, and been topped with the likes of
cookie dough and cheesecake.
According to Daniel Gray, a Korean-
American food-marketing consultant who
lives in Seoul, these complex desserts
match up with Asian culinary traditions,
where texture can be as or more important
than taste. (Bubble tea, with its pleasingly
chewy balls of tapioca, is an excellent exam-
ple.) Toppings like starchy mochi, slippery
lychees and gummy bears are not only tasty
and eye-catching, but they also provide the
necessary riot of special effects.
“You would never be served plain ice
cream in a cup here,” he said. “That would
be too boring.”
The aesthetics, too, are an obsession:
“Cuteness, presentation and appearance
are important here,” Mr. Gray said. (Skin
care and makeup, as well as desserts, are
popular preoccupations for young Koreans
of both sexes.) Bistopping, one of the most-
Instagrammed ice cream parlors in Seoul,
decorates its cones with pastel Froot Loops,
rainbow sprinkles and nonpareils, and
Matcha and sesame soft-serve ice creams in a fish-shaped waffle cone at Taiyaki NYC.
Above, a creamy base is poured and then
turned into ice cream rolls at Frozen Sweet.
PHOTOGRAPHS ABOVE AND RIGHT BY AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
sticks giant pink cookies shaped like flamin-
Thai ice cream rolls, with add-ons, at Frozen Sweet in New York.
gos, mermaid tails and kissing lips into the
ice cream. (This artistic vision has also car-
ried over to the United States: At the cut-
ting-edge New York parlor Ice & Vice, the
owners, Paul Kim and Ken Lo, produce pas-
tel “flavors” like Blue, Yellow and Green,
and just unveiled a vanilla sundae in a hot-
pink cone with a vivid drizzle of raspberry
jam, lavender and pink sprinkles, and a
deep-red Luxardo cherry.)
Ice cream creations like these have be-
come part of Asian food and visual culture.
“What I see day and night is kids holding up
cones in one hand and phones in the other,”
said Roxanne Dowell, an editor at Sassy
Hong Kong, an online English-language
guide to that notably food-and-trend-ob-
sessed city. “And the girls make sure to get
their manicures in the shot.”
Daisann McLane, a former New York
Times travel writer who lives in Hong Kong
and guides food tours there, said that post-
ing pictures of iconic foods confers status
online — and also locates the traveler on the
virtual world map.
“If you see an egg waffle in the shot, you
know that’s Hong Kong,” she said. Chilled
parfaits of custard and perfect fruit place
you at famous Tokyo “fruit parlors” like
Takano and Sembikiya. On Thailand’s
beaches, ice cream rolls are shot against
spectacular oceanic sunsets.
THAI ICE CREAM ROLLS are a recent import,
LISA CORSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES made to order at places like Sweet Charlie’s
Two frappés, coffee jelly and green tea, at Okamoto Kitchen in Los Angeles. in Philadelphia and Frozen Sweet in New
York. A variation on ice cream with mix-ins,
the rolls start with a creamy base poured
onto a freezing-cold metal plate. Candy,
cookies and fruit are loaded on, and the ven-
dor uses two sharp spatulas to chop, smash
and spread the mixture into a paste. (The
rapid, constant hand movements explain
why one Thai name for the dish translates
to “stir-fried ice cream.”) The frozen cream
is scraped off the plate so smoothly that it
curls up into a scroll, like wood shavings.
The rolls are stacked in a cup, and (of
course) even more toppings are deployed
on top.
There is nothing especially Thai about ice
cream rolls: The base is the same as count-
less other formulas, and a similar process is
deployed at hundreds of Cold Stone Cream-
eries. But because of the vast reach of social
media, and because the first images of the
process were posted from beach towns in
Thailand, “Thai ice cream rolls” have be-
come a global phenomenon.
“Without YouTube, only a few people out-
side Thailand would know about ice cream
rolls,” said Gil Grobe, who shot a video of the
process while visiting Ko Phi Phi island in
2015. When he posted it to Facebook, it was
viewed 300,000 times in the first two days.
So he started a channel dedicated to ice
cream rolls, with videos shot in shops
around the world and in his own kitchen in
JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Hamburg, Germany, where he has mixed in
A typically elaborate Macaron Party confection at SnoCrave in San Francisco. doughnuts, macarons and Kinder eggs.
Some of them have been viewed more than
nine million times.
“Ice cream was never entertaining be-
fore,” he said, speculating about the videos’
popularity. “You could post a picture of a
cone, but it was static. Now there is the
sound of the chopping, the movement of the
paddles. It’s the next frontier.”