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Wages Increase in States Has Shunned Stage
Like Utah; Problem Is
‘We Need People’
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
SALT LAKE CITY — Stephanie
Pappas and her brothers built
their roofing supply company in
this fast-growing region by prom-
ising next-day delivery, but lately
they’ve been forced to tell some
customers that tomorrow is im-
possible.
Their company, Roofers Supply,
employs 28 drivers across Utah,
and Ms. Pappas said she would
need at least 15 more to meet the
exploding demand for shingles
and tiles. The company has raised
its starting wage by 10 percent
since the beginning of the year to
$17.50 an hour, but it’s not enough.
“We never want to have to say,
‘We can’t do it,’ but we need peo-
ple,” Ms. Pappas said.
After eight years of steady
growth, the main economic con-
cern in Utah and a growing num-
ber of other states is no longer a
lack of jobs, but a lack of workers.
The unemployment rate here fell
to 3.1 percent in March, among the
lowest figures in the nation.
Nearly a third of the 388 metropol-
itan areas tracked by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics have an unem-
ployment rate below 4 percent,
well below the level that econo-
mists consider “full employment,”
the normal churn of people quit-
ting to find new jobs. The rate in
some cities, like Ames, Iowa, and
Boulder, Colo., is even lower, at 2
percent.
That’s good news for workers,
who are reaping wage increases
and moving to better jobs after
years of stagnating pay that, for
many, was stuck at a low level.
Daniel Edlund, a 21-year-old call
center worker in Provo, Utah,
Continued on Page A16
Anger, Lawsuits and Inquiry
Follow Music Festival’s Failure
This article is by Joe Coscarelli, Melena Ryzik and Ben Sisario.
A few days after the spectacular
collapse of the Fyre Festival, just
as federal investigators began to
circle the wreckage, the event’s
would-be mastermind, Billy Mc-
Farland, was still making prom-
ises.
His failed event was sold on so-
cial media by the likes of Kendall
Jenner as an ultraluxurious musi-
cal getaway in the Bahamas.
Scheduled for two weekends
starting in late April, it was sup-
posed to up the ante in the com-
petitive festival market. Instead,
Fyre had become a punch line for
its aborted opening, with reports
The Greatest Show’s Over
Johnathan Lee Iverson of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bai-
ley circus, which said farewell Sunday after 146 years. Page A21.
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Promoting High Aspirations
Who can get a rural, low-income stu-
dent into an elite college? Maybe some-
one with a fresh degree. PAGE A15
Casualties of Budget Cuts
Jennifer Coulter, below right, who is
homeless, is among people who will be
hurt if block grants end. PAGE A18
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By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
and REBECCA R. RUIZ
WASHINGTON — Last month,
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy at-
torney general at the center of the
crisis building around President
Trump’s White House, gathered
with federal prosecutors and law
enforcement officials to bid
farewell to his old job, United
States attorney in Maryland, and
celebrate his new one.
At an interfaith center in Co-
lumbia, Md., as guests nibbled on
egg rolls and miniature roast beef
sandwiches, Mr. Rosenstein joked
darkly about the low pay and high
burnout rate that come with being
the No. 2 official at the Depart-
ment of Justice. His daughter
would have to
wait for the big
yard she had
been wanting,
he said, and
the average
length of ten-
ure for the post
he was about
to assume was
Rod J. little more
Rosenstein than a year.
“He was
happy, but he was also cleareyed
about what he was getting himself
into,” said James M. Trusty, a
friend and former colleague from
Mr. Rosenstein’s days as a federal
prosecutor in Maryland, who at-
tended the going-away party. “He
knew going in that this is kind of a
meat grinder, that nobody comes
out of the deputy attorney general
position without aging.”
Yet Mr. Rosenstein, sworn in on
April 26, could hardly have pre-
dicted the speed at which he
would become embroiled in a
high-stakes drama at the upper-
most echelons of government. In
the past two weeks, he has been
Continued on Page A17
of panicked millennials scroung-
ing for makeshift shelter on a dark
beach.
Yet, speaking on May 2 with un-
nerved employees at his TriBeCa
office — with its $30,000 sound
system and frequent fashion-
model visitors — Mr. McFarland
deflected blame and vowed that
Fyre would survive to mount an-
other festival next year. The cov-
erage had been “sensationalized,”
he insisted, according to a record-
ing obtained by The New York
Times. (Fyre has attributed its
cancellation to a combination of
Continued on Page A20
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With the Greek government weakened
by its austerity policies, anarchist groups
have turned to social activism. PAGE A4
Defiant Magazine for Women
Facing risks in a male-dominated cul-
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to give Afghan women a voice. PAGE A10
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Dreading a “summer of agony” at Penn
Station, the governor asked him to help
provide funding for construction and
alternatives for commuters.
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EXPEL ‘EVIL,’ TRUMP URGES MUSLIMS
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
President Trump addressed leaders from across the Muslim world who gathered on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Shifting Tone, President Saves
Siding With the Saudis Dark Words for a Faith’s Fringe
While Iran Endorses Moderate as President, By PETER BAKER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
U.S. Spurns a Policy of Engagement With It RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Pres- leaders to step up their efforts to
ident Trump on Sunday pivoted counter a “wicked ideology” and
away from his strident assess- purge the “foot soldiers of evil”
By BEN HUBBARD and THOMAS ERDBRINK ment of Islam as a religion of ha- from their societies.
tred as he sought to redefine “This is not a battle between dif-
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — As policies that sometimes under-
American leadership in the Mid- ferent faiths, different sects or dif-
voters in Iran danced in the mine American interests. dle East and rally the Muslim ferent civilizations,” Mr. Trump
streets, celebrating the landslide At the same time, he rejected world to join him in a renewed said in a cavernous hall filled with
re-election of a moderate as the path taken by his predeces- campaign against extremism. heads of state eager to find favor
president, President Trump sor, Barack Obama. Mr. Obama Addressing dozens of leaders with the new president. “This is a
stood in front of a gathering of engaged with Iran to reach a from across the Muslim world battle between barbaric criminals
leaders from across the Muslim breakthrough nuclear accord, who had gathered in Saudi Arabia, who seek to obliterate human life
world and called on them to which Mr. Trump’s administra- Mr. Trump rejected the idea that and decent people, all in the name
isolate a nation he said had “fu- tion has acknowledged Iran is the fight against terrorism was a of religion, people that want to
eled the fires of sectarian conflict following. struggle between religions, and protect life and want to protect
and terror.”
That nation was Iran.
Mr. Trump has presented the
shift as a reinvestment in histori-
he promised not to scold them
about human rights in their coun-
their religion. This is a battle be-
tween good and evil.”
In using the headline address cal alliances with friendly na-
of his first foreign trip as presi-
dent to declare his commitment
tions in order to fight extremism
and terrorism. But the juxtaposi-
tries. But he challenged Muslim Continued on Page A8
to Sunni Arab nations, Mr. Trump tion of the election in Iran and RIFT IN ISRAEL The prime minister and right-wing ministers are at
signaled a return to an American the gathering in Saudi Arabia odds over making overtures toward the Palestinians. PAGE A8
seemed to highlight a reality of
policy built on alliances with
Arab autocrats, regardless of the Middle East that presidents HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS President Trump and his team have em-
their human rights records or Continued on Page A9 phasized trade and security over concerns about repression. PAGE A9
No, Google Is Not a Bird: Promoting the Internet in Rural India
By ELLEN BARRY
TARADAND, India — Babulal
Singh Neti was sitting with his un-
cle on a recent afternoon, trying to
persuade him of the merits of the
internet.
It was 105 degrees outside, and
the sun was beating down on the
frazzled croplands. His uncle said
he had no use for the internet,
since he had never learned to
read; furthermore, he wanted to
nap. This he made clear by peri-
odically screwing up his face into
a huge yawn.
Mr. Neti, 38, pressed on, sug-
gesting he could demonstrate the
internet’s potential by Googling
the history of the Gond tribe, to
which they both belonged. Since
acquiring a smartphone, Mr. Neti
couldn’t stop Googling things: the
gods, Hindu and tribal; the rela-
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tive merits of the Yadav caste and
the Gonds; the real story of how Babulal Singh Neti in his Indian village, Taradand, where elders see the internet as an evil.
the earth was made.
Access to this knowledge so press them by looking up some- mean, Google?” his uncle said. “Is world with little sense of what lies
elated him that he decided to give thing they really cared about — it a bird?” within it, or how it could be of use
up farming for good, taking a job like Gond history. And then, theatrically, he to them.
with a nongovernmental organi- His uncle responded with half- yawned. The arrival of the internet in
zation whose goals include help- closed eyes, delivering a brief but While India produces some of their lives is one of India’s most
ing villagers produce and call up
online content in their native lan-
comprehensive oral history of the
Gond kings, with the clear impli-
the world’s best coders and com-
puter engineers, vast multitudes
hopeful narratives.
In the 70 years since independ-
guages. When he encountered in- cation that his nephew was a bit of of its people are like Mr. Neti’s
ternet skeptics, he tried to im- a good-for-nothing. “What does it neighbors, entering the virtual Continued on Page A6
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sharply criticized during the annual seems to lack a clear favorite. PAGE D1 Poniewozik reviews. PAGE C1
shareholders’ meeting. PAGE B1
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powerhouse recall a rocky start and, 19
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Pippa Middleton married James Matthews on Saturday in Berkshire, England.
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event become fair game for media atten-
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press — and its readership — was raised
once again this past weekend, when Pippa
Middleton, younger sister to Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge, married James
Matthews in Berkshire, England.
Ms. Middleton, 33, has been a subject of
intense public fixation ever since her star
turn as bridesmaid at the royal wedding in
2011, where she trod demurely up the steps
of Westminster Abbey and the eyes of the
world fell approvingly upon her glossy
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In the years since, however, the scrutiny
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gone to great lengths not to be seen as
cashing in on her royal associations.
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NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

The Bureau of Labor Statistics

Karl Marx is officially revered in
China, the last major Communist
state after the fall of the Soviet
Union in 1991.
China’s Gift to Germany:
A Giant Statue of Marx A10
• to grow by 108 percent.
The writing staff of TBS’s “Full
Frontal With Samantha Bee”
uses the shorthand “Scalia” for
a last-minute show adjustment,
a reference to the rewrite that
had to be undertaken when
Justice Antonin Scalia died in
February 2016.
In Pursuit of News to Skewer C1
•
India is expected to obtain 40
percent of its electricity from
non-fossil fuel sources by 2022,
eight years ahead of schedule.
On Climate, Look to China and India A24
JASON POLAN
Parking fees make up about 15
percent of revenue for the city
of Pittsburgh.
Soured on Uber B1
• professional productions of his
New York City subway riders
contend with more than 70,000
delays a month (well over a delay
every minute).
Hate the Subway? Blame Cuomo A25
projects that national employment
for mining and geological engineers
will grow by 6 percent between 2014
and 2024, while employment for It’s go
wind turbine technicians is expected
Wyoming Wind Project Envisions
Coal Miners as Its New Work Force B6
•
Almost one in five American
employees is subject to some kind of
noncompete clause.
The Unfreeing of American Workers A25
•
The late playwright Edward Albee
exercised such control over
plays that directors were often
required to submit headshots of
proposed casts before getting the
rights to mount them.
Albee Estate Rejects Bid to Cast Black Actor C6
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1. Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled
U.S. Spying Operations
This front-page article, revealing that China had killed or
jailed at least 18 C.I.A. informants between 2010 and 2012,
according to former American officials, remained the most
read story throughout Sunday. “Current and former American
officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst
in decades,” the article stated.
On Sunday, President Trump gave his first overseas speech,
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White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Glenn
Thrush and the Tehran bureau chief Thomas Erdbrink, of-
fered context and analysis in real time on Twitter. A lightly
edited and condensed collection of their tweets follows; read
more about the speech on page A1.

2. On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Alec Baldwin Sings
A Swan Song for Trump
Dave Itzkoff’s piece on the finale of the 42nd season of
“S.N.L.” was also a top read on Sunday. The show said good-
bye to the cast members Bobby Moynihan and Vanessa Bay-
er. On Twitter, the New Yorker television critic Emily Nuss-
baum expressed her feelings about Ms. Bayer’s departure,
writing, “I am sad that Vanessa Bayer is leaving SNL, not
least because this was my favorite thing ever in the New York
Times: ‘The (Very Lazy) Sunday Routine of Vanessa Bayer of
‘Saturday Night Live.’” In it, Ms. Bayer says, “People think
New York is crazy and busy, but it’s actually a great place for
lazy people to live.”
There were five drafts of this speech and it shows.
Not a typical Stephen Miller speech so far.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT
Even in “Islam” speech, Trump mostly targeting his
voters at home: 1) tiny nod to Islam 2) Muslims must
pay for terror fight 3) no more refugees.
It is fascinating watching Trump retrofit his campaign
bombast to suit the nuance of international realpolitik
and own love of international commerce.

Glenn Thrush @glennthrush

Direct attack on Iran by Trump, holding it responsible

for almost all terrorism in the region. The Saudis will
be extremely pleased; they have long been obsessed
with Iran, the regional competitor.

This speech places Trump directly at odds with Iran.

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3. Pregnant at 18. Hailed by Abortion Foes.
Punished by Christian School.
This article about a pregnant student who won’t be allowed to
walk in her graduation at a Christian school drew widespread
discussion about what pro-life means. One reader on Face-
book commented: “Well duh. Those Christians against abor-
tion aren’t about the baby’s life. They’re about punishing
sexually active women.”
We now have the U.S. arming the Saudi with $110
billion worth of weapons, and Trump indirectly calling
for regime change in Iran.
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country, Iranians voted out radicalism and danced in HPEURLGHUHGULEERQFPFRPPDKHHO
the streets.
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There is no perfect email system. Ex-
perts may promote the value of techniques
like “Inbox Zero,” where you try to clear
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inbox is empty, your work life — with all
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Elly Antipa, right, a Greek anarcho-communist, with Syrian children in an abandoned Athens school taken over by anarchist groups and now run by refugees.
Anarchists Fill Services Void Left
By Faltering Greek Governance
Police Tread Lightly
As Activists Organize
By NIKI KITSANTONIS
ATHENS — It may seem paradoxical,
but Greece’s anarchists are organizing
like never before.
Seven years of austerity policies and a
more recent refugee crisis have left the
government with fewer and fewer re-
sources, offering citizens less and less.
Many have lost faith. Some who never had
faith in the first place are taking matters
into their own hands, to the chagrin of the
authorities.
Tasos Sagris, a 45-year-old member of
the Greek anarchist group Void Network
and of the “self-organized” Embros the-
ater group, has been at the forefront of a
resurgence of social activism that is effec-
tively filling a void in governance.
“People trust us because we don’t use
the people as customers or voters,” Mr.
Sagris said. “Every failure of the system
proves the idea of the anarchists to be
true.”
These days that idea is not only about
chaos and tearing down the institutions of
the state and society — the country’s long,
grinding economic crisis has taken care of
much of that — but also about unfiltered
self-help and citizen action.
Yet the movement remains disparate,
with some parts emphasizing the need for
social activism and others prioritizing a
struggle against authority with acts of
vandalism and street battles with the po-
lice. Some are seeking to combine both.
Whatever the means, since 2008 scores
of “self-managing social centers” have
mushroomed across Greece, financed by
private donations and the proceeds from
regularly scheduled concerts, exhibitions
and on-site bars, most of which are open to
the public. There are now around 250 na-
tionwide.
Some activists have focused on food and
medicine handouts as poverty has
deepened and public services have col-
lapsed.
In recent months, anarchists and leftist
groups have trained special energy on
housing refugees who flooded into Greece
in 2015 and who have been bottled up in the
country since the European Union and
Balkan nations tightened their borders.
Some 3,000 of these refugees now live in 15
abandoned buildings that have been taken
over by anarchists in the capital.
The burst of citizen action is just the lat-
est chapter in a long history for the anar-
chist movement in Greece.
Anarchists played an active role in the
student uprisings that helped bring down
Greece’s dictatorship in the mid-1970s, in-
cluding a rebellion at the Athens Polytech-
nic in November 1973, which authorities
crushed with police officers and tanks, re-
sulting in several deaths.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, an-
archists have joined leftist groups in oc-
cupying portions of Greek universities to
promote their thinking and lifestyle;
many of those occupied spaces exist today,
and some are used as bases by anarchists
to fashion the crude firebombs hurled at
the police during street protests.
Over the years, anarchists have also
backed a spectrum of causes, such as op-
posing “neoliberal” education reform or
campaigning against the 2004 Olympic
Top, Tasos Sagris, a member of the anarchist group Void Network, says
people trust anarchists “because we don’t use the people as customers or
voters.” Above, a British activist living in Greece, center, helped Syrian
woman prepare food in a building that now houses refugees.
Games in Athens.
The movement continues to be largely
tolerated by the public at large, reflecting
a deep distrust of authority among Greeks
that has been stoked in recent years by the
austerity measures imposed on the debt-
racked country by international creditors.
In Athens, the anarchists’ epicenter re-
mains the bohemian neighborhood of Ex-
archia, where the killing of a teenager by a
police officer in 2008 set off two weeks of
rioting, helped reinvigorate the move-
ment and produced several guerrilla
groups that led to a revival of domestic ter-
rorism in Greece.
The police and the authorities tread
lightly in the area.
The police have recently raided some
buildings illegally occupied by anarchists,
called squats, in Athens, in the northern
city of Thessaloniki and on the island of
Lesbos, a gateway for hundreds of thou-
sands of migrants over the past two years.
But the authorities have stopped short of a
blanket crackdown, which would be diffi-
cult for the leftist Syriza party of Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras to condone.
In an interview, Public Order Minister
Nikos Toskas said that the police sweeps
were “systematic,” and that the raids were
being carried out “where they are
needed.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY EIRINI VOURLOUMIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The mayor of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis,
condemned the squats, saying they have
compromised “the quality of life of the
refugees.”
“No one knows who they are controlled
by and what conditions people being put
up in occupied buildings live in,” he said in
a response to a reporter’s questions.
The anarchists say their squats are a
humane alternative to the state-run
camps now filled with more than 60,000
migrants and asylum seekers. Human
rights groups have broadly condemned
the camps as squalid and unsafe.
In Exarchia, one of the squats includes a
former state secondary school that was
abandoned because of structural prob-
lems. Established last spring with the help
of anarchists, the squat is now home to
some 250 refugees, mostly from Syria,
who have set up a chicken coop on the roof.
Many more refugees are on a “waiting
list” for other occupied buildings.
The squats function as self-organized
communities, independent from the state
and nongovernmental organizations, said
Lauren Lapidge, 28, a British social activ-
ist who came to Greece in 2015 at the peak
of the refugee crisis and is actively in-
volved with several occupied buildings.
“They are living organisms: Kids go to
school, some were born in the squat, we’ve
had weddings inside,” she said.
Another initiative in Exarchia involves
anarchists and local residents who have
moved a cargo container into the neigh-
borhood’s central square, calling it a po-
litical kiosk, from which they distribute
food and medicine and sell anarchist liter-
ature.
Vassiliki Spathara, 49, a painter and an-
archist living in Exarchia, said the initia-
tive was necessary because the local au-
thorities would not intervene “even to re-
place light bulbs” in the square, known as
a haunt for drug dealers, though activity
has abated recently.
“The authorities want to downgrade the
area because it’s the only place in Athens
that has an organized, anti-establishment
identity,” Ms. Spathara said.
Mayor Kaminis said the local authori-
ties were cooperating with residents “to
rejuvenate the area,” and insisted that Ex-
archia residents had the same rights as all
Athenians.
Yet in Greece’s crumbling political land-
scape, anarchists appear to be styling
themselves as a political alternative to the
government.
“We want people to fight back, in all
ways, from taking care of refugees to
burning banks and Parliament,” said Mr.
Sagris, the member of Void Network and
the Embros theater group, which raises
money to fund squats housing refugees.
“Anarchists use all tactics, violent and
nonviolent.”
He noted, however, that anarchists had
a “moral obligation” to make sure that
tragedies — like the deaths of three people
in May 2010 when an Athens bank was fire-
bombed during an anti-austerity rally —
did not happen again. Though anarchists
were blamed, none were convicted in a
trial that ended with three bank execu-
tives convicted of manslaughter through
neglect resulting from safety oversights.
(They were released on bail, pending an
appeal.)
Another anarchist group, Rouvikonas,
is looking beyond violence, though its
members have made a cause of raiding
and vandalizing state offices and busi-
nesses.
Last week, members of the group,
armed with large wooden sticks festooned
with black anarchist flags, conducted a
night patrol of a large park in central
Athens, saying the police had not inter-
vened to stop the drug trade and prostitu-
tion involving young migrants.
Mr. Toskas, who oversees the Greek po-
lice force, said the authorities had made a
major dent in the drug trade in Exarchia.
“Some anarchist groups want to say that
they got rid of drugs in the area so that
they can control it,” he said.
Rouvikonas members recently applied
to a local court to found a “cultural soci-
ety”— to help organize fund-raising
events — and on Saturday the group pre-
sented its “political identity” at a squat in
Exarchia. (Anarchists insist they are not
forming a political party.)
“Anarchists obviously cannot form a po-
litical party,” said Spiros Dapergolas, 45, a
graphic designer who belongs to Rou-
vikonas. “But we have our own means to
enter the political center,” he said. “We
want to get bigger.”
The group’s long-term aim is “militant
unionism,” Mr. Dapergolas said. But, he
conceded, it is not easy for people to orga-
nize themselves. In the meantime, he said,
“what Rouvikonas is doing can be done by
anyone.”
MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
North Korea
Launches
2nd Missile
In a Week
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — North
Korea fired a missile on Sunday, a
week after its successful test of a
new intermediate-range ballistic
missile, South Korean officials
said.
The missile took off from a lo-
cation near Pukchang, northeast
of Pyongyang, the North Korean
capital, and flew 310 miles before
falling in waters off the county’s
east coast, the South Korean mili-
tary said in a statement.
The United States Pacific
Command said it had “detected
and tracked” a medium-range
ballistic missile that was
launched by the North around
9:59 a.m. Hawaii time and landed
in the Sea of Japan. It said that
“the missile launch from North
Korea did not pose a threat to
North America.”
The launch was made while
President Trump, who has
pressed China to rein in the nu-
clear ambitions of the North’s
leader, Kim Jong-un, was on a
nine-day trip to the Middle East
and Europe.
In a statement, the White
House said: “We are aware that
North Korea launched an
MRBM. This system, last tested
in February, has a shorter range
than the missiles launched in
North Korea’s three most recent
tests.”
The Japanese military said it
was analyzing the height and tra-
jectory of the missile. Prime Min-
ister Shinzo Abe said that by con-
ducting another test just a week
after the last one, the North was
“trampling on the international
community’s efforts aimed at a
peaceful settlement.”
On Monday, North Korea said
the missile was a Pukguksong-2,
a ground-to-ground, medium- to
long-range missile. The state-
run Korean Central News
Agency said Mr. Kim had
watched the test, which it called
A midrange weapon
‘did not pose a threat
to North America.’
successful, and had ordered rap-
id mass production of the missile
system for deployment.
On May 14, North Korea suc-
cessfully launched what it called
a new ballistic missile that can
carry a large, heavy nuclear war-
head. The ground-to-ground mis-
sile, known as Hwasong-12,
landed in the sea between the
North and Japan, prompting an-
gry comments from Mr. Trump,
as well as from the newly elected
president of South Korea, Moon
Jae-in, and Mr. Abe.
The missile soared to an alti-
tude of 1,312 miles before falling
in open water about 480 miles
from the launching site. It was
believed to have a longer range
than any North Korean missile
tested before.
Analysts said it looked like an
intermediate-range ballistic mis-
sile that could fly far enough to
target key American military
bases in the Pacific, including
those in Guam. In its statement
Monday, North Korea claimed
that the Hwasong-12 was capable
of reaching Hawaii and Alaska.
The successful test drew keen
attention in the region because
its extended range indicated that
North Korea was making pro-
gress toward building an inter-
continental ballistic missile.
North Korea later claimed that
the launch was in part to test the
“re-entry” technology, which is
needed to protect a warhead
from the intense heat and vibra-
tion as a long-range missile
crashes through the atmosphere.
The North last test-launched a
Pukguksong-2 on Feb. 12, while
Mr. Trump was hosting Mr. Abe
on an official visit. That missile
flew 310 miles.
North Korea has said a
Pukguksong-2 could carry a nu-
clear payload. The missile was
also fired from a mobile-launch
vehicle and used a solid-fuel
technology that experts say will
make it easier to hide and launch
on short notice.
Although North Korea has
vowed to develop the ability to at-
tack the United States with nu-
clear warheads and has tested
missiles that can reach through-
out the Korean Peninsula and its
vicinity, it has never tested a
long-range missile that could fly
across the Pacific.
Motoko Rich contributed report-
ing from Tokyo.
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
Promoting the Internet in Rural India, With Difficulty
From Page A1
ence, India’s government has
done very little to connect
Taradand, in Madhya Pradesh
State, in central India, to the out-
side world: The first paved road
appeared in 2006. There has never
been a single telephone landline.
Electricity is available to only half
the houses. When Mr. Neti was
growing up, if someone in the vil-
lage needed emergency medical
care, farmers tied the patient to a
wooden cot and carried him five
miles through the forest to the
nearest hospital, a journey of four
hours.
By comparison, India’s battling
telecoms have wired Taradand
with breathtaking speed. Two
years ago, Mr. Neti counted 1,000
mobile phones in the village,
which has a population of 2,500.
This tracks with India as a whole;
last year it surpassed the United
States to become the world’s sec-
ond-largest market for mobile
phones behind only China, accord-
ing to Groupe Speciale Mobile As-
sociation, an industry group
known as G.S.M.A.
With the cost of both smart-
phones and data plummeting, it is
fair to assume that Taradand’s
next technological leap will be
onto the internet.
Those who work in develop-
ment tend to speak of this moment
as a civilizational breakthrough,
of particular significance in a
country aching to educate its chil-
dren. India’s prime minister,
Narendra Modi, has made ex-
panding internet use a central
goal, shifting government
services onto digital platforms.
When Mark Zuckerberg, the
founder of Facebook, toured India
in 2014, he told audiences that for
every 10 people who get online,
“one person gets lifted out of pov-
erty and one new job gets creat-
ed.”
So it is instructive to follow Mr.
Neti as he tries to drum up a little
interest in Taradand. Young men
use the internet here, but only
young men, and almost exclu-
sively to circulate Bollywood
films. Older people view it as a
conduit for pornography and
other wastes of time.
Women are not allowed access
even to simple mobile phones, for
fear they will engage in illicit rela-
tionships; the internet is out of the
question. Illiterate people — al-
most everyone over 40 — dismiss
the internet as not intended for
them.
Still, Mr. Neti persists with the
zeal of the newly converted.
“You can call me the black
sheep. That’s what I am,” he said
cheerfully. “I don’t care. It’s the in-
ternet age. One day they’ll all
come around.”
Mr. Neti is, in some ways, an un-
likely harbinger of technological
change. His parents pulled him
out of school in fifth grade to
marry — his wife was 10 — and
though he can read and write in
Hindi, his school transcript
brands him illiterate, foreclosing
any opportunity to get a govern-
ment job.
When he bought his first mobile
phone, in 2001, he was so nervous
he did not make a call for nearly a
week. When he finally did, he
blurted out: “Friend, I have
bought this mobile. Is this your
number and your name? I am Ba-
bulal!” The next day his phone
stopped working and he returned
to the shop, telling the salesman
that something was wrong with
the phone.
“I had no idea what to do,” Mr.
Neti said. “He said, ‘Your balance
is over.’”
But this experience in no way
prepared Mr. Neti for his first en-
counter with the smartphone,
which he spotted about a decade
ago in the hand of a computer op-
erator in Taradand’s local admin-
istration building.
The official was an agreeable
sort, and Mr. Neti began borrow-
ing his phone for two- and three-
hour stretches. He went on
Google, searching for the word
“Gondwana,” the name for the
Erdogan Extends His Far-Reaching Rule Over Turkey
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
ISTANBUL — In a signal that
Turkey faces indefinite rule by de-
cree, President Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan announced on Sunday that
a state of emergency, introduced
as a temporary measure after last
year’s failed coup, would continue
until the country achieved “wel-
fare and peace.”
The state of emergency allows
Mr. Erdogan and his cabinet to is-
sue sweeping decrees without
parliamentary oversight or re-
view by the constitutional court,
giving him an almost untram-
meled grip on power.
So far, the decrees have allowed
Mr. Erdogan to jail more than
40,000 people accused of plotting
a failed coup, fire or suspend more
than 140,000 additional people,
shut down about 1,500 civil
groups, arrest at least 120 journal-
ists and close more than 150 news
media outlets.
In late April, a decree issued un-
der the state of emergency was
Gond tribe’s traditional land.
“It was as if I had opened up his-
tory, the history of Gondwana,” he
said. “It seemed fascinating. You
didn’t have to buy a book. The
earth map came up as round, and
part of it was Gondwana. Ireland,
Gondwanaland, Switzerland. I
was fascinated. No sooner would I
see a mobile than I would run
over.”
Only after some time, he re-
called, did Mr. Neti realize it was
possible to search for terms other
than Gondwana.
“It seemed,” he said, “as if I was
diving into a sea with no bottom to
it.”
This marked the beginning for
Mr. Neti of a wide-ranging inquiry
about the world surrounding him.
He was interested, for example, in
knowing whether the residents of
other countries worshiped Ram,
the Hindu deity and, upon discov-
ering that they did not, hastened
to inform his neighbors of this
startling news. He decided to fact-
check the assertion of a childhood
friend, who is from the Yadav
caste, that the Yadavs had been
present at the creation of the earth
and learned this was not a univer-
sally accepted view.
“I told him I wasn’t personally
saying anything about the Ya-
davs, it was Google saying some-
thing negative,” Mr. Neti said. “He
was very offended.”
At some point, Mr. Neti discov-
ered that he had become skeptical
of nearly everything he had been
taught. “I tried to find out if the
gods created the earth,” he said. “I
found out it was not true. But still I
cannot answer the question of
who created the earth. But I be-
lieve Google contains the answer.”
Mr. Neti finds it maddening
that, in a region whose farmers
used to block access to Wikipedia.
Despite international criticism
of these measures, Mr. Erdogan
said on Sunday that the state of
emergency “will not be lifted,” ac-
cording to Anadolu Agency, a
state-owned news wire. “Until
when? Until the situation reaches
welfare and peace.”
A recent referendum victory
gave Mr. Erdogan the power to
rule by decree from 2019 onward,
provided that he wins presidential
elections held that year. But his
announcement on Sunday means
he can continue to wield such
power in the intervening period.
International rights groups say
that while the state of emergency
was initially justified because it
followed a coup attempt that left at
least 249 people dead, it is now be-
ing used as a pretext for quashing
dissent.
“What we’ve seen is that in-
stead of using the state of emer-
gency to counter genuine threats
to national security, it’s been
abused to stifle criticism of the rul-
are desperate to educate their
children, his neighbors still regard
the internet principally as a way
to watch movies.
“The villagers do not yet under-
stand,” he said “They don’t know
that the whole world rests inside
the mobile. The day people realize
that, they will stop going out to
study.”
If Mr. Neti’s audience was
tougher than usual, there was a
reason: A 15-year-old girl from
Taradand had just eloped with a
17-year-old boy from a different
caste, and everyone was blaming
technology. There was no evi-
dence the young couple planned
their getaway on the phone, but
Women working in Taradand, which did not get its first paved road until 2006.
ing A.K. party,” said Andrew
Gardner, a Turkey researcher for
Amnesty International, using the
Turkish initials for Mr. Erdogan’s
Justice and Development Party.
“And there’s every signal that that
will continue.”
Amnesty says it will publish a
report on Monday detailing the
“catastrophic impact” that the
state of emergency — and the
purges it has precipitated — has
had on the lives of hundreds of
thousands of Turkish families.
“More than 100,000 people have
not just lost their jobs, in a com-
pletely arbitrary process, but had
their professional and personal
lives shattered as well,” Mr. Gard-
ner said.
As far back as December, legal
experts from the Council of Eu-
rope, an influential pressure
group, warned that if the Turkish
government “rules through emer-
gency powers for too long, it will
inevitably lose democratic legiti-
macy.”
In his speech on Sunday, Mr. Er-
Above, Babulal Singh Neti, center, introduced villagers in Taradand to smartphones. Left, a
pre-wedding ceremony in the village, where the internet has been greeted with skepticism.
everyone assumed it.
“Ninety-nine percent of mobile
users misuse them,” said Deven-
der Kumar Patel, 17, whose hair
had been coaxed into a four-inch
ducktail. “Rapes are an outcome
of these things. One of my cousins
received a call on a mobile phone,
was asked to go someplace and
was murdered.”
The internet, Mr. Patel felt, is
worse: a labyrinth of shallow di-
version where many young peo-
ple in the village would lose their
way. “Those who use it badly will
go farther down from where they
are,” he said.
His father, Sriram Karan Patel,
44, nodded darkly.
“They are seeing what they
should not be seeing,” he said.
This was also the opinion of Mr.
Neti’s father, Kuware Singh, who
returned from the fields to the
family compound naked to his
waist. Totally illiterate, he re-
mains wary even of the basic cell-
phone; he will speak on it only if
someone holds it up to his ear. He
said he was unsure how he felt
about all the time his son spent on
the internet.
“It depends,” Mr. Singh said.
“Will it help him get a job?”
dogan shrugged off these con-
cerns. “In my country, they tried
to overthrow the state, and we
gave 249 martyrs, and had 2,193
injured,” he said in remarks car-
ried by Anadolu Agency. “How
dare you ask us to lift the state of
emergency.”
Mr. Erdogan spoke at a confer-
ence for his party, at which he was
formally reaccepted as leader. Mr.
Erdogan left the party in 2014 to
assume the presidency, an office
that was then meant to be poli-
tically neutral; last month’s refer-
endum removed that require-
ment, allowing Mr. Erdogan to re-
join his party.
His comments capped a turbu-
lent week for him. In a visit to
Washington on Tuesday, Mr. Erdo-
gan failed to persuade President
Trump to abandon an alliance
with a group of Syrian Kurdish
fighters whom Turkey regards as
terrorists. Later in the day, Mr. Er-
dogan watched silently as his
bodyguards assaulted several
people protesting his policies.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ATUL LOKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Neti does spend a lot of time
online. Walking around the vil-
lage, he stops periodically to take
selfies and post them on Face-
book, and he scrolls through his
feeds compulsively. He likes to de-
scribe his smartphone as his “best
friend,” or his “guru.”
None of this makes much sense
to his neighbors. A friend from
childhood, Markandeya Yadav,
said it was difficult for him to keep
up with Mr. Neti’s internet discov-
eries.
“I am a simple man,” Mr. Yadav
said. “He has changed, but I have
not.”
The worst damage has been to
Mr. Neti’s relationship with his
wife, Sitabai, who comes from a
far more remote village and is
completely illiterate. She had tak-
en to scrolling through images on
her husband’s phone and, coming
across a woman’s photograph, be-
gan calling numbers at random.
She reached a senior district bu-
reaucrat whose contacts he had
programmed into the phone, and
Mr. Neti had to beg the official’s
forgiveness. After hanging up, he
slapped her “four or five times,”
he said.
“My wife’s mentality is such
that she lives in yesteryear,” he
3 Climbers Die on Mt. Everest
By RAJNEESH BHANDARI
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Three
climbers — one from Alabama,
one from Slovakia and the third an
Australian — died Sunday on
Mount Everest, the world’s high-
est peak, and an Indian man dis-
appeared while descending, offi-
cials and expedition leaders said.
Dinesh Bhattarai, the director
general of Nepal’s Department of
Tourism, said the American climb-
er, Dr. Roland Yearwood, 50, a
physician, died near the summit of
the mountain, at 8,400 meters, or
27,600 feet. The cause of his death
was not immediately known.
Another official with the depart-
ment, Gyanendra Shrestha, said
later Sunday that a man from Slo-
vakia, Vladimir Strba, part of a
separate expedition, also died. Mr.
Strba, 48, died at a camp at an ele-
vation of about 8,000 meters, Mr.
Shrestha said.
The Australian man was identi-
fied as Francesco Marchetti, 54,
by the Adventure Thamserku
Treks and Expeditions company.
said. “She will not tread my path.
And if I tread her path, I will be left
miles behind.”
This view is typical of India:
Men are 36 percent more likely to
use a bare-bones mobile phone
than are Indian women. (The gap
in China is 1 percent.) Where the
internet is concerned, the gap be-
tween male and female use is even
greater, at 62 percent.
Mr. Neti said he had made little
effort to explain the internet to
Sitabai.
“She doesn’t have the mental
capability,” he said. “How would
you explain a mobile to a dog?”
At moments of discouragement,
Mr. Neti recalls that Taradand has
already accepted a new technol-
ogy. Fifteen years ago, when peo-
ple began using mobile phones,
his neighbors were elated. They
were more efficient in everything
they did.
It was no longer necessary to
make long overland journeys to
inform relatives of family news.
Before going to market, farmers
could call around to compare
wholesale prices for vegetables.
Migrant laborers could find out
where the contractors were pay-
ing 400 rupees a day, or around
$7.50, instead of the usual 150.
Even Mr. Neti’s uncle, Siya Ram
Singh Gond, shook his head
gravely at the thought of how long
they had lived without these tools.
“So much time was wasted,” he
said.
Once in a while, Mr. Neti feels he
is close to a similar breakthrough
with the internet. An example
came recently when his father
mentioned visiting a district
records office to check the bound-
ary of his land. Mr. Neti used
Google for a few minutes and then
held up his smartphone in front of
his father. His father peered at the
property lines that Mr. Neti was
showing him, accessible on the
district administration website,
and approved.
“The boundaries were there,”
he said. “It was all correct.”
Within hours, he had performed
the same service for a dozen other
men from neighboring farms.
“It was a very happy moment
for me,” Mr. Neti said. “My father
also realized this was no ordinary
instrument.”
He developed altitude sickness
around 8,600 meters and was try-
ing to descend the mountain when
he died, said Dawa Geljen Sherpa,
the company’s managing director.
Dr. Yearwood, from Georgiana,
Ala., had been part of a 15-member
team climbing Everest.
“We’ll know more after Mr.
Yearwood’s Sherpa returns to the
base camp,” said Murari Sharma,
the managing director at Everest
Parivar Treks, an expedition com-
pany.
The Indian climber, Ravi Ku-
mar, 26, who was part of a fourth
expedition, disappeared after
reaching the summit.
Dr. Yearwood had survived the
2015 Nepal earthquake on Everest
while trying to ascend from the
northern side.
The start of the Everest summit
season had already brought at
least two notable deaths: Ueli
Steck, 40, a renowned mountain
climber nicknamed the Swiss Ma-
chine, and Min Bahadur Sher-
chan, 85, a Nepalese mountaineer.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Foreign Relations
Preparations for President’s Visit Expose Political Divisions in Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — Unlike the
royal pomp and ceremony with
which President Trump was
greeted over the weekend in
Saudi Arabia, the plans for his ar-
rival on Monday in Israel had de-
volved into an unseemly political
ruckus before Air Force One
touched down.
An infuriated Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu had to order
his ministers to attend the airport
welcome ceremony, the Hebrew
daily newspaper Haaretz re-
ported, after he learned that most
of them were planning to skip it
because there was no time sched-
uled for Mr. Trump to shake their
hands on the tarmac.
Mr. Netanyahu also had to
wrestle much of Sunday in a
closed cabinet meeting with right-
wing ministers of his coalition to
win approval of even modest ges-
tures meant to encourage the Pal-
estinian economy and ease condi-
tions in the West Bank and else-
where.
The confidence-building mea-
sures were aimed as much at con-
vincing Mr. Trump of the Israelis’
commitment to seek an agree-
ment as they were intended for
the Palestinians. Mr. Trump has
said that he wants to seal the “ul-
timate deal” to resolve the
decades-old Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, an ambitious goal that
has so far eluded two generations
of American presidents and nu-
merous international mediators.
Expectations are low for any
major breakthrough during Mr.
Trump’s nearly 36-hour visit to Is-
rael and the West Bank, but nei-
Shifting Tone,
Trump Calls
On Muslims
To Expel ‘Evil’
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The president’s measured tone
here was a far cry from his incen-
diary language on the campaign
trail last year, when he said that
“Islam hates us” and called for a
“total and complete shutdown” of
Muslims entering the United
States.
Throughout his visit, a less vol-
atile president emerged, disci-
plined and relentlessly on mes-
sage in a way he is often not at
home. He did not brag about his
electoral victory and avoided tan-
gents. With few exceptions, he
stuck carefully to his teleprompt-
er. His mood has been sober and
careful.
By refusing to hold news confer-
ences or answer questions during
brief photo opportunities, Mr.
Trump orchestrated a sense of di-
plomatic calm that contrasted
sharply with the chaos that
usually surrounds him in Wash-
ington. He has not used Twitter as
a cudgel against adversaries since
his overseas trip began.
In his speech on Sunday, he
made no mention of the executive
orders he signed after taking of-
fice barring visitors from several
predominantly Muslim countries.
Instead, he described Islam as
“one of the world’s great faiths”
and called for “tolerance and re-
spect for each other.”
While in the past Mr. Trump re-
peatedly criticized President
Barack Obama and others for not
using the phrase “radical Islamic
terrorism,” his staff sought to en-
sure that he would not use it be-
fore this Muslim audience. The fi-
nal draft of the speech had him in-
stead embracing a subtle but sig-
nificant switch, using the term
“Islamist extremism.” Islamist is
often defined to mean someone
who advocates Islamic fundamen-
talism, and some experts prefer
its use to avoid tarring the entire
religion.
When that moment in the
speech came, however, Mr. Trump
went off script and used both
words, Islamic and Islamist.
“That means honestly con-
fronting the crisis of Islamic
extremism and the Islamists and
Islamic terror of all kinds,” he
said. An aide said afterward that
the president was “just an ex-
hausted guy” and had tripped
over the term, rather than re-
jected the language suggested by
his aides.
But if the speech during the sec-
ond day of a nine-day overseas
trip was intended as a sort of reset
from his campaign and early pres-
idency, it was also meant to turn
away from Mr. Obama’s approach.
Rather than preach about human
rights or democracy, Mr. Trump
said he wanted “partners, not per-
fection.” And he said it was up to
Muslim leaders to expunge ex-
tremists from their midst.
“Drive them out,” he said.
“Drive them out of your places of
worship. Drive them out of your
communities. Drive them out of
your holy land. And drive them
ther Mr. Netanyahu nor President
Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestin-
ian Authority wants to risk an-
gering the American president, or
be portrayed as the reluctant
party to resuming long-stalled
peace talks.
Mr. Trump is scheduled to meet
Mr. Abbas on Tuesday in Bethle-
hem, in the West Bank. The Pales-
tinian areas are seething, with a
mass hunger strike of prisoners in
Israeli jails entering its sixth week
and violent protests in support of
the strike that have turned deadly.
On the Israeli side, Mr. Netan-
yahu said at the start of his
cabinet meeting on Sunday that
he would discuss with Mr. Trump
ways to strengthen the Israeli-
American alliance, and added in
English: “Mr. President, we look
forward to your visit. The citizens
of Israel will receive you with
open arms.”
But the preparations for the vis-
it have been charged, both logisti-
cally, with major schedule
changes that have left the Jerusa-
lem police scrambling, and re-
garding some diplomatic and
emotional issues of fundamental
importance to the Israelis and
Palestinians.
Some in the Israeli news media
have already described the visit
as “hysterical,” rather than “his-
torical.” And squabbling within
Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coali-
tion has marred much of the fes-
tivity surrounding Mr. Trump’s
visit: Right-wing politicians are
disappointed that the Trump ad-
ministration appears to be adher-
ing to longstanding American pol-
icy regarding the Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict, and they are agitating
President Trump during a meeting with the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, center, and an interpreter on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
out of this earth.”
Mr. Trump received a warm
welcome in the room as Muslim
leaders put behind them the mes-
sages of the campaign and the at-
tempted travel ban, and he has
gotten along well with fellow lead-
ers, who have turned to flattery.
“You are a unique personality
that is capable of doing the impos-
sible,” President Abdel Fattah el-
Sisi of Egypt told him.
“I agree!” Mr. Trump re-
sponded cheerily, as laughter
rolled through the room.
A few moments later, Mr. Trump
returned the compliment, in a
fashion. “Love your shoes,” he told
Mr. Sisi. “Boy, those shoes. Man!”
But some activists back in the
United States gave the president
mixed reviews at the start of his
trip.
“While President Trump’s ad-
dress today in Saudi Arabia ap-
pears to be an attempt to set a new
and more productive tone in rela-
tions with the Muslim world, one
speech cannot outweigh years of
anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy
proposals,” Nihad Awad, the exec-
utive director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, said
in a statement.
The speech was meant as a cen-
terpiece of Mr. Trump’s two-day
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and David Fried-
man, the United States ambassador to Israel, on Sunday at a
ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War.
for Mr. Netanyahu to take a
tougher stance.
The Israeli government is in
any case likely to be more focused
on American help in containing
Iran’s influence in the region, for-
mer Israeli officials said.
“For a long time, Israel’s pri-
ority has been the Iranian threat,”
said Dore Gold, a former director
general of Israel’s Ministry of For-
eign Affairs and a longtime advis-
er to Mr. Netanyahu. “The shift
that the Trump administration
has made in wanting to block Ira-
nian hegemonialism is significant
for Israel.”
Still, many experts say any co-
operation between Israel and an
American-led coalition of Sunni
Arab states to counter Iran would
require progress on the Israeli-
stay here before he heads to Jeru-
salem early Monday, and it was
part of a larger drive to plant the
United States firmly in the camp
of Sunni Arab nations and Israel in
their confrontation with Shiite-led
Iran. To firm up such a coalition,
he spent hours meeting individu-
ally with leaders from Egypt,
Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, then
with more Muslim leaders in
larger groups.
“This administration is commit-
ted to a 180-degree reversal of the
Obama policy on Iran,” said Mark
Dubowitz, the chief executive of
the Foundation for Defense of De-
mocracies, a nonprofit research
organization in Washington.
“They see the Iranian threat as
fundamentally linked to the na-
ture and behavior of the regime
and its revolutionary and expan-
sionist ideology.”
Mr. Trump toured the new
Global Center for Combating
Extremist Ideology in Riyadh,
which employs 350 technicians
tracking online radicalism and
monitoring 100 television chan-
nels in 11 languages. The Trump
administration and Saudi Arabia
also announced the creation of a
joint Terrorist Financing Target-
ing Center to formalize longstand-
ing cooperation and search for
Palestinian front. In an interview
published Sunday in Israel
Hayom, a newspaper largely sup-
portive of Mr. Netanyahu, Mr.
Trump said, “I think we have a
very, very good chance of making
a deal.” The interview was con-
ducted in Washington on Thurs-
day, shortly before Mr. Trump left
for the Middle East.
The measures the Israeli gov-
ernment approved for the
Palestinians include the expan-
sion of a West Bank industrial
zone; the phased extension of op-
erating hours at the Allenby
Bridge between the West Bank
and Jordan; and the authorization
of Palestinian construction in the
60 percent of the West Bank that
Israel fully controls, known as
“Area C.” The authorization
new ways to cut off sources of
money for extremists.
Mr. Trump made little mention
of human rights in any of the
meetings, and he promised in his
speech not to do so publicly. “We
are not here to lecture,” he said.
“We are not here to tell other peo-
ple how to live, what to do, who to
be, or how to worship. Instead, we
are here to offer partnership —
based on shared interests and
values — to pursue a better future
for us all.”
That approach drew bipartisan
criticism back in Washington. “It’s
in our national security interest to
advocate for democracy and free-
dom and human rights,” Senator
Marco Rubio, Republican of
Florida, said on CNN’s “State of
the Union.” On the same program,
Representative Adam B. Schiff,
Democrat of California, called it “a
terrible abdication of our global
leadership.”
Michele Dunne, the director of
the Middle East program at the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace, said the president
had laid blame for terrorism on
Muslim leaders who he says have
not done enough. “There are ele-
ments of truth to Trump’s narra-
tive,” she said, “but it ignores the
deeper grievances, the political
mostly pertains to buildings al-
ready constructed and slated for
demolition on the edges of exist-
ing Palestinian towns.
Israeli officials played down the
gestures to the Palestinians after
approving them. In deference to
hard-liners in the cabinet, the gov-
ernment also announced the es-
tablishment of a committee to
retroactively push for the legaliza-
tion of settler outposts and homes
in the West Bank built without
government authorization.
Some of the incentives ap-
peared to be recycled. At a meet-
ing last September at the United
Nations, Israeli officials pre-
sented incentives including an up-
grade to the Allenby Bridge and
master plans for authorizing
building in Area C.
Mr. Trump is scheduled to visit
the Western Wall in the Old City of
Jerusalem, making him the first
sitting American president to visit
the holiest site where Jews can
pray. But even that has caused a
political disagreement. Mr. Netan-
yahu wanted to accompany Mr.
Trump and his family to the wall,
according to Israeli news reports,
to emphasize Israeli ownership of
the contested area, but American
officials nixed that idea, saying it
is a private visit.
The wall is in East Jerusalem,
an area that Israel conquered
from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Is-
raeli War and then annexed in a
move that has never been interna-
tionally recognized. The Pal-
estinians also claim the Old City,
with its Jewish, Muslim and Chris-
tian sacred sites, as part of the fu-
ture capital of a Palestinian state.
On Sunday, Israel kicked off its
PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
and economic injustices, that
make young people in the region
especially susceptible to extrem-
ist ideologies at this particular
time.”
And yet the change in the presi-
dent’s tone about the relationship
between Islam and terrorism was
striking. As he assailed Mr.
Obama last year for not using the
phrase “radical Islamic terror-
ism,” Mr. Trump asserted that
“anyone who cannot name our en-
emy is not fit to lead this country.”
He used the phrase again in his in-
augural address in January.
Even after Lt. Gen. H. R. Mc-
Master, the national security ad-
viser, told his staff that the phrase
was problematic and should not
be used, the president defiantly
repeated it days later in an ad-
dress to a joint session of Con-
gress.
Still, General McMaster said in
an interview broadcast on ABC’s
“This Week” on Sunday that Mr.
Trump had been listening to the
Muslim leaders he has met since
becoming president and under-
stood their views better. “This is
learning,” General McMaster
said.
Secretary of State Rex W. Tiller-
son told reporters, “The president
clearly was extending a hand, and
celebrations marking 50 years
since the reunification of the con-
tested city.
Bezalel Smotrich, a legislator
from the Jewish Home party, sug-
gested that members of the Knes-
set, or Israeli Parliament, use
their parliamentary immunity to
pass through the police lines at the
wall during Mr. Trump’s visit as a
way of asserting Israeli sov-
ereignty.
Mr. Trump told Israel Hayom
that he had not ruled out the possi-
bility of Mr. Netanyahu ac-
companying him. “Going with the
rabbi is more traditional,” he said,
presumably referring to the rabbi
of the Western Wall, Shmuel Ra-
binowitz. “But that could change.”
In another twist, the Americans
requested Sunday that a dinner to
be hosted by Israel’s defense min-
ister, Avigdor Lieberman, on Mon-
day for senior members of the
American delegation be canceled.
The guests were to include Secre-
tary of State Rex W. Tillerson; Mr.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump;
and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
No reason was given for the can-
cellation.
Israelis have also been upset by
Mr. Trump’s plan for a 15-minute
visit to Yad Vashem, the official
Holocaust memorial in Jerusa-
lem.
“He is taking the opportunity to
commemorate the victims of the
Holocaust and to identify with the
memory, which is meaningful,”
said Simmy Allen, a spokesman
for Yad Vashem. But Mr. Allen
said he could not imagine the pro-
gram there taking less than half
an hour.
understanding that only together
can we address this threat of ter-
rorism.”
While Mr. Trump’s administra-
tion is still appealing court rulings
that blocked his temporary travel
ban, the president has not publicly
raised the issue as much lately,
and the page on his campaign site
calling for the “total and complete
shutdown” of Muslim immigra-
tion has been taken down.
Some advisers who advocated
stronger action and language
about what they call the Islamic
threat have either left the admin-
istration or faded in influence. Mi-
chael T. Flynn, General McMas-
ter’s predecessor as national se-
curity adviser, was fired for other
reasons. Stephen K. Bannon, the
president’s chief strategist, has
lost sway. And Sebastian Gorka, a
deputy assistant to the president,
has been reported to possibly be
leaving the White House at some
point.
Even so, the hard-liners found
enough to be happy with in the
speech. After the president was
finished on Sunday, Mr. Gorka
wrote on Twitter: “After 8yrs dis-
astrous terror-enabling policies
we now have @POTUS: ‘We r go-
ing 2 defeat terrorism & send its
wicked ideology in2 OBLIVION.’”

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Trump Reaches Out to Sunni Nations, at Iran’s Expense
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have long wrestled with: how to
choose partners and seek Ameri-
can interests in a region torn by
sectarian splits and competing
agendas.
Iran and its proxies have effec-
tively found themselves on the
side of the United States in fight-
ing the Islamic State in Iraq,
while in Syria, they have been
adversaries in their support for
the rule of President Bashar
al-Assad. Saudi Arabia has at
times undermined the United
States’ efforts to stabilize Af-
ghanistan.
“We are picking one side in
this geopolitical struggle, and
there is very little room for gray,”
said Frederic Wehrey, a senior
fellow in the Middle East Pro-
gram at the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace.
“Sectarianism is a byproduct of
this geopolitical rivalry, and we
are inadvertently picking one
side in this sectarian struggle.”
The two scenes — dancing in
the streets in Tehran and Sunni
leaders gathered in an opulent
hall in Riyadh — also pointed to
a complicating reality in the
Middle East: There is often a
disconnect between the leaders
and their people.
In his remarks, Mr. Trump
signaled his intention to end
engagement with Iran, suggest-
ing that it does not encourage
change from inside the country.
But in Iran, many were push-
ing for change. Emboldened by
the election results, crowds of
Iranians in the capital, Tehran,
demanded what they hope Presi-
dent Hassan Rouhani’s second
term will bring: the release of
opposition figures, more freedom
of thought and fewer restrictions
on daily life.
Mr. Rouhani’s supporters also
expect his victory, with 57 per-
cent of the vote, to bolster his
outreach efforts to the West and
the pursuit of more foreign in-
vestment to lift Iran’s ailing
economy.
For those who voted for Mr.
Rouhani, there was a feeling of
tremendous relief that his chal-
lenger, the hard-line cleric Ebra-
him Raisi, who criticized the
nuclear deal with the United
States and other Western pow-
ers, had lost.
“Bye-bye, Raisi,” the crowds
chanted during the street gather-
ings.
“He faces a difficult task,”
Fazel Meybodi, a Shiite Muslim
cleric from the city of Qum, said
of Mr. Rouhani. “Now he must
provide more freedoms, break
the hard-line monopoly on the
state-run radio and television,
and increase freedom of press.”
To achieve all that, Mr. Rou-
hani must persuade the hard-
line-dominated judiciary and
security forces to change their
outlook, Mr. Meybodi said. “If he
fails to deliver on at least 70
percent of those promises, his
future is dark,” he added.
For decades, Saudi Arabia and
To President, Human Rights Concerns Are Often a Barrier to Trade
By PETER BAKER
and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Sec-
retary of State Rex W. Tillerson
had some advice on Saturday for
Iran’s newly re-elected president.
The Trump administration, he
said, hopes Tehran “restores the
rights of Iranians to freedom of
speech, to freedom of organiza-
tion, so that Iranians can live the
life that they deserve.”
As he said that at a news confer-
ence, Mr. Tillerson was standing
next to the Saudi foreign minister,
Adel al-Jubeir, who represents a
government that does not guaran-
tee free speech or many other
rights. When Mr. Tillerson turned
to leave, a reporter asked if he had
anything to say about human
rights in Saudi Arabia. The secre-
tary departed without answering.
President Trump’s visit to Saudi
Arabia underscored the calcula-
tion he and his foreign policy
advisers have made when it
comes to questions of human
rights around the world.
Mr. Trump and his team made
clear they were willing to publicly
overlook repression in places like
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf na-
tions whose leaders met here over
the weekend — as long as they are
allies in areas the president con-
siders more important, namely se-
curity and economics.
To the president and his ad-
visers, human rights concerns can
be an impediment to the flow of
commerce between countries and
a barrier to beneficial partner-
ships for the United States. In
their view, trade equals jobs and
prosperity, and concern about hu-
man rights too often backfires,
getting in the way of efforts by the
United States government to in-
crease all three.
As they see it, the big mistake
that President Barack Obama
Supporters of President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, a moderate, poured into the streets of Tehran on Saturday to celebrate his landslide re-election victory.
Iran have competed for religious
leadership and political influence
across the Muslim world and
beyond.
Saudi Arabia, the Sunni mon-
archy that controls Islam’s
holiest sites, sees itself as the
natural leader of the Muslim
world and has used its lavish oil
wealth to spread its austere
version of the faith.
Iran, meanwhile, is the world’s
largest Shiite nation and is led by
clerics who seek to export the
ideology of political Islam that
brought them to power in 1979.
Each country accuses the
other of sowing instability.
Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of
spreading an intolerant creed
that fuels terrorism and threat-
ens minorities. Saudi Arabia says
Iran works through nonstate
actors to weaken Arab nations.
In his speech on Sunday, Mr.
Trump, a guest of the Saudi
monarch, spoke of a stronger
alliance with mostly Sunni Mus-
lim nations to fight terrorism and
extremist ideology and to push
back against Iran.
“From Lebanon to Iraq to
Yemen, Iran funds arms and
trains terrorists, militias and
other extremist groups that
made was to publicly shame coun-
tries rather than to first build
working relationships based on
common interests. Only then,
they say, can the president pri-
vately raise human rights con-
cerns. Aides point to Mr. Trump’s
success in persuading Egypt’s
president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, to
release an American aid worker.
“We are not here to lecture,” Mr.
Trump said in a speech here on
Sunday. “We are not here to tell
other people how to live, what to
do, who to be or how to worship.
Instead, we are here to offer part-
nership — based on shared inter-
ests and values — to pursue a bet-
ter future for us all.”
Mr. Tillerson outlined the ap-
proach during a speech this
month to State Department em-
ployees that distinguished be-
tween American values and
American interests. “If we condi-
tion too heavily that others must
adopt this value that we’ve come
to over a long history of our own, it
really creates obstacles to our
ability to advance our national se-
curity interests, our economic in-
terests,” he said.
“It doesn’t mean that we don’t
advocate for and aspire to free-
dom, human dignity and the treat-
ment of people the world over. We
do,” he added. “But that doesn’t
mean that’s the case in every situ-
ation.”
In Iran’s case, pushing on hu-
man rights is an easy decision,
since the Trump administration
sees little cost. Iran has emerged
as one of the top two or three for-
eign adversaries of the new presi-
dent, and he is not seeking eco-
nomic or security ties with Tehran
that could be jeopardized.
In Saudi Arabia, on the other
hand, Mr. Trump sees an eco-
nomic partner and the anchor of a
Sunni Arab alliance to counter Ira-
nian influence in the region. He
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NEWS ANALYSIS
spread destruction and chaos
across the region,” Mr. Trump
told dozens of Muslim heads of
state. “It is a government that
speaks openly of mass murder,
vowing the destruction of Israel,
death to America, and ruin for
many leaders and nations in this
very room.”
That pointed to a departure
from the policies of Mr. Obama,
who pushed Gulf countries like
Saudi Arabia to move toward
greater self-sufficiency in de-
fense while pressing for the
agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear
program.
Proponents of that approach
hoped that engagement with
Iran would lead to greater mod-
eration among its leaders, paving
the way for its eventual reinte-
gration into the world system.
But the nuclear deal angered
Gulf nations, who felt that it
rewarded Iran for bad behavior
while doing nothing to constrain
its destabilizing activities in Arab
countries.
For them, Mr. Trump’s return
to America’s traditional allies
was a great relief.
“The most important thing is
that the relationship between
Saudi Arabia and the United
Preparations for a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Riyadh on Sunday. President Trump and
his advisers made clear they would not comment publicly about repression in Saudi Arabia.
announced $110 billion in arms
sales to Saudi Arabia on Saturday,
as well as billions of dollars’ worth
of business deals.
But the Saudi human rights
record is no better than Iran’s. By
some measures, it is worse. Iran
just completed an election for
president, albeit a flawed one, for
an office subordinate to the theo-
cratic supreme leader. Saudi Ara-
bia is ruled by an absolute mon-
archy that does not meaningfully
share power or even allow women
to drive.
The latest human rights report
produced by Mr. Tillerson’s own
department mentions Saudi Ara-
bia’s “restrictions on universal
rights, such as freedom of expres-
sion, including on the internet,
and the freedoms of assembly, as-
States is built on vision and
numbers, not on slogans. They
are building on shared interests,”
said Ghassan Charbel, the editor
in chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, a
Saudi-owned newspaper. “It
shows that the majority in the
Arab and Islamic worlds will be
close to the United States if it
chooses to engage.”
The Arab nations hate Iran for
using nonstate actors in Arab
countries. Iran was fundamental
in the creation of Hezbollah, the
Lebanese militant group and
political party that now has
Lebanon’s strongest military
force. More recently, Iran has
sent military aid to help Mr.
Assad fight rebels seeking his
ouster, while also supporting
militias in Iraq, Bahrain and
Yemen.
But there is a gap between
Iran’s older, ruling clerics and the
ambitions of its people, as was
made clear when Iranians came
out in force to dance and protest
in the streets this weekend,
breaking Islamic rules and po-
litical taboos, in celebration of
Mr. Rouhani’s re-election.
The election outcome was
widely seen as evidence that
Iran’s society has changed radi-
sociation, movement and reli-
gion,” as well as the country’s
“pervasive gender discrimina-
tion.” Raif Badawi, a writer, has
been in prison since 2012 after
starting a blog called Free Saudi
Liberals Network.
Freedom House, an advocacy
group based in Washington, ranks
Saudi Arabia among the 11 least
free nations in the world, giving
the country a score of 10 out of 100
on its freedom index, below Iran’s
17. Some of the other countries
whose leaders met with Mr.
Trump on Sunday also have less-
than-sterling human rights rec-
ords, including Bahrain, Kuwait
and Qatar.
Michael J. Abramowitz, the
president of Freedom House, said,
“We are very glad that Secretary
cally. Influenced by satellite
television, cheaper international
travel, the internet, waves of
migration to big cities and access
to higher education, most of
Iranian society now adheres to
middle-class values.
This collided with the anti-
Western ideology and strict
interpretation of Islam repre-
sented by Mr. Raisi and pro-
moted by state organizations.
Some used the election’s suc-
cess to criticize Mr. Trump’s visit
to Saudi Arabia.
“Iran—fresh from real elec-
tions—attacked by @POTUS in
that bastion of democracy &
moderation,” Iran’s foreign min-
ister, Mohammad Javad Zarif,
wrote on Twitter, speaking of
Saudi Arabia.
Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line
analyst, said of Mr. Trump, “This
man just wants to sell American
weapons and use Iran as an
excuse.”
In deepening the United
States’ alliance with Gulf coun-
tries, Mr. Trump is bringing it
closer to nations that share few
cultural values with the United
States and have sometimes acted
against its interests.
Saudi Arabia, for one, is a
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Tillerson called out Iran for its
egregious failures to respect free
speech and free association.”
He added: “We should be hold-
ing all countries in the region to
account for such violations, in-
cluding his hosts. Both Saudi Ara-
bia and Iran are among the
world’s most oppressive regimes
when it comes to fundamental
freedoms.”
Mr. Trump is hardly the first
president to view human rights
through a selective lens. Mr.
Obama and President George W.
Bush often spoke of the impor-
tance of encouraging other gov-
ernments to guarantee basic
rights but played down that mes-
sage when it might have con-
flicted with other interests.
Mr. Obama, for instance, negoti-
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monarchy where citizens have
few rights and the public practice
of any religion other than Islam
is banned. It has used its military
and its oil wealth to protect the
Sunni monarchy that rules over a
Shiite majority in neighboring
Bahrain and to prop up President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt.
In adopting the Gulf perspec-
tive on Iran, Mr. Trump could be
assisting a strategy Gulf leaders
use when times get hard at
home.
“It is feeding into the Gulf
narrative, where they project a
lot of their insecurities about
domestic politics outward and
onto the Islamic Republic of
Iran,” said Mr. Wehrey, the Car-
negie fellow. “But is Iran the
source of all evil in the region?
No.”
Others questioned the value of
working with autocrats to fight
terrorism.
“The worldview that we are
fighting against needs to be
countered with liberal ideas, not
Salafi ideas,” said Mokhtar
Awad, a research fellow in the
Program on Extremism at
George Washington University,
referring to Saudi Arabia’s con-
servative branch of Islam.
ated an agreement with Iran to
limit its nuclear program and re-
opened diplomatic relations with
Cuba after more than a half-cen-
tury without making human
rights an impediment to a deal.
“U.S. administrations’ overall
stance on human rights — and not
just Trump’s administration — is
not one of principle,” said Moham-
med al-Jasem, a prominent jour-
nalist in Kuwait who has been
jailed and otherwise pressured by
the government over the past 14
years. “At times, the support was
strong enough to put an end to the
human rights violations I was ex-
periencing, while at other times,
the U.S. barely acknowledged
them.”
Mr. Trump, however, has shown
a seeming affinity for strongman
leaders like Mr. Sisi, President Re-
cep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and
President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia. In an interview during the
campaign last year, he indicated
that he would not presume to tell
them what to do at home. “I don’t
know that we have a right to lec-
ture,” he said. “Just look about
what’s happening with our coun-
try.”
A measure of Mr. Trump’s ap-
proach came on Sunday when he
delivered what aides have called
the centerpiece speech of his trip
at a ceremony in Riyadh to intro-
duce a new center for combating
extremism. The goal, aides said,
was to suggest a way forward for
nations that have served as incu-
bators for radicalism to instead
stand together against it.
“The speech,” Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, the president’s na-
tional security adviser, said before
leaving Washington, “is intended
to unite the broader Muslim world
against common enemies of all
civilization and to demonstrate
America’s commitment to our
Muslim partners.”
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China’s Gift to Germany: A Giant Statue of Marx
Theories Abound
About the Motive
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
BEIJING — From China, with
love. Or something more insid-
ious?
For weeks, Chinese have been
debating the meaning of a super-
hero-size statue of Karl Marx
headed to Trier, the German town
where the political philosopher
was born. An attempt to spread
Communist revolution back to
democratic Germany? A joke?
The 18-foot work by the sculptor
Wu Weishan is a gift from the Chi-
nese government and is to be un-
veiled next May as part of wider
commemorations for the 200th
anniversary of Marx’s birth. Marx
is officially revered in China, the
last major Communist state after
the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This noble-looking Marx gazing
into the future expresses “the con-
fidence of today’s China in its own
theories, path, system and cul-
ture,” Mr. Wu wrote in People’s
Daily, the party newspaper, in Jan-
uary describing a visit he made to
Trier last year to conceptualize
the work.
Mr. Wu’s vision prompted con-
troversy in Germany after a mod-
el was unveiled in Trier in March.
Historians and politicians asked
whether it was appropriate to
honor so uncritically a man whose
ideas led to dictatorship, including
in the former East Germany. In
April, Trier’s City Council gave fi-
nal approval to the gift but whit-
tled down its size by more than
two feet.
In China, “there are two com-
pletely different voices in the de-
bate” over the statue, said Zhu
Dake, a cultural commentator and
professor at Tongji University in
Shanghai.
“One is that Germany is now a
wholly capitalist state that has
abandoned Marxism. Sending the
statue is tantamount to sending
his ideas back to try to reignite the
spark of revolution,” he said in an
interview.
“The other is that Marx’s theory
of class struggle had a very nega-
tive effect on China,” he said.
“Sending the statue is symboli-
cally returning defective goods.”
Much of the discussion in China
is taking place in private, given
the sensitivity of commenting
publicly on a project overseen by
the Communist Party’s Propagan-
da Department. But Zhihu.com, a
question-and-answer service,
provides glimpses of those views.
“The International will cer-
tainly succeed!” wrote a user
identified as Wang Dongyang, re-
ferring to the Communist Interna-
tional, founded in 1919 to advance
world Communism.
“Am I the only one who thinks
Karoline Kan contributed re-
search.
Magazine’s Defiant Mission: It’s for Women
By MUJIB MASHAL
The first issue of the Afghan
women’s magazine covers stand-
ard ground, like fashion tips
during pregnancy and interviews
with young pop artists about
their love lives.
There is also more serious
fare, like an article about breast
cancer and an essay on a pro-
posed family law that has been
delayed for years by conserva-
tives who oppose the safeguards
it would bring.
Yet the magazine, Gellara,
differs in one crucial respect
from most women’s periodicals
around the world: It could pro-
voke anger, or worse.
Gellara, which began on
Thursday with a print run of
2,000 copies, does not list its
office address. Its editor, Fatana
Hassanzada, is aware that she
will face resistance in certain
circles of men who, without even
reading the magazine, will view
its content as leading women
astray and, therefore, dangerous.
She knows that the magazine
— the product of nearly five
months of work by a dozen
young female volunteers — could
very well be burned.
Despite the risk, she hopes
Gellara becomes a household
name, a forum for conversation
for young women that can be
slipped under apartment doors
or into purses, and offered at
beauty parlors and dentist of-
fices. A sisterhood of big ideas,
pre-chewed and packaged on
glossy paper with lots of pic-
tures, in a society where what
women can talk about is often
dictated by men.
“Our view is that without
agitation, we won’t reach an
equilibrium,” Ms. Hassanzada
said with a smile.
Ms. Hassanzada, 23, said the
idea had been born from a book
club she attended. The club,
composed mostly of women but
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this looks like Mao in ‘Chairman
Mao Goes to Anyuan’?” asked an-
other commenter, referring to a
famous propaganda painting from
the Cultural Revolution.
“At midnight on day two a South
China Sword team” — a special
forces unit of the People’s Libera-
tion Army — “will leap out of the
statue,” wrote a person with the
handle Ning Andong, comparing
it to a Trojan horse.
“What China means is: We’re
sending it back to you. We don’t
believe in it,” the user Wu Jia said.
Millions died in Communist po-
litical campaigns after the found-
ing of the People’s Republic in
DISPATCH FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Fatana Hassanzada, right, reviewing a proof of Gellara, the new Afghan magazine she edits.
also of a few men, meets at a cafe
or a reading space at Kabul
University to discuss novels —
from Alice Walker’s “The Color
Purple” to Khaled Hosseini’s “A
Thousand Splendid Suns” — and
broad philosophical questions.
Thinking they needed to ex-
pand those conversations, some
of the women decided to start a
magazine. It took months to
prepare their first issue because
they struggled to find a balance
between pursuing nurturing
themes like second-wave femi-
nism, which might appeal to a
more educated audience, and
attracting a wider readership.
“We are still focused on those
themes for the content,” said Ms.
Hassanzada, whose day job is at
an aviation company. “But we
want to introduce them in an
Afghan way — in a simpler way
that matches how our people
live.”
A wooden representation of a statue of Karl Marx that will be erected in his birthplace, Trier, Germany, next year, in time for the
200th anniversary of his birth. The statue is a gift from China, whose citizens have been debating its significance for weeks.
1949, and in a famine precipitated
by an effort to collectivize agricul-
ture in the late 1950s. Still, the gov-
ernment insists the party remains
essential to China’s prosperity
and stability, pointing to recent
decades of high economic growth.
In that time, trade with Europe
has also prospered, raising for
some questions of how
democratic nations should deal
with an economically powerful
state that rejects democracy and
has a poor human rights record.
Last year, China became Ger-
many’s leading trading partner
with two-way trade of $180 billion,
overtaking the United States for
the first time.
“Haha, Germans have to kow-
tow to the renminbi. They no long-
er care about political ideology
when the money pours in from
rich Chinese,” a user identified as
Guo Xiaomeng wrote on Zhihu-
.com.
To Chang Ping, a Chinese jour-
nalist who has lived in exile in
Germany since 2011, the Marx
statue represents a challenge
most Germans fail to understand.
“This is not just a question of
commemorating a historical fig-
“The main issue is durability
of work inside Afghanistan, and
the other issue is impact,” she
said. “When larger subjects have
been discussed, it has remained
limited to a small class of elite.”
On a recent day, half of the
staff discussed design issues
over lunch — a simple beef and
vegetable soup with bread and
salad — at the makeshift office.
The young women are volun-
teers, but they hope to attract
enough ads and subscriptions by
the time the second issue goes to
print that they can be paid a
salary. The first issue sold for the
equivalent of $1.50. The cost of
producing it was covered by a
business that advertised in the
magazine.
They only two paid members
of their team are young male
designers, who work on a free-
lance basis. Recently, a newspa-
per publisher that is providing
ure. It’s also a question of how to
deal with the Chinese govern-
ment’s ambition to shine on the
world stage,” Mr. Chang said by
email.
“I think that I can see better
than ordinary Germans the hid-
eous grin behind the statue that is
to be erected in Trier, and the
threat it represents to the civilized
political cultures of the world,” he
said.
The mayor of the city, Wolfram
Leibe, finds such concerns
overblown.
“It was a gesture of friendship
and has nothing to do with ideol-
ogy,” Mr. Leibe said in a telephone
interview in April, shortly after re-
turning from China, where he met
with Mr. Wu, the sculptor.
“Maybe a certain naïveté is not
always bad if it prevents over-in-
terpretation, so you don’t always
dissect things in detail and sus-
pect everything,” he said.
Mr. Wu declined three requests
for an interview, saying that the
statue was a state affair and that
he did not want to interrupt his
creative flow.
Well known in China for his
monuments to historical and cul-
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technical advice brought a sam-
pling of international magazines
from which to draw design inspi-
ration.
Ms. Hassanzada said the hun-
dreds of thousands of educated
young women throughout Af-
ghanistan, both in high school
and at universities, were her
potential audience. From her
days as a university student in
the north, she knows well the
thirst among young educated
women for new conversations.
Traditional methods of male
control prevent many young
women from having a phone or
being online.
“We know our shared pain,”
Ms. Hassanzada said. “And it
becomes a social responsibility
to get the basic information that
those women need, for their lives
and thoughts, into their homes.
Women’s issues, inside their
home.”
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tural figures, as well as his flowing
mane of hair and cravats, Mr. Wu,
55, is the director of the National
Museum of China and holds a seat
in the Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference, a gov-
ernment advisory body.
He has produced other sculp-
tures of Marx, notably one that
Some see a gesture
of friendship. Others
see a Trojan horse.
shows him with his collaborator
Friedrich Engels, at the party’s
Central Compilation and Transla-
tion Bureau in Beijing. In 2011, an
enormous statue of Confucius he
created briefly stood near Tianan-
men Square in Beijing, before be-
ing removed under circumstances
that have never been fully ex-
plained.
He is known internationally,
too, having won the 2003 Pangolin
Prize of the Royal British Society
of Sculptors, sculpted a bust of
2-Pronged Taliban Attack
Kills 20 Afghan Officers
By MUJIB MASHAL
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a
two-pronged attack in a southern
Afghan province, the Taliban
shelled the provincial capital city
with rockets and then raided po-
lice outposts in a neighboring dis-
trict, killing at least 20 officers and
wounding six others, officials said
on Sunday.
The provincial governor of
Zabul, Bismillah Afghanmal, said
that as many as 1,000 Taliban
fighters stormed the police out-
posts in the Shajoy district, along
the highway to the regional hub of
Kandahar, in an early morning at-
tack.
As the assault in Shajoy was un-
folding, the neighboring provin-
cial capital city of Qalat was
shelled with a barrage of rockets.
Some landed on the governor’s
guesthouse and the police head-
quarters nearby.
“Luckily, there is no human
losses, but damage has been done
to the properties of local people
and governmental buildings,” Mr.
Afghanmal said of the attack in
Qalat.
Baz Mohammed, a headmaster
at a school in Shajoy, said the Tal-
iban had been attacking police
posts in the Chino area for two
nights in a row.
“Last night, the fighting
continued and became severe,
and the Taliban overran four secu-
rity check posts,” Mr. Mohammed
said. “The fighting is ongoing;
there is exchange of firing, and we
cannot move out of our homes.”
Mr. Afghanmal said that six of
the province’s 11 districts were
threatened by the Taliban, and
that the Afghan police were strug-
gling to repel the threat, which has
intensified since the insurgents
Taimoor Shah contributed report-
ing from Kandahar, Afghanistan,
and Jawad Sukhanyar and Fahim
Abed from Kabul.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
and presented a sculpture to the
International Olympic Commit-
tee.
Mr. Wu’s grandiose vision for
the statue in Trier overturned a
more approachable concept pro-
posed by residents who wanted
Marx depicted as a child, seated
on a bench in a small square,
where people could sit beside him.
“Mr. Wu came to Trier and said,
‘This square is too small and
cramped. Karl Marx was a great
man and we can’t put him in a
small square,’” Mr. Leibe said.
To Geremie Barmé, a founder of
the Wairarapa Academy for New
Sinology in New Zealand, the
sculpture is an expression of party
power.
“The Germans’ suggestion was
for an early, humane, humanist
Marx, a source for change in
China — not the heroic, sclerotic,
formalized Marx used for party
purposes that Wu offered,” Mr.
Barmé said by telephone.
China’s message is, he said,
“Since we’re the only one that’s
been successful and adapted
Marxism to state leadership, we’ll
tell you what it’s about.”
began their new fighting season
last month. Other officials said an-
other district, Khak e Afghan, was
completely under Taliban control.
Assadullah Kakar, a member of
the provincial council, said the
central government in Kabul had
been informed that urgent action
was needed because the provin-
cial authorities were unable to
deal with the threat.
“The Taliban are conducting si-
multaneous attacks, and it is hard
for security forces to engage with
them,” Mr. Kakar said.
The attacks capped another
bloody week in Afghanistan. Sui-
cide bombers stormed a bank in
the eastern city of Gardez on Sat-
urday, killing at least three and
wounding 31 others in a siege that
lasted for hours. On Friday, a Tal-
iban roadside bomb struck a wed-
ding convoy, killing 11 members of
the same family, five of them chil-
dren.
In a separate episode in Kabul, a
German woman and an Afghan
guard working for the relief orga-
nization Operation Mercy were
killed, and a Finnish national was
kidnapped on Saturday night, ac-
cording to a statement by the or-
ganization.
The organization, which has
headquarters in Sweden, is “a
community of professionals who
serve the poor and marginalized
of Central Asia, Middle East and
North Africa,” according to its
website.
Kabul’s police chief, Gen. Has-
san Shah Frough, said that the vic-
tims had been living in an old
house in Kabul for seven years,
and that the house had little secu-
rity.
Although most such kidnap-
pings in Kabul are the work of
criminal gangs, he said he be-
lieved that the attack was carried
out by the Taliban. That could not
be independently confirmed, and
the Taliban have not claimed re-
sponsibility.
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MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
Emily Hadley of the College Advising Corps talking to students at Hobbton High School in Newton Grove, N.C.
Some College Advice From a Peer
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. — The first
time Nyreke Peters met the new college
adviser at his rural high school, he was
skeptical. Other adults at Hobbton High
School spoke with the same Southern ac-
cent and shared an easygoing familiarity
that came from having gone to the same
schools and having spent their lives in
the same county.
The adviser, Emily Hadley, was a de-
termined recent college graduate from
New Hampshire who seemed bizarrely
interested in his future and pressed him
to think beyond the confines of the sweet
potato and hog farms.
Mr. Peters, a senior, had his sights set
on the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, but she persuaded him to ap-
ply to Middlebury College, an elite insti-
tution in Vermont that he had never
heard of.
A few months later, to his astonish-
ment, he was admitted. A scholarship
fund from Sampson County, a little more
than an hour’s drive south of Raleigh,
N.C., paid for him to visit, and he decided
to attend.
“Miss Hadley, she’s from up North,
and she knew all the schools,” said Mr.
Peters, a snare drum player in the
marching band who lives with his grand-
parents. “She pushed me to apply here,
apply there.”
Ms. Hadley is part of a nonprofit orga-
nization, and a movement, trying to
break down the social, economic and
psychological barriers that keep low-in-
come rural students from having a shot
at the elite range of the American dream.
Most low-income students rely on
their parents for college advice, and
many of them end up going to colleges
that are less rigorous than they can han-
dle, the research shows.
Her organization, the College Advis-
ing Corps, places recent graduates in
public high schools for two-year stints as
full-time college advisers, where they
make up for a widespread scarcity of
college counselors and bring their own
recent experience to bear on the college
application process.
The cause has attracted support from
self-made philanthropists who identify
with high-achieving students — “the Ho-
ratio Alger crowd,” as Nicole Farmer
Hurd, the advising corps’s founder, puts
it — like Michael R. Bloomberg, the for-
mer mayor of New York and a billionaire
businessman.
Some critics say that these efforts are
too focused on transforming the lives of
the most brilliant tier of low-income stu-
dents. What about the students who are
merely competent? Others say that
steering all the smart teenagers to a few
elite colleges may be good for those par-
ticular students, but may worsen the so-
cial and economic stratification of Amer-
ican society — there will be no more
small-town philosopher-car mechanics.
“It would be better if the pecking order
were not so clear, and the widest talents
were more evenly distributed across all
kinds of institutions,” Gary Burtless, a la-
bor economist and senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, said rather wist-
fully.
Dr. Hurd, a former dean of fellowships
at the University of Virginia, founded the
corps in 2005 with 14 advisers in Virginia.
It now has about 600 advisers in as many
schools across the country, 182 of them in
rural areas, and a budget of $34 million,
raised through private philanthropy,
state and federal funds.
The organization works in partnership
with 24 selective private colleges and
flagship state universities, like Duke,
Texas A&M and the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley, which recruit the advisers,
train them through their admissions and
University pennants decorate Ms. Hadley’s office at Hobbton,
where the college enrollment rate has risen since her arrival.
financial aid offices and supervise them.
The advisers are placed in schools
through agreements with district admin-
istrators and principals.
Though their salaries are modest —
$25,000 to $30,000 — they receive about
$11,500 in loan forgiveness for their un-
dergraduate debt or their future educa-
tion.
Many of the advisers resemble the stu-
dents they seek to help. Most of them are
black or Hispanic or from low-income
backgrounds.
Over two spring days, Dr. Hurd, the
founder, toured schools in Sampson
County to debrief the corps members.
She drove through brilliantly green
fields, past a cotton gin, trailer parks and
unpainted houses out of a John Grisham
novel.
At Hobbton High School, Stephanie
Goethie, the only professional counselor
for 540 students, said that other priori-
ties — a suicidal student, for instance —
could easily distract her from college ap-
plications. For help, some students turn
instead to drama or band teachers, pas-
tors and parents. Having Ms. Hadley, the
adviser, there “does increase the equity,”
Ms. Goethie said.
Ms. Hadley, 23, a 2015 Duke graduate,
said it was hard to make students see the
value of a college degree when their par-
ents relied on odd jobs, food stamps or
disability benefits and they could im-
prove the situation immediately by
making $500 a week as field workers.
“What happens in 10 years when your
Nyreke Peters, a Hobbton senior, with his grandmother and neph-
ew. At Ms. Hadley’s urging, he applied to a Vermont college.
back gives out?” she tells them.
Their parents, she found, were not al-
ways on her side.
“A lot of their parents view them as
young adults, capable of making their
own decisions,” Ms. Hadley said.
Many students did not understand the
basic mechanics of going to college. They
thought that all they had to do was sign
up the day before classes began, she
said.
The corps is experimenting with send-
Who can get a rural,
low-income student into
an elite college? Maybe
one with a fresh degree.
ing personalized text messages about
college to parents and students, remind-
ing them about deadlines and urging
them to make appointments with their
counselor. But Ms. Hadley was skeptical.
“A lot of the kids have burner phones,”
she said. “They run through them in
three months.”
Or they run out of data midway
through the month.
Dr. Hurd said she did not understand
why more than 90 percent of Ms.
Hadley’s students had applied to college,
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but only about half had submitted federal
financial aid forms.
Some parents are embarrassed to re-
veal their incomes or suspicious of au-
thority and what will become of their pri-
vate information. Family strife also gets
in the way. “A lot of the kids are in really
funky living situations, and they haven’t
decided whether they want to reach out
to their parents,” she said.
Some of her students are much
brighter than their low scores on
standardized tests like the ACT suggest,
Ms. Hadley said. But colleges judge
schools by the numbers, and with only a
handful of high-scoring students,
Hobbton does not attract many college
recruiters.
“I get it,” she said. “I don’t have any-
body with more than a 30 on the ACT this
year. It’s still hard to get kids options
when they didn’t blow it out of the water
on the ACT.”
But, she added, “How do you get from
a 26 to a 30 when you can’t afford test
prep?” It is difficult to get students to at-
tend test-prep sessions at school, and
free online services do not work well on
mobile phones, she said.
One university that many students
here have heard of is Liberty University,
the Christian college in Lynchburg, Va.,
founded over four decades ago by the
evangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., where Presi-
dent Trump recently gave a commence-
ment speech. But Ms. Hadley said she
worried that the university would not
prepare students for the wider world. “I
tell them, if you go to work in a different
environment, there’s a chance you’ll
come across somebody who has a differ-
ent view of a Liberty degree,” she said.
At nearby Midway High School, the
students say “Yes, sir,” and “No, ma’am,”
and one women’s restroom has a sign
that says, “Wash your hands & say your
prayers ’cuz Jesus & germs are every-
where.”
But the value of good grades is not as
ingrained. Mariesha McAdoo, a first-
year advising corps member from Duke,
said it was “heartbreaking” when stu-
dents came to her with low grades and
test scores and it was too late to go back
and fix them.
“A lot of the kids here are just average,”
Ms. McAdoo told Dr. Hurd recently as
they were discussing her success rate of
getting students into top colleges. “We
don’t have a lot of those kids getting the
full-ride scholarships.”
Ms. Hadley said many of her students
thought college was only for the wealthy.
“They’re surprised when I don’t have
money for the vending machine,” she
said.
She has made progress. The college
enrollment rate at Hobbton went from
about half the senior class when Ms.
Hadley arrived two years ago to 59 per-
cent last year, and is projected to reach 77
percent this year, though she expects the
final number to drop as students find
summer jobs and decide to keep working
rather than go to college.
Mr. Peters, the senior at Hobbton,
wrote his college essay about what it
would feel like to go back to his high
school in 10 years as a Middlebury gradu-
ate.
He would tell the future Hobbton stu-
dents that he used to worry that his
friends would find out he had spent a
summer “living in a hotel paid for by
some government program that helped
families who could not afford to pay
rent.”
Then he would add: “All I can say is
look at where I stand. I am a college-edu-
cated man of color. I am a musician who
composes music for high school bands
because that’s where it all begins.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Left, Qualtrics employees at the company’s new headquarters in Provo, Utah. Right, Leo Tapia coaxing cows into a milking machine at Gibson’s Green Acres Dairy in Ogden, Utah.
Labor Shortages in States Like Utah Are Slowing U.S. Economy’s Growth
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learned Monday that his hours
were changing. On Wednesday, he
had his first interview for a new
job.
“I’m trying to find a company
that treats you well,” he said.
But labor shortages are weigh-
ing on overall economic growth,
slowing the pace of expansion in
northern Utah and other fast-
growing regions even as unem-
ployment remains stubbornly
high in Rust Belt cities like Cleve-
land and in regions still recover-
ing from the 2008 recession, like
inland California.
To Todd Bingham, the president
of the Utah Manufacturers Associ-
ation, “3.1 percent unemployment
is fabulous unless you’re looking
to hire people.”
“Our companies are saying, ‘We
could grow faster, we could
produce more product, if we had
the workers,’” he said. “Is it hold-
ing the economy back? I think it
definitely is.”
President Trump continues to
promise that he will accelerate job
growth by cutting taxes and regu-
lations. But the accumulating evi-
dence that workers are getting
harder to find, and that wages are
rising more quickly, has con-
vinced many economists that sig-
nificantly faster growth is un-
likely. The Federal Reserve has
cited the trend as its reason for
moving to wind down its own eco-
nomic stimulus campaign. The
Fed may raise interest rates again
at its next meeting in June.
Qualtrics, which conducts on-
line market research, is a prime
example of the rapid growth of the
Utah economy — and the sense
that Utah is straining at the limits
of its growth potential. Scott
Smith started the company with
his son, Ryan, and a college class-
mate in his Provo home in 2002.
Qualtrics now employs 1,300 peo-
ple, including about 800 in a new
headquarters building opened in
August at the mouth of Provo Can-
yon. And it is bringing workers to
Utah as fast as it can.
Each Monday, the company ties
red balloons to the desks of that
week’s batch of new employees.
Last week, there were several
dozen of those balloons. The park-
ing lot outside the new headquar-
Along With Class Photos, Political Views Find a Place in High School Yearbooks
By DANA GOLDSTEIN
A high school yearbook is a
keepsake. Like an Instagram fil-
ter, it’s meant to bathe recent
memories in the warm, soft-focus
glow of nostalgia. As an object, it
evokes affection and community;
you hope to show it to your chil-
dren and grandchildren someday.
A yearbook isn’t supposed to be
divisive.
So how to commemorate a
school year that coincided with a
meltdown in decorum in Ameri-
can politics?
That was the question high
school yearbook editors and their
advisers had to ask themselves
while they were busy gathering
up mug shots of the seniors,
quotes, and group photographs of
the football team, the cheerlead-
ing squad and the chess club.
The challenge of how to capture
this raucous political moment was
especially pressing in America’s
purple places, like the Kansas City
region, where Trump supporters
and women’s marchers live and
learn in proximity.
Some of their yearbooks cele-
brated President Trump’s chal-
lenge to the political order, while
also debating the fairness of the
Electoral College and arguing
over the role that race and gender
played in the outcome. Students
used sharp graphics to compare
actual vote counts with the
schools’ own mock election re-
sults, which often mirrored the
leanings of the local communities.
There were spreads devoted to
students’ formal introduction to
Juan Guerrero, right, and Joseph Waseme securing materials on a truck bed at a Roofers Supply lot in Salt Lake City.
ters building is already over-
stuffed, including many cars that
still have out-of-state plates.
Ryan Smith, now the chief exec-
utive, said Qualtrics had hired
about three dozen graduates from
the University of Michigan alone
last year. The company estimates
that new arrivals bought 100
homes in Provo last year.
Utah’s tech scene is growing
alongside the company. More lo-
cal university students are study-
ing engineering; more start-ups
are popping up in the region,
which boosters would very much
like everyone to call “Silicon
Slopes.” But by the end of the year,
Mr. Smith said, he expects the
company will have more
employees outside Utah than in
its home state. It is growing where
it finds workers.
politics — registering to vote and
interning with campaigns — and
to their unvarnished opinions of
the candidates.
One disappointed junior at Mill
Valley High School in Shawnee,
Kan., said that Hillary Clinton
“could’ve been very empower-
ing.” A sophomore at Shawnee
Mission East High School in
Prairie Village, Kan., said of Mr.
Trump’s “locker room” talk:
“makes me sick.”
But to a senior at Kearney High
School in Kearney, Mo., Mr. Trump
was “a refreshing businessman
who knows America better.”
A Kearney classmate was clear
about why he preferred Mr.
Trump: “I don’t want a girl presi-
dent,” he said.
Now that their yearbooks are
being distributed and cracked
open, the pages offer a glimpse at
how teenagers in one diverse re-
gion experienced an exhausting
and exhilarating year in politics.
As in most of liberal America,
Mr. Trump’s triumph on Nov. 8
caught yearbook editors at Lin-
coln College Preparatory Acad-
emy, a public school in central
Kansas City, Mo., by surprise.
“The morning after Trump got
elected, a lot of our friends were
crying,” said Ayana Belk, a senior
and the yearbook’s business and
social media manager.
Lincoln’s student body is about
80 percent black and Hispanic.
Last year, its yearbook won the
grand prize in a national competi-
tion held by Entourage Year-
books, which prints over 4,000
yearbooks annually. Like profes-
Companies in Utah, as in the
rest of the country, were slow to
raise wages in recent years. At
first there were plenty of available
workers. But by the end of 2015, a
report by Utah’s Department of
Workforce Services concluded
that inadequate wages had be-
come a key reason companies
were struggling to find employ-
ees.
“It was as if employers hadn’t
adjusted their approach to the la-
bor market” as the economy re-
covered, said Carrie Mayne, the
department’s chief economist.
Now there are signs the logjam
is breaking. Adam Himoff, the
president of Xemplar Skilled
Workforce Solutions, a recruiting
firm hired by Roofers Supply to
find drivers, said he had seen an
increase this year in the willing-
sional journalists across the coun-
try, in the aftermath of Election
Day, the Lincoln yearbook editors
met to discuss how the outcome
would change editorial plans.
They decided to de-emphasize
politics altogether.
“We didn’t want to upset our-
selves writing it and make it such
a big part of our yearbook,” Ms.
Belk said. “We didn’t want to pass
that down generation to genera-
tion.”
So the original plans — a two-
page layout commemorating a
Clinton victory — became a quar-
A raucous election
that reached into
students’ lives calls
for careful handling.
ter page portraying Mr. Trump’s
win alongside graphical represen-
tations of the Black Lives Matter
movement and Mrs. Clinton’s
erstwhile hashtag, #I’mWithHer.
Where news of the first female
president would have been, the
editors instead highlighted stu-
dents’ favorite moments in pop
culture. One junior girl, pho-
tographed making a kissy face,
says, “I’m just so in love with
Drake.” The winner of a poll of stu-
dents’ favorite TV shows was
“The Walking Dead.”
The yearbook adviser, Jennifer
ness of clients to raise wages.
“Labor has become the con-
straint on their growth goals, and
they’re recognizing that they’re
going to have to increase wages to
achieve what they want to
achieve,” he said.
Ms. Mayne said the state also
saw signs of what she described
as a broad-based acceleration in
wages in the most recent data,
through the end of last year.
But the share of Utah adults
who have withdrawn from the la-
bor force remains higher than be-
fore the recession. Last year, 31.7
percent of adults in Utah were nei-
ther working nor looking for work,
up from 28.2 percent in 2006. That
is part of a broad national trend.
And a 3.1 percent unemploy-
ment rate still means that about
50,000 people in Utah were trying
Raynor, said covering the election
in greater depth might have
meant quoting the school’s very
few Trump supporters, and both
adults and students in the build-
ing were concerned about sin-
gling out those students.
Elias Jo, the chief executive of
Entourage Yearbooks, said Lin-
coln’s cautious approach to the
election was not unusual this year.
“A lot of yearbook staffs have
made the decision not to cover it at
all,” he said. “They don’t want to
get into the contentiousness.”
When members of the Lincoln
staff attended a regional student
journalism conference last month,
they learned that at majority-
white schools in the Kansas City
suburbs, where student bodies
tend to lean conservative, year-
books covered the election with
more gusto.
Mr. Trump won the mock elec-
tion at Staley High School in Clay
County, Mo., north of central Kan-
sas City, taking 223 votes to Mrs.
Clinton’s 173. The yearbook de-
voted two pages to the presiden-
tial election and, in a quest for bal-
ance, devoted a third of a page to
students and teachers who par-
ticipated in the local Women’s
March on Jan. 21.
Andrew Simms, a Staley senior
and yearbook photographer, said
the presidential campaign had
contributed to a “tense” climate
on campus. Students gossiped
when their classmates showed up
to school in “Make America Great
Again” gear. Many left-leaning
students supported Senator Ber-
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to find jobs in March.
Some, like Monica Von Strahl,
expect to find work quickly. Ms.
Von Strahl, 44, moved to Utah
from Oregon in April for family
reasons. She left a job as a care-
giver for adults with disabilities
that paid $16 an hour; so far, the
most she has been offered in Utah
is $10 an hour. She plans to keep
looking a little longer. (Scholars at
M.I.T. estimate that a living wage
in Utah for a single person is $10.71
an hour.)
But even in a red-hot market,
some of the people who are look-
ing for work struggle to find the
right fit. Noel Nampijja, 42, left her
job as a nurse’s aide two months
ago because the work of moving
patients was hurting her back.
She just completed training as a
phlebotomist, a medical assistant
nie Sanders of Vermont in the
Democratic primary and attended
his Kansas City rally in February
2016, but then did not back Mrs.
Clinton during the general elec-
tion, he said.
The students were more united
when it came to another issue, a
state amendment that would have
raised cigarette taxes and used
the revenue for early childhood
education, children’s health care
and smoking cessation efforts.
The measure passed at Staley 337
to 68.
Those of legal smoking age
were less enthusiastic about the
idea. Among actual voters, the
measure failed in every single
county in Missouri.
Mr. Trump also won the mock
vote at Mill Valley High School, 42
percent to Mrs. Clinton’s 31 per-
cent, with Gary Johnson, Jill Stein
and “other” filling out the tally.
The yearbook features students’
Twitter posts about the campaign
(“I’m not big on the idea of Trump
being president, it’s just him over
Hillary, that’s all”) and their one-
word descriptions of the election
(“headache,” “divided,” “disap-
pointed”).
In an infographic, the yearbook
editors emphasized that Mrs.
Clinton had won the national pop-
ular vote. “We wanted to get the
facts so people can look back and
remember,” Sarah Morgan, one of
three editors in chief, said.
She is a self-described liberal
with parents who supported Mr.
Trump. Ms. Morgan watched the
election returns at her boyfriend’s
who draws blood.
“I’m hoping to find a job that
won’t hurt as much,” she said.
In less lucrative industries, la-
bor shortages may remain an in-
tractable problem.
Ron Gibson, a fifth-generation
dairy farmer, tends 1,500 cows on
family land outside Ogden. Last
month, he placed an ad in local pa-
pers seeking three workers at
A low jobless rate
is ‘fabulous unless
you’re looking
to hire people.’
wages starting around $12 an
hour. It did not draw any respons-
es.
Mr. Gibson cannot afford to
chase workers by raising wages.
The price of milk, adjusted for in-
flation, is lower now than in the
1980s. Instead, he is producing
less milk. Each cow is milked
three times a day; only 15 percent
get a fourth milking.
He also laughed at the idea that
Americans might move from
other states to milk cows in Utah.
He relies primarily on immigrant
labor, communicating with his two
dozen workers in the Spanish he
learned as a young Mormon mis-
sionary in Argentina. And since
Mr. Trump’s election, he said,
workers are harder to find.
“We are either going to import
workers or we are going to import
milk,” Mr. Gibson said.
The work “is dirty, stinky and
hard,” he added. “It’s not what we
teach our young people to do.”
But there is another solution on
the horizon: automation. Last
year, Mr. Gibson and his son
visited a farm in upstate New
York where robots milk cows. The
cows learn to approach the ma-
chines when their udders are full.
Mr. Gibson is not yet ready to
make the jump. Each machine
costs half a million dollars, and the
New York farmer spends about as
much on mechanics as he spent on
farmhands. But Mr. Gibson said
he expected his children would
use robots to milk cows.
house, and had expected to cele-
brate the victory of the first fe-
male president. “It would have
been really cool,” she said. In-
stead, the next day at school, stu-
dents chanted, “Build-a-wall.
Build-a-wall.”
Said Ms. Morgan: “It was really
hard to keep politics out of the
book.”
Indeed, yearbooks reflected a
broad distrust of Mrs. Clinton
among the region’s suburban
teenagers.
The team at Blue Valley High
School in Overland Park, Kan.,
laid out a two-page spread that
featured students’ favorite elec-
tion-related Snapchat filters and a
photo of a young man holding a
large Trump/Pence banner.
It also had a large infographic
highlighting the discrepancy be-
tween the national popular and
Electoral College votes, as well as
the results of Blue Valley’s mock
election, in which 55 percent voted
for Mr. Trump, 32 percent for Mrs.
Clinton and 12 percent for Mr.
Johnson or Ms. Stein.
Alex Roberts, a Blue Valley sen-
ior and a co-editor in chief of the
yearbook, said gun rights were a
major issue for her “country”
classmates, and for herself; she
was too young to vote, but chose
Mr. Trump in the mock election.
Still, objectivity was the goal as
she and her fellow editors worked
on the book.
“We didn’t want to show our
views,” Ms. Roberts said. “We
wanted to show what happened in
the election and the facts of it.”

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A Test for Ivanka Trump as Parental Leave Plan Faces a Skeptical Congress
Plan Cuts Against Republican Orthodoxy,
And Democrats Don’t Like It, Either
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Ivanka Trump has largely cast
herself as a behind-the-scenes
force for moderation in the West
Wing, but this week she will take
her first real political risk when
her signature parental leave plan
is presented to a conservative
House majority hostile to any new
government mandates.
Her proposal for a $25 billion
federal paid leave program, part
of the budget plan that President
Trump will release Tuesday, is a
reflection of Ms. Trump’s influ-
ence in her father’s inner circle.
The plan has been her primary
area of interest since the 2016
campaign, when she pushed her
father to introduce a version of it
on the stump.
While she has become a popular
figure with some Republicans on
Capitol Hill, she will discover how
far her sway extends. As she tries
to leave her first tangible imprint
on the government with a plan
that cuts against Republican or-
thodoxy, a buzz saw will surely
await. The question is just how big
it will be.
“If it is going to be a buzz saw, I
hope it’s going to be an intelligent
buzz saw,” said Representative
Peter T. King, Republican of New
York. “I think we have to realize
that the ground has shifted. I don’t
mean the political ground, I mean
Drama Over Comey Tests
A Top Lawyer’s Restraint
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saddled with a leading role in the
firing of an F.B.I. director, called to
answer for the shifting explana-
tions of a White House in chaos
and ultimately moved to name a
special counsel now investigating
the president himself.
Lawmakers and former col-
leagues were left to wonder how
an experienced and scrupulous
lawyer known as being apolitical
allowed himself to be drawn into a
highly politicized firing, either as
a willing participant or an unwit-
ting accomplice.
“It’s been a little bit of a roller-
coaster ride in terms of Rod’s rep-
utation,” said Douglas F. Gansler,
former attorney general of Mary-
land, who worked closely with Mr.
Rosenstein when he was United
States attorney.
Mr. Rosenstein, who was con-
firmed 94 to 6 by the Senate last
month, was swept into the turmoil
when the president cited a three-
page memo from him as a pretext
for dismissing James B. Comey,
the F.B.I. director, blaming Mr.
Comey’s handling last year of the
investigation into Hillary Clin-
ton’s use of a private email server
as secretary of state.
But Mr. Rosenstein knew Mr.
Comey was to be ousted before he
ever sat down to write his memo,
he has told lawmakers. Soon after
Mr. Comey’s sudden dismissal on
May 9, Mr. Trump and aides began
offering varying explanations,
with the president admitting
within days that he had made the
decision himself, as he fumed
about the investigation Mr.
Comey was leading into his cam-
paign’s ties with Russia.
The day after the firing, in an at-
times tense conversation with
Donald F. McGahn II, the White
House counsel, Mr. Rosenstein
stressed that he did not want to be
part of an effort to obfuscate or
“massage” the facts about it, ac-
cording to a person with knowl-
edge of the discussion.
Nearly a week later, The New
York Times reported that Mr.
Trump had asked Mr. Comey in
February to quash the Russia in-
vestigation, raising the specter of
obstruction of justice.
By then, Mr. Rosenstein, the top
law enforcement official oversee-
ing the inquiry, had few options. A
day later, he named a former F.B.I.
director, Robert S. Mueller III, as a
special counsel to lead the investi-
gation.
Mr. Rosenstein gave minimal
notice to Mr. Trump or Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, who re-
cused himself from overseeing the
Russia investigation in March and
was at the White House when Mr.
Rosenstein signed the order ap-
pointing Mr. Mueller.
The sequence of events sug-
gested Mr. Rosenstein was deter-
mined to keep the investigation
from being imperiled by the po-
litical tumult and wanted to re-
the family ground.”
Ms. Trump, who serves a dual
role as one of her father’s closest
confidantes and as an assistant to
the president in the West Wing,
has presented herself as a cham-
pion of families, especially work-
ing mothers. She told The New
York Times in a recent interview
that she was trying to pick dis-
crete policy areas to work on in an
administration that was swept
into power on anti-trade, national-
ist sentiment.
The plan calls for a new benefit
carved out of the unemployment
insurance program; the adminis-
tration would work with states to
find ways to pay for it. Aides to Ms.
Trump said the goal was a pro-
gram that did not add to the
deficit.
For supporters of the plan, it is a
point of pride that the Trump ad-
ministration will be the first Re-
publican administration to put
forth such a proposal. It was put
together by a working group that
included representatives of the
Office of Management and Budget
and the Labor Department.
The plan is not fully fleshed out,
which White House aides said
would provide some wiggle room
to hammer out the details during
negotiations.
But how far those talks get re-
mains to be seen. The plan is likely
assert his own independence from
it.
“Do I think he was prepared to
have that memorandum treated
the way it was by the White
House? Not a chance,” said An-
drew C. White, a friend who
worked as a federal prosecutor in
Maryland with Mr. Rosenstein.
“But it’s very symbolic” how he
responded, Mr. White added, “be-
cause the record was set straight,
taken care of quietly and out of the
spotlight. It’s classic Rod.”
Mr. Rosenstein, who did not re-
spond to requests for an inter-
view, emphasized the rule of law
in a statement last week explain-
ing his decision.
“Based upon the unique circum-
stances, the public interest re-
quires me to place this investiga-
tion under the authority of a per-
son who exercises a degree of in-
dependence from the normal
chain of command,” he said. “A
special counsel is necessary in or-
der for the American people to
have full confidence in the out-
come.”
Mr. Rosenstein, 52, is an im-
probable character in the theat-
rics surrounding Mr. Trump. Re-
served and bookish, he spends
most of his time, friends say, work-
ing or spending time with his wife
and children, including frequently
shuttling his two teenage girls to
soccer and softball games.
“He’s a deputy attorney general
and sports taxi,” Mr. White said.
“But now his sports taxi has two
armored Suburbans, and one is a
decoy car.”
He and his wife, Lisa Barsoo-
mian, a former prosecutor who
later worked as a lawyer for the
National Institutes of Health and
took time off to raise their daugh-
ters, live in the Washington sub-
urb of Bethesda, Md., in a brick
raised ranch house.
Mr. Rosenstein’s quirks, accord-
ing to friends and colleagues, in-
clude handing out books by the
management guru Peter Drucker
to colleagues and sending lengthy
emails to his staff before federal
holidays, documenting their his-
tory and little-remembered fac-
toids about their observance.
Mr. Trusty, now a partner at
Ifrah Law in Washington, recalled
the day he met Mr. Rosenstein
during a job interview at the
United States attorney’s office in
Maryland, where talk turned to
sports and the Washington Red-
skins.
“He mentioned he was from
Philadelphia, and I said, ‘You’re
probably an Eagles fan,’” Mr.
Trusty said. “Rod’s like, ‘I don’t re-
ally care for professional football.’
And I just thought to myself,
here’s this really serious guy — I
don’t think I’ll ever get along with
that dude.”
But when they worked together
on a case of tax preparer fraud a
couple of years later, Mr. Trusty
was astonished with Mr. Rosen-
stein’s effectiveness in the court-
room, which he attributed to
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Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, on Friday on the White House’s South Lawn.
to run into trouble with the House
Freedom Caucus, which is made
up of ultraconservatives who be-
lieve in a limited role for govern-
ment.
Mr. King, who has represented
a swing suburban district on Long
Island for decades, said the Re-
publican Party had to recognize
that the contours of families had
changed after the recession.
“This is more and more becom-
Rod Rosenstein met with Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner at an Intelligence Committee office on May 11 in Washington.
preparation and legal skill.
“The jury was just eating out of
his hand,” Mr. Trusty recounted.
He is also supremely careful,
say those who know him, and un-
willing to subvert the rules. For
Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Comey’s un-
usual decision to go public last
July with his conclusions in the
Rod Rosenstein is an
improbable character
in the theatrics
around the president.
Clinton investigation was deeply
troubling, almost to the point of
being a personal affront.
Mr. Rosenstein believed Mr.
Comey had compromised long-
standing traditions at the Depart-
ment of Justice, and did severe
damage. In his memo, Mr. Rosen-
stein called Mr. Comey’s actions
“a textbook example of what fed-
eral prosecutors and agents are
taught not to do.”
Mr. Rosenstein grew up in the
Philadelphia suburbs, in Lower
Moreland, Pa., the son of Robert
and Gerri Rosenstein. His father
ran a small business and his
mother worked as a bookkeeper.
After graduating from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Mr.
Rosenstein went to Harvard Law
School, where he edited the Har-
vard Law Review and got his de-
gree in 1989.
In 1990, Mr. Rosenstein began
his decades-long career at the Jus-
tice Department, starting as a
ing absolutely essential,” he said
of programs creating options for
parents.
Ms. Trump might find her plan
to be a tough sell in Congress not
only with hard-line Republicans,
but also with Democrats. A senior
aide to a Democratic congress-
man said that there was deep re-
luctance in the party to approve
anything that would let Mr. Trump
paint his administration as mod-
trial lawyer in the public integrity
section of the criminal division in
Washington, and within a few
years moving to the deputy attor-
ney general’s office.
He was later tapped to join the
team of prosecutors working un-
der Kenneth W. Starr, the inde-
pendent counsel, on the White-
water investigation into President
Bill Clinton’s business dealings.
In 2005, President George W.
Bush nominated him to be Mary-
land’s United States attorney. Mr.
Rosenstein stayed there for 12
years, throughout the Obama ad-
ministration and until last month.
Mr. Rosenstein’s endurance
across administrations concerned
Mr. Comey, according to a friend,
Benjamin Wittes, who told The
Times that Mr. Comey had said of
Mr. Rosenstein: “You don’t sur-
vive that long without making
some compromises.”
His allies defended Mr. Rosen-
stein, saying he never shrank
from tough cases.
Mr. Gansler cited Mr. Rosen-
stein’s work on the Black Guer-
rilla Family case in Maryland, an
investigation into gang activity at
Baltimore city jails that resulted
in corruption charges against
many correctional officers.
“It had a lot of political over-
tones, and he just did his job,” Mr.
Gansler said. “He said, ‘Here are
the facts, here is the law, here’s
what we’re doing.’”
Yet his exacting approach and
zealous pursuit of cases have
sometimes earned him criticism.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder
Jr. appointed Mr. Rosenstein to
run the high-profile leak investi-
gation involving James E.
Cartwright, a retired four-star
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erate.
At one point, the top Democrat
in the House, Representative
Nancy Pelosi of California, offered
to introduce Ms. Trump to the bi-
partisan Women’s Caucus.
But despite a cordial discussion
between Ms. Pelosi and Ms.
Trump on election night, the
White House has not reached out
to Democrats since.
An aide to the House speaker,
Marine general and former vice
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff accused of sharing classified
information with reporters.
Senior Obama administration
officials, speaking on the condi-
tion of anonymity because they
did not want to prejudice potential
future professional dealings with
Mr. Rosenstein, said he and his
team had taken a remarkably ag-
gressive and adversarial tone dur-
ing the investigation, including
with anyone who might have spo-
ken to journalists who had discov-
ered confidential information.
Mr. Rosenstein won a guilty
plea in the case last year, but Gen-
eral Cartwright was later par-
doned by President Barack
Obama. Mr. Rosenstein would not
discuss the investigation at his
confirmation hearing beyond
what was in the public record, but
wrote in a sentencing memo in
January that General Cart-
wright’s case should serve as an
example.
“The need for deterrence is
strong,” Mr. Rosenstein wrote.
“Every day across the United
States government, individuals
are entrusted with highly sensi-
tive classified information. They
must understand that disclosing
such information to persons not
authorized to receive it has severe
consequences.”
Mr. Sessions first contacted Mr.
Rosenstein late last fall about
taking the job as deputy.
The two met not long after and
discussed getting rid of Mr.
Comey, part of an effort, Mr.
Rosenstein told senators in a
briefing last week, to restore the
F.B.I.’s credibility, “respect the es-
tablished authority of the Depart-
N A17
Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, when
asked about the Trump budget
program, pointed to a bill recently
passed by the chamber — spon-
sored by Representative Martha
Roby, Republican of Alabama —
that would create a bank of flexi-
ble compensatory hours that par-
ents could use for leave.
But that plan falls far short of
what advocates have sought for
years.
Mr. Trump’s original plan for six
weeks of maternity leave, re-
leased during the campaign when
he was struggling to gain support
among women, excluded fathers,
adoptive parents and gay couples.
The new plan, which also offers
six weeks of paid leave, covers
adoptive parents and fathers. Offi-
cials did not immediately say
whether it would include gay or
lesbian couples. The plan also falls
short of the amount of paid leave
that Democratic activists have
said is needed.
Business leaders have often
criticized paid-leave legislation,
calling its costs prohibitive.
Still, Mr. King argued that Re-
publicans must adjust to the new
economic reality for families.
Even if the details of the plan are
debated, some version of it is nec-
essary, he said.
“We’re supposed to stand for
traditional values,” Mr. King said
of his party. “Well, the traditional
family now is a working mother
with kids. I just hope Republicans
don’t just jump into this lock-step,
knee-jerk reaction of ‘another
crazy program.’”
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ment of Justice, limit public state-
ments and eliminate leaks.”
So when Mr. Trump decided
that it was time for Mr. Comey to
go, Mr. Rosenstein’s views on the
matter were well known to him
and Mr. Sessions. Mr. Rosenstein
has refused to answer questions
about why he wrote the memo,
frustrating lawmakers eager to
determine what led to Comey’s
ouster.
“We asked that question about
25 different ways,” Senator Chris
Coons, Democrat of Delaware,
said last week after emerging
from the closed-door briefing with
Mr. Rosenstein.
He is keenly aware that the pub-
lic, including a highly skeptical
Congress, is scrutinizing his every
move. Weeks before his March
confirmation hearing, Mr. Rosen-
stein told acquaintances that he
expected few fireworks, with at-
tention focused on higher-profile
nominees.
But that changed after Mr. Ses-
sions recused himself from any in-
vestigation involving Russia, af-
ter revelations that he had not dis-
closed meetings with the Russian
ambassador. Mr. Rosenstein’s
hearing was suddenly trans-
formed into a focal point for con-
cerns by members of both parties
about what his role would be in the
Russia inquiry, including whether
he would name a special counsel.
“Big day — good luck!” Gregg
Bernstein, who is in private prac-
tice after leaving his state’s attor-
ney post in Baltimore in 2015 and
is close to Mr. Rosenstein, wrote
his friend in a text message before
the hearing.
Mr. Rosenstein responded
dryly: “I have bipartisan opposi-
tion.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Meet the People Facing Trump’s Budget Cuts

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR and SAM HODGSON
For Lucia Rodriguez, misplaced car keys mean more
than an unexpected cab ride or a missed party. Without
her car, Ms. Rodriguez, her husband and their three chil-
dren cannot make the weekly trip from their Nueces
County, Tex., home and a well with a history of arsenic
problems to a store to buy bottled water to drink. So for
two agonizing days in February, the family carefully ra-
tioned one remaining gallon of bottled water as Ms. Rod-
riguez, 29, searched frantically for her keys.
“It’s like we are living in a foreign country and we
don’t have the luxury of turning on a faucet,” she said.
Now, Ms. Rodriguez and a local group advocating wa-
ter improvements are pushing to connect the community
to fresh surface water about four miles away, tapping a
federal funding source called the Community Develop-
ment Block Grant program.
But that source might run dry if President Trump
gets his way. His full budget proposal, expected to be re-
leased on Tuesday, would zero out the program, which
funds efforts like Meals on Wheels, homeless shelters for
veterans and, in Ms. Rodriguez’s case, water improve-
ments for her rural community, which voted for Mr.
Trump.
Mr. Trump, who wants to build a wall on the border
with Mexico and increase military spending, has said
the grant program is “not well targeted to the poorest
populations and has not demonstrated results.”
Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the con-
servative Heritage Foundation who specializes in wel-
fare and poverty, called the program a “model of ineffi-
ciency.”
“The program is largely a slush fund for large urban
cities,” Mr. Rector said.
In the 43 years since the program started, it has
helped many families. We explored its impact on the
lives of four of them.
Ms. Rodriguez’s husband, Ruben Gonzalez, who

Seeking a Clean Water Source in Texas

Ruben Gonzalez, right, with his daughter Roxanne and his wife,
Lucia Rodriguez, on a weekly trip for bottled water in Nueces
County, Tex. Above, playtime during a barbecue at their home.
“I regret voting for him,” Mr. Gonzalez said of President Trump.
“Whenever you hear where he is actually trying to pull some of
this money out of to contribute towards a wall, you think, ‘Man,
that’s the last thing you should be thinking about.’”

Providing Shelter for California’s Homeless

For weeks, Jennifer Coulter, at right listening to music with
her friend Tom Tucker in his garage in Hollister, Calif., lived
behind a Taco Bell with other homeless people. Above are
belongings abandoned in a river encampment where she lived
before it flooded. Ms. Coulter leans on others in her situation
because, for now, San Benito County does not have a year-
round shelter. But with $3 million from the Community De-
velopment Block Grant program, the county is planning to
convert a machine shop into a 50-bed permanent shelter, said
James Rydingsword, the director of the California county’s
Health and Human Services Agency.
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voted for Mr. Trump, said the federal grant program

had helped move the water his family uses in the right
direction. Lines that were installed in 2016 laid the
groundwork to bring fresh surface water to his street,
and a separately funded filtration system installed in
2014 allowed the family to bathe in the well water.
Before the changes, “you would come out of the
shower and smell like you had been in a public swim-
ming pool,” Mr. Gonzalez, 30, said.
Mr. Gonzalez also got a job installing his com-
munity’s new water lines, paid for by the grant pro-
gram. He credits the job with helping him lose 100
pounds and giving his family financial stability.

Creating Jobs and a Lifeline in Indiana

The Miami County Economic Development Authority in
Indiana had used $2 million in Community Development
Block Grant funds to help pay for a $13.9 million renovation
of an old hangar at Grissom Air Reserve Base, said Jim Tidd,
the authority’s executive director. The federal government
had given the land to the county in 1994, but the property sat
vacant for years until county officials persuaded Dean Bald-
win Aircraft Painting to move in. For Garry Goff, the
rehabilitated hangar, in Peru, Ind., proved to be a lifeline in
the form of a job. He is shown above and below painting an
Airbus A300 with his crew. Since he was hired by the com-
pany, Mr. Goff has taken on a supervisory position.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Battling Addiction in New Hampshire

In northern New Hampshire, along the Ammonoosuc River,
people struggling with addiction work toward recovery in a
six-decade-old cottage that is not up to code. Friendship
House, above, the only residential drug treatment center
within 65 miles, is relying on money from the Community
Development Block Grant program to complete a new build-
ing by October 2018 that meets code requirements so that
the center can continue to provide services. Those seeking
help at Friendship House included Kimberly Phillips, sec-
ond from right below during a morning prayer. She has been
trying to get sober for five years and has fought to keep from
relapsing and overdosing. She recently completed a 28-day
intensive program at Friendship House and is now in a 90-
day lower intensity program there.
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Anger, Lawsuits and Inquiry Follow Festival’s Failure
From Page A1
factors, including the weather.)
Ja Rule, the rapper and Mr. McFar-
land’s celebrity business partner, looked
on the bright side. “The whole world
knows Fyre’s name now,” he said. “This
will pass, guys.”
Their company, Fyre Media, however,
was already facing the first of more than
a dozen lawsuits seeking millions and al-
leging fraud, breach of contract and
more.
The endeavor has also become the fo-
cus of a criminal investigation, with fed-
eral authorities looking into possible
mail, wire and securities fraud, accord-
ing to a source with knowledge of the
matter, who was not authorized to dis-
cuss it. The investigation is being con-
ducted by the United States attorney’s
office for the Southern District of New
York and the F.B.I.; it is being overseen
by a prosecutor assigned to the complex
frauds and cybercrime unit. (A spokes-
man for the United States attorney’s of-
fice and a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. de-
clined to comment.)
There are many potential victims:
ticket buyers, investors and businesses
small and large, spread across the
United States and the Bahamas.
Blink-182, a planned headliner, can’t get
its equipment out of customs limbo.
Fyre’s employees have not been paid.
MaryAnn Rolle, a restaurant owner in
the Bahamas who catered daily meals
and rented villas to the festival crew,
says she is owed $134,000.
“I’m struggling” and feeling taken ad-
vantage of, Ms. Rolle said. “It’s embar-
rassing.”
Ja Rule was Fyre’s famous face, but at
the center of the controversy is Mr. Mc-
Farland, a brash, 25-year-old entrepre-
neur with a gift for networking and buzzy
social media. In his short career, he has
persuaded people, over and over, to buy
or invest in whatever he was selling,
leaving behind a trail of aggrieved
customers and business partners. He
could be the Wolf of Wall Street for the
selfie set, or Gatsby run through an In-
stagram filter.
Mr. McFarland and his lawyers de-
clined to address specific allegations.
But in a statement, he said: “I cannot em-
phasize enough how sorry I am that we
fell short of our goal,” adding, “I’m com-
mitted to, and working actively to, find a
way to make this right, not just for
investors but for those who planned to at-
tend.”
Stacey Richman, a lawyer for Ja Rule,
said that he “would never participate in
anything fraudulent; it’s simply not in
his DNA.”
But interviews with more than two
dozen people associated with Mr. McFar-
land or the festival, many of whom re-
quested anonymity because of pending
legal issues, turned up few who were sur-
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VIA GETTY IMAGES
Billy McFarland, 25, is a brash
entrepreneur with a gift for
networking and social media.
prised by the ruins in the Bahamas and
beyond.
“The lies didn’t start with the Fyre
Festival, let’s make that clear,” said Pat-
rick McMullan, the veteran party pho-
tographer who came to regret his trust in
Mr. McFarland’s business savvy.
The Card That Opened Doors
Raised in Short Hills, N.J., by real es-
tate developer parents, Mr. McFarland
was already starting technology compa-
nies as a teenager. With the creation of
Magnises in 2013, he took on the profile of
a budding New York entrepreneur, with
bottle service tastes.
Modeled after the American Express
black card, Magnises — “Latin for abso-
lutely nothing,” Mr. McFarland once said
— was a membership club for upwardly
mobile millennials, offering discounts at
select hot spots and access to a West Vil-
lage townhouse.
“We had some great events — every-
thing ran like clockwork,” said Craig
Lawrence of the modeling agency One
Management.
Through Magnises, Mr. McFarland
became a nightlife fixture. He came to
know Ja Rule, whom he booked for a pri-
vate concert; Mr. McMullan’s company
photographed his events.
Magnises was a template for what Mr.
McFarland’s other businesses would be-
come — a touch of celebrity, a gloss of
William K. Rashbaum and Ben Protess
contributed reporting from New York,
and Ava Turnquest from Great Exuma,
the Bahamas. Alain Delaquérière con-
tributed research.
A swing set in the Bahamas that was built for the Fyre Festival. Girty Rolle Moxey helped her son Kaelin, 8, with Derek McKenzie, right.
tech and the veneer of success, thanks to
social media and high-powered connec-
tions.
But as Magnises expanded, members
complained that offers, like Beyoncé
tickets, never materialized, and that an-
nual dues were charged to their credit
cards months early.
Mr. McFarland also looked for money
on the side. Molly Krause, a publicist
who briefly joined Magnises, described
Mr. McFarland’s mass text messages of-
fering deals on hoverboards and week-
end rentals of his Maserati.
“Ja Rule is working on a new song and
can mention your name, nickname, com-
pany name, etc in the upcoming hit sin-
gle for $450,” Mr. McFarland texted last
year. “5 Spots. LMK!”
Still, he had a way of engendering
trust.
Mr. McMullan said that he paid Mr.
McFarland almost $100,000 for a web-
site, which was never delivered. “I was
told he had made this big company, he
had made millions of dollars,” Mr. Mc-
Mullan said. “I thought he was smarter
than he was.”
Stars and Investors Needed
Early in 2016, Mr. McFarland became
consumed with a new endeavor: Fyre
Media.
With it, he hoped to build an app that
would allow individuals to bid for celeb-
rity appearances at their events.
Mr. McFarland hired developers in
Portland, Ore., and used a roster of the
famous and semifamous (Iggy Azalea!
Soulja Boy!) to woo investors, including
Carola Jain, married to Bob Jain, a prom-
inent hedge fund executive. (Ms. Jain
has been named as a defendant in at
least one Fyre lawsuit. Through a
spokeswoman, she declined to com-
ment.)
In his bid for moguldom, however, Mr.
McFarland had little regard for tradi-
tional business practices. According to
four Fyre Media employees, who re-
quested anonymity because of the con-
tinuing fallout, there was no paperwork
upon their hiring, and the payroll system
was ad hoc at best — employees were
typically paid via wire transfer, and
sometimes in cash, receiving no pay
stubs.
Mr. McFarland is now accused of more
than sloppy bookkeeping. Some
investors believe that his company was
overstating its financial position. In Jan-
uary, Fyre Media said in company docu-
ments that it owned land in the Bahamas
worth $8.4 million and had $21.6 million
in revenue from December alone —
claims that one investor, Oleg Itkin, said
in a lawsuit were probably fictitious.
A Passion Project
Toward the end of last year, with Fyre
Media still in its early stages, Mr. McFar-
land became increasingly distracted by
yet another project. A music festival in
the Bahamas would combine what he
called his three biggest passions — tech,
rap music and the ocean — and publicize
the app, he told his staff.
Mr. McFarland knew how to promote
it. He and Ja Rule enlisted influencers
(called Fyre Starters) like Ms. Jenner,
Emily Ratajkowski and Bella Hadid to
post about the festival on Instagram, and
he pursued deals with SiriusXM and a
yacht startup called YachtLife.
As advertised, Fyre Festival would be
a site of fantastical opulence, featuring
acts like G.O.O.D. Music, Major Lazer
and Migos.
Well into March, the event’s website —
which briefly vanished because its de-
signer had not been paid — claimed it
would take place on Fyre Cay, a private
island that once belonged to the drug
lord Pablo Escobar. Ticket packages in-
cluded the $400,000 “Artist’s Palace,”
with four beds, eight V.I.P. tickets and
Above, Ian Nicholson, a carpenter, says he is still owed payments for
the 18-hour days he worked for the Fyre Festival; MaryAnn Rolle,
below, a restaurant owner, says she is owed $134,000.
dinner with one festival performer.
But there was no such island or palace.
Fyre employees recalled higher-ups in-
venting extravagant accommodations
just to see if people would buy them —
and some did, they said.
Mr. McFarland had been scouting
sites, taking private planes to the
Bahamas with his Fyre entourage and
models in tow. But long after tickets had
been sold, he was still nailing down a lo-
cation.
By early April, the festival team finally
set up at Roker Point, a largely unbuilt
housing development on Great Exuma
that borders a Sandals resort.
The festival hired a series of experi-
enced producers, cycling through them
quickly. With guests set to arrive on
April 27, the team had a long way to go to
deliver the vision that Mr. McFarland
had sold.
Mr. McFarland and his executive team
lived near the site in a resort villa, riding
ATVs around to check the progress.
Organizers found enthusiastic partners
in Bahamian workers, who hoped for a
long-term economic boost.
Still, residents who had seen Fyre’s os-
tentatious marketing pitch worried
about its distance from reality. “Some-
thing like this, it could build Exuma and
it could break Exuma,” said Ian
Nicholson, a carpenter working for the
festival.
About three weeks out, Richard
Hooban, a Brooklyn DJ booker, toured
the site. He saw a craggy beach and a
gravel-strewn plot where the main stage
would be. “This is going to take a lot of
money or time to transform,” he recalled
thinking.
Mr. McFarland seemed flush enough.
“He always had a few thousand dollars
cash in his swimsuit,” said Luca Sabatini,
an owner of Unreal-Systems, which built
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCOTT M c INTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the festival stages and supplied the high-
caliber sound systems and lighting. If
someone needed extra cash, Mr. McFar-
land would dole it out — “$500, crumpled
up, a little humid because he went jet ski-
ing with it,” Mr. Sabatini observed.
But behind the scenes, Mr. McFarland
was scrounging for funds.
No Walkie-Talkies?
Weeks before the festival, Fyre in-
formed ticketholders that the event
would be “cashless (and cardless),” and
encouraged attendees to put up to $1,500
in advance on a digital Fyre Band to
cover incidentals, according to one law-
suit.
Those wristbands were merely a stop-
gap solution to help the company’s cash
flow, according to two employees with
knowledge of the accounts. They said
that the Fyre Bands took in nearly $2 mil-
lion; some of that money, according to
another lawsuit, went to pay back part of
a recent $3 million loan.
Expenses were swelling: Bed frames
and beach chairs were rush-ordered;
beach umbrellas had to be flown in,
rather than shipped, because of late pay-
ments, according to three production
staff members. Essential production
tools, like walkie-talkies, never even ar-
rived.
Back at Fyre Media, the company
credit cards were being declined for ev-
eryday office purchases.
Employees said they feared that their
boss was using funds from their booking
app to fund the festival. But Mr. McFar-
land reassured them in April when he
said that Comcast Ventures, the invest-
ment arm of the cable and media giant,
had agreed to invest up to $25 million in
Fyre Media. In fact, Comcast had consid-
ered a deal, the company said, but
passed “after conducting thorough due
diligence.” Mr. McFarland did not tell his
employees.
As the festival date neared, the pro-
duction crew’s wages, paid by wire or
cash, arrived late, or short, and then
stopped altogether, five members of the
crew said.
‘A Whole Sea of People’
Warnings to Mr. McFarland and his
team came from seemingly every corner.
Two days before guest arrival, Mr. Mc-
Farland asked Mr. Nicholson, the car-
penter, who was working 18-hour days,
how it was going. “I said, ‘I don’t think
it’s gonna be ready,’” Mr. Nicholson re-
called.
Senior staff members pleaded with
Mr. McFarland to cancel or postpone,
several of those present said. But having
just taken out yet another loan for
$200,000, according to a lawsuit, he re-
sponded that money can solve every-
thing, one employee recalled.
Then a storm hit.
On the morning of Thursday, April 27,
facing piles of soggy bedding, unfinished
tents and understocked bars, festival
staff members again begged Mr. McFar-
land and his team to cancel. Again, he
didn’t budge — even with the convenient
excuse of bad weather.
The festival sold a total of about 8,000
tickets for both weekends, according to a
lawsuit, but only a few chartered planes
made it to the island. As the first flights
began arriving, Ms. Rolle, the caterer,
said that she received a call asking if the
ticketholders could be diverted to her
restaurant. “I just saw a whole sea of
people,” she said.
Later, at the festival site, guests lined
up to be checked into their damp tents.
The crowds bottlenecked and grew rest-
less. Mr. McFarland and his executive
team, including Ms. Jain, the investor,
holed up in their headquarters, known as
the blue house.
Finally, Mr. McFarland stepped out-
side. He hopped on a makeshift table and
tried to calm the masses. Just grab a
tent, they were instructed, which creat-
ed more chaos as people scrambled for
dry — or any — form of shelter.
In the face of angry customers, Mr.
McFarland retreated. He appeared
“dumbfounded,” Mr. Sabatini said, “and
completely at a loss.”
Trash and Unpaid Bills
As late as that Thursday evening, Mr.
McFarland and Ja Rule had continued to
assure talent agents that all systems
were go. But by Friday morning, both
weekends of the festival had been can-
celed.
Within a few days, Mr. McFarland and
the rest of his executive team had left the
island, their site strewn with mattresses,
empty Champagne bottles and other de-
tritus.
Several businesses are still anxiously
awaiting the fate of their gear, which the
Bahamian government is holding be-
cause Fyre owes more than $330,000 in
customs fees, according to a government
document.
Mr. Sabatini said that his Miami-based
company was out about $10 million
worth of equipment. Without a speedy
resolution his business “would start fac-
ing irreparable consequences,” he said.
Workers like Mr. Nicholson, the car-
penter, were left unpaid. A father of
three, he is owed nearly $5,000, and his
lights and water have been turned off be-
cause he couldn’t pay the bills. “It’s
killing me,” he said.
Back in New York, at the early May
meeting, rattled employees pressed Mr.
McFarland and Ja Rule on a troubling
thought: They had committed fraud.
“That’s not fraud, that’s not fraud,” Ja
Rule said, according to the recording.
“False advertising, maybe — not fraud.”
Mr. McFarland stayed silent.
MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
A Final Bow for the Greatest Show on Earth
On Its Last Day After 146 Years, a Circus Remains a Source of Wonder
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
and NATE SCHWEBER
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The lights went up on the
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus on
Sunday evening to reveal 14 lions and tigers sitting in
a circle, surrounding a man in a sparkling suit. It was
a sight too implausible to seem real yet such an iconic
piece of Americana that it was impossible to believe
the show would not go on.
After 146 years, Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey is closing for good, responding to a prolonged
slump in ticket sales that has rendered the business
unsustainable, according to its operator, Feld Enter-
tainment. On Sunday, the circus glittered, thundered
and awed beneath the booms and klieg lights of Nas-
sau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. That there was no
tent over the final show, no striped eaves from which
the daring young man on the flying trapeze could
hang, felt fitting. The big top was packed up, this time
forever.
Autumn Luciano stood outside, ticket in hand. “It
feels a little like a funeral today, but I’m trying not to
mourn it in a sad way,” said Ms. Luciano, 33, a pinup
photographer who had flown in from Lansing, Mich.,
to see the last show. “Circus is all about being happy.”
She pulled up her sleeve to reveal a tattoo of a cir-
cus tent on her wrist. Without circuses, “we lose the
ability to go and see that humans can do anything,”
she said. “You go to the circus and see human beings
doing insane things, but the truth is, we all have the
ability to do crazy things.”
This circus began in 1871 as P. T. Barnum’s Grand
Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippo-
drome, and Feld bought it in 1967. After the removal of
elephants from the performance last year after fierce
condemnation from animal rights groups, already-
falling ticket sales dropped even further. The circus
— with its 500-person crew, 100 animals and mile-long
trains, which moved around the trapeze and its
artists, the high wire and its tightrope walkers, the
motorcycles and the daredevils — had become infea-
sible in an age in which video games and cellphone
screens compete to provide childhood wonder.
When the ringmaster, Johnathan Lee Iverson,
first saw the circus as a 9-year-old at Madison Square
Garden in Manhattan, he could have sworn that the
spangled horses that galloped there were real uni-
corns. At 41, after nearly two decades with Ringling
Brothers, he has an awe in his voice when he speaks
of the place that suggests that his certainty endures.
The world is losing “a place of wonder,” he said at
an event a few days before the final performances. All
around him, performers with thick makeup and sad-
dened faces spoke to reporters about the circus’s de-
mise. “It’s the last safe space,” he said. “It’s the last
pure form of entertainment there is.”
For Ashley Vargas, 30, who worked with the an-
imals and skated in the show, the loss of the
elephants, some of which she had tended to from
birth, was the beginning of the end. The elephants
were retired to the circus’s sanctuary in California.
“To this day, the final performance with the
elephants is the hardest performance I have ever had
to go through,” she said. “I had to say goodbye to
elephants I’d been with since they were born. They
were part of my family.”
Beside her, Daniel Eguino clutched the handle-
bars of the blue motorcycle he rode inside a metal
cage called the Globe of Death. Mr. Eguino, 29, the son
of a contortionist mother and a father who was a
trapeze artist, said he was heartbroken. “Not because
they close the show that I work in — it’s that they
close history,” he said.
The final show was shot through with moments in
which performers broke the fourth wall to reflect on
the end. As two tigers sat watching, their master, Al-
exander Lacey, turned to the crowd. “People are not
really concerned with lots of wildlife until they can
feel it and see it, enjoy it and love it as much as I do,”
he said, urging the audience to support well-run cir-
cuses and zoos. “Sorry, boys, I don’t usually do that,”
he said turning back to the patient tigers, awaiting
their next cues. “I’ve confused you.”
Yet in the halls outside the three final perform-
ances, which were given consecutively on Sunday,
sadness seemed to be banished. Children snatched at
souvenir swords, pulled tiger masks over their heads
and slurped rainbow snow cones from cups shaped
like elephants. The crowd seemed buoyed by the fri-
volity of the clowns, and the way that a triple flip from
the rafters by a glittering young woman onto the
shoulders of a beaming young man made anything
seem possible. For some, clearly, hope bubbled anew
with each big clash of the cymbals.
Many said they believed the circus would some-
how return, perhaps retooled and rebranded, a better
fit for the age. “If it doesn’t?” said Shawn Goberdhan,
31, a pharmacy manager from Queens carrying his
son Lucas, 2, in his arms. “I can’t even think about it.”
The circus’s operator, Feld Entertainment, said low ticket sales had made it unsustainable.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Clockwise from above: the last performance
of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey circus on Sunday at Nassau Veterans
Memorial Coliseum on Long Island; the
ringmaster, Johnathan Lee Iverson, left, and
Paulo dos Santos; and acrobats in the sec-
ond of the day’s three shows. A motorcycle
rider in the circus said he was heartbroken.
“Not because they close the show that I work
in — it’s that they close history,” he said.
Some performers, like Rigoberto Cardenas, 35, a
fifth-generation trapeze artist from Chile, worried
about what would become of their art after the last
pony pranced out of the proverbial big top and the last
gymnast took her bow. “New generations of my fam-
ily, they are not going to see in me what they want to
be,” Mr. Cardenas said. “For a circus performer, that’s
what you aim to do, to be in the memory of your peo-
ple for all time.”
Eating popcorn from a candy-striped bag during
intermission, William Holden, 59, a hospital adminis-
trator from Dover, Del., said change might be good.
“It’s the greatest last show on earth,” he said, “but we
have to live and change and adapt and keep moving.
That’s the beauty of America: We keep changing, and
we move on.” He headed back into the show.
Inside the arena, the ringmaster strutted, and the
horses — or maybe they were unicorns — galloped
by. A few days earlier, Mr. Iverson had said that the
end of his career, of the circus, was unthinkable. As
long as his top hat was on and he was safe in his jacket
with the sparkling epaulets, he could pretend the
show would go on.
“You can cry,” Mr. Iverson said, “after the curtain
closes.”
As the show finally ended, the backstage crew
members, the animal handlers, the performers’ small
children and even the train engineers joined the per-
formers on the arena floor. They sang a round of “Auld
Lang Syne.”
But before that, the people in the crowd rose to
their feet for a prolonged ovation. The ringmaster
cheered back at them, “You mean the circus isn’t anti-
quated?” The crowd roared. “You mean you love the
circus?” he said. The noise was deafening.
A21
N
Cuomo Seeks
Trump’s Help
With Repairs
At Penn Station
By KATE TAYLOR
Saying conditions at Pennsylvania Station
in New York have reached a crisis, and that
planned track closings would lead to “a sum-
mer of agony,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ap-
pealed to President Trump on Sunday to rec-
ognize the situation as an emergency and
provide funding for construction and trans-
portation alternatives for commuters.
In a letter to the president, Mr. Cuomo also
called for the federal government to facili-
tate and help finance a long-term solution to
the station’s troubles. Saying that he did not
think that Amtrak, which owns the station,
should continue to operate it, he suggested
that another entity, possibly the Port Author-
ity of New York and New Jersey or a private
terminal operator, should take over the con-
struction and management of the station.
And he urged the president to finance a
bundle of infrastructure improvements for
the region, including a new train tunnel un-
der the Hudson River between New York
and New Jersey, the restoration of Penn Sta-
tion and the creation of a train hall in the
James A. Farley Post Office Building. Mr.
Cuomo has proposed creating a new hall for
Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road in the
post office building, which is across Eighth
Avenue from Penn Station.
“While this is not a hurricane or flood, it
will affect as many people and businesses
with dire consequences,”
Mr. Cuomo wrote of con-
ditions at Penn Station.
Lindsay E. Walters, a
White House spokes-
woman, confirmed in an
email that the White
House had received the
letter and said, “We look
Gov. Andrew forward to continuing
M. Cuomo conversations with com-
munities across America
about the importance in
improving our nation’s infrastructure.”
In his letter, Mr. Cuomo seemed to recog-
nize that commuters are deeply frustrated
and are dreading further disruptions this
summer. After two derailments, Amtrak said
it would close some of the station’s 21 tracks
for two extended periods this summer, from
July 7 to July 25 and from Aug. 4 to Aug. 28, to
make repairs. Amtrak and the two commut-
er railroads that use the station, the Long Is-
land Rail Road and New Jersey Transit, are
drawing up schedules that will reduce serv-
ice during rush hours by as much as 20 per-
cent; those revised schedules are expected
to be released this week.
Mr. Cuomo warned in his letter that the re-
duced capacity would create a domino effect,
swamping alternative routes and means of
transportation, and he asked Mr. Trump for
assistance in providing options such as high-
speed ferries to the city from Long Island.
This month, Mr. Cuomo and Gov. Chris
Christie of New Jersey sent a letter to Am-
trak’s chief executive, Charles W. Moorman,
calling for management of the station to be
turned over to a private operator. Mr. Cuo-
mo’s suggestion in his letter that the Port Au-
thority take over Penn Station is new.
Amtrak has proposed its own plan for a
private operator to oversee the station’s con-
course, but it wants to continue to oversee
the tracks.
Christina E. Leeds, a spokeswoman for
Amtrak, said in a statement that Amtrak
agreed with Mr. Cuomo that more funding
was badly needed for Penn Station and the
Hudson River tunnel.
”But,” she added, “changes in manage-
ment and private-sector expertise can’t
make up for the billions that should have
been invested to create the basic capacity
and performance that commuters deserve.
There’s no outsourcing the leadership and
responsibility needed to get this vital job
done and Amtrak is stepping up to do every-
thing we can to improve our part of this situ-
ation.”
Tom Wright, the president of the Regional
Plan Association, a transportation policy
group, said he found Mr. Cuomo’s proposal
intriguing.
“I think in general Cuomo’s right that kind
of creating some new entity to oversee Penn
Station is the right direction to go,” he said.
He said he could see something akin to the
Battery Park City Authority or the 42nd
Street Development Project being created to
operate the station and oversee its improve-
ment. He said that modernizing the station
was critical.
Mr. Cuomo’s letter also alluded to the de-
terioration of the city’s subway service, say-
ing that this summer’s track closings at Penn
Station would come “on top of a 100-year-old
M.T.A. subway system, which as you know,
has been underfunded and overburdened for
decades and is already beyond its limits.”
Mr. Cuomo had been largely silent re-
cently amid an increase in subway delays, at
one point suggesting that he had limited con-
trol over the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, the state-run agency that over-
sees the subway. Those comments drew crit-
icism from Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday.
In his letter to President Trump, Mr.
Cuomo seemed to respond to the public dis-
tress over subway service, saying that he
would be calling on the authority to find new
ways to accelerate its long-term capital plan
and on local governments to assist in fund-
ing that plan.
Mr. Wright said that it was unclear what
Mr. Cuomo planned to do about the subways,
but he hoped that he would seek new funding
sources.
“We want to see him lead here, and there’s
an opportunity for him to be the guy who
fixes this and steps up,” he said. “But I have
no idea what’s on the table.”
A22 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
Governor’s Race Courts
New Jersey Progressives
By NICK CORASANITI
NEWARK — With the heart of
his campaign platform coming un-
der repeated attack from Demo-
cratic opponents, Philip D. Mur-
phy tried to claim a potent ally.
“Bernie Sanders does like the
idea!” he said emphatically, re-
calling Mr. Sanders’s similar sup-
port for a public bank in Vermont,
the state he represents in the Sen-
ate.
It seemed an odd name to drop
since Mr. Murphy, a Democrat
running for New Jersey governor,
has locked up every county en-
dorsement in the state, earning
him at least the facade of repre-
senting the party’s establishment.
But citing Mr. Sanders reflects
an emerging theme in the state’s
Democratic primary race: Each
candidate is attempting to outdo
the others on progressive creden-
tials.
As the Democratic Party finds
itself at a crossroads, without a
clear leader in Washington or a
consensus on principles and poli-
cies, other than opposition to
President Trump, the sparse slate
of coming elections offers the first
opportunities to test potential
road maps for the party’s future.
In New Jersey, one of two states
with a governor’s race this year
(the other is Virginia), the pro-
gressive movement, embodied by
Mr. Sanders, has loomed large in
the race for the June 6 primary.
Candidates show an eagerness to
defy moderate, traditional na-
tional party norms as they court
the increasingly vocal progres-
sive wing of the party.
“They are responding to what
they see out there,” said David Ax-
elrod, a former senior adviser to
President Barack Obama.
He pointed to the large protest
movement that mobilized in re-
sponse to Mr. Trump as a tempt-
ing goal for candidates. “There is
a natural drive to the left to pro-
tect those progressive goals and
build on them,” he said.
And in New Jersey, those pro-
gressives are showing up in
droves. More than 8,000 pro-
testers flooded the streets of Tren-
ton on the day of the women’s
march in Washington after Mr.
Trump’s inauguration, one of the
largest demonstrations in the
state in generations.
“What you have here is a move-
ment in search of a leader,” said
Jeff Tittel, the director of the New
Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club,
a left-leaning environmental
group. “That’s why I think this
race becomes important, because
who wins it could become a na-
tional leader of the progressive
movement.”
The platforms of the main
Democratic contenders read like a
wish list of the progressive move-
ment.
All support the legalization of
marijuana beyond medical pur-
poses. They also endorse raising
the minimum wage to $15 from
$8.44. Each candidate has en-
dorsed some variation of a mil-
lionaire’s tax. They have por-
trayed their infrastructure plans,
at least in part, as having envi-
ronmental benefits because better
rail transit takes cars off the road.
Jim Johnson, an under secre-
tary of the Treasury during the
Clinton administration, has laid
out a plan for statewide universal
prekindergarten, a liberal cause
trumpeted by progressive elected
officials like Mayor Bill de Blasio
of New York.
Ray Lesniak, the state senator,
is an aggressive defender of
animal rights and environmental
issues, including an appeal
against the settlement Exxon Mo-
bil struck with Gov. Chris Christie
in 2015 for cleaning up marshes
and waterways.
And John Wisniewski, a state
assemblymen who was Mr.
Sanders’ campaign chair in New
Jersey, has essentially made a
progressive platform his entire
campaign: a single-payer health
care system and tuition-free
college for certain students,
among other promises.
He has also been the most fre-
quent critic of Mr. Murphy’s ex-
pansive campaign spending,
channeling the Sanders campaign
pledge: “Paid for by the people,
not the billionaires.” Mr. Wis-
niewski has, in fact, received a sig-
nificant amount of contributions
from small donors.
For his part, Mr. Murphy has
been endorsed by Mr. Sanders’s
son, Levi, who has also cam-
paigned for Mr. Murphy.
And while he has been wary of
fully embracing the progressive
slate, stopping short of supporting
tuition-free college or calling for
Mr. Trump’s impeachment, Mr.
Murphy maintains that he’s
“proudly progressive.”
“We don’t have enough exam-
ples of this as a Democratic Party
around the country, that you can
be both progressive, proudly so,
and responsible, fiscally responsi-
ble,” he said. “That’s the place
we’re trying to get to.”
Indeed, beyond their platforms,
statements on the campaign trail
feature boasts of “progressive”
nearly as much as “Democrats.”
At a town hall-style meeting in
Fort Lee in April, Mr. Murphy crit-
icized the pangs of “nostalgia”
that he had heard from the Trump
campaign during 2016 as referring
to a darker, less accepting time in
American history, but did say he
had one wish from the past.
“I sure as heck wouldn’t mind
being progressive again,” he said.
During the final Democratic de-
bate this month, Mr. Johnson de-
clared that the election in New
Jersey was “a fight for progres-
sive values.” He quickly turned
that into an attack on Mr. Murphy,
questioning how Mr. Murphy’s
tenure at Goldman Sachs, the in-
vestment firm often in the cross
hairs of progressives, “should
give anyone any assurance that
the progressive values you’re
talking about today are the pro-
gressive values that you acted on”
while at the bank.
Mr. Murphy responded: “I don’t
want anyone lecturing me about
progressive values. I know how I
grew up, and I know where I lived
my life.”
Jockeying for the progressive
vote is also based partly on how
the primary race has unfolded.
Mr. Murphy was aiming to be the
outsider and a relatively progres-
sive alternative to two state party
stalwarts, Steven Fulop, the may-
or of Jersey City, and Stephen M.
Sweeney, the Senate president.
But after both dropped out, and
Mr. Murphy emerged as the lead-
ing candidate, he quickly became
the establishment-aligned con-
tender.
Still, trying to show much they
are like Mr. Sanders isn’t neces-
sarily a winning strategy: Hillary
Clinton trounced him in the 2016
primary in New Jersey by a ratio
of almost 2 to 1, and New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats run-
ning for governor, clockwise
from top left: John Wisniew-
ski, Philip D. Murphy, Jim
Johnson and Ray Lesniak.
‘They are responding
to what they see
out there.’
has generally been a reliably cen-
trist and establishment Demo-
cratic stronghold.
“I think it’s a tricky gamble in
New Jersey, but it’s not something
that the Democratic nominee will
have a hard time recovering
from,” said Michael Soliman, a for-
mer campaign manager for Sena-
tor Robert Menendez. He noted
that in the general election, “the
contrast with Republicans after
having eight years of Republicans
in New Jersey will be stark.”
And in New Jersey, no matter
the political posturing, some core
issues will always motivate a
large swath of the electorate. The
best candidates, political opera-
tives say, will find a way to shroud
core issues in progressive cloth.
“New Jersey elections have al-
ways, always come down to the
bread and butter issues, like prop-
erty taxes, car insurance and
schools,” said Modia Butler, a for-
mer chief of staff for Senator Cory
Booker.
“The four candidates all run-
ning as progressive Democrats,
they’re all sort of sticking to the
left,” he added. “They’ve all taken
their cue from how frustrated sort
of everyday Americans have been
with income inequality. So they’re
still dealing with those bread and
butter issues, but representing
the working family person in this
state who is struggling with
health care and property taxes.”
It’s a line some candidates are
still learning how to walk. As he
was accepting the endorsement
recently of the Amalgamated
Transit Union, which represents
transit workers, Mr. Murphy gave
a condensed outline of his plans
for transportation and infrastruc-
ture.
After he made his remarks and
reporters had begun to ask ques-
tions, Mr. Murphy remembered
something.
“When you’re the densest state
in the union, you also have to get
the environment right, you can’t
get that kind of right,” he said.
“And one of the ways you get it
right is you have the best commut-
er rail system in the country.”
By JAMES BARRON
JERSEY CITY — “This is my
paint gear,” George Anthony
Morton said, apologizing for
splatters that only he could see
on his black T-shirt. He had
spent the afternoon at his easel,
painting a portrait of someone he
had asked to pose for him.
“This hasn’t gotten to the
stage where it’s satisfactory yet,”
he said, but he was upbeat — he
had two more sessions with her.
“Hopefully, I’ll be able to refine
it,” he said.
Every artist has a story. Mr.
Morton wants his to be about
where he is going: the Florence
Academy of Art, in Italy. He is to
attend a six-week workshop
there starting in July.
That is unusual. He applied
and was accepted, and is the only
student from the academy’s
American branch, the Florence
Academy of Art U.S., who will be
going. But it is not as unusual as
the part of his story that he does
not want dominating the conver-
sation, the part about where he
has been, which is federal prison.
He served nine years and six
months of an 11-year sentence
after pleading guilty to a drug
charge in Missouri, where he
grew up.
“All my 20s,” said Mr. Morton,
33, who now lives in Jersey City.
He was released three years
ago and ordered to check in with
a supervising officer regularly
for 10 years. Last month, Judge
Gary A. Fenner terminated the
supervision requirement.
“Early termination of super-
vised release is fairly unusual,”
said Harlan Protass, a Manhat-
tan lawyer who got a Harlem
drug dealer serving a life sen-
tence out of prison. “There
typically has to be a very good
reason for a judge to terminate a
term of supervised release.”
Mr. Morton’s application to end
his parole mentioned learning to
paint in prison. It mentioned
murals he painted in the officers’
mess halls in the two prisons
where he did his time. (Midway
through his sentence, he was
transferred from a prison in
Greenville, Ill., to one in Little-
ton, Colo.)
D
EAR DIARY:
It was 1972, and I was 7.
We were staying at the
Essex House hotel when we got a
call that woke us up. It was my
mother telling us to come to the
lobby immediately, and to bring a
pen and paper.
Every year during the holi-
days, my mother would take my
brother, my sister and me to New
York. We would ice skate at
Rockefeller Center, shop at
F. A. O. Schwarz, eat lunch at the
Automat and dinner at Mama
Leone’s, take a carriage ride in
Central Park — all things that
tourists do, even though we lived
just outside the city in Westch-
ester County.
That night, still in our
pajamas, we ran to the elevator
and hurried downstairs. The
elevator doors opened. There
was a stir, a hive of activity, and
in the center of the lobby stood
Muhammad Ali, with reporters
and onlookers hovering around
him.
Seeing us in our pajamas, pens
and paper in hand, Ali said to no
one in particular, “The next
person who asks me for my
autograph I am going to punch
right in the nose.”
Sensing an invitation to a
challenge, I walked up to him
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Off to Italy to Study Art:
An Ex-Inmate’s Journey
George Anthony Morton worked on a self-portrait in his
studio space in Jersey City. He will soon attend a six-week
workshop at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.
The application mentioned
that in 2015, he began studying at
the Florence Academy of Art
U.S., in the Mana Arts complex
here in Jersey City. In 2016, he
won the school’s award for the
best portrait of the year.
In February and March this
year, he spent one day a week in
the Metropolitan Museum of
Art’s copyist program, creating
interpretation of masterpieces
with his easel set up in galleries.
In April, one of his paintings was
in a gallery show in Sag Harbor,
N.Y., in the Hamptons. The Sag
Harbor Express printed an arti-
cle about him with the headline
“A Rembrandt From the Streets.”
The painting sold before the
show opened.
Learning to paint is hard work,
and Jordan Sokol, an artist and
the academic director of the
Florence Academy’s American
branch, said Mr. Morton had “a
pretty profound work ethic.”
“It’s as if he’s trying to catch
up for time lost,” Mr. Sokol said.
“He’s usually the last one to
leave the studio. Often he’s the
METROPOLITAN DIARY
and stared skyward at his fa-
mous face.
“Mr. Ali,” I said, “can I have
your autograph?”
He looked down at me, as if
from a mountain, and extended
his long arm toward me. As his
fist covered my face and softly
glanced off my nose, he loudly
said, “Pow!”
Bruce Goldner
Dear Diary:
I have a confession. I like
having snacks at hand but hate
bumming off my friends. So I
devised a sensible solution: I
leave snacks meant solely for me
at my friends’ apartments.
Here’s a rundown of my regu-
lar spots and munchies of choice:
Stuyvesant Town: At this
roomy one-bedroom, I keep a box
of chocolate cookies for after a
night of barhopping in the East
Village.
Murray Hill: At this cozy
walk-up, I have a large bag of
Goldfish, perfect for snacking on
when we decide to act like
grown-ups and cook dinner.
Financial District: At this
nicely renovated apartment, I
have a jar of pesto and some
breadsticks from Eataly. They
pair well with a glass of wine and
the comfy couch.
Theater District: At this wel-
coming high-rise, I have a pack-
age of microwaveable popcorn,
just in case we get the impulse
for a movie night.
West Village: At this cramped
place, I keep a stash of Japanese
potato chips. The sprinkles of
seaweed remind me of my child-
hood abroad. They hit the spot
every time.
Jennifer Suzukawa-Tseng
Dear Diary:
On a cold Friday night on West
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSHUA BRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
first one here.”
The school emphasizes classi-
cal means and methods of
putting paint on canvas and
charcoal on paper or turning
stone into sculpture — the tech-
niques of the old masters. “There
are African-American painters in
this tradition, but not many,” Mr.
Sokol said.
Mr. Morton is well aware that
when he completes his studies in
December, he will be the first
African-American to graduate
from the Florence Academy of
Art U.S. “To be an artist, to be an
American artist, to be an African-
American artist — I don’t take it
lightly,” Mr. Morton said.
Mr. Morton is the oldest of 11
children. “My mother had me at
15,” he said. “She was just a little
girl raising children. We kind of
grew up together.”
He dropped out of school when
he was in seventh grade. He was
arrested for selling drugs when
he was 19 in Kansas City, Mo.,
where he was living. He said it
had happened in “a high-traffic
area where I could make some
End Avenue at 83rd Street, an
older man and woman hailed a
cab that flashed its lights in
response.
As the cab waited for the light
to change, a young man grabbed
it. The older man could be heard
saying to his wife that being
“upstreamed” was part of New
York City life and to be accepted.
The young man unexpectedly
jumped from the cab, ap-
proached the couple, apologized
and turned toward Broadway to
find another cab.
The older man saw a second
cab and hailed it, calling out to
the younger man, who happily
climbed in.
Only in New York can being
upstreamed create an encourag-
ing circle of good citizenship.
David Rapkin
Dear Diary:
scape (seascape)
Mermaid Ave. bodega
Timbuktu hair salon
Jiffy Cleaners, laundromat
Points of entry palpate
layers. Bait & tackle
becomes AA jovenes
becomes flea market
becomes a distant breeze
I enter where the arrows
point me. Meet
the day in tides
Avenues of choices sublimate
into grayer hues. Dive
in the Atlantic, unbound
an unlisted option.
I choose it. Cover
myself in salt & sand
Amanda Deutch
Dear Diary:
I grew up in Manchester, Conn.
money.”
“I was actually just selling
dope out of the hotel room,” Mr.
Morton added.
The Kansas City police were
looking for him in connection
with another case.
His mother was looking for
him, too. She was with somebody
when she called. Mr. Morton
asked who it was. She mentioned
someone he had known growing
up. “I said: ‘Whatever you do,
don’t bring him. Get rid of him,’”
he recalled. “She brings him.”
The man turned out to be a
police informant. Mr. Morton was
arrested minutes after the in-
formant and his mother pulled
up at the hotel.
He now describes his arrest,
trial and sentencing as “almost
like a cry for help.” Mr. Morton
continued: “I wanted something
better for myself.”
He pleaded guilty because, he
said, “the threatened conse-
quences are so steep, and 85
percent they win at trial.” He was
sentenced under the mandatory
minimum guidelines that the
Obama administration eased.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has called for a return to tough
sentences.
Mr. Morton said there was a
“monastic quality” to prison. He
also said he had figured, going in,
that it was “the closest thing I
would ever get to college.”
Tracking the financial markets
with charts he drew by hand, he
said, he attracted the attention of
a V.I.P. inmate, Jeffrey K. Skill-
ing, the former chief executive of
Enron, who had been convicted
in the pervasive fraud that led to
the company’s collapse.
Back in his early days at the
Florence Academy, Mr. Morton
brought in the January 2011 issue
of American Artist magazine. It
had come in the mail while he
was in prison. He had read an
article titled “11 Artists to Watch
in 2011.” One of the artists was
Mr. Sokol. Mr. Morton thought:
“This guy’s not just anybody.
He’s like a rock star.”
He gave Mr. Sokol the maga-
zine. “I told him I won’t be need-
ing it anymore,” Mr. Morton said.
“I’m here now.”
When I was a high school fresh-
man, my piano and organ
teacher, Frederic E. Werner, took
me to New York City. I did not
appreciate just how special the
experience was until many years
later.
Everything was new: my
longest trip from home (142 miles
at the time), my first hotel (the
Taft, according to the hanger still
in my closet), my first restaurant
(the Brass Rail), the cigarette-
puffing billboard in Times Square
and the Queen Mary, which was
docked in town.
But the highlights of our visit
were a live radio broadcast (tele-
vision was in its infancy), two
Broadway shows and a live stage
show at Radio City Music Hall.
Mr. Werner bought our tickets,
mentioning in passing that there
was another show that he had
wanted to see. But that one
would be opening on Thursday,
and we were returning home on
Wednesday.
All I recall of the radio show
was the packed house, the man
who came on stage and skillfully
warmed up the audience, and the
actor who dropped each page on
the floor as he finished reading it.
The Broadway shows were
“Where’s Charley?” (with Ray
Bolger) and “Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes” (the original produc-
tion). The show at Radio City
featured a spectacular opening
with theater organs on each side
of the stage playing at the same
time.
While double-checking these
dates, I discovered, for the first
time, the name of the show we
missed by a day. The year was
1949. The date was Thursday,
April 7. The show was “South
Pacific.”
Paul Paige
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Above, Timothy Piazza with his parents, Evelyn and

James, during his high school team’s “Senior Night” in
2014. At right, his parents and his brother, Mike, shared
memories of his life and the fraternity ritual that ended it.

Coming Into His Own,

Until a Night of Hazing
Ended His Life at 19 BRYAN ANSELM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By SARAH MASLIN NIR
READINGTON, N.J. — Timo-
thy Piazza started out a shy high
school student in New Jersey who
flushed so deeply scarlet when
speaking to a girl that some called
him Barney after the purple dino-
saur. A growth spurt turned him
into a gentle giant, keen to protect
more vulnerable peers. He fell in
love, became gregarious.
By the time he enrolled at Penn-
sylvania State University two
years ago, he was truly, friends
and family said, coming into his
own.
But all that ended in February,
when Mr. Piazza died at Penn
State after a fraternity hazing rit-
ual in which he was instructed to
drink large amounts of alcohol
and fell numerous times, injuring
his brain and rupturing his spleen.
He was 19.
Eighteen young men involved
with the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi,
have been charged with a variety
of crimes, eight of them with invol-
untary manslaughter, the most se-
rious charge.
Prosecutors will seek to show
that the conduct that night in Feb-
ruary, when Timothy was induced
to drink dangerous levels of alco-
hol and left unaided and injured,
was not just fraternity high jinks
gone terribly wrong, but rose to
criminal behavior.
The episode reflects a new push
to more stringently prosecute fra-
ternity-linked deaths — there
have been more than 60 in the past
eight years, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg News. In
early May, four members of a fra-
ternity at Baruch College in New
York, Pi Delta Psi, pleaded guilty
to voluntary manslaughter in the
death of a pledge during a hazing
ritual in 2013. More than 30 other
people have been charged with
lesser crimes in the case.
On a recent night in the Piazzas’
cream-carpeted home in Reading-
ton, a town where horse farms are
interspersed with stately subur-
ban homes, Timothy’s mother,
Evelyn, scrolled through Face-
book posts in which a national
conversation rages about what
transpired and whether the
charges in the case of her son’s
death were fair. Since Mr. Piazza’s
death, the family has been outspo-
ken about ending hazing, which is
a crime in all but six states, ac-
cording to Hazing Prevention, an
organization that seeks to prevent
the practice.
A grand jury report, released
this month, relied on extensive
closed circuit camera recordings
of the night Mr. Piazza died. It cap-
tures in granular detail Mr.
Piazza’s ordeal, lying injured for
more than 12 hours while none of
the many people around him
sought help. One of them searched
on his phone for what it meant
when an intoxicated person’s
limbs grew cold.
It hurt, Ms. Piazza said, “to
know that my baby’s head hit the
floor, and the iron railing, and the
In a letter Timothy Piazza wrote in high school, he vowed
to improve his lot with girls and succeed in college.
door, and he fell down steps and
was there by himself alone — suf-
fering.”
“This was new grief on old
grief,’’ she added. “I never imag-
ined it to be as horrible as it was.”
Ms. Piazza, who works in ac-
counting, wore a necklace with
her son’s thumbprint pressed into
a charm. In her hand she held a
letter that he had written to his fu-
ture self as an assignment when
he was a high school junior, to be
opened five years later. In a
teenager’s slanted penmanship,
he promised to improve his lot
with girls and, above all else, to
succeed in college.
“This has been a long-simmer-
ing issue and an open and notori-
ous secret on college campuses,”
said Tom Kline, the lawyer for the
family, referring to hazing rituals.
“It’s the brutality and the deprav-
BRYAN ANSELM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ity of it that has struck a nerve.”
But lost in the swirling debate
over what happened in the Beta
Theta Pi house, a red brick man-
sion on Burrowes Street in State
College, Pa., is something essen-
tial, said Mr. Piazza’s father,
James, who also works in account-
ing: the boy at the center of it, the
young man they loved.
He was devotedly goofy, said
his brother, Mike, who is a 21-year-
old rising senior at Penn State, his
hands trembling as he recalled his
brother. At random Timothy
would choose a foreign accent
while playing a board game and
never break character. A tem-
pestuous toddler, he insisted to
anyone who would listen that his
red hair was brown.
He embraced his flame-colored
curls as he grew older and looked
forward to when he might be old
enough to grow his version of a
salt-and-pepper beard: “Salt-and-
paprika,” his brother said with a
laugh. He stopped. “I’m never go-
ing to see it,” he said.
After rapidly growing several
inches as a teenager, Timothy
took on a role of protector of more
vulnerable peers in high school,
said his friend Dan Prager, 20, per-
haps recognizing in them the so-
cial awkwardness that he was
growing out of. The boy who had
once delighted in making Italian
dressing-flavored Jell-O as a
prank to dish up to unsuspecting
friends stepped into leadership
roles in school. He played football
with developmentally disabled
children and, as a high school sen-
ior, became an instructor in a
peer-to-peer drug and safe-sex
education program.
“I’m having to learn life without
It wasn’t the partying.
‘He really wanted
that brotherhood.’
my friend, where I can’t, when I’m
having a problem or when I see
something funny, just go to him
and talk to him about it,” Mr.
Prager said, sitting in the Piazzas’
home, where the two used to have
sleepovers and make comically gi-
ant pancakes.
He added, “I have to deal with
the fact that all these life experi-
ences that he was looking forward
to, that everyone else was excited
to see, that he can’t have that.”
At Penn State, Mr. Piazza be-
came active in THON, a charity
dance marathon supporting sick
children. He majored in me-
chanical engineering with the
goal of creating high-tech pros-
thetic limbs for children and sol-
diers.
Kaitlyn Tempalsky, Timothy’s
girlfriend over the past three
years, said he had sought to join
Beta Theta Pi because he craved
the camaraderie that fraternity
life seemed to promise.
“He wasn’t in it for the party-
ing,” said Ms. Tempalsky, 20, a stu-
dent at Susquehanna University.
“He didn’t realize how many peo-
ple loved him. He really wanted
that brotherhood.”
Since Mr. Piazza’s death, his
friends have begun writing down
stories about him. On a recent
morning they sat with his brother
trading memories. There was the
time Timothy caught them off
guard with an Easter egg hunt of
raw eggs. Or when he surprised
Ms. Tempalsky with a red dress, in
a move right out of a romantic
film.
When he was particularly silly
or pulling a practical joke, he had
an impish smile, and a catch
phrase — “I’m a delight!” — his
brother said.
The friends nodded. He was.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Adoptables
Rae Shirai, above left, and Saya
McGowan petting dogs at Adopta-
palooza in Union Square in Man-
hattan on Sunday. The event,
which featured more than 300 an-
imals, was hosted by the Mayor’s
Alliance for NYC’s Animals. Left,
Myrtle got a ride in the backpack
of her owner, Guy Harley.

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EDITORIALS LETTERS

On Climate, Look to China and India Civility, on Campus and Beyond

TO THE EDITOR: their academic accomplishments.
We “doctors” undoubtedly de-
Until recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, and more pronounced than most experts expected. China Re “U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor
Like This” (On Campus, Sunday serve our titles, as Molly Worthen
at the very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against has reduced coal use for three years in a row and recently
Review, May 14): asserts. But my recent student
climate change. That reputation looks very much out-of- scrapped plans to build more than 100 coal power plants. In- experiences have shown me that
Molly Worthen’s defense of
date now that both countries have greatly accelerated their dian officials have estimated that country might no longer standards of civility in academia faculty will receive their due re-
investments in cost-effective renewable energy sources — need to build new coal plants beyond those that are already and beyond is refreshing. We can’t spect only when they treat students
and reduced their reliance on fossil fuels. It’s America — under construction. One other heartening fact: Electric ve- fail to note the irony of this topic with similar courtesy.
Donald Trump’s America — that now hicle sales in China jumped 70 percent last year, thanks in given a president who revels in a Faculty must exemplify the eti-
Progress by two looks like the laggard. large part to generous government incentives. India is much lack of manners! quette they seek in students. Last-
of the world’s According to research released last further behind in this area, but the country’s minister of My colleagues and I have taught minute changes to assignments,
as adjuncts at an Ivy League gradu- incoherent emails or apparent
top greenhouse week at a United Nations climate meet- power said last month that all cars sold in the country ate school. We have experienced indifference to instruction convey a
gas producers is ing in Germany, China and India should should be electric by 2030. this shift to the cool and casual by lack of respect for the classroom,
a huge lesson easily exceed the targets they set for China and India’s enthusiasm for cleaner energy arises some students who feel entitled to which students will likely mimic.
for the United themselves in the 2015 Paris Agreement in part from a wish to reduce the terrible air pollution that be rude in class and out: aggressive Faculty members deserve their
States. signed by more than 190 countries. Chi- afflicts cities like Beijing and New Delhi; any move away questioning; challenges to one’s titles, but so do students. Many
na’s emissions of carbon dioxide appear from coal would make a big difference in public health. In- extensive experience; checking have military titles or advanced
to have peaked more than 10 years sooner than its govern- cellphones in class; absences with degrees, and others will likely act
vestments in cutting-edge energy and transportation tech- no explanation or apology; and
ment had said they would. And India is now expected to ob- more respectfully when addressed
nologies would also bolster the economy as a whole. astoundingly inadequate writing as Mr. or Ms. How many faculty
tain 40 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources There are, of course, formidable challenges, not least skills at the graduate level. members insist on titles but assume
by 2022, eight years ahead of schedule. developing batteries to store the excess electricity generat- As a clinician, I took note but that they can use students’ first
Every one of the Paris signatories will have to reduce ed by solar farms on sunny days and wind farms on windy refrained from comment about names?
emissions to ward off the worst consequences of global days. And there are emissions from industry and agriculture glaring unresolved issues with Professor Worthen claims that it
warming — devastating droughts, melting glaciers and un- authority. is good pedagogy to explain profes-
to worry about. Still, Beijing and New Delhi — not, embar-
stoppable sea level rise. But the tangible progress by the To be sure, I have saved and sional interactions to students. But
rassingly enough, Washington — are showing the way for- treasured letters of appreciation
world’s number one producer of greenhouse gases (China) surely it is better to demonstrate
ward. from students who write to let me
and its number three (India) are astonishing nonetheless, professional courtesy, not just
know how they are using what I explain it.I’m not sure I get this.
and worth celebrating. taught in their careers, students in
There is also a lesson here for the United States. Piece the very same classes as those of SCOTT LIBSON, DECATUR, GA.
by piece, agency by agency, the Trump administration the discontented.
seems determined to destroy or undermine every initiative The dean supported my
on which President Obama based his pledge in Paris to sub- standards, but the quixotic, uneven
stantially reduce America’s greenhouse gases: his plan to
student-feedback scores disap- A Democrat’s Dilemma
pointed me. As an adjunct I bridge
close old, coal-fired power plants, his proposals to reduce academia with the real world and TO THE EDITOR:
methane emissions from oil and gas wells, his mandates for agree that these standards extend As a Democrat opposed to the
more fuel-efficient vehicles. The excuse given in every case to life lessons for the world of work. Republicans’ agenda, I am de-
is that these rules would cost jobs and damage the economy lighted with President Trump’s
SUE MATORIN, NEW YORK
— the same bogus argument once used by Vice President pattern of self-created crisis du
The writer is a social worker in the jour.
Dick Cheney to persuade President George W. Bush to re-
department of psychiatry at Weill The daily distractions reduce the
nege on his campaign promise to combat global warming. Cornell Medical Center. likelihood of replacing Obamacare
China and India are finding that doing right by the plan- with some inferior and inequitable
et need not carry a big economic cost and can actually be TO THE EDITOR: health care arrangement; impede
beneficial. By investing heavily in solar and wind, they and the prospects for unfairly revising
After being a college or graduate
others like Germany have helped drive down the cost of student for 17 years, I recently the tax laws; and impair the poten-
those technologies to a point where, in many places, renew- received my Ph.D. At graduation tial for costly, draconian and inef-
able sources can generate electricity more cheaply than this month, family members fective border security and harsh
dirtier sources of energy like coal. In a recent auction in In- shouted “Dr. so-and-so” as loved immigration bans. For these rea-
dia, developers of solar farms offered to sell electricity to the ones received regalia to symbolize sons, among others, I want him to
remain in office.
grid for 2.44 rupees per kilowatt-hour (or 3.79 cents). That is
But as a loyal and patriotic
about 50 percent less than what solar farms bid a year earli-
American, I am dismayed by what
er and about 24 percent less than the average price for ener-
Pregnant on the Subway he is doing to the country and find
gy generated by coal-fired power plants. his behavior reprehensible. This
TO THE EDITOR:
The shift from fossil fuels has thus been much faster TIM PEACOCK outweighs the reasons to keep him
Re “Don’t See a Baby Bump? around and augurs in favor of
Maybe the Button, Then” (news getting him out of the White House

Lurching Backward on Justice Reform

article, May 15): before he inflicts more incalculable
When I was pregnant with my damage.
first daughter, in 1991, and not yet
MARSHALL TANICK, MINNEAPOLIS
When it comes to criminal justice, Attorney General Jeff tucky, pointed out that people of color suffer disproportion- showing, I used to meet a friend at
Sessions is a man out of time — stuck defiantly in the 1980s, ately from mandatory-minimum sentences for drug crimes, the Grand Army Plaza stop every
morning.
when crime in America was high and politicians scrambled and said Mr. Sessions’s charging policy “will accentuate the
When we got on the train, I To End Gerrymandering
to out-tough one another by passing breathtakingly severe injustice.” A group of 31 current and former state and local would pull out my copy of “What to
sentencing laws. This mind-set was bad enough when Mr. prosecutors — not people ordinarily associated with going Expect When You’re Expecting” TO THE EDITOR:
Sessions was a senator from Alabama working to thwart soft on crime — signed an open letter calling the directive an (not a seat on the subway, appar- Re “When Does Gerrymandering
sentencing reforms in Congress. Now that he is the nation’s “unnecessary and unfortunate return” to harmful and dis- ently), and she would exclaim, Cross a Line?,” by Adam Liptak
top law enforcement officer, he’s trying to drag the country credited practices. Mr. Sessions has taken a sledgehammer loudly, “You’re pregnant!” Almost (Sidebar column, May 16):
backward with him, even as most states are moving toward to this rare and fragile bipartisanship, at least on the federal always, someone gave me a seat. Like racial discrimination, with
which it is tortuously entwined,
more enlightened policies. level. And while it’s too soon to know how the new policy will JUDY ANTELL, BROOKLYN
gerrymandering has long be-
On May 12, Mr. Sessions announced a drastic policy or- affect sentences, prison populations, or recidivism rates, Mr. deviled American politics; it has
dering federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest possible Sessions’s assertion that the justice system is not harsh TO THE EDITOR:
increasingly compromised the civil
charges against crime suspects in all cases, rescinding an enough — however isolated that view — could trickle down Your article about subway seat- rights of voters in the service of
Obama administration directive that focused on reducing and affect justice reform in the states. sharing etiquette, or lack thereof, politicians and political parties as
punishments for low-level, nonviolent offenders, mostly in Fortunately, states have been moving in the other direc- made me think about what’s been well as prejudice. It has always
happening to me lately. compromised good government.
drug cases, and steering more law-enforcement resources tion, as budget-conscious lawmakers saw what Mr. Sessions
I’m a woman of a certain age, We have the technology to de-
toward the bigger fish. That approach was working: The has not — that locking up more people for longer periods is which I won’t reveal except to say fine fair congressional districts; we
federal prison population started to drop for the first time in hugely expensive, with no real public-safety payoff. The that I can remember when Sir Paul need an independent entity to
years, even as crime has remained at historic lows. states should continue with their effective, evidence-based was “the cute Beatle.” Recently, establish them.
Instead of acknowledging these gains, Mr. Sessions has approaches, and Congress should find a way at last to pass well-meaning subway riders have
ANNLINN KRUGER
clung to the familiar myth that longer, harsher sentences re- meaningful sentencing reform. Reducing or eliminating been offering me their seats, which
BAR HARBOR, ME.
duce crime and increase public safety. The evidence shows many mandatory minimums would be optimal, but at this is very nice indeed when I am
carrying packages or feeling tired.
the opposite: To bring down recidivism, a punishment’s point most anything would be an improvement.
But if I’m feeling frisky, I glance
swiftness and certainty matter far more than its length. A bipartisan group of senators recently reintroduced down, give my tummy a little pat
Longer sentences may even lead to more reoffending. the Justice Safety Valve Act, which would give judges more and ask, “Oh, am I showing al- ONLINE: MORE LETTERS
Mr. Sessions’s outdated ideas have been rebuked across flexibility to impose lighter sentences in certain cases. They ready?” Then I smile. And stay The public administration of
the political spectrum. Eric Holder, the attorney general were achingly close to passing a similar bill last year, until a standing. naloxone could become a
who issued the Obama-era policy, called the new approach small clot of senators blocked it. One of those senators was ALICE HENRY WHITMORE turning point in the opioid epidemic.
“dumb on crime.” Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Ken- Jeff Sessions. NEW YORK nytimes.com/opinion

EDITORIAL OBSERVER BRENT STAPLES

How the Swastika Became a Confederate Flag

The easy-listening white supremacists
who surged out of the shadows during
the presidential campaign are no less
dangerous than their white power
survivalist or raving skinhead counter-
parts. But they are hoping to rebrand
themselves by wearing business
clothes and attempting to sound rea-
sonable as they advance a racist
agenda. The debate about removing
monuments to white supremacy that
were built throughout the South a cen-
tury or more ago is tailor-made for this
tactic.
The white supremacist protest in
Charlottesville, Va., this month over a
plan to remove a statue of Robert E.
Lee, the Confederate general, shows
how this is likely to go. The marchers
feigned civility. But a closer look shows
that the protest drew on the toxic sym-
bolism of the Third Reich in ways that
few Americans would recognize.
By wielding torches in a protest
staged by night, the demonstrators
nodded to Nazi rallies held during the
1930s at Nuremberg, where the open
flame was revered as a mystical means
of purifying the Aryan spirit. They
reinforced this toxic connection by
chanting “blood and soil,” a Nazi-era
slogan that connected German ethnic
purity to cultivation of the land and,
more broadly, to the notion that the
“master race” was divinely entitled to
confiscate the holdings of “lesser peo-
ples,” even if it meant slaughtering
them along the way.
The demonstrators at Charlottesville
— led by the theatrically inclined white
supremacist Richard Spencer — had no
real interest in the civic or aesthetic
value of the monument they ostensibly
came to defend. The essence of their
argument was that any attempt to
renounce Confederate ideology by
moving this — or any — monument
would be an assault on the so-called
white race.
The protest also celebrated the in-
timate connection between Nazi-era
rule in Germany and Jim Crow-era rule
in the United States. That connection,
long overlooked by historians, was
obvious to the network of black-owned
newspapers that reached the peak of its
influence during World War II.
The barons of the Negro press
ridiculed the attempt to frame the war
as a fight for liberty at a time when the
military was segregating by race sol-
diers, nurses and even plasma in the
wartime blood bank, and running Jim
Crow military bases in ways that were
fully consistent with the German view
of Negroes and others as not fully hu-
man.
Editorial cartoonists underscored
this point by depicting Hitler and Hiro-
hito together, laughing uproariously,
while reading
newspaper ac-
Beneath the
surface of white counts of lynchings
in the American
supremacism
South. The Pitts-
are symbols burgh Courier
rooted in the finally made it
Third Reich. palatable to
African-Americans
to support the war in Europe by recast-
ing it as a struggle to vanquish Nazism
abroad and Jim Crow racism at home.
Hitler drew a similar, more sinister
comparison in “Mein Kampf.” He de-
scribes the United States as “the one
state” that had made headway toward
what he regarded as a healthy and
utterly necessary racist regime.
Historians have long sought to min-
imize the importance of that passage.
But in recent years, archival research
in Germany has shown that the Nazis
were keenly focused on Jim Crow seg-
regation laws, on statutes that criminal-
ized interracial marriage and on other
policies that created second-class citi-
zenship in the United States.
The Yale legal scholar James Q. Whit-
man fleshes this out to eerie effect in his
new book “Hitler’s American Model: The
United States and the Making of Nazi
Race Law.” He illustrates how German
propagandists sought to normalize the
Nazi agenda domestically by putting
forth the United States as a model. They
assured the German people that Ameri-
cans had “racist politics and policies,”
just as Germany did, including “special
laws directed against the Negroes, which
limit their voting rights, freedom of
movement, and career possibilities.”
Embracing the necessity of lynching, one
propagandist wrote: “What is lynch
justice, if not the natural resistance of
the Volk to an alien race that is attempt-
ing to gain the upper hand?”
“Hitler’s American Model” shows that
homegrown American racism played a
role in the notorious Nuremberg Laws of
1935, which deprived “non-Aryans” of
citizenship and the right to marry “true”
Germans. As Mr. Whitman writes, Nu-
remberg “signaled the full-scale creation
of a racist state in a Germany on the
road to the Holocaust.”
Nazism and the tradition of American
white supremacy that is memorialized in
monuments throughout the South are
the fruit of the same poisonous tree. In
this light, the Confederate flag can le-
gitimately be seen as an alternate ver-
sion of the Nazi emblem.
After the war, Germany tried to put
Nazism back in its box by banning
public display of swastikas and other
emblems of the Third Reich. Later
generations understood that to wear
such an insignia was to smear oneself
with history’s worst filth. Many Ameri-
cans have failed to grasp this point.
This explains why one still sees people
parading around with both Nazi em-
blems and Confederate flags, openly
embracing the meanings of both.
The new-age white supremacists who
want so eagerly to expand their market
shares recognize that covering them-
selves with swastikas is a route to
marginalization. They are betting that
they can achieve the effect they seek by
embracing the Confederate cause, while
serving up easy-listening Nazism on
the side.

The Censor
Blood in the Water
And the
Vibrator
Balli Kaur Jaswal
SINGAPORE
N
OBODY told me that the format
of “The Ellen DeGeneres
Show” had changed, so imag-
ine my surprise one recent af-
ternoon when the credits appeared after
only 30 minutes of dancing and funny
videos. I discovered later that the second
half of this episode featured two seg-
ments with celebrity guests that did not
survive the Singapore censors’ scrutiny:
Jane Fonda wielding a vibrator and Asia
Kate Dillon discussing her nonbinary
gender identity, both considered too ta-
boo for daytime television here.
The feeling of being duped was famil-
iar; during my childhood, disappear-
ances of entire scenes were discussed
with quiet outrage. Rumor had it that
Ross’s ex-wife married her girlfriend in
an episode of “Friends” that didn’t air
here. It took a foreign exchange stu-
dent’s re-enactment of the best scene in
“When Harry Met Sally” for us to under-
stand why it was excised from local
screenings. We grumbled and moved on.
Gaps in story lines were facts of life in a
country where authorities believed “un-
desirable content” could corrode conser-
vative Asian values.
If censorship was pervasive, our cu-
riosity and resourcefulness were reliable
antidotes. In primary school, an epi-
demic swept the playground in the form
of Judy Blume novels and pilfered copies
Learning about sex in
Singapore, under the
state’s watchful eye.
of our mothers’ magazines, dog-eared to
the dirty scenes and sex advice columns.
We passed our contraband from desk to
desk and scrambled for our turn to stand
on the school bus seats to read the raun-
chiest passages aloud.
From these sessions, I learned that
kissing was part of some larger strategy
called foreplay, and women could be on
top during sex. What sex was, I wasn’t
sure, but eventually an older girl ex-
plained the technicalities. It was the final
piece of the puzzle, but that’s all it was —
a piece. Novels added layers of complex-
ity, rendering the plain facts almost irrel-
evant. Lush descriptions filled the gaps
in our imagination where our knowledge
of mechanics fell short.
I was starting to become a writer then.
I had a folder of stories, mostly con-
tinuations of television episodes (there
was a lot of “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” fan
fiction in my early career). While doing
my homework one evening, I had an
idea: If romance stories were in such
high demand, then I should write my
own to distribute to my friends! Inspired
by scenes from an omnibus published by
that favorite of bosom-heavers, Mills and
Boon, I found a fresh piece of paper and
began.
My tales of couples “tussling between
the sheets” enjoyed an enthusiastic fol-
lowing, which lasted about a week, until
the stories landed in the hands of the
class tattletale. I noticed her whispering
to the teacher and nodding in my direc-
tion as we lined up to go outside for P.E.
“Leave your bags here today, girls,”
the teacher called out. Her gaze flashed
briefly in my direction. Throughout a
course of jumping jacks and situps, the
knot in my stomach tightened. When we
returned to class, I made a beeline for my
bag. The folder was gone.
In my travels as an adult, I’ve come
across clumsier forms of censorship. On
some Turkish channels, an animated
flower replaces cigars. (Let me confirm
here that Don Corleone cuts a much less
intimidating figure when addressing his
men with a cartoon daisy between his
fingers.) I watched an episode of “The
Simpsons” in Thailand in which Homer
got drunk on a can of pixels, previously a
Duff beer. Perhaps the most labor-inten-
sive censorship was in Saudi Arabia,
where I came across print ads of women
whose every inch of bare skin was cov-
ered up by scrawled black marker.
As ridiculous as they are, I wonder if
I’d prefer such crude modifications to
Singapore’s slick surgical cuts. At least,
when you see a black bar striking out
genitalia in a Judd Apatow comedy or a
blurred bag of weed on a cop show, you
know what’s behind the mystery door.
The scalpel used to slice out scenes from
my television shows in Singapore is
more vicious in its precision. It was the
same tool that empowered my teacher to
remove the stories from my bag and
never return them to me or explain why
they were taken in the first place.
Would I be satisfied if Jane Fonda’s
vibrator was shown but pixelated, or if
Asia Kate Dillon’s voice was muted as
she questioned gender norms? Of course
not. But at least I’d know what I was
missing. The censorship I’ve grown up
with is more insidious, and unsettling. In
1992, it made a girl bury her love for
stories in a secret, shame-filled space for
years before she decided to write again.
In 2017, it leaves a woman puzzled as the
credits roll before she realizes that there
are still things she is not supposed to
know. 0 Yet the governor has been conspicu-
BALLI KAUR JASWAL is the author of
“Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
CHARLES M. BLOW
DONALD TRUMP has left the country for
his first foreign trip as president and
what he has left behind is a brewing cri-
sis that appears to deepen by the day,
and even the hour.
There is a sense that blood is in the wa-
ter, that Trump’s erratic, self-destructive
behavior, aversion to honesty and au-
thoritarian desire for absolute control
may in some way, at some point, lead to
his undoing and that the pace of that un-
doing is quickening.
Last week, Deputy Attorney General
Rod J. Rosenstein took the extraordinary
step of naming former F.B.I. Director
Robert Mueller as a special counsel to
oversee the investigation of ties between
the Trump campaign and Russia, and
“any matters that arose or may arise di-
rectly from the investigation.”
This was a significant ratcheting up.
This is a criminal inquiry, by an inde-
pendent operator who is well respected.
The investigation is now largely insulat-
ed from politics. This investigation must
now run its course, whether that takes
months or years, and go wherever the
facts may lead.
But that has not stopped Trump from
whining in a tweet, “This is the single
greatest witch hunt of a politician in
American history!” and saying during a
commencement address:
“Look at the way I’ve been treated
lately, especially by the media. No poli-
tician in history — and I say this with
great surety — has been treated worse or
more unfairly.”
Not only is this a laughable assertion
that could only be uttered by someone
who isn’t a student of history or a reader
of books, but it also resurfaces one of
Trump’s most vexatious qualities: per-
petual wallowing in self-victimization
and the shedding of his own tears for a
spurious suffering that only exists in the
muddle of his mind.
Grow up! Just correction is not jaun-
diced crucifixion. Any hell you’re in is a
hell you made. You are the author of your
own demise. You are not being unfairly
targeted; instead your above-the-rules,
beyond-the-law sense of privilege is be-
ing tested and found insufficient. It will
not immunize you against truth and jus-
tice.
There are very serious questions here,
ones that include but are not limited to
collusion. They also now include the pos-
sibility of treason, obstruction of justice
and making false statements.
It is increasingly clear that there is
more to know than we now know.
There is more to know about former
National Security Adviser Michael T.
Flynn’s activities, and who knew what
about those activities and when. There is
more to know about the president’s inter-
Hate the Subway? Blame Cuomo
Nick Sifuentes
W
HEN the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
opened the Second Avenue
Subway extension in Janu-
ary, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was quick to
put his stamp on the new line. At news
conferences, inaugural rides and even a
star-studded New Year’s Eve party, the
governor branded the project as his own.
Five months and innumerable subway
breakdowns later, riders can hardly be
faulted for asking: Where’s Governor
Cuomo now?
New Yorkers have recently been
treated to repeated subway meltdowns.
This month, two power failures in Brook-
lyn caused delays and reroutings on sev-
en lines. On April 24, a signal failure and
track fire led to significant delays. And
three days before that, a power failure in
Midtown Manhattan led to a near sys-
temwide breakdown.
These wholesale disasters come on
top of all the minor breakdowns and de-
lays that characterize a typical rush hour
in New York these days. And each time
these failures occur, we leave hundreds
of thousands of riders stuck under-
ground, sometimes for hours. The eco-
nomic costs of these delays are enor-
mous. But the human cost of missing
work or school, or being late to pick up
your kids from day care, or canceling ap-
pointments, is just as important.
ously absent as riders vent their frustra-
tions about our subway system. And
when the M.T.A. finally announced a
actions with James Comey and the rea-
son for Comey’s firing. There is more to
know about the true extent of contact be-
tween Trump associates and the Rus-
sians.
Did the president have inappropriate
conversations with Comey, then director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in
an effort to exculpate himself and miti-
gate inquiries about Flynn?
Trump’s and Comey’s accounts, at
least as they are being reported, conflict
on these counts. One of these men is ly-
ing. And while I am no fan of Comey —
his buzzer-beating hijinks with Hillary’s
email just before the election helped
hand this country over to Trump and his
cabal of corruption — I am more prone to
believe him than Trump, a proven,
pathological liar.
The crisis isn’t limited only to Trump.
Did Vice President Mike Pence not
know that Flynn was under investigation
by the F.B.I. for lobbying on behalf of Tur-
key until “March, upon first hearing the
news”? How can that be when, as The
New York Times reported last week,
Flynn “told President Trump’s transition
team weeks before the inauguration that
he was under federal investigation for
secretly working as a paid lobbyist for
Turkey during the campaign, according
to two people familiar with the case.”
Pence led the transition team.
How can Pence claim ignorance when
Representative Elijah E. Cummings,
ranking member of the House Commit-
tee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, sent Pence a letter on Nov. 18, ex-
plicitly spelling out:
“Lt. Gen. Flynn’s General Counsel and
Principal, Robert Kelley, confirmed that
they were hired by a foreign company to
lobby for Turkish interests, stating:
‘They want to keep posted on what we all
want to be informed of: the present situa-
tion, the transition between President
Obama and President-Elect Trump.’
When asked whether the firm had been
hired because of Lt. Gen. Flynn’s close
ties to President-elect Trump, Mr. Kelley
responded, ‘I hope so.’ ”
It isn’t possible Pence knew nothing. I
believe Pence is a liar like his boss.
We knew that Pence was a liar when
during the vice-presidential debate he
repeatedly claimed that Trump had not
in fact said things that he was recorded
on television saying.
The only difference between the two is
delivery. Trump is bombastic and abra-
sive with his lies. Pence cleverly delivers
his with earnestness and solemnity. But
a lie is a lie.
The whole White House crew must be
fully investigated and held to account. It
is time for justice to be served and honor
restored. The dishonest must be dis-
lodged. 0
plan this week to tackle subway delays,
Governor Cuomo was nowhere to be
seen. Instead, the agency’s acting execu-
tive director talked about a $20 million
investment to try to address the problem
— a far cry from the billions of dollars the
governor has promised the agency and
so far failed to deliver.
As a state agency, the M.T.A. is ulti-
mately run by Governor Cuomo — yet
rather than face its challenges, he has in-
stead taken up other priorities: rebuild-
ing the Tappan Zee Bridge, redesigning
La Guardia Airport, revamping Penn
PAUL HOPPE
The governor runs the
New York transit system.
He needs to fix it.
Station. In short, he has done an excel-
lent job funding projects to help people
flee New York City, but has been content
to keep an arm’s length from a crumbling
subway system that carries 1.7 billion
passengers a year.
One reason is obvious: Governor
Cuomo can use the M.T.A. as a shield
from criticism from commuters, who
blame the agency for their commuting
woes instead of pointing the finger at the
man behind the curtain. This misdirec-
tion gives the governor cover to raid tens
of millions of dedicated transit dollars to
fund other projects, spend two years re-
fusing to fund the M.T.A.’s ambitious
2015-19 capital plan to invest in subway
and bus infrastructure and — just a few
months ago — wipe $65 million a year
from our subways and buses with the
Americans Are Suspicious
Of Trump’s Motives
Trump said he had already decided
to fire Comey even before he received
a recommendation from the Justice
Department. Does that make you
more likely or less likely to think that
other factors besides the Clinton
investigation were behind
Comey’s dismissal?
More Likely
33
%
Less Likely
4
How likely do you think it is that
James Comey was fired in order to
slow down or stop that investigation –
is this very likely, somewhat likely, not
too likely, or not at all likely?
Very Likely
40
Somewhat Likely
19
Not Too Likely
10
Not At All Likely
27
Source: Monmouth University poll
of 1,002 adults, conducted May 13-17.
stroke of a pen. The consequences of
years of disinvestment have been se-
vere: Riders now have to contend with
more than 70,000 delays a month (well
over a delay every minute) and record
levels of overcrowding on trains.
The other reason for Mr. Cuomo’s
avoidance is that fixing mass transit is
difficult. It’s expensive, it’s complicated
and the benefits often don’t accrue until
long after the elected officials who
funded them have moved on. Many a po-
litician takes a hard look at public transit
and decides to find an easier fight.
But right now, New Yorkers don’t need
a politician. We need a leader like those
who had the foresight to build this
sprawling, messy, utterly essential sys-
tem and sustain it for over a century. If
we want to keep public transit running
for another century, Governor Cuomo
must make necessary investments now.
As a first step, he should give the M.T.A.
the full $8.3 billion he has promised for its
capital program, rather than make it wait
years and borrow billions of dollars
more.
Governor Cuomo can think big when
building bridges or airports. He should
apply the same grand vision to our vital
public transit system. Installing modern
signals should take years, not decades —
the current plan stretches beyond 2050
to implement 20th-century technology.
He should replace all cars that are past
their useful life; some of today’s trains
date to the 1960s. He should make buses
an attractive alternative for riders, as
they are in London or Seoul, by investing
in inexpensive improvements like all-
door boarding and traffic light priority.
And most important, he should an-
nounce an influx of state funding above
and beyond the M.T.A.’s existing capital
budget to pay for these necessary im-
provements, instead of making riders
shoulder the cost through ever-increas-
ing fares.
Over a year ago, my organization, the
Riders Alliance, collected hundreds of
“subway horror stories” from riders.
Sadly, since that time, the problem has
grown only worse. But there’s still some-
thing we can do: When you’re stuck this
summer on a hot platform waiting for a
train that seems as if it’ll never come, let
the person most responsible for the suc-
cess or failure of our public transit sys-
tem know you’re upset. Use that newly
installed subway Wi-Fi to tweet @NY-
GovCuomo. There are nearly 8.5 million
rides on the system every day; if we
speak with one voice, we can save our
subways.
NICK SIFUENTES is the deputy director of
the Riders Alliance.
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PAUL KRUGMAN
The Unfreeing
Of American
Workers
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES LOVE to talk
about freedom. Milton Friedman’s fa-
mous pro-capitalist book and TV series
were titled “Free to Choose.” And the
hard-liners in the House pushing for a
complete dismantling of Obamacare call
themselves the Freedom Caucus.
Well, why not? After all, America is an
open society, in which everyone is free to
make his or her own choices about where
to work and how to live.
Everyone, that is, except the 30 million
workers now covered by noncompete
agreements, who may find themselves
all but unemployable if they quit their
current jobs; the 52 million Americans
with pre-existing conditions who will be
effectively unable to buy individual
health insurance, and hence stuck with
their current employers, if the Freedom
Caucus gets its way; and the millions of
Americans burdened down by heavy stu-
dent and other debt.
The reality is that Americans, espe-
cially American workers, don’t feel all
that free. The Gallup World Survey asks
residents of many countries whether
they feel that they have “freedom to
make life choices”; the U.S. doesn’t come
out looking too good, especially com-
pared with the high freedom grades of
European nations with strong social
safety nets.
And you can make a strong case that
we’re getting less free as time goes by.
Let’s talk first about those noncom-
pete agreements, which were recently
the subject of a stunning article in The
Times (the latest in a series), plus a re-
port from the Obama administration
pushing for limits to the practice.
Noncompete agreements were
originally supposed to be about protect-
ing trade secrets, and therefore helping
to promote innovation and investment in
job training. Suppose that a company
trying to build a better mousetrap hires a
new mousetrap engineer. Her employ-
ment contract might very well include a
clause preventing her from leaving a few
months later for a job with a rival pest-
control firm, since she could be taking
crucial in-house information with her.
And that’s perfectly reasonable.
At this point, however, almost one in
five American employees is subject to
some kind of noncompete clause. There
can’t be that many workers in possession
of valuable trade secrets, especially
when many of these workers are in rela-
tively low-paying jobs. For example, one
prominent case involved Jimmy John’s, a
sandwich chain, basically trying to ban
its former franchisees from working for
other sandwich makers.
Furthermore, the terms of the clauses
are often defined ridiculously widely. It’s
as if our hypothetical mousetrap engi-
neer were prohibited from seeking em-
ployment with any other manufacturing
firm, or in any occupation that makes use
of her engineering skills.
At this point, in other words, noncom-
pete clauses are in many cases less about
protecting trade secrets than they are
Creeping along
the real road
to serfdom.
about tying workers to their current
employers, unable to bargain for better
wages or quit to take better jobs.
This shouldn’t be happening in Amer-
ica, and to be fair some politicians in both
parties have been speaking up about the
need for change (although few expect
the Trump administration to follow up on
the Obama administration’s reform
push). But there’s another aspect of de-
clining worker freedom that is very
much a partisan issue: health care.
Until 2014, there was basically only one
way Americans under 65 with pre-exist-
ing conditions could get health insur-
ance: by finding an employer willing to
offer coverage. Some employers were in
fact willing to do so. Why? Because there
were major tax advantages — premiums
aren’t counted as taxable income — but
to get those advantages employer plans
must offer the same coverage to every
employee, regardless of medical history.
But what if you wanted to change jobs,
or start your own business? Too bad: you
were basically stuck (and I knew quite a
few people in that position).
Then Obamacare went into effect,
guaranteeing affordable care even to
those with pre-existing medical condi-
tions. This was a hugely liberating
change for millions. Even if you didn’t
immediately take advantage of the new
program to strike out on your own, the
fact was that now you could.
But maybe not for much longer.
Trumpcare — the American Health Care
Act — would drastically reduce protec-
tions for Americans with pre-existing
conditions. And even if that bill never be-
comes law, the Trump administration is
effectively sabotaging individual insur-
ance markets, so that in many cases
Americans who lose employer coverage
will have no place to turn — which will in
turn tie those who do have such coverage
to their current employers.
You might say, with only a bit of hyper-
bole, that workers in America, suppos-
edly the land of the free, are actually
creeping along the road to serfdom,
yoked to corporate employers the way
0
Russian peasants were once tied to their
masters’ land. And the people pushing
them down that road are the very people
who cry “freedom” the loudest. 0
A26 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
 Week Ahead
Big Meeting on Oil
OPEC leaders will meet in
Vienna to discuss ways to prop
up prices.
As Profit Dwindles, Ford Is Said to Replace Its C.E.O.
By BILL VLASIC
DEARBORN, Mich. — In a shake-up reflecting
the pressures on the American auto industry, Ford
Motor is replacing its chief executive, Mark Fields,
according to officials briefed on the move.
Jim Hackett, who oversees the Ford subsidiary
that works on autonomous vehicles, will take the
reins from Mr. Fields. Ford plans to make an an-
nouncement on Monday morning, the officials said.
During Mr. Fields’s three-year tenure — a period
when Ford’s shares dropped 40 percent — he came
under fire from investors and Ford’s board for fail-
ing to expand the company’s core auto business and
for lagging in developing the high-tech cars of the
future.
The change came less than two weeks after Mr.
Fields was sharply criticized during the company’s
annual shareholders meeting for Ford’s deteriorat-
ing financial results.
Mr. Hackett, 62, a longtime chief of the office fur-
niture giant Steelcase and a former Ford director,
joined the company’s operational ranks last year as
Top, a self-driving Uber car in Pittsburgh last year. Among those critical of Uber are City Controller Mi-
chael Lamb, left, and Tim Smith, pastor in a neighborhood where promised jobs have not materialized.
Soured on Uber
Pittsburgh Finds Being a Test City for Driverless Cars Is Less Than It Expected
By CECILIA KANG
PITTSBURGH — When Uber picked this for-
mer Rust Belt town as the inaugural city for its
driverless car experiment, Pittsburgh played the
consummate host.
“You can either put up red tape or roll out the
red carpet,” Bill Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh,
said in September. “If you want to be a 21st-cen-
tury laboratory for technology, you put out the
carpet.”
Nine months later, Pittsburgh residents and of-
ficials say Uber has not lived up to its end of the
bargain. Among Uber’s perceived transgres-
sions: The company began charging for driver-
less rides that were initially pitched as free. It also
withdrew support from Pittsburgh’s application
for a $50 million federal grant to revamp trans-
portation. And it has not created the jobs it pro-
posed in a struggling neighborhood that houses
its autonomous car testing track.
Technology
An Apple Pay Patent Suit
A small Boston company says
Apple and Visa have violated its
2 patents.
head of its “smart mobility” operation, which in-
cludes driverless technology.
As recently as last week, Mr. Fields, 56, had been
trying to strengthen Ford’s bottom line by cutting
1,400 salaried jobs. But, unable to reverse the stock
decline, he ran out of time to carry out his strategy
to slash costs and expand Ford’s lineup of trucks
and sport utility vehicles, while also investing in au-
tonomous and electrified vehicles.
Despite spending heavily on self-driving re-
search, Ford was struggling to keep pace with
larger automakers such as General Motors and
tech giants like Google, both of which have been
testing self-driving vehicles. Ford is promising to
have a fully autonomous vehicle on the road by 2021.
The upstart electric-vehicle maker Tesla —
which recently surpassed G.M. and Ford in market
capitalization — is bringing a mass-market model
to market later this year.
At the annual meeting on May 11, Mr. Fields said
Ford was capable of staying competitive in the cur-
rent market for new vehicles, while also “keeping
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Fingers are being pointed in many directions.
While Mr. Peduto had trumpeted his relationship
with Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, he
didn’t get any commitments in writing about what
the company would provide for Pittsburgh. That
became an issue in Pittsburgh’s Democratic
mayoral primary this month. Mr. Peduto’s chal-
lengers criticized his relationship with Uber, and
one called the company a “stain” on the city. (Mr.
Peduto won the primary.)
“This was an opportunity missed,” said Michael
Lamb, Pittsburgh’s city controller, who has called
on Uber to share the traffic data gathered by its
autonomous vehicles.
The deteriorating relationship between Pitts-
burgh and Uber offers a cautionary tale, espe-
cially as other cities consider rolling out driver-
less car trials from Uber, Alphabet’s Waymo and
others.
Towns like Tempe, Ariz., have already emulated
3 technicians.
one foot in the future” of an industry heading to-
ward autonomous, battery-powered cars.
Yet Ford is showing troubling signs of decline.
Profit in the first quarter dropped more than 30 per-
cent from a year earlier, and the company’s Ameri-
can market share declined slightly.
And with auto sales in the United States cooling
off after two record years, Ford faces a tough bal-
ancing act to maintain strong results in North
America while investing in projects for the future.
Mr. Fields was also at the forefront of an abortive
plan to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in Mexico
for small cars. The project was abandoned early
this year as sales stalled and President Trump’s
election brought pressure on Ford to make more ve-
hicles in the United States.
So far this year, Ford has had a number of safety
recalls that have raised red flags about its overall
vehicle quality. The company has also experienced
a deep decline in the sale of small and midsize cars,
leading some Wall Street analysts to suggest that it
drop unprofitable models from its portfolio.
GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pittsburgh and set themselves up as test areas for
self-driving vehicles. Many municipalities see the
experiments as an opportunity to remake their
urban transportation systems and create a new
tech economy.
Yet Pittsburgh shows the clash of private-ver-
sus-public interests that can result. The lessons
are college course level “101,” said Linda Bailey,
the executive director of the National Association
of City Transportation Officials.
Uber “is a business, and they want to make
money,” she said. “With Pittsburgh, we learned
we need to present the city’s needs upfront.”
Uber said it was open to a deal with Pittsburgh
but had yet to see a draft of proposed commit-
ments the city is seeking from the company. Uber
said it planned to share some data collected by its
autonomous vehicles with the city this year,
though Pittsburgh officials say the data Uber
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Wind Power
Training for Coal Miners
A wind project in Wyoming aims
to turn out-of-work miners into
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0N + B1
MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
While Based
On a Staple,
A Vital Drug
Runs Low
By KATIE THOMAS
Hospitals around the country are
scrambling to stockpile vials of a critical
drug — even postponing operations or
putting off chemotherapy treatments —
because the country’s only two suppliers
have run out.
The medicine? Sodium bicarbonate
solution. Yes, baking soda.
Sodium bicarbonate is the simplest of
drugs — its base ingredient, after all, is
found in most kitchen cabinets — but it is
vitally important for all kinds of patients
whose blood has become too acidic. It is
found on emergency crash carts and is
used in open-heart surgery and as an an-
tidote to certain poisons. Patients whose
organs are failing are given the drug, and
MEGGAN HALLER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sodium bicarbonate solution is used
to treat a wide array of patients.
it is used in some types of chemotherapy.
A little sodium bicarbonate can even take
the sting out of getting stitches.
“As I talk to colleagues around the
country, this is really a problem we’re all
struggling with right now,” said Mark
Sullivan, the head of pharmacy opera-
tions at Vanderbilt University Hospital
and Clinics in Nashville.
Hospitals have been struggling with a
dwindling supply of the medicine for
months — one of the suppliers, Pfizer,
has said that it had a problem with an
outside supplier but that the situation
worsened a few weeks ago. Pfizer and
the other manufacturer, Amphastar,
have said they don’t know precisely
when the problem will be fixed, but it will
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Networks Offer
Taste of Future,
And Marketers
Want More
By SAPNA MAHESHWARI
America’s biggest television net-
works invited advertisers to New York
institutions like Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center last week, giving them
an early glimpse at their fall lineups
and treating them to lavish parties and
a parade of stars including Stephen
Colbert, Kim Kardashian and Tony
Romo, all with the aim of attracting
billions of dollars in advertising by the
end of the summer.
The tradition dates to the 1960s, when
viewing habits were entirely different.
And while the networks have spent the
past few years trying to convince
marketers of their digital prowess
despite falling ratings and new plat-
forms for watching TV, Silicon Valley
seemed to cast an especially long shad-
ow this year.
There was lots of talk about brand
safety and snarky comments from the
stage about online giants like Facebook
and Google — NBCUniversal’s sales
chief said that “an algorithm” could not
have predicted the success of “This Is
Us” or the latest season of “Saturday
Night Live” — but there was also an
acknowledgment that, although the
television ad market remains remark-
ably strong, the shift to digital plat-
forms is undeniable, and their
continued growth is inevitable.
“Most networks are starting to recog-
nize that the standard model of 18 min-
utes of 30-second spots in a 60-minute
show will never grow and is probably
not sustainable,” said Ben Winkler, the
chief investment officer at the agency
OMD. “Just making more compelling
shows is not going to solve that prob-
lem.
“That goose continues to lay golden
eggs; they’re just smaller every year,”
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A Vital Drug, Based on Baking Soda, Runs Low THE WEEK AHEAD

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not be before June for some forms
of the drug, and in August or later
for other formulations.
The shortage of sodium bicar-
bonate solution is only the latest
example of an inexpensive hospi-
tal staple’s supply dwindling to a
critical level. In recent years, hun-
dreds of generic injectable drugs
have become scarce, vexing hos-
pital administrators and govern-
ment officials, who have called on
the manufacturers to give better
notice when they are about to run
short.
Without an abundant supply of
sodium bicarbonate, some hospi-
tals are postponing elective
procedures or making difficult de-
cisions about which patients merit
the drug. At Providence Hospital
in Mobile, Ala., supplies ran so low
a few weeks ago that Gino Ag-
nelly, the head pharmacist, em-
barked on a desperate scavenger
hunt, culling vials from the 50
crash carts that were stowed
around the hospital.
Mr. Agnelly said he had been
getting by with a supply of about
175 vials when a patient with a
heart problem suddenly needed
35 of them.
He called a meeting of doctors
and administrators, and they
came to a difficult conclusion:
They would need to postpone the
seven open-heart operations that
were scheduled for the next week.
One critically ill patient was sent
to a hospital across town because
his surgery could not be delayed,
Mr. Agnelly said.
Pfizer sent an emergency ship-
ment a few days later, but the con-
tinuing shortage has forced Mr.
Agnelly to make hard choices.
“Does the immediate need of a
patient outweigh the expected
need of a patient?” he asked. “It’s
a medical and ethical question
that goes beyond anything I’ve
had to experience before.”
Erin Fox, a drug shortage ex-
pert at the University of Utah, said
unexpected shortfalls of critical
medicines had become routine. In
2014, a shortage of saline solution
— salt water — sent hospitals into
a similar panic. This is not even
the first time that the supply of so-
dium bicarbonate has run out. The
last shortage occurred in 2012.
“It is unbelievably frustrating,”
Ms. Fox said. “It makes me so mad
that we are out of these really ba-
sic lifesaving medications.”
Mr. Sullivan, of Vanderbilt, said
the shortages typically occurred
Gino Agnelly, an Alabama hospital pharmacist, has rationed his sodium bicarbonate solution.
with cheaper, “bread-and-butter”
hospital drugs, leading him to
question whether manufacturers
were investing enough in the pro-
duction process needed to make a
reliable supply.
“The specialty, high-dollar med-
A critical shortage,
though the main
ingredient is found
in many kitchens.
icines — I don’t ever seem to see
them experiencing shortages
with those products,” he said.
The situation with sodium bi-
carbonate solution appears to
have begun in February when Pfi-
zer, the main supplier, announced
it was in short supply, Ms. Fox
said. A spike in demand then led
Amphastar to run low. Now, even
less-than-ideal alternatives to so-
dium bicarbonate, such as sodium
acetate, are difficult to obtain.
Kuldip Patel, the associate chief
pharmacy officer at Duke Univer-
sity Hospital in North Carolina,
said he had become accustomed
to the juggling act required when
an old standby was suddenly un-
available.
“It’s not like we haven’t been
here before,” he said.
Mr. Patel said the problem had
worsened just after Pfizer went
from shipping its generic inject-
able products from five regional
warehouses to one national distri-
bution center, part of a reorganiza-
tion after its acquisition of the
drugmaker Hospira.
“That’s when it all derailed,” he
said.
A spokesman for Pfizer said the
shortage of sodium bicarbonate
was not related to the change in
distribution, but was due to a man-
ufacturing delay caused by an out-
side supplier. The spokesman,
Thomas Biegi, said the delay had
not been caused by a problem with
the supplier of the raw ingredient,
sodium bicarbonate, but he added
that he could not divulge further
details, citing confidentiality
agreements.
Regardless of the reason, Mr.
Patel said, drug companies should
do a better job of creating contin-
gency plans for keeping vital
drugs in supply, especially during
transitions.
MEGGAN HALLER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“In situations like this, where a
major manufacturer is buying out
another major manufacturer of
critically needed drugs, there has
to be a detailed backup plan in
case things don’t go smoothly,” Mr.
Patel said.
Mr. Biegi said Pfizer was work-
ing hard to fix the problem. “Pfizer
has a dedicated team focused on
working with suppliers to address
this and have already taken sev-
eral steps to expedite supply re-
covery of this drug,” he said.
Andrea Fischer, a spokeswom-
an for the Food and Drug Admin-
istration, said companies were
asked to notify the agency of prob-
lems, but “there are no require-
ments that firms keep emergency
supplies or that they stock up pri-
or to any changes they make.”
She said the agency was in close
contact with the companies and
“exploring all possible solutions to
this critical shortage, including
temporary importation, to help
with this shortage until it’s re-
solved.”
Ms. Fischer said the agency had
recently made progress in pre-
venting supply problems. In 2011,
it tracked 251 new shortages, an
all-time high. But by 2016, she
said, there were only 23 new
shortages. Currently, more than
50 drugs are classified as being in
shortage on the F.D.A. website.
“Unfortunately,” she said, “not
all shortages can be prevented.”
The shortage problem has been
traced to a confluence of factors,
ranging from problems with
suppliers of the raw ingredients to
trouble at the aging facilities
where many of the most inexpen-
sive generics are made. Consoli-
dation in the industry has also re-
duced the number of companies
producing certain drugs, so that
when one company has a problem,
the other quickly runs out as well.
Ms. Fischer said the F.D.A. gave
the approval process a priority
status when a company wanted to
enter a market that was in short
supply.
Some large hospitals, such as
Duke, house so-called compound-
ing pharmacies, which can make
custom batches of generics like
sodium bicarbonate. Mr. Patel
said that Duke was in the process
of doing just that, but that setting
up the process took time. The solu-
tion must be pure and sterile be-
cause it is injected into the blood-
stream.
At Providence Hospital in Mo-
bile, Mr. Agnelly said he was so
desperate that he had done an in-
ternet search to investigate if he
could safely mix his own batch
with some baking soda and water.
The hospital does not have a com-
pounding pharmacy.
He discovered just one research
paper, dating to 1947, when doc-
tors did exactly that during World
War II.
“This is not new technology.
These are not expensive ma-
terials,” Mr. Agnelly said, adding
that he quickly abandoned the
idea. “It’s not what you would ex-
pect in the First World.”
OPEC Leaders Will Meet
BANKING
Shareholder Lawsuit Over a Rights Issue Heads to Court
A trial is set to begin in London on Monday in a shareholder lawsuit
against the Royal Bank of Scotland over a rights issue by the lender
before its near collapse in 2008. The litigation is related to the bank’s
raising of 12 billion pounds, or about $15.5 billion, weeks before the
British government rescued it. R.B.S., which remains 73 percent
owned by the British government, received a £45 billion bailout that
year. After an agreement announced last month, R.B.S. has settled
with shareholders representing 87 percent of the claims against it,
based on value. CHAD BRAY
TECHNOLOGY
Humans Get Another Crack at Beating a Computer
The venerable Chinese game of Go will give humans another shot to
prevail over machines. AlphaGo, the Go-playing contender from the
DeepMind artificial intelligence arm of Google’s parent, Alphabet,
will take on the world champion, Ke Jie, at a humans vs. computers
competition in Wuzhen, China, beginning on Tuesday. AlphaGo’s de-
feat of a top Go player in South Korea last year was considered a
major victory for artificial intelligence. CARLOS TEJADA
CENTRAL BANKING
Investors Anticipate a Benchmark Interest Rate Increase
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will release the minutes of its
most recent meeting, in early May. Surprises are unlikely. Investors
expect the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate at its next meet-
ing in June, partly because the Fed did nothing to diminish those
expectations at the May meeting. The Fed’s statement after the
meeting said officials expected the economy to rebound after a weak
first quarter. And a few days later, the federal government an-
nounced that the unemployment rate had declined to 4.4 percent in
April. BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
HOUSING
Sales Data for Previously Owned Homes Is Coming
Also on Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors will report
sales in April of previously owned homes. Sales of previously owned
homes posted solid gains in March, as job growth and easing lending
standards made it easier to buy a home. Economists expect the hous-
ing market to continue its steady recovery; however, a persistent
scarcity of homes for sale will limit the pace of growth, and is likely to
lead to a lot of disappointed home shoppers through the spring and
summer. CONOR DOUGHERTY
SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS
A Russian oil field. OPEC production cuts may be extended.
ENERGY
Oil Ministers Will Consider Extending Production Cuts
OPEC ministers are scheduled to meet in Vienna on Thursday amid
skepticism about whether the oil output cuts agreed to late last year
are working. OPEC is likely to go along with the recent agreement by
Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s de facto leader, and Russia to extend the
trims nine more months, through March. But analysts say OPEC,
which will most likely be joined in Vienna by officials from other pro-
ducing countries, may also consider other measures to further prop
up prices — now about $49 per barrel for United States crude — such
as curbing exports to soak up the oil glut. STANLEY REED
BANKING
New Guidelines for Trading in Foreign Currency Markets
The Bank of England will unveil on Thursday a new global code for
best practices for trading in the foreign currency markets. The code
was developed after a series of investigations into potential manipu-
lation of the currency markets. The inquiries have led to billions of
dollars in penalties, guilty pleas and even criminal charges in the
United States by some of the world’s biggest banks, including Bar-
clays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Several traders have lost their jobs as a result. The code, which is a
self-regulatory measure, was jointly developed by the industry and
central bankers. Currency trading firms will voluntarily agree to
abide by it. CHAD BRAY
ECONOMY
Commerce Dept. to Offer Snapshot of Early ’17 Economy
On Friday, the Commerce Department will issue two reports outlin-
ing how the economy performed in early 2017. After an initial esti-
mate of gross domestic product growth of 0.7 percent in the first
quarter, statisticians will offer a revised number based on additional
data. Wall Street economists are not expecting a big change, but
there could be a slight upward adjustment in the annual rate to near 1
percent, factoring in slightly healthier business investment and gov-
ernment spending.
While the G.D.P. number covers January, February and March,
new data on durable goods sales for April will count toward growth in
the current second quarter. The headline figure is expected to show a
drop in overall durable goods orders, led by a decline in volatile air-
craft and defense orders. Demand for core durable goods like appli-
ances is expected to have held up better, showing a slight rise of 0.6
percent. NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Treasury Auctions Set to Be Held the Week of May 22

The Treasury’s schedule of fi-
nancing this week includes Mon-
day’s regular weekly auction of
new three- and six-month bills
and an auction of four-week bills
on Tuesday.
At the close of the New York
cash market on Friday, the rate on
the outstanding three-month bill
was 0.92 percent. The rate on the
six-month issue was 1.02 percent,
and the rate on the four-week is-
sue was 0.72 percent.
The following tax-exempt fixed-
income issues, valued at $50 mil-
lion or more, are scheduled for
pricing this week:
MONDAY
Florida Board of Education, $92.5 million of
unlimited tax general obligation bonds.
Competitive.
Florida Management Services Department,
$187.8 million of revenue bonds. Competitive.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District, $80
million of unlimited tax general obligation bonds.
Competitive.
TUESDAY
Arlington, Tex., $59.3 million of limited tax
general obligation bonds. Competitive.
Newport News, Va., $60.7 million of unlimited
tax general obligation bonds. Competitive.
WEDNESDAY
San Francisco Municipal Transportation
Authority, $173.1 million of revenue bonds.
Competitive.
Warren, Mich., $53 million of limited tax
general obligation bonds. Competitive.
ONE DAY DURING THE WEEK
Atlantic City and Atlantic County, N.J., $73.6
million of tax appeal refinancing bonds. Morgan
Stanley.
Baltimore mayor and City Council, $285.4
million of Maryland Convention Center Hotel
revenue refinancing bonds. Piper Jaffray.
Byron Center Public Schools, Mich., $65.3
million of school building and site bonds. Stifel
Nicolaus.
California Municipal Finance Authority, $236.4
million of Eisenhower Medical Center revenue
refinancing bonds. Bank of America Merrill
Lynch.
California Pollution Control Financing
Authority, $220 million of solid waste disposal
revenue bonds. Stifel Nicolaus.
Chaffey Joint Union High School District,
Calif., $100 million of general obligation bonds.
RBC Capital Markets.
Clark County, Nev., $150 million of highway
revenue bonds. Wells Fargo Securities.
Colorado University Regents, $50.7 million of
university enterprise revenue refinancing bonds.
Stifel Nicolaus.
Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corporation,
N.Y., $2.15 billion of second indentured revenue
bonds. Goldman Sachs.
Kankakee School District No. 111, Ill., $380
million of limited-tax taxable general obligation
bonds. Fifth Third Securities.
Mississippi Development Bank, $100 million of
special obligation and Rankin County School
District general obligation bonds. Morgan Stanley.
Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn.,
Metropolitan Government, $174.5 million of
electric system revenue and refinancing bonds.
Raymond James.
New Hampshire Health and Education
Facilities Authority, $50 million of Southern New
Hampshire University revenue bonds. Citigroup
Global Markets.
New York University Hospitals Center, $600
million of taxable bonds. Bank of America Merrill
Lynch.
Northside Independent School District, Tex.,
$83.7 million of unlimited tax school building and
refinancing bonds. Raymond James.
Northside Independent School District, Tex.,
$100 million of variable rate unlimited tax school
building bonds. Citigroup Global Markets.
Northwest Independent School District, Tex.,
$90.4 million of unlimited tax school building
bonds. BOK Financial Securities.
Philadelphia Industrial Development
Authority, $177 million of hospital revenue bonds.
J. P. Morgan Securities.
Tarrant County, Tex., Cultural Education
Facilities Finance Corporation, $238.4 million of
retirement facility revenue bonds. Ziegler.
Texas, $89.8 million of general obligation,
water financial assistance and refinancing bonds.
Estrada Hinojosa.
Tuscaloosa County, Ala., Board of Education,
$75 million of special tax school warrants.
Raymond James.
Virginia Housing Development Authority,
$100.4 million of commonwealth mortgage bonds.
Wells Fargo Securities.

Smaller Rivals See a Chance to Challenge Fox News
Two decades ago, Bill
O’Reilly’s wryly resentful Every-
man act became the foundation
upon which the Fox News
founder Roger
Ailes built the
JIM right-leaning tele-
RUTENBERG vision monopoly
that the network
MEDIATOR became (and re-
mains today).
Now, with Mr. O’Reilly out on
the market after his ouster from
Fox News over sexual har-
assment allegations, Fox’s much
smaller rivals believe Mr. O’R-
eilly could do the same for them
— help them cut into Fox’s
prime-time, conservative hegem-
ony after years of trying.
“O’Reilly needs to have a
platform and a voice — he’s got
an important one — and we’re
very open to having that discus-
sion with him,” said Christopher
Ruddy, the founder of Newsmax,
A network that’s lost
several stars is seen
as vulnerable by
rivals on the right.
a conservative-leaning news
network and website. Mr. Ruddy,
a close associate of President
Trump, said his interest was
“serious, and not hot air.”
Charles Herring, whose family
company Herring Networks
owns the newer and still smaller
— but no less ambitious — con-
servative cable network One
America News Network, said in
an email, “One America News
has reached out and spoken
directly with Mr. O’Reilly and
separately with his agent.”
And then there’s Sinclair
Broadcast Group, which is al-
ready the country’s largest tele-
vision station group but aims to
become even bigger with its
proposed takeover of Tribune
Media. Sinclair, which has drawn
scrutiny for pushing conserva-
tive-skewing segments onto its
local newscasts, says it is not
moving on Mr. O’Reilly. But no
ADVERTISING
Given Taste of Future
By Networks, Marketers
Are Hungry for More
From First Business Page
he continued, adding, “This is the
same challenge the record com-
panies had: How fast do you shift
to a new model at the risk of
your existing, lucrative one?”
Turner Broadcasting, which
owns channels like CNN, TBS
and TNT, especially impressed
advertisers with its presentation.
The company emphasized its
willingness to experiment with
new, longer formats for tradi-
tional commercials and said it
would continue to reduce the
number of ads it runs during
shows. It is risky to cut back on
ad inventory, especially as rat-
ings decline, but the company
contends that doing so creates a
better viewer experience and
more effective, engaging com-
mercials.
Turner also highlighted its new
data and audience-targeting
collaboration with its rivals Via-
com and Fox Networks Group
and the number of video-on-
demand rentals its properties
commanded in the first quarter.
“I was really kind of blown
away by Turner,” said Lou
Paskalis, an executive at Bank of
America Merrill Lynch who
oversees paid media invest-
Apple Pay Violates Patents Held by Security Technology Inventor, Lawsuit Alleges
By VINDU GOEL
SAN FRANCISCO — A small
Boston company, founded by the
inventor of a popular corporate
encryption technology called RSA
SecurID, sued Apple and Visa on
Sunday, arguing that the Apple
Pay digital payment technology
violates its patents.
The lawsuit, filed by Universal
Secure Registry in Federal Dis-
trict Court in Delaware, says that
its chief executive, Kenneth P.
Weiss, received 13 patents for au-
thentication systems that use a
smartphone, biometric identifica-
tion such as a fingerprint and the
generation of secure one-time to-
kens to conduct financial transac-
tions.
In the suit and in an interview,
Mr. Weiss said he had extensive
one is counting it out, including
Rupert Murdoch, the 21st Cen-
tury Fox founding chairman,
who is paying close attention to
Sinclair and Newsmax, I’m told
by people with direct knowledge
of his thinking.
Whether Mr. O’Reilly would go
any of those routes, and whether
the advertising boycott that
contributed to his Fox ouster
would make picking him up
prohibitive, remains to be seen.
(Mr. O’Reilly’s representatives
declined to comment on his
plans).
And challenging Fox is no
small undertaking. Its cable
news winning streak is now 15
years old.
But make no mistake: Things
are in flux as never before in the
Fox News era, and big move-
ments are afoot that could
change the cable news dynamic
of the past two decades.
That, in turn, could have an
outsize effect on the national
political scene, given the big part
Fox has played in driving the
public discourse since Mr. Ailes
founded it with Mr. Murdoch in
1996.
Fox News made its rise to first
place in the ratings during the
presidency of George W. Bush
with an “America first” approach
that gave the Bush White House
a boost during the post-9/11 war
efforts. “We just do not assume
that America’s wrong first,” Mr.
Ailes told me at the time.
But then, when Barack Obama
assumed the presidency, Fox
News personalities played prom-
inent roles in promoting the
president’s Tea Party opposition,
the campaign against his health
care bill, and even the so-called
birther campaign questioning his
citizenship.
But the network’s influence
has been most acute in Republi-
can politics. Several presidential
candidates over the past couple
of election cycles had either
worked for Mr. Ailes as contribu-
tors at some point or shared a
friendship with him, as Mr.
Trump did.
On Friday, my colleague Bret
Stephens, a conservative col-
umnist, captured the two views
on the right of Mr. Ailes, who
ments. He said the company’s
presentation, as well as some of
the new advertising ideas dis-
cussed by Fox Networks Group
and CBS, addressed the major
concern that he and other
marketers shared: How do you
compete for consumers’ atten-
tion, especially as they move to
block ads and turn to platforms
like Netflix, where running com-
mercials is not an option?
“If the consumer’s in control,
you have to figure out how to
adapt your consumer experience
to the device they’re going to
consume your content on,” he
said.
Ad buyers were intrigued by
the Fox group’s decision to stop
selling traditional commercials
on the FX network’s digital and
on-demand properties, and by
the potential for marketers to be
a show’s sole sponsor. (In those
cases, viewers can choose to
watch a 60-second message from
a brand at the start of a show in
exchange for watching the rest of
it without commercial breaks.)
The Fox group also discussed
a new system for measuring the
effectiveness of ads on its online
properties to help marketers
determine which versions to use
just hours later on traditional TV.
That fits into a broader narra-
meetings in 2010 with Visa offi-
cials, including its chief executive
at the time, to discuss working to-
gether on the technology. In the
interview, he said that Visa had
signed a 10-year nondisclosure
agreement to gain access to the
technology, assigned engineers to
fully understand the details, but
then dropped further communica-
tion without securing a license.
Mr. Weiss said he also wrote to
Apple at the same time seeking to
license his technology, but the
iPhone maker never responded to
his inquiries.
Three years later, Visa began
work on the Apple Pay technology
with Apple, MasterCard and
American Express. Apple re-
leased Apple Pay to iPhone users
in 2014.
Although Apple has heavily
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
MEDIA
died last week. On the one hand,
he wrote, virtually “nobody did
more than Ailes to broaden the
reach of conservative ideas
among the American public.” But
he also pointed out that “if Ailes
broadened, he also debased,”
embracing populism for
populism’s sake and ushering in
the Trump presidency.
He was hardly alone in saying
Fox News and Mr. Ailes contrib-
uted greatly to Mr. Trump’s
political success. To the extent
that there’s something to that —
and there certainly is — it comes
from Fox’s unique place in con-
servative media.
In its early years, Fox News
was the prime-time megaphone
of what was then referred to as
the “conservative echo chamber.”
Over the years, however, the rest
of the conservative media fac-
tionalized like the Republican
Party itself, with new players like
Breitbart providing decidedly
different views than those of The
Wall Street Journal editorial
page or The Weekly Standard.
The idea of a single conservative
“echo chamber” seems quaint.
But not on television, where
Fox News is so often the echo
chamber.
The question is, what happens
Jo Ann Ross, CBS’s president for sales, last week at the network’s presentation of its fall lineup.
tive in the TV industry, in which
executives have long complained
that as Americans increasingly
watch shows on an array of
devices, and do so outside the
three- or seven-day windows that
are now measured, networks are
not getting full credit for their
total audience figures.
It was clear during the
presentations last week that the
networks believed advertisers
were giving technology compa-
nies too much credit. As ex-
pected, each network touched on
brand safety, an obvious topic
amid the revelation that ads for
promoted Apple Pay as an alter-
native to paying with a credit card
at retail stores, in apps and on
websites, it has not gained much
traction with consumers or mer-
chants. Users enroll a credit card
on their phone, then touch a finger
to the iPhone’s Touch ID sensor to
pay a merchant that has installed
a wireless terminal that can re-
ceive a signal from the phone.
Universal Secure Registry did
not seek a license agreement or
royalties from Apple or Visa after
the release of Apple Pay. Mr. Weiss
said the law firm representing his
company, the patent specialists
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sulli-
van, advised him to file the suit
first.
Apple declined to comment on
the suit. Visa did not respond to a
request for comment.
if that changes? It doesn’t seem
likely to happen anytime soon.
But in 18 years of closely cover-
ing the network, I’ve never seen
it in such a vulnerable position.
Think about it. In the last year
it has lost its founding chairman;
the prime-time star Megyn
Kelly; its 7 p.m. host Greta Van
Susteren; and, most significantly,
Mr. O’Reilly.
Given the turmoil, it’s impres-
sive that Fox News remains the
most-watched cable news net-
work, coming off the most prof-
itable year in its history despite
Mr. Ailes’s own ouster in July,
over sexual harassment allega-
tions.
But, as it embarks on a re-
building period — replete with a
fresh-start new newsroom where
Mr. Ailes’s office had been —
there have been warning signs.
One came last week, when Fox
News lost to MSNBC and CNN in
the prime-time, 25-54 age catego-
ry important to advertisers. That
could have been an anomaly, a
result of the news involving the
investigation into the Trump
administration and Russia —
which, true to form, Fox covered
less than CNN and MSNBC. But
it may not have been.
And that rare hint of vulnera-
brands like AT&T had been dis-
covered on YouTube videos with
terrorist-related and racist con-
tent. But the criticisms extended
beyond that.
Joe Marchese, Fox Networks
Group’s new ad sales chief, dis-
missed Facebook’s claim that it
could offer advertisers a “Super
Bowl on mobile every day,” say-
ing that the number of video ad
minutes available in Fox’s prime-
time broadcasts “dwarf” those on
YouTube and Facebook.
Linda Yaccarino,
NBCUniversal’s ad sales chief,
expressed skepticism that people
Apple has taken an aggressive
stance recently against compa-
nies seeking royalties for key
patents covering its iPhones,
Macs and other products. It is em-
broiled in bitter litigation against
Nokia and Qualcomm, accusing
them of demanding unfairly high
royalties for technology that it
uses.
Quinn Emanuel, which filed the
Apple Pay suit on behalf of Uni-
versal Secure Registry, repre-
sented Samsung Electronics in
some of its long-running patent lit-
igation with Apple over software
in its Android-based smart-
phones.
Mr. Weiss said that his company
has tried to license its technology
to larger firms without success
and is now building its own device
for secure wireless authentica-
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
bility has tantalized Fox’s rivals.
Both Newsmax and One Amer-
ica News Network view scooping
up Mr. O’Reilly as a way to tur-
bocharge their growth.
Polls have shown most of his
viewers would follow him to
another network. (There’s sur-
prise throughout the television
world that Fox did not include a
stricter clause prohibiting him
from working for a competitor as
part of an exit package estimated
to be worth up to $25 million.)
Fox News could comfort itself
that Mr. Ruddy’s Newsmax, for
instance, is in only about 10 mil-
lion homes. But Mr. Ruddy tells
me it will be in 35 million homes
as of this summer — far less than
Fox’s 90 million, but a big jump
nonetheless.
Of course, the protest groups
behind the advertising boycott
that prompted Fox News to oust
Mr. O’Reilly would certainly have
something to say about any
move to bring him back to televi-
sion. As the National Organiza-
tion for Women president, Terry
O’Neill, said to me, “Any network
that hires him, what they’re
doing is sending a message to
women: ‘We don’t care about
sexual harassment.’”
JEFFREY R. STAAB/CBS
“liking” an ad or product on
Facebook actually led to sales.
And Les Moonves, the chief
executive of CBS, cited Amazon,
Apple and Google as companies
that, like the network, were “all
about mass audience” while
noting that all three also paid to
advertise with CBS.
Still, the new ideas about ad-
vertising did not dominate the
presentations, in part because
the concepts are still evolving
but mostly because the tradi-
tional way of selling TV ads
remains the biggest money-
maker for the networks.
tion.
He founded Security Dynamics
in 1984 and was its chairman until
1996. Security Dynamics acquired
RSA Data Security in 1996, and the
two companies’ technologies were
eventually combined in the RSA
SecurID token system that is now
used by tens of millions of people
to authenticate and secure com-
munications with corporate and
government computer systems.
RSA is now part of Dell EMC.
After leaving Security
Dynamics, Mr. Weiss turned his
attention to payment technologies
and planned to license them to
larger companies. He said he is
still hoping to reach some kind of
agreement with Apple and Visa.
“My intention is still to get into a
conference room with them and
resolve this,” he said.
0N + B3
The KOMO-TV building
and Seattle’s Space Needle.
KOMO is owned by Sin-
clair, the country’s largest
television group.
(Newsmax and One America
News Network said they took the
charges against Mr. O’Reilly
seriously and would vet them
before hiring him.)
Mr. Murdoch, who has taken a
hands-on role at Fox News, is
keenly focused on the possibility
that Newsmax would team up
with the much larger Sinclair to
hire Mr. O’Reilly, two people with
direct knowledge of his thinking
told me (21st Century Fox had no
comment).
Mr. Ruddy did not shoot the
notion down. Noting that he and
Sinclair’s executive chairman,
David D. Smith, “meet from time
to time,” he said, “I would be
very open to partnering with him
or working with him in some
way.”
Newsmax has something
Sinclair, a holder of disparate
local stations, doesn’t have — an
already functioning, nationally
focused 24-hour news network.
It’s conceivable that News-
max, with Mr. O’Reilly in its
stable, could simulcast its pro-
gramming on Sinclair’s digital
channels. It’s equally possible
Sinclair could buy Newsmax
outright and combine it with the
WGN America cable network it
would acquire in the Tribune
deal, though Mr. Ruddy said he
had no plans to sell. (Sinclair had
no comment other than to say it
was not seeking to hire Mr.
O’Reilly.)
“Fox proved there is a huge
and incredible market that has
been 100 percent ignored by the
mainstream media networks,
and it’s been in blue ocean terri-
tory since its founding,” said Mr.
Ruddy, who has also been men-
tioned as a potential Ailes suc-
cessor at Fox. “I personally think
it’s ridiculous; I want to get into
that market.”
It would take a tremendous
effort, and it would be exceed-
ingly difficult. But I’m old
enough to remember when peo-
ple said that about Fox News.
An industry tries to
shift to a new model
without risking a
proven moneymaker.
“The statement used to be
‘digital pennies for TV dollars,’”
said Mike Law, executive vice
president for video investments
at Amplifi, Dentsu Aegis Net-
work’s investment arm. “Now it
may be digital nickels for TV
dollars, but the vast amount of
revenue these networks are
generating is coming from TV. In
a marketplace we think will be
down a little bit in spend volume,
networks getting their fair share
of revenue is critical to them.”
That may have to change,
particularly now that networks
have given marketers a taste of
new possibilities. Mr. Paskalis of
Bank of America, for one, was
left wanting more.
“The thing I’d like to see the
most, frankly, is even more focus
on user experience and opportu-
nities for marketers to join the
conversation around the pro-
gramming than just advertise
adjacent to the programming,”
Mr. Paskalis said. He offered
examples like creating polls in
advance for marketers to run
related to particular plot devel-
opments in scripted shows and
allowing brands to sponsor
limited commercial interrup-
tions.
“How can marketers do more
to add to the experience,” he
said, rather “than just be the tax
you have to pay to enjoy the
experience?”
UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY
Kenneth Weiss, head of Uni-
versal Secure Registry, which
is suing Apple and Visa.
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Pittsburgh, Test City for Driverless Cars, Sours on Uber

experts from the city’s Carnegie
From First Business Page Mellon University, upsetting
shares with other cities is insuffi- some faculty and officials. Mr. Pe-
cient. duto defended Uber and said he
The company, which still has al- shared Mr. Kalanick’s vision.
lies in Pennsylvania’s state and The two exchanged texts fre-
county government, said it had quently. In September, Mr. Peduto
created 675 jobs in the greater became the first passenger to hail
Pittsburgh area and had helped lo- a driverless car and posted a
cal organizations like a women’s photo of himself grinning in the
shelter, among other moves. back seat of an Uber car.
“Uber is proud to have put Pitts- “It was inspiring, and we knew
burgh on the self-driving map, an in Tempe, the innovation center of
effort that included creating hun- Arizona, we wanted to have that
dreds of tech jobs and investing kind of partnership,” said Mark
hundreds of millions of dollars,” Mitchell, the mayor of Tempe,
the company said in a statement. where Uber began testing driver-
“We hope to continue to have a less cars last fall.
positive presence in Pittsburgh by But hidden from the public was
supporting the local economy and Mr. Peduto’s simmering frustra-
community.” tion with Uber. In early 2016, Uber
Pittsburgh’s frustrations with had indicated it would support
Uber are encapsulated in the Ha- Pittsburgh’s application for a fed-
zelwood neighborhood along the eral grant to redo local transporta-
Monongahela River, where the tion, according to Mr. Peduto. He
company opened a driverless ve- asked Uber to commit private
hicle testing track last year. From funds to enhance the proposal.
the second floor of the neighbor- Uber said that the request had
ing Center of Life church, the come too late and that the desired
track is in full view. Sky-blue amount — $25 million — was too
Volvo S.U.V.s with large revolving much. Pittsburgh didn’t win the
sensors called lidar devices on federal competition.
their roofs navigate around ship- In January, Mr. Peduto was also
ping containers and stoplights. surprised to get billed for a ride
The area is enclosed by a chain- home in an Uber autonomous ve-
link fence wrapped in a black tarp. hicle. “Travis Kalanick had told
When Uber picked the site in me the rides would be free and a
2016, a company representative service for the public,” he said.
told community leaders that it PHOTOGRAPHS BY TOM M. JOHNSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Uber said it had always in-
wanted to hire from the neighbor- tended to charge for driverless
hood. Tim Smith, a pastor at the Above, an Uber self-driving rides.
Center of Life church and the head car at a test site in Pittsburgh’s Still, there are signs that Uber is
of a neighborhood group, said he Hazelwood neighborhood. trying to improve some relations.
had given Uber a list of job candi- Right, Michael Lamb, the city The company said it had agreed to
dates, including a mapping engi- work with Hazelwood residents
controller, has called on the on an art installation along the
neer and technicians.
Since then, Mr. Smith said, he company to share traffic data black chain-link fence surround-
has been told that applicants gathered by its vehicles. ing the test track. This month,
should go through Uber’s general Uber officials also invited Mr.
jobs site. None have been hired. ministration’s business advisory Smith, the church pastor in Ha-
“We have been underserved for council this year. zelwood, to discuss job training
decades, and now there are people In January, Pittsburghers for for young adults.
who live right on the other side of Public Transit, a nonprofit repre- “I’m cautiously optimistic,” Mr.
that fence that are missing out,” he senting bus drivers and riders, or- Smith said.
said. ganized a #DeleteUber social me- Mr. Peduto, who has stopped
Uber has benefited Pittsburgh dia campaign and a street demon- texting Mr. Kalanick, said Uber
in some ways. The company has stration against the company’s de- and other self-driving car compa-
raised Pittsburgh’s profile, and cision to continue airport service nies remained crucial to Pitts-
the Advanced Technologies Cen- when taxi drivers halted rides to burgh’s ability to break from its
ter that Uber opened for driver- protest the Trump administra- steel industry past. He said he was
less research in 2015 has revived tion’s travel ban. now talking to Ford, which is in-
the former steel mill neighbor- Molly Nichols, executive direc- vesting $1 billion in a Pittsburgh-
hood known as the Strip District. tor of the group, said Uber had based driverless technology com-
Yet city officials and residents called to ask her to cancel the pro- pany, Argo AI, about signing com-
are reconsidering even those test, which ultimately went ahead. mitments on data sharing and
benefits, especially as Uber has “The warning signs about work force development. Ford de-
recently grappled with several Uber’s questionable business clined to comment.
controversies. Those include a practices were all over the place, “When it came to what Uber
Justice Department criminal in- and the mayor should have recog- tonomous vehicles, including au- be replaced if fewer people own Mr. Kalanick first approached and what Travis Kalanick wanted,
vestigation into Uber’s use of a nized that and worked harder to tomation’s effect on Uber’s 4,000 and park cars and use driverless Mr. Peduto in 2015 with plans to Pittsburgh delivered,” Mr. Peduto
software tool to deceive law en- create a partnership that was drivers in the city. Parking fees services instead, she said. start driverless trials in Pitts- said. “But when it came to our vi-
forcement. Some Pittsburghers more equitable,” Ms. Nichols said. also make up about 15 percent of Mr. Peduto, a third-generation burgh. At the time, Mr. Kalanick sion of how this industry could en-
also objected to Mr. Kalanick’s be- She added that there might be Pittsburgh’s revenue, and the city Pittsburgher, has perhaps had the had hired away more than three hance people, planet and place,
ing a member of the Trump ad- longer-term problems from au- has not said how those funds will most noticeable change of heart. dozen researchers and robotics that message fell on deaf ears.”

Wyoming Wind Project Free training in a

fast-growing job
Envisions Coal Miners category, for those
unafraid of heights.
As Its New Work Force low-market prices.
By DIANE CARDWELL technician. And it is aiming the “This seems to be an effort —
Goldwind Americas, an arm of a program at coal miners having and perhaps a smart effort — by a
leading wind-turbine manufactur- trouble finding work, as well as Chinese company to win its way
er based in China, has been ex- those from other industries. into the hearts of this administra-
panding its business in the United Called Goldwind Works, the tion and get beyond what’s hap-
States. It has been careful to seek program would begin next month pened in the past by targeting a
out local, American workers for with a series of informational core group of supporters of this
permanent jobs on the wind farms meetings in Wyoming and include president,” said Rory MacFar-
it supplies. a safety training and tower climb quhar, a visiting fellow at the Pe-
Now it is trying to extend that at a wind farm in Montana. terson Institute for International
policy to an unlikely place: Wyo- The company has an agreement GOLDWIND Economics.
ming, which produces more coal to supply turbines, potentially A Goldwind project in Montana. The company has a deal for a similar project in Wyoming. “But this administration has
than any other state and has 850, to a project in Carbon County, been talking much more about
hardly welcomed the march of Wyo., where the state’s first coal manufacturing than about
electrical and mechanical, and ex- logical engineers will grow by 6 positive stories and you start to
turbines across the country, even mine opened a century ago. Once services,” added Mr. MacFar-
perience working under difficult percent between 2014 and 2024, see more direct benefits, it
construction is completed, as quhar, who helped set interna-
imposing a tax on wind-energy conditions. while employment for wind tur- changes local perspectives and
many as 200 workers will be tional economic and trade policy
generation. “If we can tap into that market bine technicians is expected to kind of begins to open minds.”
needed to maintain and operate in the Obama White House. “They
On Thursday at an energy con- and also help out folks that might grow by 108 percent. He cautioned, though, that the
the plant. seem to want to actually have fac-
ference in Wyoming, the company be experiencing some challenges Robert Godby, director of the program could hardly make up for
The chief executive, David Hal- in the work force today, I think Center for Energy Economics and job losses in the coal industry, in tory jobs back in the United
announced plans for a free train-
ligan, said in a telephone inter- that it can be a win-win situation,” Public Policy at the University of part because each coal job results States.”
ing program for one of the nation’s
view that he expected coal work- he said. “If you’re a wind techni- Wyoming, said the announcement in related jobs, given the supply Mr. Halligan said that Goldwind
fastest-growing jobs: wind farm
ers to have relevant skills, mainly cian, you obviously can’t be afraid could lead to a shift in thinking chain involved in handling and did not have plans for American
of heights. You have to be able to about the potential economic de- transporting the fuel. manufacturing, but that the Wyo-
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must: (i) be written work at heights, and you have to velopment benefits of wind Beyond Wyoming, the program ming wind project could generate
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK in English; (ii) include a Claim amount denominated in United States dol-
In re: ) Chapter 11 lars; (iii) conform substantially with the Proof of Claim Form provided by be able to work at heights in a safe projects. The state has some of the could have implications for com- thousands of construction jobs
SunEdison, Inc., et al ) Case No. 16-10992 the Debtor or Official Form 410; (iv) state a Claim against a Third Bar Date manner.” most robust winds in the country plex trade relations with China. In and hundreds of full-time opera-
Debtors.1 ) Jointly Administered Debtor; (v) be signed by the Claimant or if the Claimant is not an individual,
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR SUBMITTING PROOFS OF by an authorized agent of the Claimant; and (vi) include supporting docu- The program could offer a and has attracted keen interest 2013, the Commerce Department tions and support positions.
mentation (or, if such documentation is voluminous, include a summary of
CLAIM AND REQUESTS FOR PAYMENT UNDER BANKRUPTCY
CODE SECTION 503(b)(9) AGAINST THE DEBTORS such documentation) or an explanation as to why such documentation is needed boost. Hundreds of coal from developers. finalized steep tariffs on some The company plans to use the
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on May 16, 2017, the Court entered an not available.
Consequences of Failing to Timely Submit Your Proof of Claim.
miners were laid off in Wyoming “This is actually a realization of wind towers after finding that Wyoming program as a pilot. It
Order Establishing Third Bar Dates for Filing Proofs of Claim and Approving
Form and Manner of Notice thereof (Docket No. 3140) (the “Third Bar Date Any Claimant who is required, but fails, to submit a Proof of last year. The Bureau of Labor these benefits in a way that hasn’t China was providing unfair subsi- hopes to eventually roll it out in
Order”) in the above-captioned cases. A copy of the Third Bar Date Order Claim in accordance with the Third Bar Date Order on or before
can be accessed at the Debtors’ restructuring website, https://cases. the applicable Bar Date shall be forever barred, estopped, and Statistics projects that national been apparent before,” Mr. Godby dies to manufacturers that were other states where it supplies tur-
primeclerk.com/sunedison/Home-Index. enjoined from asserting such Claim against the Third Bar Date
Debtors, their property, or their estates (or filing a Proof of Claim
employment for mining and geo- said. “The more you hear these then selling their products at be- bines, like Texas.
The Third Bar Date Order requires all entities (the “Claimants”) holding
or wishing to assert a claim that arose or is deemed to have arisen prior to with respect thereto), and the Third Bar Date Debtors, their prop-
the Petition Date (the“Claims”) against one or more of the debtors listed in erty, and their estates shall be forever discharged from any and
the table below (the “Third Bar Date Debtors”) to submit a proof of claim all indebtedness or liability with respect to such Claim, and such

Huntsman Is Said to Be Close to Merger With Clariant

(“Proof of Claim”) so as to be actually received by Prime Clerk, LLC. (“Prime holder shall not be permitted to vote, to accept or reject any plan
Clerk”), the Debtors’ claims and noticing agent, on or before a certain date of reorganization filed in the chapter 11 case, or participate in any
(the“Third Bar Dates”). The table below lists the Third Bar Date Debtors and distribution on account of such Claim or receive further notices
the Third Bar Dates: regarding such Claim.
Third Bar Date Debtors. The Third Bar Date Debtors, along with the Reservation of Rights. Nothing contained in this notice is intended
last four digits of each Debtor’s tax identification number include: Hudson to or should be construed as a waiver of the Third Bar Date Debtors’ right
Energy Solar Corporation (3557); SunE REIT-D PR, LLC (5519); SunEdison to: (a) dispute, or assert offsets or defenses against, any filed Claim or any By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED Both Huntsman and Clariant an equal number of its directors became governor of Utah and a
Products, LLC (4445); SunEdison International Construction, LLC (9605); Claim listed or reflected in the Schedules as to the nature, amount, liability
Vaughn Wind, LLC (4825); Maine Wind Holdings, LLC (1344); First Wind or classification thereof; (b) subsequently designate any scheduled Claim
The Huntsman Corporation is have had relatively stagnant reve- represented on the merged busi- Republican presidential candi-
Energy, LLC (2171); First Wind Holdings, LLC (6257); and EchoFirst Finance as disputed, contingent or unliquidated; and (c) otherwise amend the
Co., LLC (1607). Schedules. close to a deal to merge with a nue in recent years, and the ness’s board. date. He has accepted President
Third General Bar Date (applicable to 503(b)(9) claims). All Additional Information. If you have any questions regarding the
Swiss counterpart, Clariant, and planned merger is meant to help As of Friday, Huntsman carried Trump’s offer to become the
Claimants, other than governmental units, holding or wishing to assert claims process and/or if you wish to obtain a copy of the Third Bar Date
a Claim must submit proof of such Claim so as to be actually received by Order (which contains a more detailed description of the requirements create a large trans-Atlantic each company find new geo- a market value of about $6.6 bil- United States ambassador to Rus-
Prime Clerk by June 23, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time (the for filing proofs of claim), a proof of claim form or related documents
you may do so by contacting Prime Clerk at: (a) (855) 388-4575; (b) the chemical maker at a time of con- graphic markets while creating lion, and it reported $326 million in sia, The New York Times and oth-
“Third General Bar Date”). Requests for payment under Bankruptcy Code
section 503(b)(9) must also be submitted so as to be actually received by Debtors’ restructuring website https://cases.primeclerk.com/sunedison/
solidation within the industry, a opportunities to reduce costs. To- net income on top of $9.7 billion in ers have reported.
Home-Index. Please note that Prime Clerk cannot advise you how to file, or
Prime Clerk by the Third General Bar Date. gether, HuntsmanClariant would sales last year. Clariant was This would be only the second
Third Governmental Bar Date. All governmental units holding or whether you should file, a Proof of Claim. person briefed on the matter said
wishing to assert a Claim must submit proof of such Claim so to be actually 1
The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of manufacture coatings, resins and valued at about 6.9 billion Swiss time in a decade that Huntsman
received by October 4, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time (the“Third each Debtor’s tax identification number are as follows: SunEdison, Inc. Sunday evening.
Governmental Bar Date”). (5767); SunEdison DG, LLC (N/A); SUNE Wind Holdings, Inc. (2144); SUNE other chemicals for a wide variety dollars, or roughly $7 billion, as of has sought a merger. The com-
Third Amended Schedules Bar Date. In the event a Third Bar Date Hawaii Solar Holdings, LLC (0994); First Wind Solar Portfolio, LLC (5014); The proposed merger — an all- of industries and would employ Friday, and it earned $260 million
Debtor amends or supplements its schedules of assets and liabilities (col- First Wind California Holdings, LLC (7697); SunEdison Holdings Corporation stock transaction that would cre- pany had agreed to sell itself to a
lectively, the “Schedules”) to reduce, delete, change the classification (8669); SunEdison Utility Holdings, Inc. (6443); SunEdison International, more than 32,000 people world- on top of $6.1 billion in sales. fellow chemical maker, Hexion, in
of, or add a Claim, the Third Bar Date Debtors shall give notice of any such Inc. (4551); SUNE ML 1, LLC (3132); MEMC Pasadena, Inc. (5238); Solaicx ate HuntsmanClariant, a business wide. Although Huntsman is cur-
amendment to the holders of any Claim affected thereby, and such hold- (1969); SunEdison Contracting, LLC (3819); NVT, LLC (5370); NVT Licenses, with a combined market value of July 2007, but its proposed buyer
ers shall be afforded the later of thirty (30) days from the date on which LLC (5445); Team-Solar, Inc. (7782); SunEdison Canada, LLC (6287); Enflex Under the terms of the pro- rently headquartered in The
such notice is given or the Third General Bar Date or Third Governmental Corporation (5515); Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc. (1788); Silver more than $14 billion — was set to tried to end that deal as the finan-
Bar Date, as applicable, to submit a Proof of Claim with respect to such Ridge Power Holdings, LLC (5886); SunEdison International, LLC (1567); posed deal, Clariant shareholders Woodlands, Tex., the company
amended Claim (the “Third Amended Schedules Bar Date”) or be forever Sun Edison LLC (1450); SunEdison Products Singapore Pte. Ltd. (7373); be announced as soon as Monday, would own 52 percent of the com- traces its roots back to Jon M. cial crisis began to worsen. The
barred from doing so. SunEdison Residential Services, LLC (5787); PVT Solar, Inc. (3308); SEV said the person, who requested bined company. Huntsman Huntsman, a Utahan who founded two sides settled their legal battle
Third Rejection Bar Date. Claimants must file a proof of claim arising Merger Sub Inc. (N/A); Sunflower Renewable Holdings 1, LLC (6273); Blue
from a Third Bar Date Debtor’s rejection of any executory contract or unex- Sky West Capital, LLC (7962); First Wind Oakfield Portfolio, LLC (3711); First anonymity because he was not au- shareholders, including its epony- a packaging manufacturer in 1970. in late 2008.
pired lease by the later of the Third General Bar Date or 5:00 p.m., prevail- Wind Panhandle Holdings III, LLC (4238); DSP Renewables, LLC (5513);
ing Eastern Time, on the date that is 30 days after the entry of the relevant Hancock Renewables Holdings, LLC (N/A); Everstream HoldCo Fund I, LLC thorized to discuss confidential mous founding family, would own That company gained promi- Clariant, which is headquar-
Rejection (the“Third Rejection Bar Date”). (9564); Buckthorn Renewables Holdings, LLC (7616); Greenmountain talks. the rest. nence when it began making foam tered in Muttenz, in northern
Filing a Proof of Claim. All Proofs of Claim must be submitted so as Wind Holdings, LLC (N/A); Rattlesnake Flat Holdings, LLC (N/A); Somerset
to be actually received no later than 5:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time Wind Holdings, LLC (N/A); SunE Waiawa Holdings, LLC (9757); SunE MN The deal would be the latest Huntsman’s chief executive, clamshells for McDonald’s Big Switzerland, was created in 1995
on the applicable Third Bar Date at the following address: IF BY MAIL: Development, LLC (8669); SunE MN Development Holdings, LLC (5388); when it was spun off from the
SunEdison, Inc. Claims Processing Center, c/o Prime Clerk, LLC, 830 3rd SunE Minnesota Holdings, LLC (8926); Terraform Private Holdings, merger within the chemical indus- Peter R. Huntsman, would retain Macs, establishing the Hunts-
Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022; IF DELIVERED BY HAND: United LLC (5993); Hudson Energy Solar Corporation (3557); SunE REIT-D PR, try. A number of producers, from that title in the merged business. mans as a business dynasty. chemical company Sandoz.
States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, One Bowling LLC (5519); SunEdison Products, LLC (4445); SunEdison International
Green, Room 534, New York, NY 10004-1408; IF FILED ELECTRONICALLY: Construction, LLC (9605); Vaughn Wind, LLC (4825); Maine Wind Holdings, Dow and DuPont to Bayer and His counterpart, Hariolf The family’s most famous mem- News of the potential transac-
http://cases.primeclerk.com/sunedison/EPOC-Index. LLC (1344); First Wind Energy, LLC (2171); First Wind Holdings, LLC (6257);
PROOFS OF CLAIM SUBMITTED BY and EchoFirst Finance Co., LLC (1607). The address of the Debtors’ corporate Monsanto, have sought to com- Kottmann, would become chair- ber is now Jon M. Huntsman Jr. — tion was reported earlier on Sun-
FACSIMILE OR ELECTRONIC MAIL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. headquarters is 13736 Riverport Dr., Maryland Heights, Missouri 63043. bine to gain scale and cut costs. man. Each company would have the son of Mr. Huntsman — who day by The Wall Street Journal.
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Stanley Greene, Whose Camera Captured the Brutality of War, Dies at 68

By JAMES ESTRIN
Stanley Greene, whose visceral
and brutally honest images of con-
flict and fearlessness in the most
perilous of places made him one of
the leading war photographers of
his generation, died on Friday in
Paris. He was 68.
The death was confirmed by the
photographer-owned agency
Noor Images, of which Mr.
Greene, who lived in Paris, was a
founding member. No cause was
given, although associates said he
had been treated for liver cancer
for several years.
Mr. Greene was one of the few
African-American photographers
who worked internationally. He
traveled widely, making powerful
images of conflicts in Afghanistan,
Iraq and the republics of Chech-
nya and Georgia, among other
places. Some of his pictures were
too raw for many publications.
“You want to sit there comfort-
ably with your newspaper and
blueberry muffin, and you don’t
want to see pictures that are going
to upset your morning,” Mr.
Greene said in a 2010 interview
with the Lens blog of The New
York Times. “That is the job of a
journalist, to upset your morning.”
Mr. Greene’s commitment to
telling the unvarnished truth ex-
tended to his assessments of the
A photographer whose
pictures were too raw
for many publications.
Greene received were five World
Press Photo awards. His books in-
clude the autobiographical “Black
Passport” (2010) and “Open
Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003”
(2003). Anne Tucker, a former cu-
rator of photography for the Mu-
seum of Fine Arts, Houston, fea-
tured Mr. Greene in “War/Photog-
raphy,” a comprehensive ex-
hibition and book, in 2012.
“He was one of those journalists
who went toward the bullet,” Ms.
Tucker said, “because that’s
where the story was.”
Stanley Greene was born in
Brooklyn on Feb. 14, 1949, and
grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. His
father, also named Stanley, was an
actor, producer, filmmaker and di-
rector; his mother, Javotee Sutton
Greene, was an actress. His fa-
ther, an activist devoted to black
culture, was blacklisted as a Com-
munist in the 1950s and was re-
duced to taking anonymous bit
parts.
Information on survivors was
not immediately available. STANLEY GREENE/NOOR

ethical questions facing photo-
journalism. He railed against the
use of computer programs like
Photoshop to alter the scenes of
news images, a practice that he
said turned photos into “car-
toons.” And he scorned photogra-
phers who staged images in an at-
tempt to recreate a missed mo-
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matic childhood,” his longtime
friend Jules Allen said. “There
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satiable, but he was blessed
enough to at least partially deal
with his pain through photogra-
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Greene shared a darkroom and a
studio in San Francisco while Mr.
Greene studied photography at
the San Francisco Art Institute.
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lished in “The Western Front,” a
book that chronicled the city’s
punk music scene in the 1970s and
’80s.
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some of the musicians he pho-
tographed. “Stanley was a punk
rocker who drove a Mustang,” Mr.
Allen said. “He wore a black
leather motorcycle jacket, a black
beret, two scarves, three watches
and four bracelets, as well as two
great cameras and a bandoleer of
film strapped across his chest.”
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physical dangers of his work, Mr.
Greene discouraged others from
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like that. It’s not the bang-bang
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the end of the day, it is not about
death; it is about life.
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stand why human beings behave
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happen? And sometimes, the only
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An image by Mr. Greene of a Chechen woman who fled fighting, going to nearby Georgia.
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Norfolk highs
Louisville 80s
0s
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90s TOMORROW ..........Warmer, some sunshine
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Raleigh
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High 71. High pressure will provide sun-
70°
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Oklahoma City
Little Rock
Memphis shine in the morning. Another low-pres-
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noon, bringing a mostly cloudy sky. After-
90s El Paso Ft. Worth
Dallas
80s
noon temperatures will be near normal.
Jackson
n 60°
70s
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Jacksonville WEDNESDAY .........................A few showers
80s
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0s Hilo
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90s
0s
80s showers. Temperatures will remain near
90s
90
Corpus Christi
C Miami normal.
90
0s
0s 50° W T F S S M T W T F
30s
30 80s
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80s
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0s THURSDAY
Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time. FRIDAY ...........................................Showers TODAY
Fairbanks
6 s
60s
TODAY’S HIGHS
Thursday will be cloudy, with showers and
50s thunderstorms. The high will be 71. Friday Forecast
<0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+
Actual range Record
Anchorage
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chorage will remain mostly cloudy, with showers High High lows
H L 40°
40s
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eau
COLD WARM STATIONARY COMPLEX HIGH LOW MOSTLY SHOWERS T-STORMS RAIN FLURRIES SNOW ICE
and a high of 73.
FRONTS COLD PRESSURE CLOUDY PRECIPITATION Low Low

Highlight: Rain Returns to the East Today National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac
Rain from the west will Rain will advance along a cold front In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
overspread nearly all of through the Northeast today. Some of the
the East today. Much of rain will be heavy and may affect travel Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
the area from eastern conditions. Flooding is most likely to Yesterday ............... 0.00
Maryland to central New occur along the Gulf Coast as widespread Record Record .................... 1.94
England will get a SAT. YESTERDAY high 93°
Boston heavy rain moves through the region. 90°
(1996)
For the last 30 days
soaking with rain falling Actual ..................... 6.27
Ahead of the soaking rain, thunder- Normal .................... 3.96
hard at times. Travel storms will develop over parts of the For the last 365 days
along streets and Southeast in the afternoon. While the 80°
Actual ................... 50.01
highways will be slowed Ohio Valley will be dry, showers and thun- Normal .................. 49.94
Normal
and flights may be New York derstorms will bring an unsettled day to 68°
high 72°
LAST 30 DAYS
2 p.m.
delayed. Farther to the the Central states. 70° Air pressure Humidity
west, rain will taper to Philadelphia Some of the storms will turn severe High ......... 30.41 11 a.m. High ............. 73% 6 a.m.
showers or end as dry air Low ............ 30.34 4 p.m. Low.............. 27% 2 p.m.
across the southern High Plains in the
reaches the central afternoon. Heat will increase from Arizona 60°
Cooling Degree Days
Appalachians. and California to Washington, with a large Normal
Washington low 55° An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
high-pressure system in control. Record far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
highs may be challenged in spots. 50°
52° Yesterday ..................................................................... 0
6 a.m. So far this month ........................................................ 53
Record So far this season (since January 1).......................... 87
low 40° Normal to date for the season ................................... 37
(1907)
4 12 6 12 4
p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Little Rock 79/ 54 0.13 71/ 56 S 74/ 53 T New Delhi 103/ 75 0.05 101/ 81 T 104/ 84 PC
Cities Los Angeles 88/ 60 0 83/ 60 S 81/ 60 PC Riyadh 99/ 82 0 100/ 75 S 103/ 84 S Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 79/ 57 0.25 76/ 57 S 77/ 60 PC Seoul 78/ 56 0 83/ 61 S 77/ 61 C Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 78/ 58 0.40 76/ 58 S 76/ 57 T Shanghai 80/ 69 0 83/ 70 PC 84/ 68 C from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 89/ 75 0 89/ 76 PC 91/ 79 S Singapore 88/ 77 0.45 89/ 82 C 89/ 82 T this month .............. –0.1° this year ................ +2.6°
Milwaukee 65/ 48 0.14 72/ 53 PC 64/ 48 R Sydney 70/ 58 0.09 71/ 57 S 71/ 56 S 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 52/ 45 0.09 66/ 48 PC 60/ 45 C Taipei 84/ 72 0 85/ 76 C 88/ 76 Sh 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 80/ 58 0.20 77/ 58 S 78/ 59 PC Tehran 95/ 72 0.01 87/ 64 S 90/ 70 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 82/ 71 1.00 80/ 68 T 78/ 66 T Tokyo 85/ 67 0 80/ 66 PC 77/ 66 PC
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 71/ 68 0 81/ 66 T 77/ 66 R Yesterday ............. 100% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 76/ 51 0 75/ 54 PC 69/ 48 Sh Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T .......... Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 98% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 69/ 51 0 77/ 49 T 64/ 46 PC Amsterdam 66/ 48 0 74/ 54 PC 69/ 53 PC
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 79/ 62 0.08 77/ 61 PC 77/ 61 T
Orlando 90/ 69 0 88/ 68 T 89/ 71 T
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 70/ 57 0 72/ 60 R 75/ 58 R Berlin 72/ 49 0 71/ 51 PC 75/ 52 PC
Sh ................... Showers –.............. Not available Phoenix
Pittsburgh
101/
73/
74
59
0 104/ 77 S
0.23 72/ 50 PC
106/
74/
77
55
S
PC
Brussels
Budapest
66/ 46 0
77/ 56 0
75/ 54 PC
77/ 57 T
74/ 51 PC
73/ 55 T
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 66/ 49 0 55/ 46 R 68/ 49 PC Copenhagen 66/ 49 0 63/ 50 PC 66/ 49 PC
New York City 68/ 52 0 64/ 58 R 71/ 59 PC Portland, Ore. 89/ 58 0 92/ 60 S 82/ 53 S Dublin 59/ 46 0.04 66/ 51 PC 69/ 53 C Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 67/ 51 0 62/ 57 R 71/ 57 PC Providence 70/ 50 0 59/ 54 R 73/ 56 PC Edinburgh 61/ 43 0.52 64/ 46 C 63/ 54 Sh
Caldwell 69/ 51 0 66/ 56 R 75/ 56 PC Raleigh 72/ 67 0 79/ 65 T 73/ 61 R Frankfurt 70/ 43 0 72/ 50 PC 79/ 54 PC New First Quarter Full Last Quarter
Danbury 67/ 43 0 59/ 50 R 72/ 52 PC Reno 83/ 52 0 87/ 55 S 91/ 57 S Geneva 68/ 45 0 75/ 50 PC 78/ 55 PC Today’s forecast
Islip 66/ 48 0 63/ 57 R 71/ 56 PC Richmond 71/ 64 0 77/ 61 R 70/ 59 R Helsinki 65/ 45 0 65/ 46 PC 62/ 45 Sh
Newark 67/ 53 0 66/ 59 R 72/ 58 PC Rochester 68/ 56 0.10 67/ 50 Sh 75/ 55 PC Istanbul 63/ 55 0.12 67/ 56 PC 69/ 56 S
Trenton 68/ 51 0 68/ 58 R 73/ 57 PC Sacramento 96/ 59 0 98/ 59 S 95/ 55 S Kiev 70/ 45 0 69/ 45 S 72/ 51 PC May 25 June 1 June 9 June 17
White Plains 67/ 50 0 62/ 56 R 71/ 56 PC Salt Lake City 69/ 49 0.09 73/ 53 S 78/ 58 S Lisbon 79/ 66 0 79/ 61 PC 89/ 64 PC 3:45 p.m. 9:10 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 81/ 66 0.14 77/ 64 T 83/ 61 T London 68/ 49 0 73/ 53 PC 73/ 56 PC Kennebunkport
San Diego 77/ 62 0 74/ 61 PC 72/ 62 PC Madrid 79/ 56 0 85/ 61 S 90/ 60 PC Sun RISE 5:33 a.m. Moon R 3:42 a.m. 55/48 Afternoon rain, cooler
Albany 72/ 49 0 60/ 49 R 75/ 52 S Moscow 62/ 46 0 55/ 41 PC 63/ 49 C
San Francisco 77/ 54 0 78/ 53 S 73/ 52 S SET 8:13 p.m. S 4:28 p.m.
Albuquerque 79/ 53 0 81/ 53 PC 79/ 49 S Nice 72/ 61 0 74/ 63 PC 76/ 64 PC 40s
San Jose 91/ 59 0 91/ 59 S 87/ 56 S NEXT R 5:32 a.m. R 4:18 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 53/ 45 0 56/ 45 R 56/ 45 C Oslo 64/ 52 0.14 64/ 44 PC 66/ 49 Sh
San Juan 88/ 78 0.05 89/ 80 PC 90/ 80 PC 59/53 Periodic rain 50s
Atlanta 78/ 68 0.32 81/ 65 T 74/ 63 T Paris 70/ 47 0 78/ 56 PC 77/ 54 S Jupiter S 3:38 a.m. Mars R 6:42 a.m.
Seattle 78/ 55 0 83/ 56 S 76/ 50 S
Atlantic City 64/ 57 0 66/ 61 R 67/ 59 R Prague 65/ 51 0 65/ 48 PC 72/ 54 PC R 4:00 p.m. S 9:50 p.m.
Sioux Falls 59/ 44 0.05 63/ 42 Sh 56/ 40 PC L.I. North Shore
Austin 81/ 66 0.19 77/ 61 R 84/ 57 T Rome 79/ 57 0 77/ 58 PC 76/ 59 PC
Spokane 76/ 54 0 80/ 55 S 82/ 50 S Saturn S 7:22 a.m. Venus R 3:36 a.m.
Baltimore 68/ 59 0 75/ 57 R 70/ 58 R St. Petersburg 59/ 47 0 64/ 48 PC 65/ 46 PC 61/59 Cooler with heavy rain
St. Louis 71/ 54 0 79/ 61 PC 73/ 53 T R 9:58 p.m. S 4:18 p.m.
Baton Rouge 83/ 69 0.46 76/ 65 R 79/ 62 T Stockholm 66/ 45 0 66/ 45 PC 65/ 43 PC
St. Thomas 89/ 79 0.04 86/ 78 PC 86/ 78 S
Birmingham 79/ 64 0.53 79/ 62 PC 75/ 60 T Vienna 66/ 54 0.33 70/ 54 PC 73/ 55 T L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 70/ 51 0 66/ 46 R 75/ 53 PC Boating
Boise 75/ 53 0 80/ 53 S 85/ 59 S Warsaw 70/ 55 0 72/ 50 PC 72/ 52 PC 63/60 Rain, some heavy
Tampa 92/ 76 0 89/ 76 PC 89/ 77 PC
Boston 64/ 51 0 55/ 53 R 69/ 55 PC
Toledo 77/ 51 0.32 71/ 54 S 72/ 52 T North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 67/ 55 0.37 61/ 52 PC 73/ 55 PC N.J. Shore
Tucson 98/ 65 0 98/ 67 S 100/ 68 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
Burlington 71/ 52 0 60/ 50 R 75/ 53 PC Tulsa 75/ 54 0 77/ 57 T 71/ 51 Sh Acapulco 89/ 78 0 89/ 79 PC 88/ 78 PC 66/61 Breezy with times of rain
Casper 60/ 35 0 57/ 33 Sh 63/ 38 S York Harbor.
Virginia Beach 69/ 66 0.01 77/ 66 T 74/ 65 R Bermuda 75/ 67 0 74/ 70 C 75/ 71 Sh
Charlotte 80/ 66 0 79/ 64 T 70/ 60 R Washington 72/ 63 0 78/ 61 R 71/ 60 R Edmonton 70/ 40 0 76/ 54 PC 80/ 53 PC Wind will be from the southeast at 10-15 knots. Waves Eastern Shore 60s
Chattanooga 80/ 65 1.11 81/ 61 PC 77/ 60 C Wichita 75/ 55 0 70/ 53 T 70/ 47 PC Guadalajara 94/ 56 0 96/ 56 S 94/ 54 S will be 2-4 feet on the ocean, 1-2 feet on Long Island 75/62 Periodic rain
Chicago 62/ 47 0.04 75/ 56 PC 67/ 48 T Wilmington, Del. 67/ 58 0 73/ 60 R 73/ 57 R Havana 88/ 71 0 90/ 69 T 89/ 73 PC Sound and 1 foot or less on New York Harbor. Visibility
Cincinnati 75/ 52 0.18 71/ 52 S 75/ 55 PC Kingston 88/ 77 0.12 89/ 78 T 89/ 79 Sh greatly reduced in rain and fog. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 77/ 57 0.31 69/ 54 S 77/ 56 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 88/ 78 0.02 88/ 77 PC 87/ 78 PC 70/62 Periodic rain
Colorado Springs 62/ 43 0 63/ 39 T 60/ 40 Sh Algiers 79/ 52 0 85/ 62 C 81/ 59 C Mexico City 84/ 56 0 85/ 57 PC 86/ 57 PC High Tides
Columbus 75/ 55 0.61 72/ 52 S 75/ 56 PC Cairo 86/ 63 0 94/ 67 PC 86/ 64 S Monterrey 84/ 72 0.03 88/ 70 PC 92/ 70 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 72/ 46 0 53/ 44 R 75/ 50 PC Cape Town 70/ 51 0 72/ 51 PC 75/ 54 PC Montreal 68/ 45 0 59/ 50 R 73/ 54 PC Atlantic City ................... 4:53 a.m. .............. 5:27 p.m. indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 82/ 63 0.15 76/ 63 T 77/ 58 Sh
78/67 A thunderstorm or two
Dakar 79/ 71 0 79/ 72 PC 79/ 72 S Nassau 89/ 73 0.02 88/ 74 PC 90/ 75 S Barnegat Inlet ................ 5:08 a.m. .............. 5:41 p.m. temperature.
Denver 62/ 41 0 64/ 37 PC 60/ 40 PC Johannesburg 71/ 40 0 70/ 39 S 71/ 40 S Panama City 86/ 75 0.12 88/ 77 PC 88/ 77 T The Battery .................... 5:36 a.m. .............. 6:09 p.m.
Des Moines 63/ 48 0 77/ 51 T 65/ 48 C Nairobi 79/ 58 0.01 76/ 55 PC 75/ 57 PC Quebec City 60/ 36 0 54/ 46 R 66/ 47 PC Beach Haven ................. 6:31 a.m. .............. 7:04 p.m.
Detroit 76/ 52 0.62 73/ 55 PC 71/ 53 T Tunis 77/ 59 0 80/ 62 PC 83/ 62 PC Santo Domingo 88/ 74 0.02 88/ 76 Sh 89/ 76 PC
El Paso 86/ 62 0 91/ 63 S 90/ 61 S Toronto 59/ 48 0.20 65/ 49 PC 71/ 51 C
Bridgeport ..................... 8:53 a.m. ..............
City Island ...................... 8:39 a.m. ..............
9:15 p.m.
9:01 p.m.
Low pressure moving through the Great
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Fargo
Hartford
55/ 39 0.14
74/ 50 0
62/ 44 R
58/ 51 R
63/ 40 Sh
77/ 54 PC Baghdad 90/ 67 0 95/ 67 S 102/ 71 PC
Vancouver 64/ 48 0 69/ 51 PC 68/ 49 S Fire Island Lt. ................. 5:59 a.m. .............. 6:32 p.m. Lakes will push a cold front across the
Winnipeg 55/ 43 0.28 59/ 44 C 70/ 43 PC
Honolulu 84/ 70 0 84/ 70 PC 86/ 72 PC Bangkok 97/ 82 0 94/ 81 T 94/ 80 T Montauk Point ................ 6:37 a.m. .............. 7:02 p.m. East Coast, bringing periodic rain from the
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 9:04 a.m. .............. 9:26 p.m.
Houston
Indianapolis
85/ 70 0.62
73/ 50 0.37
75/ 66 R
72/ 55 S
82/ 62 T
72/ 53 T
Beijing
Damascus
89/ 63 0.04
78/ 51 0
72/ 53 R
85/ 57 S
85/ 57 S
81/ 48 PC Buenos Aires 64/ 47 0.17 68/ 53 PC 66/ 50 C Port Washington ............ 8:58 a.m. .............. 9:20 p.m. beaches of New England to Virginia. The
Jackson 82/ 63 0.50 74/ 60 C 76/ 60 T Hong Kong 82/ 78 1.11 83/ 77 Sh 86/ 78 PC Caracas 88/ 79 0.09 89/ 78 PC 88/ 81 T Sandy Hook ................... 5:13 a.m. .............. 5:46 p.m. rain will be heavy at times from Cape Cod
Jacksonville 87/ 69 0 85/ 68 T 88/ 67 T
Kansas City 70/ 52 0 71/ 53 T 67/ 47 PC
Jakarta
Jerusalem
90/ 76 0
71/ 56 0
92/ 76 PC
80/ 60 PC
92/ 76 PC
73/ 56 S
Lima
Quito
72/ 65 0.01
68/ 48 0.07
74/ 64 PC
69/ 50 Sh
74/ 65 PC
70/ 52 C
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 5:08 a.m. ..............
Stamford ........................ 8:56 a.m. ..............
5:38 p.m.
9:18 p.m.
to Ocean City, Md. Some thunderstorms
Key West 87/ 78 0.04 86/ 79 PC 87/ 79 S Karachi 92/ 82 0 94/ 83 S 94/ 82 S Recife 86/ 78 0.02 85/ 77 Sh 86/ 76 PC Tarrytown ....................... 7:25 a.m. .............. 7:58 p.m. may also develop to the south, mainly in
Las Vegas 96/ 73 0 96/ 73 S 99/ 72 S Manila 90/ 81 0.06 93/ 81 T 94/ 81 Sh Rio de Janeiro 77/ 71 0.10 77/ 68 R 79/ 68 PC
Lexington 76/ 54 1.31 74/ 53 S 76/ 57 PC Mumbai 91/ 80 0 91/ 85 PC 92/ 85 PC Santiago 63/ 37 0 59/ 43 C 58/ 41 C
Willets Point ................... 8:43 a.m. .............. 9:04 p.m. Virginia.
2 MUSIC
Future and Migos shuffle
their hits. BY JON CARAMANICA
6 THEATER
Race, casting and an Albee
play. BY MICHAEL PAULSON
NEWS CRITICISM
CRAIG SJODIN/ABC
CRAIG SJODIN/ABC
Former bachelorettes, top row, from left, Andi Dorfman, Emily Maynard Johnson, DeAnna Stagliano, Ali Fedotowsky-Manno;
second row, Ashley Hebert Rosenbaum, Kaitlyn Bristowe, JoJo Fletcher, and the new season’s Rachel Lindsay.
A ‘Bachelorette’ Bible
Five writers share everything you need to know about
an American TV tradition and how it’s changing.
There is a mantra often repeated on “The
Bachelor” and its spinoff, “The Bachelor-
ette”: “Here for the right reasons.”
Contestants who go on the show to put their
trust in “the process,” find true love and set-
tle down are “here for the right reasons.”
Those who come to take off their tops, boost
their Instagram followings and land hosting
gigs on the spring break party circuit are
not.
You can think about watching the show in
the same way. You can tune in and sincerely
An Old Log Learns Some New Tricks
David Lynch’s series returns,
offering a past and a present.
ONE OF THE CREEPIEST IMAGES in the new
“Twin Peaks” is a glass box, ensconced in a
window in New York City, which is kept un-
der constant observation in case something
comes through it. (Not-such-a-spoiler alert:
Something does.)
“Twin Peaks,” returning 27 years after its
debut, is no longer brand-new under the
sun. But in its familiarly inscrutable first
two hours, shown Sunday night on Show-
time, it still has the ability to turn your TV
into that box — a quietly menacing portal
through which something horrifying or
wondrous might burst at any moment.
The broad strokes of the new story are
easy enough to lay out. F.B.I. Agent Dale
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CRAIG SJODIN/ABC CRAIG SJODIN/ABC
root for a lasting connection between a den-
tal hygienist and a junior sales associate. Or
you can embrace it on the level of spectacle,
view it as a shimmering reflection of capi-
talism, gender and race in America.
“The Bachelor” franchise, which turned
15 years old this year, is a deeply American
artifact. It’s a freaky mash-up of one-true-
love monogamy and hedonistic polyamory.
It isolates men and women from their fam-
ilies, friends and smartphones, liquors
them up and edits them into catty bitches
and aggressive bros. It’s the most synergis-
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BOB D'AMICO/ABC
CRAIG SJODIN/ABC
tic thing I’ve ever seen: Every episode of
“The Bachelor” functions as a native ad for
“The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Para-
dise” — the spinoff in which contestants
who were “not here for the right reasons”
are all put on an island to fend for them-
selves sexually. Over the years, the shows
has eaten up the rest of the ABC lineup,
bloating from one hour to 90 minutes to two
hours an episode — it finally reaches three
hours near season’s end, when the live spe-
CONTINUED ON PAGE C4
Kyle MacLachlan in the
revived “Twin Peaks.” The
series will include other
stars from the show’s 1990s
incarnation, including
Catherine E. Coulson,
Mädchen Amick, Peggy
Lipton, Sheryl Lee and
Sherilyn Fenn.
2 BOOKS
Five questions for
Andrea Petersen,
author of a memoir
about anxiety.
MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 C1
N
In Pursuit
Of News
To Skewer
Breaking scoops keep
late-night shows breathless.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Around 5 p.m. last Monday, Steve Bodow, an
executive producer at “The Daily Show
With Trevor Noah,” was making final
tweaks on that night’s script when he saw a
breaking news alert from The Washington
Post: President Trump had disclosed classi-
fied intelligence to Russian officials in a
White House meeting.
The show’s taping was just 90 minutes
away, but Mr. Bodow knew that the pro-
gram’s planned opener about the weekend’s
news — like a white supremacist march in
Charlottesville, Va. — would feel stale with-
out the latest Trump controversy. He
quickly sounded his own alarm to fellow
writers and producers at that Comedy Cen-
tral news satire.
“It was just like, ‘Ahhh — hang on, folks,’”
he recalled in an interview. The first act of
their show was rewritten on the fly.
There are an awful lot of last-minute
changes these days at late-night comedy
shows that thrive on topical humor. At a
time when an already relentless news cycle
seems to be spinning like a nuclear-pow-
ered Ferris wheel, these programs, many of
them produced in New York, are being
taped at evening hours, right when conse-
quential news stories are breaking.
In just the past two weeks, several major
stories have dropped around crunchtime
between 5 and 6 p.m.: the firing of the F.B.I.
director James B. Comey; Mr. Trump’s in-
telligence disclosure; the revelation of a
memo by Mr. Comey that documented Mr.
Trump’s efforts to halt an investigation of
Michael T. Flynn, the former national secu-
rity adviser; and the appointment of a spe-
cial counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to over-
see the investigation into ties between Mr.
Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.
With a mixture of speed, weariness and a
growing acceptance that this is what their
job now entails, comedy show writers are
scrambling to satisfy the appetites of their
news-savvy audiences. The frenzy reflects
not only the pressure writers put on them-
selves to come up with the freshest, sharp-
est satire they can generate, but also their
competitive TV environment, where sev-
eral broadcast and cable shows are trying to
put unique stamps on the same set of
events.
The rapid responses are already yielding
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Twin Peaks
Sundays on Showtime
Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) remains where
the series left him: in the Black Lodge, the
red-curtained lobby of the netherworld
where he’s been trapped for 25 years. A
wicked doppelgänger (Mr. MacLachlan,
Elvis-ed out in a leather jacket and mane of
hair) has taken his place. For Cooper to
leave, his evil twin must be returned.
But there is a lot left hanging in this far-
flung narrative, including a briefly intro-
duced thread in Las Vegas and the matter of
who is watching that box in Manhattan and
why. We’ve also yet to see much of the huge
cast — Laura Dern, Naomi Watts, Michael
Cera and the returning Sherilyn Fenn, to
name a few — that will populate this limited
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C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017

JON CARAMANICA MUSIC REVIEW

Evocations of Streaming for an Arena Audience

One of the year’s biggest pop
tours, virally speaking, features
hip-hop stars from Atlanta.

IN JANUARY, the Atlanta trio Migos as-

cended to the top of the Billboard Hot 100
with “Bad and Boujee,” one of their signa-
ture choppy anthems, bolstered by meme-
friendly opening lyrics. The next month, the
Atlanta elder Future pulled off something
no artist ever had: debuting atop the Bill-
board album chart in two consecutive
weeks with two different albums, ”Future”
followed by “Hndrxx.”
In both cases, streaming was essential to
the success — “Bad and Boujee” was a hit
online way before it was a radio staple, and
Future’s albums, druggy and thematically
coherent, are designed to be downed in long
gulps. His worldview and overall aesthetic
are more crucial than any one moment.
This is how pop stars are made today,
which means that pop stars don’t necessar-
ily look or sound as they always have. The
accounting of online taste rewards virality,
which means that hip-hop — not the stage-
managed collaborations typical of major la-
bels, but street-hot music that’s spreading
at warp speed — is becoming more formally
popular, faster than ever.
By these measurements, one of the big-
gest pop tours of the year arrived at the Bar-
clays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night,
with Future headlining and Migos — the

Future and Migos

Friday
Barclays Center

trio of Quavo, Offset and Takeoff — playing PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
just before him. Though they all hail from
Atlanta, their approaches to the city’s ro- Above, Future and left,
bust hip-hop legacy differ. Future toggles Migos, at the Barclays
between cheerleader and deconstruction- Center in Brooklyn on
ist, a lo-fi hitmaker and hi-test moodmaker. Friday. Streaming has been
Migos are excitable and have an easy way essential to the success of
with anthems — their party is relentless both acts.
and loud.
That they are both thriving in the same
moment is a reflection of the persistent, rap-
id innovation that keeps Atlanta at hip-hop’s
forefront, and also of how crucial those in-
novations have become to pop music as a
whole. Not all aspects of popularity are the
same, though, as demonstrated by this en-
tertaining but narrow concert, an arena
show that carried the charms, and liabil-
ities, of a club gig.
Arenas are big spaces, huge canvases to
fill. They are places for ambition to run wild.
Or, on this night, merely big rooms in which
big songs are celebrated. Often, the
performances were like setting a streaming
service’s artist page to random — the famil-
iar highs and lows of large-scale pop con-
certs were absent, replaced by an unremit-
ting and at times seemingly arbitrary ar-
rangement of hits and not-quite hits.
For Migos, the opener — with less of the
stage to work with, and less time on it — this
was less of a problem. Their set has a cold
efficiency to it. They dressed in coordinated
all-black, accented with loud jewelry, and
remained clustered close together, quickly
pouncing from one gut punch to the next,
with crossover successes like “Fight Night” or sonic juxtapositions were blunt, like the the new albums like “Draco” and “Super gardless of how any one song sounds, or
and “T-Shirt” received as heartily as con- devious “Real Sisters” into the spacey Trapper,” and closed with some of his big- performs on the chart, so perhaps his jum-
noisseur classics like “Kelly Price.” “Good Kush & Alcohol,” or the yacht-rap gest pop breakthroughs, including “Low bled set had purpose, reflecting the fact
In moments, it was tempting to think of ballad “Used to This” into the industrial Life” and his current hit, “Mask Off,” a gen- that, for those who have been paying atten-
them in terms of classic R&B outfits, with grind of “I Serve the Base.” tle exhale currently at No. 6 on the Billboard tion all along, his mainstream break-
Quavo an ostentatious Wanya Morris or K- Future has been one of the most reliable Hot 100. (After Future’s final song, as the throughs are, at best, footnotes. Migos, for
Ci Hailey type, Offset a nimble Nathan Mor- hitmakers of the decade, so even when he crowd was streaming out, something of a one, understood instinctively that, for the
ris or DeVante Swing, and Takeoff a was pinballing between moods, he was de- stampede took place, with hundreds of fans faithful, there was little difference between
grounded Mike McCary or JoJo Hailey. livering thrills, though there is little varia- scrambling out of the exits and onto the sur- the hits of then and the hits of now. And so,
Future had a grander remit — more stage tion in his presentation. A gaggle of male rounding streets. Some attendees sustained at the end of its set, after it played “Bad and
to work with, more time, more hits to attend dancers accented the performance with up- minor injuries, according to the New York Boujee,” which remains in the top 25 of the
to. Yet what can make Future so appealing to-the-second Atlanta dance moves, and Police Department. A Twitter message from
Billboard chart, it played “Handsome and
on record — the sense that there’s no begin- sometimes Future joined them, rare mo- an account run by the arena said that “a
Wealthy,” an older hit that’s just as pugna-
ning or end to his sound — can be taxing in a ments when he appeared loose and fully en- loud noise during load out” had been mis-
gaged. taken for gunshots.) cious, and which maybe, in this climate,
live setting. There was minimal banter be-
tween songs, and sometimes his thematic His set opened strong, with songs from Future has been a pop star for years, re- could have topped the Billboard chart, too.

5 THINGS ABOUT YOUR BOOK

ANDREA PETERSEN

Looking at, and Beyond, a Lifetime of Anxiety

A memoirist discusses the
history and latest science
surrounding her illness.
By JOHN WILLIAMS
Toward the end of 1989, Andrea
Petersen, then a sophomore at the
University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor, was “transformed from a
slightly silly sorority girl to a ter-
rorized shut-in in just a few weeks’ time.”
That’s how she describes the onset of panic
attacks and their confusing aftermath in
“On Edge,” her new memoir about having
what was eventually diagnosed as several
forms of anxiety. The book also looks back
at the history of our understanding of the
various disorders under the umbrella of
anxiety, and surveys the latest attempts to
combat them. Below, Petersen, a contribut-
ing writer at The Wall Street Journal, tells
how she overcame worries about disclosing
her experiences, what’s changed (and what
hasn’t) in treatment, and more.
When did you first get the idea to write this
book?
I’ve been dealing with anxiety since I was a
child, so I guess you could say I’ve been
gathering material for it for most of my life.
But I got the idea to write about it around a
decade ago. I started writing more mental
health stories, and realized it’s a really
exciting time in anxiety research. And
there’s been a perplexing rise in the diag-
nosis among young people, mostly college
students. So I realized there was a good
who don’t have it to understand how im-
pairing it can be.
What’s the most surprising thing you
learned while writing “On Edge”?
The main treatments for anxiety have
pretty much stayed the same for the last
50 years, and that’s a problem. The two
main evidence-based treatments are cogni-
tive behavioral therapy [C.B.T.] and an-
tidepressive medications, generally
S.S.R.I.s [selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors, a class of antidepressant].
About half the people with anxiety
disorders who do a course of C.B.T. —
about 12 to 15 sessions with a therapist —
Andrea Petersen, left, get clinically significant relief. About a
overcame reservations to
third of people with anxiety disorders don’t
write “On Edge,” above, a
respond to S.S.R.I.s, and there are others
memoir about living with
several forms of anxiety. who can’t tolerate the side effects. So we
need new treatments. Part of it is a lack of
MARC GOLDBERG
funding. One scientist at Harvard told me
journalistic story there as well as my own. anxiety hasn’t been taken as seriously
For a while, I was too worried about partly because it’s a normative emotion:
what would happen to me professionally if I We all experience it. So that may have
outed myself as having mental illness. Not influenced this idea that it’s not a big deal.
that I was worried about being fired or But researchers are also finding that anxi-
demoted, but just that people would feel ety disorders are thought of as gateway
like they needed to tiptoe around me. As I illnesses. They can lead to depression,
started writing about college mental health, substance-use disorders and suicide.
I spent time with young advocates, and I In what way is the book you wrote different
was blown away by their willingness to let from the book you set out to write?
me use their photographs and details about
Anxiety is a huge subject. I could fill an
their mental issues in the paper. I thought
entire file cabinet just with the research on
it’s time to do my part to help chip away at
genetics alone. So I realized I was going to
the stigma. I wanted to provide insight for
have to pare back on the research. I’ve had
those who suffer from it, and for the people many flavors of anxiety myself, but I had
who love them. It can be difficult for those initially planned on including the stories of
other people who suffer from different
forms of it, like PTSD [post-traumatic
stress disorder]. I wanted to make the
book as universal as possible. I do cover
those other disorders in the book, but I
wasn’t able to incorporate people’s individ-
ual stories in a seamless way.
I was hoping that my story would be
something people could relate to. Every
book needs a narrative thread, and my
story is the one I know the best and could
tell the most fully. But I also wanted to
relay this exciting science, too, not just
about the new treatments but about how
anxiety affects work and relationships.
Who is a creative person (not a writer) who
has influenced you and your work?
My husband, Sean Gallagher, is a visual
artist. He draws, paints and does print-
making. I have zero talent in any of those
things. But I’ve learned a lot from him
about the diligence of working on a craft.
He’s also constantly learning about his
field. I can also be a real procrastinator,
and he’s helpful in that way.
Persuade someone to read “On Edge” in
less than 50 words.
Even if you don’t suffer from serious anxi-
ety, someone you love is bound to. This is a
vivid account of living with it — from the
toll anxiety takes on work and relation-
ships to its unexpected upsides. It also
dives into the science unraveling the mys-
teries of the anxious brain.
This interview has been condensed and
edited.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 N C3

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

‘Alien: Covenant’ Is Ready, Set, Go

A Ho-Hum No. 1 YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX
Meh. The eighth chapter in 20th
Century Fox’s “Alien” series
arrived to an estimated $36
million in ticket sales in North
America — far from a flop, far
from a sizzling hit. “Alien: Cov-
enant,” as the latest film is titled,
cost roughly $100 million to
make, and has taken in an addi-
tional $30.3 million overseas.
Unless strong word-of-mouth
propels “Alien: Covenant” (star-
ring Katherine Waterston, bot-
STEPHEN REA This actor
tom right) to big ticket sales in
and the cellist Neil Martin
the weeks to come, the film may
become the latest example of stage Seamus Heaney’s
audience pushback on long-in- translation of Virgil’s “The
the-tooth film franchises. Aeneid, Book VI.” 7:30 p.m.
The domestic opening total at the 92nd Street Y.
was the third highest for the 212-415-5500, 92y.org
“Alien” series, which first thrilled
moviegoers in 1979 with its title
creature and sense of escalating
dread. “Prometheus,” a 2012
prequel, arrived to $55.1 million,
after adjusting for inflation.
“Alien vs. Predator” had $50.6
million in 2004.
For the weekend, “Guardians
of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (Disney)
was a close second, taking in WILL HEATH/NBC

$35.1 million, for a three-week

domestic total of $301.8 million,
according to comScore, which
compiles box office data. The
teenage romantic drama “Every-
thing, Everything” (Warner
Bros.) was third, collecting a
solid $12 million.
Also notable: “Diary of a
Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul”
(Fox) made a rather wimpy
debut, taking in about $7.6 mil-
lion, by far the worst opening-
weekend result in the history of
this four-film series. “The Long
Haul” cost about $22 million to
produce.
BROOKS BARNES
‘S.N.L.’ Says Goodbye
To Season and Players
It was a night of milestones on
“Saturday Night Live,” which in
the final episode of its 42nd
season said goodbye to the long-
time cast members Bobby
Moynihan (who is joining the
CBS sitcom “Me, Myself & I”)
and Vanessa Bayer.
Ms. Bayer and Mr. Moynihan
(top left, with Colin Jost) each
got a swan song in the show’s
“Weekend Update” segment,
where she reprised her role as
the tongue-tied meteorologist
Dawn Lazarus and he played his
barely coherent recurring char-
acter, Drunk Uncle. Ms. Bayer,
the longest-serving female cast
member, was on the show for
seven seasons; Mr. Moynihan
was on the show for nine.
And on Sunday, “Entertain-
ment Tonight” reported that the
cast member Sasheer Zamata
would also be leaving. She had
joined the cast in 2014.
Was it also a retirement party
for Alec Baldwin’s impersonation
of President Trump, a role Mr.
Baldwin has played all season
and has occasionally suggested
he did not expect to have for
quite so long? (“Look, I’d love to
keep doing this per my availabil-
ity,” Mr. Baldwin told The Holly-
wood Reporter this week, “but I
have other things I’m going to
do, so I guess we’ll figure it out.”)
In his opening monologue, the
episode’s host, Dwayne Johnson,
teasingly seemed to confirm
rumors that he might seek the
presidency in 2020, announcing
that he was running on a ticket
with a frequent “S.N.L.” guest
host who is “very well liked, he’s
charming and universally adored
by pretty much every human
alive.”
Mr. Baldwin, as himself,
seemed poised to accept the
invitation, except that Mr. John-
son was actually referring to
Tom Hanks, who joined him
onstage.
DAVE ITZKOFF
site to become Venom. The char-
acter was played by Topher
Grace in the 2007 “Spider-Man 3”
‘THE STRANGER’ Orson
as one of Spider-Man’s main
antagonists. Welles stars in this 1946 film,
“Venom,” a Sony film, is sched- part of the series “Immigrant
uled for release on Oct. 5, 2018; Songs.” 9:30 p.m. at Quad
Ruben Fleischer (“Zombieland”) Cinema.
will direct. quadcinema.com
Venom was introduced in 1988
and has floated through the
Marvel Universe, appearing
alongside not just Spider-Man
but also Iron Man, Deadpool and
the Hulk. He is the latest in an
extensive and growing web of
Marvel characters onscreen.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man first
MARK ROGERS/20TH CENTURY FOX showed up last year in “Captain
America: Civil War” and he will
soon be seen in his own movie,
Tom Hardy to Star “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” this
summer.
As the Lead in ‘Venom’ Reports indicate that Sony’s ‘ARCHITECTURE OF
He played a formidable villain “Spider-Man” series, which also INDEPENDENCE — AFRICAN
for DC Comics, and now he’ll do may include films centered on MODERNISM’ Final days for
the same for Marvel: Tom Hardy the characters Silver Sable and this Center for Architecture
has signed on to lead “Venom,” a the Black Cat. will be largely
show.
spinoff movie in Marvel’s ex- unconnected to the coming
panding universe. 212-683-0023, cfa.aiany.org
Avengers movies. It’s unclear
Mr. Hardy will play Eddie whether Spider-Man will appear
Brock, a vengeful reporter who in “Venom” at all.
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C4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
A ‘Bachelorette’ Bible From Those in the Know
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
cials begin.
It’s also the whitest thing ever. On this
season of “The Bachelorette,” which debuts
on Monday night, the show will feature a
black lead for the first time. As NPR’s Linda
Holmes has smartly noted, the franchise
works as a metaphor for white privilege be-
cause each new Bachelorette or Bachelor is
selected from the previous season’s top
contestants, power appears to pass na-
turally from one white romantic lead to the
next. How the show grapples with Rachel
Lindsay, a 31-year-old Dallas lawyer, as the
Bachelorette — Will a white romantic hope-
ful tell her he “doesn’t see color?” Will a
race war break out among the guys? —
won’t tell us much about race in America,
but it will tell us plenty about the story that
white America would like to sell itself about
race. The prospects are equal parts fasci-
nating and horrifying.
If you’ve never set foot in Bachelor Na-
tion, now would be a good time to start. As a
reality show star lords over American poli-
tics, reality television looks more urgently
political than ever. And social media has
added an additional subtext, spinning the
show into a delightfully meta communal ex-
perience. On Twitter, the show’s staged mo-
ments are analyzed and ridiculed in real
time. There are podcasts to download and
fantasy leagues to join.
To help you navigate the spectacle and
understand why the show matters, we offer
this guide from the “Bachelor” obsessives
of The New York Times and one newcomer
to the franchise.
So. Will you accept this rose?
AMANDA HESS
A FERRIS WHEEL FOR YOUR SOUL “The Bache-
lor” and “The Bachelorette” are designed to
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her! No, he prefers her! He’s insane! She’s
not eliminating him! — but are actually
closer to Ferris wheels: They follow a pre-
dictable pattern, delivering the illusion of
adventure as well as that sinking feeling
you have been on this ride before. Watch
them long enough and you won’t need to
consult Reality Steve, the “Bachelor” blog-
ger who posts juicy spoilers (including the
 
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above) and “not good for the Bachelorette.”
Surely the Bachelorette will see through
this man’s hollow charms and eliminate him
swiftly! That will not happen. This person is
ratings gold and going nowhere.
There will always be a date where a musi-
cal act serenades the couple, who pretend to
be big fans and awkwardly dance. On the
most recent season of “The Bachelor,” it
was the Backstreet Boys. Past performers
have included the Lady Antebellum mem-
ber Charles Kelley, the “X Factor” runner-
up Josh Krajcik and the Cranberries. It’s al-
ways a bit of a cringe and a bit of a laugh,
much like “The Bachelor” franchise itself.
CARYN GANZ
PLAYING TO WIN It’s a game and everybody
knows the rules. Throughout any season of
“The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette,” like
the N.F.L. or N.B.A., there is an understood
structure to the action, conventions that
provide the scaffolding for strategy and
competition. And as in professional sports,
this affects both behavior and speech:
While basketball might bring talk of “defen-
sive rotations” and “weak side cuts,” on
“The Bachelorette” we have “two-on-ones”
(typically a single-elimination date where
one of two suitors goes home) and “home-
VH1 towns” (essentially the start of the playoffs,
when we meet contestants’ families). “Can I
Flavor Flav in “Flavor of steal you for a sec?” is a play that works ev-
winner). For example:
Love,” the VH1 reality series ery time.
Someone will always be trying to “steal
that had women competing for The “first-impression rose,” given out in
her for a second.” That’s “Bachelor” speak
his affections. Week 1, puts a spotlight on someone — and a
for “rudely interrupt a conversation at a
critical moment for gamesmanship pur- target on their back — as an early-season
poses.” It happens constantly at the cocktail favorite. For the uninitiated, the natu-
parties before elimination ceremonies and ralness with which everyone throws around
group dates. It is infuriating. this jargon can be baffling; it is its own lan-
There’s always a “bad” hopeful, someone guage, though it’s easy to learn. But it also
who is “not here for the right reasons” (see shows those competing to be fully bought-in
to this strange endeavor, having internal-
ized its procedures. They are students of the
game and — make no mistake — they are
playing to win.
JOE COSCARELLI
BELATEDLY BREAKING A BARRIER The racial
limitations displayed by “The Bachelor”
and its spinoff properties have been evident
from the first season. Not just on the shows
— which have rarely featured nonwhite
contestants — but also owing to the pleth-
ora of other reality programming premised
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 THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 N C5

In Pursuit of Breaking News to Skewer

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
tangible results: On Friday, Comedy Cen-
tral said that “The Daily Show” had its most
watched week ever in Mr. Noah’s tenure,
drawing an average of just more than 1 mil-
lion viewers an episode.
With people getting news from more
sources than ever, including from late-night
shows themselves, the joke tellers have be-
come like the journalists providing scoops:
They don’t want to be even five minutes be- “The Daily Show With
hind their rivals. Trevor Noah,” keeping
“This has not happened this much in the current with the latest on
past,” Mr. Bodow said. But these recent the former F.B.I. director
stories, he said, “were major, crazy develop- James Comey, who figures
ments whose import was immediately clear prominently on late-night
— each time, we were like, ‘O.K., we’ve got shows these days.
to do that.’”
Seth Meyers, the host of NBC’s “Late
Night,” said that when the news of Mr.
Comey’s memo emerged last Tuesday, just
before taping time at 6:30 p.m., his staff hur-
riedly revised one of his “A Closer Look”
monologues — already prepared to address
the intelligence disclosures — to incorpo-
rate the newer story.
Mr. Meyers said that he also explained
COMEDY CENTRAL
the Comey memo to his studio audience be-
fore his taping started.
“You want to tell people, stuff has hap-
pened in the last hour that you’re probably
not aware of,” he explained. “It’s not as
crazy as you’re thinking, but also, it’s crazi-
er than anything that’s ever happened up to
this point.”
Jo Miller, the showrunner of TBS’s “Full
Frontal With Samantha Bee,” said that on
Seth Meyers, the host of
May 9, at 5:49 p.m., she was writing the final NBC’s “Late Night,” has had
line of a show to be taped and aired the next his staff quickly revise the
night when Mr. Comey’s firing was an- show when news unfolds.
nounced.
The show’s staff worked overnight to
write a new first act, while the previously
prepared segment, on the American Health
Care Act of 2017, was taped anyway and
posted online.
Ms. Miller said in an email that she and
her colleagues now have plenty of experi-
ence adjusting for late-breaking news, dat-
ing back to when the Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia died in February 2016.
“We still use the shorthand ‘Scalia’ (as a
verb) for what has become a weekly last-
NBC
minute show adjustment,” she said.
Programs like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,”
which is based in Los Angeles and usually
recorded around 8 p.m. Eastern time, have
slightly more time to incorporate real-life
plot twists. (CBS’s “The Late Show With
Stephen Colbert” and NBC’s “The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” both based in
New York, declined to comment for this ar-
ticle.)
“The Daily Show” has made some adjust-
ments to its production, like moving its re- The staff of “Full Frontal
hearsal to 3 p.m. from 3:30 p.m., to allow With Samantha Bee”
more time for the unexpected. worked overnight after Mr.
When the special counsel’s appointment Comey was fired.
was announced on Wednesday night, Mr.
Bodow said: “We slipped into it like it was
standard procedure. We quickly bid good-
bye to a bunch of Snapchat and Instagram
jokes and hello to special counsel Robert
Mueller.”
Mr. Meyers said that it was crucial for
“Late Night” to keep pace with the evening
news, so his content reflects what viewers
are most interested in later that night and
the next morning.
TBS
Describing the thought process at his
show, he said, “It’s like, ‘Oh, we’ll do a piece
yeah, yeah — get to that thing.’ And if we hour update, there were also times he said it Though there have been special occa-
about airline deregulation today — nope, no
we will not, because that is no longer what never got to it, they’re not laughing.” was appropriate to wait before reacting to sions in which programs like “Late Night”
anybody is talking about.’” And just as news media organizations vie complicated stories. and “The Daily Show” have gone live — the
Jen Flanz, an executive producer at “The for scoops, Ms. Flanz said there was a simi- “If we’re adding four pages of explana- Republican and Democratic National Con-
Daily Show,” said that, as rapidly as audi- lar spirit of competition among late-night tion,” he said, “we’d probably think, ‘Let’s ventions; election night — no one necessar-
ences have learned to digest what feels like shows to have the best, most current ma- give this the full 24 hours to get to tomor- ily wants to inflict this strain on studio audi-
an all-night news buffet, they expect their terial. row’s show.’” ences and co-workers every evening.
dessert, in the form of satirical commen- “We’d better get this joke up before some- If need be, the New York-based shows As Mr. Bodow said, “If you’re not taping
tary, to follow soon after. body else does,” she said. have some wiggle room to tape later in the by 7:30 or 8, then you’re doing it live, and
“They just saw that alert on their phone, While Mr. Meyers said that he appreciat- evening, but not too late, because some final don’t you dare suggest that.”
too,” she said. “If you don’t address it, ed seeing the “madcap, ‘Philadelphia Story’ edits and tweaks still need to be made be- He added, sardonically, “I think for the
they’re waiting for it the whole time. ‘Yeah, energy” of his staff accommodating an 11th- fore their episodes are broadcast. impeachment show, that’s what we’ll do.”

JAMES PONIEWOZIK TELEVISION REVIEW

An Old Log Learns Some New Tricks

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
series.
(Don’t call it Season 3, by the way. The
creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, con-
ceived it as a single 18-hour work, and the
first two “parts,” as Showtime calls them,
don’t feel particularly episodic.)
Alongside the introductions are a great
number of curtain calls, among them Mar-
garet the Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson),
now using an oxygen tube; Lucy (Kimmy
Robertson) and Andy (Harry Goaz), whose
son, last met in utero, is now 24; Shelly
(Mädchen Amick) and James (James Mar-
shall), making eyes at each other across the
Bang Bang Bar.
The most affecting return, though, is
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, whose death
set the series’s original story in motion. Re-
appearing to Cooper in the Black Lodge, she
summons her character’s luminous,
doomed teenage smile, as though she really
were frozen in eternity: “I am dead, yet I
live.”
This is the closest the premiere comes to
recapturing the raw emotional pull that —
more than any mystery — made the original
run great.
As inventive as it was, the “Twin Peaks”
of 1990-91 was also a creature of its time, bor-
rowing elements from prime-time soaps
and detective series. To watch its new itera-
tion is to be reminded of what TV has done
in its absence.
There are shades of “Lost” in that glass
mystery box — especially when it
eventually fills with a murderous appari-
tion in black smoke. There’s more than a lit-
tle “Fargo” in the darkly funny subplot in
which a South Dakota man (Matthew Lil-
lard) may have committed murder, à la Le-
SUZANNE TENNER/SHOWTIME, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
land Palmer, under paranormal influence.
Mädchen Amick, left, and Peggy Lipton, stars in the original “Twin Peaks,” back behind the cafe counter in an episode of the revival. There may be too much of “True Detective”
Its creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, conceived the new incarnation as a single 18-hour work. and other hard-boiled kill-dramas in the
journey of Evil Cooper, which culminates in
his murdering his lingerie-clad partner
(Nicole LaLiberté) in bed.
Of course, it’s ridiculous to suggest that
“Twin Peaks” is borrowing these elements
so much as borrowing them back.
And even after nearly three decades, Mr.
Lynch’s visual imagination remains inimi-
table: an ace of spades with a misshapen
symbol in the center; Laura removing her
face, beneath which is cold white light; the
“arm” — one of the mystic denizens of the
Lodge — represented now not by a dancing
dwarf but by a tree with a head of blobby
flesh. The Black Lodge scenes are as unset-
tling as any in the second-season finale or
the prequel film, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk
With Me.”
Mr. Lynch’s mastery of tension persists.
The script, by him and Mr. Frost, recognizes
the power of silence and anticipation. And
Mr. Lynch, who is directing the entire re-
vival, still has his penchant for dualities and
eerie beauty.
The new installments offer plenty of call-
backs and cryptic new utterances to parse:
“Remember 430. Richard and Linda”; “Two
birds with one stone”; “253. Time and time
again.” (I was told there would be no math.)
At times it feels as if it were a nostalgic
1990 version of the show is alternating
scenes with a colder, harder-edged 2017 ver-
sion. Whether and how the two come to-
gether may determine whether this sample,
one-ninth of a unitary work, has staying
power beyond the class-reunion phase.
But there’s enough unshakable imagery
to promise a few months of unsettled Sun-
day nights’ sleep. The original “Twin
Peaks” was powered by two questions:
“Who killed Laura Palmer?” and “What the
hell am I watching?” The reincarnation
doesn’t have the first. But it still knows how
to get you to ask the second.
C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017

BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW

SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES

From left, Jon DeVries, Alex Hurt, Grace Van Patten and Norbert Leo Butz in “The Whirligig,” a new play by the actor Hamish Linklater being performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

A Feast for Actors, With One in the Kitchen

A new play serves its cast
ample helpings of emotional
material inspired by addiction.
HAMISH LINKLATER, the author of the new
play “The Whirligig,” is best known as an
actor. And for the overstuffed drama that
opened on Sunday night at the Pershing
Square Signature Center, he has whipped
up a multicourse meal for fellow actors to
feast upon.
The cast of this New Group production
numbers eight. And there are juicy scenes
for each performer, brimming with showy
but spontaneous reversals of feeling along
with dialogue that dances off the tongue.
Everybody gets a chance to reign, and to
reign in pain, since this is a story of forms of
addiction and of death at an early age.
As might be expected of a New Group
show — especially one staged by that great
talent hound (and the company’s artistic di-
rector) Scott Elliott — all the cast members
have assured styles and a high cool quo-
tient. They include the two-time Tony win-
ner Norbert Leo Butz and, fresh off the final
season of “Girls,” Zosia Mamet.
They’re both terrific; everybody is. So let
me name the rest right now: Noah Bean,
Jon DeVries, Alex Hurt, Jonny Orsini,
Grace Van Patten and Dolly Wells. They all
create highly convincing interpretations of
solipsists, while playing nicely with others.
Clunk.
That’s the sound of the other shoe drop-
ping. While “The Whirligig” offers treats for
THE WHIRLIGIG
Tickets Through June 18. Pershing Square Signature Center, Manhattan, 212-279-
4200, thenewgroup.org. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes.
Credits By Hamish Linklater; directed by Scott Elliott; sets by Derek McLane;
costumes by Clint Ramos; lighting by Jeff Croiter; sound by M. L. Dogg; music by
Duncan Sheik; special effects design by Jeremy Chernick; fight direction by Unkle-
Dave’s Fight-House; production stage manager, Valerie A. Peterson; associate
artistic director, Ian Morgan; general manager, Kevin Condardo. Presented by the
New Group, Mr. Elliott, artistic director; Adam Bernstein, executive director; in
association with Lisa Matlin.
Cast Noah Bean (Patrick), Norbert Leo Butz (Michael), Jon DeVries (Mr. Cormeny),
Alex Hurt (Greg), Zosia Mamet (Trish), Jonny Orsini (Derrick), Grace Van Patten
(Julie) and Dolly Wells (Kristina).
fans of in-the-moment acting, its moments
fail to cohere, to become a bigger picture
that resembles real life. Mr. Linklater has
done a great job in furnishing the interiors
of his characters’ lives, but the teetering
structure they inhabit creaks.
Mr. Linklater, whose earlier work as a
playwright includes the more modest “The
Vandal,” has built this latest offering from
grand architectural blueprints. Its title
refers to no mere pinwheel, but a cosmic
construct, as in “the whirligig of time.” That
phrase shows up in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth
Night,” referring to what a latter-day dude
might call instant karma.
This befits a time-traveling tale of disinte-
grating families and the collateral damage
they inflict. So does setting the production
on a revolving stage that affords a long view
of shifting perspectives. The designer here,
the estimable Derek McLane, has also pro-
vided a moving and somewhat distracting
canopy of tree branches, in full foliage.
Several of the play’s younger characters
sit on the sturdiest of those branches from
time to time. It is a perch from which they
spy, smoke dope, neck or even (literally)
drop in on others. The effect is of a Feydeau
farce reimagined in the American backyard
of Booth Tarkington.
Michael (Mr. Butz) might think as much,
in any case. He’s an alcoholic drama teacher
who quotes liberally from the classics, and a
sweet charmer when he’s sober. When we
meet him, he has been sober for years, and
is wishing he weren’t. He and his former
wife, the depressive Kristina (Ms. Wells),
are at the deathbed of their 23-year-old
daughter, Julie (the uncannily graceful Ms.
Van Patten).
That scene is beautifully played, allowing
you to sense a complex web of ambivalent
relationships. The restless, rotating stage
then takes us into past and present scenes
— the plot covers 15 years — that explain
how Julie, a heroin addict long estranged
from her family, wound up dying at home.
Those who played roles in this tragic de-
velopment include Julie’s onetime best
friend, Trish (Ms. Mamet), and the uniden-
tified someone who introduced Julie to hard
drugs. Yes, his name is eventually revealed
in a tragicomic denouement.
In the meantime, let’s just say that the
other characters are Greg (Mr. Hurt), a bar-
tender and 12-step-program disciple, mar-
ried to Trish; Julie’s doctor, Patrick (Mr.
Bean), and his amiable ne’er-do-well
younger brother, Derrick (Mr. Orsini); and
Mr. Cormeny (Mr. DeVries, playing a char-
acter who shares a last name with Mr.
Linklater’s father), a former schoolteacher
of Julie’s and a Bordeaux-steeped barfly of
windy magniloquence.
Connecting the dots of culpability among
these folks is a laborious process, with the
kind of climactic coming-together that fig-
ures in Shakespeare comedies. (Mr.
Linklater’s mother is the acting teacher
Kristin Linklater, a creator of the celebrated
troupe Shakespeare & Company.)
By the play’s end, you may feel as if that
set had nearly been spun off its axis. But
you’ll also be unlikely to forget the moments
in which time seemed to stand still, when
the cast fully embodied the script’s insights
about the hunger for and consequences of
self-medication.
Mr. Butz’s portrait of the alcoholic Mi-
chael, with his whipsaw changes of mood,
combines idiosyncratic specificity with
textbook exactness. Ms. Mamet is excellent
in conjuring the self-startling perceptive-
ness of a young pothead mother with seri-
ous esteem problems. She is perfectly part-
nered with Mr. Hurt’s ever-defensive Greg,
a recovering alcoholic who’s terrified of
backsliding.
“Everyone knows everyone tonight, and I
don’t recognize a soul,” Mr. Cormeny slurs
from his bar stool. Audiences may share his
exasperation, as “The Whirligig” spins its
characters into confrontational proximity.
Yet the truth in this production’s
performances at least guarantees that, if we
peer through the overgrowth of plot and co-
incidence, we do recognize those people on-
stage. Most of us have met them before; we
may even have seen them in the mirror.

Albee Estate Rejects Bid to Cast Black Actor

A dispute over the role of a
blond character in ‘Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
By MICHAEL PAULSON
A decision by the estate of Edward Albee
not to allow a production of “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?” to cast a black actor as a
blond character is reigniting decades-long
debates in the theater world over race, cast-
ing and authorial control.
A theater producer in Portland, Ore., said
last week that Albee’s agent, representing
his estate, refused to grant him the rights to
present the play with a black actor, Damien
Geter, playing the supporting role of Nick, a
young biologist at a small New England
college. The Albee office, through a spokes-
man, said the producer had
mischaracterized the status of his applica-
tion for rights to the production, but con-
firmed that it objected to a black actor in
that role.
“It is important to note that Mr. Albee
wrote Nick as a Caucasian character, whose
blonde hair and blue eyes are remarked on
frequently in the play, even alluding to
Nick’s likeness as that of an Aryan of Nazi
racial ideology,” Sam Rudy, a spokesman for
the Albee estate, said in a letter to Michael
Streeter, the producer. “Furthermore, Mr.
Albee himself said on numerous occasions
when approached with requests for nontra-
ditional casting in productions of ‘Virginia
Woolf’ that a mixed-race marriage between
a Caucasian and an African-American
would not have gone unacknowledged in
conversations in that time and place and
under the circumstances in which the play
is expressly set by textual references in the
1960s.”
The playwright Edward
Albee, who was famously
hoped the negative aspects of Albee would
die with him.” He added, “I think the bene-
controlling of his work. fits of casting Nick with an African-Ameri-
can actor outweigh the drawbacks.”
Mr. Streeter set off a debate about the Al-
Nontraditional casting bee estate’s position on casting when he
and the playwright’s posted on his Facebook page that the estate
input into such had “withdrawn the rights” for him to
produce the show over his choice of a black
decisions has become actor as Nick. The post attracted attention,
the subject of intense including discussion on social media, and
debate. led to numerous news articles.
After Mr. Rudy said that the rights for Mr.
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES Streeter to present the show had never
been granted, Mr. Streeter acknowledged
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” which that the situation was complicated. Both
won the Tony Award for best new play in parties agreed that by November, they were
1963, is about a married couple, George and discussing rights for a Portland production
Martha, whose bitterness is bared during a of “Virginia Woolf” with the understanding
boozy late-night visit from Nick and Honey, that the Albee estate would have to approve
a younger couple at the same college cam- casting choices; last week that discussion
pus. The play is a classic of American fell apart after Mr. Streeter made clear his
drama; it has been produced four times on desire to add depth by casting a black actor
Broadway, was adapted into a film starring as Nick.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and is Albee’s record on nontraditional casting
widely read and staged. is complex.
Albee, one of the nation’s leading 20th- In a 2010 book, “Albee in Performance,”
century playwrights, was known for his the playwright is quoted expressing con-
tight control over professional productions cern about the casting of black actresses in
of his plays, insisting on approval of casts the role of Martha, who is the daughter of
and directors while he was alive; directors the college’s president, in “Virginia Woolf.”
were often required to submit head shots of “That would instantly raise a lot of ques-
proposed cast members before receiving tions, since it’s a totally naturalistic play,” he
the rights to mount his plays. He died in said. “Is this a black college? Do we have a
September, and this is the first posthumous black president of a white college? Not very
controversy over his legacy to come to light. likely.”
“I do not question the motives of those But eight years earlier, in 2002, the Ore-
that made the decision — I think they have gon Shakespeare Festival staged “Virginia
some fealty to a sense of integrity to Ed- Woolf” with a black actress, Andrea Frye,
ward Albee’s desires,” Mr. Streeter said in playing Martha. Its director, Tim Bond, now
an email. He had planned a non-Equity pro- a professor at the University of Washington,
duction of the play this fall at the 35-seat said the theater had sent the cast members’
Shoebox Theater in Portland. “But I had photos and descriptive biographies to Al-
bee, and they were approved. Mr. Bond also
recalled a 2000 production of the play at
Howard University with a black cast; Albee
reportedly assisted with the production.
“I think the play would work beautifully
with any number of approaches to cross-
cultural casting,” Mr. Bond said. “It’s a play
about the human condition, and any person
should be able to play any one of those
roles.”
There have been black actors in other Al-
bee plays, including a production now run-
ning in London of “The Goat, or Who Is
Sylvia?,” which features a white actor
(Damian Lewis) and a black actress (So-
phie Okonedo) in the lead roles.
In theater, unlike in film, writers (and
their estates, after their deaths until copy-
rights expire) retain oversight of their
works, and no one is questioning that the Al-
bee estate has the right to approve or reject
casting decisions. And debate over casting
is not infrequent. Just two years ago, the
playwright Katori Hall added a require-
ment (barring an exemption from her) that
black actors play the two roles in her play,
“The Mountaintop,” after a college produc-
tion cast a white actor as the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. And the Gershwin estate
has long insisted that “Porgy and Bess”
have a black cast.
Literary estates are often criticized as
overly restrictive by artists who want to
make changes and are denied permission.
“This is obviously a new estate, and part
of me thought, ‘Welcome to the club,’ be-
cause I have faced these decisions,” said
Theodore S. Chapin, president of the
Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. “Al-
bee hasn’t been gone for long, and he was
very cranky and irascible when he wanted
to be, but I have a feeling time will loosen
this up.”
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C8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
3 PRO BASKETBALL 6 SOCCER

The Warriors defy doubts Anxiety reigns over

about their team chemistry.
5 BASEBALL
Liverpool’s Premier
The Mets take a beating as League finale, but
the pitching falters again. then comes elation.

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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE BUGLEWICZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Predators fans smashing an Anaheim Ducks-themed car outside Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Below, Cassidy Denton of the Nashville Predators Energy Team.

From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D.

By BEN SHPIGEL
NASHVILLE — In the beginning, before the Nash-
ville Predators sank their fangs into a city that adored
hockey but just didn’t know it yet, there was a kiosk. Nat
there from the start recall the team’s rocky
Harden perched there, outside the food court of the Cool-
Springs mall in suburban Brentwood, eight hours a day,
five days a week during the 1997 holiday season and tried
to sell a sport that he had never seen in person and a team
that had no players.
One television at the booth showed hockey high-
lights, while another ran a loop of Shania Twain’s music
videos. Harden, who had recently graduated from Mis-
sissippi State, followed instructions to promote the
game’s speed, but it did not impress him much back then.
In college, he had been so indifferent to hockey that upon
returning home one night and finding a roommate and
some friends engrossed in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals, he
ducked out.
To watch “Saved by the Bell.”
Harden’s entry-level position with the Predators paid
$7 an hour, and he would have earned 1 percent commis-
sion on season-ticket packages had he, in fact, sold any.
“I wish I could say I came close in those three months,
but I didn’t,” Harden said last week. “They figured I was a
nice guy, though, so they let me stay on.”
A few Predators employees who were
ascension to playoff perennials.
Harden, 44, is now the senior vice president for ticket
sales and youth hockey for the Predators, who reign su-
preme in a market that was long the impenetrable do-
main of football and Nascar. Having overcome wobbly at-
tendance during their formative years, they sold out all 41
regular-season games at Bridgestone Arena and all eight
so far in the playoffs, including Game 6 of the Western
Conference finals against Anaheim on Monday night,
when Nashville may advance to its first Stanley Cup fi-
nals since joining the N.H.L. in 1998.
In the same building where almost 20 years ago
Harden made phone calls amid dangling lights and wires
in unfinished office space, he now basks in the din
produced by more than 17,000 fans, some of whom, when
the team arrived, didn’t know the difference between off-
sides and icing.
“I’m grateful for these times,” Harden said, “because
I’m grateful for those times.”
These days, fans scream “Go, Preds!” across the
aisles at Target. Pekka Rinne’s goaltending or Filip Fors-
berg’s clutch scoring dominates conversation in grocery-
store checkout lines. At Bridgestone, the noise starts
thumping early and does not relent, creating a hockey-
tonk atmosphere that combines the fervid tribalism of
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Looking for a Favorite, and Falling Short
Without Williams,
Women’s Tennis
Is ‘a Free-for-All’
By BEN ROTHENBERG
ROME — Asked Sunday if she be-
lieved, as the oddsmakers do, that she
is the French Open favorite, Simona
Halep dissented.
“No, no,” she said. “In this moment,
no.”
Who is, then?
“About 15 players,” she said, smiling.
The sixth-seeded Halep, of Romania,
had just lost the Italian Open final to
the eighth-seeded Elina Svitolina of
Ukraine, 6-4, 5-7, 1-6, the latest in a se-
ries of results in women’s tennis this
year that have sown uncertainty about
who can be relied upon to contend for
the biggest titles.
Halep, who won earlier this month in
Madrid and reached the Stuttgart
semifinals, has been the most common
answer in recent weeks, even if said
with minimal confidence. Though
Halep is a light, graceful mover on clay,
where her counterpunching game is at
its most effective, her mental tough-
ness is sometimes questioned.
Halep is often sullen and frustrated
on court, and her coach, Darren Cahill,
stopped working with her for five
weeks after a particularly uninspiring
midmatch coaching visit in Miami, in
which Halep repeatedly appeared to
throw in the towel before a third set.
“I was ashamed, and also upset, with
myself when I watched it,” Halep said
in an interview last week. “I felt very
bad, personally, inside. So I said I had
to stop it.”
Cahill left the door open for his re-
turn, and Halep won him back with im-
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ETTORE FERRARI/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Simona Halep of Romania said
“about 15 players” could be consid-
ered the French Open favorite.
Judge Unfurls Brilliant Defense
As Yankees Take Division Lead
By BILLY WITZ
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When the
Yankees’ Aaron Judge takes his place on
a baseball field, he cuts a larger-than-life
figure. He stands 6 feet 7 inches, weighs
275 pounds and is so
rock solid that when YANKEES
he ran into a wall at RAYS
Fenway Park recently,
Manager Joe Girardi said he was con-
cerned for the wall.
Judge’s batting practices have become
showstoppers, drawing oohs and aahs
from fans, and interested gazes from op-
ponents. And he is no 5 o’clock phenom:
His 15 home runs — several of them long,
majestic drives — are the most in the ma-
jor leagues.
But Judge’s game is not based on
sheer size and strength alone, as he
showed again Sunday when he sprinted
into the right-center-field gap to make a
diving, backhanded catch that preserved
the Yankees’ 3-2 victory over the Tampa
Bay Rays.
It was the signature play in a much-
needed victory for the Yankees, ending a
3 three-game losing streak, salvaging the
final game of the series here and return-
2
ing them to first place in the American
League East. They lead Baltimore by a
half-game.
“Not much you can do other than tip
your cap,” said Evan Longoria, the long-
time Yankees tormentor who hit the ball
that Judge caught. “We’ll be watching it
on ‘SportsCenter’ for a while.”
The play by Judge showed that even
on a day when he struck out four times,
he could find ways to influence a game. It
showed not just his raw athleticism, but
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D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
Having overcome wobbly attendance during their formative years, the Predators have sold out all 41 regular-season games at Bridgestone Arena and all eight so far in the playoffs.
From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D.: Witnessing the Predators’ Ascent
From First Sports Page
Southeastern Conference football with
the rowdiness of European soccer, com-
plete with choreographed chants and
taunts.
A sample: Soon after Nashville scored
in Game 3, the crowd pointed to Ducks
goalie John Gibson and bellowed: “It’s
all your fault! It’s all your fault!”
“I went home with my ears ringing,”
said John Russell, who has been the
team’s photographer since its inception.
“I was like, gosh, was it really that loud?”
The transformation is particularly re-
warding for a small number of
employees who have been present at ev-
ery stage, witnessing the Predators’ as-
cent from fledgling franchise to playoff
perennials.
Steeped in institutional memory, those
employees crow about today’s boister-
ous crowds because they fretted in 2007
when the team nearly moved to Hamil-
ton, Ontario. They gush about ousting
Detroit in the 2012 playoffs because they
gasped at all the transplanted Red Wings
fans who worked at auto plants in nearby
Spring Hill and Smyrna and crammed
Bridgestone in the beginning. (Those
early adopters were called Pred Wings.)
They cried when Nashville finished off
the St. Louis Blues this month to reach
this playoff round because they had cried
in 2010 after the Predators allowed a late
short-handed goal and an overtime win-
ner to Chicago in Game 5.
Gerry Helper, a senior vice president
and the team’s unofficial historian,
worked through it all. Hopscotching
from one expansion franchise to another,
Helper arrived in October 1997 from the
Tampa Bay Lightning. Until then, he had
never visited Nashville, though its size
reminded Helper of Buffalo, his home-
town. Right away, he knew he wanted the
fans here to feel the way he did on April
21, 1996, before the Lightning’s first-ever
playoff game.
That day at the ThunderDome in St.
Petersburg, Fla., Helper gaped while
nearly 26,000 people rose as one when
the players skated onto the ice.
Helper did not tingle again like that un-
til 2003, after the Predators’ fifth season,
when Nashville hosted the N.H.L. draft
— a niche event in a city largely unfamil-
iar with junior wingers from Medicine
Hat or defensemen from Cape Breton.
There was no reason to expect much.
Still, he said, about 13,000 attended, and
responded with a standing ovation when
a league official, doing a roll call of the
teams, announced Nashville.
“That was my defining moment,”
Helper said. “That this place has got it;
this place can be it.”
In his office last week, Helper dis-
played a pamphlet from the days when
deciphering hockey seemed like a pre-
requisite for selling a Predators season
ticket. It included a glossary of hockey
terms, a diagram of the rink and a de-
scription of responsibilities for each posi-
tion. It also answered such questions as
“Who gets credit for an assist?”
The first few years, the public-address
announcer drew quizzical looks from vis-
iting players by explaining basic infrac-
tions, like a two-line pass. Now, when the
Predators sustain offensive-zone time or
H O C K E Y S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S
begin a power-play rush, the crowd
roars.
“We had to groom them,” said Terry
Crisp, a longtime broadcaster for the
Predators. Crisp understood the task
ahead, perhaps better than anyone. He
had played on two expansion teams (the
1967-68 Blues and 1972-73 Islanders) and
coached another (the 1992-93 Light-
ning).
“I guess I’m an original guy,” Crisp
said.
He recalled Tampa Bay’s inaugural
game, when Chris Kontos scored his
third of four goals. Only one fan com-
memorated the hat trick by tossing a cap
onto the ice. He was then tossed out of
the arena by an uninitiated security
crew. (The team’s general manager, Phil
Esposito, found the fan outside, took him
back in and bought him a beer, Crisp
said.)
In time, fans there embraced the
sport’s traditions. Crisp cherished his
implicit role as a hockey ambassador for
the Lightning, and he reprised it in Nash-
ville with his longtime partner, Pete We-
ber, the Predators’ play-by-play voice on
the radio.
They spoke at luncheons and dinners
— “If there was a club, we went to it,” We-
ber said — and hosted Hockey 101, free
sessions to educate the fan base. About
two hours before games, 50 or so people
would gather in a classroom theater
across from the arena to volley questions
at Crisp and Weber. Crisp wishes he had
written a book about it.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE BUGLEWICZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Keri Ann Ingram and her
husband, Chris, above,
celebrating after the Predators
scored against the Ducks during
the playoffs. At left, the team
warming up. The Predators will
face the Ducks in Game 6 of the
Western Conference finals on
Monday night.
The whole concept of changing three
forwards on the fly never failed to mys-
tify Hockey 101 students. Same with the
N.H.L. schedule. The Predators play how
many games again? Eighty-two?
Crisp and Weber made those sessions
fun, because hockey is supposed to be
fun.
They counseled fans not to worry
about the rules, or anything else. Just en-
joy yourselves, they said. They used the
phrase “Get bit” — by hockey. If fans at-
tended a game and wanted further clari-
fication, they could pay a nominal de-
posit for headphones that connected
them to an internal broadcast explaining
on-ice situations as they developed.
“Right now, we wouldn’t have a
Hockey 101,” Weber said. “It would be
Ph.D. level.”
Employees attended Hockey 101 brief-
ings of their own, and Weber and his
wife, Claudia, threw playoff watch par-
ties at their home, hoping the Predators
would soon be hosting postseason games
of their own. But five seasons passed
without that happening. Attendance, no
longer fueled by novelty, dipped.
The market had stretched to accom-
modate another professional team in
1998, the Tennessee Oilers (soon to be Ti-
tans) of the N.F.L. Some fans, judicious
with their discretionary income, pre-
ferred to spend it on a more familiar
sport — and a better team. As the Titans
moved toward a Super Bowl appearance
with ascending stars like Steve McNair
and Eddie George, the Predators, with a
roster of castoffs and misfits, yearned for
name recognition.
Britt Kincheloe, the team’s vice presi-
dent of service and retention, laughed as
she recounted how the mother of Brent
Peterson, a former assistant coach, used
to tell friends that her son worked for the
“Nashville Penetrators.”
Kincheloe also remembers the sparse
crowds: “There were some Tuesday
nights where you just sat there and held
your breath.”
A graduate of Vanderbilt here, Kinche-
loe quenched her restless spirit with a se-
ries of temporary jobs before latching on
at the arena in 1996 and, two years later,
Over 20 years, Nashville
learned to embrace a
sport, and its team.
with the Predators. No matter how busy
her workday, she carved time to attend
the team’s morning skate. It soothed her.
It converted her.
“In the beginning, we were more excit-
ed when we actually won a game,” Kinch-
eloe said. “Now I’m much more excited
to be disappointed with a loss.”
The Predators’ success — 10 playoff
appearances across the past 13 seasons
— has perpetuated steady increases in
ticket renewals and purchases, Harden
said, and yearly surges in attendance
since 2013-14.
Children who picked up street hockey
almost 20 years ago, who urged their
parents to buy seats when the team was
on the verge of being shipped to Canada,
are now fans who consider season tick-
ets a worthy investment.
No longer does Harden have to explain
to confused souls at a mall kiosk that, no,
the N.F.L. team has not changed its name
to the Predators, or persuade people to
part with money to watch players who
have not yet been drafted. The sport, and
the team, sell themselves.
Harden reflected on Nashville’s evolu-
tion during a recent drive with his wife,
Paige. He flipped on the satellite radio to
the NHL Network, where a caller from
Alabama, in an accent thicker than
Harden’s Texas twang, wanted to talk
not about Rinne or Forsberg, Ryan Jo-
hansen or P. K. Subban, but about the
team’s third defensive pairing.
Years ago, Harden worried that Paige
would lose confidence in him and break
off their engagement given his struggles
at the kiosk, but she had faith — in him, in
the Predators. And now, as he listened to
a man in a different state, in the middle of
football country, discuss Nashville’s blue
line, he turned to Paige and laughed.
“This is what we’ve created,” he told
her.

Democracy, It Turns Out, Suits the Warriors Just Fine
SAN ANTONIO — It sounds
silly at this point, with the Gold-
en State Warriors on the cusp of
a third straight trip to the N.B.A.
finals, to suggest that they faced
challenges at the
SCOTT start of the season.
Does possessing
CACCIOLA too much talent
count as a chal-
ON PRO lenge? Neverthe-
BASKETBALL
less, there was a
chance, however slim, that this
whole grand enterprise could
have blown up. That the team’s
vast assemblage of stars would
have trouble sharing one basket-
ball. That Kevin Durant would
rub the team’s holdovers the
wrong way. Or that a new batch
of reserves would refuse to make
the necessary sacrifices.
Ron Adams, an assistant
coach, referred to the unique
“human dynamics” at work and
described the season as a fasci-
nating experiment in team
chemistry. In so many ways, it
could have soured.
Instead, the Warriors are
sailing through the playoffs with
the help of seven players — and
an associate head coach — who
were not employed by the team
at this time last season. Yes, it
obviously helps when one of
those new players is Durant, an
all-World scoring cyborg. But the
Warriors are a different team
from what they were a year ago.
They have only made the transi-
tion look seamless.
“This is such a selfless group,”
said forward Matt Barnes, who
signed with the Warriors in
March. “When you’ve got super-
stars sacrificing and diving on
the floor and doing whatever it
takes to win, it’s easy for a role
player to fit right in.”
The San Antonio Spurs can
sense the sad end coming. At full
strength, they probably could
have pushed the Warriors in the
Western Conference finals — or
at least made more of these
games competitive. But the
Spurs have been gutted by inju-
ries and are in danger of being
swept after their 120-108 loss in
Game 3 on Saturday night.
Tony Parker, the starting point
guard, ruptured his left
quadriceps tendon in the confer-
ence semifinals. Kawhi Leonard,
a finalist for the N.B.A.’s Most
Valuable Player Award, has
missed the last two games with a
Celtics’ Rally Sends Cavs to First Postseason Loss
CLEVELAND (AP) — Avery
Bradley’s 3-pointer danced
around the rim and dropped in
with less than a second left as the
Boston
CELTICS 111 Celtics
CAVALIERS 108 stunned the
Cavaliers, 111-
Cleveland leads 108, on Sun-
series, 2-1 day night to
put an end to
Cleveland’s 13-game postseason
winning streak.
The Celtics, who were blown out
by the defending N.B.A. champi-
ons in the first two games of the
Eastern Conference finals, were
playing without their star guard
Isaiah Thomas.
Bradley’s shot from the left
wing bounced and rolled around
Penguins Reach Doorstep of Stanley Cup Finals After Blanking Senators
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pitts-
burgh Penguins Coach Mike Sulli-
van calls it “getting to our game.”
It means he wants his team to
attack opponents with speed, ag-
gression
PENGUINS 7 and a dash
SENATORS 0
of responsi-
bility.
Pittsburgh leads On the
series, 3-2 ice, it looks
like the
type of performance that the Pen-
guins, the defending Stanley Cup
champions, put together in a 7-0
demolition of the Ottawa Senators
in Game 5 of the Eastern Confer-
ence finals on Sunday.
Dominant from the opening
face-off to the final whistle, the
Penguins moved within a win of a
return trip to the Stanley Cup fi-
nals by overwhelming the Sena-
tors with wave after wave of pres-
sure, the kind that became the
club’s trademark during its sprint
to a fourth championship last
spring.
Seven players scored, and 11 fin-
ished with at least one point to
give Pittsburgh a three-games-to-
two lead heading into Game 6 on
Tuesday in Ottawa. Seemingly on
the ropes after being pummeled,
5-1, in Game 3, the Penguins have
outscored the Senators by 10-2
over the last six periods to gain
control of the series.
“When we play the type of game
we play tonight,” Sullivan said, “it
allows us to dictate the terms and
play the style and the identity of
this Penguins team.”
But the most lopsided N.H.L.
Stephen Curry, center, and David West, right, during Golden State’s conference semifinal series against Utah this month. West joined the Warriors last summer.
sprained left ankle. And David
Lee, a key reserve, left for the
locker room in a wheelchair after
injuring his left knee in Game 3.
Manu Ginobili, making his 15th
straight postseason appearance
for San Antonio, did the math for
Game 4, set for Monday night at
AT&T Center.
“For us to win,” he said, “we
have to play at a 10 level, and
they have to play at a 7.”
If the playoffs have been a
well-advertised bore — and this
series has not helped — there is
at least the overwhelming likeli-
hood of a rematch between the
Warriors and the Cleveland
Cavaliers in the N.B.A. finals.
After losing to the Cavaliers last
season, the Warriors reshaped
themselves by adding Durant
and by overhauling their col-
lection of role players. Everyone
the rim before dropping through
the net to cap a furious comeback
by the Celtics, who trailed by 21 in
the third quarter before rallying
win Game 3 of a series that had ap-
peared to be over.
Marcus Smart made seven 3-
pointers and scored 27 points, and
Bradley had 20 points for the
Celtics. They were given little
chance to challenge the Cavaliers
after losing by 44 points in Game
2, when they also lost Thomas for
the rest of the postseason because
of a hip injury.
“Everybody had to step up their
game tonight, especially with one
of our brothers down,” Smart said.
“Our love and support goes out to
Isaiah. We wish he could be here,
but we understand. We just kept
playoff victory in five years did
not erase the Penguins’ sense that
they cannot afford to let up
against the Senators.
“They have a good ability to re-
spond, so we’re going to be chal-
lenged here in Game 6,” said the
Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby,
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P R O B A S K E T B A L L N. B . A . P L AYO F F S
adapted.
“I think you just kind of learn,”
said James Michael McAdoo, a
reserve forward in his third
season with the team. “Everyone
here wants to be successful.
Everyone here wants to win
championships. So everyone
understands that there have to
be sacrifices.”
That word — sacrifice — is
used often by the players, which
might seem counterintuitive.
After all, no team scored more
than the Warriors during the
regular season. There are plenty
of shots to go around. But that is
the point. They have turned
sharing-is-caring into high art.
The ball seldom sticks. It zips
from one set of hands to the next,
and the starters set the tone.
“They’re the most unselfish
people I’ve played with in my
fighting.”
Game 4 is Tuesday night in
Cleveland.
Kyrie Irving scored 29 points
and Kevin Love 28 for Cleveland.
LeBron James had one of the
worst games of his postseason ca-
reer, finishing with 11 points and
six turnovers. The Cavaliers
dropped to 10-1 in the postseason
with their first loss since Game 4
of last year’s N.B.A. finals.
Still, the Cavs were in control
much of the game, leading by 77-
56 in the third quarter after
making 14 3-pointers in the first
half. But Cleveland got compla-
cent, Boston got hot and the
Celtics, who arrived at Quicken
Loans Arena looking somewhat
defeated, never gave up.
H O C K E Y S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S
who scored for a third straight
game and became the 22nd N.H.L.
player to reach 100 playoff assists
when he sent a slick, no-look back-
hand pass to Phil Kessel early in
the third period. “We know that,
and we’ve got to be at our best.”
The Penguins might already be
life,” JaVale McGee said.
“They’re always looking. If
you’re wide open, they’ll pass it.
They don’t force shots.”
McGee was one of the (rela-
tive) newcomers who made an
impact in Game 3. Starting in
place of the injured Zaza Pachu-
lia, McGee scored all 16 of his
points in the first half. David
West, another newcomer, had 6
points and 5 assists off the
bench.
In some ways, McGee and
West could not be more different.
Earlier this season, McGee had
blankets made that featured the
dozing face of Draymond Green
and distributed them to his team-
mates. West, on the other hand,
is known for his intensity — the
type of player who will scream,
“You guys need to relax!” in the
huddle without quite grasping
They tied the game at 95-95 on
Smart’s 3-pointer and then
matched the Cavaliers basket for
basket in one of the most enter-
taining games of the postseason.
Jonas Jerebko made a baseline
jumper to put the Celtics ahead by
108-106 with 30 seconds left before
Irving scored on a drive to tie the
game with 10.7 seconds to go.
After a timeout, the Celtics
worked the ball to Bradley, who
calmly hit a shot that goes straight
into Celtics lore.
For the Cavaliers, the loss was a
wake-up call on their march to-
ward a possible third straight
league finals and a seemingly in-
evitable rematch with Golden
State, which can complete a
sweep of San Antonio on Monday.
GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
there. The Pittsburgh power play
went 3 for 3. The penalty kill
turned the Senators away four
times and extended Ottawa’s
power-play drought to 0 for 29.
“I think that was a big part of
our success last year was that we
had all four lines going and chip-
the irony.
But the Warriors make it all
work, blending their per-
sonalities and skill sets for the
greater good.
“Everybody has a voice,” said
Mike Brown, who joined the
Warriors as their associate head
coach last summer.
Brown has taken on more
responsibility in recent weeks.
When Coach Steve Kerr stepped
away from his day-to-day duties
in the first round to address
continuing medical problems,
Brown became the acting coach
on the bench. He has since
guided the team to nine straight
victories. He, too, has altered
parts of his approach to match
the system already in place.
“The one thing that was ex-
tremely unique and kind of hard
to understand right away is how
Marcus Smart, who had 27 points, and Jonas Jerebko (8) after
Avery Bradley’s 3-pointer in the final second stunned Cleveland.
Pittsburgh’s
Nick Bonino
(13) and
Carter
Rowney (37)
after assisting
on the Scott
Wilson goal
that gave
Pittsburgh a
4-0 lead.
ping in offensively,” Penguins for-
ward Matt Cullen said. “But more
than that, spending time in the of-
fensive zone and grinding and
playing some good hockey — and
I think the last couple games, es-
pecially, that’s been key.”
The Senators quieted the Pen-
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loose it is here,” Brown said,
recalling his early days with the
organization. “It’s extremely
loose, but in a good way, and it
fits this group of players. The
more loose your organization is
or your team is, the more owner-
ship you’re giving your group.”
The Warriors, who blast music
at their workouts and warm up
by launching halfcourt heaves,
are a democracy. The players
hold one another accountable.
They practice the best form of
peer pressure.
At the same time, Adams could
not overstate the outsize role
Durant, one of the new guys, had
played in ensuring that the team
went about its usual business.
“For a player of his stature, it’s
remarkable to me,” Adams said.
“He just wanted to fit in.”
JAMIE SABAU/GETTY IMAGES
guins early in the series, holding
them to three goals through three
games by playing disciplined
hockey. That collapsed in the first
period on Sunday, as turnover af-
ter turnover allowed Pittsburgh
the kind of chances that make the
Penguins such a difficult out at
this time of year.
Pittsburgh chased Ottawa’s
Craig Anderson by beating him
four times in the first period, the
last a “why not” flip from behind
the goal line by the fourth-line for-
ward Scott Wilson. It banked in off
the goalie.
Anderson’s replacement, Mike
Condon, did not fare much better.
Cullen beat him 1 minute 54 sec-
onds into the second to make it
5-0. As if to raise the white flag, Ot-
tawa Coach Guy Boucher held de-
fenseman Erik Karlsson, forward
Derick Brassard and defenseman
Cody Ceci out of the final 20 min-
utes to help them rest for Game 6.
Karlsson, who is playing with
two hairline fractures in his left
heel, said he would “absolutely”
be ready for Game 6. The rest of
the Senators insist they will be
ready too. They became the third
team this postseason to lose by at
least six goals. The other two —
Edmonton in the first round
against San Jose and Anaheim in
the second round against the Oil-
ers — came back to win the next
game and eventually the series.
“Just like a plumber wakes up
one day, is having a great day, the
other day he’s not having a good
day,” Boucher said. “Just one of
those bad days.”
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All Times EDT All Times EDT East W L Pct GB
By BEN ROTHENBERG Agassi, whom he called a “revolution- CONFERENCE FINALS CONFERENCE FINALS
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
ROME — Andre Agassi will be No- ary player because he had this EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
Yankees 25 16 .610 —

vak Djokovic’s coach at the French
Open, Djokovic announced on Sunday.
Agassi, 47, who won eight Grand
Slam titles but has never coached be-
fore, has largely stayed away from the
tour since his retirement in 2006,
though he has occasionally played in
exhibition events with other retired
players.
The pairing was first reported dur-
ing the local broadcast of the Italian
Open final, which Djokovic lost, 6-4,
6-3, to Alexander Zverev. The French
Open begins next Sunday.
“That’s what I wanted to let you
guys know: I spoke to Andre the last
couple weeks on the phone, and we de-
cided to get together in Paris,”
Djokovic said after the match. “So he’s
going to be there. We’ll see what future
brings. We are both excited to work to-
gether and see where it takes us.
“We don’t have any long-term com-
mitment. It’s just us trying to get to
know each other in Paris a little bit. He
will not stay the whole tournament.
He’s going to stay only to a certain
time, and then we’ll see after that
what’s going to happen.”
Djokovic, who turns 30 on Monday,
has struggled since winning the
French Open last year, which com-
pleted a run of four titles in Grand
Bob Jungels of Luxembourg won the Giro d’Italia’s 15th stage by outsprinting his rivals in Bergamo, Italy.
G OLF
charisma,” for only a few weeks. In Cleveland 2, Boston 1 Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 2 Baltimore 25 17 .595 {
Wednesday, May 17: Cleveland 117, Saturday, May 13: Ottawa 2, Pittsburgh
that time, the two, whose professional Boston 104 1, OT Boston 22 21 .512 4
careers only briefly overlapped, be- Friday, May 19: Cleveland 130, Boston 86
Sunday, May 21: Boston 111, Cleveland 108
Monday, May 15: Pittsburgh 1, Ottawa 0
Wednesday, May 17: Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 1 Tampa Bay 23 23 .500 4{
came acquainted. Tuesday, May 23: Boston at Cleveland, Friday, May 19: Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 2
Toronto 19 26 .422 8
8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 21: Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 0
“I don’t know Andre that well, be- Thursday, May 25: Cleveland at Boston, Tuesday, May 23: Pittsburgh at Ottawa,
Central W L Pct GB
cause it’s only a couple weeks that we 8:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
x-Saturday, May 27: Boston at Cleveland, x-Thursday, May 25: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, Minnesota 22 18 .550 —
are in communication, let’s say,” 8:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
Djokovic said. “But I already feel like x-Monday, May 29: Cleveland at Boston, WESTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 23 19 .548 —
8:30 p.m. Nashville 3, Anaheim 2
we are very kind of close to each other WESTERN CONFERENCE Friday, May 12: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2, OT Detroit 21 20 .512 1{
Golden State 3, San Antonio 0 Sunday, May 14: Anaheim 5, Nashville 3
and creating this nice vibe.” Sunday, May 14: Golden State 113, San Tuesday, May 16: Nashville 2, Anaheim 1 Chicago 20 22 .476 3
At the Italian Open, Djokovic was Antonio 111 Thursday, May 18: Anaheim 3, Nashville
5{
Tuesday, May 16: Golden State 136, San 2, OT Kansas City 18 25 .419
coached by his younger brother, Antonio 100 Saturday, May 20: Nashville 3, Anaheim 1
West W L Pct GB
Saturday, May 20: Golden State 120, San Monday, May 22: Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Marko, a former player. Djokovic has Antonio 108 x-Wednesday, May 24: Nashville at
Houston 29 15 .659 —
also traveled with Pepe Imaz, a former Monday, May 22: Golden State at San Anaheim, 9 p.m.
player from Spain who preaches a
Antonio, 9 p.m. Texas 23 21 .523 6
x-Wednesday, May 24: San Antonio at
PENGUINS 7, SENATORS 0
philosophical “love and peace” Golden State, 9 p.m. Los Angeles 23 23 .500 7
mantra. Imaz, who reached a career-
x-Friday, May 26: Golden State at San
Antonio, 9 p.m.
Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 0 0—0 Oakland 20 24 .455 9
Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 2—7
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high ranking of 146, did not bring x-Sunday, May 28: San Antonio at Golden
FIRST PERIOD—1, Pittsburgh, Maatta 2 (Rust), Seattle 20 25 .444 9{
The retired Andre Agassi, left, nearly the cachet of Agassi.
State, 9 p.m.
8:14. 2, Pittsburgh, Crosby 7 (Malkin, Daley),
SUNDAY
presented Novak Djokovic with “Obviously, Andre is someone that I CELTICS 111, CAVALIERS 108
12:03 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Rust 6 (Rowney,
Bonino), 16:04. 4, Pittsburgh, Wilson 2 (Rowney, Yankees 3, Tampa Bay 2
the 2013 Australian Open trophy. have tremendous respect for as a per- BOSTON (111)
Bonino), 18:17. Penalties—Cullen, PIT, (tripping), L.A. Angels 12, Mets 5
9:10; Stone, OTT, (slashing), 10:08.
son and as a player,” Djokovic said. Crowder 6-14 0-0 14, Johnson 1-1 0-0 Toronto 3, Baltimore 1
2, Horford 7-18 0-0 16, Smart 8-14 4-6 SECOND PERIOD—5, Pittsburgh, Cullen 2
“He has been through everything that 27, Bradley 8-23 1-2 20, Green 2-4 0-0 (Rowney, Streit), 1:54. Penalties—Bonino, PIT, Cleveland 8, Houston 6
Slam tournaments. After parting with 5, Brown 0-3 0-0 0, Jerebko 4-4 0-0 10, (high sticking), 8:00; Wingels, OTT, (roughing), Kansas City 6, Minnesota 4, 1st game
his first high-profile coach, Boris I’m going through. Zeller 0-0 0-0 0, Olynyk 5-8 4-4 15, Rozier 19:00. Minnesota 8, Kansas City 4, 2nd game
Becker, at the end of last season, “On the court, he understands the 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 42-91 9-12 111.
THIRD PERIOD—6, Pittsburgh, Kessel 7 Boston 12, Oakland 3
CLEVELAND (108)
Djokovic cleaned out the rest of his game amazingly well. I am enjoying James 4-13 3-6 11, Love 8-16 5-6 28, (Crosby, Malkin), 0:50 (pp). 7, Pittsburgh, Daley
Chicago White Sox 8, Seattle 1
Thompson 3-4 12-15 18, Irving 10-15 5-5 1 (Kessel, Malkin), 8:49 (pp). Penalties—Rust,
longstanding team early this month, every conversation that I have with 29, Smith 4-8 1-2 13, Jefferson 0-3 0-0 PIT, (slashing), 5:25; Macarthur, OTT, (roughing), Texas at Detroit
7:21; Phaneuf, OTT, (unsportsmanlike conduct),
parting with his longtime coach him. But also, on the other hand, he’s 0, Dero.Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Shumpert 2-4
2-2 6, Korver 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 32-70 28- 8:03; Kunitz, PIT, (unsportsmanlike conduct), MONDAY
Marian Vajda as well as the fitness someone that nurtures the family 36 108. 8:03; Cole, PIT, (holding), 9:48. Kansas City (Vargas 5-2) at Yankees
(Pineda 4-2), 7:05
coach Gebhard Phil Gritsch and the values, philanthropy work. He’s a very Boston . . . . . . . 24 26 32 29—111 Shots on Goal—Ottawa 12-7-6—25. Pittsburgh
15-13-8—36. Power-play opportunities— Minnesota (Wilk 0-1) at Baltimore
Cleveland . . . . . 35 31 21 21—108
physiotherapist Miljan Amanovic. humble man, is very educated — he’s a 3-Point Goals—Boston 18-40 (Smart 7-10, Ottawa 0 of 4; Pittsburgh 3 of 3. Goalies— (Jimenez 1-2), 7:05
Ottawa, Anderson 10-7 (14 shots-10 saves),
Agassi could not be immediately person that can contribute to my life on Bradley 3-8, Jerebko 2-2, Horford 2-6,
Condon 0-0 (22-19). Pittsburgh, Murray 2-0 (25- Cleveland (Tomlin 2-5) at Cincinnati
Crowder 2-8, Green 1-2, Olynyk 1-3, Brown
reached for comment. and off the court a lot. I’m very excited 0-1), Cleveland 16-39 (Love 7-13, Irving 25). A—18,635 (18,387). T—2:27. Referees— (Feldman 2-4), 7:10
Wes McCauley, Brad Meier. Linesmen—Scott L.A. Angels (Ramirez 3-3) at Tampa
Djokovic said he had been talking to to see what is ahead of us.” 4-6, Smith 4-8, Korver 1-5, Jefferson 0-1,
Cherrey, Brian Murphy.
Shumpert 0-2, James 0-4). Fouled Out— Bay (Odorizzi 3-2), 7:10
None. Rebounds—Boston 38 (Crowder 11), Detroit (Fulmer 5-1) at Houston
Cleveland 46 (Thompson 13). Assists— GOLF
Boston 28 (Smart 7), Cleveland 21 (Irving (Peacock 2-0), 8:10
7). Total Fouls—Boston 23, Cleveland 11. Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 3-4) at
Technicals—Cleveland defensive three BYRON NELSON Arizona (Greinke 5-2), 9:40
second, Cleveland team. A—20,562
(20,562). TPC Four Seasons Resort
IRVING, TEXAS N.L. STANDINGS
Purse: $7.5 million; Yardage: 7,166; Par 70
W.N.B.A. STANDINGS (x-won on first playoff hole) East W L Pct GB
Final
EASTERN CONFERENCE x-Billy Horschel $1,350,000 . . 68-65-66-69—268 -12
Washington 26 17 .605 —
W L Pct GB Jason Day $810,000 . . . . . . 68-69-63-68—268 -12 Atlanta 18 23 .439 7
Atlanta 2 1 .667 — James Hahn $510,000 . . . . 64-70-64-71—269 -11
Liberty 1 1 .500 { Jason Kokrak $360,000 . . . . 66-62-72-70—270 -10 Mets 18 24 .429 7{
Chicago 1 2 .333 1 Byeong Hun An $263,438 . . 68-66-69-69—272 -8
Indiana 1 2 .333 1 Bud Cauley $263,438 . . . . . 67-67-68-70—272 -8 Philadelphia 15 26 .366 10
Washington 1 2 .333 1 Danny Lee $263,438 . . . . . . 70-70-64-68—272 -8
Connecticut 0 2 .000 1{ Sean O’Hair $263,438 . . . . . 67-69-68-68—272 -8 Miami 15 28 .349 11
WESTERN CONFERENCE Joel Dahmen $195,000 . . . . 68-70-68-67—273 -7
Matt Kuchar $195,000 . . . . . 66-71-67-69—273 -7 Central W L Pct GB
W L Pct GB
Minnesota 3 0 1.000 — Nick Taylor $195,000 . . . . . . 69-73-66-65—273 -7 Milwaukee 25 19 .568 —
Los Angeles 2 0 1.000 {
Cameron Tringale $195,000 . 66-68-67-72—273 -7
Phoenix 2 1 .667 1 Chad Campbell $136,500 . . 68-67-68-71—274 -6 St. Louis 22 19 .537 1{
Seattle 2 1 .667 1 Jason Dufner $136,500 . . . . 69-68-65-72—274 -6
Dallas 1 1 .500 1{ Tony Finau $136,500 . . . . . . 75-65-65-69—274 -6 Chicago 22 20 .524 2
San Antonio 0 3 .000 3 Dustin Johnson $136,500 . . 67-67-71-69—274 -6
Marc Leishman $136,500 . . 68-71-68-67—274 -6 Cincinnati 20 23 .465 4{
Saturday’s Games Jamie Lovemark $108,750 . . 72-66-68-69—275 -5
Indiana 81, Connecticut 79 Louis Oosthuizen $108,750 . 69-70-66-70—275 -5 Pittsburgh 20 24 .455 5
Minnesota 89, Dallas 87 Sung Kang $78,214 . . . . . . 69-68-69-70—276 -4
Patrick Reed $78,214 . . . . . 70-69-69-68—276 -4 West W L Pct GB
Sunday’s Games
Chicago 75, Atlanta 71 Kyle Reifers $78,214 . . . . . . 69-69-66-72—276 -4
Kevin Tway $78,214 . . . . . . 71-70-64-71—276 -4 Colorado 28 17 .622 —
Seattle 81, Washington 71
Sergio Garcia $78,214 . . . . . 73-65-64-74—276 -4 Los Angeles 26 19 .578 2
Monday’s Games Scott Piercy $78,214 . . . . . . 68-69-66-73—276 -4
No games scheduled Scott Stallings $78,214 . . . . 72-66-66-72—276 -4 Arizona 26 19 .578 2
Keegan Bradley $49,922 . . . 74-67-68-68—277 -3
Tuesday’s Games J.J. Henry $49,922 . . . . . . . 68-69-69-71—277 -3 San Francisco 19 26 .422 9
Connecticut at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Morgan Hoffmann $49,922 . 69-66-72-70—277 -3
Liberty at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Willy Wilcox $49,922 . . . . . . 70-67-70-70—277 -3 San Diego 16 30 .348 12{
Ryan Armour $49,922 . . . . . 67-69-69-72—277 -3
Grayson Murray $49,922 . . . 72-63-68-74—277 -3 SUNDAY
CYCLING Ryan Palmer $49,922 . . . . . 71-68-68-70—277 -3 L.A. Angels 12, Mets 5
Patrick Rodgers $49,922 . . . 72-70-69-66—277 -3 Colorado 6, Cincinnati 4
Scott Brown $36,975 . . . . . 71-67-65-75—278 -2
GIRO D’ITALIA Ernie Els $36,975 . . . . . . . . 69-71-70-68—278 -2 Pittsburgh 1, Philadelphia 0
BERGAMO, ITALY Smylie Kaufman $36,975 . . . 71-67-71-69—278 -2 Washington 3, Atlanta 2
15th Stage Ian Poulter $36,975 . . . . . . . 70-71-68-69—278 -2 St. Louis 8, San Francisco 3
A 123.7-mile ride from Valdengo to Jhonattan Vegas $36,975 . . 66-68-75-69—278 -2
Zac Blair $25,605 . . . . . . . . 69-68-72-70—279 -1 Chicago Cubs 13, Milwaukee 6
Bergamo
LUCA BETTINI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES 1. Bob Jungels, Luxembourg, Quick-Step Jason Bohn $25,605 . . . . . . 68-70-70-71—279 -1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Miami 3
Floors, 4:16:51. Charley Hoffman $25,605 . . 72-69-66-72—279 -1 San Diego 5, Arizona 1
2. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, same John Huh $25,605 . . . . . . . 67-72-68-72—279 -1
time. Michael Kim $25,605 . . . . . . 68-71-69-71—279 -1 MONDAY
3. Thibaut Pinot, France, FDJ, same time. Michael Putnam $25,605 . . . 71-68-69-71—279 -1 Colorado (Hoffman 1-0) at Philadel-
4. Adam Yates, Britain, Orica-Scott, same Daniel Summerhays $25,605 70-71-70-68—279 -1 phia (Eickhoff 0-4), 7:05
time. Nick Watney $25,605 . . . . . 73-67-70-69—279 -1
Cleveland (Tomlin 2-5) at Cincinnati
5. Domenico Pozzovivo, Italy, AG2R La Boo Weekley $25,605 . . . . . 73-65-71-70—279 -1
Mondiale, same time. Gary Woodland $25,605 . . . 70-68-68-73—279 -1 (Feldman 2-4), 7:10

Horschel Prevails in Playoff at Byron Nelson

6. Patrick Konrad, Austria, Bora-Hansgrohe, Dominic Bozzelli $18,090 . . . 70-70-72-68—280 E Pittsburgh (Cole 2-4) at Atlanta
same time. Brian Gay $18,090 . . . . . . . 72-70-67-71—280 E (Foltynewicz 2-4), 7:35
7. Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Bahrain-Merida, Billy Hurley III $18,090 . . . . . 69-71-71-69—280 E
Brooks Koepka $18,090 . . . 67-69-70-74—280 E San Francisco (Blach 1-2) at Chi-
same time. cago Cubs (Lackey 4-3), 8:05
8. Tom Dumoulin, Netherlands, Sunweb, Sebastian Munoz $18,090 . . 69-69-71-71—280 E
same time. Tom Hoge $17,175 . . . . . . . 72-70-69-70—281 +1 Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 3-4) at
Billy Horschel won the Byron Nelson with a par on the S O C C ER 9. Ilnur Zakarin, Russia, Katusha-Alpecin, Ollie Schniederjans $17,175 . 72-70-68-71—281 +1 Arizona (Greinke 5-2), 9:40
Seamus Power $16,875 . . . 69-69-72-72—282 +2
first playoff hole on Sunday after Jason Day pulled his 4- same time.
Brett Stegmaier $16,875 . . . 69-72-71-70—282 +2
10. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek- YANKEES 3, RAYS 2
foot par putt left and past the hole in Irving, Tex. Real Madrid Wins Spanish League Segafredo, same time.
Overall Standings
Ricky Barnes $16,575 . . . . . 64-75-72-72—283 +3
Rod Pampling $16,575 . . . . 69-67-72-75—283 +3 New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
Horschel almost did not need Day’s miss, as his 36-foot (After 15 stages) Ryan Brehm $16,050 . . . . . 73-68-72-71—284 +4 Gardner lf 4 1 2 2 1 1 .282
birdie chance rolled straight toward the center of the cup Real Madrid claimed the Spanish league title for the 1. Tom Dumoulin, Netherlands, Sunweb, Beau Hossler $16,050 . . . . . 70-68-71-75—284 +4 Sanchez c 4 0 0 0 1 1 .286
Peter Malnati $16,050 . . . . . 67-68-75-74—284 +4
before stopping just short. He won for the fourth time on first time since 2012 with a 2-0 road win over Málaga. 63:48:08.
Geoff Ogilvy $16,050 . . . . . 73-69-72-70—284 +4
Holliday dh 4 0 0 0 0 4 .258
2. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, 2:41. Castro 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .341
the PGA Tour and for the first time since taking the 2014 Cristiano Ronaldo scored two minutes into the match, 3. Thibaut Pinot, France, FDJ, 3:21. Greg Owen $16,050 . . . . . . 69-70-71-74—284 +4 Judge rf 4 0 0 0 0 4 .321
Tour Championship for the FedEx Cup title. and Karim Benzema sealed the victory in the second half. 4. Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Bahrain-Merida, 3:40. Ellsbury cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .285
5. Ilnur Zakarin, Russia, Katusha-Alpecin, 4:24. REGIONS TRADITION Headley 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .241
With a one-under-par 69, including a 60-foot birdie putt The win gave Madrid a 3-point lead on second-place 6. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek- Gregorius ss 4 1 4 1 0 0 .322
Greystone Golf and Country Club
on the 14th hole, Horschel matched Day at 12-under 268. Barcelona, which rallied to defeat visiting Eibar, 4-2. Segafredo, 4:32.
7. Domenico Pozzovivo, Italy, AG2R La
Carter 1b
Totals
3
35
0
3
0
7
0 1 2 .205
3 3 17
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
JUVENTUS NOTCHES ANOTHER ITALIAN TITLE Juventus clinched Mondiale, 4:59. Tampa Bay ab r h bi bb so avg.
Day shot a 68. The third-round leader, James Hahn, was a 8. Bob Jungels, Luxembourg, Quick-Step
Purse: $2.3 million
Beckham ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .263
Yardage: 7,299; Par: 72
stroke back. He just missed an eagle on the 18th hole that a record sixth straight Italian league title with a 3-0 win Floors, 5:18. Final Dickerson dh 4 1 2 0 0 2 .347
9. Andrey Amador, Costa Rica, Movistar, 6:01. Longoria 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .250
would have put him in the playoff. over relegation-threatened Crotone in Rome. Mario 10. Steven Kruijswijk, Netherlands, Lotto NL-
Bernhard Langer $345,000 69-69-66-64—268 -20
Weeks Jr. 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .213
Scott McCarron $184,000 . 65-70-69-69—273 -15
Mandzukic gave Juventus the lead 12 minutes in by re- Jumbo, 7:03. Scott Parel $184,000. . . . . 67-66-70-70—273 -15 Martinez 2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
THOMPSON DOMINATES L.P.G.A. EVENT Lexi Thompson shot a Souza Jr. rf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .250
directing a cross from Juan Cuadrado; Paulo Dybala Marco Dawson $124,200. . 67-71-70-66—274 -14
six-under 65 to complete a wire-to-wire victory at the Fred Funk $124,200 . . . . . 67-65-70-72—274 -14 Kiermaier cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .231
scored with a free kick shortly before the break; and Alex SOCCER Brian Henninger $78,200 . . 71-69-69-67—276 -12 Norris c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .228
Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va., with a tour- Robertson 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .203
Sandro headed in a goal near the end of the match. Tom Lehman $78,200. . . . 69-68-69-70—276 -12
Morrison ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .248
nament-record 20-under 264 total. In Gee Chun shot a bo- M.L.S. STANDINGS Wes Short Jr. $78,200. . . . 69-70-69-68—276 -12
Bourjos lf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .216
CELTIC GOES UNBEATEN Celtic became the first team in 118 David Toms $78,200. . . . . 70-70-66-70—276 -12
gey-free 67 and finished second, five shots back. EAST W L T Pts GF GA Glen Day $55,200. . . . . . . 70-68-69-70—277 -11 Rasmus ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .240
years to complete an undefeated season in Scotland’s top Billy Mayfair $55,200 . . . . . 71-69-67-70—277 -11 Totals 30 2 4 1 2 11
Toronto FC 7 1 5 26 21 12
LANGER MATCHES NICKLAUS Bernhard Langer cruised to his Gene Sauers $55,200 . . . . 71-68-70-68—277 -11 New York 030 000 000—3 7 1
division by beating Heart of Midlothian, 2-0, in Glasgow. Chicago 6 3 3 21 21 15
Tampa Bay 100 010 000—2 4 2
second straight Regions Tradition victory, shooting an Orlando City 6 4 2 20 14 17 Tom Byrum $42,550 . . . . . 73-67-70-68—278 -10
Manager Brendan Rodgers’s team had a record 106 points. New York City FC 6 4 2 20 22 13 Rod Spittle $42,550 . . . . . 69-68-73-68—278 -10 E—Sanchez (3), Beckham (5), Martinez (1).
eight-under 64 in Birmingham, Ala., and matching Jack Columbus 6 6 1 19 20 19 Steve Stricker $42,550 . . . 71-71-70-66—278 -10 LOB—New York 8, Tampa Bay 3. 2B—
Nicklaus’s record of eight PGA Tour Champions major ti- VILLA LEADS N.Y.C.F.C. David Villa scored twice as New York New York 5 6 2 17 13 19 Kevin Sutherland $42,550 . 68-68-72-70—278 -10 Ellsbury (7). HR—Gardner (8), off Archer;
Philadelphia 4 4 4 16 19 15 Stephen Ames $34,577. . . 70-72-71-66—279 -9 Norris (4), off Sabathia. RBIs—Gardner
tles. City F.C. (6-4-2) beat host Orlando City, 3-0, to extend its New England 4 4 4 16 20 17 Lee Janzen $34,577 . . . . . 65-73-70-71—279 -9 2 (18), Gregorius (14), Norris (13). SB—
Langer entered the final round trailing Fred Funk by unbeaten streak to four games. Villa opened the scoring on Atlanta United FC4 4 3 15 24 16 Jeff Sluman $34,577 . . . . . 65-71-70-73—279
Jay Don Blake $27,002 . . . 68-74-69-69—280
-9
-8
Kiermaier (7). DP—New York 1; Tampa
Montreal 3 4 4 13 18 18 Bay 1
two strokes. He finished with a 20-under 268 for a five- a penalty kick in the 14th minute after a hand ball by Kaká. D.C. United 3 6 2 11 9 19 M. Angel Jimenez $27,002 65-71-74-70—280 -8 New York ip h r er bb so np era
J.Maria Olazabal $27,002. . 69-73-70-68—280 -8 SabathiaW4-2 5 4 2 1 1 6 95 4.62
stroke victory over Scott McCarron and Scott Parel. WEST W L T Pts GF GA Kenny Perry $27,002. . . . . 66-70-73-71—280 -8 GreenH1 1Î/¯ 0 0 0 1 0 16 0.00
Kansas City 6 3 4 22 16 9 Duffy Waldorf $27,002. . . . 69-69-71-71—280 -8 ClippardH4 1 0 0 0 0 2 19 1.45
SPANIARD WINS IN PLAYOFF Alvaro Quiros of Spain blew a sev- HO C K EY FC Dallas 5 1 4 19 14 7 Brandt Jobe $22,425. . . . . 69-72-70-70—281 -7 BetancesS2-3 1Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 3 16 0.66
C. Montgomerie $22,425 . . 69-69-71-72—281 -7
en-stroke lead but parred the second hole of a playoff with Houston 6 5 1 19 22 20
Olin Browne $19,090. . . . . 76-71-69-66—282 -6
Tampa Bay ip h r er bb so np era
Zander Lombard of South Africa to win the Rocco Forte Sweden Edges Canada for World Title San Jose
Portland
5 4
5 4
4 19 14 14
3 18 22 20 Jim Carter $19,090 . . . . . . 76-70-67-69—282
Scott Dunlap $19,090 . . . . 70-69-70-73—282
-6
-6
ArcherL3-3
Farquhar
6Í/¯ 6 3 3 2 12 108 3.76
Î/¯ 0 0 0 1 2 14 2.79
Open in Verdura, Sicily, and regain his European Tour card. Vancouver 5 5 1 16 15 16
Joey Sindelar $19,090. . . . 69-69-73-71—282 -6
Stanek 1 0 0 0 0 2 13 5.40
Sweden won the ice hockey world championship with a Los Angeles
Seattle
4 5
3 5
2 14 15 17
4 13 16 19 Jerry Smith $19,090 . . . . . 74-66-70-72—282 -6
Moreno 1 1 0 0 0 1 23 4.76
T—3:26. A—20,873 (31,042).
2-1 shootout victory over Canada, the two-time defending Minnesota United 3 7 2 11 18 30 John Daly $16,215 . . . . . . 71-71-76-65—283 -5
Esteban Toledo $16,215 . . 71-72-71-69—283 -5
BASEBALL champion, in Cologne, Germany. The game was tied, 1-1, af- Real Salt Lake 3 8
Colorado 2 8
2 11 11 24
1 7 9 17 Carlos Franco $13,846 . . . 72-69-70-73—284 -4 ANGELS 12, METS 5
ter overtime. NOTE: Three points for victory, one point David Frost $13,846 . . . . . 67-73-74-70—284
Doug Garwood $13,846 . . 71-72-72-69—284
-4
-4
Los Angeles ab r h bi bb so avg.
Rockies Roll On in Win Over the Reds Sweden’s goaltender, Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers, for tie.
Saturday's Games
Loren Roberts $13,846 . . . 75-71-68-70—284
Scott Verplank $13,846 . . . 70-69-76-69—284
-4
-4
Maybin lf
Simmons ss
5 3 2 0 1 1 .235
6 3 2 3 0 0 .256
stopped all four shots, while Nicklas Backstrom and Oliver Montreal 4, Portland 1 Trout cf 3 2 2 3 2 1 .350
The rookie pitcher Kyle Freeland hit one of Colorado’s Ekman-Larsson scored goals for the Swedes as they won Chicago 1, D.C. United 0 Marte 3b-1b 4 2 1 2 1 3 .185
four solo home runs off Bronson Arroyo, and the Rockies Seattle 1, Real Salt Lake 0 KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP Cron 1b
Parker p
4 1 1 4 0 1 .232
0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
their first world title since 2013. Philadelphia 2, Colorado 1
Revere ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .253
earned a 6-4 victory in Cincinnati. Russia defeated Finland, 5-3, for third place. Atlanta United FC 4, Houston 1 River Course at Kingsmill Resort
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. Guerra p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Vancouver 2, Sporting Kansas City 0
Colorado extended its best start in team history by San Jose 1, FC Dallas 0 Purse: $1.3 million Norris p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
EMERGENCY SURGERY FOR A PREDATOR The Nashville Yardage: 6,430; Par 71 Calhoun rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .215
taking two of three from the Reds. The Rockies have the Sunday's Games Final Espinosa 2b 3 0 1 0 2 0 .152
National League’s best record at 28-17. Predators confirmed that center Ryan Johansen needed New York City FC 3, Orlando City 0 Lexi Thompson $195,000 . . . . .65-65-69-65—264 -20 Maldonado c 5 0 2 0 0 0 .281
season-ending emergency surgery after Thursday’s game New England 2, Columbus 1 In Gee Chun $120,353 . . . . . . .69-66-67-67—269 -15 Chavez p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Freeland (5-2) remained unbeaten on the road, giving Los Angeles 2, Minnesota United 1 Angela Stanford $87,308. . . . . .70-66-71-66—273 -11 Valbuena 3b 0 1 0 0 2 0 .176
up four runs — three earned — in five and two-thirds in- because of acute compartment syndrome in his left thigh. Thursday's Game Danielle Kang $67,539. . . . . . . .72-65-69-68—274 -10 Totals 36 12 12 12 9 9
FC Dallas at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Carlota Ciganda $49,420. . . . . .69-68-71-67—275 -9 New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
nings. Joey Votto and Scott Schebler homered off him in the Sei Young Kim $49,420. . . . . . .69-69-66-71—275 -9 Conforto lf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .320
Friday's Game Ryann O’Toole $33,056. . . . . . .70-67-70-69—276 -8 Flores 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .288
sixth. Freeland, a left-hander, is 3-0 in five road starts. CYC LING Columbus at Toronto FC, 7 p.m. Gerina Piller $33,056 . . . . . . . . .66-67-74-69—276 -8 Bruce rf 3 1 1 3 1 0 .248
Freeland also doubled and hit his first major league Madelene Sagstrom $33,056. . .70-68-68-70—276 -8 Walker 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .248
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Granderson cf 4 1 2 1 0 1 .169
home run off Arroyo (3-4), connecting on a 71-mile-per- Luxembourger Claims Stage Win in Italy Suzann Pettersen $24,017. . . . .69-70-71-67—277
So Yeon Ryu $24,017. . . . . . . .70-67-72-68—277
-7
-7 Duda 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .206
hour pitch for a drive that cleared the wall in right field. Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Shanshan Feng $24,017. . . . . .69-67-70-71—277 -7 Plawecki c
Reynolds ss
4 0 0 0 0 0 .125
4 1 1 1 0 1 .167
Bob Jungels of Luxembourg won the crash-filled 15th Chelsea . . . . . 38 30 3 5 85 33 93 Lydia Ko $24,017 . . . . . . . . . . .67-67-70-73—277 -7
Milone p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
INDIANS 8, ASTROS 6 Yan Gomes homered and tied a career stage of the Giro d’Italia in Bergamo, Italy, while Tom Du-
Tottenham. . . . 38 26 8 4 86 26 86 Thidapa Suwannapura $18,647 71-69-70-69—279 -5
Montero p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Manchester City 38 23 9 6 80 39 78 Moriya Jutanugarn $18,647 . . . .68-70-72-69—279 -5
high with five R.B.I. as Cleveland completed a three-game moulin of the Netherlands lost six seconds on his overall Liverpool . . . . . 38 22 10 6 78 42 76 Anna Nordqvist $18,647 . . . . . .70-71-68-70—279 -5 Ramirez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Arsenal . . . . . . 38 23 6 9 77 44 75 Brooke M. Henderson $18,647 .70-70-69-70—279 -5 Lagares ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .204
sweep in Houston. lead in the final leg before the race reaches the mountains. Man. United . . 38 18 15 5 54 29 69 Mi Jung Hur $15,182. . . . . . . . .71-69-71-69—280 -4 Robles p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Everton. . . . . . 38 17 10 11 62 44 61 Ariya Jutanugarn $15,182 . . . . .72-67-70-71—280 -4 Rivera ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .264
CARDINALS 8, GIANTS 3 Matt Carpenter homered, Adam Jungels, with the Quick-Step team, surged past Nairo Southampton . . 38 12 10 16 41 48 46 Brittany Lang $15,182 . . . . . . . .70-69-70-71—280 -4 Edgin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Wainwright turned in a second consecutive strong outing, Quintana of Colombia and Thibaut Pinot of France at the Bournemouth . . 38 12 10 16 55 67 46 P.Thanapolboonyaras $15,182. .73-65-71-71—280 -4 Sewald p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
West Bromwich 38 12 9 17 43 51 45 Karine Icher $15,182 . . . . . . . . .68-70-69-73—280 -4 Totals 33 5 7 5 2 8
and St. Louis thumped San Francisco at home. end of the 124-mile route from Valdengo to Bergamo, which West Ham . . . . 38 12 9 17 47 64 45 Holly Clyburn $11,910 . . . . . . . .72-69-73-67—281 -3 Los Angeles 531 000 300—12 12 0
BLUE JAYS 3, ORIOLES 1 Marco Estrada matched a career high contained two categorized climbs shortly before the finish Leicester. . . . . 38
Stoke . . . . . . . 38
12
11
8
11
18
16
48
41
63
56
44
44
Brittany Altomare $11,910 . . . . .70-69-74-68—281 -3 New York 001 013 000—5 7 1
Tiffany Joh $11,910. . . . . . . . . .71-71-69-70—281 -3 E—Flores (3). LOB—Los Angeles 8, New York
with 12 strikeouts, Devon Travis hit a three-run homer, and and a shorter climb up the cobblestones of Bergamo. Crystal Palace . 38 12 5 21 50 63 41 Marina Alex $11,910 . . . . . . . . .70-70-71-70—281 -3 3. 2B—Maybin (8), Simmons (6), Trout (11),
Swansea. . . . . 38 12 5 21 45 70 41 Mirim Lee $11,910. . . . . . . . . . .69-71-71-70—281 -3 Conforto (8), Granderson (10). HR—Cron (1),
Toronto avoided a three-game sweep in Baltimore. Burnley . . . . . . 38 11 7 20 39 55 40 Jacqui Concolino $11,910 . . . . .68-71-71-71—281 -3 off Milone; Trout (14), off Milone; Marte (3), off
Watford . . . . . 38 11 7 20 40 68 40 Austin Ernst $11,910 . . . . . . . . .69-68-73-71—281 -3 Milone; Simmons (4), off Robles; Reynolds (1), off
NATIONALS 3, BRAVES 2 Stephen Strasburg struck out a sea- AU TO R AC ING Hull . . . . . . . . 38 9 7 22 37 80 34 Brittany Lincicome $11,910 . . . .66-70-73-72—281 -3 Chavez; Granderson (4), off Chavez; Bruce (11),
Middlesbrough . 38 5 13 20 27 53 28
son-high 11, and visiting Washington eked out a win in At- Sunderland . . . 38 6 6 26 29 69 24
off Chavez. RBIs—Simmons 3 (16), Trout 3 (34),
lanta to halt its four-game skid. Strasburg (5-1) allowed five Dixon Wins Pole at Indianapolis 500 Thursday's Game
TENNIS
Marte 2 (13), Cron 4 (8), Bruce 3 (30), Granderson
(15), Reynolds (1). SB—Trout (9), Espinosa (1).
hits in seven and two-thirds innings. Los Angeles ip h r er bb so np era
Tottenham 6, Leicester 1
Scott Dixon had the fastest lap and the fastest four-lap INTERNAZIONALI BNL D’ITALIA ChavezW4-5 5Î/¯ 7 5 5 0 4 85 4.61
Sunday's Games Parker 1Í/¯ 0 0 0 1 3 19 3.10
PIRATES 1, PHILLIES 0 Chad Kuhl and four relievers combined qualifying average in 21 years to win his third Indianapolis Arsenal 3, Everton 1 Guerra 1 0 0 0 1 0 22 4.50
Foro Italico
on a three-hitter, and host Pittsburgh scratched out the only 500 pole. Dixon finished with a qualifying speed of 232.164 West Ham 2, Burnley 1 ROME Norris 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.82
Tottenham 7, Hull 1 Singles New York ip h r er bb so np era
run on a rainy day when David Freese was hit by a Phila- miles per hour, the best since Arie Luyendyk’s track record Manchester City 5, Watford 0 MiloneL0-2 1Í/¯ 7 8 7 2 3 43 10.50
Men's Championship
delphia pitch with the bases loaded. of 236.986 in 1996. Dixon’s first lap of 232.595 was the fastest Chelsea 5, Sunderland 1
Alexander Zverev (16), Germany, d.
Montero 3Î/¯ 2 1 1 3 3 60 8.10
Southampton 0, Stoke 1 Ramirez 1 0 0 0 1 1 22 27.00
since Luyendyk’s record lap of 237.498, also in 1996. Liverpool 3, Middlesbrough 0 Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, 6-4, 6-3. Robles 1 2 3 3 2 1 28 6.23
Swansea 2, West Bromwich Albion 1 Women's Championship Edgin 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 3.18
Dixon will be joined on the front row for next Sunday’s Leicester 1, Bournemouth 1 Elina Svitolina (8), Ukraine, d. Simona Sewald 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 2.70
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. race by Ed Carpenter, who finished second at 231.664 m.p.h. Manchester United 2, Crystal Palace 0 Halep (6), Romania, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. T—3:17. A—39,501 (41,922).
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 N D5

BASEBALL

Stopgap Starter Halts Only a Winning Streak

By SETH BERKMAN
Throughout the weekend, Mets
Manager Terry Collins spoke rev-
erently of Angels outfielder Mike
Trout, perhaps the most feared
hitter in baseball.
When
ANGELS 12 Trout went to
the plate for
METS 5 pulled Milone after only 43
the first time
Sunday afternoon at Citi Field
with two Angels in scoring posi-
tion, Collins wanted to take no
chances that a single swing could
produce a two- or three-run in-
ning.
He chose to intentionally walk
Trout, and hope that starter
Tommy Milone would have better
odds of keeping runs off the score-
board with the bases loaded and
Jefry Marte at bat.
Collins’s plan was foiled, howev-
er, when Milone wasted an 0-2
count and walked Marte, forcing
in a run. With the next pitch, the
plan fell to pieces completely.
Milone hung a curveball over
the heart of the plate, and C. J.
Cron crushed it over the left-field
wall for a grand slam. That gave
the Angels a five-run lead before
the Mets could record one out in a
game they eventually lost, 12-5.
Collins decided to send Milone
back out for the second inning,
and when Trout arrived at the
plate for the second time, he
blasted his 14th homer of the sea-
son, a two-run shot over the cen-
ter-field fence. Marte followed
with a solo homer, and Collins
pitches. In one and one-third in-
nings, he allowed eight runs —
seven earned — on seven hits.
“It seemed like any time I threw
the ball over the plate, they were
hitting it,” Milone said. “That’s ob-
vious. But I don’t know. I don’t re-
ally have any answers.”
After steadying themselves
with victories in the first two
games of the series against the
Angels, the Mets received an un-
welcome reminder of the prob-
lems facing their once-feared
pitching staff.
Milone, whom the Mets claimed
off waivers on May 7, is no Noah
Syndergaard, even if he is oc-
cupying a spot in the rotation for
the opening-day starter, who is
out indefinitely with a partially
torn latissimus muscle. Milone,
who compiled a 6.43 E.R.A. with
the Milwaukee Brewers and is
now 0-2 with a 10.50 E.R.A. in
three starts with the Mets, is also
no Steven Matz or Seth Lugo, both
of whom are on rehab assign-
ments.
Matz is expected to make two
A Mets pitcher records
four outs and yields
three home runs.
more rehab starts, the first com-
ing Tuesday for Class AAA Las Ve-
gas in Round Rock, Tex. Until
Matz’s return, Collins appears to
be settled on keeping Milone in
the rotation, even if there will be
some shuffling in the coming
week. Zack Wheeler, who won his
third game Saturday, will be given
an extra day of rest.
Wheeler, who has pitched 43 ⅓
innings in his return from Tommy
John surgery in March 2015,
talked to the pitching coach Dan
Warthen on Sunday and sug-
gested the respite.
“Have we pushed him too hard?
I don’t think that,” Collins said. “I
just know we were kind of antici-
pating there might be a time
when, because it’s been so long
since he’s pitched, that he might
start to be a little fatigued.”
The Mets could also push back
Jacob deGrom, to allow extra time
for a blister on his right ring finger
to heal.
If that were to happen, Robert
Gsellman would move from the
bullpen back into the rotation on
Wednesday, taking over deGrom’s
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turn against the San Diego
Padres. But Collins was not ready Tommy Milone (29), who gave up eight runs on 43 pitches, left
to say that switch was a certainty. after back-to-back homers by Mike Trout and Jefry Marte.
“I tell you this, you guys are go-
ing to write it down, and it’s going
to be on top of the Empire State shortstop Matt Reynolds, a late- July, the Mets put him on the dis-
Building tonight in lights,” he said. minute stand-in for Jose Reyes. abled list with a strained muscle in
“And I’m not quite ready for that.” About 90 minutes before the his ribs.
Regardless of how the rotation first pitch, the Mets scratched Reyes said he was not con-
shapes up for the Padres series, Reyes, who said he began feeling cerned and could pinch-hit if
the Mets are happy to see Trout tightness on the left side of his rib needed. But with the Mets trailing
leave town. He was 2 for 3 with cage after a checked swing during by so much most of the afternoon,
two walks, two runs scored and his first at-bat on Saturday. his services were not deemed nec-
three R.B.I. on Sunday. Reyes has a history of rib inju- essary.
The Mets were in a 9-0 hole be- ries. When he was with the Toron- Reynolds fared admirably Sun-
fore they scored their first run, on to Blue Jays in April 2015, Reyes day as a substitute. The same can-
a third-inning solo homer by cracked a rib on his left side. Last not be said of Milone.

Judge Unfurls Defense

As Yankees Retake Lead
From First Sports Page
the skills he refines each day in
batting practice, when he spends
10 to 15 minutes in the outfield
reading when the ball leaves the
bat.
“An outfielder can get a lot bet-
ter quickly if you do it religiously,”
said the bench coach Rob Thom-
son, who oversees the outfielders.
According to the statistical web-
site FanGraphs, Judge began Sun-
day with six runs saved by his de-
fense, the most among American
League right fielders. The ele-
ments that make a good outfielder
were evident in Judge’s catch, and
they needed to be. He got a good
read. He took a direct route. He
tracked the ball, a necessity to
prevent it from blending into the
background, the translucent roof
of Tropicana Field. And he held
Four strikeouts are
overshadowed by
had delivered a 1-2 slider to Longo-
ria, saw where the ball was
headed, he immediately turned to
back up home plate. “Judge just
came out of nowhere,” he said. “I
was as surprised as you guys. He
covered a lot of ground.”
Judge was nonchalant after the
play, resuming his position with-
out even a smile. But when he re-
turned to the dugout at the end of
the sixth inning, he was greeted
by high-fives and attaboys, and a
long thank you from Green.
“That’s what we get paid to do,
to make plays out there,” Judge
said. “That’s what I did. I made a
play.”
Judge, an unfailingly pleasant
presence in the clubhouse, abhors
speaking about his long homers,
and he was only slightly more
comfortable acknowledging his
defensive effort. But as he stood at
his locker after the game, he did
allow, with a smile, that he had just
seen the replay.
How would he grade it?
“Good catch,” he said, strug-
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aptitude in the field.
onto the ball after landing on the
warning track.
“He has to do everything right
to make that play,” Girardi said.
There was more.
Once Judge caught the ball, he
flipped it to second baseman Star-
lin Castro, who lobbed it to short-
stop Didi Gregorius, who tossed it
to first baseman Chris Carter to
double off Corey Dickerson, who
had been pulling into third when
Judge made the grab.
When reliever Chad Green, who
The play helped make a winner
of C. C. Sabathia, who allowed one
earned run — a Derek Norris
homer — over five innings and
was followed on the mound by
Green, Tyler Clippard and Dellin
Betances. Clippard retired Logan
Morrison on a fly ball to end the
seventh with a runner at third,
and Betances struck out three of
the four hitters he faced.
It was a tale of two sides of the
plate for the Yankees, whose
right-handed hitters were flum-
moxed by Chris Archer’s 97-mile-
per-hour fastball and sharp diving
slider. Gary Sanchez, Matt Holli-
day, Castro, Judge and Carter
Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge dived to rob the Rays’ Evan Longoria of a hit, setting up a double play in the sixth inning.
were a combined 0 for 14 against
Archer, with 10 strikeouts and a
double play. In all, the Yankees
struck out 17 times.
The Yankees scored all their
runs in the second, the damage
done by left-handed hitters. Gre-
gorius, who had four hits, singled
home Jacoby Ellsbury, who led off
with a double. And Brett Gardner
hit his eighth home run, hooking a
two-out, first-pitch slider — a
pitch he was not looking for — just
over the right-field wall.
“Usually I’m a little more pas-
sive and take a few more pitches,” INSIDE PITCH
Gardner said. “But when you’re The Yankees, with their bullpen
swinging the bat well, you can af- stretched, recalled BRYAN
ford to be a little more aggressive.” MITCHELL from Class AAA Scran-
Gardner admitted that he did ton/Wilkes-Barre and sent down
not think the lead would hold up GIOVANNY GALLEGOS, who
when the ball left Longoria’s bat pitched one and a third innings
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Philippe Coutinho scoring in Liverpool’s Premier League finale on Sunday. With its 3-0 victory over Middlesbrough, Liverpool edged Arsenal to qualify for the Champions League.
Emotional Undertones Lurk in Liverpool’s Uplifting Coda
LIVERPOOL, England — Only
when the second goal came could
the home crowd at Anfield fi-
nally, guardedly allow itself to
breathe. The atmosphere had
been taut until that moment,
close to an hour
RORY into the match —
Liverpool’s Pre-
SMITH mier League finale
against Middles-
ON brough.
SOCCER
It had been that
way for weeks, for months. A
thick tension had coiled around
Liverpool, fraying the nerves of
its players, darkening the minds
of its fans. It had started to feel
like a club fixated on, even re-
signed to, the worst possible
case.
It had lifted a little — but only
a little — when Georginio Wijnal-
dum, on the stroke of halftime,
gave Liverpool the lead.
Manchester City was winning,
handsomely; Arsenal was win-
ning, too. The margin was still
too fine, catastrophe still too
close.
But then Philippe Coutinho,
Liverpool’s crown jewel, pro-
vided the second goal, and at last
Trainer Credits Mentor
After Preakness Victory
BALTIMORE — You don’t
choose your mentors, they
choose you. Ask Chad Brown. He
was a small-town kid from up-
state New York when the trainer
Bobby Frankel de-
JOE cided to teach him
what he knew.
DRAPE They were nothing
alike. Frankel was an
ON HORSE emotional, combative
RACING
guy from Brooklyn
who found his way to the horses
through the betting windows. He
bet with both hands and had a
showman’s flair, a quality that he
passed down to his daughter
Bethenny, a reality-television
star and entrepreneur.
Brown, 38, is quiet. He is orga-
nized, studious even, and had
once contemplated veterinary
school. A trait the trainers
shared, however, was a me-
against-the-world competitive-
ness. It propelled Frankel into
the sport’s Hall of Fame and
Brown to his first Triple Crown
victory on Saturday, when his
colt Cloud Computing captured
the Preakness Stakes.
Listening to Frankel, it was
never enough that he had risen
from walking horses in the morn-
ing so he could get into the races
free in the afternoon to become a
trainer who captured almost
every major race on both coasts.
Frankel wanted a Kentucky
Derby win, and in 2003, when his
heavily favored colt Empire
the stress headache lifted. The
sense that — in the words of
Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool
manager — it would all “slip
through the fingers” started to
evaporate.
For the first time in a long
while, Liverpool started to enjoy
itself — not out of euphoria, but
out of relief. Adam Lallana added
a goal, a dab of gloss, for the 3-0
final score, and the fans did what
they could to create the end-of-
school atmosphere traditionally
associated with the season’s final
day.
They cycled through songs of
praise for alumni long departed;
they encouraged Lucas Leiva,
the workaday Brazilian mid-
fielder who is likely to leave the
club this summer after a
decade’s service, to shoot, from a
variety of unlikely locations.
Most fittingly, with tens of
thousands of scarves twirling in
the air, they gave an airing to
“Oh Campione,” which provided
the soundtrack to the club’s
adventures in the Champions
League more than a decade ago.
It was as though it was being
dusted off and tuned up, ready
Maker was upset in that race by
Funny Cide, he was devastated.
He blamed himself for training
Empire Maker too lightly. The
colt had immense talent but
tender feet. He was somewhat
consoled when Empire Maker
returned five weeks later to win
the Belmont Stakes and deny
Funny Cide a Triple Crown. He
was haunted, however, by Em-
pire Maker’s failure in the Derby
and knew that a big-time 3-year-
old landing in your barn is a gift.
A rare one.
“It’s nice to be right,” Frankel,
who died in 2009, once said. “You
ever been to the racetrack and
heard somebody yelling, ‘I told
you that horse would win?’ It’s
not even about the money. They
just want to be right.”
In the winner’s circle on Satur-
day, Brown said he had thought
of Frankel and that ethos.
“It just seems like he’s won
every race but the Derby and
Preakness, really,” Brown said.
“This is the only race that eluded
him in his unbelievable career. I
feel this is for him, at least from
my viewpoint. And without his
mentorship, I certainly wouldn’t
be here.”
Brown is similarly driven by
what he has yet to accomplish in
what already has been a super-
charged career. Just 10 years ago,
he left Frankel to open his own
barn with 10 ordinary horses —
five of them from the longtime
SOCCER
for next season.
It will, after all, be required.
This victory ensured Liverpool,
which edged Arsenal by a single
point, a place in the Champions
League’s final qualifying round
next season. The finest of mar-
gins led to the most divergent of
prospects: Liverpool can dream
about taking its place among
Europe’s elite for just the second
time since 2009, while Arsenal
must contemplate a summer of
rancor and regret.
That qualifying round should
not be overlooked, but Liverpool
can still feel pride in meeting its
target for the season. There
remains a scintilla of disappoint-
ment, of course: There was a
point, at the turn of the year,
when it seemed that Liverpool
was destined for more, that it
might challenge Chelsea for the
Premier League title.
But that should not distract
from the fact that Liverpool’s
ambition in August, when the
season began, was to finish in
the top four, to qualify for the
Champions League. It has done
so amid the most intense compe-
tition: It is unheard of for a team
H O R S E R AC I N G
Chad Brown, the trainer of Cloud Computing, the winner in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
horse owners Gary and Mary
West, who also gave him a start-
up loan. He got his first victory
on Nov. 23, 2007, at Churchill
Downs with a horse named Dual
Jewels. Unfortunately, he was
claimed.
Brown wanted to take his
nine-horse barn to the Fair
Grounds in New Orleans or
Gulfstream Park in Florida.
Neither would have him. Instead,
he spent the winter at Oaklawn
Park in Hot Springs, Ark., where
he earned the “duck,” racetrack
to miss out with the 75 points
Arsenal gathered.
Nor, though, should Liverpool’s
finish be taken as the end of a
journey.
If the denouement to this
Premier League campaign has
proved anything, it is that a sort
of presenteeism is rotting away
the competition’s fabled unpre-
dictability. Everton finished
seventh, 15 points ahead of
Southampton, in eighth.
Southampton, on the other hand,
accrued just 6 more points than
Watford, which finished 17th. Just
a year after Leicester took its
first title, stunning the league,
the gap between the elite and the
rest is wider than ever.
That generated, over the last
few weeks, dozens of games in
which teams were simply count-
ing down the days until summer
vacation. Arsène Wenger, the
Arsenal manager, might have
had an ulterior motive for criti-
cizing West Ham’s apparent
apathy against Liverpool last
week, but that does not mean he
did not have a point.
That same presenteeism,
though, increasingly applies to
parlance for going winless. In
Brown’s case, his horses went 0
for 20.
He found his footing, appropri-
ately enough, at Saratoga, the
track he had grown up attending
with his family as a young boy
from nearby Mechanicsville, N.Y.
Brown won with his very first
starter — Star Player — in the
first race there on opening day
on July 23, 2008, rewarding the
Wests with a modest $39,000
first-place check and rewarding
their confidence in the young
PETER POWELL/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
English teams in the Champions
League. Too many are so fixated
on being in it — the Arsenal
effect, it might be called — that
they seem to forget that the
general idea is to make an im-
pact. For them just being there is
enough: It’s not the winning, it’s
the taking part.
A Champions League
berth is secured, but
the work is not done.
To some extent, that is a con-
sequence of the all-encompass-
ing self-importance of the Pre-
mier League. For both emotional
and financial reasons, domestic
competition eclipses everything
else. But it serves, too, to erode
the advantage conferred by
being in the Champions League.
No Premier League club needs
the money on offer in Europe’s
most exclusive competition; it is,
instead, a matter of prestige.
Being in the Champions League,
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trainer. He ended up winning six
of his 18 starts at the Spa and the
attention of well-heeled owners,
and he finished the year with 31
winners and $1.5 million in purse
earnings.
Last year, Brown set a record
at Saratoga, one of the nation’s
oldest and most competitive
racetracks, with 40 victories, and
won his first Eclipse Award as
the nation’s outstanding trainer.
His horses notched 181 victories
and more than $23 million in
earnings.
received wisdom has it, means
access to a higher caliber of
player when trying to strengthen
a squad.
That, though, is not quite true.
What elite players want is a team
that is not only regularly in the
Champions League, but one that
can also go deep into it, into the
semifinals and finals. Liverpool
will not be able to compete with
Real Madrid or Barcelona in the
transfer market until it has
proved it can also compete with
them on the field.
Klopp, to his credit, under-
stands that. “Liverpool needs to
be there consistently, all the
time,” he said. “We have to make
steps for us to be around the best
teams in the world, because we
are at one of the best clubs in the
world.”
He had met his target for the
season, but there was no tri-
umphalist note in his voice. This
was a moment in Liverpool’s
“development,” he said, a spring-
board to something else, a begin-
ning, not an end. It was a mo-
ment to breathe, yes, but only to
gather oxygen for the greater
challenges to come.
A shared ethos
culminates in a
triumph at Pimlico.
Brown has excelled with turf
horses, winning nearly every
major turf race in America, in-
cluding seven Breeders’ Cup
races on grass and the Arlington
Million. He has also trained three
Eclipse-Award-winning turf
horses. It is a source of pride for
him, but like Frankel, he chafes
at what he imagines people say
he has not accomplished: win-
ning America’s most prestigious
races, which are run on the dirt.
While most see Cloud Comput-
ing’s victory as a signature
achievement by a young, ascend-
ant trainer, Brown remembers
the lean winter at Oaklawn Park
and is impatient to capture big-
ger races faster.
“I feel like it’s been a lifetime
for me, really,” Brown said. “I’ve
been training now for 10 years.
We’ve run four horses in the
Derby. This is our first Preak-
ness try. But I personally put a
lot of time, and my staff’s put a
lot of time in. When you add the
time as an assistant trainer, for
two great trainers, it feels like
I’ve been doing it forever, really.
So I don’t take it for granted.
“I know I’m young. But you
have to have an incredible team
of people that share a common
goal. And everyone has to have
the same drive as me.”