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DEMOCRATS FOCUS HIRING RISE SENDS

ON BILL’S STANCE U.S. JOBLESS RATE
ON PRIOR ILLNESS TO A 10-YEAR LOW
HEALTH CARE THIRD RAIL DOUBTS ON GROWTH EBB

Looking to 2018, With Labor Force’s Weakest

Stress on Pre-existing Corners Show Signs
Conditions of Improvement

By ALEXANDER BURNS By PATRICIA COHEN

and ABBY GOODNOUGH
From the moment the Republi-
can-controlled House of
Representatives approved a plan
to overhaul the health care sys-
tem, an onslaught of opposition to
the bill has been focused on a sin-
gle, compact term: pre-existing
conditions.
The Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee began run-
ning digital ads warning that the
legislation would leave “no more
protections” for people with a his-
tory of illness or injury. Pointing to
the power that states could have
to set the terms for insurers under
the G.O.P. bill, Democratic leaders
announced they would make pre-
existing conditions an issue in ev-
ery gubernatorial and state legis-
lative race in the country.
Groups on the left posted graph-
ics online listing pre-existing con-
ditions that could, in theory,
threaten health care coverage,
with some shared hundreds of
thousands or millions of times. In
one exaggerated claim circulating
widely on social media on Friday,
a post from a group called The
People for Bernie Sanders listed
nearly 100 conditions, from AIDS
to ulcers, and said that for anyone
who suffered from them, Republi-
cans had voted “to end your
health care.” [Page A14.]
Individuals took up the call, too:
More than 100,000 people posted
on Twitter using the hashtag
#IAmAPreexistingCondition,
with many naming their own long-
term illnesses or medical condi-
tions.
The blast of organized and
grass-roots energy in opposition
to the bill had all been generated
Continued on Page A12
POLITICAL CALCULATIONS They
may have lost the vote on the
health bill, but Democrats smell
opportunity. PAGE A13
BUDGET ESTIMATES The Congres-
sional Budget Office’s verdict on
the health bill may influence the
political debate. PAGE A14
Good Bloodlines Are Just the Start
Amani, left, with her foal sired by American Pharoah, the Triple Crown winner whose offspring will be closely watched. Page D1.
Second Chance for Health Bill,
And for President’s Chief of Staff Worry Pro-Israel Hard-Liners
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
WASHINGTON — The Repub-
lican health care overhaul might
never become law, but it has al-
ready changed the life of one
American: Reince Priebus, who
knew it was his best and perhaps
last hope of becoming an em-
powered White House chief of
staff.
President Trump placed much
of the blame for his first, failed
push to repeal the Affordable Care
Act in March on Mr. Priebus, the
harried and ambitious former Re-
publican National Committee
chairman. He told aides that he
believed the damaging loss had
resulted in no small part from Mr.
Priebus’s too-rosy vote-count pre-
dictions and his too-cozy relation-
ship with Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a
fellow Wisconsinite.
After that defeat, Mr. Trump’s
staff noticed that the president
had adopted a practice of merging
the two men’s names into one long
“Ryan-ce,” according to several
West Wing aides.
Mixed Messages From Trump
It is unlikely that Mr. Priebus —
roundly regarded as a steady
party leader but one of the least
powerful White House chiefs of
staff ever — would have been fired
had the second repeal-and-re-
place plan not passed the House
on Thursday. But he viewed it as a
personal make-or-break moment,
and interviews with two dozen
West Wing aides and Republican
officials confirmed that another
big loss on health care would prob-
ably have been an unrecoverable
blow to an already weakened Mr.
Priebus.
He responded by texting, call-
ing and buttonholing Republicans,
especially Mr. Ryan — badgering
him for weeks to bring some ver-
sion of the bill to the floor and de-
manding votes despite being
short of support, with an angry in-
sistence that tested their two-
Cheeseheads-are-better-than-one
friendship.
Continued on Page A12
By MARK LANDLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
WASHINGTON — President
Trump hosted Mahmoud Abbas,
the president of the Palestinian
Authority, at the White House this
week with all the usual bonhomie
he displays for foreign leaders.
Within hours, he wrote on Twitter
that it had been “an honor,” add-
ing, “Hopefully something ter-
rific” would come out “between
the Palestinians & Israel.”
But then something odd hap-
pened. Within a day, the message
vanished from Mr. Trump’s Twit-
ter feed. The White House said it
had no idea why that happened
and that it stood by the original
message. But stakeholders in the
peace process have seen the unex-
plained disappearance as a sign of
uncertainty from a president who
has presented himself as Israel’s
greatest friend but has then called
it “an honor” to meet with its ad-
versary.
As Mr. Trump embarks on what
he vows will be a historic effort to
CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
do what no president has done be-
fore and make peace between Is-
raelis and Palestinians, he finds
himself under pressure from his
hard-line pro-Israel supporters.
They worry that he and his aides
are listening too closely to Arab
and Palestinian arguments and di-
luting what they hoped would be
uncompromising support for the
current Israeli government.
They are particularly con-
cerned about the role of one of Mr.
Trump’s closest Jewish friends,
the New York billionaire Ronald S.
Lauder, who is prodding Mr.
Trump to forge an alliance with
Mr. Abbas. Mr. Lauder is in fre-
quent contact with Mr. Trump’s
chief Middle East negotiator, Ja-
son D. Greenblatt, who attended a
dinner at Mr. Lauder’s George-
town home with Mr. Abbas the
night before the Palestinian
leader went to the White House.
Mr. Greenblatt got a very differ-
Continued on Page A11
The jobless rate dropped to 4.4
percent in April, the lowest level in
more than a decade, the govern-
ment said on Friday, signaling the
economy’s resilience and showing
a labor market closing in on full
capacity.
Employers added 211,000 work-
ers, the Labor Department said,
helping to quell doubts raised by
sluggish growth in the first quar-
ter and anemic hiring in March.
The economic anxiety and un-
even fortunes that figured so
prominently in the presidential
campaign have not disappeared,
particularly outside of the coun-
try’s flourishing urban centers.
Wage growth was also modest,
with the year-over-year increase
staying just baby steps ahead of
inflation.
But some of the labor force’s
weakest corners improved, with
declines in the ranks of discour-
aged workers and of those work-
ing part time who would prefer
full-time jobs. The average
monthly gain in jobs since Febru-
ary reached 174,000.
“Great news,” Labor Secretary
Alexander Acosta said Friday
morning on Twitter, adding in a
later statement that further work
was needed “on bridging the skills
gap and on expanding opportuni-
ty.”
Republicans were not alone in
paying homage to the labor mar-
ket’s strength.
“The momentum in the job mar-
ket is really impressive,” said Ja-
son Furman, the chief economic
adviser during the Obama admin-
istration. “I’m frankly surprised
Continued on Page A16
10%
UNEMPLOYMENT
8
RATE
6
4
APRIL
2 4.4%
0 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
’07 ’17
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Macron Campaign Says It Was Hit by ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack Rikers Deemed Too Dangerous
This article is by Aurelien Bree-
den, Sewell Chan and Nicole Perl-
roth.
PARIS — On the eve of the most
consequential French presiden-
tial election in decades, the staff of
the centrist candidate Emmanuel
Macron said late Friday that the
campaign had been targeted by a
“massive and coordinated” hack-
ing operation, one with the poten-
tial to destabilize the nation’s de-
mocracy before voters go to the
polls on Sunday.
The digital attack, which in-
volved a dump of campaign docu-
ments including emails and ac-
counting records, emerged hours
before a legal prohibition on cam-
paign communications went into
effect. While the leak may be of lit-
tle consequence, the timing
makes it extremely difficult for
Mr. Macron to mitigate any dam-
aging fallout before the runoff
election, in which he faces the far-
right candidate Marine Le Pen,
who has pledged to pull France
out of the euro and hold a referen-
dum to leave the European Union.
The hacking immediately
evoked comparisons to last year’s
presidential election in the United
States, during which American in-
For Inmates Outside New York
Emmanuel Macron, the front-runner to win France’s presidential election, on Friday in Rodez.
telligence agencies have con-
cluded that Russia’s president,
Vladimir V. Putin, ordered an “in-
fluence campaign” to benefit the
Republican nominee, Donald J.
Trump. Groups linked to Russia
have been accused of trying to
hack the Macron organization.
Groups linked to Russia, that
are also believed to have been in-
volved in the hacking related to
the 2016 United States presiden-
tial campaign, have previously
been accused of trying to breach
the Macron organization. Security
experts tracking the activity of
suspected Russian hackers say
they believe those same groups
REGIS DUVIGNAU/REUTERS
were involved in this latest attack.
In a statement, the Macron
campaign said the hackers had
mixed fake documents along with
authentic ones, “to sow doubt and
misinformation.”
“Intervening in the final hour of
the official campaign, this opera-
Continued on Page A7
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
The jail complex on Rikers Is-
land has failed to comply with
minimum safety standards and
has become so dangerous, accord-
ing to a New York State oversight
agency, that it can no longer be
permitted to accept inmate trans-
fers from outside New York City.
In a letter sent to city officials
last week, the agency, the State
Commission of Correction, or-
dered a halt to all inmate transfers
from county jails outside the five
boroughs. Such transfers
typically involve special catego-
ries of inmates, like former correc-
tion officers or gang leaders, who
face an increased risk of violence
at jails in their home counties.
“Given the critical security na-
ture of the operations associated
with these findings, coupled with
the extended period during which
no substantive, departmentwide
corrective actions appear to have
been implemented, the Commis-
sion of Correction concluded that
this restrictive step was both ap-
propriate and necessary,” the let-
ter said.
In the letter, a copy of which was
obtained by The New York Times,
the oversight agency identified a
number of failures uncovered
over a series of inspections dating
back several years that the city’s
Correction Department has con-
sistently failed to address.
Given the many problems at
Rikers, the failures identified by
the commission seem relatively
minor. Housing areas at the jails
were not adequately staffed with
correction officers; electronic
monitoring devices meant to en-
sure guards are properly conduct-
ing their rounds were not installed
or being used; officers’ private
firearms were not inspected as re-
quired; and officers were rou-
tinely issued pepper spray and
other chemical agents even
though their certifications to use
such weapons had lapsed.
In addition, for two months this
year, the Correction Department
failed to comply with a require-
Continued on Page A18

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INTERNATIONAL A4-9
May the 4th Be With Trudeau
The Canadian prime minister’s R2D2
and C3PO socks showed the power of
pop culture on Star Wars Day. PAGE A6
SEAL Member Dies in Somalia
An American commando’s killing dur-
ing a raid has put a spotlight on the
military’s operations in Africa. PAGE A8
A Limit on Free Admission?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has
filed a formal proposal with the city to
charge admission to out-of-state vis-
itors, a lawyer said in court. PAGE A19
El Chapo Case Keeps Growing
The Mexican drug lord’s trial in Federal
District Court in Brooklyn may have
10,000 pages of documents. PAGE A17
NATIONAL A10-16
Officer Charged With Murder
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment issued a warrant for the officer
who fatally shot a 15-year-old. PAGE A16
Help Women Work, Yellen Says
Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve
chairwoman, said policies like paid
leave and affordable child care could
expand U.S. economic growth. PAGE B1
Seeking Strangers to Feed
Chefs and other food enthusiasts are
using social-dining websites to arrange
dinner parties at home, but guests can
be hard to find. PAGE B1
Furor Over Retirement Savings
A Senate vote to kill an Obama-era rule
allowing states to automatically enroll
workers in accounts drew criticism
from state-level Republicans. PAGE B6
France’s Not-So-United Left
Some cultural figures vow not to vote for
president, a trend called “Neither-Nor”
that could help Marine Le Pen. PAGE C1
A Winning Dance Premiere
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-8 “Odessa,” the closing work in New York
City Ballet’s spring gala, is “peculiar
$495, but You Get Two and marvelous.” A review.
PAGE C1
The N.B.A. prospect Lonzo Ball and his
father try a different business model
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
with a pricey line of sneakers. PAGE D1
Bret Stephens PAGE 21
One Swing and Yankees Win
Down to his team’s final strike, Brett
Gardner hit a three-run homer as the
Yankees stunned the Cubs.
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By JOE DRAPE
Let me tell you about the Kentucky Derby,
one of the longest and most pleasurable
days in journalism — modern or otherwise
— which I’ve been fortunate to cover now
for 17 of the past 18 years. (My sole miss, in
2013, was because of my son’s first com-
munion. Apparently the Vatican is not
aware that something else very important
occurs down here in the Commonwealth on
the first Saturday of each May.)
The Derby is a day of pomp and ceremo-
ny marbled with a touch of “decadence and
depravity,” as witnessed by Hunter S.
Thompson with the help of some pharma-
cology. It is one of the few days of the year
when I wear a sports coat. It’s the only day
of the year when I ask and answer, hun-
dreds of times: “Who do you like?”
See, fashion is important at America’s
greatest race: To drink a mint julep re-
quires a hat for the women and a pocket
square for the men. And so are opinions.
Unlike political gamblers, horse players
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then break them down like Talmudic
scholars.
Trainers and owners are interrogated
about the condition of their horses’ health
after taxing workouts. They are an un-
breakable bunch. “He ate up and emptied
his feed bucket” is a folksier way of saying,
“No comment.”
But on race day, steam reaches singing
temperatures.
“Secretariat spiked a fever!”
“Someone saw Doc Dolittle head into
American Pharoah’s barn with an X-ray
machine!”
Beyond remaining stalwart in your opin-
ion on who’s going to win the “greatest two
minutes in sport,” pacing yourself is of
utmost importance. Although the race itself
is a mere mile and a quarter, the Derby is a
marathon rather than a sprint for its hu-
man participants.
When you are finely dressed, surrounded
On This Day in History
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MAY 6, 1973
THE DERBY: SECRETARIAT WINS
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Nike made 400 million pairs of About one-third of working-age

shoes last year. women held jobs outside the home
At $495, a Signature Shoe Is Met With in the years after World War II. By EXPERTS IN
MERGERS AND
Headshakes D1 the early 1990s, about three-quarters
• of those women worked.
Monteverdi dedicated the choral
work “Vespers of the Blessed
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to Pope Paul V, perhaps in a vain New York City has nearly

bid for a job at the Vatican.
Singing ‘Happy 450th Birthday’
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In 1936, Léon Blum became the first
Jew and the first Socialist to be
French prime minister. Indicted by
the Vichy government, he was later
imprisoned at Buchenwald.
In the French Centrist Emmanuel Macron,
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Five percent of Americans generate
more than 50 percent of health care
expenses.
What the Republican Plan Gets Right A21
JASON POLAN
From 2011 to 2016, immigration
judges denied between 77 and 83
percent of asylum requests from
people from El Salvador, Honduras
and Guatemala, the three countries
that send the most Central
American asylum seekers.
Many Ask for Asylum,
But It’s Rarely Granted A15
750 museums and galleries.
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Bulgaria, the European Union’s
poorest country, is ranked by
Reporters Without Borders as the
worst in the 28-nation bloc when it
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1. In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers
Criticize Health Bill
According to Thursday’s most read article, the health care
industry’s triune opposition to the House health bill came
about because of the looming cuts to Medicaid; large
insurers, who had demurred on the subject, were pressed into
action because of the effects the cuts would have on their
bottom lines. More than half of the audience found this story
through social media — in particular, through Facebook,
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Rukmini Callimachi, a Times correspondent focusing on Al
Qaeda and ISIS, recently found herself playing an unwanted
game of whack-a-mole. After an ISIS supporter threatened
her on Twitter, that user was deleted — but then immediately
reappeared under a new username. The social media plat-
form has no policy forbidding the opening of a limitless num-
ber of accounts, and that, Ms. Callimachi tweeted, is a prob-
lem the company could fix if it wanted to. A lightly edited and
condensed excerpt from her thread follows.

2. Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct Sequence of events over past hour speaks to all that
to Steal an Exam is broken inside social media engines like @twitter
It was not the first time, or even the second, that Henry when it comes to terror accounts.
Lynch II had crawled through a duct into his statistics profes-
sor’s office. But Mr. Lynch’s luck finally ran out on Wednes-
day, when the professor got the drop on his in-progress heist.
Counterterrorism experts have advised @twitter
The biosystems engineering major’s measures bewildered
to limit # of accounts a user can create. Why would
readers. “With all the time he spent planning this, he could
1 person need 100s of accounts?
have just studied for the exam,” one commented on Facebook.

3. China’s New Jetliner, the Comac C919,

Takes Flight for First Time
The C919 is the first passenger jetliner built in China, but
many of its parts, including the engines and the cockpit, were
manufactured by companies in the West. Commenters harped
on this fact, wondering whether the C919 is really the emblem
of economic ascendancy it has been held up to be — not to
mention it has yet to pass any safety tests outside China.
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Worry in Scorched Fort McMurray: How Many Will Just Walk Away?
Oil Boom Town Faces
A Struggle to Rebuild
By IAN AUSTEN
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta — When
a group of Fort McMurray homeowners
gathered Wednesday evening for a block
party, they had beer, rye whisky and soft
drinks. What they didn’t have was much
of a block.
There are now just two livable houses
on the street, where once there were 55.
About a dozen more are being rebuilt.
But where the rest once stood, there are
only muddy lots, vacant except for the
capped utility pipes jutting from the
ground.
Exactly a year earlier, when a huge,
fast-moving wildfire called the Beast
was bearing down on the city, the whole
of Fort McMurray had to be evacuated in
a hurry. The first neighborhood to be in-
cinerated was Beacon Hill, including
Beaverglen Close, the street that held the
block party.
Though no lives were lost directly to
the fire, it destroyed some 1,500 homes
and scores of businesses in and around
Fort McMurray, the capital of Canada’s
oil sands operations. The fire turned vast
stretches of the surrounding forest into
blackened char, and burned so hot that it
melted the aluminum engines in parked
cars.
That was the short-term damage. The
long-term effects on a city already hard
hit economically by sharply lower oil
prices are only now coming into focus,
with spring and the start of construction
season. High on the list is the number of
people who fled Fort McMurray last
May, through choking smoke and walls
of flame, and are deciding to stay away
for good.
The Beaverglen partygoers — about
two dozen people and two dogs — took a
ceremonial walk along the crescent-
shaped street, catching up with neigh-
bors, snapping photos and puzzling over
exactly where some of the missing
houses once stood. It quickly became ap-
parent that the party was both a reunion
and something of a farewell: Two
residents said they did not intend to re-
build, and a third said he was leaning that
way.
Across the city, only 1 percent of the
buildings that were destroyed last year
have been rebuilt and reoccupied. The
city has issued building permits for
fewer than half of the rest. Those figures
will rise as more property owners reach
settlements with their insurers. But Me-
lissa Blake, the mayor of the regional
municipality that includes Fort McMur-
ray, acknowledged that the city might
not fully repopulate for years.
“We know the events of last year
weigh heavily on a lot of people,” Ms.
Blake said from her office, where she has
a panoramic view of the black scar the
fire left on the landscape. “If part of their
recovery requires they leave the commu-
nity, that’s just a reality we have to face.”
Residents and real estate agents agree
that before the fire, Beacon Hill was
probably the most desirable part of the
city. The attraction was not so much the
houses — mostly modest in size and style
and built in the 1970s — but the surround-
ings. Unlike newer parts of town, Beacon
Hill homes had spacious lots with mature
trees, and the street traffic was minimal
because there was only one access road
into the area.
(That advantage turned into a big
problem during the evacuation, when
traffic bottlenecked so badly that some
residents risked going off-road down a
steep hillside to reach the main highway.
The ruts from their tires are still visible
in the grass.)
Beacon Hill “was the older, family-feel-
ing neighborhood,” said Stephen Nash, a
mechanic who lived on Beaverglen and
had emergency hip-replacement
surgery just a few days before the fire.
North Korea Claims C.I.A. Plotted With the South to Assassinate Kim Jong-un
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — In a region al-
ready tense over nuclear threats, North
Korea accused the South Korean and
American intelligence agencies on Fri-
day of plotting to assassinate its leader,
Kim Jong-un, and it warned of an un-
specified counterattack.
The North Korean government said it
had recently uncovered a “hideous ter-
rorists’ group” that the South Koreans
and the C.I.A. had sent into the country
on a secret mission to kill Mr. Kim with
biochemical agents.
A statement carried by the country’s
official news agency, KCNA, said that
South Korea’s National Intelligence
Service had hired a North Korean logger
working in the Russian Far East in 2014
to attack Mr. Kim.
The existence of such a plot is impossi-
ble to verify. The National Intelligence
Service dismissed the accusations as
groundless.
North Korea is especially sensitive to
any hint of criticism or threat to its
leader. Even a movie version of such a
threat roiled the country. North Korea is
widely believed to have mounted an au-
dacious hacking attack of Sony Pictures
in 2014 as retaliation against “The Inter-
view,” a comedy based on a fictional plot
to assassinate Mr. Kim.
And when North Korea executed Mr.
Kim’s uncle, Jang Song-thaek, it accused
him of plotting to overthrow Mr. Kim’s
government.
Construction in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Across the city, only 1 percent of the buildings that were destroyed last year have been rebuilt and reoccupied.
The Beacon Hill neighborhood of Fort McMurray, which was the first neigh-
borhood to be burned when a wildfire swept through the area last year.
“You knew everybody on the street,” he
said. “There wasn’t a lot of renters.”
Fort McMurray was long known as a
place for Canadians from all over to go
for a while, make a quick buck in the oil
sands projects and move on again. But
the people who are leaving Beaverglen
Close now were well rooted.
Dawna Backhouse watched her house
being built for her parents 42 years ago.
She and her husband, Scott, later bought
it and raised two children of their own
there. But with Scott now only five or six
years from retirement, the couple de-
cided not to rebuild. Instead, they intend
to take their insurance payout, rent in an-
other part of town for a year and then
move south, possibly to a house they own
in Calgary.
“It’s bittersweet; we love this neigh-
borhood,” said Ms. Backhouse, a pre-
school teacher. “I’ve known some of
these neighbors since I was, like, this tall.
The fears run so high that when Mr.
Kim — and, before him, his father, the
dictator Kim Jong-il — was scheduled to
appear in public, agents removed
residents from nearby apartments, ac-
cording to defectors who had served in
North Korean security agencies. Even
soldiers who were designated to shake
hands with Mr. Kim had to wash their
hands first, the defectors said.
The country’s relationship with South
Korea and the United States has been
particularly tense in recent months, as
the North threatened to perform another
nuclear test and continued to test ballis-
tic missiles. President Trump has rattled
the region with martial-sounding
threats, including a recent comment that
the United States could “end up having a
major, major conflict with North Korea.”
On Monday, however, Mr. Trump said
he was willing to meet with Mr. Kim if the
circumstances were right, a departure
from past sitting presidents who have
shunned the North Korean leadership.
The North Korean government laid
out its claims of a plot against Mr. Kim in
surprising detail on Friday.
It said that officers at South Korea’s
National Intelligence Service had
trained the man in the assassination plot,
and provided him with $20,000 and a sat-
ellite communication device. His
handlers then sent the “human scum”
into North Korea, giving him instruc-
tions last year on how to assassinate Mr.
Kim, according to a spokesman for the
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There were a lot of pros and cons.”
Shelley Kellington and her husband,
who lived across the street from Ms.
Backhouse, are joining the exodus, too,
even though Ms. Kellington’s daughter
Melissa and her husband are rebuilding
down the street.
“I just don’t have it in me to build,” said
Ms. Kellington, who was teaching at the
neighborhood primary school when the
fire struck, and helped evacuate its stu-
dents. The school has not reopened, and
she and her husband have decided to re-
tire and live in a new motor home bought
with part of their insurance settlement.
“We will be of no fixed address,” she said.
“Who ever would have thought?”
So far, about 28,000 insurance claims
have been filed from the fire in Fort Mc-
Murray, according to Bill Adams of the
Insurance Bureau of Canada, an indus-
try association. A majority have been
settled, he said, and those still outstand-
North’s Ministry of State Security. The
ministry serves as the North’s intelli-
gence and secret police agency.
The plan involved bombing a military
parade attended by Mr. Kim, the North
Korean statement said. The South Kore-
an spy agency later provided the man
with additional cash to hire co-conspira-
Vowing an ‘anti-terrorist’
attack after an allegation
that is rare in its detail.
tors, the statement said.
The statement then threatened that an
“anti-terrorist attack will be commenced
from this moment to sweep away the in-
telligence and plot-breeding organiza-
tions of the U.S. imperialists and the pup-
pet clique, the most mean and brutal hid-
eous terrorist group in the world.” In
North Korean propaganda, South Korea
is regularly referred to as a puppet of the
United States.
In recent years, at least three South
Koreans have been arrested in North Ko-
rea and sentenced to long prison terms
on espionage charges. The North is also
holding at least three Americans on
charges of “hostile acts,” including a Ko-
rean-American named Kim Dong-chul,
ing are likely to involve houses that were
destroyed rather than just damaged.
Mr. Adams said there were no figures
yet on how many people were taking the
money and walking away rather than re-
building. If they are doing that, he said,
there is a good chance they were under-
insured and have discovered that their
policies would not pay enough to cover
replacement costs.
Settlements vary and are negotiated
case by case. But several property own-
ers said theirs were about 20 percent less
than replacement cost.
Quinn Lotsberg, a high school vice
principal who moved to Fort McMurray
12 years ago, reckons that it would cost
him more to rebuild on Beaverglen now
than the house would be worth when fin-
ished. For that and other reasons, he is
considering taking the cash, selling the
land for whatever it will fetch and mov-
ing on.
“I can’t exactly tell you what will be the
deciding factor,” he said as he walked
near his lot, which for now is just fenced
in.
Since the fire, Fort McMurray has
gone from having hardly any residential
lots for sale to having a glut, and prices
have plunged, according to Andrew Weir,
a local real estate broker. At the top of the
market before the oil slump, he said, it
might take 400,000 Canadian dollars to
secure one of the few building lots that
came available, but today they can be
had easily for less than half that — a sign
of how many homeowners are walking
away.
The three neighborhoods hit hardest
by the fire, in the city’s south end, are still
largely deserted, and local businesses
are feeling the loss of those customers.
At A & J’s Fashions, a clothing store in
the smaller of the city’s two malls, sales
are only about half what they were be-
fore the fire.
“We just have to struggle through an-
other year and see if it gets better,” said
Joycelyn B. Reece-Reid, the owner, who
whom it accused of spying for the South.
It remains impossible to verify these
claims. South Korea’s National Intelli-
gence Service dismisses them as propa-
ganda.
North Korea has also made improba-
ble allegations that more than 30,000
North Korean defectors who fled to
South Korea in the last two decades were
kidnapped by the South.
When it accused the South Korean spy
agency in these cases, it usually named
the C.I.A. as either a co-conspirator or
the mastermind.
Still, it is highly unusual for North Ko-
rea to assert that the South’s spy agency
plotted to assassinate Mr. Kim.
In recent months, as tensions intensi-
fied on the Korean Peninsula, the North
has reacted stridently to news reports
out of South Korea that United States and
South Korean commando units were
training to “decapitate” the North Kore-
an leadership in case of war.
Over the decades, there have been oc-
casional, unconfirmed reports of armed
rebellions or assassination attempts in
the North. But longtime North Korea
observers say that organized subversion
is highly unlikely under the North’s po-
lice state, in which huge numbers of sol-
diers and security agents are dedicated
to the sole task of protecting Mr. Kim.
In 2004, an enormous explosion at a
train station on the border with China
prompted rumors of an attempt to kill
Kim Jong-il, who had passed through
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put her loss to smoke damage at about
500,000 Canadian dollars, only partly
covered by insurance. “The town isn’t
the same at the moment,” she said, “but
eventually it will get there.”
Life remains badly unsettled for many
Fort McMurray residents.
“The kids did not do well coming
back,” said Bobby-Jean Loevenmark,
whose house was just around the corner
from Beaverglen Close. She and her hus-
band are rebuilding, but the new house
may not be finished until December. In
the meantime, the couple and the three
A year after a huge fire,
residents gather and weigh
their options.
youngest of their five children stayed
with friends in Saskatchewan and then a
relative in Ontario last summer, and then
moved into a rented house across town
when school started in September.
“They’re not happy, period, because
they’re not home,” she said of her chil-
dren as she stood in front of her lot in
Beacon Hill. “All their friends had lived
over here, or up over here, and now
they’re all dispersed all over Fort Mc-
Murray.” Some had even moved away to
former homes in other provinces, she
said, a loss her children felt acutely:
“Their everyday life got ripped away
from them.”
After walking the length of Beaverglen
Close on Wednesday evening, the
partygoers said their goodbyes,
strapped their children into car seats and
loaded the dogs in the back. Once more,
they were evacuating their neighbor-
hood — consigning it not to the flames
this time, but to the night watchmen at
the construction sites. Some of them may
never return.
nine hours earlier on his way back from
Beijing. Two trains carrying fuel had col-
lided, killing or injuring as many as 3,000
people, but no connection to the leader’s
travel was ever confirmed.
In the fraught history of the Korean
Peninsula, however, the idea of assassi-
nation attempts is not far-fetched.
In 1968, North Korean commandos
came within striking distance of the
South Korean president’s home, the Blue
House, before being repelled. One agent
caught alive said his team had snaked
through the border to “slit the throat” of
the South Korean leader at the time, Park
Chung-hee. In retaliation, Mr. Park’s gov-
ernment trained a secret unit with a mis-
sion to assassinate his nemesis, Kim Il-
sung, Mr. Kim’s grandfather. The unit
was disbanded without carrying out its
mission.
In 1983, North Korea tried to assassi-
nate another South Korean dictator,
Chun Doo-hwan, while he was visiting
Burma, now Myanmar. The bombs
planted by its officers destroyed the
Martyrs’ Mausoleum in what was then
the Burmese capital, killing 21 people, in-
cluding several South Korean cabinet
ministers. Mr. Chun escaped the attack
because his arrival had been delayed.
The latest allegations follow the assas-
sination of Kim Jong-nam, Mr. Kim’s es-
tranged half brother, with a banned
chemical weapon at Kuala Lumpur In-
ternational Airport in February. That
killing has been linked to North Korea.

Mexico’s President Vows to Step Up Protections for Journalists
By AZAM AHMED
MEXICO CITY — Faced with a
wave of deadly attacks against
journalists, the president of Mex-
ico has vowed to take concrete
steps to ensure the safety of jour-
nalists in his country, including re-
moving the lead prosecutor re-
sponsible for investigating crimes
against the freedom of expres-
sion.
Last year, 11 Mexican journalists
were killed, the most in more than
a decade, and several more mur-
ders have already been recorded
in 2017. And yet there is near total
impunity for the attackers, in part
because the special office respon-
sible for prosecuting cases involv-
ing the freedom of expression
rarely brings anyone to justice for
the crimes.
Since its creation in 2010, the of-
fice has examined more than 800
cases of serious crimes but has
won only two convictions. Ricardo
Nájera, the lead prosecutor, has
repeatedly failed to take on cases,
including homicides, in which evi-
dence exists that the victim’s re-
porting and writing had provoked
the wrath of attackers.
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s
pledge to replace Mr. Nájera and
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ensure funding for a federal pro-
tection program for threatened
journalists follows several critical
reports accusing the government
of complicity in attacks on the
news media and of an inability —
or unwillingness — to investigate
cases.
Mr. Peña Nieto made his prom-
ise on Thursday to a visiting dele-
gation from the Committee to Pro-
tect Journalists, which was pre-
senting its own recent report on
impunity in crimes committed
against journalists in Mexico.
“We welcome President Peña
Nieto’s commitment to break this
murderous cycle and ensure that
journalists under threat will be
protected,” said Carlos Lauría, the
coordinator of the organization’s
Americas program. “The govern-
ment and the criminal justice sys-
tem must now follow through on
the president’s pledges.”
The leadership of the special
prosecutor’s office has changed
before, and it is unclear whom Mr.
Peña Nieto will appoint. In the
past, changes in the office have
had little effect on its capacity to
investigate cases of murder and
assault against journalists.
Mr. Nájera, in interviews late
last year, said that most of the
cases involving journalists had
nothing to do with the issues relat-
ed to the freedom of expression,
and that was why his office inves-
tigated so few cases. At the time,
he pointed to the case of Moisés
Sánchez, a journalist in the state
of Veracruz who was abducted
from his home in 2015. His body
was found several days later,
chopped into pieces by his kidnap-
pers.
Mr. Nájera dismissed pleas to
investigate Mr. Sánchez’s case,
saying that he was a cabdriver
and that there was no evidence
linking his death to his journalistic
activities.
But that is untrue, according to
N A5
investigators in Veracruz. Testi-
mony from the bodyguard of the
mayor of the town where Mr.
Sánchez worked described how
the mayor, Omar Cruz Reyes, had
ordered the assassination be-
cause he was annoyed by Mr.
Sánchez’s coverage.
Eventually, months later, Mr.
Nájera’s office took on the case,
but Mr. Reyes had already fled
and gone into hiding.
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To Understand Macron’s Economic Vision, Look to the ‘Last Chance’ Students
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
BOBIGNY, France — When
Emmanuel Macron rolled out his
presidential campaign nearly six
months ago, he came to a little-
known vocational school in Bo-
bigny, a working-class suburb of
Paris. The backdrop was chosen
to burnish his image as the candi-
date who would revive France, es-
pecially for young people.
As France’s economy minister,
Mr. Macron, a former investment
banker, had pointed the school to a
European Union grant to open a
pilot program to train at-risk
youths. The idea was born after
the terrorist attacks of 2015 high-
lighted the dangers of leaving be-
hind those who live in France’s
bleak suburbs, called banlieues,
which are often heavily populated
by immigrants.
“The France of the suburbs
needs mobility,” he said at the
time. In those areas, he said,
“fewer young people have access
to school, fewer have access to cul-
ture and fewer have access to em-
ployment.”
He added, “Suburban France
and rural France have the right to
succeed, to develop themselves
and we have to permit them to
more forward, we have to invest in
them.”
France is girding for its presi-
dential election on Sunday, with
Mr. Macron pitted against Marine
Le Pen, the leader of the far-right
National Front. Their differences
are sharply defined, especially on
how to fix French economy.
Whichever candidate wins,
spurring job creation will be a for-
midable task. Unemployment na-
tionwide is just under 10 percent,
but more than twice that figure for
people 25 and younger.
To Ms. Le Pen, a fierce national-
ist, the problem is unfettered capi-
talism and “savage globalization.”
Her cure is to sharply restrict im-
migration and protect French in-
dustries where workers are being
displaced. She would also jettison
the European Union. She has at-
tacked Mr. Macron as a toady of
global interests who would do lit-
tle for the common citizen.
By highlighting the center in
Bobigny at his announcement, Mr.
Macron was showing his techno-
cratic impulse to fight France’s so-
cial and economic ills with practi-
cal, down-to-earth measures,
working with those who need jobs
and using traditional, targeted
programs that are innovative if
not overly imaginative.
“This isn’t a second chance for
these kids, it’s their last chance,”
Patrick Toulmet, the president of
the school, the Center for Trades
and Business of Seine-St.-Denis,
said of his students. Some of them
had enrolled after being expelled
from high school, dropping out or
turning delinquent.
Mathieu Plane, an economist at
the Observatoire Français des
Macron Campaign Says It Was Hit by ‘Massive and Coordinated’ Hacking Attack
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tion is clearly a matter of
democratic destabilization, as
was seen in the United States dur-
ing the last presidential cam-
paign,” the statement said.
Earlier on Friday, Ms. Le Pen’s
campaign staff said its website
also had faced “regular and tar-
geted” attacks during the cam-
paign.
It also said that the French au-
thorities had investigated the at-
tacks and, this week, arrested a
suspect who was “close to ex-
treme-left circles” and who had
admitted to being responsible for
several attacks on Ms. Le Pen’s
campaign website. The arrest oc-
curred on French soil, the state-
ment said.
Unlike Mr. Macron, however, it
did not appear that Ms. Le Pen’s
campaign documents had been
compromised. The authorities did
not immediately confirm the Le
Pen camp’s account.
The Macron campaign said the
documents leaked Friday were
stolen several weeks ago after the
personal and professional emails
of staff members at En Marche,
his political movement, were
hacked.
It was not the first reported
hacking attempt of Mr. Macron’s
campaign. In April, a report by the
cybersecurity firm Trend Micro
said there was evidence that the
campaign was targeted in March
by what appeared to be the same
Russian operatives who were re-
sponsible for hacks of Democratic
campaign officials before last
year’s American presidential elec-
tion. Mr. Macron’s campaign said
the attack was unsuccessful.
Trend Micro said the attack in-
volved sending emails to cam-
paign officials and others with
links to fake websites designed to
bait them into turning over pass-
words.
Aurelien Breeden reported from
Paris, Sewell Chan from London
and Nicole Perlroth from New
York. Eric Schmitt contributed re-
porting from Washington.
Students at the Center for Trades and Business of Seine-St.-Denis, a vocational school in a working-class suburb of Paris.
Conjonctures Économiques, the
economic research center for Sci-
ences Po, a university in Paris,
said that many of Mr. Macron’s
economic proposals are not vastly
different from those put in place
by the country’s current and un-
popular president, François Hol-
lande. But the policies have not
yet prodded France out of its eco-
nomic stagnation.
One difference is that Mr. Hol-
lande ran on a Socialist platform
but as president introduced a
short-term payroll tax credit plan
to reduce rising labor costs, leav-
ing many Socialists feeling be-
trayed. Mr. Macron has made
clear that he supports a variety of
stimulus measures that help busi-
nesses, wants to make the payroll
tax credit permanent and would
push labor reforms even further.
He has endorsed a 50 billion
euro (about $55 billion) stimulus
plan to reduce unemployment —
which includes investing in train-
ing programs for one million
youths and offering bonuses to
businesses that hire from the im-
poverished suburbs — as well as a
host of other proposals that focus
more on innovation and modern-
izing infrastructure.
“He has a social-liberal pro-
gram which is in the spirit of the
five-year term we just had,” Mr.
Emmanuel Macron at a rally last week in Sarcelles. The hacking attack came to light just hours
before the legal deadline for candidates to cease all campaign communications.
In the attack reported on Fri-
day, Vitali Kremez, the director of
research at Flashpoint, a business
risk intelligence company in New
York, said he suspected the in-
volvement of a Russian-linked es-
pionage operation known as
APT28. “The key goals and objec-
tives of the campaign appear to be
to undermine Macron’s presiden-
tial candidacy and cast doubt on
the democratic electoral process
in general,” he said.
“If indeed driven by Moscow,
this leak appears to be a signifi-
cant escalation over the previous
Russian operations aimed at the
U.S. presidential election, expand-
ing the approach and scope of ef-
fort from simple espionage efforts
towards more direct attempts to
sway the outcome,” Mr. Kremez
added.
Security researchers who have
been tracking APT28, also known
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Plane said of Mr. Macron.
This raises the question of
whether Mr. Macron’s plans will in
fact be enough for France: enough
to stimulate jobs while easing the
effects of globalization, which
have sown such anger that about
40 percent of votes in the first
A candidate who sees
simple, practical
measures as a solution
to France’s problems.
round of the election went to popu-
list candidates, both far right and
far left.
Rayanne Benyahia, 16, who is in
the program for disadvantaged
and troubled youths at the center
and keeps up with politics through
the internet, said he was skeptical
about Mr. Macron’s economic
plans.
His preferred candidate was
Philippe Poutou, a far-left, tough-
talking worker in a Ford factory
who inveighed against corrupt po-
liticians and the rich. He won 1 per-
cent of the vote in the first round.
“I saw him on Snapchat and I
MARTIN BUREAU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
as Fancy Bear, say it has been
moving aggressively against
NATO members and a variety of
Western targets using various
hacking tools, including so-called
spear-phishing attacks, but also
through the exploitation of vulner-
abilities in technologies that allow
hackers to invade their targets un-
detected by security software.
The security researchers, who
asked for anonymity to discuss an
investigation, say they believe
APT28 has previously passed
stolen information taken from
breached accounts to another
Russian group. It is that second
group of Russian cybercriminals
that, in other instances, has pub-
lished leaked information, securi-
ty experts say, in large part to dis-
tance Russian intelligence opera-
tives from the hacks and maintain
a measure of plausible deniability.
There was no firm evidence
saved it,” said Mr. Benyahia, smil-
ing. “He’s like us.”
For Mr. Benyahia, who lived in
foster care for six years, a perma-
nent job with a living wage seems
almost a pipe dream. “I’ll believe
it when I see it,” he said as he sat in
the campus cafeteria, scrolling
through videos on his cellphone.
The vocational schools them-
selves are no silver bullet to the
country’s economic and social ills.
It has proved difficult for the cen-
ters to keep up with the needs of
increasingly high-tech employers,
as well as to overcome stigmas in
France attached to apprenticing
in a trade.
Trade and artisan training pro-
grams “have a bad image because
it is seen as what you do when you
failed at school,” said Leila Diri,
the director of the school. “So al-
ready they have negative bag-
gage,” she said of the students.
In part for that reason, the cen-
ter has room for 3,000 students
but just 1,500 are enrolled, Ms. Diri
said.
While the school is quite suc-
cessful at guaranteeing that the
students will get an apprentice-
ship — between 75 and 80 percent
do — it often does not turn into a
full-time job.
Employers remain reluctant to
add permanent staff members be-
that APT28 was involved in the
theft of the Macron campaign doc-
uments.
Candidates and their staff are
prohibited by French electoral
rules from campaigning between
midnight on Friday and when the
last polls close at 8 p.m. Sunday —
meaning that they cannot give in-
terviews to the news media, hold
rallies, make speeches or issue
statements.
The Macron campaign made its
statement about the hacking at
11:56 p.m. — four minutes before
the legal prohibition on campaign-
ing went into effect.
Numerama, a French online
publication focusing on digital life,
said that the hacked material ap-
peared to have been disseminated
through users of 4Chan, an online
bulletin board. They shared nine
gigabytes worth of documents
and emails — “a jumble of what
DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cause of the cost of social security
taxes, which can add as much as
50 percent to a salary.
Murat Boz, 18, who came to
France five years ago from Turkey
with his parents and three sib-
lings, is typical of the immigrant
students at the center. He has em-
braced life in France and is study-
ing to be an electrician.
“I came to the campus to get an
apprentice contract because I
want to find work quickly,” he said
in fluent French, which he mas-
tered soon after moving here.
But for now, “As an apprentice
we often do the job of an employee
and we are not even paid the
minimum wage,” he said.
Even if the pay is low, students
unable to find permanent work of-
ten come back to get a second di-
ploma in a related field and a sec-
ond apprenticeship, because it is
all they can get.
Mr. Macron is hoping to change
that cycle by waiving the require-
ment that employers pay social
taxes for new employees, which
would significantly reduce the
cost of hiring and, he hopes, spur
job creation.
He would like to make working
hours more flexible and also offer
companies financial incentives to
hire people from poor neighbor-
hoods.
appears to be the contents of a
hard drive and several emails of
co-workers and En Marche po-
litical officials.”
“It will take to time to sift
through it all, but at first glance,
they seem to be utterly mundane,”
Numerama said after analyzing
the data. “One finds memos, bills,
loans for amounts that are hardly
over-the-top, recommendations
and other reservations, amidst, of
course, exchanges that are
strictly personal and private —
personal notes on the rain and
sunshine, a confirmation email for
the publishing of a book, reserva-
tion of a table for friends, etc.”
Some of the documents did not
appear to have any link to Mr.
Macron, Numerama reported.
The National Commission for
Control of the Electoral Cam-
paign, a regulatory body, said it
was contacted by the Macron
campaign on Friday night. The
commission, which planned to
meet on Saturday about the hack-
ing, urged the news media to be
cautious in its reporting.
“It therefore asks the media,
and in particular their websites,
not to report on the content of
these data, recalling that the dis-
semination of false information is
liable to fall within the scope of the
law — in particular criminal law,”
the commission said.
The Macron campaign ap-
pealed to journalists to not do the
hackers’ bidding by widely publi-
cizing the contents of the emails.
“We call upon the news outlets
that wish to report on this opera-
tion to shoulder their responsibil-
ities, in all good conscience,” the
campaign said. “Indeed, this is not
a simple hacking operation but
well and truly an attempt to de-
stabilize the French presidential
election. It is therefore important
to consider the nature of the
leaked documents, to be fully
aware of the fact that a large part
of them are purely and simply
fake, and the appropriateness of
giving an echo to this destabiliza-
tion operation.”
Gérard Araud, the French am-
bassador to Washington, said of
the attack, in a post on Twitter that
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The center in Bobigny has al-
ready expanded its reach to in-
clude unemployed adults. Some
have lost their jobs because their
firms closed or restructured and
others simply want a career
change.
In the pastry making course,
about half the students are adult
workers switching careers or re-
training. The school has a gradu-
ate who got an apprenticeship at
the presidential palace, the
Elysée, and another at Pierre
Hermé, a renowned Parisian pas-
try chef.
Mr. Toulmet, who had gotten to
know Mr. Macron when the candi-
date was still economy minister,
recalled the conversation that
planted the seed for the pilot pro-
gram at the center he now runs for
at-risk youths.
Mr. Macron asked him what
could be done to help the
teenagers and young people who
lived in areas like his. Mr. Toulmet
explained that the school needed a
program for troubled young peo-
ple who were even unprepared for
vocational studies, but there was
no money for it.
That is when, he recalled, Mr.
Macron told him about the Euro-
pean Union grant that was avail-
able to local governments — in
this case, the prefecture of St. De-
nis. The pilot program now has 190
students and is almost at capacity,
Mr. Toulmet said.
Yet in those classes, the mood is
sometimes dark among the stu-
dents, ranging from 16 to 26 years
old. Some are all but silent, others
verge on rudeness, some look
bored and distant.
The students start the day with
cross-fit or a similar exercise pro-
gram to help them manage their
restiveness and anger. Then, they
have classes and each month
spend a week trying out different
vocational training programs.
Rayn Charley, 16, who got
kicked out of school, said none of
the offerings interested him.
Asked what he would like to do, he
rubbed his thumb and forefinger
together, saying with a grin,
“Money, money, money.”
His mother doesn’t work,
there’s no father in the picture and
he has three siblings, he said.
“People in my neighborhood,
they sell drugs; there’s lots of
prostitution,” he said. “I want to
live like movie stars. I’m losing
time here.”
Mr. Toulmet said he is honest
with the students, telling them
that though they have multiple
strikes against them, they can
succeed. He tells them, too, that he
understands discrimination — he
is handicapped and uses a wheel-
chair.
“I tell them, ‘It is going to be
hard — your neighborhoods have
a bad image, your names do not
sound French and it is going to be
harder to find an apprenticeship
— but you can do it,’” he said.
was later deleted: “It was to be ex-
pected. The last-ditch offensive
benefiting a candidacy favored by
a foreign government.”
One of Ms. Le Pen’s top allies,
Florian Philippot, the vice presi-
dent of her party, the National
Front, asked on Twitter: “Will the
#Macronleaks learn things that
investigative journalism has de-
liberately killed,” referring to his
argument that the mainstream
news media has been biased
against Ms. Le Pen. “Scary, this
democratic shipwreck.”
Mr. Macron, 39, an independent
centrist and a former economy
An attack meant to
‘sow doubt and
misinformation’
before an election.
minister who is making his first
run for elected office, has been fa-
vored in the polls over Ms. Le Pen,
48, a lawyer and political heir to
the National Front movement her
father, now estranged, founded in
1972. The party has taken strong
stands against immigration, glob-
alization and the European Union.
The two candidates confronted
each other Wednesday night in a
vicious debate that more resem-
bled an American-style shoutfest
than the Descartian discourse
that French voters are more ac-
customed to. Ms. Le Pen, who was
relentless in her attacks, was
widely judged the loser.
A post-debate poll, by the firm
Ipsos — which was very accurate
in its projections before the first
round of the elections on April 23
— found Mr. Macron’s lead over
Ms. Le Pen had widened, 63 per-
cent to 37 percent.
But Ms. Le Pen could benefit on
Sunday if poor and disaffected
suburban voters do not cast bal-
lots or if on-the-fence voters who
are unenthusiastic about their
choices decide to abstain.
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THE SATURDAY PROFILE

An Anthropologist’s Season of Regret Over Helping Tame a Tribe

By ELLEN BARRY ducing rot from within. Governments in
NEW DELHI Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia were
adopting “no-contact” policies, and

A
T 82, the anthropologist T. N. Pan-
dit passes his days in the gentle India followed suit. Gift-giving expedi-
occupations of old age: poetry, a tions to the Sentinelese ended in 1996,
Buddhist study circle, a daily walk in and the Indian Navy now enforces a
the park. It is rare for anyone to ask buffer zone to keep curiosity-seekers
him about the years he spent with the away.
hunter-gatherer tribes of the Andaman In 2004, the central government
Islands. Only with difficulty can he formulated a new policy toward the
locate a single copy of the slender book Jarawa, with the primary goal of pro-
he wrote about that time. tecting them “from harmful effects of
Somewhere in a drawer, though, exposure and contact with the outside
there are photographs, capturing Mr. world.”
Pandit as he made contact with some But the process of integration, once
of the world’s most isolated people. begun, was impossible to stop, said
In these photographs, faded and Samir Acharya, a local environmental
curled with age, his face wears an activist, with a touch of bitterness.
expression of more or less pure joy. “Now they have gotten infected,” he
Mr. Pandit, the pale-skinned son of a said. “They have been exposed to a
Kashmiri professor, reaches to pass a modern way of life they cannot sustain.
coconut to a group of naked, dark- They have learned to eat rice and sug-
skinned young men who have waded ar. We have turned a free people into
waist-deep in water to greet him. He beggars.”
sits companionably beside a dark-

skinned young woman, whose hand
rests casually on his thigh. Film shot in
1974 shows him — a reserved Brahmin
— dancing exuberantly with a bare-
breasted Jarawa woman.
It took Mr. Pandit and his colleagues
more than two decades to persuade the
tribes known as the Jarawa and Sen-
tinelese to lay down their bows and
arrows and mingle peacefully with the
Indian settlers who surrounded them.
The process was grindingly slow, in-
volving trips into remote jungle areas
to leave gifts for people who would not
show themselves. In each case, though,
there was an exhilarating break-
through.
In India’s Andaman Islands, these
encounters occurred two centuries
after indigenous populations in the
United States and Australia had been
devastated by disease and addiction,
leaving no doubt of the dangers of
unregulated contact. Mr. Pandit found
himself entrusted with the future of tiny
groups believed to have migrated from
Africa around 50,000 years ago, de-
scribed by a team of geneticists as
“arguably the most enigmatic people on
our planet.” India would do it better, he
promised himself.
So it is notable that now, when he
looks back on his life’s great achieve-
ment, he does so with an unmistakable
sadness.
“What an amazing community, but it has been diluted in its outlook, its self-confidence,
its sense of purpose, its sense of survival. Now they take it easy. They beg for things.”
called North Sentinel and had barely
been seen at all. The other group,
known as the Jarawa, were fearsome
archers, known for hiding in the tree-
tops and neatly impaling with arrows
outsiders who encroached on their
territory. Government policy toward
the Jarawa fell to the Bush Police, who
were armed with rifles and kept careful
records of casualties on both sides.
Mr. Pandit was openly contemptuous
of this martial approach, which dated to
the British Raj. In 1967, he managed to
join a “gift-dropping” expedition to
North Sentinel Island, where the police
dropped off coconuts and bananas
while the members of the tribe, known
T.N. PANDIT
as the Sentinelese, hid in the forest.
“They were watching us carefully,
and they must not have been happy,
because they picked up their bows and
arrows,” he said. “This whole encounter
was so amazing, because here is civ-
ilized man facing primitive man in its
extreme state, living very simply.”
In 1968, Mr. Pandit had a stroke of
luck. Three Jarawa teenagers, captured
raiding a village, were kept in prison for
a month, so Mr. Pandit had a chance to
study them at close range. He showed
them airplanes and cars. He scribbled
down words in their language. After a
month, the three young men, loaded
down with gifts, were released back to
PORAS CHAUDHARY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the forest.
There was a silence. Then, six years
later, for reasons Mr. Pandit could
never explain, a group of Jarawa
greeted him on the beach with song and
dance. He visited, after that, every two
weeks or so. They would strip off his
clothes, poke fingers in his eyes, pocket
his spectacles.
He recalls these days, even now, with
a kind of reverence and delight.
“I have seen a Jarawa girl,” he said.
“I can never forget her face, though it
was many years back. She sat in the
boat watching us as if she was Queen
Victoria, with such dignity and such
poise. You see, then I realized one does-
A
FACTION of anthropologists con-
tinue to defend the practice of
controlled contact, saying that
humans are by nature social animals,
longing to interact. As one put it re-
cently, “There is nothing particularly
attractive about living in an isolated
tribe on the slow road to extinction.”
But their protestations have a weary
tone, as of one losing an argument.
Mr. Pandit has followed these devel-
opments from the hushed apartment in
New Delhi where he lives with the third
of his four daughters.
It is nearly impossible for him to
discuss his work in the Andaman Is-
lands without thinking of his wife,
Roshi, who died in 2015. Roshi would sit
with him and endlessly discuss the
tribes. His loss remains so painful that
he has tried to train his mind not to
dwell on it. He struggles, he says, to
come to terms with the fleeting quality
of human experience.
“Nothing is permanent,” he said.
“What has gone on in the past looks like
having been a dream.”
in the end, Mr. Pandit agrees that the
Jarawa were hurt by putting down their
bows and arrows. “The negative impact
of close contact is inescapable, but it is
sad,” he said. “What an amazing com-
munity, but it has been diluted in its
outlook, its self-confidence, its sense of
purpose, its sense of survival. Now they
take it easy. They beg for things.”
This was not a surprise. He under-

M
R. PANDIT arrived in Port Blair,
the capital city of the island
chain, in 1966. Anthropology
was such a new field in India that when
he was offered a spot to study it at
Delhi University he had to look the
word up in the dictionary. His first
government posting came as a disap-
pointment: the Andaman Islands, an
archipelago so remote that the British
used it as a penal colony.
He found, to his surprise, that the
place suited him. His head was full of
the romantic phrases of A. R. Radcliffe-
Brown, a British anthropologist who
studied the tribes at the turn of the
century, describing them as “brave,
valiant and very clever people.” He was
dismayed to find their descendants
begging for alms, teased by the local
children.
But there were other tribes, he
learned, that had hardly changed since
the days of Radcliffe-Brown. One group
lived alone on a 20-square-mile island
n’t need clothes and ornaments and
crown to make you dignified. What
comes spontaneously, your inner self,
you can project your personality that
way.”
Mr. Pandit’s campaign worked. By
the 1990s, the Jarawa were so at ease
with outsiders that they began to roam
the neighboring settlements, where
they found food that required neither
hunting nor gathering.
It is difficult to identify the precise
moment when contact with the Jarawa
came to be viewed as a problem. They
began to fish and weave baskets in
exchange for money. Sometimes they
snatched food from market stalls. Video
clips show Indian tourists tossing food
to Jarawa on the roadside, crudely
ordering the women to dance. Babies
fathered by Indian settlers were born to
Jarawa women.
Activists concerned with the tribes
Mr. Pandit in 1991 at left presenting gifts of coconuts to the isolated Sentine- increasingly described contact missions
lese tribe. It is the first recorded episode of friendly contact with the group. as a kind of cultural destruction, intro-
stood that his work would expose the
tribes to the outside, with its dazzling
technology, and that they would submit
avidly. His aim, he said, was to control
the process, to slow it as much as possi-
ble, so that they understood the value
of what they were leaving behind.
“In the course of time, these commu-
nities will disappear,” he said. “Their
cultures will be lost.”
Mr. Pandit last traveled to Jarawa
territory in 2014, on a visit to a daugh-
ter in Port Blair. Since then, he has
become more physically fragile and
doubts he will make the journey again.
He is left with the photographs —
square black-and-whites from the 1970s,
faded color from the 1980s — and with
his thoughts.
“I see them sometimes in my
dreams,” he said. “Just being with them
and spending a little time. Not too long.
Not frequently. Just once in a while.”
And on those mornings, he said, he
wakes up happy.

SEAL Member’s Death in Somalia Puts Focus on Military Strategy in Africa

This article is by Helene Cooper,
Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt.
WASHINGTON — A member
of the Navy SEALs was killed and
two other American service mem-
bers were wounded in a raid in
Somalia on Friday, the first Ameri-
can combat fatality there since the
1993 “Black Hawk Down” battle.
The combat death was another
milestone in the United States’ es-
calating involvement in a war
against Islamist militants called
the Shabab and showed the diffi-
culty of fighting in the Horn of Af-
rica country, where drought and
famine have heightened chaos.
Yet the episode highlighted a
deepening anomaly: the United
States Africa Command, which
oversees American military oper-
ations in Somalia, has yet to act on
new authority from President
Trump freeing it from Obama-era
constraints on strikes against the
Shabab. The commando’s death
came during a Somali military op-
eration, not an American one.
The head of Africa Command,
Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, has
said he is exercising caution in us-
ing his new authority to launch
American-led missions, taking
into consideration the difficulty of
conducting operations amid a
population of civilians on the
move in search of food, and aid
workers scrambling to provide it.
And though General Wald-
hauser’s caution comes amid in-
creased scrutiny on control that
Mr. Trump has ceded to the mili-
tary, Trump administration offi-
cials have nonetheless begun
questioning why Africa Com-
mand, which pushed hard to be
unleashed, has carried out no op-
erations under its new authority.
Several said a meeting next week
on the topic is under consideration
for an interagency policy meeting
organized by the National Securi-
Reporting was contributed by Jeff-
rey Gettleman in Nairobi, Moham-
med Ibrahim in Helsinki, Finland;
and Hussein Mohamed in Mogadi-
shu, Somalia.
ty Council staff.
Defense Department officials
said the service member, who was
not identified, was killed during
an operation in which Americans
advised and assisted Somali
troops targeting a Shabab com-
pound. Pentagon helicopters de-
livered Somali forces to the opera-
tion near Barii, about 40 miles
west of the capital of Mogadishu,
officials said. American advisers
hung back, per the rules of en-
gagement, while the Somalis car-
ried out the raid.
“We helped bring them in with
our aircraft,” said Capt. Jeff Davis,
a Pentagon spokesman. “We were
there maintaining a distance back
while they were conducting the
operation. That’s when our forces
came under fire, which unfortu-
nately resulted in the death.”
The spokesman said the attack-
ers were “quickly neutralized on
the ground,” but would not say
whether the operation was other-
wise considered successful. Offi-
cials familiar with the matter sep-
arately said the American killed
was a member of the SEALs.
The Shabab quickly seized on
the commando’s death as a propa-
ganda tool, with a spokesman
telling a militant-run radio station
that “the enemy returned back to
where they came from along with
wounds and deaths.”
The combat death and the ex-
panded targeting authority come
at a delicate moment for Somalia,
where there are hopes that the
new president, Mohamed Abdul-
lahi Mohamed, may have the po-
tential to achieve stability amid
the drought and famine.
Mr. Trump signed a directive on
March 30 declaring swaths of
Somalia an “area of active hostil-
ities,” which exempted it from
rules imposed by President
Barack Obama in 2013 for counter-
terrorism operations away from
conventional battlefields. Mr.
Obama required high-level vet-
ting of proposed strikes and a
standard of near-certainty that no
civilians would be killed. Nor-
mally in war, the law permits
some civilian deaths if deemed
necessary and proportionate to a
legitimate military aim.
The United States carried out at
least 14 airstrikes in Somalia in
2016, but its last one — an opera-
tion that was mounted to defend
Somali and African Union forces
and American advisers during an
anti-Shabab operation and which
killed no Shabab fighters — was
on Jan. 7, according to Africom.
And after Chinese state media re-
ported last month the United
States had carried out a major and
successful strike at a Shabab hide-
out, Africom protested that it had
not.
Since Mr. Trump removed the
Obama-era targeting constraints
on the military, General Wald-
hauser and his aides have repeat-
edly stressed that the United
States will continue to follow a
similar targeting standard requir-
ing near-certainty of no civilian
deaths from strikes.
“It shouldn’t have gone unno-
ticed that we have not exercised”
the enhanced authorities, General
Waldhauser said at a news confer-
ence in Djibouti on April 23.
Shabab fighters in Somalia in 2011. The SEAL team member
who died on Friday was an adviser to Somali troops.
General Waldhauser said that
when targets and an opportunity
are identified, the military will
strike. But he emphasized that the
tens of thousands of citizens up-
rooted because of the drought
have complicated the military’s
tracking and targeting of Shabab
militants. Aid organizations also
cite reports of Shabab getting in-
volved in at least some food distri-
An escalating role in a
war against Shabab
militants.
bution efforts, even if only for
propaganda purposes.
As a result, the military is re-
viewing all its potential targets,
examining updated intelligence
reports on flows of displaced
civilians, and confirming with aid
organizations where they are op-
erating in Somalia, as first re-
ported by The Intercept last week.
One expert also noted the ad-
justment in the military to life un-
FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
der Mr. Trump. Though he has giv-
en the Pentagon more freedom to
act without first getting White
House approval, he also blamed
generals when a commando raid
he had approved in Yemen in Jan-
uary resulted in numerous civil-
ian killings, the death of another
Navy SEAL and the loss of a $75
million aircraft.
“D.O.D. has more cover to act
aggressively when the president
has a reputation for restraint and
less cover when the president has
a reputation for aggressiveness,
because everything D.O.D. does
will be judged through that lens,”
said Jack Goldsmith, referring to
the Department of Defense. Mr.
Goldsmith is a Harvard law pro-
fessor who dealt with counterter-
rorism legal policy as a senior
Bush administration official.
General Waldhauser himself
made the decision to keep con-
straints in place, said Maj. Audri-
cia Harris, a spokeswoman for the
Pentagon.
“This is his prerogative as the
combatant commander,” she said.
“He is the one who is going to de-
cide how much risk he is going to
take.”
Several administration officials
said they took General Wald-
hauser’s explanation at face val-
ue: There are military and po-
litical reasons to plan extremely
carefully before using the broader
authorities to strike Shabab.
Security officials say the mili-
tary in Somalia has shown more
restraint in recent years to avoid
civilian casualties. In October
2013, for instance, members of the
Navy SEALs aborted a mission to
capture or kill a top Shabab leader
near Barawe in order to avoid
killing civilians. It was a small em-
barrassment for the commandos,
but also evidence of the premium
that the United States has placed
on protecting civilian lives during
counterterrorism operations, se-
curity officials said.
“While U.S. and other allied in-
telligence has improved im-
mensely in recent years, the situa-
tion remains very fluid on the
ground and is likely to become
even more so with the famine
pushing more and more people to
uproot themselves,” said J. Peter
Pham, director of the Africa Cen-
ter of the Atlantic Council, a policy
research group in Washington.
General Waldhauser must also
contend with the public-relations
fallout that would come from an
errant strike that killed civilians
and how an accidental strike could
undercut the legitimacy of the
new civilian Somali government,
particularly ahead of an interna-
tional donors conference on
Somalia next week in London.
The Barii area where the SEAL
team member was killed is a
muddy farming community. Once
a part of Somalia’s farming heart-
land, it has deteriorated into an
area of small scattered farms that
mostly grow bananas and man-
goes, connected by windy, slip-
pery roads. It is the rainy season
and much of Barii, a Shabab
stronghold for years and home to
several Shabab senior
commanders, is mud.
Many times during the past
year, residents said, elite Somali
commandos trained by American
special forces have tried to drive
the Shabab out of Barii, but the
militant group, which is affiliated
with Al Qaeda, has fought fiercely
to protect it.
American military and di-
plomatic officials say that given
the additional scrutiny from both
Congress and the media on how
Africom will use its expanded au-
thorities, General Waldhauser
and his top lieutenants are going
to proceed judiciously, but
eventually decisively.
“As opportunities do present
themselves, we will be responsi-
ble, selective and methodical be-
fore taking any action in Somalia,”
said Lt. Cmdr. Anthony J. Falvo, a
spokesman for the Africa Com-
mand. “We understand the myri-
ad responsibilities that come with
these enhanced authorities and
we take those responsibilities
very seriously.”
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U.N. Official
Faults Fight
On Drugs
By Duterte
By FELIPE VILLAMOR
MANILA — Implicitly rebuking
the leader of the Philippines on a
visit to his country, the United Na-
tions’ top expert on extrajudicial
killings said on Friday that gov-
ernments around the world had
rejected the “war on drugs” ap-
proach being championed by
President Rodrigo Duterte.
Speaking at a private policy for-
um in Manila, Agnès S. Callamard,
the United Nations special rap-
porteur on extrajudicial killings,
did not mention Mr. Duterte by
name. But she made it plain that
she viewed his policies as danger-
ously out of step.
Delegates at the United Nations
General Assembly special session
last year had recognized drug de-
pendency as a “disorder of a
chronic and relapsing nature,” Dr.
Callamard said. So instead of rely-
ing on heavy-handed tactics
against users and traffickers, she
said, “they called for what
amounts to a balanced, multifac-
eted, multidisciplinary approach,
and they placed great emphasis
on health,
rights and jus-
tice.”
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Dr. Calla-
mard’s visit to
Counting ballots in local council elections on Friday in Birmingham, England. The results were a disaster for the anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party. the Philippines
came after

Britain’s Conservatives Gain in Harbinger of General Election months

wrangling with
the Philippine
of

By STEVEN ERLANGER
LONDON — In voting for local
councils on Thursday, just five
weeks before the British general
election, the governing Conserva-
tive Party made significant gains,
the opposition Labour Party did
badly and the centrist Liberal
Democrats had mixed success.
The results, released on Friday,
are a disaster for the far-right,
anti-immigrant U.K. Independ-
ence Party, which pushed for
Britain’s exit from the European
Union but saw many of its voters
move toward the Conservatives,
who promised to end unrestricted
immigration while carrying out
the divorce.
In contrast, the results display
the strength of the Conservatives
under Prime Minister Theresa
May and the weakness of Labour
under its left-wing leader, Jeremy
Corbyn, going into the June 8 gen-
eral election. Mrs. May hopes to
increase her majority in Parlia-
ment sharply as she tries to nego-
tiate a good deal for Britain as it
withdraws from the European Un-
ion.
Stephen Castle contributed report-
ing.
Normally, governing parties
are punished in local elections, but
in England and Wales, at least,
there was a sharp swing to the
Conservatives from Labour, in
what appeared to be a protest vote
against Mr. Corbyn and his man-
agement of the opposition. The
problem for Labour is that previ-
ous UKIP voters, many of whom
were Labour loyalists, are moving
to the Conservatives instead of re-
turning to Labour. This has raised
the chances of a sweeping Conser-
vative victory next month, while
Labour has collapsed in its former
stronghold in Scotland.
John Curtice, a professor of poli-
tics at the University of Strath-
clyde in Glasgow, said the Conser-
vatives had, so far, put in their best
election performance since at
least 2008, with an average swing
of seven percentage points from
Labour to the Conservatives,
known as Tories, since the last
comparable local elections in 2013.
He told the BBC that the Con-
servatives appeared to have been
the main beneficiaries of a sharp
decline in support for UKIP, which
may be on the verge of extinction
as a party if it does not perform
well next month. “Labour is not
showing much signs of being a
credible contender to the Tories,”
Professor Curtice said.
Michael Fallon, a Conservative
who is Britain’s defense secretary,
said the outcome was “very en-
couraging.” But he was eager to
attack complacency ahead of June
8, saying that the local results
were not an “accurate prediction”
of a general election.
Mrs. May said, “I will not take
anything for granted.”
John McDonnell, Mr. Corbyn’s
closest ally, put the best face on
the results by saying that Labour
had not done as badly as some had
predicted. This was not the “wipe-
out that many commentators
were forecasting,” he said, adding
that the party was building a
“solid base” for the general elec-
tion.
Labour did reasonably well in
Wales, a stronghold, although it
did badly in Scotland, where in
early counting it had already lost
control of Glasgow for the first
time in decades. In Scotland, it is
the Scottish National Party, not
the Conservative Party, that is si-
phoning off Labour support.
Mr. McDonnell urged voters to
wait to see Labour’s party plat-
form, or manifesto, for the general
election before deciding how to
cast their ballots in June.
But Labour seems on course for
a defeat next month, with most
commentators simply speculating
on the size of a Conservative ma-
jority. The Liberal Democrats, the
party that has been most opposed
to a so-called Brexit and promises
voters a second referendum after
a settlement has been negotiated,
is expected to make some gains in
southern England. But the Con-
servatives are expected to make
big inroads into Labour’s heart-
land in northern England, from
Labour voters who favor leaving
the bloc.
The Labour Party under Mr.
Corbyn has been ambivalent
about Britain leaving the Euro-
pean Union, showing only tepid
support for both the “remain”
camp in the June referendum and
for exiting now. While a third of
Conservatives voted to remain in
the European Union, they are
sticking with their party. And
while many Labour voters were
passionately in favor of leaving,
they are unhappy with Mr. Corbyn
and are contemplating voting for
the Conservatives next month.
The voting on Thursday was to
elect mayors of six new city re-
gions, as well as around 4,800
seats on local councils — all of the
councils in Scotland and Wales,
and more than 30 in England.
While Labour lost a significant
number of council seats, it won im-
portant regional mayoral posts in
Greater Manchester, behind a for-
mer home secretary, Andy Burn-
ham, as well as winning in Liver-
pool City and Doncaster.
But in another surprise, the
Conservatives won the mayoralty
in Tees Valley, as well as a tightly
contested mayoralty in the West
Midlands. Labour’s candidate
there, Sion Simon, a member of
the European Parliament, was ex-
pected to win, but the Conserva-
tive contender, Andy Street, had a
narrow victory. Mr. Street is a
prominent businessman who
gave up earnings of around $1.3
million a year as managing direc-
tor of John Lewis, an employee-
owned department store, to take
part in the election.
The new mayoral districts were
created under a deal to spread
power away from London and the
center, with local authorities be-
ing invited to combine into larger
regional tiers, taking on some
strategic responsibilities such as
transportation and planning.
government to
allow her to in- Agnès
vestigate the
Callamard
more than
4,000 violent
deaths — many at the hands of the
police or vigilantes — that the au-
thorities have identified as drug-
related since Mr. Duterte’s crack-
down began 10 months ago.
It also came days before the
Philippines was to appear, along
with 13 other countries, before the
United Nations Human Rights
Council for a periodic review of its
rights record. Its antidrug cam-
paign was expected to be a focus
of the session.
Mr. Duterte has said that the
Philippines would allow Dr. Calla-
mard to carry out an official inves-
tigation into the killings if she al-
lowed him to publicly question her
as well. She has rejected the con-
dition, and she said on Friday that
her trip was not in an official ca-
pacity.
But Ernesto Abella, a presiden-
tial spokesman, said that Manila
would lodge a complaint at the
United Nations about Dr. Calla-
mard.
“We are aware that Dr. Calla-
mard is currently in the Phil-
ippines, and we are disappointed
that in not contacting our govern-
ment in advance of this visit, she

Russia Says Deal Will Bar Americans

has sent a clear signal that she is
not interested in getting an objec-
tive perspective on the issues that

From Flying in Most of Syria’s Airspace

By ANNE BARNARD
BEIRUT, Lebanon — United
States and allied aircraft will be
banned from flying over much of
Syria as part of a deal struck by
Iran, Russia and Turkey to foster a
cease-fire in the Syrian war, a sen-
ior Russian diplomat said Friday.
But a State Department spokes-
man later said that the agree-
ment, which the United States did
not sign, does not “preclude any-
one from going after terrorists
wherever they may be in Syria.”
The spokesman, Edgar Vasquez,
said Russian officials’ interpreta-
tion of their own agreement
“makes no sense.”
A senior State Department offi-
cial was at the talks in Astana, Ka-
zakhstan, that led to the deal,
which went into effect at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday. The agreement aims to
establish four “de-escalation
zones,” where Syrian government
and rebel forces are supposed to
stop fighting each other.
The accord raised the prospect
that after years of government op-
ponents asking the United States
and its allies for a no-fly zone to
protect civilians from the Syrian
military’s bombings, it could end
up being Russia, Syria’s ally, that
imposes one.
But there are many factors that
could undermine the deal, as with
previous cease-fires. It has not
been accepted by all opposition
groups, and the Syrian govern-
ment reserved the right to contin-
ue fighting what it called terrorist
organizations across the country.
The Russian statements could
also signal an effort to limit Amer-
ican strikes against Syrian gov-
ernment forces like the one car-
ried out in retaliation for a chemi-
cal attack last month. They sug-
Reporting was contributed by So-
phia Kishkovsky and Andrew E.
Kramer from Moscow; Hwaida
Saad from Beirut; Michael R. Gor-
don and Gardiner Harris from
Washington; and an employee of
The New York Times from Da-
mascus, Syria.
gested that United States
warplanes could be barred from
all of the most important areas
contested by the government and
rebels that are not affiliated with
the Islamic State.
The Russian diplomat, Alek-
sandr Lavrentiev, suggested that
Russian and Turkish warplanes
would, like the United States-led
coalition, be prohibited from fly-
ing over the zones.
But Mr. Lavrentiev, Russia’s
special envoy on Syria, seemed to
sketch out a broader geographical
no-fly zone for American and co-
alition military planes. He said
they would be allowed to fly only
in eastern Syria over Islamic
State-held areas, apparently ex-
cluding the entire western spine
of the country.
Capt. Jeff Davis of the Pentagon
would not say if the United States
military would honor the zones
and promise not to fly over them.
No-fly zones have been a con-
tentious issue in the Syrian con-
flict, now in its seventh year; they
have long been requested by rebel
groups and rejected by the gov-
ernment. Disputes about who can
fly planes and when — “subtle
professional issues,” the Russian
president, Vladimir V. Putin,
called them recently — are likely
to continue under the new deal.
Nevertheless, one of the
representatives of the Syrian op-
position groups at the talks, Col.
Ahmad Berri, sounded a more op-
timistic note than some other
rebel leaders, saying he expected
to see a full cease-fire in the desig-
nated zones.
“The Russians this time are
more serious, we sensed it, more
than last time,” he said in a tele-
phone interview. “The regime will
be committed to the deal because
the Russians are the guarantor, so
if the Russians said no bombing,
the regime will stop.”
On Friday evening, even before
the official start of the cease-fire,
families in rebel-held areas that
have been routinely bombed went
to parks, picnicked and organized
antigovernment demonstrations.
The government of President
Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a
statement late Wednesday that it
“supports” the initiative on de-es-
calation zones, “including not
shelling those areas.”
But the statement also said the
Syrian military would continue to
fight banned terrorist groups like
the Islamic State, Qaeda-linked
militants and “affiliated terrorist
organizations” anywhere in Syria.
Government opponents saw the
statement as signaling that the
Syrian military intended to keep
bombing wherever it chose on the
pretext of fighting terrorism.
“Aviation over these territories
ceases,” Mr. Lavrentiev told
reporters in Astana on Friday, a
day after the deal was signed be-
tween Russia and Iran, which
back the Syrian government, and
Turkey, which backs some rebels.
But in response to a question
about the United States-led coali-
tion formed in 2014 to fight the Is-
lamic State, Mr. Lavrentiev did
not mince words: “The work of
aviation, especially the forces of
the international coalition, is ab-
solutely not envisaged,” he said.
“This issue is now closed.”
He added that “the only place”
where the coalition could operate
was against Islamic State targets
in Raqqa, along the Euphrates,
Deir al-Zour and into Iraqi terri-
tory.
The excluded area encom-
passes Idlib Province, where
American warplanes have been
carrying out an intensifying se-
ries of airstrikes against what offi-
cials say are Qaeda operatives. It
also includes some of the areas
where Turkey, a NATO ally, has
skirmished with Kurdish militias
also backed, sometimes with
airstrikes, by the United States.
And it includes most of the
Syrian government’s military in-
stallations, such as the Shayrat air
base, which the United States
struck with missiles in retaliation
for chemical attacks that killed
scores of people in the rebel-held
town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib
last month.
ZEIN AL RIFAI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
A vehicle burned on Wednesday in the rebel-held town of Azaz,
Syria. Reports said the fire followed a blast that killed five.
The de-escalation zones cover
virtually all areas held by non-Is-
lamic-State insurgents — a zone
encompassing Idlib and neighbor-
ing parts of Latakia, Aleppo and
Hama; another along Syria’s
southern border with Jordan, a
third in the eastern Damascus
suburbs and a fourth in a pocket of
the central province of Homs.
In some ways, such discussions
are academic. The United States
has never had Syrian government
permission for its airstrikes on the
Islamic State and on Qaeda tar-
gets on Syrian territory. The
Syrian government calls the
American strikes violations of its
sovereignty.
And Russia and the Syrian gov-
ernment have liberally inter-
preted exceptions to previous
cease-fire deals, continuing to
carry out strikes, including some
that hit rescue workers and hospi-
tals and that were followed by dec-
larations from Moscow and Da-
mascus that terrorists had been
present in the areas targeted.
Rebel groups, too, have argued
about the meaning of provisions
requiring them to separate from
banned terrorist groups, as-
serting that they lack the ability to
push out well-funded and well-
armed extremists. But, at the
same time, some rebel groups
have entered into tactical
alliances with the extremists.
Still, United Nations officials
have held out hope that the new
deal will fare better than others
that have evaporated under the
weight of those contradictions.
American officials said they
shared the stated goals of the plan
but expressed skepticism that
Russia could restrain the Syrian
government and concern about
the role of Iran.
What makes this agreement dif-
ferent is that some of the countries
backing different sides in Syria
have agreed at least on the possi-
bility of bringing in outside forces
to monitor a cease-fire.
Mr. Putin said on Wednesday
that aircraft would not operate
over the designated zones, “pro-
vided that these zones show no
sign of military activity.”
Government opponents said
that a real end to bombings across
the country was the top demand of
their supporters. But they saw the
deal as something else: as a pre-
text to make sure that there would
be no repeat of the strikes ordered
by President Trump, or as an at-
tempt to shore up Mr. Assad poli-
tically. They said the latest deal re-
called the agreement to remove
Syria’s chemical weapons that
Russia and the United States
struck as an alternative to puni-
tive strikes for chemical attacks in
2013.
“This deal is like when the Rus-
sians rescued Bashar in 2013, and
now they’re trying to rescue him
again with plastic surgery agree-
ments,” said Hisham Marwa, a
member of an opposition coali-
tion.
are the focus of her responsibility,”
Mr. Abella said.
Rights groups say the police are
behind the thousands of deaths
that have been attributed to
vigilantes, an assertion denied by
Mr. Duterte. Before his election,
he had promised to kill 100,000
criminals in his first six months in
office and dump so many bodies in
Manila Bay that the “fish will
grow fat.”
In a speech on Thursday in the
southern city of Davao, Mr.
Duterte denied having personally
killed drug traffickers at any time,
even as he admitted issuing
threats against them. He said the
many deaths could be the handi-
work of drug syndicates killing off
each other’s men.
But two figures tied to Duterte,
a police officer and a professed hit
man, have publicly implicated Mr.
Duterte in hundreds of killings,
and their lawyer has subse-
quently asked the International
Criminal Court, based in The
Hague, to prosecute him on
charges of mass murder.
In her remarks on Friday, Dr.
Callamard did acknowledge that
drugs had become a global prob-
lem, causing health disorders for
29 million users and weakening
the rule of law and governance
enough to be identified as a “ma-
jor threat.”
Those attending the special ses-
sion last year “repeatedly de-
nounced drug-related corruption,
decrying its role in the obstruction
of justice, including through in-
timidation of justice officials,” Dr.
Callamard said. “What govern-
ments did not commit to last year
was the war on drugs approach.
Quite the contrary.”
She said that the assembled na-
tions had agreed that such an ef-
fort “does not work.” Badly
thought-out policies “not only fail
to address substantively drug de-
pendency, drug-related criminal-
ity and the drug trade, they add
more problems,” she said.
Those policies also foster “a re-
gime of impunity, infecting the
whole justice sector,” and erode
trust in public institutions, Dr.
Callamard said, “ultimately lead-
ing people to despair.”
A10 SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

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ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ty Steele, left, and Cortez Richey on the Jackson Park golf course in Chicago, which would be consumed by plans for a larger golf club.

A Park Due for a Tiger Woods Upgrade

By JULIE BOSMAN
CHICAGO — Gus Sims, 67, has heard
what might happen to his beloved, no-
frills public golf course on Chicago’s
South Side, where, on a balmy spring
morning here, he was setting out to play
a leisurely nine holes.
If a plan backed by Mayor Rahm
Emanuel comes to fruition, the South
Shore Golf Course and an adjacent pub-
lic-run course in Jackson Park will be
transformed into a single dazzling, high-
caliber golf club designed by Tiger
Woods. According to the proposal, the
new course will be polished enough to
host P.G.A. championships and lure out-
of-town visitors.
“It’s going to get pricey and fancy,”
said Mr. Sims, the owner of a dry-clean-
ing business, who had just paid $9 in
greens fees. “I just hope they don’t price
out us average guys.”
Regulars who play the Jackson Park
golf courses on the South Side said they
have warmed to the idea that a state-of-
the-art course might be a boon for the
neighborhood, in a part of the city that
sorely needs economic development.
But they also worry that residents of this
mostly African-American side of town
will lose a hidden treasure, a place with a
low-key vibe and inexpensive greens
fees that might vanish along with the
current golf courses.
Officials who are designing, promot-
ing and raising money for the new course
are courting local golfers and vowing to
keep it affordable. “There are some re-
ally loyal South Shore and Jackson Park
golfers, and they deserve a better prod-
uct,” said the golf analyst Mark Rolfing,
founder of the Chicago Parks Golf Alli-
ance, the nonprofit group that is working
with the city’s park district on the
project. “I would never be involved in an
initiative that wasn’t going to be afford-
able. That is imperative. When it’s done,
they are going to be so proud of the
place.”
The Chicago Parks Golf Alliance has
entered into a public-private partnership
with the Chicago Park District; the dis-
trict will decide who manages the course
once the project is completed, and the
course will remain park district land.
The planners behind the project have a
difficult task: trying to win over locals
who love the Jackson Park courses for
what they are, which is uncrowded, sim-
ple and a little threadbare. There are no
lavish clubhouses or restaurants. The
landscape is nearly as flat as a prairie;
the fairways, punishingly narrow.
The perks of these courses are the lo-
cation in the heart of the South Side, the
panoramic views of the downtown sky-
line and Lake Michigan — and the proud
sense that the courses and Jackson Park
itself belong to the neighborhood. “We
South Siders have been enjoying these
two courses for a long time,” said Jacque-
line Lewis, 73, as she loaded clubs into
Duffers have doubts
about a plan to redevelop
a spartan golf course.
her car after playing a round.
If the courses are replaced by a new
one, Ms. Lewis said, she has a bad feeling
about what will happen. “I think the word
I’m looking for,” she said, “is displace-
ment.”
This year has brought a surge of de-
bate in Chicago about how to redevelop
Jackson Park, a 543-acre grassy expanse
designed by Frederick Law Olmsted that
was the site of the World’s Fair in 1893.
These days, it contains gardens, a chil-
Mr. Richey, left, and Mr. Steele on the Jackson Park course. One
golfer said, “I just hope they don’t price out us average guys.”
dren’s hospital, tennis courts and the two
golf courses. By 2021, it will hold the
Obama Presidential Center, expected to
be a major tourist attraction.
Many people here were elated by the
Obamas’ decision to bring the library to
the South Side, a move that could help
shift a longstanding pattern in Chicago:
While neighborhoods downtown and on
the North Side have become glitzier,
some on the South and West Sides have
decayed, losing population and small
businesses.
Some preservationist groups have ap-
proached the subject of the new golf
course warily.
The Jackson Park Advisory Council
has endorsed the plan. “It’s a win for
folks who live on the South Side and it’s a
win for the park,” said Louise McCurry,
the group’s president. But other organi-
zations have said they are unsure if the
new course will be good for the neighbor-
hood.
“There are a lot of people in our group
who have articulated the concern that
this is a very comfortable, duffers-level
course that’s fun to do and it’s within
their capacity, so why do you need this
more elaborate course?” said Brenda
Nelms, a coordinator for Jackson Park
Watch, a community watchdog group.
Juanita Irizarry, the executive direc-
tor of Friends of the Parks, the group that
successfully fought off the Hollywood
filmmaker George Lucas’s effort to build
a museum dedicated to narrative art
along the lakefront last year, said that the
golf course plans had “raised alarm
bells.”
“It feels to us that for this administra-
tion, the focus is on revenue generators
above all else,” she said, referring to the
Emanuel administration. “And we don’t
think that’s the right starting place.”
The project will largely depend on pri-
vate donors. The Chicago Parks Golf Alli-
ance is hoping to raise roughly $30 mil-
lion, of which $20 million will be spent on
building the new course and $5 million
for an endowment for maintenance and
pricing discounts. (The other $5 million
is for alliance operations and program-
ming.)
Mr. Rolfing said he planned to hold
more town hall-style events to get input
from the community, and that so far the
response had been enthusiastic. He de-
scribed the current courses as aging and
in need of repair, with irrigation and
drainage problems. The new course will
improve views of the lake, and the prac-
tice facility will be suitable for tour pro-
fessionals.
On a recent morning at the 18-hole
Jackson Park Golf Course, two
employees lingered in the building near
the first tee, where golfers could buy a $1
cup of coffee and a $6 Polish sausage at
the snack bar.
Keith McGrue, 60, a South Side resi-
dent, said he had heard chatter from reg-
ulars who wonder what a Tiger Woods-
designed course could bring.
“A lot of people have been playing here
for 25, 30 years,” Mr. McGrue said. “The
question becomes, Who benefits from
the change? Who loses out and who
wins? Most people that play here, espe-
cially the black folks, live in the neighbor-
hood. This is our golf course.”
Alan Brothers, 71, who was playing at
the South Shore course, said that he was
hoping for the sort of growth that a new
facility could bring to the South Side.
“This neighborhood has been in need
of economic development for a very long
time,” he said, pointing to the south,
where several blocks away, four people
were shot dead in a restaurant in March
in an apparent act of gang retribution.
“That’s what’s going on around here,”
he said. “So any sign of civilization is a
good thing.”

Rape Charges to Be Dropped Against Students in Case Cited by White House

By MATT STEVENS
Prosecutors in Maryland said on Fri-
day that they would drop rape charges
against an undocumented immigrant
and another high school student, adding
a new twist to a case that the White
House had held up as evidence of the
need to be tough on illegal immigration.
The allegations originated at Rockville
High School in March, when the police
accused the two male students of raping
a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom stall. The
case quickly ascended to the national
stage when Sean Spicer, the White House
press secretary, told reporters that Pres-
ident Trump had prioritized cracking
down on illegal immigration “because of
tragedies like” the situation in Maryland.
Days later, the father of the undocu-
mented student was detained by the fed-
eral authorities for entering the country
illegally, placing additional scrutiny on
the case and stirring further debate.
But on Friday, John J. McCarthy,
state’s attorney for Montgomery County,
said his office had concluded that “the
facts of this case do not support the
charges originally filed” against the two
students, Henry E. Sanchez-Milian, 18,
and Jose O. Montano, 17.
Citing a “lack of corroboration and
substantial inconsistencies,” Mr. McCar-
thy told reporters that after a “painstak-
ing investigation” it had become clear
that prosecuting the students on the
original charges of first-degree rape and
sexual offense was “untenable.”
“The actions today have been dis-
cussed with the 14-year-old girl, her at-
torney and her family,” he said. “As
prosecutors, we always go where the evi-
dence takes us.”
Though he said he would drop the rape
charges against Mr. Sanchez-Milian, Mr.
McCarthy said his office had filed a new
child pornography charge against him,
which carries a maximum sentence of
five years in prison. Mr. McCarthy did
not elaborate. A spokesman for his office
said the charge was filed on Thursday.
At a news conference on Friday,
lawyers for Mr. Montano said the state
had also decided to file pornography-re-
lated charges against their client in juve-
nile court.
Asked Friday afternoon about Mary-
land prosecutors’ decision to drop the
rape charges, Sarah Sanders, the White
House’s deputy press secretary, said she
would not retract any statements on the
case “without further information.” Mr.
Spicer, she said, “was speaking about
what he knew at the time.”
“We’re always looking to protect the
American people,” she said, adding later
in a reference to Mr. Trump, “This is a
law-and-order president.”
The episode from which the allega-
tions arose occurred March 16 when, ac-
cording to the Montgomery County Po-
lice Department, Mr. Montano and Mr.
An episode that entered a
national debate about
illegal immigration.
Sanchez-Milian had propositioned the 14-
year-old girl for sex in a hallway of the
high school. When she refused, they
forced her into a boys’ bathroom and
raped her in a stall, the authorities said at
the time.
Andrew Jezic, a lawyer for Mr.
Sanchez-Milian, said if his client is found
guilty of what he called a “throwaway”
pornography charge, “that’s nearly
guaranteed to be fatal to his immigration
case to keep him in the country.”
The authorities have not commented
on Mr. Montano’s immigration status be-
cause he is a minor.
But David Wooten, one of Mr. Mon-
tano’s lawyers, said his client’s family
members are United States citizens and
confirmed that his client is in deportation
proceedings.
“He came here on his own in order to
be reunited with his family because he
didn’t have any family back home left,”
Mr. Wooten said.
United States Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officials said that
after the students were arrested they
had determined that Mr. Sanchez-
Milian, a native of Guatemala, had en-
tered the country illegally. They placed a
detainer on Mr. Sanchez-Milian the day
he was charged, which officials said at
the time would allow them to eventually
take him into custody.
Soon after, ICE officers arrested Mr.
Sanchez-Milian’s father, Adolfo Sanchez-
Reyes. Mr. Jezic said the father was re-
leased on $20,000 bail a few weeks ago,
and is awaiting trial.

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team
Senate Panel Asks Trump Associates
For Communications With Russians
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
and MAGGIE HABERMAN
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Intelligence Committee has asked
a number of high-profile Trump
campaign associates to hand over
emails and other records of deal-
ings with Russians as part of its in-
vestigation into Russian meddling
in the presidential election and is
prepared to subpoena those who
refuse to cooperate, officials said.
The requests for the materials
were made in letters sent by the
committee in the past 10 days, said
two officials with knowledge of the
contents of the letters. The move
is designed to accelerate the com-
mittee’s investigation, and repre-
sents a new bipartisan challenge
to the Trump administration,
which has sought to use Republi-
can allies in Congress to blunt the
inquiries.
Among those who said they had
received the requests were Roger
J. Stone Jr., an informal adviser to
President Trump, and Carter
Page, a businessman and former
foreign policy adviser to the
Trump campaign. Paul Manafort,
the former campaign chairman,
and Michael T. Flynn, the former
national security adviser, were
also sent letters, the officials with
knowledge of the investigation
said. Representatives for those
Mixed Signals
From Trump
Vex Backers
Of Israel
From Page A1
ent message at an earlier dinner
with two other prominent
Palestinians, Salam Fayyad and
Ziad Asali, and two American
Jewish diplomats, Elliott Abrams
and Dennis B. Ross. They all told
him that a breakthrough was not
realistic now, and that Mr. Trump
would be better off pursuing incre-
mental advances, like bettering
the economic fortunes of the
Palestinians.
“There is a perception that he’s
fundamentally sympathetic, but
there is an uncertainty about
where he wants to go,” said Mr.
Ross, a Middle East envoy for
Presidents Barack Obama and
Bill Clinton. “Among those who
think there is no such thing as a
deal, or that Israel is being asked
to make troubling concessions,
there is unease.”
So far, none of these objections
are being made public. Conserva-
tive supporters of Israel view Mr.
Trump as a vast improvement
over Mr. Obama, whose blunt
pressure on Israel to halt con-
struction of settlements in the
West Bank poisoned his relation-
ship with Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Trump has “done more in
just 100 days than Barack Obama
ever did in transforming the U.S.-
Israel relationship into a U.S.-Is-
rael partnership,” said Matthew
Brooks, the executive director of
the Republican Jewish Coalition.
But later this month, when Mr.
Trump will test his ideas on his
first foreign trip, to Saudi Arabia
and Israel, one of his most power-
ful donors, the Las Vegas casino
magnate Sheldon G. Adelson, will
be in Israel when the president is,
according to people briefed on his
schedule.
Mr. Adelson was disappointed
that Mr. Trump had not fulfilled a
campaign promise to move the
American Embassy to Jerusalem
from Tel Aviv. He will be watching
closely to see how the president
squares his vow to be a stalwart
friend of Israel with his peace-
making ambitions.
The deletion of Mr. Trump’s
Twitter message calling it “an
honor” to meet with Mr. Abbas
Mark Landler reported from
Washington, and Maggie Ha-
berman from New York. Peter
Baker contributed reporting
Washington.
Trump’s 2nd Nominee for Army Secretary Withdraws, Citing ‘Misleading’ Attacks
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — Mark E.
Green, President Trump’s second
nominee to be secretary of the
Army, withdrew from considera-
tion on Friday, saying in a state-
ment that his nomination had be-
come a distraction because of
“false and misleading attacks
against me.”
Mr. Green, a Tennessee state
senator who was an Army flight
surgeon, has criticized federal at-
tempts to bar discrimination
against gay, bisexual and trans-
gender people in workplaces and
businesses.
“Tragically, my life of public
service and my Christian beliefs
two men declined to comment.
Any decision to issue subpoe-
nas would require a majority vote
by members of the intelligence
committee.
Mr. Stone said he planned to
comply with the request, noting
that he has said in the past that he
will testify voluntarily. “I am ea-
ger, indeed anxious, to testify in
full public session, have requested
no immunity and am ready to go,”
he said in a brief interview.
Mr. Stone says that he has had
no communications with Russian
officials other than previously dis-
closed communications with Guc-
cifer 2.0, the online persona that
officials believe was a front for
Russian intelligence. Mr. Stone
has acknowledged trading mes-
sages with Guccifer on Twitter,
though he has repeatedly dis-
missed allegations from the intel-
ligence community that Guccifer
was a Russian front.
“I recognize that the reputation
I have cultivated as an extreme
partisan and a rogue make me a
convenient fall guy for the
Democrats, but I refuse to play the
patsy role they have in mind for
me,” said Mr. Stone, a self-pro-
fessed dirty trickster.
“I had no contact with the Rus-
sians or their cutout at any time
Sheldon G. Adelson was disappointed that President Trump had not fulfilled a campaign promise to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
was widely noticed by Israeli
news media. Curiously, similar
messages on other social media
were not deleted. Michael Anton,
a White House spokesman, said
that no one knew what had hap-
pened to the Twitter post but that
“we stand by the message.”
Mr. Trump has borrowed a few
pages from Mr. Obama’s play-
book. He, too, has leaned on Mr.
Netanyahu to curb settlement
construction to make it easier to
pursue talks with the
Palestinians. Mr. Greenblatt came
to an understanding with Mr. Ne-
tanyahu that is not unlike the one
between President George W.
Bush and Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, under which Israel
agreed not to approve further con-
struction outside existing settle-
ment boundaries.
After his promise to move the
embassy to Jerusalem, Mr. Trump
has set that issue aside for now,
heeding the advice of King Abdul-
lah II of Jordan and other Arab
leaders, who warned him it could
ignite violence among
Palestinians. White House offi-
have been mischaracterized and
attacked by a few on the other side
of the aisle for political gain,” Mr.
Green said in the statement.
“While these false attacks have no
bearing on the needs of the Army
or my qualifications to serve, I be-
lieve it is critical to give the presi-
dent the ability to move forward
with his vision to restore our mili-
tary to its rightful place in the
world.”
Mr. Trump’s first pick for Army
secretary, Vincent Viola, pulled
out of consideration in February,
saying he could not disentangle
himself from his business ties. Mr.
Viola is the owner of the N.H.L.’s
Florida Panthers.
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
and the idea that my tweets prove
otherwise is ludicrous,” he added.
Mr. Page was more circumspect
about whether he would cooper-
ate. In an email, he said, “Although
I will help in any way that I can,
please note that any records I may
have saved as a private citizen
with limited technology capabili-
ties will be minuscule in compari-
son to the full database of informa-
tion which has already been col-
lected under last year’s com-
pletely unjustified FISA warrant.”
He was referring to a warrant
issued by the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court that allowed
the Justice Department to se-
cretly wiretap his communica-
tions. The warrant was issued af-
ter investigators concluded that
Mr. Page was no longer part of the
Trump campaign, and it was
based on evidence that he might
have been operating as a Russian
agent, officials have said.
“As a lone individual, I can as-
sure you that my personal admin-
istrative capabilities pale in com-
parison to those of the numerous
staff in the executive, legislative
and judicial branches of the U.S.
government,” Mr. Page added.
Mr. Page, Mr. Stone and Mr.
Manafort are all under scrutiny in
an F.B.I. investigation into Rus-
sian election meddling and allega-
cials insist it may still happen;
Mr. Trump must decide by June
whether to renew the waiver of
the congressional vote instruct-
ing that the embassy be moved.
David M. Friedman, the bank-
ruptcy lawyer who is Mr. Trump’s
ambassador to Israel, has told
people he plans to divide his time
between the ambassador’s sea-
side residence near Tel Aviv and
the King David Hotel in Jerusa-
lem, where the State Department
keeps an apartment for its envoy.
But Mr. Friedman, who is mov-
ing to Israel in the coming days,
has been a less central figure in
Mr. Trump’s peacemaking project
than Mr. Greenblatt. An Orthodox
Jew and an in-house lawyer who
negotiated real estate deals for
Mr. Trump, Mr. Greenblatt has
impressed outsiders with his de-
termination to learn the be-
deviling history of Middle East
peace.
Mr. Greenblatt has met with a
wide range of Arab leaders,
ambassadors, and other officials,
in a crash course that hard-liners
worry will leave him sympathetic
Mr. Green was accused by the
American Military Partner Asso-
ciation and other gay-rights advo-
cacy groups of discriminating
against gay, bisexual and trans-
gender individuals, particularly
given the military’s circuitous his-
tory of treatment of gays in the
military.
He had made a number of con-
tentious assertions, particularly
in an appearance before the Chat-
tanooga Tea Party last year, when
he suggested that President
Barack Obama’s opposition to
laws meant to prevent transgen-
der people from using the bath-
rooms of their stated gender was
the kind of government action
Senator Richard M. Burr, left, and Senator Mark Warner in
March, before an intelligence committee meeting on Russia.
tions of collusion by Trump
associates. There are two other
separate congressional investiga-
tions — one by the Senate panel
and the other by the House intelli-
gence committee.
President Trump has dismissed
talk of Russian election interfer-
ence as “fake news” meant to un-
dermine his presidency.
The letters from the Senate
committee were jointly signed by
Senator Richard M. Burr, the
North Carolina Republican, and
Senator Mark Warner, the Virgin-
ia Democrat, who are the commit-
tee’s two senior members. The let-
ters instruct recipients to list all
the meetings they had with Rus-
sian officials or Russian business-
people from June 16, 2015, through
to those officials’ arguments, for
example, on settlements.
The president’s push on settle-
ments unnerved Mr. Netanyahu,
according to officials on both
sides, though they avoided an
open split over it. Mr. Netanyahu
was determined not to antagonize
another president, and the under-
standing on settlements was left
unwritten, mitigating attacks on
Mr. Netanyahu by pro-settler fac-
tions in his coalition.
One of the biggest cheerleaders
for a peace deal is Mr. Lauder, a
cosmetics heir who has known Mr.
Trump for decades. His mother,
Estée Lauder, was among the first
of the Manhattan social elite to ac-
cept Mr. Trump when he arrived
on the scene as a young developer
from Queens.
Mr. Lauder’s enthusiasm for a
bold new initiative has alarmed
some in Mr. Trump’s circle, partic-
ularly his chief strategist, Stephen
K. Bannon. Mr. Bannon speaks
regularly with Mr. Adelson, who
donated millions of dollars to out-
side groups to help Republicans in
the 2016 elections.
from which armed citizens should
protect themselves.
“We are back to where the coun-
try was at its beginning, and it’s
the armed citizen who will defend
this nation,” Mr. Green said. “And
there’s something else that we’ve
got to protect ourselves from, and
it is an overreaching federal gov-
ernment. The notion that Mr.
Obama thinks that he can tell the
state of Tennessee who can go into
a men’s bathroom or a women’s
bathroom is absurd.”
Asked during that appearance
what military rank and file
thought about “the social revolu-
tions being imposed upon them by
this government,” Mr. Green re-
GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jan. 20, 2017. It set a May 9 dead-
line for a response.
The committee also requested
that, by May 19, the recipients
hand over records of all communi-
cations — including emails, text
messages and phone logs — with
Russian officials or businesspeo-
ple from the same period. It also
asks them for information on any
of their financial or real estate
holdings related to Russia and to
list any meetings they know of be-
tween other Trump campaign
associates and Russians.
Both Mr. Burr and Mr. Warner
declined to comment on the re-
quests, which officials said went
to a number of other people
associated with the Trump cam-
paign and presidential transition.
How much direct influence Mr.
Lauder has on Mr. Trump is a mat-
ter of debate: Some close to the
White House insist their contacts
are frequent; others say there
have been just three meetings,
one in the Oval Office and two at
Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Palm
Beach club. But Mr. Lauder has an
open line to Mr. Greenblatt; the
dinner for Mr. Abbas testifies to
his social clout.
An adviser to Mr. Lauder de-
nied he was pushing an alliance
with Mr. Abbas, but described Mr.
Lauder as an optimist.
Mr. Adelson was frustrated that
Mr. Trump did not fulfill his prom-
ise to move the embassy on “Day
1.” But people who have spoken to
him said he was heartened by the
White House’s silence when the
Israeli government announced a
new settlement to replace Amona,
a settler outpost evacuated after it
was declared illegal. A spokesman
for Mr. Adelson declined to com-
ment.
Aides to Mr. Trump said they
are well aware of the hurdles to a
deal. But they say the president
sponded that “if you poll the psy-
chiatrists, they’re going to tell you
that transgender is a disease.”
And he implied that same-sex
marriage was as unthinkable 30
years ago as government-spon-
sored infanticide is today.
Chad Griffin, president of the
Human Rights Campaign, said on
Friday that Mr. Green’s “danger-
ous views and hateful comments
are disqualifying for any public
servant, let alone someone wish-
ing to serve as secretary of the
Army.”
The job of Army secretary must
be confirmed by the Senate, and
several senators, including Chuck
Schumer of New York, the
N A11
A move to accelerate
an inquiry into foreign
interference.
In February, the White House
sought to enlist Mr. Burr to refute
news stories about ties between
Trump associates and Russia. The
senator characterized his conver-
sations with reporters as an ap-
propriate part of his job as the
chairman of the intelligence com-
mittee.
Yet in public comments since
then, he has committed to follow-
ing the intelligence wherever it
leads, including examining any
links between Trump associates
and Russia. Officials say that, in
private, Mr. Burr has expressed
no qualms about pressing forward
with the investigation and has told
Mr. Warner that he is ready to is-
sue subpoenas if necessary.
In recent weeks there have
been reports that Mr. Warner and
other Democrats on the commit-
tee were frustrated with the pace
of the investigation, and were
pressing Mr. Burr to send letters
requesting emails, memos, phone
records and other materials from
the Trump campaign and transi-
tion.
Late last month, the Democrats
on the committee hired April F.
Doss, a former associate general
counsel at the National Security
Agency, to serve as a special coun-
sel on the Russia investigation.
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has an obligation to try, suggest-
ing that his unconventional ap-
proach to diplomacy might unlock
some doors.
His hard-line pro-Israel
supporters console themselves
that Mr. Trump will soon recog-
nize the futility of this undertak-
ing. That pessimism, they note, is
a view shared not just by hard-lin-
ers but also by most of the Israeli
political establishment, left and
right.
“The administration is likely to
discover what its predecessors
learned: that there is no deal to be
had right now because the parties
have unbridgeable positions on
most of the issues,” said Noah Pol-
lak, a Republican strategist who
works with pro-Israel conserva-
tive groups.
“Obama used the impasse as a
way to condemn Israel,” he
continued. “We’re not worried
Trump will follow suit. We simply
hope the process of the adminis-
tration proving to itself that no
deal is possible will be quick and
undramatic.”
Democratic leader, had vowed to
vote against Mr. Green. The last
Army secretary, Eric Fanning,
was the first openly gay leader of a
military branch.
Senator Tammy Duckworth,
Democrat of Illinois, on Friday
called Mr. Green “not fit to lead
the Army” and praised his deci-
sion to withdraw his nomination.
“It should not matter what reli-
gion you are or what your sexual
orientation is when you join the
military, only that you care deeply
about this country and want to
serve and defend it,” Ms. Duck-
worth, a former Army helicopter
pilot who lost her legs in the Iraq
war, said in a statement.
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
THE 45TH PRESIDENT Health Care
Foes’ Top Issue With Bill:
Its Stance on Prior Illness
From Page A1
by one measure, added to the leg-
islation to assure its passage, that
allowed states to seek federal
waivers to ignore certain man-
dates in the Affordable Care Act —
including the one blocking insur-
ance companies from charging
people more because of pre-exist-
ing conditions.
More than anything else in the
bill, Democrats and health care
advocates have used that provi-
sion as a rallying cry, warning that
it could inflict punishing costs on
people with ailments from asthma
to cancer, as well as on pregnant
women.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Con-
necticut, chairman of the
Democratic Governors Associa-
tion, said the issue was so reso-
nant because every voter has at
least “an uncle or an aunt or a dis-
tant cousin who’s a diabetic or has
a heart condition.” He said he was
urging Democratic candidates to
press their opponents to take a
categorical position on the health
care bill, which President Trump
endorsed forcefully.
“Either you agree with the pres-
ident or you don’t agree with the
president,” Mr. Malloy said in an
interview. “If you don’t agree with
the president, you need to say it.”
Opponents of the bill have de-
picted its potential impact in
nightmarish and sometimes over-
stated terms, suggesting it would
completely void protections for
sick people. In reality, insurers
would still not be able to deny peo-
ple coverage altogether, and
states seeking waivers would
have to show they had alternative
programs to aid the people most
at risk. People could be charged
based on their health status only if
they bought coverage through the
individual market and had experi-
enced a gap in coverage.
But many of the Democrats’
dire warnings are not far off the
mark: Prices could indeed prove
Linda Qiu contributed reporting.
Second Chance for a Bill,
And for the Chief of Staff
From Page A1
Mr. Priebus’s push for a quick
vote chafed some members of the
White House staff. Several people
on Mr. Trump’s team who were
trying to lower expectations were
annoyed to find out that Mr.
Priebus was openly talking about
forcing a vote this week. At times,
Mr. Trump himself seemed a little
puzzled by his aide’s vehemence,
telling legislators, including Mr.
Ryan, that while he wanted a win,
he did not necessarily need a vote
immediately.
And it was Mr. Ryan, not the
president, who offered his friend a
shout-out at Thursday’s spike-
the-football celebration for a bill
passed by one chamber of Con-
gress. “I especially want to thank
Reince Priebus,” he said as Mr.
Trump looked on.
The House’s passage of the
health bill was less a victory for
Mr. Priebus than a reprieve. It
bought him time for a badly
needed reset after three chaotic
months in a job that has often
seemed to overwhelm him — and
possibly would anybody else in his
position.
“At first, I think Reince wanted
to be the gatekeeper, the guy who
has control of who comes in and
out all day. But you can’t do that
with Donald Trump — he won’t let
you,” said Senator Lindsey Gra-
ham of South Carolina, an on-and-
off Republican critic of Mr. Trump
who speaks with Mr. Priebus of-
ten. “I think he’s learned to play a
different role by necessity. He has
to stick with organizing things. He
has to be the connective tissue. I
think he gets that.”
Even with a win, Mr. Priebus re-
mains, at best, the third most pow-
erful player in a top-heavy White
House dominated by bigger per-
sonalities, a would-be gatekeeper
desperately in search of a gate.
“It’s been the most dysfunc-
tional White House in memory,
and a lot of it is on Reince,” said
Chris Whipple, a documentary
filmmaker and author of “The
Gatekeepers,” a new book chroni-
cling White House chiefs of staff
back to the Truman administra-
tion.
“Priebus has made rookie mis-
take after rookie mistake, and he
started by making the biggest one
of all: not insisting he be the first
among equals,” Mr. Whipple said.
“Fatal mistake. I’m not sure any-
body could make that demand, but
he didn’t even really try.”
“At some point, the president is
either going to embrace failure or
pick a grown-up, like a C.E.O. or
maybe Mattis, as his chief,” he
Glenn Thrush reported from
Washington, and Maggie Ha-
berman from New York.
prohibitive.
And the political potency of
these attacks is undeniable.
Where the Affordable Care Act
draws an iron rule governing cov-
erage for people with pre-existing
conditions, the Republican plan
would create an opening for state-
level programs that would likely
offer far thinner protections for
the roughly eight percent of
Americans who rely on the indi-
vidual market for coverage.
A host of health advocacy
groups, including the American
Lung Association and the Ameri-
can Cancer Society, reviewed the
legislation and concluded it would
weaken protections for people
with ongoing medical issues.
States could also seek waivers
from requirements that insurers
cover 10 “essential health bene-
fits,” including maternity, mental
health and prescription drugs,
and that they charge their oldest
customers no more than three
times more than their youngest
ones. Waiving the essential bene-
fits could also potentially weaken
prohibitions on insurers limiting
the amount of care they cover,
even in employer plans.
Ben Wikler, the Washington di-
rector of MoveOn.org, said that by
imperiling the protections for peo-
ple with a history of illness, Re-
publicans had turned the health
care bill into “something that feels
like a life-or-death struggle,” even
for people who would have been
unaffected by the rest of the bill.
“This whole bill was already ra-
dioactive, but pre-existing condi-
tions make it a nuclear power
plant for the resistance move-
ment,” Mr. Wikler said.
The criticism has not come only
from the left: A number of Repub-
licans who voted against the bill
specifically cited the possibility
that it could make it harder for
people with serious medical con-
ditions to buy insurance. On Fri-
day, chapters of the AARP, which
also lobbied against the bill, criti-
cized individual House members
on Twitter for voting “yes on
added, referring to Defense Secre-
tary Jim Mattis.
The signature image of Mr.
Trump’s first 100 days in office,
people close to the president said,
is that of Mr. Priebus standing just
inside the open door of the Oval
Office, agitated and rolling his
eyes, as Mr. Trump beckons an-
other seemingly random gaggle of
aides, friends, family, visitors,
reporters — even the White
House decorator — in for an un-
structured chat or, worst of all,
policy discussions.
Mr. Priebus, who has said he
has self-diagnosed obsessive-
compulsive disorder, tried at first
to restrict these interactions, of-
ten by keeping the president busy
with ceremonial events like exec-
utive order signings and meetings
with business leaders.
Over time, Mr. Trump bridled
and demanded the unstructured
time he had so valued as an execu-
tive at Trump Tower. Mr. Priebus,
who initially outsourced the de-
tails of Oval Office scheduling and
paper flow to a deputy, has now
taken over those tasks himself. He
has reduced the pace of public
events and, like a Montessori
teacher, modulates structured
work time with the slack periods
Mr. Trump craves.
In recent days, Mr. Priebus cut
back on his stalking-butler tend-
ency to hover over the president,
realizing his antsy boss had grown
resentful of his constant compan-
ionship. “What are you doing in
here? Don’t you have health care
to take care of?” Mr. Trump asked
Mr. Priebus at one recent meeting
around his desk, according to a
senior White House official.
Mr. Priebus is increasingly fo-
cused on big-picture issues like
improving the “interagency”
process linking the West Wing to
the federal bureaucracy. He has
also tried to reduce what he calls
inputs — the number of people
talking to the president each day
— to 20 or so from about 50, and to
keep Mr. Trump to a tighter sched-
ule through short, agenda-driven
meetings: a suggestion made by
many outside advisers he con-
sulted, including John H. Sununu,
the chief of staff to President
George Bush.
That entails trying to cut the
number of Oval Office meeting
attendees from 15 to eight or fewer,
according to an aide.
One small but significant recent
victory: excluding Omarosa
Manigault, the former “Appren-
tice” contestant and Trump favor-
ite, from as many meetings as pos-
sible.
“The trains are now running on
time,” said Thomas Barrack Jr., a
close friend of Mr. Trump’s, re-
flecting a prevailing sense even
among Mr. Priebus’s critics in the
Protesters outside the Capitol on Thursday, the day the House voted to pass the bill.
harming ppl w/preexisting condi-
tions.”
Public polling has found those
protections to be among the most
popular elements of the Afford-
able Care Act, even in the first
years after its passage when it
faced tremendous blowback from
voters. A poll last month by The
Washington Post and ABC News
found that seven in 10 Americans
believed that all 50 states should
be covered by regulations pre-
venting insurers from setting
higher rates for people with pre-
existing conditions.
Even at the height of Republi-
can opposition to the Affordable
Care Act, leading members of the
party, including Mitt Romney, the
2012 presidential nominee, vowed
not to roll back protections for sick
people.
John McDonough, a professor
of public health at Harvard and a
former Senate aide who advised
the authors of the Affordable Care
Act, said he thought the issue had
developed potency in the last few
years as more Americans came to
value the protections the law had
brought.
“I don’t think people really ap-
Reince Priebus, left, the White House chief of staff, was blamed by some after the first version of the Republicans’ health bill failed.
White House that the situation
has improved.
That does not mean Mr. Priebus
is entirely running things. He is of-
ten elbowed out by a half-dozen
other West Wing players — chief
among them Mr. Trump’s son-in-
law, Jared Kushner, who enjoys
many of the powers exercised by a
chief of staff (he has been de-
scribed by friends as “a first
among equals”), including a virtu-
al veto over some hiring decisions.
Mr. Priebus has half-joked that
Mr. Kushner has “all the fun” but
few of the responsibilities that
burden him, according to one
longtime Priebus confidant.
“Reince is fundamentally a nice
Midwestern guy who is very con-
cerned about not losing friends
and not making enemies,” said
Charlie Sykes, a veteran Republi-
can operative and radio host in
Wisconsin who has been friends
with Mr. Priebus for two decades.
“He is, at bottom, a pleaser. But he
doesn’t want to fail.”
“One of the things that’s made
him successful up until now is that
he knows how to maintain friend-
ships; he knows how to keep in
touch with donors and key
players,” Mr. Sykes said. “But I
don’t know that he would be the
one to crack the whip. At a certain
point, you have to be willing to be
confrontational and to lose
friends. I think that’s very difficult
for Reince.”
For all the talk of Mr. Priebus as
a potentially moderating force, he
has fed some of the president’s
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preciated, back in 2008, 2009 and
2010, the role of pre-existing condi-
tions and medical underwriting,”
he said. “But there’s been a soci-
etal shift underway. American so-
ciety has become committed to
this notion that your ability to get
medical coverage should not be
conditioned on your medical his-
tory.”
It is far from certain that the
House-approved, White House-
backed legislation will become
law in anything resembling its
current form. Even if it did, it is un-
clear that states would actually
seek to waive the most popular
regulations protecting sick peo-
ple.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin,
a Republican, said Friday that he
might be open to seeking such a
waiver. But his was a lonely voice,
and Mr. Malloy, of the Democratic
governors’ group, leveled a taunt-
ing dare at Mr. Walker: “He
should run on that.”
Joseph Antos, a health econo-
mist at the conservative Ameri-
can Enterprise Institute, said it
was “very questionable” that any
state would seek such a waiver.
“It’s an opportunity for great
most self-destructive impulses,
including reviewing a way to sue
the news media and vigorously
supporting Mr. Trump’s hunt for
an order supposedly obtained by
the Obama administration to al-
low the surveillance of Trump
campaign officials.
But all of these stresses are
worth it, Mr. Priebus has told
friends.
One of the party’s most formi-
Looking to gain an
edge in a complicated
pecking order.
dable fund-raisers, Mr. Priebus,
who declined to be interviewed for
this article, is accustomed to swal-
lowing his pride to court richer,
more powerful men. So he has a
high pain threshold for a boss who
still views him, in moments of can-
dor, as a leader of the Republican
political establishment that once
tried to destroy Mr. Trump.
Mr. Priebus — whose allies say
he has always been animated by
proximity to power — is nothing if
not resilient, however, and he is in-
tent on forging alliances with any-
one who can improve his internal
standing. In recent weeks, he has
tried to capitalize on the growing
rift between Mr. Kushner and the
White House chief strategist,
political risk,” Mr. Antos said.
“Why would a state want to take
full responsibility for anything
that goes wrong, without being
able to blame the federal govern-
ment?”
Mr. Antos said he saw a parallel
between some of the Democrats’
“overhyped” warnings and the
fears stoked by Sarah Palin and
other conservatives that the Af-
fordable Care Act would lead to
“death panels.”
“I’ve heard claims that Republi-
cans don’t want your grand-
mother to have cancer treatment,”
Mr. Antos said. “It’s pretty in-
sane.”
But the warnings of death
panels were blatantly false, while
warnings about insurers again be-
ing able to price sick people out of
the market could prove true, de-
pending on the state.
The Kaiser Family Foundation,
a nonpartisan research group, has
estimated that 27 percent of
Americans younger than 65 have
health conditions that would likely
leave them uninsurable if they ap-
plied for individual market cover-
age under the system that existed
before the Affordable Care Act.
Stephen K. Bannon.
At the height of the Kushner-
Bannon spat last month, Mr.
Trump instructed both men to
“stop it” or face the boot, and dele-
gated to Mr. Priebus the role of
evenhanded mediator. Instead,
Mr. Priebus interpreted that as a
license to forge an alliance with
Mr. Kushner, though the first son-
in-law has felt free to use his veto
power over the chief of staff, in-
cluding siding with others to keep
Mr. Priebus from promoting his
preferred choices for his deputy,
according to four West Wing
aides.
Mr. Priebus has been reluctant
to confront Mr. Bannon directly.
But he has quietly sought to un-
dermine Mr. Bannon’s agenda and
temper his nativist impulses, and
has happily assumed the role of
establishment soother. At a dinner
last week at the Hay-Adams Hotel
with a number of prominent Re-
publicans, including former Vice
President Dick Cheney, Mr.
Priebus assured the attendees
that the North American Free
Trade Agreement would not be
undone the next day, as Mr. Ban-
non had sought to do, according to
three people with knowledge of
the interaction.
He has also bonded with Mr.
Kushner and his wife, the presi-
dent’s daughter Ivanka, over what
they all see as Mr. Bannon’s hid-
den war against them in the news
media, especially through Breit-
bart, the site Mr. Bannon used to
run. Mr. Kushner was especially
A rallying cry for
opponents of a health
measure.
Political strategists and
organizers in both parties have
long viewed protections for peo-
ple with pre-existing conditions as
a uniquely delicate issue, affecting
not just low-income Americans or
people who lack health coverage,
but also people with coverage who
fear it could suddenly become un-
affordable.
Anna Greenberg, a Democratic
pollster, said the protections for
pre-existing conditions had al-
ways appealed to a broad popula-
tion of middle-class people who
had insurance before the Afford-
able Care Act, and therefore did
not benefit from components of
the law like Medicaid expansion.
“With people who are not liberal
Democrats and not low-income –
that’s the most important piece to
them,” she said of the popular reg-
ulations on insurers.
Republicans supportive of the
health care overhaul have de-
fended its handling of pre-existing
conditions in a range of ways, with
some even stressing that the Sen-
ate is likely to transform the legis-
lation dramatically. A handful of
Republicans who opposed an ear-
lier version of the bill, like
Representatives Fred Upton of
Michigan and Billy Long of Mis-
souri, ultimately voted for it after
adding an additional $8 billion in
funding that could be used to
shore up coverage for sick people.
But many Republicans outside
the House have balked at publicly
embracing the measure, and
some have pointed to its handling
of pre-existing conditions as a par-
ticular sticking point.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisi-
ana, a Republican who is a physi-
cian by training, said on CNN Fri-
day that a final health care bill
would have to pass “the Jimmy
Kimmel test,” alluding to the late-
night comedian who made a tear-
ful on-air appeal to the Congress,
telling the story of his infant son’s
heart condition and asking law-
makers to protect people with
grave ongoing ailments.
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incensed by Breitbart’s specula-
tion that Mr. Priebus would soon
be replaced by his ally Gary D.
Cohn, the National Economic
Council chairman, two people
close to him said.
Mr. Priebus is wounded by the
speculation and is intensely pro-
tective of his image, forged over
seven successful years at the Re-
publican National Committee, of
competence and effectiveness,
even as some of his own col-
leagues question it.
He has spent so much time in
the Oval Office that his own suite
in the southwest corner of the
White House remains much as his
predecessor, Denis McDonough,
left it, complete with its vintage
World War II and Vietnam-era
photographs of naval battles. His
own desk is sparsely decorated.
The wall opposite his standing
desk features a triptych of flat-
screen TVs tuned to basic cable,
and he spends much of his day
monitoring the chatter, especially
the utterances of his fellow Repub-
licans.
When Gov. Chris Christie of
New Jersey, a Trump ally and the
source of speculation as a future
chief of staff, visited the White
House recently, Mr. Priebus
pulled him into the Roosevelt
Room to complain about Mr.
Christie’s less-than-helpful com-
ments on TV.
“He’ll text you all the time,” Mr.
Graham said. “It will be like,
‘Thanks,’ or ‘Why the hell did you
say that?’”

THE 45TH PRESIDENT Health Care
Opponents of Abortion
Warily Measure Progress
By JEREMY W. PETERS
WASHINGTON — There are
few constituencies as pleased
with President Trump’s three and
a half months in the White House
as the anti-abortion groups that
rallied to his side during the 2016
campaign.
He has signed legislation
making it easier for states to deny
funding to health centers that per-
form abortions. His recently con-
firmed Supreme Court nominee,
Neil M. Gorsuch, has the unwa-
vering backing of anti-abortion
groups. And on Thursday, the
House voted to repeal and replace
the Affordable Care Act while also
eliminating most public funding
for Planned Parenthood, a central
campaign promise of Mr. Trump’s.
But the battle over the roughly
$500 million Planned Parenthood
receives each year could yet be-
come the litmus test for social con-
servatives. And it is one that is al-
ready straining the relationship
between the president and this
pivotal bloc of voters and interest
groups, many of whom put aside
deep misgivings and supported
him specifically because of his re-
peated and insistent vows to make
it more difficult for women to get
an abortion.
Approval in the House, howev-
er, is no guarantee that the de-
funding measure will ever reach
the president’s desk. Any provi-
sion that targets Planned Parent-
hood seems likely to alienate
enough moderate Republicans
that it could kill the bill unless the
Senate strips it out — meaning
that the Republican victory on
Thursday could be short-lived
and, ultimately, moot. Complicat-
ing matters further, a repeal bill on
its own that did not touch Planned
Parenthood would be a heavy lift
in the Senate.
After some anti-abortion
groups expressed dismay this
week that Planned Parenthood
will remain funded in the spend-
ing plan that Congress negotiated
to keep the government running
through September, the White
House tried to reassure them.
Mr. Trump sent Vice President
Mike Pence and Kellyanne Con-
G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory.
Has It Stirred a ‘Hornet’s Nest’?
WASHINGTON — No one
knows better than House
Democrats how a contentious
health care vote can exact a
steep political price — losing
control of the
CARL House in the first
midterm election of
HULSE an untested new
ON
president’s tenure
WASHINGTON for example.
As they hooted
derisively at their Republican
colleagues on Thursday after a
narrow, party-line approval of
legislation to roll back the
Obama-era health care law,
Democrats glimpsed the mirror
image of their own politically
disastrous health care experi-
ence. They also saw a prime
opportunity to avenge their ugly
2010 loss and possibly recapture
the House majority.
“I think they are staring death
in the face,” Representative
Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of
Virginia, said about the political
prospects of dozens of House
Republicans who were per-
suaded to back the bill by Repub-
lican leaders anxious to deliver a
legislative win. “They asked
their vulnerable members to take
an enormous gamble and risk on
an act of faith that I guarantee
will not pay off.”
Relieved Republicans celebrat-
ed on the House floor and at the
White House and said they had
been in danger of retaliation
from their own conservative
base if they had not delivered on
the pledge to repeal the law they
had been promising to strike
from the books for seven years.
They say their candidates will
have the experience and re-
sources to fight off Democratic
challengers.
But Democrats were confident
many colleagues across the aisle
would come to regret this vote,
particularly in an election cycle
where the president’s party is
typically on the defensive and
when Republicans will need to
protect nearly two dozen dis-
tricts carried by Hillary Clinton
last year. Those districts alone,
including some in places like
California, Texas and Illinois, are
almost enough to determine who
runs the House.
“Republicans kicked a hornet’s
nest, and it is not too soon to
begin saying goodbye to some of
my Republican colleagues from
moderate districts, because this
will cost them dearly,” said Rep-
resentative Luis V. Gutiérrez,
Democrat of Illinois.
The 2018 campaign is only now
beginning, and the political cli-
way, the president’s counselor, to
speak at a gala for one of the larg-
est groups that backs anti-abor-
tion candidates, the Susan B. An-
thony List. Both reassured the
crowd of donors, activists and
members of Congress on hand
that they were closer than ever to
achieving their goals.
“President Trump has been
keeping his promises to all of you
and the American people,” Mr.
Pence said, pointing specifically
to the Planned Parenthood provi-
sion in the health care repeal bill.
“We’re going to see that fight all
the way through. And this presi-
dent is unwavering.”
Mr. Pence told the crowd how
proud he was to have raced to the
Capitol last month to cast the
tiebreaking vote on a resolution
that lifts an Obama administra-
tion rule barring state and local
governments from withholding
federal funds for family planning
services that performed abor-
tions. The resolution was aimed
directly at Planned Parenthood in
what abortion rights advocates
expected to be the first in a series
of attempts to drive the organiza-
tion out of business.
But Ms. Conway acknowledged
that the defunding provision faces
an uncertain fate in the Senate. “It
could go either way,” she said in an
interview. And she pushed back
on the premise that Mr. Trump
was not following through on his
promises to the movement. “If
they’re disappointed then they’re
not paying attention,” she said.
Some groups, though they are a
minority within the social conser-
vative movement, have criticized
Mr. Trump and congressional Re-
publicans for not pushing harder
against Planned Parenthood.
Anything but a full defunding
amounted to “a betrayal that the
G.O.P. will find extensively diffi-
cult to overcome,” said Kristan
Hawkins, the president of Stu-
dents for Life of America.
And there are other problems
that many of the activists see with
the way things are playing out:
For starters, the bill that passed
the House on Thursday would
only reduce funding for Planned
mate is highly volatile. The out-
look for the House bill in the
Senate is uncertain, and it could
be significantly rewritten. But
Democrats believe that the po-
tential ramifications of the
House-passed measure — mil-
lions losing insurance coverage,
a diminished array of benefits, no
definite guarantee of coverage
for those with pre-existing condi-
tions — provide them with pow-
erful ammunition against Repub-
licans.
Democrats point out that Re-
publicans will have to defend a
reduction in federal help for
people who have come to rely on
it. That is a most unusual posi-
tion for politicians since federal
benefit programs are rarely
scaled back once they are estab-
lished — certainly not a program
with the reach of the health care
law.
“It is a pretty big mistake,”
said Representative Steny H.
Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2
Democrat, about the Republican
Democrats sense an
opportunity to gain
seats in the House.
bill. “They are taking something
away.”
It wasn’t just Democrats who
were complaining about re-
trenching on health benefits. In a
statement that might well resur-
face in Democratic campaigns,
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehti-
nen, a Florida Republican who is
retiring, delivered a blistering
critique of the bill, saying it has
“potential to severely harm the
health and lives of people in
South Florida.”
“My constituents should not
have to take a step backward in
their ability to obtain treatment
for any illness,” she said.
Ms. Ros-Lehtinen was among
20 Republicans who opposed the
legislation, most of them in poli-
tically divided districts where
they hoped their “no” vote might
insulate them from any voter
fury. But that might not be a
successful strategy since it could
alienate Republican supporters
while failing to win over
Democrats.
The fate of Democrats who
opposed the Affordable Care Act
is instructive and shows that
bucking the party on a difficult
vote doesn’t necessarily protect a
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A protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic. A fight over funding the group is straining ties between the president and conservatives.
Parenthood — significantly so, but
only for a year — and still leave it
eligible for certain federal dollars
for family planning.
Planned Parenthood said the
legislation would have a devastat-
ing effect on the 24 million women
who rely on its services. “This is
the worst bill for women’s health
in a generation,” Cecile Richards,
the group’s president, said matter-
of-factly.
Ralph Reed, chairman of the
Faith and Freedom Coalition,
seemed to raise expectations for
defunding, saying he believed
that the Senate might not be as dif-
ficult a hurdle to overcome as in
the past.
Planned Parenthood, he said,
has come to be seen by many Re-
publicans as a political entity
whose goal first and foremost is to
defeat them. “You can’t make the
case anymore that this is a
women’s organization. It’s a po-
lawmaker in the next election. Of
34 House Democrats who op-
posed the health law in 2010, half
still lost their re-elections that
November.
“Every Republican is going to
have to carry the burden of this,”
said Representative Rick Larsen,
Democrat of Washington.
House Democrats have strug-
gled since losing the majority in
2010, failing to capitalize on op-
portunities to expand their num-
bers. There is no guarantee that
they can take full advantage of
these circumstances. But top
Democrats point to one promis-
ing development: They say they
are seeing new enthusiasm
among possible candidates
rather than having to search for
contenders.
“We have too many wanting to
run,” Mr. Hoyer said. “They are
just coming out of the woodwork
because they smell victory in the
air and they are angry about
what the Republicans are doing.”
Even as they saw the advan-
tages, some Democrats were
careful to say they would have
preferred that the repeal bill had
failed rather than provide them
with a political upper hand.
“They will pay the political
consequences, but it would be
better if it didn’t pass,” said Rep-
resentative Kathy Castor, Demo-
crat of Florida.
The similarity to past defining
votes in the House was unmis-
takable. While Republicans
cheered their win, Democrats, in
a bit of precooked theater,
chanted “na na na na, hey hey,
goodbye” from the 1969 song to
give voice to their view that
multiple Republicans were
goners after the vote.
The scene brought to mind the
1993 Clinton administration
budget clash: Republicans
chanted “Goodbye Marjorie”
when Marjorie Margolies-
Mezvinsky, Democrat of Penn-
sylvania, cast the deciding vote.
She later lost her seat. In a 2009
climate vote pushed by House
Democrats, Republicans offered
the refrain “BTU” to remind
Democrats of a 1993 energy vote
that hurt their party.
This time, Democrats say they
will have the last word. They
believe that in delivering a win
demanded by President Trump,
House Republicans have opened
the door to Democratic control of
the House, a reversal that would
put them in a position to chal-
lenge Mr. Trump in a way that
would be impossible were they
kept in the minority.
litical organization,” he said.
Recent polls have shown that
Americans overwhelmingly want
to maintain federal funds for the
group. And many social conserva-
tives say they are not quite sure
what to expect now.
“We’re in a unique and hopeful
moment,” said Representative
Trent Franks, Republican of Ari-
zona. “But I’m not sure how fleet-
ing that might be.”
Given how overwhelmingly
Christian conservative groups
lined up behind Mr. Trump during
the campaign — despite the early
objections — there is probably no
part of his base he is more focused
on repaying. And his efforts on a
range of issues this week reflected
that.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump invited
religious leaders to a Rose Garden
ceremony to watch him sign a new
executive order that is intended to
ease the legal burdens on
Greg Gianforte, left, and Donald Trump Jr. at a campaign rally in Billings, Mont., last month.
Taped, House Candidate Praises Care Bill
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — When Greg
Gianforte, the Republican run-
ning for an open House seat in
Montana, was asked on Thursday
whether he would have supported
the bill repealing the Affordable
Care Act that passed the House
that day, he declined to answer.
“Greg needs to know all the
facts, because it’s important to
know exactly what’s in the bill be-
fore he votes on it,” said a spokes-
man for Mr. Gianforte, who is run-
ning in a special election for the
seat vacated by Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke.
But on the same day, during a
private conference call with Re-
publican-leaning lobbyists in
Washington, Mr. Gianforte offered
a more supportive view of the
health bill. Making the case for the
“national significance” of the
Montana election on May 25, Mr.
Gianforte said: “The votes in the
House are going to determine
whether we get tax reform done,
sounds like we just passed a
health care thing, which I’m
thankful for, sounds like we’re
starting to repeal and replace.”
Mr. Gianforte’s attempt to ap-
peal to two different audiences —
Montana voters skeptical about
the House’s repeal bill and Wash-
ington Republicans eager to undo
President Barack Obama’s signa-
ture domestic accomplishment —
illustrates the complicated poli-
tics surrounding the health law.
While Republicans expect their
elected officials to fulfill their
longstanding vows to tear up the
Affordable Care Act, the broader
electorate is uneasy about aban-
doning the law’s protections and
benefits it has come to depend on.
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churches that bar them from en-
gaging in political activity if they
want to remain tax-exempt. The
night before, he hosted a smaller
group of religious conservatives
for dinner.
But on that measure, too, slight
signs of strain between Mr. Trump
and the movement were showing.
Some groups wanted the presi-
dent to go further in reaffirming
his commitment to their beliefs
and undo a 2014 Obama adminis-
tration order that created new
workplace protections for gay, les-
bian, bisexual and transgender
people. Others also criticized his
executive order as hollow, saying
it was little more than a news re-
lease restating current policy.
Twice now Mr. Trump has de-
clined to change the workplace
protections policy, first in January,
and again this week. A senior
White House official said Wednes-
day that Mr. Trump, who has a
It also plays to the Democratic
line of attack — that Mr. Gianforte
is a New Jersey multimillionaire,
more comfortable with the East
Coast elite than in his adopted
state. Mr. Gianforte has lived in
Montana for nearly 25 years.
Even in Montana — a Republi-
can-leaning state on the presiden-
tial level, but which still elects
Democrats statewide — it ap-
pears no longer politically safe in
the heat of a campaign to offer full-
throated support for repealing
Obamacare.
Asked to reconcile Mr. Gian-
forte’s public and private state-
ments, his campaign manager
said the candidate was only
“thankful” the process of repeal-
ing the law was underway.
“He would not have voted for
the bill because he didn’t know
what was in it,” said Brock
Lowrance, the aide, noting that
the Congressional Budget Office
has not yet offered a fiscal analy-
sis of the measure.
While it has drawn far less in-
terest than a special House elec-
tion in Georgia, the Montana race
is drawing the attention of both
parties. Senator Steve Daines of
Montana announced on the call
that Vice President Mike Pence
would campaign with Mr. Gian-
forte, setting up something of a
proxy fight between the adminis-
tration and Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont, who is set to
stump later this month with the
Democratic nominee, Rob Quist.
Republican groups, alarmed by
the intensity of liberal voters dur-
ing special elections this year,
have been pouring millions into
the state. National Democrats
have been skeptical about the
N A13
mixed record on gay rights but
has been more publicly accepting
than many in his party, was un-
comfortable reversing those pro-
tections.
Some said the president simply
caved. The website the Conserva-
tive Review wrote that the order’s
limited scope “offers no relief
whatsoever for people whose
livelihoods have been threatened
or destroyed by the demands of
the sexual identity activist class
and its corporate and cultural
cronies.”
In most cases, though, religious
conservative leaders praised Mr.
Trump’s action on religious
speech. Tony Perkins, president of
the Family Research Council,
noted that the president was hon-
oring one of his campaign pledges
to them. And he added, “President
Trump is taking a significant first
step to defending religious lib-
erty.”
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prospects of Mr. Quist, a folk sing-
er-turned-novice candidate who
has been battered by stories about
his personal finances. But the
House Democratic campaign arm
has been nudged to put money
into the race.
Mr. Quist has raised more than
$2 million, in large part because of
liberal online donors — a fact that
Mr. Gianforte highlighted on the
Thursday call.
“The Democrats have fired up
this ActBlue organization,” he said
on an audio recording obtained by
The New York Times, referring to
the online Democratic fund-rais-
ing hub. “We’re seeing about
$70,000 a day pouring into the
state from liberals in San Fran-
cisco, New York and Hollywood.”
Asking the lobbyists to give
$5,000 each by Friday to “scare off
some other Democrat money,” Mr.
Gianforte acknowledged that Mr.
Quist had far wider support.
“We’ve had over 5,000 individ-
ual people support the campaign
financially so far,” he said on the
recording. “The challenge is my
opponent has over 30,000 contrib-
utors.”
Polling by both parties has indi-
cated that Mr. Gianforte is leading
in the race, but only narrowly,
which the Republican acknowl-
edged on the call.
“We’re in a single-digit race,” he
said, adding that the left would rel-
ish the symbolic importance of
snatching a Republican-held
House seat. “The Democrats
would like nothing more than to
put one up on the board and take
this away from us to stop the
Trump Train and block tax reform
and block the regulations we’ll be
able to peel back.”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT Health Care
Republicans Disregarded the C.B.O., but It Won’t Be Ignored
By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Now that the House has
passed its big health care bill, it
will find out what that bill could
actually do.
The Congressional Budget
Office, Washington’s nonpartisan
scorekeeper, did not have time to
evaluate the effects of the Ameri-
can Health Care Act before
Thursday’s vote, since the bill
was being amended until just
before passage. But the budget
office will not ignore the health
law, and next week it is expected
to release detailed estimates of
how many people will be covered
by the bill, and at what cost to
the government.
Several senators have said
they won’t proceed with the bill
until they know more about its
effects.
Republicans’ reluctance to
wait for updated estimates be-
came a rallying cry among
Democrats critical of the bill.
Democrats called out “Where’s
the score?” on the House floor
Thursday during debate over the
bill.
During the debate over the
Affordable Care Act in 2009, the
budget office played a central
role. Many Democratic lawmak-
ers would not vote for the bill
without knowing how many
more people it would cover or
that it would not increase the
deficit. This time House Republi-
cans, who have assailed the
budget office’s calculations as
inaccurate, were far less con-
cerned about waiting for a score.
Lawmakers on Thursday
didn’t vote entirely in the dark, of
course. The budget office evalu-
ated an earlier version of the bill,
finding that it would save the
federal government around $330
billion over a decade, while leav-
ing around 24 million fewer
people with health insurance.
The budget office said the bill
would raise insurance de-
ductibles, and that it would lead
to substantial rollbacks of state
Medicaid coverage for the poor.
Changes made to the bill since
that evaluation could change
those numbers. Some are
straightforward — lawmakers
designated more spending for
various programs. But many of
the last-minute changes involved
giving states the authority to
rewrite the rules on insurance
regulations. That means that the
budget office’s task involves as
much political science as eco-
nomics. It will need to predict
how many states would want to
use the waivers allowed under
the bill, and what they would
choose to do with them.
Fact Check: Rumors, Claims
And Context on G.O.P. Health Bill
By LINDA QIU
WASHINGTON — Rumors
that the Republican health care
bill counts rape, domestic vio-
lence and ulcers as uninsurable
pre-existing conditions are circu-
lating among opponents of the
bill. But these claims are overly
simplistic.
The claims conflate what the
bill says and its potential out-
comes. While the bill could weak-
en protections for people with
pre-existing conditions and re-
sult in much more expensive
insurance, the effect ultimately
rests on states and insurers.
More important, the bill does not
specify what a pre-existing con-
dition is, nor does it allow
insurers to deny coverage out-
right, although potentially they
could set premiums beyond the
reach of some sick consumers.
Here is an assessment.
Several liberal websites, like the
Resistance Report, suggested that
the bill allows insurers to
discriminate against rape victims.
“Under Trumpcare plan,
rape would be considered a
pre-existing condition.”
THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. The bill
does not define rape as a pre-
Margot Sanger-Katz contributed
reporting.
Ivanka Trump Promotes Her New Book on Social Media (Though Not in the Media)
By RACHEL ABRAMS
Ivanka Trump will continue to
promote her new book on Twitter
and Instagram, according to a
spokeswoman, weeks after Presi-
dent Trump’s adviser and daugh-
ter pledged not to draw publicity
through a promotional tour or me-
dia appearances.
Ms. Trump, who recently took
an unpaid job in the West Wing,
raised eyebrows on Thursday
when she plugged the book,
“Women Who Work,” to her mil-
Maggie Haberman contributed re-
porting.
Lawmakers exited the Capitol on Thursday after the House narrowly passed the health bill, before the Congressional Budget Office could weigh its impact.
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“They’ll have to gauge the
appetite on the ground, and
make some sensible ballpark
estimate of the implications,”
said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a
former C.B.O. director who is
now the president of the Ameri-
can Action Forum, a right-lean-
ing policy research group. “It’s
very, very hard.”
Mr. Holtz-Eakin pointed out
that the office had to make diffi-
cult estimates all the time. He
recalled a bill passed during the
George W. Bush administration
existing condition, and neither
did insurers before the Afford-
able Care Act. It is possible that
sexual assault victims could see
higher insurance costs, not be-
cause of assault itself but be-
cause of resulting trauma or
sexually transmitted diseases.
Iterations of the claim began to
circulate year ago during the
debate over the Affordable Care
Act. Internet searches on
whether rape is a pre-existing
condition started to spike again
on Wednesday, the day before
the House voted to repeal and
replace the health care law.
This appeared to follow the
publication of an article on Raw-
story: “Trumpcare could make
sexual assault a pre-existing
condition again — depending on
where you live.” While the Raw-
story headline is nuanced, the
claims it may have inspired
rarely are and thus often are less
accurate.
Before the Affordable Care
Act, insurers could practice
“health status underwriting” or
review health records to assess
medical risk, and they could
charge higher prices, or even
deny coverage, for conditions
deemed to be more costly.
Insurers did not typically
directly ask about sexual assault,
or consider it in calculating in-
surance premiums. But they may
have charged more “if they see
lions of followers on social media.
In a Facebook post last month, she
had pledged to abstain from other
types of publicity “out of an abun-
dance of caution and to avoid the
appearance of using my official
role to promote the book.”
A spokeswoman said that Ms.
Trump had decided to promote
her book solely on social media af-
ter consulting with the Office of
Government Ethics, and that her
decision was “consistent” with the
office’s guidance. A spokesman
for the office declined to comment.
Federal law makes it a crime for
government employees to use
that established a federal back-
stop for private terrorism dam-
age insurance. To estimate its
cost, he needed to predict the
likelihood and magnitude of
coming terrorist attacks, and the
way that private insurance com-
panies might handle the claims.
Over all, it appears very likely
that the revised bill will eat into
the deficit reduction estimated in
the original version. If the bill
doesn’t save at least $2 billion
over a decade, it will run into
difficulties. The bill is being
passed using a special budget
procedure in order to avoid a
Senate filibuster. To qualify, it
needs the budget office to say it
will achieve at least that amount
of budget savings.
It’s unclear whether the mix of
new changes will tend to in-
crease or decrease insurance
that you’ve been screened for
S.T.D.s, had treatment for an
S.T.D., taken H.I.V.-preventive
medication, had more than annu-
al pelvic exams or had other
follow-up encounters with the
medical system,” said Sabrina
Corlette, a research professor at
Georgetown’s Health Policy
Institute.
The Affordable Care Act then
mandated “community rating”
(charging the same price regard-
less of health status) and “guar-
anteed issue” (offering coverage
to any applicant).
The Republican health care bill
that passed the House would
allow states to apply for a waiver
from the community-rating rule
for those who haven’t maintained
continuous coverage, effectively
allowing health status underwrit-
ing again, if the Department of
Health and Human Services
grants the waiver. (The bill also
requires states to provide other
health care or cost-sharing op-
tions in lieu of community rat-
ing.) But the bill does not allow
states to waive guaranteed issue.
So if a state chooses to waive
the regulation, insurers could
charge much more for pre-exist-
ing conditions like H.I.V. and
trauma — not rape on its own —
but they cannot deny coverage
outright because of them.
Some websites, like Distractify,
their positions for personal profit.
On Thursday, Ms. Trump
posted a short video of herself
dancing with her children, along
with a link to a recent article about
her career advice book.
“Little moments matter, espe-
cially for working moms!!” Ms.
Trump wrote in the caption.
Norman L. Eisen, the chief
White House ethics adviser under
President Barack Obama, said her
actions could send the wrong mes-
sage to other government offi-
cials: that promoting Trump busi-
nesses was O.K. On Thursday, the
State Department’s Office of
coverage. States that decided to
pursue waivers of the normal
insurance rules would be able to
strip benefit requirements and
permit insurers to charge higher
prices to some customers with
prior illnesses.
Those provisions, taken to-
gether, are likely to lower the
cost of insurance for healthier
people, and those lower prices
could lead more of them to buy
insurance than they would under
the original version of the bill.
(Sicker people, who may find
insurance less affordable, may
exit.)
Edward Lorenzen, a senior
adviser for the Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget, a
research group, says the changes
will cause fewer Americans to go
without health insurance than
the original bill. In an analysis of
also claimed domestic abuse was a
pre-existing condition under the
bill.
“The New AHCA Bill Lists
Sexual Assault And
Domestic Abuse As
‘Pre-Existing Conditions’”
THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. Before the
Affordable Care Act, several
states did not have laws that
prohibited insurers from counting
domestic violence as a pre-exist-
ing condition. But it’s unclear if
insurers actually did deny cover-
age to victims of domestic vio-
lence in the years that immedi-
ately preceded passage of the
health law.
Five states — Idaho, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Ver-
mont and Wyoming — do not bar
insurers from considering domes-
tic violence a declinable pre-
existing condition, said Gretchen
Borchelt, the vice president for
reproductive rights and health at
the National Women’s Law Cen-
Some ethics experts
wonder if the wrong
message is sent.
Global Women’s Issues reposted a
Twitter message promoting Ms.
Trump’s book but later deleted it.
Are government officials “re-
sponding to a signal from the
Trumps?” Mr. Eisen wrote in an
email. “That is a legitimate ques-
tion, and an important one.”
Richard W. Painter, the chief
the changes, the group’s staff
noted that any coverage increase
would further erode any deficit
savings from the bill.
Douglas Elmendorf, who led
the budget office during the
Obamacare debate, said he
tended to think the changes
would increase the number of
Americans without health insur-
ance, not decrease it.
But he emphasized that the
distribution of who got coverage
under the amended bill was
likely to be different. On a rela-
tive basis, more young and
healthy people could get insur-
ance, while fewer older, sicker
people could be able to afford
coverage.
“What matters is not just how
many people have insurance,”
said Mr. Elmendorf, who is now
the dean of the Harvard Kennedy
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ter. Many insurers did deny cov-
erage to domestic violence vic-
tims in the 1990s, according to
multiple surveys. When Politi-
Fact examined the issue in 2009,
it found no evidence this was an
ongoing or widespread practice.
Others, like the People for Bernie
Sanders, shared an image claiming
the bill would “end” insurance for
those with pre-existing conditions.
“217 Republicans voted
today to end your
healthcare if you suffer
from” a range of medical
issues including
AIDS/H.I.V., acne,
depression, heartburn and
ulcers.
THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. Many of
the medical issues specified by
the image, courtesy of Senator
Sherrod Brown, Democrat of
Ohio, were considered pre-exist-
ing conditions before the Afford-
White House ethics adviser under
President George W. Bush, said
the person responsible for the
State Department retweeting
could have violated standards
prohibiting federal employees
from promoting products. A
spokeswoman for the department
declined to comment.
But Ms. Trump does not appear
to have violated any laws, ethics
experts said.
“We don’t outlaw the appear-
ance of conflict,” said Edwin
Williamson, a government ethics
expert who was the State Depart-
ment’s legal adviser under Presi-
GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
School. “But whether people who
really need insurance have insur-
ance.”
We should find out next week.
Perhaps the most politically
salient new question the budget
office will examine is what the
bill means for Americans with
pre-existing health conditions.
Several reluctant Republican
lawmakers were persuaded to
vote for the bill after $8 billion
was added to help lower costs for
people who would face higher
prices in waiver states.
Representative Fred Upton of
Michigan told reporters that he
had been assured the funding
would be enough to make a dif-
ference. Some independent esti-
mates have differed. The budget
office’s answer may influence the
future of the political debate.
A stack of amendments for the
American Health Care Act,
which has passed the House.
able Care Act. But the bill would
not literally “end” coverage
because of them as it does not
remove the act’s rule on guaran-
teed issue and requires the state
waiver process.
Of all the conditions listed, the
Kaiser Family Foundation found
evidence that before the Afford-
able Care Act, about three dozen
of them were declinable — from
AIDS/H.I.V. and lupus to severe
obesity and diabetes. Others
such as acne, allergies, mi-
graines and ear infections could
trigger higher costs or fewer
benefits.
Kaiser also stated that the vast
majority of people with these
conditions have insurance
through employers or other
public options like Medicaid.
Again, this doesn’t mean that
the Republican bill gives insurers
a free pass to deny coverage
because of these conditions,
though people who, for example,
cannot afford higher costs could
lose insurance in states that
receive a waiver from communi-
ty ratings.
The bill could lead to “astro-
nomically high premium in-
creases for people with many of
these conditions, if they buy
insurance on their own and have
a gap in coverage,” said Larry
Levitt, an executive with Kaiser.
“Even if states seek a waiver, not
everyone with these conditions
would lose insurance, but some
certainly would.”
dent George Bush.
Ms. Trump, who wrote the book
before her father was elected
president, has had to navigate a
minefield of potential conflicts of
interest since she became an offi-
cial federal employee. She
continues to own her fashion
brand, and she retains the ability
to approve potential new deals
through a newly formed trust — a
mechanism that her advisers say
will help minimize potential prob-
lems.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
After Vowing to Curb Drug Use, Trump Seeks to Slash Drug Control Funds
White House Proposes 95% Reduction
In Office’s Budget Amid an Opioid Crisis
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON — When he
was running for office, Donald J.
Trump promised to rid America of
the scourge of drugs, vowing to
crack down on dealers and invest
heavily in programs to get heroin
and other opioids off the streets.
But on Friday, President
Trump’s administration revealed
plans to gut the 2018 budget of his
Office of National Drug Control
Policy. According to an Office of
Management and Budget docu-
ment obtained by The New York
Times, the White House is propos-
ing to slash the drug policy office
budget by about 95 percent, to just
$24 million from $388 million.
The cuts would mean the office
could lose up to 33 employees. The
budget would also eliminate grant
programs it administers, includ-
ing the High Intensity Drug Traf-
ficking Areas Program and the
Drug-Free Communities Support
Program. According to the docu-
ment, the Trump administration
thinks the programs are duplica-
tive of other federal and state ini-
tiatives.
The proposal was rebuked by
Republicans and Democrats as a
potentially reckless move. Rich
Baum, the acting drug czar ap-
pointed by Mr. Trump, expressed
anguish about the cuts in an email
sent to the office’s staff on Friday.
“These drastic proposed cuts
are frankly heartbreaking and, if
carried out, would cause us to lose
many good people who contribute
greatly to O.N.D.C.P.’s mission and
core activities,” Mr. Baum wrote.
“I don’t want to see this happen.”
The White House maintains
that Mr. Trump’s commitment to
defeating the opioid epidemic will
be addressed in his 2018 budget re-
quest and that a bevy of federal
programs already exist to fight
the war on drugs. The administra-
tion envisions a streamlined
O.N.D.C.P. coordinating drug pol-
Many Ask for Asylum,
But It’s Rarely Granted
By VIVIAN YEE
For nearly nine hours on
Wednesday, it seemed as though a
tweetstorm might be enough to
stop a deportation.
Beginning with a digital bull-
horn blast at 12:05 p.m. — “Twit-
ter: it’s urgent” — Senator Bob
Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania,
directed a cannonade of tweets at
President Trump and his adminis-
tration, describing the plight of a
Honduran woman and her son
who had sought refuge in the
United States from the hit men
who shot her cousin to death at
home more than a year ago.
Mother and son would be facing
a “potential death sentence” if
they were forced to return, he
said.
Reince Priebus, the White
House chief of staff, he was report-
ing, was promising to look into the
matter.
By about 9 p.m., however, Mr.
Casey conceded defeat. The
mother and child, he wrote, had
been flown back to Honduras.
“This child and his mother de-
served better from this Adminis-
tration,” he posted. “They got the
absolute worst.”
Mr. Trump’s supporters and his
detractors may debate whether
they deserved better. But history
and statistics show what they got:
the norm.
For Central American migrants
like the Honduran woman and her
son, fleeing the violence and law-
lessness that have driven tens of
thousands of people northward
through Mexico to the United
States over the last several years,
asylum is often claimed and rarely
granted. From 2011 to 2016, immi-
gration judges denied from 77 to
83 percent of asylum requests
from people from El Salvador,
Honduras and Guatemala, the
three countries that send the most
Central American asylum seek-
ers, according to data compiled by
researchers at Syracuse Univer-
sity.
Many migrants, including the
Honduran woman Mr. Casey
posted about, do not even make it
before an immigration judge. To
reach that stage, asylum seekers
must first pass an interview,
known as a “credible fear” inter-
view, with an asylum officer who
determines whether there is a sig-
nificant possibility that they will
ultimately prevail. Some migrants
and lawyers who work with them
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icy in a fashion similar to how the
National Economic Council
coordinates economic policy, help-
ing to craft it without making
grants. But critics say the cuts
would weaken a centralized office
key to battling drugs.
Mr. Trump has so far struggled
to get his spending priorities
pushed through Congress. Repub-
licans are also under fire from
those who claim that the health
care legislation passed by the
House of Representatives this
week would reduce mental health
and drug addition coverage of-
fered through insurance plans if it
became law.
The cuts also seemed at odds
with Mr. Trump’s stated views on
drug addiction. In March, the
White House announced plans to
set up a commission to address
the country’s opioid crisis. At the
time, Mr. Trump said, “This is a to-
tal epidemic and I think it’s proba-
bly, almost un-talked about com-
pared to the severity that we’re
witnessing.”
As a candidate, Mr. Trump
talked regularly about the coun-
try’s drug addiction problem and
said drugs were a reason that a
wall was needed along the border
with Mexico.
“We’re going to take all of these
kids — and people, not just kids —
that are totally addicted and they
can’t break it,” Mr. Trump said at
an event in Ohio last year. “We’re
going to work with them, we’re go-
ing to spend the money, we’re go-
ing to get that habit broken.”
The Trump administration re-
leased a “skinny budget” in March
that asked for deep cuts to domes-
tic programs in exchange for a big
increase in military spending, but
did not detail the plans for the
White House’s drug office. A more
comprehensive budget will be re-
leased this month.
John Czwartacki, a spokesman
for the Office of Management and
say that since Mr. Trump’s elec-
tion, some border agents have
turned away asylum seekers
without so much as an interview, a
potential violation of American
and international law.
Mr. Casey sought to put the
Honduran woman’s case on Mr.
Trump’s conscience. Her case,
however, unfolded largely under
the auspices of the Obama admin-
istration.
“I wish this were an exception
to the rule,” said Swapna Reddy, a
co-director of the New York-based
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project,
which worked on the case. “It is an
exception to the rule in that the
senator got involved.”
The Honduran woman, whom
The New York Times is identify-
ing only by her initials — F. H. —
because of the death threats she
has said she faces at home,
crossed the southern border with
her young son into Texas in De-
cember 2015. She says she left af-
ter witnessing the shooting of her
cousin, fearing she would be next.
But she failed to pass her credible
fear interview.
For the next year and five
months, she and her son were de-
tained, mostly at the Berks
County Residential Center in
Leesport, Pa., while lawyers tried
to appeal her case.
Advocates say it is not uncom-
mon for people in situations like
theirs to encounter difficulties
while trying to press asylum
claims.
The American asylum system
was established in the early 1980s
with World War II refugees, not
gang violence, in mind. Under the
law, asylum seekers must show
they fear persecution because of
their race, religion, nationality, po-
litical opinions or membership in
a “particular social group.”
To fear gang killings is, often,
not enough.
“Asylum does not solve every-
thing,” said Dana Leigh Marks, an
immigration judge in California
and president of the National As-
sociation of Immigration Judges.
She noted that even if the person
is genuinely in danger, immigra-
tion officers must ensure that
each claim meets certain legal
conditions. “Imagine I’m the
judge,” she said, “and I have to go
through each of these points and
show that you have to qualify on
each basis.” Any one that isn’t
proven can derail a claim.
Poverty is also not enough. Im-
migration officials are sometimes
wary of letting through economic
migrants who may have memo-
rized a script to claim asylum — a
practice so widespread in some
immigrant populations that it can
support a cottage industry of im-
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The police search a man for drugs in Huntington, W.Va. The White House revealed plans to gut its drug control policy office.
Budget, said in a statement that
the budget was still under review.
“Reports that suggest budgetary
numbers or policy decisions are
premature and subject to change
before the late May publication of
the budget,” he said.
Some advocacy organizations,
such as the Drug Policy Alliance,
were cautiously optimistic that
changes to the O.N.D.C.P. could be
helpful. The drug epidemic has
worsened in recent years under
its watch and there is concern that
the Trump administration would
use a powerful drug czar to ag-
gressively treat drug abuse as a
criminal justice issue rather than
as a public health problem.
Above, one of the tweets sent by Senator Bob Casey about the possible deportation of a Hon-
duran woman and her son. Below, the detention center in Leesport, Pa., where the two were held.
migration fraud, as it has in New
York’s Chinatowns.
In 2015, the Obama administra-
tion designated female heads of
households as a “particular social
group,” a move that may have
made it easier for women
traveling with children to qualify
for asylum. Still, gang violence
has not risen to the same status as
religious persecution or other asy-
lum grounds. Elevating it to the
same level could invite even more
“The reality is that O.N.D.C.P. is
an agency in dire need of reform,”
said Grant Smith, deputy director
of national affairs for the Drug
Policy Alliance, who said that the
grant programs being cut “are a
phenomenal waste of money that
contribute to the incarceration
and stigmatization of drug users.”
Groups that are dedicated to
combating substance abuse were
worried on Friday and a coalition
of them scrambled to draft a letter
to the White House condemning
the cuts.
Kevin Sabet, president of Smart
Approaches to Marijuana, who
advised three former presidents
on drug policy and organized the
Central Americans to rush north;
instead, the Obama administra-
tion pushed Central American
countries and Mexico to thin the
flow of migrants before they ever
reached the border.
There are other obstacles:
Trauma may make it difficult for
people to recount their stories
thoroughly; rape victims can
freeze up when asked to talk about
their assaults; poverty, illiteracy
and language barriers prevent
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letter, said he was stumped by Mr.
Trump’s decision to make cuts to
his drug office. “It felt like a
sucker punch in the face,” Mr. Sa-
bet said after word trickled out
about the cuts. “This is a time
when we have one of the largest
opioid epidemics in history and
the rise of new industry of people
selling pot candy to kids.”
Democrats pounced on the pro-
posed cuts as a significant broken
promise by the president.
“This is a cruel betrayal by
Trump,” said Daniel Wessel, a
spokesman for the Democratic
National Committee. “Through-
out the campaign, Trump
promised communities ravaged
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many people from hiring lawyers,
even though legal representation
greatly increases their chances of
prevailing; documentation of
their claims may be impossible to
get from police departments cor-
rupted by gangs back home.
Who wins and who loses in the
process is an inconsistent busi-
ness. Asylum officers and immi-
gration judges have broad discre-
tion. Researchers have found that
the likelihood that an asylum
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by opioid addiction that he would
come to their aid. That was a lie.”
Some Republicans were also
unhappy, arguing that Mr. Trump
was underestimating the impor-
tance of the drug czar’s work. Sen-
ator Rob Portman of Ohio said
that the antidrug programs that
the Trump administration wants
to eliminate have had a pro-
foundly positive impact in his
state.
“We have a heroin and prescrip-
tion drug crisis in this country and
we should be supporting efforts to
reverse this tide, not proposing
drastic cuts to those who serve on
the front lines of this epidemic,”
Mr. Portman said.
A hard truth for
migrants that isn’t
getting any easier.
seeker will succeed varies enor-
mously depending on which judge
hears the case.
“You don’t really know what the
basis for the asylum officer’s deci-
sion is,” said Lindsay Nash, an im-
migration lawyer who teaches at a
legal clinic at the Benjamin N. Car-
dozo School of Law.
Lawyers took the case of F. H.,
along with those of two dozen
other women detained at Berks, to
federal court, arguing that they
should get new appointments
with asylum officers because their
original interviews had been con-
ducted improperly. Without offer-
ing an opinion on the women’s
claims, the Federal District Court
ruled that it could not review the
case. The Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit agreed, and the Su-
preme Court declined to hear the
case.
Alluding to Mr. Casey’s tweets,
Liz Johnson, a spokeswoman for
Immigration and Customs En-
forcement, said in a statement:
“It’s unfortunate that politicians
are repeating misleading informa-
tion and, in the process, demoniz-
ing the men and women whose job
it is to enforce the laws Congress
writes.” Ms. Johnson said F. H.
had been deported only after “her
claims were denied at multiple
levels and she had exhausted all
legal remedies available to her.”
Lawyers were still pressing
F. H.’s claim when she was
awakened about 3:30 a.m. on
Wednesday and told she was be-
ing deported, her lawyers said.
Equipped with new information
from Honduras — another cousin
had been killed, and their client
had received new death threats
while she was in detention — they
had argued again for a new asy-
lum interview, a request that was
denied Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, other lawyers had
begun the process of shielding her
son from deportation under a spe-
cial protected status reserved for
children who have been abused or
neglected by one or both parents.
(His father, who is also in the
United States, was never part of
his life.)
Advocates said the Obama ad-
ministration had shown more
flexibility than the Trump admin-
istration in such cases, sometimes
agreeing to delay deportations
while legal maneuverings
continued. But the immigration
authorities were legally allowed
to deport F. H. and her son.
This time, F. H.’s lawyers were
in the middle of a hearing related
to her son’s eligibility for special
status when they got the call.
Mother and son had been put on a
plane.
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Officer Who Fatally Shot
15-Year-Old Texas Boy
Is Charged With Murder
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
and MATTHEW HAAG
BALCH SPRINGS, Tex. — A
police officer in a Dallas suburb
was charged with murder on Fri-
day, six days after he fired his rifle
into a car full of teenagers leaving
a party, killing a black 15-year-old
in the front passenger seat.
The Dallas County Sheriff’s De-
partment issued a warrant on Fri-
day for the arrest of the officer,
Roy D. Oliver II, 37, the authorities
said. Mr. Oliver turned himself in
Friday night in
Parker County,
Tex., officials
said.
Mr. Oliver,
who was a pa-
trol officer with
the Balch
Springs Police
Department,
responded late
Roy D. last Saturday to
Oliver II reports of un-
derage drink-
ing at a house party. Mr. Oliver
and another officer entered the
house but left after the police said
they heard gunshots outside the
residence.
As a car with five black
teenagers inside drove away from
the house, Mr. Oliver, who is white,
fired his AR-15 rifle, fatally strik-
ing Jordan Edwards, a freshman
at Mesquite High School, in the
head, according to the police and
Manny Fernandez reported from
Balch Springs, and Matthew Haag
from New York. Serge F. Kovaleski
contributed reporting from New
York, and Patrick McGee from
Dallas.
Hiring Burst in April Drives U.S. Unemployment Rate to Its Lowest Level in 10 Years
From Page A1
that this late into an expansion the
economy is still adding jobs well
above the steady-state pace.”
The April figures renewed a
conversation among economists
about whether the economy was
at “full employment,” the point at
which everyone who wants a job
can get one at the current level of
pay.
There was less agreement on
who deserved the credit. Republi-
cans crowed about how many jobs
had been created since President
Trump took office in January,
while Democrats pointed to the
ongoing economic legacy of Presi-
dent Barack Obama.
Three months is still a short
span in the life of an administra-
tion, and Mr. Trump has not yet
pushed through the main planks
of his pro-growth agenda like tax
reform or a large investment in in-
frastructure. Even so, some econ-
omists gave the president credit
for a jump in optimism.
“Sharp increases in consumer
and business confidence can have
real consequences that show up in
increased hiring and investment,”
said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a for-
mer director of the Congressional
Budget Office who advised Sena-
tor John McCain, Republican of
Arizona, during his 2008 presiden-
tial campaign.
Mr. Holtz-Eakin added that Mr.
Trump’s freezing of new regula-
tions and elimination of others
were having a measurable im-
pact.
“The observed pace of regula-
tory activity has come to a stand-
still,” he said. In contrast, he ar-
gued, a persistent rollout of regu-
lations by the Obama administra-
tion had added millions of dollars
in costs for businesses each week.
Another major factor in the
economy’s performance is, of
course, the Federal Reserve
Board, which put a confident
stamp on the economy this week
and plans to raise interest rates
further this year.
The jobs report on Friday
strengthens that case, though an-
other report is due before Fed pol-
icy makers meet again in June.
And the wide swing between
March’s disappointing jobs
Nelson D. Schwartz contributed re-
porting.
For Only the Second Time, F.D.A. Approves a Drug to Treat Lou Gehrig’s Disease
By DENISE GRADY
A new drug for amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s
disease, was approved on Friday
by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion.
The drug, called Radicava or
edaravone, slowed the progres-
sion of the degenerative disease in
a six-month study in Japan. It
must be given by intravenous in-
fusion and will cost $145,524 a
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
the law firm representing the Ed-
wards family.
The Balch Springs police chief
fired Mr. Oliver on Tuesday, say-
ing he had violated departmental
policies. In the Police Depart-
ment’s first account of the fatal
shooting, Chief Jonathan Haber
had said that the car was revers-
ing aggressively toward the offi-
cers when Mr. Oliver opened fire.
But after Chief Haber reviewed
the two officers’ body cameras, he
corrected that description: The
car had reversed but was acceler-
ating forward and away from the
officers when Jordan was struck.
The Edwards family released a
statement on Friday evening call-
ing the arrest warrant “a bit of a
reprieve in a time of intense
mourning.”
“Although we realize that there
remain significant obstacles
ahead on the road to justice, this
action brings hope that the justice
system will bend against the over-
whelming weight of our frustra-
tion,” the family said.
The warrant was issued the day
before Jordan’s funeral. Friends
and relatives are planning to
gather Saturday at Mesquite
Friendship Baptist Church in
nearby Mesquite, Tex. The funeral
is closed to the public.
Cedric W. Davis Sr., a former
mayor of Balch Springs, said the
news of the murder charge would
help ease tensions in the city, a
working-class suburb of 25,000
east of Dallas.
“I think the benefit here is that it
moved fast,” said Mr. Davis, who
became Balch Springs’s first black
mayor when he was elected in
2008. “The charge came quickly.
NOT QUITE THERE
The labor market has seen strong
data, but it’s not yet at the elusive
full employment. Page B1.
growth figure, which was revised
to 79,000, and April’s vibrant one
was a useful reminder that every
monthly jobs report provides only
a temporary and incomplete snap-
shot of the economy.
Whatever effect Mr. Trump’s
policies are having so far, econo-
mists agree that presidents al-
ways tend to be given much more
responsibility for the economy’s
ups and downs than they deserve.
“We have a big, big economy and
the overall shape is made by mil-
lions and millions of individual de-
cisions,” said Michael Strain, an
economist at the American Enter-
prise Institute, a conservative
think tank. “We tend to give too
much emphasis to role of the pres-
ident.”
Certainly, the administration’s
solidly pro-business agenda has
buoyed many executives. At the
same time, they have steadily
complained about a growing
shortage of workers.
“It’s not an employer’s market,”
said Patrick Bass, chief executive
of Thyssenkrupp North America,
which makes elevators, steel and
other industrial products.
Based in Germany,
Thyssenkrupp employs more
than 15,000 people in the United
States, but “the labor market is
very competitive at all levels,” Mr.
Bass said. “We have more
positions open than we’ve been
able to fill.”
Yet if shortages were as acute
as advertised, then wages would
be bid up at a faster rate. Average
hourly earnings, though, rose by
0.3 percent in April, bringing the
year-over-year growth to 2.5 per-
cent. Last year at this time, in-
creases were the same but infla-
tion was lower, further shrinking
the impact of any wage increases.
Employers must decide
whether to buy skills or to build
them, said Michael Stull, a senior
vice president at the staffing com-
pany Manpower North America.
The small pressure on wages, he
said, is evidence that they have
been trying to buy them, but more
businesses are expressing an in-
terest in partnerships with educa-
year, according to its manufactur-
er, MT Pharma America, a subsid-
iary of the Japanese company Mi-
tsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corpora-
tion.
Radicava is only the second
drug ever approved to treat A.L.S.
The first, riluzole, was approved
by the F.D.A. more than 20 years
ago. Riluzole can increase sur-
vival by two or three months.
There is no information yet about
whether Radicava has any effect
on survival.
In the study in Japan, 137 pa-
tients were picked at random to
receive either Radicava or a pla-
cebo. At the end of six months, the
condition of those taking the drug
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
In those previous cases, it took
months and months,” he said, re-
ferring to other high-profile shoot-
ings of young black men by police
officers across the country.
The Edwards family urged peo-
ple on Friday not to protest at Jor-
dan’s funeral. “Though we under-
stand what his life and death
mean symbolically, we are not
ready to make a martyr of our
son,” the family said.
Linda Oliver, Mr. Oliver’s
mother, said Friday night, “We are
under a hard no comment.” She
said that her son is being repre-
sented by James Lane, a Fort
Worth lawyer, who did not return
a call or an email.
The charges against Mr. Oliver
came during another week of na-
tional debate about race and po-
lice brutality and amid uncer-
tainty over how police violence
will be addressed by the Trump
administration. The Justice De-
partment under Attorney General
The Labor Picture in April
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
5.0 %
4.8
4.6
4.4
M J J A S O
UNEMPLOYMENT DEMOGRAPHICS
APRIL
White 3.8 %
Black 7.9
Hispanic* 5.2
Asian 3.1 †
Teenagers 14.7
(16-19)
DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT
In weeks
APRIL
Average 24.1
Median 10.2
EMPLOYMENT Nonfarm payroll, 12-month change
+2%
+1
0 *Hispanics can be of any race. †Not seasonally adjusted.
M J J A S O
Source: Bureau of Labor Statisics
tional institutions or in developing
skills so that new hires “can earn
while they learn.”
Workers with fewer skills or
less experience can often be hired
at a cut rate. Some may have come
from the ranks of part-time work-
ers who want full-time jobs and of
those who had previously been
too discouraged to look. There
was a sharp drop last month in the
broader measure of unemploy-
ment, which includes individuals
in both categories, to 8.6 percent
from 8.9 percent. That is close to
A treatment is found
to slow weakening
and paralysis.
declined less than those receiving
placebos.
Dr. Neil A. Shneider, director of
the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS
Center at Columbia University
Medical Center, said, “The effect
is modest but significant.”
He added, “I’m very happy,
frankly, that there is a second drug
approved for A.L.S.”
Jeff Sessions has indicated it will
move away from the aggressive
efforts of the Obama administra-
tion to oversee law enforcement
agencies.
Events of the past week re-
vealed little about the depart-
ment’s new direction. Federal pro-
sectors received a guilty plea by a
white police officer who fatally
shot a black man in South Car-
olina, but the department declined
to press charges against two offi-
cers involved in the fatal shooting
of a black Louisiana man.
Still, the charges brought Fri-
day by Dallas County were seen
by black leaders in the region as a
positive step.
Mr. Oliver became a police offi-
cer after serving as an infantry-
man in the Army, eventually ris-
ing to sergeant. He was deployed
twice to Iraq, from October 2004 to
September 2005 and again in 2009
from January to November. In an
interview this week, Ms. Oliver re-
SHARE OF
POPULATION
Employed
4.4%
Labor force (workers
and unemployed)
‘HIDDEN’ UNEMPLOYMENT
In millions
Working part time, but
N D J F M A
want full-time work
People who currently
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
CHANGE CHANGE
want a job§
– 0.1 pts. – 0.5 pts. UNEMPLOYMENT BY
– 0.1 – 0.9 EDUCATION LEVEL
+ 0.1 – 0.9
Less than high
– 0.1 † – 0.5 † school
+ 1.0 – 1.3 High school
Some college
Bachelor’s or higher
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
TYPE OF WORK
CHANGE CHANGE
In millions
– 4.7 % –13.0 %
– 1.0 – 8.9 Nonfarm
Goods
Services
Agriculture
AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS
Rank-and-file
workers
Figures are seasonally adjusted, except where noted.
§People not working who say they would like to be.
N D J F M A Includes discouraged workers and those who cannot work
for reasons including ill health.
the prerecession rate.
Less encouraging was a dip in
the proportion of adults who have
a job or want one. That measure,
known as the labor participation
rate, edged down to 62.9 percent
last month from 63 percent, a sign
that workers who had been side-
lined are not being drawn back
into the labor market.
“This gets to be the real issue,”
said Diane Swonk, founder of DS
Economics in Chicago. “As good
as this report is, it points to how
hard it is to bring in those mar-
The disease kills nerve cells
that control voluntary muscles, so
patients gradually weaken and
become paralyzed. Most die
within three to five years, usually
from respiratory failure. About
12,000 to 15,000 people in the
United States have A.L.S., accord-
ing to the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
Dr. Shneider predicted that pa-
tients would be eager to try the
new drug. He said several of his
patients were already receiving it
because they had obtained it
themselves from Japan. If more
want it, he will prescribe it, he
said.
“It’s very safe,” he said.
Jordan Edwards, seen with his
father, Odell, was killed by a
police officer last Saturday as
he left a party. Hundreds of
people attended a vigil for
Jordan on Thursday in Balch
Springs, Tex.
TONY GUTIERREZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
called that a suicide attacker set “scary,” and others said Mr. Oliver
off an explosion at a military mess was uncooperative and cursed at
tent in December 2004, killing 22 an assistant district attorney.
people, while Mr. Oliver happened Balch Springs suspended him for
to be away from the base. 16 hours and ordered him to attend
Before he was hired by the anger management training.
Balch Springs Police Department, A lawyer for the Edwards fam-
Mr. Oliver worked as a police offi- ily, S. Lee Merritt, reflected this
cer for about a year starting in week on Mr. Oliver’s past.
2010 in Dalworthington Gardens, “I think we see two things out of
a small town outside Fort Worth. military-trained policemen,” he
He received no disciplinary ac- said. “Sometimes, you get some of
tions or complaints during his the best policemen out there.
time as an officer there, according They’re calm, they’ve learned to
to the city’s Department of Public operate in the battlefield. They’ve
Safety. He submitted his volun- been extensively trained, a lot
tary resignation in May 2011 and more than your average officer.
began officially working for Balch And at other times you have offi-
Springs two months later. cers who are dealing with the ef-
Mr. Oliver was reprimanded by fects of being in a war zone, the
the Balch Springs Police Depart- post-traumatic effects.”
ment in 2013 for aggressive and “As I learn more about this offi-
unprofessional behavior while cer,” Mr. Merritt continued, “he
working with Dallas County seems to be one who had some
prosecutors on a drunken-driving problems. It should have been
case. A prosecutor described the dealt with and it should have been
interactions with Mr. Oliver as identified a long time ago.”
by 37,000, the monthly average in
the sector was down from last
year at the same time. “Health
care employment since the begin-
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
ning of the year is not the driver it
APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
once was,” Ms. Swonk said, calling
60.2 % + 0.1 pts. + 0.5 pts. it a “residual of uncertainty re-
62.9 – 0.1 + 0.1 garding health care coverage.”
(The biggest gains were found
in the leisure and hospitality sec-
tors. “They’re not buying cars, but
they’re buying vacations,” Mr.
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
APRIL CHANGE CHANGE Swonk said.)
Owners of small and medium-
5.3 – 5.1 % – 11.7%
size businesses tell pollsters that
they are optimistic about the
5.6 † – 1.0 – 2.0 economy, despite several weak
economic indicators, said Cather-
ine Barrera, an economics profes-
sor at Cornell University and the
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
chief economic adviser for
APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
ZipRecruiter, an online jobs plat-
6.5 % – 0.3 pts. – 1.0pts.
form. But many employers have
yet to act on their stated inten-
4.6 – 0.3 – 0.8 tions to add workers. “The thing
3.7 Unch. – 0.4 that stands out most,” Ms. Barrera
said, is the “gap between that op-
2.4 – 0.1 Unch.
timism and the follow-through on
that optimism.”
Matthew Dolly, director of re-
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
search at Transwestern, a na-
APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
tional commercial real estate firm,
146.1 + 0.1% + 1.6% said: “Businesses want to hire
20.0 + 0.1 + 1.2 and planned on hiring. But until
+ 0.2 policies are ironed out, hiring will
126.1 + 1.6
remain stagnant for a bit while
2.6 + 5.9 + 2.6 that happens.”
Even after a policy is carried
out, it can take time before the ef-
1-MONTH 1-YEAR fect kicks in. When it comes to in-
APRIL CHANGE CHANGE dividual tax cuts, for example,
$900.94 +0.6% + 2.5 % consumers have historically
started to spend only when the ex-
tra money is in hand, not when it is
promised, said William Gale, a
senior fellow at the Brookings In-
stitution.
Gauging the impact on busi-
nesses is much more complicated.
THE NEW YORK TIMES “We generally think it takes
about a decade for the economic
effects of a tax plan to fully phase
ginalized workers. With skills ero-
in,” said Kyle Pomerleau, director
sion, people in long-term unem-
of federal projects at the conser-
ployment have gotten into a vi- vative Tax Foundation.
cious cycle. An incoming tide does And maybe not even then, given
not lift all boats.” how many variables affect invest-
And the divisions among Re- ment and the economy, said Alan
publicans in Washington that Viard, a senior fellow at the Amer-
have left the future of the Afford- ican Enterprise Institute.
able Care Act uncertain even after “You might never be able to pin
the House vote on Thursday to re- down what happened due to the
peal it have put some employers tax cut, as there would be no way
in a wait-and-see mode. to know what would have hap-
Ms. Swonk noted, for example, pened without the tax cut,” he
that while hiring in health care said. “We can’t observe the path
and social-assistance jobs was up not taken.”
But he was uncertain about symptoms. It can slow the decline,
whether he would actually recom- but that is not something a patient
mend it, because the method of will notice.
administration is difficult. Pa-
tients have to have an intravenous
According to the F.D.A., the
most common adverse reactions
line inserted and left in place in- were bruising and gait disturb-
definitely, which poses an infec- ance. There can be other serious
tion risk. The first round of treat- risks that require immediate care,
ment requires a one-hour infusion like hives, swelling or shortness of
every day for 14 days, followed by breath, and allergic reactions that
14 days off. After that, the infu- can be life threatening in people
sions are given daily for 10 out of 14 who are sensitive to sulfite.
days, with 14 days off. MT Pharma America said it
“If it were a pill and easily ad- would provide some co-pay assist-
ministered, I’d be less reluctant to ance to patients with commercial
use it,” Dr. Shneider said. insurance, and other help to peo-
He added that the drug will not ple who are uninsured or face de-
make patients feel better or lays in coverage. Those who qual-
stronger. It does not improve ify might even be treated for free.
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 A17
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY HEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Top, from left: a terra cotta architectural sculpture from around 1875, a water spout and a Norseman are among the pieces on display at the Anonymous Arts
Museum in Charlotteville, N.Y. Above left, a piece called “Muse of Sculpture” was believed to be a favorite of Ivan Karp, who salvaged many of the pieces.

A Rural Retreat for New York City’s Angels and Gargoyles

By JAMES BARRON
CHARLOTTEVILLE, N.Y. — New York City
has nearly 750 museums and galleries that
showcase paintings, dinosaurs, ships, fire
trucks and gangsters, to name a few. But when
it comes to a certain category of lost New York,
the most intriguing collection is in a museum
175 miles away: stone fragments that once
adorned city buildings.
They are a throwback to an era of embellish-
ment — scores of exuberant faces positioned
cheek by jowl, sometimes literally; angels and
sea monsters; griffins and goddesses; smiling
cherubs and stern knights in helmets. They
now reside here in the Anonymous Arts Mu-
seum, in a hamlet where the soundtrack out-
side, when there is one, is not taxis honking or
bicyclists shouting “Get out of the way!” It is
roosters crowing.
The museum is a shrine to decoration from
the days before long smooth walls of glass. But
the museum’s home is not made of the ma-
terials it celebrates: granite, marble, lime-
stone, sandstone and various kinds of terra
cotta. The building is all wood.
The artifacts on display came from demoli-
tion sites in New York, starting in the late 1950s.
They were salvaged by an art dealer, Ivan Karp.
He was known in the art world for pioneering
the way for galleries in SoHo and for promoting
Pop Art pillars like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichten-
stein and Robert Rauschenberg. But he also la-
mented the loss of the cityscape he had grown
up with.
So, operating as a self-described “rubble
rouser,” he set out to save what he could, driv-
ing around in a beat-up Jeep in search of cor-
nices, capitals and gargoyles. Many were high
up. A few would have been right at eye level for
a second-story man.
Mr. Karp stashed some of his finds in the
basement of his gallery on West Broadway, but
A Museum Founded by a ‘Rubble Rouser’
Who Retrieved Pieces From Demolition Sites
Joe Dahms installed the artifacts and han-
dled carpentry work. The pieces are on
display from noon to 3 p.m. on Sundays.
in the 1980s, he and his wife bought the building
here and opened the museum. They called it the
Anonymous Arts Museum because they never
found a signature on any of the artifacts they
retrieved.
Like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it has
its presidential portraits. Abraham Lincoln, in
limestone, came from a long-gone building in
Brooklyn. So did Chester A. Arthur, the Ver-
mont-born vice president who moved into the
White House after James A. Garfield’s assassi-
nation.
It also has Joe Dahms, who did the carpentry
work and installed the artifacts, and is stronger
for having lifted them all.
“Everything was start-to-finish heavy,” he
said one morning last month as he stood in front
of an ornament labeled “Biblical head amidst
vegetal ornament, c. 1880.”
“It took four guys to lift that off the floor,” he
said. “That thing was on a building.”
Some would say this is actually stolen New
York, since the artifacts were usually taken,
sometimes after small cash payments to
guards at demolition sites. Some would call the
cash payments bribes. Preservationists would
say that the items were destined to be de-
stroyed, and that hauling them off to Charlot-
teville, about an hour’s drive west of Albany,
was a way of saving them.
But Marilynn Gelfman Karp said that her
husband’s scavenging had the blessing of May-
or John V. Lindsay.
“Mayor Lindsay gave us a letter, so that if we
were stopped by the police, if the police tried to
stop us from saving the ornament that was be-
ing smashed willy-nilly, we could show the let-
ter,” she recalled. “It said, in mayorly terms:
‘Cease and desist. These people have permis-
sion.’”
A stroll through the museum is an immersion
in an era that began around 1875, when the city
was beginning to climb skyward. That era
lasted until just before World War I. Many of the
carefully carved keystones and classical
column capitals lasted until the heyday of ur-
ban renewal a couple of generations later, when
wrecking crews pried them off.
“They weren’t saving anything,” Mrs. Karp
said. “When a building was under demolition,
Ivan would go up to the foreman and say: ‘See
that up there? Bring it down gently.’ Ivan would
give him $10 and go back at the end of the day,
and the foreman would tell him where it was.”
The adventures of Mr. Karp, who died in 2012,
fueled the recent novel “The Gargoyle
Hunters” by John Freeman Gill, a freelance
writer who has contributed to The New York
Times and The Atlantic. He took the title from
the headline on a 1962 article in The New York
Herald Tribune’s Sunday magazine that he said
described “a subculture of folks who haunted
demolition sites to salvage endangered archi-
tectural sculptures during that period of sweep-
ing urban renewal.” Mr. Gill said his mother had
done some gargoyle hunting. He said he had
heard about Mr. Karp from her, and tracked him
down in 2009.
The museum is open only three hours a
week, from noon to 3 p.m. on Sundays, and only
three months of the year, from Father’s Day
through August. Charlotteville is so far from
the madding crowd that no one from New York
“actually makes a trip here,” Mr. Dahms said.
He added that local residents come for the sec-
ond floor, a separate museum about Charlot-
teville itself that Mrs. Karp assembled.
The Karps spent summers in Charlotteville,
but at first Mr. Karp did not publicize where the
museum was because “he didn’t want artists
besieging him with slides” to look at, Mrs. Karp
said. The town had shown promise before the
Civil War, with a couple of colleges and five gen-
eral stores, but the colleges burned and the
general stores foundered. Later a photogra-
pher from Vogue redid the town’s one hotel “as
a getaway place for the models,” Mr. Dahms
said, but he married one — “and she decided
she wanted a castle in France, and they moved
on.”

The U.S. Case vs. El Chapo:

10,000 Pages and Recordings
By ALAN FEUER
It has been assumed for months that
the prosecution of Joaquín Guzmán Lo-
era, the Mexican drug lord known as El
Chapo, would be an undertaking of major
proportions.
At the news conference in January
when the charges against him were an-
nounced, federal prosecutors described
a Shakespearean cast of more than 40
witnesses who would testify that, over
three decades, Mr. Guzmán had built the
world’s biggest drug empire, employing
an army of assassins and earning billions
of dollars by trafficking his product with
a rotating fleet of trucks, planes, fishing
boats, submersibles and yachts.
But on Friday, the true scope of the
case came into view, and the details sug-
gest it is going to be enormous. At a hear-
ing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn,
prosecutors said that Mr. Guzmán’s trial
could last three months and include up to
1,500 audio recordings of the defendant
and his allies alongside nearly 10,000
pages of documents. The presiding
judge, Brian M. Cogan, set what he called
an “aspirational” trial date: April 2018.
The sweeping nature of the case,
which will track Mr. Guzmán’s rise from
a teenage marijuana farmer to an inter-
national kingpin who carried a diamond-
encrusted pistol, is matched by his out-
size reputation. The United States attor-
ney’s office in Brooklyn has portrayed
him not only as the world’s most so-
phisticated drug dealer, but also as a
coldblooded killer who ordered the
deaths of thousands of people during
Mexico’s brutal drug wars.
Mr. Guzmán is still considered some-
thing of a folk hero in his homeland, not
least for having twice escaped from high-
security prisons there, the first time in a
laundry cart and later by way of a mile-
long tunnel dug into the shower of his
cell.
It was hard to reconcile either of those EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES TOMAS BRAVO/REUTERS
images with the unimposing figure that
Mr. Guzmán cut in court on Friday. He is Left, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, right, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo,
a small man — El Chapo means Shorty in leaving a hearing Friday in the federal case against him. The judge in the case set a tentative trial date of April 2018.
Spanish — and spent much of the hour-
long hearing staring into space while fol- flict of interest because other lawyers in On Thursday, Judge Cogan issued an they wanted to show him a document,
lowing a translation of the proceedings their office had, in the past, briefly repre- order rejecting nearly all of the defense’s she said, they had to hold it up to a
through headphones. sented two prosecution witnesses who requests to ease the restrictions that plexiglass window between them.
Only two things seemed to engage his were preparing to testify at trial. have been imposed on Mr. Guzmán. The This appeared to disturb Judge Cogan,
distracted attention: his wife, Emma Judge Cogan, saying the matter was measures were necessary, the judge who called the process “cumbersome.”
Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen “barely an issue,” ruled that the lawyers wrote, to keep the defendant from run- Looking down from his bench, he asked
who sat in the gallery in a crisp white could remain in place. ning his former operation, the Sinaloa the prosecutors, “How are we going to
blazer, and the numerous court security Ms. Gelernt and Mr. Schneider have drug cartel, while he was being held. get this case ready for trial if they have to
guards, at whom he occasionally cast argued for several weeks that Mr. The judge’s decision did not stop Ms. do that?”
fleeting glances. Guzmán is suffering the ill effects of be- Gelernt from complaining again on Fri- When the prosecutors could not pro-
The primary subject of the hearing ing held in almost constant isolation in day that the terms of Mr. Guzmán’s con- vide a response, Judge Cogan offered his
was an argument over whether Mr. what is known as 10 South, the most se- finement had made it almost impossible own: A junior judge would be sent to 10
Guzmán’s lawyers, the federal defenders cure wing of the Metropolitan Correc- to prepare him for trial. She told Judge South to investigate more efficient op-
Michelle Gelernt and Michael Schneider, tional Center, a federal jail in Lower Man- Cogan that she and Mr. Schneider were tions. He added that “in the interest of
could continue to represent him. The hattan across the river from the Brook- not, for instance, allowed to be in the moving things along,” this would happen
government has said the two have a con- lyn court. same room at the jail as their client. If soon.
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Rikers Is Deemed
Too Dangerous to Take
Transferred Inmates
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ment to report incidents like in-
mate deaths and suicide attempts
to the commission in a timely
manner.
The letter was dated April 28,
the same day the city’s Investiga-
tion Department reprimanded the
Correction Department’s commis-
sioner, Joseph Ponte, and three
top aides for misusing their offi-
cial vehicles. Mr. Ponte, the Inves-
tigation Department said, vio-
lated city rules by using his city
car to take extended trips outside
the state, mostly to Maine. He
spent a total of 90 days outside the
State officials demand
a halt to an infrequent
safety measure.
city in 2016, at a time when vio-
lence at Rikers was on the rise.
It comes in the midst of a feud
between Mayor Bill de Blasio, who
has defended Mr. Ponte, and Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo, who is respon-
sible for appointing members of
the State Commission of Correc-
tion. In recent months, the gover-
nor has frequently criticized the
mayor over the spiraling crisis at
Rikers Island, notwithstanding
his own struggles to rein in brutal-
ity and corruption within the state
prison system.
Though there have been serious
problems at Rikers for years, the
state commission had never be-
fore deemed conditions too dan-
gerous for inmate transfers. And it
is not clear what prompted the
commission to issue the letter
when it did. At its two most recent
meetings, on March 28 and April
Bombing Suspect Wants Hospital Interviews Blocked
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Ten days after a bomb exploded
in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbor-
hood in September, injuring more
than 30 people, investigators ar-
rived at a hospital surgical inten-
sive care unit in New Jersey to
question a man charged in the at-
tack, Ahmad Khan Rahimi.
Mr. Rahimi, who was recover-
ing from gunshot wounds sus-
tained in a shootout with the po-
lice in Elizabeth, N.J., was on med-
ication and sedated, and had a
breathing tube in his throat. The
agents told him to respond to their
questions by making head mo-
tions, according to an F.B.I. sum-
mary of the interview.
Mr. Rahimi was initially unre-
sponsive to the questions but then
began to answer, the F.B.I. sum-
mary said.
When he was asked whether he
had created any other bombs, he
“moved his head from side to side,
to indicate a ‘no,’” according to the
summary.
Had anyone helped him make
the devices? Again, he motioned
no. Were any of his family mem-
bers involved in creating or set-
ting off the bombs? Another no,
the summary said.
Thus began four unusual inter-
rogation sessions over three days
at University Hospital in Newark,
Flooding on Friday forced partial closings of many roads in New York, including part of the West Side Highway in Manhattan. Right, cars on a flooded street in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn.
Flooding and Cancellations as New York Receives Almost a Month’s Worth of Rain
By ELI ROSENBERG
Over the course of just a few
hours on Friday, a heavy down-
pour sent floodwaters through the
streets, shutting down roads,
stranding motorists, and causing
delays on transit systems
throughout the New York region.
Central Park received about
18, the issues raised in the letter
were not discussed.
A City Hall spokeswoman said
that months before the letter was
sent, the Correction Department
had submitted plans to address
many of the issues raised by the
state commission and had started
taking steps to resolve them.
“A few minor issues that are al-
ready being addressed provide in-
sufficient grounds to revoke a pro-
gram that has improved the safety
of staff and inmates at Rikers and
at jails across the state,” said the
spokeswoman, Natalie Gry-
bauskas. “We welcome any guid-
ance from the State Commission
of Correction on how it believes in-
mates already in custody at Rik-
ers and around the state should be
handled.”
Inmate transfers to jails outside
the county of arrest are rare. As of
this week, there were 17 trans-
ferred inmates at Rikers, mostly
from nearby counties like Nassau
and Suffolk on Long Island, and
Westchester just north of New
York City. The letter does not
specify what to do with those in-
mates already in custody at Rik-
ers under the transfer program.
In addition to the 12 jails in New
York City, the state commission
oversees 63 county jails and 54
state prisons. It evaluates renova-
tion projects and changes in regu-
lations and investigates inmate
deaths, among other matters. But
it has little enforcement power. In
2015, the commission issued a
scathing report about the mis-
treatment of an inmate at Rikers
who was locked in his cell for six
days, was denied food and medi-
cation and died after he was found
naked and covered in feces. The
report said the details of the death
“shock the conscience.” But cor-
rections officials would not say if
anyone was disciplined or fired,
and no one was criminally
UNION COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, VIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investigators interviewed Ah-
mad Khan Rahimi over three
days as he was in a hospital
bed with gunshot wounds.
with the first interview ending
only after Mr. Rahimi faded into
unconsciousness, according to
documents filed by Mr. Rahimi’s
lawyers in Federal District Court
in Manhattan on Friday.
The documents were part of a
motion asking Judge Richard M.
Berman to suppress Mr. Rahimi’s
statements on the grounds that
they were not voluntary and that
three inches of rain — about two-
thirds of its typical monthly total
— nearly doubling the previous
record for the day recorded in 1871,
according to the National Weather
Service. Other areas around the
city received two to three inches of
rain. Flooding was reported
throughout much of the area, in-
he had made them “under severe
medical distress.”
“He was encumbered by nee-
dles and restraints, often uncon-
scious and effectively held incom-
municado, deprived of the assist-
ance of an attorney, family or
friends,” Mr. Rahimi’s federal pub-
lic defenders wrote.
They also asked that the judge
suppress a hair sample taken
from their client, arguing that an
F.B.I. agent had misled Mr. Rahimi
into thinking he was a member of
the defense team.
Mr. Rahimi is also accused of a
bombing in Seaside Park, N.J.,
that did not cause any injuries,
and of planting other explosive
devices in Manhattan and New
Jersey. He has pleaded not guilty
to charges stemming from the at-
tacks.
In his own affidavit, also filed
with the court, Mr. Rahimi said
that he could recall very little of
the sessions.
“Days blend in my memory, and
I cannot distinguish one day of
questioning from the next,” he
said.
At one point, investigators from
the F.B.I. and the New York Police
Department could not understand
an answer that Mr. Rahimi was
mouthing to them, nor could he
write down a response when giv-
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cluding SoHo and Chelsea in Man-
hattan; Dumbo and Gowanus in
Brooklyn; and parts of Staten Is-
land, New Jersey and Long Is-
land.
The floodwaters forced partial
closures of many roads around the
city, including portions of the West
Side Highway, the Van Wyck Ex-
en a pen and paper, the summa-
ries said.
The agents gave him a sheet of
paper that showed the alphabet
and told him to point at letters
with a pen, but he could not ac-
complish that, either.
A prosecutor told the judge late
last year that Mr. Rahimi had
made statements “across multiple
days” after his arrest. But the
prosecutors said at the time that
the government did not plan to
use the statements in its direct
case at trial. That left open the
possibility that the government
could use the statements to try to
impeach Mr. Rahimi if he were to
testify and contradict something
he had said during his interroga-
tion.
The defense motion seeks to
block the government from using
the statements altogether. Nei-
ther the United States attorney’s
office in Manhattan, which is ex-
pected to file a response to the mo-
tion, nor a lawyer for Mr. Rahimi
would comment on Friday.
The summaries also showed
that Mr. Rahimi was questioned
under the so-called public safety
exception to the Miranda rules, as
The New York Times reported last
fall. Under that exception, where
there may be an imminent threat
to public safety, the authorities
may interrogate a suspect in a fo-
pressway, and a ramp off the
George Washington Bridge to the
Harlem River Drive, according to
the city’s Office of Emergency
Management.
And the storm delivered a jolt to
the city’s transit systems, closing
two tracks and an entrance at
Penn Station, causing delays in
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
The entrance to New York City’s jail complex. The State Com-
mission of Correction says Rikers Island can no longer take in-
mates from jails in other counties. Transfers are typically made
if inmates face a higher risk of violence in their area.
charged. been arrested as a result of Inves-
The commission is but one of a tigation Department inquiries into
number of agencies responsible brutality by guards, sexual assault
for overseeing conditions at New and the smuggling of drugs and
York City jails. In the city, the weapons into Rikers, according to
Board of Correction sets Diane Struzzi, a spokeswoman for
minimum standards that the Cor- the Investigation Department.
rection Department must follow. There is also a federal monitor-
The Department of Investiga- ing team brought on in 2015 as a re-
tion, which has a special unit for sult of a class-action settlement
investigating malfeasance at Rik- over brutality at Rikers. Last
ers, has the power to make arrests month, the team issued a report
and refer city employees for pros- that said guards were continuing
ecution. Since 2014, 38 Correction to use brutal force against inmates
Department staff members have at an “alarming rate.”
ANDRES KUDACKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officers blocked a street in Manhattan’s Chelsea section after an
explosion in September that injured more than 30 people.
cused way without advising him Rahimi “moved his head from side
of his right to remain silent or to to side to indicate a ‘no,’” it
have counsel. continued.
The summaries showed that in- When investigators asked
vestigators had focused their where he was trained to make
questioning on whether others bombs, he “mouthed what ap-
were involved and whether Mr. peared to be ‘computer,’” one
Rahimi still had additional bomb- summary showed. It said the in-
making materials. vestigators then asked if he had
meant “computer,” and he nodded.
Mr. Rahimi was asked, for ex-
ample, whether anyone had asked At another point, one summary
him to place the bombs in New said, Mr. Rahimi was asked if
York and New Jersey. He shook there were any remaining bomb-
his head to indicate no, according making materials or components,
to a summary. and he used his head to indicate
He was also asked “if there no, the summary said.
were people from the mosque that The summary continued, “He
assisted him in creating the silently mouthed what appeared
bombs,” the summary said. Mr. to be the words ‘put all in bomb.’”
ANDREW GOMBERT/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
the subway after flooding in at Airport and Newark Liberty In-
least one station and pooling on ternational Airport — were can-
the floor at the Oculus at the World celed, according to the flight data
Trade Center transportation hub site FlightAware.
downtown. Ferries and buses to the Frieze
Hundreds of flights into and out New York art fair on Randalls Is-
of the region’s three main airports land were canceled. The rain be-
— John F. Kennedy International gan to taper off Friday evening
Airport, La Guardia International from its midday peak.

Remembering an Auschwitz Magician, in Life and Onstage
A Holocaust survivor
recalls his bunkmate,
who inspired a play.
By COREY KILGANNON
“All right, pick a card,” Werner
Reich said, fanning out a worn
deck of cards in his Long Island
home to demonstrate a trick he
had learned in an unlikely place:
on the top of a bare wooden bunk
in the concentration camp bar-
racks at Auschwitz.
Mr. Reich is 89 now, but in the
spring of 1944, he was a terrified,
emaciated teenager crammed in
with other starving Jewish
prisoners as they watched their
comrades being killed and
awaited the same fate.
His bunkmate was Herbert
Levin, a kind man in his late 30s.
Mr. Levin was also a professional
magician, known in his act as the
Great Nivelli.
The teenage Mr. Reich knew
him only as Herr Levin, German
for Mr. Levin, and refrained from
calling him by the inmate number
tattooed into his forearm, a com-
mon mode of address among the
prisoners at the camp.
Mr. Levin’s family had already
been killed, but he managed to
survive Auschwitz by performing
magic for the camp’s guards. In-
terest in Mr. Levin has recently
been rekindled with “Nivelli’s
War,” an Off Broadway show
produced by a children’s theater
company at the New Victory The-
ater in Times Square. The last
public performance is Sunday,
and the final one for school groups
is Thursday.
Both Mr. Levin and Mr. Reich
survived the Holocaust and
wound up settling in New York
City, but they never met again af-
ter Auschwitz.
Mr. Levin worked the rest of his
life as Nivelli the magician, his
stage name derived from revers-
ing the spelling of his last name.
When Mr. Levin died in 1977, Mr.
Reich spied his obituary in a magi-
cian’s magazine, written by the
Rev. William Rauscher, 84, who
had met the magician. The article
noted Mr. Levin’s time in
Auschwitz and the prisoner num-
ber tattooed on his forearm:
A-1676. This was close to the one
Werner Reich performed card tricks that he said he learned from Herbert Levin, who performed onstage as The Great Nivelli.
on Mr. Reich’s arm: A-1828. Mr.
Reich rolled up his sleeve on
Wednesday to show the number,
which is now faded.
“Well, so am I,” Mr. Reich said
with a laugh.
His memories of Auschwitz,
however, remain indelible. He still
recalls the fatherly tenderness
and an air of elegance that Mr.
Levin displayed, as well as the
dirty pack of playing cards he
would use to practice tricks on the
bunk’s cushions of straw and
burlap.
Six men would sleep crowded
onto one bunk, in a barracks not
far from the gas chambers and
crematories that incinerated
corpses day and night.
“I can still hear the screaming
and smell the bodies burning,” Mr.
Reich said.
Amid the horror and depravity
of Auschwitz, Prisoner A-1676
taught A-1828 some simple card
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
sleight of hand, both of them in
their striped uniforms on the
bunk.
“It just stuck with me,” said Mr.
Reich, who was replicating the
trick not on a barracks bunk, but
on a white leather sofa in his spa-
cious ranch house in Smithtown,
N.Y. “This man may have taken a
minute to show me this trick, but I
remembered it.’’
While Mr. Levin survived
Auschwitz by currying favor with
cards, coins and pieces of string,
Mr. Reich made it through by be-
ing physically sturdy and incredi-
bly lucky.
Scores of prisoners were sent to
their deaths based on selections
made by Josef Mengele, who was
known as the Angel of Death be-
cause of his horrific experiments
on prisoners.
Mr. Reich recalled being forced
to strip naked and run past Men-
gele with other boys to display
Met Seeks to Charge Out-of-State Entrance Fee
By ROBIN POGREBIN
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art has moved one step closer to
mandatory admission fees: It
filed a formal proposal with the
city this week to charge admission
to out-of-state visitors, a lawyer
revealed in a court hearing on Fri-
day, a controversial idea given
that the Met is in part supported
by tax dollars and currently has
only a “suggested” entrance fee.
The suggested fee would be
“only for residents of the City of
New York and New York State,”
Bruce R. Kelly of Arnold & Porter,
a lawyer for the Met, said in New
York Supreme Court Friday. “For
everyone else, the admission
would be mandatory.”
The proposal must be approved
by the administration of Mayor
Bill de Blasio administration be-
cause the city owns the Met build-
ing. Asked for his reaction, Tom
Finkelpearl, the city’s commis-
sioner of cultural affairs, said in a
statement: “We will review it
carefully. The city is committed to
working with the Met to ensure
that its unrivaled collection and
programming remain accessible
to all New Yorkers.”
The hearing before Justice
Shirley Werner Kornreich was
held to approve a settlement
reached last year over the Met’s
admissions policy; two lawsuits
had asserted that the wording on
signs at the admissions desks was
deceptive and pressured visitors
to pay $25 even though, under the
museum’s policy, they could pay
whatever they wished.
Under the settlement, the Met
agreed to tell visitors on its signs
and websites that “the amount
you pay is up to you” and to de-
scribe the $25 full-admission
charge as “suggested” instead of
“recommended.”
The news of the formal proposal
Corrections
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un, misstated when North Korea
was established as a Stalinist
state. It was before the Korean
War, not after.
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An article on Wednesday about
the rescue of a lost Taiwanese
trekker in Nepal misstated in
some copies the name of the
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him and died before the rescue.
She was Liu Chen-chun, not Liu
Chen Chi.
their physiques.
“We were running for our lives,”
Mr. Reich recalled. “We tried to
look bigger, stronger; we’d smile,
do anything under the sun to look
fit for work.”
With a casual wave, Mengele
would send scores of prisoners to
their deaths as he joked with Ger-
A prisoner’s card
tricks kept him alive
in a place of death.
man officers, Mr. Reich recalled,
but he selected Mr. Reich and sev-
eral dozen others for survival.
After two years of internment in
several concentration camps and
a 35-mile “death march” through
the snow, Mr. Reich was 17 and
Admission fees might help offset a Metropolitan Museum of Art deficit of about $15 million.
for a mandatory admission
charge, which the Met was legally
obligated to disclose to the plain-
tiffs, drew criticism from the
lawyers involved in the case.
Andrew G. Celli, Jr., of Emery
Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, which
represents one of the plaintiffs,
said after the hearing: “The mu-
seum should be accessible to all
people of every economic level. It
is unfortunate that the museum’s
leadership feels that it has to ra-
tion its availability. There must be
a better way — and I urge the Mu-
seum’s leadership, and the city’s,
to find it.”
Michael S. Hiller, a lawyer for
the other plaintiffs, argued in
court that charging out-of-town-
ers would violate a 1893 state law
mandating that the museum’s col-
lections “shall be kept open and
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weighed only 64 pounds when he
wound up in another concentra-
tion camp, in Mauthausen, Aus-
tria, where he was liberated by
American troops in May 1945.
He settled in London and met
his future wife, Eva, a Jewish
woman who had herself survived
the camps. They raised two sons
together before she died of cancer
in December.
Mr. Reich spoke briefly of his
history onstage after the opening-
night performance of “Nivelli’s
War.” But he said he was upset
that the play depicted a magician
character named the Great Nivelli
without going into the character’s
Holocaust story, or even referring
explicitly to the Holocaust.
The play depicts Nivelli’s flash-
back to fleeing the bombing of
Frankfurt as a child and relying on
a mysterious stranger who, in
turn, relies on magic tricks to help
the two survive so the boy can re-
accessible to the public free of all
charge throughout the year.”
There are “people who won’t be
able to afford it,” Mr. Hiller said.
He also argued that court ap-
proval of the settlement would, by
extension, represent approval of
the Met’s admission fee proposal.
“The court would be authoriz-
ing the museum to charge an ad-
mission fee,” Mr. Hiller said, add-
ing that this would “violate that
law.”
Judge Kornreich said that the
issue of mandatory admission
fees was not the matter currently
before the court, and would have
to be resolved subsequently by
the government.
“Were the attorney general to
bring an action, we’ll deal with it,”
Judge Kornreich said.
of the party itself.
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unite with his mother.
Mr. Reich called it “sacrilege” to
invoke figures or elements of the
Holocaust while whitewashing
the troubling parts.
The show’s director, Paul Bosco
McEneaney, who is a founder of
Cahoots NI, a children’s theater
company based in Belfast, North-
ern Ireland, said he learned of Mr.
Levin in 2011. He was so moved by
his story of survival that he com-
missioned Charles Way, a British
playwright, to write “Nivelli’s
War” not as a historical show, Mr.
McEneaney said, but rather as “a
piece of theater telling the story of
two characters who despite avow-
ing their hatred for each other fi-
nally come to a new relationship,
which has different meanings for
both.”
Mr. Way named the Nivelli
character after the real-life magi-
cian not out of an intention to de-
tail his story, but rather out of “re-
spect and honor” and to help show
how an act of kindness can spark a
friendship that might otherwise
seem unlikely, Mr. McEneaney
said.
The play, which has received ac-
claim during runs in England and
Ireland, also touches on the plight
of refugees around the world to-
day, as well as the history of con-
flict between the Irish and British
in Northern Ireland, he said.
The play’s few poignant allu-
sions to the Holocaust are meant
to prompt young viewers to in-
quire about real-life histories of
people like Mr. Levin and Mr. Re-
ich, Mr. McEneaney said.
Mr. Reich acknowledged that he
is keenly sensitive to proper de-
pictions of the Holocaust, and for
25 years he has kept a busy sched-
ule speaking to groups about his
experiences.
As a young man, Mr. Reich
worked his way up from a factory
worker with no education, getting
a night-school degree at City
College in Manhattan and becom-
ing a structural engineer.
But he also spent his adult life
passionately pursuing magic,
which he attributed to what he
had learned from the magician of
Auschwitz. “We loved anything
that could take us away from
Auschwitz for even a moment,
that could take our minds off our
memories and the horror around
us.”
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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EDITORIALS LETTERS

Locked Up for Being Poor Critiquing the House’s Health Bill

TO THE EDITOR: it, he would never have been able
to obtain health coverage because
Maranda Lynn ODonnell, a 22-year-old single mother in upon their release. And though the whole point of bail is to Re “Health Care Bill, Passed by
House, Faces Senate Test” (front of his many pre-existing condi-
Harris County, Tex., was arrested last year for driving with- ensure that people show up to court, Judge Rosenthal found tions.
page, May 5):
out a valid license. The judge set her bail at $2,500. She no clear evidence that secured money bail is any more effec- Mr. Brooks implies that people
House Republicans, in voting to
couldn’t afford anything close to that, so she spent three tive at this — in fact, it could be worse — than methods that repeal and replace the Affordable with pre-existing medical condi-
days in jail — even though she posed no risk of skipping don’t depend on the size of someone’s bank account. Care Act, are doing the nation a tions — people like my son — have
town or endangering anyone if she were released. The ruling in the Harris County case is temporary, but grave injustice by potentially only themselves to blame for their
“In our society,” the Supreme Court has held, “liberty is its broader significance lies in the slew of factual findings taking away health insurance from medical expenses. It’s an insinua-
the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the Judge Rosenthal made and the legal conclusions she millions of Americans by raising tion as odious as it is unfounded.
carefully limited exception.” Yet across America, poor peo- reached. Her careful reasoning could transform the growing premiums for those with pre-exist- PETER OBERMARK, CINCINNATI
ple like Ms. ODonnell are held in jail for days, weeks or even debate over bail reform nationwide, where an estimated ing conditions among others, let-
ting states take away essential
months solely because they don’t have the cash to bail them- 450,000 people are held in pretrial detention on a given day. health benefits from patients and
TO THE EDITOR:
selves out. All of them are presumed Some states have made major reforms to their bail sys- reducing the safety net that Medic- I wonder at your front-page pic-
A federal judge innocent under the law, and many tems. New Jersey this year nearly eliminated the use of aid expansion provides to so many. ture of Republicans celebrating a
may in fact be innocent, yet most cash bail, replacing it with a risk-assessment score that con- That is why there is a call from bill that would take health care
rules that the away from millions of their fellow
routine use of cash plead guilty just to get out (usually siders a person’s flight risk and danger to the community. In several Republican governors as
well as from prominent national citizens. Will they still be smiling
bail harms the poor with a sentence of time served). It’s a Harris County, the momentum for change got a big boost in
organizations such as AARP, the when constituents enter the voting
unconstitutionally. repulsive practice, and last week, in a November, when voters elected a district attorney, Kim Ogg,
American Cancer Society, Ameri- booth in November 2018?
case that could have national implica- and a sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, who are both strong proponents
can Heart Association, American ANN WHITFORD PAUL, LOS ANGELES
tions for bail reform, a Federal District Court judge in Hous- of bail reform, despite being defendants in the lawsuit. Medical Association and American
ton ruled that it was also unconstitutional. The cash-bail industry, which includes local bond Hospital Association not to pro-
TO THE EDITOR:
In a 193-page ruling that followed a lengthy trial, the agents backed by multinational insurance giants, is a ceed with this legislation.
judge, Lee Rosenthal, said that money bail should be used morally tainted enterprise that systematically violates the I strongly urge the Senate not to One point that is often missed in
for people charged with misdemeanors “only in the narrow- constitutional rights of America’s most vulnerable citizens pass such harmful legislation, as the debate about insurance cover-
there will literally be lives on the age for people with pre-existing
est of cases,” and even then only when there are strong safe- in the name of profit — and with no discernible benefit to the
line. conditions is that most of those
guards in place to ensure that defendants receive due public. Judge Rosenthal’s thorough, enlightened ruling who need care will get it one way
process before being locked up. should be an important step in dismantling it. STEVEN M. CLAYTON, OCEAN, N.J. or another. As a physician, I have
Harris County, which includes Houston and has the never turned away a patient based
third-largest jail system in the country, fails on both counts, TO THE EDITOR: on insurance coverage (or lack
Judge Rosenthal said. Judges there require defendants to A Republican congressman, Mo thereof). Often, the uninsured seek
post bail, regardless of ability to pay, likelihood that they Brooks, speaking about the revised care in a more expensive setting,
health care plan, told CNN: “It will like an emergency room, and they
won’t return to court or how minor the charges are.
allow insurance companies to tend to seek care later, after com-
As a result, poor people charged with a misdemeanor plications develop.
end up stuck behind bars, while people with money who are require people who have higher
health care costs to contribute When patients receive care and
charged with the same offense walk free. more to the insurance pool that cannot afford to pay for it, the
The county’s lawyer defended this policy by arguing helps offset all these costs, thereby health care system absorbs the
that poor defendants — who are disproportionately black reducing the cost to those people costs, which ultimately get passed
and Latino — stay in jail not because they can’t buy their who lead good lives, they’re along to those who are able to pay.
healthy, they’ve done the things to More cost-effective care will result
way out but because they “want” to be there, especially “if
keep their bodies healthy.” if those with pre-existing condi-
it’s a cold week.” Judge Rosenthal called this despicable tions are insured and can receive
claim “uncomfortably reminiscent of the historical argu- My son, Nathan, now 30 years
old, was born with a severe form of prompt attention in their primary
ment that used to be made that people enjoyed slavery.” care provider’s office rather than
cerebral palsy and has spent his
The real explanation is straightforward: As cash bail life in a wheelchair and had nu- getting care that is too little, too
has fueled a politically influential, multibillion-dollar indus- merous health complications. The late in an expensive setting like the
try, courts are relying on it more, and people who can’t af- Ohio Medicaid I was able to obtain emergency department or a hospi-
for him some two decades ago has tal.
ford it are getting locked up at ever greater rates. Judge Ro-
senthal noted that only two decades ago, less than one-third been, literally, lifesaving. Without KIRK D. WYATT, ROCHESTER, MINN.
of people in Texas jails were awaiting trial; today, it’s three-
quarters. Forty percent of all misdemeanor defendants in
Texas are locked up until their cases are resolved, at a huge
cost to the state, and most because they can’t afford bail.
Ivanka Trump, White House Adviser-in-Training
The consequences can be devastating. Lives fall apart TO THE EDITOR: tively sympathetic character.
after even a few days in jail — whether because of job or Re “A First Daughter Assembling a However, I simply cannot under-
housing loss or having children taken away — leading to in- Vast Portfolio” (front page, May stand how a serious profile of Ms.
3): Trump largely ignores the major
stability that makes it more likely people will turn to crime MARIA HERGUETA
So a senior White House adviser questions her position in the White
says, “I’m still at the early stages House raises for government
of learning how everything works,” ethics: whether nepotism in the
White House is acceptable,
A U.S. Hiring Plan Falls Short of Reform and “I’m really, really trying to
learn.”
I’m willing to believe that Ivanka
whether she is adequately address-
ing concerns about her conflicts of
interest and the degree to which
Infosys, the giant Indian company that supplies American planned. The workers were happy and Mr. Trump declared Trump is smart. Maybe she has
she is able to use her position to
businesses with foreign technology workers, has announced victory. But the populist appeal of the deal has far out- done well in her career as entre-
enrich herself and her family.
that it will hire 10,000 Americans in the United States in the weighed its practical effect, not just because that deal in- preneur and real estate developer.
I found the inappropriately flat-
Yet, she frankly admits that she
next two years. This might seem like an early victory in volved only one plant, but because the Trump administra- tering portrait of Ms. Trump to be
doesn’t have the knowledge, expe-
President Trump’s “Hire American” campaign, but it’s less tion has shown no interest in or aptitude for addressing the a disservice to your readers.
rience or training to do the job. The
of a cause for celebration than it appears. underlying trends in technology, anti-unionism and public fact that she doesn’t take a salary LAURA FEINSTEIN, ALBANY, CALIF.
Mr. Trump has condemned the loss of Americans’ jobs policy that undermine blue-collar jobs. doesn’t make it O.K. She has ex-
to foreign replacements. And Infosys has been one of the Similarly, the Infosys pledge to hire 10,000 American traordinary power and influence. TO THE EDITOR:
biggest users of H-1B visas — intended for specially talented workers pales in comparison to roughly 85,000 H-1B visas It is profoundly disrespectful to Leaving aside issues of nepotism
that are granted each year — and the hundreds of thousands ask the American people to be and Ivanka Trump’s lack of qualifi-
foreigners — to bring in cheaper labor to fill American jobs
of jobs that could go to Americans over the years if the H-1B patient while she tries to educate cations, is it not telling that our
or replace Americans, often in entry-level positions. herself. I feel sorry for the profes-
system were reformed. Will Mr. Trump follow through? If president requires such interven-
But individual corporate measures like Infosys’ hiring sionals with expertise and experi- tion? If Donald Trump had the
recent history is any guide, the answer is no.
of Americans, no matter how headline-grabbing, are no sub- ence who are superbly prepared to slightest notion of what to do and
A fair H-1B system would require companies seeking
stitute for true reform to eliminate systemic abuses. Worse, work in the White House. Their say and how to behave, such
foreign workers to prove that they have actively tried and heads must be spinning.
by creating the appearance of change, they may actually en- babysitting would not be neces-
failed to find American workers with the requisite skills. It Good intentions are not enough. sary.
trench those problems. Rather than say what he wants to
would require higher wages for H-1B workers to ensure that Being smart is not enough. We
see changed about a system he has pilloried, Mr. Trump has they cannot be used as cheaper substitute labor. It would
RICHARD WILLIAMS, DAVIS, CALIF.
deserve better.
simply told executive agencies to recommend reforms in the also include an enforcement system of random audits and HEDY KALIKOFF
H-1B program. steep penalties for noncompliance. Most important — and HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.
Infosys is, in effect, getting out in front of presidential most unlikely given the demonstrated corporate-friendly
criticism of outsourcing in a way that makes Mr. Trump’s bias of the Trump administration — the rules would apply to ONLINE: MORE LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR:
plan appear effective — even though no real reforms have American companies like Facebook and Qualcomm that use A health care short story, and
Your profile of Ivanka Trump
been broached. The situation is akin to what happened last H-1B visas, as well as to foreign staffing firms. more about Ivanka Trump.
shows a woman who arguably
year at Carrier, when the company blunted criticism from The United States needs comprehensive reform of the should not wield the power she Also: A psychologist writes about
Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, by keeping 800 jobs in H-1B system more than it needs Infosys’ pledge of 10,000 has, but presents herself as having children and homework.
the United States rather than offshoring them to Mexico as new jobs. It also needs a president who understands that. good intentions. She seems a rela- nytimes.com/opinion

ROGER COHEN

In the French Centrist Emmanuel Macron, a Defense of the Republic

AFTER A FRENCH police officer, Xavier
Jugelé, was killed in Paris last month, a
service was held at Paris police head-
quarters. His grief-stricken civil partner,
Etienne Cardiles, described their love
and, addressing the murderer, said, “You
will not have my hatred.”
It was a statement consistent with the
resolute, dignified response of France to
the terrorism that has struck it in recent
years. The country, tested more than the
United States of late, has not succumbed
to fear or fanaticism. It has held the line
and so has reinforced, in a time of indig-
nities, the dignity of the French state.
France faces a choice between many
things Sunday as it votes to elect either
Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-
right National Front, or the centrist Em-
manuel Macron as president, but the
most fundamental issue is whether to up-
hold or abandon the values of the repub-
lic, whether to hold the high ground or
descend into the mire.
The French state is the most animate
of inanimate things. It breathes. Absent
religion in any official form, absent the
monarchy, the state is what the French
have to represent the high ideals and as-
pirations that, as descendants of the Rev-
olution, they must somehow embody.
The question before the French now is
whether to stain or sustain that body.
If Le Pen is elected, a shadow will fall
across France and Europe.
Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, forged the
National Front in a racist, anti-Semitic
image befitting the descendants of Vichy,
the lap-dog French government that did
the Nazis’ bidding. He dismissed the
Holocaust as a “detail” of history and
called the Nazi occupation “not particu-
larly inhumane.” Immigrants from North
Africa were no better than scum. Marine
Le Pen has worked hard to excise, or
camouflage, all that.
Election posters refer to her only as
“Marine”; there’s no mention of the
party. She’s attempted to supplant xeno-
phobic fanaticism with a nationalism
that argues against immigration — par-
ticularly Muslim immigration — on secu-
rity and economic grounds.
The makeover, combined with Le
Pen’s political agility and down-to-earth
affability, has been effective. Whereas
her father got 18 percent of the vote in the
2002 runoff, she will almost certainly get
more than double that. She could even, if
the blow-up-the-system far left becomes
her enabler through massive abstention,
edge out Macron.
That is unlikely. Polls show Macron,
the young upstart of this election, with a
clear lead. But it is not impossible.
Marine Le Pen’s National Front has
joined the mainstream.
The factors that have contributed to
her rise will be familiar to Americans
who thought Donald Trump was a joke,
The rebranding of
Marine Le Pen is a sham.
then wrote him off as an unlikely con-
tender, and at last discovered he had be-
come their president. They include rage
against the establishment, a conviction
that globalization is a rigged system for
the wealthy, exasperation at the impuni-
ty of the financial engineers of the 2008
meltdown and the euro crisis, the cultur-
al and economic chasm between wired
metropolis and dystopian periphery,
growing inequality and hollowed-out in-
dustrial heartlands.
Something is happening. We don’t
know what it is. Le Pen is the voice of that
something.
She is also the mouthpiece, still, of a
racist and Muslim-hating party; a fierce
opponent of the European Union that
ushered the continent from its darkest
hours; a full-fledged member of the ris-
ing nationalist-autocratic club with its
branches in Moscow, Ankara and Wash-
ington; and a proponent of a France-first
nationalism whose endpoint, as former
President François Mitterrand ob-
served, is war.
Her party makeover is a sham. She
still denies French responsibility for
sending 76,000 Jews to their deaths dur-
ing World War II; she still does business
with Holocaust deniers; she and her en-
tourage still traffic in the vilification of Is-
lam; and she still strains for some whiff
of Gaullism that would dispel the stench
of Vichy.
In short, the choice on Sunday is clear.
Emmanuel Todd, a prominent left-wing
intellectual, has said he will abstain
“with joy.” Some leftist supporters of
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who received al-
most 20 percent of the vote in the first
round, have tried to portray Macron the
capitalist and ex-banker and Le Pen the
racist xenophobe as equal examples of
iniquity. That does not fly. It is a form of
moral and intellectual dishonesty.
The French left should examine its
conscience carefully before any decision
to abstain, or risk abetting the
descendants of the rightists and Fas-
cists who opposed the Popular Front of
Léon Blum. In 1936, Blum became the
first Jew and the first Socialist to be
French prime minister, but, indicted by
the Vichy government, he was later im-
prisoned at Buchenwald.
Macron is an unknown quantity. No-
body is sure what he has in his gut. But
he has shown courage, especially in his
support of the European Union and his
resistance to disparaging caricatures of
refugees, and he is determined to revi-
talize a stagnant France. In this mo-
ment, he is the best hope for France, for
Europe and for civility.
What French voters can say on Sun-
day is, “You will not have my hatred.” I
believe they will say that. And if they do,
the world should thank them. 0

BRET STEPHENS
What Has
Failed
In France
AMERICANS LIVE TO work, while the
French work to live. That’s the cliché,
and it’s time to retire it. If Emmanuel
Macron defeats Marine Le Pen in Sun-
day’s election — let’s pray the polls are
right this time — the message from
voters will be: The vacation in Mar-
tinique will have to wait. First, we’d like
to work.
That’s the real story of this election,
the most stunning aspect of which isn’t
that the French might possibly install a
crypto-fascist in the Élysée Palace. It’s
that they seem strongly inclined to elect
a former Rothschild investment banker
who evinces no sense of guilt about his
elite pedigree, capitalist profession and
market-friendly economic inclinations
that include tax cuts for corporations and
an easing of the 35-hour workweek.
And no wonder. The French are des-
perate. Jobs are the No. 1 election con-
cern, ahead of terrorism and the migra-
tion crisis. As of March, the unemploy-
ment rate was 10.1 percent. Youth unem-
ployment: 23.7 percent. These figures
would be shocking in the midst of a reces-
sion.
But this is France seven years into a
recovery. The last time the growth rate
surpassed the 3 percent mark was 17
years ago.
What ails France? The facile answer is
to cite forces beyond French control: bu-
reaucracy in Brussels; the currency
straitjacket of the euro; the European
Central Bank; the dark winds of global-
ization. Le Pen specializes in just this
sort of blame shifting, which is another
way in which she and Donald Trump are
kindred spirits.
But the French can thank their lucky
stars for reasonably stable money, the
E.C.B.’s bond-buying spree and member-
ship in a Union that allows French job
It is desperate for reform
— and desperate not to
be reformed.
seekers a chance to find work in higher-
growth economies — including an esti-
mated 300,000 in Britain alone.
A more honest account of France’s tra-
vails starts — and pretty much ends —
with what the French often call their “so-
cial model.” France ranks first in the
O.E.C.D.’s tables for government spend-
ing (57 percent of gross domestic prod-
uct, tied with Finland) and welfare
spending (31.5 percent). As of 2014, the
total tax take was second only to Den-
mark’s.
This isn’t just a tax-and-spend model
of government. More like: tax-spend-
cosset-strangle. At least until the outgo-
ing government of President François
Hollande managed to ram through some
modest labor-market reforms last year,
the French labor code ran to over 3,000
pages.
The code is designed to make firing a
full-time employee as difficult as possi-
ble — which makes hiring them that
much more unlikely. As The Times’s
Adam Nossiter reported last year, “90
percent of jobs created in France” in 2015
were “unstable, poorly paid and short
term.”
None of this is a mystery to a majority
of the French, though it often eludes
credulous foreigners who extol the bene-
fits of the French model without counting
or being subject to its costs. The French
twice elected conservative presidents —
Jacques Chirac in 1995 and Nicolas
Sarkozy in 2007 — on the strength of
promises to pare the state. Twice disap-
pointed, they turned to the Socialist Hol-
lande in 2012, but his flirtation with soak-
the-rich policies was short-lived.
(Recent polls have been cruel to the
president, but like Germany’s Gerhard
Schroder, he will be remembered as one
of the more courageous economic re-
former in recent history, if perhaps only
because he had so little politically to
lose.)
Assuming Macron wins, his challenge
won’t simply be political. It will also be
pedagogical. Le Pen has offered him a
relatively easy ideological foil, given how
thoroughly tainted her party is by xeno-
phobia and anti-Semitism.
Yet it’s one thing to make the abstract
case for openness, competitiveness and
globalization in the face of a bigot. The
harder climb will be to press for changes
that inevitably take things away from
people.
The paradox of France is that it is des-
perate for reform — and desperate not to
be reformed. It wants the benefits of a
job-producing competitive economy but
fears relinquishing a job-protecting un-
competitive one. A Macron presidency
will have to devote its intellectual and
rhetorical energies to explaining that it
can be one or the other, but not both.
I don’t want to close this column with-
out allowing for the awful chance that Le
Pen might win. That would be a moral
tragedy for France and a probable disas-
ter for Europe. But it would also be a re-
minder that chronic economic stagna-
tion inevitably begets nationalist furies.
In the United States, a complacent left
acquits itself too easily of its role in
paving the way to the Trump presidency.
Many of Le Pen’s supporters might be
bigots, but their case against the self-sat-
isfaction, self-dealing, moral preening
and economic incompetence of the
French ruling classes is nearly impecca-
ble.
What has failed in France is an idea —
an idea about the role of the state.
Macron’s challenge, should he win, is to
show the French there’s a better one. 0
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
The Necessary Empire
Robert D. Kaplan
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
E
LECTIONS in the Netherlands,
France and Germany this year
have brought much drama to the
old Carolingian core, where
Charlemagne founded his empire in the
ninth century. This has always been the
richest and most strongly institutional-
ized part of Europe. But should the Euro-
pean Union continue to weaken, the most
profound repercussions will be felt farther
east and south.
There, along the fault line of the Austri-
an Hapsburg and Ottoman Turkish em-
pires, former Communist countries lack
the sturdy middle-class base of core Eu-
rope, and in many cases are still dis-
tracted by ethnic and territorial disputes
25 years after the siege of Sarajevo. They
depend on pro-European Union govern-
ments as never before.
In Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, of-
ficials and experts talk about a so-called
phantom frontier that still exercises peo-
ple’s imagination. This is the “Antemurale
Christianitatis,” the “Bulwark of Christi-
anity,” proclaimed in 1519 by Pope Leo X, in
a reference to the Roman Catholic Slavs
considered the front line against the Mus-
lim Ottoman Empire. Croatia was the first
line of defense and Slovenia the second.
“When Yugoslavia collapsed, it was as-
sumed that none of this earlier history
was important,” one official said to me re-
cently. “But a quarter-century after the
disintegration of Tito’s Yugoslavia, we
find that we are back to late-medieval and
early-modern history.”
The Slovenes, governed for hundreds of
years by the Austrian Hapsburgs, had in
2016 a per-capita income of $32,000. The
Croats, with their mixed history of Austro-
Hungarian, Ottoman and Venetian tradi-
tions, had a per-capita income of $22,400.
But in the rest of the former Yugoslavia,
which fell almost completely within the
Ottoman Empire, Montenegro has a per-
capita income of $17,000 and Serbia’s is
$14,000. Macedonia, Kosovo and the for-
mer Ottoman parts of Bosnia register sim-
ilarly low numbers.
This is not ethnic or racial determinism,
since the Slavs of southeastern Europe
have been shaped politically and economi-
cally more by the agency of foreign im-
perialism than by their own blood and lan-
guage. The former Byzantine and Otto-
man part of Europe is still the poorest,
least stable and most in need of support
from the European Union. Whether Eu-
rope remains a secure and prosperous
continent, or fractures along traditional
east-west fault lines — with
authoritarians in Russia and Turkey carv-
What the Republican Plan Gets Right
Marc K. Siegel
N
OW that the Obamacare re-
placement bill has passed the
House and is moving on to the
more centrist Senate, the real
debate begins. What is the true purpose of
health insurance, and what is our govern-
ment’s goal in ensuring we have it?
I learn from my patients every day
about the benefits, limitations and contra-
dictions of their health insurance. One
charming 60-year-old with severe season-
al allergies insists on seeing me every few
weeks this time of year, even though I tell
her she doesn’t need to — her antihis-
tamines and nasal spray treatment rarely
changes. But she worries that her al-
lergies could be hiding an infection. I in-
vestigate and reassure her, and her insur-
ance (which she buys through New York’s
Obamacare exchange) covers the bill.
If she was responsible for more than a
small co-payment for these visits, I’m sure
I would see her less often.
We pride ourselves on being a compas-
sionate society, and insurers use this to
manipulate us into paying for other peo-
ple’s excessive health care. Meanwhile, 5
percent of Americans generate more than
50 percent of health care expenses. Why
shouldn’t a patient who continues to see
me unnecessarily pay more?
The government’s job is to maintain
public health and safety. It should ensure
that insurance plans include mandatory
benefits like emergency, epidemic, vac-
cine and addiction coverage. The Republi-
can bill would let states apply for waivers
to define these benefits differently; it
would be a big mistake to drop such cover-
age entirely. But Obamacare went well be-
ing out zones of interest — will play out
most vividly in the Balkans.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia
has been active throughout Central and
Eastern Europe, and particularly in the
Balkans, using various forms of subver-
sion, from running organized crime rings
to financing nationalist-populist move-
ments. Montenegro may be close to join-
ing NATO, but it is often viewed as a veri-
table colony of Russian oligarchs and
crime groups, where by some accounts
Russia tried to stage a coup last year. Ser-
bia and Bulgaria are seen as beachheads
of Russian regional influence, even as neo-
authoritarian governments farther north
in Hungary and Poland bear growing sim-
ilarities to the Russian regime. The effort
by the Hungarian government to end the
freedom of the Central European Univer-
sity, founded in Budapest by the Hungar-
ian-American billionaire George Soros,
has to be seen in this geopolitical context.
As for Turkey, President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan won a referendum granting him
near dictatorial powers last month. The
next day, he visited the tomb not of
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s
There will be conflict in
the Balkans without a
strong European Union.
founder, but the tomb of Mehmed II,
known as the Conqueror, the 15th-century
Ottoman sultan whose imperial armies
marched westward from Constantinople
as far as Bosnia. Whether it is in Bulgaria,
Macedonia or Kosovo, Mr. Erdogan is de-
termined to fill the void opened by a de-
clining European Union.
Only if Serbia, Albania and Kosovo be-
come members of the union can the ethnic
dispute between Serbs and Albanians
truly be solved. Within the European Un-
ion, Albania and Kosovo will have no need
of unifying on their own, an act that could
become a casus belli for the Serbs. A simi-
lar dynamic holds for the contest between
Croatia and Serbia for influence in Bosnia-
Herzegovina. There is peace in the former
Yugoslavia within the European Union.
There is only protracted conflict without
it. The European Union offers a system of
legal states instead of ethnic nations, im-
personal laws rather than fiat, protection
for individuals over groups.
The European Union, in other words, is
the necessary empire.
I use the word “empire” advisedly. The
European Union has been such an ambi-
tious enterprise mainly because it has
yond these essentials, by mandating
benefits like maternity and mental health
coverage that drove smaller insurers with
fewer options out of the market. The few
that remain often have a monopoly, and
premiums rise.
Speaking of compassion, how about
some for the 20-something construction
worker who can’t pay his rent because his
premiums help subsidize overusers like
my allergy sufferer? Why shouldn’t a pa-
tient who is risk-averse pay more for cov-
erage she might never need, while that
construction worker be allowed to choose
a cheaper plan that might cover only the
essentials?
The House bill would also let states cre-
ate high-risk pools for patients with pre-
Why shouldn’t my
patient pay more?
existing conditions who let their coverage
lapse, and who could then be charged pre-
miums more in keeping with their health
care needs. This is the only way to make
insurance affordable for most consumers;
pre-existing conditions will continue to
drive up premiums if everyone is com-
pelled to pay the same price.
These risk-pool premiums can and
should be subsidized by the government.
A recent report from the Kaiser Family
Foundation found that high-risk pools can
work, but have been historically under-
funded. Trumpcare should change that —
though it will cost more than the House
bill’s $8 billion in additional funding. Dras-
tic cuts to Medicaid should also be re-
versed, which could help the bill pass the
ANTHONY RUSSO
sought a union over the former Carolin-
gian, Prussian, Hapsburg, Byzantine and
Ottoman domains, all with starkly differ-
ent histories and development patterns.
To accomplish that, the European Union
has had, in effect, to replace the function-
ality of those former empires. Even inside
the open borders of the Schengen Area,
within which free movement is guaran-
teed, the union represents a sprawling ter-
ritory, governed by a remote and only
partly democratic bureaucracy, with
many of its people demanding more direct
representation. Isn’t this a form of late and
declining empire?
So it must be saved — and improved.
Jan Zielonka of St. Antony’s College, Ox-
ford, writes optimistically of a vibrant
“neo-medievalism” in Europe: a dynamic
overlapping of identities and sovereign-
ties — supranational, national and local —
as cities and regions vie with a revitalized
European Union for a claim on people’s
loyalties. Unless there is a credible Euro-
pean Union, the other layers of identity
are not possible without conflict.
I recently visited the Croatian port city
of Rijeka, close to the Slovenian and Ital-
ian borders, when the two-headed eagle
was put back atop the bell tower. “It is a
Hapsburg emblem, not a Croat, Hungar-
ian or Italian one,” a local ethnic-Italian
writer, Giacomo Scotti, explained to me.
“It was taken down by the Fascists and
symbolizes the local freedom and autono-
my that this city enjoyed under the Haps-
burgs.” Mainly because Croatia is a sover-
eign state within the European Union, and
working toward entry into the Schengen
and euro zones, do the circumstances ex-
ist for such a nonthreatening display of lo-
cal pride.
The great Italian scholar of Central Eu-
rope, Claudio Magris, refers to Tito in his
epic travel book, “Danube,” as the last of
the Hapsburg emperors, resembling
Franz Joseph “because of his awareness
of inheriting a supranational, Danubian
legacy.” Like Franz Joseph, Tito held
Yugoslavia together through a mixture of
repression and, compared with other
Communist states, benevolence. Now the
states that were once part of Yugoslavia
will find peace and security only through a
far more benign imperial system: the Eu-
ropean Union. So what happens next in
the core of Europe — whether, for in-
stance, France joins Britain in seeking to
exit the European Union — is crucial to
the rest of the Continent. 0 promoted publicly as a battle against
ROBERT D. KAPLAN, the author of “Balkan
Ghosts” and “In Europe’s Shadow,” is a
senior fellow at the Center for a New
American Security and a senior adviser
at the Eurasia Group.
Senate.
But the bill is on the right track. Ameri-
cans believe that insurance ensures care,
when it often denies it. Many think Oba-
macare is generous, yet I have to fight for
essential care for my patients. We need to
be less emotional about this issue.
Jimmy Kimmel’s contention that a child
like his would not receive lifesaving
surgery without Obamacare may tug at
the heartstrings, but it is not accurate.
Employer-based health insurance, which
covers 170 million Americans, would have
paid for this infant’s needs with or without
Obamacare. Even if the Republican plan
replaced Obamacare, and even if the in-
fant didn’t have employer-provided insur-
ance, the treatment would still be covered.
And at the end of the day, a federal law, the
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor
Act, guarantees this kind of treatment,
whether we have Obamacare or Trump-
care.
The final question concerns the sky-
rocketing costs of innovation. My 93-year-
old father, a retired engineer, just received
a $50,000 catheter-inserted aortic valve,
covered by Medicare. But if all such high-
tech devices are covered, it will be practi-
cally impossible for any insurance com-
pany not to go belly-up. The tax-free
savings accounts that the House bill
would expand are a far better way to pay
for this kind of care. Shouldn’t people be
asked to save their own money for just this
sort of rainy day?
Or should we continue to overload
health insurance with all our fears and ex-
pectations? 0 lowed to have an abortion if they get
MARC K. SIEGEL is a contributor for Fox
News and a professor of medicine at
NYU Langone Medical Center.
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GAIL COLLINS
Where’s
Ivanka When
We Need Her?
IVANKA’S GOT A new female em-
powerment book, and Dad’s going to war
against women. Great week, gang.
In just the last few days, the Trump ad-
ministration has taken steps to restrict
health insurance coverage for contra-
ceptives, while bullying the House into
passing legislation that could send insur-
ance rates for maternal health care soar-
ing. Meanwhile, the president picked a
new official to disseminate the adminis-
tration’s thoughts about public health,
and it’s a woman who believes that abor-
tions cause breast cancer.
Triple score for the extreme right. I be-
lieve in hockey they call that a hat trick.
And wait, there’s more: Trump’s re-
ported choice to run the government’s
programs on family planning is someone
who doesn’t believe contraception
works. And of course that House-passed
health care bill is going to defund
Planned Parenthood. The measure now
goes to the Senate, where Republicans
have put together a special 13-man com-
mittee to draft their version.
It was, at minimum, deeply ironic that
while all this was happening, Ivanka
Trump released a new book that calls on
readers to fight against “barriers that
disproportionately affect women” at
work. Everybody who thinks unwanted
pregnancies are a barrier, please raise
your hands.
Under normal circumstances, we’d
give Ivanka’s slim tome, “Women Who
Work,” a pass. Or link you to Jennifer
Senior’s review in The Times, which calls
it “not really offensive so much as wit-
lessly derivative.” It’s stuffed with obvi-
ous tips and multitudinous inspirational
quotes on leadership, one of which
comes from John Quincy Adams, an un-
successful president who nobody liked.
His wife was so empowered she wrote a
Reproductive rights go all
wrong in Washington.
White House memoir titled “Adventures
of a Nobody.” One of his sons called him
“the Iron Mask.” Do you think Ivanka’s a
John Quincy Adams fan? Or has another
Trump ghostwriter been over-Googling?
Ivanka’s a major power in the adminis-
tration, and she ought to be mobilizing
support for things like easy access to
contraceptives. “Women Who Work”
isn’t exactly aimed at the people who
have problems paying for their prescrip-
tions — its target readers need tips on
massage priorities and getting the
nanny to send Mom pictures of how the
kids are spending their day. But she’s not
witless and she obviously knows that
birth control plays an important role in
working women’s lives. You think she’d
put in a word.
No sign. The president has directed
departments like health and human
services to consider whether the govern-
ment should allow employers who cite
religious objections to cut contraceptives
out of their health care plans. What do
you think said agencies will decide?
Here’s a hint: The new head of H.H.S.,
Tom Price, is a guy who once claimed
there was “not one” woman who had
ever had a problem paying for birth con-
trol on her own. (Getting an intrauterine
device implanted can cost $1,000 in some
parts of the country.)
The reproductive rights war is always
abortion. But many religious conserva-
tives hate birth control in general. Some
just want to stop sex outside of marriage.
Some don’t believe even married couples
should use artificial methods like pills or
condoms. Some believe that all fertilized
eggs are humans and that many forms of
contraception, from IUDs to morning-af-
ter pills, cause the equivalent of murder.
It’s a theological principle that most
Americans don’t accept. “Personhood”
amendments giving the eggs constitu-
tional rights have been defeated even in
very conservative states.
Yet the president has just named, as
one of the top officials in H.H.S., a woman
who believes IUDs kill. Charmaine Yoest
described intrauterine devices to Emily
Bazelon in a Times interview as having
“life-ending properties.” Yoest, who’s go-
ing to be assistant secretary for public af-
fairs, also refuses to consider whether in-
creased access to contraception will ac-
tually help reduce abortion rates. It
would, she told PBS, “be, frankly, carry-
ing water for the other side to allow them
to redefine the issue in that way.”
Teresa Manning, a former official at
National Right to Life, is said to be
Trump’s pick for another high post at
H.H.S., deputy assistant secretary for —
are you ready? — population affairs.
Manning, who, like Yoest, has argued
that abortions cause breast cancer, is go-
ing to be in charge of all federal family
planning programs. She’s the one who
once claimed in a radio interview that
“contraception doesn’t work.” The idea
that “contraception would always pre-
vent the conception” was, she said, “pre-
posterous.”
Nobody thinks these appointees re-
flect Trump’s own personal convictions,
and the president doesn’t need to go this
far to satisfy his voter base. It’s just that
he doesn’t care, and figures he can con-
cede to the ultraright on women’s repro-
ductive issues in return for stuff he really
wants. So he’s working toward a world
where low-income women won’t be able
to afford contraceptives. And aren’t al-
pregnant. Where there’s no Planned Par-
enthood to go to for help, or insurance to
cover prenatal care or delivery.
Other than that, no problem. 0
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A Milestone for China
New Jetliner Takes Flight
The test run of the Comac C919
symbolized the industrial might
of an emerging superpower.
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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

Full Employment Is Near. What Does It Mean for Pay?

By NEIL IRWIN
There is one prism through which we
should analyze the April jobs numbers
released Friday and each of the remain-
ing reports in 2017: How close to full
employment are we, really?
That is the apparently simple yet
oh-so-complex question that matters
most for both policy makers at the
Federal Reserve and the Trump admin-
istration, and for ordinary Americans
who want to see bigger paychecks and
rising standards of living. In an econ-
omy at full employment, pretty much
anyone who wants a job can get one,
companies have incentive to offer pay
raises, and firms are more inclined to
offer training, flexible work arrange-
ments and other concessions that bene-
fit their workers.
The good news from the April num-
bers is that we’re quite clearly getting
there, if not yet fully arrived.
The headline numbers for April are
terrific. The economy added 211,000 jobs
in April, and
the unemploy-
ment rate fell to
4.4 percent.
That is not just the lowest jobless rate
in a decade; it also matches the lowest
level reached during the mid-2000s
expansion. The last time it was lower
was May 2001, 16 full years ago.
Officials at the Fed are on record as
believing that a jobless rate of around
4.7 percent is the level they seek in the
longer run, and we’re now comfortably
below that.
Broader measures of unemployment
tell the same story. The so-called U-6
rate, which captures people who are
working part time but want a full-time
job, and those who would like a job but
have given up looking out of frustra-
tion, is also back down to its level be-
fore the last recession. It fell to 8.6
percent in April from 8.9 percent, and
the last time it was lower was Novem-
ber 2007.
Taken in isolation, these numbers
would seem to suggest that the econ-
omy is most certainly at full employ-
ment and maybe even running a little
Continued on Page 2

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Christienne Dobson, second from right, used the EatWith site, below, to attract guests to a dinner party last month in her Harlem apartment.

Be My Guest . . . Please?
Social-dining By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD ing the first party in the United States.
The guests — half friends and half
In a penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s
services let chefs Chinatown on a recent Monday night, Lisa
strangers — arrived. Mostly millennials,
they displayed a dinner-party-appropriate
Larsson chopped shiitake mushrooms and
cook at home looked rather relaxed for someone about to
gravitas: pocket squares, bottles of wine for
Ms. Larsson. There was only a whiff of cyni-
host a 14-person dinner.
for strangers, but She had arranged the party through the
cism when Noor Shams, who works in mi-
crofinance, said the doorman downstairs
app AirDine, which lets users pay to eat at
many potential strangers’ houses, rating the experience af-
did not recognize Ms. Larsson’s name and
“for a second, I was like, ‘This is a scam!’”
terward. The app started in Sweden last
patrons are wary. year and expanded to the United States and
It was not a scam — but whether AirDine
and a wave of similar apps can get con-
elsewhere in March. Ms. Larsson, 26, a
painter originally from Sweden, was host- Continued on Page 4

To Lift Growth, Help Women How to Make a Company Right a Wrong

Go to Work, Fed Chief Says
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
In an unusually personal speech, Jan-
et L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chair-
woman, said Friday that policies making
it easier for women to work could signifi-
cantly improve the nation’s economic
growth.
The sweeping movement of women
from the home to the workplace during
the mid-20th century, she said, was a
“major factor in America’s prosperity.”
But that progress has stalled in recent
decades, leaving women less likely than
men to hold paying jobs. Bringing more
women into the work force with policies
like expanding the availability of paid
leave, affordable child care and flexible
work schedules, she said, could help to
lift the American economy from a long
stretch of slow growth.
“Evidence suggests that many women
remain unable to achieve their goals,”
Ms. Yellen said in a speech at Brown Uni-
versity. “If these obstacles persist, we
will squander the potential of many of
our citizens and incur a substantial loss
to the productive capacity of our econ-
omy at a time when the aging of the pop-
ulation and weak productivity growth
are already weighing on economic
growth.”
Ms. Yellen cited one recent estimate
that raising women’s participation to the
same level as men’s could increase the
nation’s annual economic output by 5
percent.
Women’s participation in the work
force increased gradually through most
of the 20th century, then rose more
rapidly from the early 1970s through the
early 1990s. About one-third of working-
age women held jobs outside the home in
the years after World War II. By the
early 1990s, about three-quarters of
those women worked.
Since then, however, the trend has
stagnated. The proportion of women
ages 25 to 54 either working or looking
for work stood at 75 percent in April.
That remains more than 10 percentage
points lower than the figure for men in
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Consumerist was originally part of the
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B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
China Displays Aerospace Ambitions as Its New Jetliner Takes Flight
By KEITH BRADSHER
SHANGHAI — China’s com-
mercial aerospace dreams took
wing on Friday, as the first Chi-
nese-built passenger jetliner com-
pleted its first public flight test,
embodying the country’s ambi-
tions to take on the industry
champions, Boeing and Airbus.
With a brisk breeze blowing
through light smog under an over-
cast sky, a large crowd of govern-
ment officials and aerospace ex-
ecutives gathered to watch as the
C919, white with a green-and-blue
striped tail, underwent a lengthy
preflight check, then rumbled
down a runway and into the sky
for a test flight that lasted about
an hour.
The aircraft landed safely, and
Comac, its manufacturer, declared
it a success. But the program still
has a long journey ahead. It is em-
blematic of China’s challenge as it
seeks to become a leader in aero-
space and other critical technolo-
gies like electric cars, advanced
microchips and artificial intelli-
gence.
The C919 is years — if not
decades — behind aircraft made
by Airbus and Boeing that are
cheaper to fly and easier to main-
tain. Safety regulators in Europe,
the United States and elsewhere
still have to certify the plane be-
fore it can be sold outside China.
And including parts like the en-
gines, its cockpit and its belly, the
C919 is filled with gear made by
Western industrial giants like
General Electric and Honeywell.
But on Friday, none of that mat-
tered. For a country that only 40
years ago was one of the poorest
in the world, the C919 symbolized
the industrial might of an emerg-
ing superpower — and its dream
to dominate a new technological
era.
Planning for the 158-seat C919
began more than a decade ago,
but the plane has become a cen-
terpiece of the country’s more re-
cent ambitions to become largely
self-sufficient in many high-tech
goods and to export them as well.
That plan, called Made in China
2025, worries many Western busi-
nesses who fear competing
against government-supported
Chinese companies.
“We used to believe that it was
better to buy than to build, better
to rent than to buy,” President Xi
Jinping of China told workers dur-
ing a recent visit here. “We need to
spend more on researching and
manufacturing our own airliners.”
U.S. Is Nearing
Full Employment.
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hot — that is, revving faster than
will be possible in the long run
without just fueling inflation.
But we can’t take the unem-
ployment rate in isolation. Other
data, including in the April re-
port, show a more nuanced pic-
ture, one that suggests there is
room to run. One of the central
economic problems of our time is
prime-aged adults, especially
men, who are out of the work
force entirely and aren’t even
looking for a job. The number of
people not in the labor force
actually climbed by 162,000 in
April, and the proportion of the
population in the labor force
edged down a tenth of a percent.
A single month’s moves may
well be random blips, but if you
look at these and related num-
bers over a longer horizon, it’s
hard to find a discernible trend.
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The first Chinese-built passenger jetliner, the Comac C919, taking off on Friday from Pudong International Airport in Shanghai.
Although the plane symbolizes China’s emerging industrial might, it is years behind aircraft made by Airbus and Boeing.
China’s investment in civilian
aircraft manufacturing is enor-
mous. The Commercial Aircraft
Corporation of China, better
known as Comac, unveiled the ex-
tent of its activities for the first
time on Thursday, showing off a
complex of more than 110 build-
ings.
In one of the seven towering
gray manufacturing buildings sat
the second C919, still being assem-
bled. Workers in dark blue uni-
forms installed components in the
plane’s wings and cargo area, the
rattling of their tools echoing
through a cavernous space that
could accommodate many more
aircraft on a production line.
The second C919, coated in
green anticorrosion paint and not
yet displaying any airline’s colors,
will not be ready until September,
said Bao Pengli, Comac’s deputy
director of project management
for manufacturing and final as-
sembly. Only after building six
test planes will Comac decide
was 62.8 percent in April 2016
and 62.9 percent in April 2017.
There can be a lot of churn
beneath those numbers. Baby
boomers who are retiring are
being offset by younger workers
entering the labor force, leaving
the overall ratio roughly level.
And in fact, the proportion of 25-
to 54-year-old Americans work-
ing has risen to 78.6 percent in
April, up nearly a full percentage
point over the last year.
But that number was 80.3
percent at the peak in the last
economic cycle and peaked at
81.9 percent in 2000, which im-
plies that there are millions more
people in prime working years
who might be coaxed into the
work force if conditions were
right.
Which brings us to wages.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.3
percent in April, and are up 2.5
percent over the past year. But
that’s really nothing special —
Sterling Jewelers Settles Bias Charges
By RACHEL ABRAMS
Sterling Jewelers has settled
federal civil charges accusing it of
discriminating against female
employees, reaching a deal with-
out having to admit wrongdoing
or pay any damages, a win for the
company as it faces continuing le-
gal challenges over its pay and
promotion practices.
Under the deal, Sterling, the
parent of chains including Jared
the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay
Jewelers, agreed to hire an inde-
pendent employment expert to re-
view its compensation and promo-
tion practices.
whether it is ready for large-scale
production, he said.
Comac says it already has 570
orders from 23 buyers. But those
have almost entirely come from
Chinese companies and a couple
of small overseas air carriers with
links to China. A notable exception
is an order for 20 planes from Gen-
eral Electric Capital Aviation
Services; G.E. is also a big suppli-
er to the C919 program.
The C919 is designed to compete
with the Airbus 320 and the Boe-
ing 737, single-aisle planes that
are the workhorses of the world’s
airlines. For Comac, the plane rep-
resents the culmination of
decades of work; for Airbus and
Boeing, it is a challenge to a prof-
itable duopoly that has endured
for decades.
But it is unclear that China can
produce aircraft that are as effi-
cient and reliable as even the cur-
rent generation of Boeings and
Airbuses.
“If you have a slight rivet head
Some companies report a shortage of construction workers — a sign of a tightening labor market.
indeed, it’s broadly consistent
with the kind of wage growth
that has been evident for years.
What’s more, while numbers like
that amounted to meaningful
The details of the deal were re-
leased as part of a filing with the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, which had made the
accusations.
In a statement, Signet Jewelers,
Sterling’s parent company, said it
was pleased to have resolved the
case.
“Signet has a sound framework
of policies and practices designed
to ensure equal opportunity for
women and we do not tolerate dis-
crimination of any kind,” said
Lynn Dennison, the company’s
chief legal, risk and corporate af-
fairs officer. “The additional steps
agreed to as part of the consent
decree with the E.E.O.C. are con-
sistent with our commitment to
continuous review and improve-
ment.”
Sterling faces a separate class-
action arbitration case from wom-
en who accuse the company of
gender bias. Lawyers for the
women in that case say the com-
pany regularly paid female
employees less than their male
counterparts and unfairly over-
looked women for promotions and
other opportunities. The case also
accuses Sterling of fostering a cul-
ture in which sexual harassment
protrusion, it does affect the air
flow,” and that may mean extra
fuel consumption, said Martin
Craigs, chairman of the Aero-
space Forum Asia, a commercial
aircraft industry trade associa-
tion.
China has learned a lot in recent
years about how to build single-
aisle planes by making many
parts for Boeing 737s and by as-
sembling entire A320s for Airbus.
But the country’s dream of becom-
ing a competitor in the global mar-
ket for commercial aircraft
started in 1972, when President
Nixon visited China in a Boeing
707.
Chinese officials loved the plane
and later bought 10 Boeing 707s,
as well as 40 spare Pratt & Whit-
ney engines. China to some extent
copied the fuselages of the 707 for
a small production run of ex-
perimental Y-10 planes using the
additional engines.
Decades later, those experi-
ences and a fast-developing avia-
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gains in living standards when
inflation was very low, with
inflation measures getting near 2
percent, a mere 2.5 percent gain
in pay doesn’t amount to much at
was normal, although those accu-
sations do not make up the basis of
the suit.
Signet is fighting the case and
has said that it investigated the
claims of sexual misconduct and
found them to be without merit.
In a statement, Joseph M. Sell-
ers, the lawyer representing the
women in the class-action arbitra-
tion, said the deal with the federal
commission had no bearing on his
case, which is expected to go to
trial next year.
Mr. Sellers said that “we very
much look forward to getting jus-
tice for the victims and to forcing
Sterling to enact meaningful re-
forms that will improve the work-
ing conditions for all Sterling
employees.”
The E.E.O.C. first filed its case
against Sterling in 2008.
Signet, with a market capital-
ization of more than $4.3 billion, is
one of the world’s largest retailers
of diamonds, rings and watches.
Its brands are fixtures in malls
and shopping centers around the
country, and its more than 3,600
stores throughout the United
States, the United Kingdom and
Canada generate annual sales
that exceed $6.5 billion.
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tion sector — China has the
world’s second-busiest behind the
United States — mean there are
few questions about the C919’s
safety.
Arnold Barnett, the dean of avi-
ation safety statistics at the Mass-
achusetts Institute of Technology,
said that China had had only one
fatal crash in the past decade,
even as its aviation sector ex-
panded. One person has been
killed per 70 million passengers
boarded in China, compared with
one passenger per 25 million
boardings in the West, he said.
Gary Moran, the head of Asia
aviation insurance at Aon, a large
global insurance broker, said that
as insurers assessed the risks of a
new aircraft like the C919, they
were likely to be reassured by the
large role that multinationals had
played. In addition to the avionics,
G.E. has also collaborated on the
engines, while Honeywell is pro-
viding auxiliary power systems,
wheels, brakes, fly-by-wire con-
this stage of the expansion.
There are definitely signs that
this is changing. American Air-
lines announced an 8 percent
rise in pay for its pilots and a 5
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trols and navigation equipment.
For China, the C919 is just the
beginning. Even if the plane
proves less fuel-efficient than
Western alternatives, the state-
controlled airline industry may
still be required to buy it, and the
Chinese aviation market in the
coming years is expected to rival
only the American market in size
and perhaps surpass it.
And although the plane repre-
sents a new challenger for aircraft
sales, Airbus and Boeing, increas-
ingly dependent on Chinese air-
lines for sales as well as on Chi-
nese suppliers for parts, wel-
comed its arrival.
“The C919 will bring new com-
petition to the market,” Airbus
said in a statement. Yukui Wang, a
Boeing spokesman, added: “We’d
like to take this opportunity to
congratulate Comac for the suc-
cessful development of the C919
airplane.”
Comac is already looking past
the C919 to the design and manu-
facture of a wide-body jet that
would compete with larger, more
profitable planes like the Boeing
747 and the A340. Steven Lien, the
president for Asia at Honeywell’s
aerospace division, said that Rus-
sia and China were in the final
stages of negotiating a plan to
jointly design and produce it.
Commercial aircraft often share
DNA with military aerospace pro-
grams. Boeing 707 siblings like the
KC-135 tanker and RC-135 recon-
naissance plane are used by the
United States Air Force, while Air-
bus has a sizable military equip-
ment division. China’s aerospace
program is under particularly
tight government oversight.
Comac, based in Shanghai, is
under the direct control of China’s
cabinet. The state-owned enter-
prise that jointly owns Comac and
is most closely linked to it is the
Aviation Industry Corporation of
China, or AVIC, which makes Chi-
na’s fighters and bombers. It is
also G.E.’s joint venture partner in
producing sophisticated avionics
equipment for the C919. G.E. said
in an email that legal agreements
protected its intellectual property
from misuse.
Honeywell expects $15 billion in
sales to the C919 program during
its 20 or more years of production.
But the company plans to adhere
to Western export control regula-
tions in this process, Mr. Lien said.
“We follow them very, very
closely,” he said, “and we would
never take a shortcut.”
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percent rise for flight attendants
last month, to the consternation
of Wall Street. A range of compa-
nies has described shortages of
qualified workers — construction
companies in Dallas, restaurants
that rely on seasonal workers
who are often immigrants.
But beyond employer cat-
erwauling, the best sign that the
economy has reached full em-
ployment will be if wage gains
return to their pre-recession
norms; wage growth for non-
managerial workers of 4 percent
or more was normal in 2006 and
2007; now that number is only
2.3 percent.
Yes, inflation is lower now, and
productivity growth is weak,
both factors that suggest we
should expect weaker wage
growth. But nonetheless, it’s not
worth declaring victory and
deciding that full employment is
achieved when employers are
still not showing it in their pay
practices.
— CA DREAMER, PETALUMA, CALIF.

Custom Vans and Planes: How Derby Horses Travel in Style
By PAUL SULLIVAN
Like Nyquist, American
Pharoah and California Chrome,
the horse that wins Saturday’s
Kentucky Derby will be covered
in a blanket of roses. And —
whether or not it appreciates it
— that horse will bask in the
adulation of the finely turned-out
spectators at Churchill Downs.
But the horse won’t be linger-
ing in Louisville for very long.
It needs to get to Baltimore to
run the Preakness Stakes at
Pimlico two weeks later. And if
all goes well, it will head up to
New York for the Belmont
Stakes, which concludes the
Triple Crown, in June.
Not to worry: The horse will
be traveling in style and ease.
For that horse, getting from one
track to the next will be about as
comfortable a trip as anyone
could imagine — and it won’t be
cheap.
Horses are famously expen-
sive animals to buy, board, feed,
ride and enter into competitions.
But moving them from place to
place — be it in trailers, long-
haul moving vans with air-ride
suspension, or specially outfitted
airplanes — can take expense
and luxury to a new level.
A one-way van ticket from
California to Kentucky for a
horse whose owner wants him to
have the whole trailer to himself
could cost as much $10,000.
Chances are that the horse would
fly, which would run the owner
about $6,000 one-way for the
same route.
But not all of these champion
horses live in the United States.
To fly one from, say, Dubai to
Kentucky could run upward of
$28,000. If, however, the owner
were willing to cram three
horses into one pallet for that
trans-Atlantic flight, the cost
would be $12,000 to $13,000 — but
that’s for each horse.
Part of what owners are pay-
ing for is transportation experts
who know their equine
customers. “Sometimes horses
don’t travel great, just like people
don’t travel great,” said Chris
Santarelli, treasurer and a part-
ner at Mersant, which transports
horses internationally. “Some
horses get into the stall and go.
Others get anxious and get ship-
ping stress.”
Mr. Santarelli said his com-
pany flew the horses that fin-
ished first, second and third at
this year’s Dubai World Cup, a
premier event with a $10 million
purse. “They were very comfort-
able on the flight,” he said. “A lot
goes into understanding the
temperament of the horse.”
What the owner gets for the
money is more than just a flight.
The stall is lined with the hay or
shavings that the horse prefers.
Grooms guide the horses on and
off the flight. Veterinarians tend
to be on hand when a horse
arrives to ensure its health and
do any tests needed for it to clear
customs.
And whereas commercial
planes have gotten less luxurious
over the years, planes carrying
horses have improved. Charlie
Fenwick, who won several major
obstacle races in the 1970s and
1980s, remembers flying his
horse Ben Nevis to England in
1978 to compete in the English
Grand National, a steeplechase
race that dates to 1839.
“This was a cargo plane, with
no air-conditioning,” he said.
“Everything was put on a 12-
by-12 pallet. Ours had a horse on
it. Others had generators on it or
bags of seed.”
Mr. Fenwick said he remem-
bered his prized horse being
lifted off the plane on a forklift in
Hamburg and stored overnight
in a warehouse before finishing
To Lift Economic Growth, Help Women Join the Work Force, the Fed Chief Says
From First Business Page
the same age range working or
seeking work, which was 88.6 per-
cent in April.
Ms. Yellen’s speech was unusu-
ally narrative and unusually per-
sonal. Speaking at her alma mater,
she told the stories of other wom-
en who graduated from Brown, in-
cluding her husband’s aunt, Eliza-
beth Stafford Hirschfelder. She
said Ms. Hirschfelder, who gradu-
ated in 1923, faced discrimination
throughout her career as a math-
ematician. “I believe that Betty
Stafford Hirschfelder was denied
opportunities and greater success
simply because she was a wom-
an,” she said.
Ms. Yellen, who is 70, said wom-
en of her own generation had
faced fewer obstacles and had
more opportunities. “I enrolled at
Brown fully planning to attend
graduate school and have a ca-
reer, as did many of my class-
mates in the Class of 1967,” she
said. She noted that changes in
the trip to England the next day.
“It was purely a commodity,” he
said.
But after losing the Grand
National on his first attempt, Mr.
Fenwick rode Ben Nevis to vic-
tory in 1980, becoming the sec-
ond American jockey to win the
race. Now his horses enjoy better
travel conditions: He recently
paid $12,000 to have a horse
flown from Ireland to New York
and then put on a van down to
Maryland.
Planes for flying horses do-
mestically are specially designed
to accommodate passengers of
different sizes, with stalls that
can be configured for the size of
the horse or the comfort level
prescribed by its owner, from
standing up to being able to
graze as if it were on the farm.
H. E. Tex Sutton Forwarding,
an equine transport company
based in Lexington, Ky., flies a
Boeing 727 with “First Class
Equine Air Travel” emblazoned
on the body. It makes about 200
flights a year with anywhere
from 10 to 21 horses on the plane;
the biggest destinations are the
horse centers of California, Ken-
tucky, Florida and New York.
Greg Otteson, sales manager
for Tex Sutton, said the company
recently flew a horse named
policy supported and reinforced
changes in society. A 1974 law, for
example, allowed women to apply
for loans without a male co-signer.
Women gained entry into a
wider range of professions, and
the gap between men’s and
women’s wages narrowed signifi-
cantly. Nancy H. Teeters became
the first woman appointed to the
Fed’s board in September 1978.
Ms. Yellen said that their in-
creased work force participation
had produced clear benefits not
only for women, but also for men,
for the children of working women
and for the American economy.
“The evidence shows that the
rise in women’s participation has
contributed to widespread im-
provements in the safety and pro-
ductivity of our workplaces, to the
health of families and to the mac-
roeconomic success that our
country has enjoyed,” she said.
She spoke at a conference titled
“125 Years of Women at Brown.”
That progress, however, has
stalled in the United States even
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PERSONAL BUSINESS
WEALTH MATTERS
BROOK LEDGE HORSE TRANSPORT
Arrogate, which holds the North said Bob Elliston, vice president
American earnings record at of racing and sales at Keeneland,
over $17 million, and California a horse racing and breeding
Chrome, his racetrack rival, who company in Lexington, Ky. Its
won the 2014 Kentucky Derby annual yearling sales draw horse
and Preakness, home from the owners from around the world.
Pegasus World Cup Invitational. “You’d want to keep it as you’d
“They rode next to each other,” keep any other $1 million asset,”
Mr. Otteson said. Both of them Mr. Elliston said.
are well-bred animals, he said, Vans involve a longer trip, but
“so getting along wasn’t an is- still a luxurious one. While they
sue.” look like moving vans, they’re
Some star horses prefer to fly equipped with air-ride suspen-
with an entourage. American sion, so the horses don’t feel the
Pharoah, who won the Triple bumps, and systems to keep the
air circulating even if the van is
sitting in traffic.
“You don’t want a horse who’s
Doing whatever it been on a long trip to be stressed
out about anything,” said Curt
takes to avoid Lange, manager of accounts
receivable at Brook Ledge Horse
‘shipping stress.’ Transportation of Oley, Pa. “You
want him to be in the same envi-
ronment as at home.”
Crown in 2015 — the first horse to The company offers three sizes
do so since Affirmed in 1978 — of stalls, from ones in which the
animal stands upright to one
travels with his lead pony, Smok-
called a box stall, where the
ey, next to him. (Smokey’s day
horse can turn around and lie
job is to lead American Pharoah
down as it wants. For the compa-
out for training in the mornings, ny’s regular routes, prices range
but clearly the job has perks.) from as little as $1,100 for a single
“You want to keep these stall from New York to Florida to
horses as comfortable as you $2,200 for a box stall. But the
can, particularly when you’re prices go up in high season or if a
spending $1 million on them,” horse needs to be somewhere at
Janet L. Yellen spoke on Friday during a conference at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
H.E. SUTTON FORWARDING COMPANY
the last minute.
“Horses are just like a little
kid,” Mr. Lange said. “They have
a natural propensity to stick
their nose in places it doesn’t
belong. You need to create an
environment where they have
nothing where they can get in
trouble.”
Mark Leone, a horse trainer
and former top rider on the elite
hunter-jumper circuit, said that
during his sport’s high season, he
could have 60 horses on the road
at one time. (The season starts in
January or February in Florida
and moves with the warmth —
like golf — so by summertime,
it’s in the northeast.)
“Like a professional golfer or
tennis player, we’re constantly in
motion,” he said. “We’re down in
Florida, and then we’re in the
Mid-Atlantic, and then we come
up north.”
Another option is the more
familiar type of horse trailer —
the kind with two horses stand-
ing side-by-side, tails hanging
out the back. At the higher levels,
these get used for the shortest of
trips.
In the world of polo — which
involves shipping ponies long
distances, between polo hubs like
Wellington, Fla., and Greenwich,
Conn. — large trailers are stand-
MICHAEL DWYER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Brook Ledge Horse
Transport vans, far left,
carried Kentucky Derby
contenders from Ocala,
Fla., to Churchill
Downs, where Angel
Trumper, above, arrived
early Wednesday. At
left, American Pharoah,
the Triple Crown winner
in 2015, and his lead
pony, Smokey, flying in
style aboard an animal
transport plane called
“Air Horse One.”
ard. One reason is the sheer
number of horses involved: a
four-person team could travel
with 30 to 40 horses.
Annabelle Gundlach, who
sponsors the Postage Stamp
Farm polo team in Wellington,
said the trailers she uses fit
about 15 polo ponies side by side.
“It comes down to the economics
of it, but it’s also the history of
how it’s always been done,” she
said. “Many of these polo people
aren’t wanting for cash.” The
truck-and-trailer combination
can cost $150,000 and up.
On a long trip, there are risks
greater than traffic jams and
stalled trailers. Trainers say they
worry about horses getting upset
or sick en route and developing a
fever. If their stall is too small for
the distance, they can also de-
velop circulatory problems, said
Linda Rice, a top trainer at Bel-
mont Park.
Another risk is a logistical one:
Putting hormonally charged colts
and fillies too close together can
spell trouble.
“Fillies have to be loaded on
the back of the bus, so the colts
don’t catch wind of them,” Mr.
Lange said. “Otherwise, you can
have fireworks. Shipping horses
is not like shipping cabbages or
toilet paper.”
as the participation of women in
the work force has continued to
rise in other developed countries.
The United States, which had one
of the highest rates of participa-
tion in the early 1990s, fell to 17th
among 22 developed nations in
one recent analysis.
That analysis, a 2013 study by
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence
M. Kahn, both of Cornell Univer-
sity, attributed much of the differ-
ence to government policies. The
United States lags behind other
countries in the availability of
paid maternity leave, affordable
child care and flexible work
schedules. Ms. Blau and Mr. Kahn
estimated that adopting Euro-
pean policies on those issues
could close more than half of the
gap in the United States between
male and female labor force par-
ticipation.
Ms. Yellen also cited research
showing that women still make
about 10 percent less, on average,
than men with similar back-
grounds who work in similar
positions.
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
How a Consumer Can Make a Company Right a Wrong
From First Business Page
ple were taken advantage of, I
wanted them not to get kicked
into the sewer of customer-serv-
ice phone numbers,” he said in
an interview this week, describ-
ing the kind of assistance he
wanted the site to provide.
Avid readers piled in with tips
of all sorts, but one from a reader
named Marc stuck out. He’d
assembled lists of email ad-
dresses for executives at compa-
nies that had done him wrong,
and his notes to them had all led
to resolution. The Consumerist
team named the concept and
gave it life (and a four-letter
abbreviation) in its initial post by
Ben Popken.
Here are the instructions:
First, the E.E.C.B. is a last resort.
Exhaust all other options before
bringing out this heavy
weaponry. Don’t turn to this until
after speaking with a supervisor
on a help line, stopping in to the
bank branch and so on. After all,
if everyone bombards senior
executives whenever anything
goes wrong, the E.E.C.B. will
stop working.
Second, write a note that is
pointed but polite. “Make it co-
gent and understandable and
perhaps even warm and funny,”
Twitter: @ronlieber
Chefs Open Homes,
But Dinner Guests
Can Be Hard to Find
From First Business Page
sumers to embrace them is a ques-
tion. While other companies have
conquered car rides (Uber), bed-
room rentals (Airbnb) and errand
running (TaskRabbit), AirDine
and services like EatWith and
Feastly are trying to master
shared dining. Yet social dining
has not caught on in the same way
so far, and a few of the apps have
already shut down.
The challenge is not finding
hosts willing to invite strangers
over. It’s finding guests willing to
show up.
“My thought was, ‘It must be
hard to find these amazing chefs
and hosts, and convince them to
do it out of their home.’ That ac-
tually hasn’t been the obstacle,”
said Susan Kim, the chief execu-
tive of EatWith, whose site started
in 2012. “When people try it, they
love it, but how do we get people to
try this new way of experiencing a
city or a new way of eating out?
It’s been an intellectual conun-
drum.”
The social-dining companies
come at the premise from differ-
ent angles. EatWith focuses on
travelers, with meals in 200 cities.
Feastly signs up professional
chefs as hosts. VoulezVouzDîner
lets travelers and other diners re-
quest hosted meals on specific
days. AirDine asks hosts to ar-
range fixed dinners and, ideally,
fill the table with strangers. And
BonAppetour and VizEat offer
food experiences, like market
tours, along with meals.
But all try to make money in the
same way: The companies take a
said Meg Marco, who was a
senior editor at the time of the
E.E.C.B.’s coinage and now runs
Consumerist, these days a sib-
ling brand to Consumer Reports.
Keep it short. State the prob-
lem quickly. Make a reasonable
request. Don’t threaten to bomb
the factory, which an old friend of
mine did when two lamps that he
had purchased failed in rapid
succession. (The stern letter he
received in return went up on a
dorm room wall.) And try to
avoid being one of the crazy-
sounding people companies
never want to hear from. “Don’t
send a rant,” Ms. Marco said.
Consumerist has published its
own complaint-letter template,
and I’ve posted a real E.E.C.B. of
my own. My letter helped per-
suade Jewel-Osco, a grocer that
is part of the Albertsons chain, to
fix a dangerous condition at a
store that was affecting neigh-
bors (including my mother).
Now, about the recipients.
You’ll want to look up a compa-
ny’s senior executive team online
and find the people who are most
likely to have something to do
with your problem. Most public
companies will have a page
listing those people, but you can
often find relevant names in
news releases that private com-
panies put out, too. As for the
email formatting, the media
contact page often has addresses
percentage of what hosts charge
guests to attend, usually 15 to 20
percent. Hosts can set whatever
price they like for guests; Ms.
Larsson charged $10 a head, while
lots of EatWith and Feastly meals
run $80 and up. The companies
generally do not charge guests or
hosts to join the platforms.
Christienne Dobson, a designer
in Harlem and an EatWith host,
said she saw cooking as a hobby
rather than an income stream.
“Basically, I’m not spending
money to host people — it pays for
itself, which is really nice, so I can
source better ingredients, source
different types of food,” she said.
Many of the social-dining sites
and apps began around 2012,
spurred by other companies that
promote the sharing model, like
Airbnb.
“After that exists for a few
years, you look at your kitchen
and say, ‘Couldn’t that be a restau-
rant?’” said Simon Rothman, a
venture capitalist at Greylock
Partners, whose firm led an $8
million financing of EatWith in
2014. “At that moment, it starts to
be obvious to multiple people.”
He said he understood why
hosts might embrace the idea,
while potential guests remain
wary. “The host has a sense of con-
trol,” Mr. Rothman said, including
turning down potential guests.
“The idea of, ‘I’m going to go to
someone’s house I don’t know,’ it
feels slightly different.”
Many hurdles to the business
are also cultural. Sagiv Ofek, who
brought HomeDine, his social-din-
ing website and app, to the United
States from Tel Aviv in 2013, said
Justice Department Expands Inquiry Into Uber’s Operating Practices
By MIKE ISAAC
SAN FRANCISCO — An inqui-
ry by the United States Depart-
ment of Justice into Uber’s use of a
program to deceive some regula-
tors has expanded.
The ride-hailing company has
been under scrutiny from the Jus-
tice Department over a tool called
Greyball, which The New York
Times reported on in March. The
Greyball tool allowed Uber to de-
ploy what was essentially a fake
version of its app to evade law en-
forcement agencies that were try-
ing to clamp down on its service in
cities including Portland, Ore.,
Boston and Las Vegas.
The Justice Department earlier
opened an inquiry into Uber’s use
of Greyball in Portland, city offi-
cials there disclosed in a trans-
portation audit last week. Port-
land was also moving ahead with
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listed for public relations staff
members that will show you
whether it’s first.last
@company.com or something
else. Don’t bug the P.R. people,
though, since it’s not their job to
answer consumers directly.
Consumerist has a post with
additional email-format search
tips.
Writing a pointed
but polite message
to executives, as a
last resort.
So how well does the E.E.C.B.
work? Again, I’ve never had it
fail, though I’ve had to resend
the note once or twice. I’ve used
it at American Airlines more
than once, and at Best Buy when
it sold me a defective backpack.
(Even though a warranty claim
should, in theory, have gone to
Samsonite, Best Buy stepped up
and refunded the money, which I
promptly spent on another back-
pack at Best Buy as a way to
express appreciation.) Hertz
eventually did the right thing,
too, after hitting us with insur-
Christienne Dobson used the EatWith site to host a dinner party. Her main course, top left, included Trinidadian chicken curry.
that it was typical in Israel for peo-
ple to open the door and invite oth-
ers over. But “what I discovered in
the U.S. is, people are more terri-
torial and more personal about
their own personal space,” he said.
After finding limited success
with HomeDine in San Francisco,
Mr. Ofek tried New York. There,
Some sites, facing
an ‘intellectual
conundrum,’ are
tinkering with
their approach.
he said, hosts and guests were so-
cial, but real estate was a problem.
“If they had a kitchen, it is a tiny
kitchen where they cannot cook
anything,” he said. He shut down
HomeDine in 2014.
“We found people all over in
terms of hosting — we had no
problem with that,” Mr. Ofek said.
“Our main problem was to acquire
subpoenaing Uber on Greyball, an
official there said on Friday, af-
firming that the federal action was
a criminal investigation.
Now the inquiry has widened to
include Philadelphia. The Phila-
delphia Parking Authority, a state-
governed transportation agency,
said on Friday that it was con-
tacted by the Justice Department
and asked to hand over informa-
tion regarding Uber and its use of
special software to enter and op-
erate in certain markets.
“The P.P.A. is cooperating with
federal law enforcement officials
and providing all of the informa-
tion that we have” about Greyball,
Martin O’Rourke, a department
spokesman, said in a statement.
WHYY, a Philadelphia public ra-
dio station, earlier reported that
the transit agency had been con-
tacted by the Justice Department.
ance charges that we had
specifically declined.
And why does the E.E.C.B.
work? I’ve wondered whether
recipients ever Google my name
and discover what I do for a
living, even though I send notes
from my personal email account.
But I’ve coached too many
friends and family members
through successful E.E.C.B.
efforts for that to be an explana-
tion. My father received prompt
replies after shabby treatment
by a Lexus dealer, and friends
have received refunds from
United Airlines, American Ex-
press and other companies. The
biggest victory of all may have
been a quick reply from an exec-
utive at El Al, the Israeli airline,
long known for its disdain for
passengers. (Or perhaps it’s just
rigorous security that comes
with a scowl.)
When I sent the missive on my
mother’s behalf to a variety of
Albertsons and Jewel-Osco exec-
utives last summer, I heard back
from Mike Withers, Jewel-Osco’s
president. I checked back with
him this week to see whether he
had looked me up at the time, but
he said that he had not.
“I do personally answer most
complaints that come to me,” he
said in an email from Portugal,
where he was visiting his sons.
“If they sent it to me, I assume
that they want to hear from me.”
new users.”
Mitch Monsen, the founder of
Kitchen.ly, a social-dining app
that he shut down in 2013, said din-
ers were particularly concerned
about sanitary issues and hosts’
personal-cleanliness standards.
The feedback was, “I’m not en-
tirely sure that the meal I’m going
to be eating is safe,” he said.
The apps must also be prepared
for regulatory challenges, said
Seth B. Weinberg, a lawyer who
teaches food law and policy at Co-
lumbia Law School. “Once you
start charging people, you cease
to be a hobbyist, and you start be-
coming a commercial enterprise,
even a small one,” he said. Regula-
tors could also potentially require
liquor licenses and food-safety
standards for meals arranged this
way, he added.
To attract more users, some
sites and apps are now tinkering
with their strategy.
EatWith has begun analyzing
guests’ ratings to see what works
best at dinners, and sharing that
information with hosts. The com-
pany has found that 12-person par-
ties work, as do pairs of hosts —
one cooking and one socializing.
Uber declined to comment on
the transit agency’s actions or the
federal inquiry.
The growing investigation add-
ed to the woes of Uber, which is the
world’s dominant ride-summon-
ing service. This year, the com-
pany has also grappled with alle-
gations of a harassment-ridden
workplace culture and questions
over the leadership of its chief ex-
ecutive, Travis Kalanick. In addi-
tion, Uber is embroiled in a bitter
lawsuit with Waymo, the self-driv-
ing car unit spun out of Google’s
parent company, over accusations
of stolen trade secrets concerning
autonomous vehicles.
Greyball, which Uber began us-
ing as early as 2014, was some-
times deployed when the com-
pany started service in a city with-
out permission. Uber has argued
the tool had legitimate uses, such
I generally don’t pester the
president or chief executive, but
Jewel-Osco is a small enough
part of the Albertsons empire
that I figured it was worth a shot.
Often, I’ll hear back from some-
one in an executive customer
service department of some sort,
after my email gets sent along.
And that’s great, too. These
agents generally have ninja
powers that allow them to cut
through red tape, issue refunds
or find facts.
Ms. Marco at Consumerist said
she has never had to send an
E.E.C.B. herself. She doesn’t
have a favorite reader war story,
though she did point me to a
witty — and particularly effec-
tive — breakup note that some-
one had sent to Frontier Commu-
nications.
I’d hoped to speak to Mr. Pop-
ken, who wrote the original
E.E.C.B. post back in 2007, to tip
my cap and congratulate him on
a job well done. He now works
for a big company himself, how-
ever, NBC News. Emily Passer, a
spokeswoman there, said Mr.
Popken would not be able to help
me, and would not explain why
on the record.
So here’s an E.E.C.B. to NBC
News:
Dear Colleagues in Truth-
Telling,
How did we get to a point
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
EatWith also began requiring
that hosts cook a demo meal with
real guests giving ratings before
allowing the host on the site; it ac-
cepts only 4 percent of applicants
as hosts. The company also plans
to expand to South America, Ms.
Kim said.
Feastly, which used to accept a
range of hosts, also now focuses
on professionals like private chefs
or restaurant chefs. It has added
about 100 venue spaces where the
cooks can host dinner, said a
founder, Noah Karesh, and is plan-
ning an expansion across the
United States and into Europe.
As for AirDine, Charlie Hed-
strom, its chief executive, said he
thought that its more laid-back ap-
proach — it does not screen hosts
and lets the ratings provide feed-
back — works well and that it will
get a boost with more marketing.
Back at Ms. Larsson’s apart-
ment, the guests took their seats
along a candlelit table to eat the
first course of salmon sashimi.
But there was a wrinkle: While
Ms. Larsson had dashed out earli-
er to get enough plates, she was
short on water glasses.
“If you like alcohol, stick to
as disguising the locations of driv-
ers from competitors or would-be
attackers.
Uber now operates in both Port-
land and Philadelphia legally.
Dan Saltzman, commissioner of
the Portland Bureau of Trans-
portation, said on Friday that the
city would continue looking into
Greyball.
“We support the criminal inves-
tigation by the United States De-
partment of Justice into Uber’s
use of the Greyball tool to evade
regulators, and will continue to
move forward with our own ef-
forts to subpoena the requested
records from Uber,” Mr. Saltzman
said in a statement. The agency is
seeking Uber’s records related to
Greyball, according to the state-
ment.
In response, Bryce Bennett,
Uber’s general manager for Ore-
where journalism organizations
won’t let their journalists talk to
other journalists about their
great journalism? You have many
talented people there, and it
really wouldn’t hurt to let them
talk to other reporters every so
often about the impactful work
that they’ve done for you or oth-
ers. Heck, it might even help
morale in this tough media envi-
ronment.
Thanks, Ron
Perhaps Mr. Popken will turn
up anonymously in the com-
ments attached to this article
online. He, and all of you, are
welcome to post examples of
your own complaint letters that
worked or notes on what it’s like
to be on the receiving end of
similar correspondence.
Again, the E.E.C.B. is a last
resort, not a default. But if you
write one in the right way, it will
most likely become the best tool
in your kit when you’re at logger-
heads with a large organization.
“There is a huge convoluted
system of consumer capitalism
that is so hard to navigate and
takes so much time,” said Mr.
Johnson, the Consumerist found-
ing editor. He’s now a communi-
cations and strategy consultant
but still looks back fondly on his
time in the blogging trenches. “If
you can help people in this way,
it’s an everyday mitzvah.”
that,” Ms. Larsson advised, as
conversations started between
guests discussing Silvio Berlus-
coni, a former prime minister of It-
aly, versus President Trump,
among other topics.
The second course was filet mi-
gnon and cucumber-pea salad.
One guest, Alex Sommer, gave the
night an early rave, especially
compared with a meal he had at-
tended through a competing app,
where the table was crammed
against the host’s bed.
Third course: lamb with shi-
itake-cream sauce and berries
sautéed in Hennessy.
“Can we have another toast to
the chef?” someone shouted. “I
love her!” yelled another.
As the dessert of passion fruit
sorbet arrived, guests, short on
spoons, plunged forks in. A candle
petered out, the music got louder,
someone knocked over a glass,
and the guests theorized about
love as the clock ticked on.
Soon after, Ms. Larsson’s Air-
Dine ratings came in: five stars
from each guest. A few weeks lat-
er, several United States hosts had
arranged AirDine dinners; almost
all still had seats available.
gon, said in a statement that Port-
land’s transportation audit had
“found no evidence that Uber has
used Greyball or any technology
to avoid city inspectors since the
Council passed laws allowing ride
sharing services to operate in
Portland in 2015.” Mr. Bennett add-
ed that Uber has been in weekly
compliance calls and meetings
with Portland transportation offi-
cials for more than two years.
Uber said it has since
discontinued the use of Greyball.
In March, not long after The
Times reported on Greyball, Joe
Sullivan, Uber’s chief security of-
ficer, said the company was con-
ducting a review of how the tech-
nology had been used.
“We are expressly prohibiting
its use to target action by local
regulators going forward,” Mr.
Sullivan said at the time.

From the London Whale to Wells Fargo, a Bank Regulator Looks Back
By BEN PROTESS
Thomas J. Curry’s first week
as a federal banking regulator
was his worst.
Soon after taking over the
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, which polices some of
the nation’s largest banks, Mr.
Curry learned that JPMorgan
Chase was racking up billions of
dollars in losses on a risky deriv-
atives trade in London.
The 2012 episode, known as the
London Whale, exposed huge
gaps in federal oversight of big
banks. A few months after that, a
Senate report cited the agency’s
“systemic failures” that allowed
a money-laundering scheme at
HSBC “to fester and worsen.”
Five years and hundreds of
millions of dollars in fines later
— for JPMorgan, HSBC and
others — Mr. Curry is known for
overhauling the agency and its
approach to bank regulation.
But on Friday, he will be gone.
The Trump administration re-
moved Mr. Curry from his role
this week, nearly a month after
his term expired, alarming
Democratic lawmakers who fear
a return to the days when the
agency was more of a cheer-
leader than a watchdog.
The lawmakers, noting that
President Trump has vowed to
dismantle Obama-era financial
rules, raised concerns about the
administration’s choice to re-
place Mr. Curry. The Treasury
Department announced this
week that Keith Noreika, a long-
time banking lawyer, would
serve as acting comptroller until
the president nominates a new
one.
Senator Sherrod Brown, the
top Democrat on the Banking
Committee, called it “disturbing
Even as Puerto Rico Was Buckling Under Debt, Investors Hungered for More
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
It all goes back to 1917.
Congress passed a law that year
making Puerto Ricans United
States citizens. That same law,
still on the books today, em-
powered the island to raise money
by issuing tax-exempt bonds.
And not just federally tax-ex-
empt bonds: Congress went on at
length to bar anyone from taxing
Puerto Rico’s bonds, presumably
never dreaming how this would
play out a century later — which,
on Wednesday, led to the territory
declaring a form of bankruptcy
because it could not pay the $123
billion in bonds and unpaid pen-
sion debts it owes.
The 100-year-old law stipulates
that no one — not any state, not
any county or city, not the District
of Columbia, not any other territo-
ries, not even Puerto Rico itself —
can tax the interest that Puerto
Rico pays its investors. This has
spurred people with eyes on easy
profits to dive in for decades.
And, until last year, the
investors taking the plunge had
an easy guarantee: States and ter-
ritories are not allowed to declare
bankruptcy.
Then Congress surprised them.
Under a new law set up to govern
Puerto Rico until its financial cri-
sis recedes, an exception known
as Title III was made to govern
territories that want to shield
themselves from creditors. Puerto
Rico did this on Wednesday.
Now the small Caribbean island
— home to some 3.5 million peo-
ple, many of whom still feel the
sting of the annexation of their an-
cestors’ lands in 1898 — owes ap-
proximately $34,000 in debt per
man, woman and child. Their
school budgets and other services
are all being cut as part of the aus-
terity planning.
How did things get this bad?
As some Americans have
grown increasingly tax-averse
and eager to shelter income, that
100-year-old provision helped suc-
cessive Puerto Rican govern-
ments build up a debt big enough
to crush the island.
As the problem swelled, so, too,
did the exodus of the educated
classes from the island. Many tip-
ping points were reached and
reached again.
On Friday, Chief Justice John G.
Roberts assigned Puerto Rico’s
2nd Jury in Dewey & LeBoeuf Fraud Case May Be Bracing for Long Deliberations
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
Jury deliberations in the retrial
of two former Dewey & LeBoeuf
executives on criminal charges
arising from the law firm’s col-
lapse are starting to have a famil-
iar ring.
The panel deciding the fate of
Stephen DiCarmine, the firm’s for-
mer executive director, and Joel
Sanders, its former chief financial
officer, is composed of eight wom-
en and four men, like the jury in
the first trial, which ended in a
mistrial in October 2015.
that the president is rushing to
replace Mr. Curry with an acting
appointee who has clear conflicts
of interest.”
Whoever his formal successor
might be — Joseph Otting, a
former top executive at OneWest
is reportedly under consideration
— Mr. Curry’s departure signals
the near-conclusion of Obama-
era bank regulation, a period
known for big fines and long
rules, as well as lingering con-
cerns about the culture of an
industry that has faced its share
of scandals. Mr. Curry’s depar-
ture follows the exit of Daniel K.
Tarullo, the Federal Reserve
official who led efforts to
strengthen financial regulation.
Mr. Curry spoke to The New
York Times this week about his
tenure and the challenges that lie
ahead for banking regulators in
the Trump administration. Below
are excerpts from the interview.
What did the London Whale
episode do to shape your ap-
proach at the agency?
At the time, I think my head
was spinning. But I really ac-
tually think it was a good thing.
It caused us to look at how
could we be better and I think
that was probably the defining
reason that people — my man-
agement team here and the staff
— bought into the need to get an
external review of how we super-
vise. To actually examine how
well we examine. That kind of
got to be the road map to trying
to make this a really stellar, what
I hope and think is, a stellar bank
supervisory agency. To my
knowledge, no other regulator
globally has ever done that.
You also removed some of the
Tax-free bonds combined with a constitutional guarantee to creditors let Puerto Rico accumulate staggering levels of debt.
case to Judge Laura Taylor Swain,
a federal judge in the Southern
District of New York and a former
bankruptcy judge. The logistics of
the case, which was filed in federal
court in San Juan, are not yet
clear.
Judge Swain has shown exten-
sive familiarity with bankruptcy
law, but the case is still expected
to be long and contentious, with
hedge funds arguing that Puerto
Rico is violating a sacred constitu-
tional pledge, unions clamoring to
preserve labor contracts and
some of the island’s advocates
saying that certain bonds should
be declared void.
Many creditors are targeting
Puerto Rico’s federal oversight
board, which has limited the
amount available for debt service
to $800 million a year for the next
five years. They say this amount
is absurdly low, relative to the
roughly $3.5 billion a year coming
due.
The debt train moved slowly un-
til the outbreak of the Cold War,
Jurors wading through moun-
tains of documentary evidence
and three months of testimony
have already begun to ask for of-
fice supplies — Post-it Notes tape
and large sheets of paper — to
make their job easier. The jury in
the first trial, which deliberated 21
full days, did the same.
Completing its fourth full day of
deliberations on Friday in State
Supreme Court in Manhattan, this
jury has a long way to go to match
the slow pace of the earlier panel.
But Law360, a legal publication
that live-blogged the first and sec-
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Thomas J. Curry, the departing comptroller of the currency, is known for overhauling the agency.
old-guard people at the agency
who had a more deregulatory
approach. And you installed peo-
ple like Paul Nash, from the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corpora-
tion, as top aides.
You need to have a shared
vision. Like I said, the good part
about having the London Whale
and HSBC was you couldn’t
argue that there wasn’t a prob-
lem that we needed to confront
as an agency. I think people feel
pretty good about the agency
today and where we’re headed.
There’s the Volcker Rule and rules
requiring banks to hold greater
when the United States saw value
in building up Puerto Rico as a
showcase of how democracy and
free markets could raise living
standards beyond what was avail-
able in Soviet-backed Cuba.
Money began to pour in for pub-
lic housing and better infrastruc-
ture, and in 1952 Puerto Rico got
its own constitution, which con-
tained an unusual provision
meant to reassure prospective
bond buyers. It said, in essence,
that if there was not enough
money to pay for everything in the
budget, then “all available re-
sources” would go first to pay
what was due on Puerto Rico’s
general-obligation bonds.
Today this constitutional guar-
antee — and what it means under
Promesa, the law approved by
Congress to organize Puerto Ri-
co’s affairs — looms as one of the
major issues Judge Swain will
have to decide.
Angry investors say that they
bought the bonds with the consti-
tutional guarantee, and that
ond trials, has noted that there are
hints the current jurors expect to
be deliberating well into next
week at least.
Mr. DiCarmine, 60, and Mr.
Sanders 58, are awaiting a verdict
on charges that they were part of a
plot to manipulate the law firm’s
financial records during the finan-
cial crisis. They are accused of try-
ing to defraud bank lenders and
insurance companies that in-
vested in a bond offering.
The jury in the first trial ulti-
mately deadlocked on dozens of
capital, but what was the idea
behind your lesser-known “height-
ened standards” for bank execu-
tives and boards?
You need the rules — capital
and liquidity requirements are
essential. But what we provide is
the ability to assess the risk
management structures at insti-
tutions and corporate govern-
ance. What we did with height-
ened standards is basically said,
“The bigger you are, the more
we expect of you.”
You once told The Times that the
relationship between your agency
and the banks was akin to “a
DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Promesa does not give Puerto
Rico the right to suspend its own
constitution.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and his
predecessor, Alejandro García Pa-
dilla, have both taken the view
that in light of the crisis, they had
to put the essential needs of the
Puerto Rican people first.
Back in the postwar develop-
ment boom, the constitutional
provision made Puerto Rico’s
bonds an easier sale, and an at-
tractive business for banks that
help governments bring their
bonds to market. Those banks
came to the island, eager to take
advantage of growth opportuni-
ties and to build relationships with
Puerto Rico’s Government Devel-
opment Bank.
For decades, the appetite for
Puerto Rico’s tax-exempt, consti-
tutionally guaranteed debt
seemed endless. Demand for debt
was fueled by the upward creep of
tax rates on the mainland and, in
the 1970s, the advent of single-
state tax-exempt bond mutual
charges.
This time, prosecutors went to
trial with a slimmed-down case —
just three charges against each
man. Still, both defendants could
face up to four years in prison if
convicted of the most serious
charge, securities fraud.
The case also proceeded to a
second trial without a third de-
fendant, Steven H. Davis, the law
firm’s former chairman. After the
mistrial, Mr. Davis reached a de-
ferred prosecution agreement
with prosecutors working for Cy-
rus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan
CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
priest-penitent relationship.” Have
the banks gotten any better at
confessing their sins?
Ideally, we want the bank to
find these things first. The indus-
try is getting much better at that.
Nobody is perfect yet.
You also pushed for a culture
change in your own agency, and
yet you released a damning report
last month in which the agency
acknowledged that its oversight of
Wells Fargo during the whole fake
account scheme was “untimely
and ineffective.”
I think we’ve made great
progress. To be a strong organi-
funds.
Such mutual funds were popu-
lar in higher-tax states like New
York, but not all states issued
enough debt to make the funds
possible — at least until fund man-
agers remembered that Puerto
Rico’s were tax-exempt every-
where. Those bonds could be
tucked into a fund’s portfolio to in-
crease the overall yield without
jeopardizing the tax exemption.
The yields were higher because
Puerto Rico’s debt carried more
risk, but that did not faze
investors who wanted tax-exempt
income — especially considering
the constitutional guarantee.
After bankruptcy scares in New
York City and Cleveland in the
1970s, Congress set about making
amendments to the part of the
bankruptcy law that cities and
counties use, Chapter 9.
In 1984, an unknown person
added a provision to federal law
explicitly barring Puerto Rico, as
well as the District of Columbia,
district attorney.
The prosecution called more
than 30 witnesses, including its
star witness Francis Canellas,
Dewey’s former finance director.
Just as at the first trial, the de-
fense did not call any witnesses,
relying instead on the strength of
its cross-examination of the
prosecution’s witnesses.
The trial judge, Robert M. Stolz,
has already said that the jury is
not likely to deliberate two days
this month because of juror con-
flicts, if no verdict is reached by
N B5
zation requires you to take a look
at yourself and your actions. To
learn from it. That really was
why I thought it was important
to do the lessons learned review
— and also painful as it may be
to our pride — to do it publicly.
Again, I don’t see any other
agencies taking a problem by the
horns, acknowledging it and then
doing something about correct-
ing it.
Are you worried about your suc-
cessor unwinding the new regula-
tory approach?
I don’t think anyone wants to
repeat the mistakes of the past.
You need a sound rule book, and
then you need highly trained
professionals, dedicated supervi-
sors to make an assessment of
how well [the banks] are adher-
ing to that framework. I think
you can play around on the
edges but as long as you have
those key elements in place you
have a good system.
How much of a surprise was it
when you got the call this week
from the Trump administration?
My term ended in early April. I
offered to stay on as long as the
administration wanted me. I live
in Boston and I have a rented
apartment here. I told people I
went month-to-month on my
apartment and I was month-to-
month on the comptroller’s job.
Any advice for the next guy?
You really have to be prepared
for the next downturn. At the end
of the day, you can’t stop banks
from making mistakes on indi-
vidual loans. It’s not our job. But
it is our job to make sure that the
banks are safe and sound and the
system itself is stable.
from taking shelter from creditors
in Chapter 9.
Almost no one paid attention
until 30 years later, when Puerto
Rico began to sound the alarm
about a possible need for bank-
ruptcy access, resulting in a fight
that ultimately went to the United
States Supreme Court, which
ruled that Puerto Rico could not
seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy ac-
cess.
Melba Acosta Febo, the head of
the Government Development
Bank until it closed, said the prob-
lems began in earnest when
Puerto Rico started borrowing to
balance its budget.
This might have gone unnoticed
too, because Puerto Rico’s gov-
ernment structure, as well as its
debt, is complex. But Ms. Acosta
said that during the time she
served as budget director, from
2001 to 2004, her staff realized that
the development bank had $4 bil-
lion of loans outstanding to vari-
ous branches of government that
it was propping up.
“We were like, ‘$4 billion? Oh
my God!’” Ms. Acosta recalled.
Puerto Rico was soon borrow-
ing every year just to balance its
budget, and taking on new debt to
keep up with the payments on its
old debt.
After the crash of 2008, when
the Federal Reserve ushered in a
long period of low interest rates,
Puerto Rico’s bonds grew even
more desirable: Savers were des-
perate for yield, and Puerto Rican
debt, supposedly supersafe, was
now paying a risk premium.
Puerto Rico came close to hit-
ting a constitutional limit on its ca-
pacity to issue general-obligation
bonds, but it still needed more
money. So in 2006 officials began
to issue a new type of bonds,
called Cofinas, which were backed
by a dedicated sales tax.
Yet Puerto Rico still needed
more cash. In 2014, it issued one
last, big batch of general-obliga-
tion bonds, some of it to make pay-
ments on older bonds. Puerto Ri-
co’s credit had been downgraded
to junk, and the mutual funds and
other conventional bond-buyers
were finally worried. The only tak-
ers were hedge funds.
About a year later, Governor
García Padilla announced that
Puerto Rico had more debt than it
could repay and needed a morato-
rium.
the end of next week.
In his instructions to the jury on
May 1, Justice Stolz said that Mr.
DiCarmine and Mr. Sanders were
not on trial in the financial col-
lapse of Dewey but on charges
that they had sought to conceal
the severity of the firm’s financial
situation from its financial back-
ers.
Dewey filed for bankruptcy in
May 2012. Two years later,
prosecutors in Manhattan filed
the indictment against Mr. Di-
Carmine and Mr. Sanders.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Regulator in China
Takes Aim at Anbang
By KEITH BRADSHER
SHANGHAI — A Chinese regu-
lator announced on Friday that it
had taken disciplinary measures
against the Anbang Insurance
Group, a financial behemoth that
has tried to invest tens of billions
of dollars overseas, for the im-
proper sale of two investment
products.
The moves by the China Insur-
ance Regulatory Commission
come against a backdrop of
broader worries about the coun-
try’s financial system, in addition
to ones about the insurance indus-
try.
President Xi Jinping told Polit-
buro members last month that
China should place a strong em-
phasis on financial stability as a
pillar of a strong economy, Xin-
hua, the state-run news agency,
reported.
Many foreign economists and
investors on Wall Street have ex-
pressed misgivings about China’s
rapid accumulation of debt, par-
ticularly at state-owned enter-
prises, since the global financial
crisis in 2008 and 2009.
Chinese regulators began step-
ping up their scrutiny of banks
several years ago, and they have
been discouraging some ag-
gressive lending and money-rais-
ing programs. Partly in response
to that, real estate developers and
others who needed to borrow
large amounts of money began
Ailin Tang contributed research.
State-Level Republicans Criticize Federal Vote to Kill Retirement Account Rule
By NOAH WEILAND
WASHINGTON — An idea to
make it easier for Americans to
save for retirement that was intro-
duced at the conservative Her-
itage Foundation is in the cross
hairs of a conservative Republi-
can Congress.
The publicly stated reason for
killing a rule that allowed states to
automatically enroll employees of
small businesses in savings ac-
counts: federal jurisdiction. But
critics contend it was a case of
conservatives being cowed by the
financial services industry.
The Senate this week approved
by a single vote a bill rolling back
an Obama-era Labor Department
rule that let states automatically
enroll small business employees
in retirement savings accounts.
Overshadowed by the health care
vote in the House, the bill was a
source of high drama on Capitol
Hill, with Vice President Mike
Pence ready to cast a tiebreaking
vote if it became necessary.
The vote echoed the 50-49 deci-
sion in March that rolled back a
parallel Labor Department order
giving cities similar permission.
The twin Labor Department rules
were a framework that encour-
aged cities and states to work
around the often expensive and
cumbersome conditions in the
Employee Retirement Income Se-
curity Act (Erisa).
In contrast to their usual oppo-
sition to regulations, Republicans
were the group defending these
federal guidelines. Before the vote
this week, Senator Mitch McCon-
nell of Kentucky, the majority
leader, said the state rule “under-
mines a private retirement
savings system that millions of
Americans have counted on for
decades.”
Five states have already passed
laws allowing for these privately
managed, state-sponsored
savings accounts. Dozens of oth-
ers are considering versions of the
legislation. If President Trump
signs the bill, and the White House
had said he would, the experiment
would take a hit.
“This current Congress seems
to want to put fingers in their ears
and covers over their eyes,” said
Betsey Stevenson, a professor of
economics and public policy at the
University of Michigan and the
chief economist at the Labor De-
Jobs Report and Oil’s Recovery Lift Markets
By The Associated Press
Solid hiring last month helped
push the stock market to record
highs on Friday. The major in-
dexes were driven by gains by en-
ergy, technology and industrial
companies.
Energy companies rose as the
price of oil recovered from earlier
in the week. Media companies like
CBS and Charter Communica-
tions also recovered from their
losses earlier in the week.
Technology companies rose,
but IBM shares fell after the bil-
lionaire investor Warren Buffett
said he sold a large part of his
stake in the company.
Scott Wren, senior global equity
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turning to insurers, which rapidly
expanded their financial activities
and raised the money to do so by
selling a wide array of often spec-
ulative investment products.
The State Council, China’s
cabinet, announced separately on
Friday the dismissal of the chair-
man of the insurance regulatory
commission, who has been the
subject of a corruption investiga-
tion. The government has not
linked that investigation to An-
bang, however.
This week, the insurance regu-
lator said it was barring Anbang
from selling two of its investment
products.
One, the Anbang Longevity No.
5 Annuity, had been presented to
regulators as a long-term invest-
ment. But the commission said
that it was effectively a two-year
investment that should have been
subject to more stringent regula-
tions on short- and medium-term
investments.
The other banned investment
product, Anbang Endowment In-
surance, was put on the market
without an actuary’s signature,
the commission said.
In an uncommonly sweeping
warning to the insurer, the regula-
tor concluded its announcement
by telling Anbang that it should
pay “high attention” to its full
range of investment products and
“fix the work on product develop-
ment and management in strict
accordance with supervision poli-
cies and requirements.”
Mitch McConnell said allowing states to automatically enroll workers in retirement accounts hurts the private savings system.
partment from 2010 to 2011. “There
are some really hard problems
with retirement, but this is an
easy one.”
Approximately 55 million
Americans lack workplace retire-
ment accounts. Inertia and igno-
rance are among the reasons
many do not enroll in employer-
sponsored retirement plans. So
the Obama administration con-
structed the Labor Department
rule to encourage states to set up
these savings plans on their own,
without being subject to Erisa.
J. Mark Iwry, a senior adviser to
the Treasury secretary in the
Obama administration, was a co-
author of a paper proposing an au-
tomatic individual retirement ac-
count, a precursor of the auto-
matic enrollment programs states
devised. Mr. Iwry said that when
he was developing the concept, he
STOCKS & BONDS
strategist at Wells Fargo’s Invest-
ment Institute, said stocks bene-
fited from the combination of
greater hiring and slower wage
growth because, if wages rose too
quickly, they would affect corpo-
rate profits.
“The market is likely to be con-
cerned about wage gains and the
impact on corporate margins as
we move into 2018,” he said.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-
stock index added 9.77 points, or
0.4 percent, to 2,399.29. The Dow
Jones industrial average rose
55.47 points, or 0.3 percent, to
21,006.94.
The Nasdaq composite went up
25.42 points, or 0.4 percent, to
6,100.76, which beat a record it set
earlier this week.
Employers in the United States
added 211,000 jobs in April, accord-
ing to the Labor Department.
That comes after slow hiring in
A regulator has barred the Anbang Insurance Group from selling two of its investment products.
The investment-product bans
and the broad admonition were
part of a direct order to the com-
pany that was dated on Thursday
and posted on the commission’s
website on Friday.
Anbang said that it had no im-
mediate comment on the commis-
sion’s order. Chinese regulatory
decisions typically take effect im-
mediately, particularly if pub-
lished for the general public to
see, and are nearly impossible to
appeal.
The State Council announced
separately on Friday that Xiang
Junbo, the chairman of the China
thought: “Hey, this is kind of cool.
This is something for which peo-
ple might be able to cross the
ideological chasm.”
“I was talking to a bunch of
states simultaneously, not with
the thought that they would take
the lead on this ultimately, but just
that, if a state or two started down
this road and actually tried to do it,
then Congress might take notice
and pass legislation to do this,’”
Mr. Iwry said.
But this week, Mr. Iwry said,
“the financial services industry
simply directed the congressional
majority to throw shade on
Labor’s effort to encourage the
states.”
Democrats mounted a furious
campaign to defeat the bill. Sena-
tor Chuck Schumer of New York,
the Democratic leader, and Repre-
sentative Nancy Pelosi of Califor-
the first three months of the year
and sluggish economic growth.
Energy companies regained
some ground as the price of oil
steadied. After two steep losses in
three days, benchmark crude oil
futures for June delivery jumped
70 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $46.22 a
barrel in New York. Brent crude,
the standard for international oil
prices, added 72 cents, or 1.5 per-
cent, to $49.10 barrel in London.
Oil prices had fallen earlier this
week as investors wondered if
OPEC would extend a deal that
trimmed oil production.
Occidental Petroleum rose
$2.38, or 4.1 percent, to $60.40 and
Transocean jumped 84 cents, or 8.1
percent, to $11.18. Baker Hughes
gained $1.92, or 3.3 percent, to
$59.33.
Apple jumped $2.43, or 1.7 per-
cent, to $148.96, another record for
the world’s most valuable publicly
Insurance Regulatory Commis-
sion, had been removed from of-
fice. No successor was an-
nounced.
Mr. Xiang’s dismissal had been
widely expected after Chinese
anti-corruption investigators an-
nounced a month ago that they
had investigated him over “severe
violations of discipline.” The gov-
ernment did not link that inquiry
and his dismissal to Anbang.
Mr. Xiang has not commented
publicly about the investigation
since it was announced. The tar-
gets of anti-corruption inquiries
are typically held in custody and
nia, the House minority leader,
said that President Trump would
betray his supporters by signing it
into law.
A veto would “show he really
did mean it when he said he un-
derstood the plight of the Ameri-
can worker,” Mr. Schumer and Ms.
Pelosi wrote in a joint statement
on Wednesday.
A White House official said in
March that, if the bill passed the
Senate, President Trump would
sign it into law.
The commotion around the vote
reveals a deep split between state-
level Republicans and those in
Congress. Congressional Republi-
cans are comfortable with the
ways Erisa defers to the private
marketplace. Those in the states
see the savings accounts as one of
the few ways for low-wage work-
ers to get ahead of living paycheck
traded company. That helped tech
stocks move higher.
CBS announced a bigger profit
and more revenue than analysts
expected, and its stock gained
$1.35, or 2.1 percent, to $65.20. Me-
dia companies had struggled the
last few days as investors worried
about declining cable ad revenue.
Charter Communications, Scripps
Networks and Tegna all traded
higher.
Stocks of biotechnology compa-
nies slipped. Biogen dropped
$6.45, or 2.4 percent, to $262.15 and
Incyte sank $2.69, or 2.1 percent, to
$122.41. Celgene fell $2.05, or 1.6
percent, also closing at $122.41.
Bond prices held steady. The
yield on the 10-year Treasury note
remained 2.35 percent.
Gold prices for May delivery
dipped $1.70 to $1,224.80 an ounce.
The precious metal fell more than
3 percent this week for its biggest
JASON LEE/REUTERS
are sometimes subjected to harsh
interrogation.
Anbang has been a leader
among insurers when it comes to
using so-called wealth manage-
ment products, a class of lightly
regulated investments that prom-
ise higher rates of return than con-
ventional investments, but that
also carry higher risks that may or
may not be disclosed.
Wealth management products
also tend to promise a quick pay-
back period. But the issuing com-
panies are exposed to liquidity
risk if investors ask for their
money back instead of re-
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
to paycheck.
This week, a bipartisan group of
23 state treasurers, commission-
ers and comptrollers wrote a let-
ter to Mr. McConnell urging him to
protect their independence on the
issue.
“For states, this wasn’t parti-
san. This was principle,” said An-
gela M. Antonelli, the executive
director of the Center for Retire-
ment Initiatives at Georgetown
University. “Red states were say-
ing blue states should have the
freedom to do what they want, and
vice versa.”
“The states can’t afford to do
nothing,” Ms. Antonelli said of the
need for them to create a plan in
place of Congress. The issue may
ultimately be decided by the
courts if states decide to sue.
David Damschen, the Republi-
can state treasurer in Utah, wrote
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decline since right after the presi-
dential election.
The dollar rose to 112.46 yen
from 112.35 yen. The euro climbed
$1.0995 from $1.0984.
The CAC 40 in France jumped 1.1
percent as investors hoped cen-
trist candidate Emmanuel
Macron would be elected presi-
investing. The liquidity risk is par-
ticularly high if the issuer has put
its money into long-term projects
that cannot be sold quickly to
raise cash.
Many small- and medium-size
banks are increasingly raising
money for loans, bond purchases
and other investments by issuing
wealth management products,
and even some largely unregulat-
ed companies have begun issuing
wealth management products.
Anbang came to international
prominence in January when its
chairman, Wu Xiaohui, met with
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s
son-in-law and close adviser, at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York. The two met to discuss the
possible sale to Anbang of a Kush-
ner family stake in the re-
development of a Manhattan sky-
scraper, 666 Fifth Avenue. But
those talks ended in March as the
proposed transaction became in-
creasingly divisive on both sides
of the Pacific.
Anbang bought the Waldorf As-
toria for nearly $2 billion in 2014,
among $16 billion in overseas ac-
quisitions it made over the past
few years. The company, started
13 years ago, has assets of almost
$275 billion, a growing portion of
which comes from the sale of
wealth management products in-
stead of insurance policies, ac-
cording to Caixin, a Chinese inves-
tigative magazine.
Caixin accused Anbang last Sat-
urday of having a shareholder
structure that “is like a maze,” and
it questioned the appropriateness
of capital injections from compa-
nies linked to Mr. Wu.
Anbang struck back with a let-
ter on Wednesday threatening to
sue Caixin for “malicious” and “in-
accurate” reporting.
in an op-ed in the Washington
Times last month that the discus-
sion among Republicans showed
that “some lawmakers really do
believe the federal government
knows best and will act to kill in-
novation occurring in the nation’s
statehouses to appease business
interests.”
Few Republicans in Washing-
ton buy that argument. Senator
Todd Young of Indiana, was one of
only two Republicans to vote no on
Wednesday. “While state-based
retirement plans are not my first
choice, if implemented carefully,
they could help close the retire-
ment savings gap and ease the
strain faced by our social safety
net system,” he said.
Representative Francis
Rooney, a Florida Republican, was
a co-sponsor of the House resolu-
tion passed Wednesday by the
Senate. He acknowledged the gap
between state and national Re-
publicans, but said state-level offi-
cials were too eager to meddle in
an issue that had long been sub-
ject to federal supervision.
“There are Republicans that
have a different tolerance for big
government intrusion,” Mr.
Rooney said. “They have a differ-
ent tolerance for federalism.”
“Bureaucracies are like amoe-
bas; They just grow and grow and
grow,” Mr. Rooney said. “I had one
senator ask me, ‘Why would my
state treasurer be for this?’ And I
said, ‘Because she’s a state
elected official who wants to regu-
late more stuff.’”
For those defending the states’
rights, the debate is not merely a
question of oversight. Advocates
of the state-based savings ac-
counts see a pernicious influence
from special interests.
“All politicians get confused be-
tween pro-market and pro-busi-
ness policies. They listen to their
business constituents who are ac-
tually lobbying to protect their
profits, not to make the market
economy work better,” Ms.
Stevenson said.
“I think that state Republicans
understand that there’s a retire-
ment crisis, and if they don’t help
try to solve the crisis by getting
people to save more for their own
retirement, there will be pressure
for bigger government handouts
down the road,” she said. “Every
penny counts when you’re dealing
with low-wage workers.”
21,020
20,980
20,940
20,900
2 p.m. 4 p.m.
dent over the weekend. The CAC
40 is at its highest level since early
2008. In Britain, the FTSE 100 was
up 0.7 percent, and in Germany,
the DAX added 0.5 percent.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong
lost 0.8 percent. Markets in Japan
and South Korea were closed for
holidays.
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Allergan (AGN) 184.50 261.27 244.94 ◊ 0.31 + 16.45 + 16.6 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 111.99 + 0.82 + 6.73 + 7.5 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.01 43.69 + 0.03 ◊ 3.04 + 5.4 Raytheon (RTN) 126.58 159.43 159.41 + 1.53 + 24.34 + 12.3
AIG (AIG) 48.41 67.47 62.71 + 0.04 + 14.41 ◊ 4.0 Dow (DOW) 47.51 65.42 63.09 + 1.67 + 24.07 + 10.3 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 82.51 ◊ 0.53 + 9.62 + 12.2 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 61.94 60.95 + 0.12 + 8.36 + 9.8
Allstate (ALL) 65.27 86.03 85.45 ◊ 0.12 + 25.90 + 15.3 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 82.98 + 0.39 + 3.49 + 6.9 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 276.64 273.03 + 2.52 + 14.65 + 9.2 Schlumberg (SLB) 70.22 87.84 71.97 + 1.03 ◊ 4.55 ◊ 14.3
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 163.81 ◊ 0.48 + 6.20 + 12.0 Emerson El (EMR) 48.45 64.36 58.94 + 0.77 + 11.25 + 5.7 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 86.00 86.00 + 0.60 + 14.45 + 20.9 Southern C (SO) 46.20 54.64 50.07 + 0.28 ◊ 1.09 + 1.8
Amazon.com (AMZN) 656.00 954.40 934.15 ◊ 3.38 + 41.73 + 24.6 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 37.70 34.34 + 0.29 ◊ 2.94 ◊ 3.2 Mastercard (MA) 86.65 119.71 117.50 ◊ 0.42 + 22.15 + 13.8 Simon Prop (SPG) 163.30 229.10 164.52 ◊ 0.90 ◊ 21.07 ◊ 7.4
American E (AXP) 57.15 82.00 78.32 ◊ 0.01 + 22.53 + 5.7 Ford Motor (F) 10.90 14.04 11.14 + 0.14 ◊ 16.37 ◊ 8.2 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 143.98 143.96 + 0.51 + 11.36 + 18.3 AT&T (T) 36.10 43.89 38.56 + 0.55 ◊ 0.46 ◊ 9.3
Boeing (BA) 122.35 185.71 185.01 + 1.94 + 40.07 + 18.8 Facebook (FB) 108.23 153.60 150.24 ◊ 0.61 + 27.53 + 30.6 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 46.40 44.83 ◊ 0.22 + 2.07 + 1.1 Target (TGT) 52.72 80.51 57.32 + 0.03 ◊ 26.64 ◊ 20.6
Bank of Am (BAC) 12.05 25.80 23.74 ◊ 0.11 + 68.97 + 7.4 FedEx (FDX) 145.00 201.57 192.42 + 1.23 + 19.99 + 3.3 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.27 84.00 + 0.09 + 5.66 + 17.9 Time Warne (TWX) 68.97 100.60 98.37 + 0.07 + 30.07 + 1.9
Biogen (BIIB) 223.02 333.65 262.15 ◊ 6.45 + 7.55 + 0.4 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 28.58 + 0.08 ◊ 4.16 + 4.9 MetLife (MET) 36.17 58.09 52.62 ◊ 0.03 + 22.92 ◊ 2.4 Texas Inst (TXN) 56.19 82.92 79.63 + 0.33 + 40.59 + 9.1
BONY Mello (BK) 35.72 49.54 47.65 + 0.04 + 20.94 + 0.6 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 29.14 + 0.10 ◊ 2.35 + 3.9 3M (MMM) 163.17 199.90 199.40 ◊ 0.11 + 18.85 + 11.7 UnitedHeal (UNH) 128.53 176.14 174.12 + 0.10 + 31.60 + 8.8
BlackRock (BLK) 317.60 399.46 383.76 + 0.45 + 9.00 + 0.9 General Dy (GD) 132.68 196.97 195.97 + 1.42 + 37.81 + 13.5 Altria Gro (MO) 60.82 76.55 70.92 + 0.61 + 12.86 + 4.9 Union Paci (UNP) 80.68 115.15 110.72 + 0.39 + 29.97 + 6.8
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 77.12 55.15 ◊ 0.04 ◊ 22.49 ◊ 5.6 GE (GE) 28.19 33.00 29.22 + 0.02 ◊ 2.24 ◊ 7.5 Monsanto (MON) 88.76 117.33 116.20 + 0.27 + 29.60 + 10.5 United Par (UPS) 100.05 120.44 107.43 + 0.38 + 5.18 ◊ 6.3
Berkshire (BRKb) 136.65 177.86 166.55 + 0.21 + 15.76 + 2.2 Gilead Sci (GILD) 65.38 88.85 67.80 ◊ 0.28 ◊ 21.03 ◊ 5.3 Merck & Co (MRK) 53.06 66.80 63.97 + 0.59 + 18.27 + 8.7 US Bancorp (USB) 38.48 56.61 51.77 ◊ 0.54 + 24.30 + 0.8
Citigroup (C) 38.31 62.53 60.24 + 0.03 + 36.20 + 1.4 GM (GM) 27.34 38.55 33.77 + 0.62 + 10.58 ◊ 3.1 Morgan Sta (MS) 23.11 47.33 43.08 ◊ 0.20 + 64.62 + 2.0 UTC (UTX) 96.89 121.45 121.35 + 0.35 + 21.00 + 10.7
Caterpilla (CAT) 69.04 105.98 99.64 + 0.25 + 36.89 + 7.4 Alphabet (GOOG) 663.28 935.93 927.13 ◊ 4.53 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 48.04 69.71 69.00 + 0.19 + 38.17 + 11.0 Visa (V) 73.25 92.98 92.09 ◊ 0.53 + 19.04 + 18.0
Celgene (CELG) 94.42 127.64 122.41 ◊ 2.05 + 20.35 + 5.8 Alphabet (GOOGL) 672.66 959.14 950.28 ◊ 4.44 + 32.96 + 19.9 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 135.21 134.33 ◊ 0.01 + 13.02 + 12.5 Verizon (VZ) 45.76 56.95 46.69 + 0.81 ◊ 8.16 ◊ 12.5
Colgate (CL) 63.43 75.38 71.81 ◊ 0.14 + 0.48 + 9.7 Goldman Sa (GS) 138.20 255.15 226.87 + 0.28 + 42.21 ◊ 5.3 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.33 53.95 ◊ 0.52 ◊ 7.29 + 6.1 Walgreens (WBA) 75.74 88.00 85.89 ◊ 0.16 + 5.44 + 3.8
Comcast (CMCSA) 29.81 40.62 39.01 + 0.72 + 27.80 + 13.0 Halliburto (HAL) 38.24 58.78 45.58 + 0.98 + 14.12 ◊ 15.7 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 46.99 45.58 + 0.11 + 16.19 + 18.5 WalMart (WMT) 62.72 76.60 76.50 + 0.16 + 13.82 + 10.7
Capital On (COF) 58.03 96.92 82.27 ◊ 0.22 + 19.02 ◊ 5.7 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 156.27 155.73 + 0.87 + 15.64 + 16.2 Occidental (OXY) 57.20 78.48 60.40 + 2.38 ◊ 20.67 ◊ 15.2 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 55.11 ◊ 0.07 + 12.56 0.0
ConocoPhil (COP) 38.80 53.17 46.77 + 0.85 + 8.24 ◊ 6.7 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 135.00 131.41 + 0.21 + 16.32 + 13.4 Priceline (PCLN) 1148 1922 1904 ◊ 6.76 + 53.41 + 29.9 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 80.30 95.55 82.02 + 0.38 ◊ 6.84 ◊ 9.1
Costco Who (COST) 138.57 183.18 180.20 ◊ 2.25 + 21.89 + 12.6 IBM (IBM) 142.50 182.79 155.05 ◊ 4.00 + 5.86 ◊ 6.6 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 114.61 113.22 + 0.26 + 8.65 + 8.2
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 25.81 34.53 34.39 + 0.21 + 31.21 + 13.8 Intel (INTC) 29.50 38.45 36.82 ◊ 0.03 + 23.14 + 1.5 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 37.39 33.48 + 0.03 ◊ 0.27 + 3.1

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

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 5%
8% high yield +5.97% +15% high yield +14.43% Total Issues Traded 7,251 4,916 2,152 183 T-BILLS
Advances 3,394 2,330 954 110
3 4 3-mo. Aug 17 ◊ ◊ 0.89 0.88 +0.00 0.89
Declines 3,457 2,439 958 60 6-mo. Nov 17 ◊ ◊ 1.02 1.01 +0.01 1.01
Unchanged 159 53 96 10
6 +10 52 Week High 219 56 143 20 3 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 127 79 48 0 2 2-yr. Apr 19 1ü ◊ 99.88 99.88 –0.01 1.31
Dollar Volume* 23,443 13,677 8,892 873 5-yr. Apr 22 1~ ◊ 99.98 99.98 +0.02 1.88
2 10-yr. Feb 27 2ü ◊ 99.13 99.14 +0.02 2.35
4 + 5 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 30-yr. Feb 47 3.000 ◊ 100.19 100.20 +0.16 3.00
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 22 [ ◊ 100.01 100.09 +0.11 0.15
2 0 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 27 ] ◊ 98.95 99.05 +0.06 0.49
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 29 2ø ◊ 121.31 121.56 +0.06 0.61
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017 30-yr. Feb 47 ~ ◊ 96.52 96.77 +0.11 1.01
0 invest. grade +3.66% – 5 invest. grade +1.89% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2016 2017 2016 2017 Standard & Poor’s.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Most Active Foreign Currency Dollars in Foreign Currency Dollars in
Credit Rating Price
Issuer Name (SYMBOL) Coupon% Maturity Moody’s S&P High Low Last Chg Yld% in Dollars Foreign Currency in Dollars Foreign Currency

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0651 15.3500 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7418 1.3481
One Dollar in Yen
Oracle Corp (ORCL) 1.200 Oct’17 A1 AA– 100.412 99.796 99.983 0.000 1.239 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1449 6.9000 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9095 China (Yuan) .1449 6.9021 120 yen $1 = 112.71
Royal Bk Cda (RY) 1.200 Sep’17 Aaa NR 100.059 99.957 99.957 –0.012 1.318 Brazil (Real) .3148 3.1762 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1285 7.7839
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) 5.500 Mar’47 Baa1 BBB+ 108.564 105.916 106.202 –0.321 5.093 Canada (Dollar) .7326 1.3650 India (Rupee) .0156 64.3000
Enlink Midstream Partners Lp (DVN) 5.450 Jun’47 NR BBB– 100.079 98.334 99.500 0.526 N.A. Chile (Peso) .0015 671.10 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0089 112.71
115
Express Scripts Hldg Co (ESRX) 3.400 Mar’27 Baa2 BBB+ 96.451 94.638 94.972 –0.069 4.025 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2943.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2307 4.3350
Pfizer Inc (PFE) 2.100 May’19 A1 AA 100.947 100.778 100.831 –0.078 1.679 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0212 47.0800 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .6915 1.4461
Cisco Sys Inc (CSCO) 2.200 Feb’21 A1 AA– 100.479 100.347 100.406 –0.242 2.088
Comcast Corp New (CMCS) 3.400 Jul’46 A3 A– 87.440 86.506 87.375 0.809 4.150
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.65
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1363 7.3390 Philippines (Peso) .0201 49.8390 105
Raymond James Finl Inc (RJF) 5.625 Apr’24 Baa2 BBB+ 113.229 113.079 113.229 0.133 3.451
Honduras (Lempira) .0427 23.4200 Singapore (Dollar) .7120 1.4044
Pfizer Inc (PFE) 1.700 Dec’19 A1 AA 100.082 99.776 100.000 0.150 1.700
Mexico (Peso) .0527 18.9895 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1134.7
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0342 29.2300 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.1700
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5622.0 Thailand (Baht) .0289 34.6600
Apple Inc (AAPL) 2.850 May’24 NR 100.500 99.824 100.249 100.249 N.A. Peru (New Sol) .3066 3.2620 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22730 95
Apple Inc (AAPL) 3.200 May’27 NR 101.500 99.890 100.060 100.060 N.A. Uruguay (New Peso) .0359 27.8200
Apple Inc (AAPL) 2.300 May’22 NR 100.922 99.692 100.232 100.232 N.A. Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Apple Inc (AAPL) 1.800 May’20 NR 100.037 99.250 99.962 99.962 N.A. Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6553 .3766
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 7.375 Jan’27 B1 BB– 109.600 106.500 108.150 –0.225 6.239 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1506.7
Norway (Krone) .1164 8.5911 Egypt (Pound) .0555 18.0300
Anadarko Pete Corp (APC) 5.550 Mar’26 Ba1 BBB 110.599 110.134 110.599 0.218 4.076 Britain (Pound) 1.2979 .7705 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2666 3.7503
Poland (Zloty) .2612 3.8282 Iran (Rial) .00003 32443
Sesi L L C (SPN) 7.125 Dec’21 B2 BB– 102.500 99.188 100.500 –2.015 6.907 So. Africa (Rand) .0745 13.4165
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0412 24.2940 Russia (Ruble) .0173 57.9096 Israel (Shekel) .2787 3.5879
Noble Hldg Intl Ltd (NE) 7.750 Jan’24 B2 BB– 92.375 89.250 90.375 0.125 9.738 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6723
Denmark (Krone) .1479 6.7607 Sweden (Krona) .1138 8.7886 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4116 .7084
Rri Energy Inc (NRG) 7.875 Jun’17 Caa3 CCC 96.490 87.500 87.841 1.091 146.066
Europe (Euro) 1.0995 .9095 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0134 .9868 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 103.00
Revlon Consumer Prods Corp (MCFH) 6.250 Aug’24 B3 B 97.480 91.250 92.540 –5.710 7.609 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 283.21 Turkey (Lira) .2822 3.5431 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2895 .3040
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMAG) 2.750 Jun’22 NR 100.750 97.431 97.431 97.431 N.A.
Herbalife Ltd (HLF) 2.000 Aug’19 NR NR 102.818 100.495 101.500 3.250 1.325
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC)
Weatherford Intl Ltd (WFT)
2.875
5.875
May’19
Jul’21
NR
NR
BBB–
B
99.500
113.750
97.380
111.250
98.125
113.258
–1.575
2.291
3.851
2.486
FUTURES
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC) 3.750 May’21 NR BBB– 99.000 96.500 97.860 0.410 4.336 Monetary
Newmont Mng Corp (NEM.GP) 1.625 Jul’17 NR BBB 100.390 100.000 100.390 1.590 –0.530 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $46.22 a barrel
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.250 Oct’18 NR NR 137.117 136.990 136.990 –0.008 –19.818
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 0.900 Sep’21 NR BBB+ 116.066 115.250 115.694 0.694 –2.495 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 460.00 332.50 May 17 359.00 365.50 359.00 361.75 + 3.75 2,233
Starwood Ppty Tr Inc (STWD) 3.750 Oct’17 NR BB– 100.875 97.375 100.875 0.375 1.698 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1116.00 872.00 May 17 965.50 973.50 960.00 963.00 ◊ 2.25 1,341
Synchronoss Technologies Inc (SNCR) 0.750 Aug’19 NR B 88.500 87.375 87.900 2.100 6.590 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 646.75 398.50 May 17 428.00 428.00 428.00 427.50 + 1.50 133 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 134.55 91.30 Jun 17 131.30 131.35 128.30 128.30 ◊ 3.00 150,340
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 76.53 62.50 May 17 69.50 69.50 69.15 69.40 + 0.40 1,844
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3326.00 1805.00 May 17 1836.00 1866.00 1836.00 1866.00 + 27.00 38 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 228.00 123.20 May 17 132.90 133.00 132.40 133.10 + 0.40 13
Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 22.09 12.07 Jun 17 15.37 15.68 15.24 15.31 ◊ 0.06 388,205
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1295.30 1197.20 May 17 1227.00 1233.70 1225.10 1224.80 ◊ 1.70 84 45
Silver COMX $/oz 20.95 14.35 May 17 16.29 16.47 16.20 16.22 ◊ 0.03 606
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.84 1.97 May 17 2.50 2.53 2.50 2.52 + 0.02 3,947
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 93.23 36.18 Jun 17 45.51 46.68 43.76 46.22 + 0.70 577,422 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.67 1.11 May 17 1.41 1.45 1.37 1.44 + 0.02 128,407
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.10 2.37 May 17 3.20 3.28 3.18 3.27 + 0.08 262,030 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 0.91% 0.37% Source: Thomson Reuters
Construction Spending +15%
Prime rate 4.00 3.50 Change from
15-yr fixed 3.12 2.71 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: CONVERTIBLE BOND AND DOMESTIC HYBRID FUNDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.11 3.64 March ’17 +3.6% 0
Feb. ’17 +5.4 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.92 3.58 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.43 4.06 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.22 2.93
Personal Savings Rate +15%
Vanguard Wellington Admiral(VWENX) MA +4.8 +13.3 +10.2 0.16 79,718 Putnam Capital Spectrum Y(PVSYX) AL +12.2 +24.4 +12.1 0.37 2,083
Percent of American Funds Income Fund of Amer A(AMECX) AL +4.6 +12.0 +9.4 0.56 75,405 Franklin Mutual Beacon Z(BEGRX) XM +8.3 +23.6 +12.5 0.79 2,729
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.65 3.12 disposable income American Funds American Balanced A(ABALX) MA +5.6 +11.9 +10.5 0.59 58,504 Lord Abbett Convertible I(LCFYX) CV +7.4 +23.0 +9.5 0.86 426
Franklin Income A(FKINX) CA +3.9 +16.3 +7.5 0.61 46,232 Wells Fargo Diversified Cap Bldr A(EKBAX) AL +6.1 +22.1 +14.0 1.14 539
1-year adj. rate 3.11 2.79 March ’17 +5.9% Vanguard Wellesley Income Admiral(VWIAX) CA +3.0 +6.4 +7.1 0.15 37,471 Columbia Convertible Securities Z(NCIAX) CV +5.9 +21.6 +10.0 0.88 299
0
Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Inv(VTTVX) TG +6.5 +12.6 +8.8 * 34,928 Dodge & Cox Balanced(DODBX) MA +4.6 +21.3 +12.7 0.53 15,768
Feb. ’17 +5.7 ’12 ’17 Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Inv(VTWNX) TE +5.8 +11.1 +8.0 * 29,883 Schwab MarketTrack All Equity(SWEGX) XM +7.2 +20.7 +11.7 0.41 616
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Inv(VTHRX) TH +7.2 +14.1 +9.4 * 28,690 Franklin Mutual Shares R6(FMSHX) XM +5.1 +20.5 NA 0.67 1,930
Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Inv(VTTHX) TI +7.8 +15.6 +10.1 * 27,704 JPMorgan Investor Growth I(ONIFX) XM +8.6 +19.6 +11.5 0.27 336
$75K line good credit* 4.89% 4.39%
Manufacturing Index 58 T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation(PRWCX) MA +7.6 +12.9 +12.5 0.70 24,850 Fidelity Freedom K 2035(FKTHX) TI +9.3 +19.5 +10.0 0.05 11,863
$75K line excel. credit* 4.64 4.25 Fidelity Balanced(FBALX) MA +7.1 +13.9 +10.0 0.55 22,043 Fidelity Freedom K 2055(FDENX) TL +9.2 +19.4 +10.4 0.05 2,195
ISM; over 50 indicates T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030(TRRCX) TH +8.9 +16.5 +10.3 * 22,042 Fidelity Freedom K 2050(FFKHX) TN +9.3 +19.4 +10.2 0.05 6,685
$75K loan good credit* 4.63 4.17 expansion; seasonally adjusted T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020(TRRBX) TE +7.2 +13.3 +8.7 * 21,543
LAGGARDS
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Inv(VFORX) TJ +8.4 +17.1 +10.5 * 20,457
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.63 4.15 Apr. ’17 54.8 46 Vanguard Balanced Index Adm(VBIAX) MA +5.0 +11.8 +9.3 0.07 20,456 USAA Total Return Strategy(USTRX) AL +3.0 ◊5.0 ◊0.1 1.40 69
Fidelity Puritan(FPURX) MA +7.4 +13.4 +9.9 0.55 19,838 Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Today A(STWRX) RI +2.2 +1.6 +1.8 0.76 55
March ’17 57.2 ’12 ’17 Vanguard STAR Inv(VGSTX) MA +7.5 +13.8 +9.0 * 19,783 Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target 2010 A(STNRX) TA +2.3 +1.7 +2.3 0.78 58
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Inv(VTIVX) TK +8.7 +17.6 +10.6 * 18,604 JHancock Multi-Index Income Presv 1(JRFOX) RI +1.9 +2.9 +3.0 0.33 539
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025(TRRHX) TG +8.1 +14.9 +9.6 * 18,524 Columbia Thermostat C(CTFDX) XY +2.0 +3.4 +4.4 1.25 308
36-mo. used car 3.32% 3.27% Balance of Trade –30 FPA Crescent(FPACX) MA +5.1 +15.9 +9.2 1.07 17,348 Permanent Portfolio Permanent I(PRPFX)
Fidelity Advisor Strategic Real Ret I(FSIRX)
CA
XY
+3.1
◊0.1
+3.8
+4.0
+1.2
+0.8
0.82
0.79
2,812
211
Vanguard Target Retirement 2015 Inv(VTXVX) TD +4.8 +8.9 +7.0 * 17,239
60-mo. new car 3.23 3.36 In billions of dollars Fidelity Freedom K 2030(FFKEX) TH +8.5 +17.4 +9.1 0.05 17,192 Vanguard LifeStrategy Income Inv(VASIX) XY +2.7 +4.1 +4.2 * 3,923
Seasonally adjusted Fidelity Freedom K 2020(FFKDX) TE +6.7 +13.4 +7.5 0.05 16,546 Nationwide Inv Dest Cnsrv Svc(NDCSX) XY +2.0 +4.3 +3.3 0.60 147
Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target 2020 A(STTRX) TE +3.8 +4.6 +4.4 0.81 216
CD’s and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 March ’17 –43.7 –50 Average performance for all such funds +6.1 +12.7 +8.0 Bruce(BRUFX) MA +3.6 +4.7 +9.1 0.67 568
Number of funds for period 625 625 622 American Century One Choice VryCnsrv I(AONIX) XY +2.6 +5.0 +4.0 * 434
Feb. ’17 –43.8 ’12 ’17
Money-market 0.31% 0.23%
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: AL-Allocation--70% to 85%
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B8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Adolph Kiefer, a Gold Medal Backstroker at the 1936 Olympics, Dies at 98
By FRANK LITSKY
Adolph Kiefer, a celebrated
swimming champion who won
gold as a teenager at the 1936
Berlin Olympics and might well
have become one of America’s
greatest Olympic champions if
World War II had not intervened,
died at his home in Wadsworth, Ill.
He was 98.
The United States Olympic
Committee reported his death on
its Team USA website on Friday,
describing him as the oldest living
United States Olympic champion.
It did not say when he died.
If the war denied Kiefer a
chance for more Olympic gold —
the 1940 and 1944 Games were can-
celed because of World War II — it
William McDonald contributed re-
porting.
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nevertheless gave him, in his widely known, broke his first
view, his greatest satisfaction. As world record at the age of 15, and
a naval officer, appalled at the Improving lifesaving for 15 years he held every world
number of drowning deaths
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and swimming backstroke mark. He was the first
man to swim the 100-yard back-
helped improve swimming and instruction for the stroke in less than one minute, ac-
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lifesaving instruction for the
Navy. Navy in World War II. Swimming Hall of Fame, which in-
His triumph in Berlin seemed to ducted him in 1965.
presage a dominant Olympic ca- He also set world records in the
reer. As Kiefer took the gold, Albi- individual medley, and from 1935
on Ross, who was in Berlin cover- “he’d be to the backstroke what through 1945, when he retired
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Times, wrote, “No one who saw to- Tall and good-looking, Kiefer tional championships in back-
day’s race could honestly deny was courted by Hollywood and stroke, individual medley and
that he had witnessed the greatest drew comparisons to matinee freestyle. From 1934 through 1943,
back-stroker that has ever swum.” idols. “He is a Van Johnson in pas- he won more than 200 consecutive
And Kiefer continued to im- tel drawers, the greatest back- backstroke races.
prove, reaching his peak about a stroke swimmer who ever lived,” He broke 23 records in all, in-
decade later, when he was in his the sports columnist Red Smith cluding every national and world
20s. In an NPR program about wrote. backstroke record, according to
Kiefer in 2008, the sportswriter Kiefer went into business in- Team USA.
Frank DeFord said that if the war stead, and thrived. Kiefer was 15 when he met the
had not interrupted his career, Sonny Boy Kiefer, as he was captain of the University of Michi-
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2 THEATER REVIEW
Nostalgic for past adventures
on the slopes in ‘Ski End.’
3 ARTS, BRIEFLY
An exhibition and festival for
the artist John Giorno.
NEWS CRITICISM
Still Stretching Toward Heaven
Tony Kushner’s
marathon play from
the 1990s remains
both relevant and
unmatched in its
reach.
For These Tested Couples,
Love Is Surely Not Enough
The poignant challenges of
romance in a premiere of
Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Odessa.’
When the choreographer Merce Cunning-
ham was asked in 1991 what his vivid new
piece, “Neighbors,” was about, he replied,
“Three neighborhood couples, probably
from the suburbs.” To the next question, “Is
that all?,” he answered, “Isn’t that
enough?” Alexei Ratmansky could say
much the same about “Odessa,” his peculiar
and marvelous new creation for New York
City Ballet, except that his characters aren’t
suburban: They’re outgoing, intense, so-
phisticated up to a point, but thoroughly
provincial.
Mr. Ratmansky doesn’t condescend to
them or to the six couples of the corps de
ballet. They’re all dressed up to go dancing,
BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW
LONDON — And so the great work has begun
once again.
No, that is not a reference to the impossi-
ble mission of taping back together a busted
planet, urged by one of the hectoring title
characters in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in
America.” Alas, that project is feeling like a
no-go these days.
I’m talking about “Angels in America” it-
self, which opened Thursday night at the
National Theater here in a 25th-anniversa-
ry revival that confirms its place in the pan-
theon of dramas that stretch toward the
heavens. In the case of “Angels in America:
ALASTAIR MACAULAY
New York City Ballet Spring Gala
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
and dance they do. The ballet’s particular
spell, however, concerns the overlap of their
social interaction with their inner lives.
While you see how these men and women
behave with one another — there are mo-
ments of personal violence — here and
there, you also glimpse their souls.
Odessa is a city on the Black Sea. Even if
this ballet didn’t bear its name, you could
guess that it was set today, somewhere in
the farther reaches of what used to be the
Soviet Union. The costumes, by Keso Dek-
ker, have a very specific kind of strenuous
semi-elegance: the women in individually
patterned mini-dresses, the men in uniform
striped shirts. And the music, “Sketches to
Sunset,” by Leonid Desyatnikov (Mr. Rat-
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3 LITERARY DISCUSSION
Edward Snowden interviews
Cory Doctorow about sci-fi.
6 OPERA REVIEW
Awaiting the dawn with the
charming ‘Los Elementos.’
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 C1
N
French Vote
Splinters
The Culturati
A trend of ‘neither-nor’ leads
to a last-minute mobilization
for the centrist candidate.
By RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — The French comedian Sophia Aram
took to the airwaves of one of France’s most
popular morning radio shows this week. In
the squealy voice of a teenage girl, she
cried, “I can be against toothbrushes, and
against cavities!” She then added: “Hash-
tag: NeitherCheeseNorDessert.”
Ms. Aram was making light of what she
saw as a worrisome trend ahead of the
French presidential election on Sunday, a
race that has divided the country’s
intellectuals and cultural figures: voters,
especially on the left, who might abstain or
cast a blank ballot because they intensely
dislike both the centrist front-runner Em-
manuel Macron and his far-right rival,
Marine Le Pen.
The “Neither-Nor” impulse, as it’s called
here, was a factor in past French elections,
but greater discontent — with conventional
For some, a choice between
a front-runner and casting a
blank ballot.
political parties and the European Union —
has been particularly strong this time.
“A lot of people don’t recognize them-
selves in either of these candidates,” said
HELEN MAYBANKS
Sudhir Hazareesingh, a politics professor at
Oxford University and the author of “How
the French Think.” The backdrop is a
French left that’s divided, especially over
the big Cs: capitalism and communism —
and the collapse of the governing Socialist
party in this election.
Ms. Aram and others worry that this
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on
National Themes
Andrew Garfield as the
central character in the
plague-on-both-your-houses sentiment is,
in effect, a vote for Ms. Le Pen, the National
National Theater’s
National Theater
production of “Angels in
America,” who finds
Front’s candidate — whom they regard as
xenophobic, divisive and authoritarian.
And that has prompted a flurry of last-
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” the
sky is not the limit, and no work of theater
himself ill and abandoned
by his lover.
minute mobilizations among the cultural
elite to rally left-leaning abstainers, includ-
since has quite matched its reach.
Directed by Marianne Elliott, and featur-
ing an illustrious cast that includes Andrew
ing by the actor Mathieu Kassovitz and the
directors Agnès Varda, Jacques Audiard
Garfield and Nathan Lane in top form, this
“Angels” is a rich, imperfect production of a
and Bertrand Tavernier.
In writing her radio riff, Ms. Aram said
rich, imperfect play. But that’s a bit like say-
ing there are bricks missing from the
she had listened to friends and young peo-
ple. “What struck me is the irresponsibility
pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Mr. Kushner’s of some of the ‘Neither-Nor’ supporters,”
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DANCE REVIEW
ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Aloft, from left, Tiler Peck, Sara Mearns and Sterling Hyltin, with other members of New York City Ballet, in “Odessa.”
C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

ELISABETH VINCENTELLI THEATER REVIEW ALEXIS SOLOSKI THEATER REVIEW

A Search for Dad,

Along With Nessie
In ‘Fossils,’ a sighting
upends a biologist’s life.
IF YOU HAVE to be dragged back
into familial distress, why not let a
mythical plesiosaur do the tug-
ging? In “Fossils,” an inventive
entry in the Brits Off Broadway
festival at 59E59 Theaters, a
sighting of the Loch Ness monster
forces a young scientist to con-
front her unhappy past. Narra-
tively slight and at least a little
nutty, this piece, created by the
company Bucket Club, is deft in
form and nifty in presentation.
Vanessa (Helen Vinten) is a
hard-working, hard-thinking evo-
lutionary biologist who probably
sleeps under her desk. Her idea of
a hot and heavy Saturday night?
Arguing with creationists in chat
rooms. Most of her research is
deeply unsexy and involves
experiments with the skin cells of
a coelacanth, “a living fossil” of a
fish, once thought to have gone ex-
tinct 65 million years ago.
But an unusually clear image of
MATTHEW DUNIVAN
Nessie upends her studious life.
From left, Jeff Wood, Allison LaPlatney, Emilie Soffe, Ben Vigus and Toni Ann DeNoble as a group of friends in this play at the New Ohio Theater. Journalists invade Vanessa’s lab
with questions about the work of
her father, a researcher obsessed
and creatures gone by. But the
production tantalizes with, rather
than delivers on, this theme. Run-
ning just over an hour and relying
on only three performers (Luke
Murphy, playing another doctoral
student, is the third), it ends at
least a scene too soon, before we
get any sense of how Vanessa’s ad-
ventures will affect her life.
But let’s talk about how the in-
genuity of “Fossils” might affect
yours. (And Nessie’s. More than
eight months have passed since
anyone has reported a sighting, so
she could use the publicity.)
Bucket Club’s style mixes story
theater and toy theater with both
whimsy and rigor. The set con-
sists of a couple of water tanks up
Fossils
Through May 14 at 59E59 Theaters,
Manhattan; 212-279-4200, 59e59
.org. Running time: 1 hour 5
minutes.
front, along with a lot of plastic
dinosaurs. At a mixing board in
the back, the actors loop music
and their own voices to make a
wonderfully weirdo score, com-
posed by the sound designer Da-

Back on the Slopes Again

vid Ridley. One instrument they
with the monster, who went miss- use is a repurposed video game
ing years ago. Eventually, she and console that should have Léon
her cheery Ph.D. student Dominic Theremin giggling in his grave.
(Adam Farrell) light out for that Under Nel Crouch’s direction,
Trapped in an abandoned ski snowy mountain, for the mom-and-pop
store that ruled America before buyers
as though we are watching a game without
lake of legend, where Vanessa will the performers manipulate
knowing its rules. Yet the production, di-
shop, nostalgic friends relive flocked to the internet. The gang came up at rected by Tara Ahmadinejad at the New
try out some advanced imaging stegosaurus figurines and act,
technology and maybe come to score and narrate with scientific
their past adventures. a time when “virgin soft powder” wasn’t
threatened by climate change, and weather
Ohio Theater, has a sweet, eccentric charm grips with Dad’s disappearance. precision and obvious warmth.
that’s most powerfully felt when the cast
brought the promise of fun rather than me- To hold a fossil is to clutch a You probably don’t believe in the
members start singing in unison. fragment of prehistory, and “Fos- Loch Ness monster and you may
AFTER FINDING THEMSELVES locked in an teorological catastrophe — we eventually “Ski End” also dispenses, almost offhand-
abandoned Vermont ski store, a group of learn that the derelict outlet was damaged sils” explores what remains — not believe in “Fossils.” But you
edly, acute observations about a society in personally, zoologically — of times should have faith in these actors.
friends has the only reasonable reaction: “I which impermanence passes for progress.
guess we live here now,” one says.
Ski End “People talk about, oh ‘Change,’ like
Lo and behold, a good chunk of the new
Through May 19 at the New Ohio Theater, places just ‘change,’ you know, but it’s like,
play “Ski End” consists of amusing make-
believe situations in which the pals give Manhattan; newohiotheatre.org. Running it’s not a rule of the universe that things get
themselves new names and pretend to time: 1 hour 30 minutes. taken away from you,” says Natalie (Nicole
shred on the slopes. “I see they got the fu- Suazo), one of three teenagers who intrude
nicular up and running for the season,” Paul on the older interlopers’ winter wonder-
by Tropical Storm Irene, which devastated
(Ben Vigus) says. “A classic Swiss design,” Vermont in 2011. land. “That’s someone doing something to
Vic (Toni Ann DeNoble) adds. “Ski is not the same as it used to be,” Han- you and getting away with it, it’s not just Na-
This is a scenario straight out of a chil- nah (Emilie Soffe) says. “Look around! ture unfolding.”
dren’s adventure — but Paul, Vic, et al. ap- How much longer can this last?” She may The teenagers bring the would-be skiers
pear to be in their late 20s and early 30s. be referring to winter sports, or to the back to reality, as when, in an improvised
They are nostalgic for carefree days on a “Goonies”-type escapade that, perhaps, al- exchange, young Ken (Kijani-Ali Gaulman)
lows her and her friends to delay adulthood. tells Paul about growing up in the Bronx.
As with many collectively devised shows The play then abruptly turns into a kind of
Other points of view — in this case by the Piehole company, interstellar trip punctuated by black light
whose 2015 “Hand Foot Fizzle Face” was and confusing voice-overs. It is a collective
on the Op-Ed page based on a hermetic 1976 book by Samuel “we don’t know how to end this show!” cry
seven days a week. Beckett and Jasper Johns — “Ski End” as much as anything else, and a crash land- CAROL ROSEGG

The New York Times struggles to find a shape and at times it feels ing for an otherwise lovable experiment. Helen Vinten and Luke Murphy in “Fossils,” part of Brits Off Broadway.

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Arts, Briefly
N E W S F R O M T H E C U LT U R A L W O R L D

Trump Jokes at a High Ready, Set, Go

On Late-Night TV YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX

In December, Stephen Colbert

told John Dickerson of CBS in an
interview, “Now I have no choice
but to actually enjoy this incredi-
ble gift every day that Mr. Trump
will be,” referring to the notion
that President Trump would be a
boon to late-night comedy shows.
Researchers at George Mason
University have released a study
that aims to quantify exactly how
much of a gift Mr. Trump has
been. According to the report,
Mr. Trump was the subject of
1,060 jokes from the leading
late-night talk-show hosts in his
first 100 days in office — far
surpassing the number of jokes
other recent presidents attracted
in their entire first year in the
White House. There were 936
directed at Barack Obama in
2009, and 546 toward George W.
Bush in 2001. Bill Clinton had
only 440 jokes directed at him in
1993.
The study counted “The Late
Show With Stephen Colbert,”
“The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel
Live!” and “The Daily Show
With Trevor Noah.” It notably did
not include “Full Frontal With
Samantha Bee.”
The study also said that Mr.
Colbert had made the most jokes
at the expense of Mr. Trump
(337), followed by Mr. Noah
(315), Mr. Fallon (231) and Mr.
Kimmel (177).
SOPAN DEB
A Retrospective
For John Giorno
Since the 1960s, John Giorno has
been a nexus of New York’s
downtown art scene. This 80-
year-old poet, artist and activist
had been a muse of Andy
Warhol’s and has hosted dinner
parties with friends like Patti
Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe and
Keith Haring. In more recent
years, he has collaborated with
the French artist Pierre Huyghe
and starred in the music video
for R.E.M.’s final single.
Also among Mr. Giorno’s
admirers is his partner of nearly
two decades, the Swiss artist Ugo
Rondinone, who this summer will
stage “Ugo Rondinone: I  John
Giorno,” an exhibition and festi-
val that will open on June 21 at
locations across Manhattan.
Mr. Rondinone, above right,
described “I  John Giorno” — a
title that suggests Mr. Giorno,
above left, who was born and
raised in Brooklyn, as a quintes-
sential New York figure — as a
“kaleidoscopic” retrospective
that includes items from Mr.
Giorno’s archive, as well as
works by his collaborators and
Mr. Rondinone.
Among the works on view will
be Warhol’s seminal 1963 film
“Sleep,” in which he shot Mr.
Giorno sleeping for more than
five hours; Mr. Rondinone’s 2011
video work “Thanx 4 Nothing,”
which features Mr. Giorno read-
ing his poem of the same title;
and a restaging of Mr. Giorno’s
“Dial-a-Poem,” a 1969 piece that
was included in the Museum of
Modern Art’s 1970 exhibition
“Information” and that invites
people to call a number and hear
recorded poems by William S.
Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and
John Cage, among others.
Mr. Giorno, interviewed at his
loft on the Bowery, was more
humble than Mr. Rondinone in
speaking about the sweep of this
exhibition, which includes five
decades’ worth of art. “Every
person can look back on their life
and see a great opera,” he said.
Still, his home — which ac-
tually comprises three lofts on
different levels of a landmark
1885 building — has, in many
ways, been as central to the New
York art scene as Mr. Giorno’s
career. This is where Mark
Rothko painted, Burroughs lived,
and Warhol filmed “Sleep.” Art-
work on the walls includes a
photograph by Nan Goldin and a
painting by Haring.
The bed where “Sleep” was
filmed is still there — in 1998 Mr.
Huyghe filmed Mr. Giorno on it
in “Sleep Talking,” which will be
on view in “I  John Giorno” —
as are many of Burroughs’s
belongings, such as the typewrit-
er with which he wrote the 1981
novel “Cities of the Red Night.”
Parts of Mr. Giorno’s home,
like his Tibetan Buddhist shrine
and a cast-bronze reproduction
of his massive fireplace, by Mr.
Rondinone, will also be on view
in “I  John Giorno,” which was
first staged in 2015 at the Palais
de Tokyo, above, in Paris.
JOSHUA BARONE
‘Amélie’ Musical to End
Its Run on Broadway
The Tony Awards have claimed
their first casualty: “Amélie,” a
new Broadway musical, an-
nounced on Thursday evening
that it would close on May 21.
The musical, adapted from the
2001 film about a shy but whimsi-
cally altruistic French waitress,
had struggled at the box office
since opening to underwhelming
reviews. Without a single Tony
nomination in a competitive
TOM McCARTHY The artist
presents “Nothing Will Have
Taken Place Except the
Place” and speaks with the
critic Hal Foster. 7:30 p.m.,
Paula Cooper Gallery.
192books.com
ALEX CRETEY-SYSTERMANS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Broadway season, an uptick in
sales was unlikely.
The musical had seemed
promising in pre-Broadway
outings at Berkeley Repertory
‘CYRANO de BERGERAC’
Theater and then at the Center
The tenor Roberto Alagna
Theater Group in Los Angeles,
and was anticipated on Broad- stars in this Franco Alfano
way because it stars Phillipa Soo, opera. 12:30 p.m., Metropoli-
who had been nominated for a tan Opera.
Tony last year for originating the 212-362-6000, metopera.org
role of Eliza in “Hamilton.”
“Amélie” features music by
Daniel Messé, lyrics by Mr.
Messé and Nathan Tysen, and a
book by Craig Lucas; it is di-
rected by Pam MacKinnon. The
musical, produced by Aaron
Harnick, David Broser, Triptyk
Studios, Spencer B. Ross and
Harbor Entertainment, cost up to
$12 million to capitalize, accord-
ing to a filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission; that
money will now be lost. The
musical opened on April 3; at the ‘PACIFIC OVERTURES’ Sond-
time of its closing, it will have heim’s musical. 3 and 8 p.m.,
played 27 preview and 56 regular Classic Stage Company.
performances. 866-811-4111, classicstage.org
MICHAEL PAULSON

CROWDPLEASER... “A
This Time, Snowden A CELEBRATION OF THE
Asks the Questions POST-POST-NUCLEAR FAMILY.
CONSISTENTLY FUNNY.”
Edward J. Snowden interviews with 3-D printers, abundant sources of food - VARIETY, Andrew Barker

and mobile fabricators, the people can

the novelist Cory Doctorow via make anything they need. “
video feed from overseas. Having Mr. Snowden act as the inter-
“ ELLE “
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
viewer was a brilliant marketing tactic —
the packed auditorium erupted into cheers NAOMI FANNING SUSAN
About half an hour into Cory Doctorow’s
discussion of his new science-fiction novel,
when his face first appeared on the screens
flanking the stage — but it also made WATTS SHOWS
WHY SHE’S SARANDON
“Walkaway,” at the New York Public Li-
philosophical sense. Some of Mr. Doc-
torow’s earlier novels feature rebellious SHINES ONE OF
IS
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brary on Wednesday, the man interviewing
him suddenly froze in midsentence.
hacker heroes who take on shadowy corpo-
rations and tyrannical government agen-
BRIGHTLY.”
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The crowd murmured uncomfortably as OF HER

technicians rushed to the stage to fix the
feed, which beamed a frozen image of Ed-
ward J. Snowden, who was some 4,660 miles
away in Moscow, onto two large screens.
“Oh, there’s the N.S.A.,” Mr. Doctorow
joked when the video stalled. “Ed warned
us this might happen and said we should
just make a joke about the N.S.A. and wait
for him to come back.”
Mr. Snowden, a former contractor for the
National Security Agency who leaked a
trove of classified documents that revealed
the agency’s vast surveillance operation
against hundreds of millions of United
States citizens and others, has become
something of a fugitive hero and pop culture
icon. He’s been featured in video games and
a graphic novel and is the subject of an
Academy Award-winning documentary,
“Citizenfour,” as well as a 2016 feature film
directed by Oliver Stone. He appeared, via
video, in a play with Daniel Radcliffe at the
Public Theater. There’s an Edward Snow-
den action figure.
But it was unusual for Mr. Snowden to
make an appearance at a New York literary
event, where he acted as the interlocutor.
“Normally, I don’t ask the questions,” he
said at the beginning of the discussion.
He proceeded to ask a lot of them, press-
ing Mr. Doctorow about copyright law,
scarcity and abundance, and other themes
in the novel, and whether he intended his
book to be an optimistic or pessimistic vi-
sion. “As a science-fiction writer, I’m keenly
aware we have no claim to predicting the fu-
ture,” Mr. Doctorow said. “If the future were
predictable, I don’t know why I’d bother get-
ting out of bed.”
The event, “Dystopia, Apocalypse, and
Other Sunny Futures,” went remarkably
smoothly, considering that Mr. Snowden
was several time zones away — until it did-
n’t. The discussion ranged from Ayn Rand
to the predictions of the economist John
Maynard Keynes to the minimalist philoso-
phy of the tidying guru Marie Kondo.
cies and fight the erosion of civil liberties.
And Mr. Doctorow knew that Mr. Snowden GENERATION.”
- INDIEWIRE, Kevin Jagernauth
was a fan of his work from watching “Citi-
zenfour” (in one scene, Mr. Snowden stands
in his hotel room next to a table that holds a
copy of Mr. Doctorow’s novel “Homeland,”
which features a hacktivist protagonist who
SARAH STACKE/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
A feed of Edward J. Snowden talking with the
science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow at the
New York Public Library.
is deciding whether to leak incriminating
government documents). So when his new
novel was coming out, he tweeted Mr. Snow-
den and asked if he would consider blurbing
it. Mr. Snowden enthusiastically agreed.
Just before his feed faltered, Mr. Snow-
den was speaking passionately about free-
dom and American values. “This is a coun-
try that, many people forget, is born from an
act of treason,” he said. “We were all rebels
willing to risk the rope in order to create
something that was less ordered and more
free.” Moments later, as he was discussing
how the government’s surveillance of citi-
zens’ electronic communications violates
NAOMI WATTS ELLE FANNING AND SUSAN SARANDON
the Constitution, he was cut off. Mr. Doc-
torow improvised for a bit, and Paul Hold-
engräber, the director of the library’s “Live”
programs, jumped in to ask questions.
About 30 minutes later, the video feed
was restored, and Mr. Snowden and Mr.

In this family change is relative.

All of these disparate subjects, somehow,
seemed relevant to Mr. Doctorow’s novel.
“Walkaway” takes place in a futuristic Can-
ada after the collapse of modern society,
when wealth gets concentrated in the hands
of the ultrarich and the less fortunate
scrape by in desolate cities that have been
gutted by industrial flight. But the setting is
not as bleak as it first seems. Communities
of unemployed drifters spring up. In a world
Doctorow resumed their conversation.
“It is amazing that a technical problem,
which never seems to happen, mysteri-
ously pops up when we start talking about
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she wrote in an email. “I think that equating
Le Pen and Macron and standing under a
‘Without Me May 7’ banner, hoping that
other people are going to stop the National
Front is totally irresponsible.”
But many on the left and right also see Mr.
Macron as a continuation of the policies of
President François Hollande and his Social-
ist government, which, for different rea-
sons, they want to reject. (Mr. Macron left
the government to form his own party, En
Marche!, or Onward!) Supporters of the
far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon,
who received nearly 20 percent in the first
round, view Mr. Macron as a protector of the
status quo and disagree with his pro-Eu-
rope stance and his role in loosening French
labor laws.
One of the most prominent intellectuals
to say he will cast a blank ballot is the left-
wing historian Emmanuel Todd. He is the
author of “Who Is Charlie?” a controversial
book that said the mass rallies of solidarity
in France after the murder of journalists at
the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a ko-
sher supermarket in 2015 were a cover for
Islamophobia.
“In terms of threats to liberal democracy,
threat No. 1 is the National Front,” Mr. Todd
said in an interview. “But the forces behind
Macron, the people who are pro-Euro, pro-
Europe, pro-Germany, are a major threat to
democracy.”
He said he had voted for Mr. Mélenchon
in the first round and didn’t believe Ms. Le
Pen would win on Sunday, so he would sit
out the vote. “It’s the usual French theater,”
Mr. Todd said. “We’re not on the verge of
falling into Nazism or fascism at all.”
Some see a deep French discomfort about
money as part of the left’s — and right’s —
disdain for Mr. Macron, who was an invest-
ment banker and later became economy
minister under Mr. Hollande. “For French
people, money and capitalism is a kind of
curse,” said the intellectual Pascal Bruck-
ner, whose 2015 book “The Wisdom of
Money” explores French ambivalence
about money, which he believes is rooted in
Roman Catholic culture.
For his part, Mr. Bruckner compared Mr.
Mélenchon’s refusal to back Mr. Macron to
the German Communist party leader in
1933 urging Communists to vote against the
Socialists rather than against the Nazis.
“It’s catastrophic,” he said.
“The French are nostalgic for an
ideological, utopian communism, which
never existed,” he added.
Zeev Sternhell, the Polish-born, left-lean-
ing Israeli political scientist and author of
“Neither Left Nor Right,” a controversial
Books of The Times:
Monday through Friday,
The New York Times
book on the rise of fascism in France in the
1930s, said Mr. Macron’s leftist critics find
his economic policies closer to the right
than to the left. “His centrism is nothing
more than a more economically liberal
right, more respectful of human rights,
more polished, less vulgar,” Mr. Sternhell
said.
But he added that it was “a very serious
political error” that some supporters of Mr.
Mélenchon won’t support Mr. Macron, as it
could propel a more dangerous politician
into office.
Mindful of the possibility of Ms. Le Pen’s
MICHEL SPINGLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
Top, campaign posters for the
French centrist presidential
candidate Emmanuel Macron
in Lille, France. Above,
supporters of the National
Front candidate Marine Le Pen.
‘A lot of people don’t
recognize themselves in
either of these
candidates.’
SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH
AUTHOR OF ‘HOW THE FRENCH
THINK’
victory, cultural figures have ratcheted up
their pro-Macron activities in recent days
while organizations that normally don’t
take sides in elections are weighing in.
Mr. Kassovitz, the star of “La Haine,”
about France’s troubled suburbs, has been a
vocal supporter of the right to cast a blank
ballot. But he said this week that he would
support Mr. Macron. “The risk is absten-
tion, which can easily push the majority to-
ward Le Pen,” he wrote on Twitter.
The director and producer Luc Besson
(“The Fifth Element,” the “Taken” series)
took to Facebook to urge people to vote
against the far-right National Front, with its
isolationism. “When and where in history
has turning in on oneself had positive re-
sults?” he asked. “Never.”
The cartoonist Riad Sattouf, the author of
the graphic novel memoirs “The Arab of the
Future,” did a cartoon for Paris Match in
which Esther, the 11-year-old character in
his most recent graphic novels, says: “Le
Pen in the Elysée? No way man. I’m voting
for Macron.”
On Thursday, the Académie des Césars,
which doles out France’s version of the
Academy Awards, issued a statement offer-
ing its “unreserved support” for Mr.
Macron.
And that same day, at a reception at
France’s Culture Ministry to present the
French films in competition in this month’s
Cannes Film Festival, Audrey Azoulay, the
outgoing culture minister, urged France’s
film world to help defeat the National Front.
“The far right’s imagery is very strong,” she
said. “You need to show a different image”
of France, she added, “to show its differ-
ences and complexities.”
But it’s unclear if the late-in-the-cam-
paign mobilization is having its desired ef-
fect. A concert on Thursday aimed at rally-
ing support against the National Front drew
small crowds, and the vibe was more dutiful
than boisterous, Le Monde reported. And
the skepticism toward Mr. Macron was
clear on Tuesday when members of 70 artist
unions came together in the packed audito-
rium of Paris’s Cité de la Musique for a rally
against Ms. Le Pen.
When a video was shown featuring the
French artist Orlan, who lauded Mr. Macron
for trying “to crossbreed the left and the
right,” it was met with violent boos from the
packed, left-leaning house.

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two-part masterwork, the first half of which
was staged by the National Theater in 1992
(opening on Broadway the following year),
sees and celebrates aspiration and imper-
fection as inevitable companions.
It does so with a boundless imagination
and a moral rage that roam, at length and at
large, where few playwrights have dared to
tread. And perhaps the greatest miracle
achieved by “Angels,” at least in physical
terms, is that even after the seven hours of
bum-numbing sitting it demands (not
counting intermissions), it continues to
leave its audiences not exhausted but ener-
gized — including this critic, who has seen
at least four earlier versions.
An expressly political response to a spe-
cific social crisis — the White House’s de-
layed response to the AIDS epidemic that
was devastating the gay population in the
United States in the 1980s — “Angels” might
seem to be too topical for immortality. To re-
ceive an AIDS diagnosis in 2017 is no longer
to be handed a death sentence. Now extinc-
tion by nuclear war — or a terrorist attack
or ecocide — looms as a likelier prospect in
the popular imagination.
But the climate of fear and anger Mr.
Kushner summoned feels, if anything, even
more pervasive today than it did when “An-
gels” first opened. It makes sense that Ms.
Elliott, the much-laureled director of “War
Horse” and “The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time,” has transformed
the New York City of three decades ago into
a land of endless night. In this “Angels,”
time feels frozen at 3 a.m.
The principal sources of illumination
here, overseen by Paule Constable, are cold
fluorescent bars that outline the play’s ur-
ban spaces (along with the occasional pillar
of fire). The set designer, Ian MacNeil, takes
full advantage of the moving parts afforded
by the National’s Lyttelton stage.
Apartments, hospital rooms, public
spaces and offices slide in and out of view,
vertically and horizontally, and sometimes
bleed into one another. Nothing is fixed. No
center holds.
In the practical terms of theater, this isn’t
always a good thing. “Angels” is, above all, a
portrait of the moral weight of human con-
nections, as they are forged, extended and
When Love Isn’t Enough: Ratmansky’s Poignant Couples
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mansky has choreographed two previous
scores by this composer), commutes be-
tween the psychological and the social. Now
there are piercing, Stravinskian melodies
for solo violin (accompanied by piano), now
stomping orchestral tangos (gutsy Russian
ones, like those in Shostakovich’s ballet
“The Golden Age”).
“Odessa” was the closing item of City Bal-
let’s spring gala at the David H. Koch The-
ater on Thursday night, and I watched it in
constant suspense, twice coming close to
tears, and loving its rich mixture of emo-
tion. The way it opens up the larger
New York City Ballet Spring Gala
Performed on May 4 at the David H. Koch
Theater, Lincoln Center. “Odessa” will be
repeated on May 6 and 7.
psychological climate within a social situa-
tion feels new for both this choreographer
and this art.
Will repeated viewings deepen the expe-
rience? (It’s repeated on Saturday and Sun-
day.) I had no problems adjusting to the
world that Mr. Ratmansky creates here, but
the charms of its Desyatnikov score and
Dekker attire are finite. “Odessa,” though
arresting and varied, feels like minor fic-
tion. Each of the three central relationships
shows a different aspect of love, yet these
six individuals have other emotions, too.
Love isn’t quite enough, especially for the
women.
The most poignant pair are Sterling
Hyltin and Joaquin De Luz, who begin by
not beginning. He ardently offers her his
hands, but she’s reluctant, maybe too bro-
kenhearted, to accept. Ms. Hyltin beauti-
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 N C5
BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HELEN MAYBANKS
Denise Gough as the wife of a ple, Places and Things”) goes for a flatline,
closeted lawyer in “Angels in depressive affect that makes Harper often
America.” From left, Nathan tedious company.
Lane as Roy Cohn and Russell In a variety of supporting roles, Amanda
Tovey as the conflicted lawyer. Lawrence, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and es-
pecially Susan Brown are first-rate. And in
the sour-plum role of Roy Cohn, based on
the notorious New York lawyer (and Don-
A work that demands ald J. Trump mentor) of the same name, Mr.
seven hours yet leaves Lane is savory indeed.
its audiences not The classic clown’s anger has always per-
exhausted, but colated beneath the surface of Mr. Lane’s
comic performances. Here he gives rage
energized. full reign, and he incinerates. This Roy is a
larger-than-life monster and, ultimately, a
shrunken specimen of humanity. You un-
derstand why the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg
(Ms. Brown), a woman whose execution he
lobbied for, might almost pity him.
Even if the cast members aren’t quite on
the same playing field, they all guarantee
that Mr. Kushner’s words register and echo.
And what words they are, of a Shavian wit
and ferocity rooted in the most visceral of
feelings. The language of “Angels” is so lu-
scared as hell, and as mad as hell, too. minously iridescent that the play doesn’t re-
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on Equally good is Russell Tovey in the less
ally require the spectacle that is usually lav-
National Themes showy role of Joe Pitt, the transplanted
ished on it, as was demonstrated by Ivo van
Through Aug. 19 at the National Theater, Mormon lawyer from Utah, a struggling
Hove’s haunting, bare-bones interpretation
London; nationaltheatre.org.uk. closet case in an empty marriage. In moral
of several years ago.
terms, Joe is one of the play’s unqualified Of course, a frills-free production of “An-
unraveled by friends, lovers and strangers. losers. (Like the God that “Angels” dis- gels” wouldn’t allow Ms. Elliott to deploy
And on the vast stage here, performers can places, Mr. Kushner is not afraid to judge.) the sort of brilliant visual flourishes that an-
appear lost in space in ways that surely go But Mr. Tovey is so convincing in his conflict imated her “War Horse” and “Night-Time.”
beyond the creative team’s intentions, as and anguish that your heart bleeds for him. In “Angels,” the greatest of such is a long
emotional focus slides to the periphery. I experienced no similar effusion for Lou- time coming, but it’s worth waiting for.
Such blurriness can partly be ascribed to is Ironson, the Marxist theorist who walks As might be expected, it involves one of
an imbalance within the cast. Mr. Garfield, out on Prior and begins a tortured affair the heralds of the title. She is embodied by
perhaps best known as one of the many Spi- with Joe. Louis is portrayed by James Ms. Lawrence, with invaluable assistance
der-Men to have crawled across multiplex McArdle, an excellent actor who dazzled in from the costume designer Nicky Gilli-
screens, is splendid in the central role of the the National’s “Young Chekhov” plays last brand and the puppet designers Finn Cald-
ailing Prior Walter, who is abandoned by his year. Here, he seems to be impersonating, well and Nick Barnes. I won’t say much
lover and visited by a bona fide, if shop- instead of inhabiting, his character, and as a about the specific and fabulous form she
worn, angel, bearing tidings she wants him consequence, the logorrheic, guilt-crippled takes, except that it is as glorious and disap-
to spread worldwide. Louis is even more irritating than usual. pointing as this contradictory creature
With his razor-edge cheekbones and eyes Joe’s Valium-popping, hallucination- must be.
of fire, this gaunt Prior brings to mind Ma- prone and terminally lonely wife, Harper, Her paradoxical presence is a reminder
ria Callas as Medea, which he would surely has often been as much the emotional cen- that in a rudderless world, passively wait-
take as a compliment. Mr. Garfield has the ter of “Angels” as Prior has. (Marcia Gay ing for celestial intervention is not a viable
florid mannerisms of a vintage drag queen Harden and Mary-Louise Parker are option. The heroes of “Angels” are human.
down pat. But he wields them as part of an among those who have played her memora- Mr. Kushner’s still-singular play fans their
intricate defense system born of both fear bly.) But the normally wonderful Denise anger, confusion and hopefulness into a
and defiance. This Prior is palpably as Gough (an Olivier Award winner for “Peo- flame of genuine divinity.
ALASTAIR MACAULAY DANCE REVIEW
him, too; these choral moments help us to
feel the characters’ larger souls.
All six leads have highly individual solos.
The one for Tiler Peck (flanked by the fe-
male corps), with repeated turns into a
sideways leg extension, is the ballet’s most
outgoing; Ms. Peck also becomes, arrest-
ingly but reasonably, its angriest character.
Taylor Stanley plays her aggressively as-
sertive consort; one duet ends with her be-
ing lifted offstage while shaking her head in
a mixture of protest and perplexity.
The ballet’s most dreamlike moment —
expansive but self-contradictory — comes
with Sara Mearns’s slow dance soliloquy.
Just how this fits into the rest of the ballet
isn’t yet clear; it will be good to see how the
many different parts of “Odessa” coalesce
in days to come. Her partner is Amar Ra-
masar, and in one passage, amid the ensem-
ble, they move on the floor, close to each
other and yet in separate states — another
of the ballet’s remarkable psychological
openings.
The gala’s other three items featured the
company’s three senior ballerinas: Megan
Fairchild in Peter Martins’s “Jeu de Cartes”
(1992, Stravinsky); Ashley Bouder in
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George Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Pas de
Deux” (1960); and Maria Kowroski in the
Sterling Hyltin, aloft, with fully combines fragility with purposeful- denly, cozying up to him. She takes his arm duet from Christopher Wheeldon’s “After
Joaquin De Luz, right, and ness. Her powerful vacillations of feeling — and tips her head toward his shoulder. the Rain” (2005). After a too-knowing and
other members of New York her uncertainty about their relationship (“Yes, you’re my guy, after all.”) Following
effect-laden start, Ms. Bouder’s great mo-
City Ballet in “Odessa.” (when she slaps him at one moment, you such doubt and anguish, it’s too docile a res-
ment was in her fearless jumps into Andrew
see it from her point of view) — do much to olution. Veyette’s arms. Ms. Kowroski’s grand
shape the ballet. The corps de ballet — six women, six men beauty is too soft-spoken to stop “After the
Mr. De Luz, always elegant, here plays, — have their own exuberant ensembles; Rain” from becoming another string of ef-
subtly but ardently, the insistent devotion of they also amplify the sections for the leads. fects. Amid the busily changing structures
a man no longer young. My sole disappoint- Not only do the men lift Ms. Hyltin in mar- of “Jeu,” Ms. Fairchild’s dizzy perkiness was
ment while watching comes with how Ms. velous parabolas at crucial moments dur- fun; you want someone to give her a really
Hyltin ends a passage by finally, but sud- ing her scenes with Mr. de Luz, but they lift comically silly role, à la Gracie Allen.
C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Is It Really Opera? That’s Beside the Point
The Ópera en Español series
continues with a work that can
be a bit tricky to categorize.
AS THE RECONSTITUTED New York City
Opera continues to test its sea legs with a
second presentation in its series Ópera en
Español, it would be nitpicky and pointless
to insist on calling this latest installment
“Ópera (o Algo Parecido) en Español.” But
strictly speaking, “Los Elementos,” by the
18th-century Spanish master Antonio de Li-
teres (which follows the Mexican composer
Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas”
of last June), is only “something like” an
opera.
“Los Elementos” (“The Elements”),
which opened at the Harlem Stage Gate-
house on Thursday evening in what City
Opera said was its American premiere,
runs just over an hour and offers little ac-
tion or plot. It consists mainly of debate:
Singing ‘Happy 450th Birthday’ to Monteverdi
‘Vespro Della Beata Vergine,’
long a musicological minefield,
will be in good hands.
IT SEEMS LOGICAL and simple enough: a
performance of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers
on Tuesday, the composer’s 450th birthday.
Logical, yes; simple, not entirely.
The 105-minute “Vespro Della Beata
Vergine” (“Vespers of the Blessed Virgin”),
to give its full title, was long a musicological
minefield, rife with conflagrations over its
origin, nature and purpose. “To perform it is
to court disaster,” the pioneering Monte-
verdi scholar Denis Arnold once wrote of
the many interpretive decisions and conjec-
tures that have to be made before a sound is
even produced.
Yet performers have championed the
work as never before in the seven years
since its 400th anniversary, and none of the
musicological disputes (which have in any
case cooled a bit) need deter listeners if the
work is in trusted hands. It will be on Tues-
day, when Julian Wachner conducts the
Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Trinity
Youth Chorus and the Trinity Baroque Or-
chestra at St. Paul’s Chapel on lower Broad-
way, and on Wednesday, when the same
forces take the performance to the
Cathedral Basilica in Philadelphia.
The work was originally published along
with a Mass and dedicated to Pope Paul V,
perhaps in a vain bid for a job at the Vatican.
The conductor Andrew Parrott called it a
sort of “do-it-yourself Vespers kit” for choir
directors.
Its main body consists of five polyphonic
psalm settings — each, evidently, to be pre-
ceded by a chanted antiphon devoted to
Mary or appropriate to the liturgical sea-
son, and each followed by a so-called sacred
concerto or sonata. The work ends with a
Classical Music
JAMES R. OESTREICH
one-upmanship among the allegorical fig-
ures Earth, Air, Fire and Water as they
await the dawn, with interventions from
Time and the Dawn itself. Some have
avoided the touchy “opera” category en-
tirely by calling it a serenata, a sort of dra-
matic cantata popular in the Baroque peri-
od.
Still, by whatever designation, “Los Ele-
Los Elementos
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mentos” proved a musical delight and a
charming entertainment. Literes claimed to
be writing in the Italian style, and much of
the piece’s texture is vintage Baroque, car-
ried out at a high level. But the most delecta-
ble moments were those laced with Spanish
flavor, with castanet and proto-flamenco
rhythms. The finale was especially evoca-
tive, with its repeated short-breathed re-
frains and its irresistible dance drive.
JAMES R. OESTREICH
OPERA REVIEW
The lively production has been directed
and choreographed by Richard Stafford,
with a mostly young cast. Literes called for
women in all the roles except Time, and
making them quickly identifiable took some
doing from Mr. Stafford’s helpmates. John
Farrell, the scenic designer, relied chiefly on
projections, which allowed him to represent
Fire and Water simultaneously during their
duets. Janet O’Neill, the costume designer,
used colors and devised elaborate head-
dresses to distinguish the Elements. And
Mr. Stafford added his own touches, having
Samarie Alicea, as Air, and Chelsea
Bonagura, as Water, undulate their arms
throughout.
But perhaps the most vivid portrayal of
the evening was that of the mezzo-soprano
Kelsey Robertson as Fire, with a verisimili-
tude achieved largely through the quality of
her singing. In long stretches of coloratura,
especially, her legato, while smooth, re-
tained remarkable clarity of pitch and even-
ness of rhythm, flickering like a lambent
flame.
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From left, Melanie Askar,
The other Elements — Ms. Alicea, Ms.
Chelsea Bonagura and Samarie
Bonagura and Melanie Askar, as Earth, all
in their company debuts — also showed real Alicea in New York City Opera’s
production of “Los Elementos.”
talent and promise, though not always ide-
ally controlled. Intonation was problematic
at times, especially in duets and ensembles.
Magda Gartner, a bright-toned mezzo-so-
prano, was effective as the Dawn. Marco
Nisticò, a baritone, made a gruff Time. The
small stage was additionally populated by
two appealing, hard-working dancers, Es-
ther Antoine and Adam Rogers. The move-
ments of the four choristers were also heav-
ily choreographed.
The dozen instrumentalists played be-
hind the scrim used for the projections, indi-
viduals sometimes visible in shadow.
Though they were identified as the New
York City Opera Orchestra, several were
early-instrument specialists, including
Grant Herreid, who contributed strongly on
theorbo and guitar. Pacien Mazzagatti, the
company’s principal conductor, led from the
harpsichord.
An oil painting of Claudio
Monteverdi (1567-1643). His
hymn, “Ave Maris Stella,” and a canticle,
“Magnificat.” But it is never more striking
“Vespro Della Beata Vergine” than at its beginning.
will be performed on Tuesday.
Monteverdi showed in his first surviving
opera, “Orfeo” (1607), that he knew how to
grab an audience by its collective lapels
with a brilliant Toccata, a fanfare twice re-
A work originally peated.
published along with a He opens the Vespers with a versicle and
Mass and dedicated to a response that draws on the same fanfare
material, and he sets the full chorus over it,
Pope Paul V. singing the text almost entirely on a single
pitch, until he adds a slightly more elabo-
rate “Alleluia” at the end.
The score is stunning in its variety, in
both solo and polyphonic writing. Monte-
verdi adds another theatrical touch in “Audi
coelum,” a sacred concerto for one voice
and an echoing partner.
And after the final psalm setting, he
breaks the repeating pattern, with what he
calls a sonata, rather than a concerto.
Here, again, he places a vocal overlay,
this time occurring at irregular intervals
and in shifting, sometimes syncopated
rhythms. The text, scored for soprano, con-
sists entirely of a repeated sentence:
“Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis” (“Holy Mary,
pray for us”). It is sometimes sung solo, or
in unison by a small group of sopranos, and
sometimes by massed sopranos, whether
women or boys.
And this is indeed one of the great joys of
the Vespers, that with so much left to the
imaginations of the performers, virtually
every rendition differs substantially from
every other. The excerpts included in the
version of this article online (nytimes
.com/music) are from a 2014 performance
at Versailles by John Eliot Gardiner and his
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque
Soloists. Mr. Wachner’s choices in a small
chapel will — count on it — prove radically
different.
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50 WNJN 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) Motown, R&B, soul and disco artists. (G) W1A (MA) Death in Paradise (PG) Home Fires on Masterpiece (PG) Downton Abbey would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the
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FLIX Domestic Disturbance (2001). . Chicago (2002). Catherine Zeta-Jones. Two murderous women who What Women Want (2000). Mel Gibson. Accidental electric shock turns . The Illusionist here.” Then he embarks on an affair with
John Travolta. (PG-13) (6:30) love being celebrities. Exuberant if shallow Oscar-winning musical. (PG-13) male chauvinist into Mr. Sensitive. “Tootsie” for the slow-witted. (PG-13) (2006). (12:10)
Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of
HBO Now You See Me 2 (2016). Four Las Vegas magicians Sully (2016). Tom Hanks. Heroic pilot Chesley Sullen- O Chris Gethard: Career Suicide The comic/talk- Silicon Valley Veep “Georgia.”
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HBO2 . War Dogs (2016). Jonah Hill, Veep “Georgia.” 10,000 B.C. (2008). Steven Strait, Camilla Belle. Prehistoric hunter Hail, Caesar! (2016). Studio fixer deals with kidnap- Ride Along 2 that couple’s daughter, Elaine (Katharine
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SHO2 Miami Vice (2006). Colin Farrell, . Lincoln (2012). Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field. Lincoln plots to abolish slavery. Thrilling Breach (2007). Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe. Young F.B.I. employee must
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STARZ National Treasure: Book of Secrets Major League (1989). Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen. Inept baseball
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American Gods “The Bone Or-
chard.” (MA) (9:49)
The Hollars (2016). John Krasinski. Mother’s illness draws
sad New Yorker home. Likable cast. (PG-13) (10:54) What’s on TV
STZENC . Chasing Amy (1997). Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams. Man loves les- . Clerks (1994). Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson. Day Clerks II (2006). Rosario Dawson. Catching up with 30-something slackers
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TMC Secret in Their Eyes (2015). Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman. F.B.I. Open Water (2003). Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis. Backcountry (2014). Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop. Cou- Open Water
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BRV National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983). Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. . Barbershop (2002). Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson. Chicago barber deals with loan shark, . Barbershop (2002). Ice Cube,
Good-natured chaos. (R) (7:04) pregnant wife and customers. Generous comedy with lived-in glow. (PG-13) (9:14) Anthony Anderson. (PG-13) (11:22)
THE KENTUCKY DERBY 2:30 p.m. on NBC. The
CBSSN College Rugby Division lA Tournament, championship. World’s Man Sports Spectacular From Grand Oasis Resort in Cancun, Mexico. College Rugby
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3-year-old Classic Empire is the favored
CN . Megamind (2010). Brad Pitt. (PG) (6) Dragon Ball Bob’s Burgers Rick and Morty Rick and Morty Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14) Samurai Jack Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z
thoroughbred in this 143rd run for the roses
CNBC Undercover Boss “White Castle.” Undercover Boss “Frontier Airlines.” Undercover Boss “Oriental Trading Undercover Boss “Kampgrounds Undercover Boss “Utah Jazz.” Undercover
at Churchill Downs, with Always Dreaming
An owner mishandles equipment. CEO cleans a plane’s lavatory. Company.” (PG) of America.” (PG) (PG) Boss “Vivint.” and McCracken close on his heels. Bob
CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Ca- CNN Newsroom With Ana Ca- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Un- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Un- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Un- Anthony Bour- Costas leads the coverage and interviews
brera (N) brera (N) known “Los Angeles.” (PG) known “Mexico.” (PG) known “Manila: Philippines.” (PG) dain Parts
four of the only eight men who have called
COM Super Troopers (2001). Vermont highway patrolmen Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity Jeff Dunham returns Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy (14) Super Troopers (2001). Jay Chan-
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CUNY Eldridge & Co. Tony Guida Criminal Justice Theater Talk (G) . The Clay Bird (2002). Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi. TimesTalks (11:10) Stoler Rpt Lane plays Penny Chenery, the owner of
DIS Stuck in the Liv and Maddie: K.C. Undercover Bizaardvark (G) Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007). The singing rodents Tangled: The K.C. Undercover K.C. Undercover Liv and Mad- Secretariat, the thoroughbred who in 1973
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sire.” (N) (14) Mega Race.” (N) (14) Off My Cloud.” (N) (14) “Brand New Car.” (N) (14) Crow.” (14) (14)
John Malkovich is Lucien Laurin, who
E! A Cinderella Story (2004). Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge. (PG) Maid in Manhattan (2002). Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes. (PG-13) Cruel Intentions (1999). Sarah Michelle Gellar. (R) came out of retirement shortly before lead-
ELREY SnakeEater III. His Law (1992). (6) SnakeEater (1989). Thugs attack family of former commando. (R) SnakeEater II: The Drug Buster (1991). Lorenzo Lamas. No better. (R) SnakeEater 3 ing Secretariat to victory. “It’s a pleasur-
ESPN SportsCenter SportsCenter 30 for 30 John Calipari’s career. SportsCenter SportsCenter SportsCenter able, seductive fantasy partly because, as
ESPN2 College Volleyball N.C.A.A. Championship, Ohio State vs. B.Y.U. College Softball Arizona vs. U.C.L.A. 30 for 30 In 2001, the XFL was launched. we have known from the start of cinema,
ESPNCL 30 for 30 (6) 30 for 30 30 for 30 30 for 30 SMU football gets the “death penalty.” 30 for 30 the sight of a running horse is a beautiful
ESQTV Brew Dogs “Boston.” (PG) Brew Dogs “Las Vegas.” (PG) Brew Dogs “Chicago.” (PG) The Getaway (PG) The Getaway (PG) The Getaway thing,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
FOOD Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (G) Diners, Drive
FOXNEWS Fox Report Watters’ World Justice With Judge Jeanine The Greg Gutfeld Show Watters’ World (N) Justice With
Judge Jeanine
FREEFRM Tangled (2010). Voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi. (PG) (6:50) . Frozen (2013). Animated. Princess traps country in eternal winter. Shakes up Disney formula. . Aladdin (1992). Robin Williams. (G)
FS1 I.M.S.A. Racing Weathertech Sportscar Championship: Circuit of The Americas. From Austin, Texas. Motorcycle Racing Monster Energy Supercross: Las Vegas.
FUSE Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). (R) Idle Hands (1999). Devon Sawa, Seth Green. (R)
FX Captain America: The Winter Sol- The Avengers (2012). Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. Superheroes gather in Manhattan to save world. Fail- Iron Man 3 (2013). Robert Downey Jr. A powerful en-
dier (2014). Chris Evans. (PG-13) (5) ures outnumber marvels. (PG-13) emy tests Tony Stark’s true mettle. (PG-13)
FXM 2 Guns (2013). . The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill. A stockbroker and his vices. Hums with vulgar energy. (R) (7:45) . The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
(R) (5:30) Leonardo DiCaprio. (R) (11:25)
FXX Snow White and the Huntsman (5) . The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen. (PG-13) No Good Deed
FYI Tiny House Nation (PG) Tiny House Nation (PG) Tiny House Nation (N) (PG) Tiny House Nation (PG) Tiny House Nation (PG) (11:01) Tiny House
GOLF P.G.A. Tour Golf Wells Fargo Championship, third round. Dustin Johnson. From Wilmington, N.C. P.G.A. Tour Golf
GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Cash Cab (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Cash Cab (PG) Family Feud
HALL Love at First Glance (2017, TVF). Amy Smart, Adrian Grenier. All of My Heart (2015, TVF). Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott. Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls JEREMY FREEMAN/TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES

HGTV Fixer Upper “The Flipper Upper.” Property Brothers (PG) Lakefront Bargain Hunt Lakefront Bargain Hunt House to Home House Hunters Lakefront David Letterman, left, and Alec Baldwin.
HIST Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars
(PG) (PG) (PG) (PG) Supercharged (N) (PG) (PG) (10:01) (PG) (10:32) (PG) (11:03) (PG) (11:33) (PG) (12:03)
HLN Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files (PG) Forensic Files “See No Evil.” (PG) Forensic Files “See No Evil.” (PG) Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files THE ESSENTIALS 8 p.m. on TCM. Alec Bald-
ID Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil 20/20: In an Instant “The Shoot- Murder Comes to Town “Roses Murder Comes to Town “Dorothy 20/20: In an Instant “The Shoot- Murder Comes win takes over for Robert Osborne, who
“Death Wish.” (14) out.” (14) Are Red, Murder Is Too.” (14) Did Right.” (Season Finale) (N) (14) out.” (14) to Town (14) died in March, as host of this franchise
IFC The Transporter (2002). Jason Sta- The Rock (1996). Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage. Breaking into Alcatraz to thwart threats of mass destruction. Mission: Impossible III (2006). Agent Ethan Hunt faces featuring “must-see” films and explaining
tham, Shu Qi. (PG-13) (6) Slam-bang nonsense. (R) the toughest villain of his career. Cruise, off his game.
why they are required viewing. And David
LIFE Stalker’s Prey (2017). Shark-attack Deadly Sorority (2017, TVF). Greer Grammer, Chloe Babcook. A college Running Away (2017). Holly Deveaux, Paula Trickey. A woman tries to Deadly Sorority
victim’s rescuer turns creepy. (6) student becomes the target of a campus killer. find her runaway daughter. (10:02) (2017, TVF). (12:02) Letterman joins him in the studio for a
LMN The Twin (2017, TVF). Mom must pro- The Client List (2010, TVF). Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cybill Shepherd. Un- Mary Kills People “The River Styx.” Mary Kills People “Bloody Mary.” The Client List four-episode arc as his first guest. The
tect daughter from boyfriend’s twin. (6) happy woman ends up working at massage parlor. (14) Dr. Mary Harris has a secret. (14) (2010, TVF). discussion begins with “The Bad and the
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 Beautiful” (1952), Vincente Minnelli’s
LOGO Roseanne (Part 2 Roseanne “The Mama’s Family Mama’s Family Mama’s Family Mama’s Family Mama’s Family Mama’s Family “Gift Horse.” (PG) Mama’s Family Mama’s Family drama about an unscrupulous movie
of 2) (PG) (6:56) Dark Ages.” (7:28) (PG) (PG) (8:33) (PG) (9:06) (PG) (9:39) (PG) (10:12) (10:45) (PG) (11:17) (PG) (11:50)
producer, played by Kirk Douglas, who
MLB M.L.B. Tonight (5) M.L.B. Regional Coverage. Quick Pitch
climbs all over the actors and studio types
MSG M.L.S. New York Red Bulls vs. Philadelphia Union. Bulls Insider Rangers Playoff Postgame M.L.S. New York Red Bulls vs. Philadelphia Union.
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around him on his way to the top. Tina Fey
NASL Soccer New York Cosmos vs. Jacksonville Armada FC. Cosmos Post. U.E.F.A. Champions League Soccer Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid. U.E.F.A. Horse Racing
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show
and William Friedkin will join Mr. Baldwin
The Last Word Lockup: Indiana — Extended Stay Lockup: Indiana — Extended Stay Lockup: Louisville Lockup: Louisville
MTV
later in the season.
We’re the Millers (2013). (R) (5:30) Pitch Perfect (2012). Female a cappella group enters national contest. In the key of schlock. The Hangover (2009). Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. (R)
NBCS Swimming U.S.A. Swimming: Arena Pro Swim Series. Track and Field I.A.A.F. Diamond League: Doha. From Doha, Qatar. College Rugby Varsity Cup. CHRIS GETHARD: CAREER SUICIDE 10 p.m. on
NGEO Life Below Zero “Midnight Sun.” Wicked Tuna (14) Wicked Tuna (14) Genius “Einstein: Chapter Two.” Wicked Tuna (14) Genius (14) HBO. Mr. Gethard, who claims to have been
NICK Henry Danger Henry Danger Game Shakers Nicky, Ricky Henry Danger Thundermans Full House (G) Full House (G) Friends (14) Friends (14) Friends (14) a depressive since his preteens, brings the
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NY1 Build It Broke On Stage News News (8:45) News News News News Sports on 1 The Last Word. (11:35) thoughts — of his Off Broadway solo show
OVA Fools Rush In (5) . You’ve Got Mail (1998). E-mail pals in love on Upper West Side. Cozy romantic comedy. (PG) The Tudors “Bottom of the Pot.” The Tudors (MA) Dante’s Peak to television, with Judd Apatow among the
OWN Iyanla, Fix My Life (Part 2 of 2) (14) Iyanla, Fix My Life (14) Iyanla, Fix My Life (N) (Part 1 of 3) The Book of John Gray (N) (PG) Iyanla, Fix My Life (14) Fix My Life producers. Mr. Gethard swears he is “‘sig-
OXY Snapped “Sheila Davalloo.” (PG) Snapped “Shanterrica Madden.” Snapped “Christine Paolilla.” (PG) Snapped “Rebecca Sears.” (PG) Snapped “Dawn Silvernail.” (PG) Snapped (PG) nificantly funnier’ on medication,” Charles
SCIENCE What on Earth? “Ghost of Zorro.” What on Earth? “Expedition Truth.” (N) (PG) What on Earth? (PG) (10:04) What on Earth? “Expedition Truth.” (PG) (11:06) Isherwood wrote in The Times. “Having
SMITH Sacred Sites “Oracles.” (PG) Sacred Sites “Egypt.” (PG) Secrets “The Sphinx.” (PG) Secrets “Great Pyramid.” (PG) Sacred Sites “Egypt.” (PG) Secrets (PG) seen Mr. Gethard in only this show, I can’t
SNY Oh Yeah. Broadway Boxing (G) Oh Yeah. Mets Postgame SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite vouch for that specifically, but he definitely
SPIKE Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (14) The Mummy (1999). Gaudy horror parody. Makes Indiana Jones look Shakespearean. (PG-13) qualifies as significantly funny.”
STZENF Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006). John Leguizamo. (PG) . Inside Out (2015). Voice of Amy Poehler. (PG) (8:32) Troop Beverly Hills (1989). Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson. (PG) (10:08) Titan A.E. (11:55) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
SUN . Young Guns (1988). Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland. Playful, good- The Son “The Buffalo Hunter.” . Young Guns (1988). Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland. Playful, good-humored update of Chris Pine, soon to appear in “Wonder
humored update of Billy the Kid legend. (R) (6:30) Young Eli makes a choice. (N) (14) Billy the Kid legend. (R) Woman,” makes his hosting debut in this
SYFY Red (2010). Bruce Willis. The CIA targets a team of Red 2 (2013). Bruce Willis, John Malkovich. Retired operatives return to retrieve a lethal Friday the 13th (2009). Jared Padalecki. A hockey-
former agents for assassination. (PG-13) (6) device. (PG-13) masked killer slaughters young revelers. (R) second of four episodes to be broadcast live
TBS 2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal With Angie Tribeca Tower Heist coast-to-coast; LCD Soundsystem is the
(14) (14) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Theory (PG) Samantha Bee (14) (2011). (PG-13) musical guest.
TCM . Spartacus (1960). Rebel gladiator. . The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner. Holly- . Champion (1949). Kirk Douglas, Ruth Roman. Boxer’s rise and rot. . Lust for Life KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Overcooked but striking. (PG-13) (4:30) wood producer and user. Wise, luxurious entertainment, via Minnelli. Expert and thoughtful. (10:15) (1956). (12:15)
TLC Say Yes to the Dress (PG) Say Yes to the Dress (N) (PG) Nate & Jeremiah by Design (N) Nate & Jeremiah by Design (PG) Say Yes to the Dress (PG) (11:03) Nate & Jeremiah
TNT Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford. Luke trains with Yoda. Nice and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983). Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford. Luke and allies confront ONLINE: TELEVISION LISTINGS
inoffensive. (PG) Darth Vader. The low point, to that point. (PG) (9:47)
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TVLAND Old Christine Old Christine Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens
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endure therapy sessions at a tropical resort. (PG-13) (6) begins a daring love affair. (R) challenged woman faces outrageous tests. (R) the program listings: (Y) All children
VH1 Space Jam (1996). (PG) (6) Love & Basketball (2000). Childhood friends want pro sports careers. Obvious, but Lathan scores. (PG-13) . White Men Can’t Jump (1992). Wesley Snipes. (R) ★ Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
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The weather will undergo A broad area of low pressure across the In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
a dramatic change Northeast and Middle Atlantic will bring
across California this scattered showers and cool, breezy con- Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
weekend. A cold front will ditions to much of New England and Yesterday ............... 3.00
drop temperatures as 90° Record Record .................... 1.33
Pennsylvania. Temperatures will be below high 90°
much as 20 to 25 average across parts of the Great Lakes, (1980) For the last 30 days
degrees across the Actual ..................... 5.63
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southern half of the state. An area of high pressure across the For the last 365 days
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thunderstorms will be warm conditions. It will become breezy Normal .................. 49.94
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hail. Snow levels may and Florida.
drop to the 5,000- to Los Angeles Isolated afternoon showers or storms Normal Cooling Degree Days
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Little Rock 71/ 50 0 78/ 53 S 79/ 55 S New Delhi 105/ 77 0 109/ 84 PC 112/ 86 S
Cities Los Angeles 72/ 59 0 67/ 53 Sh 65/ 51 T Riyadh 101/ 76 0 102/ 74 PC 102/ 76 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 53/ 44 0.28 59/ 41 Sh 64/ 39 S Seoul 79/ 59 0 69/ 51 W 74/ 52 S Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 67/ 48 0.02 78/ 52 S 76/ 54 S Shanghai 75/ 64 0 77/ 60 PC 80/ 61 S from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 85/ 67 0.05 83/ 65 S 85/ 67 S Singapore 90/ 78 0.19 88/ 79 PC 86/ 78 PC this month ............. +0.8° this year ................ +3.0°
Milwaukee 56/ 42 0 54/ 38 PC 54/ 35 S Sydney 74/ 55 0 77/ 59 PC 67/ 54 S 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 77/ 47 0 64/ 42 S 65/ 44 S Taipei 86/ 75 0 80/ 72 T 79/ 73 PC 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 54/ 44 0.10 69/ 43 PC 69/ 45 S Tehran 78/ 57 0.67 78/ 60 PC 78/ 62 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 73/ 55 0 77/ 58 S 80/ 60 S Tokyo 75/ 61 0 78/ 61 W 72/ 61 PC
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 78/ 58 1.14 71/ 55 Sh 70/ 53 PC Yesterday ............. 100% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 73/ 49 0 81/ 55 S 83/ 58 S Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
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Omaha 75/ 51 0 78/ 48 S 76/ 53 S Amsterdam 52/ 46 0.04 63/ 48 C 60/ 43 C
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 86/ 62 0 83/ 62 S 81/ 63 S
Orlando 78/ 56 0.64 78/ 55 S 85/ 61 S
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 69/ 58 0.54 67/ 49 PC 61/ 44 PC Berlin 57/ 47 0.02 64/ 46 C 62/ 44 C
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 49/ 45 0.12 57/ 46 Sh 57/ 43 PC Copenhagen 54/ 45 0.32 58/ 44 PC 55/ 39 C
New York City 57/ 51 3.00 66/ 50 C 60/ 44 PC Portland, Ore. 55/ 43 0.66 61/ 41 PC 65/ 42 S Dublin 55/ 44 0 55/ 43 C 61/ 44 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 57/ 50 0.72 66/ 50 C 62/ 44 PC Providence 59/ 54 0.39 64/ 50 Sh 62/ 43 C Edinburgh 57/ 42 0 57/ 43 S 56/ 40 C
Caldwell 59/ 49 0.86 67/ 46 C 61/ 40 PC Raleigh 77/ 52 1.11 68/ 49 PC 68/ 46 PC Frankfurt 59/ 46 0.07 69/ 52 C 65/ 46 T Full Last Quarter New First Quarter
Danbury 53/ 43 0.56 64/ 42 C 58/ 36 PC Reno 78/ 50 0 61/ 41 PC 60/ 43 C Geneva 64/ 37 0 57/ 48 R 55/ 47 R Today’s forecast
Islip 60/ 48 0.59 64/ 49 C 62/ 43 PC Richmond 75/ 54 0.85 67/ 47 PC 65/ 44 Sh Helsinki 64/ 34 0 56/ 31 PC 47/ 29 PC
Newark 61/ 51 0.30 67/ 49 C 61/ 42 PC Rochester 56/ 49 1.16 54/ 38 R 43/ 34 Sh Istanbul 72/ 56 0 67/ 57 Sh 72/ 60 PC White
Trenton 65/ 50 0.98 65/ 45 PC 61/ 39 PC Sacramento 79/ 50 0 72/ 54 PC 78/ 55 C Kiev 68/ 46 0 73/ 49 S 76/ 54 T May 10 May 18 May 25 June 1 57/44 Cloudy, a shower, warmer
White Plains 57/ 47 0.53 65/ 46 C 61/ 40 PC Salt Lake City 86/ 64 0 83/ 59 C 78/ 55 PC Lisbon 66/ 55 0.40 69/ 56 S 78/ 58 S 5:42 p.m. 3:45 p.m.
San Antonio 83/ 56 0 86/ 59 S 87/ 64 S London 61/ 47 0 62/ 45 C 64/ 43 PC Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow 51/34 Milder with a few showers
San Diego 70/ 61 0 65/ 55 Sh 63/ 56 T Madrid 73/ 56 0.01 70/ 48 S 80/ 52 S Sun RISE 5:48 a.m. Moon S 3:56 a.m.
Albany 55/ 54 0.56 70/ 47 Sh 58/ 38 Sh Moscow 59/ 32 0 60/ 32 Sh 49/ 34 PC
San Francisco 65/ 50 0 64/ 50 PC 69/ 51 PC SET 7:58 p.m. R 3:58 p.m. Adirondacks
Albuquerque 85/ 57 0 84/ 55 PC 79/ 53 PC Nice 66/ 51 0 66/ 53 R 69/ 56 PC
San Jose 69/ 49 0 66/ 51 PC 73/ 52 PC NEXT R 5:47 a.m. S 4:25 a.m.
Anchorage 52/ 36 0 55/ 43 PC 52/ 40 C Oslo 68/ 39 0 70/ 47 PC 54/ 34 R 64/40 Milder, showers
San Juan 89/ 77 0.05 88/ 76 PC 86/ 77 PC
Atlanta 55/ 47 0.02 70/ 50 S 70/ 48 S Paris 64/ 45 0 58/ 51 R 63/ 45 C Jupiter S 4:44 a.m. Mars R 7:04 a.m.
Seattle 57/ 43 0.75 58/ 43 PC 61/ 44 S Berkshires
Atlantic City 64/ 58 0.67 65/ 52 PC 62/ 44 PC Prague 54/ 46 0.13 65/ 47 T 62/ 47 T R 5:09 p.m. S 10:00 p.m.
Sioux Falls 77/ 47 0 73/ 46 S 72/ 50 S 62/43 A couple of showers
Austin 84/ 53 0 87/ 57 S 88/ 62 S Rome 70/ 53 0 73/ 53 PC 70/ 52 PC
Spokane 69/ 43 0.15 57/ 43 C 59/ 39 PC Saturn S 8:28 a.m. Venus R 4:03 a.m.
Baltimore 70/ 54 0.85 63/ 47 Sh 62/ 42 PC St. Petersburg 53/ 36 0 48/ 32 C 43/ 30 R
St. Louis 68/ 53 0.19 70/ 47 S 71/ 48 S R 11:05 p.m. S 4:23 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 75/ 51 0 78/ 55 S 83/ 57 S Stockholm 70/ 31 0 59/ 31 C 51/ 32 PC
St. Thomas 82/ 76 0.02 85/ 77 PC 85/ 75 PC 57/39 A few showers
Birmingham 55/ 45 0.11 75/ 51 S 74/ 51 S Vienna 61/ 45 0.19 68/ 50 PC 65/ 50 T
Syracuse 57/ 54 1.03 63/ 39 Sh 46/ 33 Sh Boating
Boise 81/ 48 0 59/ 43 C 64/ 41 PC Warsaw 72/ 52 0.23 70/ 50 T 61/ 44 R
Tampa 76/ 66 1.21 79/ 65 S 84/ 69 S Poconos
Boston 51/ 51 0.49 63/ 51 Sh 60/ 44 C 40s
Toledo 48/ 39 0.78 56/ 36 C 56/ 29 S North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 54/39 A couple of showers
Buffalo 57/ 43 0.78 47/ 36 R 42/ 34 Sh
Tucson 100/ 68 0 92/ 60 S 77/ 49 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
Burlington 53/ 50 0.31 71/ 50 Sh 60/ 42 Sh Tulsa 72/ 51 0 81/ 54 S 83/ 58 S Acapulco 89/ 76 0.12 88/ 77 PC 86/ 76 PC
Casper 78/ 44 0 84/ 49 S 78/ 46 PC York Harbor. Southwest Pa.
Virginia Beach 73/ 58 0.22 70/ 54 Sh 67/ 51 PC Bermuda 76/ 69 0.02 77/ 72 W 76/ 71 R
Charlotte 66/ 48 0.15 66/ 46 T 67/ 46 PC Edmonton 75/ 45 0 66/ 42 PC 56/ 33 C Small craft advisory is in effect. Wind will be from the 46/36 Colder with rain 50s
Washington 75/ 57 1.81 64/ 50 PC 63/ 44 PC
Chattanooga 55/ 45 0.08 70/ 44 PC 69/ 45 S Wichita 74/ 49 0 82/ 55 S 84/ 60 S Guadalajara 86/ 58 0 90/ 57 PC 89/ 54 S south at 12-25 knots. Waves will be 4-8 feet on the
Chicago 60/ 42 0 57/ 37 PC 57/ 34 S Wilmington, Del. 70/ 55 0.52 64/ 46 Sh 61/ 40 PC Havana 84/ 72 0.17 82/ 64 S 84/ 69 S ocean and 1-3 feet on Long Island Sound and on New
Cincinnati 49/ 41 0.42 56/ 37 PC 58/ 35 S Kingston 88/ 77 0.01 87/ 77 T 87/ 77 T
West Virginia
York Harbor. Visibility reduced in showers. 60s
Cleveland 55/ 44 0.42 50/ 43 Sh 53/ 38 S Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 88/ 77 0.18 88/ 74 Sh 87/ 75 Sh 48/37 Cloudy with a few showers
Colorado Springs 73/ 49 0 80/ 52 PC 75/ 48 PC Algiers 88/ 61 0 77/ 52 S 77/ 50 S Mexico City 74/ 55 0 79/ 58 PC 79/ 56 PC High Tides
Columbus 56/ 43 0.33 59/ 39 PC 59/ 34 PC Cairo 86/ 64 0 88/ 65 S 91/ 68 S Monterrey 85/ 56 0 90/ 64 S 91/ 63 PC Color bands
Concord, N.H. 52/ 46 0.25 67/ 47 Sh 65/ 39 C Cape Town 70/ 52 0.02 67/ 54 PC 66/ 47 C Montreal 50/ 43 0.29 70/ 43 T 53/ 35 Sh Atlantic City ................... 5:06 a.m. .............. 5:41 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 78/ 55 0 84/ 61 S 87/ 62 S Dakar 75/ 68 0 79/ 71 S 79/ 71 S Nassau 91/ 75 0 86/ 71 PC 87/ 73 S Barnegat Inlet ................ 5:10 a.m. .............. 5:44 p.m. 57/42 Cloudy with a few showers temperature.
Denver 78/ 49 0 83/ 52 S 81/ 47 PC Johannesburg 71/ 47 0 74/ 47 C 75/ 50 PC Panama City 88/ 75 0.05 86/ 75 T 88/ 75 T The Battery .................... 5:51 a.m. .............. 6:25 p.m.
Des Moines 75/ 52 0 72/ 44 S 70/ 49 S Nairobi 74/ 60 0.47 75/ 59 PC 76/ 61 PC Quebec City 50/ 41 0.10 57/ 50 C 60/ 43 Sh Beach Haven ................. 6:31 a.m. .............. 7:08 p.m.
Detroit 48/ 42 1.38 56/ 38 Sh 55/ 32 S Tunis 93/ 67 0 86/ 60 S 79/ 58 PC Santo Domingo 88/ 72 0 86/ 73 T 86/ 72 T Bridgeport ..................... 8:55 a.m. .............. 9:20 p.m.
El Paso 90/ 63 0 91/ 62 PC 88/ 58 PC Toronto 49/ 42 0.82 47/ 35 R 44/ 31 Sh City Island ...................... 9:35 a.m. .............. 9:57 p.m.
A large storm system will sit over the
Fargo 80/ 42 0 74/ 44 S 73/ 47 S Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 58/ 51 0.30 56/ 41 S 58/ 44 S
Hartford 56/ 53 0.71 68/ 47 Sh 63/ 39 PC Baghdad 95/ 72 0.02 94/ 66 PC 100/ 69 PC Fire Island Lt. ................. 5:59 a.m. .............. 6:36 p.m. Northeast. This will result in a mostly
Winnipeg 70/ 46 0 68/ 43 S 69/ 43 PC
Honolulu 86/ 71 0 85/ 73 S 86/ 72 PC Bangkok 91/ 82 0.25 92/ 80 T 92/ 80 PC Montauk Point ................ 6:41 a.m. .............. 7:00 p.m. cloudy sky across the mountains along
Houston 79/ 54 0 84/ 58 S 85/ 63 S Beijing 71/ 55 0 84/ 50 S 89/ 54 S South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 9:18 a.m. .............. 9:43 p.m.
Indianapolis 54/ 40 0.78 56/ 36 Sh 58/ 35 S Damascus 82/ 49 0 85/ 51 S 83/ 48 S Buenos Aires 79/ 59 0 77/ 62 S 77/ 61 C Port Washington ............ 9:41 a.m. ............ 10:05 p.m. with some showers. Highs will range from
Jackson 69/ 47 0 75/ 53 S 82/ 54 S Hong Kong 85/ 76 0.13 85/ 76 PC 83/ 76 PC Caracas 88/ 78 0.14 88/ 80 PC 88/ 79 PC Sandy Hook ................... 5:13 a.m. .............. 5:50 p.m. mid-40s to mid-60s. Showers in the
Jacksonville 76/ 51 0 77/ 52 S 85/ 55 S Jakarta 89/ 77 0.25 89/ 77 T 90/ 75 T Lima 78/ 66 0 76/ 67 PC 76/ 66 PC Shinnecock Inlet ............ 5:00 a.m. .............. 5:31 p.m.
Kansas City 72/ 51 0 77/ 49 S 76/ 56 S Jerusalem 73/ 53 0 73/ 54 S 75/ 54 S Quito 64/ 51 0.46 68/ 53 Sh 67/ 53 Sh Stamford ........................ 8:58 a.m. .............. 9:23 p.m.
evening, with a wet snow mix from the
Key West 82/ 72 0.14 80/ 71 S 80/ 74 S Karachi 92/ 81 0 95/ 81 S 97/ 82 S Recife 86/ 76 0.05 86/ 76 Sh 86/ 76 Sh Tarrytown ....................... 7:40 a.m. .............. 8:14 p.m. Allegheny to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Las Vegas 98/ 75 0 87/ 57 PC 67/ 53 PC Manila 95/ 80 0 94/ 79 PC 95/ 79 PC Rio de Janeiro 79/ 69 0.04 79/ 69 T 78/ 69 PC Willets Point ................... 9:31 a.m. .............. 9:53 p.m.
Lexington 58/ 42 0.16 55/ 37 Sh 60/ 36 S Mumbai 93/ 82 0 93/ 84 S 93/ 83 S Santiago 70/ 41 0 68/ 44 PC 64/ 44 Sh
6 PRO BASKETBALL 4 BASEBALL

Washington shows it can Brett Gardner’s

match Boston’s physical style.
3 HOCKEY
ninth-inning homer
The Penguins make every carries the Yankees
locker room feel like home. over the Cubs.

SCORES ANALYSIS COMMENTARY SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 D1

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

First, It’s Baby Steps

Many had been anticipating American Pharoah’s initial crop of foals since
he captured the Triple Crown in 2015. Well, they have finally arrived.
By MELISSA HOPPERT
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A feeling of hope rip-
pled across bluegrass country, and every-
where else in the world of racing, when at
12:30 a.m. on Jan. 3 a mare named Kakadu
gave birth to the very first foal by the Triple
Crown winner American Pharoah.
Kakadu delivered the foal three weeks
early at Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Ky.,
beating Untouched Talent, who was also in
foal to American Pharoah, by 12 days. Thus
began one of the most anticipated foaling
seasons in decades as the initial offspring of
American Pharoah, whose 2015 sweep was
the sport’s first in 37 years, quickly multi-
plied in number.
How quick? Consider these statistics:
Untouched Talent and her baby filly reside
at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles,
along with 18 other foals by American
Pharoah. And Papa is there, too, enjoying life
as both a stallion and a tourist attraction.
About 30 miles away, at a farm in Paris, Ky.,
Oussama Aboughazale, a Chilean-based na-
tive of Jerusalem, whose family made a for-
tune exporting fruit, is also stockpiling
American Pharoah foals. He now has five of
the approximately 100 that have been born so
far, including a colt out of the Chilean super-
mare Amani and the premature colt out of
Kakadu, whose name was officially regis-
tered last week as First Pharoah.
Aboughazale, who also owns a stud farm in
Chile and is a perennial leading owner there,
watched all of American Pharoah’s races in
2015 and attended his triumphant final race
in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He fell hard for
the horse, just the way he became smitten
with Kentucky when he first visited 20 years
ago, and he knew he wanted his own farm
where he could indulge those passions.
“I fell in love with him, really, his body, his
character, the way he moves, the way he
runs. He’s a great horse,” Aboughazale said.
“I love Kentucky, too. Everything here is
about horses. I feel at home here. The people
I know in Kentucky are exactly like me. We
speak the same language.”
It was not a coincidence that Aboughazale
Continued on Page D2

The mare Full Ransom with her American Pharoah foal at Sumaya Farm, top, which belongs to Oussama
Aboughazale, right. Mr. Aboughazale owns five of American Pharoah’s offspring.

A Sport With a Culture in Its Corner At $495, a Signature Shoe

By WALLACE MATTHEWS
Thirty-four years ago, the boxing pro-
moter Bob Arum was having lunch at the
Friars Club with Carlos Barba, the man-
ager of a Newark-based Spanish-lan-
guage television station that would
eventually become the broadcasting gi-
ant Univision.
Arum was bemoaning the slow ticket
sales for his upcoming fight at Madison
Square Garden between Davey Moore, a
young middleweight champion from the
Bronx, and Roberto Durán, the wildly
popular ex-lightweight and welter-
weight champion from Panama.
“Bob, for a smart guy, you’re a dope,”
Barba told him. “You got a huge Hispanic
market in this town. You should be mar-
keting this fight solely in the Hispanic
media, and you should be selling Durán.”
“So in desperation, that’s what I did,”
Arum said. “And we sold the place out.”
The result, Arum said, was “one of the
most exciting nights of my career.”
“You couldn’t hear yourself talk in the
Garden that night,” Arum added. “It was
insane.”
In a major upset, Durán, who was con-
sidered washed up after having quit in
Saúl Álvarez, second from left, and Julio César Chávez Jr., both from Mex-
ico, will fight on Saturday. Boxing remains popular with Hispanic fans.
the infamous “no más” fight against Sug-
ar Ray Leonard and having lost of two of
his previous four bouts, won the fight
with a knockout.
Watching the arena erupt in pandemo-
nium, Arum realized that he had nearly
JOHN LOCHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
missed a very lucrative boat.
“That fight really opened my eyes,”
Arum said. “I realized this was the mar-
ket. I realized this was my market.”
Ever since that night — June 16, 1983 —
Continued on Page D3
Is Met With Headshakes
By MARC TRACY
At the Flight Club sneaker store
just south of Union Square on
Thursday night, eager customers
perused the gleaming shelves, hunt-
ing for classic kicks. The big names
— the players whose signature
shoes are most highly sought — are
the ones you would expect: Kevin
Durant, LeBron James and, even af-
ter all these years, Michael Jordan.
At the time, the larger world was
trying to wrap its head around the
ZO2, Lonzo Ball’s first signature
shoe, which he had hours earlier an-
nounced in a video released to Slam
magazine.
Ball, the former U.C.L.A. point
guard who is expected to be a top-
three pick in June’s N.B.A. draft, had
declined contracts with the big
sneaker companies: Nike, Under
Armour and Adidas. Instead, he
placed his chips on Big Baller
Brand, the company founded by his
father, LaVar Ball, for the frank pur-
pose of maintaining control over the
merchandise revenue generated by
his three sons, Lonzo, 19; LiAngelo,
18, a U.C.L.A. commit; and LaMelo,
15, who scored 92 points in a high
school game last season.
LaVar Ball’s opening bid to shoe
companies some weeks ago was a
marketing deal with all three sons
worth $1 billion. The companies re-
portedly declined. Last month, a
Nike executive called LaVar Ball
“the worst thing to happen to bas-
ketball in the last 100 years.” Trans-
lation: Nike doesn’t like when some-
one rejects the business model that
has enabled the company to domi-
nate the multibillion-dollar sneaker
and apparel industry.
Then, on Thursday, came Big
Baller Brand’s ZO2, the least expen-
sive version of which costs $495.
Yes, four hundred ninety-five dol-
lars. For comparison’s sake, the
most recent signature shoe of
James, basketball’s biggest star and
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D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
First, It’s Baby Steps for Pharoah’s Progeny
From First Sports Page
hired Frances Relihan, a former farm man-
ager who raised American Pharoah, as his
bloodstock consultant to help expand his
operation at Sumaya Farm, his 230-acre fa-
cility in Paris. He and Relihan made a
splash at the Keeneland sale in January,
spending $1,080,000 for four horses, includ-
ing $575,000 for Joyfully, who was, na-
turally, in foal to American Pharoah.
But Aboughazale and Relihan know bet-
ter than anyone that even though American
Pharoah is being paired with top mares,
there are no guarantees in horse racing. Of
the approximately 22,500 foals born in
North America in 2016, only a small number
will reach the pinnacle of their sport. No
more than 20 will reach the starting gate in
the Kentucky Derby, which will be run on
Saturday, and just 14 made the premier race
for fillies, the Oaks, which took place Friday.
It is a painstaking process of care and
conditioning to get fillies and colts to that
level, and it begins at birth.
Foal
Relihan already sees many of American
Pharoah’s characteristics being passed on
to his foals. They generally have mild tem-
peraments, curious minds and strong bod-
ies. Even the premature colt, who was
placed on stall rest for the first few months
of his life to allow his bones to fully develop,
has an athletic build, probably owing to his
healthy appetite.
Foaling season in the United States lasts
from January to June, and breeding season
begins on Feb. 14 and runs to as late as July.
A mare’s gestation period on average is 342
days, and within a few hours of being born, a
foal can stand and walk into a small pad-
dock with its mother.
“It’s really amazing, and kind of a throw-
back to nature,” Relihan said, “because if
you think about a foal being born in the wild,
they have to be up running with the herd
within the first several hours, because oth-
erwise they are at risk for predators.”
After about a week, the mare and foal are
paired with another mare and foal about the
same age in a slightly larger paddock, so the
babies can socialize. After 30 days, the mare
is then likely to be bred back (Kakadu is
now in foal to Empire Maker, American
Pharoah’s grandsire), and the foal gets its
first taste of separation from his mother.
“The mare generally settles down,” Reli-
han said. “But I feel sorry for the little guys
— they call out for two hours waiting for
their mom, but then it’s a great big reunion
when she does come home.”
Around the same time, the mare and foal
are graduated into a larger pasture with
eight to 12 other mares and foals so they are
in a social group. The group remains out-
doors for all but two hours a day, when the
horses return to their stalls for grooming
and checkups.
Then comes the hard part.
Weanling
A foal is weaned from its mother on aver-
age at about 5 months old. At that point,
most foals have become more independent
anyway, straying from their mother’s pro-
tective embrace to play with their peers.
Relihan’s method, used to great success
with American Pharoah, is to remove a few
mares from the herd each night until there
are none left. The foals return to the same
stall they were in with their mothers; the
mares are relocated to a barn across the
farm.
Relihan and the Sumaya Farm manager,
Jody Alexander, said that while that method
H O R S E R AC I N G K E N T U C K Y D E R BY
American Pharoah, significantly reduced stress on the foals, it
was still one of the hardest aspects of their
top, at his stable at
jobs.
Coolmore’s Ashford
“Weaning is the toughest deal, especially
Stud in Versailles, Ky. when you live on the farm and you hear
When he was offered at them hollering at night,” Alexander said.
auction in 2013, no one “In the old days, they used to wean them all
met the minimum ask- at once, and it used to be mass chaos.”
ing price of $300,000. Around the same time, the boys and girls
First Pharoah, above, are separated, heading off the hormones
was the first foal sired that begin to kick in after their first birth-
days and preparing them for the next stage
by American Pharoah
of their development.
to be born.
“It’s all about repetitiveness and familiar-
ity to try to prevent as much stress as possi-
ble,” Relihan said. “And down the road when
it comes to the breaking process and getting
them to the track, I think if you handle them
and give them confidence when they are
very young it plays through all the way
along.”
Yearling
The next step comes when the fillies and
colts turn a year old on Jan. 1. Owners will
usually decide by April whether to point
their charges toward the racetrack or to the
yearling sales in the summer and fall. In
2016, about 30 percent of the foal crop was
sold at auction.
If the decision is to sell, many owners will
enlist the help of a consignor, who preps
yearlings for the sale through a process that
is part beauty school, part charm school and
part boot camp.
Among the best in the business is Taylor
Made, which was founded by Joe Taylor, a
longtime farm manager, and is now run by
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his four sons. They pamper the horses,
painting and picking their feet, trimming
their manes to the length of a dollar bill and
shading them from the sun to prevent
burns. They build a nutrition and exercise
program for them, which includes walking,
swimming and taking supplements. Finally,
the yearlings are taught how to take orders
and how to stand just so for prospective
buyers.
The Taylor brothers helped transform
American Pharoah from a gangly yearling
to a muscled Adonis who paraded around
the Saratoga sales ring in 2013. But no one
bought American Pharoah that day; some
say it was because he had what amounted to
a blemish on his leg, or that his tail was
partly chewed off, or that the minimum ask-
ing price of $300,000 was simply too high for
his unproven sire.
“He was just plain looking,” said Mark
Taylor, the vice president of marketing and
public sales for Taylor Made. “But man, he
was just put together like a racehorse. And
then we go to Saratoga, and the best judges
of horse flesh in the world are milling
around, and somehow he ended up not sell-
ing.”
2-Year-Old
If an owner decides to keep a yearling, it
then goes to school to learn how to be a race-
horse.
Aboughazale leans on Bill Harrigan to
break his fillies and colts. He starts teaching
them how to be ridden at his Miacomet
Farm in Georgetown, Ky., in September of
their yearling year before moving them to
Payson Park in Indiantown, Fla., in Novem-
ber for more fundamentals.
Harrigan painstakingly introduces them
to equipment like a bridle and a saddle. He
bellies them, or perches himself on their
back, to get them used to carrying weight.
Once they can be ridden, they are taught to
gallop and eventually breeze. They are also
schooled in the starting gate to put them at
ease in a tight space.
Harrigan, who worked with the 2017
Derby entrant Sonateer and the Oaks en-
trant Vexatious, welcomes the idea of one
day working with American Pharoah’s
foals.
“There is no absolute rule when you are
dealing with thoroughbreds, but I can tell
you 100 percent that if those horses are as
classy as he is, that is a big leg up because
they will listen to the people that are around
them and they will try — and trying is prob-
ably the main thing,” he said.
In April, the 2-year-olds graduate and
head to the racetrack. Their new trainers
will continue their conditioning and plot out
a racing plan that centers on first winning a
race and then, for exemplary horses, points
them toward the 2-year-old Breeders’ Cup
races.
A big key to the equation when campaign-
ing a young horse is finding the right rider,
American Pharoah’s trainer, Bob Baffert,
said. He chose Victor Espinoza to ride his
prized colt because, yes, he had won big
races but also because he could also handle
a headstrong 2-year-old.
“I knew he would get along with my
horse, and he’s strong,” Baffert said. “He
was able to teach him a lot.”
The biggest goal of all, though, is keeping
the horse healthy.
3-Year-Old
Horses that win the Breeders’ Cup Juve-
nile or the Juvenile Fillies become early
favorites for the Derby and the Oaks the
next May. Before those two races, though,
there is the heart of the prep season, which
sorts out what horseplayers like to refer to
as contenders and pretenders.
There are lots of ups and downs along this
path, as all involved hope — and, quite
literally, pray — that all that preparation
will lead to glory at Churchill Downs on the
first Friday or Saturday in May.
For now, though, that thrill comes when
Aboughazale is outside playing with his
horses, especially with his Pharoahs, as he
likes to call them. The other day, the
Pharoah colt out of Amani, who is known as
a diva, bit him on the arm. Aboughazale
could not have been happier.
“It shows that he has character,” he said.
Amid all these expectations, American
Pharoah will soon head to Australia to
breed throughout the fall at the Coolmore
farm there for about $50,000 per live foal.
(His 2017 fee in the United States has not
been disclosed, but he was commanding
$200,000 in 2016.) Meanwhile, another
Derby star, California Chrome, who stands
at Taylor Made, is heading to Aboughazale’s
stud farm in Chile.
And as both American Pharoah and Cali-
fornia Chrome produce new foals, the
process will begin anew.
“It’s just such a grind just to get to the
Derby and to win it,” said Scott Calder, the
sales and marketing manager at Coolmore.
“And that’s why, obviously, there hasn’t
been a Triple Crown winner in so long. And I
hate to say it, it’s extremely selfish, but I
kind of hope there’s not another Triple
Crown winner for a little while, because ev-
ery time another horse fails it just shows
how special American Pharoah is.”

How Penguins Make
A Home on Road Ice
By BEN ROTHENBERG
WASHINGTON — It’s spring-
time, and the Penguins are nest-
ing.
When the Pittsburgh Penguins
head away from their home at
PPG Paints Arena, the team’s
equipment management staff
takes on the standard tasks of
packing pads and sharpening
skates, but it puts equal effort into
another area: interior decorating.
On Saturday, the Penguins go
back to their home away from
home — the Verizon Center in
Washington — for Game 5 of their
second-round playoff series, one
game from eliminating the Capi-
tals. In and around the team’s road
locker room, any available piece of
wall or floor space will be adorned
with some sort of poster, sign or
flag bearing the Penguins’ logo.
Dana Heinze, the team’s head
equipment manager, declined to
be interviewed for this article but
told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Re-
view in 2014 that he took particu-
lar pride in traveling with Pen-
guins’ logo-bearing Styrofoam
coffee cups. The coffee maker also
has a Penguins logo on its front,
for good measure.
He said arranging an empty
locker room on the road brought
out an “artsy” side of him, and he
preserves many of his flourishes
on his Twitter account.
As an artist, Heinze shows an
understandable predilection for
the Penguins’ colors, black and
gold, and a more-is-more aes-
thetic. While other teams do little
more than put up nameplates by
players’ lockers, Heinze’s touch
suggests a pop-up shop of Pen-
guins merchandise.
“I think that’s Dana’s intention:
to try to make it as much like home
as possible,” Penguins defense-
man Ian Cole said. “He does a
great job outfitting the room, and
A Struggling Sport Still Has an Entire Culture in Its Corner
From First Sports Page
Arum has concentrated the bulk
of his promotional efforts on sell-
ing Hispanic boxers to Hispanic
fight fans. The rebirth of Durán
led to the signing of Oscar De La
Hoya, who led to the annual show-
casing of Miguel Cotto at the Gar-
den the weekend of New York
City’s Puerto Rican Day parade,
and eventually to a series of Mex-
ico-based shows featuring Julio
César Chávez Jr., the son of Mexi-
co’s most revered boxer.
“I wouldn’t say Hispanics are
the last loyal fan base in boxing,”
Arum said. “But it is the most loyal
fan base, because these people
have never defected to other
sports. Hispanic fans form the
very hard core of the boxing busi-
ness.”
On Saturday night — coinciding
with the annual celebration of
Cinco de Mayo weekend — two
graduates of the Arum school of
demographic targeting will cash
in on that passion and loyalty.
Chávez Jr. will challenge Saúl Ál-
varez, known as Canelo, the heir
apparent to Chávez’s father
among Mexican fight fans, in a
middleweight title bout promoted
by De La Hoya under the banner
of Golden Boy Promotions.
The bout has already sold out T-
Mobile Arena in the Las Vegas
area and could sell more pay-per-
view subscriptions than any box-
ing match since the blockbuster
2015 bout between Floyd May-
weather and Manny Pacquiao.
But there is more to the appeal
of the bout than the relative merits
of the two fighters. “The passion
we have for boxing is unbreak-
able,” De La Hoya said.
Or, as Rick Seara, a producer of
Spanish-language TV boxing
broadcasts who is the son of Cu-
ban immigrants, said: “To us, soc-
cer is God. And boxing is Jesus.”
Both De La Hoya and Seara
were referring to Hispanic fight
fans, and, in particular, those of
Mexican and Mexican-American
ancestry. A first-generation Mexi-
can-American who grew up in
East Los Angeles, De La Hoya
could recall being taken as a 6-
year-old boy by his father, Joel, to
the weekly fights at Olympic Audi-
torium. Once there, he would sit in
one section with other boys his
age while the fathers sat in an-
other.
“Where I grew up, it was just
what you did,” he said. “On the
night of a big fight, the whole fam-
ily would get together to watch it,
the way other families get togeth-
er to watch the Super Bowl. Un-
cles, aunts, cousins, everybody
would be there.”
De La Hoya’s father had been a
professional boxer, as had his
grandfather. His experience was
similar to that of Álvarez, who was
born in Guadalajara and followed
his older brothers into the prize
ring as a 10-year-old.
“Watching boxing together is a
tradition for Mexican families,”
Álvarez told The New York Times
through email. “It’s something
Carrying signs (and
posters and rugs)
of Pittsburgh.
certainly making it very apparent
that the Pittsburgh Penguins are
here, for sure.”
The hallway leading to the
locker room is lined with dozens of
black-and-gold placards. By the
door to the locker room, one sign
acts as a title plaque to the art in-
stallation you are within: “It’s a
Hockey Night in Pittsburgh.”
The floor space of the visitors’
locker room in Washington is
small; at roughly 24 feet by 12 feet,
it is about half the size of the Capi-
tals’ confines down the hall. A
Penguins logo (or 10) is always
within one’s field of vision.
The effect, Cole said, is dorm
room-esque: no frames, just signs
taped to the walls of whitewashed
cinder blocks, offset by the occa-
sional flag, all meant to keep
homesickness at bay.
Aside from the copious logos
and motivational quotations,
there are some less intuitive
choices, including multiple pic-
tures of the Roberto Clemente
Bridge, a Pittsburgh landmark.
While most signs are focused on
a logo or the team’s name, others
are heavier on text. “Be Hard to
Play Against,” suggests one;
“Fast & Fearless,” says another. A
sign on the door offers: “Together
Everyone Achieves More.”
“Details of Discipline; Disci-
pline of Details,” another sign
states. “It’s a great day for
hockey,” reads a quotation attrib-
uted to Bob Johnson, the Pen-
guins’ coach who died in 1991 after
the team won its first Stanley Cup.
families can enjoy together. Fam-
ily is very important in the His-
panic community, and I feel that
boxing plays into that.”
The fact that both Álvarez and
Chávez Jr. are natives of Mexico
— Chávez is from Culiacán —
gives the matchup an added ap-
peal.
“Every time a Mexican fighter
faces another countryman, fans
know it’s going to be a great fight,”
De La Hoya said. “They know
they’re going to get their money’s
worth. They know we fight with a
lot of passion.”
De La Hoya knows those pas-
sions — and prejudices —
painfully well: When he fought
Chávez Sr. in 1996, he was vilified
by many fans for not being “Mexi-
can enough,” having grown up in
the United States.
And although he now says he
was “star-struck” when facing
Chávez — whom he stopped on
cuts in four rounds — Seara, who
produced the international broad-
cast of the fight, said the percep-
tion of De La Hoya as a “pretty
boy” prompted him to go toe to toe
with Chávez in a rematch two
years later, if only to prove that he
was “just as Mexican” as Chávez.
That sense of pride in heritage
has been woven throughout the
fabric of professional boxing, from
the Star of David sewn onto the
trunks of the heavyweight cham-
pion Max Baer in the 1930s to em-
phasize his half-Jewish father to
the many fighters who affixed
“Irish” or “Italian” to their ring
names to attract a larger fan base.
But nowhere is the sense of her-
itage in boxing stronger than
among fighters of Hispanic origin.
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HOCKEY
Others have still more to say.
One hung outside and inside the
locker room suggests this nondic-
tionary definition of accountabil-
ity: “A personal choice to demon-
strate the ownership necessary
for achieving exceptional results.”
Another implores players, “Own
it: Own your team; own your
game; own your habits; own your
attitude.”
In the sliver of wall between the
When De La Hoya fought Félix
Trinidad of Puerto Rico in 1999 in
Las Vegas, three flags — those of
the United States, Mexico and
Puerto Rico — were displayed in
the arena.
“It’s all about national pride,”
Seara said. “It’s not person
against person, it’s nationality
against nationality. Guys know
they’re carrying a whole country
on their shoulders.”
While the appeal of boxing has
steadily waned during the past 20
years — coinciding roughly with
the decline of Mike Tyson and the
heavyweight division, along with
the rise of mixed martial arts —
tops of the lockers and the ceiling,
Heinze found space for 14 smaller
signs.
The floor is not ignored. It has
23 small logo-bearing mats, one at
the foot of each player’s locker.
The middle of the narrow room is
dominated by a large rug with a
Penguins logo, as it would be in
their home locker room.
Much of the décor is clearly
new: The team’s 50th anniversary
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the support of the Hispanic com-
munity has not wavered.
The three largest-selling pay-
per-view boxing events — May-
weather-Pacquiao, Mayweather-
De La Hoya and Mayweather-Ál-
varez — have all featured fighters
with Hispanic ties in the main
event. (Pacquiao, a Filipino,
speaks fluent Spanish and is a fa-
vorite among Hispanic fight fans.)
Of the 25 largest pay-per-view
events, 14 have featured Hispanic
fighters, and if you subtract the 10
heavyweight matches on the list,
every one of them has had at least
one Hispanic fighter in the fea-
tured bout.
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ equipment staff loads up the locker
room at the Verizon Center in Washington, above, with
reminders of home, down to team logos on the coffee cups, left.
logo is used on the main rug and
elsewhere, as is a league emblem
for the 2017 playoffs. There is also
a series-specific sign, with the
word “HUNT” accompanied by
the Capitals’ alternate eagle logo
lined up in a sniper’s cross hairs.
“I think it helps us build our
team spirit, our camaraderie,”
Penguins Coach Mike Sullivan
said. “It gives our players and our
coaching staff a certain comfort
level. We really appreciate the at-
tention to detail and the effort that
our equipment guys put in to try to
make it feel like home.”
Heinze does decorating on the
road during the regular season,
too, but he has intensified his ef-
forts after the Penguins’ road
record of 19-15-7 paled in compari-
son with their stellar home record
of 31-6-4. Pittsburgh has won three
of four road games during the
playoffs, against Washington and
the Columbus Blue Jackets, two of
the best home teams in the league
this season.
“It certainly makes you feel
more like home, and our record at
home is good,” Cole said of the
decorations. “So even if it’s a little
bit, every little bit counts, espe-
cially in the playoffs, when the
margin for error is so small. We’ll
take all the help we can get.”
Cole and many other players
SUSAN STERNER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
And while English-speaking
networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS,
ESPN, USA and Versus have
jumped in and out of the boxing
business during the past two
decades, both Telemundo and
Univision continue to feature box-
ing as part of their regular pro-
gramming. “Boxeo Telemundo” is
the longest continually running
fight series on broadcast televi-
sion, having presented a Friday
night fight show every month for
the past 25 years.
“Our ratings have actually gone
up in the past three years, which is
unheard-of for boxing,” said Tuto
Zabala Jr., the producer of “Boxeo
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANA HEINZE
said nothing in their playing ca-
reers could compare with playing
a road game for the Penguins.
“I’ve never been fortunate
enough to have a home room ev-
erywhere I go,” said Cole, a
seventh-year player in his third
season with the Penguins.
Jake Guentzel, a rookie, is expe-
riencing the postseason décor for
the first time.
“You don’t really expect it,” he
said. “Behind the scenes, they do a
lot, and it means a lot to us.”
Last Saturday, after the final
horn sounded on Game 2, which
the Penguins won, 6-2, Heinze
quickly got to work disassembling
his installation. Signs were pulled
off the walls; tape was peeled off
quickly and noisily, echoing the
sounds of tape coming off the
players’ shin pads. Some of the
signs were slid into their own des-
ignated hard-sided, compart-
mented carrying cases.
“It’s showing that they work
just as hard as we do to try to
make this happen,” said forward
Bryan Rust, who tries to read ev-
ery sign at least the first time he
sees it.
As he packed up his handiwork,
Heinze wore a shirt bearing one of
his staff’s slogans: “First ones
here, last to leave.”
AL BELLO/GETTY IMAGES
Oscar De La Hoya fans, left,
trying to get on “The Tonight
Show With Jay Leno” in 1996.
De La Hoya holding American
and Mexican flags, above, af-
ter a fight against Denmark’s
Jimmi Bredahl in 1994 in Los
Angeles. Artwork featuring
Saúl Álvarez and Julio César
Chávez Jr., below left.
Telemundo.” “Our fans know their
boxing. With a Hispanic fight
crowd, you can’t fool anybody.
They don’t care where you come
from. If you’re stinking the place
out, they’ll boo you out of the
ring.”
Those fans expect to see the
“Mexican” style of boxing, which,
according to Álvarez, is “an ag-
gressive type of boxing that
comes forward and isn’t scared of
getting hit.”
Or, as De La Hoya described it,
“Sometimes you have to take two
punches to land your one, and if
you get dropped once, you better
be sure to drop the other guy
twice.”
De La Hoya believes the Ál-
varez-Chávez fight could attract
one million pay-per-view pur-
chases, less than a quarter of
those for the Mayweather-Pac-
quiao (4.6 million), but still five
times as many as for the March 18
Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs
fight. Álvarez, who speaks little
English, has an endorsement deal
with Tecate, a Mexican beer, and
one with Hennessy, a cognac not
normally associated with boxing.
It is evidence of the potential
crossover appeal of Álvarez, as
well as recognition of the loyalty of
a fan base to an athlete who repre-
sents more than just a sport.
Recalling that night so many
years ago when Durán lit up Madi-
son Square Garden, Arum’s mem-
ory of the fight was overshadowed
by his memory of the passion of
the crowd.
“The people went absolutely
crazy,” he said. “They willed
Durán back into relevance.”
The question is, can the His-
panic passion for boxing do the
same for an entire sport?
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On Windy Day at Wrigley, Yankees Beat Cubs on Gardner’s Homer
By BILLY WITZ
CHICAGO — Starlin Castro had
played enough games at Wrigley
Field that he did not need to be at
the stadium on Friday to know
which way the wind would be
blowing.
YANKEES 3 Shortly after
CUBS 2 Castro boarded
the Yankees’
bus on Friday morning and then
spotted the choppy waves on Lake
Michigan as the bus headed to
Wrigley, he leaned over to his
teammate Brett Gardner.
“I say definitely the wind is
blowing in today — for sure,” Cas-
tro said.
Castro also knew that the wind
blowing in would transform Wrig-
ley Field, the brick-and-ivy band-
box, into a pitchers’ paradise and
turn just about any fly ball into a
carnival ride for fielders.
And yet in an afternoon game in
which the Yankees were repeat-
edly beaten and bamboozled by
the elements, Gardner conquered
everything — the wind and the
Chicago Cubs — with one swing of
the bat.
Down to his team’s final strike,
Gardner drove a full-count slider
from Hector Rondon over the wall
down the right-field line for a
three-run homer as the Yankees
stunned the Cubs, 3-2.
As Gardner crossed home plate,
he exchanged a midair embrace
with Jacoby Ellsbury and then
threw out vigorous high fives
when he reached the dugout. “He
was drooling coming around the
bases,” said Chase Headley, who
was on base ahead of Ellsbury.
“He was pretty fired up.”
It was another display of exu-
berance from Gardner, who on
Wednesday took out his frustra-
tion over the umpire’s strike zone
by bashing a recycling bin in the
dugout.
“My buddy texted me and said
the recycling bin must have got-
ten me locked in,” Gardner said.
Yankees closer Aroldis Chap-
man was not as animated as Gard-
ner, but he was just as gratified on
a day that began with him receiv-
ing his World Series ring from the
Cubs in a pregame ceremony. The
day ended with him retiring the
side in the ninth after Addison
Russell had reached second base
with no one out on an error by
Headley.
Chapman’s work was a remind-
er of why the Cubs spent so heav-
ily — sending the top prospect
Gleyber Torres and three other
players to the Yankees — to ac-
quire him last July, a deal that
helped end a 108-year champi-
onship drought.
But with the Cubs’ new closer,
Wade Davis, having pitched the
past three days, Cubs Manager
Joe Maddon turned to Rondon,
who had been the team’s closer
last season until Chapman ar-
rived. And the right-handed Ron-
don could not get past Gardner,
who hits left-handed.
“I’m just looking for a good
pitch,” said Gardner, who fouled
off a pair of 1-2 pitches before con-
necting. “I know he’s got a good
fastball. I know he’s got a good
slider. He threw the slider and left
it up, and I was able to get a good
barrel on it.”
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The Cubs’ Jon Jay slid to catch a pop fly by the Yankees’ Didi Gregorius in the sixth inning, but the ball dropped in for a single.
was the Cubs who had prevailed
over the havoc the 25-mile-an-
hour gusts were creating. They
rode solo homers from Kris
Bryant and Kyle Schwarber —
line drives to right that avoided
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returns to Chicago as
a Yankee and receives
his World Series ring.
Another Yankees runner was
cut down at home when Contreras
tagged out Aaron Judge, who had
tried to score on a ground ball to
second baseman Ben Zobrist.
It was one of many frustrations
for the Yankees, who put 14 run-
ners on base but did not score un-
til Gardner’s blow. Until the ninth,
the wind and the temperature (45
degrees) had stripped the Yan-
kees of their power. In their recent
six-game homestand, the Yankees
hit 17 home runs and welcomed
back catcher Gary Sanchez after
he had missed four weeks with a
biceps injury.
“It’s two different parks,” Man-
ager Joe Girardi said before the
game when asked about the wind.
He came up with the Cubs and re-
turned to Chicago later in his play-
ing career.
“Most ballparks play pretty
similar all the time,” he said. “This
does not. So you see a lot of low-
scoring games in April and May,
sometimes in September, because
of the wind factor. You’ve got to
keep it low when you hit it here.
Line drives will still go out to the
bleachers, but if you’re going to hit
fly balls, they’re going to be outs.”
They can also be adventures.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID BANKS/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS Judge, a 6-foot-7, 285-pound
slugging rookie right fielder, had
not only hit 13 home runs this sea-
son but had also played his posi-
tion with aplomb — running balls
down in the gaps, making sliding
catches and showing uncommon
athleticism for someone his size
playing baseball.
But when Contreras hit a harm-
less fly ball to right in the bottom
of the fifth, the wind carried the
ball about 40 feet from where
Judge had camped under it — and
it ticked off his glove to the turf as
Contreras raced to third. No harm
came of it when Michael Pineda
retired pitcher Kyle Hendricks
and center fielder Jon Jay on
grounders to keep the Yankees’
deficit at 1-0.
“I really figured out why they
call it the Windy City,” said Judge,
who added that he had also been
fooled on a first-inning homer by
Bryant that landed about 20 feet
to the right of where he thought it
was headed.
The wind also fooled Jay, who
could not make a sliding catch of a
routine pop fly by Didi Gregorius
in the sixth, and left Headley flab-
bergasted in the ninth, when an
apparent fly ball to left field
landed about 20 feet from him as
he stood anchored near third
base.
“It was just a mess,” Headley
said of the conditions. “It’s really
not baseball, to be perfectly hon-
est with you. The game’s not close
to what it’s supposed to be played
the teeth of the wind — and the lowed him to double up Aaron down by the wind — and threw like. You have to play it, obviously,
Gold Glove work of right fielder Hicks at second base. And Hey- home to catcher Wilson Contr- but I’m glad we don’t have to play
Jason Heyward to carry a 2-0 lead ward extricated the Cubs from a eras, who went up the third-base in those conditions very often be-
into the ninth. bases-loaded, one-out jam in the line to catch the ball and then cause it just changes everything.”
Heyward’s sliding catch robbed sixth when he caught Headley’s hung on as he was knocked over Not unlike one final swing from
Castro of a hit in the first and al- liner — which had been knocked by Castro. Gardner.
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to overwhelm opposing hitters. spot.
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in mounting a comeback.
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Noon America East Championship: Binghamton at U. Albany ESPNU ethos, however, the Mets turned to league debut in 2014, Montero has
2:30 p.m. Notre Dame at Army CBSSN small ball, spraying six straight T. J. Rivera of the Mets hitting underwhelmed. Entering Friday,
2:30 p.m. Women's Big East Championship: Teams T.B.A. FS2 hits to open the bottom of the a two-run double that tied the he was 1-4 in 12 major league starts
4:30 p.m. Big East Championship: Teams T.B.A. FS2 seventh inning. By the end of their game in the seventh inning. with a 4.68 E.R.A, having struck
Soccer 7:25 a.m. England, Manchester City vs Crystal Palace NBCSN jabbing approach to offense, they out 55 batters and walked 36.
9:20 a.m. Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund vs Hoffenheim FS2 accumulated five runs to retake The Mets did not have to make a
the lead and held on for an 8-7 win, singled to load the bases for T. J.
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“I think it’s a huge lift,” Man-
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ager Terry Collins said. “We’ve
4:00 p.m. N.W.S.L., Houston at Chicago LIFE T. J. Rivera, who has been start- his right wrist.
been through this the last couple
7:00 p.m. M.L.S., Red Bulls at Philadelphia MSG, MSG2
of years — you’ve got to be resil- ing for the injured Lucas Duda, D’Arnaud’s replacement, Rene
7:00 p.m. N.A.S.L., Cosmos at Jacksonville MSG+
ient.” drove in three runs over all, tying Rivera, picked up two hits, driving
Softball 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma at Oklahoma State ESPN Wilmer Flores provided an ex- a career high. in one run and scoring another.
9:00 p.m. Arizona at U.C.L.A. ESPN2 ample of that resiliency. Entering Rivera had given the Mets an Curtis Granderson began the
This Week * IF NECESSARY the game, Flores was 1 for 23 early 1-0 lead with a solo home run Mets’ rebound in the bottom of the
against right-handed pitchers this in the first inning, an advantage fourth inning, knocking a two-run
HOME SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
AWAY 5/6 5/7 5/8 5/9 5/10 5/11 5/12 season, but he began the seventh- that starter Rafael Montero could homer over the wall in right-cen-
MIAMI MIAMI SAN FRAN. SAN FRAN. SAN FRAN. MILWAUKEE inning rally with a single off Mar- not hold for long. Montero was ter field.
METS 7 p.m. 1 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. 8 p.m. lins’ reliever Brad Ziegler. Jose starting in place of Noah Synder- “Grandy’s home run kind of
CH. 11 SNY ESPN, SNY SNY SNY SNY
Reyes doubled and Rene Rivera gaard, who was placed on the dis- changed the momentum a little bit
CHICAGO CHICAGO CINCINNATI HOUSTON HOUSTON drove in Flores for the first run of abled list earlier this week with a and kind of put us back in that ball-
YANKEES 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. tear of his right latissimus muscle, game,” T. J. Rivera said.
FOX ESPN YES YES CH. 11 the inning with a run-scoring sin-
gle, cutting the Marlins’ lead to an injury that could keep him out
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NBCSN NBCSN NBCSN Asdrubal Cabrera, who did not Montero did not calm many
start because of stiffness in his worries over Syndergaard’s ab-
No day is complete
ATLANTA PHILADELPHIA without
N.Y.C.F.C. 4:00 P.M. SUNDAY UNI RED BULLS 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY MSG legs, followed Rivera with a run- sence, as he allowed five runs in
scoring single. Michael Conforto three and two-third innings. In ad- The New York Times.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 0N D5

S C O R E B OA R D

Paterno’s Son Elected to Board of Trustees PRO BASKETBALL

N.B.A. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

PRO HOCKEY

N.H.L. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

BASEBALL

A.L. STANDINGS
SECOND ROUND SECOND ROUND East W L Pct GB
By The Associated Press concern for bad publicity. All Times EDT All Times EDT
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
A son of the former Penn State foot- Sandusky continued to abuse boys Yankees 18 9 .667 —
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
ball coach Joe Paterno who has been a until his 2011 arrest. He is now serving Cleveland 3, Toronto 0 Ottawa 2, Rangers 2 Baltimore 18 10 .643 {
staunch defender of his father’s legacy a sentence of 30 to 60 years for Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto 105
Wednesday, May 3: Cleveland 125, Toronto
Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, Rangers 1
Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, Rangers 5, 2OT Boston 15 13 .536 3{
was elected to the university’s board of sexually abusing 10 boys. He is appeal- 103 Tuesday, May 2: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1
Tampa Bay 15 16 .484 5
Friday, May 5: Cleveland 115, Toronto 94 Thursday, May 4: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1
trustees on Friday. ing the conviction and maintains his Sunday, May 7: Cleveland at Toronto, 3:30 Saturday, May 6: Rangers at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Toronto 10 19 .345 9
Jay Paterno received the most votes innocence. p.m. Tuesday, May 9: Ottawa at Rangers, TBD
Jay Paterno has been a fierce de-
x-Tuesday, May 9: Toronto at Cleveland, x-Thursday, May 11: Rangers at Ottawa, TBD Central W L Pct GB
in the alumni election for trustee. TBD Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1
“Being elected to Penn State’s board fender of his father. x-Thursday, May 11: Cleveland at Toronto, Thursday, April 27: Pittsburgh 3, Washington Minnesota 14 12 .538 —
TBD 2
of trustees is and should always be a In a book he published in 2014, he x-Sunday, May 14: Toronto at Cleveland, Saturday, April 29: Pittsburgh 6, Washington 2 Cleveland 15 13 .536 —
said he was not writing to exonerate TBD Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
call to service,” he said in a statement Boston 2, Washington 1 Wednesday, May 3: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 Chicago 15 13 .536 —
Friday, adding that he hoped to “build his father “because he did not commit Sunday, April 30: Boston 123, Washington Saturday, May 6: Pittsburgh at Washington,
Detroit 14 13 .519 {
111 7:16 p.m.
on the enduring pride and values that a crime that needs a pardon.” Tuesday, May 2: Boston 129, Washington 119, x-Monday, May 8: Washington at Pittsburgh, Kansas City 10 18 .357 5
have never wavered” at the university. “If anything, he is guilty of failing to OT TBD
Thursday, May 4: Washington 116, Boston 89 x-Wednesday, May 10: Pittsburgh at West W L Pct GB
There are 38 trustees, and alumni possess the godlike qualities ascribed Sunday, May 7: Boston at Washington, 6:30 Washington, TBD
vote for nine seats; three are on the to him by others, qualities that Joe was p.m.
Wednesday, May 10: Washington at Boston,
WESTERN CONFERENCE Houston 19 10 .655 —
Edmonton 2, Anaheim 2
ballot each year. Paterno will start his the first to insist he never had,” Jay Pa- 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26: Edmonton 5, Anaheim 3 Los Angeles 15 15 .500 4{
x-Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington, TBD
new role in July. terno wrote. x-Monday, May 15: Washington at Boston,
Friday, April 28: Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1 Seattle 13 16 .448 6
Sunday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Edmonton 3
Joe Paterno, one of the most suc- He called his father’s firing by the 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3: Anaheim 4, Edmonton Oakland 12 16 .429 6{
cessful coaches in college football his- CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
trustees “an act of cowardice.” WESTERN CONFERENCE 3, OT
Houston 1, San Antonio 1 Friday, May 5: Edmonton at Anaheim Texas 12 17 .414 7
tory, was fired in 2011, just days after Jay Paterno, left, in 2008 with his Jay Paterno was on the university’s Monday, May 1: Houston 126, San Antonio Sunday, May 7: Anaheim at Edmonton, 7
99 p.m. THURSDAY
the arrest of his former assistant Jerry father, Joe, the Penn State football coaching staff for 17 seasons, mostly as Wednesday, May 3: San Antonio 121, Houston x-Wednesday, May 10: Edmonton at Cleveland at Detroit, ppd.
Sandusky. Joe Paterno died of lung coach who was fired in 2011. a quarterbacks coach. 96 Anaheim, TBD
Oakland 8, Minnesota 5
Friday, May 5: San Antonio at Houston Nashville 3, St. Louis 2
cancer early the next year at 85. A bronze statue of Joe Paterno was Sunday, May 7: San Antonio at Houston, 8 Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3 Texas 10, Houston 4
University trustees later said that removed from outside Beaver Stadium p.m. Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2 Chicago White Sox 8, Kansas City 3
one of the reasons they had removed reported the incident to the police or to in 2012 in the aftermath of the San-
Tuesday, May 9: Houston at San Antonio,
TBD
Sunday, April 30: Nashiville 3, St. Louis 1
Tuesday, May 2: Nashville 2, St. Louis 1 Baltimore 8, Boston 3
Joe Paterno was his handling of the the child-welfare authorities. All three dusky scandal. Last summer, more x-Thursday, May 11: San Antonio at Houston, Friday, May 5: St. Louis 2, Nashville 1 Tampa Bay 5, Miami 1
TBD x-Sunday, May 7: St. Louis at Nashville, 3
2001 complaint by another assistant former administrators were convicted than 200 former Penn State football x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio, p.m.
Seattle 11, L.A. Angels 3
who had seen Sandusky molesting a this year of child endangerment for players petitioned university leaders TBD FRIDAY
Golden State 1, Utah 0
boy in a shower in the team’s locker their handling of the complaint. to return it. However, Jay Paterno said Tuesday, May 2: Golden State 106, Utah 94 N.H.L. CALENDAR Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 2
Thursday, May 4: Golden State 115, Utah Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2
room. Joe Paterno was never charged with Friday he was not focused on the stat- 104
May 28-June 3 — Draft combine, Buffalo,
Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 4
N.Y.
Joe Paterno passed the information a crime, but a university-commis- ue. Saturday, May 6: Golden State at Utah, 8:30 June 14 — Last possible day for Stanley Kansas City 3, Cleveland 1
p.m. Cup finals
along to the president at the time, Gra- sioned review of the scandal con- “That is something for somebody Monday, May 8: Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m. June 23-24 — NHL draft, Chicago Boston at Minnesota
cluded that he and the other adminis- x-Wednesday, May 10: Utah at Golden State,
ham B. Spanier, and two other high- else to worry about, not me,” he said. 9 or 10:30 p.m.
July 1 — Free agency begins. Detroit at Oakland
level administrators, but no one ever trators had remained silent out of a “I’m focusing on Penn State’s future.” x-Friday, May 12: Golden State at Utah, TBD Houston at L.A. Angels
x-Sunday, May 14: Utah at Golden State, TBD TENNIS Texas at Seattle
N.B.A. PLAYOFF LEADERS SATURDAY
THROUGH THURSDAY ISTANBUL OPEN Boston (Porcello 1-4) at Minnesota
SCORING AVERAGE Friday
(Tepesch 0-0), 2:10
G FG FT PTS AVG At Koza World of Sports Toronto (Estrada 1-1) at Tampa Bay
Westbrook, OKC. . .5 59 56 187 37.4 Istanbul (Odorizzi 1-1), 4:10
James, CLE . . . . . .6 73 44 205 34.2 Singles
Leonard, SAN . . . .8 75 72 242 30.2 Quarterfinals Cleveland (Tomlin 2-3) at Kansas
Wall, WAS . . . . . . .9 95 57 261 29.0 Diego Schwartzman (3), Argentina, d. City (Vargas 4-1), 4:15
Harden, HOU . . . . .7 53 76 199 28.4 Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-2. Maric Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-2) at
George, IND . . . . .4 34 26 112 28.0 Cilic (2), Croatia, d. Steve Darcis
Lillard, POR . . . . . .4 39 24 111 27.8 Baltimore (Bundy 4-1), 7:05
(8), Belgium, 6-1, 6-1. Milos Raonic
Curry, GOL . . . . . .6 52 35 164 27.3 (1), Canada, d. Bernard Tomic (6), Yankees (Montgomery 1-1) at Chi-
Thomas, BOS . . . .9 75 68 237 26.3 Australia, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6). Viktor Troicki cago Cubs (Anderson 2-1), 7:15
Paul, LAC . . . . . . .7 67 29 177 25.3 (5), Serbia, d. Laslo Djere, Serbia, 6-2, Detroit (Zimmermann 3-1) at Oak-
2-3 retired.
Doubles land (Hahn 1-2), 9:05
CYCLING Quarterfinals Houston (McCullers 2-1) at L.A.
Antonio Sancic, Croatia, and Adil Angels (Ramirez 3-2), 9:07
GIRO D’ITALIA Shamasdin, Canada, d. Nicholas
Texas (Perez 1-4) at Seattle (De
Monroe, United States, and Artem Sitak
Friday (1), New Zealand, 6-3, 1-6, 10-8. Tuna Jong 0-2), 9:10
At Olbia, Sardinia Altuna, Turkey, and Alessandro Motti,
First Stage Italy, d. Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and N.L. STANDINGS
128 miles from Alghero to Olbia Scott Lipsky (3), United States, 7-5,
1. Lukas Postlberger, Austria, Bora- 3-6, 10-7. East W L Pct GB
Hansgrohe, 5 hours, 13 minutes, 35 Semifinals
seconds. Roman Jebavy and Jiri Vesely, Czech Washington 20 9 .690 —
2. Caleb Ewan, Australia, Orica-Scott, same Republic, d. John-Patrick Smith and
time. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 7-6 (4), Mets 13 15 .464 6{
3. Andre Greipel, Germany, Lotto Soudal, 7-5.
same time. Philadelphia 12 16 .429 7{
4. Giacomo Nizzolo, Italy, Trek-Segafredo, ESTORIL OPEN Miami 12 16 .429 7{
same time.
5. Sacha Modolo, Italy, UAE Team Emirates, Friday
same time. At Estadio Nacional Atlanta 11 15 .423 7{
6. Kristian Sbaragli, Italy, Dimension Data, Oeiras, Portugal
same time. Singles
Central W L Pct GB
7. Jasper Stuyven, Belgium, Trek- Quarterfinals Chicago 16 13 .552 —
Segafredo, same time. Pablo Carreno Busta (1), Spain, d.
8. Ryan Gibbons, South Africa, Dimension Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 6-2, 6-4. David Milwaukee 15 14 .517 1
Data, same time. Ferrer (4), Spain, d. Ryan Harrison (7),
9. Sam Bennett, Ireland, Bora-Hansgrohe, United States, 6-4, 6-0. Kevin Anderson, Cincinnati 14 14 .500 1{
same time. South Africa, d. Richard Gasquet (2),
10. Phil Bauhaus, Germany, Team Sunweb, France, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4). Gilles Muller St. Louis 13 14 .481 2
same time. (3), France, d. Taro Daniel, Japan, 5-7,
6-2, 6-3. Pittsburgh 12 16 .429 3{
Doubles
GOLF Semifinals West W L Pct GB
David Marrero and Tommy Robredo, Colorado 18 11 .621 —
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLS FARGO Spain, d. Nicolas Almagro and Guillermo
Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 6-4, 4-6, 10-8. Arizona 17 13 .567 1{
LeBron James driving to the basket past Jonas Valanciunas, left, P. J. Tucker, center, and Cory Joseph. Friday
At Eagle Point Golf Course PRIX DE SAR LA PRINCESSE Los Angeles 15 14 .517 3
Wilmington, N.C.
Purse: $7.5 million LALLA MERYEMÇ San Diego 12 18 .400 6{
PR O BASKETBA L L Yardage: 7,396; Par: 72
Partial Second Round Friday San Francisco 11 18 .379 7
Billy Hurley III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-69—139 -5 At Club Des Cheminots
Rabat, Morocco THURSDAY

James Scores 35 as Cavs Take 3-0 Series Lead

Seamus Power . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-71—139 -5
Vaughn Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-69—140 -4 Singles Mets at Atlanta, ppd.
Jon Rahm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-71—140 -4 Semifinals
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (1), Russia, Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 2
Brian Harman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-69—140 -4
Rafa Cabrera Bello . . . . . . . . . . 69-71—140 -4 d. Sara Errani, Italy, 6-4, 6-0. Francesca Washington 4, Arizona 2
Grayson Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . 67-73—140 -4 Schiavone, Italy, d. Varvara Lepchenko, Chicago Cubs 5, Philadelphia 4, 13
LeBron James scored 35 points, Kevin Love had 16 off the field in response to racist abuse during a Serie A Morgan Hoffmann . . . . . . . . . . 70-71—141 -3 United States, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles innings
J.B. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67-74—141 -3
points and 13 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers pulled game last weekend. Muntari, a Ghanaian who plays for Pe- Xander Schauffele . . . . . . . . . . 71-70—141 -3 Championship Colorado 3, San Diego 2, 11 innings
Timea Babos, Hungary, and Andrea
away in the fourth quarter to beat the Raptors, 115-94, in scara, received a yellow card at Cagliari for protesting the Emiliano Grillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-70—142 -2
Hlavackova (1), Czech Republic, d. Nina
Tampa Bay 5, Miami 1
Graeme McDowell . . . . . . . . . . 71-71—142 -2 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4
Toronto on Friday night and take a 3-0 lead in their second- abuse and was booked again for leaving the field without Tag Ridings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-72—142 -2 Stojanovic, and Maryna Zanevska, Belgium, 2-6,
6-3, 10-5.
round playoff series. following procedures. Jonathan Randolph. . . . . . . . . . 69-73—142 -2 FRIDAY
Kevin Tway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-70—142 -2
DeMar DeRozan scored 37 points and Jonas Valanciu- Mark Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-72—142 -2 PRAGUE OPEN Mets 8, Miami 7
Kyle Reifers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-70—142 -2 Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 2
nas had 19 for the Raptors, who were without the three-time Chez Reavie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143 -1
Friday
Washington 4, Philadelphia 2
HO C K EY At TK Sparta Praha
All-Star Kyle Lowry. Toronto trailed by only 2 points after Seung-Yul Noh. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-74—143 -1 Prague, Czech Republic St. Louis 10, Atlanta 0
Daniel Berger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-72—143 -1
three quarters before the Cavaliers blew the game open. Singles
The Cavaliers are the only team since the Minneapolis Blues Stay Alive Against the Predators Robert Streb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143
James Hahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143
-1
-1
Quarterfinals
Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, d. Ana Konjuh
San Francisco at Cincinnati
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh
Phil Mickelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-72—143 -1 (7), Croatia, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Lakers in 1949 and 1950 to win their first seven playoff Dmitrij Jaskin scored in his first playoff game this sea- Luke List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143 -1 Semifinals
Arizona at Colorado,
games in consecutive seasons. son and Jaden Schwartz scored the winner, helping the host
Julian Etulain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143
Matt Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-72—144
-1
E
Mona Barthel, Germany, d. Barbora L.A. Dodgers at San Diego
Strycova (3), Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. SATURDAY
St. Louis Blues stay alive against the Nashville Predators Fabian Gomez. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-73—144 E Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, d.
Lucas Glover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-73—144 E Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Milwaukee (Garza 1-0) at Pittsburgh
BASEBALL with a 2-1 victory in Game 5 of their second-round series. Brad Fritsch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73-71—144 E Doubles (Cole 1-3), 7:05
Tyler Aldridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74-70—144 E
Nashville leads the series, 3-2. J.T. Poston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-73—144 E
Championship Washington (Turner 1-0) at Philadel-
Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, and
phia (Velasquez 2-2), 7:05
Racist Remarks Prompt a Survey Schwartz scored 25 seconds into the third period on a
rebound off a Colton Parayko shot, giving St. Louis a 2-1 SOCCER
Kveta Peschke (2), Czech Republic, d.
Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, and Miami (Chen 2-1) at Mets (Gsellman
Katerina Siniakova (1), Czech Republic, 1-2), 7:10
Commissioner Rob Manfred said that all 30 teams were lead. Schwartz has a team-high four postseason goals. M.L.S. STANDINGS 6-4, 7-6 (3).
San Francisco (Blach 0-1) at Cincin-
being surveyed as Major League Baseball considered insti- Jake Allen made 21 saves for the Blues, who had EAST W L T Pts GF GA nati (Garrett 2-2), 7:10
tuting leaguewide guidelines for handling fans who make dropped two in a row. James Neal scored for the Predators, Orlando City 6 2 0 18 11 7 TRANSACTIONS St. Louis (Leake 3-1) at Atlanta
racist remarks like those at Fenway Park this week. Toronto FC 4 1 4 16 14 8 (Teheran 2-2), 7:10
and Pekka Rinne made 30 saves. Red Bulls 5 4 1 16 11 12
Manfred, who said the goal was to make sure players New York City FC 4 3 1 13 14 9 N.B.A. Yankees (Montgomery 1-1) at Chi-
CROSBY PRACTICES Sidney Crosby practiced with his Pitts- Columbus 4 4 1 13 13 13 ATLANTA HAWKS — Announced president cago Cubs (Anderson 2-1), 7:15
felt comfortable in every ballpark, spoke in Minneapolis Atlanta United FC 3 3 2 11 18 11 of basketball operations and coach Mike
burgh Penguins teammates barely four days removed from Budenholzer resigned as president of Arizona (Corbin 2-3) at Colorado
before the Twins hosted the Boston Red Sox, who were at Chicago 3 3 2 11 11 12
basketball operations and general manager (Anderson 1-3), 8:10
a frightening hit that left him with a concussion and his sta- D.C. United 3 3 2 11 9 13
the center of the controversy this week after a fan directed New England 2 3 4 10 14 14 Wes Wilcox will become a special adviser L.A. Dodgers (McCarthy 3-0) at San
tus for the rest of the playoffs uncertain. Montreal 1 3 4 7 11 14 to ownership.
racial slurs at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. Diego (Richard 2-3), 8:40
Crosby declined to say whether he would be available Philadelphia 0 4 4 4 8 14
Another fan was removed and barred for life from Fenway COLLEGE YANKEES 3, CUBS 2
Park the next day for making a racist remark. for Game 5 against the Washington Capitals on Saturday. WEST W L T Pts GF GA
Kansas City 5 1 3 18 11 3 JOHNS HOPKINS — Named Josh Loeffler New York ab r h bi bb so avg.
The Penguins lead the Eastern Conference semifinal se- Portland 5 2 2 17 20 12 men’s basketball coach. Gardner lf 4 1 1 3 1 2 .247
NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 2 Stephen Strasburg hit his second ries, 3-1, and are looking to close out the top-seeded Capitals FC Dallas 4 0 3 15 10 5 Hicks cf 5 0 3 0 0 0 .316
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Montero 3Î/¯ 7 5 5 3 4 90 10.45 July 30 — Hall of Fame inductions.
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D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

BASKETBALL

Pushing and Shoving, and Occasional Basketball

WASHINGTON — Even as
they clutter their games with
pushes and shoves, with scuffles
and kerfuffles, the Washington
Wizards and the Boston Celtics
share common
SCOTT ground.
“We don’t like
CACCIOLA them,” the Celtics’
Isaiah Thomas
ON PRO
BASKETBALL said, “and they
don’t like us.”
Their aversion to breathing the
same oxygen has somehow
become a unifying force in their
Eastern Conference semifinal
series. It is their one area of
agreement.
“Two teams that really don’t
like each other,” the Wizards’
John Wall said.
By the time the Wizards and
the Celtics reconvene here for
Game 4 on Sunday night, they
will have had two full days off —
a luxurious byproduct of the
N.B.A.’s needlessly protracted
playoff schedule. It seems un-
likely, though, that much emotion
will have cooled by then, not
after these two teams spent
Game 3 on Thursday night com-
bining for 52 personal fouls, 8
technical fouls and 3 ejections.
Amid so many extracurriculars,
the Wizards’ 116-89 victory — a
true drubbing — approximated a
professional basketball game.
The Celtics have a two-games-
to-one lead in the best-of-seven
series, but the terrain has
shifted. For one game, at least,
the Wizards were able to match
— and even exceed — the
Celtics’ brand of physicality. The
Wizards defended, bottling up
Thomas, the Celtics’ high-motor
point guard. They got in the
paint. And they changed the
conversation.
“They junked the game up,”
the Celtics’ Al Horford said.
There was no question that the
game got junked up. There was a
lot of junk. The question was:
Which team instigated the junk-
ing? Scott Brooks, the coach of
the Wizards, dipped his toe in the
debate.
“Our job is to play, my job is to
coach and the referees’ job is to
control the game, and that’s all I
have to say,” said Brooks, who, as
it turned out, had more to say.
“When you play in the playoffs
and you’re fighting for something
special, you’re going to play with
The Wizards’ Kelly Oubre Jr., left, was ejected Thursday against the Celtics after shoving Kelly
Olynyk. The teams combined for 52 personal fouls, 8 technical fouls and 3 ejections in the game.
passion, and I have no com-
plaints with either team if they’re
playing with passion and within
the rules.”
The Wizards, Brooks said, had
played defense with their feet:
wholesome defense, the way
children are taught to play de-
fense. Along those lines, Wall
offered thoughts on the Celtics’
defense.
“They’re a team that uses their
hands a lot,” he said. “They’re a
very physical team. And when
you play that way for a long time,
the refs let you get away with it.”
The Wizards and the Celtics
have been feuding for years, but
one exchange in Game 3 under-
scored the bad blood. After the
Celtics’ Kelly Olynyk set a hard
screen on the Wizards’ Kelly
Oubre Jr., Olynyk was whistled
for an offensive foul. Oubre
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retaliated by shoving Olynyk and “It kind of threw me off,” Beal
was ejected. said, “but it’s the playoffs.”
“If you keep getting hit in the Even before the game began,
head, you might respond that Brad Stevens, the coach of the
way,” Brooks said. “I’m not say- Celtics, appeared to be anticipat-
ing that’s the right thing to do.” ing the hard grind ahead. He
The episode came as a sur- scoffed at a question about
prise to the Wizards’ Bradley whether his team had to guard
Beal, who said that Olynyk and against being overconfident. By
Oubre had always acted friendly his math, he said, the Wizards
toward each other. On Thursday, had actually outplayed the
that was not the case. Celtics for much of the first two
Two teams, little love.
‘We don’t like them,
and they don’t like us.’
games of the series, even though
the Celtics had managed to win
both.
“We were really lucky,” he
said.
The Celtics had been overcom-
ing slow starts. In hopes of
avoiding another, Stevens moved
Gerald Green, an experienced
swingman, into the starting
lineup for Game 3. But Green
could not prevent the Wizards
from scoring 22 straight points in
the first quarter.
It was, for the Wizards, a com-
prehensive blowout. Even as his
team’s lead swelled, Wall kept
pushing to inflict as much
psychological trauma on the
Celtics as possible. So there he
was in the second half, using a
screen set by Marcin Gortat to
plant, pop and absorb contact as
he sank a midrange jumper. His
free throw pushed the Wizards’
lead to 30.
Meanwhile, no player in the
series has taken more punish-
ment than Thomas. After losing
a front tooth in Game 1, he scored
53 points in Game 2. Then, in
Game 3, his temporary tooth
came loose and he needed im-
promptu dental work at halftime.
On the court, he never found his
rhythm. Defenders seemed to be
waiting for him whenever he
turned the corner coming off
pick-and-rolls.
“They had three guys on me,
so I couldn’t really do anything,”
said Thomas, who finished with
13 points while shooting 3 of 8
from the field.
He was also miffed, in no un-
certain terms, about the officiat-
ing. Even though each team was
whistled for 26 personal fouls,
Thomas felt it was lopsided.
“We’re the ones getting all the
fouls called on us,” he said, add-
ing of the Wizards: “They hit
first, they set the tone, and then
the refs couldn’t control the
game after that.”
With that in mind, Thomas had
a potential solution for Game 4:
“We just got to hit first.”

At $495, Signature Shoe

Is Met With Headshakes
From First Sports Page
best player, began retailing last
year at $175; it carries the Nike
swoosh.
While the shoe and the Ball fam-
ily buzzed all over social media on
Thursday, the sneaker intelli-
gentsia were lined up in Flight
Club’s consignment area. These
are the people who camp out on
street corners to get first crack at
new releases and then sell them to
Flight Club for a cut of the subse-
quent resale. The leading edge of
sneaker cool, they help decide
which shoes will be on the shelves
of Flight Club and stores like it 10
and 25 years from now. And they
had reached a verdict on the ZO2:
No thanks.
“I wouldn’t buy those,” said T. Q.
Jones, who wore Nike Prestos as
he waited in the consignment line.
Haitham Khan — who was rock-
ing a Comme des Garçons hoodie,
a Supreme bag and blush-colored
Common Projects sneakers —
made a bold statement: “I can an-
swer your question: No one’s go-
ing to buy them.”
This conclusion matched those
of industry experts, who nonethe-
less marveled — through laughter
— at what Bob Dorfman, a sports
marketing expert at Baker Street
Advertising, labeled “the brazen-
ness, the audacity, the ego” of
LaVar Ball, the father.
Matt Powell, a sports industry
analyst at NPD Group, estimated
Big Baller Brand would sell 10,000
pairs, which he described as a
“rounding error” given the 400
million pairs of shoes Nike made
last year.
“If you did it in snakeskin and
pixie dust, it might cost $500,”
Powell added.
Sneaker culture is shaped by
substance as much as flash. Flight
Club, for instance, prominently
features sneakers linked to long-
retired stars like Scottie Pippen,
Patrick Ewing and Jordan not
merely because those shoes are
aesthetically pleasing, but be-
cause they are connected to in-
credible basketball talents.
As Jones said of Lonzo Ball: “I
don’t know if he’s going to be a
star.”
form,” said Karl Leung, who wore
Adidas sneakers as he waited in
the consignment line. Adidas is
known for its Boost foam, he
noted, while Nike has its Zoom
cushioning.
“I’m wondering what’s in the
shoe that makes it a basketball
performance shoe,” Leung added.
Someone who pre-orders ZO2s
today would be guaranteed ship-
ping, according to Big Baller
Brand, by Nov. 24 — a hint, Powell
suggested, at the six-month lead
time typically required to make
and transport new shoes.
“It’s really hard to make a
shoe,” said Powell, adding,
“There’s a reason why you don’t
see hundreds of new shoe compa-
nies.”
Many saw the shoe release as
just the latest antic from LaVar
Ball, who in the past few months
has said that in his prime he could
have beaten Jordan one-on-one
(Ball briefly started at Washing-
ton State before transferring to a
Division II team); that he married
his wife, Tina, partly to have great
basketball-playing sons; and that
Lonzo Ball is better now than JAMIE SQUIRE/GETTY IMAGES
Stephen Curry is.
Encountering widespread
ridicule on Thursday over the
sneaker’s price tag, LaVar Ball
tweeted that if “you can’t afford”
them, “you’re NOT a BIG
BALLER!”
In an era in which marketing is
conducted over social media and
the loudest voice often carries the
day regardless of what is being
shouted, there is a certain logic to
Ball’s strategy of being consis-
tently outrageous. (Big Baller
Brand did not reply to a request to
comment.)
But the reality is that in electing
not to sign an endorsement deal
after insisting, ESPN reported,
that any of the three biggest shoe
companies license Big Baller
BIG BALLER BRAND
Brand, the Balls left money on the
table. U.C.L.A.’s Lonzo Ball, who is expected to be a top-three pick in
“I’m sure the brands all said, the N.B.A. draft in June, unveiled his first signature shoe, the
‘Yeah, we’re interested, we’d like ZO2, on the Big Baller Brand website on Thursday. The com-
to pay him a couple million pany was founded by Lonzo’s father, LaVar, near right.
bucks,’ ” said Powell, pointing to
the standard going rate for high
draft pick rookies. day, telling The Undefeated web- trepreneurs, not just endorsers.”
“The revenue opportunity site: “He should want to own his From Curry’s receiving Under MARK J. TERRILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Then, too, there are utilitarian
concerns. At least in theory, bas-
ketball sneakers are for playing
basketball in, and Big Baller
Brand was not believed to possess
the same kind of technology that
makes the established companies’
shoes user-friendly.
“I want to know how they per-
they’ve had is now over,” Powell
added.
Stephon Marbury, the former
N.B.A. star who plays in China
and is believed to be one of a few
basketball players to have his own
sneaker brand independent of a
major shoe company — Starbury
— praised LaVar Ball on Wednes-
own brand. That is the smartest
way of doing it.”
In the ZO2 release video, which
is set to a Drake track and features
Lonzo Ball training in his shoes
near his hometown, Chino, Calif.,
the namesake himself spoke in
those terms, too, advocating “a
movement allowing us to be en-
Armour stock as part of his deal to
James’s cashing in on his shares of
Beats when the headphones com-
pany was acquired by Apple, it is
part of the zeitgeist for the most
talented and savvy basketball
players to seek and acquire equity.
The analogy falls short, though,
because Ball is not yet Marbury,
much less Curry.
It also does not help that Star-
bury shoes are deliberately inex-
pensive — some new ones start at
$14.98 — while the ZO2s are, well,
not.
“This shoe,” Dorfman said,
“may be bought by collectors just
to say that they had it.”
Or not. The Flight Club consign-
ors dismissed even a proposal to
shell out for ZO2s now on the off
chance that everyone will be
wanting them in a decade or so.
“I’d rather buy lottery tickets,”
Leung said.
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