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A paper trail suggests Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the anonymous party who bought the Chateau Louis XIV,
near Versailles, for over $300 million in 2015. Amenities include a 57-acre park, a gold-leafed front door and a luxurious pool.
One More Jewel for a Saudi Reformer
Pushing Austerity at Home, and Spending Millions Abroad
By NICHOLAS KULISH
and MICHAEL FORSYTHE
LOUVECIENNES, France — When the
Chateau Louis XIV sold for over $300 mil-
lion two years ago, Fortune magazine
called it “the world’s most expensive
home,” and Town & Country swooned over
its gold-leafed fountain, marble statues and
hedged labyrinth set in a 57-acre land-
scaped park. But for all the lavish details,
one fact was missing: the identity of the
buyer.
Now, it turns out that the paper trail leads
to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
heir to the Saudi throne and the driving
force behind a series of bold policies trans-
forming Saudi Arabia and shaking up the
Middle East.
The 2015 purchase appears to be one of
several extravagant acquisitions — includ-
ing a $500 million yacht and a $450 million
Leonardo da Vinci painting — by a prince
who is leading a sweeping crackdown on
corruption and self-enrichment by the
Saudi elite and preaching fiscal austerity at
home.
“He has tried to build an image of himself,
with a fair amount of success, that he is dif-
ferent, that he’s a reformer, at least a social
reformer, and that he’s not corrupt,” said
Bruce O. Riedel, a former C.I.A. analyst and
author. “And this is a severe blow to that im-
age.”
The story of Chateau Louis XIV, as pieced
together through interviews and docu-
ments by The New York Times, unfolds like
a financial whodunit, featuring a lawyer in
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and a
fixer for the very rich from the Mediterra-
Continued on Page 12
G.O.P. Pledge
LONGTIME PERKS
Of Simplicity
Proves Elusive OF OWNING HOME
New Bill Adds Layers
of Complexities to Code
By JIM TANKERSLEY
WASHINGTON — The Repub-
lican tax bill does not pass the
postcard test.
It leaves nearly every large
tax break in place. It creates as
many new preferences for spe-
cial interests as it gets rid of. It
will keep corporate accountants
busy for years to come. And no
taxpayer will ever see the post-
card-size tax return that Presi-
dent Trump laid a kiss on in
November as Republican leaders
launched their tax overhaul
effort.
This was not the grand simpli-
fication of the code that Republi-
cans promised when they set out
to eliminate tax breaks and cut
the number of tax brackets as
they lowered rates.
As their bill tore through Con-
gress, their ambitions fell to the
powerful forces of lobbying and
the status quo. Killed tax breaks
returned to life. New ones sprang
up beside them. A plan for three
individual tax brackets became
five, and finally eight.
Trade groups, such as the one
for real estate agents, were able
to preserve many benefits tar-
geted for elimination. The groups
whose breaks were actually
killed formed an eclectic, if less
powerful, bunch: bicycle com-
muters, gamblers, workers
whose companies give them free
food.
What emerged on Friday, in
the final product agreed to by
Republican members of a House-
Senate conference committee,
was a bill that layers new tax
complexities upon businesses
large and small, and which deliv-
ers a larger share of benefits to
corporations and the rich than to
the middle class.
It sets all tax relief for individ-
uals to expire in eight years,
while making deep and perma-
nent cuts to the corporate tax
rate. It limits one key benefit for
taxpayers in high-tax states,
Continued on Page 25
DEDUCTIONS PARED BACK
Some Economists Fault
Rewards for Buying
Instead of Renting
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
For decades, the tax code has
been filled with rewards for home-
ownership. Tax breaks encourage
people to get into first homes and
to trade up as they get older, build-
ing a national mind-set that you’re
never quite middle class until
you’ve qualified for a mortgage.
It amounts to a vast social engi-
neering project that assumes soci-
ety is better off with owners in-
stead of renters. But the tax bill
making its way toward final pas-
sage is upending that premise.
The bill will increase many
homeowners’ monthly housing
costs by scaling back deductions
that allow them to reduce mort-
gage interest and property taxes.
And by roughly doubling the
standard deduction, it reduces the
incentive to buy homes by making
far fewer homeowners eligible for
preferential tax treatment.
Today, a little under half of
American homes are worth
enough to justify itemizing mort-
gage interest and property taxes.
Under the tax legislation, that fig-
ure would fall to close to 14 per-
cent, according to an analysis of
the plan by the online real estate
marketplace Zillow.
The Republican plan, in short, is
tinkering with subsidies so en-
trenched in the social fabric that
they have become entitlements in
all but name.
“It suggests a limit in the fed-
eral government’s willingness to
subsidize ownership,” said Ed-
Continued on Page 24
PERSONAL TAXES The standard
deduction increases, but state and
local tax breaks suffer. PAGE 22
WINNERS AND LOSERS Some
taxpayers will get a much nicer
gift than others. PAGE 25

Real U.F.O.s? Ravaged by Opioids, Tribe Fights Big Pharmacies A Rallying Cry or a Racial Taunt
Pentagon Unit
Tried to Know
This article is by Helene Cooper,
Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean.
WASHINGTON — In the $600
billion annual Defense Depart-
ment budgets, the $22 million
spent on the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program
was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon
wanted it.
For years, the program investi-
gated reports of unidentified fly-
ing objects, according to Defense
Department officials, interviews
with program participants and
records obtained by The New
York Times. It was run by a mili-
tary intelligence official, Luis Eli-
zondo, on the fifth floor of the Pen-
tagon’s C Ring, deep within the
building’s maze.
The Defense Department has
never before acknowledged the
existence of the program, which it
says it shut down in 2012. But its
backers say that, while the Penta-
gon ended funding for the effort at
that time, the program remains in
Continued on Page 27
By JAN HOFFMAN
Invoking the President: ‘Trump!’
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Chero-
kee children were disappearing.
At weekly staff meetings, Todd
Hembree, the attorney general of
the Cherokee Nation, kept hearing
about babies in opioid withdrawal
and youngsters with addicted par-
ents, all being removed from fam-
ilies. The crush on the foster care
system was so great that the un-
thinkable had become inevitable:
70 percent of the Cherokee foster
children in Oklahoma had to be
placed in the homes of non-Indi-
ans.
“We have addicted mothers and
fathers who don’t give a damn
about what their children will
carry on,” said Mr. Hembree, a de-
scendant of a revered 19th-cen-
tury chief. “They can’t care for
themselves, much less anything
else. We are losing a generation of
our continuity.”
Across the country, tens of thou-
sands of people are dying from
abuse of prescription opioids.
Here in the capital of the Cherokee
Nation, the epidemic is exacting
an additional, deeply painful
price. The tribe’s carefully tended
heritage, traditions and memo-
ries, handed down through gener-
ations, are at risk, with so many
By DAN BARRY and JOHN ELIGON
The high school basketball
squad from Eagle Grove, popula-
tion 3,700, had traveled 60 miles
up Highway 69 in Iowa to play the
team from Forest City, population
4,100. It would be the Eagles
against the Indians, a hardwood
competition in the center of the
country. For some people, this is
as American as it gets.
At one point during the online
streaming of the game last month,
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES two white announcers for a Forest
Cassie Walker of Locust Grove, Okla., with a foster child who City radio station, KIOW, began
riffing on the Hispanic names of
was born addicted to opioids. In an unusual case, the Cherokee
some players from the mildly
Nation is suing in tribal court over an opioid crisis on its territory. more diverse community of Eagle
Grove. “They’re all foreigners,”
families now being ruptured by Cherokee Nation’s tribal court. said Orin Harris, a longtime an-
drugs. The Cherokee suit argues that nouncer; his partner, Holly Jane
That fear is driving an unusual the pharmacy chains Walmart, Kusserow-Smidt, a board opera-
legal battle. Like authorities in Walgreens and CVS Health, as tor at the station who was also a
dozens of cities, counties and well as the giant drug distributors third-grade teacher, answered:
states, including Ohio, New Jer- McKesson, Cardinal Health and “Exactly.”
sey and Oklahoma itself, Mr. Hem- AmerisourceBergen, flouted fed- For some people, this is as
bree has sued big opioid distribu- eral drug-monitoring laws and al- American as it gets.
tors. Attorneys general from 41 lowed prescription opioids to pour Mr. Harris then uttered a term
states recently joined forces to in- into the Cherokee territory at occasionally used these days as a
vestigate similar options. But in- some of the highest rates in the racially charged taunt, or as a
stead of going to state court, Mr. country. Such neglect, Mr. Hem- braying assertion that the country
Hembree filed his case in the Continued on Page 26 is being taken back from forces
that threaten it. That term is, sim-
ply, the surname of the sitting
American president.
“As Trump would say, go back
where they came from,” Mr. Har-
ris said.
“Well, some would say that,
yeah,” Ms. Kusserow-Smidt said.
“Some days I feel like that, too.”
Last year’s contentious presi-
dential election gave oxygen to
hate. An analysis of F.B.I. crime
data by the Center for the Study of
Hate & Extremism at California
State University, San Bernardino,
found a 26 percent increase in bias
incidents in the last quarter of
2016 — the heart of the election
season — compared with the
same period the previous year.
The trend has continued into 2017,
with the latest partial data for the
nation’s five most populous cities
showing a 12 percent increase.
In addition, anti-Muslim
episodes have nearly doubled
since 2014, according to Brian
Levin, the director of the center,
which he said has also counted
more “mega rallies” by white na-
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school in Brooklyn. The elevator was so old
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manual elevators in other parts of the city.
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and was surprised to receive a spreadsheet
labeled “Manual Passenger Elevators” that
had more than 500 buildings on it. “It’s
quite an extensive list,” the spokesman
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push-button elevators — many of them
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manual elevators that weren’t on the city
list. I reached out to real estate brokers.
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• sliding backward.)
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children in the United States no TRAVEL, PAGE 3

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To Promote the General Welfare
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• more than double the 14.4 percent
1.3 million Americans over the
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Salma Hayek’s moving Op-Ed article about the sexual har-
assment and emotional abuse she faced at the hands of Mr.
Weinstein was last week’s top read. On Facebook, the piece
was shared more than 16,000 times, including by such nota-
bles as the actress Reese Witherspoon, the author Junot Díaz
and the television commentator Gretchen Carlson.
SUNDAY REVIEW, PAGE 3
In a Times investigation published last week, three women
accused the media mogul Russell Simmons of rape. For a
video about the story, Melena Ryzik, one of the reporters who
broke it, discussed the investigation and examined the place
that women of color have (or have not) had within the grow-
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2. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules Melena Ryzik All of these stories that we’ve heard
Thursday’s news that the agency had scrapped regulations now in the few months since the Weinstein allegations
came out, they mostly focused on the stories of white
that prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites
women, white men.
or charging for higher-quality service or certain content drew
most of its readers from Google searches. A November ex-
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their allegations might have a harder time of being
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painful. It’s very common for these interviews to
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Disrupting City but Killing None
The Times’s breaking coverage of the terror attack in the Times
Square subway station last Monday was highly read. The on-
line version of the article went through eight headline changes
as more information became available about the explosion.
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And Doug Jones Carries National Implications
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Tuesday — the live results page alone drew more than 13 mil-
lion page views, placing it among the most-read pieces pub-
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NORTH KOREAN LEADER’S VANESSA FRIEDMAN ANSWERS YOUR STYLE QUESTIONS
HEROES: HIS ROCKET
SCIENTISTS PAGE 8
Q: I’m confused. There are booties and boots — which are which? There are
boots that are flat and short, or to the calf, or to the knee, or way higher.
“We have never heard When do you wear what? Do they rise with the skirt, or do they lower with
of him killing scien- the skirt? And what about pants? Do boots and their heels go flat with pants
or high heeled with shorts? And then there are boots without toes, or heels (open in the
tists. He is someone back) or open on top or laced or with lace. And I haven’t mentioned Western-styled boots
who understands that and heels. Are there any rules? ELIZABETH, PASADENA

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of doing science.” A: I could probably write a
whole treatise about boots,
CHOI HYUN-KYOO, a senior researcher which are my favorite form of
in South Korea, referring to Kim Jong-
footwear in winter. But in the
un, the North Korean leader.
interests of brevity, a few tips (not rules; I
think those went out with the “no white
after Labor Day” dictate):
1. Booties is just the cutesy synonym for
ankle boots.
2. I tend to think knee-high boots go best
with skirts that hit just above the knee.
Thigh-highs are good with minis, and
ankle boots with — well, pretty much
everything. Visually, a slice of skin be-
tween a hem and a boot top is leg length-
ening, whatever the heel height.
3. Contrast is also a good strategy to keep
in mind: Floaty dresses go well with
chunky boots, and flat gladiator boots
work well with bare legs in the summer.
4. Long, flared trousers pretty much de-
mand a heeled boot. But leggings and
jeans can go flat or stacked or stiletto.
Personally, I would stay away from shorts
and boots entirely.
5. For a great jeans ‘n’ boots model who is
also a working adult, look to Emmanuelle
Alt, the editor of French Vogue.
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look from across The Times at the forces that
shape the dress codes we share — chief fashion
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‘Brexodus’ of Workers
Has British Employers
Scrambling to Fill Jobs
By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
FORDOUN, Scotland — The first inkling that
Ross Mitchell knew something had gone awry was
when a busload of Bulgarians he had hired to pick
blueberries last month failed to appear.
The way he saw it, they had been “hijacked.”
The real explanation was rather more prosaic but
no more palatable: During a one-night stopover in
Birmingham, a city on the way to Mr. Mitchell’s farm
in northern Scotland, the 30 Bulgarians were lured
by a factory offering more attractive wages. They
never made it to their original destination.
The diversion of his work force
meant that Mr. Mitchell, a fruit sup-
plier for a major supermarket chain
in Britain, lost 50 tons of fruit worth
half a million pounds ($680,000) in a
matter of weeks.
Mr. Mitchell is not alone in his dis-
tress. Similar anecdotes have been
reported by a wide range of employ-
ers, notably the National Health
Service and the hospitality sector. It
is a phenomenon tied to Britain’s decision last year
to leave the European Union, a process known as
Brexit. Since then, thousands of Europeans have al-
ready left Britain or have decided not to return,
causing a significant drop in migration to the coun-
try. Net migration in the year ending in June fell by
106,000, about a third, the government said, “the
largest fall in any 12-month period since records be-
gan in 1964.”
Hospitals are struggling to hire doctors and
nurses. British universities are failing to attract for-
eign academics and students. Bankers are looking
for jobs in Germany and France. The construction
sector last month warned that British infrastructure
faced “severe setbacks” if Britain did not train
enough workers to stem a shortfall in laborers from
European Union countries. About half of all con-
struction workers in London and the South East are
foreign-born.
The “Brexodus,” as it is called, is being felt partic-
ularly acutely in the agriculture industry, which re-
lies heavily on manual laborers, especially from
poor European countries like Romania and Bulgar-
ia. While Europe is experiencing a boom in “dispos-
able” workers who are sent to all corners of the Con-
tinent, many appear to be shunning Britain.
In Mr. Mitchell’s case, the signs started appearing
in the autumn after the June 2016 referendum on
Brexit. This spring, the number of returning labor-
ers started dropping.
“There were no-shows, people started changing
their minds,” he said. “Guys who’ve worked five, six
years with us started saying, ‘We’re not returning.’
It all came to a head in late summer and autumn.
The workload was getting stretched and we literally
could not replace and recruit.”
“It was really difficult,” Mr. Mitchell, 36, said sto-
ically, sitting in his kitchen with his arms crossed. He
paused to reflect on the coming year, letting out a
brief sigh as the sky outside prepared to unleash a
downpour. “The big thing that’s on everybody’s
mind is the labor shortage.”
Across Britain, fruit farmers like Mr. Mitchell are
already scrambling to recruit and retain workers
ahead of next spring, when the competition for an
ever-shrinking pool of labor will be at its fiercest.
British agriculture experienced a labor shortfall
of between 13 percent and 29 percent on a monthly
basis from May to September, according to the Na-
tional Farmers Union. John Hardman, director at
Hops Labour Solutions, a supplier of temporary
workers, said that labor fell by as much as 40 per-
cent during the peak season between April and Sep-
tember compared with the same period last year. In-
dustry officials and experts expect the shortage to
be worse next year.
Farmers are doing everything to persuade work-
ers from the rest of Europe to come
work for them: better wages and
conditions — in some cases, as high
as £15 ($20) an hour — English
lessons, even access to tennis courts
and movie theaters. Still, recruiting
has been difficult.
Businesses “are trying to make it
easy and as pleasant as possible for
people to come to work in the U.K,”
said Jack Ward, chief executive of
the British Growers Association. “Despite that, peo-
ple are staying away.”
Marion Regan, a farmer in southern Kent whose
strawberries sell out during the Wimbledon tennis
tournament, said: “We have seen fewer people ap-
plying and fewer people being able to return, and
more people canceling at the last minute. That
makes it more uncertain to plan ahead.”
In Britain, the Brexit vote focused on immigra-
tion, and supporters of the exit option complained
that workers, especially from European Union
member states like Romania and Bulgaria, were
stealing jobs from born-and-bred Britons. The de-
bates around the 2016 referendum were dominated
Mr. Mitchell at his farm in Fordoun. He noticed a drop-off in returning workers this spring.
A Romanian worker, above, and cov-
ered crops, left, at Mr. Mitchell’s farm,
which relies heavily on European labor.
by divisive issues of race, religion and tolerance.
Brexit supporters, for example, said that continued
membership exposed Britain to a new wave of Mus-
lim immigration and made it more vulnerable to Is-
lamist radicals.
The Brexit campaign was supported by some
right-wing and nationalist groups, and the vote gave
rise to concerns that minorities and immigrants
would be more vulnerable to hate crimes, which
reached record levels this year, according to the
Home Office.
The “Brexodus” has been compounded by a fall in
the value of the pound against the euro. For mi-
grants from Bulgaria and Romania, the weaker cur-
rency has made the journey to Britain less worth-
while; there are similar jobs closer to home, in Ger-
many and the Netherlands, for example. Given that
other European Union countries are also struggling
to hire fruit pickers, the competition to hire young,
able-bodied workers has become even more intense.
The laborers who now come to Britain tend to be
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KIERAN DODDS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
older and less skilled, according to farmers, who say
hiring British workers is nearly impossible. “It’s dis-
appointing that you can’t recruit U.K. nationals,”
said Mr. Hardman of Hops, the agency that recruits
seasonal laborers. “It’s not attractive for them. They
find it beneath them.”
Recruitment of British workers is also difficult, in-
dustry officials say, because unemployment is al-
ready low in farming regions, particularly in the
south, and local residents are unwilling to move
across the country for a job that does not offer long-
term prospects.
The labor shortage is likely to worsen next year if
the uncertainty over negotiations with other Euro-
pean Union members continues and no government
action is taken to fill in the vacuum, many farmers
and industry officials say. Britain typically employs
about 80,000 seasonal workers every year, more
than 90 percent of them non-British Europeans, ac-
cording to industry figures.
There are worries that the production of fresh
produce could eventually shift to major competitors
in the Netherlands, Poland and Ireland, or that su-
permarkets will increasingly turn to imports.
Farmers interviewed for this article said that they
were already raising wholesale prices as a result of
increased labor costs, even though supermarkets
have so far managed to keep retail prices un-
changed.
“It is a very, very big impact,” Alison Capper, chair
of the N.F.U.’s horticulture board, said of the labor
shortage. “The whole industry is like that.”
Ms. Capper owns an orchard in the Midlands that
produces Gala apples.
This year, she had 20 percent fewer workers than
usual, she said. That translated to at one point about
35 tons of apples going unpicked until they could be
used only to make juice, which is less lucrative than
apples for consumption.
“If the apple starts to go overripe, the skin starts
to get greasy and it’s not salable,” Ms. Capper said.
“We were struggling to stay ahead of the apples’ rip-
ening, so that the last 100 bins ended up being sent”
to juice makers. “This has been the biggest chal-
lenge for generations.”
The industry is calling on the government to re-
introduce a seasonal workers’ program that was
scrapped in 2013 by Theresa May, Britain’s current
prime minister who was then leading the Home Of-
fice and in charge of immigration. That program,
which is run elsewhere in the European Union, al-
lowed non-European migrants to work in Britain on
fixed contracts and schedules. Crucially, the pickers
were committed to doing the job.
But the British government stopped the program
around the same time that the European Union ac-
cepted Romania and Bulgaria into the regional bloc.
The assumption at the time, farmers say, was that
workers from those countries would replace the
non-European laborers.
They did — until Britain voted for Brexit.
Now, because of the bloc’s principle of freedom of
movement, the Bulgarians that Mr. Mitchell had re-
cruited were free to choose whichever jobs paid
best, even those unrelated to farming.
The government has so far rejected calls to re-
introduce the seasonal workers program. In a state-
ment, the Home Office said the government did not
intend to operate migration schemes for non-Euro-
pean citizens “while employers have access to un-
restricted access to labor from elsewhere in the Eu-
ropean Union.”
“We do not believe that there is sufficient evi-
dence to justify the introduction of a seasonal agri-
cultural workers scheme this year but we will keep
this position under careful, ongoing review,” it add-
ed.
For Mr. Mitchell, the Scottish farmer, the issue is
urgent and no longer limited to agriculture but to the
entire economy. Everyone, he said, is fighting for the
same labor pool.
“It’s like the Wild West,” he said. “It’s the survival
of the fittest.”
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North Korean Leader’s Heroes: His Rocket Scientists
This article is by Choe Sang-Hun,
Motoko Rich, Audrey Carlsen and
Natalie Reneau.
When the North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un celebrated the
launch of a powerful new missile
last month, he was surrounded by
a group of top scientists and offi-
cials. State media did not identify
the men, but they have all been
seen with Mr. Kim before.
These men — known by nick-
names such as the “nuclear duo”
and the “missile quartet” — have
built an intercontinental ballistic
missile that appears capable of
hitting any city in the United
States, a feat of physics and engi-
neering that has stunned the
world.
At only 33, Mr. Kim has been
ruthless about consolidating
power, executing scores of senior
officials, including his own uncle.
But he has showered his regime’s
scientists with incentives and ad-
ulation, turning them into public
heroes and symbols of national
progress.
“We have never heard of him
killing scientists,” said Choi Hyun-
kyoo, a senior researcher in South
Korea who runs NK Tech, a data-
base of North Korean scientific
publications. “He is someone who
understands that trial and error
are part of doing science.”
Analysts are still trying to ex-
plain how North Korea managed
to overcome decades of interna-
tional sanctions and make so
much progress so quickly. But it is
clear the nation has accumulated
a significant scientific foundation
despite its backward image.
Each of its six nuclear tests has
been more powerful than the last,
boosting Mr. Kim’s stature at
home and his leverage abroad.
Still, it is unclear if the North has
mastered the technology needed
to keep a nuclear warhead intact
as it re-enters the Earth’s atmos-
phere.
Science Worship
Mr. Kim has elevated science as
an ideal in the regime’s propagan-
da and put his fondness for scien-
tists and engineers on prominent
display across North Korea. That
is a departure from the practice of
his predecessor and father, Kim
Jong-il, who instead emphasized
cinema and the arts as propagan-
da tools.
Four years after taking power
in 2011, Kim Jong-un opened a six-
lane avenue in Pyongyang known
as Future Scientists Street, with
gleaming apartment towers for
scientists, engineers and their
families.
He also opened a sprawling
complex shaped like an atom that
showcases the nation’s achieve-
ments in nuclear science. Extrav-
agant galas are held to celebrate
scientific progress.
There is little doubt what is be-
hind Mr. Kim’s passion for science.
In ubiquitous propaganda post-
ers, North Korean rockets soar
into space and crash into the
United States Capitol.
And after successful tests, sci-
entists and engineers are honored
with huge outdoor rallies. On their
way to Pyongyang, their motor-
cades pass cheering crowds.
“They are already pretty so-
phisticated in metallurgy, me-
chanical engineering, and to some
extent chemistry,” all areas tied to
the nation’s civilian and military
needs, said Joshua Pollack, a sen-
ior research associate at the Mid-
dlebury Institute of International
1 2
Kim
Jong-sik
Engineer
5 Former engineer at
Ri Hong-sop
Nuclear institute
director
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Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, and the six scientists and officials who have repeatedly appeared with him at key events.
Studies at Monterey, California.
North Korea has imported sci-
entific papers and journals from
Japan for decades. And when it
sends students abroad, it orders
them to copy scientific literature
and bring it home, said Michael
Madden, who runs the North Ko-
rea Leadership Watch website.
United Nations sanctions pro-
hibit the teaching of scientific ma-
terial with military applications to
North Korean students. Yet North
Korea still sends students to coun-
tries such as China, India and
even Germany, according to ana-
lysts and United Nations reports.
The internet has also been a
gold mine for the North. While the
state blocks public access, it al-
lows elite scientists to scour the
web for open-source data under
the watch of security agents. The
North has also built digital librar-
ies of approved material that are
accessible across the country.
North Korea funnels its top sci-
ence students into military
projects. Those selected for the
nuclear and missile program are
relocated from their hometowns
and allowed to return for visits
only with government minders,
according to defectors and ana-
lysts.
But they are also given better
food rations — and access to
Ri Pyong-chol
Munitions
official
weapons designs and components
obtained by the nation’s spies and
hackers, who have focused on the
former Soviet republics.
Familiar Faces
Scientists and engineers also en-
joyed special privileges under Mr.
Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, as
he struggled to rebuild North Ko-
rea from the ruins of the Korean
War. He embraced those trained
in Japan when Korea was a Japa-
nese colony and later sent hun-
dreds of students to the Soviet Un-
ion, East Germany and other so-
cialist states.
One of them was So Sang-guk, a
nuclear scientist who emerged as
a key figure in the nation’s nuclear
program but seems to have re-
tired.
Since taking power, Kim Jong-
un appears to have overseen a
generational shift at the top of the
weapons program, elevating a
group of scientists and officials
about whom little is known.
He tends to assign officials to
different projects, letting them
compete for his attention and fa-
vor. But analysts have identified
six figures who have repeatedly
appeared alongside Mr. Kim at
key moments — four tied to mis-
sile development and two associ-
ated with nuclear tests.
Two members of the “missile
quartet” are scientists, according
to state media. Jang Chang-ha, 53,
is president of the Academy of Na-
tional Defense Science, and Jon Il-
ho, 61, is commonly described as
an “official in the field of scientific
research.”
Ri Pyong-chol appears to be the
quartet’s highest-ranking mem-
ber. A former air force command-
er, he serves as first deputy direc-
tor of the ruling Workers’ Party’s
munitions industry department.
Kim Jong-sik, 49, first began
appearing with Kim Jong-un in
February 2016 and has an engi-
neering background. His rise has
coincided with an acceleration of
test launches, but he and Mr. Ri
did not attend last month’s launch.
Deaths of Prominent Toronto Couple Raise Suspicion
By IAN AUSTEN
Mystery has shrouded the un-
explained deaths of an enor-
mously wealthy Canadian couple,
who gave away much of their for-
tune from a generic drug busi-
ness.
The bodies of the couple, Barry
and Honey Sherman, were found
Friday inside their mansion in an
upscale neighborhood of northern
Toronto.
Aside from describing the
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in Toronto offered little informa-
tion. Brandon Price, a homicide
detective, told reporters that in-
vestigators were not “currently
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said had been made to “alleviate
some of the concerns in the neigh-
borhood.”
Emergency workers were sum-
moned shortly before noon on Fri-
day to the couple’s mansion in re-
sponse to a 911 call, which Canadi-
an news outlets said had been
placed by a real estate agent.
3 4
Jon Il-ho
Scientist
Ri Hong-sop, the director of
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
Institute, appears to be a leading
figure in the nuclear program. He
has been blacklisted by the United
Nations since 2009.
Hong Sung-mu, the other mem-
ber of the “nuclear duo,” is a for-
mer chief engineer at the Yong-
byon nuclear complex, the birth-
place of the North’s nuclear weap-
ons program.
North Korea has also recruited
scientists from the former Soviet
Union, offering salaries as high as
$10,000 per month, according to
Lee Yun-keol, a defector who runs
the North Korea Strategic Infor-
mation Service Center in Seoul
and has studied the history of the
North’s nuclear program.
In 1992, a plane carrying 64
rocket scientists from Moscow
was stopped before departing for
North Korea. It is not clear how
many, if any, former Soviet scien-
tists made it to North Korea in the
decades since.
Theodore A. Postol, a professor
emeritus of science, technology
and international security at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, said the North has “this
fantastic record for flying rockets
the first time and having them
succeed.”
“We think it’s because they had
rocket motors and designs that
were basically Russian designs,
and they had the expertise of Rus-
sian engineers who knew how to
solve the problems,” he said.
Father Figure
Little is left to chance in propagan-
da related to the weapons pro-
gram. Even the smallest of details
can be laden with significance.
“By launching rockets and
treating scientists like stars, Kim
Jong-un gives his people a sense
of progress,” Mr. Lee said. “It’s not
just a military project but also a
political stratagem.”
Mr. Kim’s annual visit to his
grandfather’s mausoleum is the
most important ritual of his dy-
nastic regime. The missile quar-
The Shermans had recently
listed the property for sale at
nearly 7 million Canadian dollars,
or about $5.4 million.
Apotex, the company Mr. Sher-
man founded, confirmed the cou-
ple’s identity in a statement. Mr.
Sherman, 75, was chairman of the
drug maker.
Mr. Sherman used litigation and
pressure on governments to open
up the market for generic drugs,
turning Apotex into a business
with annual sales of more than 2
billion Canadian dollars. Canadi-
an Business magazine estimated
his personal wealth at 4.7 billion
Canadian dollars.
He also was embroiled in a long-
running legal dispute with a group
of his cousins, who sought about $1
billion in a lawsuit brought in
2006. The complaint, which was
based on Mr. Sherman’s relation-
ship with an uncle in an earlier
drug company, was finally re-
jected in September by the Ontar-
io Superior Court of Justice.
Jang
Chang-ha
Scientist
6
Hong Sung-mu
nuclear complex
tet’s proximity to him at the July
event was a sign of their high sta-
tus.
In photos from the event, mis-
sile experts could be seen sharing
cigarettes with Mr. Kim after last
month’s missile launch — an al-
most unimaginable privilege in a
nation where he is portrayed as a
godlike figure.
Perhaps the most surprising
photo came in March, when Mr.
Kim carried an unidentified offi-
cial on his back while celebrating
the ground test of a new rocket en-
gine.
The image evoked an old Kore-
an tradition in which young men
give their aging parents piggy-
back rides as a symbolic gesture
of gratitude for the hardship they
have endured for their children.
But others say the image took on a
different meaning and Mr. Kim
was actually playing the parent,
carrying the scientist on his back
as a father might a child.
In general, Mr. Kim is presented
in the regime’s propaganda as a
father figure — a national patri-
arch whom the public is supposed
to obey without question. That
makes the symbolism of his inter-
actions with these scientists and
engineers even more striking.
In traditional Korean culture, it
is generally inappropriate for a
son to smoke with his father or
even with a teacher. One would
only do so with great reluctance —
and gratitude — at the elder’s in-
sistence. In effect, Mr. Kim is in-
sisting that these scientists take a
bow.
But even as he honors these
men and celebrates their accom-
plishments, they remain bit play-
ers on the stage. Every scientist in
North Korea, no matter how im-
portant, must credit Mr. Kim for
his successes, just as the nation’s
athletes never fail to cite him as in-
spiration for their achievements
at the Olympics and other compe-
titions.
In the end, the real star of the
nuclear weapons program is Mr.
Kim himself.
Philanthropists whose
generic drug business
made them a fortune.
In addition to donating to chari-
ties, mainly in the Toronto area,
Mr. Sherman was a prominent
backer of the Liberal Party led by
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
This year, Karen Shepherd, the
federal lobbying commissioner,
said she was investigating the
propriety of Mr. Sherman’s host-
ing of a Liberal Party fund-raiser
in 2015 that featured Mr. Trudeau,
who was not yet prime minister.
Because Mr. Sherman was regis-
tered as a lobbyist at the time,
some political opponents and a po-
litical ethics group charged that
the event violated federal lobby-
ing rules.
Apotex had asked a court to end
Gandhi Puts
Party’s Hopes
In the Hands
Of Her Son
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rahul
Gandhi, the scion of India’s fa-
mous political dynasty, on Satur-
day took over as president of the
main opposition Congress party,
which faces a stiff challenge from
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
ruling Hindu nationalists.
Mr. Gandhi, who took the man-
tle from his mother, Sonia, at a
party function, assumes leader-
ship of a party that has been los-
ing power to Mr. Modi’s
Bharatiya Janata Party since
2014. Mr. Gandhi’s party has suf-
fered humiliating defeats in re-
cent state elections despite his ac-
tive campaigning.
In a speech, Sonia Gandhi de-
scribed her son as the new hope
for the Congress party, as work-
ers danced, burst firecrackers
and distributed sweets to cele-
brate the generational shift in
leadership.
Mr. Gandhi, 47, will be taking on
Mr. Modi when the prime min-
ister seeks a second, five-year
term in 2019. Mr. Modi has vowed
to create a Congress-free India
while working for the rise of
Hindu nationalist forces.
“Today, the Congress faces a
possibly existential crisis even as
Sonia Gandhi makes way for
Rahul Gandhi,” said Neerja
Chowdhury, a political commen-
tator.
In his speech, Mr. Gandhi de-
scribed himself as an “idealist”
and said the Indian people were
disillusioned by the policies pur-
sued by the Modi government.
He said the Congress party,
which had ruled India for dec-
ades, took the country into the
21st century through moderniza-
tion and development. He ac-
cused Mr. Modi of taking India “to
a medieval path where people are
butchered because of who they
are, beaten for what they believe
in and killed for what they eat.”
“The Congress will take on this
challenge and will never back
down,” he said.
Mr. Gandhi was referring to
killings and attacks on minority
groups, especially Muslims, since
the Bharatiya Janata Party swept
national elections in 2014. Most of
the violence against Muslims has
involved fringe Hindu vigilante
groups that have become active
in small towns and cities across
India. Muslims make up about 14
percent of India’s 1.3 billion peo-
ple and Hindus about 80 percent.
Mr. Gandhi is the sixth member
of the Nehru-Gandhi family to
lead the Congress party. His fa-
ther, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother
Indira Gandhi, and great-grand-
father Jawaharlal Nehru have all
served as prime minister since
India’s independence from
British colonialists in 1947. Rahul
Gandhi entered politics in 2004.
Mr. Gandhi was elevated to
party vice president in January
2013, serving as his mother’s No.
2. Mrs. Gandhi, 71, was the party’s
longest-serving chief, leading it
for 19 years. She has been unwell
in recent years and has been
pushing her son to the fore.
Asked what role she would play
after her son’s elevation, Mrs.
Gandhi told New Delhi Television
on Friday, “My role is to retire.”
Randeep Surejewala, a party
spokesman, said later that Mrs.
Gandhi had retired as party presi-
dent but not from politics. “Her
blessings, wisdom and innate
commitment to Congress ideol-
ogy shall always be our guiding
light,” he wrote on Twitter.
The Gandhi family and the
Congress party have released lit-
tle information about Mrs. Gan-
dhi’s health problems. She had
surgery in the United States for
an undisclosed reason in 2011, and
has returned to the United States
for regular checkups since then.
the investigation, calling it an “un-
anchored fishing expedition.”
Mr. Trudeau was among many
prominent Canadians who ex-
pressed sadness over the Sher-
mans’ deaths.
“Our condolences to their fam-
ily & friends, and to everyone
touched by their vision & spirit,”
he wrote on Twitter.
Linda Frum, a Conservative
member of Canada’s Senate, de-
scribed Ms. Sherman on Twitter
as “one of the kindest and most be-
loved members of Canada’s Jew-
ish community.”
“Today I am gutted by the loss
of Honey and Barry Sherman,”
she added. “Our community is
steeped in grief.”
Many of Mr. Sherman’s finan-
cial contributions went to
branches of the United Way. Apo-
tex regularly donated substantial
quantities of drugs to groups pro-
viding medical care in underde-
veloped countries and crisis ar-
eas.
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South African Party, Once a Symbol of Hope, Turns to a New Leader

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson
Mandela’s African National Con-
gress once inspired hope across
Africa. It helped liberate black
South Africans from white-minor-
ity rule, promoting reconciliation
with former oppressors and the
ideal of a post-racial “Rainbow
Nation.” It seemed even poised to
lift up the rest of the continent
with its vision of an “African Ren-
aissance.”
But as A.N.C. members began
gathering on Saturday to elect a
new leader, many analysts de-
scribed the still-dominant party
as a shadow of what it once repre-
sented — bereft of ideals, roiled by
insiders fighting over diminishing
spoils, abandoned by a growing
list of disillusioned graying party
heroes known as “stalwarts.”
For many at home and across
Africa, the once heroic liberation
movement is now synonymous
with corruption and cynicism.
South Africa has become a normal
nation.
The winner of the party election
is expected to become South Afri-
ca’s next president in the 2019
elections unless the A.N.C. loses
its overwhelming strength in Par-
liament, which selects the nation’s
top executive.
Its present leader is President
Jacob Zuma, who as South Africa’s
head of state since 2009 has been
at the center of a series of person-
al and political scandals. He will
step down as head of the party af-
ter his successor is chosen, possi-
bly as early as Sunday, at an elec-
tive conference in Johannesburg.
In his final address as party
leader, Mr. Zuma acknowledged
that the A.N.C. had been weak-
ened and needed to be renewed.
But he blamed outside forces —
which have also been the ones to
check his exercise of power — and
launched into a broad and bitter
attack on the opposition, the judi-
cial system, the news media and
civil society.
He reserved his harshest words
for the white-dominated business
community, saying that the party
needed to be protected from “cor-
porate greed.”
“Theft and corruption in the pri-
vate sector is as bad as that in gov-
ernment,” he said.
Two front-runners are locked in
a tight race to succeed him, em-
bodying starkly different strains
within a deeply divided party.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a
medical doctor and anti-apartheid
veteran who served in several
roles in previous governments, is
I because it is the path that all Afri-
also a former wife of Mr. Zuma.
She has his support and that of
many of his allies, and has
adopted his populist rhetoric.
Cyril Ramaphosa, the deputy
president, has won the support of
some of Mr. Zuma’s fiercest oppo-
nents: business groups and mid-
dle-class black voters in cities. His
own record in business, however
— as a former trade union leader
whose A.N.C. connections helped
him become one of the country’s
richest men — has made him a
representative of the gulf between
South Africa’s tiny new black elite
and its poor.
Critics have focused on Mr.
Zuma, 75, to explain the A.N.C.’s
precipitous decline. And Mr.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOAO SILVA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seated at center, having her picture
taken on Saturday at the African National Congress convention
in Johannesburg. She is a front-runner to succeed President Ja-
cob Zuma, left, her former husband, as the party’s leader.
Zuma, who has six wives and as
deputy president was tried and
acquitted on a rape accusation,
makes an easy target.
But the problems go beyond
just one man. Like other liberation
parties in southern Africa, includ-
ing those in Zimbabwe, Angola,
Namibia and Mozambique, the
A.N.C. has never lost power since
ousting white rulers, and has
come to focus on retaining that
power and the access it provides.
In South Africa — where the
economy has stagnated under Mr.
Zuma — patronage and corrup-
tion have built a system that will
be difficult to dismantle. In many
of the A.N.C.’s rural strongholds,
the party remains the main source
of business and jobs.
Nationwide, access to state en-
terprises has been the reward for
Mr. Zuma’s allies, including
friends with few professional
skills and the Guptas, a wealthy
family who have acquired wide-
spread business interests.
State enterprises, through the
awarding of contracts, or tenders,
have created an entire class of
A.N.C. loyalists sometimes derid-
ed as “tenderpreneurs.”
“There is nothing exceptional in
what has happened to the A.N.C.
can liberation parties have taken,”
said Ralph Mathekga, a political
analyst. “It has failed to modern-
ize from liberation politics to man-
aging a complex modern society.”
“People personalize it to say it’s
all about Zuma, but every post-lib-
eration African society risks hav-
ing a Mobutu,” he said, referring
to Mobutu Sese Seko, the notori-
ously corrupt former ruler of
Zaire, now the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo.
“What makes this different is
that people’s expectations of the
A.N.C. were higher because it was
a latecomer and because of Man-
dela.”
Apartheid ended in 1994, well af-
ter liberation had swept the rest of
the continent. Mr. Mandela served
as South Africa’s first democratic
president from 1994 to 1999. His
successor, Thabo Mbeki, was
forced out of power in 2008 by Mr.
Zuma and his allies.
As the A.N.C. and other libera-
tion parties have remained virtu-
ally unchallenged, the nation’s
fiercest political fighting has oc-
curred inside the governing party.
As A.N.C. delegates from across
the country converged in Johan-
nesburg, the closeness of the lead-
ership contest underscored the
deep fissures inside the party.
Should Ms. Dlamini-Zuma win
— and she has the support of the
party’s youth and women’s
leagues — most experts predict a
continuation of the Zuma era. An-
alysts point out that Mr. Zuma,
who is still dogged by a multitude
of corruption charges, would
probably be protected under a
government she led.
Ms. Dlamini-Zuma has adopted
some of her ex-husband’s populist
language, railing against “white
monopoly capital,” the term used
by critics of the concentration of
wealth in the hands of white South
Africans.
She has said that, as president,
she would focus on “radical eco-
nomic transformation” by redis-
tributing the country’s wealth
from whites to blacks and that she
did not care about getting the
backing of the country’s business
groups.
“I’m not surprised white minor-
ity capital is not endorsing me,”
she said last month.
Ms. Dlamini-Zuma has de-
fended her public record — “I
don’t loot government coffers,”
she said — but she has said little
about the widespread corruption
under her former husband.
A victory for Mr. Ramaphosa, in
contrast, would be likely to give
the economy a quick boost and
prevent a further downgrade of
the country’s national sovereign
debt, which has fallen to junk lev-
el.
Mr. Ramaphosa could also win
back some black middle-class vot-
ers who, in recent years, have be-
gun abandoning the A.N.C.
Last year, the A.N.C. lost control
over the nation’s largest cities, in-
cluding Johannesburg, Pretoria
and Nelson Mandela Bay, after
black middle-class voters disillu-
sioned with Mr. Zuma’s A.N.C. ab-
stained from voting or jumped to
the opposition.
A key negotiator in the talks
that led to the end of apartheid,
Mr. Ramaphosa was Mr. Man-
dela’s chosen successor as presi-
dent. But after losing to Mr.
Mbeki, Mr. Ramaphosa entered
business, where his career has
given him a more troubling legacy.
In 2012, the police shot dead 34
wildcat strikers at a platinum
mine in Marikana belonging to
Lonmin, a company where Mr.
Ramaphosa sat on the board. An
official inquiry found that he had
tried to intervene with the au-
thorities on behalf of the company,
though it eventually absolved him
of guilt. Nevertheless, to many, he
became the symbol of an A.N.C.
elite that had betrayed those it
once fought for.
Mr. Ramaphosa, who returned
to politics in 2012, has pledged to
fight corruption. But during the
more than three years he has
served as deputy president under
Mr. Zuma, he remained largely si-
lent on the issue and stood behind
the president, though he has tried
to distance himself in recent
months.
Last month, in a speech on
South Africa’s ailing economy, he
said, “We must acknowledge that
our ability to overcome these chal-
lenges has been undermined over
the last decade by a failure of lead-
ership and misguided priorities.”
Neither candidate has inspired
people the way past leaders have
done over the A.N.C.’s 105-year
history. Africa’s oldest liberation
party, it once captured minds and
hearts across the continent.
“For people in my generation,
we grew up in the anti-apartheid
struggle,” said Owei Lakemfa, a
veteran labor activist in Nigeria,
where many A.N.C. leaders
sought refuge before the end of
apartheid. “The A.N.C. held a lot
of promise for us then. Now, it
does not.”

In Iran Sanctions Case, a Clash

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By BENJAMIN WEISER
It was on Thursday when law-
yers for a Turkish banker on trial
in Manhattan federal court told
the judge that their client would
take the stand the next day, to tes-
tify on his own behalf.
The banker, Mehmet Hakan
Atilla, 47, had been charged with
conspiring to violate United
States sanctions on Iran in a case
that has drawn much attention in
Turkey, including from that coun-
try’s president, Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan, who has repeatedly criti-
cized the prosecution.
Mr. Atilla, who was on a busi-
ness trip in March when he was
arrested at Kennedy Interna-
tional Airport, has been a kind of
forgotten man in the case, over-
shadowed by his co-defendant,
Reza Zarrab, a wealthy Turkish-
Iranian gold trader.
Mr. Zarrab, who is 34 and mar-
ried to a Turkish pop star, had
lived a celebrity life in Turkey. He
was arrested in March 2016 on a
family trip to Disney World and
sent to Manhattan to face trial.
‘A Hapless and Helpless Pawn’
Mr. Zarrab secretly pleaded guilty
in October and has cooperated
with the government. At Mr. Atil-
la’s trial, he emerged as the star
prosecution witness, testifying
that he had earned as much as
$150 million from the sanctions
busting activity. Prosecutors have
said Mr. Atilla, a deputy general
manager at a Turkish state bank,
was also crucial to the scheme. Mr.
Atilla, testifying on Friday, denied
any role in illegal activity.
Mr. Atilla’s lawyers have tried to
distinguish him from Mr. Zarrab,
telling the jury that he had been
duped and misled by Mr. Zarrab
and other co-conspirators and
never sought or took bribes.
“That’s what the evidence will
show, a dedicated, hard-working
civil servant caught in the middle
of a storm, a swirling, huge inter-
national storm of intrigue, lies and
massive corruption,” Victor J.
Rocco, one of Mr. Atilla’s lawyers,
told the jury last month.
“Hakan Atilla is just another
one of Reza Zarrab’s many vic-
tims, a hapless and helpless
pawn.”
An Accusation in Istanbul
The Manhattan trial continues to
reverberate politically in Turkey,
and there were signs that the gov-
ernment was going on the offen-
sive again.
The biggest talking point for the
Turkish authorities arose when a
defense lawyer in the Manhattan
trial cited a letter to a Turkish
judge from Fethullah Gulen, the
Pennsylvania-based Muslim
preacher whom Mr. Erdogan ac-
cuses of being behind a failed coup
last year.
An Istanbul prosecutor re-
leased what he said was the letter,
saying it was clear evidence that
Mr. Gulen had intervened to influ-
ence the judicial process in Tur-
key. The Turkish government ac-
cuses Mr. Gulen of trying to un-
dermine it by orchestrating an in-
vestigation into high-level
corruption in 2013.
The 2013 Turkish investigation
forms the core of the case in Man-
hattan against Mr. Atilla, leading
the Turkish government to de-
nounce the trial as politically mo-
tivated. Huseyin Korkmaz, one of
the investigators at the financial
crimes unit that pursued that cor-
ruption case, testified against Mr.
Atilla at his trial.
It was during the cross-exami-
nation of Mr. Korkmaz in Manhat-
tan that the defense lawyer men-
tioned the letter, which is said to
be from Mr. Gulen to a Turkish
criminal judge, Mustafa Baser, ap-
pealing for the release of pris-
oners. The defense lawyer ap-
peared to be seeking to link Mr.
Korkmaz to the Gulen movement.
Mr. Korkmaz, in his testimony,
denied any links to the Gulen
movement and said he had no
knowledge of the letter.
The Turkish news media
pounced on the letter’s mention,
however, and the chief prosecutor
in Istanbul, Irfan Fidan, showed
what he said was an electronic
copy of it to the daily newspaper
Hurriyet. Mr. Fidan said it was the
“most concrete document” show-
ing an order by Mr. Gulen to his
followers.
Mr. Fidan said a scanned copy
of the letter, bearing Mr. Gulen’s
signature, had been found on a
computer confiscated from an edi-
tor at a pro-Gulen newspaper. The
editor, Fevzi Yazici, is in jail, ac-
cused of links to Mr. Gulen’s move-
ment, the prosecutor said.
The letter, dated April 19, 2015,
appeals to the judge in religious
fashion. “I felt the urge for the re-
lease of our brothers,” it says.
Mr. Fidan said the order ap-
peared to have been followed: Af-
ter receiving the letter, Judge
Baser and another judge, Metin
Ozcelik, released the prisoners.
Both judges are also in prison,
sentenced in April this year after
being accused of membership in a
terrorist organization and abuse
of power.
Mr. Gulen’s lawyers issued a
statement on several pro-Gulen
websites saying the letter had
been fabricated.
“Mr. Gulen did not write such a
letter and did not ask for the re-
lease of any jailed person,” the
statement read. It added that the
document was “made-up non-
sense, which was produced to be
used in the trial in the U.S.A.”
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That $300 Million Chateau? One More Jewel for a Saudi Reformer
From Page 1
nean nation of Malta. Even Kim
Kardashian made a cameo at the
chateau, reportedly considering it
for her wedding to Kanye West.
The ownership of the chateau,
in Louveciennes, France, near
Versailles, is carefully shrouded
by shell companies in France and
Luxembourg. Those companies
are owned by Eight Investment
Company, a Saudi firm managed
by the head of Crown Prince Mo-
hammed’s personal foundation.
Advisers to members of the royal
family say the chateau ultimately
belongs to the crown prince.
Eight Investment was the same
company that backed Prince Mo-
hammed’s impulse buy of the 440-
foot yacht from a Russian vodka
tycoon in 2015. The company also
recently bought an 620-acre es-
tate in Condé-sur-Vesgre, known
as Le Rouvray, an hour’s drive
from Paris. The chateau’s archi-
tect is refurbishing the manor
house there and building struc-
tures for an apparent hunting
compound, according to permit
records at the local town hall.
Versailles Style, Modern Amenities
The chateau’s developer, Emad
Khashoggi, nephew of the late bil-
lionaire arms dealer Adnan
Khashoggi, bulldozed a 19th-cen-
tury castle in Louveciennes to
make way for the new chateau in
2009. To the naked eye it appears
to have been built in the time of
Versailles, the royal palace that
set a world standard for gaudy CHARLES PLATIAU/REUTERS
luxury. But the 17th-century de-
sign camouflages 21st-century The Chateau Louis XIV, whose
technology. The fountains, sound ownership is shrouded by shell
system, lights and whisper-silent companies. Left, the chateau’s
air conditioning can all be con- developer, Emad Khashoggi, in
trolled remotely by iPhone. the castle’s moat. Far left, Ba-
Along with more standard der Al Asaker, one of three
flourishes for top-of-the-line prop- shareholders listed for a Saudi
erties, like a wine cellar and movie
theater, the rotunda features an firm that owns the property.
exquisite fresco on the ceiling
while the moat includes a trans- Salman; and Bader Ali al-Kohail,
parent underwater chamber with the Saudi ambassador to the Mal-
sturgeon and koi swimming over- dives, the Indian Ocean archipela-
head. A statue of Louis XIV made go where the crown prince hosted
of Carrara marble stands watch a series of lavish parties featuring
over the grounds. the rapper Pitbull and the South
“The idea is tacky, and then Korean singer Psy.
once you visit it isn’t,” said Mari- Chateau Louis XIV is one of sev-
anne Merlino, who was the town’s eral castles in Louveciennes, in-
deputy mayor during construc- cluding one that belonged to Mad-
tion. “Like in Versailles, that was ame du Barry, the chief mistress
way over the top too, and like Lou- of Louis XV. The town was later
is XIV, he achieved something re- popular with Impressionist paint-
ally quite incredible.” ers and is now an affluent suburb
FAYEZ NURELDINE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES MAGALI DELPORTE
of Paris.
An Assertive Young Leader
In less than three years in the pub- ‘The Dream of His Life’
lic eye, Crown Prince Mohammed, Times columnist Thomas L. when he fancied a magnificent disputed that report, saying vari- lion through an offshore shell Town officials who worked with
32, has forged a reputation as an Friedman, said he expected the yacht with two swimming pools ously that the Saudi buyer acted company. Mr. Khashoggi on the project de-
assertive — some critics say reck- state to recoup some $100 billion in and a helicopter. as an agent for Abu Dhabi, in the King Salman’s vast compound scribed it as a near obsession.
less — leader. He launched an air settlements from the detained A trove of records leaked from a United Arab Emirates, where the on Spain’s southern coast is “Khashoggi said it was the dream
campaign in Yemen and spear- elite. But he dismissed as “ludi- Bermuda law firm, known as the painting will hang at the new owned by two Panamanian com- of his life to make a thing like that,”
headed the blockade of Qatar. Yet crous” accusations that the ar- Paradise Papers, reveal how pla- branch of the Louvre, or that the panies, which are in turn con- said Ms. Merlino, the former dep-
he also appears to have won the rests were politically motivated, toons of lawyers, bankers and ac- crown prince had purchased the trolled by a Luxembourg com- uty mayor. “He wanted to do the
popular support of many young saying that was the only way to countants in Germany, Bermuda painting to give to Abu Dhabi. pany belonging to the king and his best in every field and he did.” Mr.
Saudis for reining in the country’s root out corruption and self-deal- and the Isle of Man worked furi- People familiar with the details in- children. Another holding com- Khashoggi declined through a
religious police, promising to give ing. ously to quickly transfer owner- sist the crown prince was the real pany, based in the tiny principality spokeswoman to comment.
women the right to drive and an- “So you have to send a signal, ship to Eight Investment. The buyer at the time of the sale. of Liechtenstein, owns the king’s Some of the most lavish work,
nouncing that movie theaters will and the signal going forward now price, according to drafts of the While the spending habits of villa on the French Riviera, where including the gilding, was per-
be allowed to open again. is, ‘You will not escape,’ ” he said. contract, was 420 million euros, or Saudi princes have been chroni- the actress Rita Hayworth cele- formed by Atelier Mériguet-Car-
But his swift rise has ruffled Neither he nor the Saudi gov- $494 million in today’s dollars — cled for decades, the Paradise Pa- brated her marriage in 1949. rère, which restored the Élysée
some of his elders, especially ernment responded to requests even more than that for the pers as well as the Panama Papers Palace and the Palais Garnier
when he shoved aside his older for comment for this article. chateau. — leaked records obtained by a Peeling the Layers of Ownership
opera house in Paris. The head of
cousin to become crown prince. Emails between the lawyers German newspaper, Süddeutsche The two new French properties, the company, Antoine Courtois,
He has come under even more Austerity at Home, Luxury Abroad said the yacht would be owned by Zeitung, which shared them with Chateau Louis XIV and Le Rou- said he could not comment on the
scrutiny since the arrests last Even before the crackdown, un- a Cayman Islands company called the International Consortium of vray, are owned by two French work because he had signed a
month of nearly a dozen of his bridled spending by the king’s Pegasus VIII, which was created Investigative Journalists and companies. Those companies are nondisclosure agreement.
royal cousins and hundreds of family, whose income sources re- in 2014 when Prince Mohammed other news organizations — pro- owned by a Luxembourg com- Hans Cauchi, a Maltese hospi-
other businessmen or officials, main opaque, had raised eye- was reported to have bought an- vide new details. Crown Prince pany, Prestigestate SARL, which tality executive who caters to the
who have been detained at the brows. With the price of oil, the other yacht, renamed the Pegasus Mohammed’s wealth, vast as it is, is in turn owned by Eight Invest- superwealthy, applied for building
Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, now the main source of the country’s VIII. That yacht cost about $60 represents only a portion of the ment. Thamer Nassief, who lists permits to reconstruct the stables,
world’s most luxurious jail. The wealth, having plummeted from million, according to the seller, riches accumulated by King his occupation on LinkedIn as a ruin on the edge of the estate,
government characterized the ar- record highs in the past decade, Ronald Tutor, a California invest- Salman’s branch of the House of “President of Crown Prince Pri- into a villa with a man-made pond,
rests as a crackdown on corrup- the government has tried to close or. Saud. vate Affairs,” is a manager of both and to construct a new guard-
tion but critics have called it a poli- yawning budget deficits with fi- Last month, Leonardo da Vin- In addition to two stately homes Prestigestate and Eight Invest- house modeled on a rustic prop-
tical purge and a shakedown. nancial discipline. ci’s painting “Salvator Mundi” in London connected to King ment. erty built for Marie Antoinette at
Crown Prince Mohammed, in But last year, even as the gov- sold for $450.3 million to an anon- Salman, his son, Prince Turki bin Eight Investment, according to Versailles.
an interview with The New York ernment canceled a quarter of a ymous buyer, the highest price for Salman, is listed as the guarantor documents from the Bermudan Véronique Skrotzky, who used
trillion dollars’ worth of projects any work of art sold at auction. of an Isle of Man company that law firm Appleby, is “owned by to forage for mushrooms when the
Nicholas Kulish reported from to rein in deficits, King Salman The buyer, The Times found, sold a penthouse apartment a members of the Saudi Royal Fam- run-down old chateau stood in its
Louveciennes, and Michael was building a luxurious new va- turned out to be an obscure Saudi short walk from Westminster Ab- ily,” and its “wealth is derived place, lamented that the owner
Forsythe from New York. Report- cation palace on the Moroccan prince with close ties to Crown bey for over $35 million in 2014. from the King and the state.” never seemed to stay there, and
ing was contributed by Elian coast. Prince Mohammed. People famil- Prince Sultan bin Salman, a half The three listed shareholders that the property and grounds
Peltier from Paris; Milan Schreuer The year before, shortly after iar with the sale and American in- brother of the crown prince and are Bader Al Asaker, who heads were closed to the public.
from Brussels; Ben Hubbard from he was named deputy crown telligence officials said he was ac- the first Arab in outer space, pur- the crown prince’s personal foun- “Before it was a ruin only for
Beirut, Lebanon; and Mark prince, Prince Mohammed was ting on behalf of the crown prince. chased a luxury Boeing jet that dation; Hazim Mustafa Zagzoog, ghosts,” she said. “Now it is brand
Mazzetti from Washington. vacationing in the south of France The Saudi government later typically costs more than $100 mil- the head of private affairs for King new for ghosts.”

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Spain Hopes to Return Catalonia to ‘Normality’ With Abnormal Vote
Unusual Hurdles
For Separatists
By RAPHAEL MINDER
BRUSSELS — The ousted
leader of Catalonia recently ad-
dressed a rally of separatist vot-
ers in a packed theater in the Cata-
lan city of Igualada. He was not
among his separatist supporters,
but spoke via satellite from hun-
dreds of miles away: in Belgium.
The long-distance campaign for
re-election by the leader, Carles
Puigdemont, highlights the unor-
thodox circumstances surround-
ing the Dec. 21 Catalan elections.
They were convened by Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain
to defeat a secessionist drive by
Mr. Puigdemont and other sepa-
ratist officials and to return the
restive region to what the Spanish
leader called “normality.”
“These are absolutely abnor-
mal conditions” for an election
campaign, Mr. Puigdemont said in
an interview in Brussels, the Bel-
gian capital. “I consider it very dif-
ficult to take part now in any de-
bate on an equal footing” with ri-
val candidates.
Mr. Puigdemont surfaced in
Brussels in October and is refus-
ing to return to Spain to stand trial
on charges of rebellion. Mr. Rajoy
had ousted his administration and
dissolved the Catalan Parliament,
using emergency constitutional
powers to stop separatist lawmak-
ers who had unilaterally declared
independence.
While Catalonia’s former leader
says he was forced into exile to
avoid an unfair political trial in
Spain, his opponents say Mr.
Puigdemont is a fugitive who is
flouting Spain’s judiciary while
pursuing an independence drive
that violates the Constitution.
Mr. Rajoy is calling on Catalan
voters to defeat Mr. Puigdemont
and the other separatist poli-
ticians who have governed Catalo-
nia since 2015 but have threatened
to break up Spain by holding an il-
legal independence referendum
on Oct. 1.
The challenge for Mr. Rajoy is
not only to defeat the separatist
parties, but to ensure that his Pop-
ular Party maintains a presence in
Catalonia.
After the coming vote, Mr. Ra-
joy said during a visit to Catalonia
last Wednesday, “I would like a sit-
uation of normality and tranquil-
lity.” The independence move-
ment, he added, “has been the
story of an enormous deceit.”
While Mr. Puigdemont is cam-
paigning from Belgium, his for-
mer deputy and separatist rival,
Oriol Junqueras, is running for of-
fice from a prison in Madrid,
where he has been held while
awaiting trial on charges of rebel-
lion.
Another separatist party, the
far-left Popular Unity Candidacy,
is also competing even while de-
nouncing the vote as illegitimate:
It claims Mr. Rajoy abused his
emergency powers by calling a
new election in Catalonia.
Xavier Torrens, a professor of
politics at the University of Bar-
Italy’s #MeToo Moment:
Shrugs and Rolled Eyes
By JASON HOROWITZ
ROME — The women took their
seats behind each of the more
than 600 desks in Italy’s lower
house of Parliament and listened
to Laura Boldrini, the chamber’s
president, talk about how the
“Weinstein scandal” had set off a
worldwide reckoning with sexual
harassment and misconduct.
With one notable exception,
that is.
“In Italy, it certainly hasn’t had
the same effect. In our country,
there are no harassers,” Ms.
Boldrini said sarcastically, draw-
ing chuckles throughout the hall.
In truth, Ms. Boldrini said, har-
assment was rife, but Italian wom-
en feared the repercussions of
speaking up: “They know that in
this country, there is a strong prej-
udice against them.”
By turning Montecitorio Palace
into a women-only institution on a
recent Saturday, Ms. Boldrini
hoped to emphasize how sexual
harassment and abuse against
women are often ignored by what
she and many others consider a
stubbornly patriarchal society.
Since the revelations about
Harvey Weinstein’s abuse of
women were exposed in October,
politicians, actors and powerful
media figures have resigned in
disgrace in the United States, and
women have flooded social media
with their own stories of sexual
harassment and assault, using the
hashtag #MeToo.
In Italy, it’s mostly “meh.”
“This historic moment doesn’t
mean much to Italy, sadly,” said
Asia Argento, an Italian actress
whose accusations of sexual har-
assment against Mr. Weinstein
drew signs of solidarity abroad
but a good deal of eye-rolling and
insults at home. “Nothing has
changed.”
That apathy extends beyond
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celona, said it was the first time
since Spain’s return to democracy,
in the 1970s, that an election was
being held in the absence of key
party leaders. He said a judge’s
decision to send Mr. Junqueras
and others to jail, pending a trial,
created “a situation of serious ab-
normality.”
He added, “I’m certainly not
saying that Spain isn’t a democra-
cy, but some important guaran-
tees of democracy have now been
infringed.”
Separatism has split Catalan so-
ciety down the middle, with most
opinion polls showing that neither
side will score a decisive win on
Dec. 21, perhaps paving the way
for a complicated round of negoti-
ations to form a coalition govern-
ment.
the Italian entertainment indus-
try. In Florence, defense lawyers
for paramilitary police officers ac-
cused of raping two young Ameri-
can women sought to ask the ac-
cusers if they had been wearing
underwear that night. In Sicily, a
court cleared a man of sexual har-
assment charges, determining
that sophomoric humor, rather
than sexual intent, had motivated
his groping of colleagues.
And the former prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi is staging a
comeback six years after being
forced out of power amid mass
protests and trials examining his
role in so-called Bunga Bunga
bacchanals with underage women
and prostitutes.
“For us, defending women is a
priority and it always has been,”
Mr. Berlusconi, who was cleared
of soliciting underage prostitutes
but is still fighting charges that he
bribed a witness, said in a recent
television interview.
That is not to suggest that the
81-year-old, whose girlfriend is
nearly 50 years his junior, has
changed his ways. In October, he
told a crowd of supporters on the
island of Ischia that he had intro-
duced the bidet to Col. Muammar
el-Qaddafi and in so doing “taught
these lusty Africans that there’s
also foreplay.”
The audience applauded.
“It’s not shocking, because in
the end, Italians think it’s normal,”
Lorella Zanardo, a women’s rights
advocate and filmmaker, said of
the muted reaction to reports of
sexual harassment in the country.
Especially in high-profile fields
such as film, politics and the me-
dia, she said, “the idea of a woman
advancing her career by giving or
selling her body, it’s taken for
granted.”
Mr. Berlusconi himself has con-
tributed to the perception of wom-
Still, Mr. Puigdemont wants to
convince voters, he said, that “if
the unionists win, Rajoy wins.”
Opinion polls show Mr. Rajoy’s
Popular Party heading for a major
defeat on Dec. 21, even as another
anti-independence party, Ciu-
dadanos, is expected to make ma-
jor gains.
“If the Popular Party really
loses all its voters to the benefit of
Ciudadanos, there could be a
knock-on impact at the national
level,” said Jaime Pastor, a Ma-
drid-based professor of politics at
the National University of Dis-
tance Education, or U.N.E.D.
He noted that Mr. Rajoy was at
the helm of a minority govern-
ment, reliant on the support of Ci-
udadanos, “so any prolonged cri-
sis of governability in Catalonia
Laura Boldrini, center, presiding over a women-only session in Italy’s Parliament on harassment.
en as decorative objects of desire,
Ms. Zanardo said, by casting them
as scantily clad adornments on his
television channels. But she ac-
knowledged that the popularity
and durability of those shows over
the last 40 years showed an eager
audience among Italians, many of
whom still think of women in
archetypes of care-taking ma-
donnas or corrupting Jezebels,
with little room in between.
Perhaps nowhere has the view
of sex as a transactional feature of
Italian life been as stark as in the
backlash against Ms. Argento.
The daughter of Italy’s most fa-
mous director of horror movies,
she describes living a nightmare
since becoming one of the first
women to publicly accuse Mr.
Weinstein, whom she said per-
formed oral sex on her against her
will. She says she is afraid to leave
her house, and plans to flee the
country over virulent attacks in
the news media.
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could turn into a broader crisis for
him.”
The separatist leaders’ cam-
paigns from unorthodox locations
while facing prosecution are not
the only unusual factors about the
election. Catalans are being asked
to take part in a parliamentary
election in which almost nothing
has been discussed except seces-
sionism.
During a recent televised de-
bate, neither Inés Arrimadas, the
leading candidate of Ciudadanos,
nor Marta Rovira, a candidate
from Esquerra Republicana, Mr.
Junqueras’s party, could quantify
Catalonia’s unemployment rate
(12.5 percent).
Josep Joan Moreso, a professor
of legal philosophy at Pompeu
Fabra University in Barcelona,
Alessandro Sallusti, the editor
of the conservative daily Il Gior-
nale, said on Italian television in
October that Ms. Argento’s public
accusations decades after the
events took place amounted to her
being an “accomplice.”
Another right-wing paper re-
peatedly argued that Ms. Argento
knowingly entered into a transac-
tional relationship to further her
career, and even people whom Ms.
Argento might have expected to
count among her allies instead
cast doubt on her innocence.
In a Twitter post, the transgen-
der Italian actress and former
member of Parliament Vladimir
Luxuria blamed Ms. Argento for
not “saying no” to Weinstein “as
other actresses did,” and for fail-
ing to report the alleged assault at
the time. Natalia Aspesi, a self-de-
scribed feminist, said that Ms. Ar-
gento should not have been sur-
prised by how things progressed
after she agreed to give Mr. Wein-
said he had also been stunned to
see Mr. Rajoy’s Popular Party
send documentation written only
in Castilian Spanish to voters’
homes, while Esquerra Republi-
cana’s mailing arrived only in Cat-
alan. In normal circumstances, he
said, parties would deliver their
election pamphlets in both lan-
guages.
The elections are “extraordi-
nary in terms of the degree of po-
larization that they have generat-
ed,” he said. “The parties are not
even addressing all Catalans, nei-
ther on the one side, nor on the
other.”
During the interview, Mr.
Puigdemont said that should he
win, it would be for the same ideas
that could lead a Spanish court to
sentence him to 30 years in prison
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stein a massage.
In response, Ms. Argento has
cast herself as the avenging angel
of the Italian Twitterverse, pro-
moting the hashtag #quella-
voltache, or “the time that,” which
was conceived as an Italian an-
swer to #metoo but has had far
less impact. Her avatar depicts
her raising a fist, and her account
bio reads, “I was born for such a
time as this #noshamefist.”
She has accused an unidentified
Italian actor-director of exposing
himself to her when she was 16,
and a “Hollywood big shot direc-
tor” with drugging and raping her
when she was 26. She warns that
abused women know where sexu-
al predators sleep, has resurfaced
accusations in tabloids and ma-
ligned the “misogynistic patriar-
chal Italian society” where “sex
assault victims are shamed.”
Ms. Zanardo, the rights advo-
cate and filmmaker, said that to in-
stitute cultural change would re-
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Clockwise from above: Carles
Puigdemont, the ousted Cata-
lan leader, addressing voters in
Igualada, Spain, via satellite;
Prime Minister Mariano Ra-
joy; and supporters of Catalo-
nia’s independence in Brussels.
on rebellion charges.
“This is an unacceptable con-
tradiction in the Europe of the 21st
century,” he said.
Even though he has been able to
campaign from Belgium thanks to
satellite communications, he says
his ability to sway voters had been
curtailed by “the absolute ab-
sence of neutrality” of the Spanish
news media.
He cited as an example a recent
program about him on Spain’s na-
tional television, which used the
soundtrack of “The Exorcist,” the
1973 movie about a possessed girl,
to link his personality “to some-
thing almost diabolical.”
Speaking before the Senate, the
president of Spain’s national
broadcaster, RTVE, defended the
use of the music, which, he de-
scribed as “very good” and said
was chosen without any “bad in-
tention” toward Mr. Puigdemont.
Mr. Puigdemont would not say
when he would return to Catalonia
if he won his parliamentary seat,
or exactly how he planned to re-
vive his independence project.
“I never said there was a button
of independence that you press
and it then comes out,” he said.
“It’s a long-term conquest.”
quire teaching Italian children to
respect women as equals.
Until then, the limited media in-
terest in sexual harassment accu-
sations in the Italian film industry
reflects a country with greater in-
terest in Hollywood scandals than
in introspection.
“If the actresses had started ac-
cusing big producers here, no one
would have been interested,” she
said.
But with women expected to
play a major role in national elec-
tions in the coming months, Ital-
ian politicians are starting to seize
on stories of rape, disfigurement,
murder and other violence in Ital-
ian newspapers. The anti-immi-
grant politician Matteo Salvini, for
instance, said at a recent rally in
Rome that women were increas-
ingly at risk of being raped by mi-
grants who had come to the coun-
try illegally.
The most high-profile woman in
the center-left government, Maria
Elena Boschi, the under secretary
of state, has listed on Facebook
the government initiatives that
she says are helping women in the
country. And she has responded to
Mr. Berlusconi’s attacks that she
has done nothing for women by re-
plying “the reality cannot be dis-
torted by anyone, not even Silvio
Berlusconi.”
She also came under attack by
another critic, Marco Travaglio,
who in the past has staged unflat-
tering interviews with an actress
pretending to be Ms. Boschi. The
under secretary responded on
television this past week: “If I had
been a man, I would not have been
treated like this. He made money
going into Italian theaters with a
scantily clad actress who would
mimic me.”
Back in Montecitorio Palace,
Ms. Boschi sat near Ms. Boldrini,
listening to women’s stories of
harassment, rape, sexual slavery
and general discrimination.
“This chamber shows many
things,” Ms. Boldrini said, adding
that women were united. “The
country cannot ignore us any-
more.”
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
By SHANE GOLDMACHER
and MATT FLEGENHEIMER
For much of the year, Kirsten Gilli-
brand’s critics — sensing a presidential
aspirant in their midst — had assumed
that the New York senator could not hear
enough about herself. For one day at
least, it appeared she had.
It had been about 10 hours since Presi-
dent Trump accused her of “begging” for
campaign contributions that she “would
do anything” to secure, and the Ms. Gilli-
brand, driving with her 14-year-old son
on Tuesday evening, flipped on the radio
looking for an update on the Senate race
in Alabama. The top story, instead, was
her. The radio went off again.
What, exactly, had the president said
about her? her son asked.
“He thinks mommy is doing a bad job,”
she recalled telling him, taking care to
censor.
After a Senate career spent elevating
victims of sexual harassment and as-
sault as a defining political focus, Ms.
Gillibrand has assumed her place at the
head table of the Democrats’ anti-Trump
movement. The reason is simple: Her
cause became the country’s. And she has
made sure to stay out front in the reckon-
ing.
Ms. Gillibrand was the first in her cau-
cus to say Senator Al Franken of Minne-
sota should resign. She was the first
prominent Democrat to say President
Bill Clinton should have left office for his
own sexual misconduct in the 1990s. She
called for Mr. Trump to step down, citing
his “numerous” and “credible” accusers.
Then came Mr. Trump’s Twitter counter-
punch, which was widely viewed as innu-
endo-laden and which Ms. Gillibrand de-
nounced as a “sexist smear.”
Yet Ms. Gillibrand’s strengthening
hand in national Democratic politics
owes to more than mere circumstance.
Circumstance does not transform an up-
state congresswoman, who once boasted
of keeping guns under her bed and
pushed English as the official language
of the United States, into an avatar of
progressivism in 2017.
Ever since her long-shot entrance into
a 2006 House race against an entrenched
Republican in a conservative district,
Ms. Gillibrand has been underestimated.
Colleagues in the House once derided
her as “Tracy Flick,” the hyper-ambi-
tious blonde played by Reese Wither-
spoon in the movie “Election.” And when
David A. Paterson, New York’s governor
at the time, made her the shock pick to fill
Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2009, she
was immediately seen as vulnerable, es-
pecially from the left.
“She had very middle-of-the-road
points of view,” Mr. Paterson said. “It just
kind of appeared that she sort of flipped.
I think in retrospect, it would have been
better to evolve.”
That knock has not stuck, and she ap-
pears to be looking at the next rung of the
political ladder. While Ms. Gillibrand and
her political team play down all talk of
2020, saying she is focused on her own
2018 re-election and those of her fellow
Senate Democrats, she has for months
been doing the type of spadework en-
demic to past presidential candidates:
expanding her fund-raising network,
courting key constituencies like black
voters and polishing her image nation-
ally.
She sat for a recent Vogue feature,
complete with a photo spread by Annie
Leibovitz, that included this cover
teaser: “2020 Vision: All Eyes On
Kirsten Gillibrand.” She has blitzed the
circuit of liberal news media, including
the popular podcasts of former Obama
administration officials, “Pod Save
America” and “Lovett or Leave It.” She
has cursed freely in public venues, a re-
curring tic in her career — registering
more recently as a brashness to match
these Trumpian times.
Long a talented fund-raiser, Ms. Gilli-
brand has cultivated a flourishing net-
work of small donors, raising nearly $3
million in the first three quarters of 2017
from people who gave less than $200,
more than she had in the previous eight
years combined from such donors.
Google searches for “Gillibrand 2020”
are sometimes topped by ads for her
campaign website reading, “Join the Re-
sistance — Stand with Kirsten Gilli-
brand.”
“She was taking on powerful men and
calling out sexual harassment and as-
sault long before there was a hashtag,”
said Rebecca Katz, a Democratic strat-
egist and former aide to Senator Harry
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Ms. Gillibrand with, from left, Gov. David A. Paterson, who picked her to fill a vacant Senate seat in 2009; President Bill Clinton; and the former Fox
News host Gretchen Carlson, at a news conference this month to introduce legislation to curb sexual harassment in the workplace.
Senator’s Star Shines as Nation
Unites Behind Her Cause
Gillibrand, Long a Champion of Women,
Stays Out Front in a Cultural Reckoning
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and her team play down talk of a 2020 presi-
dential run, though she has been doing the type of spadework endemic to past candidates.
Reid of Nevada.
Ms. Gillibrand has also seemed eager
to make inroads with black audiences
who are central to any Democratic presi-
dential candidate. She has appeared re-
cently on the programs of two figures in
the African-American community: De-
Ray Mckesson, the influential Black
Lives Matter activist, and Zerlina Max-
well, a former aide to Mrs. Clinton who
now heads progressive programming at
Sirius XM.
Ms. Maxwell said Ms. Gillibrand’s
team reached out after Mrs. Clinton ap-
peared on her show this fall. “If you’re a
Democrat and you want to run for presi-
dent in 2020 and you’re not really engag-
ing black voters, you’re going to lose,”
Ms. Maxwell said.
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This week, Ms. Gillibrand was engag- blanket opposition to even uncontrover-
ing everyone, with an assist from Mr. sial Trump administration nominees was
Trump. met with eye rolls from some peers.
Her Twitter response, which she Her moment at center stage follows
drafted in a minuteslong phone call with notable turns from some other members
her aides as she stepped out of a biparti- of the so-called 2020 caucus, as some on
san Bible study (“You cannot silence Capitol Hill have labeled the presiden-
me,” it began), became the most widely tially curious.
shared missive of her career. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massa-
By the next day, it had more than six chusetts found her catchphrase in Feb-
times as many retweets as Mr. Trump’s ruary, courtesy of Senator Mitch McCon-
initial blast. nell, the Republican majority leader, who
“I think the entire world is now ready led a push to formally silence her for im-
for this conversation,” Ms. Gillibrand pugning a colleague on the Senate floor.
said in an interview. “And I think it really “Nevertheless, she persisted,” Mr. Mc-
was brought on by the election of Presi- Connell complained of Ms. Warren.
dent Trump.” Senator Kamala Harris of California
Ms. Gillibrand is not universally be- has enjoyed several high-profile mo-
loved in the Capitol, where her near- ments in hearings on Russia’s interfer-
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ence in the 2016 election. Her pointed
questions and interjections have at times
attracted uncommon interruptions from
Republican colleagues, leaving support-
ers to wonder if a male senator would be
treated the same way.
That Ms. Gillibrand would become the
latest female lawmaker with an elevated
profile in the Trump age is little surprise
to Democrats.
“Misogyny is such a core aspect of
Trump,” said Brian Fallon, a former top
aide to Mrs. Clinton and Senator Chuck
Schumer of New York, the Democratic
leader. “It makes it quite natural for fe-
male politicians on the left to be his foil
because standing up to him on those is-
sues is so core to taking him on in gen-
eral. Male politicians are trying to keep
up.”
Ms. Gillibrand evinces an aw-shucks
political persona, but she was born into a
deeply political family, the daughter of a
prominent Albany lobbyist and the
granddaughter of Dorothea “Polly” Noo-
nan, a key aide to the longtime Demo-
cratic kingmaker in town, Mayor Eras-
tus Corning.
Mr. Paterson’s choice in 2009, which he
considers a signal achievement of his
tenure, came down to a simple calcula-
tion: He was deciding between Ms. Gilli-
brand and Andrew M. Cuomo, then New
York’s attorney general and now its gov-
ernor, he said. And only one of them had a
certain future with or without his help.
“Andrew Cuomo was destined to go be-
yond where he was,” he said, “Kirsten
Gillibrand, not necessarily.”
In the years since, it has been a testa-
ment to Ms. Gillibrand’s political skills
that she managed her shape-shifting
without, for the most part, alienating a
Democratic base that can be fickle about
such things, or attaining a reputation as a
politician with no core. The Republican
National Committee flooded inboxes
with 4,000 words of prepackaged re-
search on Ms. Gillibrand’s fluid positions
in an effort to change that this week.
“There have been some criticisms of
her for being opportunistic,” said Mi-
chele Jawando, a former chief counsel to
Ms. Gillibrand in the Senate. “But she
lives her life with deep empathy and
compassion for other people. It’s not a
farce. It’s not a fake thing.”
Her latest flourish: saying Mr. Clinton
should have resigned as president, de-
spite the fact that he has campaigned
and raised money for her and that Mrs.
Clinton wrote the forward to Ms. Gilli-
brand’s book.
Her fans do not much care. She
keynoted the anti-Trump Women’s Con-
vention in Detroit this October. The late-
night comedian Samantha Bee wrote on
Twitter that she hoped Mr. Trump’s tweet
would be Ms. Gillibrand’s “superhero ori-
gin story and ignite her 2020 campaign.”
(Later, Ms. Gillibrand filmed a brief seg-
ment for Ms. Bee’s show.)
“I’ve been stopped by people on the
street, like, literally nonstop in the last 48
hours,” she said in the interview.
At the same time, supporters say, Ms.
Gillibrand has earned a reputation for
aggressively pursuing Republican col-
leagues to sign onto her efforts, from
changing procedures for reporting sexu-
al assault in the military to rolling out a
host of Republican co-sponsors this week
for a bill to overhaul sexual harassment
procedures in Congress.
One of her best-known fights, legisla-
tion to provide benefits to 9/11 emer-
gency responders, placed her in the com-
pany of sharply divergent constituen-
cies.
As part of her outreach, she met in the
New York office of Roger Ailes, the for-
mer Fox News chairman later felled by
charges of sexual harassment, according
to a person familiar with the meeting,
urging him to direct coverage favorable
to the effort.
She also became friendly with emer-
gency workers like John Feal, who lost
part of his foot after helping to clear de-
bris at ground zero. In 2016, Mr. Feal was
Ms. Gillibrand’s guest at the State of the
Union address, joining her at a reception
that evening.
With a glass of wine in her hand, Mr.
Feal recalled, Ms. Gillibrand looked back
at him, plainly bored by her elected com-
pany. She had not smoked since she be-
came a mother, she told him. And yet.
“I need a cigarette,” Ms. Gillibrand
joked, adding an expletive her sons are
not supposed to hear.
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Democrats in Alabama Savor a Rare Victory. Now, It’s Back to Reality.
By RICHARD FAUSSET
and ALAN BLINDER
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Des-
tiny Clark, a transgender woman
and Alabama native, couldn’t bear
the thought of going to Doug
Jones’s election night party and
being there when he lost.
So instead, she watched the un-
imaginable unfold Tuesday night
at home, in front of the TV. “It was
amazing,” she said, recalling the
moment when Mr. Jones pulled
ahead of Roy S. Moore in the Sen-
ate race, and stayed there. “Like, I
jumped for joy, and my dogs
looked at me like I was crazy.
Tears of joy were running down
my face.”
But by week’s end, the ecstatic
moment had faded to a more tem-
pered, pragmatic view of the fu-
ture of progressives, Democrats
and others usually left on the side-
lines in one of the nation’s most
conservative states.
“It can happen,” Ms. Clark, 33,
the president of the rights group
Central Alabama Pride, said of a
Democratic resurgence. “It’s just
going to take a lot of work.”
For liberals in Alabama this
week, witnessing Mr. Jones’s im-
probable victory over Mr. Moore
— an unabashed Islamophobe
who has said that America was
great during slavery days, speaks
of “sodomy” as a plague on the na-
tional character, and has declared
“the transgenders don’t have
rights” — unleashed an explosion
of joy that echoed the civil rights
victories of the state’s near mythic
past.
But it was leavened with an un-
derstanding that the win may
have done little, for now, to change
the beneath-the-underdog status
of Democrats in a Deep South
state still under near total Repub-
lican control.
“I don’t think we’re out dancing
in the streets saying this is a to-
tally new day,” said Jim Folsom
Jr., who was Alabama governor
from 1993 to 1995, when Demo-
crats were near the end of their
historic dominance of Alabama
politics. “We’re all realistic
enough to know that party identi-
fication leans heavily Republican,
and probably will for the foresee-
able future.”
Still, he said, Democrats have to
start somewhere. “A lot of those
more urban, moderate-leaning to
liberal-leaning Republicans who
voted Democratic,” he said, “now
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they’ve discovered they can do it,
and the world didn’t come to an
end.”
It is a bittersweet place that Ala-
bama liberals find themselves in
as they watch the way Mr. Jones’s
victory has given their compatri-
ots around the country a sense of
momentum. They are well aware
that Mr. Jones’s victory, by 1.5 per-
centage points, could be explained
in part by the conservatives who
stayed home because they were
put off by Mr. Moore’s extremism,
and by the allegations of improper
relations with teenage girls that
turned Mr. Moore from a deeply
flawed candidate to a toxic one.
And they know that the ad hoc
coalition that supported Mr. Jones
may be difficult to reproduce
when the next opponent is less po-
larizing.
Catherine Ross of Mobile, who
works in a retail store, was among
those Republicans who voted for
Mr. Jones because she thought Mr.
Moore reinforced the state’s repu-
tation for intolerance. She found it
embarrassing.
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“I’d watch the ‘Today’ show ev-
ery morning and hear them talk
about us,” said Ms. Ross, 46. “It’s
like I wanted to yell, ‘We’re not
like this!’ I don’t want people to
come here and think they’d be of-
fended. I want businesses to feel
like they can come here.”
But acknowledging those reali-
ties has not fully squelched the op-
timism that has surged among
many of Mr. Jones’s supporters,
many of them far from Alabama
stereotypes.
Zeenat Islam, 21, a senior at the
University of Alabama at Birm-
ingham, moved to Alabama from
Pennsylvania in 2010. A Muslim of
Pakistani heritage, Ms. Islam has
experienced moments of discrimi-
nation here. But she mostly spoke
about a place that was casually
multicultural and surprisingly tol-
erant, even loving. That, she said,
was the Alabama that won on
Tuesday night.
“It shows that the change is
happening, the change I really
want to see,” she said. “Before I
moved here I was so concerned
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that’s really real. I love — love —
it.”
Bryant K. Oden, 37, said he
viewed Mr. Jones’s victory as part
of a larger narrative of healing
and progress that he wanted to be
a part of when he moved back to
Alabama in 2010. Mr. Oden, a radio
producer and on-air personality,
returned to his native state, one of
the nation’s poorest, from the
West Coast in 2010, inspired by
then-President Barack Obama’s
mantra, “We are the change we
seek.” Mr. Oden has been volun-
teering in an after-school program
to help teach students to write
computer code.
Mr. Oden said that the politics of
the state, like his volunteer work,
would not create overnight
change. But Mr. Jones’s win had
given him hope. “When you’re
dealing with the bureaucracy of
government it never moves fast,”
he said. “It’s about educating peo-
ple about the process and continu-
ing to have the long game in
mind.”
No one knows how long it might
be, given the scope of Republican
dominance here. Gallup ranks
Alabama among the most conser-
vative states in the nation. Repub-
licans control all of Alabama’s
other statewide offices, and have
occupied the governor’s mansion
Nevada Democrat Won’t Run Again
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — Representa-
tive Ruben Kihuen, a freshman
Democrat from Nevada who has
been accused of sexual har-
assment, said Saturday that he
would not seek re-election. He is
the fifth member of Congress in
the past two weeks whose career
has been derailed as part of the
national reckoning over sexual
misconduct.
In a statement issued by his of-
fice, Mr. Kihuen, 37, said he
wanted to “state clearly” that he
denied the allegations against
him. He said that he would cooper-
ate with the House Ethics Com-
mittee, which disclosed on Friday
that it had opened an investiga-
tion into him, and that he looked
“forward to clearing my name.”
But he said he was concerned
that the allegations would be “a
distraction from a fair and thor-
ough discussion of the issues in a
re-election campaign.”
Representative Nancy Pelosi,
the House Democratic leader, had
Growing Fire Is California’s Third Largest
By MIRIAM JORDAN
and THOMAS FULLER
LOS ANGELES — The largest
of the Southern California wildfires
accelerated its spread into Santa
Barbara County on Saturday,
burning through the outskirts of
the wealthy enclave of Montecito,
home to many Hollywood stars.
The fire, which is now the third
largest in modern California his-
tory, was being driven by strong
winds. Mandatory evacuation or-
ders were issued for large swaths
of the county, including Montecito
and some parts of the city of Santa
Barbara. Downtown Santa Bar-
bara remained under voluntary
evacuation, though officials urged
residents to leave.
Firefighters who had been try-
ing to stop the progression of the
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since 2003.
And after Republicans won con-
trol of both legislative houses in
2010 — the first time in 136 years,
part of white Southerners’
broader shift away from the Dem-
ocratic Party — lawmakers tried
to redraw state district maps to
what critics called the Republi-
cans’ lopsided favor. (Republicans
already controlled Alabama’s fed-
eral delegation, and Mr. Jones, in
winning on Tuesday night, actu-
ally lost in six of the state’s seven
congressional districts.)
Since Republicans’ consolida-
tion of power, the party has been
rocked by one high-profile scandal
after another, including one that
led to the resignation of Gov.
Robert Bentley, who pleaded
guilty to two misdemeanor
charges and was threatened with
impeachment after an investiga-
tion of his relationship with a close
aide.
But there is little evidence that
Democrats have benefited.
“It’s easy to get re-elected in
Alabama,” said State Senator Dick
Brewbaker, a Republican whose
district includes parts of three
counties in the vicinity of Mont-
gomery (and who did not vote for
Mr. Moore). “What those people
want from government is to be left
alone. And if you leave them alone
and don’t raise their taxes, they’ll
continue to re-elect you.”
The state Democratic Party,
meanwhile, has come in for sharp
criticism from many Democrats
repeatedly called for Mr. Kihuen
to resign. But until Saturday, he
had steadfastly resisted doing so,
insisting he had done nothing
wrong.
The allegations against Mr. Ki-
huen, first reported by BuzzFeed
News two weeks ago, involve a 25-
year-old woman, identified only
as Samantha, who left her job as
finance director of his campaign
because of what she described as
repeated unwanted propositions
for dates and sex.
In addition, The Las Vegas
Journal-Review reported this past
week that a second, unnamed ac-
cuser had come forward.
While Mr. Kihuen was relatively
unknown before the harassment
allegations came to light, he is
from the politically critical swing
state of Nevada, where he had just
wrested a seat from a Republican.
As allegations of sexual har-
assment have cost men their jobs
in a range of industries — media
and entertainment, academia and
the arts — Congress has faced its
own problems over the way wom-
blaze, known as the Thomas Fire,
by removing brush, clearing land
with bulldozers and dropping
thousands of gallons of fire retar-
dant from aircraft were forced to
retreat Saturday.
Along with its pricey real estate,
Santa Barbara County is home to a
$1.5 billion agricultural industry
that produces strawberries, fresh-
cut flowers and leafy greens.
“It’s moving faster than what we
can possibly do to contain the fire,”
said Joe Rosa, a spokesman for the
California Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
In Santa Barbara, helicopters
hovered in smoky skies, and ashes
speckled the ground, said Bonnie
Marcus, who lives in an apartment
in the eastern part of the city. “I
have never been in a war zone but
that is what it felt like,” she said.
Over 8,000 firefighters have
been deployed and hundreds had
been ordered into a tactical retreat.
“We are not going to put them in
themselves. The organization has
been rocked by money troubles
and infighting, and during the
campaign, Mr. Jones’s campaign
manager, Wade Perry, said the
state party had given the cam-
paign “absolutely no help” — a
charge refuted by its chairwoman,
Nancy Worley.
Mr. Jones’s robust and well-
funded get-out-the-vote effort has
yielded a trove of up-to-date infor-
mation about likely Democratic
voters, but some Democrats now
wonder if the state party is compe-
tent enough to know how to use it
in future races.
“The party is an organizational
flop, and there’s nothing there,”
said Don Siegelman, a former
Democratic governor who creat-
ed disappointments of his own
when he went to prison in a cor-
ruption scandal. “The party has
been dysfunctional and been of lit-
tle or no value to candidates.”
Birmingham, Alabama’s largest
city, remains one reliable strong-
hold of Democratic power, and a
source of hope for the party’s fu-
ture after voters, somewhat sur-
prisingly, chose as mayor a 36-
year-old lawyer, Randall Woodfin,
over the 68-year-old incumbent,
William A. Bell Sr.
Daniel Deriso, the field and op-
erations director for the Woodfin
campaign, said the race was won
with a reliance on new technology
that allowed for the pinpointing of
likely voters, and with a coalition
that included blacks and white
millennials.
Mr. Deriso, 25, said it was a base
that state Democrats could build
from. “Our economic message
should resonate with rural vot-
ers,” he said. “We haven’t been
able to get that message across for
years.”
But Mr. Deriso said he was un-
sure how to get that message
through to rural voters who are
also passionate about gun rights
and opposition to abortion. “I hon-
estly don’t know the solution to
how to break through those barri-
ers,” he said. “I mean, that’s some-
thing we have to do as a party, as a
whole.”
Much like many other parts of
the South, the progressive vision
of the future has arrived here,
though only in spots. In downtown
Birmingham, a half-block of Third
Avenue includes a Japanese gas-
tro pub, a company called Cova-
lence that promises “coding boot
camp and career altering educa-
tion,” and a branch of the elegant
cafe chain, Revelator Coffee.
Janna Stevens, 30, a Jones vot-
er, was sitting on the Revelator’s
sofa Thursday night, her body
covered in runic tattoos. She
talked about her taste in litera-
ture, which runs to High Modern-
ism (Joyce, Eliot), the Alabama
conservatism she grew up with
but moved away from, and her
glass-half-empty view of Mr.
Moore’s defeat.
“He was rejected, but it was by a
small margin,” she said. “I think
we still have a ways to go.”
en are treated in the workplace.
On Thursday, Representative
Blake Farenthold, Republican of
Texas, announced that he would
not seek re-election. Mr. Faren-
thold settled a harassment claim
filed by his former communica-
tions director for $84,000, paid for
with taxpayer money.
Senator Al Franken, Democrat
of Minnesota, has said he will soon
leave Congress over allegations
that he forcibly kissed one woman
and groped others during photo
opportunities. Representative
John Conyers, Democrat of Michi-
gan and the longest-serving mem-
ber of the House, recently quit his
job after several former employ-
ees accused him of harassment.
And Representative Trent
Franks, Republican of Arizona,
was forced out by Speaker Paul D.
Ryan after it was disclosed that he
had offered to pay an aide $5 mil-
lion to carry his child as a surro-
gate mother — an offer that left
her worried that the lawmaker
wanted to have sex as a means of
impregnating her.
harm’s way to defend a building
and have the chance of them not
going home to their families at the
end of this event,” Mr. Rosa said.
One firefighter, Cory Iverson, 32,
died Thursday from burns and
smoke inhalation, according to au-
topsy results announced Saturday.
As of Saturday night the fire had
burned through at least 267,500
acres and was 40 percent con-
tained. Cal Fire has records of fires
dating to 1932; the largest, the Ce-
dar Fire in San Diego County in Oc-
tober 2003, burned 273,246 acres.
Winds that had been gusting up
to 65 miles per hour in the hills of
Montecito were less severe by the
afternoon. Gusts were still re-
corded at above 45 m.p.h., and
wind patterns had caused humid-
ity to drop, said Tom Fisher, a me-
teorologist for the National
Weather Service in Oxnard, a few
dozen miles southeast of the fire.
“From a firefighter’s point of
view that’s still not good,” he said.
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Living on His Own for the First Time, With a Soundtrack of Heavy Metal
By ANDY NEWMAN
Jonathan Lewis lives on his own
in a big brick apartment building
in Brooklyn.
He lives by himself, but he is not
quite self-sufficient.
He is not allowed to use the
stove alone. He
gets help with
laundry and
food shopping.
Every time he
leaves the build-
ing, he must
sign out with the
support work-
ers on the first
floor.
“They write
down what I
have on, what I look like,” Mr.
Lewis said recently. “In case I
don’t come back, they know.”
Mr. Lewis, 26, has a mild intel-
lectual disability, though you
would not know that to speak to
him. He presents as quiet and seri-
ous, but grows more animated
when he talks about his interests.
Heavy metal, for instance. “It
deals with a lot of adrenaline,” Mr.
Lewis said. He is partial to the
bands Slipknot and Dir En Grey
and says he likes their lyrical
themes: “betrayal, love, revenge.”
Before heading to his part-time
job as a porter at Dave & Buster’s,
the restaurant-arcade complex in
Times Square, Mr. Lewis said, “I
listen to heavy metal, so when I
get to work I play it in my head.”
He enjoys riding the subway.
“Since I am high-functioning, and
I go to work, I go there independ-
ently,” he said. “The subway is an
intense place. It’s also a safety
hazard for people with disabilities
but it’s different for me — because
I know where to go, how to maneu-
ver and when to come back.”
For most of his life, Mr. Lewis
lived with his adoptive mother,
most recently in a basement
apartment in another part of Bed-
ford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is
77, and this year, Brooklyn Com-
munity Services says, she is mov-
ing to Florida and retiring from
caring for her son.
So, Mr. Lewis needed a new
place to live. Brooklyn Communi-
ty Services, one of the eight orga-
nizations supported by The New
York Times Neediest Cases Fund,
found him one. He moved this
summer into the building on At-
lantic Avenue, where the organi-
zation manages several apart-
ments as supportive housing.
There are about 10,000 develop-
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Jonathan Lewis, 26, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where he moved into a supportive housing apartment over the summer.
Gifts recorded through Dec. 10:
$2,031,291.96
that keeps growing as the state
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To start paying rent, Mr. Lewis
needed more money, but he was
denied Supplemental Security In-
come the first few times he ap-
plied because the evaluators did
not believe he was intellectually
disabled, his case manager said.
“They said there’s nothing wrong
with him,” the case manager, Jo-
anne De Curuew, said. “They
couldn’t pick up on it.” But Mr.
Lewis, she said, is unable to man-
age money or perform many of
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In August, the organization
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Cases Fund for his first month of
rent and security deposit.
Mr. Lewis is settling into his
new life. He says he has made
friends with his next-door neigh-
bor, Andre.
“We have a lot in common,” Mr.
Lewis said. Andre is also a Scor-
pio, also high-functioning. They
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To delay may mean to forget.
both love music, though Andre
prefers gospel.
One time, Mr. Lewis tried to get
Andre interested in heavy metal.
“I was playing Five Finger Death
Punch — the title of the song was
‘The Bleeding,’” Mr. Lewis re-
called. “I told him heavy metal
was just harmless, wouldn’t hurt a
fly. I said, ‘It’s pretty good music,
want to get into it?’ He said, ‘No
thank you, no thank you.’ I said,
‘It’s pretty good music.’ He just
walked away.”
Mr. Lewis’s apartment is sparse
but spacious and clean. The main
room has a bed, a dresser a little
round table, a chair and a big TV
his adoptive mother got for him.
He says he loves his apartment.
“This is where I’m going to retire
to,” he said. “I could see myself
growing old here.”
One night a few weeks ago, Mr.
Lewis and some other residents
signed themselves out and went
to see the movie “It.”
“You go as a group, you come
back safely,” Mr. Lewis said. “It
was a good experience. Andre
paid for my ticket. I was unpre-
pared. I didn’t come with re-
sources. And then he told me don’t
worry about it.”
Mr. Lewis likes his colleagues at
Dave & Buster’s, too. “Good peo-
ple, good vibe, charismatic peo-
ple,” he said. He cleans bathrooms
and clears tables.
The job keeps Mr. Lewis busy.
“When I first got there it was very
intense for me to handle,” he said.
Heavy metal and the Bible, which
he reads before work, help him
stay focused. So does his favorite
energy drink. “I’m a pretty heavy
drinker when it comes to Red
Bull,” he said. “I drink three or
four cans a day.”
Mr. Lewis eventually qualified
for Supplemental Security In-
come, but is now receiving $505 a
month in Social Security Disabili-
ty Income instead.
One recent Friday afternoon,
Mr. Lewis took the subway to
Times Square. Dave & Busters is
two escalator rides up in a build-
ing that houses a 25-plex movie
theater. It is huge and noisy. The
restaurant is on your left when
you enter. On the right are the ar-
cade games — flashing wheels of
fortune, growling driving games,
pounding music.
“This is where I work,” Mr. Lew-
is started to explain, “over here
behind the arcade section they
have bathrooms.” Then a supervi-
sor came and took him by the arm.
“Go, go, go,” she said, and led him
back toward the dining room.

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A Rallying Cry or a Racial Taunt: ‘Trump! Trump! Trump!’
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tionalists in the last two years
than in the previous 20. “I haven’t
seen anything like this during my
three decades in the field,” he said.
Peppered among these inci-
dents is a phenomenon distinct
from the routine racism so famil-
iar in this country: the provoca-
tive use of “Trump,” after the man
whose comments about Mexi-
cans, Muslims and undocumented
immigrants — coupled with his
muted responses to white nation-
alist activity — have proved so in-
flammatory. His words have also
become an accelerant on the play-
ing field of sports, in his public
criticism of black athletes he
deems to be unpatriotic or un-
grateful.
Officials at Salem State Univer-
sity in Massachusetts discovered
hateful graffiti spray-painted on
benches and a fence surrounding
the baseball field, including
“Trump #1 Whites Only USA.” An
undocumented immigrant in
Michigan reported to the police
that two assailants had stapled a
note bearing a slur to his stomach
after telling him, “Trump doesn’t
like you.” A white Massachusetts
businessman at Kennedy Interna-
tional Airport in New York was
charged with assaulting and men-
acing an airline worker in a hijab,
saying, among other threats:
“Trump is here now. He will get rid
of all of you.”
In an email, the White House on
Friday denounced the use of the
president’s name in cases like
these. “The president condemns
violence, bigotry and hatred in all
its forms, and finds anyone who
might invoke his or any other poli-
tical figure’s name for such aims
to be contemptible,” Raj Shah, a
White House spokesman, said.
Still, it persists. Across the
country, students have used the
president’s name to mock or goad
minority opponents at sporting
events. In March, white fans at
suburban Canton High School in
Connecticut shouted “Trump!
Trump! Trump!” as players from
Hartford’s Classical Magnet
School, which is predominantly
black and Latino, took foul shots
during a basketball playoff game.
They also chanted “He’s our presi-
dent!”
The visiting players and their
chaperones interpreted the
chants not as a sudden burst of
presidential fealty, but rather as a
slyly racist mantra intended to
rattle. As if Donald J. Trump was
the president of here, in white sub-
urbia, and not there, in the diverse
inner city.
“I’m not sure what politics has
to do with basketball,” Azaria
Porter, then the Classical team’s
16-year-old manager, told The
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2016 presidential election. Below, a Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pa., in April. The jarring use
of Mr. Trump’s name began to surface shortly after he declared his candidacy in June 2015.
Hartford Courant. “It was just an-
noying. It was like, O.K., we get it.”
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Canton.
According to several scholars of
American history, the invocation
of a president’s name as a jaw-jut-
ting declaration of exclusion,
rather than inclusion, appears to
be unprecedented. “If you’re hunt-
ing for historical analogies, I think
you’re in virgin territory,” said Jon
Meacham, the author of several
books about presidents, including
a Pulitzer Prize-winning biogra-
phy of Andrew Jackson.
Michael Beschloss, a presiden-
tial historian, agrees. “If you’re
looking at modern presidents, fill
in the blank and see if it can be
used in the same way,” he said.
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Mr. Lloyd did not respond to
other questions about the news re-
port, which was published late
Friday by The Washington Post.
The article said that C.D.C. policy
analysts were told of the forbid-
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“You will see it has not. Hoover?
Or Eisenhower? Can you imagine
a situation like that?”
The jarring use of Mr. Trump’s
name began to surface shortly af-
ter he declared his candidacy in
June 2015. Within a year, educa-
tors were reporting incidents in
which, as the Inside Higher Ed
website put it, “Trump” had be-
come “a kind of taunt, tossed by
largely white students at minority
opponents during, say, basketball
games.”
But it was not confined to high
schools like Dallas Center-Grimes
in Iowa, where students mocked a
basketball team from the more di-
verse community of Perry with
chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”
in February 2016. Colleges and
ported, alternative phrases were
suggested. Instead of “science-
based,” or “evidence-based,” The
Post reported, “the suggested
phrase is ‘C.D.C. bases its recom-
mendations on science in consid-
eration with community stand-
ards and wishes.’’’
The news set off an uproar
among advocacy groups and
some Democratic officials, who
denounced any efforts to muzzle
federal agencies or censor their
language.
The Times confirmed some de-
tails of the report with several offi-
cials, although a few suggested
that the proposal was not so much
a ban on words but recommenda-
tions to avoid some language to
ease the path toward budget ap-
proval by Republicans.
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universities were experiencing
similar moments.
Nor was it confined to places of
learning. In March 2016, for exam-
ple, video surveillance at a Kwik
Shop in Wichita, Kan., showed a
white motorcyclist arguing with
two college students — one His-
panic, one Muslim — then assault-
ing one of them before driving off.
The victims later said that the
man interspersed his racist epi-
thets with: “Trump, Trump,
Trump.” (And yes, the name does
tend to come in threes, as if the in-
cantation of his name might sum-
mon the man himself.)
Shortly after the election, the
Southern Poverty Law Center,
which monitors hate crimes, pub-
lished a report called “The Trump
A former federal official, who
asked not to be named, called the
move unprecedented.
“It’s absurd and Orwellian, it’s
stupid and Orwellian, but they are
not saying to not use the words in
reports or articles or scientific
publications or anything else the
C.D.C. does,” the former official
said. “They’re saying not to use it
in your request for money be-
cause it will hurt you. It’s not
about censoring what C.D.C. can
say to the American public. It’s
about a budget strategy to get
funded.”
A former C.D.C. official, who
asked not to be identified, said
that some staff members were up-
set because the purported ban
suggested that their work was be-
ing politicized.
“I don’t know exactly who said
what in the meeting, but I have to
assume this came from H.H.S.
people, because they’re the ones
who have to make the budget,” the
former official said. “I’ve also
heard that some of the words
might have been a little miscon-
strued. “‘Science-based’ and ‘evi-
dence-based’ might not have been
considered as unusable as the oth-
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Effect: The Impact of the 2016
Election on Our Nation’s Schools.”
Based on a survey of more than
10,000 educators, it detailed an in-
crease in incidents involving
swastikas, Nazi salutes and Con-
federate flags.
“Kids saying, ‘Trump won,
you’re going back to Mexico,’”
wrote a teacher from Kansas. “A
black student was blocked from
entering his classroom by two
white students chanting, ‘Trump,
Trump,’” wrote a teacher from
Tennessee. “Seventh-grade white
boys yelling, ‘Heil Trump!’” wrote
a teacher from Colorado.
It is a far cry from wearing a
button that says “I Like Ike.”
Mr. Beschloss recalled mo-
ments in recent American history
when, say, the X in President Rich-
ard M. Nixon’s name appeared as
a swastika, or a caricature of Pres-
ident Lyndon B. Johnson featured
a Hitlerian mustache. But these
were generally the acts of oppo-
nents to those presidents’ policies
during the Vietnam War.
“The message here,” Mr. Be-
schloss said, “is ‘Trump is going to
come and get you — and we sup-
port that.’”
There have also been cases in
which anti-Trump protesters have
harassed and assaulted support-
ers of the president for, say, wear-
ing a “Make America Great
Again” cap. In some instances, the
name Trump is invoked in punctu-
ation.
When asked how a president’s
very name could become so
coded, Mr. Beschloss cited Mr.
Trump’s speeches and tweets, in-
cluding two in particular: the an-
nouncement of his candidacy in
2015, during which he referred to
Mexican immigrants as criminals,
drug dealers and rapists; and his
equivocating comments after a
white supremacist rally and coun-
terprotest in Charlottesville, Va.,
in June ended with one person
killed and 19 wounded. (“We con-
demn in the strongest possible
terms this egregious display of ha-
tred, bigotry and violence on
many sides,” the president had
said. “On many sides.”)
“This broadened into a feeling
by some people — right or wrong
— that Trump is going to be a
weapon to reduce the opportuni-
ties of those who are different,”
Mr. Beschloss said. “This is a sig-
nal moment.”
Leah Wright Rigueur, an assist-
ant professor of public policy at
the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard, agreed,
saying that Mr. Trump’s status as
a racial wedge was of his own do-
ing.
“When Trump says, ‘I hear you,
I will represent you,’ he is speak-
ing to a particular cross-section of
the nation that does not include
Muslims, that does not include
people of color,” Ms. Wright Ri-
gueur said.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a
professor of race, history and pub-
ers.”
Some people also said that
some effort to tone down language
might make sense when appeal-
ing for funding from Republican
conservatives in Congress.
The C.D.C. budget documents
are circulated to other agencies
and Congress and submitted to
the Office of Management and
Budget in the Trump administra-
tion. The budget office did not re-
spond to a request for comment.
There seemed to be confusion
around the public health agencies
about whether the ban originated
at the agency’s parent depart-
ment, Health and Human Serv-
ices, or inside the C.D.C. itself; and
whether such a ban would apply
beyond budget documents. The
Food and Drug Administration
was quick to note that it had got-
ten no such instruction. An
agency spokeswoman, Jennifer
Rodriguez, said, “We haven’t re-
ceived, nor implemented, any di-
rectives with respect to the lan-
guage used at F.D.A. to describe
our policy or budget issues.” The
National Institutes of Health re-
ferred inquiries to Health and Hu-
man Services.
Since the Trump administration
has taken office, officials at the
country’s premier disease-fight-
ing agency have privately com-
plained that it has come under
various pressures, most involving
Mr. Trump’s “America First”
stance and his dislike of foreign
aid rather than basic science it-
self.
Although Mr. Trump’s first
“skinny budget” proposed deep
cuts in medical work done over-
seas, it is not clear that he is going
to get his way. Many legislators
have recognized the value of de-
tecting and fighting outbreaks
abroad before they reach Ameri-
can shores, and the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,
which was created by President
George W. Bush, is a favorite with
Christian conservatives in Con-
gress. Many of the hospitals
helped in Africa were founded by
Christian missionaries. As a for-
mer Indiana representative, Vice
President Pence was among the
agency’s strongest backers.
Even during the Obama admin-
lic policy also at the Kennedy
School of Government, said that
Mr. Trump had created his own
breakaway brand, making him the
personification of specific ideals.
“To use the name as a rallying
cry for a kind of embodied white
supremacy, white nationalism or
sense of triumphalism, for taking
back the country, as best as I can
tell has never been crystallized in
the name of a U.S. president,” Mr.
Muhammad said.
“It’s authoritarian, the cult of
personality,” Mr. Meacham said.
“It’s saying that we’re American
— and you’re not.”
The sporadic episodes — as
chronicled by ProPublica’s “Docu-
menting Hate” project, among
others — continue. A “Heil
Trump” here, the Trump name
scrawled beside a swastika there.
In late September, two high school
football teams in the Salt Lake
City suburbs were squaring off
when cheers erupted. Someone
was brandishing a cardboard cut-
out of Mr. Trump, and there began
A provocative use of
the president’s name
that incites hate.
the chanting of three words that
have electrified some and un-
nerved others: “Build the wall!
Build the wall!”
Back in Iowa, there have been
consequences and remorse in the
wake of those two Forest City ra-
dio announcers musing on the
Hispanic names of some of the
players from Eagle Grove.
Ms. Kusserow-Smidt, 63, was
fired as a board operator for the
radio station; she has since re-
signed from the Forest City School
District. Mr. Harris, 76, who had
been with the station for more
than 40 years, was also fired. The
two have expressed deep regret
for their comments, which they
said did not reflect who they truly
were.
“It didn’t sound right; it wasn’t
right,” Mr. Harris told a local tele-
vision station. “And I apologize.”
The xenophobic words of the
two announcers stung some of the
Eagle Grove players, including
Nikolas Padilla, whose mother is
from Iowa and whose father is
from Mexico. Mr. Padilla, a 17-
year-old senior, said that he
briefly considered quitting be-
cause he did not want to be singled
out for his Mexican heritage.
One particular comment by the
broadcasters — “As Trump would
say, go back where they came
from” — puzzled Nikolas. His
mother, Misty, recalled what her
teenage son had said:
“Um, I came from Mason City,
Iowa.”
istration, C.D.C. officials were re-
quired to clear most statements
through Health and Human Serv-
ices.
Under Thomas E. Price, Mr.
Trump’s first secretary of Health
and Human Services, the depart-
ment seemed preoccupied with
killing the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Price resigned in September
after he was criticized for his ex-
pensive air travel. During his
early tenure, the C.D.C. was run
by an acting director, Dr. Anne
Shuchat, who had been deputy to
the former director, Dr. Thomas R.
Frieden.
Since Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald
was appointed director in July, the
agency has kept a relatively low
profile. In previous years, for ex-
ample, Dr. Frieden would typical-
ly have held by now a news confer-
ence about the coming flu season
and might have, for instance, pub-
licly addressed other issues like
the dangers of water contamina-
tion in post-hurricane Puerto
Rico, human infections caused by
drug-resistant bacteria on pet-
store puppies and Mexican papa-
yas, or even the risk of Madagas-
car’s plague outbreak spreading.
Critics were quick to denounce
the C.D.C. for its action. Dr. Vivek
Murthy, a former Surgeon Gen-
eral, expressed concern.
“Whether this is a directive
from above is not clear,’’ he said.
“But for C.D.C. or any agency to be
censored or passively made to feel
they have to self-censor to avoid
retribution — that’s dangerous
and not acceptable. The purpose
of science is to search for truth,
and when science is censored the
truth is censored.”
Michael Halpern, deputy direc-
tor of the Center for Science and
Democracy, based at the Union of
Concerned Scientists, said he be-
lieved scientists at C.D.C. will
need assurance that they can con-
tinue their work without political
interference.
“I don’t know if it will ever be
clear who said what in this partic-
ular case,” Mr. Halpern said. “The
fact that the agency began con-
trolling what scientists can say to
reporters a few months ago does-
n’t suggest they want to be open
and honest with the public.”

THE 45TH PRESIDENT Congress and Taxes
Puerto Rico Fears Tax Bill Will Inflict Another Blow Tax Bill Would Curb Breaks
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
Three months after Hurricane
Maria slammed into Puerto Rico,
the sweeping federal tax overhaul
that Congress plans to vote on in
the next week could deliver an-
other hit to the island’s economy,
which is already crippled by a
debt crisis and widespread power
losses from the storm.
The final legislation negotiated
by the House and Senate would
treat mainland companies in
Puerto Rico, a United States com-
monwealth, as it does those in for-
eign countries, and impose a 12.5
percent tax on income they re-
ceive from intellectual property.
The bankrupt Puerto Rican gov-
ernment, which lobbied intensely
for special tax treatment, fears
that the bill could endanger cru-
cial industries and thousands of
jobs on the island.
“This is really a devastating
blow for Puerto Rico, in our great-
est time of need,” Gov. Ricardo A.
Rosselló said on Friday.
The tax bill’s effect on Puerto
Rico could have been worse: Had
Republicans opted for the House
version of the bill, American com-
panies that import goods from
their affiliates abroad would have
been charged a 20 percent excise
tax. That tax, intended to keep
American profits from being
shifted overseas, would have
threatened much of Puerto Rico’s
pharmaceutical and medical in-
dustry. It ultimately did not make
the compromise plan.
Still, the new intellectual prop-
erty tax was unwelcome news for
leaders dealing with an economy
in free fall. Mainland companies
— mostly in medical manufactur-
ing — make up about a third of
Puerto Rico’s tax base, and di-
rectly or indirectly employ about
250,000 Americans, according to
the Rosselló administration. Ma-
ria forced companies to halt pro-
duction of drugs, medical supplies
and devices, leading to worrisome
shortages in places as far away as
Iowa. Now, the government wor-
ries that those businesses, facing
a new tax on top of Maria’s vast
ruin, could eventually leave the is-
land altogether.
Though Puerto Rico is home to
3.4 million United States citizens,
the tax code treats the island as
both a foreign and domestic entity.
American affiliates in Puerto Rico
get tax breaks like the ones
granted to foreign companies,
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico said, “This is really a devas-
tating blow for Puerto Rico, in our greatest time of need.”
while the goods they produce are
sold as made in America.
The tax on intellectual property,
which includes patents and de-
sign rights, would make Puerto
Rico less attractive for business,
compared with foreign countries
that offer lower tax rates for man-
ufacturers, said Ramón Ponte,
president of the Puerto Rico C.P.A.
society.
“A lot of companies are going to
look at the numbers and decide
that, under the circumstances, it’s
better to leave,” he said. “The is-
sue is not Puerto Rico versus the
mainland: It’s really Puerto Rico
versus its competitiveness with
other foreign jurisdictions.”
If Republicans want to protect
American jobs, as President
Trump has pledged, then Con-
gress should consider Puerto Rico
a domestic entity, said Mr.
Rosselló, who spent last Wednes-
day on Capitol Hill, making one
last push for support. The gover-
nor predicted the tax plan would
renew debate on the island about
its commonwealth status. A vote
on the tax bill could come as early
as Monday or Tuesday.
Mr. Rosselló accused Republi-
can leaders — several of whom
made highly publicized trips to
Puerto Rico after Maria — of re-
neging on Congress’s commit-
ment to help the island regain its
financial footing.
“Congress essentially turned its
back on Puerto Rico, and essen-
tially failed in its mission,” said
Mr. Rosselló, a member of the is-
land’s pro-statehood New Pro-
gressive Party who also identifies
as a Democrat. “It’s just penaliz-
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ing Puerto Rico. It’s putting
Puerto Rico in a worse-off position
than it was yesterday.”
Last year, a special law — called
Promesa, or “promise” in Spanish
— was enacted to restructure
Puerto Rico’s more than $70 bil-
lion debt. It established an eight-
member, bipartisan task force
that concluded in a December
2016 report that Congress needed
to address the complex federal tax
policy for Puerto Rico. The report
underscored that jobs on the is-
land and in other territories — in-
cluding the United States Virgin
Islands, which were also ham-
mered by Hurricanes Irma and
Maria — are American jobs.
“The Task Force believes that
Puerto Rico is too often relegated
to an afterthought in congres-
sional deliberations over federal
business tax reform legislation,”
lawmakers wrote.
The group said it was “open” to
giving tax incentives to American
companies on the island as long as
they were geared toward improv-
ing Puerto Rico’s economy and
raising employment, as opposed
to bolstering companies’ bottom
lines. A 2012 Senate investigation
found that Microsoft employed 177
workers on Puerto Rico, but re-
ported some $4 billion in earnings
there from profits channeled to
the island to reduce the software
giant’s tax burden. Microsoft sold
brands and copyrights — that is,
intellectual property — to its
Puerto Rican affiliate to avoid
paying higher mainland taxes.
Among the task force’s recom-
mendations that the final tax bill
ignored: allowing lower-income
Puerto Rican families with one or
two children to qualify for an addi-
tional child-tax credit that cur-
rently kicks in only after a third
child.
Last month, House Speaker
Paul D. Ryan said lawmakers
would address Puerto Rico’s tax
concerns in negotiations with the
Senate.
“It is our intention to make im-
provements to our tax reform leg-
islation as it relates to Puerto Rico
when we go to conference,” Mr.
Ryan said in a Nov. 16 statement
issued jointly with Representative
Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto
Rico’s nonvoting member of Con-
gress.
Now, however, it appears
Puerto Rico’s requests will have to
wait until next year, when Con-
gress could draft bills to extend
tax credits or make technical cor-
rections to the law. One of Ms.
González-Colón’s suggestions, to
create “opportunity zones” offer-
ing tax incentives for manufactur-
ing, remains a possibility, said
Representative Kevin Brady, the
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
“I think more can be done as
well, but I think this is important,”
he said. “We are just absolutely
committed to helping that island
rebuild.”
Still pending before Congress is
Puerto Rico’s request for more
than $94 billion in hurricane relief
aid. The island continues to suffer
deeply after Maria: Only 65 per-
cent of its power generation has
been restored. An exodus of
Puerto Ricans has taken away
workers crucial to reigniting the
economy. More than 243,000 peo-
ple have landed in Florida from
the island since Oct. 3.
Puerto Rico is sensitive to tax
decisions made in Washington. In
1996, President Bill Clinton autho-
rized the repeal of a 1976 provision
that gave American companies
significant tax incentives to estab-
lish their subsidiaries on the is-
land. Those perks helped turn the
island into a biotech manufactur-
ing hub, but critics countered that
most of the benefit went to
wealthy investors, not local work-
ers.
Once the incentives were fully
phased out in 2006, at a time when
manufacturing was declining
across the nation, Puerto Rico
plunged into a recession that has
lasted for more than a decade.
For Sexual Abuse Settlements
By CHRISTINA CARON
The sexual misconduct allega-
tions against the former Fox
News host Bill O’Reilly and the
Hollywood producer Harvey
Weinstein — and the confidential
settlements arising from those ac-
cusations — have prompted a pro-
vision in the final tax bill that aims
to stem the use of nondisclosure
agreements.
Senator Robert Menendez, a
Democrat from New Jersey, pro-
posed the amendment last month.
It says any settlement, payout or
lawyer’s fees related to sexual
harassment or sexual abuse could
not be deducted as a business ex-
pense if such payments were sub-
ject to a nondisclosure agreement.
“I think most Americans would
be outraged to know that they are
subsidizing sexual predators in
the tax code,” he said in an
emailed statement.
But the proposed changes may
not deter some companies and
businesses from seeking confi-
dentiality.
“This is a nudge, not a hammer,”
Daniel Hemel, an assistant profes-
sor at the University of Chicago
Law School and an expert in tax
policy, said in a phone interview
on Saturday.
Publicly known sexual har-
assment settlements involving
Mr. O’Reilly — who is said to have
used nondisclosure agreements
— have totaled about $45 million,
including a $32 million payout that
he paid personally.
Mr. Weinstein, whose abuse of
women was exposed by The New
York Times in October, also has
used confidentiality agreements.
The Times reported that Mr.
Weinstein has said he struck at
least eight to 12 settlements with
women claiming mistreatment.
Under the tax bill spearheaded
by Republicans, a hypothetical
company that paid a $10 million
sexual abuse settlement would
not be able to take a deduction on
that amount if the payout had a
nondisclosure agreement at-
tached to it.
In the absence of a confidential-
ity agreement, however, the new
corporate tax rate would allow the
company to save $2.1 million in
taxes, making its out-of-pocket
cost $7.9 million.
For a business that generates
billions in revenue, like the parent
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company of Fox News, a nondis-
closure agreement can have far
more value than tax savings.
“The new rules are very well-in-
tentioned, but the impact is likely
to only be symbolic,” Gordon
Klein, a lawyer, certified public ac-
countant and faculty member at
the University of California, Los
Angeles’s Anderson School of
Management, said in a phone in-
terview on Saturday. “The reason
for that is companies cherish
nondisclosure agreements be-
cause they significantly help pro-
tect the company’s reputation and
protect them from follow-on law-
suits or additional lawsuits.”
The nonspecific language of the
amendment also complicated
matters, Mr. Klein said.
The bill refers to settlements or
payments “related” to sexual har-
assment or sexual abuse, he said,
but what if only one portion of the
allegations is about sexual har-
assment? And does it matter if the
sexual harassment was merely an
allegation, or does there need to
be evidence of sexual har-
assment?
Representative Ken Buck, Re-
publican of Colorado, proposed a
similar amendment for the
House’s tax reform bill but it did
not include a stipulation about
confidentiality agreements.
In the end, the language in the
Senate bill offered by Mr. Menen-
dez made the final cut when law-
makers blended the two bills to-
gether. Democrats have heavily
criticized the proposed tax bill and
complained they were shut out of
the legislative process.
“I think the reason, in all hon-
estly, why there was no pushback
was because it was a revenue gen-
erator,” Tricia Enright, Mr. Me-
nendez’s press secretary, said in a
phone interview on Saturday.
“They determined that it would be
seen on the plus side of the ledger.”
While the new tax plan would
allow businesses to write off legal
fees related to sexual harassment
payouts — provided they’re not
tied to nondisclosure agreements
— it is a different situation for em-
ployees who make claims of sexu-
al abuse or harassment, who will
no longer be able to write off their
legal fees. T he Republican plan
has eliminated that option, Mr.
Hemel said, adding that it creates
“a one-sidedness.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Congress and Taxes
What’s in the G.O.P. Tax Bill, and How It Will Affect You
By RON LIEBER
and TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
Republican lawmakers re-
leased the details of their tax code
rewrite on Friday, which recon-
ciles differences between the
House and Senate bills.
Several of the most anticipated
changes — such as a significant
increase in the standard de-
duction and the curtailing of state
and local income tax breaks —
made the final cut. Some of the
most controversial proposals, like
eliminating the medical de-
duction, were wiped away.
Many of these provisions are
temporary, however, and are set to
expire after seven years. They all
take effect in 2018, unless noted
otherwise.
Tax Brackets
NOW Seven brackets, with a top
rate of 39.6 percent, which people
pay on income they earn beyond
$470,700 for couples filing their
taxes jointly or $418,400 as an indi-
vidual.
NEW PLAN Seven brackets, with a
top rate of 37 percent, which mar-
ried people filing jointly will pay
on income they earn in excess of
$600,000. If you’re single, the top
rate applies to income earned be-
yond $500,000.
Exemptions, Credits,
Standard Deductions
NOW If you’re single, the standard
deduction is $6,350. Add in ex-
emptions, and you’re up to
$10,400. Married without chil-
dren? That’s $12,700 for the de-
duction and $20,700 with exemp-
tions. If you’re married with two
children, the deduction-plus-ex-
emptions figure goes up to
$28,700. There is also a $1,000 tax
credit per child.
NEW PLAN The standard de-
duction is temporarily increased
to $12,000 for singles and $24,000
for married couples filing joint re-
turns.
The child tax credit is increased
to $2,000 for each child — and up
to $1,400 of that can be delivered in
the form of refundable credit,
which means taxpayers can re-
ceive money back even if they
have no tax liability. (Taxpayers
may also reduce their tax bill by
up to $500 for other dependents
who are not children.)
But that all changes in 2025,
when the deductions and exemp-
tions revert to current law.
Mortgage Interest, and State
and Local Tax Deductions
NOW You can generally deduct the
amount you pay for state and local
income taxes, including property
taxes, on your federal income tax
return. You can also deduct the in-
terest you pay each year on mort-
gage debt up to $1 million, a cap
that can cover multiple homes.
Plus, you can generally deduct up
to $100,000 in interest you pay on a
home-equity loan or line of credit.
NEW PLAN Taxpayers may deduct
only up to $10,000 total, which may
include any combination of state
and local taxes, including prop-
erty taxes (also sales taxes). But
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Homeowners will be able to deduct only up to $10,000 in a combination of state and local taxes, including property taxes.
People who own small businesses will generally be able to deduct
20 percent of their qualified business income, with limits.
don’t try to prepay your state and
local income taxes before year-
end to circumvent the new limit.
The proposal is one step ahead of
you and your accountant and
won’t allow it.
You can also deduct the interest
paid on mortgage debt up to
$750,000. But if you bought a prop-
erty before Dec. 15, you can still
deduct interest up to $1 million
(the limit under current law).
Home equity loan interest is no
longer deductible for anyone.
Medical Expenses
NOW You can deduct out-of-
pocket medical expenses that ex-
ceed 10 percent of your adjusted
gross income (but not the ex-
penses that amount to the first 10
percent). This is particularly use-
ful for elderly people and others
with lower incomes who need reg-
ular assistance and care.
NEW PLAN In 2017 and 2018, you
can deduct out-of-pocket medical
expenses that exceed 7.5 percent
of adjusted gross income.
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Individual Mandate
NOW Under the Affordable Care
Act, individuals must buy a quali-
fying health insurance plan or pay
a penalty — unless they qualify for
an exemption.
NEW PLAN The penalty is reduced
to zero, which, in practice, means
that fewer healthy individuals
may sign up for coverage — and
that is expected to lead to higher
premiums for people who do not
qualify for premium subsidies.
Alternative Minimum Tax
NOW The A.M.T. is an alternative
way of calculating income taxes
due, to make sure that people with
lots of deductions don’t pay too lit-
tle. It often hits higher income
families, especially in states
where the state income tax is high.
NEW PLAN The A.M.T. will not go
away, even though many Republi-
cans had hoped to eliminate it. But
through 2025, it will apply to fewer
people and kick in at higher in-
come levels.
Estate Taxes
NOW In general, estates pay 40
percent federal tax on inherited
property, but rules waive that tax
for estates up to $5,490,000.
NEW PLAN The baseline exemp-
tion amount doubles to $10 million
and is indexed to inflation occur-
ring after 2011. It applies to the es-
tates of people who die after Dec.
31 but before Jan. 1, 2026 (and also
to gifts made during that time
frame).
Pass-Through Businesses
NOW People who own small busi-
nesses of various sorts generally
pay income taxes based on the
normal rate for individual taxes.
Often, they are involved in or run
partnerships, sole proprie-
torships, limited liability compa-
nies and S corporations.
NEW PLAN Starting next year and
before Jan. 1, 2026, individuals can
generally deduct 20 percent of
their qualified business income
from a partnership, S corporation
and sole proprietorship. There are
limits, however, including a
phaseout for the deduction that
begins at $157,500 of individual in-
come and $315,000 of income for
couples filing jointly.
529 Plans
NOW Your money grows free of
any capital gains taxes and you
can withdraw it tax-free to pay for
higher education expenses.
NEW PLAN Nothing changes with
higher education, but you will also
be able to withdraw up to $10,000
each year, per child, to pay for pri-
vate or religious school and re-
ceive the same tax benefits. Fam-
ilies participating in home school-
ing can also take out up to $10,000
a year to use for educational ex-
Taxpayers will be able to deduct out-of-pocket medical expenses
that exceed 7.5 percent of their adjusted gross income.
penses. Also, families can roll 529
funds over to ABLE accounts,
which offer tax advantages for
people with disabilities.
Investment Fees and
Unreimbursed Business
Expenses
NOW You can deduct fees you pay
to an investment adviser and sim-
ilar expenses related to money
management but only if they add
up to at least 2 percent of your ad-
justed gross income. The same
rule applies to work expenses
your employer does not reim-
burse you for.
NEW PLAN These will no longer be
allowable deductions, though that
lasts only through 2025.
Roth I.R.A. Do-Overs
NOW Under current law, you can
perform a kind of do-over if you’ve
recently converted an individual
retirement account into a Roth
I.R.A. The way this works is that if
you make the conversion and then
the value of the account falls or
some other circumstance changes
before Oct. 15 of the following year,
you can recharacterize the Roth
so that it is a plain old I.R.A. again.
This could allow people to avoid
paying high tax bills on an amount
of money that had then fallen in
value after the conversion.
NEW PLAN No more do-overs.
Once you convert to a Roth, it
stays a Roth.
Losses for Fires and Floods
NOW If you’re a victim of a house
fire, flood, burglary or similar
event, you can generally deduct
losses — as long as each loss is
more than $100 and all losses col-
lectively exceed 10 percent of your
adjustable gross income.
NEW PLAN Starting next year, tax-
payers can still deduct these
losses using the same rules — but
only if the loss occurred during an
event that the president officially
declared to be a disaster.
Alimony
NOW Alimony is a deductible ex-
pense for people paying it, and
those who receive it must pay in-
come taxes.
NEW PLAN Divorce would become
a bit more burdensome for the ex-
spouse who pays alimony because
it would no longer be a deductible
expense. But the person receiving
the payments would no longer
need to pay tax on the income re-
ceived. The change would take ef-
fect for divorce and separation
agreements executed starting in
2019.
The new rules will apply to any
modified agreements “if the modi-
fication expressly provides that
the amendments made by this
section apply to such modifica-
tion.”
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Moving Expenses
NOW Taxpayers can deduct mov-
ing expenses — even if they do not
itemize their tax returns — as long
as the new workplace is at least 50
miles farther from the old home
than the old job location was from
the old home. (If you had no work-
place, the new job must be at least
50 miles from your old home.)
NEW PLAN Moving costs would
generally no longer be a de-
ductible expense starting in 2018,
though it allows some exceptions
for members of the military.
Tax Preparation
NOW You can usually deduct the
amount your tax preparation spe-
cialist billed you or any similar
tax-related expenses, like soft-
ware you purchase and the fee to
file your forms electronically.
NEW PLAN Taxpayers would no
longer be able to take this de-
duction.
Riding a Bicycle to Work
NOW You can exclude up to $20 a
month from your income for ex-
penses related to regular bicycle
commuting, as long as you are not
receiving other pretax commut-
ing benefits from your employer.
NEW PLAN Starting next year,
these expenses are no longer de-
ductible.
New Inflation Counter
NOW There are different ways to
measure the change in the cost of
living. Right now, the federal gov-
ernment largely relies on what’s
known as the Consumer Price In-
dex, referred to as the C.P.I.
NEW PLAN The bill would change
the measure to what’s known as
the chained C.P.I., which generally
rises more slowly than what is
used now. This would slow the
speed at which tax brackets grow
with inflation, so taxpayers would
more quickly find themselves in
higher marginal tax brackets.
Using a slower-growing meas-
ure also means certain tax breaks
would also grow more slowly, like
the earned-income tax credit,
among others.
This change is permanent; the
measure would continue to be
used even after other tax changes,
including the increased standard
deduction, expire.
Gambling Losses
NOW You can deduct gambling
losses but only up to the amount of
any gambling income during any
given year.
NEW PLAN The bill clarifies that
people (including many profes-
sional gamblers) who also deduct
wagering expenses, such as the
cost of travel to and from a casino,
must add those expenses to their
total losses before comparing that
sum to their total taxable win-
nings for the purpose of making
the overall deduction calculation.
This clarification does not apply to
expenses that gamblers incur be-
yond 2025.
Taxability of Discharged
Student Loan Debt
NOW In general, when you owe a
debt and the entity to whom you
owe it forgives that debt, the
amount of the forgiven debt
counts as taxable income. This is
not currently the case for the peo-
ple who will soon benefit when the
federal government wipes away
their debts under the public serv-
ice loan forgiveness program (and
also people in some other health-
service and other loan programs).
But the amount is taxable when
student loan balances are forgiv-
en in the event of a death or dis-
ability.
NEW PLAN Discharged debt in the
event of death or total and perma-
nent disability will no longer be
taxable. The provision expires af-
ter 2025.
What Did Not Change
STUDENT LOAN INTEREST The
House had proposed to repeal the
deduction for student loan inter-
est, but the final bill has no repeal.
ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PRO-
GRAMS The House had proposed
to repeal the deduction for finan-
cial assistance that an employer
may provide when an employee
adopts a child, but the final bill has
no repeal.
DEPENDENT CARE ACCOUNTS At
one point, the House had pro-
posed to eliminate workplace de-
pendent care savings accounts
that allow employees to put away
$5,000 free of income taxes each
year. It later altered the provision
to have the accounts disappear in
2023. The Senate never proposed
any change, and there is no
change in the final bill.
TUITION WAIVERS Employees of
educational institutions who re-
ceive reduced tuition — or a
waiver — for themselves, spouses
or dependents are generally not
taxed on that income. This is par-
ticularly helpful for certain gradu-
ate students; their tuition is
waived as part of arrangements in
which they teach or perform re-
search at their university. The
House had proposed to tax the
benefit, but the final bill does not
have this provision.
EMPLOYER-PAID TUITION When
employers pay your tuition for
continuing education, the amount
they pay is not taxable income for
you as long as it meets certain
conditions and amounts to no
more than $5,250 a year. The
House had proposed that the ben-
efit be taxable, but the final bill
does not have this provision.
CAPITAL GAINS WHEN SELLING A
HOME With some exceptions, a
married couple filing their taxes
jointly can exclude up to $500,000
in capital gains on the sale of a
home, as long as they have used it
as a primary residence for at least
two of the last five years. A single
individual can exclude up to
$250,000. The House and Senate
both proposed to make this rule
more strict, but neither provision
prevailed, and the rule will remain
the same.
TEACHER DEDUCTION Teachers
can take a $250 deduction for
money they spend on certain job-
related and classroom expenses.
The House wanted to eliminate
the tax break, while the Senate
wanted to double it temporarily.
Neither proposal made the final
bill, and the rule will remain the
same.
401(K) TAX BREAK Before the
House and Senate introduced
their bills, there were rumors they
might try to restrict the amount of
pretax money that people could
put into their workplace savings
accounts. They did not try to do
this, though, and the rules for
these accounts remain the same.
ELECTRIC CARS Buyers of qualify-
ing plug-in electric vehicles, like
the Chevrolet Bolt or Volt and Tes-
la’s cars, can sometimes get a tax
credit for up to $7,500. The House
had proposed eliminating the tax
break, but the provision didn’t
make the final bill. So the tax
break remains.
ARCHER MEDICAL SAVINGS AC-
COUNTS These accounts came into
existence before health savings
accounts but work in similar
ways. The House bill had pro-
posed to take away the tax break
for contributions to the accounts,
but that did not make it to the final
bill
SELLING STOCK AND MUTUAL
FUNDS Under current law, people
who have shares of stock or funds
in a taxable investment account
can choose which shares to sell if
they are selling part of their in-
vestment. This allows people who
bought shares at different times to
sell only the ones that will help
them pay the least amount in
taxes on any gains. The Senate
proposed to restrict such moves,
but its provision did not make it to
the final bill.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Congress and Taxes

What’s in the Final Republican Tax Bill

By WILSON ANDREWS and ALICIA PARLAPIANO

The legislation would cut taxes for corporations. American taxpayers, in large part, would also get cuts,
though most of the changes affecting taxpayers would expire after 2025.

Income taxes CURRENT LAW G.O.P. BILL

Number of tax brackets Seven Seven, lower over all The bill would lower individual tax
rates over all. But to comply with
Top rate 39.6% 37% Senate budget rules, the
CAITLIN O’HARA/BLOOMBERG
individual tax cuts would expire
starts at: $426,700/$480,050 $500,000/$600,000 after 2025. Politicians have championed homeownership over the years, but
(singles/couples) (singles/couples) economists see downsides in the resulting tax preferences.

Tax Bill Undercuts Perks

Alternative Minimum Tax Alternative income tax calculation Keeps, but increases exemption so
for high-income taxpayers fewer will pay it

Standard deduction and exemptions

Standard deduction $6,500/$13,000 $12,000/$24,000 The standard deduction would

Personal exemptions
Family tax credits
Child tax credit
Refundable portion:
Credit for other
dependents
Family tax credits phase
out starting at:
Inflation
Inflation measure used for
certain income thresholds
Education
Education credits
Student loan interest
deduction
Graduate student tuition
waivers
Education savings plans
Deduction for classroom
expenses
Itemized deductions
State and local tax
deduction
Mortgage interest
deduction
Moving expenses
Medical expenses
deduction
Overall limit on itemized
deductions
Other individual taxes
Individual mandate
Estate tax
Pass-through income
Capital gains
Corporate taxes
Top corporate tax rate
New investment
purchases
Business interest
deduction
Alternative Minimum Tax
Orphan drug tax credit
Renewable electricity tax
credit
Private activity bonds
Section 179 expensing
International
Taxation of multinational
companies
One-time repatriation tax
(singles/couples)
$4,150 per taxpayer and
dependent
CURRENT LAW
$1,000
15% of earnings over $3,000
None
$75,000/$110,000
(singles/couples)
CURRENT LAW
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
CURRENT LAW
American Opportunity Tax Credit,
Lifetime Learning Credit and Hope
Scholarship Credit
Can deduct up to $2,500
Tuition waivers are not treated as
taxable income
None
$250 deduction
CURRENT LAW
Income or sales and property taxes
are deductible
Can deduct interest payments on
up to $1 million of debt
Can deduct personal expenses
Employer provided expense
reimbursements are excluded
Can deduct out-of-pocket
expenses in excess of 10% of
adjusted gross income
Phase out beginning at
$266,700 / $320,000
(singles/couples)
CURRENT LAW
Penalty for not having health
insurance
Top rate of 40% on estates above
$5.6 million
Taxed at individual rates
Top rate of 23.8% (including net
investment income tax)
CURRENT LAW
35%
Complex rules for deducting over
many years
Generally fully deductible
Alternative income tax calculation
for businesses
Credit for 50% of qualifed testing
expenses
Credit for wind power production,
phasing out by 2020
Tax-exempt bonds used to fund
low-income housing and other
projects
Small business expensing limited
to $500,000
CURRENT LAW
Worldwide system with deferral
and credit for taxes paid abroad
— 7.5% (14.5% for cash)
Afforded Homeowners
(singles/couples) nearly double, so many more
people would end up taking it. From Page 1
Eliminates ward Glaeser, an economist at
Harvard. “It’s also a reflection of
just how expensive housing has
become, and how it feels problem-
atic to be using the tax code to sup-
G.O.P. BILL
port people buying houses that
are this expensive or, even worse,
$2,000 The child tax credit would double,
to be encouraging housing prices
and it has a larger refundable
Up to $1,400 portion that would allow more to rise further.”
Both parties have long champi-
lower-income families to benefit.
oned homeownership as a way to
$500
help people build wealth and keep
neighborhoods more stable. But
economists like Mr. Glaeser have
$200,000/$400,000 been critical of the resulting subsi-
(singles/couples) dies.
In their view, the government
has made homeownership and its
G.O.P. BILL financing artificially cheap
through the tax code and mort-
Chained CPI (C-CPI), a less The biggest long term change for gage backers like Fannie Mae. As
generous measure taxpayers in the bill, it would a result, people are encouraged to
result in a tax increase over the take on more debt than they might
long run, long after the tax cuts otherwise — to buy bigger homes
G.O.P. BILL expire. and second homes, and to plow
the equity they accrue into reno-
No change vations and personal spending.
This distorts the economy in a
number of ways. For starters, it’s
unfair: Since the benefits of these
No change deductions get bigger with larger
and more expensive homes, the
bulk of the benefits accrue to
wealthier homeowners in pricier
No change
markets. This alters the land-
scape by encouraging more sin-
gle-family homes and suburban
Expands use of 529 college A big victory for families that sprawl. That, in turn, prompts the
savings accounts to include K-12 send their children to private government to spend more on
private school tuition school. roads and infrastructure and
makes housing a bigger portion of
No change the economy than it would be in
the absence of federal help.
Construction, though, is one of
the least productive industries. By
G.O.P. BILL funneling more of the national
debt and savings into construc-
All state and local tax deductions Some Republican tion, the government is hindering
limited to $10,000 representatives in high-tax sectors, like education and manu-
districts have said they will vote facturing, that have a bigger eco-
Limited to payments on $750,000 “no” because of the scaling back nomic payoff.
of debt of the “SALT” deduction. All this has made homeowner
subsidies, in particular the mort-
Eliminates, except for members of gage interest deduction, one of the
rare tax breaks with critics across
the military
the political spectrum. Matthew
Desmond, a Princeton sociologist
Eliminates, except for members of
who studies how eviction wreaks
the military
havoc on the lives on the poor, has
documented how the deduction
Expands by reducing threshold to This deduction, which would became the “engine of American
7.5% of income (applies to 2017 have been eliminated by the inequality” because it favors
and 2018) House bill, is most important to higher-income homeowners.
low-income individuals with high Edward J. Pinto, co-director of
No change out-of-pocket health care costs. the conservative American Enter-
prise Institute’s Center for Hous-
ing Markets and Finance, has de-
scribed the interest deduction and
other homeowner subsidies as a
G.O.P. BILL wasteful giveaway that inflates
home prices and encourages peo-
Eliminates (starts in 2019) This provision, estimated to save ple to borrow excessively.
over $300 billion, would severely “My basic view is if you subsi-
weaken the Affordable Care Act. dize something you’ll get more of
it, and as a country we’ve been
Increase threshold to estates
subsidizing debt,” he said.
above $11.2 million
Jeff Neubauer is already think-
ing more conservatively. Mr.
20% deduction, phasing out
starting at $315,000 of income Neubauer, 34, who helps manage
his family’s electrical contracting
for couples
business and lives in Rancho
Santa Margarita, Calif., is looking
No change
to trade up from his two-bedroom
condominium to a larger home in
the $800,000-to-$900,000 range.
Now, he is worried that the cost of
G.O.P. BILL ownership will be much higher
and will rather play it safe until
21% The largest tax cut in the bill the effects of the bill are clearer.
would be permanent, as would “It makes me want to not spend
Five years of full expensing, then other corporate tax changes. as much money,” he said.
phased out over five more years Though it’s considered sacro-
sanct today, the mortgage interest
Caps deduction at 30% of income deduction was created almost by
(excluding depreciation) accident in 1913. When Congress
passed the first income tax, it
Eliminates The Senate’s decision to keep made interest deductible, a provi-
the corporate A.M.T. was sion intended to help farmers and
reversed after blowback from other businesses deduct their fi-
Reduces credit rate to 25% several industries. nancing expenses. Over the next
century, as the government began
guaranteeing mortgages and as
the construction of single-family
No change
homes became a global industry,
the mortgage interest deduction
ballooned into one of the largest
No change tax subsidies, accounting for more
than $70 billion a year.
The size of the deduction made
it a tempting target for Republi-
Increases limit to $1 million cans. To stay within legislative
boundaries, the Republicans need
to limit the budget consequences
of tax cuts largely benefiting cor-
G.O.P. BILL porations and the wealthy. Reduc-
ing housing deductions — benefits
Modified territorial system with The bill would move from the current that disproportionately flow to
new anti-abuse tax system, in which income earned homeowners in wealthier Demo-
abroad is taxed in the United States, cratic cities — helps recover some
to a territorial system in which only revenues while concentrating the
domestic profits would be taxed. impact on relatively few people,
most of whom are unlikely to vote
for Republicans.
The bill does retain significant
subsidies, allowing home buyers
to deduct interest on mortgages
as high as $750,000 — accounting
for the vast majority — and up to
$10,000 total in property taxes and
state and local income taxes. But
real estate agents have portrayed
the changes as a full-blown attack
on their industry.
“The final tax reform bill re-
leased punishes homeowners and
weakens homeownership,” the
California Association of Realtors
said in a statement issued on Fri-
day, “and in fact, it looks at home-
owners and the housing market as
nothing more than a piggy bank.”
Earlier versions of the bill
prompted real estate agents in Ba-
kersfield, Calif., to protest and
chant “Save Homeownership” in
front of the local office of Repre-
sentative Kevin McCarthy, the
House majority leader. And the
provisions affecting homeowner-
ship were among the few main
sticking points among House Re-
publicans, particularly those from
Mr. McCarthy’s state.
According to some estimates,
the modification of the mortgage
interest deduction, combined with
the steep drop in the deduction for
state and local property taxes,
could lead to home price declines
of as much as 10 percent in coun-
ties with the highest property and
income taxes.
It is, of course, hard to gauge the
long-term ramifications of a tax
bill that is flying through Con-
gress in hopes of allowing Repub-
licans and the Trump administra-
tion to claim a major legislative
victory.
That uncertainty is leading to
major confusion for home shop-
pers like Morgan Molnar. Ms. Mol-
nar, a 29-year-old who works in
product marketing, lives in the Sil-
icon Valley city of Sunnyvale and
Uncertainty leads to
confusion for some
home shoppers.
is looking for a home costing $1
million to $1.2 million. She and her
husband have been approved for a
mortgage and were ready to make
offers, but are now feeling hesi-
tant.
Better to push forward because
the Bay Area’s already-low inven-
tory is going to shrink? Or will re-
duced tax deductions lower prices
by reducing the number of people
who can afford homes?
“You’re leaning forward but
afraid to make that leap because
of the situation,” she said.
One thing that seems certain is
that the lack of inventory already
plaguing the housing market will
get worse. By allowing homeown-
ers already benefiting from the
existing mortgage interest de-
duction cap to keep it, the bill is
likely to encourage people to stay
in place a bit longer.
The plan could also affect con-
sumer spending. Over the past
two decades, homeowners have
become accustomed to using
steadily rising home prices to pe-
riodically refinance their mort-
gages so that they can take money
out of their homes and spend it on
everything from renovations to
college tuition and vacations.
These “cash-out refinancings”
were widely abused before the
housing crisis — the proverbial
“people using their homes as
A.T.M.s.” It has been less of a
problem since the crisis. Today,
some 42 million homeowners
have about $5.35 trillion in home
equity that they could hypotheti-
cally tap into, according to Black
Knight, a software and data
provider to the mortgage indus-
try. This assumes they don’t bor-
row more than 80 percent of the
value of their home.
Whatever happens, it has led to
a chaotic end of the year for real
estate agents. Kalena Masching, a
Silicon Valley agent for Redfin, a
real estate brokerage based in Se-
attle, has one group of clients try-
ing to push sales through before
any tax changes take effect. An-
other group is holding off to see
how the loss of homeowner de-
ductions ends up changing the
math of buying a home.
“There’s an overwhelming
sense of people being upset and a
lot of uncertainty, and mostly feel-
ing like it’s not a good thing,” she
said.

THE 45TH PRESIDENT Congress and Taxes
Is the Tax Bill a Christmas Gift for You? Check the Fine Print
By JESSE DRUCKER
and ALAN RAPPEPORT
President Trump has called the
$1.5 trillion tax cut that Republi-
can lawmakers are on the verge of
passing a Christmas present for
the entire nation.
But the fine print reveals that
some will get a much nicer gift
than others, the benefits will
change over time, and some will
be left out in the cold. With the bill
finally headed to a vote this com-
ing week, taxpayers are scram-
bling to determine whether the
legislation renders them winners
or losers.
Winners
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS FAM-
ILY Numerous industries will ben-
efit from the Republican tax over-
haul, but perhaps none as dramat-
ically as the industry where Mr.
Trump earned his riches: com-
mercial real estate. Mr. Trump,
along with his son-in-law Jared
Kushner, who is part owner of his
own real estate firm, will benefit
from lower taxes on so-called
“pass through” income, which is
money earned by partnerships
and other types of businesses
whose income is passed through
to its owner and taxed at the indi-
vidual tax rate. Mr. Trump and Mr.
Kushner benefit since they own
properties through limited liabil-
ity companies and other similar
vehicles.
Under current law, that income
is taxed at rates as high as 39.6
percent. Under the bill, much of
that income could be taxed at a
rate as low as 29.6 percent, subject
to some limitations. Real estate
also avoided new limits on inter-
est deductions and retained its
ability to defer taxes on the ex-
change of similar kinds of proper-
ties. The benefits of lower rates on
pass-through income will extend
to Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner’s
partners at real estate investment
trusts as well. At the last minute,
lawmakers added language to
make it easier for real estate own-
ers to avoid some of the pass-
through provision’s restrictions
and maximize the tax benefits
even more.
BIG CORPORATIONS Industries
like big retailers will benefit from
the new corporate rate of 21 per-
cent, since those companies pay
relatively close to the full 35 per-
cent rate. Other aspects of the cor-
porate tax cuts will be enjoyed by
an array of multinational indus-
tries, particularly technology and
pharmaceutical companies, like
Google, Facebook, Apple, John-
son & Johnson and Pfizer. Such
multinational companies have ac-
cumulated nearly $3 trillion off-
shore, mostly in tax haven subsid-
iaries, untouched by the United
States taxman. The tax bill will
force those companies to gradual-
ly bring that money home, but it
will be taxed at rates ranging from
8 percent to 15.5 percent. That’s
Patricia Mazzei contributed re-
porting.
G.O.P. Pledge of Simplicity for New Tax Code Proves Elusive
From Page 1
such as New York, but otherwise
does little to back up Mr. Trump’s
promise last month that “we’re
also going to eliminate tax
breaks and complex loopholes
taken advantage by the wealthy.”
The final legislation, which
appears on track to be approved
by Congress next week, offers
little redress to workers who
have grown to believe that the
country’s tax law thicket advan-
tages those with power, political
connections and lawyers on
retainer. Its evolution under-
mines a central selling point for a
bill that is already seen by most
Americans as unlikely to benefit
them, according to polls.
Budget experts had hoped for
a tax overhaul that stoked addi-
tional economic growth by elimi-
nating targeted tax breaks,
which would allow for lower tax
rates, a trade that economists
generally believe increases effi-
ciency in the economy.
“The whole purpose of tax
reform is to eliminate tax breaks
to simplify the tax code and
reduce rates,” said Marc Gold-
wein, senior vice president for
the Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget in Washington.
“But from what I can see, they
only repeal one significant tax
break, and very few if any tiny
ones.”
Republican leaders spent most
of the year promising something
quite different. A tax plan
“framework” released in Septem-
ber declared that Mr. Trump’s
first principle for a tax bill was to
“make the tax code simple, fair
and easy to understand.” A col-
lection of “policy highlights” for
the House bill, when it was first
President Trump outside the White House on Saturday. He has called the tax plan a Christmas present for the entire nation.
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Demonstrators protesting the tax plan last month. Thirteen mil-
lion fewer Americans are projected to have health coverage.
far lower than the current 35 per-
cent tax rate on corporate profits
and even lower than the new 21
percent rate.
Plus, American companies will
no longer owe full corporate taxes
on future profits they say they
earn abroad, providing more in-
centive to push income into tax
haven subsidiaries. The law even
includes provisions that could en-
courage companies to move work-
ers abroad, despite pledges to do
the opposite.
MULTIMILLIONAIRES An exemp-
tion for estates that owe what Re-
publicans call the “death tax” was
lifted to $22 million from $11 mil-
lion. That doesn’t matter much to
billionaires like Charles Koch, but
means a big tax cut for people with
estates worth tens of millions of
dollars. Plus, the top rate applying
When unveiling the House tax bill last month, Speaker Paul Ryan said, “We’re making things so
simple — we’re making things so simple that you can do your taxes on a form the size of a postcard.”
released, proclaimed that the
plan “eliminates special-interest
deductions that increase rates
and complicate Americans’
taxes.”
Those arguments echoed a
message that conservative
groups had found scored highly
with voters — the idea that a tax
bill could “un-rig” the system. In
August, In Pursuit Of, a commu-
nications and marketing firm
that supports the influential
Koch network, conducted a focus
group test of Mr. Trump deliver-
ing a short message along those
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
to wages and interest income
would be cut to 37 percent from
39.6 percent.
PRIVATE EQUITY MANAGERS Dur-
ing the campaign, Donald Trump
railed against wealthy investment
managers who, thanks to the so-
called carried interest loophole,
pay taxes on the majority of their
pay at a lower capital gains rates.
But the purported reform to this
tax provision will affect few if any
private equity managers, leaving
the loophole intact.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND THE PEO-
PLE WHO CAN AFFORD THEM Par-
ents would be eligible to use a type
of tax-preferred savings plan —
known as a 529 plan — to save for
their children’s elementary and
secondary education. Right now,
those savings plans are only eligi-
NEWS ANALYSIS
lines, and it rated highly. The
results were shared widely
among Republicans, and echoed
in party leaders’ speeches when
they launched the tax push in
earnest.
“With this plan, we are getting
rid of loopholes for special inter-
ests, and we are leveling the
playing field,” Speaker Paul D.
Ryan of Wisconsin declared at a
news conference unveiling the
House bill on Nov. 2. “We’re
making things so simple — we’re
making things so simple that you
can do your taxes on a form the
ble for college. But they would be
expanded to allow for up to
$10,000 a year for tuition at private
and religious schools.
THE LIQUOR BUSINESS Excise
taxes for small brewers and dis-
tillers are reduced in the final
agreement. Those industries are
dominated by entrepreneurial
small businesses often based in
rural areas. They also have pow-
erful lobbyists, and many are
based in states with powerful sen-
ators, like Senator Rob Portman of
Ohio. Mr. Portman, who tucked a
provision to help craft brewers
into the Senate legislation, was
part of the small team of lawmak-
ers who merged the two bills into a
final version.
ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
They were originally restricted in
how much they could benefit from
the new pass-through provision. If
they structure their businesses a
certain way, the final version will
let them benefit fully.
TAX ACCOUNTANTS AND LAWYERS
Mr. Trump once said his “dream”
was to put tax preparation serv-
ices out of business by simplifying
the tax code. But the rushed legis-
lation will probably have the oppo-
site effect, as individuals try and
make sense of the complicated
new provisions, staggered dates
and new rates. The uncertainty
and confusion will probably cre-
ate numerous new opportunities
to game the system: tax prepar-
ers are sure to see a boom in busi-
ness advising clients on how to re-
structure their employment and
compensation arrangements to
take advantage of the lower tax
rates on income reported by cor-
PETE MAROVICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
size of a postcard.”
The House measure did take
one significant step toward sim-
plifying the process for some
taxpayers. It nearly doubled the
standard deduction, a decision
that stuck through every version
of the legislation, including the
final one. Because of this change,
congressional staff members
project, only 6 percent of Ameri-
cans will itemize their tax re-
turns, down from 30 percent now.
An analysis accompanying the
final bill predicted that “this
reduction in complexity and
AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
porations and pass-through enti-
ties.
Losers
PEOPLE BUYING HEALTH INSUR-
ANCE With the repeal of the indi-
vidual mandate, some people who
currently buy health insurance
because they are required by law
to do so are expected to go without
coverage. According to the Con-
gressional Budget Office, healthi-
er people are more likely to drop
their insurance, leaving insurers
stuck with more people who are
older and ailing. This is expected
to make average insurance premi-
ums on the individual market go
up by about 10 percent. All told, 13
million fewer Americans are pro-
jected to have health coverage, ac-
cording to the Congressional
Budget Office.
INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYERS IN THE FU-
TURE To stay under the $1.5 trillion
limit for new deficits lawmakers
set for themselves, they opted to
make the cuts for individuals and
families temporary, expiring at
the end of 2025 — even as the cor-
porate tax cuts will be permanent.
Republicans are counting on a fu-
ture Congress to extend the lower
rates, as has happened in the past.
But there are no guarantees, and
that could mean a big tax increase
down the road. What is more, the
use of a different, less generous
measure of inflation would push
taxpayers into higher tax brack-
ets more quickly.
THE ELDERLY A 2010 law requires
that any legislation that adds to
the federal deficit be paid for by
spending cuts, increases in reve-
nue or other offsets. Some cuts
record keeping also may result in
a decline in the number of indi-
viduals using a tax preparation
service, or tax preparation soft-
ware, or a decline in the cost of
such service or software.”
House members also targeted
dozens of tax breaks for elimina-
tion, including popular de-
ductions for large out-of-pocket
medical expenses and state
income taxes paid. Some targets,
such as a tax credit for adoptive
parents, were spared under
intense pressure. Still, the bill,
passed two weeks after its intro-
duction, killed a far greater num-
ber of narrowly tailored breaks
than it created.
But that ratio sank in the Sen-
ate, where lawmakers added
waves of new breaks to the bill,
such as an excise tax cut for craft
brewers and special relief for
certain citrus growers. Shortly
before the legislation passed the
Senate, Republicans tried to
insert a provision that initially
appeared designed to benefit a
single conservative college in
Michigan, before Democrats and
a handful of Republicans banded
together to strike it in a floor
amendment.
The final Senate bill included
eight tax brackets, up from five
in the House plan and seven in
the current system, and it creat-
ed at least as many new special-
interest provisions as it elimi-
nated. In the House-Senate con-
ference committee, the Senate —
where Republicans need to pre-
serve nearly every vote because
of their narrow majority — pre-
vailed on most questions of
whether targeted breaks would
stay or go.
Medical expense deductions
stayed, as did tax breaks for
0N 25
would be automatic, and the big-
gest program to be affected is
Medicare, the health insurance
program for the elderly and dis-
abled. Dozens of other programs
are likely to be cut as well, but
Medicare, which would face a 4
percent cut, is by far the biggest.
Republicans say that this rule will
be waived and the cuts will be
averted, but that will take a bipar-
tisan deal.
LOW-INCOME FAMILIES Low-in-
come families who claim the
earned income tax credit will lose
out on at least $19 billion over the
coming decade under the bill be-
cause of the change in the way in-
flation is calculated. And a new re-
quirement that families claiming
the child tax credit provide a So-
cial Security number is projected
to mean a big reduction in the fam-
ilies claiming it, since those who
are not in the United States legally
would be prohibited, even if their
children were born in the United
States.
OWNERS OF HIGH-END HOMES Un-
der current law, the interest on
mortgages for first and second
homes is deductible for the first $1
million of the loan. The overhaul
would cut that to the first $750,000
and eliminate the owner’s ability
in the current law to deduct the in-
terest on a home-equity loan up to
$100,000. This could drive down
home prices in some high-end
markets; good for prospective
buyers but bad for prospective
sellers.
PEOPLE IN HIGH-PROPERTY-TAX,
HIGH-INCOME STATES Homeown-
ers in high tax states like New
York, New Jersey and California
could be big losers, particularly if
they have high property taxes.
Their ability to deduct their local
property taxes and state and local
income taxes from their federal
tax bills is now capped at $10,000.
In some cases, that could be offset
by the lower tax rates that all tax-
payers will owe on their ordinary
income.
PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico had
sought an exemption from new
taxes, citing the frail state of its
economy nearly three months af-
ter Hurricane Maria. But no such
luck. The tax bill treats affiliates of
American companies on the is-
land as if Puerto Rico were a for-
eign country and imposes a 12.5
percent tax on intellectual prop-
erty. Puerto Rico’s governor, Ri-
cardo A. Rosselló, said the tax
would hurt the biomedical and
technology affiliates that make up
about a third of Puerto Rico’s tax
base.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
The tax collection agency has
been underfunded and under-
staffed for years. Now, it will have
a raft of new tax rules to deal with
that will require upgrading its
software, printing new manuals
and explaining to confused tax-
payers how things work. All this is
expected to take place while the
commission is working under the
supervision of an interim commis-
sioner, who is expected to be re-
placed sometime next year.
teacher supplies, student loan
payments and tuition waivers for
graduate students, all of which
had been eliminated in the House
plan. The conference bill even
retained a tax break that helps
professional sports teams build
new stadiums with taxpayer
dollars. The only major provision
eliminated was a special tax
treatment for manufacturers.
Republican leaders insisted
that they had fulfilled their prom-
Ambitions fall to the
powerful forces of
lobbying and the
status quo.
ise to simplify the tax filing
process.
“So, with the standard de-
duction nearly doubled and a
number of those provisions, the
postcard still remains,” Repre-
sentative Kevin Brady of Texas,
the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, told reporters
on Friday. “Are there a few more
items on it? Sure. But that was
the process we wanted.”
Mr. Brady went on to imply
that the special breaks were
retained at the behest of voters.
“We said from the very begin-
ning: ‘This isn’t our tax code. It
belongs to the American peo-
ple,’” he said. “And it does. So, in
the House we really took it down
to the foundation and began to
rebuild it the way the American
people want it in the 21st century,
not 30 or 50 years ago.”
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Ravaged by Opioids, Cherokee Nation Fights Big Pharmacies

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bree claims, amounts to exploita-
tion of a people.
The companies have responded
by asking a federal judge to deny
the tribe’s authority to bring the
case. They argue that a tribe can-
not sue them in tribal court, much
less enforce federal drug laws.
They have questioned whether a
Cherokee reservation even legally
exists.
“We believe this lawsuit has no
merit,” a CVS spokesman said.
Both sides have mobilized bat-
talions of prominent lawyers.
Lindsay G. Robertson, an au-
thority on Native American law at
the University of Oklahoma Col-
lege of Law who is not involved in
the lawsuit, believes that the case
will indeed go to tribal court. He
pointed to a 1985 Supreme Court
ruling, which said that, barring
extraordinary circumstances, a
federal court should not rule on
tribal court jurisdictional ques-
tions before they have been fully
litigated in tribal court.
A ruling is expected soon and,
regardless of the outcome, will al-
most certainly be appealed.
For the Cherokee, the case is
about defending their identity and
survival as a tribe.
“I believe these companies tar-
get populations,” said Mr. Hem-
bree, whose office displays in-
clude a feathered spear and a dish
of bundled sage to burn for tradi-
tional blessings. “They know Na-
tive Americans have higher rates
of addiction. So when they direct
their product here, they shouldn’t
be surprised to find themselves in
a Cherokee court.”
Born Addicted
On a recent morning, a new
mother in the maternity ward at
the Cherokee Nation’s W.W. Hast-
ings Hospital expected to take her
baby home. Instead, in walked
Crystal Bogle, a Cherokee Nation
investigator.
The newborn had tested pos-
itive for numerous opiates, Ms.
Bogle told the mother. The Chero-
kee Nation would be taking the
baby into custody, she said, until
the mother got clear of drugs.
The mother began sobbing.
Several times a week, Ms. Bogle
and her colleagues have similar
conversations at hospitals on trib-
al land. Sometimes, as voices rise,
workers must call security
guards.
Babies addicted to opioids often
have a distinctive, inconsolable
shrill cry, nurses at the hospital
said. The most severely addicted
must be evacuated by ambulance
or helicopter to a Tulsa hospital
with a neonatal intensive care
unit, where, on morphine drips,
they slowly withdraw, remaining
for up to a month. The costs, which
can include years of therapy for
developmental delays, are astro-
nomical.
A few months ago, Oklahoma
state child welfare workers woke
Nathalene Dixon, a non-Indian
foster parent, at 1 a.m.: Could she
take a Cherokee newborn right
away? The 3-day-old, who tested
positive for opioids, had been al-
lowed to go home. But when work-
ers got there and saw drugs, they
took the baby away. For hours
they had been trying, unsuccess-
fully, to locate an acceptable rela-
tive.
By 4 a.m., the infant was handed
to Ms. Dixon, a great-grand-
mother whose mobile home teems
with figurines of angels and birds.
In two years, she has taken in
about a half-dozen Cherokee chil-
dren. “I can’t understand how par-
ents can find drugs more impor-
tant than their kids,” she said.
Pill Country
Clockwise from top: a child studying Cherokee in Oklahoma; Nathalene Dixon, a foster parent who has taken in many children born
addicted to opioids; Todd Hembree, the Cherokee Nation attorney general, who said, “We are losing a generation of our continuity.”
Some of the Cherokee Nation’s
oldest communities crouch along
remote switchback roads in the
verdant Ozark foothills of Adair
County. Families still gather on
ceremonial grounds for stomp
dancing. Children fling a ball with
handmade woven sticks at a
wooden fish atop a pole. Many eld-
ers speak Cherokee as their first
language.
But these communities are also
among Oklahoma’s poorest, most
sparsely populated and isolated.
“There’s not much work in Adair
County,” said Shawnna Roach, a
tribal marshal who patrols here.
“People figured out they could
make money selling pills. Some-
times they call the marshals, say-
ing their pills were stolen. Were
they really stolen? Or did they sell
them? They use our reports as
proof to get their prescription re-
filled.”
In the capital, Tahlequah, a col-
lege town with cafes, tribal art
shops, a heritage center and
street signs written in Cherokee
and English, opioids have stag-
gered more affluent Cherokee,
too. A senior health administrator
takes care of her grandson after
her opioid-addicted stepdaughter
lost custody. A lawyer’s two
daughters were given prescrip-
tions for high school sports inju-
ries — one is now in jail, the other
in rehab.
“Several of my family members
are on the pills,” said Daryl Legg,
who runs an employment pro-
gram for Cherokee ex-offenders.
His disabled mother wears her
clothes to bed to keep pain medi-
cation on her, secured from other
users in the home.
“So one night my brother cut
her pants pocket open while she
was sleeping,” Mr. Legg said.
Tribal Court on Trial
Mr. Hembree filed his lawsuit in
the Cherokee Nation’s district
court, a red brick 1869 building
with arched windows on Tahle-
quah’s town square. The court-
room looks like any conventional,
if modest, state counterpart. Cher-
okee lawyers and judges are typi-
cally members of the Oklahoma
state bar, the Cherokee Nation’s
bar and often the federal bar.
The right to bring his case, Mr.
Hembree says, was established in
1866.
That is when the Cherokee, who
had fought with the Confederacy,
signed a post-Civil War treaty
with the United States. It recog-
nized the Cherokees’ sovereignty
over “the exterior boundaries of
the reservation” that included mil-
lions of acres spread across what
would become 14 counties in
northeastern Oklahoma, home
now to more than a third of
roughly 360,000 Cherokee nation-
wide.
That treaty was the final official
act of Principal Chief John Ross, a
lawyer by training who led the
tribe on a forced cross-country
march in 1839 along “The Trail of
Tears” to resettlement in Okla-
homa. He is Mr. Hembree’s great-
great-great-great grandfather.
On its face, the suit looks like a
straightforward neglect case.
Mr. Hembree says that over a
five-year period, drug distributors
ignored red flags and allowed
alarming quantities of prescrip-
tion opioids — in 2015 and in 2016,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
184 million pain pills — to pour into
the region within the boundaries
delineated by the Treaty of 1866. In
doing so, the Cherokee argue, Mc-
Kesson, Cardinal Health and
AmerisourceBergen, three corpo-
rations which transport about 90
percent of the country’s prescrip-
tion opioids, did not comply with
federal drug monitoring and re-
porting requirements.
Pharmacies, which sold the
medication directly, also bear re-
sponsibility, the suit says. CVS,
Walgreens and Walmart have
stores in the Cherokee Nation that
are among the top 10 Oklahoma
pharmacies for opioid sales. Phar-
macists sidestepped their duties,
Mr. Hembree argues, looking the
other way when filling prescrip-
tions that were obviously photo-
copied, written for suspicious
quantities or refilled too soon.
In response, distributors say
they are links in a complex chain
that includes companies that
make government-approved
medications and licensed phar-
macists.
“We intend to vigorously de-
fend ourselves in this litigation
while continuing to work collabo-
ratively to combat drug diver-
sion,” said a spokeswoman for
AmerisourceBergen.
The pharmacy chains say their
role is to dispense medications
prescribed by physicians and that
they, too, are making efforts to
combat the opioid crisis, such as a
recent event at a Walgreens in the
Cherokee Nation, touting the com-
pany’s collection of unused medi-
cations.
Tribal courts generally do not
have jurisdiction over people who
are not Native Americans. The
Cherokee are relying on a 1981 ex-
ception created by the Supreme
Court: If a non-Indian business
has a commercial, consensual re-
lationship with the tribe, the Court
said, the tribe may assert author-
ity.
For now, the pharmacies and
distributors have asked a federal
court for an injunction to stop the
case going forward. In their fil-
ings, the companies implied that
they would not be treated fairly in
a tribal court.
Chrissi Ross Nimmo, the Chero-
kee’s deputy attorney general,
said in response: “Tribes appear
before non-Indian courts, judges
and juries every day, and we don’t
automatically claim unfairness. If
the Cherokee Nation has these
great courts that we set up and
this robust civil code, why not use
it?”
The tribe, the companies argue,
does not have the authority to en-
force federal drug reporting re-
quirements.
As for the Supreme Court’s ex-
ception? Neither suppliers nor
pharmacists, they say, had an
agreement with the Cherokee Na-
tion.
And they say that the distribu-
tion and sale of prescription opi-
oids did not occur on land over
which the Cherokee have
sovereignty. The suppliers’ head-
quarters are not in Oklahoma.
While some pharmacies are
within the Nation, others are not.
In fact, they contend, there is no
“Cherokee reservation.”
Indeed, much Cherokee land
within the 1866 boundaries was
sold decades ago. A contemporary
map of tribal property would re-
semble a checkerboard.
But Mr. Hembree contends that
the 1866 boundaries still have le-
gal weight; that only Congress
can undo the status of a “reserva-
tion.” Congress has not done so for
the Cherokee.
On Nov. 9, Mr. Hembree’s posi-
tion that the Cherokee are, legally,
on a reservation got fresh support.
Ruling in a criminal case involv-
ing a member of Oklahoma’s
Muscogee Creek tribe, the United
States Court of Appeals for the
10th Circuit affirmed decisions up-
holding the treaty boundaries of
that tribe’s reservation.
But Chief Judge Timothy M.
Tymkovich seemed uncomfort-
able with that result, noting that
history had outstripped the treaty,
signed some 40 years before Okla-
homa became a state. The bound-
aries issue, he wrote, “might bene-
fit from further attention from the
Supreme Court.”
For now, the sides await a deci-
sion. If the federal judge allows
the case to go forward in tribal
court, the companies can appeal.
But meanwhile, the lawsuit would
continue in Cherokee Nation Dis-
trict Court.
The loser of the tribal trial can
appeal to the Cherokee Supreme
Court. If the five justices rule
against the tribe, its case ends.
But if the decision goes against
the companies, they can return to
federal court.
Infusing Treatment with Tradition
As the legal battle unfolds, the
tribe pushes ahead with enforce-
ment and treatment — including
drug courts, an overwhelmed
Suboxone clinic and youth pre-
vention programs. Such efforts
are typical in communities across
the country. But here, interven-
tions are often steeped in Chero-
kee references, in an attempt to
anchor tribal identity.
“Do you know where your
great-grandmother’s allotment
was?” asks Gaye Wheeler, a drug
abuse counselor, who tries to en-
gage Suboxone patients about
family lore. “Do you know why
your family’s last name is Na-
kedhead?”
At the Jack Brown Adolescent
Treatment Center, a residential fa-
cility operated by the Cherokee
Nation on 22 acres of a former
dairy farm, most teens say opioids
had been their drug of choice.
They come to the center from
Oklahoma’s 38 tribes, and their re-
gimen includes making flutes,
bowls and drums, attending a
sweat lodge and practicing stomp
dancing.
“It’s important to know who you
are and where you come from, to
find your resources in your tribe
to help you in your recovery,” said
the director of the center, Darren
Dry.
This year Nikki Baker Limore,
the Nation’s executive director of
Indian Child Welfare, initiated a
tribal cultural program for chil-
dren in foster care. Accompanied
by a golden retriever puppy
named Unali (Cherokee for
“friend”), children read Cherokee
animal fables and learn basket-
making and weaving from the Na-
tional Treasures — Cherokee eld-
ers dedicated to preserving the
tribe’s traditions.
“We have great-great grand-
parents who were products of the
Trail of Tears,” said Mrs. Baker
Limore, her voice shaking as she
pointed out the children’s artwork.
“They were resilient, but we lost a
lot of tribal members along the
way.”
“And now,” she continued, “you
have an opioid epidemic that is
wreaking havoc on families, tear-
ing them apart. I am not sure
we’re going to be resilient enough
to overcome this one.”

Even After 3 Decades, Footprint of Oil Well Remains in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
These satellite images of a
small part of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge show the site of
what, so far, is the only oil well
ever drilled in the refuge, an ex-
ploratory well known as KIC-1 that
was completed in the mid-1980s.
The well was plugged and aban-
doned, and the drilling equipment
and a special timber pad it sat on
have long since been removed.
But as these infrared images
show, even after three decades,
the well’s footprint — about 600
feet long on its longest side — is
easily distinguishable from the
undisturbed tundra around it.
The arctic refuge is a vast re-
gion of tundra: mosses, sedges
and shrubs underlain by per-
mafrost. But the area is also be-
lieved to contain large petroleum
reserves. Since the current
boundaries of the refuge were es-
tablished by an act of Congress in
1980, there has been a debate over
whether oil and gas exploration
should be allowed in a portion of
the area, 1.5 million acres on the
coastal plain. The issue has been
revived in recent months, and
through the budget-making
process Republicans in Congress
are perhaps closer than ever to
opening the area to drilling.
Drilling equipment, left, and the pad on which an oil well was built in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The well was in place for
about a year and a half, from 1985 to 1986. The pad killed the vegetation beneath it. Efforts to reseed the site with grasses have failed.
“It’s easy to do something on
the tundra but it’s very difficult to
restore,” said Francis Mauer, a re-
tired biologist for the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service
who worked in the refuge for dec-
ades, including the years when
the well was in place.
The drillers took care to protect
the tundra, creating an ice runway
to fly in huge timbers to serve as
the pad, instead of a potentially
more destructive gravel base. The
pad was insulated from the
ground as well, and the operators
also dug two pits next to it to hold
the mud and rock that was drilling
waste.
While the timber pad offered
some advantages, it effectively
killed the vegetation beneath it,
said Janet C. Jorgenson, a Fish
and Wildlife botanist who has
worked in the refuge since 1988
PHOTOGRAPHS BY U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
and observed the site for many
years. That initiated changes
which continued over the years,
despite efforts to reseed the area
with grasses.
Without the vegetative cover to
keep the permafrost cold, it began
to thaw.
Vertical wedges of solid ice
melted, creating pools of water.
The two pits, which were initially
covered with soil, subsided over
the years, leading to more pooling.
They were topped with gravel a
decade ago and now have very lit-
tle vegetation. Given all the thaw-
ing and melting, Ms. Jorgenson
said, about 17 percent of the site is
covered in water now, compared
with about 2 percent of the sur-
rounding tundra.
KIC-1 was allowed as part of the
1980 legislation, and was drilled on
private native lands within the
The effects of drilling
in a vast area believed
to contain large
petroleum reserves.
refuge, east of the village of Kak-
tovik. Chevron, BP and other com-
panies ran the project, which cost
$40 million. The results of the
drilling, whether it revealed the
presence of significant oil or not,
have not been made public.
The photos of the well site show
the pad with drilling equipment
and without. It was in place for
about a year and a half, from 1985
to 1986, including two winters.
In the 30 years since KIC-1 was
drilled, techniques have changed
somewhat. For one thing, direc-
tional drilling now allows opera-
tors to drill many wells from one
pad. Yet KIC-1 shows how even
when care is taken, the delicate
landscape of northern Alaska can
be damaged by drilling activities,
and that the damage can persist.
“Once you start disturbing the
tundra vegetation, it takes some-
times nearly forever for the mark
to go away,” Mr. Mauer said.

Are U.F.O.s Real? Secret Pentagon Unit Tried to Find Out
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existence. For the past five years,
they say, officials with the pro-
gram have continued to investi-
gate episodes brought to them by
service members, while also car-
rying out their other Defense De-
partment duties.
The shadowy program — parts
of it remain classified — began in
2007, and initially it was largely
funded at the request of Harry
Reid, the Nevada Democrat who
was the Senate majority leader at
the time and who has long had an
interest in space phenomena.
Most of the money went to an
aerospace research company run
by a billionaire entrepreneur and
longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s,
Robert Bigelow, who is currently
working with NASA to produce
expandable craft for humans to
use in space.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May,
Mr. Bigelow said he was “abso-
lutely convinced” that aliens exist
and that U.F.O.s have visited
Earth.
Working with Mr. Bigelow’s Las
Vegas-based company, the pro-
gram produced documents that
describe sightings of aircraft that
seemed to move at very high ve-
locities with no visible signs of
propulsion, or that hovered with
no apparent means of lift.
Officials with the program have
also studied videos of encounters
between unknown objects and
American military aircraft — in-
cluding one released in August of
a whitish oval object, about the
size of a commercial plane, chased
by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets
from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off
the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Mr. Reid, who retired from Con-
gress this year, said he was proud
of the program. “I’m not embar-
rassed or ashamed or sorry I got
this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a
recent interview in Nevada. “I
think it’s one of the good things I
did in my congressional service.
I’ve done something that no one
has done before.”
Two other former senators and
top members of a defense spend-
ing subcommittee — Ted Stevens,
an Alaska Republican, and Daniel
K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat —
also supported the program. Mr.
Stevens died in 2010, and Mr. Inou-
ye in 2012.
While not addressing the merits
of the program, Sara Seager, an
astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned
that not knowing the origin of an
object does not mean that it is
from another planet or galaxy.
“When people claim to observe
truly unusual phenomena, some-
times it’s worth investigating seri-
ously,” she said. But, she added,
“what people sometimes don’t get
about science is that we often
have phenomena that remain un-
explained.”
James E. Oberg, a former NASA
space shuttle engineer and the au-
thor of 10 books on spaceflight who
often debunks U.F.O. sightings,
was also doubtful. “There are
plenty of prosaic events and hu-
man perceptual traits that can ac-
count for these stories,” Mr. Oberg
said. “Lots of people are active in
the air and don’t want others to
know about it. They are happy to
lurk unrecognized in the noise, or
even to stir it up as camouflage.”
Still, Mr. Oberg said he wel-
comed research. “There could
well be a pearl there,” he said.
In response to questions from
The Times, Pentagon officials this
month acknowledged the exist-
ence of the program, which began
as part of the Defense Intelligence
Agency. Officials insisted that the
effort had ended after five years,
in 2012.
“It was determined that there
were other, higher priority issues
that merited funding, and it was in
the best interest of the DoD to
make a change,” a Pentagon
2 Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
The following recounts an
incident in 2004 that advocates of
research into U.F.O.s have said is
the kind of event worthy of more
investigation, and that was stud-
ied by a Pentagon program that
investigated U.F.O.s. Experts
caution that earthly explanations
often exist for such incidents, and
that not knowing the explanation
does not mean that the event has
interstellar origins.
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt.
Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a
routine training mission 100
miles out into the Pacific when
the radio in each of their F/A-18F
Super Hornets crackled: An
operations officer aboard the
U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser,
wanted to know if they were
carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander
Fravor replied, referring to
dummy missiles that could not
be fired. He had not been expect-
ing any hostile exchanges off the
coast of San Diego that Novem-
ber afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent
interview with The New York
Times, recalled what happened
Luis Elizondo, top, led the Pentagon effort to investigate U.F.O.s
until resigning to protest what he called excessive secrecy and in-
ternal opposition to the program. A company owned by Robert
Bigelow, above, a friend of the former Senate majority leader
Harry Reid, received most of the money allocated for the pro-
gram. A still photo, right, taken from a video that was shot from a
Navy fighter plane. The video captured a podlike object that ro-
tated as it moved rapidly against a wind of 138 miles per hour.
spokesman, Thomas Crosson,
said in an email, referring to the
Department of Defense.
But Mr. Elizondo said the only
thing that had ended was the ef-
fort’s government funding, which
dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr.
Elizondo said in an interview, he
worked with officials from the
Navy and the C.I.A. He continued
to work out of his Pentagon office
until this past October, when he re-
signed to protest what he charac-
terized as excessive secrecy and
internal opposition.
“Why aren’t we spending more
time and effort on this issue?” Mr.
Elizondo wrote in a resignation
letter to Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis.
Mr. Elizondo said that the effort
continued and that he had a suc-
cessor, whom he declined to name.
U.F.O.s have been repeatedly in-
vestigated over the decades in the
United States, including by the
American military. In 1947, the Air
Force began a series of studies
that investigated more than 12,000
claimed U.F.O. sightings before it
was officially ended in 1969. The
project, which included a study
code-named Project Blue Book,
started in 1952, concluded that
most sightings involved stars,
clouds, conventional aircraft or
next. Some of it is captured in a
video made public by officials
with a Pentagon program that
investigated U.F.O.s.
“Well, we’ve got a real-world
vector for you,” the radio opera-
tor said, according to Command-
er Fravor. For two weeks, the
operator said, the Princeton had
been tracking mysterious air-
craft. The objects appeared sud-
denly at 80,000 feet, and then
hurtled toward the sea, eventu-
ally stopping at 20,000 feet and
hovering. Then they either
dropped out of radar range or
shot straight back up.
The radio operator instructed
Commander Fravor and Com-
mander Slaight, who has given a
similar account, to investigate.
The two fighter planes headed
toward the objects. The Prince-
ton alerted them as they closed
in, but when they arrived at
“merge plot” with the object —
naval aviation parlance for being
so close that the Princeton could
not tell which were the objects
and which were the fighter jets
— neither Commander Fravor
nor Commander Slaight could
see anything at first. There was
nothing on their radars, either.
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spy planes, although 701 remained
unexplained.
Robert C. Seamans Jr., the sec-
retary of the Air Force at the time,
said in a memorandum announc-
ing the end of Project Blue Book
that it “no longer can be justified
either on the ground of national
security or in the interest of sci-
ence.”
Mr. Reid said his interest in
U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In
2007, Mr. Reid said in the inter-
view, Mr. Bigelow told him that an
official with the Defense Intelli-
gence Agency had approached
him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelow’s
ranch in Utah, where he con-
ducted research.
Mr. Reid said he met with
agency officials shortly after his
meeting with Mr. Bigelow and
learned that they wanted to start a
research program on U.F.O.s. Mr.
Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens
and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in
the Capitol.
“I had talked to John Glenn a
number of years before,” Mr. Reid
said, referring to the astronaut
and former senator from Ohio,
who died in 2016. Mr. Glenn, Mr.
Reid said, had told him he thought
that the federal government
should be looking seriously into
U.F.O.s, and should be talking to
David Fravor at home in Windham, N.H. As a Navy pilot, he in-
vestigated mysterious aircraft.
Then, Commander Fravor
looked down to the sea. It was
calm that day, but the waves
were breaking over something
that was just below the surface.
Whatever it was, it was big
enough to cause the sea to churn.
military service members, partic-
ularly pilots, who had reported
seeing aircraft they could not
identify or explain.
The sightings were not often re-
ported up the military’s chain of
command, Mr. Reid said, because
service members were afraid they
would be laughed at or stigma-
tized.
The meeting with Mr. Stevens
and Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid said,
“was one of the easiest meetings I
ever had.”
He added, “Ted Stevens said,
‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I
was in the Air Force.’” (The
Alaska senator had been a pilot in
the Army’s air force, flying trans-
port missions over China during
World War II.)
During the meeting, Mr. Reid
said, Mr. Stevens recounted being
tailed by a strange aircraft with no
known origin, which he said had
followed his plane for miles.
None of the three senators
wanted a public debate on the
Senate floor about the funding for
the program, Mr. Reid said. “This
was so-called black money,” he
said. “Stevens knows about it, In-
ouye knows about it. But that was
it, and that’s how we wanted it.”
Mr. Reid was referring to the Pen-
tagon budget for classified pro-
M. SCOTT BRAUER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hovering 50 feet above the
churn was an aircraft of some
kind — whitish — that was
around 40 feet long and oval in
shape. The craft was jumping
around erratically, staying over
the wave disturbance but not
JUSTIN T. GELLERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
grams.
Contracts obtained by The
Times show a congressional ap-
propriation of just under $22 mil-
lion beginning in late 2008
through 2011. The money was used
for management of the program,
research and assessments of the
threat posed by the objects.
The funding went to Mr. Bige-
low’s company, Bigelow Aero-
space, which hired subcontrac-
tors and solicited research for the
program.
Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction,
the company modified buildings
in Las Vegas for the storage of
metal alloys and other materials
that Mr. Elizondo and program
contractors said had been recov-
ered from unidentified aerial phe-
nomena. Researchers also studied
people who said they had experi-
enced physical effects from en-
counters with the objects and ex-
amined them for any physiolog-
ical changes. In addition, re-
searchers spoke to military
service members who had re-
ported sightings of strange air-
craft.
“We’re sort of in the position of
what would happen if you gave
Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door
opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an
engineer who has conducted re-
moving in any specific direction,
Commander Fravor said. The
disturbance looked like frothy
waves and foam, as if the water
were boiling.
Commander Fravor began a
circular descent to get a closer
look, but as he got nearer the
object began ascending toward
him. It was almost as if it were
coming to meet him halfway, he
said.
Commander Fravor aban-
doned his slow circular descent
and headed straight for the ob-
ject.
But then the object peeled
away. “It accelerated like nothing
I’ve ever seen,” he said in the
interview. He was, he said,
“pretty weirded out.”
The two fighter jets then con-
ferred with the operations officer
on the Princeton and were told to
head to a rendezvous point 60
miles away, called the cap point,
in aviation parlance.
They were en route and clos-
ing in when the Princeton ra-
dioed again. Radar had again
picked up the strange aircraft.
“Sir, you won’t believe it,” the
radio operator said, “but that
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search on extrasensory percep-
tion for the C.I.A. and later worked
as a contractor for the program.
“First of all, he’d try to figure out
what is this plastic stuff. He
wouldn’t know anything about the
electromagnetic signals involved
or its function.”
The program collected video
and audio recordings of reported
U.F.O. incidents, including footage
from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet
showing an aircraft surrounded
by some kind of glowing aura trav-
eling at high speed and rotating as
it moves. The Navy pilots can be
heard trying to understand what
they are seeing. “There’s a whole
fleet of them,” one exclaims. De-
fense officials declined to release
the location and date of the inci-
dent.
“Internationally, we are the
most backward country in the
world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow
said in an interview. “Our scien-
tists are scared of being ostra-
cized, and our media is scared of
the stigma. China and Russia are
much more open and work on this
with huge organizations within
their countries. Smaller countries
like Belgium, France, England
and South American countries
like Chile are more open, too. They
are proactive and willing to dis-
cuss this topic, rather than being
held back by a juvenile taboo.”
By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that
the program had made such ex-
traordinary discoveries that he ar-
gued for heightened security to
protect it. “Much progress has
been made with the identification
of several highly sensitive, uncon-
ventional aerospace-related find-
ings,” Mr. Reid said in a letter to
William Lynn III, a deputy de-
fense secretary at the time, re-
questing that it be designated a
“restricted special access pro-
gram” limited to a few listed offi-
cials.
A 2009 Pentagon briefing sum-
mary of the program prepared by
its director at the time asserted
that “what was considered sci-
ence fiction is now science fact,”
and that the United States was in-
capable of defending itself against
some of the technologies discov-
ered. Mr. Reid’s request for the
special designation was denied.
Mr. Elizondo, in his resignation
letter of Oct. 4, said there was a
need for more serious attention to
“the many accounts from the
Navy and other services of un-
usual aerial systems interfering
with military weapon platforms
and displaying beyond-next-gen-
eration capabilities.” He ex-
pressed his frustration with the
limitations placed on the program,
telling Mr. Mattis that “there re-
mains a vital need to ascertain ca-
pability and intent of these phe-
nomena for the benefit of the
armed forces and the nation.”
Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr.
Puthoff and another former De-
fense Department official, Chris-
topher K. Mellon, who was a depu-
ty assistant secretary of defense
for intelligence, in a new commer-
cial venture called To the Stars
Academy of Arts and Science.
They are speaking publicly about
their efforts as their venture aims
to raise money for research into
U.F.O.s.
In the interview, Mr. Elizondo
said he and his government col-
leagues had determined that the
phenomena they had studied did
not seem to originate from any
country. “That fact is not some-
thing any government or institu-
tion should classify in order to
keep secret from the people,” he
said.
For his part, Mr. Reid said he did
not know where the objects had
come from. “If anyone says they
have the answers now, they’re
fooling themselves,” he said. “We
do not know.”
But, he said, “we have to start
someplace.”
thing is at your cap point.”
“We were at least 40 miles
away, and in less than a minute
this thing was already at our cap
point,” Commander Fravor, who
has since retired from the Navy,
said in the interview.
By the time the two fighter jets
arrived at the rendezvous point,
the object had disappeared.
The fighter jets returned to the
Nimitz, where everyone on the
ship had learned of Commander
Fravor’s encounter and was
making fun of him.
Commander Fravor’s superi-
ors did not investigate further
and he went on with his career,
deploying to the Persian Gulf to
provide air support to ground
troops during the Iraq war. But
he does remember what he said
that evening to a fellow pilot who
asked him what he thought he
had seen.
“I have no idea what I saw,”
Commander Fravor replied to
the pilot. “It had no plumes,
wings or rotors and outran our
F-18s.”
But, he added, “I want to fly
one.” — HELENE COOPER, LESLIE
KEAN AND RALPH BLUMENTHAL
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Howard Gottfried, 94, Producer of ‘Network,’ Dies Marina Popovich, Breaker

By DAVE ITZKOFF
Howard Gottfried, a producer
who was a crucial calming influ-
ence and an ardent defender of the
ornery screenwriter Paddy
Chayefsky, with whom he worked
closely on the Academy Award-
winning films “The Hospital”
(1971) and “Network” (1976), died
on Dec. 8 in Los Angeles. He was
94.
His death, at Cedars-Sinai Hos-
pital, was confirmed by his wife,
Mary Lynn Gottfried.
In a partnership that lasted
more than a decade, Mr. Gottfried
was the more moderate, lev-
elheaded yin to the volcanic yang
of Mr. Chayefsky, who could be as
hot-blooded as Howard Beale, the
“Network” anchorman who was
arguably his most famous cre-
ation.
The production of “Network,” a
scathing satire about irresponsi-
ble broadcasters who find unex-
pected success with an angry,
mentally unraveling news anchor,
was often difficult — sometimes
because of its rapid pace and the
usual vagaries of Hollywood, and
sometimes because of Mr. Chayef-
sky’s shifts in temper. Mr. Gott-
fried provided vital support be-
hind the scenes.
He helped cast the pivotal role
of Beale, rejected by illustrious ac-
tors like Paul Newman and
George C. Scott before it was fi-
nally accepted by the nomadic
British-born actor Peter Finch,
who was then living in semiretire-
ment in Jamaica.
And it often fell to Mr. Gottfried
to put out the fires started by the
exacting and uncompromising
Mr. Chayefsky, who could be his
own worst enemy in creative and
financial negotiations.
Mr. Chayefsky, who had already
balked at an offer for Columbia
Pictures to release “Network,”
was meeting with United Artists
about the film when he took um-
A calming influence,
and a defender, of
Paddy Chayefsky.
brage with a business affairs exec-
utive who told him he thought the
Howard Beale character didn’t
work.
Mr. Chayefsky, in frustration,
stormed out of the meeting, leav-
ing Mr. Gottfried alone with the
executive.
As Mr. Gottfried recalled the en-
suing scene in a 2012 interview:
“I’m still there and I look at him. I
knew the guy well. I said, ‘You
dumb son of a bitch.’ Paddy really
was an easy guy, but it was com-
ing from the wrong place.”
Within a few weeks, Mr. Gott-
fried had made a deal for “Net-
work” to be released as a co-pro-
duction of United Artists and
MGM.
Kevin Robinson, 45, Soaring Star of BMX Freestyle Riding
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Kevin Robinson, a BMX free-
style star who in 2006 became the
first known rider to land a double
flair — a double back flip with a
half twist that many other BMX
riders considered impossible —
and who set world records by
soaring 27 feet above a ramp and
back-flipping 84 feet on his bicy-
cle, died on Dec. 9 in Barrington,
R.I. He was 45.
The cause was a stroke, his
friend Scott Moroney said.
During his 25 years as a profes-
sional rider, Robinson, widely
known as K-Rob, consistently
pushed the boundaries of BMX
freestyle, in which athletes per-
form intricate, high-flying stunts
on minute bicycles with different
obstacles. He specialized in riding
Howard Kenneth Gottfried was
born on Nov. 13, 1923, in Manhat-
tan, to Louis and Fanny Gottfried,
and raised in the Bronx. His father
was a furrier, his mother a home-
maker. After serving in the Army
during World War II and earning
his law degree at New York Uni-
versity, he worked as a producer
of Off Broadway theater.
He worked in Los Angeles at
United Artists Television, the stu-
dio that produced “Gilligan’s Is-
land” and “The Fugitive,” before
returning to New York, where he
worked for Ed Sullivan’s produc-
tion company.
The author Noel Behn intro-
duced him to Mr. Chayefsky, the
celebrated film, theater and TV
writer who had won an Academy
Award for the 1955 film adaptation
of his teleplay “Marty.” Mr.
Chayefsky had recently been
pushed off the 1969 movie musical
“Paint Your Wagon,” having
clashed with its lyricist, Alan Jay
Lerner, and was in search of new
projects.
Mr. Gottfried helped Mr.
Chayefsky secure a deal at CBS
for a TV pilot that would ulti-
mately go unproduced: “The Im-
posters,” a socially conscious se-
ries about an aging comic actor
and a disillusioned television ex-
ecutive.
UNITED ARTISTS
When the networks were not in-
terested in their next project, a
proposed slice-of-life series set in
a New York hospital, Mr. Gottfried
got it set up as the motion picture
“The Hospital,” starring George C.
Scott as its existentially frus-
trated chief of medicine. The film,
directed by Arthur Hiller, won Mr.
Chayefsky his second screenwrit-
ing Oscar.
Mr. Gottfried also oversaw the
roughly two-year research and
writing period during which Mr.
Chayefsky created “Network,” his
magnum opus, drawn from visits
to the newsrooms of ABC, CBS
and NBC and the author’s own
manifold fears of rampant corpo-
rate integration, social alienation,
domestic terrorism and the power
of TV.
In an affectionate gesture that
illustrated his dyspeptic sense of
humor, Mr. Chayefsky named his
anchorman character — who
memorably declares in an on-air
outburst, “I’m as mad as hell, and
I’m not going to take this any-
more” — Howard, for Mr. Gott-
fried. (The name Beale came from
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and
her daughter, Edith Bouvier
Beale, the eccentric socialites
seen in the 1975 documentary
“Grey Gardens.”)
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GOTTFRIED FAMILY
Howard Gottfried, above left,
with the screenwriter Paddy
Chayefsky in 1971. The two
collaborated on several films,
including “Network” in 1976,
which starred Peter Finch, left.
“Network,” directed by Sidney
Lumet, won four Academy
Awards, including another
screenwriting trophy for Mr.
Chayefsky, as well as acting hon-
ors for Faye Dunaway, Beatrice
Straight and Mr. Finch, who died
two months before the Oscar cere-
mony.
But on their next film collabora-
tion, the metaphysical science-fic-
tion thriller “Altered States,” Mr.
Gottfried could not spare Mr.
Chayefsky from the wrath of its di-
rector, Ken Russell, who had been
brought into the production to re-
place Arthur Penn.
When Mr. Russell had Mr.
Chayefsky ejected from the set for
his constant interference, Mr.
Chayefsky demanded that Mr.
Gottfried fire Mr. Russell. Mr.
Gottfried reminded Mr. Chayef-
sky that they had already dis-
pensed with a previous director
and that, with time running short,
the only person who could replace
Mr. Russell was probably Mr.
Chayefsky himself.
As Mr. Gottfried recalled his in-
teraction with Mr. Chayefsky: “He
said, ‘Well, I can’t do that. I won’t
do that. And if you’re not going to
do that, I’m going to have to leave
the movie.’ ” The two never
worked together again. Mr.
Chayefsky died in 1981.
Mr. Gottfried produced other
films, including the 1988 adapta-
tion of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch
Song Trilogy” and “Suburban
Commando,” a 1991 comedy star-
ring the wrestler Hulk Hogan.
In addition to his wife, he is sur-
vived by their daughters, Eliza-
beth Colling and Norah Weinstein,
and four grandchildren.
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Of Multiple Flying Records
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
Marina L. Popovich, a test pilot
who broke more than 100 flying
records and was the first Soviet
woman to break the sound barrier,
died in the Krasnodar region of
southern Russia on Nov. 30.
Roscosmos, the Russian space
agency, announced her death on
Facebook and YouTube. The Tass
news agency said she died in a
hospital.
Her age was unclear; Tass
listed her as 86, but it also said she
had added six years to her age as a
young woman to enroll in a mili-
tary flight school.
Ms. Popovich followed in the
footsteps of female aviators who
had gained prominence in the So-
viet military during World War II,
some of whom were called the
Night Witches by German forces.
Overcoming hurdles presented
by both her gender and her dimin-
utive height, she attained the rank
of colonel in the Soviet Air Force
as a test pilot, setting dozens of
flying records for distance and
speed, some of which still stand.
“The first flights on a high-
speed fighter jet were breathtak-
ing,” she told the newspaper Kom-
somolskaya Pravda in 2012. “Be-
fore I even pull up the chassis on
takeoff, the sky turns dark violet,
and there are small unblinking
stars in the zenith.”
She broke the sound barrier in
1964 flying a MiG-21 fighter jet for
the State Red-Banner Scientific
Research Institute, run by the Air
Force.
“A pilot is overcome with a spe-
cial kind of inner excitement after
A determined test
pilot who overcame
numerous hurdles.
breaking the sound barrier,” she
said.
She was the third woman to
achieve that feat. The American
pilot Jacqueline Cochran was the
first, in 1953. Jacqueline Auriol of
France broke the sound barrier
later that year.
Marina Lavrentyevna Vasi-
lyeva was born in what is now the
Smolensk region of Russia, west
of Moscow. Her father was a musi-
cian, and she was expected to be-
come one, too, until German
troops advanced on her town in
World War II, forcing the family to
flee.
They settled in Novosibirsk,
more than 2,000 miles to the east,
where she decided to become a pi-
lot “to take revenge on the fas-
cists,” she told a magazine for mili-
tary officers’ wives in 2011. She
said she had also been inspired by
her uncle, who was a fighter pilot.
She made her first attempt to
learn to fly at age 14. But at 4 feet 9
inches tall, she was so small —
“practically a Lilliputian,” she said
— that her feet could not reach the
pedals. Determined nevertheless,
she hung herself upside down us-
ing alpine ropes in the hope that it
would make her grow. Whether by
those means or naturally, at 16 she
ultimately cleared 5 feet and was
able to join an air club.
But her advancement was
stalled by bureaucratic barriers;
once the war was over, women
were no longer permitted to fly.
She gained an audience with
Kliment Voroshilov, a prominent
Soviet military officer, and was ac-
cepted into an aviation academy.
She also graduated from a civil
aviation academy in Leningrad.
Despite their initial skepticism,
most male instructors and pilots
came to be in awe of her.
“She learned strikingly fast,”
Nikolai A. Bondarenko, a test pi-
lot, wrote in his memoirs, adding
that she had piloted an L-29
fighter jet “as confidently as she
KEYSTONE/HULTON ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES
The test pilot Marina Popovich
around 1960. In 1964, she be-
came the first Soviet woman to
break the sound barrier.
walked the ground.”
In “The First Soviet Cosmonaut
Team: Their Lives and Legacies”
(2009), the space historians Colin
Burgess and Rex Hall wrote that
most of Ms. Popovich’s success
“would lead to later speculation
that she was about to become the
first Soviet woman to travel into
space.”
At one point the Soviet space
program did train female cosmo-
nauts, and Ms. Popovich was ad-
mitted for testing. But ultimately
only one, Valentina Tereshkova,
was sent into space. Ms. Popovich
said that she was advised to focus
on her family, and that she was
forced out of the program.
“I and a group of women were
rejected,” she told the news site
Pravda.ru in 2011. “Officially I was
told: ‘You have a small daughter,
so we’re not going to take the risk,
we’re only taking unmarried
women.’ Well then, why did they
subject me to testing for two
months, torment me?”
Her disappointment was
heightened by the fact that she
lived among some of the first cos-
monauts. Her first husband, Pavel
R. Popovich, trained with Yuri A.
Gagarin, who in 1961 became the
first human to orbit Earth. Mr. Ga-
garin was their neighbor in Star
City, the space training center
near Moscow.
Ms. Popovich told Seagull, a
Russian-American magazine, in
an interview published in 2008
that she declared a hunger strike
in protest, only to be told by gener-
als overseeing the cosmonauts
that she “should let your husband
fly first, and then you can.”
Her marriage to Mr. Popovich,
with whom she had two daugh-
ters, ended in divorce in the 1980s.
She is survived by her second hus-
band, Boris A. Zhikhorev, also a pi-
lot; her daughters, Natalia and
Oksana; and three grandchildren.
Ms. Popovich, who said she had
encountered U.F.O.s as a pilot,
came to believe in extraterrestri-
als and wrote a book on the sub-
ject, “U.F.O. Glasnost,” published
in 1991. She contended that both
the Soviet and United States gov-
ernments had covered up the
presence of alien life.
“Before we pilots used to be
afraid to say a word about this be-
cause we’d be sent straight to the
loony bin,” she told Seagull maga-
zine.
Flying opened her eyes to the
ecological damage being done to
the earth and led her on a spiritual
journey, she told The Los Angeles
Times in 1991, when she attended
the Whole Earth Expo.
“I saw rivers drying up, lakes
dying, the whole ecological disas-
ter,” she said. “I knew we would
have to call a higher intelligence
to enlighten us, to guide us
through this mess.”
There were, Ms. Popovich in-
sisted, no atheists among her fel-
low pilots. “We didn’t go to church,
we didn’t pray, but we had faith,”
she said in 2008. “Test pilots are in
contact with something sublime.”

ramps and strove to go higher and
farther than other riders. It was a
process that he said was more de-
liberate than some thought.
“It’s a matter of repetition and
just doing it over and over again to
make yourself comfortable with
it,” he said in one televised inter-
view.
Repetition was the key to land-
ing the double flair. In a TEDx talk
in 2016, Robinson said that he “be-
came fixated on it,” then spent
three years and endured multiple
injuries trying to land the trick.
The struggle, he said, did not dis-
courage him.
Kevin Robinson, who said his approach to BMX riding was “a matter of repetition,” set a record
when he soared 27 feet above a ramp in Central Park in 2008, reaching speeds up to 45 m.p.h.
broke the record for highest air,
which had been set at 26½ feet by
the BMX superstar Mat Hoffman.
After several unsuccessful at-
tempts, some of which ended in
crashes, he rolled down a 60-foot-
tall ramp, reaching speeds up to
45 miles per hour, and launched 27
feet out of a vertiginous quarter-
pipe ramp.
In 2016 Robinson came out of re-
tirement to break another record,
the Guinness World Record for
was an electrical utility worker.
He learned to sew as a boy and of-
ten worked at his brother Ken’s
nautical upholstery business in
Barrington.
After graduating from East
Providence High School in 1989 he
began riding on the pro team for
Hoffman Bikes, Mat Hoffman’s
company, in the early 1990s. His
Deaths Deaths
APPLEBAUM—Eugene. BROWN—Jacqueline.
In loving memory of Eugene
tivational speaker. He and his “Gene” Applebaum. Your life
was a blessing and your me-
wife, the former Robin Adams, mory is a treasure. A dedicat-
ed and loving husband, fath-
also started a company that er, grandfather, and friend. A
makes durable padded pants for strong and successful busi-
ness leader and caring and
young athletes. committed humanitarian. A
In addition to his wife, whom he
life that touches others goes
on forever. We will miss you
married in 2004 and with whom he our dear friend.
Laurie and Ike Perlmutter
lived in Barrington, he is survived
BLEICH—Edmund Morris,
by their daughter, Shaye Rob-
91, of Pearl River, NY, died
inson; two sons, Kevin Jr. and Ri- October 12 at home with his
family by his side, following a
ley; his parents; four brothers, long battle with Parkinson's
Jacqueline Cannon Brown, 79,
Kenneth, Richard, David and Dan-
Disease. He was born in Man-
peacefully passed away at
hattan to Sarah Mackey and
iel; and two sisters, Kathleen Aaron Bleich and grew up on home on December 9th with
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“I embrace failure,” Robinson

said. “I fail all the time and I’m
proud of it. Because that’s how I
learn.”
Robinson introduced the double
flair at the X Games in 2006.
“I don’t care if it’s midnight and
the lights are off and everybody’s
gone, I’ll still be on the ramp try-
ing,” he told ESPN before his first
attempt.
He landed the trick, then was
mobbed by his fellow riders. It
earned him a gold medal, one of
longest power-assisted bicycle
flip, in Providence, R.I., his home-
town. The record was 64 feet;
Robinson had to be towed by an
all-terrain vehicle to achieve the
speed needed to make the jump.
On the first try he flung a back
flip over the 84-foot gap, but
bounced on the flat top of the land-
ing ramp and slammed into the
ground, drawing gasps from the
audience. He soon tried again and
landed the jump flawlessly.
His records have yet to be offi-
cially broken.
Pushing boundaries,
including a landing of
the double flair move.
other sponsors included Red Bull
and Target. He retired from com-
petition in 2013, after more than
120 podium appearances by his
count and 10 medals, four of them
gold, at ESPN’s X Games.
After retiring, Robinson was a
Fontes and Leigh-Anne Rainey.
During his TEDx talk, Robinson
noted the toll that BMX had taken
on his body, including 45 orthope-
dic operations, 22 broken bones
and a hip replacement. But, he
said, moments like landing the
double flair were worth the inju-
ries.
“That is what we live for,” he
said. “The minute I felt my tires
hit the ramp, the minute I knew
that I was riding away, there’s no
amount of money, there’s no tro-
West 148th Street. He attend-
ed Stuyvesant High School,
enlisted in the Army Air
Schnauzer, by her feet.
Jackie was an independent,
strong and fearless woman.
Corps at 17 and was a mem-
She was a loving friend, sis-
ber of the 8th Air Force at the
ter, aunt, mother, and Gram-
end of World War II. Under
the GI Bill, Edmund graduat-
ed from New York University
my. Born in Erie, PA to Isa-
belle Tollon Cannon and
and Columbia University. He George Woodward Cannon,
married Jean Townsend in she is survived by her daugh-
ter Amanda (Matthew),
1950 and is survived by his
grandson, Charlie, sister Jane
two children. He worked for
(Charles) and preceded in
Allen & Co. for over 60 years.
death by her brother John
Among many interests he
(Naomi). Aunt to Scott, Betsy,
especially loved reading, mu-
Ann, Susan, John, David and
sic, history, sailing, travelling
and art. Edmund will be re- Linda, she was loved by her
membered for his keen wit family and many friends. In
and strong spirit. A memorial lieu of flowers, please send a
donation to New Jersey
will be held Saturday, Decem-
Schnauzer Network, P.O. Box
ber 30, at 2pm at the Unita-
rian Universalist Congrega- 36, Fanwood, NJ 07023. A par-
ty to celebrate Jackie's life
tion of Rockland County, 130
Concklin Road, Pomona, NY. will be held after the holidays.

three medals he won at that X
Games.
Robinson’s indomitable ap-
proach helped with his two world
records. In Central Park in 2008 he
Kevin Michael Robinson, the
youngest of seven children, was
born to Howard Robinson and the
former Carole Forsmark in Provi-
dence on Dec. 19, 1971. His father
commentator on ESPN; founded
the K-Rob Foundation, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to finan-
cially supporting underprivileged
young athletes; and became a mo-
phy, there’s no award that can take Donations may be made to
the New York State Talking
the place of that moment. Book and Braille Library or
the Pearl River Alumni Am-
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Deaths
BUCHANAN—Douglas
Andrew, died suddenly Au-
gust 12, 2017, age 72, of aortic
dissection. Beloved son of the
late Lucie (nee Trincellita)
and Douglas Charles Buchan-
an, and devoted father of
Nicholas. He was born and
grew up in Hudson County,
NJ. A video producer and an
artist, Douglas lived and
worked in a loft on Bond
Street, Manhattan, New York
City, since the early 1970s. He
enjoyed time away from the
city at his house in Block Is-
land, RI, where he created as-
semblages from objects
found at the beach. A task he
took particular pride in was
trimming the high hedges
fronting the house, so similar
to the high hedges fronting
the little house in North Ber-
gen where he lived with his
family as a teenager and
young man. He seemed to
have inherited from his
mother, the daughter of Ita-
lian immigrants, an ability to
solve problems with a prag-
matic, yet inventive ap-
proach, combined with a
mental tenacity in getting the
job done. From his father,
who was a jazz musician, and
the son and grandson of Scot-
tish and German immigrants,
Douglas inherited his easy
charm and his strong artistic
side. Sadly, at age seven,
Douglas lost his father to cor-
onary thrombosis. His wi-
dowed mother's example of
independence and resource-
fulness in single-handedly
raising three children, Dou-
glas and his two siblings,
working as a secretary, was
an inspiration throughout his
life, and had to have been a
source of strength in sur-
mounting some hard challen-
ges that came to him, and
that come in one form or an-
other to us all. For this he de-
serves great credit. Because
of his parents' high regard for
the arts, Douglas was intro-
duced to museum going at a
young age, which certainly in-
fluenced his choice of an ar-
tistic career. After a day
spent at work in his loft paint-
ing, sketching and priming
canvases, he unwound in the
kitchen, cooking his famous
spaghetti sauce with meat-
balls, or making pesto with
fresh basil from the farmers'
market at Union Square. A
true orange-and-blue Mets
fan, he said that one of the
“most fun things” he had the
luck to experience was going
to the third game of the 2015
World Series. His sister Jane
is grateful for his support and
help during the final protract-
ed illnesses of their mother,
and their brother Charles.
Predeceased by his brother,
he is survived by his son, of
Manhattan, and, also of Man-
hattan, his sister Jane Buch-
anan. A memorial service is
planned for 2018.
BURMAN — Frank.
UJA-Federation of New York
mourns the passing of Frank
Burman. Frank leaves behind
a loving family to carry on a
tradition of philanthropy. We
extend our condolences to
Frank's children, Jan Burman
(Renee) and Erik Burman
(Meera); his grandchildren;
as well as the entire family.
Jeffrey A. Schoenfeld,
President; Robert S. Kapito,
Chair of the Board;
Eric S. Goldstein, CEO
CARMEL—Bradley,
47 years old, of New York City
and Beverly Hills. Passed on
December 12th peacefully,
surrounded by his family and
closest friends. Loving son of
Robert (deceased) and Judy
(Mike Sapir), brother of Can-
dy (Michael Barasch), and
uncle to Robert and Julia who
all adored him. Seven time
winner of his Fantasy Base-
ball league, devotee of The
Dead and String Cheese In-
cident. Brad, you lived life on
your terms and enjoyed eve-
ry moment. Rest well.
CHAUT—Ernestine “Erna”,
on December 13, 2017. Be-
loved mother of Ellen Sead-
er, and Larry and Ilene Co-
hen. Loving grandmother of
Jamie and Justin Lippiner,
Scott Seader, Bari and David
Klein, Kerri and Eytan Saper-
stein, and Andrew Cohen.
Adored great-grandmother
of Dillon and Preston Lippi-
ner, and Tyler Klein. Cher-
ished sister of the late Rich-
ard Rosenbloom, and Daniel,
Arthur and Gerald Rosen-
bloom. Former Dean of Adel-
phi University. Funeral Sun-
day 11:00am at Boulevard
Riverside Chapels, 1450
Broadway, Hewlett, NY. In-
terment at Beth Moses Ce-
metery, Pinelawn, NY.
CHAUT—Ernestine “Erna”.
Sweet Erna. Hold our hands
and smile. This is not addio
but arrivederci.
Giovanna and Dan
CLOSE—Edward B., Jr.
Corporate Lawyer and
Sportsman Edward Close
died December 7, 2017. He
was born June 7, 1924 in
Greenwich, CT. He spent his
early years in Paris, graduat-
ing from St. Paul's School af-
ter return to Greenwich. He
attended Harvard, joined the
Navy Air Corps (carrier Roos-
evelt), and graduated from
Yale. He met his wife Anne
while competing in intercolle-
giate ski races in Aspen. He
earned his Law degree from
Denver University becoming
a partner of Hughes and Dor-
sey, a prestigious Denver law
firm. He practiced banking
law, and won a U.S. Supreme
Court case. He served on sev-
eral bank boards and as a
Trustee of the Denver Art
Museum. An avid golfer, he
was a member of Augusta
National, Cypress Point, and
Gulf Stream golf clubs and a
USGA Seniors board mem-
ber. He enjoyed sailing, hunt-
ing and fly fishing. He is sur-
vived by his wife, son, daugh-
ter and four grandchildren.
CORPUS—Jorge “Joey,”
world-renowned violin teach-
er in Manhattan, died De-
cember 9 at age 60. Memorial
Services: December 18, Re-
deemer Presbyterian Church,
150 West 83rd St. For details:
www.JoeyCorpus.com.
CORY—Sally A.,
of Rye Brook, passed away
December 14, 2017, at age 93.
She was born May 11, 1924,
the daughter of Harry and
Evangeline Amols. Sally
worked as an interior design-
er and decorator but she also
was a talented dancer and ar-
tist. She is the beloved wife of
the late, David Cory, and
prior to him, Robert Landes-
man. Sally is survived by her
loving children, Lucy Zaro
(Jerry), Paul Landesman
(Linda) and Peter Landes-
man (Susan) and six cher-
ished grandchildren. A pri-
vate funeral service was
held. Memorial donations
can be sent to Greenwich
Hospital.
Deaths
DUCOFF—Morris.
The RiverSpring Health and
Hebrew Home at Riverdale
families mourn the passing of
Morris Ducoff, beloved fath-
er of Jill, Debbie, Susan and
Ian, father-in-law of Denis
and Joel, and grandfather
of Rachael, Zach, Sam, Jac-
queline, Carly and Hannah.
Morris was a joyful man with
an infectious smile and deep
devotion to his family. We ex-
tend our deepest condolen-
ces to the entire Ducoff and
Hollander families. May they
be comforted among the
mourners of Zion.
Jeffrey Maurer, Chairman,
Board of Trustees
Daniel Reingold,
President and CEO
David V. Pomeranz,
Chief Operating Officer
EBEL—Donald C., died No-
vember 25. Don was born
March 21, 1931 in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He was predeceased by
his wife of 58 years, Elizabeth
(Betts) Guyer in July and his
parents, Earl R. and Louise
(Kolbenstetter) Ebel. Don
was loved by his friends in
New York City and Bridge-
hampton, LI where he twice
served as President of The
Bridgehampton Club.
FINGERHUT—Arthur
Jerome, on December 15,
2017 in his 92nd year. An epic
man, an epic life. Born in
Brooklyn to the late Samuel
and Helen Fingerhut. End-
lessly loved by, and the best
husband of 67 years to
Florence Fingerhut. Most be-
loved father of Toni and
Robert Leblang and Eric Fin-
gerhut. Devoted grandfather
to Casey and Howie Kahn,
Samantha Fingerhut and Ju-
lie Fingerhut, and great
grandfather to Henry Miles
Kahn. Loving brother of Bev-
erly and the late Sharkey
Rosenthal, the late Rhoda
and Kenneth Wagner, and
the late Trudy and Aaron
Sachs. Beloved uncle. Served
proudly as a sergeant in
World War II. Graduate of
NYU. Mail order innovator.
Tennis champion. In lieu of
flowers, please send dona-
tions to UJA Federation in
Arthur's name.
GREENBERG—Judith
(nee Goldberger), passed
away peacefully at home on
December 15, 2017 at the age
of 88. Beloved wife, for 67
years, of Robert Greenberg,
sister of Fran Rubenstein
(Kenneth), loving mother of
the late Kenneth Greenberg
(Flora), Randi Kapelman
(Jeffrey), and Cindy Goldrich.
Loving grandmother to Rus-
sell Greenberg (Jamie), Josh-
ua Kapelman (Emily), Sa-
mantha Steinberg (Zachary),
Carly Goldrich and Benjamin
Goldrich, great-grandmother
to Kingston and Dashiell
Greenberg. May her memory
always be a blessing. In lieu
of flowers, the family has
asked that any donations be
made to Planned Parenthood
or the charity of your choice.
GREEN—Maxine Nan,
mother of three devoted
children and grandmother to
six beautiful grandchildren,
died peacefully in her home
on her birthday, December 9.
She was 74. Maxine grew up
in Bristol, CT, along with her
sister, Elaine, and her broth-
er, Murray. Her parents, Dr.
Harry and Beverly Hersh-
man, instilled in Maxine a
reverence for learning,
ethics, and a duty to help oth-
ers. They were devoted
champions of their children, a
quality that also flourished in
Maxine. Maxine graduated
from NYU and Brooklyn Law
School, then moved to Chap-
paqua, NY to raise her child-
ren along with their father,
Ronald Green. In those years
she also ran a successful
travel agency, Travel Part-
ners. Maxine enjoyed many
hobbies including tennis,
skiing, travel, and The New
York Times Crossword
Puzzle. She had a lifelong
passion for music, frequently
playing classical composi-
tions on piano, and she en-
joyed listening to an eclectic
array of music, from Mozart
to Neil Diamond. Maxine felt
great joy in watching her
children and grandchildren
integrate the love of music
into their own lives. After her
kids left home for college,
Maxine began working in lo-
cal politics as an aide to New
York Assemblywoman Nao-
mi Matusow. Years later she
moved to New York City,
where she began a fifteen
year tenure as an aide to Sen-
ator Chuck Schumer. Maxine
was known widely for her
magnetic personality, razor-
sharp wit, and most of all for
complete devotion to her
children. She held herself to
the highest standard of perso-
nal responsibility, and lived
selflessly in service of others,
though this did not stop her
from humiliating anyone who
played her in Scrabble. Max-
ine is survived by her child-
ren, Rachel, Micah and Josh-
ua, and her grandchildren,
Marin, Emma, Elijah, Jaden,
Noah and Asher. Maxine's
finest qualities live on in each
of them. Maxine was greatly
loved, and she will be sorely
missed. In lieu of flowers,
please consider a donation to
Planned Parenthood or to the
DNC, both of which she sup-
ported.
JORRISCH—Lloyd Irwin.
August 10, 1925 - October 24,
2017. Beloved father of Amy,
Mark and Joel.
KATCHER—Alexander “Al”,
of New York City, passed
peacefully with family in Ari-
zona. Survived by loving sis-
ter, Marcia and family. Al
joined his cherished sweet-
heart, Norma on Wednesday,
December 13th. Please make
donations in Al's name to
Parkinson's Research.
KATZ—Marilyn Ogus,
passed away on December
14, 2017 at age 84. Marilyn
was a professor of English at
the Cooperative College of
Mount Vernon, SUNY Pur-
chase, and subsequently the
Dean of Studies and Student
Life at Sarah Lawrence Col-
lege for nearly twenty years.
She was a writer whose short
stories have been published
in numerous journals. Her
short story collection, A Few
Small Stones, is due out in
March 2018 (Unsolicited
Press). She lived a life of ad-
venture and joy and was a
mentor, friend, and inspira-
tion to so many. She is sur-
vived by loving children Jim-
my Katz and his wife Dena
and Emily Anhalt and her
husband Eduardo, longtime
partner George Petty, grand-
children Erica and Ariela An-
halt, the extended Petty fami-
ly, other wonderful relatives,
and countless friends who felt
like family. She was prede-
ceased by husband Maurice
B. (Mac) Katz. Family and
friends are invited to attend a
service at Riverside Memor-
ial Chapel at 180 W. 76th St. on
Sunday, December 17 at
10am. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions in Marilyn's name may
be made to Innisfree Garden,
Sarah Lawrence College,
Broadway Housing Commu-
nities, or The Watson Foun-
dation.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Deaths
KATZ—Marilyn Ogus.
Dearest Marilyn, the world is
diminished without your pre-
sence in it. We love you and
will miss you always.
Fran and Sam Klagsbrun
KENT—Hannah.
It is with deep regret that the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Founda-
tion Committee mourns the
passing of Auschwitz survi-
vor Hannah Kent, the wife
of International Auschwitz
Council member and survi-
vor, Roman Kent. Mrs. Kent
was an extraordinary woman
who embodied the most posi-
tive aspects of the Jewish
spirit and human resilience.
After surviving the horrors
and degradation of the Nazi
concentration camps, the
worst examples of inhumani-
ty, Mrs. Kent led a life of cou-
rage and compassion and
raised a beautiful family. We
send our condolences to her
loving husband, Roman Kent,
and their entire family.
Ronald S. Lauder,
Chairman of the
Auschwitz- Birkenau
Foundation Committee
Dr. Piotr Cywinski,
Director of the Auschwitz
Birkenau State Museum
LANGER—Martin G. passed
away in Irvine, CA on October
10, 2017 at the age of 96. He is
survived by son, Robert,
daughter - in - law Jennifer,
granddaughters, Jessica and
Stephanie and great-grand-
son, Michael. He was prede-
ceased by Estelle, his wife of
60 years and son Michael. He
served as Controller and
Dean at New York Institute of
Technology until his retire-
ment in 1984. He will be deep-
ly missed by his family and
many friends.
LEFRAK—Susan Siskind,
died peacefully at home on
December 15. 2017. Beloved
and loving mother of Babette
and the late Mark, loving wife
of the late Joseph. Susan was
the anchor of her extended
family. She relished nothing
more than to feed those
around her, both with her cu-
linary skill, and caring, wis-
dom, and candor. She will be
missed by everyone who
knew her.
LORICH—Dean.
It is with great sadness that
we note the death of our es-
teemed colleague, surgeon
and dear friend Dean Lorich
MD last Sunday. Such an un-
timely end to such a remark-
ably accomplished life. Dean
Lorich was the Associate Di-
rector of the Orthopedic
Trauma Service at the Hospi-
tal for Special Surgery and
Director of the Orthopedic
Trauma Service at New York
Presbyterian Hospital. Dr.
Lorich was a remarkable and
most respected surgeon and
educator to countless medi-
cal students, residents and
fellows, and friend and “go
to” surgeon to many in the
medical field. Even more im-
portantly he was a tireless
trauma surgeon who through
his expertise impacted the
lives of thousands of trauma
patients. This impact was not
just local. He was an innova-
tive surgeon who studied
those injuries for which the
outcome was least predictab-
le, came up with novel solu-
tions, published extensively,
and improved the end result
for many patients worldwide.
Dr. Lorich was devoted to his
family and is survived by his
wife Deborah (nee Clark) and
three amazing daughters,
Tristan (20), Bianca (14) and
Tatiana (11) years old respec-
tively. A Funeral Service will
be held on Monday, Decem-
ber 18, 12:30pm at “The River-
side”, W. 76th St. and Amster-
dam Ave. In lieu of flowers,
donations in the memory of
Dr. Dean Lorich should be
made to: Uniform Firefight-
ers Association, 204 East 23rd
St., NY, NY 10010, C/O The
UFA Widows' and Children's
Fund, Checks Payable to
UFA Widows' and Children's
Fund, Tax ID 13-3047544.
www.ufanyc.org/funds/
widows_and_children.php
MESSING—Bonnie L.
Bonnie died on September 14,
2017 after a recurrence of
cancer. She was hiking two
weeks before and maintained
a vigorous lifestyle with her
family and friends up until the
very end of life. Bonnie was a
finance executive who
worked at multiple corpora-
tions including ITT, Citi, Leh-
man Brothers and Prudential.
She had an undergraduate
degree from Yale University
and an MBA from Harvard
Business School. Her husband
was most impressed with her
varsity letter from the Yale
crew team where she served
as a coxswain. Most recently
she was the Chief Operating
Officer at Geller and Compa-
ny. Bonnie served on the
boards of Pro Mujer and Yale
Alumni Chorus. At Pro Mujer
she advocated for women in
Latin America attempting to
improve economic opportu-
nity as well as health care. At
the Yale Alumni Chorus she
advocated for song to bring
international understanding
and to improve relationships
between international com-
munities. Bonnie was known
for her intelligence, humor,
ready smile, and optimistic
outlook. When she entered
any room, the room lit up
with light and joy. She was a
powerful presence with a
win-win personality even be-
fore win-win became popu-
lar. She was a mentor to
younger colleagues and espe-
cially enjoyed helping youn-
ger women in business. She
was a strategic thinker and
often the smartest person in
the room, with an infectious
smile that was her trade-
mark. Bonnie's father, Robert
Messing, predeceased her.
She is survived by her hus-
band, Steve Pavlakis; her
mother, Norma Messing; her
identical twin Robin Messing-
Bogdanoff and younger sister
Susan Messing (Michael Mc-
Carthy); her son James Sui,
daughters Alexandra Pavla-
kis (Matthew Rathbone) and
Ariadne Pavlakis; grandchild-
ren Elias and Alethea; and
numerous extended family
members and extensive net-
work of friends from every
corner of her life. In lieu of
flowers, donations in Bonnie's
name can be made to Pro
Mujer.
MESSING-PAVLAKIS—
Bonnie. The Pro Mujer family
mourns the loss of Bonnie
Messing-Pavlakis, a beloved
and inspiring member of our
Board of Directors. Her con-
tributions will have a lasting,
positive impact on the
organization. We will miss
her dearly. Our heartfelt
condolences to her family.
Deaths
MILLARD—Charles,
1932-2017. Respected muse-
um director and leading ex-
pert in 19th Century French
sculpture, has died at the age
of eighty-four. Millard's 1976
book, “The Sculpture of Edg-
ar Degas,” remains the defini-
tive work on the subject. As a
graceful and wide-ranging es-
sayist, as a curator with ex-
pertise in photography, cera-
mics and sculpture, Millard
leaves a legacy of elegant,
restless intellectual explora-
tion. His clarion prose is un-
derwritten by impeccable ci-
tizenship and personal gene-
rosity. Millard's modesty
masked a deep wit, a true gift
for friendship. If his home col-
lection embraced everything
from Color Field painting to
Chinese antiquities to North
Carolina folk pottery, his
circle of acquaintances
showed just such strength in
variety. Over the years he re-
visited the studios of many
artists usually wary of art his-
torians. Those trusting
friends included artistic pion-
eers like Helen Frankentha-
ler, Carl Chiarenza, Anthony
Caro, George Nick, Jules Olit-
ski, Kenneth Noland and
Mark Hewitt. Born in Eli-
zabeth, NJ on December 20,
1932, Millard graduated
“magna cum laude” from
Princeton in 1954. From
1956-1959 he served in the US
Navy as a staff member at
headquarters of the Atlantic
Fleet and the Sixth Fleet.
Harvard awarded him a
Ph.D. in Fine Arts in 1971. He
worked as Curator of Nine-
teenth Century Art at the Los
Angeles County Museum
(1971-1974) before becoming
Chief Curator of the Hirsh-
horn Museum and Sculpture
Garden (1973-1986). From
1986-1993 he made a memor-
able Director of the Ackland
Art Museum at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
(In 2015, the University would
award him an Honorary Doc-
torate of Fine Arts.) Millard
securely tied the Ackland's
mission to university teach-
ing. He invited students to
museum events and began a
steady public outreach that
included local children. Mil-
lard described the seven
years heading the Ackland as
his happiest. If his quiet ser-
vice intended to go unno-
ticed, his benefactions could
not be hidden. While living in
Los Angeles, Millard had
bought for himself a misattri-
buted sculpture, the life-sized
bust of a wildly grimacing
man. The piece costs just two
hundred dollars and, for de-
cades, it served as a front hall
hat rack. Of course Millard
had recognized it as the carv-
ing of a German eccentric,
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
(1739-1783). When a similar
bust by the artist sold for mil-
lions in 2010, Charles Millard
concocted The Tyche Foun-
dation. He named it, not for
himself, but in honor of the
Roman goddess of good for-
tune and lucky finds. With the
sale's windfall, Charles Mil-
lard at once set about streng-
thening the Ackland's con-
siderable art holdings.
Whatever thinness he had
found in the collection, Mil-
lard could now buttress from
within. A year later, the one
carved gargoyle had become
eighty works - in all forms
and from most centuries. The
exhibit of donated works was
titled “Fortune Smiles.” It
filled the entire Ackland
Museum. The Tyche collec-
tion, being self-generated and
hand- shaped, is a gift both
loving and personal. And,
only incidentally, almost by
accident, it leaves the most
perfect portrait of its donor.
Charles Millard died at his
Chapel Hill home on Decem-
ber 11th, attended by friends.
In lieu of flowers, tributes
may be sent to his favorite
cause: The Ackland Art
Museum Building Fund, 101
South Columbia Street, Cha-
pel Hill, NC 27599.
MINESS—Nina,
died surrounded by her loving
family on 12th of December
at the age of ninety-four. She
leaves behind her daughter
Joan, son Robert, daughter-
in-law Jane, and granddaugh-
ter Melissa. Nina was a vi-
brant force in the lives of her
many friends of all back-
grounds and ages. She ar-
rived in the United States in
1940, fleeing France on the SS
Quanza, and she immediately
embraced her new life as a
New Yorker. She married Ir-
win, a lawyer, and raised her
family. Nina took great pride
in her nearly forty-year
career at the United Nations,
where she made many life-
long friendships. Nina was
known for her love of laugh-
ter, her ability to see only the
best in people, and her ele-
gance. Because of her ab-
sence, the world is now less
interesting, restaurants less
crowded, and friendships
emptier. She was greatly
loved and is greatly missed.
MURPHY—Hannah J.
Daughter of the late Denis
and Hannah, sister of the late
John, Richard, Mary Temple-
ton, Hanora Comfort, Denis
and Margaret. Funeral Mass,
St. Jean the Baptiste R.C.
Church, Lexington Ave.
(76th) Tuesday December 19,
at 11 am. Interment Calvary
Cemetery.
NOBLE—Holcomb B. “Hoc,”
84, died November 26, 2017,
after a brief illness. A gra-
duate of Amherst College, he
was retired from the New
York Times, where he spent
most of his career as an edi-
tor. As deputy science editor,
he helped the Times win two
Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1985
and another in 1988. He was a
longtime member of the Uni-
versity Glee Club of New
York and a trustee of the
Young People's Chorus of
New York City. Mr. Noble is
survived by his son, Jon-
Holcomb; his daughter, Caro-
lyn; and his grandchildren,
Hannah, Dave and James. A
memorial service is being
planned for the spring. Dona-
tions in his memory may be
made to the Young People's
Chorus, 37 W. 65th St., New
York, NY 10023.
PERMUT—Jack G.,
of Great Neck, NY on Decem-
ber 10, age 97. Beloved hus-
band of Ellen for 68 years;
loving father of Howard
(Kate), Susan, and Steven
(Miriam); cherished grand-
father of Sam and Sarah,
Hana and Arielle, Leah and
Matthew. Brooklyn native,
CCNY graduate, proud WWII
Coast Guard officer. Jack ran
Nathan's dry goods store in
Greenpoint, then became a
successful commercial real
estate broker and owner.
Jack and Ellen moved to
Great Neck in 1953. An active
community member, Jack
was Trustee, usher, Building
Chair and co-founder of Club
Chai at Temple Beth El. Jack
was a committed volunteer
with Meals on Wheels, the
Great Neck Senior Center,
and the INN at Hempstead. In
retirement Jack enjoyed
travel, trains, theater, mo-
vies, many good meals, read-
ing multiple newspapers, dis-
cussing current events, and
visiting with friends. Most im-
portantly he loved spending
time with his wife, children
and grandchildren. Contribu-
tions to Temple Beth El of
Great Neck and the Great
Neck Senior Center are ap-
preciated. May his memory
be a blessing.
Deaths
POPE—Ralph M.
Brigadier General, United
States Army, retired, aged 97,
living at the Virginian, Fair-
fax, VA, died on Sunday De-
cember 10, 2017 of congestive
heart failure. He is survived
by his son Ralph, daughter-
in-law Beth and his grand-
daughter Katherine of New
York City. During his long life
he worked in a number of dif-
ferent occupations, the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, the United
States Navy, the United
States Army, Muhlenberg
Hospital and as Executive Di-
rector of the Rotary Club of
New York. He was preceded
in death by his wife, Josep-
hine Kennedy, of Lowell, MA.
He was a Catholic who re-
ceived an award from Pope
Pius XI. He will join his wife at
Arlington National Cemetery
at a later date.
PRIGOFF—Milton,
age 94, of Jupiter, FL. For-
merly of Alpine and Tenafly,
NJ, died November 30, 2017,
survived by wife, Marion,
sons Michael and Mark,
grandchildren Jonathan and
Laura, and brother James.
Soldier, sailor, horseman,
fisherman, attorney, judge,
and fiduciary, graduate of
Williams College and Har-
vard Law School, he had a
wonderful life with few re-
grets. He just didn't want to
leave.
QUASH - Eugene T., MD,
passed December 3, 2017, at
age 96. A revered surgeon
and beloved husband to Ann,
devoted father to Gene Jr.
and Stan, cherished father-in-
law to Monica; as well as an
inspiration to his extended fa-
mily. He attended Peter
Stuyvesant High School, gra-
duated Cum Laude from
CCNY, and Howard Universi-
ty Medical School. He served
in both WWII and Korea, ris-
ing to Captain and Chief of
Surgery, USAF Hospital, To-
kyo. Dr. Quash was a Profes-
sor of Surgery at both Colum-
bia University and New York
Medical College, an attending
surgeon at Sydenham and
Mount Sinai Hospitals, and
Director of Surgery at Har-
lem Hospital. For the last two
decades of his career he was
an attending Surgeon and ER
Trauma Specialist at Lenox
Hill Hospital. He was and
remains the superstar of
the family and will forever
be loved.
RADLEY—Jean-Pierre,
computer consultant and for-
mer president of Pauline Tri-
gere, Inc. died of natural
causes on December 3rd in
Savannah, Georgia. He was
85. JP was born in Neuilly en
Seine (France) 1932 but ar-
rived in New York with his
parents Pauline and Lazar,
and brother Philippe in De-
cember 1936 to escape the
political turmoil of Europe.
He attended the Lycee Fran-
cais then MIT at 16 where he
received degrees in Electri-
cal Engineering and Masters
of Business Administration.
Immediately recruited, he
worked for the Management
Team of the Air Force Cam-
bridge Research Lab in Bed-
ford, MA. 1960s New York in-
cluded Trigere, Inc., and
Max's Kansas City Restau-
rant. He returned to Trigere
in 1971 and was president for
25 years. A constant presence
on 7th Avenue yet his heart
remained in technology. Fi-
nally he concentrated on
computer consulting, his true
passion and expertise. He
married in 1973 and inherited
two stepdaughters and then
again in 2002 to a lifelong
friend Jane Tucker. They
were married for 15 years but
had a 46 year bond. JP leaves
behind his wife, Jane, step-
daughter Jennifer (Andrew),
granddaughters Katherine
and Payton, sister-in-law Me-
lanie (the late Philippe), niece
Karen and cousin Jane. JP
will forever be remembered
for his witty sense of humor,
his love of classical music, ex-
tensive art collection and his
genius with computers.
Please sign our online guest
book at
www.foxandweeks.com
REED—Kerry Landreth,
died December 6, 2017, at
home in San Francisco of
cancer. She was 44. Kerry
was born in Oakland but grew
up in London. She graduated
from Phillips Exeter Acade-
my and Stanford before a 20-
year career at Goldman
Sachs, where she became a
Managing Director in 2011 af-
ter her first bout with breast
cancer. Kerry joined the Exe-
ter Board of Trustees and co-
founded the Leadership
Council of the Nature Conser-
vancy of California. She was
the lead vocalist in a band
called Birdseed. Kerry's
verve and vitality were infec-
tious, and she had an uncom-
mon gift for quickly forming
lasting friendships. Family
dinners were sacrosanct, she
never missed a school perfor-
mance, and she instilled in
her children her love of trav-
el. Kerry's cancer returned in
2015. She chaired UCSF's
Give Cancer the Boot cam-
paign, raising a record $1.2M
in 2016. Music was medicine
for Kerry, and she penned
several original songs for her
band. Visit birdseedband.com
to watch and hear Kerry sing;
nexttriparoundthesun.blog to
read her account of her battle
with cancer. Kerry is sur-
vived by her husband and
two children, her parents, and
a brother. In lieu of flowers,
please give to Give Breast
Cancer the Boot; the Nature
Conservancy of California;
or the Tipping Point Comm-
unity.
SAVAGE—Richard “Dick”,
passed away peacefully at
his home in La Jolla on De-
cember 13. Born in Chicago
on July 14, 1931, Dick lived life
to its fullest and leaves be-
hind a legacy that will remain
with all those who knew him.
A graduate of Michigan
State, Dick served in the Air
Force, was Vice President of
the ABC Television Network,
then started RNS Communi-
cations with his two sons.
Dick leaves behind his wife,
four kids and six grandchild-
ren. A man of integrity and
adventure, Dick will be sorely
missed and remembered as
one his family was proud to
call a husband, Dad and Papa
Buzz. May he now enjoy
everlasting peace with the
Lord.
Deaths
Applebaum, Eugene Jorrisch, Lloyd
Bleich, Edmund Katcher, Alexander
Brown, Jacqueline Katz, Marilyn
Buchanan, Douglas Kent, Hannah
Burman, Frank Langer, Martin
Carmel, Bradley Lefrak, Susan
Chaut, Ernestine Lorich, Dean
Close, Edward Messing, Bonnie
Corpus, Jorge Millard, Charles
Cory, Sally Miness, Nina
Ducoff, Morris Murphy, Hannah
Ebel, Donald Noble, Holcomb
Fingerhut, Arthur Permut, Jack
Green, Maxine Pope, Ralph
Greenberg, Judith Prigoff, Milton
SCHWARTZ—Steven
Howard. It is with great sad-
ness that we announce the
passing of Steven H.
Schwartz. Born to Marilyn
and Ira Schwartz on Septem-
ber 11, 1966. Passed away in
peace December 4, 2017.
Steven passed away after a
prolonged illness in the loving
care of the Sisters at Rosary
Hill Home in Hawthorn, NY.
He is survived by his parents
Marilyn and Ira, his two child-
ren Samantha and Mathew
of Norwalk, CT, his sister
Michelle Schwartz (nieces
Brook and Avry Richter),
brother Barry (wife Wendy,
nephew and niece Jason and
Tara). Steven lived a full and
interesting life, bringing
laughter and smiles wherev-
er he went. He will be long re-
membered for his happy spir-
it, caring soul, and love for
those around him, especially
his family and friends that he
held close to his heart. Stev-
en's strength and determina-
tion during his long illness
was truly a testament how
important it was to him not to
let the negatives in life bring
you down... instead he chose
always to smile and find hu-
mor in whatever challenged
him. It is our hope that his le-
gacy will remain with you
during the most difficult of
times. He truly was an inspir-
ation to all of those who had
the great honor to know him.
Donations can be sent to: Ro-
sary Hill Home, 600 Lindas
Ave., Hawthorn, NY 10532, in
whose care he departed
from; or to MS Society, New
York chapter, 733 3rd Ave.,
New York, NY 10017.
SERKO—Joan Madeline
(Bohrer). Devoted wife of
David for 64 years; loving
mother of Rick (Terri), Jon
(Tracey) and Wendy Lewis
(Peter); adored grandmother
of Ron, Jessica, Ian, Eliza,
Lianna, Rachel, Nathaniel,
Julia and Teddy; and dear sis-
ter of Thomas Bohrer (Jan)
passed away peacefully at
her home on December 9,
2017. Joan had a natural gift
for making those around her
feel special. Charismatic, gra-
cious and vibrant, Joan
touched everyone in her life
with her eternally optimistic
outlook, her beautiful smile,
her warm, generous heart,
and her sunny, cheerful dis-
position. She will be missed
by all who were blessed to
have her in their lives. Born in
Brooklyn, NY, Joan attended
Erasmus High School and
Syracuse University, where
she met, Dave, the love of
her life on her 18th birthday.
Upon graduation, Joan pur-
sued her passion for educa-
tion as a school teacher. Then
later, as an art dealer and
poet. As a devoted mother
and homemaker for many
years, when her family was
grown, Joan joined Dave at
Serko & Simon Law Firm as
Chief Operating Officer, a po-
sition she held for over twen-
ty years. She will be most re-
membered for the joy she
brought to all those around
her. Funeral services were
held on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 13, 12:00pm, at Gutter-
man's Funeral Home, 8000
Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury,
NY. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made to the
Diabetes Research Institute
Foundation, 200 S. Park Road,
Ste. 100, Hollywood, FL 33021.
SIESEL—Dorothy R.,
passed away peacefully on
December 15, 2017. She was
predeceased by her devoted
husband, Alfred Siesel and is
survived by her two children
David and Anne Siesel and
grandson, Jonathan. A funer-
al will be held on Wednesday,
December 20, 2017 at 11:00am
at Hawthorne Funeral Home,
21 W. Stevens Ave., Haw-
thorne, NY. Interment to fol-
low. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions are encouraged be
made to: greatnonprofits.org/
org/friends-of-the-encinitas-
library
SINNOTT—Rosemary C.,
75, passed away peacefully
on December 11, 2017 at
Greenwich Hospital. She is
survived by her husband, Pe-
ter, her son, Peter (Erin), and
her handsome grandson, Mi-
chael, of Rye, NY; three
brothers and four sisters: Mi-
chael (Mary) Culhane of Mid-
dlebury, CT; David Culhane of
Milford, CT; Peter (Adrienne)
Culhane of Pacific Palisades,
CA; Anne (Don) Postles of
Williamsville, NY; Maureen
(Big John) Morris of Ridge-
wood, NJ; Maryjane (Paul)
Markey of New Canaan, CT;
and Carroll (Peter) Kennedy
of Big Horn, WY; her seven-
teen nieces and nephews and
ten grandnieces and nep-
hews. A Mass of Christian
Burial will be held on Decem-
ber 23, 2017 at 10am at the
Church of the Resurrection in
Rye. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made in her
memory to your favorite
Cancer Foundation.
SOMMER—Judith,
97, died peacefully at home
on December 12, 2017. Judith
was a civil engineer for the
federal government. After
her retirement, she and her
late husband, Ira Sommer,
loved to travel. Judith also
devoted her time and her
talents to volunteering at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Costume Institute, the Inter-
national Center of Photograp-
hy for over 45 years, and was
accomplished at designing
and making silver jewelry.
She is survived by a niece
and cousins.
STEIN—Werner A., 92, passed
away peacefully surrounded
by his loved ones. Having sur-
vived the Holocaust and hav-
ing lived an incredible life, his
love and generosity will be
sorely missed. He was a cen-
tral figure of the German
Jewish community. His work
with Aufbau brought together
many survivors. He is sur-
vived by his loving wife
Helga, his daughters Barbara
(Henry) and Susan (Jonath-
an), his grandchildren Abra-
ham (Aviva), Rebecca, De-
borah, Samuel, Matthew and
Joseph.
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Quash, Eugene
Radley, Jean-Pierre
Reed, Kerry
Savage, Richard
Schwartz, Steven
Serko, Madeline
Siesel, Dorothy
Sinnott, Rosemary
Sommer, Judith
Stein, Werner
Swire, Edith
Waterhouse, Stephen
Wolf, Judith
Yesawich, Paul
SWIRE, Edith W.
Died on October 27 at the age
of 74 of complications from
pneumonia. She graduated
from Weston High School in
Weston, MA, received a BA
from Wellesley College, and
an MFA from Sarah Law-
rence College. While at Wel-
lesley she met James Ben-
nett Swire, then a student at
the Harvard Law School. Af-
ter their marriage they
moved to New York City and
later to Larchmont, NY
where they resided for al-
most 30 years, before retiring
to New Rochelle, NY. They
were active members of the
Larchmont Yacht Club and
spent summers at the Swire
family home on Three Broth-
ers Islands, on Lake George,
NY. An accomplished Violist
and music educator, she
taught at the Lenox School in
NYC for many years before
founding the Serpentine
String School in Larchmont.
She was an active member of
the InterSchool Orchestras of
New York (ISO), a non-profit
founded in 1972 as a response
to the limited opportunities
for school children in both
public and private schools to
play in an orchestra. She is
survived by her daughter, Eli-
zabeth Emery Swire Falker,
her son-in-law, Charles Falk-
er, two grandchildren, David
Ezekiel Swire Falker and Sa-
mantha Emery Swire Falker,
her sisters, Elizabeth Rabin-
owitz, Martha Blodget, and
Gail O'Leary, her brother-in-
law Edward T. Swire, MD and
his wife Kim Swire, as well as
many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her
husband James in May of
2017 and her identical twin sis-
ter, Jane Berry, in 2014. In lieu
of flowers, donations may be
made to the ISO, Cancer-
Care, or the Alzheimer's
Foundation.
WATERHOUSE—Stephen L.,
74, passed away in New York,
NY on December 8, 2017 after
a brief battle with brain can-
cer. Stephen considered the
world his home, as he trav-
eled to some 40 countries
over the course of his career,
but later in life London, En-
gland, New York City, Vail,
CO and Hanover, NH, his pri-
mary residence, were his fa-
vorite homes. Most of these
locales were far-flung from
his birth place in Sanford,
ME. He first moved on to
Dartmouth College in Hanov-
er, NH, where he received his
undergraduate degree in 1965
and an MBA from the Amos
Tuck School of Business in
1967. Career opportunities
with Procter & Gamble, Avon
Products, Revlon Cosmetics
and Thomas Tilling, among
others, launched him into the
world of international busi-
ness, but he ultimately pre-
ferred his own path and suc-
cessfully founded and man-
aged an executive search
and management consulting
company, Hanover Partners,
Inc. of New York and London.
After his retirement, Stephen
chose to take yet another
road and became an author
of two books: “Dartmouth's
Dedicated Alumni” (2004) and
“Passion for Skiing” (2010)
and the accompanying film,
“Passion for Snow,” which
garnered an Emmy nomina-
tion for Documentary of The
Year (2013). Stephen was also
very devoted to countless
cultural and academic causes
in both England and the Unit-
ed States, including: benefac-
tor of Leighton House, Royal
Opera House, Tate Gallery
and Vail Dance Festival; ad-
visor to Said Business School
at Oxford University; alumni
leader and fundraiser at Dart-
mouth College; trustee of the
Colorado Ski Museum and
trustee emeritus of Hartwick
College; and member of the
Pilgrims Society, Broad
Street Ward Club, American
Society of London, Game
Creek Club of Vail and the
Yale Club of New York City.
Stephen is survived by his
wife of 50 years, Linda Lenge
Waterhouse; his daughter,
Melinda Waterhouse, of New LEE—Sun Yong MD, “Sunny”,
York, NY; his son, James Mar. 30, 1958 - Dec. 15, 2016.
Waterhouse, of Alexandria, On this first anniversary we
VA and his wife Desmarie remember you in NYC. You
Waterhouse and their child- are loved. You are missed.
ren Reese and Huxley Water-
house; and his niece, Marie
Waterhouse, and her family
of Los Angeles, CA and
Washington, DC. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be
made to Memorial Sloan Ket-
tering Cancer Center, the Co-
lorado Ski Museum or the
Rauner Special Collections
Library at Dartmouth Col-
lege. A memorial service will
be held in Hanover, NH dur-
ing January 2018.
WOLF—Judith Andrea.
Beautiful, creative and talent-
ed, with a big heart, Judith
Andrea Wolf, daughter of
Bette and Jack Wolf, our Ju-
dy, was a graduate of Per-
forming Arts High School and
Queens College. She was a
pioneer for women in the air-
line industry and, as such, she
was free to see the world.
And she did. Always ready to
help others in need, Judy
gave of herself without ques-
tion. She passed away Thurs-
day, December 14th. Her
funeral will be held at The
Sanctuary of Abraham and
Sarah Chapel within Cedar
Park Cemetery in Paramus,
New Jersey on Monday, De-
cember 18th at 2pm.
Deaths
YESAWICH—Paul J., Jr.,
94, a resident of New Smyrna
Beach, Florida, passed away
in peace on December 13,
2017. He was born November
27, 1923, in Queens, NY, the
only child of Paul and Mary
Sidabra Yesawich. He was
predeceased by his wife, Bet-
ty, and is survived by three
children: Paul (Susan) of
Charlottesville, Virginia; Pe-
ter (Paris) of Boca Raton,
Florida; and Christopher, of
Brightwood, Oregon; four
grandchildren; and five great-
grandchildren. He was an ac-
complished athlete, lawyer,
judge and legal scholar. A
standout high school basket-
ball player at Brooklyn Tech-
nical High School in Brooklyn,
NY, he accepted a full athletic
scholarship to play basketball
at Niagara University where
he was eventually elected to
the Niagara University Hall of
Fame. His time at Niagara
was interrupted by World
War II, during which he
served as an officer in the
U.S. Navy. He was fond of
telling his children and grand-
children that during the war
he was a member of the All
Navy basketball team - until
his All Navy team lost to the
All Coast Guard team; after
which he was promptly rede-
ployed to serve on the USS
Cepheus, an attack cargo
ship that participated in the
assault on Okinawa in 1945. It
was the largest amphibious
assault of the war, and he
was one of the men who
brought supplies to the beach
to aid in the initial attack. Dur-
ing the assault the Cepheus
came under heavy fire by Ja-
panese aircraft, and aided in
downing three of them. Al-
though he rarely discussed it,
during the war he was also a
member of the Navy Scouts
and Raiders, which became
today's Navy Seals - yet he
was always self-effacing
about his service and quick to
point out that his training and
activities were nothing like
those of modern day Navy
Seals. He graduated from
Niagara University with a BA
in 1948, and an MA in 1950. He
went on to play professional
basketball for the Syracuse
Nationals in the National Bas-
ketball Association before
electing to attend Cornell
Law School, from which he
graduated in 1951, the same
year he was admitted to the
New York bar. Following law
school, he joined the New
York City law firm of Davis,
Polk and Wardwell. He later
served as Assistant Counsel
to the subcommittee of the
Ways and Means Committee
of the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives investigating the
administration of Internal
Revenue laws. In 1955 he and
his family moved to Cortland,
NY, where he became a part-
ner in the law firm of Folmer,
Ryan, Fenstermacher & Ye-
sawich. During this time, he
also served as a Commission-
er of the New York State Law
Revision Commission. He
was appointed to the New
York State Supreme Court by
Governor Nelson A. Rocke-
feller in 1971; that same year
he was elected to serve a full
14-year term on that court.
He was later designated to
serve on the Appellate Divi-
sion, First Department, in
Manhattan, in 1974, remain-
ing there for seven years, si-
multaneously serving as a
trial judge in the Sixth Judicial
Department. During this
time, he also served as a
member of the Advisory Pa-
nel on the Proposed Code of
Evidence for the State of
New York. He was subse-
quently appointed to the Ap-
pellate Division, Third De-
partment, where he served
until his retirement in 1999.
He also served temporarily
as an Associate Justice of the
Court of Appeals, the highest
court in the State of New
York, in 1992. He had a deep
respect for the law, and for
the many attorneys who ap-
peared before him over the
years. His exemplary perso-
nal and professional com-
portment made him a won-
derful role model for his
children and grandchildren,
and a committed mentor to
other lawyers. Those who
knew him will remember him
as a rigorous thinker and gift-
ed writer who possessed a
profound sense of fairness.
His family wishes to thank
Adrienne Tomaka and Nor-
ma Ward for their months of
tireless, quiet, competent de-
votion to caring for “the
Judge,” and for the innumer-
able kindnesses they extend-
ed to him in his later years.
They were, and are, truly an-
gels. A private memorial ser-
vice will be held at the conve-
nience of the family.
In Memoriam
Your loving family
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The ‘Star Wars’ All-Stars

Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill and their
comrades from ‘The Last Jedi’ discuss the difficulties of
new relationships, the thrill of villainy and those porgs.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
LOS ANGELES — While they tell tales of
Death Stars and daddy issues, the “Star
Wars” movies are also stories about dual-
ity: how goodness and evil can coexist — on
the same planet or inside the same person
— and what happens when they collide on
an intergalactic scale.
These themes are revisited once again in
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the eighth
episode in the science-fiction saga that
George Lucas started in 1977. “The Last
Jedi,” which opened on Friday, is the first to
be written and directed by Rian Johnson
(“Brick,” “Looper”). It follows the resound-
ing success of “The Force Awakens,” di-
rected by J. J. Abrams in 2015, about two
young heroes, a scavenger named Rey
(Daisy Ridley) and a renegade
stormtrooper named Finn (John Boyega),
caught up in the search for Luke Skywalker
(Mark Hamill).
The new film continues where “The
Force Awakens” left off, as Rey and Luke
are about to meet on the planet Ahch-To,
and it promises a further exploration of
their relationship to the sullen evildoer Kylo
Ren (Adam Driver) and his nefarious mas-
ter, Snoke (Andy Serkis). It also features
the final performance in the series from
Carrie Fisher, who played Leia and who From left: Adam Driver,
died last December.
At a running time of some two and a half
Daisy Ridley and Mark
Hamill in Los Angeles
hours, “The Last Jedi” continues the adven- this month.
tures of Finn and Poe Dameron (Oscar
Isaac) and their adversaries Captain
Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) and Gen-
eral Hux (Domhnall Gleeson). Somehow it
finds room for the new characters Rose
(Kelly Marie Tran) and Vice Admiral Holdo
(Laura Dern), and a wide-eyed alien
species called porgs.
Like the film they made, the creator and
cast of “The Last Jedi” can encompass a
spectrum of darkness and light, serious-
ness and silliness, all in the same conversa-
tion. Just days before the movie’s opening,
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Daring Act to Save Face

Studying Ridley Scott’s fix for Christopher Plummer,
who was called in to
‘All the Money in the World.’ replace Kevin Spacey.

By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — The sun was setting on Nov.
7, when Christopher Plummer arrived at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan for a
secret, hastily arranged meeting.
He had intended to be resting in Connect-
icut after a whirlwind month. But Ridley
Scott had flown in from London with an ur-
gent plea: Would Mr. Plummer help ex-
punge the disgraced Kevin Spacey from Mr.
Scott’s latest film, one set for theatrical re-
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lease by Sony in just six weeks?
It would mean refilming 22 scenes in “All
The Context festival is meant to bolster the Money in the World,” about the 1973 kid-
napping of John Paul Getty III and his
contemporary dance repertory in Russia. grandfather’s refusal to pay a $17 million
By Marina Harss, Page 9. ransom. “I admire you very much, but I still
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have to read the script,” Mr. Plummer, 88,
recalled telling Mr. Scott, 80, in the Terrace
Boardroom on the hotel’s 11th floor. By the
next morning, Mr. Plummer had agreed to
replace Mr. Spacey as Grandpa Getty.
“At my age, which is enormous, you get
worried that your memory won’t hold up,”
Mr. Plummer said. “But this was too damn
good to pass up.”
And so began a race to pull off something
never before attempted in Hollywood: re-
visiting a finished movie, reassembling ma-
jor members of the cast, refilming crucial
scenes, re-editing many sequences, retool-
ing the marketing campaign — and doing it
all at the last possible minute. Mr. Scott and
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MUSICAL CHESS
WITH A QUEEN
S I M O N V O Z I C K-
LEVINSON
For a time — say, between
“Poker Face” (2008) and
“Born This Way” (2011), both
ubiquitous No. 1 hits — Lady
Gaga stood at pop’s forefront,
embodying the dance-pop trends
of the moment and pointing to-
ward the high-concept videos and
eccentric styles that would later
be in vogue.
Today, a few years past that
peak, she remains an engaging
personality. The best songs on her
most recent album, last year’s
“Joanne,” appear to have bene-
fited from her gently scaled-back
ambitions, suggesting a possible
future as an understated ballad-
eer.
In the meantime, Lady Gaga
has spent much of 2017 touring
North American arenas with a
show that splits the difference
between intimate individuality
and all-out spectacle. The tour’s
final United States stop, on Mon-
day, Dec. 18, at the Forum in
Inglewood, Calif., is a chance to
see her at a turning point, before
she takes her show to Europe in
2018 and figures out her next
move.
Lady Gaga performing
in College Station,
Tex., in October.
FILM
MEANWHILE,
BACK IN THE JUNGLE
K AT H R Y N S H AT T U C K
Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the
Rock, as a teenage nerd
prone to weeping fits who can’t
quite fathom the killer bod fate
has bestowed on him? Believe it
— along with Karen Gillan as his
bookish crush turned martial arts
master, Kevin Hart as a gridiron
powerhouse knocked down to size
and Jack Black as a queen bee
trapped in a middle-age man’s
body.
That’s the cast of “Jumanji:
Welcome to the Jungle,” opening
Wednesday, Dec. 20. It’s a rollick-
ing, often hilarious sequel to the
TOMMY GARCIA/FOX
1995 fantasy starring Robin
Williams, sucked into a treacher-
ous board game. Only this time
the sinister element is in video
form, unearthed during detention
by a high school foursome
(played by Alex Wolff, Madison
Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain
and Madison Iseman) thrust into
a far-flung wilderness after choos-
ing their adult avatars.
Each player has a unique skill
set without which the others can’t
survive to finish the game.
There’s also a kid-friendly moral:
“You should be thinking about
who you are,” their principal
warns, “and who you want to be.”
From left: Kevin Hart,
Karen Gillan, Jack Black
and Dwayne Johnson.
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“Fragile” spoken with an
Italian inflection. That deliri-
ously tasteless leg lamp. And the
repeated warning that “you’ll
shoot your eye out.” Fans still
can’t get enough of “A Christmas
Story,” the beloved 1983 movie
about Ralphie Parker, a bespecta-
cled 9-year old in 1940s Indiana
who’ll do almost anything to get a
Red Ryder air rifle in his stocking.
On Sunday, Dec. 17, Fox will add
the holiday classic to its arsenal of
live productions — “Grease” aired
in 2016; “Rent” is scheduled for
2019 — by way of the Tony-nomi-
nated 2012 Broadway musical it
inspired.
Padded with new songs by Benj
Pasek and Justin Paul (“Dear
Evan Hansen,” “La La Land”), “A
Christmas Story Live!” stars
Matthew Broderick as the narra-
tor, Maya Rudolph as Ralphie’s
mother, Jane Krakowski as his
teacher and Andy Walken as
Ralphie, the role made famous by
Peter Billingsley. It also tags
along with the actors as they zip
from scene to scene via golf carts
in this three-hour Los Angeles-
based production on the Warner
Bros. lot.
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You may have already been
to the first definitive institu-
tional show about Club 57, the
influential gallery, dance club,
movie house, and performance
space located in a St. Marks
THEATER
BUOYANT FUSION
AT JOE’S PUB
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HUGHES
It sounds like a recipe for a
train wreck: A star with
vocal troubles lip-syncing her way
through a live performance that
had to go on. But last Labor Day
weekend, when the Public The-
ater staged a joyous musical
adaptation of “As You Like It” at
the Delacorte Theater in Central
Park, it tapped just the right vocal
understudy to avert disaster —
Shaina Taub, the show’s prodi-
giously talented composer-lyri-
cist, who was already playing the
KENNY SCHARF, VIA HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES
church basement from 1978 to
1983, at the Museum of Modern
Art in Manhattan. (If not, you’ve
got till April.)
But this week you can head
downtown for the opening of a
small related show at Alden
Projects, whose walls will be
plastered with more than a hun-
dred samizdat posters and Xerox
fliers advertising “lurid” film
screenings, shows of Keith Har-
ing’s personal collection of found
TAMMY SHELL
Shaina Taub performing
at Joe’s Pub in
Manhattan.
character Jaques. When Rebecca
Naomi Jones opened her mouth to
sing as Rosalind, Ms. Taub’s voice
came out. And instead of being a
distraction, it added to the show’s
charm.
There may be no such thing as
too much Shaina Taub. It’s bitter-
sweet, then, that she has just one
show left in her residency at Joe’s
Pub in Manhattan, where she’s
been performing once a month all
year, playing old songs and trying
out new ones, fusing pop, jazz,
gospel and Broadway influences
into her singularly buoyant
sound. Last call is Tuesday, Dec.
19, and if you’re in the room, you’ll
know you’re lucky to be there.
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From left: Bruno Testore
Schmidt’s “Allan” (1981),
and Kenny Scharf’s
“Having Fun” (1979).
art and a Velvet Underground
tribute band, plus a number of the
Monster Movie Club’s “nooselet-
ters.” The collection conjures a
time when the city was gritty and
art was still fun.
DANCE
QUICK-WITTED,
QUICK-FOOTED
G I A KO U R L A S
One thing to know about
Michelle Dorrance is that
her mind is as nimble as her feet.
The MacArthur Award-winning
tap dancer, joined by her eclectic
company, Dorrance Dance, winds
down the year at the Joyce The-
ater with two works that cele-
brate the agility of the body and
brain. In “Until The Real Thing
Comes Along,” part-improvised
and part-choreographed, Ms.
Dorrance dances with three stel-
lar guests — alternating among
Jillian Meyers (Dec. 19-27), Melin-
da Sullivan, Josette Wiggan-
Freund and Hannah Heller (Dec.
28-31) — in a showcase of con-
ALEX WELSH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tap dancer Michelle
Dorrance in her Suffolk
Street studio.
trasting tap styles.
The program also features the
reimagined and extended version
of “Myelination,” Ms. Dorrance’s
infectious work for 12, from 2015,
that’s named after the anatomy
term describing how a myelin
sheath forms around a nerve to
allow impulses to move more
quickly. That’s apt. “Myelination,”
set to music composed and per-
formed by Gregory Richardson
and Donovan Dorrance (the
choreographer’s brother) and the
vocalist Aaron Marcellus, zips by.
RYAN COLLERD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
David Lang, who
composed “The Little
Match Girl Passion.”
CLASSICAL
DRONE POWER,
AND A MATCH GIRL
WILLIAM ROBIN
Two contemporary seasonal
traditions are on offering in
New York this week, providing
austerely minimalist but wholly
distinctive aesthetic experiences.
On Thursday, Dec. 21, at
Roulette, the composer and film-
maker Phill Niblock curates his
annual Winter Solstice concert.
The director of the loft series
Experimental Intermedia, Mr.
Niblock is a fixture of the down-
town avant-garde, and the per-
formance will provide a multi-
media immersion in his drone-
based work, unfolding over six
hours on the longest night of the
year.
The next night, the Metropoli-
tan Museum stages David Lang’s
“The Little Match Girl Passion” —
a haunting, Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning reimagining of the Hans
Christian Andersen tale in the
style of Bach’s passions — which
the museum has made a holiday
ritual. Featuring a quartet of
stellar freelance singers, includ-
ing the bass-baritone Dashon
Burton, the Met performance will
also include a participatory com-
ponent: The audience will sing
three hymns interspersed
through the concert, including
one newly composed for the
occasion by Mr. Lang.
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Zendaya Flies Through the Air With Ease
QUOTABLE
‘I walked onto the set on
“Gunpowder” going,
“What do you mean we By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Since the age of 14, Zendaya has been showing off
don’t have 200 extras?”’ her moves on the Disney Channel — first as an
K I T H A R I N GTO N O F ‘ G A M E O F
THRONE S’ ON HIS NEW HBO aspiring dancer in “Shake It Up” and then as a
P R O J E C T, PAG E 1 8 math whiz and karate black belt turned teenage
spy in “K.C. Undercover.” (She’s a pop star, too.)
Now, at 21, she’s soaring into adulthood as a
trapeze artist extraordinaire in “The Greatest
Showman,” Michael Gracey’s movie musical about
P. T. Barnum, opening Wednesday, Dec. 20.
With cotton-candy-hued curls, Zendaya flies
through the rafters — while singing, no less — as
Anne Wheeler, coaxed by an impoverished Barnum
(Hugh Jackman) into joining the circus that will
catapult him to stardom. Her beauty in motion also
captivates Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a high-
society playwright hired by Barnum to lend him an
‘If the ubiquitous nature air of respectability.
of the internet affords “You want it to happen, but you know that it
you to see so much and can’t happen, and that was exciting to me,” Zen-
daya said of the love story that drew her to the
have access to so much, feature film, her second, after “Spider-Man: Home-
how can you care?’ coming.”
P H A R R E L L W I L L I A M S , PAG E 1 7 “There were a lot of opportunities that came my
way that would not have been the right choice —
the low-hanging fruit, doing things just because it’s
a thing to do,” she said about entering this next
phase of her career. “But I wanted to do quality
projects, cool things that made me excited, and I
didn’t care if I only had one line. Saying no is as
important as saying yes.”
Here are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Were you terrified of twirling 40 feet in the air?
A lot of times we’re hooked up to wires. When I
first did my trapeze, I had been training on an-
‘There’s no complete other rig that I had gotten very used to, and I had
a net. Then when I showed up to set, the rigs were
autonomy — you can 15 feet taller and there was no net, and that
only even start thinking freaked me out. But you know what? I did it.
about autonomy in Did you do anything special to land the role of
relation to other things.’ Anne?
T H E G E R M A N A RT I S T H I T O At the time, [the composers Benj Pasek and
S T E Y E R L , PAG E 2 1 Justin Paul] were up and coming. They hadn’t
done “La La Land” yet. They played me a
couple of the songs, including the one [“Re-
write the Stars”] that I would sing with Zac.
And I asked: “Hey, is it cool if I record my
own voice on the record? I want to show you
guys what I can do.” So I played it for the
director, and Michael loved it, and I had a
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How did you and Zac learn to trust each other?
On the first day, they harnessed us together and
lifted us into the air, so we had to quite literally
start holding each other’s weight and lifting each
other up. We became a team very, very quickly.
And then you had to sing together on top of all that.
I take it you recorded the soundtrack first and then
lip synced.
Yeah, I don’t think anybody wants to hear what we
sound like while we’re swinging from these crazy
harnesses and slamming into each other.
Any injuries?
Nothing crazy. Zac and I would compare our little
battle wounds, and the next day we’d be taped up
and smell like Tiger Balm, but you just keep going.
And how was Hugh Jackman?
He’s just so cool, so nice. He works so hard, and
the amazing thing is to be at that success level
and still be the person that he is. That’s gold
right there.
Season 3 of “K.C. Undercover,” which is
currently airing, will be your last hurrah
on the Disney Channel. You famously
made some strong demands before ac-
cepting the role.
The only reason I wanted to come back
to the Disney Channel is because there
was a lack of diversity at that time. There
weren’t any leads or families of color, and I
felt like that was something that needed to
happen. And I thought the idea of a girl
doing a “guy role” was really important.
Young women are able to look at the screen
and see that they can be anything, that they
can do it all. A little boy can look up to a girl
and say, “I want to be like this girl.” And
that’s awesome.
You’ve become a role model for 46 million
Instagram followers. How does that kind of
responsibility feel?
It feels great. Of course, I’m human, so there
are times where I get stressed like anybody
else. But at the end of the day, I try to look at it
as a very positive thing, as a gift. I have mil-
lions of people who look to me for guidance, and
I try to be the best me so that I can try to get
them to be the best of themselves.
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Not Throwing Away His Shot
Jamael Westman, the British
Alexander Hamilton.
By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
LONDON — Jamael Westman was 14 when he
took the stage in his first musical, a school
spoof of “Pirates of the Caribbean” called
“Pirates of the Curriculum.” After that, he
gave musical theater a nice long rest.
But break time is over for Mr. Westman.
Now 25 and a year and change out of drama
school, he is making his West End debut —
and his return to musicals — in the splashi-
est way possible: playing the title role in
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s steam-
roller of a hip-hop hit, in its hotly anticipated
British premiere.
“Musicals are not something I’m too fa-
miliar with, or have been,” Mr. Westman
said one late November morning at a
restaurant in Westminster. Next door, the
Victoria Palace Theater was, from the
street, a picture of disarray. Major renova-
tions that delayed the start of the show’s run
were still underway.
Mr. Westman, by contrast, was utterly
composed — thoughtful, quick-witted and
funny as he talked about his induction into
the world of a juggernaut show whose
power and scale didn’t quite hit him until
he’d already won the job.
It is only the third role on his résumé
since graduating last year from the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art, and when he first
heard about auditions for “Hamilton,” he
couldn’t imagine that he had a chance. “I
kind of just wrote myself off,” said Mr. West-
man, a 6-foot-4 Londoner who spent his
early childhood in Brixton, a neighborhood
that — like the American founding father
Alexander Hamilton himself — has strong
Caribbean ties.
But “Hamilton,” which started perform-
ances here on Dec. 6, didn’t get to be a phe-
nomenon by having a clumsy way with cast-
ing. If you count all of the show’s companies
— Broadway, Chicago, London, the tour of
the United States — the team has found
more than a dozen Hamiltons so far, under-
studies included. Mr. Westman, an intellec-
tually curious, classically trained actor who
loves hip-hop and whose own speech is rap-
id-fire and emphatically italicized, seems a
natural for spitting Mr. Miranda’s intricate
lyrical rhymes.
The director Thomas Kail, who won one
of the show’s 11 Tony Awards last year, said
that part of what got Mr. Westman the role
was his unflappability throughout the audi-
tions, during which he performed in close
quarters for potentially unnerving audi-
ences that included Mr. Miranda and Cam-
eron Mackintosh, who owns the theater
where “Hamilton” is expected to settle in for
a long run.
“I was not just impressed by it, but I was
moved by it,” Mr. Kail said by phone. “Jam
was unfazed, and just got deeper and sharp-
er. That sort of fearlessness is essential to
play this part.”
Mr. Westman credits his ability to keep in
check “all these things that could easily ex-
plode in your mind” partly to the awareness
that losing focus would be counterproduc-
tive — the sort of disciplined alertness that
can only have been helped by his enduring
passion for playing soccer. Yet when he was
auditioning, he also didn’t know enough
about “Hamilton” or Mr. Miranda to be out-
A Puppet Unveils His Naughty Side
‘Pinocchio’ adds more mischief
and music in a stage version.
By MATT TRUEMAN
LONDON — Pinocchio belongs on a stage,
maybe more than any other Disney charac-
ter. The puppet, desperate to be a real boy,
even explains this in song. “Hi-diddle-dee-
dee,” he trills, “an actor’s life for me.”
That wish has come true. For the first
time, this Disney animated classic has been
turned into a musical. The in-demand direc-
tor John Tiffany has overseen the produc-
tion, which opened on Dec. 13 at the Na-
tional Theater.
Disney has tended to guard its oldest
classics, wary of transposing them to the
stage. Ever since “The Little Mermaid”
(1989), however, its films have usually fol-
lowed the structures of musical theater, and
most of its stage shows are drawn from that
era: “The Lion King,” “Aladdin” and, now,
“Frozen.”
“All the animations before that —
‘Dumbo,’ ‘Bambi,’ ‘The Jungle Book’ — they
kind of follow their own rules,” Mr. Tiffany
pointed out on a rehearsal break backstage
at the National. “Pinocchio,” Disney’s sec-
ond film, released in 1940, has only five
songs, and its narrative, about a puppet on
the run, retains the episodic structure of
Carlo Collodi’s original serialized novel.
Thomas Schumacher, the president of
Disney Theatrical Group, said in a state-
ment that the company had batted away
“many inquiries” over time: “Nothing man-
aged to find its stride — until now.”
If Mr. Schumacher holds “Pinocchio” es-
pecially dear, it may be because he trained
as a marionette operator in his pre-Disney
days. It took Mr. Tiffany a year to win him
over.
“There were a couple of marionettes dot-
ted around his office,” Mr. Tiffany said of
their first meeting. The director had just fin-
ished “Once,” the Tony-winning musical,
when he pitched the possibility of “Pinoc-
chio.”
“At the end of the meeting, Tom said,
‘What would you do with it?’” Mr. Tiffany
recalled. “I said, ‘Give me a year and I’ll
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Theater
Left, Jamael Westman,
who was cast in the title
role of “Hamilton,” which
has begun performances
in London. Below,
Rachelle Ann Go as Eliza
Hamilton with Mr.
Westman.
Mr. Westman, whose experience of musi-
cals at the time was limited to a West End
visit to “The Lion King,” eventually fol-
lowed his friend’s advice.
He has, of course, long since been thor-
oughly won over by “Hamilton,” if not nec-
essarily by musicals as a genre. “As much
as this is a musical,” he said, “it’s like an
evolved superbaby of musical and hip-hop.
That’s where I come in.”
By now he has twice read Ron Chernow’s
“Alexander Hamilton,” the biography that
inspired the show, and twice traveled to
New York. His first time ever, for four days
last spring, was for his final audition, where
he performed for the producers Jeffrey
Seller and Oskar Eustis.
Mr. Westman made a Hamilton tour of the
city, visiting spots like Trinity Church,
where Hamilton is buried, and breathing in
the city’s up-tempo energy on long walks
that lasted into the wee hours. On the morn-
ing of the audition, he went to Hamilton
Grange in Harlem, where the Hamiltons re-
treated after the death of their son, to listen
to the song “It’s Quiet Uptown.” He was at
Fraunces Tavern when his agent called to
say he got the part.
“Didn’t get to Weehawken,” Mr. Westman
said, referring to the spot across the Hud-
son River in New Jersey where Hamilton’s
fatal duel with Aaron Burr played out. “That
was a shame.”
“Hamilton” is a very New York story, and
a very American one, about the nation in its
infancy as it was breaking away from
British rule. Yet the show’s racial politics
resonate in London, too.
Just as it is on Broadway, “Hamilton” is
unusual in the West End for having a major-
ity-minority cast — a fact that Mr. Westman
(whose alternate, Ash Hunter, will play the
role at certain performances) finds frustrat-
ing in a multiethnic society. He wants more
inclusivity in casting, which is often white
TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
by default, especially in period pieces. “It’s
like we’re putting chains on our imagina-
right awed. tion,” he said.
He can tell you now that his first experi- The show, with its pro-immigrant mes-
ence of seeing “Hamilton” — on Broadway sage, arrives in London at a time when the
last spring, hours after he got the job — left fallout of the Brexit vote, and an accompa-
him blown away, bawling his eyes out, sud- nying anti-immigrant fervor, have many re-
denly understanding the show’s full force. examining their Britishness.
“I had to call my mum,” he said. “It was the Irish on his mother’s side and Jamaican
most uplifting thing I’ve ever seen.” A few on his father’s, Mr. Westman is among
months later, he brought her and his them.
teenage brother to see it in New York, too. It’s quite a moment, then, for this grand-
But back in drama school, when he and son of immigrants to be starring in a show
some friends were “just vibing on hip-hop that celebrates the people who came from
albums,” sharing them with one another, he elsewhere and helped build a nation. No
casually mocked a friend’s suggestion that matter that, in “Hamilton,” that nation is the
he listen to “Hamilton.” United States. To Mr. Westman, the resem-
“He was like, ‘Man, this is a musical,’” Mr. blance to his own country is clear.
Westman said, making the scornful face of Generation after generation, he said, im-
his smart-aleck student self — not just a hip- migrants have arrived in Britain in need of
hop snob, but also an actor dedicated to “a safe place to start over again” — just like
straight plays despite a lifelong love of sing- Alexander Hamilton in the American colo-
ing. But he was like, ‘No, man, listen to it.’” MATTHEW MURPHY
nies, an ocean away and all those years ago.
Lion King,” puppetry will be at the show’s
core, from Jiminy Cricket to Stromboli’s
stage show. Mr. Tiffany reunited his regular
creative team: the illusionist Jamie Harri-
son, the designer Bob Crowley and the
movement director (and his childhood
friend) Steven Hoggett. The key question,
according to Mr. Tiffany: “How do you
make puppets move like human beings, and
human beings move like puppets?”
That distinction, of course, is pivotal to
“Pinocchio.” For Mr. Kelly, brought on when
Enda Walsh dropped out because of sched-
uling problems, “the question at its heart is
what it is to be human, what it means to be
real.”
Mr. Kelly, a dramatist with a dark sensi-
bility, who put the mischief into “Matilda the
Musical,” was always likely to depart from
Disney’s version. “In the film, Pinocchio’s
told, ‘When you’re courageous and brave
and honest, then you’ll be a real boy,’” he
said. “Don’t lie? Of course, we need to learn
how to lie. Any kid that doesn’t is going to
have problems.”
Mr. Kelly sought inspiration in Collodi’s
original character, a far harsher presence
than Disney’s bashful, blue-eyed boy. Col-
lodi’s Pinocchio kills his cricket with a ham-
mer and burns off his own feet after falling
asleep by the stove. “It starts out with an old
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MANUEL HARLAN man having a kid that he’s desperately
wanted,” Mr. Kelly said, and then that child
come back to you.’” runs off. “The whole thing becomes about
Mr. Tiffany always knew that “Pinocchio” family.” The song “I’ve Got No Strings” al-
needed reinventing. “I was very clear from most says as much.
Above, Joe Idris-Roberts, the start: no lederhosen,” he said. For Mr. Tiffany, that’s richly theatrical.
center, as the title Next to him on the National Theater’s “Pinocchio’s really naughty,” he explained,
character in “Pinocchio,” sofa, Dennis Kelly, the writer of the book for likening him to a rogue or a harlequin. “He’s
a National Theater “Pinocchio,” laughed. “It really doesn’t look all impulse: ‘I want to sleep now. I want to
adaptation of the like the film,” he said. eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.’
animated Disney movie. The proposed overhaul went beyond aes- It’s commedia dell’arte meets Grimm’s
Far left, John Tiffany, the thetics. The aim was to find a theatrical lan- tales.”
director of “Pinocchio,” guage: Mr. Tiffany’s stock-in-trade, be it the All of that has fed Mr. Kelly, who has bor-
with Dennis Kelly, the rough magic of “Harry Potter and the rowed Collodi’s opening image: Gepetto
writer of its book. Cursed Child,” or the explosive physicality carving a block of wood that, suddenly,
of his “Black Watch,” set in Iraq. starts to giggle. (Joe Idris-Roberts, a 23-
The big idea Mr. Tiffany took to Disney year old recent drama school graduate,
was toying with scale. Giant puppets will plays the title character, with Audrey Bris-
play Gepetto and the story’s other adults, son as Jiminy Cricket in a 22-person cast.)
while actors, tied to the flies, will portray its What makes this Disney’s “Pinocchio,”
miniature marionettes. In fact, as in “The CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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Putting Out the Welcome Mat in Song
Performers tell their audiences
what to expect and thank them.
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
With tickets to certain musicals going for
sums in the high three figures — and don’t
forget the long, snaking lines even to get in
the door — Broadway audiences surely de-
serve a little extra acknowledgment.
Something that says, “We’re glad you’re
here” — maybe in song. And shows like
“Come From Away,” “The Band’s Visit” and
“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway
Musical” are obliging nightly.
“You’re asking people to spend two-plus
hours,” said Kyle Jarrow, the “SpongeBob”
book writer. “That’s a big ask. There’s some-
thing appropriate about a song that basical-
ly says, ‘Welcome — we’re going to be here
together for a while.’”
Such songs — the classic of the genre
may be “Willkommen,” from “Cabaret” —
are part of a tradition that dates back at
least to Shakespeare. What’s a prologue if
not a welcome?
According to Laurence Maslon, an arts
professor at New York University, “wel-
come” numbers frequently figured in musi-
cal revues of the early-to-mid 20th century.
“Life Begins at 8:40,” one such show from
1934, took the most direct route: “At exactly
8:40 or thereabouts —/or, even later —/
‘Cabaret’
SONG “Willkommen,” by John Kander and Fred
Ebb
STORY Love, loss and everything louche play out
against the collapse of the Weimar Republic and
the rise of the Nazi Party. The seedy Kit Kat Club
is the great escape — and a great metaphor.
SING A FEW BARS
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
A Puppet Unveils His Naughty Side
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
then? The vintage songs by Leigh Harline,
Ned Washington and Paul J. Smith, includ-
ing “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Give a
Little Whistle” and “I’ve Got No Strings.”
But five tunes do not a musical make, and
Mr. Tiffany immediately ruled out writing
new ones.
“Harmonically and melodically, those
songs are all very much of their period: late
1930s, early 1940s,” explained the orchestra-
tor Martin Lowe, who had worked with Mr.
Tiffany on “Once” and was tasked with
turning the animated film’s small repertoire
of classics into a full score. Rearrangements
were a start, chopping and changing up
those tunes, extending them into the under-
scoring, but it wasn’t enough.
Mr. Lowe looked elsewhere: first, to the
six songs that Disney originally discarded
(one number, “Rolling Along to Pleasure Is-
land,” in particular), then to the title track of
a 1947 Jiminy Cricket spinoff, “Fun and
Fancy Free.” Yet, even with another 88
handwritten pages of original incidental
music, Mr. Lowe was still short.
The answer lay in the Alps. Having
opened “Once” with a preshow medley of
Irish and Czech folk music, he tried the
same trick: “The more we listened to the
movie’s score, the more we realized they
had written new folk songs in the Alpine tra-
dition.”
Encouraged by an approving Disney, he
started scouring for suitable songs to splice
in. “I’ll go anywhere for a folk song,” he said
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Theater
This the-ay-ter comes to life — . . . .” “The
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936” kicked off with
“Time Marches On,” which set the audience
straight on how this Follies would differ
from its predecessors. (“The sex-ridden an-
gle is gone!”)
And in “New Faces of 1952,” the cast
member Ronny Graham spoke-sang:
We’ve never seen you before
You’ve never seen us before
What a pleasant place to finally meet
We vocally take your hand
We vocally shake your hand
Kevin McCollum, the lead producer of
“Something Rotten!” — which opens with
the giddy, satirical “Welcome to the Renais-
sance” — said such numbers often operate
the way overtures once did: “Now a wel-
come song is what sort of settles everybody
in.”
In a few lines, they can do a lot of work, ‘Come From Away’
too: Set the tone. Deliver exposition. Intro-
duce characters. Bring the audience up to
THE SONG “Welcome to the Rock”
speed about a period and place, whether
1960s Maryland (“Good Morning Balti- THE STORY In the aftermath of Sept. 11, dozens of planes
more,” from “Hairspray”) or Upper Man- were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, where, for five
hattan in the early 21st century (the title days, 7,000 stranded passengers depended on the kind-
song from “In the Heights”). ness of strangers.
Here’s a look at five shows that put out SING A FEW BARS
the musical welcome mat, including several
brand-new to Broadway. Welcome to the Rock! If you come from away
You’ll probably understand about a half of what we say
Fremde, étranger, stranger
Glücklich zu sehen
Je suis enchanté
Happy to see you
Bleibe, reste, stay
GOAL “ ‘Willkommen’ serves as a diegetic num-
ber,” Mr. Maslon said. “If you were sitting at a table
at the Kit Kat Club, that’s the song you would hear
the M.C. sing. But at the same time, it’s the song
that welcomes theatergoers to ‘Cabaret.’”
‘The Band’s Visit’
SONG “Welcome to Nowhere”
STORY Because of an error in pronunciation and
communication, the Egyptian musicians who make
up the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra are
stranded overnight in a dot of a town in the Negev
desert of Israel. Nothing happens. Everything
happens.
SING A FEW BARS
Here you are in renowned Bet Hatikva
Go ahead, look around Bet Hatikva
Lucky you, you have found Bet Hatikva
Welcome to Nowhere
GOAL “The song gave me an ‘in’ to explaining
what the town is like,” said David Yazbek, who
wrote the show’s score and lyrics. “It’s definitely a
scene setter. But this is not the type of show that
sings to the audience. It definitely doesn’t break
the fourth wall. It doesn’t even tap the fourth wall.
There is no winking at all. So it’s very handy that
there’s that moment when the character Dina is
welcoming the orchestra members.”
MANUEL HARLAN
AR 7
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
GOALS “The song has a dual purpose,” said David Hein,
who wrote the book and score with Irene Sankoff, his
wife. “The idea of welcoming is what our show is about,
and it’s also what Newfoundland is about. When we went
to Gander on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to do research
for ‘Come From Away,’ we saw the same generosity and
hospitality that the 9/11 people did. We were welcomed
into people’s homes, and it seemed important to honor
that.”
‘Something Rotten!’ With poets, painters and bon vivants
And merry minstrels
Who stroll the streets of London strummin’ their
SONG “Welcome to the Renaissance,” by Karey
lutes (in puffy pants and pointy leather
and Wayne Kirkpatrick
boots)
STORY Two brothers invent the first musical in a
slap-happy attempt to compete with some guy GOAL “The song says: ‘We’re here. This is who
named Shakespeare. (Now on national tour.) we are,’’’ said Mr. McCollum, the producer. “It
tells me about a time I didn’t live in. And the
SING A FEW BARS
lyrics let the audience know that the show isn’t
Welcome to the Renaissance going to be dark. It’s going to be a romp.”
‘SpongeBob SquarePants:
The Broadway Musical’
SONG “Bikini Bottom Day,” by Jonathan Coulton
(one of several contributors to the score)
STORY A violent tremor from an underwater
volcano sends SpongeBob and his friends Patrick
and Sandy into a swivet. Is there something fishy
going on here?
SING A FEW BARS “Ahh . . . Bonjour, Salut and
welcome to this quiet corner of the ocean floor
teeming with all the many kinds of undersea life,”
says the offstage voice of the French narrator to
set the scene for SpongeBob’s own welcome:
Jump out of bed
Mix up a breakfast for my favorite pet snail
Full steam ahead
The S.S. I Am Ready is about to set sail
GOAL “We’re bringing audiences to a place they
may not know,’’ Mr. Jarrow said. “And in the
course of the song, we’re painting a picture of the
underwater world they’ll be inhabiting for the
next two hours.”
David Langham,
far left, as the Fox in
“Pinocchio,” and a
drawing of his costume
by Bob Crowley.
jokingly. “When you start looking, they
come thick and fast.” So much so that the
final show is more or less fully scored. “It’s
more musical than a musical,” as Mr.
Tiffany remarked.
It is not, however, your average Disney
musical.
“It doesn’t immediately sit in the West
End or on Broadway,” Mr. Tiffany insisted.
If Disney and the National seem unlikely
partners, the arrangement allows Mr.
Tiffany the security to take artistic risks.
This isn’t a co-production; the National’s
artistic director, Rufus Norris, made clear
at a news conference that it wouldn’t re-
ceive “one cent” from Disney, and that it re-
tains complete artistic control.
“Disney owns some of the rights involved
in the production,” Mr. Norris said in a later
statement “The notion that anyone can pre-
dict what might become a huge hit is wish-
ful thinking,” he said.
Mr. Tiffany firmly agrees with that senti-
ment. “As soon as I start talking about a fu-
ture life, if it doesn’t have one, it’s a failure,”
he said. “It might not warrant one — and
that would be fine.”
BOB CROWLEY In other words, no strings attached.
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What We Know About ‘Dido and Aeneas’
New information in recent
years breeds new confusion.
By ELLEN T. HARRIS
Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the
most beloved operas in the repertory. Divas
flock to the title role; Dido’s final “Lament”
is a showstopper. Schools and colleges
worldwide perform it; early-music groups
have made it a mainstay; Mark Morris’s
choreographed version of it became one of
his most acclaimed dances.
And yet what do we really know about
this opera? Thirty years ago, I wrote a book
about “Dido and Aeneas” — drawn from
Virgil’s telling of the abandonment of Dido,
the queen of Carthage, by the Trojan hero
Aeneas — at a time we thought we had a
good grip on it.
But I have just completed a wholly re-
vised second edition, and while we’ve
learned quite a bit about “Dido” in the inter-
vening decades, we know even less than we
did then, or at least less than we had imag-
ined. We can no longer say with certainty in
what year the opera was written, where it
had its premiere, who performed it or even
what the original score contained — the
very things that normally provide the foun-
dation for our understanding of a piece of
music.
In 1987, when my book first appeared, the
scholarly consensus was that “Dido and Ae-
neas” was written for Josias Priest’s board-
ing school for young gentlewomen. Its first
performance was thought to have taken
place there in 1689, the year after the Glori-
ous Revolution brought the joint monarchy
of William and Mary to the throne of Eng-
land.
None of that can now be said with any as-
surance. The only surviving libretto from
Purcell’s lifetime does say clearly that the
opera was performed at Josias Priest’s
boarding school. Unfortunately, it lacks a
date. And the once-confident assumption
that the opera was composed and had its
premiere in 1689 took a hit with the discov-
ery of a libretto for John Blow’s “Venus and
Adonis,” the clear model for Purcell’s work,
composed around 1683.
Like the one surviving libretto for “Dido
and Aeneas,” the “Venus” libretto was
printed for a performance at Priest’s school,
but it includes — in large type — the state-
ment that it had been “formerly performed
before the king.” This simple phrase wiped
away our blind assumption that the single
libretto for “Dido” represented its first per-
formance.
That is, if “Venus,” which we know was
performed at the court of Charles II, was
later performed at Priest’s school, “Dido”
might well have followed the same path.
Maybe “Dido” had its premiere at court.
Maybe it was a court commission but for
some reason not performed there. Maybe
1689 wasn’t even the correct date for the
known performance at Priest’s school.
This takes us back to how that 1689 date
was determined in the first place: A spoken
“Epilogue to the Opera of ‘Dido and Aene-
as,’ performed at Mr. Priest’s Boarding-
School in Chelsey,” written by the poet and
playwright Thomas D’Urfey, was published
in his “New Poems” of 1690. Its date and the
reference within the poem to “turning
times” seemed to tie “Dido” to the Revolu-
tion of 1688.
This connection, in turn, led to the theory
ELLEN T. HARRIS, a professor of music emeritus
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is
the author of “Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aene-
as’” (Oxford University Press).
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that the opera was an allegory connected to
the coronation of William and Mary on April
11, 1689, a cautionary tale depicting the sad
outcome if the foreign-born William (who
was Dutch) was not true to his English
queen and people. This is a plausible inter-
pretation, except that the presumed date of
1689 for the opera’s premiere no longer
holds a valid claim. This is not to say, of
course, that the opera wasn’t performed in
1689, or that a new epilogue wasn’t written
for that occasion, but simply that the opera
was not originally written as an allegory of
Classical
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(1989). Middle, a portrait
of Henry Purcell by John
Closterman. Above right,
the first page of the
libretto, showing the
Prologue. Above, a
copyist’s manuscript.
William and Mary.
What, then, were the “turning times”
mentioned by D’Urfey? The 1680s saw
three separate monarchies in England:
Charles II reigned until his death in 1685;
James II then came to the throne until the
Revolution of 1688. If “Dido and Aeneas,”
like Blow’s “Venus and Adonis,” had been
first commissioned for a court perform-
ance, and if the opera was not intended to
celebrate the ascension of William and
Mary, then other scenarios could be consid-
ered.
Some have connected the opera to James
II, with a suggested date of 1687, or to
Charles II, with a proposed date of 1684. But
only when a date of composition or perform-
ance is firmly determined will it be possible
to say whether any of the royal allegories
might be valid.
The most exciting discovery about “Dido
and Aeneas” in the past 30 years was made
by the English scholar Bryan White in 2009
and entails a letter written from Aleppo, in
present-day Syria. For younger sons, who
had little hope of inheriting family lands or
wealth under the rule of primogeniture, a
seven-year apprenticeship in Aleppo was a
path to wealth and position as a merchant
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trader. Rowland Sherman was one such ap-
prentice. He departed for Aleppo in 1688 and
remained there the rest of his life.
A music lover, Sherman brought a harpsi-
chord with him and later arranged for a
small organ to follow. On Feb. 15, 1689, about
four months after his arrival, he wrote to a
merchant in London asking for a complete
“account of musical compositions and per-
formances in the town.” Specifically, he
wondered if “Harry” had made a harpsi-
chord transcription of the symphony in a
masque (an operalike courtly entertain-
ment) he wrote for Priest’s boarding school.
He went on to say that there was “another
symphony” in C minor at the beginning of
the second part that had a “neat point” of
imitation all in eighth notes; he wrote that
he would like this one, too, if it had been
transcribed for harpsichord.
What a tantalizing letter. The masque
performed at Priest’s school seems to refer
to “Dido.” The description of the “second
symphony” matches the overture of the
opera. The first symphony would have been
what preceded the long prologue to the
opera, the text of which appears in the li-
bretto but the music for which has been lost.
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The letter seems to confirm that Purcell did
originally set this section to music. (As an
extra treat, it appears to tell us that Henry
Purcell was known to his friends as Harry.)
If indeed the letter does refer to Purcell’s
opera, then by working backward to Sher-
man’s departure from London, the perform-
ance at Priest’s school would have occurred
toward the end of 1687, placing that per-
formance in the reign of James II. But even
accepting that — and the evidence is far
from definite — we have no better grip on
when the opera was actually written,
whether it was first performed at court and,
if so, for which monarch: James II or
Charles II. Even the date of 1689 for a pro-
duction at Priest’s school is not necessarily
eliminated, but simply downgraded to a
subsequent performance, with a newly
written epilogue for the occasion.
One might think that the lack of a definite
place and date for the “Dido” premiere
doesn’t much matter if we have Purcell’s
music. Unfortunately, things are not so sim-
ple. Here, too, there are gaping holes in our
knowledge. The best musical source, known
as the Tenbury manuscript, was once
thought to date from a period close to the
opera’s composition and performance. In
fact, as I showed 30 years ago, the earliest
possible date for this manuscript is 1777, the
year the paper on which the score is written
was first produced, and almost 100 years af-
ter the opera was written.
Although the Tenbury manuscript re-
mains (almost unbelievably) the earliest
source for the opera, it does not follow the
A letter written from
Aleppo in 1689 contains
intriguing hints.
libretto from Priest’s school and has been
influenced, we know from textual variants,
by the performances of “Dido and Aeneas”
on the London stage in 1700 and 1704 in
terms of its layout, inclusion of movements
and many additional details. The full extent
of this influence, however, still cannot be de-
termined without earlier sources.
Further complicating the issue are a
large number of musical sources contempo-
rary with the Tenbury manuscript that pre-
serve an updated adaptation of the score.
As Bruce Wood has recently pointed out,
these scores, despite their heavy-handed
revisions, seem in places to preserve details
of the original better than the Tenbury
manuscript.
As a result, many questions remain, some
of which reflect back to the question of the
opera’s premiere and whether one imagines
a cast made up largely of schoolgirls or a
group of professional singers: Was the role
of the villainous Sorceress originally writ-
ten for a soprano or a bass? How should the
musical issues in the alto parts of the
choruses be resolved? And how much ex-
actly does the Second Woman sing?
A piece of evidence or a score might turn
up that answers all our questions. History
and serendipity tell us as much. There are,
however, no hot leads.
In the meantime, the mystery surround-
ing “Dido” gives full rein to the imagination.
Scholars offer hypotheses that provide new
ways of looking at the work. Musicians feel
free to try a variety of stylistic approaches.
Directors contemplate the sexual, social
and political aspects of this famous story of
love lost. The history of “Dido and Aeneas”
has only grown richer as we have discov-
ered how little we actually know.

Russia’s Contemporary Turn
A festival caters to those who
are tired of ‘Swan Lake.’
By MARINA HARSS
MOSCOW — Since the 19th century, Russia
has been synonymous with classical ballet
— the country of “Swan Lake” and “Sleep-
ing Beauty.” The czars were avid con-
sumers. So, too, were the Soviet leaders,
who invariably dragged foreign dignitaries
to the ballet to show off the prowess of
larger-than-life dancers like Maya Pliset-
skaya, Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir
Vasiliev.
But the glories of Russian ballet didn’t
leave much space for the development of a
strong modern or contemporary tradition.
There was no Russian Martha Graham or
Merce Cunningham. Since the 1990s, the
country has been playing catch-up, with
varying degrees of interest and success.
The Bolshoi and Mariinsky have performed
works by Twyla Tharp and William
Forsythe. More recently, Jean-Christophe
Maillot created a production of “The Tam-
ing of the Shrew” for the Bolshoi. And a
small number of contemporary-dance festi-
vals have introduced audiences to nonballet
companies from abroad.
Into this burgeoning field has come Diana
Vishneva, the star ballerina who for years
divided her time between the Mariinsky
Ballet in St. Petersburg and American Bal-
let Theater in New York. (She retired from
Ballet Theater in June.) In recent years, she
has shown a keen interest in a more con-
temporary repertory, and in 2013, she
founded Context, a festival devoted to con-
temporary dance.
“At the beginning, of course, there was re-
sistance to this idea,” she said recently over
tea at the gigantic Metropol Hotel here,
across from the Bolshoi — and steps from
the Kremlin. “They were questioning why a
classical dancer is doing this.”
But Ms. Vishneva said she had a mission
to foster homegrown talent. Though most of
the choreographers presenting work at the
festival are non-Russians, one of its main
features is a choreographic competition and
showcase for Russian dance makers. More
than a hundred applied this year from all
over the county.
Five years ago, the festival consisted of
three days of performances in small the-
aters in Moscow — by any measure, its
growth has been remarkable. This year’s
edition, held in Moscow and St. Petersburg,
filled eight days, with multiple daily per-
formances, master classes, talks and film
screenings. Featured artists included the
German troupe Gauthier Dance and the
British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s
company. The much-loved ballerina
Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo, a
star of American Ballet Theater, appeared,
in a pas de deux created for them, also by
Mr. McGregor. And for the first time, a work
by the American Justin Peck was per-
formed in Russia.
“It has pushed all the other festivals
aside,” the prominent Moscow critic
Tatyana Kuznetsova said in an interview in
a cafe here on a rainy afternoon. “Contem-
porary dance is popular in Russia right now,
and Diana Vishneva is very well known,
more than the heads of other festivals.”
As Ms. Kuznetsova points out, Ms. Vish-
neva’s efforts are timely: “People are fed up
with ‘Swan Lake.’”
And Ms. Vishneva is well placed to offer
an alternative. Not only does she have the
contacts with companies and choreo-
graphers all over the world, but she also has
the kind of glamour and renown that at-
tracts attention — and, no less important,
sponsors.
Most of the Context performances I at-
tended in Moscow were packed. There were
roving society photographers and selfie
walls. At one performance, statuesque cou-
ples posed with a pair of Genesis luxury se-
dans; at another, Sberbank gave away
fancy chocolate truffles. And while some
people complained of the high price of tick-
ets, Konstantin Selinevich, Ms. Vishneva’s
husband and close collaborator, insisted
that there are always low-priced tickets
available for students and dancers.
The glamour and buzz, Ms. Vishneva
said, serve a higher purpose: the quest to
encourage young choreographic talent
within Russia, which has lagged behind
Western Europe and the United States.
(Both the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky, the
country’s two top companies, now have
choreographic workshops.) “It would be
next to impossible for them to come to the
Bolshoi and present something a bit un-
cooked, a bit raw,” she said.
The winners are awarded scholarships,
commissions for new works, or sometimes
opportunities to have their pieces per-
formed abroad. Ms. Vishneva takes an avid
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interest in their development. “We give
them feedback,” she said. “We stay in
touch.”
Ms. Vishneva, who has final say in the
competition, has also championed work by
women. The winners for the last two years
have been women, Olga Vasilieva (2016)
and Olga Labovkina (2017). Ms. Vishneva
will present Ms. Vasilieva’s latest work,
“The Room,” at the Holland Dance Festival
next February. “We live in a woman’s age,”
Ms. Vishneva said, with a smile.
At least one of her picks has gone on to
make his mark: Vladimir Varnava, the first
winner, in 2013. Now 29, he is considered one
of the most promising young choreo-
graphers in Russia. This year he created a
ballet, “Yaroslavna. The Eclipse,” for the
Mariinsky, set to a score by the Soviet com-
poser Boris Tishchenko.
Mr. Varnava is an interesting case; a
Dance
dancer and choreographer who comes from
the very fringes of Russian culture. He grew
up in Kurgan, a town in the Urals, on the bor-
der with Kazakhstan.
“Imagine a town that was all about agri-
culture and had a factory that produced
tanks for the army,” he said between festival
rehearsals. “But then, after the war, there
was less demand, and it was slowly decay-
ing.” He started out at a small studio run by
a young couple; the wife had some ballet
training, the husband was a folk dancer.
Their inspiration often came from televi-
sion and music videos.
“We were inspired by some Western
tendencies, like Michael Jackson, or shows
like ‘Riverdance,’” he said. “It was all
patched together.” But there was no connec-
A star ballerina wants
to put a forward spin
on a nation’s repertory.
tion between what he was doing and the
larger world of contemporary dance. It was-
n’t until he saw a video of a production by
the French choreographer Angelin Preljo-
caj on YouTube, he said, that he realized
what he was missing. He went to Paris to
study for a year.
Mr. Varnava’s work was featured as part
of a triple bill of Stravinsky ballets — all by
Russian choreographers — at the Stani-
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Clockwise from top: the
Perm Ballet performing
“The Fairy’s Kiss” at the
Context festival in
Moscow; Diana
Vishneva, the founder of
the festival; a Perm
performance of
“Petrushka”; two
“Petrushka” performers
waiting in the wings; and
Perm dancers backstage.
slavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko The-
ater, a house of moderate size. (All three
works were performed by the Perm Ballet.)
Mr. Varnava tackled the well-known ballet
“Petrushka.” His staging was imaginative
and sensitive, the action set in a circus
where the wobbly-kneed protagonist vied
with a cartoonish strongman for the atten-
tions of a Carmen Mirandaesque beauty.
The Stravinsky evening turned out to be
a high point of the festival, thrillingly the-
atrical and choreographically rich. The
opener, “The Fairy’s Kiss,” was like a pop-
up children’s book version of a ballet, com-
plete with a colorful windmill and puffy sto-
rybook clouds. Filled with stomping folk
dances and lively pointwork, the choreogra-
phy had an unmannered, almost naïve qual-
ity.
The style suited both the story — about a
boy who falls in love with a local girl but is
spirited away by a fairy — and Stravinsky’s
music, which draws liberally from various
Tchaikovsky melodies. The choreographer,
Viacheslav Samodurov, was once a Mariin-
sky star, and Ms. Vishneva’s partner. (Third
on the bill was a kind of dance-history
pageant by Alexey Miroshnichenko, set to
the music of “Firebird.”)
Not all of the festival programs were sat-
isfying. The opening gala was hit or miss,
and a premiere, by Goyo Montero — the fes-
tival’s first commission — relied on well-
worn clichés of contemporary dance. A
semiabstract evening-length work about
Nijinsky by Marco Goecke proved repeti-
tive and so narratively opaque that it re-
quired spoken text to clarify the stage ac-
tion.
But there is hope for contemporary dance
in Russia. A new generation of dance mak-
ers, little known in the West, is clearly on the
rise, encouraged by festivals like Context,
and choreographic workshops at the major
companies. Ms. Vishneva’s efforts are cre-
ating momentum. And her ambitions con-
tinue to grow.
Soon, she hopes to expand her operations
beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg: “We
have been talking to people in Yekaterin-
burg and across Russia.” Considering what
she’s accomplished so far, the odds would
seem in her favor.
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The All-Stars
Of ‘Star Wars’
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
they gathered for what felt at times like a
solemn high school graduation and, at other
times, like its after-party.
Here, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Ridley, Mr.
Boyega, Mr. Hamill, Mr. Driver, Mr. Serkis,
Mr. Isaac, Ms. Christie, Mr. Gleeson, Ms.
Tran and Ms. Dern discuss their work on
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and some of the
Above from left: Andy questions it raises. These are edited ex-
Serkis, the director Rian cerpts from that conversation.
Johnson (standing),
Audiences have a strong sense of what they
Domhnall Gleeson,
Laura Dern, Gwendoline
think a “Star Wars” film should look and feel
like. But Rian, you make films that are
Christie, Oscar Isaac,
personal and idiosyncratic. How do you do
Daisy Ridley, Adam
that in a “Star Wars” movie?
Driver, Mark Hamill,
John Boyega and Kelly RIAN JOHNSON I don’t think you try to. It
Marie Tran. would be bad news if you came into this say-
ing, “How do I make this mine?” You’re just
desperately trying to make a good “Star
Wars” movie — to me that means that it’s a
‘It’s a balance balance between opera and bubble gum. It
should make you come out of the theater
between opera and and feel like you’re 10 years old, and want to
bubble gum.’
grab your spaceships and start flying
around. On top of everything else.
For the veterans of “The Force Awak-
ens” ——
DAISY RIDLEYI’m not a fan of the word “vet-
eran.” We did one movie! How about ac-
tors?
JOHNSON Sophomores.
As you make your way through Star Wars
High ——
OSCAR ISAAC I was so high the whole time.
[Laughter]
There are actors you were paired with and
worked with closely on the last film. What
was it like to have those relationships
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Film
scrambled and rearranged on “The Last
Jedi”?
ISAAC What Rian did so well was that he
asked the really tough questions. Not only
of the characters, but also about the themes
that “Star Wars” brings up. What is to be a
Jedi? What is it to be a hero? What is it to be,
in my case, a hotshot pilot? And then try to
find the opposite of that — the hardest
thing, the thing that’s furthest away, and
have that be what the character has to deal
with. Even in pairing the characters, he’s ta-
king away what you know, and making you
as uncomfortable as possible.
Was it bittersweet to have Finn and Rey, our
heroes from “The Force Awakens,” split up?
JOHN BOYEGA It was horrible when I read
the script for the first time and I wasn’t with
her. We auditioned together. We went
through this whole experience together. To
be split apart was scary for me. But then I
understood that is something that we could
draw from — something that Finn really
feels, and Rey really feels. And then I was
like, “Oh! Rian does know what he’s doing.”
[Laughter]
RIDLEY I felt the same. When I read the
script, I didn’t cry right away. I was like,
“Wobble, wobble, wobble, [shaky voice] I’m
probably going to cry and I need to see
Rian.” Then I went into Rian’s office and I
was crying my eyes out. I’m not great with
new people. I think Mark can attest to that.
[Silence, then laughter]
ADAM DRIVER No one says, “No, you’re
great!” Everyone else is like, “Yeah.”
RIDLEY I find it really difficult to relax. And
then that’s influencing someone else’s per-
formance. You don’t want to be the thing
that’s holding something back, when there’s
me, going, [awkwardly] “So . . . how’d you
get into all this?” Mark and I were lucky
enough to have proper rehearsal time, and
then we could talk through everything with
Rian. It ended up feeling great, but it was
nerve-racking.
We were just getting to see the relationship
between Luke and Rey before the curtain
came down on Episode VII. In Episode VIII,
were you able to pick up where you left off?
We had no relationship in VII.
MARK HAMILL
It’s left up to the audience to decide if he
knows who she is. They established earlier
that I had a telepathic ability with my sister
— would I know what’s going on now?
Would I know I lost my best friend? That’s
all left up to the audience, and that’s in the
great tradition of the cliffhangers that in-
spired George in the first place. “Continued
next week.” Two years, in this case. But
don’t worry, it’s only five months until the
next one. [Rolls eyes] Great marketing
there, Disney. [Laughter] What are they go-
ing to do, fire me?
LAURA DERN Luke Skywalker, ladies and
gentlemen. That’s why they titled it “The
Last Jedi.”
RIDLEY When I meet people I’m not like
[gasps]. [Mr. Hamill pretends to pout, as
Ms. Dern playfully rubs his back in com-
fort.] I’m more impressed with a human
than a reputation. To me, I was working
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with Mark, I wasn’t working with Luke. I
was nervous because I was working with a
new person and I wanted to do my best, and
I wanted the scenes to go well. Luke is re-
garded in this way, and Rey does under-
stand that. But Rey, on a very human level,
is asking something of Luke: “I need some
advice here.” We were able to pick up right
where we left off, chronologically, and it
worked very well.
Is it uniquely satisfying to play a villain in a
“Star Wars” movie, where you get to be
especially villainous?
DOMHNALL GLEESON It was a delightful sur-
prise, having people come up to me after
“The Force Awakens” and say, “You were so
bad in that movie.” It meant a lot to me.
[Laughter]
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE It’s always exciting to
be bad, isn’t it? It’s even more exciting to be
bad as your job. And in a context where it
doesn’t impact human lives. It’s particu-
larly resonant at the moment, the idea of,
what is a better use of human energy: to
serve the group or to serve the individual?
Andy, you play Supreme Leader Snoke, one
of your many motion-capture characters, so
there’s a whole other layer to your perform-
ance.
There’s a gold lamé layer. The
ANDY SERKIS
Supreme Leader as Hugh Hefner, that’s

JULES HEATH/LUCASFILM
something that I particularly grabbed onto.
The luxuriousness of it all. The thing about
Snoke is, leaders are fearful people, because
when you’re in a position of maximum
power, you can only lose power. And that
fear drives nearly all decisions. That fear
then makes you aggressive. It makes you
want to destroy others. It makes you unable
to see or care about others. But when you’re
creating a villain character, it’s about hu-
manizing — there’s something important in
the task of creating Snoke to find his vulner-
ability, because that makes him even more
dangerous and despicable.
Adam, I wouldn’t say that Kylo Ren is strictly
an evil person, even though we’ve seen him
do terrible things. Where does he come
from for you?
DRIVER The best way I can describe it is, it’s
like a conversation that we started with J. J.
and it continues through this film. It was
less interesting to think of him as pure evil,
because I don’t really know what that is.
He’s someone who thinks he’s right, more
than he thinks what he’s doing is bad. When
I meet people who are unable to hear the
other side, who not only think they’re right
but they’re justified, then there’s no end to
what they would do to make sure that their
side wins. To me, that’s more dangerous, be-
cause the boundaries are limitless. As op-
posed to just being evil, that seems like it
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can’t sustain itself. When you feel morally
justified, that feels more long-lasting and
more unpredictable.
He has a lot of emotional conflict but you
seem pretty even-keeled. Am I reading you
correctly?
DRIVER No. [Laughter] I’m a rational per-
son. And then I killed my father. [Laughter]
This is the first “Star Wars” movie for Kelly
Marie Tran and Laura Dern. What is it like to
be initiated into this franchise?
KELLY MARIE TRAN It is both horrifying and
amazing. Obviously, I was intimidated, but I
never felt intimidated, personally, in Regina
George fashion. Every single person sitting
here was honest and open. I was allowed to
go to set when I wasn’t working and watch
them perform. I felt like I was in this epic
acting school that I didn’t have to pay for.
Someone just gave me the key.
DERN I have to discredit you, Daisy, with
your comments about yourself [not being
great with new people]. When my daughter
came to set, she said, “Oh my God, Mom, do
you think we get to see Rey?” I was like,
“Oh, we don’t want to bother people.” And
then your trailer door opened, and you
went, [singing to the “Jurassic Park”
theme] “Laura Der-rrrr-rrn, Laura Der-
rrrr-rrn.” [Laughter] My daughter was like,
Film
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“She’s the most welcoming person.”
HAMILL Another royalty for John Williams.
How do you make a movie that finds time to
provide moments for every one of these ac-
tors?
JOHNSON That’s part of the reason that this
movie is a little longer than all the others.
ISAAC He made sure everyone gets to cry.
JOHNSON “Star Wars” is on the public stage
in a way that nothing else is. But even on a
big scary thing like this, every single one of
these people was excited to step outside
their comfort zones, to go to places that
were really interesting but not necessarily
easy.
HAMILL Like the top of Skellig Michael [the
Irish island whose steep, precarious moun-
tains are used as the setting for Ahch-To].
JOHNSON I offered to carry you on my back,
Yoda-style, but you didn’t trust my legs.
HAMILL Really, when I read VII, I said, “Oh,
they’ll do it with green screens and J. J. will
be up the road — I’ll be done by lunch.” Lit-
tle did I know, I’ll suffer for your art, kid.
JOHNSON In the edit room, you get to a point
where you realize, ah, we could make the
movie shorter but we’d have to give some-
body short shrift, and we’re not going to do
that because every one of these guys has an
amazing journey in the movie.
AR 11
JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Is there a character, other than your own,
that you wish you’d gotten to play in this
film?
ISAAC What Adam does in this movie is in-
sane. It’s incredible. [Mr. Driver begins
looking around awkwardly, as if searching
for a way to escape the room.] It’s so wild
and unpredictable and very magnetic. It
made me very jealous.
BOYEGA I have to second that. I was blown
away by the conflict and the change in the
character arc. And the fights.
ISAAC Oh, the fights. The beautiful fights. ‘When you’re
BOYEGA It reminds me, as a guy, of the tran- creating a villain
sition from a boy to a man, learning how to character, it’s about
maintain a certain type of energy that you
have and choosing the way you let it free. humanizing.’
That’s what he struggles with.
Who here got to meet the porgs?
RIDLEY I got to meet the porgs, but also, I’ve From far left: Oscar
gotten about 300 questions about the porgs. Isaac, Daisy Ridley, Kelly
What’s the big deal about porgs? They Marie Tran and John
wouldn’t even be able to fly. Their body-to- Boyega in scenes from
wing ratio is like a chicken. They can’t! “Star Wars: The Last
Jedi.”
DERN The more I went on about how ador-
able they are — it was like looking into the
eyes of E.T., I loved those eyes so much —
Oscar only continued to talk about different
recipes.
ISAAC Porgs with roasted turnips. Glazed
porg.
What would you like to see happen to your
characters in Episode IX? Do you want to
have that much influence over them?
ISAAC Sorry, I was still talking about porg
recipes.
JOHNSON It depends on who survives at this
point.
GLEESON I only have a small part to play in
all this, but if I had decided what I was going
to do, from the last one to the next one, it
wouldn’t have been nearly as surprising as
what Rian came up with it.
ISAAC It’s amazing to think about giving up
that feeling of control. You have to just be
open and see what’s next.
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Film

Daring Act to Save Face

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
others worked 18-hour days as they rushed
to finish in nine days what would typically
have taken at least a month.
“You can sit there and let something kill
you, or you can take action,” Mr. Scott said in
his no-nonsense way. “I took action.”
Over the last three months, sexual har-
assment scandals have impacted nearly ev-
ery corner of Hollywood. As men like Mr.
Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K.
have been accused of vile behavior, enter-
tainment companies have mostly re-
sponded by shelving or delaying movies
and TV shows associated with them. In
wake of the allegations against Mr. Spacey
— he apologized for one incident and has
not responded to other claims — Netflix
halted production on “House of Cards” and
abandoned “Gore,” a completed film star-
ring Mr. Spacey as Gore Vidal.
Release plans were canceled for Louis
C.K.’s film “I Love You, Daddy” after women
told The New York Times that he mastur-
bated in front of them. He later confirmed
the accounts and has been trying to buy
back the film’s rights. Fighting to stay afloat
in the aftermath of sexual harassment and
rape allegations against Mr. Weinstein, the
Weinstein Company was forced to sell dis-
tribution rights to “Paddington 2,” delay a
period film called “The Current War” and
watch as TV networks terminated contracts
for planned series. Through a spokeswom-
an, Mr. Weinstein has repeatedly denied
“any allegations of nonconsensual sex.”
But “All the Money in the World”
presented unique challenges. A trailer was
already on heavy rotation in theaters.
Awards prognosticators (nudged along by
Sony publicists) had also been touting Mr.
Spacey’s performance as Oscar-worthy.
Sony and Imperative Entertainment,
which produced and financed “All the
Money in the World,” held a series of emer-
gency meetings starting on Oct. 30, a day
after Mr. Spacey apologized for making un-
wanted sexual advances toward the actor
Anthony Rapp in 1986, when Mr. Rapp was TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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14. As more men came forward with similar
allegations, outrage poured onto the inter-
net, with some people vowing to organize a
boycott of “All the Money in the World.” At
that point, the movie’s scheduled premiere
was two weeks away.
Hitting the pause button was the obvious
move. But Thomas E. Rothman, Sony’s
movie chief, said he was adamant that push-
ing back the release would tarnish the film
even more. There was no better release
window for a sophisticated drama than the
Christmas holiday, the year’s biggest ticket-
selling period. And they needed to stay
ahead of a mini-series about the kidnapping
in the works at FX.
It was decided that “All the Money in the
World,” which also stars Michelle Williams
as the kidnapped boy’s desperate mother
and Mark Wahlberg as a Getty family fixer,
would arrive on Dec. 22 as planned. (Sony
eventually settled on Dec. 25.) “I didn’t
think there was any solution,” Mr. Rothman
said. “We would have to muddle through the
best we could.”
Sony marketers scrambled to shift gears.
The studio had been leaning heavily on Mr.
Spacey’s performance to generate interest.
The trailer climaxed with images of him as
the elderly Getty, a transformation that re-
quired facial prosthetics and heavy make-
up. But suddenly the studio’s messaging to
entertainment journalists switched — Mr.
Spacey’s role was only supporting, the real
stars were Ms. Williams and Mr. Wahlberg.
Sony also rushed to distribute new posters
in theaters.
A few days later, two of the film’s
producers, Dan Friedkin and Bradley
Thomas, unexpectedly arrived at Mr. Roth-
man’s office. They told him they were deter-
mined not to let the wrongdoings of one per-
son damage the film. And they floated an
audacious idea that they had privately dis-
cussed with Mr. Scott: What about replac-
ing Mr. Spacey with another actor? Mr.
Plummer, perhaps.
“That would theoretically be fantastic,”
Mr. Rothman said he responded. “But I
have supervised 450 movies over the
course of my career. And what you are say-
ing is impossible. There is not enough time.”
The producers conceded that reworking
the movie was risky. The plan would cost
roughly $10 million, raising the total produc-
tion budget to more than $50 million — a
huge amount for a period drama aimed at
older adults.
But impossible? Not with the experi-
enced and indefatigable Mr. Scott in the di-
rector’s chair, Mr. Friedkin maintained.
“Twenty years from now, I want to be able to
pull this film off the shelf and be proud of it,”
Mr. Friedkin said.
This is where the story of “All the Money
Clockwise from top: in the World” becomes about, as Mr. Roth-
Ridley Scott, left, with man colorfully put it, “two octogenarians
Christopher Plummer in kicking absolute ass.”
Rome; Kevin Spacey as With Sony’s blessing, Mr. Scott sprang to
J. Paul Getty in “All the action, convincing Mr. Plummer to take on
Money in the World”; the challenge. (Why Mr. Plummer? Mr.
Michelle Williams and Scott had considered him during the initial
Mark Wahlberg in a casting process but went with Mr. Spacey
scene; Mr. Plummer, who for reasons that included scheduling.) The
said of Mr. Scott’s offer, director said he did not tell Mr. Spacey that
“This was too damn good he was being replaced because Mr. Spacey
to pass up.” had never contacted him to discuss the mis-
conduct allegations.
“A phone call would have been nice,” Mr.
Scott said. “At first I was disappointed.
Then I was mad.” He added that nothing in
Mr. Spacey’s contract prohibited his re-
placement; he got paid. Representatives for
Mr. Spacey did not respond to requests for
comment.
Mr. Scott, who called the assertions about
Mr. Spacey’s behavior “shocking,” also
managed to bring back Mr. Wahlberg and
Ms. Williams, both of whom agreed to work
through Thanksgiving because of the se-
vere time constraint. Production on “All the
Money in the World” resumed on Nov. 20 in
London, with the cast and reassembled
crew moving to Rome a few days later.
The actual kidnapping had taken place in
Italy. Operatives in the ’Ndrangheta crime
SONY
syndicate held the teenage Getty hostage
for five months, even chaining him to a
stake in a cave. At one point, the kidnappers
cut off Getty’s ear and mailed it to a Rome
newspaper. He was ultimately released for
a payment of roughly $3 million.
“It’s almost a grand documentary, a blow-
by-blow look at how and why a family — one
blessed with so much wealth — disinte-
grates into tragedy,” Mr. Scott said.
‘You can sit there and let
something kill you, or
you can take action.’
Since the original scenes had all been
filmed on location, no sets needed to be re-
constructed, saving a lot of time. Also mak-
ing the situation more manageable: Mr.
Plummer was nearer in age to the charac-
ter, making it possible to forego the kind of
facial disguise that Mr. Spacey had donned.
“There was no digital trickery required,
either, contrary to the speculation,” Mr.
Scott said. “A little bit of good-morning
makeup and some front lighting and he was
ready to go. It was quite simple.”
Mr. Plummer said that memorizing lines
at lightning speed was relatively easy.
“Thank God for my training in the theater,”
he said, adding that he soon forgot that he
was replacing another actor. “Very quickly I
put that completely out of my mind,” he
said. (Mr. Plummer declined to comment
about Mr. Spacey. “I’m not going to discuss
him, because everything I have said so far
has been misinterpreted,” he said. In No-
vember, Vanity Fair quoted Mr. Plummer as
saying he felt “awfully sad” for Mr. Spacey.)
Long hours may have been their biggest
challenge.
For nine days, Mr. Scott arrived at filming
locations by 6:30 a.m. to eat a quick break-
fast and finalize planned shooting angles
with his longtime cinematographer, Dari-
usz Wolski. (Together, they have made six
movies, including “The Martian,” which
was nominated for best picture at the 2016
Academy Awards.) Filming usually contin-
ued straight through lunch. As sequences
were shot — Mr. Scott typically does very
few takes — footage was digitally shipped to
the film’s editor, Claire Simpson, who would
start stitching it together. In the evening,
Mr. Scott would make adjustments.
“I’m kind of like a funny battery that
never wears out,” he said.
Despite their efforts, “All the Money in
the World” faces a battle at the box office.
Multiplexes will be chockablock with
competing movies, including “Downsizing,”
a social satire starring Matt Damon; “The
Greatest Showman,” an original musical
starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum;
and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Sony lost
crucial weeks of marketing time as it waited
for footage of Mr. Plummer to splice into a
new trailer.
Of course, the publicity generated by Mr.
Scott’s race to scrub Mr. Spacey from the
movie may prove helpful. The effort has
been cheered online in some of the same for-
ums where boycotts were brewing. “Mr.
Scott is an inspiration!” wrote one com-
menter on EW.com.
And it is possible that Mr. Plummer, an
Oscar winner for “Beginners” in 2012,
turned in a performance that eclipsed the
one given by Mr. Spacey. In a surprise,
Golden Globe voters, who saw a not-quite-
finished version of “All the Money in the
World” last week, nominated Mr. Plummer
for best supporting actor and gave nods to
Mr. Scott for his directing and Ms. Williams
for best actress.
“I think it’s a fantastic change,” Mr. Scott
said. “Kevin’s performance was colder.
Christopher has enormous charm — a twin-
kle and a smile — that makes this coldly log-
ical character feel even more dangerous.”
Will the original version of “All the Money
in the World” be released, perhaps on DVD,
so that viewers can judge for themselves?
Mr. Scott let out a huff. “I doubt it,” he said.
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Moms and Dads, Setting Bad Examples

Holiday film parents aren’t some criminal statutes, in a conspiracy to
always great role models. commit kidnapping.
Take his growing impatience when his
By SOPAN DEB yearly Christmas bonus fails to arrive
quickly. When it apparently does come,
The holidays are for families to come to- Clark explains that he’s going to use it to put
gether, celebrate each other’s presents — er, in a swimming pool. “I had to lay out the
sorry — presence, and bask in the warm money in advance,” he adds. “Until this little
glow of fireplaces, hot chocolate and miracle arrived, I didn’t have enough in my
“Peanuts” reruns. After all: It’s the most account to cover the check I wrote.”
wonderful time of the year, with everyone Regardless of when the bonus check ar-
telling you “be of good cheer.” rives, this is poor budgeting and not some-
Unless you watch a holiday movie. In film thing he should be teaching his two chil-
after film, good cheer flies right out the win- dren, Audrey and Rusty. (Clark also offers
dow, or in one case, to Paris, leaving one to fly the entire extended family in for the
young boy in serious danger. Get past the pool’s opening. Clark, if you can’t afford to
happy endings and you notice that the break ground without the bonus check, you
adults onscreen this season are often mod- can’t afford those plane tickets. Come on,
els of bad parenting. man.)
Take the 2015 comedy “Daddy’s Home” And when it turns out the envelope does-
(the sequel was released on Nov. 10). Mark n’t contain that bonus, Clark goes into a
Wahlberg and Will Ferrell star as a father rage and demands, as a Christmas present,
and stepfather doing battle for the affection that his boss be brought to him immediately.
of their two children (or who can be more Audrey and Rusty have a front-row seat to
masculine). Mr. Wahlberg builds them a observe the exact wrong way to handle dis-
skate park full of hazards; Mr. Ferrell flat- appointment and delayed gratification.
tens a cheerleader with a basketball. Is this Clark’s cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) goes
WrestleMania or the holidays? and kidnaps the boss, seemingly on his
Here are some other seasonal movies brother’s orders, which sounds more like an
with truly egregious parenting that, in some episode of “The Sopranos” than a heart-
cases, probably should have wrapped up warming Christmas movie.
with a call to child services instead of a Somehow, perhaps out of fear of what
warm, fuzzy ending. Clark is capable of, the boss lets Clark keep
CLAIRE FOLGER/PARAMOUNT PICTURES

JOSEPH LEDERER/DISNEY ENTERPRISES MERRICK MORTON/UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 20TH CENTURY FOX, VIA EVERETT COLLECTION

Top, from left: Mel lie (Eric Lloyd). Even at his tender age, his job. He also gets his bonus and then
‘Home Alone’ (1990) Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie recognizes his dad has issues, some. Imagine the message that sends to
I want to shout this from the rooftops: How. John Lithgow and Will telling him that he “lashes out irrationally.” Clark’s children.
Do. You. Leave. Kevin. At. Home? (And Ferrell in “Daddy’s To make matters worse, this is while they’re
then how do you do it again?) Home 2.” Center row, driving to eat Christmas Eve dinner at Den- ‘The Family Man’ (2000)
Let’s leave aside the fact that Kate McCal- from left: Liliana Mumy ny’s (though the Denny’s part isn’t that
lister, played with sincerity by Catherine and Tim Allen in “The bad). Nicolas Cage plays a powerful Wall Street
O’Hara, had exiled her 8-year-old, Kevin Santa Clause 2”; Nicolas But this is all minor when you consider executive, Jack Campbell, who suddenly
(Macaulay Culkin), to a terrifying room up- Cage and Téa Leoni in that Scott kills Santa Claus! It may have finds himself living another life, one in
stairs during a family holiday party just be- “The Family Man”; and been inadvertent, but he doesn’t even call which he’s the manager of a tire store with a
cause of an argument with his brother, Buzz Macaulay Culkin in the police. And then Scott decides to finish lovely wife, Kate (Téa Leoni), two children
(Devin Ratray). Was she Nurse Ratched in “Home Alone.” Left, Santa’s work for the night, with Charlie and a home in the suburbs. That alternate
a previous life? Imagine if Kevin had done Chevy Chase in along to help. The previous Claus just died reality starts on Christmas Day.
something truly heinous. Would she send “National Lampoon’s in a freak accident, so is it a good idea to put On Wall Street, Jack is a stereotypically
him to prison? Christmas Vacation.” Charlie in harm’s way, hopping from roof to self-centered powerhouse, more interested
Instead focus on how long it took Kate roof and breaking into people’s homes? in wearing designer suits than having any
and Peter McCallister (John Heard) to fig- Granted, it’s to bring presents, but still. meaningful relationships. Until Cash (Don
Cheadle), a guardian angel, aims to show
ure out their son isn’t along for their Paris There’s nothing Santa does not get to take part in Bring Your
him the true emptiness in his life by export-
vacation. Think about this: It’s a big family comforting about an Son to Work Day.
on an international flight during a busy sea- When Scott’s ex-wife tries to strip him of ing him to a new one.
son, so they should have arrived at least two abandoned child or visitation rights later in the movie, she has a By nature, Mr. Cage’s character doesn’t
hours before boarding; also factor in travel a dead Santa. point. Especially considering that when take readily to being a husband and a father.
time to the airport — say, 30 minutes. And Scott is arrested for trespassing, Charlie is He even berates Kate in front of their
yet Kate is already in the air when she real- left stranded on the roof. daughter, saying: “I wake up in the morning
izes she’s missing a child. (“Kevin!!!”) So, WARNER BROS. PICTURES, VIA PHOTOFEST
covered in dog saliva. I drop the kids off,
spend eight hours selling tires retail. Retail,
for at least four hours, Peter and Kate did Buzz was kind of a jerk too, while we’re at ‘National Lampoon’s Kate.” After listing other grievances about
not notice their son was missing.
Even worse, their negligence made Kevin
it. Christmas Vacation’ (1989) suburban life, he finishes up with, “So
the prime target for two burglars. Thank- Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is a loving, what’s in it for me?” All this, by the way, is
fully, he repelled them with acts of incredi- ‘The Santa Clause’ (1994) well-intentioned father who just wants a over Jack’s not being able to afford a new
ble violence and torture. If we agree that Scott Calvin (Tim Allen, in one of his finest great Christmas for his family, O.K.? Except suit.
young children are influenced by their par- performances) is an absentee father who for the fact that he sets a terrible example Imagine being the daughter who hears
ents’ behavior, what were the McCallisters seems to have had a big hand in creating a for his children through his poor handling of this rant at the mall during the holiday sea-
teaching Kevin? toxic environment for his young son, Char- the family’s finances and his role, under son. Luckily, it was an alternate reality!

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Isabelle Huppert as a French filmmaker who had a stroke in Catherine Breillat’s “Abuse of Weakness.”
The Time Is Now
For Catherine Breillat
Her explorations of sex and
power have plenty to say.
THE WORK OF Catherine Breillat, the French
filmmaker and novelist whose movies fre-
quently explore the perversity animating
male-female power dynamics in Western
society, has always been fearlessly perti-
nent. These days, as more and more revela-
tions about the sexual predations of high-
profile men come to light, they may even be
more pertinent.
The Criterion Channel section of the
streaming site Filmstruck recently un-
veiled its Catherine Breillat collection,
which offers all the movies the director has
made in this century, with the exception of
“Anatomy of Hell,” the 2004 movie about
men’s fear of menstruation, and one of her
most extreme works in terms of explicit
content.
The first picture of the collection is the
still-shocking “Fat Girl,” from 2001, which
centers on a 12-year-old. Anaïs (Anaïs Re-
boux), chubby, pouty and red-cheeked, feels
out of sorts while on holiday, watching her
older sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), be-
ing romanced by a local Lothario, Fernando
(Libero De Rienzo). The movie’s central
jaw-dropper is a scene, about 20 minutes in,
when Fernando visits the girls’ shared bed-
room one night. A wide-awake Anaïs is wit-
ness to Fernando’s wheedling, inveigling
“seduction” of Elena. When Elena instructs
her beau to go only so far, he responds, “I
swear on my mother’s head.” Seconds later,
Fernando says that he’s not sure if he can
hold himself back and that it would be a
shame if he had to go to another girl to get
what he wants. And on it goes. It’s excruci-
ating.
Not all of Ms. Breillat’s observations are
specific to the vexation of women. This
movie, and others of hers, feature intimate
implications of the cosmic. I saw “Fat Girl”
for the first time in 2001, at the Toronto In-
ternational Film Festival. This is not quite a
spoiler — believe me, the scene in question
is not one that you are going to see coming,
even with this reveal — but the movie ends
with the central character subjected to a
mini-apocalypse: The world she knows
ends before her eyes. It’s a shattering
scene, constructed with an assurance that
is kind of terrifying. On the day I saw the
movie, Sept. 8, 2001, I found it too abrupt and
arbitrary. Little did I know. Interviewing
Ms. Breillat a couple of years later, I told her
how my perception of the film changed after
Sept. 11; her response was an enthusiastic
nod of agreement — and a Gallic shrug.
All the other films in the collection are
rich in wit, emotional tumult and philosoph-
ical trenchancy. “Sex Is Comedy,” from
2004, is a genuinely funny movie about
moviemaking, inspired by the shooting of
that startling sex scene from “Fat Girl.”
Here Anne Parillaud plays a put-upon
stand-in for Ms. Breillat. “The Last Mis-
tress,” from 2008, is a 19th-century tale of a
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Kool Shen and Ms. Huppert in “Abuse of
Weakness,” Ms. Breillat’s most recent film.
woman who refuses to take her lover’s re-
jection in stride. This movie’s subversions
begin with the casting of a thoroughly mod-
ern screen presence, Asia Argento, in the ti-
tle role.
There has often been a recognizable
streak of fantasy in Ms. Breillat’s work, and
in recent years she has given her tenden-
cies in that direction freer rein by making
films of well-known fairy tales. Her per-
spectives on “Bluebeard” (2010) and
“Sleeping Beauty” (2011) are more than
fractured; they are radical. Lola Créton,
known in the United States mostly for her
work in Mia Hansen-Love’s “Goodbye First
Love” (2012) and Olivier Assayas’s “Some-
thing in the Air” (2013), gives a fierce per-
formance in “Bluebeard” as Marie-Cather-
A collection that’s
rich in wit, tumult and
philosophical trenchancy.
ine, the title character’s clever young wife
who is confounded by the temptation of a
secret chamber in their shared castle.
The collection is completed by “Abuse of
Weakness” (2014), Ms. Breillat’s most re-
cent film, and possibly her greatest so far.
It’s a largely autobiographical account of
catastrophic events after Ms. Breillat’s
brain hemorrhage in 2004. (She also wrote a 1
novel based on her experiences.)
In that film, Isabelle Huppert, in an even
more astonishing performance than what
she usually serves up, plays Maud, a writer
and director we first see sliding out of her
bed, half-paralyzed. Ms. Huppert portrays
her suffering character, who remains partly
paralyzed throughout, with incredible
physicality.
At times, Maud seems to masochistically
luxuriate in her incapacitation. Watching
television one evening, Maud is entranced
by the bragging of a ruggedly handsome
con man, recently released from prison and
promoting a book about his swindles. She
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Mohcine Besri’s 2011 kidnapping drama, Challat’s supposed victims and their scanty
asks him to star in her next film; he agrees, “The Miscreants”; Nadine Khan’s “Chaos, wear. They say things like “One must dress
and he almost immediately starts a psycho- Disorder” (2013), a scrappy love triangle set correctly. In a respectful fashion.”
logical game with her. in Cairo; and a female character study from The movie teems with such upsetting, but
“I don’t meet with my actors until I start 2012, “Coming Forth by Day,” from the not surprising, instances of victim-blaming.
filming,” Maud says, her left hand still Egyptian filmmaker Hala Lotfy. The filmmaker also interviews the maker of
crabbed from her stroke. Slumped in a chair On Dec. 22, the Tunisian picture “Challat a “devout” video game in which the player
opposite her, the con man, played by the of Tunis” debuts on the site. Directed by and is the Challat, and gains points for slashing
French rapper Kool Shen, says, “You are go- featuring Kaouther Ben Hania, this mocku- inappropriately dressed women. If the play-
ing to see a lot of me.” Soon Maud is writing mentary posits the existence of a criminal er attacks a hijab-wearing woman, points
him enormous checks and imperiously in- in prerevolutionary Tunisia called the Chal- are deducted. Ms. Ben Hania also explores
sisting to herself that she understands lat. (The word means blade in a Tunisian di- the home life of a creepy braggart who
IT TAKES THE POWER OF LEADERSHIP TO UNITE A NATION what’s going on and has some control over alect.) In 2003, the movie tells us, he ram- claims to be the “real” Challat.
it. This is a subtle but unflinching psycho- paged through Tunis on a motorbike, hunt- This is a satire that stings. The misogyny
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Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D
put out an album full of outrage.
LOS ANGELES — Pharrell Williams remem-
bers the exact moment when he realized he
was ready to return to N.E.R.D, his long-
running side project with Chad Hugo and
Shae Haley. In the beginning of 2016, he
dyed his hair green: “The minute I looked in
the mirror, I was like, ‘Oh, starting N.E.R.D
now.’”
He had just left Nashville, where he’d
been producing and writing on “Wander-
lust,” an album by the unflinchingly smooth
country group Little Big Town. And he was
coming off the peak of his career as a re-
cording artist: “Blurred Lines,” his limber
collaboration with Robin Thicke, and “Get
Lucky,” his disco revival with Daft Punk,
held No. 1 and 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a
time in 2013; the next year, the pop-gospel
hymn “Happy” became his first No. 1 as a
lead artist, and the song that vaulted him
into the stratosphere.
He wore an artfully goofy hat to the
Grammys. He joined “The Voice” as a
coach. He sat for an interview with Oprah,
and cried. For someone who’d spent much
of his career making others sound good as a
producer and songwriter, it was a belated,
and extremely loud, splash into the bright-
est spot of the limelight.
The world changed, though, and with it,
Mr. Williams. The version of him that ap-
pears on the new N.E.R.D album, “No_One
Ever Really Dies,” is anti-“Happy,” and anti-
happy. He is exasperated by the police
shootings of unarmed black Americans.
The election of Donald J. Trump stymies
him. “We’re gonna climb your wall,” he
sings on “Deep Down Body Thurst,” con-
tinuing, “It’d be worth the fall/I sure hope
you’re just talking man, and that’s all.” On
the 11 tracks on the new album, due Friday,
he is frantically waving for attention, as if
hoping to stave off more trauma.
“I spoke up because I saw this coming,”
he said last month, discussing politics in his
dedicated room at Chalice Recording Studio
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on a television screen above the recording

booth. (Mr. Williams was a producer of
“Hidden Figures,” the 2016 film about black
female NASA mathematicians, and wrote
music for it as well.)
In conversation, Mr. Williams, 44, blends
proclamation, mysticism and tangent, seri-
ous subjects with light. His pilled suede
Timberlands looked moist, his orange hair
was covered in a baseball cap, and he wore
sunglasses to mask tired eyes, the result of
a late-night recording session.
All through last year, even as Mr.
Williams stumped for Hillary Clinton, he
was certain Mr. Trump would win the elec-
tion. “Before he even became the nominee, I
said that he was gonna win that,” he said.
“The other thing that no one wanted to lis-
ten about is when I would say to them,
‘Dude, he saved NBC.’ That guy knows how
to talk to people.”
On election night, he was at the home of Above from left: Pharrell
Eddy Cue, one of Apple’s most senior execu- Williams, Chad Hugo and
tives, along with the company’s chief execu- Shae Haley of N.E.R.D,
tive, Tim Cook, the basketball star Kevin who have put together
Durant, and the music executive Steve “No_One Ever Really
Stoute, all expecting a specific outcome. As Dies,” which is in part a
the evening got dark and the results be- strident Trump-era
came clear, “They were like, ‘You were protest album. Right, Mr.
right,’” he said. Williams performing at
“I knew it was coming but it was still sur- the Hammerstein
real,” he continued. “I was thinking about Ballroom in New York,
what it meant.” As he recalled the moment, and, below, attending the
his mood turned to one of frustration. Grammy Awards in 2014.
“People are desensitized,” he said. Tech-
nology, he complained, has blunted the
emotional impact of troubling news, dis-
tancing people even farther from empathy.
“If the ubiquitous nature of the internet A well-established
affords you to see so much and have access artist finds that it
to so much, how can you care?” he asked.
“O.K., yeah, that guy just got murdered. But
is impossible to be
as soon as you just change the channel, you complacent now.
change it and it’s gone. And that’s what’s
happened.” KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE, VIA GETTY IMAGES

Understanding that attention is more

fragile than ever, Mr. Williams set out to fig-
ure out how to capture it. Skepticism and
outrage are all over “No_One Ever Really
Dies,” which is in part a strident Trump-era
protest album. It is sly and earnest, full of
songs that move anxiously in several direc-
tions — punk, new wave, funk, soul, hip-hop
— and full of agitated vocals from Mr.
Williams and Mr. Haley. The album’s center-
piece and highlight is the nervous yet bliss-
ful “Don’t Don’t Do It!,” written about the
killing of Keith Scott by the Charlotte, N.C.,
police last year.
For Mr. Williams, one of pop’s most ubiq-
uitous and versatile figures — he was re-
cently on the cover of Vogue and released a
collaborative sneaker with Chanel —
N.E.R.D serves as his “palate cleanser,” he
said.
Mr. Williams works in cycles, Mr. Haley
said: “When he feels like he’s too glossy, he
has to figure out how to muddy himself back
up again.”
N.E.R.D began in the early 2000s as Mr.
Williams and school bandmate Mr. Hugo
were redefining hip-hop opulence as the
Neptunes, superstar producers for Jay-Z,
Clipse, Ludacris and more.
The group’s 2001 debut album, “In Search
Of . . . ,” was a reaction to that time, and re-
mains the most indelible of the trio’s releas-
es. (The new album is its fifth.) In its time it
was novel, a collision of styles that reframed
rock and funk through a hip-hop lens. Not a
giant commercial success, it nevertheless
has become something of a secret hand-
shake. You can hear its reach in everything
from Kanye West to Tyler, the Creator.
Now, such musical melding is common-
place, thanks largely to the blurring force of
the internet, which has made cultural re-
contextualization much more efficient. And
so N.E.R.D’s disruptions have evolved, too.
The new songs drill away at song structure,
dismantling the aesthetics that once pro-
vided comfort.
Writing songs for other people, “Most of
the time they’re looking for a formulaic feel-
ing,” Mr. Williams said. “Five, six choruses,
they better release endorphins every time.
We couldn’t do that for N.E.R.D.”
As a result, the music on “No_One Ever
Really Dies” is jagged, even corroded at
times. Mr. Williams had been listening to
the nervy jangle of post-punk and avant-
punk: Gang of Four, Suicide, Devo, Talking
Heads. “Once I identified all my pieces,” he
said, “ I was like, ‘Yo, I don’t want to make
any more linear songs.’”
Work on this album began early last year,
long before the election, but not before the
mood of the country had curdled. Mr.
Williams and Mr. Haley had conversations
about the persistent injustice visited upon
black Americans, and strove to build a
sound, with Mr. Hugo, that matched that ur-
gency. (Some of this energy trickled out in
some of Mr. Williams’s solo work on the
“Despicable Me 3” soundtrack, like on the
robofunk “Yellow Light.”) The division of la-
bor in N.E.R.D skews toward Mr. Williams.
“I did, like, a lot of the heavy lifting,” he said,
“and whenever Chad had a chance or Shae
had a chance, they would come by and col-
laborate and figure out what their parts
were.” (Mr. Williams and Mr. Hugo have
also recently been working on Justin Tim-
berlake’s forthcoming album.)
“Pharrell is more of the abstract guy,” Mr.
Haley said. “Whereas for me, I have more of
the grit. I have more of the edge, so to speak,
in terms of having my feet more planted to
what reality is.” (Mr. Hugo declined to be in-
terviewed in person but, in an email, wrote
that N.E.R.D music was special because
“You have a clearer view of earth from outer
space.”)
The album repositions the group mem-
bers from smooth funk-rock adventurers to
scathed punk bruisers. But Mr. Williams
was careful not to make a dour, joyless
record. “If I make a record about this ad-
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ministration and it sounds sad, how many
times you gonna listen to it?” he asked.
“Now, if I take that same story and put it un-
der music that feels happy as [expletive],
how many times you gonna listen to that?”
The album includes raucous songs made
with Rihanna, Future, Kendrick Lamar, An-
dré 3000 and M.I.A., all of whom are at their
loosest. Mr. Williams’s 9-year-old son,
Rocket, sings on “Lightning Fire Magic
Prayer.” (He and his wife recently wel-
comed triplets.)
There are also audio clips collaged
throughout the album, spoken word sam-
ples from sources including Rachel Jeantel,
a friend of Trayvon Martin, and also the rap-
per Retchy P, who recurs saying “mad eth-
nic right now,” taken from a video Mr.
Williams saw online. “That clip, to me, was
as detailed as a da Vinci,” he said. “There
was so much information in it.” He used it in
several places, he said, as “a stamp to re-
mind you this is coming from a black mind.”
That Mr. Williams would arrive at this
moment in his career wasn’t always or-
dained. In N.E.R.D’s early days, there was
political rebellion sprinkled into the music,
but only slightly (“Politicians is sounding
like strippers to me,” Mr. Williams wailed on
“Lapdance”).
“The first two-thirds of my career to date
I didn’t care,” he said. “I was just purely do-
ing things for aesthetic and bragging
rights.”
But he has found it impossible to be com-
placent now. “We’re dealing with a time
where it’s like, people believe what they
want to believe,” he said. “I don’t know how
you elect another president and people not
go, you know, [expletive] because they
don’t really believe in what the ballot said.”
The already weary Mr. Williams was
growing slo-mo by this point, but insisted on
continuing the conversation. On the phone a
couple of weeks later, he was still exasperat-
ed, slipping into an imaginary conversation
with an unsympathetic white person: “How
can you say these things about my culture?
How can you feel this way when you see
someone getting gunned down?”
He then started speaking about the chil-
dren killed at Sandy Hook Elementary
School, seeking to universalize the plea.
“How can you say it’s not a time to talk
about legislation? Those kids look like you.”
He continued, “There are atrocities hap-
pening in this country and people still going
to the movies that night.”
And so, for now at least, his music will be
acidic, disruptive, jarring.
“If I can make you blink once.” he said,
trailing off. “Let me put my hand on your
shoulder. Just blink. Blink.”
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A Very Contemporary 17th-Century Plot
Angry young men plan a
massacre in ‘Gunpowder.’
By JEREMY EGNER
“Gunpowder,” a new HBO historical thriller,
gave Kit Harington the chance to produce
his first show, investigate a “family curi-
osity” and branch out from his more well-
known gig as Jon Snow on “Game of
Thrones.” But he admitted that his day job
did skew his perspective.
“I walked onto the set on ‘Gunpowder,’
going, ‘What do you mean we don’t have 200
extras?’” he said jokingly. “Nothing com-
petes with ‘Thrones.’ I knew that going in.”
The three-part mini-series, debuting on
Monday, Dec. 18, on HBO, recreates the
Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the failed scheme
by Roman Catholic militants to blow up the
House of Lords in London and assassinate
the Protestant King James I and many oth-
ers in the process. The foiling of the plan
was commemorated with a national holiday
on Nov. 5, the day the attack was supposed
to transpire, which has evolved into the fes-
tive annual celebration known as Bonfire
Night or Guy Fawkes Night, after the con-
spirator who was discovered the night be-
fore with the explosives.
“The story is about a group of violent and
angry young men planning on a massacre
in the name of their faith,” Mr. Harington
said. “It’s a story that could be lifted off any
modern news channel.”
He said that the producers strove for his-
torical accuracy in the dramatized events in
“Gunpowder,” which unfolds in a mucky
17th-century England in which Catholics
risk torture and execution by secretly prac-
ticing their religion. Mr. Harington plays
Robert Catesby, the plot mastermind and
his own distant ancestor. (His middle name,
and his mother’s maiden name, is Catesby.)
Other stars include Liv Tyler; Peter Mul-
lan; a slithery Mark Gatiss, as the court op-
erator Sir Robert Cecil; and Tom Cullen,
whose fearsome Guy Fawkes is a barbarous
departure from the radical chic symbol fa-
vored by many hackers and activists.
Mr. Harington partnered with his friend Robert Catesby and
Daniel West and the writer Ronan Bennett
to develop the series, which was shot in the Jon Snow are both
serious about what
spring of 2017 in Yorkshire and debuted in
Britain in October. While this actor wasn’t they believe.
necessarily burning to get into producing,
“when you have a very clear idea of how it
should be done, you don’t want to hand
those decisions over to someone else,” he
said.
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Television
An audibly weary Mr. Harington dis-
cussed “Gunpowder” from Belfast, where
he is shooting the final season of “Game of
Thrones.” (“It was a grueling day, I’m not
going to lie,” he said.) These are edited ex-
cerpts from the conversation.
What drew you to this story?
It’s a piece of family curiosity: I’m distantly
related to the person I’m playing. It’s a fas-
cinating story in a fascinating time in Eng-
land. On Nov. 5 in the U.K., we set off fire-
works — it’s a bit like our Independence
Day. And then if you look at it, it’s really
about a great act of violence by a group of
young men. And it hadn’t really been told
much before.
Can you help me, and other Americans who
will watch it, understand why an unsuccess-
ful religious insurrection is still celebrated?
You see, that’s the funny thing — really why
it became remembered is because the gov-
ernment made it a national holiday so every
Catholic in the land, and everyone thinking
about treason, would remember the 5th of
November and why they shouldn’t do what
they’re thinking of doing. It was a piece of
propaganda. Now it’s become this wonder-
ful evening of toffee apples and fireworks
and fun and mulled wine. It’s changed its
meaning.
But really, as an American, you probably
know about as much about it as the average
Brit. You ask the average English person on
the street, “What do you know about the
Gunpowder Plot?,” and they kind of know
the name Guy Fawkes, that it’s sort of about
people blowing up Parliament, but that’s
about it.
The Guy Fawkes portrayed here might sur-
prise people who basically know him from
the mask, which has a certain debonair
quality.
Guy Fawkes was a brutal mercenary Catho-
lic. He was very religious and wanted to
fight for the faith, and he was brought in as
an explosives expert. He certainly wasn’t
debonair — he was a violent man, one the
other plotters seem to have been quite
scared of in many ways. So we based it on
history. “V for Vendetta” [the graphic novel
and the 2006 film adaptation, tracking a rev-
olutionary anarchist], which I love, brought
round the Occupy Wall Street kind of nihil-
istic mask that we know about as Guy
Fawkes. But the name has sort of been
twisted away from who the person was.
“Gunpowder” is quite gory, with scenes of
disemboweling and other torture. How do
you balance being historically accurate with
not revolting viewers?
It was revolting. You can’t tell a piece of his-
tory realistically if you’re avoiding some of
the most gruesome and terrible things peo-
ple were doing to each other. Why did we
have to depict such violence? Well, it was
important to see why Robert Catesby and
the men around him decided to try to kill
many, many people.
As a producer, what was the hardest part of
pulling off this series?
I never really realized quite how difficult
shooting a period drama is, even having
been in one for years. I’ve never really been
on the other side, trying to organize it or
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT VIGLASKY/HBO
From top: Kit Harrington
as Robert Catesby in
“Gunpowder,” which he
also produced during a
break from “Game of
Thrones”; a scene from
the HBO miniseries,
which recreates the
Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
make it work. Everyone has to be in expen-
sive costumes. You can’t just walk out into
the street and film something — you’ve got
to build the street.
What did you learn about Catesby?
He’s a widower, which is very important in
our story. He was so religious, and maybe
there was something very selfish in this
man — he wanted to get to heaven to see his
wife again, so he didn’t care whether he died
in this mission or not. I went through peri-
ods of really disliking him, of going, “You
bastard — you basically sacrificed not only
your life, but your friends’ lives.”
What do he and Jon Snow have in common?
They’re both quite introverted in some
ways, and they’re both very serious about
what they believe. They both hold their
morals, and their moral compass and their
code of honor, very close to their chest. But
they’re entirely opposite in what they set
out to achieve. Jon Snow’s all about protect-
ing lives and saving lives and doing every-
thing he can to avoid violence in many
ways. Catesby’s the opposite: He wants to
see death and destruction.
They share a certain heedlessness.
I think that heedlessness comes from being
a young man in a violent society, seeking
some kind of recognition. I think their bra-
vado is based around their stupid male na-
ture, in many ways.
Along similar lines, over here we’re having
an ever-expanding reckoning with sexual
predators in the entertainment industry. Is
this being felt in Britain at all?
Yeah, the Weinstein scandal kicked it off
over the pond as well. Kevin Spacey was the
head of the Old Vic for many years — we’re
discovering the allegations made against
him. Within British theater, there’s been a
problem for many years. This is something
that has been going on forever, and not just
in the States. It’s everywhere.
It’s upsetting and disturbing, but it’s not
shocking. I think most actors hear stories,
and people in the industry hear stories. It’s
just very hard for people to come out and
talk about it. But the doors have been blown
open a bit, and we can only be thankful for
that.
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Art

An Artist With Power Uses It for Change

Hito Steyerl is named the art
world’s most influential person.
By KIMBERLY BRADLEY
BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen
shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality,
mass-reproduced pictures flood our
screens every day. They are easy to dis-
miss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl
makes a case for their value.
“They spread pleasure or death threats,
conspiracy theories or bootlegs, resistance
or stultification,” she wrote in her 2009 es-
say “In Defense of the Poor Image.” “Poor
images show the rare, the obvious and the
unbelievable.” They can show us secrets,
she says, if only we’re willing to look.
In her films, lectures and essays, Ms.
Steyerl, 51, has never shied from revealing
the secrets she uncovers. She illuminates
the world’s power structures, inequalities,
obscurities and delights. She pushes but-
tons as she spins parables.
Her work has never been more recog-
nized or relevant: This year she became the
first female artist to top the British maga-
zine ArtReview’s Power 100 list; her “Li-
quidity Inc.” show opened on Dec. 13 at the
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston,
where it runs through April 22; and her
newest essay collection, “Duty-Free Art:
Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War” was
published in October. She represents a new
paradigm of the artist not as solitary genius
but as networked thinker.
Ms. Steyerl’s films are packed, mixing
fact and fiction, documentary footage, com-
puter-generated images and often appear-
ances by the artist herself. They zoom in on,
and pan out from, some of the most pressing
issues of our time — among them surveil-
lance, alienated labor, militarization, pro-
test culture, corporate domination and the
rise of alternative economies.
But the films’ politics are served up with
appealing, accessible pop-culture aesthet-
ics, sardonic humor and the odd four-letter
word. Viewers have stood in long lines at
venues like the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles or the German pavilion
at the 2015 Venice Biennale to enter Ms.
Steyerl’s installations, which present the
films in environments that might look like a
giant wave or the blue lines from the 1982
movie “Tron.” Visitors might leave ponder-
ing exploitation, dancing to a disco tune
from the soundtrack, or both.
“In my films, accessibility is something I
do on purpose,” said Ms. Steyerl (pro-
nounced SHTYE-earl), speaking in meas-
ured English sentences in a cafe in the
Kreuzberg district here. When not lecturing
to packed audiences or teaching media art
at this city’s University of Arts, she works
from her home nearby. “I don’t want to
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MANUEL REINARTZ, VIA ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, NEW YORK
make films that are so specialized that
they’re only accessible to people with prior
knowledge or histories or references.” The
films always, she explained, have one layer
that anyone can understand.
Ms. Steyerl’s influences range from Go-
dard, New German Cinema and the work of
the filmmaker Harun Farocki, to martial
arts flicks and Monty Python. References
swing from Bruce Lee to the Frankfurt
School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno.
“It’s hard to imagine aesthetics in con-
temporary art without her,” said Alexander
Koch, co-owner of the gallery K.O.W., which
shows Ms. Steyerl’s works here. “She has
found a visual language that can combine so
many cultures, especially digital ones.”
Beyond the films are Ms. Steyerl’s writ-
ings and her “lecture performances,” which
are famously hypnotic. Delivered in a Jedi
master’s slow, soothing voice, her speeches
weave disparate ideas together. “She’s a
legend onstage,” Mr. Koch said. “She’s the
one who made a lecture performance into
an aesthetic event. They’re sometimes sub-
lime. She transcends her material.”
And there’s something almost digital
about reading her essays, many of which
evolve from her talks. The writing seems al-
most as if it were toggling among browser
tabs.
“Hito’s writing is stylistically very differ-
ent than that of an academic or a journalist
— there are juxtapositions and allegories
that go far beyond the usual range of writ-
ing,” said the American artist Trevor Pa-
glen, a friend whose art also explores infor-
mation flows and power structures.
Steyerlisms like “circulationism” (the
more an image moves through the digital or
real world, the more power it accrues), or
“junktime” (the fragmented, distracted ex-
perience of the harried freelancer) fasci-
nate undergrads and professors alike.
Ms. Steyerl explained the concept in her
new book’s title. On the one hand, “duty-free
art” can refer to art in “free ports,” tax-free
storage facilities in places like Singapore:
“nondescript and pedestrian buildings in
the suburbs, where a lot of art would accu-
mulate without being seen,” she said.
“But duty-free art,” she continued, “could
also be art that’s not subject to the duty of
having to represent either a culture of a na-
tion or some other interests involved in pre-
sentation and production.” Does she mean
the avant-garde dream of truly autonomous
Top left, Hito Steyerl in
Berlin. Top right, Ms.
Steyerl’s “Liquidity Inc.”
used computer-generated
graphics to tell a parable
of economic collapse. At
right are screen grabs
from “Liquidity Inc.”
Above, Ms. Steyerl’s
“Factory of the Sun” was
displayed in the German
Pavilion at the 2015
Venice Biennale. At left
are screen grabs from
“Factory of the Sun.”
“Funny how four hours doesn’t feel so long when you are given
the whole world in exchange. … The whole awful, silly, disturbing,
mystifying, contradictory world in one sitting … a crazy stew of
delicious visions” —The New York Times
“...every moment here is like a masterpiece: perfectly composed
visually, perfectly executed musically and dramatically...It is an
artist’s dream of a world, in which anything and everything can
come to life.”— Village Voice
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art? “There’s no complete autonomy — you
can only even start thinking about autono-
my in relation to other things,” she said.
Many of the book’s essays were previ-
ously published in e-flux journal, a theory
periodical published by the art website e-
flux. “There’s an incredibly close relation-
ship between Hito and the journal,” said the
site’s co-founder Julieta Aranda, who ex-
plained how the discussions of a group of
like-minded Berliners, including Ms. Stey-
erl, led to the journal’s founding in 2008.
“In Defense of the Poor Image” became
an instant classic in art theory circles. “Her
previous texts don’t become dated; her
ideas keep circulating,” Ms. Aranda said.
“People take her work and build upon it.”
As broad as Ms. Steyerl’s practice is, she
sees herself first and foremost as a film-
maker. Born and raised in Munich, she
trained as a camera operator, then studied
filmmaking in both Japan and her home-
town. In the late 1980s, she worked as an as-
sistant to the German director Wim Wend-
ers. She intended to become a classical doc-
umentary filmmaker, but things didn’t quite
work out that way.
“While I was at film school, or even earli-
er, maybe the late 1980s, the market for in-
dependent-film production collapsed, and
existing funding for long-form documenta-
ries just stopped,” said Ms. Steyerl, whose
work found its way into the art world in 1999
when she had her first exhibition in Vienna.
By 2004, her films were on view in major
shows like the roving Manifesta biennial of
European contemporary art. In 2013 she be-
gan showing with Andrew Kreps Gallery in
New York; her work sells primarily to con-
temporary-art institutions.
According to Mr. Koch, part of this artist’s
appeal is her integrity. “She has complete
loyalty to her ethical positions,” he said.
“She is the personification of her work.” It is
perhaps odd, then, that she was No. 1 on
ArtReview’s list. “I had no idea whatsoever
that this would happen,” Ms. Steyerl said.
“Of course there’s a lot of attention. It’s not cial section of art. Those paths will grow
focused on my work, so it’s not helpful. So apart even more in the next couple of
I’m trying not to engage with it.” years.”
Then again, it might be a sign of changing Is this good or bad? “I’m always an opti-
times, in which artists dare to challenge the mist,” said Ms. Steyerl, whose even most
industry that now surrounds their work. critical works contain glimmers of hope. “In
Ms. Steyerl does use her clout to demand Danis Tanovic’s 2001 film, ‘No Man’s Land,’
action: In September, after discovering be- two guys are sitting in a minefield. One
latedly that a German weapons manufac- says, if you’re a pessimist in these times,
turer was sponsoring a group exhibition, you think things are as bad as they could be.
“Deutschland 8, German Art in China,” in If you’re an optimist, you think things could
which her work was included, she led an still get much worse!” she said, bursting
artists’ protest. “I wouldn’t associate her into laughter.
work with power, but influence,” Ms. For all the accolades and recent ubiquity,
Aranda said. “She speaks truth to power.” Ms. Steyerl is refreshingly humble. She is
In the Kreuzberg cafe, Ms. Steyerl dis- also inquisitive, punctual, quick to respond
cussed world politics and changing contem- to emails, and married with a 12-year-old
porary conditions. We might either become daughter. She was even game for walking
so addicted to the web that we lose track of through mud in her trademark hot-pink
the material world, or we will “just get sneakers to be photographed.
bored and log off,” she said. The art scene is “I don’t think the internet or a big digital
also shifting. “A few strands are slowly corporation will manage to capture all of hu-
forming, pulling into different directions,” man relations. It’s too boring,” she said. “Af-
she said. “One is heavily involved in fashion ter a while, people want to talk to one an-
and branding. Then there’s a noncommer- other, one on one.”
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his travels.
Like anything else, travel tastes can
change as one gets older.
The comedian and Cincinnati native
Gary Owen used to get pumped up
about exploring a city’s night life. Now,
breakfast is the highlight of his days
on the road.
“It’s almost like I get excited to get HACIENDA SAN JOSE

up in the morning, like you would if Ingredients for a three-course cooking class at
you were going to a club when you Hacienda San Jose in Mexico.
were 21,” Mr. Owen said. “When you
get older, it’s about the coffee shop.”
Following are edited travel tips from Lessons in Latin Cultures
Mr. Owen. Throughout Latin America, hotels are
JUSTIN SABLICH drawing on the rich cultures of their host
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countries to design lessons that connect
A Breakfast Worth Waking Up For
guests with local food, culture and natural
I got this breakfast spot that I really MATHIEU YOUNG/HBO beauty.
like called Snooze. And when I first At the JW Marriott Hotel Rio de Janeiro,
The comedian Gary Owen has a strategy for improving his odds on receiving an omelet rather than breakfast cereal in first class.
started it was only in Denver, and now dance lovers and those with two left feet
it’s expanded — there’s a few in a great side meat with eggs. Instead of don’t even blink when you grab that airline food — and this is a first-class can learn to samba from masters of the
Phoenix, and there’s a few in San bacon or sausage, get goetta. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and that problem, I’ll admit. But you have to Brazilian dance. Teachers from a local
Diego. I don’t know what it is; they Cincinnati’s done a good job of bottle of water. pick a seat in the middle. You don’t samba school lead classes on Tuesday,
just got the best breakfasts. It’s one of bringing downtown back, especially by It always amazes me when a flight want to sit in Row 1 or Row 5, because Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings,
those spots that’s only open from, like, the river. I always recommend: Go gets delayed or canceled and people they run out of the food you might with a professional samba show after-
7 a.m. to 2 p.m. downtown, soak up the city. Like, if get mad at the person that announced want. There’s always two dinner op- ward. Through Dec. 28, a four-night pack-
So if I get to Denver, Phoenix or San you stay in a hotel downtown, there’s it. They’re not flying the plane! They tions or two breakfast options. And it’s
Diego, which probably are three of my age for the cost of three nights is available
so many good places to walk. We have didn’t make the storm! But if you go always so uneven. It’s like, “We have
favorite cities in general, I always look using promo code S29 (rates start at $268
a lot of “hole in the wall” gems — great up there and you’re real nice, and they an omelet with cheese and bacon or a
forward to that breakfast spot. per night).
places to eat. see that it doesn’t bother you, they bowl of Cheerios.” And it kills me
really work extra hard for you. But if More of a food lover? Hacienda San
Cincinnati’s Other Regional Specialty Charm Goes a Long Way because, say there are 16 first-class
you go up there cursing, saying, “I got Jose, a Luxury Collection Hotel, in
When you go to any city, look up what I try to charm the hotel front desk seats, they do eight and eight on the
to be there!” and “How dare you!,” it Tixkokob, Mexico, is inviting guests into
the city is known for. So Cincinnati is people, because they’ll pretty much meals. So if you’re in Row 1 or Row 5,
gets you nowhere. Just start a conver- its kitchen for a hands-on lesson on how to
known for its chili and goetta, which is give you whatever you want. If you’re you don’t know which way they’re
sation and ask about them. They will make cochinita pibil, a Yucatán staple of
a breakfast meat; I’ve only seen it in extra nice, they might waive a room going to start. That’s why I always try
type so fast and try to get you where slow-roasted pork marinated in citrus.
Cincinnati — it’s pork, and there’s oats service fee. If you go to a hotel where to sit in Row 2 or Row 3, where I’m
you are going. The class, which culminates in a three-
in it. I know it doesn’t sound good, but they have those little pantries, and if right in the middle. Because if they
it’s a German dish, and it’s so good. In First-Class Problems (and Solutions) course meal, also includes tips on making
you start a nice little conversation with run out, I don’t want them coming up
Cincinnati they’ll put it on omelets. It’s handmade tortillas and lime chicken soup
the guy working the late shift, they This is what I really don’t get about to me saying: “Cheerios?”
($65 per person). Through Dec. 17, the
hotel is also offering a Celebrate Yucatán
package, which includes daily breakfast
for two, the cochinita pibil cooking class
COMMENTS TRAVEL TIPS
for two and a 25 percent discount on spa
services (from $420 per night; to book,

Ski Destinations for Those Who Don’t Ski send email to thehaciendas
@luxurycollection.com).
When you’re planning your next win- through the woods or a meal in a Travelers to Mexico who are interested
ter vacation, don’t write off a ski desti- mountain cabin, where you can sit by in learning to scuba dive for a reasonable
nation if you’re not a skier, said Nancy a roaring fire, be serenaded with live price should consider the Westin Cozumel,
Cutter, the president of Court Travel, a music and feast on grilled meats like where a three-night dive package ($795
consultancy in Charlotte, N.C. bison and elk. Also, don’t forget about for three nights, compared with the regu-
“The best-kept secret is that winter après-ski bars. Many feature creative lar rate of $314 per night; to book email
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ski spots aren’t just for skiers,” she
The article on Nov. 26 by Reif Larsen said. “Many have lots of fun activities
about Detroit’s renaissance (“Detroit for all kinds of travelers.” Ms. Cutter
Revs Back to Life”) drew several offered a few reasons nonskiers should
responses. Here are two, edited:
consider ski resorts, and tips on how
The Next Steps to make the most of the trip.
Avoiding stereotypes and the perva-
GET ACTIVE Famous winter ski resorts
sive instinct to bash the Motor City,
like Vail, Colo., and Park City, Utah,
you have depicted the real spirit of
offer a variety of physical activities in
the city and the amazing people who
addition to skiing. Snowshoeing is a
are dedicated and determined to
great way to hike through a winter
make Detroit one the best cities in
wonderland and doubles as a low-
America.
impact workout for people of all ages.
ALEX BERMAN
Many resorts offer guided snowshoe
This is a great perspective on De- treks. Cross-country skiing and moun-
troit’s ongoing transformation. On the tain biking in the snow are two other
Slow Roll and the Q-Line, as distinct possibilities, both common at many ski
from driving around in a car, you get resorts.
the real hardscrabble feel of Detroit, TAP INTO YOUR CREATIVE SIDE Ms.
pressed up against other ecotourists,
Cutter also suggested you can use
sports enthusiasts and neighboring
your winter vacation to learn a new
residents. The city is on its way to-
skill. If you’re interested in photogra-
ward resurrecting itself once again.
phy, many hotels in ski locales (as well
RON J. STEFANSKI as local tour companies) offer daylong
and even weeklong safari excursions
More at facebook.com/nytimestravel.
where students take photographs of
LARS LEETARU
buffaloes, wolves and other wildlife.
Cooking classes are another option,
although you will have to look and
book in advance. Also, art abounds in
the mountains. “You’ll will find top-
notch galleries in ski resorts all over
the world,” Ms. Cutter said. Some
hotels offer gallery tours.
CHECK OUT THE CULINARY SCENE One
of the highlights of Ms. Cutter’s trips
to popular ski destinations is the cui-
sine. “You’ll find no shortage of great
restaurants to suit all tastes and budg-
ets,” she said. She recommends trav-
elers seek out places known for tasty
wintertime favorites.
And for a particularly memorable
evening out, book a sleigh ride
cocktails, local brews and live music.
CHILL OUT The mountains make for an
ideal getaway if you’re seeking solace
and relaxation. “The air is pristine and
the atmosphere is peaceful,” Ms. Cut-
ter said. Take long walks on snow-
covered paths or try a yoga class at a
local studio or your hotel. Also, spas
tend to be a big amenity at ski resorts,
and there’s no better way to unwind
than by booking a massage or enjoy-
ing the resort hot tub, sauna and
steam room.
TAKE A SNOWMOBILE RIDE Traveling
on closed roads in a snowmobile is one
of Ms. Cutter’s favorite ways to spend
a day in the mountains. In Big Sky,
Mont., and Jackson, Wyo., for example,
many resorts and tour companies
offer snowmobile tours of Yellowstone
National Park. Many domestic and
international ski spots have options
for snowmobile tours in parks or pri-
vate ranches. Some of these excur-
sions include a stop at a lodge for a
warm-you-up lunch of soup or chili.
SHIVANI VORA
info@westincozumel.com) includes a King
Sea View Room plus one dive lesson per
person and one scuba-diving excursion
with two tanks per person. Diving demon-
strations are offered daily in the hotel pool
and guests can earn their first-class diving
certification.
In Cusco, Peru, stalls at the Mercado
San Pedro are full of colorful local
produce. The JW Marriott El Convento
Cusco, formerly a 16th-century convent,
offers a cooking lesson that begins with a
market tour, during which the chef Heivel
Bedoya buys fruit, vegetables and local
cheeses.
A stroll through the market includes
samples from vendors before heading
back to the kitchen for a five-course cook-
ing lesson and eat-as-you-go feast.
With the promo code 93B, guests can
book the Get More for Your Getaway
package, which includes a $50 nightly
hotel credit (rates for a Luxury Suite start
at $239 per night, compared with the
regular nightly rate of $424).
JESSICA COLLEY CLARKE

TRENDING

Vacation Plans Mix Pleasure With Service

One company has come with a local nonprofit. Travelers
can go on sightseeing tours, enjoy
up with budget-friendly group meals at local restaurants
and have downtime to explore on
travel options. their own the rest of the time.
“Our trips are first and fore-
By SHIVANI VORA most a vacation, but they also
make room for giving back,” Ms.
The idea for the Vacation Project
was born over cocktails in a New Bradley said.
Combining short volunteering
York City bar. While swapping
stints with leisure travel is becom-
travel stories, three friends —
ing more common, said Courtney
Lindsay Bradley, 29; Mitchell Roy, Regan, the founder of the San
29; and Charlotte Bergin, 28 — re-
Francisco travel company Court-
alized that they shared an interest ney Regan Travel and an expert
in working as volunteers in the on what is known as volun-
destinations they visited. But they tourism.
didn’t necessarily want to devote “Most people don’t have the
their entire getaways to service.
time to dedicate two weeks to vol-
The tools to achieve these ideal unteering, and even if they did,
vacations, however, didn’t seem to traditional voluntourism trips can
be pricey and physically ardu-
exist. “Most of the volunteering
trips out there either required a ous,” she said. Now, she added,
there is a growing market for trav-
multiweek time commitment or
were way too expensive,” Ms. elers who want to volunteer.
At a cost of $1,400 to $2,000 for
Bradley said.
accommodations, most meals, lo-
And with that, the Vacation
cal transportation, tours, activi-
Project began.
ties and the volunteering, the Va-
Their travel company sells cation Project’s price appeals to
weeklong, small group trips to the 20- and 30-somethings the
Costa Rica, Morocco and group is marketing to.
Nicaragua. The itineraries in- Ms. Bergin said that they chose
clude either two or three days of the three countries because they
charity work, in collaboration are “on the radar” for travelers to-
Participants in the sea turtle program at Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.
day, but the company wants to
show a side of them that is differ-
ent from what most tourists see.
On the company’s inaugural
trip this September, which was to
Costa Rica, the welcome dinner in
the capital city of San José was a
seven-course feast prepared by
the Costa Rican chef Luis Protti in
a 1940 Victorian home. While en-
CHARLOTTE BERGIN
joying dishes like sausages with
meat from nearby farms and gaz-
pacho made from locally grown to-
matoes, the group of eight
watched a local band perform Lat-
in fusion tunes.
A day of surfing and swimming
at Uvita Beach followed, and then
it was time to perform volunteer
work. The group headed to the
Osa Peninsula, on the southern
end of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast,
to help Osa Conservation, a non-
profit dedicated to protecting the
peninsula’s biodiversity.
Over the next three days, they
helped by cleaning up plastic from
the beach, replanting trees and
tagging sea turtles.
With their charity commitment
completed, it was back to vaca-
tioning. At Manuel Antonio
Beach, on the central Pacific
Coast, the group enjoyed walks
and zip-lining in the surrounding
rain forest, and after a final night
in San José, they headed home.
The upcoming trips — Morocco
in January and Nicaragua in Feb-
ruary — will strike a similar bal-
ance of service and play, but each
has a different charity component.
In Morocco, travelers will help
Berber communities in the Atlas
Mountains build irrigation sys-
tems. In Nicaragua, they will as-
sist a school near the city of Gra-
nada with a new basketball court
and general repairs.
Another company with a simi-
lar mission is Give a Day Global, a
nonprofit that connects travelers
with daylong volunteering oppor-
tunities in 15 countries; most cost
$100, said the founder, Kerry
Rogers. In Cancún, for instance,
vacationers can help out at an af-
ter-school program for low-in-
come children with tasks like
cleaning and serving food.
Some hotels are also introduc-
ing programs where guests can
volunteer for a half or full day with
local causes. At Grace Bay Club,
on Providenciales Island in Turks
and Caicos, guests have the option
of spending an afternoon at a
youth center near the resort
teaching children how to read.
They can also help build new roofs
for the many schools on the island
which were badly damaged by
Hurricane Irma.
These volunteering opportuni-
ties are free, and the hotel ar-
ranges transportation to and from
the jobs, said Nikheel Advani, the
resort’s co-founder.
As for the three behind the Va-
cation Project, they’re happy that
they’ve created a venture that ful-
fills their own wishes. “The idea of
giving back and having a vacation
all in one trip is something we re-
ally wanted,” Ms. Bradley said.
“Our hope is that others do, too.”

Climb Ev’ry Mountain, and Ski Down
Skinning, or walking up a
slope on skis to schuss to the
bottom, is gaining favor.
By ELAINE GLUSAC
In a D.I.Y. precursor to downhill skiing, the
latest on-slope trend is to go uphill.
Called “skinning,” the activity of walking
up a downhill slope on skis to schuss back
down exemplifies a no-pain, no-gain ethos
among skiers determined to earn their
turns for the sheer challenge (or to burn cal-
ories). Skinning falls under the family of ac-
tivities known as uphilling, which includes
snowboarders using special split boards,
snowshoers and hikers.
“Skinning is one part aerobic hill work-
out, one part downhill skiing,” said Ted Ma-
hon, an avid uphill skier and a veteran ski
instructor with the Aspen Skiing Company
who teaches uphill touring. “It’s more than
just exercise. You’re climbing a mountain.”
He added that it can be “meditative” with
“an almost Zen-like winter stillness where
all you hear is your breath and the sound of
the skis sliding on the snow.”
What was once strictly a backcountry
practice, used to explore ungroomed, off-
piste terrain, is becoming more common in
the front country. Fifty percent of ski re-
sorts in the country now allow uphill skiing
on their slopes, according to the National
Ski Areas Association, an industry resort
group. Several are adding new uphill ski
races this year.
In addition to physical fitness, skinning
requires special ski boots and bindings that
free the heel to march up a mountain. Non-
slip “skins,” special coverings that prevent
the skis from sliding backward, go on the
bottom of the skis for the vertical trip.
Sales of alpine touring equipment used to
go up and down hills rose 13 percent last
year, according to Snowsports Industries
America, a nonprofit trade association rep-
resenting ski manufacturers and retailers,
and the trend has led to lighter downhill
skis.
“You can hike up before the lifts open and
get first tracks down,” said Nick Sargent,
the president of Snowsports Industries
America. “The weekend warrior is getting
the most out of the day by hiking up in the
morning.”
As uphilling has increased in popularity it
has forced ski resorts to reckon with safety
issues related to two-way traffic. Resorts
that allow vertical ascents often have a des-
ignated uphill zone that is sometimes cor-
doned off from the rest of a run to prevent
downhillers from entering uphill territory
and vice versa. Some allow it at specific
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
times or only on specific trails.
For skiers, the practice offers a new way
to explore the mountain, especially if down-
hill conditions are marginal, as in the case of
warm weather or light snow cover. Begin-
ners may try it, according to Mr. Mahon, as
long as they climb a run they can handle go-
ing downhill or take the ski lift or gondola
back down.
“If you’re just getting started and you’re
building your skills and confidence, em-
barking on a ski run with tired legs after a
large physical effort isn’t something most
beginner skiers get excited about,” he said.
At resorts, uphill access policies vary.
Sometimes a lift ticket is required, other
times it is discounted or free. Windham
Mountain in the Catskill Mountains of New
York offers an uphill ticket for $10 a day or
$25 for the season and Killington Resort in
Vermont offers an uphill season pass for
$20. Arapahoe Basin in Colorado normally
offers free uphill access, pending avalanche
mitigation work.
Because it requires special gear and dif-
ferent skills, some ski resorts are adding
skinning to their ski school menus or hold-
ing special events related to it. Other outfit-
ters offer guided trips in the backcountry.
The following are some ways to circumvent
THE GETAWAY
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN RESORT
Skinning at a the chairlift before pointing your skis
Colorado resort. The downslope.
activity requires
special ski boots Where to Find a Guide
and bindings and Aspen Skiing Company, which operates
“skins” that prevent
Snowmass, Aspen Mountain, Aspen High-
the skis from sliding
lands and Buttermilk in Colorado, has em-
backward.
braced uphilling, adding Dynafit uphill
skis to its rental inventory this year. Aspen
Snowmass offers both private and group
full-day lessons (group lessons start at
$164 a person and private lessons cost $795
a day for up to five guests).
Near Lake Tahoe, Calif., Kirkwood offers
Some ski resorts are an extensive backcountry education pro-
adding skinning to their
gram for experienced skiers that includes
ski school menus or workshops on Jan. 20 and Feb. 3 ($200),
holding special events and regularly available private guides
related to it. Other ($465 for a half day).
In the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise
outfitters offer guided Ski Resort and Yamnuska Mountain Ad-
trips in the backcountry. ventures have teamed to offer guided tours
for intermediate and advanced skiers just
outside of the ski resort boundary ($210 Ca-
nadian dollars, or about $165).
For intermediate and advanced skiers,
High Sierra Snowcat & Yurt in California’s
eastern Sierra Mountains has added
guided backcountry trips that involve
yurt-to-yurt transit both uphill and down
To learn more, visit thebreakers.com, call 866-976-1986
or consult your travel professional.
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($295 a person each day, including meals,
accommodations and guides).
Where to Go Skinning
In Utah, Utah Ski Mountaineering, a non-
profit group, compiles uphill policies at ski
areas throughout the state. Brighton Resort
operates a stoplight system to indicate
whether its designated uphill routes are
open.
Monarch Mountain near Salida, Colo.,
added a dedicated uphill lane last year, join-
ing other Colorado ski areas, including
Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Sunlight,
Breckenridge and Steamboat, in offering
uphill access.
Visitors to Las Vegas can take a winter
break at nearby Lee Canyon where uphill
traffic tripled last year. Uphill skiing passes
are complimentary, but skiers must check
in at the base lodge before ascending.
Where to Congregate
Even ski areas that don’t regularly offer up-
hill access are adding special events that ca-
ter to enthusiasts.
Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah does
not allow uphill travel regularly “due to the
tremendous amount of avalanche mitiga-
tion work that is frequently conducted
throughout the winter season,” Sherri
Harkin, a spokeswoman for the resort,
wrote in an email.
Nonetheless, it plans to allow uphilling at
the resort on two days this season during its
Utah Skimo Race series. Events take place
after the regular ski day ends on Jan. 30 and
Feb. 13. Skiers must bring their own gear
and rentals are available at Wasatch Tour-
ing in Salt Lake City.
Near Denver, Winter Park Resort will
hold its first Uphill Battle on Feb. 10. Partici-
pants race to 10,713 feet before skiing back
down to compete for the best time. There is
also a snowshoe option.
Other Colorado resorts holding uphill
races and parties include Aspen, where
America’s Uphill race, a 2.5-mile, 3,000-foot
vertical climb up Aspen Mountain, will take
place March 30. Breckenridge will offer an
Ascent Series of ski mountaineering races
on Wednesdays throughout the winter sea-
son. Crested Butte will hold four full-moon
parties at its mountaintop Umbrella Bar for
uphillers this year.
In Canada, Mount Tremblant, about a 90-
minute drive north of Montreal, began of-
fering uphill touring four years ago and cel-
ebrates the practice during its Festival
Rando Alpine Tremblant, which will take
place from Feb. 2 to 4. There will be a sun-
rise ascent as well as the Night Traverse,
featuring an uphill hike beginning at dusk
and a return down a freshly groomed run
using headlamps.
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Helping Maintain a Beautiful Place to Glide
Volunteers, working with the
U.S. Forest Service, cultivate
terrain in Brandon Gap.
By MATT RUBY
On a crisp Vermont morning last month, I
met up with about 50 other enthusiastic ski-
ers and snowboarders who were ready for
the coming winter. There was no snow, so
skiing was out of the picture and it would
have complicated our objective anyway. We
were there to help clean up areas of Bran-
don Gap, a mountainous area in the central
Green Mountain National Forest, notable
for its designation by the United States For-
est Service for backcountry skiing.
Even in the bleak period after the fall had
left the trees bare but before the snow would
cover the decaying leaves, Vermont is a
lovely place to visit — it makes you seri-
ously consider living a slower-paced life.
The volunteers gathered in a trailhead
parking lot at the base of Goshen Mountain,
loppers and saws dangling from belts and
backpacks, waiting for instructions for the
day. The group was diverse in age, from
children with their parents to teenagers,
college students, middle-agers and retirees,
all there because of their shared love of ski-
ing. There was a collective sense of excite-
ment for the season to come, and with no-
where to actually ski, this was the most pro-
ductive place to prepare for future winter
endeavors.
“It’s a ski area,” Angus McCusker, the
president of Rochester Area Sport Trail Alli-
ance, or Rasta, said proudly, pointing up the
mountain behind us. He was comparing the
system of trails he and his group of volun-
teers had built by hand to that of a profit-
seeking ski resort whose trails had been
created with machines.
The Backcountry’s Allure
For skiers in the Northeast who are tired of
the cost and the crowds at ski resorts, there
have been few alternatives. That is starting
to change with grass roots organizations
that bring together enthusiastic skiers,
snowboarders and the local community to
work with the Forest Service and private
landowners to cultivate areas with good
downhill ski terrain away from resorts.
This is human-powered skiing — there
are no lifts, and you must hike, snowshoe or,
ideally, skin. (To skin, you attach strips of
fabric to the bottom of your skis to make
them grip the snow. It is an efficient way to
get to the top of a mountain, similar to
Nordic skiing but with less glide and more
traction.)
Enthusiasm for backcountry skiing and
snowboarding has been growing across the
country for several years. Unlike Western
states with ample snowfall and open ter-
rain, backcountry skiers in the Northeast
are limited to select alpine locations, sev-
eral old trails built before ski areas were the
norm and secret locations guarded with
surfer-style localism.
The advantage to skiing these newly cre-
ated areas over other backcountry terrain
is that the glades and trails are well-
planned and maintained with skiing in
mind. They also are easier to follow because
the routes are defined, and maps of the ter-
rain are readily available.
“There was a lot of concern at first, reac-
tions from people as if it was going to blow
out people’s backcountry stashes. That isn’t
our intent,” Mr. McCusker said, referring to
some local skepticism about the project.
Jeff Flavell, from nearby Salisbury, Vt.,
A High-End Vacation Without the High Prices
Stay outside of town, consider
a hostel, go off-peak, buy a pass
and eat where the locals do.
By AMY TARA KOCH
A luxury hotel in a stylish mountain town
will cost a fortune. But if you forfeit proxim-
ity you can tap into peak perks without the
ski in/ski price tag. Other cost-cutters? An
off-peak, midweek visit, advance purchase
of lift tickets, eating strategically and taking
advantage of resort freebies.
Aspen, Colo.
Just 20 minutes from Aspen, Element Bas-
alt Aspen ($159) has an indoor pool, compli-
mentary breakfast buffet and laundry facili-
ties. Close by, Basalt Mountain Inn ($125)
has 25 just-refreshed rooms and an attrac-
tive Ski and Stay package (standard room
and lift tickets for two people, $285). Com-
plimentary on-mountain services: an Am-
bassador guided ski tour (twice daily, But-
termilk, Highlands, Snowmass, Aspen
Mountain), First Tracks (first come, first
served), where skiers and snowboarders
get first crack on runs before lifts open to
the public and morning coffee at the base of
each mountain. Aspen is known for stand-
out food. L’Hostaria, Jimmys, and Mezza-
luna have bar menus that give budget-con-
scious travelers upscale cuisine with a
scene. Justice Snows ($5 margaritas/moji-
tos, burgers, $12) and Highlands Alehouse
($5 beers, $8 cocktails, wings, baked brie,
bison chili and burgers all under $15) are go-
tos. For swank, try truffle fries ($17) and a
beer ($7) at slope-front Ajax Tavern. The
$489 Mountain Collective Pass (at Aspen,
Jackson Hole and other top resorts) halves
lift ticket prices and offers two free days or
skiing at participating resorts.
Vail, Colo.
Minturn, just five miles from Vail, looks like
a classic western movie set. Among the
The Green Mountains in
Vermont. An advantage to
skiing newly created
backcountry terrain is that the
trails are well-planned and
maintained with skiing in
mind. Skiers can also avoid the
costs and crowds at resorts.
The Hotel Minturn is just five
miles from Vail, Colo.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
THE SKI ISSUE IN THE BACKCOUNTRY
and my group’s leader for the day, spoke
vaguely about skiing the area before it was
legitimized, but his pride in the work Rasta
has done displaced any ideas that there isn’t
enough terrain for everyone to enjoy. Mr.
Flavell even showed us some of the more
hard to find trails, which he could easily
have kept to himself.
Getting Organized
Holly Knox, the district recreation program
manager for the Rochester and Middlebury
Ranger Districts, described the Forest
Service’s relationship with Rasta as one of
the first projects where federal land is ac-
tively managed for the purpose of uphill
travel for downhill skiing and snowboard-
ing.
“A lot of places have backcountry skiing
on federal land where they don’t need to
manage for it. Out west you can naturally
ski through the trees because you don’t
have the same amount of undergrowth that
you see here,” Ms. Knox said.
She added that around 2009 she had re-
ceived a few requests from individuals ask-
ing for new places to ski in the area’s back-
country, but there was no unified voice for
the skiers and the Forest Service didn’t
have experience working with downhill ski-
ers.
That changed when Rasta formed in the
winter of 2013, organizing the backcountry
ski community in central Vermont. The first
several years were mostly devoted to plan-
ning: Rasta was looking for good terrain
and the Forest Service was looking at eco-
logical, infrastructure and safety concerns.
THE SKI ISSUE ON A BUDGET
timeworn saloon and historic mining A-
frames turned cozy cafes are three afford-
able lodging options: Hotel Minturn, a sleek
four-room boutique hotel; the just-re-
vamped Minturn Inn, a homestead house
turned bed-and-breakfast; and the
Bunkhouse, a cheerful hostel with 38 bunks
and shared bathrooms. Each morning there
is a guided mountain tour for newcomers to
Vail’s 5,289 acres of terrain and frequent
tours of Blue Sky Basin. There are also day-
time and evening naturalist-led snowshoe
tours (first come first served). Do-it-your-
self grilling is a savvy way to lunch. Trans-
Both Ms. Knox and Mr. McCusker de-
scribed the relationship between Rasta and
the Forest Service as a collaboration that is
beneficial to both parties. “I think that we
have both the environmental concerns at
the forefront of what we are doing, as well as
small town economic sustainability and
that creative economy that comes with pro-
viding recreation opportunities,” Ms. Knox
said.
In neighboring New Hampshire, Granite
Backcountry Alliance has been working to-
ward a similar goal. Led by Tyler Ray, the
alliance has followed Rasta’s blueprint in or-
ganizing the backcountry ski community
and working with the Forest Service to cre-
ate similar areas for skiing and snowboard-
ing.
Despite New Hampshire’s proximity to
Vermont the natural ski terrain has stark
differences. “We have the benefits of the
high alpine of the Presidential Mountains
here in New Hampshire, but we don’t have
that below-tree-line ski network of trails,”
Mr. Ray said about the backcountry ski
landscape in New Hampshire.
Mr. Ray said the goal of the alliance was
to develop a portfolio of terrain options so
skiers and snowboarders could choose ar-
eas to visit depending on weather, time of
day or any of the other complex factors in-
volved in planning backcountry travel. He
said the alliance had held 10 community or-
ganizing events in the past year with about
1,500 attendees, including three trail work
days with more than 250 volunteers devel-
oping or maintaining some 10,000 vertical
feet of skiable terrain.
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port your own food and head over to on-
mountain decks equipped with gas grills
that are open to the public. Happy hour fare
is a solid dinner option. The slopeside Ava-
lanche Pub has $5 cocktails and shareable
plates (cauliflower hush puppies, crab bei-
gnets, duck confit tacos) that clock in under
$15 each. Or follow the locals to Vendettas
for $3 beers and pizza like the Snow Pig
(pepperoni, sausage and Canadian bacon),
$18.
Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Lodgings like Anvil and Town Square Inns
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A Working Vacation
As the day progressed we moved across the
mountain like a herd of goats. Climbing up,
over and down the steep hillside, we tore
through all of the downed trees and
branches that stood in our path. With 10 of
us working at a moderate pace, we found
ourselves in a meadow with tall grass and
hardwood trees at the top of the mountain in
about an hour.
I enjoy the meditative state I often fall
into while doing physical labor, so a day in
the mountains of Vermont seems like a
guilt-free and productive vacation. I rarely
find myself on beaches because I feel like I
should be busy, and end up leaving more
anxious than when I arrived. My sweat and
dirty hands on my day in the mountains
were an investment in future vacations that
others will enjoy as well.
The Forest Service had instructed us to
leave the debris where it was cut to help
with erosion control and retain nutrients for
the soil, and to avoid creating unnatural
piles of debris. The hillside was covered in a
thick blanket of decomposed leaves,
branches and trees — our goal was to gently
add to that blanket. The result is a forest
that has islands of trees and low areas that
are open, but still look natural.
My mind wandered and my body contin-
ued with the task at hand. Visions of what
the landscape will look like covered in snow
started to emerge. I remembered what it
feels like to glide in the snow, and I kept
thinking of how I would ride over the rocky
lumps and rolls all the way down to the val-
ley below.
in Jackson Town Square are Wild West-
charming and priced under $200 a night. A
ski in/ski out option, at the base of Jackson
Hole Mountain Resort, is The Hostel, where
shared bunks are $43, a private room $129.
Jackson Hole’s ski free, stay free packages
should be considered. For $289 per person
(four-night minimum, must book through
Jackson Hole Central Reservations), guests
receive lodging, lift tickets and a $300 air-
fare voucher plus a bonus night of lodging
and a day of skiing. The resort offers free
two-hour mountain tours daily. Twenty min-
utes away, travelers can snowshoe (there
are also free ranger-led tours) and cross-
country ski for the price of park entrance
($10 per vehicle) inside nearby Grand Teton
National Park. For dinner, take advantage
of happy hour prices. Thai Me Up ($3 egg
rolls, $4 pot stickers, $12 Thai wings and $3
craft beer) and Snake River Brewing ($4
craft beer, $7 nachos, $9 wings) are local fa-
vorites. At The Handlebar, diners can
lounge at outdoor fire pits with $3 beers and
shareable plates (elk and red bean chili, na-
chos, craft burgers, all under $20).
Park City, Utah
In Midway, 20 minutes from town, the old-
world Homestead Hotel ($129) has bright
rooms and a hot spring-filled geothermal
crater for post-ski soaking. Ice Castles, a lo-
cal attraction featuring frozen towers and
tunnels, is on the property’s golf course.
Zermatt Resort in Heber City, also a 20-
minute drive, has basic rooms priced as low
as $165. In town, try Airbnb or Hyatt Place
($230). New this year: free daily guided
mountain tours that double as history les-
son. Casual comfort food is plentiful on his-
toric Main Street: Bacon mac and cheese
($16) at Windy Ridge Cafe, ramen at
Yukiyama ($14), chicken dumpling potpie
($13) at the Boneyard Saloon. The Farm is
one of Park City’s top restaurants. The bar
menu (sunchoke linguine with confit egg
yolk and Pecorino foam, $16) offers a com-
parable, less pricey dining experience.
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THE SKI ISSUE ROUNDUP

It’s Not All Downhill (and Cross Country) From Here

Resorts across the U.S. and
Canada have added acreage,
restaurants, bars and golf.
By ELAINE GLUSAC
With the size and variety to engage skiers
for weeks, the ski industry’s big players like
Aspen and Vail resorts dominate the imagi-
nations of winter sports fans across the
country. A total of 479 ski resorts operated
last winter in the United States, according
to the National Ski Areas Association, tally-
ing 54.7 million skier and snowboarder vis-
its, up 3.7 percent from the previous year.
However, it’s the many the underdogs —
smaller operators ranging from city neigh-
bors like Mountain Creek in Vernon, N.J., to
remote snow-blessed areas like Wolf Creek
Ski Area in Southern Colorado — that play
an important role in the ski universe, often
as teaching hills and budget alternatives.
“The substantial percentage of the most
die-hard skiers started somewhere small,”
said Evan Reece, the chief executive and co-
base lodge renovations and a new radio-fre-
quency system for lift tickets.
In the Adirondacks region, two New York
State-run ski areas are getting upgrades to
make them more competitive with world-
class ski resorts in the East, like Killington
in Vermont. Gore Mountain in North Creek
is rebuilding and expanding its lodges at the
base, midmountain and summit. In 2016, it
began using energy from over 14,000 solar
panels. Whiteface Mountain at Lake Placid
is expanding its ski school, renovating two
lodges at the base of the mountain and add-
ing a warming hut on the mountain top.
Western United States
Colorado is home to more than two dozen
ski resorts including international draws
like Snowmass and Breckinridge. But
thanks to the Rocky Mountains, even be-
loved locals’ resorts like Eldora Mountain
Resort near Boulder have long runs and ele-
vations over 10,000 feet. Reachable via pub-
lic bus, the 680-acre Eldora plans to add a
high-speed, six-passenger chairlift this win-
ter, with a ride time of less than five min-
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founder of Liftopia, an online service offer-
ing discounts on lift tickets, equipment rent-
als and more. For beginner lessons, he said,
small ski areas are “lower cost, higher
touch and require less commitment.”
While single-day lift passes can cost more
than $150 at major resorts, access tends to
be cheaper at lesser-known areas. And re-
sorts within driving distance spare skiers
airline tickets, expenses that particularly
add up when it comes to family ski trips.
The following off-the-beaten-piste ski ar-
eas in North America offer new incentives
to visit, including winter golf, extreme sled-
ding and terrain expansions.
Eastern United States
utes. Mindful of its entrepreneurial cli-
entele, the resort is adding free Wi-Fi in its
two base lodges.
Mountain-mad Coloradans appreciate
Arapahoe Basin, just over 60 miles west of
Denver, for its extremely long season, run-
ning October to June. This year it is intro-
ducing 468 skiable acres, bringing the re-
sort to 1,400 acres. Most of the new terrain
can be reached via ski lift, with its most
challenging area accessible by hiking in.
In Northern California, Sugar Bowl Re-
sort has plenty of competition from nearby
Lake Tahoe resorts. Over the past two years
the Donner Summit area has invested $6
million in snow grooming and removal and
a new children’s ski and snowboard school.
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In West Virginia, Canaan Valley Resort dan-
gles the proposition of a two-season vaca-
tion. It will keep its golf course open this
winter, weather permitting, for the first
time, potentially offering visitors the
chance to ski and tee up on the same day.
The resort also increased its snow-making
capacity by 140 percent over the past two
years. The runs, with an 850-foot vertical
drop, overlook the valley floor.
Seek more novelty at Montage Mountain
Resorts in Scranton, Pa. The ski area claims
to have the largest airboarding program in
the country. By airboarding, similar to sled-
ding on an inflatable raft, riders can reach
up to 60 miles per hour on downhill runs.
The resort also offers “First Timer Fridays,”
which include a free lift ticket, rental equip-
ment and lesson to first-time skiers and
snowboarders.
In New Hampshire’s central White
Mountains, Waterville Valley Resort added
a peak in 2016. This year, $3 million went
into snow-making upgrades, three new lifts,
The San Francisco chef Traci Des Jardins is
newly overseeing the food and developing
new menus for three restaurants. The 1939
vintage Sugar Bowl acquired the cross-
country-ski resort Royal Gorge in 2013 and
has upgraded its trails and plans to add an
interactive trail map on its website with
conditions and marked routes.
For skiers seeking to do some uphilling or
skinning, as the practice of walking up a
mountain in skis outfitted with no-slip skins
and special bindings is called, Mount Shasta
Ski Park, about 65 miles north of Redding,
will newly allow it beginning in January.
The resort also offers a combined Nordic
and Alpine skiing ticket.
For those seeking space on the slopes,
Powder Mountain, about 55 miles north of
Salt Lake City has promised to cap the max-
imum number of day passes sold to 1,500
and season passes to 3,000. That’s low den-
sity in a ski area with 8,464 acres. Powder
Mountain records an average snowfall of
500 inches, and the addition of two lifts last
year helps expedite transit to it.
It’s worth the trip to Bozeman, Mont., to
reach Big Sky Resort for its uncrowded
runs spread across 5,800 acres. It may not
remain that way long. Its new 10-year, $150-
million plan aims to raise its profile by mod-
ernizing all of its lifts. Last year two chair-
lifts were replaced, and this year its four
surface lifts used to transport beginners up-
hill were also replaced.
Try Alaska for après ski. Not strictly, of
course. Alyeska Resort, a 40-minute drive
south of Anchorage, averages 650 inches of
snow each year. Post-run, take in views of
the Chugach Mountains and the Turnagain
Arm from the new mountaintop bar.
Canada
In the Canadian Rockies, you might be
tempted to stop at the ski areas around
Banff National Park, but press on west of
Calgary nearly 200 miles to Panorama
Mountain Resort in British Columbia. This
Top, Panorama Mountain
Resort in British Columbia.
Above left, Gore Mountain in
New York. Above right, Big Sky
Resort in Montana.
season it will add 128 acres to its backcoun-
try Taynton Bowl, creating four double-
black-diamond trails and the resort’s long-
est run at four miles.
Along the so-called Powder Highway of
southern British Columbia, Whitewater Ski
Resort in the Selkirk Mountains near Nel-
son is expanding this year with a new quad
chairlift, a new base lodge to house its ski
school and a renovation of its existing lodge.
In Jasper National Park in Alberta, Mar-
mot Basin is adding an area called Tres
Hombres, a north-facing, treeless and very
steep slope of about 54 acres. Its five new
runs are designed for expert skiers and
snowboarders.
In eastern Canada’s Charlevoix region,
about 90 miles east of Quebec City, Mont
Grand-Fonds is often overshadowed by the
larger Le Massif de Charlevoix, but it does-
n’t lack variety. Its new off-trail area known
as the Lynx can be reached by lift or by skin-
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The Peaks Are Low, and the Turns Are Plentiful
Skiing has a long tradition here,
and affordability is a major
draw for the state’s resorts.
By ELAINE GLUSAC
The snow sparkled on broad Kath Run at
Boyne Highlands in northern Michigan as
Tony Sendlhofer and I hit the powdery mar-
gins with each slope-hogging S-turn, leav-
ing a joyous loopy trail on the freshly
groomed corduroy of a sunny March day.
“They say about Midwest skiers that we
love to make turns,” said Mr. Sendlhofer, a
native of Austria and the director of the re-
sort’s snow sports. “That’s what we have, to
make it last.”
By our turns, we Michiganders say, you
shall know us, from Aspen to Zermatt. Our
mountains, with their 500-foot drops, some
call hills. But the resorts of northern Michi-
gan have a tradition of teaching by Euro-
pean experts that goes back to the earliest
days of skiing in the United States and a rep-
utation for raising ski enthusiasts eager to
make tracks at the larger mountain destina-
tions of the world.
“Because of shorter runs and sometimes
icy conditions, skiers in this section of the
state seem to really focus on making a great
turn,” said Jim Neff, the editor of
MichiganSkier.com. “When I go out West, I
can make turns lasting 100 yards instead of
five or 10 yards.”
As a Detroit native and a lifelong visitor
to the region known as “Up North,” I
learned to turn on these hills, acquiring ski
skills that have served me well from Switz-
erland to New Zealand. Affordability is a
major draw — lift tickets often cost less than
half of what the big Western resorts com-
mand — as is natural beauty, albeit of the
subtle Midwestern sort.
Three of the region’s top ski areas reside
in the upper left quadrant of the Michigan
mitten, which is rough geography for the
map of the state’s Lower Peninsula that lo-
cals commonly make with their palms held
high. None are over 90 miles apart, making
it easy to hill-hop from the fruit-growing re-
gion around Traverse City following the
Lake Michigan shoreline north to the high-
lands bracketing Little Traverse Bay. It’s a
part of the state that has drawn celebrity
émigrés, hardy winemakers and a fair num-
ber of protectionist locals. As my friend
Mike Fisher, who grew up near Petoskey, of-
ten says: “This is the best place on earth.
Don’t tell anyone.”
In summer, the Great Lakes and the
lesser ones attract tourists and second-
home owners from near and far, swelling
towns like Charlevoix and Harbor Springs.
In winter, most of their T-shirt and fudge
shops close, reminding me just how lean a
four-season existence in northern Michigan
really is.
I’ve always thought of winter as the mag-
ical season of warm fires, trackless drift-
filled forests and sunsets that paint the
snow-covered lakes pink. For skiers who
like to explore, it’s also the best time to meet
the locals in resort towns like Traverse City
and Petoskey with the sort of history and
authenticity that most newer Western ski
resorts try to construct.
Over a long weekend last winter, I took a
northern Michigan road trip to test my the-
ory that elevation isn’t everything and com-
pensations can come well off-piste.
The snow guns at Crystal Mountain in
Thompsonville, 30 miles south of Traverse
City, were blasting when I arrived on a
bright afternoon, blotting out the blue sky in
artificial clouds during a remarkably warm
winter season. The thrum of the machines
continued all night, frosting the tidy base
village and piling more promising accumu-
lations on the hills as the conditions, dipping
to 11 degrees, improved.
Eight lifts provide easy access to 102
acres of skiing, which is helpful as, with a
375-foot rise, I found myself riding the
chairs a lot. The main high-speed quad de-
livers skiers to beginner, intermediate and
expert runs, as well as what turned out to be
my favorites in the Backyard: five mostly
blue runs on the far side of the hill that I had
to myself for hours without having to slow
much to catch the lift.
Crystal was my first reminder that Michi-
gan resorts do not compete on mountain
stats. It takes creativity to vie for winter
business in an industry dependent on in-
creasingly unpredictable weather and the
challenge of bigger mountains within a
three-hour plane ride. Recreational diversi-
ty abounds and Crystal’s unique attraction,
Michigan Legacy Art Park, strews over 40
pieces of sculpture throughout a wooded,
30-acre plot threaded by rolling snowshoe
trails where the spiraling wood boards of
“Sawpath No. 2” by David Barr seemed a
fitting descendant of the hardwoods above
it.
Liftopia, which sells discounted lift tick-
ets to ski resorts globally, named Crystal
Mountain second nationally in last year’s
Best in Snow awards, a measurement that
considers skier visits, size, cost and the pas-
sion of its 10,000 respondents. Like them, I
was impressed by the cheer of the hotel
staff at Inn on the Mountain and the avail-
ability of amenities ranging from a spa to
good restaurants. The menu at the slope-
side wood-paneled Thistle Pub & Grill
hewed to local flavors like cherry barbe-
cued pork (over 70 percent of the nation’s
tart cherry harvest is grown in the area an-
nually) and shaved brussels sprouts salad
with Michigan apples. The house red wine
came from Black Star Farms in the nearby
Leelanau Peninsula.
ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION of a Michigander —
my go-to was “What’s fun around here?” —
and you’re bound to get a laundry list of rec-
ommendations. I quickly found my Michi-
gan ski trip was less about the resort than
the region when I was directed off-property
for a drink at Crystal’s new neighbor, Iron
Fish Distillery. The farm-to-flask operation
grows 30 percent its own grain and gets the
rest locally, then mills, mashes, ferments
and distills it on site. The end products, in-
cluding a tasty gin made with regional bo-
tanicals, are named for the steelhead in the
neighboring Betsie River.
From top: Crystal Mountain
in Thompsonville, Mich.,
which has 58 runs, 29 of
them lit for night skiing; a
trail for visitors at its
Michigan Legacy Art Park,
right, and Avalanche Bay at
Boyne Mountain in
Michigan, left; a food truck
in Boyne Highlands in
Harbor Springs; Tap 30 is
Petoskey’s newest brewery.
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“Its personality is similar to whiskey,”
said Richard Anderson, one of the owners,
showing me around the stills installed in a
barnlike production room. “Fishermen de-
scribe them as coy, territorial, strong and
determined. It’s a fish with attitude.”
A Mexican food truck was pulling in for
the après-ski hour as I set out for Traverse
City. The largest city in the north, Traverse,
as it is called, has taken its cue from the or-
chards and vineyards nearby to nurture a
culinary flare evident at a range of restau-
rants and bars from thoughtful microbrew-
eries to ambitious locavore restaurants
such as Alliance.
Even in town, the country was never far
away. I checked into the new Hotel Indigo
Traverse City opposite Grand Traverse Bay,
where a photo mural of river rocks deco-
rated the room. The city’s many breweries,
shops and restaurants lay within walking
distance. At the Workshop Brewing Com-
pany, runners registering for a chilly 5K
race the next day stopped for pints of Sickle
saison over board-games of Guess Who?
and rounds at the foosball table. I continued
my pedestrian pub crawl a few blocks away
in a former canning company loading dock
at Rare Bird Brew Pub named for the own-
ers’ passion for bird-watching and filled
with tables salvaged from a local cotton-
wood tree that was over 120 years old when
it died.
Overnight snow slicked the two-lane
roads that lead 58 miles north from Trav-
erse City to Boyne Mountain in Boyne Falls.
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and allowing equipment rentals at one re-
sort to be returned at either.
The Tyrolean-accented resort became Between the two ski areas in Petoskey,
Michigan’s leading ski area when Everett the company also owns the waterfront Inn
Kircher, a Studebaker dealer and skier from at Bay Harbor, modeled on grand 19th-cen-
Detroit, found 40 acres with a 1,150-foot rise tury resorts. Here, skiers are warmly wel-
in the northern woods and paid the skepti- comed — every bellman I met asked about
cal owner $1 to build a winter resort in 1947. the ski conditions — and a free shuttle to
Its base village presses against the moun- Petoskey’s historic Gaslight District, just
tain’s rise, producing an energizing degree shy of four miles away, encourages guests
of congestion. Snow-flocked Adirondack
to explore.
chairs clustered around open fires near a Summer’s high tide of visitors largely
food truck serving beef shank tacos. Some
supports the proliferation of independent
10 lifts scaled its broad face, offering plenty shops and restaurants in Petoskey, where
of choices.
one of the typically literate salespeople at
I joined Wolfgang Russold, another na- McLean & Eakin Booksellers spent 10 min-
tive of Austria and the director of Boyne’s
utes extolling “The Sellout” by Paul Beatty
ski school, on the central Mountain Express when he learned I’d loved “The Under-
chair where he explained Boyne’s long tra-
ground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead.
dition of Austrian recruitment, “for flavor Seasonal staff goes with the tourists, which
and for labor,” he said. “Ski instructor certi- is why the bartender at Beards Brewery
fication is more rigorous in Austria than was the owner himself. I found more off-
here,” and Everett Kircher wanted the best.
season rewards when I walked into the tiny
In 1954, he recruited the Norwegian Chandler’s restaurant, a culinary sophis-
Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen to run ticate disguised in knotty-pine paneling,
the Boyne ski school and dazzle crowds and wound up at the bar between a local
with his signature aerial flip. Othmar landscape designer and a chef who claimed
Schneider, an Olympic champion from Aus- the quiet was welcome.
tria, took over in 1961 for the next 14 winters. “Winter is our season of recovery,” he
Skiers came from around the Midwest to said.
learn the then-new reverse-shoulder tech- On the clearest, coldest and most breath-
nique at Boyne. As skiing caught on in the taking day of the trip, the snow glinted in
1960s, Kircher, “a wiry little man who oper- the sunshine at Boyne Highlands, where
ates at Bravura tempo and dances to his eight lifts range across two mountains. The
own tune,” according to Skiing magazine, view from the central ridge takes in iced-
continued to tinker with his formula. He de- over Little Traverse Bay in one direction
veloped the first three-person chairlift, in- and the peaked red roofs of the alpine base
stalled the first four-person lift and ad- village in the other. “Blowin’ in the Wind” by
vanced snow-making technology. Bob Dylan played on outdoor speakers, set-
There are luxury condominiums here ting a mellow tone.
now and a hotel with a grand lobby, testa- When he arrived from Austria in 1976,
ments to the resort’s year-round appeal that Tony Sendlhofer, then a new recruit to the
includes two golf courses. An indoor water ski school staff, looked at the 552-foot verti-
park, added in 2005, ensures families have cal drop and wondered where the mountain
plenty of diversion whatever happens with was. “But it wasn’t about that,” he said. “I
the weather. But its vintage features, in- always wanted to come to the U.S.”
cluding the Snowflake Lounge where après- He took up the mantle of the Austrian tra-
skiers dance on snowflake-pattern carpet, dition here and has since taught genera-
echo Boyne’s early days as a getaway for tions of families how to ski, how to enjoy the
singles. Old photos displayed in vitrines de- outdoors in winter and, most infectiously,
voted to memorabilia in Stein Ericksen’s how to make the most of where you are.
restaurant capture outdoor parties and cou- “Come on,” he said, waving an insulated
ples in a steaming swimming pool beside mitten toward the empty Kath Run below
the slopes, where one exists today. us. “Let’s make some turns.”

Slopes, Steaks and Sun Way Down South
A modern resort in Patagonia
has stunning views to go along
with its charms.
By NELL McSHANE WULFHART
As we navigated our way out of the airport
and onto a shuttle bus, we were surrounded
by Brazilians and Argentines — not an
American or European accent to be heard.
This, for a North American, is part of the ap-
peal of South American skiing: The experi-
ence is that of a world slightly tilted. There’s
no English babble, and July and August are
the best months for snow. I was here in the
late North American summer with my part-
ner, Alan, and an Argentine friend, Adrián,
to explore the mountain sports resort Chap-
elco, tucked into the Andes near the Chilean
border in Patagonia.
Adrián, a snowboard fanatic who lives in
Canada but comes to Chapelco regularly,
usually for a week or more at a time, touts
its virtues over other Argentine resorts.
“It’s the largest skiable area that comes
with a local town experience. Catedral is
massive, Las Leñas is not as well organized.
The rest are way smaller. For me, Chapelco
is the closest it gets to the Forest Service ski
areas in the U.S.”
For now, Chapelco is one of Argentina’s
less-visited ski resorts, but that may be
changing. In August 2017, the resort saw a
record number of people — 7,012 in a single
day — and the resort is constructing its own
lodging, with ski-in, ski-out service. Tour-
ism is on an upswing, but the slopes aren’t
overcrowded and Federico Lopez Jal-
laguier, the resort’s marketing manager,
told me that “Chapelco is the ski and snow-
board center that has received the most in-
vestment in the last 10 years.”
He added, “It’s the most renovated of the
Argentine centers in terms of chairlifts,
snow-grooming and snow-making.”
The resort is modern. The closest town,
San Martín de los Andes, is appealingly
wholesome and old-fashioned. The lakeside
settlement has a distinctly European feel,
with wooden cabins aiming their sharply
angled roofs at the sky and a main street
lined with chocolate shops and small cafes.
But here glühwein is replaced by Malbec,
and fondue supplanted by rounds of provo-
lone roasted over a wood fire. Families flock
here, not just from Argentina and Brazil, but
from Chile, too, because the homey atmos-
phere is more child-friendly and welcoming
than the party-all-night atmosphere and
singles scene in Bariloche, a much larger
ski town a few hours south.
We’d arrived too late in the day to go to
the mountain, but we checked into our
aparthotel. These are plentiful in San
Martín, and make sense for groups — with
small living rooms and kitchens, they are
much more spacious than a traditional ho-
tel. Ours was a cozy two-bedroom wooden
cabin that included a carb-and-sugar-heavy
breakfast of rolls, jam and medialunas, the
traditional Argentine croissant.
After unpacking, we headed to Piscis, a
barbecue mecca that flaunted several
lambs roasting in the window. A menu of
trout and deer played up Patagonia’s tradi-
tional ingredients; we added a couple of bot-
tles of Patagonian wine, and at 11 p.m., a man
came in and played tango music on an ac-
cordion — aimed at tourists, sure, because
tango is an urban pastime, not a Patagonian
one, but something that the Brazilians in the
restaurant vocally appreciated.
The next morning we piled into the car for
the short journey to Chapelco. The resort is
11 miles from the town, a leisurely uphill
drive that follows the curve of majestic,
mountain-backed Lake Lácar, and ends in
three miles of unpaved road. The sky was
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THE SKI ISSUE
bright blue and, once we hopped off the
chairlift, provided a brilliant background
for the snow strewn across the Andes like
tiger stripes. It remained spectacularly
sunny for most of our trip. One afternoon I
looked down from the lift to see a man in full
gear, skis on but planted firmly in the snow,
lying on his back with his hands behind his
head taking a mid-run sun bath.
The slopes at Chapelco run the gamut —
plenty of practice areas, some challenging
midrange runs, and black diamonds that
please adrenaline junkies, topping out at
6,500 feet above sea level and spread over
4,000 acres. The boundaries of the off-piste
areas aren’t strongly enforced, and there
are tracks everywhere left by boarders slic-
ing through the ungroomed snow as if it
were water.
The forests are the most skiable of the Ar-
gentine resorts, the trees neatly corralled,
with the occasional snowboarder swerving
around and through. I skied the groomed
beginner slopes a few times to warm up,
then headed toward the red (Argentina
uses the European system of classification;
in the United States these would be blue)
trails, pausing to snap photos of the lake
down below and the Lanín volcano in the
distance — a view that made it hard, when
facing a tricky run, to look where I was go-
ing rather than at the scenery.
Red-faced and windblown and ready for a
slower pace, I turned down the camino, a
3.3-mile service road that takes a long,
leisurely path through the trees to the base
of the mountain, crisscrossing marked runs
as it winds its way down. It can fill up with
beginners but it’s a fabulous slow ride that
allows you to soak up the views and leaves
you with all your bones and equipment in-
tact.
Around 5 p.m. we got into the car and
drove three and a half hours to eat a steak.
You might think this is too long but you’d be
wrong. Our aim was El Boliche de Alberto, a
parrillada where the wood-fired steaks are
deservedly famous — I’d had one two years
before and had pestered Alan and Adrián to
make the trek for another. The restaurant is
in Bariloche, and the road south from San
Martín skirts a series of seven lakes that are
some of the most stunning scenery in Pata-
gonia. The sun was setting as we drove, but
the lakes — ringed by pines and native
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rare degree we wanted. Eating dinner in Ar-
gentina is an unhurried process, and we
weren’t back on the road until 1 a.m. There
wasn’t another car on the road, which was
lightly coated in fresh snow. We rounded the
dark curves with the high beams on; I sat in
the back seat under the coats discarded by
the others — the heat in our cheap rented
Chevrolet Corsa didn’t reach past the front
seat. There was no cell reception in between
these ski towns and the lakes were hidden
by fog; it was just the three of us and the
snow and the occasional fox darting in front
of the headlights.
The result of our midnight excursion was
evident when we pulled into the resort the
next morning. We noticed a deflated tire,
pushed out of shape by a rim that had been
damaged by a pothole.
AFTER THE DAY’S SKIING, we would drive it
carefully back into town and to a small ga-
rage, where a man in his 70s would bang the
rim back into shape with a hammer and
charge us 80 pesos, the best bargain of the
trip. Inflation in Argentina, a constant prob-
lem, meant that a dollar was worth around
17 pesos when we were there. Argentina’s
not cheap, but the exchange rate helped
keep costs down. And for overseas visitors,
Argentina’s new rule — tourists don’t pay
the 21 percent value-added tax on hotel
rooms if they use a credit card issued
abroad — is an added inducement.
Skilled skiers and riders can burn their
way through the runs that shoot down from
Cerro Escalonado, the highest point in the
resort, far above the tree line. The views be-
yond are all rocky crags, deep bowls and un-
touched snow — areas that the resort may
eventually develop, but which for now re-
main pristine.
From here, the following day, we
swooshed down a steep, treeless slalom
crowded with snowboarders to the travesía
baja. This 0.6-mile blue run streaks east
along a steep drop-off that’s without the pro-
tection of trees, but this means sweeping
mountain views. It finishes with a sharp dip
that ends at the Pradera del Puma, a
parador (small restaurant). We added our
skis and board to the collection and
tramped in, collecting ceramic bowls of rus-
tic roasted potatoes and lentil stew with
meat, then pulled up chairs at the tables out-
side. The sun shone, James Brown played
The lifts, top, and slopes, on the loudspeaker and we shared a couple
center, at the Chapelco resort of Coronas, just for the hell of it.
in Patagonia, Argentina. Above, The final run of the trip was back down
LANÍN San Martín de los An
Andes
A n
VO
O LC
L ANO the scene at Cala, a restaurant the gentle camino, which we dragged out as
CHILE in San Martín de los Andes, a long as possible before joining the crowd
spot where some patrons wind filling the outdoor tables and chairs at the
down after a day of skiing. base. The après ski here isn’t the raucous,
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hourslong scene of European resorts — the
San Martín de los
os Andes resort closes at 5 p.m. and at 6 clears out
quickly, with everyone headed back to town
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37 for a shower and rest before dinner.
ARGENTINA We followed suit, sauntering over to Cala,
a cheery, wooden-roofed pizza joint
25 MILES
thronged with groups of snow-loving
Porteños (as people from Buenos Aires are
called) and locals, sinking pints of beer and
stuffing themselves with the fabulous em-
panadas. In Argentina, the tradition of indi-
cating an empanada’s filling by thumbing
the dough closed in a particular pattern
Bariloche
e lives on: We ordered spinach and cheese
El B
Boliche de Alberto
ert and minced beef, followed by a hearty pie of
OCEAN
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pepperoni and fresh tomatoes that we
couldn’t finish. If you’ve spent time in
coihue trees and surrounded by mountains Buenos Aires, where locals have the anxi-
— were jaw-droppingly beautiful even in ety levels of New Yorkers and about as
the fading light. much chill, you’d be as surprised as I was to
At our destination, crowded with people see these Porteños laughing, drinking and
and warmed by the enormous fire, we utterly relaxed.
picked up hefty, wooden-handled knives It might have been the mountain air, the
and dug into an ojo de bife (rib eye) capped energy burned off on the slopes, the natural
beauty of the area or the beer, but the town
with crispy fat and cooked to precisely the
and the mountain had worked their magic.
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Quiet Trails and Questions at 3 U.S. Monuments
THIS MONTH, PRESIDENT TRUMP sharply re-
duced the size of two national monuments
in Utah. Bears Ears shrank by 85 percent;
Grand Staircase-Escalante was cut by
nearly half. Plans for many other monu-
ments are unclear. What are these places
like for visitors? We explored three of them.
Scrambling on Sandstone
At Grand Staircase-Escalante
Jay and I wondered what the climb back out
would be like as we made our way down a
wide, smooth, but radically tilted carapace
of sandstone toward Upper Calf Creek Falls.
This was a “trail,” visible mostly as an imag-
inary line between rock cairns.
We had to brace ourselves against the
steep pitch, mind the loose grit underfoot
and take care not to be distracted: The
domes and swales of bright vanilla rock, a
faint scatter of distant pines and junipers, a
dark weight of azure sky. The oceanic ex-
panses of sandstone — known locally as
“slickrock”— are common in southern
Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument. For two decades, monument
status has protected this mostly uninhabit-
ed high-desert region where ancestral Na-
tive American rock art and ruins are on
view, backcountry hiking is accelerating in
popularity, kayakers ply the Escalante
River, rock climbers ascend towers and can-
yon walls, and the fossils of newly discov-
ered species of dinosaurs are unearthed ev-
ery few years.
The geology is durable, but national mon-
uments may no longer be. President Trump
appeared in Salt Lake City on Dec. 4 to pro-
claim that he will cut this one to half its cur-
rent size, opening the other half to mining,
drilling, motorized recreation and various
industrial uses.
A long list of Republican and Democratic
presidents have created national monu-
ments under the authority of the century-
old Antiquities Act. Grand Staircase-Es-
calante was declared by President Bill Clin-
ton in 1996, Bears Ears by President Barack
Obama in 2016. According to Interior Secre-
tary Ryan Zinke, “There is no doubt that
President Trump has the authority to re-
view and consider recommendations to
modify or add a monument.”
His opponents say no such authority ex-
ists. “We intend to sue the president imme-
diately in federal court over these unlawful
acts,” Steve Bloch, legal director of the
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, said,
just as Mr. Trump arrived. Mr. Bloch said
the alliance would join plaintiffs including
the Natural Resources Defense Council, the
Wilderness Society and Earthjustice.
“The Antiquities Act does not provide au-
thority to revoke or modify national monu-
ments once they’ve been created,” he said.
One section of Grand Staircase-Escalante
is a high step on this “grand staircase” of es-
calating cliff walls and terraces that begins
at the Grand Canyon, about 100 miles south
of here, each exposed stratum higher and
geologically younger than the last. Redraw-
ing the monument’s boundaries will open
some of the huge coal deposits on the
Kaiparowits Plateau, south of where we’re
hiking, to mining.
In scale as well as beauty, Grand Stair-
case-Escalante is more than a little over-
whelming. As of last month, it was the larg-
est of the land-based national monuments,
about the size of Delaware. On paved roads,
it took two hours to drive from one corner of
the monument to the other, but they are
very few. Some of the dirt roads are well
maintained, but navigating most of the
monument requires high-clearance, four-
wheel-drive vehicles.
Those dirt roads are always remote, and
often forbidding. Flash floods are common.
Cellphone service is restricted to about 10
percent of the monument. In high season,
Bureau of Land Management rangers have
to pull one stranded car a day out of trouble
and they have to mount one full-scale
search-and-rescue a week, on average.
Visitor services like those are “chroni-
cally underfunded and therefore under-
staffed,” I was told by Kevin Miller, a B.L.M.
ecologist who has worked at the monument.
Though the number of visitors to the monu-
ment is climbing, budgets are declining fur-
ther, he said. A stop at a visitor center for
guidance on road conditions is essential.
This was the last area of the continental
United States to be mapped, Mr. Miller told
me. Trailheads may be signed, but the trails
themselves usually aren’t. They are not
maintained, and often they aren’t on maps.
We stayed out of trouble on our visit, but
the climb back up this route generated
plenty of sweat. I was here to hike with my
college-age great-nephew on a trip through
southern Utah. A day exploring the flanks
and waterfalls of this gorge, and the trail-
less crags above them, was a fine introduc-
tion. The extreme temperatures of winter
and summer keep many visitors — estimat-
ed at over 870,000 a year — away, but spring
and fall weather are usually welcoming.
Later, I inquired at the office of Senator
Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who
had urged Mr. Trump to rescind or cut back
the monuments. “To this day, the Grand
Staircase proclamation remains among the
most flagrant abuses of presidential power
I have ever seen,” he responded. It is “suffo-
cating economic development and uproot-
ing the lives of thousands of Utahns who re-
lied on the region’s resources for their very
survival.”
The senator’s analysis puzzles Suzanne
Catlett. She is president of the Escalante-
Boulder Chamber of Commerce, and the
owner of a restaurant, Nemo’s Drive-Thru.
The economies of those two hamlets — the
gateways to the monument — have pros-
pered on the tourism they draw, she said.
Before its creation, Escalante was a
sleepy ranch supply center with a failing
sawmill. The growing number of visitors
supports businesses that provide food and
lodging, guide and expedition services,
camping supplies and an annual art festi-
val. Of the chamber’s 52 members, 51 have
declared their opposition to any changes in
the monument’s boundaries, she told me.
“For an administration that’s supposed to
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care about business and economics, this
does not make sense,” she said. She said she
worries that if the Trump plans succeed, in-
dustrialization of the landscape will under-
mine tourism.
The next day, a turnoff along a few miles
of sandy, hummocky road brought us to a
hike along Harris Wash. Maps indicate that
its lower reaches are among those sections
erased when half of the national monument
disappeared.
The wash follows a canyon whose walls of
striped pink sandstone become higher and
narrower as you trek. They have been
carved into soap-smooth, undulant con-
tours by eons of grinding floodwater. By-
ways called slot canyons beckon to the cas-
ual explorer. Some narrow down to mere
cracks, which you can try to squeeze
through at your hazard.
The first couple of miles of the hike were
remarkable, too, for the pungent, pervasive
odor of cattle dung. Grazing is allowed on
many national monuments and other public
lands, even in officially designated wilder-
ness areas. The number varies, but officials
estimate that there are about 6,000 private
cattle on leased allotments through most of
Grand Staircase-Escalante.
The cows have been kept away from
some streams on the monument, where
they naturally congregate in this arid envi-
ronment. But they are still allowed at Harris
Wash, despite damage to stream banks,
fouled waters, depleted natural vegetation,
competition with wildlife and this canyon’s
popularity as a hiking destination.
Jay and I were reminded, on this last day
of our visit, that the continued presence of
cattle here is part of the longstanding na-
tional contention over public lands manage-
ment. And that for travelers to national
parks, forests and monuments, the natural
landscape has quickly merged with the poli-
tical one. STEPHEN NASH
Katahdin in Maine Is Rustic,
Remote and Drawing Visitors
For a quiet expanse of deep woods, the Ka-
tahdin Wood and Waters National Monu-
ment generated a lot of controversy in its
first year, as it was swept into a politically
charged review of monuments by the
Trump administration. But on the mossy
ground in northern Maine, the review has
had little impact.
President Barack Obama established the
monument in August 2016, with 87,500 acres
of land donated by Roxanne Quimby, who
founded Burt’s Bees. Abutting Baxter State
Park, the monument became the state’s
largest parcel of federal land, nearly twice
the size of Acadia National Park. Tourists
began visiting to see the brawling East
Branch of the Penobscot River, remote trout
pond and moose-rich bogs.
Then, in April, President Trump ordered
a review of all large monuments created
since 1996. As part of the review, Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke visited the Maine
monument in June.
Mr. Zinke’s final report to the president
included vague language about prioritizing
public access and increasing logging in the
monument. It did not suggest reducing the
size of the monument.
Jamie Brundrett, the president of the Ka-
tahdin Area Chamber of Commerce, is look-
ing forward to some resolution. “Everyone
here in the Katahdin region is ready to put
the issue to bed,” he said.
Mr. Brundrett also owns a general store
in Millinocket. “From wearing both hats, all
spring, summer, and into the fall, business
has been up, and there have been more cars
on Main Street, so I definitely think the park
is helping to drive tourism here,” he said.
A National Park Service spokeswoman,
Elizabeth Rogers, said things had been
busy in the nascent monument. More than
8,000 vehicles drove onto the monument be-
tween May and November, and over 5,000
people stopped at welcome centers in
Millinocket and Patten. Ms. Rogers said
staff members had been improving the
signs on the loop road and elsewhere.
She said that most visitors were driving
the loop road, and that many were also hik-
ing Barnard Mountain (where a couple re-
cently saw a black bear sow and three
cubs). She said the monument still had just
one drive-in campground, at Sandbank
Stream, and several hike-in campsites, all
first-come, first-served. Two hike-in huts —
Haskell Hut and Big Spring Brook Hut —
have bunk space that can be reserved by
emailing lunksoos@gmail.com.
In winter, the monument is open for
cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and fat-
tire biking. The loop road is closed for the
season, and the best winter approach is
from the monument’s north entrance,
where there is a plowed parking lot. There
are also more than 30 miles of snowmobile
trails elsewhere in the monument.
Lucas St. Clair, Roxanne Quimby’s son,
and the executive director of the family non-
profit Elliotsville Plantation, said he had
been pleased to see the monument’s popu-
larity. He said some first-time visitors were
surprised by the rugged conditions.
“I do emphasize the fact that this is a rela-
tively remote and rustic experience,” he
said. “The loop road is rough, and you have
to be prepared for driving a couple of hours
on a dirt road. It’s not like the loop road in
Acadia.”
New this year is an interpretive map of
the loop road, published by Friends of Ka-
tahdin Woods and Waters. It is available at
the welcome centers in Millinocket and Pat-
ten, which are open from Memorial Day to
early October. The map can also be viewed
CRAIG DILGER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
COURTNEY SHERWOOD
DOUGLAS C. PIZAC/ASSOCIATED PRESS
From top: in Maine, Mount
Katahdin viewed from an
overlook off Katahdin Loop
Road; the Cascade-Siskiyou
National Monument in
Oregon; and in Utah, the
Upper Gulch section of the
canyons within Grand
Staircase-Escalante
National Monument.
The merging of the
natural landscape and
the political one.
on the Discover Katahdin app, developed by
the Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce.
Michael Downing, of Mt. Chase Lodge in
Patten, said the review created one hurdle
that makes it hard to find the monument. In
May, Gov. Paul LePage of Maine, a Republi-
can and outspoken opponent of the monu-
ment, directed the State Transportation De-
partment not to post any road signs for the
monument, pending the outcome of the
monument review.
Still, Mr. Downing said, tourists are find-
ing it. “We’ve had people from all over the
country,” he said, “coming specifically just
to see the monument.”
MURRAY CARPENTER
In Oregon, Lilies and Loggers
At Cascade-Siskiyou
Two years ago, armed ranchers and their
supporters occupied the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge in Oregon for 41 days in a
stand against federal control of public
lands. Now, 300 miles to the west, another
remote corner of the state is at the heart of
the debate over conservation versus natu-
ral resource development.
The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monu-
ment, established by President Bill Clinton
in 2000, and doubled in size at the end of
President Barack Obama’s second term in
January, is the first monument set aside
solely to preserve biodiversity. Its 170,000
acres comprise grassland, forests, rivers,
meadows, canyons and snow-capped peaks
at the crossroads of three mountain ranges
— at least, for now.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke identified
the Cascade-Siskiyou as one of 10 monu-
ments to shrink or modify. An Interior De-
partment report says its boundaries should
be made smaller to allow more timber har-
vest and cattle grazing. At the moment, its
fate is uncertain.
This vast stretch of mostly undeveloped
land, which straddles the Oregon-California
border, also straddles a cultural divide
within its region. The nearest sizable town,
Ashland, was once the center of a robust
timber economy, and has now become a
mecca for theater enthusiasts and winter
sports fans.
To most of the area’s human residents, re-
ducing a boundary that was just expanded
in January might seem an invisible realign-
ment. It takes 20 minutes to drive from bor-
der to border across Green Springs High-
way, which cuts like a belt through the nar-
row midsection of the monument. The
handful of logging roads that offer the only
other motorized access require four-wheel
drive vehicles in the summer, and clog with
snow for months each winter.
Green Springs Highway speeds visitors
past pullouts for the Pacific Crest Trail and
smaller hiking paths, through a remote
community contained within the monu-
ment, and through forests that remain pop-
ular with local hunters even after the monu-
ment’s designation. Dueling “No Siskiyou
Monument” and “Yes Monument” signs
posted at restaurants and rental cabins
highlight the depth of the local divide.
Pull over for a closer look, and the chang-
ing seasons offer a hint at the diverse plant
and animal life the monument seeks to pro-
tect. Two endangered lilies — Green’s mari-
posa and Gentner’s fritillary — bloom pur-
ple and red each spring. More than a hun-
dred butterfly and moth species flit and
dance among the conifers in summer. A ge-
netically distinct strain of redband trout
overwinter in the monument’s lakes and
ponds when the days grow short.
The Bureau of Land Management’s ef-
forts to preserve the ecological diversity of
what Mr. Clinton called a “biological cross-
roads” do not forestall all human activities
here. The bureau’s last review of the monu-
ment’s resources, completed in 2008, noted
that more than 46,000 acres had been set
aside for grazing — and that over the course
of a decade, ranchers had used only 58 per-
cent of available public lands within its bor-
ders, on average, each year.
Logging has been more heavily re-
stricted, as bureau officials seek to bring
back canopies that were thinned over many
decades and to maintain old-growth trees.
When the monument was expanded, the
region’s timber industry immediately
raised alarms, with one local company,
Murphy Co., filing federal suit and arguing
the designation is hurting its bottom line.
John Murphy, the president of Murphy
Co., told local media that the monument ex-
pansion forced his company to withdraw
logging plans that would have brought in
millions of dollars in revenue — and gener-
ated $500,000 in taxes for Oregon’s Jackson
County.
Meanwhile, the Oregon Cattlemen’s As-
sociation maintains that grazing is more re-
stricted than bureau data would indicate —
with preservation requirements so strict
that ranchers would rather look elsewhere
than use all the land available within the
monument.
These arguments pull at the heartstrings
of many native Oregonians, even as natural
resources play an ever smaller part in the
region’s economy. Fewer than 500 Jackson
County residents still work in logging today,
out of a local labor force of more than
100,000. Timber once employed 80,000 peo-
ple statewide, but that’s fallen to 5,300 jobs
as wood harvests have moved abroad, the
sector has grown more efficient and envi-
ronmental restrictions have limited logging
both inside and outside the monument.
Today, far more people in the shadow of
the Cascade-Siskiyou work at ski resorts,
outdoor retailers, hotels and restaurants.
Ashland draws theater fans from around
the world to its renowned Oregon Shake-
speare Festival.
“Tourism jobs are not family wage jobs,”
Tom Mallams, the Klamath County Com-
missioner, said during a recent Oregon Pub-
lic Broadcasting radio program on the mon-
ument.
“Timber jobs are family-wage jobs,” he
added, in an argument that would appear to
pit one endangered species, the logger,
against countless others in the expanded
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
COURTNEY SHERWOOD
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JACK SON HOLE, WYO.

Vast wilderness, superlative skiing and an eclectic food scene await visitors to this charming town and valley.

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Although Jacksonites may dismissively call
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son, particularly in winter. Depending on
snow conditions, the upwardly sloping trail
hugs Cache Creek for miles into the high-
lands: The ideal place to take in the big sky,
alpine peaks and wildlife, which might in-
clude moose. The Creek trailhead is a five-
minute drive from downtown Jackson.
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Lotus, a hippie-chic restaurant, moved into
a bigger space in late 2016; the self-de-
scribed wellness center serves healthy,
hearty food. Go for a pad thai — a light, but
flavorful, version with mung bean sprouts,
or a “Bombay,” a souped-up stir fry of broc-
coli, red pepper and zucchini over brown
rice, with spinach, mango, carrot and
toasted coconut. Don’t worry, it’s not all
such virtuous food: There are also truffle
fries. Lunch for two, with coffee, around
$40.
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Start at Gaslight Alley on North Cache
Street. There you’ll find Mountain Dandy, a
boutique that opened in 2014, focusing pri-
marily on American-made products with an
eye toward men (think ties, socks and beau-
tiful handmade blankets). Then pop over to
Valley Book Store, a Jackson institution
that’s been around for 40 years. You’ll find
stunning coffee table tomes on Yellowstone
and Grand Teton National Parks, as well as
a Western fiction section, and a sizable col-
lection of children’s books. On your way out
Perma Grin (blanco tequila, grilled pineap-
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ple, lime juice and smoked sea salt), or if
you missed a margarita at après, order their
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with standout dishes such as grilled wild
mushrooms with sea salt and rosemary, ca-
specializes in landscape photographs that
fuse traditional Western printing tech-
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For great powder and lots of it, head to Te-
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cio e pepe and hanger steak with horserad-
ish cream. Dinner for two, including drinks,
niques with Japanese materials. A few Drive, Teton Village, rodeojh around $150.
ton Village, which has black diamonds ga-
blocks away find Altitude, a women’s store, lore. For those looking for slightly less chal- .com.
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11 8:30 A.M. CARB LOADING
Grab a fresh bagel at Pearl Street Bagels —
Bin22 has a bit of everything — a high-end Easy Does It. The less vertically inclined sephone, 145 East Broadway, try the spinach and feta bagel with wild
general store, bar and restaurant that has can consider a half-day Wildlife Safari (the persephonebakery.com. Alaskan salmon cream cheese ($8.50).
just the right amount of hipster vibe. Good company, Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris, 12 Skinny Skis, 65 West De- Then head to Persephone, a bakery and cof-
bets are the house-pulled mozzarella ($13 picks up from the Teton Village and town; loney Avenue, skinnyskis.com. fee shop, known for its artisanal breads and
appetizer and charred wild Spanish octopus half-day $145, ages 8 and up, breakfast in- Taggart Lake, Grand Teton pastries. Make sure to take a kouign amann,
with fingerling potatoes ($17). Enjoy it all cluded). The knowledgeable, eagle-eyed National Park. croissant dough coated in caramelized sug-
with a local Wyoming beer on tap, or a full- guides may take you, if it’s the winter sea- ar, to go ($3.75).
bodied Spanish red. son, to the National Elk Refuge and Grand
•5 8 P.M. SUPER SUSHI
Teton National Park, pointing out migrating
raptors, bears, bighorn sheep, elk, moose
and coyotes. As one local magazine pointed
ONLINE: AN OVERVIEW
Our interactive map:
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12 9:30 A.M. ON THE SNOW
Stop in at Skinny Skis and rent snow shoes
out, Jackson has “among the most exten- nytimes.com/travel ($10 per pair for a half-day) or cross country
It’s actually called King Sushi, but a su-
sive and spectacular” wildlife migrations on skis ($15 for a half-day) and head north to
perlative is in order for this top-of-the-line
joint that is crowded all year. Opened in
2014, the owners speak daily to a purveyor
the planet, much of it just out of town. Taggart Lake in Grand Teton National Park
for world-class snowshoeing or cross-coun-
try skiing with views of Grand Teton peak.
who hand selects the best-quality fish. That
quality and freshness come through in dish-
es like the sake don miso, grilled miso-mari-
• 7 1 P.M. LOCAL LUNCH
Get out of the ski town bubble and drive
For a loop, budget about two hours to do
roughly 3.6 miles. Or try a slightly less
nated salmon ($18), and albacore caprese about 10 minutes to Wilson, where you’ll strenuous out-and-back (about 2 miles). Ei-
($17). Try the fantasy roll, aptly named for find the Stagecoach Bar, a local watering ther way, you’ll be rewarded with the ex-
its combination of lobster, tempura green hole. Next door, and operated independ- pansiveness of the Wyoming landscape.
onion, Wagyu beef and foie gras butter ently, is Streetfood, a laid back restaurant You’ll go into deep evergreen forests, but
sauce ($24). If they have it, order the yuzu that serves international delicacies, from also have access to hilltop vistas that will
panna cotta, which elevates Japanese- Korean barbecue wings ($8) to curried make you realize, once again, why a foreign
themed desserts to the next level. Drinks shrimp skewers ($10). Three substantial ta- country would want to emulate this majes-
and dinner for two come to around $150. cos, enough to refuel after a morning on the tic place.

Bites Santo Palato ROME

A Young Chef Celebrates the Classics

The ochre walls at Santo Palato
are hung with loud, Futurist-
style posters embodying the
stylized Cubism of 1920s Italian
art. This design scheme is more than a
trendy aesthetic choice. It prefigures the
menu’s bold and decisive flavors and sig-
nals that the dishes are clearly rooted in
their location: the San Giovanni neighbor-
hood southeast of central Rome, which was
laid out during the Fascist era to house
working-class families.
Today, San Giovanni is a graffiti-tagged
middle-class area laden with trattorias
serving comfort food that defines the Ro-
man culinary canon: carbonara, cacio e
pepe, simmered oxtails, stewed tripe. Many
of these places offer filling but unremark-
able fare, making the newcomer Santo
Palato stand out in a way that goes beyond
its bright, polychrome décor.
The restaurant, which opened in April, is
the latest from its owner, Marco Pucciotti,
who has entrusted the chef Sarah Cicolini to
helm this self-described trattoria moderna.
In Rome, the use of “modern” is typically a
red flag that accompanies menus featuring
gummy sous vide proteins and unpleasant
deconstructed classics. But Ms. Cicolini like pomodori al riso, hollowed-out toma-
isn’t forcing the evolution of classics from toes filled with rice and baked with pota-
her tiny kitchen. Rather, her menu is quite toes until the tomato is perfectly withered
traditional and she expertly coaxes intense and nearly caramelized.
flavors from fine local ingredients using On a recent trip, in addition to the
restrained techniques, a rarity among previously dishes, there were many
young chefs in Rome. standouts and few missteps. One could
Ms. Cicolini, 29, has already spent nearly perhaps find fault with the presentation
all her life in food service, first at home, of pesche al vino, peaches macerated in
then in hotels in her native Abruzzo, and wine, which were stuffed awkwardly into
a wine glass. But the most exciting item
finally in bars and restaurants since mov-
in the parade of comfort foods that exit in
ing to Rome a decade ago. Eventually, she
Ms. Cicolini’s kitchen was trippa alla
landed at the one-Michelin-starred Meta-
romana, tender strips of tripe simmered
morfosi where, she said, “my chef, Roy
in a sauce that had the bright acidity of
Caceres, taught me what it was to love
fresh tomatoes, a rendition of a classic
eating while applying technique.”
that is decidedly lighter and more digest-
After Metamorfosi, she opened Sbanco, a
ible than the typical Roman-style trippa.
popular trattoria-pizzeria, developing
When asked about her signature dish,
pasta, meat and fish dishes, and also devel-
CULTIVAR AGENCY Ms. Cicolini is quick to divert credit.
oping her own style in the process. “What I
“I didn’t invent anything here,” she
am doing now,” she said, “is born from my unctuous chicken offal frittata, a slick and Sarah Cicolini, the chef at Santo
said. “I learned how to cook tripe from
passion to cook a certain way, a way that is savory carbonara and an intense and Palato, a new restaurant in the
San Giovanni neighborhood my grandma.” KATIE PARLA
simple but that uses creative methods to bright amatriciana, among them, supple-
southeast of central Rome. . ..................................................................................
maximize flavor.” mented with Roman dishes that benefit Santo Palato, Piazza Tarquinia, 4a/b; 39-
Ms. Cicolini mitigates the effect of a from advance preparations. The choice isn’t 06-7720-7354. An average dinner for two,
small kitchen staff by focusing on a handful so much a compromise as it is a celebration without drinks and tip, is 70 euros, about
of dishes cooked to order: a delightfully of Rome’s many batch-prepared classics $82.
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Puerto Rico’s
Next Crisis:
Foreclosures
The island is on the verge of a
housing meltdown that could
rival Detroit’s debacle.
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
Puerto Rico has had an awful decade — and
it’s about to get worse.
First came a brutal 10-year recession and
financial crisis that drove businesses from
this island and left 44 percent of the popula-
tion impoverished. Then, in September,
Hurricane Maria, a powerful Category 4
storm, shredded buildings, wrecked the
electrical power grid and possibly led to
more than 1,000 deaths.
Now Puerto Rico is bracing for another
blow: a housing meltdown that could far
surpass the worst of the foreclosure crisis
that devastated Phoenix, Las Vegas, South-
ern California and South Florida in the past
decade. If the current numbers hold, Puerto
Rico is headed for a foreclosure epidemic
that could rival what happened in Detroit,
where abandoned homes became almost as
plentiful as occupied ones.
About one-third of the island’s 425,000
homeowners are behind on their mortgage
payments to banks and Wall Street firms
that previously bought up distressed mort-
gages. Tens of thousands have not made
payments for months. Some 90,000 borrow-
ers became delinquent as a consequence of
Hurricane Maria, according to Black
Knight Financial Services, a data firm.
Puerto Rico’s 35 percent foreclosure and
delinquency rate is more than double the
14.4 percent national rate during the depths
of the housing implosion in January 2010.
And there is no prospect of the problem’s
solving itself quickly.
“If there is no income, the people cannot
make payments,” said Ricardo Ramos-
González, coordinator of a consumer legal
aid clinic at the University of Puerto Rico
School of Law. “Thousands have lost their
jobs, thousands of small business have
closed, and thousands more have left the
country.”
At the moment, dealing with a mortgage
lender about a missed payment may be a
distant concern for many of the 3.4 million
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Google
Thinks
I’m Dead
The difficult chore of
getting a technology giant
to correct an obvious error.
By RACHEL ABRAMS
I’m not dead yet.
But try telling that to Google.
For much of the last week, I have been
trying to persuade the world’s most power-
ful search engine to remove my photo from
biographical details that belong to someone
else. A search for “Rachel Abrams” re-
vealed that Google had mashed my picture
from The New York Times’s website with
the Wikipedia entry for a better-known
writer with the same name, who died in
2013.
My father pointed this out in a quizzical
text message, but the error seemed like an
inconsequential annoyance best ignored in-
definitely. To anyone who knows me, it is
clearly not me — I am not married, my PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

mother’s name is not Midge, and I was not

born in 1951.

The Energy of Wyoming

But when an acquaintance said she was
alarmed to read that I had passed away, it
seemed like an error worth correcting.
And so began the quest to convince some-
one at Google that I am alive.
Plenty of people try to remove negative
or inaccurate information about them-
selves from the internet. There are entire
companies that will do this for you. But of-
ten, the misinformation appears on web-
sites other than Google, which Google does-
n’t really see as its problem.
My picture, however, appeared inaccu-
rately only in Google search results, so it
seems reasonable to assume that a com-
pany with thousands of employees, whose
parent company, Alphabet, has a market
capitalization of about $740 billion, would be
able to help.
But like many technology companies,
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Faith in Trump gets complex in the place where coal mines meet wind farms.
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
GLENROCK, WYO. — No place is more likely
than this one to benefit from President
Trump’s promise to make the United States
a dominant energy force in the world, or
more likely to be disappointed if the prom-
ise is not kept.
A sparsely populated expanse of
windswept rolling meadows and sharp
bluffs filled with pine trees and the occa-
sional ranch and hay farm, Converse
County also has some of the country’s rich-
est resources: the nation’s third-largest
coal mine, its largest uranium production
facility, four big wind farms, more than a
thousand oil and gas wells, and a large coal-
fired power plant.
But diversified in nothing but energy, the
county and nearly the entire state of Wyo-
ming are acutely vulnerable to commodity
prices. And while oil and coal prices have
headed higher of late, they remain far below
the levels of recent years, resulting in lay-
offs and plummeting tax receipts.
“For sale” signs dot nearly every resi-
From top, the coal-fired
Dave Johnston Power Plant,
outside Glenrock, Wyo.
Woody Ricker, a technician
at Duke Energy’s Top of the
World wind farm, has been
teased for having an
“Obama job.” A train
hauling coal through
Converse County, Wyo.
dential neighborhood as young energy
workers have left to seek jobs in healthier
labor markets in Colorado and Utah. Occu-
pancy at the Higgins Hotel, a landmark in
this town of 2,500, dropped 80 percent be-
tween 2014 and 2016, and this year there has
been “a slight uptick, but nothing noticeable
yet,” according to Doug Frank, the owner.
Nevertheless, like so many others here,
Mr. Frank, who is also the mayor of Glen-
rock, has not lost faith in the president.
“The mind-set is huge — it is what is driv-
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2 BU N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

ECONOMIC VIEW ROBERT J. SHILLER

What Is Bitcoin Really Worth? Don’t Even Ask

Its price is supported by the
‘animal spirits’ of those betting
on it, not by the fundamentals.
DABBLING IN BITCOIN lies somewhere be-
tween gambling and investing.
After all, true investing requires a ratio-
nal appraisal of an asset’s value, and that is
simply not possible at present with Bitcoin.
Real understanding of the economic issues
underlying the cryptocurrency is almost
nonexistent.
It is not just that very few people really
comprehend the technology behind Bitcoin.
It is that no one can attach objective proba-
bilities to the various possible outcomes of
the current Bitcoin enthusiasm.
How can we even start estimating the
fundamental value of Bitcoin, with its aston-
ishing market value of more than $275 bil-
lion? Any attempt will soon sound silly.
Let’s try for just a moment. It is possible
to imagine a future in which Bitcoin eventu-
ally replaces some fraction of money as we
know it today. Suppose that happens soon.
Note that one measure of the United States
money supply, M1, is today worth more than
$3.6 trillion.
But don’t get too excited.
Will Bitcoin really replace a large fraction
of conventional money? There are reasons
to be skeptical. Bitcoin is vastly more vola-
tile than conventional money, and relatively
few people trust it as a store of value. Even if
that hurdle is crossed, how much cryptocur-
rency will people need?
Putting it in economic terms, will the de-
mand for Bitcoin have the same velocity as
the demand for money? Will there be the
same number of hoarders? And what about
all the other cryptocurrencies that exist to-
day, and those that will arise in the future?
Bitcoin might well be replaced by some-
thing different and better, and end up being
worth nothing at all.
I won’t go further down this road. Many
people are making analogous attempts to
put a fundamental value on Bitcoin — but
such efforts will be intrinsically and ab-
surdly inaccurate. The results of a serious
attempt to assess the value of Bitcoin can
only be ambiguous.
Ambiguity in economics is an important
and developing subject.
Many academic economists still embrace
the efficient-markets theory: the belief that
markets generally respond accurately to
genuine new information about fundamen-
ROBERT J. SHILLER, Sterling professor of eco-
nomics at Yale, is an adviser to the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, part of the CME Group.
These are his views, not those of the exchange.
tals, and react only to such information. But
Bitcoin is an example of ambiguity, and the
efficient-market theory does not capture
what is going on in the market for this cryp-
tocurrency. There has not been enough gen-
uine new information coming in day after
day to rationally justify Bitcoin’s huge price
swings. Something else is afoot.
One narrative that seeks to explain the
price increases this year is that they have
something to do with the difficulty of betting
against — making short sales of — Bitcoin.
Absent the opportunity to engage in short
sales, “smart money” can only watch from
the sidelines while prices soar. Or so the effi-
cient-market theory claims.
But pessimistic investors hoping to profit
from a Bitcoin price fall actually have had
the opportunity to make negative invest-
Not enough genuine new
information has been
regularly coming in to
rationally justify Bitcoin’s
huge price swings.
Something else is afoot.
MICHAEL WARAKSA
ments for a while. Bitcoin exchanges such
as Bitfinex allow shorting of Bitcoins, and it
is possible to short Bitcoin-linked ex-
change-traded notes on online brokerages
like the Bitcoin Investment Trust, GBTC.
Both of these options suffer from lack of li-
quidity and of trust in these new institu-
tions; GBTC has not tracked Bitcoin prices
accurately, for example. Still, if enough peo-
ple had managed to take a short position,
that might have helped to limit the in-
creases in Bitcoin prices that we have seen.
It is possible that the Bitcoin market will
change in a meaningful way now, given the
decision of Cboe, the Chicago Board Options
Exchange, to start a Bitcoin futures market
on Dec. 10 and of the CME Group to do so on
Dec. 18. The academic literature tells us that
volatility of an underlying asset often falls
after the establishment of new futures mar-
kets for it. But the ability to short an asset
more easily won’t necessarily overcome the
power of investor excitement.
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes suggested
why. He played down the role of quantita-
tive analysis and probability estimates in
human thinking of the assessment of am-
biguous future events. People in such situa-
tions are vulnerable to a play of emotions
and at times a “spontaneous urge to action”
that he called “animal spirits.” He argued
that much of what happens in financial mar-
kets has to do with people learning, from
price movements, about one another’s ani-
mal spirits.
I believe that Mr. Keynes was correct
about animal spirits in general and how
they affect markets like the one for Bitcoin.
George Akerlof and I expanded on his per-
spective in our 2009 book “Animal Spirits,”
which argued that the driving force behind
human enterprise cannot be reduced to the
rational optimization emphasized by tradi-
tional economics. Darwinian evolution
produced a human species whose behavior
sometimes seems to be emotionally driven.
Neuroscientists, psychologists and econ-
omists are leading us toward new models of
human decision-making. They may help to
explain phenomena like the Bitcoin price
rise.
Scott Huettel, a Duke neurologist, and
other researchers showed in 2006, for ex-
ample, that when making decisions involv-
ing ambiguity, people do not use the parts of
the brain required for calculations of proba-
bilities and expected values. And the econo-
mists Anat Bracha of the Boston Federal
Reserve and Donald Brown of Yale have
provided an alternative to conventional
economic theory of human behavior under
uncertainty. They define a different kind of
rationality — one based on Mr. Keynes’s
views, not on calculations of utility — in am-
biguous situations.
Furthermore, a paper by neuroscientists
including Benjamin Lu that was presented
at the convention of the Society for Neuro-
economics in Toronto in October showed
that psychologically stressful experiences
can result in changes in neurological pro-
cesses when ambiguous situations arise.
In short, the Bitcoin market is a marvel-
ous case study in ambiguity and animal
spirits. It is providing invaluable informa-
tion about how millions of human brains
process stimuli coming, in this case, from
public acceptance, imagination and innova-
tion surrounding cryptocurrencies.
This is fascinating from a psychological
and neurological perspective. But it isn’t
grounded in solid economics. No wonder
the Bitcoin market has been so chaotic.

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Google Thinks I’m Dead (and I’m Not)
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Google doesn’t really put a lot of emphasis
on human technical support, something
anyone who has had a problem with Gmail
already knows. There’s no customer serv-
ice hotline, and it’s unclear which of the var-
ious “feedback” options is appropriate.
“I think they probably do have some
phone number somewhere, but they do
push everyone heavily through the web and
online channels,” said Rich Matta, the chief
executive of ReputationDefender, a com-
pany that people pay to correct inaccurate
or misleading information about them-
selves on the internet. “It’s probably part of
their ethos that everything can be done well
or better online.”
Fixing this problem may be a light-
hearted trip down a journalistic rabbit hole
for me, but in an era of revenge porn and
fake news, companies like ReputationDe-
fender deal with people who face far worse
consequences because of digital misinfor-
mation — like damaged job prospects or
reputations.
As information streams at us, it can be
difficult to distinguish between fact and fic-
tion. “Search results these days are your
first impression,’’ Mr. Matta said.
And when things go wrong online, we’re
often at the mercy of faceless technology
companies that prefer to interact with us
through the web.
But even against that backdrop, correct-
ing the impression about something as sim-
ple as whether a person is alive should be
eminently fixable. Right?
“In my experience, it is very difficult to
submit correction requests to Google for sit-
uations that aren’t clear violations of poli-
cies or laws,” Mr. Matta said. “Most individ-
uals are overwhelmed with the difficulty of
the problem, and don’t even know where to
start.”
Since the Google entry was using my offi-
cial Times photo, I first contacted someone
on Google’s corporate communications
team, identifying myself as a member of the
media.
Here’s how that goes:
First, the spokeswoman writes back with
a link to a publicly available help page for a
“Knowledge Graph” panel which is the
name for the box of information that some-
times appears at the top right of Google
search results.
The Knowledge Graph panel typically ap-
pears for some commonly searched terms,
like “Macy’s” or “Brad Pitt.” These cards
also appear for local businesses and other
less prominent people, often pulling from
Wikipedia.
This allows Googlers to get basic infor-
mation, like a phone number or address,
without visiting another website. The cards
also feed answers to smart speakers like
Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home.
If these speakers rely on the cards, it’s
conceivable that they would repeat their er-
rors, so my cousin and I decide to ask his
Alexa some questions.
“Who is Rachel Abrams?” he asks. Alexa
replies that Rachel Abrams is a sprinter
from the Northern Mariana Islands (which
is true of someone else). He asks if Rachel
Abrams is deceased, and Alexa responds
yes, citing information in the Knowledge
Graph panel.
That biographical information belongs to
the writer Rachel Abrams, the late wife of
Elliott Abrams, who held prominent posi-
tions during the administrations of Presi-
dents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Ms. Abrams, who came from a family of well
known conservative thinkers, published on-
line on her blog, Bad Rachel, and her writ-
ing appeared in national publications.
My cousin presses Alexa more specifi-
CORRECTIONS
An article last Sunday about Marriott Interna-
tional’s acquisition of Starwood Hotels mis-
stated which company operates the Homewood
Suites brand. It is Hilton Worldwide, not Marri-
ott.
 minute, and running out of ideas.
A picture caption with an article on Dec. 3
about high-speed internet service coming to
Point Hope, Alaska, misstated the location of a
home seen at twilight. It is in Nome, not Point
Hope.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
‘In my experience, it is very difficult to submit correction requests to Google for situations that aren’t clear violations of policies or
laws. Most individuals are overwhelmed with the difficulty of the problem, and don’t even know where to start.’
Rich Matta, the chief executive of ReputationDefender
cally. “Who is Rachel Abrams at The New
York Times?” he asks.
Alexa makes a noise that sounds like a
sigh, and powers off.
A friend tries Google Home next. It does
not bring up the Northern Mariana Islands.
It also does not seem to know about any Ra-
chel Abrams at The New York Times.
After submitting feedback through one of
Google’s help pages, as well as the “feed-
back” button at the bottom of the Knowl-
edge Graph card, I visit the help page sug-
gested by Google’s spokeswoman.
Before I can suggest a change to a Knowl-
edge Graph card, Google must recognize
me as an “official representative for a
topic,” according to the website. This seems
cumbersome but doable, since I am argu-
ably the leading authority on who I am,
what I look like and whether I’m alive.
But none of the four options feels applica-
ble:
“You own the topic’s official website,
YouTube channel, or Google+ page.”
(Doesn’t seem right.)
“You’re signed in to Google as the owner
of an official online presence.” (Also doesn’t
seem right.)
“Your Web & App Activity is turned on.”
(I don’t know what this means.)
“You’ve added the official website to
Search Console.” (???)
I try to make one of the options work any-
way, without any luck. At the bottom, the au-
thor of this help page, a cartoon doodle of a
“search expert” named Katie, asks whether
her advice was helpful.
“No,” I click, prompting me to fill out an-
other feedback box.
Katie thanks me for my submission, al-
though she doesn’t pledge to do anything.
I am moving closer to actual death by the
I decide to call the number listed for the
Googleplex, the company’s headquarters in
Mountain View, Calif. The automated greet-
ing informs me that the Googleplex does not
provide support, but that there is plenty of
help online.
“We’re busier than usual today,” the re-
cording insists when I stay on the phone, in
what feels by now like a deliberate attempt
to discourage me. “It could be at least a half-
hour until one of our agents is freed up.”
On the bright side, the recording says
that if I don’t enjoy the music, I can hit any
key to browse Google’s selection.
At this point, more than one friend has
mentioned to me the 1985 movie “Brazil,”
which I Google during my 20 minutes on
Katie, a cartoon search
expert, thanks me for my
submission, but doesn’t
pledge to do anything.
N BU 3
hold. Apparently, “Brazil” is about a much
worse bureaucratic nightmare set in a “con-
sumer-driven dystopian world in which
there is an overreliance on poorly main-
tained” machines (according to Wikipedia).
Finally, a Google employee comes on the
line, and points me toward Google’s publicly
available online help forum, which I pull up.
Reading to me from the very same screen
I’m looking at, she tells me that fixing a
Knowledge Graph panel can take between
three weeks and three months.
The website says I should keep submit-
ting feedback, over and over again from dif-
ferent IP addresses. If possible, I should
also enlist the help of other people. I sur-
mise that this will help push my query to the
top of Google’s to-do pile. Or it won’t do any-
thing. One thing’s for sure — there’s no way
to know!
Complaints about what appears in
Google’s search results aren’t new. But as
the company has grown into one of the larg-
est technology forces on the planet, the
strategy for fixing the inevitable misfires
can’t keep up with the thousands of com-
plaints it receives every day.
“Some of those requests, we have to as-
sume, are frivolous or invalid or mislead-
ing,” according to Mr. Matta from Reputa-
tionDefender. “Generally, all you can do is
write more content that is more accurate
and have that content rise to the top of
Google’s search rankings.”
One option, Mr. Matta explained, is to cre-
ate an entirely new webpage about myself
and hope that I eventually become more fa-
mous than the other Rachel Abrams, so that
my Knowledge Graph card may one day
shove hers out of the way.
This strategy seems unfair to both of us.
On Thursday afternoon, I decide to email
the company’s chief executive officer, Sun-
dar Pichai. What would Mr. Pichai tell peo-
ple facing a similar problem?
I also alert the Google spokeswoman that
I am writing an article about this nearly
weeklong effort and ask for comment — a
requirement of journalistic fairness, but a
step that may also push Google to fix the
problem more quickly, an advantage that
most users won’t have.
“We recognize that the process of re-
questing a change to the Knowledge Graph
panel can be difficult,” she responds. Early
next year, she says, Google will introduce a
“wholly overhauled process,” including
more help if the automated systems don’t
work.
It’s “important to balance the need to
make changes quickly with wanting to en-
sure the change is accurate,” she writes.
Mr. Pichai doesn’t respond. But hours lat-
er, my photo has been removed. I am alive
again.
4 BU N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Puerto Rico’s Looming Foreclosure Crisis
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
people in Puerto Rico. They are literally still
picking up the pieces, struggling to live
without electricity or trying to get insur-
ance companies to pay claims to repair
their homes. More than 100,000 people are
believed to have left to go live with friends
and family on the mainland.
Residents won a reprieve when the fed-
eral government imposed a temporary
moratorium on foreclosures, which stops
banks and investors that bought mortgages
at cut-rate prices from evicting delinquent
borrowers or starting new foreclosures.
Many lenders also have agreed to waive
missed payments during the moratorium.
But that moratorium is scheduled to ex-
pire in early 2018, and lawyers and housing
counselors expect that to trigger a surge in
foreclosures.
“We will see an avalanche of cases,” said
Josue Castellanos-Otero, a lawyer, who said
many of his housing clients were focused on
getting insurance companies to pay to fix
their damaged homes.
Repairing the housing market in Puerto
Rico will take more than rebuilding storm-
damaged homes and the electrical grid. It
will involve banks and investors reworking
tens of thousands of troubled mortgages
and waiving missed payments.
The looming housing crisis threatens to
upend the social structure on the island and
means the aftereffects of the storm will be
felt for years to come. It could be particu-
larly painful for the elderly, who often have
limited incomes and whose homes tend to
be their most valuable assets.
Even before the storm, Puerto Rico was
mired in a severe housing slump. Home
prices over the past decade have fallen by
25 percent, and lenders have foreclosed or
filed to foreclose on 60,000 home loans, ac-
cording to the Puerto Rico state court sys-
tem. Last year, there were 7,682 court-or-
dered foreclosures — a roughly 33 percent
increase from 2007. Some 13,000 foreclosure
cases are pending, Black Knight estimates.
And that is how Wall Street got into the
mix.
Bargain Hunters
In the past several years, a number of
bargain-hunting banks, hedge funds and
other financial institutions descended on
Puerto Rico to scoop up distressed resi-
dential mortgages and foreclosed homes.
The list includes big investment banks like
Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs and
smaller boutiques including Perella Wein-
berg and an affiliate of the private-equity
firm TPG Capital, which is an investor in a
Cayman Islands mortgage investment
company.
The recent devastation is likely to further
depress housing prices. That’s partly be-
cause the “mass exodus” of Puerto Ricans
going to the continental United States
means the demand for housing “has gone
down substantially,” said Laurie Goodman,
director of the Urban Institute’s Housing Fi-
nance Policy Center.
If normal patterns held, that would be
bad news for the investment firms that
gambled on Puerto Rico’s housing market.
But normal patterns don’t necessarily ap-
ply here, given that some mortgages are
guaranteed by a federal insurance fund.
Consider Blackstone Group, the big pri-
Above, José Gonzalez-Lopez
and Amelia Baez in their home
in Bayamón, P.R. Finance of
America, which dominates the
island’s reverse mortgage
market, has tried to foreclose
on it three times. Below, from
top: Irma Torres in her
damaged house in Yabucoa;
Moises Martinez cleans out his
destroyed home in the Villa
Palmas neighborhood of San
Juan with the help of his
grandson.
vate equity firm. Blackstone owns a com-
pany, Finance of America Reverse, that spe-
cializes in a type of home loan called a re-
verse mortgage, which is guaranteed by the
federal government.
The loans are a way for people 62 or older
to tap the equity they have built up in their
homes; the principal and interest are pay-
able when the borrower dies. The loans re-
quire borrowers to keep paying taxes and
homeowner’s insurance on a property. Re-
verse mortgages have a history of abuse.
Lenders often don’t fully explain the loans’
terms.
There are 10,000 reverse mortgages in
Puerto Rico, and Finance of America con-
trols about 40 percent of the market, accord-
ing to the Department of Housing and Ur-
ban Development, which oversees the gov-
CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/REUTERS
ernment insurance fund that guarantees a
lender will be repaid on a reverse mortgage.
If Finance of America sells a foreclosed
home for less than the value of the mort-
gage, the firm can make a claim to the insur-
ance fund to make up the difference. In that
case, taxpayers would be on the hook.
Court records show that the Blackstone-
controlled company is aggressive in its pur-
suit of — and foreclosures on — borrowers.
Since 2015, Finance of America and a
predecessor firm have filed 500 foreclo-
sures in federal court.
Jose Gonzalez-Lopez “feels harassed” af-
ter Finance of America initiated a foreclo-
sure case against him for the third time in
two years, according to his lawyer, Juan
Carlos Cancio-Reichard. He said the first
two cases had been dismissed after the
lender incorrectly claimed Mr. Gonzalez-
Lopez, 73, had not paid for homeowner’s in-
surance on the property.
Now Finance of America has claimed Mr.
Gonzalez-Lopez did not pay property taxes
on the house — something the borrower dis-
putes. Mr. Cancio-Reichard said his client
had recently gotten the Puerto Rico Treas-
ury Department to certify there were no un-
paid taxes on his account. The lawyer is ask-
ing Finance of America’s lawyer to volun-
tarily dismiss the case.
“Jose thinks they want to get him out of
the house,” Mr. Cancio-Reichard said.
Sara Sefcovic, a Finance of America
spokeswoman, said the firm could not
speak about specific cases, but “foreclosure
is a last resort for our company.”
She added that the firm is “required to fol-
low federal guidelines for this program and
have virtually no discretion over whether
or not to initiate a foreclosure proceeding.”
To file a foreclosure for any reason other
than the death of the borrower, a reverse
mortgage lender must get approval from an
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ-TIRADO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
outside mortgage-servicing firm working
for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development. Over the past three years,
the department has given more than 1,500
such approvals to reverse mortgage lend-
ers in Puerto Rico.
English Only
Many offshore lenders like Finance of
America file foreclosure lawsuits in federal
court in San Juan, where proceedings move
much faster than in the island’s territorial
courts.
It’s not just speed. In federal court, all le-
gal filings are in English. In local court, they
are in Spanish. Not being able to read legal
filings puts defendants at a disadvantage.
“Sometimes people don’t show up in fed-
eral court because they don’t even know
they have been sued,” said Carmen Cosme,
a housing counselor.
Ms. Sefcovic said Finance of America
“will provide documents for borrowers in
Spanish to the extent allowed by H.U.D. and
the law.”
The moratorium imposed by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development
on the more than 117,000 mortgages it in-
sures in Puerto Rico, such as the reverse
mortgage on Mr. Gonzalez-Lopez’s home,
will expire on March 18. A moratorium on
mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac is due to expire on Dec. 31, al-
though it is likely to be extended for a few
months.
Mr. Ramos and other housing counselors
said they would like the moratorium ex-
tended for a full year, although others argue
that would only postpone an inevitable
wave of foreclosures.
The moratorium doesn’t appear to be air-
tight. Finance of America Reverse, for in-
stance, filed three foreclosure cases after
the moratorium began on Sept. 17.
Ms. Sefcovic, the company spokeswom-
an, said the three cases “were referred to
foreclosure” before the hurricane hit and
the moratorium took effect.
Others continue to battle Finance of
America in court despite the moratorium.
Leila Hernandez Umpierre said her par-
ents, both in their 80s, were being sued for a
second time by Finance of America. Ms.
Hernandez Umpierre, a lawyer, said that
her parents, who bought their house in Ba-
yamon, P.R., in 1958, had been living without
electrical power since the storm hit and that
the stress of the looming foreclosure was
adding to their anxiety.
“My father and mother don’t have much
money, as do many older people in Puerto
Rico,” said Ms. Hernandez Umpierre, who
spoke on behalf of her parents, Minerva
Umpierre Vazquez and Jorge Hernandez
Rodriguez. “My father doesn’t want to talk
to about it. It is very stressful for him.”
Finance of America, in court papers, said
the foreclosure was warranted because the
couple had failed to pay for homeowner’s in-
surance.
But the couple’s lawyer, Jorge A. Fer-
nández-Reboredo, said there was proof the
insurance was paid. When the lender raised
a similar claim in a 2015 foreclosure lawsuit,
a federal judge dismissed the case, noting
that Finance of America’s “complaint fails
to sufficiently specify grounds on which
plaintiff seeks to initiate foreclosure.”
“They are being pretty aggressive,” Mr.
Fernández-Reboredo said.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017 N BU 5

RETIRING CLAUDIA DREIFUS

Many Want Nothing to Do With the ‘R’ Word

A growing number of older
Americans continue to work
for a variety of reasons.
ON MOST MORNINGS, Jack B. Weinstein
rises at 5:30 to exercise.
At 7, a car takes him from his home in
Great Neck, N.Y., to Cadman Plaza in
Brooklyn, where he is a senior Federal Dis-
trict Court judge for the Eastern District of
New York.
Once at the courthouse, Judge Weinstein
has coffee and gossips with colleagues. By
9, he’s at work hearing motions, reviewing
filings, sentencing defendants. In the after-
noon, he tries criminal cases.
None of that is so unusual. But Judge
Weinstein is 96 — decades past the age
when most Americans choose to stop work-
ing.
“Retire? I’ve never thought of retiring,”
he declares. Judge Weinstein was first ap- PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNIE TRITT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

pointed to the bench more than 50 years ago

and is still in the thick of hot-button issues in
the criminal courts. “I’m a better judge, in
some respects, than when I was younger. I
don’t remember names. But I listen more.
And I’m more compassionate. I see things
from more angles. If you are doing interest-
ing work, you want to continue.”
Judge Weinstein is one of the more than
1.5 million Americans over the age of 75,
who are still in the paid work force, accord-
ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While the study does not list their specific
jobs, many work at occupations in which
skill and brainpower count more than
brawn and endurance. Some are self-em-
ployed and aren’t subject to mandatory re-
tirement rules. Others are stars in their
fields — no one has ever suggested that
Warren Buffett, 87, quit investing. And
there are others, a growing cohort, who re-
main at their posts because of financial ne-
cessity.
“The crash of 2008, debt burdens, de-
creasing income replacement rates and the
demise of employer pensions are a few of
the trends” that have pushed the number of
non-retirees to record levels, said Susan K.
Weinstock, vice president for financial resil-
ience at AARP.
Ms. Weinstock said she expected that this
trend would continue into the next decade.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the la-
bor force participation rate for those 75 and
older rose from 6.4 percent in 2006 to 8.4
percent in 2016 and is likely to reach 10.8 per-
cent by 2026.
For Adolfo Calovini, 82, a New York City
high school teacher, the need to earn in-
“I’m a better judge, in some
respects, than when I was
younger,” said Judge Jack B.
Weinstein, left, 96. Dr. Laura
Popper, 71, right, a pediatrician,
said, “I wanted to be a doctor
since I was 4 — why would I
give that up?”
Government statistics
suggest the trend of
more seniors in the work
force shows no signs of
letting up.
come is part of his motivation.
Mr. Calovini married late in life and has a
son, 14, and a daughter, 20. The approxi-
mately $110,000 annual salary he earns as
an English as a Second Language instruc-
tor at Park West High School in Manhattan
is a necessity. For additional income, he
teaches in the summer.
His job isn’t easy — nor is his daily com-
mute from New Hyde Park on Long Island.
At school, his assignment is to instruct teen-
agers from countries including Haiti and
Mexico in English literature and composi-
tion and prepare them for college. Each day,
he teaches four classes — and then spends
two hours on individual coaching.
As a self-taught linguist who can con-
verse in six languages, Mr. Calovini has
skills that make him an asset to his school.
When an immigrant registers at Park West,
Mr. Calovini is usually able to connect with
the student in his or her native tongue.
“I’m an immigrant myself,” the Italian-
born teacher said. “In class, I try to make
them understand that they are as good as
anyone else and have a good life if they’ll
improve their English. I say, ‘If I can teach
myself all these languages, you can learn
English and get into college!’”
Occasionally, one of Mr. Calovini’s young-
er colleagues will ask if he’s ready to retire.
He shakes his head: “To me, teaching is
about life. This is what I do. I can’t see a time
when I wouldn’t.”
The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist
Eric R. Kandel agrees — he works for the
sheer joy of it.
At 88, Dr. Kandel heads his own research
laboratory at Columbia University. “I like
what I do,” he said. “Keeping engaged keeps
you intellectually alive. I wouldn’t be sur-
prised if it enhanced longevity.”
Every day, Dr. Kandel interacts with
much younger scientists, supervising their
investigations, teaching and mentoring
them. At the laboratory, he says, “people
don’t ever speak to me about my age. I think
they are surprised that I am 88.”
As Dr. Kandel has grown older, his re-
search has focused on the neuroscience of
aging.
In one project, he’s been trying to deter-
mine if age-related memory loss might be
an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease. “We
have very compelling evidence that it is an
independent entity,” he said.
Dr. Kandel, a trained psychiatrist, offers
this advice to other nonretirees: “If you are
healthy and enjoy your work, continue. At
the very least, it gives you additional in-
come. Even if you don’t need it, the money
can be for your kids and grandchildren.”
Dr. Laura Popper, 71, a Manhattan pediat-
rician, works because her profession is cen-
tral to her identity.
“I wanted to be a doctor since I was 4 —
why would I give that up?” she said. “If
you’re a surgeon and you reach a certain
age, you have to stop. With pediatricians, as
long as you have your marbles, there’s no
reason to.”
In fact, there’s something about Dr. Pop-
per’s specialization — tending to the health
of children — that invigorates her.
“The wonderful thing about pediatrics,”
she said, “is that it’s always about renewal
and the future. I hang out with babies, tod-
dlers, young parents and they are always
looking forward. Getting old is about a
shrinking future, but I don’t spend my days
thinking about that because I’m in a differ-
ent place.”
Dr. Popper has been able to continue well
beyond the age when most of her peers
have retired, partly because she’s self-em-
ployed. Dr. Popper is the co-owner of her
medical practice and owns her office space.
That autonomy gives her the freedom to ad-
just her working conditions when neces-
sary.
Over time, she’s allowed her patient load
to contract. Instead of examining 35 pa-
tients in a day, she now sees 10 to 20. Her
practice partner, who is 25 years younger,
has taken up the slack.
Still, even with the lighter load, Dr. Pop-
per puts in a full week, phoning patients in
the evenings and being on call for emergen-
cies one weekend a month.
All of that earns her about $200,000 a
year, which, she said, was “less than what it
used to be. But my kids are grown. I don’t
need as much.”
Dr. Popper’s husband of 46 years, Edward
Shain, 73, retired from his sales and market-
ing consultancy three years ago. He spends
joyful hours exercising their Doberman pin-
scher, Elizabeth Bennett, in Central Park
and blogging. She claims he’d like her to join
him.
However, whenever he raises the subject,
“I tell him, ‘You’d have to take me to a psy-
chiatric hospital the next day.’ There’s no
part of me that wants to retire. If you have
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The Energy of Wyoming, Where Coal Meets Wind

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ing the people here,” Mayor Frank said
while shaking margaritas and his own high-
octane concoctions for customers at the An-
telope Bar in his hotel. “The most amazing
thing about his base is the willingness to for-
give the cacophony. We see a greater good
coming.”
The greater good, in the view of local resi-
dents from energy executives to roust-
abouts, depends on slashing environmental
regulations, including restrictions on pipe-
line building that could deliver more Wyo-
ming oil and gas to faraway markets. They
applaud the lifting of the moratorium on
coal leasing on federal lands. Many approve
of Mr. Trump’s rejection of the Paris climate
accord, and the administration’s move to
unwind President Barack Obama’s Clean
Power Plan, which was designed to control
power-plant emissions.
They express hope that the president can
limit oil imports while encouraging more
production and exports. The unflinching
sentiment may best be expressed by a
sticker appearing on the back of some local
pickup trucks that says “Trump 2017-2025,”
with the T depicted as a gushing oil well.
“My livelihood, taking care of my family,
depended on Trump’s election,” said Bryant
Michael, a 27-year-old technician who fills
heavy oil-field equipment and trucks with
fuel. Unemployed for a year, he was hired in
May as drilling began to pick up again.
“I think Washington is a main factor in
where we get our oil and what we do with it,”
he said. “Somebody was whispering in Oba-
ma’s ear. Every time there’s a Democrat in
the White House, there’s hardly any work in
the oil field.”
Actually, oil and gas exploration soared
during most of the Obama administration
before it swooned in the final two years. But
Mr. Trump’s embrace of coal mining and un-
fettered energy production is particularly
welcome here, since almost everyone is de-
pendent on energy jobs — coal miners and
their families, out-of-state oil workers who
drill and complete wells, and the business
owners and service workers catering to ev-
eryone. This is a place that gauges its well-
being by the local rig count and, since big-
time coal mining began here in the 1970s
and 1980s, how often mile-long coal trains
pass by.
Things could still be going far better. Dur-
ing the first nine months of the year, coal
production at Cloud Peak Energy’s Ante-
lope Mine, a pillar of the local economy, in-
creased by a fraction of 1 percent over the
same period in 2016, a particularly weak
year. Employment at the mine peaked in
2015 at 616, and is now around 530 — equal to
what it was when Mr. Trump was inaugurat-
ed — even though the nation’s coal exports
are up this year.
And there has been little regulatory relief
so far, energy executives note. The end of
the moratorium on leasing on federal lands
means more certainty that the Antelope
Mine can be extended someday, but that

Photographs by DAMON WINTER

The New York Times

would not make a difference for more than
five years into the future, and only if there is
greater demand for coal.
But there are some positive signs. Coal
prices have risen, along with natural gas, in
part because demand is up in South Korea,
Japan and parts of Europe. Four large wind
farms have been built in recent years, in-
cluding one completed last fall, and expan-
sions are on the way. But all of them togeth-
er, according to county officials, employ at
most 100 workers full time.
“People think Trump is a good guy, so
people trust his judgment,” said Robert G.
Short, a leading Glenrock businessman who
is vice chairman of the Converse County
commissioners. But he added: “Are we go-
ing back to where we were? The simple an-
swer is no. Coal is diminished and never will
likely come back.”
Though few people here say so, the ener-
gy workers of Converse County are compet-
ing with one another. The hydraulic-fractur-
ing boom is coaxing more natural gas out of
the local shale fields, which lowers both gas
and coal prices and depresses the attrac-
tiveness of nuclear energy. And the growing
wind power — helped along by tax incen-
tives enacted at the end of the Obama ad-
ministration — ultimately eats into the mar-
ket share of all the other energy sources.
And yet the workers in all the energy
sources wistfully see themselves as having
common goals and say Mr. Trump may offer
Robert Gebeloff contributed reporting from
New York.
the county its last big hope.
A Search for Security
The coal-fired Dave Johnston Power Plant,
outside Glenrock, is like a monument to the
county’s energy legacy. Its giant chimneys
and plumes of smoke dominate the skyline
by day, while at night it offers a display of
colors so bright it looks like a small city from
the Rocky Mountain foothills nearby. It is
where Shawn Gates is living the Wyoming
dream, though he knows it may be ending
sooner rather than later.
Since going to work in 2011 at the plant,
where his father is also employed, he has
worked his way up to become a control
room operator and makes more than $40 an
hour. With overtime and shift differentials,
he has, at 36, acquired a solidly middle-class
living. He, his wife and their four children
live in a comfortable ranch house with a mo-
torboat and a recreational vehicle in the
front yard and a trampoline in the back,
along with eight horses.
His 10-year-old son, Guthry, hopes to
work in the plant as well, extending the fam-
ily’s foothold there to a fourth generation.
During the presidential campaign last
year, Mr. Gates said, “job security was on
my mind,” especially after Hillary Clinton
said she was “going to put a lot of coal min-
ers and coal companies out of business.”
Now he feels better.
“I think my job is fairly secure,” he said
during a chat at his kitchen table. “I don’t
think it would have been under Hillary. I
Above left, Mayor Doug Frank can’t find another job like mine.” entirely positive: “I think he’s blunt. I don’t
of Glenrock, Wyo., center, with But even as he praises Mr. Trump’s goals, think he is dishonest, but I don’t think he’s
his wife, Maribel, on a night out he sees warning signs. “I think he will keep 100 percent truthful, either.” Still, he said,
in Casper. “We see a greater fossil fuels operating and keep E.P.A. within “he got elected, so let him do his job.”
good coming,” Mr. Frank said of limits,” Mr. Gates said, referring to the Envi-
the region’s prospects under ronmental Protection Agency. But knitting New Jobs, Old Attitudes
President Trump. Above, from his brow with concern, he added, “They’re
the Rocky Mountain foothills, putting all these wind turbines up that are Woody Ricker, a 38-year-old technician at
the Dave Johnston Power Plant not cost effective, at the taxpayer’s ex- Duke Energy’s Top of the World wind farm
looks like a small city. It is pense.” outside Glenrock, comes at the energy pic-
tentatively scheduled to be shut Mr. Gates’s wife, Jesi, a nurse, said Mr. ture from a different perspective. But his
down in a decade. Trump’s election was great for Wyoming, views, like those of many wind workers
but “he can only do so much as one person.” here, are surprisingly similar to those of
She noted that the power plant was tenta- workers whose jobs rely on coal.
tively scheduled to be shut down in a dec- For years, he has been teased by friends
Converse ade, adding: “That 2027 date definitely for having an “Obama job” in an area where
County, wind farms are seen as taking business
Wyo. looms in your mind. At least my kids will
have graduated from high school by then.” from the coal industry. He also knows that
Mr. Gates grew up in Glenrock, and the growth of renewable energy sources in
worked for a while as a ranch hand, main- recent years, like the one responsible for his
CONVERSE U.S. employment, has a lot to do with concerns
tained water wells and did some electrical
Population 14,191 323 mil. work. On the side, he took online business about climate change.
Percentage white 88% 61% classes. But he always had energy on his But Mr. Ricker, like most of his neighbors
mind — “that’s what Wyoming is,” he said. in and around the town of Douglas, isn’t par-
Median household
income in 2016
$66,700 $55,300 When it was time to raise a family, he fol- ticularly convinced that humans have much
lowed in his father’s footsteps for the steady impact on climate change.
Unemployment rate 3.9% 4.1%
salary and insurance. He has done well at “I am not convinced on what has caused
Mining and the plant, moving from the coal yard to his the change in climate,” he said. “Doing a fix
energy share of 18.3% 0.4% without finding a root cause? I don’t see it.”
employment current position as assistant auxiliary oper-
ator responsible for the vital task of check- He anticipated the next question. “So
ELECTION RESULTS ing motors and oil levels. why am I working in the wind industry?” he
Like many in Converse County, Mr. Gates asked. “I’m not in it for that. I’m in it to
2012 2016
expresses a strong distrust for Washington produce more American energy, to make it
Romney 79.5% Trump 83.0%
Obama 17.2% Clinton 10.0% and elites in general. “You need to clean more stable.”
house of politicians,” he said, calling for Mr. Ricker, who lives with his wife, Stacey,
Sources: Census Bureau; Bureau of term limits for Congress. and their three children in a house sur-
Labor Statistics; Dave Leip Even his attitude toward Mr. Trump is not rounded by craggy bluffs and sunflowers,
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Left, a worker testing a well into which water and resin are injected to
extract uranium. Cameco Resources’ Smith Ranch-Highland mine near
Glenrock is part of the nation’s largest uranium production facility. Above,
the Duke Energy Top of the World wind farm north of Glenrock. Below left,
Jesi and Shawn Gates with their son, Guthry, 10, outside their home in
Douglas, Wyo. Mr. Gates works at the Dave Johnston Power Plant, as does
his father, and feels his job is more secure since Mr. Trump’s election.
face and dirty fingers, and I don’t look like
one — I dress up,” she said. “When I go out
to do errands, I like to wear fashionable girl-
ie clothes.”
Before she enters her truck cabin for the
day’s first run, she sprays disinfectant on
the seats and thoroughly wipes off the dash-
board. “I’m probably a little unconvention-
al, yeah,” she said.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ms. Graham
came to her job in an unconventional way,
though her grandfather worked in the oil
and gas business as a tool pusher and her
stepfather drove water trucks in the oil
field. Local coal mining was still in its infan-
cy when she grew up in Douglas, so after
dropping out of junior college, she waited on
tables and worked as a bartender. She had a
child, divorced and worked as a bank teller
and personal loan officer for nearly 12 years.
Tired of banking, she saw an ad in the
newspaper for coal truck drivers, applied
and started working for Cloud Peak. She
said the toughest thing about learning the
job had been her fear of heights, since a
truck cabin is as high off the ground as the
roof of a house. “I didn’t look down from the
truck for two years,” she said.
Ms. Graham has remarried, to an old high
school friend who is a contractor, and she
helps take care of five grandchildren. She is
one of 61 women employed by the mine. For
her, the best thing that Mr. Trump brings is
more security.
“Before the election, I felt my livelihood
was threatened — not just my job, but my
way of life,” she said. “We have a house and
a mortgage, and there are 130-some houses
on the market around Douglas, so where
are we going to go?”
She is less than enthusiastic about the
president’s performance, but said he was, at
least, putting a spotlight on coal’s impor-
tance. “We’re the redheaded stepchild,” she
said. “People don’t understand that if it
weren’t for us, and they turned on the heat,
nothing would happen.”

fell into the wind business. Having grown
up here and studied biology in college, he
owned a local construction company with
his father until business dried up during the
last recession. When some men who came
by to look at one of his properties liked his
handiwork, they suggested that he apply
for a job with their wind contract business.
Needing good health insurance to pay for
his daughter’s hip surgery, he made the
switch and eventually went to Duke when
the big utility took over operations of the
wind farm. At a time when many states and
business customers are demanding more
clean energy, Mr. Ricker is not worried that
Mr. Trump might turn against renewables.
“I have had people presume my political
leanings because of my job — incorrectly,
for the record,” he said.
Although Mr. Ricker has no family roots
in the energy business — his father was an
It´s the
moment to invest in
Pam Graham, a truck driver at the Cloud
Peak mine, is a rarity in Converse County.
She’s a Democrat who thinks that climate
change is no hoax, that the Affordable Care
Act should be fixed and not scrapped, and
that as for immigration, “the idea of build-
ing a wall is a stupid thing.”
Her choicest words are aimed at Mr.
Trump’s treatment of women, which she de-
scribes as disrespectful. “I get tired of the
tweeting,” she said. “And that whole thing
with the grabbing of women, that’s just
nasty.”
“Those women should have decked him,”
she said sternly as she steered 240 tons of
coal loaded on her Komatsu haul truck
through the deep canyons of the strip mine.
She quickly smiled, and added with a know-
ing chuckle, “I would have given him a
black eye.”
But when she cast her ballot, she said,
It´s the

assistant pastor who was also a cowboy —
he relates to fossil fuels as much as he does
to wind. “Coal and oil are what keep the val-
ue of my house where it is,” he said. “I’m
hugely in favor of American energy, and if
I’m going to pick a state that it will benefit,
it’s Wyoming.”
A coal man would not have said it much
differently.
‘I Don’t Have to Like Him’
Slowly but surely, women are entering the
energy work force, and while they tend to be
as outspoken as the men, their views some-
times sharply differ.
Spain
moment of
there was no doubt that she would vote for
Mr. Trump.
While not an ideological conservative, If you want to invest in security,
Ms. Graham looks to the president to bol-
ster the fortunes of Converse County ener- now is the moment of Spain.
gy, and in the end that was the most impor-
tant consideration in choosing him over
Mrs. Clinton.
“I don’t have to like him as a person,” she
explained. “I was thinking if she won, in a
few years we’d probably be out of work. Am
I going to find another job that pays $30 an
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At 53, Ms. Graham is an avid motorcycle
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“There’s a view of a coal miner with a black
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Wudneh Akalu, known as Woody, 43, is a
network support engineer at IVM in Indian-
apolis, Ind. He installs reconfigured vending
machines and lockers for faster distribution
of employee supplies.

How wide-ranging is your role?

I have several responsibilities. IVM recon-
figures lockers and vending machines — so
money is no longer needed to open them. It
sells them to companies for distributing
items including office supplies, laptops and
protective equipment to employees. With
the proper credentials — a badge or a code
— employees can open them.
I provide desktop and network support at Clockwise from left: Wudneh
Akalu at IVM in Indianapolis;
our company, and I also install the ma-
Mr. Akalu working on a vend-
chines and lockers on customer premises.
ing machine; a map of loca-
Part of that involves training customers on tions in North America that
how to add products, generate reports and use IVM machines. IVM
so forth. supplies companies around
What is your background? the world. Last year, Mr. Akalu
traveled to China to install
I’m from Ethiopia. In 1989, when I was 14,
machines for a client.
my parents sent my older brother and me
to the United States to live with our older
sister because they were afraid we might
be drafted to fight in the civil war. I gradu-
ated from I.U.P.U.I. — that’s Indiana Uni-
versity-Purdue University, Indianapolis —
with a bachelor’s in computer and informa-
tion technology, and worked for two other
companies before this job.
Do you work alone?
I do, but there’s one customer installation
where I’m never alone — in a nuclear
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times, even in the restroom.
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One I did for HP in China last
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questions.
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What are your challenges? and eat the local food.
Getting the machines through customs
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Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Ref: ER1 & dvlp server side scripts; design pat- ments; Exp preparing client presenta- PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, identity, national origin, protected ve- offrd or rltd pstn. Equiv foreign degree m m
terns & Object Oriented Prog; wrking tions in MS Word & PowerPoint for cor- lutions using Java, Python and Elastic-
Inc., 2017. All rights reserved. Goldman search; Developing custom Python teran status, disability status, or any OK. Skills/knwldge in Java, JavaScript,
ACCOUNTING across the entire S/ware Dvlpmnt Life- porate clients to showcase detailed an- Sachs is an equal employment/affir- other status protected by law. Click JUnit, Spring, Hibernate, Java Persis- m m
KPMG LLP, Senior Manager, Audit, cycle (SDLC) of product dvlpmnt, incl alysis & pitch recommendation, as well modules to facilitate Ansible develop- m m
mative action employer Female/Min- ment framework. Job site: New York, here to view the “EEO is the Law” pos- tence API, Agile methdlgy, RESTful
New York, NY. (Mult. Positions) reqs gathering, Functional & Tech De- as for deal execution processes. Travel ority/Disability/Vet. ter and supplement and the Pay Trans- web srvcs & Oracle. 40hrs/wk. Jo-
Conduct external audits for clients, sign, Dvlpmnt, User Acceptance Test- reqd. Job Code: IBD12617MSF QUALI- NY. Reference # 2235295 & submit re- m
sume to Bank of America, N.A. parency Policy Statement. If the links b/Intvw Site: New York, NY. Email Re-
incl. SEC registrants. Req'ts Incl.: ing, Release Procedures, Change re- FIED APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & Assoc w/ Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC in do not work, please copy and paste the sume to LearningMate Solutions, Inc. m M
Master's deg. or foreign equiv. in quest analysis, & Production support; click on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS NY, NY. Perform acctg & fin control NY1-050-03-01, 50 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, NY 10020. No phone calls or following URLs in a new browser win- at hr.us@learningmate.com
Acctg., Bus. Admin., Fin., or rel. field, Wrkflow Design using bpmn; Credit PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, functions rel to the balance sheet & dow: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/ M m m
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+ 3 yrs. rel. work exp.; OR Bach's deg. Risk Bus Processes incl investment Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman revenue impact to the Firm from its compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and Construction Project Manager: Under
or foreign equiv. in Acctg., Bus. banking memo risk assessment, Fed Sachs is an equal employment/affir- Merchant Banking bus (Principal In- Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay- the direct supervision of Senior Project
Admin., Fin., or rel. field, + 7 yrs. Reporting of Risk Measures, & deter- mative action employer Female/Min- vestments). Reqs: Bach deg (US or seeks an Associate, Corporate and In- transp_formattedESQA508c.pdf. Manager, assist in planning, coordinat-
post-bach's, progressive rel. work mining risk appetite limits for trading ority/Disability/Vet. foreign equiv) in Acctg or Fin. 3 yrs of vestment Banking in New York, NY to ing, monitoring, & managing all phases m
exp. Must have active NY CPA license. desks. Job Code: TECH112117PRFRE exp in the job offered or a rel role. Must interact with clients to understand of new construction & capital upgrade
Position req's written & verbal fluency QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Apply at have exp: wrking in a fast paced dead- strategic and business objectives and projects. Exp. must include: HeavyBid
in Japanese. Travel up to 30% is req'd. gs.com & click on “Careers.” NO Assoc -Res w/ Goldman Sachs & Co. line-based, multi-task environment offer customized investment banking (HCSS), Agtek, Primavera P6, MS
Employer will accept any suitable PHONE CALLS PLEASE. The Gold- LLC in NY, NY. Calibrate short term li- w/in a large fin organization; utilizing solutions and products. Requires a Project, Insite, Microstation. Job loca- m
comb. of edu., training, or exp. man Sachs Group, Inc., 2017. All rights quidity & price signals & devise ways to various core acctg & tax principles in a Master's degree in Business Adminis- Computer/IT: American Express Trav- tion in Job location in Bronx, NY. To m
Apply online at reserved Goldman Sachs is an equal incorporate these in the Firm's auto- prof'l setting; analyzing & reconciling tration, Finance, or related field or el Related Services seeks Engineers to apply, specify Job Title & mail resume
http://www.kpmg.apply2jobs.com employment/affirmative action em- mated trading & routing algorithms. the P&L & Balance Sheet activity of va- equivalent and two (2) years of exper- serve as a core member of an en- to: Triumph Construction Corp., 1354 m
& type req. #69403 in the keyword ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. Reqs: Mstrs deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) rious investments; communicating ience interacting with clients to under- gineering team to develop digital and Seneca Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474.
search box. Please contact in Fin Engg, Applied Math, Stats, Oper- findings based on res & analysis per- stand business objectives and offering automated solutions for our custo- Attn:HRM m
us-hrscatsadmin@kpmg.com should ations Res, or a rel field. 1 yr of exp in formed; researching & analyzing vari- customized solutions. Must include at mers. Develop and design software ap- Consulting: Applied Value seeks a Se- m M M
you have any difficulty in applying. the job offered or a rel quantitative fin ous regulatory filing reqs; reviewing & least two (2) years of experience ana- plications, translating user needs into nior Consultant in NY, NY: Contribute M
If offered employment, must have le- position. Prior wrk exp must incl 1 yr: analyzing investing structures, incl pri- lyzing large data sets and summarizing systems architecture. Assess and vali- to all aspects of case analysis, strategy m
gal right to work in the U.S. EOE. utilizing understand of U.S. mkt micro vate funds, blocker entities, & SPVs results using MS Excel; summarizing date application performance and inte- dvlpmnt, presentation & implementa- m
Assoc -Int/VP w/Goldman Sachs Servi- structure; dvlpng quant routines in Pyt-
KPMG offers a comprehensive com- ces LLC in NY, NY. Tech lead in design (special purpose vehicles); reviewing complex data and analysis into tables, gration of component systems and tion; gather company & industry data,
pensation and benefits package. hon or R; model calibration using fund level partnership agreements; uti- charts and graphs; creating detailed provide process flow diagrams. Test interview personnel, develop & imple-
& dvlpmnt of reporting appns for the linear, non-linear & non-parametric re-
No phone calls or agencies please. Firm's external disclosures incl Feder- lizing MS Office Suite to work on com- presentation materials for clients using the engineering resilience of software ment key insights/recommendations m mm
KPMG, an equal opportunity employ- al Reserve regulatory reporting & Se- gression techniques; utilizing optimiza- plex spreadsheets w/ vlookup, sumif, & MS PowerPoint; utilizing database soft- and automation tools. Assess and in- for clients in the auto. & industrial in- m
er/disability/veteran. KPMG maintains curities & Exchange Commission fil- tion techniques such as dynamic, linear pivot tables. CPA reqd. Job Code: ware for data collection and recording; corporate user story analysis and ela- dustries; oversee scheduling & pro-
a drug-free workplace. & non-linear programming; organizing, FINCZ12517IBD QUALIFIED APPLI- communicating project timelines and boration to optimize software solu- gress updates, incl. direct research &
ings. Analyzing & designing complex
2017 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited data models to support various exter- querying & manipulating large data CANTS: Apply at gs.com & click on progress to clients; authoring reports, tions. Apply visualization and other analysis & structuring of project ap-
liability partnership and the U.S. mem- nal Regulatory reporting as well as in- sets using SQL; utilizing machine learn- “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS documents and presentations in com- techniques to fast-track concepts. proach incl. defining objectives & im- M m
ber firm of the KPMG network of inde- ternal mgmt reporting using ETL tools ing techniques such as Bayesian learn- PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, pliance with regulatory requirements; Reengineer systems and code for con- plementation initiatives; support biz mm
pendent member firms affiliated with such as Informatica on a datalake/da- ing, neural netwrks, Markov chain Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman monitoring industry publications; deve- tinuous improvement. Position re- dvlpmnt by leading & presenting sales m
KPMG International Cooperative tawarehouse environment. Reqs: Bach models & principal component analy- Sachs is an equal employment/affir- loping interactive and dynamic mod- quires a Bachelor's degree in Compu- pitches. Reqs BS in business admin, m
(”KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) Comp Sci, sis; applying know of equity mkts & mative action employer Female/ els; and working with pharmaceutical ter Science, Engineering, Information mngmnt, finance or related + 2 yrs exp
All rights reserved. mkt structure & conducting analysis of Minority/Disability/Vet. company drug pipelines and portfolios, Systems, or a related STEM field, fol- perfrmng sourcing, supply chain & cost m
Electronic Engg or a closely related large trades & complex strategies;
Engg field, + 5 yrs of exp in the job of- clinical trial designs, and FDA regula- lowed by 5 years of progressively re- modeling for auto. & industrial indus-
Accounts Receivable Manager (NY, fered or in a rel d role. Must have 5 yrs communicating quant concepts to spe- Associate, Mkt Risk Stress Testing — sponsible software design, develop- tries. Reqs fluency in French & English.
NY, NY. Ass't monitoring & governing tions and best practices. Apply to
NY). Manage the daily operations & of exp w/: a dvlpmnt role that involved cialized & non-specialized audiences. www.db.com/careers and search by ment, testing, and implementation ex- Send resume to rhomda/batchelder@
strategic objectives of company's ac- wrking know of relational dbase, such FINRA Series 7 or 57. Travel reqd. Job stress testing methodology frame- perience. Experience must include a appliedvalue.com & incl. Job Code
work. Perform stress testing rel analy- professionals, keyword SR9WEM36.
counts receivable cycle, incl credit as DB2, w/ advanced SQL query know Code: SEC112117AAEQES QUALIFIED minimum of: 1 year with AJAX, algor- GCJL in subject line.
checks, contract terms review, custo- incl performance tuning; utilizing Infor- APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & click sis, incl analysis on different risk fac- BANKING ithms, Apache Tomcat, CSS, data
mer billing, collections, forecast updat- matica ETL dvlpmnt toolsets, incl pow- on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS tors across assets to define shocks & JPMorgan Chase & Co. has an structures, DB2, Hibernate, HTML, Credit Research Analyst (NY, NY) Per- m
ing, credit notes, chargebacks. Partici- er designer & wrkflow mgr; interacting PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, justify shock choices & analysis on his- opening for an Investor, VP position HTML5, interface design, Java, Java- form fundamtl credit rsrch on various m
pate in month-end close for GL, cash w/ end users in gathering reqs & trans- Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman torical performance & correlation of in New York, NY. Resp. for helping Script, JSP, multi-threaded program- sectors/ co.'s in LATAM (esp. Brazil) m
mgmt, fin'l audits. Implmt billing lating bus reqs into tech solutions; fin Sachs is an equal employment/affir- asset classes to define macro scena- team of Bankers, Wealth Advisors ming, object-oriented analysis and de- thru analysis of financial statmts, captl
processes & policies. Supv 2. Reqs domain in the areas of Investment mative action employer Female/ rios & evaluate robustness of such and Capital Advisors win new clients sign, OOPs, Oracle databases, sche- struct, debt covenants, etc. Use reslts M
Bach Deg or foreign equiv in account- Banking, Fin instruments trading, & re- Minority/Disability/Vet. scenarios. Master's or equiv in Fin'l in the Latin American region. Series mas, Servlets, Spring, Struts, SVN, of analysis to dev investmt ideas/ mk
ing, business, mgmt, or rltd w/ 1 yr in gulatory environment; administering Eng'g, Stats, Econometrics, Math, or 7 & 63 req'd. Spanish fluency req'd. Unix, web services, and XML. Job loca- recommendations. Trvl to mt BTG m
job offd or as an A/R Clerk, Billing & Informatica ETL infrastructure, incl Associate: Morgan Stanley Services rel field + 2 yrs relevant exp. Exp in fin'l Some travel, up to 25%, may be tion: New York, NY. To apply, please clients at mktg roadshws/ trvl to mt is- m M
Collections Specialist or rltd to incl skill Grid, failover, admin console, & version Group Inc. seeks Associate, Windows products. Exp in risk mgmt techniques. req'd to various unanticipated sites visit https://careers.americanexpress. suer co.'s/ regulatrs/ indstry assoc.'s. m m
set in billing, billing/reconciliation, col- upgrades. Must have 3 yrs of exp w/: Infrastructure Specialist in NY, NY to Exp in valuation/pricing modelling int'l. Please fax your resume to com and enter keyword 17014842 when Bach's deg finance, econ, or quantitatv
lection/disputes, contract terms analy- concepts of dbase & domain modeling work as part of Windows Ops Desktop skills of fin'l products. Demonstrated 312-732-7830 with following job ID prompted. Alternatively, please send conc. incl stats, math, or any eng'g
sis, report generation. Exp w/ Excel, incl exp w/ Star schema, entity relation- team, which is respons for supporting knowl in risk factor valuation drivers. clearly indicated: 170113967. your resume, cover letter, and a copy conc. +2yrs corp. credit rsrch & analy-
NetSuite, Salesforce, BI Systems reqd. ship (ERD) model & Functional prog Firm's global plant of 180,000+ Win- Exp in data analysis. Exp in tech imple- JPMorgan Chase & Co. of the ad to: American Express, 200 Ve- sis exp focusing on LATAM region. m
Resumes to HR, SimilarWeb, Inc., 50 W exp; BI Reporting toolsets, incl OBIEE, dows desktops, laptops, & virtual PCs. mentatn. Exp writing bus. doc's. Exp in supports workforce diversity. sey Street, New York, NY 10285; mail 2yrs exp w/ followg: dvlpg credit rprts
17th St, 9th Fl, New York, NY 10011. Tableau, & other custom reports. Job Provide srvc & support to internal
Excel & VBA. Project mgmt exp. Em-
Biomedical Software Developer- code 01-49-06, Attn: M. Lee, Recruit- on the internat'l corp. bonds mkt; an- m
ployer will accept any amount of prof'l ment Operations. lyzg credit w/in followg sectors: Food/ @m m
Code: TECH112117CJFRE QUALIFIED teams & sr VIP clients on Windows exp w/req'd skills. To apply, visit (NYC)-Design & support highly scalab- Bev, Oil/ Gas, Infrastructr, Agricltr, Uti-
AI Programmer (New York, NY) APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & click platform & desktop app-rel issues. Po- le & modular biomed s/ware products
sought by Avalanche Studios New on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS sition req's Bachelor's in Eng'g (any), http://careers.jpmorganchase.com &
for basic & clinical research studies American Express is an equal opportu- lities, Industrials/ Financials. Intermitt m M
York, Inc. to work with designers to PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, CS, or rel field of study & 5 yrs exp in apply to job # [170114542]. EOE, AAE,
using C++ or Java.Develop informatics nity employer and makes employment travel to Brazil/ Europe/ LATAM. Res: M m
create a living world by designing fun Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman position offered or as Consultant, M/F/D/V. J.P. Morgan Chase is a mark-
s/ware packages incl co-expression an- decisions without regard to race, color, BTG Pactual US Capital LLC, Attn: Ja- mm m
and robust character behaviors in the Sachs is an equal employment/affir- Eng'r, or rel occupation. Position req's eting name of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
alysis & causality inference testing. religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender nira Almonte, 601 Lexington Ave., FL m
creation of AAA game titles. Must mative action employer Female/ min of 5 yrs exp w/following: exp sup-
The Chase Manhattan Bank is a subsi-
Work w/ researchers to make usability, identity, national origin, protected ve- 57, NY, NY 10022. m m
complete a test measuring skills in vi- Minority/Disability/Vet. diary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 2003 teran status, disability status, or any Data Quality Delivery Manager (New
porting Windows PC at level 3 in de- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. All rights re- performance & algorithmic improve-
deo game programming to continue in- manding, large networked global en- ments to medical s/ware apps. Deve- other status protected by law. Click York, NY): Expand and modify sys- m m
terview process. Apply at: served. www.jpmorganchase.com here to view the “EEO is the Law” pos- tems to serve new purposes or im-
terprise environ w/at least 500 PCs; exp lop sequence analysis systems incl
www.avalanchestudios.com/careers. in at least 2 of following configuration Assoc -Trading w/ Goldman Sachs & user interfaces, web apps/interfaces, ter and supplement and the Pay Trans- prove workflow in connection with m mm
Ref. 043370-024. tech: SCCM, desktop build sys's, OS in- Co. LLC in NY, NY. Make mkts & risk- sequence analysis pipeline, & variant parency Policy Statement. If the links data quality (DQ) projects for the En-
mng positions on a wide range of exo- databases using HTML, Javascript, do not work, please copy and paste the terprise Data Management Quality
ANALYST. Two Creeks Capital Man- Assoc w/ Goldman Sachs Services LLC stallation tools, Appsense, Bigfix, or si- following URLs in a new browser win- program. Test, maintain, and monitor m M
agement LP sks Senior Analyst (New in NY, NY. Contribute features & libra- milar configuration tools; exp creating tic (non-standard) derivative contracts. Python, R, Java, or Scala. Solve re-
Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or equiv) in an an- search questions related to big data & dow: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/ computer programs and systems and M m
York, NY): Rsp for idntfyng & mntrng ries to both front-end & back-end web documentation for end users & support compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and work with business partners on data
lng-trm, lng & shrt equty invstmnts techs that make up a new Firm client- personnel; exp troubleshooting Splunk alytical field incl Bus Admin, Econ, Fin, high performance computing. Assem-
Maths, Stats, Comp Sci, or Physics. 2.5 ble validation data & workflows req'd https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay- program engagement, including m
acrss dffrnt indstrs & ggrphs, incl facing web trading platform. Reqs: or similar performance tools; & ITIL- transp_formattedESQA508c.pdf. project activities, processes, and de- m
prmrly anlyzng & mntrng buss, fin & Mstrs deg (U.S. or equiv) in Comp Sci, based srvc mgmt. Position also req's yrs of exp in the job offered or in pric- to obtain & maintain regulatory appro-
ing & risk mgmt. Prior wrk exp must val for clinical next-generation se- livery support activities in the DQ do- m m
mrkt data rel to cmpns in Erp & Ltn Comp Engg, Math or a rel field, & 2 yrs min 3 yrs exp w/powershell scripting & main. Develop, document, and revise m m m
Amrc. Sprv 1-3 fin anlysts. Min reqs: of exp in the job offered or as a S/ware exp supporting softw distribution & incl: trading exp focused on equity deri- quencing. Contribute to design & imple-
vative mkts & notably dispersion trad- mentation of research studies & prep system design procedures, test proce- m
Bach's dgr in econ fin or rel fld frm ldng Dvlpr or rel role OR Bach deg (U.S. or mgmt processes, incl pkg of apps & dures, and quality standards in connec-
(tp 25) schl w/ GPA of @ lst 3.5 (frgn equiv) in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, Math troubleshooting of softw installation ing; making-mkt, autonomously, on a research results for publication. Req's:
wide range of exotic contracts; ability Master's in Bio or Bioinformatics & 5 tion with data mapping, metadata and m m
eqvlnt schl, dgr & GPA accpt) + 8 yrs or a rel field, + 5 yrs of exp in the job of- issues. To apply, visit http://www. Computer/IT: American Express Trav- lineage, data profiling, and assess- m @m m
exp in invstmnt anlyss for equty hdg fered or as a S/ware Dvlpr or rel role. morganstanley.com/about/careers/ to hedge & risk-mng an exotic portfo- yrs of exp in position offered or as
lio, on an autonomous basis; providing S/ware Team Leader or S/ware En- el Related Services seeks Senior En- ment. Work with Data Quality Frame-
fnd mngr, asst mngmnt dvsn or Must have 2 yrs of exp (if Mstrs) or 5 careersearch.html Scroll down & enter gineers to serve as a core member of work, Data Quality Dimensions and
invstmnt bnkng dvson of glbl invstmnt yrs of exp (if Bach ) in each of the fol- (3101447) as “Job Number” & click detailed feedback & analysis about gineer. 3 yrs of the req'd exp must have
client trading activities, new trading op- incl designing & supporting highly sca- an engineering team to develop digital Hierarchy, Critical Data Elements and
bnk, fmly-rn invstmnt busin &/or a smlr lowing: using Modern JavaScript libra- “Search jobs.” No calls pls. EOE and automated solutions for our custo- Critical Data Assets, Data Quality
fin invstmnt-rltd envrnmnt, prmrly an- ries & dvlpmnt framewrks, such as An- portunities, & the performance of a lable & modular biomed s/ware pro-
trading book to sr mgmt; providing mkt ducts using C++ or Java. Contact: HR, mers. Develop and design software ap- Rules, Data Quality Dashboard and
lyzng cmpns lctd in Erp & Ltn Amrc. gularJS, ReactJS or BackboneJS; using Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC plications, translating user needs into Scorecard, Windows, Linux, IBM InfoS-
Mst incl 6 yrs exp in: prep of fin mdls; JavaScript testing framewrks, such as seeks Associate, CCAR Officer in NY, color & trade ideas to clients as well as IP, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
sales & structuring team. FINRA Series Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl., Box 1514, systems architecture. Assess and vali- phere Information Server, Data Stage,
use of accntng prncpls & mthds; fin Jasmine or Protractor; using task run- NY to serve at Jr officer level role w/i NY, NY 10029. Ref. # 2390603. date application performance and inte- Quality Stage, Information Analyzer, M m
sftwr (Bloomberg, Excel & Capital IQ); ners, such as gulp or grunt; dvlpng CSS Investment Banking div (IBD) Mgmt 7, 55, & 63 licenses reqd. Job Code:
SEC111717PMEQAT QUALIFIED gration of component systems and Putty, WINSCP, Qlikview, and SQL pro-
prsnttn of rsrch rslts & invstmnt using LESS or SASS; prog exp in Java; primarily focused on supporting team Broker: Sunrise Brokers LLC seeks Sr. provide process flow diagrams. Test graming language. Reqs Master's de-
rcmmndtns; mngng cllbrtv busin dvlpng multi-threaded apps in Java; on critical regulatory & risk mgmt APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & click Broker, Strategic Bus. Dev in New
on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS York, NY to plan, direct, and coordin- the engineering resilience of software gree + 2 years of exp or Bachelor's de-
rltnshps; & mngng sbrdnt anlyst stff. wrking on client facing fin systems or projects. Req's Master's in Math of and automation tools. Assess and in- gree + 5 years of exp. Telecommuting
Wllng to trvl dmst & int'l for up to 1 apps; performing quality assurance & Fin'c, Fin'l Eng'g, Fin'c, Math, or rel PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, ate fin. activities at the company . Re-
Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman quires 12 yrs of finance experience. corporate user story analysis and ela- is permitted. Mail resume to
wk/trp, 5 to 10x/yr. Wllng to wrk outsd testing; writing Java unit tests in JUnit; field of study & 2 yrs exp in position of- boration to optimize software solution. Lisa Goldner, AIG Employee Services, m
of rglr wkdy offc hrs as ncssry to cndct experience working with business fered or 2 yrs exp as Assoc, Analyst, or Sachs is an equal employment/affir- Send resumes to
mative action employer Female/ Apply visualization and other tech- Inc., 175 Water Street, New York, NY
tlphne clls w/ indvdls in dffrnt tm zns. stakeholders to gather user reqs & per- rel occupation. Req's 2 ys exp w/con- John.Trears@sunrisebrokers.com niques to fast-track concepts. Reen- 10038. JobRef#: Y289AIGNY m
To apply, snd CV to Two Creeks Capital form troubleshooting; using relational sulting firm, regulatory body, or other Minority/Disability/Vet. w/reference to JBPA. We are an equal gineer systems and code for continu- m
Management LP, attn. Mary Lee, 40 dbase techs such as Oracle or MySQL; large Global Systematically Important AVP/Senior Research Associate (Al- opportunity employer. ous improvement. Position requires a DATA ANALYST/MANAGEMENT
West 57th Street, 18th Fl, New York, NY using object oriented analysis & design; Bank (G-SIB). Req's 2 yrs exp w/: lianceBernstein L.P.- New York, NY) BIM ENGINEER( Battery Park, NY) Bachelor's degree in Computer Enrollment Data Analyst and Data-
10019. server side JS exp, such as Node or Ex- dvlpng quantitative forecasting mod- Dvlp & implmnt sophstctd quant tls incl Create parametric BIMs for structural Science, Engineering, Information Sys- base Manager - Analysis of enrollment
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press. Job Code: TECH112117NJME els; applying stat concepts incl correla- stock selectn mdls, risk mdls & prtflio parts of buildings, bridges, facilities,De- tems, or a related STEM field, followed initiatives; explore/report on areas m
Analyst/Broker, Equity Derivatives QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Apply at tion & regression analysis; document- optmztns. F/T. Reqrs Mstr's dgr (or velop contract doc thru BIM process by 5 years of progressively responsible for mkt capture; identify/quantify m
req'd with GFI Securities LLC in New gs.com & click on “Careers.” NO ing model dvlpmt process & quantita- frgn equiv) in Math, Finan Engnr'g, for structural,architectural trades Inte- software design, development, testing, opportunities for growth to increase/
York, NY. Analyze fin info to produce PHONE CALLS PLEASE. The Gold- tive models used for forecasting; in- Stats, Ops Rsrch, Finan or rel fld & 1 yr grate technical engineering,special- and implementation experience. Ex- shape enrollment. Manage application
forecasts of bus, indust & econ condi- man Sachs Group, Inc., 2017. All rights vestment banking bus. knowl incl mac- exp in job offrd or provd'g finan rsrch & design aspects into unified structural perience must include a minimum of: 1 database; process applications to m m m
tions for use in makng investmnt deci- reserved Goldman Sachs is an equal roeconomic & mrkt drivers that impact anlysis of invstmnt opprtnities w/in fi- design solutions Conduct clash detec- year with Agile development, Agile UTS; provide reports, data analysis
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sions. Interpret data affectng in- employment/affirmative action em- revenue streams w/i IBD; regulatory nan srvcs ind. All stated exp must incl: tion,visual walk throughs determines methodologies, DBMS, HTML, Java, & consultation that guide strategy/
vestmnt programs, such as price, yield, ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. knowl of CCAR & Dodd-Frank Stress SAS or C++ script'g langs; prgrm'g incl weak points, possible interdisciplinary JavaScript, Linux scripting, object or- decision making in Enrollment Mgmt. m
stability, future trends in investmnt Tests incl governance, process, & fore- regressns (linear, logistic, ridge & step- clashes design feasibility Development iented programming, Oracle, Oracle BS/Econ/stats or related. Any level
risks & econ influences. Req Bachelor's casting methodologies req'd for annual wise), principl component anlysis, mdl of construction CPM schedules,analy- databases, PL/SQL, relational databa- of exp with database mgmt such m
in Bus Admin, Fin, Econ or related dis- submissions; MS Office Suite incl Ex- bld'g, debug'g, backtst'g & optmztn; sis of baseline schedule updates, Re- ses, SQL, SQL Developer, UNIX, and as Blackbaud Raiser's Edge, AS400
cipl. Min 3 yrs trading exp with an inter- cel, Word, PP, & Outlook; statl tools incl work'g in equity or derivs mkts; clean'g quire: MS degree in Civil Engineering- XML. Job location: New York, NY. To or similar in higher ed. Any level of
-dealer broker either in job offered or Assoc w/ Goldman Sachs Services LLC R, Matlab, or SAS; creating presenta- & manipulat'g lrg datasets; &, bld'g so- ,Construction Management or similar. apply, please visit https://careers. exp in Salesforce software. FT. m W
Sales Trader. Must have 3 yrs exp trad- in NY, NY. Responsible for functional tions for sr mgmt; & completing analy- lutns to cmplx anlytical probs & in- Knowledge/understanding:design/draf- americanexpress.com and enter key- Resume to: HR JOB 09, Union M
ing securities incl Cash Equity & Equity analysis of & subsequent dvlpmnt, sis to support use of models in stress terprt'g, cmmunicat'g, & presnt'g re- ting techniques, Engineering termino- word 17014996 when prompted. Alter- Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, m
Derivatives, executng & managing maintenance & tech support of sys- testing & budgeting. To apply, visit sults of cmplx quant anlysis to internal logy for Structural Systems, AutoCAD, natively, please send your resume, New York, NY 10027
client orders, working w/ Fidessa, tems that support the Securities Divi- http://www.morganstanley.com/about/ & external clients. Resumes: J. Alvia, Revit, Navisworks, Primavera P6, Soli- cover letter, and a copy of the ad to: Data Scientist (Brooklyn, NY) for
Bloomberg & Reuters terminals. Must sion's Credit, Municipal, Mortgage & careers/careersearch.html Scroll down AllianceBernstein L.P., 1345 Ave of the bri, Synchro, MS Office. EnTech En- American Express, 200 Vesey Street, Rocket Travel Inc. (Rocket Miles) to M m m m
have Series 7 & Series 63 licenses. Ap- New Mkts' trade capture & straight- & enter 3101154 as the “Job Number” & Americas, New York, NY 10105. JobID: gineering PC, Email CV: New York, NY 10285; mail code produce fin'l & mkt intellgnce by query-
ply online: through-processing (STP) needs. Reqs: click “Search jobs.” No calls pls. EOE ASR-TFX 01-49-06, Attn: M. Lee, Recruitment ing data. Work w/ COO & stakholdrs
http://bgcpartners.referrals.selectmin recruitment@entech.nyc
Bach deg (US or foreign equiv) in Operations. from hotel supply, prodct & partnrshp
ds.com/. An EOE. Comp Sci, Comp Engg, Comp Info Sys- Associate, Solar Energy Finance (NY, Business Analyst, TAS (OTS - M&A) teams to generate understndng, strat &
tems, Info Tech or a rel field & 3 yrs of Assoc w/Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in NY) sought by solar energy asset (Manager) (Multiple Positions), Ernst American Express is an equal opportu- suggst actions based on data. Req
ANALYST exp in the job offered or a rel role. Must NY, NY. Function on a team responsib- mgmt & dvlpmt firm. Structure & exe- & Young U.S. LLP, New York, NY. Sup- nity employer and makes employment MBA in Strategic/Mktg Mgmnt or
Healthplex, Inc. has an opening for have 3 yrs of exp w/: compiled object- le for risk oversight of Goldman Sachs cute refinancing & debt arrangements port and advise on business and opera- decisions without regard to race, color, Master's in Math, Statistcs, Fin-
a Report Analyst in Uniondale, New oriented language (such as C++ or Ja- Asset Mgmt's (GSAM) funds & sepa- for commercial & utility scale solar tional matters, from carve-out readi- religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender nace/rltd +2 yrs exp as Analyst/Intern m
York. Duties include: Determine report va), incl an understand of advanced rate accounts. Analyze liquidity risks power plant dvlpmt assets to max- ness and support, operational due di- identity, national origin, protected ve- in Invstmnt Bankng, Technlgy-
requirements; identify target data & topics incl multi-threading environ- w/in portfolios, incl production of liquid- imize portfolio returns. Must possess ligence, synergy assessment and de- teran status, disability status, or any /Consltng fields. Must have 2 yrs exp w/ m
develop/maintain appropriate data ment, JDBC, Reflections, Generics & ity targets & follow-up of liquidity ex- U.S. bachelor's deg or frgn deg equiv in livery, day-one readiness assessment other status protected by law. Click Data Analysis & min. 6 mos exp mang- m W
model; establish/maintain data trans- Collection framewrk; ANSI SQL, stored ceptions. Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or Finance, Econ, Environmental and 100-day planning, to support the in- here to view the “EEO is the Law” pos- ing teams & knowl of Statistcs, Excel,
formations; create/modify required procedures & Sybase or similar rela- foreign equiv) in Quantitative Fin, Bus, Science, or closely rltd quantitative tegration process. Requires travel up ter and supplement and the Pay Trans- SQL & statisticl compting langg M
queries & report presentation. Send tional dbase engine; Inter-process Fin, Acctg, or a rel field, + 3 yrs of exp field; & 2 years' exp in the job offered to 80% to serve client needs. Employer parency Policy Statement. If the links (e.g.Python/R). Rqrs 5% domestc travl.
resume to careers@healthplex.com communications using brokered or in the job offered or in a fin position. or as a financial/investment analyst will accept any suitable combination of do not work, please copy and paste the Apply at www.rocketmiles.com/jobs or m M
Reference Job # 6712.5. non-brokered messaging product- Prior wrk exp must incl: performing in commercial & utility scale power education, training, or experience. For following URLs in a new browser win- at jobs@rocketmiles.com
s/techs (such as TCP/IP, TIBCO Ren- quant analysis on large data sets using generation proj finance. Exp must incl complete job description, list of re- dow: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/
Application Development Team Lead dezvous, TIBCO EMS (JMS)); wrking tools such as MS Excel incl common 2 yrs in each of the following: tech, quirements, and to apply, go to: compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and Data Engineer: NY, NY - Develop reu- m m
(Christie's Inc.; New York, NY) Coordin- w/ fixed income securities; & wrking formulas/analytical tools such as pivot economic, & risk anlss of solar power ey.com/us/jobsearch https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay- sable tools for data mngmnt; Build use- m
ate dvlpmnt of custom software appli- across the full S/ware Dvlpmnt Life- tables, vlookup, filtering, charts; wrking plants; fin modeling & valuation of (Job # - NEW00JG9). transp_formattedESQA508c.pdf. r/ad profiling system; Improve efficien- m @ m
cations for Christie's online apps. Reqs: w/ complex fin instruments incl deriva- solar energy assets portfolio; & U.S. cy of data collection, storage, and re- m
Bachelor's Degree in Computer cycle (SDLC), incl direct end-user inter- tives from a mkt structure & valuation federal/state utility regulations regard- trieval; Implement data pipeline; Opti-
Science, Engineering, or related techni- action to translate reqs into design, de- perspective; identifying risks inherent ing solar & distributed generation poli- mize soft/hardware infrastructure; MS
cal field, plus 5 yrs of post- fining test scenarios & engaging in in daily bus processes; driving initia-
baccalaureate progressively respon- devvlpmnt. Job Code:
tives to mitigate risk; utilizing under-
cies. Mail resume to SunRay Power
Management LLC, Attn: Recruiting,
Comp Eng or rel field + 3 yrs related
exp. Resumes to Dailymotion, Inc. 156
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Apply by mail ref. Job Code: CANTS: Apply at gs.com & click on ent sources of funding to meet liquidity Designer - Vanderbilt Home Collec-
KBGFJG16227-2, Attn: Bo Tan, VP, HR “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS reqs; exp mng multi tasks in a fast- Associate Director, Analytics needed tions seeks an Industrl Dsigner to wrk
Operations Manager, Americas, Chris- PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group,
paced team-oriented environment at Jet.com, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ. Must in Brooklyn, NY 11232. 1› years exp. in
tie's Inc., 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman identifying scope, target timelines & m
York, NY, 10020. Sachs is an equal employment/affir-
mative action employer Female/Min- level of effort for tech & fin operational
have Master's or equiv in Bus. Admin,
Fin'c, Stat's, or rel field & 3 yrs exp in
Industrl or Prduct design and a Bache-
lor's degree is mand. Industrl dsigner m
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where you ve
projects. Job Code: IMD10417XCR big data analytics field; OR Bachelor's pos. req. ability to dsgn solutions for
Architect - Intermediate Architect for ority/Disability/Vet. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Apply at or equiv in Bus. Admin, Fin'c, Stat's, or
S9 Architecture & Engineering PC to home prdcts & decor for mjor retailrs.
gs.com & click on “Careers.” NO rel field & 6 yrs exp in big data analytics Must also create cmpter-aid dsgn or
work at our New York, NY loc. Re- field. Jet.com, Inc. will accept any m
PHONE CALLS PLEASE. The Gold- tchncal specs for each dsgn or collctn.
search, plan, design, and admin com- man Sachs Group, Inc., 2017. All rights amount of exp w/req'd skills for posi-
plex, mid- to large-scale projects. Resp Apply to Gary Feldman at (718)
reserved Goldman Sachs is an equal tion. To apply, visit https://careers. 559-5099 or gary@vanderbilthc.com.
for proj coordination from design employment/affirmative action em- jet.com & apply under Requisition #
dvpmnt thru contract admin. Consult Assoc w/ Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. GH953114. Jet.com is an EOE/AAE. Designer, Knits (New York, NY): Wrk
w/clients to det. functional + spatial NY, NY. Function as a quant dvlpr for closely w/ Directors, Dsgn & Prdct m m
reqs. Draft + detail drawings + specs the Firm's high-performance Monte- Attorney - Government Enforcement Dvlpmt Team, & Merchants to execute
and create full set of construction do- Carlo-based pricing infrastructure, Assoc w/Goldman Sachs Services LLC and White Collar Crime (New York, to Seasonal Concept direction, line plan
cumentation. Use software + equip to pricing model & automated trading in NY, NY. Assoc on Investing & Lend- NY). Provide legal svcs in connection style needs, margin reqmts, & comple- m m
prep designs. Prep design computa- control platform. Reqs: Mstrs deg (U.S. ing Tech, responsible for dvlpng Whole with govt investigations, enforcement tion of prdct. 5% int'l trvl req. 40hrs/wk.
tions + quantity estimates. Dvlp cost or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci, Math or Loan trading apps. Lead Projects actions, internal investigations, & white Send resumes: Karen Hill, Lane
estimates. Attend client meetings. a rel quant field. 2 yrs of exp in the job through all the stages of S/ware collar criminal prosecutions. Reqs Ju- Bryant, Inc., 3344 Morse Crossing, Co- M W
Serve as on-site proj rep. Interpret, or- offered or a rel quant fin role. Prior wrk Dvlpmnt Life Cycle (SDLC) incl provid- ris Doctor or Master of Laws deg, or lumbus, OH 43219, Ref. No. RJ1217.
ganize, execute + coordinate assign- exp must incl 2 yrs: object-oriented ing wrk estimates & raising critical foreign equiv. Must have 3 yrs of exp
Designers (Woodside, NY) needed to
ments. May undergo reference checks. prog; functional prog; wrking w/ com- project issues such as tech/project representing multinational Corps., di-
design marketing materials, website &
Little domestic travel may be involved. plex data structures & algorithms, incl risks. Reqs: Mstrs deg (U.S. or foreign rectors, officers & employees in con- m
product pkg. Req. BA in Design & 1 yr M
Must have Master's deg. in Architec- calculations of rel math complexity; equiv) in Comp Sci, Comp/Electrical nection w/ govt investigations, enforce-
exp. Resume to Seoul Shopping, 62-11
ture or rel field and 4 yrs of rel architec- SQL (Structured Query Language) Engg, or a rel field & 3 yrs of exp in the ment actions, internal investigations, & M
35th Ave. Woodside, NY 11354. M m
tural design experience which must dbases; no-SQL dbases; Linux & win- job offered or a rel field OR Bach deg white collar criminal prosecutions. Exp
incl: 2 yrs of exp. developing projects in dows operation systems; dvlpng web- (U.S. or foreign equivt) in Comp Sci, must incl multi- jurisdictional cross- Dgtl Mngr (multiple openings) (NY, m m m
NY State and working with regulations, based user interface, incl HTML5 Comp/Electrical Engg, or a rel d field & border matters. Must have 3 yrs of ad- NY): Deliv day-to-day dgtl activities for M
building codes, and construction do- (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS 5 yrs of exp in the job offered or a rel vising clients in dealing w/ investigative assigned client(s). Play key role in
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cumentation; and 2 yrs of exp. prepar- (Cascading Style Sheets), & Javascript; field. Must have 3 yrs of exp w/: dvlpng agencies around the world, incl the U.S. planning, negotiatn, implmntatn &
ing project scope and fees, high-rise & testing & qual assurance rel to fin apps in Java, C++, Python, or similar Department of Justice, the Securities & mgmt. of dgtl campaigns, ensuring ac- W
concrete construction, curtain-wall and products modelling. Prior wrk exp tech that solves fin bus problems; know Exchange Commission, the Office of curacy & timeliness. Req: Bach deg in M M
window-wall design in NYC, and man- must incl 1 yr: project mgmt of large, about Fin products; dvlpng w/ SQL & Foreign Assets & Controls & the U.K. Advtsng, Mktg, Biz Admin, Commni-
aging NYC construction contractors. multi-team, tech projects w/in a fin ser- stored procedures; Object Oriented
Also requires skill in (4 yrs of exp.) vice institution, w/ the ability to wrk di- (OO) Concepts; S/ware Dvlpmnt life
QA/QC processes and using Auto rectly w/ bus end users, incl traders, cycle, incl Test Driver approach by
Serious Fraud Office & Financial Con-
duct Authority; as well as 3 yrs of man-
aging large-scale document produc-
No matter where you ve catns or rel + 3 yrs exp in media/com-
mnicatns planning or rel. Must have 3
yrs exp w/: Undrstdg of media math
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CAD, Revit, Sketch-Up, Photoshop, and risk mgrs, technologists & complian- writing unit tests & RegTests; Unix, Lin- tions & drafting communications to fundmntls; Proficnt in MS Office, 3rd
InDesign. Apply online at: ce/internal audit teams; & data analy- ux, &/or Windows operating systems; & these agencies. Must be licensed to prty ad srving pltfms (DoubleClick, At-
www.s9architecture.com. sis, incl stat analysis & machine learn- dvlpng/understanding Extract, Trans- practice law in New York. Frequent in- las or Sizmek) & syndicated rsch res-
ing, in particular decision trees. Job form, Load (ETL) apps. Job Code: ternational & domestic travel reqd. rces (comScore, Nielsen); Mnging mult
ARCHITECT. Sr. Architectural Drafter Code: SEC112117GSEQFS QUALIFIED TECH111717ADFICCT QUALIFIED Send resume to Z. Hassan, Skadden, projcts under tight deadlines; & Antic-
— Supv. team w/plans, sections, 2/flD, APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & click APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com & click Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, 4 patng upcoming obstacles & dvlpg so-
axonometric, online, print. Req. Bach. on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS on “Careers.” NO PHONE CALLS Times Square, NY, NY 10036 or lutns in timely & insightful manner.
Archit. or foreign equiv. degree plus 18 PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, PLEASE. The Goldman Sachs Group, zhassan@skadden.com. Skadden is an Must have 2 yrs exp w/ trgt audience
mos. exp. as Arch. Drafter or as Arch. Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman Inc., 2017. All rights reserved Goldman Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action ny mes com/ ea es a e dvlpmt. Must have 6 mo's exp w/ Pris-
Job in Brooklyn, NY. Philip Toscano Sachs is an equal employment/affir- Sachs is an equal employment/affir- Employer. Minority/Female/Sexual ma. Apply to GroupM Worldwide LLC-
Architect. Apply w/resume, ref. NYT: mative action employer Female/ mative action employer Female/ Orientation/Gender Identity/Disabili- MEC at sasha.fine@wmglobal.com &
Philip@ptarchitects.com Minority/Disability/Vet. Minority/Disability/Vet. ty/Vet. reference Dgtl Mngr.
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NEW YORK CITY Global Forensics Manager @ BDO
HR-Americas Lead, Investment Bank-
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT
Financial Analyst sought to prfrm & re- ing Recruitment (New York, NY):
FINANCE. Equity Derivatives & Com- view initial analy of proposed transac- USA, LLP (NY, NY) F/T. Prfrm com- IT: Test Engineer positions available Javascript Application Developers
modities Institutional Sales Specialist, Financial: American Express Compa- Drive & execute the regional recruit- (Brooklyn, NY): Design test plans &
ny seeks Directors, Analytics and Data tions by utlzng in-dpth knowl of cash pliance, due diligence & invstgtive ment strategy, policy & agenda for Ex- Multiple positions available in New
OF EDUCATION
resp for the analy & sale of invstmnt & flow & cost rprt analy. Min reqs: bach prcdres. Create work plans & tem- test cases for various functionalities York, NY. Implement the resolution
rsk mgmt prdcts amng institutional Science to develop analytically driven perienced Talent Acquisition for the performed & delivered by software ap-
strategies using global information deg in accntng, fin or rel + 3 yr exp in plates for anlyses. Reqts: Bach's deg Americas Investment Banking & Capi- of highly complex, technical problems
clients, incl insrnc co.s, pension fnd blg brckt bnkng or prvt equity. Exp in (or foreign equiv) in Acctng or rel, fllwd plications. Design & plan testing esti- involving creation of websites and
mgrs & local & int'l banks, mainly in the platforms, powered by Big Data tools tal Markets Division (IBCM), including mation for projects & software applica-
bldng dynmc fin mdls, while clbrtng by 5 yrs of prog resp exp in job offd, Sr e-commerce applications and their
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, US & Canada. Min reqs: Mast deg in fin, and cutting-edge machine learning al- cutting edge initiatives on internal mo- tions. Create test data for test cases for
gorithms. Provide subject matter ex- findings from borrowers, agencies, Assoc, Sr Auditor or rel. Exp must incl: bility, assessment & diversity. Lead the integration into existing computer
bus admin or rel + 2 yrs exp in equity engrs & appraisers; anlyzng & spprtng Working on audit & forensic engmnts all software functionalities. Execute systems using SQL and full stack
derivative prdct sales (or bach deg + 5 pertise on data-driven business solu- execution of the full end-to-end recruit- test cases & verify software applica-
(or assgnmnts); Applying accntng prin- javascript development and using
SCHOOLFOOD
tions, leveraging best practices from deal ecnmcs; running sensitivity analy ing process for the IBCM business
yrs prog resp prof exp). Dem knowl of for key variables; & negotiating trm ciples; Anlyzng accntng & fin'l docs; tions. Design test reports based on test- javascript as a programming language
Bloomberg, VBA, ISDA/CSA reqs & the external payments industry and in- across the Americas region, including ing performed. Report issues in JIRA &
ternally derived analytical insights, to sheets. Dem abil to anlyz potential rsks Rsrchng accntng pronouncements in a within the node, meteor, or angular
hdgng solutions. Dem abil to wrk pub accntng envir; & Providing in- analyzing compensation trends to test bugs & tickets that are fixed. Build
drive positive value for customers, & mitigations from mrkt, prprty condi- structure & negotiate offer packages & framework. Build customer-facing
w/invstmnt & rsk mgmt prdcts of insti- tion, envir, insrnc & lgl due diligence; & vstgtive & forensic accntng svcs. Must end-to-end web application tests using components for new complex business
Position Summary: The Executive Director of SchoolFood partners, and shareholders. Lead a
tutional clients, incl insrnc co.s, pension to prep intrnl memos & presentations have CPA license. Emp will accpt any agreements. Partner with Hiring Man- test automation frameworks, including applications. Upgrade and maintain
fnd mgrs & int'l banks. Dem abil to team of data professionals in applying agers to develop & implement optimal
is the leader of the premier school food program in the strctr equity stock optns. Res to: data analysis and related tools to solve summrzng deal hghlghts, rsks & miti- suitable comb of edu, training or exp.
sourcing strategies, leveraging various
Selenium, Protractor & Cucumber. Au- the systems that employ scalable,
gations & key due diligence fndngs. Send resume to: Tara Brown, BDO tomate test scripts using JavaScript advanced technologies and methods
country. This individual is responsible for creating effective Commerzbank AG — New York business problems. Provide strategic
Res to: Greystone Servicing USA, LLP; 615 South College Street, internal & external sourcing channels, framework frisby.js & Protractor. to integrate web systems with exi-
Branch, Attn HR—05, 225 Liberty St, recommendations to leadership based including social media, networking, re-
ways to assure that over 1 million students have access to NY, NY 10281. on collaboration across cross- Corporation, Inc., Attn: C. Silverbrand, Charlotte, NC 28202. Indicate job title &
search, referrals, internal mobility,
Write performance-testing scripts
using Locust framework & conduct
sting systems. Apply: C. Andre,
functional teams, ranging from mark- 152 W 57th St, 60th Fl, NY, NY 10019. code “NY-LW” in cvr ltr. EOE. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
healthy food choices with high nutritional standards. This eting to technology partners, to drive
company website, online job boards & performance testing for applications Company, 1295 State Street, Spring-
web-based search engines. Create & developed. Utilize NewRelic tool to mo-
position has a critical impact as it serves over 860,000 FINANCE. Fixed Income & Currencies profitable revenue for the business. Po- Finanical: Oak Hill Advisors, LP seeks Graphic Designer (New York, NY)- maintain annual hire plans for busines-
nitor service performance & report
field, MA 01111; Please Reference
total meals daily throughout the five boroughs of New York Analyst sought to mrkt the bank's fin sition requires a Master's degree in Analyst (NY, NY) to develop, enhance Desgn layout copy for typs of consumr ses covered, including the develop- Job ID: 708204300
& maintain technical systems & inter- prodcts & Chins lux outlt mall commod. ment & delivery of regular recruiting any performance deficiencies to the
prdcts in int'l mrkts, incl corporate & Business Administration, Statistics, team. Utilize technology tools (REST &
City. Moreover, with over 8,000 employees and a $400 mil- pblc sctr treasuries spanning intrst Business Analytics, Computer Science, nal infrastructure that performs credit Prep notes/instrucs for workrs to as-
reports for key stakeholders. Develop modern microservice architectures),
IT: Open Source System Developer
rates, currency & crdt. Min reqs: bach or a related field, and 3 years of exper- analysis, portfolio monitoring, & risk sembl/prep final layouts for print & manage effective relationships with (NY, NY): Design software com-
lion budget, the position has significant influence on the deg in bus admin, fin or rel + 3 yrs exp ience with data analytics and informa- management across residential mort- sampls. Reqs: Bachelr Graphc/Digi external recruiting agencies & search programming languages (Python, Ja- ponents to satisfy new functional re-
national school food industry and the eating habits of in corporate & pblc sctr treasuries in tion management. Experience must in- gage securities portfolio. Bachelor's & Desgn, Fine Arts or rltd creativ field; firms in alignment with firmwide & di- va, C# & Ruby) & SQL databases quirements & optimize existing func-
18 months exp. with minimum 3.75 Mandarin Chins fluen; 1 yr exp HTML, (Postgres, MySQL & Oracle). Req's tionalities to enhance overall perfor-
future generations. int'l mrkts, incl intrst rates. Dem knowl clude a minimum of: 3 years of exper- vision vendor review & selection Bachelor's degr plus 3 yrs exp.
of FX Trading prgrms: Limex, Hubble, ience with marketing analytics, com- GPA. Send resume to Oak Hill Advi- CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Adob Dream- processes. Apply knowledge of internal mance. Implement & test designs in
sors, LP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, weaver/After Effects/InDesign/Illustra- mobility career development frame- Please forward your resume to code, leverage platform & distributed
This Executive Director will provide the leadership to run Misys & Calypso; & Etrading prgrms: plex custom reporting, segmentation Amplify Education, Attn: HR-Staffing,
Fx3000 & Viper. Res to: Commerzbank analysis, and forecast modeling; 3 27th fl, NY, NY 10036. Attn: HR Dept. tor/Photoshop, graphc desgn concpts works, competency-based assessment systems architecture already in place
(typography, layout, hierarchy, color 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY
the daily retail operations of the largest school food pro- AG — New York Branch, Attn HR — 03, years of experience translating data- Job 018.
theory), UI/UX (may be learned thru modalities, candidate management & 11201. Must Ref: MT-AE-4. No phone
& make additions as necessary. Utilize
225 Liberty St, NY, NY 10281. derived results into recommendations tracking systems & online talent acqui- various open-source technologies, in-
gram in the country. This includes creating and executing and presenting recommendations in Financial: HSBC Bank seeks Manager edu or wrk exp). Res: Candice Wong, sition & sourcing tools (Taleo) to pro-
calls pls. An Equal Opportunity cluding PostgreSQL databases, Pyt-
Employer m/f/d/v.
food distribution contracts with food vendors, maximizing non-technical terms; 3 years of exper- Operations- NAFTA CORRIDOR (NY, Waitex International Co Ltd,
vide training & mentoring as a talent hon, Scala, Ruby, Bash & JavaScript
ience in the financial services industry; NY) to act as a driver and coordinator candice@waitex.com acquisition subject matter expert. programming/scripting languages,
students’ access to free or reduced priced meals, and 3 years of experience with statistical amongst three countries, two busines- Req's Master's degr plus 2 yrs exp or ReactJS frontend framework, Docker
IT/Software: Asst. Director — Re- & Docker Compose deployment tools
making the most of federal resources to cover the expens- analysis and statistical tests for mea- ses (GBM, CMB) and several products Graphic Designer wanted by Ringer Bachelor's degr plus 5 yrs exp. Please search Associate at Moody's Analytics, & Chef automated configuration man-
suring marketing effectiveness; 3 toward one joint objective. Resumes to: Jeans LLC in NY, NY. Must have Bach forward your resume to Inc. (New York, NY). Cndct thrtical & agement tool. Req's Master's degr plus
es of the program. Performs related work. years of experience with advanced al- J. Nagel, Ref. Job#2526-093. HSBC Deg in Graphic Design. Must have Credit Suisse, P.O. Box MT-264, emprcal research to measure cred 3 yrs exp. Please forward your resume
gorithm development, data visualiza- Bank USA, N.A.,95 Wash St. Atrium knowl of Illustrator, Photoshop, Direct- 220 W. 42nd St., 12th Fl., New York, NY risk, fxd income valuation, cmrcial real to Datadog, Inc., HR, Ref# MT-DD-3,
Salary: $152,361+ tion, and statistical tools, including SAS; 1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. No calls/email- or/Flash, After Effects, Dreamweaver, 10036. No phone calls. est, & entrprise risk mgmt that will be 620 8th Avenue, 45th Fl., NY, NY 10018.
3 years of experience with Java; 3 s/faxes EEO /AA /Minorities /Women / Premier, Final Cut Pro, QuarkXPress, implmtd in our prtypes & sftwr sltns.
In Design, Corel Draw, & Hancom Of- HUMAN RESOURCES
Reqts: Must have a Master's degree or No
years of experience developing predic- Disability/ Veterans. phone calls.
For a full job description and to apply online, tive models; 3 years of experience with
fice. Apply to: Ringer Jeans LLC, 148 W Interested candidates send resume
foreign equiv in Fncl Engrg, Quant
37th St., 7th Fl, New York, NY 10018 to: Google LLC., PO Box 26184 San
please visit: http://bit.ly/edsfnyc object-oriented languages and provid- Global Payment Applications Specia- Fnce, Comptnl Fnce, or a closely rel IT/Software: Software Engineering
ing data-driven recommendations to list (VP)- (NYC)- Design, develop & Healthcare - Attending Physician (Pe- Francisco, CA 94126 Attn: A. Johnson. quant field. Must have exp or academic Manager, Core Product Engineering,
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IT/Software: Sr Software Engineer at
Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (New
York, NY). Lead dvlpmt of Analyst
Tools, Moody's intrnl apps fr cred rtgs
analysis. Suprt all aspects of prod life-
cycle, incl reqs gthrng, docmtn, design,
dvlpmt, qlty assrnce, implmntion,
mntnce & suprt, & prodction of bi-
monthly releases for Analyst Tools
apps. Reqts: Master's degree or
foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Comp Eng
or rel quant field + 3 yrs of exp as Sftwr
Engineer/Dvlpr or rel. Altrntvly, em-
ployer will accept a Bach degree or
foreign equiv in an acceptable fld as
stated above + 6 yrs of prgrsvly resp
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must incl. the following: leading teams
on tech projects; reviewing bus reqts,
commnctng directly w/ bus. stakehol-
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ensrng coding is done accrdg to best
practices; bldg & mntng SQL database;
utlzng MVC Framework & web service
design; & dvlpng Web-based applctn
using C# & ASP.NET. To apply please
submit resume through www.moodys.
jobs, via e-mail at hrbox28@moodys.
com, or by mail to: Moody's Investors
Service, Inc., Attn: HR Box 28, 7 World
Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street,
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Job Ref. 11731BR.
Information Security Director-
Implement/manage enterprise securi-
ty programs, tools & incident response
teams, Cyber security elements, fire-
walls, network access controls, Zero
Day defense, IPS/IDS encryption, & log
management/analysis infrastructure
(SIEM). Build/maintain security op cen-
ter w/incident response teams, inte-
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gies. Establish/manage security poli-
cies. Conduct security tests & risk ana-
lyses & develop infrastructure security
strategies. Reqs: 5 yrs exp as above or
as a Security or Technology Officer.
Resumes to: M. Oppenheim, First Qua-
lity Enterprises, 80 Cuttermill Rd, Ste
500, Great Neck, NY 11021.
IT/Software: Digital
UX/Graphic Designer. Bach deg or
Product/
frgn equiv in Graphic Design or rel field
+ 3 yrs exp w/: digital media & adverts,
vector- based & pixel-based design for
UX/UI & devel prods & interfaces
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& Python, HTML & CSS. Submit portfo-
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ganized design. Job Midtown East, NY,
NY. Send resumes: Ruth Guzman, Se-
lectable Media, Inc., 805 3rd Ave, NY,
NY 10022. EOE.
IT: Capital One seeks a Software En-
gineer, Associate in New York, NY
(multiple positions available) to per-
form technical design, development,
modification, and implementation of
software and/or data applications
using existing and emerging technolo-
gy platforms. Requires a bach. + 2 yrs.
of exp. Must pass company's assess-
ment. See full req's & apply online:
https://www.capitalonecareers.com/
Req # R39209.
IT: Zebra Technologies Corporation
sks Sr Software Engr in Holtsville, NY
— Perform design, development, cod-
ing, testing, research, programming
and documentation for software sys-
tems, applications and/or operating
systems. Job ID — BS+5 (45155) De-
gree Comp Sci, IT, or rltd. To apply go
to www.zebra.com & search for Job ID.
For'gn equiv deg accptd. EOE/Affirm
Actn Emplyr.
Information Systems Mgr, Lynbrook,
NY-Admin, manage & test computer
database using ASP, PHP, MySQL
database, Win Server & Microsoft
Power BI. Implement security
measures, provide sftwr & hdwr
support for netwk, program lighting
control & automation devices & wiring
systems. Bchlr's deg in Computer Sci,
1 yr exp. Fax resume: (516) 593-7249
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IT: Street Diligence, Inc. seeks Software
Developers in New York, NY to design,
develop, and implement complex web-
-based software for innovative pro-
ducts with enhanced search capabili-
ties for use in the financial industry.
Mail resume referencing Job Code
535269 to S. Hazelton, 1270 Broadway,
Suite 1105, New York, NY 10001. EOE.
IT: Senior Software Engineer position
available w/ MongoDB, Inc. in New
York, NY. Des & dev SW for Mon-
goDB's cloud product offering. Please
mail resumes to MongoDB, Inc., Attn:
T. Reshetnikova, 229 W. 43rd St, 5th Fl,
NY, NY 10036. Reference code:
A7VQCP
Interior Designer (Manh) Design inter-
iors for new construction and renova-
tions. Survey sites. Prepare 2D & 3D vi-
sualizations. Select materials. Solicit &
review bids. Manage construction.
Reqs. Interior Design or Interior Arch
and 1 yr exp. Mail resume to: O'Neil
Langan Architects PC, 15 W 37 St, Flr
15, NY, NY 10018
IT Senior Developer @ TD Securities
LLC (New York, NY) F/T Dvlp, create,
& modify the interchange of data btwn
TD's srvrs & databses. Analyze user
needs & dvlp sftwre sltns. Reqs Mast-
er's deg, or frgn equiv, in Cmptr Scnce,
Engg, or rltd, & 2 yrs of exp in job offd,
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sitive attitude. Highly competitive sala- ments gathering and analysis. Under- prog language, 2 yrs exp, MA - Applied tools Egg-plant, UFT, Selenium; Java; m
ry with strong benefits. Email Resume stand existing business processes. Con- Math req. Mail resume: Carolyn Mc- lopment of digital asset protocols. Must
have knowledge of distributed sys- Creating Rest / SOAP Web srvces; Un-
to: mjustvig@kdlm.com duct as-Is studies and prepare to-be Kenna, Sr. VP of HR,451 Research LLC, drstnding & anlyzing schema of srvce
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SQL databses; NoSQL databses; J2EE;
live better.
year to Switzerland, Hungary, and Aus- m
Portfolio Mgr (NY, NY) sought by Paci- functional and technical specifications tralia for training and project planning. TIBCO to perfrm code chnges; & Vali-
fic Investment Mgmt Company (PIM- of developments, integrations, and pro- Senior Data Engineering Associate — dating apps to ensre ADA compatibili- m mm
Send resume to: Digital Asset Holdings, m m
CO) to review prtflio composition & duct configuration changes. Handle Capital One Services II LLC in New LLC, Attn: HR, 96 Spring St., 7th Fl., ty using screen reader tools incl NVDA
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Eclipse; Spring;.NET; Restful API; SQL
Server; Multitier app dvlpmnt; prgrm-
mng in asynchronous, concrrnt & dis-
trbtd systms; Creatng rspnsve HTML5/
No matter
risk by anlyzing & identifying risk ing, CRP, integration testing, and user tech design, development, modifica- MS/TSA/MAJS to Citigroup Recruiting
issues in the form of mkt risk (incl acceptance testing. Work with OMW tion, & implementation of software SOFTWARE Dept, 3800 Citigroup Center Drive,
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CSS apps; utilizing knwldge of sftwr
archtctre, fnctnl & objct-orntd prgrm-
mng & design princpls; utilizng undrst-
ndng of the fllwng financl prdcts for ra-
tional data mdlng: financial risk rprtng,
equities & equity derivatives prdcts,
PnL, Sequential & Greeks based Pnl At-
tribution, Data mnpltn (regression,
Taylor series); exp bldng scalable Web
API's that handle reads & write of lrge
volumes of data; Exp bldng systms w/
micrsrvcs or service-orientd archtctrs.
Emp will accpt any suita combo edu,
training or exp. To apply, mail resume
to Daniel White, TD Securities, 31 West
52 St, NY, NY 10019. Ref TD7-2017.
Italian Portfolio Manager (NY, NY)
sought by Monsieur Touton Selection,
Ltd to manage entire Italian Wine Port-
folio & mktg. Req: 8 yrs Italian wine
portfolio mgmt, mktg & distribution
exp. Must s/r/w English & Italian. Trav-
el to Italy 4 times/yr + travel domesti-
cally once/mo. Fax CV to 212-204-5959.
Legal Specialist (Jamaica, NY): Under
attorney supervision, prep immigra-
tion applics, gather & anlz Spanish lang
doc & liaise w/ Spanish speaking
clients. Prep support letters, affidavits
& legal pleadings. Conduct legal re-
search. Assist attorneys on Colombia
law, wherever applicable, for Colombia
national clients immigrating to US who
also have to deal w/ Colombian legal
matters. Req: Bach in Legal Studies or
rel flds +5 yrs of exp working in Colom-
bian law. Verbal & written fluency in
Spanish. Send cvl/res to R. Attri, E. Wa-
ters & Associates P.C., 89-36 Sutphin
Blvd., Ste. 301-304, Jamaica, NY 11435.
LEGAL - Seoul Shopping (Woodside,
NY) seeks In-House Counsel to man-
age corp.legal matters & litigation of
Hanyang group. Req. JD, NY Bar Lic &
6 mos exp.Resume to Seoul Shopping,
62-11 35th Ave. Woodside, NY 11354.
Manager, Office of Monitor Communi-
cation New York sought to prvd
guidnce & lgl & cmpliance recs w/ rgrd
to rprts & requests received frm the
Monitor. Min reqs: Mast deg in law, fin,
bus admin or rel + 2 yrs exp in Lgl &/or
Cmpliance depts in a mltintionl org, or
w/ mltintionl clnts, incl US & Euro clnts
or rel (or bach deg + 5 yrs prog resp
prof exp). Exp wrkng on rgltry reme-
diation processes & indpndnt monitor-
ships & w/ cross-border Cmpliance in-
vstgtions. Dem knowl of fin bnkng
cmpliance regs in the US & Germany;
MS Sharepoint; & eDiscovery sftwr.
other prtflio mgrs. Must have Master's Utilize: JD Edwards Enterprise, Finan- lor's degree or foreign equiv in CS/Eng- York, NY to develop cutting edge m m m
deg in Bus Admin, Fin, Fin Engg or rltd cial, Agile methodology, BI Publisher, n/CIS/rel tech field & 6 months exp in trading technology with a focus on Trader at Jane Street Group, LLC (NY, m
quant fld, & 3 yrs of exp in the pos of- SQL, and AS400. Required: Master's de- job offered or app dvlpmnt. Must pass high volume, low latency order routing NY). Responsible for executing the m
fered or closely rltd pos in fin svcs sec- gree or equivalent in Business Admi- company's assessment. To apply, visit for institutional and retail clients using firm's proprietary and bespoke strate- m m m
tor. 3 yrs of exp must incl applying glo- nistration or related (employer will ac- www.capitalone.com/careers, then Java, Financial Information eXchange gies in trading various financial in- m
bal macroecon, fin anlysis, & risk cept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) search keyword “Senior Data En- (FIX) protocol, and data structures. struments in global markets. Requires M
modeling to forecast & evaluate risk; years of progressive experience in lieu gineering Associate” or requisition ID Req. Bachelor's and 5 yrs. exp. or Bachelor's degree in Mathematics,
evaluating liquidity, leverage & risks of a Master's degree) and one (1) year R38885. Master's and 3 yrs. exp. For full job Physics, Engineering, Computer
for dervtives products; & dvlping anly- of experience as a Package Solution Sr Softw Engr needed at Jet.com, Inc. details and to apply, search by Job Science, or a related scientific or quan- m
sis/reprtng tools in Excel & VBA. 1 year Consultant or related. One (1) year of in Hoboken, NJ. Must have Master's or Number 1710421 at titative field, plus a minimum of one (1) m m
of exp must invlve utilizing SQL data- experience must include utilizing JD equiv in CS, Eng'g (any), or rel field & 2 jobs.fidelity.com EOE year experience working as a Junior m
m @ m
bases; & identifying, assessing, & eva- Edwards Enterprise, Financial, Agile yrs exp dvlpg & implementing apps
luating prtflio risk using a range of methodology, BI Publisher, SQL, and w/either object oriented or functional
Softw Engr III needed at Jet.com, Inc. in
Hoboken, NJ. Must have Master's or
Trader in a proprietary trading compa-
ny building and maintaining spread- M m ny mes com/ ea es a e
quant tools & fin risk mgmt tchniques, AS400. Send resumes to IBM, box prog'g language; OR Bachelor's or sheets for marking and analyzing m
equiv in CS, Eng'g or rel field. Jet.com, m M
incl stress testing & calculating #V402, 220 West 42nd Street, 12th Floor equivt in CS, Eng'g (any), or rel field & 5 Inc. will accept any amount of prof'l trades executed by traders and recon-
prfrmnce attribution, mkt risk, liquidity New York, NY 10036. yrs exp dvlpg & implementing apps exp w/req'd skills for position. To apply ciling discrepancies between traders'
risk, cnterparty risk, operational risk & w/either object oriented or functional pls visit https://careers.jet.com & apply expectations, their clearing firms, and
concentration risk. Background check Senior Quantitative Analyst will work prog'g language. Jet.com, Inc. will ac- under Requisition # GH952985. Jet.com executing brokers. Requires exper-
& drug screening required prior to em- at our NY,NY loc & will conduct quant cept any amount of exp w/req'd skills ience conducting trade entry, trade re-
is an EOE/AAE.
ployment. Mail resumes to K. Feilme- analytics & complx modeling projects. for position. 2 positions open. To apply porting, and organizing and displaying
ier (Job ID: 16880), PIMCO, 650 Newport Sr QA will lead dvlpmnt of new models, please visit http://careers.jet.com & ap- Sr Associate Director, Debt Advisory & market data to facilitate trade deci-
Center Dr., Newport Beach, CA 92660. analytic processes & system ap- ply under Requisition # GH953098. Restructuring Group sought by Peter J. sions. Requires experience in back-
EEO/AAE. proaches for new macro strategy. Jet.com is an EOE/AAE. Solomon Company LLC in New York,
testing new trading strategies and con-
Mstrs deg in Comp Sci, Financl Math or NY to be responsible for client deve- ducting paper-trades on new trading
lopment & new business development
PR Specialist sought by New York Im- rel field reqd; Chartered Financl Ana- Sr Softw Engr (Back end dvlpmt) need- strategies. Requires extensive know-
migration Service LLC in NYC: Con- lyst (CFA) credential; min 3 yrs of pro- ed at Jet.com, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ. through interaction w/ existing, new ledge of Excel, VBA and Bloomberg;
duct PR campaign; Prep. articles & info gressive exp in the finance industry w/ Must have Master's or U.S. equiv in CS, business relationships (external to knowledge of UNIX, Bash, OCaml, and
for the social media; Communicate eff. prog/stat language to incl; 3 yrs concur- Eng'g or rel field, + 3 yrs exp in dvlpg & firm) & through coordination w/ indus- PostgreSQL also required. Series 7
try & product team heads (internal of
w/ the pblc & help maint. our crprte rent exp woking w/datasets & databa- implementing apps w/either object or- license required. Please send resumes
image & identity; Dzn media releases ses (MySQL); 1-3 yrs concurrent exp iented or functional prog'g language. In firm). Responsible for engaging in busi- to jobs@janestreet.com with applica-
ness development through interactions
to shape pblc perception of our work & prog language (Python, Bash, C, C++, lieu of Master's + 3 yrs exp, employer tion reference code “JSIC17” in subject
goals; Maint. cmpy's good media rltns; C#, Perl, MATLAB); 3 yrs concurrent will accept Bachelor's or U.S. equiv in w/ investment pros, bankruptcy law- line.
yers, other restructuring pros. Repre-
Respond to req. for info from the pblc. exp wi/ large data sets in various asset CS, Eng'g or rel field, + 5 yrs exp in
Req: Mst's deg in PR or Comm. 20 mths classes; 3 yrs concurrent exp dvlpng dvlpg & implementing apps w/either senting firm in industry conferences,
events which are critical to expanding Traffic Specialist, Special Projects
work exp. in PR or Jrnl. Mail CV to: Han complex financl s/ware in Unix envir- object oriented or functional prog'g needed for NYC branch of int'l. contai-
Li, 1065 6th Ave, Ste 1025, NY, NY 10018 onment; 3 yrs concurrent exp prog language. To apply visit https:// firm's positioning & footprint in invest-
ment banking community. Min of a ner carrier co. Req: H.S. diploma + 2 yrs
framewrks (Spark, Redis, Celery, HT careers.jet.com & apply under Req # exp in job off or export documentation
Masters deg in Bus. Admin., Finance,
Product Designer(NY, NY) Wrk w Condor). Preferred exp in back-testing GH953106. Jet.com is an EOE/AAE. Business, or rltd + 5 yrs exp in job of- analyst, business development analyst
precs metals, stones& gems in concep- alpha signals derived from large tech & Sr Engineer (Pricing) needed at fered or rltd occ rqd. Interested candi- or rel. Rel exp must be in int'l freight
tiztn of orgnl fine jewlry& costume jew- fundamental data sets. Mail cover ltr & Jet.com, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ. Must dates apply by mail to Raine Mackey, forwarding industry & must incl: Know-
lry dsgns, incl creating sketches& com- resume,ref job #1117 :Beth Andrew- have Bachelor's or U.S. equiv in Eng'g, Human Resource Director, Peter J. So- ledge of special project, out-of-gauge,
p-aided renderings. BFA in Jewlry De- Berry, Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, CS or rel field, + 5 yrs exp designing & lomon Company LLC; 1345 Avenue of breakbulk & heavy lift cargo rules &
sign. Must have GIA Cert in Jewelry LLC,1 State St, 20 fl, Hartford, CT 06103. dvlpg large scale & high avail sys's. In regs; & analysis of transportation
Essentials, Jewelry Design & Compre- the Americas, New York, NY 10105. Ref
lieu of Bachelor's + 5 yrs exp, employer job “Sr Associate Director, Debt Advi- strategies for special project cargo. Re-
hensive CAD/CAM for jewelry. Korean will accept Master's or U.S. equiv in sumes: Mediterranean Shipping Com-
language fluency reqd. Res: Cyrus JM sory & Restructuring Group”
Eng'g, CS or rel field, + 3 yrs exp de- pany (USA), Inc., ATTN: HR Director,
Corp 29W 30 St, 4 fl NY,NY 10001 signing & dvlpg large scale & high avail Sr Back-End Engr @ Bloomberg LP 420 Fifth Ave., 26th FL, NY, NY 10018.
sys's. To apply for position please visit (NY, NY) F/T. Gde dvlpmnt of lrg-scl Ref. Job #191
Programmer Analyst (Multiple open- https://careers.jet.com & apply under dstrbtd systms usng JVM lnguage.
ings available for following position in Requisition # GH952988. Jet.com is an Pstn reqs Mast's's deg, or frgn equiv, in Transportation Analyst(Brooklyn, NY)
Hicksville, NY and unanticipated client EOE/AAE. Comp Sci, Engg, Info Ntwrks, Info Sys, Analyze operational solutions to en-
locations throughout the U.S.): Develop Math, Phys, or rltd fld & 2 yrs of exp in sure optimization of current fleet & net-
XML, XSLT, WSDL, XML schema & Sr Product Mgr needed at Jet.com, Inc. the job offd or as a Sftwr Dvlpr, Sr work. Design & review processes to re-
in NY, NY. Must have Master's or Sftwr Dvlpr, App Dvlpmnt Lead, Java
SQL procedures to be implemented on duce costs in moving & storage opera-
IBM Datapower for integrating the or- equiv in Bus. Admin, Bus., CS, or rel Dvlpr, or rltd. Altrntvly, the emp will tions. Suggest & implement solutions to
field & 1 yr's exp in advance bus. analy- accpt Bach's deg & 5 yrs of prgrssvly
acle database & Application servers. improve financial & operational perfor-
Design, expand, modify programs & tics; OR Bachelor's or equiv in Bus. Ad- rspnsble exp. Must have 2 yrs of exp in mance. Resumes to Lior Rachmany,
min, Bus., CS, or rel field & 5 yrs exp in each of the fllwng skills: Java or Scala;
maintain assigned information sys- Dumbo Moving & Storage Inc, 15 N. Ox-
tems to ensure efficient systems Inte-
O advance bus. analytics. Jet.com, Inc. Building micro-services & distributed ford Str, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
will accept any amount of exp w/req'd systems; &, Unix. Emp will accept any
gration and operation. Integration with
IBM Integration BUS using Service ob- skills for position. To apply pls visit suitable combo of edu, training or exp.
https://careers.jet.com & apply under VP: Morgan Stanley Services Group
jects on Datapower. Travel and reloca- Send resume to Bloomberg HR, 731
tion possible to unanticipated client lo- SALES Requisition # GH953086. Jet.com is an
EOE/AAE.
Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Indicate
Inc. seeks Vice President, Technical
Lead in NY, NY to serve as hands-on sr
cations throughout the U.S. Please mail B103-2017. EOE.
resume, salary history and position ap- OPPORTUN T ES Sr. Business Analysts (NY, NY) - Analz, Sr SW Eng (full-time) sought by Etsy,
.NET/C# dvlpr to deliver Alternative In-
vestments projects w/i Global Wealth
plied for to: SVN IT Services Inc, Attn: formalz & interpret Strategc Applica- Inc. (Brooklyn, NY). Requires Bach or Mgmt bus. Req's Bachelor's in Comp
Hr Manager, 76 N. Broadway, Suite tions integratn projects. Req MS or its forgn equiv in any fld & 5 yrs post-bach Eng'g, CS, or rel field of study & 5 yrs

Helping you live better.

Res to Commerzbank AG - New York 4004, Hicksville, NY 11801 equvlnt (BS + 5 yrs exp) in CS, Com prog exp as SW Dev, SW Eng, Web exp in position offered or 5 yrs exp as
Branch, Attn HR - 06, 225 Liberty St, M Engg, or Software Engg + skills & Dev, App Consltnt, or rltd job. Etsy is an Softw Eng'r, Softw Dvlpr, Prog'r, IT
NY, NY 10281. Project Leader/Principal - The Boston knwldg in Agile (BRD/FRD/FRS), JAD, EEO/AA employer. Email resume to Mgr, Consultant, or rel occupation.
Consulting Group, Inc. (New York, NY): GAP and Process analysis, AS400 — Req's 5 yrs exp w/following skills: C#

No matter where you live.

MANUFACTURING
Clothing manufacturer (NYC) seeks
Fabric Development Mgr to oversee
fabric development for all brands in
Girls/Women's division. Will source
new fabrics and trim development with
company suppliers in Asia and Central
America. Cultivate and sustain condu-
cive supplier base to ensure perfor-
mance specification, quality and test-
ing requirements are met. Review
electronic color submits on Data Color
Machine from various fabric mills.
Oversee divisional sampling needs.
Work closely with company overseas
office to ensure successful execution of
fabric and trim from development to
production. Analyze market to identify
new fabric trends, print techniques and
technological developments. Mail re-
sume to HRD, Garan Inc. 200 Madison
Ave, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10016 HR
Department
Manage the design and development
of long-term business strategies; over-
see business development, client rela-
tionships, project planning and man-
agement, and preparation of outputs.
Domestic/international travel required
based on company/client need. Re-
quires Bachelor's degree in business
administration, management science,
or a quantitative field related to a BCG
client industry and 5 years exp. as a
management consultant, business ana-
lyst, or quantitative analyst which must
include at least 1 year in management
strategy. Will alternatively accept a
Master's degree (or higher) in business
administration, management science,
or a quantitative field related to a BCG
client industry and 3 years exp. as a
management consultant, business ana-
lyst, or quantitative analyst which must
include at least 1 year in management
strategy. Send resume to
NycPLP@bcg.com. Mult. pos. avail.
M RPG ILE, SYNON (Cool:2E). Req 100 %
travel to unantcptd client loctns in USA.
m Allow telcmmtng. Email res to HR,
Mitchell/Martin, Inc. at
PRN002@itmmi.com
m Sr Mgr, Mrktg Analytics needed at
Jet.com, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ. Must
m have Master's or equiv in Bus., Math,
m m Stat's, Eng'g, or rel field & 3 yrs exp in
m mrktg analytics. Jet.com, Inc. will ac-
m cept any amount of exp w/req'd skills
for position. To apply pls visit
m m https://careers.jet.com & apply under
Requisition # GH953058. Jet.com is an
m EOE/AAE.
Senior Engine Programmer (New
m York, NY) sought by Avalanche Stu-
dios New York, Inc. to program game
m M m engine used in development of open
world video games for PS4, XBox1, and
M M PC platforms. Apply at:
W www.avalanchestudios.com/careers.
Ref. 043370-027.
apply@etsy.com & reference job
#00025 in subject line of email.
Strategic Insights Manager
Quantcast Corp seeks Strategic In-
sights Manager [Req #2017020] New
York, NY to analyze data to investigate
& test hypotheses used to identify mea-
ningful patterns & benchmarks in
large, multi-dimensional datasets. Mail
resumes to Attn: HR, 795 Folsom St, FL
5, San Francisco, CA 94107. Principals
only. Must include Req# to be consi-
dered. EOE.
Strategic Initiatives Analyst (New
York, NY): Lead day-to-day activities
of hospital operational and strategic
positioning projects for ambulatory ca-
re. Req MS in Healthcare Management
or closely related plus 1 year exper-
ience including healthcare analytics,
SAS, SPSS, Tableau, EPIC, Access, Cog-
nos, and Excel modeling. Mail CV: A.
Cohen, MSKCC, 633 3 Ave, Fl 5, NY, NY
10017. EEO employer/Vets/Disabled.
Webforms; WCF; SQL Server
(2005-2008); JavaScript; JQuery; HTML
prog'g; C#; designing & dvlpg layered
web based apps w/backend dbases
such as DB2 & MS-SQL Server; identi-
fying & implementing softw design pat-
terns; working on projects using SDLC;
& performance tuning incl UI, Middle
Tier, & dbase. Req's 3 yrs exp w/follow-
ing skills: XML; VS 2010/2012/2015;
JSON; WebApi; HighCharts; .NET
3.5/4.0; TypeScript; & 3rd party UI con-
trols incl Telerik, ComponentArt, & In-
fragistics. Req's 2 yrs exp w/following
skills: Angular 1; D3; & Unit Testing
tools incl MOQ, Nunit, Karma, & Jas-
min. Req's 1 yr exp w/following skills:
Version Control incl Git & SourceTree;
Grunt; Angular 2, & Silverlight/WPF. To ny mes com/ ea es a e
apply, visit us at http://www.
morganstanley.com/about/careers/
careersearch.html Scroll down & enter
3101340 as “Job Number” & click
“Search jobs.” No calls please. EOE
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5 PRO FOOTBALL 2 PRO BASKETBALL

The Steelers face the Patriots Back in the Garden,

in an A.F.C. showdown.
6 BASEBALL
Carmelo Anthony
C. C. Sabathia takes a pay cut gets applause,
to stay with the Yankees. a video and a defeat.

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00 N

Prisoner. Teammate. Dad.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CLARA VANNUCCI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Some inmates in Italy can participate in soccer games with their children.

By ANDREW KEH the prison as “Dad’s house.” Lately, he has been

MILAN — The 5-year-old boy chased his fa-
ther around the concrete soccer court, his feath-
ery hair falling over his eyes. Around them the
shouts and squeals of other children and the
shrill whistles of a referee created a hyper-
kinetic cacophony reminiscent of any play-
ground.
In this moment, it felt almost possible — al-
most — to forget the metal bars on the windows
of the spartan room, to ignore the guards keep-
ing silent watch, and to experience, briefly, the
illusion of freedom.
The father, Sebastiano Russo, 45, has been
incarcerated at Opera prison, a maximum-
security facility here on the outskirts of Milan,
since 2015, a circumstance his young son does
not fully comprehend. Russo’s wife, Rosa
Bianca Cappelletti, said the boy used to refer to
calling it “Dad’s cage” and asking why he can-
not see his father more often.
The sight of the two kicking a ball around
one recent afternoon in the prison’s cold, con-
crete gymnasium filled her with emotion.
“There are tears in my eyes,” Cappelletti
said on the sideline. “It’s beautiful.”
Once a year since 2015, BambiniSenza-
Sbarre, an Italian nonprofit organization whose
name translates to “children without bars,” has
organized these soccer matches inside dozens
of prisons across Italy.
Nicknamed “La Partita con Papà” — The
Game With Dad — the matches provide a rare
moment of normality, of humanity, inside the
country’s prison walls. But they also reflect
BambiniSenzaSbarre’s belief that children of
Continued on Page 3

Inside Opera prison, top, inmates and children played soccer recently
while a father and son watched. Right, boys on the prison field. “They’ve
had their bags ready for a week,” one mother said of her children.

Mexico City’s Hoop Dreams: Gaining an N.B.A. Franchise

By MARC STEIN
MEXICO CITY — The revelation hit
Eduardo Najera even as a local celebrity,
Edith Márquez, stood at midcourt nearly
three hours before tipoff, practicing her
rendition of the Mexican national an-
them.
Najera, who was the second Mexican-
born player in the N.B.A., had just
plopped down into a baseline seat at the
Mexico City Arena alongside Horacio
Llamas, who was the first from the coun-
try to play in the league.
He knew he was home as he scanned
the scene from floor level, taking in the
22,300-capacity structure that would
soon fill for a Brooklyn Nets-Oklahoma
City Thunder game, but Najera couldn’t
help thinking he was back in Dallas or
Denver or another of the five stops in his
N.B.A. career.
“This feels like the States,” Najera
said.
“You’re right,” Llamas said.
As patriotic as they are, Najera and
Despite two successful
games, the capital still
has a long way to go.
Llamas — two of just four Mexican-born
players to reach the N.B.A. — were
clearly pleased that the basketball bustle
enveloping them, as the Nets and the
Thunder went through their regular
warm-up routines, would have seemed
authentic in any American outpost on
the N.B.A. map.
The two have been in league circles
long enough to be well acquainted with
the inevitable believe-it-when-we-see-it
skepticism back in the United States that
greets talk of an actual N.B.A. franchise
landing south of the border someday. But
they, and others here, are convinced that
the N.B.A.’s ramped-up local initiatives
— in conjunction with the two regular-
season games it staged last week in the
Mexican capital — mean Mexico City’s
time is coming.
“We’re getting closer to that,” Najera
said.
The mayor of Mexico City, Miguel
Ángel Mancera, was even more emphat-
ic. In a brief interview in English after a
news conference to welcome the N.B.A.
on its 25th anniversary trip to town,
Mancera said he thought Mexico City
could immediately handle its own N.B.A.
team.
“Now,” Mancera said. “We are ready
now. We are waiting for that announce-
ment.”
Things will not move as quickly as
Mancera hopes. N.B.A. Commissioner
Adam Silver is clear about that, noting
repeatedly in recent months that his
league is not currently considering ex-
pansion or the relocation of an existing
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Fans at Mexico City Arena for the Nets-Thunder game last week. “We are “We have a lot more work to do before
ready now,” Mexico City’s mayor said about getting an N.B.A. franchise. Continued on Page 2
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we can put a team here,” Silver
said.
Yet it is also true that Silver has
called expansion inevitable,
which helps explain why the
N.B.A. has begun exploring the vi-
ability of a Mexican franchise as
seriously as it ever has. The
league recently established its
first day-to-day basketball enter-
prise in Mexico, through a youth
development academy, and is
pushing to start an N.B.A. G
League franchise as quickly as
possible, perhaps as early as next
season.
It is no mystery why league offi-
cials feel compelled to give Mex-
ico — and Mexico City specifically
— every chance to prove itself as
suitable soil. The country’s prox-
imity to the United States and its
capital city’s population in excess
of 20 million are impossible to ig-
nore, given what such numbers
could mean in terms of new reve-
nue streams and expanding the
game’s global fan base.
Silver said a Mexico City fran-
chise could also help grow the
sport in the United States, where
there are roughly 35 million peo-
ple of Mexican descent and nearly
57 million Latinos.
“Combined with all those
things,” he said, “we play here in
Mexico City in the same time zone
as the continental United States,
so it creates unique opportunities
for us in the same way Canada did
when we expanded in 1994.”
Signs of the game’s growing
popularity in Mexico City were
plentiful during the Nets’ five-day
stay. With tickets ranging from
about $20 to $450, announced
crowds for the two games were
strong, totaling 20,562 in the first
game and 19,777 in the second,
during the same week naysayers
asserted the country’s sporting
consciousness would be the exclu-
sive domain of soccer’s Liga MX
and its Clasico Regio final pitting
Tigres against local rival Mon-
terrey.
“Every time I come here, you
can see that they’re just so excited
to have basketball here,” said Mi-
ami Heat forward Kelly Olynyk,
who has played two N.B.A. regu-
lar-season games in Mexico City,
including against the Nets last
week.
But it is the potential television
perks, as much as any other factor,
that make Mexico City an increas-
ingly popular topic at the highest
levels of the league and perhaps
the strongest contender to
emerge as a future home for the
N.B.A., aside from Seattle, which
is widely regarded as first in line
to eventually regain its team after
losing the SuperSonics to Okla-
homa City in 2008.
The demand for sports content
throughout Mexico continues to
increase, thanks largely to a rising
middle class and the rapid growth
of smartphone usage and pay TV
subscriptions, but there is very lit-
tle domestic content available to
Mexican media companies be-
Albinson Linares contributed re-
porting.
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yond Liga MX. One N.B.A. team
could change that landscape and
give those companies, as well as
advertisers, something else prom-
inent to invest in.
“The N.B.A. is not a one-week-
end thing here,” said Gilberto
Hernández, the president of the
Mexican Basketball Federation.
“It’s a day-to-day thing. You can
feel it, you can smell it, you can
breathe it in the streets.”
But in those same streets,
plenty is happening to give any
American professional sports
league a measure of pause about
expansion. At the very least,
much remains to be learned about
how a prospective N.B.A. team
and its players would be affected
on a daily basis by Mexico City’s
notorious traffic and poor air qual-
ity, as well as the persistent vio-
lence in Mexico in general.
The $300 million arena is in the
northwestern borough of Az-
capotzalco, one of Mexico City’s 16
such municipalities. Built upon a
patch of land formerly occupied
by a slaughterhouse, the nearly
six-year-old building is most cer-
tainly N.B.A.-caliber, but public
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Philadelphia at Giants
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transportation to it is difficult
from much of the city and there is
quite a contrast between the mod-
ern arena and the dilapidated in-
dustrial zone around it. Several
residents interviewed complained
about traffic, crime and water is-
sues that have plagued the sur-
rounding neighborhood since the
arena opened.
All three teams (Brooklyn, Ok-
lahoma City and Miami) were
housed last week in the upscale
district of Polanco, one of the city’s
most luxurious neighborhoods.
Even so, players were required to
attend team security briefings al-
most immediately after arriving
at their respective hotels and
were frequently trailed by guards
as they walked to various restau-
rants and high-end shops nearby.
Practices for the week were
held at The American School less
than 10 miles away from Polanco.
Many of the students at the inter-
national preparatory school are
the children of business leaders
and diplomats. Armed guards and
their bullet-resistant vehicles are
ubiquitous.
“That’s always a question for
Familiar Result for Anthony in His Return to the Garden
By MIKE VORKUNOV
YES
FS1
As Carmelo Anthony sat on the
Oklahoma City bench in Madison
ESPN
Square Garden on Saturday night,
ESPNU
waiting for the game against the
FS1
Knicks to begin, the arena went
ESPNU
dark.
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Anthony’s
ESPN2
THUNDER 96 return to New
CBS
York for the
FOX
first time since he was traded to
CBS
the Thunder in September had
NBC
been highly anticipated, in part
GOLF because no one could be quite sure
NHL what kind of reception he would
NHL get from Knicks fans who watched
him score a lot of points over the
NBCSN
years without much team success
FS1
to show for it.
NBCSN
When the pregame blackout at
FS2
the Garden suddenly cut away to a
video tribute to Anthony, it caught
SAT him by surprise, he said. A nearly
12/23 minute-long reflection on his high
points with the organization was
the Knicks’ way of saying thank
you, and the crowd produced a
chorus of cheers.
7 p.m.
“That goes a long way with my-
YES
self,” Anthony said. “It was very
CHICAGO
much appreciated.”
7 p.m.
MSG+ “Thank you Melo,” said the
message from the Knicks in the
video. Thank you, too, said the
cheering fans.
TORONTO
A welcome also came from
7 p.m.
MSG Knicks teammates and Garden
security guards, who greeted An-
CBS thony with handshakes and hugs
during pregame warm-ups. But
once the game began, the dynam-
ic shifted, as Knicks fans got down
to the business of rooting for their
Last week fans nearly filled Mexico City Arena for a game between the Nets and the Thunder. Be-
fore the game, left, some spectators displayed their basketball skills. Commissioner Adam Silver
has said Mexico must produce N.B.A.-level talent more frequently to grow the sport in the country.
many of the leagues,” said Horacio
de la Vega Flores, who competed
for Mexico in the modern pen-
tathlon in two Olympic Games and
serves now as general director of
Mexico City’s sports institute.
“There are always questions re-
garding security. There are al-
ways questions regarding mobil-
ity. But we have always managed
to do things the right way.”
Because of such nagging ques-
tions, it is natural to wonder how
successful a team in Mexico City
could be in terms of courting
N.B.A. free agents, given the To-
ronto Raptors’ longstanding
struggles in recruiting players to
one of the world’s most cosmopoli-
tan cities — in an English-speak-
ing country.
The altitude and smog would be
other major adjustments. Miami
guard Goran Dragic said Mexico
City’s elevation, which at nearly
7,500 feet above sea level is more
than 2,000 feet higher than Den-
ver’s, made it “way worse” than
trying to cope with the thin air in a
road game against the Nuggets.
In last week’s first game,
whether it was the altitude or ill-
ness, or a combination, there were
players on both sides — most no-
tably Brooklyn’s Allen Crabbe and
Oklahoma City’s Russell West-
brook — who were forced to re-
treat to the locker room during
game action to gather themselves.
Crabbe left the floor twice to vomit
during the Nets’ come-from-be-
hind victory, while Westbrook felt
so ill afterward that he was
granted permission to skip the
standard round of postgame inter-
views.
“I think we had like five players
under the weather — myself in-
team. They did cheer Anthony
when his first shot of the game, a
3-pointer, went in. But as the game
progressed, and both teams took
turns holding the first-half lead,
Anthony heard mostly jeers.
Anthony, who said he had ex-
pected that treatment as an oppo-
nent, seemed to take it all in stride.
But he could not come up with a
memorable performance. He and
his Thunder teammates ran out of
gas one night after playing, and
winning, a triple-overtime game
in Philadelphia. And so, not sur-
prisingly, a 50-46 halftime lead for
the Knicks became a 111-96 victory.
The result left the Knicks, who
were led by Michael Beasley’s 30
points, with a four-game winning
streak and a better-than-expected
16-13 record. And it left the Thun-
der at a sobering 14-15 and still try-
ing to mesh Anthony and Paul
George, its two star imports, with
Russell Westbrook, the N.B.A.’s
reigning most valuable player.
Against the Knicks, Anthony
played 32 minutes and scored 12
points while making only 5 of 18
shots. But back-to-back games are
never easy for a 33-year-old, even
one with all the motivation Antho-
ny no doubt had on Saturday
night. Having played 47 minutes
on Friday, his shot was mostly
missing as the Knicks gradually
pulled away in the second half.
Also absent on Saturday was
Kristaps Porzingis, who has re-
placed Anthony as the Knicks’ go-
to scorer but who sat out the game
with a sore knee.
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cluded,” Nets forward Rondae
Hollis-Jefferson said of a stomach
virus that several in Brooklyn’s
traveling party believe contribut-
ed to a fourth-quarter fade in its
subsequent loss to the Heat.
But the N.B.A. is poised to get a
much more detailed sense of Mex-
ico City’s viability and start gath-
ering its own data on the various
logistical challenges tied to eleva-
tion, traffic, smog and security.
“It’s a perfect opportunity to ex-
Concerns linger
about altitude,
smog and security.
periment with a G League fran-
chise,” Silver said.
Throughout much of David
Stern’s 30-year tenure as N.B.A.
commissioner, talk of the league
expanding to Europe was fre-
quent. Now the link between the
N.B.A. and its neighbors to the
south appears to have more possi-
bility, helped along by an agree-
ment in June 2016 with the Mexi-
can media powerhouse Televisa
that brought N.B.A. games to free-
to-air television, in addition to the
various league broadcasts on sub-
scription channels such as ESPN
and NBA League Pass.
The broadcast audience for the
two games last week, according to
the N.B.A., was estimated to reach
more than 31 million TV house-
holds.
The closeness between the
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Carmelo Anthony scored 12
points in his first game back in
New York since being traded.
Anthony’s legacy with the
Knicks is complicated. He led the
Knicks to the playoffs several
times in his six and a half seasons
in New York, but never beyond the
second round. There was also a lot
of losing mixed in; the Knicks won
just 80 games over his last three
seasons with the team.
The Knicks’ deterioration frus-
trated Anthony, who had come to
New York wanting to win an
N.B.A. title. The failure, he said
Saturday, still rattles around in his
mind.
“It’s a bittersweet feeling for me
knowing the goals that I had,” he
countries also allows the N.B.A. to
take measures that were never
possible in Europe, as evidenced
by the G League plans. But it will
take more; Silver has said Mexico
must start producing N.B.A.-level
talent more frequently to properly
grow the sport here.
“I agree with that,” Llamas said.
“The first step is the G League
team; hopefully it has lots of Mex-
ican players.”
So perhaps the launch of the
league’s new youth basketball and
training academy — its seventh
such academy globally — will
prove to be the pivotal domino in
distinguishing the N.B.A. from the
many other top sports leagues
and organizations (such as the
N.F.L., Formula One and Major
League Baseball) making fre-
quent cameos here.
“It’s early days in terms of anal-
ysis of putting an N.B.A. franchise
in Mexico City,” Silver said.
“There’s a lot we would need to
understand about players poten-
tially living in the market full time
and how it would work in terms of
teams traveling in and out of the
market before we’re ready to
present that analysis to the play-
ers association and even to our
owners.”
As that analysis begins in
earnest, unrestrained advocates
like Najera — now a scout for the
Mavericks — see no harm in
dreaming big.
“I want a team, and everybody
here wants a team,” Najera said.
“We know that we have the eco-
nomic infrastructure to have an
N.B.A. team in Mexico City, and
we already have this beautiful
arena. I really think we’re getting
closer.”
said. “What I wanted to accom-
plish here and falling short.”
During his tenure with the
Knicks, Anthony also had to deal
with a growing perception that he
was too focused on scoring and
having the ball in his hands, and
too unwilling to change his style of
play.
That stance led to the departure
of one coach, Mike D’Antoni, and
helped precipitate a battle of wills
with Phil Jackson, who was the
Knicks’ team president for about
half of Anthony’s time in New
York.
Anthony won that feud, in that
Jackson was pushed out last June
while Anthony remained with the
Knicks. But just months later, An-
thony agreed to leave New York in
a trade to the Thunder.
All of which led to Saturday
night and Anthony’s return. On
Friday night, in Philadelphia, he
spoke briefly about his time in
New York and hinted at what he
hoped his reception would be
when he got to the Garden.
“It’s not like I was there a sea-
son or two seasons,” he said. “I
spent a lot of time there — almost
seven years. It was great times,
bad times. Regardless, I stuck
with it. I always remained profes-
sional. I came and did my job
whether they liked it or not. Hope-
fully, they recognize that.”
The fans did, with their salute
before the game. But then reality,
and fatigue, set in. And Anthony,
in the Garden, was once again on
the wrong end of the final score.

A prisoner with his family after a parent-child soccer match inside Opera prison on the outskirts of Milan. The Times agreed not to identify inmates and their families in picture captions.
A Prisoner. A Teammate. Most of All, Dad.
From First Sports Page
the incarcerated possess a human right to
maintain relationships with their parents.
“Maybe as inmates, we don’t even know
what prison is really like,” said Maurizio, a
39-year-old who has been at Opera since
2014. “The real punishment of prison is not
for us. It’s for the people we love.”
Maurizio asked that his last name not be
used because his sentencing, for charges in-
cluding homicide, was not complete. On the
day of the visits this month, he shivered in-
side the dimly lit gymnasium as he awaited
the arrival of his wife and two of his sons,
ages 13 and 7. (His oldest, who is 19, was at
work.)
Maurizio was wearing the shorts and
socks of Inter Milan, and the space around
him was as cold as a walk-in refrigerator.
Like the other fathers here, he was picked to
take part in the match because of his partici-
pation, and progress, in BambiniSenza-
Sbarre’s other programs at Opera.
It was Maurizio’s second time playing in
the game, which he said provided “a little bit
of life” — or at least something closer to real
life, anyway, than sitting at a table with his
family during the staid visitation hours that
are his only other face-to-face contact with
them.
His face softened to a smile when they fi-
nally arrived. He ran his fingers through the
older boy’s hair and touched his face. He
wrapped a muscular, tattooed arm around
his younger son’s neck and kissed his fore-
head. He stared into his wife’s eyes. The
constant caresses were part of an effort, he
said, “to make them feel my love.”
After the children and their fathers were
divided into two teams, they walked out to
the middle of the court in two straight lines
and waved to a crowd of imaginary fans, as
if they were professional players in a
packed stadium. The play was haphazard
and disorganized, but such informality
seemed to be precisely the point. After-
ward, the families had time to sit and talk.
Some played around with the other equip-
ment in the gym.
“They’ve had their bags ready for a
week,” Maurizio’s wife said about her boys.
“This happens in everyday life outside the
At Secondigliano prison, relatives waved to their loved ones after a recent match, left. Right, an inmate at Secondigliano gave his daughter a kiss. Fostering a healthy
relationship with an incarcerated parent “is an instrument to prevent crime,” said Martina Gallon, a psychiatrist with the program that organizes the games.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
SOCCER
At Secondigliano, prison, but it’s something we’re not used to.
a prison outside So for us it’s emotional.”
Naples, fathers Similar scenes played out this month at
more than 50 prisons in Italy. Lia Sacerdote,
and their children
the founder and president of Bambini-
divided into two
SenzaSbarre, said she hoped to see similar
teams for a match events in all 193 of the country’s prisons.
played on a dirt-
Sacerdote has proposed that all members of
covered central the European network COPE (Children of
yard. Prisoners Europe) adopt the games, too.
“Those children are marginalized,” Sac-
erdote said. “They feel guilty about some-
thing they didn’t commit.”
A day after the match in Milan, the fam-
ilies of about two dozen inmates entered the
exercise yard at Secondigliano prison, a
maximum-security facility in the suburbs of
Naples, for another game. Morning rain had
left splotches of mud on the ground. Build-
ings housing other prisoners towered over
the yard, and they dangled their arms
through the bars of their cell windows while
watching the activity below.
Some of the inmates displayed nifty
skills, but this, too, was only a semi-serious
affair. Several players detoured off the field
during the match to plant kisses on wives
and babies. When the game ended, the fam-
ilies formed clusters around the field to
catch up and to nibble sfogliatelle, the shell-
shaped pastry native to the region. Guards
watched from afar, barely conspicuous.
“It’s one of the few opportunities they
have to live a normal situation, like those
who are outside,” said Carmen Forino, one
of the deputy directors of Secondigliano.
For the incarcerated, though, the normal
can feel extraordinary.
In recent years, the Italian prison system
has undergone a period of reckoning, ac-
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knowledging and tackling issues like over-
crowding and poor treatment of inmates.
Amid that larger effort, BambiniSenza-
Sbarre has advocated on behalf of the chil-
dren of prisoners, and on developing work-
shops and educational spaces inside prison
walls to facilitate parent-child connections.
The absence of such relationships has
far-reaching negative consequences, the
group said. Children of the imprisoned are
more likely to go to prison or to drop out of
school, and they are more likely to endure a
host of other social problems. In Italy, for
example, participation in organized crime
often spans generations of a family.
A healthy, positive relationship with a
parent, then, “is an instrument to prevent
crime,” said Martina Gallon, a psychiatrist
with BambiniSenzaSbarre. “We have to
break the pattern.”
Working with the prisoners, Gallon tries
to create environments where fathers and
children are interacting directly without
mothers around — a rarity in visits at men’s
prisons. To promote communication, she
and her colleagues use activities that dis-
solve tension, like art and, more recently,
soccer.
On the soccer court that afternoon in Mi-
lan, Russo took advantage of every moment
of the free time. He picked up his son and
spun him around. He let the ball go through
his legs and into the goal. When he was
shown a mock red card, he walked off the
court and kissed Cappelletti through the
sideline netting.
“Children give you the strength to hope
and look forward,” said Russo, who could re-
main imprisoned until 2026 for his partici-
pation in an international drug trafficking
operation. “Through my children, I’m able
to see what I want to become, the man I
want to be.”
Soon, the sun disappeared through the
prison windows, and it grew quiet inside the
gymnasium as the event neared its end. At
times, it seemed as if the only sound in the
room was that of aggressive cheek-kissing.
When it was time for the families to leave,
the fathers crowded around the metal gates
of the gym, waving, blowing kisses and curl-
ing their fingers into hearts. The children
and their mothers shuffled down the dank,
dim hallway, and the doors closed behind
them.
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For Manchester City’s Manager, the Premier League Proves No Different
MANCHESTER, England —
The Premier League would be
different. Everyone said so.
Pep Guardiola might have
arrived in England in the sum-
mer of 2016 with
RORY three Spanish and
three German
SMITH titles to his name,
but those honors
ON
SOCCER seemed to come
with an asterisk.
He had always managed
heavy favorites: Barcelona and
Bayern Munich. He had tri-
umphed only in leagues that
looked like one- or two-horse
races. Barcelona has just one
serious, consistent rival: Real
Madrid. Bayern does not even
have that.
Trying to succeed at Manches-
ter City would be an altogether
more challenging proposition, he
was told. England could offer five
other clubs that would regard
themselves as genuine contend-
ers for the championship, with
the money and the ambition and
the clout to stand up to Guardiola
and to City. There would be no
plain sailing in the professed
most competitive league in the
world.
His predecessors, like Roberto
Mancini, knew it: “As coach of
Barcelona, he had Messi, Iniesta,
a phenomenal team. Then he
went to Germany, where Bayern
always wins, and therefore he
did not have a difficult life.”
Veterans of the league, like
Guus Hiddink, knew it: “In Ger-
many, with Bayern, you can be
assured in September who will
be the new champion.” So did
rather newer arrivals. “There is
not a second team in Germany,
though we tried at Borussia
Dortmund,” Liverpool’s Jürgen
Klopp said.
Retired players, news media
columnists and even agents
knew it: Apparently “the grand-
father” of Dimitri Seluk, repre-
sentative of Manchester City
midfielder Yaya Toure, “could
have won the league” with the
Bayern team Guardiola had
inherited. And, of course, his old
nemesis José Mourinho knew it,
referring with his typical sledge-
hammer subtlety to Germany as
a country where “the kit man can
be coach and win the title.”
That was not the case in Eng-
land. It would be in England
where soccer found out exactly
Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, right, making a catch
against Chiefs defensive back Marcus Peters in the first half.
Chiefs Defeat Chargers Again
To Take Control of A.F.C. West
By The Associated Press
Alex Smith threw for 231 yards
and two touchdowns, Kareem
Hunt ran for 155 yards and a score,
and the Kansas City Chiefs routed
the turnover-prone Los Angeles
Chargers, 30-13, on Saturday night
to seize control of the A.F.C. West.
Hunt also had a touchdown
catch for the Chiefs (8-6), whose
eighth straight win over the Char-
gers all but sewed up the division
title and a spot in the playoffs. The
only way Kansas City can squan-
der it is by losing its last two
games and the Chargers or Oak-
land Raiders winning out.
The Chargers (7-7) led by 13-10
early in the second half, but Philip
Rivers threw three interceptions
— two of them to Marcus Peters —
and Austin Ekeler coughed up a
fumble down the stretch. That
ended their four-game win streak
and quite possibly their playoff
hopes.
Rivers finished with 221 yards
passing and a touchdown, but he
has thrown 13 interceptions dur-
ing the Chargers’ losing streak to
the Chiefs. Melvin Gordon added
78 yards rushing and a score.
The game shaped up as a
matchup of teams going in oppo-
site directions: The Chiefs were
5-0 before watching their division
lead waste away, while the Char-
gers started out 0-4 but won seven
of their next nine to forge a near-
winner-take-all divisional show-
down at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs’ defense was buoyed
by the return of Peters from a one-
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how good Guardiola was.
Almost halfway through his
second season, Guardiola’s Man-
chester City team holds a 14-
point lead at the top of the Pre-
mier League. (It will be 11 again if
Manchester United wins on
Sunday.) It has taken 52 points
from an available 54. It has won
16 games in a row, the first of a
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game disciplinary suspension in
helping to build a 10-6 halftime
lead. Rivers soon got on track, go-
ing 5 for 5 for 88 yards on his first
drive of the second half. And his
10-yard touchdown pass to tight
end Antonio Gates gave Los An-
geles its only lead.
The Chiefs answered with a me-
thodical, 69-yard scoring drive of
their own. Hunt supplied most of
the work, and he capped the drive
by catching Smith’s short touch-
down toss to give the Chiefs a 17-13
lead.
Two plays later, Rivers floated a
pass downfield and Peters leaped
up to make an easy interception,
and his long return set up first-
and-goal at the Chargers’ 6-yard
line. The Chiefs got a field goal,
and the Chargers coughed up the
ball again three plays later.
LIONS 20, BEARS 10 Matthew
Stafford threw two touchdown
passes and did not have a turn-
over, helping Detroit to a victory
at home over Chicago.
The Lions (8-6) have won two
straight and need to close the reg-
ular season with two more wins to
keep their playoff hopes alive.
“We’ve got to win to stay in,”
said tight end Eric Ebron, who
caught Stafford’s second touch-
down pass.
Whether the Bears (4-10) win
another game this season or not,
they may end up giving Coach
John Fox the boot. Chicago has
lost six of seven, sealing a third
straight season with double-digit
losses under its embattled coach.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
SOCCER
Manchester City players, above, gathering after a goal in their 4-1 victory Saturday over Tottenham
Hotspur. Pep Guardiola, left, has guided the side to a commanding lead in the Premier League.
number of records it is on course
to break this season.
And it has now faced all five of
its notional rivals, dispatching
each and every one of them in
some considerable style. Totten-
ham Hotspur — handsomely
beaten, 4-1, in Manchester on
Saturday — was the last of them,
and by no means the easiest. For
a few minutes at the start of each
half, Mauricio Pochettino’s team
— spirited, assertive — appeared
to be able to cope with City. It did
not last. Tottenham, too, was
eventually swept away.
The same has happened to
Liverpool and to Arsenal here at
the Etihad Stadium, neither truly
able to lay a glove on the league
leader. Though the scores have
been less impressive, the road
victories against Chelsea and
Manchester United were equally
emphatic, City simply too slick,
FOOTBALL
Boise State Tops Oregon
In Las Vegas Bowl Romp
By The Associated Press
Leading by 24-0 in the final
minute of the first half of the Las
Vegas Bowl on Saturday, Boise
State, with a rout in the making,
committed two turnovers that
were returned for touchdowns, al-
lowing Oregon back into the
game.
But the Broncos regrouped and
responded.
Cedrick Wilson caught 10 pas-
ses for 221 yards and a touchdown,
Kekaula Kaniho returned an inter-
ception 53 yards for a score, and
No. 25 Boise State beat Oregon,
38-28.
Brett Rypien threw for 362
yards and two touchdown passes,
with two interceptions, to help the
Broncos end a three-game losing
streak against Power 5 oppo-
nents. Ryan Wolpin rushed for
two touchdowns.
Troy Dye and Tyree Robinson
each scored a defensive touch-
down, and Justin Herbert com-
pleted 26 of 36 passes for 233
yards with two touchdowns and
two interceptions for the Ducks in
Coach Mario Cristobal’s debut.
Boise State forced four turn-
overs in the first half.
“I thought the defense was
dominating today,” Boise State
Coach Bryan Harsin said. “We
spotted them a few points; other-
wise, the score is completely dif-
ferent.”
The Ducks’ defensive touch-
downs just before halftime
masked the Broncos’ dominant
performance in the half. Boise
State outgained Oregon, 294
yards to 77, in the first half and
reached Ducks territory on eight
of 10 possessions.
“I think a lot of teams would fold
their tent when they’re down 24-0
or things don’t go their way,”
Cristobal said. “You look at the
way they just kept fighting,
scratching and clawing to make
this thing a competitive game — to
me, that’s the positive.”
CURE BOWL Conner Manning
threw for 276 yards and a touch-
down to lead Georgia State a 27-17
victory over Western Kentucky in
Orlando, Fla.
The victory gave Georgia State
a winning record and the first
bowl victory in its eight-year foot-
ball history.
“There was no doubt in my
mind that we were the team that
wanted it and we were going to
win it,” said Shawn Elliott, the
Panthers’ first-year coach. “We’re
a bunch of misfit coaches and mis-
fit players that learned how to
too quick, too strong for its sup-
posed peers. At times, it has
appeared as if Guardiola’s team
is playing a different game.
Last week, a statistic started
to float around the Premier
League’s ether that Arsenal,
Tottenham and Liverpool are all
closer, in terms of points, to the
teams battling relegation than to
the top of the table.
It is typical of much of the
reaction to City’s breezy superi-
ority this season: to focus on the
flaws of the teams unable to
match the pace of Guardiola’s
team. The assumption is that, as
all of these sides are equals,
those that have fallen by the
wayside have been scuppered by
some endemic weakness, by
some wrong that must be
righted.
Mourinho’s Manchester United
is too reactive, particularly in
work hard and fight every day.”
Manning threw a 42-yard
touchdown pass to Roger Carter,
Demarcus Kirk scored on a 26-
yard run, and Kyler Neal finished
a 16-play drive, which took up nine
minutes of the fourth quarter, with
a 1-yard touchdown run that put
Georgia State up, 27-10.
NEW MEXICO BOWL Keion Davis
rushed for 141 yards, including a
68-yard touchdown run, and Mar-
shall had two other big scoring
plays in a 31-28 victory over Col-
orado State in Albuquerque.
Chase Litton threw for 262
yards and two touchdowns. Tyre
Brady had 165 yards receiving and
gave the Thundering Herd the
lead in the second quarter with a
76-yard touchdown reception. Ty-
ler King added a 90-yard rushing
touchdown.
“The offense started us off, and
the defense won it in the end,”
Brady said.
The Thundering Herd are 11-2 in
bowl games, and 5-0 under Coach
Doc Holliday.
For Colorado State, it was an-
other disappointing postseason.
The Rams have lost four straight
bowl games, and lost four of their
last five this season.
NEW ORLEANS BOWL Brandon Sil-
vers passed for four touchdowns
and ran for one more, and Troy
produced five turnovers on the
way to defeating North Texas, 50-
30, at the Superdome.
Running back Josh Anderson,
filling in for the injured starter
Jordan Chunn, rushed for 113
yards and two touchdowns, and
Silvers also scored on a short run
to help Troy win for the 21st time in
two seasons.
Silvers passed for 306 yards.
Two of his touchdown passes went
to Damion Willis, who had 136
yards and two touchdown recep-
tions. His 11 catches tied a New Or-
leans Bowl record.
Mason Fine passed for 303
yards and three touchdowns for
North Texas but was intercepted
twice and fumbled twice. He fin-
ished with Mean Green single-
season records of 4,052 yards and
31 touchdowns passing.
“Their front seven — that de-
fensive line — gave me fits all
day,” Fine said. “We never got in a
rhythm. We never got comfort-
able.”
Troy largely dominated the sec-
ond half after its own turnover
trouble gave North Texas hope at
halftime.
CELEBRATION BOWL Lamar Ray-
LAURENCE GRIFFITHS/GETTY IMAGES
showpiece games, or its squad is
too thin on quality, too light on
quantity, to cope; Chelsea is
missing the aggression of Diego
Costa and the steel of Nemanja
Matic, or is too reliant on Eden
Hazard; Tottenham is little more
than “the Harry Kane team,” as
Guardiola once, slightly clumsily,
put it; Liverpool cannot defend;
Arsenal remains unavoidably
Arsenal.
There is more than a kernel of
truth to all of those charges, of
course. And yet the shortcom-
ings of City’s rivals are not why it
has streaked so far ahead, so
quickly. With the possible excep-
tion of Chelsea, all of those teams
are, most likely, at least a little
better than last season; certainly,
none are significantly worse.
The fact that it feels as if per-
haps they are should be read as
testament to the distorting ef-
ANDREW KRECH/NEWS & RECORD, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ryan Wolpin, top, flipping into the end zone in the first quarter
of the Las Vegas Bowl for Boise State’s first score. North Carolina
A&T’s Marquell Cartwright (22), above, in the Celebration Bowl.
nard scored on a 1-yard sneak with
38 seconds left, and unbeaten
North Carolina A&T won its sec-
ond Celebration Bowl in three
years, defeating Grambling State,
21-14, in Atlanta.
Undefeated N.C. A&T won its
fourth national championship
among historically black colleges
and universities. The Aggies had
claimed titles in 1990 and 1999 in
addition to their 2015 victory over
Alcorn State in the first Celebra-
tion Bowl.
“It’s an awesome feeling to be
12-0 right now,” Aggies Coach Rod
Broadway said. “I’m just ex-
tremely proud of our players, and
I’m happy for our school.”
Raynard, the Aggies’ junior
quarterback and one of four final-
ists for Black College Hall of Fame
player of the year, completed 23 of
43 passes for 225 yards and a
touchdown and had 17 yards on
eight carries.
Grambling, which edged North
Carolina Central last year, was
trying for a second straight
H.B.C.U. national title.
F.C.S. PLAYOFFS Marcus Marshall
broke loose on two long touch-
down runs, Jimmy Moreland
made three interceptions, and
fects of excellence: rare, genu-
ine, exhilarating excellence. This
season’s Premier League title
race — if race is not too much of
a stretch — is being defined not
by the flaws of five teams, but by
the brilliance of one.
Guardiola, during his first
season in England, grew to re-
sent just how frequently he was
asked whether he would now,
finally, agree that the Premier
League was the toughest in the
world. Eventually, he snapped,
lapsing into something of a sar-
castic sneer — “Congratulations,
guys, it really is the toughest,” he
said — but for a long time, he
demurred.
“I do not think going to the
Bernabéu, to Bilbao, to Seville is
so easy,” he said, or words to that
effect, whenever the question
came up, which was most weeks.
He has always been aware of the
sense in England that anyone
could have won, and easily, with
Barcelona and Bayern Munich;
of the simmering undertone that
all of his achievements somehow
did not quite count.
His view was that winning La
Liga and the Bundesliga was not
simple, but it was made to look
so by two outstanding teams.
Barcelona did not claim 99 points
in a single year because all of its
opponents were terrible; Bayern
did not win the title by 19 points
because it did not have to try.
Instead, the excellence of his
sides distorted the image of all
the others. The presence of
something extraordinary made
everything else, no matter its
qualities, appear extremely
ordinary indeed.
England, he was told, would be
different. Everyone said so: It
would be more competitive than
Spain and Germany, more cha-
otic, less prone to seeing one
team stream away and win the
title with games to spare.
It has taken a little longer than
he might have liked — and, as he
always makes a point of high-
lighting, nothing is secured yet
— but Manchester City is start-
ing to challenge all of that estab-
lished thinking. Maybe La Liga
and the Bundesliga are not as
weak as was assumed. Maybe in
England, as in Spain and Ger-
many, everyone looks bad com-
pared with the exceptional. May-
be the Premier League is not
different at all.
ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
James Madison, the top seed and
the defending Football Champi-
onship Subdivision champion,
booked a return trip to the title
game with a 51-16 semifinal victory
at home over fifth-seeded South
Dakota State (11-3), which gave up
10 turnovers.
The undefeated Dukes won
their 26th straight game, tying an
F.C.S. record, and will face No. 2
seed North Dakota State. The
championship game will be
played Jan. 6 in Frisco, Tex. James
Madison also won a title in 2004.
DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP Luis
Perez led Texas A&M-Commerce
to its first N.C.A.A. Division II title
and its second football champi-
onship, throwing for 323 yards
and two touchdowns in a 37-27 vic-
tory over West Florida in Kansas
City, Kan. Texas A&M-Commerce
also won the 1972 N.A.I.A. title.
N.A.I.A. CHAMPIONSHIP Justin
Green ran for 132 yards and two
touchdowns to help St. Francis
(Indiana) beat Reinhardt, 24-13, in
Daytona Beach, Fla., for its sec-
ond consecutive title. St. Francis
has not lost since Oct. 1, 2016.
Do not forget the Neediest!

Steelers and Patriots Battle for A.F.C. Superiority
Rams Travel to Seattle • Vikings Look for Playoff Bye
There are only two N.F.L. games in Week
15 between teams that The Upshot’s
Playoff Simulator gives a 50 percent
chance or greater of making the play-
offs, but there are three crucial
matchups. The Rams and the Seahawks
will battle for the N.F.C. West, and a
Sunday afternoon matchup between the
Steelers and the Patriots could clinch
home-field advantage throughout the
playoffs for Pittsburgh (with some help
from Houston). Here are our picks
against the spread.
Last week’s record: 11-5
Overall record: 107-95-6
Patriots at Steelers 4:25 p.m., CBS
Line: Patriots by 3
Jerry Rice never won a Most Valuable
Player Award. Neither did Randy Moss,
Calvin Johnson, Cris Carter or Steve
Largent. No wide receiver has ever
been picked as the N.F.L.’s best player,
an award that has gone to 41 quarter-
backs, 18 running backs, one defensive
tackle, one linebacker and even a
kicker: Mark Moseley of the Redskins,
in the strike-shortened 1982 season. But
receivers may finally get their due with
Antonio Brown of the Steelers (11-2,
clinched A.F.C. North).
Brown leads the N.F.L. in receptions
and receiving yards, and has been the
catalyst for a Pittsburgh team that has
surged to the top of the standings in the
A.F.C. He has been especially good in
his last four games, with 39 catches for
627 yards and six touchdowns. If he
keeps up his pace he will finish the
season with 1,857 receiving yards,
which would fall short of Johnson’s
record of 1,964 but be the third-most
receiving yards recorded in a single
season.
Benefiting Brown to be the first re-
ceiver to win an M.V.P. Award is the
lack of an obvious choice at other posi-
tions. Among quarterbacks, the Eagles’
Carson Wentz was a favorite until he
was lost for the season last Sunday. The
Seahawks’ Russell Wilson should be
considered. The Patriots’ Tom Brady is
always in the mix, and the Saints’ Drew
Brees may get some attention (even if
his team’s resurgence can largely be
credited to its dynamic running game).
But some of Brown’s peers have been in
awe of him.
Helping matters considerably would
be a win over the Patriots (10-3), who
have a greater than 99 percent chance
of making the playoffs, according to the
Playoff Simulator. Beating New Eng-
land would give the Steelers a first-
round bye. Should that happen, in com-
bination with Jacksonville losing to or
tying Houston, the Steelers would
clinch home field advantage throughout
the playoffs.
Pittsburgh is still hobbled by the loss
of linebacker Ryan Shazier to spinal
surgery, but the Steelers proved last
week that they could succeed without
him, thanks to Brown and the offense,
which has struggled against lesser
teams but seems to do well against
tough competition. PICK: STEELERS
Rams at Seahawks 4:05 p.m., Fox
Line: Seahawks by 2
For most of the season, the N.F.C. West
has been dominated by the Rams (9-4,
83 percent playoff chance). Quarter-
back Jared Goff’s rapid maturation and
a great season by running back Todd
Gurley have made their offense some-
thing to fear. That has helped the de-
fense find consistency, since it is spend-
ing less time on the field.
For the Seahawks (8-5, 55 percent),
the ride has not been as easy. Among
other problems, they lost Richard Sher-
man and Kam Chancellor to season-
ending injuries and strug-
gled to develop a consis-
tent running game. Their
record was helped by a
favorable schedule, but
also by Russell Wilson’s
penchant for keeping them
in games they had no
business being in.
Seattle’s troubles may
be forgiven if it beats Los
Angeles at home, which
would move it into a tie for
the division lead. Neither
team has an advantage in
terms of Week 16 and 17
opponents, so a win would
give Seattle about a 50-50
shot at a division title.
KELVIN KUO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
That said, the Rams
Running back have Robert Woods, the team’s best
Todd Gurley wide receiver, back, and if Jared Goff
has helped can deal with the crowd noise at Centu-
boost the ryLink Field, he should carve up Se-
attle’s injury-depleted secondary with
surprising
Rams to a 9-4 passes to Woods, Sammy Watkins and
the rookie standout Cooper Kupp.
record. PICK: RAMS
Bengals at Vikings 1 p.m., CBS
Line: Vikings by 10.5
There are few coaches as familiar with
each other as Marvin Lewis of the
Bengals (5-8, less than 1 percent) and
Mike Zimmer of the Vikings (10-3, more
than 99 percent). Zimmer was previ-
ously Lewis’s defensive coordinator,
and they have known each other since
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N.F.L. Matchups Week 15
By Benjamin Hoffman
• Rodgers Returns for Packers
the 1980s. In their first game against
each other as head coaches, Zimmer is
at an almost comical advantage. A loss
last week put Minnesota behind Phila-
delphia for the top spot in the N.F.C.,
but a manageable schedule and Carson
Wentz’s injury could open the door for
the Vikings to get back to that or, at the
very least, get a first-round bye. The
Vikings have enough players on the
injury report to make a double-digit
spread too high to pick them, but they
should win. PICK: BENGALS
Packers at Panthers 1 p.m., Fox
Line: Panthers by 3
Aaron Rodgers, sidelined since he
broke his collarbone in Week 6, is being
thrown right into the deep end, with the
Packers (7-6, 9 percent) clinging to a
tiny chance of making the playoffs. In a
similar situation last season, when the
Packers essentially needed to win out,
Rodgers delivered, and his history
suggests no one should bet against him.
A game on the road against the Pan-
thers (9-4, 79 percent) is one Green Bay
should lose, but in Rodgers’s career, it is
the type of game he tends to win, and in
the most exciting way. PICK: PACKERS
Eagles at Giants 1 p.m., Fox
Line: Eagles by 7.5
The Eagles (11-2, clinched N.F.C. East)
were Super Bowl favorites, but with
Carson Wentz out for the season it is
hard to know what to make of them.
Nick Foles is one of the better backups
in the N.F.L., but until he has been truly
tested in Philadelphia’s offense, it is an
open question as to whether the Eagles
are still among the N.F.C.’s best.
Coach Steve Spagnuolo of the Giants
(2-11, eliminated) said that Foles was a
good enough passer to hold his own,
but that people might be focusing too
much on the passing game of a team
that has LeGarrette Blount, Jay Ajayi
and Corey Clement at running back.
“I don’t think it’s going to change all
that much for us because you’ve got to
stop that run game,” Spagnuolo told
reporters. “It really didn’t matter who
was handing it off.” PICK: EAGLES
Jets at Saints 1 p.m., CBS
Line: Saints by 15
The Saints (9-4, 91 percent) lost last
week, and have dropped two of their
last three, but it is probably not yet
time to worry. A 3-point loss can be
chalked up to playing on the road and
to a concussion forcing Alvin Kamara
out of the game, but now they will be
home, Kamara has returned and they
have a soft opponent in the Jets (5-8,
less than 1 percent).
BILL FEIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
No wide receiver has ever been
picked as the N.F.L.’s best player.
The Most Valuable Player Award
has gone to:
41 QUARTERBACKS
18 RUNNING BACKS
1 DEFENSIVE TACKLE
1 LINEBACKER
1 KICKER
The Jets were fairly entertaining in
recent weeks, with Josh McCown airing
it out and being rewarded for his ag-
gressiveness, but he is out for the re-
mainder of the season with a broken
hand, and the team is left with a choice
of Bryce Petty or Christian Hacken-
berg. Regardless of which Jets quarter-
back receives more playing time, the
Saints should win, even if the point
spread is too large to pick them.
PICK: JETS
Cowboys at Raiders 8:30 p.m., NBC
Line: Cowboys by 3
No one would mistake the defense of
the Raiders (6-7, 5 percent) for that of
the Jaguars or Vikings, but it repre-
sents more of a challenge than the
Cowboys (7-6, 6 percent) have faced in
either of the last two weeks. Dallas
scored 68 points in those games, which
indicates the offense has adjusted to life
without Ezekiel Elliott, but it is not
clear how much that was helped by
inferior competition.
Helping matters for Dallas is Sean
Lee, the team’s standout linebacker,
who recently returned from an injury. If
Demarcus Lawrence can put consistent
pressure on Derek Carr, and Lee can
take care of the middle of the field, the
Cowboys’ improving secondary should
shut down Oakland’s vertical threats.
PICK: COWBOYS
Texans at Jaguars 1 p.m., Fox
Line: Jaguars by 10.5
The Jaguars (9-4, more than 99 per-
cent) have clinched the franchise’s first
winning season since 2007, and can
clinch a playoff berth with a win this
week (they could clinch even if they
lose or tie should they get help from
various teams). There is no reason
their success should stop any time
soon: They will face teams with a com-
bined record of 15-24 in the final weeks.
First up are the Texans (4-9, less than 1
percent), who do not present much of a
challenge. Justifying an enormous point
spread with a volatile offense led by
The Saints’
Alvin Ka-
mara, who
will return
this week
after a con-
cussion, leap-
ing over the
Panthers’
Daryl Worley
in a game on
Dec. 3.
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KEITH SRAKOCIC/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Steelers’
Blake Bortles and Leonard Fournette Antonio Brown,
is difficult, but the Jaguars’ defense is
a candidate for
just that good. PICK: JAGUARS the Most
Valuable Player
Award, running
Titans at 49ers 4:25 p.m., CBS onto the field
Line: 49ers by 2 before last
weekend’s game
If you had told fans of the 49ers (3-10,
against the
eliminated) a few weeks ago that the
Baltimore
team would be favored at home
against the potentially playoff-bound Ravens.
Titans (8-5, 83 percent), there would
have been some good laughs. But that
is the effect Jimmy Garoppolo has had
on San Francisco since he took over as
starting quarterback. He is 2-0 since a
trade freed him from his apprentice-
ship in New England, but it may be
premature to expect the 49ers, who
have 10 wins over the last three sea-
sons, to be favorites against a team
that has eight this year. PICK: TITANS
Ravens at Browns 1 p.m., CBS
Line: Ravens by 7
Beyond the career revival of Josh
Gordon — which could end at any time
given the troubled wide receiver’s past
— there is not much reason to watch
the Browns (0-13, eliminated). In the
last two seasons, they have gone a
combined 1-28, and they have not even
been making things competitive, with
just a 3-10 record in terms of beating
the point spread as the underdog. The
Ravens (7-6, 69 percent) are battling it
out with several other teams for the
A.F.C.’s second wild-card spot, and the
energy involved in that alone should
be enough to get them past Cleveland.
PICK: RAVENS
Dolphins at Bills 1 p.m., CBS
Line: N/A
Tyrod Taylor appears ready to return
from a knee injury, and that is great
news for the Bills (7-6, 25 percent)
because Taylor’s backup, Nathan
Peterman, was in the league’s concus-
sion protocol during the week. The
Bills seemingly need to win at least
two of their three remaining games to
have a chance at beating out Balti-
more and the various other teams in
the mix for a wild-card spot, and since
one of the three games is against New
England, Buffalo’s best bet would be to
win both games it has left against the
Dolphins (6-7, 11 percent). PICK: BILLS
Cardinals at Redskins 1 p.m., Fox
Line: Redskins by 4
Coach Bruce Arians of the Cardinals
(6-7, less than 1 percent) raised a few
eyebrows during the week when he THURSDAY
compared Blaine Gabbert’s intelli- Broncos 25
gence on the field to Peyton Manning
Colts 13
and Andrew Luck’s. Arians, who
coached both of those quarterbacks,
said: “Yeah, he’s up there. To play at MONDAY
this level in seven offenses is not easy, Falcons
and he’s had success, especially in this at Buccaneers,
offense. But yeah, he’s up there with 8:30 p.m.
those guys mentally.” ESPN
Gabbert, 28, has an 11-33 career
record as a starter in seven seasons, Time is Eastern
and a passer rating of 72.4. Manning
had 11 or more wins in a season 11
times.
The Redskins (5-8, eliminated) have
a worse record than Arizona, but de-
spite Gabbert’s intelligence, they
should be favored at home.
PICK: REDSKINS
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Sabathia Stays With the Yankees, for Less PRO BASKETBALL

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Once C. C. Sabathia determined that Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray, Jordan Atlantic W L Pct GB Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA East W L T Pct PF PA
he wanted to keep pitching, there was Montgomery and Sabathia — as well Boston 25 7 .781 — Tampa 24 6 2 50 123 80 N. England 10 3 0 .769 368 250
little doubt that he wanted to remain as the top pitching prospect Chance
Toronto 19 8 .704 3{ Toronto 20 13 1 41 109 97 Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 240 290
with the Yankees. Adams ready for a shot.
Among those the Yankees have in- Knicks 16 13 .552 7{ Boston 15 10 5 35 86 85 Miami 6 7 0 .462 236 318
Sabathia and his wife, Amber, both
natives of Northern California, have quired about are the Pittsburgh Pi- Philadelphia 14 14 .500 9 Montreal 14 15 4 32 87 103 Jets 5 8 0 .385 266 311

raised their four children in the New rates right-hander Gerrit Cole, the De- Nets 11 17 .393 12 Detroit 12 13 7 31 86 103 South W L T Pct PF PA

York area and have no intention of troit Tigers right-hander Michael Ful- Southeast W L Pct GB Ottawa 11 13 7 29 85 103 Jacksonville 9 4 0 .692 329 202
mer and the Arizona Diamondbacks
moving once he retires. Washington 16 13 .552 — Florida 12 15 5 29 93 110 Tennessee 8 5 0 .615 273 294
left-hander Patrick Corbin — all one-
And the Yankees, having re- Miami 15 14 .517 1 Buffalo 8 18 7 23 72 111 Houston 4 9 0 .308 312 335
time All-Stars who are at least another
emerged as legitimate World Series Orlando 11 19 .367 5{ Indianapolis 3 11 0 .214 225 368
season away from reaching free Metropolitan W L OT Pts GF GA
contenders, are in a position to allow Charlotte 10 19 .345 6 North W L T Pct PF PA
agency. Wash. 21 12 1 43 108 98
Sabathia the big-game moments he Atlanta 6 23 .207 10
A deal for any of them would require Devils 18 9 5 41 100 96
y-Pittsburgh 11 2 0 .846 320 251
relishes.
the Yankees to give up talent from Central W L Pct GB Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 318 246
Still, it took until Saturday — about their deep farm system, but a trade is Cleveland 22 8 .733 —
Columbus 20 12 1 41 95 86
Cincinnati 5 8 0 .385 226 271
six weeks after he became a free agent preferable to the free-agent market,
Rangers 18 12 3 39 108 96
Indiana 16 13 .552 5{ Cleveland 0 13 0 .000 197 335
— for the Yankees and Sabathia to which would make it harder for the Islanders 18 12 3 39 118 114
agree on a one-year, $10 million con- BEN SOLOMON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Detroit 16 13 .552 5{ West W L T Pct PF PA
Yankees to remain below the $197 lux- Pittsburgh 17 14 3 37 99 108
tract. The deal, which is pending a C. C. Sabathia went 14-5 with a ury tax threshold next season. The
Milwaukee 15 13 .536 6
Phila. 14 11 7 35 91 90
Kansas City 8 6 0 .571 359 302
physical, was first reported by MLB- 3.69 earned run average in 2017. Yankees have deemed this critical, be- Chicago 8 20 .286 13
Carolina 14 11 7 35 90 98
L.A. Chargers 7 7 0 .500 311 255
.com and was confirmed by a baseball cause they can then avoid onerous Oakland 6 7 0 .462 264 304
official who was not authorized to WESTERN CONFERENCE
run average. penalties if they go over the threshold WESTERN CONFERENCE Denver 5 9 0 .357 254 328
speak publicly until the agreement has Sabathia seemed to master the ar- for a rich free-agent class a year from Southwest W L Pct GB
been completed. duous transition from power pitcher to now. Houston 24 4 .857 —
Central W L OT Pts GF GA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Sabathia, 37, will be taking a sizable one who relies on precision and move- With their recent salary-dumping San Antonio 20 10 .667 5
St. Louis 22 10 2 46 107 84
East W L T Pct PF PA
pay cut — he made $25 million last sea- ment, and he had his best year since he trade of Chase Headley, the Yankees Nashville 20 7 4 44 106 85
New Orleans 15 15 .500 10 y-Phila. 11 2 0 .846 404 250
son, the end of a five-year, $125 million was named to the All-Star team in 2012. will be about $14 million under the Winnipeg 18 10 5 41 108 94
Memphis 9 21 .300 16 Dallas 7 6 0 .538 316 294
extension he signed when he opted out Still, he missed a month with a ham- threshold after signing Sabathia.
Dallas 8 22 .267 17 Dallas 18 14 2 38 99 99 Washington 5 8 0 .385 285 344
of his contract after the 2011 season. string injury and a start in August, Either as a fallback, or as a negotiat-
Minnesota 17 12 3 37 93 91
But with Sabathia’s recent history of when he hurt his knee — an injury that ing tactic, Sabathia met with at least Northwest W L Pct GB Giants 2 11 0 .154 199 321
knee troubles — he underwent a series he initially feared would be career- two other teams in recent weeks: the Minnesota 17 13 .567 — Chicago 16 11 5 37 98 85 South W L T Pct PF PA
of injections to lubricate his right knee threatening. Los Angeles Angels and the Toronto Portland 16 13 .552 { Colorado 15 15 2 32 101 107 New Orleans 9 4 0 .692 370 263
last season and he pitches with a brace The uncertainty around Sabathia is Blue Jays. But it seemed clear that his Denver 16 13 .552 { Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 9 4 0 .692 300 262
on it — there is no guarantee that he why the Yankees will continue to scour preferred destination was the place Oklahoma City 14 15 .483 2{ L.A. 20 10 4 44 103 81 Atlanta 8 5 0 .615 294 261
can reprise an excellent 2017 season, the trade market for another starter, where he had worked since 2009, and Vegas 20 9 2 42 107 95
Utah 14 16 .467 3 Tampa Bay 4 9 0 .308 264 312
when he was 14-5 with a 3.69 earned even though they now have five pitch- Saturday’s decision erased all doubt.
Pacific W L Pct GB San Jose 17 10 4 38 85 75 North W L T Pct PF PA
Golden State 23 6 .793 — Anaheim 14 11 8 36 88 95 Minnesota 10 3 0 .769 309 235
L.A. Clippers 11 17 .393 11{ Calgary 16 13 3 35 91 99 Detroit 8 6 0 .571 358 339
L.A. Lakers 10 17 .370 12 Vancou. 15 14 4 34 87 100 Green Bay 7 6 0 .538 285 302
Sacramento 9 19 .321 13{ Edmonton 14 17 2 30 96 107 Chicago 4 10 0 .286 234 294
Phoenix 10 21 .323 14 Arizona 7 23 5 19 78 122 West W L T Pct PF PA
SATURDAY NOTE: Two points for a win, one point L.A. Rams 9 4 0 .692 396 265
Knicks 111, Oklahoma City 96 for overtime loss. Top three teams in Seattle 8 5 0 .615 314 252
Portland 93, Charlotte 91 each division and two wild cards per
Cleveland 109, Utah 100 conference advance to playoffs. Arizona 6 7 0 .462 231 317
Houston 115, Milwaukee 111 SATURDAY San Fran. 3 10 0 .231 228 314
Miami 90, L.A. Clippers 85 Rangers 3, Boston 2, OT
y-clinched division
Phoenix 108, Minnesota 106 Islanders 4, Los Angeles 3, OT
San Antonio 98, Dallas 96 Edmonton 3, Minnesota 2 THURSDAY
St. Louis 2, Winnipeg 0 Denver 25, Indianapolis 13
Boston 102, Memphis 93
Ottawa 3, Montreal 0 SATURDAY
SUNDAY Detroit 20, Chicago 10
Sacramento at Toronto, 3:30 Carolina 2, Columbus 1
Philadelphia 2, Dallas 1, OT Kansas City 30, L.A. Chargers 13
Orlando at Detroit, 4
Cleveland at Washington, 6 Washington 3, Anaheim 2, OT SUNDAY
Indiana at Nets, 6 Pittsburgh 4, Arizona 2 Philadelphia at Giants, 1
Tampa Bay 6, Colorado 5 Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1
KNICKS 111, THUNDER 96 Nashville at Calgary Houston at Jacksonville, 1
SUNDAY Arizona at Washington, 1
FG FT Reb
OKC Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS St. Louis at Winnipeg, 6 Jets at New Orleans, 1
Anthony 32 5-18 0-0 1-5 1 12 Minnesota at Chicago, 7 Miami at Buffalo, 1
George 36 6-14 2-4 4-9 4 18 Green Bay at Carolina, 1
Johnson 13 0-2 1-2 0-3 1 1 Calgary at Vancouver, 8
Roberson 21 3-7 0-0 4-5 0 6 Florida at Vegas, 8 Baltimore at Cleveland, 1
Westbrook 35 9-18 7-10 2-7 7 25 L.A. Rams at Seattle, 4:05
Patterson 24 4-6 0-0 1-5 1 12 RANGERS 3, BRUINS 2
Grant 21 4-7 1-2 2-4 1 9 New England at Pittsburgh, 4:25
Felton 15 4-8 0-0 1-1 2 10 Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 0 1—3 Tennessee at San Francisco, 4:25
Huestis 13 0-1 0-0 1-1 1 0 Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 1 1 0—2 Dallas at Oakland, 8:30
Collison 9 1-1 1-2 0-1 0 3
Abrines 8 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 First Period—1, Rangers, Grabner 16
(Hayes, Skjei), 14:42. MONDAY
Ferguson 7 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 8:30
Totals 240 36-85 12-20 16-42 18 96 Second Period—2, Rangers, J.Miller 6
(Skjei, McDonagh), 2:41 (pp). 3, Boston,
Percentages: FG .424, FT .600. 3-Point Heinen 7 (Krejci, Chara), 17:12. LIONS 20, BEARS 10
Goals: 12-27, .444 (Patterson 4-6, Third Period—4, Boston, Marchand 13
George 4-7, Felton 2-3, Anthony 2-4, (Pastrnak, Spooner), 5:38 (pp). Chicago . . . . . . 0 3 0 7 — 10
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DARRON CUMMINGS/ASSOCIATED PRESS Ferguson 0-1, Grant 0-1, Abrines 0-2, Overtime—5, Rangers, Zuccarello 8 Detroit. . . . . . . . 3 10 7 0 — 20
Westbrook 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. (Shattenkirk, Kreider), 1:56 (pp).
INTENSITYIndiana under Coach Archie Miller, right, defeated Coach Mike Bray’s No. 18 Notre Dame in overtime, Team Turnovers: 14 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots on Goal—Rangers 8-10-8-2—28.
FIRST QUARTER
Detroit 3, Chicago 0.
Shots: 7 (Patterson 2, Roberson 2,
80-77, in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers’ Juwan Morgan had 34 points, including 16 in the final seven minutes. George, Grant, Johnson). Turnovers: 14
Boston 7-11-16-1—35.
Power-play opportunities—Rangers 2 of 5;
FG Prater 48, 11:58. Drive: 8 plays, 47
(Westbrook 4, Anthony 3, Patterson 3, yards, 3:02.
Boston 1 of 7.
George 2, Felton, Huestis). Steals: 9 Goalies—Rangers, Lundqvist 16-8-2 (35 SECOND QUARTER
(George 2, Patterson 2, Westbrook 2, shots-33 saves). Boston, Rask 8-8-3 (28-25). Detroit 6, Chicago 0.
CO L L EGE BASKET B ALL Abrines, Anthony, Johnson). Technical A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:40. FG Prater 31, 14:56. Drive: 11 plays, 49
Fouls: None. yards, 5:27.
Detroit 13, Chicago 0.

Syracuse Hands Coach Ewing His First Loss

FG FT Reb ISLANDERS 4, KINGS 3 T.Jones 3 pass from Stafford (Prater kick),
KNICKS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS 6:10. Drive: 10 plays, 92 yards, 5:44.
Beasley 37 11-18 6-7 0-5 4 30 Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 1 0—3
Islanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 2 1—4 Detroit 13, Chicago 3.
Thomas 25 2-5 0-0 0-2 1 6 FG Nugent 41, :02. Drive: 2 plays, 4 yards,
Kanter 22 4-6 2-4 2-5 2 10 First Period—1, Los Angeles, Fantenberg 00:10.
Jack 34 3-5 5-6 2-8 7 12 2 (Toffoli, Pearson), 12:56. 2, Los Angeles,
It was a lot like old times Saturday, with Jim Boeheim chael Rallings, the Memphis police director. Lee 31 5-12 7-7 1-5 2 20 Toffoli 15 (Kuemper, Doughty), 17:11 (pp). THIRD QUARTER
McDermott 32 5-9 0-0 0-1 1 13 Detroit 20, Chicago 3.
and Patrick Ewing on opposite sides. There were at least Lorenzen Wright, drafted seventh over all in 1996, O'Quinn 24 4-7 1-2 1-7 2 9
3, Islanders, Bailey 9 (de Haan, Tavares),
Ebron 8 pass from Stafford (Prater kick),
19:10.
two differences, however. One was that Ewing, an All- played for five N.B.A. teams over 13 seasons as a forward Baker 17 4-5 0-0 0-1 2 11 Second Period—None. 9:48. Drive: 9 plays, 41 yards, 4:22.
Ntilikina 13 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0
American player with Georgetown, is now its coach. The and center. His body was found in 2010 in a field in Mem- Totals 240 38-69 21-26 6-35 21 111
Third Period—4, Islanders, Tavares 19 FOURTH QUARTER
(Bailey, Lee), 4:15 (pp). 5, Islanders, Lee 20 Detroit 20, Chicago 10.
other? “There wasn’t any blood on the floor,” said Boeheim, phis, his hometown. Police officers and federal marshals in Percentages: FG .551, FT .808. 3-Point (Tavares, Pulock), 16:44. 6, Los Angeles, Cunningham 9 pass from Trubisky (Nugent
the longtime Syracuse coach. Riverside County, Calif., arrested Sherra Wright, 46, on Fri- Goals: 14-23, .609 (Baker 3-4, McDermott
3-5, Lee 3-6, Beasley 2-2, Thomas 2-3,
Kopitar 17 (Martinez, Brown), 19:47.
Overtime—7, Islanders, Eberle 13 (Barzal),
kick), 2:32. Drive: 13 plays, 92 yards, 6:51.
A—65,872.
Tyus Battle had 29 points, Oshae Brissett had 25 points day night, according to online records. Jack 1-2, O'Quinn 0-1). Team Rebounds: 1:54. RUSHING—Chicago, Howard 10-37,
8. Team Turnovers: 13 (28 PTS). Blocked Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 10-8-10-1—29.
and 14 rebounds, and Syracuse (9-1) overcame a 13-point Shots: 3 (Beasley 2, O'Quinn). Turnovers: Islanders 14-10-8-1—33.
Trubisky 2-3, Burton 1-2, Cohen 2-1. Detroit,
Riddick 8-49, Green 10-35, Abdullah 1-8,
second-half deficit to defeat host Georgetown, 86-79, in 13 (Jack 3, O'Quinn 3, Baker 2, Beasley 2, Power-play opportunities—Los Angeles 1 Stafford 1-(minus 1).
SOC C E R Kanter 2, Lee). Steals: 9 (Jack 3, Baker 2, of 3; Islanders 1 of 5.
overtime. Lee 2, Ntilikina, Thomas). Technical Fouls: Goalies—Los Angeles, Kuemper 5-0-3 (33 PASSING—Chicago, Trubisky 31-46-3-314.
Detroit, Stafford 25-33-0-237.
Jessie Govan had 21 points and 8 rebounds for George- None. shots-29 saves). Islanders, Greiss 9-4-2
town (8-1), which entered the game as one of six undefeated Ronaldo Gets Madrid a Fifth 2017 Title Oklahoma City . . 26
Knicks. . . . . . . . 23
18
27
29 23—96
30 31—111
(29-26).
A—13,087 (15,795). T—2:40.
RECEIVING—Chicago, Wright
Bellamy 5-70, Cunningham 4-33, Howard
7-81,

4-26, Cohen 4-16, Brown 3-32, Wheaton

teams in Division I. Jagan Mosely had 20 points off the Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the 53rd minute from a free
A—19,812 (19,812). Officials—David
bench for the Hoyas. kick as Real Madrid claimed its third Club World Cup title Guthrie, Kane Fitzgerald, Justin Van Duyne
“It’s a game we should have won,” said Ewing, who by beating the Brazilian team Gremio, 1-0, in Abu Dhabi,
went 8-3 as a player against Syracuse in the 1980s. “When United Arab Emirates. SOCCER
you’re up double figures, especially going down the stretch, Madrid became the first team to retain its Club World
you can’t make the mistakes that we made.” Cup title and collected its fifth trophy of 2017, along with the ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
OTHER MEN’S GAMES Corey Sanders scored 8 of his season- Champions League, Spanish league, European Super Cup Team GP
Man City . . . . . 18
W D L GF GA Pts
17 1 0 56 12 52
high 22 points in a game-ending 17-2 run, leading host Rut- and Spanish Super Cup. Man United . . . 17 12 2 3 37 11 38
gers (10-3) to a 71-65 victory over No. 15 Seton Hall (9-2). • Chelsea . . . . . 18 12 2 4 32 14 38
Madrid also equaled Barcelona’s record of three titles Arsenal . . . . . . 18 10 3 5 31 20 33
No. 2 Michigan State (10-1) had five players in double fig- for the Club World Cup, a short knockout tournament be- Burnley . . . . . . 18 9 5 4 16 12 32
Liverpool . . . . . 17 8 7 2 34 20 31
ures in an 86-73 defeat of Oakland in Detroit. Kendrick tween the champions of FIFA’s six continental confedera- Tottenham. . . . 18 9 4 5 31 18 31
Nunn scored 32 points for the Golden Grizzlies. • Trae tions and the host nation’s league winner. Mexico’s Pachu- Leicester. . . . . 18 7 5 6 27 26 26
Watford . . . . . 18 6 4 8 27 33 22
Young, an Oklahoma freshman who is the nation’s leading ca beat Al Jazira, 4-1, in the third-place match. Everton. . . . . . 17 6 4 7 21 29 22
scorer, had 29 points and 10 assists as the visiting Sooners AROUND EUROPE Neymar scored twice as Paris St.-Germain
Huddersfield . . 18
Southampton . . 18
6 3 9 16 30 21
4 6 8 17 24 18
(8-1) beat No. 3 Wichita State, 91-83. The senior Darral restored its 9-point lead in the French league with a 4-1 win Brighton . . . . . 18 4 6 8 14 23 18
Willis Jr. came off the bench to lead the Shockers (8-2) with Crystal Palace . 18 4 5 9 15 28 17
at Rennes. • Goalkeeper Sven Ulreich saved a penalty in West Ham . . . . 18 4 5 9 17 32 17
20 points and 12 rebounds. • Dewan Huell scored 15 points, injury time as Bayern Munich stretched its lead in the Bun- Bournemouth . . 17 4 4 9 15 20 16
Stoke . . . . . . . 18 4 4 10 19 39 16
Lonnie Walker IV had 13 and No. 6 Miami (9-0) beat host desliga to 11 points with a 1-0 win at Stuttgart. Newcastle . . . . 18 4 3 11 16 27 15
George Washington, 59-50. • No. 8 Kentucky (9-1) out- West Brom . . . 17 2 8 7 12 22 14
Swansea. . . . . 17 3 3 11 9 22 12
lasted visiting Virginia Tech, 93-86, with 21 points from Kev-
in Knox and 20 from Hamidou Diallo. • Led by Trevon BASE BAL L Tuesday's Matches
Burnley 1, Stoke 0
Bluiett’s 18 points, No. 10 Xavier (10-1) beat visiting Eastern Crystal Palace 2, Watford 1
Tennessee State, 68-66. Dodgers Trade Four Players for Kemp Huddersfield 1, Chelsea 3
Wednesday's Matches
Newcastle 0, Everton 1
WEST VIRGINIA 75, RADFORD 55 Naomi Davenport scored 20
Matt Kemp, who began his career with the Dodgers, Southampton 1, Leicester 4
points as the host Mountaineers, the 10th-ranked women’s was reacquired by Los Angeles in a five-player trade with Swansea 0, Man City 4
Liverpool 0, West Brom 0
team, reached 10-0 for a second straight season. the Braves. Atlanta received first baseman Adrian Gonza- Man United 1, Bournemouth 0
Tottenham 2, Brighton 0
lez, pitchers Scott Kazmir and Brandon McCarthy, infielder West Ham 0, Arsenal 0
Saturday's Matches
HOCK EY Charlie Culberson and cash. The Braves then designated Leicester 0, Crystal Palace 3
Gonzalez for assignment. Chelsea 1, Southampton 0
Watford 1, Huddersfield 4
Rangers Get Past Bruins in Overtime CUBS SIGN RELIEVER The Chicago Cubs gave a two-year con- Arsenal 1, Newcastle 0
Brighton 0, Burnley 0
tract to the side-arming reliever Steve Cishek. Cishek, 31, Stoke 0, West Ham 3
With the Boston Bruins short-handed because of their
had a 2.01 earned run average and a 3-2 record in 49 relief Man City 4, Tottenham 1
second penalty of the game for too many men on the ice, Sunday's Matches
appearances this year for Seattle and Tampa Bay. West Brom vs. Man United
Mats Zuccarello scored a game-winning goal in overtime Bournemouth vs. Liverpool
and the Rangers escaped with a 3-2 road win. The Rangers
had lost a 2-0 lead built on goals by Michael Grabner and SKIING
J. T. Miller. COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ISLANDERS 4, KINGS 3 Anze Kopitar of the Kings tied the game Vonn Earns Her First Win of the Season BOWL SCHEDULE
with 13 seconds left in regulation, but the Islanders’ Jordan Lindsey Vonn powered down a shortened course to win SATURDAY, DEC. 16
Eberle scored the game-winner 1 minute 54 seconds into Celebration Bowl
a World Cup super-G race in Val d’Isère, France, and clinch ATLANTA
overtime at Barclays Center.
her first victory of the season. It was her 78th World Cup NC A&T 21, Grambling State 14
New Orleans Bowl
race win, but her first since winning a downhill at Troy 50, North Texas 30
PRO BASK ETBA LL Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in January. Cure Bowl
Orlando, Fla.
Georgia State 27, Western Kentucky 17
Ex-Wife Charged in Former Player’s Death VOL L E YBAL L
Las Vegas Bowl
Boise State 38, Oregon 28
New Mexico Bowl
The former wife of Lorenzen Wright, who played in the Albuquerque
N.B.A., has been charged in his death. The suspect, Sherra Nebraska Beats Florida for National Title Marshall 31, Colorado State 28
Camellia Bowl
Wright, was charged with first-degree murder, said Mi- Montgomery, Ala.
Mikaela Foecke had 20 kills, Kelly Hunter had 37 as- Middle Tenn 35, Arkansas State 30
sists and No. 5 Nebraska defeated No. 2 Florida in four sets TUESDAY, DEC. 19
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. (25-22, 25-17, 18-25, 25-16) to capture the program’s fourth Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl
Akron (7-6) vs. FAU (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
national championship. The Cornhuskers flipped the script WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20
on the defensive-minded Gators, as it was their suffocating Frisco (Texas) Bowl
Louisiana Tech (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 8 p.m.
Do not forget the Neediest! defense that fueled them to victory in Kansas City, Mo. (ESPN)
N.H.L. CALENDAR
Jan. 1 — Winter Classic: Buffalo at New
York Rangers, at Citi Field.
Jan. 27-28 — All-Star weekend, Tampa,
Fla.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
WOMEN'S SCORES
EAST
Army 107 . . . . . . St. Joseph’s (BKN)
Manhattan 72. . . . . . . . LIU Brooklyn
Md.-Eastern Shore 97 . . . Wesley (DE)
Morehead St. 76. . . . . . . . . Canisius
Oakland 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornell
Rider 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NJIT
Robert Morris 67 . . . . . . . . . Clarion
Rutgers 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . Houston
St. Francis Brooklyn 72 . . . . . . . Iona
Temple 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marist
West Virginia 75 . . . . . . . . . . Radford
SOUTH
Appalachian St. 56 . . . . . . . Marshall
Furman 70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ohio
Liberty 105 . . . . . . . . . Shippensburg
Memphis 71 . . . . . . . . . . Vanderbilt
Michigan St. 83 . . . . . . . . . . . ETSU
NC State 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elon
SC State 75 . . . . . . . . . W. Carolina
South Alabama 64 . . . Cent. Arkansas
UNC-Asheville 76 . . . . . . SC-Upstate
UNC-Wilmington 65 . . . . . . . . Wofford
Virginia Tech 86 . . . . . . . . High Point
W. Kentucky 66 . . . . . . . . . . Stetson
MEN'S SCORES
EAST
Albany (NY) 68 . . . . . . . . . . Canisius 65
Buffalo 86 . . . . . . . . . . Robert Morris 70
Miami 59 . . . . . . . George Washington 50
NJIT 71 . . . . . . . . Fairleigh Dickinson 68
New Hampshire 111 . . . Lyndon State 31
Pittsburgh 72 . . . . . . . . McNeese St. 51
Rhode Island 68 . . . Coll. of Charleston 62
Rider 90 . . . . . . . . . . . . Wagner 84, OT
Rutgers 71 . . . . . . . . . . . Seton Hall 65
St. Bonaventure 81 . . . . . . . Vermont 79
St. Francis Brooklyn 88 SUNY Maritime 67
Syracuse 86 . . . . . . Georgetown 79, OT
Temple 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drexel 60
UMass 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia 62
SOUTH
Arkansas St. 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . FAU 63
Auburn 76 . . . . . . . Middle Tennessee 70
Belmont 79 . . . . . . . . . . Pepperdine 62
Clemson 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Florida 69
Coastal Carolina 83 . . . . . . . Montreat 70
Cornell 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . Longwood 62
Grambling St. 68 . . . . . SE Louisiana 67
Illinois St. 101 . . . . . . Mississippi 97, OT
James Madison 76 . . . . . . . . . . . FIU 67
Kennesaw St. 81 . . Bethune-Cookman 74
Kentucky 93 . . . . . . . . Virginia Tech 86
Liberty 96 . . . . . . Kentucky Christian 40
Louisiana-Lafayette 87 . . New Orleans 65
Louisville 81. . . . . . . . . . . . Memphis 72
Mississippi St. 92 . . . . . . . UT Martin 61
Murray St. 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . Marist 63
Niagara 85 . . . . . . . . . . . Norfolk St. 82
Nicholls 92 . . . . . . . . Culver-Stockton 51
Oklahoma St. 71. . . . . . . . Florida St. 70
SC State 83 . . . . . . . . . Jacksonville 74
South Alabama 63 . . . . . . . E. Illinois 52
Southern Miss. 75 . . . . . William Carey 58
Stephen F. Austin 83. . . . . . . . . LSU 82
The Citadel 110 . . . . . Point University 66
UAB 90. . . . . . . . . . . Alabama A&M 58
UNC-Greensboro 81 . . . . . . NC State 76
VCU 85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bucknell 79
Virginia 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davidson 60
W. Kentucky 81 . . . . . . . . Indiana St. 65
Winthrop 88 . . . . . . . . . . Alabama St. 80
2-42, Sims 1-9, Inman 1-5. Detroit, Ebron
5-33, Golladay 4-29, Jones 3-85, Tate 3-33,
Jones 3-26, Abdullah 3-13, Riddick 3-12,
Agnew 1-6.
CHIEFS 30, CHARGERS 13
L.A. Chargers. . . 0 6 7 0 — 13
Kansas City . . . . 3 7 10 10 — 30
FIRST QUARTER
Kansas City 3, L.A. Chargers 0.
FG Butker 31, :00. Drive: 15 plays, 82
yards, 8:55.
46 SECOND QUARTER
38 Kansas City 10, L.A. Chargers 0.
30 Hill 64 pass from A.Smith (Butker kick),
52 6:30. Drive: 4 plays, 80 yards, 1:50.
77 Kansas City 10, L.A. Chargers 6.
64
60
Gordon 2 run (kick failed), 2:00. Drive: 10
plays, 75 yards, 4:30.
57
63 THIRD QUARTER
77 L.A. Chargers 13, Kansas City 10.
55 Gates 10 pass from Rivers (Coons kick),
9:20. Drive: 6 plays, 88 yards, 3:27.
54 Kansas City 17, L.A. Chargers 13.
K.Hunt 3 pass from A.Smith (Butker kick),
68
2:07. Drive: 12 plays, 69 yards, 7:13.
43
60 Kansas City 20, L.A. Chargers 13.
FG Butker 24, :28. Drive: 4 plays, 0 yards,
74
1:12.
57
45 FOURTH QUARTER
43
70
Kansas City 23, L.A. Chargers 13.
FG Butker 51, 10:59. Drive: 6 plays, 23
60
63
yards, 3:28.
Kansas City 30, L.A. Chargers 13.
58 K.Hunt 5 run (Butker kick), 3:57. Drive: 7
plays, 65 yards, 4:26.
A—75,011.
RUSHING—L.A. Chargers, Gordon 19-78,
Ekeler 2-13, Benjamin 1-7. Kansas City,
Hunt 24-155, Smith 3-13, West 5-6.
PASSING—L.A. Chargers, Rivers 20-36-3-
227. Kansas City, Smith 23-30-0-231.
RECEIVING—L.A. Chargers, Gordon 6-91,
Allen 5-54, Williams 3-31, Henry 3-28, Gates
1-10, Benjamin 1-7, Ekeler 1-6. Kansas City,
Hunt 7-51, Kelce 6-46, Hill 5-88, Thomas
2-6, Charles 1-18, Wilson 1-15, Harris 1-7.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—Kansas City,
Butker 52.
TRANSACTIONS
M.L.B.
American League
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Mike Broadway and DH Cody
Asche on minor league contracts.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Traded OF Matt
Kemp to the L.A. Dodgers for 1B Adrian
Gonzalez, LHP Scott Kazmir, RHP
Brandon McCarthy, INF Charlie Culberson
and cash. Designated Gonzalez for
assignment.
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with
RHP Steve Cishek on a two-year contract.
MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with
RHP Alex Wimmers, SS Cristhian Adames
and OF Rafael Ortega on minor league
contracts.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated
RHP Jose Ruiz for assignment.
N.B.A.
CHICAGO BULLS — Assigned G Kay
Felder and F/C Cristiano Felicio to Windy
City (NBAGL).
LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Recalled C
Thomas Bryant from South Bay (NBAGL).
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2 WCBS N.F.L. Patriots vs. 60 Minutes The biggest opioid case in Wisdom of the Crowd “Alpha Test.” NCIS: Los Angeles “All Is Bright.” An Madam Secretary “Women Transform CBS 2 News at Jets Late Night
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4 WNBC Football Night in America N.F.L. Dallas Cowboys vs. Oakland Raiders. (8:20) News4 New York Sports Final and two “Curb Your Enthusiasm” stars
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5 WNYW A Christmas Story Live! A boy wants a BB gun for Christmas. (N) (Live) (PG) Fox 5 News at
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7 WABC . The Sound of Music (1965). Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. Adorable nanny melts baron’s heart in prewar Austria. Splendid all around, from scen- Eyewitness News at 11 (N) Joel Osteen (PG)
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Frankie Shaw earned a surprise Golden
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years that this trivia show was on hiatus,
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ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft flooded
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the city, threatening the livelihood of cab-
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against its own species. “He so harmonizes
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with the technology that he manages to
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TBS The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- Search Party Search Party “Psy- Search Party Search Party “Psy- The Bourne Iden- Daniel Day-Lewis is really the Andy Serkis
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After a long stretch of Mild air will push into the Northeast In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
tranquil weather, the today with generally dry weather from
Northwest will turn stormy high pressure over the area. This dry Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
during the new week. A weather will stretch down the East Coast Yesterday ............... 0.00 Snow ......................... 0.0
storm packing cold air, rain Record .................... 2.25 Since Oct. 1 .............. 7.0
to Florida. Record
and significant snow will L Rain will reach the Ohio Valley, mainly 60° FRI. YESTERDAY high 63° For the last 30 days
push inland, spanning Calgary (1971) Actual ..................... 1.98
during the afternoon, with showers from Normal .................... 4.11
Tuesday and Wednesday. Missouri and Kentucky to the central Gulf
Seattle SNOW For the last 365 days
Travel could become Coast. A few thunderstorms will also be 50° Actual ................... 45.90
Windy
slippery and treacherous Rain
possible along the Gulf Coast. Normal
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over the passes in the A storm system across the Southwest 36° high 43° LAST 30 DAYS
Cascades. Localized 40° 4 p.m. Air pressure Humidity
Eugene will bring rain to southern Arizona and
blizzard conditions may Billings New Mexico and snow in the higher ele- Normal
High ........... 30.07 9 a.m. High ............. 80% 1 a.m.
even occur across the Low ............ 29.92 1 a.m. Low ................ 56% noon
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northern Rockies. Plains to the Upper Midwest and the Heating Degree Days
northern Rockies. An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
Periodic rain and snow will fall across 20° far the day’s mean temperature fell below 65
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western Montana. California will be dry So far this month...................................................... 423
Record So far this season (since July 1) ............................ 1085
and sunny. 10° low 7° Normal to date for the season ............................... 1232
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Little Rock 58/ 40 0 57/ 41 C 64/ 49 C New Delhi 70/ 43 0 69/ 46 PC 72/ 47 PC
Cities Los Angeles 69/ 51 0 71/ 50 S 71/ 49 S Riyadh 64/ 46 0 66/ 43 S 69/ 44 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 53/ 36 0 48/ 39 R 54/ 45 C Seoul 27/ 15 Tr 29/ 27 S 40/ 19 SS Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 56/ 41 0 57/ 43 R 63/ 50 C Shanghai 45/ 36 0.04 40/ 29 S 46/ 33 PC from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 82/ 68 0 81/ 69 S 83/ 67 PC Singapore 88/ 77 0.09 85/ 77 Sh 85/ 76 C this month.............. –1.5° this year ................ +1.6°
Milwaukee 40/ 32 0 41/ 30 PC 41/ 34 C Sydney 85/ 70 0.11 80/ 72 C 86/ 73 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 31/ 20 0 31/ 21 C 39/ 26 C Taipei 68/ 55 0.36 60/ 57 R 64/ 59 C 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 55/ 36 0 48/ 43 R 58/ 45 C Tehran 55/ 37 0 54/ 35 C 54/ 36 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 60/ 53 0 73/ 62 R 74/ 61 Sh Tokyo 59/ 41 0 49/ 36 PC 50/ 39 S
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 48/ 33 0 54/ 42 PC 60/ 42 C Yesterday ............... 77% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 61/ 39 0 54/ 32 C 62/ 45 PC Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 82% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 53/ 25 0 41/ 25 C 54/ 33 S Amsterdam 43/ 32 0.96 43/ 39 PC 46/ 36 PC
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 66/ 46 0.38 66/ 49 Sh 59/ 44 C
Orlando 73/ 54 0 79/ 59 S 82/ 59 PC
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 37/ 28 0.20 35/ 26 PC 36/ 27 R
Philadelphia 41/ 30 0 41/ 35 PC 47/ 41 C
Sh ................... Showers –............... Not available Brussels 39/ 32 0.40 40/ 36 PC 45/ 34 PC
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 30/ 11 Tr 26/ 14 PC 29/ 22 SS Copenhagen 37/ 30 0.02 36/ 33 PC 38/ 34 PC
New York City 36/ 23 0 36/ 33 PC 44/ 39 C Portland, Ore. 44/ 39 0.01 45/ 42 C 48/ 44 R Dublin 41/ 32 0 51/ 37 C 49/ 46 C Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 29/ 16 Tr 35/ 29 PC 44/ 36 C Providence 35/ 17 0 32/ 22 PC 42/ 31 Sn Edinburgh 36/ 28 0 49/ 33 Sh 44/ 41 PC
Caldwell 25/ 13 0 36/ 27 PC 44/ 34 C Raleigh 51/ 29 0 56/ 40 PC 63/ 41 C Frankfurt 41/ 25 0.16 39/ 32 PC 39/ 32 Sh New First Quarter Full Last Quarter
Danbury 26/ 9 0.01 33/ 23 PC 43/ 30 C Reno 38/ 21 0.01 42/ 20 PC 49/ 24 PC Geneva 39/ 32 0.16 37/ 25 PC 37/ 28 Sn Today’s forecast
Islip 31/ 12 0 36/ 28 PC 46/ 35 C Richmond 51/ 30 0 53/ 39 PC 61/ 42 PC Helsinki 36/ 33 0.59 31/ 24 C 33/ 28 SS
Newark 27/ 18 0 38/ 32 PC 44/ 37 C Rochester 27/ 12 0.05 27/ 23 C 40/ 36 C Istanbul 63/ 57 0 63/ 45 Sh 50/ 43 Sh White
Trenton 27/ 16 0 39/ 32 PC 45/ 38 C Sacramento 62/ 42 0 62/ 34 S 62/ 34 S Kiev 48/ 35 Tr 35/ 27 Sn 30/ 25 C Dec. 18 Dec. 26 Jan. 1 Jan. 8 13/5 Turning cloudy and breezy
White Plains 26/ 14 0 34/ 27 PC 42/ 34 C Salt Lake City 35/ 26 0.04 35/ 23 S 40/ 27 PC Lisbon 55/ 46 0 54/ 39 S 55/ 42 S 1:30 a.m. 9:24 p.m.
London 43/ 29 0.27 49/ 39 Sh 45/ 33 PC Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 50/ 43 0.03 64/ 52 F 67/ 61 Sh
San Diego 67/ 49 0.01 71/ 49 S 71/ 48 S Madrid 50/ 27 0 49/ 27 S 52/ 33 S 10/4 Mostly cloudy
Albany 32/ 12 0.01 26/ 20 PC 37/ 31 Sn Sun RISE 7:15 a.m. Moon R 6:24 a.m.
San Francisco 63/ 47 0 61/ 44 S 61/ 43 S Moscow 41/ 34 0.08 43/ 29 C 33/ 29 Sn 4:30 p.m. 4:26 p.m.
Albuquerque 48/ 29 0 50/ 30 PC 50/ 27 S SET S Adirondacks
San Jose 65/ 40 0 64/ 41 S 66/ 43 S Nice 57/ 39 0 54/ 40 S 51/ 42 Sh
Anchorage 34/ 23 0.09 27/ 14 C 19/ 14 S NEXT R 7:15 a.m. R 7:16 a.m. 17/7 Becoming cloudy
San Juan 85/ 78 0.06 86/ 78 PC 85/ 76 Sh Oslo 28/ 23 0.30 22/ 19 PC 29/ 22 PC 40s
Atlanta 54/ 36 0 56/ 49 Sh 63/ 51 C Paris 43/ 36 0.05 43/ 38 PC 46/ 33 C Jupiter R 3:50 a.m. Mars R 3:04 a.m.
Seattle 45/ 41 0 49/ 44 R 49/ 44 R Berkshires
Atlantic City 45/ 33 0 45/ 38 PC 50/ 42 C Prague 37/ 28 0.06 35/ 25 C 33/ 26 Sn S 2:08 p.m. S 1:43 p.m.
Sioux Falls 46/ 23 0 38/ 24 PC 48/ 28 PC 23/14 Some sun, then clouds
Austin 53/ 39 0.02 65/ 48 F 65/ 57 Sh Rome 55/ 44 0.02 53/ 35 S 50/ 34 S
Spokane 28/ 26 0.08 34/ 34 SS 39/ 35 C Saturn R 7:30 a.m. Venus R 6:51 a.m.
Baltimore 45/ 26 0 47/ 33 PC 51/ 39 C St. Petersburg 36/ 30 0.12 33/ 28 C 31/ 25 PC
St. Louis 62/ 40 0 50/ 42 R 58/ 43 PC S 4:49 p.m. S 4:06 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 58/ 50 0 72/ 60 R 71/ 61 Sh Stockholm 35/ 32 0.32 26/ 22 C 32/ 24 SS
St. Thomas 84/ 76 0.03 85/ 76 PC 84/ 76 PC 26/22 Becoming cloudy
Birmingham 54/ 38 0 54/ 48 Sh 62/ 47 C Vienna 41/ 28 0.01 38/ 27 C 34/ 24 PC
Syracuse 27/ 8 0.04 24/ 20 C 39/ 33 C Boating
Boise 32/ 22 0 33/ 28 PC 36/ 27 C Tampa 75/ 58 0 80/ 63 S 82/ 63 PC Warsaw 36/ 32 0.02 35/ 25 C 32/ 24 PC
Boston 34/ 19 0 30/ 23 PC 37/ 32 Sn Poconos
Toledo 38/ 24 Tr 38/ 33 C 43/ 37 C From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 32/28 Becoming cloudy
Buffalo 28/ 12 0.02 28/ 26 PC 40/ 37 C North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Tucson 70/ 48 0 59/ 45 C 62/ 38 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Burlington 29/ 8 Tr 20/ 11 C 32/ 26 SS Tulsa 65/ 43 0 54/ 38 C 63/ 48 PC Acapulco 84/ 74 0 88/ 75 PC 88/ 75 PC 50s
Casper 35/ 19 0.05 34/ 25 S 38/ 27 PC Harbor. Southwest Pa.
Virginia Beach 48/ 31 0 52/ 42 PC 58/ 44 C Bermuda 74/ 61 0.01 69/ 65 PC 72/ 67 PC
Charlotte 52/ 30 0 58/ 42 C 65/ 43 C Edmonton 30/ 21 0 37/ 22 PC 31/ 14 S Wind will be from the north, then northwest at 5-10 knots. 41/33 A bit of snow and rain
Washington 47/ 33 0 50/ 39 PC 55/ 44 C
Chattanooga 53/ 30 0 48/ 42 Sh 62/ 42 C Wichita 64/ 39 0 51/ 29 C 58/ 35 S Guadalajara 61/ 50 0.02 72/ 46 Sh 76/ 48 PC Waves will be 1-2 feet on the ocean and a foot or less on
Chicago 45/ 29 0 43/ 34 C 45/ 37 PC Wilmington, Del. 43/ 29 0 43/ 33 PC 49/ 39 C Havana 82/ 68 0 86/ 66 S 85/ 65 S Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility will
Cincinnati 48/ 31 0 44/ 35 R 49/ 41 R Kingston 86/ 75 0 89/ 74 S 89/ 74 S
West Virginia
be clear to the horizon. 60s
Cleveland 39/ 23 0.03 41/ 34 C 44/ 38 R Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 86/ 77 0 87/ 72 PC 87/ 72 Sh 43/34 A touch of afternoon rain
Colorado Springs 56/ 20 0 39/ 23 PC 53/ 28 S Algiers 61/ 51 0.28 55/ 40 Sh 56/ 41 PC Mexico City 64/ 42 0 71/ 48 PC 73/ 47 PC High Tides
Columbus 46/ 29 0 42/ 36 R 47/ 40 Sh Cairo 72/ 55 0 77/ 61 PC 77/ 62 C Monterrey 47/ 43 0.16 66/ 54 PC 72/ 57 PC Color bands
Concord, N.H. 32/ 6 0 26/ 12 PC 32/ 19 SS Cape Town 75/ 61 0 76/ 62 PC 75/ 58 W Montreal 14/ 9 0.12 10/ 6 PC 19/ 15 Sn Atlantic City .................... 6:38 a.m. .............. 6:57 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 65/ 44 0 62/ 44 F 64/ 55 PC Dakar 79/ 70 0 80/ 70 PC 79/ 70 PC Nassau 81/ 71 0.04 83/ 70 S 82/ 70 PC Barnegat Inlet ................. 6:50 a.m. .............. 7:12 p.m. 47/38 A touch of afternoon rain temperature.
Denver 52/ 25 0 43/ 26 C 57/ 28 C Johannesburg 80/ 55 0 87/ 63 PC 87/ 63 PC Panama City 90/ 73 0 91/ 76 PC 90/ 75 PC The Battery ..................... 7:29 a.m. .............. 7:52 p.m.
Des Moines 53/ 28 0 42/ 26 C 52/ 34 PC Nairobi 81/ 61 0 77/ 57 PC 77/ 58 PC Quebec City 10/ -8 0.05 6/ -3 S 14/ 7 C Beach Haven .................. 8:15 a.m. .............. 8:36 p.m.
Detroit 38/ 25 0.06 37/ 32 C 41/ 35 C Tunis 57/ 48 0.52 57/ 44 PC 57/ 44 PC Santo Domingo 86/ 70 0 89/ 72 S 90/ 72 S Bridgeport .................... 10:25 a.m. ............ 10:55 p.m.
El Paso 56/ 40 0 56/ 40 Sh 56/ 37 PC Toronto 25/ 21 0.03 23/ 22 PC 39/ 34 C City Island ..................... 10:59 a.m. ............ 11:30 p.m.
A weakening storm system moving east
Fargo 34/ 21 0 36/ 23 S 40/ 25 Sn Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 39/ 37 0 44/ 38 R 44/ 37 R
Hartford 33/ 13 0 31/ 20 PC 39/ 28 C Baghdad 70/ 45 0 69/ 43 S 70/ 45 S Fire Island Lt. .................. 7:43 a.m. .............. 8:04 p.m. across the Ohio Valley will spread a few
Winnipeg 10/ 9 0.14 27/ 21 S 34/ 19 C
Honolulu 79/ 70 0 82/ 69 PC 82/ 68 PC Bangkok 90/ 77 0.04 85/ 62 C 80/ 59 S Montauk Point ................ 8:03 a.m. .............. 8:29 p.m. rain showers into West Virginia and the
Houston 57/ 44 0 69/ 55 F 69/ 61 Sh Beijing 32/ 10 0 42/ 24 S 44/ 18 S South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 10:41 a.m. ............ 11:12 p.m.
Indianapolis 50/ 32 0 44/ 36 R 50/ 39 C Damascus 63/ 30 0 64/ 41 S 69/ 43 PC Buenos Aires 90/ 75 0 72/ 53 PC 74/ 60 S Port Washington ........... 11:06 a.m. ............ 11:40 p.m. Blue Ridge Mountains later in the day.
Jackson 60/ 45 0 65/ 52 R 68/ 56 C Hong Kong 64/ 52 0 61/ 52 C 64/ 53 S Caracas 85/ 72 0 85/ 74 PC 85/ 74 S Sandy Hook .................... 6:57 a.m. .............. 7:18 p.m. Mixed rain and snow showers are also
Jacksonville 62/ 45 0 74/ 57 PC 80/ 62 Sh Jakarta 84/ 77 0.06 85/ 75 Sh 88/ 75 Sh Lima 71/ 65 0.02 73/ 66 PC 73/ 66 PC Shinnecock Inlet ............. 6:36 a.m. .............. 6:58 p.m.
Kansas City 61/ 37 0 52/ 32 R 54/ 35 S Jerusalem 62/ 48 0 66/ 51 S 68/ 53 C Quito 69/ 43 0 69/ 52 R 71/ 52 PC Stamford ...................... 10:28 a.m. ............ 10:58 p.m.
expected in southwest Pennsylvania.
Key West 78/ 71 0 80/ 73 S 81/ 71 S Karachi 76/ 57 0 78/ 61 W 78/ 60 PC Recife 86/ 79 0.01 85/ 76 Sh 85/ 78 C Tarrytown ....................... 9:18 a.m. .............. 9:41 p.m.
Las Vegas 59/ 43 0 59/ 38 PC 60/ 40 PC Manila 82/ 73 0 83/ 75 R 84/ 76 Sh Rio de Janeiro 86/ 70 0 93/ 78 S 93/ 75 S Willets Point .................. 10:55 a.m. ............ 11:27 p.m.
Lexington 50/ 32 0 46/ 37 R 52/ 43 C Mumbai 90/ 71 0 91/ 75 PC 91/ 74 PC Santiago 81/ 57 0 88/ 56 S 87/ 55 S
6 MODERN LOVE 16 VOWS

A proposal of marriage, and Ignore Facebook messages?

insurance. BY PAULINE MILLER It’s risky. BY VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
8 SOCIAL Q’S 10 BOOKS OF STYLE

Adult sisters who just don’t So many guides to the good

get along. BY PHILIP GALANES Nordic life. BY PENELOPE GREEN

LIFESTYLE RELATIONSHIPS SOCIETY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

WITH . . .
SHEILA NEVINS

Advice and Dissent

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SAM CANNON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Some women are fighting gender

discrimination with their footwear.

Getting Over
High Heels
Why, exactly, do so many of us
still insist on wearing these
far-from-sensible things?
By BONNIE WERTHEIM
One Saturday evening this spring Florie
Hutchinson, an arts publicist and a mother
of three daughters, was nursing her young-
est, Beatrice, at home and texting with a
friend in Europe. She was exhausted after a
day spent running errands in her home-
town, Palo Alto, Calif., where she’d encoun-
tered back-to-back examples of everyday
sexism: a children’s book that preached the
importance of female politeness and a wall
of bjorns and bassinets whose boxes uni-
formly depicted women caring for infants.
So when she typed the word “shoe” into her
phone and the red high-heel emoji appeared
as a substitute, it felt like a sign.
“It was the first time I noticed and
stopped in my virtual tracks and stared at
the stiletto heel that auto-populated,” Ms.
Hutchinson said. “It was the emoji that
broke the camel’s back.”
It’s been a year of reckoning for women
on many fronts. In January, they led what
was likely the largest protest in American
history. Their stories of sexual harassment
and assault have prompted a purge of pow-
erful men in entertainment, government
and media. In growing numbers, they are
running for public office.
Some of them are also fighting gender
discrimination with their footwear.
Ms. Hutchinson, for example, has sent a
proposal to the Unicode Consortium’s emoji
subcommittee, recommending that they
add a ballet flat, a shoe that reads as female
but not seductive or sexualized. (Ninety-
CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

After nearly four decades at HBO, the grande dame of documentary has reels of
memorable film, many awards and plenty of perspective on the current battle of the sexes.
By MAUREEN DOWD
When Sheila Nevins first started working in
television in the 1970s, she thought “being
touched by a man inappropriately was part
of the rules of the game.”
“I had no way of knowing,” says the pro-
fane, glamorous and gloriously inappropri-
AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ate 78-year-old president of HBO Documen-
The B-Boy Scene tary Films over a chopped seafood salad at
the Carlyle Hotel. “I had no one to go to, and
I didn’t suffer. I just allowed it. Now I feel a
Of South Korea little bit guilty for allowing it, but I have to
say, it’s like a wound that healed, or a wound
Photographing Seoul’s elite that never was. I’m not sure that I knew
there was any other way. I had to have a job.
break-dancers. Page 4. I didn’t have any money.”
We are having lunch on the occasion of
Ms. Nevins’s departure as the high priest-
ess of HBO Documentary Films, where she
has for 38 years worked day and night,
through weekends and vacations, supervis-
ing the production of over 1,200 documenta-
ries, including recent hits such as “Going
Clear,” the gutsy expose of Scientology;
“Citizenfour,” the highly praised film about
Edward Snowden’s life on the lam; and
“Bright Lights,” the poignant story of Ms.
Nevins’s late friend Carrie Fisher’s en-
twined relationship with her mother and
next-door neighbor, Debbie Reynolds.
With a storytelling style that grabs view-
ers by the throat, Ms. Nevins helped change
the image of documentaries from stodgy to “I do have a philosophy
provocative. about documentaries,
And she helped HBO amass such a pile of which is that I really do
believe that almost
Emmys, Peabodys and Oscars that there’s a
everybody has a story,”
roomful of glittering laurels at headquar-
ters that’s known as the Holy Shrine of Sheila Nevins said.
Sheila. She received the first Emmy Life-
time Achievement Award given to a docu-
mentarian.
When Richard Plepler, the chief execu-
tive of HBO, told his “beloved Sheila” that
she was “sui generis,” she looked at him
quizzically.
“Is that good?” she wondered.
“Sheila’s resting pulse is never to be satis-
CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
2 ST THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
The actress Anna Chlumsky samples fragrances at Jo Malone while out shopping for holiday presents.
Sniffing Out Executive-Branch Gifts
Before an Off Broadway
rehearsal, Anna Chlumsky
of ‘Veep’ went shopping.
By ALEXIS SOLOSKI
The actress Anna Chlumsky held up a bottle
of Jo Malone’s Peony & Blush Suede co-
logne in one hand and a bottle of Wood Sage
& Sea Salt cologne in the other. “Which one
smells more like the first female presi-
dent?” she said.
Ms. Chlumsky, 37, was spending a bright
December afternoon shopping for Christ-
mas presents in the West Village. She had
already chosen Swedish moccasins “for the
main people who will be in my house around
the tree,” she said, and had put aside
clothes, books and ornaments for her two
young daughters, dodging some tricky
Santa questions from the 4-year-old.
But other relatives and friends still
needed gifts. And since Ms. Chlumsky was
about to go into rehearsals for “Cardinal,”
an Off Broadway play at Second Stage’s
Tony Kiser Theater, this was the day to buy
them.
The presidential scent, by the way, was
for a cousin in Colorado, and Ms. Chlumsky
ultimately decided that peonies had more of
S ar le
an executive-branch vibe.
Well, she would know. She plays Amy
Brookheimer, the female president’s has-
ll t e
sled chief of staff, on the HBO comedy
“Veep.” Ms. Chlumsky has racked up five
w y! supporting actress Emmy nominations
during the shows’ six seasons. (“Veep” is on
hiatus while its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
CAROLINE ELLEN undergoes treatment for breast cancer.)
Amy, a business-casual vortex of frayed
nerves and tensed neck muscles, is not es-
pecially good at self-care. In one episode,
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“Daily Show” writer and contributor Michelle
Wolf, misstated when her one-hour special
would make its premiere on HBO. It happened
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she flees a spa after seven agonizing min-
utes. Her preferred chill out: screaming in a
parking garage. Just about every role Ms.
Chlumsky takes on, from Vada in the 1991
weepie “My Girl” to Lydia, the tightly
wound urban visionary in “Cardinal,” is
similarly intense.
Ms. Chlumsky has some of that same
maelstrom energy even on her downtime.
So it was at least a little disconcerting to
hear her ooh and aah over emollient bath
oils.
She began the afternoon at Diptyque on
Bleecker Street. She had just come from a
Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon hon-
oring the soprano Renée Fleming, her co-
star in the Broadway comedy “Living on
Love,” and was still wearing a red and blue
Cynthia Rowley dress with crochet details.
Underneath a chandelier made of upcycled
votives, she poked at some scent diffusers,
quizzed a saleswoman on how to remove
wax from glass and read the label of a foam-
A ball of energy oohs
and aahs over bath oils.
ing body wash in a snooty French accent.
Ms. Chlumsky does a very good snooty
French accent.
Mostly she followed her nose. Scents are
important to her. She used to change her
perfume every time she had “an identity cri-
sis,” she said, and now wears the One by
Dolce & Gabbana. “What’s crazy is I even
had an identity crisis having my second
baby and it still works,” she said.
At Diptyque, a pine and mint candle
tempted her. So did a fiery citrus scent. “Oh
my gosh, that’s stunning,” she said. At home
she tends to burn earthier scents, like san-
dalwood or vetiver, to help her relax. Relax-
ation is a new thing for her, “something I’ve
embraced in the last post-partum therapy I
went through,” she said.
She selected a box of five small votives
for a couple on her list, and for a childhood
friend, a hunk of solid rose perfume. “Look
how gorgeous,” she said. That smoky citrus
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candle made its way into her bag, too, along-
side a complimentary tuberose votive.
No one seemed to recognize Ms. Chlum-
sky (her credit cards are under a different
name), but she has a big, busy smile and a
ready laugh, and everyone wanted to give
her stuff.
She walked a block or two, trading the
pocket Versailles of Diptyque for the mini
Swinging London of Jo Malone, pausing on
the way to collect a sample of face cream
from a man standing in the door of Orogold
Cosmetics and a smear of body butter from
a table outside Radiance.
Inside Jo Malone, she examined the body
scrubs and shower gels in scents like Basil
& Neroli. “If you rented a villa in Tuscany,
this is what it would smell like,” she said.
She compared a Bluebell candle to the smell
of a Strawberry Shortcake doll.
After boxing up her purchases, a sales-
woman talked Ms. Chlumsky into a compli-
mentary hand massage. At the back of the
store, Ms. Chlumsky pushed up her bell
sleeves, showing off a sky blue manicure.
(The shade is OPI’s It’s a Boy!, and if this
has anything to do with the pregnancy cliff-
hanger that ended the last season of “Veep,”
Ms. Chlumsky isn’t saying.) She wriggled in
pleasure as the masseuse rubbed an or-
ange-blossom lotion into her wrists.
It smelled, Ms. Chlumsky said approv-
ingly, “like the rind of a clementine.”
“It’s a little bitter,” she said. “But that’s
nice. It’s like me. I’m bitter! Bitter and
pithy!”
After the masseuse sprayed her with Or-
ris & Sandalwood, Ms. Chlumsky chuckled
to herself. Everybody tell me how good I
smell,” she said.
Over a restorative cappuccino and a rasp-
berry tart at a Maison Kayser across the
street, Ms. Chlumsky mentioned that she
had one more present to buy, a Home Depot
item for her husband, Shaun So. They have
been together for 17 years, ever since they
met at a college dance party.
“We read the writing on the wall,” she re-
called lovingly. “We’re still reading it.”
“He’ll have to get me a candle,” she said.
SAN FRANCISCO
PHILADELPHIA S E AT T L E
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Mykonos’s Most Special Pareos

A Mink, for the Windows
For the person who has it all, except for a set of plush and
ropy mink drapes (and a PETA membership): a set of
$52,500 plush and ropy mink drapes, designed by Rick Antique Pots, Given New Life
Owens. They can flank a window frame, divide a room The artist Liselotte Watkins hijacks antique vessels she
into two distinct spaces, hang as a tapestry/objet d’art — finds at markets or stores around Italy — and, as she
or just replace some hippie doorway beads. puts it, “gives them a face and life.” The results are beau-
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one for a long time. For a 2016 show in Stockholm, she
saw the pots as “an army of women.” Ms. Watkins says of
the inspiration behind the collection of pots: “It was all
about the matriarchy but also about the beauty of the
collective. It was the women I see everyday.”
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Tucked beneath the stairs on a side street in Mykonos
sits El Pareo, a tiny store specializing in pareos (sa-
rongs) from Bali. What makes them unique is not
only where you buy them, but also who sells them: the
owner, Loukas. With his handlebar mustache and
quintessential Greek charm, he has become quite a
staple on the island. Loukas’s pareos are a little bit of
luxury, and when you wear them back home, you are
immediately transported back to the sea.
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Left, the members of the

Gorilla crew dance on
the roof of their studio
in the Guui area of
Seoul. Below, a B-girl.
Dancers said artists
such as Tupac Shakur,
Eminem, Biggie Smalls,
Ja Rule and the B-boy
legend Ken Swift
inspired their looks.

South Korea is known for many things.

Break-dancing doesn’t exactly come to
mind, even though South Koreans have
been a dominant force internationally for
15 years.
A visiting Korean-American hip-hop
promoter, John Jay Chon, is credited
with spawning the B-boy explosion in
Seoul.
In the late 1990s, Mr. Chon gave a
group of dancers a VHS tape of a Los
Angeles break-dancing competition. He
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duplicated hundreds of times. The rise of
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hip-hop as a global phenomenon stoked
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Timberland boots, “Hip-hop was created so you could
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York Yankees caps
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spent five days in Seoul with the city’s
elite break-dancers this November. “It’s
sort of like a religion for them.”
Korean B-girls also have a presence,
but in much smaller numbers because of
social strictures that ask them to work,
raise families and adhere to unrealistic
beauty standards. (Sound familiar?)
“They fall in love with it, but they can’t
make a career out of just dancing,” Mr.
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Getting Married Is Better Than Dying, Right?
She was gravely ill. He had a
job with health insurance.
How romantic, in a way.
By PAULINE MILLER
“Should we just get married?” Chris asked.
“O.K.,” I said, then passed out from ex-
haustion.
I didn’t know what was wrong with me;
my body felt like it was shutting down. I
needed to go to the hospital, but as a strug-
gling actor who took on part-time jobs to
pay the bills, I had no health insurance.
Chris and I had been happy together for
three years living in our separate New York
City apartments. Neither of us was eager to
get married. He was divorced and not ready
to rush into anything. I wanted to be with
someone I loved but thought of myself as
way too progressive for such a conventional
arrangement.
I was cynical about love, or perhaps cyni-
cal about what marriage could do to love.
My childhood memories of my parents’
marriage haunted me. When I was 5, my
mother married my stepfather four months
after meeting him, not realizing how diffi-
cult it would be to merge our vastly different
families.
Both of them had lost their first spouses
to unexpected illnesses but had approached
single-parenthood from opposite perspec-
tives. Basically, she became strict and he
became lax, which meant combining our
families was like “Leave It to Beaver”
meets “Shameless.”
They stayed married, but much of my
childhood was a painful mess that con-
vinced me there was no such thing as love,
only a temporary, delusional euphoria.
But here I was, defying my convictions
and accepting a proposal of love (and health
benefits). My illness had sneaked up on me
gradually. I didn’t recognize the gravity of
the situation until things got bad one Sun-
day night at Chris’s parents’ house.
While sitting at the dinner table, I became
ridiculously cold and didn’t even have the
strength to keep sitting up. “I’m getting the
flu,” I said. “Got to lie down.”
Buried under three blankets on the
couch, I was still shivering.
Chris’s father joined me in the den.
“That’s no flu,” he said. “You have to go to
the doctor.”
I procrastinated for two days, then called
my internist friend in Reno, Nev. I described
my symptoms, including the bizarre rash on
my face and newly swollen ankles. He or-
dered me to go to the emergency room.
“Do I have to?” My capacity for denial
was astonishing.
“There might be something seriously
wrong with your kidneys,” he said. “Go.”
I tried not to panic as I spent the next two
days exploring options for health insur-
ance. Freelancers Union insurance turned
out to be too expensive, and declaring bank-
ruptcy seemed like courting disaster. I was
freaking out just as much about money as I
was about the idea of dying.
That’s when Chris asked me to marry
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him. It wasn’t what most people would con-
sider a dream proposal, but he was doing
what he could because he loved me and
wanted to save my life. What’s more roman-
tic than that?
I worried I might be using him because,
although I loved him very much, I didn’t be-
lieve in marriage. I didn’t see how a piece of
paper would change our relationship, other
than we’d be living in one small apartment
instead of two (though of course we could do
that without marrying).
In any case, I didn’t have the capacity to
think about it right then. I tried to assure
myself it wasn’t a big deal, but I knew there
were both tangible and intangible differ-
ences.
Chris called in sick Monday morning,
then asked his human resources depart-
ment how long it would take for his health
insurance to go into effect for a new spouse.
The answer: Immediately!
He asked his best friend, Frank, to be our
witness at city hall in a few hours. A cau-
tious man, Frank said, “Uh, let’s wait a
minute and think this through ——”
Chris hung up on him.
I called my actor friend Rachel, who was
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overjoyed to help. Next, Chris headed to his
place to get the required copy of his divorce
I was cynical papers. He took the subway downtown,
about love, or walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and
called his therapist for support. Parental
perhaps cynical consultation would have been too compli-
cated on all fronts, so we skipped it, decid-
about what ing we would suffer the consequences of
their hurt feelings later.
marriage could I put on my nicest jeans, my favorite Ma-
do to love. cy’s black lace top with embroidered pink
and red flowers, and pulled the sides of my
hair back. I lacked the strength to make a
real effort, but I didn’t want to look like a to-
tal slob at my own wedding.
Chris, Rachel and I all converged on the
city hall steps in Lower Manhattan, the ones
they always show on “Law & Order.” Rachel
gave us the plastic toy rings she had gotten
from a supermarket vending machine. She
and Chris half-carried me to two buildings
to take care of paperwork as the late after-
noon cutoff time quickly approached and
then, just barely, passed. Luckily, Rachel,
who knows how to flirt, worked her magic
on the clerk, and he pushed through our pa-
perwork.
He sent us to a third building for the cere-
mony. The dank municipal room looked like
it was frozen in the 1960s. We stood in a long
line between what we guessed was a mail-
order bride and her groom and a knocked-
up teenager with her 25-year-old, greasy-
haired boyfriend.
Our judge vaguely resembled Judge
Judy. As she spoke, Chris held me up on one
side and Rachel held me up on the other. The
whole thing lasted about five minutes.
“Congratulations,” our judge said. Then
she shouted, “Next.”
Rachel hailed a cab for herself and me,
while Chris rushed to his office to put me on
his insurance. He called as we were stuck in
traffic to find out which hospital we were go-
ing to and met us in time for my admission
processing.
Over the next five days I spent there, a
slew of specialists concluded that I had lu-
pus, an autoimmune disease that causes the
body to attack its internal organs. I had
been on the verge of kidney failure and
could have died. For many, finding out they
have lupus is a long and mysterious path,
because there is often no definitive diagno-
sis. But I was “lucky” — an unmistakable
case with every clear-cut symptom.
Chris was a superhero during our first
week of marriage, which I spent in the hos-
pital. He would go to his job, then to my
apartment (if I needed something), then to
the hospital, where he would sometimes
stay all night. Then he’d do it all again the
next day.
Our fifth day of marriage was Halloween,
my favorite holiday, and Chris showed up
with punk rocker wigs and Mardi Gras
beads. I was released that night, and we
wore our costumes out of the hospital, onto
the street and into a diner, where I wolfed
down real food for the first time in a week.
Thus began my adventures as a lupus war-
rior and married person.
Nine years later, I have had a spinal tap, a
kidney biopsy and countless platelet injec-
tions. I have taken enough medications to
kill a horse. I have seen my doctors every
six to 12 weeks without fail, completely
changed my diet and lifestyle, and slept
more than I thought humanly possible. It
took me years to recover from that initial
flare, but I have been fortunate enough to
experience two periods of extended remis-
sion, the second of which I’m in right now.
Chris and I are still married and live in a
studio apartment with our bichon frisé,
Willie. We haven’t wanted to kill each other
a single time. (Well, maybe once, but when
you or your spouse has almost died, you’re
less likely to be bothered by the small stuff.)
After my immediate health crisis passed,
I was able to look back and appreciate how
much Chris had stepped up to take care of
me. His passive side disappeared the mo-
ment he proposed. I had never seen him
take charge like that. (It was sexy!) Even
though he risked major fury from his tradi-
tional parents, whom he correctly assumed
would freak out once we told them we
eloped, he married me anyway.
I like to think that if we hadn’t been pulled
into marriage by circumstance, we would
be living much the same way as we are now,
but without rings. I suspect we would have
moved in together, eventually. I kept my
own name, so that would be the same. Fam-
ily obligations might be different, but may-
be not.
But would we have grown this close if we
hadn’t experienced the medical emergency
that pushed us into marriage? I doubt it. Lu-
pus woke me up and forced me to take a leap
of faith with Chris.
And it taught me this: Being married to
someone you love is a lot better than being
married to your own cynicism.
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Christie’s Sets Another Auction Record, for Handbag Sales

In Paris, it was Birkins at
dawn, and under the gavel,
and not the usual suspects.
By TINA ISAAC-GOIZÉ
PARIS — “Salvator Mundi” may have been
the biggest headline of the year for
Christie’s auction house, but it was not its
only record breaker. On Tuesday, the auc-
tion house’s final handbag and accessories
sale was another game changer.
With sales totaling 2.37 million euros
(about $2.7 million), the Paris auction ex-
ceeded expectations and topped last week’s
event in New York ($1.58 million). Though it
trailed November’s $5.24 million take in
Hong Kong (40.909 million Hong Kong dol-
lars), it set a precedent of its own.
As Matthew Rubinger, Christie's senior
director, luxury handbags and accessories,
observed preauction, in each sale there are
pieces that are “theoretically the most valu-
able or theoretically the most popular. And
then there’s what happens in real time.”
What happened was this: Amid a cluster
of mainly Hermès bags, along with a sprin-
kling of lots from Chanel, Louis Vuitton and
a private collection of 40 crystal-studded
evening bags, the highest-selling item was-
n’t one of the usual suspects.
It wasn’t, for example, the Himalaya
Kelly in new condition. It wasn’t the pristine
black crocodile Birkin with diamond-en-
crusted hardware — despite the fact an
Hermès Birkin Himalaya with diamond
pavé hardware recently went for $383,522
at Christie’s in Hong Kong, setting the world
record as the most expensive handbag ever
sold at auction.
And it wasn’t the Courchevel yellow mini
Kelly originally owned by Elizabeth Taylor
— though that one sold for $47,196, more
than double the price it fetched when
Christie’s auctioned the actress’s estate in
2011.
Rather, just as the sale appeared to have
crested, sparring broke out between two re-
mote bidders, one online and one on What’s
App, over Lot 172: a metallic bronze chèvre
leather Birkin with gold hardware. Inspired
by Hermès’s celebrated window displays by
Leïla Menchari, that Birkin cost less than
€10,000 in 2005, the only year it was
produced.
It sold for €100,000 ($117,394) to a bidder
in Hong Kong, setting a world record for a
leather Birkin sold at auction.
“I think this lot is a really good example of
where the market is today,” Mr. Rubinger
said after the event. “It proves that the mar-
ket is driven by collectors who come for
something unique and different.”
Indeed, Tuesday’s sale also saw a spike in
popularity for lesser-known styles. Several
Hermès Constance bags surged past high
estimates. One, a custom piece in etain Ep-
som leather, sold for $20,648. In the end, the
Himalaya Kelly sold for $110,615. The croco-
dile and diamond Birkin went for $103,241.
Still, a client searching for relative bar-
gains could find plenty: Early in the auc-
tion, an azalea pink Birkin produced this
year sold for $11,799, while bids for several
Birkins and Kellys in neutral colors like
tosca, ebony or a caramel gold went for
$7,300 to $10,500, a range comparable to
current retail prices (but without the wait-
ing list). A Matryoshka evening bag from
the 2012 Chanel Métiers d’Art Paris-Bom-
bay collection, a style produced in such
small quantities that it has become a col-
lector’s favorite, fetched $22,123, over triple
the original price.
In another first, Mr. Rubinger and his
team took a risk on a collection of 40 crystal
handbags consigned by a single European
client, who preferred to remain anonymous.
From left: a metallic bronze
chèvre leather Hermès Birkin
bag that sold for more than
$117,000 at the Christie’s
handbag auction, an Hermès
Birkin bag and an Hermès
Kelly bag.
Most pieces were pre-1999 figurative styles
by Judith Lieber, along with a few by
Kathrine Baumann, a designer with no sig-
nificant track record at auction.
A Baumann Coke bottle and Diet Coke
can were the top sellers at $4,130 each. Bids
for Lieber models, such as a koi fish, a sleep-
ing cat or a violin, all topped $3,000; other
models, like the silver and black swan style
Mr. Big offered Carrie in “Sex and the City,”
sold for an average of about $1,200.
Handbags have fast become a core cate-
gory for Christie’s, Mr. Rubinger said, at-
tracting approximately 30 percent new
buyers, including more women and young
bidders than those drawn by other catego-
ries (jewelry included). European buyers
accounted for 53 percent of the Paris sale,
according to Christie’s, while 25 percent of
purchases came from Asia and 20 percent
from the United States, a substantial in-
crease from last year.
“With the paintings, it’s such a major fi-
nancial decision that no one is having fun
with it,” Mr. Rubinger said. “It’s all so seri-
ous. But for bags, we want sellers to be ex-
cited that their stuff is in the sale, and for
buyers to be excited to own something. If
there’s not that emotion, then it just doesn’t
work.”
For future sales, the handbag depart-
ment will be focusing even more on top col-
lector pieces, Mr. Rubinger said. “We’ve
been shifting toward highly special, impor-
tant pieces for a year and a half, and it’s
working well,” he said. “Every season we’re
breaking new ground.”
As for the record-setting Birkin, Mr. Rub-
inger said that by Wednesday morning he
had already fielded several queries from cli-
ents who own similar bags.
“The market has already shifted,” he
said. “Now, people are asking for much
higher numbers.”

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your Bitcoin and tech stock port-
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folios, but for my money, there is
point in the future? (Do you also encourage. This may sound Polly- for fox hunting. (On horseback. violates an essential principle of BILL
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to you, I have a similar problem your tongues more frequently this, but not sure how to approach considered the cruelty of these Darling, it’s Secret Santa, not
beaus and gal pals. Making them
with the past: I let the glow of than you’d wish. them. Any advice? hunts?”) Unsolicited opinions are kidney donation. Go out at
feel welcome and accepted pays
nostalgia soft-focus many hideous But this has worked wonders MELISSA rarely required (or appreciated). lunchtime, buy a $20 gift and be
huge dividends and will encour-
ancestral events. But nostalgia for with my brothers. We are not our But registering deeply held con- done with it. Or take a more opti-
age your children to visit more
the future is a new one. (problematic) siblings’ keepers. You haven’t specified, but I sus- victions, among friends and mistic view: This guy (as un-
frequently.
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with your sister right now. Call and let them hear the digs from animal cruelty concerns — hunt- role in our communities. bly seen an army of just-starting-
you’re inclined to be to the
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From Scandinavia, Lessons in Living
By PENELOPE GREEN
Lykke, pronounced loo-kah, like the charac-
ter in the Suzanne Vega song, is the Danish
word for happiness, perhaps that country’s
most valuable commodity. (Denmark often
sits at the top of lists of the world’s happiest
countries.) Meik Wiking, who is the chief
executive of the Happiness Research Insti-
tute in Copenhagen, a think tank devoted to
its pursuit, has written a book about it, “The
Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s
Happiest People,” out at the end of the
month.
Lykke is not to be confused with hygge,
pronounced hoo-gah, which means cozy,
and was the subject of Mr. Wiking’s previ-
ous book, “The Little Book of Hygge,” out
last January, though they are related be-
cause coziness, a Danish obsession, is a sine
qua non of happiness (if you happen to be
Danish, that is).
Hygge, as the world learned last year, ac-
crues to those who after cold-weather
sports put on hand-knit
sweaters and gather with
friends to play board games
and imbibe baked goods and
copious amounts of very
strong coffee in candlelit
spaces — preferably in a
Scandinavian country like
Denmark, which has gener-
ous social supports and gen-
der parity.
Happiness, of course, is
more ephemeral, less quanti-
fiable, than coziness, though
Mr. Wiking marshals some
engaging behavioral-science
data. Anticipation makes you
happy: three days, it turns
out, is the optimal amount of
time for looking forward to
stuff, according to one study.
Coach passengers are more
prone to rage if they have to
walk through first class, according to a
study that points out how the perception of
inequality makes people unhappy. Volun-
teers are happier than nonvolunteers, and
the self-employed are happier than those
with bosses. Parents of young children are
less happy than everyone else, but the level
of their unhappiness varies depending on
the social supports of whatever country
they’re in. In the United States, they are 12
percent less happy. In Denmark, which
mandates a year of parental leave, two
months leave to take care of a sick child and
universal day care, the gap is just 3 percent.
What makes Mr. Wiking happy, he writes,
is leftover pizza.
So why don’t Danes smile more? Noting
the “zombie death stare” of his countrymen,
Mr. Wiking wonders drolly if Denmark is
truly a “resting bitch face nation,” as he puts
it. To find out, he has begun tracking the in-
cidences of people smiling at home and
abroad by sitting in cafes and watching pas-
sers-by. He and his colleagues have col-
lected “30,000 data points” of smile frequen-
cies in 20 countries around the world, which
I think means they’ve clocked the smiling or
DOUG KUNTZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sag Harbor’s Very Own Cinema Paradiso Is Saved
Fire destroyed an art-house
movie theater a year ago, but
local residents have rescued it.
By GUY TREBAY
SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — It was a cliffhanger end-
ing out of silent film-era two-reeler. Just
days before the anniversary of the fire that
partly destroyed the Sag Harbor Cinema
last December and weeks ahead of the
deadline to purchase the theater from its
longtime owner, word came of a grant that
more than met the fund-raising goal and
saved the day. “Personally, I had been try-
ing to avoid hoping for it,” April Gornik, a
painter and vice president of the nonprofit
Sag Harbor Partnership wrote in an email
when the news was announced.
With a $1.4 million Empire State Eco-
nomic Development grant, the partnership
was brought within easy reach of the $8 mil-
lion needed to purchase the remains of a
historic theater, a move that advances plans
that just months ago seemed all but fanciful
— that is, to transform what had been the
only art-house cinema on the East End of
Long Island into a multiuse center for film
and the arts.
The cinema was always an anomaly.
Moldy smelling in summer and freezing in
winter, it played art movies that sometimes
drew an audience of five. It sat in the middle
of Main Street in this town that, in Herman
Melville’s time, was one of the primary hubs
of the global whaling trade (New Bedford
and Nantucket, Mass., and Lahaina in Ha-
waii were the others); in John Steinbeck’s
time it was a thriving working-class com-
munity; and, in recent years, had become a
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
not smiling faces of 30,000 people.
In fact, as he learns, Danes do smile occa-
sionally, nearly 13 percent of the time, com-
pared with New Yorkers, who smile less
than 2 percent of the time. Everyone every-
where smiles less when they are alone,
which may account for my city’s low scores.
Mr. Wiking’s last book was an interna-
tional best seller, the cream of a huge crop of
books about hygge published in the past few
years. (As the Financial Times reported,
the global pursuit of the hygge fad and its
devotion to spiced treats caused the price of
cinnamon to rise 20 percent in 2016.)
The success of so many hyggelig titles
would appear to have made Denmark’s
neighbors — particularly Sweden — jeal-
ous.
“Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Bal-
anced, Happy Life,” by Niki Brantmark, an
English design blogger married to a Swede,
introduces the Swedish ideal of moderation.
Lagom — pronounced lar-gum — means
“not too much, not too little.” In times of
yore, moderation (and its drab companions,
low expectations and societal conformity)
may not have inspired a lifestyle book, but
today, particularly for overwrought Ameri-
can readers, moderation feels positively Ve-
nusian, though it has its naysayers. (Writ-
ing in the Guardian, Richard Orange, a
British journalist who lives in Sweden, de-
cried his adopted country’s national mani-
festo, what he described as “the suffocating
doctrine of Lutheran self-denial,” with a
plea that trendspotters not adopt lagom as
they did hygge. If the trappings of hygge are
cinnamon buns and candles, those consid-
ered appropriately lagom, he says, are
more likely to be takeout pizza and Netflix.)
In her book, Ms. Brantmark extols the be-
haviors of a modest Swedish life: sleeping
naked, buying secondhand furniture, craft-
ing, eating lots of herring. And practicing
fika, otherwise known as a “coffee break,”
though Ms. Brantmark calls it “a sacred
Swedish social ritual meaning ‘taking a
break for coffee and enjoying a small
treat.’” She added, “You can literally do it
anywhere” (including the coffee shop Fika,
which has locations all over Manhattan).
second-home boomtown whose real estate
prices skyrocketed so steeply people some-
times referred to it as the Williamsburg of
the Hamptons.
Then, on a bitter cold evening a year ago
this week, a building along the Main Street
shopping district here caught fire. Whipped
by strong winds, the flames quickly spread
to nearby stores, a popular coffee shop and
several apartments and then burned its
way through the beloved Sag Harbor cine-
ma with its sleek stucco facade and iconic
neon sign.
The sign was saved and, though there
were no injuries that night, there was one
potential fatality. For many in this year-
round community, the loss of Sag Harbor
Cinema potentially signified the end not
just of obscure art-house film on the East
End of Long Island but of a burnished and
prideful image Sag Harbor holds of itself as
a haven for creative people.
The fire threatened the identity of an im-
portant segment of the village, said Robert
Stein, former deputy mayor and a trustee of
Sag Harbor. “Suddenly, people were like,
Hey, wait a minute!” he said. “We’re at risk
of becoming just another restaurant capi-
tal.”
In January 2017 a group of locals mobi-
lized not only to buy and restore the theater
but to transform it. Spearheaded by Ms.
Gornik, the Sag Harbor Partnership negoti-
ated purchase of the site and what re-
mained of the building from the real estate
developer Gerald Mallow, 80, who had
bought the theater in the 1970s. They aimed
to accelerate the plans first conceived in
2009 for transforming the theater into a
multipurpose hub for the arts.
“If I see something wrong, I just want to
BOOKS OF STYLE
Following the practice of her competitors
in the Scandinavian-themed publishing
sweepstakes, Ms. Brantmark makes liberal
use of Nordic vernacular terms, many of
which are portmanteau words or acces-
sorized with fetching umlauts, and which
recall the made-up subtitles of the ’60s cult
film “De Duva,” the gleeful parody of the
oeuvre of Ingmar Bergman, adding some
demented whimsy. (Across the North Sea,
the Scottish tourist board is trying bravely
to be a contender, tweeting out the benefits
of its own peculiar-sounding word for hun-
kering down — #cosagach, which is Gaelic
for “snug.”)
Beyond an obsession with coffee breaks,
Swedes have other appealingly modest
habits, like taking their bed linens with
them when they are houseguests, so their
hosts don’t have to do extra laundry, and es-
chewing both marriage and cohabitation in
their relationships. There are cute names
for these scenarios: Sambo is what you call
your partner when you live together but
don’t marry; sarbo is what you call your be-
loved when you live apart.
“Being together, but not too together,”
Ms. Brantmark explains.
Among other helpful instructions — e.g.
how to slice cheese, which, apparently
Scandinavians like to eat with jam (they
also put ketchup on spaghetti) — found in
“North: How to Live Like a Scandinavian”
are lists of behaviors associated with the
different Nordic countries. Its author is
Brontë Aurell, a Danish entrepreneur and
cook married to a Swede with whom she
runs ScandiKitchen, a cafe and shop in Lon-
don.
Karl Ove Knausgaard fans will not be sur-
prised when Ms. Aurell suggests that one
aspect of Norwegian behavior means never
looking anyone in the eye and taking lots of
hikes. To be Swedish, line up properly, she
writes, with two meters between yourself
and the next person. Do not make conversa-
tion.
How to act like a Dane? Dress exclusively
in black clothing and “be hygge superior.”
Ms. Aurell introduces a phenomenon she
RANDEE DADDONA
fix it,” Ms. Gornik said.
If the initial fund-raising hurdle of $8 mil-
lion still seemed far-off as recently as last
week with $6.6 million in the coffers and a
cliffhanger deadline of Dec. 31, board mem-
bers remained uncommonly sanguine.
“This kind of money is a lot of money, and
when we talked to professional fund-raisers
they said it’s a two-year campaign,” Susan
Lacy, director of the HBO documentary
“Spielberg” and a member of the partner-
ship’s advisory board. “But we’ll get there. I
was at PBS for 35 years and I’ve never seen
fund-raising like this.”
Nearly 80 percent of the millions raised
came in the form of modest donations, Ms.
Lacy said: “It was everyone from the
butcher to the candlestick maker to the fire
department and shop owners.” These being
the Hamptons, though, that roster also in-
cluded an Emmy-winning director, a cine-
matic legend and a Piano Man. Rob Mar-
shall, Julie Andrews and Billy Joel are
among the deep-pocketed locals committed
to protecting Sag Harbor from an unwel-
come fate as another seasonal resort town,
or else a seaside boutique rialto. “I did a film
on Judy Garland, and I think of this as being
like Judy saying, ‘Hey, let’s put on a show,’”
Ms. Lacy said.
She was referring to a trope made famous
in 1930s films, but there was also something
of an actual show. Among the improbably
folksy fund-raising efforts put forth by the
partnership is “American Values,” a film
program running throughout the winter
and featuring the documentary filmmakers
Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker; the
director William Friedkin; the Watergate
journalist Carl Bernstein; the artist and
composer Laurie Anderson; and Ms. An-
The words to
know: lykke,
lagom and
janteloven.
A host of new Scandinavian
lifestyle books are hitting
bookstores this season.
Above, from left: the Sag
Harbor Cinema in 2008; after a
fire last year; April Gornik,
who led a campaign to restore
the theater, and Michael
Namer at a cinema fund-raiser
this past May.
calls janteloven — or, the law of jante —
which has something to do with the town in
a popular Scandinavian bildungsroman
from the 1930s and seems to be a societal
aversion to what the British call tall-poppy
syndrome, in other words not putting on
airs or thinking you’re better than anyone
else.
“The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Clean-
ing: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives
Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant,”
by Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish artist
and widow “between 80 and 100 years old,”
as she writes, is a primer on how to winnow
your belongings before you die, so you don’t
burden your family. Naturally, there’s a
portmanteau word for this — dostadning
(“do” for death and “stadning” for clean-
ing). But let us use initials instead.
“T.G.A.O.S.D.C.” manages to merge two
wildly successful publishing trends: the
diktats of anticluttering gurus like Marie
Kondo, the Japanese tidying expert, and the
appetite for all things Scandinavian. Yet as
useful as this book is — don’t leave your
complete collection of sex toys
for your children to find when
you are dead, or as Ms. Magnus-
son puts it, “save your favorite
dildo but throw away the other
15” — its pleasures are more
Proustian than practical. Ms.
Magnusson is the anti-Kondo,
who takes us on a charming and
discursive tour of her own stuff.
That which “sparks joy” —
Ms. Kondo’s criteria for what
stays in your closet — in Ms.
Magnusson’s heart means a
tender and witty reverie gener-
ated by an object before she
gives it the heave-ho. Investi-
gating her late husband’s
snickarbod (Swedish for tool-
shed and sometimes called a
mansdagis, or male kindergar-
ten) she marvels at its harmoni-
ous arrangements — chisel, lev-
el, rotary hammers, pliers and hacksaw
frames, warrantees and instructions filed
neatly in binders — and notes the erotic
qualities of its oils, pumps and rubber
valves.
“A master of order, my husband was,” she
writes, and then plucks out a hammer, some
pliers, a yardstick and some screwdrivers,
giving away the rest of his snickarbod to her
children and their friends.
She writes of the inability of men of her
generation to cope with housekeeping after
the death of a spouse, and notes how death
cleaning has traditionally been women’s
work.
“Women of my generation were brought
up not to be in the way,” she writes, “to not
trouble their surroundings with their pres-
ence. This is not the case with men, who
take the space they are given for granted.
My daughter sometimes says that I am so
worried about being a nuisance that my
worry itself becomes troublesome. Men
don’t think like I do, but they should. They,
too, can be in the way.”
Those in Nordic countries may not be so
unlike the rest of us, after all.
EUGENE GOLOGURSKY/GETTY IMAGES
drews screening their favorite films and
sticking around afterward to talk about
them. The Coen brothers’ 2010 adaptation of
“True Grit” was first in the series. Selected
by the “Wonderstruck” composer Carter
Burwell, it was screened at the local high
school.
“We want people to relate to Sag Harbor
and Main Street as a year-round cultural
destination, as opposed to a high-end retail
strip that’s open eight weeks a year,” said
Nick Gazzolo, president of the Sag Harbor
Partnership. One key to that goal is restor-
ing the emblematic sign.
“Not seeing the facade and the sign there
is what got people emotional,” Lisa Field,
president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of
Commerce and proprietor of the Sag Har-
bor Variety Store, said. A gaping hole re-
mains in the middle of Main Street, all that
was left after construction crews using
heavy equipment tore away the wreckage
of the theater last December.
In what was inevitably characterized at
the time as a Christmas miracle, the Art-
Deco neon sign was pulled almost literally
from the ashes — “It was attached to the fa-
cade, which was leaning and about to cave
in,” Ms. Gornik said — and plucked from the
structure with a backhoe and taken for stor-
age by the owners of a local moving com-
pany. The mangled letters were pounded
and welded together again by a Bridge-
hampton metalsmith quietly working for
free.
“On a certain level, the fire left a particu-
lar kind of scar that people need to heal,” Mr.
Stein, the village trustee — and, as he noted,
a practicing psychoanalyst — said. “There
is this feeling that people don’t want to see a
new face there. They want the old face
back.”
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Are We Finally Getting Over High Heels?
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
two percent of people online use emoji ev-
ery year; 75 percent of us want more emoji
options.) She was particularly concerned
about children, whose first forms of commu-
nication are pictographic and who are ex-
posed to technology at ever-younger ages.
“My daughters are already being con-
fronted by these gender-stereotypical
norms, totally subconsciously,” Ms.
Hutchinson said, “while all of us are having
this very vocal conversation about gender
biases.”
There was a time when a pair of pumps
was a marker of female adulthood; a crucial
component of the Dress for Success ward-
robe and a sign of sexual maturity (this is
why a surge of high heels in girls’ sizes a few
years ago raised some eyebrows).
But our preferences have shifted dramat-
ically toward athletic and comfort shoes in
recent years. Allbirds, a brand of merino
wool “runners,” are now part of the unoffi-
cial Silicon Valley uniform (the venture cap-
italist Mary Meeker is a fan), and the com-
pany plans to expand its retail presence af-
ter a successful second round of funding.
It’s not uncommon to see Danskos and
Crocs, mainstays of restaurant kitchens
and hospitals, worn by white-collar profes-
sionals. Birkenstock’s two-strap Arizonas,
once derided as hippie shoes, have been im-
itated by designer labels like Prada, Céline,
Givenchy and Coach. Now Birkenstock
holds fashion shows in Paris.
At the avant-garde retail temple Opening
Ceremony, which opened in 2002, fanciful
sneakers, slippers and oxfords greatly out-
number high heels. Eree Kim was a de-
signer there for four years before forming
her own comfort-shoe company, Hopp Stu-
dios.
“I always had trouble finding shoes that
were comfortable but also aesthetically
what I wanted,” Ms. Kim said.
She sees shoes as a means of both self-
expression and self-defense. “If I know that
I have to take the subway home late at
night, I want to be dressed appropriately,”
she said, adding that during the time she’s
lived in New York, she’s been attacked
twice.
“Men have no clue that this is something
a lot of women think of,” she said.
Uncertainty can subconsciously influ-
ence the way people dress, too. On Monday
night, at the department store Century 21’s
downtown location near the World Trade
Center, three young Canadian tourists —
Jasveen Kang, Kirndeep Nahal and Deepin-
der Nahal — were waiting for an Uber to
pick them up after a long day of walking in
utilitarian black boots.
They had woken up to the news of a crude
pipe bomb explosion at Port Authority,
across the street from their hotel in Times
Square.
They had ignored the rows of dressy
JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION, VIA AP
Top, Melania Trump was
mocked on social media for
boarding Air Force One in
stilettos on her way to survey
hurricane damage in Texas.
(She switched to sneakers
before exiting the plane.)
Above, Gal Gadot wore flats
throughout her “Wonder
Woman” press tour. At right
are some comfortable options.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
shoes with heels. Ms. Nahal, 29, reasoned
that New Yorkers might gravitate toward
“something that’s comfortable to run in,
something that you could get to safety in,
that wouldn’t impede you in any way.”
From Louis XIV to Louboutins
High heels have a long and not always femi-
nized history. They were pioneered by
horse owners in 15th-century Persia. Heels
helped them stand up and stabilize in stir-
rups so they could shoot their bows with
greater accuracy.
Because of their connection to sport and
wealth, heels went on to become a signifier
of social class in Western Europe. During
the Renaissance, heels and platforms could
give men a competitive advantage among
their shorter peers, as well as elevate them
from the streets, where people poured out
their chamber pots. Courtesans soon
adopted them as a status symbol, wearing
extra-high chopines, or platforms, to tower
above other court members in a symbolic
show of sexual dominance.
Women throughout the European courts
began to adopt high heels in the 16th cen-
tury. Catherine de Medici wore heels to her
wedding in 1533. Queen Elizabeth I favored
them over other footwear.
By the late 17th century, it wasn’t uncom-
mon to see men in four-inch heels. Long be-
fore Cardi B received her first pair of
Louboutins, Louis XIV wore five-inch red
heels and decreed that the early “red bot-
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
toms” would be worn only by members of
the royal court.
In the 18th century, flatter shoes became
the preferred style. Heels re-emerged as a
trend at the end of the 19th century for wom-
en only. The first American high-heel fac-
tory opened in 1888, and this “antiquated
fashion,” responsible for many podiatric
and orthopedic ailments, surged.
As Prohibition and temperance reform
swept the United States in the 1920s, high
heels became a topic of legislation. A Utah
bill proposed that heels higher than one and
a half inches would be met with, at a min-
imum, a $25 to $500 fine, and possibly jail
time up to one year.
Though they’re no longer punished by
law for their footwear choices, women in the
public eye are still defined by whether they
Women in the
public eye are
still defined by a
footwear choice.
do or don’t wear heels — certainly any wom-
an walking alone on the street, but first la-
dies as well. A 1959 article in this newspaper
proclaimed that “Pat Nixon’s political trade-
mark around the world might well be her
high heels.” Ahead of a trip to the Soviet Un-
ion with her husband, then vice president, a
friend suggested that Mrs. Nixon pack a
pair of “sensible walking shoes.” Her re-
sponse? “I’ve worn high heels in a lot
rougher places.”
So too might have been the response of
Melania Trump, who earlier this year was
mocked on social media for boarding Air
Force One in stilettos on her way to survey
Hurricane Harvey’s damage in Texas.
While she goes high, others in her posi-
tion have often gone low with their heels.
Michelle Obama was both praised and pillo-
ried for her sensible shoes. Jacqueline Ken-
nedy Onassis also favored less-precarious
footwear: square-toe flats, riding boots and
kitten heels.
The first lady made her taste very clear in
a letter to Marita O’Connor, a personal shop-
per for Bergdorf Goodman, who had sent
her a selection for the Inaugural Ball: “Your
shoes arrived today and I am sorry to say
that I do not really like any of them. They
have that vamp which I do not like.”
Still, for many women, “that vamp” is just
what they seek. This year’s breakout hip-
hop star, Cardi B, has become synonymous
with the Louboutins she raps about in “Bo-
dak Yellow.”
In an interview with Billboard, the rap-
per’s stylist Kollin Carter explained the ap-
peal of the red-soled stilettos to women like
Cardi B: “Where she’s from, when girls are
ready to get dressed up that’s what you
wear. And in real life, before ‘Bodak’ blew
up, she wore red bottoms because that’s
what it means to make it in the Bronx. It’s a
status symbol that the masses can relate to;
everyday girls work hard and save up their
money to have that shoe.”
Worn to Run
Louboutins and other high-end heels sig-
nify wealth and can lend confidence to the
women who can afford them. They are also
“a way to literally try to make your body
look more like the cultural body ideal,” said
Renee Engeln, a professor of psychology at
Northwestern University and the author of
the book “Beauty Sick.” “They’re to length-
en your legs and change the way your shape
looks from behind. That’s not accidental.”
That’s what Christian Louboutin meant
when he told The New Yorker, “The core of
my work is dedicated not to pleasing wom-
en but to pleasing men.”
Valerie Steele, the director and chief cu-
rator of the Museum at the Fashion Insti-
tute of Technology, says that heels are here
to stay. “High heels are the number-one sar-
torial symbol of erotic femininity, and that’s
not changing anytime soon,” she said.
But Ms. Steele agreed that periods of
heightened anxiety can affect the shoes
women wear — our preferences change
with history. In 2000, this newspaper wrote
that heels were in demand “as never be-
fore.” By the end of the following year, Ms.
Steele said, flats and sneakers had become
ubiquitous in the wake of the Sept. 11 at-
tacks. And a year after that, the kitten heel
crept back, as it periodically does.
“The one hard-and-fast rule in fashion is
that if it swings in one direction, it will swing
back in the other direction,” Ms. Steele said.
The cohort of high-profile high-heel
naysayers is vocal today. Gal Gadot wore
flats throughout her “Wonder Woman”
press tour earlier this year. Serena Williams
paired her Sarah Burton for Alexander Mc-
Queen wedding gown with custom bedaz-
zled Nikes. And ahead of Cannes in May,
Kristen Stewart spoke out against the film
festival’s no-flats rule, installed in 2015. “If
you’re not asking guys to wear heels and a
dress,” she told the Hollywood Reporter,
“then you cannot ask me either.” (She wore
heels. But still!)
When asked why she ditched heels dur-
ing the film’s promotion, Ms. Gadot told
USA Today that it was a matter of health
and safety. “I love wearing high heels — I
think it’s beautiful, it’s sexy, whatever,” she
said. “But at the same time, especially
stilettos, it puts us out of balance. We can
fall any minute. It’s not good for our backs.
Why do we do it?”
Similar questions inform Professor Eng-
eln’s research. “Why do the things we do for
ourselves have to hurt?” she asked. “Why
do the shoes we choose for ourselves make
us less able to run away if we need to run
away? You only need to spend a few min-
utes on the internet these days to see that,
yes, there are quite a lot of times when, un-
fortunately, it would help to be able to run.
Why do the things that we do supposedly
for ourselves cause us long-term physiolog-
ical damage?”
Last year, in The New Yorker, the writer
Mary Karr called for the uninvention of high
heels. It seems more likely that they will be
reinvented. Two companies led by women
have developed ergonomic high heels
whose insoles are designed to promote sta-
bility and even weight distribution, and pre-
vent heel-related hospital visits (provoking,
for those of a certain age, amused memories
of the Easy Spirit “Looks Like a Pump,
Feels Like a Sneaker” commercial, echoed
in a 2014 McDonald’s commercial that fea-
tured a group of women dribbling a soccer
ball in platform heels).
In the film “Jurassic World” starring
Bryce Dallas Howard, her character out-
runs a Tyrannosaurus rex in high heels.
But in the sequel, she’s given a solid pair
of boots.
If Ms. Hutchinson has her way — she will
receive a verdict on her emoji proposal in
January — the high heel as a signifier of
femininity will soon be going the way of the
dinosaur. She spoke of the ballet flat as an
artifact, positioning it alongside another
emoji candidate for 2018: the brick wall.
“If you’re a historian in 50 years time, and
you start going through emoji with a fine-
tooth comb, you’ll be able to say, this brick
wall must have happened in 2017,” she said.
“You can look at the flat shoe and say that
was the year women decided to find their
voice and collectively protest gender-ster-
eotypical norms.”
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WITH . . .
SHEILA NEVINS

Advice and Dissent Amid the Battle of the Sexes

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Sheila Nevins,
fied even when she has done something photographed at the
first-rate,” Mr. Plepler says. “She is con- Carlyle Hotel, is
stantly driven to get the next idea, to see currently obsessed
around the next corner. She has taken all with examining the
the different dimensions of people — the motivations of the
fragility, the struggles, the triumphs — and 650,000 Alabamians
told the story over three decades of what it who voted for Roy
means to be a human being.” S. Moore in the
So who better to talk about this winter’s Senate race.
Waterloo in the battle of the sexes than the
woman who won the first Peabody awarded
to a cable program, for “She’s Nobody’s
Baby: The History of American Women in
the 20th Century,” produced in 1981 with Ms.
magazine, and who brought shows with a
sexual edge to HBO, like the “America Un-
dercover” documentary series, which in-
cluded “Real Sex” and “Taxicab Confes-
sions.”
Ms. Nevins does not think that sexual dy-
namics can be expurgated from the work-
place.
She just hopes that women can become
more direct, and less frightened, in how
they deal with men who cross the line, and
that a hierarchy of sins can be identified.
“I mean, there’s Harvey and then there’s
poking,” she says. “Harvey is a criminal. He
deserves to be put away. The stuff I read
about Matt Lauer was horrifying. I’ve never
had that happen. But I’ve certainly sat in
editing rooms and had well-known people
kiss my neck and put their hands on me. But
I pulled it away or let it happen or said,
‘Eww!’ I was not fired up.
“I read Cosmo. No one’s brought Helen
Gurley Brown into it for older women. We
were brought up by her. The younger wom-
en were brought up by Gloria Steinem. I
think I was a Girlie by Helen. I read Cosmo
like it was Spock for babies and I dressed
and did everything she told me. I bought
cosmetics. I bought a push-up bra. I unbut-
toned the second button where you see the
cleavage. She also said you should listen to
your boss’s sad stories about how his wife
doesn’t love him. And make sure you look
very good and then throw yourself in front
of his car, waving, when he’s leaving work.
“But,” Ms. Nevins adds wryly, “all my
bosses took trains.”

Celebrating the Underdog

Fifty years before the current revolution on
sexual transgressions, Ms. Brown spurred
her own revolution, coaching women on JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

how to be temptresses at the office.

Her books and her groundbreaking ver-
sion of Cosmopolitan, coinciding with the
advent of the contraceptive pill, preached
sex without shame for single women.
The Cosmo gospel was about “snagging
guys” and achieving the “Big O,” blithely
coaching “girls,” as Ms. Brown always
called them, on how to seduce their married
bosses and please their boyfriends by chill-
ing satin sheets in the fridge in the summer.
Once in the early ’80s, I went to Cosmo
looking for freelance work. They handed me
a bunch of red binders with story sugges-
tions such as “I Had an Affair With My Fa-
ther’s Best Friend” and “I Had an Affair
With My Best Friend’s Father.” And the all-
purpose “My Fling With My Gynecologist/
Psychiatrist/Dentist.”
Ms. Brown was a pioneer who abruptly
became an anachronism during the Clar-
ence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings when she
wrote a Wall Street Journal article in praise
of sexual electricity in the office, fondly re-
calling “a dandy game” called “Scuttle,” in
which men chased secretaries around the
office and pulled down their panties.
Years before, Ms. Nevins had switched
bibles from Helen Gurley Brown’s Cosmo to
Gloria Steinem’s Ms.
Although Ms. Nevins has a magnetic
quality and thought of becoming an actress,
after attending Barnard College and getting
an M.F.A. in directing from the Yale School
‘I read Cosmo like it of Drama, Ms. Nevins is more comfortable
was Spock for babies in her apartment, editing.
and I dressed and did She finds socializing and small talk drain-
ing. She prefers chronicling underdogs to
everything she told me. celebrities, and when I ask which documen-
I bought cosmetics. I tary is her favorite, she pulls out a DVD
bought a push-up bra.’ from her bag about the fight to save a brown
pelican soaked in oil found in the waters off
New Orleans after the BP spill in 2010.
“I do have a philosophy about documen-
taries, which is that I really do believe that
almost everybody has a story,” she says. “I
love ordinary people. And they’re often
very heroic. And very interesting. I don’t
like fame. I’m not interested in famous peo-
ple. I don’t trust the sameness of the story
you get from celebrity. The few times I’ve
had to deal with celebrity, I’ve read the
same thing they say somewhere else.”
Mr. Plepler says that her “chutzpah and
smarts” do not allow her to kiss up to stars.
When the inimitable Mike Nichols came
in several years ago to pitch a documentary,
Mr. Plepler says he listened with reverence.
Ms. Nevins, however, said flatly, “I don’t
think it’s a good idea and here’s why.” There
was an uncomfortable pause of about 20
seconds before Mr. Nichols spoke up: “You
know, you’re absolutely right.”
Ms. Nevins’s heart is in the chronicles of
the down-and-out or afflicted.
“Sheila is the social conscience of corpo-
rate television,” says Alexandra Pelosi, who
has made 11 documentaries with Ms. Nev-
ins. “Who will carry the torch now? She
puts stuff on TV that is not fun to watch.”
From her perch atop the world of docu-
mentary film, Ms. Nevins has deftly navi-
gated subjects including substance abuse
(one such project in 2007, “Addiction,” was
inspired after watching her only son’s battle
and recovery with drug addiction), home-
less children, and pedophile priests who
preyed on deaf children in Milwaukee.
Right now she’s obsessed with examining
the motivations of the 650,000 Alabamians
who voted for Roy S. Moore, much in the
same way she once needed to understand
Barack Obama’s haters.
“She’s in a beautiful apartment on the Up-
per East Side now, but deep down in her
soul she is still the little girl who grew up on
the Lower East Side,” Ms. Pelosi says. “She
doesn’t get her ideas at cocktail parties. She
gets them talking to grocery-store clerks or
when she visits women in prison. She wants
filmmakers to get out of their comfort
zones. She has a punk-rock streak.”
Ms. Pelosi says that Ms. Nevins is so im-
portant in her life that her 11-year-old son
dressed up as Sheila for Halloween, com-
plete with a blond wig, a photo of an Emmy
on the front of his shirt, an Oscar on his back
and a Peabody around his neck.
But the grande dame of docs is demand-
ing. When she attended Ms. Pelosi’s wed-
ding reception at the University Club in
New York in 2005, Ms. Nevins told her to
leave immediately to interview Jerry Fal-
well for “Friends of God,” the documentary
they were working on.
“Thanks to Sheila, I spent my honeymoon
with Jerry Falwell,” Ms. Pelosi says. And
when she had her second baby, she got a call
at the hospital from Ms. Nevins to tell her to
get back to the editing room, stat.
But Ms. Nevins is also fiercely protective
of her filmmaker “cubs,” firing off tart and
impolitic notes to critics who give negative
reviews.
And she considers herself a poet at heart,
sometimes offering her editing notes in free
verse, at all times of the day and night.
Alex Gibney, who made “Going Clear”
with Ms. Nevins, says she was unafraid of
the public pushback from the Church of Sci-
entology, emailing him this verse:
I love the heat
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Advice and Dissent Amid the Battle of the Sexes
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13
Especially when it is so cold
And especially when we are so right to
scream
Foul play.
When Heston Pounced
Ms. Nevins calls men and women “honey”
and “baby.” With her raspy voice, swooping
platinum streaks in the hair she has done
three times a week and glittery leg warmers
she bought online on a Christmas website,
she’s a seductive 78-year-old.
“I’m held together by Elmer’s glue,” she
says. Then, nodding to the dimly lit dining
room, she adds slyly, “I’m good in the dark.
“Nobody makes passes at me anymore.
You know, sometimes in a dark restaurant
across the room, a waiter will say, ‘That guy
over there bought you a glass of wine.’ And
then he lifts his cane.”
On his WNYC podcast recently, Alec
Baldwin flirted with Ms. Nevins, calling her
“the Jewish Eve Harrington” and — ignor-
ing the fact that she’s happily married to her
second husband of 45 years, the former in-
vestment banker Sidney Koch — fantasized
about Ms. Nevins falling in love and kissing
some guy while wearing a bathrobe on a
terrace in Paris. (As though the workaholic
Ms. Nevins would ever lounge around on a
terrace.)
In the New York Times best-selling mem-
oir she published this year, “You Don’t Look
Your Age . . . and Other Fairy Tales,” Ms.
Nevins writes poignantly about growing up
with a mother with Raynaud’s disease that
caused her limbs to fall off and raising a son
with Tourette’s syndrome.
And she writes hilariously about her love-
hate relationship with plastic surgery and
dermatology, noting: “I have enough Botox
in me to detonate Iran.”
She says that on her book tour, the main
question she was asked by older women
was whether they still had to share a conju-
gal bed.
“They don’t want to sleep in the same bed
as their husband anymore,” she says. “Be-
cause the man pees too much. Because the
aging prostate is not fun. And the woman is
always hot. And the thing is, she’s throwing
off the covers and he’s squeaking the floor-
boards and they want separate bedrooms
and they don’t really know how to approach
it. A woman said, ‘Would you tell my hus-
band?’ I said, ‘Sure, give me his number.’”
Ms. Nevins, whose grandfather sold
socks on Orchard Street in Manhattan and
whose father was a Russian immigrant who
worked booking bets at a New York Post of-
fice, admits that to this day she calls the
bank to make sure that her check got in and
can’t believe she doesn’t have to worry
about money.
She downplays how tough a climb it must
have been, noting simply that “the admis-
sion charge is higher” for women in the
workplace. She didn’t have any mentors —
“I was de-mentored,” she says — and likes
to say, “Revenge is a good mentor.”
“Fighting back to prove somebody wrong
is the best thing,” she says. She got her first
taste of that at Yale, when she fell madly in
love with a WASP who did not fight for her
after his mother frostily advised Ms. Nevins
to go find a Jewish boyfriend instead.
She says she drew a circle of excellence
for herself at HBO — where her office is
chockablock with women she herself has
mentored — and felt too daunted to try to
make the leap to Hollywood, where the bar-
riers are still obscenely steep for female di-
rectors.
So, with powerful men toppling and dis-
appearing in a way that feels sometimes ex-
hilarating and sometimes disturbing, be-
cause of the absence of due process and
proper gradations of crime and punish-
ment, I press her about whether we are in
danger of a backlash.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
WITH . . .
SHEILA NEVINS
Stills from the HBO “Well, I think men are so scared now that
documentaries “Marathon: The they’re being extra-nice,” Ms. Nevins says.
Patriots Day Bombing,” left, “Sometimes men look at me and I think
and “Life According to Sam.” they’re wondering what I know. Every guy
in power has a story that he doesn’t want
told. And probably every woman has a story
that she doesn’t want told. But I think men
are on warning, and they’re very scared.”
She talks freely about the early days
when she had to listen to male executives
tell dirty jokes at the start of meetings and
when she flirted with and flattered her male
bosses or opted to leave a superior’s hand
on her thigh at the opera because she
wanted to see the end of the show.
When Ms. Nevins did summer stock at 17
at the High School of the Performing Arts
with Charlton Heston, she says the actor
pinned her between his legs as she was try-
ing to fetch a prop.
“I mean, it was Moses, right?” she says
with a smile. “Part of me was sort of, I would
say, interested? Because it was a great
story to tell. I could tell my girlfriends I was
trapped between the legs of Charlton Hes-
Confirm or Deny
Maureen Dowd: You’ve been on the Square against executing the Rosen-
same dose of Klonopin for the last 25 bergs.
years straight. Yes. My mother went to school with
Sheila Nevins Yes, one milligram. I Ethel Rosenberg. She made me go to
never changed it. I probably would- Union Square the day they were
n’t be here today if not for Klonopin. executed.
I like Ambien when I’m having One of your very first jobs was licking
trouble sleeping. Oh, melatonin, I stamps.
take it all the time. I think it’s be-
I worked in the Old Post Office build-
cause I’m in the dark so much in the
ing, which is now the Trump Hotel in
editing room. It messes me up on
Washington, and there was a guy
light and dark.
there who wanted one stamp a day
You can’t unwind. and my job was to put the stamp on
Absolutely. I can’t. the envelope. Now you can peel
them off. Not then.
You prefer T.J. Maxx to Bergdorf’s.
Ken Burns is overrated.
Way, way more. I can have anything
I want at T.J. Maxx. I can have one I would never say that out loud.
thing in every aisle and I love it. And “The Blair Witch Project” is your
I love the shopping bags. They have favorite documentary.
great shopping bags. Here, look at No.
this bag and this passport folder.
They’re T.J. Maxx. HBO ran the “The Jinx” and “Going
Clear.” Tom Cruise scares you more
You would be happy to wear the same than Robert Durst.
thing every day.
No.
Confirm.
You never want to see another 9/11
Curiosity is the fountain of youth. conspiracy documentary.
Yes, I believe it. And a good plastic
Never. Or a J.F.K. conspiracy docu-
surgeon.
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back and I think to myself, He was abusing
me. That wasn’t right. I should have said
something. But I didn’t, and I wasn’t
scarred as a result of it.”
Even now, in the midst of the blistering
reckoning, Ms. Nevins concedes she misses
getting whistled at by construction workers
and mocks Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”
philosophy.
“I grew up with lean back,” she jokes.
“You lean in at the wrong time, you wind up
working at McDonald’s — unless you land
in” Mark Zuckerberg’s lap.
She recommends finesse over fury to get
beyond inevitable rough patches in the “pri-
mal” relations between the sexes.
When a young woman at Refinery29
asked her advice recently about how to deal
with a guy in her office who was hitting on
her, Ms. Nevins told her to tell the creeper:
“I hope I didn’t hear you say what I think
you said, because I respect you too much.”
She also recommends disarming with hu-
mor. “My father always told jokes at the
evil. One person can do a lot of evil.
One bullet, one person.
Trump is the greatest story of all
time.
Well, it is Shakespearean. Lear
maybe. But I think he’s Shakespear-
ean because he can cause tragedy.
And he’s capable of tragedy.
You like sad better than happy.
Oh, yes. I like empathy better than
giggles. Sad brings empathy, and
empathy is the only human thing we
have, right?
You see at least 30 shows a year on
Broadway.
Oh my God, yes. I’m a Tony judge. I
see probably 60 shows.
You hate vacations.
Hate. Because I work the whole time
and everybody else is getting re-
laxed, and I come back and I’m
usually exhausted. Good work is a
vacation. Making something happen
that you really daydreamed into
happening. What am I going to do?
Go to Florida and sit with a bunch of
old people in a rocking chair and
complain about what hurts?
You’re never satisfied.
Absolutely never satisfied.
LEFT AND ABOVE, HBO
wrong time, like at funerals and wakes,” she
recalls. “He was inappropriate. But I
learned you can get through a funeral if you
tell a joke. And I’ve gotten through a lot of
things with men in my career by being
funny. And I’m funny.”
So how deep is this change? I ask. Are
men are going to stop interrupting and
grabbing and making lewd comments?
“I think you have six months,” Ms. Nevins
says. “Because the men will come forward
again. It’s almost Darwinian, spreading the
seed, that makes men the aggressor. And it
will be up to women to punch back. A man
used to be in the position of stopping your
career at the go. But now you can just say,
‘I’m going to tell.’ And there are a million
people who will listen.”
I note that in many offices, the break-
down of reactions is not by gender but by
age. Younger men and women are more
likely to have a no-tolerance policy about
louche behavior.
“The younger women are very vehement
and very anti-abuse,” Ms. Nevins says.
“The older women are much more forgiv-
ing. Maybe because they forgive them-
selves. I don’t know. But it is an age thing.”
I ask Ms. Nevins about an article by
Vanessa Friedman, the chief fashion critic
at The Times, about the Victoria’s Secret
fashion show and the Emily Ratajkowski
spaghetti-swathed lingerie shot in the Love
Advent calendar, questioning the issue of
whether pinups promulgate retrograde
ideas about women’s bodies in a post-Wein-
stein world.
“If women want to parade as pinups, that
has nothing to do with harassment,” Ms.
Nevins says. “If I look at a delicious ad for
ice cream, I don’t have to devour it or slob-
ber it down. If women sell a product by be-
ing provocative, that’s not an invitation to
be harassed or abused as professionals in a
workplace. There are many faces of Eve. No
presentation she chooses says, ‘Abuse me.’”
Ms. Nevins says it is also important to fo-
cus on “above-the-neck harassment”: the
moments when you get demoralized as a
woman in a room when you feel that you are
circumvented and that you are not seen or
heard, and the boss only thinks it’s a good
idea if a guy presents it.
“There’s something exciting about leav-
ing a job,” she says. “I can’t explain it. I have
deprived my life of a life. All I did was work.
I was, like, born at HBO and I don’t have to
die there. If I stayed any longer, I probably
would have died at my desk. I just regret
that there’s so little time left.”
She is taking several projects with her
when she leaves that she will finish at home.
She is musing about a radio show with Siri-
us called “Kicking Ass With Sheila Nevins”
and maybe another book.
Meanwhile, she was off to Bellevue for a
screening of yet another documentary.
“They’ll probably leave me there perma-
nently,” she says dryly. “Do they have a bed
for me? Ask them if they have a bed.”
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SCENE CITY

At the Conservation
International gala, from left:
Bill Clinton, who was honored;
Victor Cruz; and Shailene
Woodley, center, with M.
Sanjayan, Conservation
International’s chief executive.
Below, from left: Christiana
Figueres and Jennifer Morris,
the organization’s president;
and guests previewing the
group’s virtual reality film.

It’s a Season
For Conservation
Bill Clinton was honored at Conservation International’s
30th anniversary gala on Dec. 5, at the American Museum of
Natural History. Tina Fey was honored at New York Stage &
Film’s winter gala on Dec. 5 at Pier Sixty. The Central Park
Conservancy held its inaugural Belvedere Ball on Dec. 6 in-
side Central Park. And Columbia University’s College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons celebrated its 250th anniversary on
Dec. 4 at Lincoln Center. More photos at nytimes.com/styles.
DENNY LEE

At New York Stage & Film’s

winter gala, from left: Tina Fey,
who was honored; Max Mayer,
Thomas Pearson, Johanna
Pfaelzer, Leslie Urdang and
Mark Linn-Baker; and Don
Katz, another honoree.

At the Central Park

Conservancy ball, from left:
Thomas Kempner, the
conservancy’s chairman, and
Douglas Blonsky, an honoree;
Anne Harrison and Norma
Dana; and Mitchell Silver, the
New York City parks
commissioner.

At the Columbia University

College of Physicians and
Surgeons celebration, from
left: Roy Vagelos, Karen
Kennedy, Sarah Billinghurst
Solomon, Diana T. Vagelos,
Jill Goldman, Cheryl Milstein,
Philip Milstein and Lee
Goldman; Jonathan D.
Schiller and Lee C. Bollinger,
the university’s president;
and Ellen Corwin and Steven
J. Corwin.

REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, NEW YORK STAGE & FILM, CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY); NINA WESTERVELT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES (COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS)

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He Didn’t Check Facebook Messages. Now, He Says, ‘I Do.’
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
From where Tara Blackman sat — on a
beach chair in the glow of a warm sun — the
mere sight of Jake Musiker created visions
of sand castles in her mind.
“He was this adorable, curly-haired blond
guy sitting next to his friends, and his girl-
friend,” said Ms. Blackman, 29, recalling the
moment in July 2011 at Westhampton
Beach, N.Y., where she first laid squinted
eyes on him. “He was cracking jokes and
making everyone around him laugh.”
Her chair parked a heartbeat away from
Mr. Musiker and his entourage, Ms. Black-
man pretended to be reading as she listened
in on their conversation.
“I was actually giggling like a schoolgirl,”
she said. “But then I noticed that his girl-
friend wasn’t laughing. She was kind of ig-
noring him, and I thought, ‘She doesn’t ap-
preciate him.’”
Smitten by what she called Mr. Musiker’s
“charisma and good looks,” Ms. Blackman
was soon introduced to him, albeit briefly,
by Ben Weindorf, a mutual friend who went
to Roslyn High School on Long Island with
Mr. Musiker and to Binghamton University
with Ms. Blackman. Mr. Weindorf had invit-
A man’s self-imposed
social media policy
almost cost him a wife.
ed Ms. Blackman to the beach outing.
“Let me know when that guy is single,”
Ms. Blackman said to Mr. Weindorf as their
shadows grew longer in the sand. “I want to
date him.”
A year and a half later, Mr. Weindorf sent
a news flash to his college buddy: “By the
way, that guy Jake you wanted to meet,” he
wrote in a text, “he’s single now.”
Ms. Blackman was stunned. “I could not
believe that after all that time, Ben remem-
bered to tell me,” she said. “When I told him
that I wanted to date Jake, I said it in a casu-
al way. I didn’t follow up or harass him about
Jake’s situation, yet he still remembered.”
That same night, Ms. Blackman, now a
senior account executive in Manhattan at
LiveRamp, a San Francisco advertising
technology company, sent Mr. Musiker a
Facebook message that read: “Hey there,
what’s good? Ben said some good stuff
about ya, and from what I remember, you’re
the blond with decent banter and humor
from the Hamptons. Perhaps we can grab a
drink sometime?”
But Mr. Musiker did not reply, nor did he
reply the next day, or the next.
“Tara wasn’t thrilled about Jake not call-
ing, but she’s always been a very confident
girl and basically said, ‘Well, if it didn’t work
out, it didn’t work out, it’s time to move on,’”
Mr. Weindorf said.
As it turned out, Mr. Musiker never both-
ered to check Facebook messages, as was
his policy. “My issue with Facebook mes-
sages in those days was that most of them
consisted of washed-up acquaintances from
high school inviting me to some kind of
nightclub,” said Mr. Musiker, also 29, who
graduated from Colgate and is a media
planning professional at Fearless Media, an
advertising agency in Manhattan.
By the time he got around to checking his
messages, it was June 2014. Another year
and a half had slipped away — and so, it
seemed, had his chances with Ms. Black-
man.
“I had tons of unread junk mail, but when
I came across Tara’s message,” he said,
laughing as he spoke, “it was like finding a
virtual note in a bottle that had traveled
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TAR A B LAC K MAN a nd JAK E MU SIK E R
Above, Tara Blackman and Jake Musiker were married Dec. 2 at the Palm House, on the grounds of
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Top, the couple’s first dance was to “Crazy in Love,” by Beyoncé.
across the cyberseas and washed up on the
shores of my inbox.”
He quickly responded, but to Mr. Wein-
dorf, not Ms. Blackman. “Ben, the next time
you see Tara, tell her I’m really sorry, I
swear I didn’t see her message,” he wrote in
an email. “Give her my number and we’ll
see what happens.”
Though Ms. Blackman was more than a
bit wary, she was still interested. “I spent
the next week or two writing messages to
him and then deleting them,” she said. “Fi-
nally I was like, ‘Whatever, I’m just going to
do this.’”
She reached out again, this time with bet-
ter results, arranging a first date with him
at a bar in Manhattan, where they were both
living at the time.
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beach that I had remembered,” Ms. Black-
man said. “He was also very kind and very
smart, and he was still extremely hand-
some.”
“I just had a really good feeling about
him,” she said. “Before going on that first
date, I told a friend, ‘I’m going out with my
future husband tonight.’”
That friend was Rachel Klein, who knew
Ms. Blackman from their days growing up
in Wayne, N.J., where they attended youth
groups together.
“Somehow, from the very beginning, Tara
just knew that Jake was the one,” Ms. Klein
said. “She was always a very happy person,
but when she met Jake, who is fun-loving
and sweet, her happiness rose to a new lev-
el, and so did his.”
But there were hurdles to clear, espe-
ON THIS DAY
When Dec. 2, 2017
. ..........................................................
Where Brooklyn Botanic
Garden
. ..........................................................
Sweet 16 The couple had a
16-person wedding party: seven
bridesmaids, seven
groomsmen, one ring bearer
and one flower girl.
. ..........................................................
By Design The bride wore a
white long-sleeved beaded and
lace gown by Lihi Hod from
Gabriella New York Bridal Salon
and silver lamé heels by Stuart
Weitzman. The groom wore a
black tuxedo by Hugo Boss and
black patent leather shoes by
Peal & Company, made in
England for Brooks Brothers.
. ..........................................................
Grand Time Four grandparents
were in attendance, including
one from the bride’s side, Olga
Rosenstein, 91, and three from
the groom’s side: Judy Musiker,
82, and her husband, Mike
Musiker, 86, as well as the
groom’s maternal grandfather,
James Hartman, 89.
Diana Sher,
Matthew Miller
. .................................................................
Diana Lashine Sher and
Matthew Ross Miller were mar-
ried Dec. 16 in New York. Rabbi
Irwin A. Zeplowitz officiated at
the Plaza hotel.
Mrs. Miller, 28, is a vice presi-
dent in the securities division of
Goldman Sachs, the New York in-
vestment bank. She graduated
magna cum laude from Vander-
bilt University.
She is a daughter of Nancy I.
Lashine and Dr. Gary T. Sher of
Sands Point, N.Y. The bride’s fa-
ther is a staff anesthesiologist at
NYU Winthrop Hospital in Min-
eola, N.Y. Her mother is the
founder and managing partner of
Park Madison Partners, a real es-
tate capital advisory firm in New
York for institutional investors.
Mr. Miller, also 28, is a senior
associate in the real estate in-
vesting division of Morgan Stan-
ley, the New York financial serv-
ices company. He graduated cum
laude from Northeastern Univer-
sity. He is a son of Karen W. Miller
and Barry H. Miller of Sudbury,
Mass. The groom’s father is a
vice president for both pulp and
strategic business development
at International Forest Products,
a commodities sourcing and mar-
keting company in Foxboro,
Mass.
The couple met in 2013 through
a mutual friend in New York.
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cially in the early minutes of their first date,
when their conversation nearly drowned in
a pool of awkwardness.
While chatting, Ms. Blackman noticed
that a bottle of water in the bag she was car-
rying “had accidentally exploded,” as she
put it. In a moment of sheer panic, she
poured the bag’s entire contents onto the ta-
ble, including her laptop, “which I thought
was fried,” she said. (It was not.)
Mr. Musiker, a bit startled, took it all in
stride, using the same sense of humor that
hooked Ms. Blackman three years earlier to
ease the situation. “ ‘I noticed a hit list fell
out of your bag,’” he told her. “‘I didn’t think
you were that kind of girl.’”
He made a few more silly jokes, including
one about her water breaking on their first
date, and she was soon laughing, the awk-
wardness gone in a single guffaw.
Their conversation took a more serious
turn when Ms. Blackman mentioned her
mother, Claire Blackman, who died in Sep-
tember 2013, around the same time that Mr.
Musiker’s parents — Elizabeth Hartman
and Robert Musiker, both of Manhattan —
got divorced.
“I remember talking to him about my
mom and getting choked up,” Ms. Blackman
said. “It was a pretty vulnerable time for
both of us, and even though it was just our
first date, neither of us were afraid to show
the other our true feelings. We were very
comfortable around each other.”
They made plans to go out a week later,
on a Sunday at 6 p.m., but two hours before
their date was to begin, she had not yet
heard from him.
Refusing to accept his silence, Ms. Black-
man reached out to him, and he told her that
there had been a death in his family, and
that he had spent his entire day at the fu-
neral. “‘I’m sorry,’” he said to her, “‘but it’s
not going to work out tonight.’”
Ms. Blackman, who didn’t believe him,
immediately called an aunt to vent her frus-
tration. “I said to her, ‘Oh my God, I just got
stood up and lied to,’” she said.
This time around, however, Ms. Black-
man did not have to wait a year and a half to
hear back from Mr. Musiker. He called an
hour and a half later to apologize again, and
to invite her out on a next date, which be-
came dinner at a Jamaican restaurant in
Manhattan.
“I felt much better after that phone call,”
Ms. Blackman said.
Another hurdle cleared, they began dat-
ing steadily, each learning to cope with and
appreciate the other’s personality traits,
habits and quirks — “We want to inspire
each other to be better people,” Ms. Black-
man said — while bonding over shared fam-
ily values, ambitions, as well as a love of
travel, theater, comedy clubs and long
walks around New York City.
“Tara is incredibly confident and orga-
nized, and let’s just say that Jake isn’t. He’s
a little on the laid back, sloppy side,” said
Mr. Musiker’s mother, Elizabeth Hartman.
“But Tara motivates him to take things to
the next level. She believes in him and likes
his kind of mushpie teddy-bear-ness.”
Mr. Musiker put it a bit more succinctly:
“Tara is more Anna Wintour. I’m more
Cheech and Chong.”
In December 2014, they reached a signifi-
cant milestone, each telling the other, “I
love you,” for the first time. A year later, an-
other milestone, as they moved into an
apartment they bought together in the Clin-
ton Hill section of Brooklyn.
“Our road together has just been a real
nice, steady, natural progression, and along
the way, she’s laughed at about 51 percent of
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WEDDINGS
Emily Livingstone,
Andrew Gern
. ...................................................................
Emily Anne Livingstone and An-
drew Horton Gern were married
Dec. 16 at the Ryland Inn, a restau-
rant in Whitehouse Station, N.J.
The Rev. Maureen Jeffries, a min-
ister of the American Interfaith
University, officiated.
The couple met in Lancaster,
Pa., at Franklin and Marshall Col-
lege, from which they graduated.
The bride, 28, is the associate di-
rector of the Garden Patrons Pro-
gram and President’s Circle at the
New York Botanical Garden in the
Bronx. She received an M.B.A.
from Fordham.
She is a daughter of Joanne M.
Livingstone and John H. Living-
stone of Millburn, N.J. The bride’s
father works in Manhattan as a
senior consultant for CAST Soft-
ware, a company based in
Meudon, France. Her mother is a
sales representative for Weichert
Realtors in Maplewood, N.J.
The groom, 29, is an analyst for
GLC Advisors, & Company, an in-
vestment banking advisory firm
in Manhattan.
He is a son of Patricia H. Gern
and Ronald L. Gern of Fayette-
ville, N.Y. His father is general
counsel for the Pyramid Manage-
ment Group, which develops
shopping malls and is based in
Syracuse.
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Vows

Inviting Bridesmen and Groom’s Gals to the Party

Many couples have decided to geles. Her father, Stephen Maas, thought
she was joking when she told him that she
mix up the traditional gender was going to have two men in her bridal
roles for their attendants. party — her brother in a maid-of-honor-
type role and her closest guy friend as a
bridesman. “It took a while for it to sink in
By ALYSON KRUEGER
for me because I had never heard of such a
Ben Ballard, a 30-year-old consultant from thing,” Mr. Maas said.
Washington, has been a best man once and When Mr. Maas got married years ago,
a groomsman twice. But the wedding he at- men always stood on the groom’s side and
tended Oct. 11, 2016, marked the first time he women on the bride’s side. “I’m old school,”
was part of the bride’s side of the party — a he said.
bridesman, as he called himself. Nowadays, he said, “I still can’t figure out
He and the bride, Alyssa Shibata, had when the boys walk down the aisle. Do they
been best friends since the fourth grade. do it with the bridesmaids, or do they stand
She had joked for years that when she got on the side of the groom? Is he going to wear
married, he would have to be part of the heels?”
wedding. So when the time arrived, he flew For his daughter, who lived in one of New
down to Dallas for her bachelorette party York University’s first mixed-gender dorms
and kept the ladies in good spirits as they her senior year, the traditional practice
hopped between bars in a limo. On the made no sense. “They are my guys, and
morning of the wedding, he met them at Ms. they belong with me, no matter their gen-
Robinson’s Dallas home and sat for a stylist der,” Ms. Maas said.
who cleaned up his hair. Alex Yergin, 32, who lives in New York
The bridal party were all wearing gold se- and worked in business development,
quin Converse Chucks, so he did the same. asked one of his best friends, Ellen Camp-
(He said the sneakers looked more “ridicu- bell, who is also 32 and from New York, to be
lous” with his tuxedo than with the brides- a “groom’s gal” for similar reason for his
maids’ long dresses.) wedding Sept. 16 at his family’s home in
At the ceremony, held in the Dallas World Siasconset, Mass.
Aquarium, he walked down the aisle and “There might be some historical purpose
stood with the three other bridesmaids, from a long time ago that I’m unaware of,
next to the bride. When the maid of honor but nowadays the point of a wedding party
couldn’t hold the bride’s bouquet any longer is to have the people closest to you to be
during the ceremony, because her 2-year- there supporting you,” he said. “Anybody
old ran up and started pulling on her dress, who knows me knows that is Ellen.”
he took over the task. “I held it like a true He also noted that there are no wedding
pro,” he said. And he endured plenty of party duties that she couldn’t do as well as a
jokes, jabs and stares.” man.
But none of it bothered him. “It meant a Kellee Khalil, the founder and chief exec-
lot to me that when the rubber met the road utive of the wedding website Lover.ly, said
she still said, ‘I want you to be in my wed- that the next generation of brides and
ding,’” he said. “Her confidence in it made it grooms is less likely to abide by tradition.
feel totally normal. She just wanted her best “The old rules don’t apply,” she said. “Ev-
friends around her at her wedding.” eryone is trying to make their wedding their
Across the country many brides and own, and that includes who is by their side
grooms are forgoing tradition by appointing during the festivities.”
mixed-gender wedding parties. The idea is Ms. Khalil said that for decades weddings
simple: They want their closest friends or have been guided by strict, clear pro-
relatives at their side during the wedding cedures that have been passed down for
festivities, no matter their gender. generations. Now that many couples are
Mastering the logistics of how it works, choosing not to follow the norms, they have
getting family members to accept the deci-
to make up new rules as they go.
sion, or making all parties feel comfortable
“You have to think that we have become a
during the festivities, is sometimes less
society that accepts all types of genders and
simple. fluidity and how people identify; that is this
Jennifer Maas, a 27-year-old reporter on generation,” she said. “Same-sex weddings
“The Wrap,” a website covering the enter- have become normalized, and I think this
tainment and media industries, is getting will be, too. It will be: Who do you want in
married Oct. 6, 2018, in downtown Los An- your bridal party, a guy or a girl?”
ANGELA FLEMING OF NEW SEASONS PHOTOGRAPHY
One of the common questions with
mixed-gender wedding parties is what to
call the male bridesmaids or female
groomsmen. Are they bridesmen and
groomsmen or groomsmaids and brides-
mates? “People kept coming up with differ-
ent words,” Ms. Campbell said. “‘Groom’s
gal’ was a favorite. I was going with
‘groom’s human.’”
Ms. Khalil said she’s also seen many cou-
ples get creative with the wedding party’s
CAMBRIA GRACE
Top, Ben Ballard served as a
“bridesman” last year in Dallas
for his best friend, Alyssa
Shibata, and stood on the
bride’s side of the wedding
party. Above, Alex Yergin,
center, asked his best friend,
Ellen Campbell, to be a
“groom’s gal” at his September
wedding in Siasconset, Mass.
fashion. “You get girls wearing pantsuits or
men wearing accessories,” she said.
“What’s really fun is you get these amazing
bridal party photos where friends are ex-
pressing themselves.”
Some of the hardest details to figure out
are which wedding-related activities the
mixed-gender wedding party participants
would attend.
“We weren’t doing all-male bonding ac-
tivities before I got married; we were just
hanging out,” Mr. Yergin said. “There is
nothing I wanted to do on a bachelor party
that would have been single gender.”
Ms. Khalil, though, felt that clarity was
needed on these issues, so she created a
guide on her website. When it comes to
prewedding gifts, or example, the guide
suggests giving the men something that is
similar to what the women get, but not the
same. “There’s no rule that says the gifts
have to match perfectly,” it said.
More traditional families, however, might
be troubled by mixed-gender wedding par-
ties. “They are concerned about the rela-
tionship their son or daughter has with that
individual,” said Elaine Swann, a wedding-
etiquette expert in Los Angeles. “They
think there could be some romantic rela-
tionship involved there.”
Ms. Campbell once had two of the bride’s
family members ask her on the day of the
wedding why she had never dated Mr. Yer-
gin if they were such good friends. “It’s like
asking why didn’t you date your brother,”
she said. “But I think for them they were
just a little confused. They were in no way
mean or hostile. They were just curious be-
cause it’s out of the norm.”
Other bridesmaids or groomsmen may
feel uncomfortable, too, by having someone
of the opposite gender around them during
what have traditionally been same-sex
bonding activities.
“It might be better to err on the side of
traditionalism unless that individual is
clearly, clearly part of the entire family unit
where everyone would think it is the most
natural fit,” Ms. Swann said. “The concept is
neat, but it is so new that some families just
aren’t quite ready to accept it.”
Mr. Ballard, the bridesman, witnessed
the confused reaction of some guests.
“There is this picture of me walking down
the aisle with a lot of people being confused
and staring,” he said. “I think a lot of people
were wondering what is going on. But,
whatever.
“I got to actually hang out with my best
friend on her wedding day.”

WEDDINGS

Alana Liberman, Erica Stein,

Andrew Oosterhuis Matthew Goldman
. ................................................................................ . ................................................................................

Alana Michelle Liberman and Andrew Erica Rachel Stein and Matthew Brian
Scott Oosterhuis were married Dec. 16 at Goldman were married Dec. 16 at the An-
Twist Art Gallery in Toronto. Sarah Bun- gel Orensanz Foundation in Manhattan.
nett-Gibson, who was ordained by the Rabbi Paula M. Drill officiated.
Church of Movement of Spiritual Inner The bride, 34, is a vice president and
Awareness, officiated. assistant general counsel with JPMor- FFIITT TT O
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The bride, 30, is a development officer gan Chase Bank in Brooklyn. She gradu-
for the Y.M.C.A. of Greater Toronto. She ated from the University of Michigan in

gifted
gifted.
graduated from York University and re- Ann Arbor and received a law degree
from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
ceived a postgraduate certificate in fund-
Law in Manhattan.
raising and volunteer management from
She is the daughter of Joanne E. Stein
Humber College, both in Toronto. and Larry J. Stein of Occoquan, Va. The
She is the daughter of Jill C. Liberman bride’s father is the principal lawyer at a
and Ian Liberman of Thornhill, Ontario. firm bearing his name in Fairfax, Va. Her
The bride’s parents, both retired, were el- mother retired as a law firm administra-
ementary school teachers for the Toron- tor at the Fairfax office of Dechert, a Phil-
to District School Board. adelphia law firm.
The groom, 35, is the director of mar- The groom, also 34, is an advanced
keting in Toronto for Labatt Breweries of placement history teacher for Basis In-
Canada. He graduated with honors from dependent Brooklyn, a private school.
the University of Guelph in Guelph, On- He graduated from Boston University,
tario. from which he also received a master of
He is a son of Joanne C. Oosterhuis and arts degree in teaching for history edu-
John Oosterhuis of Nova Scotia. The cation.
groom’s parents, both retired, founded He is a son of Robin C. Goldman and
the nonprofit Hopewell Children’s Home Mark Goldman of West Caldwell, N.J.
in Ariss, Ontario, where the groom’s The groom’s mother, who is retired, was
a teacher at the Early Childhood Center FIT TO BE
mother, a registered nurse, served as
at the Congregation Agudath Israel, a
clinical manager, and his father as the ex-

gifted.
synagogue in West Caldwell. His father
ecutive director. is the founding partner of Goldman &
The couple met while watching profes- Beslow, a law firm in East Orange, N.J.
sional soccer during a Toronto FC match The couple met in November 2015
in summer 2013. through Match.com.

He Didn’t Check Messages.

And Now, He Says, ‘I Do.’
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 his left hand and held it out momentarily
my jokes,” Mr. Musiker said. “I’ve come for both of his parents to clasp, a way of
to find out that Tara is the most confi- getting them back together, if only for a
dent, goal-oriented person I have ever symbolic moment.
met in my entire life, and that she has a “Tara and Jake are the most loving and
heart the size of the entire universe. good and innately kind people you will
“All of this, combined with the fact that ever meet,” said the elder Mr. Musiker.
she’s pretty hot,” he added, “gives her a “They are really kindred spirits, a per-
radiance I have never seen in any other fect match who are truly meant for each
woman I have dated.” other.”
That steady road led them to the Palm Later at the cocktail hour, Ms. Black-
House, an event space on the leafy man’s father, standing beside her step-
grounds of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, mother, Beth Blackman, smiled as his
where Ms. Blackman and Mr. Musiker
eyes followed his daughter and her hus-
were married on Dec. 2.
band through a maze of tuxedoed serv-
“The fact that we are celebrating Tara
ers carrying Champagne and hors d’oeu-
and Jake’s wedding is a mini and modern
vres.
miracle,” Rabbi David Levy said. “This
could have been a missed connection for “Though I’m sad that Tara’s mother is
the two of you, but you are meant to be. not here to see this, it is still the happiest
The universe has plans far too big for you day of my life,” said Mr. Blackman, as the
to let a few years and a missed Facebook newlyweds pranced around the room,
message get in the way.” hugging and kissing many of their 230
During the ceremony, the bride, her guests.
outstretched hands interlocked with the “When Tara sees Jake, she just lights
groom’s, turned to her father, Clifford up, the same way she did when she first
Blackman, and said, through a flood of saw him that day on the beach,” he said.
tears: “I can feel Mom, she’s here with “This is what Tara always wanted, and
me right now.” Tara is the kind of girl who gets what she
A few moments later, the groom took wants. Just ask Jake.”
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Vows
WEDDINGS

Natalie Garagiola,
Edward Longosz III
. ................................................................................

Natalie Joy Garagiola and Edward John

Longosz III were married Dec. 16 at the
Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in
Washington. The Rev. Msgr. W. Ronald
LISA RUCKER Jameson performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Longosz, 27, is a marketing co-
Lauren Rieders, ordinator in Washington for National Jenna Lowenstein,
Ari Weiss Geographic Partners, which owns Na- Emily Norman
tional Geographic and other magazines,
. ................................................................................ as well as affiliated television networks. .................................................................................

Lauren Ashley Rieders and Ari Scott She graduated from the University of Jenna Ruth Lowenstein and Emily
Weiss were married Dec. 16. Rabbi San Diego. Rooke Norman were married Dec. 16 at
Steven Moskowitz officiated at Glen She is a daughter of Noel N. Garagiola Housing Works Bookstore in New York.
Head Country Club in Glen Head, N.Y. and Joseph Garagiola Jr. of Scottsdale, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum officiated with
Mrs. Weiss, 31, is an assistant vice Ariz. The bride’s father is the senior vice Ms. Norman’s father, Stuart R. Norman
president for employee relations at the president for standards and on-field op- Jr., leading the ring exchange and bless-
Moody’s Corporation, the credit rating erations at Major League Baseball in ing. STEPHEN LO, STYLE & STORY CREATIVE, COLUMBUS, OHIO

and research agency in Manhattan. She New York. He was the general manager Ms. Lowenstein (left), 30, is a digital
graduated with highest honors from Le- of the Arizona Diamondbacks from 1995 strategy adviser to Democratic organi- Lakshmi Satyanarayana,
high University and received a law de- to 2005. zations and candidates, including the Of- Diwakar Davar
gree cum laude from Hofstra. The bride’s grandfather, the late Joe fice of Hillary Rodham Clinton in New
...............................................................................................................................................................
She is the daughter of Iris A. Rieders Garagiola. was a former Major League York. She served as a digital director of
and Jeffrey H. Rieders of Bellmore, N.Y. Baseball player and sportscaster and a Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 presidential cam-
Her mother is a registered nurse at New-
York-Presbyterian Queens in Flushing.
host on the “Today” show from 1967-1973
and again from 1990-1992.
paign and as a vice president for digital
at Emily’s List from 2014-15. She graduat- Seeing a Kindred Soul in His Eyes
The bride’s father retired in June as an Mr. Longosz, 31, is the director of ed from Georgetown. Lakshmi Satyanarayana and Diwakar Davar were married Dec. 14
electrical tester for Metro-North Rail- scouting operations for the Washington She is the daughter of Deborah J. at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Singapore. Mr. Shriniwas
road in Manhattan. Nationals. He graduated from the Uni- Diefert of Box Elder, S.D., and Robert D. Rai, a former member of the 9th Parliament in Singapore, who is
Mr. Weiss, also 31, is a senior tax asso- versity of Richmond in Virginia. Lowenstein, of Morristown, N.J. Ms. also a justice of the peace there, officiated. Earlier in the day, De-
ciate in the affordable housing group, in Lowenstein’s father is a real estate in-
He is a son of Vickie S. Longosz and vakota Srinivasa Iyer, a Hindu priest, performed a religious ceremony at the
Manhattan, of CohnReznik, a profes- vestor in Morristown. Her mother re-
Mr. Longosz II of Great Falls, Va. The temple.
sional services company, and is also a tired as a clinical Medicare specialist at
certified public accountant. He graduat- groom’s mother is a senior attorney for AristaCare in South Plainfield, N.J., a The bride, who is 32 and will be taking her husband’s name, is of counsel at
ed cum laude from the C.W. Post campus the United States Department of Hous- health care management company. The Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio State Uni-
of Long Island University and received a ing and Urban Development in Wash- bride is the stepdaughter of Roberta versity and received a law degree cum laude from Capital University Law
master’s degree in accounting from ington. His father is the member-in- Decker Lowenstein and Al Diefert. School in Columbus.
Queens College. charge on the board of directors and ex- Ms. Norman, 31, is the vice president of She is a daughter of Dr. Shanthi Satyanarayana of Celina, Ohio, and the late
He is a son of Dr. Lyn D. Weiss and Dr. ecutive committee and the chair of com- analytics at the Global Strategy Group, a
mercial litigation for the law firm Eckert Dr. M.R. Satyanarayana. The bride’s mother is an internist in private practice in
Jay M. Weiss of Jericho, N.Y. His mother, political polling firm in New York. She
Seamans in Washington. Celina. Her father was a cardiologist in private practice, also in Celina.
a physiatrist, is chairwoman of the physi- has previously worked as an elections
cal medicine and rehabilitation depart- The couple met during the 2013 base- analyst for the Democratic National The groom, 36, is an oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen-
ment at Nassau University Medical Cen- ball season when both were working for Committee in Washington and oversaw ter, and an assistant professor there, specializing in melanoma and phase I drug
ter in East Meadow, N.Y. His father, also the Washington Nationals. Ms. Garagi- constituency analytics for President development. He received two degrees from the National University of Singa-
a physiatrist, is in private practice in ola, new to the team’s marketing depart- Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election cam- pore, a bachelor of medicine and a bachelor of surgery.
Syosset, N.Y. ment, was given a tour of the stadium by paign. She graduated from Bryn Mawr He is a son of Devika R. Davar and Dr. Gangatharan R. Davar of Singapore.
The couple met through JSwipe in Mr. Longosz, then the team’s coordina- College and received a master of public The groom’s mother retired as the vice president and company secretary of the
2015. tor of scouting. policy from Harvard. SIA Engineering Company, a part of the Singapore Airlines Group. His father,
Ms. Norman’s parents, Gail Rooke- who is also retired, worked in the attorney general's chambers in Singapore,
Norman and Mr. Norman of Griswold,
Conn., are lawyers with practices in Dan- where he specialized in real estate law.
ielson, Conn., and Jewett City, Conn., re- The couple met in March 2016, on shaadi.com, an Indian dating site. Each had
spectively. Mr. Norman is also a justice of exhausted all other means of trying to meet a significant other, from being set
the peace in Griswold. up by well-intentioned friends and relatives to tossing their profiles into “the
The couple met in Washington in 2013. alphabet soup of dating websites,” as Mr. Davar called it, with little success.
“Dating-wise, we were in a desultory spot,” Mr. Davar said. “I was in my final
year of fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh while Lakshmi was making a
Neena Lalchandani, name for herself among the 300 lawyers at Nationwide Insurance.”
Jonathan Hendershott But they finally connected, and it was Ms. Satyanarayana who made the first
electronic move after reading Mr. Davar’s profile, which included a long intro-
. ................................................................................
ductory paragraph, pictures of him wearing bike shorts and other photos of
Neena Ashley Lalchandani and Jona- trips he had taken around the world.
than David Hendershott were married “I sensed a kindred soul,” she said. “I saw it in his eyes and what he wrote in
Dec. 16 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church
the profile, he reminded me so much of my father, a man who came to the
in Celebration, Fla. Msgr. Daniel Dill-
abough, a friend of the groom’s family, United States from India and worked his tail off to make it in this country.”
performed the ceremony. So she reached out with a short missive, which went unanswered for two
Mrs. Hendershott, 34, is the chief mar- weeks.
keting officer for Zearn, a New York edu- When asked why his response took that long, Mr. Davar said without hesita-
cation technology company that pro- tion, “At least three reasons, I was talking to someone else, I was busy working
vides digital math curriculum for ele- and it takes me a long time to get back to people.”
mentary students. She graduated from When he finally responded, they began a conversation through the dating site
the University of Pennsylvania and re-
that lasted a single day before they started texting and calling each other daily.
ceived an M.B.A. from Harvard.
She is the daughter of Mary R. Two weeks later they arranged for a first date, in Columbus, where they went to
JENNY SOI PHOTOGRAPHY Lalchandani and Ajit M. Lalchandani of an Indian classical music concert, followed by dinner at a restaurant.
Orlando. The bride’s father is the county “The moment we sat down and started talking, I knew it was time to start
Annie Lee, administrator of Orange County, Fla. Her deleting all of my other texts with other women,” Mr. Davar said. “Lakshmi was
Landon Dickey mother is an owner of Taka Elevator, a so smart and beautiful and she’s a very hard worker.”
maintenance company in Orlando. They soon embarked on a long distance romance — she in Ohio, he in Penn-
. ............................................................................................................................................................... Mr. Hendershott, 32, is an advisory sylvania — that lasted until they were legally married.
manager of financial services in the “I loved him from the moment I saw him,” Ms. Satyanarayana said. “Since
management consulting group of Price-
Parallel Lives Until Something ‘Clicked’ waterhouseCoopers in New York. He we’ve been together, he’s given me a sense of calm and reassurance, he’s made
me feel proud of the things that I’ve accomplished so far in my life.”
Annie Lynne Lee and Landon Spiller Dickey were married Dec. 15. was a captain in the Army and from April
2008 to April 2009, completed a tour in Mr. Davar, who described himself as “someone who is not always as affec-
Jane Kim, a member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors, offici-
Iraq, where he served as a platoon leader tionate as I should be,” said that Ms. Satyanarayana brought to his life “a sense
ated at San Francisco City Hall.
and executive officer for the 101st Air- of caring more about people, especially family.”
Ms. Lee, 30, is a staff lawyer in San Francisco for the federal Edu- borne Division. He graduated from West “Thanks to her, everyone I know likes me a lot more now than they ever did
cation Department’s Office for Civil Rights. She graduated summa cum laude Point and received an M.B.A. from Indi- before.”
from the University of Pennsylvania, received a master’s degree in teaching ana University. VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
from Fordham and received a law degree cum laude from Harvard. In 2009-11, He is the son of Dr. Anne B. Hender-
she was a Teach for America corps member, teaching history at a high school in shott and Dana P. Hendershott of Mil-
the Bronx. She is a daughter of Bor Szeto Lee and George Lee of South San ford, Conn. The groom’s mother is a pro-
Francisco, Calif. The bride’s father retired as a self-employed residential con- fessor of sociology and public affairs at
struction and renovations contractor in South San Francisco. Her mother is a King’s College in New York. The groom’s
letter carrier in San Francisco for the Postal Service. father retired as chief administrative of- Arielle Carpenter, Jade Sank,
ficer of the Insurance Group in Canton,
Mr. Dickey, also 30, works for the San Francisco Unified School District as the
Mass. He is on the board of the Human Jonathan Rogg Daniel Ross
special assistant to the superintendent for African-American achievement and Life Review, a quarterly journal pub- . .............................................................................. . ...............................................................................
leadership. He graduated cum laude and received an M.B.A. from Harvard, and lished in New York.
also received a master’s degree in teaching from Hunter College. From 2009-11, The couple met in 2016 at a restaurant Arielle Halee Carpenter and Dr. Jona- Jade Anna Sank and Daniel Seth Ross
he was a Teach for America corps member, also in the Bronx, teaching special in Tampa, Fla., while waiting for their re- than Gedalia Rogg were married Dec. 16 are to be married Dec. 17 at 501 Union, an
education students. He is the son of Pamela R. Dickey and Dr. Leonel V. Dickey spective parties to arrive. by Cantor Ann Turnoff at the Embassy event space in Brooklyn. Rabbi Nancy
of San Francisco. The groom’s mother retired as a sales representative in San Suites Deerfield Beach Resort & Spa in Wiener is to officiate with Rabbi Andrea
Francisco for Merck & Company. His father is a dentist in private practice, with Florida. Weiss taking part.
offices in San Francisco and in San Jose, Calif. Melanie Goldberg, Mrs. Rogg, 30, is the health care inno- The couple met in Manhattan in 2012 at
vation lead at the Texas Medical Center
The couple met when both were 17, at an event for high school seniors who had Benjamin Silver Innovation Institute in Houston, where
an open house for prospective students
been accepted to Brown University. The gathering was in the backyard of a at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish In-
. ................................................................................
she plans curriculum and programming stitute of Religion, from which they both
house in San Francisco’s Presidio neighborhood that belonged to a Brown alum- to assist early stage health care compa-
nus. Ms. Lee remembers the moment vividly; Mr. Dickey does not. Melanie Rachel Goldberg and Benjamin received master’s degrees in Hebrew lit-
nies with growth and development. She
Gordon Silver are to be married Dec. 17 erature and from which both are rabbini-
Their next meeting was more than a year later. Both had summer internships graduated cum laude from Tufts, where
by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld at Temple cal students in their final year.
in the San Francisco office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Ms. Lee recognized she also received a master of public
Beth El in Cedarhurst, N.Y. health. She received an M.B.A. from the The bride, 27, is a rabbinical intern at
him immediately. “I ran up to him and said, ‘Did you go to Brown or Harvard?’
Ms. Goldberg, 26, is a law clerk at Tet- Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. the Congregation Emanu-El of West-
He responded, ‘Who are you?’” she said. This time, she made an impression. chester in Rye, N.Y. She graduated,
“She’s incredibly passionate, a force of nature, full of life,” Mr. Dickey said. zlaff Law Offices in Chicago. She gradu- She is the daughter of Amy B. Car-
ated magna cum laude from Brooklyn penter and Dr. Neal M. Carpenter of magna cum laude, from Brandeis Uni-
He has impressed her, too. “There are not very many people who would go to versity.
College and received a law degree from Boca Raton, Fla. The bride’s father, an
Harvard undergrad and Harvard Business School and yet would come back to emergency doctor, retired from the Del- She is a daughter of Carol B. Sank and
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
their communities to make sure that other people get the same opportunities he ray Medical Center in Delray Beach, David A. Sank of Northport, N.Y. The
She is a daughter of Nava Goldberg
did,” she said Fla. Her mother, a lawyer, is the director bride’s father is the chief operating offi-
and Murray L. Goldberg of Flatbush,
Working together, they became friends, and even went to a movie together, of the Patten Family Companies, a real cer of Calico Cottage, a fudge company in
Brooklyn. The bride's father is an ac-
“Snakes on a Plane,” but it was a friends event, not a romantic outing. estate development company in Wil- Amityville, N.Y. Her mother, who is re-
countant in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Her
The next summer, she interned in Ms. Feinstein’s Washington office and he liamstown, Mass. tired, was a teller at Boca Bank in Boca
mother, also a lawyer, retired from the
interned for then-Senator Barack Obama. Ms. Lee and Mr. Dickey renewed their Dr. Rogg, 35, is also an emergency Raton, Fla.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority. doctor and an assistant professor of
friendship. With emphasis still on the “friends.” The groom, 30, is a rabbinical intern at
Mr. Silver, 25, is pursuing a Ph.D. in so- emergency medicine and the director of
Both joined Teach for America after college, and both were assigned schools in Columbia/Barnard Hillel in Manhattan.
cial thought at the University of Chicago, emergency department operations at
New York City. But they saw each other only a couple of times. He graduated, summa cum laude, from
from which he received a bachelor’s de- the University of Texas Health Science
Both went to Harvard for graduate school. And after their first year of grad the University of Pennsylvania and re-
gree, with honors. He was previously an Center at Houston McGovern Medical
school, both returned to San Francisco for the summer. ceived a master’s degree in secondary
assistant editor for National Affairs, a School. He graduated from M.I.T. and education from American University in
Once again, they met up. But this time, for Mr. Dickey at least, there was quarterly journal published in Washing- received a medical degree from Tufts
Washington.
something new. “Something just clicked for me,” he said. ton. and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
He is the son of Beth M. Ross and Dr. S.
When they got back to Massachusetts in the fall, he invited her to a party. He is the son of Pamela S. Gordon Sil- He is a son of Ruth S. Rogg of Clear-
water, Fla., and William N. Rogg of West Michael Ross of Merion Station, Pa. The
They shared a cab afterward and after she got out, he found himself calling her ver and David M. Silver of Dallas, where
Palm Beach, Fla. The groom’s mother, groom’s mother is an accountant in pri-
and asking her to come back outside and meet him for just a moment. the groom’s mother is a manager of plans
now retired, was an elementary math vate practice in Merion Station, Pa. His
It was 2012, and they had led parallel lives for seven years. and controls at Concentra, a health care
and reading tutor in Tampa, Fla. His fa- father is a physician executive and
“We met out on the street in front of the house, and I told her I really liked her, company. His father, now retired, sold in-
ther, a lawyer, retired from private prac- founder of Connected Health Strategies,
asked if I could kiss her,” he said. “And she said yes.” surance for Penn Mutual in Dallas.
tice in Montreal. a consultancy focused on business devel-
The couple met in Washington in 2016 opment for the company’s digital health
NINA REYES
at the Kesher Israel Congregation. The couple met in 2013 through the
dating app OkCupid. care clients in Merion Station.
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The Harvey Weinstein story Cheers to our darkest days. Need the perfect gift What it means to be Spanish
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Let’s put a human on Mars. Consent is more than just yes year? Stop shopping. The tax bill that inequality
BY TIM KREIDER or no. BY JESSICA BENNET T BY ANN PATCHET T created.

IDEAS OPINION NEWS ANALYSIS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

A Very
Merry
War on
Christmas

NICOLAS ORTEGA

T
O hear the Christian right tell it, President
Conservative media spawns a Trump should be a candidate for sainthood —
much the human embodiment of the question “What
would Jesus not do?”
new religious worldview: ‘Fox that is, if evangelicals believed in saints.
“Never in my lifetime have we had a Potus
But what those critics don’t recognize is that the na-
tionalistic, race-baiting, fear-mongering form of politics
evangelicalism.’ willing to take such a strong outspoken stand for the enthusiastically practiced by Mr. Trump and Roy Moore
Christian faith like Donald Trump,” tweeted Franklin in Alabama is central to a new strain of American evan-
Graham, the son of the evangelist Billy Graham. The
gelicalism. This emerging religious worldview — let’s
OPINION Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress sees a divine hand at
call it “Fox evangelicalism” — is preached from the pul-
work: “God intervened in our election and put Donald
BY AMY SULLIVAN pits of conservative media outlets like Fox News. It im-
Trump in the Oval Office for a great purpose.”
The author of “The Party Faithful” Testimonials like this confound critics who label con- bues secular practices like shopping for gifts with reli-
and co-host of the podcast Impolite servative evangelical figures like Mr. Graham and Mr. gious significance and declares sacred something as
Company. Jeffress hypocrites for embracing a man who is pretty Continued on Page 6

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Did Genocide Destroy This Village?

SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE
MYANMAR BORDER
in class in a makeshift refugee camp. Her
mind drifts to her memory of seeing her
‘They grabbed my baby rights organization called Fortify Rights,
argues that there is “growing evidence of

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‘‘
THNIC cleansing” and even
“genocide” are antiseptic and
abstract terms. What they
mean in the flesh is a soldier
grabbing a crying baby girl named
Suhaifa by the leg and flinging her into a
bonfire. Or troops locking a 15-year-old
girl in a hut and setting it on fire.
The children who survive are left
haunted: Noor Kalima, age 10, struggles
father and little brother shot dead, her
baby sister’s and infant brother’s throats
cut, the machete coming down on her
own head, her hut burning around her . . .
and it’s difficult to focus on multiplication
tables.
“Sometimes I can’t concentrate on my
class,” Noor explained. “I want to throw
up.”
In the past I’ve referred to Myanmar’s
by the leg and threw her
into the fire.’
atrocities against its Rohingya Muslim
minority as “ethnic cleansing,” but in-
creasingly there are indications that the
carnage may amount to genocide. The
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
backed by a Myanmar-focused human
genocide,” and Yale scholars made a sim-
ilar argument even before the latest
spasms of violence.
Romeo Dallaire, a legendary former
United Nations general, describes it as
“very deliberate genocide.” The U.N. hu-
man rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein,
told me, “It would not surprise me at all if
a court in the future were to judge that
Continued on Page 4
2 SR THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

FRANK BRUNI

Are You Old? Infirm? Then Kindly Disappear

LITCHFIELD PARK, ARIZ. Phoenix suburb of Litchfield Park,

N
ANCY ROOT remembers when
she vanished.
Not the exact date, but the
occasion: She went shopping
for a mattress. This was a few years ago.
Because the mall was so big and her legs
were so weak, she used a wheelchair,
which was new to her, and had a friend
push her.
Their wait for service was unusually
long, and later, as she used the wheel-
chair more and more, she understood
why. In the chair she became invisible. In
the chair she turned radioactive. People
looked over her, around her, through her.
They withdrew. It was the craziest thing.
She had the same keen mind, the same
quick wit. But most new acquaintances
didn’t notice, because most no longer
bothered to.
She told me all of this recently not in
anger but in bafflement. Could I explain
why her infirmity and her age — she’s 82
— erase her? She has her own theories.
Maybe strangers worry that she’ll need
something from them. Maybe they see in
her their worst fears about their own fu-
tures.
Probably they extrapolate from her
physical diminishment. “They think I’m
Nancy Root, 82,
mentally incapacitated,” she said. “I’m
has post-polio sure of that. I’d stake my life on it.”
syndrome, which
“Doctors’ offices are the worst,” she
forces her to use added, describing how receptionists ad-
a wheelchair. dress whoever’s pushing her. “I’m not ac-
knowledged. ‘Does this lady have an ap-
pointment?’ ‘Does this lady have her
medical card?’ They don’t allow this lady
to have a brain.”
But it’s not just receptionists. It’s flight
attendants. Movie-theater employees.
They make dismissive assumptions
about people above a certain age or be-
low a certain level of physical compe-
tence. Or they simply edit those people
out of the frame.
I met Nancy on a Baltic cruise in Sep-
tember, and I couldn’t edit her out of the
frame because she was smack in the mid-
dle of it, right in front of me, asking smart
questions and making even smarter ob-
servations. I was one of five speakers
giving lectures to a group of about 60
passengers, including her, who’d signed
up for them. She traveled with two
younger friends who helped her negoti-
ate the ship’s narrow corridors.
But after chatting extensively with the
three of them at an initial cocktail-hour
reception in one of the lounges, I didn’t
spot them at our group’s subsequent so-
cial gatherings there. An email that she
sent me the following month solved that
mystery. “On our cruise,” she wrote, “I
again experienced the uneasiness of peo-
ple toward us ‘physically challenged’
types. Even among our educated group,
people ignored me.” So she parceled out
her exposure to them. She and her com-
panions did their own thing.
The more I thought about her experi-
ence, the more I realized how wide-
spread it undoubtedly is, and how cruel.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimate that more than two
million Americans use wheelchairs for
their daily activities and 6.5 million de-
pend on canes, crutches or walkers.
And the country is getting grayer and
grayer. There are roughly 50 million
Americans age 65 and older, represent-
ing about 15 percent of the population.
According to projections, there will be 98
million by 2060, representing nearly 25
percent.
Nancy’s infirmity is unusual and goes
back to when she was a 2-year-old in the
Pittsburgh area in the late 1930s. She had
polio, though her parents, knowing how
ostracized children with the virus could
be, kept that a secret.
“They destroyed all the evidence,” she
said, “and they never told me.” Only
CONOR E. RALPH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
many decades after the fact did she fig-
ure out the truth, and only in recent years
did post-polio syndrome — a condition
that afflicts many childhood survivors of
the disease — degrade her muscles to a
point where was forced to use a cane,
then a wheelchair.
Her health was good for most of her
life, as she attended Oberlin College,
Perhaps without meaning
to, many of us ignore a big
chunk of the population.
married, had a daughter and went to
work for the National Science Founda-
tion and then the Department of Agricul-
ture, where she was an analyst. Her ca-
reer, she said, made her as conspicuous
in her suburban Washington neighbor-
hood as she is invisible in other settings
now. “It was frowned upon,” she told me,
noting that most of the other mothers
back then stayed home. “But I loved it.”
She and her husband retired to the
where she now lives alone in their three-
bedroom apartment. About five years
ago, he felt a twinge on the treadmill and
was found to have pancreatic cancer.
Three months later, he was dead.
That sped her decline. Her arms grew
feebler, her legs wobblier. Her pain inten-
sified. Vanity be damned, she wore one of
those pendants to be pressed if she fell.
But she once forgot to put it on, tripped
and lay on the living-room floor from 9
p.m. to 8 a.m., when a housekeeper hap-
pened to arrive. She recounted the
episode to me in a tone of wonder at life’s
freaky occurrences and at our ability to
get through them. There wasn’t a scin-
tilla of self-pity in her voice.
She considers herself lucky because
her daughter is nearby. She has all the
money that she needs. “I have my mind,”
she said, “and I see where others are los-
ing theirs.” She reads for many hours ev-
ery day.
Books were a big topic for us when I
visited her a few weeks ago. It frustrates
her that she has never finished “Ulys-
ses” or “Finnegans Wake.” We talked
about politics, too. About Singapore,
where she traveled — with a wheelchair
and helpers — about two years ago.
About her job with the Agriculture De-
partment and how ethical and underap-
preciated she always found farmers to
be.
Two nights in a row we went out for
Italian food, and she insisted on using
her cane instead of her chair. She can do
that if she takes a Percocet just before-
hand and reconciles herself to a snail’s
pace. Toward the end of the second night,
after two glasses of wine apiece, we
mulled the vocabulary of her lot. I con-
fessed that I cringed whenever she
called herself “crippled,” which she does,
because she values directness and has a
streak of mischief in her.
“Well, ‘handicapped’ isn’t supposed to
be O.K., and I’m not going to call myself
‘differently abled,’ ” she said. “You’re a
writer. Give me a word.”
“What about ‘limited’?” I said. “We’re
all limited in ways. You’re limited in a
particular way.”
I noticed that our server would stand
closer to me than to Nancy and was more
voluble with me, even though she could
see, if she looked, how vibrant Nancy
was.
Nancy increasingly makes peace with
such neglect but told me that an elderly,
infirm friend of hers has another ap-
proach. “She tells people to go to hell,”
Nancy said. “I need to take a course from
her.”
I don’t know about that. But the rest of
us have a lot to learn.

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Randi Weingarten, President
American Federation of Teachers
Republican leaders in Congress make
no secret of prioritizing tax cuts for
their wealthy donors and corporate
allies over the needs of people who
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with the president’s full-throated
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Americans get it, even though the
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Why the hurry? Why not wait—as
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That would respect the will of voters,
and it would allow for transparency
so the details of this far-reaching tax
cut legislation for the wealthy can be
examined. But GOP leaders are dig-
ging in: They know that time, sunlight
and their dwindling Senate majority
all work against them, so they’re
operating as swiftly and secretly as
they can. Even so, only 26 percent
of voters approve of their plan.
A key reason is that for all the talk of
this being a “middle-class tax plan,”
this is a tax increase plan for millions
of middle-income Americans. Even
with the deductions that Republicans
have been shamed into restoring, such
as those for high medical expenses,
taxes could go up for 87 million
middle-class families, including 67
million making less than $100,000
annually. It will strip 13 million
Americans of their health insurance
and raise premiums on the individual
market by an average of $2,000 per
year. That doesn’t even count the
It’s estimated that more than
60 percent of the tax cuts will go to
the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
The plan lowers the top tax rate for
upper-income households and slashes
the corporate tax rate. While union
members will no longer be able to
deduct their dues, people who own
private jets will get a break. This is an
obscene transfer of wealth upward
at a time of record corporate profits
and income inequality, while sticking
it to wage earners, whose incomes
have been stagnant for decades.
Perhaps worst of all, the GOP plan
pays for corporate tax cuts by
eviscerating the deduction for state
and local taxes, which pay for public
education, public colleges, public
safety and infrastructure. Millions
The “middle-class tax plan” could increase taxes
for up to 87 million middle-income families.
of people will pay more taxes and,
as a result, that will make it harder
for states and communities to raise
money for these public investments.
Squeezing funding for public schools
and services is especially cruel at
a time when at least 29 states are
spending less on public education
than before the Great Recession.
Raising taxes on ordinary Americans
still won’t cover all the breaks for
corporations and the wealthy, so the
GOP is mortgaging America’s future—
by jacking up the federal deficit by
at least $1 trillion. This will limit our
ability to invest in the infrastructure,
health, education and retirement
programs the country needs, and
will saddle ordinary Americans with
the tab for generations to come.
Republican lawmakers’ erstwhile
aversion to deficits may be gone for
now, but not for long. House Speaker
Paul Ryan already has said, “We’re
going to have to get back next year
at entitlement reform, which is how
you tackle the debt and the deficit.”
Translation: Blow up the deficit
though tax cuts, then use the debt
as an excuse to slash education,
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security,
housing and hunger programs—
shredding the social safety net.
The AFT and our members have
worked around the clock to mitigate
some of the most harmful elements
in earlier versions of this legislation.
But given the rushed, dark-of-night
process the GOP has used, we are
still discovering new ways the bill
will harm working families, such as
parents of college students likely
seeing a larger tax increase under
the bill than taxpayers in general.
Sadly, most but not all Republican
lawmakers have sided with donors
and turned their backs on their
constituents. They have made the
calculation that between tweetstorms,
the holidays and the 24-hour news
cycle, Americans won’t notice or
won’t object to this reprehensible
rewarding of the rich at the expense
of everyone else. But GOP lawmakers’
hypocrisy and contempt for people
who work hard for a living will not
go unnoticed—now or in November.
Pamela Wolfe
Don’t Thank Black
Women, Follow Us
W
HEN I joined the 470,000
other women who walked
down Constitution Avenue
toward the National Mall
on Jan. 21, the day after Donald Trump’s
inauguration, I carried a sign saying,
“Don’t Forget, White Women Voted for
Trump.”
My message stood in stark contrast to
the theme of togetherness that domi-
nated the Women’s March — the pink
“pussy hats” and “girl power” placards,
and chants about how women would lead
the resistance. This was exactly the
point. I made the sign to communicate
that in a world where 53 percent of white
women voters chose a racist, elitist sexu-
al predator for president, the idea that
we all want the same thing is a myth.
The point wasn’t to antagonize the
Women’s March participants, who were
mostly white. Rather, I wanted to high-
light that on a national level, white wom-
en are not unified in opposition to Trump-
ism and can’t be counted on to fight it. In-
stead, it’s the identity, experience and
leadership of black women that we must
look to.
Democrats want to position them-
selves as a pro-woman, pro-immigrant,
pro-equality party. We do ourselves a dis-
service if we believe the myth that a ma-
jority of white women voting in the era of
Trump are moved by that message. The
numbers don’t lie: For many white wom-
en, it’s racial identity, not gender or party,
that guides their choices in the voting
booth. As my sign pointed out, in 2016
more than half of white female voters
chose Mr. Trump. A year later, in Virgin-
ia, 51 percent of white women voted for
the Republican Ed Gillespie, who lost af-
ter running an anti-immigrant, white-na-
tionalist-sympathizing, Steve Bannon-
backed campaign for governor.
Last week, by late Tuesday evening,
we learned that two-thirds of white fe-
male voters in Alabama had once again
voted for the Trump agenda, casting bal-
lots for Roy Moore, a man accused of sex-
ually assaulting teenagers and one with
a dismal record on civil rights who was
on tape saying the country was last
“great” during slavery.
Despite this, the Democratic candi-
date, Doug Jones, was able to score an
unlikely victory thanks to the historic
turnout of black voters — specifically,
black women. A full 98 percent cast bal-
ies to all those emerging resistance
groups.
At a time when others are clinging to
or are willing to tolerate political mes-
sages rooted in white nationalism and
fear, black women are the voters who’ve
consistently rejected these things. We’re
keenly aware that issues that affect us OPINION
and our communities are always on the
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mobilizing our communities to vote. In
Alabama, leaders like Lenice C. Emanuel
of the Alabama Institute for Social Jus-
tice and Felecia Lucky of the Black Belt
Community Foundation spent years
building the infrastructure that led to
The numbers don’t lie. We’re the
real leaders of the Democratic Party.
Tuesday night’s victory. In Virginia,
projects like In Charge: Black Women
Taking Action tapped into the turnout
power of black women to engage over
300 black female volunteers and contact
nearly 5,000 voters in the final three
weeks before Election Day.
BlackPAC, led by Adrianne Shrop-
shire, was on the ground before the elec-
tions in Virginia and in Alabama, with an
army of canvassers. Other groups led by
black women, like the Movement for
Black Lives Electoral Project, Woke Vote
and Southerners on New Ground, do this
work across the country and need sup-
port.
Instead of taking this political talent,
enthusiasm and energy for granted —
and instead of wasting energy on white
voters who don’t share its values — the
Democratic Party should invest in ampli-
fying black women’s proven dedication
to the party. As a first step, perhaps some
would-be candidates who think of them-
selves as “next in line” should step aside
and make space for more black women

automatic Medicare cuts of $25 billion
next year this corporate tax cut bill
triggers, as well as hundreds of billions
of dollars in automatic cuts to other
social services over the next decade.
lots for Mr. Jones. Ninety-eight percent.
If I had to make another sign after the
Alabama election, it would say this: “Bet
on black women. Follow black women.
Weingarten at a Nov. 29 news conference with Republican legislators and business leaders
who oppose the GOP leadership’s tax overhaul. Give power to black women.” I’d wave it
in front of the headquarters of the Demo-
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cratic National Committee and every po-
www.aft.org litical start-up’s office, and pass out cop-
like Tishaura Jones in St. Louis and
Stacey Abrams in Georgia.
Black women are being widely cred-
ited for saving the day in Alabama, and
that credit is one small step in the right
direction. But we don’t need thanks — we
need you to get out of the way and follow
our lead.

Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too
H
ARVEY WEINSTEIN was a
passionate cinephile, a risk
taker, a patron of talent in film,
a loving father and a monster.
For years, he was my monster.
This fall, I was approached by report-
ers, through different sources, including
OPINION my dear friend Ashley Judd, to speak
about an episode in my life that, although
BY SALMA
painful, I thought I had made peace with.
HAYEK
I had brainwashed myself into thinking
An actor and that it was over and that I had survived; I
producer. hid from the responsibility to speak out
with the excuse that enough people were
already involved in shining a light on my
monster.
In reality, I was trying to save myself
the challenge of explaining several things
to my loved ones: Why, when I had casu-
ally mentioned that I had been bullied like
many others by Harvey, I had excluded a
couple of details. And why, for so many
years, we have been cordial to a man who
hurt me so deeply.
When so many women came forward to
describe what Harvey had done to them, I
had to confront my cowardice and hum-
bly accept that my story, as important as
it was to me, was nothing but a drop in an
ocean of sorrow and confusion.
We are finally becoming conscious of a
vice that has been socially accepted and
has insulted and humiliated millions of
girls like me, for in every woman there is a
girl. I am inspired by those who had the
courage to speak out, especially in a soci-
ety that elected a president who has been
accused of sexual harassment and assault
by more than a dozen women and whom
we have all heard make a statement about
how a man in power can do anything he
wants to women.
Well, not anymore.
In the 14 years that I stumbled from
schoolgirl to Mexican soap star to an ex-
tra in a few American films to catching a
couple of lucky breaks in “Desperado”
and “Fools Rush In,” Harvey Weinstein
had become the wizard of a new wave of
cinema that took original content into the
mainstream. At the same time, it was un-
imaginable for a Mexican actress to as-
pire to a place in Hollywood. And even
He said yes to ‘Frida.’ Then it was my turn
to say no to him at all hours of the night.
though I had proven them wrong, I was
still a nobody.
One of the forces that gave me the de-
termination to pursue my career was the
story of Frida Kahlo, who in the golden
age of the Mexican muralists would do
small intimate paintings that everybody
looked down on. My greatest ambition
was to tell her story. It became my mis-
sion to portray the life of this extraordi-
nary artist and to show my native Mexico
in a way that combated stereotypes.
The Weinstein empire, which was then
Miramax, had become synonymous with
quality, sophistication and risk taking — a
haven for artists who were complex and
defiant. It was everything that Frida was
to me and everything I aspired to be.
I had started a journey to produce the
film with a different company, but I fought
to get it back to take it to Harvey.
I was acquainted with him a little bit
through my relationship with the director
Robert Rodriguez, with whom I had done
several films. All I knew of Harvey at the
time was that he had a remarkable intel-
lect, he was a loyal friend and a family
man.
Knowing what I know now, I wonder if
it wasn’t my friendship with Robert — and
Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney —
that saved me from being raped.
The deal we made initially was that
Harvey would pay for the rights of work I
had already developed. As an actress, I
would be paid the minimum Screen Ac-
tors Guild scale plus 10 percent. As a
producer, I would receive a credit that
Ms. Hayek as
the Mexican
artist Frida
Kahlo on the
set of “Frida”
in Puebla,
Mexico, in
2001. “My
greatest
ambition was
to tell her
story,” Ms.
Hayek writes.
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would not yet be defined, but no payment,
which was not that rare for a female
producer in the ’90s. He also demanded a
signed deal for me to do several other
films with Miramax, which I thought
would cement my status as a leading lady.
I did not care about the money. In my
naïveté, I thought my dream had come
true. He had taken a chance on me — a
nobody. He had said yes.
Little did I know it would become my
turn to say no.
No to opening the door to him at all
hours of the night, hotel after hotel, loca-
tion after location, where he would show
up unexpectedly, including one location
where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even
involved with.
No to me taking a shower with him.
No to letting him watch me take a
shower.
No to letting him give me a massage.
No to letting a naked friend of his give
me a massage.
No to letting him give me oral sex.
No to my getting naked with another
woman.
No, no, no, no, no . . .
And with every refusal came Harvey’s
Machiavellian rage.
I don’t think he hated anything more
than the word “no.” The absurdity of his
demands went from getting a furious call
in the middle of the night asking me to fire
my agent for a fight he was having with
him about a different movie with a differ-
ent client to physically dragging me out of
the opening gala of the Venice Film Festi-
val, which was in honor of “Frida,” so I
could hang out at his private party with
him and some women I thought were
models but I was told later were high-
priced prostitutes.
The range of his persuasion tactics
went from sweet-talking me to that one
time when, in an attack of fury, he said the
terrifying words, “I will kill you, don’t
think I can’t.”
When he was finally convinced that I
was not going to earn the movie the way
he had expected, he told me he had of-
fered my role and my script with my years
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of research to another actress.
In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t
even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody,
but a body.
At that point, I had to resort to using
lawyers, not by pursuing a sexual har-
assment case, but by claiming “bad faith,”
as I had worked so hard on a movie that he
was not intending to make or sell back to
me.
He claimed that my name as an actress
was not big enough and that I was incom-
petent as a producer, but to clear himself
legally, as I understood it, he gave me a
list of impossible tasks with a tight dead-
line:
1. Get a rewrite of the script, with no ad-
ditional payment.
2. Raise $10 million to finance the film.
3. Attach an A-list director.
4. Cast four of the smaller roles with
prominent actors.
M
UCH to everyone’s amaze-
ment, not least my own, I de-
livered, thanks to a phalanx of
angels who came to my res-
cue. The brilliant Julie Taymor agreed to
direct, and from then on she became my
rock. For the other roles, I recruited my
friends Antonio Banderas, Edward Nor-
ton and Ashley Judd.
Now Harvey Weinstein was not only re-
jected but also about to do a movie he did
not want to do.
Ironically, once we started filming, the
sexual harassment stopped but the rage
escalated.
Halfway through shooting, Harvey
turned up on set and complained about
Frida’s “unibrow.” He insisted that I elimi-
nate the limp and berated me over my
performance. Then he asked everyone in
the room to step out except for me. He told
me that the only thing I had going for me
was my sex appeal and that there was
none of that in this movie. He said he was
going to shut down the film because no
one would want to see me in that role.
It was soul crushing because, I confess,
lost in the fog of a sort of Stockholm syn-
drome, I wanted him to see me as an art-
ist: not only as a capable actress but also
as somebody who could identify a com-
pelling story and had the vision to tell it in
an original way.
I was hoping he would acknowledge me
as a producer, who, on top of delivering
his list of demands, shepherded the script
and obtained the permits to use the paint-
ings. I had negotiated with the Mexican
government, and with whomever I had to,
to get locations that had never been given
to anyone in the past — including Frida
Kahlo’s houses and the murals of Kahlo’s
husband, Diego Rivera, among others.
All of this seemed to have no value. The
only thing he noticed was that I was not
sexy in the movie.
He offered me one option to continue.
He would let me finish the film if I agreed
to do a sex scene with another woman.
And he demanded full-frontal nudity.
He had been constantly asking for
more skin, for more sex. Once before, Ju-
lie Taymor got him to settle for a tango
ending in a kiss instead of the lovemaking
scene he wanted between the character
Tina Modotti, played by Ashley Judd, and
Frida.
But this time, it was clear to me he
would never let me finish this movie with-
out him having his fantasy one way or an-
other.
I had to say yes. So many years of my
life had gone into this film. We were about
five weeks into shooting, and I had con-
vinced so many talented people to partici-
pate. So I agreed to do the senseless
scene.
I arrived on the set the day we were to
shoot the scene that I believed would save
the movie. And for the first and last time
in my career, I had a nervous breakdown:
My body began to shake uncontrollably,
my breath was short and I began to cry
and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throw-
ing up tears.
Since those around me had no knowl-
edge of my history of Harvey, they were
very surprised by my struggle that morn-
ing. It was not because I would be naked
with another woman. It was because I
would be naked with her for Harvey
Weinstein. But I could not tell them then.
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My mind understood that I had to do it,
but my body wouldn’t stop crying and
convulsing. At that point, I started throw-
ing up while a set frozen still waited to
shoot. I had to take a tranquilizer, which
eventually stopped the crying but made
the vomiting worse. As you can imagine,
this was not sexy, but it was the only way I
could get through the scene.
By the time the filming of the movie
was over, I was so emotionally distraught
that I had to distance myself during the
postproduction.
When Harvey saw the cut film, he said
it was not good enough for a theatrical re-
lease and that he would send it straight to
video.
This time Julie had to fight him without
me and got him to agree to release the film
in one movie theater in New York if we
tested it to an audience and we scored at
least an 80.
Less than 10 percent of films achieve
that score on a first screening.
I didn’t go to the test. I anxiously
awaited to receive the news. The film
scored 85.
And again, I heard Harvey raged. In the
lobby of a theater after the screening, he
screamed at Julie. He balled up one of the
scorecards and threw it at her. It bounced
off her nose. Her partner, the film’s com-
poser Elliot Goldenthal, stepped in, and
Harvey physically threatened him.
Months later, in October 2002, this film,
about my hero and inspiration — this
Mexican artist who never truly got ac-
knowledged in her time with her limp and
her unibrow, this film that Harvey never
wanted to do, gave him a box office suc-
Why do so many of us, as female artists,
have to go to war to tell our stories?
cess that no one could have predicted, and
despite his lack of support, added six
Academy Award nominations to his col-
lection, including best actress.
Even though “Frida” eventually won
him two Oscars, I still didn’t see any joy.
He never offered me a starring role in a
movie again.
Years later, when I ran into him at an
event, he pulled me aside and told me he
had stopped smoking and he had had a
heart attack. He said he’d fallen in love
and married Georgina Chapman, and that
he was a changed man. Finally, he said to
me: “You did well with ‘Frida’; we did a
beautiful movie.”
I believed him. Harvey would never
know how much those words meant to
me. He also would never know how much
he hurt me. When I saw him socially, I’d
smile and try to remember the good
things about him, telling myself that I
went to war and I won.
B
UT why do so many of us, as fe-
male artists, have to go to war to
tell our stories when we have so
much to offer? Why do we have to
fight tooth and nail to maintain our dig-
nity?
I think it is because we, as women, have
been devalued artistically to an indecent
state, to the point where the film industry
stopped making an effort to find out what
female audiences wanted to see and what
stories we wanted to tell.
According to a recent study, between
2007 and 2016, only 4 percent of directors
were female and 80 percent of those got
the chance to make only one film. And
people wonder why you didn’t hear our
voices sooner. I think the statistics are
self-explanatory — our voices are not wel-
come.
Until there is equality in our industry,
with men and women having the same
value in every aspect of it, our community
will continue to be a fertile ground for
predators.
I am grateful for everyone who is listen-
ing to our experiences. I hope that adding
my voice to the chorus of those who are
finally speaking out will shed light on why
it is so difficult, and why so many of us
have waited so long. Men sexually har-
assed because they could. Women are
talking today because, in this new era, we
finally can.
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Did Genocide Destroy This Village?

TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

hut on fire.
From Page 1 As bits of the burning roof fell down on them,
Hasina said, she and Asma broke a hole in the
Dilbar Begum acts of genocide had taken place.”
side of the hut and ran away naked. They
and her You judge: Here’s what Noor and her
rolled in mud to soothe their burns, and the
daughter Noor mother, Dilbar Begum, say happened in their
next day they found a Rohingya house and
Kalima, 10, are village, Tula Toli. First, the Myanmar Army
begged for the man inside to throw out clothes
separated the women and girls from the men
the only so that they could cover themselves.
and boys.
survivors of a “Then they shot the men and boys,” Dilbar
family of six.

recalled. “I saw them kill my husband and son.
I was screaming.”
I delicately tried to probe whether Noor had
seen the murders of her father and brother,
who was just 4 years old.
“I saw everything,” Noor said, biting her lip.
In a rush of words, she added: “My father was
the best man in the world. We were a good
team.”
She began to cry, and soon my interpreter
was wiping away tears, too. And so was I.
The Myanmar soldiers herded the women
and girls into huts to be raped. Noor and Dilbar
were taken into one hut, along with Noor’s 2-
year-old sister, Rozia, and another brother,
Muhammad Kashel, a baby still nursing.
“They took my baby and cut his throat,” Dil-
A
THREE-DAY hike took Hasina and
Asma to Bangladesh. But Hasina still
suffers from the beating and from the
emptiness left by the murder of
Suhaifa, and she has trouble sleeping.
“When I fall asleep, I look for my baby,” she
said. “I wake up screaming.”
It’s tempting to say: That’s terrible, but it’s
not our problem. But Noor’s plight, like Anne
Frank’s in the 1940s, should prick the global
conscience, for one lesson of history is this:
Crimes against humanity are an offense
against all humanity and require a response
from all of us.
The latest slaughter began in August after a
shadowy Rohingya rebel force attacked police
and army posts, killing 12 members of the se- ALESSANDRA MONTALTO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

bar said in a trembling voice, adding that the curity forces. Myanmar’s Army embarked on
soldiers then cut Rozia’s throat, too. Shortly af- a scorched-earth counterinsurgency, and
when soldiers couldn’t find rebels, they un-
“My drawing shows a bullet hitting my next door neighbor,” explained Ashidulla, 12, a
terward, Noor remembers a machete blade
smashing down repeatedly on her own head, leashed their fury on civilians. Rohingya refugee. “First they told us to leave, then they shot my neighbor. His name
her mother screaming in the background. The brutality varied widely by area, and was Aiyukhan. When we were running away, we saw people killed.”
Then she collapsed unconscious. what happened in Noor’s village was worse
Dilbar said the soldiers then yanked an ear- than typical. Human Rights Watch says, based were undertaken with a savagery that left ents. She shared her story with me only be-
ring from her ear — she pointed to her torn on satellite images, that some 345 villages hardened war correspondents shaken. These cause she is so grateful to the aid organization
lobe — and assaulted her beside the bodies of were burned. No one knows exactly what hap- attacks involved the systematic use of rape to and it told her that I could be trusted.
her children: “One soldier held me down, and pened to many Rohingya: I searched for peo- terrorize the Rohingya. It’s impossible to know how many women
another raped me.” When they were finished, ple from Rohingya villages I had visited in One 14-year-old girl confided her deepest se- and girls have been raped, but doctors in the
she said, the soldiers chopped her on the head Myanmar in 2014 and 2015 but couldn’t find cret: Four soldiers had gang-raped her. She refugee camps report a surge in pregnancies
with the machete — she has the same angry them. had intended to keep the secret forever, but as a result of rape, and I encountered two
scars on her scalp as her daughter — and left Doctors Without Borders calculated that at then she became pregnant and quietly sought women who suffered fistulas caused by rape.
her for dead while setting fire to the hut. least 9,000 Rohingya, including 1,000 small medical help. An aid worker helped her get an The Rohingya who have reached Bangla-
The fire and smoke roused her, she said. She children, died after the army’s attacks, which abortion, but she still hasn’t told even her par- desh live in vast, sprawling refugee encamp-
checked the bodies of her children and found
that Noor was still breathing. Grabbing the
The line for aid girl, she ran into the woods. Dazed, they hiked
at a refugee for two days through the woods to get to the
camp in Bangladesh border.
Unchiprang, The global and American responses have
Bangladesh. been feeble, so Myanmar is getting away with
murder and rape intended to change the coun-
try’s demography. The lesson that the world’s
complacency sends to other countries is that
this is an ideal time to eradicate a vexing eth-
nic group.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace
Prize winner, has become the apologist for
these mass atrocities. Daw Suu does not con-
trol the Myanmar Army, but she has defended
the military operation and mocked “a huge ice-
berg of misinformation.” Her Facebook page
scoffed at a Rohingya woman’s report of sexu-
al assault by soldiers as “fake rape.”
Daw Suu, if you’re reading this, I hope that
for a moment you’ll open your heart and listen
to the story of Hasina Begum, 21, and her 1-
year-old daughter, Suhaifa. (Begum is a com-
mon honorific for women.)
Myanmar soldiers held Hasina and other
village women at gunpoint, she said, while the
troops executed the men and boys, doused the
bodies with gasoline and turned the corpses
into a bonfire. Then the troops led the women
and girls, five at a time, toward a hut.
“I was trying to hide my baby under my
scarf, but they saw her leg,” Hasina recalled,
her voice brittle, her mouth trembling. “They
grabbed my baby by the leg and threw her
onto the fire.”
Hasina said she collapsed on the ground,
screaming. The impatient soldiers then began
to club her — she showed me scars from the
beating — and dragged her into a hut with her
sister-in-law, Asma Begum. The soldiers
stripped the women naked and raped them,
she said, and finally closed the door and set the ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

ments, where I interviewed them in their tents
and shacks; aid organizations provide desper-
ately needed food, water, toilets and medical
care, but cannot offer hope. Bangladesh does
not want the Rohingya and does not allow aid
organizations to teach Bengali, the national
language, or to offer an education beyond pri-
mary school.
An organization called BRAC runs child cen-
ters where children are given paper and pens.
Their drawings are wrenching: soldiers shoot-
ing guns, friends bleeding, huts burning.
“That man being shot is Sayid Azam, my
neighbor,” said Ismal, an 11-year-old orphan,
explaining his drawing of a huge gun firing at a
man. “I saw it. I was hiding behind a bush.”
China has proposed a plan that would result
in the return of the refugees to Myanmar, pre-
sumably to live stateless in concentration
camps like the ones for Rohingya that I’ve pre-
viously reported on. But most are too terrified
to contemplate returning. It would be an out-
rage to force refugees back.
Consider Shafika Begum, a 15-year-old who
may be the only survivor in her family. She
said she saw soldiers shoot dead her father
and four brothers; they then took her, her
mother and her 11-year-old sister into a hut.
The soldiers cut her sister’s throat in front of
her, and she said that when she screamed, the
soldiers clubbed her on the head and knocked
her out.
Flames and smoke brought her back to con-
sciousness: The soldiers had locked the door
of the hut and set it on fire. Her mother and
sister were dead, and Shafika’s clothes were
on fire, but she broke through a wall and fled.
Was she raped? “I was unconscious, so I
don’t know what they did to me,” she said. But
she added that someone had rearranged her
clothes.
Shafika walked for four days through the
jungle to get to Bangladesh. Her back, left
hand and both feet are burned, and she has no
‘When I fall asleep, I look for my baby,’ a
mother says. ‘I wake up screaming.’
money to buy burn medicine. I was concerned
that interviewing her might traumatize her
again, but she was determined to speak.
“I want to tell the whole world my story,” she
said. “I want to tell what happens in Myan-
mar.”
The three people whose stories I’ve focused
on — Noor, the 10-year-old; Hasina, whose
baby was thrown onto the fire; and Shafika,
disfigured by burns — are all from the same
village, Tula Toli. All these atrocities that I’ve
described unfolded on a single dot of the map
— and in every direction there are other vil-
lages with tragedies of their own.
Are the stories they recount true?
One thing I’ve learned over the decades
(originally while covering China’s murder of
Tiananmen democracy protesters in 1989) is
that victims lie as well as perpetrators. Out-
rage leads to exaggerations, to elevated death
tolls, to rumors becoming eyewitness ac-
counts. But the attack on Tula Toli has been
well documented by human rights organiza-
tions, including Amnesty International, Hu-
man Rights Watch and Fortify Rights, and it is
substantiated by satellite photos showing the
burned huts. In all, I spoke to seven people
who said they were survivors from Tula Toli,
and their stories meshed and cross-confirmed
one another.
There is no easy solution to possible geno-
cide; there never is. But accountability helps,
so there should be a major push to prosecute
Myanmar military officials in the Interna-
tional Criminal Court. Judges can resolve
whether these crimes against humanity also
amount to genocide.
An open letter from 58 human rights and aid
groups has rightly called for targeted sanc-
tions on Myanmar officials. The House of Rep-
resentatives this month passed a resolution
denouncing the ethnic cleansing, and both the
Senate and the House have bipartisan legisla-
tion pending that would impose sanctions on
Myanmar officials, yet it seems unlikely to be-
come law any time soon.
S
ECRETARY of State Rex Tillerson has
commendably described the situation
as ethnic cleansing and has said that
“the world can’t just stand idly by and
be witness to the atrocities.” But I fear that’s
exactly what is happening. Myanmar may
have concluded that its slaughter is a success
— denunciations from bleeding-heart journal-
ists and human rights groups are an accept-
able price for eliminating half of its Rohingya
population.
We do know that international sanctions
and pressure matter to Myanmar’s generals,
because those were what led them to step back
and hold elections. But so far there hasn’t been
enough pressure exerted to stop the barbaric
treatment of the Rohingya.
For individuals wondering how to help,
there are fine organizations working on the
ground in the camps, among them BRAC, Doc-
tors Without Borders, Save the Children and
the Hope Foundation for Women and Children
of Bangladesh. First-rate advocacy on behalf
of the Rohingya has been led by Fortify Rights,
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Interna-
tional.
A Times colleague asked how I can report on
these atrocities and not lose faith in humanity.
The answer is that I see not only the evil, but
also among the survivors a truly inspiring re-
silience and courage. I am awed by people like
Dilbar, Hasina and Shafika with the physical
and mental strength to escape through the
mountains and then the moral strength to
speak out about sexual violence meant to hu-
miliate them into silence.
Hasina may be exhausted from nightmares
about searching for her baby, but she displays
a moral clarity that world leaders can emulate.
“They killed my family members, and they
killed my world,” she told me. “When I tell my
story, I feel terrible, and afterward I go cry to
myself. But we need justice, and maybe this
will help.”
Brave survivors like her ensure that we will
never be able to shrug and say: If only we had
known. We know.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s
A
FTER we published a list of President
Trump’s lies this summer, we heard a
common response from his support-
ers. They said, in effect: Yes, but if
you made a similar list for previous presidents,
it would be just as bad.
We’ve set out to make that list. Here, you
will find our attempt at a comprehensive cata-
log of the falsehoods that Barack Obama told
while he was president. (We also discuss
George W. Bush below, although the lack of
real-time fact-checking during his presidency
made a comprehensive list impossible.)
We applied the same conservative standard
to Obama and Trump, counting only demon-
strably and substantially false statements.
The result: Trump is unlike any other modern
president. He seems virtually indifferent to re-
ality, often saying whatever helps him make
the case he’s trying to make.
In his first 10 months in office, he has told 103
separate untruths, many of them repeatedly.
Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year ten-
ure. That’s an average of about two a year for
Blatant falsehoods since each president’s inauguration, excluding repeats
During his first 10 months in office, President Trump has told more than three times as
many falsehoods as Barack Obama did during his entire presidency.
Trump: 103
100
“If you look at President Obama and other
presidents, most of them didn’t make calls.”
(They did call families of soldiers killed in action.)
80
60
“We pay the highest taxes
anywhere in the world.”
(We don’t.)
40
“If you like your health care plan, you'll
be able to keep your health care plan.”
(Some people had to switch plans as a
20 result of the Affordable Care Act.)
0 demonstrably false, he stopped making them.
INAUGURATION 2ND YEAR 3RD YEAR 4TH YEAR
TIME SINCE INAUGURATION
Source: New York Times review of statements by Trump (Jan. 20 to Nov. 11, 2017)
and Obama (Jan. 20, 2009 to Jan. 20, 2017)
Earthlings, Unite: Let’s Go to Mars
T
HE issues Donald Trump and I can
find to agree on are few. I know this
makes us both sad. Some people mock
him for gorging himself on multiple
Big Macs and Filets-o-Fish, but this is actually
my favorite thing about him. I understand he
likes elephants. And as of Monday, it turns out
OPINION we agree on a third thing: sending human be-
ings back to the moon, and to Mars.
BY TIM KREIDER
It’s an insane proposal, of course, and I don’t
The author of the believe the president really means it any more
essay collections than he means to build his wall — he has prob-
“We Learn ably forgotten saying it already and will deny
Nothing” and the it if asked. I don’t even think going back to the
forthcoming “I moon is a good idea, per se; there’s not much
Wrote This Book there, unless there are any Easter-egg mono-
Because I Love liths waiting for us. It doesn’t make much
You.” sense as a jumping-off point for Mars or a
training ground for deep-space travel, and to
quote President Barack Obama: “I just have to
say pretty bluntly here: We’ve been there be-
fore.” No offense to the moon, but it’s boring; it
doesn’t inspire anymore.
I also don’t subscribe to Stephen Hawking’s
notion that we need to get off this planet and
establish a viable human population else-
where lest we go extinct. I tend to side with
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of a trilogy
about the colonization of Mars, who in his
more recent book “Aurora” portrays the
dream of extraterrestrial colonization as a
dangerous escapist fantasy — dangerous be-
cause it lets us imagine that we have an out,
that we can just ditch this planet after we’ve
ruined it instead of grappling with the immi-
nent, serious, possibly terminal problems
here, the only homeworld we’re ever going to
get.
I don’t support going to Mars for practical
reasons at all. I think we should plan to go to
Mars because it would be a healthy sign that
we, as a civilization, are still planning for a fu-
ture — that we intend to live. Because right
now, frankly, we’re not acting as though we do.
We’re acting more the way a friend of mine did
in the last year of his life: letting the mail pile
up unopened, heaping garbage in the house,
littering the floor with detritus, no longer both-
ering to turn over the calendar pages. He’d
clearly decided, on some level, to die.
We’re mostly hiding from the horrifying
facts mounting ever more unavoidably around
us, keeping ourselves zonked out on anything
from Xanax to Oxy, immersed in the worlds of
Warcraft or Westeros while the actual world is
burning. Billionaires are building sumptuous
bunkers instead of doing anything that would
forestall the deluge or revolution they’re barri-
cading against. Mounting a mission to Mars
would be bold and hopeful, a gesture of faith,
like planning a vacation to Bali next year when
you’re battling cancer.
Ray Bradbury, author of another famous
Mars book, called space travel our modern
version of cathedral building: a vast, ambi-
tious, multigenerational undertaking, a
shared vision to work toward together as a cul-
ture. Right now, we don’t have such a vision, or
even a culture, for that matter — just a degrad-
ing, every-man-for-himself scramble for the
last scraps of cash the 1 percent have over-
looked, like one of those parking-lot contests
where you have to keep your hand on a truck
until everyone faints from exhaustion. We
could use a worthier project.
Anytime NASA shows us photos of phantas-
magoric storms on Jupiter or Saturn spectacu-
larly backlit, some killjoy demands to know
DAVID LEONHARDT
Obama and about 124 a year for Trump.
If we had used a less strict standard, Trump
would look even worse by comparison. He
makes misleading statements and mild exag-
gerations — about economic statistics, his po-
litical opponents and many other subjects —
far more often than Obama. We left out any
statement that could be plausibly defended
even if many people would disagree with the
The current president is unique
in his indifference to reality.
president’s interpretation. We also left out
modest quantitative errors, such as Trump’s
frequent imprecision with numbers.
We have used the word “lies” again here, as
we did in our original piece. If anything,
though, the word is unfair to Obama and Bush.
When they became aware that they had been
saying something untrue, they stopped doing
it. Obama didn’t continue to claim that all
“I mean, the steel industry is
producing as much steel in the
United States as it ever was.”
(Production peaked in 1973.)
Obama: 18
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how many billion dollars it cost and why we
couldn’t have spent that money on some of our
pressing problems here on Earth. I notice
these citizens never seem to muster up the
same fiscal outrage over the squandering of
trillions to kill foreigners or lock up brown peo-
ple. Something’s gone out of us since we ex-
plored the last of Earth; maybe some heroic
overreach like a Mars program would get us
all out of our cultural funk and inspire us to
take on other equally hubristic challenges, like
saving the world from drowning.
It’s hard to blame people for being demoral-
ized these days, especially in America. It’s de-
It would be a healthy sign that
we, as a civilization, are still
planning a future.
pressing to live in a collapsing empire, and it
can distort your sense of perspective. But em-
pires rise and fall, and it’s a mistake to get too
sentimentally attached to any one of them.
Civilization is the thing at stake now: human-
ity.
Apocalyptic fatalism is the same sort of lazy
escapism as fantasies of hyperspace day trips
to Rigel. Evangelicals who think it’s O.K. to
wreck this world because there’s a better one
waiting for us need to grow up; eco-warriors
who gripe that Earth would be better off if hu-
man beings just exterminated themselves
should get back on their meds. Silly and stupid
and selfish though human beings inarguably
are, I am, reluctantly, for them — for us — be-
cause so far as we know, we’re it for conscious-
SR 5
Americans would be able to keep their existing
health insurance under Obamacare, for exam-
ple, and Bush changed the way he spoke about
Iraq’s weapons capability.
Trump is different. When he is caught lying,
he will often try to discredit people telling the
truth, be they judges, scientists, F.B.I. or C.I.A.
officials, journalists or members of Congress.
Trump is trying to make truth irrelevant. It is
extremely damaging to democracy, and it’s
not an accident. It’s core to his political strat-
egy.
Obama’s falsehoods tended to be attempts
to make his own policies look better or to over-
state a problem he was trying to solve. In a few
cases, they seemed to be careless exaggera-
tions he avoided repeating.
Over all, Obama rarely told demonstrable
untruths as president. And he appears to have
become more careful over time. We counted
six straight-up falsehoods in his first year in
office. Across his entire second four-year
term, we counted the same number, six, only
one of which came in his final year in office.
In all, we found 18 different bald untruths
from Obama during his presidency. Trump
told his 18th separate untruth in his third full
week in office, and his list keeps growing.
In fact, Trump tells falsehoods about Obama
and his administration more often than
Obama told falsehoods about all subjects.
Since his inauguration, Trump has told 10 sep-
arate untruths about Obama, including false
allegations of wiretapping and false descrip-
tions of Obamacare. We counted only two
falsehoods Obama told about Bush.
As for George W. Bush: it was not possible to
create a similar list for him, because the vari-
ous fact-checking groups — whose work we
used heavily here — were not operating con-
tinuously when he became president, in 2001.
But several sources did try to evaluate some
of his claims at the time. Their work suggests
that Bush sometimes told falsehoods but was
fundamentally different from Trump. Bush in-
stead seems to be somewhere on the pre-
Trump presidential spectrum.
In 2001, for example, Bush said significantly
more stem-cell lines existed than actually did.
Most infamously, Bush and his advisers justi-
fied the Iraq War by talking about Iraq’s weap-
ons of mass destruction, which did not exist.
But as costly as these claims were, Bush evi-
dently believed them at the time. And for the
most part, once his statements became
ONLINE: A FULL TALLY
A complete list of statements from both
presidents appears at:
nytimes.com/opinion
ness in this universe, the only game in town.
And we owe it to something more than just
ourselves or even our progeny to survive.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and
human consciousness is extinguished, so is all
beauty. The Alps will be cold stone again, the
Orion nebula hot gas. And not just the beauty
we apprehend but all that we’ve made: Bee-
thoven and Coltrane, Leonardo and Kurosawa.
Extinguished, too, our accumulated under-
standing of this universe — the whole human
testament from Buddha to Newton — not to
mention the achievements of the nameless
geniuses who first tamed an animal, grew food
or made a fire. If we kill ourselves off with our
animal aggression or let ourselves die through
callousness or greed, we will have betrayed
those ancestors and countless descendants,
and leave the universe blind and dumb again,
unintelligible to itself. And then it’ll have to
start over. Probably with the raccoons.
SAM'S MYTH
Some friends of mine gave birth to a child
last week, a boy named Max. There are days
when I feel like another baby is about the last
thing this planet needs, but one traditionally
suspends cynicism on these occasions. I sent
the new mother a quotation I found by Carl
Sandburg: “A baby is God’s opinion that life
should go on.” I hope someday, after she and
you and I are all dead, Max might stand at the
edge of the Valles Marineris, a canyon longer
than America, or on the slope of Olympus
Mons, a volcano 14 miles high, and look for the
blue-white morning star he came from. And
maybe take a moment to remember us, who
came before him and helped get him there.
And then turn to look outward, at Jupiter, at
Saturn, and the stars.
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Have a Very Merry War At Solstice,

On Christmas
From Page 1
worldly and profane as gun culture.
Journalists and scholars have spent
decades examining the influence of con-
In Praise
Of Darkness
servative evangelical students there for
a screening of “The Armor of Light,” a
documentary by the filmmaker Abigail
Disney. The film followed the pastor and
abortion opponent Rob Schenck on his

servative religion on American politics,
but we largely missed the impact conser-
vative politics was having on religion it-
self. As a progressive evangelical and
journalist covering religion, I’m as guilty
as any of not noticing what was happen-
ing. We kept asking how white conserva-
tive evangelicals could support Mr.
Trump, who luxuriates in divisive rheto-
ric and manages only the barest veneer
of religiosity. But that was never the is-
sue. Fox evangelicals don’t back Mr.
Trump despite their beliefs, but because
of them.
Consider the so-called War on Christ-
mas, which the president has made a pet
crusade. Mr. Trump has been sharing
Christmas greetings since October, well
before decorations had even shown up in
most stores, when the Values Voter Sum-
mit crowd gave him a standing ovation
for declaring, “We’re saying ‘Merry
Christmas’ again!” He has spent Novem-
ber and December taking victory laps,
telling crowds at political rallies in Utah
and Florida that “Christmas is back, bet-
ter and bigger than ever before.”
Every one of Mr. Trump’s predeces-
sors declared “Merry Christmas,” too —
including Barack Obama, whose mes-
sage at last year’s Christmas tree-light-
ing ceremony was virtually indistin-
guishable from Mr. Trump’s. What mat-
ters to Fox evangelicals, though, is not
that Mr. Trump observes Christmas but
that he casts himself as the defender of
the Christian holiday.
quest to convince fellow evangelicals —
the religious demographic most opposed
to gun restrictions — that pro-life values
are incompatible with an embrace of un-
restricted gun access. I found Mr.
Schenck compelling, and my editor had
sent me to see if his target audience
bought the arguments.
It did not.
As two dozen of us gathered for a post-
VANHOENACKER
screening discussion, I was both aston-
ished and troubled, as a fellow evangeli-
cal, by the visceral sense of fear that
gripped these young adults. As a child in
the Baptist church, I had been taught to
be vigilant about existential threats to
my faith. But these students in a town
with a population of some 1,200 saw the
idea of a home invasion or an Islamic
State attack that would require them to
take a human life in order to save others
as a certainty they would face, not a hy-
pothetical.
These fears are far removed from the
reality of life in North Dakota, a state that
saw a total of 21 homicides in 2015. Of
those deaths, seven were caused by fire-
‘Now the Bible’s increasingly irrelevant.
It’s just “us versus them.”’
arms, and only three were committed by
someone unknown to the victim. Yet the
students around me agreed unreserv-
edly with Wayne LaPierre, chief execu-
tive of the National Rifle Association,
who was seen in the film asserting that
F
OR the roughly 90 percent of us who
live in the Northern Hemisphere, the
winter solstice of 2017 is coming soon
(at 11:28 a.m. E.S.T. on Thursday, to be
precise). And if it wasn’t so dark out, you’d see
how happy I am that the year’s longest night is
sweeping down over the northern half of our
OPINION planet, as naturally as the lid of a closing eye.
Full disclosure: I’ve always loved the dark.
BY MARK
My mother often recalled that as a small child I
would sometimes grumble, “I don’t want the
A pilot for British sun to shine, I want the moon to shine.” I de-
Airways and the
cided to become an airline pilot in part because
author of I believed that aviators might enjoy a particu-
“Skyfaring: A larly pure experience of night. The glow of the
Journey With a Christmas rituals I still love best — lights, can-
Pilot.” dles, hearths — would mean little to me with-
out the shadows that embower them.
To this dark but cozy and star-spangled cor-
ner of the calendar, I welcome like-minded pi-
lots and air travelers; astronomers, of course;
and any fans of “The Simpsons” who secretly
cheered when Mr. Burns (“I call this enemy . . .
the sun!”) tried to block out the light from ev-
eryone’s favorite ball of plasma. But whatever
your feelings about the longest night, the win-
ter solstice — transcendent, yet precise; celes-
tial, but very local — is worth pausing to savor.
Indeed, while I hope to spend every Christ-
mas at home by the fire, this is also my favorite
time of year to fly. Night flights are often
smoother, and they are almost always more
sublime. Raise your window blind and you
may be the only person to ever see how the
moonlight falls on an ephemeral, rolling Nar-
nia of cloud, while on a clear evening a city far
below you may look exactly as we might most
beautifully imagine it — as a shorthand for civ-

F
ROM the beginning, the War on
Christmas was a homegrown
Fox News cause, introduced by
the so-named 2005 book by John
Gibson, a former Fox News host, and
promoted annually by Bill O’Reilly. But it
was never really a religious argument.
Mr. O’Reilly and company weren’t occu-
pied with defending belief in the Virgin
Birth or worrying that the celebration of
Christ’s birth had become too commer-
cialized.
In an irony appreciated by anyone who
remembers the original anti-consump-
tion, anti-Santa meaning of the “Reason
for the Season” slogan, Fox and allies like
the American Family Association fo-
cused on getting more Christmas into
stores and shopping malls. For more
than a decade, Fox News hosts have kept
viewers updated on which stores were
“in the Christmas spirit,” and the Ameri-
can Family Association, which operates
nearly 200 radio stations in the United
States, maintains its very own “naughty
and nice” list for retailers.
As a result, the War on Christmas has
moved one of the holiest Christian days
out of the church and into the secular
realm. That may suit conservative activ-
ists who promote Christian nationalism
“in the world around us, there are terror- ilization, written in light on the pages of a dark-
ists, home invaders, drug cartels, car- ened Earth.
jackers, knockout gamers, rapers, hat-
When you look up, familiar, crystalline win-
ers, campus killers, airport killers, shop- ter ornaments like Orion and the Pleiades ap-
ping mall killers.”
pear, while auroras may offer the sensation,
This worldview is familiar to anyone sometimes for several hours, of sailing across
who has spent time watching Fox News,
a phosphorescent sea. To reclaim a phrase
where every day viewers are confronted
from “Game of Thrones” — a show, ahem, that
with threats to their way of life. It’s also
hasn’t exactly burnished winter’s reputation
profoundly un-Christian. One of the most
consistent messages of the Bible is the
exhortation “Do not be afraid!” Before
young evangelicals can read, we memo-
The longest night of the year brings us
rize verses reminding us to “be strong
and courageous” and “trust in the Lord.”
something wondrous — a world at rest.
“Fear,” says Mr. Schenck in the docu-
mentary, “should not be a controlling ele- — the night is long and full of wonders. In con-
ment in the life of a Christian.” trast, pilots may greet the sunrise in the cock-
Fear and distrust of outsiders — in pit with a matching glare, and an inevitable
conflict with numerous biblical teach- “Star Trek” joke — “shields up!” — as we reach
ings to “welcome the stranger” — also for our Ray-Bans and a phalanx of swiveling
explain Fox evangelicals’ strong support sun visors.
for the Trump administration’s efforts to Pilots have more reason than most to follow
bar refugees and restrict travel to the the annual comings and goings of darkness.
United States from several majority- But Earth’s annual light cycle can profoundly
Muslim nations. After Mr. Trump’s initial affect all our lives, even in cultures remade by
executive orders during his first week in electric lights.
office, more than 100 evangelical leaders, A solstice is an opportunity to remember
including the head of the National Asso- that this cycle is caused by the tilt of Earth’s
ciation of Evangelicals, published a full-
axis, a reason-for-the-seasons angle so impor- orbit around the sun. (Even as an adult, I like
page ad in The Washington Post de-
tant that desktop globes (you still have one, to close my eyes and relish the wondrous fact
right?) are built to lean at it. The December that you and I are sitting on a tilted blue-and-
solstice, inaugurating winter in the Northern white planet that’s sailing around a star.) But
Hemisphere and summer in the Southern, oc- such illustrations, however useful, make it
curs at the moment the North Pole is most easy to overlook the loveliest aspect of this
tilted away from the sun. Nearing this solstice, Thursday: that a solstice is in fact a moment of
the northern world’s days grow shorter, and rest.
sunlight lands at shallower angles — heating What stops at the December solstice is the
the hemisphere less, and casting December’s sun’s apparent southward and night-length-
familiar long shadows across the snow. ening (or night-shortening, in the Southern
When this cycle was first explained to me as Hemisphere) march across the sky. The true
a child, my teacher advised me to imagine the meaning of “solstice” — indeed, the word’s
“leaning” Earth as it arcs through its annual Latin roots refer to the stilling of the sun —

My Year of No Shopping
NASHVILLE out of what I had. I could buy plane tickets and

and want to see Christianity officially
dominate the public sphere. But at a time
when a new Pew Research Center study
shows that only about half of those
Americans who celebrate Christmas
plan to do so as a religious holiday, the
War on Christmas may be damaging
Christian witness by elevating perfor-
mative secular practices.
These days, even though Mr. O’Reilly
declared “victory” last year in the War
on Christmas, Fox News still gives the
supposed controversy wall-to-wall cov-
erage and has folded it into the network’s
us-versus-them, nationalist program-
ming. The regular Fox News viewer,
whether or not he is a churchgoer, takes
in a steady stream of messages that con-
flate being white and conservative and
evangelical with being American.
The power of that message may ex-
plain the astonishing findings of a survey
released this month by LifeWay Re-
search, a Christian organization based in
Nashville. LifeWay’s researchers devel-
oped questions meant to get at both the
way Americans self-identify religiously
and their theological beliefs. What they
discovered was that while one-quarter of
Americans consider themselves to be
“evangelical,” less than half of that group
actually holds traditional evangelical be-
liefs. For others, “evangelical” effec-
tively functions as a cultural label, un-
moored from theological meaning.
But if the conservative media has cre-
ated a category of Fox evangelical con-
verts, it has also influenced the way a
whole generation of churchgoing evan-
gelicals thinks about God and faith. On
no issue is this clearer than guns.
In fall 2015, I visited Trinity Bible Col-
lege, an Assemblies of God-affiliated
school in North Dakota, to join the con-
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nouncing the refugee ban and urging the
president to reconsider. But those lead-
ers didn’t speak for most white evangeli-
cals, three-quarters of whom told Pew
pollsters they supported the refugee and
travel bans.
That disconnect underscores the chal-
lenge many pastors face in trying to
shepherd congregants who are increas-
ingly alienated from traditional Gospel
teachings. “A pastor has about 30 to 40
minutes each week to teach about Scrip-
ture,” said Jonathan Martin, an Okla-
homa pastor and popular evangelical
writer. “They’ve been exposed to Fox
News potentially three to four hours a
day.”
It’s meaningful, Mr. Martin says, that
scions of the religious right like Jerry
Falwell Jr. are not pastors like their fa-
thers. “There was a lot I didn’t agree with
him on, but I’m confident that it was im-
portant to Senior” — Jerry Falwell —
“that he grounded his beliefs in Scrip-
ture,” Mr. Martin said. “Now the Bible’s
increasingly irrelevant. It’s just ‘us ver-
sus them.’”
The result is a malleable religious
identity that can be weaponized not just
to complain about department stores
that hang “Happy Holidays” banners,
but more significantly, in support of poli-
ticians like Mr. Trump or Mr. Moore —
and of virtually any policy, so long as it is
promoted by someone Fox evangelicals
consider on their side of the culture war.
“It explains how much evangelicals
have moved the goal post,” said Mr. Mar-
tin. “If there’s not a moral theology or
ethic to it, but it’s about playing for the
right team, you can do anything and still
be on the right side.”
T
HE idea began in February 2009 over
lunch with my friend Elissa, someone I
like but rarely see. She walked into the
restaurant wearing a fitted black coat
with a high collar.
“Wow,” I said admiringly. “Some coat.”
She stroked the sleeve. “Yeah. I bought it at
OPINION the end of my no-shopping year. I still feel a little
bad about it.”
BY ANN Elissa told me the story: After traveling for
PATCHETT
much of the previous year, she had decided she
The author, most had enough stuff, or too much stuff. She made a
recently, of pledge that for 12 months she wouldn’t buy
“Commonwealth,” shoes, clothes, purses or jewelry.
a novel, and the I was impressed by her discipline, but she
co-owner of shrugged it off. “It wasn’t hard.”
Parnassus Books. I did some small-scale experiments of my
own, giving up shopping for Lent for a few
years. I was always surprised by how much bet-
ter it made me feel. But it wasn’t until last New
Year’s Day that I decided to follow my friend’s
example.
At the end of 2016, our country had swung in
the direction of gold leaf, an ecstatic celebration
of unfeeling billionaire-dom that kept me up at
night. I couldn’t settle down to read or write, and
in my anxiety I found myself mindlessly
scrolling through two particular shopping web-
sites, numbing my fears with pictures of shoes,
clothes, purses and jewelry. I was trying to dis-
tract myself, but the distraction left me feeling
worse, the way a late night in a bar smoking
Winstons and drinking gin leaves you feeling
worse. The unspoken question of shopping is
“What do I need?” What I needed was less.
My plan had been to give up what Elissa gave
up — things to wear — but a week into my no-
shopping year, I bought a portable speaker.
When I got it home I felt ridiculous. Shouldn’t
“no shopping” include electronics?
I came up with my own arbitrary set of rules
for the year. I wanted a plan that was serious but
not so draconian that I would bail out in Febru-
ary, so while I couldn’t buy clothing or speakers,
I could buy anything in the grocery store, in-
cluding flowers. I could buy shampoo and print-
er cartridges and batteries but only after I’d run
eat out in restaurants. I could buy books be-
cause I write books and I co-own a bookstore
and books are my business. Could I have made it
a full year without buying books? Absolutely. I
could have used the library or read the books
that were already in my house, but I didn’t; I
bought books.
Gifts were the tough one for me. I’m a gift-
giver, and I could see how gift shopping could
become an easy loophole. I decided to give
books as gifts, but I didn’t always keep to it. My
editor married in 2017, and I wasn’t about to give
him a book as a wedding present. Still, the fran-
tic shopping for others needed to come to a halt.
The idea that our affection and esteem must
manifest itself in yet another sweater is reduc-
tive. Elissa said she gave people time, a certifi-
cate to watch their kids or clean their house.
“That,” she told me, “turned out to be the hard-
est thing. Time is so valuable.”
I was raised Catholic and spent 12 years in a
Catholic girls school. In the same way a child
The unspoken question of
endless browsing is ‘What do I
need?’ What I needed was less.
who grows up going to the symphony is more
likely to enjoy classical music, and a child raised
in a bilingual household is probably going to
speak two languages, many children raised
Catholic have a talent for self-denial. Even now
my sister and I plan for Lent the way other peo-
ple plan family vacations: What will we let go
of? What good can we add?
My first few months of no shopping were full
of gleeful discoveries. I ran out of lip balm early
on and before making a decision about whether
lip balm constituted a need, I looked in my desk
drawers and coat pockets. I found five lip balms.
Once I started digging around under the bath-
room sink I realized I could probably run this
experiment for three more years before using

was made clear to me by George Greenstein,
emeritus professor of astronomy at Amherst.
From his home in Pelham, Mass., Professor
Greenstein has a good view of the western ho-
rizon. He asked me to imagine a continuous
movie composed of photographs that capture
the position of the setting sun (the rising sun
would work equally well) throughout the year.
In this movie — with a soundtrack by Max
Richter or Ludovico Einaudi, I’m thinking —
the setting sun would migrate back and forth
between its southernmost and northernmost
positions on the horizon. The sun would accel-
erate toward the middle of its journey (around
g
up all the lotion, soap and dental floss. It turns
out I hadn’t thrown away the hair products and
face creams I’d bought over the years and didn’t
like; I’d just tossed them all under the sink.
I’m using them now, and they’re fine.
In March I wished I had a Fitbit, the new one
that looked like a bracelet and didn’t need to be
connected to a smartphone. For four days I re-
ally wanted a Fitbit. And then — poof! — I didn’t
want one. I remember my parents trying to
teach me this lesson when I was a child: If you
want something, wait awhile. Chances are the
feeling will pass.
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spring and autumn, when the lengths of the
day and the night change most quickly) and
slow down toward the extremes. Once the sun
reached an endpoint, it would at last come to
rest — as it will on Thursday — before its mo-
tion reversed. Earth orbits the sun contin-
uously, of course. But the sun’s apparent annu-
al motion is more like the pendulum of a great
clock, one that steadily counts off the planet’s
years, and ours too.
The poet Annie Finch is the author of “Win-
ter Solstice Chant” (“the edge of winter sky/
leaning over us in icy stars.”). During a phone
call from her home in Portland, Me., she
The trick of no shopping isn’t just that you
don’t buy things. You don’t shop. That means no
trawling the sale section of the J. Crew website
in idle moments. It means the catalogs go into
the recycle bin unopened on the theory that if I
don’t see it, I don’t want it. Halfway through the
year I could go to a store with my mother and
sister if they asked me. I could tell them if the
dress they were trying on looked good without
wishing I could try it on myself.
Not shopping saves an astonishing amount of
time. In October, I interviewed Tom Hanks
about his collection of short stories in front of
WENJIA TANG
pointed out how neatly the solstice accounts
for late December’s rich spiritual bottleneck of
festivities and traditions in so much of the an-
cient and modern world. However we may cel-
ebrate the return of light to our skies and lives,
she continued, we might also wish to pause to
honor the darkness that will give way to it: “If
you don’t experience the darkness fully then
you are not going to appreciate the light.” A
pause, of course, is just what we’ll be given on
Thursday.
Ms. Finch also pointed out that the winter
solstice, traditionally a time of introspection,
can be a moment of warmth for communities
1,700 people in a Washington theater. Previ-
ously, I would have believed that such an occa-
sion demanded a new dress and lost two days of
my life looking for one. In fact, Tom Hanks had
never seen any of my dresses, nor had the peo-
ple in the audience. I went to my closet, picked
out something weather appropriate and stuck it
in my suitcase. Done.
I did a favor for a friend over the summer and
she bought me a pair of tennis shoes. Her simple
act of kindness thrilled me. Once I stopped look-
ing for things to buy, I became tremendously
grateful for the things I received. Had I been
shopping this summer I would have told my
friend, “You shouldn’t have,” and I would have
meant it.
It doesn’t take so long for a craving to subside,
be it for Winstons or gin or cupcakes. Once I got
the hang of giving shopping up, it wasn’t much
of a trick. The trickier part was living with the
startling abundance that had become glaringly
obvious when I stopped trying to get more.
Once I could see what I already had, and what
actually mattered, I was left with a feeling that
was somewhere between sickened and hum-
bled. When did I amass so many things, and did
someone else need them?
If you stop thinking about what you might
want, it’s a whole lot easier to see what other
people don’t have. There’s a reason that just
about every religion regards material belong-
ings as an impediment to peace. This is why Sid-
dhartha had to leave his palace to become the
Buddha. This is why Jesus said, “Blessed are
the poor.” It’s why my friend Sister Nena, an 85-
year-old Catholic nun, took a vow of poverty
when she entered the convent at 18.
Sister Nena was my reading teacher when I
was in the first grade, and in the years since, she
has taught me considerably more. When I ask
her if there’s anything she needs me to get for
her, she shakes her head. “It’s all just stuff,” she
says, meaning all of the things that aren’t God. If
you’re in the market for genuine inspiration on
this front, I urge you to read “Barking to the
Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship,” by Greg-
ory Boyle, a book that shows what the plati-
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EMILIANO PONZI
small and large. “Darkness,” she said, “brings
people together.”
When I heard this, I thought of how Thurs-
day’s solstice is closing out a hard year — Ms.
Finch would rightly rebuke me if I called it a
dark year — for many. I was reminded, too, of
my mother, who died just before the winter sol-
stice of 2006. Unlike me, my mother found no
comfort in darkness (she didn’t like flying
much either). But she loved the winter solstice
because she knew it marked the light’s rebirth.
It was a win-win for us, you might say, and I’m
glad it’s coming around again to a world that
needs every shared wonder.
tudes of faith look like when they’re put into ac-
tion.
The things we buy and buy and buy are like a
thick coat of Vaseline smeared on glass: We can
see some shapes out there, light and dark, but in
our constant craving for what we may still want,
we miss life’s details. It’s not as if I kept a ledger
and took the money I didn’t spend on perfume
and gave that money to the poor, but I came to a
better understanding of money as something
we earn and spend and save for the things we
want and need. Once I was able to get past the
want and be honest about the need, it was easier
to give more of my money to people who could
really use it.
F
OR the record, I still have more than
plenty. I know there is a vast difference
between not buying things and not be-
ing able to buy things. Not shopping for
a year hardly makes me one with the poor, but it
has put me on the path of figuring out what I can
do to help. I understand that buying things is the
backbone of the economy and job growth. I ap-
preciate all the people who shop in the book-
store. But taking some time off from consumer-
ism isn’t going to make the financial markets
collapse. If you’re looking for a New Year’s reso-
lution, I have to tell you: This one’s great.
What I still haven’t figured out is how the ex-
periment ends. Do I just start shopping again?
Shop less? I called Elissa. I hadn’t seen her in
years. She told me that after she bought the
black coat, she decided to re-up for another year.
“I realized I had too many decisions to make
that were actually important,” she said. “There
were people to help, things to do. Not shopping
frees up a lot of space in your brain.”
So for now I’ll leave my pledge in place. Who
knows how far I can go? In a country hellbent on
selling us dresses and shirts with the shoulders
cut out (though I like to think I wouldn’t have
fallen for that one even if I had been shopping),
it’s good to sit on the bench for a while. Or as the
great social activist Dorothy Day liked to say,
“The best thing to do with the best things in life
is give them up.”
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D
O you get excited at the
thought of packing up the
car and heading home for
the holidays or setting off on
a cross-country road trip? I don’t.
When my girlfriend, Lara, and I
travel on the road, we have to take
OPINION precautions. We’re constantly on
guard against strangers. Lara is a
BY JOANNE
transgender woman of color, and at
SPATARO
rest stops I’m never far from her side,
A humorist and guarding her like a Secret Service
writer working on agent. Lara doesn’t want to stop at gas
a memoir. stations, and she’ll have me pump gas
so that no one can see her and try to
size her up.
Late one evening this year, Lara
and I were driving home to Charlotte,
N.C., from Wilmington, N.C., a three-
hour trip. We stopped at a service sta-
tion in a small town called Whiteville.
As I filled the tank and Lara sat in the
car, I saw a group of people who could
have been extras on “Duck Dynasty”
gathered by two pickup trucks. I could
feel them glaring at us.
One truck screeched out of the gas
station, while the other remained. I
got into the passenger seat without
telling Lara what I saw and fell asleep.
About an hour later, she woke me up
with words you never want to hear:
“We’re being followed.”
For 15 minutes, the high beams on
the vehicle mirrored us each time we
changed lanes, even when we got off
at an exit. Apparently, whoever they
were had been following us since
Whiteville. My stomach lurched.
When we came to a full stop off the
exit, they turned right, and I begged
Lara to stop the car until they sped out
of sight. Then she quickly got back
onto the highway, where I allowed my-
self to cry and smack the dashboard in
angry relief. In that moment, my life
more than flashed before my eyes; it
was almost gone in the flash of a head-
light.
This sort of harassment, and worse,
is on the rise. Hate crimes against
L.G.B.T.Q. people went up 20 percent
in 2016 in nine metropolitan areas, a
rise that several studies attributed to
last year’s hate-filled election cam-
paign. Last year also saw the highest
number of violent L.G.B.T.Q. deaths
When ‘Yes’ Is Easier Than ‘No’
F
OR years, my female friends
and I have spoken, with know-
ing nods, about a sexual inter-
action we call “the place of no
return.” It is a kind of sexual nuance
that most women instinctively under-
stand: the situation you thought you
NEWS ANALYSIS wanted, or maybe you actually never
wanted, but somehow here you are and
BY JESSICA
it’s happening and you desperately
BENNETT
want out, but you know that at this
The gender editor point exiting the situation would be
of The New York more difficult than simply lying there
Times and the and waiting for it to be over. In other
author of “Feminist words: saying yes when we really
Fight Club.” mean no.
In my own life, I’ve had plenty of “no
return” encounters, but there is one in
particular that still makes me cringe. I
was 19 and he was in his 30s, the older
brother of a childhood classmate my
friends and I fawned over as teenagers.
I was home from college, old enough
for him to notice, and he did, and then it
was happening, and by then I was ab-
solutely sure I didn’t want it to happen,
but in some combination of fear (that I
wasn’t as mature as he thought),
shame (that I had let it get this far), and
guilt (would I hurt his feelings?) I let it.
There are other names for this kind
of sex: gray zone sex, in reference to
that murky gray area of consent; be-
grudgingly consensual sex, because,
you know, you don’t really want to do it
but it’s probably easier to just get it
over with; lukewarm sex, because
you’re kind of “meh” about it; and, of
course, bad sex, where the “bad” refers
not to the perceived pleasure of it, but
to the way you feel in the aftermath.
It is also, as of last week, known as
“‘Cat Person’ sex,” a reference to a
short story published in The New
Yorker that has sent a certain cohort of
young people into fits.
Written by 36-year-old Kristen
Roupenian, “Cat Person” is, by one in-
terpretation, an utterly ordinary story
of a modern-day sexual encounter be-
tween a woman and a man, in which
text messages are exchanged and luke-
warm sex is had; then (spoiler alert)
she ghosts him, and he, desperate in his
need to know why, calls her a “whore.”
It is not about consent, per se. But it is a
window into the uncomfortable reality
that clouds it.
on record. A study from the National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
reported the most common forms of
violence against L.G.B.T.Q. people
were verbal harassment at 20 per-
cent, threats and intimidation at 17
percent and physical violence at 11
percent.
And this violence has increased in
2017. The National Coalition’s midyear
report showed a 29 percent rise in sin-
gle-bias incident reports since 2016. In
the starkest of terms, that’s one mur-
der of an L.G.B.T.Q. person per week.
While 10 countries consider “same-
sex sexual relations” crimes punish-
able by death, nine American states
criminalize L.G.B.T.Q. people and
their behavior in some way. Last year
North Carolina became infamous for
its “bathroom bill,” the now-repealed
Many people love long
car trips. Not my
girlfriend and me.
House Bill 2, which prohibited people
from using the restroom of their
choice based on their gender identity.
(Per a new bill, cities and counties in
North Carolina are prohibited from
making their own anti-discrimination
ordinances until 2020.)
In the face of hate crimes and anti-
L.G.B.T.Q. laws, travelers are often
the most vulnerable: If you’re un-
aware of a state’s laws or unfamiliar
with your surroundings, it’s easy to
fall into dangerous situations.
In response, organizations have be-
gun to issue state-level travel advi-
sories: After a rash of hate crimes in
Missouri, the N.A.A.C.P. issued its
first statewide warning for women,
minorities and L.G.B.T.Q. people, urg-
ing them to use “extreme caution”
when visiting the state. In July, Cali-
fornia’s attorney general stopped
state-funded travel to Kentucky,
Texas, Alabama and South Dakota, re-
sponding to anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws in
those states.
Travel advisories and bans may
seem like strong measures, but they
The story most likely would have
resonated with young women regard-
less. But in this particular moment of
cultural reckoning, it gets at a crucial
nuance that seems to have long been
missing from the conversation around
sexual harassment and assault: that
consent isn’t always black and white.
Sometimes “yes” means “no,” sim-
ply because it is easier to go through
with it than explain our way out of the
situation. And if you’re a man, that “no”
LINDA HUANG
Consent isn’t always a
one-word answer.
often means “just try harder” — be-
cause, you know, persuasion is part of
the game. “A lot of what we as young
men learn as seduction is really more
like preparatory sexual assault train-
ing,” the sociologist Harry Brod, a long-
time lecturer on the topic of consent,
once told me.
In the 1970s and ’80s, when Take
Back the Night rallies began cropping
up on college campuses, a new antirape
slogan emerged: “No means no.” Four
decades later, that mantra has been all
but replaced by a newer version of the
consent standard, this one focused on
the word “yes,” or what’s known as the
“affirmative consent” model.
As the thinking goes, body language
can be an unreliable factor. So the com-
munication aspect — clearly saying
“yes” — is crucial.
But what about when “yes” isn’t re-
ally an enthusiastic affirmative — or an
affirmative at all?
The reality is that no matter how
MANON DEBAYE
don’t really protect L.G.B.T.Q. people
traveling to or through those states.
They’re just a way for politicians and
policymakers to look as though
they’re doing something, slapping
states on the wrist with a pullback on
economic incentives. Moves like that
weren’t going to help Lara and me on
that dark North Carolina highway.
Even if L.G.B.T.Q. people survive
their incidents, scars are left from the
words and actions of their harassers.
This year, a man named Joseph Ben-
jamin was driving back from Hunt-
ersville, N.C., when a car pulled up
next to him. Mr. Benjamin had dis-
played a rainbow sticker, a symbol of
the L.G.B.T.Q. pride flag, on his car for
a year and never had a problem. A
woman in the passenger seat and the
man driving the car put out their
wrists and let them go limp, the chid-
ing, stereotypical gesture for a gay
man. “It just kind of reminded me of
being bullied,” he told me, adding that
those two probably felt empowered
because of the current social climate.
Because such incidents often in-
volve interstate travel, there is a role
for the federal government to play, as
well as state and local authorities. But
given the current administration and
the dominance of many state govern-
ments by politicians opposed to
L.G.B.T.Q. rights, for now the respon-
sibility falls on us, the community, to
protect ourselves.
For example, we need travelers’
guides that provide information on a
county-by-county level about what
travelers may encounter while
they’re driving in these areas. The
government already does this, in a
way: The State Department provides
international L.G.B.T.Q. travel infor-
mation for those looking to go abroad.
It is a sad reality that we need the
same sort of guide here in the United
States.
The day may come when Lara and I
— and countless other L.G.B.T.Q. peo-
ple — can enjoy safe travel across the
United States. But until then, the only
people who are going to save us is our-
selves.
much activists extol the virtues of con-
sent, we are missing something
deeper: Our idea of what we want — of
our own desire — is linked to what soci-
ety tells us we should want. And most of
what society tells us is wrapped in dan-
gerously outdated gender norms.
“Women have been taught, by every
cultural force imaginable, that we must
be ‘nice’ and ‘quiet’ and ‘polite.’ That
we must protect others’ feelings before
our own. That we are there for others’
pleasure,” said Rachel Simmons, the
author of a number of books on girls, in-
cluding a new one, “Enough As She Is.”
Indeed, women and men learn early
that playing hard to get is what’s ap-
pealing, and part of that chase is saying
“no” — and then ultimately relenting.
As Peggy Orenstein, the author of
“Girls & Sex,” puts it, despite educa-
tional gains, despite professional ambi-
tion, despite all of it, young women still
learn that “our bodies exist for male
sexual pleasure, that our ‘power’ is in
attracting male desire.” Which can
make even seemingly straightforward
ideas about sex feel utterly complex.
Consider the drinking analogy: Most
of us understand, or at least we should,
that a blackout drunk person cannot
consent to sex. On some campuses,
that inability to consent applies even if
someone has had just a sip or two. But
what about a woman who doesn’t feel
that she can speak up because of cul-
tural expectations? Should that woman
be considered unable to consent, too?
In The New Yorker story, the author
describes a moment in which the main
character seems to float above her
body, watching herself perform the sex
act almost as if she’s a third party.
That’s a real phenomenon with a name,
“spectatoring,” and it’s more common
among girls and women who see their
role in sexual encounters as being “de-
sirable” rather than assertive, Ms.
Orenstein says.
Like the character, many women
have said “yes” to what is happening.
Like the character, many of them are
thinking to themselves, “This is the
worst life decision I have ever made!”
In some respects, it’s as if they’re in
the nosebleed sections of their own sex
lives. What will it take for them to come
back down?

Who’s a Spaniard These Days?
BARCELONA, SPAIN
I
HAD just turned 25 when I left Spain in 1987 and
went to the United States to become an American
writer. But during the years I spent in America, I
discovered the most extraordinary thing: I was
Spanish, and therefore I couldn’t escape doing what ev-
ery Spaniard is supposed to do: yell instead of talk, go to
lunch at three in the afternoon and take siestas.
OPINION Just kidding. But if you can bear the joke, it includes a
half truth: You don’t know who you are until you leave
BY JAVIER
the place you’re from.
CERCAS
The truth is that in 1987 almost no one in Spain would
The author of “The talk loudly, no one would have lunch at 3 p.m., and no one
Soldiers of took siestas anymore (except me, and I still do).
Salamis” and the Clichés, however, have a capacity to endure. A few ap-
forthcoming novel palling images of the Spanish federal police charging
“The Impostor.” Catalans voting in the independence referendum on
This essay was Oct. 1 handed journalists from all over an obvious
translated by theme: The oppression that marked the rule of the dic-
Catalina tator Francisco Franco had returned; Spain, they de-
Lobo-Guerrero clared, was living again in the worst of Franco’s times.
from the Spanish. To many making that observation, it didn’t matter
that the Catalan independence referendum was not just
illegal, but also a fraud. It lacked the minimum demo-
cratic processes and aimed to legitimize a coup d’état
that the Catalan government had set in motion weeks
before. The gullible news media simply parroted the
pro-independence propaganda promoted by Vladimir
Putin — with his characteristic feigned detachment —
portraying Spain as in a revival of the Franco era, de-
spite 42 years of democracy and 32 as a member of the
European Union.
Nonsense. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democ-
racy Index, which rates the quality of democracy world-
wide, found in 2016 that there are only 19 “full democra-
cies” in the world. Among them, ranking 17, is Spain. Be-
ing Spanish today means that you live in a democracy.
Worse than some, but better than many, including, by
the way, the United States, which ranks 21st.
Until recently, I had never asked myself what it
means to be Spanish. The question doesn’t make sense:
All collective identity is a fiction. I’m pondering it today
only because of the international concern over the tur-
moil that resulted in Catalonia this autumn when the re-
gion’s autonomous Parliament illegally repealed — with
only half of its members present and hardly any debate
— the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia in violation of
the Spanish Constitution and international law. This set
off the greatest political crisis in Spain since democracy
was re-established in 1978: The government in Madrid
dissolved the Catalan Parliament and ordered new re-
gional elections, which are to take place on Thursday.
I must explain why I have used the expression “coup
d’état” to describe what is happening in Catalonia. To-
ward the end of the 1970s, when the Franco regime was
replaced by democracy, Spain restructured the country
into 17 autonomous regions, creating one of the most de-
centralized systems in the world. Catalonia is just one of
those autonomous regions, and like Galicia or the
Basque Country, it is characterized by its own language
and culture. It’s also one of the wealthiest.
Since Spain became democratic, the Catalan govern-
ment has had exclusive control over vital matters like
education, language, culture and public works. The na-
tionalist conservatives who have been in power most of
the time have, however, carried out a thorough, surrep-
titious and disloyal strategy of “nation building.”
Even if they were nationalist, they were not part of the
pro-independence faction, which never managed to at-
tract more than 20 percent of the voters. But in 2012, the
nationalist conservative government embraced the
cause of independence. After four years of economic cri-
sis, it was expedient to put all the blame on Madrid, and
that helped distract attention from the stunning corrup-
tion in which these Catalan leaders were drowning.
This blatant and systematic attack on the rule of law
#MeToo in the Land of Gender Equality
C
ISSI WALLIN was sitting in a TriBeCa diner this
October when she first saw the story on Harvey
Weinstein’s alleged sexual assaults and har-
assment of women. An actor and writer based in
Stockholm, the 32-year-old Ms. Wallin had come to Man-
hattan on vacation with her husband and toddler son, and
as she kept on reading, she silently asked herself:
OPINION “What if people would believe me now?”
Ms. Wallin had filed a police report in 2011, a few years
BY JENNY
NORDBERG after she was sexually assaulted, only to see it dismissed
within weeks. Now she decided to do something different:
A Swedish She put the name of a well-known columnist for Sweden’s
journalist and largest left-wing tabloid newspaper on her Instagram
author. page, alongside a statement saying he had drugged and
violently raped her in Stockholm more than a decade ago.
Soon more people came forward about the man. I was a
co-author of an investigation into his behavior.
And suddenly, just as in the United States, stories of
other national figures in the arts and media began pour-
ing forth. About men who had used their professional
power and influence to harass or abuse younger, often
subordinate women, often at work. About situations in
which “everyone knew,” but men viewed as indispensable
had been protected by management for years (some-
times the perpetrators were management). In contrast to
the situation in the United States, however, the wave
quickly grew beyond accusations against the famous and
powerful: Tens of thousands of Swedish women have
signed a series of appeals in the national press detailing
incidents of brutal sexual assault and harassment in al-
most every professional field, from law, medicine and aca-
demia to politics and defense. Committed by Swedish
men.
A #MeToo
rally in
Stockholm
in October.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
is what I call a coup d’état. It might seem an inaccurate
expression to those who forget that the best coups are
those without any violence, precisely because they
don’t seem to be coups at all. But it won’t seem inade-
quate to those who remember how the legal philosopher
Hans Kelsen described a coup: “The legal order of a
community is nullified and replaced by a new order in
an illegitimate way.”
Catalonia’s separatism is not only Spain’s problem but
also the European Union’s: It represents the continuity
of a project that despite being portrayed as pro-Euro-
pean aims to destabilize Europe. This is the most dan-
The Catalan independence
referendum was an attack on Europe.
gerous consequence of the populist nationalism that
brought forth Donald Trump and Brexit. This is what’s
at stake with the vote on Thursday.
Is there any solution to the Catalan problem? In the
short term, it depends on the election results. I’m not
optimistic. It’s difficult to imagine that enough Catalans
will stop believing the tons of lies that were fabricated
with public funds and spread by the pro-independence
cause.
In the longer term, however, things may change. Per-
haps the solution could come from a constitutional re-
form so that Spain becomes a fully federal country, bet-
ter suited to be part of a federal Europe. But that’s not
enough. There needs to be a setting out of the conditions
under which Catalonia could have a legal referendum on
independence, similar to Canada’s Clarity Act (enacted
in response to secessionist sentiment in Quebec). Of
So yes, it happens in Sweden, #too.
This reckoning in a country that sees itself as best in
class on gender equality has been particularly painful.
With a feminist government, a feminist foreign policy, a
national agency tasked with upholding all things equality
and a prime minister who calls himself a feminist, should-
n’t we be better than this? Shouldn’t these impossibly per-
fect-looking, tall men who go on government-paid pater-
nal leave be a little, well, more evolved by now?
Or not.
As someone who has lived and worked in both Sweden
and the United States, I’ve seen sexual harassment in
both places over decades. In my experience, the Ameri-
Sweden’s rules and regulations don’t
protect women there.
can workplace is more openly sexualized and flirtatious, a
place where women are expected to be open and enthusi-
astic to advances by men, whether in the form of offers of
mentorship that must happen over dinner or as more di-
rect abuses of power.
Sweden, on the other hand, is more cold, correct and
asexual on the surface. But give a Swedish man a drink or
two after work, and you’ll be surprised how quickly many
of them will take out their various frustrations in the form
of lewd behavior against women, only to seamlessly go
back to voicing egalitarian ideals the next day. As an ac-
quaintance who immigrated to Stockholm from Britain
once observed, “Sweden is a progressive, but not a so-
phisticated, society.”
HANS CHRISTIANSSON
SR 9
course, in a federal Europe, this law should be Euro-
pean, not only Spanish.
I was born in 1962 in Extremadura, in southern Spain,
but when I was 4 my family settled in Catalonia. I am,
therefore, an ordinary Catalan. The Catalonia of the
20th century was built by an enormous flow of people
from the poorest areas of the south who emigrated to the
richer north. At home we speak Catalan and Spanish, as
in many other Catalan homes. I don’t feel particularly
Catalan or Spanish. Or maybe I feel I’m both.
Though passions and emotions run high in the debate
over Catalonia, for me, it’s just a political issue: I just
don’t want to live in a place where those who rule violate
the laws in the most blatant way, in the name of democ-
racy and a supposedly oppressed homeland. The Cata-
lan government chose the path of independence for
power and glory, just as the country was finally over-
coming the economic crisis, without considering the
harm it could cause to its citizens.
I like the idea of belonging to the European Union,
something impossible for a hypothetically independent
Catalonia, as European officials have explained over
and over again. It’s only natural: Europe’s union, built
as a fortress against the nationalism that ruined the
Continent in the 20th century, has brought us the most
peaceful and prosperous era in modern history. Carles
The European Union is the only thing that can guar- Puigdemont,
antee democracy’s survival in Spain because, as the phi-
the pro-
losopher Jürgen Habermas said, national democracies
independence
cannot even defend themselves against the furious ulti-
matums of capitalism that spreads beyond national bor-
Catalan regional
ders. Despite its countless defects, a united Europe is, at president,
least for a leftist Europeanist like me, the only reason- speaking to the
able utopia. That is what, ultimately, being Spanish press in
means to me: a peculiar way of being European. October.
SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
How well can reams of pro-gender equality rules and
regulations really protect women in this cultural context?
According to those who study such things, not very. Swe-
den is an open society but one that retains “traditional
sexual norms,” said Madeleine Leijonhufvud, a criminal
law professor who is retired from Stockholm University.
Women work alongside men and move freely in society,
but ultimately, it’s still always viewed as a woman’s re-
sponsibility to protect herself from men. In that sense,
women are not yet fully protected by the justice system:
Very few rape charges even lead to a trial, and Ms. Leijon-
hufvud says that when they do, “a woman’s circum-
stances and appearance are always questioned — only in
this type of crime is there a peculiar presumption that vic-
tims of crime will lie.”
Sweden is also not a place where pretty much anyone
gets fired. Ever. A full-time staff job is perceived as a right,
and the employer’s responsibility to handle and protect a
problematic employee will often supersede the concern
for a safe workplace environment for women. So most
men accused of sexual harassment or even rape in Swe-
den still hold their jobs.
The generous take on why #MeToo has prompted
stories from women across Swedish society is that its
women are brave and empowered enough to rally, albeit
largely anonymously. (As perhaps befits a culture that fo-
cuses on the collective rather than the individual, most of
the stories in Sweden have left both accused and accuser
unnamed.) The more depressing thought may be that in a
society where there is a law, a fine-tuned rule and a gov-
ernment agency for each aspect of life, pervasive abuse
may be more effectively denied or trivialized for longer.
We find ourselves incredulous that such things could hap-
pen here, despite all of our (very expensive) efforts at be-
coming the world’s best place to live.
Because who can really stand that in the place where a
little girl has the best chance of being born with every-
thing — a free education, health care and a social welfare
cushion to fall back on — when she attempts to do mean-
ingful work, there’s still no escaping from the pervasive
law of male supremacy?
In some ways, perhaps it has been less painful for all of
us to join the silence about our own professional lives, in-
stead moving on to what we imagined were bigger, better
things, things that contributed to “the greater good.”
When feminism morphs into a collective consensus and
an abstract truth, rather than an individual act of struggle
and personal responsibility, maybe we fail to be brave.
Victims of anything is not who we want to be, and cer-
tainly not how we, the free and unbroken pioneers of gen-
der equality, can bear to see ourselves. It also makes our
shame deeper now — because to how many younger col-
leagues have we coldly and pragmatically hinted that this
too shall pass?
The really desperate thought is that if this is Sweden,
where is the rest of the world?
While we all ponder that notion, Sweden’s diplomats
and foreign aid workers will continue to deliver lectures
on gender equality to other countries. We’re experts at
that. And The New York Times, along with other publica-
tions, will continue to report on curious and beautiful
Swedish customs and traditions, to entice readers with
the fantasy of a country that seems to have gotten almost
everything right, in both aesthetics and quality of life.
Call it the Swedish way.
10 SR THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

LETTERS

The G.O.P. in the Age of Trump

Readers respond to articles asserting that the
Republican Party “is rotting” and “broke Congress.”
TO THE EDITOR: vote in Republican primaries
EDITORIALS Re “The G.O.P. Is Rotting,” by (which in many states would
David Brooks (column, Dec. 8): requiring registering as Repub-
Mr. Brooks’s excellent col- lican). Putting aside ideology

The Tax Bill That Inequality Created umn doesn’t just indict the
current Republican leadership.
It also eulogizes traditions of
for this limited purpose, they
should vote for candidates who
honor truth, denounce bigotry,
honor, patriotism and compro- defend the rule of law, and
mise that both parties once held refrain from demonizing those
in common. Democrats can pick with whom they have honest
up the flag that the current crop policy disagreements.
of opportunists and careerists These Democrats and inde-
have trampled in the mud. To pendents may, of course, vote
carry that flag effectively, for Democrats in the general
though, they need to identify a election, but by lending a hand
leader, and an idea, that can to responsible candidates in
help us recover from our cur- Republican primaries, they may
rent national sickness. And they help restore that party — and
need to do it soon. our nation — to health.
PETER MULLER CARL T. BOGUS, BRISTOL, R.I.
WILMINGTON, DEL. The writer is a professor at Roger
Williams University School of Law.
TO THE EDITOR:
David Brooks says Republicans TO THE EDITOR:
are realizing that they are As Thomas E. Mann and Nor-
“politically homeless.” Non- man J. Ornstein point out in
sense. As a proud former Re- their excellent article, President
publican, I can say I have a Trump is not an outlier but
political home. I am now a rather a direct descendant of
Democrat. It is that simple. the modern Republican Party.
LAWRENCE A. HUSICK However, this demonization
SOUTHEASTERN, PA. of government did not start, as
the authors suggest, in the
TO THE EDITOR: 1990s; the current devolution of
the Republican Party stems
David Brooks’s column repre-
directly from Ronald Reagan,
sents a sea change from his
who at his very first Inaugural
usual intellectual discourse
Address stated, “Government is
about needed changes for our
not the solution to our problem;
country. Instead he has de-
government is the problem.”
volved into parroting the hate
This sentiment has only been
monologues spewed by the
amplified through subsequent
likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
CARLO GIAMBARRESI Republican administrations as
Schumer that make the presi-
they encouraged the extreme
dent ineffective in his attempts
wing of their party until it actu-
Most Americans know that the Republican tax bill will wid- Further, liberal donors have been nowhere near as skill- to rescue our nation from the
ally took over the party and
en economic inequality by lavishing breaks on corporations ful at coordinating their giving as conservative donors have ravages of the prior administra-
eradicated the moderate voices.
tion.
and the wealthy while taking benefits away from the poor been. No liberal organization comes close to rivaling the net- Donald Trump is the political
President Trump is attempt-
and the middle class. What many may not realize is that work of donors and political activists created by the conser- offspring of Ronald Reagan.
ing to bring our nation out of
growing inequality helped create the bill in the first place. vative Koch brothers, says Theda Skocpol, a professor at the trend toward fostering VICTOR OWEN SCHWARTZ
As a smaller and smaller group of people cornered an Harvard, who has written extensively about these issues. dependence on government NEW YORK
ever-larger share of the nation’s wealth, so too did they gain The Koch network has spent years methodically pushing that ultimately destroys atti-
an ever-larger share of political power. They became, in ef- state and federal lawmakers to cut regulations, taxes and tudes of individual responsibil- TO THE EDITOR:
ity. This movement requires a Thomas E. Mann and Norman
fect, kingmakers; the tax bill is a natural consequence of government programs for the poor and the middle class.
radical change from what has J. Ornstein are certainly correct
their long effort to bend American politics to serve their in- The leading donor network on the left, the Democracy Alli- transpired over the last eight that the Republican Party “has
terests. ance, is smaller and much less successful. years, similar to the transition done unique, extensive and
As things stand now, the top 1 percent of the population Even allowing for money “wasted” on losing candidates under Ronald Reagan that possible irreparable damage to
by wealth — the group that would primarily benefit from the and failed causes, the donor class has notched many impres- brought us out of the Jimmy the American political system,”
tax bill — controls nearly 40 percent of the country’s wealth. sive wins. Tax rates have fallen substantially, with the top Carter years of a declining and they are right to point to
nation. the pernicious impact of right-
marginal income tax rate now just below 40 percent, from a
I do not like some of Presi- wing media since the 1980s. The
high of 70 percent when Ronald Reagan won the presidency.
An Egregious Wealth Gap Returns The top corporate tax rate has dropped to 35 percent, from
dent Trump’s rhetoric, but his
agenda is worthy of our sup-
factors leading to this danger-
ous situation began a half cen-
The net worth of the richest Americans continues 46 percent in 1980, and many businesses pay an effective port. tury ago.
to eclipse that of almost everybody else. rate that is much lower than that. While supply-side eco- DAVID A. STALLMAN In the mid-1960s, the G.O.P.
nomics remain mostly a Republican fiction, politicians from WILMINGTON, N.C. could still claim to be the party
50% both parties have supported the effort to reduce taxes on of Lincoln, its congressional
Share of net personal wealth 2014:
capital — profits, capital gains and dividends — on the TO THE EDITOR: members having voted in larger
held by top 1% 39% percentages than their Demo-
grounds that this would spur investment and make Ameri- Scathing as David Brooks is in
his appraisal of the present-day cratic counterparts for the Civil
40 can businesses more competitive. Rights Act and the Voting
But the cuts have done little to bolster the economy or Republican Party — and I ap-
plaud him for it — he doesn’t go Rights Act. That changed when
the working class. In fact, incomes have stagnated, and Richard Nixon’s Southern strat-
30 far enough. Because if he’s right
workers have been forced to part with a larger share of their in his prediction that the G.O.P. egy brought the Dixiecrats into
27% pretax earnings in the form of payroll taxes. will ultimately accept President the Republican Party, thus
Meanwhile, where are the political champions of poor Trump’s firing of Robert Muel- setting the stage for a party
20 marinating in toxic racism.
Americans? Whoever they are, they haven’t been producing ler along with everything else it
Share held by bottom 90% has thus far seen fit to accept, When Ronald Reagan subse-
results. Wages for the poorest have languished, partly be- quently courted the Christian
then it won’t be just the G.O.P.
10 cause Congress has been so slow to raise the minimum right, he added to this mix a
that’s “rotting.” It will be Ameri-
wage — $7.25 an hour since 2009 — that its purchasing can democracy itself. strain of authoritarian thinking
’20s ’30s ’40s ’50s ’60s ’70s ’80s ’90s ’00s
power is now about 10 percent less than it was in 1968. Law- by religious bigots unwilling to
NANCY STARK, NEW YORK find common ground with peo-
makers and conservative judges have also undermined
Sources: Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics; Emmanuel Saez workers by making it harder for them to unionize, so they ple who differ from them. And
and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley TO THE EDITOR: given that the party’s donor
are not in a position to demand better pay and better work- class has condoned such a shift,
David Brooks’s column serves
ing conditions. as a devastating account of the the prospects of its becoming
The bottom 90 percent has just 27 percent, according to the This tax bill would exacerbate all these trends. The Ur- collapse of the Republican once again a principled center-
economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel ban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Joint Committee Party under a president who right party appear dim.
Zucman. Just three decades ago these numbers were almost on Taxation, both respected, both nonideological, say the bill has shown disdain for the Con- PETER KIVISTO
exactly the reverse: The bottom 90 percent owned nearly 40 would primarily benefit the wealthy and would leave most stitution, incompetence and ROCK ISLAND, ILL.
lack of a moral compass.
percent of all wealth. To find a time when such a tiny minor- poor and middle-class Americans worse off over the long The writer is the author of “The
The G.O.P.’s broad acceptance
ity was so dominant, you have to go back to the Great De- run. That’s without Congress doing anything else to widen of President Trump reminds me Trump Phenomenon.”
pression. of the Know-Nothing Party of
As kingmakers, rich families have supported candi- the 1850s. The Know-Nothings, TO THE EDITOR:

dates who share their hostility to progressive taxation, wel- a secretive third party, ignited Re “Liberals Need to Take
Campaigns for the Very Few riots and torched churches yet Their Fingers Out of Their
fare programs and government regulation of any kind.
Elite “superdonors” — 24,949 people in the last federal election captured about 50 seats in Ears,” by Thomas B. Edsall
These big-money donors have pushed the Republican Party — gave an enormous share of campaign contributions. (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Dec. 7):
Congress and a few governor-
in particular further to the right by threatening well-funded ships with their virulent opposi- One political extreme begets
primary challenges against anybody who doesn’t toe the tion to immigrants from Ireland another extreme.
line on tax cuts for the rich and other pro-aristocracy poli- Superdonors, who make up and Germany. When will it dawn on liberals
So many Republicans today, that their extremes — globaliza-
cies. The power of donors has contributed to political polar-
ization and made the federal government less responsive to
0.01% with their blindness to Russian tion, an immigration “open
the needs of most voters, a new book by Benjamin Page of
of the adult population, intervention, sexual misconduct door,” regulations that suffocate
or one out of every and a cruel tax bill, are invoking and an economy that leaves
Northwestern University and Martin Gilens of Princeton 10,000 people … the same ignorance and accept- millions of displaced workers
University argues. ance of bigotry and fraudulent angry — are the result of dec-
The power of the one-percenters may help explain why activity of that earlier remnant ades of elitism?
President Trump, who ran as a populist, has not only aban- of the G.O.P. When will it dawn on conser-
doned any pretense of fighting for the working class but also FRED HILL, BALTIMORE
vatives that their extremes —
joined Republicans in Congress in ripping up regulations an economy that rewards greed
… made about Average 1980 at the top and abandons rural
that protect families and the environment — in order to help contribution TO THE EDITOR:
business tycoons. Together, they’ve tried to repeal the Af- 15% of all in 2016 dollars: Re “How the Republicans Broke
America, bans on immigration
from specific nations (without
fordable Care Act. Its repeal would have deprived millions of contributions Congress” (Sunday Review, concern for the individuals),
people of health insurance while trimming taxes for high-in- in 1980 … $14,795 Dec. 2): endless blaming of the other
come families. Now, they want to cut taxes on corporations Thomas E. Mann and Nor- side for their own faults — are
man J. Ornstein are right when contributing to the advance-
and offer new loopholes to the rich, even if that means hurt- they argue that the Republican ment of President Trump, who,
ing their own constituents by limiting the ability of middle- Party “has done unique, exten- at least for the time being, has
class families to deduct state and local taxes on their tax re- … and sive, and possibly irreparable eclipsed them?
Average 2016 damage to the American poli-
turns.
Most political campaigns now rely on a small group of
40% of all contribution: tical system.” A party over
Where is the common-sense
centrist thought among either
wealthy donors who give tens of thousands of dollars or contributions which the likes of Rush Lim- Democrats or Republicans?
more per election cycle. About 40 percent of contributions to
in 2016. $108,459 baugh, Sean Hannity and Fox When will the Democrats find a
News hold considerable sway is voice that is something other
campaigns during the 2016 federal election came from an seriously ill.
Sources: Adam Bonica, Stanford University; Nolan McCarty, Princeton University; than the party of “no”? When
elite group of 24,949 donors, equivalent to 0.01 percent of the Keith T. Poole, University of Georgia; Howard Rosenthal, New York University “The Republican Party must will the Republicans escape
adult population. In 1980, the top 0.01 percent accounted for reclaim its purpose,” Mr. Mann Trumpism and find a spokes-
only 15 percent of all contributions, according to an analysis and Mr. Ornstein conclude. It is person who will look toward
by Adam Bonica, a Stanford professor, and his collaborators. the gap. But even now, Mr. Trump and Republicans in Con- a noble sentiment, but appeals building a future, not just tear-
to responsibility and genuine ing down the past? When will
Of course, the growing importance of wealthy donors is gress are talking about cutting government programs like
patriotism are inadequate. we independents, who are more
not exclusively a Republican phenomenon. Democratic can- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security next year to help After all, relatively few promi- than a third of the electorate,
didates have also benefited from the largess of wealthy do- make up for the more than $1 trillion the tax bill would add nent Republicans have found find a replacement for dissatis-
nors like George Soros, Tom Steyer and James Simons. But to the federal deficit. the courage to stand against faction? Where is there real
on economic and tax issues, big-money liberal donors have Inequality in America does not have to be self-perpetu- President Trump and Trump- leadership?
not really shoved their party to the far left. Donations from ating. When people turn up at the polls, as they did recently ism. And yet our democratic
system requires two healthy DIXON ARNETT, CORNING, N.Y.
Wall Street and corporate America have, in fact, pushed in Alabama, they can produce unexpected results. That’s
parties. The writer is a former state as-
many Democrats to the center or even to the right on issues why Republican lawmakers might want to think again about What to do? The only appar- semblyman in California and
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Gift-Giving
Tips From
Scientists
E
VERY holiday season, as we drive
ourselves crazy at the mall or
shopping online, soaked in the
existential dread that comes
from trying to find gifts our loved ones
might appreciate, I think of the great
writer and social critic James Baldwin,
who wrote: “If the hope of giving/is to
love the living,/the giver risks madness/
in the act of giving.”
Perhaps social science can keep us
sane. In an effort to help you with your
gift-giving decisions, I offer three in-
sights gleaned from recent research.
First, don’t be a soulless utilitarian.
Most of my fellow economists fall into
this category, many even advocating we
simply give one another cash for the holi-
days. A variant on this is to give very
practical gifts, such as household appli-
ances at the high end, or tube socks on
the low end.
The fundamental error here is not eco-
nomic efficiency per se, but excessive
usefulness. The best gifts are, in fact,
useless. By this I don’t mean worthless,
but rather, valuable for the intrinsic sat-
isfaction they bring as opposed to being a
means to some other end. While econo-
mists are busy ruining their marriages
with cash and blenders, marketing ex-
perts have long found that people get the
most satisfaction from “useless” experi-
ences that have emotional impact, like
going on a beautiful bike ride. Re-
searchers believe this is especially true
for older people, who derive much more
pleasure from experiences than pos-
sessions.
How to use this fact? Tell Grandma
that you were planning to buy her a Mer-
cedes, but after reading some social sci-
ence research, you have decided to take
her to the park instead. She might look a
little disappointed, but no doubt in her
heart she will be glad.
One major exception to the useless-
ness rule is gift giving in the form of phi-
lanthropy. As the president of a large
nonprofit organization reliant entirely on
donations, I can assure you that a long
walk on the beach is not what your favor-
ite charity is looking for from you.
Second, “regifting,” or giving away a
gift someone else gave to you, though
considered a social taboo, is not quite as
ghastly as often thought. Researchers
showed in the journal Psychological Sci-
ence in 2012 that we overestimate how of-
fended people will be to learn that their
gift was passed on to someone else. Par-
ticipants in the study reported that if
they gave someone an unwanted gift,
they would prefer it be given away than
thrown away outright. So that’s some-
thing.
Furthermore, there is a narrow range
of circumstances in which regifting is not
just tolerated but actively embraced. The
No matter how terrible the present,
remember to wrap it nicely.
key is to follow what I call the Fruitcake
Principle: If you don’t value it, don’t
regift it. Only pass on things you yourself
own and authentically treasure.
If you have doubts about the wisdom
of regifting used items with sentimental
value, you aren’t alone — but you may be
missing out on a special opportunity. For
instance, scholars at Carnegie Mellon re-
cently demonstrated that we’re more
likely to give practical gifts that seem
personal (such as a jersey for the recipi-
ent’s favorite football team) than senti-
mentally valuable ones (say, a cherished
photo we have had for years). However,
they also found that recipients would ac-
tually prefer to receive fewer practical
gifts and more sentimentally valuable
ones.
So if a friend gives you something you
truly love and you think it will make
someone else happy as well, feel free to
regift it. On the other hand, if it’s a fruit-
cake, you’re fooling no one. Toss it.
Third, no matter how terrible your gift,
wrap it up nicely. The other day I had the
misfortune of finding myself at the mall.
My despondent gaze fell upon a large ar-
tificial Christmas tree under which was a
pile of beautifully wrapped empty boxes.
To me, this seemed a sad metaphor for
life, worthy of an Ibsen play. However, I
sensed that to casual passers-by — many
of whom appeared not to be social scien-
tists — the display seemed to enhance
the Christmas spirit.
As it happens, the appeal of well-
wrapped, worthless gifts is nearly uni-
versal, and even goes beyond Homo sa-
piens. Early this year in the journal BMC
Evolutionary Biology, researchers
showed that some male spiders — Para-
trechalea ornata, to arachnologists;
“fuzzy brown ones” to the rest of us —
give food gifts to prospective mates that
are nutritionally worthless but wrapped
ornately in the silk produced by their
bodies. Imagine giving your beloved a
chicken nugget meticulously wrapped in
beautiful fabric, and you get the idea. Ap-
parently for spiders, as for humans, it’s
the wrapping that counts, because the
worthlessness of the gift inside did not
affect the receptivity of the female.
I shared this wonder of nature with my
wife, who observed that while she has lit-
tle hope for the quality of my gifts, I
might learn a thing or two from the spi-
ders about how to wrap them. I found
this insensitive.
To sum up, there are three ways to im-
prove your gift-giving this year. Give
away useless stuff. Only regift what you
want to keep. And if all else fails and your
present is still terrible, just don’t forget to
wrap it nicely. You’re welcome, and
happy holidays.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
OPINION
BY ARTHUR C.
BROOKS
The president of
the American
Enterprise Institute
and a contributing
opinion writer.
A War Trump Won
T
HERE is nothing more character-
istic of the Trump era, with its fire
hose of misinformation, scandal
and hyperbole, than that America
and its allies recently managed to win a
war that just two years ago consumed
headlines and dominated political debate
and helped Donald Trump himself get
elected president — and somehow nobody
seemed to notice.
I mean the war against the Islamic
State, whose expansion was the defining
foreign policy calamity of Barack Obama’s
second term, whose executions of Ameri-
cans made the U.S.A. look impotent and
whose utopian experiment drew volun-
teers drunk on world-historical ambitions
and metaphysical dreams. Its defeat was
begun under Obama, and the hardest
fighting has been done by Iraqis — but this
was an American war too, and we suc-
ceeded without massive infusions of
ground troops, without accidentally get-
ting into a war with Russia, and without
inspiring a huge wave of terrorism in the
West.
Why haven’t we noticed this success?
One reason is the nature of our victory: As
Max Abrahms and John Glaser wrote re-
cently in the Los Angeles Times, the de-
feat of the Islamic State didn’t happen the
way many foreign policy hawks envi-
sioned, because it didn’t require also going
to war with Bashar al-Assad or creating a
new Syrian opposition army. At the same
time, it happened more easily than inter-
vention skeptics feared — so there isn’t a
pundit chorus, right or left, ready to claim
vindication in the victory.
Other reasons for the lack of attention
are suggested by National Review’s David
French, in a piece that helped inspire this
one: a war-weary assumption that if you
crush one terrorist group another just
springs up (true to a point, but crushing
an ambitious terrorist state is still a real
achievement); a popular appetite for bad
Bringing Down Our Monsters
WASHINGTON
J
AWS drop and drop and drop. Until
it seems it will never stop.
You would think we would get
numb at some point. But no. There
are just too many numbskulls.
We cannot refresh our browsers fast
enough to see the latest stupefactions on
sexual violations and Trump violations —
which dovetail in a surreal way.
Every day, TV anchors breathlessly re-
port some bizarre new insult or accusa-
tion or hissy fit or Putin nuzzling by the
president, as he wanders around howling
in the storm like a late-stage Lear — rag-
ing, blowing, spouting, wits turning — in
his White House of dark delusions.
The dynamic in the capital grows ever
more dangerous, as Donald Trump tells
fables to justify the unjustifiable and his
staff feeds him more fables in a futile at-
tempt to manage his puerile moods. Truth
is held hostage to Trump’s ego. The coun-
try’s fate — and the world’s — rests on
who best flatters America’s Grand Canyon
of Need.
As men are falling, women are rising.
The gender gap in Virginia and Alabama
presages a gender chasm in 2018.
Democratic women in Congress have
decided they may be able to expel the
president on his self-confessed sexual lar-
ceny. If they can purge their own party’s
offenders and drive women to the polls by
whipping up outrage over the absurdity of
the nation’s avatar of aspirations and val-
ues being immune from the penalties fac-
ing other gropers, then they could take
back the House and maybe even the Sen-
ate and hold hearings on the Harasser in
Chief.
“We are not going to let up,” Represent-
ative Lois Frankel of Florida, the chair-
woman of the Democratic Women’s Work-
ing Group, told The Times’s Carl Hulse.
“This is so much bigger than us.”
The country is going through twin trau-
mas that seem pagan in their lack of de-
cency.
With so many grotesque stories tum-
bling out about marauding men treating
ROSS DOUTHAT
news that leaves little room for celebrat-
ing victory; and the inability of Trump
himself to take credit for anything without
immediately firing up some unrelated
controversy.
But this is also a press failure, a case
where the media is not adequately report-
ing an important success because it does
not fit into the narrative of Trumpian dis-
aster in which our journalistic entities are
all invested.
I include myself in this indictment. For-
eign policy is the place where the risks of
electing Trump seemed to me particularly
unacceptable, and I’ve tended to focus on
narratives that fit that fear, from the risk
The fall of ISIS is part of a
surprisingly effective
Middle East approach.
of regional war in Middle East to the perils
in our North Korean brinksmanship.
Those fears are still reasonable. But all
punditry is provisional, and for now, the
Trump administration’s approach to the
Middle East has been moderately suc-
cessful, and indeed close to what I would
have hoped for from a normal Republican
president following a realist-internation-
alist course.
In particular, Trump has avoided the
temptation often afflicting Republican
uber-hawks, in which we’re supposed to
fight all bad actors on 16 fronts at once. In-
stead he’s slow-walked his hawkish in-
stincts on Iran, tolerated Assad and
avoided dialing up tensions with Russia.
The last issue is of course entangled with
the great collusion debate — but it’s still a
good thing that our mini-cold war has re-
mained relatively cool and we aren’t straf-
ing each other over Syria.
The Saudi war in Yemen remains a hu-
MAUREEN DOWD
women as property or their office as their
“stable,” as one former NBC producer said
in the case of Matt Lauer, you’d think it
would be hard to remain at peak disgust.
And yet I felt the revulsion rising yet
again as I read Salma Hayek’s Times op-
ed piece about her nightmarish experi-
ence with the depraved Harvey Weinstein
when she was trying to get her Frida
Kahlo movie made with Weinstein pro-
ducing — and demeaning and threatening
and pouncing and punishing.
Hayek recalled that she was “lost in the
fog of a sort of Stockholm syndrome,”
thinking if she made some compromises
— Weinstein demanded she add a full-
frontal nude sex scene with Ashley Judd
— that he would come to see her as an art-
ist.
It perfectly captured the rotten little se-
cret that has long been corroding Holly-
Men falling, women rising,
Trump raging.
wood. The industry that helps shape our
view of women has fallen into gender
apartheid — Saudi Arabia on Sunset Boul-
evard.
Even though women are half of ticket
buyers, only 4 percent of the 100 top-gross-
ing films over the last decade were di-
rected by women. Women make up 11 per-
cent of writers, 3 percent of cinemato-
graphers, 19 percent of producers and 14
percent of editors. The quality of women’s
roles, once so rich in the ’30s and ’40s, has
atrophied. Last year, women comprised
only 29 percent of protagonists.
There has been lip service given to fix-
ing the inequality, but no one in power
ever raised holy hell about it — not the
women studio chiefs, not the male studio
executives, not the unions.
Hollywood was a warped society and
everyone knew it. Gender stereotypes
were enshrined in amber: Women can’t
direct because it’s too risky to trust them
with big budgets; they get too emotional;
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manitarian catastrophe and our relation- American
ship with the House of Saud remains cor-
forces,
rupt. But the war in Yemen was already an
accompanied by
American-abetted disaster under Obama,
Kurdish fighters,
and the Trump White House has at least
in northern
called for Riyadh to lift its Yemen embargo
and seen the new king promise some mild Syria near the
Turkish border
social and economic reforms.
in April.
And the Trump strategy on Israel and
the Palestinians, the butt of many Jared
Kushner jokes, seems . . . not crazy? The
relatively mild reaction to recognizing Je-
rusalem as Israel’s capital may be a case
study in expert consensus falling behind
the facts; the Arab world has different
concerns than it did in 1995, and Trump’s
move has helped clarify that change.
Likewise, getting the Saudis to lean
hard on the Palestinians, to float radical
ideas for a supersized Gaza and a very Is-
rael-friendly solution elsewhere, is as
plausible an attempt to break the logjam
as was the pressure Obama put on Israel.
The truth is that the specific two-state vi-
sion of the late 1990s was overtaken by
events a while ago, and demonstrating
that some Arab states are more amenable
to accommodating Israel is a useful step
toward diplomatic clarity.
The rule with this White House is that if
you write in praise of anything it has done,
something disastrous swiftly follows. So if
this column conjures up a Saudi invasion
of Lebanon, a renewed intifada, or some-
thing terrible in the Koreas — well, I apol-
ogize in advance.
But if you had told me in late 2016 that
almost a year into the Trump era the ca-
liphate would be all-but-beaten without
something far worse happening in the
Middle East, I would have been surprised
and gratified. So very provisionally, credit
belongs where it’s due — to our soldiers
and diplomats, yes, but to our president as
well.
they only want to direct movies where
people talk or, God forbid, cry; they don’t
have the authority to come across as com-
manding generals.
That’s why monsters were allowed to
roam, feeling entitled to human sacrifices,
vulnerable young women offered at the al-
tar of art, ambition and box office.
Hayek asks the infuriating key ques-
tion: “But why do so many of us, as female
artists, have to go to war to tell our stories
when we have so much to offer? Why do
we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain
our dignity?” With so many talented wom-
en and so many ticket-buying women,
why had Hollywood stopped trying “to
find out what female audiences wanted to
see and what stories we wanted to tell.”
When I wrote a Times Magazine piece
two years ago, interviewing scores of
women directors, writers, producers and
cinematographers and studying their
amazing work, I got more and more angry
as I realized that these women were being
systematically excluded based on ridicu-
lous biases.
I believed the top woman producer who
told me that it involved something as
primitive as men in Hollywood not want-
ing to be bossed around by women be-
cause it made them think of hectoring
wives and nagging mothers.
There are a lot of well-meaning people
with power in Hollywood. But they have
looked the other way for far too long on
shameful imbalances.
As Melissa Silverstein, the founder and
publisher of Women and Hollywood, told
me, “Just because we finally had a suc-
cessful superhero movie directed by a
woman, we now see that we are still really
at the beginning.”
Hayek nailed it when she concluded:
“Until there is equality in our industry,
with men and women having the same
value in every aspect of it, our community
will continue to be a fertile ground for
predators.”
No wonder, given the state of Washing-
ton and Hollywood, Dictionary.com chose
“complicit” as its word of the year.
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The Resort Generation

Baby boomers, lured by new
development, turn to
country club-style living in
adult-centered communities.
By MARCELLE SUSSMAN FISCHLER
Developed as a place to raise a family, Long
Island — like many other suburban areas
that grew and thrived in post-World War II
America — is graying.
While new communities on the the island
were built for baby boomers back when
they were babies, the latest wave of new de-
velopment — country club-style living in
communities for people 55 and older —
hopes to help ease them into their retire-
ment years and beyond.
Age-restricted housing has been around
for decades, but until recently “there hadn’t
been that focus on creating a lifestyle for ag-
ing baby boomers,” said Michael Dubb, year, 215 out of 230 units in the first phase From top: a three-bedroom
founder and chief executive of Beechwood sold off floor plans and computer render- corner unit at Country Pointe
Homes. Many of these suburban homeown- ings before construction had even started, Meadows in Yaphank, N.Y., a
ers are now empty nesters who no longer said Steven Dubb, a principal. The 80-acre new gated community
need a big house, don’t want to deal with property includes an adjacent shopping offering resort-style living for
landscaping or snow removal, and want to center, an amenity-laden clubhouse, two people 55 and older; and the
live with others who are at the same stage in heated pools, tennis courts and a walking interior of a model
their lives, he said. trail. three-bedroom at the
Having sold out the 720-unit Mead- Just don’t call it a retirement community. development. Left, Sherri and
owbrook Pointe at Westbury earlier this “People are going there to feel young and Joseph Azizollahoff at their
year, Mr. Dubb is now building three more act young,” Mr. Dubb said. nearly completed
resort-like “active adult lifestyle communi- If you stay in the neighborhood where two-bedroom at Country
ties.” The largest, Country Pointe Plain- you raised your children, he said, “young Pointe in Plainview, N.Y.,
view, will have 750 age-restricted condo people move in and you are the old people another community designed
flats and townhomes with first-floor master next door.” By contrast, in these new age- for older adults.
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Calculator Retirement
The Golden Years Edition
We have looked at the best and worst
states for retirement, but what about
specific cities?
Bankrate recently ranked the 50
largest metropolitan areas in the
United States — taking into account
factors like cost of living, taxes, crime,
health care, public transit, weather,
things to do and the percent of the
population 65 or older — to come up
RANKED 1-10
Pittsburgh
Very low crime rate and cost of living
Boston
Very low crime; great health care
Los Angeles
Low crime; great things to do
Denver
Low cost of living, crime rate, taxes
Providence, R.I.
Very low crime; great health care
Minneapolis
Low cost of living; good health care
Tampa–St.
Petersburg, Fla.
Low crime rate and taxes
Phoenix
Very low cost of living; low taxes
Austin, Tex.
Very low taxes; low crime rate
Dallas
Very low cost of living and taxes
Source: Bankrate
Ask Real Estate Holiday Tipping
An Apartment Building Tradition
Served With a Side of Anxiety
After years of renting in a small building, I
won an affordable-housing lottery and
moved into a large building in Prospect
Heights, Brooklyn, with 24-hour concierge
service and a mix of market-rate and afford-
able units. What is the etiquette on holiday
tipping? I could afford around $250, but
spread across a large staff, that does not
seem like a generous gift. What about
neighbors in even lower income brackets?
What is expected of them?
Tipping the staff at the holidays is a fraught
tradition (and one that I have pondered
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before). No one wants to be the Scrooge.
For booking inquiries, contact Laura Barbieri at
But the holidays are expensive, and all
those little envelopes can strain a budget.
Your situation is further complicated by
the reality that your full-service building
caters to market-rate tenants whose pock-
ets may be deeper than yours. But supers
and doormen are not oblivious to economic
constraints. “Holiday tipping is customary,
but it’s not mandatory for people who can’t
afford it,” said Gabby Warshawer, the direc-
tor of research for CityRealty. “At the end of
the day, a super is going to be doing their
job,” even without a gift. Though the
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with a list of the best and worst cities
to retire in. (Data sources included the
Census Bureau, the F.B.I., the Bureau
of Transportation Statistics and the
Gallup Sharecare Well-Being Index.)
New York City finished in 18th place,
buoyed by its public transit system
and an abundance of activities for
retirees, but dragged down by a high
cost of living and below-average health
care. The chart below shows which
cities were the top and bottom 10 on
the list, and some of the reasons.
MICHAEL KOLOMATSKY
RANKED 41-50
Washington, D.C.
High cost of living; poor health care
Las Vegas
Poor health care; high crime rate
Baltimore
Poor public transit;
below average weather
Oklahoma City
Poor public transit;
below average health care
Atlanta
Poor health care and public transit
Indianapolis
High crime rate;
below average health care
Buffalo
Poor public transit and weather
Louisville, Ky.
Poor public transit and weather
Memphis
Below average health care;
poor public transit
Riverside, Calif.
Very high cost of living;
below average health care
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amount you suggested seems like an aver-
age tip for a large, doorman building.
In interviews with doormen, the real
estate brokerage Triplemint found that the
“expectation of tips is more hinged on
usage,” said David Walker, the company’s
chief executive. So someone who calls on
the doorman for packages and assistance
should give more than those who expect
little more than a cursory nod.
Management also could arrange a tip-
ping pool so tenants could give a lump sum
that is then doled out.
I own an apartment in Park Slope, but rent it
out. When I lived there, I always gave out
holiday tips. Now that I have a tenant,
should I still tip, or is it up to the tenant?
There is no rule against both of you giving.
It is an opportunity to show your apprecia-
tion to the staff that protects your invest-
ment. “You want your super to look after
the place,” said Nathan Tempey, the senior
editor at Brick Underground, a real estate
website that provides an annual tipping
guide.
Send your tenant a list of building-em-
ployee names as a gentle reminder that the
holiday tipping season is upon us.
RONDA KAYSEN
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CONS The unit is a two-flight walk-up.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW D’ALTO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

THREE-BEDROOM IN BLACK ROCK

$729,000
FINANCIAL DISTRICT CONDO

$835,000
MANHATTAN 20 Pine Street, No.
1107
A high-floor studio apartment with a
built-in Murphy bed and views of the
New York Stock Exchange and
Federal Hall. Tom Postilio,
212-350-8008, and Mickey Conlon,
212-350-8009, Douglas Elliman Real
Estate; elliman.com
FAIRFIELD 87 Seabright Avenue TAXES $17,933 a year
A three-bedroom,
two-and-a-half-bath waterfront home PROS The house sits across the
with a spacious living room lined with street from a small sandy beach. The
windows, a new kitchen with living room and master bedroom
COMMON CHARGES $737 a
adjoining dining area, back patio, have unobstructed views of Black
month; taxes:$216 a month, abated
landscaped yard, and detached Rock Harbor.
through 2021
two-car garage on 0.10 acre in the
Black Rock section of Bridgeport. CONS A deck that overlooks the
PROS What the apartment lacks in
Janice McGrath O’Brien, William water can be entered only through
living space it makes up for with a
Raveis, 203-767-1126; raveis.com the master bedroom.
large bathroom. It’s also quiet.
CONS The hallway kitchen lacks ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SUZANNE HAMLIN,
counter space and has a small vent. ANNE MANCUSO AND LISA PREVOST.
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Where the Sound of the City Seems to Disappear
By KIM VELSEY
When Ben Toth, a freelance composer, fi-
nally decided to settle down in New York af-
ter a decade of bouncing between coasts, he
and his girlfriend, Sarah Taylor Ellis, had
one major — and majorly difficult — re-
quirement: They wanted a home in the city
that didn’t feel like it was in the city.
“We like shorter buildings and sky,” said
Ms. Ellis, who teaches composition at the
Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper
East Side.
When the two started dating in 2013, they
both had apartments in Ditmas Park, a
Brooklyn neighborhood that met their bu-
colic requirements. But while they con-
ducted their courtship at Mimi’s Hummus
on Cortelyou Road and loved the area’s spa-
cious Victorians, they found the neighbor-
hood too un-urban in one respect: the
dearth of train lines. When repair work shut
down the Q, it made the neighborhood feel
like a small town in the middle of nowhere
— and not in a good way.
Googling around for other options, Ms.
Ellis found an old New York Times article
about Kew Gardens, Queens. “This feels
right for us,” she told Mr. Toth. A visit con-
firmed as much: They loved the Tudor
houses, the retail strip that felt like a quaint
main street and the presence of not only
several subway lines, but a Long Island Rail
Road station.
Even more appealing was the rental they
found there: a house dating to the 1920s.
A doctor’s office takes up part of the first
floor, but the couple have the rest of the
house, which includes two bedrooms, two
bathrooms, a working fireplace, a driveway,
the front yard, the attic and the basement.
They moved in two and a half years ago and
currently pay $2,700 a month.
“To be able to have a house in New York,
it’s so unique,” Mr. Toth said.
“And we’re musicians, so it’s not like
we’re making tons of money,” Ms. Ellis add-
ed.
They share the space with their Persian
cat, E. L. Doctorow, an Egyptian stray they
adopted from the North Shore Animal
League. Large canvases printed with pho-
tos of E. L. line the staircase, while books by
the cat’s namesake are displayed promi-
nently beneath the stained-glass window on
the landing.
And whereas most New York musicians
struggle to find space for their instruments,
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RENTERS
Names Ben Toth
and Sarah Taylor Ellis
Ages 40 and 31
Occupations Both are com-
posers; Mr. Toth is also a real
estate agent at Voro. Ms.
Ellis teaches composition at
Nightingale-Bamford, which
she describes as her dream
job: “Honestly, it never feels
like work. The girls are so fun
and inventive.”
Rent $2,700 a month, along
with three-quarters of the
utilities and a few hundred
dollars for landscaping.
Before they found the house
They fell in love with another
rental in Kew Gardens, a
two-bedroom in a 1920s
apartment complex. But after
a renovation that was sup-
posed to take a month
stretched to three with no
end in sight, even their bro-
ker advised them to move
on.
After deciding to leave
Ditmas Park The couple
looked elsewhere in Brooklyn
but soon learned that quaint,
low-rise options closer to
Manhattan were not “budget-
friendly.” They also consid-
ered Riverdale and Pelham
Bay Park, in the Bronx.
Friendly neighbors They
once compiled all the ingre-
dients for soup and then
realized they didn’t have a
soup pot. Overhearing their
conversation, the owner of a
local health food store gave
them one of her old soup
pots. “It felt very Rockwell-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT WRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ian,” Mr. Toth said.
Ben Toth and Sarah Taylor Ellis rent a house in Kew Gardens that is big enough for two pianos,
two keyboards and a cat. “It really feels like a home when you have a piano,” Ms. Ellis said.
Mr. Toth and Ms. Ellis are able to keep two
keyboards and two pianos, one of which Ms.
Ellis brought with her from Ditmas Park.
She frequently hosted “piano bars” at her
apartment there, and friends would come to
drink wine and sing show tunes late into the
night. She and Mr. Toth started dating after
she invited him to one; they sang a duet of
“Move On” from “Sunday in the Park With
George.”
“Before, I had the keyboard, but there
was no sense of home until I had a piano,”
Mr. Toth said.
Ms. Ellis agreed: “It really feels like a
home when you have a piano.”
Other benefits of living in a single-family
house include having so much storage that
Mr. Toth was able to convert a large win-
dowed closet off the dining room into an at-
home gym with a treadmill. There is also a
washer and dryer, window seats with built-
in storage and an eat-in kitchen where he
roasts his own coffee beans, which he buys
in bulk from a vendor in Red Hook.
“I always thought that moving to New
York meant sacrificing quality of life,” Mr.
Toth said. “But this is nicer than anyplace I
lived in Los Angeles.”
Since they moved in, he has been so loath
to leave home that he decided to stop work-
ing as a touring music director. With the en-
couragement of their real estate agent, he
got his license and now works as an agent
for Voro, in addition to composing, and he
has funneled some of his commissions into
producing. The first project for which he
will be credited as a producer is a musical
version of “Emma,” written by Ms. Ellis,
with book and lyrics by the playwright Me-
ghan Brown, being workshopped in London
this spring.
One of the few downsides of their living
situation is having to pay a gardener sev-
eral hundred dollars a month to take care of
the lawn and shrubberies. Also, there aren’t
many good public transit options between
Kew Gardens and Ditmas Park, which
makes it hard to get together with friends in
their old neighborhood.
Their regular dinners at Mimi’s Hummus
were another casualty of the move, but
when they were married in the house in
February, they were able to persuade Mimi
Kitani, the restaurant’s founder, to come to
them. She cooked for the newlyweds and
their two guests in the home’s kitchen.
They love the house so much, they said,
that in their most recent lease, Mr. Toth ne-
gotiated an additional clause: a right of first
refusal should the owners ever want to sell.
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THE FIX
MICHELLE HIGGINS

You Can Cheer for the Holidays, but Keep It Quiet

Designers recommend
understated touches, including
scents, flowers and candles.
NO TIME TO HANG UP the lights or take out
the tinsel? Don’t bother. Understated is in
this season. Unadorned greenery, simple
rustic touches and carefully curated deco-
rations are replacing the usual baubles and
bells.
“We’re seeing a shift from holiday-spe-
cific décor to pieces that work together to
evoke more of a feeling or spirit of the sea-
son,” said Kylee Trunck, a senior staff de-
signer at Havenly, an online design service.
“Things like faux fur, rustic wood finishes,
metallics, plaids and greenery are less
overtly holiday-themed, but they bring a
cozy and magical feeling to spaces.”
While glitter and garlands are still popu-
lar, she said, “nontraditional is becoming
the tradition,” with color combinations like
pink and turquoise or black and white used
in lieu of red and green. “We’re also seeing a
mix of quirky characters like peacocks and
llamas in metallic finishes edging out the CAL BINGHAM FOR THE BOUQS COMPANY

traditional characters of the season.”

All of this is good news for procrastina-
tors who have yet to dig out their decora-
tions. For advice about how to create subtle
holiday cheer, we talked to designers about
how they do it — and how they’re decorat-
ing their own homes this year.
USE WHAT YOU’VE GOT “New Yorkers know SARAH DORIO

all too well that saving space is a necessity,
so rather than holiday-specific decorations,
I opt for things I can use all year,” said Lo-
gan Yost, an interior designer in Manhat-
CAL BINGHAM FOR THE BOUQS COMPANY
The Holiday Sweater arrangement from the
Bouqs Company, priced from $50 to $80.
tan. “For mantels, I have a dozen or so vo-
tive holders I gather together. I use them
throughout the year for dinner parties, but
for holidays, I simply line them up on a bed
of tree branches.”
You can also swing by the drugstore and
grab a container of small reflective Christ-
mas balls to fill in the greenery, Mr. Yost
suggested: “Because a small box is only a
few bucks, I choose a new color each year
and then toss them.”
But when picking them out, remember
that the color palette should complement
that of the room. “Too often, I see seasonal
decorations that look completely out of
place,” he said, “because no consideration
was taken to work with the existing décor.”
To decorate his dining table, Mr. Yost lays
out a small wreath with a low, wide vase of
flowers in the center, usually red roses and
tulips. “Doing something understated like
this is always a winner,” he said. “It says
‘holiday,’ but it’s not in your face. And be-
cause it’s simple and sophisticated, it’s also
timeless, which means it will always be in.”
One additional element he includes:
scent. “Rather than go for the obvious pine
or cinnamon, I do Moroccan Amber candles
and reed diffusers from Nest,” he said. “It
provides an earthy, wintry, super-sexy
backdrop that makes you want to light a fire
and drink too much bourbon.”
GO FOR GOLD “Mixed metallics, tonal pal-
ettes and décor that’s seasonal without be-
ing overtly Christmassy are three trends
topping my list this December,” said Anne
Sage, a Los Angeles-based lifestyle blogger
and author of “Sage Living: Decorate for
the Life You Want.”
“A blend of copper, silver and gold, along
with muted monochromatics, feels festive
yet still sophisticated,” she said. “And ‘un-
holiday’ wintry sparkles are perfect for
busy people who want to put up their deco-
rations well before the hoopla hits and leave
them up long after the last hurrah.”
PLAY WITH LIGHT “The one thing that
makes the holidays different than any other
time is sparkle,” said the decorator Bunny
Williams, whose holiday collection for Bal-
lard Designs reflects that. “Bubbly cham-
pagne, glittering candlelight and extra fes-
tive touches make the season a magical
time, so embrace it.”
When she is entertaining, Ms. Williams
said, she dims the lights and uses a combi-
nation of LED candles and small votives on
the dining table and mantels: “The softer
light creates a more romantic, festive feel.”
Greenery is another important element.
“Live magnolia garlands and wreaths are
Above left, wreaths and ADD FLOWERS “Creating centerpieces for
garlands from the Bouqs your holiday dinner party isn’t as daunting
Company. Above, a decoration as it may seem,” Ms. Rollins said. “Roses al-
by the designer Danielle ways are great, as they last for a long time
Rollins. Near left, a decoration and make a statement as your centerpiece,
by Nancy Fire. Below, a and you can use a variety of colors.”
holiday collection for Ballard Mix in seasonal greenery, berries, metal-
Designs by the decorator lic spray-painted branches or ivy sprigs.
Bunny Williams. “One of my favorite tricks is to put cranber-
ries in the water of a clear cylinder vase and
integrate various flowers in shades of red,
pinks and white,” Ms. Rollins said.
Don’t have the time or inclination to make
your own bouquet? Start-ups like the Bouqs
Company, in Marina del Rey, Calif., and Far-
mgirl Flowers, in San Francisco, work with
sustainable farmers to create a selection of
MEREDITH MATSAKIS
wreaths, garlands and arrangements using
seasonal blooms, a welcome alternative to
great because they’ll last the whole season,” poinsettias. (The $50 Holiday Sweater from
Ms. Williams said. the Bouqs includes succulents, white al-
MATCH YOUR HOME’S STYLE “Your holiday stroemeria and red berries; the $60 8-foot
décor should echo the style of your house,” strand of garland from Farmgirl has silver-
said Danielle Rollins, an interior designer dollar eucalyptus and pine.)
and the author of “Soiree: Entertaining GET THE GUESTS INVOLVED “One of my fa-
with Style.” For a rustic home she deco- BALLARD DESIGNS vorite things to do as guests are arriving is
rated, she said, she incorporated seasonal to set up a build-your-own holiday cocktail
touches like holly berries, pheasant feath- bar,” Ms. Rollins said. For a Christmas car-
ers and flowers; in more formal homes, she oling party, for example, she created a
uses silks, metallic and velvet elements. Holiday decorating build-your-own-peppermint-schnapps bar
MAKE IT COLORFUL “Don’t feel you have to doesn’t have to be loud with votive candles, sliced oranges, candy
stick with a traditional color palette or deco- and brash. canes and holiday cookies. “It’s a great way
rations,” Ms. Rollins said. “Thanksgiving to get everyone comfortable before sitting
doesn’t have to mean orange, and Christ- down for dinner, and you can move it
mas doesn’t have to mean red and green.” throughout the house.”
Alternative color schemes, she sug- Nancy Fire, the creative director and a
gested, might include brown and turquoise, founder of the Manhattan firm Design
chartreuse and chocolate, khaki and rose or Works International, created a “wishing
pomegranate and camel. In the rustic inte- window” in her apartment, using strings of
rior she created, for example, Ms. Rollins mini-LED fairy lights, eucalyptus, metallic
decorated in colors that complemented the wire and other craft supplies. Then she in-
room’s palette, coordinating a wreath’s rib- vited each guest to write a wish on a tag and
bon with the chocolate walls, adding a tar- hang it in the window, which looks out at the
tan tablecloth to a side table and putting out Central Park reservoir and the New York
bowls of pine cones. City skyline. “Spreading cheer worldwide,”
“The key when experimenting with color she said, “seems to resonate with many of
is to balance a brighter tone with a duller us this holiday season.”
one and look to the opposite end of the color A wishing window would be easy to cre-
spectrum,” she said. “You can’t really go ate on a smaller scale, by taping tags to any
wrong if you use floral elements in the same window or wall. “It is a great addition to any
color tones to tie it all together. Think of how holiday parties you are having this year,”
a patterned scarf can tie even the most dis- she said, “giving people the opportunity to
jointed colors of an outfit together.” be mindful in a creative and beautiful way.”

INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE

SANTIAGO, CHILE

A Four-Bedroom House Overlooking the Andes

By LISA PREVOST
This Mediterranean-style house is in the Lo
Barnechea district of Santiago, Chile, on a
hillside acre overlooking the Andes.
The three-story, 6,400-square-foot con-
crete house has four bedrooms, four full
bathrooms and one half bathroom. It was
built about 25 years ago and has been well
maintained, although a buyer in this price
range would probably want to update the
kitchen and master bath, said María José
Bórquez Yunge, an agent with the Christie’s
International affiliate Bórquez & Associ-
ates, which has the listing.
The living areas, on the first floor, are
lined with windows and include a large liv-
ing room, a study and a dining room. The
kitchen was designed for service rather
than as a gathering space; it is connected to
two small bedrooms and a bath for staff, Ms.
Yunge said.
On the second floor are the master suite
and three additional bedrooms with two
baths. The finished lower level could be
used as a recreation or family room. There
is also an in-ground swimming pool, and
several covered terraces.
The house is less than 10 miles from
downtown Santiago, Ms. Yunge said, yet
still very private: “You don’t see any
houses, because they are down the hill, and
at night, you see all the lights in the valley.”
Market Overview
A report last year from the Brookings Insti-
tution noted that while Santiago has en-
joyed considerable economic growth in the
past 20 years, it faces challenges to contin-
ued growth. Productivity gains have slowed
in recent years, job creation is low and in-
come inequality is high.
$1.8 million
Above, a Mediterranean-style
house that was built about 25
years ago. The living room, top
right, has large windows that
face north. Terraces and
gardens, above right, surround
the first-floor rooms.
The homeownership rate has declined as
rentals have become more popular, said
Matías Montalva, an owner of Montalva
Quindos, a real estate agency and develop-
er. He attributed that, in part, to people mar-
rying later and having fewer children, as
well as tighter lending standards.
Santiago saw an increase in housing
prices between 2010 and 2015, but the pace
has slowed since, said Nathan Lustig, an en-
trepreneur and a principal at Andes Prop-
erty.
A value-added tax on the sale of new
properties went into effect in 2016, and
“prices for new construction went way up,
as everybody tried to buy before the new
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSE LUIS STEPHENS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tax came in,” Mr. Lustig said. “And they’ve
kind of stayed that way.”
The value-added tax rate is 19 percent,
but the final rate is usually lower, because it
is applied to the sale price after the land val-
ue is deducted, said José Tomás Marambio
Yanes, a real estate lawyer in Santiago.
Ms. Yunge noted that properties above $1
million are considered very high-end, and
take longer to sell.
Who Buys in Santiago
There are few foreign buyers in Santiago,
and those who do buy are usually employed
in the city or looking for an investment.
Most are from the United States or Europe,
Mr. Lustig and Ms. Yunge said, though in-
terest from Chinese investors is growing.
Sections of the city popular with foreign-
ers include Lastarria and Bellas Artes,
which are close to downtown and museums,
and have a walkable, “European feel,” Mr.
Lustig said. El Golf, the financial district,
tends to attract wealthy foreigners, he said.
Buying Basics
There are no restrictions on foreign buyers
in Santiago, but they must obtain a taxpay-
er number, Mr. Yanes said.
Property is commonly priced in Unidad
de Fomento, or UF, a currency tied to the
Chilean peso but regularly adjusted for in-
flation. The Central Bank of Chile posts the
UF-to-peso exchange rate on its website.
If a property sale involves a real estate
agent, the buyer and seller share the 2 per-
cent commission fee. A notary manages
most of the transaction, but Mr. Yanes ad-
vised hiring a lawyer to do a title search.
Obtaining a mortgage can be difficult for
foreigners, Mr. Lustig said, adding that
banks typically require proof of at least a
year’s permanent residency and, for buyers
working in Chile, proof of between six
months and a year of income.
Taxes and Fees
The fee for recording a property is 0.2 per-
cent of the sales price. Legal fees could add
another 1 to 2 percent. The notary fee is usu-
ally $250 to $500, Mr. Yanes said.
Annual property taxes on this house are
$8,000, Ms. Yunge said.
Contact
María José Bórquez Yunge, Bórquez & As-
sociates/Christie’s International, 011-56-2-
2953-6992; christiesrealestate.com
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LIVING IN VALHALLA, N.Y.

Suburban Pastoral: ‘I Have Deer. I Have Turkey.’

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By JULIE LASKY
For a hamlet named after the eternal ban-
quet hall where the slain warriors of Norse
mythology caroused, Valhalla is low on
drama. Residents appreciate the forested
hills, compact homes and soothing cul-de-
sacs of this small Westchester community
(population 3,400). The schools are excel-
lent, and the commute is about 45 minutes
by train to Grand Central Terminal.
But Valhalla, part of the town of Mount
Pleasant, is hardly ordinary. Its narrow res-
idential area snakes between a large his-
toric cemetery to the west and the 2,145-
acre Kensico Reservoir to the east. The
hamlet’s hot spot is the granite-and-con-
crete-walled Kenisco Dam. Climb 300 feet to
the top and you’ll find smooth waters and
distant trees that may make you wonder ex-
actly when you entered Wisconsin.
Carrie Vogel, 53, who lives with her hus-
band, Olivier, in her childhood home on
Beech Road, remembers the reservoir as a
place of dark lore and happy mischief. She
recalled her great-grandfather’s tales of
building the dam in the 1910s and watching a
fellow worker perish from a fall into wet ce-
ment. As a child she fished (legally) and
swam (illegally) in the waters. Her sisters
had to be picked up at the police station af-
ter they were caught skinny-dipping.
And though Ms. Vogel complained about
corporate developments replacing farm
buildings and play areas, she is still enam-
ored of her picturesque surroundings. “I
have a water view three seasons,” she said.
“I have deer. I have turkey. I have rabbits.”
She called herself “blessed” to remain in
Valhalla, even with property taxes that
have grown to $15,000 a year and her unre-
munerative choice to be a stay-at-home
mother to four children.
Of particular value is an ordinance that
lets people rent units within their resi-
dences. The Vogels created a one-bedroom
apartment, and they rent it for $1,200 a
month, including utilities.
After Sept. 11, Westlake Drive, the two-
lane road on top of the dam, was blocked to
vehicles, cutting off a popular route to Ar-
monk to the north and White Plains to the
south, and diverting traffic into the heart of
Valhalla. Carl Fulgenzi, the supervisor of
the town of Mount Pleasant, said a traffic
light approved for the corner of Legion
Drive and Broadway will help motorists.
Concerns about traffic patterns also fol-
lowed a proposal to close two railroad cross-
ings. The measure is intended to prevent ac-
cidents like the one that occurred almost
three years ago, when a Metro-North train
hit an automobile that had pulled onto the
tracks slightly north of the railroad station,
killing six people, including the car’s driver.
A hamlet in Westchester County, Valhalla, N.Y., is quiet, forested and mostly residential, with a large reservoir and a historic dam. It’s part of the town of Mount Pleasant.
What You’ll Find
Valhalla’s homes are typically suburban
comfort architecture: capes, split levels
and raised ranches dating from the
mid-20th century or later. Occasionally,
large colonial-style houses usurp modest
properties.
Summit Estates at Westchester, a new
Toll Brothers development near the neigh-
boring hamlet of Hawthorne, is offering
homes on half-acre lots, starting at 2,723
square feet and $1.34 million.
Valhalla also has older residences, some
with unusual back stories. In 2011, Wei
Huang, a computer engineer living in New
York City, bought a 125-year-old house on
North Kensico Avenue that had been
moved from the adjacent village of Kensico
before the area was flooded to expand the
reservoir. This gabled house with a wrap-
around porch, for which Mr. Huang paid
$360,000, was in poor condition, but other-
wise fit his needs. It was only an eight-
minute walk from the train station and had
a separate unit for his parents. The quar-
ter-acre lot on a verdant hillside was more
than enough for a vegetable garden.
Mr. Huang began repairing the home
himself. But long before he finished, his
parents found space in a senior residence
in Chinatown. He recently listed the 2,000-
square-foot property, as is, for $450,000.
Valhalla has a small commercial district
along two blocks of Broadway, parallel to
the Taconic State Parkway. The offerings
are slim, and several storefronts are va-
cant. Many residents buy groceries at the
Acme market in the Rose Hill Shopping
Center in the hamlet of Thornwood, about
five minutes from downtown, or at the
ShopRite farther up the road. Some go to
the Stop and Shop in North White Plains,
about 10 minutes away. The nearest Trader
Joe’s is in Hartsdale, about 15 minutes
away. Residents said a lack of support for
local business is the price a small commu-
nity pays in the age of Amazon.
What You’ll Pay
Douglas Lombardo, a broker at Stone Bay
Realty Services, said Valhalla offers better
home values and lower taxes than other
Westchester communities with comparable
or inferior schools. This makes it highly
attractive, especially to people who prefer
small towns. The market is dominated by
single-family homes.
The downside is that the supply is low.
As of Dec. 11, only two properties were
available: a four-bedroom home on McKin-
ley Avenue, priced at $449,000, and a two-
bedroom house on Columbus Avenue that
was valued mainly for its 1.6-acre property
and was priced at $659,000. More are ex-
pected to be listed in the new year. Data
from the real estate site Trulia showed a
median price for all home sales in Valhalla
of $569,500, as of mid-August, based on 144
transactions. This figure represented a
year-on-year increase of 3.4 percent.
The Vibe
On a recent drizzly Sunday afternoon in the
Valhalla Park neighborhood, wood smoke
perfumed the air and holiday lawn orna-
ments were ready for their frost.
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ON THE MARKET
The Schools
Many homes in Valhalla are zoned for the
Valhalla Union Free School District, which
has four institutions, three in the hamlet.
The Virginia Road Elementary School in
White Plains enrolls 304 students in kinder-
garten through second grade. The Kensico
School in Valhalla enrolls about 320 stu-
42 Columbus Avenue
dents in third through fifth grades. On
2015-16 state tests, 50 percent met stand-
A fixer-upper with two bed-
rooms and one bathroom,
ards in English versus 39 percent state-
built in 1911 on a 1.6-acre
wide; 50 percent met standards in math
versus 43 percent statewide. wooded lot that can be subdi-
Valhalla Middle School enrolls about 350 vided for three homes, listed
students in sixth through eighth grades. On at $659,000. 914-437-6100
state tests, 48 percent met standards in
English versus 37 percent statewide; 44
percent met standards in math versus 40
percent statewide. Valhalla High School
was one of 342 public and private high
schools in the United States to be honored
as a 2017 National Blue Ribbon School for
overall academic excellence by the federal
department of education. It enrolls about 35 McKinley Avenue
500 students in ninth through 12th grades.
A four-bedroom, two-bath-
Its 2016 mean SAT scores were 509 for
room house built in 1928 on
reading, 522 for math and 511 for writing, 0.13 acre, listed at
versus 489, 501 and 477 statewide. $449,000. 914-403-8033
The Commute
Metro-North Harlem line trains depart for
New York City about every half-hour dur-
ing morning rush hour. The trip to Grand
Central Terminal takes 42 to 48 minutes,
and costs $13 each way, peak fare; the
monthly fare is $289.

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‘Hon, Did the Robot Put Out the Recycling?’

Some developers are adding
high-tech flourishes that use
robotics and smartphone apps.
By C. J. HUGHES
The latest in technology for apartments en-
courages residents not to lift a finger, except
maybe to touch their phones.
Developers are certain that buyers want
gadgets that could, say, help shuffle boxes
of books to storage areas, or allow a peek
inside the refrigerator when they’re at the
grocery store and can’t remember if they
need milk.
These digital amenities, which are con-
trolled by voice commands and smartphone
apps and use robots, are turning up across
the New York area in condos, co-ops and
rentals, even if users may have to contend
with a few glitches. Users may also have to
pay a premium.
Yet, to not plug in, developers say, would
be to lose out.
“It’s not about the future,” said Elena
Ashkinazy, a manager at Time Equities, the
developer listing a two-bedroom co-op on
the Upper East Side called the “smart
apart” for its futuristic features. This apart-
ment includes a fridge that has three cam-
eras inside that are accessible remotely.
“The time is here,” Ms. Ashkinazy said,
“and we have to be up-to-date.”
This latest crop of cutting-edge features
includes an all-in-one furniture system de-
signed to save space by expanding or con-
tracting at the flick of a switch. It is avail-
able in rental projects in New Jersey and
Manhattan, including at the Riverbend Dis-
trict, a mixed-use complex under construc-
tion in Harrison, N.J., from DeBartolo De-
velopment and Advance Realty. Renters in
the first 286-unit phase of the project, called
Steel Works, are about to be given the op-
tion of leasing a telescoping bed-and-
dresser system designed by Ori Systems, a
start-up.
At night, renters can slide out a hidden
bed, by manually pressing a switch; tap-
ping their phones; or through voice-assist-
ant software, which in Steel Works’s case
means via Echo Dot. This puck-size Ama-
zon.com device comes with all units.
In the morning, the bed can retract inside
the Ori unit, which is plugged into a wall and
mounted on a track, allowing the entire unit
to be moved to create a larger living space
for entertaining. The unit, lined with hang-
ing rods and drawers, is made of poplar ply-
wood and also has a surface that can be ex-
tended for a desk.
Above, a bed/shelf/desk unit called an Ori, at the Steel Works apartments in Harrison, N.J. The bed retracts inside the unit.
Ori, which takes its name from “origami,”
is expected to be most popular with renters
of storage-challenged studios. The technol-
ogy could help avoid the hassle of folding fu-
tons every morning, though it still may
have to work out some kinks.
During a planned demonstration earlier
this month, the bed could not be extended
automatically because a “power surge” had
disabled part of its motor, according to
building managers. But the bed could still
trundle manually, which is important in the
case of a blackout, representatives of Steel
Works said.
The voice-activation feature was also not
working. Steven Shaw, a DeBartolo man-
ager, later said this was because a Wi-Fi
connection had not yet been set up.
For an Ori unit, renters would likely pay
an extra $350 a month, in a building where
studio rents currently start at about $1,900 a
month, Mr. Shaw said, though final pricing
had not yet been set.
But Mr. Shaw said he expected the unit to
catch on with renters in the next four
phases of the 35-acre Riverbend District.
About 20 percent of the additional 2,700
Above left, the photo feature of
a Samsung smart fridge. It can
be set to take, and transmit to
your device, a photo from inside
the unit. Center, a smart prewar
apartment at 315 East 88th
Street. Right, a light-up shower
head: Red is hot, blue is cold
and purple is in between.
‘It’s not about the future.
The time is here, and we
have to be up-to-date.’
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
apartments in the project will be the kind of
studios with layouts well-suited for an Ori
unit. “I think it will be well received by those
who are making the transition from college
to apartment life, who don’t really have any
furniture yet, and are looking for value,” he
said.
Ori is also available at the Eugene, an
844-unit rental from Brookfield Property
Partners in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards.
And it is being tested out in about a half doz-
en other cities, said Hasier Larrea, Ori’s
founder and chief executive. Mr. Larrea
added that units are priced to developers at
about $10,000 a piece.
At 520 West 28th Street, a 39-unit condo
on the High Line from the Related Compa-
nies, tech offerings include mechanized
storage. (The condo was designed by Zaha
Hadid, who died in 2016.) To put personal
belongings in a storage unit, residents can
bring their things to a spacious room in the
basement, enter a code on a keypad, then
wait a few minutes while the storage unit is
transported to them. (Residents could also
enter the code on their phones before they
get downstairs.) A door swings open, and
residents can step inside a retrieved unit, a
shipping container-like bin that measures 7
feet high, 7 feet wide and up to 15 feet deep.
Retrieving those bins is the responsibility
of robots that resemble the thin, rectangu-
lar pallets used for moving freight. The met-
al robot pallets have scanners on their un-
dersides and are programmed to find their
way by reading squares on the floor that are
dotted with bar codes. During a test run this
fall, as the machines slowly glided, white
lights flickered on their sides like strobes.
The building’s five robots were created
by the Park Plus company of Fairview, N.J.,
which will keep an eye on the system from
its offices. The robots can handle 10,000
pounds each, which will also allow them to
haul cars to parking spaces in a sort of auto-
mated valet system. Both the parking and
storage systems should be fully operational
next month.
A conventional parking garage and stor-
age room would have eaten up valuable
space, said Greg Gushee, a senior vice pres-
ident at Related. Instead, square footage at
the condo was freed up for amenities like a
swimming pool, Mr. Gushee added. Be-
sides, he said, “you don’t have to see every-
body else’s stuff, and your stuff is much
more secure.”
The building has 20 storage units, includ-
ing full and half-size versions, and the ga-
rage has room for 40 cars. Full-sized stor-
age units are $250,000, plus about a $315
monthly maintenance fee, and parking
spaces cost as much as $595,000, plus $315 a
month.
Mr. Gushee said that a “handful” of stor-
age units and parking spaces had been sold
so far, but that Related was holding some
back for future buyers. The condo is about
50 percent sold, he said.
Skeptics argue that buyers generally
care more about size, location and views,
than about gizmos. “Expect developers and
property managers to go to quirky new
lengths to assure prospective tenants that
their buildings are unique,” analysts for
Streeteasy.com said in a recent report fo-
cused on 2018 predictions. But, the report
added, “even most New Yorkers able to pay
$3,700 for a studio would prefer to pay
$3,600 in the building across the street.”
At that uptown co-op that Time Equities
recently gut renovated, at 315 East 88th
Street, about every beep and whistle seems
to have been deployed to prove its tech bona
fides. LED lights on the shower head glow
red when the water gets too hot, and blue
when too cold. Bedroom shades can go up
and down with a swipe on a smartphone
screen. And kitchen appliances, like the
dishwasher and range, can be controlled re-
motely, too.
And then there is that camera-equipped
Samsung Family Hub fridge, which uses an
app to relay images of the interior to the res-
ident. The refrigerator, which retails for
around $3,000, also has a large touch-
screen on a door that can be used to order
groceries online, watch television, or scrib-
ble memos and draw pictures.
For all the connectivity in the reimagined
prewar apartment, which Time Equities
says is a prototype for subsequent ground-
up developments, its price does not seem
significantly inflated. The tech-forward
unit, No. 3G, is listed at $1.295 million. Mean-
while, an apartment directly downstairs,
also renovated but without any obvious
“smart” features, was also for sale in early
December for $1.25 million.

The High End

A Tangible Tribute Where a Sax Man Used to Hang His Hat

By RONDA KAYSEN
In the late 1950s, the jazz saxophonist Sonny
Rollins rented a garden-level apartment on
the Lower East Side with his wife. He spent
his days practicing on the Williamsburg
Bridge, honing his craft while he took a hia-
tus from recording and performing.
“That was a fond place for me,” Mr.
Rollins, who is now 87 and lives in Wood-
stock, N.Y., said in a telephone interview. “It
really has a place in my heart.”
That tenement building is gone now. It
was demolished in 2015, decades after
nearly all of the neighborhood had been
bulldozed in the late 1960s in a failed urban
renewal effort that reduced much of the
area to parking lots and displaced around
2,000 people. But now the entire area is be-
ing redeveloped as Essex Crossing, a $1 bil-
lion mixed-use project. And on the site
where Mr. Rollins once lived, a 15-story rent-
al building that is part of Essex Crossing
will begin leasing market-rate apartments
in early January. The building’s name will
be the Rollins. CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

“I don’t know what to say,” Mr. Rollins

said of the tribute. “I’m overwhelmed.” This
comes as a grass-roots effort to name the Units start at $3,150 on
Williamsburg Bridge in his honor has been the former site of a
gaining steam. In October, a bill was intro- tenement building.
duced to the New York City Council to re- MOSO STUDIO

name the bridge. Developers learned of Mr.

Rollins’s connection to the neighborhood
from the campaign.
The Rollins, at 145 Clinton Street, includes
107 market-rate apartments, a mix of stu-
dios, one-, two- and three-bedrooms. An ad-
ditional 104 affordable units were leased
earlier this year through a lottery that at-
tracted nearly 94,000 applicants. Those ten-
ants will begin moving in next month.
The building, designed by Beyer Blinder
Belle, will also house a Target and a Trader
Joe’s, both to open in 2018. Another 15,000
square feet of retail in the building has not
yet been leased.
Essex Crossing includes nine sites
spread over six acres, mostly along the
south side of Delancey Street, from Essex
Street to the Williamsburg Bridge. The
project, developed by Delancey Street As-
sociates, an umbrella group of three devel-
opers chosen by the city in 2013, will ulti-
mately deliver around 1,000 units of hous-
ing, half of them permanently affordable.
Essex Crossing will also include retail, of-
fices, space for a public school, the Essex
Street Market and a 15,000-square-foot park
designed by West 8 that will open next year,
adjacent to the Rollins.
“We see this as being a real destination
for people,” said Donald Capoccia, a princi-
pal of BFC Partners, a developer in De-
lancey Street Associates.
The Rollins will have a children’s play-
room, a pet spa, a gym and a rooftop terrace
with grills. A mural will be painted along the
western facade, on a stucco canvas that
stretches 220 feet long, by an artist to be se-
lected in January.
Rents for market-rate apartments will
start at $3,150 for a studio; $4,450 for a one-
bedroom; $5,800 for a two-bedroom; and
$8,450 for a three-bedroom. The rents will
be among the highest in the neighborhood
at a time when the rental market has
slowed, particularly at the top. In the third
quarter of 2017, the median asking rent for a
one-bedroom in the Lower East Side was
$2,589 a month, with only 34 of the available
Sonny Rollins, above left, and
one-bedrooms (about 10 percent of the in-
a rendering of the new
ventory) asking a higher rent than what the
mixed-use building named
Rollins will be charging, according to data
for him on the Lower East
provided by StreetEasy.
Side, above.
But the development team points to a list
of inquiries with 1,000 names long as evi-
dence of interest in the property, despite a
soft market.
“This product is going to speak to a more
established and more mature audience,”
said Matthew Villetto, a senior vice presi-
dent at Douglas Elliman Development Mar-
keting, which is leasing the property. “It’s
going to speak to people who want a more
elevated living experience.”
10 RE MB THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

The Hunt
Downsizing, With Room for a Piano

The co-op was too big to keep,
but a new place would have to
accommodate a Steinway.
By JOYCE COHEN
Harriet Brent Magzis was raised on the Up-
per West Side, and later moved to West-
chester County with her husband and their
two young sons.
In 2000, after getting divorced and re-
marrying, Ms. Brent Magzis, who worked
as a pianist and piano instructor, returned
to New York City with her second husband,
a book editor who wanted to escape his long
commute.
The couple bought a Classic Six in a West
90s co-op building, circa 1914, with a big liv-
ing room for her Steinway grand piano. Her
husband sometimes remarked that the
apartment was too large for them, but she
never thought so.
They lived there together until he died in
2006. “I am old as the hills,” said Ms. Brent
Magzis, who is now 81.
After living in the apartment alone with
her dog, Sacha, she came to realize that her
husband had been right: It was not only too
large, but too expensive. The maintenance
was around $1,850 a month, and they had
had several assessments over the years.
She had thought about downsizing, and
twice put the apartment on the market, but
got cold feet both times. But after the most
recent assessment — her share was $23,000
— she was finally ready to sell last winter.
“I didn’t want ownership anymore,” Ms.
Brent Magzis said. “As much as I loved the
building, it was an old building and things
needed to be repaired. I felt stressed from
having those assessments come up. I was
sure there would be more to come.”
She contacted her friend Ina Torton, a li-
censed saleswoman at Rutenberg Realty,
whom she met decades ago in a conscious-
ness-raising group. Ms. Torton leads Ruten-
berg’s “next move” team, which specializes
in helping older adults sell their homes and
relocate.
Many of her friends, Ms. Torton said,
could no longer afford to have their money
tied up in their apartments. But “selling
people’s longtime homes is a different dy-
namic,” she said. “You need a lot of pa-
tience.”
Ms. Brent Magzis wanted an Upper West
Side two-bedroom rental with a few fea-
tures her co-op did not have: ample sun-
light, a doorman and, ideally, a terrace or
balcony. “A lot of it was just fantasizing to
see what I could get,” she said, with a budg-
Upper West Side Ms.
Brent Magzis liked a two-
bedroom apartment in the
building, but someone else
got there first.
The Renter Harriet Brent Magzis, with her dog, Sacha, and her piano, in her new two-bedroom apartment.
‘I didn’t want ownership anymore. As much as I loved the
building, it was an old building and things needed to be
Upper West Side Ms.
Brent Magzis did not care for
the building’s hallways, but the
balcony was a plus.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT WRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Upper West Side A two-
bedroom on a high floor
meant great sunlight and an
expansive view. Ms. Brent
Magzis moved in this summer.
She initially thought she was willing to
move farther uptown, but decided she did-
n’t want to be too far from her regular
haunts: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and
the theater district in Midtown West.
“I talked to her about lifestyle,” Ms. Tor-
ton said. “Do you want to take cabs all over
the place, or hop a bus? When you come
home at night, you are tired, you don’t want
a half-hour trip.”
In midsummer, Ms. Brent Magzis consid-
ered a building on West End Avenue in the
high 90s with a part-time doorman. A one-
bedroom there was $3,000, and a two-bed-
room was in the low $4,000s, which seemed
high. By the time she settled on the two-bed-
room — which had an extra half-bathroom
that would be good for visiting friends, chil-
dren and grandchildren — it was gone.
“Until she had seen quite a few, she could-
n’t make a decision,” Ms. Torton said.
At a large postwar building on 90th
Street, a two-bedroom apartment and the
building’s hallways struck Ms. Brent
Magzis as shabby. The apartment did, how-
ever, have a balcony and a separate dining
area that she liked.
She found just what she wanted in a 1975
tower in the 80s: a sunny two-bedroom with
a balcony on a high floor. The rent was
$4,400, and by now she was willing to pay
that much. She and Sacha arrived in late
summer.
“She went a little over budget — every-
body does,” Ms. Torton said.
Before her move, Ms. Brent Magzis had
to pare down her possessions. She was fine
with downsizing. “I actually like it,” she
said. “I don’t like clutter.”
The living room is big enough for the pi-
ano, though it almost blocks the balcony
door. With a seating area and a dining table,
she said, “there isn’t enough roaming-
around room for other people — it’s a little
close.”
She holds occasional recitals with friends
but, having broken both wrists in the past,
she rarely plays. “I am walking the dog and
doing a lot of reading and discretionary
things,” Ms. Brent Magzis said.
Her co-op was listed for $1.58 million, and
sold for $1.5 million to a couple who wanted
to be near their relatives. Those relatives, it
turns out, are longtime residents in Ms.
Brent Magzis’s new building.
The move wasn’t that difficult for her, “al-
though at the last minute I got a little bit
emotional,” she said.
“I was glad to move,” she added. “It’s re-
freshing to have a change.”

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$980,000 $999,000
224 23rd Street, No. A
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Brooklyn New Jersey

20 weeks on the market
$1,079,000 list price
5 Parker Place
9% below list price
Old Tappan
Size 3 bedrooms, 2 baths
23 weeks on the market
Details A garden-level postwar
$1,288,000 list price
co-op with hardwood floors, a
22% below list price
kitchen with marble counters and
stainless-steel appliances, and a Size 6 bedrooms; 3 full and 2 half
fenced-in garden, accessible baths
through a bedroom door. Details A 24-year-old brick house
Costs $925 a month maintenance with a foyer, a living room with a
Listing broker Corcoran Group wet bar, an eat-in kitchen with
sliding doors to a patio, and a
sunroom with a double-height
ceiling.
Costs $27,539 a year in taxes

$842,500
249 East 118th Street, No. 6A Listing broker Prominent Proper-
East Harlem ties Sotheby’s International Realty
Manhattan
25 weeks on the market
$869,000 list price
3% below list price
Size 2 bedrooms, 2 baths
Details A condo in a non-doorman
building with a pass-through kit-
chen with Caesarstone counters.
Costs $734 a month in common
charges; $59 a month in abated
taxes
Listing broker Douglas Elliman
Real Estate

$825,000 $960,000 $900,000

15 Pine Ridge Road 3129 Judith Drive 131 Old Stone Hill Road
Wilton Bellmore Pound Ridge

Connecticut Long Island Westchester

43 weeks on the market 8 weeks on the market 60 weeks on the market
$926,450 list price $1,199,900 list price $1,050,000 list price
11% below list price 20% below list price 14% below list price
Size 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths Size 5 bedrooms, 3½ baths Size 3 bedrooms, 3 baths
Details A 38-year-old house, on Details A 40-year-old waterfront Details A 97-year-old house,
almost two acres, with a brick contemporary with a kitchen with remodeled in the 1970s, with a
fireplace and French doors to an black cabinets and granite coun- kitchen with granite counters, a
enclosed porch. ters, a family room with a fire- pool with a pool house, and a
Costs $12,547 a year in taxes place, and a saltwater pool. nearly two-acre lot with a bridge
Broker Berkshire Hathaway Costs $22,281 a year in taxes over a stream.
HomeServices New England Listing broker Coldwell Banker Costs $20,020 a year in taxes
Properties Residential Brokerage Listing broker Houlihan Lawrence

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Sherri and Joseph Azizollahoff at Country Pointe in Plainview, N.Y., with Steve Elkins, far left, a construction manager. The new development will have 750 age-restricted condo flats and townhomes with first-floor master bedrooms.
The Resort Generation
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ning around with an iPhone full of pictures
of their grandchildren.”
Age is not a protected class under the
Fair Housing Act, and most municipalities
allow exclusive communities for older
adults because of the recognized need for
senior housing programs. The federal
Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 set a
requirement that at least 80 percent of the
units in an age-restricted community have
at least one person who is 55 years or older,
and requires the community to publish and
adhere to certain policies.
With many baby boomers now in their
60s and 70s, the swell in senior housing “is
happening everywhere in the region,” as
many older adults move from single-family
houses into multifamily developments, said
Christopher Jones, senior vice president
and chief planner for the Regional Plan As-
sociation, a Manhattan-based think tank.
“It is happening nationwide.”
But more people on Long Island seem to
be choosing to age in place than in other
parts of the region. Since 2000, the number
of people over 65 has increased by 34 per-
cent on Long Island, compared with be-
tween 20 and 28 percent elsewhere in the
region, Mr. Jones said.
Take Merle and Stephen Neidell, who ini-
tially thought they would spend the rest of
their lives in the three-bedroom, three-and-
a-half-bath farm ranch in Head of the Har-
bor that they had called home since 1985.
Instead, they sold the house for just un-
der $1 million and, in April 2016, moved to an
$895,000 three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-
bath townhouse at Village Vistas, a “55 and
better” development of 43 homes overlook-
ing nearby Port Jefferson harbor.
“It is a different lifestyle we were after,”
said Ms. Neidell, 73, a retired guidance
counselor. The home where they had raised
their children was in “a very isolated set-
ting,” she said. “As we are aging, we like
having neighbors right nearby. Now we
have as much privacy as we want, plus as
much socialization as we want.”
By moving to a community where the av-
erage age ranges from the late 50s to early
60s, “we increased our social circle tremen-
dously, which is great at our age,” Ms. Nei-
dell said. “For those of us who came to Long
Island in the late 1960s and are choosing to
remain here, this is a perfect opportunity
for us to stay.”
Mr. Neidell, 74, a retired assistant super-
intendent of schools, said lower taxes and
maintenance costs and an elevator (used
now primarily as a dumbwaiter to bring
packages up and down, since they still use
the stairs) were also pluses. “We felt the 55
and over was more appropriate for us at this
point,” he said.
Jim Tsunis, managing member of the
Northwind Group, the developer of Village
Vistas and similar upcoming developments
in Bayport and Fort Salonga, said the com-
munities are filling a need. “People that live
here want to continue to live here, but they
don’t want the costly expenses of a single-
family home and the real estate taxes that
go along with it,” Mr. Tsunis said. “They stay
to be closer to their kids.”
His buyers are often able to split the prof-
its from the larger single-family homes they
sell to buy a condo on Long Island and an-
other in a warmer climate, like Florida, the
Carolinas or Arizona.
In Bayport, N.Y., where 85 of the 148 age-
restricted townhomes that Mr. Tsunis is
building are under contract, the community
will have a clubhouse with indoor and out-
door pools, a fitness center, a billiard room
and space for card games, fitness and yoga
classes and other activities.
At the Preserve at Indian Hills in Hunt-
ington, Mr. Tsunis is applying for a zoning
change that would allow him to cluster 98
age-restricted townhomes on a 150-acre
property, while leaving an existing golf
course intact. “There are a lot of people in
the Huntington area who want to downsize
and play golf,” he said.
After raising their two daughters in a four
bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath contempo-
rary colonial on a one-third-acre lot in
Farmingdale, Sherri and Joseph Azizolla-
hoff, both 66, are looking forward to single-
level living at Country Pointe in Plainview.
“We were ready for a change after 28
years,” said Ms. Azizollahoff, an occupa-
tional therapist. In October 2016, they put a
deposit on a two-bedroom villa in the high
$800,000s that comes with a full basement
and one-car garage, and are expecting to
close by the end of the year. “It’s not that we
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Stephen and Merle Neidell, above,
outside their three-bedroom
townhouse at Village Vistas in Port
Jefferson, N.Y. Top, the couple
customized the interior, which has a
double-height great room. Right, the
front of their townhouse.
don’t like children or younger families, but
we like the idea of making friends with peo-
ple that we would have more in common
with.” The development is close to a daugh-
ter and two grandchildren in Syosset, she
said, with enough space for their other
daughter and two grandchildren to visit
from Maryland.
Mr. Azizollahoff, a medical sales repre-
sentative, is looking forward to the gym,
and cycling and jogging on the greenbelt be-
ing built around the development. “If some-
thing happened to one of us, we are better
off being there than being here and iso-
lated,” he said.
By 2019, according to the National Associ-
ation of Home Builders, households headed
by someone 55 or older will constitute more
than 45 percent of all American households.
And developers nationwide hope to appeal
to those graying boomers as they downsize.
In Westchester, many of the age-re-
stricted developments are below market-
rate rental housing, said Martin Ginsburg, a
Valhalla-based developer who has built
both affordable and luxury communities for
older adults.
With 249 age-restricted active adult com-
munities in New Jersey listed on
55places.com, many retirees and empty
nesters are choosing to stay close to home
when they downsize. Among the 28 commu-
nities in northern New Jersey, prices range
from the low $300,000s to the mid
$600,000s. In Connecticut, 39 age-restricted
communities have homes that sell from be-
low $100,000 at the 2,580-unit Heritage Vil-
lage in Southbury to the high $900,000s at
the Greens at Gillette Ridge, which has 165
homes in Bloomfield. Both communities
have golf courses.
The growth in age-restricted housing, Mr.
Jones said, has been helped by the fact that
“it is easier to get those projects approved
because there is less concern about having
school children that will raise school costs
and property taxes.”
When the Engel Burman Group, a Gar-
den City-based developer, approaches
towns for approvals, the school districts
“don’t want any more children,” said Steven
Krieger, a partner. “The towns come back to
us and say, ‘you have to build 55 and older
housing.’” As a result, Engel Burman has
From left, the kitchen of a
three-bedroom unit at Country
Pointe Meadows. The space
opens to the living room; a
model of a lower-level unit at
Country Pointe at Plainview,
which comes with a garage.
Just don’t call it a
retirement community:
‘People are going there
to feel young and act
young.’
MB RE 11
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIEL GONZALEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
built six such projects on Long Island,
called Seasons communities, and 15 Bristol
Assisted Living residences, which come
with additional services.
“It’s a great business, because the popu-
lation on Long Island is aging and continu-
ing to age,” Mr. Krieger said. At the Seasons
at Seaford, 112 two-bedroom, two-bath units,
priced around $500,000, quickly sold out.
And in three months, 120 of 160 units in
phase one at the 256-unit upcoming Sea-
sons at Elwood have sold.
“People on Long Island are looking for a
lifestyle change and looking to remain close
to their families,” Mr. Krieger said. “They
want to see their grandchildren growing up.
They want to continue to go to the same doc-
tor, to the same supermarket, to the same
restaurant for lunch.”
And in the new developments, he said,
“all the common things that would typically
be a headache for a homeowner are taken
care of.”
Mitchell H. Pally, chief executive officer
of the Long Island Builders Institute, said
taxes for buyers in age-restricted communi-
ties are lower than they would be for those
buying a single-family home.
The niche market “has exploded” for both
sales and rentals developments, Mr. Pally
said, estimating that 4,000 to 5,000 age-re-
stricted units have been built on Long Is-
land in the last five years.
In areas near downtowns and train sta-
tions, 10 age-restricted developments with a
total of 1,430 units have been built since 2012,
stretching from Mineola east to Patchogue,
said Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long
Island, a regional smart-growth planning
organization. “With this demand and an ag-
ing population,” he said, “we anticipate
more projects being proposed, approved
and built.”
For the last 30 years, John and Helene
Cranmer, both 67, lived in a four-bedroom,
two-and-a-half-bath ranch with a pool on
about half an acre in Smithtown. Wanting to
make a “life change,” they put a deposit on a
$550,000 three-bedroom townhouse with a
basement and a two-car garage at Country
Pointe Meadows at Yaphank, a 55-and-old-
er community being built by Beechwood
Homes. The condo community will have 20
flats and townhouses priced from $469,000
to $574,000.
“We will be cutting our taxes by more
than half,” said Mr. Cranmer, who worked in
New York City’s Department of Finance.
They expect to move next September.
In the meantime, they are slowly weed-
ing through “30 years of stuff” and planning
a garage sale, said Mrs. Cranmer, a former
systems programmer.
With life expectancy rising, assisted liv-
ing facilities catering to octogenarians and
beyond are also popping up. While 55-and-
older communities offer independent living
for active adults of a certain age, assisted
living is for those who don’t need nursing
care, but who can no longer manage com-
pletely on their own and need help with
things like meal preparation, getting
dressed, taking medications and social ac-
tivities.
“You can’t build assisted living facilities
on the island fast enough,” Mr. Pally said.
According to New York State Department
of Health data, Long Island currently has 89
assisted living facilities, and another seven
are in the works.
“There are a lot more people in their 80s
and 90 who require some sort of assisted liv-
ing,” said Mr. Jones, of the Regional Plan As-
sociation. “That will only increase over the
next few decades.”
In Commack, N.Y., Gurwin Jewish is ta-
king reservations for Fountaingate Gar-
dens, a continuing care retirement commu-
nity with 176 independent living apartments
on a campus that will offer residents a con-
tinuum of care, as assisted living and nurs-
ing become necessary.
The Engel Burman Group has 15 Bristal
assisted living complexes on Long Island, in
Westchester and in Bergen County, N.J.,
with more in the pipeline, Mr. Krieger said.
The average age of residents in assisted
living is 88, up from 82 in 2000. Ninety per-
cent move from within four miles, and many
have friends from the same neighborhood.
Most are settling close to their adult chil-
dren.
As older parents age, “kids are moving
their parents back close to them,” Mr.
Krieger said. “The parents are constantly
moving back from Florida and the Car-
olinas.”
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NEW YORK CITY
Riding a Time Capsule to Apt. 8G
Gotham City Honors One of Its Own
A Bronx street is named for
the forgotten co-creator of
‘Batman,’ a borough resident.
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
In comics, Batman was born in Crime Alley,
when Bruce Wayne saw the lives of his par-
ents come to an end during a robbery gone
wrong.
In real life, however, Batman was born in
the Bronx. And his creators — the cartoonist
Bob Kane and the writer Bill Finger — would
meet at Poe Park to discuss the character
that would become the caped crusader.
On a chilly Friday morning recently, a
crowd of around 100 friends, family and fans
of Batman gathered to celebrate a comic-
book milestone: the south corner of East
192nd Street and Grand Concourse Avenue
was renamed Bill Finger Way. It was the lat-
NEW YORK PANORAMA
At the End
Of the Day
A Manhattan-bound A train
passing through the Jamaica
Bay Wildlife Refuge during an
evening commute this month.
NEW YORK STORY
est acknowledgment of Mr. Finger’s role in
bringing life to one of the most successful
comic characters ever, a contribution sup-
pressed for more than 75 years.
“It’s hard to imagine an artistic achieve-
ment more iconic than the creation of Bat-
man,” Councilman Ritchie J. Torres said at
the street-naming ceremony. “The irony
here is that even though the creation itself is
famous and iconic, the creator is obscure.
Our goal is to change that.”
“It’s unusual to have this kind of over-
whelming response for a street naming, but
it is well deserved,” Mr. Torres said of the
crowd, which included the actor Kevin Con-
roy, who lends his voice to Bruce Wayne and
the Dark Knight in animation, and Athena
Finger, who is Bill’s granddaughter. There
were also lots of fans — including a man in
full Batman costume — with a passion for
seeing justice done, even if meant being late
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
4 CHARACTER STUDY
At Rockefeller Center, a
tour guide for the season.
8 ALBUM
Cats on social media: We
just know we need them.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017
Old-timey elevators are
sort of moving museums
of obsolete technology
and vanishing jobs.
By ANDY NEWMAN
Photographs by THOMAS PRIOR
It was 8 a.m. in Ramón Rivera’s elevator
and the morning rush was on. The buzzer
rang.
Mr. Rivera glanced at the ancient-looking
indicator board.
“Ooh, we’re going to the penthouse!” he
said. A little white flag had popped up be-
hind the letters “PH.”
He pushed the control handle to the left.
The elevator, a little mahogany-paneled pal-
ace on vertical rails, rose past floor after
floor, numbers sweeping by behind the gold
scissor gate.
On the way up, the buzzer sounded again;
a white flag popped up behind the 8. Mr. Ri-
vera, a courtly man with a silver mustache
and a navy blue uniform, put his face up to
the door as the elevator sailed past the
eighth floor. “I’ll be right back,” he called
softly.
There are 69,381 passenger elevators in
this vertically obsessed city, and nearly all
of them promise a journey about as exotic
and exciting as making toast. You get in,
you push a button, the doors open a few sec-
onds later at your destination.
But there remain quite a few machines,
manually controlled and chauffeur-driven,
where climbing aboard is more like taking a
short trip on the Orient Express.
Mr. Rivera’s elevator is in a wedge-
shaped Venetian Gothic tower overlooking
Prospect Park in Brooklyn, but others can
be found in many neighborhoods where old
customs persist, notably along the grand
boulevards of the Upper East Side and the
more formidable reaches of the Upper
West.
On Fifth Avenue, where the hand that
guides the elevator wears a white glove,
there is a car painted with Renaissance-
style angels and gods and goddesses; it’s
like riding in a king’s coffin. On West 67th
Street just off Central Park, the elevator
man at the Hotel des Artistes building rests
between trips in a carved wooden throne
beneath a mural of ships at war. In Brooklyn
CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
Ramón Rivera has operated a
Haughton manual elevator at
a building in Brooklyn for 35
years. “I’ve had my ups and
downs,” Mr. Rivera said.
Gillibrand Aces
The Instincts Test
A LITTLE MORE than a week ago, or what
feels roughly like the time of the Otto-
mans, given the rhythms of the current
news cycle, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, the
junior senator from New York, appeared
to have made a grand self-
GINIA annihilating political miscal-
BELLAFANTE culation. On Dec. 6, three
days after a fund-raiser held
BIG CITY for her on the Upper West
Side, she called for Al
Franken’s resignation from the Senate in a
long Facebook post. In it she distinguished
the allegations of sexual impropriety
against him — several women had come
forth saying that Mr. Franken kissed or
touched them without permission, often
during the process of having their pictures
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
taken with him — from the criminal accu-
A familiar silhouette at the street-naming ceremony. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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During the holiday season, it’s hard to and usually edits pictures or art on his com-
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miss the six festive windows at Macy’s
around Lower Manhattan. I like to check
JILDOR Herald Square. Roya Sullivan, 51, over-
out furniture and design stores on Howard
sees their presentation. Around this time Street. M. Crow is one of my favorites. The
MADDY’S 390
of year, her schedule ramps up to 70 handmade furniture there is beautiful. The
MANSOURI hours a week, so on Sundays, Ms. Sulli- pieces incorporate wood, mirror and
leather and are very creative. I also hit art
van is happy for a little solitude, mixed in
THE NINES shows at the Whitney and the New Mu-
with family time. She lives in TriBeCa seum. Looking at art and design keeps me
OPTYX with her husband, Bill Sullivan, 52, who is more engaged in work and is also inspiring.
the creative director for Forest Hills
PAPER SOURCE SOLITUDE On my way back home, I stop at
Stadium in Queens, and their two sons,
Elizabeth Street Garden, which has beauti-
SNEAKEROLOGY Oscar, 19, and Luke, 15. ful sculptures. It’s a hidden gem in the city,
SUSAN HANOVER DESIGNS SHIVANI VORA and I go no matter what season it is. I get a
cup of Earl Grey from a cafe nearby and sit
TUTTI EARL GREY, NEAT During the week, I’m at there for at least an hour, enjoying the set-
work by 7:30 and up by 6. Sundays, howev- ting and also reading. I love both fiction and
TWO WORLDS DANCE & FITNESS er, I don’t think about getting out of bed be- nonfiction and like to be immersed in a good
fore 8, sometimes 8:30. I start off the day story. Right now, I’m reading “The Girls,” by
with a big mug of Earl Grey tea without milk Emma Cline, which is about girls being in-
SHOP OUR EXTENDED and sugar. This is my moment of peace. Bill volved in a cult, and “Blue Nights,” by Joan
HOLIDAY HOURS wakes up at 9:30, and Oscar and Luke, be- Didion, which is about her grief following
DECEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 24 ing teenagers, don’t surface until 11. her daughter’s death.
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY
WORKOUT WITH JANE PAULEY After my tea, I COUPLES TIME I ride or walk back down the
10AM TO 6PM
head to Asphalt Green in Battery Park City. West Side Highway and meet Bill at the Ear
THURSDAY - SATURDAY I run a few miles on the treadmill and hit the Inn. It’s been our go-to date spot for the last
10AM TO 7PM rowing machine for 20 minutes. I like to 10 years. He gets a beer, and I get wine, rosé
To 5pm on December 24 watch “CBS Sunday Morning” while I’m ex- in the summer and sauvignon blanc during
ercising because it makes the time go by every other season. We make a vow not to
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talking about them anyway.
PAGES, SCREENS By the time I’m home, it’s 11,
and everyone else is awake. We all hang out FAMILY DINNER We head back home around 6
GLEN COVE ROAD AT NORTHERN BOULEVARD on the couch. Bill and I will read The New or so, and I start cooking dinner right away.
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make roast chicken or pasta with mussels.
LUNCH AT EDWARD’S We all head out for lunch We always have a side of broccoli, because
around noon and always go to Edward’s, it’s a vegetable we all love, and salad, too.
which is around the corner. We’ve been go-
ing almost once a week for the last 15 years. WINDOW WATCHING Bill and the boys clean up,
I love the warm frisée salad — it has bacon and I usually head up to Macy’s around 8:30
and crumbled blue cheese. Bill and Oscar so I can check out whatever installation I’m
usually get burgers, and Luke always gets working on. The night setting helps me see
penne with butter. We know the staff, and the detail in the window much better and
it’s like being home. tells me if I need to do any tweaks.

SCATTER In the afternoon, we all split up to
do our own thing. The boys meet friends,
Bill does photography and art on the side
Sunday Routine readers can follow Roya
Sullivan on Instagram @roya_windows.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ADRIENNE GRUNWALD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
NO-SHAME TELEVISION By the time I’m home,
it’s close to 10. The boys are doing home-
work or watching sports on their iPads, and
Bill and I may watch a bit of TV. I like
“Shameless.” It’s a comedy about a family
struggling to stay afloat. I’m in bed by 11.

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The War Orphan people to keep this in mind. We Talking About Balthus
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willingness to adopt and love PARAPHRASING A QUOTE often wanted to be called heroic. in mind falls away. It doesn’t
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Trainworld, a family-owned store that sits
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is a modeler’s dream.
Its walls are lined with MTH locomotives,
wooden Thomas & Friends tracks and Piko
freight cars. Stacks of Lionel Polar Express
starter sets are piled high near collector
bait like the company’s Pennsylvania Rail-
road GG1, with simulated sparks. Racks of
striped engineer hats sit alongside shelves
of plastic shrubs, tunnel molds and inch-tall
people.
And at the store’s center is a 16-foot plat-
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Sunoco gas station, through which three
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For the 27 years Joannie DeVito has
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At any time of year, you could find hobby-
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set she inherited from her grandfather — a
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“One of his first sets that he bought, he set
it up around the Christmas tree, and all the
kids loved it,” he said, “but then he found out
how much it was worth — packed it up and
sold it.”
After that, his grandfather started selling
sets out of his home — an operation that in-
volved his wife and all five of his children —
and out of the beauty parlor he ran on Kings
Highway, before opening a store on Avenue
M. (About 30 years ago, the business moved
to this location, at 751 McDonald Avenue.)
Today Mr. Bianco’s two cousins work at the
store; his father, also Anthony, remains one
of the owners. Another uncle and cousin,
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over by Dutch settlers, she said. Santa’s im-
age was developed in popular paintings by
artists like Thomas Nast and Norman Rock-
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area and on every checkout
counter, its striking red flowers
beautifully displayed, despite an
obvious lack of light or water.
Superficially, it seems like the
poinsettia has all the luck, se-
lected from among thousands of
plants to represent a holiday by
an enormous population of human
beings. But on closer examina- MARTIN DIVISEK/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

and followers, offering things to do, reviews
of the Rockefeller Center tree and ratings of
the decorated shop windows along Fifth Av-
enue.
After being encouraged by a friend, Ms.
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES McCormac Groff recently self-published a
Sibyl McCormac Groff holding a Christmas lighting balloon at Lotte New York Palace Hotel. book, “A New York Christmas: Ho-ho-ho at
Gothamtide!” which is part guidebook and
part historical vignettes.
She coined the word “Gothamtide” to de-
tion, if the goal of any living or-
ganism is to reproduce, the beau-
tiful poinsettia has done well for
itself. By hitching its wagon to
humans, it can now be found from
the largest cities to the most
remote outposts on a half-dozen
continents. Like the apple in
fancy spurge with a very descrip-
tive scientific name. Euphorbia
pulcherrima actually means “the
beautiful Euphorbia.” As in all
spurges, the real poinsettia flow-
ers are inconsequential — they
are the yellow buttons tucked into

Looking a Lot Like Christmas

SIBYL McCORMAC GROFF can barely walk a
half-block in Midtown Manhattan this time
of year without being approached by
friends and strangers alike.
“Part of it is my manner — I smile and
talk to people — and part of it is my red
coat,” said Ms. McCormac Groff, who leads
idiosyncratic Christmas tours around
Rockefeller Center.
She strikes a small but noticeable figure
in her red coat and a nearly matching beret
bearing flashing lights and the words “Let’s
Get Lit.”
It is all part of her holiday get-up. On a
recent tour, she was trimmed like a Christ-
mas tree, a motley mix of reds and greens
that included Christmas-themed eye-
glasses and jewelry, a red reindeer shirt, a
pair of slacks bearing Santa insignia and a
“Ho, Ho, Ho” handbag.
“People send me these things because
they all know I’m a Christmas freak,” she
said, adding that the outfit helps keep her
safe while giving tours.
“I wear red so people don’t trample me,
because I’m so short,” said Ms. McCormac
Groff, who stands 4 feet, 9 inches tall.
“You take your life into your hands cross-
ing the street in this city,” she said. “If you
wear red, they see you better, since every-
body in New York wears black.”
With her low center of gravity, Ms. Mc-
Cormac Groff can weave through the
crowds so deftly that her tour takers have
trouble keeping up with her. Last week, she
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Name Sibyl McCormac Groff
Age 73
Who She leads Christmas tours around
Rockefeller Center
Where She’s From The Upper East Side
Telling Detail “New York is the Christmas
capital. The city made Christmas the popular
holiday it is today.”
held a marker aloft: a large plastic candy
cane above the crowds around the Rockefel-
ler Center tree, whose arrival each Decem-
ber she never misses.
The tours led by Ms. McCormac Groff,
who is known alternately as the Spirited
New Yorker and the Christmas elf of Mid-
town, are whimsical and informative, part
personality, part history.
She began a recent one in the bustling
lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and led the
group into a small alcove that serves as a
broom closet, but was soon cleared out of
the space by a security guard who recog-
nized her and said, “You should know the
procedure.”
Ms. McCormac Groff told the group that
the tradition of erecting a tree at Rockefel-
ler Center dated back to its construction
during the Great Depression when workers
chipped in for a tree and decorated it with
homemade ornaments.
The legend of Sinterklaas was brought
scribe the holiday traditions that began in
the city out of the commonality of the di-
verse cultures here.
“Since New York is full of so many differ-
ent people, Christmas here is about learn-
ing how different cultures observe the holi-
days,” she said, and then recounted the
story of a Sikh cabdriver who told her he
keeps Santa Claus on his religious shrine all
year long “because Santa Claus is for every-
body.”
She led her group into St. Patrick’s Cathe-
dral to view the Christmas crèche, which in-
cluded among the biblical statues a golden
retriever, a modern tribute to the current
rector’s pet.
“I think that’s hysterical,” said Ms. Mc-
Cormac Groff, who then led the group past
the windows of the Cartier store on Fifth Av-
enue and past the ‘21’ Club, where she said
she has traditionally enjoyed dinner on
Christmas Eve.
On the crowded sidewalk, she dodged a
vendor pushing his peanut cart, and then a
scruffy man yelling obscenities.
“Welcome to New York, folks,” she told
her group, and steered them into the Penin-
sula Hotel to finish up by pointing out the
decorations, including snowmen wearing
bellhop caps.
Then she arrived at the hotel’s rooftop
bar, where a manager took a selfie with her
and then, charmed by the little lady in red,
offered her a free drink.
“In that case, I’ll take a glass of Cham-
pagne,” she said and promptly debriefed
him on Christmas traditions in his native
Romania.
He had to return to work, he said, and she
held up her glass of bubbly Christmas cheer.
“O.K.,” she said. “Ho, ho, ho.”
Michael Pollan’s groundbreaking
the middle of all that red. The
book “The Botany of Desire,” the
plants’ specially modified leaves,
poinsettia — normally found in
or bracts, are the largest part of
Mexico and Central America —
the show.
has harnessed the forces of the
It is interesting to note that the
world’s greatest pollinator (that
beautiful Euphorbia has some
is, humans) to spread its progeny.
tough relations, which can be
Pretty sly for a plant.
found growing locally. Some of
Poinsettia is named for Joel
these invade far more than bo-
Roberts Poinsett, the first United
degas and discount stores; they
States diplomat to Mexico (and
are winter-hardy toughs that
mild-mannered botanist), who
jostle themselves into fields and
observed the shrub in the early
woodland edges.
1800s and shipped a few north to
Cypress spurge (Euphorbia
his South Carolina greenhouses.
cyparissias) comes to mind. A
The plant is now bred into dozens
native of Europe, it can be found
of different colors and shapes,
growing in many of New York
and is a Christmastime fixture,
City’s sandy fields, and is often
sometimes sold slathered with
one of the first plants to colonize a
glitter glue for extra “snowy”
disturbed lot. Its narrow leaves
appeal.
and dense clusters of chartreuse
The traditional Christmas
“flowers” are quite attractive.
colors red and green, so well-
illustrated on your average poin- Just like the poinsettia, its true
settia, were actually borrowed flowers are tiny, surrounded by
from the Celts. They were the brightly colored bracts.
It is a shame that these flowers
colors of holly, a plant held sacred
have no summertime holiday to
as an evergreen tree, sprigs of
celebrate, as it is far easier to
which were brought into homes
re-bloom a cypress spurge than a
each winter. So the poinsettia was
a natural, the red starlike flowers poinsettia. I’ve found the plants
were associated with the star of unfortunately cooperative each
Bethlehem, and the intense red and every summer, requiring no
color, the blood of Christ. special encouragement to over-
take the dry urban fields they
Casting aside the holiday glow,
the poinsettia is nothing but a prefer.

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Gotham City Honors One of Its Own
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
for work.
“I braved the bridge tolls,” said Peter L.
Brown, who was determined to witness the
event. “If no one was going to be here, I had
to be,” he said.
COMIC BOOK FANS are a passionate and de-
voted lot. They can make sense of decades
of complex and sometimes contradictory
story lines. Some of them will even roll up
their sleeves, undertake detective work and
fight to right a wrong.
One of those fans is Lenny Schwartz, who
wrote a 2015 play about the tribulations of
Mr. Finger, “Co-Creator: The Man Behind
the Bat.” He was at Poe Park with his wife,
Sarah Schwartz, and their daughter, Callie.
“It was a slow boil,” Ms. Schwartz said of Mr.
Finger’s belated recognition, “but finally,
here we are.” The Schwartzes were down
from Providence, R.I., where Mr. Schwartz
is the artistic director of the Daydream The-
ater Company, which produced “Co-Cre-
ator.” (After the show opened, an article in
The Providence Journal noted, “It’s hard
not to watch the unfolding of the ruthless re-
lationship between Finger and Bob Kane,
who took all the credit for the comic-book
series.”)
“I love to tell stories about social injus-
tices, and this was one of the saddest things
that ever happened,” Mr. Schwartz said. Mr.
Finger was born in Denver on Feb. 8, 1914.
His family moved to the Bronx during the
Great Depression. Despite having helped
create one of the most enduring characters
in the world, the writer died in 1974, penni-
less and alone, Mr. Schwartz said.
The author Marc Tyler Nobleman is also
well versed in this episode of comic book
lore. His championing of credit for Mr. Fin-
ger is chronicled in the Hulu documentary
“Batman & Bill,” which was released earlier
this year. “Bob Kane drew only a fraction of
the stories — and for only the first few years
— and did not write a single Batman story in
his life,” Mr. Nobleman said during his
speech at the street ceremony. “From the
Top, Councilman Ritchie Torres
speaking at the ceremony on
Dec. 8; above, left to right:
Travis Langley; Athena Finger,
Bill Finger’s granddaughter;
Marc Tyler Nobleman.
Helping create an
enduring character,
then dying penniless.
start, he was the sole person credited. Holy
fake news, Batman!”
Mr. Nobleman’s quest took years of dedi-
cation and lots of allies, whom he calls
“Team Finger.”
Superman had come out just the year be-
fore, and publishers were looking for more
heroes. Mr. Kane had an idea for one, then
known as Bat-Man. He turned to Bill Finger,
whom he employed as a ghostwriter on a
couple of comic strips. Mr. Kane’s initial
concept had a figure in a red suit with a
small mask and stiff wings. Mr. Finger dark-
ened the costume, suggested a cowl with
pointed ears and replaced the wings with a
scallop-edged cape.
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It was a hit.
Mr. Kane went on his own to National
Comics Publications, the forerunner of DC
Comics, with the concept and kept full cred-
it. In the documentary, Mr. Nobleman of-
fered some Batman history: the possible
existence of a contract negotiated by Mr.
Kane that would name him as sole creator
for perpetuity. “This infamous Bob Kane
contract has never been publicly disclosed
— as is expected,” he said. “These are big
characters, big companies — they have no
obligation to share.” Mr. Finger’s contribu-
tions would not be publicly known until
1965. That was when a determined fan,
Jerry Bails, realized that Bob Kane could
not possibly be writing and drawing every
Batman story on his own. Mr. Bails re-
searched and produced a two-page mimeo-
graphed article, “If the Truth Be Known or
‘A Finger in Every Plot!’” which finally
gave Batman’s other father credit. (Mr. Fin-
ger’s other additions to the Batman mythos
include naming Bruce Wayne, Dick
Grayson, the Batmobile, Gotham City and
Commissioner Gordon.)
Mr. Kane denied the claims until 1989,
when he admitted in his autobiography,
“Batman and Me,” written with Tom An-
drae, that Mr. Finger did not receive the rec-
ognition he deserved. Mr. Kane died in 1998.
Mr. Nobleman’s doggedness in his quest
included calling all 500 people in the search
results of Florida residents with the last
name of Finger. Eventually, his obsessive
research paid off, and he found the writer’s
granddaughter Athena Finger. (Her My-
space page, which included a picture of her
dog, Bruce Wayne, was a good omen.) He
felt an heir would be critical to getting DC
Comics to change the Batman credit,
though she had already been discouraged
by previous efforts to make it happen.
In 2012, Mr. Nobleman’s children’s book,
“Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Cre-
ator of Batman,” illustrated by Ty Temple-
ton, was released around the same time as
“The Dark Knight Rises,” the final film in
the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy star-
ring Christian Bale. Before the movie came
out, Ms. Finger said, she was offered a pay-
ment from Warner Bros., which owns DC
Comics. (A spokesman for the company
would not comment on the matter.) Accept-
ing it would mean terminating all future
claims on Batman. Instead, she began
telling her story on the comic-book conven-
tion circuit. “This is what’s right. This is
what’s just,” the director and comic-book
fan Kevin Smith said in the Hulu documen-
tary.
On Sept. 18, 2015, DC Entertainment an-
nounced an agreement with the family that
recognized Mr. Finger’s significant contri-
butions to the Batman family of characters.
The next month, the credit line “Batman
created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger” be-
gan to appear on comic books. It was also
included in the 2016 film “Batman Vs. Super-
man” and in this year’s “Justice League.”
Mr. Nobleman said he could not be more
thrilled with the developments and talked
about them at that Bronx street corner:
“Bill Finger made history. Team Finger re-
claimed history. Now the Bronx takes the
lead in honoring that history by installing
this sign, the first memorial to a superhero
creator in New York, the superhero capital
of the world.”
He ended on what may be his next mis-
sion: “Next step is a statue.”
Stay tuned, Batfans.
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In Brooklyn, Preparing the Best for the Worst
Rescue Company 2, an elite
unit that responds to the most
dangerous calls, has a new
firehouse under construction.
By HELENE STAPINSKI
When the new building for Rescue Com-
pany 2 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is com-
pleted next fall, the facility itself will be a
training tool. There will be a manhole, a
bridge, a simulation room to fill with smoke,
wide outdoor staircases, rappelling walls
and a trench to simulate a subway tunnel or
passageway — to train for emergencies
similar to the one last week near Times
Square.
The Fire Department’s $32 million state-
of-the-art training facility on Sterling Place
in Brooklyn is only the second of its kind in
New York City. One in the Bronx was built
back in 2009, but the new one improves on
that design, with a back wall that opens to
move trucks out and make more space for
training, as well as the in-house trench for
practicing confined-space rescues.
“Their area of expertise is changing con-
stantly,” said Rodia Valladares, the project
architect from Studio Gang, who led a re-
cent tour of the construction site. “From
scuba rescues to terrorism to dealing with
hazardous materials.”
The challenge for the architects, who had
never designed a firehouse of any kind, was
to incorporate all the elements that the elite
rescue firefighters need to prepare for
building collapses, water rescues, floods,
subway emergencies and terrorist strikes.
The city has six rescue companies, one in
each borough and one mobile unit that trav-
els throughout the city. In addition to re-
sponding to unusual emergency situations,
Rescue 2 backs up other companies on all
fire calls in the borough.
Architects were in continuous contact
with the fire department, Rescue 2’s captain
and his team. They spent a full day at the
squat, two-story antiquated Bergen Street
rescue center, which the company would be
vacating. The architects even went out on a
call with the firefighters.
Capt. Liam Flaherty of Rescue 2 said that
since he became a firefighter 27 years ago,
tools and training had drastically evolved.
“It’s gone 360 degrees in every direction,”
he said. “There are always new tools — haz-
mat suits for chemical, biological and radio-
logical emergencies. Flood rescues involv-
ing swift water. And terrorist strikes.”
Rescue crews in cramped quarters make
the best of what they’ve got. In Brooklyn,
THE PARTICULARS
Project Rescue Company 2 training center
Site 1815 Sterling Place in Brownsville,
Brooklyn
In the works Since 2014
Driving force Studio Gang Architects
Cost $32 million
Biggest obstacle Designing a space that could
be flexible over time and accommodate rescue
technologies that don’t exist yet.
Q.
Why does
Manhattan have a
West Broadway and
an East Broadway,
neither of which intersects the
‘real’ Broadway?
A. Broadway, it turns out, is a very popu-
lar name for streets in New York
City; in fact, you’ll find a Broadway in every
borough. Manhattan alone has five addi-
tional streets with “Broadway” in their
names, but West Broadway and East
Broadway are by far the most notable.
Both roads received their current names
in the mid-19th century, well after Broad-
way was established, but no one knows why
for certain. It may have been an attempt by
property owners to cash in on the prestige
of the Broadway name, or by the city to re-
lieve traffic congestion on the original
Broadway.
West Broadway forms the backbone of
SoHo and TriBeCa. It runs roughly parallel
to Broadway, stretching north from the
World Trade Center to Houston Street,
where it turns into LaGuardia Place for
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they rappel off the storage containers out-
side the old firehouse that hold the overflow
of equipment. “They do whatever they can
to accomplish their task and continue with
their training,” said Chester Onuma, deputy
director of the Fire Unit for the city’s De-
partment of Design and Construction, who
worked on the project.
“But we’re bursting at the seams,” said
Captain Flaherty, pointing up to tools stored
near the ceiling. “I could fill this firehouse
with our scuba equipment alone.” Because
space is so tight, Ladder Company 132, over
a mile away, keeps Rescue 2’s collapse
equipment rig, and has to bring it to calls
when Rescue 2 needs it.
The new 21,500-square-foot rescue center
will house all Rescue 2’s equipment plus
five firefighters and an officer — rotating
the team of 32 in shifts. But it will be open to
training firefighters from all over the city.
The three-story center incorporates two
giant voids in the building, one horizontal
and one vertical, not just to house the fire
trucks but to create open space that the
team can work with for training. The cast
concrete is especially durable, to cut back
on maintenance and endure the intense
drills and practice runs. Terra cotta tiles will
line the openings — in keeping with the tra-
ditional red firehouse.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
The New York Fire
Department’s $32 million
training facility and new home
for Rescue Company 2,
currently under construction in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, will
be the second of its kind in the
city. It is scheduled to be
finished next fall.
For now, rescue crews in
cramped quarters make
do with what they have.
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At Captain Flaherty’s request, the
kitchen was placed on the first floor to cut
down on response time. The basement will
hold inflatable boats, ropes and other rap-
pelling equipment, scuba tanks, training
suits, a welding station to fix and make tools
as well as a lumber yard to build buttresses
and shoring devices for collapsing build-
ings.
In keeping with the design department’s
new standards, the building is energy-effi-
cient, will conserve water and reduce car-
bon emissions, using solar panels, plants
that absorb moisture on the roof and a geo-
thermal energy system 500 feet under-
ground. A nursing station is being built as
well, to accommodate any women who may
eventually join the rescue team. (There are
no women in the squad at the moment.)
Extra amenities include a study room,
gym, passenger elevator, meeting room and
two patios, plus a bench out front for the
community.
three blocks before expiring at Washington
Square Park.
The route has royal origins: Its first
piece, Chapel Street, was laid over land
once known as “King’s Farm” in the
mid-1700s. Parts of the route had a number
of different names, including College Place,
Adams Street, Laurens Street, and Concord
Street.
In 1870, at the behest of Boss Tweed, the
powerful head of Tammany Hall, the section
of West Broadway north of Canal Street was
renamed South Fifth Avenue. Tweed owned
property nearby and thought the associa-
tion with the “real” Fifth Avenue would
boost its value, in part because the strip had
become a red-light district known as “Rot-
ten Row.” Critics detested both names.
After a campaign by local merchants,
West Broadway replaced South Fifth Ave-
nue and College Place in 1896. LaGuardia
Place, honoring the former mayor, was re-
named in 1967.
East Broadway is today a major thor-
oughfare through Chinatown. It follows the
What is now West Broadway
at Hudson Street in 1880.
The name West Broadway
originated with a campaign
by local merchants in 1896.
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Also, large prefabricated pieces of the
building were created and tested in Penn-
sylvania, then moved to Brooklyn, cutting
back on expensive construction time in
New York City.
Typical features that all firehouses re-
quire — dormitories, locker rooms and not
one, but three fire poles — were also part of
the plan.
“Originally they asked for two poles,” Mr.
Valladares said. “But we added a third, so
from every corner of the building they can
respond quickly.” Mr. Valladares re-
searched the use of fire poles but didn’t ac-
tually slide down one himself. He smiled
and shrugged. “It’s a long way down.”
Captain Flaherty said he and his team are
looking forward to moving into the new
space, but he will miss the circa 1893 build-
ing, which he has lived in on and off or the
past 12 years. “New is nice,” he said. “But
this place has a lot of character. This is
home.”
path of the former Love Lane, the main
route to the plantation inherited by the Rut-
gers family in the 1750s.
It also used to be known as Smith Street
and as Harmon Street. William S. Coe, a for-
mer alderman and lawyer for the Manhat-
tan Company, pushed to change the name to
East Broadway, which the city made official
in 1831. The council’s minutes offered no ra-
tionale for the change, but noted that “the
public are not materially interested or af-
fected by such alteration.”
There are three other streets in Manhat-
Two thoroughfares
that used to be a
collection of smaller,
connecting streets.
tan with “Broadway” in their name, none of
which intersects Broadway itself. Only Old
Broadway in Manhattanville has a histori-
cal claim: it marks a kink in the route of
Broadway’s ancient predecessor, the
Bloomingdale Road.
The others are Broadway Terrace in Up-
per Manhattan, southeast of Fort Tryon
Park; and Broadway Alley in Kips Bay, one
of the last unpaved streets on the island.
Each is only a few hundred feet in length.
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REMEMBER WHEN social media gleamed shiny and new and we wondered: Why
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Cute, cuddly creatures had their place, but cats ruled the show from the start.
Google why and pages of articles pop up, with no clear consensus. The best bet
sounds like a Zen koan: Why cats? Because other cats.
These days, as the news ages us in dog years, cat memes and videos need no
explanation. We just know we need them. The Dagwood sandwich of political
news is hard to digest. Adorable animals offer a quick antidote, a shot of dopa-
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of a wide-eyed cat set against the universe,” he recalled. “I was enthralled.”
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with cat people — and their cats. “From there,” he said, “I just rode the wave
from one cat extravaganza to the next.”
A documentary project, “Cat People,” was born. It has taken him from that
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a cat party, sans cats; guests were encouraged to dress up like them instead.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand,
sations that have besieged Harvey Wein- far left, walking with staff
stein, Roy S. Moore and Donald J. Trump. members to the Senate after
But at the same time she argued that President Trump disparaged
making these distinctions is pointless. her in a Twitter message,
We owe it to our children to “offer calling her a “lightweight” and
clarity,” she wrote, to be spared “explain- a “total flunky” for the Senate
ing the gradations between sexual as- minority leader, Chuck
sault, sexual harassment and unwelcome Schumer.
groping.” Mr. Franken, Ms. Gillibrand
reasoned, would provide this clarity if he
forfeited his right to an ethics investiga-
tion and stepped down, a gesture that
would signal that “any kind of mistreat-
ment of women in our society isn’t accept-
able.”
Not everyone saw it this way — as an
obvious means of restitution or purpose-
ful messaging — that a Democratic sena-
tor who had served women well in public
office, if not always in life, should vacate a
seat in Congress, leaving it potentially
vulnerable to Republican opposition.
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Pawlenty, a Republican, won Mr. Frank-
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some lesser-known opponent? What if the
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Heights, a lurid red-and-gold chamber de-
scribed by the building manager as “a little
bordelloesque inside” comes complete with
black leather divan suitable for a reclining
odalisque.
There are scruffier models where the
cars have been blandly renovated but the
antique controls remain, and imperfectly
maintained ones that shudder and jerk as
the elevator man flips the lever. There are
fin-de-siècle birdcages where car and shaft
are unenclosed but for ornate wrought-iron
gates and the ride brings a pleasant rush of
vertigo.
Most of the elevators are in residential
buildings, but a few war horses serve heavy
duty in commercial complexes.
Collectively they form a hidden museum
of obsolete technology and anachronistic
employment, a network of cabinets of won-
der staffed round the clock. No one knows
how many there are, exactly. The city De-
partment of Buildings offered a list of more
than 600, but spot checks indicated that
most had gone push-button long ago. On the
other hand, officials at Local 32BJ of the
Service Employees International Union, to
which most doormen and elevator opera-
tors belong, said they knew of only one or
two.
A non-exhaustive field survey this fall
turned up 53 buildings with manual pas-
senger elevators. There are undoubtedly
dozens more, but probably not hundreds.
Why they still exist in such relative profu-
sion, when the city is down to its last few
seltzer men and its final full-time typewrit-
er repair shop, when replacement parts are
no longer made and must be machined by
hand, is a question with many answers. But
sentiment plays a large part.
After picking up his passenger in the
penthouse of 47 Plaza Street West in Brook-
lyn that balmy Friday morning last month,
Mr. Rivera piloted the elevator back down
to the eighth floor. A resident named Bonnie
Covey got on. She had not minded the wait.
“We’re a little old-fashioned here,” Ms. Cov-
ey said, “but we like it.”

STAFFED ELEVATORS of any sort are expen-

sive — they can require several hundred
thousand dollars a year in salaries for oper-
ators — and at most buildings, a new eleva-
tor without attendants would pay for itself
within a few years. Buildings that keep the
old elevators generally figure the benefits

of added security and service outweigh the
costs.
At 200 West 15th Street in Chelsea, the su-
per, Jose Cherrez, said the elevator men
sometimes function as chaperones for sin-
gle young women in the building. “They get
tipsy, come home a little drunk,” he said.
“The elevator person makes sure she goes
to the right floor and gets to the right apart-
ment.”
Some elevator operators attract cult fol-
lowings. Manny Colon is so beloved at
Brooklyn Friends School that the school
auctions off a shift as his student co-pilot at
its annual fund-raiser. Last year a family
paid $660.
There are practical considerations for
keeping the old elevators, too. At Mr. Ri-
vera’s building, the elevator shaft is so nar-
row that the car would have to be drastically
shrunk to make room for the workings of a
modern machine. You can’t fit a 36-inch
door in a 12-inch space, the resident man-
ager, Robert Mehl, said. “And if you lose 18
inches, you can’t get a wheelchair in there.”
About 15 years ago, the shareholders of
990 Fifth Avenue, a fortresslike limestone
co-op building across from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, succumbed to the pressure
to modernize and bought a new push-button
elevator.
It is still boxed up in the basement.
“They never wanted to install it,” said
Fatos Muriqi, a doorman at the building.
“It’s been down there for 15 years waiting
for them to change it over.”
Ramón Rivera was born in Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico, about 82 years ago, came to
New York as a teenager and has run an ele-
vator in 47 Plaza Street West for 35 years.
He raised two children on his elevator man’s
salary. One is an occupational therapist; the
other works in jewelry. Mr. Rivera has been
a widower for 25 years. He lived nearby in
Park Slope when it was more affordable but
moved recently to Sunset Park with an in-
formally adopted son, who makes him a
simple lunch of fruit and half a sandwich
each day.
Mr. Rivera arrives at work Wednesday
through Sunday just after 6 a.m. and takes
his elevator down to the basement. In a
small locker room decorated with a warped
print of dogs shooting pool, he changes out
of his flannel shirt, faded bluejeans and
Mets cap and into a white dress shirt, a
black clip-on tie and a blazer with “47 Plaza
Street” in yellow letters, and matching
slacks. He slicks his thinning hair back in
the small round mirror in the bathroom and
brings the elevator back upstairs.
Clockwise from above left:
Fabio Jimenez in his 1917 Otis
elevator at 1 West 67th Street;
his hand on the car switch
control there; sparking
contacts in the rooftop motor
room at 230 West 39th Street;
the elevator man has a place to
rest at 41 Fifth Avenue.
‘We’re a little
old-fashioned here,
but we like it.’
Forty-seven Plaza Street West was de-
signed by the celebrated Sicilian-American
architect Rosario Candela, creator of some
of the most coveted addresses on Fifth Ave-
nue. It opened in 1928. Its dim, uncluttered
lobby gives the impression of opulence bal-
anced with restraint. There are terrazzo
floors and diamond-paned stained-glass
windows and period chairs and settees that
are said to be original. The two elevators,
one on each end, just about identical, contin-
ue the castles-and-coats-of-arms theme.
The panels of carved dark wood on their
outer doors depict a kneeling woman hold-
ing a dove, with two dogs at her feet.
Inside, the elevator cars are about five
feet wide and four feet deep.
Below the indicator box, where a modern
elevator just has blank space, is the black-
handled mechanism that drives the eleva- PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS PRIOR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tor. It’s called a control switch. In Mr. Ri-
vera’s elevator, the switchworks are hidden vators are. An old elevator makes a sort of running late.’ Not my problem, wake up ear-
within a weathered-bronze Frisbee-shaped music: the reassuring low hum of the motor, lier.”
cover bearing the logo of Haughton Eleva- the gentle creaks of turning wheels, the
tors. (Haughton’s competitors included click as each floor goes by, the jingle of the OVER THE DECADES, 47 Plaza Street has
Gurney, Watson, Otis and A. B. See. Only gate closing, like parting a bead curtain or made concessions to modernity. The eleva-
Otis still exists.) sifting a pile of coins. The only jarring note tor signals are now routed through a com-
As Mr. Rivera throws the handle to the in Mr. Rivera’s elevator is the call buzzer. It puter in the basement. And since about
left, a swiveling contact bar inside the cover sounds like the wrong answer on a game 1993, the elevators have been what is called
opens one circuit and closes another. This show. “self-leveling.” Mr. Rivera demonstrated
sends two electrical messages to a control One of Mr. Rivera’s colleagues, Peter what this means. “I get to 11, 11½ . . . ” He let
panel in the basement: to power up the mo- Gari, said he could identify certain resi- go of the handle and the car glided to a halt
tor, and make it spin forward. The motor dents by the buzz — long or short, or a dou- at the 12th floor. “It stops by itself. How
pulls the cables that lift the car. ble hit. “Some people buzz and then a couple beautiful!”
Riding in an old manual elevator makes of minutes later they buzz again,” he said. When Otis developed the self-leveling el-
you realize how boringly quiet today’s ele- “You get to the floor and they tell you, ‘I’m evator in 1917, it was a big deal. James Mont-

gomery Flagg made a film the next year
called “The Good Sport” in which the hero
invents a self-leveling elevator and receives
a $100,000 check. “Your invention is a boon
to humanity!” says the owner of the Social
Uplift Elevator Co. “Ladies and gentlemen
— No more ‘Watch your step’ — This is the
first elevator that ever stopped even with
the floor.”
The technology spread slowly. Very
slowly, in some cases: There are still many
elevators in the city that are not self-lev-
eling and must be landed precisely, kind of
like a plane.
“I was terrible when I first started,” said
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Mike Merille, who has operated an elevator
at 890 Broadway, home of the American
Ballet Theater and the Ballet Tech dance
school, since 2001. “But it’s muscle memory
by now. I don’t even look.”
In the 1930s, a series of strikes and strike
threats by elevator operators led bosses to
respond with threats of their own. “Building
owners fear that any substantial increases
in wages for service employees will force
them to install labor-saving devices, which
will result in a large displacement of labor,”
The Times reported in 1935. Elevator opera-
tors in those days worked up to 72 hours a
week for as little as 30 cents an hour, equiva-
Why keep these
anachronisms running?
A sense of nostalgia
plays a big role.
lent to about $5.60 an hour today. (Now they
make around $24 an hour.)
Push-button elevators had actually been
around since the 1890s, but were not practi-
cal for larger buildings. They were slow. Ini-
tially they could make only one stop per
trip. Later, they could make multiple stops,
but only in the order the buttons were
pressed.
It took until 1950 for Otis to perfect a push-
button system smart enough to handle the
traffic and shifting demands for service
over the course of the day in a multi-eleva-
tor building. The company’s Autotronic sys-
tem, Otis boasted in advertisements, “min-
Clockwise from above: Vladimir
Gerasimovski, who runs the
elevator at 33 West 67th Street;
detail of an Otis flyball governor
at McGlynn Hays Elevators;
Mike Perelman, a machinist, at
McGlynn Hays Elevators; at 230
West 39th Street, the elevators
were renovated cosmetically,
but the ancient manual control
system was left intact.
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imizes the human element” and “gives ten-
ants a sprightly feeling of independence.”
The elevator man’s fate was sealed.
Almost.
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, the human ele-
ment still has its fans. At 47 Plaza Street
West, on that same morning in early No-
vember, Mr. Rivera opened his elevator
door and Bob Rubin got on.
“How you doing, Ramón?” he asked.
“I’ve had my ups and downs,” Mr. Rivera
replied.
“I’ve never heard that one before,” Mr.
Rubin said.
In the kitchen of the apartment he has
lived in for 41 years, Mr. Rubin, a construc-
tion lawyer, expounded on his love for the
elevators.
“What intrigues me about them is a kind
of elegant simplicity,” he said. He fetched a
stovetop espresso maker known as a moka
pot. “This thing,” he said, “makes a better
cup of coffee than that one,” and he pointed
to the Keurig on the counter.
Mr. Rubin does not lock his apartment
door. He has found the elevator men to be
paragons of trustworthiness. “They know
everything that’s going on in the building,
but none of them has ever been a gossip to
the best of my knowledge,” he said. “There
is just an exceptional level of discretion.”
Discretion is sometimes called for, said
Mr. Gari, Mr. Rivera’s counterpart at the
north elevator that day.
“Sheeee, woohoo!” said Mr. Gari. “Boy,
through the years, oh, yeah.”
“At my old job” — he used to work an ele-
vator on Park Avenue — “sometimes people
would ask, ‘Is my spouse home? And when
did they get in?’ Home or not home, I’d say
yes or no. But as far as when, I’d say, ‘I don’t
remember, you can ask them.’”
Visitors must be carefully screened. “One
time we had a process server show a gun to
me and Ramón,” Mr. Gari said. “He asks, ‘Is
so-and-so home?’ He showed me a badge. I
called up on the intercom, no one answered,
I told him, ‘They’re not there.’ He wanted
me to take him up there. I said no. He said,
‘I’m the law, you’re obstructing justice,’ and
he shows this gun. Ramón is like, what are
you going to do, shoot me?”
Not everyone is charmed by the old ele-
vators. “I’d lean toward push-a-button, con-
venience, quickness,” said Brian Kramer, a
member of the co-op board at the Kenil-
worth on Central Park West, which has had
some difficult conversations in recent years
about upgrading the elevators. When there
is only one doorman on duty, he has to
somehow keep an eye on the door while
running the elevator. “It’s tricky,” Mr. Kra-
mer said.
Two doors down from Mr. Rivera’s build-
ing, at 39 Plaza Street West, a resident who
would not let her name be published for fear
of reprisals from the co-op board voiced ex-
asperation. “If you want to go down to the
laundry, it’s six trips, and someone has to
take you up and down,” she said. “And the
elevator regularly breaks down. It’s beauti-
ful but it’s past its usefulness. It needs con-
stant maintenance.”
Many old manual elevators are main-
tained by McGlynn Hays and Co., a 117-year-
old concern that claims to be one of only two
service companies in the city that has its
own machine shop, on West 47th Street.
Sooner or later, every moving part on an el-
evator needs an overhaul, said the compa-
ny’s president, Gerard Carlucci.
“There’s relay failure, the pins wear out,
the housing, the contacts wear out, the car-
bons wear out, the car switch — same
thing,” he said. “The traveling cables, they
get brittle over years. The door locks, door
contacts — everything wears out. They’re
opened a million times. The machines have
made five million trips if you think about it.
What do we make now that runs for a hun-
dred years?”
At Mr. Rivera’s building, Mr. Mehl, the
manager, said he did not foresee the eleva-
tors getting replaced anytime soon. This
cheers Mr. Rivera, who has not lost enthusi-
asm for his job at an age when most men are
retired or dead. “I love it,” he said, “because
I go up and down. I don’t go only down. I’ve
been doing it for 35 years. Oh, yes. That’s
why I’m still here.”
Mr. Rivera switches elevators halfway
through his shift. After lunch, the mail
comes and he brings it down the basement
to sort it. He is continually interrupted —
every time someone buzzes, he has to run
back upstairs. This time of year, the process
can take hours. “Garbage, garbage, this is
all garbage,” Mr. Rivera murmured as he
filled cubbyholes with holiday catalogs.
At 3 p.m., the afternoon elevator man, Fe-
lix Mina, came on to spell Mr. Rivera and
finish the mail. After Mr. Rivera changed
out of his uniform, Mr. Mina brought him
back up. “Until tomorrow,” he said. “Bye,
Ramón.” Mr. Mina closed the elevator door.
From within came the sound of the scissor
gate creaking and then clicking into place,
and the car descending.
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