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NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

2016 The New York Times

Attacks Expose a Struggle


To Spot Future Terrorists
Known to Authorities, Assailants Remain
Minor Threats Until It Is Too Late
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Corralling New Yorks Creatures


Elmo and other costumed characters in Times Square were restricted Tuesday to teal busking zones for the first time. Page A16.

Frantic Moments on Princes Plane as He Seemed to Slip Away


By MELENA RYZIK

LOS ANGELES Its the moment that Judith Hill has been replaying in her mind for the last
two months: She was sitting on a
plane with a man she loved, talking, having dinner, when suddenly
he lost consciousness. She
shouted his name: Prince. She
shook him. But he didnt come to.

Her swift reaction may have


helped save Princes life that
night, six days before he died of an
accidental overdose of the opioid
painkiller fentanyl.
His eyes fixed, just before he
nodded off across a table from her,
Ms. Hill, 32, recalled in an interview here, speaking for the first
time about her presence on the
April 15 flight from Atlanta, after
Princes two shows there. Only

Protge Talks of Her


Life With the Star
one other passenger was on the
private jet, Princes longtime
friend and aide Kirk Johnson.
They were bound for Paisley Park,
Princes estate outside Minneapolis. Over vegetables and pasta,

Prince and Ms. Hill discussed his


performances that night, which
turned out to be his last public
concerts; other musicians like the
funk singer Betty Davis; and photography, one of Princes hobbies.
According to flight-tracking reports, the chartered 1988 Dassault
Falcon 900 took off at 12:51 a.m.
from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport and was
Continued on Page A3

MAGNANVILLE, France
The first time Larossi Abballa appeared on the radar of French terrorism investigators, the only act
of violence they could pin on him
was killing bunnies.
He had joined a small group of
men, all bent on waging jihad, on a
trip to a snowy forest in northern
France five years ago, when he
was 19. There, they videotaped
themselves slaughtering the rabbits, bought so the men could
grow used to the feel of killing.
When he and seven others were
later arrested, the authorities
found that several of the men had
saved the video of the slaughter
on their cellphones, alongside
footage of soldiers being beheaded, according to French court
records.
Mr.
Abballa
was
eventually convicted on a terrorism charge and spent more than
two years in prison.
In hindsight, it is not hard to see
how that first act of brutality
foreshadowed what happened last
week: Armed with a knife, Mr. Abballa attacked a couple in northern France in the name of the Islamic State and left them to bleed
to death.
But at the time of his arrest in
2011, investigators were not able to
definitively show that he was a
permanent threat to France. After
his prison stint, he was placed under surveillance. Just months after the wiretaps stopped, he committed the double murder last
week.

Killings Drive
New Urgency
To Come Out

Money Lagging, Bye, Password.


Trump Suggests Now a Fingertip
Hell Fund Race Gets Clients In.
By ALEXANDER BURNS
and MAGGIE HABERMAN

In Las Vegas last week, Donald


J. Trumps Nevada headquarters
stood dark. A sign taped to the
door declared that it had moved,
with no forwarding information
available.
On a weekday morning in New
Hampshire, another battleground
state in November, a single
worker hovered in Mr. Trumps
main office in Manchester.
And at the hub of his national
campaign in Trump Tower in
Manhattan, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee, has cloistered himself
with a tiny group of relatives and
longtime business associates, relying on a staff of about six dozen
people to win over an electorate of
more than 120 million.
Even as Mr. Trump dominates
the campaign on cable news and
social media, drawing large
crowds with incendiary speeches
about immigration and national
security, his candidacy has faltered in the all-important test of
political organization. Having
swept through the primaries and
caucuses with a skeletal campaign staff and a budget funded
largely out of his bank account, he
must compete against Hillary
Clinton, his presumptive Democratic opponent, with only a shadow of the financial and political infrastructure she has amassed.
In crucial states, Mr. Trumps
Continued on Page A15

Across Europe and the United


States, law enforcement officials
are struggling to reckon with attackers like Mr. Abballa and Omar
Mateen, whose shooting rampage
this month at a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., left 49 dead. They
are men who clearly seemed to be
building toward violent acts, and
whose names had surfaced in terrorism investigations, but who
avoided crossing legal lines that
could tip off the authorities until it
was too late.
With thousands of terrorism
surveillance cases running at any
given time, the European authorities say they are swamped and are
in the difficult position of trying to
head off attacks of which the only
forewarning is often in the form of
what someone thinks or what they
are overheard saying.
A man is in a shop and thinks
about stealing an object, said
Georges Sauveur, a Paris lawyer
who has defended several terrorism suspects, including one of the
men who accompanied Mr. Abballa to the forest in 2011 to slaughter the rabbits. What do you do?
You put him in jail?
Mr. Sauveur added, You cant
put him in jail unless he takes the
next step and attempts to steal
something.
In late 2010, Frances domestic
intelligence agency began watching Mohamed Niaz Abdul Raseed,
33, who was living in the Val
Continued on Page A9

By MICHAEL CORKERY

The banking password may be


about to expire forever.
Some of the nations largest
banks, acknowledging that traditional passwords are either too
cumbersome or no longer secure,
are increasingly using fingerprints, facial scans and other
types of biometrics to safeguard
accounts.
Millions of customers at Bank of
America, JPMorgan Chase and
Wells Fargo routinely use fingerprints to log into their bank accounts through their mobile
phones. This feature, which some
of the largest banks have introduced in the last few months, is
enabling a huge share of American banking customers to verify
their identities with biometrics.
And millions more are expected to
opt in as more phones incorporate
fingerprint scans.
Other uses of biometrics are
also coming online. Wells Fargo
lets some customers scan their
eyes with their mobile phones to
log into corporate accounts and
wire millions of dollars. Citigroup
can help verify 800,000 of its credit card customers by their voices.
USAA, which provides insurance
and banking services to members
of the military and their families,
identifies some of its customers
through their facial contours.
Some of the moves reflect concern that so many hundreds of
millions of email addresses, phone
Continued on Page B7

By JULIE TURKEWITZ

BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Melting Pot at a House of Kebab


Fighting forced Haji Hussein from Falluja to Baghdad, but the restaurant still bustles. Page A4.

Brexit, Camerons Problem of His Own Making


By STEVEN ERLANGER
and STEPHEN CASTLE

LONDON David Cameron,


the British prime minister, has no
one to blame but himself.
In 2013, besieged by the increasingly assertive anti-European Union wing of his own Conservative
Party, Mr. Cameron made a promise intended to keep a short-term
peace among the Tories before the
2015 general election: If reelected, he would hold an in-or-out

Ridiculing Trumps Record


Hillary Clinton pounded away at Donald J. Trumps business record and
economic proposals, predicting a recession and global panic if he is elected
PAGE A14
president.

Trump Campaign Pays Trumps


Donald J. Trump boasts that he has
been self-funding his presidential bid,
but campaign finance filings show that
he is also shifting plenty of money back
PAGE A15
to himself and his family.

referendum on continued British


membership in the bloc.
But what seemed then like a relatively low-risk ploy to deal with a
short-term political problem has
metastasized into an issue that
could badly damage Britains
economy, influence the countrys

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B9-13

Meeting With Kerry on Syria

New Antidoping Tack Sought

John Kerry toed the administrations


line on Syria in a meeting with dissentPAGE A8
ing Foreign Service officers.

The president of the International


Olympic Committee ordered a rethinking of how to structure worldwide antiPAGE B9
doping efforts.

Outcry Over Spankings


NATIONAL A10-15

FAMILY FEUDS

The debate on European Union


membership is causing disunion
in some households. Page A6.

A Chinese bank hired a coach for motivation, but a video of his striking several workers provoked anger. PAGE A7
NEW YORK A16-19

Shiny Christmas Graft


Christmas gifts and Orthodox elves are
part of a case against three city police
commanders. About New York. PAGE A16

Welcome, Summer
Windows open, backs bared: Readers
shared images of summers start, like
on the Lower East Side, below. PAGE A18

FOOD D1-8

Going Whole Hog in Italy


In Umbria, a new festival celebrates
porchetta, a simple but sumptuous dish
of tender meat, fat and cracklings that
involves roasting an entire pig. PAGE D1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Drone Delivery Has to Wait

Thomas L. Friedman

New rules by the F.A.A. open drones up


to a range of commercial uses, but not
plans by Amazon and other big retailers
PAGE B1
to deliver packages by air.

PAGE A23

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direction for generations and


determine Mr. Camerons political
fate.
As the nation prepares to vote
on Thursday, the betting markets
are signaling that Britain will
choose to remain in Europe, but
polls suggest that the outcome is
still too close to call.
On Tuesday, speaking in front of
No. 10 Downing Street, Mr. Cameron warned that a decision to leave
would be an irreversible choice.
Appealing to older voters, many of
Continued on Page A6

ORLANDO, Fla. Just hours


after the music at the Pulse nightclub was interrupted by the roar
of gunfire, a teenager with a nose
stud and tight jeans peered across
his dinner table here. Dad,
Carvin Casillas said, Im kind of
gay.
The worst mass shooting in
United States history by a single
perpetrator, which left 49 people
dead and 53 injured, has sent the
nation reeling and ignited heated
conversations about firearm access, terrorism and homophobia.
It has also had the incidental effect of pushing some gay people in
this increasingly Latino community out of the closet.
Some had their sexuality revealed by accident: Gertrude
Merced learned that her 25-yearold son, Enrique, was gay only after she heard the news of his
death. Others, though, have chosen to expose their inner lives,
stirred by the outpouring of support for Orlandos gay community
or wrought with sorrow and unable to keep their secrets in anymore.
I just had to let them know,
said Mr. Casillas, 19, a soon-to-be
college freshman who had been
dancing at Pulse for more than
year, unbeknown to his Puerto Rican father and Cuban mother. His
mother had raised him in a church
where parishioners learned that
Continued on Page A13

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Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, a former Bolshoi dancer, was released from prison last month after being convicted in a plot to attack
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BUSINESS

Congolese Politician Gets


18 Years for War Crimes

C.D.C. and States Ponder


Strategy to Combat Zika

Tesla Aims to Shore Up


Solar City by Buying It

A former vice president of the


Democratic Republic of Congo,
Jean-Pierre Bemba, was sentenced
to 18 years in prison for crimes
against humanity and war crimes
committed by militiamen under his
command during a four-month
rampage of looting, rape and murder in the Central African Republic.

Cities and states are expected to


need a great deal of help if a local
case of the Zika virus arises, says a
plan sketched out by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

Tesla Motors said it had offered to


buy the solar energy company
SolarCity, both of which are owned
by the billionaire Elon Musk, a
transaction that highlights the
unusual moves he makes to support
the arms of his empire. PAGE B1

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

PAGE A4

Korean Defections Disputed


A tussle between the two Koreas
over 12 waitresses from the North
who defected to the South spilled
into a courtroom in Seoul, where
human rights lawyers accused the
authorities in the South of unlawfully detaining the women. PAGE A7

Jordan Seals Syrian Border


Jordan closed its last entry points
for Syrian refugees after a suicide
bomber detonated a car bomb in a
no mans land on the border, killing
six people. PAGE A8

Egypt Court Overrules Sisi


An Egyptian court nullified a government decision to transfer
sovereignty of two strategic Red
Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, in a
surprising setback for President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. PAGE A9

Sweden Restricts Refugees


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Sweden, once one of the most welcoming countries for refugees,


introduced tough new restrictions
on asylum seekers, including rules
that would limit the number of
people granted permanent residency and make it more difficult for
parents to reunite with their children. PAGE A9

PAGE A10

Mosque Expansion Opposed


The Islamic Center of Fredericksburg, Va., wants to build a
larger mosque. But protesters have
opposed the move, with one calling
Islam an evil cult. PAGE A11

Gun Limit Finds Support


Signaling a possible breakthrough
in the long stalemate in Congress
over tightening the nations gun
laws, a bipartisan group of senators
called for restricting gun sales to
terrorism suspects on the governments no fly list. PAGE A12

Heat on Jeep After Accident


The death of the actor Anton
Yelchin, killed when his Jeep Grand
Cherokee rolled backward down a
driveway and crushed him against a
pillar last weekend, has cast a
spotlight on a problem linked to
hundreds of accidents and first
flagged by regulators last August.
PAGE B1

Fed Says No Hurry on Rates

It is harder to take
someones eyeball than
someones user ID and
password.

STEVE ELLIS,
who helped develop eye scan
technology for Wells Fargo, on
the need to move away from
personal identification information because of the growing
number of data breaches. [B7]

ARTS

A Pulitzer, but No Peace,


After a Raw First Novel

PAGE B2

Even after a rapturous reception for


his first novel, The Sympathizer,
that included the 2016 Pulitzer Prize
for fiction, Viet Thanh Nguyens
anger about Francis Ford Coppolas
1979 war epic, Apocalypse Now
which helped inspire the novel is
still somewhat raw. PAGE C1

Fund Manager Found Dead

FOOD

A highflying hedge fund manager at


Visium Asset Management who was
charged last week with insider
trading has died, apparently because of suicide. PAGE B3

A Rush of Americans,
Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil

OBITUARIES

SPORTS

PAGE D1

Lorna Kelly, 70

Argentina Rolls Past U.S.


To Arrive at Copa Final

NEW YORK

An Illegal Plant Leaves


Gardeners Locked Out
A garden that brought a breath of
fresh air to the gritty neighborhood
of East New York, Brooklyn, was
shut down by the city after marijuana plants were discovered by inspectors. PAGE A16

She was one of the first female


fine-art auctioneers in the world,
attached in the 1970s and afterward
to Sothebys New York gallery.
Later, she tended terminally ill
patients under the tutelage of
Mother Teresa. PAGE A20

Weak economic growth in the


United States could force the Federal Reserve to hold off on any
imminent interest rate increases,
the Federal Reserve chairwoman,
Janet L. Yellen, told Congress.

The United States mens soccer


team hoped for one of the biggest
upsets in its history. But Argentina
prevailed, 4-0, to advance to the
final of the Copa Amrica Centenario. PAGE B9

Two American camps are jockeying


to shape the future of food in an
oasis of organic agriculture.

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Commercial
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Corrections
INTERNATIONAL

The Memo From France article


on May 23, about the soul-searching that followed the resignation
of the French National Assemblys
vice president, Denis Baupin, after several female colleagues
claimed
sexual
harassment,
quoted incorrectly, in some editions, from an essay by 16 prominent Frenchwomen in the newspaper Journal du Dimanche. They
wrote, Omert and the law of silence are no longer possible (not
are longer possible).

the flightless cormorant, not the


flightless albatross.
A reporting credit on May 22
with an article about the United
States opportunities for a partnership with Vietnam as President Obama prepared to visit misstated, in some editions, the location of one of the reporters. David
E. Sanger reported from Naypyidaw, Myanmar not from Washington.
NATIONAL

An article on May 23 about


Ecuadors appointment of Africa
Berdonces as the new director of
the Galpagos National Park and
Marine Reserve misstated part of
the name of a threatened species
of bird native to the islands. It is

An article on Tuesday about the


Senates
rejection
of
four
measures intended to control gun
safety misstated the focus of an
amendment offered by Senator
Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat
of Connecticut. His measure

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sought to tighten background


checks for all gun buyers, not just
for gun buyers at gun shows and
on the internet.
An article on Sunday about the
redevelopment of downtown
Phoenix misstated the reason that
the Songbird coffee shop relocated. The owners had a disagreement with the landlord; the store
was not displaced by redevelopment.
An article on Saturday about
NASAs plans for an electric plane
misstated the middle name of a
19th century physicist for whom
the plane was named. He was
James Clerk Maxwell (not Clark).
NEW YORK

An article on Monday about a


yearbook project dedicated to
young victims of gun violence
misidentified, in some editions, a
mother who finds comfort from
the smell of a shirt that belonged
to her son, who was shot to death
in 2012. She is Natasha Christopher not Shenee Johnson, another mother working on the

project, whose son also died in a


shooting.
An article on May 29 about a
funding crisis at the City University of New York described imprecisely the makeup of the Professional Staff Congress, the systems largest union, which was in
contract talks at the time. While it
represents 25,000 faculty members and employees, not all of
them belong to the union.
An article on Friday about efforts by the family of Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen to move his body
to Illinois as part of the drive toward his canonization misstated
the academic rank of Matthew
Sutton, who spoke about the importance of where saints remains
are kept. He is an associate professor of theology at St. Johns University, not an assistant professor.
OBITUARIES

A picture caption on Sunday


with an obituary about the writer
Michelle Cliff omitted credit for
the photograph of Ms. Cliff. It was
taken by Noel Furie.

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Frantic Moments on Princes Plane:


A Protge Recalls the Stars Collapse
From Page A1
near Chicago, less than an hour
from its destination, when Ms. Hill
witnessed Prince fall unconscious. If she had glanced away in
that instant, down at her phone or
purse, she might have thought he
had simply dozed off. Thankfully,
I happened to be looking into his
face, she said.
She immediately got Mr. Johnson, who was near the front of the
plane. And when they couldnt
rouse Prince, they alerted the pilot, who called air traffic
controllers in Chicago for help at
1:12 a.m., reporting an unresponsive man on board. We knew it
was only a matter of time; we had
to get down, Ms. Hill said. We
didnt have anything on the plane
to help him.
Ms. Hill was very freaked out,
she said, as they kept trying to
wake him, shaking him and calling his name, while the plane descended. At 1:17 a.m., it made an
emergency landing in Moline, Ill.,
where an ambulance met them.
Paramedics and Mr. Johnson carried Prince, 57, into the vehicle,
and he was revived on the tarmac
with a shot of Narcan, which is
typically used to treat opioid overdoses. Eighteen minutes after
landing, the ambulance took him
to nearby Trinity Moline Hospital.
By the time they arrived, he
was awake and talking, Ms. Hill
said, which was such a relief to
me, because I thought he was
gone. She had never seen anything like that happen to him and
had no idea what caused his condition. Mr. Johnsons lawyer declined to comment.
For the world, Princes sudden
emergency landing, initially attributed to the flu but later revealed to have been related to a
painkiller overdose, was the first
real sign of his abrupt decline. He
was an extremely private star
who had hidden his pain and his
addiction to prescription drugs to
treat it from even his inner circle.
Ms. Hill, a rising, Grammy-winning artist in her own right, was
an intimate and trusted collaborator. I was with Prince the last two
years of my life, she said. She recorded and performed with him at
Paisley Park, leaving her home
near Los Angeles to spend half of
most months there, and opened
for him in concert, in Baltimore,
Detroit and Washington. He coproduced her 2015 debut album,
Back in Time; advised her as
she disentangled herself from a
major-label record contract; and
was helping plan her tour.
When Prince introduced Ms.
Hill to an audience at a private
Paisley Park event in March 2015,
he announced: Ask your questions now. Shes going to be a superstar, and you wont be able to
talk to her, according to The Star
Tribune. He even arranged for her
album to be sold at the Minneapolis record shop Electric Fetus. He
asked that we treat her album like
we would treat his, said Jim Novak, the stores music buyer, who
had known Ms. Hill to be around
town regularly. She was photographed at the small, private
memorial gathering of family and
friends there for Prince.
Now hes gone, and I realize I
was leaning on him a lot, she said.
And thats whats scary. Im on
my own.
She is leaning on his lessons
still, she said, as she begins a short
East Coast tour this week, with a
show at the Highline Ballroom in
Serge Kovaleski contributed reporting from New York.

ELIZABETH WEINBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Judith Hill in Pasadena, Calif., last week. She cant help reliving
the frantic moments when Prince fell unconscious on a flight
from Atlanta to Minnesota. Six days later, he would be dead.
Manhattan on Wednesday. He
was such a warrior, and its inspiring me to be that person, she said.
Ms. Hill has experienced the
loss of a musical superstar before:
Working as a background vocalist
in 2009, she was chosen to duet
with Michael Jackson on This Is
It, his planned concert series in
London. He died less than three
weeks before its start. Ms. Hill
performed an emotional rendition
of Heal the World with a childrens choir at his televised memorial service.
But Michael was different,
she said in another interview late

His eyes fixed, Ms.


Hill said. We didnt
have anything on the
plane to help him.
one night, after a rehearsal with
her band in Pasadena, Calif. I didnt know Michael, she continued,
except as a fan and as someone
that worked for him. Her grief for
Prince was much more personal.
Asked if their connection was
romantic, Ms. Hill said only:
There was a very intense relationship. I deeply cared for him.
In a conversation not long before
he died, Ms. Hill said, He told me
that he loved me and that he
would always be there for me.
Her parents, also musicians,
met him in January, when they
went to Paisley Park and performed alongside their daughter,
in a bill with Morris Day and the
Time. Ms. Hills father, the bassist
Robert Hill, known as PeeWee,

and mother, the keyboardist


Michiko Hill, are part of her touring band, which she said had delighted Prince. The couple had
played with Sly and the Family
Stone and Chaka Khan. Judith
wrote her first song, a gospel
number, at the age of 4.
Ms. Hill appeared on the 2013
season of The Voice, the TV
singing competition, and, the
same year, in the Oscar-winning
documentary
about
backup
singers, 20 Feet from Stardom,
earning a Grammy for her work.
In an interview around that time,
she was asked about her dream
collaborator: Prince, she replied. By chance, he saw the interview and called her up, soon inviting her to jam at Paisley Park. By
the winter of 2014, they were busy
arranging and recording the
funky, soulful album shed written,
Back in Time.
He played guitar, bass and
drums, and sang. He was my
background vocalist for a lot of the
songs, she said, smiling.
While they were establishing
their professional rapport, they
were also creating a routine at
Paisley Park, rehearsing on the
soundstage into the wee hours. He
made her omelets (good) and
smoothies (not so good), and beat
her at Ping-Pong, often. And he
was always dressed up, always,
always, she said, even if they
were just going to the drivethrough at Dairy Queen.
Marcus Anderson, a horn player for Prince who also backed Ms.
Hill, said Prince had held her musical sensibilities in uniquely high
esteem. He respected her opinion a lot, he said. She would come
into the recording studio and
make suggestions, which were often heeded. That was kind of a
first, Mr. Anderson said.
Yet Ms. Hill said that Prince had

never revealed to her that he was


in pain, after decades of high-wattage performance and hip surgery.
I only know what everyone
knows about his pain I read
about it, she said. In person, he
was quick on his feet. Never said
anything, that this is hurting,
never a sign of struggle. Thats
why its all very shocking.
Prince had a reputation for
clean living, largely followed a
vegan diet and frowned on musicians who worked with him using
any recreational drugs. But other
friends have acknowledged that
Prince apparently became dependent on painkillers. Investigators are looking into where he obtained the fentanyl that resulted
in his death. They have not discussed whether it was legally prescribed or perhaps bought on the
street or online.
Ms. Hill did not want to discuss
the details of Princes medical
treatment in Moline. It was, she
said, the first time she had ever
seen him in distress, and she felt
overwhelmed and panicked. He
wanted to leave the hospital, but
at the urging of his companions,
he remained there until morning.
Mr. Johnson stayed close, and Ms.
Hill said she, too, was at his side,
comforting him through the night.
He wasnt dreary or drowsy, or
anything, she said. The mood
was peaceful, and Prince seemed
like his old self. He wanted to
watch Zootopia, the animated
movie. He loved those films. I
was going to pull it up on my
phone. He said: No, no, no, not
here. Were going to pick a special
time and place to watch that.
Ms. Hill felt that Prince had suffered a close call, one that wouldnt be repeated. He was very cooperative that whole night, she
said, serious about getting help.
By 10:57 that same morning, the
ordeal was over, and the plane
took off for Paisley Park once
again. Ms. Hill returned to Los Angeles soon after.
Still, Prince initially played
down the hospital incident to his
camp, Ms. Hill said. Worried, she
helped tip off others that he was in
a serious situation. Friends ultimately reached out to an addiction specialist in California, Dr.
Howard Kornfeld. Prince also
came around to the notion that he
needed help. As hed promised
Ms. Hill, he began taking steps to
heal himself. He underwent tests
administered by Dr. Michael
Schulenberg, a local physician he
had seen earlier.
He did it because he was concerned, and he wanted to do the
right thing for his own body, Ms.
Hill said. And thats the part that
breaks my heart, because he was
trying. He was trying.
Dr. Schulenberg arrived at Paisley Park with the results of some
tests, officials have said, just after
Prince had been declared dead.
Back in California, Ms. Hill
learned the news when she woke
up to texts from friends. She drove
straight to her parents house.
That was definitely the worst day
of my life, she said. I couldnt believe anything that painful could
happen.
Onstage, singing the songs they
created, Ms. Hill said she will be
buoyed by his creativity, and his
spirit in their last moments together. In the hospital, he said,
Its only by Gods grace that Im
even here, she recalled.
He told her: I had to fight for
my life. I remember hearing your
voices from afar and saying to myself, Follow the voices, follow the
voices, get back in your body, you
gotta to do this. And he said it was
the hardest thing hed ever done,
to get back into his body like that.

Prince and Ms. Hill in a screenshot from Back in Time (Behind-The-Scenes at Paisley Park), on her YouTube channel.

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BAGHDAD JOURNAL

Kebab and Nostalgia at a Falluja Transplant


By TIM ARANGO

BAGHDAD Long before Falluja was


known the world over for deadly jihadists,
it was known all over Iraq for its kebab
fatty lamb, ground and mixed with onion,
grilled on a skewer over an open fire and
served with a pinch of sumac at a joint
called Haji Hussein.
Everyone, it seemed, ate at Haji Hussein: locals, soldiers, tourists and businessmen traveling the Baghdad-to-Amman highway that runs through the city.
Starting in 2003, journalists covering the
war ate there, and so did American soldiers and the insurgents who fought them,
perhaps even at the same time.
The restaurant was damaged by bombs
multiple times, and entirely flattened once
by an American airstrike. It was rebuilt,
embraced as a symbol of Fallujas own
rebirth after years of war, only to be abandoned when the city fell to the Islamic
State more than two years ago.
Now the much-loved kebab restaurant
has been reborn again, this time in Baghdad, in a modern, three-story building in
the upscale Mansour neighborhood.
A new entrant on the capitals thriving
restaurant scene, it offers great kebab and
a dose of nostalgia for a time when Baghdadis thought nothing of zipping off to
Falluja for lunch at Haji Hussein.
This was the craft of my grandfather,
said Mohammed Hussein, who runs the
business that has been in his family since
the 1930s, when Falluja was a city of agriculture, smuggling and tribal traditions,
not a jihadist haven.

AMMAR DAHAM/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GETTY IMAGES

A waiter, top, at Haji Hussein with a stack of


kebab wrapped in bread. The kebab at the
restaurant, left, is legendary in Iraq, as much
for its quality as for its provenance. The
restaurant originated in Falluja, but had to relocate, and its old home, above, was bombed.
The restaurant, shiny and well lit, is
packed most nights, and patrons wait for
tables 15 to 20 minutes or so, something
almost unheard-of in Iraq. There are two
flat-screen televisions on the first floor,
tuned to news channels reporting on the
military campaign to retake Falluja from
the Islamic State.
I cant bear to watch the news, Mr.
Hussein said.
There was one news flash recently that
did not escape his notice: The Iraqi Air
Force, like the Americans 12 years ago,
announced that it had struck his restau-

rant site in Falluja because leaders with


the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or
ISIL, were meeting there.
A statement from Iraqs Joint Operation
Command appeared on the television:
Based on intelligence information about
a meeting for ISIS leaders in Haji Hussein
restaurant inside the center of Falluja an
airstrike was launched on the restaurant,
which led to the killing of tens of ISIS
terrorists.
But the restaurant, Mr. Hussein said,
has been deserted for two and a half
years.

When Iraqi forces recently made gains


inside Falluja, people almost immediately
began talking about Haji Hussein. The
federal police released a combat video
saying they were fighting near the restaurant, and a glimpse of the rust-colored
facade showed it damaged but not destroyed. On state television, commentators expressed hope that Haji Hussein
might reopen soon in Falluja.
In 2004, the Americans bombed the
restaurant based on intelligence that
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A Congolese Politician Is Sentenced to 18 Years Over a Militias War Crimes


By MARLISE SIMONS

PARIS A former vice president of the Democratic Republic


of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was
sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years
in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by militiamen under his command during a four-month rampage of looting, rape and murder
in the Central African Republic.
The sentence, handed down by
an international panel of judges in
The Hague, is considered significant for a number of reasons. Notably, Mr. Bemba was convicted
even though he was far away from
the militia fighting under his orders and was not present during
any of the war crimes; the court
said he was culpable because of
his command responsibility. He
should have halted or prevented
the crimes, the judges said.
Mr. Bemba, who is now 53, was
a businessman and scion of a
prominent Congolese family before rising to the vice presidency
successful, rich and believed to
be untouchable.
In 2002, he sent an expeditionary force of his political party,
the Congolese Liberation Movement, into the Central African Republic to help put down a military

coup there. Though Mr. Bemba


rarely visited the troops, the
judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague found that
he closely monitored their activities, and convicted him in March.
Sylvia Steiner, the presiding
judge in the case, read out a summary of the courts reasoning at
the sentencing on Tuesday, saying
that Mr. Bembas knowledge of
the crimes was unquestionable.
He did more than tolerate them,
he deliberately encouraged attacks on civilians, the judge said.
The force of about 1,500 militiamen rampaged through towns
on their path, claiming afterward
that they had been poorly paid
and that they were rewarding
themselves by raping and pillaging.
The sentence given to Mr. Bemba heavily emphasized the
militias unrelenting campaign of
rape, committed throughout the
operation, against women and
men, adults and children. The
judges cited instances of gang
rape, and took note of the lasting
physical and social harm that rape
victims
suffered,
including
stigmatization, ostracism and disease.
Because of the large number of
rapes and what the judges called

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Jean-Pierre Bemba at The Hague on Tuesday. The judge said


Mr. Bemba deliberately encouraged attacks on civilians.
their particular brutality, rape as a
war crime and a crime against humanity received more weight in
sentencing even than murder 18
years for the rape-related
charges, with concurrent sentences of 16 years for murder and
pillaging.
Prosecutors had asked for a 25year sentence, and may appeal
the sentence as too lenient, experts following the case said. Vic-

tims groups had asked for Mr. Bemba to be sentenced to the maximum possible penalty, without citing a specific figure.
Mr. Bemba had already been
detained for eight years before
and during his trial, so he would
presumably now have 10 years left
in his sentence if it stands at 18
years. It has been customary at international tribunals to deduct
one-third of the total sentence, so

Mr. Bemba may be eligible for


early release in as little as four
years.
Largely because of pressure
from human rights advocates and
womens groups, organized or
mass rape is increasingly being
recognized and prosecuted as a
weapon of war rather than as a byproduct of war. Other international courts have convicted
defendants of rape as a war crime
and a crime against humanity, but
Mr. Bembas was the first such
conviction by the International
Criminal Court. In two earlier
cases involving Congolese warlords, instances of rape were
widely
reported
but
not
prosecuted.
In another twist, Mr. Bemba
and four associates, including his
former lead lawyer, are on trial in
a parallel case at the same court,
charged with trying to bribe witnesses in the war crimes case.
Hearings in the contempt-of-court
trial have been completed, and a
verdict is expected later this year.
Witness tampering has become
a major issue at the court, with allegations of bribery or intimidation occurring in almost every
case so far. Some critics have
called the contempt prosecution
against Mr. Bemba and his

associates a waste of time and resources, but lawyers who follow


the matter say the court wanted to
send a strong message by pursuing it.
In Kinshasa, the capital of
Congo, members of Mr. Bembas
political party, which he still
heads, criticized the sentencing
on Tuesday. We will continue,
and we will never cease, denouncing the selective justice of the
I.C.C., Eve Bazaiba told a few
hundred supporters, according to
Reuters.
Graldine Mattioli-Zeltner of
Human Rights Watch said the
sentence offered a measure of justice to victims in a country where
armed groups have preyed on
civilians with impunity for more
than a decade.
Ms. Mattioli-Zeltner, who recently visited the Central African
Republic, said that many grave
crimes, including the systematic
use of sexual violence, remain unpunished both there and in
Congo.
More than 5,000 civilian victims
participated in the court proceedings and may be awarded reparations payments. Judge Steiner
said the court would deal with
reparations in a separate ruling.

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BRITAIN'S CHOICE

In Brexit Vote, British Leader Faces a Problem of His Own Making


From Page A1
whom tend to favor leaving Europe, Mr. Cameron urged them to
think about what they would bequeath to the next generation.
Above all it is about our economy, he said.
The bluff, ruddy Mr. Cameron is
famously lucky, having pulled out
last-minute victories in numerous
other scrapes. But in this case,
many analysts say, he will be damaged goods even if he wins, with
rivals circling to succeed him and
Conservatives more divided than
ever.
If he loses, he will come under
pressure to resign, and even if he
hangs on for some portion of the
four years left in his governments
term, whatever substantive legacy he might have built will be lost
to what many consider to be a
wholly unnecessary roll of the
dice.
Martin Wolf, the economic columnist of The Financial Times,
wrote that this referendum is, arguably, the most irresponsible act
by a British government in my
lifetime. Summarizing the nearly
unanimous opinion of economists
that a British exit Brexit
would be followed by a major
shock and permanent loss of
growth, he concluded: The outcome might well prove devastating.
Mr. Cameron argues that the
referendum had to be called to resolve the festering debate over
Britain and the European Union.
As in the Scottish referendum on
independence in 2014, he says, this
vote represents a great festival of
democracy on a very difficult and
divisive topic.
But if the Scottish referendum
turned nasty, and kept the United
Kingdom together, this one has
become poisonous, with Mr.
Camerons own cabinet colleagues and supposed friends saying that he has eroded trust in
politics, portraying him as a liar
and acting like a government in
waiting. It has been a campaign
punctuated by numerous claims
that have little relationship to the
facts, with sharp tones of xenophobia, racism, nativism and Islamophobia. And it was marked
tragically last Thursday by the assassination of a young Labour
member of Parliament, Jo Cox,
who fiercely supported remaining
in the union.
On Tuesday evening, some of
that bitterness surfaced in a fiery
television debate in which Londons new mayor, Sadiq Khan,
who wants Britain to remain in the
bloc, said that the campaign of his
opponents hasnt been project
fear, its been project hate as far as
immigration is concerned.
Steven Fielding, a professor of
political history at the University
of Nottingham, said that Mr. Cameron has made the case against
himself, and hes damaged either

STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday, before addressing Thursdays Brexit vote. He faces an uncertain future, even if his Remain campaign wins.
way.
The prime minister presumably
thought it would be an easy win
for the Remain forces, Mr. Fielding added. But its far tighter
than anyone thought, he said,
and rather than a salve on the
Tory party, its made the fever

A political expedient
grows into a risky and
consequential gamble.
worse.
Tim Bale, a professor of politics
at Queen Mary University of London, is slightly less harsh. Its really a binary legacy for Mr. Cameron, he said. It is either one that
ends in almost complete failure or
one that seems pretty respectable
in electoral and policy terms. I
cant think of another prime minister who had so much riding on

one decision.
If the Remain campaign loses,
the chances of him staying on are
pretty remote, Professor Bale
said. He will go down as the person who miscalculated, taking us
out of Europe almost by mistake,
and then shuffled off the stage in
a pretty ignominious exit.
Even if Britain votes to stay in
the bloc, Mr. Bale said, given Mr.
Camerons small parliamentary
majority, the number of hard-line
euroskeptics
and
Cameronhaters, hell be subject to defeats
and blackmail until he steps
down.
There are those who support
the contention that Mr. Cameron
had to call this referendum in the
face of Tory division and the rise of
the U.K. Independence Party and
its leader, Nigel Farage. UKIP was
cutting into the Conservative vote
by arguing, as the Leave campaign does now, that Britain could
limit immigration and control its
own borders only by leaving the
European Union.
Mr. Cameron, who had repeat-

edly pledged to get immigration


down to the tens of thousands
even though last year net migration was some 330,000 people
never had a persuasive answer to
the immigration question. To
pacify the growing number of
anti-European Union Tories, keep
his leadership position and undermine UKIP, he promised this referendum if he won the 2015 election, which he did by a larger margin than expected.
Even before the election, some,
like Robin Niblett, the director of
Chatham House and a supporter
of the Remain movement, argued
that a referendum would come at
some point, and that it would be
more easily won under Mr. Cameron and the Tories.
Charles Lewington, a former director of communications for the
Conservative Party, said there
had to be a referendum. By 2013,
he said, there was tremendous
pressure for an in-out referendum
and not just from the old guard.
Mr. Lewington cited growing
concern from Conservative mem-

bers of Parliament that they were


at risk of losing their seats in districts where UKIP was strong.
Given the panic in the party, he
said, I dont think he could have
avoided making an in-out manifesto commitment.
But Tony Travers, a professor of
government at the London School
of Economics, is less sure. Cameron didnt need to do it, Professor Travers said. Like Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister
who organized a referendum on
Europe in 1975, Mr. Cameron began the referendum as an exercise
in internal party discipline, he
said. It was called for party reasons more than national ones, he
added.
Nicholas Soames, Winston
Churchills grandson, a friend of
Mr. Camerons and a Tory legislator, was more scathing about the
failure of several Conservative
leaders to confront, rather than
appease, the hard-line Tory
euroskeptics.
If you have an Alsatian sitting
in front of you, and it growls at you

and bares its teeth, there are two


ways of dealing with it, Mr.
Soames said in an interview with
the British website Conservativehome. You can pat it on the head,
in which case itll bite you, or you
can kick it really hard.
Successive prime ministers,
and its not the present prime minister alone, have never understood that they have to take these
people on, Mr. Soames said.
If the Remain side loses, both
Mr. Cameron and his deputy, the
chancellor of the Exchequer,
George Osborne, are likely to be
gone within months, Mr. Lewington said.
While all denying any ambition
to replace Mr. Cameron, the
sharks are in the water, led by
Boris Johnson, the former mayor
of London and a prominent campaigner for leaving the European
Union. But the winner of such contests in the Tory party is rarely the
one who wields the knife, and
while Mr. Johnson would seem to
lead the race, his success is far
from assured.

Stay or Go? E.U. Referendum Divides British Families


By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA

LONDON Members of the


Driscoll family tend not to fight. If
they do, its over whose turn it is to
vacuum.
Leslie Driscoll, 55, sells hot
cross buns in an English bakery in
London and addresses her
customers with love or darling; her husband, Peter, 54,
works as a floor layer; their
daughter, Louise, a 19-year-old
with dyed blue hair, is a barista in
a hip coffee shop.
But last week, the Driscolls fell
out. Badly. They had an argument
so big they did not speak to one another for days, Ms. Driscoll said.
Shortly afterward, her husband
went off in a huff to see friends up
north, in Derby.
The source of the family drama:
whether Britain should exit the
European Union, a process often
referred to as Brexit.
With only days to go until the
referendum on membership in the
bloc on Thursday, polls suggest
that the country is deeply split
along socioeconomic and regional
lines, with many older and working-class voters in England favoring leaving, and younger and better-educated Britons, and a majority of those in Scotland and
Northern Ireland, favoring staying.
As the consequences of the
choice come into focus for voters,
tensions are bubbling. In the case
of the Driscoll family, they are
boiling over.
I completely disagree with
her, Louise said on a recent afternoon, looking her mother
squarely in the face as they sat in a
cafe. We shouldnt be leaving,
like, an organization that has
helped us more than we could
ever help ourselves if we were to
go it alone.
Louise is the only one in her
family who wants Britain to remain. Her parents and her 80year-old grandfather want out.
This is a little island, her
mother said matter-of-factly,
lighting up a cigarette and letting
the ash fall on her glittery sneakers. We should look after our own

first. Charity begins at home.


But we are all people! Louise
said. We should help each other.
It dont work that way, darling, her mother replied, shaking
her head. If youre born here, you
pass as English. I dont care
whether youre black, white,
green or blue, or purple with pink
spots on youre English.
Those born abroad, Ms. Driscoll
said, have got their own governments, their own parliaments,
whatever.
Up and down the country, the
debate is pitting husband against
wife, children against parents,
sisters against brothers. The divisions are unlikely to heal easily after the referendum is decided.
Even the family of Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London
and the most prominent face of
the campaign for leaving the bloc,
has not been immune to disputes:
His father, Stanley; sister, Rachel;
and brother Jo, who is a member
of Parliament and who worked
closely with Prime Minister David
Cameron, favor remaining in the
union. Boris Johnsons mother,
Charlotte Johnson Wahl, wants to
leave. (Rachel Johnson reportedly tried, without success, to dissuade the former mayor from
backing a British exit over a soggy
game of tennis.)
In Islington, the neighborhood
in London where members of the
Driscoll family have lived for eight
generations, residents are increasingly going public with their
voting intentions, which is a rarity
in Britain.
Rows of houses on some streets
have Remain posters in their
windows. On a thoroughfare filled
with butchers, bakeries and fishand-chip-shops,
tradespeople
nodded their head vigorously
when asked if they were planning
to vote out.
The clash over Britains
continued membership in Europe
has touched on issues as varied as
immigration, terrorism, the economy, Londons housing shortage
and the fate of the National Health
Service.
Some of these issues, like immi-

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Louise and Leslie Driscoll in London. The younger Ms. Driscoll is the only one in her family who
wants Britain to remain, which reflects a common generational divide on the Brexit issue.
gration, are directly related to the
European Union. Others, like the
shortage of affordable housing,
have little to do with it.
Yet those distinctions are blurring. For many, the referendum is
as much a chance to register displeasure with the countrys direction as it is an opportunity to reject
or embrace Europe. The stance of
some voters is being shaped by
personal experience and anecdote.
There is, for example, a widespread perception that European
citizens are flocking to Britain, especially from Eastern Europe, to
take advantage of its social welfare system.
But Britains welfare system is
not as generous as those of many
other European nations, and
fewer than 7 percent of immigrants receive benefits.
In Ms. Driscolls case, she remembers her grandfather pawning and re-pawning his suit to get

by. That memory was revived, she


said, with the discovery a few
years ago that a newly arrived
Polish family in her neighborhood
had received money to buy a car
and move into a four-bedroom
house.
Years ago, we never had social
security or anything like that,
Ms. Driscoll said. You sold your
own.
Her grandmother would get her
granddads suit out of pawn when
he got paid on Friday, put it back in
pawn on Monday, Ms. Driscoll
said. Thats how they lived.
Having different cultures and
communities is fantastic, she
said, but what I dont like is the
fact that, through having that,
weve now left ourselves open. I
feel like a second-class citizen in
my own country.
Ms. Driscoll is proudly English
(not, in her mind, British she
crossed out the word on her passport and replaced it with Eng-

lish). Her father fought in World


War II, and her grandfather in
World War I. She has lived all her
life in this area of London.
Louise grew up in the same area
but in a more prosperous, multicultural Britain than earlier generations had experienced. In
school, she was one of only two
white students. Her friends are
Eritrean, Nigerian and South
African.
Louise voted for the Green
Party in last years general election and was appalled that her
mother, traditionally a Labour
voter, had opted for the anti-Europe, anti-immigration U.K. Independence Party. (Sorry, I know
Im a bit antiquated cant help it,
love, Ms. Driscoll replied, somewhat sheepishly, after Louise uttered an expletive.)
Louise said she understood the
pressures
that
immigration
placed on schools and hospitals.
But leaving the European Union

worried her, she said, because it


risked wrecking the economy and
making it hard for young people to
secure employment.
It took her eight months to find
work as a barista, she said.
If I wanted to work abroad, it
would be a lot easier if England
was in the E.U., Louise said.
Her mother suggested that
Louise move to New York, possibly unaware of the paradox that
this would make her an immigrant
herself.
Almost inevitably, the debate
over immigration veered into an
argument
about
terrorism.
Britains porous borders were letting terrorists slip through, Ms.
Driscoll said, repeating a message
the camp to leave the European
Union has relentlessly pushed on
voters.
Louise asked why she wanted
to shut immigrants out of England.
It aint the nice ones Im worried about, her mother replied.
Its the nasty ones.
To have opened the floodgates,
its like saying, Come, and come
and kill us, she said, adding that
members of the Irish Republican
Army had at least notified the
public before setting off bombs
across Britain during the 1970s
and 1980s.
We can get on a bus tomorrow
with a bloke with a backpack, and
bye-bye, boom, Ms. Driscoll said.
Yeah? Nothing to do with what
they call their beliefs.
Louise rolled her eyes. In what
sounded like a final plea, she said:
At the end of the day, the E.U. is
going to affect my generation
more than it will affect your generation. So shouldnt it be down to us
to decide whether or not to stay?
Her mother fell silent and was
thoughtful.
I am 55 years of age, she said
slowly. I know I appreciate
that in 50 years time, youll be
here and I wont, and youll have to
put up with whatevers happened.
She paused.
But I still want out, she said.
Sorry.

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North Korean Defectors


In a New Legal Tussle

Spankings
At a Bank
In China,
Then Anger

Rights Lawyers Say Detention Is Unlawful


By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea A tussle between the two Koreas over 12


waitresses from the North who
defected to the South spilled into a
courtroom in Seoul on Tuesday,
where human rights lawyers accused the authorities in the South
of unlawfully detaining them.
The 12 women, together with
their male manager, flew to Seoul,
the South Korean capital, in April
after deserting their North Korean government-run restaurant in
the Chinese city of Ningbo. South
Korea welcomed the women and
described them as having defected of their own free will after
growing fed up with their totalitarian government.
North Korea immediately accused the Souths spy agency, the
National Intelligence Service, of
kidnapping the women. It has
since arranged for their parents to
give interviews with the Western
news media, during which they
have demanded that South Korea
allow them to meet with their
daughters to learn their true intentions. The South has dismissed
the demands as propaganda.
The inter-Korean standoff took
an unexpected turn recently,
when a South Korean human
rights group, Lawyers for a
Democratic Society, asked a court
in Seoul to release the women
from a tightly guarded government facility south of the city
where they have been kept since
their arrival, so they could speak
for themselves.
The group accused the National
Intelligence Service of blocking
the womens access to legal
services and their right to speak
freely about their trip to the South.
Lawyers for the group presented
the court with a power of attorney,
which they said they had obtained
from the womens North Korean
families.
The government has denied the
lawyers access to the women, saying that the defectors do not want
their services. It has also said that
if the women appeared in court
and testified that they abandoned
North Korea of their own accord,
that would prompt the North to
persecute their relatives in retaliation. During interviews with

journalists, defectors often insist


on anonymity because of fears for
their families.
The closed-door court hearing
on Tuesday ended in limbo, however, as the women did not show
up.
The human rights lawyers, for
their part, asked that the case be
transferred to another judge, complaining that the presiding justice,
Lee Young-je, had not tried to
summon the women again.
We didnt think the court was
trying the case fairly, and we dont
think it will, one lawyer, Chae
Hee-joon, told reporters after the
hearing.
The case has drawn keen attention in South Korea because of the
way it might affect the countrys
handling of other North Korean
defectors.
By law, the National Intelligence Service can keep North
Koreans who flee to the South at
the secluded facility outside Seoul
for as long as six months for debriefing and to ferret out spies.
Human rights researchers and
opposition
lawmakers
have
quoted some former inmates as
saying they were subjected to
abusive language, violence and
threats of deportation while they
were held there.
The agency has responded that
it honors all inmates human
rights.
But three years ago, events inside the facility, once called the
Joint Interrogation Center, became the focal point of a scandal
that eventually led to the resignation of the governments intelligence chief.
In 2013, a court threw out a spy
charge that the intelligence
agency had built against a refugee
from North Korea. The charge relied on confessions the defectors
sister had made at the facility. But
the sister later said that she had
been coerced into making false accusations against her brother
while being held for 179 days in
near isolation and without legal
representation.
President Park Geun-hye later
apologized for the scandal, and
the facility was renamed the Center for Protection of North Korean
Refugees.

By JAVIER C. HERNNDEZ

KIM KWANG HYON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

An event in May in Pyongyang, North Korea, with relatives of the North Korean waitresses.

Missile Test by North Fails, South Korea Says


By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea


North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile
off its east coast on Wednesday,
but the test ended in a failure,
the South Korean military said.
It was the fifth consecutive such
failure in the Norths attempt to
demonstrate a capacity to
launch a ballistic missile that
would extend its striking range.
The Musudan missile was
launched from a site near Wonsan, a port city east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital,
at 5:58 a.m. Wednesday, the
Souths Office of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff said in a statement.
It said the South Korean military considered the test to have
been a failure, but it provided no
further details.
At 8:05 a.m., North Korea
launched another Musudan, the

Some of the lawyers who exposed that scandal are among


those demanding access to the 12
waitresses as part of a campaign
to make the location more transparent.
Thousands of North Koreans
have defected to South Korea in
recent years, but the womens defection as a group was highly un-

office said. The second missile


flew about 250 miles, it said. It
did not confirm whether the test
was a success or failure.
North Korea has test-fired the
Musudan six times since April.
But at least five of those tests
have failed, with some of the
projectiles crashing into the sea
or exploding in midair shortly
after liftoff, according to American and South Korean officials.
North Koreas missiles have
seldom worked on the first try,
but a string of five successive
failures is unusual even by the
Norths checkered standards.
Analysts have attributed the
failures to the Norths leader,
Kim Jong-un. In his rush to demonstrate an ability to strike
American military bases in
Guam with nuclear and chemical weapons, Mr. Kim was giving
his engineers hardly enough
time to fix the problems before

usual.
A typical defector takes weeks
or months to flee to the South, often traveling through the jungles
of Southeast Asia with human
traffickers.
By contrast, the waitresses arrived in Seoul the day after they
fled their restaurant in China.
Their former colleagues in North

testing the Musudan again, the


analysts said.
The North has successfully
tested its short-range Scud and
midrange Rodong missiles. The
Rodong can reach all of South
Korea and most of Japan. The
Musudan a road-mobile missile with a range of more than
2,000 miles, was first tested
on April 15.
The failed Musudan tests followed Mr. Kims repeated calls
to his military to conduct more
nuclear and missile tests despite
international sanctions.
North Korea has repeatedly
threatened nuclear strikes
against the United States, claiming that it has built nuclear
weapons small enough to be
mounted on its various ballistic
missiles.
But the country has never carried out a successful test flight of
a long-range missile.

Korea claimed that the male manager had conspired with the South
Korean authorities and had taken
the women to the South after
telling them that they were being
relocated to a restaurant in Southeast Asia.
South Korea has denied any improper role in the defections.

Palestinian, 15, Is Killed by Israeli Forces Firing at Stone Throwers


By ISABEL KERSHNER
and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ

JERUSALEM Israeli forces


opened fire at a Palestinian car in
the occupied West Bank early
Tuesday, killing one Palestinian
teenager and wounding four others, according to relatives and
Palestinian
officials.
The
teenagers appeared to be innocent bystanders who were hit
while the military tried to halt
Palestinians who were throwing
stones and firebombs.
The military said its soldiers
had been pursuing several
Palestinians who were trying to
hit Israeli cars on Route 443, a
highway that cuts through the
Rami Nazzal contributed reporting from Ramallah, West Bank.

West Bank as it connects Jerusalem with Israels densely populated coastal plain, injuring three
civilians, including a pregnant
woman.
Palestinian officials identified
the dead teenager as Mahmoud
Rafat Badran, 15, from the village
of Beit Ur al-Tahta, west of Ramallah, and said that two of his brothers, ages 16 and 17, were among
those injured.
Nearby forces acted in order to
protect additional passing vehicles from immediate danger and
fired toward suspects, the military said. From the initial inquiry,
it appears that uninvolved
bystanders were mistakenly hit
during the pursuit.
A military spokeswoman said
later Tuesday that the military police investigation unit was exam-

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ining all aspects of the episode,


presumably including whether
the soldiers involved had opened
fire according to protocol. The
shooting comes as an Israeli
sergeant, Elor Azaria, is standing
trial in a military court on a manslaughter charge after he fatally
shot a wounded and disarmed Palestinian assailant in the West
Bank city of Hebron.
Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, described the killing of
the Palestinian youth as a coldblooded assassination, adding in
a statement, The international
community has the responsibility
to stop allowing Israels impunity
for the crimes it commits against
the occupied land and people of
Palestine.
Muhammad Badran, the father
of one of the injured Palestinian

teenagers from Beit Ur al-Tahta,


Majed, said that his son had decided to go swimming with his
cousins and friends in the nearby
village of Beit Sira after breaking
the Ramadan fast on Monday
night, and that they had left in a
taxi.
As they were driving home, he
said by telephone, shots were
fired at their vehicle.
I dont know if it was soldiers
or settlers who opened fire and
hurt our children, he said.
Mr. Badran, who works as a
building contractor in Israel, said
that after receiving a call from a
resident of the village around 1:45
a.m., he rushed down to the road
and saw the wounded teenagers
on the ground, bleeding.
He said that soldiers had put his
son and one of the other teenagers

in a jeep and had driven off, and


that he had not received any more
information about his sons
whereabouts.
The Israeli military said that
three of the injured Palestinian
youths were taken to a hospital in
Ramallah and that the fourth, apparently Majed, was taken to the
Hadassah Medical Center, an Israeli hospital in Ein Kerem, on the
outskirts of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the three teenagers
in the Palestine Medical Complex
in Ramallah had been shot in the
head and chest, and had sustained
serious injuries.
The three civilians who were
believed to have been wounded by
rocks were taken to Shaare
Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment.

BEIJING The training


session started with a harsh
public shaming. A performance coach took to the stage
and asked eight employees
at a Chinese bank to explain
to a room of their peers why
they had fallen short.
I didnt cooperate well,
a woman said.
I wasnt courageous
enough,
another
confessed.
Then the session took a
bizarre turn. The coach
brandished a wooden stick
and shouted, Get your behinds ready! He proceeded
to slap the employees on
their rears, going down the
line four times. A woman recoiled in pain, and several
workers gasped.
By Tuesday, a video of the
episode had provoked widespread anger in China. The
coach, Jiang Yang, apologized, and two executives at
the bank that hosted the
session, Zhangze Rural and
Commercial
Bank
in
Changzhi, a northern city,
were suspended.
The bank had hired Mr.
Jiang, who works for a
Shanghai consulting company
that
sometimes
charges more than $18,000 a
day, to help improve the productivity of its workers, according to Chinese news reports. The theme of the
training session, which was
held on Saturday for more
than 200 employees, was
performance
breakthroughs.
In a video apology, Mr.
Jiang said the banks leaders should not be blamed. I
punished the lowest-performing trainees according
to the rules of the competition and hurt them, he said.
I hereby offer my deepest
apologies.
Mr. Jiang was also reported to have used other
methods to shame the
employees, including cutting their hair. Bank officials
said
employees
who
participated in the sessions
might receive compensation.
Corporal punishment is
still common in China, especially in rural regions, but
many people found Mr.
Jiangs methods extreme. A
one-minute clip of the session filmed by an audience
member quickly garnered
tens of thousands of views
online and set off a furious
reaction on social media.
You must be sick. a user
wrote on Weibo, a web service similar to Twitter. Are
employees your slaves?
What era are we in
now? another user wrote.
We still spank people?
Owen Guo contributed research.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Kerry Meets With State Dept. Dissenters Urging Action on Syria


By DAVID E. SANGER

WASHINGTON The eight


midlevel Foreign Service officers
stepped into John Kerrys formal
outer office at the State Department on Tuesday a room that
few of them had ever entered before to tell him that he was pursuing a path in Syria that would
never bring an end to a gruesome
civil war.
The argument was not new to
Mr. Kerry he, in fact, has offered
versions of it himself in the Situation Room and the Oval Office. But
for half an hour, according to several participants, the secretary of
state and the eight officials engaged in a surprisingly cordial
conversation about whether there
was a way, in the last six months of
the Obama presidency, to use
American military force to help
end a conflict that by some estimates has claimed 500,000 lives.
The eight were among 51 State
Department employees who
signed a dissent channel cable
to Mr. Kerry last week, a letter
that was leaked so quickly that it
appeared clearly intended to send
a message to President Obama
that his own diplomats could not
back his cautious policy.
Mr. Kerry, several participants
said, was careful to never explicit-

ly agree with their critique, or let


on that he, too, has argued that
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria will continue to bomb, starve
and blockade his own people unless negotiations are backed by
some form of military pressure.
But Mr. Kerry also gently
pushed and probed, seeming to
imply that many of the dissenters
concerns had been considered
many times before and rejected
because they were more complicated than they appeared.
Hours before the meeting, Vice
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
seemed annoyed at a mention of
the dissent cable, sounding a similar note on CBS This Morning
that all the ideas proposed by the
young diplomats had been looked
at long ago.
There is not a single, solitary
recommendation that I saw that
has a single, solitary answer
attached to it how to do what
theyre talking about, Mr. Biden
said.
The presidents been fastidious, Mr. Biden told Charlie Rose.
Calls the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
intelligence community, the director of central intelligence, the
C.I.A., et cetera. Tell me what will
work. Will this work? And the answer has repeatedly been, No.

With only two of his aides in the


room (and his Labrador retriever,
Ben, who has attended delicate diplomatic meetings more than
many assistant secretaries of
state), Mr. Kerry raised a series of
questions about what might happen if the dissenters won the day.
What would be the legal basis for
bombing Mr. Assads forces, in the
absence of resolutions by the
United Nations or even NATO?
What would happen if American
forces came into an accidental
confrontation with the Russian
Air Force, which has defended Mr.
Assad? What if American pilots
were shot down? How would the
effort affect the American battle
with the Islamic State?
The session was an unusual
one. Only four or five dissent
channel cables are written each
year, and most stay confidential.
But the very public nature of
this one has left Mr. Kerry in an
awkward position. He does not
want to appear to differ from the
presidents strategy, and he kept
his own counsel Tuesday about
what he tells Mr. Obama in private. (Mr. Kerrys aides insist that
there is a common strategy, one
that starts with trying to get Russia to press for enforcement of a
much-violated cease-fire.)
At the same time, it is Mr. Kerry

who first burst into public awareness when, as a just-returned naval officer in Vietnam, he issued
his own famous dissent in 1971 by
demanding before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, How
do you ask a man to be the last
man to die for a mistake?
Perhaps the most remarkable
thing about the meeting was that
five years into the Syrian civil war
after Mr. Obama declared that

Russian entry into


Syria has precluded
many U.S. options.
Mr. Assad must go, the unenforced red lines and a series of
failed cease-fire accords even
some of the people who ran Syria
diplomacy day-to-day had not
heard the rationale for the administrations caution.
The Pentagon remains cautious
about entering another Middle
East war when it cannot control
the outcome. And the passage of
time has precluded some options.
Earlier in the conflict, some of
Mr. Kerrys own diplomats have

said in recent months, it would


have been possible to crater the
runways used by Mr. Assads air
force, making it impossible for
planes to take off and drop barrel
bombs. The United States has
used that tactic since World War
II, and it is unclear why it has not
been employed in Syria.
Hillary Clinton, when she held
Mr. Kerrys post, argued for
arming the Syrian rebels, a position joined by the C.I.A. director at
the time, David H. Petraeus. But
Mr. Obama was concerned
rightly, many others in the room at
the time said that there was no
assurance that those rebels would
not use the weapons for other purposes.
And as Mr. Kerry implicitly
noted to his visitors on Tuesday,
Russias entry into the conflict
greatly complicates any American military intervention. The
chances of accidental encounters
that may turn deadly are considerable.
Mr. Kerry spoke again on Tuesday to his Russian counterpart,
Sergey V. Lavrov, to find a way to
enforce the cease-fire that the two
men first announced in February.
Russia wants a degree of coordination with United States forces,
including shared use of intelligence, that gives the Pentagon

chills.
Mr. Kerry knows he is in a race
against time. Not only are more
Syrians dying every day, but his
own leverage in the negotiations
is also waning. Mr. Assad may
well be betting that he can wait out
the end of the Obama administration.
Mr. Kerry publicly insists that is
not the case. Asked last month in
Vienna if Mr. Assad doubted that
there was a Plan B for military
action, Mr. Kerry said, If you
know that hes come to a conclusion theres no Plan B, then hes
come to a conclusion that is totally
without any foundation whatsoever and even dangerous. Dangerous.
Perhaps so, but Mr. Assad, by
now, has most likely both read the
dissent channel cable and heard
Mr. Bidens argument that the
Joint Chiefs do not believe there
are viable military options to force
him into negotiating a peace.
As the eight dissenters left Mr.
Kerrys office, nothing seemed resolved. They all agreed to keep the
details of their conversation private. But they also agreed that
this was not the last word about a
strategy that has left everyone
dissenters, the secretary of state
and the president alike frustrated that nothing has worked.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL

Falluja Transplant
Offering Kebab
And Nostalgia
From Page A4
insurgents loyal to Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al
Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of
the Islamic State, were eating
there. After the bombing, a member of Mr. Husseins family defiantly told The Boston Globe that
the mujahedeen and the insurgents prefer my restaurant and
come to me for their three
meals.
Patrick Graham, a Canadian
journalist who covered the Iraq
war, likened Haji Hussein to a
Nova Scotia branch of a popular
Canadian doughnut chain.
It probably had been an insurgent meeting place, he wrote
in an online column last year,
but only in the way that the
local Tim Hortons in Antigonish,
N.S., is a Conservative Party
meeting place. Everyone went to
Haji Hussein, insurgents included.
This being the holy month of
Ramadan, the Baghdad restaurant has been busy lately serving
iftar, the evening meal to break
the days fast. The parking lot is
also a beehive of activity: a
security guard checking cars for
bombs; a man selling balloons to
families; children begging.
As Mr. Hussein, 49, sat down
to chat one recent evening, he
was surrounded by bow-tied
waiters much of the staff from
Falluja now works in the new
place filling the tables with
dishes of mezze, or appetizers, as
Omar Al-Jawoshy contributed reporting.

diners waited to break their fast.


In addition to heaping platters
of the famous kebab, there were
dates coated with sesame paste,
watermelon, hummus, cucumber
and tomato salad, pickles and
soup. There were some new
items on the menu that were not
served in Falluja: grilled river
carp, called masgoof; a Yemeni
chicken-and-rice meal called
mandi; and maklouba, a dish of
chicken and eggplant and rice
that is originally Palestinian.
As customers streamed in, Mr.
Hussein tried to recall how many
times his restaurant in Falluja
had been damaged or destroyed
by the war.
Too many to count, he said.
At times, he said, he would
have to call a local windowpane
salesman once or twice a week.
It was a funny joke, he said.
Id call and hed say, Which
size? He would have all the sizes
for my windows on hand, ready.
Mr. Hussein recalled an American officer who used to stop by,
and grab his kebab right off the
grill with a piece of flatbread. But
he kept his distance from the
occupiers.
We tried not to become
friends with them, he said.
They would say hi, we would
say hi, that was it.
He said peace would not be
easy in Falluja, even after liberation from the Islamic State, without political compromises between the Shiite-led government
in Baghdad and the Sunni community. Speaking of the people of
Falluja, he said, There were
reasons they joined ISIS oppression, random arrests.

BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Waiting for the evening meal to begin at Haji Hussein, with news from the Falluja battle on the television in the background.
At least in his restaurant, Iraq
does not seem hopelessly divided
by sect. Sunnis and Shiites break
their fast at slightly different
times, and as sundown approached one of the televisions
was tuned to a Sunni channel,
the other to Iraqiya, the channel
of the Shiite-led government.
When the call to prayer the
signal that the days fast was
over went out on one, the
Sunnis began eating. Fifteen
minutes or so later, the Shiite
customers began eating.
Anas al-Sarraf, who is perhaps
Baghdads only restaurant critic,

has praised Haji Hussein on his


widely followed Baghdad Restaurant Guide on Facebook, for its
kebab, cleanliness and service.
One Iraqi exile, pining for
home, posted a comment on Mr.
Sarrafs site: I have been out of
Iraq for 13 years, and there is no
Iraqi food or Iraqi kebab like Haji
Hussein. Inshallah, I will come
back one day to eat at Haji Hussein in Falluja and in Baghdad.
In the kitchen, Mr. Husseins
nephew, Marwan Mohammed,
was working the grill. Now 26, he
has been working in the family
business since he was 8, washing

the skewers.
Mr. Mohammed said the secret
to his kebab is fresh lamb, as
opposed to low-quality imported
meats that he said many Iraqi
restaurants use. The family still
raises its own sheep in a government-held area near Falluja, and
usually serves the kebab on the
same day the sheep is slaughtered, or the next day.
We only feed them grass and
special food, he said. We never
let them go out in the open and
eat garbage.
The only other ingredient
mixed with the minced lamb is

Jordan Seals Its Border


After Car Bomb Kills 6
By RANA F. SWEIS

AMMAN, Jordan Jordan


sealed its last entry points for
Syrian refugees on Tuesday after
a suicide bomber detonated a car
bomb in a no-mans land on the
border, killing four Jordanian soldiers, a police officer and a civil
defense officer.
The attack took place about
5:30 a.m. on the sand berm marking the frontier between the countries, near a refugee camp where
an estimated 60,000 people have
been living in harsh conditions.
The Jordanian military said in a
statement that the car carrying
explosives had struck a military
post in the buffer zone at the border after approaching from the
refugee camp, and that Jordanian
forces opened fire. The vehicle exploded, the statement said, killing
the security personnel and
wounding 14 others.
The statement, released several hours later by the Jordanian
Armed Forces, declared the
northern and northeastern borders a military zone and warned
that any movement of vehicles or
individuals there without permission would be seen as a hostile act.
We are closing the area and
considering it a military zone,
said Mohammad Momani, a government spokesman. We are also
not building nor expanding any
existing refugee camps and we
call upon the international community to understand our sover-

eign measures and our need to


take this measure in order to
maintain our security and stability.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred
at the border crossing at Rukban,
Jordan.
On June 6, three officers of the
Jordanian intelligence service
and two other employees were
killed at an intelligence service office in a Palestinian refugee camp
near Amman, the capital, in what
the government said was a terrorist attack.
Terrorist attacks in Jordan, a
crucial ally of the United States in
the region, are relatively rare, but
the country is constantly on alert
because of the threat posed by Islamic extremists, notably from
the Islamic State.
King Abdullah II of Jordan said
in a statement that anyone who
assaults or attempts to harm Jordans security and unity will be
met with an iron fist, and the military vowed that it would continue
to fight terrorists and their dark
minds.
For more than a year, refugees
have been fleeing the civil war in
Syria and making their way to the
Syrian side of the berm, which
was once known for little more
than desert sand, scorpions and
snakes but is now a populated
area vulnerable to smugglers, human traffickers and drug dealers.
The area is home to a

onions. Sumac and a squeeze of


lemon at the table add more
flavor.
Mr. Husseins fortune may now
be in Baghdad, but his heart is in
Falluja.
His hometown, he said, is like
a sacred place for me. He added,
My heart beats faster when
Falluja comes to my mind.
He began to cry as he described what Falluja used to be.
Simple people, he said. It
was a tribal society. Weve never
even had a hotel. There was
hospitality for everyone. All
homes were hotels for visitors.

More than 650,000


Syrian refugees have
crossed into Jordan.

MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS

A funeral was held Tuesday north of Amman, Jordan, for one of the soldiers killed at the border.
demilitarized zone that prevents
people from crossing into Jordan
but gives relief agencies a place to
provide assistance to refugees. A
sprawling informal camp on the
Syrian side of the border has
grown to house tens of thousands
of people who fled conflict in
places like Aleppo, Homs and
Palmyra.
Jordan has cited security and
economic concerns tied to the
refugees, some of whom come
from areas controlled by the Is-

lamic State, in refusing to allow


them to cross the border.
The country had been allowing
200 to 300 refugees from the border area into the country each day,
but only after they are subjected
to thorough security screenings
and after immense pressure from
other countries.
Jordan has taken in more than
650,000 Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations refugee
agency. A majority of them live
outside the refugee camps.

Despite the alarming numbers


at the berm, aid agencies and the
government have been wary of
speaking publicly about the
refugee situation on the border
because they did not want to anger the Jordanian government.
Ariane Rummery, a spokeswoman for the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees
in Geneva, said that no staff members had been injured.
The attack underlines how
challenging a relief operation is at

the berm, she said, before the


border was closed. We remain
concerned about the security situation for those living there and humanitarian agencies working
there.
Officials said that someone had
been arrested in the killings at the
intelligence service office, but
most of the details about that attack remain unclear because of an
information ban issued by the authorities.
The intelligence office was part
of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate, making it a
particularly significant target for
militants.
Last November, at least five
people, including two American
trainers, were killed at an Amman
training compound by a Jordanian police officer who fired on them
before he was shot and killed, the
government said.
A recently published poll by the
International Republican Institute found that attitudes in Jordan
toward the Islamic State were
hardening.
Eighty-nine percent of those
polled said they considered the
extremist group to be a terrorist
organization. Support for the international coalition against the
militants is also growing 80 percent backed the intervention to a
large or moderate degree, compared with 75 percent in 2015, according to the poll.

THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Attacks Expose a Struggle to Pick Out Future Terrorists


From Page A1
dOise region of northern France
and who the agency suspected
was a recruiter for Al Qaeda. The
investigation revealed that he had
lured seven adherents, the youngest of whom was Mr. Abballa.
Under the older mans instruction, the young men met in a public park to do calisthenics, enrolled
in a kung fu class and gathered for
lessons on extremist Islam. They
also took their day trip to the forest in Cormeilles-en-Parisis with
the rabbits, which they had pooled
their money to buy.

Alissa J. Rubin, Adam Nossiter


and Lilia Blaise contributed reporting from Paris.

DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Soldiers on patrol in Paris in January. Frances caseload of potential jihadists to monitor is becoming unmanageable, analysts say.
and the Eid al-Adha holiday had
been celebrated two months before, in November.

Needles in a Haystack
While the legal systems may be
different, the United States faced
many of the same problems in
their interactions with Mr. Mateen, who when questioned by the
authorities about earlier threats
of violence insisted that he had
said those things because he was
angry after facing discrimination.
After Mr. Mateens massacre,
James B. Comey, the director of
the F.B.I., said the file on Mr. Mateen had been one of hundreds
and hundreds of cases all across
the country, and compared the
task of weeding out those who are
expressing extremist ideas from
those who may act on those ideas
to looking for needles in a nationwide haystack.
For France, thought to have
among the largest numbers of
suspected Islamic State loyalists
in Europe, the haystack is at least
as big, and some say the caseload
has become unmanageable.
We are in fact drowning in intelligence, said Alain Bauer, a
professor of criminology at the
National Conservatory of Arts
and Crafts in Paris.
He and others said there were
structural problems, including the
fact that Frances so-called S List,
a database of people believed to
have been radicalized, has over
10,000 names and is not ranked according to threat level.
Though most on the list never
commit violence, others have now
been responsible for gruesome
headlines. Eight of the 10 men who
staged the deadliest European
terrorist attack in over a decade
the Paris killings on Nov. 13
were on the S List and several had
spent time behind bars, yet were
able to sneak back into France and
Belgium from Syria. Another suspect on the list, Amedy Coulibaly,
had also been imprisoned on a ter-

rorism conviction. Eight months


after his electronic bracelet was
removed by the French authorities, he killed a police officer and
opened fire in a kosher supermarket in Paris in January 2015, leaving four more people dead in the
Islamic States name.
If you take your daily agenda,
and you were to note down the
birthday of every single person
you know, it would be unmanageable to try to wish them all a
happy birthday, Mr. Bauer said.
You need to make a selection. We
dont know how to do that with the
profiles of these people.
Those kinds of suspects have
created an awkward middle

est risk, placing them under house


arrest or in a detention center.
He called the measure necessary because the penal code is
based on proving that an individual is not just talking or thinking
about committing an act of terrorism, but has taken steps toward
carrying out the act.
These people are known to us,
he said. I want to be able to take
preventive action.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls
said last week that he would consider the proposal, but that there
would be no Guantnamo in
France, the French newspaper
Libration reported.
Jean-Charles
Brisard,
the

From left, Omar Mateen, Larossi Abballa and Amedy


Coulibaly, all of whom were known to counterterrorism officials
before carrying out attacks in the name of the Islamic State.
ground for the French authorities,
and after a series of plots or attacks linked to the Islamic State
over the past two years, there is
more urgency to find new legal
tools to deal with the problem.
After Mr. Abballa killed the couple in Magnanville, France, last
week, a deputy in Parliament, ric
Ciotti, introduced a bill creating
the status of administrative detention for those representing a
security threat.
In effect, he was calling for rapid prioritization of the S List, and
he said the bill would be aimed at
immediately detaining hundreds
of those deemed to pose the high-

chairman of the French Center for


the Analysis of Terrorism in Paris,
called the idea absurd and said
France could not jettison civil liberties.
He added that putting everyone
on the S List under surveillance
was impossible, because there are
more than 10,000 names and fewer
than 5,000 agents. It takes 20
agents per suspect for 24-hour
surveillance, he said, meaning
France could perform round-theclock surveillance of only a small
fraction of those suspected of being radicalized.
My profound conviction is that
unfortunately we need to get used

to living with this new threat, Mr.


Brisard said. Its permanent, its
diffuse and it can erupt at any moment.

Jihad and Vengeance


The streets in Magnanville, a
community of about 5,600 people
less than 40 miles from Paris, are
lined with neatly trimmed hedges.
It was here that Mr. Abballa
waited last week for an off-duty
police officer, Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, to come home. As neighbors watched in horror, Mr. Abballa stabbed Mr. Salvaing in the
street and left him bleeding in the
driveway, then forced his way into
the house. There he stabbed to
death Jessica Schneider, the officers longtime partner, as the couples 3-year-old son watched.
In the time it took the police to
close in and shoot Mr. Abballa
dead, he paused to upload a Facebook Live video. He had prepared
a long speech, and the sound of
flipping pages could be heard as
he spoke.
First of all, I pledge allegiance
to Emir al-Mumineem Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, he began, referring
to the leader of the Islamic State
using a similar formula to the
pledge uttered by Mr. Mateen,
who called 911 from inside the
nightclub to dedicate his violence
to the terrorist group.
In a long rant captured on the
video, Mr. Abballas thoughts returned to the frustration he felt in
2011, when he begged to be allowed
to go abroad to wage jihad.
I address this also to the
French infidel authorities. This is
the result of your work. You closed
the door to my Hijrah, he said, using an Arabic term for a pilgrimage that for some Islamic State
devotees has come to mean
traveling to Syria and Iraq to join
the group. You closed the door toward the lands of the caliphate?
Well, good then, we have opened
the door of jihad onto your territory.

Feeling Strain of Refugees, Sweden Toughens Rules for Asylum


By DAN BILEFSKY

Sweden, once one of the most


welcoming countries for refugees,
on Tuesday introduced tough new
restrictions on asylum seekers, including rules that would limit the
number of people granted permanent residency and make it more
difficult for parents to reunite with
their children.
The government said the legislation, proposed by the Social
Democrat minority government
and enacted by a vote of 240 to 45,
was necessary to prevent the
country from becoming overstretched by the surge of migration to Europe that began last
year.
The country, which has a population of 9.5 million, took in 160,000
asylum seekers last year.
The government said that under the new rules, individuals who
want to bring over family members but do not apply to do so
within three months of arriving in
Sweden, would have to prove they
can financially support them; current regulations require sponsors
to demonstrate only that they can
support themselves. Permanent
residency for asylum-seekers under the age of 25 would be restricted to those who have completed high school and can support themselves.
People who are formally
granted refugee status would be
able to bring over family members from abroad, but the legislation would circumscribe the family members who are eligible.
As elsewhere in Europe, the far
right in Sweden has been railing
Christina Anderson contributed
reporting.

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Egypt Court
Blocks Plan
For 2 Islands
By NOUR YOUSSEF

Thirsty for Blood


By the spring of 2011, two members of the group had gone to Pakistan, where they were met by a facilitator for Al Qaeda, according to
French court records obtained by
The New York Times.
As the most junior member of
the group, Mr. Abballa was not
chosen to go, and that frustrated
him. Im thirsty for blood, Allah is
my witness, he wrote in an email
intercepted by the authorities. In
another, he begged, Please let me
go, pls, pls, pls.
When it appeared that he would
not be sent to Pakistan, he turned
his rage toward France, writing on
Feb. 19, 2011, With Allahs will, we
will find a way to raise the flag
here. A week letter, he wrote that
his cell would wipe away the infidels.
He was arrested on May 14, 2011,
and like the other members of the
cell was convicted on a charge of
belonging to a criminal or terrorist organization, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years, said
Sbastien Bono, the lawyer representing the accused leader of the
group.
Considered the groups least influential member, Mr. Abballa
spent more than two years in prison and was released in 2013. He
was kept under surveillance until
the end of 2015.
Its very easy retrospectively,
with hindsight, to say that law enforcement, or government, should
have known about someones intent. But obviously theres a big
difference between motivation
someone being radicalized and
then going out and actually acting
on that, said Richard Walton, who
led the counterterrorism unit for
the London Metropolitan Police
during the 2012 Olympics. At any
one time, in any country, there will
be many hundreds, if not several
thousand suspects, that fit this
profile.
Among the difficulties for the
authorities in 2011 was that Mr. Abballa had aggressively denied any
connection to terrorism. He told
investigators he was an atheist.
He denied that he had taken part
in the practice-beheadings of rabbits he was not seen on the video even though the seven other
men in the cell all said he had
participated. And the members of
the group contradicted one another. When pushed, one of Mr.
Abballas accomplices explained
that they had slaughtered the animals in order to have halal meat
to eat during the Islamic holiday
of Eid, according to a summary of
their interrogation.
It took investigators time to
spot the hole in that claim: The
forest slaughter was in January,

MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Majid family, refugees from Syria, at their home in Backhammar, Sweden, in April. Sweden,
which took in 160,000 asylum seekers last year, is clamping down with rules on family finances.
against immigration, a stance that
is increasingly resonating with
voters. The Sweden Democrats, a
far-right anti-immigrant party,
won almost 13 percent of the vote
in a 2014 general election, and recent polls show it gaining in
strength.
Morgan Johansson, Swedens
justice and migration minister,
said in a heated parliamentary debate on the issue on Monday that
the countrys system would completely collapse if 200,000 asylum seekers came to Sweden this

year, according to Radio Sweden.


Wealthy
countries
across
northern Europe, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Britain, are increasingly pushing back
against calls to accept more
refugees amid fears that it could
undermine stretched welfare systems, national integration and
quality of life.
The issue has become particularly acute ahead of Britains vote
this week on whether to leave the
European Union, with those in favor of an exit from the bloc argu-

ing that membership has left the


country unable to control its borders and defend itself against an
immigrant influx.
The proposed legislation in
Sweden quickly came under criticism from human rights groups,
which accused the country of
passing rules harmful to children
as a way to deter refugees.
Long a leader in promoting the
rights of asylum seekers and
refugees, Sweden is now joining
the race to the bottom, said Rebecca Riddell, Europe and Central

Asia fellow at Human Rights


Watch. Sweden should not sacrifice the well-being of vulnerable
children in an effort to make the
country less attractive for asylum
seekers.
The United Nations said on
Monday that more people are on
the run than ever before in recorded history, buffeted by war
and conflict from Africa to the
Middle East, with an unprecedented number seeking political
asylum in the worlds rich countries. The total number of people
displaced by conflict is estimated
to be more than 65 million, the
United Nations said.
Sweden introduced new identity checks for travelers arriving
from Denmark, prompting the
Danes, who were concerned about
the potential for a bottleneck of
migrants seeking to travel
through their country, to impose
new controls on migrants
traveling via its border with Germany.
Denmark also passed a law requiring newly arrived asylum
seekers to hand over valuables,
including jewelry and gold, to help
pay for their stay in the country.
The United Nations refugee
agency has warned that restrictions on residency permits in Sweden could undermine unaccompanied migrant children in the country and that separating families
for extended periods could also
have a detrimental effect.
Resentment toward migrants in
Sweden was heightened last summer when a woman and her son
were stabbed to death at an Ikea
in Vasteras. An Eritrean who had
been denied asylum was charged
with the crime.

CAIRO An Egyptian court on


Tuesday nullified a government
decision to transfer sovereignty of
two strategic Red Sea islands to
Saudi Arabia, in a surprising setback for President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi.
The ruling surprised even some
of Mr. Sisis critics, who did not expect the judiciary to go against the
government.
In April, Mr. Sisi transferred
Tiran and Sanafir arid and uninhabited islands at the mouth of
the Gulf of Aqaba to Saudi Arabia during a visit by the Saudi
monarch, King Salman.
Saudi Arabia had placed the islands under Egyptian control in
1950, amid fears that Israel might
seize them, and Mr. Sisi portrayed
their return as a correction of a
historical quirk rather than as a
sale. Saudi Arabia has been a major financial supporter of Mr. Sisis
since, as military chief, he led the
ouster of his Islamist predecessor,
Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.
The islands are of strategic value because they lie at the mouth of
the Gulf of Aqaba, the only sea
route to the Jordanian port of
Aqaba and the port city of Eilat, in
Israel.
Egyptian and Saudi officials
signed at least 15 agreements during the kings visit, including a Sinai development package and an
oil deal worth $22 billion to Egypt
over five years, the state news media reported. But the announcement set off unexpected protests
from Egyptians who for decades
had considered the islands Egyptian territory, and some critics
said that Mr. Sisi had made a humiliating concession to a wealthy
ally.
The ruling on Tuesday was
largely unexpected, because the
Egyptian judiciary has long been
considered to be deferential to
and, critics would say, complicit
with the countrys leadership.
In recent years, Egyptian judges
have sentenced hundreds of government critics to lengthy prison
sentences or even death.
If upheld, the verdict will not
only leave Mr. Sisi in awkward position with an important ally, but it
could also pave the way for the
prosecution of senior government
officials, legal experts warned.
Under Egyptian law, officials who
negotiate with foreign governments deals that harm national interests can be sentenced to life in
prison. Some legal experts suggested that this possibility, despite being politically slim, was
why the agreement was signed by
the prime minister rather than by
the president, who traditionally
seals such deals.
If tried as individuals who compromised Egyptian territory, officials could face the death penalty.
On the other hand, if the agreement is upheld, it will be sent to
Parliament, where many expect it
to be approved quickly given the
wide support for Mr. Sisi there.
Mr. Sisis government had presented the transfer of the islands
as part of an economic deal that
would help stimulate Egypts
economy, but critics took to the
streets in protests that led to the
arrests of nearly 1,300 people, human rights defenders say.
By Tuesday evening, the Egyptian government announced that
it had filed an appeal. Officials in
Riyadh, the Saudi capital, did not
comment immediately.
In response to the wave of criticism, Mr. Sisi had urged Egyptians to stop discussing the deal,
saying it was signed in secret to
avoid attention in the news media.
Please, I dont want anyone to
talk about this anymore, he said
in a speech in April.
Critics had taken to referring to
Mr. Sisi as Awaad, a character in
an old Egyptian song who sold his
land an act traditionally considered shameful.
Essam el-Eslamboly, one of the
Egyptian lawyers who filed the
case challenging the transfer of
the islands, called the ruling a
victory for the judiciary, because
it demonstrated that the courts
are fair and only care about the
interests of the country.
During testimony before the
court, Mr. Eslamboly said, the
governments lawyers declined to
furnish documents to make their
case, arguing instead that the
transfer was a sovereign decision that was made at the discretion of the cabinet, and one that
the administrative court had no
right to question.
The silence revealed the weakness of their position, he said.
Legal experts, both for and
against the deal, have described
the crux of the official argument in
court as hard to prove, at best.
There is no legal text that defines what constitutes a sovereign decision, said Mohamed
Hamed el-Gamal, the former chief
of the Council of State, the judicial
body that issued Tuesdays verdict. It is really up to the judges
here, he said, adding that there
was no legal text immunizing such
decisions. That idea is based on
judicial norms; normally such decisions are respected, he said.
But such decisions are not
usually challenged either.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Assault Rifles and Handguns at Center of a Changing Industry


By BARRY MEIER
and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

At one time, military-style assault rifles like the ones used at a nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., and in other mass shootings represented a relatively small segment of sales for gun manufacturers.
But in recent decades, such guns serve
as one of the two financial pillars of the
firearms industry, along with smaller
handguns that are designed to be concealed, which have been the biggest

driver of sales.
Together, the popularity of the assault
rifles and small handguns highlight how
the industry has changed in recent
decades, as people have increasingly
turned to guns for self-defense and less
for hunting.
The younger generations have fewer
hunters, said Thomas W. Smith, the director of the General Social Survey, an
annual survey conducted by researchers
at the University of Chicago. Hunting is
a traditional activity, and one that is de-

clining in popularity.
Gun makers do not break out weapon
sales other than in broad categories in
which firearms like traditional hunting
rifles are lumped in with assault rifles.
When contacted, Smith & Wesson would
not provide additional information, while
Sturm Ruger did not respond to messages seeking comment. And an industry trade group, the National Shooting
Sports Foundation, did not respond to
emails or phone calls.
Nonetheless,
manufacturers,
in

presentations to analysts and investors,


have acknowledged the central role that
assault rifles and concealed handguns
play in their financial health. They also
often point out that sales frequently rise
after mass shootings like the attacks
over the last year in Paris, San
Bernardino, Calif., and Orlando.
This spike in demand was strongly
correlated to the tragic, terrorist events
in Paris and San Bernardino, Michael O.
Fifer, the chief executive of Sturm Ruger,
a major firearms maker, wrote in a letter

to investors in May. Demand for


firearms for self-defense and concealed
carry increased dramatically.
The popularity of handguns and assault weapons, experts say, reflects a
fundamental shift over recent decades in
who in America is buying guns and their
reason for doing so.
Although about 50 percent of homes in
the United States reported owning a firearm in the 1970s, that number by 2014 had
Continued on Page A13

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

It Will Take Much to Stay Ahead of Zika in U.S.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sketching out
what it expects states and cities to need if a local case should arise.
By SABRINA TAVERNISE

Daniel Markowski, a bug scientist in a cowboy hat, has a phone that will not stop ringing.
Now that summer has arrived, and with it the
mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus, the
services of the Arkansas-based mosquito
control contractor he works for, Vector Disease Control International, are in great demand.
Its workers, the special forces of mosquito
control, wield sprayers loaded with pesticide,
mostly on behalf of local governments.
Ive had people from literally all over the
country calling, he said. What should we
do?
The federal government is trying to provide some answers. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention last week released a

58-page blueprint for what to do if a homegrown case of Zika surfaces.


The mosquito that carries the virus, the Aedes aegypti, is found mostly in the South and
Southwest, and the C.D.C. says it is focusing
much of its mosquito control effort on six
states at one county most at risk: California,
Texas, Florida, Hawaii, Arizona and Louisiana, and Los Angeles County. As far as anyone knows, the mosquito in this country has
neither picked Zika up nor started to spread
it. But that could happen anytime, experts
warn, especially now that hundreds of Americans have been infected with the virus while
abroad. (The virus can also be sexually transmitted; the C.D.C. is planning for that, too.)
Zika infection can cause debilitating birth
Continued on Page A14

Daniel Markowski, top, is working on a contract from


the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to
control mosquitoes in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Above,
mosquito larvae found in a house garden in St. Croix.

What Hastert Will Encounter


When He Becomes a Prisoner
By MONICA DAVEY

CHICAGO When J. Dennis Hastert,


a former House speaker, reports this
week to a federal prison in Minnesota, he
will receive a copy of the institutions
rules and regulations, an inmate identification card and a strict weekday schedule that includes periodic inmate counts,
pill lines and 7:30 a.m. room inspections.
Mr. Hastert, convicted of breaking financial rules in payoffs aimed at covering up sexual abuse, has been ordered to
appear by Wednesday afternoon at the
Federal Medical Center in Rochester,
Minn., to begin serving his 15-month sentence. He will be known as Prisoner No.
47991-424.
His lawyers had argued that Mr. Hastert, who is 74 and has had a stroke, a
blood stream infection and a spinal infection over the past year, should have received probation. But the Rochester center about 260 miles from Mr. Hasterts
home in Plano, Ill. is equipped to deal

with medical problems, according to an


admission and orientation handbook for
the prison.
Mr. Hastert was sentenced in April
during an intense hearing in a federal
courtroom, where he publicly admitted
for the first time to abusing high school
wrestlers that he coached decades ago,
and where he was confronted by one of
his former wrestlers and sternly rebuked by the judge overseeing the case.
Mr. Hastert, who coached wrestling
from 1965 to 1981, was not charged with
sexual abuse, and statutes of limitation
on possible charges from those years had
run out. Instead, Mr. Hastert was
charged with violating a banking regulation in an effort to pay $3.5 million to one
victim, identified as Individual A a
scheme that, once it was uncovered, led
to other stories of abuse from at least
four such young men.
The nations longest-serving Republican speaker, Mr. Hastert joins a long list
of Chicago-area politicians to face prison

J. Dennis Hastert left the Chicago


courthouse where he was sentenced
to a 15-month prison term in April.
He will report on Wednesday to a
federal institution in Minnesota.

CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS

time, including Governors Rod R. Blagojevich and George Ryan and former
Representatives Dan Rostenkowski, Jesse L. Jackson Jr. and Mel Reynolds. By
one count, the area has had at least 1,642

public corruption convictions since 1976.


Mr. Hasterts lawyer, Thomas C.
Green, declined an interview request. It
is uncertain how or precisely when Mr.
Hastert will arrive at the prison, which

includes 11 buildings on a 64-acre complex and houses 687 male inmates of all
security levels. Mr. Hastert has stayed
largely out of public view since his sentencing, when he appeared in a wheelchair amid a crush of news media. He is
required to arrive by 2 p.m. Wednesday.
By policy, the Bureau of Prisons will
not address the circumstances of an individual like Mr. Hastert, who is not in custody. But according to a handbook for inmates, he will be issued standard clothing, laundry bags and bed linens. He can
purchase items like toothpaste, reading
glasses and candy from a commissary.
The facility includes dormitory-style
housing as well as individual cells.
Once he is released from prison, Mr.
Hastert also faces two years of supervised release, which will bar him from
communicating with the former wrestling team members in the case and from
possessing a firearm. He will be required
to participate in a treatment program for
sex offenders.

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

A11

A Muslim Community in Virginia Is Feeling the Heat of Extremists Sins


Some City Residents
Oppose New Mosque
By KATIE SHEPHERD

FREDERICKSBURG, Va.
Women in head scarves slid off
their shoes, stacked them in neat
rows next to the mosques entrance and squeezed together
shoulder to shoulder in the small
prayer space to listen to the
imams sermon.
It was a Friday Prayer like any
other at the Islamic Center of
Fredericksburg until the warning
came from the imam. Less than a
week after the Orlando, Fla.,
nightclub massacre by an American-born Muslim, and after Donald J. Trumps renewed call to bar
Muslims from entering the United
States, Imam Hilal Shah told his
congregation to stay vigilant for
violence against their families and
community.
Were fearful of a backlash,
Imam Shah called out through the
speakers as he mentioned other
attacks by Muslim extremists in
Paris and in San Bernardino, Calif.
Anytime an event takes place
such as what happened in France,
such as what happened in San
Bernardino, such as in Orlando,
we as a Muslim community feel
scared.
The Islamic Center is no stranger to backlash. Home to one of the
many growing American Muslim
communities in Northern Virginia, the center has expanded beyond the capacity of its small
building on Harrison Road. The
center decided last year to move
to a larger mosque, but three days
after the Paris attacks in November, a group of Fredericksburg
residents protested the construction plans at a public hearing.
The center has plenty of company. In nearby Culpeper County,
the board of supervisors voted
against a sewage permit application from a Muslim congregation
to build a mosque on land that cannot support a traditional drain
field, saying the application violated the countys regulations.
The rejection was only the second
of its kind in 20 years; the construction of a new mosque is
stalled until the permit issue has
been resolved.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHET STRANGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Members joined Imam Hilal Shah on Friday during the afternoon prayer at the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
The mosque has 1,200 congregants, who take off their shoes to
enter, but not enough space for all of them to pray together.

For the Fredericksburg Islamic


Center, the opposition is particularly painful because the mosque
has been holding prayers and
community events in the city for
three decades. Many of the
mosques members are American

citizens who own local businesses.


They say that until now, they have
worked and lived side by side with
their neighbors without problems.
That was the shocking thing,
said Samer Shalaby, the chairman
of the mosques board of directors.

People dont realize that they


have a mosque right next door.
He said the group gathered for
prayer once a week and hosts
community events inside the
prayer center occasionally, but
otherwise, the mosque sits empty
most of the time. We go to pray
and go home, he said.
When Mr. Shalaby presented
the centers plans to build a larger
center at a public hearing three
days after the Paris attacks, the
protests surprised him. One man
at the hearing, who can be seen in
a video of the meeting, interrupted his presentation, saying
Nobody wants your evil cult
here. Although some residents in
the crowd shook their heads and

told the man to leave, others


clapped and cheered.
The opposition grew so heated
that a sheriffs deputy ended the
meeting early and sent everyone
home to cool off. After the San
Bernardino shooting in December, the mosque canceled a second
public hearing for fear that the
same protesters would show up.
The Fredericksburg Muslim
community first organized in 1986,
when only a handful of families
were members of the congregation. The group built their current
prayer center on a quiet stretch
across the street from a Goodwill
and a Walgreens in 2000 to accommodate a modest number of worshipers. Now, around 300 people

squeeze into the small mosque for


afternoon prayers at 1 p.m. on Fridays, followed by 300 more people
for a second service at 2 p.m.
In the back of the mosque last
Friday, as the women bowed forward to touch their heads to the
floor, there was only about one
foot of open space in front of the
first row and even less room behind the last. Large celebrations
like Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that
marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, are almost
impossible to host in the mosque.
Ideally, Mr. Shalaby said, the
mosque would be able to hold Friday prayers and celebrations
where all 1,200 congregants could
gather to share a meal and pray
together.
Since November, the Fredericksburg Islamic Center has
hosted a handful of interfaith
potlucks and events to introduce
residents and other local congregations to the mosque. Along with
church
members
and
the
mosques neighbors, a handful of
protesters carrying Confederate
flags and signs with anti-Islam
statements also showed up for
these events. But over all, Mr. Shalaby said that in his opinion, the
events had helped build a bridge
between the mosque members
and other residents of Fredericksburg.
Letting people in the mosque
opens it up, Mr. Shalaby said. It
shows its not suspicious.
Still, Imam Shah cautioned his
congregation on Friday to be alert
for protesters and those who wish
Muslims harm. All of us have to
be the soldiers of Islam, meaning
we have to live Islam the way it is
supposed to be, he told the congregation.
He encouraged people to talk to
their neighbors and answer questions about the mosque, but carefully. Imam Shah advised his congregation to avoid arguments and
keep a watchful eye for those who
might want to cause trouble for
the mosque.
But he ended his sermon with
the hope that Muslims would be
more accepted with time.
It used to be the Jews when
they came into this country, then it
was Catholics, then it was Mormons, Imam Shah said. Now it is
Muslims.

House Republicans Unveil Long-Awaited Replacement for a Repealed Health Law


By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON After six


years of vague talk about a conservative alternative to the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans on Tuesday finally laid out
the replacement for a repealed
health law a package of proposals that they said would slow the
growth of health spending and relax federal rules for health insurance.
Opponents began the repeal
and replace mantra almost as
soon as the Affordable Care Act
was signed in 2010, and while they
have voted dozens of times to repeal the health law, the replacement has been elusive.
In finally presenting one,
Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and his Republican team did
not provide a cost estimate or legislative language. But they did issue a 20,000-word plan that provides the most extensive description of their health care alternative to date.
Many of the ideas for health
savings accounts, high-risk
pools and sales of insurance
across state lines are familiar.
Democrats in and out of Congress
have for weeks been rehearsing
their lines of attack.
Others are sure to be contentious. House Republicans
would gradually increase the eligibility age for Medicare, which is
now 65. Starting in 2020, the Medicare age would rise along with the
eligibility age for full Social Security benefits, eventually reaching
67.
Following Mr. Ryans budget
plans of recent years, the health
proposal would transform Medicare into a fully competitive market-based model known as premium support. The traditional
fee-for-service Medicare program

would compete directly with private plans offered by companies


like UnitedHealth, Aetna and Humana.
In their blueprint, to be formally
unveiled on Wednesday, House
Republicans say they would eliminate the requirement that most
Americans carry health insurance. They would offer a flat tax
credit to each person or family in
the individual insurance market,
regardless of income or the premium for a particular insurance
policy.
House Republicans also said
they would roll back the Affordable Care Acts expansion of Medicaid and give each state a fixed
amount of money for each beneficiary or a lump sum of federal
money for all of a states Medicaid
program.
In addition, House Republicans
would allow states to establish
work requirements for able-bodied adults on Medicaid, requirements that the Obama administration has refused to permit. Under the House Republican plan,
states could also charge reasonable enforceable premiums or offer a limited benefit package and
use waiting lists and enrollment
caps for certain groups of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Using these options and others
proposed by House Republicans,
states could profoundly reshape
the Medicaid program, which provides health insurance to more
than 70 million people at a federal
cost of more than $350 billion a
year.
Reforming Medicaids financing with a per-capita allotment
certainly will reduce federal
spending, but just as importantly
will give states more control over
the program and more incentives
to manage care and costs, the
blueprint says.

The health care package is one


of a half-dozen planks in the platform that Mr. Ryan describes as a
better way. It is more substantive
than anything offered to date by
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive
Republican presidential nominee,
and provides a possible framework for Republican action in 2017.
Democrats say the package
would reverse progress made in
reducing the number of uninsured.
One of the most important provisions of the 2010 health care law
stipulates that insurers cannot
deny coverage or charge high premiums because of a persons medical condition or history. The
House Republican blueprint
would replace this guarantee with
more complicated, less stringent
standards.
No American could be denied
coverage because of a pre-exist-

ing condition, the House Republican plan says. But the protection
against higher premiums would
apply only to people who maintain
continuous coverage. If a consumer allows a significant break
in coverage, insurers could charge
more than standard rates and
take a persons health status into
account in setting premiums.
The House Republican plan
would also change the tax treatment of some employer-provided
health insurance, in a way that
some employers are finding objectionable.
Under current law, employees
do not have to pay federal income
tax
on
contributions
that
employers make to their health insurance. House Republicans said
this open-ended subsidy had encouraged people to select more
expensive coverage, driving up
premiums.

To help lower the cost of coverage, House Republicans said,


they would cap the value of taxfree benefits, but the cap would be
so high that it would affect only

Ryan says his way


would slow spending
and ease regulations.
the most generous plans.
The Affordable Care Act tries to
discourage inefficient insurance
plans as well, through a Cadillac
tax on high-cost employer-sponsored coverage, a tax that was recently delayed until 2020.
Republicans say their approach
is better, but employers were
quick to denounce the proposal.

This would be a new tax on


benefits, on working families, and
could eventually threaten the employer-sponsored health insurance that so many Americans enjoy, said James P. Gelfand, senior
vice president of the Erisa Industry Committee, a trade association for large employers.
House Republicans would relax
age-rating restrictions in the Affordable Care Act. Under the law,
insurers generally cannot charge
older Americans more than three
times what they charge younger
people, other factors being equal.
Republicans said this was an unrealistic regulation that led to
higher premiums for millions of
Americans, especially younger
and healthier patients.
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No Room for Compromise and, Again, No Room for Action


WASHINGTON This weeks
failed gun control votes in the
Senate encapsulate much of
what is wrong with and most
frustrating about
Congress.
Not one senator in either party
believes that
ON
someone who
WASHINGTON
presents a serious terrorism risk should be able
to waltz into a gun shop and
legally buy powerful firearms.
Yet partisanship, a reluctance to
compromise and the influence of
powerful special interests again
prevented lawmakers from
achieving a consensus, as four
plans went down on Monday to
entirely predictable defeats.
It was just the latest instance
in which lawmakers agreed that
something needed to be done on
an issue of national importance,
but were unable to find a way to
do it in Washingtons hyperpolitical atmosphere.
The embarrassing result gave
added momentum to bipartisan
talks that produced on Tuesday
an alternative expected to come
to a vote as early as this week,
providing lawmakers with another opportunity to act. But
prospects for that plan, negotiated by Senator Susan Collins,
Republican of Maine, and a handful of Democrats, were uncertain.
The legislative maneuvering in
the aftermath of the Orlando
terror attack has followed a
familiar pattern. Democrats,
holding new political leverage
after the horrific killings of 49
people by a gunman in Orlando,
Fla., were eager to press their
advantage and were not about to
make it easy for Republicans,
pushing broader legislation on
background checks, along with
the central proposal that would
have made it tougher for terrorism suspects to buy guns.
We are not going to be a
cheap date on this one, Senator
Harry Reid of Nevada, the
Democratic leader, said in an
interview last week.
Most Republicans, with much

CARL
HULSE

GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, center, with fellow Democratic senators on Monday after four gun votes failed.
on the line in this election year,
were not willing to cross the
National Rifle Association, which
endorsed a Republican alternative that Democrats branded
unworkable and a sham.
Democrats say they cannot see
themselves voting for any proposal blessed by the gun lobby.
Republicans, as the majority
party in the Senate, were not
about to cede too much authority
to Democrats and allow them to
set the legislative agenda. Republicans were not amused by a
15-hour Democratic filibuster last
week, a maneuver that essentially let the minority party take

over the floor for the day.


To top it all off, the two parties
agreed to a filibuster-proof, 60vote threshold on the gun control
proposals, one that Democrats
themselves could not meet when
they controlled the Senate during
the failure of a round of gun
votes after the shooting in December 2012 in Newtown, Conn.
It was a recipe for failure,
leaving a sense of disappointment and anger among lawmakers and survivors of those lost in
an epidemic of mass killings
another instance of dashed hopes
that the latest unimaginable
slaughter would be the one to

finally provoke a compromise.


What am I going to tell 49
grieving families? an emotional
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of
Florida, asked after the votes. I
am going to tell them the N.R.A.
won again.
The impasse has gotten to the
point where it was seen as something of a victory one that took
concerted efforts by Democrats
in last weeks filibuster to
merely force votes on what most
agreed would have been a
mainly symbolic step toward
tighter gun laws.
We are at least going to get to
see where people stand on some

pretty simple concepts, said


Senator Christopher S. Murphy,
Democrat of Connecticut, who
led the filibuster and has been a
determined advocate of new gun
laws since the school shooting in
Newtown.
To Republicans, a central
reason for the Democratic push
was to gain campaign fodder
against vulnerable Republicans,
and to shift attention away from
Democratic policy on fighting
terrorism. Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and
the majority leader, accused
Democrats of jumping on the
Orlando tragedy as an opportu-

Bipartisan Senate Group


Suggests Gun Compromise
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

WASHINGTON Signaling a
possible breakthrough in the long
stalemate in Congress over tightening the nations gun laws, a bipartisan group of senators called
on Tuesday for banning gun sales
to terrorism suspects on the governments no-fly list.
The proposed measure, while
modest, puts new muscle and momentum behind what would be
one of the few restrictions placed
on gun ownership in the past 20
years.
The push for the compromise
bill, led by Senator Susan Collins,
Republican of Maine, and Senator
Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat of
North Dakota, came a day after
the Senate refused to advance any
of four measures intended to
make it harder for suspected terrorists to buy guns.
Ms. Collins and the lawmakers
who joined her, including Senator
Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia,
who is frequently mentioned as a
potential running mate for Hillary
Clinton, voiced deepening exasperation over the failure of Congress to take any action to prevent
shootings like the massacre this
month in Orlando, Fla.
Surely the terrorist attacks in
San Bernardino and Orlando that
took so many lives are a call for
compromise, a plea for bipartisan
action, Ms. Collins said at a news
conference. Essentially, we be-

lieve if you are too dangerous to


fly on an airplane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun, she added.
The Collins proposal is tailored
narrowly to prohibit gun sales to
suspected terrorists who appear
on the governments no-fly list
or its selectee list, which requires more rigorous security
checks before a person is allowed
to board an airplane.
Those lists, containing a total of
about 109,000 people, of whom just
2,700 are American citizens, are
far smaller than the federal terrorist screening database, which
includes about one million names
and was the focus of a proposal
sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California,
one of the four measures defeated
on Monday.
Ms. Collinss measure would
bar gun sales to anyone on the two
lists, but would allow for an appeal
by any citizen or green card holder blocked from making a purchase and it would award lawyers
fees if the appeal is successful.
The bill would also require notification of federal and local law enforcement agencies if anyone who
had been on the lists in the previous five years seeks to buy a
weapon a provision intended to
address the situation in Orlando,
in which the gunman, Omar Mateen, had been on placed such lists
but removed before he bought his
weapons.
In addition, the bill would give

nity to push a partisan agenda or


craft the next 30-second campaign ad.
The politics were palpable.
Democrats believe that the gun
issue could be employed effectively against Republican candidates in swing states like New
Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania that will decide control of the
Senate in November. Minutes
before the votes, the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee
issued a news release attacking
Republican arguments against
the legislation. Minutes after it
failed, the organization issued
statements harshly criticizing
the votes of Republican
contenders in Ohio and New
Hampshire.
Senator Kelly Ayotte of New
Hampshire, one of the embattled
Republicans, voted for both
Democratic and Republican
plans on terrorist screening,
trying to avoid serious political
trouble on the issue. Mr. Reid
compared her position to doing
yoga on the Senate floor.
On Tuesday, Ms. Ayotte lent
her support to the bipartisan
compromise that would prevent
those on the federal no-fly list,
and on a second list for added
airport screening, from buying
guns, but would allow for an
appeal. The federal government
would be accountable for court
costs for people who successfully
contest the federal action.
Both parties were weighing
the legislation. To be successful,
Ms. Collins and her allies will
have to win the backing of
Democrats and secure support
from at least 14 and possibly
more Republicans a very tall
order. Democrats noted that Ms.
Collins herself often clashes with
her party on gun control.
It doesnt have to be this
way, Senator Patrick J. Toomey,
Republican of Pennsylvania, said
about the legislative futility
showcased in Mondays tableaus.
That is what is so maddening
about this.
It doesnt have to be that way.
But it always seems to be.

A breakthrough could
come with a no-fly,
no-buy proposal.

STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Republican and Democratic Senate supporters of a new gun bill, from left, Lindsey Graham, Bill
Nelson, Susan Collins and Kelly Ayotte. The measure would ban sales to terrorism suspects.
the federal authorities the flexibility to allow a gun purchase by
someone on one of the lists if
needed to safeguard a continuing
investigation.
While leaders in each party expressed pointed misgivings about
the proposal, the Senate majority
leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, indicated that it
would be likely to get a vote as an
amendment to the Commerce,
Justice, Science appropriations
bill that is being debated on the
Senate floor.

Im going to be working to
make sure she gets a vote on that
proposal, Mr. McConnell said.
To overcome procedural hurdles and win approval, the measure would need the support of 60
senators, and it was not immediately clear that enough Republicans would back it.
Just three of the 54 Senate Republicans Kelly Ayotte of New
Hampshire, Jeff Flake of Arizona,
and Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina attended the news
conference with Ms. Collins, well

short of the 16 votes needed even if


the entire Democratic conference
voted in favor, which was also not
assured.
Senator John Cornyn of Texas,
the No. 2 Republican and author of
another of the proposals that was
voted down on Monday afternoon,
said he was apprehensive about
the provision in the Collins proposal because it permitted an appeal only after a gun sale is prohibited.
Mr. Cornyn said: I think its a
slippery slope when an American

citizen is denied a constitutional


right without forcing the government to come forward with some
evidence on the front end, as opposed to leaving that on the back
end. But well see how the vote
comes out.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New
York said that there were numerous flaws in the Collins proposal,
but Democrats ultimately were
willing to consider the measure,
noting that it would represent a
breakthrough if adopted, given
the near-certain opposition of the
National Rifle Association.
Itll be the first time that in a
bipartisan way, with significant
Republican support, the N.R.A. is
told, Youre way off-base, Mr.
Schumer said.
Supporters of the Collins measure said they believed it was written strategically to avoid becoming ensnared in that old tug of war,
by focusing on a simple goal: no
fly, no buy.
Mr. Kaine, at one point pounding the wooden lectern in front of
him, said: I am sick of the shootings. I am sick of the vigils. I am
sick of the homicide victims support groups. I am sick of the
claims that well do something
about it. I am sick of the partisan
rhetoric and I am really sick of
getting to the end of all of it and
not doing something about it, and
seeing that happen again and
again and again and again.

Private Watchdog of For-Profit Colleges Is Tested by Its Federal Watchdog


By KEVIN CAREY

Last year, the for-profit


Corinthian Colleges chain collapsed under the weight of government investigations and
allegations of fraud. Its demise
left tens of thousands of
Corinthian students with loans
that will ultimately cost
taxpayers hundreds of millions
of dollars to forgive.
This week, the private accrediting group that allowed
Corinthian to stay open for business will face its own existential
threat, when federal regulators
decide whether to shut it down.
That decision will go a long way
toward determining whether
education companies will continue to have free rein to profit
from government financial aid
programs.
Corinthians accreditor, the
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools
(ACICS), has a lot to worry
about. A recent Center for American Progress report on the
accrediting group scrolls out a
long list of incompetence and
wrongdoing.
Kevin Carey directs the education
policy program at New America.

Seventeen different colleges


and corporate entities approved
by the accrediting group to
receive federal financial aid have
been under government investigation over the last five years.
Since 2013, those schools have
received $5.7 billion in federal
grants and student loans. The
group is the accreditor for the
currently collapsing ITT Educational Services and the accreditor for the Brown Mackie
chain of for-profit colleges,
which announced this month
that it would close.
The list includes Miami-based
FastTrain College, which hired
exotic dancers to entice young
male students, until its president
was sentenced to eight years in
prison for illegally enrolling high
school dropouts and using the
profits from their federal student
aid money to buy a private plane
and a 54-foot yacht.
As Buzzfeed recently reported, the nonprofit Northwestern Polytechnic University
in Silicon Valley used its accreditation to essentially sell
student visas to foreign students, guaranteeing them good
grades regardless of their work.
The family running the college
then used college funds to buy

and live in multimillion-dollar


homes. A whistle-blower sent the
ACICS group extensive documentation of the colleges sham
practices. The group responded
with a perfunctory request for
additional documentation, then
left Northwestern Polytechnic
alone.
The rest of the Center for
American Progress report is a
long list of attorney general
investigations, F.B.I. raids, illegal
recruiting practices, deceptive
marketing schemes, multimillion-dollar legal settlements,
falsified job placement statistics
and student suffering. The one
thing the various colleges had in
common, other than enthusiasm
for enrolling low-income student
bearing hefty student loans, was
that each was accredited in good
standing by the ACICS group.
Indeed, many were on its honor
roll.
That could change starting
Thursday, when a little-known
regulatory body in the Department of Education called the
National Advisory Committee
for Institutional Quality and
Integrity meets to decide
whether the accrediting group
should be allowed to continue
operations. Twelve state attor-

neys general have called for the


committee to shut it down. A
staff report from the Department of Education has officially
recommended terminating the
group.
Despite receiving more than
$150 billion in federal grant and

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student loan money every year,


higher education is largely a
self-regulated industry. Instead
of directly determining whether
colleges are good enough for
federal funding, the government
outsources that decision to private accreditors, which are
governed and financed by colleges themselves. Accreditors
set and enforce their own
standards. For-profit colleges
that operate nationwide can
shop around to find the accreditor with the easiest terms.
The national advisory committees job is to accredit accreditors. It decides which ac-

crediting organizations can, in


turn, make colleges eligible to
grant visas and receive federal
aid. Over the years, the committee has been loath to kick anyone out, relying instead on a
system of stern warnings and
requests for additional paperwork when things go wrong. In
this way, it has mirrored the
philosophy of accreditors themselves, which rarely find that
one of their dues-paying members should be banned from the
club.
And it was clubby. A ProPublica investigation last year found
that at least two-thirds of the
accrediting groups commissioners worked as executives at
for-profit colleges.
No accreditor has ever come
before the committee with as
many problems as the ACICS
group. If the group is allowed to
continue operating, its hard to
imagine what would be bad
enough to prompt loss of federal
recognition.
Currently, higher education
consumer protection relies on a
combination of state regulation,
accreditation and market forces
to ensure quality. The failures of
ACICS-accredited colleges, along
with many other for-profit and

nonprofit colleges with low graduation and student loan repayment rates, suggest that the
system often doesnt work.
Thats because higher education is a complicated market. Its
easy to spend $3 on a cup of
coffee that suits your tastes. Its
a lot harder to make smart
choices when you cant experience the college youve chosen
until after youve taken out
expensive, nonrefundable loans.
Even if youre not enticed by
exotic dancers. In a highereducation market that worked
better, FastTrain and Corinthian
wouldnt have existed. Yet they
did.
Given the scale of what went
wrong for many students enrolled in ACICS-accredited colleges, its hard to see how to fix
things without government
action. If the governments committee does intervene, it will
need to establish standards for
what constitutes bad enough
in college accreditation and,
thus, in colleges themselves.
Many accreditors and colleges
would probably prefer this didnt
happen. But given the severity
of the problem, the committee
may have no choice.

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

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TERROR IN ORLANDO

U.S. Offers
Florida Help
With Costs
In Massacre
By FRANCES ROBLES

HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Carvin Casillas, who regularly danced at Pulse, came out to his parents after the shooting in Florida. He was raised in a church that taught gay people went to hell.

For Some, Orlando Killings Fuel New Urgency to Come Out


From Page A1
gay people went to hell.
This is getting to be a bigger
part of me every day that passes
on, he said of his sexuality. I didnt know if I was going to be able
to keep that from my family.
Most of the people packed into
the club in the early morning on
June 12 were too young to remember the early days of the AIDS crisis, when disease and tragedy exposed gay men like never before,
prompting some of them on their
death beds to reveal their sexuality to family and friends. But
some older members of Orlandos
gay community see this postPulse catharsis as an echo of that
time, with a notable exception.
This time around, were so
much further along in our own
self-acceptance, said Tom Dyer,
60, who has been chronicling Central Floridas gay community
since he founded Watermark, a local magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, in
1994. Broader cultural attitudes,
he added, have changed, too.
The father of Mr. Casillas, who
owns an auto mechanic shop,
seemed to accept him the day of
the massacre, Mr. Casillas said,
reaching across the table and

kissing him on the head. O.K.,


Papa, Joe Casillas told his son,
using a term of endearment.
But not all families have easily
embraced their childrens sexuality.
Pedro Julio Serrano, 41, a gay
activist in Puerto Rico, has attended eight funerals for Pulse
victims. At one, the mother of
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez,
who was among the 49 killed, circled the gathering with a rainbow
flag, announcing her pride in her
sons identity.
At two other occasions, though,
he said he could see that some relatives were ashamed: That they
would have preferred to deal with
this privately and that nobody
had to know that their son or
daughter was gay. I can see it and
I can feel it. And I just want to hug
them and hold them and tell them
that there is nothing wrong with
this.
On Tuesday, Attorney General
Loretta E. Lynch visited some of
the people injured in the attack
and the relatives of some who
were slain. She spoke of those
who might choose to hide their
sexuality out of fear of such violence in the future.
Let me say to our L.G.B.T.
friends and family, particularly to
anyone who might view this trag-

edy as an indication that their


identities their essential selves
might somehow be better left
unexpressed or in the shadows:
This Department of Justice and
your country stands with you
in the light, she said.
Cory Richards, 24, spent the
early hours of June 12 dancing under the strobe lights at Pulse with

I dont care what you


are. Youre my son. I
didnt know, but I
accept it.
his boyfriend, Enrique L. Rios Jr.
Neither man had told their parents they were gay. But around 9
a.m., as Mr. Richards emerged
from the carnage, he cried into his
phone to his father.
I cant find my baby, Mr.
Richards recalled saying. I cant
find my baby.
What? his father responded.
Thats my boyfriend, thats not
my friend, Mr. Richards said he
told him of Mr. Rios. Thats my

boyfriend.
I dont care what you are, he
recalled his father saying. Youre
my son. I didnt know, but I accept
it.
Mr. Rios had died. A thousand
miles away, his mother, Ms. Merced, 48, learned of her sons death.
And then received a call from his
boyfriend.
During an interview at her
home in Queens, Ms. Merced said
she had thought her son was
straight. She raised him Baptist,
she said, and the two were close.
This is a sinful nature, she said
of homosexuality, still wearing
her ruffled church clothes and
high heels after church on Sunday. But I still would have loved
my son.
In Orlando, Leyda and Mane
Hernandez have struggled to
come to terms with her sons identity since he came out about 10
years ago. I grew up in Puerto
Rico, in the city of Ponce, said
Mane Hernandez, 52, making
fun of gay, gay, gay.
Their son, Enakai Hernandez,
is a 27-year-old artist who had
partied at Pulse for years. On the
weekend of the attack, he was
staying at his parents home in a
gated community here, sick in
bed.
When he woke and the depth of

Weapons
Of Assault
Are Driving
Gun Sales

the tragedy revealed itself, his


mother took him in her arms as he
cried.
Sabes que te quiero mucho?
she has told him over and over in
recent days. Que t eres el amor
de mi vida? Her message: that
she loved her son and considered
him the love of her life.
Although I am not proud of
what my son is, because its not
what I wanted for him, I accept it,
she said. I accepted it before, I
still accept it, and now I accept it
even more. Because I know there
are many people that hate. These
are human beings who are equal
to everyone else. They are people,
they have feelings, they have
hearts, they have families.
Orlandos Puerto Rican population has boomed in recent years,
and the citys gay population
once largely white has changed
as a result. The vast majority of
the Pulse victims who died were
Hispanic. And 23 were from
Puerto Rico just like Ms. Merced.
When Mr. Richards, the unknown boyfriend, called her last
week to introduce himself, Ms.
Merced invited him to her sons
funeral. He accepted. I will see
him, she said. Eventually, I may
want to ask him some questions.

Fewer Gun Owners


And Hunters
A decline in gun ownership and
hunters suggests that most
purchases of guns these days are
for self-defense.
60%

50

51%

Household
gun ownership

40

From Page A10


fallen to 31 percent, according to
the General Social Survey.
Significantly for gun makers,
the number of Americans who
identified themselves as hunters
fell sharply during that same period. While some 32 percent of
survey respondents said in the
late 1970s that they or their
spouse hunted, that number had
plummeted to 15.5 percent by
2014.
The number of people who cite
self-protection as the reason for
owning a firearm has grown, said
Mr. Smith, the social surveys director.
There was a significant market
for assault-style rifles before Congress passed legislation in 1994
that sought to ban their sales, said
David Kopel, the research director of the Independence Institute,
a group in Denver that supports
gun owners rights. But because
the law tried to ban guns based on
certain characteristics, firearms
makers simply reconfigured their
weapons so that they did not run
afoul of the law.
Trying to make the guns illegal
may also have stoked consumer
interest in them, Mr. Kopel added.
You tell someone they cant own
something and they are going to
buy it, he said.
In more recent years, sales of
both categories of weapons have

30

32%

Hunters
in household*

31%

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David Barker takes aim with an AR-15 rifle at the Action Target gun shop in Springville, Utah.
benefited
from
legislative
changes. The federal assault rifle
ban expired in 2004, and many
states have passed laws allowing
residents to carry concealed
guns.
Some companies jumped into
the assault rifle business only after the ban expired. Smith & Wesson, for example a company
known for decades for revolvers
started selling the weapons
two years later, in 2006.
Now, Smith & Wesson says it is
a market leader in AR-15-type rifles, offering 44 models. Along
with Sturm Ruger, its principal
competitors include, among others, Remingtons Bushmaster
and Sig Sauer, the manufacturer
of the MCX, the military-style
weapon used in the Orlando

shooting.
Smith & Wesson does not break
down how many AR-type
weapons it sells, said Elizabeth
Sharp, the companys vice president for investor relations. Instead, when it reported results
last Thursday for its most recent
fiscal year ending April 30, it said
only that rifles of all types represented 17.7 percent of its $722.9
million in total sales.
Overall rifle sales, the company
said, represented a 31 percent increase from its previous fiscal
year. In the annual report last
week, Smith & Wesson said the results reflected increased demand for guns since late last
year.
Christopher Krueger, a gun industry analyst at Lake Street

Capital Markets in Minneapolis,


said that an even bigger area of
sales for gun makers like Smith &
Wesson was small, semiautomatic handguns that can be carried
concealed weapons that appeal
to consumers concerned about
self-protection.
Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a group in Washington that
advocates tougher gun control
laws, agreed. Assault weapons
and high-capacity concealed
carry handguns are the bread and
butter of todays gun industry, he
said.
Firearms producers, meanwhile, have tried in recent
decades to widen the appeal of
guns to another group of buyers:
women. The National Shooting

Source: The General Social Survey, a project


of NORC at the University of Chicago
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sports Foundation features a


graphic on its website titled Girl
Power, which says that the number of women who own guns, hunt
and target shoot has increased
significantly in recent years.
But Mr. Smith, the General Social Survey director, said that
while the firearms industry, as far
back as the 1980s, began promoting the idea of increased gun ownership by women, the data gathered by his group have yet to support such claims. Instead, the percentage of American woman who
say they own a gun has remained
relatively stable at about 10 percent.
You see a lot of anecdotes that
more women are buying guns,
Mr. Smith said, but it does not
translate into statistics.

ORLANDO, Fla. After denying the State of Floridas petition


for $5 million in emergency funding to cover costs associated with
the massacre at a popular gay
nightclub, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it
would offer $1 million to help pay
for police overtime.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch
visited Orlando on Tuesday, nine
days after Omar Mateen, who
pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State, opened fire at the Pulse
nightclub. Ms. Lynch met with
some of the wounded and relatives
of the 49 people killed in the attack,
as well as with top law enforcement officials in the region.
Ms. Lynch said the Department
of Justice would make $1 million
available to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement so local
jurisdictions could cover the overtime costs associated with the
killings.
We will move quickly to make
the award as soon as possible, she
said, adding that the administration was also providing counseling
resources for traumatized officers
and medics.
We are also making federal
emergency funds and victim compensation funding available to
cover, for example, family travel
expense, medical, mental health
expenses and other costs related
to this tragedy, she added.
Her announcement came after
Gov. Rick Scott criticized the administration for declining his application for $5 million of Department of Homeland Security emergency funding.
In a letter on Monday, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, W.
Craig Fugate, told the governor
that the request, made the day after the shooting, had been denied
because the appeal did not explain
how the incident was beyond the
capability of the state and local
governments. The request also did
not demonstrate how federal
funds could help protect lives and
property, the letter said.
An emergency declaration is
not appropriate for this incident,
Mr. Fugate wrote in the letter,
which was released by the governors office.
Records show that FEMA has
approved the vast majority of
emergency funding requests
made after hurricanes and other
disasters, but that no state has applied in the wake of a mass shooting.
Mr. Scott called the denial incredibly disappointing and said
the state would appeal.
It is unthinkable that President
Obama does not define this as an
emergency, Mr. Scott, a Republican, said in a statement. We are
committing every state resource
possible to help the victims and
the community heal, and we expect the same from the federal
government.
Sheriff Jerry L. Demings of Orange County said he learned about
the $1 million at the news conference when Ms. Lynch announced
it. His department was still trying
to determine how much had been
spent, he said.
One million dollars? he said.
You know what? Its a start.
Sheriff Demings confirmed that
Mr. Mateen, a 29-year-old security
guard, had visited the nightclub
several hours before the 2 a.m.
shooting spree. He appeared to
have stepped outside for some period of time and returned just before firing on the patrons, he said.
He declined to give any more details. Ms. Lynch also declined to
provide any new information on
the case. She said the agency
would reveal more information
later, including results of firearms
testing to determine whether any
victims had been killed by police
bullets. She also said she would
eventually release the audiotape
of Mr. Mateens 911 call.
The administration was criticized Monday for releasing a partial transcript of just one of his
calls, which deleted references Mr.
Mateen made to the Islamic State
and its leader. A few hours later,
the Department of Justice released a version without the redactions.
Ms. Lynchs visit to Orlando
came as the downtown area surrounding the Pulse nightclub began returning to normalcy.
There is no doubt that this was
a shattering attack, Ms. Lynch
said, adding: But the message of
Orlando goes far beyond one night
of unspeakable terror. The message of Orlando that I have seen
today and what the American
people have seen in the wake of
this horrific assault is a message of determination to remove
hatred and intolerance from our
midst.
Richard Prez-Pea contributed
reporting from New York.

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Clinton Says Trump Would Cause a Recession and Global Panic


By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
and AMY CHOZICK

COLUMBUS, Ohio Hillary


Clinton pounded away on Tuesday
at Donald J. Trumps business
record and economic proposals,
seeking to turn his claims of astounding financial success and
genius against him and predicting
a recession and global panic if he
is elected president.
In a stern but earnest-sounding
45-minute speech at an education
center garage here, Mrs. Clinton
took care to intermingle the policy
proclamations of Mr. Trump and
his professed image as a business
success of the highest order.
Donald Trump has said hes
qualified to be president because
of his business record, Mrs. Clinton said. A few days ago he said
and I quote Im going to do for
the country what I did for my business. So lets take a look.
Though she leveled predictable
blows against various Trumpbranded products, noting that
many items Trump ties, Trump
steaks, Trump furniture were
made outside the United States,
Mrs. Clintons most pointed refrains sought to depict Mr. Trump,
her presumptive Republican opponent, as an enemy to the very
people he had claimed to champion in the primary.
She checked off the stumbles of
his casino business in Atlantic
City; disparaged his companies
bankruptcies (Mr. Trumps many
books about business all seem to
end at Chapter 11, she joked); and
insisted that his one move in
business and politics was to make
over-the-top promises and then
let people down.
Mrs. Clinton invoked her father,
who owned a small drapery business in Chicago, as she described
Mr. Trumps history of failing to
pay painters, waiters, plumbers
and other contractors who had
completed work for him.
My late father was a smallbusinessman, she said. If his
customers had done what Trump
did, my dad would never have
Matt Flegenheimer reported from
Columbus, and Amy Chozick from
New York.

RICHARD PERRY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

In a speech on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, Hillary Clinton sought to turn Donald J. Trumps business record against him.
made it. So I take this personally.
She added, This is not normal
behavior.
The barrage comes at a perilous
moment for Mr. Trump, who fired
his campaign manager on Monday and faces severe disadvantages in fund-raising and on-theground organization. One supporter introducing Mrs. Clinton
said gleefully that the campaign
had more staff members in Ohio
than Mr. Trump had nationwide.
Although polls often show that
voters see Mrs. Clinton as more
qualified than Mr. Trump on foreign policy, her economic views
have not always been an easy sell.
In the Democratic primary race,
she was dogged by criticism of her
support for trade deals struck during the administrations of her husband and President Obama.
Mr. Trump, posting repeatedly

on Twitter to counter Mrs. Clinton,


said he planned to make his own
big speech Wednesday to discuss her failed policies and bad
judgment.
The Trump campaign, which
has seldom engaged in rapid response, also sent a barrage of
news releases to reporters in an
effort to undercut Mrs. Clintons
arguments. Their subjects included Bill Clintons former position on
the board of a for-profit college,
the loss of manufacturing jobs
since 1993 and a slew of negative
headlines about economic indicators under President Obama.
In one Twitter post, Mr. Trump
seemed to embrace a label Mrs.
Clinton had tried to make stick:
that he had referred to himself as
the king of debt.
I am the king of debt, Mr.
Trump wrote on Tuesday. That

has been great for me as a businessman, but is bad for the country. I made a fortune off of debt,
will fix U.S.
Mrs. Clinton had taken Mr.
Trump to task for suggesting that
the United States might default on
its debts under his leadership, arguing that Alexander Hamilton,
the first Treasury secretary,
would be rolling in his grave.
The full faith and credit of the
United States is not something
you just gamble away, she said,
predicting that because the global
economy hangs on every word
our president says, even raising
the possibility of a default would
cause a global panic.
At one point, she ridiculed Mr.
Trumps suggestion that he could
sell off Americas assets if necessary.
Even if we sold all our aircraft

carriers and the Statue of Liberty,


even if we let some billionaire turn
Yosemite into a private country
club, she said, we still wouldnt
even get close.
Mrs. Clinton attacked Mr.
Trump on several other issues, including immigration and pay
equality for women. She also
ridiculed Mr. Trump for saying
that climate change was a hoax
invented by the Chinese, noting
that it was a lot easier to say a
problem doesnt exist than it is to
actually try to solve it.
The speech on Tuesday was the
centerpiece of a coordinated attack on Mr. Trumps fiscal sense.
On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Clintons team released a video, Bad
Businessman, featuring clips of
figures including Mitt Romney
and Senators Marco Rubio and
Elizabeth Warren insulting as-

National
Briefing

It Will Take a Lot to Stay


Ahead of Zika in the U.S.
From Page A10
defects, including a condition
called microcephaly that results
in babies with abnormally small
heads. And while scientists do not
expect the epidemic to take off in
the continental United States as it
has in Brazil, officials are warning
that even a small cluster of cases
could have outsize effects if it includes anyone who is pregnant.
Even though the percentages
and the likelihoods are incredibly
low, the outcome is awful, said Dr.
Tim F. Jones, epidemiologist for
the State of Tennessee.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director at the C.D.C.,
said the agencys plan sketches
out what were expecting states
and cities to need.
That turns out to be a lot.
Mosquito control, central to
containing the spread, is spotty at
best, particularly in impoverished
areas with weak tax bases, common in parts of the South. In Tennessee, the overwhelming majority of counties and cities do not
have mosquito control programs.
In North Carolina, only about a
quarter of counties have them.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who
heads the C.D.C., said in an interview that although the disease
was also transmitted sexually,
mosquitoes are how this is
spread, and the agency is putting
significant effort into helping
states control the insects. (Mosquito control is a local responsibility, so the C.D.C. will not do the
fighting directly.)
What would actually happen,
should there be a local case?
The C.D.C. plans to help the local government investigate it and
warn residents. The agency detailed how to define the area of
transmission important for
warning pregnant women what
places to avoid and underscored the urgency of alerting

blood banks. If asked, the agency


will dispatch a team of experts to
help with everything from logistics to lab testing.
This year, many areas did not
even know if they had the mosquito. The C.D.C. updated old
maps, but these were pieced together using references from scientific literature and were not
meant to be a real-time representation of mosquito range.
With that, states went to work.
Mississippi, well within the mosquito zone on the C.D.C. map,
started a statewide study of the
Aedes aegypti population, testing
five areas in every county each
month. The result was a surprise:
No aegypti.
Dr. Thomas E. Dobbs III, Mississippis state epidemiologist,
said in an interview that while
most counties did not have mosquito control programs, the state
had a tiny number of imported
cases three to date, all from
Haiti and considering the fact
that the state is so sparsely populated, the risk of transmission was
relatively low. (The mosquito flies
only about 500 feet in its lifetime,
roughly a city block.)
The C.D.C. plan stated that the
risk of prolonged widespread local transmission is not expected,
based on the history of two similar
viruses. Of 12 homegrown cases of
chikungunya reported in Florida
in 2014, for instance, only two appeared to be linked, it said. The
other virus, dengue fever, has not
spread beyond South Florida and
southernmost Texas in the continental United States. Both are
mosquito-borne diseases.
And even though most people
with Zika have no symptoms, posing the risk of undetected spread,
most experts do not believe there
will be more than a handful of local
cases, mainly because of the conditions of life in the United States
namely, widespread use of airconditioning and window screens,

NORTHWEST

Washington: No Charges
In Immigrants Killing

DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Daniel Markowski searched the surroundings of an abandoned hotel in St. Croix for larvae.
and relatively little crowding.
A study comparing Laredo,
Tex., with its twin just across the
border in Mexico essentially
the same city separated by a river
found the incidence of dengue
fever was eight times higher on
the Mexican side, even though the
mosquitoes that carry it were
more abundant in Texas. Researchers attributed the Texas advantage to air-conditioning, windows that shut and less crowding
within houses.
Everything weve seen from
dengue and chikungunya suggests that it will not be a severe
problem in the continental
United States, Dr. Frieden said.
Our best guess is that well see
a singleton case that we wont be
able to identify the source for, and
possibly some clusters maybe
in
the
Florida
Keys
or
Brownsville in Texas.
Still, he noted that Puerto Rico,
an American territory, was facing
a public health crisis because of
the virus, with potentially dozens
to hundreds of infected infants
with microcephaly.

One of the obstacles for Zika


preparedness is money. Congress
is still arguing over President
Obamas $1.9 billion request,
which was submitted in February.
Dr. Markowski, who spoke by
telephone from St. Croix, where he
was working on a C.D.C. contract
to control mosquitoes in the
United States Virgin Islands, said
his company had submitted contingency plans to about half a dozen states, including Mississippi,
but none have been carried out,
possibly because states are waiting for funding or an outbreak.
Dr. Frieden said longer-term
projects were suffering as well,
such as coming up with better diagnostics, coming up with better
ways of controlling mosquitoes.
He said the funding holdup has
likewise hampered efforts to follow infected pregnant women
through their births for multiple
years.
Despite the gridlock on funding
from Washington, some states,
and even cities, are preparing
their own plans. Tennessee is doing drills, giving staff members in

local health departments surprise


scenarios.
Instead of just letting people
tell us theoretically what they
think theyd do, we make them
prove it, Dr. Jones said.
He said Tennessee that had set
up a Zika response center, but
tight funding has meant that the
state has had to poach workers
from other programs including
H.I.V. and immunizations to
staff it.
People are enthusiastic about
doing it, and its the right thing,
but it means were diverting resources from something else, Dr.
Jones said. Our surge capacity is
not unlimited.
Dr. Markowski said that he was
glad that people were paying attention, but that life should not
grind to a halt.
We shouldnt live our summer
in fear and hide inside, he said.
We should approach it with the
appropriate level of respect that
any mosquito-borne disease deserves. But we should also be going outside and enjoying the
Fourth of July.

Lawmaker Moves to Halt Cash Makeover, Including Tubman $20 Bill


By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN

WASHINGTON Representative Steve King, Republican of


Iowa, moved on Tuesday to block
the
Treasury
Departments
sweeping plan to represent women and civil rights leaders on
American currency, including the
placement of Harriet Tubman on
the $20 bill.
Mr. King filed an amendment to
an annual appropriations bill that
would prevent any money from
being spent to redesign American

currency. It is unclear whether it


will ultimately get a vote when the
full spending bill, which covers financial services and general government appropriations, comes
before the House this week.
The congressmans motivation
for filing the amendment was also
unclear. His office did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Mr. King is known nationally
for his polarizing stance on illegal
immigration. He has introduced

sorted Trump-branded ventures.


What ever happened to Trump
Airlines? Mr. Romney asks in
one excerpt, taken from a speech
he made in March that struck a
similar tone to Mrs. Clintons.
The campaign introduced a
website, Artofthesteal.biz, detailing Mr. Trumps checkered history
in Atlantic City, his fathers role in
bolstering his fortunes and his
constellation of enterprises.
By early evening, Mr. Trumps
team had responded with its own
site, LyingCrookedHillary.com,
which was not immediately functional but would be in coming
days, according to the campaign.
In her next scheduled public appearance, on Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C., Mrs. Clinton is expected to shift to a more positive
message, outlining her vision for
what she has labeled a growth
and fairness economy. Her plans
include increasing the minimum
wage, closing tax loopholes that
encourage companies to move
jobs overseas and expanding
benefits for working families.
Mrs. Clinton has leaned this
week on an analysis for Moodys
Analytics led by Mark Zandi, who
she noted was an economic adviser to John McCains 2008 presidential campaign. The report predicted that Mr. Trumps proposals
on trade, taxation immigration
and spending would produce a
lengthy downturn and significant
job losses, particularly hurting
low- and middle-income workers.
Mrs. Clinton quoted from the report during her speech. But moments before her remarks, Mr.
Trumps
campaign
emailed
reporters, noting Mr. Zandis ties
to Democrats. He has donated to
Mrs. Clintons campaign.
As she wrapped up, Mrs. Clinton reiterated a campaign theme
Stronger Together that has
become more prominent in recent
weeks, and argued that Mr. Trump
believes in the worst of us and
cannot be trusted at the controls.
Mr. Trump still seemed to be
watching.
Hillary defrauded America as
Secy of State, he wrote on Twitter.
She used it as a personal hedge
fund to get herself rich! Corrupt,
dangerous, dishonest.

legislation to revoke birthright


citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. In 2013,
Mr. King drew ire for saying that
such children were likely to be
drug mules with calves the size
of cantaloupes from hauling marijuana.
His brief two-line currency
measure comes two months after
the Treasury Department announced that Tubman, the former
slave and abolitionist, would replace the slaveholding Andrew
Jackson on the $20 bill.

That decision capped months of


intense debate over Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lews original
promise to make a woman the
face of the $10 bill a change that
would have displaced the first
Treasury secretary, Alexander
Hamilton, just as he is having his
own second act as the protagonist
of a Tony Award-winning musical.
The Treasury Departments latest proposal also includes plans to
add other women and civil rights
leaders to the $5 and $10 notes, in-

cluding Eleanor Roosevelt and


the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
It is possible that the congressmans amendment will not even
be added to the spending bill. After a bitter fight last month over a
Democratic amendment on discrimination against gay people effectively derailed an energy and
water spending bill, Republican
leaders changed procedures so
that all proposed amendments
must first be reviewed by the
House Rules Committee.

Federal prosecutors will not file


charges against three police officers in Pasco, Wash., who shot and
killed a mentally ill man last year,
sparking weeks of protests. United
States Attorney Michael Ormsby
said Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence that the officers violated the civil rights of the man,
Antonio Zambrano-Montes, when
they fired 17 bullets at him on Feb.
10, 2015. Mr. Zambrano-Montes, 35,
an orchard worker from Mexico,
was shot as he threw rocks at the
police at a busy downtown intersection. An autopsy showed he had
methamphetamine in his system.
He also had a history of mental illness and previous interactions
with the police. Local prosecutors
had previously cleared the officers,
Adrian Alaniz, Ryan Flanagan, and
Adam Wright. When he then
turned to surrender, they shot him
to death, Mr. Zambrano-Montess
mother, Agapita Montes Rivera, of
Parotita, Mexico, said in the statement. Where is justice for my
son? she said. The parents have
filed a lawsuit in federal court contending the officers used excessive
force. (AP)

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California: Two Convicted


Of Trying to Aid Terror
Two 25-year-old men were convicted Tuesday of trying to become
fighters for the Islamic State. Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad
Badawi, both of Anaheim, Calif.,
schemed last year for Mr. Elhuzayel to fly to the Middle East to fight
for the Islamic State, federal officials said. Mr. Badawi, a college engineering student, also was convicted of aiding and abetting an attempt to provide support for terrorists and financial aid fraud.
Authorities say he used a federal
college grant to support the cause.
Mr. Elhuzayel also was convicted
of 26 counts of bank fraud. Federal
officials said he deposited stolen
checks in his bank accounts and
withdrew money, intending to use
the cash to fight in Syria. The F.B.I.
said the men shared their support
for the Islamic State in conversation and on social media. Their
lawyers say their comments were
offensive but not criminal. Mr.
Badawis lawyer said he never actually intended to fight for the Islamic State but was a lot of talk
and absolutely no action. (AP)

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Money Lagging, Trump Suggests He Will Fund Campaign Himself


From Page A1
campaign offices have withered.
He has not yet put out a single
television ad in the general election. He has about as much money
on hand for his campaign as the
Manhattan district attorney and
the New York City comptroller
each disclosed having in their last
reports.
The situation has grown so dire
for Mr. Trump that on Tuesday, he
suggested that he might tap his
personal fortune to keep the campaign afloat. He disclosed on Monday that his campaign finished
May with little more than $1 million in the bank. Mrs. Clinton reported having about $42 million.
In a defiant statement, Mr.
Trump said that he was just getting started as a competitor
against Mrs. Clinton, and that
there had been a tremendous
outpouring of support from
donors since the beginning of
June. But he has mused publicly in
recent days about funding the
race himself, and on Tuesday
opened the door wider to that possibility.
If need be, there could be unlimited cash on hand as I would
put up my own money, as I have
already done through the primaries, spending over $50 million,
he said.
Even the stark disparity in cash
on hand may understate the desperate straits in which Mr. Trump
finds himself. His fund-raising, led
largely by the Republican National Committee, has slowed. He
canceled a fund-raiser with 90
people in Boston last week, after
the shooting in Orlando, Fla.; it
has been rescheduled for June 29.
Mr. Trump is to be feted at two
fund-raisers in Manhattan this
week, organized by Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York
Jets, with one event featuring
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
But the ticket price for that event
is only $500, a paltry sum for a
presidential campaign, and only
260 people have signed up, according to a person involved in Mr.
Trumps fund-raising, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity because the information was not inNick Corasaniti contributed reporting.

ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Trump rally in The Woodlands, Tex. Donald J. Trump had just over $1 million in May; Hillary Clinton had about $42 million.
tended for the public.
Charles Spies, a Republican
election lawyer who advised the
super PAC that supported Jeb
Bush, said Mr. Trump would have
to put in an enormous amount of
his own money to jump-start his
campaign and win over big
donors. He suggested an appropriate figure would be $100 million
to $200 million.
Mr. Spies said Mr. Trump should
also forgive the loans he had made
to his campaign, to reassure contributors that he would not use
their money to repay himself. Mr.
Trump has already raised eyebrows among party donors by
spending freely to hold campaign
events at properties he owns, and
for the cost of flights on his private
jet.
For donors to invest in his cam-

paign, hes got to show that hes investing in it also, Mr. Spies said.
Hes got to have $500 million to
run a bare-bones campaign, and
that would mean getting outspent
by Hillary Clinton and her allies,
between two and three to one.
Dwight Schar, a former finance
chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Mr.
Trumps grim predicament came
as little surprise. Mr. Trump never
courted party donors during the
primary season and accused them
of seeking to buy influence in government, boasting that as a
wealthy man he would be immune
to their entreaties.
I think Mr. Trump has got all
the money, so he doesnt need any
financing, said Mr. Schar, who
said he was undecided about
whether to back Mr. Trump or

Mrs. Clinton. He added, I think


my mother used to say, What you
sow, you reap.
Mr. Trump has reported that his
net worth is about $10 billion,
though it is unclear how much is in
cash, or could readily be converted to cash, that could be used
for a presidential campaign.
Mr. Trumps advisers spent
much of Tuesday morning huddled at Trump Tower to discuss
the way forward, including a
speech he has planned for
Wednesday attacking Mrs. Clinton. The address, advisers said,
will be the first of several
speeches Mr. Trump plans to give,
with the goal of regaining traction
in the race.
Mr. Trumps knack for commanding news media attention,
however, is no substitute for a

campaign organization. Mrs. Clintons staff is larger than Mr.


Trumps by nearly tenfold, and her
stable of advisers includes the
polling and advertising firms that
steered President Obamas campaigns.
Mr. Trumps campaign, by contrast, rolled from state to state
during the Republican primaries,
building pop-up operations as
needed, but left few resources behind that he could now draw upon
in the general election.
In New Hampshire, for example, Stephen Stepanek, a state
lawmaker who helped steer Mr.
Trumps primary campaign, said
there was catching up to do in the
state. He predicted there would be
30 or 40 paid staff members in
New Hampshire by July.
Trump ran a very tight cam-

paign, and were very well aware


of that, Mr. Stepanek said. After
we got through with the primary
in New Hampshire, the entire staff
moved on to the next primary
state. Theyre all drifting back
now.
In New York, Mr. Trump has
kept a tight circle of advisers and
leaned heavily on familiar faces,
including his children; Michael
Cohen, his longtime lawyer; and
Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican operative with business ties to
Mr. Trump that date to the 1980s.
He has only the thinnest of communications operations, relying
on Hope Hicks, a former spokeswoman for his daughter Ivanka, to
handle the avalanche of daily
news media requests.
And Mr. Trump has struggled to
expand his operation, facing cold
shoulders and arch skepticism
from strategists with deep campaign experience. He has sought
to hire a communications director,
but has been rebuffed by at least
two seasoned operatives who
were concerned that working for
Mr. Trump could harm their careers, according to Republicans
briefed on the hiring efforts.
He has recently recruited the
pollsters Tony Fabrizio and John
McLaughlin, as well as a strategist, Kevin Kellems, to oversee
the activities of his campaign surrogates.
But he has also shed staff, and
late last month dismissed a recently hired political director, Rick
Wiley, whom he viewed as insufficiently tough in negotiations with
the Republican National Committee.
On Monday, Mr. Trump fired his
campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, tearing another hole in
the architecture of his campaign.
Mr. Lewandowski was a close adviser to Mr. Trump, but was
viewed with distrust by national
party leaders, other Trump
advisers and members of the
Trump family.
The Trump campaign is said to
favor hiring a new campaign manager to play a more conventional
role, focused on ensuring that basic functions of the organization
work together smoothly.
There was no one lined up for
the job at the time of Mr. Lewandowskis dismissal.

Trump Is Running a Lean Operation,


But Is It Too Lean?
By WILSON ANDREWS, K.K. REBECCA LAI, ADAM PEARCE and RACHEL SHOREY

Donald J. Trump dominated the Republican presidential primaries with relatively little
money and few staff members. As his campaign shifts to the general election, some of his
allies and donors have raised concerns about whether such a lean operation can
effectively compete against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Trump has less money at this point in


the election than any other recent
major-party presidential candidate.
The Trump campaign has not raised a
significant amount of money from donors,
relying instead on loans from Mr. Trump. The
campaign ended May with less than $1.3 million
on hand. The Clinton campaign, in comparison,
has been raising money at a rate more on par
with presidential candidates in recent elections.

Trumps Circular Financing System


Is Packed With Payments to Himself
By ALAN RAPPEPORT

Donald J. Trump regularly


boasts that he is self-funding his
presidential bid, but new campaign finance filings show that he
is also shifting plenty of money
back to himself in the process.
According to documents submitted to the Federal Election
Commission, Mr. Trump, whose
campaign has just $1.3 million
cash on hand, paid at least $1.1 million to his businesses and family
members in May for expenses
associated with events and travel
costs. The total represents nearly
a fifth of the $6 million that his
campaign spent in the month.
The spending raised eyebrows
among campaign finance experts
and some of Mr. Trumps critics
who have questioned whether the
presumptive Republican nominee, who points to his business
acumen as a case for his candidacy, is trying to do what he has
suggested he would in 2000 when
he mulled making an independent
run: Its very possible that I
could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on
it.
He could end up turning a profit if he repaid himself for the campaign loans, said Paul S. Ryan, a
campaign finance expert with the
Rachel Shorey contributed reporting.

Campaign Legal Center. He


could get all his money back plus
the profit margin for what his
campaign has paid himself for
goods and services.
While most candidates list an
array of vendors providing goods
and services on their filings, Mr.
Trumps is packed with payments
to his various clubs and buildings,
his fleet of planes and his family.
The self-proclaimed billionaire is

Vendors include a
candidates family,
buildings and planes.
required by law to account for his
spending this way to prevent his
companies from making illegal
corporate donations to his campaign. In 2015, about $2.7 million
was paid to at least seven companies Mr. Trump owns or to people
who work for his real estate and
branding empire, repaying them
for services provided to his campaign.
In May, the biggest-ticket item
was Mr. Trumps use of the Mar-aLago Club, his Florida resort,
which was paid $423,000. The
campaign paid $350,000 to TAG
Air for his private airplanes,
$125,000 to Trump Restaurants

and more than $170,000 to Trump


Tower, the Manhattan skyscraper
that houses the campaigns headquarters.
Mr. Trumps family also profited
from the campaign last month,
with his son Erics Virginia wine
business taking in about $1,300.
And Mr. Trump, who has said he
will not take a salary if he is
elected president, paid himself
$3,085 in May. The disbursements
are related to travel expenses, according to the filings.
Mr. Ryan said that the extent to
which Mr. Trump was utilizing his
own businesses for his run was
unprecedented and that because
of his unique financial circumstances, he was wading into territory that went beyond the commissions guidance.
We dont have clear answers,
Mr. Ryan said. Historically, candidates would separate themselves from their business interests when running for office.
Trump has done the opposite by
promoting his businesses while
running for office.
While candidates often gain
recognition from running for president, they are barred from enriching themselves directly from
their campaigns. When a campaign buys copies of a candidates
book in bulk and distributes them,
for example, the candidate cannot
accept royalties from the purchases. However, Mr. Ryan notes

Mrs. Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of


Vermont have spent more than twice as much
money as Mr. Trump.
Cash spent per month in 2016 (millions)

$40

Cash on hand in May


(millions)

Money raised
in May

2000 Bush
Gore

$ 7
8

$ 4
6

30

2004 Bush
Kerry

63
29

13
31

20

2008 McCain
Obama

32
43

17
22

2012 Romney 17
Obama 110

16
30

2016 Trump
Clinton

3
20

DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Donald J. Trump after speaking last week at a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C.

But Trump won the primaries while


spending only a small fraction of what
the other leading candidates spent.

1
42

Mrs. Clintons campaign had many more people


on its payroll in May. Mr. Trump has had a small
staff throughout the primary months and has
yet to hire people for field offices in swing states.
He has said he will rely on the Republican
National Committee to fill many of these roles.
Staff on payroll in May

Trump 69
Clinton 685

Clinton
Sanders

10

Trump
Jan.

Feb.

April

May

Despite spending little on advertising, Mr.


Trump had a news media presence that dwarfed
those of other candidates, with pervasive
coverage of his campaign on television, in print
and on social media. According to mediaQuant,
Mr. Trump earned $639 million in free media
in May more than double Mrs. Clintons
$275 million.
There is one notable area in which Mr. Trump is
outspending Mrs. Clinton: merchandise. In May,
he spent $907,000 to her $151,000, on items like
his trademark hat.

Source: Federal Election Commission

that the election commission does


allow candidates who own commercial property to rent it from
themselves at fair market rates,
as Mr. Trump has regularly done.
Mr. Trumps use of his branded
water and steaks falls into something of a gray area.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, an election law expert at New York Universitys Brennan Center for Justice, said that Mr. Trump did not
appear to be violating any campaign finance laws, but that he
could face more scrutiny over the
use of his businesses for campaign purposes now that he is
more explicitly asking supporters
to donate money to the campaign.
It is something to keep an eye

March

THE NEW YORK TIMES

on, she said, because as soon as


you start using campaign money
that has come in from donors, not
just the money that he has loaned
to himself, and he uses it for something that he will personally keep,
or his family will personally keep,
that is what crosses the line.
Whether Mr. Trump could end
up profiting from his campaign remains a subject of speculation;
some have questioned if he will
eventually ask for the more than
$40 million that he has lent to his
campaign to be repaid. The eventual effect of the campaign on Mr.
Trumps personal brand, which he
has said represents a large part of
his wealth, also remains unclear.
Democrats on Tuesday tried to

seize on the payments Mr. Trump


made to his businesses as evidence of hypocrisy. Commenters
on the liberal website Daily Kos
ridiculed Mr. Trump for running a
scampaign and overstating the
personal investment he was
making in his campaign by funneling the money back to his empire.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee and Mr.
Trumps main rival this fall, also
piled on, taking to Twitter on Tuesday to jab him over the expenditures and his relatively paltry
fund-raising sum in one swipe.
What is Trump spending his
meager campaign resources on?
she said. Why, himself, of
course.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Minnie Mouse and Elmo Are Corralled


In Times Square, With Mixed Feelings
New Restrictions Limit Performers to Painted Zones Within Plazas
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Minnie Mouse tried to lure pedestrians inside an activity zone on Tuesday, the first day that
new rules restricting Times Square performers to working inside the zones went into effect.

Minnie Mouse stood behind a


painted line waving her arms to
passing children. A Disney princess guided a girl to a patch of tealcolored pavement before snapping a photo with her. The Hulk
paced back and forth, bristling at
the restrictions.
An animated sort of order came
to Times Square on Tuesday, penning costumed characters and
other tip seekers to painted zones
within its plazas. The performers
mostly obeyed the rules as police
officers monitored the square.
Not a single Elmo or Iron Man
was seen being taken away in
handcuffs or even clutching a
summons. But the costumed char-

acters were not happy about the


new guidelines.
Dressed as Olaf from the movie
Frozen, Victor Aldea said the
rules made it more difficult to
make money. In the early afternoon he held up a single dollar bill
he had earned so far as his colleague dressed as Minnie Mouse
opened her purse to show that it
was empty.
Im going to respect the rules
for the moment, Mr. Aldea, 40,
said.
The City Council voted to rein in
the performers this year after
complaints that they were too aggressive in asking pedestrians for
tips. Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, signed the Councils bill,
which allowed the New York City

Transportation Department to
create new rules for pedestrian
plazas.
In recent weeks, workers began
painting the teal activity zones
in Times Square between 42nd
and 47th Streets. Costumed characters and ticket sellers are supposed to stay in the 8-by-50-foot
boxes when they solicit money.
Passers-by are directed to walk in
pedestrian flow zones. Signs remind tourists that tips are optional. If performers break the
rules, they can be issued a criminal summons or even be arrested.
As sunshine spilled across the
busy plazas on Tuesday afternoon,
tourists
occasionally
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Locked Out Over Marijuana, Gardeners Watch Brooklyn Oasis Wither

PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By SARAH MASLIN NIR

There are rabbits with silken pelts and


guinea pigs with curly hair, a flock of
chickens, crops of eggplant, corn, apples
and even a banana tree all thriving in
one of the grittiest neighborhoods in
New York City.
James McCrae and a group of volunteers have spent two decades cultivating
this once-barren stretch of Glenmore Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn,
making it one of the citys most resplendent community gardens, raising a grassy
lawn to replace broken pavement and
planting herbs for cooking. Shady
benches sit under flowering bowers inside the garden, where the gardeners
used to sit, reaching up occasionally to
pluck wine grapes overhead. But today,
they spend their days hunkered on folding chairs on the sidewalk outside the
gates, watching the flowers wither and

Green Gem, on Glenmore Avenue


in East New York, was shut down
last month after inspectors found
marijuana plants inside. James McCrae, left, who oversaw it, said he
was unaware the plants were there.
The gardens rabbits and chickens
have been moved to a nearby lot.

the blueberries rot.


On May 31 the city padlocked the garden, Green Gem, as a response to inspectors discovery of a startling crop: marijuana plants. The gardeners insist they
were unaware of the illicit plants, sowed,
they say, by a single volunteer gardener,
whom they have since ejected. The gardeners say they are being unfairly punished.
My stuff is dying, food is dying, said
Mr. McCrae, 60, who works as a hospital
custodian. I lost three trees of cherries,
a tree of blueberries, a tree of apricot, a
strawberry field. This was a junkyard before we got started. Nobody walked
down these streets because they were
afraid of guns and rats running out of this
yard.
The garden was so bountiful, he said,
he has lived off what is left of the corn,
collards and eggs that he does not give
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Favors at Fort Surrender: A Long History, but Perhaps a More Sordid Twist
New York, like most places of human
habitation, has a long history of bribery,
but until now the literature did not
reveal any documented episodes in
which the graft was packaged as
Christmas presents and
delivered by two Orthodox
Jewish businessmen
dressed up as elves.
But now we know there
ABOUT
were at least two such
NEW YORK
instances, if a criminal
complaint filed in federal court this
week can be trusted. It charged three
New York police commanders with
serving as errand boys for the businessmen.
Mayor Bill de Blasio had absolutely
nothing to do with the Christmas presents, but it is his unique fate to have
taken political contributions from the
two businessmen. The federal complaint lays out a dynamic in which gifts
and bribes were provided by the men to

JIM
DWYER

Email: dwyer@nytimes.com
Twitter: @jimdwyernyt

the police commanders in direct exchange for favors they sought.


The two men have ties to a neighborhood where the ambitions of police
commanders depend on their ability to
maintain cordial relationships with
elements of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish
community.
Generations of Brooklyn
commanders, particularly in the
precincts serving Borough Park and
Crown Heights, have made or broken
their careers by doing the right favors.
One night in December 1978, hundreds of Hasidic protesters swarmed
into the 66th Precinct station house in
Borough Park, destroyed a Teletype
machine, flung thousands of files onto
the floor and got into a pitched battle
with police reinforcements summoned
by the four officers who were overwhelmed by the mob.
In the end, 60 police officers were
injured. No one was arrested.
A T-shirt was created by patrol officers with a new nickname for the
precinct: Fort Surrender.
In the same neighborhood two

decades later, on an evening in June


1997, thousands of Hasidim chased off
deputy sheriffs who had gotten into a
scuffle with a scofflaw whose car they
were trying to tow. However, the twostar police chief in charge of Brooklyn
South, George Brown, refused to immediately release the young man from
custody, despite the demands of community leaders and politicians.
Whether principled or stubborn, this
was not the tactic of a clever careerist:
Chief Brown was transferred two weeks
later to Police Headquarters to a job
doing nothing. And for good measure,
in keeping with the Fort Surrender
tradition, Mayor Rudolph W. Giulianis
administration suspended the towing
program in Borough Park for months,
resuming it only when the suspension
was publicly reported. First, though,
the mayor announced that the sheriffs
would be sent out for sensitivity training, a precaution apparently unnecessary elsewhere in the city.
The authority of precinct
commanders over private Jewish security patrols is openly questioned. Com-

munity members say the patrols have


long been necessary to keep the Jewish
community from being preyed upon,
especially during the decades when the
city was afflicted with high crime rates.
However essential, compromised or
straightforward the relationships were
between police commanders and community leaders, the kind of gross
bribery charged in the complaint was
never part of the picture. Police
commanders responded to political
leaders, who in turn saw reliable voting
blocs that did not need to be wooed
with costly advertisements or get-outthe-vote campaigns.
If the criminal complaint is to be
believed, the two men at the center of
the case, Jeremiah Reichberg, 42, of
Borough Park, and Jona S. Rechnitz, 33,
sought favors like police escorts
through traffic, harassment of rivals,
help with arrests, intervention in business disputes and placards for parking
privileges.
In exchange, they delivered gifts like
video game systems as Christmas
presents to the homes of senior

commanders, or flew them on trips to


Las Vegas, or treated them to family
vacations. One episode of currying
favor is said to have involved hiring a
security firm owned by the family of a
police executive at One Police Plaza.
The charges are sordid. The two
businessmen were involved in these
relationships, according to the indictment, well before Mr. de Blasio took
office. With the departure of Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg, who used his
personal fortune to fund his political
ambitions, the businessmen turned
their attention to Mr. de Blasio. Mr.
Rechnitz served as a member of his
inaugural committee and later gave
$102,300 to a political action group
allied with the mayor.
Mr. de Blasio has said he raised
money to advance a liberal agenda in
the State Legislature.
What the two men sought or received
from his administration, if anything, is
not known.
Look, Mr. de Blasio told reporters
last week of Mr. Rechnitz, I wish I
never met the guy.

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Woman Charged in Kayak Killing Didnt Understand Her Rights, Lawyer Says
By NATE SCHWEBER
and LISA W. FODERARO

GOSHEN, N.Y. Angelika


Graswald, the woman accused of
killing her fianc while on a kayak
outing last year, asked an investigator who Miranda was a few
hours after she had been read her
Miranda rights, according to testimony in a pretrial hearing here on
Tuesday.
In his cross-examination of the
investigator, Ms. Graswalds lawyer, Richard A. Portale, sought to
show that his client, a native of
Latvia, did not grasp the implications of the 11-hour police interrogation that preceded her arrest on
second-degree-murder charges.
My client, Mr. Portale said in
court, is asking: Whats Miranda? Whos Miranda?
The investigator, Donald DeQuarto, responded that he felt
confident that earlier in the police
interrogation, Ms. Graswald had
comprehended her rights.
I asked her if she understood
Nate Schweber reported from Goshen, and Lisa W. Foderaro from
New York.

it, and she stated yes, Mr. DeQuarto said. I remember her
reading the piece of paper and
writing it onto a piece of paper, the
Miranda warning.
During the interrogation, Ms.
Graswald admitted to removing
the drain plug of the kayak that belonged to her fianc, Vincent Viafore, and also tampering with his
paddle. Mr. Viafore, 46, drowned
on April 19, 2015, when his kayak
capsized in rough water on the
Hudson River.
The Miranda warning is usually
read to suspects at the start of a
police interrogation. It alerts
them to their right to remain silent
and to obtain a lawyer, and is intended to preserve the admissibility of evidence at trial.
The Miranda rights get their
name from a case involving
Ernesto Arturo Miranda, a laborer whose confession led to his
conviction for armed robbery, kidnapping and rape. His appeal resulted in a landmark Supreme
Court ruling in 1966 that said suspects must be informed of their
right to legal representation and
against self-incrimination.

The purpose of the pretrial


hearing is to determine how investigators obtained their evidence. In the case against Ms.
Graswald, 36, the case hinges
largely on statements she made to
the police, including
the
videotaped interrogation that
Mr. Portale is
trying to keep
out of the trial.
During the
hearing,
Mr.
DeQuarto said
that he had
read
Ms.
Angelika
Graswald her
Graswald
Miranda
rights only after they had spoken for more than
three hours at the police barracks
in Orange County. The questioning came 10 days after Mr. Viafores kayak had capsized in the
river; an autopsy report ruled the
cause of death a drowning and the
manner of death homicide, citing
the kayak drain plug intentionally removed by other.
Prosecutors say Ms. Graswald
was motivated by Mr. Viafores life

insurance policy; she stood to


collect $250,000 in benefits.
The long interrogation followed
an encounter earlier in the day between Ms. Graswald and the police on Bannerman Island, where
the couple, who lived together in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., had rested
the day he capsized. On the island,
Ms. Graswald, who was laying a
memorial wreath, had told Mr. DeQuarto that she felt trapped in
the relationship and confessed to
sabotaging his kayak, he said in
earlier testimony.
But Mr. Portale said the video of
the 11-hour interrogation shows
that around the seventh hour, Ms.
Graswald appears not to have understood her rights, inquiring
about Miranda as though it
might be a person.
In another strange detail in a
case full of them, Mr. DeQuarto
testified that Ms. Graswald suggested she was pregnant at the
time of Mr. Viafores death.
Two hours in, she asks to use
the bathroom, Mr. Portale said to
Mr. DeQuarto. She comes back
and she relates to you that maybe
she just had a miscarriage. Do you

remember that? Mr. DeQuarto


said he did remember.
In other testimony, Susan McCardell, a volunteer gardener at
Bannerman Island, said she saw
Ms. Graswald in distress when
she was with the officers on the island last spring. Investigators
have testified that Ms. Graswald,
who also volunteered on the island, seemed agitated.
They were bullying her; she
was crying, Ms. McCardell said.
It was obvious to anyone it was
not a good situation. She was unhappy, she was crying, she did not
want to be alone.
But she said Ms. Graswald indicated that Ms. McCardell should
not stay. So did the officers, she
testified. Ms. McCardell said one
of the investigators told her: She
doesnt really need you. Shes OK.
Ms. McCardell said she returned a second time, about a halfhour later, and found Ms.
Graswald still in tears. She was
still crying. She was a little more
agitated, Ms. McCardell said. I
said: Do you want me to stay? I
think I should be here with you.
Her testimony contrasts with

that of the investigators, who testified that while Ms. Graswald


was agitated on the island, she
seemed happy-go-lucky on the
boat ride back to Police Headquarters.
Ms. Graswalds English skills
could prove crucial to whether jurors are allowed to view the taped
police interrogation. (A decision is
expected in late July.)
A native Russian speaker, Ms.
Graswald arrived in the United
States as an au pair more than 15
years ago. Mr. Portale has portrayed Ms. Graswald as struggling with English, but during the
police
investigation
she
demonstrated a sophisticated
grasp of the language.
In a video clip of the interrogation shown last fall on ABCs 20/
20, a detective asked: When you
watched him in the water, was a
part of you saying, My worries
are going away now? Were you
almost ... He paused, but she
filled in the word, offering euphoric. The detective said, Euphoric that he was gone you felt
that way? She answered, I still
do.

Locked Over Marijuana,


A Brooklyn Oasis Withers
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away. Local day care centers used
the garden every day as a grassy
playground, and neighbors held
birthday parties for toddlers beside the koi pond he dug by hand.
I dont have time to grow marijuana, he said. I have too much
to lose.
Green Gem is one of about 600
community gardens in New York
City that are part of the GreenThumb program, administered by
the parks department. Volunteers
like Mr. McCrae enter into agreements with the city to serve as
stewards of the parks. They are
responsible for tasks like planting
and harvesting, weeding and
pruning, but their licenses are
conditional: They must follow the
rules.
On surprise visits in 2014 and
2015, inspectors found that Green
Gem, which Mr. McCrae, the son
of farmers from South Carolina,
started 23 years ago, had a number of violations. Those included
keeping roosters, which are not
permitted in New York City, and
running an electrical cord from a
building into the park.
But the most egregious violation was discovered in 2014
where it had been hidden underneath a rain barrel: a two-foot-tall
marijuana plant, according to Bill
LoSasso, the director of the
GreenThumb program. The plant
was destroyed, and Mr. McCrae
and the volunteer gardeners who
work with him were put on notice,
he said. But in summer 2015, two
more marijuana plants were discovered, seedlings, the gardeners
said, growing inside coffee cups.
The repeat violations led the
city to move to close the garden,
which was locked in the spring after formal proceedings had ended
and its license was revoked, the
parks department said; the move
was reported by the BrownsvilleEast New York Patch website. No
one was charged in connection
with the growing of the marijuana
plants, and the gardeners declined to reveal the name of the
person they say grew them.
When
people
become

licensees of these community gardens they are taking on important


leadership roles in their communities, they are role models of their
community, Mr. LoSasso said. I
think it goes without saying that
growing marijuana in a community garden on public space is not
acting in the best needs of this
community, or any community.
For the moment, the garden
stands in limbo. Yet the neighborhood gardeners, most of them
men of Puerto Rican descent like
Gabriel Maldonado, 65, who used
to tend to it seven days a week and
built wooden toy cars from recycled pallets and old wheelchair
parts, still show up every day. On
an afternoon this month, Mr. Maldonado stood on the sidewalk, his
fingers hooked through the wire
gate, peering anxiously at wilting
rose bushes and the accumulating
litter he could not tidy up.
It hurts, Mr. Maldonado said.
It looks like a jungle. It never
looks like this.
The parks department said garden licenses were rarely revoked.
The last time was in 2010, when
the management of a garden in
Brownsville,
Brooklyn,
was
turned over to another group because administrators had failed to
keep the garden open on a regular
basis, according to Sam Biederman, a spokesman for the department. We are not in the business
of closing down gardens, he said.
Only if something truly egregious happens does something
like this happen.
As for Green Gem, the goal is to
reopen the garden under new operators, a decision that will be
made after the parks department
meets with community members.
Some longtime gardeners and
neighbors speculated that the gardens closing was simply a land
grab at a time when the neighborhood is poised for rapid development because of a recent rezoning
and the citys plan to invest heavily in East New York. The parks
department rejected such rumors: The garden will remain a
garden, Mr. Biederman said.
But it is highly unlikely that
control of the garden will ever be

VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Gabriel Maldonado, 65, is among Green Gems volunteer gardeners. It looks like a jungle, he said. It never looks like this.
returned to Mr. McCrae, who is
known locally as Mr. James, and
the garden, as Mr. Jamess Garden. The breeze that this garden
gives off ooh! said Jazzy Johnson, 38, a neighbor. You leave
your problems outside, you leave
your problems down the block. I
really, really pray he gets his garden back. Its the communitys.
Mr. McCrae said he was planning to sue the city to regain the
right to run the garden. These
are my diamonds, these flowers,
these trees, he said. Now all I get
to do is walk up and down on the
sidewalk saying to myself, This is
the world we live in.
As the gardens future is decided, the rabbits and the chickens have been moved to a narrow
vacant lot behind Green Gem. The
space was lent by a neighbor to
the gardenless gardeners, who
still show up every day. When
they arrived three weeks ago, the
scrap of land was also a junkyard.
Now eggplant is growing.

3 Men Accused of Selling Illegal Weapons


By ELI ROSENBERG

Three New York men were accused on Tuesday of selling over


100 illegal assault weapons from a
shop near Rochester in what the
authorities said was the largest
gun seizure made by the state attorney generals office since the
SAFE Act was passed by the State
Legislature after the 2012 mass
shooting at a Connecticut school.
The owner of the gun shop, Kordell Jackson, 40, of West Henrietta, was arrested on charges including three counts of first-degree criminal sale of a firearm, the
authorities said. Also arrested
were two shop employees: Joshua
Perkins, 28, of Irondequoit, and
Ken Youngren, 30, who the authorities said was a part-time police officer in the villages of Andover and Belmont. They face
charges similar to those brought
against Mr. Jackson.
When reached by phone on
Tuesday before he was arrested,
Alain Delaqurire contributed research.

Mr. Youngren
declined
to
comment. Attempts to reach
Mr.
Jackson
and Mr. Perkins
by phone were
unsuccessful.
The investigation began in
Kordell
2014,
when
Jackson
agents with the
federal Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives noticed irregularities in the records of the store,
Jackson Guns and Ammo in Henrietta, and alerted the State Police,
according to a joint news release
from the state attorney general
and the State Police superintendent.
According to the release, investigators began tracking weapons
sold from the store and found that
more than 100 were illegal under
the SAFE Act, which is formally
the Secure Ammunition and
Firearms Enforcement Act of
2013. About 10 of the weapons
would have been illegal even be-

OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL

One of the illegal weapons seized from Jackson Guns and


Ammo in Henrietta, N.Y., after an inquiry that began in 2014.

fore the laws went into effect.


Among the weapons seized
were two Bushmaster XM-15s,
part of the same line as one of the
guns used by Adam Lanza in the
shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
New York has enacted some of
the toughest, most sensible gun
safety laws in the country, and
with todays arrests, we are sending a message that these laws will
be vigorously enforced, the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, said. The tragedies in Orlando, Newtown, Aurora and communities across the
country are clear signs that we
need to get our national gun violence epidemic under control.
Thousands of people have been
charged under the new laws,
which went into effect shortly after the shootings in Newtown. A
majority of charges have been for
criminal firearm possession,
which was elevated from a misdemeanor to a felony.
Mr. Jackson owned a second
gun shop in Scottsville but closed
both stores in January 2015, saying the assault weapons ban as
well as other regulations and
taxes had hurt his business.
We catered to the assault rifles
and once that was out, it kind of
hurt us, Mr. Jackson told Time
Warner Cable News in Rochester
at the time. You cant stay in business with all this going on.
The SAFE Act was denounced
by gun-rights activists and has
been deeply unpopular in parts of
upstate New York.

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Minnie and Elmo Corralled in Times Square


From Page A16
stopped for a photo along 42nd
Street, where more than a dozen
characters were loitering. When
one of Robin Smiths relatives paid
two Spider-Men $5 after taking
their photo, Ms. Smith approached them and said she
wanted a follow-up performance
for that high a fee. The SpiderMen began to dance, drawing
laughs from her group.
Ms. Smith, 48, who was visiting
from North Carolina, said she appreciated the new rules because
she did not like being followed in
the past by people who were selling tour-bus tickets. Now the deci-

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Reining in costumed
characters and others
after complaints from
pedestrians.
sion was hers.
We dont feel like were being
harassed, Ms. Smith said.
As he walked through Times
Square, Alex Diner said the performers did not bother him. He
works in the neighborhood and
believes the area has become too
clean and too organized.
Were getting to a point
wheres its getting sterile, and Im
not thrilled with that, said Mr.
Diner, 38, who works in finance
and lives in Manhattan.
Once emblematic of a seedier
era in the city, Times Square has

been transformed into a familyfriendly tourist destination with a


corridor of crowded pedestrian
plazas. But some characters have
not played nicely, including a man
dressed as Spider-Man who
punched a police officer in 2014.
After complaints last summer
over the proliferation of topless
painted women, known as
desnudas, Mr. de Blasio said he
would consider removing the
plazas. The new rules were a compromise aimed at easing the increasingly chaotic atmosphere.
At least one performer said the
new zones were good for business.
Robert Burck, known as the Naked Cowboy, said tips were up. He
reached into his guitar and pulled
out a wad of cash. Instead of wandering the plazas, he now performed in one zone, and more people were stopping to watch.
I love the boxes, he said. I
never would have thought I
would.

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Costumed characters stayed behind a line on Tuesday in Times Square. Im going to respect the
rules for the moment, said Victor Aldea, who was dressed as Olaf from the movie Frozen.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Lorna Kelly, Who Left the Rostrum


At Sothebys to Aid the Poor, Dies at 70
By MARGALIT FOX

She swept into Calcutta in Yves


Saint Laurent, her nails lacquered
as red as the priceless antique
boxes she sold to collectors in her
Manhattan showroom.
Why do you wear that stuff?
she was asked, a question that has
passed between many a caviling
mother and obdurate teenage
daughter.
This time, however, Lorna Kelly
Sothebys auctioneer, Upper
East Side socialite and would-be
minister to the poor had been
put in her place by Mother Teresa.
Ms. Kelly, who died on Wednesday at 70, was one of the first female fine-art auctioneers in the
world, attached in the 1970s and
afterward to Sothebys New York
gallery.
For years, rosewood gavel in
hand, she presided over the sale of
hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of treasures teasing, cajoling, seducing and ever so genteelly shaming in the unimpeachable diction of her native England:
Ill wait, she might tell a recalcitrant bidder in her foremost
schoolmarm tones. Dont look at
him. Look at me. (She used the
same tone, to immediate effect, to
silence ambient conversation in
New York restaurants whenever
it annoyed her. It often did.)
Ms. Kelly was, by her own account, very good at her job.
I think, she told The New York
Times in 1980, I have the ability to
make people feel they couldnt
possibly live without the item be-

ing auctioned.
But as the years progressed,
she grew discontented. For one
thing, she later said, she felt a
spiritual void, and auctioneering
no longer felt correct.
For another, the outspoken,
bohemian Ms. Kelly had never
quite fit in at the august, venerable Sothebys. She could talk a
blue streak (a fine attribute for an
auctioneer) but could also sport a
gleeful pink streak in her hair
(less so).
For part of her time there, as
she wrote in a self-published
spiritual memoir, In the Footsteps of the Camel (2010), she
was also in the grip of alcoholism.
And so, in the early 1980s, by
more or less mutual consent, Ms.
Kelly and Sothebys parted company. Though she had stopped
drinking by then, it was clear that
so staid a milieu could not contain
her sartorial, tonsorial and vocal
energies.
She decamped, unbidden, for
India and Mother Teresa, the first
in a series of charitable endeavors
that occupied her ever after.
The daughter of Edward Nelson
Murphy, a police sergeant, and the
former Iris Minnie Hicks, Lorna
Clare Murphy was born on Aug.
12, 1945, in Isleworth, West London. As a girl, she was passionately interested in dance.
She first came to New York at 18,
as an au pair, supervising four
children under 7. A few years later
she returned to the city permanently, determined to succeed as a
modern dancer, supporting herself through secretarial work.

In the early 70s, a temp agency


sent her to Sotheby Parke-Bernet,
as the auction house was formally
known, and she found her calling.
As soon as I walked through
the doors at Sothebys, I knew,
Ms. Kelly later told Time magazine. It was the energy of the
marketplace. And that it involved
beautiful things.
But before long Ms. Kelly, with
her unbridled mien, profusely beringed fingers and iconoclastic
vintage wardrobe, was told that
she would never advance to
Sothebys dark-suited executive
ranks.
Suppose, she countered, she
were to become an auctioneer instead.
In 1976, she stopped drinking;
was divorced from her husband,
John Kelly, an advertising copywriter whom she had wed 10 years
before; and made her debut behind the rostrum the first woman to lead an auction at Sothebys
main New York gallery.
To prepare, she held mock auctions before her mirror and, on
trips to the country, outdoors.
I sold a lot of stuff to horses and
trees, Ms. Kelly told The Times
that year.
She became a Japanese specialist, selling lacquer boxes, netsuke
and other objets dart. The silvertongued work exhilarated her.
Its one of the highest states I
have ever felt of pure concentration, Ms. Kelly told The Times in
1980. There is no mind wandering. I wish I could conduct the rest
of my life like I do on the rostrum.
To do so, she came to believe,

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Lorna Kelly, at Sothebys in 1980, was one of the first female fine-art auctioneers in the world.
she would need to leave the
gallery world, with its exquisite
material comforts, behind.
In Calcutta, she tended terminally ill patients under the tutelage of Mother Teresa, who came
to terms with the nail polish and,
intrigued, became a lifelong
friend.
Shed never had an auctioneer
fall into her motherhouse before,
Ms. Kelly later said in a video interview.
Ms. Kelly returned to India
many times. She also traveled to
Senegal, where she vaccinated
thousands of children. In Cairo,
she ministered to impoverished
residents of a vast garbage dump;

she likewise served the poor in


Jordan, Gaza and the Bronx.
In Manhattan, Ms. Kelly
worked with AIDS patients. In
Texas, she visited death-row inmates.
Returning to the rostrum, she
became a freelance auctioneer for
charitable organizations, among
them Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS, for which she raised
more than $6 million.
Ms. Kelly, who in later years
weathered cancer treatment and
heart surgery, remained sober to
the end of her life.
A resident of the Upper East
Side, she is survived by a brother,
Sean Murphy, and a sister, Helen

Romaine.
Her death, in Manhattan from a
stroke, was confirmed by Christopher Peregrin, a longtime friend.
Besides her 2010 book, Ms.
Kelly also wrote the memoir The
Camel Knows the Way, first selfpublished in 1998.
Of all the rigors she faced in her
work overseas, it was a domestic
undertaking that, for the voluble
Ms. Kelly, very likely proved the
keenest test of her spiritual commitment.
As The Times reported in a 1991
profile, she once traveled to a Buddhist retreat in upstate New York,
where she spent the next 100 days
in complete silence.

Bill Berkson, 76, Poet and Art Critic of 60s In-Crowd


By WILLIAM GRIMES

In the artistic Manhattan of the


1960s, when the small worlds of
experimental poetry, film, theater,
visual art and dance bled into one
another, an animated figure
seemed to appear everywhere at
once. Bill Berkson, poet and art
critic, was the ever-present third
man from the left in the group photographs that chronicle the era.
Inevitably, he appeared at gatherings of the poets of the New
York School, at the gallery openings of artists like Jasper Johns
and Larry Rivers, and at the
downtown powwows where argonauts of the avant-garde like
Rudy Burckhardt, Merce Cunningham and John Cage breathed
the same rarefied air.
Mr. Berkson moved easily in
this heady milieu, his striking
good looks and insatiable appetite
for the new affording him instant
entree. His friends were legion, an
endless roll call of the geniuses,
provocateurs and poseurs who
gave the decade its distinctive cultural tang.
I am almost certainly the only
person who was at both the Woodstock Music Festival and Truman
Capotes Black and White Masked
Ball at the Plaza Hotel in 1966, he
wrote in his memoir, Since
When, to be published by Coffee
House Press on a date to be announced
In 1960, John Myers, a partner
in the Tibor de Nagy gallery, offered to publish Mr. Berksons poems. When Mr. Berkson pointed

out that Mr. Myers had not actually read any, he answered, It
doesnt matter, youre in the air.
Mr. Berkson died on Thursday
in San Francisco. He was 76. The
cause was a heart attack, said his
stepdaughter, Nina Lewallen Hufford.
William Craig Berkson was
born on Aug. 30, 1939, in Manhattan. The family was glamorous.
His father, Seymour, was the publisher of The New York JournalAmerican, a Hearst newspaper.
His mother, Eleanor Lambert,
was a celebrated fashion publicist,

A familiar figure at
ease in a heady milieu
in Manhattan.
the creator of the International
Best Dressed List and New York
Fashion Week.
The Berksons apartment, on
Fifth Avenue overlooking Central
Park, was the setting for an endless round of cocktail parties populated by celebrity journalists,
film stars and fashionistas.
Through the front door walked
Judy Garland, Cecil Beaton, Janet
Gaynor, the swashbuckling journalist Bob Considine and the husband-and-wife radio and television hosts Jinx Falkenburg and
Tex McCrary.
I remember answering the

phone to hear the alarming nasal


of Louella Parsons Hel-lo, Billy, this is Lou-ella. How are you?
calling from Hollywood, Mr.
Berkson wrote, referring to the
movie columnist, in an autobiographical essay for the reference
work Contemporary Authors.
He attended the Trinity School
in Manhattan before enrolling in
the Lawrenceville School in New
Jersey, where he began writing
poetry. He graduated in 1957. Under his yearbook photograph appeared the motto: Plato or comic
books, Im versatile.
After studying briefly at Brown
University, he returned to New
York. My plans included transferring to Columbia, but secretly I
wanted to experience at first hand
the steam-heated life of poetry
and some other, seemingly connected fantasies of accelerated
living, he wrote in his autobiographical essay.
He enrolled in Kenneth Kochs
poetry workshop at the New
School for Social Research, where,
already under the spell of Kenneth
Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and other Beat poets, he found in
Frank OHara a congenial poetic
idiom, vernacular and free.
When Mr. Koch left the New
School in 1964, he invited Mr. Berkson to take over the workshop.
This onetime student was now
teaching up-and-comers like the
future art critics Peter Schjeldahl
and Carter Ratcliff, the future rock
star Patti Smith and the poet
Charles North. Later in the dec-

ade his voice, with other New York


poets, could be heard on Dial-aPoem, a free telephone service.
In more than 20 volumes of poetry, Mr. Berkson developed a
freewheeling, idiosyncratic style
that could be, by turns, conversational, epigrammatic, elliptical,
whimsical and surreal. In a 2015
interview with PBS, he referred to
his sense of scatter.
His poem Signature Song begins in relaxed, prosey fashion:
JOHN SUITER

Bunny Berigan first recorded I


Cant Get Started
with a small group that
included Joe Bushkin, Cozy
Cole
and Artie Shaw in 1936.
His 1998 poem Last Words is a
list of exit lines, ending with Shut
the door on your way out and
You want I should call you a
cab?
October, one of his earliest poems, shows a keen observational
side:
Its odd to have a separate
month. It
escapes the year, it is not only
cold, it is warm
and loving like a death grip on
a willing knee.
After the Tibor de Nagy gallery
published Saturday Night: Poems, 1960-61, Mr. Berkson went
on to produce more than 20 poetry
collections, several of them collaborative projects with artists he
knew well, notably Philip Guston,
Alex Katz and Norman Bluhm.

His most recent poetry collection


was Expect Delays (2014).
In 1960, after dropping out of Columbia, Mr. Berkson began working as an editorial associate at Art
News magazine. This was the beginning of a long career as an art
critic and curator. In New York, he
contributed frequently to Art
News and Arts, and after moving
to the Bay Area in 1970, he wrote
for Artforum, Modern Painters,
Aperture and other publications.
He was also a corresponding editor for Art in America.
In 1975, he married the artist
Lynne OHare. The marriage
ended in divorce. In addition to his
stepdaughter, Nina, he is survived
by his wife, Constance Lewallen;
a son, Moses; a daughter Siobhan
OHare Mora Lopez; a stepson,
Jonathan Lewallen; and six
grandchildren.
In California, Mr. Berkson
edited and published a series of
poetry books and magazines under the Big Sky imprint. After
teaching a graduate seminar in

GERARD MALANGA

Bill Berkson in 1971, above,


and left, in an undated photo.
In a 2015 PBS interview, he referred to his sense of scatter.
art criticism at the California
College of Arts and Crafts, he
joined the staff of the San Francisco Art Institute in 1984, organizing public lectures and teaching
art history and literature. He was
the institutes director of letters
and science. He retired in 2008.
In 2009, a half-centurys worth
of his work was collected in Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems.
I used to worry about not having a signature style or central
subject matter or a fixed character of poetry, and at some point the
worry ceased, he told PBS. I
gave myself permission to do
what Ive been doing all along
without worrying about it.

Benote Groult, 96, French Feminist and Writer Whose Books Explored Womens Liberation
By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA

Benote Groult, who became a


leading French feminist and writer in the second half of her life,
drawing wide attention with a
sexually daring novel that explored an unlikely love affair between a Parisian intellectual and
an uneducated Breton fisherman,
died on Monday in Hyres, in
southeastern France. She was 96.
Her death was confirmed by
her publisher, ditions Grasset.
Ms. Groults novel Les Vaisseaux du Cur (Salt on Our
Skin), published in 1988, was
branded pornographic in some literary circles because of its vivid
depictions of an extramarital affair and female sexuality.
The book, set in France in the
1960s, examines the complex emotional dynamics of the couples relationship in which their raw desire for each other cannot overcome the wide social divide between them. They each end up
marrying someone from a similar
background yet they continue
their affair for four decades.
In 1992 the novel was made into
a film, directed by Andrew Birkin
and starring Greta Scacchi and
Vincent DOnofrio. It was released in the United States as Desire.
Some feminists criticized the
novel, but many readers viewed
the
protagonists
sexual
escapades as an expression of a
liberated modern woman. It sold
hundreds of thousands of copies
worldwide and was translated
into 27 languages.
Its unacceptable to tell yourself that during 50 years half a
lifetime or longer you wont begin a love affair, you wont live out
the first minutes of desire or deny
yourself an exciting sexual en-

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Benote Groult in a 1993 photograph. She was in her 40s when she began a writing career.
counter in a train or on a plane,
Ms. Groult said in an interview
that was included as a chapter in
her 2008 autobiography, My Escape. (The title, she said, was a
nod to her emancipation from the
constraints of marriage and social
conventions driven by men.)
By her own account Ms. Groult
was a late bloomer, as both an author and a feminist. Having taught
Latin and worked in radio while
raising children, she was in her
40s when she began a writing career and in her 50s when she embraced feminism.
But once she took up those pursuits, she went all out, proving to
be a prolific writer and an ardent

activist, campaigning against female genital mutilation and other


abuses.
She was 55 when her book
Ainsi Soit-Elle (loosely translated as As She Is) was published
in 1975. It became an instant best
seller in France (it was never published in English) and sealed Ms.
Groults reputation as a leading
feminist.
The book explored the history
of womens rights as well as misogyny and violence against
women, including sexual mutilation, which she wrote about after
encountering it on a visit to Burkina Faso, then called Upper Volta.
She went on to write Salt on

Our Skin when she was 65; her


last book, Ainsi Soit Olympe de
Gouges, was published when she
was 93.
That last book explored
womens rights during the French
Revolution, centering on the early
French feminist Olympe de
Gouges, who was guillotined in
1793 for challenging male authority. In 1791 de Gouges had published, as a pamphlet, a declaration of womens rights (Dclaration Des droits de la Femme et de
la Citoyenne).
Ms. Groult published more than
20 novels as well as many essays
on feminism. She also helped
found a short-lived feminist

monthly, F magazine. She was


made an officer of the French Lgion dHonneur, the highest
French order for military and civil
excellence, this year.
Ms. Groult attributed her belated awakening to feminism to her
bluestocking Roman Catholic
upbringing, which she said had
given her few female role models.
I discovered that freedom isnt
just picked up naturally, she
wrote in her autobiography. Its
something you have to learn, day
after day, and very often
painfully. For that apprenticeship, she added, I needed other
women, those models who had
been carefully hidden from me
during the course of my education.
Benote Groult was born on Jan.
31, 1920, in Paris to an affluent family of designers.
Her father, Andr Groult, designed furniture. Her mother, the
former Nicole Poiret, founded a
fashion house. Ms. Groults uncle,
Paul Poiret, also a fashion designer, was considered a pioneer
of the Art Deco style. Her godmother was Marie Laurencin, the
French Cubist painter and printmaker.
Ms. Groult studied Latin and
Greek at the Sorbonne.
Ms. Groult married four times.
Her first and second husbands
died of illnesses shortly after their
weddings. In 1951 she married
Georges de Caunes, a journalist,
with whom she had two daughters, Blandine and Lison. She later
married the writer Paul Guimard,
with whom she had one daughter,
Constance. (He died in 2004.)
She is survived by what she had
described as her lovely, utterly
feminine, line of descendants
her three daughters as well as

granddaughters and at least one


great-granddaughter.
Married women, Ms. Groult
wrote, were in a particularly poor
position to lead an effective fight
for equality. When the oppressor is your lover and the father of
your children and often the principal purveyor of the funds, freedom becomes a complex and risky
undertaking, she wrote in her autobiography. So much so that
many women prefer security,
even under supervision, to the
hazards of freedom.

I discovered that
freedom isnt just
picked up naturally.
Women in France won the right
to vote only in 1945, when Ms.
Groult was 25, and she spent a
good part of her life without contraceptives, resorting instead to
numerous illegal abortions.
In a recent interview with the
newspaper Ouest-France, Ms.
Groult reflected on her novel
about Olympe de Gouges. She was
asked what advice that feminist
would have for women today.
She would have said: Dont
get married, its not worth divorcing. Stay free and write what you
want, in words that are yours,
she replied. But many women, she
added, would find that advice difficult to follow even today.
Olympe de Gouges could have
avoided the guillotine and chosen
a safer but oppressed life, Ms.
Groult said. Yet she braved all
the conventions, and God knows
that was hard.

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

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Jack Fuller, 69, Prizewinning Chicago Journalist, Dies


By SAM ROBERTS

Jack Fuller, who joined the The


Chicago Tribune as a 16-year-old
copy boy, went on to win a Pulitzer
Prize for editorial writing and ultimately presided over the Tribune
Companys $8 billion acquisition
of Times Mirror in 2000, died on
Tuesday in Chicago. He was 69.
The cause was lung cancer, his
son, Timothy, said.
Mr. Fuller had been The
Tribunes editorial page editor, executive editor, publisher and chief
executive. He was president of
Tribune Publishing, the newspaper division of the Tribune Company, when he oversaw the purchase that brought The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant
and
other
Times
Mirror
publications under the Tribune
umbrella, in what was described
as the largest acquisition in newspaper history.
He retired and left the board in
2004 before the investor Sam Zell
bought the company, took it private, imposed cost cuts and later
filed for bankruptcy protection.
Mr. Fuller was editorial page
editor from 1981 to 1987. He won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his commentary on constitutional and legal issues.
In one editorial, he wrote that
for a person who has been accused and cleared of a crime, Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese shows a
remarkable disinterest in the
laws traditional presumption of
innocence. (Mr. Meese was in-

vestigated in the Iran-contra arms


deal and a Mideast pipeline negotiation,
but
was
never
prosecuted.)
There is plenty of room for disagreement about the legal rule requiring police to read a suspect his
rights or lose the chance to use a
confession against him, the editorial continued. A lot of people are
uncomfortable
with
letting
defendants go free simply because the police fouled up an interrogation or a search. On balance,
this newspaper has not been persuaded that any other device can

He presided over the


largest acquisition in
newspaper history.
deter police misconduct; it has
supported the so-called Miranda
rule, despite misgivings about its
consequences in certain cases.
Jack William Fuller was born on
Oct. 12, 1946, in Chicago, the son of
Ernest Fuller, a financial reporter
and assistant editor at The Tribune, and the former Dorothy Voss
Tegge. He worked at the paper as
a copy boy while still in high
school.
My father was a newspaperman, and so the fact is I had grown
up with it, he once explained.
Jack Fuller earned a bachelors

degree in journalism from the


Medill School of Journalism at
Northwestern University in 1968.
After serving in the Army as a
Vietnam correspondent for the
newspaper Pacific Stars and
Stripes, he attended Yale University Law School, graduating in
1973. (At Yale he was a classmate
of Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham
and Robert Reich, who became
the secretary of labor in President
Clintons administration.)
His marriage to the former Alyce Tuttle ended in divorce. In addition to his son, he is survived by
a daughter, Katherine Ryan, and
his second wife, Debra Moskovits.
Mr. Fuller was hired as a general assignment reporter by The
Tribune in 1973 and left in 1975 to
become a special assistant to the
United States attorney general,
Edward H. Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago.
Mr. Levi was credited with restoring the Justice Departments
credibility after Watergate.
Mr. Fuller rejoined the newspaper in 1977 as a Washington correspondent. He was named executive editor in 1987, vice president
and editor in 1989, publisher in
1994 and president in 1997.
Ann Marie Lipinski, the curator
of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and a former editor of The
Tribune under Mr. Fuller, praised
him for making the newspaper
and later Tribune Company
healthy environments for women.
Mr. Fuller published seven well-

received novels on topics ranging


from multigenerational tales of
Middle America to computer
hackers and jazz. Among them are
his first, Convergence (1982), involving espionage and the C.I.A.;
Fragments (1984), a Vietnam
War novel (a moving account of
the war that purveys more than
information it gives the war a
literary form, The New York
Times Book Review said); and
The Best of Jackson Payne
(2000), about a jazz musician with
echoes of John Coltrane. (Beginning in the late 1980s, Mr. Fuller
wrote frequently about jazz for
The Tribune.)
Another novel, One From
Without, published this month, is
drawn from personal experience:
It is about an executive trying to
save a public company on the
brink of disaster.
He also wrote News Values:
Ideas for an Information Age
(1996) and What Is Happening to
News: The Information Explosion
and the Crisis in Journalism
(2010).
In 2005, Mr. Fuller was named
to the board of the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which is based in Chicago.
Marjorie Scardino, the foundations chairwoman, said on Tuesday that he had driven its grantmaking agenda on global conservation, sustainable development
and climate change.
Mr. Fuller, she said, insisted
that there is not traditional journalism and new media, only good

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Jack Fuller won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at The Chicago Tribune and later became Tribune Publishings president.
journalism and bad journalism.
In What Is Happening to
News, Mr. Fuller wrote that the
Times Mirror purchase was an attempt to compete with the internet on a national scale. He acknowledged that the effort to meld
different news media cultures had
been difficult, but added that the
Tribune Companys creation of a
nationwide web-based classified
business had been more successful.
Still, competition with online
news sites for advertisers and
readers, coupled with a business
downturn, prompted chief executives at the Tribune Company and
other corporate parents to demand even more draconian economies. Rather than impose them,
Mr. Fuller, among other editors
and publishers, quit.

Deaths

Deaths

DUSAN VRANIC/ASSOCIATED PRESS

A protest in Timisoara, Romania, on Dec. 23, 1989. Rebels executed the dictator on Dec. 25.

Victor Stanculescu, 88; Turned on Ceausescu


By SAM ROBERTS

Victor Stanculescu, an agile former Romanian general who arranged the escape of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in
1989, then joined the insurgent
government and engineered Mr.
Ceausescus trial and execution
three days later, died on Sunday in
Saftica in northern Romania. He
was 88.
His death was announced by his
lawyer, Catalin Dancu.
General Stanculescu (pronounced stahn-kul-ESS-ko) was
first deputy defense minister
when he was dispatched by Mr.
Ceausescu to Timisoara, in western Romania, to suppress a prodemocracy protest.
But after ordering security
forces to fire on unarmed dissidents on Dec. 17, 1989, Mr. Ceausescu, the countrys last Communist leader and its brutally Stalinist head of state for two decades,
lost control of his army as the revolt spread. Nearly 100 civilians
were killed in Timisoara alone.

Helping a dictator flee


and then orchestrating
his trial and execution.
Sniffing Mr. Ceausescus defeat,
General Stanculescu quickly returned to Bucharest, where he
faked a broken leg to avoid further
counterrevolutionary
deployment. Promoted to defense minister after the incumbent minister
killed himself, he helped Mr.
Ceausescu and his wife, Elena,
flee by helicopter from the roof of
party headquarters.
But fearing that the copter had
been spotted by radar and would
be shot down, the pilot hastily
landed. Mr. Ceausescu hijacked a

ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

Gen. Victor Stanculescu was


defense minister to the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
passing car, but he and his wife
were soon surrounded and arrested.
After the couple were captured,
General Stanculescu organized
their trial by a military court and
recruited the firing squad (before
the verdict, by some accounts)
that executed them on Christmas
Day. He then joined the new government.
General Stanculescu served as
minister of defense and minister
of industry until 1991.
Beginning as early as 1990, a
government commission recommended several times that General Stanculescu be tried for his
actions in Timisoara, but he managed to elude each attempted
prosecution until 2008, when he
was convicted of aggravated manslaughter. He was sentenced to 15
years in prison and paroled in
2014.
I did not order any unit under
my command in Timisoara to
carry out any acts of repression,
General Stanculescu told the BBC
in 2009.

He said he had helped the


Ceausescus escape because If we
had left it to the people of Bucharest, they would have lynched
them in the street. Asked if the
summary trial and execution was
just, he replied, It was not just,
but it was necessary.
Victor Atanasie Stanculescu
was born on May 10, 1928, in
Tecuci, Moldavia, in eastern Romania. His father, Constantin
Stanculescu, was an aviation lieutenant; his mother, the former Aurora Martac, an accounting professor. His father died when he
was 5.
After graduating from the Military School of Artillery in Sibiu in
1949 and the Special Artillery Officer Academy in Bucharest, he
pursued an army career.
General Stanculescus wife,
Elena, with whom he had a daughter, killed herself in 2003, apparently despondent over the repeated attempts to prosecute him
after his allies in the government
lost power.
The violent manner of Ceausescus demise set Romanias experience of political change apart
from that of the other East European states, Professor Dennis J.
Deletant, of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
said in a lecture there in 2012.
Whereas Ceausescu succeeded in uniting Romanians in
opposition to him, his fall threw
them into confusion, Professor
Deletant said. What the Romanian revolution does demonstrate
is that the heroes die, the fighters
go home, and opportunists make
their way to the fore.
In an interview with the novelist Dinu Sararu, General Stanculescu concurred with the professor, but in more personal
terms. Only the dead are heroes! he said. I never wanted to
die, and thats why Im not a
hero!

Bay, Eugene

Goldstein, Lolita

Wamsler, Karl

Bodzin, Annette

Haimowitz, Patricia

Wyman, M. Richard

Cheston, Morris

Kantro, Beatrice

Zeigerman, David

Cohen, Charles

Leiderman, Abraham

Findlay, Stella

Pratt, Carol

Foa, Linda

Seinfeld, Evelyn

BAYEugene A.,
83, passed away on June 18,
2016 in New York. Born in
1933 to Eugene Albert Bay
and Helene Carlin Bay in New
York City, he graduated from
Phillips Academy Andover
and The University of Pennsylvania. He served in the
U.S. Marine Corps from 19571960. A legendary advertising
and publishing executive,
Gene Bay served as publisher of Field & Stream Magazine. Later at Gene Bay
Associates he pioneered the
transformation of fishing and
hunting
programming
to
mainstream
media
with
ESPN
Outdoors.
Trustee
Emeritus of The Statue of
Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, a lifetime member and
former governor of the New
York Athletic Club, and from
the Polo Grounds to MetLife
Stadium, a life-long New York
Football Giants season ticket
holder. Predeceased by his
brother, John M. Bay, he is
survived by his beloved wife
of 53 years, Deidre Lesage
Bay, his children Willow Bay
and husband Robert A. Iger,
Kacey Bay and husband Nick
Pappas, and Eric M. Bay and
his seven grandchildren: Max
and William Iger, Carlin and
Nicholas Pappas, Savannah,
Isabella and Emma Bay. Memorial Visitation will be held
at Frank E. Campbell The
Funeral Chapel, 81st Street
and Madison Avenue, on
Thursday from 5pm-8pm.
Prayer Service will take place
at 7pm. A Funeral Mass will
be held at St. Thomas More
Church, 65 East 89th Street,
on Friday 10am. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be
made In Memory of Gene
Bay to Mary Manning Walsh
Nursing Home, 1339 York
Avenue, NY 10021.

BODZINAnnette G.,
88. Preceded in death by her
husband, Paul, and son,
Robert, and survived by her
daughters, Kate Scheinman
and Wendy Kadens. May her
memory be for a blessing.

CHESTONMorris Jr.,
The board of directors and
staff of the Garden Conservancy mourn the loss of our
former Vice President of the
Board - a legal expert, avid
horticulturist, philanthropist,
civic leader, and dear friend.
His commitment to community service extended from
health and cultural organizations in Philadelphia to state
and national organizations.
Morris was co-leader of our
endowment campaign, host
of garden-study tours and
Open Days at his homes in
Pennsylvania and Maine, and
wise and witty counselor for
many of our programs. We
send our deepest condolences to Cynthia and all of his
family and friends.
COHENCharles.
Charles passed away June 19,
2016 at the age of 81. While
professionally a periodontist
and implantologist, he was a
true Renaissance man. Eagle
Scout, Order of the Arrow,
birder, photographer, sculptor, painter, archaeologist, he
was a lifelong student and
teacher. He was past president of the Mohegan Park
Jewish Center where he was
for many years the shofar
blower. At Congregation Kehillat Jeshurun, he was a
charter member of the Chevra Kadisha, past president of
the Men's Club and longtime
lyricist for the KJ players. He
is survived by his loving wife,
Ellen Dede, his children Deena (Sammy) Zimmerman,
Matthew (Sharon Koren) Cohen, Jessica (Richard) Langer and twelve grandchildren. He will be greatly
missed.

What has happened since I left


haunts me, he wrote. Every
newspaper company, even those
led by people totally committed to
striking a proper balance between
the financial and social missions
of journalism, has been beaten
down.
Time and again, he continued,
people arguing about the future
of news have made the distinction
between what people want to
know and what they need to know.
If concentrating on what people
want to know means succumbing
to direct democratic rule of the
sort you can find on the internet, it
is a retreat too far. It abandons the
social mission in order to serve it.
He added, Fulfilling the social
purpose of journalism requires us
to give people what they need to
know.

FINDLAYStella M.,
69, of Greenwich, Connecticut
died on June 16, 2016 at home.
Born in Manchester, England
on July 14, 1946, she was the
daughter of the late James
Morris and Theresa Hayes
Morris. She is survived by beloved husband David Findlay,
cherished
children:
son
James
Findlay,
daughter
Alexandra Young and sonin-law Bruce Young, brother
Michael Morris and sister
Rita Lamb. Mrs. Findlay was
a member of Ocean Reef
Club, The Milbrook Club, and
Card Sound Golf Club. A memorial service will be held on
Friday, June 24, 2016 at noon
at The Milbrook Club in
Greenwich, Connecticut. In
lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made
to the NYU Langone Medical
Center Faculty & Friends
Campaign (referencing Ruth
Oratz, M.D. (F/C 416107)) at
www.nyulangone.org/give/
facultyandfriends.

FOALinda.
The Women's Forum of New
York records with sorrow the
death of our member Linda
Foa, a renowned expert in
Design Journalism and Marketing. Deepest sympathy is
extended to her family and
colleagues at the Architects
& Designers building, where
she served as Marketing
Director.
Carolyn Carter, President;
Rita B. Crotty, Executive Dir.

GOLDSTEINLolita E.,
died peacefully in her Manhattan apartment on June 21
following a short battle with
cancer. An inspirational nonagenarian, she was fluent in
many languages and taught
French at Riverdale Country
School for three decades. A
beloved member of the extended families of her late
husband Melvin S. Goldstein
and of her late sister Carmen
Magalhaes (nee Eshborn),
she is survived by sister-inlaw and brother-in-law Eileen
and Milton Putterman, and
by sixty-one nieces, nephews,
grandnieces, grandnephews,
great-grandnieces and greatgrandnephews. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be
made in her memory to
American Associates of Ben
Gurion University.

GOLDSTEINLolita E.
The board and staff of American Associates, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev
(AABGU) are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear
friend, Lolita E. Goldstein, a
devoted Zionist and kindhearted woman of valor, who
was instantly loved by everyone she met. Her contagious
enthusiasm, compassion and
abundant joy for the students,
faculty and projects of BenGurion University of the Negev (BGU), and her friendship with the staff and leadership of both AABGU and BGU
filled our hearts with love.
Lolita will be sorely missed.
We extend our profound condolences to Lolita's sister-inlaw, Eileen Putterman, and
her husband, Mickey; to Lolita's eight nieces and nephews; to her large extended
family in the U.S., Portugal
and Israel; and to the hundreds of friends, students and
countless others who had
come to cherish her and
whom she had inspired.
Lloyd Goldman, President
Lite Sabin, Chair,
Grtr. NY Reg.
Doron Krakow, EVP
Kevin M. Leopold,
N.E. Exec. Dir.

HAIMOWITZPatricia
Hurley. Pat died peacefully at
home June 20. Loving wife,
mother, and stepmother. A
bright star in the public relations firmament for more
than a half century, notably
at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, 1960-1972, then as
partner in Hurley & Haimowitz Public Relations. Funeral
mass Thursday 10am, St. Augustine Church, 116 Sixth
Ave., Brooklyn.

KANTROBeatrice Bunny,
of Boca Raton, FL passed
away on June 21, 2016, one
month before her 86th birthday. Beloved wife of the late
Ira Sonny, mother to Scott,
Mark, Meryl and Millie. Beloved grandmother of Matthew, Lauren, Jason, Ben and
Harris and beloved aunt to
many. Born to Hyman and
Minnie on July 6, 1930 in
Brooklyn, NY. Bunny was a
passionate advocate for the
Cancer Care organization
and served as President of
her local Chapter. Her loving
warmth, generosity and huge
heart for her family will be
sorely missed as we continue
life's journey with her always
in our thoughts.
The Kantro Family
LEIDERMANAbraham
Al, 98, of Palm Beach, FL
and Great Neck, NY June 19,
2016. Beloved husband (73
years) of the late Lillian; father of Michael (Hermine),
Beth (Martin Statfeld) and
the late Robert; grandfather
of Jill (Robert Cohen), Eric
(Natalie), Jenna (Aaron Harris) and Dani (Todd Elkins);
great-grandfather of Anna
Ray Harris and Rocket Lee
Cohen; brother of Bernice
Fein and the late Ralph Leiderman; successful businessman and volunteer extraordinaire, he loved friends,
jokes, ice cream and deli (but
not together), and his family
most of all.
PRATTCarol H.,
on June 20, 2016 of East Norwich, NY. Beloved wife of
Hon. George C. Pratt, U.S. Circuit Judge, Second Circuit
Court of Appeals (retired).
Loving mother of George
(Charlotte), Lise Pratt, Marcy
(James) Burke and Duffy
(Yanzi). Dear grandmother
of Jessica Wilde, Elizabeth
(Jason) Tea, Clayton (Katy)
Pratt, Dylan (Lizzie) Pratt
and Elijah Pratt and greatgrandmother
of
Charles
Wilde, Clementine Pratt and
Samson Pratt. Reposing at
the Beney Funeral Home, 79
Berry Hill Road, Syosset, NY.
Visiting: Wednesday, 7-9pm
and Thursday 2-4 and 7-9pm.
Funeral Service Friday, 10am
at The Community Church of
Syosset, 36 Church Street,
Syosset, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Carol
Pratt Memorial Fund, The
Community
Church
of
Syosset.

Deaths
SEINFELDEvelyn.
It is with profound sadness
that we announce the loss of
Evelyn Seinfeld, 68, on Monday, June 20, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer.
She was predeceased by her
mother, Libby Seinfeld, father, Louis Seinfeld, and brother, Melvyn Seinfeld. She is
survived by loving twin sister
Phyllis Feinberg of Dobbs
Ferry, NY, and sister and
brother-in-law Bernice and
Norman Colten of Ocean, NJ;
devoted nieces Rachel Feldman of Bergenfield, NJ, Jennifer Colten of Arlington, VA,
and Marissa Kaplan-Dobbs,
Lee Miuccio, and nephew
Jake Kaplan, all of Brooklyn,
NY;
proud
great - nieces
Malka and Esther Feldman,
Grace Miuccio, and Ruby
Dobbs; and great-nephews
Jack Miuccio, Simcha, Yosef,
and Moshe Feldman. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn,
NY, Evelyn advocated for
125,000 employees of the City
of New York as the director
of research and negotiations
for DC37. She retired after
over 40 years in public service. Evelyn was fiercely dedicated to improving the lives
of others, as evidenced by
her success as a contract negotiator and enforcer. She enjoyed spending time with her
family and cherished friends,
especially when coffee and
New York Times crossword
puzzles were involved. She
was a source of comfort and
guidance to all who knew her,
and her memory will live on
in those inspired by her generosity of spirit. Donations in
Evelyn's name may be made
to Congregation Sons of Israel, 1 Poplar Place, Ocean,
New Jersey 07712 or Jobs
with Justice at www.jwj.org.

WAMSLERDr. Karl
Maximilian Friedrich, beloved and revered father and
father - in - law of Bettina
Wamsler
and
Christian
Bechtle, Susanne Wamsler
and Paul Singer, Irene Banning and Jack Banning, Caroline A. Wamsler and DeWayne N. Phillips, and Pauline
Wamsler and David J. Sales
died peacefully surrounded
by his family at his home in
Pocking, Germany on Saturday, June 18, 2016. He is also
survived by his twelve grandchildren: Clara, Luisa, Christopher, Johanna, Inga, Kaspar, Marie, George, Charlotte, Schuyler, Karl and Sophia. His commanding intellect, pervasive charm, love of
family, and unfailing belief in
a good world informed a life
of integrity and extraordinary
achievements. He was the
rock of his family and an example for all who knew him.
The burial and requiem will
be held in Pocking, St. Pius
on June 29, 2016. Services
are being made by Zirngibl
Funeral Home, Hanfelder
Str., 53, Starnberg 82319.
(+49.8151.36140).

WYMANM. Richard.
We mourn the passing of our
dear friend. You will be sorely
missed.
All Your Friends at The
Admirals Cove Gin Game

ZEIGERMANDavid.
The
Board of Governors and
Membership of Montammy
Golf Club express their deepest sorrow at the passing of
their beloved member and
extend their heartfelt sympathy to the entire family.
Scott Tesser,
President

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THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Aftermath of the Orlando Massacre


TO THE EDITOR:
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman
Founded in 1851

ADOLPH S. OCHS

ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER

ORVIL E. DRYFOOS

ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER

Publisher 1896-1935

Publisher 1935-1961

Publisher 1961-1963

Publisher 1963-1992

Slamming Shut Americas Door


Republicans in Congress have reacted to the Orlando,
Fla., tragedy with a meanspirited and illogical proposal to
ban all refugees to the United States indefinitely.
The impulse to slam the door shut on some of the
worlds most vulnerable people is not new. In recent years,
congressional Republicans have tried to limit the numbers
of refugees coming into the country from conflict zones
like Syria. Meanwhile, officials in states such as Indiana
and Texas have tried to bar resettlement of Syrian
refugees, although, so far, none have succeeded.
Donald Trump, the partys presumptive presidential
nominee, has given xenophobic sentiments a megaphone
by endorsing a ban on all Muslims coming to this country,
whether refugees or not, and building a wall to keep out
Mexicans. Since Orlando, he declared his intention to suspend immigration from areas of the world when there is a
proven history of terrorism against the United States and
its allies. On Sunday, he called for racial profiling as a preventive tactic against terrorism.
The latest legislative proposal, by Representative Brian Babin, Republican of Texas, would place an immediate
moratorium on all refugee resettlement programs. In a
letter to other members of Congress, he said that in light of
the attacks in Paris, San Bernardino and Orlando, it is imperative that we do everything in our power to keep Americans safe and defend our national security.
To people like Mr. Babin, facts seem to mean very little. Almost every terrorist attack in the United States
since 9/11 as well as most of the attacks that were disrupted in advance, according to Daniel Benjamin, the former State Department counterterrorism coordinator, were
committed by an American citizen or a green card holder
who had been in the country for a decade or more, including Omar Mateen, the killer in Orlando, who was born in
Queens. That means that the attackers were largely radicalized here and that halting the flow of refugees would

have almost no effect.


Even without a refugee ban, the United States has allowed in a piteously small number of the more than four
million refugees who have fled Syria since the war there
began in 2011. Only 3,127 Syrian refugees have been settled
here in the past five years. President Obama promised to
take an additional 10,000 Syrians this year but so far only
1,300 have been admitted.
In total, some 800,000 refugees have come to America
in the 15 years since 9/11; only five have been arrested on
terrorism-related grounds and none have been charged
with trying to commit an attack in the United States, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Refugees are already screened more thoroughly than
other foreign travelers to the United States. The process
includes background checks by the State Department, the
Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I., as well
as defense and intelligence services. This can take as long
as 24 months for Syrians.
Even foreigners who have put their lives on the line
for America are being mistreated. For five years, the
United States has promised visas to thousands of Afghans
who worked as interpreters and assistants for American
military and diplomatic personnel during the war. These
people and their families are now at risk in Afghanistan
because they were allied with Washington. Yet when the
Senate passed a 2017 defense bill last week, a bipartisan
amendment that would have provided 4,000 additional visas for the Afghans was blocked.
Like other newcomers, those who arrive as refugees
have been a source of dynamism and growth in this country. With the world facing the worst refugee crisis since
World War II, barring refugees would inflict incalculable
damage on Americas reputation as a nation that offers
hope and shelter to the displaced and would do nothing to
advance the fight against terrorism.

Getting Twitchy About Mr. Trump


Its a question fit for Donald Trump himself: Can Republicans fire this guy?
Mondays news that Mr. Trumps campaign is turning
over the couch cushions for cash and has built next to
nothing in terms of a national organization was just the
latest reason for Republicans to worry that they have a
historic loser on their hands. Mr. Trumps racist comments
about the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit against
Trump University, his congratulating himself on predicting the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., and his insinuating
that the nations Muslims and President Obama were
somehow involved in domestic terrorist plots have persuaded many Republicans that Mr. Trump will never fulfill
their hopes of becoming a more judicious presidential
candidate.
Fully 70 percent of registered voters now say they dislike Mr. Trump, including more than three-quarters of
women and nearly 90 percent of nonwhite people, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. Hillary
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has
opened a double-digit lead in some national polls.
Small wonder that yet another group of Republicans
has mounted yet another long-shot effort to deprive Mr.
Trump of the nomination. Called Free the Delegates, its
an initiative to rally convention delegates to vote against
Mr. Trump in Cleveland next month. Kendal Unruh, one of
the groups founders and a Colorado delegate, told The
Washington Post that this can be done by passing a conscience clause before the convention that would allow
delegates from states that Mr. Trump won to abstain or
vote for another candidate.
Courageous Conservatives PAC, whose founder, Chris
Ekstrom, is a pro-Ted Cruz Dallas businessman, backs the
group. The conservative pundit Bill Kristol has voiced support for the movement, too, having failed so far to recruit a
kindred spirit to start a third-party campaign against Mr.
Trump.
Free the Delegates is not an effort to find an alternative to Mr. Trump with broad appeal. Its a campaign to
ditch him because hes not conservative enough, and it has
no apparent plan beyond that. Mr. Cruz, the second-place
primary season finisher liked by many in the Free the Delegates group, doesnt have nearly the delegates he would
need to become the nominee.
Meanwhile, more moderate anti-Trump forces are
split among John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, none
of whom came close to Mr. Trump in the primary contests.
Mitt Romney, a prominent voice against Mr. Trump, says
he wont run. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate,
polls in the single digits nationally.

ILLUSTRATION BY ERIK CARTER; PHOTOS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND NOAA PHOTO LIBRARY

So far, the latest dump-Trump scheming seems less


like a cohesive strategy than another manifestation of the
intraparty war of ideologies that led to Mr. Trumps win in
the first place. Having wooed and accommodated the
forces of chaos, party leaders now fear that Mr. Trump will
not only lose, but that hell cost them control of the House
and the Senate, too one reason former President
George W. Bush has agreed to help individual G.O.P. candidates.
Republican leaders in Washington have made little effort to quash the anti-Trump machinations. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and John Cornyn, the Senates second-ranked Republican, refuse to answer questions about Mr. Trumps latest blunder. Paul Ryan, speaker
of the House, seems to change approaches by the day, but
as yet does not repudiate Mr. Trump.
While Mr. Trump was winning, it made some sense, as
a purely partisan matter, for Mr. Ryan to swallow hard and
say he was supporting the man chosen by a plurality of the
Republican primary electorate. Confronted by shocking
new evidence of disarray in the Trump camp, as well as
Mr. Trumps loose-cannon habits, Mr. Ryan is now saying
delegates are absolutely free to follow their conscience.

Congress vs. the States on Guns


On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to not take up
Second Amendment challenges to laws in Connecticut and
New York that ban the sale or possession of many semiautomatic assault rifles and large-capacity magazines in
those states.
With those denials, the latest of more than 70 rejections of challenges to gun regulations, the justices have
made it clear that reasonable gun-control laws are fully
consistent with Second Amendment rights.
Yet Congress has refused time and again to help protect Americans from rampant gun violence, and so it has
fallen on state lawmakers to address this national crisis.
Some state and local governments have banned or restricted certain types of ammunition, or prohibited classes
of people, like those convicted of multiple instances of
drunken driving, from possessing guns. Others have imposed universal background checks and safe-storage requirements on gun owners.
These are all good efforts, but a patchwork solution is
not enough. Anyone who cannot buy a gun in one state can
simply drive to the next to find looser laws. The Orlando
massacre only made clearer the need for national legislation. Yet in a familiar scene on Monday, four separate
measures in the Senate to block people with suspected

terrorist ties from buying guns and to close loopholes in


background check laws were defeated.
On Tuesday, Senator Susan Collins, Republican of
Maine, introduced a bipartisan bill that would give the attorney general the authority to bar gun sales to people on
either of two watch lists the no-fly list and the selectee list, which includes those who are subject to extra
security screening before boarding a plane. About 2,700
Americans are on these lists. The bill would also alert the
F.B.I. of any attempted gun purchase by someone who has
been listed on the broader terrorist watch list in the past
five years as the Orlando killer was. Those who believed they had been wrongly denied a gun could appeal
directly to a federal court. Senator Collinss bill would be
one small step forward on a long road.
This does not need to be so difficult. By strong and
sometimes overwhelming majorities, Americans including gun owners and members of the National Rifle Association support stronger gun laws, including universal background checks, preventing suspected terrorists
from buying guns and limiting magazine capacities.
Only by taking action on measures like these can
members of Congress show that they care more about the
wishes of their constituents than of the gun lobby.

Re Senate Blocks 4 Measures Proposed to Curb Gun Sales (news article,


June 21):
After Sandy Hook, nothing. After Orlando, nothing. Aurora. Charleston. Virginia Tech. San Bernardino. Columbine.
Blood is everywhere, and huge majorities
want reasonable gun controls.
When the will of the people is consistently thwarted, a nations claim to democracy is called into question. After the
Port Arthur tragedy in 1996, in which a
gunman killed 35 people, Australians demanded strict measures, including a buyback program funded by taxes, and the
publics will became law.
Here, we have popular opinion but no
results. Our Congress accepts the National Rifle Associations worldview without reflection, study or hearings, and the
wisdom of a huge majority is ignored yet
again.
CURT LaFOND
Montgomery, Ala.

to express the importance of not forgetting about us. We do not exist only in the
wake of tragedy. We are fighting for our
rights daily, fighting against a government that overlooks us and against the
perceptions of a public that doesnt know
how to feel about us.
If you want to stand with us, do more
than just declare your hashtagged support. Help us fight discrimination by embracing love, in the many forms in which
it comes. Be an ally, stand up in your community, in the voting booth, and, yes, on
social media. Do not let these issues fade
from view, because if we do, we are inviting another Orlando.
ABIGAIL FOX
Traverse City, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:

In the aftermath of the biggest mass


shooting in modern America, the L.G.B.T.
community is suddenly receiving a flood
of support; yet in America today, we forget so quickly.
As a member of that community, I want

The Orlando tragedy allows us the opportunity to observe the destructive intersection of the private self-loathing and
instability of a handful of Muslim young
adults and the siren call of ISIS and other
extremist groups communicated by social media and the internet. Such groups
offer these young Muslims struggling
with internal pain and confusion the opportunity to believe that they have found
coherence. For some it offers the ability to
believe that they are heroic Muslim fighters.
Most eventually turn away from Islamic extremism. But a small number,
such as the Boston Marathon bombers
and Orlando gunman, actually carry out
terrorist acts in some cases without
even having direct contact with these
extremist groups.
The identification of those who will act
on ISISs preaching is difficult. But the
Muslim community must focus on identifying those young members who develop
and sustain an interest in ISIS.
The Muslim community, supported by
the greater society, can and must develop
culturally sensitive means of aiding these
young people. ISIS will then have no place
in their lives.
SIDNEY WEISSMAN
Chicago
The writer is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University.

The Red Cross, in Haiti

Employee Severance Pacts

TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:

Re Trust Deficit at the Red Cross


(editorial, June 17):
The Red Cross is a steward of the public trust and must maintain complete
confidence from the public to fulfill its
135-year-old humanitarian mission.
Your editorial misses the mark, however, by not scrutinizing the assertion
that 25 percent of the $488 million donated to the American Red Cross for Haiti
relief went only to administrative costs
and fund-raising.
Only 9 percent went for management,
general and fund-raising expenses,
sometimes called overhead. The rest
went for costs vital to providing humanitarian aid. These costs include paying for
staff members (a majority of whom are
Haitian) and infrastructure to help manage and oversee approximately 100
projects we funded. This isnt overhead
it is what makes the delivery of humanitarian aid possible.
Haiti has presented one of the most
challenging and complex disaster responses ever. Yet we have effectively delivered close to half a billion dollars of humanitarian assistance in the form of new
hospitals, repaired homes, clean water,
vaccinations, job training, improved sanitation and other life-altering assistance
to millions of Haitians.
While our response has been examined closely, there have been no findings
of fraud or abuse. We believe that our disaster response efforts remain worthy of
the publics trust. GAIL J. McGOVERN
President and Chief Executive
The American Red Cross
Washington

Re Laid-Off Americans, Required to


Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
(news article, June 12):
As a lawyer who negotiates employee
separation agreements, virtually all of
which
include
nondisparagement
clauses, I believe that such provisions
should be declared unenforceable on the
ground that they violate public policy.
Employers are already protected from
defamation, by state law. The purpose of
nondisparagement clauses essentially
gag provisions is to prevent former
employees from discussing with one another, the news media and their political
representatives the treatment that the former employees honestly believe violates
federal, state and local anti-discrimination
laws or is damaging to the public interest.
Sending jobs abroad or hiring visa
employees are two practices that merit
public discussion. Rampant age discrimination against Americans in their 50s and
60s who are laid off and often unable to find
new jobs is another. Yet we cannot fully
comprehend the scope and effect of such
practices because to obtain benefits and
severance pay, employees are compelled,
through what amounts to economic blackmail, to shut up, precluding public discussion and allowing employers to continue destructive policies.
Recognizing that without discussion
there can be no action, the National Labor
Relations Board has limited the scope of
nondisparagement clauses in union shops
on the theory that such restrictive clauses
impede union organizing.
Surely it is important for the public to be
aware of the behavior of employers
throughout what has become an increasingly inequitable American workplace.
Nondisparagement clauses obstruct such
discussions and should be banned.
RITA C. TOBIN
Chappaqua, N.Y.

TO THE EDITOR:

Re Dont Tear Down Pulse, by Richard A. Friedman (Op-Ed, June 19):


While none would fault the owner of
Pulse for choosing to shut it down, one
hopes it will reopen and flourish, as the
owner has vowed. Dr. Friedman makes a
solid case for the clubs continued existence as possibly fostering emotional healing for those traumatized by the shooting.
Id suggest that, in addition to Dr. Friedmans reasons, shuttering or demolishing
it might signal to the survivors and the bereaved that we lack belief in their resilience in the face of such horror. Removing
such physical reminders would seem to
dislocate, rather than diminish, grief.
MATTHEW P. HUGGINS
Orlando, Fla.
TO THE EDITOR:

Time to Close Guantnamo


TO THE EDITOR:

Re The Broken Promise on Guantnamo (editorial, June 20):


Of course President Obama should allow independent human rights monitors
to document the treatment of Guantnamo prisoners. Beyond human rights
conventions that call for such access is
the right of Americans to know what tortures were inflicted in their name.
The president should also release those
detainees who have been cleared for release and send the remaining prisoners to
the United States for trial. Indefinite detention, whether in Guantnamo or another prison, perpetuates injustice.
Are budget-conscious legislators not
concerned about costs? To maintain the
current 80 prisoners at Guantnamo
costs American taxpayers $454 million, or
almost $5.7 million per detainee, per year.
Its time to close Guantnamo.
L. MICHAEL HAGER
Eastham, Mass.
The writer is co-founder and former director general of the International Development Law Organization.

V.P. Advice for Clinton


Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown,
Julin Castro . . . These are just
some of the names being mentioned and in some cases auditioning as possible running
mates for Hillary Clinton, as a
front-page article on Monday
noted. If you were part of Mrs. Clintons inner circle, whom would you
advise her to choose, and why?
Tell us in 150 words or less, by
Thursday at noon, Eastern time.
Please put vice president in the
subject line.
We plan to publish a sampling on
Sunday. (Youll have a chance to
weigh in on the Republicans in a future week.)
Email: letters@nytimes.com

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Britains
Pro-Brexit
Press
By Martin Fletcher

LONDON

O ONE should be surprised


that Britain could vote to
leave the European Union tomorrow. For decades, British
newspapers have offered
readers an endless stream of biased, misleading and downright fallacious stories
about Brussels. And the journalist who
helped set the tone long before he was
the mayor of London or the face of the proBrexit campaign was Boris Johnson.
I know this because I was appointed
Brussels correspondent for The Times of
London in 1999, a few years after Mr. Johnson reported from there for another London newspaper, The Telegraph. I had to
live with the consequences.
Mr. Johnson made his name in Brussels
not with honest reporting but with extreme euroskepticism, tirelessly attacking, mocking and denigrating the European Union. He wrote about European
Union plans to take over Europe,
standardize condom sizes and blow up its
own asbestos-filled headquarters. These
articles were undoubtedly colorful but
they bore scant relation to the truth.
Mr. Johnsons dispatches, far more fun
than the usual dry, policy-driven Brussels
fare, galvanized the rest of Britains highly
competitive and partisan newspaper industry. Editors, particularly at the
tabloids, started pressing their own
correspondents to match Mr. Johnsons
imaginative reports.
By the time I arrived in Brussels, editors wanted only reports about faceless
Eurocrats dictating the shape of the cucumbers that could be sold in Britain, or
plots to impose a European superstate, or
British prime ministers fighting plucky
rear-guard actions against a hostile Continent. Much of the British press seemed
unable to view the European Union
through any other prism. These narratives reflected and exploited the innate
nationalism, historical sense of superiority and disdain for Johnny Foreigner of many readers.
Articles that did not bash Brussels, that
acknowledged the European Unions
achievements, that recognized that Britain had many natural allies in Europe and

Martin Fletcher is a former foreign and


associate editor of The Times of London.

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Op-Art

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

JOSHUA PRAGER WITH LAUREN TAMAKI

Another Age
Of Discovery

Age Really Is a Number

NE of the mixed blessings of being 20 and 21 and


even 23, Joan Didion wrote, is the conviction
that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary
notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone
before.
But of course it has. Whether we are 20 or 2 or 91 we feel,
by and large, what billions of others have felt at that same age.
Writers know this. Our great books are filled with universal observations about our every year, their desperations and delights.
All of us age more or less in step you, me and our two presumptive nominees for president. Donald J. Trump, who turned
70 last week, would no doubt recognize himself in the words of
Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, A man of 70 should know

what he wants.
Still, not every passage can speak to every person. Hillary
Clinton began her second bid for president at an age when such
mountainous ambition is generally in decline. In a magazine
article titled Life at Sixty-Seven, Theodore Dreiser wrote,
Fame, success, power, $500 million, world leadership well, if
they should arrive, I might not exactly take to cover, but as for
lying awake nights craving them as in my youth I did well, I
really dont care to any more.
Nonetheless, the simple fact remains that age informs who
we are. That fact is as relatable to our presidents as it is to the
rest of us. And as we wait to see how age might shape a Trump
or Clinton presidency, here is a sampling of observations about
age that speak to the experiences of our last six presidents. 0

The countrys
newspapers have trashed
the E.U. for decades.
often won important arguments on, say,
the creation of the single market, were almost invariably killed.
The European Union can be meddlesome, arrogant and incompetent, but seldom was the British reader told how it had
secured peace on the Continent, broken up
cartels or forced member states to clean
up their rivers and beaches.
British newspapers portrayal of the
European Union in the lead-up to the referendum has likewise been negative. A
few papers have backed the Remain campaign, but the biggest broadsheet (The
Telegraph), the biggest midmarket paper
(The Daily Mail) and the biggest tabloid
(The Sun) have thrown themselves
shamelessly behind Brexit.
They have peddled the myths that Britain pays 350 million pounds a week (about
$500 million) to the European Union; that
millions of Turks will invade Britain because Turkey is about to be offered European Union membership; that immigrants are destroying our social services;
and that post-Brexit, Britain will enjoy
continued access to Europes single market without automatically allowing in European Union workers.
Some samples from recent Daily Mail
headlines give the flavor: Were from Europe: Let Us In!; Ten Bombshells the
E.U.s Keeping Secret Until After Youve
Voted; Greediest Snouts in the E.U.
Trough. Formally endorsing Brexit on
June 13, The Sun, a mainstay of the xenophobic press, declared: If we stay, Britain
will be engulfed in a few short years by
this relentlessly expanding German-dominated federal state.
Loughborough Universitys Center for
Research in Communication and Culture
has calculated that 82 percent of newspaper articles about the referendum favor
Brexit when circulation and strength of
papers endorsements are taken into account. InFacts, a pro-Remain group that
campaigns for accurate journalism, has
filed 19 complaints with the Independent
Press Standards Organization, Britains
print media watchdog, leading to five corrections, with rulings awaited on the rest.
The watchdog said a headline in The Sun
proclaiming, Queen Backs Brexit was
significantly misleading.
It is often said that newspapers no longer matter. But they do matter when the
contest is so close and shoppers see headlines like BeLeave in Britain emblazoned across the front pages of tabloids
whenever they visit their supermarket.
They matter if they have collectively and
individually misled their readers for
decades.
The upshot is that Mr. Johnson and his
fellow Brexit proponents are now campaigning against the caricature of the European Union that he himself helped create. They are asking the British people to
part with a monster about as real as the
one in Loch Ness. Mr. Johnson may be
witty and amusing, but he is extremely
dangerous. What began as a bit of a joke
could inflict terrible damage on his country.
0

Have we been here before? I know it


feels as if the internet, virtual reality, Donald Trump, Facebook, sequencing of the
human genome and machines that can
reason better than people constitute a
change in the pace of change without
precedent. But weve actually been
through an extraordinarily rapid transition like this before in history a transition we can learn a lot from.
Ian Goldin, director of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, and Chris
Kutarna, also of Oxford Martin, have just
published a book Age of Discovery:
Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our
New Renaissance about lessons we
can draw from the period 1450 to 1550,
known as the Age of Discovery. It was
when the world made a series of great
leaps forward, propelled by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Copernicus and Columbus,
that produced the Renaissance and reshaped science, education, manufacturing, communications, politics and geopolitics.
Gutenbergs printing press provided
the trigger, Goldin told me by email, by
flipping knowledge production and exchange from tight scarcity to radical abundance. Before that, the Catholic Churches
monopolized knowledge, with their handwritten Latin manuscripts locked up in
monasteries. The Gutenberg press
democratized information, and provided
the incentive to be literate. Within 50
years, not only had scribes lost their jobs,
but the Catholic Churchs millennia-old
monopoly of power had been torn apart as
the printing of Martin Luthers sermons
ignited a century of religious wars.
Meanwhile, Goldin added, Copernicus
upended the prevailing God-given notions
of heaven and earth by finding that far
from the sun revolving around the earth,
the earth rotated around the sun, and
voyages of discovery by Columbus, da
Gama and Magellan tore up millennia-old
maps of the known world.
Those were the mother of all disruptions and led to the parallels with today.
Now, like then, new media have
democratized information exchange, amplifying the voices of those who feel they
have been injured in the upheaval, said
Goldin. Now, like then, public leaders and
public institutions have failed to keep up
with rapid change, and popular trust has
been deeply eroded. Now, like then, this

Disruptions today and


in Copernicuss day.

Joshua Prager, the author of 100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life, is writing a book on Roe v.
Wade. Lauren Tamaki is a designer and illustrator.

The L.G.B.T. Case for Guns


By Nicki Stallard

SAN JOSE, CALIF.

LL never forget the first piece of


safety advice I got when I began my
transition from the male body in
which I was born to the female body
I now occupy: Carry a whistle. If I
was attacked, I was supposed to blow it
in hopes it would alert some do-gooder to
dash into a dark alley to break up a brutal
hate crime.
The idea was not only preposterous, it
was also insulting. The implication was
that I, being transgender, wouldnt be
able to save myself. But I didnt need a
whistle; I had a gun.
Since the attack in Orlando, Fla., many
L.G.B.T. groups have been calling loudly
for laws restricting gun ownership. But if
anyone should be concerned about protecting the individual right to bear arms,
its L.G.B.T. people. We need to stop
preaching nonviolence and voting for politicians who dont protect us.
Violence toward L.G.B.T. people is
real. We are victimized at far greater
rates than other minority groups. We often face multiple assailants. The attacks
are frenzied and quickly escalate from
harassment, to fists, to something altogether different. People die.
If you find yourself in a violent encounter, youre lucky if you get three seconds
to react. If you want to save yourself, you
have to go on the offensive. And a whistle
isnt going to cut it.

Nicki Stallard is a spokeswoman for Pink


Pistols, an L.G.B.T. gun group.

Im not the only one who thinks the


L.G.B.T. movement is making a mistake
by lining up behind gun control
measures. In the days since Orlando,
Facebook membership in my pro-gun
L.G.B.T. group, Pink Pistols, has
quadrupled, from around 1,500 to more
than 6,500, and new chapters are starting across the country. Gun stores are reporting a spike in sales to L.G.B.T.
buyers, and gun trainers are reaching
out, offering free training or discounts.
These are people who understand that
if youre gay or transgender, you cant

How else am I supposed


to protect myself from a
hate crime?
simply hope that laws will protect you.
They wont. And you cant rely on the police. Orlando is proof you could bleed to
death in the time it takes for them to stop
the shooter.
What happened in Orlando was not
just an attack on America, it was an attack on L.G.B.T. people. While America
at large debates what laws could have
prevented this, what role Islam plays,
and which political party is to blame, we
need to get practical: If you dont defend
yourself, no one else will.
Most would agree as do I that violence is rarely the answer, and its never
a first line of defense. But when my

friends tell me theyd rather die than resort to violence, I tell them fine, Ill light a
candle at your vigil. Its your choice. But
those are the stakes. Dont kid yourself
otherwise.
I used to have reservations about people carrying guns in bars. But 12 states
allow concealed carry in bars, and I
havent heard any reports of increased
violence in those places. Now I cant help
wondering how many victims in Orlando
might have been saved if a few people inside the nightclub had had concealed
carry permits, and been able to fight
back.
Many L.G.B.T. people view guns as
evil immoral killing machines that
should be heavily regulated, if not
eradicated. Thats because they hear
about guns only when the story ends
tragically, or when they see them used in
violent movies.
But every day, Americans use guns to
defend themselves, and they dont even
have to pull the trigger. The mere appearance of a firearm can save their life.
Just last week, Tom G. Palmer, now a
senior fellow at the Cato Institute, wrote
in an op-ed article in The New York Daily
News about an episode in his 20s when
he flashed his pistol at a group of men
who were threatening to kill him because
he was gay and they retreated.
This is a call to L.G.B.T. people to take
their own defense seriously, and to question the left-leaning institutions that tell
them guns are bad, and should be left to
the professionals. Become a professional. Youre allowed. Thats what the
Second Amendment is for. We can fight
back when our lives depend on it.
0

is the best moment in history to be alive


human health, literacy, aggregate
wealth and education are flourishing
and there are more scientists alive today
than in all previous generations.
And, yet many people feel worse off.
Because, as in the Renaissance, key anchors in peoples lives like the workplace and community are being fundamentally dislocated. The pace of
technological change is outstripping the
average persons ability to adapt. Now,
like then, said Goldin, sizable parts of the
population found their skills were no longer needed, or they lived in places left behind, so inequality grew. At the same
time, new planetary scale systems of
commerce and information exchange led
to immense improvements in choices and
accelerating innovations which made
some people fabulously rich.
Was there a Donald Trump back then?
Michelangelo and Machiavellis Florence suffered a shocking popular powertaking when Girolamo Savonarola, a midlevel friar from Ferrara, who lived from
1452 to 1498, exploded from obscurity in
the 1490s to enthrall Florentines, who felt
left behind economically or culturally,
with sermons that laid blame upon the
misguided policies and moral corruption
of their leaders, said Goldin. He and his
zealous supporters, though a small minority, swept away the Medici establishment
and seized control of the citys councils.
From there, Savonarola launched an
ugly campaign of public purification, introducing radical laws including against
homosexuality, and attacked public
intellectuals in an act of intimidation that
history still remembers as the Bonfire of
the Vanities. Savonarola was amongst the
first to tap into the information revolution
of the time, and while others produced
long sermons and treatises, Savonarola
disseminated short pamphlets, in what
may be thought of as the equivalent of political tweets.
The establishment politicians of the
day,
who
were
low
energy,
underestimated the power of that new information revolution to move beyond scientific and cultural ideas to amplify populist voices challenging authority.
Yikes! How do we blunt that?
More risk-taking is required when
things change more rapidly, both for workers who have to change jobs and for businesses who have to constantly innovate to
stay ahead, Goldin argued. Governments job is to strengthen the safety nets
and infrastructure so individuals and
companies can be as daring in terms of
learning, adapting and investing in themselves as they need to be. At the same
time, when the world gets this tightly woven, America needs to be more, not less,
engaged, with the rest of the world, because the threats posed by climate
change, pandemics, cyberattacks or terror will not be reduced by America withdrawing.
Then, as now, walls stopped working.
Cannons and gunpowder came to Europe
that could penetrate or go over walls and
books could bring ideas around them, he
said. Then, like now, walls only made you
poorer, dumber and more insecure.
0
Frank Bruni is off today.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Concern About Weak Growth

Reality Intrudes on Fantasy

SportsWednesday Pages 9-13

Yellen Remains Cautious

Disneys Uphill Climb

Tears Across Decades

Comments by the Feds


chairwoman suggest no interest
2
rate increase is imminent.

A grim week highlights the


challenges facing the global
entertainment giant.

LeBron James, left, and Michael


Jordan bared their souls as
11
champions 20 years apart.

B1

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

F.A.A. Rules Make Way for Commercial Drones to Take Flight


By CECILIA KANG

WASHINGTON The federal government on Tuesday made it much easier for


companies to use drones for a variety of
tasks, including aerial photography and
emergency response.
The Federal Aviation Administrations
new commercial drone rules allow a
broad range of businesses to use drones
under 55 pounds, but with several restric-

tions: The drones must be operated by a


pilot who has passed a written test and is
at least 16 years old. And drones can be
flown only below 400 feet, during the day
and at least five miles away from airports.
The new F.A.A. rules do not necessarily
preclude a hodgepodge of state and local
drone regulations that have popped up in
recent years. The administration sent a

letter to states and cities saying they recommend everyone follow their lead. But
it is only a recommendation.
The F.A.A. stopped short of giving a
green light to package delivery, a goal of
Amazon and Google, which have pushed
regulators to create rules that would allow them to transfer part of their groundbased delivery systems to the sky. The
new guidelines mandate that a commer-

cial drone operator must always have the


machine within line of sight a rule that,
for now, makes delivering packages unfeasible.
Still, the action brings the drone delivery vision one step closer to reality. And
experts predict that in time federal regulators will get comfortable with the notion.
Continued on Page 2

IMAGES BY SUPERCELL

In Game
Deal,
A Dash
For Cash
Tencents acquisition of Supercell
could be lucrative, if it can hold on
to devoted fans of Clash of Clans.

Top, images from


Clash of Clans. Above,
the character Barbarian, and above right,
Archer. Devotees
spend real money on
fake currency.

By PAUL MOZUR and MARK SCOTT


rare among global technology companies for
SHAKE-UP AT SOFTBANK
having figured out how to make money from moHONG KONG In the world of Clash of
Clans, Hou Dai has played and paid enough The companys president, who bile devices. The company has already successthat he now leads his own clan of 50 online was being groomed to be chief, fully integrated functions like shopping and
money transfers into its popular Chinese chat
will step down. Page 5.
players.
apps.
At one time, Mr. Hou, a 22-year-old recent
It also adds to Tencents collection of video
college graduate from Shenyang, played the smartphone game as
games so that it can become a truly global player in contrast to
much as six hours a day. He estimates that he has spent 40,000
most
Chinese
digital
and media companies, which have often
renminbi, about $6,000, on the game over the last three years.
struggled to acquire and run valuable foreign products and
Mr. Hous spending habits show why the Chinese internet giant
services. The deal gives Tencent a particularly strong presence in
Tencent just paid $8.6 billion for a controlling stake in Supercell,
mobile games, adding a global angle to a mobile menu that already
the Finnish creator of Clash of Clans, from the SoftBank Group Corincludes the most popular smartphone chat app in China.
poration of Japan.
Continued on Page 4
The deal will most likely help Tencent bolster its reputation

After Brexit Vote,


Europe Has Choice
Is Europe finished?
The latest polls and political prediction markets
this week suggest that Britons will vote on Thursday
to stay in the European Union. The Leave campaign,
led by Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London
who tried to whip up a surge of resentment against immigrants into a vote for
Britain to leave the bloc, looks set to fail.
But even if the pro-European Remain
cause pulls out a victory, the popular hosECONOMIC
tility
against the decades-long process of
SCENE
European integration evident not only
in Britain but across the Continent underscores a
defining weakness. Europe itself lacks a firm
democratic foundation.
Europes leaders face a clear-cut choice: For their
integration agenda to succeed preserving the free
movement of people within the bloc, forging ahead
with the euro and the single market, keeping doors
open to outsiders the E.U. must figure out how to
overcome the narrow national interests and mistrust
that tie it up in knots every time a collective response
is needed.
That will require democracy on a European scale.
If Europes national governments remain unwilling to
cede political power to regional institutions that have
democratic legitimacy, the European Union will slide
backward.
We need pan-E.U. politics, argued Mary Kaldor,
professor of global governance at the London School
Continued on Page 4

EDUARDO
PORTER

NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Funky Fashion Outpost, Just Over the Bridge


The Factory in Long Island City, Queens, home to Gwynnie Bee, a clothing company. The area is
prized for its airy warehouses, low rent and proximity to Manhattans garment district. Page 6.

Musk Aims
To Shore Up
SolarCity
By Buying It
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
and PETER EAVIS

Elon Musk has built an ambitious business empire on three pillars: electric cars, solar energy
and space travel.
Now, the billionaire entrepreneur is trying to shore up his embattled solar panel provider by
merging it with the electric carmaker.
His Tesla Motors said on Tuesday that it had offered to buy SolarCity in an all-stock deal, one
that could value the latter at as
much as $2.8 billion. The aim, Mr.
Musk argues, is to create a renewable-energy giant, collecting
clean electricity and putting it to
work propelling cars.
But the transaction highlights
the unusual moves that Mr. Musk
continues to make to support the
various arms of his empire, where
he is the largest shareholder of
each company.
He has taken out loans to buy up
shares in Tesla and SolarCity,
some backed by his personal
stock holdings in both companies
a risky move that leaves him
exposed to margin calls if their
stock prices slide too far. He has
defended the practice as low-risk
to other shareholders, given the
sheer size of his personal net
worth of more than $10 billion.
In Mr. Musks view, putting
Tesla and SolarCity together is
only logical.
We need to achieve a tight integration of the products, he told
reporters in a conference call on
Tuesday. I think its an obvious
thing to do.
An agreement is some time
away, if one is ever reached. But
shareholders in SolarCity pushed
the companys stock up 19 percent
in after-hours trading, to $25.26.
Shares of Tesla, however, tumbled
Continued on Page 4

The Death
Of an Actor
Highlights
A Jeep Issue
By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN

The death of the actor Anton


Yelchin, killed when his Jeep
Grand Cherokee rolled backward
down a driveway and crushed him
against a mailbox pillar last weekend, has cast a public spotlight on
a problem with some models of
Jeeps and other Fiat Chrysler vehicles.
But for the company, there is
nothing new about the issue
which federal regulators first
flagged last August.
The question is why, nearly a
year later, Fiat Chrysler has still
not come up with a fix for the problem, which has now been linked to
hundreds of accidents, dozens of
injuries and now potentially
a well-publicized death.
The company, which issued a
recall notice on more than one million affected vehicles in April, will
say only it is still working on a solution, there was no decision
about a recall until this year and
there has been no delay. It has
written to federal regulators that
the remedy will include a software
change and an additional mechanism to mitigate the effect of operator error.
That solution is expected no later than July or August, a Fiat
Chrysler spokesman, Eric Mayne,
said on Tuesday in an email.
And yet, as far back as March,
Fiat Chrysler was telling federal
investigators that it already had
potential solutions.
The problem involves an electronic gearshift, whose operation
is similar to that of a video-game
joystick. It has confused many
drivers, who thought they had left
their cars in park, only to find they
were in neutral, and started
rolling away after the drivers
stepped out.
Rollaway accidents are particularly dangerous, and the investiContinued on Page 4

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Growth Weak, Fed Chairwoman Signals No Hurry to Raise Interest Rates


ing through bankruptcy, like the
ones Mr. Trump controlled as a
businessman. But she made clear
such a strategy would prove disastrous for the government and
the economy alike.
I feel the consequences for the
United States and the global economy for defaulting on Treasury
debt would be very severe, she
said, avoiding mentioning Mr.
Trump by name. At a minimum, it
could result in much higher borrowing costs for U.S. households
and businesses.
Despite the Feds first move to
tighten monetary policy in a decade in December, interest rates re-

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

WASHINGTON Weak economic growth in the United States


could force the Federal Reserve to
hold off on any imminent interest
rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, Janet L.
Yellen, told Congress on Tuesday.
While Ms. Yellen said that the
American economys long-term
prospects remain favorable, she
signaled that headwinds, including slower employment gains in
recent months, weak productivity
growth and the persistence of a
sluggish pace of inflation, have
prompted the Fed to adopt a more
cautious stance.
The latest readings on the labor market and the weak pace of
investment illustrate one downside that domestic demand
might falter, Ms. Yellen said in
testimony before the Senate
Banking Committee.
Ms. Yellens overall message on
Capitol Hill echoed her comments
at a news conference last week after the Feds decision to hold rates
steady. But her tenor suggested
that there was little chance of an
increase in the benchmark federal
funds rate at the central banks
next meeting, in July, and that a
move when policy makers meet in
September is hardly guaranteed.
Proceeding cautiously in raising the federal funds rate will allow us to keep the monetary support to economic growth in place
while we assess whether growth
is returning to a moderate pace,
she said.
Mirroring the habit of Fed leaders going back decades, Ms.
Yellen hedged her bets, emphasizing her positive outlook for the
years ahead, if not the coming
quarter or two.
But she acknowledged influential voices in academia and elsewhere who have warned that
long-term growth could be substantially below the pace achieved
in the decades before the Great
Recession.
Although I am optimistic about
the longer-run prospects for the
U.S. economy, we cannot rule out
the possibility expressed by some
prominent economists that the
slow productivity growth seen in
recent years will continue in the
future, she said.

Battling a stubbornly
slow recovery full of
short-term challenges.

WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES

Janet L. Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Bank, reported to the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
In the question-and-answer
portion of the hearing, Ms. Yellen
termed productivity gains disappointing, and pointed out that
business investment had been
similarly weak during the recovery. She added that the productivity issue was something Congress
needed to address by improving
polices for workplace training and
taking on other issues.
Ms. Yellens appearance was
part of two days of testimony before Congress that the Fed leader
is required to present twice each
year. Another session is scheduled
on Wednesday before the House
Financial Services Committee.
Her previous testimony on
monetary policy was in February,
so this weeks appearance before
Congress is Ms. Yellens last be-

fore the presidential election in


November.
As a result, Ms. Yellen received
a barrage of questions on everything from the course of interest
rates and banking regulation in
the United States to the potential
fallout if British voters decide in
favor of leaving the European Union when they go to the polls on
Thursday.
Responding to opening questions from Senator Richard C.
Shelby, the Alabama Republican
who is chairman of the Senate
Banking Committee, Ms. Yellen
emphasized that until recently,
the job market had held up well
despite mixed developments in
the economy.
Noting that the jobs data for
May was disappointing, she none-

theless said that it is important


we dont overblow the significance of single report.
If the slowdown is a reflection
of weak growth earlier in the year,
Im hopeful we will see stronger
job gains going forward, she added.
Turning to international developments, Ms. Yellen called the
possibility of a so-called Brexit
significant for the United Kingdom and Europe, and said that if
Britain left the European Union it
could usher in a period of uncertainty and volatility that could affect market conditions and the
U.S. economic outlook.
Late in the hearing, Ms. Yellen
said that while the Fed was closely
monitoring the Brexit vote and
the possible consequences of a

STOCKS & BONDS

The Dow Minute by Minute

Testimony by Yellen Nudges the Market Higher


By The Associated Press

United States stocks rose on


Tuesday as investors were relieved to hear Janet L. Yellen, the
chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, say the central bank would
remain cautious about raising interest rates.
Stocks hardly budged for most
of the day as investors were occupied with Ms. Yellens appearance
on Capitol Hill and the vote this
week on Britains possible withdrawal from the European Union.
For the second day in a row,
stocks traded higher and bond
prices fell as investors felt a bit
surer that Britain would stay in
the E.U.
Ms. Yellen told the Senate that
the Fed would proceed cautiously
in raising interest rates because of
uncertainties facing the American
economy, including a recent slowdown in job growth. Ms. Yellens
testimony will conclude on
Wednesday.

A second day of gains


as energy shares rise
despite a drop in oil.
The market seems to have responded well to Dr. Yellens tone of
caution, said Phil Orlando, chief
equity strategist for Federated
Investors.
The Standard & Poors 500stock index rose 5.65 points, or 0.3
percent, to 2,088.90. The Nasdaq
composite added 6.55 points, or 0.1
percent, to 4,843.76.
The Dow Jones industrial average picked up 24.86 points, or 0.1
percent, to 17,829.73.
Energy companies climbed despite a dip in the price of oil, which
is still trading above its lows from
early this year. Crude has risen
about 7 percent over the last two

days. Benchmark United States


crude fell 52 cents, or 1.1 percent, to
$48.85 a barrel in New York. Brent
crude, the benchmark for international oil prices, slipped 3 cents, to
$50.62 a barrel in London.
Schlumberger gained 93 cents,
or 1.2 percent, to $78.52 and Occidental Petroleum picked up $1.06,
or 1.4 percent, to $77.16.
Opinion polls and betting markets indicate that Britons are
more likely to vote to remain in the
E.U. in a referendum on Thursday.
Uncertainty about the outcome
has weighed on global markets.
On Tuesday, bond prices fell as
investors felt comfortable taking
on riskier investments. The yield
on the 10-year Treasury note
edged up to 1.71 percent from 1.68
percent.
The used-car dealership CarMax disclosed disappointing firstquarter results as its costs increased and sales fell short of Wall
Streets estimates. Its stock gave
up $2.49, or 4.9 percent, to $48.14.
The auto retailer AutoNation fell
$1.46, or 3 percent, to $47.89 and
the auto supplier BorgWarner

vote to leave, she was not offering


advice on how to vote.
Although the decision is a
unique event that has no close
parallel, she said, the Fed is not
attempting to take a stand. I am
not providing advice in that
sense.
Under questioning from Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, Ms. Yellen took
aim at a recent suggestion from
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive
Republican presidential nominee,
that one option in managing the
federal debt might be to force
investors to accept less than the
face value of what the government owed.
So-called haircuts arent unusual for bondholders of troubled
companies, or for businesses go-

main extremely low by historical


standards and not too far above
the so-called zero lower bound.
That kind of accommodation
provides support for the economy,
Ms. Yellen said, but it does rob the
Fed of what she called a tried and
true tool in the face of an economic shock: a rate cut to spur
growth.
For now, though, Ms. Yellen saw
little reason to fear an impending
crisis and she dismissed fears
among some on Wall Street that
the Fed has contributed to imbalances in the markets. I dont see
any evidence, she said, of those
broad-based financial stability
concerns.
And for all her caution about the
outlook for the economy, Ms.
Yellen said she did not see a recession on the horizon.
The odds of a recession are
low, she said. Even as the Fed
chairwoman listed challenges like
a weak manufacturing sector,
lower commodity prices and job
losses in the energy sector, she
said, I remain quite optimistic.
Recessions are usually preceded by the threat of rising inflation and tightening monetary policy, she said. We dont have any
such conditions in play right now.

skidded $1.38, or 4 percent, to


$33.35.
Werner Enterprises, the transportation and logistics company,
forecast disappointing secondquarter results. It said sluggish
freight market conditions were
hurting rates, as were the costs
associated with an increase in pay
for drivers. The stock lost $2.37, or
9.6 percent, to $22.31.
American Science & Engineering, which makes X-ray inspection
systems, agreed to be acquired by
OSI Systems, the airport security
and full-body scanner maker. OSI
will pay $37 per share, or $263.9
million. American Science & Engineerings stock jumped $4.54, or 14
percent, to $36.88.
The generic drug maker Impax
Laboratories tumbled after it
agreed to pay $586 million for a
group of generic drugs owned by
Allergan and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Those companies
had to sell the products because
Allergan is buying Tevas generic
drugs business. Impax lost $3.66,
or 11.4 percent, to $28.31.
The data security software

Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on


Tuesday.

17,875

17,850

17,825
Previous close
17,804.87

17,800
10 a.m.

Noon

Source: Reuters

company Imperva climbed $5.02,


or 12.4 percent, to $45.46 after Elliott Management, the firm run by
the activist investor Paul E. Singer, disclosed a stake.
The price of gold dropped
$19.60, or 1.5 percent, to $1,272.50
an ounce and silver fell 20 cents,
or 1.1 percent, to $17.32 an ounce.
Copper rose 2 cents to $2.12 a
pound.
In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline rose 1 cent, to $1.59 a
gallon. Heating oil slipped 1 cent,
to $1.52 a gallon. Natural gas rose 2
cents, to $2.77 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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In Germany, the DAX rose 0.5


percent and the CAC 40 in France
advanced 0.6 percent, also adding
to large gains on Monday. The
FTSE 100 in Britain gained 0.4 percent. The Japanese Nikkei 225
rose 1.3 percent and the Hang
Seng in Hong Kong added 0.8 percent while the South Korean Kospi
gained 0.1 percent.
The dollar rose to 104.83 yen
from 103.86 yen. The euro fell to
$1.1251 from $1.1305. The British
pound edged back down to $1.4626
from $1.4684 after a big jump Monday.

F.A.A. Issues Rules Making Way for Commercial Drones


From First Business Page
Within months you will see the
incredible impact of these rules
with commercial drones becoming commonplace in a variety of
uses, said Michael Drobac, a lawyer at Akin Gump who represents
drone efforts at companies like
Amazon and Google. This will
show the technology is reliable
and then it becomes harder to argue against broader uses like
for delivery.
Drone makers and tech companies have been lobbying for the
rules for five years. But the
Obama administration, while trying to accommodate the potential
economic benefits of the technology, has struggled to safely integrate the popular, remote-controlled flying vehicles into
airspace.
Pilots and privacy groups that
pushed hard for greater safety
provisions and strong surveillance rules expressed fear that
clearing the way for more of the
flying machines posed new dangers and few protections from
spying. The F.A.A. rules prohibit
drones from flying above people
and faster than 100 miles per hour.
The F.A.A. continues to ignore
the top concern of Americans
about the deployment of commercial drones in the United States
the need for strong privacy safeguards, said Marc Rotenberg,
president of Electronic Privacy
Gardiner Harris contributed reporting from Washington.

MICHAEL CIAGLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Colorado farmer surveying his land with a drone. New F.A.A.


rules allow drones to be flown only below 400 feet.

The agency stopped


short of allowing
package delivery.
Information Center.
In February 2015, the F.A.A. created its first rules for recreational
drone users, and more than
450,000 hobbyists registered last
winter in the governments user
database.
Previously, companies had to
apply for special permission from
the F.A.A. to operate drones. The
government has issued more than
6,000 approvals and about 7,000
companies are on a waiting list for

approval. When the new rules go


into effect in 60 days, companies
will no longer have to gain that
special exemption.
With this new rule, we are
taking a careful and deliberate approach that balances the need to
deploy this new technology with
the F.A.A.s mission to protect public safety, said Michael Huerta,
the F.A.A. administrator. But this
is just our first step. Were already
working on additional rules that
will expand the range of operations.
The demand by companies has
been broad. Real estate brokers
want to use drones to take aerial
estate photos, news organizations
believe the machines would be

useful for news gathering, farmers want to use them to survey


fields, and emergency responders
believe the devices would be useful for rescue operations.
In a fact sheet released by the
White House, the government
cited economic estimates that
commercial drones could generate more than $82 billion in the
next decade.
Drones represent a potentially
powerful innovation that could
have a positive impact on our
economy, said Josh Earnest, the
White House press secretary. The
new rules are just the beginning
of the process.
Amazon has hired several lobbyists just to focus on drone rules.
Its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, expects drone delivery to be available within the next few years and
has begun testing its own devices.
The federal rules were also important for companies that prefer
one blanket set of rules to the
many state and city laws that have
emerged in recent years. They
have urged the F.A.A. to create
commercial rules that they hope
will pre-empt new bans passed or
being considered in cities like Miami and states like California.
We are extremely pleased the
rule establishes a risk-based, federal approach for operating
drones nationwide, and thank the
F.A.A. for engaging industry
throughout the process, said
Kara Calvert, director of a coalition of drone manufacturers including the Chinese company DJI
and GoPro.

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At left, new signs warn of alligators and snakes on a closed section of beach near a Walt Disney World hotel in Orlando. Right, fireworks over the newly opened Shanghai Disney Resort last week.
NEWS ANALYSIS

When Gloomy Realities Encroach on the Happiest Place on Earth


By BROOKS BARNES

LOS ANGELES Disney


theme parks have always been
about trading an imperfect world
for a perfect one. There is no
trash blowing down Main Street,
U.S.A. Its nothing but happy
trappers and singing bears over
in Frontierland. Dream big, and
the gleaming technology of Tomorrowland just might come
true.
In case the castles are too
subtle, Disney outright promises
escape from the real world. The
welcome signs at Disneyland in
California and Walt Disney
World in Florida quote Walt
Disneys words from 1955, Here
you leave today and enter the
world of yesterday, tomorrow
and fantasy.
Lately, however, it has become
harder for Americans planning a
Disney vacation to buy into the
companys utopian theme park
concept. The horrific mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando,
Fla., cast a shadow on nearby
tourist destinations, including

Disney World. Then word leaked


that the gunman had also scoped
out a Disney shopping complex.
Next came an incident that was
shocking enough to kick the
nightclub carnage off some front
pages: A toddler was dragged by
an alligator into a Disney World
lake and drowned.
Is Disneys Image Tarnished? a headline on an investment website asked on Monday,
with the alligator attack the
first such accident in Disneys
45-year history in Florida as a
particular source of concern. The
funeral for Lane Graves, the
2-year-old victim, was held Tuesday in Nebraska.
Whether last weeks events
reverberate for Disney in a business sense (beyond a possible
lawsuit stemming from the alligator attack) is a question that
will only be fully answered in the
months to come, peak season for
theme park vacations. If families
cancel reservations or the pace
of reservations noticeably slows,
then the answer is yes. If they do
not as most analysts predict

then Disney will power forward,


recovering from this spate of bad
publicity as it has from others.
The companys stock price is
already improving, climbing
about 3 percent since Thursday,
when authorities discovered
Lane Gravess body. Blockbuster
results for Finding Dory at the
box office helped, as did the
opening of Shanghai Disneyland.
Theme parks, zoos and other
tourist destinations have survived tragedies before. One-time
incidents tend not to undermine
well-run businesses, and Disney
parks are definitely thriving.
But even without recent
events, Disney was having to
work harder to pull off its not a
worry in the world magic trick.
Record crowds have made the
experience less joyful. So has
technology: Never mind their
cynical parents, American children, babysat by iPad from the
time they were in diapers, are
not as easily mesmerized by
analog rides like Its a Small
World and Autopia, with its little
cars putt-putting along a track.

More aggressive safety


procedures have become a fixture of modern life; metal detectors are now routine at baseball
stadiums, concert arenas and
even some movie theaters. In
response to increased security
concerns, Disney, Universal and
SeaWorld began using metal
detectors in December, the first
time the companies deployed
such measures on a large scale.
But these measures, while
appreciated by most tourists who
might feel less safe without
them, work against Disneys
singular efforts to create what it
advertises as the Happiest
Place on Earth. Its awfully hard
to forget the real world when
youre being wanded.
Shanghai Disneyland, formally
unveiled on Thursday, also has
rows of metal detectors at its
graceful front gates. But the
mood at this newest Disney park
the first on the Chinese mainland was utterly joyful last
week, even as the grim news
from Orlando made its way to
visitors smartphones. Spending

time in the park on four different


days, three of them with paying
guests, I was struck by how fully
intact that classic Disney sense of
wonder really seemed.
Without question, the excitement and pomp around the opening contributed to that feeling.
But something else was happening at Shanghai Disneyland. I got
the sense that this was what it
must have felt like at the original
Disneyland in the 1950s. Visitors
were very obviously awe-struck
this fantastical place, smelling
of fresh paint and new vinyl seat
covers, was something they had
never seen before. Chinese
guests, having never confronted a
9/11 or repeated mass shootings,
seemed free of the baggage that
many Americans now carry to
public gathering places. The spell
seemed easier for Disney to cast.
Robert A. Iger, Disneys chief
executive, alluded to this fascination as we toured Shanghai Disneyland on June 11. I grew up in
the United States dreaming of
going to Disneyland one day
unaffordable for us, by the way,

Fund Manager Facing Charges Is Found Dead at Home


By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

A high-flying hedge fund manager at Visium Asset Management, who was charged last week
with insider trading, has died, apparently the victim of a suicide.
The manager, Sanjay Valvani,
was discovered on Monday by his
wife in their brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, a New York police official said. Mr. Valvani was found
face down on the bedroom floor
with a cut to his neck, the official
said. He left a note, and a knife
was found near his body. He was
44.
The death brought the governments case against Mr. Valvani to
a shocking end. Last week, he was
accused of using confidential information from a former Food and
Drug Administration official to
reap $32 million in illegal gains.
Days after the charges, Visiums founder, Jacob Gottlieb, announced that he was shuttering
the multibillion-dollar hedge fund
and selling one of its funds to AllianceBernstein.
In a statement, Barry H. Berke,
a lawyer for Mr. Valvani, called his
death a horrible tragedy that is
difficult to comprehend.
We hope for the sake of his
family and his memory that it will
not be forgotten that the charges
against him were only unproven
accusations and he had always
Susan Beachy contributed research.

maintained his innocence, Mr.


Berke said.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Valvani left behind two daughters.
The death of Mr. Valvani is still
being investigated, but another
police official said that it appeared
to be a suicide.
It is not known whether other
factors could have affected Mr.
Valvanis state of mind.
Suicides by people touched by
white-collar criminal cases are
rare. But there have been a few
prominent examples in recent
years. Mark Madoff, the older son
of Bernard L. Madoff, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment
on the second anniversary of his
fathers arrest on charges of running a Ponzi scheme. And J. Clifford Baxter, a former Enron executive, shot himself in the head in
2002 after he was subpoenaed by
Congress to testify about the accounting scandal at the company.
When youre dealing with my
world, there is everything to lose,
said Ira Lee Sorkin, a former lawyer for Mr. Madoff and a partner
at Mintz & Gold, adding, Theres
reputation, family, business you
name it and some people just cant
take the pressure.
Clients in the past, if they are
under investigation or they have
been charged, have said to me in
moments of sweat and panic and
fear: I cant go on like this. I just
cant deal with this anymore.
They have threatened to kill themselves, Mr. Sorkin added.
Federal prosecutors in Manhat-

tan had accused Mr. Valvani of


pocketing tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains in Visiums Balanced fund based on information
about coming Food and Drug Administration approvals for a generic version of a drug that helps
prevent blood clots. Authorities
charged that he received inside information from a former F.D.A. official working as a consultant.
In all, four individuals were
charged in the investigation of Visium, including two former Visium colleagues. The former
F.D.A. official, Gordon Johnston,

Accused of using
insider information to
reap $32 million.
and Christopher Plaford, once a
colleague of Mr. Valvani who also
traded on inside information, have
pleaded guilty.
A lawyer for Stefan Lumiere,
the third employee named in the
governments case, declined to
comment. Mr. Lumiere, a former
brother-in-law to Mr. Gottlieb, was
accused of mismarking securities
with Mr. Plaford.
During the governments investigation of Mr. Lumiere, prosecutors in a criminal complaint said
that one broker under scrutiny
died last summer before charges

were brought.
The investigation of Visium
harked back to a crackdown on insider trading in the nearly $3 trillion hedge fund industry that began with the arrest in 2009 of Raj
Rajaratnam, the co-founder of the
Galleon Group hedge fund.
In the months and years that
followed, prosecutors working for
Preet Bharara, the United States
attorney for the Southern District
of New York, racked up more than
80 convictions on insider trading
charges. The convictions sent a
wave of fear through the hedge
fund industry and led some to call
Mr. Bharara the new sheriff of
Wall Street.
But chinks in Mr. Bhararas armor began to emerge in late 2014,
when a federal appeals court
threw out the convictions of two
hedge fund managers and made it
more difficult for prosecutors to
bring insider trading cases when
there was no clear benefit provided to the source of the inside information about a company. The
appellate court ruled that prosecutors must show the source of
an inside tip received a benefit of
some consequence, although the
court was vague as to what that
must be.
The appellate ruling, which the
United States Supreme Court declined to review, later led Mr. Bharara to toss out nearly a dozen
other convictions and guilty pleas.
For a time, the court ruling appeared to have blunted the Manhattan offices pursuit of insider

Sanjay Valvani rose high at


Visium Asset Management.

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trading cases.
But the charges against Mr. Valvani and his former colleagues at
Visium dispelled any thought that
hedge funds would no longer be a
focus of Mr. Bhararas office.
Legal specialists said on Tuesday that they did not expect the
death to cause prosecutors and
Mr. Bharara to back away if they
believed wrongdoing had occurred.
I dont think hes going to lose
sleep over it because it comes with
the territory, Thomas A. Sporkin,
a lawyer at BuckleySandler and a
former Securities and Exchange
Commission enforcement lawyer,
said of Mr. Bharara.
Mr. Bhararas office declined to
comment on Mr. Valvanis death.
The son of Indian immigrants,
Mr. Valvani grew up in Kalamazoo, Mich. After graduating from
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, he spent four years
working as a health care consultant before receiving an M.B.A.
from Duke University, according
to a profile on the schools website

Californias Last Nuclear Power Plant


Could Be Replaced With Clean Energy
By DIANE CARDWELL

California, among the first


states to embrace nuclear energy
in the 1950s, may be breaking
things off for good.
Under a proposal announced on
Tuesday, Pacific Gas and Electric
would shutter the Diablo Canyon
Power Plant, the states last operating nuclear facility, and would
compensate for the lost output
with technologies that do not emit
greenhouse gases, including renewable energy.
The proposal, part of an agreement with environmental and labor groups, is intended to help
meet Californias aggressive clean
energy goals, which have already
transformed the power mix with a
large and growing renewable energy fleet at a time of slowing electric demand. It also comes after
years of public pressure to close
the plant, near San Luis Obispo,
because of safety concerns over
its location, near several fault
lines, and its use of ocean water
for cooling.
Because of state energy policies, theres just not going to be
enough need to have to run your

nuclear plant, Tony Earley,


PG&Es chief executive, said in a
conference call with reporters.
Its a much smaller generating
system.
Under the proposal, which
would require the approval of the
California Public Utilities Commission, the plants two reactors
would be shut down in 2024 and
2025, when their operating licenses expire, as long as the State
Lands Commission extends a permit set to expire in 2018 that
grants access to the ocean for the
cooling operation.
The future of many of the countrys 99 nuclear reactors a majority of which are more than 30
years old is looking grim. The
flood of cheap natural gas and
slowing demand for electricity
have driven down power prices,
making it difficult for the aging
plants to compete in wholesale
markets. In recent years, several
plants have shut down before
their licenses expired, and more
early closings are planned or
threatened around the country.
Outside of a few areas, there has
been little recent appetite to re-

place the old-style plants, which


can take decades to plan and license and are expensive to build.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
this month announced the start of
power production at the second
reactor of its Watts Bar plant,
whose construction had been
halted since 1985. In Georgia,
Southern Company is building
two new nuclear units. There is
not much else in the pipeline.
But nuclear plants provide
nearly 60 percent of the countrys
carbon dioxide-free power. So
some state and federal officials
and environmentalists have been
scrambling to help save the plants
to meet national goals to stem climate change.
Some nuclear advocates were
critical of the plan for Diablo Canyon and expressed skepticism
that the utility could fill the gap
without relying on fossil fuels. A
rise in greenhouse gas emissions
has tended to follow closings of
nuclear plants, as they have most
often been replaced by natural
gas. That was the case in New
England and California after Vermont Yankee and San Onofre shut

and I didnt go until I was a parent, he said. You now have that
same dynamic here in China that
existed in the 50s and 60s in the
United States, as people started
looking for more leisure activities. Its palpable.
In Shanghai, Disneys rides are
fully updated technological marvels no more jerky animatronics in Pirates of the Caribbean, which is now fully digital,
with boats controlled by underwater magnets and Imax-style
screens with video. In another
difference from Disneys domestic parks, even rank-and-file
cashiers and hotel maids seem
thrilled to be there. When they
waved and chirped, Have a
magical day! they appeared to
mean it, rather than just repeating a corporate mantra.
On an especially difficult week
for Disney in the United States,
Shanghai proved that the companys pixie dust still works the
same way it used to in a more
innocent age. Even if you have to
go to the other side of the world
to find it.

recognizing his endowment of two


scholarship funds at the Fuqua
School of Business through a
$250,000 commitment.
Mr. Valvani got his start on Wall
Street in 2001 as a pharmaceutical
analyst working for Salomon
Smith Barney. He then took a job
as portfolio manager at the investment management firm Balyasny
Asset Management.
There, he met and worked
closely with Mr. Gottlieb until the
team spun out to start Visium. Mr.
Valvani rose to the top ranks, becoming Mr. Gottliebs right-hand
man and one of a few senior executives running the firms most important fund, called the Balanced
fund, which focused on health
care.
In the beginning, I really had
to convince Jacob Gottlieb that I
was hungry to join his hedge
fund, Mr. Valvani said in the Duke
profile. I work hard and try to be
the best at what I do, which is why
a hedge fund is so suitable for me
here I have a lot of control over
my own destiny.
In April, Visium had placed Mr.
Valvani on paid administrative
leave.
The news of Mr. Valvanis death
on Tuesday stunned those who
had worked with him on Wall
Street.
In a statement, Mr. Gottlieb
said: We mourn the tragic loss of
Sanjay, a devoted father, husband
and friend. Our thoughts are with
his family during this difficult
time.

A plan intended to
meet Californias
energy goals.

MARK RALSTON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GETTY IMAGES

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, near San Luis Obispo, is the
last of Californias operating nuclear plants.
down.
But the plan for Diablo Canyon,
which began operating in 1985 and
stirred controversy from the start,
is aimed at avoiding that, its proponents say. Gavin Newsom, the
lieutenant governor, helped jumpstart discussions on closing the
plant as a member of the State
Lands Commission, in part to allow for a slower, greener transition. The sudden closure of San
Onofre, which ultimately led to not
only significant job losses but also
led to significant greenhouse gas
emissions that recent example

highlighted my concerns around


Diablo, he said.
The states evolving policies require utilities to include 50 percent renewables in the power they
provide by 2030, to sharply reduce
electricity sales through efficiency measures like programs that
pay customers to reduce use in
times of high demand, and to include the use of energy storage
technologies.
That, combined with the increasing availability of renewable
energy from large-scale wind and
solar farms, as well as rooftop sys-

tems spreading throughout the


state, means that the need for conventional nuclear plants, whose
output is difficult to adjust quickly,
is diminished.
Giant baseload nuclear power
plants like Diablo Canyon cannot
easily be taken offline, or ramped
up and down, as system needs
change, said Ralph Cavanagh, codirector of the energy program at
the Natural Resources Defense
Council and the groups lead negotiator on the agreement. This
worsening problem is forcing the
California grid operator to shut
down low-cost renewable generation that could otherwise be used
productively.
As part of the agreement,
PG&E promised to exceed the
state mandate by including 55
percent renewables in its generation mix by 2031, and plans to
spend $350 million on helping retain or retrain affected employees.
Executives estimate that decommissioning the plant will cost
roughly $3.8 billion, a $1.3 billion
increase over its last estimate in
2012.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Musks Tesla
Aims to Buy
His SolarCity
From First Business Page
more than 13 percent, to $190.59.
Both companies have been
growing fast, but have also consumed enormous amounts of cash
to pursue their goals.
Of the two, SolarCity where
Mr. Musk is chairman and his
cousin, the co-founder Lyndon
Rive, is chief executive has
been the more troubled, buffeted
by changes in the regulations on
the solar energy industry. While
an important federal tax credit
was extended, local policies have
cut into the savings that solar
providers have promised.
Mr. Musk said putting the two
companies together made more
sense after Tesla began introducing rechargeable batteries for
home use that can store electricity
and smooth out fluctuations in
power grids. Other renewable energy companies have also focused
on home storage products.
Analysts have commented that
Teslas main business may be in
batteries, particularly as it builds
out its $5 billion Gigafactory
near Reno, Nev.
The world does not lack for automotive companies, Mr. Musk
said in Tuesdays press call. The
world lacks for sustainable energy companies.
Yet some green energy companies have run aground. Both
SunEdison and Abengoa, big renewable energy providers, have
filed for bankruptcy.
SolarCitys troubles have left
the company with a crushing $2.6
billion in long-term debt and
growing losses. Last year, interest
payments on its debt equaled
nearly a quarter of its sales.
Shares of the energy company

A move toward a
holistic sustainable
energy company.
have fallen 63 percent over the
last 12 months, closing on Tuesday
at $21.19 nearly a third of its 52week high. The business ended
Tuesday with a market value of
just over $2 billion.
Last year, SolarCitys operations used up $790 million of cash,
and the company spent $1.8 billion
on equipment. In total, then, SolarCitys free cash flow, obtained
by adding those two numbers,
was a negative $2.6 billion.
Tesla has had a better run of
news over the last year, including
promising presale numbers for
the coming Model 3 sedan.
Still, Tesla shares, once a Wall
Street darling, have fallen 16 percent over the last 12 months, valuing the company at $32.7 billion.
Tesla may be able to help SolarCity generate more cash or reduce its cash consumption. But
bolstering the business model of
SolarCity would be difficult.
And a struggling SolarCity
could be a burden on Tesla, which
is also using up cash fast. Teslas
free cash flow last year was a negative $2.2 billion. In theory, then, a
combination of Tesla and SolarCity would have burned nearly
$5 billion last year.
Investors are willing to lend to,
or buy the stock of, a high-growth
company consuming a lot of cash
if they believe it will eventually
generate healthy cash flows.
But if investors balk, the company has to rely on its cash reserves. Together, Tesla and SolarCity had $1.8 billion on hand at
the end of the first quarter. That
would soon get used up if a TeslaSolarCity were still consuming
nearly $5 billion of cash annually.

After Brexit Vote, Europe Has Choice: Move Forward or Fall


From First Business Page
of Economics. I dont know how
we get there.
For all the complaints about
the Brussels fudge factory, the
discontent in Britain on Thursday probably will have little to do
directly with Europes institutional shortcomings. This is
about frustration of the working
class about a long period of deindustrialization, Professor Kaldor
said. Mr. Johnson is Britains
Donald Trump. Europe is a
stand-in for globalization.
Popular discontent with
globalization in its many forms
has been building up in the West
for many years now, said Kevin
ORourke, an economic historian
at the University of Oxford. We
are seeing its effects everywhere.
Still, the European Unions
hapless response to its current
social and economic challenges
has made it an easy target. With
no real European institutions of
democratic accountability the
European Parliament serves
little more than a decorative
function the only way voters
can express their dissatisfaction
is by pushing to leave and by
supporting extremist political
movements.
In many countries the perception is that national governments are powerless and that
there is nothing at the European
level to address problems, said
Paul De Grauwe, a former Belgian member of Parliament now
at the London School of Economics. Both Europe and national
governments lose legitimacy.
What could the E.U. have
done better? Things would be a
lot easier if most of Europe were
growing at more than a snails
pace. The inability of countries in
the euro area which does not
include Britain to stop the
slow-motion implosion of Greece
and other deeply indebted countries gives integration a bad
name. The two are related.
Germanys resistance to
share in the costs of a collective
solution to seriously write down
the debts that Greece and other
Southern European nations will
never be able to pay off insisting instead that the indebted
countries and their beleaguered
citizens bear nearly all the cost
has prolonged and deepened
Europes stagnation.
Britons contemplate the
crisis of the euro as a little bit of

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Supporters of Britain remaining in the European Union on the river Thames last week.
proof that they were right not to
join, said Giancarlo Corsetti, a
professor of macroeconomics at
the University of Cambridge.
Britons have more control
over immigration than the Leave
campaign would have them
believe. Refugee policies are
decided in London. And it was

Whats needed is
democracy on a
European scale.
the Labour government of Tony
Blair that chose not to take advantage of a seven-year phase-in
period to limit the entry of citizens of new members from
Eastern Europe. Many of the
Polish plumbers that so inflamed
the British populace showed up
because Britain unlike, say,
Germany chose to let them in

straight away.
Immigration, however, can
easily be deployed as an argument to leave the rest of Europe.
More than half the 333,000 immigrants who arrived in Britain last
year were E.U. citizens, free to be
there as a matter of right under
European law.
The Leave campaign made
an argument that the only way to
reduce this part of immigration
is to leave the E.U., noted Jacob
Funk Kirkegaard, an expert on
immigration at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics in Washington. And they
struck a chord with the electorate.
Dealing with hundreds of
thousands of refugees fleeing
war will never be easy. But Europes reaction was notoriously
unproductive. The E.U.s institutions again appeared irrelevant,
as governments retrenched into
their corners and failed to devise
a collective, burden-sharing
approach.
In May, a group of European

scholars proposed a set of collective financing mechanisms to


reduce debt burdens along the
E.U.s periphery and to pay for a
European Union-wide refugee
policy. Their report concluded:
The sovereign debt and refugee
crises prove that Europe has
failed to design institutions that
are robust enough to weather
difficult times.
How much integration do
Europeans need? Dani Rodrik at
Harvards Kennedy School of
Government notes that the E.U.s
initial major goal preventing
France and Germany from drawing the world into another war
has been achieved. It also served
as a democratic, capitalistic
anchor for Eastern European
countries to hang onto after the
collapse of the Soviet bloc.
But today Europes integration effort has lost sight of its
political and social dimensions,
he argues, narrowing into a raw
effort to reduce market barriers.
Thats not enough to inspire
popular support.

There might be areas where


collective action at the European
level could make a difference
as a counterweight to colossal
multinational companies that can
challenge the authority of individual nations, or to prevent
capital from effortlessly zipping
across borders in an effort to
avoid taxes. Indeed, the E.U. has
taken a leading role confronting
the worlds most daunting collective action problem: climate
change.
An aging Europe is going to
need more immigrants. Smart
collective strategies would surely
help the Continent deal with
what are likely to be decades of
intense migration from the many
poor countries in its extended
neighborhood.
The critical question is
whether Europe will be able to
achieve the kind of integrated
decision-making needed to address these challenges. So far, it
hasnt shown it can rise to the
occasion. There is not much
appetite for further political
integration, Mr. Corsetti said.
Solutions to Europes challenges
must navigate around this constraint.
The free movement of people
inside the E.U. might be the first
to go into reverse. Restricting
the free movement of labor is not
a taboo, Mr. Kirkegaard told me.
Another way freedom of movement will be restricted is you will
see more and more restrictions
placed on the ability of citizens
from other E.U. countries to
claim welfare benefits.
Maybe the European Unions
future is more la carte a
set of coalitions of the willing, as
it were. Rather than insisting on
all or nothing, said Richard
Haass, president of the Council of
Foreign Relations in New York, it
might be better to consider a
Europe that is not one size fits
all, where the balance between
national governments and Brussels is more flexible.
This may come as a disappointment to Europes current
leaders. But one way or another,
the projects governance must
come into line with what its
people want. Thats called democracy.
Europe must either roll back
the economic integration or roll
ahead the political integration,
Mr. Haass said, so people feel
they have a say over the politicians who are driving changes
that affect their lives.

An Actors Death Highlights a Known Issue With Jeeps and Other Vehicles
From First Business Page
gation and recall are taking too
long, Clarence Ditlow, executive
director of the Center for Auto
Safety, a consumer advocacy
group, said on Tuesday.
There was no sense of urgency
on Chryslers part or N.H.T.S.A.s
part given the potential for death
or injury, he said in an interview,
referring to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration.
Last August officials at the
highway safety administration
told Fiat Chrysler that it was investigating complaints from 14
owners of some of Fiat Chryslers
most popular models. The owners
said their vehicles had rolled
away in some cases causing accidents and injuries when they
left the vehicles, thinking they
were safely in the parking gear.
As I stepped out, the vehicle
started moving backwards and
the driver door struck me, knocking me to the ground on my back,
a Jeep Grand Cherokee owner
from Morganton, N.C., wrote to
safety officials last summer. The
left front tire rolled over my pelvic
area, causing serious injury.
Details of Fiat Chryslers subsequent discussions with the safety
agency still are not publicly avail-

able. In November, the automaker


responded to 10 pages of detailed
questions from the federal regulator, but that response has not been
posted on the agencys website.
An agency spokesman, Jose
Ucles, said on Tuesday that regulators were still going through the
filing to remove personally identifiable information before publishing it.
But as the safety agency edits
and Fiat Chrysler seeks a fix for
the rollover problem, incidents
and accidents have continued. By
February, the agency had counted
314 complaints, 121 crashes and 30
injuries, including a fractured
pelvis and ruptured bladder.
By mid-April, when the company issued a recall, the automaker had 700 reports potentially related to the issue, including 212 crashes and 41 injuries.
The problem involved the gear
shifter on 2014-15 Jeep Grand
Cherokees and some 2012-14
Dodge Chargers and Chrysler
300s.
The April recall applied to about
812,000 vehicles in the United
States, 52,000 in Canada, almost
17,000 in Mexico and nearly
249,000 in other countries that
Fiat Chrysler declined to identify
Tuesday.

At the time of the recall, no


deaths had been reported. And
while the cause of Mr. Yelchins accident is still being investigated,
federal safety regulators said in a
statement Monday that his death
was the first fatality were aware
of that may be related to this
safety defect and vehicle recall.
Fiat Chrysler introduced the
gear-shifter design, which it calls
the Monostable, in 2011. The company said the benefits included
eliminating high efforts in shifting as well as improved smoothness of garage and parking lot
shifts. The shifter and transmission were provided by ZF, a German parts supplier.
That shifter is unusual because
it does not move to a different position with each gear. Instead, like
a joystick, the lever returns to a
center position. So, the driver
must look at the shifter display to
make sure the proper gear is selected. In its investigation, the national safety agency said the shifter is not intuitive and provides
poor tactile and visual feedback.
The shifter was used only on the
recalled models. The company
discontinued it for 2016 models,
citing the desire for improved
customer satisfaction.
The recall of the shifter is un-

usual because it apparently does


not involve a mechanical or electronic failure. Instead it is an ergonomic issue involving a new design whose operation is not intuitive to some owners.
Typically, automakers test such
new designs on consumers, said
Matthew Reed, a professor at the
University of Michigan who specializes in ergonomics.

A recall appears to
involve how drivers
responded to a design.
In general terms, one would
want to conduct a substantial
number of trials with what I would
call nave users, people who are
among the population of people
who could be customers but who
are not engineers, not people familiar with the development
process, he said in an interview.
But something did not work in
the case of Fiat Chryslers shifter,
he said.
We can look at that as a failure
of process, a failure to anticipate

how consumers would react, he


said. I dont know what their
process was internally, but clearly
it did not catch this particular
risk.
The month before the August
notification, the N.H.T.S.A. had
publicly chastised the company,
which acknowledged delaying recalls in almost two dozen cases going back to 2013 and affecting millions of vehicles.
This represents a significant
failure to meet a manufacturers
safety responsibilities, Mark
Rosekind, the head of the safety
agency, said at the time.
The automaker promised to
speed up its recalls and agreed to
pay penalties that could amount
to $105 million.
That consent order is totally
aimed at making Chrysler do a
better job on recalls in the future,
Mr. Ditlow, of the Center for Auto
Safety, said. If this is an example
of a better job, it is a failure.
But Mr. Mayne, the Fiat
Chrysler spokesman, said the automaker was following the government mandate and was doing
a better job. For example, he said,
last month it recalled one million
more vehicles with deadly Takata
airbags ahead of a schedule set by
federal regulators.

A Dash for Cash in Tencents Acquisition of Gamings Supercell


From First Business Page
But it raises a question for the
Chinese company: Can it retain
the people that turned Supercells
games into hits?
Many devotees of Clash of
Clans and other Supercell games
spend real money on fake currency and other resources to build
their in-game power and heft.
With the help of dedicated players
like Mr. Hou, the small in-game
fees, known as micropayments,
have turned into a huge revenue
stream that makes Supercell a
major player in mobile gaming.
Supercell, in filings with the
Finnish government, posted $2.4
billion in revenue last year. In
April, the company was making
just under $4 million a day in revenue from Clash of Clans, according to a SuperData Research estimate.
Tencent makes about $1 billion from its gaming operations
outside of China, said Peter Warman, chief executive of Newzoo, a
Paul Mozur reported from Hong
Kong, and Mark Scott from Rome.
Charlotte Yang contributed reporting from Hong Kong.

gaming analytics company based


in Amsterdam. With Supercell,
they will more than double that.
Its a very strategic move for
them.
The Supercell takeover is Tencents largest to date. Over the last
five years, the Chinese company
which has a market value of
$210 billion has made strategic
investments and acquisitions of
games across the world. The company controls Riot Games, which
created the hugely popular
League of Legends, and the European mobile game maker Miniclip. It also has a stake in CJ
Games of South Korea.
Tencent has been aggressively out buying overseas
developers, said Mark Natkin,
managing director of the technology research firm Marbridge Consulting, not only with an eye to
leveraging those companies
games in China but also for expanding Tencents footprint globally.
A sort of internet conglomerate, Tencent has no real analogue
in the United States. Because internet advertising has had slow
growth in China, the company has
used games to make money from
its hugely successful messaging

and social media products. With


its messaging app WeChat, which
has more than 700 million
monthly active users, Tencent can
easily connect a huge number of
new players to Supercells games.
Tencent is hoping to retain the
huge number of players as well as
the engineers behind the games.
Supercell has been able to chalk
up a string of gaming successes,
mostly by giving top talent a
greater amount of independence
to develop projects, experts say.
But the Finnish gaming giants engineers could choose to leave if
they are not given the same independence they enjoyed under
SoftBank.
To that end, executives at Tencent and Supercell emphasized in
a conference call that Supercell
would keep its autonomy.
We would say it makes a lot of
sense for them to stay independent, Martin Lau, president of Tencent, said on the call. What is
making them great, we want to
preserve.
Ilkka Paananen, the chief executive of Supercell, said Tencents track record of allowing
Riot to build out League of Legends on its own was reassuring.
Tencent said that Supercell

employees would receive longterm incentive plans. Such an offer, analysts said, would signal
that Tencent realizes that it owes
the value of the companys games
to the number of players and to
Supercells design prowess.
The acquisition also represents the latest push by large internet companies into the fastgrowing mobile gaming industry,
which had a combined revenue of
almost $35 billion last year, according to Newzoo.
Companies like Supercell and
Rovio, a Finnish counterpart that
is behind the Angry Birds franchise, were once able to create hit
after hit with smartphone games.
But the increased competition for
consumers attention, analysts
say, has made it more difficult to
break through with new games.
Faced with such cutthroat rivalries, independent gaming studios are being taken over by
larger companies that can outspend the competition. Mobile
gaming has become such a big
business that even established
players like Supercell need flush
financial backers to fund their expansion.
You need very deep pockets
to play in this field, said Mr. War-

LEHTIKUVA/REUTERS

Ilkka Paananen, left, the Supercell chief executive, with Martin


Lau, president of Tencent, in Helsinki on Tuesday.
man, of Newzoo. So if Tencent
wants to play in this area, it has to
be willing to pay top dollar.
King Digital, the BritishSwedish gaming company behind
the Candy Crush franchise, for example, was bought by Activision
Blizzard last year for $5.9 billion,
in part to help the larger gaming
company expand its global reach.
Mr. Hou said he was excited
about the prospect of new Chinese
features, but he warned that
players were also worried be-

cause Tencent has a reputation for


wringing money out of games.
Julianna Wu, a Hong Kong
college student who plays Clash
Royale, another popular Supercell
title, with her boyfriend for about
two hours a day, echoed those
worries.
Tencent buying the company
may not be good for poor users
like me who dont have money to
spend, she said. Im worried it
will become a game that only rich
users are good at.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

B5

Law School a Solid Investment, Despite Pay Discrepancies


By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON

Associate salaries at big law


firms are on the rise, and that
news has brought a predictable
but undeserved fresh round of
law school bashing.
Instead, lets just
accept that this is a
world of haves and
have-nots. Top law
DEAL
graduates are
PROFESSOR
doing better than
ever, while other law students
have a steeper path to climb to
earn that type of money.
The latest round of salary
raises began in early June, when
the prestigious law firm Cravath
Swaine & Moore bumped firstyear associate pay to $180,000
from $160,000. This move had
been rumored, and because
Cravath has taken the lead in
pushing up salaries for decades,
it did not want to miss out.
In the world of associates and
salaries, big law firms are like
lemmings. The top 50 or so all
quickly moved to match Cravath,
even raising the salaries for the
summer associates who arrived
from law schools the week the
increases were announced.
It is a time for celebration
among the twenty-somethings
who are benefiting from this
extra cash. But it also highlights
the dichotomy between those at
the top and everyone else. The
top graduates earn a median
salary that will now start at
$180,000, but that represented
only about 17 percent of the reported salaries in 2014, according
to data from the National Association for Law Placement.
Steven Davidoff Solomon is a
professor of law at the University
of California, Berkeley. His
columns can be found at nytimes.com/dealbook. Follow
@stevendavidoff on Twitter.

Cravath knew when it raised


salaries that other law firms
would quickly match it to avoid
being viewed as less prestigious
and to remain competitive. Big
law firms are experiencing a
talent drain to in-house corporate
jobs, finance and venture capital,
where the salaries or lifestyles
are more attractive. The salaries
and opportunities for top
associates remain robust (well
leave for another day the question of whether these jobs are
worth the long hours and qualityof-life sacrifices).
The rush by other law firms to
meet Cravaths salary increase
also reflects the winner-take-all
society. Look at the salaries of
more senior associates. Eighthyear lawyers at Cravath also got
raises and will now be paid
$315,000 a year. With bonuses
that now average about $100,000,
the average senior associate at a
big firm is less than 35 years old
and earning more than $400,000.
I graduated from law school in
1995 with a starting salary at a
big law firm of $81,500 and no
bonus. Salaries with bonuses are
now more than 50 percent higher,
adjusting for inflation, but
eighth-year salaries have grown
even more, most likely outstripping the growth in law school
tuition at most schools.
For the lucky few who get jobs
at these big firms, law school is a
good investment. These young
lawyers can earn more than
$40,000 in one summer while
they are still in law school and
pay back their loans quickly.
Many find that there are private
firms willing to refinance their
loans at rock-bottom interest
rates (again, whether they are
happy or not at these firms is
another question).
But lets be clear. Only the
lucky 17 percent of graduates

HARRY CAMPBELL

earn salaries this high. To be in


this group, you needed to go to a
top 10 school or graduate in the
higher ranks of the top quartile
of law schools.
Things are harder for every
other law graduate. Law firm
starting salaries are bimodal
meaning that while 17 percent of
graduates earned a median
salary of $160,000 in 2014, about
half had a median starting salary
of $40,000 to $65,000.
It is the fate of these graduates
that drives the criticism of law
school as a scam. They dream
of big jobs but are often the
lawyers who become solo practitioners, district attorneys, public
defenders and other lower-paying jobs outside the big firms.
The employment market has
softened even for the big jobs,

but for new lawyers on the lower


end of the starting scale, it is
worse. In 2014, graduates faced a
86.7 percent employment rate,
according to the National Association for Law Placement.
But this figure is for all jobs
taken by law graduates, including jobs outside of law. Law
school critics focus on the number of law graduates who secured jobs as lawyers or got jobs
that preferred a law degree.
According to American Bar
Association figures analyzed by
the Legal Whiteboard, for the
2015 class, this figure was 70
percent, up from 69 percent in
2013, though 4,000 fewer people
graduated from law school. In
comparison, law job placement
from the top 20 schools was 80
percent to 100 percent. These

sobering figures imply that approximately 30 percent of law


school graduates are either unemployed or cannot find a law
job. Some question this notion
though, asserting that the figure
may have been adversely affected by the fact that in 2015, the
bar passage rate nationally declined to about 75 percent, and so
many law graduates could not
practice law even if the jobs were
there.
Either way, it is clear that it is
harder out there for the lowertier law schools and their graduates.
Indeed, it is easy to visit a
regional law school in the fourth
tier of the U.S. News & World
Report rankings and find a graduate who has not found a job or is
struggling. This is often extrapolated into an argument that law
schools are about to close wholesale (so far, not one has closed)
or that law school is not worth it
for 90 percent of those who attend and cannot be guaranteed a
job at a big law firm. One pundit
goes so far as to criticize anyone
who goes to law school outside
the top five or six schools.
The criticisms ignore the fact
that even lower-ranked law
schools offer more good outcomes than bad. Michael
Simkovic, a Seton Hall law professor who has studied this market, noted that from 2007 to 2014,
the number of law firm jobs rose
to 870,000 from 786,000, according to census data. During that
time, law school enrollment
dropped significantly, to about
37,000 students a year from a
high of more than 50,000 students. In the long term, the increase in law firm jobs will be
filled by newly minted law school
graduates.
The focus on salaries and
employment at graduation also

ignores the fact that most law


graduates do secure employment
that pay them more than they
would have otherwise earned.
The only peer-reviewed study on
this topic, co-written by Professor Simkovic, found that most
law students earned a premium
of hundreds of thousands of
dollars over what they would
have earned had they not gone to
law school, even taking into
account the debt they accrue.
The fact that lawyers do reasonably well over time and better
than they would have done had
they not gone to law school is
reflected in the low default rates
on law school loans.
The simple fact is that the
lower- and mid-ranked law
schools are for those who want to
remain in a local place. These
lawyers can and do succeed.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida,
for example, went to University
of Miami School of Law, which is
tied for 60th place on the U.S.
News & World Report list. He
rose to national prominence and
a presidential nomination bid
through state politics, a common
career for lawyers.
To be sure, law school is not
for everyone. People should be
careful about the debt they take
on. There are choices in law
schools, and yes, there will sometimes be bad outcomes.
But the question people should
be asking is whether they are
going to a school with a highperformance outcome. After that,
they should look at the schools
graduates and what they have
done with their legal careers.
Then they can choose which
outcome suits them best. But
lets not lump everything together. And lets recognize that for
most, the data still shows that
over the long term, law school
can be a fruitful choice.

A Noted Silicon Valley Star


Leaves SoftBank of Japan
By JONATHAN SOBLE
and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

TOKYO A former Google executive and Silicon Valley star


was on course to be the next chief
executive of SoftBank of Japan,
one of the worlds most prominent
technology conglomerates. Now
he is leaving, in an abrupt shakeout that shows cracks in SoftBanks global ambitions.
When the executive, Nikesh
Arora, was poached two years ago
from a coveted role as Googles
head of business operations, the
hire was widely considered a coup
for SoftBank. Its billionaire
founder and chief executive,
Masayoshi Son, crowned Mr.
Arora heir apparent.
Mr. Arora was vaunted for his
deal-making prowess and seen as
an international executive who
would help transform SoftBank
with a flurry of investments. One
of Mr. Sons most cherished ambitions was to turn SoftBank, a Japanese business with some notable
overseas names like the American
carrier Sprint, into a truly global
enterprise.
The honeymoon did not last.
Investors have criticized Mr.
Arora recently for his record of
managing SoftBanks overseas
deals. Investments in start-ups
like DramaFever and Housing.com, these shareholders have
said, appear to have soured as the
companies have faltered.
And the carefully orchestrated
succession plan or what appeared to be has collapsed. Mr.
Son decided he was not ready to
give up the reins soon.
Mr. Son, 58, said in a statement
that he still wanted to work on a
few more crazy ideas at SoftBank. Mr. Son cited differences
over when Mr. Arora would take
over as chief executive as the reason he had agreed to step down.
Jonathan Soble reported from Tokyo and Michael J. de la Merced
from New York.

Mr. Arora, who was born in India,


holds the titles of president and
chief operating officer.
This will require me to be
C.E.O. for at least another five to 10
years this is not a time frame for
me to keep Nikesh waiting for the
top job, Mr. Son said.
Mr. Arora, 48, also presented
the parting as amicable. Masa
and I are still in love with each
other, he posted on Twitter. I will
support everyone I invested in,
and they know that.
Mr. Aroras legacy good or
bad will ultimately be determined by his investment record.
SoftBanks strategy is centered
on acquiring other companies,
from established businesses to
tiny start-ups. Shortly before Mr.
Arora arrived, SoftBank bought
Sprint for $21.6 billion, a major expansion of Mr. Sons empire overseas. The Japanese conglomerate
also made a fortune when its early
investment in the Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba slowly
swelled to billions of dollars in value.
After joining SoftBank, Mr.
Arora was put in charge of picking
takeover targets around the
world. His mandate was to diversify a company that, despite the
Sprint acquisition and others, still
makes about 70 percent of its operating profits in its home market.
It owns a major mobile phone network and a controlling interest in
Yahoo Japan, among other domestic assets.
Mr. Arora struck more than a
dozen deals, placing bets on technology, telecommunications and
media companies in India, Indonesia and Singapore, among other
countries. SoftBank paid $1 billion
for a stake in the Korean e-commerce company Coupang. It
plowed $250 million into WMEIMG, the giant American media
and sports agency. India has been
a particular focus, and Mr. Arora
led investments into businesses
like Snapdeal and OYO Rooms,

YUYA SHINO/REUTERS

SoftBanks chief executive, Masayoshi Son, stood before a screen showing Nikesh Arora in 2014. Mr. Arora is leaving the company.
which aspire to be its Amazon and
Airbnb.
Recently, SoftBank has been
selling assets and raising cash, a
pattern that has been a prelude to
big, strategic deals. On Tuesday it
sealed an agreement to sell its majority stake in Supercell, the developer of Clash of Clans and
other mobile games, to Chinas
Tencent Holdings for about $8.6
billion. It also recently sold about
$10 billion of shares in Alibaba.
Expectations for Mr. Arora had
been high. Besides his Google
pedigree, he had been unusually
well paid.
In his first six months at SoftBank, Mr. Arora earned 16.6 billion
yen, or $159 million at current exchange rates, including a signing
bonus, according to company disclosures. That made him one of
the best compensated executives
in the world during that period,
and one of the highest paid execu-

tives in Japan, a country known


for relatively low pay at the upper
echelon.
He earned about 8 billion yen
last year. Mr. Arora made a huge
personal financial commitment to
SoftBank in 2015, buying 60 billion
yen of the companys shares.
But some of his bets havent
panned out. DramaFever, a Korean video site, shed traffic months
after SoftBank invested in the
business, prompting the Japanese
company to find buyers for some
of its stake.
This year, SoftBank has defended Mr. Arora against criticism
from a group of mostly anonymous international shareholders,
who laid out their case against Mr.
Arora in a letter to the companys
board in April. They said a number of start-ups he backed have
fizzled. They also questioned his
decision to remain an adviser to
an American investment firm, Sil-

ver Lake, that could potentially


compete with SoftBank for deals.
Mr. Aroras investment strategy as the C.E.O. of SIMI appears
to be nothing more than throwing
a dart at a dart board, a lawyer
representing the investors wrote
in the letter, referring to SoftBanks internet and media operations as SIMI. How many more
millions of dollars of shareholder
value must be wasted before the
board realizes something must be
done?
A representative for Silver Lake
declined to comment. Advisers
like Mr. Arora generally receive
limited insight into the private equity firms deliberations and
spend only a few hours a month
with Silver Lake.
SoftBank said on Monday that
an internal panel set up to investigate the investors claims had
found no evidence of conflict of interest or other misconduct. Still,

the episode may have shaken Mr.


Sons trust in Mr. Arora, soured
Mr. Arora on SoftBank, or both.
Clean chit from board after
through review. Time for me to
move on, Mr. Arora said in another tweet on Tuesday.
And it was always an open
question whether Mr. Son would
readily give up control.
Mr. Arora was one of only a
small number of non-Japanese to
have attained a top management
position at a major Japanese company. He faced fewer bureaucratic
and cultural obstacles than most,
in part because SoftBanks power
structure is simple. SoftBanks
starts and ends with Mr. Son, who
founded the company in the 1980s
and runs it with unquestioned authority.
I feel my work is not done, Mr.
Son said in a statement on Tuesday.

Energy Transfer Shares Surge After Comments During Merger Trial With Williams
By LESLIE PICKER

GEORGETOWN, Del. In
March, Brad Whitehurst, head of
tax at Energy Transfer, the pipeline operator, discovered there
might be a problem with the $38
billion merger his company had
signed with the Williams Companies six months earlier. He had
misunderstood the terms of the
deal, and with the rapid decline of
Energy Transfers shares in the
intervening months, the transaction no longer appeared to be taxfree.
The problem was that the completion of the merger required the
assurance that it would not incur a
tax liability.
Mr. Whitehurst immediately
called Latham & Watkins, Energy
Transfers outside legal counsel.

After parsing through the details


again, lawyers at the white-shoe
law firm also determined they had
made a mistake in structuring the
deal and could no longer provide
the necessary opinion letter to
close.
Williamss outside lawyers,
from Cravath, Swaine & Moore,
considered Lathams argument to
be bogus and presented two
proposals to restructure the deal.
Both were promptly rejected by
the lawyers at Latham.
Coincidentally, the debate over
the deals tax status paralleled a
steep decline in pipeline industry
shares, which gave Energy Transfer the incentive to get out of the
deal, while making it imperative
for Williams to stay in and close it.
This was the narrative woven in

testimony on Monday and Tuesday, as both sides came together


at the Delaware Court of
Chancery here for an expedited
trial examining whether each side
was engaging in its best effort to
close the deal.
The stakes are high on both
sides. Each has accused the other
of breaching the merger agreement. Williams shareholders will
vote on the merger in less than a
week, and Energy Transfer hopes
the judge will find enough reason
to kill the deal.
Six of the eight witnesses during the two-day trial were tax
lawyers and experts who debated
the merits of Lathams argument
for not offering an opinion letter
and rejecting Cravaths alternative proposals.

By midday Tuesday, Sam Glasscock III, the vice chancellor of the


Court of Chancery, dropped a
bombshell: He did not care if
Latham was right or wrong in refusing to issue its tax opinion. He
just needed to be sure that
Latham was acting in good faith.
That sent hedge funds and
investors scrambling out of the
room to make trades. Mr. Glasscocks words seemed to fuel the 17
percent gain in Energy Transfers
shares in trading on Tuesday, reflecting optimism that the deal
would fall apart or be recast in a
way that benefited Energy Transfer.
The challenge for Williams was
to show ample evidence that
Latham was withholding the tax
opinion because it was influenced

by its clients wishes to get out of


the deal.
Jamie Welch, who had been
chief financial officer of Energy
Transfer until he was abruptly
fired in February, said in a video
deposition that Kelcy Warren, the
chairman of Energy Transfer, was
concerned the cash-and-stock
deal would result in a ratings
downgrade and create an implosion. Mr. Warren attended most
of the trial but did not testify.
More important, to the judge,
perhaps, was not whether Energy
Transfer wanted out of the deal
but whether Latham helped them
try to get out of it.
The stock price decline created
a mismatch in the movement of
assets and cash between Williams
and a newly created subsidiary of

Energy Transfer, or what Latham


called the perfect hedge. One
tax expert, Bill McKee of the law
firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius,
had been summoned by Energy
Transfer to provide a tax opinion
in addition to Lathams. Mr. McKee, who had been a former partner of Mr. Whitehursts, admitted
as a witness that he did not understand the perfect hedge argument at the time and does not understand it now.
At the end of the day, Morgan
also determined it could not provide the tax opinion if requested to
do so.
Mr. Glasscock said he planned
to deliver an opinion by Friday
evening. If the two sides settle in
the interim, Mr. Glasscock said,
they should let him know.

B6

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

SQUARE FEET
RECENT SALE

$3.3 million
132-03 Jamaica Avenue (at 132nd
Street)
Richmond Hill, Queens
Two local investors, who usually
buy Queens properties mainly in
Jackson Heights, have bought this
5,400-square-foot single-story
retail building on a 12,500-squarefoot lot. The space is now occupied
by a laundromat with 15 years left
on its lease, and a convenience
store. It includes a drive-through
parking lot, and offers 32,000
buildable square feet for future
redevelopment. The cap rate is
about 4 percent.
BUYERS: Mina Farah and Farhad
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Two Family Limited Partnership
SELLER: C.R. Bros. Realty Corp.
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$82.50/sq. ft.
$99,000 approximate annual rent

217 Eldridge Street (between Rivington and Stanton Streets)


Manhattan
A sushi restaurant has signed a
10-year lease for a 1,200-squarefoot ground-floor space in this
three-story Lower East Side building, with access to the roof and
basement. It received a threemonth rent abatement for its buildout, and paid a fixture fee of
$225,000.
TENANT: Nishiwaki L.L.C.
TENANTS BROKERS: Josh Singer and

Lou Moskowitz, Heller Organization


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$477,000 approximate annual rent

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Manhattan
A 10-to-15-year lease is available
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Email: realprop@nytimes.com

Price and Proximity Draw Fashion to Long Island City


By RONDA KAYSEN

Two years ago, the online fashion retailer Gwynnie Bee had outgrown its
Long Island City headquarters. But
when larger options in the Flatiron district and Downtown Brooklyn proved too
expensive, the companys chief executive, Christine Hunsicker, decided to double down on the Queens neighborhood
that is increasingly attracting New York
fashion companies.
Gwynnie Bee, a clothing rental service
for plus-size women, moved about a mile
last June, to the Factory, a one-millionsquare-foot warehouse at 30-30 47th Avenue.
Unlike Manhattan, the traditional
fashion hub, and Brooklyn, the hip alternative, Long Island City is drawing more
in the clothing industry because of its
convenient 10-minute subway ride to the
garment district in Midtown and low
rent. For years, rents have been rising in
Manhattan, and now that Brooklyn has
established itself among fashion designers as a worthy alternative, rents are rising there, too. So developers are turning
aging Long Island City warehouses into
airy, modern spaces where tenants can
design, assemble, distribute and photograph their merchandise.
This is just in its infancy, said Jeffrey
I. Peck, an executive managing director
of Savills Studley, who is working with
three fashion companies looking to lease
space in the neighborhood. Brooklyn
started it, in that you dont need to be located in Manhattan anymore. But I think
Long Island City, with its transportation
advantage, is quickly rising and becoming not only acceptable, but desirable.
Price is of course a factor. In Long Island City, the average asking rent for office space was $33 a square foot at the
end of the first quarter of the year, compared with $56 a square foot in the garment district or $73 a square foot for
prime areas in Midtown, said Joseph J.
Sollazzo, a real estate economist for the
CoStar Group. Tenants in the garment
district have faced steep rent increases
since mid-2010, when the average asking
rent was $38 a square foot.
Weve seen very dramatic rent
growth in the garment district, Mr. Sollazzo said, referring to rents between
West 30th and West 42nd streets from
5th Avenue to the Hudson River, an area
that includes Penn Plaza, compared to
Midtown as a whole.
Brooklyn is no bargain, either. In
Downtown Brooklyn, the average asking
rent was around $40 a square foot during
the first quarter. New or renovated properties like Dumbo Heights and Empire
Stores command more than $70 a square
foot, Mr. Sollazzo said.
Brooklyn was so much more expensive than Long Island City I mean so
much more expensive, said Ms. Hunsicker, who started Gwynnie Bee in her
Alphabet City apartment in 2011.
At the 90-year-old Factory in Long Island City, which was once a Macys warehouse, asking rents range from $40 to
$45 a square foot.
Fashion companies are noticing. In
April, J. Crew leased 60,000 square feet
for its Madewell division, moving from
the East Village. In January, Polo Ralph
Lauren leased about 19,000 square feet to
use as a photo studio for its products.
And last August, Macys leased some
150,000 square feet, reclaiming a section
that had once been the department
stores fur vault, according to Newmark
Grubb Knight Frank, the leasing agent
for the Factory.
Atlas Capital, which owns the Factory
with Square Mile Capital Management
and Invesco Real Estate, bought the deteriorating building in 2014, intending to

PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Top, prospective tenants tour the Factory in Long Island City. Across 47th
Avenue, the Falchi Building, above, offers a ground-floor marketplace.
renovate it and market it to tenants in the
technology and creative industries that
might be drawn to the rapidly changing
neighborhood. Atlas is restoring the facade and mechanical systems, and adding a 4,000-square-foot lounge to the
lobby, part of a $25 million investment.
We turned away tenants that we didnt think were the right mix or right profile, said Brian S. Waterman, a vice
chairman for Newmark Grubb Knight
Frank. We were looking to create a
Chelsea, meatpacking feel.
One advantage for Long Island City is
its proximity to Manhattan. With a dozen
subway stations serving seven train
lines, two Long Island Rail Road stations
and access to the Queensboro Bridge
and Queens-Midtown Tunnel, the trip
can be as short as five minutes in places.
But it feels far away. Much of the area
lacks the shops, restaurants and bars
that make a neighborhood an appealing
place to work, or hang out afterward. So
developers are trying to make warehouse lobbies feel like destinations.
Consider the Falchi Building across
the street from the Factory. In 2012,
Jamestown Properties bought the build-

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The building now has a bustling
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and seating for diners. Although its roster of longtime tenants includes jewelers
like Tourneau, which has had repair shop
there since 2006, other fashion companies have recently shown interest, said
Haley L. Fisher, a director at Cushman
and Wakefield, the leasing agent.
In March, the Related Companies and
GreenOak Real Estate bought two Long
Island City warehouses: the Paragon
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vice president at the Related Companies.
We have seen several companies that
have looked in Brooklyn and have come
and said Its too expensive or We cant
find the right space.
Mr. Sweeney said prospective tenants
were attracted to the plans for Paragon
and Blanchard at their prices. Both
buildings will open next year, with asking rents in the low $40s to low $50s a
square foot.
At the Factory, a rotation of food
trucks, including Red Hook Lobster
Pound and Kimchi Taco, now park in
front of the building. Atlas plans to add a
fitness center and fill the lobby with food
and beverage vendors to create a marketplace atmosphere. Last week, the
event planner Space in the Raw hosted a
charity fashion show on the seventh
floor, with views of Manhattan.
Among the buildings quirkier features is a sculpture of a twisted school
bus at the far end of the lobby. It also has
a freight elevator, painted with orange
and green swirls to look like the gaping
mouth of a dragon with welded iron monsters suspended from the ceiling. Both
art installations predate Atlass ownership of the building.
Ms. Hunsicker of Gwynnie Bee said
she was drawn to the Factory because of
its unvarnished character. I love high
ceilings and industrial space, she said.
It had a very good feel to it, a very good
vibe. It had energy and it had life. She
also said she liked being able to bring her
dog, a Shar-Pei named Mabel Ming, to
work every day.
Buildings like the Factory appeal to
creative companies because the space
lends itself to innovation. Large, open
floors and high ceilings allow the flexibility to use the space for multiple purposes. Oversize windows let in natural
light.
The spaces that exist in Brooklyn and
specifically Long Island City are really
conducive to this kind of flexible manufacturing and retail, said John Clifford, a
founding principal at S9 Architecture, a
designer of the interiors for the Falchi
Building. They have a lot of character.
Theyre still raw enough. They havent
been polished.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

B7

Goodbye, Password.
Now a Fingerprint
Gets Bank Clients In.
From Page A1
numbers, Social Security numbers
and
other
personal
identifiers have fallen into the
hands of criminals, rendering
those identifiers increasingly ineffective at protecting accounts.
And
while
thieves
could
eventually find ways to steal biometric data, banks are convinced
they offer more protection.
We believe the password is dying, said Tom Shaw, vice president for enterprise financial
crimes management at USAA,
which is based in San Antonio.
We realized we have to get away
from personal identification information because of the growing
number of data breaches.
Long regarded as the stuff of
science fiction, biometrics have
been tested by big banks for
decades, but have only recently
become sufficiently accurate and
cost effective to use in a big way. It
has taken a great deal of trial and
error: With many of the early
prototypes, a facial scan could be
foiled by bad lighting, and voice
recognition could be scuttled by
background noise or laryngitis.
Before smartphones became
ubiquitous, there was an even bigger obstacle: To capture a finger
image or scan an eyeball, a bank
would have to pay to distribute the
necessary technology to tens of
millions of customers. A few tried,

but their efforts were costly and


short-lived.
Today, the equation has
changed. Many models of the
iPhone have touch pads that can
scan fingerprints. The cameras
and microphones on many mobile
devices are so powerful that they
can record the minute details
needed to create a biometric ID.
The smartphones also provide
an extra layer of security: Many
biometric features will only work
when used on the specific phone
that belongs to the bank account
holder.
If you have your phone and
you are authenticating with your
fingerprint, it is very likely you,
said Samir Nanavati, a longtime
biometrics expert and a founder of
Twin Mill, a security software and
consulting firm.
The trade-off, of course, is that
in the quest for security and convenience, customers are handing
over marks of their unique physical identities. After all, it is easy to
change a compromised password.
But a fingerprint must last forever.
Some bank executives say
customers often ask whether their
biometric information will become part of a private database,
akin to what the F.B.I. keeps.
The banks themselves are not
keeping caches of actual fingerprints or eye patterns. Rather, the
banks are creating and storing
what they call templates or

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Above, Secil Watson, head of wholesale internet solutions at Wells Fargo, used an eye scanner, left, to enter her bank account.
what amount to long, hard-to-predict numerical sequences
based on a scan of a persons fingerprint or eyeballs.
It is possible that the thieves
could use the biometric templates
to steal money, but the banks say
they have worked to develop additional safeguards. With some
voice authentication systems,
banks use certain prompts to
prove it is a living customer and
not a recording. Many eye scans
require customers to blink or
move their eyes to prevent a thief
from using a photo to gain access.
Wells Fargo has been working
with EyeVerify, a start-up in Kansas City, Mo., to develop its eye
scan feature, which is being tested
with a small group of corporate
customers. The technology creates a map of the veins in the
whites of an eye.
To log into an account, a
customer taps open a Wells Fargo
app on a smartphone. When
prompted, the customers eyes
are lined up with a pair of yellow
circles on the phone screen. If
they match, the customer
typically a chief financial officer
or other top executive gains instant access to the account and

can start moving money or conducting other transactions.


Wells Fargo executives said the
eye scan could eventually offer an
alternative to the authentication
system used for corporate accounts, which involves physical
tokens that generate numeric
pass codes every few seconds. Al-

An attempt to stop
hackers from stealing
personal data from
millions of clients.
though generally considered secure, these tokens can be a hassle
to carry around.
For now, Wells Fargo is offering
eye scans among the most foolproof biometric technologies, according to security experts only
to select corporate customers, for
whom the stakes are arguably
higher because there is potentially so much money involved.
It is harder to take someones
eyeball than someones user ID

and password, said Steve Ellis,


who leads Wells Fargos innovation group that worked on developing the eye scan authentication.
The bank also made an investment in EyeVerify.
Instead of eye scans, Bank of
America has embraced fingerprints. Since it began offering the
option in September, about 33 percent of the banks 20 million mobile banking customers have
started using a fingertip to get
into their accounts.
There are limits, though, on
how far an average retail
customer can proceed through the
banking process without a password.
For example, JPMorgan Chase
customers can gain access to their
bank accounts with their fingerprints, but have to use a traditional password to transfer
money.
Still, the speed and accuracy of
the banks biometric capabilities
are especially notable because
they are emerging from an industry known for its antiquated system of tellers and branches and
endless reams of paperwork.
Wells Fargos eye scan technology, for example, worked so

quickly that the developers had to


slow it down by a few seconds so
customers knew it had actually
registered their identities.
It takes only about 40 seconds
to capture enough information
about a customers vocal patterns
to create a voice imprint that can
be used as a form of identification,
according to Andrew S. Keen, director of program management
for Global Consumer Operations
at Citigroup. Once a print is established, it can reduce the time that
customers spend identifying
themselves to a call center representative.
Many financial firms emphasize
the
convenience
of
biometrics, but USAA is one of the
few that highlights the effectiveness of these technologies at
thwarting thieves.
Since USAA began offering biometric authentication early last
year, more than 1.7 million
customers have been accessing
their accounts using either their
fingerprints, voices or facial
scans.
We cant rely on personal identification information any longer,
said Mr. Shaw. We believe we
have to rely on biometrics.

B8

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

MARKET GAUGES
S.& P.
U
500

DOW
U
INDUSTRIALS

2,088.90
+5.65

NASDAQ
U
COMPOSITE

17,829.73
+24.86

Standard & Poors 500-Stock Index

4,843.76
+6.55

Nasdaq Composite Index

3-MONTH TREND

CRUDE
OIL D

1.71%
+0.03

10-YEAR
TREASURY YIELD U

THE
D
EURO

$1,270.50
$19.50

Dow Jones Industrial Average

3-MONTH TREND

+10%

GOLD
D
(N.Y.)

$49.85
$0.11

$1.1251
$0.0054

3-MONTH TREND

+10%

+10%

5,200

2,200
+ 5%

19,000
+ 5%

5,000

+ 5%

2,100

18,000
4,800

0%

0%

0%

2,000

17,000

4,600
5%

5%

5%

1,900
4,400
Apr.

May

16,000

June

Apr.

May

June

Apr.

May

June

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

STOCK MARKET INDEXES


Index

Close

MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS


%
Chg

Chg

52-Wk
% Chg

YTD
% Chg

Index

DOW JONES

Close

%
Chg

Chg

52-Wk
% Chg

YTD
% Chg

Stock (TICKER)

17829.73
7649.29
683.66
6264.70

+ 24.86 + 0.14
23.33 0.30
+ 1.14 + 0.17 +
+ 1.65 + 0.03

1.03
9.07
20.01
0.16

+
+
+
+

2.32
1.87
18.32
4.79

Nasdaq 100
Composite
Industrials
Banks
Insurance
Other Finance
Telecommunications
Computer

STANDARD AND POORS

100 Stocks
500 Stocks
Mid-Cap 400
Small-Cap 600

922.05
2088.90
1494.67
708.28

+
+

2.78
5.65
0.31
1.76

+
+

0.30
0.27
0.02
0.25

0.60
1.00
3.00
3.81

+
+
+
+

1.17
2.20
6.87
5.44

NYSE Comp.
Tech/Media/Telecom
Energy
Financial
Healthcare

10490.78
7626.70
10663.70
6041.68
12398.98

+
+
+
+
+

40.75
36.76
129.63
41.15
15.81

+
+
+
+
+

0.39
0.48
1.23
0.69
0.13

4.97
2.07
10.95
11.13
6.10

+
+
+

3.42
6.40
14.13
4.19
0.11

4413.40
4843.76
4188.88
2770.42
7484.18
5644.59
263.76
2537.04

+
+
+
+
+

+
+

13.25
6.55
0.30
6.82
45.41
12.40
0.29
18.83

+
+
+
+
+

+
+

0.30
0.14
0.01
0.25
0.61
0.22
0.11
0.75

2.22
5.34
1.15
3.72
8.60
5.89
5.55
1.25

+
+
+

3.92
3.27
2.14
2.90
3.60
1.11
5.10
2.65

Volume
(100)

Stock (TICKER)

2347.44
21616.30
4682.93
1153.87
89.25
699.40
66.71
170.90

+ 9.68 + 0.41
+ 93.88 + 0.44
6.68 0.14
3.83 0.33
1.77 1.94 +
+ 2.32 + 0.33
+ 0.27 + 0.41
+ 1.41 + 0.83

2.76
3.27
4.03
10.18
33.91
3.31
14.66
16.02

+
+
+
+
+
+

9.23
2.12
7.44
1.58
97.02
5.41
8.72
8.35

Close

%
Chg

Chg

Volume
(100)

Stock (TICKER)

20 TOP GAINERS
13.62
21.67
13.22
30.94
5.45
95.91
15.09
51.19
11.61
21.64
18.79
34.75
12.75
10.03
19.16
39.99
41.07
28.77
114.38
28.29

Bank of Ameri (BAC)


Williams (WMB)
Ford Motor (F)
GE (GE)
AMD (AMD)
Apple (AAPL)
Marathn Oil (MRO)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Freeport Mcmo (FCX)
Valeant (VRX)
Kinder Morgan (KMI)
Pfizer (PFE)
Micron Tech (MU)
Cypress Semico (CY)
Barrick Gold (ABX)
Oracle (ORCL)
AT&T (T)
Cisco System (CSCO)
Facebook (FB)
CS&L (CSAL)

OTHER INDEXES

American Exch
Wilshire 5000
Value Line Arith
Russell 2000
Phila Gold & Silver
Phila Semiconductor
KBW Bank
Phila Oil Service

NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE

%
Chg

Chg

20 MOST ACTIVE

NASDAQ

Industrials
Transportation
Utilities
Composite

Close

+0.08
0.65
0.20
+0.11
+0.35
+0.81
+0.61
+1.12
+0.06
0.88
+0.69
+0.25
+0.43
0.15
0.60
+0.26
+0.29
0.03
+1.01
+0.13

+0.6
2.9
1.5
+0.4
+6.9
+0.9
+4.2
+2.2
+0.5
3.9
+3.8
+0.7
+3.5
1.5
3.0
+0.7
+0.7
0.1
+0.9
+0.5

736370
367911
367107
360317
358227
353509
343526
340756
288138
281988
261728
253566
250596
225952
211304
201107
199354
190951
189965
174272

Close

%
Chg

Chg

Volume
(100)

20 TOP LOSERS
8.22
36.88
7.22
19.99
45.46
10.26
57.48
6.68
8.85
5.45
10.81
20.49
8.90
6.88
7.87
14.33
9.70
16.47
30.84
11.15

Stone Energy (SGY)


Amer Sci & E (ASEI)
Immersion (IMMR)
Reata Pharms (RETA)
Imperva (IMPV)
Turning Point (TPB)
OSI Systems (OSIS)
Axsome (AXSM)
Shiloh Ind (SHLO)
AMD (AMD)
Kenon Holding (KEN)
Nanometrics (NANO)
Amer Superco (AMSC)
Moleculin (MBRX)
Fairmount (FMSA)
Amplify Snac (BETR)
OPKO Health (OPK)
Ryerson Holdi (RYI)
SiteOne (SITE)
WP Glimcher (WPG)

+1.45
+4.54
+0.82
+2.23
+5.02
+0.87
+4.80
+0.51
+0.59
+0.35
+0.66
+1.25
+0.53
+0.41
+0.46
+0.77
+0.51
+0.85
+1.55
+0.56

+21.4
+14.0
+12.8
+12.6
+12.4
+9.3
+9.1
+8.3
+7.1
+6.9
+6.5
+6.5
+6.3
+6.3
+6.2
+5.7
+5.5
+5.4
+5.3
+5.3

13.28
8.36
28.31
22.31
13.14
10.02
16.62
9.99
12.96
12.44
11.63
13.43
13.24
18.01
13.20
27.59
15.74
17.83
25.16
23.35

Paratek Phar (PRTK)


Immune Desig (IMDZ)
Impax Labs (IPXL)
Werner Entpr (WERN)
Voyager (VYGR)
Celadon Group (CGI)
Adamas Pharm (ADMS)
EXACT Sci (EXAS)
Malibu Boats (MBUU)
Aimmune (AIMT)
Syndax (SNDX)
TAL Intl Gp (TAL)
MyoKardia (MYOK)
PAM Transp S (PTSI)
Collegium Ph (COLL)
Editas Medic (EDIT)
Swift Tran (SWFT)
Aclaris (ACRS)
Alder (ALDR)
Alarm.com Hl (ALRM)

53298
12574
7141
3601
23864
6015
9863
412
545
358227
300
4402
1542
567
9695
14328
113601
4916
5603
49175

3.26
1.88
3.66
2.37
1.34
0.99
1.44
0.85
1.04
0.99
0.92
1.03
1.01
1.37
1.00
2.09
1.16
1.30
1.83
1.69

19.7
18.4
11.4
9.6
9.3
9.0
8.0
7.8
7.4
7.4
7.3
7.1
7.1
7.1
7.0
7.0
6.9
6.8
6.8
6.7

19020
3458
30349
63320
909
5018
3331
63723
1597
1573
1841
3819
1770
125
2054
3615
41390
656
8962
3882

S&P 100 STOCKS


Stock (TICKER)

52-Week Price Range


1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
Low Close () High Close Chg %Chg % Chg

Stock (TICKER)

52-Week Price Range


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1-Yr
YTD
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Stock (TICKER)

52-Week Price Range


1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
Low Close () High Close Chg %Chg % Chg

3M (MMM)
Abbott (ABT)
AbbVie (ABBV)
Accenture (ACN)
AIG (AIG)
Allergan (AGN)
Allstate (ALL)
Alphabet (GOOGL)
Alphabet (GOOG)
Altria Gro (MO)
Amazon.com (AMZN)
American E (AXP)
Amgen (AMGN)
Anadarko P (APC)
Apple (AAPL)
AT&T (T)
Bank of Am (BAC)
Berkshire (BRKb)
Biogen (BIIB)
BlackRock (BLK)
Boeing (BA)
BONY Mello (BK)
Bristol-My (BMY)
Capital On (COF)
Caterpilla (CAT)
Celgene (CELG)

134.00
36.00
45.45
88.43
50.20
195.50
54.12
539.54
515.18
47.41
425.57
50.27
130.09
28.16
89.47
30.97
10.99
123.55
232.99
275.00
102.10
32.20
51.82
58.49
56.36
92.98

171.37
37.73
59.98
119.43
53.79
231.55
66.80
708.88
695.94
66.18
715.82
62.29
149.42
55.51
95.91
41.07
13.62
143.53
233.00
348.00
131.52
40.44
71.25
64.25
76.49
96.86

Chevron (CVX)
Cisco Syst (CSCO)
Citigroup (C)
Coca- Cola (KO)
Colgate (CL)
Comcast (CMCSA)
ConocoPhil (COP)
Costco Who (COST)
CVS Health (CVS)
Devon Ener (DVN)
Dow (DOW)
Du Pont (DD)
Eli Lilly (LLY)
EMC US (EMC)
Emerson El (EMR)
Exelon (EXC)
Exxon Mobi (XOM)
Facebook (FB)
FedEx (FDX)
Ford Motor (F)
GE (GE)
General Dy (GD)
Gilead Sci (GILD)
GM (GM)
Goldman Sa (GS)
Halliburto (HAL)

69.58
22.46
34.52
36.56
50.84
50.01
31.05
117.03
81.37
18.07
35.11
47.11
67.88
22.66
41.25
25.09
66.55
72.00
119.71
10.44
19.37
121.61
81.28
24.62
139.05
27.64

103.24
28.77
42.92
45.13
71.80
62.54
44.80
157.20
93.21
38.19
53.27
67.55
72.57
27.74
53.15
34.76
91.53
114.38
163.95
13.22
30.94
139.41
81.79
29.51
148.35
44.62

Home Depot (HD)


Honeywell (HON)
IBM (IBM)
Intel (INTC)
Johnson&Jo (JNJ)
JPMorgan (JPM)
Kinder Mor (KMI)
Lockheed (LMT)
Lowes (LOW)
MasterCard (MA)
McDonalds (MCD)
Medtronic (MDT)
Merck & Co (MRK)
MetLife (MET)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Mondelez I (MDLZ)
Monsanto (MON)
Morgan Sta (MS)
Nike (NKE)
Norfolk So (NSC)
Occidental (OXY)
Oracle (ORCL)
PayPal Hld (PYPL)
PepsiCo (PEP)
Pfizer (PFE)
PMI (PM)

92.17
87.00
116.90
24.87
81.79
50.07
11.20
181.91
62.62
74.61
87.50
55.54
45.69
35.00
39.72
35.88
81.22
21.16
47.25
64.51
58.24
33.13
30.00
76.48
28.25
76.54

172.80
51.74
71.60
120.33
64.93
340.34
69.48
810.35
789.87
66.75
731.50
81.92
181.81
82.69
132.97
41.31
18.48
148.03
420.99
369.33
150.59
45.45
75.12
92.10
88.81
140.72

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+

+
+
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+
+

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+

0.14
0.02
0.13
0.38
0.06
3.71
0.23
2.75
2.23
0.30
1.81
0.01
1.23
0.66
0.81
0.29
0.08
1.86
4.39
0.43
1.23
0.02
0.29
0.03
0.06
2.43

+
+
+
+

7.32
24.59
14.46
21.14
14.05
24.64
0.78
26.66
N.A.
32.92
64.07
23.34
7.89
32.28
24.84
17.21
22.04
1.41
44.20
3.05
9.73
6.97
6.25
28.07
13.35
18.97

+
+

+
+

13.8
16.0
1.3
14.3
13.2
25.9
7.6
8.9
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13.7
5.9
10.4
8.0
14.3
8.9
19.4
19.1
8.7
23.9
2.2
9.0
1.9
3.6
11.0
12.6
19.1

104.26
29.49
60.95
47.13
72.72
64.99
63.55
169.73
113.65
61.79
57.10
75.72
92.85
28.77
58.64
35.95
91.64
121.08
177.65
15.84
32.05
153.76
123.37
36.88
218.77
46.69

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1.20
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0.60
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0.59
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11.49
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0.32
1.60
12.48
1.61
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3.5
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8.0
11.1
25.2
17.4
9.3
10.0
6.2
0.7
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127.74
117.30
154.05
32.32
116.18
62.95
18.79
238.55
78.33
95.11
122.63
84.59
56.25
42.73
51.19
44.48
107.68
26.20
54.77
85.01
77.16
39.99
36.16
104.08
34.75
100.85

137.82
118.53
173.78
35.59
117.74
70.61
40.28
245.37
80.76
101.76
131.96
86.31
60.07
58.23
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11.32
8.16
0.19
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52.61
24.19
11.44
0.32
26.59
9.56
4.39
25.48
10.73
8.36
5.82
34.25
2.58
8.40
2.03
3.62
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13.3
11.9
6.2
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2.3
3.8
10.0
6.5
11.4
7.7
0.8
9.3
17.6
12.4
0.5
14.2
9.5
0.1
4.2
7.7
14.7

Stock (TICKER)

52-Week Price Range


1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
Low Close () High Close Chg %Chg % Chg

Priceline (PCLN)
Procter Ga (PG)
Qualcomm (QCOM)
Raytheon (RTN)
Schlumberg (SLB)
Simon Prop (SPG)
Southern C (SO)
Starbucks (SBUX)
Synchrony (SYF)
Target (TGT)
Texas Inst (TXN)
Time Warne (TWX)
Twenty-Fir (FOX)
Twenty-Fir (FOXA)
Union Paci (UNP)
United Par (UPS)
UnitedHeal (UNH)
US Bancorp (USB)
UTC (UTX)
Verizon (VZ)
Visa (V)
WalMart (WMT)
Walgreens (WBA)
Walt Disne (DIS)
Wells Farg (WFC)

954
65.02
42.24
95.32
59.60
170.99
41.40
42.05
23.74
65.50
43.49
55.53
22.65
22.66
67.06
87.30
95.00
37.07
83.39
38.06
60.00
56.30
71.50
86.25
44.50

1477
83.87
67.63
137.34
88.12
214.80
51.79
64.00
36.40
85.81
62.59
91.34
33.66
34.70
102.74
107.32
140.89
46.26
115.78
54.49
81.73
74.14
97.30
122.08
58.77

1343
83.41
53.88
134.59
78.52
208.43
50.90
55.81
25.85
68.30
62.04
71.81
28.59
28.80
87.65
106.67
138.19
41.37
101.57
54.10
77.33
71.46
83.20
98.82
47.23

+
+

+
+

+
+
+
+

+
+

1.09
0.37
0.01
0.21
0.93
1.47
0.04
0.43
0.30
0.31
0.03
0.83
0.35
0.39
0.44
0.57
0.33
0.15
0.13
0.34
0.01
0.36
0.27
0.75
0.30

+
+

+
+
+

+
+

+
+

16.75
3.68
20.02
33.72
9.72
18.07
19.74
3.54
21.45
18.91
11.78
18.42
13.34
13.44
13.59
5.21
14.92
8.03
11.89
13.82
11.93
1.83
5.19
12.96
18.44

+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+

5.3
5.0
7.8
8.1
12.6
7.2
8.8
7.0
15.0
5.9
13.2
11.0
5.0
6.0
12.1
10.9
17.5
3.1
5.7
17.1
0.3
16.6
2.3
6.0
13.1

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

GOVERNMENT BONDS

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA


Yields

52-Week Total Returns

FINRA-BLOOMBERG
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES

FINRA-BLOOMBERG
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES

10%

+10%

high yield +7.13%

invest. gr. +4.97%

10

2
0
2015

invest. grade +3.52%


2016

20

high yield +0.12%


2016

2015

Yest.

All
Investment High
Issues
Grade
Yield

8
6

Yield Curve

Market Breadth

Total Issues Traded


Advances
Declines
Unchanged
52 Week High
52 Week Low
Dollar Volume*

7,704
3,305
3,910
141
430
90
23,655

5,237
2,139
2,893
51
266
48
14,544

Conv

2,289
1,089
926
82
156
40
8,299

178
77
91
8
8
2
812

End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.


Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
Investment grade or high-yield is determined using
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. C Yield is
unavailable because of issues call criteria.
*Par value in millions.
Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moodys,
Standard & Poors and Fitch.

Most Recent Issues

Key Rates

1-mo. ago

1-yr. ago

4%

10-year Treas.
2-year Treas.

4%

Prime Rate
Fed Funds

Mat.

1
Maturity

0
3

5 10

Months

Rate

BONDS & NOTES


2-yr. Jun 18
5-yr. May 21
10-yr. May 26
30-yr. May 46

2015

2016

Years

Issuer Name (SYMBOL)

Credit Rating
Moodys S&P

Coupon%

Maturity

Fitch

1.250
1.300
4.650
1.350
0.921
6.450
1.150
1.750
1.846
4.500

Mar18
Jul16
Oct25
Jul16
Mar17
Jan19
May17
Nov17
May17
Oct24

Aaa
Aa3
Baa3
Aa3
Aaa
Baa2
Baa2
Baa2
A2
Baa3

NR
A+
BBB
A+
AA+
BBB
A
A
A
BBB

5.875
8.375
5.625
9.875
5.750
7.500
3.550
2.900
7.250
5.450

Aug26
May21
May24
Aug19
Jun44
Nov22
Mar22
Jul26
Sep21
Mar43

NR
NR
NR
Caa2
Ba1
Ca
B1
NR
Caa1
B1

CCC+
BB
CCC
BB

BB
BB
BB
NR
BB+
NR
BBB

B
BB

B+
BBB

1.250
1.000
2.625
1.000
0.500
0.750
4.250
1.500
5.875
0.875

May18
Dec18
May41
Mar18
Nov19
Mar43
Aug19
Mar19
Jul21
Jun21

NR
NR
NR
NR

BBB
BB+
BBB
BBB+
BB+
BB
NR
NR
BB
NR

NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR

Price
High

Low

Last

Chg

Yld%

99.970
100.055
99.852
100.066
100.190
111.332
100.052
100.798
100.925
101.800

99.950
100.053
97.345
100.000
100.051
111.207
100.000
100.039
100.378
97.104

99.950
100.054
97.828
100.000
100.051
111.332
100.052
100.400
100.378
98.030

0.010
0.001
0.175
0.061
0.106
0.570
0.011
0.037
0.324
0.760

1.279
0.452
4.943
1.342
0.850
1.891
1.091
1.453
1.404
4.789

100.500
104.625
100.750
103.625
83.000
37.625
89.150
100.318
83.500
79.800

99.750
102.250
99.750
103.500
81.750
33.725
84.500
99.859
81.220
75.185

100.125
103.000
100.500
103.500
82.625
37.625
87.500
99.954
83.125
78.475

100.125
0.125
100.500
0.050
0.815
0.324
1.000
0.175
1.125
0.975

N.A.
7.629
N.A.
2.685
7.201
29.925
6.190
N.A.
11.645
7.290

147.310
238.010
250.752
148.160
99.050
109.114
146.924
99.750
115.301
79.000

145.250
233.110
248.000
143.000
98.000
108.924
145.034
98.500
113.000
78.000

145.530
235.357
249.375
147.029
98.980
109.106
146.891
99.186
115.275
79.000

1.180
1.643
0.625
1.479
0.020
0.356
1.234
0.339
1.900
0.000

17.891
31.607
1.985
20.356
0.809
0.566
8.461
1.807
2.608
5.832

INVESTMENT GRADE

National Australia Bk Medium Term Bk Nts (NABZ)


Bank Montreal Medium Term Sr Nts Book En (BMO)
Plains All Amern Pipeline L P / Paa Fin (PAA)
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM)
Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM)
Southwestern Elec Pwr Co (AEP.KV)
Amerisourcebergen Corp (ABC)
Abbvie Inc (ABBV)
Bp Cap Mkts P L C (BP)
Cdk Global Inc (CDKVV)

AAA
AA
NR
NR
BBB
A
NR
A
NR

HIGH YIELD

Amerigas Partners Lp/ Amerigas Fin Corp (APU)


Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR)
Amerigas Partners Lp/ Amerigas Fin Corp (APU)
Reynolds Group Issuer Llc (RYGR)
Williams Cos Inc (WMB)
Stone Energy Corp (SGY)
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX)
Republic Svcs Inc (RSG)
Sprint Corp (SFTBF)
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX)

Lam Resh Corp (LRCX)


Nvidia Corp (NVDA)
Novellus Sys Inc (LRCX)
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN)
Linkedin Corp (LNKD)
Liberty Interactive Llc (LINT)
Exelixis Inc (EXEL)
Vipshop Hldgs Ltd (VIPS)
Weatherford Intl Ltd (WFT)
Sunpower Corp (TOT)

CONSUMER RATES

B+

B2
NR
NR
NR
NR

NR

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Foreign Currency
in Dollars
AMERICAS
Argentina (Peso)
Bolivia (Boliviano)
Brazil (Real)
Canada (Dollar)
Chile (Peso)
Colombia (Peso)
Dom. Rep. (Peso)
El Salvador (Colon)
Guatemala (Quetzal)
Honduras (Lempira)
Mexico (Peso)
Nicaragua (Cordoba)
Paraguay (Guarani)
Peru (New Sol)
Uruguay (New Peso)
Venezuela (Bolivar)
EUROPE
Britain (Pound)
Czech Rep (Koruna)
Denmark (Krone)
Europe (Euro)
Hungary (Forint)

Yesterday

Tuesday
Friday

Year
Ago

0.38%
3.50
2.69
3.90
3.72
4.29
2.86
3.17
2.81

0.13%
3.25
3.19
3.77
4.18
4.35
3.16
3.45
2.66

4.38%
4.32
4.14
4.11

Change from last week


Up
Flat
Down

0.25%
0.24
0.33
0.55
0.74
1.42

9 10

5-YEAR HISTORY

Industrial Production

+4%

Change from
previous year

May 16
Apr. 16

.0718
.1468
.2928
.7803
.0015
.0003
.0219
.1147
.1311
.0441
.0537
.0356
.0002
.3046
.0327
.1003

1.4645
.0416
.1512
1.1251
.0036

Dollars in
Foreign Currency

13.9370
6.8100
3.4153
1.2815
675.60
2974.2
45.7500
8.7220
7.6300
22.6700
18.6160
28.0800
5668.4
3.2827
30.6000
9.9750

.6828
24.0440
6.6137
.8888
279.58

1.4%
1.2

Future
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
Live Cattle
Hogs-Lean
Cocoa
Coffee
Sugar-World

Monetary
units per
Exchange quantity
CBT
CBT
CBT

Foreign Currency
in Dollars

0.28
0.41

0.27
0.40

+0.02
+0.03

0.26
0.38

99.72
100.84
99.23
99.72

99.73
100.84
99.25
99.73

0.54
0.14
0.28
0.56

0.74
1.17
1.68
2.49



|
1]
1|
2

101.66
0.29 -0.27
103.59
0.34
0.22
124.46
0.41
0.48
102.43
0.68
0.89
Source: Thomson Reuters

One Dollar in Euros


1.00 euros

$1 = 0.8888

0.95
0.90
0.85
0.80
2016

2015
Norway (Krone)
Poland (Zloty)
Russia (Ruble)
Sweden (Krona)
Switzerland (Franc)
Turkey (Lira)

.1203
.2559
.0157
.1208
1.0399
.3438

8.3109
3.9077
63.8905
8.2791
.9616
2.9083

Dollars in
Foreign Currency

ASIA/PACIFIC
Australia (Dollar)
China (Yuan)
Hong Kong (Dollar)
India (Rupee)
Japan (Yen)
Malaysia (Ringgit)
New Zealand (Dollar)
Pakistan (Rupee)
Philippines (Peso)
Singapore (Dollar)
So. Korea (Won)
Taiwan (Dollar)
Thailand (Baht)
Vietnam (Dong)

.7444
.1518
.1289
.0148
.0095
.2480
.7116
.0096
.0216
.7448
.0009
.0311
.0284
.00004

1.3434
6.5893
7.7592
67.6135
104.73
4.0320
1.4053
104.57
46.3200
1.3427
1152.1
32.1580
35.2100
22322

MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Bahrain (Dinar)
Egypt (Pound)
Iran (Rial)
Israel (Shekel)
Jordan (Dinar)
Kenya (Shilling)
Kuwait (Dinar)

2.6579
.1126
.00003
.2593
1.4130
.0099
3.3183

.3762
8.8799
30110
3.8561
.7077
101.00
.3014

CME
CME
NYBOT
NYBOT
NYBOT
COMX
COMX
COMX
NYMX
NYMX
NYMX

Lifetime
High
Low

Date

582.75 351.25
1216.00 859.50
732.00 449.50
151.50 113.73
88.90
71.08
3406.00 2645.00
231.20 115.35
20.15
11.37

Jul
Jul
Jul
Jun
Jul
Jul
Jul
Jun

16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16

420.50 422.25 396.25 396.25


1145.00 1151.75 1128.75 1133.25
473.00 476.50 457.25 458.50
114.88 115.38 113.78 115.05
86.50
86.83
86.05
86.20
3170.00 3173.00 3166.00 3195.00
138.80 139.35 136.40 138.50
19.68
19.69
19.16
19.24

25.00
10.25
14.50
0.55
0.22
25.00
1.00
0.45

242,949
148,156
75,771
8,815
35,296
417
8,382
104,966

$/oz
$/oz
$/lb
$/bbl
$/gal
$/mil.btu

1977.30 1047.20
18.05
14.81
2.93
1.95
90.58
32.22
2.77
0.94
7.30
1.94

Jun
Jun
Jun
Aug
Jun
Jun

16
16
16
16
16
16

1293.90 1293.90 1266.30 1270.50


17.50
17.50
17.50
17.31
2.08
2.13
2.08
2.12
49.80
50.40
48.85
49.85
1.52
1.53
1.49
1.52
2.74
2.79
2.71
2.77

19.50
0.19
+ 0.02
0.11
0.01
+ 0.02

606
56
853
459,768
61,600
105,062

May 16
Apr. 16
4

92.6
94.7

9 10

% Total Returns

120

40

11

16
2.0

Monthly
Seasonally adjusted

1.0

11

16

9 10

Leading Indicators

3.29%
3.22

+8%

Change from
previous year
0% 1

9 10

0.32%
0.29
0.36
0.59
0.79
1.46

*Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850.

Apr. 16
+1.9%
March 16 +1.9

110
100
90
2016

Lebanon (Pound)
Saudi Arabia (Riyal)
So. Africa (Rand)
U.A.E (Dirham)

.0007
.2667
.0680
.2723

11

16

New Home Sales

Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.


Source: Thomson Reuters

Open

High

Low

Settle

Change

Open
Interest

Crude Oil
$70

$48.85 a barrel

60
50
40
30
2016

2015

1.0

Type

YTD

1 Yr

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Y(ODVYX)


American Funds New World A(NEWFX)
Lazard Emerging Markets Equity Instl(LZEMX)
Vanguard Emerging Mkts Stock Idx Adm(VEMAX)
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock(PRMSX)
Fidelity Series Emerging Markets F(FEMFX)
Virtus Emerging Markets Opportunities (HIEMX)
Vanguard European Stock Index Adm(VEUSX)
GMO Emerging Markets VI(GEMMX)
Fidelity Emerging Markets(FEMKX)
Matthews Asia Dividend Investor(MAPIX)
Matthews Pacific Tiger Investor(MAPTX)
T. Rowe Price New Asia(PRASX)
Matthews Japan Investor(MJFOX)
Matthews Asian Growth & Inc Investor(MACSX)
Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Adm(VPADX)
T. Rowe Price European Stock(PRESX)
Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth(DREGX)
SEI Emerging Markets Equity A (SIT)(SIEMX)
Franklin Mutual European Z(MEURX)
Acadian Emerging Markets Instl(AEMGX)
Baron Emerging Markets Institutional(BEXIX)
JHancock Emerging Markets NAV(JEVNX)
Average performance for all such funds
Number of funds for period

% Total Returns

Exp. Assets

5 Yr* Ratio

(mil.$)

LARGEST FUNDS

Fund Name (TICKER)

Type

YTD

1 Yr

Exp. Assets

5 Yr* Ratio

Source: Bankrate.com

0.0

11

16

(mil.$)

LEADERS
EM
EM
EM
EM
EM
EM
EM
ES
EM
EM
DP
PJ
PJ
JS
PJ
DP
ES
EM
EM
ES
EM
EM
EM

+2.3
+2.0
+11.5
+5.6
+8.1
+4.9
+6.0
0.6
+11.0
+4.8
+4.9
+2.4
+0.2
+5.2
+5.5
*
3.3
+3.9
+5.3
4.7
+2.9
+3.2
+6.9

12.1
7.6
10.1
13.9
7.4
10.8
4.0
9.5
8.0
6.6
3.3
6.8
9.5
+5.4
3.0
6.6
9.9
11.1
11.6
10.6
16.2
9.0
10.7

1.1
+0.9
2.7
3.4
1.4
1.9
+1.8
+2.6
4.6
1.6
+6.0
+4.7
+2.0
+11.0
+3.5
+3.6
+5.0
0.5
4.5
+4.1
3.7
+3.1
3.7

+3.6
162

10.3
162

0.5
151

1.08
1.04
1.10
0.15
1.24
0.87
1.31
0.12
0.91
1.03
1.05
1.07
0.94
0.99
1.09
0.12
0.95
1.64
1.77
1.05
1.51
1.20
1.02

12,929
10,882
8,558
7,864
7,785
7,410
6,576
3,860
3,766
2,804
2,665
2,576
2,483
2,094
1,985
1,874
1,431
1,399
1,386
1,292
1,262
1,232
1,219

Hennessy Japan Institutional(HJPIX)


Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies(FJSCX)
Matthews Japan Investor(MJFOX)
T. Rowe Price Japan(PRJPX)
Invesco European Small Company A(ESMAX)
Fidelity Pacific Basin(FPBFX)
Matthews Asian Growth & Inc Investor(MACSX)
Matthews Asia Growth Investor(MPACX)
Franklin India Growth A(FINGX)
Fidelity Japan(FJPNX)
Matthews Asia Dividend Investor(MAPIX)
Matthews India Investor(MINDX)

JS
JS
JS
JS
ES
DP
PJ
DP
EI
JS
DP
EI

+8.3
+5.3
+5.2
+6.8
+3.3
+3.9
+5.5
+2.0
+2.4
0.9
+4.9
+0.3

+7.6
+5.9
+5.4
+5.2
+2.9
0.8
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.3
3.3

+12.1
+12.1
+11.0
+8.7
+8.0
+7.7
+3.5
+5.2
+4.2
+4.3
+6.0
+7.4

1.27
0.97
0.99
1.05
1.44
1.17
1.09
1.11
1.69
0.79
1.05
1.11

59
547
2,094
367
215
644
1,985
477
56
357
2,665
1,077

LAGGARDS
Fidelity China Region(FHKCX)
Matthews China Investor(MCHFX)
Oberweis China Opportunities(OBCHX)
Guinness Atkinson China & Hong Kong(ICHKX)
Columbia Greater China A(NGCAX)
Neuberger Berman Greater China Eq Inst(NCEIX)
Templeton Frontier Markets A(TFMAX)
Templeton China World A(TCWAX)
State Street Disciplined Em Mkts Eq N(SSEMX)
Ivy Emerging Markets Equity A(IPOAX)
Pioneer Emerging Markets A(PEMFX)
Acadian Emerging Markets Instl(AEMGX)

CH
CH
CH
CH
CH
CH
EM
CH
EM
EM
EM
EM

9.8
15.3
13.0
6.4
9.7
9.8
+1.2
1.1
0.7
+2.7
+3.2
+2.9

28.4
27.2
26.6
22.7
21.9
21.4
19.2
18.5
18.2
16.5
16.3
16.2

+2.4
3.5
+3.5
3.9
+0.4
NA
3.9
2.9
5.8
2.0
8.3
3.7

0.96
1.14
1.95
1.53
1.60
1.52
2.15
1.91
1.25
1.50
1.95
1.51

957
552
102
58
57
86
59
182
104
347
70
1,262

*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Todays fund types: CH-China Region. DP-Divers.
Pacific Asia. EI-India Equity. EM-Divers. Emerging Mkt.. ES-Europe Stock. JS-Japan Stock. LS-Latin America Stock. PJ-Pacific Asia ex-Japan. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables
rotate on a 2-week basis.
Source: Morningstar

Annual rate, in millions


Seasonally adjusted

Apr. 16
0.62
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B9

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

I.O.C. Chief Seeks to Fix


Antidoping Deficiencies
By REBECCA R. RUIZ

The president of the International


Olympic Committee on Tuesday addressed problems with global antidoping
efforts, which are led by officials from his
organization. Tacitly acknowledging that
the current structure was rife with conflicts, he ordered a complete rethinking
of it.
We want to make the antidoping system independent from sports organizations, the I.O.C.s president, Thomas
Bach, said at a meeting of global sports
officials in Switzerland. The antidoping
system has some deficiencies.
A New York Times investigation this

month found that the World Anti-Doping


Agency, the global watchdog for sports
doping, was hampered by politics and
possible conflicts of interest. For years,
the agencys leadership failed to pursue
allegations of widespread cheating in
Russia. Many within WADA had varying
views on the organizations core purpose, some seeing it as more of a passive
coordinator than a proactive policing authority.
The organization is jointly funded by
national governments and sports organizations, including the I.O.C. Its decision
makers are government and Olympic officials, people who might not be inclined
to reveal doping transgressions that

could mar the integrity of the Games or


discredit athletes from their countries.
Were not going to turn to people and
say, These are the rules; obey them,
the agencys current president, Craig
Reedie, told The Times. Mr. Reedie, who
is also an I.O.C. vice president, said
WADA had not investigated whistleblower tips from inside Russia because
the agency did not have explicit authority to do so until 2015.
Mr. Bach, designating WADA as the
leader in the global antidoping effort,
said, Everybody has to understand better who is doing what and who is responsible for what.
Continued on Page B12

DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS

Thomas Bach, the I.O.C. president, at a meeting Tuesday, called for making
the global antidoping system independent from sports organizations.

Jamess
Story
Completes
Its Arc
By MARC TRACY

BOB LEVEY/GETTY IMAGES

Lionel Messi scoring on a free kick to give Argentina a 2-0 first-half lead over the United States in a Copa Amrica semifinal.

Messi and Argentina Roll Past U.S.


By DAVID WALDSTEIN

HOUSTON Lionel Messi stood calmly


over the ball about 25 yards from the goal,
contemplating the possibilities in front of
him. He had already made one spectacular
pass that led to a goal for Argentina, and
now he had a
ARGENTINA
4
chance for another
moment of brilUNITED STATES
0
liance.
Copa Amrica
Messi took two
steps and then
Semifinal
struck the ball with
his left instep, curling it over the wall of
defenders and back down into the upper
corner of the goal, where it stung the net
with such force that the goal posts rattled.
The American goalkeeper Brad Guzan
had no chance, and neither did his team.
Behind Messis almost predictable mastery, Argentina thrashed the United States
mens soccer team by 4-0 in a semifinal of
the Copa Amrica Centenario at NRG Stadium on Tuesday night.
Messi set up the first goal with a clever
pass to Ezequiel Lavezzi in the third
minute, scored the second goal on the free
kick later in the half and finally scooped up a
loose ball in front of the net and fed it to Gonzalo Higuan in the 86th minute for
Higuans second goal of the match and Argentinas fourth.
It was a demonstration of total superiority. Messis goal was his 55th for his
country, pushing him past Gabriel Batistuta
as Argentinas leading scorer.
Argentina will play the winner of
Wednesdays semifinal in Chicago between
Colombia and Chile with the hope of winning its first major trophy in more than 20

James Phelan, a literary scholar at


Ohio State, heard it on sports-talk radio
on Tuesday, even if fans and hosts
werent saying it outright. The nature of
the discussion about LeBron James
conveyed that no matter
ESSAY what happened next, after he
led the Cavaliers to their first
N.B.A. championship Sunday
night, his legacy had been definitively
chiseled.
There was implicit recognition that
narrative culmination has already
occurred, Phelan said. Jamess career,
as inadvertently reflected by the radio
banter, was now the stuff of bildungsroman.
Right, sports fans? Bear with me.
The hero chafes at the comfort he
knows, so he leaves home, believing
adventure will give him both spiritual
fulfillment and a livelihood. He gains
knowledge but comes to realize something is missing. He stumbles back
home, where he realizes the key to
happiness was right under his nose all
along.
It is the plot of the coming-of-age
story, grist for dozens of classic 19thcentury novels (and yet more middling
20th-century movies).
If even those without Cleveland
connections found themselves feeling
warm and glad when they watched
James drop to the floor at Oracle Arena
on Sunday night and weep with joy, it
might have been because the arc of his
endlessly scrutinized career resembles
a tried-and-true story, and this was its
completion.
The technical term for a novel of
growth is bildungsroman, a German
word (roughly, novel of development)
for a genre that started with a German
book. That book Wilhelm Meisters
Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe describes a well-to-do
young man who leaves home and falls
in with a troupe of actors, has adventures and finally realizes his destiny
lies with a society of the well-to-do that
is intimately connected to his origins.
In other words: Theres no place like
Continued on Page B11

DAVID J. PHILLIP/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ezequiel Lavezzi (22) after he opened the scoring three minutes into the game.
Messi assisted on the goal, and on Argentinas final score, in the 86th minute.
years, since the 1993 Copa Amrica.
For all his talent and all his championship
success at the club level with Barcelona,
Messi has never won a major international
tournament with Argentina. But he has
come agonizingly close. The Argentines lost
in the final at the 2014 World Cup and the
2015 Copa Amrica, so Sundays final will be
Messis third chance in three years.
The Americans had been hoping for one
of the biggest upsets in their history but

knew it would take finding a way to suppress Messi.


Instead, the extraordinary gifts bestowed
on his two small feet were too much for the
Americans to overcome, delighting the minority of Argentina fans in the stadium.
Messi dribbled around the perimeter of
the United States defense, probed for
cracks and darted past stumbling
Continued on Page B13

EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA

LeBron James on Sunday night after he and the Cavaliers won an


N.B.A. championship for Cleveland.

B10

THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

BASEBALL

Buyers or Sellers? Yankees Are Waiting for Their Players to Respond


By BILLY WITZ

As the Yankees continue their


long waltz around the .500 mark
one step forward, another sideways, and then back the question being
ROCKIES
8
asked with
increasing
YANKEES
4
legitimacy
is this: Will they become sellers or
buyers at the Aug. 1 trade deadline?
It was a question that the owner
Hal Steinbrenner danced around
Monday night when he spoke
briefly to reporters at a charity
function in Midtown Manhattan.
You know me, he said. Im
not big on hypotheticals. Lets just
see. I believe were going to be
right smack in the middle of it
come the end of July.
On Tuesday night, the Yankees
were right smack in the middle of
one of their more ghastly
performances of the season, losing to the Colorado Rockies, 8-4, at
Yankee Stadium.
When Charlie Blackmon hit the
first of his two home runs on the
third pitch of the game, the latest
dismal pitching performance by
Ivan Nova was underway. It was
accompanied by Carlos Beltrans
rare trifecta: one ball rolled under

his glove in right field; another


carried over his head; and he was
thrown out trying to take second
on a fly ball.
Reciting the litany of mistakes
in full would only belabor the
point, but the most salient one is
that the defeat kept them six
games behind Baltimore in the
American League East.
So even though the Yankees
(34-36) have played better since
their dreadful start, a 26-20 record
since May 3 has not moved them
appreciably closer to first place.
They were six and a half games
behind Baltimore then.
General Manager Brian Cashman and Manager Joe Girardi
echoed Steinbrenners sunny outlook before the game, but also acknowledged that it was no sure
thing that the Yankees would consider themselves contenders as
the deadline approaches.
I hope this team declares itself
in such a way, one way or the
other, that its pretty damn obvious, Cashman said, pausing to
laugh as he sat in the first-base
dugout. And I use that word carefully because Im sure the social
media will jump on it Well, its
pretty damn obvious to me.
He added: I get it. I under-

JULIE JACOBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alex Rodriguez after striking out in the third inning of Tuesdays


loss. He is hitting .216, and is not the only Yankee struggling.
stand it. Were not blind, but we
also have to remain objective and
recognize that some players certainly are capable of a lot more
than theyve produced thus far.
Theres some time for them to
prove that, and if they dont, then
there will be some interesting decisions to make.
Those decisions would ultimately land in the lap of Steinbrenner, who had been loath to

trade the free-agents-to-be Robinson Cano and David Robertson


when the Yankees missed the
playoffs in 2013 and 2014. But this
team has few players that would
keep fans coming through the
turnstiles: Attendance has dipped
to more than 8,000 per game below levels of 2010, when the Yankees were defending World Series
champions in their second season
in the new stadium.

And they are continuing to cede


ground to the Mets. While another
modest crowd turned out at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, the
Mets were beating Kansas City in
a World Series rematch at Citi
Field.
While Cashman was not a seller
at the trade deadline last year, the
Yankees were not aggressive, either. Cashman deemed the
prospects Luis Severino, Aaron
Judge and Gary Sanchez as untouchable, while Toronto made gofor-broke deals for Troy Tulowitzki and David Price and zoomed
past the Yankees over the final
two months. But nearly a year later, all three prospects are still at
Class AAA Scranton/WilkesBarre.
If the Yankees become sellers,
they have some pieces to move.
Beltran, who is in the final year of
his contract, has 18 home runs and
48 runs batted in, and he could be
of interest to a contender looking
to fortify its designated-hitter
spot, such as Kansas City or Houston. If the Yankees are willing to
move either of their two elite
closers, Andrew Miller or Aroldis
Chapman, there should be a long
list of suitors, beginning with
Washington.

Cashman, who described the


Yankees as always trying to live
for today, hoped more players
could mirror the resurgence of
third baseman Chase Headley
and shortstop Didi Gregorius,
who have hit much better in the
last six weeks. Gregorius doubled
and tripled Tuesday.
But designated hitter Alex Rodriguez, who came up with seven
runners on base and drove in one,
is hitting .216, and catcher Brian
McCann, who followed up his two
home runs in Sundays loss at
Minnesota with three strikeouts,
is mired at .219.
Nova, who has a 6.88 E.R.A.
over his last six starts, has become emblematic of a starting rotation that has begun to backslide
after a strong May.
The Yankees may get first baseman Mark Teixeira back soon. He
began a three-game rehabilitation
assignment Tuesday night at
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, but Teixeira is hitting .180 and has not
homered in more than two
months.
Hal has belief in this club, I
have belief in this club, but we
have to go out and do it, Girardi
said. Belief is not enough. You
have to go out and produce.

As Lineup Sags, Mets Weigh Help From Inside, Outside and Their Past
By JAMES WAGNER

General Manager Sandy Alderson watches Mets games the


way most fans do, filled with exhilaration when his team wins and
frustration when it loses. But as
the Mets face a
METS
2
familiar crossROYALS
1 road in their
season five
games above .500 after Tuesdays
2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals Alderson is juggling more
than emotions.
The lineup has been the biggest
drag on the team, and the front office is weighing all options for upgrades to an offense that ranks
near the bottom of baseball in several categories. While the Mets
welcomed back catcher Travis
dArnaud, they will hold a workout
for the Cuban defector Yulieski
Gourriel, keep an eye on the former Met Jose Reyes, and take a
look at which prospects might be
promoted or demoted.
If you look at the team as a
whole, there arent a lot of places
where a significant upgrade is
possible, Alderson said before
the game Tuesday. But were always looking. Time is against us a
little bit in the sense that were not
that close to the trade deadline.
The Mets have already made
minor tweaks to their roster
first baseman James Loney and
the utility man Kelly Johnson
were recently added but deals
for frontline players are not likely
until closer to the Aug. 1 trade
deadline. Through 69 games last
season, the Mets had a 36-33
record, but July trades sparked a
second-half turnaround.
That doesnt happen very often, where a team just catches fire
at the deadline and most of the
deals work, Alderson said.
Thats not historically true. So in
that sense, waiting until the deadline isnt necessarily a great strategy.
The Mets must also ask themselves: Will one significant addition make much difference? Kevin
Plawecki was sent to Class AAA
Las Vegas to make room for the

KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mets starting pitcher Bartolo Colon was hit on the right thumb by Whit Merrifields first-inning grounder. Colon then left the game.
better-hitting dArnaud, who had
been out since late April because
of a rotator-cuff injury in his
throwing shoulder. Third baseman David Wright (neck) and
first baseman Lucas Duda (back)
remain on the disabled list.
There are only a few things
that really we can do to change the
team profile, and thats kind of at
the margins, Alderson said. In
that sense, focusing on one or two
players is inappropriate. Right

now, its a team outage, and we


need to figure out how to correct
that as opposed to rearranging
deck chairs.
Alderson admitted that the
Mets had considered swapping
the struggling outfielder Michael
Conforto with the outfield
prospect Brandon Nimmo, but
they are keeping Conforto for now.
I didnt want to show a huge
panic and all of a sudden just starting flipping guys out and start

bringing three or four guys up and


sending guys out, Manager Terry
Collins said. Because Im not
sure thats the way to keep things
calm.
The Mets list of injured grew
Tuesday. Reliever Jim Henderson
was placed on the disabled list
with right biceps tendinitis. Returning from Tommy John
surgery in the minor leagues,
starter Zack Wheeler was shut
down with elbow discomfort and

will see Mets doctors Wednesday


in New York.
Starter Bartolo Colon left after
four pitches when a ground ball off
Whit Merrifields bat hit Colons
right thumb. The injury initially
looked bad, but the Mets announced that Colons X-ray results
were negative.
When the ball hit me, I prayed
to God that my finger wasnt broken, Colon said.
Collins said the Mets would re-

C A L E N DA R

TENNIS

Former Junior Champion Pursues Return to Wimbledon


By BEN ROTHENBERG

ROEHAMPTON, England
Ashleigh Barty had her teenage
breakthroughs at Wimbledon
years ago. On Tuesday, she was
happy just to have a spot in the
outermost ring of the tournament.
Its just a massive bonus that
were here, Barty said after winning her first qualifying match, 7-6
(3), 6-3, against Lu Jia-Jing on
Tuesday.
Here, for now, is the Bank of
England Sports Centre, the auxiliary site used for Wimbledon qualifying, with three wins and three
and a half miles standing between
players and entry into the prestigious All-England Club.
Barty, an Australian, made a
name for herself on the main stage
at a young age. She won the junior
Wimbledon title in 2011 when she
was 15 and reached the final in
womens doubles two years later.
But she walked away from tennis in September 2014. She no
longer enjoyed the game, the
global travel and the workload required at the top levels.
After 18 months away, which included a stint in professional
cricket, Barty, now 20, returned,
playing several small doubles
tournaments in Australia in Feb-

ruary and March.


You obviously have a different
perspective on life when youre 20
compared to when youre 16, she
said. Its a little bit different, and
its about really accepting that you
sacrifice a few things to reap the
rewards. There are not a lot of people in the world that get to say
they get to walk through the gates
of Wimbledon and play on Centre
Court. Its pretty phenomenal, and
were very lucky to live this life
that we do.
A turning point for Barty came
after her cricket season had
ended, when she traveled to Sydney to visit Casey Dellacqua, an
Australian veteran who had been
Bartys doubles partner for three
Grand Slam finals in 2013. After
the two hit for a bit, Barty realized
how much she missed tennis.
It was more just talking about
life in general, chatting about
memories that we had, and you
couldnt wipe the smile off my
face, Barty said. I knew that this
is where Im meant to be.
When Barty committed to a singles return, she contacted the
coach Craig Tyzzer, and the two
began an eight-week training
block.
She worked really hard, and

that told me that shes pretty serious, Tyzzer said. From a long
way back, shes in a different
place: enjoying it, happy, looking
forward to it.
A full-fledged singles comeback
began three weeks ago at a small
grass-court tournament in Eastbourne on the coast of the English
Channel.
Without a ranking, Barty won
six matches through qualifying
and the main draw, impressing
organizers of the WTA event in
Nottingham, which gave her a
wild card into qualifying. She won
five matches there, losing to topseeded Karolina Pliskova, who is
ranked 17th in the world, in two
tiebreaker sets in a quarterfinal.
Tyzzer said Bartys initiative in
this stage of her career, which she
refers to as 2.0, had been vital to
her success.
This time its on her terms,
Tyzzer said. Before, she was just
talented and kept going with it
and didnt really make a choice
about tennis. She walked away
and has now made a choice that
yeah, I actually want to play. And
thats the way its been on the
road; its exactly that. Shes enjoying it; shes loving being back;
shes enjoying competing and
playing. The results are showing it

evaluate Colons swollen thumb


Thursday. Colon said he had no issue gripping a ball after the game.
The Mets all-or-nothing offense provided the needed support in solo home runs by Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes. In Colons place, the
bullpen cobbled together the next
26 outs with five relievers, led by
Hansel Robles, who threw 65
pitches in a career-high three and
two-thirds innings.
I was a little tired but not exhausted, Robles said.
For now, the Mets will explore
outside options for their lineup
like Gourriel, 32, who can play second or third base and is a career
.335 hitter in Cuba and Japan. He
was once considered Cubas top
prospect but defected in February.
He has not played professionally
in months and may command a
sizable financial commitment.
Alderson said the Mets would
do due diligence on Gourriel.
Its not clear how long a player
in that situation would take to be
ready, Alderson said. And of
course theres the investment and
all the other issues and making an
evaluation based on workouts primarily and not game competition.
The Mets may also consider
Reyes, a former homegrown star
shortstop who was designated for
assignment by the Colorado Rockies last week. If unclaimed on
waivers or untraded by this weekend, Reyes will be a free agent.
Reyes could be signed for the
prorated major league minimum.
But his diminished skills aside, his
off-the-field issues could scare
teams away. Although domestic
abuse charges were dropped,
Reyes served a 51-game suspension issued by Major League
Baseball stemming from an offseason episode with his wife.
Alderson said the Mets balanced their evaluations of talent
with those of character.
Those are things that we dont
ignore and are always taken into
account when we make a player
acquisition or decision, he said.

a bit.
While the early returns on her
work have been exciting, Barty
hopes to remain committed to the
process rather than the results.
This year were using as a development year, she said. Every
single match, win, lose or draw,
theres something that we can improve on, and its about us addressing that straight after the
match. I know from today weve
got a lot to work on. Its going to be
good to get back out there and
have another crack tomorrow.
Barty speaks of her tennis in the
first-person plural more than
most tennis players, a sign of her
comfort in team environments,
like the one she relished in cricket.
Tyzzer said Barty flourished with
other Australian players like
Daria Gavrilova and Samantha
Stosur training alongside her in
Melbourne.
Thats probably the hardest
thing in tennis: A lot of time,
youre out there on your own,
Tyzzer said. She feels like shes
got a lot of support, and Tennis
Australia has been great. Having
all the girls around has been really
good, and she enjoys that side of it.
But still, in the end of the day,
youre out there competing on
your own.

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P R O B A S K E T B A L L N. B . A . F I N A L S

For James and Jordan, Signature Moments 20 Years Apart


Twenty years apart, Michael
Jordan and LeBron James wept
unashamedly after winning an
N.B.A. championship on Fathers
Day.
When tears for a title flow, the
heart of the game
is bared, and those
who form its soul
become clearer in
focus.
ON PRO
Largely in sorBASKETBALL
row, Jordan sobbed
on the locker room floor of
United Center in Chicago on
June 16, 1996. His father, James,
had been murdered three years
earlier and was missing for the
first time from a triumphant
aftermath, the fourth of his sons
six N.B.A. titles.
After James claimed his third
title on Sunday night, he went
down on his knees and cried at
Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
He was overcome by a range of
emotions after claiming a championship for long-suffering Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio
region of his impoverished, fatherless youth.
Different eras, players and
personal circumstances, but after
the Cavaliers 93-89 Game 7
victory, Jordan and James are
finally and forever connected by
a historic cause.
Jordans 1995-96 Bulls punctuated their then-record 72-victory
regular season by closing out the
Seattle SuperSonics in six games.
Jamess Cavaliers punctured the
Golden State Warriors case
after 73 regular-season victories
to stand above Jordans Bulls
in the continuous debate on the
greatest pro basketball team
ever.
After a third straight James
masterpiece in elimination
games, a generation of commit-

HARVEY
ARATON

ted Jordan worshipers heaved a


sigh of relief as its main man
Michael remained the face of the
one-season standard for end-toend excellence.
Likewise, a growing chorus of
James boosters furthered its
claim that he is the Jordan of his
time and, at 31, still young and
dominant enough to catch or
eclipse the most famous No. 23
as the consensus choice for
greatest of all time.
In the blur of memories, there
is a tendency to paint the Jordan
years with rose-colored broad
strokes to pretend he never
struggled on court or off.
In contrast, Jamess defenders
have considered him the most
scrutinized and criticized American athlete, much of the naysaying unwarranted and aggravated
by the polarizing effects of social
media.
But Jordans persona was
pierced by societal criticisms
for gambling excesses and a
refusal to speak out on social
issues, which James has done
that went deeper than the pettiness surrounding Jamess decisions on where to play, and how
he played.
Jordan was typically spectacular in the finals, but he, like
James, had nights when his
game betrayed him, when others
had to bail him out. The Game 6
title-clincher in 1996 when he
took 19 shots and made only five
was one of them.
The next season, at the climax
of a tight Game 6 in the finals
against Utah, Jordan anticipated
the Jazzs double team and told
Steve Kerr to expect to be open
for a pass.
Ill be ready, Kerr told him on
the bench before hitting the
title-clinching jumper, a classic

example of superstar trust,


never easily earned at the level
at which Jordan competed and
let us once and for all admit at
which James now competes.
Kerr, now the Warriors coach,
saw his teams bid for a repeat
title snatched away by James
and company. He knows better
than most how the burden of
superstar expectations can make
a man cruelly contentious. Jordan once struck Kerr in the face
during a Bulls scrimmage when
Kerr had the audacity to question him.
It was one of the best things
that ever happened for me, Kerr
said a few years ago. I needed
to stand up and go back at him. I
think I earned some respect.
That was never easy for Jordans teammates, from the very
best (Scottie Pippen) to the
marginal veterans whom he
nonetheless delighted with the
delivery of a first championship
ring.
Almost like a father wants to
provide for his kids, Trent
Tucker, a onetime Knick and a
role player on the 1992-93 champion Bulls, said during that seasons finals.
It was no coincidence that the
once-fragile Pippen, a reticent
Toni Kukoc and a chronically
disruptive Dennis Rodman all
grew as performers and rose to
championship moments rather
than sag under the weight of
Jordans demands.
He occasionally went too far,
but they ultimately believed it
was in their interests. They
wanted to please him, just as
these Cavaliers evolved into
willing subjects of King James.
A year ago, facing elimination
at home in Game 6 against the
Warriors with a depleted and

EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES

LeBron James,
above left, and
Kevin Love after
the Cavaliers
won their first
title Sunday, and
Randy Brown,
far left, and
Michael Jordan
after the Bulls
won in 1996.
MICHAEL CONROY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

unimposing cast, James said he


still believed the Cavaliers could
win because Im the best player
in the world.
The punditrys collective head
exploded over his perceived
conceit, but Dru Joyce II,
Jamess youth and high school
coach in Akron, Ohio, got on the
telephone and said, more or less,
do you really think it is himself
he needs to inflate?
He couldnt be afraid to say
that when he is still trying to win
this championship, to build on
that belief, said Joyce, one of
Jamess surrogate father figures.

Jordan won four of his six


titles after his 30th birthday.
James might have looked 30
upon entering the league at 18, in
2003, but it took him years of
grappling with the concept of
on-court leadership before he
became the finished product on
spectacular display Sunday
night.
This time, James arrived in the
finals with a healthy roster but
after another season he called
chaotic, given the title-or-bust
mandate he helped create.
Could he ever coexist with a
ball-dominant point guard like

Kyrie Irving? Could he extract


enough from the athletically
challenged and somewhat
strange Kevin Love?
Follow my lead, he shouted
in the huddle before Game 3,
after two disturbing blowouts in
Oakland. With the Cavs trying to
become the first team to rally to
an N.B.A. title after trailing by
three games to one, and given a
break by Draymond Greens
Game 5 suspension, James led
by example, by sheer will, as few
have done before.
Irving responded with scoring
brilliance and a title-clinching
3-pointer over Stephen Curry,
whose own marksmanship had
deserted him, followed by his
point guard and leadership skills.
J. R. Smith controlled his inner
desire for disorder for James the
way he never could for Carmelo
Anthony in New York and cried
along with James at the end.
Love grabbed 14 rebounds
Sunday night, had a Game 7
plus-minus of 19 the highest
mark by far of any Cavalier
and held defensively steady as
Curry frantically and foolishly
launched a last-gasp 3-point
attempt that did not come close.
Then Love was first to embrace James and sounded like a
North Korean bureaucrat, referring to him several times as our
leader.
James is only halfway to Jordan in championships won, but
that is not the point now that he
has achieved something incalculably phenomenal, almost mythically memorable: a season-closer
so compelling that it was the
leagues highest-rated finals
game since Jordans last, in 1998.
Another Jordan-James connection, with the league again shedding tears of joy at the cashiers.

ESSAY

A Stars Story
Completes Its Arc
From First Sports Page
home.
Throughout his sentimental
education, to borrow the title of
one of those novels, James has
satisfied each of its conventions
as if he were checking items off a
grocery list.
He grew up in Akron, Ohio,
near Cleveland. In the early
stage of his career with the
Cavaliers, when a Nike billboard
in downtown Cleveland declared,
We Are All Witnesses, his
incredible gifts and the opportunity to write a storybook ending
left him feeling pressured and

An image of Johann Wolfgang


von Goethe, above, who wrote
Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship. Below, Mark Twains
Huckleberry Finn.

stifled.
In 2010, James beat a path for
Miami trailed by burning
jerseys, a nasty letter by the
owner Dan Gilbert of the
Cavaliers, and a book labeling
him The Whore of Akron
and won two N.B.A. titles with
the Heat.
Without the experiences I had
there, I wouldnt be able to do
what Im doing today, James
wrote in a Sports Illustrated
essay upon his return to Cleveland in 2014, confirming the
necessity of the Miami part of
the tale.
But James clarified that
merely returning did not close
the loop. Whats most important
for me, he wrote, is bringing

one trophy back to Northeast


Ohio.
As with every other stage of
Jamess career, this was achieved
as dramatically as possible. On
Sunday night, that vintage
chase-down block was reminiscent of his still-present, scampering youth. His brilliant game
control a teammate, Kyrie
Irving, compared him to Beethoven composing a symphony
was the signature of so much
experience.
Like the hero at the close of
every novel of growth, James
completely fulfilled societys
expectations as well as his own.
No matter what comes next, he
will never again have a moment
as charged with meaning. That
part of his life is over.
It is sublime. It is also bittersweet.
Theyve found their place in
society, Joseph Slaughter, an
English professor at Columbia,
said, referring to the heroes of
such stories.
It reaffirms natural ideas of
home and society, he added,
that everybody will find their
place.
The genre, Slaughter said,
frequently featured a fatherless
man (it was the 1800s, and an
autonomous place in society was
largely unavailable to women).
In Great Expectations, Pip
searches for the father figure
who provided him with his inheritance. Huckleberry Finn
flees his drunken father and
heads for the Mississippi River.
And the stories conclude, Slaughter said, when the hero accepts
his lot in society. Wilhelm learns
he has a son.
James, as those familiar with
his story will recall, was raised
by a single mother in Akron,
finding father figures in basketball gyms and siblings in his
teammates, to whom he always
preferred to pass the ball and
whom he always kept close.
After Sunday nights game,
James reportedly insisted on
three portraits: one with his
mother, Gloria; one with his
coterie of close friends, some of
whom he has known since childhood; and one with his wife and
their three children on Fathers Day.
This is real life, of course, and
there are complications to
Jamess neat narrative of bildung, or self-formation. In 2010,
James saw that the Heat provided the quickest route to a
then-elusive N.B.A. championship. Later, he saw promise in
Irving and the Cavaliers.
But if we are at times guilty of
projecting these narratives onto
Jamess career, this was the
natural result of his unmatched
collection of basketball talents
bullet speed, freight-train size
and beautiful mind and the
knowledge that they would not
all last.
James has demonstrated that
perhaps no vocation lends itself
to the coming-of-age yarn better
than athlete. The stark lines of

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AMY SANCETTA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

DOUG BENC/GETTY IMAGES

Clockwise from top, LeBron


James in 2003 while in high
school; James at his Miami introduction in 2010; James
with the championship trophy
on Sunday night; and a banner of James being removed in
July 2010, after he had said he
was leaving Cleveland.

THEARON W. HENDERSON/GETTY IMAGES

sports provide a clearer focus for


the universal fact these stories
dramatize: that physical ability
unavoidably wanes, infinitely
magnifying the pressure to
achieve ones goals in a relatively

short window of time, which


shuts while one is still young.
James could still win another
championship or three. He could
play for the Knicks, although he
probably wont. He could clinch

an N.B.A. finals on Clevelands


home court. He could lead the
Cavaliers to a rubber-match
series against the Warriors a
year from now.
But what he cannot do again is

play quite as poignant a role, in


his life or in ours. Having won
one for Northeast Ohio, he is now
the fully formed person he will
be for the rest of his life.
If he wins more, its denouement; its not climax, Phelan
said. Its epilogue or sequel.
The bildungsroman, Slaughter
said, is also about the beginnings of middle age finding
that place where youre comfortable, not excited by the same
youthful fantasies.
For this reason, Slaughter
said, with stunning frequency the
bildungsroman ends with the
hero between 30 and 33. James is
31.
For someone to find his place
so completely, in such triumph, is
a wonderful thing. And for the
rest of us, it is no small consolation to be able to say that we
were all witnesses.

B12

THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

S C O R E B OA R D

I.O.C. Chief Targets Antidoping Problems


From First Sports Page
Mr. Bach called on WADA to
strengthen its investigative abilities.
Last week, in the wake of the Times report, WADA announced that it was hiring a director of intelligence and investigations, Gnter Younger, who currently leads the cybercrime unit in a
division of the German criminal police.
Mr. Bach said an Olympic summit
meeting set for Oct. 8 would focus
broadly on how to improve the antidoping system, and he called on
WADA to convene an international
meeting on the topic next year.
Mr. Bach also expressed support for
last weeks decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations, the ruling body of track and field,
to bar Russian track and field athletes
from the Rio Olympics. He openly
questioned the integrity of athletes
from Russia and Kenya, another country where antidoping efforts have
been found lacking.
But Mr. Bach suggested amending a
key detail of the ruling against Russian
athletes while emphasizing that specific sports federations had supreme
control. The I.A.A.F. said Friday that
only Russian track and field athletes
who had been living outside the country and subjected to rigorous drug
testing could petition to compete in Rio
and for a neutral team, not for Russia.
Mr. Bach said, however, that Russian athletes who cleared that high
hurdle could possibly compete under
the Russian flag, and he defended the
integrity of Russian Olympic officials.
The Russian Olympic Committee is
not suspended, he said, calling the organization very helpful in clearing up
the difficult situation in Russia.
After the announcement, the
I.A.A.F. reiterated its belief that any
Russian athletes who were cleared to
compete on an exceptional basis
should not compete on behalf of Russia. The organization said it planned to

work with Olympic officials to ensure


the decision is respected and implemented in full.
Russia has been accused of a farreaching government-run doping program extending across sports, although most investigations have been
limited to track and field. Russian
sports officials have apologized for
doping problems but denied state involvement.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian sports ministry expressed support for the I.O.C.s decision.
As recently as this month, WADA
said, Russian sports officials helped
athletes evade drug testing, and federal customs agents and members of

Supporting a ruling
against Russia, with a
suggested change.
Russias Federal Security Service
tampered with doping samples and
intimidated drug testers.
Responding to an outcry from athletes wanting broader inquiries, Mr.
Bach on Tuesday called on the 27 other
organizations overseeing summer
Olympic sports from gymnastics to
weight lifting to individually scrutinize athletes from Russia and Kenya
and assess their ability to compete in
Rio in six weeks.
The allegations against Russia and
Kenya, he said, put very serious
doubts on the presumption of innocence for athletes coming from these
countries.
The I.A.A.F. noted on Tuesday that a
majority of athletes from Kenya competed in track and field. The organization said that Kenyas runners were
subject to rigorous testing and that
their doping samples had been exam-

ined in Qatar and Stockholm in recent


months. (Africas only WADA-approved testing lab was decertified this
year.)
This does not mean we can guarantee that all Kenyan athletes are clean,
an I.A.A.F. spokeswoman said. We
cannot give such guarantees for any
countrys athletes. But we can be confident that an effective testing regime is
in place.
Any athlete who may take issue with
a sports federations decision can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for
Sport in Switzerland, Mr. Bach noted.
He said he had learned that Russian
athletes or the Russian Olympic Committee would probably file an appeal
regarding the track and field decision.
That is the good right of everybody,
he said.
WADA disciplined the national antidoping programs in Russia and Kenya
in the wake of news media reports that
called their integrity into question. For
a country to be declared noncompliant
by WADA means little, but depriving a
nations antidoping operation of
WADAs endorsement is a strong signal to the I.O.C. and sports federations.
Russias sports ministry said Tuesday that its track and field athletes
were prepared to undergo a minimum
of three extra drug tests before the
Olympics.
But last week, Rune Andersen, a former WADA official and the current
chairman of the I.A.A.F. committee
that is monitoring Russia, expressed
skepticism about athletes ability to
prove definitively that they were untainted by a possible government-run
doping program. The former antidoping lab director in Russia has described a sophisticated system whereby athletes on drugs avoided testing
positive.
Two or five or 100 negative tests do
not mean an athlete is clean, Mr. Andersen said. History has shown that
is not the case.

BASEBALL

SOCCER

A.L. STANDINGS
East

Pct

GB

Baltimore

40

30 .571

Boston

39

31 .557

Toronto

39

34 .534

2{

Yankees

34

36 .486

Tampa Bay

31

38 .449

8{

Central

Pct

GB

Cleveland

40

30 .571

Kansas City

38

32 .543

Detroit

36

35 .507

4{

Chicago

35

36 .493

5{

Minnesota

22

48 .314

18

West

Texas

46

Pct

GB

26 .639

Seattle

36

35 .507

9{

Houston

36

36 .500

10

Los Angeles

31

40 .437 14{

Oakland

28

41 .406 16{

TUESDAY

Colorado 8, Yankees 4
Mets 2, Kansas City 1
San Diego 10, Baltimore 7
Arizona 4, Toronto 2
Chicago White Sox 3, Boston 1
Detroit 4, Seattle 2
Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 0
Cincinnati 8, Texas 2
Houston 3, L.A. Angels 2
Minnesota 14, Philadelphia 10
Milwaukee at Oakland

WEDNESDAY

Colorado (Gray 4-3) at Yankees


(Sabathia 5-4), 1:05
Kansas City (Duffy 2-1) at Mets
(Colon 6-3), 1:10
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-7) at
Houston (McCullers 3-2), 2:10
Milwaukee (Guerra 3-1) at Oakland
(Mengden 0-2), 3:35
Arizona (Ray 4-5) at Toronto (Happ
8-3), 4:07
San Diego (Johnson 0-4) at Baltimore, 7:05
Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7) at
Boston (Rodriguez 1-2), 7:10
Seattle (Iwakuma 6-5) at Detroit
(Fulmer 7-2), 7:10
Tampa Bay (Archer 4-9) at Cleveland
(Bauer 4-2), 7:10
Cincinnati (Straily 4-3) at Texas
(Hamels 7-1), 8:05
Philadelphia (Morgan 1-6) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-5), 8:10

THURSDAY

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 1:10


Seattle at Detroit, 1:10
Chicago White Sox at Boston, 1:35
Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05

N.L. STANDINGS
East

Pct

GB

Washington

43

28 .606

Mets

37

32 .536

Miami

37

34 .521

Philadelphia

30

42 .417 13{

Atlanta

24

46 .343 18{

Central

Pct

GB

Chicago

47

22 .681

St. Louis

37

33 .529 10{

Pittsburgh

34

37 .479

Milwaukee

31

39 .443 16{

Cincinnati

28

43 .394

West

14

20

Pct

GB

San Francisco

45

27 .625

Los Angeles

39

33 .542

Colorado

34

36 .486

10

Julia Reinprecht of the United States, left, and Kelly Jonker of the Netherlands battled for the ball
during the F.I.H. Womens Hockey Champions Trophy tournament in London. The Dutch team won, 4-1.

LOOSE BALL

P RO B ASKETBA L L

2 Knicks Are Expected to Opt Out of Contracts


The Knicks learned Tuesday that they would have
more room under the rising salary cap with which to sign
free agents when the N.B.A.s most compelling transaction
period begins July 1.
Arron Afflalo and Derrick Williams informed the
Knicks that they would not exercise contract options for
next season, according to a person in basketball who is involved in the situation. Both players, but particularly
Williams, could sign new deals with the team.
With those anticipated opt-outs, the Knicks will have
roughly $30 million to improve their roster with free-agent
signings. With only seven players now signed for next season, they may have to scramble to fill out the bench, especially if they land one of the more desirable free agents, like
point guard Mike Conley Jr., an unrestricted free agent who
has played nine seasons for the Memphis Grizzlies.
Afflalos opt-out was expected after he was demoted
from the starting lineup. The coaching staff was unhappy
with his shot selection at shooting guard and with his defense. The option year would have paid Afflalo $8 million.
Williams, an athletic 6-foot-8 forward, had a fairly productive season off the bench, averaging 9.3 points and 3.7
rebounds per game. He would have made $5.1 million in
2016-17. Depending on how their free-agent pursuit goes,
the Knicks could try to re-sign Williams, but with so many
teams operating with cap space, the 25-year-old Williams
figures to earn a good raise.
HARVEY ARATON
LYNX 72, SPARKS 69 A Renee Montgomery 3-pointer with 2.9
seconds left lifted the visiting Minnesota Lynx over the Los
Angeles Sparks in a matchup of unbeaten W.N.B.A. teams.
OLYM P ICS

Jaguar in Torch Relay Is Shot to Death


A jaguar used in an Olympic torch relay ceremony was
shot to death after it escaped its leash and tried to attack a
soldier, the Brazilian army said.
The army press office said that the jaguar, named
Juma, was on display as part of ceremonies Monday at the
Jungle Warfare Instruction Center in Manaus.
The Olympic torch is traveling throughout Brazil leading up to the Aug. 5 opening ceremony.
Juma was a docile animal used to living among people
at the center, the army said in a statement, adding that
soon after the ceremonies, Juma escaped from his leash
and fled into the zoo maintained by the center.
When the jaguar tried to attack a soldier sent to help
All news by The Associated Press unless noted.

recapture it, handlers shot the animal with tranquilizers.


That failed to stop it, so Juma was shot in the head with a
pistol.
We were wrong to allow the Olympic torch, a symbol of
peace and of the union among the peoples, to be displayed
alongside a wild animal in chains, the local Olympic organizing committee said on its Facebook page.
BASEBAL L

Kluber Shuts Out Rays in a 3-Hitter


Corey Kluber threw a three-hitter, and the Cleveland
Indians defeated the visiting Tampa Bay Rays, 6-0, for their
fifth straight win.
Kluber allowed one hit before Brad Miller and Evan
Longoria singled with one out in the ninth. Kluber retired
the next two hitters for his third career shutout.
AROUND THE MAJORS Yasmany Tomas and Peter OBrien
homered, Patrick Corbin threw six and a third solid innings, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Blue Jays,
4-2, in Toronto for their fifth straight win. Angel Pagan hit
a grand slam during a seven-run fourth inning, Johnny
Cueto shut down Pittsburgh into the seventh, and the visiting San Francisco Giants clobbered the Pirates, 15-4.
Cueto (11-1) moved into a tie for the National League lead in
wins. Matt Carpenter and Matt Holliday homered to
back Adam Wainwright, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat
the Chicago Cubs, 4-3, at Wrigley Field. Chris Sale became the major leagues first 12-game winner while tying
his season high with nine strikeouts, and the Chicago White
Sox beat the Boston Red Sox, 3-1, at Fenway Park. Tim Anderson led off the game with his first career home run.
TEXAS TECH OUSTS FLORIDA Eric Gutierrez hit a two-run
homer, Texas Tech picked up a huge insurance run by way
of two errors in the ninth, and the Red Raiders eliminated
Florida, 3-2, at the College World Series in Omaha. It was a
stunning early exit for Florida, the No. 1 national seed.
HO CK EY

N.H.L. Salary Cap Rises by $1.6 Million


The salary cap for the 2016-17 N.H.L. season will be $73
million, up from $71.4 million, the league and the players
union announced.
The cap floor, or the minimum amount a team can
spend, is $54 million. It was $52.8 million last season.
The draft begins Friday in Buffalo, and free agency
opens July 1 at noon.

COPA AMRICA

The All-Star game will be played


Tuesday, July 12, at Petco Park, San
Diego
Voting ends June 30 (11:59 p.m. EDT)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Released June 21
Catchers
1. Salvador Perez, Royals, 2,744,293
2. Matt Wieters, Orioles, 807,958
3. Russell Martin, Blue Jays, 672,466
4. Brian McCann, Yankees, 506,781
5. Blake Swihart, Red Sox, 353,901
First Basemen
1. Eric Hosmer, Royals, 2,054,642
2. Miguel Cabrera, Tigers, 1,481,445
3. Chris Davis, Orioles, 724,788
4. Hanley Ramirez, Red Sox, 642,754
5. Justin Smoak, Blue Jays, 523,900
Second Basemen
1. Jose Altuve, Astros, 1,606,705
2. Robinson Cano, Mariners, 1,004,620
3. Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox, 868,746
4. Omar Infante, Royals, 807,443
5. Ian Kinsler, Tigers, 553,205
Third Basemen
1. Manny Machado, Orioles, 1,626,064
2. Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays, 1,112,743
3. Mike Moustakas, Royals, 943,582
4. Adrian Beltre, Rangers, 765,268
5. Nick Castellanos, Tigers, 619,547
Shortstops
1. Xander Bogaerts, Red Sox, 2,116,020
2. Alcides Escobar, Royals, 1,150,576
3. Troy Tulowitzki, Blue Jays, 814,544
4. Elvis Andrus, Rangers, 642,180
5. Carlos Correa, Astros, 552,670
Outfielders
1. Mike Trout, Angels, 2,324,597
2. Jackie Bradley Jr., Red Sox, 1,725,672
3. Mookie Betts, Red Sox, 1,435,218
4. Mark Trumbo, Orioles, 1,408,195
5. Lorenzo Cain, Royals, 1,403,617
6. Jose Bautista, Blue Jays, 1,302,121
7. Alex Gordon, Royals, 938,759
8. Paulo Orlando, Royals, 804,904
9. Ian Desmond, Rangers, 688,464
10. Carlos Beltran, Yankees, 654,659
11. Kevin Pillar, Blue Jays, 635,801
12. Michael Saunders, Blue Jays, 573,229
13. Adam Jones, Orioles, 531,790
14. Melky Cabrera, White Sox, 436,974
15. J.D. Martinez, Tigers, 379,731
Designated Hitter
1. David Ortiz, Red Sox, 2,612,215
2. Kendrys Morales, Royals, 861,030
3. Edwin Encarnacion, Blue Jays, 756,672
4. Victor Martinez, Tigers, 651,191
5. Nelson Cruz, Mariners, 634,210

All Times EDT


SEMIFINALS
Tuesday
At Houston
Argentina 4, United States 0
Wednesday
At Chicago
Colombia vs. Chile, 8 p.m.
THIRD PLACE
Saturday, June 25
At Glendale, Ariz.
United States vs. Colombia-Chile loser, 8 p.m.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, June 26
At East Rutherford, N.J.
Argentina vs. Colombia-Chile winner, 8 p.m.

A.L. LEADERS
BATTINGBogaerts,
Boston,
.347;
Altuve, Houston, .343; Ortiz, Boston, .339;
Martinez, Detroit, .326; Nunez, Minnesota,
.321; Machado, Baltimore, .317; Lindor,
Cleveland, .314; Hosmer, Kansas City, .314;
Desmond, Texas, .312; Escobar, Anaheim,
.310.
RUNSBetts, Boston, 61; Donaldson,
Toronto, 60; Kinsler, Detroit, 58; Bogaerts,
Boston, 55; Davis, Baltimore, 51; Cano,
Seattle, 51; Desmond, Texas, 51; Altuve,
Houston, 50; Machado, Baltimore, 50;
Springer, Houston, 47; Trout, Anaheim, 47.
RBIEncarnacion, Toronto, 61; Ortiz,
Boston, 59; Cano, Seattle, 53; Trumbo,
Baltimore, 51; Betts, Boston, 50; Napoli,
Cleveland, 49; Beltran, New York, 48;
Trout, Anaheim, 47; Donaldson, Toronto,
46; Bogaerts, Boston, 46; Cruz, Seattle, 46;
Seager, Seattle, 46; Desmond, Texas, 46.
HITSBogaerts, Boston, 100; Altuve,
Houston, 95; Betts, Boston, 88; Desmond,
Texas, 87; Machado, Baltimore, 86; Cano,
Seattle, 86; Kinsler, Detroit, 84; Lindor,
Cleveland, 83; Cabrera, Detroit, 83;
Pedroia, Boston, 83.
DOUBLESOrtiz, Boston, 29; Machado,
Baltimore, 27; Altuve, Houston, 21;
Shaw, Boston, 20; Bogaerts, Boston, 20;
Desmond, Texas, 19; Pedroia, Boston, 19;
Martinez, Detroit, 19; Lawrie, Chicago, 19;
Longoria, Tampa Bay, 18.
TRIPLESEaton, Chicago, 7; Bradley Jr.,
Boston, 6; Ellsbury, New York, 5; Burns,
Oakland, 4; Betts, Boston, 4; Donaldson,
Toronto, 4; Miller, Tampa Bay, 4; Buxton,
Minnesota, 3; Aoki, Seattle, 3; Correa,
Houston, 3; Swihart, Boston, 3; Andrus,
Texas, 3; Naquin, Cleveland, 3.
HOME RUNSTrumbo, Baltimore, 20;
Frazier, Chicago, 19; Cano, Seattle, 19;
Beltran, New York, 18; Ortiz, Boston,
18; Encarnacion, Toronto, 18; Longoria,
Tampa Bay, 18; Machado, Baltimore, 17;
Donaldson, Toronto, 17; Davis, Baltimore,
16; Cruz, Seattle, 16; Davis, Oakland, 16.
STOLEN BASESDavis, Cleveland, 21;
Altuve, Houston, 18; Nunez, Minnesota, 16;
Desmond, Texas, 13; Burns, Oakland, 13;
Ellsbury, New York, 12; Lindor, Cleveland,
12; Betts, Boston, 11; Gardner, New York,
11; Dyson, Kansas City, 11.
PITCHINGSale, Chicago, 11-2; Tillman,
Baltimore, 10-1; Zimmermann, Detroit, 9-3;
Tomlin, Cleveland, 8-1; Hill, Oakland, 8-3;
Happ, Toronto, 8-3; Fister, Houston, 8-3;
Wright, Boston, 8-4; Porcello, Boston, 8-2;
Salazar, Cleveland, 8-3.

Arizona

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N.L. LEADERS

San Diego

30

42 .417

BATTINGMurphy,
Washington,
.356; Marte, Pittsburgh, .333; Ramos,
Washington, .333; Ozuna, Miami, .322;
Prado, Miami, .321; LeMahieu, Colorado,
.318; Yelich, Miami, .317; Zobrist, Chicago,
.316; Braun, Milwaukee, .315; Lucroy,
Milwaukee, .311; Gonzalez, Colorado, .311.
RUNSBryant, Chicago, 52; Zobrist,
Chicago, 48; Arenado, Colorado, 48; Myers,
San Diego, 46; Seager, Los Angeles, 46;
Gonzalez, Colorado, 46; Carpenter, St.
Louis, 45; Ozuna, Miami, 44; Polanco,
Pittsburgh, 44; Diaz, St. Louis, 44.
RBIArenado, Colorado, 57; Rizzo,
Chicago, 53; Bruce, Cincinnati, 51; Duvall,
Cincinnati, 48; Bryant, Chicago, 48; Kemp,
San Diego, 47; Murphy, Washington, 46;
Story, Colorado, 46; Lamb, Arizona, 45;
Goldschmidt, Arizona, 45.
HITSMurphy, Washington, 93; Segura,
Arizona, 87; Prado, Miami, 84; Ozuna,
Miami, 84; Marte, Pittsburgh, 83; Gonzalez,
Colorado, 82; Jay, San Diego, 80; Seager,
Los Angeles, 79; Myers, San Diego,
79; Arenado, Colorado, 76; Herrera,
Philadelphia, 76; Villar, Milwaukee, 76.
DOUBLESJay, San Diego, 24; Polanco,
Pittsburgh, 23; Carpenter, St. Louis, 21;
Parra, Colorado, 20; Fowler, Chicago, 19;
Murphy, Washington, 19; Yelich, Miami, 19;
LeMahieu, Colorado, 18; Marte, Pittsburgh,
18; Cozart, Cincinnati, 18.
TRIPLESBruce, Cincinnati, 6; LeMahieu,
Colorado, 5; Story, Colorado, 4; Blanco,
San Francisco, 4; Peralta, Arizona, 4;
Smith, Atlanta, 4; Panik, San Francisco, 4;
Hernandez, Philadelphia, 4; Ozuna, Miami,
4; Owings, Arizona, 4; Granderson, New
York, 4; Carpenter, St. Louis, 4; Segura,
Arizona, 4.
HOME RUNSArenado, Colorado, 20;
Duvall, Cincinnati, 20; Carter, Milwaukee,
18; Story, Colorado, 18; Cespedes, New
York, 17; Bryant, Chicago, 17; Rizzo,
Chicago, 17; Moss, St. Louis, 16; Myers,
San Diego, 16; Gonzalez, Colorado, 15;
Bruce, Cincinnati, 15; Kemp, San Diego, 15;
Seager, Los Angeles, 15; Ozuna, Miami, 15.
STOLEN BASESVillar, Milwaukee, 25;
Marte, Pittsburgh, 20; Hamilton, Cincinnati,
16; Upton Jr., San Diego, 15; Smith,
Atlanta, 14.

15

TUESDAY

JOEL FORD/GETTY IMAGES

M.L.B. ALL-STAR TEAM VOTING

Mets 2, Kansas City 1


Colorado 8, Yankees 4
San Diego 10, Baltimore 7
San Francisco 15, Pittsburgh 4
Arizona 4, Toronto 2
Atlanta 3, Miami 2, 10 innings
Cincinnati 8, Texas 2
St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 3
Minnesota 14, Philadelphia 10
Milwaukee at Oakland
Washington at L.A. Dodgers

WEDNESDAY

Kansas City (Duffy 2-1) at Mets


(Colon 6-3), 1:10
Colorado (Gray 4-3) at Yankees
(Sabathia 5-4), 1:05
Atlanta (Wisler 3-7) at Miami (Conley 3-4), 12:10
St. Louis (Wacha 2-7) at Chicago
Cubs (Arrieta 11-1), 2:20
Milwaukee (Guerra 3-1) at Oakland
(Mengden 0-2), 3:35
Arizona (Ray 4-5) at Toronto (Happ
8-3), 4:07
San Diego (Johnson 0-4) at Baltimore, 7:05
San Francisco (Samardzija 8-4) at
Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-7), 7:05
Cincinnati (Straily 4-3) at Texas
(Hamels 7-1), 8:05
Philadelphia (Morgan 1-6) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-5), 8:10
Washington (Ross 6-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-2), 10:10

THURSDAY

Mets at Atlanta, 7:10


San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 12:35
Philadelphia at Minnesota, 1:10
Chicago Cubs at Miami, 7:10
San Diego at Cincinnati, 7:10
Arizona at Colorado, 8:40

ROCKIES 8, YANKEES 4
Colorado
ab
Blackmon cf
5
LeMahieu 2b
5
Arenado 3b
4
Gonzalez rf
4
Story ss
4
Descalso dh
5
Reynolds 1b
5
Raburn lf
4
Barnes lf
1
Wolters c
5
Totals
42
New York
ab
Gardner lf
3
Beltran rf
5
Rodriguez dh
3
McCann c
4
Castro 2b
4
Gregorius ss
4
Headley 3b
4
Hicks cf
4
Refsnyder 1b
4
Totals
35
Colorado
310
New York
110

r h bi bb so avg.
3 2 2 0 2 .295
2 3 0 0 1 .324
2 3 3 0 0 .295
1 3 1 1 0 .317
0 1 0 1 1 .264
0 1 0 0 2 .368
0 1 2 0 1 .288
0 1 0 0 2 .246
0 0 0 0 1 .162
0 0 0 0 3 .194
8 15 8 2 13
r h bi bb so avg.
2 2 0 2 0 .258
0 2 0 0 1 .286
0 0 1 0 1 .216
0 1 0 0 3 .219
1 1 0 0 1 .250
1 2 1 0 1 .286
0 0 0 0 2 .250
0 0 0 0 2 .214
0 2 0 0 0 .300
4 10 2 2 11
112 0008 15 2
011 0004 10 2

EBettis (2), LeMahieu (4), Beltran


(1), Refsnyder (1). LOBColorado
10, New York 7. 2BGonzalez (15),
Story (16), Reynolds (16), Gregorius
(11), Refsnyder (6). 3BGregorius (1).
HRBlackmon (9), off Nova; Blackmon
(10), off Nova; Arenado (21), off Goody.
RBIsBlackmon 2 (33), Arenado 3 (60),
Gonzalez (38), Reynolds 2 (27), Rodriguez
(25), Gregorius (31). SBLeMahieu (7),
Gonzalez (2), Story (5). SFArenado,
Rodriguez. DPColorado 2
Colorado
ip h r er bb so np era
Bettis W6-5
6 8 4 2 1 8 94 5.44
/ 1 0 0 1 0 14 4.74
Germen
/ 0 0 0 0 1
7 1.42
Logan H14
Motte
1 0 0 0 0 2 14 1.80
Estevez
1 1 0 0 0 0 16 3.70
New York
ip h r er bb so np era
Nova L5-5
4 8 6 5 1 1 83 5.18
Goody
1/ 3 2 2 0 4 30 4.91
Bleier
1/ 2 0 0 0 2 25 4.05
Yates
1 2 0 0 0 3 21 4.78
Swarzak
1 0 0 0 0 3 12 2.46
T3:31. A34,760 (49,642).

METS 2, ROYALS 1
Kansas City ab
Merrifield 2b
4
Escobar ss
4
Hosmer 1b
4
Cain cf
4
Perez c
4
Orlando rf
4
Cuthbert 3b
3
Eibner lf
4
Kennedy p
1
Morales ph
1
Gee p
0
C.Colon ph
1
Hochevar p
0
Herrera p
0
Totals
34
New York
ab
Granderson rf
3
Cabrera ss
4
Cespedes cf
4
Walker 2b
4
Loney 1b
4
Flores 3b
2
Goeddel p
0
Kelly ph
1
Blevins p
0
Reed p
0
De Aza ph
1
Familia p
0
Conforto lf
2
dArnaud c
3
B.Colon p
0
Robles p
1
Johnson 3b
1
Totals
30
Kansas City 000
New York
100

r
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
r
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2

h
0
2
0
1
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
h
1
1
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
010
100

bi bb so avg.
0 0 1 .323
0 0 0 .246
0 0 3 .309
0 0 1 .287
0 0 0 .301
0 0 1 .357
0 1 1 .270
1 0 2 .303
0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 .225
0 0 0
--0 0 1 .279
0 0 0
--0 0 0
--1 1 11
bi bb so avg.
0 1 1 .224
1 0 0 .265
1 0 1 .284
0 0 1 .261
0 0 0 .292
0 0 0 .236
0 0 0
--0 0 0 .148
0 0 0
--0 0 0
--0 0 1 .167
0 0 0
--0 1 0 .229
0 0 1 .184
0 0 0 .120
0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 .320
2 2 6
0001 7 0
00x2 6 1

EGoeddel (1). LOBKansas City 7, New


York 7. 2BEscobar (11), Granderson (12).
HRCabrera (7), off Kennedy; Cespedes
(18), off Kennedy. RBIsEibner (7),
Cabrera (22), Cespedes (44). CSEscobar
(4). DPNew York 1
Kansas City ip h r er bb so np era
Kennedy L5-6 4 4 2 2 1 2 72 4.19
Gee
2 1 0 0 1 0 31 4.30
Hochevar
1 0 0 0 0 1 14 3.03
Herrera
1 1 0 0 0 3 18 1.56
New York
ip h r er bb so np era
/ 0 0 0 0 0
4 3.00
B.Colon
Robles W1-3 3/ 5 1 1 1 6 65 3.21
Goeddel H1
2 1 0 0 0 1 31 0.00
Blevins H6
1 0 0 0 0 1 12 1.45
Reed H14
1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.56
Familia S23-23 1 1 0 0 0 2 14 3.18
T2:56. A40,122 (41,922).

M.L.S. STANDINGS
EAST
Philadelphia
Red Bulls
NYCFC
Montreal
Toronto FC
New England
D.C. United
Orlando City
Columbus
Chicago
WEST
Colorado
FC Dallas
Real Salt Lake
Kansas City
Vancouver
Los Angeles
San Jose
Portland
Seattle
Houston

W
6
7
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
2
W
9
8
7
6
6
5
5
5
5
3

L
4
7
5
4
5
4
6
3
5
6
L
2
5
4
8
7
3
4
6
8
7

T Pts GF GA
5 23 23 19
1 22 26 20
6 21 25 31
5 20 22 20
4 19 15 15
7 19 21 26
5 17 14 16
8 17 25 23
6 15 18 21
5 11 11 16
T Pts GF GA
4 31 19 11
4 28 24 24
3 24 25 23
3 21 16 18
3 21 24 27
6 21 27 17
6 21 18 18
5 20 25 27
1 16 13 17
5 14 20 22

Wednesday's Games
Red Bulls at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m.
Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

PRO BASKETBALL
N.B.A. DRAFT ORDER
Draft: Thursday, June 23, Brooklyn, N.Y.
FIRST ROUND
1. Philadelphia
2. LA Lakers
3. Boston (from Brooklyn)
4. Phoenix
5. Minnesota
6. New Orleans
7. Denver (from New York)
8. Sacramento
9. Toronto (from Denver via New York)
10. Milwaukee
11. Orlando
12. Utah
13. Phoenix (from Washington)
14. Chicago
15. Denver (from Houston)
16. Boston (from Dallas)
17. Memphis
18. Detroit
19. Denver (from Portland)
20. Indiana
21. Atlanta
22. Charlotte
23. Boston
24. Philadelphia (from Miami via Cleveland)
25. LA Clippers
26. Philadelphia (from Oklahoma City via
Denver and Cleveland)
27. Toronto
28. Phoenix (from Cleveland via Boston)
29. San Antonio
30. Golden State
SECOND ROUND
31. Boston (from Philadelphia via Miami)
32. LA Lakers
33. LA Clippers (from Brooklyn)
34. Phoenix
35. Boston (from Minnesota via Phoenix)
36. Milwaukee (from New Orleans via
Sacramento)
37. Houston (from New York via
Sacramento and Portland)
38. Milwaukee
39. New Orleans (from Denver via
Philadelphia)
40. New Orleans (from Sacramento)
41. Orlando
42. Utah
43. Houston
44. Atlanta (from Washington)
45. Boston (from Memphis via Dallas)
46. Dallas
47. Orlando (from Chicago)
48. Chicago (from Portland via Cleveland)
49. Detroit
50. Indiana
51. Boston (from Miami)
52. Utah (from Boston via Memphis)
53. Denver (from Charlotte via Oklahoma
City)
54. Atlanta
55. Brooklyn (from LA Clippers)
56. Denver (from Oklahoma City)
57. Memphis (from Toronto)
58. Boston (from Cleveland)
59. Sacramento (from San Antonio)
60. Utah (from Golden State)

W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
Atlanta
8
4 .667
Liberty
8
4 .667
Chicago
6
7 .462
Washington
6
7 .462
Indiana
5
8 .385
Connecticut
3
10 .231
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
Minnesota
13
0 1.000
Los Angeles
11
1 .917
Dallas
6
7 .462
Phoenix
4
9 .308
Seattle
4
9 .308
San Antonio
2
10 .167
Tuesday's Games
Minnesota 72, Los Angeles 69
Chicago 81, San Antonio 75
Phoenix 90, Dallas 100
Wednesday's Games
Liberty at Atlanta, 12 p.m.
Indiana at Washington, 7 p.m.

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TENNIS
AEGON OPEN
Nottingham Tennis Center
NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND
Singles, First Round
Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, d. Denis
Istomin, Uzbekistan, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Second Round
Gilles Muller (8), Luxembourg, d. Jiri Vesely,
Czech Republic, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Sam Querrey (5),
United States, d. Ernesto Escobedo, United
States, 6-4, 6-4. Benjamin Becker, Germany,
d. Guido Pella (13), Argentina, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. Dudi
Sela, Israel, d. Joao Sousa (3), Portugal, 6-3, 7-6
(3). Marcos Baghdatis (9), Cyprus, d. Evgeny
Donskoy, Russia, 7-5, 6-2. Mikhail Youzhny,
Russia, d. Pablo Carreno Busta (10), Spain,
6-1, 6-4. Adrian Mannarino, France, d. Paolo
Lorenzi (12), Italy, 6-2, 6-2. Fernando Verdasco
(14), Spain, d. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican
Republic, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. Alexandr Dolgopolov
(4), Ukraine, d. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 6-4, 7-6
(5). Andreas Seppi (7), Italy, d. Malek Jaziri,
Tunisia, 7-5, 6-3. Frank Dancevic, Canada, d.
Mikhail Kukushkin (15), Kazakhstan, 4-6, 7-6 (4),
7-6 (2). Vasek Pospisil (11), Canada, d. Damir
Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-1, 6-4. Daniel
Evans, Britain, d. Ricardas Berankis (16),
Lithuania, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Steve Johnson (6),
United States, d. John Millman, Australia, 6-2,
6-2. Kevin Anderson (1), South Africa, d. Ivan
Dodig, Croatia, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3. Pablo Cuevas
(2), Uruguay, d. Stephane Robert, France, 6-4,
7-6 (3).

AEGON INTERNATIONAL
Devonshire Park
EASTBOURNE, ENGLAND
Singles, First Round
Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, d. Yulia
Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Mirjana
Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, d. Denisa Allertova,
Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2. Lesia Tsurenko,
Ukraine, d. Zhang Shuai, China, 6-1, 7-6 (3).
Madison Brengle, United States, d. Alison
Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-2.
Daria Gavrilova, Australia, d. Anna Karolina
Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-1, 7-5. Misaki Doi,
Japan, d. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-4.
Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, d. Anett
Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4.
Second Round
Petra Kvitova (5), Czech Republic, d.
Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Kristina
Mladenovic, France, d. Timea Bacsinszky
(4), Switzerland, 6-1, 7-5. Eugenie Bouchard,
Canada, d. Irina-Camelia Begu (15), Romania,
6-3, 6-1. Dominika Cibulkova (12), Slovakia,
d. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-3, 6-3. Caroline
Wozniacki, Denmark, d. Sam Stosur (7),
Australia, 6-2, 6-1. Agnieszka Radwanska (1),
Poland, d. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, 6-4,
2-1, retired. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, d.
Roberta Vinci (2), Italy, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Kateryna
Bondarenko, Ukraine, d. Svetlana Kuznetsova
(6), Russia, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5. Misaki Doi, Japan,
d. Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, 3-6, 6-4,
6-1. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, d. Ana Konjuh,
Croatia, 6-1, 5-3, retired. Johanna Konta
(11), Britain, d. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine,
7-6 (4), 6-1. Karolina Pliskova (10), Czech
Republic, d. Daria Gavrilova, Australia, 6-2, 6-2.
Madison Brengle, United States, d. Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova (14), Russia, 6-4, 6-3. Andrea
Petkovic, Germany, d. Sara Errani (13), Italy,
6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany,
d. Lucie Safarova (16), Czech Republic, 7-6 (5),
6-4. Elena Vesnina, Russia, d. Belinda Bencic
(3), Switzerland, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

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SOCCER
EURO 2016
CROATIA 2, SPAIN 1

Unbeaten Streak
Dating to 04 Ends
Croatia came from behind to
beat Spain, the two-time defending champion, by 2-1 on
Tuesday in Bordeaux, France,
and finish atop Group D at the
European Championships.
An 87th-minute goal by Ivan
Perisic ended an unbeaten run
by Spain at the championships
that stretched to 2004.
Spain will meet Italy in the
round of 16, at Stade de France
in St.-Denis on Monday a
repeat of the 2012 final, which
Spain won by 4-0. Croatia will
play a third-place team in the
northern French city Lens on
Saturday.
Striker lvaro Morata put
Spain ahead in the seventh
minute, redirecting the ball into
the net after a shot by midfielder Cesc Fbregas.
After Perisic delivered a
cross from the left, Nikola
Kalinic tied the score just before halftime with a back-heel
flick that beat Spain goalkeeper David de Gea at the
near post.
Spain had a chance to retake
the lead, but Sergio Ramos had
a penalty kick saved by Croatia
goalkeeper Danijel Subasic in
the 72nd minute.
It proved to be a costly miss
as Perisic finished off a fast
counterattack with a low leftfooted shot that beat de Gea at
his near post.
Both teams entered the
match guaranteed a spot in the
knockout stage. However, both
teams wanted to win because
the runner-up in the group
would have to meet Italy. (AP)
TURKEY 2, CZECH REPUBLIC 0

Turkey rebounded from two


losses to beat the Czech Republic in Lens, France, and keep
alive its chance of reaching the
knockout stages.
Burak Yilmaz struck early,
rounding off a swift counterattack 10 minutes into the
game.
Ozan Tufan then fired a
rising shot past goalkeeper
Petr Cech in the 65th minute to
start a wild celebration among
Turkish supporters who lit
firecrackers and flares that
landed on the field.
(AP)
POLAND 1, UKRAINE 0

Star Is Silent Again,


But Poland Prevails
Poland will play Switzerland
in the round of 16 with a big
question hanging over its
head: Has the star striker
Robert Lewandowski left his
goal-scoring boots at home?
Poland cemented its first
appearance in the European
Championships knockout
stage by defeating Ukraine, 1-0,
in a Group C match in Marseille, France.
But Lewandowski, who is
usually so clinical for Bayern
Munich and was the top scorer
in Euro 2016 qualifying with 13
goals, finished group play not
only having failed to find the
net in three matches but also
having failed to record a single
shot on target.
The second-half substitute
Jakub Blaszczykowski struck
the winner in the 54th minute
for Poland, which finished
second in the group behind
Germany. Both had 7 points,
but Germany had a superior
goal difference. Ukraine entered the game already eliminated from contention.
Lewandowski squandered
several chances, missing a
sitter in the first half, failing to
connect with a cross and tripping himself up while in front
of the goal. Coach Adam
Nawalka insisted that he was
not concerned, predicting that
Lewandowski would score
against Switzerland on Saturday in St.-tienne.
(AP)

Ibrahimovic to End
International Career
Zlatan Ibrahimovic said he
would retire from international
competition after the European
Championships.
Ibrahimovic, a 34-year-old
striker, said ahead of Swedens
final group game, against Belgium on Wednesday, that it
would be his last for his country if the team was eliminated.
The last game for Sweden
in Euro will be my last game
with Sweden, so I hope it will
not be tomorrow, he said.
Even if Sweden loses and
fails to qualify for the knockout
stages, Ibrahimovic said, he
will not be disappointed with
his international career.
Im very proud to be captain of Sweden and what I
achieved, he said.
He added that he would not
participate in this summers
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
(AP)

ODD ANDERSEN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GETTY IMAGES

Mario Gmez, who had the only goal of Tuesdays game, playing the ball in Germanys win over Northern Ireland, which still advanced to the Euros round of 16.

Germany Wins; Northern Ireland Is the One Celebrating


By SAM BORDEN

PARIS From the very beginning, it was clear that Northern


Ireland was going to have to revel
in the small stuff.
After all, a ball punted forward
is not norGERMANY
1 mally a cause
for celebraN. IRELAND
0
tion, a goal
European
kick
not
Championships usually a reason
for
merriGroup C
ment. Then
again, playing against Germany
in its final group-stage game of the
European Championships with
goal difference most likely serving as the tiebreaker in determining spots in the knockout round
is not exactly a normal situation,
either. On this night, the scale, at
least from Northern Irelands perspective, was understandably recalibrated.
So throughout their teams
game at Parc des Princes on Tuesday, the Irish fans, who rarely
need an incentive to jump and
dance and sing anyway, roared for
throw-ins that went in their favor.
Fouls on Germany were greeted
with braying and bravura. Corner
kicks? There were only three, but
each felt euphoric.
The greatest ovations, though,
were reserved for Northern Irelands goalkeeper, Michael McGovern, whose saves of all

manner and might turned a


game that could have ended 10-0
into what the history books will
record as a narrow 1-0 loss to Germany, the reigning world champion.
Northern Ireland, competing in
its first Euros, finished the group
stage with 3 points and a goal differential of zero, a combination
that after some later results fell
favorably was enough to push it
through to the round of 16.
After a season of saving his
Scottish club team, Hamilton Academical, from relegation, McGovern also largely saved his national teams tournament run.
When he entered the locker room
after the game, his teammates
stood and gave him a round of applause.
When you get that, you dont
need the manager to say much,
Northern Ireland Coach Michael
ONeill said. If we were going to
lose the game, that was the best
defeat we could have had.
For Germany, the match was
less rewarding. From a results
standpoint, the victory did the job
Germany won Group C but
there will be some frustration
about the teams inability to turn
the game into the blowout that
seemed to be its destiny. Coming
after Germanys drab 0-0 draw
with Poland, which finished second in the group, the one-goal win

will probably feel even less auspicious for the Germans.


Yet a good part of that is attributable to Northern Ireland. After
a rousing rendition of God Save
the Queen, the players pushed
just a little bit early in the
match, rushing forward in the
opening minutes and even opening up a bit in an effort to trouble
Germany goalkeeper Manuel
Neuer.
Northern
Ireland
quickly
tucked back, however, once it became clear there was little chance
of breaking the German defense.
With Albania already sitting on 3
points (but with a minus-two goal
difference) and several groups
yet to play, Northern Irelands
players knew this match was
about risk management as much
as anything.
This could not be like Germanys 7-1 victory over Brazil in
the semifinals of the 2014 World
Cup. That kind of result would be
a goal-difference disaster.
The risks were considerable,
too: When the Germans are
thrumming, there is perhaps no
more entertaining team to watch
and no more lethal team in front of
the goal. But the Irish were determined. Gareth McAuley and
Craig Cathcart, the central
defenders, dug in; Jonny Evans,
who played on the outside, never
seemed to stop running as he

closed down Germanys players


all match; and Steven Davis, the
captain, clogged the midfield.
Behind them all was McGovern,
there to save everyone when all of
it broke down.
This was not quite Tim Howard
almost single-handedly keeping
the United States in a game
against Belgium in Brazil two
years ago, but it was close. In the
space of about three minutes, McGovern smothered a one-on-one
chance for Thomas Mller,
punched away a free kick and then
denied a close-range shot from
Mesut Ozil. Seconds later, he
made a save with his feet on a shot
from Mario Gtze.
There was some good fortune
for Northern Ireland as well:
Mller hit the post with a header
and the crossbar with a sidefooted shot from about 12 yards.
But if not for McGovern, who finished with eight saves, the Germans could have been three or
four goals ahead by halftime.
Instead, there was only a single
goal by Mario Gmez, who took
a lovely pass from Mller and
drove the ball into the net from
close range in the 30th minute
juxtaposed against an abundance
of McGovern highlights.
Its important when we went
1-0 down not to concede anymore,
McGovern said, adding that given the opposition, it was the most

enjoyable and best game Ive


had.
Germany Coach Joachim Lw
said he knew going into the game
that Northern Ireland would defend intensively and declared
himself satisfied with what his
players showed, especially after
McGovern played perhaps the
game of his life. Lw said that
Mller, who has not scored in
eight career games in the Euros,
was unlucky, but otherwise he
seemed unconcerned about his
teams lack of finishing.
We have shown our quality today, Ozil said. The only thing
missing was to take these
chances.
Up till the end, it seemed that
they might. Late in the game,
Sami Khedira had a blast from
outside the penalty area palmed
away by McGovern, and Gmez
had a header from a few yards out
blocked by the goalkeeper. With
each save, the Irish fans grew
louder and louder. Long after the
final whistle, they remained in
their seats to sing and celebrate.
Were not going home, they
crooned. Were not going home.
Whether they meant for the
night or the tournament was unclear, but this much was sure:
Never before had a 1-0 defeat felt
more like a victory.

Messi and Argentina Dominate U.S.


From First Sports Page
defenders. He lifted incisive
passes onto the welcoming feet of
his teammates.
And then there was the audacious goal off the set piece, which
confirmed what everyone already
knew: that Messi is the best player in the world.
Just before the second half began, a man wearing an Argentina
shirt seemed intent on expressing
that. He ran onto the field and
straight up to Messi, where he
knelt down prostrate at the great
ones feet before being taken away
by security.
But it was not just Messi. Argentina, the winner of 14 Copa
Amricas and two World Cups, is
loaded with talent and spent much
of Tuesday night playing keepaway from the hustling Americans. Argentina completed 625
passes, to 191 by the Americans,
who did not have a single shot on
goal.
At every position on the field,
they were just better than us,
United States Coach Jurgen Klinsmann said.
Clint Dempsey the local star
for the United States, having
grown up in Nacogdoches, Tex.
could not crack the Argentine defense and was replaced in the 78th
minute, unable to do for his country what Messi did for his.
On Saturday, in a quarterfinal
against Venezuela in Foxborough,
Mass., Messi had waited until the
eighth minute to make a remarkable pass that produced the
games first goal. On Tuesday, he
required less than half that time.
In the third minute, Argentina
played a short pass off a corner
kick, and Lavezzi pushed the ball
back to Messi, who was standing
alone just outside the 18-yard box.

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As soon as he tapped the ball in
Messis direction, Lavezzi broke
in the opposite direction toward
the goal, and Messi, with one exquisite touch, chipped a floating
ball back into the box.
Lavezzi was all alone there, and
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Before the first ball of the Copa
Amrica Centenario was kicked
this month, Klinsmann set a
straightforward target for the
United States mens team: reach
the semifinals. It was an ambitious but realistic pursuit, even for
a country whose history in the
Copa had been sporadic at best.
The United States achieved
Klinsmanns objective by beating
Ecuador in a quarterfinal last
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The Honeymooners: Newlywed Comics


By DAVE ITZKOFF

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. On one of their earliest dates, the comedians Natasha Leggero and
Moshe Kasher knew they were meant for each other.
During that fateful assignation, Ms. Leggero was
searching Mr. Kashers car for a lost cigarette when
she instead found a pair of womens underwear
not hers.
Mr. Kasher, who acknowledged that they belonged to a previous paramour, said that he could still
remember his panicked reaction.
All of my focus was on going, like: What? I dont
know what those are, he said over a recent dinner
with Ms. Leggero here. I dont know what objects

are. I dont know what fabric is.


Ms. Leggero, who was not especially angry then
or now, laughed at Mr. Kashers recollection. Thats
a good joke you should do that in your act, she
said.
Now married, Ms. Leggero, a saucy standup, actress and co-creator of the Comedy Central historical
satire Another Period, and Mr. Kasher, a hyperverbal performer, podcaster and creative contributor to
films like Zoolander 2, have found further ways to
strengthen their union.
Though they had a proper honeymoon after their
Oct. 11 nuptials, they have spent the past weeks on
what they are calling their Honeymoon Tour. At

these comedy shows in comfortable destinations,


they perform their individual routines, then appear
together. (The tour started on May 22 in Honolulu
and continues through Monday in Los Angeles.)
Yes, this tour, which offers the sufficiently rare
sight of husband-and-wife stand-ups on the same
bill, allows them to earn money while vacationing at
luxury resorts (like the San Ysidro Ranch, where
they were now dining).
It is also an opportunity for them to bond as a
couple, and to stave off feelings of isolation that
many comedians experience.
It is the ideal way to tour, Mr. Kasher said. ExContinued on Page 5

For Author,
A Pulitzer
Provides
No Peace

American
History,
Viewed
From Below

By DAVID STREITFELD

LOS ANGELES Viet Thanh


Nguyen has been wrestling with
Apocalypse Now for most of his
life as a boy, a college student, a
scholar, a writer of fiction. The
movie was initially a source of
pain, then a puzzle to be understood, and finally an inspiration
for his novel about a Vietnamese
spy, The Sympathizer.
Even now, after a rapturous reception for the novel, his first, that
included the 2016 Pulitzer Prize
for fiction, Mr. Nguyens feelings
about Francis Ford Coppolas 1979
war epic are still somewhat raw.
Apocalypse Now is an important work of art, Mr. Nguyen, 45,
said in an interview at his house
here. But that doesnt mean Im
going to bow down before it. Im
going to fight with it because it
fought with me.
The Sympathizer, which is
narrated by the unnamed spy, begins with the Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 and
then continues in Southern California among a group of die-hard
Continued on Page 5

Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of


The Sympathizer.

Crackers and squatters, rednecks and hillbillies, sandhillers


and mudsills, clay eaters and hoe
wielders: America has developed
a rich vocabulary to describe one
part of its permanent underclass.
The epithet that
subsumes them
all, to borrow the
BOOKS
title of Nancy
OF THE TIMES
Isenbergs formidable and truth-dealing new
book, is white trash.
Ms. Isenbergs project in
White Trash: A 400-Year Untold
History of Class in America is to
retell United States history in a
manner that not only includes
the weak, the powerless and the
stigmatized, but also places them
front and center.
As such, she has written an
eloquent volume that is more
discomforting and more necessary than a semitrailer filled with
new biographies of the founding
fathers and the most beloved
presidents. (Look, here are six
more in my mailbox.) Viewed
from below, a good angle for no
one, Americas history is usefully
disorienting and nearly always
appalling. White Trash will
have you squirming in your
chair.
Ms. Isenberg is a professor of
American history at Louisiana
State University. Her books
include a well-regarded biography of Aaron Burr. Her own class
background goes unmentioned in
Continued on Page 6

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CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS

A scene from Hamog, Ralston Jovers film about four Filipino street kids, at the New York Asian Film Festival.

From Back Row to Front Row


At the Asian Film Festival
At the New York Asian Film Festival,
Asian film means movies mostly from
the continents Big Three: Japan, South
Korea and the Chinese-language
cinemas of Hong Kong, China and
Taiwan. Thats as it should
be those countries dominate Asian film production,
and ticket buyers want
their Hong Kong cop flicks
CRITICS and Japanese gore fests,
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their Korean dramas and
Chinese kung fu spectaculars.
This years 15th edition of the festival
which runs from Wednesday through
July 9 at the Film Society of Lincoln
Center and the SVA Theater will sate
those appetites as thoroughly as ever,
from the Japanese police-corruption
saga Twisted Justice, on opening
night, to the pervy Taiwanese surveillance-porn drama The Tenants Down-

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HALE

ORIANA KOREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The comedians
and newlyweds
Moshe Kasher
and Natasha
Leggero at the
San Ysidro
Ranch in Santa
Barbara, Calif.,
a spot on their
Honeymoon
Tour.

Other countries share


the spotlight with the
continents Big Three.
stairs, at the closing gala.
But other parts of Asia have active,
even thriving, film industries as well,
and the festivals programmers have
made a special effort to seek out work
from those countries.
In this festival, there are seven films
from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam; thats within shouting distance of the 11 entries from South
Korea, 13 from Japan and 19 from the
Chinese-language countries. For this
year, at least, the New York Asian Film

Festival is having a Southeast Asian


moment.
Clearly, these cinemas and industries were underrepresented, Samuel
Jamier, executive director of Subway
Cinema (which produces the festival
with the Film Society of Lincoln Center) and lead programmer of this years
edition, wrote in an email. So I felt it
was time for us to remedy this.
The festivals Southeast Asian films
can require some adjusting of expectations. Generally speaking, budgets are
lower, and crews and actors less seasoned, and the films can have rough
edges.
But theres an immediacy a raw
vitality in storytelling in the best
Southeast Asian films that can be lacking in the most polished and high-tech
Japanese, South Korean and Chinese
Continued on Page 2

White Trash
The 400-Year
Untold History
of Class in
America
Nancy Isenberg
Illustrated. 460
pages. Viking. $28

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A 20s Con Man With Sex on His Mind


Nuts!, an inventive documentary directed by Penny Lane
(Our Nixon) from Thom Stylinskis script, tells a quintessentially American story one that
elicits both wonder
and horror.
Narrated in an
irrepressibly chipper tone by Gene
FILM
Tognacci, Nuts!
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opens with sepiatoned black-and-white images of
goats copulating, roughly drawn
and crudely animated. Along
with the films title, and the soonto-be-revealed fact that its subject, Dr. John Romulus Brinkley
(1885-1942), made his name and
his fortune with an impotence
cure achieved via goat testicle

GLENN
KENNY

Long before Viagra,


Dr. John Romulus
Brinkley did goat
testicle transplants.
transplants, viewers are primed
to settle in for an entertaining
tale of made-in-the-U.S.A. bunco.
This brisk movie is that, and
more.
Dr. Brinkley is first seen as a
barefoot teenager, begging for
admission to Johns Hopkins
University, a detail gleaned from
Clement Woods 1934 biography,
which the movies credits name

as a primary source. Brinkley


would put goat testicles inside an
impotent man, and nine months
later, that man would call himself
a father, Mr. Tognacci says in a
voice that suggests an affected
straight face. The extent of the
contrivance will set off multilevel
credulity alarms in viewers
paying close attention. Also
curious is the movies seeming
lack of interest in Dr. Brinkleys
inner life. These apparent defects
are all part of the filmmakers
genuinely cunning strategy.
Alternating with animated
re-creations, archival footage and
interviews with historians, Ms.
Lanes narrative, from Dr. Brinkleys career roots in the onceone-horse town of Milford, Kan.,

Nuts! An animation still from


Penny Lanes documentary, opening on Wednesday, about Dr. John
Romulus Brinkleys treatments.

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grows to encompass a millionwatt radio tower in Mexico, and


more besides. The ever-tallertale presented here documents

Dr. Brinkleys impact on


early-20th-century pop culture. A
Buster Keaton movie with a goat
gland joke is cited, as is the fact

that Dr. Brinkleys radio station,


besides being a showcase for his
medical advice, was the first to
feature all country music.
As the saga enters the 1930s,
the animation and the archival
footage shift to bright color, but
the story grows more convoluted
and bleak. The movie culminates
in a cinematic coup de grce bold
enough to spin your head one
that gives the movie an entirely
new dimension. No sooner does
the twist sink in than Nuts!
ends on a note of genuine tragedy.
Nuts! is not rated. Running
time: 1 hour 17 minutes.

From the Back Row to the Front Row at the Asian Film Festival

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John Lloyd Cruz, center, in Honor Thy Father, Erik Mattis feature about a man with a past who hopes to go straight when he takes part in his father-in-laws church-based investment scheme.
From First Arts Page
productions. Mr. Jamier agrees
with me on that, writing, I feel
theres a different energy, or vibe
perhaps, an innocence thats
specific to these films. Here, a
few highlights:
HAMOG Nowhere is the Southeast Asian film energy more
evident than in Ralston Jovers
film, Hamog (Haze), which
will be the festivals centerpiece
presentation on July 1. A Filipino
descendant of Hector Babencos
great muckraking Brazilian
drama, Pixote, the film focuses
on four street kids who sleep in
an abandoned drain pipe lined
with cardboard and rob drivers
stuck in Manilas epic traffic
jams. Alternately tragic, bittersweet and frightening, the film
traces the consequences for the
kids when a shakedown of a taxi
driver goes sideways.
Like Pixote, Hamog builds
considerable power, despite its
narrative stumbles. It kills off its
most engaging character just as
the story seems to get started,
and after spending a half-hour on
a moving and detailed account of
how to procure a funeral for an
unclaimed child, it circles back
and starts over again, picking up
a second story line that it had
seemed to drop.
But Mr. Jover never bores you
the awkwardness and occasional purple streak in his
screenplay are more than made
up for by the zest of his direction,
Pipo Domagass fluid
cinematography and gripping
performances from a pair of child
actors, Bon Andrew Lentejas and

KANTANA MOTION PICTURES

Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, left, and Napasasi Surawan in Grace.


playing out the poses of the
television gangster dramas the
boy consumes. Jagat is on the
earnest and didactic side, but Mr.
Perumal exhibits some assurance in his directing debut and
gets a winning performance by
Mr. Raj.
GMM TAI HUB

Sunny Suwanmethanon in the Thai romantic comedy Heart Attack aka Freelance (2015).
Therese Malvar.
HONOR THY FATHER Erik Mat-

tis Filipino feature, written by


Michiko Yamamoto, shares a
pulp-fiction sensibility with
Hamog, though it doesnt reach
the same level of intensity. The
veteran Filipino television star
John Lloyd Cruz plays Edgar, a
man with a past who hopes to go
straight when his father-in-laws
church-based investment
scheme appears to be a winner.
But he, and we, suspect that its
too good to be true, and pretty

soon hes headed to the mountainside mining village where he


grew up to beg for help from his
estranged family.
Honor Thy Father shares,
with most of the other Southeast
Asian selections, a sense of moral outrage Mr. Jamier wrote
that the programmers this year
kept seeing films with a realization that somethings not right
with the world. Edgar and his
wife are among the innocent
victims of her fathers fraud, but
that doesnt save them, because
their friends and neighbors

get-rich-quick dreams are too


powerful, too desperate.
JAGAT A similar sense of des-

peration is at the heart of Shanjhey Kumar Perumals Jagat


(Brutal), set in the Tamil community in northern Malaysia in
the early 1990s. Indian immigrants live in poverty, despite the
governments promises of assistance, and a young boy (Harvind
Raj) is caught between satisfying
his angry, education-obsessed
father and emulating his uncle, a
neophyte thug who seems to be

GRACE An altogether more


lurid experience is offered by
Pun Homchuen and Onusa Donsawais Grace, a Thai slasher
movie with pretensions to social
commentary. A story of jealousy
among rival teenage Facebook
idols, its message is essentially
that the internet equals rape,
torture and murder (by lamp,
hammer and screwdriver). Also,
never date a guy named Earth.
HEART ATTACK AKA FREELANCE The perils of our digital
existence are explored in a much
more charming way in this satirical romantic comedy by the
Thai director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. A graphic designer

(Sunny Suwanmethanon) who


airbrushes blemishes for a living
during sleepless four- and
five-day Photoshop marathons
develops an unsightly rash. A
pretty doctor (Davika Hoorne)
recommends that he stop working around the clock and stop
ordering the shrimp dumplings
from 7-Eleven. We can tell that
what hes allergic to is the loneliness of modern life and that the
cure is sitting across the examining room from him, but in true
rom-com style, it takes him and
the doctor two hours of screen
time to figure it out.
Or do they? No spoilers here.
Heart Attack doesnt actually
need to be two hours long, but its
sendup of the 24-7 life is consistently amusing. Does this temple have wifi? the hero asks in
the middle of a funeral, and a
helpful Buddhist monk gives him
the password for his home network (indiansubcontinent79).
Call it Southeast Asian problems.

Taking Flight With the Birds, in a Melodic Arc From Sunrise to Midnight
ALDEBURGH, England
Like most musicians, pianists
tend to be nocturnal animals,
their natural habitat the concert
hall at 7:30 p.m. So it was curious
Sunday at the
Aldeburgh Festival
here to find PierreLaurent Aimard up
with the lark (in
MUSIC
every sense),
REVIEW
performing at 4:30
a.m., as the sun rose over the
poetically bleak Suffolk marshes
that surround Snape Maltings
Concert Hall.
The vista was part of the experience, because Mr. Aimard
wasnt actually inside the hall
but in a gallery above it looking out on nature with a bleary-

MICHAEL
WHITE

eyed but, for the time of day,


large audience doing likewise.
BBC technicians broadcast the
performance live, and it was the
start of an extraordinary event
devoted to Olivier Messiaens
ultimate attempt at turning
birdsong into art: his Catalogue
dOiseaux, which Mr. Aimard
played in four strategically timed
concerts that extended through
the day and finished after midnight, each one linked with the
activities of Suffolks wildlife.
The early-morning program
was to witness the dawn chorus
of birds. The other performances
included one at dusk and one at
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through Sunday; aldeburgh.co.uk.

the dead of night in almost total


darkness.
Music and ornithology have a
long relationship. But no composer has investigated it as methodically as Messiaen, for whom
natures songsters offered an
escape from the default-mode
serialism or historicism that
inhibited French music in the
middle of the 20th century. Out in
the garden, he heard other possibilities.
By the late 1950s, when he
wrote the Catalogue, the musicalized chattering and trilling of
the birds was fundamental to
Messiaens compositions. His
approach was, he insisted, scientific, hence the academic-sounding title of the piece: an epic

Aldeburgh Festival
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
suite comprising 13 studies of key
avian artists, with others in the
background as supporting talent.
Breathing life into these studies isnt easy. In the wrong hands
they are less the soaring creatures Messiaen sought, and more
like road kill, with a jarringly
repetitive insistence that suggests neurosis.
Mr. Aimard, though, has good
credentials, as a pupil of Yvonne
Loriod, Messiaens wife, muse
and dedicatee of the Catalogue.
And in these Aldeburgh readings
he was masterful, with an inci-

sive brilliance and relentless


focus that acknowledged how the
music marries rigorous complexity with childlike innocence,
unsentimental clinicism with
romantic charm. He kept the
sense of line through episodic
stops and starts. And he observed the sense of mystery in
the writing, as inscrutable as
birds themselves.
To do all this from dawn to
midnight was impressive, and
transformed into a hero someone
whose relationship with Aldeburgh hasnt been ideal. As its
artistic chief for eight years, Mr.
Aimard has been useful in establishing connections with the
international avant-gardists who
are his friends. But his disinter-

est in Britten, Aldeburghs


founder and presiding spirit,
hasnt won too many local hearts.
The triumph of his birdsong
day which in its scope, scale
and imagination is the sort of
project by which festivals are
judged can only be redemptive. This year is his last in
charge, and it will leave behind a
landmark statement.
It will also leave the memory
of a festival so broadly rich in
interest that it ranks among the
finest in the world: less
glamorous than Verbier or
Salzburg, but far more engaging,
clever and resourceful.

Science Times. Tuesdays.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Out of Jail, Back to the Barre


Former Bolshoi Dancer Looks to Return to the Troupe
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

MOSCOW

Pavel
V.
Dmitrichenko, the dancer released from prison after being
convicted of engineering an acid
attack that exposed the hidden intrigues of the Bolshoi Ballet,
asked to meet outside the theater
where he had so spectacularly
fallen from grace, and where he already envisions his return. With
the famous facade glowing pink in
the soft light of a summer evening,
Mr. Dmitrichenko looked around
and pronounced himself entirely
at home.
I always forget the bad things,
he said at the start of a two-hour
interview recently, his first since
being released. It seems like I
was working here just yesterday.
Those years passed as a single
bad dream.
In
December
2013,
Mr.
Dmitrichenko was sentenced to
six years in prison for plotting an
attack on Sergei Filin, the Bolshois artistic director, in January
of that year. Last month he was released early for good behavior.
The dancer, 32, with green eyes
and an unruly shock of dishwater
blond hair, looked fit if somewhat
chunkier than in his halcyon days
as a Bolshoi soloist. He gained
fame for playing villains including
Ivan the Terrible in the ballet of
the same name and Von Rothbart
in Swan Lake. He said he was
drawn to the type.
Those roles were very strong

SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Best 2015 New Musical,


Fun Home, Is to Close
Fun Home, the poignant
family drama that overcame
enormous skepticism about its
Broadway viability to win last
years Tony Award for best new
musical, will close in September,
its producers said Tuesday.
The musical (with Beth Malone, above) a true story about a
lesbian cartoonist trying to understand her fathers suicide,
was the against-all-odds triumph
that Broadway occasionally
loves, recouping its capitalization
and booking a national tour. But
despite the awards and acclaim,
it was unable to build the audience necessary for a multiyear
run on Broadway; its weekly
grosses, which topped out at
$817,665 last July, had dropped to
$313,556 last week.
The show is scheduled to close
on Sept. 10, at which point it will
have played 26 preview and 582
regular performances. The tour
begins in Cleveland in October,
and at least one foreign production, starring Lea Salonga in the
Philippines, has been licensed.
Fun Home is an adaptation
of a graphic memoir by Alison
Bechdel. In the musical, three
actresses portray her: as a child,
as a college student and an adult.
The story is unusual in its
specifics: The Bechdel family ran
a funeral home (the fun home
of the shows title) in rural Pennsylvania, and when Ms. Bechdel,
as a college student, came out,
her mother informed her that her
father had been sexually in-

in terms of drama and interesting


to play, he said. You also have to
demonstrate your power, your energy and your character. It is very
different from playing just some
prince.
Ivan the Terrible, he added, gets
a bad rap, anyway. To hear Mr.
Dmitrichenko tell it, so did he
when he was cast as the evil mastermind of one of the biggest scandals in the 240 years of Bolshoi
history. I dont admit my guilt,
he said. I didnt during the court
proceedings, and I still dont.
Prosecutors
painted
Mr.
Dmitrichenko as upset that Mr.
Filin had denied important roles
to Anzhelina Vorontsova, his girlfriend. Mr. Dmitrichenko had also
expressed public frustration over
the low pay and poor treatment of
dancers under Mr. Filin. During
the trial, he and his lawyer tried to
depict the attack as a simple
warning run amok.
Mr. Dmitrichenko told the court
that he had asked Yuri Zarutsky,
an acquaintance and a former
convict, to knock around Mr.
Filin, but maintained that Mr.
Zarutsky took it upon himself to
embellish the assault by dousing
Mr. Filins face with acid. Mr.
Zarutsky was sentenced to 10
years for conspiring to cause bodily harm.
Mr. Dmitrichenko now labels
the whole affair pure fiction. It
was all a plot, he said, by Mr. Filin
and his allies in the Bolshoi to re-

move him from the scene because


he was vocal about their corrupt
practices and would not be
intimidated.
The revisions spill out in dizzying, not to say implausible, succession: He never spoke to Mr.
Zarutsky about Mr. Filin. He denied that he admitted as much in
court. Ms. Vorontsova was not his
girlfriend. He even raises doubts
that there was any acid attack
since Mr. Filin has little noticeable
scaring and can drive, despite the
seeming lack of an iris in one eye
that he keeps hidden behind sunglasses.
That story is entirely invented by enemies, he said. The
whole story is about a battle for
power; something done from fear
that I had uncovered their illegal
activities. My mistake was
making a public statement about
this.
He does not want to dissect the
details, preferring to concentrate
on his hopes to return to the stage,
preferably at the Bolshoi.
There was no barre behind
bars, but he tried to stay in shape.
His first cell was so constricted
that he was limited to a few
calisthenics like leg lifts and
situps, he said. He did not go outside for an entire year. For the rest
of the time things were better. He
had a narrow space of about 10
square meters (about 108 square
feet) where he could run back and
forth. Pirouettes were out of the

Arts, Briefly

$563,565, according to figures


released Monday by the Broadway League.
Last week The Humans
grossed more
than several
musicals, including Chicago, Jersey
Boys, Fun
Home and this
years Tony
winner for best
musical revival,
The Color Purple. And The
Humans is grossing more than
all those shows while playing in
the smallest theater on Broadway the Hayes only has 576
seats.
Hamilton, which won the
prize for best new musical, was
already sold out, so it had no
capacity for short-term growth.
Its grosses were relatively flat, at
a whopping $2 million.

volved with men; her father


went on to commit suicide. But
the musical succeeded partly
because audiences found many
of its themes of family relationships universal; its writers often
said that the show was for anyone who had a parent, and anyone who had a child.
Fun Home was nominated
for 12 Tony Awards and won five,
for best new musical, best book
(by Lisa Kron), best score (music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics
by Ms. Kron), best performance
by a leading actor in a musical
(Michael Cerveris), and best
direction of a musical (Sam
Gold). It was the first show with
an all-female writing team to win
the best musical Tony, and the
first Broadway musical with a
lesbian protagonist, according to
the producers.
MICHAEL PAULSON

The Humans Enjoys


Tony Awards Bump
This years Tonys talk focused
heavily on a single show: Hamilton. But the biggest immediate
beneficiary of the Broadway
awards ceremony appears to be
a much-less-well-known production: The Humans.
The family drama by Stephen
Karam (top right), which has
been chugging along at the Helen Hayes Theater since Jan. 24,
won four Tony awards: for best
new play; best featured actor in
a play (Reed Birney); best featured actress in a play (Jayne
Houdyshell); and best scenic
design in a play (David Zinn).
And last week the first since
the Tonys were broadcast on
June 12 was the best week at
the box office to date for The
Humans, which grossed

MICHAEL PAULSON

MAX AVDEEV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

I dont admit my guilt. I didnt during the court


proceedings, and I still dont.
Pavel V. Dmitrichenko

Dancer convicted of plotting an attack on the Bolshois artistic director


question. Instead he pumped iron.
Being a ballet star did not earn
him distinct treatment from the
guards or fellow inmates. Mr.
Dmitrichenko said he was locked
up with a varied cast of characters
including businessmen, actors
and even a circus performer.
He started to rehearse again almost as soon as he was released.
The first 30 minutes felt a little
odd, he said, but then the training
that started when he was 6 (he is
the son of two dancers) kicked in
and everything felt normal.
Vladimir Urin, the new director
of the Bolshoi, appointed in the

wake of the scandal, told the Russian media that Mr. Dmitrichenko
could audition like anybody else if
he wanted to return to the company.
The theater is evidently trying
put the scandal in the past. The
Bolshoi held a news conference in
March to unveil a sweeping history of the institution in Russian
and English commissioned from
the New York-based writer Solomon Volkov to mark its 240th anniversary. The documentary Bolshoi Babylon was released in December.
The
scandal
inevitably

prompted questions. Reporters


asked Mr. Urin if he had commissioned the book and approved the
film in an attempt at distraction
from the scandal. It is not true
that the sly director made such
cunning plans, he said, while
stressing that he wanted to make
the cultural powerhouse more
open.
It is not clear, though, that the
two main characters have entirely
left the stage. Awkwardly, Mr.
Dmitrichenko and Mr. Filin still
live in the same Moscow apartment building where the attack
occurred. But Mr. Dmitrichenko
said they had not encountered
each other.
Mr. Filin was dismissed as artistic director earlier this year, then
given a position as head of a Bolshoi workshop fostering young
choreographers. In an interview
in May, he said he would be concerned for his safety if Mr.
Dmitrichenko were freed. His
lawyer went to court to try to have
the release rescinded.
Other dancers and the film portray Mr. Filin as a slippery character, while Mr. Dmitrichenko was
sometimes described as overly
emotional. Both men appear resigned to the idea that they might
work under the same roof again.
Mr. Dmitrichenko said the main
point was that he emerged from
prison with his dignity intact and
hoped that the whole episode
would just burnish his audience
appeal. I think people will want
to see someone who dances again
after living in such circumstances, he said.

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Dance in Review

Ephrat Asherie
Riff this Riff that
River to River Festival
Ephrat Asheries Riff this Riff
that, which rolled through the
Atrium Plaza at 180 Maiden Lane
on Monday afternoon (it repeated Tuesday), opens on an
uncharacteristically subdued
note a point made clear by the
wild ride that follows.
Six dancers, some sitting,
some standing, congregate
around a row of wooden stools
and gaze at Ousmane Wiles as he
eases forward into space and
crouches, spinning back to them
before dashing away again with
sliding feet in reverse. He stops
in place and snaps his fingers.
Soon, the others ease away from
the stools too and join in to create a percussive suite of bodies.
Ms. Asherie started out in
ballet, but like for many who
came of age in the 1990s, hip-hop
took hold. There are no obvious
sign of classical dance in Riff
this, but Ms. Asherie makes
space for just about everything
else. Dance forms from tap to
swing and vogueing are knitted together throughout this
production.
Ms. Asheries movement
phrases compact bursts of
choreography with rapid-fire
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The six performers of Riff this Riff that employing rapid-fire changes in rhythm at the River to River Festival in Manhattan.

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Chris Kuklis, left, and Will Rawls in The Planet-Eaters.

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onds, offers this alternative,


nondisciplinary.
A choreographer and writer,
Mr. Rawls never lands for too
long in any one medium, staying
nomadic with the help of his
sound and costume collaborators. One pleasure of watching
Seconds, a reconfiguration of
his 2013 The Planet-Eaters, is
not knowing where to place it.
I didnt see the first Planet
Eaters, but I imagine that the
second, presented on Monday,

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changes in rhythm and gestural


articulation bubble up and
dissipate, quickly paving the way
for something new. But its more
than an exploration of motion
and energy. Inspired by The
Spirit Moves: A History of Black
Social Dance on Film, 19001986,
Mura Dehns excellent documentary, Ms. Asherie investigates the
jazz roots of contemporary
house, breaking and hip-hop.
Riff this shows Ms. Asheries
entrancing qualities as a dancer:
She is both tough and supple. But
Ms. Asherie has much more
room to riff on her ideas about
tradition in dance; in its current
form, the piece, just 25 minutes,
feels like a beginning, not an
ending. As problems go, thats a
good one.

resonated differently by virtue of


its new setting, the Circle of
Dance exhibition at the National
Museum of the American Indian
in Lower Manhattan. (The first
performance was at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City.)
The circular room houses
brilliant costumes associated
with traditional American Indian
dances. These hover in our peripheral vision as Mr. Rawls and
the musician Chris Kuklis concoct ceremonial dance and song
of their own, clad in rough-hewn
regalia by the Serbian designer
Sasa Kovacevic.
The Planet Eaters grew out
of Mr. Rawlss travels in the
Balkans and his study of the
regions folklore. Swerving
among dance, storytelling and
music-making the instruments
included a laptop, a guitar, a
tuning fork and a stainless-steel
bowl it stirs up questions
about authenticity, racial identity
and cultural appropriation that
evade easy answers.
Mr. Rawls has written about
his mixed-race background as
the son of a former Georgia
sharecropper and a woman of
Welsh ancestry. I thought about
that while watching him, in a
headdress of long golden braids
capped with a white cross, tussle
with Mr. Kuklis over several
tracts of fake grass. Eventually,
they merged this disputed territory into one small mountain
and, sitting on either side of the
pile, or the table, began to count,
clap, sing and speak in harmony.
In the most dance-heavy passage, Mr. Rawls delivers bouncing, kicking steps with an upright chest and hands on his
hips. But the finest moments
happen when he takes a break
and, aided by Mr. Kukliss sonic
manipulations, conjures a dreamscape woven from folk tales and
personal tales of camping by the
Adriatic Sea. Both men are
seated; its words that do the
dancing.

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C5

The Honeymooners: (Intentional) Comedy From Newlyweds


From First Arts Page
cept for having to split the money, this
couldnt be better.
Later that night, they performed at
Velvet Jones, a Santa Barbara nightclub
where Ms. Leggero joked about having
never wanted to marry and having no desire to become pregnant. (You have to
stop drinking in public, she explained.)
Mr. Kasher needled her for claiming that
he had performed on HBO. (Ive never
been on HBO, he said. Thats my wife.)
Over dinner, the two spoke with more
tenderness for each other. Before they
began dating, Ms. Leggero said, she was
a serial monogamist; Mr. Kasher said
he was busy, romantically (by which,
he added, he meant very promiscuous).
But, from afar, they appreciated each
others work, and Mr. Kasher said he considered Ms. Leggero the type of friend
that youll text every six months to remind them that youre around, if theyre
ever single.
Chelsea Peretti, the Brooklyn NineNine star and a longtime friend of the
couple, said that they were compatible
because they were both blunt hippies.

Luxury resorts, sharing a


bill: answers for the
loneliness of the road.
They have this weird common
ground, Ms. Peretti said in a telephone
interview. They both have this spiritual
side and this side that likes to be indulgent. Moshe does Burning Man, and
Natasha will do spa baths that I dont
venture into. But then they both can be
cutting and outspoken.
Despite the misgivings about marriage she joked about, Ms. Leggero said
that when they were dating, she felt they
were on the marriage track. But Mr.
Kasher, who has written in his memoir,
Kasher in the Rye, about growing up in
Oakland, Calif., and Brooklyn as a child of
divorced parents, said he had felt uncertain about the relationship models hed
seen in his life.
Ms. Leggero, who grew up in Rockford, Ill., was more guarded about her upbringing but agreed with Mr. Kashers
assessment that her parents were also
volatile. (Next question, she said
softly.)
Mr. Kasher compared his hesitation to
his fear, earlier in his career, of moving
from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, where
they now live.
Somebody said to me, You know, you
can just move back, he explained. I
was like: Huh. Yeah. The same thing
with marriage. Why not give it a whirl?
And if you fail, you can just get a divorce.
The wedding was a traditional Jewish
ceremony Ms. Leggero converted
from Roman Catholicism and took
place at the couples house in the Silver
Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Because were comedians, we

ANN SUMMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Above, Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher performing at Velvet Jones, a


nightclub in Santa Barbara, Calif., during their Honeymoon Tour. Far left,
Ms. Leggero with Riki Lindhome, center, and Lauren Lapkus in the Comedy
Central series Another Period, of which Ms. Leggero is a creator.

DANNY FELD

agreed: No bits at the wedding, Mr.


Kasher said.
But, Ms. Leggero added, He let me
have just one. After their vows, the couple momentarily disappeared, then reappeared to mock a post-consummation
rite by holding up a sheet that said,
Shes a virgin!

Ms. Peretti, who married the comedian Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) this
year, said Ms. Leggero and Mr. Kashers
ceremony was so enjoyable that it made
her question her decision to elope with
Mr. Peele.
It was bittersweet, going to a fun wedding, Ms. Peretti said. You go, Ugh, are

we missing out on family and friends?


And then ultimately, we decided, Nah.
As professional partners, Ms. Leggero
and Mr. Kasher said they did not compete over material or industry stature,
though Mr. Kasher, who also works on
Another Period, said wryly that he can
sometimes feel a power imbalance
there.
I make her scream executive
producer when were making love, he
said. I need a constant reassurance that
Im valued and it wasnt nepotism.
Though they could point to only a few
examples of other comic spouses who
have traveled and performed together
vintage duos like Gracie Allen and
George Burns or Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnaz, or contemporaries like Bonnie
McFarlane and Rich Vos they said
their tour let them lean on each other in
lonely moments on the road.
Looking back on a New Years Eve
when he was performing solo in Grand
Rapids, Mich., Mr. Kasher said: At 12:05,
I was in the lobby of a Courtyard Marriott

with some Doritos and a Diet Coke,


headed to my room to watch Netflix. Its
nice to be on the road and do these
shows.
Thats so sad, Ms. Leggero said.
If there is any downside to marital
bliss, they say, it is the fear that happiness will take away the tension and the
skepticism that shape their comedic perspectives.
When you become happy, and your
life is becoming more solid and stable, it
is a little harder, Ms. Leggero said. I felt
like I was much funnier when I had, like,
$30 in my account.
Of course, if they need to make their
lives complicated again, they can have a
baby.
Theres definitely people in comedy
that have had children for material, Mr.
Kasher said.
Her routine notwithstanding, Ms. Leggero said she was ready to embrace having a child, but added, Im not having it
for material.
Mr. Kasher replied, Were naming it
Material.

A Pulitzer, but No Peace, After a Raw and Rebellious First Novel


From First Arts Page
exiles whose motto is Always resent,
never relent. A megalomaniacal Hollywood director invites the spy to critique
the script for his war movie and then
hires him to share his native expertise
during filming in the Philippines.
For those who dont get the many hints
in those chapters, the novels acknowledgments list more than a dozen works
about the making of Apocalypse Now.
Im a scholar, Mr. Nguyen explained.
Despite such trappings, The Sympathizer does not read like an academic
work. It is mordantly funny and highly
polished, but it makes antiwar classics
like Catch-22 and SlaughterhouseFive seem happy-go-lucky. At the end of
Catch-22, the hero runs away from the
army that is trying to kill him. At the end
of The Sympathizer, the antihero is tortured.
There are no conventional happy
endings here, Mr. Nguyen said. Conventional happy endings are the property of Hollywood. And thats propaganda propaganda for the American
dream. I dont believe in that.
The American dream has been looking
a little tattered recently, which makes
The Sympathizer a historical novel
that matches the current mood.
Its fitting and proper that The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer, said Robert
Olen Butler, who won the prize in 1993 for
his own, much gentler tale of displaced
Vietnamese, A Good Scent From a
Strange Mountain. The books fundamental anger welters at the heart of the
politics and protests and public discourse of America today.
Mr. Nguyen lives in Silver Lake, a
largely Hispanic neighborhood here that
has more recently become a hipster
hangout. His living room is immaculate,
devoid of all personal touches. In one corner are five coffee-table books. They all
have Vietnam in the title.
A war doesnt end simply because we
say it does, and a war isnt simply the
things that happen on the battlefield, he
said. To me, war is a much more expansive beast.
If The Sympathizer was born out of
anger, it also grew out of other books.
Writers draw inspiration from fellow
artists all the time, but with Mr. Nguyen,
the relationship is especially tight.
Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man is
evoked on the first page. (Mr. Nguyen
and his partner, Lan Duong, named their
first child Ellison.) The infamous liver
scene in Philip Roths Portnoys Complaint is reprised, this time with squid.

ORIANA KOREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A war doesnt end simply because we say it does, and a war isnt simply the things
that happen on the battlefield. To me, war is a much more expansive beast.
VIET THANH NGUYEN

Professor of English and prizewinning author of The Sympathizer

But Apocalypse Now is the most overt


influence. The Sympathizer is a handsome tribute to one of Americas greatest
living directors, or perhaps a punch in
the face, or maybe both at once.
I think if someone were to spend 50 or
60 pages putting me into a novel, I would
be amused, Mr. Nguyen said. Francis
Ford Coppola is a genius in the book.
Even if he is flawed.
Thats a polite way of putting it. At one
point in the novel, the director apparently tries to kill the spy by setting a cemetery ablaze. It would be interesting to
know Mr. Coppolas reaction to all this,

but he did not respond to a request for an


interview. That disappoints Mr. Nguyen
a bit. Im not afraid of confrontation, he
said.
Mr. Nguyen first saw Mr. Coppolas
film when he was around 10. He was a
Vietnamese refugee who spoke fluent
English, a bookworm curious about his
roots, a war buff like so many boys. He
watched the movie alone at home in San
Jose on a newfangled VCR.
One scene in particular devastated
him. American soldiers on a boat taking
the protagonist, played by Martin Sheen,
upriver stop to search a Vietnamese fam-

ilys sampan. The soldiers end up massacring everyone.


People just like me were being
slaughtered, Mr. Nguyen said. I felt violated. A decade later, as a student at
Berkeley, he talked about the scene for a
film class. He began rationally, he remembered, and then realized his voice
was full of rage. It was an antiwar movie
about the war in Vietnam, but the movie
was about Americans, he said. The
Vietnamese were silent and erased.
Two decades on, Mr. Nguyen teaches
the scene in his course on the American
war in Vietnam at the University of

Southern California, where he is an associate professor of English and American


studies and ethnicity. He also discusses
Apocalypse Now in Nothing Ever
Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War,
published in April by Harvard University Press.
Call it obsession, call it dedication, but
this immersion in the war and the art it
produced is not typical of VietnameseAmericans or, for that matter, of Mr.
Nguyens own family. His older brother,
Tung Thanh Nguyen, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, remembers the real
war but tries not to think about it.
I have never made it through a movie
about the Vietnam War, he said. I refused to pick up a book about the war.
Does that mean it doesnt matter? No, it
means it matters way too much. This is
how people cope.
Their parents, retired proprietors of a
corner grocery in San Jose, declined to
have their names printed on the dedication page of Nothing Ever Dies. For
them, their past isnt even past, which
makes their sons choice of profession
seem especially unlikely.
The older brother said, To be a Vietnamese-American and choose to write
fiction, especially about the war, is an incredibly rebellious act.
Like most seemingly overnight successes, Viet Thanh Nguyen had a long
apprenticeship. The Sympathizer is
the first novel he ever tried to write, but
he has been writing short stories for 20
years. The Sympathizer was submitted to 14 publishers, and 13 turned it
down.
Grove Press, an independent house,
took it on and made a major commitment. After all the ecstatic reviews and
awards, the novel sold about 22,000 copies in hardcover no blockbuster.
Im delighted its sold as many copies
as it has, given its not a warm and fuzzy
book, the author said. If Id written the
Steven Spielberg version of a Vietnam
War novel and it didnt sell two million
copies, Id be disappointed.
The Pulitzer presents an the opportunity to take the book to another level.
Grove published 20,000 copies in paperback before the prize, then another
120,000 after. Mr. Nguyen has received
many offers to speak at conferences.
And there are less tangible rewards.
My dad called me after the prize,
voice shaking with happiness and hes
not an emotive man, Mr. Nguyen said.
So I finally made my dad happy, and all
it took was winning the Pulitzer Prize for
my first novel.

C6

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Sordid Secrets as a Perk of Wealth


When the phrase prominent
family turns up in the synopsis
of a television series these days,
you can bet that dark secrets
isnt far behind. The latest entry
in this P.F.D.S.
genre yes, I
intend to copyright that abbreviation arrives
TELEVISION Wednesday night
REVIEW
on CBS bearing a
particularly portentous title:
American Gothic.
Its well cast and gets off to an
intriguing start, though that
doesnt guarantee a loyal audience. Just ask the ex-employees
of The Family, a decent ABC
series that had a lot in common
with this one and was canceled in
May after a single season.
American Gothic involves a
wealthy Boston family, the
Hawthornes, headed by Mitchell
(Jamey Sheridan) and Madeline
(Virginia Madsen), that within
the first 15 minutes finds itself
entangled in a serial-killer case
that went cold 14 years earlier.

NEIL
GENZLINGER

CHRISTOS KALOHORIDIS/CBS BROADCASTING

American Gothic Virginia Madsen and Jamey Sheridan in this series, starting Wednesday night on CBS.

You can almost recite the plot


elements in these shows at this
point. Someone in the family
(just as in The Family) is
running for public office and has
a lot to lose from a scandal; in
this case its a daughter, Alison
(Juliet Rylance). Antony Starr
plays the obligatory prodigal,
Garrett, who materializes after
an absence of theres that time
span again 14 years.
The Hawthorne children also
include Tessa (Megan Ketch),
who happens to be married to a
police detective, Brady (Elliot
Knight), who is investigating
newly discovered evidence in
that old serial-murder case. A
few grandchildren are also floating around, most noticeably Jack
(Gabriel Bateman), a ghoulish
boy who has been watching too
many medical-examiner TV
shows. Hes an unappetizing
character and feels like a desperate attempt by the writers to live
up to the shows title.
After a convincing opening
episode, American Gothic turns

soapier and more florid in


Episode 2, an effect, perhaps, of
the long shadow of Revenge.
That ABC series, a P.F.D.S. success story, wrung four seasons
out of its Hamptons
machinations before ending last
year. It may have wrung the
genre dry in the process so far,
its legacy is copycat series with
impatient plotting.
The makers of newcomers like
The Family and American
Gothic, perhaps mindful that
audiences have been there, done
that, seem afraid of proceeding
slowly as Revenge did. The
goal, apparently, is to get overheated and labyrinthine as
quickly as possible.
The problem is, that approach
didnt work for The Family, and
after two episodes its nudging
American Gothic toward silliness. There are lines in Episode 2
that might provoke unintended
giggles. Cant quote them here
because theyre also spoilers, but
youll probably know them when
you hear them.

American History, Viewed From a Lower Rung of Society


From First Arts Page
White Trash. This study does
not require the emotional accelerant of memoir.
Like Howard Zinn in A Peoples History of the United
States (1980), Ms. Isenberg
presents an alternative interpretation of American history. Unlike Mr. Zinn, she is not interested in crusaders and labor
organizers and politicians of a
socialist bent. Do not come to her
book to learn about the Wobblies.
The story she tells is more intimate. Its an analysis of the
intractable caste system that
lingers below the national myths
of rugged individualism and
cities on hills.
Ms. Isenberg contends that
adults in America are spoon-fed
their history as if they were
toddlers. We are eager consumers of the national hagiography. She subverts this hagiography at every turn, starting at the
beginning.
Americas colonial beginnings
tend to be viewed, Ms. Isenberg
writes, through the beliefs of
those principled leaders molded
in bronze the John Winthrops
and William Penns who are
lionized for having projected the

enlarged destinies of their respective colonies.


Yet she demonstrates that
most early settlers did not buy
into these destinies. Nor did
most come to escape religious
persecution. During the 1600s,
she writes, far from being
ranked as valued British subjects, the great majority of early

The lives of the


derided poor.
colonists were classified as surplus population and expendable
rubbish.
Many were indentured servants. Others were roguish
highwaymen, mean vagrants,
Irish rebels, known whores and
an assortment of convicts
shipped to the colonies for grand
larceny or other property
crimes. Others were simply lazy
idlers, in the lingo of the
time. They would rather drink
rum than clear an acre of pine
trees.
America did not develop a
House of Lords, yet we imported

the rigging of the British class


system, Ms. Isenberg argues.
This was hardly a land of equal
opportunity. Brutal labor awaited
most migrants. There was little
social mobility.
Puritan religious faith did not
displace class hierarchy, either;
the early generations of New
Englanders did nothing to diminish, let alone condemn, the routine reliance on servants or
slaves, she observes. Land was
the principal source of wealth,
and those without any had little
chance to escape servitude. It
was the stigma of landlessness
that would leave its mark on
white trash from this day forward.
From this beginning, Ms.
Isenberg moves confidently
forward, through, for example,
the class issues that undergirded
the Civil War and the popular
eugenics movement, favored by
Theodore Roosevelt, that marked
many as targets for sterilization.
Slavery and racism are hardly
discounted in this book, but she
maintains her focus on poor
whites.
She singles out North Carolina
as what we might call the first
white trash colony. It was
swampy and, thanks to its shoal-

filled shoreline, lacked a major


port. It had no real planter class.
Its citizens were viewed as sluggards, cowardly Blockheads in
the words of one early writer.
Another referred to the state as
the lawless sinke of America.
Ms. Isenberg moves through
the Great Depression, pausing to
admire James Agees complex
yet urgent nonfiction account of
the lives of poor tenant farmers
in Alabama, Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men (1941). Elvis arrives. So does Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society.
Trailer parks, redolent of libertys dark side, come under her
appraisal, as do movies like
Deliverance. (She finds its
redneck caricatures to be loathsome.) The careers of Dolly
Parton, Jimmy Carter, Jim and
Tammy Faye Bakker and Bill
Clinton are analyzed. Mr. Clintons dalliance with Monica Lewinsky resulted in a spectacle that
the author likens to a white
trash outing on the grand national stage.
She considers the phenomenon
of Sarah Palin, and reality television shows like Here Comes
Honey Boo Boo and Duck
Dynasty. Donald J. Trump the
politician is not on this books

MINDY STRICKE

Nancy Isenberg
radar, yet Ms. Isenberg writes in
her Palin section: When you
turn an election into a three-ring
circus, theres always a chance
the dancing bear will win.
Throughout this volume, there
is an awareness of a cruel aspect
of our moral complexion. Americans not only scrambled to get
ahead, she writes, they needed
someone to look down on. Gore
Vidal put this another way: It is

not enough merely to win; others


must lose.
Ms. Isenberg does not skimp
on economic analysis. She notes
how the central engines of our
economy, from slave-owning
planters up through todays bank
and tax policies, have systematically harmed the working
poor. We have to wonder, she
writes about her books subjects,
how such people exist amid
plenty.
Part of her answer is the
backlash that occurs when attempts are made to improve the
conditions of the poor, from the
New Deal through Obamacare.
Government assistance is said
to undermine the American
dream, she writes, adding:
Wait. Undermine whose American dream?
This estimable book rides into
the summer doldrums like rural
electrification. It reminds us that,
as Simon Schama wrote, venting
his dislike of Downton Abbey,
Historys meant to be a bummer,
not a stroll down memory lane.
White Trash is indeed a
bummer, and a thoroughly patriotic one. It deals in the truths
that matter, which is to say, the
uncomfortable ones.

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Foraging in Kaktovik, Alaska.


THE GREAT POLAR BEAR FEAST 8 p.m. on
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the shores of the Southern Beaufort Sea, to
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ANY GIVEN WEDNESDAY WITH BILL
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journalist kicks off his weekly talk show with
Ben Affleck and Charles Barkley.
AMERICAN GOTHIC 10 p.m. on CBS. When a
murder case is reopened after 14 years, a
prominent Boston family discovers that one of
its own could be responsible for grisly
atrocities. Virginia Madsen plays the steely
matriarch with the especially nice house.

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Stellan Skarsgard as a police inspector.


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mind. So he taps into hallucinations he calls
them manifests to heal his wounded
psyche. Neil Genzlinger of The Times called the
series a first-rate psychological study.

Douglas Family Enough (2002). Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell. (PG-13)

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TBS

SERENA (2016) 8 p.m. on Epix. Im 33, but Im


not ready to be done yet, Serena Williams said
last year. I still have too much to accomplish.
Topping her list: a quest to achieve for the
second time four Grand Slams what fans call
Serena Slams in a row. Here, Ryan White
follows Ms. Williams round the clock and
around the world to document numerous highs,
like being named Sports Illustrateds
Sportsperson of the Year in December, and a
few lows, including her losses at the 2015 United
States Open and 2016 Australian Open. Fun
fact: Ms. Williams shown running, jumping,
lunging and twirling like an Energizer bunny in
overdrive claims to hate working out as
much as the rest of us.

Ladylike (11:32) Ladylike (12:02)

SCIENCE Outrageous Acts of Science (14)

SYFY

BEN KING FOR EPIX

Serena Williams, center, during filming.

12:00

Fight Sports

NBCS

SUN

WHATS ON TV

The Rocky Horror Picture Show


(1975). Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon.
Quick Pitch

U.F.C. Main Event

Rush Hour 3 (2007). Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker. (PG-13)

New York Tonight

Golden Girls
Brother vs.
American Pickers (PG) (12:03)
Forensic Files
The Perfect Murder (14)
Maron Shrink
and Kink. (MA)
Family That
Preys
911 Nightmare
(2015).

M.L.S. New York Red Bulls vs. Real Salt Lake.

John Tucker Must Die (2006). (6)

School of Rock Full House (G)

Tiny House

U.F.C. 200 Greatest Fighters

MTV

Drugs, Inc. High Stakes Vegas.

House Hunting

11:00

. Hairspray (2007). Teenage Baltimorean strives to in- . Hairspray (2007). John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky. Teenage Baltimorean strives to integrate TV dance show.
tegrate TV dance show. You cant stop the beat. (PG) (6) You cant stop the beat. (PG) (8:45)
M.L.B. Regional Coverage.
M.L.B. Tonight

LOGO

Serena follows a year in the life of Serena


Williams as she checks things off her to-do list.
Big Brother christens its latest crash pad. And
The Great Polar Bear Feast heads to Alaska
for a feeding frenzy.

Steve Austins

American Dad American Dad


Jay Lenos Garage Crime Fighters. (N)
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N)

News (6:30)
Bunkd (G)

CUNY

WHATS ON WEDNESDAY

Top Gear Road travel versus taking the train. (G)


Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). William Shatner, DeForest Kelley. (PG)
Top Gear (G)
Inside the Label Slip-N-Slide. Slip- Inside the Label Terror Squad.
The Wayans
The Wayans Bros. I Was En
Martin (PG)
The Wendy WilN-Slide Records; Ted Lucas. (14)
(9:03)
Bros. (PG) (10:06) Vogues Love Slave. (PG) (10:45) (11:25)
liams Show (N)
With All Due Respect (G)
Trending Business (N) (G)
Charlie Rose
Bloomberg West (G)
Bloom. Markets
The Real Housewives of New
The Real Housewives of New
Before They Were Housewives: Watch What
The Real Housewives of New
York City Invitation Interrupted.
York City (N) (14)
Luann (N) (14)
Happens: Live York City (14)
P.G.A. Presents P.G.A. Presents Boxing From July 12, 2014. (N)
Boxing From Dec. 6, 2015. (N)
Best of Super High Roller Bowl
Boxing

COOK

CNN

10:30

Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty
Wahlburgers:
Wahlburgers:
Duck Dynasty
(PG) (8:03)
(PG)
(PG) (9:03)
Wild Wild Pest. (PG) (10:01)
(PG) (10:32)
Extra Helping (N) Extra Helping (N) (PG) (12:06)
The UFO Cover-Up (PG)
Nazi UFO Conspiracy (PG)
Chasing Conspiracies (N) (PG)
The UFO Cover-Up (PG)
Nazi UFO Con.
Alice in Wonderland (2010). Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska. Live action-animated. Tim
The Sorcerers Apprentice (2010). Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel. Physics
Burtons take on Alice. Garish and periodically amusing. (PG)
major becomes wizards protg. Grindingly mediocre. (PG)
Treehouse Masters (PG)
Treehouse Masters (PG) (9:01)
Treehouse Masters (PG) (10:02) Treehouse Masters (PG) (11:03) Treehouse Mstr

Bobs Burgers Cleveland Show


Shark Tank A man presents a personal style system. (PG)
CNN Town Hall: The Libertarians (N)
South Park (14) South Park Cat South Park (14) South Park
South Park (14) South Park (14)
(6:46)
Orgy. (14) (7:18) (7:50)
Jewbilee. (8:23) (8:56)
(9:28)
Cupcake Wars Cirque Du Soleil. Cupcake Wars Tony Hawk. (G)
Cupcake Wars LA Auto Show.

CNBC

10:00

C7

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Weather Report
50s

Vancou
uver
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Winnipeg
eg

60s
0s Seattle

Que
ue c
uebec

Spo
pokane
pok
k

60s

60s
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Portla
and

70s

Eugen
en
ne

Hele
ena

70s
s

Bismarck

Billings
Bois
B
ise
Minneapolis
n
s
Sioux
u Falls

Reno

80s

Cheyenne

T
Topeka

Colorado
C
do
Sprin
ngs

Las
Vegas
Vega

100+

100+
00
00

Nashville
e

Birmingham
m

Ft. Worth

J
Jacksonville

80s

Mo
Mobile

Baton
o Rouge
San Antonio

Orleans

90s
70s
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Miami
Nassau

80s Monterrey
Mo

80s

60s
s
50s
50
s

Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time.


TODAYS HIGHS

Fairbanks
irbanks
rbanks

70s

<0

0s

10s

An horage
Anchorage
orage

50s

SATURDAY
SUNDAY ..............................Some sunshine

Tampa
a

Corpus Christi
C

90
0s
50s
5
0s
s

O
Orlando

Ne
90s New

Hou
ouston

Hilo

80s

Jackson
n

100
00+

FRIDAY ....................................Mostly sunny


High pressure will start to build back
across the region. This will provide a
mostly sunny and dry day, with a seasonably warm afternoon.

Atlanta

90s

Dallas

Honolulu

70s

Charlotte
Columb
bia

Tucson

20s

Juneau
eau
u

COLD

60s

WARM

STATIONARY COMPLEX
COLD

FRONTS

30s

40s

50s

60s

70s

Normal
highs

80

High 78. A wave of low pressure moving


across the area will bring plenty of clouds
along with periodic rain and a thunderstorm. It will be cooler.

N
Norfolk

Memphis

Little Rock

Albuquerque
buquerque

El Paso

80s

Charleston
arle
arles
e
Louisv
Louisville

Raleigh
gh

Lubbock

70
0s

TOMORROW ........Rain and a thunderstorm

Richm
chmond

100+

Santa Fe
Phoenix
Ph
enix

Phi
Philadelphia
Wash
Washington
ash

Wichita
Oklahoma City
Oklaho
Oklah

Sa
Sa
San
an
n Diego
o

Pittsburgh

Sprin
ringfield
rin
gfi

St. Louis
uis

70s
70s

Los
Lo
os Ange
geles

Kansas
City

90 F S S M T W T F S S

Low 65. High pressure will move away


from the region as a wave of low pressure
approaches. This will allow clouds to
increase. It will be rather mild.

Har
Hartford
a

Indianapolis
i

90s

Fresno
sno
o

Cleveland

Chicago
go
o

TODAY

TONIGHT ..........................Increasing clouds

Bos
Boston

New York
N

Des Moin
D
Moiness

Denver

M
Ma
Manchester

Detro
oit

Omaha
Omah

Salt Lakk
ke
City
Sa
an
n Fra
Fran
Francisco
co

Burlington
n on
Albany

Buffalo

Milwaukkee

Casper

L
Por
Portland

Ottawa

Toronto
To

St. Paul
S

High 85. High pressure will be in control


of the area through the afternoon. It will
be sunny to partly cloudy and warm, and
the humidity will be low.

70s
H
Halifax

60s
0s
s

Record
highs

TODAY .....................................Mostly sunny

60s

Mon
on
ontreal

Fargo

Pierre

Metropolitan Forecast

60s
s

50s

Regina

Meteorology by AccuWeather

80s

90s

70
Normal
lows

60

Saturday will be warm, with plenty of


sunshine and a high of 85. Sunday will be
partly sunny and very warm. The high will
be 88.

Record
lows

100+

Actual
High

HIGH LOW

MOSTLY
CLOUDY

PRESSURE

SHOWERS T-STORMS

RAIN

FLURRIES

SNOW

ICE

Low

PRECIPITATION

Highlight: A Stormy Thursday

National Forecast

Metropolitan Almanac

Low pressure tracking


from Lake Erie to Long
Island will cause stormy
weather across the
Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic States. There
will be strong to severe
thunderstorms south of
the track, causing
damaging wind, large
hail and even an isolated
tornado. North of the
track, there will be
periods of rain and lower
temperatures.

A wedge of cool, dry air will greatly limit


showers and thunderstorms today in the
Northeast. A few storms will occur over
northern New England.
Hot and humid air will remain in control
of the south-central states and build in
the Southeast.
Along the boundary between cool and
hot air, potentially violent thunderstorms
will affect a significant part of the Midwest. The greatest threat from these
storms will be damaging gusts. Flash
flooding, hail and a few tornadoes may
also occur. Some spots could be hit by
more than one severe storm into tonight.
Very hot weather will continue in the
Southwest, although temperatures will
ease from the extreme levels of the past
few days. Typical June warmth is in store
for the Northwest.

In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

Cities
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.

C ....................... Clouds
F ............................ Fog
H .......................... Haze
I............................... Ice
PC........... Partly cloudy
R ........................... Rain
Sh ................... Showers
N.Y.C. region
New York City
Bridgeport
Caldwell
Danbury
Islip
Newark
Trenton
White Plains
United States
Albany
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Burlington
Casper
Charlotte
Chattanooga
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbus
Concord, N.H.
Dallas-Ft. Worth
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fargo
Hartford
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jackson
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Key West
Las Vegas
Lexington

Yesterday
86/ 72 Tr
86/ 66 0.09
87/ 68 0.04
84/ 63 0.04
86/ 68 0.04
91/ 70 0.04
88/ 69 0.04
86/ 65 0.04

S ............................. Sun
Sn ....................... Snow
SS......... Snow showers
T .......... Thunderstorms
Tr ........................ Trace
W ....................... Windy
.............. Not available
Today
85/ 65 S
82/ 62 S
86/ 60 S
81/ 54 S
81/ 61 S
87/ 64 S
87/ 63 S
82/ 59 S

Yesterday
Today
81/ 53 0.04 76/ 51 PC
97/ 71 0
100/ 72 T
67/ 51 0
70/ 57 S
90/ 72 0
91/ 72 PC
80/ 68 0.04 82/ 68 S
95/ 73 0
95/ 72 PC
91/ 66 0.82 86/ 67 S
89/ 72 0
89/ 72 S
91/ 71 0
93/ 71 PC
83/ 55 0
92/ 59 S
87/ 62 0.04 79/ 60 PC
77/ 58 0
74/ 58 PC
77/ 58 0.20 73/ 55 T
98/ 48 0
86/ 51 S
93/ 70 0
93/ 73 PC
91/ 72 0
94/ 73 PC
83/ 63 0
78/ 66 T
87/ 62 0.25 82/ 74 T
84/ 64 0
83/ 67 C
96/ 65 0
87/ 59 PC
88/ 61 0.45 81/ 69 T
85/ 52 0.04 77/ 51 PC
97/ 79 0
97/ 78 S
95/ 61 0
83/ 62 PC
87/ 71 0.15 95/ 67 PC
84/ 61 0
82/ 66 T
98/ 76 0
103/ 77 PC
85/ 60 0
76/ 54 T
87/ 57 0.04 81/ 56 S
85/ 73 0.01 84/ 73 Sh
93/ 75 0
92/ 76 T
86/ 64 0.25 82/ 75 T
92/ 72 0
92/ 71 PC
87/ 66 0
93/ 70 PC
94/ 76 0.05 98/ 72 PC
85/ 79 0.04 88/ 80 Sh
112/ 86 0
113/ 85 PC
89/ 65 0.28 86/ 75 T

Tomorrow
78/ 62 R
76/ 60 R
78/ 57 R
73/ 53 R
76/ 60 R
80/ 62 R
81/ 60 T
76/ 58 R
Tomorrow
69/ 51 R
98/ 71 T
69/ 56 S
92/ 76 S
81/ 65 T
94/ 74 S
89/ 65 T
90/ 73 PC
92/ 73 S
88/ 57 S
71/ 57 R
74/ 53 R
74/ 56 Sh
93/ 58 C
95/ 76 PC
95/ 74 S
74/ 57 PC
89/ 64 T
79/ 62 R
85/ 58 T
86/ 62 R
72/ 50 R
96/ 77 S
89/ 62 PC
85/ 64 C
77/ 57 PC
105/ 80 PC
80/ 60 PC
71/ 54 R
84/ 74 Sh
96/ 75 S
87/ 64 T
93/ 73 S
95/ 72 S
92/ 68 PC
89/ 80 T
110/ 83 PC
90/ 66 T

TRACK
OF LOW

Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Mpls.-St. Paul
Nashville
New Orleans
Norfolk
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, Me.
Portland, Ore.
Providence
Raleigh
Reno
Richmond
Rochester
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
San Juan
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
St. Louis
St. Thomas
Syracuse
Tampa
Toledo
Tucson
Tulsa
Virginia Beach
Washington
Wichita
Wilmington, Del.

96/
87/
89/
95/
81/
83/
83/
91/
90/
88/
96/
89/
88/
88/
112/
84/
85/
74/
86/
90/
95/
90/
81/
99/
97/
94/
80/
75/
87/
88/
71/
86/
76/
90/
92/
76/
88/
85/
109/
96/
89/
91/
99/
86/

78
65
71
77
78
62
64
75
75
74
74
75
72
68
87
60
55
54
62
71
60
70
57
59
65
75
69
55
57
77
54
66
52
78
81
56
75
58
79
78
74
71
75
65

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0
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0
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0.34
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0.19
0.04
0
0.04
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Tr
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.13
0.01
0
0
0.12
0.03
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0
0
0
0
0
0.04
0
0.10

96/
82/
89/
96/
90/
74/
79/
96/
90/
89/
97/
93/
93/
86/
113/
82/
76/
75/
82/
93/
95/
89/
77/
94/
95/
95/
76/
71/
83/
89/
69/
87/
80/
100/
91/
73/
91/
82/
108/
97/
88/
88/
100/
86/

79
61
78
79
80
61
58
76
75
73
74
64
74
68
88
66
54
57
59
72
58
70
57
58
71
74
66
55
57
79
55
58
57
83
81
54
77
66
80
80
73
70
76
66

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PC
T
PC
T
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PC
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PC
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96/
82/
92/
95/
90/
71/
78/
94/
91/
94/
96/
87/
93/
86/
113/
80/
72/
66/
74/
97/
90/
96/
73/
92/
95/
94/
76/
73/
82/
89/
65/
80/
73/
96/
90/
71/
91/
80/
108/
97/
91/
91/
94/
83/

79
60
70
80
78
58
61
74
76
71
75
68
76
63
87
60
52
55
56
74
57
68
51
58
71
75
65
57
58
79
53
64
51
72
81
50
79
56
81
78
72
66
76
61

S
PC
T
S
T
PC
PC
C
S
PC
S
PC
T
T
PC
T
Sh
Sh
R
PC
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PC
PC
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T
C
PC
PC
PC
T
T
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Africa
Algiers
Cairo
Cape Town
Dakar
Johannesburg
Nairobi
Tunis

Yesterday
Today
79/ 54 0
85/ 58 S
100/ 76 0
102/ 76 S
59/ 40 0
64/ 41 S
82/ 76 0
83/ 74 PC
68/ 41 0
61/ 39 S
64/ 58 0.22 66/ 55 C
79/ 63 0
81/ 65 PC

Tomorrow
86/ 61 S
102/ 76 S
71/ 47 PC
83/ 74 S
62/ 39 S
69/ 54 C
85/ 69 S

Asia/Pacific
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Damascus
Hong Kong
Jakarta
Jerusalem
Karachi
Manila
Mumbai

Yesterday
Today
111/ 83 0
111/ 82 S
90/ 75 0.27 91/ 79 C
95/ 71 0.19 99/ 72 T
104/ 69 0
103/ 69 S
92/ 82 0.05 92/ 81 PC
93/ 74 0.10 90/ 77 T
91/ 69 0
88/ 70 S
90/ 82 0
93/ 83 PC
95/ 81 0.09 91/ 79 T
88/ 79 0.38 88/ 79 R

Tomorrow
113/ 83 S
89/ 79 T
99/ 73 C
104/ 69 S
92/ 83 PC
90/ 76 T
89/ 71 S
92/ 83 PC
93/ 80 T
88/ 79 Sh

83
83
66
79
78
57
81
76
72

Forecast
range
High

New Delhi
Riyadh
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney
Taipei
Tehran
Tokyo

99/
106/
81/
92/
88/
66/
93/
96/
77/

0.22 100/ 82 T
0
108/ 85 S
0
88/ 71 PC
0.08 92/ 78 C
0.07 88/ 79 T
0
68/ 49 S
0
95/ 80 T
0
93/ 71 S
0.56 79/ 68 C

98/
109/
88/
92/
88/
65/
94/
91/
77/

85
87
68
79
78
54
80
69
69

PC
S
PC
T
C
S
T
PC
R

Europe
Amsterdam
Athens
Berlin
Brussels
Budapest
Copenhagen
Dublin
Edinburgh
Frankfurt
Geneva
Helsinki
Istanbul
Kiev
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Moscow
Nice
Oslo
Paris
Prague
Rome
St. Petersburg
Stockholm
Vienna
Warsaw

Yesterday
70/ 57 0.48
100/ 77 0
73/ 58 0.09
68/ 58 0.13
84/ 58 0
68/ 59 0.69
66/ 50 0
68/ 49 0
73/ 56 0.20
72/ 58 0.16
72/ 46 0
92/ 74 0
90/ 68 0
86/ 65 0
69/ 56 0
93/ 62 0
82/ 57 0.01
73/ 64 0
72/ 57 0.14
72/ 61 0.12
72/ 54 0
79/ 57 0
68/ 61 0.08
70/ 53 0.03
77/ 56 0
77/ 54 0

Today
76/ 66 T
93/ 78 PC
78/ 59 PC
79/ 66 T
88/ 65 T
70/ 60 Sh
66/ 49 C
66/ 51 C
79/ 61 PC
83/ 61 T
71/ 52 PC
87/ 72 S
85/ 67 T
84/ 63 S
73/ 61 T
96/ 65 S
75/ 58 PC
78/ 70 S
71/ 54 PC
82/ 69 T
77/ 58 PC
85/ 66 S
70/ 56 PC
73/ 57 PC
82/ 61 PC
79/ 59 PC

Tomorrow
77/ 64 T
91/ 77 PC
87/ 67 PC
83/ 66 T
90/ 67 PC
73/ 65 T
65/ 49 Sh
65/ 51 Sh
88/ 67 S
87/ 64 S
70/ 54 Sh
87/ 73 S
81/ 63 T
81/ 61 S
74/ 57 T
94/ 64 S
76/ 59 C
82/ 73 S
74/ 59 PC
85/ 65 S
85/ 62 PC
86/ 67 T
73/ 57 PC
74/ 59 Sh
87/ 67 PC
85/ 64 PC

North America
Acapulco
Bermuda
Edmonton
Guadalajara
Havana
Kingston
Martinique
Mexico City
Monterrey
Montreal
Nassau
Panama City
Quebec City
Santo Domingo
Toronto
Vancouver
Winnipeg

Yesterday
92/ 77 0.20
79/ 72 0.28
69/ 48 0.01
77/ 63 0.20
90/ 70 0
88/ 79 0.11
88/ 77 0.45
69/ 56 0.40
89/ 70 0
75/ 64 0
88/ 78 0.08
82/ 75 0.03
69/ 61 0.16
82/ 72 0.21
78/ 59 0
65/ 55 0
71/ 51 0

Today
90/ 79 T
81/ 75 PC
76/ 51 PC
81/ 61 T
90/ 74 PC
91/ 78 T
87/ 76 PC
72/ 53 T
91/ 67 PC
74/ 57 PC
90/ 79 PC
87/ 73 T
70/ 53 T
87/ 72 T
76/ 57 PC
67/ 55 C
72/ 50 C

Tomorrow
89/ 78 T
80/ 75 Sh
73/ 51 T
82/ 61 T
91/ 74 PC
90/ 77 T
87/ 77 Sh
73/ 53 T
94/ 68 S
78/ 57 PC
91/ 77 PC
87/ 75 T
74/ 48 C
88/ 72 T
76/ 57 S
65/ 55 C
81/ 62 S

South America
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Lima
Quito
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago

Yesterday
55/ 32 0
89/ 75 0.11
66/ 60 0
69/ 50 0
84/ 73 0.02
73/ 66 0.03
66/ 34 0

Today
60/ 42 F
89/ 77 PC
72/ 61 PC
72/ 52 T
83/ 72 C
75/ 66 R
63/ 37 F

Tomorrow
62/ 45 PC
88/ 78 PC
72/ 61 PC
72/ 51 T
82/ 73 PC
75/ 65 C
56/ 33 F

Temperature

Low

Precipitation (in inches)


Record
high 97
(1988)

86
4 p.m.

90

Normal
high 81

80

Yesterday ............. Trace


Record .................... 1.70
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 3.87
Normal .................... 4.59
For the last 365 days
Actual ................... 39.07
Normal .................. 49.93
LAST 30 DAYS

70
72
8 a.m.
60

MON.

Normal
low 65

50
12
a.m.

Avg. daily departure


from normal
this month ............. +0.7

6
a.m.

Humidity

High ........... 29.87 1 a.m.


Low ............ 29.78 8 a.m.

High ............. 65% 8 a.m.


Low.............. 31% 3 p.m.

Cooling Degree Days


An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the days mean temperature rose above 65

YESTERDAY

Record
low 49
(1897)

4
p.m.

Air pressure

12
4
p.m. p.m.

Avg. daily departure


from normal
this year ................ +2.1

Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)

Yesterday ................................................................... 14
So far this month ...................................................... 137
So far this season (since January 1)........................ 256
Normal to date for the season ................................. 194

Trends

Last

Temperature
Average
Below
Above

Precipitation
Average
Below
Above

10 days
30 days
90 days
365 days

Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation


trends compare with those of the last 30 years.

Yesterday ............... 95%


Est. normal ............. 96%

Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and Planets
Last Quarter

New

Beach and Ocean Temperatures

First Quarter

Full
Todays forecast

June 27
Sun

RISE
SET
NEXT R

Jupiter
Saturn

R
S
S
R

July 4
7:02 a.m.
5:25 a.m.
8:31 p.m.
5:25 a.m.
11:34 a.m.
12:27 a.m.
4:24 a.m.
6:47 p.m.

July 11

July 19
6:58 p.m.

Moon

S
R
S

Mars

S
R

Venus

R
S

7:36 a.m.
10:07 p.m.
8:36 a.m.
3:01 a.m.
5:29 p.m.
5:44 a.m.
8:51 p.m.

Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
York Harbor.
Wind will be from the north at 5-10 knots. Waves will
be 2-4 feet on the ocean and a foot or less on Long
Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility will
largely be clear to the horizon.

High Tides
Atlantic City ................... 9:31 a.m. .............. 9:45 p.m.
Barnegat Inlet ................ 9:45 a.m. .............. 9:56 p.m.
The Battery .................. 10:22 a.m. ............ 10:20 p.m.
Beach Haven ............... 11:11 a.m. ............ 11:21 p.m.
Bridgeport ................... 12:59 a.m. .............. 1:34 p.m.
City Island .................... 12:38 a.m. .............. 1:12 p.m.
Fire Island Lt. ............... 10:39 a.m. ............ 10:49 p.m.
Montauk Point .............. 11:23 a.m. ............ 11:26 p.m.
Northport ..................... 12:58 a.m. .............. 1:30 p.m.
Port Washington .......... 12:44 a.m. .............. 1:17 p.m.
Sandy Hook ................... 9:53 a.m. ............ 10:03 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 9:43 a.m. .............. 9:58 p.m.
Stamford ........................ 1:02 a.m. .............. 1:37 p.m.
Tarrytown .................... 12:11 p.m. .......................... --Willets Point ................. 12:39 a.m. .............. 1:16 p.m.

Kennebunkport
71/53 A p.m. thundershower
Cape Cod
77/57 Partly sunny

50s

L.I. North Shore


83/60 Mostly sunny, less humid
L.I. South Shore
80/65 Mostly sunny
N.J. Shore
82/68 Less humid with sunshine
Eastern Shore
85/67 Mostly sunny
Ocean City Md.
82/70 Mostly sunny
Virginia Beach
88/73 Mostly sunny

60s

70s
80s
80
Color bands
indicate water
temperature.

An upper-air disturbance will bring a mix


of clouds and sunshine to the beaches of
northern New England, with an afternoon
thunderstorm in spots. Farther south, an
area of high pressure will provide a less
humid day, with a sunny to partly cloudy
sky. A shower or thunderstorm will arrive
in the south at night.

2 CITY KITCHEN

5 RESTAURANTS

A spongecake to show off


your berries. BY DAVID TANIS

Grnauer Bistro waltzes to a


classic tune. BY PETE WELLS

3 OUT OF THEIR SHELLS

5 HUNGRY CITY

Cooked oysters find a new


home. BY JEFF GORDINIER

Slow-cooked pho at District


Saigon. BY LIGAYA MISHAN

RESTAURANTS

RECIPES

WINE

SPIRITS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

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ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Pinnacle of Pork

A festival in Umbria salutes


porchetta, a dish of tender
meat, fat and cracklings.

Above, barbecued porchetta for a crowd.


Left, visitors to the Porchettiamo festival
in San Terenziano, Italy, enjoy sliced
porchetta stuffed in a roll.

By JULIA MOSKIN

SAN TERENZIANO, Italy On a May afternoon, when the weather was unable to
decide between sun and showers, the dedication of pork lovers here in this central Italian town was sorely tested. Again and
again, rain arrived; the crowd scattered.
But again and again, as the sun returned,
they poured back into the town square,
appetites renewed for more porchetta: the
aromatic, ancient whole pig roast that a
crowd of hundreds had gathered to celebrate. It was the last day of Porchettiamo, a
new festival devoted to porchetta, and a few
CHRIS WARDE-JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

showers were not going to keep them from


the rare opportunity to taste a dozen different kinds of this beloved dish.
To make porchetta, a whole pig is
deboned and gutted, then stuffed with garlic and herbs, and roasted in its skin until
crunchy, juicy and insanely aromatic. (The
head is left on, so when it is cooked, a whole
porchetta looks like a pig in a brown sleeping bag.)
It is served sliced and stuffed into crusty
rolls or between slabs of focaccia; because
it is boneless, every slice has spirals of
tender meat, lush fat and crunchy cracklings. As at a whole-hog barbecue in the

United States, the goal is a mix of all three in


each bite.
The dish is popular all over Italy as street
food, almost always spotted at events like
street fairs and weekly produce markets.
Multiple sagras, or food festivals, are devoted to it every year. But Umbria fiercely
guards its reputation as the birthplace of
porchetta.
It is a simple dish, not a professional
butchers masterpiece like the famous
salamis from nearby Norcia, but it inspires
great passions. The idea came to me in a
dream, said Anna Setteposte, a co-founder
of the festival. Its manifesto reads, More
than a festival: a declaration of love.
Unlike most sagras, Porchettiamo gathers multiple producers from all over Italy,
enabling porchetta partisans to taste, comCONTINUED ON PAGE D6

Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil


Two American camps jockey to
shape the future of food in an
oasis of organic agriculture.
By KIM SEVERSON

PABLO ENRIQUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Little Bubble,
A Little Blush
The spritz could be this
summers most versatile drink,
and ros is winning over more
wine lovers than ever. Page 7

HAVANA Being an agricultural official in


Cuba these days is like living in a resort
town all your friends want to visit. You
rarely get a moment to yourself.
For months, Havanas government offices
and its prettiest urban farms have been
filled with American bureaucrats, seed sellers, food company executives and farmers
who spend their evenings eating meals
made with ingredients often imported or
smuggled into restaurants that most
Cubans cant afford.
They seek the prizes that are likely to
come if the United States ends its trade restrictions against Cuba: a new supply of
sugar, coffee and tropical produce, and a
new market for American exports that could
reap more than $1.2 billion a year in sales,
according to the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
But for some, the quest is less about the
money than about what they say is the soul
of Cuban agriculture and how people eat.
The Cubans are not enthusiastic about a
Burger King on every corner or Monsanto
being here, said Representative Chellie
Pingree, a Democrat from Maine and an or-

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISETTE POOLE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

ganic farmer.
In May, Ms. Pingree led a coalition of organic industry leaders, chefs and investors
on a five-day trip here. Their mission, in
part, was to encourage Cuban officials to resist the enticements of larger, more conventional American food and farming interests
and persuade Cubans to protect and extend

the small-scale organic practices that are already a part of their daily life.
Cuba, it turns out, is a rare oasis of organic
and sustainable agriculture. For reasons of
politics, geography and philosophy, the nation was forced to abandon much of its largescale, chemical-based farming and replace
CONTINUED ON PAGE D4

Left, workers weeding at


an organic cooperative
farm near Havana.
Above, organic produce.
Cuba offers the United
States a new source to
feed the demand for
organic sugar, honey,
fruit and other raw
ingredients.

D2

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

MELISSA CLARK

A GOOD APPETITE

Chile and Honey in Perfect Harmony


A flavor-packed weeknight
shrimp dinner comes together
in 10 minutes flat.
IF YOU LOVE sweetness checked by a little

heat, then a jar of honey spiked with chiles


is a very good thing.
Its a little like hot pepper jelly, that old
Southern staple, except the honey gives a
more floral, caramelized character, whereas the jelly is just hot and sweet.
But the overall effect is the same: The
chile keeps the honey from becoming cloying, the honey tones down the brashness of
the chile, and together you get something
thats a lot more complex than the merging
of only two ingredients would suggest.
You can buy jars of so-called hot honey
(usually honey mixed with cayenne, with a
little vinegar for tang) at large supermarkets.
But its also incredibly easy to make yourself. Just mix together a good full-flavored
honey with whatever chile-based product
you have on hand (ground chile powder,
crushed chile flakes, dashes of chile sauce),
adding the hot stuff slowly and to taste. And
if you overdo it, a little more honey will
smooth things out. Youre looking for a balance of zingy and mellow, sweet and fiery.
Then drizzle it wherever its contrasting
sensations will make you happy. I love it just
as much in peanut butter sandwiches and
on top of my yogurt as I do with my fried
chicken. And its excellent with seafood,
particularly strongly flavored fish like
salmon, swordfish and tuna, and succulent
pink shrimp.
Of them all, shrimp has the distinct advantage of cooking in five minutes or less,
making this one of the fastest, easiest and
most flavor-packed dinners you can make
on any given weeknight. Or try it in place of
shrimp cocktail as an hors doeuvre at a
party, using mayonnaise or tartar sauce for
dunking.
In addition to the hot honey here, I also
add lime zest, grated ginger and some garlic to punch things up, with a little butter for
creamy richness.
If youve planned ahead, you could let the
shrimp marinate in the honey mixture for
an hour or two in the fridge before cooking.
But its not at all necessary, so skip it if
youre throwing this together at the last
minute.
Then set the table, grab some bread and
open the wine while the shrimp roasts. In
the five minutes they take to cook, thats actually all youll have time to do. And thats
actually all youll really need.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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HOT HONEY SHRIMP


TIME: 10 MINUTES
YIELD: 2 SERVINGS

ONLINE: ONE SWEET KICK

In a video, Melissa Clark shows how to make


hot honey and deploy it on shrimp.
nytimes.com/food

1
1

DAVID TANIS

tablespoon honey
teaspoon cayenne
teaspoon grated lime zest
teaspoon freshly grated ginger
garlic clove, grated on a Microplane or
finely minced
teaspoon kosher salt
teaspoon ground black pepper
pound cleaned extra-large shrimp,
patted very dry with paper towels
tablespoon very cold butter, cubed
Lime wedges, for serving
jalapeo, halved, seeded and very
thinly sliced, for serving

1 tablespoon chives or scallion greens,


finely chopped, for serving
Mayonnaise, for serving (optional)
1. Heat oven to 500 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, combine honey, cayenne,
lime zest, ginger, garlic, salt and pepper. Toss in
shrimp to coat.
3. Spread shrimp on a large rimmed baking
sheet and dot with butter. Roast until shrimp is
pink and opaque, but before the edges have
started to curl, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle
generously with fresh lime juice and toss with
jalapeos and chives or scallions. Serve with
mayonnaise if you like.

CITY KITCHEN

A Creamy, Sweet Tribute to Summer


A spongecake layered with
sweetened ricotta is crowned
with juicy fresh berries.

Though pastry-making can sometimes


have strict rules, theres a fair amount of
leeway here. If you like lemon, you can increase the amount of lemon zest in the cake,
for instance, or add a little to the filling. You
may play around with the syrup, replacing
grappa with light rum, or you may use limoncello instead, or a honey syrup or orange liqueur.
And you may decrease the sweetness of
the cake or filling, if desired, without compromising flavor.
Ideally, the spongecake should be made a
day ahead, so it is easily sliced into thin
layers. And then the cassata should be assembled at least several hours in advance to
allow flavors to meld. Paint the cake layers
with the lemon syrup, spread each layer
with the ricotta cream, and give the cake an
afternoon (or a day) in the fridge.
Just before serving, pile the cake with
ripe berries. You could toss them with a little sugar and lemon juice first, or just arrange them on the cake and dust them
lightly with confectioners sugar.
Though my cassata is rather rustic looking, it is somewhat fancier than shortcake
or trifle, so it could be used as a summer
birthday cake. But its really a celebration
unto itself for lovers of summer fruit and
good ricotta.

DISCLAIMER RIGHT OFF the bat: This is not,

nor does it claim to be, an authentic old-time


cassata. Its not my grandmothers handscrawled recipe.
The classic Sicilian cassata is a spongecake layered with creamy sweetened ricotta, a heavenly combination. Elaborately
decorated with colorful candied fruits,
wrapped in marzipan, true cassata is a sight
to behold.
My simple summery version is covered
with ripe red strawberries, but any fresh
summer berries would be welcome, or
slices of nectarine, peach or mango.
The unswerving requirements for this
cassata are a good spongecake and the best
ricotta available.
Look for the absolute freshest, tastiest ricotta; most good cheese stores or Italian
delis can supply it. It must be moist, with no
sourness. A spoonful should feel creamy on
the tongue, not grainy. Its worth tasting
several kinds to see the broad range of ricotta types. Lightly sweetened and whisked to
smoothness, this ricotta filling is spread
over the cake layers as if it were frosting.
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STRAWBERRY CASSATA
TIME: 1 HOURS, PLUS CHILLING
YIELD: 8 TO 10 SERVINGS

For the batter:


2 tablespoons unsalted butter, for
preparing pan
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, for
preparing pan
6 large eggs, at room temperature
cup/150 grams sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
Pinch of salt
teaspoon almond extract
1 cups/200 grams sifted cake flour
For the syrup:
cup sugar
Zest of 1 lemon, removed in large strips
2 tablespoons grappa or vodka
For the filling:
2 cups/500 grams fresh ricotta
cup/55 grams sugar, or more to taste

For the garnish:


pound/223 grams ripe strawberries,
hulled and halved
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1. Bake the cake: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter and flour an 8-inch diameter springform
pan and set aside.
2. In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk
attachment, beat eggs at medium speed.Add
sugar, lemon zest, salt and almond extract and

continue whisking for 10 to 15 minutes, until


mixture is quite thick and nearly holds
peaks.Fold in flour quickly.
3. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 25
minutes or until a skewer emerges dry when
inserted in the middle of cake. Cool on a rack.
(It's best to make the cake a day in advance.)
4. Make the syrup: Simmer sugar, cup
water and the lemon zest over medium heat for
10 minutes. Cool, stir in grappa and set aside.
5. Meanwhile, make the filling: Whisk together

ricotta and sugar to a spreadable consistency.


6. Slice cake into 4 thin layers. Put 1 layer on a
cake platter. Paint generously with syrup and
spread with a quarter of the ricotta filling.
Repeat with remaining 3 layers, stacking as you
go. Smooth top layer of ricotta cream.
7. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or
up to 24 hours. Keep refrigerated until an hour
before serving.
8. To serve,toss berries with sugar and lemon
juice. Let macerate no more than 10 minutes,
then spoon berries over cake.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

D3

Front Burner
FLO RE NCE FABRI CANT

TO LUNCH

TO SIP

Grilled Lobster Tails


As Street Food Skewers

A True Rye
From Canadian Club

Instead of a lobster roll, how


about a grilled lobster tail, sold
from a cart in the Battery run
by the people at Lukes Lobster? The cart serves meaty
five- and eight-ounce tails still
in the shell from sustainably
sourced Maine and Canadian
lobsters. They are skewered,
seared and offered with either
lemon butter or Maine blueberry sauce. The sturdy wooden
skewer allows you to yank the
luscious meat from the shell
and eat it off the skewer like
corn on the cob: Lobster tails,
from $6 (for five-ounce, $11 for
two) to $10 (for eight-ounce, $19
for two), Lukes Tail Cart, State
and Water Streets at the Battery,
steps from the SeaGlass
carousel, lukeslobster.com.

Many people assume that


Canadian whisky is rye, probably because the popular postWorld War II order of rye and
ginger often meant ginger ale
mixed with Canadian Club. But
that is a blended whisky with
rye as merely one element.
Now, with the growing interest
in fine rye whiskies, the company that makes Canadian
Club, which has been in business for more than 150 years,
has introduced a whisky thats
100 percent rye, 40 proof, with a
rich amber color and smooth
with an earthy, spicy bite. Its on
the light side and lovely in a
perfect manhattan: Canadian
Club 100 Percent Rye, $19.99,
canadianclub.com.
TO PARTICIPATE
TO SNACK

A Biscuit Sandwich,
Sweet or Savory
These biscuits, with that classic,
sweetly metallic flavor, are puffy
and square, as if one parent were
a Parker House roll. They come
from Guerneville in Sonoma
County, Calif., where they brought
fame to the Big Bottom Market, a
tiny offshoot of which has opened
on the Upper West Side. Order
them with butter and jam,
whipped cream and berries,
pulled pork or even smoked salmon and crme frache to enjoy

Whether in pharaohs tombs


or Warhols paintings, food
shows up frequently in art. Now
Judith Walsh, who runs Art
Smart museum tours, is offering a food-themed tour at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
And after the visit, participants
can choose a meal that reflects
the work. The meals are served
either at Aldo Sohm Wine Bar,
151 West 51st Street, where the

TO SIMMER

Romano Beans for Salads,


Tempura or the Grill
I love these large, flat green
beans, often called Romano beans
or runner beans and popular in
Europe. They may show up at

food is paired with wines and


beer, $120 for two ($60 a person
for larger groups), or at Amali, 115
East 60th Street, where a sixcourse dinner for four to 20
guests is $100 a person, with wine
extra: Feast Your Eyes Tours, $175
an hour for up to five people, in
addition to dining costs, 212-5954444, artsmart.com.
DAN NEVILLE/THE NEW YORK TIMES (WHISKY, PEPPER
MILL); TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
(BEANS); BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK
TIMES (BISCUIT SHOP); NINA CHRISTENSEN/OFF BEET
PRODUCTIONS (ART)

some farm stands and Greenmarket purveyors later in summer,


but now, thanks to a Californiabased grower who harvests them
in Mexico, theyre available more
regularly. Simmer them a good 10
minutes for meaty tenderness;
crunchy is not the goal. Serve
them whole, doused with vinaigrette; fry them dripping tempura batter; cut them up to add to
salads; or slap them on the grill:
Manns Tenderbite Beans, $3.99 a
pound at Eataly, Agata &
Valentina stores and Graces
Marketplace stores.

TO SEASON

A Pepper Mill
To Light Up Summer
Whimsy and practicality make
this pepper mill a winning house
gift for that coveted beach weekend. Or treat yourself instead; it
would be a great addition to the
summer buffet table. The pepper
mill functions well and is easy to
fill: Lighthouse Pepper Mill,
$49.95, Crate and Barrel stores,
crateandbarrel.com.

OFF THE MENU

Food in Art,
And on the Plate

from a sidewalk perch or to take


away, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
weekdays (8 to 11 a.m. weekends):
Biscuits, $4 to $10 at Big Bottom
Biscuit Bar, Osteria Cotta, 513
Columbus Avenue (85th Street),
212-873-8500, bigbottommarket
.com/biscuit-bar-nyc/.

FLORENCE FABRICANT

BRYAN THOMAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

HEADLINER BKW
Brooklyn Winery, one of several in the borough, makes its wines in
Williamsburg from grapes cultivated in upstate New York and California. It has a rustic tasting room serving light food. And now the owners, Brian Leventhal, above left, and John Stires, above right, have
opened a full restaurant with a skylight, radiating beams and colorful
tilework. The chef, Michael Gordon, center, who worked at Bouley,
Asiate and Savory, is producing wine-friendly fare like a chilled shiitake soup, hanger steak with red wine sauce, and pan-roasted skate.
The restaurant serves only its own wines: 747 Franklin Avenue (Sterling Place), Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 718-399-1700, bkwnyc.com.
OPENING

Maman This group of home-style


cafes evoking the South of France
keeps expanding, and is now in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It is also
installing a cafe in the new International Center of Photography
Museum on the Bowery. (Opens
Thursday): 80 Kent Street
(Franklin Street), Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, no phone; 250 Bowery
(Stanton Street), 212-857-0000,
mamannyc.com.

floors of cue engineered by the


pitmaster Lou Elrose, formerly of
Wildwood and Hill Country.
(Wednesday): 258 West 44th
Street, 212-944-6900.
LOOKING AHEAD

Blue Water Grill After 20 years,


this Union Square seafood stalwart will close July 10 for a million-dollar renovation, reopening
in the fall with a new chef, Chris
Meenan, formerly at Vaucluse.

MamaSushi The Latin-accented

Majorelle The restaurant open-

Japanese place in Washington


Heights has a new sibling a bit to
the south. The owner, Susana
Osorio, is also opening Bocaditos
Bistro & Espresso Bar in Inwood,
near the original MamaSushi:
3569 Broadway (146th Street),
646-682-7879, mamasushi.com.

ing in the former Post House


space in September will be named
for Jacques Majorelle, a French
painter known for his elaborate
gardens in Marrakesh, Morocco.
The chef will be Christian Delouvrier, 69, formerly of Lespinasse
and La Mangeoire, creating
French-Mediterranean fare.
Charles Masson, the manager,
who for decades ran the dining
room at La Grenouille, said the
space has been opened up and
will have a garden in back: 28
East 63rd Street.

Sammys House of BBQ Summer. Times Square. Barbecue. It


sounds as if the right buttons
have been pressed with three
More restaurant news is online at
nytimes.com/food.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MORGAN IONE YEAGER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Oysters and Seaweed, Reunited


At Zadies Oyster Room, a
buttery salute to a bygone era.
By JEFF GORDINIER

Marco Canora, the chef at Hearth in the


East Village, has been interested for years
in the oyster rooms and cellars that used to
dominate New York in the 1890s and early
1900s.
They were everywhere, he said. They
were like the hot-dog stands of New York today. They were really raucous places where
people brought their mistresses and threw
their shells on the floor. It was like a big
party with booze and oysters.
Mr. Canora liked the sound of that, so he
decided to convert Fifty Paces, his wine bar
at 413 East 12th Street, into Zadies Oyster
Room, a boozy temple to the bivalve that
opened last week.
As a nod to the vintage menus that he has
come across, he and his crew will serve oysters in a wide range of styles: not just raw,
but also pickled, fried, broiled, baked,
steamed and poached. I think cooked oysters in general are something we dont do

Top, the poached oysters at Zadies on East


12th Street. Above, Marco Canora, the owner.

much in the Northeast, and I dont really understand why, he said. In the South,
cooked oysters are huge.
To make his rendition of poached oysters,
Mr. Canora heats up a pan of heavy cream,
butter from grass-fed cows, dry sherry,
sherry vinegar, Worcestershire sauce,
spring onions and spring garlic from the
Greenmarket and wild wakame seaweed
from the Atlantic.
When that beurre fondue has come to a
boil, he takes the pan off the heat and slides
in raw oysters with their liquor. I let the residual heat warm the oysters, he said.
They plump up and get warm and become
really succulent.
Topped with fresh herbs and sourdough
croutons, the dish calls out for bread to be
dunked in the buttery sauce after the oysters are finished off. Mr. Canora says the secret weapon in the sauce is the wakame.
Oysters and seaweed, they obviously go
really well together, he said.
Seaweed is intricately woven into the
menu at Zadies. I almost called it an oyster
and seaweed room, Mr. Canora said. I
thought that would be cute and cool. I kind
of wimped out and didnt do that.

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Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1

it with a network of smaller farms and more


natural methods.
Shortly after the revolution in 1959, Cuba
began sending sugar, tobacco and research
to the Soviet Union in exchange for a steady
supply of goods that included food, agricultural equipment and farm chemicals. But 30
years later, when the Soviet bloc crumbled,
the shipments ended.
Without gasoline and spare parts, tractors sat idle in fields. Crops rotted and cattle
died. Studies show that the average Cuban
lost more than 12 pounds during what President Fidel Castro called the special period
in time of peace.
With many large government-owned
farms failing, Mr. Castro told the nation to
learn to grow food without chemicals. Oxen
replaced tractors. Smaller, cooperative
farms and new markets emerged.
To be sure, Cuba still imports 60 percent
to 80 percent of its food, the United States
Department of Agriculture estimates, and
little or none of it organic. Agricultural
chemicals are imported from other countries without trade embargoes. The Cuban
government owns about 80 percent of the
land the nation could use to grow food, but

Everybody is
adequately sober about
the realities of this.
more than half remains fallow. It is unclear
how much of the produce Cuba grows would
qualify as organic under United States
standards.
Still, a cohesive organic movement is
growing. By its own estimates, Cuba has almost 400,000 urban farms, among them
about 10,000 small organic ones. The government continues to turn land over to independent farmers to lease, although it requires most to grow food for the state.
For the group of organic true believers
who traveled here in May, the dream is to
help Cuba stay loyal to a sustainable style of
agriculture that rejects chemicals and genetic modification. They point to an incentive: an American market hungry and
willing to pay a premium for organic
produce.
Although only 5 percent of all food sold in
America is organic, those sales last year
grew three times as fast as those of the overall food market, according to the Organic
Trade Association. Cuba offers a new source
to feed the demand for organic sugar, honey,
fruit and other raw ingredients.
Yet Cuba also offers 11 million potential
new customers for conventional agriculture. Just days after Ms. Pingrees group
left, the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba,
which had already been working in the
country, returned.
Founded in 2015 to promote normalizing
American relations with Cuba, the group
has more than 100 members, including corporations like Butterball and Cargill, commodity associations like corn refiners and
soy growers, and several state farm bureaus.
The delegation returned home holding an
agreement with Cubas Grupo Empresarial
Agrcola to re-establish Cuba as a market for
American agricultural products. In a followup stroke, Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri announced on May 30 that Cuba had accepted
a 20-ton donation of long-grain rice grown in
his state. The last official shipment of United
States rice to Cuba was in 2008.
Although many in the organic industry
see the coalition as a threat to their cause, its
leaders say they share the same goal: to
help Cuba feed itself and improve its agricultural practices.
Theres not tension, because at the end of
the day, this is about how the Cuban farmer

is going to raise their productivity and


make their own choices, said Devry
Boughner Vorwerk, a former Cargill executive who is now the groups director. The
key point here is that there is room enough
for everyone.
Doug Schroeder, a soybean farmer from
Illinois, came along on the coalitions trip.
His state ships about $20 million worth of
corn and soy to Cuba every year under the
complex set of rules governing trade between the two countries. If the United
States ends its financial embargo with

From top, at the Finca Marta


organic farm, some 25 different
crops are grown in a system of
tiered beds under a protective
screen; repurposed beer cans
are used to grow plants at the
farm; quality produce comes at
a premium at a market called
the Boutique; and Tom
Colicchio, center, recently
visited the ArteChef cooking
school in Havana.

Cuba, that figure could jump to $220 million.


You multiply that for the entire country
and all agriculture sales, and its a big deal,
he said.
He anticipates a big market for organics,
too, but one in which Cubans provide food
for America. The organic industry, he said,
may be going into the back door of a gold
mine here. It would be interesting if they
could ship organics to the U.S. to satisfy our
demand, and we could ship them the goods
we do well.
The secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, seems to be walking the middle of that
line. The agreement he signed with his Cuban counterpart, Gustavo Rodrguez
Rollero, during President Obamas historic
visit in March included a nod to sharing research on both styles of agriculture.
And when Mr. Vilsack took Mr. Rollero on
a tour of Iowa this month, they visited both
an organic farm and DuPont Pioneer, the
nations largest producer of hybrid and genetically modified seeds.
We have a tremendous opportunity in
Cuba to expand exports of soybeans, rice
and poultry at some point, Mr. Vilsack said
during that visit. They in turn have a
tremendous opportunity to import into the
U.S. organic production. Trade must be a
two-way street.
Those who support organic farming say
there is something larger at issue than just
trade. Adopting chemical-based farming
methods used by large agricultural companies that have been visiting Cuba may seem
a lucrative proposition, they say, but it
would threaten the organic potential of
thousands of acres of fallow farmland in
Cuba.
That is a system of the past, Gary Hirshberg, the chairman of Stonyfield Farm
yogurt company and a leader in the effort to
label food with genetically modified ingredients, told Cuban officials during the May
trip. We are the industry of the future.
Still, that future, organic or not, is most
likely a long way off. Cubans interviewed
during the trip organized by Ms. Pingree
said their country was not prepared to handle a flood of new trade. Cubas agricultural
system remains so antiquated that even
seeds and wheelbarrows are in short supply. The rules for doing business, even for
farmers and people trying to start wholesale markets, seem to shift weekly.
Everybody is adequately sober about

the realities of this, said Laura Batcha, the


executive director of the Organic Trade Association.
Mr. Schroeder, the soybean farmer, had
the same impression. I got the feeling they
dont want a Starbucks on every corner, he
said. They dont want to be Hawaii. They
want to maintain their heritage, but at the
same time, they realize they have a lot of
need.
There are other complications. Farmers
in Florida and other states who grow food
suited to tropical climates are already pushing back against a potential competitor.
American shoppers with anti-Castro views
are probably not going to embrace Cuban
products, even something as benign as
fresh-cut flowers, which Juan Nez, the regional president for Whole Foods who
traveled to Cuba with the organic group,
thought might be a likely starting point for
import.
The agriculture department has yet to
even secure office space in the new United
States embassy here. And despite Mr. Obamas push, efforts to lift trade sanctions are
moving slowly in Congress and are bogged
down in the run-up to the election.
On Monday, Nespresso announced that it
would be the first company to sell Cuban
coffee in America since the revolution.
Through a deal brokered with help from
TechnoServe, a nonprofit development organization, pods of Cuban-grown Arabica
coffee Nespresso is calling Cafecito de Cuba
will go on sale for a limited time in the fall.
People who trade in organics say they,
too, are likely to start small. Coffee is a possibility, as is charcoal made from marab, a
thorny, invasive tree that has stymied farmers trying to clear land. The high-quality
charcoal has caught on in Europe.
And then there is sugar, especially organic sugar, which is in high demand by
American processors. What if raw, organic
Cuban sugar became an indispensable ingredient for craft cocktails, Ms. Pingree
asked during a stroll through a Havana
neighborhood. That could turn public opinion enough to sway Congress.
It sounds frivolous, but some doors open
in moments, she said. At this point, we are
looking for little paths to move this forward.
Its hard to know which ones they will be.
Ultimately, the future of Cuban agriculture will be decided in Cuba. Despite their
reliance on imported, often poor quality
food supplemented with state-issued rations, Cubans have long associated food and
farming with health, and have a deep love of
cooking especially with anything grown
in Cuba, said Imogene Tondre, an American-born culinary researcher living here.
Cuban chefs are already seeking out better quality food and exchanging ideas with
American peers. One of them is Tom Colicchio, the New York chef and television personality who has become active in American food politics and traveled with Ms. Pingree to Cuba.
In meetings during the May trip, he urged
Cuban officials to build on the nations extensive organic research and the cultural
desire for local food, and to resist the monetary lures of big agriculture. We ask that
you have the political will to reject that and
continue to do what you are doing and know
that there is a market for it, Mr. Colicchio
said in an impassioned plea.
Moraima Cspedes Morales, director of
international affairs in Cubas Ministry of
Agriculture, told him to stay calm. We are
trying to produce the healthiest food possible, she said. All the pressures, they dont
matter.
What matters to Cubans, she told the
group, is neither American market pressure nor the battle over which style of farming is better.
The most important program for us,
she said, is still one of self-supply.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

RESTAURANTS

D5

PETE WELLS

A Culinary Waltz From a Classic Time


In manner and food, Grnauer
Bistro reflects Yorkvilles
Central European influence.

GRNAUER BISTRO
1578 FIRST AVENUE (EAST 82ND STREET ), UPPER
EAST SIDE; 212-988-1077; GRUNAUERNYC.COM
.......................................................................................

OUR SERVER AT Grnauer Bistro called the

men at our table Sir. When one of the women


asked for a glass of water, he replied, with
deep seriousness and an Austrian accent,
Madame, consider it done. He set off deliberately, his chest billowing before him
and his feet moving with slow, battle-weary
pride. A few minutes later, he returned.
There you are, Madame, he said. As
fast as I could.
Once he had hauled away the dessert
dishes by that time, we had reduced the
Sacher torte to a rubble of dark crumbs and
the palatschinken folded over chestnut
mousse to a few stray smudges of chocolate
sauce he came back with a bottle and four
glasses. The clear spirit he poured was a
pear-apple brandy from Austria.
After a sip, one of the women said it reminded her of grappa. He lifted his chin and
gave an indulgent chuckle. In that laugh
was compressed the entire history of Austrias contributions to European culture.
Yes, Madame, he said. But . . . more refined.
He was so perfect for Grnauer Bistro,
and Grnauer Bistro was so perfect for him,
that its impossible to imagine a time when
they hadnt been together. The whole
restaurant is like that. Although it opened in
early March, it might have been frying Wiener schnitzel and simmering tafelspitz on
the corner of First Avenue and 82nd Street
for decades.
More than I would have thought possible,
Grnauer Bistro seems to be a holdout from
Yorkvilles past, when businesses fed the
Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Austrian and
German immigrants who lived side by side
in microneighborhoods that replicated the
arrangement of Mitteleuropa.
I could believe that Grnauer Bistro was
founded the same year as Elk Candy, a German confectioner that formed tiny carrots,
pigs and strawberries out of marzipan. That
it had outlived Mrs. Herbsts, baker of a
Hungarian cabbage strudel that Nora
Ephron once called almost the only thing I
remember about my first marriage. That it
once competed for expatriates with the Viennese Lantern, where diners were
serenaded by a strolling fiddler, a strolling
accordionist and a lyric soprano or two,
firmly planted.
Grnauer Bistro is a quieter spot. Late on
Thursday nights, a pianist works the baby
grand by the bar. On other nights,
customers have to make do with a postersize photograph of a fiddler hanging on the
wall, the gilded statue of Johann Strauss II
in Vienna.
The picture helps brighten the spirit of a
dining room that tends toward contemplative twilight. A sunset glow emanates from
the coffered ceiling panels. Wood needs
time to look this warm, and I wasnt surprised to hear that the ceiling was inherited
EMAIL: petewells@nytimes.com. And follow

Pete Wells on Twitter: @pete_wells.

Atmosphere Nothing looks old, but somehow


everything in the place seems to have been
there for decades.
Service A near-perfect reincarnation of Old
World etiquette.
Sound level Moderately low.
Recommended Roasted rainbow beets; gravlax;
veal tongue; Austrian ravioli; beef goulash;
tafelspitz; kaiserschmarrn; palatschinken;
Salzburger nockerl.
Drinks and wine Beer, spirits and a reasonably
priced wine list largely drawn from Austria.
Prices Appetizers, $10 to $14; main courses,
$24 to $32.
Open Daily for dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair access The dining room and a
restroom are on the sidewalk level.

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are worth getting. Applesauce cut with


horseradish still makes an interesting complement to the tafelspitz, beef braised to
tenderness with root vegetables in a light
broth.
Beef consomm with the sharp nip of
black pepper is filled out by browned ribbons of crepes rather than the liver
dumplings of old. Goulash here is made
with beef, not veal, but it still comes with
buttered spaetzle that squiggle their way
into the meaty, paprika-choked sauce. Oddly, the spaetzle tossed with herbs,
vegetables and a squirt of lemon as a vegetarian main course were less tender and appealing the night I tried them.
There is Wiener schnitzel, of course.
There has to be Wiener schnitzel, and it has
to come with lingonberries (intact and not
too sweet), potato salad (on the mild,
creamy side) and marinated cucumber
slices (classic). And if on some nights the
rippled crust over the tender veal cutlet
doesnt crunch quite as emphatically as you
want it to, it may be that the kitchen is simply trying to play along with the illusion that
everybody at Grnauer Bistro has been doing this for so long that imperfections are to
be expected once in a while. You could draw

From top, diners at Grnauer Bistro on the


Upper East Side; the restaurants exterior
(left); tafelspitz (right); the chef Thomas
Slivovsky; and the palatschinken (crepes)
folded over chestnut mousse.

from Primavera, the Italian restaurant that


sat on this corner for 32 years. When he took
over the address, Peter Grnauer must
have realized that any restaurant built under that ceiling would appear long established.
He is long established himself, having
made his name in Manhattan in the late
1970s and 80s as the owner of Vienna 79.
That restaurant made Austrian cooking
waltz to the tune of nouvelle cuisine. What
this meant was lightening up on fats and
flour and garnishing dishes with an unusual rainbow of bright steamed and
sauted vegetables, Mimi Sheraton wrote
in her four-star review in 1981.
Not much about the traditional cooking
under Thomas Slivovsky, Grnauer Bistros
chef, could be called nouvelle, but ghosts of
Vienna 79 whisper in the kitchen. Dillstrewn bands of house-cured gravlax with
whole-grain mustard sauce reappear, and

HUNGRY CITY

What the stars mean Ratings range from zero to four


stars and reflect the reviewers reaction primarily to
food, with ambience, service and price taken into
consideration.

the same conclusion about the somewhat


dry chunks of white meat in chicken
paprikash.
As for unusual rainbows of vegetables,
the closest the menu comes is the vinegared
beets in several colors, with big white puffs
of whipped goat cheese. But its a very nice
salad.
At an Austrian restaurant, the desserts
had better be good. For the most part, they
are. The shell of pastry wrapped around apple strudel was damp one night, but flaky
and crisp on another. More notable ridiculously good, actually was the kaiserschmarrn, a dense, eggy pancake broken into pieces that were white with powdered sugar and stained dark by fruit compote.
A server always asked whether we
wanted coffee, from the Viennese roaster
Julius Meinl, during dessert or after. Its a
small detail that helps set the Old World
tone.
Austrian vineyards offer lean pickings
for wine lovers, Ms. Sheraton wrote in 1981.
In this case, the outlook has improved. The
list is full of reds and whites from notable
producers including Prager, Nikolaihof and
F. X. Pichler. Most of the bottles are under
$70. There are also some Austrian wines
that Mr. Grnauer, who runs another Grnauer Bistro in Kansas City, Mo., has commissioned under his own label.
Each of my meals ended with the same
ritual, a bottle of pear-apple brandy poured
out for everybody at the table. I dont believe the restaurant had spotted the critic;
the gift simply seemed to be an acknowledgment that we had shown heroic
appetites. Once, we supplemented the
brandy with a single $25 glass of Hans
Reisetbauers astonishing carrot eau de vie.
It tasted like carrots, but more refined.

LIGAYA MISHAN

A Long Time, Well Spent, With Pho


District Saigon in Queens
captures all the nuances in the
classic Vietnamese broth.

DISTRICT SAIGON
37-15 BROADWAY (38TH STREET ), ASTORIA, QUEENS;
718-956-0007; DISTRICTMOTNYC.COM
.......................................................................................

Recommended Salt and pepper shrimp; betel


leaf lamb; wood- and herb-smoked brisket pho;
round steak and brisket pho; crispy catfish;
fresh limeade soda.

AT DISTRICT SAIGON in Astoria, Queens,

there is always a pot of pho broth making a


low quarrel on the stove, with eddies of marrow from sunken bones. The broth has to hit
the eight-hour mark before Lam Lien, the
chef, will even consider serving it.
The recipe is his mothers, described on
the menu as secret, although the ingredients are traditional: onions, shallots and
ginger charred until they evoke volcanic artifacts; spices that blur fragrance and flavor, among them cinnamon, cloves, fennel,
star anise, cardamom and coriander; and,
once the broth is strained, final anointments
of fish sauce and yellow rock sugar, shattered with a hammer.
The secret according to his son, Michael, who cooks alongside him is the balance. What arrives at the table is a finely
tempered bowl of soup clear but lush on the
tongue, with no one flavor lording above the
others.
The baseline pho comes with round steak
and Angus brisket, poached and cut into tissue-thin strips that shimmy when lifted and
practically dissolve on the tongue. If you
like, they will add skinny laces of tripe,
which yield peaceably to the teeth, and
knobs of gelatinous tendon, which do not.
The broth is good, delicate and substantial
at once, profound without belligerence.
Still, it is but a shadow of the next pho on
the list, the same broth transmuted by
brisket patted down with five-spice and left
to settle overnight, then smoked over wood
chips and star anise for six hours. This has
strange fathoms, as if you were drinking liquid cloud.
The depth of the pho is something of a
surprise at a restaurant whose other offerings seem slightly canted to please American palates. (The menu lists these mostly in
English; the use of Vietnamese names can
flummox the otherwise adept non-Vietnamese serving staff.)
The balance so carefully monitored in the
broth tips, elsewhere, toward the caramel
that underlies many Vietnamese dishes.
This is distinct from dessert caramel the
sugar is allowed to darken until a few
shades shy of black, to bring a counterweight of bitterness. But I was conscious,
throughout my meals here, of a comman-

Drinks and wine Full bar.


Prices $5 to $24.
Open Daily for lunch (or weekend brunch) and
dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair access The entrance is up a short
ramp from the sidewalk; the restroom is spacious and has a handrail.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

deering sweetness.
The best dishes favor salt, like shrimp
deep-fried in the shell and given a lashing of
butter in the wok, or ground lamb shoulder
bundled in peppery leaves that the Vietnamese call la lot. These could almost be
dolmades; the Liens use lamb instead of the
classic beef as a salute to Astorias Greek
population.
Father and son are attentive to ingredients. Suon nuong is made with a thicker

center-cut pork chop, for more texture;


smoke and salt leach from generous
wedges of bacon into clay-pot rice. Presentation matters, too: Banh mi is deconstructed into a jar of pt and grilled slices
of baguette, with pickled pineapple and
mango (from the Pickle Guys on the Lower
East Side). Chicken curry, which gets its
velvet from coconut milk and a touch of condensed milk, bears a halo of crispy sweetpotato strands.

Top, murals decorate the


interior. Above, left to right, the
original name is still out front;
the crispy catfish; the chef
Lam Lien at work.

A sort of barbecued rice-paper pizza, a


modern snack by way of Da Lat in the highlands of Vietnam, is still in the tinkering
stage. The brittle skin rests under a broken
egg, tiny woolly tufts of dried shrimp and
pork floss, peanuts, fried shallots, bean
sprouts, mango pure and avocado dressing. But something is missing: tang, heat,
contradiction.
District Saigon opened in February under the name District Mot, a nod to District 1
in Saigon, where Lam Lien grew up. (The
name was recently changed to avoid confusion with the acclaimed District Mot restaurant in Berlin.) The Liens and a partner,
Louis Leung, gutted a former 99-cent store
and turned it into a sprawling room with a
heavy cedar front door, live-edge wood tables and a spray-painted mural of terraced
rice paddies.
Written on the back wall is a Vietnamese
phrase that translates as Its great to be together. When Lam Lien fled Vietnam in
1979, he was separated from his family, who
were given refuge in Toronto. In New York,
he worked his way from dishwasher to server to prep cook at the Marriott World Trade
Center. After Sept. 11, he joined the kitchen
at New Pasteur, a Vietnamese restaurant in
Chinatown.
His son, now 32, waited tables there while
studying finance at Brooklyn College, before opening a Vietnamese restaurant of his
own in Hells Kitchen. The food there is
very fast, he said, nothing like the slow
broths his father has taught him to make at
District Saigon. I could never do something like this on my own.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

The Pinnacle of Pork


CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1

pare and simply gorge.


At one end of the festival, at the booth of
Antica Salumeria Granieri Amato, founded
in 1916, three generations of the Granieri
family were handing children crunchy
hunks of deeply bronzed skin. Their
salumeria produces a strictly traditional
porchetta, and is one of the last to still roast
porchetta in a wood oven, for smoky flavor.
At the other end, the hip young chef
Marco Gubbiotti of Cucinaa, a gastronomic
project in nearby Foligno, handed out
porchetta sandwiches stuffed with a confit
of apple and fennel.
Some producers use fistfuls of garlic, others just pinches; some leave the liver in for
the rich flavor it adds to the stuffing, others
consider that bizarre; some perfume the
meat with rosemary, while others maintain
that only fennel pollen has the true flavor of
Umbria.
The professional chefs used a large piece
of pork that American butchers call the
perfect cut instead of the whole pig.
They take the whole pork belly, which is
super fatty, and wrap it around the loin,
which is relatively lean, said Matt Lindemulder, a partner at Porchetta in the East
Village, where they use the same cut.
When they cook together, the fat from the
belly bastes the loin.
Respect for food traditions was already
entrenched in Italian culture when the modern values of eating locally, sustainably and
transparently went global partly via Slow
Food, which was founded just a few hundred kilometers away. At Porchettiamo, the
Umbrian reverence for pork, and passion
for the deep culinary and agricultural heritage of the region, were on full display.
Valentino Gerbi, a founder and butcher at
a new meat producer called Etrusco,
handed out juicy meatballs and fliers advertising the companys carne locale radicale, radical local meat.
Etrusco allows its animals both cows
and pigs to grow larger than modern
tastes have dictated. Todays younger,
smaller animals are more tender, but they
are less flavorful, and less like the meat our
great-grandparents ate.
We embrace the peasant traditions of
central Italy no compromises, no shortcuts, Mr. Gerbi said.
Many other farmers here are developing
sidelines in organic and heirloom produce,
or converting family farms from commercial to traditional production.
Like the old times, our pigs are grazing
outdoors, eating corn and barley instead of
bone meal, taking no supplements or antibiotics, said Ramon Rustici, a farmer who
supplied several of the pigs for Porchetti-

amo. People today want to know that they


are eating cibo vero, real food.
It doesnt get much more real than the
back room of Carlo Giulianis butcher shop
in Costano just after dawn, when the smell
of bleach is still stronger than the smell of
blood. The day after Porchettiamo, Mr. Giuliani was preparing to make porchetta from
a 220-pound pig that had been raised at the
Rustici farm in the hills above Assisi,
slaughtered and cleaned, then aged for
three days to dry out the skin. (This makes
it crisp up when roasted.)
Like many European farmers, the Rusticis raise Large Whites, a fast-growing,
hardy breed of British origin; the Italian
strain is bred with particularly large and
muscular legs, the better for making prosciutto.
Mr. Giuliani had no special tools, just a
knowledge of porcine anatomy and a knife
with a wickedly thin, long blade that he
sharpened every 10 minutes or so. (When
knives are used to cut against bone, they
dull very quickly.)
An hour later, he had removed more than
200 bones from the carcass; set aside the
trotters and ears to simmer in a dish called
cicotto that is made from the leftover bits of
pig; and methodically rubbed the inside
with minced shallots, garlic, salt, pepper
and a thick golden dusting of fennel pollen.
The fennel is what makes it Umbrian,
said Barbara DAgapiti, owner of Wine Link
Italy, a guide to local food and wine. Fennel

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS WARDE-JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

grows wild here, and its pollen has the refreshing whiff of dried sage, with notes of
saffron, lemon and fennel seed.
To foreigners, Umbria and its food are often overshadowed by the high profile of
Tuscany, which lies just to the west. But in
Italy, Umbria is fondly called il cuore verde
dItalia, the green heart of Italy, for its fertile soil and ancient agricultural traditions.
Pork from its green hills and deep forests
has been prized since pre-Roman times.
Today, if you spend time poking around
Umbrias pig farms, prosciutto makers and
pork festivals, you will be regaled by theories about how the region came to be the
epicenter of pork butchery in Italy.
Among them: In Preci, Benedictine
monks flourished as healers from the 13th
century, building a rare library of anatomy
texts and a renowned infirmary. They
taught their skills to locals who were al-

Top, the Porchettiamo festival


gathers multiple producers
from all over Italy, enabling
porchetta partisans to taste,
compare, and simply gorge.
Middle from left: Matt
Lindemulder, foreground,
works at Porchetta in New
York; a porchetta sandwich
garnished with pickled red
onions and fresh mustard
leaves. Above from far left: a
sign leading to the festival; a
proprietor removed the pigs
head; and after cooking for
seven to eight hours in a
specially designed long oven,
the porchetta emerged.

ready skilled in surgery butchers.


Watching Mr. Giuliani remove the pigs 32
ribs one by one lent credence to this theory.
For those without surgical-level knife
skills, Umbrian-style porchetta is still an accessible pleasure, within reach of any home
cook with a large grill (though a roasting
pan in an oven will do). Fennel pollen is
easy to order and well worth trying, even if
you believe that rosemary and garlic with
pork is the most celestial combination imaginable. (In California, where wild fennel
does grow, cooks can easily harvest their
own.)
A whole pig is not practical unless you are
feeding a whole town, but any boneless
well-marbled roast with skin or a thick fat
cap will do.
The key elements of the finished dish are
juicy meat, soft fat and crispy crust. In modern Umbrian kitchens, porchetta has ex-

panded beyond pork, so that in porchetta


has simply come to mean boneless meat,
rolled round garlic and herbs, and roasted.
It is served at hip Umbrian restaurants in
variations like carp in porchetta, beef in
porchetta, and in the case of the young
chef Nicolas Bonifacio of Eat Out Osteria
Gourmet in Assisi rabbit in porchetta
with hummus, garlic yogurt and Middle
Eastern spices.
Porchetta, the festival organizers say, deserved to be honored as food of the people,
unlike luxury ingredients such as truffles,
prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano that
typically command respect and attention
from the greater food world.
Street food is the food of the future, said
Antonio Boco, a co-founder of Porchettiamo. Low-cost food, without boundaries,
that makes many people happy: What
could be more global than that?

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OUTDOOR PORCHETTA
TIME: ABOUT 5 HOURS
YIELD: 15 TO 20 SERVINGS

1 whole boneless skin-on pork shoulder


Salt and ground black pepper
8 to 10 garlic cloves, chopped
3 tablespoons fennel pollen or minced
fresh rosemary
Crusty rolls (such as kaiser) or fresh
focaccia, cut in half horizontally, for
serving
1. Use the tip of a sharp, strong knife to roughly
score the skin into diamonds, about inch on
each side.
2. Liberally season the inside of the roast with
salt and pepper. Rub in garlic and fennel pollen
or rosemary. With the skin on the outside, roll
into a cylinder and tie tightly at 1- to 2-inch
intervals.
3. On one side of a grill large enough for
indirect cooking, rest a drip pan under the grate
to catch the drippings. Pour in an inch or two of
hot water to prevent flare-ups. You may need to
top up or empty and refill the pan once during
ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

the cooking, depending on how fatty the roast


is.
4. Heat the other side of the grill to high. Place
the tied roast on the other side, away from the
direct heat, and close the grill.
5. Roast at 350 to 375 degrees (the
temperature can hover between the two),
turning occasionally, until a meat thermometer
inserted into the thickest part of the roast
registers 140 degrees, about 3 to 4 hours. (The
temperature will continue to rise as the meat
rests.) If the meat is cooked through but the
skin is not crisp, move the roast to the part of
the grill that sits over direct, high heat. Cook
with the grill open, turning often, just until
sizzling and crisp (not more than 10 minutes, to
prevent overcooking).
6. Let rest, tented loosely with foil, at least 20
minutes before slicing. (A bread knife is useful
to cut through the skin.) The meat can be
served hot or at room temperature. Serve in
sandwiches on crusty rolls, or inside split
pieces of focaccia.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

D7

The Spritz: Its All Built on Bubbles


American bars shake up
traditional ideas of this
northern Italian aperitif.
By ROBERT SIMONSON

At AllArco, a small and busy lunch place not


far from the Rialto in Venice, theres not a lot
a room to eat. So people head outside with
their drinks and plates of fresh cichetti
(Venetian for snacks).
There are few outdoor tables, so glasses
come to rest where they can, on ancient
windowsills and stoops. By early afternoon,
the alleys around the restaurant resemble
an open-air dining hutch, lined with goblets.
The ones that glow red are Campari
spritzes; the orange, Aperol.
Spritz culture is ingrained in the cities
and towns of northern Italy, where ice-filled
chalices of the classic combo bitter liqueur and sparkling wine or water (or
both) refract sunlight on every other cafe
table. You can even buy a spritz at the
Venice airport before you board your plane.
The drinks footing in the United States is
a bit shakier, rooted mainly in embarrassing
memories from the 1970s and 80s of sipping
bland concoctions called white wine
spritzers.
But thats beginning to change. Thanks in
part to the recent publication of Spritz, a
lighthearted book-length examination of
these effervescent quenchers, more American bars will serve them this summer.
The spritz formula bitter, bubbly and
low in alcohol is a pretty malleable template, said Talia Baiocchi, who wrote
Spritz with Leslie Pariseau, and one that
can yield drinks that are simple three-ingredient cocktails, to drinks that are more
avant-garde in composition. (Proportions
vary from spritz to spritz, with soda water

The formula (bitter,


bubbly, low in alcohol)
is pretty malleable.
ranging from a splash to a couple of ounces,
but generally the wine outweighs the bitter
component.)
The Aperol spritz (officially two parts Aperol, three parts prosecco and a splash of
sparkling water) is the inescapable standard-bearer of spritzdom. It can now be ordered from Philadelphia to Puget Sound.
We wouldnt be having this conversation if
it werent for Aperol, Ms. Baiocchi said.
But American bartenders havent
stopped there, and drinkers neednt, either.
At Prizefighter, a friendly, sprawling bar in
Emeryville, Calif., the owner, Jon Santer,
took Bruto Americano, a newly released
aperitif from nearby St. George Spirits, and
coupled it with California chardonnay,
grapefruit juice and soda water to create
the Cali Spritz.
Lynnette Marrero of Llama Inn in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, mixes gin, fino
sherry, strawberry shrub, St. Germain elderflower liqueur, Peychauds bitters, cava
and Perrier for the Seorita Spritz, a pretty
pink concoction that tastes a lot like a fruity,
fizzy glass of ros.
At Montanas Trail House in Bushwick,
Brooklyn, Austin Hartman, an owner, piles
Aperol, grapefruit juice and sparkling white
wine atop a base of Del Maguey Crema de
Mezcal, a product that adds agave syrup to
the spirit.
It still has some of the smoky spice qualities of mezcal, Mr. Hartman said, but
some of the sweetness that works well with
the bitterness of the Aperol.
American mixologists are pretty looselimbed in their spritz-building; they ignore
the classic wine-bitter-fizz blueprint as often as they adhere to it. William Elliott, bar
director at the new restaurant Sauvage in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, does not include a
bitter element in his Riding Tigers (made of
sparkling ros, peach-infused pisco, Pineau
des Charentes, Armagnac and lemon juice).
He even declines to put the drink on ice.
Nonetheless, its awfully spritzy.
Eric Asimovs wine column will return on
July 6.

SAMUELE PELLECCHIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PABLO ENRIQUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES (CALI SPRITZ)

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ICE QUEEN
ADAPTED FROM NATASHA DAVID, NITECAP, NEW YORK
YIELD: 1 DRINK

Top: sipping spritzes outside


AllArco in Venice, Italy. Above,
the drinks with their recipes.
Below, the Seorita Spritz.

Cucumber slice
1 ounces white rum, preferably
Plantation 3 Stars
ounce fresh lime juice
ounce simple syrup
1 teaspoon crme de menthe, preferably
Giffard Menthe Pastille
1 ounce dry sparkling wine such as
prosecco or cava
Lime twist, for garnish
Gently muddle cucumber at bottom of a
cocktail shaker. Add rum, lime juice, simple
syrup and crme de menthe, and fill
three-quarters full with ice. Shake until chilled,
about 15 seconds.Strain into a coupe glass.
Top with sparkling wine and garnish with lime
twist.

Bubbly thats it, said Natasha David,


when asked what a drink needed to qualify
as a spritz. She has a right to her opinion:
The menu at her Lower East Side bar, Nitecap, has had a spritz section since the place
opened in 2014.

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LA QUEBRADA SPRITZ

CALI SPRITZ

ADAPTED FROM AUSTIN HARTMAN, MONTANA'S TRAIL

ADAPTED FROM JON SANTER,PRIZEFIGHTER,


EMERYVILLE, CALIF.

HOUSE,BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
YIELD: 1 DRINK

YIELD: 1 DRINK

1 ounce Del Maguey Crema de Mezcal


ounce Aperol
ounce grapefruit juice
Grapefruit twist
4 ounces sparkling white wine, such as a
dry cava or prosecco
1. In a cocktail shaker three-quarters filled with
ice, add crema de mezcal, Aperol and
grapefruit juice. Shake until chilled, about 15
seconds.

ounce California chardonnay


ounce Bruto Americano
ounce fresh pink grapefruit juice
ounces soda water
Grapefruit twist

Add liquid ingredients, in order, to a Tom Collins


glass filled with ice. Squeeze grapefruit twist
over top of drink, then insert it vertically down
side of glass. Serve drink with a straw.

2. Using a wineglass, squeeze grapefruit twist


over it and rub twist along the rim. Place twist
at bottom of glass. Add 4 to 5 ice cubes. Strain
contents of shaker into glass. Top with
sparkling wine.

I think its nice to have wine or fortified


wine in it, she said. But Ive really gone
outside the boundaries of what a spritz is.
Weve had cider cocktails and beer cocktails
in the spritz section.
She draws the line at topping drinks with

seltzer. I think it has to be an alcoholic


sparkling thing, she said.
Lauren Corriveau, the head bartender at
Nitecap, has come to like spritzes well:
Who doesnt like something that feels like
its dancing on your tongue?

An Origin Story for the Ros Craze


A prominent winemaker
recalls decamping to Provence
to do something different.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

LARRY WOOD

Sacha Lichine said the ros market is in its infancy in the United States.

Ros is the hardest wine to make well, said


Sacha Lichine, who is perhaps the most
prominent ros winemaker in the world.
But, he added, smiling, it is the easiest to
sell.
It wasnt always that way. Mr. Lichine,
who owns Chteau dEsclans in Provence
and is credited with making a strong contribution to the robust growth of ross, was in
New York a few months ago for tastings and
visits to some of the restaurants he supplies. Wearing one of his 20 signature pink
shirts, he remembered the time before the
ros craze.
In 2008, he said, when he was getting
started, he sold just 3,500 cases of the ros
made on his estate. Now, hes selling more
than 200,000 cases, 50,000 of them in New
York alone. Owners of prestige wineries in
Bordeaux, Burgundy and elsewhere are
making ross; some are flocking to
Provence to snap up wineries.
In Paris today, ros is bigger than white
wine, Mr. Lichine said. I think the potential in the United States for ros is just get-

ting started.
The total market for ros wine in the
United States increased by 56.4 percent last
year over 2014. Ross from Provence, considered some of the best, accounted for
more than half the total.
But back in the beginning, Mr. Lichine
said, he was simply looking to do something different.
I thought about making dry, elegant
ross, and theyve turned out to be the new
wave, he said. I wanted to make a difference in the industry.
He sold Chteau Prieur-Lichine, the
fourth-growth estate he had inherited from
his father, the esteemed winery owner and
writer Alexis Lichine, and decamped from
Margaux to Provence and Chteau dEsclans.
What distinguishes todays ross from
the often-candied blush bottles of the
past, he said, is finesse. They are light yet
floral, he said, with some richness, and the
paler the better, a style that has conferred
prestige.
A popular ros de Provence, Chteau
Pigoudet, is nearly colorless; it could be
mistaken for white wine. Theres even a California ros called Summer Water.
But tint is no indication of flavor.
This month in the village of Gordes in
Provence, I conducted a tasting of eight

ross from the region for participants on a


New York Times trip to Provence. We sampled the wines blind and rated them. They
ranged from barely blushing to petal pink,
and from bland to floral and fruity. That
Chteau Pigoudet was the favorite, preferred for its scent of jasmine and citrusy
richness. Maison Saint Aix, showing a delicate color but big and spicy on the palate,
also did well.
Many of these wines seduce with alluring bouquets of fraises des bois, tart blood
orange and cherry blossoms before giving
way to lean delicacy with an underpinning
of complexity on the palate.
When Mr. Lichine was in New York, he
sipped his top-of-the-line Garrus and said,
I couldnt make a ros like this 25 years
ago. He credits new technology, advanced
sorting equipment that allows the pale
fruit to be separated from the dark skins
faster, and conditions that prevent oxidation.
His portfolio of ros wines, Garrus, Les
Clans, Rock Angel and Whispering Angel,
some in dramatic, oversize bottles, range
in price from around $10 to more than $100.
He was quick to point out that sparkling
ros Champagne has long been accepted
by connoisseurs, usually demands high
prices and is suitable all year. Why not
still wine? he asked.

D8

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

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