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Amid Escalating
is convinced EPA chief Pruitt
needs to step down after a t0.7%
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
series of negative reports, a S&P 500
.
White House official said. A3 Stocks slide on Spotify debuts Dow swings in a
t1.4%
ly
continued on the New 741-point range,
Protests turned deadly at
the Israel-Gaza border as
Palestinians burned tires and
some tried to enter Israel
1 concern over
the tech
industry’s
leading players.
York Stock
Exchange, and
its shares
on
surge.
highlighting the
resurgence of
volatility.
Nasdaq
Composite
t2.1%
Trade Tensions
BY MICHAEL WURSTHORN S&P 500’s ninth 1% swing up or
under military gunfire. A7
down in the past 11 trading
Brazil’s da Silva missed a Growing tensions between days, a sign of stocks’ uneasy
deadline to turn himself in as 0 the U.S. and China exacerbated footing and resurgent volatility.
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he negotiated his surrender investors’ fears of an all-out Investors were already grap-
to begin a 12-year jail term. A6 trade war between the world’s pling with concerns that tech-
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largest economies, shaving 572 nology stocks won’t generate
South Korea’s Park was
points off the Dow Jones In- the massive gains of previous
sentenced to 24 years in
dustrial Average on Friday as years and that inflation is ris-
ci on
the Mexican border illegally. A3 –2 with the deepest declines how far the Trump administra-
among big industrial manufac- Please see STOCKS page A8
Federal authorities
turers like Boeing Co. and Cater-
seized Backpage, a website
pillar Inc. that stand to suffer Beijing pledges to counter
known for its sex ads. A4
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tion process for ads on hot- measures by the two coun- months of the year, hiring av- such overheating in the latest man. rapport he was developing
button political issues. A1 tries continued on Friday, eraged 202,000 a month, up report. The unemployment Decades of quiet negotia- with the Chinese. He found
with China saying it would from 182,000 a month in rate held at 4.1% for the sixth tions had gotten nowhere, U.S. little support. It was time to
The administration is
“hit back forcefully” if the 2017. straight month, the lowest Trade Representative Robert act, starting with a formal
pursuing ways to protect do-
U.S. followed through with “Seventeen million jobs level since December 2000. Lighthizer told senior White investigation of China for
mestic vehicle manufacturing
President Donald Trump’s have been created in this ex- A tighter labor market House advisers and cabinet of- unfair trade practices, Mr.
from import competition. A9
tariff threats. The war of pansion, and the monthly should produce better wage ficials gathered in the Roose- Lighthizer argued.
Amazon is considering words sent stocks tumbling, pace of job growth remains growth as employers compete velt Room. A few days later, Mr. Trump
a plan to use its Alexa vir- but the economy showed un- more than sufficient to em- for scarce workers. While “China is tap, tap, tapping announced an investigation of
tual assistant to make per- derlying signs of near-term ploy new entrants to the la- Please see JOBS page A2 us along,” he said, meaning it alleged Chinese violations of
son-to-person payments. B1 resilience. bor force,” Federal Reserve regularly promised policy U.S. intellectual-property
U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose Chairman Jerome Powell said Fed will stick to plan for changes but didn’t deliver. He rights—headed by Mr. Lighthi-
Coinbase approached the
a seasonally adjusted 103,000 in remarks Friday in Chicago. gradual rate increases.......... A2 punctuated his talk with Please see TRADE page A8
SEC about registering the
cryptocurrency firm as a bro-
kerage and trading venue. B1
Longfin was accused of
I Love My Unique, Personalized Falls From
violating securities laws
and trading in the firm’s
Shirt! Oh, You Have One Too Grace
shares was halted. B10 i i i Brazil’s former
MOHAMMED TALATENE/DPA/ZUMA PRESS
Inside
JEON HEON-KYUN/PRESS POOL/EPA
missed a deadline as
has some seeing double; ‘same exact outfit’ he negotiated his
surrender to begin a
NOONAN A13 BY RAY A. SMITH Running into people wearing 12-year prison term.
the same clothes is a possibility Meanwhile, South
If Adults Won’t When Angela Krile and Julie for anybody who shops big re- Korean ex-President
Theado emerged from their cars tailers. And there are online ser- Park Geun-hye was
Grow Up, in the office parking lot, they vices, such as Trunk Club or sentenced to 24
looked at each other and froze. Rent the Runway, that sell or years in jail. A6, A7
Nobody Will Ms. Krile was wearing a rent fashionable outfits, which
white blouse with a keyhole could also result in two people
CONTENTS
Books.................... C5-10
Business News.. B3,6
Food......................... D7-8
Sports....................... A14
Style & Fashion D2-4
Travel...................... D5-6
U.S. News............ A2-5
neckline and navy piping, and
navy blue pants. So was Ms.
Theado.
“We looked at each other and
showing up at an event in the
same “special” dress. But cus-
tomers say they expect it to
happen less, or not at all, be-
Facebook Sets ‘Issue’ Ads Rule
Heard on Street...B12 Weather................... A14 realized we had on the same ex- cause of the way Stitch Fix touts BY LARA O’REILLY The company announced in In October, Facebook un-
Obituaries............... A10 Wknd Investor....... B5
Opinion............... A11-13 World News.... A6-10
act outfit,” said Ms. Krile, owner the personalization factor. AND JOHN D. MCKINNON blog posts Friday that it plans veiled a similar authorization
of a communications firm in Shoppers fill out detailed to work with third parties to de- requirement for election-related
Sugar Grove, Ohio, where both questionnaires the company Facebook Inc. will soon re- velop a list of key issues, which ads. The latest move will cover
> women work. says allow its stylists and com- quire that advertisers wanting will be updated over time. “issue ads”—those that don’t
The fashion faux pas wasn’t puter algorithms to find perfect to run ads on hot-button politi- Separately Friday, consumer specifically mention a candidate
supposed to happen. Both fashion matches. Then it sends cal issues go through an autho- groups filed a complaint with but weigh in on a divisive issue,
women bought their tops from boxes, or “fixes,” containing five rization process first, a move the Federal Trade Commission including during an election.
s Copyright 2018 Dow Jones &
Stitch Fix, the popular online items that customers have the the social network hopes will saying Facebook violates users’ Such advertisers will be re-
Company. All Rights Reserved clothing service that prides it- option to buy. The company, on prevent the spread of misinfor- privacy rights through its facial- quired to confirm their identi-
self on customer specialization. Please see OUTFIT page A9 mation across its platform. recognition software. Please see ADS page A4
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U.S. NEWS
Fed Sticks to Plan for Gradual Rate Hikes
Central-bank Chairman ing. Stocks fell Friday after the torically low rates of unem- strengthens further.”
White House said it was con- ployment,” he said. The number of working-age
Powell wants labor sidering tariffs on an addi- Mr. Williams is set to be- people who are either working
market and inflation tional $100 billion in Chinese come New York Fed president or looking for work is also be-
imports on top of the $50 bil- in June, making him one of low its prerecession levels.
to strengthen further lion already announced. the central bank’s most influ- Roughly 82.2% of those aged
The Fed chief sidestepped a ential policy makers and a key 25 to 54 were in the labor
BY DAVID HARRISON question on trade policy dur- lieutenant of Mr. Powell’s. force in March, about a per-
ing a question-and-answer Many employers complain centage point lower than be-
Federal Reserve Chairman session after his speech. the labor market has grown so fore the recession, according
U.S. WATCH
JOBS February, a sign that an un-
.
Wages and Workers usually warm February, fol-
ly
Wages failed to break out in March, despite ...That's at least partially because employers are lowed by a cool start to
the unemployment rate holding at a 17-year low.... drawing in workers from outside the labor force. spring, could be affecting MISSISSIPPI
Continued from Page One monthly numbers.
wages are rising faster than Change from a year earlier in: on Percentage of the population age 25-54 that is Hyland Software in West- Ex-Rep. Mike Espy
Wages* Inflation (CPI) Employed In the labor force (working or
they did earlier in the expan-
looking for work)
lake, Ohio, added 137 workers Joins Senate Race
sion, they remain below long- 6% 84% to its staff of more than
run averages. Average hourly 2,000 in the past year, with- Former Rep. Mike Espy, a
earnings for all private-sector 82 out raising wages much above Democrat who served as secre-
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haven’t increased at better employer in the Cleveland re- will be chosen in a November
than a 3% annual rate in seeking.” vest in more training for maker of building materials, gion but doesn’t attempt to special election that pits mem-
nearly a decade. The last time A broad measure of unem- workers,” said Susan Helper, added 75 manufacturing compete with salaries offered bers of all parties against each
unemployment was this low, ployment and underemploy- an economist at Case Western workers in the past year and by Silicon Valley firms. other on one ballot.
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in late 2000, nonsupervisor ment that includes Americans Reserve University. “We’ve wants to hire 50 more for its “If you’re building your life Mr. Espy served in the U.S.
wages rose 4.3% from the in part-time jobs who want not yet reached the levels of factory labor force of 810, in northeast Ohio, we offer a House from 1987 to 1993, then
prior year. full-time work, in addition to employer desperation we saw Chief Executive Jesse Singh huge amount of opportunity left to serve as then-President
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Employers have been able discouraged individuals who in 2000.” She recalled stories said. He said the company has to grow,” he said. Bill Clinton’s agriculture secre-
to hold wage gains in check in have stopped looking for of hiring agents standing out- been raising wages and hiring Mr. Priemer, who started tary. He was indicted in 1997 on
part because they have ex- work, fell last month. Known side prison gates nearly two more full-time workers rather with the company in the late corruption charges but acquitted
panded the pool of available as the U-6, the rate was 8% in decades ago, waiting for in- than temporary staff. 1990s, said the economy’s on all counts the following year.
labor, drawing in Americans March, which is still higher mates to be released. “Our demand, driven by current growth pace feels —Janet Hook
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who have been out of the la- than 6.9% in December 2000. Friday’s report showed U.S. remodeling and construc- more sustainable.
bor market. Its elevated level suggests manufacturers added 22,000 tion, continues to be solid,” “I feel like there is more TEXAS
One of them was retired that slack remains in the la- jobs in March. The sector has Mr. Singh said. running room in the economy
Army Col. Stephen Myers, 53 bor market that could prevent added better than 200,000 Employment also grew last in general, and certainly in Allegations Prompt
years old, who joined the ci- wages from breaking out. jobs since March 2017. That is month in mining, including software development,” he GOP Resignation
vilian workforce for the first “You’re really only starting one factor helping draw men oil-related jobs, and health said.
time in three decades this to see employers broaden out back into the workforce. care, but fell at construction — Andrew Tangel Rep. Blake Farenthold re-
year when was hired as a dis- their search and begin to in- AZEK Co., a Skokie, Ill., firms after rising sharply in contributed to this article. signed from Congress on Friday
trict manager by Starbucks amid an investigation into alle-
Corp., overseeing 13 stores in gations of sexual harassment
Washington state. H-1B Visas Don’t supply. The government said lottery, and that’s wrong,” Mr. nology Solutions Corp., Tata and calls to reimburse U.S. tax-
After taking some time off Friday it had begun accepting Trump said in April 2017. “In- Consultancy Services Ltd. and payers for a related settlement.
after his military retirement Fulfill Trump Plan applications on Monday and stead, they should be given to Infosys Ltd. The Texas Republican had said
last June, Mr. Myers was had already received enough to the most skilled and highest- A spokesman for the in December that he wouldn’t
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drawn to Starbucks by the meet the 85,000 cap. paid applicants, and they should agency that administers the run for re-election after the
company’s culture, the oppor- WASHINGTON—The govern- Winners again will be cho- never, ever be used to replace program, U.S. Citizenship and House ethics committee launched
tunity to work near his wife’s ment is set to again distribute sen by lottery for applications Americans.” Immigration Services, said it an investigation into sexual ha-
job and extensive training. scarce H-1B visas for high- that are subject to the cap. Outsourcers have been ac- fully supports a Trump execu- rassment allegations against him.
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“They’ve invested in me skilled foreign workers by lot- Mr. Trump said a year ago cused of replacing American tive order called “Buy American, His announcement Friday, how-
quite a bit,” said the former tery, without the big changes he would change how H-1B vi- workers with foreigners and Hire American” that ordered a ever, wasn’t expected.
battalion commander for a President Donald Trump prom- sas are distributed in a way generally pay far less than high- review of the program. In 2015, Mr. Farenthold drew
field artillery regiment, who ised to enact a year ago. that would have benefited high- tech companies. Average sala- “We have provided policy from a taxpayer fund to settle a
admitted it was tricky to Demand for the visas— tech Silicon Valley companies ries at firms such as Ama- guidance and are working on $84,000 sexual-harassment
master the coffee chain’s “flat which are used by outsourcing and hurt outsourcing firms, in- zon.com Inc., Google, a unit of regulatory reforms to achieve claim against him, court docu-
white” drink during the 12- firms and high-tech Silicon Val- cluding many based in India, Alphabet Inc., and Apple Inc. are the goals associated with re- ments and congressional data
week training program he ley companies, as well as by that have come under scrutiny. tens of thousands of dollars form of H-1B visas,” said Jona- show. He said in December he
completed last week. He many smaller employers—has “Right now, H-1B visas are higher than at outsourcing than Withington. would pay back the $84,000,
added, “The job affords me for years far outstripped the awarded in a totally random firms such as Cognizant Tech- —Laura Meckler but hasn’t yet done so.
the work-life balance I was —Natalie Andrews
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Though Pennsylvania’s re- lion a year, a fraction of the The industry says cashless Authority in 2016 fully rolled tions for unpaid toll debts. nearly $66,000.
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cent tactics stand out, toll $1.1 billion in overall toll reve- tolling reduces congestion be- out an effort aimed at motor- The turnpike commission’s Her lawyer, Edward Spreha
agencies around the U.S. are nue. cause drivers don’t need to ists with at least 100 unpaid chief executive, Mark Comp- Jr., said he is still reviewing
also boosting efforts to ensure The share of toll revenue slow down. tolls in 12 months. ton, wondered if officials could the evidence.
drivers pay. The heightened collected in cash fell to 18% in on But without “a forced mech- Some toll agencies name also use criminal courts, ac- “Certainly if they can prove
focus on collecting unpaid tolls 2015, from 29% in 2010, ac- anism to stop people,” the risk and shame. The Illinois Toll- cording to Ray Morrow, the she in fact did this, we want to
is linked to the move from toll cording to the association’s of toll violations rises, said Pat way publishes a quarterly list turnpike’s chief of compliance. make sure the turnpike is
booths to all-electronic tolling. 2016 survey of three dozen Jones, chief executive of the of “super scofflaws” who owe Mr. Morrow researched state made whole,” he said. “We
In such cashless systems, tran- large U.S. toll agencies. Cash- International Bridge, Tunnel at least $1,000. A recent ver- law and concluded that theft also have to make sure her
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sponders like an E-ZPass de- less transactions accounted for and Turnpike Association. “I sion had 469 names, including of services applied. ability to repay is going to be
vice provide instant payment. more than $11 billion in reve- think the industry has re- many trucking firms, with the So far the commission has taken into consideration.”
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BY PETER NICHOLAS That comment follows re- Paris climate agreement—ad- ing and management at the
marks aboard Air Force One vice the president followed. EPA.
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WA S H I N G T O N — W h i t e on Thursday in which he de- The White House said ear- An EPA spokesman re-
House Chief of Staff John scribed Mr. Pruitt as doing “a lier this week it was conduct- sponded to the report by call-
Kelly told President Donald fantastic job.” He also said Mr. ing a review of Mr. Pruitt’s ac- ing the officials “disgruntled
Trump last week that he is Pruitt is a “fantastic person,” tivities after news reports employees who have either
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convinced Environmental Pro- adding that he still has confi- that he had rented accommo- been dismissed or reas-
tection Agency chief Scott dence in the EPA administra- dations in Washington at be- signed.”
Pruitt needs to step down af- tor. low-market rates from the Mr. Pruitt has defended his
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ter a series of negative re- However, the president said family of an energy lobbyist. living arrangements and said
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ports about his spending hab- he would look into the various Mr. Pruitt also has faced he reversed the pay raises
its and management style, a controversies surrounding Mr. questions over his travel ex- given to two staff members
White House official said Fri- Pruitt. “I have to look at penses, and he had a testy in- once he found out about
day. them,” Mr. Trump said, during terview with Fox News when them. On the travel costs, the
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Though Mr. Kelly and other a flight home from a public he was pressed over large pay EPA has said Mr. Pruitt’s pro-
White House aides have con- appearance in West Virginia. raises reportedly given to two tective services detail moved
cluded Mr. Pruitt should leave, “I’ll make that determina- EPA employees. him to a higher class due to
the president is not ready to tion.” Inside the White House, security protocols.
fire him, the official said. Mr. An exit by Mr. Pruitt would aides have concluded that Mr. White House officials were
Trump welcomes the deregu- come in the midst of a high- Pruitt’s position is untenable, also upset about reports that
latory measures taken by Mr. level staff shake-up by the with a drumbeat of news re- Mr. Trump phoned Mr. Pruitt
Pruitt and also values him as president. Mr. Trump recently ports raising questions about on Monday night in an effort
a strong advocate for the dismissed his secretary of EPA’s Scott Pruitt has drawn criticism for spending habits. his managerial judgment and to encourage him. Two White
president’s agenda, this per- state and national security ad- spending practices. House officials said it was the
son said. viser, and tapped a new ap- as would be the case for the change, repealed some of for- The New York Times re- EPA, not the White House,
The president, in a tweet pointee for the Central Intelli- EPA administrator. mer President Barack Obama’s ported late Thursday that Mr. that alerted media to the
Friday, said Mr. Pruitt is doing gence Agency. Two of those The EPA declined to com- clean-air and other environ- Pruitt had reassigned or de- calls.
“a great job,” adding that he positions will require Senate ment. Over his first year, Mr. mental policies. He also urged moted several officials who —Rebecca Ballhaus
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is “TOTALLY under siege.” approval for their successors, Pruitt, a skeptic of climate Mr. Trump to pull out of the raised concerns about spend- contributed to this article.
BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL
U.S. NEWS
REUTERS
Backpage, already the sub- enable them to take swift ac- But a series of political is-
ject of multiple criminal tion against websites that sues, including Russia’s al-
probes, has become a light- U.S. law-enforcement agencies seized the classified-ad website Backpage.com on Friday. knowingly facilitate sex traffick- leged use of online platforms
ning rod for critics of websites ing of children online, and to to meddle in the 2016 presi-
accused of turning a blind eye tives at the company haven’t utives. “Congress has spoken and that case continues. stop the next Backpage long be- dential election, have dimin-
to sex trafficking. been convicted of criminal on this matter and it is for A Justice Department fore another website can claim ished the tech industry’s
It has galvanized lawmakers wrongdoing in the case. Congress, not this court, to re- spokeswoman declined Friday so many innocent victims.” standing in Washington, mak-
to pass a law limiting the im- The case, initially pursued visit,” said the judge, citing a to directly address the seizure. A bipartisan bill passed last ing it easier for lawmakers to
munity of websites for the ac- by California’s former attorney law passed in the early days of Lawyers for Backpage didn’t month, led by Sen. Richard pass the legislation effectively
tions of their users. general, Kamala Harris, who is the internet that granted im- respond to requests for com- Blumenthal (D., Conn.) and Mr. targeting adult-services sites.
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer now a U.S. senator, suffered a munity to websites from any ment. Portman, would amend the Backpage’s seizure on Fri-
was arrested in 2016 in Texas setback when Sacramento charges related to criminal ac- “This is an ongoing investi- Communications Decency Act day didn’t appear directly
and charged in California with County Superior Court Judge tivity they may facilitate. gation and in order not to of 1996 to roll back immunity linked to the legislation, but
offenses including multiple Michael Bowman dismissed California later filed an- compromise it and future that Congress had conferred instead resulted from a long-
counts of pimping of minors. the charges against Mr. Ferrer other lawsuit on criminal prosecution efforts, I have no on websites for the actions of running investigation by fed-
Mr. Ferrer and other execu- and two other Backpage exec- money-laundering charges, information to provide at this their users. President Donald eral and state authorities.
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television and radio stations, ture relies on sophisticated fa-
which must publicly disclose cial-recognition software that
the campaign ads they broad- compares faces in photos with a
cast. on massive database of face tem-
Continued from Page One In a blog post, Facebook plates.
ties and locations with the com- Chief Executive Mark Zucker- According to the complaint,
pany. berg said the company supports Facebook “routinely scans pho-
The change marks the latest the Honest Ads Act, a bill in tos for biometric facial matches
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step in Facebook’s efforts to se- Congress that would require without the consent of the im-
cure its platform after Russian- large digital platforms to keep a age subject.” The company uses
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backed groups used the social public library of the paid politi- Facebook users’ confirmations
network to sow divisions before cal ads that appear on their to help “advance its facial rec-
and after the 2016 U.S. presi- sites. ognition techniques,” the com-
ci on
dential election, and elsewhere “This will help raise the bar plaint said. It said these prac-
in the world. for all political advertising on- tices are deceptive and ignore
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A selection of Facebook ads line,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. the explicit preferences of many
released by U.S. lawmakers last Additionally, the company Facebook users.
year showed how Russian- will soon require people who Facebook defended its prac-
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linked operatives used the plat- run Facebook pages with large tices, saying users are able to
form to buy ads to stoke ten- numbers of followers to go decide for themselves whether
sions around issues ranging through an authorization pro- to deploy the technology.
from race to gun rights, as well cess, as it looks to make it “People can choose whether
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as ads featuring the presiden- harder for fake accounts to or not to allow this technology
tial candidates. spread divisive content that has Facebook’s facial-recognition software compares faces in photos with a database of face templates. and they can change their mind
Starting this spring, election- the potential to go viral. at any time,” said Rob Sherman,
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related ads will carry a “Politi- Facebook hasn’t disclosed Facebook will let users globally ica, a data-analytics firm that Cambridge Analytica incident, Facebook’s deputy chief privacy
cal Ad” label, alongside infor- the number of followers a page see all the ads a page is run- worked for the 2016 Trump and Mr. Zuckerberg is set to officer. “When someone has
mation on the advertisers who would have in order to trigger ning, following a test in Canada, campaign. testify at two congressional their setting turned off, we
paid for them, the company an authorization request. It also the company said. In a call with reporters on hearings next week. don’t use this technology to
said. In June, Facebook will hasn’t provided details on what In recent weeks, Facebook Wednesday, Mr. Zuckerberg The complaint about Face- identify them in photos.”
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make public a searchable ar- this verification process will en- has been making a raft of said he had made a “huge mis- book’s facial-recognition soft- The complaint is similar to
chive of the ads carrying that tail. changes to its data-sharing and take” in not focusing more on ware was filed by a coalition of one filed in 2011 that didn’t
label, including information on Facebook said it would hire privacy policies as it works to the potential abuse of users’ consumer organizations led by lead to FTC action.
the amount the advertiser more staff to work on verifying rebuild trust among users and personal information. He also the Electronic Privacy Informa- EPIC President Marc Roten-
spent and the intended target ads and pages and that it is in- regulators. Many of those said he had been “too flip- tion Center. It focuses on a berg pointed to recent changes
audience. vesting in artificial intelligence changes were kick-started fol- pant” in 2016 when he dis- Facebook feature that helps us- in Facebook’s use of facial rec-
Political ads on digital plat- to help uncover advertisers that lowing revelations that per- missed the idea that fake news ers identify people in uploaded ognition, including efforts to
forms aren’t subject to the have skirted the process. sonal details of as many as 87 could influence an election as photos by suggesting the names tag nonusers who appear in
same disclosure requirements Beyond the political-ad spec- million users were improperly “crazy.” of people it recognizes. photos, as one reason for the
as in traditional media, such as trum, beginning this summer obtained by Cambridge Analyt- The FTC is investigating the The “Tag Suggestions” fea- new concern.
been one of the president’s as well as numerous companies nance chairman who worked at to organized crime. Mr. Deri- also a major U.S. political fi-
toughest critics in Congress, associated with him, the Trea- one time for Moscow-backed paska, named in a public U.S. nancier, according to campaign
Continued from Page One praised Friday’s action. But he sury Department appeared to Ukrainian President Viktor Treasury blacklist in January finance data collected by the
course. Moscow, it said, would added that the measures be sending a signal to Russians Yanukovych. as a possible target for sanc- Center for Responsive Politics,
no
respond firmly to the sanc- “would be stronger if accom- who may become ensnared in U.S. officials said Mr. Deri- tions, stepped down as Rusal’s donating largely to Republican
tions. panied by a clear statement the broad investigation into paska had been investigated president in late February. Mr. candidates, but also to some
Among those sanctioned from the president himself Russia’s meddling with the U.S. over allegations of money Deripaska or a representative Democrats.
were tycoons in Mr. Putin’s in- that the U.S. recognizes Rus- elections. Mr. Deripaska is laundering and threatening the for Rusal weren’t available for “This list of 12 companies
ner circle, including the Rus- sia’s attack on our democracy known to have been a key pa- lives of business rivals, and he comment. owned or controlled by the
sian president’s son-in-law, “The consequences are far sanctioned oligarchs should
Kirill Shamalov, and oligarch reaching, it’s a dangerous mo- not be viewed as exhaustive,”
Oleg Deripaska. Share prices Russia in the Crosshairs ment that needs a whole-of- the U.S. Treasury said, indicat-
for two of Mr. Deripaska’s The U.S. blacklisted dozens of senior Russian government officials, businesses and allies of government approach,” said ing the U.S. may penalize firms
companies sanctioned by the Vladimir Putin on Friday, citing what it called the country's meddling in U.S. elections, cyberattacks and Heather Conley, a former dep- and individuals linked to the
U.S. Treasury plummeted after military actions in Ukraine and Syria. uty assistant secretary at the sanctioned entities.
the announcement. United Co. State Department in the Bush Konstantin Kosachev, head
Rusal PLC, one of the world’s The sanctioned, how they are connected and Treasury allegations against them administration who is now a of the Council of the Federa-
largest aluminum producers Companies (12) Oligarchs (7) Senior gov. officials (17) State-owned firms (2) senior vice president at the tion Committee on Foreign Af-
responsible for 7% of global Center for Strategic and Inter- fairs who was added to Trea-
Owner Owned
production, fell more than 10%. national Studies. “We’ve seen sury’s blacklist, said the action
Share prices for EN+ Group, a Government Weapons trading Russian behavior only escalate was “another unjustified, un-
Has been investigated for money official accused company
sanctioned company that owns laundering and accused of GAZ and it’s unclear where we are friendly and meaningless
Group Suleiman of money Rosoboronexport
Rusal and major Russian elec- threatening rivals’ lives and taking we going.” step,” according to state-run
Kerimov laundering
part in extortion and racketeering
tricity and coal assets, fell 20% and tax The appearance of Viktor media RIA-Novosti.
after the news. evasion Vekselberg, founder of the Rostec, the parent company
Friday’s sanctions were Agroholding Oleg EuroSibEnergo Russian management and in- of Russia’s arms-exporting mo-
Deripaska Subsidiary
viewed by many U.S. lawmak- Kuban Russian vestment company Renova nopoly Rosoboronexport,
ers and Western Russia ex- Andrei Financial Corp. Bank Group, also sanctioned Friday, which was also sanctioned,
Skoch (RFC Bank)
perts as a litmus test for the is a surprise to some Kremlin said the measures were an at-
administration’s commitment Basic B-Finance watchers, and it may unsettle tempt to hit the country’s
to punishing Moscow. Several Element Official with some Western officials who arms exports, the second big-
people targeted had connec- EN+ longstanding ties to have ties to the Russian mag- gest in the world. Treasury
Russian Russian organized Andrey Alexey
tions to Mr. Trump’s 2016 Group nate. John Deutch, who served said the company was sanc-
Machines criminal groups, Akimov Dyumin
presidential campaign and to including time spent as director of Central Intelli- tioned for providing military
his cabinet, as well as to offi- leading one such gence in the Clinton adminis- equipment and support for the
United Co. enterprise
cials from previous adminis- RUSAL tration, sits on Renova’s board Syrian government.
trations. The list will mute Mikhail Sergey Oleg of directors, as well as Josef “All these bold words and
Fradkov Fursenko Govorun
some criticism by lawmakers Ackermann, previously chair- accusations are just a pretext
and others who say the White NPV Engineering man of the management board to push Russia out of the
Gazprom Renova Ladoga
House has pulled its punches Burenie
Open Joint
Group Menedzhment of Deutsche Bank. Messrs. global arms market,” Rostec
in challenging Moscow. Stock Vladimir Konstantin Andrey Deutch and Ackermann said in a statement to Russian
Tensions between Russia Kolokoltsev Kosachev Kostin weren’t available to comment. news agencies.
and the West had been build- According to Russia experts, The targeting of key indi-
Vladimir
ing for years, but they esca- Putin’s
Mr. Vekselberg is a partner viduals in Russia’s energy sec-
Igor Vladimir Viktor Kirill Alexei Nikolai
lated to a new level after the son-in-law with Ukrainian-born billionaire tor—the economy’s biggest in-
Rotenberg Bogdanov Vekselberg Shamalov Miller Patrushev
U.K. nerve-agent attack blamed Len Blavatnik, who Mr. dustry—is a warning to
on Moscow and cyberhacks on Mnuchin temporarily part- Moscow that the U.S. could hit
U.S. infrastructure, which U.S. nered with in his Hollywood the country where it is most
Vladislav Evgeniy Alexander Vladimir Timur Alexander Viktor
officials say were orchestrated Reznik Shkolov Torshin Ustinov Valiulin Zharov Zolotov
production and finance firm, vulnerable.
by the Kremlin. Ratpac-Dune. Mr. Mnuchin —Alan Cullison
Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), told a government ethics office in Washington
the ranking member of the Source: Treasury Department THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. last year he would divest him- contributed to this article.
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ploiting the U.S. Postal Service. pany’s website. out-of-state retailers,” the
It made little difference. Mr. The site, which describes it- Trump administration said
Trump persisted in attacks that self as the official retail web- last month in its court filing in
ran counter to the material they site of the Trump Organiza- support of a South Dakota law.
had showed him. “It’s not the tion, doesn’t collect sales Requiring retailers to collect
narrative he wants,” one person taxes from New York resi-
familiar with the matter said of dents. The TrumpStore.com
the briefings. “He clearly didn’t website invites shoppers to
find it persuasive because he “visit our brand new Trump
The president has
keeps saying it’s untrue.” President Donald Trump, left, and Jeff Bezos, right, participated in a forum in Washington last year. Tower flagship retail store” in accused Amazon.com
In the past week, Mr. Trump New York City.
has turned what were sporadic posed editorials or endorse- him his Amazon critique might in November. Meantime, it has The website was registered
of not paying enough
and often private criticisms into ments,” Mr. Ryan said. be “missing the point,” a White had strong growth in package by the Trump Organization, sales tax to states.
a sustained volley of tweets Amazon declined to com- House official said. In response, delivery, the category that which has its headquarters in
against Amazon, often causing ment. But the company says it Mr. Trump has been “digging would account for Amazon and Trump Tower. The website
stock-market fluctuations. collects sales taxes on its own in,” this person said. many other online retailers, contains information about
Fueling Mr. Trump’s ire is inventory in all 45 states that In past briefings, his advisers with revenue growing 11% in the the retail store and the e-com- sales tax only where they have
not so much Amazon, the online have that type of tax and has have told him how Amazon pays same fiscal year to November. merce site, but it is unclear a physical presence “would
giant that is revamping the re- voluntarily started collecting taxes, the person familiar with Mr. Trump’s most recent how ownership of the entities substantially impede state tax
tail industry, but the company’s taxes in some municipalities. the matter said. flurry of tweets targeting Ama- is structured. collection,” it said.
.
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Be- Many small businesses selling zon has coincided with the pub- “Trumpstore.com has al- Mr. Trump handed over
ly
zos, who also owns the Wash- products on Amazon’s site don’t lication of Post stories he dis- ways, and will continue to col- management of the Trump Or-
ington Post, people close to the collect sales taxes outside of the likes—one that documented lect, report, and remit sales ganization, the umbrella com-
White House say. states where they are based.
E-commerce giant’s problems at a White House of- taxes in jurisdictions where it pany operating the family’s
Mr. Trump sees Mr. Bezos’s Still, Mr. Trump stepped up on CEO, who also owns fice that vets political appoin- has an obligation to do so,” a business, to his sons, Eric and
hand in newspaper coverage his attack Thursday, tweeting tees and another that depicted Trump Store spokeswoman Donald Jr., in 2017, but re-
he dislikes and is lashing out about the company and telling
the Washington Post, Mr. Trump acting more inde- said. The spokeswoman and tained ownership of the com-
at Amazon as a proxy, these reporters aboard an Air Force is target of Trump ire. pendently of chief of staff John the chief legal officer for the pany. The family company
people said. One flight home from West Vir- Kelly and other “moderating Trump Organization didn’t re- earns much of its income from
us l,
The White House didn’t re- ginia: “Amazon is just not on an forces.” spond to requests for addi- real-estate holdings and li-
spond to a request for com- even playing field. They have a Privately, Mr. Trump has tional information. censing deals.
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ment. A Post spokeswoman, tremendous lobbying effort, in The president’s advisers sim- “talked about the fact the Wash- A White House spokes- The Trump Organization
asked for a response, referred to addition to having the Washing- ilarly have presented financial ington Post is solely owned by woman declined to comment, declined to explain why the
quotes from the paper’s leader- ton Post, which is, as far as I’m data that show the Postal Ser- Jeff Bezos and he [Mr. Bezos] is and referred questions to the online store collects taxes in
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ship in a story pub- concerned, another lobbyist.” vice’s financial woes are being using that same entity to take Trump Organization. Louisiana and Florida, but tax
lished Thursday. In that piece, “Look at the sales tax situa- caused by forces other than on the president and the admin- States require a business experts say the company
publisher Frederick J. Ryan Jr. tion,” Mr. Trump added, sug- Amazon: notably that people istration,” said one person who with a physical presence in a would be required to do so if
said that Mr. Bezos has “never gesting the company doesn’t are sending far fewer letters. talks to Mr. Trump regularly. state to collect sales taxes on it has a physical presence in
proposed a story.” pay its fair share of them. The Postal Service has suf- Another person close to the online purchases delivered to those states.
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“Jeff has never intervened in Mr. Trump’s most recent fered a decline in revenue from White House said: “Every time those states. A spokesman for —Richard Rubin
a story. He’s never critiqued a statements prompted aides to first-class mail delivery of about there was a bad story, it [Ama- the New York State Depart- and Michael C. Bender
story. He’s not directed or pro- go back to him this week to tell 7% in the fiscal year that ended zon] would come up.” ment of Taxation and Finance contributed to this article.
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As Aid Is Turned Away, Venezuelans Die
Regime prohibits
most outside medical Those in Need of
donations, limiting Transplants Wait
lifesaving drugs
Venezuela’s transplant
BY KEJAL VYAS program was suspended in
AND RYAN DUBE mid-2017 because of financial
troubles, leaving 5,000 pa-
CALABOZO, Venezuela—In tients who await new kidneys
Spanish, the name of this town in limbo, advocacy groups
in Venezuela’s scorching cen- said.
tral plains means dungeon. For Without antirejection
Marta Solorzano, the recipient drugs, an organ can deterio-
.
The state agency responsi- medications that doctors pre-
ly
ble for providing the drugs scribe to transplant patients,
didn’t respond to a request to activists say.
comment. Last year, PAHO signed an
Venezuelan President Nico- on agreement with Venezuela’s
lás Maduro’s cash-strapped Social Security Institute that
Socialist regime prohibits allows it to purchase immu-
most international humanitar- nosuppressive drugs at a dis-
ian donations—including con- count.
us l,
ernment and open the door to of diphtheria and malaria, dis- tioning of hospitals, [and] it is “We have a scarcity of al- help prevent. There are about recommended.
foreign intervention. eases controlled by most Latin affecting the availability of most 100% of medicines and 3,500 transplant patients— “I’m so worried, I can’t
“No way are we going to al- American nations, have in- medicine.” what is available, people can- most of them kidney recipi- sleep,” said Ms. Vicuña, who
low this right wing to impose creased amid a lack of vacci- In March, the U.S. Treasury not afford,” said Feliciano ents—in Venezuela, according lives in a town not far from
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a supposed humanitarian aid nations, the ministry said. sanctioned Carlos Rotondaro, Reyna, head of a Caracas- to health-advocacy groups. Calabozo. “I just want to live,
when our people are already “The situation is compli- former head of the govern- based health-advocacy group, For months, 56-year-old that’s all.”
being tended to by President cated, I think that is a point ment’s Social Security Insti- Solidarity Action, which has Moravia Vicuña has been tak- At a funeral home in a
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Maduro,” Venezuela’s Health that we all agree on due to the tute, which is responsible for tried to open the country to ing just one of the three im- nearby town, Rafael Funes, 48,
Minister Luis López said in social, political and economic providing drugs for chronic ill- international medical aid. “We munosuppressive drugs she was making burial arrange-
December. issues,” said José Moya, a Pe- nesses. The U.S. said mishan- are seeing more and more has been prescribed. Recently, ments for his 40-year-old wife,
Public health has deterio- ruvian doctor who is the rep- dling of health care by him deaths and suffering.” she was down to fewer than 10 Luz Marina Martínez. She
rated sharply in what used to resentative in Venezuela for and others has contributed to Patients with transplants pills. She said she and her went a month without pills for
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be one of Latin America’s rich- the Pan American Health Or- outbreaks of once-controlled are particularly vulnerable be- older sister, Carmen, pawned her donated kidney, he said.
est nations. Venezuela’s infant ganization, a branch of the diseases like diphtheria and cause of the risk that their their bed and television to pay “It’s just cruelty,” Mr. Funes
mortality rate was higher than World Health Organization. measles. Mr. Rotondaro bodies will reject the new or- for her last pack of pills, said, breaking down in tears.
in Syria in 2016, according to “This has really affected the couldn’t be reached to com- gans, an outcome immune sys- which she is taking only one of —Mayela Armas in Caracas
Health Ministry figures. Cases purchase of supplies, the func- ment. tem-suppressing drugs can the four times a day doctors contributed to this article.
MEXICO CITY—At least for CAMPO, Brazil—The country’s headquarters. “We are in a war.”
a day, U.S. President Donald former president, Luiz Inácio They and other Brazilians
Trump has managed to unite Lula da Silva, missed a dead- who support Mr. da Silva see
Mexico’s fractious politicians. line to turn himself in Friday the court order and last year’s
no
In this case, against him. as he negotiated the terms of conviction against him—part
Mexico’s President Enrique his surrender to begin serving of a broad investigation of
Peña Nieto won widespread ku- a 12-year jail term, a person corruption that has led to the
dos here following a nationally familiar with the talks said. jailing of dozens of public offi-
MEXICAN PRESIDENCY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
televised address on Thursday The 72-year-old was ex- cials and businessmen—as a
in which he used uncharacter- pected to spend at least a sec- conspiracy to end his drive to
istically strong language to tell win back the presidency. Polls
Mr. Trump to stop treating By Jeffrey T. Lewis, showed the former president
Mexico like a political punching Luciana Magalhães topped all candidates ahead of
bag, after the U.S. leader spent and Paulo Trevisani the October election.
a week criticizing Mexico over At the union hall, Mr. da
migration and border security ond night in a trade union hall Silva’s supporters formed a
and decided to send National after being ordered on Thurs- human barrier to protect their
Guard troops to the border. day to surrender by 5 p.m. lo- leader through much of Friday.
Mr. Trump’s lashing out at cal time Friday or face arrest. Many wore the red that sym-
the U.S.’s southern neighbor Mr. da Silva was holed up in bolizes the Workers’ Party,
tied in with his frustration the headquarters of a metal- which held power here from
with Congress over funding his workers union hall in this in- 2003 until 2016.
southwest border wall, after a dustrial suburb of São Paulo “The right-wing wants to
recent spending bill funded where he began his rise to na- keep the workers away from
only a slice of the project. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto won widespread praise with his address on Thursday. tional prominence as a union power,” said Marcos Ferraz,
“President Trump…if your activist in the 1970s. Both a 58, who was selling $7 red T-
recent statements derive from The positive response gen- with being a constant target have argued that the bilateral polarizing and popular figure, shirts with Mr. da Silva’s im-
a frustration with your domes- erated by the Mexican leader’s for the U.S. president,” said relationship is too important to the man known across Latin age. “There is a prejudice
tic policy or with your laws or tougher language suggests the Andrew Selee, president of the risk with an emotional back- America as Lula had quickly against the working class.”
Congress, talk to them, and not U.S. administration may find a Washington-based Migration lash. Foreign Minister Luis Vid- attracted supporters from his Marco Antonio Silva, 26, a
to Mexicans,” Mr. Peña Nieto less pliant Mexico in the Policy Institute. egaray said in a radio interview Workers’ Party, who gathered law student, said that he
said in the video. “If there is months and years ahead as A day earlier, Mexico’s Sen- Friday that the fight against outside the union hall and joined in to “support and de-
one thing all Mexicans agree, it ate urged Mr. Peña Nieto to organized crime groups that pledged to protect their leader fend democracy.” To him, ar-
is that nothing, or no one, is suspend bilateral cooperation operate in Mexico and the U.S. from the police. resting Mr. da Silva amounts
above our dignity as a nation.” in the fight against illegal mi- is in the interest of Mexico’s The former president’s de- to “an aggression against the
All four leading Mexican
‘Nothing, or no one, gration and organized crime security and depends on bilat- fenders gathered on a narrow, constitution.”
presidential candidates—who is above our dignity until Mr. Trump changes his eral cooperation to be effec- mostly residential street as The case against Mr. da Silva
have spent months in the run- stance toward Mexico. tive. “What we’re not going to Mr. da Silva conferred inside has led to a spectacular fall
up to hotly contested election
as a nation,’ says The Senate request had do is put at risk the security of the six-story building, which from grace for a man who went
in July savaging the president President Peña Nieto. unanimous support from all Mexico and Mexicans,” he said. was draped with banners from fighting a military dicta-
on issues like corruption and political parties, said Laura Ro- But that dynamic could reading “No to Lula’s impris- torship in the early 1980s to
crime—came out with state- jas, a senator from the conser- change with a new leader, es- onment” and “Election with- leading an increasingly powerful
ments against Mr. Trump and vative National Action Party pecially if Andrés Manuel Ló- out Lula is a fraud.” A sound labor movement that brought
offered rare praise for Mr. both nations try to work on is- and head of the Senate Foreign pez Obrador, a leftist national- truck was parked outside, its him to the presidency in 2003.
Peña Nieto. sues ranging from a renegotia- Relations Committee. ist, maintains his big lead and giant loudspeakers blasting Assisted by high commodity
Before the video, Mr. Peña tion of the North American “If there’s no consequence captures the presidency. samba between speeches from prices and demand from
Nieto’s government caught a Free Trade Agreement to to Mr. Trump’s threats, Mexico “Our country, our people are Mr. da Silva’s supporters. China, Brazil under Mr. da
lot of flak from critics who cross-border security, drug won’t be able to force a real not going to be a piñata for Street vendors sold beer, ice Silva maintained a balanced
have accused it of not taking a trafficking and migration. change in his hostile stance,” any foreign government,” he cream and barbecued meat. federal budget while attracting
strong stance against Mr. “I think the tide has shifted said Sen. Rojas, who led the said at a speech to packed “An innocent man does not investment and funding social
Trump’s unending stream of among Mexicans about how Senate’s proposal. crowds in the border city of surrender,” said Ângela Kinzu, programs that helped 30 mil-
insults and attacks. much they are willing to put up But top Mexican officials Laredo on Thursday. 62 years old, who was among lion rise from poverty.
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the border amid Israeli mili- roughly 1,000 from gunfire. the demonstration as a pretext al-Zaem said Palestinians were
.
tary gunfire. The new protests involved to attack Israelis and divert at- “fed up” with an Israeli block-
ly
thousands again but appeared tention from the group’s poor ade of Gaza and no prospects
By Rory Jones in Tel quieter than the week before governance of the strip. for a peace agreement after 70
UNITED KINGDOM LEBANON Aviv and Abu Bakr and Israel appeared to be us- Gaza’s economy is flatlining years of conflict. “To die a
Bashir in Gaza City ing less tear gas to disperse and a dispute between Hamas martyr is much better than
Poisoning Victim’s
Condition Improves
Foreigners Commit
To $11 Billion in Aid
on Seven Gazans died, including
Palestinians, according to peo-
ple at the demonstrations.
and the Palestinian Authority
is exacerbating tensions.
dying in hospital bed,” said
Mr. Zaem, 67 years old.
a 16-year-old, and nearly 300 Palestinian demonstrators The last round of Israeli-Pal- Israel controls access and
Former Russian double agent International donors pledged were injured, Palestinian health are calling for the right to re- estinian peace talks collapsed goods entering the strip to
us l,
Sergei Skripal is no longer in $11 billion in aid to Lebanon on authorities said. The Israeli mil- turn to their ancestors’ vil- in 2014 and Palestinian factions stop Hamas from arming to at-
critical condition after being poi- Friday at a Paris conference, itary said the army responded lages and towns in what is have refused to engage in an tack Israelis. Egypt also shares
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soned by a nerve agent last aiming to bolster the economy with gunfire and water cannons now Israel, a demand Israeli expected White House peace a border with Gaza and only
month, offering investigators an in a country seen as a bulwark as Palestinians hurled fire- officials reject because they plan as they perceive it will be infrequently opens the cross-
opportunity to shed light on cru- in a volatile region. bombs at soldiers and at- say it would risk the country’s favorable to Israel. ing from the strip into Egyp-
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cial details about the attack. The conference is the second tempted to infiltrate Israel. Jewish majority. Ahead of Friday’s demon- tian territory.
Christine Blanshard, medical of three meant to support Leba- The demonstrations, which Organizers have said the stration, the United Nations Israeli army officials have
director at Salisbury District non as it struggles with a lag- organizers said will continue demonstrations will con- said Israeli forces should show disputed the number of injuries
Hospital, where Mr. Skripal was ging economy and an influx of for weeks, have presented Israel tinue every day until May 15, “maximum restraint” and reported by Gazan authorities
being treated, said the 66-year- refugees from the Syrian war with a new military and politi- known among Palestinians as called on organizers not to put last week and questioned the
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old was responding well to raging next door that is straining cal challenge as it aims to avoid “Nakba Day” or “Day of the women and children in danger. authenticity of videos posted
treatment and improving rapidly. its already weak infrastructure. a mass breach of the fence Catastrophe,” the day after the The White House represen- online that purported to show
—Jenny Gross —Nazih Osseiran while also responding to inter- date of Israel’s 1948 founding. tative to Israeli-Palestinian ne- unarmed protesters being shot.
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a battle and described Presi- cari, managing director at bro- to 2.779% from 2.830% on
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dent Donald Trump’s consider- ker-dealer O’Neil Securities. Thursday. Yields move in-
ation of penalties on an addi- “It could get uglier over the versely to prices.
tional $100 billion in Chinese weekend, and some are getting Meanwhile, the latest jobs
goods as “extremely wrong.” Number of points the Dow Jones out because it could go either report showed that wages grew
Investors worry the tit-for- Industrial Average fell Friday way,” said Mr. Polcari. as expected from a year earlier,
tat responses between the U.S. He added that trading vol- with average hourly earnings
and China could translate into umes were light, suggesting the Steel wire in Shanghai. China vowed Friday to fight U.S. trade moves. rising 2.7% in March. That
more severe and farther-reach- selling is being driven more by eased worries among some in-
ing sanctions that pressure That last comment appeared smaller traders and investors dropped 0.7%, the S&P 500 fell said Jeff Lancaster, a principal vestors that inflation had been
American companies and raise to send the market sliding. The rather than big money manag- 1.4% and the Nasdaq declined of Bingham Osborn & Scarbor- growing faster than expected
prices for consumers. Dow fell as much as 767 points ers. “If [the administration] 2.1%. The S&P 500 is now off ough, an advisory firm that and that the Fed would hasten
Investors say an escalation in the late afternoon before par- calms the rhetoric down over 2.6% for the year and down 9.3% manages $4.2 billion. its pace of interest-rate hikes to
could crimp the global economic ing its decline to 572.46 points, the weekend, then you’ll likely from its late January peak. Shares of Boeing, which has keep the economy from over-
growth engine that has acted as or 2.3%, to 23932.76. see the market rally right back Investors moved into assets been cited by analysts as a bell- heating.
a key pillar for the latest leg of Ms. Sanders, meanwhile, Monday,” he said. that tend to hold up better dur- wether to gauge investors’ reac- “This should help moderate
the stock-market rally. said later Friday that, “this is The S&P 500 declined 58.37 ing times of uncertainty, with tion to trade-sensitive stocks, investors’ expectations for the
Several Trump administra- something that China has cre- points, or 2.2%, to 2604.47, so-called haven assets such as fell 3.1%. Heavy machinery man- [Federal Reserve] getting ahead
tion officials, including Larry ated and President Trump is while the Nasdaq Composite bonds and gold rising. “There’s ufacturers Caterpillar and Deere of itself,” said Doug Coté, Voya
Kudlow, head of the White trying to fix it.” slid 161.44 points, or 2.3%, to genuine fear that this thing with & Co. dropped 3.5% and 3.9%. Investment Management’s chief
House National Economic Coun- Federal Reserve Chairman 6915.11. For the week, the Dow China is not going to go well,” Financial firms also weighed market strategist.
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to change its behavior, culminat- $375 billion annual merchandise
ly
ing this week in an order threat- trade deficit with China. To
ening tariffs on $50 billion of punctuate those demands, the
Chinese imports, a move that administration planned to
also had Mr. Lighthizer’s im- on threaten tariffs.
print on it. One more obstacle needed to
After China threatened tariffs be cleared away. President
on an equal amount of imports Trump, frustrated that the steel-
from the U.S., Mr. Trump on tariff matter had been indefi-
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nese partners. Still, they worry based reforms. 2013 Sunnylands summit be- That would make the U.S. seem
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U.S. threats of tariffs could tween Presidents Barack 0 more reasonable in steel negoti-
backfire and leave them vulner- 1999 U.S. cuts a deal with Obama and Xi Jinping. ations and help form a coalition
1990 2000 ’10
able to retaliation. China to back its entry into the against China.
Early in the Trump adminis- World Trade Organization. 2017 President Donald Trump Source: Commerce Department The group produced a memo
tration, Commerce Secretary THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. in which the different views
Wilbur Ross was expected to were articulated. Mr. Trump
lead China economic policy. His ington worked. By the time he took office in Mr. Lighthizer, 70 years old, fall, after the August Roosevelt backed Mr. Lighthizer’s side.
star dimmed when the president To Mr. Trump, Mr. Lighthizer May, the administration was grew up in the Lake Erie port Room session, Mr. Lighthizer With the steel issue defused,
dismissed an early package of was a kindred spirit on trade— fighting over whether to impose city of Ashtabula, Ohio, which worked to make sure the admin- at least temporarily, Mr. Trump
deals Mr. Ross negotiated with and one who shuns the lime- tariffs on steel and aluminum was battered by imports. He istration was united. Previously, announced on March 22 the U.S.
Beijing as little more than a re- light. The two men, who have a imports globally. China policy sees himself as blue-collar even the U.S. had often balked at con- would threaten tariffs on Chi-
packaging of past offers, say similar chip-on-the-shoulder was on the back burner. though he is a doctor’s son who fronting China out of fear a nese imports. He thanked Mr.
White House officials. “Shut it sense of humor, bonded. Mr. While Mr. Lighthizer believed once raced around West Vir- fight would tank the global Lighthizer for his help and in-
down,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Ross Lighthizer caught rides to his the metal glut was due to Chi- ginia in sports cars and has fi- economy and make China less vited him to say a few words.
in July when he stripped Mr. Florida home on Air Force One. nese excess production, he nancial assets worth between willing to help on national-secu- “This is an extremely impor-
Ross of his China role, according Mr. Trump summons him regu- thought a fight at that point $10 million and $38 million, ac- rity issues. tant action,” Mr. Lighthizer said,
to senior administration offi- larly to the Oval Office to dis- would be self-defeating because cording to government filings. Defense chief Jim Mattis, “very significant and very im-
cials. cuss trade matters, administra- the focus would be on U.S. tar- As with his boss, bluntness is though, backed a tough ap- portant for the future of the
Mr. Ross continues to work tion officials say. iffs, not Chinese trade and in- his calling card. In the proach because he was con- country, really, across indus-
on China issues, including advis- “Lighthizer has everyone’s vestment practices. Assessing mid-1980s, as a U.S. Trade Rep- cerned China was illicitly ob- tries.”
ing Mr. Lighthizer on which im- trust,” said Kevin Hassett, the tariffs on all steel exporters resentative official who negoti- taining U.S. technology and Over coming months, the
ports to target for tariffs, a White House chief economist. would paint the U.S. as a villain ated with Japan, he once grew could gain a military edge, say ability of the U.S. to maintain
Commerce official said. Mr. Lighthizer’s brother instead of China. Mr. Lighthizer so frustrated he took a Japanese people familiar with his think- pressure on China will depend
added: “Bob recognizes there’s worked quietly with Mr. Cohn proposal, turned it into a paper ing. Others in the national-secu- on factors including the reaction
one king and he ain’t it.” and others to get the issue set rity agencies were tired of what of markets, opposition by U.S.
Bridging a divide As an attorney at Skadden, aside in favor of other priorities. they felt were unmet Chinese industries and farmers, and re-
Mr. Lighthizer managed to Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom U.S. trade representatives of- promises on Korea and other se- taliation by China against U.S.
bridge a trade divide among Mr. LLP, he represented steel-indus- ten regard themselves as law-
Lighthizer is letting curity issues. companies. Chinese leaders say
Trump’s warring factions. try clients who believed they’d yers for U.S. exporters, trying to China know what Mr. Cohn was as fed up with they are confident they would
To so-called nationalists like been hurt by subsidized im- open up new markets. Mr. Light- Beijing as Mr. Lighthizer, say of- prevail in a trade war, say U.S.
trade aide Peter Navarro, who ported Chinese goods. In op-ed hizer saw things differently,
steps it could take to ficials. As a president of Gold- individuals who have met with
was itching to take on China, columns dating to 1997, Mr. viewing big U.S. companies as avert a trade war. man, Mr. Cohn had lobbied to them recently, and chalk up U.S.
Mr. Lighthizer was a China Lighthizer opposed the entry of job outsourcers that sometimes do business unimpeded in China threats to Mr. Trump’s midterm
hawk. Mr. Navarro is mainly an China into the World Trade Or- had to be reined in. and didn’t get the approvals congressional electioneering.
idea man, who has seen his role ganization under the terms be- he sought. Jorge Guajardo, a former
as making sure the White House ing negotiated. airplane and floated it back at At the end of February, China Mexican ambassador to China
carries out the president’s cam- Mr. Lighthizer’s role is a Missile Man the Japanese negotiators as a sent its chief economic envoy, and now a Washington consul-
paign pledge to stop China from change from recent administra- At a September meeting with joke. In Japan, he became Liu He, to Washington to try to tant, has seen up close how Bei-
“ripping us left and right.” Mr. tions where China experts, such about 100 CEOs organized by known as “the missile man.” restart negotiations. He found a jing can pressure companies and
Lighthizer runs a trade agency, as Treasury Secretary Henry the Business Roundtable, he In a Senate hearing last frosty welcome. The Chinese wear down governments. “The
plots strategy and carries it out. Paulson in the George W. Bush said he understood they had to month, when Democratic Sen. embassy had requested 40 visas big question is, ‘Will the U.S.
To so-called globalists such administration, handled the maximize profits, which some- Maria Cantwell of Washington to bring a full entourage. He got blink?’” he said. “Or will they
as former National Economic China economic portfolio. Mr. times meant exporting jobs. said his China plans could hurt just a handful. Mr. Liu also stay the course so China is
Council Director Gary Cohn, Lighthizer is a skilled interna- “My job is different,” he told the U.S. aircraft makers, he dis- couldn’t get any time with Mr. forced to understand there is a
who worried about the impact tional trade litigator, more in group, according to participants. missed her concerns as “non- Trump, instead meeting with new way of doing business.”
of trade fights on markets, Mr. the mold of former U.S. Trade “My job is to represent the sense.” Mr. Lighthizer, Mr. Cohn and —Lingling Wei contributed to
Lighthizer was the skilled attor- Representative Charlene American workers. We’re going As the U.S. moved toward Treasury Secretary Steven this article.
ney who understood how Wash- Barshefsky. to disagree.” confrontation with China last Mnuchin. They delivered a sim-
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BEIJING—China said it
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would, at least in part, be scandal at Volkswagen AG, vored China by $375 billion.
passed along to U.S. consum- which has 3.5% of the U.S. At a briefing with reporters
ers. This style of “nontariff market. The German auto gi- Friday night, Chinese Com-
barrier”—a protectionist strat- ant admitted to cheating on merce Ministry spokesman Gao
agem the U.S. has long con- meeting standards limiting air Feng called the U.S. move “ex-
demned in other countries—is pollution in vehicles with die- tremely wrong” and acknowl- Beijing said it would respond forcefully to further U.S. tariffs. Above, a cargo ship in Qingdao, China.
sel engines. The EPA is explor- edged the two governments
ing whether that scandal gives were now in a battle. and a former chief economist
3.5%
it legal justification under the “China is fully prepared to Ready to Respond for UBS. And going after Amer-
Clean Air Act to set tougher hit back forcefully and without China said it will retaliate if the U.S. imposes additional tariffs on ican companies, he said, would
rules, though it is also pursu- hesitation,” Mr. Gao said. He $100 billion of goods. further anger the White House
ing other alternatives that said China has put in place “de- and “pretty soon we’re ap-
Subject to new tariffs Newly threatened tariffs Not subject
German auto maker Volkswagen’s would have a broader impact. tailed countermeasures” and proaching meltdown.”
share of the U.S. market “Reports that the president that those measures “don’t ex- Ha Jiming, a former econo-
has requested input from his clude any options.” Mr. Gao Exports to China mist with Goldman Sachs and
cabinet on possible nontariff didn’t elaborate. from U.S. now at China Finance 40 Fo-
barriers for vehicle imports to He denied that Beijing and rum, a Beijing think tank, said
designed to reduce the relative the U.S. is a bad idea and a Washington were engaged in Imports from China Beijing might have few options
cost of cars manufactured in pretext for protectionism,” negotiations and said they ha- to U.S. but to reduce holdings of U.S.
the U.S., the officials said. said John Bozzella, head of ven’t been “for a period of 0 200 400 $600 billion Treasurys. That could raise
President Donald Trump has Washington lobbying group time,” despite remarks by some Note: Based on 2017 trade figures borrowing costs for the U.S.,
asked the Environmental Pro- Global Automakers and spokes- U.S. officials that both sides but other economists have said
.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Peterson Institute for
tection Agency and several man for Here for America, a were trying to resolve the dis- International Economics, China's customs administration THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. it would also increase the value
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other agencies, including the coalition of companies includ- pute. “Under such circum- of the yuan, making Chinese
Commerce and Transportation ing Volkswagen, BMW AG and stances, it’s even more unlikely pursues tariffs on an additional ment-backed China Academy of exports less competitive.
departments, to pursue plans to Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz. for the two sides to engage in $100 billion in goods, the new International Trade and Eco- Senior Chinese officials have
use such laws as the Clean Air The EPA this week moved to on any kind of negotiations,” Mr. $150 billion total would exceed nomic Cooperation. He pointed offered assurances that Beijing
Act to subject cars made over- ease emissions standards for ve- Gao said. the roughly $130 billion in to the U.S. financial-services will continue to follow market-
seas to strict emissions-stan- hicles sold in the U.S. spanning Beijing’s apparent refusal to goods China imports from the sector as one vulnerability. based principles in managing
dards testing and reviews when all auto makers, so additional negotiate marks a new phase in U.S. That would force Beijing to Beyond the threats of trade its foreign-exchange stockpile.
entering the U.S. The rules strictures for imported cars and weeks of rising tensions during seek other options. penalties, China has actually “China is a responsible investor
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could effectively require more trucks could put those manufac- which China largely reacted Such measures, economists imposed tariffs on $3 billion in global capital markets,” Chi-
expensive technology on some turers at a disadvantage. with measured calm to Trump said, could include stepped-up worth of American farm nese Vice Finance Minister Zhu
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cars to more expensive hurdles. the plan to apply to as many open the door for dialogue. nies operating in China and us- swering similar levies placed Wednesday.
Either option would likely countries as possible, it isn’t Economists said the Trump ing the threat of a trade war to by the U.S. on Chinese steel Mr. Mei, the Chinese re-
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raise the costs for foreign cars clear if it would affect cars administration’s latest action rattle the U.S.’s larger and and aluminum. searcher, said China is consid-
sold in the U.S., making domes- produced in Canada and Mex- could leave the Chinese govern- more important financial mar- “There’s every prospect that ering other options because its
tically produced cars cheaper by ico, because they are member ment facing options beyond kets, compared with China’s U.S. firms could be leaned on, response has to match the
comparison. This effect of rais- countries of the North Ameri- tariffs to retaliate. smaller, less globally connected face additional and aggravating Trump administration’s
ing prices on consumers is com- can Free Trade Agreement. Beijing has responded in ones. regulation, or be sanctioned threats. “This is a bet on whose
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The initiative remains in the Dawson and Mike Spector penalties of a similar value. But the U.S.’s tune,” said Mei Xinyu, nus, an associate at the Univer- —Lin Zhu
planning stages and still faces contributed to this article. if the Trump administration a researcher with the govern- sity of Oxford’s China Center contributed to this article.
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OBITUARIES
A N N A C H E N N A U LT AMSALE ABERRA
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nna Chan and Gen. Claire Flying Tigers, a volunteer squadron of Ethiopia, was toppled from herself. That sparked a decision to
Chennault were an unlikely led by Gen. Chennault.) power. In the ensuing turmoil, her create her own company, known
match. When they met in In her political life, she was a father, a government official, was as Amsale, to design wedding
World War II, she was a fledgling fierce opponent of communism imprisoned. gowns and bridesmaid dresses.
Chinese journalist. He was 30 who called the Mao regime “mas- Cut off from financial support, Her celebrity clients have in-
years older and commander of the ters of Chinese slavery.” Ms. Aberra took on menial jobs. cluded Kim Basinger and Halle
U.S. 14th Air Force helping Chinese In 1968, when he was running One was at a Jack in the Box ham- Berry. The dresses are sold at a
troops fight Japanese invaders. for president, Richard Nixon en- burger stand, where she was company-owned retail store on
She was single. He was married, couraged her to serve as a secret swiftly fired after managers found Madison Avenue in New York and
with eight children back home in channel for communications with she was so shy and soft-spoken at scores of other retailers, in-
the U.S. She noticed his “strong- the government of South Vietnam- that the chefs couldn’t hear the cluding Nordstrom and Neiman
jawed face” and “steady dark ese President Nguyen Van orders she was supposed to shout Marcus.
eyes,” she wrote in a memoir. A Thieu. That led to accusations, to them. Ms. Aberra found other Ms. Aberra died April 1 of uter-
few years later, newly divorced, he backed by wiretap evidence, that jobs and eventually put herself ine cancer at a hospital in New
returned to China and proposed Mr. Nixon used her to encourage through the Fashion Institute of York. She was 64.
marriage. She lent him $500 so he Mr. Thieu to stall on peace talks, Technology in New York. —James R. Hagerty
could afford the $1,500 engage- dimming prospects for a break-
ment ring she had picked out. through that might have helped
He called her “Little One” and Democratic nominee Hubert Hum-
urged her to preserve her slim fig- Chennault. Senators and other im- phrey win the election. JA M ES H O L L A N D
ure. She wrote that their marriage portant people trooped to her Wa- Prof. Forslund said she doubted 1925 — 2017
was full of joy, though she fretted tergate home for parties. Yet she Mrs. Chennault’s intervention
about his chain smoking. When he knew her influence was limited. changed Mr. Thieu. South Vietnam-
died of lung cancer in 1958, Mrs.
Chennault and their two daughters
had to make a new life.
“People who make national pol-
icy are all white men,” she told a
reporter in 1978.
ese leaders, seeing Mr. Nixon as
the candidate who would support
them more firmly, “were already
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eventually made a living by helping han Hsiang-mei was born she just encouraged them in that
U.S. companies gain access to June 25, 1923, in Beijing, the belief,” Prof. Forslund said.
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Asian markets. She also wrote second of six daughters, with In 1981, however, she made her
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more than 40 books and served as no brothers. Her father was an Ox- first trip to China since the 1949 hen the precocious was in its infancy. Little was
an informal intermediary between ford-educated professor of law. Her Chinese takeover and joined Sen. James Holland enrolled known about side effects and
Asian leaders and American politi- mother had been to a French fin- Ted Stevens in a meeting with in Princeton University likely success rates. In the circum-
cians. She raised hundreds of thou- ishing school. Her grandfa-
on Deng Xiaoping. Mrs. Chennault at 16, he was torn between law stances, using chemotherapy
sands of dollars for Republicans. ther Liao Fengshu was a poet and later recalled that the Chinese and medicine. Then, in a biology risked violating the physician’s
She never achieved her aim of China’s general consul in Cuba. leader wanted her, not Mr. Stevens, course, he found himself fasci- oath of “first, do no harm.”
becoming a high-ranking represen- As Japanese troops overran to sit next to him and quipped: nated by wriggling paramecia. That didn’t deter Dr. Holland.
tative of her adopted country. In- China in 1937, her family fled to “There are 100 senators but there That set him on course for Co- “If you do no harm then you do
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stead, she was fobbed off with ap- Hong Kong, where Anna enrolled in is only one Anna Chennault.” lumbia University’s medical no harm to the cancer either,” he
pointments to advisory a Roman Catholic school. After the She is survived by two daugh- school, where he discovered told the New York Times in 1986,
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committees. President Lyndon Japanese invaded Hong Kong in ters, two grandsons and three sis- something else: He lacked the when he served as chief of oncol-
Johnson once referred to her as a late 1941, she and her sisters ters. She never remarried and kept dexterity for surgery and couldn’t ogy at Mount Sinai Hospital in
“good-looking girl.” Newspapers moved back to the mainland. She a portrait of the general on an ea- tie a knot with one hand. He New York.
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described her as a “Dragon Lady.” earned a university degree and sel near her dinner table. In a 1962 proved far more adept as an on- Dr. Holland died of respiratory
She died March 30 at age 94 in joined a Chinese news agency. memoir, she wrote, “My love for cologist, professor and researcher failure March 22 at his home in
her penthouse home in the Water- After her husband’s death, she him was an unchanging love, high who helped pioneer the use of Scarsdale, N.Y. He was 92. His
gate complex in Washington. worked for a linguistics institute at and deep, free and faithful, strong chemotherapy to treat cancer in wife, Jimmie Holland, specialized
“She knew everybody who mat- Georgetown University and was a as death.” the 1950s and beyond. in psychological treatment for the
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tered,” said Catherine Forslund, a vice president of Flying Tiger Line, When he got his start at Fran- emotional distress of cancer pa-
professor at Rockford University helping the cargo airline secure Read a collection of in-depth cis Delafield Hospital in New York tients. She died in December.
who wrote a biography of Mrs. landing rights in Asia. (The cargo profiles at WSJ.com/Obituaries in the early 1950s, chemotherapy —James R. Hagerty
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BY JON EMONT cording to accounts from sur- launched a campaign that has The UNHCR said in a re-
AND ANITA RACHMAN vivors relayed by the driven some 700,000 Rohingya cent, separate statement that
Gang Violence Is Blamed The United Nations’ refugee
Indonesians, five Rohingya
had earlier died aboard the
across the border to Bangladesh
in response to what the govern-
the number of boats leaving
Myanmar this year has been
For Rise in London Murders agency warned that more
boats carrying Rohingya refu-
vessel and their remains were
pushed overboard.
ment said were terrorist at-
tacks. Some 200,000 Rohingya
small in part because Roh-
ingya are more aware of the
BY JASON DOUGLAS 53 murders in the British capi- gees may be stranded in the The U.N. High Commis- remain in Myanmar, many of danger of making the trip.
tal in the year through April 5, Andaman Sea on the eve of sioner for Refugees said in a them eking out a precarious ex- On Tuesday, a boat carrying
LONDON—A series of stab- 16 more than in the first four the dangerous monsoon sea- statement that it had uncon- istence in camps following ear- 56 Rohingya came ashore
bings has put the number of months of 2017. son, ratcheting up concern for lier rounds of violence. safely in Malaysia, the first
murders in London this year In New York through April the Muslim minority following The seaborne exodus had confirmed boat to have left
on a par with New York, with 1, there were 59 homicides, ac- the Myanmar military’s expul- failed to materialize until this Myanmar for elsewhere in
police and lawmakers blaming cording to New York City Po- sion of hundreds of thousands
The seaborne exodus week, however, but now comes Southeast Asia this year.
the surge on drugs and gang- lice Department figures, 12% from the country. of Rohingya comes as as the monsoon season in the There were no reported casu-
related violence. fewer than during the period a The U.N.’s alarm was Bay of Bengal, accompanied by alties.
The spate has increased year earlier. sounded the same day that an
the monsoon season some of the world’s most fero- There are signs that more
pressure on Prime Minister Violent crime in London has Indonesian search-and-rescue is due to begin. cious cyclones, is due to begin Rohingya may attempt to flee
Theresa May to respond, with historically been much lower mission found a boat with five this month. in the next few weeks before
the issue likely to feature heav- than in New York, which both starving Rohingya on board In 2015, tens of thousands the weather door slams shut.
ily in elections to local govern- have a population of 8.6 mil- off the coast of Aceh province of Rohingya on rickety boats Myanmar regards the Roh-
ment councils in London May 3. lion. In 2017, there were 292 off the northern tip of Suma- firmed reports that several fled Myanmar to Thailand, In- ingya as illegal migrants from
A group of more than 40 murders in New York and 116 tra island, part of the long other boats with more Roh- donesia and Malaysia. Hun- Bangladesh, though many of
opposition lawmakers, many in London, excluding 13 vic- route the Rohingya use to flee ingya aboard were at sea. “We dreds died at sea due to a them have lived in Myanmar
of them representing London tims of terrorist attacks. to Myanmar to other parts of are concerned for their safety combination of lack of sup- for generations. The govern-
constituencies, on Friday Unusually for the U.K., Southeast Asia. and hope that they will be res- plies, stormy seas and unsea- ment denies them citizenship.
wrote to Mrs. May and Home where gun-control laws are The survivors had run out cued,” the statement said. worthy vessels. Since then, a The U.N. has said that the re-
Secretary Amber Rudd urging strict, seven of the dead so far of food and water and had An exodus by sea of Roh- crackdown on human traffick- cent campaign against them
tougher action and more fund- this year were shot. There been adrift for about 20 days ingya has been feared since Au- ing by nations along the route bears the hallmarks of geno-
ing for law enforcement. were only 10 fatal shootings in on a boat lacking a motor, In- gust, when the military in Bud- has largely prevented more cide. Myanmar’s government
Police said there have been all of 2017. donesian authorities said. Ac- dhist-majority Myanmar mass sailings. denies it.
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OPINION
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
By Yoram Hazony in recent centuries. He offers us no
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charts describing the breakdown
lot of people are selling of marriage or the increase in out-
Enlightenment these of-wedlock births in “enlightened”
days. After the Brexit societies. Nor is he worried about
vote and the election of the destruction of religion or the
President Trump, David national state. Kant believed that
Brooks published a paean to the both were out of conformity with
“Enlightenment project,” declaring reason, and Mr. Pinker sees no
it under attack and calling on grounds to disagree.
readers to “rise up” and save it. Which brings us to the heart of
Commentary magazine sent me a what’s wrong with the neo-Enlight-
letter asking for a donation to pro- enment movement. Mr. Pinker
vide readers “with the enlighten- praises skepticism as a corner-
ment we all so desperately crave.” stone of the Enlightenment’s “par-
And now there’s Steven Pinker’s adigm of how to achieve reliable
impressive new book, “Enlighten- knowledge.” But the principal fig-
ment Now,” which may be the de- ures of Enlightenment philosophy
finitive statement of the neo-En- weren’t skeptics. Just the oppo-
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Today’s advocates oversell Washington, Jay, Hamilton and distinct ideas”—and then proceed- lightenment’s critics understood to so long as the weakness and unre-
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Madison initiated a national gov- ing by means of infallible deduc- be both historically false and dan- liability of human reason were
the benefits of unfettered ernment for the U.S., they primar- tions to what Kant called “apodic- gerous. While the theory did rela- kept firmly in view. As Newton
reason. They dismiss the ily turned to this conservative tra- tic certainty.” Since this method tively little harm in tradition- wrote in his “Opticks”: “Arguing
dition, adapting it to local
on worked in mathematics, Descartes bound Britain, it led to catastrophe from experiments and observations
contributions of tradition, conditions. had insisted, it could be applied to in Europe. Imported into France by by induction be no demonstration
religion and nationalism Nor is there much truth in the all other disciplines. The idea was Rousseau, it quickly pulled down of general conclusions, yet it is the
assertion that we owe modern sci- subsequently taken up and refined the monarchy and the state, pro- best way of arguing which the na-
to human progress. ence and medicine to Enlighten- by Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spi- ducing a series of failed constitu- ture of things admits of.”
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claim of origin can be made by the Jacques Rousseau as well as Kant. nally the Napoleonic Wars—all in think of these moderate, skep-
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the late 18th century,” when philos- Renaissance, the period between the name of infallible and universal tical words frequently these
ophers “replaced dogma, tradition the 15th and 17th centuries, partic- his view of “reason”—and of reason. Millions died as Napoleon’s days, as I follow the political
and authority with reason, debate ularly in Italy, Holland and Eng- its power, freed from the armies sought to destroy and re- and cultural transformation of the
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and institutions of truth-seeking.” land. Tradition-bound English shackles of history, tradition build every government in Europe English-speaking world. American
Mr. Brooks concurs, assuring his kings, for example, sponsored and experience—is what Kant in accordance with the one correct and British elites, once committed
readers that “the Enlightenment pathbreaking scientific institutions called “Enlightenment.” It is com- political theory allowed by Enlight- to a blend of tradition and skepti-
project gave us the modern world.” such as the Royal College of Physi- pletely wrong. Human reason is in- enment philosophy. Yet Napoleon cism, now clamor for Enlighten-
So give thanks for “thinkers like cians, founded in 1518. One of its capable of reaching universally was simply trying, in Mr. Brooks’s ment. They insist that they have
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John Locke and Immanuel Kant members, William Harvey, discov- valid, unassailably correct answers phrase, to “think things through attained universal certainties.
who argued that people should ered the circulation of the blood in to the problems of science, moral- from the ground up.” They display contempt worthy of
stop deferring blindly to authority” the early 17th century. The Royal ity and politics by applying the Advocates of the Enlightenment Kant himself toward those who de-
and instead “think things through Society of London for Improving methods of mathematics. tend to skip this part of the story. cline to embrace their dogmas—
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from the ground up.” Natural Knowledge, founded in The first warning of this was Mr. Pinker’s 450-page book doesn’t branding them “unenlightened,”
As Mr. Pinker sums it up: “Prog- 1660, was led by such men as Rob- Descartes’s 1644 magnum opus, mention the French Revolution. Mr. “immature,” “illiberal,” “back-
ress is a gift of the ideals of the ert Boyle and Isaac Newton, deci- “The Principles of Philosophy,” Pinker cites Napoleon as an “expo- ward-looking,” “deplorable” and
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Enlightenment, and will continue sive figures in physics and chemis- which claimed to reach a final de- nent of martial glory” but says worse.
to the extent that we rededicate try. Again, these were politically termination of the nature of the nothing about his launching a uni- If these elites still had access to
ourselves to those ideals.” and religiously conservative fig- universe by moving from self-evi- versal war in the name of reason. common sense, they wouldn’t talk
Very little of this is true. Con- ures. They knew the arguments, dent premises through infallible These writers also tend to pass over this way. Enlightenment overcon-
sider the claim that the U.S. Con- later associated with the Enlight- deductions. This voluminous work Karl Marx’s debt to the Enlighten- fidence has gone badly wrong of-
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stitution was a product of Enlight- enment, for overthrowing political, is so scandalously absurd that no ment. Marx saw himself as promot- ten enough to warrant serious
enment thought, derived by moral and religious tradition, but unabridged English version is in ing universal reason, extending the doubts about claims made in the
throwing out the political tradi- mostly they rejected them. print today. Yet Descartes’s mas- work of the French Revolution by name of reason—just as doubt is
tions of the past and applying un- In short, the principal advances terpiece took Europe by storm and insisting that the workers of the valuable in approaching other sys-
fettered human reason. Disproving that today’s Enlightenment enthu- for decades was the main textbook world stop (again in Mr. Brooks’s tems of dogma. Such doubts
this idea requires only reading ear- siasts want to claim were “set in of the Cartesian school of science. words) “deferring blindly to author- would counsel toleration for dif-
lier writers on the English consti- motion” much earlier. And it isn’t Kant followed this dubious exam- ity.” The “science” Marx developed ferent ways of thinking. National
tution. The widely circulated 15th- at all clear how helpful the En- ple with his “Metaphysical Foun- “from the ground up” killed tens of and religious institutions may not
century treatise “In Praise of the lightenment was once it arrived. dations of Natural Science” (1786), millions in the 20th century. fit with the Enlightenment, but
Laws of England,” written by the What, then, was “the Enlighten- in which he claimed to have de- The Enlightenment also propa- they may have important things to
jurist John Fortescue, clearly ex- ment”? This term was promoted, duced Newton’s laws of motion us- gated the myth that people’s only teach us nonetheless.
plains due process and the theory first and foremost, by the late-18th- ing pure reason, without empirical moral obligations are those they The most important political
now called “checks and balances.” century philosopher Immanuel evidence. freely choose by reasoning. That truth of our generation may be
The English constitution, Fortescue Kant. Mr. Pinker opens his first It was once well understood theory has devastated the family, this: You can’t have both Enlight-
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wrote, establishes personal liberty chapter by endorsing Kant’s decla- that much of the modern world’s an institution built on moral obli- enment and skepticism. You have
and economic prosperity by shield- ration that only reason allows hu- success grew out of conservative gations that many people, it turns to choose.
ing the individual and his property man beings to emerge from their traditions that were openly skep- out, won’t choose unless guided by
from the government. The protec- “self-incurred immaturity” by cast- tical of reason. When I was a tradition. Mr. Pinker’s book is Mr. Hazony is author of “The
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tions that appear in the U.S. Bill of ing aside the “dogmas and formu- graduate student at Rutgers in the filled with charts showing the im- Virtue of Nationalism,” forthcom-
Rights were mostly set down in las” of authority and tradition. 1980s, the introductory course in provement in material conditions ing from Basic.
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onald Trump and his advisers spent pay more for pork because the beans are used Sean Rushton’s “Monetary Reform fixed to gold or a basket requires
much of Friday telling everyone that mainly to feed pigs. But U.S. farmers will suffer Would Rebalance Trade” (op-ed, fiscal-policy coordination among
March 29) could mislead some about countries, a la the euro, and we see
the U.S. is not in a trade war with China, more if Argentine and Brazilian soybean pro-
the role played by the Bretton how that’s working.
but investors weren’t buying ducers snatch American mar- Woods conference, which was held ROBERT BLOHM
it. Equity markets took a major Trump to Iowa: ket share. before the close of World War II, not Toronto
header, falling by more than The financial hit would after World War II as suggested in
2% across the board. Maybe
You’ll have to suffer come at a rough time in the his piece. Mr. Rushton accurately points to
investors are starting to look while I force Xi farm states, which have had to The U.S. dollar was backed by gold the dollar’s status as the pre-emi-
at the damage Mr. Trump may cope with low commodity only for international purposes. It nent global reserve currency, and
do to the Farm Belt states and
Jinping to give in. prices for several years. The led to the preposterous dichotomy how this is at least as large a prob-
to the GOP’s chances of hold- nearby table shows how sev- where U.S. citizens were forbidden to lem for the trade balance as any for-
ing Congress. eral agriculture states under- demand gold for their dollars, but mal trade treaties or practices. How-
Mr. Trump raised the stakes late Thursday in performed in income gains last year. Iowa, foreigners could and did demand ever, his proposed lack of flexibility
gold for theirs. for the dollar’s exchange rate vis-à-
his tariff showdown with Beijing, vowing to im- which Mr. Trump carried by 9.5% in 2016, fin-
This bifurcation between domestic vis other currencies would make the
pose another $100 billion in tariffs on Chinese ished 49th out of 50. As a swing state that Ba- and foreign monetary policy lacked trade deficit larger, not smaller.
goods in light of its “unfair retaliation” after his rack Obama carried twice, Iowa could easily the discipline of a true gold standard The record for fixed exchange
initial $50 billion in tariffs. The latest target list swing back in 2020. that existed before World War I, rates is one of less, not more, fiscal
still hasn’t been drawn up, and the silver-lining Farm-state Republicans are beginning to no- dooming the Bretton Woods agree- discipline and therefore greater, not
crowd is hoping that Mr. Trump was merely tice. “China is guilty of many things, but the ment to failure from the very begin- smaller, trade deficits. While it is not
popping off as part of his negotiating strategy. President has no actual plan to win right now. ning. The Federal Reserve, in cahoots clear exactly why, when countries fix
Maybe that’s right. But then China popped off He’s threatening to light American agriculture with the federal government, sealed their exchange rates they have an
in return, saying it is ready to “forcefully” strike on fire,” said Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse on its fate as it implemented inflation- ability to borrow more. Consider Ar-
back if the new tariffs are imposed. Thursday. “Let’s absolutely take on Chinese bad ary policies throughout the entire gentina in the 1880s. It was on the
That’s the problem with protectionism. The behavior, but with a plan that punishes them in- period when the Bretton Woods gold standard and borrowed exces-
agreement was in force. sively, leading to the Baring crisis of
other side can strike back, and businesses and stead of us. This is the dumbest possible way ERIK D. RANDOLPH 1890. For that matter, Argentina’s
markets don’t know when the politicians will to do this.” Harrisburg, Pa.currency board with the U.S. dollar
decide to stop pounding their chests. Someone in the White House seems to know in the 1990s didn’t instill fiscal disci-
i i i the risks because its press shop spent Friday Mr. Rushton drives home the idea pline sufficient to avoid a debt crisis
We’ve been warning since Mr. Trump first sending out missives telling farmers not to that deficits come as a pair: trade in 2002. Moreover, Greece, on join-
emerged as a candidate that his nationalist eco- worry. Mr. Trump’s $100 billion tariff threat deficit and budget deficit. If your ing the euro—a currency union being
nomics should be taken seriously. This is one on Thursday included that he had told the sec- currency is the global reserve cur- the most rigid form of fixed ex-
policy he seems truly to believe in, he has em- retary of agriculture “to use his broad author- rency, you inevitably fall into the change-rate system possible—went
powered protectionist ity to implement a twin deficits. While unlikely to on a borrowing binge that ended in
advisers, and previous Farm State Struggles plan to protect our prompt immediate global currency disaster.
reform, this does suggest that the Look at Mexico. It had recurring
Congresses have given farmers and agricul-
Percent change in personal income growth in 2017, U.S., in attempting to manage its crises in the 1980s and ’90s when
a President wide lati- ture interests.” aggregate trade deficit, is spinning the peso was pegged to the dollar.
and rank of percent change among the 50 states
tude to act unilaterally. What’s Secretary its wheels. But I would add that Since allowing the peso to float in
.
Trade was always the Percent change State rank
Sonny Perdue going to that doesn’t preclude addressing an- 1995, Mexico has avoided such debt
ly
biggest economic risk do—buy up all the soy- other country’s policy (like China’s crises.
of the Trump Presi- Iowa 0.3% 49 beans China no longer statist mercantilism) that aggra- Given the evidence against fixed
dency, and now we’re Kansas 1 47 buys? Order farmers to vates the deficit(s), albeit enabled exchange-rate regimes, it is little
living through his
on slaughter their pigs to by them. The flip side of Robert wonder that Milton Friedman
Missouri 2.1 38 Mundell’s prescription for an “inter- strongly advocated that currencies
punch-first policy as he produce less pork that
tries to stare down Xi Nebraska 1.4 46 will also be subject to national” currency, and the reason should float, rather than be pegged.
Jinping. Chinese tariffs? why Milton Friedman rejected it as WILLIAM MILES
North Dakota - 0.3 50 not a practical political proposition, Wichita State University
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fixing the U.S. trade deficit. “I’m not saying kets. One political intervention leads to an-
there won’t be a little pain, but the market has other, and the cumulative consequence is I’m a retired general counsel in the when they want to haul something,
gone up 40%, 42%, so we might lose a little bit higher prices, less investment and slower eco- domestic auto industry. Holman Jen- pull something, or go “up north” for
of it. But we’re going to have a much stronger nomic growth. kins is absolutely correct in his analy- a wintry weekend.
country when we’re finished,” the President Mr. Obama spent eight years interfering in sis of the perverse effect of the LOGAN ROBINSON
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his assertion that “the chicken tax on light truck imports. But he misses
states that Mr. Trump carried in 2016. Appar- a faster growth path, but Mr. Trump’s restric- goes a long way toward explaining a larger point. The tariff has helped
ently he thinks he has them in the bag for 2020 tions on trade, and on immigration amid a labor U.S. pickup truck culture” makes little induce foreign auto makers to build
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as well, though he might want to reconsider if shortage, are threats to that progress. sense. Americans don’t buy pickup assembly lines in the U.S. and Mexico.
the tariff wars continue. China’s trade abuses need to be addressed, trucks and their truck-based SUV Thus, far from limiting competition,
China targeted the $14 billion of U.S. soybean but Mr. Trump’s tariffs first strategy risks pun- cousins because they want to stoke the tariff has increased domestic
exports a year to China, about half of the U.S. ishing America first. He—and we—had better auto makers’ profits, but because competition. Ironically, some foreign
crop, with a 25% tariff. Chinese consumers will hope Mr. Xi is willing to bargain. they actually like them. auto makers are now beneficiaries of
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cheap by world standards, and our san. In fact, the Toyota Tundra tied
ust last week, FBI Director Christopher Mr. Nunes notes this is ridiculous, given northern roads are full of potholes with Ford’s iconic F-150 for the top
Wray released a statement saying he was that the document “is not highly classified.” that a truck suspension can take. The spot with 70% of its content sourced
unhappy with how the bureau was re- More to the point, if an Intelligence Commit- improvements in safety tech, like for- in the U.S. or Canada.
sponding to “legitimate con- tee made up of elected repre- ward-collision and blind-spot warn- The economic lesson is simple.
gressional requests” for in- A week after the bureau sentatives of the American ings, are wonderful for stopping you Taxes change behavior. In the long
formation—and promised a from causing an accident, but not so run, trying to protect a sector may
“transparent and responsive”
promised cooperation, people is not qualified to see
such material, no one is. useful when you are the one hit. well invite even more competition.
That’s when you want to sit up high, Next up: Foreign steel producers will
FBI. But already both the FBI it’s back to obstruction. Mr. Nunes says he’s willing
and have some serious sheet-metal open mills in the U.S.
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and the Justice Department to go to federal court to en- around you. I occasionally get an eco- EM. PROF. TONY LIMA
are back to their old tricks. force his subpoena. We are critique from my kids about my 17 CSU East Bay
At issue is a memo related to the opening further told that the House leadership sup- year-old Yukon XL Denali, but not Hayward, Calif.
of a counterintelligence investigation into the ports this and other efforts to compel cooper-
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Trump campaign’s alleged ties with Russia in ation from Justice and the FBI.
2016. Such information is crucial for Congress In a better world Mr. Wray and Mr. Rosen-
to get an accurate picture of how Justice and stein would have worked out a good faith solu-
Abortion Is Not Part of Happy Princesshood
the FBI handled this investigation. House In- tion. In the apparent absence of that good Regarding Faith Moore’s “Planned Questions for Disney and Planned
telligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) faith, we hope Congress is willing to use all Princesshood” (op-ed, April 3): Hav- Parenthood to consider if they want
ing raised two little girls, I have to introduce abortion into the prin-
has written to both Director Wray and Deputy its powers, including contempt and impeach-
watched virtually every Disney prin- cess stories: What circumstance
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking for ment if necessary, to persuade Mr. Wray and cess movie over a 10-year-plus span. would account for an unwanted
an unredacted version for all committee mem- Mr. Rosenstein it is in their interests to make My daughters loved them all. pregnancy of this lovely girl that
bers to see. The bureau says it will not provide good on the FBI’s promise of transparency and Here is my observation: The sto- wouldn’t turn the story into an
the material because it is too sensitive. responsiveness. ries are really about the supremacy “adult” drama? Or would the un-
of true love. Despite the circum- wanted child be the love child of
stances, the plot twists and turns, the princess and Prince Charming?
New Jersey’s Business Model these princesses discover that they
are indeed royal and extremely spe-
If the point is to educate children,
the kids will want to know what
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erewith the latest installment in our individual tax rate to 10.75% from 8.97% on cial. We cheer for them because happened.
continuing coverage of the race to the incomes above $1 million, restructuring they are courageous—but more im- I believe abortions and “happy
portant, because they are lovely, endings” are mutually exclusive—ex-
bottom between two of America’s business taxes to raise more revenue and
loving and lovable. The happy end- cept in the most sophistic adult take
most progressive Democratic raising the sales tax to 7%. ings are sweets for the souls of in- on what is really appealing to chil-
governors—Dannel Malloy of Phil Murphy wants That is essentially the gov- nocent children. dren, or anyone.
Connecticut and just-elected to raise taxes to ernance model Governor JULIA FLOWERS
Phil Murphy of New Jersey. Malloy has used since 2011, Houston
This week Mr. Murphy made offer free tuition. with famously unfortunate Nature Is Red in Tooth and
his bid for the lead in his economic results for Con-
state’s downward cycle. necticut.
Claw Without Any Humans Pepper ...
Governor Murphy has proposed that New New Jersey is already dead last in the Tax Stu Alderman (Letters, March 27)
writes about species other than hu-
And Salt
Jersey provide what has come to be known as Foundation’s 2018 ranking of state overall
“free” community college. It is already “free” business tax climates. It’s 50th in property mans that cannot adapt easily to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
climate change. While perhaps un-
in New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Ten- taxes but only 48th in individual taxes. Per-
fortunate, this has been the history
nessee. Attached to Governor Murphy’s free- haps Mr. Murphy can overtake New York and of the earth. Long before there
tuition commitment would be an outlay of $45 California to get to the bottom. were any large human populations,
million in grants, which will come out of the Producing a better-educated workforce is the planet regularly has gone
state’s already stretched budget. a good idea in any state, and Governor Murphy through climate variations and
Governor Murphy argues that this “invest- has more work waiting for him upgrading the most species have died out without
ment” makes sense because a larger pool of poor performance in many of the state’s K-12 human intervention.
community-college graduates will attract en- schools, which have been free for a long time. THOMAS MELZER
trepreneurs and start-ups to New Jersey. But how will he attract start-up companies Mount Pleasant, Wis.
“Community college is a linchpin opportunity and individual entrepreneurs to New Jersey
for us,” he says. Of course making New Jer- with the guarantee of higher taxes? Letters intended for publication should
sey’s community colleges free depends on an- One silver lining: Next door in New York, be addressed to: The Editor, 1211 Avenue
of the Americas, New York, NY 10036,
other linchpin: imposing higher taxes on other Governor Andrew Cuomo’s free tuition plan or emailed to wsj.ltrs@wsj.com. Please
residents of the state to pay for it. for state colleges requires recipients to remain include your city and state. All letters
The budget that Governor Murphy’s sub- in the state for several years or pay back their are subject to editing, and unpublished
mitted last month, a 4.2% spending in- grants. For now, at least New Jersey isn’t seal- letters can be neither acknowledged nor “Can you give us a minute to check
returned.
crease, proposes raising the state’s highest ing the borders for graduates. our GoFundMe campaign?”
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As of this week, it is six months tion, which is: Privacy is dead. Get
want to write about some- since the reckoning that began with over it. Some variation on that state-
thing I think is a problem in the New York Times exposé of Har- ment has been made over and over by
our society, that is in fact at vey Weinstein. One by one they fell, Silicon Valley’s pioneers, and they say
the heart of many of our re- men in media, often journalism, and it blithely, cavalierly, with no appar-
cent scandals, and yet is ob- their stories bear at least in part a ent sense of tragedy.
scure enough that it doesn’t have a general theme. They were mostly Because they don’t do tragedy.
name. It has to do with forgetting great successes, middle-aged, and so They do children’s clothes.
who you are. It has to do with refus- natural leaders of the young. But Perhaps what is happening with
ing to be fully adult and neglecting they treated the young as prey. They Facebook will usher in the first seri-
to take on, each day, the maturity, didn’t respect them, in part because ous rethinking, in terms of the law,
grace and self-discipline that are ex- they didn’t respect themselves. They on what has been lost and gained
pected of adults and part of their didn’t see their true size, their role, since social media began.
CHAD CROWE
job. That job is to pattern adulthood or they ignored it. Congress next week should sur-
for those coming up, who are look- It should not be hard to act as if prise. The public infatuation with big
ing, always, for How To Do It—how you are who you are, yet somehow it tech and Silicon Valley is over and
to be a fully formed man, a fully increasingly appears to be. There is has been over for some time. Con-
grown woman. diminished incentive for people to of the federal government, and sud- as a child, in T-shirts, hoodies and gress should grill Mr. Zuckerberg
act like adults. Everyone wants to be denly the University of Alabama was jeans—soft clothes, the kind 5-year- closely on how he took what people
cool, no one wants to be pretentious. integrated. Even the first students olds favor. In interviews he presents gave him and used it. Many viewers
From Facebook to Harvey No one wants to be grim, unhip, to who went in, all young, acted and an oddly blank look, as if perhaps would greatly enjoy a line of ques-
be passed by in terms of style. presented themselves as adults. Of his audiences will take blankness for tioning along these lines: “Is your
Weinstein, America’s And our culture has always hon- course they won. Who could stop innocence. As has been said here, he product, your service, one without
scandals amount to a ored the young. But it has not al- such people? is like one of those hollow-eyed which we can’t live, like Edison’s
ways honored immaturity. I miss their style and seriousness. busts of forgotten Caesars you see electricity? It seems to me you are a
giant crisis of maturity. I have spent the past few days What we’re stuck with now is Mark in museums. visionary, sir, and we should give
watching old videos of the civil- Zuckerberg’s. But he is no child; he is a giant you your just reward, and make you
rights era, the King era, and there is Facebook’s failings are now fa- bestride the age, a titan, one of the a utility!”
It has to do with not being able to something unexpectedly poignant in mous and so far include but are per- richest men not only in the world Mr. Zuckerberg invited Congress to
fully reckon with your size, not be- them. When you see those involved haps not limited to misusing, sharing but in the history of the world. His regulate him. Wondering why, it has
cause it is small but because it is big. in that momentous time, you notice: and scraping of private user data, power is awesome. occurred to me it’s because he knows
I see more people trembling under They dressed as adults, with dignity. selling space to Russian propagan- His public reputation is now dam- Congress is too stupid to do it effec-
the weight of who they are. They presented themselves with dists in the 2016 campaign, playing aged, and about this he is very con- tively. He buys lobbyists to buy them.
Laura Ingraham got in trouble for self-respect. Those who moved games with political content, starv- cerned. Next week he will appear be- He knows how craven, unserious and
publicly mocking one of the student against segregation and racial indig- ing journalism of ad revenues, in- fore Congress. The Onion recently insecure they are, and would have no
gun-control activists of Parkland, nity went forward in adult attire— creasing polarization, and turning headlined that he was preparing for particular respect for them. Nor would
.
Fla. She’s been unjustly targeted for suits, dresses, coats, ties, hats—as if eager users into the unknowing prod- his questioning by studying up on he have particular reason to.
ly
boycotts, but it’s fair to say she was adulthood were something to which uct. The signal fact of Mr. Zuckerberg the private data of congressmen. I hope they are adults. I hope they
wrong in what she said, and said it to aspire. As if a claiming of just is that he is supremely gifted in one The comic Albert Brooks tweeted: “I don’t showboat or yell but really
because she didn’t remember who rights required a showing of gravity. area—monetizing technical expertise sent Mark Zuckerberg my entire probe, carefully.
she is. She is a successful and vet- Look at the pictures of Martin Lu-
on by marrying it to a canny sense of medical history just to save him More than ever, the adults have to
eran media figure, host of a cable ther King Jr. speaking, the pictures human weakness. Beyond that, what some time.” rise to the fore and set the template
show that bears her name. As such of those marching across the Ed- a shallow and banal figure. He too His current problems may have for what is admirable. If we don’t,
she is a setter of the sound of our mund Pettus bridge, of those in at- appears to have difficulties coming yielded a moment of promise, how- those who follow us will be less ad-
culture as it discusses politics. tendance that day when George Wal- to terms with who he is. Perhaps he ever. Tim Cook of Apple, in an im- mirable even than us, and those af-
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When you’re that person, you don’t lace stood in the schoolhouse door hopes to keep you, too, from coming pressive and sober interview with Re- ter them less admirable still. That
smack around a 17-year-old, even if— and then stepped aside to the force to terms with it, by literally dressing code’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s would be a tragedy, wouldn’t it?
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By Michael Judge Having seen racism and xenopho- Elliott explained to her students that resignation. But he stood by his American history. “Without Mr.
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bia in many forms—from the plight the exercise was over, and that what teacher, telling her to continue with Brandmill’s leadership,” she wrote,
’d always known that my grand- of African-Americans under Jim both groups had experienced was “a her lesson—that he, in effect, had “the Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes exercise
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father Dinsmore Brandmill—a Crow, to the murderous anti-Semi- filthy, nasty word called discrimina- her back. A few years later, in a would probably never have happened
World War II veteran, history tism that sparked the Holocaust, to tion,” which means “treating people book about the exercise, she in- even once, and it certainly wouldn’t
teacher and K-12 principal—had de- Japan’s “superior race” justifications a certain way because they are dif- scribed the following: “For Mr. have been allowed to be repeated. . .
voted his life to educating Iowa’s for invading and slaughtering its ferent.” When she asked the children Brandmill, who was the kind of . He was the best Principal I’ve ever
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children. But it wasn’t until recently, if that was fair, they shouted in uni- principal all teachers dream of—and had, and one of the few men I’ve
as the 50th anniversary of the assas- son: “No!” They had learned, how- a few lucky ones find.” known whose integrity was without
sination of Martin Luther King Jr. After MLK’s assassination ever briefly, what if felt like to be the The Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes exer- question. Even now, I consider him a
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approached, that I understood the victims of prejudice. cise has since been taught countless hero, a friend, and a Blessing.”
true breadth of his legacy. he stood behind a teacher When news of the eye-color exer- times to children and adults around Dinsmore Brandmill, the son of an
My mother was 8 when her father who gave the world a lesson cise spread, many in the community the world. In 1985 it was the subject orphaned German émigré, was born
shipped out for Okinawa and one of protested. Some had legitimate con- of a PBS “Frontline” episode titled “A on June 7, 1903, in a small Iowa town
the final and bloodiest battles of the about racial prejudice. cerns: that this type of social experi- Class Divided.” If you watch the doc- named for his mother, Elma.
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Pacific War. More than 12,500 Amer- ment had no place in public schools or umentary closely, you’ll briefly see Throughout her life Elma kept a lock
ican soldiers, sailors and airmen could scar the children emotionally. my grandfather in the first few min- of her son’s hair, which she allowed
were killed there in 12 weeks; an- neighbors—my grandfather under- Other reactions were ugly. Ms. Elliott utes. He’s the elderly gentlemen in to grow to his shoulders when he was
other 36,000 were wounded. Japa- stood the dangers of scapegoating received death threats from around the fedora and winter coat, walking a boy, in a book near her bed. His
nese deaths, including civilians, are whole populations and the impor- the country, and she and her family alongside the yellow school buses eyes, like my son’s, were brown.
estimated near 200,000. tance of reiterating, even when we were called names like “n— lover.” and throngs of happy children.
The Japanese call the battle tetsu fall short, that we are all equal in As the school’s principal, my Ms. Elliott, now in her 80s, re- Mr. Judge, a former Journal dep-
no ame—“rain of steel”—and for God’s eyes. grandfather faced more than a few cently sent my mother a letter uty editorial features editor, teaches
good reason. Japanese forces, in- How do I know that? Because 50 irate parents and school-board praising my grandfather for his at the University of Iowa School of
cluding kamikazes, sank 36 Ameri- years ago this week, the day after Dr. members calling for Ms. Elliott’s courage during a dark time in Journalism and Mass Communication.
can ships and damaged 368 more. King was murdered by a white su-
When the Imperial Army found its premacist in Memphis, Tenn., a
ranks depleted, it turned Okinawan
villagers—nearly all against their
teacher at my grandfather’s school
in Riceville, Iowa, resolved to teach Trump’s Trade Tactic Might Work
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from cliffs with their infants. The lesson came to be known as the U.S. press do- Donald Trump’s rhetoric often China has gotten by with claiming
After Okinawa, my grandfather— “Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes.” ing China’s work fails to notice that trade is a win- it’s a poor, backward country, but
who died in 1988 at 85, his family by Ms. Elliott divided her class by for it? win, but the peanut gallery should such excuses no longer suit its own
his side—was never the same. eye color. She told the children with Right now a bar- not lose sight of the same basic con- idea of itself. Look for a settlement
BUSINESS
Though still a consummate gentle- brown eyes they were naturally su- gaining game is un- text in today’s trade fight: Both sides in which Beijing insists it never en-
WORLD
man and committed educator, he perior while giving them high praise der way that could are putting guns to their own heads gaged in technology theft and now
By Holman W.
was more removed from his sur- and special privileges. She told the leave the world and saying, “Give me what I want or will stop. It will launch new laws and
Jenkins, Jr.
roundings, more stoic about the blue-eyed children they were natu- trading system bet- the idiot gets it.” courts to hear complaints of its for-
world and what he could and could rally inferior, unruly and untrust- ter off, with China Such incentives strongly favor the eign partners. Sure, these reforms
not change in it. My mother remem- worthy, while treating them like sec- cheating less. Not the least benefit, parties reaching a deal and declaring you wouldn’t take to the bank right
bers long rides down country roads, ond-class citizens. The next day, the this would strengthen the political victory for the benefit of the home away. But, long term, China’s interest
holding his hand in silence. roles were reversed. sustainability of trade in the U.S. fans. Both know the U.S.-China trade in profiting from its own intellectual
Neither of them could have known What Ms. Elliott witnessed and other Western nations—an out- relationship is too important not to property should propel it in the right
that a half-century later my mother’s shocked her. “I watched what had come of high strategic value even to put it on a sounder basis. direction.
youngest son—me—would live and been marvelous, cooperative, won- China. Americans, though, have to be
work in Tokyo as a journalist, fall in derful, thoughtful children turn into Both sides are in the crotch-grab- ready to accept some risk if they
love, marry and be blessed with a son nasty, vicious, discriminating little bing phase at the moment. They Americans should not want China to change its behavior.
who is half Japanese. My mother and third-graders, in the space of 15 min- want their threats to be treated as be too quick to sell Danger can always be avoided by
older brother attended the wedding utes,” she later explained. Racism, in credible even if they aren’t. bending over for whatever China
celebration in Japan in 1997, and I other words, was something that So eager are some Americans for a their own side short. wants. Happily, the U.S. economy is
like to think my grandfather would people learned. Donald Trump failure, though, they strong right now, verging on a labor
have, too, if he’d been alive. After two agonizing days, Ms. rush to convince the world that shortage as rising wages can’t lure
Americans can’t tolerate the slightest So the real question is, “Do we the Obama-discouraged back into the
risk of pain or loss in a good cause. have confidence in the wisdom and workforce fast enough.
U.S. soybeans are on China’s target perspicacity of the Chinese and U.S. Stock markets will never be
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY DOW JONES & COMPANY list, but let us calm ourselves. If China administrations?” Mr. Trump is not happy with uncertainty, and you
Rupert Murdoch Robert Thomson buys Brazilian soybeans, the world a child. He has been in negotiations might wish to put your portfolio in a
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Executive Editor Managing Editor Mark Musgrave, Chief People Officer; concerned, except for the rail and What’s more, Mr. Trump is not a rooted strengths. These strengths
Jason Anders, Chief News Editor; Thorold Barker,
Edward Roussel, Chief Innovation Officer; shipping companies that would bene- bridge burner, whatever you think of are admired by others, including
Anna Sedgley, Chief Operating Officer
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Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page;
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DJ Media Group: can’t just cut the Airbus line, at least up. He is not likely to lead us down Chinese are idiots. The omens are
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THE MASTERS
Augusta, Ga
RORY MCILROY arrived at Augusta National
more than a week before the start of the Mas-
ters. By the time the tournament began
Thursday, he had played 90 practice holes, the
equivalent of five full rounds. In pursuit of the
only major he has never won, McIlroy studied
the course more extensively than ever.
Then he teed off, and it was as if he were
playing somewhere else. The greens were
noticeably faster. The areas around them
were firmer. His caddie, Harry Diamond, es-
timated that the course played at least five
to six shots tougher than it did just a week
earlier.
“That’s Augusta,” McIlroy said. “It’s
amazing what they can do in the space of a
week here.”
Augusta National is mulling whether to
lengthen the course, amid a distance boom
at the top of the sport that is rendering
many classic courses obsolete. But this Mas-
ters is shaping up as a reminder of just how
much of a challenge the club can create sim-
ply by manipulating the land the course al-
ready occupies.
In benign weather, the field scoring aver-
age on Thursday was 1.8 strokes over par. In
windier, though hardly gusty conditions Fri-
day, that figure was more than 2.5 over par
in the late afternoon.
.
Some of the images were ghastlier than
ly
the raw numbers. There was Sergio Garcia,
the defending champion, hitting five consec-
utive balls onto the 15th green Thursday,
only to watch each one spin back and roll on
into the water. There was Phil Mickelson on
No. 9 on Friday, hitting from under the Jordan Spieth, above, and Rory McIlroy, left,
trees, then hitting a tree, then duffing a flop during play at Augusta National on Friday.
shot. Tiger Woods was so deep under a clus-
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disappeared, like the ghosts in “Field of that regard, Augusta National isn’t immune
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It all made for a crowd near the top of sport. The club’s ongoing expansion of its
the leaderboard that left no one asking if geographical footprint, through various land
ci on
Augusta National is still challenging enough purchases over the years, has created op-
for the modern pro. tions for lengthening some holes. The Mas-
“By the end of the week, this will be a ters is played at a current length of 7,435
pretty packed leaderboard, the way the golf yards, which is typically longer than the
course is set up,” Woods said Thursday. British Open and shorter than the U.S. Open.
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“They have it right where they want it. It’s Fred Ridley, the club’s new chairman,
really hard to run away from it, but it’s also mentioned something Bobby Jones, who co-
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really easy to lose it out there.” founded the Masters, once said about the
The Saturday forecast called for steady par-5 13th hole.
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rain and possible thunderstorms, raising the “He said that the decision to go for the
possibility of sloppier play. In most tourna- green in two should be a momentous one,”
ments, that would at least offer the promise Ridley said. “And I would have to say that our
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of softening the greens, allowing players to observations of these great players hitting
fire more aggressively at flagsticks. But Au- middle and even short irons into that hole
gusta National’s ability to control the condi- isn’t a momentous decision. And so we think
tions is weather-resistant. there is an issue, not only there, but in the
In the early 2000s, it installed a SubAir game generally, that needs to be addressed.”
co Fo
system that sucks the moisture out from un- Whether the remedy takes the form of a
der every green to whatever extent the club reduced-distance ball, a longer course or
desires. It’s like an underground vacuum, both remains to be seen. But at a time when
which can be heard only through small, many courses believe they have no choice
scattered vents away from the greens. but to lengthen, lengthen, lengthen, Augusta
The combination of the inherent tricki- National is showing how its teeth have
ness of Augusta’s greens and the firmness it stood the test of time.
manufactures puts a premium on precision. After finishing at 4 under to grab a share
Even when the wind doesn’t seem strong, if “Some of these holes,” Jordan Spieth said, when you have to land it on tiny little areas, of the clubhouse lead Friday, McIlroy said
it’s swirling unpredictably as it was Friday, “where you’re trying to figure out which di- and three miles an hour one way or the other what any major championship host would
it can wreak havoc with player’s nerves on rection it’s coming from—it’s a beautiful day, actually affects our golf ball significantly, it’s want to hear. “Anything under par today
approach shots. it’s beautiful to play golf in, but out here actually challenging at times.” was pretty good,” he said.
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Food Stamp Cuts Would Hit Grocery Chains
has expanded from online
ly
commerce to cloud computing
to entertainment, is exploring
new ventures and capabilities
BY HEATHER HADDON on that could give it more power
AND JESSE NEWMAN Foodstuff in a payments industry domi-
SNAP participation has declined nated by banks and card net-
The grocery sector is brac- since 2013, weighing on grocers' works such as Visa Inc. and
ing for the possible loss of tens Mastercard Inc.
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about 80% of its funding to nu- Superstores Supermarkets† Amazon is also looking at
trition assistance and is set to ways to enter in-store pay-
expire at the end of September. ments, while talking with big
Some participants may no banks, including JPMorgan
longer receive food stamps if Convenience stores Other Chase & Co., about building a
lawmakers approve stricter 5.6% 1.7% checking-account-like product.
work requirements included in *Data as of March 9, 2018 Mr. Bezos gave employees a
†Includes supermarkets, combination
proposals by Republicans on grocery, large grocery, medium grocery mandate last year to push fi-
the House Agriculture Commit- and small grocery stores nancial services as a key ini-
tee. Source: Department of Agriculture Big retailers notice a bump in sales around the time food-stamp funding is dispersed each month. tiative, according to a person
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ché, the more criticizing Amazon, Euro- gressive campaign to super- Companies that operate on-
you should pean regulators investigating vise the fledgling industry. line trading platforms for
question it. potential antitrust violations. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrencies have posi-
Consider “the bigger they Or could this just be a startup, one of the world’s tioned themselves as disrupt-
are, the harder they fall.” stumble? Have big tech com- largest platforms for trading ers of traditional channels for
At their lows this week, panies developed an unstop- bitcoin and other cryptocur- raising capital and exchange
the technology shares that pable business model? rencies, has met with Securi- trading. Trading in bitcoin and
have until recently been the The idea might not be ties and Exchange Commission other virtual currencies that
stock market’s darlings— quite as crazy as it sounds. officials in recent weeks about Coinbase offers, including
Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Charlie Munger, Warren Buf- registering its business with San Francisco-based startup Coinbase is talking with the SEC ether and litecoin, is virtually
Inc., Netflix Inc., Google par- fett’s business partner, rarely the agency, according to peo- about registering as a brokerage and electronic-trading venue. untouched by U.S. market reg-
ent company Alphabet Inc. shows much mercy toward ple familiar with the matter. ulators.
and other giants—had fallen investing beliefs he regards The step would allow Coinbase mit to U.S. oversight, the peo- partner at law firm Polsinelli But the growth of initial
more than 17% since March as foolish. But when he was to expand the group of assets ple said. PC who advises companies in- coin offerings, or ICOs—in
13. Over that period, the S&P asked at the February annual it offers to include digital to- “It’s an early phase where volved with digital currencies. which startups offer investors
500 index fell 8%. meeting for shareholders in kens that the SEC has argued the industry leaders under- “They have to deal with the a token in exchange for an in-
At first, the drop in big his Daily Journal Co. are securities and could put stand they have to live within SEC.” vestment—has added a new
tech stocks seems driven by whether Google, Facebook, pressure on other cryptocur- a highly regulated environ- A Coinbase spokesman de- opportunity that makes it
bad news that is bound to Please see INVEST page B5 rency trading venues to sub- ment,” said Richard Levin, a clined to comment. Please see COIN page B10
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ternally to add its digital wal- ing more data about con-
ly
let, Amazon Pay, to its team sumer habits and using its
that focuses on Alexa as part size and leverage as a large
of plans to make voice com- retailer to negotiate lower
on mands the next wave of com- fees from the card companies.
merce, according to other If Amazon can move more
people familiar with the com- transactions to its own rails
pany’s plans. or get better deals from card
Last month, Amazon Pay companies, it could save more
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plan is aimed at creating op- “It’s well known that the Walmart generates roughly alarmed by a separate proposal ers and questioned whether it stuff,” said Thad Peterson, se-
portunities for low-income food industry operates on a 1% $13 billion in annual sales from by the Trump administration, pays enough in taxes. nior analyst who covers
Americans to acquire the skills profit margin,” said Alex Ba- SNAP transactions, accounting which in February suggested Since starting about two emerging payment technolo-
needed to take part more fully loga, chief executive of the for around 18% of the money shaving about $129 billion in decades ago, Amazon has wo- gies at research firm Aite
in the growing U.S. economy. Pennsylvania Food Merchants spent through the program na- SNAP spending over a decade ven its way into consumers’ Group.
They foresee people leaving Association, which represents tionwide. by shifting food-stamp dollars lives in new ways. Amazon’s In contrast with many ri-
the program as incomes rise, about 3,500 grocery and con- Amazon, seeking to court from benefit cards to a food- push into the once-sleepy vals, Amazon Pay has largely
with its lower costs reflecting venience stores. “There’s no more low-income shoppers, is box-delivery program that business of payments process- focused on online shopping, a
beneficiaries’ improved eco- way to absorb any kind of de- among the retailers participat- would be state-run. ing shows how it has been timesaving proposition for
nomic status. crease in sales. It’s just that ing in a federal pilot to accept More than 16 million house- transformed. consumers who frequently
House Democrats say it simple. It would be devastat- SNAP dollars online, set to be- holds would no longer receive For years, Visa, Mastercard abandon their shopping cart if
could result in the loss of ben- ing.” gin later this year. Representa- all of their benefits on cards and a few others battled for they have to type in credit-
efit eligibility for one million More than 52% of SNAP dol- tives for Amazon, Walmart and but instead get half in the form market share of cards gener- card information.
people and an estimated $20 lars, or $33 billion, were re- Target declined to comment on of cereal, beans, canned fruits ally issued by banks. Now, a Now, Amazon is eyeing
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billion reduction in govern- deemed at big-box stores such the potential benefit reduc- and other food purchased by different battle is playing out brick-and-mortar stores,
ment spending over a decade, as Walmart Inc. and Target tions. the government through with technology companies, starting with its recent acqui-
according to aides. House Re- Corp. last year, up from 47% in Some retailers serve regions wholesale channels instead of such as Amazon, Apple Inc. sition of Whole Foods.
publicans dispute the figures, 2015, U.S. Department of Agri- where more than one-third of at supermarkets. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, As Amazon tries to get
no
saying they don’t reflect the culture data show. shoppers buy groceries with Trade groups representing trying to make payments, in more merchants to add
most recent proposals. Big retailers routinely notice food stamps, said Mr. Baloga of food retailers publicly criti- many cases on mobile devices, its payment option at the
For grocers, convenience a bump in sales around the the Pennsylvania Food Mer- cized any diversion of SNAP easier for consumers while checkout, including online,
stores and other food retailers, time states disperse SNAP chants Association. “We’re not dollars to the food box-pro- adding to their already formi- some have resisted in part
potential changes to the food- money to recipients each selling luxury sedans. We can’t gram. They have been meeting dable revenue streams. due to concerns that the move
stamp program, called the Sup- month. Kroger Co.’s finance just raise prices to cover those with administration officials. It still is early days, as U.S. could remind consumers that
plemental Nutrition Assistance chief, Mike Schlotman, losses,” he said. Mr. Baloga said his organiza- consumers haven’t flocked to they could return to the on-
Program, or SNAP, come at a said, “We know that we’ll have Reductions in SNAP enroll- tion has been actively lobbying mobile wallets yet like users line retail giant’s site to com-
time when they can’t afford to more people in the store, and ment, thanks to an improving Pennsylvania’s congressional in China and other economies plete the purchase.
lose sales. Amazon.com Inc.’s they’re likely to be in the store economy and state-imposed delegation in opposition to the have. Also, Amazon’s initia- —Emily Glazer
Whole Foods acquisition has longer.” A spokeswoman for time limits for benefits in 2016, food-box proposal and will be tives are unlikely to have a and Peter Rudegeair
forced many grocers to sink the grocery chain declined to have weighed on corporate monitoring Farm Bill details. major impact on card net- contributed to this article.
BUSINESS NEWS
Nine West
Files for
Chapter 11
Protection
BY LILLIAN RIZZO
AND SOMA BISWAS
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is for work that we did not au- Small companies, however, als, labor, supplies and equip- “As a result, Tesla does not second life through their
ly
A small Tesla Inc. contractor thorize and that clearly was un- can’t always make that bet, or ment from on or about Feb. 19, require an equity or debt raise brand. Aéropostale, Freder-
has sued the electric-car maker necessary. When we asked for aren’t willing to do so, espe- 2017, to present,” the lawsuit this year, apart from standard ick’s, American Apparel, the
claiming it hasn’t been paid for documentation showing that cially if they don’t expect to do said. credit lines,” the company said Limited and others have sold
work at the Fremont, Calif., as- Tesla had authorized this un- on further business with the car A lawyer for Wilmington, Ca- in the quarterly sales report. their brands as part of bank-
sembly plant where Tesla is try- necessary work, they were un- company. lif.-based American Integrated The company finished last ruptcy-run auctions after clos-
ing to ramp up production of able to provide it.” Dennis Virag, a manufactur- Services declined to comment, year with $3.4 billion in cash on ing their stores.
the Model 3 sedan. The claim comes as the auto ing consultant who has worked citing ongoing litigation. hand after its negative cash Sycamore Partners has also
American Integrated Ser- maker faces questions about its in the automotive industry for Production of the Model 3 flow averaged about $1 billion a been an acquirer of bankrupt
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vices Inc. claims Tesla hasn’t cash level while it spends heav- 40 years, said auto makers on began last July and has failed to quarter—a pace analysts have brands, including the Limited
paid $513,473 for work on lead ily to boost production of the the whole try to pay vendors reach multiple milestones set said means the company would and Coldwater Creek.
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and asbestos abatement work Model 3, a compact sedan that quickly unless there is a dispute by Tesla, including one last need to raise more money this Authentic Brands, backed
under a $3.57 million contract is meant to transform Tesla about the quality or fulfillment quarter to make as many as year unless it significantly by private-equity firm Leonard
signed in January 2016. It filed from a niche player into one of a contract. 2,500 sedans in a single boosts production. Green & Partners, has been ac-
ci on
the lawsuit Tuesday in a Cali- that sells its vehicles to the The California lawsuit claims week. Tesla on Tuesday worked Tesla has more than $10 bil- quisitive, not only among
fornia state court in Oakland. masses. the contractor had an agree- to reassure investors about its lion in debt and its accounts bankrupt brands. In March,
Tesla called the matter “a Large automotive suppliers ment to be paid within 30 days capital needs for the year, say- payable swelled to $2.39 billion Authentic bought Nautica’s
minor commercial dispute.” are generally loath to file claims of receipt of invoices. ing it was on track to reach a at the end of the year from brand from VF Corp.
“We paid AIS for all the work against car makers and will “Tesla purchased furnishing weekly rate of about 5,000 $1.86 billion a year earlier. Nine West, Sycamore and
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we authorized them to do,” a carry unpaid bills while a cus- lead and asbestos abatement, Model 3 cars in about three —Andrew Scurria Authentic Brands didn’t imme-
Tesla spokesman said in a tomer works through problems, demolition and removal and months, laying the ground work and Lisa Schwartz diately respond to requests for
statement Friday. “The addi- betting there will be future other environmental and reme- for “strong positive operating contributed to this article. comment.
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operational mission, one of the international laboratory Even after a successful flexibility to ensure the station
several recent signs officials ends in late 2019. crewed test flight, it could take remains fully staffed and fully
are hedging their bets on when NASA several months or lon-
on operational” until U.S. capsules
U.S. spacecraft will start regu- ger to authorize routine mis- achieve a regular cadence of
larly ferrying astronauts to the sions, according to outside ex- missions.
international space station.
The agency’s deal to perts, agency advisory In February, NASA’s top of-
The disclosure by the Na- use Russian rockets committees and senior NASA ficial in charge of the crewed
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panded crew could stay at the ods—in the event U.S. provid- dating the spacecraft’s safety technical reviews are antici-
station for as long as six ers aren’t ready to assume and authorizing “regular post- pated. An artist’s concept of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner in Earth orbit.
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was, and did they buy the gun from thousands of customers of the Parkland school shooting
from us,” said Dick’s Chief Ex- on all sides of the issue. confirmed he visited with fami-
ecutive Edward Stack. “It really The company said last lies in Florida in recent weeks.
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puts a pit in our stomach.” month that the decision had Despite its recent moves,
The YouTube shooter hadn’t hurt traffic and retail sales, ex- Dick’s has been subject to criti-
purchased any firearms at acerbating challenges for its cism from advocates of tighter
Dick’s, Mr. Stack said. But a hunting and gun business. gun controls. On Thursday, the
similar search in February after While the company doesn’t world’s largest money manager,
the Parkland, Fla., school shoot- break out firearms sales, its en- BlackRock Inc., said Dick’s was
ing revealed that the alleged tire hunting category made up among the gun-selling retailers
gunman had bought a weapon roughly $1 billion of Dick’s $8.6 that will be ruled out of some of
from the national chain, though billion in revenue last year. its exchange-traded funds.
it wasn’t used in the shooting. Mr. Stack said the private sec- Mr. Stack became president
For Mr. Stack, 63 years old, tor can be a force for change in a and CEO of his father’s then-
the exercise is part of the new debate that so far hasn’t led to two-store business in 1984 and
reality of being in the gun busi- significant legislation. expanded it into a nationwide
ness. It contributed to his deci- “In order to really spur this chain. He remains the control-
sion to tighten Dick’s policy in conversation,” he said, it re- ling shareholder, an ownership
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TAX REPORT | By Laura Saunders
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Over the next three years, its Chinese firms Alibaba Group nance professor Hendrik fliers must fall to earth and growth rates over long hori-
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Continued from page B1 sales nearly doubled again, Holding Ltd. and Tencent Bessembinder of Arizona that underappreciated stocks zons, even slight shortfalls
Apple Inc. and Amazon are to $89 billion. Then, over the Holdings Ltd., “live in a per- State University. That study should rise again are at the lead to enormous differences
overvalued, he said, “I don’t three years ended Dec. 31, manent state of revolution.” shows that the stock mar- heart of value investing. It’s in end results. That makes
know. Next question.” 2017, Amazon’s revenue dou- on ket’s entire return over time conceivable that those prin- the shares of such compa-
Traditionally, the bigger bled yet again, to $178 bil- has come from fewer than ciples may be less relevant nies extraordinarily volatile.
4%
companies have gotten, the lion. 4% of all stocks. today, when powerful tech- With Amazon and Netflix
harder it has become for Investors don’t know ex- Of course, history also nology companies can pul- trading at more than 200
them to keep expanding at actly how to price such rapid suggests that every firm that verize entire industries. times their net profits, and
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mean slowing. Unfettered by 10-fold from 2008 through ness Machines Corp. in the you become,” says John from that iron law.
the costs of raw materials or 2017, the company plowed 1980s to Nokia Corp. in the Linehan, portfolio manager It’s impossible to know for
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ing, distribution and adver- ing the business. So net in- Baillie Gifford, with $290 ping. Price Equity Income Fund. Amazon have broken free
tising, these companies plan come rose only less than billion in assets, had a total And the idea of virtually Despite all the recent growth from the traditional limits to
decades ahead, rather than fivefold, with enormous fluc- of more than $22 billion in limitless growth flies in the of the tech giants, he says, “I growth. Unless you can hold
fixate on hitting Wall tuations along the way. Amazon, Alibaba and Ten- face of much of human expe- don’t think that’s changed.” them for a decade or more,
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Consider Amazon. Over global equities at Baillie Gif- “A small set of superior the sky because they would “Growth Stocks and the St. probably will get shaken out
the three years ended Dec. ford & Co. in Edinburgh, companies drive returns in be bent and crushed under Petersburg Paradox,” finance before you can even find out.
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has alleged the former con- the nationalization. Mr. Bo- then we can really say that appointed a regional governor any cash or assets, Finance railroad veteran on board in
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trolling shareholders, Mr. Kol- golyubov has filed notice of a Ukraine has changed,” said Ka- and funded a government-con- Ministry and central-bank offi- March as part of a bid to re-
omoisky and another business- claim in a U.K. court seeking teryna Rozhkova, deputy gov- trolled militia. cials said. Instead, they vamp the company despite
man, Gennadiy Bogolyubov, compensation for the alleged ernor of the National Bank of But by 2015 PrivatBank was launched a campaign saying concerns about his health.
secretly and illegally extracted unlawful expropriation. onUkraine. “It’s too conspicuous facing increased scrutiny. The the government unfairly took CSX also reimbursed Man-
funds from PrivatBank to fi- Prosecutors said they are to brush it under the carpet.” NBU said stress tests showed control of PrivatBank. tle Ridge for a $55 million
nance their business interests, examining the allegations of After the 2014 revolution, it was undercapitalized. In December 2017, Privat- payment made to Mr. Harri-
according to Ukrainian offi- fraud leveled by the govern- the central bank set about Regulators said they cut a Bank’s new management filed son before he became CEO.
cials. Messrs. Kolomoisky and ment in Kiev. Meanwhile, cleaning up a banking sector deal with the former control- suit in a U.K. court seeking to That isn’t included in the pay
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Bogolyubov each held about PrivatBank’s new management beset by bad loans and inade- ling shareholders: help re- recover more than $2.5 billion package reported to the SEC.
45% of PrivatBank. last week filed a legal claim quate capital. Backed by the structure the loan book with from the former controlling Counting that sum, Mr. Harri-
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Mr. Kolomoisky and Mr. Bo- seeking $3 billion in damages International Monetary Fund, some of their own assets after shareholders. son’s compensation was more
golyubov said the National from PricewaterhouseCoo- which has lent billions to the nationalization and all al- A summary of Kroll’s report than $90 million last year, or
Bank of Ukraine orchestrated pers’ Cyprus and Ukrainian Ukraine, regulators closed legations of wrongdoing would published in January by the No. 2 among big-company
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the seizure of PrivatBank for units for breach of duties in nearly 80 lenders. As its rivals be forgotten. Mr. Kolomoisky NBU said that PrivatBank had CEOs to date.
political reasons by raising the accounting firm’s auditing shut down, PrivatBank in- and Mr. Bogolyubov signed a been subjected to a “large- In its proxy filing, CSX said
capital requirements and of the bank. PwC’s Ukraine creased its share of the coun- letter agreeing to hand the scale and coordinated fraud.” the 2017 compensation pack-
spreading false rumors about unit said in a statement that it try’s deposits to around one- bank to the Finance Ministry, The report said that 95% of age was unique and necessary
the lender’s health, according would defend its position. third by the time it was according to a copy of the let- borrowing from PrivatBank to secure Mr. Harrison’s
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to their spokesman. Ukrainian government fig- nationalized. ter. Their spokesman declined was to parties related to “proven leadership.”
“Audits by respected inter- ures and Western officials say Mr. Kolomoisky’s clout was to comment on the letter. Messrs. Kolomoisky and Bo- Investors approved the $84
national organizations over the PrivatBank case is a test of also growing. As Russia In 2016, the government golyubov, without stating a million in payments tied to
the past ten years have consis- whether pro-Western Presi- whipped up a separatist insur- started pouring money into time period. A spokesman for Mantle Ridge by a wide mar-
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tently failed to find any evi- dent Petro Poroshenko’s ad- gency in eastern Ukraine in the bank to cover what it has Messrs. Kolomoisky and Bo- gin in a June shareholder
dence of fraud,” the spokes- ministration is willing and spring 2014, Mr. Kolomoisky, said was a $5.5 billion hole in golyubov said the claims “are vote.
man said in a statement. Mr. able to win a battle against whose interests include the its balance sheet. consistent with a long-term A spokesman for CSX de-
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Kolomoisky has launched law- powerful tycoons. country’s main airline and a But the former controlling campaign of public defama- clined to comment beyond de-
suits in Ukraine challenging “If we solve this problem, leading television channel, was shareholders didn’t hand over tion” against the two men. tails disclosed in its proxy.
BY ROBBIE WHELAN
Over a Barrel
Shop for
MEXICO CITY—A legal bat-
tle over a small oil-drilling
company is testing Mexico’s
The price collapse of Mexico's
benchmark heavy crude oil
prompted state-run Pemex to
U.S. Firms
promises of greater transpar- restructure dozens of drilling BY NINA TRENTMANN
ency and competition made contracts.
five years ago when the coun- European executives are
Mexican crude-oil prices
try opened its oil industry. targeting U.S. companies as a
per barrel, monthly
The company, Oro Negro, brighter economic landscape
filed for bankruptcy protection $120 at home and abroad boosts
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and eventually cancel Oro Ne- 60 has looked at U.S. rivals as po-
gro’s contracts. tential acquisition targets for
Now, U.S. shareholders of 40
more than a decade.
closely held Oro Negro accuse “The change in the U.S. tax
Pemex of fraud and discrimina- rate will make it more attrac-
tion in an arbitration com- 20 tive for us to pursue such a
plaint against Mexico under deal,” said finance chief David
the rules of the North Ameri- 0 Bourg.
can Free Trade Agreement. The ’10 ’15 ’18 European companies spent
investors argue Pemex improp- Source: FactSet $47.26 billion on U.S. targets
erly terminated the company’s An Oro Negro drilling rig operated by state oil company Pemex off Mexico’s eastern coast in 2014. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. since the beginning of the year,
contracts, gave preferential through April 5, according to
treatment to rival drilling firm Mexico’s historic energy over- which is controlled by David more-level playing field, said longstanding ties to the firm, Dealogic. That is the highest
Seamex and conspired with haul, which in 2013 opened the Martínez, a London-based Fred Warren, a 78-year-old said Adrián Lajous, who
holders of Oro Negro bonds to sector to private and foreign Mexican investor who special- California venture capitalist headed the state oil firm from
put the company out of busi- investment. The reform also izes in distressed assets, and who invested $10 million in 1995 to 1999.
ness—allowing bondholders to sought to improve business Seadrill Ltd., an offshore drill- Oro Negro. Oro Negro, on the other
Companies are eager
seize its rigs—and hand its practices and contracting ing giant with offices around Similar arbitration cases hand, he said, “are newcomers buyers thanks to
contracts to its competitor. transparency, said George the world. Seadrill’s chairman have ended in settlements. Last to the industry. They have no
The complaint says that be- Baker, an energy analyst in is Norwegian billionaire John year, Pemex entered into a experience. They thought this
strong cash reserves
cause Pemex is a government Houston. Fredriksen, who is also an Oro $435 million settlement with a was like investing in real es- and favorable rates.
entity, its actions violate Nafta The arbitration case is im- Negro bondholder and has rep- contractor owned by U.S. engi- tate.”
rules guaranteeing equal treat- portant because Pemex’s ser- resentation on the bondholder neering firm KBR Inc. over can- Mr. Gil disputes the charac-
ment for Mexican and U.S. in- vice contracts are still given committee negotiating with celed construction contracts terization, saying that Oro Ne-
vestors and prohibiting the ex- with no public oversight. “Con- Oro Negro. after it notified the Mexican gro hired experienced engi- deal value for this period since
propriation of assets by the flicts only come to light when Oro Negro shareholders say government of its intent to ar- neers and operators from the 2006 and up from $37.59 bil-
state. Oro Negro’s investors someone makes an interna- Mr. Fredriksen, through his po- bitrate. outset of the company. lion worth of deals struck in
seek $700 million in damages tional incident of the matter,” sition on the bondholders com- Contracts reviewed by The Representatives of Seadrill the same period last year.
through a Nafta arbitration Mr. Baker said. mittee, is trying to foreclose on Wall Street Journal show Pe- and of Fintech, Mr. Martínez’s The total number of Euro-
panel. Pemex has faced questions the company’s drilling rigs and mex granted Seamex better company, denied they were in- pean acquisitions of U.S. com-
The company’s bondholders from investors and lawmakers take over its contracts. The ad- terms than it gave Oro Negro volved with any collusion with panies declined to 113 in that
say Oro Negro rejected a re- for years about the transpar- viser to that committee, New for equivalent drilling projects, Pemex over Oro Negro and period of 2018 from 172 in that
structuring proposal that ency of its contracting, and is York-based investment banker including higher service fees, Seamex. They said their con- part of 2017, according to Dea-
would have kept it solvent, and now drawing public scrutiny Paul Leand, sits on Seadrill’s performance bonuses and a tracts are unrelated to Oro Ne- logic, an indication that this
characterize the Nafta com- over a regionwide corruption board. Mr. Fredriksen wasn’t clause that prohibits Pemex gro’s and attributed their rela- year’s deals are often larger.
plaint as a last-ditch attempt scandal involving contracts made available to comment. from unilaterally canceling its tively beneficial financial terms The drop in the U.S. corpo-
by shareholders to salvage granted to Brazilian construc- “Our main competitor is contracts. to industry expertise and good rate tax rate to 21% makes U.S.
some value in the company by tion giant Odebrecht. Pemex also our primary creditor, and A Pemex spokesman said negotiation. Mr. Martinez businesses more alluring to
pressuring Pemex into a settle- declined to comment on the the culprit of our financial dis- the firm didn’t give preferen- wasn’t made available to com- European buyers, as does the
ment. These creditors are su- matter. tress is also responsible for tial treatment to Seamex, and ment. pullback in the U.S. dollar,
ing Oro Negro in a New York Oro Negro is led by Gonzalo providing privileged terms to argued the entire oil-services Bondholders have balked at which is down nearly 15%
federal court to seize control of Gil, a Stanford-trained banker our main competitor,” Mr. Gil industry suffered when oil a proposal from Mr. Gil to con- against the euro since Dec.
its five jackup drilling rigs used and son of former Mexican fi- said. prices fell. Pemex declined to vert their debt to equity. They 2016.
to extract oil in the shallow nance minister Francisco Gil The Nafta arbitration re- comment on the Nafta com- are suing to secure Oro Negro’s European companies are ea-
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Díaz. quest is meant to send a mes- plaint. rigs as collateral and redeploy ger buyers because of strong
The disputes over Oro Negro Seamex is jointly owned by sage to Pemex about the im- Pemex has “a long tradition” them under new management, cash reserves, the result of
come against the backdrop of Fintech Investments Ltd., portance of offering investors a of favoring contractors with Mr. Leand said. years of conservative spending.
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Metal & Petroleum Futures Wheat (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. June 97.6800 97.6900 97.6600 97.6800 .0050 1,790,594 Euro (CME)-€125,000; $ per €
May 461.50 472.75 459.25 472.25 7.50 199,208 Dec 97.4700 97.5150 97.4650 97.5050 .0350 2,067,478 April 1.2256 1.2297 1.2227 1.2292 .0048 1,808
Contract Open
July 477.00 489.00 475.50 488.50 7.25 150,859 Dec'19 97.1550 97.2200 97.1500 97.2100 .0600 2,190,119 June 1.2303 1.2354 1.2277 1.2349 .0048 484,224
Open High hi lo Low Settle Chg interest
Wheat (KC)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu.
Copper-High (CMX)-25,000 lbs.; $ per lb.
April 3.0510 3.0545 3.0350 3.0540 –0.0155 1,399
May 496.50 507.25 491.25 506.75 8.25 99,703 Currency Futures Index Futures
July 515.00 525.75 509.00 525.50 9.00 96,196
May 3.0685 3.0685 3.0245 3.0585 –0.0160 131,576 Wheat (MPLS)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Japanese Yen (CME)-¥12,500,000; $ per 100¥ Mini DJ Industrial Average (CBT)-$5 x index
Gold (CMX)-100 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. May 589.75 608.25 585.00 607.25 17.50 29,532 April .9341 .9363 .9315 .9364 .0051 777 June 24483 24506 23700 23926 –542 97,088
April 1326.50 1333.00 1319.00 1331.90 7.60 1,635 July 601.00 617.50 595.50 617.00 15.75 16,771 June .9379 .9408 .9348 .9401 .0051 153,045 Sept 24390 24522 23730 23955 –541 2,227
June 1329.70 1339.10 1322.60 1336.10 7.60 369,625 Cattle-Feeder (CME)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Canadian Dollar (CME)-CAD 100,000; $ per CAD S&P 500 Index (CME)-$250 x index
Aug 1336.20 1345.00 1328.90 1342.30 7.60 52,674 April 136.900 137.150 134.550 135.325 –2.150 7,091 April .7830 .7858 .7824 .7827 –.0014 234 June 2657.60 2657.60 2584.50 2605.70 –56.10 62,483
Oct 1341.20 1349.50 1338.00 1348.50 7.70 7,029 May 137.075 137.750 134.975 135.625 –2.425 20,911 June .7853 .7867 .7826 .7836 –.0015 120,083 Mini S&P 500 (CME)-$50 x index
Dec 1349.70 1357.50 1343.80 1355.00 7.70 48,750 Cattle-Live (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. British Pound (CME)-£62,500; $ per £ June 2663.00 2664.00 2584.50 2605.75 –56.00 2,914,793
Dec'19 1394.00 1394.20 1393.60 1394.80 7.80 3,446 April 114.000 114.150 111.950 112.225 –2.075 28,387 April 1.4022 1.4100 1.3993 1.4090 .0083 858 Sept 2666.25 2667.50 2588.25 2610.00 –56.00 81,064
Palladium (NYM) - 50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. June 104.150 104.375 102.050 102.325 –2.725 159,510 June 1.4048 1.4146 1.4024 1.4126 .0082 167,997 Mini S&P Midcap 400 (CME)-$100 x index
June 902.75 909.35 t 890.85 895.15 –4.95 21,123 Hogs-Lean (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Swiss Franc (CME)-CHF 125,000; $ per CHF June 1892.60 1893.30 1839.50 1854.10 –38.60 76,846
Sept 894.30 905.95 t 889.80 892.30 –4.30 2,287 April 52.650 52.700 52.050 52.125 –.325 16,403 June 1.0452 1.0500 1.0422 1.0491 .0050 49,856 Mini Nasdaq 100 (CME)-$20 x index
Platinum (NYM)-50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. June 73.300 73.750 72.350 73.275 –.550 101,812 Australian Dollar (CME)-AUD 100,000; $ per AUD June 6608.0 6611.3 6408.5 6454.8 –145.5 238,723
April 907.50 907.50 t 905.50 912.00 2.20 22 Lumber (CME)-110,000 bd. ft., $ per 1,000 bd. ft. April .7683 .7693 .7666 .7669 –.0013 1,021 Sept 6633.8 6639.0 6437.0 6481.5 –146.0 10,360
July 915.70 920.60 t 910.30 917.50 2.20 72,894 May 538.50 540.40 s 530.00 536.20 –.20 5,178 May .7693 .7699 .7660 .7670 –.0013 327 Mini Russell 2000 (ICE-US)-$100 x index
Silver (CMX)-5,000 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. July 525.00 527.70 s 517.30 523.20 –1.60 1,241 June .7669 .7700 .7658 .7670 –.0013 106,480 June 1533.50 1545.70 1502.50 1515.70 –28.30 8,257
April 16.300 16.320 16.285 16.332 0.012 336 Milk (CME)-200,000 lbs., cents per lb. July .7677 .7694 .7668 .7672 –.0013 255 Mini Russell 1000 (ICE-US)-$100 x index
May 16.355 16.475 16.240 16.362 0.007 151,047 April 14.35 14.49 14.35 14.41 .03 3,551 Sept .7678 .7700 .7665 .7674 –.0013 736 June 1449.10 1449.10 1436.40 1446.10 –30.60 57
Crude Oil, Light Sweet (NYM)-1,000 bbls.; $ per bbl. May 14.57 14.76 s 14.55 14.70 .12 3,567 Dec .7679 .7679 .7678 .7681 –.0013 386 U.S. Dollar Index (ICE-US)-$1,000 x index
May 63.72 63.79 61.81 62.06 –1.48 436,292 Cocoa (ICE-US)-10 metric tons; $ per ton. Mexican Peso (CME)-MXN 500,000; $ per MXN June 90.07 90.30 89.75 89.78 –.37 29,790
June 63.70 63.77 61.86 62.10 –1.44 372,698 May 2,508 2,516 2,440 2,453 –55 79,333 June .05435 .05441 .05392 .05398 –.00045 216,129 Sept 89.66 89.78 89.33 89.36 –.36 967
July 63.50 63.56 61.73 61.96 –1.38 171,831 July 2,542 2,551 2,494 2,498 –41 88,280 Sept .05337 .05352 .05322 .05323 –.00045 544
Sept 62.62 62.70 61.05 61.26 –1.30 190,542 Source: SIX Financial Information
Coffee (ICE-US)-37,500 lbs.; cents per lb.
Dec 61.06 61.43 59.91 60.14 –1.15 256,338 May 117.60 118.05 116.80 117.45 –.10 120,674
Dec'19 56.85 57.13 55.95
NY Harbor ULSD (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal.
56.14 –0.99 141,483 July 119.55 119.95
Sugar-World (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
118.80 119.40 –.15 78,286 Bonds | WSJ.com/bonds
May 1.9850 1.9911 1.9482 1.9578 –.0187 131,366 May 12.36 12.42 12.28 12.34 –.01 366,246
June 1.9819 1.9879 1.9456
Gasoline-NY RBOB (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal.
1.9544 –.0198 89,181 July 12.48 12.49 12.35 12.38 –.09 287,242 Global Government Bonds: Mapping Yields
Sugar-Domestic (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
May 1.9890 1.9902 1.9383 1.9547 –.0269 137,992 May 24.81 24.85 24.62 24.62 .12 772
Yields and spreads over or under U.S. Treasurys on benchmark two-year and 10-year government bonds in
June 1.9929 1.9942 1.9430 1.9585 –.0272 86,565
Natural Gas (NYM)-10,000 MMBtu.; $ per MMBtu.
July 24.93 24.93 24.92 25.08 .15 2,763 selected other countries; arrows indicate whether the yield rose(s) or fell (t) in the latest session
Cotton (ICE-US)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
May 2.681 2.717 2.675 2.701 .026 393,203 May 82.00 83.46 81.80 82.54 –.03 92,038 Country/ Yield (%) Spread Under/Over U.S. Treasurys, in basis points
June 2.735 2.768 2.729 2.747 .018 119,711 July 81.89 83.04 81.44 82.18 .03 83,438 Coupon (%) Maturity, in years Latest(l)-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 Previous Month ago Year ago Latest Prev Year ago
July 2.797 2.829 2.790 2.804 .013 172,603 Orange Juice (ICE-US)-15,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 2.250 U.S. 2 2.262 t l 2.307 2.258 1.242
Sept 2.804 2.838 2.804 2.816 .013 114,772
Oct 2.816 2.850 2.816 2.829 .012 129,246
May 137.25 138.50 136.15 137.45 –.30 8,785 2.750 10 2.778 t l 2.831 2.890 2.341
July 138.70 139.25 137.40 138.45 –.30 3,171
Jan'19 3.075 3.101 3.075 3.088 .013 74,471 4.500 Australia 2 2.039 t l 2.053 2.020 1.689 -22.3 -25.4 44.7
Interest Rate Futures 2.250 10 2.668 t l 2.676 2.803 2.587 -11.0 -15.6 24.6
Agriculture Futures
Treasury Bonds (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% 0.000 France 2 -0.506 t l -0.483 -0.469 -0.487 -276.8 -279.0 -172.9
Corn (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. June 144-280 146-040 144-260 146-010 1-04.0 767,085
May 382.00 390.00 382.00 388.50 –1.00 524,291 0.750 10 0.732 t l 0.755 0.928 0.902 -204.6 -207.6 -143.9
Sept 144-100 145-050 144-070 145-050 1-04.0 93
July 392.00 398.50 390.75 397.00 –1.25 558,984 Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% 0.000 Germany 2 -0.590 t l -0.583 -0.612 -0.786 -285.2 -289.0 -202.8
Oats (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. June 120-180 121-020 120-175 121-005 14.5 3,443,868
May 231.00 234.50 230.25 233.25 .50 4,148 0.500 10 0.500 t l 0.526 0.677 0.265 -227.8 -230.5 -207.7
Sept 120-150 120-245 120-145 120-240 15.0 1,607
July 240.25 241.75 237.75 241.00 .50 2,086 5 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% 0.050 Italy 2 -0.319 t l -0.317 -0.193 -0.075 -262.4 -131.7
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Soybeans (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. June 114-047 114-140 114-042 114-125 8.0 3,410,704
May 1003.00 1037.25 1003.00 1033.75 2.50 296,811 2.000 10 1.784 s l 1.778 2.000 2.098 -99.5 -105.4 -24.4
2 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$200,000; pts 32nds of 100%
July 1022.00 1048.00 1014.00 1044.75 2.75 301,784 June 106-080 106-110 106-077 106-105 2.5 1,936,917 0.100 Japan 2 -0.145 t l -0.132 -0.169 -0.203 -240.7 -243.8 -144.5
Soybean Meal (CBT)-100 tons; $ per ton. 30 Day Federal Funds (CBT)-$5,000,000; 100 - daily avg.
May 379.00 387.30 375.50 386.30 2.70 165,339 0.100 10 0.041 t l 0.042 0.057 0.061 -273.7 -278.9 -228.0
April 98.315 98.318 98.315 98.318 … 353,949
July 382.50 391.00 379.00 390.10 3.10 150,457 Jan'19 97.845 97.895 97.845 97.885 .040 315,078 1.400 Spain 2 -0.339 t l -0.335 -0.359 -0.207 -260.1 -264.2 -144.9
Soybean Oil (CBT)-60,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 10 Yr. Del. Int. Rate Swaps (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100%
May 31.63 31.77 31.46 31.53 –.25 197,450 1.400 10 1.220 s l 1.217 1.405 1.623 -155.8 -161.5 -71.8
June 94.125 94.734 94.125 94.703 .500 29,365
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July 31.90 32.04 31.73 31.81 –.24 154,239 1 Month Libor (CME)-$3,000,000; pts of 100% 2.000 U.K. 2 0.862 t l 0.878 0.701 0.143 -140.0 -142.8 -110.0
Rough Rice (CBT)-2,000 cwt.; $ per cwt. April ... ... ... 98.1025 … 4,094
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May 1236.00 1250.50 1233.00 1249.50 10.50 5,157 Eurodollar (CME)-$1,000,000; pts of 100% 4.250 10 1.396 t l 1.419 1.522 1.105 -138.3 -141.2 -123.7
July 1255.50 1255.50 1255.50 1259.50 9.50 1,861 April 97.6875 97.6875 t 97.6625 97.6700 –.0125 291,489 Source: Tullett Prebon
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iShiBoxx$InvGrCpBd LQD 117.07 0.30 –3.7 iShUSPfdStk PFF 37.20 –0.11 –2.3
EnSelectSectorSPDR XLE 67.35 –1.81 –6.8
iShiBoxx$HYCpBd HYG 85.27 –0.22 –2.3 iShShortTreaBd SHV 110.27 ... 0.0
FinSelSectorSPDR XLF 27.17 –2.41 –2.7 Dow Chemical DWDP 7.375 Nov. 1, ’29 126 –13 133 63.71 –2.64
iShJPMUSDEmgBd EMB 112.57 0.15 –3.0 iShTIPSBondETF TIP 112.87 0.40 –1.1
GuggS&P500EW RSP 98.14 –2.11 –2.9
iShMBSETF MBB 104.39 0.10 –2.1 iSh1-3YTreasuryBd SHY 83.49 0.08 –0.4 Intesa Sanpaolo Spa ISPIM 3.125 July 14, ’22 120 –13 n.a. ... ...
HealthCareSelSect XLV 79.88 –2.41 –3.4
iShMSCI ACWI ACWI 70.82 –1.67 –1.8 iSh7-10YTreasuryBd IEF 102.92 0.44 –2.5 Biogen BIIB 5.200 Sept. 15, ’45 147 –12 n.a. 257.65 –2.77
IndSelSectorSPDR XLI 72.77 –2.77 –3.8
–1.50 iShRussellMCGrowth IWP 120.27 –2.34 –0.3
iShIntermCredBd CIU 106.99 0.20 –2.0
iShMSCIBrazil EWZ 43.42 7.3 Suncor Energy SUCN 6.800 May 15, ’38 133 –11 n.a. ... ...
iShMSCI EAFE EFA 69.40 –0.66 –1.3 PIMCOEnhShMaturity MINT 101.47 0.03 –0.1
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iShCoreS&P500 IVV 261.57 –2.21 –2.7 iShNatlMuniBd MUB 108.54 0.20 –2.0 SchwabUS BrdMkt SCHB 62.96 –2.11 –2.4
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iShCoreS&P MC IJH 185.01 –1.99 –2.5 iShRussell1000Gwth IWF 133.94 –2.29 –0.5 Bank of America BAC 3.950 April 21, ’25 129 12 138 29.63 –2.28
SchwabUS Div SCHD 48.36 –2.01 –5.5
iShCoreS&P SC IJR 76.76 –1.80 –0.1 iShRussell1000 IWB 144.79 –2.13 –2.6 SchwabUS LC SCHX 62.20 –2.17 –2.5
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iShS&PTotlUSStkMkt ITOT 59.62 –2.12 –2.5 iShRussell1000Val IWD 118.50 –2.04 –4.7 SPDR DJIA Tr DIA 239.13 –2.36 –3.3
iShCoreUSAggBd AGG 106.91 0.22 –2.2 iShRussell2000Gwth IWO 187.98 –1.97 0.7 SPDR S&PMdCpTr MDY 337.03 –1.95 –2.4 Williams WMB 4.550 June 24, ’24 190 12 n.a. 24.38 –1.69
iShSelectDividend DVY 94.70 –1.60 –3.9 iShRussell2000 IWM 150.36 –1.99 –1.4 SPDR S&P 500 SPY 259.72 –2.23 –2.7 Northern Trust NTRS 4.600 Oct. 1, ’49 179 10 n.a. 101.17 –3.15
iShEdgeMSCIMinEAFE EFAV 73.47 –0.47 0.7 iShRussell2000Val IWN 121.41 –1.77 –3.5 SPDR S&P Div SDY 90.58 –1.68 –4.1
TechSelectSector XLK 64.05 –2.45 0.2 High-yield issues with the biggest price increases…
UtilitiesSelSector XLU 50.42 –0.79 –4.3
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Issuer Symbol Coupon (%) Maturity Current One-day change Last week Close ($) % chg
VangdInfoTech VGT 167.20 –2.42 1.5
Feb. index Chg From (%) VangdGrowth VUG 139.41 –2.30 –0.9 New Albertsons NEWALB 7.750 June 15, ’26 87.250 1.25 n.a. ... ...
level Jan. '18 Feb. '17 Britain 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.25 VangdHlthCr VHT 150.21 –2.44 –2.5 Monitronics International MONINT 9.125 April 1, ’20 76.750 1.13 77.000 ... ...
Australia 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 VangdHiDiv VYM 81.58 –2.01 –4.7
U.S. consumer price index
Secondary market
VangdIntermBd BIV 81.58 0.27 –2.7 …And with the biggest price decreases
All items 248.991 0.45 2.2 VangdIntrCorpBd VCIT 84.57 0.24 –3.2
Core 255.783 0.45 1.8 Fannie Mae VangdLC VV 119.50 –2.17 –2.5 Ultra Resources UPL 7.125 April 15, ’25 76.000 –2.00 82.000 3.48 –7.45
VangdMC VO 151.76 –2.15 –2.0 Genworth Financial GNW 7.700 June 15, ’20 98.500 –1.35 n.a. 2.75 –1.08
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-6.85 78.07 63.32 AEP AEP 3.6 18 68.53 -0.41 ... 16.60 12.14 HuntingtonBcshs HBAN 3.0 15 14.56 -0.51 ... 56.18 40.41 Nutrien NTR 3.6 ... 44.95 -1.15
2.91 42.75 30.95 CommScope COMM ... 40 38.93 -0.86 -8.99 48.61 38.22 ThomsonReuters TRI 3.5 20 39.67 -0.20
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1.04 121.69 93.25 AmericanFin AFG 1.3 21 109.67 -2.03 -14.90 36.09 23.12 Huntsman HUN 2.3 11 28.33 -1.00 -9.82 259.77 188.62 3M MMM 2.6 27 212.25 -6.42
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-10.46 92.37 74.63 AmerWaterWorks AWK 2.0 35 81.92 -0.19 -7.52 89.70 73.73 ConEd ED 3.6 16 78.56 -0.33 -13.46 11.26 7.48 ICICI Bank IBN 0.9 20 8.42 -0.13 6.06 61.36 47.14 ONEOK OKE 5.4 43 56.69 -0.75 -10.06 52.73 35.07 Toll Bros TOL 1.0 12 43.19 -1.43
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-11.86 12.73 10.00 AnnalyCap NLY 11.5 8 10.48 0.06 -2.23 377.82 185.52 CreditAcceptance CACC ... 13 316.26 -10.56 -8.54 179.07 130.17 IllinoisToolWks ITW 2.0 31 152.60 -6.12 1.66 100.03 74.90 Orix IX ... 8 86.19 -1.81 1.19 150.55 113.76 Travelers TRV 2.1 19 137.25 -2.04
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-0.10 267.95 164.65 Anthem ANTM 1.3 16 224.78 -5.95 -10.48 32.81 25.91 ImperialOil IMO 1.9 62 27.92 -0.58
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3.13 152.78 118.10 Aon AON 1.0 ... 138.20 -1.97 -13.32 62.27 48.27 CrownHoldings CCK ... 21 48.76 -1.44 t -32.40 142.45 63.43 Incyte INCY ... dd 64.02 -19.05 -1.92 71.57 37.30 PG&E PCG ... 14 43.97 -0.06 -10.78 11.29 7.79 TurkcellIletism TKC 1.4 15 9.10 -0.28
-9.19 54.64 33.60 Apache APA 2.6 11 38.34 -0.41 1.59 60.65 42.65 Ctrip.com CTRP ... 78 44.80 -1.07 7.83 18.71 13.88 Infosys INFY 2.3 16 17.49 -0.38 -5.35 38.54 26.97 PLDT PHI 3.8 23 28.47 -0.18 -14.29 3.59 2.44 TurquoiseHill TRQ ... 33 2.94 -0.08
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-0.50 183.50 140.06 Apple AAPL 1.5 17 168.38 -4.42 10.17 140.07 82.77 CurtissWright CW 0.4 28 134.24 -4.69 5.70 53.78 33.23 Intel INTC 2.5 25 48.79 -1.59 -6.36 122.07 100.45 PPG Ind PPG 1.6 17 109.39 -2.28 17.03 36.80 14.12 Twitter TWTR ... dd 28.10 -0.54
2.39 62.40 37.41 ApplMaterials AMAT 1.5 20 52.34 -1.95 6.89 18.87 12.50 CypressSemi CY 2.7 dd 16.29 -0.39 16.72 74.11 33.01 InteractiveBrkrs IBKR 0.6 64 69.11 -1.59 -9.76 40.20 27.08 PPL PPL 5.9 17 27.93 -0.07 16.72 214.33 152.76 TylerTech TYL ... 50 206.66 -2.14
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-14.12 39.55 31.18 AquaAmerica WTR 2.4 25 33.69 -0.28 DEF -5.27 69.23 49.03 InterContinentl IHG 2.4 20 60.16 -0.64 14.23 160.22 96.85 PVH PVH 0.1 23 156.73 -2.78 -7.07 20.89 15.10 UBS Group UBS 4.0 59 17.09 -0.22
-9.80 46.09 36.06 Aramark ARMK 1.1 18 38.55 -0.89 -1.86 172.93 139.13 IBM IBM 4.0 25 150.57 -3.46 -6.78 79.69 61.93 Paccar PCAR 1.5 14 66.26 -2.08 -7.29 40.71 32.88 UDR UDR 3.6129 35.71 ...
-3.81 37.50 19.59 ArcelorMittal MT ... 5 31.08 -1.09 -19.35 66.50 36.00 DISH Network DISH ... 9 38.51 -0.95 -11.32 157.40 128.42 IntlFlavors IFF 2.0 36 135.33 -2.95 -8.64 131.13 89.73 PackagingCpAm PKG 2.3 16 110.14 -3.02 -5.75 52.00 42.51 UGI UGI 2.3 14 44.25 -0.36
-5.91 102.60 83.16 ArchCapital ACGL ... 21 85.41 -0.99 -4.93 116.74 97.66 DTE Energy DTE 3.4 16 104.06 -0.57 -9.96 66.94 49.60 IntlPaper IP 3.6 10 52.17 -1.26 -5.34 54.86 43.08 PacWestBancorp PACW 4.2 16 47.71 -1.52 3.95 35.10 25.43 US Foods USFD ... 17 33.19 -0.31
10.60 45.91 38.59 ArcherDaniels ADM 3.0 16 44.33 -0.10 5.12 107.85 73.51 DXC Tech DXC 0.7 33 99.76 -2.37 14.83 26.01 18.30 Interpublic IPG 3.6 16 23.15 -0.14 ... 39.97 26.78 PagSeguroDig PAGS ... ... 35.71 -1.84 -6.89 314.86 187.96 UltaBeauty ULTA ... 23 208.26 1.34
4.14 104.82 78.97 Danaher DHR 0.7 27 96.66 -2.56 6.27 179.30 115.62 Intuit
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-17.28 31.17 21.75 Arconic ARNC 1.1 dd 22.54 -0.54 INTU 0.9 46 167.68 -4.15 33.74 197.20 107.37 PaloAltoNtwks PANW ... dd 193.84 -2.56 9.56 257.93 181.59 UltSoftware ULTI ...498 239.09 -4.58
9.82 311.67 130.09 AristaNetworks ANET ... 48 258.72 -4.02 -9.54 100.11 76.27 Darden DRI 2.9 20 86.86 0.19 8.66 452.00 251.13 IntuitiveSurgical ISRG ... 70 396.55 -9.57 -16.10 212.80 151.17 ParkerHannifin PH 1.6 26 167.44 -4.74 -10.12 26.48 20.23 UltraparPart UGP 2.7 23 20.43 -0.30
-9.48 87.26 69.67 ArrowElec ARW ... 16 72.79 -3.32 -12.76 80.71 52.51 DaVita DVA ... 18 63.03 -1.16 -4.16 24.30 20.25 InvitatHomes INVH 1.9 dd 22.59 -0.05 -8.46 32.90 21.12 ParsleyEnergy PE ... 60 26.95 -0.81 17.67 23.46 11.40 UnderArmour A UAA ... dd 16.98 -0.49
2.07 36.70 28.43 AstraZeneca AZN 5.4 30 35.42 0.07 -7.10 175.26 107.04 Deere DE 1.7 33 145.39 -5.95 ... 18.52 15.30 iQIYI IQ ... ... 16.02 -0.02 -10.81 73.10 54.20 Paychex PAYX 3.3 24 60.72 -1.42 10.74 21.80 10.36 UnderArmour C UA ... dd 14.75 -0.44
4.31 158.66 95.01 AthenaHealth ATHN ...106 138.78 -5.61 -12.29 92.40 59.92 DellTechs DVMT ... dd 71.29 -1.52 -11.13 41.53 30.78 IronMountain IRM 7.0 49 33.53 -0.24 33.42 115.48 57.24 PaycomSoftware PAYC ... 95 107.18 -1.42 1.74 61.62 50.11 Unilever UN ... 23 57.30 -0.15
-8.04 55.22 45.15 Athene ATH ... 7 47.55 -0.40 -5.27 60.79 43.81 DeltaAir DAL 2.3 11 53.05 -1.16 3.96 4.95 3.85 IsraelChemicals ICL ... 4 4.20 -0.03 0.33 86.32 42.06 PayPal PYPL ... 50 73.86 -3.09 1.90 60.13 49.74 Unilever UL 3.2 23 56.39 -0.07
19.93 62.25 30.83 Atlassian TEAM ... dd 54.59 -1.38 -25.54 68.98 48.25 DentsplySirona XRAY 0.7 dd 49.02 -1.07 16.77 16.98 10.02 ItauUnibanco ITUB 0.4 14 15.18 -0.11 5.50 10.80 7.62 Pearson PSO 3.2 16 10.36 0.06 -2.85 143.05 101.06 UnionPacific UNP 2.2 10 130.28 -2.82
-27.12 20.23 13.52 DeutscheBank DB 1.0 dd 13.87 -0.45
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19.96 141.26 83.55 Autodesk ADSK ... dd 125.75 -2.27 -24.03 45.16 28.79 DevonEnergy DVN 1.0 12 31.45 -0.84 JKL -3.60 74.84 59.13 Pentair PNR 2.1 26 68.08 -2.37 7.11 2.73 1.89 UnitedMicro UMC 3.2 21 2.56 -0.02
36.40 92.65 28.63 Autohome ATHM ... ... 88.21 0.73 22.23 81.91 42.62 DexCom DXCM ... dd 70.15 -2.13 -1.66 20.26 15.96 People'sUtdFin PBCT 3.8 19 18.39 -0.42 -11.60 135.53 101.45 UPS B UPS 3.5 19 105.33 -1.85
-4.70 147.62 113.67 Diageo DEO 2.0 21 139.17 -0.52 -5.29 50.68 31.57 JD.com JD ... dd 39.23 -0.96
15.38 152.57 96.08 Autoliv ALV 1.7 30 146.63 -1.42 2.01 119.33 81.64 JPMorganChase JPM 2.1 17 109.09 -2.79 -8.86 122.51 105.94 PepsiCo PEP 2.9 32 109.30 -1.27 0.13 190.74 100.62 UnitedRentals URI ... 11 172.14 -5.80
-2.98 125.24 95.50 ADP ADP 2.2 30 113.70 -3.81 -7.63 134.60 82.77 DiamondbkEner FANG ... 23 116.62 -7.79
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1.21 127.31 91.50 JackHenry JKHY 1.3 27 118.38 -2.01 0.11 84.49 56.21 PerkinElmer PKI 0.4 68 73.20 -2.70 -6.16 58.50 49.03 US Bancorp USB 2.4 14 50.28 -0.80
-12.79 797.89 491.13 AutoZone AZO ... 13 620.36 -17.02 -8.43 127.23 96.56 DigitalRealty DLR 3.9103 104.30 -0.91 -5.93 95.93 63.68 Perrigo PRGO 0.9 98 81.99 -1.73 -1.99 47.64 18.55 US Steel X 0.6 16 34.49 -2.12
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-6.96 199.52 152.65 Avalonbay AVB 3.5 26 166.00 -0.23 -2.21 18.79 13.55 JamesHardie JHX 1.2 30 17.22 -0.28 -2.99 82.33 60.69 PetroChina PTR 1.2 36 67.85 -1.65 -3.77 139.24 109.10 UnitedTech UTX 2.3 22 122.76 -3.00
0.77 53.46 42.85 Avangrid AGR 3.4 41 50.97 -0.23 1.07 30.25 15.99 DiscoveryA DISCA ... dd 22.62 -0.01 35.28 14.93 7.61 PetroleoBrasil PBR ... dd 13.92 -0.06 1.59 250.79 164.60 UnitedHealth UNH 1.3 21 223.96 -5.11
-2.08 29.18 14.99 DiscoveryC DISCK ... dd 20.73 ... -17.25 41.64 30.24 JanusHenderson JHG 4.0 10 31.66 -0.54
-10.15 123.67 79.13 AveryDennison AVY 1.7 33 103.20 -2.87 11.33 163.75 128.58 JazzPharma JAZZ ... 19 149.91 -2.70 28.48 13.92 6.96 PetroleoBrasilA PBR.A ... dd 12.63 -0.01 4.54 128.15 95.26 UniversalHealthB UHS 0.3 15 118.50 -3.17
0.34 38.20 27.77 AxaltaCoating AXTA ...250 32.47 0.74 -6.66 116.10 96.20 Disney DIS 1.7 14 100.35 -1.76 -2.90 39.43 31.67 Pfizer PFE 3.9 10 35.17 -0.56 -15.12 58.73 43.55 UnumGroup UNM 2.0 11 46.59 -1.36
1.63 74.29 48.00 DolbyLab DLB 1.0100 63.01 -1.59 -10.70 24.13 18.05 JetBlue JBLU ... 6 19.95 -0.69
2.82 56.31 41.17 BB&T BBT 2.6 19 51.12 -1.77 -8.32 148.32 120.95 J&J JNJ 2.6328 128.10 -2.61 -4.38 123.55 95.51 PhilipMorris PM 4.2 26 101.02 -0.68 -12.07 8.94 6.62 VEREIT VER 8.0 dd 6.85 -0.09
-11.00 49.06 42.01 BCE BCE 5.7 18 42.73 -0.39 2.11 105.82 65.97 DollarGeneral DG 1.2 17 94.97 -1.43 -4.13 107.47 75.14 Phillips66 PSX 2.9 10 96.97 -0.80 3.12 84.38 51.22 VF VFC 2.4 47 76.31 -1.18
-8.00 116.65 65.63 DollarTree DLTR ... 14 98.72 -0.28 t -11.73 44.37 33.43 JohnsonControls JCI 3.1 21 33.64 -0.96
-5.11 50.79 33.37 BHPBilliton BHP 5.0 25 43.64 -0.84 15.05 178.75 103.58 JonesLang JLL 0.4 31 171.34 -2.84 -23.63 38.39 20.28 PilgrimPride PPC ... 9 23.72 0.24 -10.83 22.99 17.86 VICI Prop VICI ... 96 18.28 0.10
-3.13 45.43 28.73 BHPBilliton BBL 5.6 22 39.04 -0.54 t -18.31 85.30 66.10 DominionEner D 5.0 13 66.22 -1.12 -8.37 66.67 52.25 PinnacleFoods PF 2.4 12 54.49 0.41 3.23 126.88 88.13 Visa V 0.7 40 117.70 -3.49
-15.47 30.96 23.68 JuniperNetworks JNPR 3.0 31 24.09 -0.26
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6.94 107.00 74.48 BOK Fin BOKF 1.8 19 98.73 -1.73 22.49 236.93 166.74 Domino's DPZ 1.0 40 231.46 -4.33 -6.37 92.48 73.81 PinnacleWest PNW 3.5 18 79.75 -0.55 5.37 237.77 186.44 VailResorts MTN 2.6 28 223.87 -5.04
-10.26 52.20 42.59 Donaldson DCI 1.6 43 43.93 -0.87 6.12 56.75 40.27 KAR Auction KAR 2.6 20 53.60 -1.30
-0.64 44.62 33.83 BP BP 5.7 40 41.76 -0.16 -6.96 63.96 41.10 KB Fin KB ... 7 54.44 -1.33 -2.73 192.93 125.46 PioneerNatRscs PXD 0.2 35 168.13 -4.30 3.52 14.67 7.47 Vale VALE ... 12 12.66 -0.29
-9.11 21.16 15.41 BT Group BT 4.1 15 16.56 0.13 -12.81 41.59 34.72 DouglasEmmett DEI 2.8 62 35.80 -0.35 11.34 31.42 18.38 PlainsAllAmPipe PAA 5.2 24 22.98 -0.18 3.56 99.95 60.69 ValeroEnergy VLO 3.4 10 95.18 -0.68
-7.72 109.06 76.47 Dover DOV 2.0 18 93.19 -4.50 -4.99 24.50 16.77 KKR KKR 3.4 10 20.01 -0.32
6.78 67.69 45.79 BWX Tech BWXT 1.0 44 64.59 -0.64 -0.95 123.96 87.93 KLA Tencor KLAC 2.3 25 104.07 -4.64 5.83 31.77 18.98 PlainsGP PAGP 5.2 dd 23.23 -0.02 5.84 130.29 87.49 VarianMed VAR ... 95 117.64 -2.83
-6.14 274.97 171.17 Baidu BIDU ... 28 219.82 -5.75 -10.54 77.08 61.27 DowDuPont DWDP 2.4 41 63.71 -1.73 -3.80 137.66 77.91 PolarisIndustries PII 2.0 44 119.28 0.68 -16.66 21.99 13.78 Vedanta VEDL ... 13 17.36 -0.63
22.19 126.65 83.23 DrPepperSnap DPS 2.0 20 118.60 -0.05 -11.08 18.82 12.70 KT KT ... 16 13.88 -0.08
-6.51 40.82 25.53 BakerHughes BHGE 2.4 dd 29.58 -0.13 3.10 114.85 86.14 KSCitySouthern KSU 1.3 12 108.48 -3.74 12.70 150.26 97.25 Pool POOL 1.0 32 146.12 -1.51 28.29 78.28 50.09 VeevaSystems VEEV ... 76 70.92 -1.90
3.73 43.24 35.60 Ball BLL 1.0 35 39.26 -1.02 ... 34.37 27.75 DropBox DBX ... ... 30.24 -0.30 -7.43 166.95 117.40 Praxair PX 2.3 33 143.18 -3.53 -15.98 72.36 47.80 Ventas VTR 6.3 28 50.42 0.38
-7.07 91.80 72.93 DukeEnergy DUK 4.6 18 78.16 -0.44 -5.50 74.28 58.76 Kellogg K 3.4 18 64.24 -0.32
-9.06 9.54 7.22 BancoBilbaoViz BBVA 9.7 13 7.73 ... -5.35 22.40 16.28 KeyCorp KEY 2.2 17 19.09 -0.65 -15.52 75.58 57.62 PrincipalFin PFG 3.4 8 59.61 -1.70 2.84 127.24 87.02 VeriSign VRSN ... 32 117.69 -1.53
3.32 106.50 70.14 BancodeChile BCH 3.1 19 99.73 -0.77 -5.62 30.14 24.30 DukeRealty DRE 3.1 34 25.68 -0.29 -14.64 94.67 75.81 Procter&Gamble PG 3.5 21 78.43 -0.37 8.47 106.07 75.60 VeriskAnalytics VRSK ... 32 104.13 -1.32
9.88 37.48 29.44 ENI E ... 17 36.47 -0.02 21.56 55.21 35.05 KeysightTechs KEYS ...108 50.57 -1.48
-6.45 136.10 82.68 BancoMacro BMA 0.7 13 108.40 -1.59 -6.91 77.70 62.91 KilroyRealty KRC 2.4 46 69.49 -0.79 6.61 62.74 38.61 Progressive PGR 1.9 22 60.04 -1.21 -10.30 54.77 42.80 Verizon VZ 5.0 6 47.48 -0.76
8.28 34.98 23.16 BcoSantChile BSAC 3.1 18 33.86 -0.27 -5.54 119.00 81.99 EOG Rscs EOG 0.7 23 101.93 -2.45 -5.07 67.53 52.98 Prologis PLD 3.1 20 61.24 -0.52 2.93 178.25 111.32 VertxPharm VRTX ...148 154.25 -3.41
3.33 125.88 73.86 EPAM Systems EPAM ... 85 111.01 -2.68 -10.00 134.29 104.58 KimberlyClark KMB 3.7 17 108.60 -0.81
1.50 10.82 6.67 BcoSantMex BSMX ... 11 7.42 -0.05 -21.05 23.03 13.69 KimcoRealty KIM 7.8 29 14.33 -0.33 31.96 123.87 70.30 Proofpoint PFPT ... dd 117.19 -1.91 1.72 47.75 28.20 Viacom A VIA 2.3 7 35.50 0.20
-0.31 7.57 5.74 BancoSantander SAN 4.6 13 6.52 -0.08 -17.60 67.84 43.70 EQT EQT 0.3 7 46.90 -1.84 -11.00 127.14 97.88 PrudentialFin PRU 3.5 6 102.33 -2.58 0.29 45.59 22.13 Viacom B VIAB 2.6 6 30.90 0.13
11.44 58.49 33.06 E*TRADE ETFC ... 26 55.24 -1.60 -16.05 21.85 14.69 KinderMorgan KMI 3.31517 15.17 -0.33
17.42 48.74 36.38 BanColombia CIB 3.1 13 46.57 -0.19 -0.25 51.94 27.61 Knight-Swift KNX 0.6 16 43.61 -1.57 -2.11 55.36 41.12 Prudential PUK 3.6 21 49.71 -0.54 42.49 19.14 7.79 Vipshop VIPS ... 35 16.70 0.26
0.37 33.05 22.07 BankofAmerica BAC 1.6 19 29.63 -0.69 -0.69 69.25 48.76 EastWestBncp EWBC 1.3 17 60.41 -1.65 -2.72 53.28 41.67 PublicServiceEnt PEG 3.6 16 50.10 -0.63 s 95.08 36.60 13.10 VirtuFinancial VIRT 2.7162 35.70 -0.45
11.02 112.45 76.11 EastmanChem EMN 2.2 10 102.85 -2.47 18.02 69.48 35.16 Kohl's KSS 3.8 12 64.00 -2.91
-5.69 84.71 66.75 BankofMontreal BMO 3.9 14 75.47 -0.67 1.46 42.35 31.40 KoninklijkePhil PHG 2.6 19 38.35 -0.24 -4.65 232.21 180.48 PublicStorage PSA 4.0 30 199.28 -2.08 7.42 21.43 14.50 VistraEnergy VST ... dd 19.68 -0.54
-6.52 58.99 45.88 BankNY Mellon BK 1.9 13 50.35 -1.38 -3.85 89.85 69.82 Eaton ETN 2.0 11 75.97 -3.28 -9.68 35.21 21.41 PulteGroup PHM 1.2 21 30.03 -0.78 -5.32 165.00 85.45 VMware VMW ... 88 118.65 -3.16
-3.62 60.95 42.20 EatonVance EV 2.3 22 54.35 -1.51 -9.54 20.38 14.12 KoreaElcPwr KEP ... 19 16.02 -0.23
-6.48 66.78 53.86 BkNovaScotia BNS 4.3 11 60.35 -0.64 -22.15 93.88 59.48 KraftHeinz KHC 4.1 7 60.54 -0.77 0.97 36.34 27.74 Qiagen QGEN ...201 31.23 -0.78 -9.66 32.75 25.54 Vodafone VOD 4.2 dd 28.82 0.04
-3.36 53.70 40.15 BankofOzarks OZRK 1.7 14 46.82 -1.76 3.58 46.99 31.89 eBay EBAY ... dd 39.09 -0.94 4.68 86.84 62.68 Qorvo QRVO ...349 69.72 -1.69 -14.63 83.52 64.13 VornadoRealty VNO 3.8 80 66.74 -1.03
s 4.17 141.99 124.46 Ecolab ECL 1.2 27 139.78 -1.47 -13.41 31.45 19.69 Kroger KR 2.1 11 23.77 -0.04
9.17 12.47 9.29 Barclays BCS 1.9 dd 11.90 -0.13 -16.07 71.92 53.79 Kyocera KYO ... 18 54.98 -1.73 -17.03 69.28 48.92 Qualcomm QCOM 4.3 dd 53.12 -1.92 0.10 54.87 33.53 VoyaFinancial VOYA 0.1 dd 49.52 -1.20
-12.30 20.36 11.07 BarrickGold ABX 0.9 10 12.69 0.12 32.33 20.55 8.61 Ecopetrol EC ... 18 19.36 -0.32 -1.16 112.97 90.10 QuestDiag DGX 2.1 18 97.35 -2.48 -11.54 141.20 109.96 VulcanMatls VMC 1.0 25 113.56 -3.43
0.22 83.38 57.63 EdisonInt EIX 3.8 37 63.38 -0.28 12.45 17.39 10.53 LATAMAirlines LTM 0.4 58 15.63 0.02
-1.16 72.58 52.27 BaxterIntl BAX 1.0 50 63.89 -1.63 -36.57 63.10 35.00 L Brands LB 6.3 11 38.20 -0.53
0.67 248.39 175.66 BectonDicknsn BDX 1.4165 215.50 -4.63 22.00 143.22 92.90 EdwardsLife EW ... 51 137.51 -3.40 RS WXYZ
t -17.66 17.05 11.28 LG Display LPL ... 5 11.33 -0.27
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68.32 182.79 34.36 BeiGene BGNE ... dd 164.48 0.13 12.66 131.13 88.07 ElectronicArts EA ... 37 118.36 -2.87
-4.85 74.45 56.77 EmersonElec EMR 2.9 27 66.31 -2.10 -3.03 47.81 32.69 LINE LN ...136 39.75 0.10 -8.19 23.30 18.52 RELX RENX 3.7 26 21.18 0.02 -10.02 162.20 111.68 WABCO WBC ... 17 129.12 -3.84
0.77 74.43 62.00 Berkley WRB 0.8 17 72.20 -1.13 -6.12 43.86 27.85 LKQ LKQ ... 22 38.18 -0.55
-1.38 217.62 160.93 BerkHathwy B BRK.B ... 11 195.49 -5.36 -28.96 19.58 9.05 EnbridgeEnPtrs EEP 14.3 19 9.81 -0.18 -9.32 24.03 19.73 RELX RELX 3.6 27 21.49 -0.05 -5.10 70.09 58.92 WEC Energy WEC 3.5 17 63.04 -0.33
-20.15 42.92 29.54 Enbridge ENB 6.8 24 31.23 -0.26 5.02 218.71 159.43 L3 Tech LLL 1.5 24 207.78 -5.29 -10.15 56.69 46.36 RPM RPM 2.7 18 47.10 -1.62 8.53 163.25 97.26 WEX WEX ... 41 153.27 -5.76
0.30 326350 242180 BerkHathwy A BRK.A ... 11 298500 -3250.00 1.34 181.72 134.19 LabCpAm LH ... 13 161.65 -3.41
-7.87 61.71 47.49 BerryGlobal BERY ... 16 54.05 -1.13 -18.08 14.31 8.01 Encana ECA 0.5 13 10.92 -0.20 1.94 47.17 28.76 RSP Permian RSPP ... 28 41.47 -2.11 -9.55 72.41 59.23 W.P.Carey WPC 6.5 37 62.32 -0.10
3.57 234.88 124.91 LamResearch LRCX 1.0 21 190.65 -4.37 7.79 119.33 66.06 RalphLauren RL 1.8 dd 111.77 -2.62 -10.40 113.51 76.68 WPP WPP 6.3 9 81.14 1.48
2.95 78.59 47.68 BestBuy BBY 2.6 22 70.49 -1.63 16.54 59.70 42.21 EncompassHealth EHC 1.7 21 57.58 -1.42
-13.93 79.17 61.36 LamarAdv LAMR 5.7 20 63.90 -0.54 -19.38 108.29 77.70 RandgoldRscs GOLD 2.5 27 79.73 0.82 -1.56 93.81 69.20 Wabtec WAB 0.6 29 80.16 -1.30
2.28 279.59 199.94 Bio-RadLab A BIO ... 64 244.10 -3.37 6.18 12.11 9.07 EnelAmericas ENIA 0.8 19 11.86 0.08
9.44 62.84 40.75 LambWeston LW 1.2 29 61.78 0.31
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-19.12 370.57 244.28 Biogen BIIB ... 22 257.65 -7.33 9.33 6.55 5.03 EnelChile ENIC 2.0 11 6.21 -0.08 -5.02 99.26 71.35 RaymondJames RJF 1.2 21 84.82 -3.55 -12.60 87.79 61.73 WalgreensBoots WBA 2.5 16 63.47 -1.18
-0.39 79.84 55.18 LasVegasSands LVS 4.3 20 69.22 -1.89 14.94 222.82 150.72 Raytheon RTN 1.6 31 215.91 -3.48 -12.21 109.98 71.80 Walmart WMT 2.4 27 86.69 -1.12
t -14.76 100.51 75.81 BioMarinPharm BMRN ... dd 76.01 -2.69 -8.73 29.41 21.65 EnelGenChile EOCC 2.0 10 24.56 -0.03
-0.38 60.00 40.50 Lazard LAZ 13.1 28 52.30 -0.88 -8.66 62.31 47.25 RealtyIncome O 5.1 47 52.08 -0.29 2.00 74.59 58.33 WasteConnections WCN 0.8 33 72.36 -0.39
8.04 53.00 41.10 BlackKnight BKI ... 32 47.70 -1.05 6.29 63.81 46.16 Energen EGN ... 20 61.19 -1.70
7.10 202.42 132.01 Lear LEA 1.5 10 189.21 -4.15 24.20 167.36 84.16 RedHat RHT ...107 149.17 -1.90 -2.42 89.73 70.08 WasteMgt WM 2.2 19 84.21 -1.81
-8.77 14.55 7.51 BlackBerry BB ... 11 10.19 -0.28 -17.79 19.55 12.80 EnergyTransferEq ETE 8.6 17 14.19 -0.18
-7.96 54.97 41.25 Leggett&Platt LEG 3.3 21 43.93 -1.06 -15.15 70.64 54.87 RegencyCtrs REG 3.8 83 58.70 -0.97 0.87 220.20 154.36 Waters WAT ...1026 194.88 -6.82
1.21 594.52 375.51 BlackRock BLK 2.2 17 519.92 -18.48 -7.70 24.64 15.06 EnergyTransfer ETP 13.7 7 16.54 -0.21
0.45 70.11 49.91 Leidos LDOS 2.0 27 64.86 -1.62 -14.99 543.55 313.53 RegenPharm REGN ... 31 319.61 -8.98 s 9.32 189.72 134.08 Watsco
-3.15 37.52 28.85 Blackstone BX 11.0 14 31.01 -0.29 -2.96 87.95 71.95 Entergy ETR 4.5 35 78.98 -0.78 WSO 3.1 33 185.88 -3.37
-2.62 72.17 48.50 Lennar A LEN 0.3 18 61.58 -2.42 5.50 20.21 13.00 RegionsFin RF 2.0 18 18.23 -0.61 -16.98 100.14 41.59 Wayfair W ... dd 66.64 -1.48
21.74 40.15 21.51 BlueBuffaloPet BUFF ... 41 39.92 -0.01 -8.64 29.51 23.10 EnterpriseProd EPD 7.0 19 24.22 -0.20
-3.75 58.65 40.49 Lennar B LEN.B 0.3 15 49.74 -2.06 -4.17 165.12 121.92 ReinsGrp RGA 1.3 5 149.42 -3.04 9.80 142.12 48.82 Weibo WB ... 72 113.60 -2.53
-8.65 236.17 74.45 bluebirdbio BLUE ... dd 162.70 -7.45 -0.29 147.02 89.59 Equifax EFX 1.3 24 117.58 -2.04
-4.01 223.05 160.18 LennoxIntl LII 1.0 28 199.90 -5.23 -3.22 95.97 68.46 RelianceSteel RS 2.4 10 83.03 -3.54 -5.03 221.75 142.53 WellCareHealth WCG ... 23 191.00 -5.29
10.58 371.60 175.47 Boeing BA 2.1 24 326.12 -10.28 -10.19 495.35 370.79 Equinix EQIX 2.2136 407.04 -6.55
t -17.82 28.30 21.61 LeucadiaNatl LUK 1.8 50 21.77 -0.71 -13.91 66.31 49.27 WellsFargo
17.01 2228.99 1630.56 BookingHldgs BKNG ... 44 2033.41 -57.68 -2.28 91.94 78.85 EquityLife ELS 2.5 40 86.99 0.06 -1.12 69.40 60.26 RepublicSvcs RSG 2.1 18 66.85 -1.27 WFC 3.0 13 52.23 -1.03
-3.14 104.35 80.39 LibertyBroadbandA LBRDA ... 7 82.38 -1.18 10.54 104.78 67.04 ResMed RMD 1.5 47 93.62 -1.59 -13.74 78.17 51.63 Welltower WELL 6.3168 55.01 0.28
0.35 58.22 37.54 BorgWarner BWA 1.3 25 51.27 -1.20 -1.13 70.45 54.97 EquityResdntl EQR 3.4 55 63.05 -0.24
-3.22 104.66 80.41 LibertyBroadbandC LBRDK ... 7 82.42 -1.29 -8.98 68.89 54.00 RestaurantBrands QSR 3.2 35 55.96 -0.63 -15.56 103.36 77.97 WestPharmSvcs WST 0.7 42 83.32 -1.70
-6.98 137.35 111.57 BostonProps BXP 2.6 41 120.96 -1.31 -7.04 7.47 5.52 Ericsson ERIC 2.0 dd 6.21 -0.02
-10.31 37.86 27.36 LibertyGlobal C LBTYK ... dd 30.35 -0.90 -4.50 59.25 37.66 RioTinto RIO -2.88 57.32 47.06 WestarEnergy WR 3.1 23 51.28 -0.73
10.33 29.93 24.31 BostonSci BSX ...391 27.35 -0.74 0.42 270.04 214.03 EssexProp ESS 3.1 37 242.38 0.88 7.1 10 50.55 -0.97
s 18.08 153.14 83.67 EsteeLauder -12.50 39.73 28.17 LibertyGlobal A LBTYA ... dd 31.36 -0.87 2.90 60.59 42.92 RobertHalf RHI 2.0 25 57.15 -2.08 -1.13 62.49 44.64 WestAllianceBcp WAL ... 18 55.98 -2.00
4.95 33.73 17.44 Braskem BAK 2.7 ... 27.56 -0.51 EL 1.0 52 150.25 -1.23
2.13 29.11 20.56 LibertyQVC A QRTEA ... 6 24.94 -0.63 -13.95 210.72 148.31 Rockwell ROK 10.36 106.96 76.59 WesternDigital WDC 2.3 73 87.77 -2.76
2.23 105.04 70.79 BrightHorizons BFAM ... 37 96.10 -3.00 14.91 277.17 208.81 EverestRe RE 2.0 23 254.25 -2.14 2.0 59 168.96 -5.97
-12.88 41.14 28.37 LibertyFormOne C FWONK ... 32 29.76 -0.43 -1.27 139.63 96.13 RockwellCollins COL -12.38 46.83 31.83 WesternGasEquity WGP 6.7 19 32.56 -0.53
-14.32 75.00 49.05 BrighthouseFin BHF ... dd 50.24 -1.68 -5.59 66.15 55.93 EversourceEner ES 3.4 19 59.65 -0.36 1.0 25 133.90 -1.41
-13.23 39.37 27.22 LibertyFormOne A FWONA ... 30 28.39 -0.52 -10.19 54.95 43.11 RogersComm B RCI -11.69 61.78 40.44 WesternGasPtrs WES 8.7 29 42.47 -0.53
-0.65 70.05 51.56 Bristol-Myers BMY 2.6103 60.88 -1.43 -30.62 32.50 18.03 Exelixis EXEL ... 43 21.09 -1.01 3.4 18 45.74 -0.53
2.49 26.52 21.35 LibertyBraves A BATRA ...377 22.60 -0.43 7.97 53.00 36.13 Rollins ROL -1.89 22.21 18.38 WesternUnion WU 4.1 dd 18.65 -0.43
-10.03 73.41 53.38 BritishAmTob BTI 4.5 1 60.27 0.20 -1.98 42.67 33.30 Exelon EXC 3.6 10 38.63 -0.37 1.1 61 50.24 -1.05
2.48 26.20 21.53 LibertyBraves C BATRK ...380 22.77 -0.46 0.62 121.30 59.58 WestlakeChem WLK
-10.91 285.68 208.46 Broadcom AVGO ... 13 228.87 -7.44 -10.20 161.00 98.52 Expedia EXPE 1.1 45 107.55 -2.56 3.41 292.97 204.77 RoperTech ROP 0.6 29 267.84 -7.30 0.8 11 107.19 -3.44
3.43 46.43 36.33 LibertySirius A LSXMA ... 12 41.02 -0.16 -9.02 26.72 21.73 WestpacBanking WBK
17.63 110.05 66.49 BroadridgeFinl BR 1.4 34 106.55 -2.46 -4.79 67.63 51.96 ExpeditorsIntl EXPD 1.4 23 61.59 -1.86 -3.49 85.66 52.85 RossStores ROST 1.2 22 77.45 -2.32 6.5 13 22.18 -0.19
2.98 46.24 36.11 LibertySirius C LSXMK ... 12 40.84 -0.17 -0.89 71.55 49.23 WestRock
-11.46 44.33 36.07 BrookfieldMgt BAM 1.6 29 38.55 -0.61 -9.06 85.07 55.80 ExpressScripts ESRX ... 9 67.88 -1.30 -6.59 87.10 66.66 RoyalBkCanada RY 3.9 13 76.27 -0.85 WRK 2.7 9 62.65 -1.80
-8.86 45.40 37.77 LibertyProperty LPT 4.1 22 39.20 -0.29
-7.16 46.88 37.54 BrookfieldInfr BIP 4.5 dd 41.60 -0.37 -0.72 88.56 71.34 ExtraSpaceSt EXR 3.6 23 86.82 -0.96 -3.01 8.74 5.66 RoyalBkScotland RBS ... 47 7.41 -0.05 0.62 37.89 30.95 Weyerhaeuser WY 3.6 46 35.48 -0.26
-9.01 89.09 73.69 EliLilly LLY 2.9 dd 76.85 -1.77
-2.49 26.93 20.66 Brown&Brown BRO 2.4 18 25.09 -0.37 -10.49 89.30 72.16 ExxonMobil XOM 4.1 16 74.87 -1.15 -3.73 135.65 93.86 RoyalCaribbean RCL 2.1 15 114.83 -2.99 -6.91 22.72 18.32 WheatonPrecMet WPM 1.7158 20.60 0.17
-3.84 101.34 81.85 LincolnElectric LECO 1.8 24 88.06 -3.06
-0.94 56.81 36.33 Brown-Forman B BF.B 1.2 35 54.42 -0.87 7.23 153.91 114.63 F5Networks FFIV ... 22 140.71 -2.53 -1.36 72.43 51.08 RoyalDutchA RDS.A 5.7 21 65.80 -0.33 -11.93 202.99 145.59 Whirlpool WHR 3.0 33 148.52 -4.09
-10.03 86.68 62.67 LincolnNational LNC 1.9 7 69.16 -2.18 t -20.04 33.67 24.00 Williams
6.43 56.10 34.34 Brown-Forman A BF.A 1.2 27 53.20 -0.95 -17.46 98.70 69.93 FMC FMC 0.8 20 78.13 -1.41 -1.51 74.60 53.10 RoyalDutchB RDS.B 5.6 21 67.26 -0.52 WMB 5.6 9 24.38 -0.42
-11.32 49.11 30.50 LiveNationEnt LYV ... dd 37.75 -1.22
-24.74 69.95 35.24 BuckeyePtrs BPL 13.5 11 37.29 -0.56 -10.91 195.32 138.81 Facebook FB ... 29 157.20 -2.14 17.34 127.61 84.75 Ryanair RYAAY ... 18 122.26 -1.19 -13.43 44.06 32.74 WilliamsPartners WPZ 7.1 36 33.57 -0.65
1.07 4.21 3.15 LloydsBanking LYG 6.0 17 3.79 0.01
12.69 83.75 63.87 Bunge BG 2.4 85 75.59 0.45 0.46 217.36 155.09 FactSet FDS 1.2 31 193.65 -3.10 -6.23 116.90 96.04 SAP SAP 1.3 27 105.36 -0.08 -3.01 165.00 125.66 WillisTowers WLTW 1.6 35 146.15 -2.35
4.24 363.00 266.01 LockheedMartin LMT 2.4 49 334.66 -11.99
11.31 138.45 79.07 BurlingtonStrs BURL ... 25 136.94 -0.19 -1.90 58.73 39.79 Fastenal FAST 2.8 27 53.65 -1.94 10.58 197.76 128.26 S&P Global SPGI 1.1 32 187.32 -2.42 -5.30 6.40 4.75 Wipro WIT 0.6 22 5.18 -0.05
-1.30 53.59 45.01 Loews L 0.5 14 49.38 -1.13
-0.30 37.25 30.45 CA CA 3.1 33 33.18 -0.73 -12.82 138.12 106.41 FederalRealty FRT 3.5 40 115.78 -2.50 3.90 177.67 119.53 SBA Comm SBAC ...197 169.73 -1.96 -13.90 53.50 35.93 WooriBank WF 3.3 7 38.48 -0.97
6.66 43.54 30.64 LogitechIntl LOGI 1.8 30 35.88 -0.33
-14.34 25.90 18.26 CBD Pao CBD ... 24 20.19 -0.22 -6.11 274.66 182.89 FedEx FDX 0.9 14 234.29 -6.78 1.28 78.35 49.45 SEI Investments SEIC 0.8 29 72.78 -1.85 20.48 140.00 80.76 Workday WDAY ... dd 122.58 -3.42
-0.52 134.80 98.95 LogMeIn LOGM 1.1 64 113.90 -0.25
7.90 48.39 32.46 CBRE Group CBRE ... 23 46.73 -1.06 15.18 131.20 69.59 Ferrari RACE ... 38 120.75 -0.59 -3.62 124.60 63.05 Sina SINA ... 46 96.68 -2.63 8.55 85.53 59.10 Worldpay WP ...101 79.84 -1.82
-5.06 108.98 70.76 Lowe's LOW 1.9 22 88.24 -0.51
-10.44 69.31 49.24 CBS B CBS 1.4 47 52.84 -0.04 25.06 24.95 9.56 FiatChrysler FCAU ... 9 22.31 -0.27 9.32 64.43 50.67 SINOPEC SHI 7.6 7 62.31 0.31 -4.82 127.96 83.80 Wyndham WYN 2.4 13 110.28 -3.16
14.02 91.44 47.26 lululemon LULU ... 47 89.61 -1.66
-11.12 70.00 49.33 CBS A CBS.A 1.4 47 53.13 -0.01 34.29 22.05 8.70 FibriaCelulose FBR ... 32 19.74 0.18 -13.76 28.97 23.01 SK Telecom SKM ... 7 24.07 -0.15 5.87 203.63 112.91 WynnResorts WYNN 1.1 25 178.49 -2.75
-8.64 121.95 78.01 LyondellBasell LYB 4.0 8 100.79 -4.06
-10.93 76.04 59.33 CDK Global CDK 0.9 28 63.49 -0.80 -1.83 42.52 27.52 FidNatlFin FNF 3.1 16 38.52 -0.44 -6.35 109.95 89.46 SLGreenRealty SLG 3.4107 94.52 -1.48 5.07 106.20 44.85 XPO Logistics XPO ... 40 96.23 -2.41
-2.22 76.73 55.80 CDW CDW 1.2 20 67.95 -1.77 1.53 103.65 79.43 FidNatlInfo FIS 1.3 24 95.53 -1.93 19.37 53.99 34.75 SS&C Tech SSNC 0.6 31 48.32 0.15 -5.49 52.22 41.51 XcelEnergy XEL 3.3 20 45.47 -0.22
-13.42 45.00 25.04 CF Industries CF 3.3 24 36.83 -1.75 2.97 34.57 23.20 FifthThirdBncp FITB 2.0 11 31.24 -1.09
MN 0.98 271.79 159.44 SVB Fin SIVB ... 26 236.06 -6.22 -4.01 37.42 26.64 Xerox XRX 3.6 47 27.98 -0.30
5.63 59.89 46.40 CGI Group GIB ... 21 57.39 -0.51 7.55 87.65 34.84 58.com WUBA ... 60 76.97 -1.19 6.26 197.37 141.12 M&T Bank MTB 1.7 21 181.69 -4.87 -14.20 195.97 59.57 SageTherap SAGE ... dd 141.32 -6.08 -1.66 78.02 54.99 Xilinx XLNX 2.1 35 66.30 -4.40
1.56 100.18 63.41 CH Robinson CHRW 2.0 25 90.48 -2.81 0.71 62.71 37.80 FirstAmerFin FAF 2.7 15 56.44 -1.31 2.22 38.41 27.01 MGM Resorts MGM 1.4 10 34.13 -1.44 13.57 128.87 83.00 Salesforce.com CRM ...683 116.10 -2.94 10.56 79.83 48.81 Xylem XYL 1.1 41 75.40 -2.20
3.76 56.14 42.50 CIT Group CIT 1.3 30 51.08 -1.58 -7.42 19.23 14.67 FirstData FDC ... 10 15.47 -0.35 16.83 128.28 64.75 MKS Instrum MKSI 0.7 18 110.40 -3.10 -6.63 50.65 38.14 Sanofi SNY 4.6 24 40.15 -0.07 -7.77 26.70 18.41 YPF YPF 0.9 12 21.13 -0.25
8.36 171.71 114.82 CME Group CME 1.8 13 158.26 -4.73 -7.10 20.86 15.84 FirstHorizonNatl FHN 2.6 27 18.57 -0.63 -8.91 39.38 30.88 MPLX MPLX 7.5 22 32.31 -0.73 -14.98 19.02 11.12 SantanderCons SC 1.3 5 15.83 -0.54 -13.21 142.97 42.90 YY YY ... 16 98.12 -4.37
-4.19 50.85 40.48 CMS Energy CMS 3.2 28 45.32 -0.24 3.68 105.52 84.56 FirstRepBank FRC 0.8 21 89.83 -1.98 13.84 159.98 95.01 MSCI MSCI 1.1 43 144.05 -2.46 1.26 38.75 26.92 Sasol SSL 2.4 16 34.64 0.48 20.27 44.49 21.40 Yandex YNDX ... ... 39.39 -0.74
-8.67 55.62 43.15 CNA Fin CNA 2.5 15 48.45 -1.12 3.23 76.61 26.41 FirstSolar FSLR ... dd 69.70 -1.94 -12.68 69.73 52.12 Macerich MAC 5.2 79 57.35 -1.05 -4.50 80.89 61.02 Schlumberger SLB 3.1 dd 64.36 -1.41 3.49 86.93 63.54 YumBrands YUM 1.7 22 84.46 -1.55
-0.55 166.23 108.05 CNOOC CEO 5.4 18 142.77 -1.07 11.69 35.22 27.93 FirstEnergy FE 4.2 dd 34.20 -0.15 18.30 31.04 17.41 Macy's M 5.1 6 29.80 -1.13 -2.45 58.11 37.16 SchwabC SCHW 0.8 31 50.11 -2.24 -3.67 48.75 30.67 YumChina YUMC 1.0 38 38.55 -1.45
26.43 17.69 10.63 CPFLEnergia CPL 1.9 28 14.54 -0.04 6.52 74.45 57.56 Fiserv FISV ... 24 69.84 -1.40 16.25 254.50 189.96 MadisonSquGarden MSG ... 77 245.12 0.34 35.33 61.19 30.60 Seagate STX 4.5 26 56.62 -1.63 -5.99 18.08 11.92 ZTO Express ZTO ... 29 14.90 -0.25
-5.93 39.32 32.47 CRH CRH 3.5 13 33.95 -0.34 2.03 213.74 121.52 FleetCorTech FLT ... 25 196.34 -3.87 -14.97 78.00 54.82 MagellanMid MMP 6.1 16 60.32 -0.02 -14.06 49.94 40.76 SealedAir SEE 1.5 52 42.37 -1.01 -1.41 37.95 29.73 ZayoGroup ZAYO ...107 36.28 -0.17
-1.20 60.04 46.04 CSX CSX 1.6 9 54.35 -1.25 -11.12 19.71 14.70 Flex FLEX ... 16 15.99 -0.40 3.37 59.99 39.50 MagnaIntl MGA 2.3 10 58.58 -0.53 -6.41 71.31 45.31 SeattleGenetics SGEN ... dd 50.07 -1.80 30.48 148.71 86.82 ZebraTech ZBRA ...435 135.44 -3.74
-12.58 84.00 60.14 CVS Health CVS 3.2 10 63.38 -1.28 7.66 52.88 33.95 FlirSystems FLIR 1.3 64 50.19 -1.09 -12.16 136.93 97.15 Manpower MAN 1.7 14 110.78 -4.98 -26.64 9.14 4.49 SemicondctrMfg SMI ... 33 6.28 -0.33 29.23 59.73 33.62 Zillow A ZG ... dd 52.65 -0.32
-18.99 29.57 21.40 CabotOil COG 1.0105 23.17 -0.77 2.49 51.92 37.51 Flowserve FLS 1.82159 43.18 -1.63 -12.70 22.16 16.62 ManulifeFin MFC 3.9 25 18.21 -0.40 3.94 122.97 100.63 SempraEnergy SRE 3.2111 111.13 -0.40 28.74 59.99 33.77 Zillow C Z ... dd 52.68 -0.26
-14.16 46.00 30.92 CadenceDesign CDNS ... 49 35.90 -1.08 9.82 62.09 37.04 Fluor FLR 1.5 42 56.72 -1.82 -4.08 19.52 10.55 MarathonOil MRO 1.2 dd 16.24 -0.56 1.02 40.28 30.39 ServiceCorp SCI 1.8 13 37.70 -0.45 t -12.84 133.49 104.28 ZimmerBiomet ZBH 0.9 12 105.18 -3.17
-13.04 14.50 9.45 CaesarsEnt CZR ... dd 11.00 -0.50 -0.09 103.82 84.32 FomentoEconMex FMX 1.6 30 93.82 -1.55 9.81 74.92 47.78 MarathonPetrol MPC 2.5 11 72.45 -0.96 -0.88 55.36 36.34 ServiceMaster SERV ... 13 50.82 -0.79 1.20 57.29 38.43 ZionsBancorp ZION 1.6 20 51.44 -1.45
-7.79 96.39 78.19 CamdenProperty CPT 3.6 40 84.89 -0.14 -10.49 13.48 10.14 FordMotor F 5.4 6 11.18 -0.17 0.79 1194.98 936.95 Markel MKL ... 45 1148.16 -13.07 24.96 176.56 84.03 ServiceNow NOW ... dd 162.94 -2.83 12.40 85.73 52.36 Zoetis ZTS 0.6 46 80.97 -2.55
Stock
52-Wk %
Sym Hi/Lo Chg Stock
52-Wk %
Sym Hi/Lo Chg Stock
52-Wk %
Sym Hi/Lo Chg
NuSkinEnts NUS
OpesAcquisition OPES
75.82
9.88
-2.6
1.9
Lows Colfax
Collplant
CFX
CLGN
30.09 -4.8 GreentreeHospital
5.22 -19.7 Hawkins
GHG 12.26 0.9 NewLinkGenetics NLNK 3.95 -42.6 TakungArt
TechData
TKAT
TECD
1.88 -1.5
76.89 -1.9
HWKN 31.80 -1.8 NightstarTherap NITE 10.01 -1.6
PJT Partners PJT 54.01 -1.3 ABMIndustries ABM 32.34 -2.7 CompassPfdA CODIpA 21.86 -0.7 TeekayLNG PfdA TGPpA 24.26 -0.4
CentralGarden CENT 43.30 -1.0 Genprex GNPX 5.89 31.7 AEGONNotes AEK 25.50 ... CompassPfd HeartlandExp HTLD 17.51 -2.0 Orbcomm ORBC 8.63 -4.0
PRGXGlobal PRGX 9.90 -0.5 CODIpB 22.75 -1.0 TelInstrElec TIK 2.06 -2.2
Highs CharterFin
ChinaPetrol
CHFN
SNP
22.15
92.60
-1.7
-0.6
Gentex
Guess
GNTX
GES
24.08 -1.1
23.20 -0.6
PalatinTech PTN 1.30 2.5 AllianceResource ARLP 16.75 -0.6 ConatusPharm CNAT 3.85 -2.2
Hersha Pfd E
Huami
HTpE
HMI
22.66
9.58
-0.7
-2.6
OnconovaTherap ONTX
OneStopSystems OSS
0.78
4.10
-9.5
1.7
TransWorldEnt TWMC 0.95 -7.7
PerryEllis PERY 28.00 -0.6 Altimmune ALT 0.88 -2.3 Corning GLW 26.31 -3.3 USA Tech Pfd USATP 20.75 -5.0
Abercrombie&Fitch ANF 27.54 2.5 CitiTrends CTRN 32.30 0.6 HailiangEduc HLG 78.23 -1.2 HudbayMineralsWt HBM.WS 0.04 -4.1 OpesAcqnWt OPESW 0.33 -5.0
PhibroAnimal PAHC 41.65 2.5 AmShrHosp AMS 2.34 -5.9 CrossTimbers CRT 14.01 -0.6 US Concrete USCR 58.15 -2.8
AllstatePfdG ALLpG 25.23 ... ColliersIntl CIGI 71.40 -1.7 Herbalife HLF 101.59 -0.9 Incyte INCY 63.43 -22.9 OriginAgritech SEED 0.64 -1.0
PriceSmart PSMT 93.55 5.5 AnteroMidstream AM 24.32 -2.8 DDR PfdJ DDRpJ 22.69 -0.6 UltraPetroleum UPL 3.40 -7.4
AtHomeGroup HOME 35.60 -1.0 IFON 4.49 -13.8 OrionEnergySys OESX 0.70 -4.2
ColumbiaSportswr COLM 80.22 -1.2 HoustonWire HWCC 7.90 1.9 QuorumHealth QHC 9.95 0.5 ApricusBiosci APRI 0.36 -0.8 DDR PfdK DDRpK 22.02 -0.2 InfoSonics ValmontInds VMI 137.90 -3.2
BGStaffing BGSF 19.70 -0.9 IMTE 3.00 -3.2 PKD 0.52 -3.8
DelekUS DK 43.42 -1.3 ICF Intl ICFI 65.40 -1.4 RBB Bancorp RBB 28.00 0.4 ArcusBiosci RCUS 14.14 -4.7 Dermira DERM 6.98 -6.3 IntegratedMedia ParkerDrilling VascularBiogenics VBLT 2.00 1.2
BloominBrands BLMN 25.00 -0.4 Denny's DENN 16.37 0.4 Independence IHC 37.00 0.6 RayonierAdvMatls RYAM 22.23 -1.6 AstaFunding ASFI 3.35 -2.9 DigitalRealtyPfdC DLRpC 26.07 -0.2 InternetGold IGLD 4.67 -1.7 PurpleInnovation PRPL 7.88 -6.0 ViveveMedical VIVE 3.12 -3.0
BrookfieldBusPtr BBU 41.42 -1.2 Ecolab ECL 141.99 -1.0 KBLMergerIV KBLMU 10.45 0.4 RockyBrands RCKY 22.80 1.3 BRF BRFS 6.35 0.6 DominionEnerUn DCUD 45.80 -0.7 Iteris ITI 4.09 -9.5 Qudian QD 10.91 -5.0 VornadoPfdM VNOpM 22.57 -0.4
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the stock soared, in violation of investigation, Longfin shares
securities rules, and it obtained soared in recent days, until be-
a court order to freeze $27 mil- The firm made its Nasdaq debut in December. The SEC alleges shares were illegally sold and moved to freeze $27 million in proceeds. ing halted Friday.
lion of the proceeds. Short sellers had bet heavily
Longfin shares have been on nesses in its financial controls. Meenavalli, had the company is- legally sold large blocks of ers when the Journal visited. against Longfin shares and Mr.
a roller coaster, surging after A review of the company’s secu- sue more than two million shares, even though the shares Mr. Meenavalli, an Indian entre- Meenavalli had criticized them.
the company said it acquired a rities filings, detailed in a Wall shares to Andy Altahawi, who is weren’t registered for sale. In preneur, previously told the The shares are down 60% from
cryptocurrency company and Street Journal article on Mon- described in filings as an ad- its complaint, the SEC didn’t say Journal he is based out of their closing high in late March,
subsequently falling 85% over day, found failures to disclose viser to Longfin, and tens of exactly when the shares were Dubai. The bulk of the com- but up more than 460% from
six days following its removal important information and mis- thousands of shares to two sold, but that the sale occurred pany’s revenue comes from a the IPO price.
from the Russell 2000 small-cap statements of facts. other individuals, Dorababu when the stock price was Singapore-based subsidiary, ac- The stock’s rebound this
index. Its shares rose 185% in Nasdaq said Friday it was Penumarthi and Suresh Tam- “highly elevated.” The SEC said cording to its filings. week began around the time
the last three days of this week, halting Longfin shares until the mineedi. The SEC, in its civil ac- it has obtained a court order to Mr. Altahawi was listed on that CNBC said Mr. Meenavalli
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including a 47% rise on Friday company satisfied its request tion, alleges that Messrs. Penu- freeze $27 million of proceeds Longin’s website as a director would appear for an interview.
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before they were halted. At the for unspecified additional infor- marthi and Tammineedi were from those sales to prevent the until September, but he later During that Wednesday inter-
time of the trading halt, Long- mation. acting as “nominees” for Mr. funds from being transferred told The Journal that was un- view, Mr. Meenavalli said Long-
fin’s market valuation stood at Longfin said in a statement Meenavalli, or holding shares on out of the country. true. According to the com- fin is profitable after stripping
$2.1 billion. that it would cooperate with on his behalf. According to its filings, Long- pany’s pre-IPO prospectus, he out shareholder compensation
On Monday, the company Nasdaq and the SEC. After the company’s share fin is based out of a shared of- was issued just over two million expenses and he plans to ex-
disclosed an SEC probe while The SEC on Friday said Long- price rose sharply, the SEC al- fice space in Manhattan that shares in exchange for “legal pand the company’s U.S. opera-
also reporting material weak- fin’s founder and CEO, Venkat leges, these three individuals il- had three desks and no comput- and business development advi- tions.
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BY DANIEL KRUGER sor and former vice chairman Continued from page B1 face less extensive regulation.
of the Federal Reserve. Still, the step would expose
A decade after the financial The former attorney general harder for platforms to con- Coinbase to a new type of reg-
crisis, The Wall Street Journal has said the view that he went tinue shunning regulation. SEC ulatory risk. The SEC can ex-
has checked in on dozens of the easy on banks is “misplaced.” Chairman Jay Clayton has said amine broker-dealers for com-
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bankers, government officials, At a Democratic Platform that most tokens issued pliance with the extensive
chief executives, hedge-fund Drafting Committee hearing in through ICOs are securities, array of rules that brokers
managers and others who left June 2016, he said, “we had in meaning they can only be face. SEC examiners could
a mark on that period to find some cases statutory and traded legally on a licensed ex- comb through the company’s
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out what they are doing now. sometimes factual inabilities change or electronic trading trading records, the systems
Today, we spotlight former At- to bring the cases we wanted venue. Businesses raised $4 its uses to protect customers
torney General Eric Holder and to bring.” billion during the first quarter from cybersecurity threats, as
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former Treasury Secretary Mr. Holder, who also served through ICOs, more than half well as its policies for defend-
Timothy Geithner. as deputy attorney general un- of the $6.5 billion raised in ing against insider trading and
Eric Holder has gone from der President Bill Clinton, ICOs for all of 2017, according market manipulation.
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serving as the nation’s top maintains a toehold in politics. to Token Report. Coinbase faced manipula-
prosecutor to being one of the He heads the National Demo- The SEC has issued subpoe- tion-related allegations last
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business world’s leading advis- cratic Redistricting Committee, nas or requests for informa- year after the price of a bit-
ers. where he is pushing states to tion to dozens of companies coin offshoot called Bitcoin
He was sworn in as U.S. at- redraw legislative district that conducted ICOs, accord- Cash climbed in value before
torney general in February maps that the group says have ing to people familiar with the the platform began facilitating
2009 as policy makers were been used to help protect Re- matter, as the regulator tries trades in the alternative cur-
straining to support financial Former Attorney General Eric Holder is at a Washington law firm. publican majorities. to sort out which deals evaded rency. The company said it
markets after the collapse of He has criticized President securities laws and which to- would investigate the matter.
Lehman Brothers a few months ternal corporate investigations. Mr. Holder declined a re- Donald Trump’s administra- kens may have a valid excuse As a broker, Coinbase’s
earlier. The 67-year-old attorney re- quest for an interview. tion, saying that the presi- from regulation. platform would only be al-
Under his leadership, the cently took on the case of ride- He has recused himself from dent’s broadsides against the The threat of a regulatory lowed to offer tokens that
Justice Department negotiated hailing company Uber Tech- working on matters that were Justice Department and the enforcement action has scared comply with securities laws.
several billion-dollar settle- nologies Inc., which had been the subject of Justice Depart- Federal Bureau of Investigation Coinbase and some other bit- That would mean token issu-
ments for fraud tied to the dogged by allegations of gen- ment litigation during his time undermine the credibility of coin-related firms from listing ers would have to register
mortgage market. But Mr. der bias and sexual harass- in office. But he still gets law-enforcement agents. new tokens. But Coinbase said their sale with the SEC, pro-
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Holder has faced criticism for ment. Mr. Holder’s team in blamed for not prosecuting Mr. Holder hasn’t said in March that it planned to viding investors with an exten-
not prosecuting anyone on June 2017 recommended that any individuals from compa- whether he plans to seek of- support tokens in the future, sive set of financial disclo-
Wall Street for their roles in the company reduce founder nies at the heart of the finan- fice. although it declined to dis- sures. Token issuers can avoid
the financial crisis. Travis Kalanick’s leadership cial crisis. “I think I’ll make a decision close which assets it might those disclosures if they limit
no
He stepped down in 2015 to role and that it make execu- “A lot of Americans felt by the end of the year about add. The company has already the sale to institutions and
return to Covington & Burling tives more accountable for fix- they were screwed, and all the whether there is another chap- launched a service for storing millionaires.
LLP, a Washington law firm ing problems. Mr. Kalanick fat cats that got them into the ter in my government service,” customer assets. At least one other firm in-
known for representing bank- stepped down as chief execu- situation got off scot-free,” he told reporters at a Christian Coinbase, whose backers in- volved with virtual currency
ing clients, where Mr. Holder is tive later that year under pres- said Alan Blinder, a Princeton Science Monitor breakfast in clude venture-capital firms trading has registered with
part of a unit charged with in- sure from Uber shareholders. University economics profes- February. Greylock Partners and An- the SEC as a brokerage firm.
dreessen Horowitz, could seek Templum LLC operates a li-
a license from the SEC as an censed brokerage firm and al-
hit the six-figure-speech lec- or involving financial firms. A The regulatory clampdown sider its main appeal: the per-
ture circuit. He so impressed Warburg spokesman added on cryptocurrencies is gaining ceived lack of government and
one audience, at Warburg Pin- that Mr. Geithner also lec- momentum around the world, central bank involvement.
cus LLC’s annual meeting, that tures at the Yale School of adding pressure to asset val- That’s one of several reasons
the Manhattan investment Management. ues as governments intensify the prices of bitcoin and other
firm hired him as its president. Mr. Geithner refers to him- efforts to rein in speculative digital currencies have slumped
In March 2014, he started self as a “backstage guy” in trading and criminal activity. in 2018.
at the firm known for staking his 580-page memoir, “Stress The latest country to take Late Friday, bitcoin was
oil explorers and multibillion- Test: Reflections on Financial action is India, which this past trading at $6,602.93, according
dollar buyouts of retailer Nei- Crises.” He found the spot- week vowed to prevent banks to research site CoinDesk. It
man Marcus and eye-health light glaring and felt he some- and financial institutions from has lost half its value since
company Bausch & Lomb. He Timothy Geithner has become president of Warburg Pincus. times struggled to articulate engaging in cryptocurrencies. surging over 1,300% in last
wasn’t the first former Trea- his rescue plan. Regulated firms “shall not deal year’s frenzied cryptocurrency
sury secretary to go from years later when financial used TurboTax to prepare his “I’d somehow managed to with or provide services to any mania, peaking near $20,000
Washington to Wall Street. markets began to implode returns. convince the public we’d be individual or business entities in December.
Unlike predecessors, however, and he was tapped, in the When he joined Warburg, overly generous to Wall Street dealing with or settling” digital India’s central bank said the
his arrival wasn’t a homecom- middle of the maelstrom, by New York state records show, while convincing the markets currencies and should exit any currencies’ underlying block-
ing. He had never worked for President-elect Barack Obama he had to borrow the cash that we wouldn’t be generous existing relationships within chain technology made it diffi-
a financial firm or a bank. to see through the financial the firm requires its execu- enough,” he wrote of his first three months, the Reserve cult to protect consumers from
Mr. Geithner was a civil system’s rescue as Treasury tives to invest in its private- speech as Treasury secretary. Bank of India said. scams and to prevent money
servant who had climbed the secretary. equity funds. So-called skin-in- Some—by no means all—of Indian authorities stopped laundering. The central bank is
technocratic career ladder His confirmation hearing the-game can amount to the anger over bank bailouts short of a total ban on digital also exploring issuing its own
one financial crisis after an- revealed him to be very dif- millions of dollars up front but could have been soothed had currencies. But the clampdown digital currency as part of its
other—Mexico, Asia, Russia— ferent from the banking ti- can return staggering wealth he better explained his unpop- on banks is another blow to efforts toward financial inclu-
until he became head of the tans who typically held the over time. ular but necessary decisions, the market, which has already sion.
Federal Reserve Bank of New post, never mind his boyish Mr. Geithner, 56 years old, he wrote: “We did save the seen regulators in the U.S., —Steven Russolillo
York in 2003. looks: He was well-off enough declined to comment, and a economy, but we lost the Japan, South Korea and China and Gregor Stuart Hunter
He was still there four to afford household help, yet Warburg spokeswoman said country doing it.”
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Group Holding Ltd. and Ten- Shanghai. from 2017’s high base,” she age’s three-day winning tightening monetary policy year yield is down from the
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cent Holdings Ltd., whose For 2018, prospects aren’t said, noting that investments streak, its longest in more abroad have pushed investors peak it reached in February.
profits surged, as well as en- looking so robust. and expenses in tech are likely than a month. out of the currency. While Treasurys have ben-
ergy, industrial and real-estate China’s crackdown on spec- to increase. The selloff in stocks Friday Friday’s mixed jobs report efited from trade jitters, ana-
companies that benefited from ulative investing, off-balance- Beijing’s efforts to cut debt
on was broad as all 11 major sec- provided another reason to lysts have noted that the re-
higher oil and property prices. sheet lending and its cam- in the economy have forced tors of the S&P 500 declined, buy bonds. While average sponse could easily have been
The country’s top banks also paign to reduce leverage in the some ailing or heavily in- with the deepest drops hourly earnings for private- greater given the volatility of
did better thanks to strong in- financial system could damp debted firms out of the mar- among companies that stand sector workers rose at the ex- the stock market and the po-
terest-income growth. Some profit margins and growth op- ket, helping rivals gain market to suffer from an escalation pected rate, the U.S. added tential for a trade conflict to
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companies haven’t reported portunities for some compa- share and pricing power, Ms. in protectionist trade poli- just 103,000 jobs in March, create economic headwinds.
yet. nies. Liu said. Overall, she expects cies, such as big industrial below the 178,000 gain antici- “There are still the con-
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China’s economy expanded A possible trade war be- growth in earnings per share manufacturers like Boeing pated by economists polled by cerns about what’s going on
6.9% last year, in line with the tween the U.S. and China, at companies in the MSCI and Caterpillar. The Wall Street Journal and a with the trade situation, but
previous two years but down meanwhile, has weighed on China Index to slow to 15% in On Friday, the Dow indus- slowdown from February. even that is being taken with a
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from a more than 10% increase stocks in recent weeks. It is 2018 and 16% next year. trials fell 572.46 points, or Bond investors have bit more grain of salt these
in 2010. Last year’s profit too soon to gauge the impact —Stella Yifan Xie 2.3%, to 23932.76. The S&P watched jobs data closely re- days,” said John Canavan,
gains helped power a 37% in- on corporate earnings, as it re- and Gregor Stuart Hunter 500 slid 58.37 points, or cently for signs that a tight- market analyst at Stone &
crease in the MSCI China In- mains unclear which tariffs contributed to this article. 2.2%, to 2604.47, and the ening labor market could pro- McCarthy Research Associates.
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Reason for Optimism: Bearish Investors
BY RIVA GOLD Market participants have become more cautious in recent weeks, with funds dialing down expected return was 10% for
the year, and people mocked
holdings in stocks and sending equity-market valuations back to their lowest since 2016.
Investor sentiment has me for being overly cautious,”
quickly shifted from extremely AAII Sentiment Survey* he said.
optimistic to outright bear- “Expectations have tem-
60%
ish—an encouraging contrar- pered a bit,” Mr. Keon said.
ian signal for those market Many investors think the
50
participants who have long caution is warranted, given
worried that Wall Street was rising interest rates, increas-
overly bullish. 40 Bearish ing concerns about a possible
As concerns about trade Bullish trade war between the U.S.
and technology stocks heat up, 30 and China and mounting pres-
investors are at their most Neutral sure on the technology sector.
pessimistic in more than seven 20 But some view the shift in
months, according to the investors’ mood as a reassur-
American Association of Indi- 10 ing sign about the health of
vidual Investors’ most re- the market.
cent weekly sentiment survey, 0 “With investor optimism
which measures participants’ April ’17 May June July August Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. ’18 Feb. March April lower now, it should be easier
outlook for the stock market for equity markets to make
over the next six months. In NAAIM Exposure Index† Forward one-year price/earnings ratio CBOE Volatility Index further gains from here if
January, survey participants 120 19 35
global growth remains
were at their most bullish healthy,” said Mike Bell, global
since late 2010. 110 S&P 500 30 market strategist at J.P. Mor-
18
The swift turnaround comes gan Asset Management.
as investors pull money out of 100 25 The firm is maintaining its
17
equity funds, stock-market sizable allocation to U.S. and
valuations drop and an in- 90 Nikkei 20 emerging-market equities de-
16 Stock
creasing number of put op- spite the recent downturn. The
80 Average 15
tions are taken out on the S&P exuberance is gone, and stocks
500 to protect against declines 15 have gotten cheaper, Mr. Bell
70 10
relative to call options that said.
60 14 Stoxx Europe 600 5 Equity valuations remain
bet on gains. Meanwhile, the
Cboe Volatility Index, known elevated compared with their
as Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” 50 13 0 historical averages, but they
is up 95% for the year so far. 2017 ’18 2017 ’18 2017 ’18 have come down.
“There’s more of an ex- *Data represent expected direction of the stock market over the next six months. The forward price/earnings
treme fear reaction now,” said †Active money managers' average exposure to U.S. equities ratio of the S&P 500 has fallen
Edmund Shing, global head of Sources: American Association of Individual Investors (sentiment survey); National Association to 16.5—its lowest since No-
equity derivative strategy at of Active Investment Managers (exposure index); FactSet (P/E ratios, volatility index) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. vember 2016—from as high as
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BNP Paribas. “As a contrarian 18.6 in late January.
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indicator, that makes me actu- rate-earnings expectations and options markets. and an average of roughly 63 downturn,” he added. The Stoxx Europe 600 and
ally bullish,” he said. have climbed, share buybacks Investors have redeemed a since mid-2006. It was as high Still, the moves mark a Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average
Investors often worry most have risen and the economy net $25 billion from the popu- as 121 in December. sharp turnaround from the are also trading around their
when everybody else in the has continued to grow. on lar SPDR S&P 500 exchange- To be sure, some metrics mood in late 2017 and most of lowest forward P/E ratios
market gets very bullish, with Mr. Shing said signals from traded fund so far this year, continue to suggest that sen- January, when investors since 2016.
many analysts noting that options markets, equity flows according to FactSet. More timent is far from extremely poured record amounts of “You’ve seen a correction
Wall Street optimism has of- and sentiment gauges are col- broadly, U.S. equity funds bearish. money into equity funds and that has taken valuations back
ten reached its highs right be- lectively the most downbeat overall haven’t had net retail Options and derivatives on the amount of cash squirreled to less stretched levels and
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fore big market falls. he has seen since shortly be- inflows for any week since the S&P 500 currently show away by institutional fund taken sentiment back to less
When the mood among in- fore the U.S. presidential elec- 2017, according to fund-tracker that investors expect more managers reached five-year stretched levels,” said John
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vestors sours, many market tion in November 2016. U.S. re- EPFR Global. volatility ahead, but not nec- lows, according to Bank of Stopford, head of multiasset
participants think that it indi- tail investors appear to be the Meanwhile, the National essarily a huge decline for the America Merrill Lynch’s income at Investec Asset Man-
cates selling pressure is bot- biggest sellers of stocks, while Association of Active Invest- index, said Randy Frederick, monthly survey. agement.
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toming out and that more institutional fund managers ment Managers Exposure In- vice president of trading and Ed Keon, chief investment After an unusual period of
money could enter the market, have largely bought more pro- dex, which tracks active derivatives at the Schwab Cen- strategist at investment firm extreme bullishness, the mar-
providing the potential for tection against further falls or money managers’ average ex- ter for Financial Research. QMA, recalls speaking at an ket mentality is now back to
gains as long as the economy shifted some money out of eq- posure to U.S. equity markets, “I’d expect the put-call ratio investor conference in Janu- “climbing a wall of worry,” he
remains on track. uities and into short-term fell to 55.57 this past week, [on the S&P 500] to be a lot ary, when the market was al- said, a supportive factor in his
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The S&P 500 is down 2.6% debt, he added, based on his down from an average of 71 in higher than it is now if there ready up 7% for 2018. “I re- belief that stocks have more
so far this year, even as corpo- analysis of fund redemptions the first quarter of the year were concern of a much bigger member saying the S&P 500 room to climb.
Qualcomm has obtained compared with 11 times for years. necessary. Deutsche Bank
eight out of nine necessary 8 Infineon Technologies, the Investors can be some- economist Torsten Slok says
NXP
antitrust approvals for the Infineon second-largest player in car what comforted by those ex- nervousness about trade was
deal, which was first an- 6 chips. Arguably the market planations. But they jarring to executives because
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nounced in October 2016; leader deserves a premium; shouldn’t ignore two other of the strong, pro-business
only China’s blessing re- 4 it traded at one in the past. possible reasons why the sentiment that prevailed un-
mains. This has been delayed 2013 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 If the deal breaks down economy created just til early this year.
for unclear reasons. NXP *Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization Qualcomm will need to pay 103,000 jobs, down from a The evidence for that is
shares are now trading Source: FactSet THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. NXP a breakup fee valued at revised 326,000 in February most clear in employment by
roughly 10% below the roughly $5 a share. and the second-lowest figure goods producers, which was
higher price Qualcomm of- Broadcom’s $120 billion thirds of the company’s reve- It is easy to see how of the past 12 months. up just 15,000—compared
fered in February. takeover proposal this year. nue comes from the country. China might use its ability to President Donald Trump with a gain of 106,000 in
NXP is the world leader in The White House’s deci- Car chips are likely also of block Qualcomm’s bid for began his trade tirade right February—largely because of
automotive microchips, a sion to block the Broadcom strategic importance to NXP as a bargaining chip. at the start of March with a 15,000-job decline in con-
field expected to expand rap- bid on national security China. This gives it a reason But even if it did, the down- tweets about putting tariffs struction hiring. It is no co-
idly. This is the attraction grounds could make it hard to find ways to promote its side for NXP stock looks lim- on steel and aluminum, incidence that builders use
for Qualcomm, which is un- for Qualcomm to propose own chip industry as part of ited. This could be a bet on which he quickly followed lots of aluminum and steel,
der pressure to revive remedies in China that in- any package of remedies. an easing of trade tensions with an announcement about though they also were hit by
growth. It needs the deal all volve sharing technology or If investors’ concerns are worth taking. the penalties. That set off a weather. While goods pro-
the more for having rebutted selling assets. Almost two- understandable, particularly —Stephen Wilmot month of dueling threats and ducers are a smaller part of
actual tariffs that has only the economy than the ser-
gotten more heated. vice sector, they had been
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REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Richard Nixon, above, campaigning in Denver. Below, left to right: Lyndon Johnson readies his speech declaring that he won’t seek reelection; Chicago police crack down on
protesters outside the Democratic National Convention; Robert Kennedy campaigns in Portland, Ore., weeks before his assassination. Bottom: A captured Viet Cong fighter during the Tet Offensive.
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Fifty years ago, American politics was upended by war, protest, assassination and riot, creating cultural
divides that are still with us today. It was the year the country came apart, writes Patrick J. Buchanan.
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n the night of Jan. 31, 1968, as would do to Romney, Nixon told me, “Let ’em chew on him
tens of thousands of Viet Cong for a little while.”
guerrillas attacked the major cities Nixon’s instincts proved right. Romney was unprepared.
of South Vietnam, in violation of a On pre-campaign swings in 1967 he bickered with the
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Lunar New Year truce, Richard press, and that August he made a fatal blunder. Explaining
Nixon was flying secretly to Bos- on a TV show why he was changing his position on the
ton. At 29, and Nixon’s longest- war, Romney said that on a previous visit to Vietnam, “I
serving aide, I was with him. Ad- just had the greatest brainwashing anybody can get” from
no
vance man Nick Ruwe met us at Logan Airport and drove U.S. generals and diplomats.
us to a motel in Nashua, N.H., where Nixon had been pre- The ridicule and mockery were ceaseless and universal.
registered as “Benjamin Chapman.” The next day, only Sen. Eugene McCarthy said that, in Romney’s case, a full
hours before the deadline, Nixon filed in Concord to enter brainwashing was unneeded, as “a light rinse would have
the state’s Republican primary, just six weeks away. sufficed.” Romney plummeted in the polls, never to recover.
On Feb. 2, the New York Times story “Nixon Announces As Romney spun his wheels in New Hampshire, Nixon
for Presidency” was dwarfed by a giant headline: “Street ignored his calls to debate, declining even to mention his
Clashes Go On in Vietnam; Foe Still Holds Parts of Cities; name. Our polls showed us heading for a 5-1 landslide that
Johnson Pledges Never to Yield.” Dominating the page would erase the “loser” image that had clung to Nixon
was the photograph of a captured Viet Cong, hands tied, since his loss to JFK in 1960 and his defeat in the Califor-
being executed on a Saigon street by South Vietnam’s na- nia governor’s race in 1962.
tional police chief, firing a bullet into his head from inches With humiliation ahead, Romney abruptly ended his
away. Eddie Adams’s photo would win the Pulitzer Prize. candidacy on Feb. 28, 1968, robbing Nixon of his triumph.
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America’s most divisive year since the Civil War had What historians call “crazy March” now began. In the
begun. Democratic primary in New Hampshire, Sen. McCarthy,
Nixon’s lone opponent for the Republican nomination running an antiwar protest campaign, got 42% of the vote.
was George Romney, three-term governor of Michigan and Please turn to the next page
a legend at American Motors, where he had promoted the
Nash Rambler. Romney had led in the polls in December
Mr. Buchanan, a former presidential candidate, served
1966 and seemed the clear favorite, but by now he was not. 1946, Nixon had declared a moratorium on politics and as an aide to Richard Nixon from January 1966 to
After campaigning in 35 states in 1966, leading the GOP dropped out of sight. Is it wise, I asked him, to cede Rom- August 1974. His books “The Greatest Comeback” and
to its greatest off-year victory in congressional races since ney such a tremendous head start? Sensing what the press “Nixon’s White House Wars” describe those years.
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burned out, the worst alized, bitter and angry. Humphrey was seen as campaign stop, Humphrey was shouted down
campus riot of the decade a Johnson lackey who would continue the war. with chants of “Dump the Hump!”, until he
erupted. At my alma Then, just days after Bobby was came close to breaking down,
mater, Columbia Univer- buried beside JFK at Arlington, denouncing his tormentors as
sity, student radicals oc- Earl Warren resigned as chief The Cold War “fascists.”
cupied Low Library and justice, and LBJ named his old consensus Desperate, Humphrey rolled
Hamilton Hall. They ran- crony Justice Abe Fortas to re-
sacked professors’ offices place him. All three wanted to
since 1948 the dice on Sept. 30 and
pledged to halt all U.S. bombing
and took a dean hostage. prevent a President Nixon from was no more. of North Vietnam. The impact
After a week, the NYPD, naming the next chief justice. was immediate. The heckling
THE AUTHOR flies with candidate Nixon during the presidential with clubs and sweeping Senate Republicans aborted the and abuse subsided. He began a
campaign in September 1968. arrests, recaptured the insiders’ deal and rejected For- steady ascent in the polls. His
university. Nixon declared tas. The Supreme Court wars that would en- optimism returned, and he staged one of the
Continued from the prior page the uprising “the first major skirmish in a rev- dure into the 21st century had begun. great comebacks in presidential politics.
Lyndon Johnson won with 49%, though his olutionary struggle to seize the universities of One week before the Democratic convention Then he caught a break. On Oct. 3, Wallace
name was not on the ballot. Inexplicably, the this country and transform them into sanctu- in Chicago, the Soviet Union sent hundreds of introduced his running mate, Gen. Curtis
president of the United States had run as a aries for radicals and vehicles for revolution- Warsaw Pact tanks and 250,000 troops into LeMay, who had led the firebombing of Tokyo
write-in candidate. ary political and social goals.” Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring. As and who told a stunned press that we Ameri-
Half the McCarthy voters were later identi- Rockefeller denounced Nixon, reversed him- with the seizure of the Pueblo, President John- cans have “a phobia about nuclear weapons.”
fied as pro-war but fed up with LBJ’s indeci- self and entered the race. But polls showed son, with a half million U.S. troops now in To achieve victory in Vietnam, LeMay said, “I
sive leadership. In January, North Korean com- that America’s patience with radicalism was Vietnam, did nothing. would use anything…including nuclear weap-
mandos had assaulted the Blue House in Seoul exhausted. The country was with the cops The stage was set for an explosive Demo- ons.” Wallace’s voters began to abandon him
and come close to assassinating President Park wielding the clubs. Nixon had captured the cratic convention in Chicago. I asked Nixon to and move back home to the Democratic Party.
Chung-hee, and the U.S. spy ship Pueblo had law-and-order issue. When the Kerner Com- send me. He agreed. Our listening post was on The election ended in a virtual tie, with
been hijacked and its crew taken hostage by mission, set up to study the causes of the the 19th floor of the “Comrade Hilton.” I was both candidates receiving roughly 43% of the
North Korean gunboats. Johnson had done popular vote. But Nixon had won in the
nothing. electoral college and was now president-
The press read into the McCarthy vote elect of the United States.
a repudiation of the war, and Johnson was What had 1968 wrought?
.
now wounded. On March 16, Sen. Robert The American establishment, “the best
ly
Kennedy leapt into the race. Speaking a and the brightest,” had been broken on
week later in Los Angeles, he stuck the the wheel of Vietnam. Liberal elites would
knife deep into his old antagonist, accus- move to ally themselves with the antiwar
ing President Johnson of “calling upon the on left and to denounce as “Nixon’s war” the
darker impulses of the American spirit.” cause into which they themselves had led
On March 21, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of the country.
New York stunned the political world by The Cold War consensus that had ex-
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declaring that he would not challenge isted from the Berlin blockade of 1948
Nixon. The anticipated battle inside the through the Cuban missile crisis was no
Republican Party seemed suddenly settled, more. The Democratic candidate in 1972
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just as a three-sided war broke out inside would run on the slogan “Come home,
the Democratic Party. Alabama’s Gov. America!” Foreign policy leadership
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George Wallace had announced he would passed from the party of Truman and Ken-
run as a third-party candidate in the fall, nedy to the party of Nixon and Reagan. Af-
while Kennedy and McCarthy battled for ter 1968, the word “victory” was rarely
the nomination as they assaulted their heard. The goal now in Vietnam was
own president. “peace with honor” or “an end to the war.”
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The Tet Offensive proved a strategic di- Massive civil disobedience and violent
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saster for the Viet Cong, who suffered protests would become the new normal.
tens of thousands of dead. But U.S. media Failed and frustrated extremists would
portrayed Tet as an American defeat. On turn to bombings and terrorism. Nixon
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“The CBS Evening News,” Walter Cronkite and Vice President Spiro Agnew would use
declared Vietnam a “stalemate.” A DIVIDED Democratic convention nominated Hubert Humphrey, who hadn’t run in the primaries. the radical left and its media enablers as
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Nixon moved to update his position. As foils to drive a wedge right through FDR’s
his writers Ray Price, Dick Whalen and I ar- weeklong Newark and Detroit riots in the alone in the suite one night when Norman Democratic coalition, with Nixon calling out
gued in front of him at his Fifth Avenue apart- “long hot summer” of 1967, blamed “white rac- Mailer walked in with the light-heavyweight his “Great Silent Majority” and Agnew tabling
ment in New York on March 30, we got a call ism,” Nixon dismissed the report by saying it champion Jose Torres. As we talked, a commo- the issue of press power and media bias.
from our media folks: LBJ had asked to speak blamed everyone for the riots but the rioters tion erupted outside. A phalanx of cops had Nixon would be re-elected in 1972 in a 49-
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in prime time that Sunday night. Nixon can- themselves. marched up Balbo Drive to Michigan Avenue state landslide. In four of the five presidential
celed his prepared speech and, leaving for a As the Democratic showdown approached in and halted. Suddenly, the cops took off into elections after 1968, Nixon’s new majority
Wisconsin event, told me to be at the private the Oregon primary, the media zeroed in on Grant Park, clubbing the radicals and dragging would crush the Democratic Party. By 1970, six
terminal at La Guardia Sunday to brief him on the revelation that, as attorney general, Ken- them to patrol wagons. Mailer and I saw it all years after Goldwater’s defeat, twice as many
LBJ’s address to the nation. nedy had authorized J. Edgar Hoover to wire- from our 19th-floor window. On and on it Americans would call themselves conservatives
As Johnson was announcing that he would tap the now-martyred Martin Luther King Jr. went, as Torres cursed the cops and I stayed as liberals.
not run, Nixon’s private jet was landing. I The explosive charge led to Kennedy’s defeat mute. I had been down there at night among As the political wars of 1968 turned Ameri-
reached the airplane door ahead of the press by McCarthy on May 28. the protesters, who were as ugly a crowd as I can politics upside down, a cultural war had
and told him what LBJ had said. Nixon stepped I was at Portland’s Benson Hotel that night had seen in the Vietnam era. broken out as well. Moral and social issues—
out into the cameras to declare 1968 “the year with Nixon, who had won 70% of the primary When Humphrey left Chicago, the Demo- abortion, affirmative action, busing, crime,
of the dropout.” vote, crushing both Rockefeller and Reagan. cratic coalition that had given LBJ a historic drugs, feminism, gay rights—would tear apart
Four days later, the nation was stunned Later in the evening, I was standing in front of landslide in 1964 was shattered. Wallace families, communities and the entire nation.
again. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis to the hotel when Bobby Kennedy arrived to con- seemed certain to shear off the electoral votes The culture wars had begun.
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support a strike by garbage workers, had been cede defeat in the first loss by a Kennedy since of the Deep South. The McCarthy-Kennedy We are another country now, another peo-
assassinated on a motel balcony. A hundred JFK entered politics in 1946. Though Bobby wing was enraged over how Mayor Richard Da- ple. The unity we knew in the Eisenhower-Ken-
U.S. cities exploded in rioting, looting and ar- had a reputation for being ruthless, he could ley’s cops had beaten the protesters. The nation nedy era is gone. 1968 was the great divide.
son. The National Guard was out everywhere. not have been more gracious in conceding de- had seen a convention where Democratic dele- 1968 was the turning point.
no
adults who liked to dance and male lead—or worrying White-booted dancers were routinely paro-
were old enough to drink. about wandering hands,” died as dim and used as sexist punch lines
The go-go trend dates back A craze that said Gloria Steinem, the by male hosts
to Paris in 1963, when Elmer degenerated feminist writer and co- Finally, in 1968, the go-go craze fizzled.
Valentine, a Los Angeles restau- founder of Ms. magazine. The Vietnam War had drained clubs of
rant owner, visited a Left Bank into a sexist “You could dance and ex- draft-age men, and many young women be-
discotheque. Once back in L.A., punch line. press yourself, without car- gan to think differently about themselves
he sold his eatery and used the ing about who was leading and their roles and rights. Go-go dancing
proceeds to lease and renovate or who was watching— lost much of its original allure as it was ab-
space on the Sunset Strip. He which was empowering.” sorbed by commercial culture.
named the club after the Paris nightspot— At the Whisky, go-go dancing not only But the go-go look didn’t fade with the
Whisky à Go Go. It opened on Jan. 15, 1964. leveled the sexual playing field but tilted fad. In the early ’70s, miniskirts and white
To attract a young crowd, Valentine immedi- it slightly in women’s favor. Women could boots became de rigueur for young flight at-
ately signed the soulful rock singer Johnny Riv- dance alone or with female friends. tendants employed by airlines such as
ers to a year-long performance contract. He Word traveled fast. By the spring of Southwest and PSA.
also had a female DJ spin records between Riv- 1964, the club had become a full-blown DANCING at L.A.’s Whisky à Go Go, Sept. 1964. “I remember flying National in the early
ers’s live sets to provide continuous music and scene, with young movie stars and re- ’70s when they had that horrible ad cam-
keep couples dancing and in the club. cording artists mingling with models and danc- ens of recording artists released singles with paign where flight attendants wore buttons that
His first DJ was the club’s cigarette girl, ers. Even the Beatles showed up that August. thrusting go-go beats. In 1965, these included featured their first names followed by ‘Fly Me,’”
Patty Brockhurst. One night, after she put on a Before long, the paparazzi turned the the Miracles’ “Going to a Go Go,” the Rolling said Ms. Steinem. “One day, I boarded a flight
record in the glass DJ booth, Ms. Brockhurst Whisky into an epicenter of cool. That fall, the Stones’ “Get Off of My Cloud” and Martha and saw an attendant wearing a button that
began to dance provocatively in place. Club-go- go-go concept was copied by dance clubs Reeves and the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run.” said, “I’m Mary. Fly Yourself.’ I thought,
ers below watched in awe. across the country. Then the jukebox industry That same year, go-go dancing leap-frogged ‘Hmmm, maybe we’re getting somewhere.’ ”
The dancing DJ was such a hit that Valen- took notice and in 1965 introduced machines from the discotheque to the first Beatles con-
tine hired additional women to dance in glass with more powerful speakers, marketing them cert at Shea Stadium and to TV shows such as Mr. Myers, a frequent arts and culture con-
booths above the dance floor. One of the danc- to smaller clubs that didn’t have room for DJs. “Shindig!,” “Hullabaloo” and “Hollywood a Go- tributor to the Journal, is the author of
ers, Joanie Labine, designed an outfit for her- As clubs and go-go jukeboxes caught on, doz- Go.” “Anatomy of a Song” (Grove).
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As a result, firms lation. And requiring small firms not
with fewer than 11 to discriminate on the basis of age,
employees are exempt gender, race or religion imposes no
from most workplace special regulatory burden.
safety requirements. Some regulations do, in fact, cre-
The Family and Medi- ate a competitive disadvantage for
cal Leave Act does not small firms. But why shouldn’t big
apply to small firms, firms enjoy lower costs from econo-
and many civil rights mies of scale in complying with reg-
laws contain exemp- ulations? If small businesses cannot
tions for small firms. handle the costs of regulation—or
A firm with fewer any other business cost for that mat-
than 20 employees ter—they must choose between
can legally discrimi- growing to a more efficient size or
nate against workers losing market share.
on the basis of age; if Government at every level can
it has fewer than 15 certainly do more to eliminate un-
employees, it can dis- necessary regulations and to stream-
criminate against line those regulations that serve cru-
qualified individuals cial public ends. But such reforms
with disabilities. Only should benefit all businesses, regard-
federal contractors less of size.
with 50 or more work- Don’t all the breaks for small busi-
ers are required to nesses at least help “the little guy”?
use affirmative action No, in fact, they go mostly to the
plans when hiring. wealthy. In 2016, according to the
The tax code also nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the
lavishes benefits on top 1% of pass-through businesses
small firms. Profits earned 50.8% of the income for such
from publicly traded firms. A mere 13.4% of all pass-
companies (most of through income went to the bottom
which are large) are 60%. A 2015 study by the Federal Re-
typically taxed twice, serve Bank of New York concluded,
once at the corporate “More wealthy individuals are small-
level and again when business owners than poor individu-
shareholders accrue als. The subsidy on small-business
capital gains or divi- ownership just transfers resources to
dends. By contrast, the wealthy from the poor.”
pass-through firms Beyond the injustice of it, small-
such as sole propri- business favoritism reverberates
etorships, partner- throughout the economy, slowing
ships and LLCs—the growth in two ways. First, subsidies
lion’s share of which and other size-based industrial poli-
.
are small—are taxed cies slow productivity growth by en-
RYAN GARCIA
ly
only once, on the own- abling less efficient small firms to
ers’ incomes. gain more market share than would
In addition, many otherwise be the case. Second, dis-
on tax incentives either criminatory policies provide an in-
Stop Propping Up
apply only to small centive for small firms to remain
firms or are more generous for small small. Why add five more workers
firms, including (at least before re- when doing so would subject you to
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cent tax-reform legislation) the abil- a host of new regulations and restrict
ity to expense investments in new your access to government handouts?
Small Business
equipment, exemptions from imputed Today, with the U.S. economy fac-
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interest obligations, completed-con- ing intense global economic competi-
tract rules, expensing of agricultural tion and suffering from stagnant pro-
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bipartisan support, but it’s bad economics and bad policy agencies also provide a variety of by small-business cronyism, public
special subsidies to small firms. policy should be guided by the prin-
BY ROBERT D. ATKINSON smaller share of net new jobs. itive or undercapitalized, were being Small firms get discounts when buy- ciple of size neutrality. Policymakers
AND MICHAEL LIND After World War II, as big firms called startups. A new biotech com- ing rights to use the radio spectrum should repeal virtually all special
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emerged in industry after industry pany was a startup, but so was a and pay lower patent fees. And they preferences for small business in the
(hotels, banks, restaurants, retail), new three-person lawn-mowing get cut-rate financing, too. In 2016, tax code and in government procure-
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IN OUR AGE of political polarization, small firms began to cast themselves business. Only child-labor laws pre- the SBA supported loans to small ment policy and eliminate targeted
the right, left and center agree on as victims and to ask public officials vented lemonade stands from being businesses across the nation: $105 subsidies, regulatory exemptions and
one thing: Big business is wicked, and for relief. In 1953, Congress estab- classified as startups, too. million for car dealers, $118 million exemptions from civil rights laws.
small business is noble. President lished the Small Business Adminis- A 2010 study pub- for residential building Will size-neutral policies result
Donald Trump has declared: “We’re tration to “aid, counsel, assist and lished by the National construction, $312 mil- in fewer small businesses? In cases
It’s time to
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going to create an environment for protect, insofar as is possible, the in- Bureau of Economic lion for liquor stores, where small firms can’t live without
small business like we haven’t had in
many, many decades!” His enthusi-
terests of small business concerns.”
But fairness was a relatively weak
Research showed, how-
ever, that it is the age
get rid of $742 million for gas
stations and $760 mil-
special treatment, we hope so. Con-
sumer demand suggests that a simi-
asm echoes his predecessor, Presi- reed on which to build an elabo- of a firm, not its size, privileges lion for dentists. lar number of jobs is likely to be
dent Barack Obama, who claimed that
“small businesses are the backbone of
rately discriminatory economic pol-
icy. What was needed was a positive
that matters for job
creation. Just as chil-
based on a Advocates for small
businesses often argue
created in the same sectors by
fewer but larger and more produc-
our economy and the cornerstones of rationale for giving preferential dren grow faster than firm’s size. that such firms de- tive firms.
America’s promise.” Indeed, politi- treatment to small businesses. adults, young firms serve special breaks Heaping praise on small business
cians and pundits of every stripe ar- Job creation became the new grow faster than ma- because it is harder for may garner applause from the pea-
gue that we can solve a host of prob- banner. Economist David Birch of ture ones. them to bear the costs nut gallery, but showering privi-
lems, from creating jobs to boosting the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Over the decades, lawmakers of complying with government regu- leges on firms because of their size
productivity to unleashing innova- nology claimed in the late 1970s— have conferred an array of valuable lation. After all, every firm must de- is bad economics and bad policy.
tion, with hefty doses of the same inaccurately, as it turned out—that benefits and exemptions on small vote time and resources to filling out
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miracle cure: aid to small business. small businesses were the jobs en- firms. In the years since the SBA’s a given form, and big firms have the Mr. Atkinson is the president of the
But this alleged miracle cure is re- gine of the economy, which allowed founding, Congress has passed at advantage of spreading those costs Information Technology and Inno-
ally snake oil. That is because, com- advocates to argue that aid to small least 68 pieces of legislation explic- over a larger business. There’s some vation Foundation. Mr. Lind is a
pared to large firms, small firms pay businesses was a driver of economic itly favoring small business, includ- validity to this point. visiting professor at the University
no
lower wages and provide fewer bene- growth. This narrative was rein- ing the Small Business Prepayment But most special favors for small of Texas Johnson School of Public
fits, injure and lay off their workers forced by the wave of startups in Penalty Relief Act of 1994, the Small businesses—lower tax rates, tax in- Affairs. This essay is adapted from
more frequently, spend less to protect the tech sector in the 1980s and Business Job Protection Act of 1996 centives, direct subsidies, cheap fi- their new book, “Big Is Beautiful:
the environment, are less productive 1990s. By 2000, all new businesses, and the SEC Small Business Advo- nancing—have nothing to do with Debunking the Myth of Small Busi-
and less innovative, and create a no matter how technologically prim- cate Act of 2016. their difficulty in coping with regu- ness,” published by the MIT Press.
thrum of our heartbeat, says a five-minute speech about them- Affiliation smiles feature pursed nome,” Mr. Martin said, and “people sense of how others view us is read
study published last month in the selves. It’s a handy way to examine lips, the whites of the eyes and with higher variability in their rest- not just by the head but by the hor-
journal Scientific Reports. how our bodies register stress. So raised eyebrows. ing heart rate had more extreme mones coursing through our bodies
“Different smiles have different in this experiment, 90 healthy male The research team measured the cortisol responses to dominance and the rhythm of our hearts.
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WORD ON
THE STREET:
BEN ZIMMER
‘Caravan’
Rides Into
Border Battle
EARLIER THIS WEEK, President
Donald Trump took to Twitter to
lash out about U.S.-Mexican bor-
der security, warning ominously
that “caravans” were coming. He
was alluding to media reports of a
large group of mostly Honduran
migrants who were making their
way across Mexico, some with the
goal of continuing on to the U.S.
This “caravan” was actually an
annual protest march organized by
the advocacy group Pueblos Sin
Fronteras (People Without Fron-
tiers), seeking to draw attention to
the plight of Central American
asylum seekers. The caravan be-
gan to disband on Thursday, with
migrants dispersing into smaller
groups and seeking permission to
stay in Mexico.
This is only the latest twist on
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PANDAS ARE NOT the hippie vegetarians of the ursine kingdom, as we tend to think of them. Like most bears, they are opportunistic omnivores. name for a camel, the word likely
ly
goes back to an Indo-European
root, “ker-,” meaning “army.”)
THE UN-CUDDLY TRUTH ABOUT on Bronx Zoo’s “breeding pair,” which arrived to
much fanfare in 1941. Pan-dee and Pan-dah
Resting places along a caravan
route were known as “caravanse-
were not a little boy and girl but two females. rais.”
Panda Lives
In the days before genetic testing, sexing pan- From Persian the word passed
das proved to be a notoriously difficult art, into Arabic, and it then moved
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since the panda penis is virtually indistin- into medieval Latin at the time of
guishable from female genitalia. the Crusades. Scribes used the
Breeding animals in captivity is rarely easy. word when recording an attack on
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A concrete enclosure is not a sexy place for a a Muslim caravan by the crusader
wild creature. As with most animals, the desire Raynald of Châtillon in 1187,
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In their shrinking natural habitat, the bears are tough, of pandas to procreate is stimulated by a com-
plex set of cues—the animal equivalent of a nice
breaking a fragile truce with the
sultan Saladin. (The 2005 film
sexually potent survivors, not the hapless glass of wine and a bit of Barry White. In zoos, “Kingdom of Heaven” dramatized
bunglers we have created as zoo attractions two pandas are expected to mate in isolation.
But pandas are anything but loners when it
From camels
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BY LUCY COOKE able big round head, evolved to force their comes to sex in their natural habitat.
way through bamboo’s tough sheath; the
strength of their bite is somewhere between
Pandas occupy territories of up to 4 square
miles, and they sniff out sexual opportunities
to pilgrims to
THE PANDA is often considered a joke of a that of a lion and a jaguar. In 2008, a tourist by leaving scented status updates advertising protesters
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bear. “Pandas are bad at sex and picky about required 45 stitches to her hand after trying to their identity, sex, age and fertility on specially
food,” jeered the Economist in 2014. “These pet a panda at a sanctuary near Xian in China. designated trees—the panda equivalent of Tin-
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genetic misfits might have died out long ago, An elderly Chinese man whose leg was ravaged der. When a female comes into season, she rubs
had they not been so adorable.” Without our by a wild panda near the Baishuijiang National her scent on one of these communal message the caravan raid.)
help, so the narrative goes, pandas surely Nature Reserve in 2014 was hospitalized for boards, attracting males who then compete for “Caravan” entered English via
would have joined the dinosaurs and the dodo more than 50 days. her affections in a sort of urinary Olympics. Fe- French and Italian in the late 16th
on evolution’s scrap heap. male pandas prefer the males that century. The poet Willam Warner,
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Or would they? leave their scent marks the highest up in verse detailing the journeys to
The image of the pathetic panda— a tree. Scientists have described Russia by the explorer Anthony
a benign, bungling creature who males adopting various athletic Jenkinson, wrote of “merchants
needs human help to survive—is a poses—“squat,” “legcock” and, most traveling by caravan, that is, great
very modern myth, conjured more remarkably, “handstand”—in order to droves of laden camels.” The word
from human desires than from bio- squirt their pee as high as possible. got applied to various traveling
logical facts. The panda is, in fact, a The winning male celebrates his groups such as pilgrims, and John
splendid survivor. It has been around victory by having sex over 40 times Milton even extended it into the
for some 18 million years (three in a single afternoon. Panda sex itself animal world in “Paradise Lost,”
times longer than we hominins) and is a rough-and-tumble affair with describing birds that “set forth
is perfectly adapted to its admittedly plenty of biting and barking. Male their aery caravan, high over
eccentric lifestyle. pandas are incredibly potent: The se- seas.”
The real panda is a secret stud, men of the giant panda contains 10 On the American frontier, “cara-
n-
with a taste for flesh and a fearsome to 100 times more sperm than a hu- van” came to be used for groups
bite, at least in its natural habitat. But man male. The female’s short fertil- traveling with their pack animals
that habitat is withering thanks to ity window—under two days each or wagons, often in a single-file
human encroachment. Once a wide year—may even be an evolutionary procession. The word also moved
no
swath of southeast China and border- adaptation to control population in another direction as a name for
ing nations, panda country is now a size, precisely because male pandas a type of horse-drawn carriage
patchy strip, mostly through the for- are so accomplished at procreating. that allowed people to travel to-
ests of just two mountain ranges. In recent years, the Chinese have gether—a means of transportation
The most recent Chinese census achieved a high success rate in eventually shortened to “van.”
of wild pandas, conducted in 2015, breeding pandas in captivity, primar- More recently, “caravan”—along
put the total number at 1,864—up ily through artificial insemination. with its Spanish equivalent “cara-
by a few hundred from previous These “panda mills” are no conserva- vana”—has been pressed into ser-
counts and enough to officially tion success story, however. The vice in Latin American countries,
downgrade the animal from “endan- THREE-MONTH-OLD Xing Bao is displayed at Madrid’s zoo black-and-white balls of fluff might particularly Mexico, to describe a
gered” to “vulnerable”—a move crit- in 2013. look like pandas, but raised as they kind of moving protest. In 2011,
icized by many respected panda are in a man-made environment, for instance, a group known as the
conservationists who don’t believe the opti- We like to think of pandas as the hippie they don’t grow up to behave like pandas. In Caravan of Central American
mistic figures. Meanwhile, the captive panda vegetarians of the ursine kingdom. But like 2007, a young male named Xiang Xiang, Chi- Mothers toured Mexico to bring
population has more than doubled since 2005 most bears, they are opportunistic omnivores. nese for “lucky,” became the first captive-bred attention to migrants who had dis-
to over 500 in 20 countries. Our image of The panda dines almost exclusively on bam- panda to be released in his natural habitat. He appeared making their way to the
pandas has been formed primarily by these boo, but it hasn’t lost its taste for flesh. When was savaged to death by wild pandas. U.S. from Nicaragua, Honduras, El
zoo ambassadors, which have become a car- the eminent field biologist George Schaller Though the captive panda population is Salvador and Guatemala. Along
toon of our own creation. studied pandas in the wild booming, their natural habitat is under severe with searching for lost relatives,
We have misunderstood in the 1980s, he found that pressure. China has set aside 67 panda reserves, the group demanded action by the
pandas in large part because For our brain’s the best way to attract them but commercial logging, tourism and agricul- Mexican government to protect
they are so ridiculously cute.
Humans are preprogrammed
reward center, was to bait their traps with
goat meat. I’ve seen footage
ture continue in these “protected” areas. A 2017
study found that, despite conservation efforts,
migrants from kidnapping and
other crimes.
to want to nurture anything baby pandas of a wild panda chowing panda habitat covered less area and was more Pueblos Sin Fronteras has like-
with baby-like features— are basically down on a dead deer. fragmented in 2013 than in 1988, when the spe- wise used the caravan model of
namely, a big bulging fore- “Panda eats Bambi” is de- cies was first listed as endangered. Current protest for several years to shine a
head, large, low-set eyes and cuteness crack. cidedly not a Disney feature. populations are divided into 30 isolated groups, spotlight on migrants fleeing op-
round cheeks. It’s a neuro- It is the giant panda’s with 18 of them comprising less than 10 individ- pression from Central America,
chemical insurance policy to sexual appetite that is the uals and facing a high risk of extinction. but their cause went largely unno-
ensure that we take good most misconstrued, thanks The real threat to pandas isn’t their incom- ticed in the U.S. before media ac-
care of our unusually vulnerable offspring. to the parade of pandas parachuted into for- petence but our mythology. We have bought counts of this year’s caravan in
With their unique markings and decidedly eign zoos over the last half-century. There, into the narrative that the only way to save BuzzFeed and elsewhere. Now that
humanlike way of sitting and eating, pandas thanks to us, they’ve acted out a sexual farce them is for humans to take control. Instead the word “caravan” has entered
could have been genetically engineered as the worthy of a 1970s sitcom. the reverse is true: We need to let the pandas Mr. Trump’s tweets, it promises to
perfect trigger for this nurturing instinct. They The first pandas landed in the U.S. just be- take care of themselves, something they can be a contentious term in debates
set off our brain’s reward center, the same part fore World War II. First came a roly-poly baby only do if we leave them with enough forest to about cracking down on illegal im-
that responds to sex and drugs. Baby pandas named Su-Lin, meaning “a little bit of some- live their secretly sexy lives. migration.
are basically cuteness crack. thing cute,” then Mei-Mei, her “little sister,”
The problem with the cuddliness of pandas and finally a potential beau named Mei Lan. This essay is adapted from Ms. Cooke’s new
is that it inclines us to infantilize them and to But the pitter patter of tiny panda feet was book, “The Truth About Animals: Stoned
Answers
to the News Quiz on page C13:
forget that they are bears—which can be dan- not forthcoming, which was hardly surprising, Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and Other Tales
gerous. The powerful muscles in the panda’s given that all three were male, the zoologists from the Wild Side of Wildlife,” which will 1.C, 2.A, 3.B, 4.D, 5.C, 6.B, 7.B,
cheeks, which ironically give the bear its lov- later discovered. A similar fate befell the be published on April 17 by Basic Books. 8.D
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American Medicis
A married team of aristocratic French immigrants turned Houston into a world capital of art
Double Vision
By William Middleton
Knopf, 760 pages, $40
BY MERYLE SECREST
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immense collection of works, then a
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museum in which to house them, then
and Cubism to Abstract Expression- Dominique’s father was experimenting ting dark. Conrad lashed Dominique cial difficulties as a result of the at once attracted, Mr. Middleton tells
ism to Pop Art and Minimalism. Their in the exciting new world of electricity to the front bumper with a lantern to depreciation of the franc that fol- us; it was a “coup de foudre.” She
benign enthusiasms were always and came up with a brand-new ap- light the way ahead. lowed World War I. Mr. Middleton ob- found his looks, his strength of per-
tempered by what the composer plication for it. Why not use electricity The Schlumbergers were commit- serves that within the French bour- sonality and “sheer panache” irre-
Morton Feldman called Jean de to detect minerals underground, spe- ted Protestants in a Catholic country. geoisie daughters without dowries sistible. He felt the same about this
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Menil’s “gentle radar for the unusual. cifically formations associated with serious-minded girl with blond hair
A crazy idea, a beautiful idea, an oil? He rigged up a homemade detec- and vivid blue eyes. They took long
irreverent or a religious idea, as long tor, testing it with the large copper The de Menils’ collecting was fueled by proceeds from drives around Paris and whispered in
as it had some ‘guts and personality’ baignoire in which Dominique was the back seat while her 18-year-old
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behind it, got immediate attention.” bathed, and went to work. His achieve- the oil business that Dominique’s father founded and sister acted as their chauffeur, or they
They were, as Mr. Middleton states, ment would revolutionize the world’s John joined. It was John who coined the company wrote each other long, frank letters
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“avatars” looking for innovation, if oil industry and, incidentally, make about their inner thoughts.
not a social metamorphosis. Perhaps him and his heirs very, very rich. slogan: ‘Wherever the drill goes, Schlumberger goes.’ That summer they met again for
a personal one, as well. As for his daughter, two anecdotes mountain climbing in Chamonix, join-
Dominique de Menil was born in illustrate her fearless, try-anything ing a party of friends and relatives.
Paris in 1908. Her parents, Conrad attitude toward life and the leading The de Menils, whose military heri- could not marry and impoverished Dominique arrived first. The day she
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and Louise Schlumberger, owned a role she was destined to play. The tage stretched back to Napoleon, were families lost social status along with knew Jean was due to arrive she
château, the Val-Richer, in the rolling first finds her on a beach with some equally distinguished members of the their bank accounts. Jean’s sisters had spent the afternoon looking for him in
Normandy countryside, and there she playmates. Presumably they were all haute bourgeoisie. Dominique’s future to go to work in a factory. He, at least, the town without success. In the early
grew up. One ancestor was François getting bored; at any rate, Dominique husband, Jean, who inherited the title was hired as a clerk in a bank and evening she decided to take a hike
Guizot, a politician, prime minister, was dared to eat the little sand hop- of baron, was the sixth of eight chil- became known, if not for sartorial across the Mer de Glace, a famous
historian and author. After being pers skittering across the beach dren of Col. Georges Menu de Menil flamboyance, at least for correctness. glacier. But the light was failing, the
swept from power in the revolution of everywhere. She calmly popped them and his wife, Madeleine. The family No one ever saw Jean de Menil with- safe path was becoming hard to find
1848, Guizot became even more fa- into her mouth: “They tasted like lived on the étage noble (second out a well-tailored jacket and pants, and she was beginning to panic when
mous as a writer and lecturer on grasshoppers,” she recalled. Another floor) of an 18th-century mansion in let alone a tie. she suddenly saw him coming from
French history who taught Alexis de anecdote concerns the family car, the rue de Vaugirard in Paris. The dif- Jean de Menil and Dominique the opposite direction, looking for
Tocqueville. which had no headlights. One evening, ference was that they were commit- Schlumberger met at a ball in Ver- Please turn to page C7
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the Cherokee experience to the expe- the English established Jamestown. on Mountaintops) and John Ross. apart was the one that confronted
Blood Moon rience of all Americans of the era, in And when the Cherokee reached their Each was of mixed ancestry, with The every Indian tribe sooner or later:
By John Sedgwick that everyone had to adjust to chang- new home, they took the land from its Ridge looking more like his Cherokee retreat in the face of white pressure,
Simon & Schuster, 487 pages, $30 ing times. But the Cherokee were dif- occupants by the same means Ameri- father than his Scots grandfather, and or fight to the bitter end?
ferent in one crucial respect, he says. can whites would employ against Ross resembling the seven of his eight Mr. Sedgwick’s account is filled
BY H.W. BRANDS “The Cherokee were not emigrants; them: force. The clash between the great-grandparents who were white. with riveting, often gory details. He
they had been here all along.” Cherokee and the Scots-Irish who The Ridge never learned to speak describes a showdown between The
No, they hadn’t; and yes, they formed the cutting edge of white fluent English; Ross never mastered Ridge and an early rival for leadership
A FIRST LESSON of history, for any- were. The Cherokee were an offshoot settlement in the 18th and 19th centu- Cherokee. For decades the two battled named Doublehead. “With a roar,
one paying serious attention, is that ries was basically another round of Doublehead closed on The Ridge, and
history is more complicated than you the tribal fighting that has marked wrapped his meaty arms around him.
think. This is true almost regardless human history from its start. And it He pushed him backward onto the
of how complicated you think it is; it’s was characterized by the complica- floor, reaching with his good hand for
more complicated than that. Casual tions exhibited in all such clashes. an eye to puncture, or flesh to claw,
visitors to the past often pose bi- When Indians and whites went to lifting his knee into The Ridge hoping
nary questions: Was the Civil War war, only rarely did whites fight ex- to jam it into a soft place. Double-
about slavery or states’ rights? clusively on one side and Indians on head smeared The Ridge every-
Was the New Deal a good deal the other. The French and Indian where with his hot blood.” At the
or a bad deal? Was Richard critical moment an ally of The
Nixon a conservative or a lib- Ridge came to his rescue. “Saun-
eral? Such questions aren’t One man fought to ders tossed his gun aside, drew
worthless as discussion-pro- back his tomahawk, and crashed
vokers, but the correct answer save the tribe’s lands. it down on Doublehead’s fore-
is always both. And when of- His rival felt they head. The blow struck straight
fered more than two choices, up from his nose, and split the
the honest student of history had to sell them in skull down the middle, releasing
responds: All of the above. order to save the tribe. a torrent of blood.”
The history of relations be- The harrowing parts of the
tween the indigenous peoples story add not simply drama but
JOHN NEAGLE PHILBROOK/MUSEUM OF ART; GETTY IMAGES
of North America and inter- War wasn’t the French against the insight into the self-righteous atti-
lopers from Europe is more com- Indians; it was the French and their tudes both sides brought to their
plicated than you think, as John Indian allies against the British and struggle for the land. The Cherokee,
Sedgwick demonstrates in his en- Americans and their Indian allies. This like other Indian tribes, understand-
grossing book on the Cherokee, mixing of sides would prove the rule. ably felt ill-used by the whites. The
“Blood Moon.” Actually, it’s more George Custer counted Crows and federal and state governments bribed
complicated than he thinks, or at Arikaras as allies when he fought the Indian leaders to sign treaties surren-
least than he portrays it to be. This Sioux in the last major campaign of dering tribal lands, despite knowing
isn’t his fault; a story has to start John Ross the American West. The Ridge that the chiefs in question couldn’t
somewhere, and it can’t move for- In the case of the Cherokee, it was bind whole tribes, given the dis-
ward without omitting many details. of the Iroquois people; they had mi- often difficult to tell who was white whites, collaborated with whites and persed nature of tribal governance.
But even posing the conflict in terms grated to what would become the and who Indian. Mr. Sedgwick deftly eventually fought against each other When the Indians resisted, they were
of indigenous peoples and interlopers American Southeast from a region hangs his tale on two remarkable in- for the future of the Cherokee nation. often slaughtered.
oversimplifies. Mr. Sedgwick likens farther north, not arriving until after dividuals: The Ridge (He Who Walks The question that finally drove them Please turn to page C6
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‘Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them. ’ —T.E. Lawrence
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dence, the latter two had reached a jected to the idea of wearing an Arab
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secret agreement for the postwar headdress, Lawrence wore his full
division of the Turkish provinces. robes with some pride, even during
The centenary of the outbreak, in the postwar conference. Lawrence
2016, was marked by the publication on spoke Arabic (although, it seems, not
of a number of books with an image brilliantly), understood tribal men-
of T.E. Lawrence on the cover, usually tality and felt more of a kinship with
in native robes, often riding a camel. Arabs than he did with many West-
us l,
The reason is obvious: Of all the char- erners. On occasions Mr. Walker ques-
acters who took part in the revolt, tions the accuracy of “Seven Pillars,”
only “Lawrence of Arabia” now has as if he did not know that it was cre-
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any name recognition outside of ated mostly from memory and written
specialist circles, although in the Arab at great speed by a man who was
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COURTESY OF ANTHEA GRAY
from school onward are being chal- book “has sometimes given rise to
lenged or overturned. Lawrence has confusion and red herrings—
not escaped this trend. Among recent Lawrence’s favourite fish.” In “Seven
books, Scott Anderson’s “Lawrence in END OF THE BEGINNING A photo by Lt. Lionel Gray of Arabs in Jeddah celebrating with a captured Ottoman flag, 1918. Pillars,” Lawrence claims the credit
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Arabia” puts Lawrence’s story into for identifying Emir Faisal as the
the context of other agents—German, was very little British, French or Armoured Car Company and the 10- the western region of the Arabian future leader of the revolt, but Mr.
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American and Zionist—who were American involvement in the cam- pounder Talbot Battery. peninsula known as the Hejaz. Col. Walker rightly finds this doubtful. In-
active at the same time in the Hejaz. paign beyond Lawrence going native. Mr. Walker has taken for his sub- John Bassett, Col. Hugh Pearson and stead he suggests that Capt. Norman
In “Faisal I of Iraq,” Ali Allawi uses But this was obviously not the case. ject the exploits and opinions of some Lt. Lionel Gray all served with Wilson Bray identified Faisal as a likely
Arab and Turkish sources to tell the Lawrence’s own published account, of the less known British servicemen and fulfilled crucial duties. leader in October 1916, but he fails to
king’s story from the “other” (i.e., the extraordinarily passionate and involved in launching and sustaining These and most of the other char- mention that Bray’s superior, Col.
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Arab) side and the result is indeed a evocative “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” the Arab Revolt. They include Capt. acters here have appeared in histo- Wilson, had expressed this opinion in
“reassessment”: In Mr. Allawi’s tell- (1926), names hundreds of colleagues Thomas Goodchild, an “amiable” vet- ries and biographies of the period, August of that year.
ing, neither Lawrence nor his Euro- who fought alongside the Arabs or erinary officer tasked with acquiring including Jeremy Wilson’s 1989 In the end, “Behind the Lawrence
pean colleagues had much influence provided logistical support. They herds of camels, which he procured, authorized biography of Lawrence. Legend” doesn’t quite set the record
over the man or the revolt. ranged from the eccentric diplomat Mr. Walker writes, with “£14,000 in But Mr. Walker, a British retired straight about the Arab Revolt. What
Philip Walker’s first book, “Behind Ronald Storrs, “the most brilliant gold and silver coins.” This purchase archaeologist, is right in claiming its fine and complex narrative does do
the Lawrence Legend,” promises a Englishman in the Near East,” and was necessary in part to provide that most have fallen through the is provide a more richly detailed and
“fresh interpretation” on the Arab the traditionalist Col. Cyril Wilson, a transport for the Imperial Camel cracks and he does a good job at nuanced background than we have had
Revolt, one that will “set the record leader “of the honest, downright Corps, who used them to advance on bringing them back toward the light, till now to the unfolding of one of the
straight.” If your understanding of Englishmen,” to 40 others who Jerusalem but also to keep them providing focus and detail, the latter most colorful theaters of World War I.
the uprising goes no further than “could each tell a like tale.” Law- away from the Turks. Four of Mr. being the result of extensive research
David Lean’s classic movie “Lawrence rence’s version of the tale also lists Walker’s subjects were based in the in libraries on several continents and Mr. Sattin is the author of “The
of Arabia,” you might think there those who served with the Hejaz Red Sea port of Jeddah (Jidda), in over many years. He has also tracked Young T.E. Lawrence.”
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Continued from page C5 tensified the pressure on the tribe dra- never for a moment been arrested, The cost of holding proved impos- and urging his people to give up their
The whites, for their part, deemed matically. “Once the gold appeared,” and one by one have many powerful sibly high. Jackson had retired to the home. Upon affixing his mark to a
the Indians a mortal threat. Andrew Mr. Sedgwick writes, “the Cherokee tribes disappeared from the earth,” Hermitage by the time the U.S. Army treaty ceding Cherokee land, he pre-
Jackson, a large figure in Mr. Sedg- hills of northern Georgia no longer be- Jackson said. “To save him from this compelled all the Cherokee to leave. dicted, “I have signed my death war-
wick’s story, launched his first impor- longed to the Cherokee; they belonged alternative, or perhaps utter annihila- The removal, along what came to be rant.” His prophecy proved true when
tant Indian campaign following the to just about anyone with a shovel. No tion, the general government kindly called the Trail of Tears, was a hu- followers of Ross, judging him a traitor
massacre of 500 men, women and chil- law, no religion, no morality could ever offers him a new home, and proposes manitarian disaster. Today it would to the Cherokee nation, murdered him.
dren by Creek Indians at Fort Mims hold back gold fever.” Neighboring to pay the whole expense of his re- be labeled ethnic cleansing. Of 15,000 The Cherokee troubles didn’t end
near Mobile, Ala. Jackson’s reprisal Cherokee who embarked on the with the forced march west. Mr. Sedg-
culminated in the Battle of Horseshoe winter journey, some 4,000 died of wick carries his story through the
Bend, in which The Ridge and a band disease, exposure and starvation. Civil War, which again split the tribe,
of Cherokees fought alongside Jackson It was a tragic story that reflects with some members fighting on the
and helped turn the Tallapoosa River badly on what Americans like to side of the Confederacy and others
red with the blood of the Creeks. think their country stands for. Yet it’s fighting for the Union. The Recon-
Despite the complications of the difficult, given the imbalance in num- struction era brought its own set of
history he recounts, a single sentence bers and the temper of the times, to problems. Nor did the Cherokee story
in Mr. Sedgwick’s book summarizes devise a credible scenario that turns end even then. History doesn’t stop; it
the intractable dynamic underlying the out much differently. Andrew Jack- simply adds layers of complexity. The
struggle over the Cherokee lands. “The son was a hard man—the Indians divided, decimated Cherokee sur-
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population”—of the Cherokee—“had called him Sharp Knife—and many prised nearly everyone, except per-
increased only slightly to just under modern Cherokee understandably haps the ghosts of The Ridge and
14,000,” Mr. Sedgwick writes of an liken him to Hitler. But he—and The Andrew Jackson, by making a 20th-
1826 census, “and they were sur- Ridge—were probably right in saying century comeback in their new home.
rounded by well over 1 million whites.” that the only hope for Cherokee sur- Today the Cherokee Nation com-
The fate of the Cherokee was the vival was for them to get out of the prises more than a quarter-million
unavoidable result of this imbalance of way of the juggernaut. citizens, of whom about half live
numbers. Even with the best of inten- For Jackson the reward was en- under tribal jurisdiction. Credit their
tions, the government of the whites hanced popularity. A few reformist resilience, credit belated guilt on the
could not have kept the Cherokee on MEETING John Mix Stanley’s painting of the 1843 International Indian Council. types, who generally lived far from part of whites, credit the creative
their land. At times government did the frontier, wanted the government tension embodied in the struggle be-
take the side of Indians. But it was whites had previously coveted Chero- moval and settlement.” Yet the presi- to protect the Cherokee in place, but tween John Ross and The Ridge—but
never successful for long. Britain’s 1763 kee land; now they simply took it. dent made clear that the move wasn’t most Americans thought Jackson was a 10-fold increase in numbers is no
ban on western settlement was meant The U.S. government abetted the optional. The Cherokee had to go. doing the right thing in compelling small thing. Mr. Sedgwick’s subtitle
to preserve Indian lands; instead it taking. In 1830 Congress approved The law split the Cherokee. One their removal. He remained hugely calls the Cherokee story an “American
helped trigger the American Revolu- and President Andrew Jackson signed party followed The Ridge, who reluc- popular far into the 20th century, a Epic,” and indeed it is.
tion. President Ulysses Grant’s attempt the Indian Removal Act. Jackson cast tantly agreed with Jackson that stay- patron saint of the Democratic Party,
to safeguard Sioux rights to the Black the measure as an exercise in liber- ing in Georgia risked the annihilation honored with the party’s other demi- Mr. Brands teaches history at the
Hills of South Dakota failed after the ality. “Humanity has often wept over of the tribe, and this group sought the god, Thomas Jefferson, in annual University of Texas at Austin. His
discovery of gold there. the fate of the aborigines of this best terms in bowing to the govern- Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners. next book, “Heirs of the Founders,”
Gold was what doomed the Chero- country, and philanthropy has been ment’s mandate. The other party fol- The Ridge encountered a different on Henry Clay, John Calhoun and
kee in their homeland, as well. The long busily employed in devising lowed John Ross and determined to fate. He understood he was taking his Daniel Webster, will be published
1828 discovery of gold in Georgia in- means to avert it, but its progress has hold the land, no matter the cost. life in his hands by defying John Ross in November.
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‘La science qui rapproche l’homme de Dieu.’ (‘Science brings men nearer to God.’) —Louis Pasteur
BY ALAN HIRSHFELD
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adapted to survival, not scientific de-
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tection. Yet the technology of recent
decades has endowed us with the
means to envision pseudo-images
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strained by the metronomic passage music on this island. The waves roll- bolic features—period. “Stars” opens vated for decades. Mr. Lightman’s diminishment of self than at pin-
of time; we can jump into the long- ing into the shore make cascades of with Galileo’s assertion, inspired by cognitive turmoil is summed up in a pointing the moment it is extin-
ago cauldron of the Big Bang or wit- sound, sometimes regular rhythms his observations of sunspots, that reflection on the death of his par- guished. Contemplating his own end,
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ness the future incineration of our and sometimes duples and triples stars are material bodies, proceeds ents, in which he reluctantly accepts he takes solace in knowing that some
planet by the red-giant sun. While and offbeat syncopations—all set to the principle of conservation of the “impossible truth” that they no of the atoms he has shed might
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“seeing” the unseeable, free of physi- against the arpeggios and glissandos energy, and closes with the observa- longer exist. “I wish I believed,” he linger on Pole Island for a thousand
cal or temporal limits, has revealed of the birds.” tion that our bodies’ atoms are the adds poignantly. years.
much about the workings of the uni- Each twig, ant hill or rounded detritus of stellar explosions. By con- Thus, according to Mr. Lightman,
verse, it leaves plenty of room, even stone—as well as the starry back- trast, “Ants” is a philosophical medi- a precipice looms for each of us: an
among scientists, to ponder some of drop of the book’s title—serves as tation on temporality versus perma- An astrophysicist tries to eventual plunge into nonexistence.
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the core mysteries of human exis- muse for Mr. Lightman’s speculations nence, while “Laws” lays out the A depressing prospect, for sure, yet
tence: Why are we here? What, if about the physical and metaphysical essential difference between the pro- reconcile his work as a the inevitable judgment of those for
anything, is the meaning of exis- realms. The elegant and evocative visionality of science and the perma- scientist with his thirst for whom religious or spiritual alterna-
tence? Is there a God? Is there life prose draws in the reader, and I felt nence of core religious beliefs. tives carry no resonance. We can
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after death? Whence consciousness? as if I were strolling alongside the Viewing the world through the spiritual transcendence. await that reckoning gripped with
In a delightful collection of essays author while he thought aloud. In- scientist’s lens, Mr. Lightman re- fear, bemoaning the unfairness of it
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titled “Searching for Stars on an deed, it was a challenge to keep pace, minds us that the universe is made all—or we can embrace whatever
Island in Maine,” MIT astrophysicist as I repeatedly wandered off into of tangible bits of matter and energy, Mr. Lightman explores the dimly time we have left and gaze with
Alan Lightman, the author of the reveries triggered by the narrative. all governed by a set of fundamental lit landscape of human conscious- gratitude at the splendid starscape
best-selling novel “Einstein’s Here is a book in which even a physical laws. Whatever aspects of ness, motivated in part by his own above. For us, the wisest course of
Dreams” (1992), examines his own colonoscopy becomes grist for the nature have escaped detection or ex- family’s experience with dementia. action—indeed the only course of
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conflicted views on life, death and philosophical mill: “I am just mate- planation, he adds, will be revealed “Self,” he writes, “is the name we action—was sung memorably by
the nature of reality and tries to rial stuff,” Mr. Lightman informs us (eventually) through experiment and give to the mental sensation of cer- Peggy Lee back in 1969: “If that’s all
reconcile the primacy of his inner, as a videocam spelunks through his observation. In keeping with his tain electrical and chemical flows in there is my friends, then let’s keep
evidence-driven scientist with his innards, but he hedges: “I know this “Central Doctrine of Science,” he es- our neurons.” Might cessation of dancing.”
longing for spiritual transcendence. intellectually, yet I recoil from the chews unprovable hypotheses, most these neurochemical currents—es-
We follow Mr. Lightman on his per- idea.” The coverage of scientific ver- significantly the existence of God and sentially, the erasure of self—some- Mr. Hirshfeld, a professor of physics
ambulations about tiny Pole Island, a sus speculative subjects varies from the afterlife. Yet the expansive feel- day provide a biochemical marker of at UMass Dartmouth, is the author
meditative oasis a million miles from essay to essay. The chapter titled ings aroused by his island wander- the onset of death, so defined? Mr. of “Starlight Detectives: How Astron-
the hurly-burly of daily life. “If one “Hummingbird” details the creatures’ ings continually sow dissonant seeds Lightman admits that, at present, we omers, Inventors, and Eccentrics
listens,” he tells us, “there’s always wondrous aerodynamic and meta- in the scientific furrows he has culti- are better at gauging the gradual Discovered the Modern Universe.”
Continued from page C5 a boat from Bilbao, Spain, met John great epiphany to the de Menils. “Life Robert Rauschenberg’s “Crucifixion The de Menils—who bought “Mon-
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her. They felt fated to spend their in Cuba after a 14-month separation, flows from [artists’] souls, from their and Reflection,” composed entirely of tagne,” their first Cézanne, on Father
lives together. and arrived in New York in 1941. “I hearts, from their fingers,” Dominique rectangles in shades of gray. Even Couturier’s advice in 1944—looked
But there were obstacles. First, have been seduced by New York,” she said. “They invite us to celebrate life their friends, who marveled at their and looked and bought and bought,
there was a malicious letter, appar- wrote to her mother. “Expecting to and to meditate on the mystery of the eclectic tastes, were surprised to see assembling a collection ranging from
ently designed to ruin the love affair. have a feeling of being overwhelmed, world, on the mystery of God. the ease with which they viewed Paleolithic bone carvings, Cycladic
It was discredited but not before I have been surprised to find a city . . . They bring us back to the essen- Andy Warhol’s entourage. Of Domi- idols, Byzantine relics and African
Dominique’s parents had forbidden that is so inviting.” tial.” Father Couturier, who was al- nique, the art historian John Richard- totems to masterpieces by Picasso,
her to see him. Then there was the son remarked: “She was pretty Braque, Magritte, Ernst, Calder,
matter of their religious differences. unshockable. . . . Which comes as Rothko, Rauschenberg, Warhol and
It took some time to hammer out an something of a surprise that someone many more, some 17,000 paintings,
agreement that allowed each of them so restrained, so delicate in many sculptures, prints, drawings, photo-
to retain their affiliations and their ways, could take the Warhol Fac- graphs and books. “The new, the mod-
future children to decide for them- tory . . . at its worst, with junkies all ern, without the old,” Dominique said,
selves. The marriage took place a year over the place and people in drag and “is like a child without a family, with-
later, in 1931. The stage was set for God knows what going on.” out a tradition, or a man without
Jean to join the Schlumberger enter- Dominique, with her liberal politi- memory.” Some of these works they
prise, or Société de Prospection Élec- cal interests, was as openhanded a donated to institutions, including the
trique, Procédés Schlumberger, where hostess as she was a collector, enter- Centre Pompidou, in Paris, the Mu-
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his talents were found to be exactly taining nonstop in their curious seum of Modern Art, in New York, and
suited to his new role as a prospector ranch-style house in Houston (home the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
for oil. He “even coined the company of Schlumberger’s U.S. headquarters), The rest are now housed in their light-
slogan,” Mr. Middleton notes: “Wher- designed for them by Philip Johnson. filled museum in Houston, designed
ever the drill goes, Schlumberger Its interiors were the work of by Renzo Piano and opened in 1987.
goes.” His charm, talent and tact had Charles James, the singular couturier After her husband’s death, Domi-
found an appreciative response in his whom she patronized at this stage. nique worked even harder and was
father-in-law; Jean was, Dominique Their guests included writers, com- still engaged in the pursuit of the in-
said, the son that her father, who had posers and filmmakers such as Susan effable for the next 20 years. She had
only daughters, never had. Dominique Sontag, Norman Mailer, Philip Glass a strong hand in planning and install-
and Jean’s marriage produced five and Michelangelo Antonioni, as well ing exhibitions drawn from their col-
children (some of whom became art as the artists Magritte, Duchamp and lection, as well as in designing the
patrons in their own right) and lasted A HOME FOR MASTERPIECES The Menil Collection in Houston. Max Ernst. At one dinner party in Houston museum, always “rigorously
until his death in 1973. Houston attended by Antonioni, a involved in every detail,” Mr. Middle-
As World War II began, Jean de The experience of life in a great ready in New York, became their con- drunken neighbor kept addressing a ton writes. To determine the ideal
Menil (who became “John” and metropolis was a revelation to them stant guide and interpreter, even for fellow guest who had campaigned for height for the building’s roofline, she
dropped his baronial title) was travel- both. It opened new possibilities and, artists they disliked. The latter, how- desegregation as a “n— lover.” An- walked the site with a balloon on a
ing constantly for the company in most of all, inflamed their dormant ever, were very few. other guest brusquely told him to string. Before she, too, died, in 1997,
Europe, the Middle East, South Amer- love of art. This interest had begun in As this wonderfully illustrated nar- stop, at which point the offender Dominique said of her late husband:
ica and the U.S., primarily to Houston Paris when they had met Marie-Alain rative records, the de Menils main- hauled off and knocked him out of “He leaves me with a mission that I
and New York. Dominique remained Couturier, a well-born Dominican tained their benevolent willingness to his chair. The evening threatened to must complete.” Complete it she did.
with the children in France until the priest who was the editor of a small suspend disbelief, whether buying become a free-for-all but was saved
Nazis took over in 1940. magazine, L’Art Sacré, that sought to René Magritte’s famous cityscape by John in the nick of time. The Ms. Secrest, recipient of the
Since John could not enter France, reconnect artists with the church. raining identical little men in black drunken neighbor stormed out. No National Humanities Medal, is the
Dominique and the children had to Father Couturier’s belief in art as an overcoats and bowler hats, or an Afri- doubt Dominique took it in her author of many biographies in the
leave somehow. They took passage on expression of the ineffable was the can sculpture from the Congo, or stride. fields of art, architecture and music.
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‘It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.’ —Ezra Pound
many locals, particularly among the But Kate survived her “trifecta of
intelligentsia. Such was the reaction traumas” to devote her adult life to
that Ortese, feeling ostracized, left a career helping young people nego-
Naples for good. tiate similar crises—in part as a way
Sixty-five years later, the book has (One sentence runs, in its entirety: warm-up for “The Silence of Reason,” everyone else. When she says a writer of assuaging the guilt she still feels
finally been translated into English, “Life . . . it was a strange thing, life.”) a ghastly series of articles that make “dictated in a voice that was incredibly for having left her sister alone the
under the title “Neapolitan Chroni- Then there are Ortese’s physical de- up half the book. For 90 interminable cold, mechanical, monotonous, yet night she was abducted. It is all the
cles.” Why now? Clearly it has some- scriptions. One character has “a small pages, Ortese attempts to expose a transparently still full of hate and more distressing, then, when an
thing to do with the best-selling novel- green face,” another a “putrid-yellow group of writers and editors who pain,” her words fit a certain someone emotionally vulnerable teenage pa-
ist Elena Ferrante, who praised the face,” a third an “ugly smiling face,” a once worked with her at Sud, a Nea- to a T. In her preface, she concedes tient hangs herself as soon as Kate
book in her collection “Frantumaglia.” fourth a “horrible body” and a “waxy politan literary magazine, as pathetic, that she attributed her own “horror” prepares to leave on a long-deferred
(Ms. Ferrante’s English translator, Ann smiling face” that later becomes a insecure, mean-spirited narcissists. and “authentic neurosis” (as opposed vacation.
Goldstein, co-translated “Neapolitan “horrible, crimson-colored face.” So they may have been, but I to inauthentic neurosis?) to Naples, “None of this was your fault,” her
Chronicles” with Jenny McPhee.) Not If you sense humorless misanthropy wouldn’t take her word for it. Her de- and expresses regret. Then, in the next old mentor tells her. “Sometimes
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that she’s alone in thinking it special. here, you’re exactly right. In a preface paragraph, she refers to herself as “the the darkness takes over.” In this
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The book, Ortese’s third, won a major written for a later edition, Ortese person accused of having invented a case, the darkness won’t let go. At
prize and kick-started her career; recalls that her book was “judged to Ortese was shattered by terrible neurosis for the city.” Her her patient’s funeral, Kate encoun-
according to New Vessel Press, her be ‘anti-Naples,’ ” but really it’s anti- prickly self-contradiction says it all. ters Palmer Dyson, a retired police
American publisher, she became “one people. Her disdain and revulsion are
on the ‘horror’ of life. Naples What makes “Neapolitan Chroni- detective from her hometown back
of the most celebrated and original triggered by individuals and whole was the scrim on which cles” a truly bad book isn’t its mis- in New Hampshire. Palmer shares
Italian writers of the 20th century.” populations alike. In her story “The anthropy—hatred for the species can his doubts that the man convicted
Though Ms. Ferrante’s enthusiasm Gold of Forcella,” she characterizes the she projected her despair. be magic in the right hands—but its of killing Kate’s sister—and soon to
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made me a bit wary—while admiring residents of a neighborhood (a real tediousness and immaturity. In her be executed—is actually guilty. Af-
her intelligence, I’m not a fan—I was one) as “a race devoid of all logic and apparent wish to shock, her uncon- ter meeting the condemned man,
curious to read “Neapolitan Chroni- reason.” “Humankind,” she continues, scriptions are suspiciously similar. scious projection of feelings onto Kate begins to have doubts of her
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cles.” The furious local response sug- “was now a shadow of itself, weak, Over and over, she describes her sub- others, her tendency to, as the Ital- own. It could be that the real killer
gested that Ortese had nailed an un- neurotic, resigned to fear and impu- jects as “cold,” “indifferent” and full ians say, “see everything black” is still at large.
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pleasant truth or two, and I assumed dent joy. . . . In this dark pit only the of “rage,” “fury,” “malice” and “hos- (vedere tutto nero), her limited,
that the book would evoke the distinc- fire of sexuality burned bright under tility,” which they hide—though not hyperbolic, cliché-ridden means of
tive atmosphere of postwar Naples; at an eerie black sky.” from her!—behind fake smiles. She expression and love of words like A damaged woman takes
a minimum, I expected to find it vivid Ludicrous in fiction, this kind of habitually compares them to children “putrid,” Ortese is a fundamentally
and revealing. language is inconceivable in journal- (“Once again, like a stubborn child, he adolescent writer. No wonder she on a cold case—the
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How wrong I was. Though it has ism. Ortese, however, saw no problem blew his nose, in order not to answer dismissed her peers and rivals as abduction and murder
patches of satisfactory writing, “Nea- with it. In “The Involuntary City,” an me”) and deems them mentally and juvenile.
politan Chronicles” is a shallow, obtuse, article about a notoriously squalid morally defective: One is “incapable After finishing “Neapolitan Chron- of her younger sister.
insufferable book, its faults so glaring building crammed with desperately of conceiving the word death,” an- icles,” I found myself thinking of two
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and pervasive that I fail to understand poor tenants, Ortese describes an other lacks “the courage . . . to think books that actually deserve their
how anyone can overlook them. elderly woman as “completely clear and logical thoughts.” acclaim, Carlo Levi’s “Christ Stopped With the ex-cop’s guidance, Kate
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These flaws first become prominent bloated, like a dying bird,” and “only Interspersed with these put-downs at Eboli” (1945) and Norman Lewis’s is soon acting like a detective in her
in “Family Interior,” the book’s second an enormous flea.” Another woman is are risible, often mystifying passages “Naples ’44” (1978). Both authors own right: poring through old police
story. Anastasia, a 40-ish spinster who “bloated, horrendous, the fruit . . . of in which Ortese pontificates on class, washed up briefly in southern Italy files, considering alternative sce-
supports her whole family, briefly in- profoundly defective creatures.” politics and the afflictions of Naples (Levi was exiled by the fascists, narios and using her psychiatric
dulges a romantic fantasy before re- When ground-floor tenants react and southern Italy. In the Mezzo- Lewis was an intelligence officer with training to deduce the identity of
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signing herself to loneliness and self- mutedly to a child’s death, Ortese giorno, she discloses, “a secret minis- the Allies) and wrote about it with someone Palmer is convinced is an
sacrifice. The problem isn’t Ortese’s declares: “Down there no possibility try exists for the defense of nature insight, affection, pity, humor and undetected serial killer.
well-worn theme but her ham-fisted of emotion survived. There was dark- from reason.” As for the Neapolitan harrowing precision. Ortese spent Bizarre coincidences and shocking
handling of it. Devoid of nuance and ness, and nothing else.” Not only does bourgeoisie, it has “renounced the decades there and seemingly learned revelations concerning former neigh-
often hackneyed, her language is also she sound like a eugenicist, she re- ability to see the common people as nothing. The book that resulted, os- bors and Kate’s own family mem-
numbingly repetitive. On page 37, we peatedly credits herself with the god- living beings” and is incapable of “be- tensibly a panorama of the material bers, as well as the murder of the
learn that Anastasia’s “life had been like power to read hearts and minds. lieving that humankind [is] different and spiritual poverty of Naples, is mother of another one of her pa-
nothing but servitude and sleep”; on “Behind that deplorable forehead, a from nature.” Maybe it was brain- really about little more than her own tients, cause Kate to question her
page 44, that her aunt “had to resign measure of hope existed,” she writes washed by the secret ministry? destitution. own hard-earned sanity. But she’ll
herself . . . to a servile and silent life”; of the “bloated, horrendous” woman. The irony is that Ortese, who need all her wits about her, and then
on page 50, that her mother “led a She can tell just by looking. claims to see what others don’t, is so Mr. Downing is the author of some, to eventually do battle with
servile life.” “Life,” in fact, is used doz- For all their venom and contempt, blind to her own flaws and prejudices “Queen Bee of Tuscany: The one of the most memorable genre
ens of times, almost always tritely. these three pieces are merely a that she unwittingly ascribes them to Redoubtable Janet Ross.” villains since Hannibal Lecter.
n-
The book begins in 1954, following over us,” Willa re- ists who placed the integrity of their
a decorated Air Force veteran called of them were a single tree split by members, “rustling private visions over “collective mor-
Tucker, who returns to Kentucky from weather.” That image—natural, under- the ivy on the fence so als.” Her thoughts are spiraling and
Korea at the age of 18 (having lied stated yet profound—exemplifies Mr. the vines looked alive, recursive, returning again and again
about his age to enlist), hardened to Offutt’s fine homage to a pocket of the Sadism is the unwritten word at the sucking termites from the wood.” Her to the same moments but presenting
granite by his combat behind the lines. country that’s as beautiful as it is heart of “Demi-Gods.” Patrick, the sort uncanny recall, disturbing all the them with slight variations, a bor-
Tucker marries a teenage girl named prone to tragedy. of boy who sets fire to moths and senses and making the past seem more rowing from Schoenberg’s theory of
Rhonda, gets a job running moonshine Eliza Robertson’s coming-of-age decapitates small animals, finds in vivid than the present, makes this one atonal development.
for the local bootlegger and tries to novel “Demi-Gods” (Bloomsbury, Willa a captive partner for sexual of the most memorable first novels That sounds fussy and intimidating,
stay as far out of sight of civilization 230 pages, $26) takes place mostly in experimentation. Their summer inter- I’ve read in 2018. but “Blue Self-Portrait” wraps its diffi-
as possible. But as Mr. Offutt writes, the 1950s, and like “Country Dark” it ludes are few but formative and they “A plane is no place for screaming,” culties in mercurial humor and word-
trouble seems to come his way “like generates some of its friction by chaf- lend an almost hyper-real clarity to the nameless narrator of Noémi Le- play, gamely translated from the French
sideways wind in winter.” Inexplicably, ing against the postwar decade’s Willa’s recollections as she narrates febvre’s “Blue Self-Portrait” (Transit, by Sophie Lewis. It’s inviting enough to
Rhonda gives birth to a sequence of reputation for innocence. When Joan from the distance of middle age. 143 pages, $15.95) reminds herself as read and re-read, and dense enough to
mentally disabled children, prompting and Willa’s dissipated mother re- “Demi-Gods” reminded me favor- she takes the short flight from Berlin provoke different responses each time.
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‘The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.’ —Coco Chanel
BY MAUREEN CORRIGAN
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public,” is that she’s going to lead
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readers on a dutiful plod through the How easy it would be to assemble blandly capacious phrase, “write “one off” cultural phenoms, is how this book and is in many ways its
brain folds of, among others, Re- a coffee table compendium of such unforgettably,” mean? important not only “tony” outlets presiding deity, Ms. Dean observes,
becca West, Hannah Arendt, Renata dazzlingly awkward moments in Even more potentially controver- like the New Yorker and Partisan Re- “This was her gift: to shave complex
Adler, Joan Didion, Janet Malcolm American intellectual history.
on sial is Ms. Dean’s acknowledgment view were to giving these women a emotions down to a witticism that
and the aforementioned Sontag. The In “Sharp,” however, Ms. Dean that her chosen subjects don’t con- perch but also women’s magazines hints at bitterness without wearing
danger, of course, is that in the has pulled off a much rarer stitute “a perfect demographic sam- such as McCall’s, Vogue and Made- it on the surface.” Reflecting on
effort to “sell” these thinkers to a achievement: She’s written an ple. These women came from similar moiselle. Also striking is the many Mary McCarthy, who famously wrote
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wider audience, Ms. Dean might err entertaining and erudite cultural backgrounds: white, and often Jew- ways their paths intersected: Mary in “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood”
on the side of peppiness, going light history of selected female thinkers ish, and middle-class.” There’s good McCarthy became Hannah Arendt’s about being orphaned when her par-
on analysis in favor of anecdote. who “came up in a world that was reason for that exclusivity. As Ms. ents died in the 1918 flu epidemic,
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After all, there are so many stories not eager to hear women’s opinions Dean reminds readers in a very brief Ms. Dean says: “What McCarthy got
to tell, so much bad behavior on the about anything.” Indeed, Ms. Dean chapter partly devoted to Zora Female thinkers who came in exchange for that lost other exis-
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part of these otherwise brainy herself performs the work of a pub- Neale Hurston: “The intellectual tence was the inquisitive detachment
women and their male contempo- lic intellectual by doing justice to situation in the America of her time, up in a world that was that became known as characteristic
raries to revel in, and so many zing- the substance of her subjects’ work, and for many years after, was a very not eager to hear women’s for her writing.”
ers to quote. while also conveying—through her white background. . . . Black writers There’s so much more to savor,
Take, for instance, critic Lionel own wit and lively opinions—why were not invited to contribute to the ideas about anything. ruminate on, learn from and, cer-
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Abel calling Hannah Arendt “Hannah their work matters. This is a book New Republic, or the New Yorker. tainly, argue with in this splendid
Arrogant” behind her back and Del- designed to stir up discussion and Making a living solely as a literary book. “Sharp” embodies the work of
more Schwartz dissing her as “that dissension in its readers, beginning journalist would have been impos- literary executor; Renata Adler (who its subjects and manages the diffi-
Weimar Republic flapper.” Consider on the very first page of its preface, sible for her.” was at one time engaged to McCar- cult intellectual and narrative feat of
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Pauline Kael’s backhanded compli- where Ms. Dean states the criteria But let’s leave off gnawing on thy’s son) attacked Pauline Kael in linking a bunch of disparate women
ment about Joan Didion’s writing: that guided her selection process: these questions of methodology and, the pages of the New York Review of writers, not via their topical inter-
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“The smoke of creation rises from “I gathered the women in this book instead, acknowledge the intellectual Books; Kael, in turn, was antagonis- ests, but by their sensibility: that of
those dry-ice sentences.” Or, mull under the sign of a compliment and, yes, even inspirational bounty tic to Sontag in the introduction of writers, with one foot in the main-
over the very first conversation that every one of them received in that “Sharp” offers its readers. Along her surprise best seller “I Lost It at stream of the American intellectual
between a young Sontag and the their lives: they were called sharp. with incisive readings of their most the Movies.” Ms. Dean also explores culture that men made, and one foot
venerable Mary McCarthy at a party The precise nature of their gifts emblematic work, Ms. Dean skillfully the seeming paradox that some of outside, sometimes by their own
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at Robert Lowell’s home in 1964. varied, but they had in common the encapsulates each of these women’s these extraordinary women did not decision, and sometimes not. And
McCarthy remarked to Sontag that it ability to write unforgettably.” One life stories, focusing on their mostly call themselves “feminists,” and she each one of them, in this wonderful
was clear she wasn’t from New York. can already anticipate the roundabout and bumpy paths to a explores the reasons why even those telling, is very much an intellectual
Sontag recalled that she said: objections sure to erupt in book public career. (“Late bloomers” Pau- who were more comfortable with the and a writer to be heard.
“No, actually I’m not. Although clubs and seminar rooms across the line Kael and Janet Malcolm didn’t label “wavered.”
I’ve always wanted to live here. . . . land. Why does Mary McCarthy come to prominence until their 40s.) Ms. Dean is especially “sharp” Ms. Corrigan, who teaches literature
But how did you know?” deserve a chapter and not Lillian What becomes evident as Ms. Dean herself when it comes to nailing her at Georgetown University, is the
“Because you smile too much,” Hellman? Rebecca West, but not considers these female thinkers col- subjects’ distinctive gifts as writers. book critic for the NPR program
McCarthy said. Gertrude Stein? What does that lectively, instead of viewing them as About Dorothy Parker, who kicks off “Fresh Air.”
‘ALL ARTEFACTS, in which we adapt,” Mr. Fagan writes feels a new sense of connection. She have a really long life.” Thistle seeds, dent, Elliot, go on a field trip run by
however humble, in this learned and lively account. is named for her grandmother, Sofia, it seems, augur peace and plenty. Professor Fauna, a teacher who
have a story to tell,” “And every year, new discoveries who loved books and flowers (“I love In dainty ink-and-watercolor illus- wears a unicorn insignia and has a
Brian Fagan writes and technical advances make it books and flowers,” Alma realizes); trations, we see the festive prepara- voice “like someone had put rocks in
in the opening pages easier to peer over the shoulders of for her artist grandfather, José (“I tions. Invitations go out by “mail a blender.” Fauna leads his students
of “A Little History ancient people—almost, sometimes, draw a lot, too!”); and for her great- snail” (literally, a snail toting a sack into the New Jersey pine barrens, a
of Archaeology” (Yale, 277 pages, to talk to them.” aunt Pura, who “believed that the of letters). Hazel and her father dry wasteland with a fascinating his-
$25), an engaging tour through a Like artifacts, the names that par- spirits of our ancestors are always make dandelion kimchi and fiddle- tory where, in short order, Uchenna
discipline that, for all the antiquity ents give children often have stories with us, watching over us.” Touching head soup. Hazel and Twig’s mother and Elliot encounter a tiny blue
of its subject matter, has been to tell. In “Alma and How She Got on cultural themes central to the puts out flowing pink traditional winged beast that the world believes
around for a surprisingly short time. Her Name” (Candlewick, 32 pages, recent Pixar movie “Coco,” this is a dresses, called hanboks, for the to be mythological.
Archaeologists have been digging $15.99), author and illustrator Juana tender outing for children ages 4-8. mouse-girls to wear. Gentle and joy- It’s a fun, fast read marred, unfor-
into the earth to learn about past Martinez-Neal draws on her own girl- When Korean babies reach their ful, the story is a celebration of tunately, by political cheap shots that
human societies for only about the hood perplexity with what, she detract from the freshness of the
last 250 years, and, as readers ages confesses, “I thought was the most project. The villains of the piece are
13 and older will learn, many explor- two white billionaire industrialists,
ers in the early days were adven- the Schmoke Brothers (get it?), who
turers who inadvertently damaged A child’s history of operate under the motto “Making the
as much as they discovered. World the Way We Want It to Be.”
In short chapters packed with archaeology leads a pack And out of the blue—presumably to
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color and context, alongside occa- of books about ancient scratch a political itch—a venerable
sional illustrations (see right), Mr. old woman in the barrens, whose
Fagan takes us to celebrated sites in customs all the world over. heritage, we’re told, is black, Irish,
Egypt, Syria, Cambodia, China and French, Jewish and Lenni-Lenape
Crete but also to fascinating and Indian, lectures the visiting school-
less widely known archaeological old-fashioned, harsh, ugly, and way- children about early American hypo-
marvels, such as Doggerland, where too-Spanish name”—Juana Carlota crites. “You had all these rich men,
a 9,000-year-old Ice Age fishing Martinez Pizarro—“in all of Lima, first birthdays, tradition calls for a Korean customs even as, for many Washington and Jefferson and all,
culture now lies beneath the North Peru, where I grew up!” Like Ms. Mar- fortune-telling ceremony known as readers ages 3-7, it will also serve as running up and down the East Coast,
Sea (on what was once marshland), tinez-Neal, little Alma cannot under- the doljabi. This happy occasion finds an introduction. saying they were fighting for a place
or Must Farm, a 3,000-year-old stand why she is burdened with such a woodland setting in “Hazel & Writer Adam Gidwitz and illustra- where people could live free,” when
Bronze Age village that, thanks to a an impossibly long name as “Alma Twig: The Birthday Fortune” (Can- tor Hatem Aly, fresh from “The of course not everyone could. “The
covering of silt, is perfectly pre- Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela.” dlewick, 40 pages, $15.99), a picture Inquisitor’s Tale,” their 2017 New- Founding Fathers thought they were
served. Mr. Fagan calls it “Britain’s In soft graphite and colored- book by Brenna Burns Yu about a bery Honor-winning collaboration, inventing America,” the woman con-
Pompeii.” pencil illustrations, we see the little mouse family’s upcoming celebration. have turned their talents to “The tinues. “But we were the ones invent-
A field of study that began with girl in her rose-striped playsuit com- It is almost Twig’s first birthday, and Unicorn Rescue Society,” a new ing America. And you know what
pickaxes and shovels now compasses plaining to her father. “Let me tell it falls to her big sister, Hazel, to ex- series for readers ages 7-10 about a America looks like? It looks like me.”
sophisticated drones and aerial laser you the story of your name,” he says, plain all: “We’ll put out lots of things, cadre of eccentrics dedicated to pro- In these politicized times, kids aren’t
scanning, giving us thrilling pulling out a photo album. “Then like a lute and a ball of yarn and tecting exotic creatures of myth and even allowed to enjoy a page-turner
glimpses of ancient wonders yet to you decide if it fits.” Every piece of some toasted thistle seeds. Then legend. In the first volume, “The about freaky teachers and magical
be fully revealed. “Archaeology helps Alma’s name, she discovers, comes you’ll go pick one—only one, OK? If Creature of the Pines” (Dutton, 163 creatures without being made to
explain why we are similar and why to her from someone in her family, you pick the lute it means you’ll be a pages, $14.99), a fearless girl, swallow a dose of ideological cod
we are different. It explains the ways and, as she and her father talk, Alma musician, and the yarn means you’ll Uchenna, and a diffident new stu- liver oil. It’s so tedious.
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‘Music straitjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn’t need music; lyrics do.’ —Stephen Sondheim
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end, delusion and deception. Maps in the reputed vicinity of Mayda, THE REIGNING MASTER of countered: “I’m not a lady, I’m
and navigation charts afforded their where ocean depths reached 2,400 the theater song reflects on your daughter.” The entry on
only guidance, and many are color- fathoms, the captain of a freighter the ingredients of his art and Sammy Cahn, one of Hollywood’s
fully reproduced in Edward Brooke- noticed a seeming change in the sea’s offers provocative critiques of his most commercially successful
JEFFREY MACMILLAN
Hitching’s “The Phantom Atlas: The color and took a sonar reading that canonical colleagues. He is wordsmiths, notes that he had a
Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on revealed a depth of only 20 fathoms surprisingly tough on icons, from “generous opinion of himself, but
Maps.” The author details over 50 and a submerged land mass 28 miles Ira Gershwin to Lorenz Hart and he was clear-sighted as well,” once
instances of fake cartography, includ- Noël Coward, but reserves special answering an interviewer who
ing their reputed coordinates: from scorn for Alan Jay Lerner. “It’s asked which came first, the words
the Strait of Anian to the Phantom Islands that never existed hard to comment on or even write or the music: “I’ll tell you which— MR. PURDUM’S latest book is
Lands of Zeno. about Alan Jay Lerner because his the money!” ‘Something Wonderful: Rodgers and
As Mr. Brooke-Hitching describes, inspired adventurers to work is so professional and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution.’
honest mistakes, grounded in religious undertake quixotic trips uninteresting when compared to
dogma and classical mythology, were that of the other major theater The House “I’m Still Here” without feeling the
often to blame for inaccuracies. (Plato with tragic consequences. lyricists,” Mr. Sondheim writes. That George Built hair go up on your neck. “This one
was among the first to record the His bêtes noires include near By Wilfrid Sheed (2007) was definitely a keeper,” Mr.
myth of the Island of Atlantis, whose rhymes: “Claiming that true rhyme Chapin writes. “Little did I or any
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destruction, he wrote, had left a “shoal in diameter—the victim, speculates is the enemy of substance is the WILFRID SHEED, a British- of us know then that it would
of mud” that rendered the sea “im- Mr. Brooke-Hitching, of “some act of sustaining excuse of lyricists who born critic and novelist, become one of Sondheim’s most
passable and impenetrable.”) But navi- geologic violence centuries ago.” are unable to rhyme well with any offers informed, insouciant performed songs, and one whose
gators were also fooled by optical illu- It would be wrong to dismiss “The consistency.” His own credo: takes on the top songwriters of sentiments, first typed that day by
sions arising from mirages, icebergs Phantom Atlas” as an exotic side-show. “Content Dictates Form, Less Is the 20th-century era when good a twenty-year-old gofer, would
and low-lying clouds dubbed “Dutch Cartographic errors sowed real anxiety More, God Is in the Details—all in music was popular and popular continue to have resonance for
Capes.” In the meantime the persis- and confusion among mariners. They the service of Clarity, without music was good, leavened by his years to come.”
tence of fictitious claims led influenced shipping routes and in- which nothing else matters.” personal acquaintance with some
innumerable generations of spired adventurers to undertake of the greats. He assesses the
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mariners astray. Remarkably, quixotic expeditions, occasion- alchemy of Irving Berlin, noting
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not until 2012, after first being ally with tragic consequences. that the composer himself was By William Zinsser (2000)
“sighted” by a whaling ship in “These phantoms,” the au- By Robert Gottlieb and Robert reluctant to probe too deeply into
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the late 1800s, was thor tartly observes, “were Kimball (2000) the inner workings of his music. A DISTINGUISHED CRITIC
Sandy Island in the considered a plague on
on “The same goes for his lyrics,” and teacher of writing,
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Coral Sea “un- navigational charts.” HERE IS a delightfully Sheed writes, “which seem not so William Zinsser was a
discovered” by an And there have idiosyncratic, opinionated much brilliant as inevitable. . . . lifelong fan of the American
Australian team of been geopolitical catalog of the best lyrics of ‘Everybody’s doing it,’ but of Songbook, and his survey of the
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marine scientists. reverberations. Just popular songs from 1900 to 1975, course they are. It says so in the genre is a loving tribute,
In time, with nine years ago, in stretching from George M. Cohan tune.” Sheed notes that composers punctuated with reproductions
the proliferation of the Gulf of Mexico, a to Fred Ebb and Dave Frishberg. as diverse as Richard Rodgers, from his own collection of vintage
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printing in the 1500s, controversy was finally Robert Gottlieb, the veteran book George Gershwin and Cy Coleman sheet-music covers. The book is
the publication of sala- resolved over the reputed and magazine editor, and Robert remarked, in one way or another, largely a composer-by-composer
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cious tales turned a ready island of Bermeja, a Mexi- Kimball, the eminent musical- that they had more songs in their tour through the best of Tin Pan
profit. Besides gold, silver and can possession originally re- theater scholar, cull the cream of heads than they could ever write Alley, Broadway and Hollywood,
precious gems, far-off lands corded in 1539 on a Spanish map. the lyricist’s art, from “Give My down. “So perhaps,” Sheed writes, but Zinsser is especially acute in
were said to contain all manner of Locating the tiny island promised to Regards to Broadway” to “Peel Me “songwriting can best be defined describing the form and mechanics
forbidding creatures—demons, Patago- dramatically extend Mexico’s nautical a Grape.” The authors provide as the wonderful ability to go in of popular song. “Because
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nian giants and human-shaped fruit. sovereignty to include precious oil there and get them.” traditional western music is
As Jonathan Swift mocked: “So geog- rights in the Gulf. Despite a last-ditch mathematical in its notation, it
raphers in Afric-maps / With savage- effort, neither aircraft nor a Mexican insists on order,” he writes, “which
pictures fill their gaps.” Few scribes research vessel succeeded in finding Everything Was Possible means, among other things, even
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were as infamous as the 18th-century Bermeja. Diehard believers, ceding no By Ted Chapin (2003) numbers. A 31-bar song would
French impostor, George Psalmanazar, ground, cited global warming or the leave us vaguely uneasy. So would
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who claimed to be a native of the possibility of an undersea earth- AS A COLLEGE STUDENT, a 7-bar opening statement; our
primitive island of Formosa, brought quake—thin satisfaction at best. Be- Ted Chapin, the longtime metabolism has been conditioned
against his will to Europe by a Jesuit cause billions of barrels of oil were at head of the Rodgers & to need the full eight.” The miracle
priest. Years after the appearance in stake, the CIA was also blamed for the Hammerstein Organization, had a of this rigid construction, Zinsser
1704 of his adventures, a spurious island’s destruction. worm’s eye view at the creation of notes, is that “thousands of
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publication featuring no shortage of “The Phantom Atlas” will prove re- what was arguably the last musical popular songs have been written,
gruesome tales, he remained a celeb- warding for armchair adventurers and of the Golden Age. He was an their composers limited to 32 bars
rity. When asked why he had be- nautical historians. For more intrepid assistant on the Boston tryout of and only 12 notes.” Now and then,
friended the scoundrel, Samuel John- souls, it affords an indispensable guide “Follies” and kept a faithful diary he acknowledges, “a song comes
son avowed, “I should as soon have to legendary sites or, just possibly, re- that 32 years later would become along that reminds us of some
thought of contradicting a bishop.” mote realms waiting to be reclaimed. what surely ranks as the best-ever other song. But the remarkable
Contrary to the author’s assertion Don’t forget to bring a camera. account of the blood, sweat and thing is how often we’re not
that the book’s lands and waterways tears that go into putting on a reminded of some other song. The
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LAST YEAR, chef David Chang restaurants around the world, as a strong personal resonance. The sional, but he didn’t enjoy the New York Times food critic Pete
went on a global “taco crawl” to well as six locations of the fast-ca- son of Korean immigrants, he grew sport. Unsure of a career, he spent Wells was headlined: “David
more than a dozen places around sual chain Fuku and 13 Milk Bar up outside of Washington, D.C., in two years after college teaching Chang’s Magic Shows a Little
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the world as part of his new docu- dessert stores. He’s still expanding suburban Virginia. His mother made English in Japan, where he fell in Wear.”
mentary series, “Ugly Delicious,” his restaurant empire, which offers fried rice and chicken soup and his love with the local ramen shops. He Mr. Chang responded to the re-
which is currently streaming on indulgent, sometimes oddball dishes grandmother would make Korean kept copious notes of what he saw view in a New Yorker profile of Mr.
Netflix. He and his cast sampled the such as kimchi bacon burgers and dumplings, he remembers. His fa- there, right down to the flavorings Wells, saying, “He’s being a [exple-
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Mexican staple everywhere from his much-imitated barbecued pork- ther used to take him to local pho in the first slurp of soup. tive] bully.” These days, Mr. Chang
the Yucatán to Copenhagen. belly buns. The chef and his restau- and ramen spots, where Mr. Chang When he returned to the U.S., he thinks that customer reviews on
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One of his favorite tacos came rants have won five James Beard would watch in wonder as the chefs took a desk job in finance—and services such as Yelp carry just as
from a food truck in L.A. It featured Awards, and one of the New York worked the dough and pulled it into hated it. He quit after six months much weight as the opinions of pro-
ingredients usually associated with locations, Momofuku Ko, has car- and enrolled at the French Culinary fessional critics.
the Middle East—shawarma (meat ried two Michelin stars since 2009. Institute (now the International Cu- Mr. Chang has experienced some
sliced from a turning spit) and a “I think Momofuku has always
’Every type linary Center) in New York, with failures as his business has ex-
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thick, pitalike flour tortilla. In the tried to be a merger of things that stints afterward at high-end restau- panded. Last year, he attempted to
show, he traced the history of these don’t always go together,” Mr. of food came rants in the city such as Craft and launch his own meal-preparation
“Arab tacos” back to the city of
Puebla, about 80 miles southeast of
Chang says. As for his show, “when
you say the word ‘ugly delicious’ it
from somewhere Café Boulud.
When he finally decided to strike
and delivery service, and a few
years before that he invested in an-
Mexico City. There, Mr. Chang made sense.” Many of his favorite else,’ he says. out on his own, it was to embrace other. Both have since closed. Mr.
learned, immigrants from the Mid- dishes, such as curries and noodles, the Asian food of his childhood: “I Chang has said that delivery ser-
dle East helped to create the tacos look ugly, he says. think part of it is accepting being vices were difficult to get right.
decades ago. The show’s eight thematic epi- me.” He now appreciates his own But the chef is still creating new
He came across plenty of other sodes range from fried chicken to long strands. “That’s how my dad culture more, he says, partly be- concepts for restaurants and figur-
cross-cultural connections in ex- pizza to barbecue. The series asks expressed love to me, by going out cause he “ran away from it to begin ing out where to start them. Major-
ploring other iconic dishes for the why some cultures and not others to eat,” he says. with.” domo, which opened earlier this
show. In Houston, he tasted Viet- readily assimilate new foods and His parents were in the restau- In 2004, Mr. Chang started Mo- year in L.A., offers creative takes on
Cajun crawfish, a combination of a dishes from afar. An area’s tradition rant business for a time, but their mofuku Noodle Bar as a casual ra- basics and recently included short
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New Orleans Creole dish with Viet- and its immigration history are ma- two establishments served Ameri- men spot. In six months, once he ribs with beef rice and shiso rice
namese seasoning. In Italy, he noted jor factors, Mr. Chang discovered. can fare— salads, soups and steaks. adjusted the menu to his liking, paper, and macaroni and chickpeas
how much tortellini look like won- New Orleans, he found, was hesi- Mr. Chang never thought he would lines started forming out the door. with black pepper.
tons. “Every type of food came from tant to accept new flavors and ex- grow up to be a chef. “I knew res- His restaurant empire has expanded Mr. Chang remains committed to
no
somewhere else,” he says. “There’s perimentation, in part thanks to a taurants were in my dad’s blood,” relentlessly since then. experimenting and expanding. “It’s
nothing that just sprouted from proud Creole culinary past. Hous- he says. “I didn’t understand until Critics heaped praise on Mr. this giant thing, and I don’t know
someone’s head.” ton, on the other hand, embraced later that it could be a profession.” Chang’s early restaurants but have how it grows, but I’m sure it’s going
Mr. Chang, 40, is best known for waves of immigrants and their Mr. Chang was a champion golfer not been as enthusiastic about one to grow.” But he worries, too: “Ev-
founding the Momofuku Group, cooking techniques. in high school, and his father recent venture. A 2016 review of his ery day feels like it’s all going to
with over a dozen Asian-inspired For Mr. Chang, such stories have wanted him to try being a profes- new Italian-inflected restaurant by end simultaneously.”
earn an extra $45 million here, an Unfortunately, I only had one same IRS policy. They still won’t to get a check for $100 million ev-
extra $72 million there, but I for- check left in my checkbook, which take a check for $100 million. Next ery year. Not these guys. And then
get to write it down. Then, come meant that I was again going to year, I don’t want to go through they wonder why everybody hates
Tax Day: kerpowee!! get clobbered with a huge late-fil- this again. The only solution is to them.
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HISTORICALLY SPEAKING:
AMANDA FOREMAN
THE BATTLES
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‘WHEN BIRDS do fight the Ammonites
sing, hey ding a ding, “in the spring of the
ding; Sweet lovers year, when kings nor-
LOU REED performing in love the spring,” mally go out to war.”
Amsterdam in May 1974. wrote Shakespeare. It was no coincidence
But the season has a darker side that the Romans named
PLAYLIST: as well. As we’re now reminded
each year when the Taliban antici-
the month of March af-
ter Mars, the god of
MARTHA GRIMES pate the warm weather by an- war but also the guard-
nouncing their latest spring offen- ian of agriculture. As
sive in Afghanistan, military the saying goes, “An
An Adult commanders and strategists have
always loved the season, too.
army fights on its stom-
ach.” For ancient Greek
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novels and the re- fied the concept of the “dying and In succeeding centuries, the the Prussian army into a mobile, The most famous spring cam-
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cipient of the 2012 rising god” as one of seasonal rhythms of flexible and efficient machine. paign of the early 20th century—
Mystery Writers of America’s the earliest corner- Europe, which were Frederick believed that a suc- Germany’s 1918 offensive in
Grand Master Award. She is stones of religious be- very different from cessful army attacks first and World War I, originated by Gen.
the author of “The Knowledge” lief. For new life to ap-
on Modern those of warmer hard, a lesson absorbed by Napo- Erich Ludendorff—reveals its lim-
(Atlantic Monthly Press). She pear in springtime, spring climes, brought about leon a half century later. This itations as a strategy. If the
spoke with Marc Myers. there had to be a death
or sacrifice in winter.
assaults a new calendar of war-
fare. Europe’s reliance
meant that the spring season,
which had become the season for
knockout blow doesn’t happen,
what next?
are meant
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Growing up, I knew zilch about Similar sacrifice-and-re- on the autumn harvest drilling and training in prepara- At the end of 1917, the German
rock ’n’ roll. When rock be-
came popular in the mid-1950s,
juvenation myths can be
found among the Su-
to rout an ended the ancient
marriage of spring and
tion for summer campaigning, be-
came a fighting season again.
high command had decided that
the army needed a spring offen-
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I was already in my early 20s. merians, Egyptians, Ca- warfare. Conscripts But the modern iteration of sive to revive morale. Ludendorff
Les Paul and Mary Ford were naanites and Greeks. quickly. were unwilling to the spring offensive is different thought that only an attack in the
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about it for me. Mediterranean and abandon their farms from its ancient forebear. Its pur- Napoleonic mode would work:
My first exposure to rock Near Eastern cultures and fight in the pose isn’t to feed an army but to “The army pined for the offen-
came as a parent. In the 1970s, saw spring in this dual months between plant- incapacitate enemies before they sive...It alone is decisive,” he
I heard it coming through the perspective for practi- ing and harvesting. have the chance to strike. The wrote. He was convinced that all
walls of my son Kent’s bed- cal reasons as well. The agricul- This seasonal difficulty would strategy is a risky gambler’s he had to do was “blow a hole in
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room in Silver Spring, Md. Ev- tural calendar revolved around not be addressed until Sweden’s throw, relying on timing and psy- the middle” of the enemy’s front
ery so often, I’d tell him to wet winters, cool springs and King Gustavus Adolphus chology as much as on strength and “the rest will follow of its
turn it down. What made me very hot summers when almost (1594-1632), a great military in- and numbers. own accord.” When Ludendorff’s
curious was Kent’s fascination nothing grew except olives and novator, developed principles for For Napoleon, the spring offen- first spring offensive stalled after
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with the Grateful Dead. It was figs. Harvest time for essential the first modern army. According sive played to his strength in be- 15 days, he quickly launched four
intense and lasted for so long. cereal crops such as wheat and to the British historian Basil Lid- ing able to combine speed, troop more. Lacking any other objective
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He used to follow them from barley took place in the spring. dell Hart, Gustavus made the cru- concentration and offensive ac- than the attack itself, all failed,
concert to concert. I wasn’t The months of May and June, cial shift from short-term con- tion in a single, decisive blow. leaving Germany bankrupt and
worried, just intrigued. therefore, were perfect for scripts, drawn away from Throughout his career he relied crippled by July.
In the 1980s, while writing armies to invade, because they agricultural labor, to a standing on the spring offensive, beginning In this century, the Taliban
my mystery “The Old Silent,” could live off the land. The Bible force of professional, trained sol- with his first military campaign in have found their own brutal way
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I needed rock songs for one of says of King David, who lived diers on duty all year round, re- Italy (1796-7), in which the French to renew the ancient tradition—
my characters. So I went out around 1,000 B.C., that he sent gardless of the seasons. defeated the more-numerous and with the blossoms come the
and bought a bunch of guitar Joab and the Israelite army to Gustavus died before he could better-supplied Austrians. His fi- bombs and the bloodshed. .
magazines. That’s where I dis-
covered Lou Reed. The more I
listened to Reed’s music, the
more he captivated me. His
songs seemed drug-addled
and lethargic, as if delivered
in slow motion. But within
that sleepwalking feel, there
was marvelous poetic play.
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A sleepwalking
feel, but marvel-
no
Robot
Reed exploration, my son,
Kent, stood in the rain for an re-program without any to them in March for $1,499, to teach it activities
hour to buy us tickets to see expertise. The 14-inch that range from following people around offering
Assistant
Reed in concert. All of those machine runs on a simple schedule reminders to acting in a robot version of a
questions I used to ask Kent software language similar to those used to teach soap opera. It’s not clear yet what skills a mass-mar-
about why he found the Dead computer coding to children. It is the first offering ket version would have—or not have. But later this
so captivating—and here I from Misty Robotics, spun off last year from year the company plans to release factory-made
was excited at a Lou Reed Sphero, maker of the toy version of the Star Wars Misty II, pictured above, to consumers; no price has
concert. robot BB-8 (and of previous robotic rolling balls on been announced. —Leigh Kamping-Carder
I finally realized that you
can’t explain how you feel
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107 108 109 110 M. Volcanic glass used ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
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64 Balkan Wars
111 112 113 114 the puzzle. When you’re finished, the initial letters of Mayas for blades
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115 116 117 118 65 Old atlas abbr.
name and the source of the quotation. N. NBA’s Rookie of the ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
67 Didn’t own, Year in 2008 and 15 217 35 141 166 123 196 93
119 120 121 122
maybe A. Sweaters and the ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
MVP in 2014 ____ ____ ____
113 171 209 87 97 26 44 65
68 IRS IDs like (2 wds.) 158 62 73
Chewing the Scenery | by Pancho Harrison 69 Mimicked
B. Clifford Odets play ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
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Across 50 Bundle of 84 Few and far Down 70 Scientific truths
set in the Bronx 118 30 151 177 57 211 8 84
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
49 7 198 170 208 137 108
energy between 72 Dictators rely on cake usually soaked
1 Ring award 1 Belle’s love (3 wds.) ____ ____ ____ ____
in rum
5 Act the itinerant 52 Alexander Calder 86 Radical 1960s 2 “Oklahoma!” them 100 165 67 188
creation org. aunt 73 Sharpen
9 Fat unit P. Material carried to ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
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13 Bloke autobiographer 119 136 193 83 169 150 201 56 21
89 The actor in the France 75 Brownish purple point
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cousin ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ awarded Best Pop
director Kazan 5 Badger 78 Accolades 207 122 89 5 71 33 175 195
58 The actors in 91 “___ live and persistently Vocal Album at the ____ ____
18 Between jobs breathe!” 79 Bolshevik’s foe ____ ____ ____ ____ 1999 Grammys 129 43
the fast-moving 42 144 55 102
19 Postsurgical 6 Unmatched 80 Yarn for (3 wds.)
drama used ___ 93 Tough question
program, briefly 7 Make straight youngsters
60 Chinese path 95 Gas leak
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22 The mischievous (Edison base) 85 Fodder crop unwelcome way
stealth 96 The actors or Judith LeClair
actor winked at 9 Alum 88 Feeder visitor
62 Ready for portraying pro S. Unexpected and ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
the audience and 10 Encino neighbor
drawing athletes made 90 Powell’s frequent F. Symbolist painter ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ often unfortunate 29 60 111 138 214 14 79 51
delivered an ___
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64 Occupied, as 12 Wild hurry 91 It comes from ____ ____ ____ (3 wds.)
26 Greek goddess the heart (2 wds.) 76 114 25
a desk 103 Contending 13 Surgery aids
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27 Move smoothly 65 Young ___ G. Setting for the ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ clothing and 147 61 173 199 48 109 19 78
(tots) measure? 15 Fight site 94 They may use 24 41 182 133 142 168
28 Colonel’s charge pilots annual Henley accessories ____ ____ ____ ____
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30 Lock 96 Theater fixtures
state between 110 President, at 20 English network,
31 Shortly, to Madeleine and times 97 Trendy diet
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Condoleezza 111 Writer Horatio “the” 98 Instrument for creator originally 39 121 11 107 52 210 92 145
Paul McCartney and 167 152 103 135 215 192 3 63
32 The actor 68 “The Crucible” the Masses packaged in ____ ____ ____ ____ Stevie Wonder ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
starred as twins 112 The actor 21 Bellowed 161 75 181 132 80 117 47 174 22
setting portraying a 99 Fosdick’s creator discarded cologne (3 wds.)
in the ___ 23 It’s often bottles (2 wds.)
71 Painter’s base lowly GI made underfoot 101 Abounds
34 Frosty coating coat a ___ V. Contemptible ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
36 Loses it 24 Energy drink 102 Pricey I. Pistols, carbines ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ person; stoolie 12 125 105 204 38 190 77
73 Overstimulated 115 Visibly upset additive 104 Rival of ancient 128 206 17 82 112 53 197 183 37
38 Paid spots and rifles, e.g. (2 wds.)
74 Emissions- 116 Sticks 29 “It’d be my Persia (2 wds.)
39 The semiretired monitoring org. 117 Nothing more pleasure!” 105 Spots for W. Women’s garment ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
actor was than 149 88 66 202 101 191 28 2
77 The actors 31 1998 Tony- mufflers J. British rocker ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ styled after a men’s
appearing on 162 148 46 124 200 86 18 134 186
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164 120
roles complained 119 Maker of 33 Choose not to autobiography was
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REVIEW
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should think of fans as “luxurious necessities,” appeared on an ivory-and-silk fan, on view in sisters and went on to become a soldier, a law-
FANS ARE GETTING their day in the sun. often created out of semiprecious materials the de Young’s current rotation. yer’s assistant, a financier, a gambler and, of
At the de Young Museum, part of the Fine and signaling the status and tastes of their Similarly, the décor on a fan in the show’s course, an inveterate lover. The show conjures
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Eighteenth Century” showcases 34 rare pieces center of fan-making, she says. By Bacchus and Ariadne,” a high-ba- like an English card table and a French tricorn
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from such places as France and Italy, fashioned 1700 France had taken the lead, roque painting by the Italian Guido hat trimmed with ostrich feathers.
out of everything from ivory and mother-of- and then Protestants escaping Signals of Reni. Only a fragment survives of The fans, on loan from Boston’s Museum of
pearl to silk and paper.
At the nearby Legion of Honor Museum, the
French intolerance spread the art
to England and elsewhere. A sin-
owners’ the painting, which illustrates the
union of the god of wine and the
Fine Arts, aren’t just for show. Fans, as the ac-
counts of Casanova and others made clear, got
de Young’s sister institution, more fans of the gle fan, she adds, could involve status and princess who helped the Greek right to the heart of the language of love, says
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the lowdown on the high life of the time. The 1773 French calendar fan illustrating ecclesias- As for the Casanova exhibition, it creates because he had failed to recognize her from a
museum evokes Casanova’s era through rococo tical events that would remind its owner of the whole scenes, combining a full range of fine and previous encounter.
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paintings and refined objects like porcelain dates of holidays, like Pentecost, that varied decorative arts with mannequins wearing period
soup tureens and agate snuff boxes. from year to year. clothing. Among the highlights of the
“Casanova: The Seduction of Europe” runs An English mourning fan, made of white pa- 200-item show is the reunion of
through May 28, then travels to Boston’s Mu- per and illustrated with black ink, was meant six related mythological paint-
seum of Fine Arts from July 8 through Oct. 8. to express sorrow for someone who has died. ings by François Boucher, a
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The de Young fan display, shown in two rota- On one side, the piece, created between 1760 rococo painter who
tions with the second beginning later this year, and 1770, “shows a young man taking leave of made them for a Pari-
runs through next spring. a young woman,” says Ms. Camerlengo, but sian mansion. The
“Now we see fans as an outdated acces- “flip it over, and there are two little graves show has gathered
sory,” says Max Hollein, director and CEO of marked with crosses.” the paintings, lent
San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums, but back Fan painters also used pictures on canvas from museums in
in the 18th century “they were objects of artis- by well-known artists as sources, says Ms. Ca- Los Angeles and
tic excellence and vitality.” He adds that the merlengo. For example, around 1730, French Fort Worth, to display
arts of the 18th century were “intertwined”— painter Nicolas Lancret, a follower of Antoine them together, as originally
with a painter of porcelain often having the Watteau, had depicted Marie-Anne de Cupis de intended.
same status as a painter of canvas. Camargo, a celebrated ballerina at the French Casanova, the son of a Venetian ac-
were plentiful and leading crit- minutes in, and the midable monoliths purely technological?
ics like Pauline Kael disdainful. today as when it 2½-hour film has less What are we to make of the floating
Kubrick’s film is a medita- opened in 1968. than 40 minutes of ac- “Starchild” at the movie’s conclusion?
tion on man’s enlightenment in tual dialogue—and A SCENE from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ There’s no straightforward answer to
four movements. In the distant confounding meaning, any questions one might have—Kubrick was
past, a troop of hominids en- “2001” was unlike anything “2001,” the experience of watching it is still insistent about the ambiguity: “I intended the
counters a mysterious monolith and realizes seen before. MGM was betting big on an un- startling because it is a largely silent one. The film to be an intensely subjective experience
that the bones littering its habitat are more than proven genre. Way behind schedule and over movie’s long stretches without speaking seem that reaches the viewer at an inner level of con-
refuse, they’re tools—or weapons. They go to a budget, the expansive production seemed less just as radical today as they did 50 years ago. sciousness.”
watering hole and attack another group with like a film shoot and more like an actual space Even more so now that we’ve been conditioned Unsurprising, then, that “2001” was panned
their newfound technology. Victorious, the hom- mission. to expect sci-fi to be full of fast talkers, laser by some of its day’s biggest names. Lucky for us
inids’ leader tosses his primitive club into the Kubrick wasn’t easy to work with, either. He barrages and theater-shaking explosions. that when watching this moonshot of filmmak-
air and it transforms into a satellite. wrote “2001” with sci-fi paragon Arthur C. The lack of sound makes us acutely aware of ing, audiences were able to appreciate the si-
In the second act, a scientist makes his way Clarke, but the mercurial director was dissatis- the crushing isolation that would be endured on lence despite the critical noise.
to a moon base to investigate a recent discov- fied with the collaboration and approached au- a 400-million-mile trip to Jupiter. And more
ery: another monolith. This time, the slab emits thors like J.G. Ballard to replace his co-writer. than a decade before Ridley Scott told us that Mr. Kelly is the Journal’s associate Arts in Re-
a signal pointing to Jupiter. In the next section, While Clarke was never dropped, many of his “in space, no one can hear you scream,” Kubrick view editor. Follow him on Twitter
a group journeys toward the planet. Their guide, contributions were: In the end, Kubrick cut so terrified us with the imposing silence of the @bpkelly89.
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overseeing the growing themselves and plotting menus by the quirks of the agricultural cycle
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BY ELIZABETH G. DUNN
and candy. He noticed that squirrels raided the of their cuisine. Call it farm-to-table 2.0.
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ripe nuts from a couple of walnut trees but left “It’s been a way to bring greater depth to my
T BEGAN for Matthew Accarrino, the chef the green ones, so he harvested them green and food, to establish rhythms and customs that have
at SPQR in San Francisco, when he grew made his own version of the Italian liqueur no- some sort of meaning,” Mr. Accarrino said of his
weary of sifting through farmers’ markets, cino. Mr. Accarrino also asked Mr. Jacobsen to try relationship with the farm. Sustainably farmed
vying with other chefs for the same car- cultivating uncommon items, from finger limes operations like Mr. Jacobsen’s often employ a
rots and tomatoes. Truly unusual produce, (no luck) to habenada peppers (couldn’t use them “cover crop” to restore nitrogen to the soil be-
he realized, wasn’t sold this way—it wouldn’t fast enough). tween plantings; Mr. Accarrino and Mr. Jacobsen
make financial sense for a farmer. So he started It’s one thing for a restaurant to slap some lo- have devised an edible mix of arugulas, mustard
ordering and buying directly from farms, but he cally grown kale on the menu and call itself farm- greens, pea shoots and bell beans that can be
struggled to come up with crops to request. Then, to-table, or to refuse to serve strawberries in win- clipped and served at SPQR. One day, Mr. Jacob-
in 2011, he got to know a regular diner at SPQR ter as a nod to seasonality; it’s quite another to sen walked into the restaurant with loads of wild
named Peter Jacobsen, who owned a small farm shape the menu according to the quirks and vicis- fennel, marjoram and dill—“Literally, garbage
in Yountville, Calif. situdes of an actual farm. But that is precisely bags full,” said Mr. Accarrino—that had been
Regular trips to the farm began to shape Mr. what chefs like Mr. Accarrino have begun doing, ripped out to make way for planting. The chef
Accarrino’s menu. He found an old crab-apple tree establishing their own farms or forming long- hung it all to dry and used it as the basis for a
that yielded mediocre fruits but “transcendent” term partnerships with existing ones to connect Please turn to page D8
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VICTORIA TENTLER-KRYLOV
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had recently set up a boxing ring in
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its basement, part of “Lamyland,” a
collaboration with fashion eccentric
Michèle Lamy. In offering shoppers
a chance to don gloves and step on
into the ring, Selfridges was doing
what Zola’s store and its real-world
counterparts have always done: Despite Selfridges’s attempt to ful things, to feel a connection to to Squirrel nuts. “Online is effi- energized and excited.”
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framing shopping as entertainment. lure customers from the comfort of others. In the 1970s, Bloomingdale’s cient,” Ms. Fargo said, “but nothing In Zola’s novel, the department
This effort may be too late. Given their homes, buying a sweater on was considered a New York City at- can replace touching things, looking store triumphs over the smaller
the ease of e-commerce, shopping as your laptop is infinitely easier than traction on par with the Metropoli- in people’s faces. Sensuality—that’s stores it has displaced, a victory of
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social entertainment is ending, and traipsing to a store and searching tan Museum of Art, which, accord- what we can offer people.” progress over tradition. Today, it’s
with it, it seems, the department nine floors. But online shopping is ing to Robert Hendrickson, author Nordstrom executives appeared the department stores that repre-
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store itself. Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Av- also lonelier, less fun, and for any- of “The Grand Emporiums,” was to be thinking along similar lines in sent tradition. Whether they will
enue flagship in New York will be- one who stares at a screen all day, Bloomie’s only real competition 2013 when they hired Olivia Kim, once again prove their adaptabil-
come the corporate headquarters for suspiciously like work; It’s conve- when it came to meeting a possible formerly of New York-based Open- ity—as they did in the 1960s when,
WeWork, the thriving purveyor of nience at the cost of pleasure. romantic partner. in response to the boutique move-
shared workplaces. If Lord & Taylor Going to a department store To watch the customers cluster- ment, they opened in-store bou-
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represents an outdated way to spend might seem like simply shopping, ing around the makeup counters in tiques of their own—will depend
leisure time, WeWork epitomizes but it’s also a chance to practice the idealized version of B. Altman, To entice people, stores not just on their ability to change
the modern idea of work as life. civil behavior, to appreciate beauti- the grand New York City Depart- devised diversions, like but on customers’ willingness to be-
ment store, in the Amazon series lieve in the importance of pleasure
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“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” is to the flamingos that and discovery over convenience.
feel a little wistful for the days wandered the rooftop of The one area of retail where this
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when shopping was an occasion. “It seems to be the case is the drop,
was a club experience,” said Phyllis Big Biba in the 1960s. the process by which brands release
Magidson, the curator of costumes new merchandise as a “spontane-
at the Museum of the City of New ous” event, declining to march in
York, who remembers being wel- ing Ceremony, to make the store lockstep with fashion’s rigid sea-
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comed by Henri Bendel’s doorman, more relevant to younger custom- sonal schedule. The streetwear
Buster—“he knew everyone’s ers. As Nordstrom’s vice president brand Supreme is well-known for
name”—even as a teenager, when of creative projects, Ms. Kim has convincing customers to show up in
she and her friends had no money initiated a series of pop-up bou- person and queue, usually outside,
and went for the “sheer pleasure of tiques and brought in buzzy, Insta- for a chance to acquire the latest
browsing.” gram-friendly designers like Marine limited-edition merchandise. They
Last spring, inspired by memo- Serre and Jacquemus. But her come not just to shop, but to min-
ries of the excitement of shopping proudest achievement, she said, is gle and talk—proof that shopping
in New York in the 1980s, Bergdorf seeing Nordstrom used as a hang- can be about more than acquiring
Goodman’s fashion director Linda out space by customers: “Not ev- stuff. As Harry Gordon Selfridge,
Fargo opened Linda’s at BG, an in- erything needs to be transactional. founder of Selfridges, once said, “a
store boutique stocked with her I’m more interested in that they’ve store should be a social center.”
SHOW PONIES A 1940s in-store fashion show at Bergdorf Goodman picks in everything from high heels learned something, that they feel Department stores are taking note.
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GRACIOUS AND GLORIOUS. YOU ROAM
JUST LIKE YOU. WITH THE NEW vogue for
kimono-esque wraps that
are designed to be worn out-
side, the seductive silk robe
has officially slinked out of
the boudoir and onto the
street. Beyoncé, naturally
ahead of the pajama game,
wore a floor-length floral
Gucci robe courtside at last
year’s NBA All-Star Game.
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Gritty in Pink
Wilder Roses
Why stop at the safe pastel button-down? Gutsy men are thinking pinker
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P
INK MAY be one of the
biggest colors in mens-
wear at the moment,
but brands still treat it Todd Snyder & Champion Jacket,
like a dirty word. Todd $328, toddsnyder.com
Snyder’s elevated sweat separates
come in “rose quartz.” Steven Alan
makes Japanese cotton T-shirts in
“putty.” The Gap offers chinos in
“dusty mauve.” Officine Générale
sent a shirt down its spring run-
way that is being marketed as
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decided and stronger color, is more BLUSHING BROS From left: Idris Elba, Wes Anderson, Donald Glover, Armie Hammer, Pharrell Williams,
suitable for the boy.” Dev Patel, Rafael Nadal and Russell Westbrook
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Today, bold guys are reclaiming
the color’s more gender-neutral design director for Nike Court, put then they go out into the world and with navy or slate wool pants. who spends time on Instagram—
roots. Across pop culture, men like it, “We talked a lot about driving they get compliments and they’re Combining the color with black feels more grounded in the natural-
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John Legend and Wes Anderson are energy through confidence in pink.” like, ‘What else you got?’” Recently can read ’80s New Wave. “There is ism of the American Southwest than
going beyond the classic pink ox- Men who subvert pink’s gen- Mr. Glover rose to the rosé chal- nothing cooler than a pink hoodie the high-octane neon of “Miami
ford shirt—a Brooks Brothers staple dered stereotype appear assured lenge by successfully wearing a under a topcoat, worn with sneak- Vice.” But whatever shade you go
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since the early 1900s and a ubiqui- because they’re going against the sweater the color of poached ers,” suggested designer Todd Sny- for, and whatever stigma-deflecting
tously safe way for men to wear the grain. Stylist Ilaria Urbinati, who shrimp on “The Late Show with der (who said he pairs his with a name it’s been given, studies have
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color—to flaunt pieces from bright dresses men including Dwayne Stephen Colbert,” with maroon camel coat). Don’t go monochro- shown that pink stimulates a mood-
pink ties to full pink suits. At this Johnson and Donald Glover, said, “I pants, no less. matic: Wearing one pink piece at a lifting response. Robert Green, a
year’s Australian Open, athletes in- think it takes a really masculine guy For men who are ready to take time avoids an unfortunate allover Chicago product designer who fa-
cluding Rafael Nadal wore hot pink to wear pink.” Ms. Urbinati’s clients a chance on pink (or “gypsum” or bubble-gum look. vors pink shirts, counts himself as a
Nike gear designed to project ag- feed off the rewards of taking the “roseate spoonbill”), Ms. Urbinati The most current shade—soft beneficiary. “It’s fresh,” he said. “It’s
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gression. As Sam Shipley, apparel risk: “I push them into things, but counsels putting a blush sweater “millennial” pink, familiar to anyone a happy color. It’s positive.”
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taking a plunge in its sacred boiling pots of milky tea and days of my stay, starting with
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waters, draws around 50,000 statues of Hindu gods. The a 7.5-mile paddle with a group
rafters to the mountain town town’s two suspension of young technology workers
of Rishikesh during the pad- bridges, wide enough for a who were staying at the hotel
dling season, which runs Sep- few people, are clogged with on on a retreat. After a tranquil
tember to June. Think of the Indians in saris, Westerners start, the seven of us were
Ganges, and images of a dark in harem pants, honking mo- swept into a rapid known as
soup of industrial and human torbikes, dung-dropping cows Three Blind Mice. It was like a
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waste, and the funeral fires on and mooching monkeys. washing machine, tall waves
the banks of Varanasi, come to For adventure travelers, it’s rising up, curling back. The
mind. But as it passes through difficult to know which rafting raft buckled into them as the
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officials have licensed about Soon, we were slamming
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According to longtime rafting boat. And then he surfaced, a CURRENT AFFAIRS From top: Rafting the Ganges just below Trayambakeshwar Temple in
operators, the vast majority of few feet away. I grabbed his Rishikesh; a white-water excursion with seasoned outfitter Aquaterra Adventures.
Rishikesh, the river is still tourists on the river are In- hand and, remembering our
close to its glacial source, rela- dian, rafting for the first time briefing, latched onto his life
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green. It is wide with long sec- combination of their inexperi- into the raft on top of me.
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tions of flat but swift-moving ence and the power of the “It was scary,” Mr. Dubey,
water interrupted by a handful river can be deadly. In the last 27, who works in sales for a
of class 3 rapids—sometimes five years, the local media has mobile payments company in
strong enough to flip an eight- reported five rafting deaths, Delhi, told me later. “One mo-
person raft. and while I was there, a ment I’m paddling and an-
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Not shy of self-promotion, woman died after her group’s other moment, ‘Oh, this boat
Rishikesh, a town of about raft capsized. Veteran guides is going around my head.’”
100,000 people a six-hour say that about half of the op- The second day was a lon-
drive north from Delhi, bills erators are not properly ger ride, 16 miles, with three
itself as the yoga capital of trained or equipped. It’s wise other passengers—a husband
the world and the rafting cap- to choose a company with sea- and wife and a college stu-
ital of India. It’s also popular soned guides and safety kay- dent, all from Mumbai. After
with Hindu pilgrims, drawn to aks that accompany the rafts we successfully navigated
its sacred shrines, and Beat- and can quickly reach cast- Three Blind Mice, our guide
les’ worshipers—the Fab Four aways. asked if we wanted to hop out
arrived in 1968 and spent sev- With recommendations in our life jackets. He assured
eral weeks at one of the hill- from an Indian white-water us it was safe, and I leaned
side meditation retreats. rafting association and several back and splashed in, not no-
n-
In the decades since, ram- guides, I selected Aquaterra ticing the chill of the 65-de-
pant construction of yoga and Adventures. The owners have gree water. I bobbed down-
meditation ashrams, guest- been rafting since the 1990s stream feet first, enthralled
houses and hotels, cafes and and run an elegant hotel by the forested hills. A glim-
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shops, and headquarters for called Atali Ganga, a 35-min- mering sandy beach on the
rafting and trekking compa- ute drive from Rishikesh, shore seemingly zipped by.
nies has cluttered the hills. tucked in a peaceful, forested For many Indians, the dip
Spirituality and the Ganges mountainside. For about $200 is divine in another way. Hin-
dus believe that the goddess
Ganga descended to earth in
THE LOWDOWN // RAFTING IN RISHIKESH, INDIA the form of the river. Bathing
in her is said to wash away
Getting There Land in tages with floor-to-ceiling sins, and if your cremated re-
New Delhi and hire a car Dehradun windows. From about mains are scattered into the
for the 6-hour drive Rishikesh $200 a night, atali- water, it’s believed your soul
Haridwar
north to Rishikesh. ganga.com. can be freed from the cycle
The travel service In- INDIA of reincarnation. The river
Ganges
one way for up to three half-day paddle for liberation, according to Hin-
people. indiapackagetour.in. about $20, to an overnight dus, and its inner vibration is
camping and rafting package for the cosmic sound of the uni-
Staying There Yoga and medi- about $45, to multiple-day jour- verse, Om.
tation ashrams like Parmarth Ni- neys for several hundred dollars. “Ganga maiya ki jai” or
ketan or Rishikesh Yog Peeth, Long-established companies with “Glory to mother Ganga”
rent rooms with vegetarian meals expert white-water guides include cheered the raft-full of Indi-
included, but without TVs or car- Red Chilli Adventure, redchilliad- ans as we paddled by, shaking
pets, for about $20. par- venture.com; Aquaterra Adven- off the chill of our swim.
marth.org, rishikeshyogpeeth.com. tures, aquaterra.in; Snow Leopard Over the course of the day,
Among the higher-end hotels Adventures, snowleopardadven- our raft was sometimes the
overlooking the Ganges, Atali tures.com; and Himalayan River only boat on a bend of the
Ganga offers 22 handsome cot- Runners, hrrindia.com. river; other times, it was one
of half a dozen floating down-
stream. Toward the end of
the run, a flotilla of rafts had
put in and paddlers waited in
line to jump 20 feet from a
shelf of rock into the water.
The couple from Mumbai,
Rahul and Meenal Vaidya,
knew about the risks, but he
was keen on rafting for the
first time, and she was re-
turning for a second white-
water ride. “It’s a place where
you actually go very close to
nature,” Meenal said. “A good
PORTAGE PERK A stay at Atali Ganga includes a rafting trip. place to look into yourself.”
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Downtown’s
Upswing
After a post-9/11 building spree,
New York’s Financial District is flush with
DAVID CHOW FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES GULLIVER HANCOCK
new diversions. Here, a walking guide
BY CHRISTIAN L. WRIGHT
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LD NEW YORK is the city’s newest hotbed.
South of Chambers Street and the urban grid,
the streets of Lower Manhattan wiggle and
bend, packed with glistening skyscrapers, a mix
of office workers (from Wall Street and the re-
cent influx of media and tech companies), a well-clad local
stroller brigade and an international flow of tourists. Here you
can have a historically significant beer at Fraunces Tavern,
where George Washington said goodbye to his Continental
Army officers in 1783. Or if you favor a more futuristic atmo-
sphere, enter the Fulton Center, a dazzlingly modern transit
hub, born out of the 1889 limestone Corbin Building, that con-
nects nearly all subway lines. Beyond Wall Street’s metal mas-
cots, Charging Bull and Fearless Girl, there’s enough public art
to make an open-air museum—Louise Nevelson’s great steel
“Shadows and Flags” on Maiden Lane, Jeff Koons’ “Balloon WHEELS OF FORTUNE If you tire of strolling through the financial district, the city’s bike-loan program lets you change up your view.
Flower (Red)” at 7 World Trade Center and Jean DuBuffet’s
“Group of Four Trees” at 28 Liberty Street. Once a ghost town
after dark, Lower Manhattan has also become an unlikely food
destination. Restaurant titans Danny Meyer, David Chang and
Nobu Matsuhisa have all established footholds, with more big
names in the pipeline. Read on for a guide to the hood’s new-
est draws and oldest landmarks.
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MR. C SEAPORT GRILL lato station, three restaurants northwestern corner of Century not planning to spend a dime,
Fourth-generation hoteliers Ig- A chic dining room with a small, (sit by the window at Osteria 21, the discount department you may want to gawk at the CITY HALL PARK
nazio and Maggio Cipriani took sexy, partitioned-off bar, the res- della Pace for a bird’s-eye view store, it’s prime off-price hunting Westfield Mall’s centerpiece, A little oasis of green with
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over a historic redbrick corner taurant hides in the shadow of of the skyline), and a roster of ground for funkier pieces from Santiago Calatrava’s white Ocu- benches, gas lamps and a
building, an erstwhile Best West- the Federal Reserve. You can events such as child-friendly designer labels (Alaia, Celine, lus, which looks like the skeleton fountain in the middle, this
ern, and renovated it into their spend your personal fortune on pasta-making classes. 101 Liberty Jeremy Scott), vintage Helmut of a giant bird about to take small park lies at the doorstep
first New York City hotel, slated 50 grams of Siberian caviar St., eataly.com Lang jeans, Balenciaga hand- flight. It holds two levels of of the Woolworth Building. In
to open in June. Joining an out- ($125). Or instead, sit at the bar, bags and Ferragamo wallets, shops and leads via under- the 1600s, it was a communal
post of the Milanese design em- have the perfectly modest 6- PASANELLA & SON plus mini collections from up- ground passageways to the Ful- pasture for livestock; now
porium 10 Corso Como and a ounce bar burger on its buttery VINTNERS and-coming names. 21 Dey St., ton Center transit hub and an- sculptures pop up on the grass
fish-centric food market by bun ($18), and take advantage Waiting for you inside this vast c21stores.com other higher-end mall, Brookfield in revolving Public Art Fund ex-
Jean-Georges Vongerichten in of the well-crafted wine list. It’s shop—with a tasting room that Place, with a fancy food court hibitions. Enter via iron gate at
the rapidly revitalizing waterfront not show-offy but full of un- opens into a garden in back—are NORTHERN GRADE and French-style market. 185 Park Place and Broadway.
district, Mr. C Seaport adds to usual values. 84 William St., blu- more than 400 wines, eclectic This raw, whitewashed space is Greenwich St., westfield.com; 230
the European glamour quotient. eribbonrestaurants.com spirits (like Don Amado mescal a marketplace for unique prod- Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com ONE WORLD
It will offer 66 teak and polished from Oaxaca) and a vintage Fiat ucts—from cable knit throws to OBSERVATORY
concrete guest rooms, six suites SHOP 500 with a picnic hamper in the stripy T-shirts—all made in the THE SPA AT FOUR The trip to the top of the Free-
with terraces that catch the EATALY back seat. The 1839 building is U.S. 117 Beekman St., northern- SEASONS NEW YORK dom Tower—at 1776 feet, the
breeze off the East River, a pale Like a newfangled Italian village steeped in history, too: You can grade.com DOWNTOWN tallest building in the U. S.—
pink restaurant called Bellini on the third floor of a commer- see the waterline from the flood- Tucked into a slender tower takes less than a minute in a
(naturally) and a bar that lets cial tower, this 48,000 square- ing of Hurricane Sandy on the THE WESTFIELD AND housing 189 guest rooms and surround-sound elevator with a
crowds spill out onto cobble- foot food emporium has garlic store’s exposed brick walls. 115 BROOKFIELD MALLS 157 condo units, the Four Sea- film documenting the city’s his-
stoned Front Street. From $689 and fennel opposite a wine bar, South St., pasanellaandson.com Rather oddly, the sobering 9/11 sons’ all-beige spa is a snazzy tory projected all around. But
a night, mrcseaport.com spot for a pedicure or an “In- that’s nothing compared with
tense Glow” body treatment the unobstructed 360 degree
EAT & DRINK that combines massage with views at the top. Tickets from
AUGUSTINE glycolic acid. The spa packs a $26. 280 Fulton St., oneworldob-
The seventh in Keith McNally’s 75-foot heated lap pool and a servatory.com
empire of atmospheric restau- gym in with the seven treatment
rants, this brasserie inside the rooms and, rare in these parts, a PROMENADE AT PIER 17
Beekman hotel has the floral sun-deck. Open to the public, Leave time to walk around the
painted tiles, big tarnished mir- except the pool and gym. 27 southern tip of Manhattan,
rors and honey glow of a Pari- Barclay St., fourseasons.com from Pier 17 along the East
sian period drama. The menu River promenade past the heli-
hits notes old and new—from SEE port and Staten Island Ferry to
the pressed juices at breakfast EARLY AMERICAN Battery Park—with its commu-
to the late-night steak frites— HISTORY nity gardens, Sea Glass Carou-
and the bar has a continental Built in 1700, the original Federal sel and fishermen tossing their
air: It’s always cocktail hour Hall was the site of George lines into the harbor. The
somewhere. 5 Beekman St., au- Washington’s inauguration and is promenade continues after Pier
gustineny.com now a museum cater-cornered A and parallels the Hudson
to the New York Stock Ex- River, through the suburban
HOLE IN THE WALL change. 26 Wall St., nps.gov; the enclave of Battery Park City,
Go to this neighborly Australian Federal Reserve, the central bank from which you can cut back
cafe for breakfast when the conceived by Alexander Hamil- again, across the West Side
wooden-topped tables fill up ton, the first U.S. Secretary of Highway, to the falling waters
with travelers studying apps DRIVEN TO DRINK A vintage Fiat 500 among the vintages at Pasanella & Son Vintners. Treasury, contains a vault full of of the 9/11 Memorial.
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Consulting, a wine collection man- the bottles participants had brought
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agement company, has held in the along.
U.S. (She has held several such sem- We checked the labels’ paper
inars in Hong Kong and London.) with pens to ensure it wasn’t the
KEVIN WHIPPLE
Some participants brought along on modern recycled stuff not in use at
bottles of their own for authentica- the time of the purported vintage.
tion. Susan Lin, a Master of Wine We also checked the printing and
candidate and business develop- saw that some letters were slightly
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ment manager of the Belmont Wine off—a possible counterfeit clue. Af-
Exchange in Hayward, Calif., pre- his creations are still in circula- The forum topic Mr. Cornwell the company if they believe they ter close scrutiny of her bottles of
sented bottles from great produc- tion; she estimated that they could created in February 2012, titled bought counterfeit wine.) Chave Hermitage and Domaine Pon-
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Ponsot Chapelle-Chambertin. She Ponsot also believes Rudy fakes Auction Fraud,” remains active to fake wine is made in Europe than in was relieved to receive confirma-
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thought the wines were real, but are still out there. “I think that this day. A staggering 169 pages the U.S. “There are at least five tion that they were indeed real.
she wanted to be certain. people will try to sell them,” he long as of this writing, it features counterfeit wine rings in Europe,” As I was writing this column,
The name Domaine Ponsot will said in a recent phone call. For his photographs of fake bottles and she said. Though quite a few high- news of another large-scale wine-
ring a bell with those who follow part, Mr. Ponsot—whose new win- auction results posted by Mr. Corn- profile seizures of counterfeit Châ- fraud story broke. The Bordeaux
wine-fraud news. In a story made ery, called Laurent Ponsot, will de- well and others, as well as general teau Pétrus and Domaine de la Ro- négociant Grands Vins de Gironde
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famous by the documentary “Sour wine-counterfeiting news. manée-Conti (DRC) have been made was accused of faking the equiva-
Grapes” and the book “In Vino Du- Mr. Cornwell believes the wine in France in recent years, the sen- lent of almost 70,000 cases of
plicitas,” the domaine’s proprietor, auction houses have largely tences have been so light they wine over several years, “recreat-
Laurent Ponsot, attended a 2008 ‘Authenticating a wine “cleaned up their act” in the decade hardly seem like a deterrent at all. ing” cheap wines as Bordeaux; just
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wine auction in New York where is like authenticating since he began his crusade. Jamie A Russian counterfeiter got a mere this week the company was fined
fake bottles of Ponsot wines were Ritchie, worldwide head of So- two-year jail term in France in 2017 200,000 euros by a criminal court
a work of art.’
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offered for sale. The consignor was theby’s Wine, agreed that the origin for selling 400 bottles of fake DRC, in Bordeaux. When I mentioned
Rudy Kurniawan, a high-profile col- of wines offered at auction today but the sentence was suspended the case to Ms. Downey, she
lector from California. receives far greater scrutiny. “Peo- and he went free. praised the French police and said
An investigation into Mr. but its first wines in the fall— ple are willing to pay much higher Ms. Downey pointed out that she believed the increased atten-
Kurniawan’s dealings culminated in added that he’s made sure his prices for collections with great some European wineries, including tion to counterfeit fine wine had
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a search of his Arcadia, Calif., home, wines are “protected” from coun- provenance,” he said. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, are resulted in an increased number of
which turned out to be filled with terfeiting. Counterfeit wines are sold at working to combat fraud. She out- arrests related to the counterfeit-
tools of wine fakery: counterfeit la- Los Angeles-based attorney Don many other places besides auction lined a few of the methods some of ing of all kinds of wines.
bels, blank corks and empty bottles Cornwell has been keeping track of houses, Ms. Downey cautioned. them have adopted, including invisi- Above all, she emphasized that
to be filled. Mr. Kurniawan went on counterfeiters and counterfeit wines “eBay has had a huge problem with ble ink, holograms and serial num- wine fraud isn’t a victimless crime.
trial in New York for counterfeiting for over a decade—a hobby sparked people selling fakes,” she said, cit- bers on labels, as well as embossing “It affects people who work very
and was convicted in 2014. He was by his outrage over all the fakes he ing some “very obvious” bottles of directly on the bottles and proof hard to make good wine, who are
ordered to pay $28.4 million in res- found in the market. Mr. Cornwell fake Château Pétrus she found on tags hung around the necks. “I proud of their wines and their ap-
titution to seven of his victims and teamed up with Ms. Downey and the site. (Ryan Moore, eBay’s direc- don’t believe in a single-solution pellation,” she said. “It ruins their
to forfeit $20 million in property, New York wine merchant Geoffrey tor of global corporate affairs and answer to fraud,” she said. Her fa- reputation and it destroys all their
and is serving a 10-year sentence in Troy to investigate the bottles he communications, said that the com- vored form of protection: a registry hard work.” With the right tools
a federal prison. suspected were fake and began pany conducted an initial review of where collectors could provide in- and a gimlet eye, she believes, we
On the day of our seminar, Ms. posting his findings on Wineber- Château Pétrus bottles purchased formation about wines and their can all play a part in protecting
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Downey noted that though hun- serkers, a chat forum favored by on eBay and did not come across histories, which could then be ac- that work.
dreds of “Rudy” bottles were ulti- passionate oenophiles and serious any counterfeit claims. Mr. Moore cessed by other collectors. A similar
mately destroyed, many more of collectors. also noted that buyers may notify system is used in the diamond Email Lettie at wine@wsj.com.
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Lewis into the Kosher salt 1 yellow onion, thinly Juice of 1 lemon
21st century, with
a focus on regional 1. Set broiler to high. Rub red bell pepper with pers soften fully, about 20 minutes.
ingredients. oil and set under broiler, cut-side down. Broil 3. Meanwhile, make chermoula: In clean bowl
Elevating comfort until charred in spots, 5-7 minutes. Meanwhile, of food processor, combine garlic, cumin, pa-
food in a way season fish with salt and refrigerate. prika, parsley and cilantro. Pulse to finely
that remains rooted 2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Scrape any chop. Transfer to a bowl, stir in remaining olive
in tradition. loose, charred skin from red pepper and place oil, and season with salt and lemon juice.
in a food processor. Add serrano and pulse to 4. Spread half the chermoula over fish. Place
a smooth paste. Swirl 1/4 cup oil into a large, fish on sautéed peppers in pan and cover with
lidded pan and set over medium heat. Stir in lid. Transfer to oven and cook until fish is
pepper paste, grated carrot, julienned peppers, opaque and flaky, about 10 minutes. Serve ZIP IT UP Like a pesto or a salsa verde, chermoula is a zesty paste of herbs
and onions. Season with salt. Sauté until pep- tagine with reserved sauce on the side. and spices that makes a delicious marinade and sauce for fish.
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beautiful foodstuffs, from cover crops to wild
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herbs to underutilized, tasty cuts of meat.
Before opening Woods Hill Table in Con- FARM FRESH // RESTAURANTS
cord, Mass., restaurateur Kristin Canty was THAT GROW THEIR OWN
adamant about serving meat raised to rigor- on
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she couldn’t find enough being produced in
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rant, chef Charlie Foster uses every part of the The restaurant is surrounded by a 5-acre farm
animals they raise; beef tartare, Bolognese boasting two greenhouses, roaming
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Mr. Foster works his way through entire pigs on-property.
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limiting, is actually extremely liberating be- Primo Farm pigs, with wild dandelion and mus-
cause there’s a larger purpose to why I’m serv- tard greens and a preserved farm egg grated
ing what I’m serving,” he said. To make even on top.
better use of all the “off cuts” and trim, Ms.
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pest damage,” Mr. Myszka said. “Now I know 283 W. 12th St., Manhattan, blenheimhill.com
that you can work around all that.” Morten Sohlberg and Min Ye grow fruits and
It’s a common misconception—one that vegetables and raise heirloom sheep, pigs and
provoked plenty of wry laughter from the res- poultry three hours north of New York City at
taurant owners I spoke with—that producing Blenheim Hill Farm.
your own ingredients might cut costs. The The dish The restaurant’s green salad is made
hefty startup investment and years it takes to from a dozen varieties of greens, grown to-
build up to maximum efficiency mean that a gether hydroponically and clipped to form an
WHITE LOFT STUDIO (SALAD); EVA KOLENKO (WAGYU)
The Secretary
book, ’Creating Beauty: Interiors’
(Rizzoli), said secretaries pull her
into a time ‘when life was slower.’
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from pottery to Matchbox cars. Ra-
HE SECRETARY desk chel Cannon, a designer in Baton
has waited patiently for Rouge, La., recently tucked one in a
us to notice its clever stair landing to create a miniature
beauty again. Once ren- home office. Kari McIntosh, a de-
dered obsolete by the signer in San Mateo, Calif., used a
space demands of hulking desktop contemporary West Elm model in a
computers and printers, the quaintly nursery-cum-office in her own two-
compact desks with enclosed stor- bedroom apartment.
age were stockpiled in attics and Slots, shelves and drawers (and
used-furniture store rooms. But the secret compartments, if you’re
stars have aligned to bring these al- lucky) store vestiges of pre-digital
most-antiques back to relevance. life such as staplers and pens, and,
brilliantly, the desk fronts close up,
“hiding contents elegantly,” said
New York designer Phillip Thomas,
‘Perfect for laptops, these who placed a 1950 green-blue lac-
vintage pieces are more quered French number in a corner
surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass
modern than a large desk.’ windows. Mr. Thomas favors antique
and 20th-century versions, he said.
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ments on a cloud and reduce their vintage site Chairish, which was
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computer hardware to a laptop, big hosting 110 secretaries for $1,000 or
working surfaces have become the less in early April. “They’re a great
relics. “Secretaries are like a tiny example of a category of brown fur-
multiuse building in a room,” said niture becoming relevant again,”
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Ms. Thorp, who noted that their she said, referring to the traditional
height can bring an unexpected dy- wood furniture of the 20th and late Antique Early 20th Reproduction
namism to a room. 19th century that has fallen out of Philadelphia Century 19th Century
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The modest scale of most vintage fashion. “When a piece is the right Empire Secretary, French Iron
models, neither very deep or wide, choice and you match it with acces- Quervelle $395, Secretary,
makes them especially versatile. sible pricing, it becomes a hit.” Carved chairish.com $1,850,
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Richmond, Va., designer Janie Mol- Beyond practicalities, secretary Flame rh.com
ster said of the chinoiserie-style desks can charm. “They seem to Mahogany
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piece she bought in her 20s, “I have embrace you a little,” said retired Secretary,
used it in a bedroom, dining room, businessman George Entin, whose $2,450,
living room, kitchen and currently Atlanta designer Melanie Millner 1stdibs.com
my foyer.” The secretary’s lower found an 18th-century mahogany
drawers can store linens, photo al- beauty, now in his study. “You sort
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KATIE CAREY
“All my clients are asking for is-
lands,” Mr. Fischbach said, tossing
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“We’ll have plenty of storage
without an island,” I said, putting their knees against an island. gathering momentum in the 1980s, gamansion movement,” said Dallas these days, architects and design-
my finger on the spot where a wall Drop-in guests can be more easily is the latest in a long list of design architect Bob Borson. As walls ers say. “There’s a casual aspect to
of cabinets would go. put to work at an elevation where
on fads to hit the kitchen during its started to disappear and “open” the island, but there’s a more re-
“What about undercounter wine their feet don’t dangle and lose transition from scullery to show- kitchens began to bleed into living laxed and intimate air to meals
storage?” my husband asked. “A circulation. And cooks of an aver- room. The idea of the kitchen as a rooms, Mr. Borson’s clients started shared at the table,” said Steven
separate freezer drawer? A trash age height (like, say, me), get more designed space dates to the intro- asking for islands to delineate Gdula, author of “The Warmest
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compactor?” leverage rolling out dough on a duction in 1898 of the Hoosier cab- spaces. “I am trying to remember Room in the House: How the
“A trash compactor?” I replied. 30-inch-high table than on a 36- inet, which with its clever cubbies the last time I did a kitchen that Kitchen Became the Heart of the
“Where do you come up with these inch-high island. and work top was marketed as the didn’t have an island—and I can’t Twentieth-Century American
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things?” Sadly, I know I am in the minor- think of one,” he said. Home” (Bloomsbury).
Kitchens have gotten too com- ity (for now) on this design issue. Islands are so ubiquitous that In the end, our architect brokered
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plicated—and the island isn’t help- Among renovating homeowners, a they are rewriting the rules of a settlement in the Kitchen War: My
ing. In simpler, less cluttered built-in island is the most sought- I wanted a human-scale kitchen design. “We used to design husband got a dedicated nook for his
times, kitchens had a cutting after kitchen feature after pantry table, the kind that around the three points on a work cappuccino maker and coffee-bean
board, a knife, some onions—and a cabinets, according to a 2017 Houzz triangle—the refrigerator, stove grinder. And I got my table—sans is-
table where you could sit and chop kitchen-trends survey of 2,707 peo- my grandmother and sink,” said Elle H-Millard, a land. With a reclaimed elm tabletop,
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them before tossing them into a ple. Demand is so high that celeb- sat at when she Pennsylvania-based kitchen de- its distressed look is impervious to
pan with a little butter. This gave rity chefs are jumping into the signer and a trends specialist for stains, spills and the occasional
Americans everything we needed game. Rachael Ray, Paula Deen and chopped onions. the National Kitchen and Bath As- scorch mark. And the table’s metal
to fill the house with a lovely Trisha Yearwood all have furniture sociation. But these days she’s de- frame has wheels, tempting us to
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smell to reassure everyone that collections that include free-stand- signing more kitchens in which all wheel it outdoors, where we eat on
dinner was pending. ing islands which, like higher-end first all-in-one cook’s prep space. the appliances are built into an is- the patio in nice weather. We can
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The kitchen has evolved from a versions of the IKEA cart, are de- Between then and now, checkered land: “With an undercounter re- seat eight comfortably in caned
humble household room to become signed to add instant storage. “Ra- linoleum floors, chrome dinette frigerator, a cooktop, and a sink, wooden chairs—and 12 when we
the main public space in the chael Ray’s island has functional sets, and massive hanging pot you can place the three points in a bring up from the basement a fold-
house. I love that about the features such as a well on the work racks all had their moment. linear path instead of a triangle. ing extension my husband built. If
kitchen. But I don’t see how hav- surface, so you can scrape bits and Decades of affluence and an in- An island lets you work in a very we need it, we drag in the piano
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ing a monstrous, multipurpose, pieces into it,” said Patricia Bowl- crease in the average American small footprint.” bench for two people to share.
built-in storage bin makes it a bet- ing, a spokeswoman for the Ameri- home’s size (which grew to 2,466 Not everybody considers a din-
ter family, entertainment or work can Home Furnishings Association square feet in 2017) have created a ing table a dinosaur, however. In a Ms. Slatalla is an editor for Re-
area. The kids are better off doing in High Point, N.C. fertile environment for the kitchen big kitchen, homeowners want modelista, which, like The Wall Street
homework at a table than banging The island trend, which started island. “It grew along with the me- both an island and a dining table Journal, is owned by News Corp.
THE MEDIATOR
Solution 1
The Challenge An antique Chinese chair must settle in with a brand Qing-dynasty bamboo seat, while its
simplicity speaks to the bookshelves’
new Scandinavian bookshelf. Three designers broker a stylistic peace minimalism. The solid banana-fiber
shade, laid over copper wire, contrasts
nicely with the airy bookshelf and the
chair back’s open fretwork. Pinch Soren
HAY Ypperlig Shelf Unit by Lamp, $2,150, thefutureperfect.com
IKEA, $110, ikea.com
Solution 2
Chinese Bamboo Chinoiserie
Armchair from Erin Lane Estate, Couple the pair’s colors
$750, 1stdibs.com in a rug. The rust
shades in this Oushak
carpet agree with the arm-
chair’s similarly hued frame, said
Newton, Mass., designer Erin Gates,
while the rug’s worn areas sync with
the grays and creams of the IKEA
piece. The vintage carpet provides vi-
sual warmth as well and, if laid under
the seat and shelf, would physically
unite the two pieces. $1,410 for 4’5”
by 7’7”, oldnewhouse.com
Solution 3
JAMES GILLEARD
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Elevated Adventures
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Roadtrippers are camping out on car rooftops to avoid critters, range more widely and slightly heighten the breathtaking views
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ventures in vans retrofitted as liv- ground. They don’t offer much gerly joined the game, releasing a confined to paved roads as you are
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ing spaces), and a renewed interest more than sleeping space, but they model of its own after assessing in an RV. These tents go wherever
in small travel-trailers among free free up the area near the vehicle the potential market. nimble cars can: bumping up dirt
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THE GREAT AMERICAN road trip spirits who seek unconventional for setting up chairs, building a These rooftop tents offer a de- roads in U.S. National Forests or ex-
still embodies that freedom so vacations. campfire and the occasional Three gree of convenience for millenni- ploring hard-to-access mountain
deeply rooted in our culture: unin- Roof tents come in two catego- Dog Night singalong. als who are looking to execute passes, lakes and trailheads. The
hibited, spontaneous, indepen- ries. Soft shells are akin to your Though roof tents are still a easy weekend getaways without roof-level offers just enough eleva-
dent—until you have to sleep, that basic forest-floor tent but are typi- fledgling market compared to RVs investing in gas guzzlers or buy- tion from dirt and critters to calm
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is. Various options exist for road- cally crafted with tougher fabrics, or traditional tents, U.S. sales in- ing trailers that require storage most nervous campers in need of a
side snoozing, from cookie-cutter like ripstop canvas. Hard-shell creased fivefold in 2017, according and maintenance, said Andrew restful night.
motels to lumbering RVs. Lately, dwellings, on the other hand, cost to NPD Group, a market research Pasquella, a representative for Snug and protected in your perch
however, more travelers are em- more but feature sturdier, aerody- firm that recently began tracking Front Runner Outfitters. Most on the roof, you can enjoy nature
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bracing an old-school solution namic casings you can open more the category. Antonio Martins, ex- weekend explorers can install from a new vantage point. The
with a twist: perching tents atop easily and quickly with help from port sales manager of Portugal- these tents on their current cars. scenery is surprisingly different just
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of vehicles instead of pitching hydraulic struts. based James Baroud, said popular- Beyond their ease of use, rooftop 6 feet extra off the ground. And
them deep in the woods. Most rooftop tents come with ity of its tents is booming in the tents have another key advantage: when the adventure is over, the tent
Spending the night on the roof folding access ladders and foam states and in Europe, where Ger- They let you access territory no- can simply be unmoored from the
of the car isn’t quite as precarious mattresses, which crucially elevate man motorists have become the where near the beaten path. On a vehicle’s roof rack and propped
as it sounds. Years of engineering the comfort level compared to the brand’s largest customer base. In whim you can pack the car, grab a against a garage wall until the next
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have refined these tents, originally bumpy slumber of sleeping on the 2017, roof-rack giant Yakima ea- map and head out without being time nature calls.
made for overlanding expeditions
in South Africa and Australia. The
mini pop-up sleeping quarters are GIMME SHELTER // FOUR ROOFTOP TENTS THAT RISE TO THE OCCASION
specifically designed to sit steadily
on platforms anchored to the vehi- Tepui White Yakima Skyrise Front Runner James Baroud
cle’s roof rack. Stowed, the tents Lightning Designed for weekend Feather-Lite Evasion
collapse into slim cases about 8 Tepui developed their road trippers and vaca- Made from heavy-duty Designed for hard-core
inches high, like a cargo box. But newly released hardshell tioners with small cars, ripstop canvas, the overlanders (who want
when intrepid roadtrippers call it a roof tent specifically for the nylon Skyrise most Feather-Lite is crafted to relative luxury), the Por-
day, they simply park, unlatch the action-sports enthusi- closely resembles a tradi- hold up in hostile condi- tuguese-made Evasion
tent, prop it up and climb in for asts looking to create a tional ground tent. Once tions. Campers can add won’t seem like overkill
the night, much easier than pre- homebase for their ad- you reach your destina- a drop-down annex that for casual campers. Us-
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paring a campsite. ventures. The two-per- tion, it flips open and forms a second room on ing hydraulic struts, its fi-
Over the last five years, a num- son White Lightning sets up in minutes, and the ground. The main berglass shell opens in
ber of factors have led to rooftop tent can support a roof the Yakima rack system tent opens easily in one 30 seconds. A 360-win-
tents’ rise in popularity in the U.S. rack to securely fasten makes for quick installa- motion and is about 8 dow offers panoramic
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These include the tiny-house craze, gear like bikes, kayaks or tion and removal from inches high when views; the XXL size
the #vanlife movement (social me- surfboards on top of the roofs in the off-season. closed. From $1,307, sleeps three. From
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2018 Kia Stinger GT2: A Bid for Respect
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THE 2018 KIA STINGER was in de- Kia, your slip is showing. $31,900 (2.0L) to $51,400 (GT2 dialed in to the chassis. The GT2 gear changes and revving arpeg-
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velopment almost seven years. In Does it matter? Strictly speak- with all-wheel drive), plus $900 feels a tiny bit soft at the edges, to gios take you to the quarter-mile
that time thousands of product de- ing, no. It’s not like anyone is go- destination. me. Nor is it exactly light—3,829 stripe in about 13 seconds. The
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signers, engineers and suppliers ing to walk away from the 167-mph So are we to expect Kia to take pounds in test trim. It exhibits powertrain engineers also did
must have sat in mock-ups, proto- Stinger GT peeved about the hub on the Germans at their own game? more transient body roll than I right by the engine sound: The 3.3-
types and pre-builds of the rakish cover. And there is always tape. Yeah, no. South Korea’s second-larg- prefer in my look-at-me man toys. liter turbo engine puts out a nice
fastback sedan, the South Korean But insofar as the Stinger was est carmaker, behind corporate The electric power steering is low burble, surprisingly resonant
company’s new halo car and perfor- built to make you forget previous partner Hyundai, is a master of very quick—2.2 turns, lock to lock, for a turbo engine, that rises to a
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mance flagship. But nobody saw it. Kias, and largely does, the steering mass-market, value-priced automo- just the way I like it—but doesn’t heated warble at 6,000 rpm.
At some point Kia board mem- wheel only reminds you. biles. The company’s offerings dom- have a lot of road feel in it. The Kia’s sport-sedan bananas are
bers must have trooped down to Some housekeeping: The Stinger inated J.D. Power’s 2017 U.S. Initial big Brembo brakes are strong and still a little green: Around-town
the design center in Namyang for is officially a midsize hatchback Quality Study, for example. sure if a bit touchy at first. and at part-throttle, the eight-
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a formal signoff. Still not a word. sedan, with four doors and a rear But in all that success the Kia The Stinger will stand up. Zero- speed transmission has moments
Now a Stinger—a GT2 version liftgate. But this is a fairly big car: brand has become a bit shopworn, to 60 mph sprints pass in less than of dithering delay (the mapping is
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deluxe ($50,100, as tested), with a 190.2 inches long over a 114.4-inch typecast as down-market and ge- 5 seconds—Kia says 4.7 seconds much better in Sport mode). The
throat-singing V6, rear-wheel drive, wheelbase, 60% of overall length. neric. Kia needed some heat in the but Car and Driver wrung a 4.4 car could use some stiffer springs.
adaptive suspension, brakes for It’s also low (55.1 inches at the britches. Enter the Stinger. out of it—and if you keep standing But, man oh man, the price is
days—is sitting in front of my roof). These louche proportions The Stinger is certainly the best on the gas, a quick succession of hard to beat. Where’s that tape?
house, giving local dads the vapors. disguise an unexpected usefulness: German car ever to come out of
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The want is strong. The first time 23.3 cubic feet of cargo room and South Korea. The pedigree starts
Kia tried to bootstrap itself into the a spacious rear cabin. with Kia chief design officer Peter
premium/entry luxury space was in Schreyer, formerly of Audi. Kia Eu-
2012, with the K900 sedan. But it ropean design chief Gregory Guil-
presented as overstuffed and cut- laume, based in Frankfurt, penned
rate, a large sedan with unsexy, The brand has become the exterior. The chassis tuning
front-drive proportions. typecast as down-market and dynamics fell to Albert Bier-
It’s a mistake the Stinger doesn’t mann, the former director of
make. It is extra rear-drive looking, and generic. Kia needed BMW’s M performance division,
with the front wheels thrust into some heat in the britches. who was poached/joined the com-
the nose of the car (a long axle-to- pany in late 2014.
dash) and rears slung under a fast- Enter the Stinger. Here and there, the Teutonic in-
back hatch. This car practically gy- fluence reaches comic proportions.
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And still, when I sit in the Our GT2 test car squatted on semblies are frankly derivative of
driver’s seat, my eye is irresistibly 19-inch alloys wrapped in 40-se- the Audi Sportback. The flash of
drawn to this one, centrally lo- ries summer Michelins. Bang. brightwork at the doors’ leading
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cated blemish, as if it were a The bones are in the right place: edges is very like a BMW. The 2018 Kia Stinger GT2
blackhead on a co-worker’s nose. a longitudinally mounted front en- Kia’s cabin design is a pastiche of
It’s the steering wheel hub gine, rear-wheel drive, near 50/50 the Mercedes-Benz, with three
cover. Not even the rim, which is weight distribution, front strut and eyeball air outlets, tablet-style Price as Tested $50,100 Length/Width/Height/Wheelbase
flat-bottomed and wrapped in rear multilink suspension. Under center screen, and banded alumi- Powertrain Turbocharged, direct-in- 190.2/73.6/55.1/114.4
stitched and perforated leather; that wealth of hood is either a tur- num switches. Talk about great jected 3.3-liter DOHC V6; eight- 0-60 mph 4.7 seconds
but the hard, plasticy hub cover, bocharged 2.0-liter 255 hp four or minds thinking alike. speed automatic transmission with Top Speed 167 mph (electronically
under which resides the driver air 3.3-liter 365-hp V6; an eight-speed It drives pretty Germanically manual-shift mode; rear-wheel drive limited)
bag. Against the backdrop of transmission with paddle shifters; too. Herr Biermann’s elastomeric with limited-slip differential EPA Fuel Economy 19/25/21 mpg,
Nappa leather seats, lustrous alu- and rear-wheel drive. Torque vec- choices have yielded a firmly Power/Torque 365 hp at 6,000 city/highway/combined
minum trim and soft-touch materi- toring all-wheel drive is a $2,200 sprung sport sedan, but it’s no rpm/376 lb-ft at 1,500-4,500 rpm Cargo Capacity 23.3/40.9 cubic
als, the wheel hub feels like an option with either engine. There track-day monster. There is a Curb Weight 3,829 pounds feet, rear seatback up/folded
overturned Tupperware bowl. Mr. are five trim levels, priced from thoughtful amount of ride comfort
sells and repairs vintage ma- tainly take it, and its hefty, alu- the President’s Men”—appeals,
chines. “Today, and in the past minum chassis keeps it from this will scratch that itch. If you
two years especially, you see sliding around. You’d think you find that notion “silly,” as Mr.
NOW many people with an interest in were using a typewriter if not Schulze does, the Querkywriter
typewriters. My youngest cus- for computer-specific keys and will never win you over.
THEN tomer is five years old.” the fact that it’s connected, ei- After clacking several thou-
Still, conveniences like inter- ther by Bluetooth or USB, to a sand words out, I’m content
With its knobs and return lever, net access and the ability to edit brightly glowing screen. with what it brings to my work-
the Qwerkywriter S echoes this on-the-fly are tough to leave Classic typewriter accoutre- space, though it hasn’t unlocked
1920s Remington Portable 2. behind. An appealing synthesis ments are cleverly repurposed any secret genius. Yet. $299,
of old and new: the polished for computer use: The scroll qwerkywriter.com —JF Sargent