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Blocked by Courts, Trump

Weighs New Travel Order
A Short-Term Tactical Retreat to a Security
Measure With a Strong Legal Basis
By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON President
Trump vowed on Friday to order
new security measures by next
week intended to stop terrorists
from entering the United States,
even as aides debated whether to
ask the Supreme Court to re-
instate his original travel ban that
has now been blocked by lower
courts.
A day after a three-judge panel
rebuffed him, Mr. Trump said he
might sign a brand new order as
early as Monday that would be
aimed at accomplishing the same
purpose but, presumably, with a
stronger legal basis. While he
vowed to keep fighting for the
original order in court, he indi-
cated that he would not wait for
the process to play out to take ac-
tion.
We will win that battle, he told
reporters on Air Force One as he
MARK TRENT flew to Florida for a weekend golf
outing with Prime Minister
A woman in Rainelle, W.Va., smokes the opiate Roxicodone. Officials say the Affordable Care Act helped fight the drug epidemic.
Shinzo Abe of Japan. Yet noting
that it most likely would not hap-
pen quickly, he also raised the pos-
pended refugee flows and tempo-
rarily blocked visitors from seven
predominantly Muslim countries,
has come to define Mr. Trumps
young presidency both at home
and abroad, and has tested his ca-
pacity to impose his will on a poli-
tical and legal system that he has
vowed to master but that has re-
sisted his demands.
Mr. Trump typically prefers a
fight, but drafting a new travel or-
der would acknowledge that
sometimes a president must find
other ways to proceed. Asked to
describe what he had in mind for a
new executive order, he said:
Were going to have very, very
strong vetting. I call it extreme
vetting; and were going very
strong on security. We are going to
have people coming to our coun-
try that want to be here for good
reason.
White House officials denied
news reports that the president
would not appeal the case to the
Supreme Court. All options re-
main on the table, Sean Spicer,

Without Health Law, the Addicted Could Have the Most to Lose
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
and ABBY GOODNOUGH
MANCHESTER, N.H. Chad
Diaz began using heroin when he
was 12. Now 36 and newly covered
by Medicaid under the Affordable
Care Act, he is on Suboxone, a sub-
stitute opioid that eases with-
drawal symptoms and cravings,
and he is slowly pulling himself to-
gether.
This is the best my life has
gone in many, many years, Mr.
Diaz, a big man wearing camou-
flage, said as he sat in a communi-
ty health center here.
If Congress and President
Trump succeed in dismantling the
Affordable Care Act, he will have
no insurance to pay for his medi-
cation or counseling, and he fears
he will slide back to heroin.
If this gets taken from me, its
right back to Square 1, he said.
And thats not a good place. Im
scary when Im using. I dont care
who I hurt.
As the debate over the fate of
the health law intensifies, propo-
nents have focused on the lifesav-
Fears That Treatment
Gains Will Vanish
ing care it has brought to people
with cancer, diabetes and other
physical illnesses. But the law has
also had a profound, though per-
haps less heralded, effect on men-
tal health and addiction treat-
ment, vastly expanding access to
those services by designating
them as essential benefits that
must be covered through the
A.C.A. marketplaces and ex-
panded Medicaid.
The Center on Budget and Pol-
icy Priorities, a left-leaning re-
search group, calculates that 2.8
million people with substance use
disorders, including 220,000 with
opioid disorders, have coverage
under the health law. As the opioid
epidemic continues to devastate
communities nationwide, public
health officials say the law has be-
gun to make a critical difference in
their ability to treat and rehabili-
Continued on Page A9
sibility of a lot of other options, in-
cluding just filing a brand new or-
the White House press secretary,
said by email late Friday.
der. A new version of the executive
Asked if he would do that, Mr. order would amount to a tacit ad-
Trump said, We need speed for mission that the administration
would not be able to quickly or
reasons of security, so it very well
could be. easily overturn the decision is-
The presidents pivot repre- sued on Thursday by a panel of
the United States Circuit Court of
sented a short-term tactical re-
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
treat even as he insisted that he
Even some conservative lawyers
would prevail in the long run. The
battle over his order, which sus- Continued on Page A9
SHOPPERS DIVERGE Everyday decisions on what to buy have become
acts of political protest, as brands try to walk a tightrope. PAGE B1
IMMIGRATION Despite reports of mass roundups, it was not clear
whether a surge in enforcement had actually begun. PAGE A10

Knicks Invent New Type of Loss NEWS ANALYSIS

As Owner Banishes Ex-Stalwart Foreign Policy

By SCOTT CACCIOLA
The Knicks, who were already
raising dysfunction to an art form
with bad basketball and head-
scratching Twitter posts from
their famous team president,
moved further into the surreal on
Friday when the teams owner an-
nounced that he was indefinitely
barring one of the most popular
players in franchise history from
Madison Square Garden.
The owner, James L. Dolan, can
go years without engaging with
the news media. But on Friday, he
went on the radio to say that
Charles Oakley, a stalwart mem-
ber of some outstanding Knicks
teams from the 1990s, would not
be let into the Garden as a result of
an altercation on Wednesday
night that ended with Oakley be-
ing led from the arena in hand-
cuffs while fans chanted his name.
It was hard to find precedent for
the Knicks decision former
players are normally treated like
celebrities, not told they will not
be allowed into a game even if
they buy their own ticket but it
Moving Children Across Italy to Break Cycle of Mob Criminality
By GAIA PIANIGIANI
REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy
Fighting the mafia at the very toe
of Italy, Roberto Di Bella has seen
a lot: children as young as 11 or 12
serving as lookouts during mur-
ders, attending drug deals and
mob strategy sessions, or learn-
ing how to handle a Kalashnikov
assault rifle.
But it was the day he charged
the younger brother of a minor he
had jailed years before that he de-
fit the almost bizarre image the
franchise now seems to be busy
creating for itself.
Dolan, who announced the deci-
sion on Michael Kays afternoon
program on ESPN Radio, said he
was taking the step to bar Oakley
out of concern for the safety of the
teams other paying customers.
We need to keep the Garden a
place thats comfortable and safe
for everybody who goes there,
Dolan said. So anybody who
comes to the Garden whether
theyve been drinking too much
alcohol, theyre looking for a fight,
theyre abusive, disrespectful to
the staff and then fans theyre
going to be ejected and theyre go-
ing to be banned.
Continued on Page D2
Trouble at the Garden
The Knicks shabby treatment
of Charles Oakley was bad optics
that magnified a teams troubles,
Michael Powell writes. Page D1.
cided to take a drastic step: sepa-
rating children from their mob
families and moving them to a dif-
ferent part of Italy to break a gen-
erational cycle of criminality.
I am not taking them away for
nothing, said Mr. Di Bella, a 53-
year-old magistrate, president of
the Reggio Calabria minors court.
Sons follow their fathers, he
said. But the state cant allow
that children are educated to be
criminals.
Since he began taking children
away from parents convicted of
The Knicks owner, James L. Dolan, at Madison Square Garden
for Friday nights game, barred Charles Oakley from the arena.
mob association in 2012, Mr. Di
Bella has separated about 40 boys
and girls, ages 12 to 16, from their
families, in an approach that has
proved as controversial as it has
been effective.
About a quarter of the time,
mothers looking to flee the mafias
tentacles go with them. The rest of
the children are put into foster
care, but Mr. Di Bella said that
none of the children he had sepa-
rated from their families had since
committed a crime.
The Justice Ministry in Italy
BEN SOLOMON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
has just codified statutes so that
Mr. Di Bellas innovation, so far
limited to his corner of Calabria,
can be applied to fight mafias na-
tionwide.
Some are appalled by the strat-
egy in a country where family
bonds are so cherished. Critics
have called it a Nazi-like method
that overlooks the environmental
factors that have made Calabria
one of Italys poorest and most vi-
olent regions.
If Calabria stays Italys most
Continued on Page A6
Quickly Sheds
Its Sharp Edge
By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON When PINAR ISTEK/CARNEGIE-KNIGHT NEWS21.COM
President Trump took a phone
Rosa Maria Ortega cast ballots
call from the leader of Taiwan in
December and asserted that the
illegally in 2012 and 2014.
United States might no longer be
bound by the One China policy,
his defenders hailed it as a show
of strength the latest delicate
Ineligible Votes
issue on which Mr. Trump was
willing to challenge decades of In Texas Result
diplomatic orthodoxy.
On Thursday evening, Mr.
Trump fell back into line. In a call
In Prison Term
with President Xi Jinping of
China, he pledged fealty to One
By MICHAEL WINES
China, a 44-year-old policy under
which the United States recog- Despite repeated statements by
nized a single Chinese govern- Republican political leaders that
American elections are rife with il-
ment in Beijing and severed its
diplomatic ties with Taiwan. legal voting, credible reports of
fraud have been hard to find and
Mr. Trump has also tacked to
convictions rarer still.
the center on Israel. After pre-
That may help explain the un-
senting himself as a stalwart
usually heavy penalty imposed on
defender of Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu who would Rosa Maria Ortega, 37, a perma-
buck the pressure campaign nent resident and a mother of four
against Israeli settlements in the who lives outside Dallas. On
West Bank, Mr. Trump warned
Israelis this week that he did not
Thursday, a Fort Worth judge sen-
tenced her to eight years in prison
believe that going ahead with and almost certainly deporta-
these settlements is a good thing tion later after she voted ille-
for peace. gally in elections in 2012 and 2014.
And on Iran, where Mr. Trump The sentence for Ms. Ortega,
threatened as a candidate to rip who was brought to this country
up the nuclear deal struck by by her mother as an infant,
President Barack Obama, advis- shows how serious Texas is
ers to the new president told the about keeping its elections se-
European Unions top foreign cure, Ken Paxton, the Texas at-
policy official, Federica torney general, said in a state-
Mogherini, that the United States ment. Her lawyer called it an egre-
would fully carry out the agree- gious overreaction, made to score
ment. political points, against someone
As Mr. Trump begins to shape who wrongly believed she was eli-
Continued on Page A11 Continued on Page A14

NATIONAL A8-14 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 THIS WEEKEND

Fight to Save a Community
People in the Pleasant Ridge section of
Charlestown, Ind., say the city is using
a crackdown on building code violations
to clear out poor tenants. PAGE A8
No Charges for Chicago Officer
Prosecutors said there was not enough
evidence to charge a police officer who
fatally shot two people, including an
innocent bystander, in 2015. PAGE A13
NEW YORK A15-16
Conflicting Views on DNA
Experts differ on whether investigators
should be able to study the DNA of
relatives of crime suspects. PAGE A16
INTERNATIONAL A3-7
Tycoons Mystery Deepens
After Xiao Jianhua, above, disappeared,
unnerving video surfaced of men spir-
iting him from a Hong Kong hotel in a
wheelchair, head covered. PAGE A5
Survivor Recounts Manila Raid
A Filipino who survived a drug raid is
challenging police claims of self-defense
in a flood of suspects killings. PAGE A3
A.I.G. Fraud Case Is Settled
Two former executives agreed to pay
nearly $10 million, ending a long battle
over accounting fraud charges. PAGE B1
ARTS C1-7
Classical Musics High Notes
In a new feature, Times critics spotlight
the most important classical music
moments of the week. PAGE C6
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-5
The M.V.P. Jersey Caper
When a famous quarterback gets flim-
flammed, a bit of detective work is in
order. PAGE D1
FASHION A20
New Blood at Calvin Klein
New York Fashion Week kicked off with
the most anticipated show of the season
as Raf Simons raised the bar. A review.
OBITUARIES D6
Ubiquitous Voice of Opera
Nicolai Gedda rose from poverty to
become a celebrated tenor. He was 91.
A Champion for Women
With her production company, Blossom
Films, Nicole Kidman is trying to en-
sure that in-depth stories about women
get to the screen (whether in theaters
or on TV). She says taking creative and
business control has helped her shape
her career and find roles otherwise not
offered. ARTS & LEISURE
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INTERNATIONAL
A Former Apprentice Host
Takes On Brazilian Politics
Joo Doria, the new mayor of So
Paulo, Brazil, and a former host of
the Brazilian version of the show
The Apprentice, has cast himself
as an outsider prepared to shake up
the political scene. But he says hes
not like President Trump.
The Saturday Profile. PAGE A4
Reversal on Mexican Inquiry
The final version of an internal
review by the Mexican government
into the conduct of investigators
searching for 43 missing students
has rejected an earlier report that
found that the officials mishandling
of suspects and evidence broke the
law. PAGE A6
Web Suppression in Africa
Cameroons government is the
latest in sub-Saharan Africa to
switch off the internet in parts or all
of a nation, or to put other limits on
online communication in hopes of
snuffing out protests and other
opposition. PAGE A7
German Poem Is Verboten
A German television comedian
whose lewd poem satirizing Tur-
keys president stirred tensions
between the countries and a furor
over freedom of expression will not
Cross Stitch Bracelet face criminal charges, but he is still
forbidden from publicly repeating
From $19,500 most of the poem. PAGE A7
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I Want It to Be True
Little evidence supports the legend
of alligators living in the New York
City sewer system, but that doesnt
dissuade the official borough histo-
rian for Manhattan. PAGE A15
State Graduation Rate Rises
The New York State Education
Department said that the high
school graduation rate hit a new
high of 79.4 percent in 2016, an
increase of more than 12 points from
a decade ago. PAGE A16
Cub Scout Breaks Barrier
Joe Maldonado of New Jersey is one
of the first transgender children to
join the Boy Scouts. PAGE A16
Corrections
BUSINESS DAY
The DealBook column on Tues-
day, about the investor Seth A.
Klarman, referred incorrectly in
some copies to a statement he is-
sued criticizing Donald J. Trump
last year. It was related to Mr.
Trumps criticism of a judges
Mexican heritage, not a recording
in which Mr. Trump talked about
groping women.
An article on Thursday about
Jeffrey Wertkin, a former govern-
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BUSINESS
Candy-Tasting Job
Is No Mere Cakewalk
The job looks perfect: Sample
candy, chocolate and cookies for
pay. But Mondelez, the company
that makes Oreo cookies, says the
work isnt easy. PAGE B2
China Pulls In Chip Project
The California-based chip maker
GlobalFoundries announced a
$10 billion project in China, showing
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shifting across the Pacific. PAGE B4
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Par for the Course:
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Tiger Woods withdrew from two
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Fixing What Aint Broke
Soccer will add teams to the World
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Celebrities Yelling
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A resident of Avdiivka, Ukraine, with building materials to repair her house after shelling caused extensive damage in the city.
As Fighting Mounts in Ukraine, Eyes Are on Trump
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine Here at
the epicenter of the latest spasm
of violence in eastern Ukraine,
great thuds of artillery shells
could be heard in the distance on
Friday, as residents scrambled to
board up blown-out windows and
stockpile groceries in anticipation
of further shelling.
Dozens of soldiers and civilians
have been killed or wounded all
along the front in nearly two
weeks of fighting. While it is still
not clear who is responsible for
the escalation in fighting between
the Ukrainian Army and the Rus-
sian-backed rebels, many resi-
dents say they believe the recent
violence was meant to force some
clarity from President Trump.
So far, Mr. Trumps administra-
tion has offered mixed messages
about the three-year-old war. He
has said he would be open to lift-
ing sanctions against Russia im-
posed in 2014 after it annexed the
Crimean peninsula and sent
troops to aid separatists in the
east. However, Nikki R. Haley, Mr.
Trumps newly appointed ambas-
sador to the United Nations, last
week called for an end to the Rus-
sian occupation of Crimea and for
a halt in the fighting in eastern
Ukraine.
This week, in a letter to Lithua-
nias president, Mr. Trump
seemed to echo that sentiment
and personally expressed support
for keeping Ukraine intact. The
lack of a clear position on the con-
flict has bewildered officials on
both sides, particularly in Ukraine
Rare Survivor of Philippine Raid Takes Police to Court
By FELIPE VILLAMOR
MANILA The drug raid
where Mr. Trumps overtures to
President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia are viewed with alarm.
It is very important for Trump
and his administration to figure
out the situation and gather as
much information about it as pos-
sible, said Iryna Gerashchenko,
the deputy speaker of Ukraines
Parliament, one of the lead offi-
cials overseeing peace negotia-
tions with the Russians. Its obvi-
ous that the Russian government
wants to use this transitional peri-
An escalation may
force clarity from the
White House.
od and impose its version of
events and spread disinforma-
tion.
Mr. Trump only briefly alluded
to the conflict in his letter to Lithu-
anias president, Dalia Gry-
bauskaite, praising her country on
the occasion of its independence
day for supporting the
sovereignty and territorial integ-
rity of Ukraine among other
things as a way of safeguarding
European security. Linas Linkevi-
cius, Lithuanias foreign minister,
who on Friday toured Avdiivka, a
city on the eastern front, called the
statement really valuable
though he acknowledged it came
after some fragmented com-
ments from Mr. Trump. We re-
other cases, activists said it un-
dermined the programs credibil-
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
ally need U.S. leadership here,
said Mr. Linkevicius, noting that
his country had sent 30 military
advisers to eastern Ukraine.
Lithuania, a former Soviet re-
public, has been a vocal supporter
of Ukrainian sovereignty and has
provided the government with hu-
manitarian and military aid. Mr.
Linkevicius, who was in Avdiivka
to meet with military and civilian
officials before a major European
security conference next week,
said his country supported im-
proved relations with Russia, but
not at the expense of values and
principles.
In Avdiivka, where the sky is
perennially filled with the acrid
smoke from a giant coke and steel
plant, the violence subsided just
long enough for residents to begin
getting back to lifes normal
rhythms. By Friday, electricity
and gas had been restored and
people were out shopping.
The losses over the last two
weeks had been heavy across the
region, but nowhere as bad as
here. Eleven soldiers from a single
brigade have been killed along
with several civilians. In the
courtyard of one apartment com-
plex is a three-foot-wide hole
where a rocket fell, killing a local
emergency worker. At least 192
homes were damaged by artillery
fire, according to Pavel Malykhin,
the city manager.
Soldiers here expressed frus-
tration about mounting losses and
the chaotic administration of the
war. Supply lines, though im-
proved, are still inefficient. Ms.
Gerashchenko, the Ukrainian
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Officials said the separatists had
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They are shooting at our side,
and were not allowed to open
fire, said a soldier who gave only
his nom de guerre, The Greek, and
was dressed from head to toe in
white snow camouflage. Were
told not to provoke them.
All across the city, the signs of
war are inescapable. Children at
School No. 7 wear backpacks do-
nated by Unicef and there are
posters in the hallways and class-
rooms that explain the dangers of
unexploded ordnance with car-
toons of maimed and beheaded
people. WATCH WHERE YOU
STEP! the posters read.
There has not been running hot
water in at least two years. Local
officials said that every time
workers had tried to repair dam-
aged water mains they come un-
der fire from rebel snipers.
An old man stood outside his
apartment building holding a cig-
arette. A mortar shell had left a
hole in the buildings facade. I
had given up smoking, he said,
but after the house took a direct
hit I started again.
Mr. Malykhin, the city manager,
said there were 142 buses ready to
evacuate the entire city if needed.
But many insist on staying, he
said, even as conditions become
more miserable.
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ended like so many others in the
Philippines, with all the suspects
shot by the police.
But one of them, Efren Morillo,
a 28-year-old fruit and vegetable
vendor, did not die.
As the only known survivor of a
so-called buy-bust operation, Mr.
Morillo has provided a chilling
first-person account that chal-
lenges the governments as-
sertion that the thousands of sus-
pects killed in President Rodrigo
Dutertes antidrug campaign
were killed by the police in self-de-
fense. And his testimony lies at
the heart of the first court case to
challenge that campaign.
According to his sworn affida-
vit, none of the five suspects were
drug users and none were armed.
The police took two of them, in-
cluding Mr. Morillo, inside a
house, handcuffed, Mr. Morillo
said. Three others were lined up at
a clearing near a ravine, ordered
to kneel, their hands tied behind
their backs.
There was begging and crying
as the police shot each man at
close range, Mr. Morillo said.
Thoroughly frightened that I
might be shot again, I closed my
eyes and played dead, he said. As
he lay on the floor bleeding, he
said, he overheard the police offi-
cers talking about planting guns
and drugs because they had found
none there.
When the officers left the house,
he took a chance and fled.
On Friday, an appeals court
ruled on a petition filed by Mr. Mo-
rillo and the families of the four
other victims, issuing a protection
order keeping the police away
from them, ordering the officers
involved to be transferred to an-
other station and ordering the po-
lice to disclose any evidence
against the suspects that led to the
drug raid.
While the plaintiffs lawyers
said the ruling would have no di-
rect bearing on the broader an-
tidrug effort or set a precedent for
ity and could result in more cases
challenging it.
It encourages other victims or
families of victims who are simi-
larly situated to use the legal
process and start filing cases,
said Arpee Santiago, a lawyer at
the Ateneo Human Rights Center
in Manila, adding that the case
was also an opportunity to test
the strength and integrity of Phil-
ippine courts.
The Philippine National Police
has not commented publicly on
the case, and a spokesman did not
return calls seeking comment on
Friday. The police officers in-
volved were under instructions
not to talk to the news media.
The case comes as the antidrug
program has been temporarily
suspended after two police offi-
cers on the drug force were ac-
cused of killing a Korean business-
man in a bungled kidnapping.
Mr. Duterte has promised that it
will resume. Since he began the
campaign when he took office last
June, at least 3,600 people have
been killed and possibly thou-
sands more.
If the police operation last Au-
gust was unusual in having a sur-
vivor, it was typical in many re-
spects, including the poverty of
the victims.
It took place at the ramshackle
home of the Daa family, three gen-
erations crammed into a patch-
work of plastic and plywood
perched on a slope overlooking
the countrys largest open dump.
The four men who were killed
were all garbage collectors and
scavengers who eked out livings
from the citys trash.
Maria Belen Daa, 61, the mother
of one of the victims, sometimes
worked as a maid and a laundry-
woman.
On a hot Sunday afternoon, five
plainclothes police officers and
two women walked up a snaking
path through tall grass strewn
with garbage and animal feces to
the Daa home. Mr. Morillo was
one side of the yard. The other two
men were resting on hammocks in
back.
The police said the women had
pointed out Mr. Daa and his
friends as drug dealers, but in
their official report they said it
was a chance encounter by po-
licemen on patrol. In media inter-
views before they were instructed
not to speak about the case, the of-
ficers said they had caught the
men holding a drug session.
The police officers drew their
guns and shouted, Dont move!
Mr. Morillo said.
According to the police report,
Challenging a
government claim
that drug suspects are
killed in self-defense.
Mr. Morillo and his friends pulled
guns, shouting, You will not get
us alive! before shooting at the
police. The officers said they re-
sponded by shooting the suspects.
No police officers were wounded.
According to Mr. Morillo, the
men raised their hands and were
handcuffed and frisked while the
police searched the house. He and
his friends had no weapons, he
said.
Visibly annoyed with us after
finding nothing more than a toy
gun, the police took two of the men
inside and three outside.
Then the policemen shot the
victims, one by one, execution
style, according to the court peti-
tion.
Then the officers helped them-
selves to bottles of soft drinks and
crackers from a small shop owned
by the Daa family, Ms. Daa said.
What they did was shameful,
she said. We only use torn tarps
drugs as they alleged? How can GLRU'LRUFRP
they say that my son sold drugs?
Her son Marcelo, 31, a wiry man
with bleached blond hair, had
three children, ages 4 to 14. He was
not perfect, Ms. Daa said, but he
never smoked, drank alcohol or
used drugs. Instead, he gave
money to family and friends in
need whenever he earned extra
from scavenging.
He also did not own a gun, she
said, which costs more than what
anyone in this poverty-stricken
part of town earns in a year, a
place where many residents have
learned to survive on just a meal a
day.
That is why my heart aches,
she said. Just because we are
poor, they think they can step on
us.
Mr. Morillo, who was shot in the
chest, eventually made it to a hos-
pital and recovered. He was
charged with assaulting a police
officer and is out on bail. Through
a lawyer, he declined to be inter-
viewed.
He is lying low, the lawyer, Rom-
mel Bagares, said, and was under
the protection of the Commission
on Human Rights, which has
questioned the killings under the
Duterte administration.
Mr. Bagares said this was the
first such case because other vic-
tims had been afraid to challenge
the police.
We have a survivor, he said.
And he is willing to bear witness
to the murders.
He said the next step was to file
murder charges against the police
officers. If the pieces of evidence
we have are properly appreciated,
we will get indictments, he said.
There may be other cases as
well. Since he filed the case, Mr.
Bagares said, he has received que-
ries from other victims. A coali-
tion of seven law firms has been
set up to collaborate on them.
After so many deaths, he said,
there has to be a legal challenge
to the madness.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017

ROSS WEARING/REUTERS

In New Zealand, Efforts

To Aid Whales Fall Short
HONG KONG Hundreds of pilot whales that swam
into a shallow New Zealand bay died overnight after they
got stuck in the waterway and beached themselves on the
coastline.
More than 500 rescuers tried frantically to send the pi-
lot whales back out to sea, but at least 250 died in what offi-
cials called one of the worst whale strandings in New
Zealands history.
Attempts to refloat the remaining whales during high
tide met with partial success. About 50 whales had swum
out of the bay after high tide, according to the Department
of Conservation, but as many as 90 others had re-beached
themselves by Friday afternoon. Volunteers said they
would try to refloat the stranded whales again on Saturday.
Whale strandings at Farewell Spit, at the northern tip
of New Zealands South Island, happen most years, Kath
Inwood, a ranger, told The Associated Press. But the num-
ber trapped this year has surprised conservation officials.
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of whale
strandings, which are believed to occur when the mam-
mals, who are known for their social bonding, make naviga-
tional mistakes while chasing prey, escaping predators or
trying to protect sick members of the group.
ANTHONY PHELPS/REUTERS GERRY MULLANY

THE SATURDAY PROFILE

With Caviar Ways and Apprentice Past, Outsider Takes On Brazilian Politics
By SIMON ROMERO Party, which had its origins in the her family, which disapproved of
SO PAULO, Brazil opposition to Brazils military her husbands politics, and eked

B
EFORE Joo Doria made
the leap into Brazilian
politics, he published a
magazine called Caviar Life-
style, amassed a fortune organ-
izing lavish corporate retreats
and wrote self-help books like
Lessons in Winning.
And Mr. Doria, who is sud-
denly attracting media atten-
tion across the country as So
Paulos outspoken new mayor,
was host of the Brazilian ver-
sion of the game show The
Apprentice, drawing inevitable
comparisons with another host,
President Trump.
I dont need to be in poli-
tics, Mr. Doria, 59, said in an
interview. I have my plane, my
helicopter, my car, my home,
referring to possessions like his
private Embraer Legacy jet, his
Bell helicopter and his estate in
Jardim Europa, where this
citys elite reside in gated com-
pounds.
But I like my country, he
said. I like Brazil.
Mr. Dorias attention-grab-
bing tactics since he took office
in January, casting himself as a
wealthy outsider prepared to
mayors efforts have struck a
shake up Brazils political scene,
chord among some voters.
are positioning him among lead-
dictatorship before evolving into
a more conservative group an-
choring the coalition of President
Michel Temer.
Mr. Doria has also moved to
crack down on graffiti, drawing
criticism after he had technicians
use gray paint to obliterate mu-
rals done by artists just two
years ago. Some here claim that
Mr. Doria failed to distinguish
between street art that livens up
a city and pichao, the cryptic
graffiti script that envelops build-
ings in So Paulo.
Some graffiti in this city is art,
pure and simple, and Doria cant
seem to grasp this distinction,
said Snia Rocha, 51, an unem-
ployed former public servant.
He might be a great manager in
his field, marketing, but manag-
ing a city with millions of nu-
ances, millions of problems, is
different.
MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ms. Rocha called the mayors
public appearances dressed as a
Look, I have nothing against Donald Trump, street sweeper a comedic
but I dont identify with him at all. strategy aimed at softening his
image as a businessman known
JOO DORIA for his love of luxury. Next thing
you know hell be dressed as
ing a fierce debate about his
skimpy dental-floss bikinis in Carmen Miranda during Carni-
political strategies and varying
city parks. val, she said.
concepts of gridlock, vandalism
out a living by starting a small
business selling diapers.
Mr. Dorias mother died at 36,
just months after his father re-
turned from a decade in exile.
Mr. Doria was still in high school.
The official cause of her death
was pneumonia, but really she
died of sadness, Mr. Doria said,
citing her struggles with loneli-
ness, ostracism and depression.
Mr. Doria worked his way
through college, studying adver-
tising and journalism, before
embarking on a career as a host
of television interview programs
and an organizer of conferences
where business leaders can
mingle with politicians.
Despite his assertions that So
Paulo and the rest of Brazil need
an injection of market-friendly
practices in politics, both Mr.
Doria and his wife, Bia Doria, a
sculptor, have faced criticism for
relying on government largess to
expand their wealth.
He came under scrutiny for
obtaining about $500,000 in
advertising revenue for his mag-
azine Caviar Lifestyle from So
Paulos state government, while
Ms. Doria made use of a measure
allowing corporations to write off
taxes in exchange for investing

ing new voices in a country
tilting to the right before presi-
dential elections in 2018.
In just these few weeks, Mr.
Doria has on occasion traded in
his normal attire of tailored
jackets, cashmere sweaters and
Hes off to a good start, said
Marco Faiock, 73, a cafe owner
who voted for Mr. Doria. Look
at how hes up at 7 a.m., cleaning
the streets or painting over some
graffiti. This is a guy who knows
how to work hard.
R
But Mr. Doria said he was not
and freedom of expression on the ESPONDING to such criti- in cultural projects, in her case
drawing inspiration from Mr.
streets of So Paulo. cism, Mr. Doria says his an exhibition of her work in
Quadros or even from Mr.
Mr. Doria has hewed to some own path to riches and Miami and a glossy book about
Trump, whom he first met in
of the policies of his leftist prede- political power involved impor- her career.
1988, when he interviewed him
cessor as mayor, Fernando Had- tant challenges. For now, Mr. Doria has largely
for the newspaper Folha de S.
dad, like opening Avenida Paul- He was born into privilege as managed to shift the focus from
Paulo, lobbing questions like how
ista, the most prominent thor- the son of an advertising execu- such revelations, and now often

Prada footwear for the uniforms
of municipal street cleaners,
gardeners and anti-graffiti tech-
nicians, and briefly carried out
their duties but always before
cameras, turning the public
appearances into well-orches-
trated media spectacles.
Mr. Dorias critics have de-
nounced these moves as populist
tactics conceived to distract
attention from vexing structural
problems in this sprawling mega-
city with a metropolitan popula-
tion of 20 million. Still, the new
S
OME observers have begun
comparing Mr. Doria to
Jnio Quadros, the mercuri-
al politician who during a brief
presidency in the 1960s made the
broom a symbol of a campaign to
sweep out corruption and
created a safari-inspired uniform
for public servants.
When Mr. Quadros became
mayor of So Paulo in the 1980s,
he gained notoriety yet again for
some of his populist moves, like
personally fining motorists for
traffic violations and outlawing
much he paid for his yacht. (His
answer: $29 million.)
Look, I have nothing against
Donald Trump, but I dont iden-
tify with him at all, Mr. Doria
said about the parallels between
his foray into politics and Mr.
Trumps, saying he saw a model
instead in Michael R. Bloomberg,
the American businessman and
former mayor of New York.
Either way, Mr. Dorias rise to
power in Brazils largest city,
where he won in the first round
of voting in October, is unleash-
oughfare here, to pedestrians,
street musicians and cyclists on
weekends.
But Mr. Doria is also appealing
to voters who chided Mr. Haddad
for challenging the supremacy of
the automobile as a mode of
transportation in this traffic-
choked city. For instance, one of
Mr. Dorias first measures was
increasing the speed limits on
some highways.
In doing so, Mr. Doria is
emerging as one of the stars of
the Brazilian Social Democracy
tive who created Brazils version
of Valentines Day, which is ob-
served each June 12. His father
also went into politics but was
stripped of his seat in Congress
and forced into exile in France
for opposing the 1964 coup that
installed a military dictatorship.
The family scraped by in Paris,
selling possessions like artwork.
When the money ran out, Mr.
Doria returned with his mother
to So Paulo, moved into a small
apartment and attended public
school. She was ostracized by
finds himself fielding queries as
to whether he plans to run for
president. He has repeatedly
insisted that he plans to support
So Paulos governor, Geraldo
Alckmin, as a candidate.
Until then, Mr. Doria is laying
out a plan to remain in the spot-
light. He says he sleeps only four
hours a night, donates his salary
to charity and will not seek re-
election in four years. My
project is about the here and
now, he said. And Im going to
deliver results.

A Video, a Wheelchair, a Suitcase: The Mystery of a Vanished Tycoon Deepens
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE
and PAUL MOZUR
HONG KONG In a newspa-
per ad, the Hong Kong billionaire
declared that he was just fine,
merely resting overseas. The local
news media insists that he is help-
ing with an important investiga-
tion in China. The police say he left
the territory through a normal
border control point.
But Xiao Jianhua, one of Chinas
wealthiest and most politically
connected financiers, whose dis-
appearance last month sent a chill
through Hong Kong and the poli-
tical class in Beijing, does not ap-
pear to be fine.
In the early hours of Jan. 27, he
was taken out of the Four Seasons
Hotel in Hong Kong in a wheel-
chair, his head covered by a sheet
or a blanket, according to people
who have seen or been briefed on
video footage captured by securi-
ty cameras in the hotel.
Mr. Xiao, 45, who was not
known to use a wheelchair, was
A billionaire likely to
have deep knowledge
of the finances of
Chinas political elite.
accompanied by about half a doz-
en unidentified men who were
also pushing a large suitcase on
rollers. He is believed to have
been transported by boat from
Hong Kong, eluding border con-
trols, and is now in police custody
in mainland China, according to
two people familiar with the inves-
tigation into his whereabouts.
While the reasons for his appar-
ent abduction remain a mystery, it
comes ahead of an important
Communist Party leadership
meeting this year that will fill top
posts, leading to speculation that
someone powerful may have
wanted Mr. Xiao out of the way, or
perhaps wanted to use him to si-
lence rivals with whom he has
business ties.
Few people are in a position to
know more about the financial
holdings of Chinas leading poli-
tical families than Mr. Xiao, who
made billions investing in banks,
insurers and real estate around
the world. In the past decade, he
has served as a de facto banker to
the Communist Party elite.
His disappearance has again
raised fears about Chinese en-
croachment into Hong Kong in vi-
olation of the one country, two
Improved U.S. Relations
Are Possible, Assad Says
By RICK GLADSTONE
President Bashar al-Assad of
Syria suggested in an interview
published Friday that he could
foresee cooperation with the
Trump administration and might
even countenance the deploy-
ment of American soldiers in the
country one day.
The remarks by Mr. Assad ap-
peared to signal that he might be
more amenable to dealing with
Mr. Trump than he was with Presi-
dent Barack Obama, whose ad-
ministration repeatedly called on
the Syrian leader to step down, ac-
cused his government of repeated
atrocities and supported rebels
seeking to topple him.
We dont have any contact with
the Americans, Mr. Assad said.
Were not in that position. most notably in the northern city
Mr. Assad not only held himself
Denying reports of
mass executions and
rejecting blame for a
civil war.
blameless for the conflict but ex-
pressed confidence that the mil-
lions of refugees who had fled
would eventually come home. He
also asserted that some already
had returned and that life in Da-
mascus, the capital, was safe and
nearly normal.
The 34-minute interview in Mr.
Assads presidential offices, con-
ducted by Michael Isikoff, chief in-
vestigative correspondent for Ya-
hoo News, was the Syrian leaders
first with an American news orga-
nization since the inauguration of
President Trump three weeks
ago.
Mr. Assad, who has been ostra-
cized by many governments and
rights groups over monstrous
abuses in the six-year-old war, in-
cluding chlorine-bomb attacks
and other brutalities against civil-
ians and suspected opponents, re-
jected all such accusations as lies
and propaganda.
Asked about a detailed Amnes-
ty International report issued this
week saying that a Syrian prison
had systematically hanged up to
13,000 suspects without trial dur-
ing the war, he dismissed it as poli-
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017 N A5
systems rule that allows this for- was ill and needed medical atten- Mr. Xiaos family members Chinese authorities later ordered
mer British colony to run its own tion, the people said. have been allowed to communi- removed from newsstands.
affairs and bars mainland securi- Mr. Xiaos disappearance has cate with him, a person close to Overseas Chinese news media
ty forces from operating here. A been marked by confusion and the family said, adding that his later identified Zeng Ming as a
year ago, the city was outraged misinformation. wife is concerned about his heath pseudonym used by the son of
when five Hong Kong booksellers His flagship company, The To- because he left Hong Kong with- Zeng Qinghong, the former vice
disappeared only to turn up in morrow Group, printed a front- out his medication for angina and president.
Chinese custody. page advertisement in Mr. Xiaos other ailments. In January 2009, one of the To-
Steve Tsang, director of the name on Feb. 1 in Ming Pao, a Mr. Xiaos path to fortune began morrow Groups main companies,
SOAS China Institute in London, Hong Kong newspaper, saying shortly after he graduated from Baotou Tomorrow Technology, an-
said Mr. Xiaos extraction from that he had not been abducted and Peking University, where he en- nounced that it would pay about
Hong Kong was unlikely to have that he was recuperating rolled as a child prodigy at age 14. $50 million to buy property in
occurred without the approval of abroad. But that was a lie meant He was head of the official student southwestern China from a com-
Chinas president, Xi Jinping, who to appease the Chinese govern- union and remained loyal to the pany headed by the son-in-law of
has challenged party traditions of ment, which did not want his case government even as many of his the fourth-ranking member of the
collective leadership with a bold discussed in the news media, one classmates participated in the Communist Party at the time, Jia
drive to consolidate power. person close to Mr. Xiaos family pro-democracy protests that Qinglin, company records show.
Mr. Tsang said Mr. Xi might be said at the time. ended in a bloody crackdown in While both Mr. Jia and Mr. Zeng
holding Mr. Xiao in custody to pro- Days after the apparent ab- June 1989. are retired, they have long been
tect himself or to gain leverage NEXT MAGAZINE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
duction, the Hong Kong police dis- As his wealth rose, he entered seen as important allies of Jiang
against people he needs to per- Xiao Jianhua, who disap- closed that one of Mr. Xiaos rela- into various business deals with Zemin, the former president and
suade at the coming party con- peared last month, in 2013. tives had filed a missing persons relatives of the Communist Party party leader who continues to
gress to push through his agenda report but later withdrew it. The elite. wield some influence.
and cement his legacy. police also said that Mr. Xiao had Another prominent Chinese
nese government. Several companies affiliated
I do not know if the operation left at one of Hong Kongs bound- with Mr. Xiao were involved in the businessman who has taken ref-
was initiated or ordered by Xi, but The lobby of the Four Seasons
apartment tower is separate from ary control points. controversial 2006-7 privatization uge in Hong Kong to stay out of
his consent must have been given, reach of mainland authorities and
the main hotel, with its own front Asked about the possibility that of Luneng, a huge state-run power
in light of Xiaos connections with
desk and a single door that opens Mr. Xiao had left Hong Kong by company in Shandong Province, spoke on the condition of ano-
Xis family, Mr. Tsang said in an
with a key card. Hotel staff mem- boat, the police said in a statement in eastern China. Among the oth- nymity said that Mr. Xiaos ex-
email.
bers there questioned the men that they were continuing to in- ers who gained shares was a man traordinary political connections
In January 2013, weeks after Mr.
who left with Mr. Xiao, and they vestigate. Amy Powell, a spokes- named Zeng Ming, according to made him an obvious target.
Xi came into power at the last
party congress, his sister and
were told that the men were part woman for the Four Seasons, said an expos published by the inves- Mr. Xiao, he said, was in a spe-
of his security detail and that he the hotel would not comment. tigative magazine Caijing that the cial category.
brother-in-law sold their stake in
an investment firm to a company
founded by Mr. Xiao. Mr. Xiao lat-
er said the move was part of an ef-
fort by the Xi family to exit invest-
ments, which reduced Mr. Xis po-
litical vulnerability as he em-
barked on a sweeping campaign
against corruption.
But Mr. Xiao also appears to
have done business with relatives
of other party leaders, including
Zeng Qinghong, a former vice
president and power broker
whom Mr. Xi may consider a po-
tential threat.
A Chinese-born Canadian citi-
zen with an Antiguan diplomatic
passport, Mr. Xiao has lived in a
serviced apartment at the Four
Seasons in Hong Kong for years,
attended to by a coterie of female
bodyguards.
On the night he disappeared,
the men in plain clothes were re-
corded by closed-circuit security
cameras entering his suite with a
wheelchair and the large suitcase,
according to one of the people fa-
miliar with the footage.
Some time later, the men
emerged from the suite with Mr.
Xiao in the wheelchair, along with
several women and the suitcase.
Mr. Xiao was not struggling but
seemed fatigued and his head was
covered, according to the people
familiar with the video. They
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because they were not au-
thorized to talk to the news media
or feared retaliation by the Chi-
tically biased and unverified.
Were living in a fake-news era,
as you know, Mr. Assad said.
Nonetheless, Mr. Assad said he
had not visited the prison.
Amnesty issued a statement in
response to the interview de-
manding that Mr. Assad allow out-
side inspectors into Syria if he
has nothing to hide.
The interview was held against
the backdrop of Mr. Assads in-
creased confidence that he will
prevail in the war, which began as
a peaceful political uprising
against his government during
the Arab Spring era in March 2011.
His principal allies, Russia and
Iran, have been helping pro-gov-
ernment forces reclaim territory
from an array of rebel groups,
of Aleppo in December. Turkey,
which once staunchly opposed Mr.
Assad, has been collaborating
with Russia to advance diplomacy
aimed at halting the war.
Mr. Trump has not specified
precisely how he would alter the
American approach to Syria un-
der the Obama administration,
which largely limited its military
entanglement to aerial bombard-
ments of Syrian territory held by
the Islamic State extremists who
have taken root in Syria and Iraq.
Mr. Trump has said he wants to
work more closely with Russia in
Syria to eradicate the Islamic
State. There have been reports
that such plans may include the
deployment of American Special
Forces.
Mr. Assad welcomed Mr.
Trumps declaration that fighting
terrorism was his priority. Thats
our position in Syria, he said, al-
though he has always defined ter-
rorists as any armed combatants
who oppose him.
Asked about the idea of Ameri-
can troops fighting inside Syria,
Mr. Assad did not dismiss it pro-
vided his government approved.
He also said the United States
must lift longstanding economic
sanctions against Syria, arguing
they had contributed to the rea-
sons for the refugee crisis.
Mr. Trump also has suggested
the possibility of creating safe
zones along the Turkish border
for Syrian civilians an idea that
Mr. Assad rejected in the inter-
view, calling it not a realistic idea
at all.
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underdeveloped region, itll keep
having the most potent mafia,
said Isaia Sales, an expert and au-
thor of books on criminal organi-
zations. Regardless of the fam-
ilies.
Even Mr. Di Bella admits to los-
ing more than an occasional
nights sleep over taking children
away from their parents. Still, he
says, since he started separating
the children, fathers have written
to him to thank him for it. Children
have told him they feel liberated.
Mothers ask if he will do it for their
children.
The success of the approach
says everything about the bonds
that have made the Ndrangheta
(pronounced n-DRAHN-ghe-ta),
a strictly family-run business, one
of Italys hardest mafia networks
to penetrate.
From its base in the south, the
Ndrangheta has infiltrated com-
munities even in Northern Italy
and abroad, becoming one of the
most powerful criminal syndica-
tions in the world, spanning Italy
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Social workers are scarce in
the Reggio Calabria province.
to South America and Australia.
Specialized in international drug
and weapons smuggling, it is the
No. 1 cocaine supplier into Eu-
rope.
The methods that keep the net-
work tightly knit and functioning
are both intimate and brutal, and
for those caught up in the
Ndranghetas web, difficult to es-
cape.
We hear things that are much
worse than Gomorrah, Mr. Di
Bella said, referring to an award-
winning book and movie that re-
counted gruesome lives inside an-
Frenchman
Who Aided
Migrants
Gets a Fine
By BENOT MORENNE
PARIS A French farmer who
smuggled African migrants to
safety, defying the authorities in
an effort that his supporters lik-
ened to the Underground Rail-
road, was essentially given a slap
on the wrist by a court on Friday.
The farmer, Cdric Herrou, a
bearded olive grower, has become
something of a hero after he shep-
herded migrants across the Ital-
ian border and into the Roya Val-
ley of southern France, challeng-
ing official policy of rounding up
migrants and sending them to de-
tention centers or deporting them.
A court in Nice ordered Mr. Her-
rou on Friday to pay a fine of 3,000
euros, or about $3,200. If he stays
out of trouble for five years, he will
not have to pay it.
The light sentence almost a
nonsentence, given that the pros-
ecutor, Jean-Michel Prtre, had
asked for a tougher punishment
was an indication of how poli-
tically delicate the case against
Review Rejects Finding of Police Misconduct in Case of Missing Mexican Students
By PAULINA VILLEGAS
and ELISABETH MALKIN
MEXICO CITY The final ver-
sion of an internal review by the
Mexican government into the con-
duct of investigators searching for
43 missing students has rejected
an earlier report that found that
the officials mishandling of sus-
pects and evidence broke the law.
The original review described
such serious wrongdoing, begin-
ning with the illegal arrest of key
suspects, that it threatened the
foundations of the governments
legal case. The new review, led by
a different official, wiped clean the
most damning of those violations,
leaving the governments version
of the case intact.
The investigators actions
amounted only to technical vio-
lations, according to the new re-
port, which was prepared by the
inspector general of the attorney
generals office and given to the
students families on Thursday.
The final report is a clear ex-
ample that they are covering up
and diluting investigators re-
sponsibilities, said Mario Patrn,
other of Italys notorious mob net-
works, the Neapolitan Camorra.
Mr. Di Bella and others are con-
vinced that severing familial links
is not only one of the most effec-
tive ways to defeat the
Ndrangheta, but that it also re-
stores to the children of the mob
families the possibility of a normal
life.
Some minors end up in the pro-
gram after committing the so-
called symptomatic crimes, like
gang violence or setting police
cars on fire. Others become full-
blown mafiosos at a young age.
The Reggio Calabria juvenile
court has sentenced about 100 mi-
nors for mafia association and 50
for murder or attempted murder
since the 1990s.
Teenagers who come from
Ndrangheta families have access
to unlimited, if illicit, wealth, walk
around with Rolex watches on
their wrists, and are encouraged
to neglect their education and
spend time only within the family
circle.
Emotionally, they are very
alone, said Enrico Interdonato, a
32-year-old psychologist who has
volunteered to work with Mr. Di
Bella. My job is mostly to relate
to them humanly.
We dont want to change any-
one, he added. But we can help
them be free to build their own
conscience.
After the children are moved to
a different Italian region, the au-
thorities can try to create the con-
ditions for an ordinary childhood.
In the last two years, mothers
have started to turn to Mr. Di
Bella, in the hope of saving their
children from an inescapable des-
tiny of death or prison, and some-
times to escape mafia ties them-
selves.
Psychologists and social work-
ers work with the children con-
stantly. After they turn 18, the chil-
dren can then choose whether to
go back to Calabria. Most stay in
touch with the judges and their so-
cial workers even after the pro-
gram ends.
But authorities can remove a
child only if they can prove that he
or she is physically or psycholog-
ically endangered by their fam-
ilies mafioso behavior. Separat-
ing a child from his or her family is
always a wrenching decision, and
one Mr. Di Bella does not take
lightly.
In one case, Mr. Di Bella consid-
ered revoking the decision for a 12-
year-old girl whose parents were
both in jail for mafia association.
Her departure was so excruci-
Cdric Herrou, an olive grower who defied the authorities to
help African migrants, left court on Friday in Nice, France.
Mr. Herrou had become. He had
popular opinion largely on his side
a fact the judges appeared to ac-
knowledge in essentially letting
him go with a warning.
At the end of a highly publicized
trial last month, Mr. Prtre had re-
quested that Mr. Herrou, 37, be
given a suspended eight-month
prison term.
A 2012 law allows citizens to
help migrants for humanitarian
reasons. Before that legislation,
such aid could result in a sentence
of up to five years and a fine of up
to 30,000. But Mr. Prtre said
that Mr. Herrous actions had gone
beyond the scope of the law, help-
director of the Miguel Agustn Pro
Jurez Human Rights Center in
Mexico City and the families legal
representative.
We feel the governments pri-
ority is no longer finding the truth
about what happened to the stu-
dents, but is much more con-
cerned with hiding the reasons be-
hind a historical cover-up, Mr. Pa-
trn added.
The students disappearance
has shaken the government of
President Enrique Pea Nieto, be-
coming emblematic of Mexicos
inability to provide security to its
citizens and its failure to confront
the corruption that riddles law en-
forcement.
Outside experts have repeat-
edly raised questions about the
governments handling of the in-
vestigation in the weeks after the
students vanished in September
2014, prompting the internal re-
view.
The first version was completed
in August but was never approved
by the attorney general. It was ob-
tained by The New York Times in
December.
The students families were
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Roberto Di Bella, president of the Reggio Calabria minors court, started a controversial program
limiting or suspending parental responsibility for mob-incriminated families.
Enrico Interdonato is a volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket associa-
tion Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town that lies across the strait from Reggio Calabria.
ating that even the policeman who
accompanied her cried, Mr. Di
Bella recalled at a recent after-
noon in his guarded office.
But a few days later, she called
me and thanked me, he said. The
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ing migrants enter the country il-
legally instead of merely offering
them shelter.
Last month, the readers of the
newspaper Nice-Matin chose Mr.
Herrou as Azuren of the Year, a
reference to people from the Cte
dAzur.
At the trial, Mr. Prtre appeared
contrite at times that the law had
to be applied to Mr. Herrou, whose
cause he praised as noble.
Mr. Herrou was cleared on Fri-
day of the more severe charges of
having helped illegal migrants
stay on French territory and of
having illegally hosted more than
50 Eritreans in an abandoned holi-
quick to condemn what they said
was an attempt to whitewash the
internal investigation.
The problem is that the evi-
dence was tampered with and the
entire investigation has been ma-
nipulated and now they are deny-
ing the right to truth of 43 fam-
ilies, said Mario Gonzlez, the fa-
ther of one of the missing stu-
dents.
Mexican prosecutors have con-
tended that the students were
dragged off buses by local police
officers and handed over to a drug
gang, which killed them and
burned their bodies at a garbage
dump. Gang members were or-
dered to scoop the ashes into plas-
tic bags and throw the bags into a
river.
But the government account
rests largely on confessions from
people suspected of being drug hit
men swept up in a dragnet around
the southern city of Iguala, where
the students, who attended a rural
teachers college, disappeared.
Last year, a group of experts
with the Inter-American Human
Rights Commission cast doubt on
much of the evidence underpin-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GIANNI CIPRIANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
girl told him that she was finally gave to my children to live in a
free to be herself. She was no long- taintless environment and to live
er the daughter of, he recounted. in legality, he said in a letter.
One father, under a strict prison I am proud to grant my chil-
regime, wrote to Mr. Di Bella to dren a different future, he wrote.
thank him for the chance you Mr. Di Bella says he sees the
Mr. Herrou, shown at right last year, has become a bit of a hero to many for smuggling migrants
to safety. In France the official policy is to send them to detention centers or deport them.
day resort. Mr. Herrou told Europe 1 radio
Agence France-Presse re- Friday morning that he is shelter-
ported that Mr. Herrou had wel- ing five migrant minors from Su-
comed the decision in an address dan and Eritrea at his home.
to a small crowd of supporters in Theres a deficiency of the
front of the courthouse. state in France and in Italy, so I
Well carry on, because its take action, he said.
necessary, he told the crowd, ac- Mr. Herrou is not the only per-
cording to the news agency. son to have appeared in court for
ning the governments version. inspector general, Csar Alejan-
The five experts uncovered de- dro Chvez Flores, abruptly re-
tailed evidence showing that 17 signed four weeks later. The attor-
key suspects were tortured and ney general at the time, Arely
that commanders at the local Gmez, resigned in October to be-
army battalion and the federal po- come the federal comptroller.
lice were aware of the police at- That first review painted a
tacks on the students but stood by. sweeping picture of dysfunction,
The experts group discarded the the first time that the government
theory that such an intense fire itself had acknowledged the er-
could have taken place in the rors in its investigation.
garbage dump. Six key suspects were picked up
Finally, they discovered that the over the course of a day and spon-
lead investigator, Toms Zern de taneously confessed in identical
Lucio, had taken one of the sus- wording to being members of the
pects, Agustn Garca Reyes, to local drug gang Guerreros
the bank of the San Juan River on Unidos. Their subsequent arrests,
Oct. 28, 2014, without recording based on those statements, were
the visit in the case file. arbitrary and illegal, the first re-
A bone found at the riverbank view found.
the following day was identified as Mr. Zern also took Mr. Garca
belonging to one of the students, Reyes to the riverbank without a
raising suspicions among the fam- defense lawyer, and then left the
ilies that the evidence was crime scene unguarded
planted. overnight, the review found.
Mr. Zerns unrecorded visit led Dates were muddled, documents
to the internal review by the attor- missing.
ney generals inspector general. The review concluded that Mr.
Although the families were told Zerns misconduct, along with
they would see the review on Aug. the actions of prosecutors and fo-
18, it was withheld at the last rensic technicians in the days be-
minute and never released. The fore and after the riverbank visit,
project as the future of the fight
against mafias. But he is the first
to admit that it is embryonic and
underfunded.
We need specialists, he said
referring to psychologists, host
families and specialized judges.
We need norms, funds and train-
ing, so that we can enlarge the
scope of this project.
After years of work with Mr. Di
Bella and other prosecutors, the
Justice Ministry is now ready to
standardize the procedure, so that
it can be applied first regionally,
then nationally.
We try to start a process to pro-
vide them education and psycho-
logical help to show them that a
different world is possible, Fran-
cesco Cascini, director of the de-
partment for juvenile justice at It-
alys Ministry of Justice, said.
But we need funds for that.
In the Reggio Calabria prov-
ince, 81 towns out of 83 do not have
a social worker, a significant hur-
dle to the process, he said.
But talk of expansion alarms
some. Critics say that context is
more crucial than the family in the
fight against the mafia, and con-
sider the project as an admission
of inability of the state to change
the social and economic envi-
ronment of Calabria.
Mr. Sales, the author, argues
that in the 19th century Italys
Southern cities were not much dif-
ferent from Paris or London, over-
run with poor people who were
trying to survive through crime.
In Northern Europe, though, the
economic and social context im-
proved, he said.
Its a defeat to me, Mr. Sales
said of the program. Because it
implies not believing that the con-
text can be cleaned up.
But those like Mr. Interdonato,
the psychologist who collaborates
with Mr. Di Bella, are of a different
mind.
He recalled his experience
working with a 15-year-old boy
who came from a Ndrangheta
family who had been relocated.
The first message is, No one
knows you here, just live, he said.
Then we start showing them how
being honest doesnt imply being
a loser.
Mr. Di Bella and others say their
mission is to give the young peo-
ple freedom, against long odds.
We are a bit like David against
Goliath, Mr. Di Bella said. But
the Ndrangheta infiltrates our
community, and we try to infil-
trate them culturally, making
their children free to choose.
PIERRE TERDJMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
illegally assisting migrants. Last
month, Pierre-Alain Mannoni, a
researcher, was acquitted by the
same court in Nice of having of-
fered a ride to migrants.
Border control has become a
defining political issue in France
in light of repeated terrorist at-
tacks.
violated the victims right to jus-
tice. It called for further investiga-
tion to determine if the miscon-
duct warranted criminal penal-
ties.
But the final report read very
differently.
It maintained that the arrests of
the six suspects were legal and
contended that Mr. Zerns river-
bank visit was only an administra-
tive infraction.
The inspector general who re-
placed Mr. Chvez Flores, Adri-
ana Campos Lpez, told the vic-
tims parents that investigators
were in a hurry to solve the case,
spurring Mr. Zerns visit to the
riverbank. Mr. Zern has de-
fended his actions as legitimate
police work.
The final review, which refers
his administrative sanction to the
federal comptrollers office, takes
the same position.
But the families were unwilling
to accept such reasoning.
The new inspector general
gave us a resolution that basically
makes fun of the 43 students fam-
ilies, said Mr. Gonzlez, the fa-
ther of one of the students.
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African Nations Are Increasingly Silencing the Internet to Head Off Protests
By DIONNE SEARCEY
and FRANCOIS ESSOMBA
DAKAR, Senegal Julius Ike-
nas trade business is at a stand-
still because he cannot make elec-
tronic payments to his partners.
Andrew Mofor cannot get access
to the small fortune 800 euros,
or about $850 that his daughter
sent him through an online bank-
ing system.
And Angela Atabong, a 29-year-
old economics student in Camer-
oons capital, can no longer tap out
sweet nothings on the internet
messaging service WhatsApp to
her fianc, who lives six hours
away.
All three have been thwarted by
Cameroons government, which is
the latest in sub-Saharan Africa to
switch off the internet in parts or
all of a nation, or to put other limits
on online communication in hopes
of snuffing out protests and other
opposition.
Officials in Cameroon and else-
where say internet blackouts are a
security measure. But they are
also a hit to the fragile economies
of developing nations that are in-
creasingly reliant on online busi-
ness transactions as internet ac-
cess and cellphone use have ex-
ploded in recent years.
Authoritarian regimes have
long limited communication with
the outside world during tense
times. Most notably in 2011, Egyp-
tian government officials cut in-
ternet and mobile network access
to 80 million people as thousands
of protesters gathered in Tahrir
Square in Cairo. Governments in
Myanmar, Nepal and other coun-
Dionne Searcey reported from Da-
kar, Senegal, and Francois Es-
somba from Bamenda, Cameroon.
tries have also shut off internet ac-
cess in recent years.
Now, sub-Saharan African gov-
ernments are increasingly em-
ploying the tactic: Blackouts have
grown most rapidly in the past
two years, researchers say.
In recent months, governments
in several countries have turned
off internet access during elec-
tions when violence broke out or
was merely expected.
In December in Gambia, the
president at the time, Yahya Jam-
meh, a ruthless leader known for
human rights abuses, shut off in-
ternet services and blocked inter-
national cellphone calls as votes
were cast in a presidential elec-
tion that eventually ousted him
from office. In Gabon, officials
cited security concerns for an in-
ternet blackout during presiden-
tial elections that prompted
deadly demonstrations after the
vote was considered by observers
to be fraudulent.
And in the Republic of Congo,
internet access was blocked, tele-
vision networks switched off and
the nations main airport closed
during an election that spurred vi-
olence. Government officials were
accused of using airstrikes on op-
position forces.
Elsewhere on the continent,
Ethiopia has shut down some so-
cial media sites and internet serv-
ices after demonstrations. In Zim-
babwe, after protests over the tra-
vails of daily life, officials raised
prices on cellphone data, a move
widely seen as an effort to curb
the use of social media. Lawmak-
ers also pushed measures to allow
the police to intercept data and
seize electronics like laptops and
cellphones, levying charges of ter-
rorism for misuse. The Demo-
cratic Republic of Congo has
blocked social media sites and
text messaging amid demonstra-
tions over the presidents at-
tempts to extend his tenure in of-
fice.
Freedom House, an American
watchdog organization, said in its
annual Freedom on the Net sur-
vey of 65 countries that 24 nations
experienced restrictions on social
media and communications last
year, up from 15 countries the pre-
vious year. Network shutdowns
occurred in 15 countries last year,
more than double that in 2015, the
survey found.
Mai Truong, program manager
for the survey, said, Its a strat-
egy that the authorities are in-
creasingly turning to as a method
of controlling both the information
landscape and citizens ability to
mobilize, in recognition of the fact
that the internet has become a
fundamental tool for people to re-
alize their rights and participate
meaningfully in society.
The United Nations Human
Rights Council last year con-
demned the practice of intention-
ally preventing or disrupting ac-
cess to information on the inter-
net, saying access was a funda-
mental human right.
Network blackouts also have
economic consequences. Many
residents of some regions of Af-
rica where joblessness is soaring
are increasingly using online or
mobile transfers to receive money
from relatives in urban areas or
abroad. If the internet is shut off,
users cannot use Wi-Fi to transfer
cash and must pay for mobile data
to go online. The cost is prohibi-
tive for many people.
Between July 1, 2015, and June
30, 2016, 81 short-term internet
shutdowns in 19 countries cost at
least $2.4 billion in gross domestic
product globally, according to
Darrell M. West, founding direc-
tor of the Center for Technology
Innovation at the Brookings Insti-
tution.
As the digital economy ex-
pands, it will become even more
expensive for nations to shut
down the internet, he wrote in an
October analysis. Without co-
ordinated action by the interna-
tional community, this damage is
likely to accelerate in the future
and further weaken global eco-
Officials face
economic risks in
acting to curb
communications.
nomic development.
Mr. West estimated that the
election-time shutdown last year
in the Republic of Congo alone
dealt an $72 million hit to the econ-
omy of the struggling nation.
Cameroons continuing internet
blackout affects only English-
speaking regions of the country. It
followed weeks of protests from
lawyers, teachers and other resi-
dents in those areas who have
been agitating for better treat-
ment from the French-speaking
government, which they say has
long marginalized their communi-
ties.
Before independence in the
early 1960s, Cameroon was colo-
nized by the French and the
British. The Constitution allows
protections for both languages,
but Francophones rule the gov-
ernment. Most official documents
are offered in French and not
translated, evidence that Anglo-
phones cite as proof of their mar-
ginalization.
Some demonstrations in Eng-
lish-speaking areas have turned
violent, and security forces have
fired on protesters.
The blackout has attracted at-
tention from Edward J. Snowden,
the former intelligence contractor
who revealed extensive surveil-
lance and data collection pro-
grams operated by the National
Security Agency. He recently crit-
icized Cameroons government on
Twitter, saying, This is the future
of repression. A hashtag #Bring-
BackOurInternet has been circu-
lating.
Yet the shutdown is a stopgap
measure until another filtering
system can get up and running,
said one diplomat with knowledge
of operations in the region, who
declined to be identified because
of continuing tensions there. The
government is buying technology
from Chinese companies that will
allow officials to filter websites in
the same fashion that the Chinese
government has long employed to
control content.
Still, the blackout could have
political ramifications for Camer-
oons government. Bankers have
largely stayed apolitical over the
more than three decades since
President Paul Biya has been in
office. But as the shutdown starts
to hurt their business, they could
become a potent adversary, ana-
lysts fear.
The blockage has also made it
difficult for local journalists to re-
port on what is widely viewed as
an overly harsh government re-
sponse to the demonstrations.
Before the internet went dark,
some cellphone users received
ominous messages from officials.
Dear subscriber, one message
the government circulated on
WhatsApp warned. You incur six
months to two years impris-
onment and 5 to 10 million fine if
you publish or spread on the social
media information that you cant
prove.
Another message read, Do not
be an accomplice of disinforma-
tion or destabilization of our coun-
try through the social media.
Some citizens in blackout areas
have come up with clever ways to
get around the shutdown. Cell-
phone users type out messages
and then pay drivers who gather
garbage bags full of phones and
take them outside the blackout
boundaries. After crossing into an
area where the network is up and
running, they hit the send button
on each phone.
Since the blackout, Henry Boh
has not been able to send money
to Bamenda in the northwest,
where his brother needs cash to
take his nephew to the hospital for
treatment.
This is a clear sign that the
government of Yaound doesnt
listen to its peoples voices, said
Mr. Boh, who lives in Yaound, the
nations capital.
Mr. Boh said the shutdown fur-
ther proved the Anglophone pro-
testers point that the government
mistreated them. In the nations
Far North region where Islamic
militants from Boko Haram wage
deadly attacks, they say, the inter-
net is operational.
The government respects
Boko Haram more than us, Mr.
Boh said.

Iran Marks Its Revolution,

With Muted Vitriol for U.S.
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
TEHRAN Iran marked its
national holiday on Friday with
nationwide rallies with far less of
the usual vitriol for the United
States, in what seemed a move
calculated to avoid further incit-
ing President Trump.
Many observers had expected
Iranian leaders to take aim at Mr.
Trump during rallies celebrating
the anniversary of the 1979 Is-
lamic Revolution.
The stacks of posters handed
out by state organizations largely
avoided mentions of Mr. Trump.
Anti-American slogans, usually
printed in English in the past for
the international news media to
see, were mostly in Persian. Most
notably, there were no missiles on
display, as had been customary in
previous years, to show off Irans
military capabilities.
Tensions between the United
States and Iran have surged in re-
An effort to avoid
inciting leaders in
Down with U.S.A., the accompa-
nying text read.
On social media, an image of an
Iranian carrying an effigy of Mr.
Trump hanging from a rope made
the rounds. Another showed
American and Israeli flags being
burned.
But given the size of the rally in
Tehran, the usual anti-American-
ism appeared less noticeable than
in previous years.
Todays rally shows that the
government does not want any
confrontation with the U.S., said
Farshad Ghorbanpour, an analyst
who is close to the government of
President Hassan Rouhani.
Dont be surprised, we have no
interest with tensions.
Throughout the week, Iranians
on social media had asked people
not to burn flags, but instead to
thank American protesters for
standing up to Mr. Trumps tar-
geted travel ban and for defending
refugees, students, tourists and
others affected by the executive
order. Others said they had under-
estimated the new president at
first, but now worried about new
sanctions on Iran, or even military EBRAHIM NOROOZI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington.
cent weeks, after Mr. Trump
blocked citizens of Iran and six
other predominantly Muslim na-
tions from visiting the United
States, and he called Iran #1 in
terror. His national security ad-
viser, Michael T. Flynn, put the
country on notice after it con-
ducted a missile test late last
month.
There were examples of anti-
American sentiment on view,
however: A large plastic copy of
the American flag was rolled out
at the main rally, as was an Israeli
flag, forcing those marching to
walk over them. One man handed
out posters showing Mr. Trump
being beaten in the face by an arm
with an Iranian flag around it.
strikes.
Most of the hundreds of thou-
sands at the rallies carried signs
handed to them at the starting
points of the rally. Several people
carried black and white signs with
text in English calling on Ameri-
cans to visit Iran.
American people are welcome
and invited to visit Iran, one read.
Thanks to American people for
supporting Muslims, said an-
other. Down with American re-
gime, long live U.S. people, an-
other exclaimed.
Lets face it, we didnt like
Obama much, but he was much
better than Mr. Trump, said
Manoucher Ashtiari, a retiree who
carried a sign lauding the Islamic
Revolution. I come every year.
This year, there are no missiles on
display. I dont care, what matters
is that we support our revolution.
Students waved the Iranian flag during a rally in Tehran on Friday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Speaking to crowds gathered in
Azadi Square here, Mr. Rouhani
said that leaders of other nations
must talk to the Iranian nation
with respect and dignity, adding
that Iran would meet any threat.
We are not after tensions in the
region and the world, he said.
We are united in the face of bully-
ing and any threat. like to be here; its important for
The anniversary of the Islamic
Revolution is mainly celebrated
as a political event. When Iranians
ousted the shah in 1979, one of
their demands was independence
from the dominant powers of the
time, the United States and the So-
viet Union. While many Iranians
have criticized how their country
is managed today, even more
point to a long list of historical
grievances they have with the
United States. brigade, an Iranian-led militia ac- cleric wearing a black turban, who
The good thing about Trump is tive in Syria, who showed off their was at the rally with two friends.
that he exposes to the world what taekwondo skills. He didnt care about Mr. Trump,
is wrong with the U.S., said
This is a glorious day, said Ali he said. To me, all U.S. presidents
Mousa Aghababaei, a retired
Mir Talebani, a Shiite Muslim are bad.
mathematics teacher who at-
tended the rally with his family.
They watched others walking by,
pushing strollers and chatting. I
me.
Along the route, which ended at
the Azadi, or Freedom, monu-
ment in Tehran, dozens of Iranian
organizations, including the Tele-
communications Ministry, joined
the rally. So did the television per-
sonality Amoo Rouhani, or Uncle
Cleric, who spoke loudly into a mi-
crophone, asking children to re-
cite poetry. Next to him stood Af-
ghan fighters of the Fatemiyoun

Court Says German Comedian Cant Repeat Lewd Poem

By ALISON SMALE
BERLIN Jan Bhmermann,
a German television comedian
whose lewd poem satirizing Tur-
keys president stirred tensions
between the countries and a furor
over freedom of expression, is
back on the air and will not face
criminal charges.
But he is still forbidden from
publicly repeating most of the
poem, which made provocative
and, his critics say, outrageous
insinuations about the sexuality,
behavior and intelligence of Tur-
keys president, Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan.
On Friday, a civil court in Ham-
Upholding a ruling
about lines that
angered Turkey.
mermanns satirical poem was
merely hyperbole in the name of
art and finding no evidence of
criminal intent. But that ruling did
not affect a separate civil proceed-
ing brought in Hamburg on behalf
of Mr. Erdogan, who sought to pro-
hibit circulation of the poem.
A court in Hamburg issued an
Hamburg and then, if necessary,
to the Federal Court of Justice.
Some of his supporters hope the
case will end up before the higher
court, in the hopes that the court
would set a precedent affirming
freedom of speech.
The Hamburg court again did
not sufficiently consider artistic
freedom, in particular how the
poem was embedded in a whole
context, Mr. Schertz said.
Lawyers for Mr. Erdogan, who
sought a complete injunction on
the poem and has cracked down
on insults at home, previously
said they, too, would pursue their
case in further court hearings.
was off television for several
weeks.
His regular weekly show has
long been back on the air, albeit
with no mention of Turkey. Last
week, when receiving a major
television award, Mr. Bhmer-
mann dedicated it to lawyers for
ZDF, the public broadcaster that
airs his show.
Germany has moved to repeal
the law that protects foreign lead-
ers from critical speech, a process
that is expected to be completed
this year.

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May, barred Mr. Bhmermann
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Not Perfect,
But They
Call It Home
By MONICA DAVEY
CHARLESTOWN, Ind. What is left
of Pleasant Ridge, a neighborhood of
prefabricated World War II-era homes,
sometimes belies its mellifluous name.
Some of these tiny duplexes are battered
by wear, holes in their sides. Dogs growl
in cluttered yards. On a recent early af-
ternoon, a woman stumbled down a
street here muttering curses, as the
words Call your officer now! emanated
loudly, again and again, apparently from
her ankle monitor.
Leaders of Charlestown, a city of 8,000
in southern Indiana across the Ohio
River from Kentucky, say it is time to re-
make the Pleasant Ridge section of town.
These homes, built for workers at a local
Army ammunition plant, were never
meant to be permanent, they say, and are
simply unsafe after more than 70 years.
Beyond structural problems, city offi-
cials say the neighborhood draws a dis-
proportionate share of the citys crimes,
drug problems and animal control is-
sues, including a fair number of raccoons
that like to hide in the hollowed-out
nooks and crannies of the aging struc-
tures.
But signs have been popping up on
homes here, among the crush of Ameri-
can flags, porch chairs, old bikes and
wind chimes: Not for Sale, Hands Off
My Home, Save Pleasant Ridge. Resi-
dents say the city is suddenly targeting
their neighborhood with skyrocketing
code violation fees that swiftly run into
thousands of dollars, as an end run to
close the whole place down, wipe it away
and build something fancy.
Residents of the neighborhood, who
say it is one of the few places in
Charlestown with rentals available for
$400 or $500 a month, say the code vio-
lation crackdown is meant to drive out
people who do not make much. With the
opening of a new bridge between Lou-
isville, Ky., and this part of Indiana, these
residents say, Charlestown leaders are
dreaming of transforming their city into
a high-end bedroom community for that
far larger city.
They dont want you if they think
youre poor, said Ellen Keith, as she cut a
clients hair at Hair & Such Beauty Salon.
Before all this, I thought we were all
equal. I thought I lived in a mansion,
said Ms. Keith, who has lived for four
decades in a pristine, painstakingly dec-
orated Pleasant Ridge home with her
husband, Dave. But this is all about who
is rich and who is poor, and now people
around here look at us differently based
on our address. It breaks our hearts
whats happened.
On Friday, residents who hope to save
Pleasant Ridge filed a request for a pre-
liminary injunction in state court, aided
by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian
public interest law firm that sees what is
happening here as a troubling new way
for a city, in essence, to clear land.
Whats very unusual about this is us-
ing code enforcement to circumvent emi-
nent domain law, said Jeff Rowes, a law-
yer in the case, which asks a judge to stop
the city. And were worried about this
becoming a model the model for how
to replace housing for people of modest
means in states everywhere that have
passed limits on the powers of eminent
domain.
The city of Charlestown, where the
crest outside City Halls storefront office
reads Generations of Pride, vehe-
mently rejects such suggestions. Mi-
chael Gillenwater, the city attorney, says
what is happening in Pleasant Ridge,
where a private developer has begun ac-
The Pleasant Ridge neighborhood in Charlestown, Ind., was built to house workers from the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.
cumulating lots, is all about safety, not
wealth.
Many residents actually want to move
somewhere else, he said, and
Charlestown, where the median house-
hold income is about $43,600 a year, is
working out alternatives to assist them.
Claims about the citys motives have
been rife, he said, with false accusations,
innuendo, supposition.
Were not going to ever make a dime
on this, Mr. Gillenwater said. Its a mat-
ter of helping out the city and the people
in the long run. All were doing is trying
This is all about who is rich and who is poor, and now people
around here look at us differently based on our address.
ELLEN KEITH, who with her husband, David,
below, has lived in Pleasant Ridge for about 40 years
William King, 67, outside his home in Pleasant Ridge, where residents
say the city is using building code violations to clear out poor tenants.
to have safe housing.
Mr. Gillenwater said that many of
Pleasant Ridges 350 homes, without
slab foundations, have deteriorated to a
point that is untenable, and that they
were never meant to last this long in the
first place.
Look, the mayor grew up in a trailer
he didnt grow up as a wealthy per-
son, Mr. Gillenwater said of Bob Hall,
the mayor, who has been seen as the
driving force behind change at Pleasant
Ridge. Mr. Hall did not respond to re-
quests for an interview.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUKE SHARRETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
This is not about rich and poor, Mr.
Gillenwater continued. When youve
got the crime, the drugs, animals run-
ning about, this is about life and death.
A walk through Pleasant Ridge, where
the curving, narrow streets have no side-
walks, reveals a study in contrasts.
Along some blocks, children ride bicy-
cles beside elaborately adorned porches
and well-tended homes, and neighbors
stop to talk. But nearby, one duplex has
holes in its windows, and another is
smashed and boarded up, damaged by a
car that careened into it not long ago.
There is a reason different parts of
Pleasant Ridge feel so different. For
some families, generations have grown
up here and residents know all their
neighbors; a few even speak of relatives
who once worked at the ammunition
plant. But in the decades after the ammu-
nition plant closed, the makeup of this
place changed. Many homeowners sold
to landlords, and some rentals went un-
tended.
Theres no question that there are
problems, said Josh Craven, who lives
here and is president of a homeowners
association that has grown out of this
fight. But the city let this happen over
all these years. They allowed the slum-
lords to come in, to not live up to the prop-
erty maintenance code. Theyve let this
go on so long that you cant come in now
and say, Oh, you have to repair every-
thing now or were going to fine you thou-
sands of dollars every day so that you
just have to sell to get out from under the
debt.
The neighborhood is starting to empty.
Some landlords with multiple property
maintenance violations have sold their
land rather than try to pay mounting
fines for demands that they repaint, re-
place electrical outlets, improve the
structures anchoring to the ground, or
fix cracked windows and broken screens.
In a successful campaign for a City
Council seat, Tina Barnes, one resident,
spoke out against forcing Pleasant Ridge
homeowners to move. She said she now
found herself a lone voice on the council
to save the place.
Ms. Barnes grew up here, and moved
back to Pleasant Ridge a few years ago
when she paid a cousin $9,500 for a du-
plex where her grown daughter, who is
disabled, and two grandchildren also
live.
It was like coming home for me, she
said. I never thought anyone looked
down at us. Honestly, until all this came
out, making it all sound so bad, I never
thought of us as different.

After the Ruling, and the Tweet, What Comes Next?

By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON Shortly after
Thursdays appeals court decision block-
ing his travel ban, President Trump
vowed to fight on. SEE YOU IN
COURT, he wrote on Twitter.
But which court?
Here is a look at Mr. Trumps options.
Two roads to the Supreme Court
Mr. Trump could file an emergency
application to the Supreme Court, asking
the justices to stay the trial courts rul-
ing blocking his executive order sus-
pending travel from seven mostly Mus-
lim countries. That is the only way for
him to try to obtain a very fast ruling.
Since Mr. Trump has said the court
rulings against his travel ban pose an
immediate threat to the nations security,
he might be expected to pursue this
strategy.
If he does, the Supreme Court could
act within days. Under its usual prac-
tices, it would not hear arguments and
would issue a very brief order announc-
ing the outcome with little or no legal
reasoning.
Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at
Harvard, said the justices should take a
different approach in this case if the
administration files an emergency
application, recalling that the court
heard arguments in very short order
when the Nixon administration in 1971
unsuccessfully sought to block The
New York Times and The Washington
Post from publishing a secret history of
the Vietnam War.
The court should receive briefs from
both sides, hear oral argument, deliber-
ate among themselves in person and
then decide, Professor Lazarus said.
They can do so quickly, as they have
done in the past, for example in the
Pentagon Papers case.
Many legal experts say Mr. Trumps
chances of success at the Supreme
Court, which for a year now has had
just eight members, are slim. A 4-to-4
tie would leave the appeals court ruling
in place. It would take five votes to
overturn the ruling, and it is unlikely
that Mr. Trump could obtain the vote of
any of the courts four more liberal
justices.
Mr. Trump could also seek to file a
more conventional petition seeking
review of the appeals courts ruling.
That would be more orderly, and it
would allow the parties to file detailed
briefs attacking and defending the
appeals courts reasoning.
It takes only four votes for the Su-
preme Court to agree to hear a case
this way. Under its ordinary practices,
though, a decision on whether to hear
the case would probably not come until
April, and arguments would not be
scheduled until October.
By then, the Supreme Court may be
back at full strength if Mr. Trumps
nominee, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, is
confirmed.
Two options in the appeals court
On Friday, the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San
Francisco, asked the two sides to file
briefs setting out their positions on
whether a larger panel of the court
should rehear the case. The administra-
tion could urge the court to do that.
Were the Ninth Circuit to agree, the
case would ordinarily be heard by an
11-member panel, including the circuits
chief judge and 10 judges chosen at
random. The court has a liberal reputa-
tion, but its judges have a wide variety
of ideological leanings, and it is at least
possible that such a panel would rule for
Mr. Trump.
But this strategy also requires time,
and the case would still probably end up
in the Supreme Court.
The administration has a second
option in the Ninth Circuit. It could
continue to litigate the case before the
three-judge panel.
The panel on Thursday set a schedule
for submitting briefs in the underlying
appeal. (Recall that the question decided
on Thursday was whether to stay the
trial court order and not whether it was
correct.) The last of those briefs is due
March 29.
More proceedings in the trial court
Judge James L. Robart, who entered
the temporary restraining order, has
also set a briefing schedule, on whether
he should make his ruling more perma-
nent by issuing a preliminary injunction.
The last of those briefs is due Feb. 17.
If the administration were inclined to
submit additional evidence justifying the
ban, the trial court would be the place to
do it. But it is not clear whether there
will be further proceedings before Judge
Robart on whether he should issue a
preliminary injunction.
On Thursday, just after the Ninth
Circuits ruling, a lawyer for Washing-
ton State wrote a letter to Judge Robart
saying the appeals court had effectively
entered the preliminary injunction.
In light of the court of appeals deci-
sion, Noah G. Purcell, Washington
States solicitor general, wrote, the
states assume the district court briefing
schedule is no longer applicable. The
states will not be filing a preliminary
injunction motion and brief in the dis-
trict court tonight, unless we receive
contrary guidance from the district
court.
Many federal trial judges around the
country have also addressed aspects of
the travel ban, and Mr. Trump won a
notable victory in Boston last week. But
unless the Ninth Circuits ruling is
overturned or modified, the nationwide
injunction issued by Judge Robart will
stay in place.
Starting from scratch
Finally, the administration could
issue a narrower executive order on a
travel ban. It would probably be
promptly challenged in court.

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Without Health Law, Opioid Addicts Could Have the Most to Lose
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tate people.
Of all the illnesses, this is one
where weve seen very dramatic
changes and where we stand to
lose the most ground if we lose the
A.C.A., said Linda Rosenberg,
president and chief executive of
the National Council for Behavior-
al Health, adding that treatment
programs have begun to be inte-
grated into primary care clinics
and health care systems nation-
wide.
During the presidential cam-
paign, Mr. Trump pledged to rid
the country of Obamacare but also
to address the opioid epidemic
and expand access to drug treat-
ment. Many of the states hardest
hit by opioids including Ohio,
West Virginia and Kentucky
voted for Mr. Trump, but some Re-
publican governors have ex-
pressed concern about what
might happen to people being
treated for addiction if their party
repeals or scales back the health
law.
John Kasich, the Republican
governor of Ohio, where the Med-
icaid expansion has covered
700,000 people, has been particu-
larly outspoken about its success
in his state. Thank God we ex-
panded Medicaid because that
Medicaid money is helping to re-
hab people, Mr. Kasich said dur-
ing a bill signing in January.
There is still a long way to go.
Waiting lists for treatment persist,
and many people still lack access,
particularly in the 19 states that
have opted not to expand Medic-
aid. Nationwide, 78 people die ev-
ery day from opioid overdoses, ac-
cording to the surgeon general,
Concerns about what
might happen to
those being treated if
coverage is changed.
and the number is still rising. And
paradoxically, even as the number
of opioid prescriptions in the
United States has finally started
falling, expanded health coverage
has probably made it easier for
some people to obtain the drugs.
Theres no doubt in my mind
that improving access to health
care during an era in which opi-
oids are being overprescribed
would lead to more addiction,
said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the di-
rector of Physicians for Responsi-
ble Opioid Prescribing and an ad-
diction specialist.
While 23 million Americans suf-
fer from a substance use disorder,
the surgeon general said in a re-
port last year that only one in 10
was receiving treatment as of
2014, the first year people got cov-
erage through the health law.
Now what were doing is playing
catch-up, said Michael Botticelli,
director of the White House Office
Katharine Q. Seelye reported from
Manchester, and Abby Goodnough
from Washington.
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allied with the White House said
there was little chance of prevail-
ing right away with the Supreme
Court, which is divided along ideo-
logical lines with a seat vacant.
Emboldened by the appeals
court, Democrats attacked Mr.
Trump for trying to subvert Amer-
ican values.
I promise you, we will fight
back, Representative Joseph
Crowley of New York, the chair-
man of the House Democratic
Caucus, said in his partys weekly
radio and internet address. We
will resist. We will resist on behalf
of what is American. And we will
resist on behalf of the immigrants
who came here in the past and
who will come here in the future.
Mr. Trump has other ways to
soldier on. The Ninth Circuit deci-
sion left in place a temporary re-
straining order blocking the travel
order, but did not rule on the un-
derlying constitutional or legal is-
sues of the case. The president
could ask the full Ninth Circuit to
hear an appeal on the restraining
order, or he could return to the
lower courts for a battle over the
merits, which would take longer to
conclude.
The administration was still
fighting battles in other courts
across the nation. Lawyers for the
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of National Drug Control Policy
during the last two years of the
Obama administration.
In the past, a third of private in-
surance plans sold on the individ-
ual market did not cover addiction
treatment, according to federal
health officials, and those that did
imposed strict limits. Medicaid
covered little besides inpatient
detox. Now, more health care
providers are offering and getting
reimbursed for outpatient coun-
seling and medications like Sub-
oxone and Vivitrol, which have
been shown to reduce the poten-
tial for relapse.
The health law encourages pri-
mary care doctors to incorporate
addiction treatment into their
practices. It provided grants to
several hundred community
health centers around the country,
Justice Department were back in
court in Alexandria, Va., outside
the nations capital, arguing
against a preliminary injunction
that would halt the travel ban
from being enforced nationwide.
Given multiple challenges, the
idea of starting over appealed to
the White House.
Edward Whelan, the president
of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center and an advocate of Mr.
Trumps Supreme Court nominee,
Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, wrote on
Twitter that it was utterly crazy
to expect the justices to overturn
Thursdays ruling. As a result, Mr.
Whelan wrote, it would be better
to develop a sensible executive
order and unveil it with clear ex-
pectations for carrying it out.
The original executive order is-
sued last month barred refugees
from anywhere in the world from
entering the United States for 120
days and refugees from Syria in-
definitely. It also cut off visitors
for 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Mr. Trump said he needed time to
tighten screening procedures.
White House officials could
draft a new order that would ad-
dress some of the concerns raised
by the judges. A new order, for in-
stance, could explicitly state that
it did not apply to permanent legal
residents holding green cards. Af-
ter some initial crossed signals,
the White House and the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security have
said Mr. Trumps original ban does
not affect green card holders, but
the appeals court judges pointed
out that was not in the text of the
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MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
many in rural areas, to begin or
expand mental health and medi-
cation-assisted treatment, which
combines counseling and drugs
like Suboxone.
This is a big improvement from
the days when treatment typically
was offered through scattered,
poorly funded stand-alone clinics
that did not necessarily provide
evidence-based treatment and
had long waiting lists, said Rich-
ard Frank, a professor of health
economics at Harvard Medical
School.
The whole system is being
pushed more toward looking like
modern health care, said Dr.
Frank, who worked at the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Serv-
ices in the Obama administration.
The 21st Century Cures Act,
which Congress passed in Decem-
President Trump Friday on Air Force One, where he said we will win the immigration fight.
order.
The White House could also
narrow the categories of people
affected, or change the list of
countries targeted. And it could
take out provisions intended to
give preference to religious mi-
norities, which in Muslim coun-
tries would refer to Christians,
among others. Mr. Trump said in a
television interview that he
wanted to give preference to
ber with strong bipartisan sup-
port, could build on the progress
by providing $1 billion nationwide
over the next two years to expand
drug treatment around the coun-
try, with an emphasis on medica-
tion-assisted treatment. The fed-
eral government will soon begin
distributing the money to states,
which will allot it to treatment pro-
grams, particularly in high-need
areas. But if people lose their in-
surance, Dr. Frank said, they may
well lose access to these new op-
tions.
In Kentucky about 11,000 people
were receiving addiction treat-
ment through Medicaid by
mid-2016, up sharply from 1,500
people in early 2014, according to
the Foundation for a Healthy Ken-
tucky, a health policy research
group. In West Virginia, Ms. Ro-
Christian refugees, but the judges
expressed concern about a reli-
gious rule that could be discrimi-
natory.
Mr. Trump has also argued that
the restrictions were necessary to
stop terrorists from entering the
United States, citing attacks in
Europe over the past year. As the
United States has struggled with
terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, no one has been killed in a
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JACOB HANNAH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
senberg of the National Council
for Behavioral Health said, her
groups member organizations
nonprofit providers of mental
health and addiction treatment
are now treating 30,000 people a
year, up from 9,000 before the
health law.
Here in New Hampshire
which Mr. Trump won resound-
ingly in the Republican primary
and lost by a hair in November
more than 10,000 people have re-
ceived addiction treatment after
gaining coverage through the
Medicaid expansion, said Michele
Merritt, senior vice president and
policy director at New Futures, a
nonprofit advocacy group. Small
treatment centers throughout the
state that had never been able to
bill insurance before have started
doing so, she said, allowing them
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terrorist attack on American soil
by anyone from one of those seven
countries a point noted by the
judges although some would-be
attackers from them have been
thwarted. The White House could
try to offer a stronger rationale for
why a temporary ban would actu-
ally stop terrorism.
In his weekly address, Mr.
Trump told Americans he was
committed to your security and
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to hire more counselors and ac-
cept more patients.
Were just beginning to imple-
ment these exchanges in a way
that people know about them,
said Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a
New Hampshire Democrat, refer-
ring to the exchanges created un-
der the health law. Getting rid of
them, she said, makes no sense.
Others note that even with
more treatment options, the num-
ber of deaths in places like New
Hampshire continues to rise. The
state ranks first nationwide in per
capita overdose deaths from fen-
tanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid
that is now killing more people
here than heroin. Republicans
here have also criticized state
health officials for not tracking
how many Medicaid enrollees
who receive addiction treatment
end up relapsing.
In Pennsylvania, where 124,000
people have received addiction
treatment under the Medicaid ex-
pansion, health officials were dis-
turbed by early data showing that
two-thirds of those who went to
detox got no other treatment serv-
ices. So Gov. Tom Wolf, a Demo-
crat, is designating 45 Centers of
Excellence primary care clin-
ics where people can also get ad-
diction and mental health treat-
ment, with frequent follow-up and
a team of providers closely track-
ing their progress.
The new model is in use here at
the Manchester Community
Health Center, where Mr. Diaz re-
ceives treatment. The center had
offered minimal services for sub-
stance abuse before the health
law.
Now, three years later, it has un-
dergone substantial changes.
More than 40 percent of its pa-
tients had been uninsured; today,
only 20 percent are. The center
used to have one building, a staff
of 55 and 7,500 patients; today, it
has clinics in four locations, a staff
of 230 and more than 16,000 pa-
tients, about 800 of whom have
substance abuse issues.
It has two providers who are li-
censed to prescribe medication-
assisted treatment, which it is ex-
panding to 60 patients, including
pregnant women, the centers pri-
ority. The number may sound
low as far as how many were
treating, said Julie Hazell-Felch,
director of behavioral health at
the center. But its a multitude of
services theyre receiving and
theyre in here weekly, she said,
seeing nurses, a behavioral health
clinician and a medical provider,
and giving urine samples and re-
ceiving their medications.
If the Affordable Care Act is re-
pealed, the center stands to lose
more than $6 million in funding,
mostly Medicaid revenue, about a
third of its $18 million annual
budget.
We would not be able to keep
all four sites open, said Kris Mc-
Cracken, president and chief ex-
ecutive of the health center.
She added: There are only two
avenues to go: You either prevent
and treat, or you street. Thats
what will happen. People will end
up back on the street.
Democrats vow to
continue resistance
on behalf of what is
American.
would not be deterred by criticism
of his order. We will not allow our
generous system of immigration
to be turned against us as a tool for
terrorism and truly bad people,
he said.
Mr. Trumps attacks on the judi-
ciary have drawn criticism. He ini-
tially called a federal district
judge in Seattle who first blocked
his executive order a so-called
judge and said Americans should
blame the judge if there were a
terrorist attack. When the appeals
court took up the case, he said a
bad high school student would
uphold the order.
Mr. Trump started Friday with
another attack on the appeals
court ruling, calling it a disgrace-
ful decision.
But for much of the rest of the
day, he avoided the incendiary
language he has been using. At a
White House news conference
with Mr. Abe before flying to Flor-
ida, he said he would fight in court,
but did not address the judges.
Mr. Trump suggested that he
had learned more about the threat
of terrorism from intelligence
briefings since he took office.
While Ive been president,
which is just for a very short peri-
od of time, Ive learned tremen-
dous things that you could only
learn, frankly, if you were in a cer-
tain position, namely president,
he said. And there are tremen-
dous threats to our country. We
will not allow that to happen. I can
tell you that right now. We will not
allow that to happen.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda
Lawyers and Immigrant Advocacy Groups Brace for a Promised Surge in Enforcement Efforts
This article is by Nicholas Kulish,
Caitlin Dickerson and Liz Robbins.
In Austin, Tex., undocumented
women working in a laundromat
cowered in the back of the room,
petrified after seeing a video and a
photograph of apprehensions out-
side a local grocery store and bur-
ger joint.
A day laborer and mechanic in
Staten Island told his 17-year-old
son where the list of emergency
contacts were, including the name
of the guardian who would take re-
sponsibility for him and his two
younger siblings.
In Savannah, Ga., undocument-
ed restaurant workers were ask-
ing for rides rather than walking
home, afraid they might be
stopped and questioned.
As reports of immigration raids
and roundups have rocketed
across Twitter, Facebook and
texts around the country, undocu-
mented immigrants, their lawyers
and advocacy groups are bracing
for the increased enforcement
that President Trump has called
for.
Susannah Volpe, a managing at-
torney at Ayuda, an immigrant le-
gal services group in Washington,
said she had noticed what seemed
to be roundups of people, like
those without criminal records,
that the government had not pre-
viously paid much attention to.
These are agents going into
apartment buildings or agents go-
ing to worksites, said Ms. Volpe,
who had a client arrested, along
with five others, at a construction
site in Washington last week.
This is new.
School principals in Los Ange-
les have been sent a checklist of
things to do in case immigration
agents turn up. The Mexican gov-
ernment even warned the entire
Mexican community in the
United States to take precautions
and to keep in touch with their
nearest consulate, after the de-
portation of a woman who had
previously been allowed to re-
main in the United States.
Her case illustrates the new re-
ality in the United States, said the
message, from the foreign min-
istry.
In an executive order Jan. 25,
Mr. Trump greatly expanded the
categories of undocumented im-
migrants who would now be prior-
ities for deportation, in keeping
with his campaign pledge to be
tough on illegal immigration. But
despite numerous reports of mass
roundups, it was still unclear Fri-
day whether the promised surge
in enforcement had actually be-
gun.
Officials at Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, or ICE,
Reporting was contributed by Ron
Nixon, Ciaran McEvoy, Jennifer
Medina, Meredith Hoffman,
Manny Fernandez and Richard
Fausset.
Europe Looks
Beyond U.S.
Amid a Chill
Under Trump
By GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON The
weather, and her reception here,
were far colder than when she vis-
ited last summer during the
Obama administration, but Feder-
ica Mogherini, the European Un-
ions foreign minister, made clear
that she can handle a chill in the
air.
I think we are entering into a
different phase of our relation-
ship, Ms. Mogherini said Friday
in a 30-minute interview, adding,
A more transactional approach
means Europeans will be more
transactional, and we will base
our approach on our interests.
But Ms. Mogherini said she had
received important reassurances
from top administration officials
on the Iran nuclear deal and on
Russian sanctions.
I was reassured by what I
heard in my meetings on the in-
tention to stick to the full strict im-
plementation of the agreement in
all its parts, Ms. Mogherini said
of the Iran deal.
On Russian sanctions, she said
President Trumps policy was es-
sentially identical to former Presi-
dent Barack Obamas and to Eu-
ropes.
Ms. Mogherini met on Thurs-
day at the State Department with
Secretary of State Rex W. Tiller-
son; at the White House with Mi-
chael T. Flynn, the national securi-
ty adviser; and with Jared Kush-
ner, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump
who is also the presidents son-in-
law.
Ms. Mogherini said she and
Trump administration officials re-
mained in disagreement on some
Reports of Raids Shake the Undocumented
Esmeralda needs a place to live with her daughter after her husband was deported to Mexico.
said the immigration roundups
that people were seeing did not
represent an increased tempo.
The agency has about 100 fugitive
teams constantly working to
bring in those wanted on a variety
of immigration offenses, and
these teams have been just as ac-
tive as they were during the
Obama administration, officials
said. In 2012, the most active year
for deportations during Mr. Oba-
mas presidency, 409,849 people
were deported.
In a news release Friday, ICE
described as routine a five-day
targeted enforcement action in
which roughly 160 people were ar-
rested in six counties around Los
Angeles. Of those, 150 had crimi-
nal histories, some of them seri-
ous.
Some had already been ordered
deported before Mr. Trump took
office; according to ICE statistics,
Federica Mogherini, the E.U.s foreign minister, met with Secre-
tary of State Rex W. Tillerson in Washington on Thursday.
issues, including refugees and mi-
gration, climate change and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I will go back to Brussels
clearly with the sense that, yes,
we have differences, she said.
More broadly, Ms. Mogherini
said that an administration that
has made America First its
guiding principle will find that Eu-
rope can be equally self-inter-
ested. And she politely reminded
everyone just how vital Europe is
to the economy and security of the
United States.
Mr. Trump has a jaundiced view
of the European Union, seeing it
as a trading rival and predicting
that other member nations will
follow Britain in voting to leave.
His attitude is such a stark con-
trast with that of Mr. Obama that
the European Council president,
Donald Tusk, recently placed Mr.
Trump on a list of threats to the
union alongside radical Islam.
Ms. Mogherini said she sensed
a gradual shift in the administra-
tions attitudes. I think that it is
becoming more and more clear
that the European Union is an in-
dispensable partner in some
fields, she said.
But she is not counting on a
complete transformation. In in-
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there are 960,000 people with de-
portation orders who are not in
custody.
The rash of recent reports
about purported ICE checkpoints
and random sweeps are false,
dangerous and irresponsible,
ICE said in a statement Friday.
These reports create panic and
put communities and law enforce-
ment personnel in unnecessary
danger.
Officials noted, however, that
they did expected the numbers
and deportations to increase in
line with the presidents order. In
Los Angeles, for example, the
county sheriffs department was
told by ICE that it planned to issue
detainers for every illegal immi-
grant charged with a crime, no
matter how serious, according to
Capt. Elier Morejon.
Jonathan Blazer, the advocacy
and policy counsel for the Ameri-
ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
ternational relations, you dont
base your work on hope, she said.
She bluntly warned the admin-
istration not to nominate an am-
bassador to the European Union
who is critical of the bloc, as has
been rumored, or attempt to nego-
tiate a bilateral trading agree-
ment with Britain for years.
The European Union is here to
stay, she said, adding that even
though Britain may leave, the
other 27 will stick together and
stay together because its in their
interests to do so. Ive never seen
them more determined.
Ms. Mogherini implied that the
European Union could start pick-
ing off some of the United States
most likely free-trade partners.
Among Mr. Trumps first ac-
tions was to abandon the Trans-
Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation
trading pact. China is already hop-
ing to replace the United States as
a trading partner in Asia, and Ms.
Mogherini suggested that her bloc
could do the same elsewhere.
A deal between the European
Union and Canada is scheduled to
be finalized next week, and other
deals could be in the offing as our
partners in the world are looking
more and more to Europe as a reli-
able partner.
JARED SOARES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
can Civil Liberties Union, said the
group had been wary of deporta-
tion tactics for years.
One challenge here is that ev-
ery single enforcement action
done outside the jail looks like
Trumps deportation force, he
said. But as we know, under
Obama enforcement was very
high.
The distinguishing factor un-
der Trump is justifiable fear and
anxiety, he added. Those are
categorically new.
Though New York City is a so-
called sanctuary city where the
police and jail officials do not auto-
matically cooperate with immi-
gration agents, undocumented
immigrants can still be picked up
in many places.
Patricia Lavelle, a public de-
fender in New York who repre-
sents immigrants in criminal
cases, has begun telling her cli-
Trump Will Look Into Flynn Reports
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
and GLENN THRUSH
President Trump said he plans
to look into reports that his na-
tional security adviser, Michael T.
Flynn, discussed sanctions in his
pre-inauguration conversations
with Russias ambassador to the
United States and possibly misled
administration officials about it.
I dont know about that. I ha-
vent seen it, said Mr. Trump,
speaking to reporters on Air Force
One late Friday, during a flight to
Florida from Washington. Several
news outlets reported on Thurs-
day that Mr. Flynn and Ambassa-
dor Sergei I. Kislyak had dis-
cussed sanctions that the Obama
administration had imposed on
Russia.
The White House has denied
publicly that the two men dis-
cussed sanctions.
Even as Mr. Trump professed
his lack of knowledge of the
episode, administration officials
were scrambling to contain the
fallout of the latest revelations
about the embattled former three-
star general, who has been criti-
cized internally for his judgment
and for staffing the National Secu-
rity Council with military officers
instead of trained civilian person-
nel.
Perhaps a bigger concern for
Mr. Flynn is his relationship with
Vice President Mike Pence, who
sometimes has had to defend him
in public.
According to two administra-
tion officials, Mr. Flynn told Mr.
Pence in January that he had only
exchanged pleasantries with Mr.
Kislyak during a phone call in De-
cember and denied discussing
sanctions with him. Mr. Pence re-
peated Mr. Flynns account during
a television appearance.
The president still confers daily
with Mr. Flynn, one of the few for-
mer military leaders to support
him during the campaign.
Marlene Mosqueda, at a news conference Friday called by an
immigrant advocacy group after a series of raids in Los Angeles,
said her father, with no record, had been arrested at his home.
ents about the two main places
where they could be apprehended
by immigration officials: outside
of courthouses before or after ap-
pearances, or at home, if they are
living at the same address that
they provided to the police when
they were charged.
Ill ask, Are you still at that ad-
dress? Because if you are not, its
harder for them to find you, she
said, You sort of let them put two
and two together.
As to whether that advice could
lead some clients to avoid show-
ing up for court lawyers are not
supposed to encourage clients to
become fugitives there is a
tension there, Ms. Lavelle said.
But I would tell them that a
warrant issued for your arrest is
not something you would want.
Immigrant advocacy groups
like Make the Road New York
have been holding regular Know
Your Rights workshops in case
ICE comes to the door, and one on
Wednesday in Queens drew 40
people.
On the advice of La Colmena, a
group that assists day laborers in
Staten Island, Armando, 45, who
asked that his last name not be
used because he is in the country
illegally, filled out an emergency
packet, hid it inside his home and
told his oldest son, Johnny, where
to find it. He told me, Do not
worry, nothing is going to hap-
pen, Armando said. I dont
know if he says that to keep us
calm or because he just does not
want to think about it.
Esmeralda, an undocumented
immigrant from Mexico in Alex-
andria, Va., is trying to find a new
place to live with her 2-year-old
daughter after her husband was
deported to Mexico after a routine
check-in at an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement field office.
She is now wondering if she
should apply for a visa which
could end up in her becoming le-
gal, or put her at risk because it
notifies the government of her
presence here.
AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Michael T. Flynn
But three weeks into Mr.
Trumps presidency, Mr. Flynns
role on national security matters
has been challenged by other
West Wing power players in-
cluding the presidents chief strat-
egist, Stephen K. Bannon, and Mr.
Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kush-
ner, who have both taken expan-
sive roles shaping foreign and de-
fense policy.
Representative Adam B. Schiff
of California, the top Democrat on
the House Intelligence Commit-
tee, questioned on Friday whether
Mr. Flynn should be allowed to
stay in his job.
The allegation that Mr. Flynn
spoke about sanctions relief with
the Russian ambassador raises
serious questions of legality and
fitness for office, Mr. Schiff said in
a statement. If he did so, and then
he and other administration offi-
cials misled the American people,
his conduct would be all the more
pernicious, and he should no long-
er serve in this administration or
any other.
Two Democratic senators on
Friday renewed their calls for a re-
view of Mr. Flynns security clear-
ANDREW CULLEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
I have to look out for her, she
said of her daughter. Its just me
and her now.
In Savannah, the immigrant
community has been on high alert
this week. Social media posts
spread around town, warning of
the presence of ICE agents in vari-
ous trailer parks, and informing
people of their rights if confronted
by an agent.
Attention, people of Savannah
and the surrounding areas, de-
clared a Spanish-language mes-
sage posted Wednesday on the
popular Facebook page Latinos
Mexicanos Savannah, which was
subsequently shared more than
400 times. This is to inform you
that we have been notified that im-
migration agents (ICE) are going
to the trailers, knocking and ta-
king people away. It continued,
Be very careful.
In Austin on Friday, more than a
dozen women in a laundromat
were trading news in Spanish
gleaned from text messages and
Facebook feeds about enforce-
ment actions in the area. In one
case, an ICE agent was injured
during a scuffle with a man who
had been arrested in a parking lot,
according to the agency.
Theres no doubt that ICE offi-
cers have significantly more pres-
ence in Austin, and they are ar-
resting people at street stops,
said Denise Gilman, director of
the University of Texas Immigra-
tion Law Clinic. She said it ap-
peared the agency was targeting
people who already had deporta-
tion orders against them, and then
catching others in their dragnet.
One woman in the laundromat,
who is 42 years old and asked not
to be named because she came
here illegally from Mexico, wrote
down a list of phone numbers for
her boss, who is documented, and
arranged for her boss to pick up
her 11-year-old son from school if
she was detained.
I wanted to throw up, but now I
have a plan so I feel calmer, she
said.
ance, citing the reports of the De-
cember call.
This disclosure highlights just
one in a series of decisions made
by Flynn both during his military
service and as a private citizen
that give rise to questions con-
cerning his suitability for contin-
ued access to classified informa-
tion, the senators, Richard Blu-
menthal of Connecticut and
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hamp-
shire, said in a letter to Jim Mattis,
the secretary of defense, and Mike
Pompeo, the director of the C.I.A.
The senators first questioned
whether Mr. Flynn should be al-
lowed to hold a clearance in a sep-
arate letter sent in December.
That letter focused on past inves-
tigations into allegations that Mr.
Flynn leaked classified informa-
tion, and potential conflicts pre-
sented by a private intelligence
firm that he started after being
forced out as head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency in 2014.
Republicans in Congress have
remained largely silent on the
matter, and have said they see lit-
tle gain in openly criticizing Mr.
Flynn. Some believe he will ulti-
mately stumble hard enough that
he will be forced out of the job.
The accounts of Mr. Flynns con-
tacts with the Russian ambassa-
dor added to the questions about
connections between people close
to Mr. Trump and Russia. Ameri-
can counterintelligence officials
are already known to be investi-
gating at least three of the presi-
dents aides: Paul Manafort, his
former campaign chairman;
Carter Page, a businessman and
former foreign policy adviser;
and Roger Stone, a longtime Re-
publican operative.
Those investigations are exam-
ining intercepted communica-
tions and financial transactions as
part of a broad inquiry into possi-
ble links between Russian officials
and associates of Mr. Trump.

THE 45TH PRESIDENT Foreign Relations
Trump Welcomes Japans Premier by Affirming Security Commitment
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
and PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON President
Trump pledged close security and
economic cooperation with Japan
on Friday, opening an elaborate
multiday work-and-play visit with
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is
intended to showcase a warm rap-
port with a central player in Asia.
Hoping to put behind any fric-
tion remaining from his some-
times provocative statements
during last years presidential
campaign, Mr. Trump hugged Mr.
Abe as he arrived at the White
House, lavished praise on him and
his nation, and offered strong re-
assurances about Americas com-
mitment to Japans defense.
The bond between our two na-
tions and the friendship between
our two peoples runs very, very
deep, Mr. Trump said at a news
conference with Mr. Abe, reading
from a prepared text. This ad-
ministration is committed to
bringing those ties even closer.
We are committed to the security
of Japan and all areas under its ad-
ministrative control and to further
strengthening our very crucial al-
liance.
Speaking without notes later in
A Shifting
Approach
To Israeli
Settlements
By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON President
Trump, who presented himself as
a staunch supporter of Israel dur-
ing last years campaign, took a
harder line on settlements in an
interview published on Friday
and indicated that he was rethink-
ing his promise to move the
United States Embassy to Jerusa-
lem.
Mr. Trump told an Israeli news-
paper that settlements dont help
the process and that he did not
believe that going forward with
these settlements is a good thing
for peace. He also did not re-
affirm his past vow to move the
embassy, saying that it is not an
easy decision and we will see
what happens.
The comments amounted to a
striking recalibration of Mr.
Trumps approach to Israel just
five days before Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is sched-
uled to visit the White House.
Mr. Trump and Jared Kushner,
his son-in-law and senior adviser,
have been exploring an Israeli-
Palestinian peace initiative that
would enlist Arab allies, and a
host of Arab leaders have told the
new president that provocative
pro-Israel positions would not
help.
The interview was conducted
with Israel Hayom, the newspa-
per owned by Sheldon Adelson,
the casino magnate and close ally
of Mr. Netanyahu. Mr. Trump
hosted Mr. Adelson and his wife
for dinner at the White House on
Thursday night, along with Mr.
Kushner and Secretary of State
Rex W. Tillerson.
The presidents language in the
interview went beyond the care-
fully written statement issued by
the White House last week saying
that settlements were not an im-
pediment to peace but they may
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his foreign policy, he is proving
to be less of a radical than either
his campaign statements or his
tempestuous early phone calls
with foreign leaders would sug-
gest. On Friday, as he welcomed
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of
Japan to the White House, Mr.
Trump characterized Americas
alliance with Japan as a corner-
stone of peace and stability.
Those time-tested words bore
little resemblance to his threats
during the campaign to mothball
the partnership.
Every president discovers
that it looks different from the
perspective of the Oval Office
than it did on the campaign trail,
said Martin S. Indyk, the execu-
tive vice president of the Brook-
ings Institution. The fact that
President Trump is proving
flexible on some key foreign
policy issues suggests hes less
ideologically driven than his
early moves would imply.
To some extent, Mr. Trump is
simply undergoing the same
evolution that all of his predeces-
sors went through. Mr. Obama,
who ran as an antiwar candidate,
became an avid user of drone
the news conference, Mr. Trump
said he had hit it off with Mr. Abe
personally. We have a very, very
good bond very, very good
chemistry, he said. Ill let you
know if it changes, but I dont
think it will.
The visit, Mr. Trumps second
with a head of government since
being sworn in last month, was an
opportunity for the president to
highlight a positive dynamic with
a leader with whom he had al-
ready developed a relationship.
But it could prove awkward, after
a show of dtente on Thursday
night between Mr. Trump and
President Xi Jinping of China.
Among the topics of discussion
during Mr. Abes weekend visit
will be whether, and how, to pur-
sue a bilateral trade agreement
between the United States and Ja-
pan after Mr. Trumps decision to
withdraw from the Trans-Pacific
Partnership, a sweeping trade
deal between the United States
and 11 nations that included Japan.
Mr. Trump also tried to dispel
doubts about his commitment to a
mutual defense treaty with Japan
that surfaced during his cam-
paign, when he said he was pre-
pared to pull back from the pact
unless Tokyo did more to reim-
The Jewish settlement Maale Adumim, in the West Bank. President Trump told an Israeli newspaper that building new settlements was not a good thing for peace.
not be helpful. The statement was
seen as a sign that Mr. Trump
wanted Mr. Netanyahu to hold off
contentious moves, at least until
their meeting next week.
Since Mr. Trumps inaugura-
tion, Mr. Netanyahus government
has announced the construction of
5,500 new houses in the occupied
West Bank, and the prime min-
ister even raised the idea of build-
ing the first entirely new settle-
ment in years. Mr. Netanyahus
coalition pushed through Parlia-
ment a new bill retroactively au-
thorizing thousands of houses
built on Palestinian-owned land
that are illegal even under Israeli
strikes and other covert counter-
terrorism operations pioneered
by George W. Bush.
In Mr. Trumps case, however,
the recalibration is starker be-
cause of the extreme nature of
the positions he had staked out
on issues like China, Russia and
the NATO alliance, as well as the
Trump campaigns thin ranks of
policy advisers and his slowness
in assembling a full national
security team in the White
House. It also stands in stark
contrast to his more uncompro-
mising approach on other mat-
ters like the legal challenges to
his executive order on immigra-
tion.
He made it all the way to
inauguration without doing the
deep-dive policy reviews and
internal debates that every other
successful administration does
during the campaign and the
transition, said Peter D. Feaver,
who served in Mr. Bushs Na-
tional Security Council.
Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson, administration officials
said, was among those who
urged Mr. Trump to publicly
endorse the One China policy as
a way to defuse tensions with Mr.
Xi. Before Thursday, the two
leaders had not spoken since
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burse the United States for de-
fending Japanese territory.
Mr. Trump reaffirmed his sup-
port for the treaty on Friday, as his
defense secretary, Jim Mattis, did
during a visit to Tokyo last week.
And with his reference to areas
under its administrative control,
Mr. Trump made clear that the
treaty extended to disputed is-
lands in the East China Sea,
A weekend visit aimed
at showing rapport
between old allies.
known in Japan as the Senkaku
and in China as the Diaoyu.
Mr. Abe responded with equal
warmth, congratulating Mr.
Trump on his inauguration and
welcoming his commitment to the
defense treaty while sidestepping
questions about Mr. Trumps with-
drawal from the Trans-Pacific
Partnership. With the birth of the
Trump administration, a new gen-
esis will be built between Japan
and the U.S. in economic rela-
law.
They dont help the process,
Mr. Trump said of settlements in
the Israel Hayom interview. I can
say that. There is so much land
left. And every time you take land
for settlements, there is less land
left. He added: I am not some-
body that believes that going for-
ward with these settlements is a
good thing for peace.
Mr. Trumps statement on the
embassy move was also strikingly
different than past comments.
Arab leaders have warned him
that moving the embassy to Jeru-
salem, which both Israelis and
Palestinians claim, would lead to
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Nov. 14; administration officials
said that the Chinese leader
would not get on the phone with
Mr. Trump without assurances
from the administration that he
would commit to the policy.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
has also emerged as an influen-
tial player, officials said. He
recently returned from a trip to
Asia during which he offered
reassurances of American sup-
port for allies like Japan and
South Korea. Among his travel
companions was Matthew Pot-
tinger, who recently became the
senior director for Asia in the
National Security Council.
There finally is an adminis-
tration beginning to take shape
around him, which there was not
before Tillerson and Mattis in
particular, said Jeffrey A. Bader,
a former top China adviser to Mr.
Obama. During the transition,
no one had the nerve or exper-
tise to contradict him.
In addition to his cabinet offi-
cers, Mr. Trump and his aides are
beginning to soak up advice from
other leaders. The president
stiffened his tone on settlements
after he met briefly with King
Abdullah II of Jordan; his advis-
ers, including Jared Kushner,
spoke with Arab officials, who
tions, he said.
Acutely aware of Mr. Trumps
complaints about foreign competi-
tors, Mr. Abe stressed that Japa-
nese businesses have built fac-
tories all over the United States
and invested $150 billion, creating
many American jobs. Japan, with
our high level of technical capabil-
ity, we will be able to contribute to
President Trumps growth strat-
egy, he said. There will be even
more new jobs being born in the
United States.
He specifically cited Japans
bullet-train technology, noting
that if it existed along Americas
Eastern corridor, it would take
only one hour for the president
to travel from the White House in
Washington to Trump Tower in
New York.
While he stuck to positive
themes during their public com-
ments, Mr. Abe may have ques-
tions in private for Mr. Trump
about his provocative statements
related to Japan, including his
warning to Toyota on Twitter that
he would slap a big border tax
on the carmaker if it built a new
plant in Mexico and his charges
that Japan devalues its currency
to gain economic advantage.
angry and possibly violent reac-
tions because it would be seen as
prejudging a final settlement be-
tween the two sides. The last three
presidents refused to move the
embassy there for that very rea-
son.
Last year, Mr. Trump said he
would move the embassy fairly
quickly after taking office. When
approached by Boaz Bismuth of
Israel Hayom on the eve of his in-
auguration last month, he reiter-
ated his commitment by saying,
You know Im not a person who
breaks promises.
But when Mr. Bismuth asked
about it on Thursday, Mr. Trump
urged the administration not to
give Israel a free hand on the
issue.
In an interview with an Israeli
newspaper, Israel Hayom, which
was published on Friday, Mr.
Trump said settlements dont
help the process a phrase
that is not substantially different
from those used by Mr. Obama or
Mr. Bush.
Every time you take land for
settlements, there is less land
left, Mr. Trump continued.
When the White House issued
an initial statement on settle-
ments last week, some analysts
read its ambiguous wording as
leaving Israel plenty of room for
maneuvering. It said that settle-
ments were not an impediment
to peace, but that they may not
be helpful. Mr. Trumps remarks
were more pointed, however, and
experts said they suggested a
genuine shift.
The right-wingers who looked
at him like he was going to be the
master builder of the Middle
East that was not warranted,
said David Makovsky, a senior
fellow at the Washington Insti-
tute for Near East Policy. The
more he immerses himself in
this, he will see there are con-
flicting pressures and realities.
Mr. Abe was the first foreign
leader to visit Mr. Trump after his
election in November, and they
have spoken a number of times
since then, according to the offi-
cials.
By contrast, the president has
gotten off to a chilly start with Mr.
Xi, who was angered by Mr.
Trumps decision in November to
take a congratulatory call from
the president of Taiwan which
China considers a breakaway
province and his subsequent
questioning of the One China
policy. Mr. Trump had a fence-
mending call with Mr. Xi on Thurs-
day night and agreed to honor the
One China policy at the Chinese
leaders request.
We had a very, very good talk
last night and discussed a lot of
subjects, Mr. Trump said. He pre-
dicted that he would get along
with China and forge a fairer play-
ing field on trade and currency. I
believe that will all work out very
well for everybody, China, Japan,
the United States and everybody
in the region, he said.
Even so, Mr. Abes visit could
fuel suspicions in Beijing that Mr.
Trump intends to make Japan,
rather than China, the focal point
of his engagement with Asia. That
did not repeat his vow. Instead, he
said he was studying it.
The embassy is not an easy de-
cision, Mr. Trump said. It has ob-
viously been out there for many,
many years and nobody has
wanted to make that decision. Im
thinking about it very seriously
and we will see what happens.
Mr. Trump, who last year blis-
tered his predecessor, President
Barack Obama, for not being sup-
portive enough of Israel, said he
would not publicly criticize it. I
dont want to condemn Israel, he
said. Israel has had a long history
of condemnation and difficulty.
And I dont want to be condemn-
He is going to have to navigate
within those constraints.
The White Houses pledge to
carry out the Iran nuclear deal
does not reflect a change of heart
on Tehran. The administration
last week imposed new sanctions
on Iran for its launching of a
ballistic missile. But officials in
the White House are more fo-
cused on curbing what they see
as a pattern of aggressive behav-
ior by Iran from Syria to Yemen.
Mr. Trumps retreat on One
China, experts said, also should
be seen in a regional context. He
offered the concession to Mr. Xi
on the eve of a three-day visit by
Mr. Abe, during which the Japa-
nese leader had lunch at the
White House and is Mr. Trumps
guest at Mar-a-Lago, where they
and their wives are having din-
ner, and the two men are playing
golf at a nearby club.
To allow the tensions between
China and the United States to
fester during such a prominent
display of hospitality to the Japa-
nese, analysts said, would have
further poisoned relations be-
tween Washington and Beijing.
At his news conference with Mr.
Abe, Mr. Trump took pains to say
he and Mr. Xi were developing
their own rapport.
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would be a distinct shift from for-
mer President Barack Obama,
who hosted Mr. Xi in 2013 for an in-
formal summit meeting at the
200-acre Sunnylands estate in
Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Mr. Trumps extended meeting
with Mr. Abe, combining business
and pleasure, follows a first few
weeks in office for Mr. Trump that
have been marked by tense ex-
changes with longstanding
United States allies like Mexico,
Australia and Germany.
After a working lunch at the
White House on Friday, the two
leaders planned to board Air
Force One and fly to Palm Beach,
Fla., where they were to head to
Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trumps club, for
dinner with their wives and a
weekend of relaxation. They will
spend Saturday playing golf to-
gether.
A White House official said Mr.
Trump was paying for Mr. Abe
and his wife to travel to Mar-a-
Lago for the weekend, as a gift
to the leader. That eliminates po-
tential ethics questions the visit
would otherwise pose for Mr.
Trump, who has pledged to con-
tribute to the United States Treas-
ury any profits from foreign vis-
itors to his companys properties.
DAN BALILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ing Israel.
But he also said he wanted Is-
rael to compromise to make
peace. I want Israel to be reason-
able with respect to peace, he
said.
Mr. Trump did not offer support
for a two-state solution, which has
been American policy for years.
However, he held out the prospect
of a regional agreement.
Maybe there is even a chance
for a bigger peace than just Israel
and the Palestinians, he said. I
would like to see a level of reason-
ableness of both parties and I
think we have a good chance of do-
ing that.
It was a very, very warm
conversation, Mr. Trump said. I
think we are in the process of
getting along very well, and I
think that well also be very
much of a benefit to Japan.
Mr. Abe appeared pleased, too,
noting that the president had
reaffirmed the American securi-
ty guarantee to Japan, including
over what the Japanese call the
Senkaku Islands, which are
administered by Japan but
claimed by both Japan and
China. That was a far cry from
Mr. Trumps suggestion during
the campaign that the United
States might walk away from the
alliance.
Michael J. Green, an Asia
director in Mr. Bushs National
Security Council, noted that in
the weeks before Mr. Trump took
office, he suggested that the key
pillars of Americas relationship
with both China and Japan the
One China policy and the mutual
defense treaty would both be
on the table, chips to be used in a
broader negotiation.
Whats been so interesting
about the last few days is that
Trump took both issues off the
table, Mr. Green said. You can
hear the sigh of relief across the
whole Asia-Pacific region.
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team
Senate Splits
As New Chief
Takes Over
Health Dept.
By ROBERT PEAR
and ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON President
Trumps secretary of health and
human services, Tom Price, took
office on Friday with a promise to
fix what he called a broken health
care system that was harming
Americans and their families.
Mr. Price was sworn in by Vice
President Mike Pence just hours
after the Senate, by a party-line
vote of 52 to 47, confirmed his
nomination in the early hours of
Friday morning.
Republicans said that Mr. Price,
62, an orthopedic surgeon, would
bring a physicians insights to
managing a federal agency that
they said had become addicted to
heavy-handed federal regulation
and blind to problems spawned by
the Affordable Care Act, also
known as Obamacare.
Dr. Price has a thorough un-
derstanding of health care policy
and the damage that Obamacare
has caused, said Senator Lamar
Alexander, Republican of Tennes-
see, where consumers this year
saw rate increases averaging 44
percent to 62 percent in the laws
marketplace.
Mr. Alexander, the chairman of
the Senate health committee, said
Mr. Price would be an excellent
partner as Congress tries to de-
vise a replacement for the health
care law championed by former
President Barack Obama.
Senate Democrats and the
chambers two independents said
they feared the worst, based on
Mr. Prices 12-year record as a Re-
publican member of the House of
Representatives from Georgia.
They said that Mr. Price had led
efforts to repeal the health care
law and slow the growth of Medi-
care and Medicaid by shifting
some costs to beneficiaries and
trimming payments to some
health care providers.
This is a sad evening, said
Senator Chuck Schumer of New
York, the Democratic leader.
People will look back and say
that the Republicans war on sen-
iors began at 2 a.m. Friday morn-
ing when the Senate unfortu-
nately confirmed Representative
Price.
The depth of concern about Mr.
Price was illustrated by the com-
ments of Senator Angus King, in-
How to Fix (or Wreck) Obamacare: Advice for the New Secretary
By REED ABELSON
and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Tom Price was confirmed early
Friday as secretary of of health
and human services. In an open
letter to him, two health reporters
go over the choices that await
him.
Dear Secretary Price,
Congratulations on your new
job. We hear you want to replace
the Affordable Care Act or
Obamacare, as you call it.
Congress isnt going to help
you in the immediate future.
Though several health overhaul
bills have been introduced, and
others are being discussed be-
hind closed doors, Republicans in
Congress are not close to voting
on a legislative package. The
new deadline for action appears
to be months, or even a year, in
the future.
What should you do in the
meantime?
You might want things to coast
along as is, to smooth the path
for whatever program comes
next, especially if its going to
take a while. If you prefer this
course, youll want to take steps
to reassure insurance companies
and help keep markets stable.
Or you might want to see the
Obamacare markets burn to the
ground, the better to prove that
wholesale change is needed. If
you want this outcome, youll
want to take steps to rattle insur-
ers and destabilize markets.
DeVos Is Blocked From Entering a School
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
WASHINGTON The newly
minted education secretary, Betsy
DeVos, fled a small group of pro-
testers outside a middle school
here on Friday, at one point hiding
in her sport utility vehicle as a
man wielded a cardboard sign, be-
fore she finally entered.
Video of the odd episode at Jef-
ferson Middle School Academy
from a local television station
showed a handful of people heck-
ling and following Ms. DeVos as
she tried to enter the school. She
turned away with a man escorting
her as one demonstrator shouted,
Go back! Shame, shame.
The exchange could be the first
of many such encounters, as pro-
testers and opponents of Ms. De-
Vos say they plan to remind her of
the fierce opposition she faced
Tom Price during his confirmation hearing in January. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence swore Mr. Price in as secretary of health and human services.
dependent of Maine, who cau-
cuses with Democrats but is not
given to hyperbole.
To put somebody in charge of
the Department of Health and Hu-
man Services that is inimical to
Medicare, Medicaid and the Af-
fordable Care Act this guy is a
wrecking ball, Mr. King said. He
is not a secretary. He is going into
this agency to destroy it. He wants
to undercut and diminish and, in
some cases, literally destroy some
of the major underpinnings of pro-
viding health care to people in this
country.
By contrast, at the swearing-in
ceremony, the vice president said
Mr. Price had emerged as the
most principled expert on health
care policy in the House of Repre-
sentatives, if not the entire Con-
gress.
Mr. Trump said again on Friday
that the Affordable Care Act was
a total and complete disaster.
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So far, President Trump, while
waiting for your confirmation,
has taken pieces from both play-
books. An executive order sug-
gested that you may undermine
incentives for healthy people to
buy insurance, and your depart-
ment pulled advertisements
encouraging people to sign up.
Your department is also appar-
ently taking some steps to shore
up the markets: A regulation,
currently under review by the
Office of Management and Budg-
et, has provisions to try to stabi-
lize markets, according to its
title.
The clock is ticking. Insurers
must start deciding this spring
whether they want to sell Oba-
macare policies next year and
how they should price the plans.
That means they are looking for
clear signs about the policy
environment you will create.
Here are the big choices facing
you next as you think about
which path to choose:
Should you cut off cost-sharing
subsidies?
If you want to break the Oba-
throughout her nomination
process and continues to face as
she weighs sweeping policies,
such as encouraging private
school vouchers. Activists have
said they will protest her at every
opportunity, including during
school visits.
Her response to the protesters
on Friday could encourage more.
We will unleash our activists in
a way that I dont think any secre-
tary of education has ever experi-
enced, said Heidi Hess, a cam-
paign manager for Credo, a mo-
bile phone company with a liberal
activist arm. If she holds field
hearings, we will make sure we
pack them with activists. If she
travels for meetings or if she visits
schools, we will confront her with
protesters and have people lined
up to ask her questions.
With the confirmation of Mr.
Price, he said, the administration
will get down to the final strokes,
devising a plan that can provide
tremendous health care at a
lower price.
In a farewell address to the
House submitted for publication
in the Congressional Record, Mr.
Price said that, as chairman of the
Budget Committee, he had begun
an important effort to fix our na-
tions broken health care system
and get Washington out of the
way of patients and doctors.
One of the first challenges fac-
ing the new secretary is to stabi-
lize insurance markets and decide
the future of financial assistance
provided to insurance companies
that say they have lost large
amounts of money treating pa-
tients under the Affordable Care
Act.
A judge on the United States
Court of Federal Claims ruled on
macare markets, this is your best
bet.
The easiest way is to decide to
stop providing the money that
goes to insurers to help shield
low-income customers from large
medical bills. The House has
sued to stop the administrations
payments on the grounds that
they were illegal because they
were never appropriated. You
can decide to stop defending the
administrations position, effec-
tively cutting off billions of dol-
lars in spending. Insurers have
made it clear that they believe
they would have little choice but
to leave the market. Much of the
marketplace will simply col-
lapse, said Dr. J. Mario Molina,
the chief executive of Molina
Healthcare, a California-based
insurer. It will be fast.
Should you defang the individual
mandate?
The health laws requirement
that all Americans obtain health
insurance or pay a penalty is
very unpopular. But its also
crucial to an interlocking set of
policies devised to keep insur-
ance affordable.
There are various options
available if you wish to weaken
the mandate. The easiest would
be to simply make it easier for
people to get exemptions to the
policy. You have a lot of discre-
tion to decide whether peoples
personal circumstances repre-
As word spread that Ms. DeVos,
a wealthy Republican donor with
almost no experience in public ed-
ucation, had been blocked from
entering the school, Arne Duncan,
a former education secretary un-
der President Barack Obama,
weighed in.
Agree or disagree w @Betsy-
DeVos on any issue, but lets all
agree she really needs to be in
public schools. Please let her in,
he wrote on Twitter.
Ms. DeVos eventually made it
into the school and later told re-
porters the school was awe-
some.
It was really wonderful to visit
this school, and I look forward to
many visits of many great public
schools, both in D.C. and around
the country, Ms. DeVos said.
Thanks very much.
Thursday that the Obama admin-
istration had illegally reneged on
a promise to pay subsidies to an
Oregon insurer, Moda Health
Plan. Many other insurers have
filed similar claims. The Obama
administrations failure to pay the
claims was cited as a reason for
the collapse of many nonprofit in-
surance cooperatives created un-
der the Affordable Care Act.
In the Moda case, Judge Thom-
as C. Wheeler ordered the govern-
ment to pay $214 million that the
company was expecting under a
program meant to limit insurers
losses in their first few years oper-
ating under the Affordable Care
Act. Federal officials failure to
keep their promise was hardly
worthy of our great government,
the judge wrote.
The Trump administration has
not decided whether to appeal the
decision.
The next prospective member
sent hardships that make it
difficult for them to buy insur-
ance. If you broaden these cate-
gories, and widely advertise
these changes, you might cause
many more Americans to forgo
insurance coverage.
Doing this wont immediately
sting insurers, as removing
cost-sharing subsidies would.
But it would hurt them in two
major ways: It would reduce the
number of customers buying
their products. And it would
make the remaining buyers, on
average, sicker and more expen-
sive to cover. Insurers could
respond to this change by simply
raising their prices, but some will
probably respond by exiting the
Obamacare markets altogether.
Eventually, if you do not have
some effective way of enticing
people to sign up for insurance,
you will destroy the market, said
Karen Ignagni, the chief execu-
tive of EmblemHealth, who rep-
resented the insurers when the
law was first drafted. Whenever
a state has forced insurers to
cover everyone without having a
mandate, there was a death
spiral, she said, in which the
prices got so high no one could
afford them and the market
collapsed.
Without legislation, your op-
tions for replacing the mandate
are quite limited.
Will you keep Obamacare
Mayor Muriel Bowser of Wash-
ington also said that the city
wants Ms. DeVos to visit its
schools. DC has the fastest grow-
ing urban school district in Amer-
ica. We welcome @BetsyDeVos &
of Mr. Trumps cabinet to be voted
on will be Steven T. Mnuchin, the
Treasury secretary nominee, on
Monday evening.
Congressional reaction to Mr.
Mnuchin, as to Mr. Price, has been
divided along party lines. Republi-
cans have been impressed with
the former Goldman Sachs
bankers business acumen, while
Democrats have argued forcefully
that he is ill-equipped to steer
Americas economy.
Those divisions were on stark
display during Mr. Mnuchins con-
firmation hearing at the Senate
Finance Committee last month,
when Democrats questioned him
over his business record and ulti-
mately boycotted votes on his
nomination.
The most significant concern
among Democratic critics of Mr.
Mnuchin was that he failed to dis-
close nearly $100 million of his as-
sets and that he did not mention
websites, outreach and other
functions running smoothly?
The Obama administration
often looked under budgetary
couch cushions to find money to
help Obamacare programs
thrive. They funded advertising
to bring people into the market,
made frequent updates to their
website to make it easier to use,
and provided grants to outside
groups that helped people sign
up for coverage.
Pulling back on any of these
functions could make it harder
for eligible people to find out
about Obamacare options and
harder for them to find the right
plan for their needs. That would
also tend to suppress signups
among healthy people, and in-
crease the cost of insurance
coverage.
Will you take actions to reduce
gaming of the system?
Health insurers have long
complained that consumer pro-
tections in the Affordable Care
Act make it too easy for people to
wait until they are sick to sign up
and to cancel their plans once
they are well again. Your depart-
ments coming regulation seems
to be an effort to respond to
some of these concerns.
Such actions will probably
reassure some nervous insurers
by making the market rules
more favorable to them. But you
may want to avoid making very
MARIA DANILOVA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
anyone who wants to learn more
about our schools, Ms. Bowser
tweeted.
Democrats have expressed
concern about contributions by
Ms. DeVoss family to groups that
AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
his role as a director of an invest-
ment fund based in the Cayman
Islands, a well-known tax haven.
Mr. Mnuchin has also been ac-
cused by Senate Democrats of ly-
ing to Congress when he said dur-
ing his hearing that OneWest
Bank did not engage in the fore-
closure practice of robo-signing
when he was its chief executive.
Local news reports suggested
that the bank did engage in such
practices in some states.
Senator Elizabeth Warren,
Democrat of Massachusetts, said
on Friday that such discrepancies
should disqualify Mr. Mnuchin,
who she said was unlikely to look
out for working-class Americans.
Theres nothing in Mr.
Mnuchins record to suggest that
he would want to stand up to Wall
Street, Ms. Warren said in a
speech on the Senate floor. Mr.
Mnuchin is the ultimate Wall
Street insider.
big changes. There is little time
available for carriers to recalcu-
late how they want to price their
policies before the filing dead-
line, and provisions likely to spur
court battles may not give them
the comfort they are intended to
provide.
Time is tight
If youve been listening to your
boss, President Trump, or your
old boss, Paul Ryan, you may be
under the impression that Oba-
macares markets are in free fall.
But a growing body of evidence
suggests they may actually be
stabilizing, even in the wake of
some really high premium in-
creases in 2017. Matthew Fiedler,
the former chief economist for
the Council of Economic Advis-
ers, argued in a recent analysis
that there is strong evidence
that premium increases did not
cause dramatic enrollment de-
clines, much less spark a death
spiral.
Insurers seem to be turning a
corner. Anthem says it is likely to
break even or make money on
individual coverage next year,
and Centene assured investors
that it was not backing off at
all. Where they head next will
be largely determined by your
choices.
Good luck.
Sincerely,
Reed Abelson and Margot
Sanger-Katz
Demonstrators gathered on
Friday outside a middle school
in Washington to protest
Betsy DeVos, the newly con-
firmed education secretary.
support so-called conversion ther-
apy for gay people; her donations
to Republicans and their causes,
which she agreed have totaled
about $200 million over the years;
and her past statements that gov-
ernment sucks and that public
schools are a dead end.
Education unions and activists
flooded senators with emails and
phone calls urging them to vote
against Ms. DeVos. Two Republi-
can senators, Susan Collins of
Maine and Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska, joined Democrats in vot-
ing against her. Vice President
Mike Pence had to cast a tiebreak-
ing vote to get Ms. DeVos con-
firmed.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team

Door Opens Wider for Trump to Reshape Fed Policy

HUNDRED DAYS BRIEFING

STATE DEPARTMENT

Personal Beef Leads President By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

To Reject Tillersons Pick for Deputy
President Trump overruled
his newly minted secretary of
state, Rex W. Tillerson, and
rejected the secretarys choice
for his deputy at the depart-
ment, two people briefed on the
decision said on Friday.
The deputys job was denied
for Elliott Abrams, a conserva-
tive who had served under
Presidents Ronald Reagan and
George W. Bush, and deals a
blow to Mr. Tillerson during his
first week on the job. The rejec-
tion of Mr. Abrams leaves Mr.
Tillerson without a sherpa to
help guide the first-time gov-
ernment official around the
State Department headquar-
ters.
Mr. Trump had a productive
meeting with Mr. Abrams on
Tuesday, according to a White
House official and a person
close to Mr. Abrams. But after
it took place, Mr. Trump
learned of Mr. Abramss
pointed criticisms of the presi-
dent when he was campaign-
ing, the administration official
said. Among those criticisms
was a column headlined When
You Cant Stand Your Candi-
date, which appeared last May
in The Weekly Standard, a
conservative magazine.
Mr. Trump has been increas-
ingly focused on who was with
him or against him during his
campaign, according to several
people who have spoken with
him in recent days.
Charles J. Cooper in 2013 in Washington. On Friday, he
withdrew from consideration to become solicitor general.
SOLICITOR GENERAL
Leading Candidate Backs Out, Citing
The Treatment of Friend Jeff Sessions
With the legal fight over
President Trumps travel ban
apparently headed for the
Supreme Court, a leading con-
tender for the job of arguing
the governments cases before
the highest court has dropped
out of consideration.
The candidate, Charles J.
Cooper, said he was withdraw-
ing as a possible nominee for
solicitor general of the United
States after witnessing the
treatment of my friend Jeff
Sessions, who was confirmed
as attorney general on Wednes-
day after bruising attacks by
Senate Democrats over his civil
rights record.
Mr. Cooper, a conservative
Washington lawyer who argued
against gay marriage in an
important California case, said
Elliott Abrams was denied a
State Department job after
his criticism of the president.
Mr. Tillerson had argued
strongly for Mr. Abrams. So
had Jared Kushner, Mr.
Trumps son-in-law and a sen-
ior adviser. Senator Tom Cotton
of Arkansas, a Republican who
is closely aligned with friends
of Mr. Abramss, as well as
some members of the pro-
Israel lobbying group Aipac,
had been reaching out to Dem-
ocratic senators to impress
upon them the importance of
Mr. Abrams receiving Senate
confirmation.
Aides to the president did not
respond to an email seeking
comment.
MAGGIE HABERMAN
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
that after what Mr. Sessions
had to endure at the hands of
a partisan opposition that will
say anything and do anything
to advance their political inter-
ests, I am unwilling to subject
myself, my family, and my
friends to such a process.
His withdrawal appears to
leave George T. Conway, a New
York lawyer who is married to
Kellyanne Conway, a top White
House aide, as the leading
contender for solicitor general.
Mr. Trump said on Thursday
that he expected to select a
new nominee in about a week.
Whoever gets confirmed for
the job could end up arguing
the legality of Mr. Trumps
travel ban before the Supreme
Court.
ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON Daniel K.
Tarullo, the Federal Reserve offi-
cial who led its efforts to strength-
en financial regulation over the
last eight years, announced on
Friday that he planned to leave
the central bank in early April.
With Mr. Tarullos resignation,
there will be three vacancies on
the Feds seven-seat board, pro-
viding an opportunity for Presi-
dent Trump to start reshaping the
Feds approach to monetary pol-
icy and to the regulation of the fi-
nancial industry.
The Trump administration and
congressional Republicans are
pressing for the Fed and other fi-
nancial regulators to reduce the
constraints on financial institu-
tions imposed in the aftermath of
the 2008 financial crisis.
Mr. Tarullo offered no explana-
tion for his departure in a terse,
two-sentence letter to Mr. Trump.
But eight years is an unusually
long tenure for a Fed governor
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
many leave after just two or three
Daniel K. Tarullo, center, a governor at the Federal Reserve, plans to leave the agency in April.
and people who know Mr. Tarul-
lo said that in recent years he had
become increasingly worn down Treasury official in the Obama ad- the Fed wait until Mr. Trumps ap- the central bank has amply dem-
by the job. ministration, described him as a pointees take over. onstrated in recent decades that
After Mr. Trumps victory, some hero of financial reform. It is incumbent upon all regula- indifferent enforcement serves
Democrats privately urged Mr. Dennis M. Kelleher, chief execu- tors to support the U.S. economy, the same purpose. Mr. Tarullo was
Tarullo to remain in place for at tive of Better Markets, a group Mr. McHenry wrote in the letter, a proponent of vigorous enforce-
least another year, but they did that sometimes clashed with Mr. dated Jan. 31. Accordingly, the ment; under his leadership, the
not convince him. Tarullo because it wanted stricter Federal Reserve must cease all at- Fed asserted greater control over
In an interview on Friday, Mr. regulations, said that he worried tempts to negotiate binding stand- the regulators who worked at the
Tarullo said that he was proud of about Mr. Trumps plans for a re- ards burdening American busi- Feds 12 regional reserve banks.
the progress made over the last
placement. ness until President Trump has The Trump administration, by
eight years in strengthening fi- Ive got a black armband on, had an opportunity to nominate contrast, has expressed sympa-
nancial regulation, particularly of
Mr. Kelleher said. Anybody who and appoint officials that pri- thy with industry complaints over
the largest financial institutions. cares about protecting the Ameri- oritize Americas best interests. that approach.
I think everybody that has
can people from another financial Mr. Trump has no direct control Mr. Tarullo, an early supporter
been working on this can take crash should be very worried over the Fed. Immediately upon of Mr. Obamas 2008 presidential
some satisfaction in how much
taking office, he issued an execu- campaign, joined the Fed in Janu-
has changed, he said.
tive order freezing regulatory ary 2009, when he assumed re-
Mr. Tarullo also said he was op-
work in the executive branch, but sponsibility for overhauling the
timistic that what he regarded as
the most important changes were
Three of seven seats the order does not apply to inde- Feds approach to regulation. He
pendent agencies like the Fed. was particularly influential in
likely to endure. on the central banks Senate Republicans preserved pushing for higher capital stand-
I do think that the core
changes, with respect to the big- board will be vacant. two board vacancies by refusing
to vote on nominees recom-
ards that require banks to obtain a
larger share of their funding from
gest institutions in particular,
which is increased capital, stress mended by President Obama, the investors, reducing reliance on
testing, liquidity requirements, in- same strategy they employed to borrowed money.
creased risk-management expec- merely from the statements Presi- hold a seat on the Supreme Court. In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act cre-
tations and a feasible resolution dent Trump has made and the Now Mr. Trump will be able to fill ated a new position at the Fed, a
regime I think that those are people he has surrounded himself the third of seven seats almost as vice chairman for regulation. The
both very important, and I believe with. quickly. Obama administration, judging
durable, he said. Republicans, by contrast, were That could give Republicans that the Senate would not confirm
The resolution regime refers eager to wrest regulatory control four of the seven seats on the Mr. Tarullo, chose to leave the po-
to rules for unwinding a large fi- from Mr. Tarullo. Feds board. In 2012, in an effort to sition unfilled, allowing Mr. Tarul-
nancial institution that fails. Representative Patrick McHen- conciliate Senate Republicans, lo to perform the work without the
Mr. Tarullo acknowledged that ry, Republican of North Carolina, Mr. Obama appointed a Republi- title.
congressional Republicans want wrote an open letter last month to can governor, Jerome H. Powell. The Trump administration has
to rewrite portions of the 2010 Janet L. Yellen, chairwoman of the Mr. Trump could also replace begun a search for candidates for
Dodd-Frank Act, and he said that Fed, blasting the agency for pur- Ms. Yellen as chairwoman when that position. Among those under
he favored some changes, particu- suing an unaltered regulatory her term ends in February 2018, consideration is David Nason, a
larly easing the burden of regula- agenda since Mr. Trumps elec- although she could choose to re- former Treasury Department offi-
tion for smaller institutions. tion. Mr. McHenry, the vice chair- main on the board. cial who is now an executive at
Democrats publicly saluted Mr. man of the House Financial Serv- Regulations mandated by law General Electric, according to a
Tarullo. Michael S. Barr, a top ices Committee, demanded that cannot be erased by the Fed, but person familiar with the search.
Chicago Officer Who Killed Two Will Not Be Charged
By MITCH SMITH
and MONICA DAVEY
CHICAGO A police officer
here who fatally shot an innocent
bystander and a 19-year-old wield-
ing a baseball bat will not face
state charges, prosecutors an-
nounced on Friday.
The decision brought an end to
a case that raised questions about
training and the use of force by
Chicago police, and one that came
at the height of public outcry
about other police shootings here.
The Cook County states attor-
neys office said it found insuffi-
cient evidence to prove that
Robert Rialmo, the police officer,
was not legally justified in the
shooting in the early-morning
hours of Dec. 26, 2015, at a home on
this citys West Side.
Officer Rialmo was responding
to 911 calls from the home when he
shot and killed Quintonio LeGrier,
a college student, as well as a
neighbor, Bettie Jones, who had
merely answered the front door
for the police.
In a memo, prosecutors said JOSHUA LOTT/REUTERS

A section of a border fence in Arizona. It has been estimated
that a border wall would take more than three years to build.
IMMIGRATION
Presidents Promised Border Wall
May Also Bring a $21 Billion Price Tag
No wonder President Trump
wants Mexico to pay for it.
The wall along the southern
border really a set of fences
and walls would take three
and a half years to build and
would cost $21.6 billion, accord-
ing to an internal report by the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity that was seen by Reuters.
That is well over the $12
billion estimated by Mr. Trump
during the campaign, and the
upper bound of $15 billion cited
by Republican leaders in Con-
gress.
At a time when federal
deficits are again expected to
grow, the amount is not pocket
change. As the population ages
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
and draws on Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid, the
Congressional Budget Office is
already expecting the govern-
ment to heap nearly $10 trillion
onto the federal debt over the
coming decade and that is
with statutory caps on domes-
tic and military spending. Mr.
Trump has already vowed to
bust through those caps on the
military side of the ledger,
something that would take an
act of Congress.
Now he will have to pay
extra for his promised wall
either out of existing domestic
programs or above the nonde-
fense caps.
JONATHAN WEISMAN
that Mr. LeGrier had moved to-
ward Officer Rialmo with an alu-
minum baseball bat over his head
in a threatening manner, and that
a bat, under Illinois law, may be
considered a deadly weapon.
If Officer Rialmo was legally
justified in firing at Mr. LeGrier,
the prosecutors said, he also could
not be held criminally liable for
the death of Ms. Jones, even
though she was a bystander.
The shooting occurred at the
height of scrutiny over police con-
duct in this city, not long after the
Justice Department announced it
would investigate police practices
here, and after Chicago officials
had been ordered to release video
in the shooting of Laquan McDon-
ald, a black teenager who was
shot 16 times by a white police offi-
cer.
The deaths of Ms. Jones and Mr.
LeGrier had rekindled anger
among activists, and had called at-
tention to the way the police re-
spond to situations involving peo-
ple in mental or emotional dis-
tress.
Mr. LeGrier had experienced
emotional problems in the months
before his death, family members
said, and had himself placed three
Janet Cooksey, left, at the funeral for her son Quintonio LeGrier in January 2016 in Chicago.
911 calls to the police that night, re-
porting, at points, that someone
was trying to kill him.
Family members of the dead ex-
pressed outrage on Friday at the
decision. Basileios J. Foutris, a
lawyer for the LeGrier family,
called the decision more of the
same, with one law enforcement
Killings at the height
of scrutiny of police
conduct in Chicago.
agency protecting another.
He called for help to get
shot? Janet Cooksey, Mr. LeGri-
ers mother, said at a news confer-
ence. I dont understand that. I
have no words for that. And yet
this cop is not going to jail? Hes
still on the force? I dont under-
stand the society that we live in to-
day.
Latisha Jones, a daughter of
Ms. Joness, said that her mother
was an innocent woman and she
did no wrong, and recalled shar-
ing Christmas dinner with her
hours before her death.
He took a great woman from us
that we can never get back,
Latisha Jones said. The only
thing we have is memories and
pictures on T-shirts.
Both families have filed civil
lawsuits in the case.
Bettie Jones was at her home,
she was in her house, said Larry
R. Rogers Jr., a lawyer for the
Jones family. She was doing ev-
erything right that day.
Officer Rialmo is on administra-
tive duty at the Police Depart-
ment, officials said, as an investi-
gation continues into whether he
violated department procedures.
But Joel A. Brodsky, a lawyer
for Officer Rialmo, said that pros-
ecutors made the right decision,
that his client had faced a life-
threatening attack and that he
expected him to eventually return
to patrol.
He had no choice but to dis-
charge his weapon in order to
save his life and potentially that of
his partner, and thats what he
did, Mr. Brodsky said. He feels
horrible about having to do that.
And what compounds it is the
tragedy that an innocent person
was killed.
After the shooting, Officer
Rialmo sued Mr. LeGriers estate,
claiming emotional trauma for
Ms. Joness death, and then sued
the city for what he claimed was
inadequate training.
The charging decision was is-
sued by Eric Sussman, an assist-
ant prosecutor, rather than Kim
Foxx, the Cook County states at-
torney, who was elected last fall to
replace a longtime incumbent
who was heavily criticized for her
handling of police conduct cases.
Ms. Foxx previously worked for
a law firm that represents the es-
tate of Ms. Jones, her office said,
so she played no role in reviewing
Officer Rialmos case or in the fi-
nal decision not to bring charges.
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
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A14 0 N
THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team
A Reason for Nominees Delays: No Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll Tests
This article is by Steve Eder,
Matthew Goldstein and Alexandra
Stevenson.
President Trump has blamed
obstruction by Democrats for
delays in confirming his senior ap-
pointments, saying on Twitter
that it is a disgrace that my full
cabinet is still not in place.
But the slow pace of filling out
Mr. Trumps cabinet can be attrib-
uted in part to decisions made in
the early days of the nominee vet-
ting process.
The Trump transition team de-
viated from the practices of recent
Democratic and Republican ad-
ministrations, according to five
people directly involved with the
transition process. The Trump
team chose to skip a practice of
grilling nominees to prepare them
and protect the president from po-
tential embarrassment during the
confirmation process.
Candidates, for example, were
not asked about financial conflicts
and past vices known infor-
mally as the sex, drugs and rock
n roll questions.
The rushed approach has led to
some of Mr. Trumps nominees
many with immense wealth and
complex business interests be-
ing held back by unexpected reve-
lations.
Representative Tom Price of
Georgia, his pick for secretary of
the Health and Human Services
Department, placed stock trades
that were questioned; Andrew F.
Puzder, the labor secretary nomi-
nee, hired an undocumented
household worker; Representa-
tive Mick Mulvaney of South Car-
olina, the choice for budget direc-
tor, skipped paying taxes on a
nanny; and Steven T. Mnuchin,
the Treasury secretary nominee,
made major omissions about fi-
nancial holdings.
It was game time and they
walked up without any uniforms
on and with no playbook, Clay
Johnson III, who directed George
W. Bushs transition effort in 2000,
said about the initial vetting
process by Mr. Trumps adminis-
tration.
So far, nine of Mr. Trumps nomi-
nees who require Senate confir-
mation have been approved. Eight
years ago at this time, 12 of Barack
Obamas appointments had been
confirmed, while 15 of Mr. Bushs
had been confirmed in 2001.
Throughout his campaign,
through the transition and in the
early days of his presidency, Mr.
Trump has often chosen to do
things his own way, ignoring pro-
tocols. After his election, Mr.
Trump held court at Trump Tower
in Manhattan, and other Trump
properties, meeting with job can-
didates and celebrating the selec-
tion of his cabinet and White
House staff but before the rou-
tine background scrubbing that
typically occurs.
In a significant omission, the
new administration early on did
not ask cabinet nominees and top
Illegal Votes
In Texas Lead
To Sentence
Of 8 Years
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gible to vote.
She has a sixth-grade educa-
tion. She didnt know she wasnt
legal, said Ms. Ortegas lawyer,
Clark Birdsall, who once oversaw
voter fraud prosecutions in neigh-
boring Dallas County. She can
own property; she can serve in
the military; she can get a job; she
can pay taxes. But she cant vote,
and she didnt know that.
The punishment was strikingly
harsh for an offense that usually
merits far less jail time, if any. A
second fraudulent ballot case in
metropolitan Fort Worth ended in
2015 with probation.
Ms. Ortega insisted in court
that she had been unaware that
she was ineligible to vote and was
confused by registration forms
and explanations by election offi-
cials.
Prosecutors for Mr. Paxton and
Tarrant County said that she had
lied and that the same forms and
conversations proved it. A jury
convicted her Wednesday of two
felony charges.
Mr. Birdsall said Mr. Paxtons
office had been prepared to dis-
miss all charges against Ms. Orte-
ga if she agreed to testify on vot-
ing procedures before the Texas
Legislature. But the Tarrant
County criminal district attorney,
Sharen Wilson, vetoed that deal,
he said, insisting on a trial that
would showcase her offices ef-
forts to crack down on election
fraud.
Both the attorney generals of-
fice and the county prosecutor de-
clined to comment on the specifics
of Mr. Birdsalls statement, citing
privacy rules for plea-bargain ne-
gotiations. A spokeswoman for
Ms. Wilson, Sam Jordan, said any
White House officials to fill out the
sex, drugs and rock n roll ques- tration has made efforts to catch
tionnaire that has become a rou-
tine part of the nomination
process. The questionnaire was
used by the past two administra-
tions to help conduct the early vet-
ting of potential cabinet nomi-
nees.
In addition to trying to deter-
mine potential financial and pro-
fessional conflicts of interest, the
questions concern areas of poten-
tial blackmail, past criminal inves-
tigations, and whether taxes have
been paid for nannies and hired
help.
The goal is to have the most se-
rious issues facing a potential can-
didate figured out well before the
F.B.I. conducts background
checks and before financial disclo-
sure statements are filed with the
Office of Government Ethics.
negotiations were only discus-
sions, a description Mr. Birdsall
disputed.
Ms. Ortegas conviction looks to
be an early volley in a reinvigo-
rated partisan war over voting
rights a war led in Texas by Mr.
Paxton, who has crusaded against
voter fraud. (Coincidentally, he
faces legal issues of his own: state
securities fraud charges and a fed-
eral lawsuit stemming from ef-
forts to recruit investors for a
technology company; he has de-
nied wrongdoing.)
Last year, federal courts curbed
or nullified Republican-backed
laws making it harder to vote, say-
ing they reduced turnout by Dem-
ocratic-leaning minorities, delib-
erately or otherwise.
Texas strict voter-ID law was
among them. A federal appeals
court ruled last year that the law
hurt Latinos and African-Ameri-
cans, who were less likely to have
the IDs. It later ordered state offi-
cials to change their public educa-
tion campaign on new ID rules.
With President Trumps elec-
tion, a new Justice Department
and a new conservative nominee
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HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In recent weeks, the adminis-
holdings, like stakes in private eq-
up. It has hired an ethics compli-
ance team, including four lawyers
working for Donald F. McGahn,
White House counsel.
And White House ethics offi-
cials have now begun circulating a
new version of the questionnaire.
The new form, unlike the previous
one used by the Obama adminis-
tration, asks nominees just one
question about conflicts of inter-
est and skips over queries about
ties to corporations or invest-
ments in properties, according to
a copy reviewed by The New York
Times. The slimmed-down form
focuses mainly on questions of
character and potential lawsuits
that could arise from sexual and
racial harassment claims.
The White House did not re-
spond to emails and calls request-
to the Supreme Court, Republi-
cans have renewed their push for
strict voting requirements in the
name of combating fraud. Experts
widely dismiss the fraud claims as
unfounded. In unguarded mo-
ments, a number of Republican
politicians have acknowledged as
much.
Ms. Ortegas case is unusual not
just for its harshness but for its
circumstances. Many fraud con-
victions that draw prison sen-
tences and some that do not
involve clear efforts to influence
election results. Texas prosecu-
tors won prison sentences for four
men who moved into a hotel in
2010 to claim residency so they
could sway a local election. A
woman in Brownsville, Tex., was
placed on five years probation for
casting five absentee ballots un-
der different names in elections in
2012.
Lawyers offered no clear mo-
tive for Ms. Ortegas decision to
cast ballots beyond her desire to
participate in elections.
Ms. Ortega, a native of Mon-
terrey, Mexico, came to Texas
with her mother when she was an
Nominees have stumbled. Steven T. Mnuchin, above, chosen for
Treasury secretary, didnt properly disclose his finances. Andrew
F. Puzder, left, the pick for labor, hired an undocumented worker.
ing comment for this article.
The Trump teams approach of
announce first, vet later has led to
confusion, clearance delays and
situations where candidates were
unexpectedly thrust into a spot-
light of public scrutiny. Already
one prominent nominee, Vincent
Viola, the candidate for secretary
of the Army, has walked away af-
ter concluding that it would be an
insurmountable task to disen-
tangle himself from his many
businesses.
Nominees have been caught off
guard by their need to sell or dis-
tance themselves from unusual
uity and hedge funds, family
trusts and even professional
sports franchises to steer clear of
conflicts before taking a govern-
ment post. In the case of Wilbur L.
Ross Jr., the billionaire and com-
merce secretary nominee, ethics
monitors granted him twice the
normal 90-day period to sell off his
assets, many of which are inti-
mately tied up in private invest-
ment funds.
Despite the vetting issues, few,
if any of Mr. Trumps cabinet no-
minees are expected to be re-
jected by the Senate.
Some people close to the nomi-
nation process said that officials
with the Office of Government
Ethics, which works with nomi-
nees to decide how to deal with po-
tential conflicts, lacked an under-
infant. More than a decade later,
the family was scattered after the
mother was arrested and de-
ported. Two brothers born in Dal-
las automatically gained citizen-
ship; Ms. Ortega became a per-
manent resident and gained a
green card, her brother Tony Orte-
ga, 35, said in an interview.
As a Dallas County resident,
she registered to vote and later
cast ballots in elections in 2012 and
2014, her lawyer, Mr. Birdsall, said.
While that was illegal, there was
no attempt to break the law, he
maintained: Some government
forms allow applicants to declare
that they are permanent resi-
dents, but the voting registration
form asks only whether an appli-
cant is a citizen.
Lacking the permanent resi-
dent option, he said, she ticked the
citizen box. When the county
later mailed her a registration
card, he said, she believed she
was good to go.
Ms. Ortega moved to neighbor-
ing Tarrant County and again reg-
istered, but this time checked a
box affirming that she was not a
citizen. When her application was
AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
standing of some of the more so-
phisticated financial investments
held by nominees, making the
process more difficult. Compared
with previous administrations,
Mr. Trumps government has
more billionaires and multimil-
lionaires.
The transition from a national
political campaign to taking over
the White House is always a diffi-
cult one. A new team of people as-
sumes unfamiliar levers of power,
while also going on a hiring spree
installing dozens of high-level
appointees and droves of under-
lings.
In the case of the Trump admin-
istration, the transition was ham-
pered by a management shake-
up. Mr. Trump appointed Chris
Christie, New Jersey governor, as
chairman of his transition months
before Election Day, but decided
to remove him and much of his
team soon after his victory.
The decision to oust Mr.
Christies team, without quickly
putting in place a new one, left the
administration, which must still
fill hundreds of top jobs, ill pre-
pared for the nomination process.
The vetting process is de-
signed to identify issues about fit-
ness and confirmability prior to
public announcement, said Leslie
B. Kiernan, a former deputy
White House counsel for Presi-
dent Obama and now a partner
with the law firm Akin Gump.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DYLAN HOLLINGSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A photo of Rosa Maria Ortega with her family. Ms. Ortega, who
is a permanent resident but not a citizen, said she didnt know
she was ineligible to vote. Above, Clark Birdsall, her lawyer.
rejected in March 2015, the trial
showed, she called election offi-
cials and told them that she had
previously voted in Dallas County
without difficulty.
Told that she could not vote un-
less she was a citizen, she asked
for another application and re-
turned it with a check in the box
affirming citizenship. That raised
questions, and law enforcement
officials arrested her on fraud
charges.
Jonathan White, an assistant at-
torney general who helped pros-
ecute the Ortega case with Tar-
rant County officials, said the evi-
dence of fraud was unambiguous.
She told the elections office she
was a citizen, he said. She told
everyone else she wasnt, includ-
ing a recorded statement to pros-
ecutors in which she said she was
a citizen of Mexico.
Mr. Birdsall said the arrest and
prosecution are punishing a wom-
an for her own confusion over
whether residency and citizen-
ship confer the same rights.
She wasnt trying to topple the
country, he said. She was trying
to make more serious decisions
about our country than the 50 per-
cent of the people who didnt bo-
ther to vote in the last election.
This country is so inflamed by
this Donald Trump nonsense that
The confirmation hearing for
Mr. Puzder, the billionaire restau-
rant owner-nominee to head the
Labor Department, was post-
poned several times because of a
delay in filing his financial disclo-
sure statement.
Mr. Puzders hearing is now
scheduled for Thursday after the
ethics office on Wednesday
cleared his financial disclosure
statement and ethics agreement.
In the agreement, Mr. Puzder said
that if confirmed, he would divest
himself of his holdings in CKE
Restaurants, the operator of the
Hardees and Carls Jr. fast-food
chains that he heads.
Todd Ricketts, the deputy com-
merce secretary nominee, has not
had a confirmation hearing yet,
even though he was announced by
the Trump team on Nov. 30. Mr.
Ricketts is the scion of a wealthy
family and co-owner of the Chi-
cago Cubs. A letter on Feb. 7 to Mr.
Ricketts by several Democratic
senators asked him for more in-
formation about his political fund-
raising activity.
Despite the setbacks for Mr.
Trump, the administration has
had ample resources at its dispos-
al. One bipartisan program, called
the Center for Presidential Transi-
tion, met with the remaining cam-
paigns in the spring to offer advice
on a process it calls big, compli-
cated and dangerous.
In the months before the elec-
tion, the Office of Government
Ethics also communicated with
representatives for Mr. Trump. Af-
ter his victory, the office offered to
bring over supplies, including reg-
ulatory books and ethics guides,
according to internal emails made
public by the agency in response
to records requests.
But with the turnover at the
Trump transition team in the
wake of the election, the commu-
nication with the agency stopped.
Walter M. Shaub Jr., director of
the office, cautioned in a Nov. 18
email that cabinet nominees who
did not make use of the office for
prescreening posed the risk of
embarrassment for the president-
elect and his appointees.
Mr. Shaub wrote in one email,
We seem to have lost contact
with the Trump-Pence transition
since the election.
The messy start to the ethics
process could still come back to
haunt the administration.
In 2000, when Mr. Bush faced a
condensed timeline after the con-
tested election in Florida, his team
moved aggressively to minimize
potential surprises, said Mr. John-
son, who was executive director of
the transition. Their approach
was to demand answers to the
tough questions at the beginning
of the process, before anyone was
announced.
It becomes you tell us every-
thing we need to know, he said. If
you dont tell us something, we
drop you faster than a blink of an
eye.
theyve turned her into a whip-
ping boy, he said.
Ms. Ortega is now in a Fort
Worth jail awaiting transfer to a
state prison. Her four children,
ages 13 to 16, are being cared for by
siblings and her fianc, Oscar
Sherman, 27, a trucker who said
her arrest had scotched their
plans to marry. The childrens fate
is unclear. Mr. Sherman lacks le-
gal custody; her siblings are still
debating their options.
Ms. Ortegas future is bleak.
The federal government frowns
on giving green cards to felons.
Shell do eight years in a Texas
prison, Mr. Birdsall said. And
then shell be deported, and wake
up blinking and scratching in a
country she doesnt know.
Far-right websites have seized
on Ms. Ortegas conviction as
proof that Mr. Trump is right
about rampant fraud and efforts
by Democrats to steal the Novem-
ber election.
There is, however, at least one
flaw in that story: Ms. Ortega was
a registered Republican.
She voted for Mitt Romney
over Barack Obama in the 2012
election. In 2014 she voted for our
current attorney general, Ken
Paxton, Mr. Birdsall said. And
guess what? Hes the one respon-
sible for prosecuting her.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Gators in the Sewer? I Want It to Be True

Urban Legend Lives On
Despite Little Evidence
By COREY KILGANNON
New York City may have been blanketed
with a snowstorm on Thursday, but under
those snow-strewn streets, legions of mythi-
cal alligators slithered impervious through
the citys swampy sewer system.
I want it to be true, said Michael Miscione,
of the entrenched myth that there are alliga-
tors in the bowels of the city.
Because of his passion for this longstanding
legend, Mr. Miscione, the official borough his-
torian for Manhattan, has long been observ-
ing Feb. 9 as Alligators in the Sewers Day, an
unofficial holiday to honor discarded pets or
escaped beasts that have grown large below
our streets.
The handful of hearty souls who braved the
snow on Thursday night to make it to the
Greater Astoria Historical Society in Queens
were given a rubber alligator and the chance
to hear Mr. Miscione discuss the legend of the
sewer gator and how it has become a motif in
movies, television and books.
Its all over the place, he said. Its a leg-
end I happen to love.
It is also a legend rooted in a true story.
Feb. 9 corresponds to the date in 1935 when
a group of teenagers in East Harlem caught
an eight-foot alligator underneath a manhole
on 123rd Street.
The next day, The New York Times pub-
lished an account of the event, headlined Alli-
gator Found in Uptown Sewer, which helped
STEVE BERMAN

NYC PARKS AND RECREATION

Top, Richard Willis, at the Kissena Park

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fuel the urban legend, Mr. Miscione said.
The article reported that the 125-pound rep-
tile was discovered by a teenager named Sal-
vatore Condulucci as he shoveled snow into a
manhole.
Honest, its an alligator! he shouted to his
friends, the article said.
The boys looped a rope around the animals
neck and pulled it onto the street, but when it
snapped at them, they beat the reptile to
death.
It was believed the alligator may have es-
caped from a steamer that had traveled north
from the Everglades and swam into the
Harlem River and into a sewer outflow, Mr.
Miscione said.
Or it could have been brought back from
Florida as a live souvenir, or even bought
through the mail, he said, displaying adver-
tisements from the 1930s from companies that
offered baby alligators through the mail.
Mr. Miscione showed a current United
States Postal Service regulation stipulating
that alligators not exceeding 20 inches in
length may be shipped through the mail.
Which means, Mr. Miscione exalted, that
you can still mail a baby alligator.
The East Harlem alligator was briefly dis-
played at a local store and then collected by
trash removers and left in a dumping ground
TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
on Barren Island in Jamaica Bay, he said.
Though the Times article fueled specula-
tion about a wider population of alligators in
the sewer, this has been widely debunked by
experts. Still, there have been many cases of
alligators and similar reptiles being found
aboveground, including a four-foot alligator
taken out of Kissena Lake in Queens in 1995;
an American alligator found in 2003 in Alley
Pond Park, also in Queens; and a two-foot
MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
caiman caught in Central Park in June 2001.
Mr. Miscione used the alligator legend as a
point of departure to recount other urban leg-
ends.
New York Citys been riddled with myths,
hoaxes and urban legends, he said.
He mentioned the Staten Island Ferry Dis-
aster Memorial erected by an artist on Staten
Island as a hoax to observe the doomed voy-
age of a Staten Island Ferry that was pulled
under by giant octopus off Lower Manhattan.
Of course, this faux tragedy has remained ob-
scure because it was said to have occurred on
Nov. 22, 1963, which meant that it got over-
shadowed by the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
Then there were several newspaper arti-
cles that have promoted hoaxes, including a
series in 1874 in The New York Herald report-
ing a mass escape from the Central Park Zoo
that had wild animals rampaging through the
city, killing scores of people. It caused panic
in the streets, Mr. Miscione said.
The historical society then held a quiz on
Day Camp in Queens, caught an alliga-
tor in the park in 1995. Left, Kevin
Walsh, the creator of the Forgotten New
York website, left, awarding the alligator
trophy to Phyllis Nittoli, with Michael
Miscione, the Manhattan borough histo-
rian. Above, an alligator caught in 2003
in Queens. Far left, a Times article from
Feb. 10, 1935, and, below, subway art.
Queens trivia, created and administered by
Kevin Walsh, the webmaster and developer of
a popular website Forgotten New York.
His questions were tough and culminated
with a challenge to spell the Kosciuszko
Bridge correctly. Nobody did, not even Phyllis
Nittoli, a real estate appraiser from Manhat-
tan, who got the highest score and was hon-
ored with an alligator trophy. The award had
been purchased from a Florida company that
specializes in trophies for the University of
Florida, whose athletic teams are known as
the Gators, said Bob Singleton, executive di-
rector of the historical society.
Mr. Singleton said he told employees of the
trophy dealer about alligators in New York
sewers, but they did not seem as impressed
with the supposed proliferation of alligators
as New Yorkers tend to be.
They reminded us that they have plenty of
alligators, he said, in the canals, on the golf
courses, and even just walking down the
street.

De Blasio and Comptroller Trade Barbs Over Police Body Camera Deal
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
On a day when he might have been en-
joying praise for a smooth response to
the years first big snowstorm and in an
upbeat mood over his coming State of the
City speech, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Fri-
day instead stepped in a puddle of slush
of his own making.
The day started with the mayor pick-
ing a fight with the city comptroller, Scott
M. Stringer, during a radio interview.
Mr. de Blasio was irked at Mr. Stringer
for refusing last Friday to register a $6
million contract for the Police Depart-
ment to buy 5,000 body cameras along
with a system to operate them.
On Monday, the mayor had criticized
Mr. Stringers action, suggesting that a
competing body camera maker might be
behind the comptrollers move. Mr. de
Blasio said the contract would be regis-
tered a step needed for it to be final-
ized despite Mr. Stringers objection.
It later emerged that Mr. Stringer had
declined to register the contract after
learning that the citys Investigation De-
partment had opened an inquiry into the
deal. It was not clear what prompted the
investigation.
Asked about the dispute on Friday
during his weekly session on WNYCs
Brian Lehrer Show, Mr. de Blasio said:
Im going to use a legal term, Brian.
That was a cheap stunt by the comptrol-
ler, and he had to retreat from it very
quickly.
Mr. de Blasio accused the comptroller
J. David Goodman contributed reporting.
Potential foes accuse each
other of a cheap stunt
and misplaced attacks.
of exceeding his authority in seeking to
block the contract and of trying to weigh
in on the larger policy matters related to
the use of body cameras.
Mr. de Blasio is running for re-election
this year and Mr. Stringer, a Democrat
like the mayor, is often mentioned as a
possible opponent.
The mayors jab elicited a quick re-
sponse from the comptroller.
We investigate city agencies and we
make sure that when we register con-
tracts, we have all the questions we need
answered, Mr. Stringer said in an inter-
view on Friday. Thats what comptrol-
lers do. The fact that the mayor doesnt
seem to understand that is just trou-
bling.
Misinformation, managerial break-
downs and misplaced attacks are em-
blematic of how City Hall seems to oper-
ate, he added.
Later in the day, Mr. de Blasio held a
news conference in the Bronx to an-
nounce an increase in the citys high
school graduation rate, to 72.6 percent,
which he and other officials described as
a historic high.
But the achievement and a separate
announcement about a new affordable
Mayor Bill de Blasio in Queens last week. On Friday, he criticized the city
comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, for blocking a Police Department contract.
housing initiative to be included in the
mayors State of the City speech on Mon-
day were at least partly obscured by
questions about the feud with Mr. String-
er and the continuing investigations into
Mr. de Blasios fund-raising activities.
Mr. de Blasio was questioned in De-
cember by investigators with the Man-
hattan district attorneys office who are
examining his role in raising money for
Democratic State Senate candidates in
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
2014.
He has also agreed to be questioned by
federal investigators from the office of
the United States attorney in Manhattan,
Preet Bharara an interview that is ex-
pected to occur in the coming days.
When asked about the investigations,
the mayor has typically been brusque in
his replies, saying little, if anything. On
Friday, his office went further, sending
an email to reporters in an effort to shut
off questions on the topic.
The email contained what Mr. de Bla-
sios press secretary, Eric Phillips, called
a fact sheet about the inquiries, saying it
was the extent of public information the
mayors office will be disclosing and as-
serting twice more that the mayor and
other city officials would not answer fur-
ther questions or provide further infor-
mation.
The fact sheet said the mayors office
was cooperating with investigators and
added that the mayor did not request
and was not offered immunity in ex-
change for participating in these discus-
sions.
Despite the email from Mr. Phillips
or perhaps because of it Mr. de Blasio
was asked at the Bronx news conference
whether his question-and-answer ses-
sion with federal investigators had oc-
curred yet.
The simple point is, when that hap-
pens, we will tell you when its done, he
said. And you dont have to ask each
time. I guarantee you, when it happens
well tell you when its done.
The mayor was asked at least twice
more about Mr. Phillipss email and the
investigations, including a statement
that the mayor would not use city money
to pay his lawyers.
Mr. de Blasio said he would create a le-
gal-defense fund to raise money to pay
those fees.
The news conference ended shortly
thereafter, with no one asking about the
success of the previous day in clearing
the streets.
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Graduation Rate in New York State Hits a New High: 79.4%
By KATE TAYLOR
The New York State Education
Department said on Friday that
the high school graduation rate hit
a new high of 79.4 percent in 2016,
an increase of 1.3 points from 2015
and more than 12 points from a
decade ago. But changes to gradu-
ation requirements in 2016 made it
hard to know whether schools
were doing better or students
were simply clearing a lower bar.
Among other changes, the
Board of Regents, the body that
governs the states education sys-
tem, made it possible for students
with disabilities to graduate by
passing two Regents exams,
rather than five, if they showed
proficiency in the other subjects
through coursework. The Educa-
tion Department said that 418 stu-
dents statewide benefited from
that change alone, which nudged
the graduation rate up by 0.2 per-
cent.
Additionally, the Regents al-
lowed more students to appeal to
their districts to graduate despite
falling slightly short on one or two
Regents exams. The Regents also
let students graduate by passing
four Regents exams and earning a
credential showing that they have
the skills for entry-level employ-
ment. The Education Department
said it could not say how many
students had benefited from those
changes.
While the adjustments placed
an asterisk on the states an-
nouncement, data from New York
City, where the graduation rate in-
creased to 69.6 percent from 67.2
percent in 2015, offered clearer ev-
idence of progress.
Speaking at a news conference
in the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio
noted that the share of students
who met the City University of
New Yorks standards for college
readiness in English and math
had hit a high of 37.2 percent in
2016. There was a change in that
standard, as well: CUNY lowered
its bar for college readiness on the
algebra Regents exam to a score
of 70 from 80 because the state
had switched to a harder test. But
the citys Education Department
said that affected only 275 stu-
dents and thus accounted for only
Conflicting Views on a Broader Way for the Police to Use DNA
By ELI ROSENBERG
The question of how widely in-
vestigators should be able to ex-
amine DNA databases is in the
news, as officials in New York de-
liberate whether to authorize a
method that could help find rela-
tives of people charged with
crimes.
Called familial searching, the
technique attracted support after
the murder of Karina Vetrano in
Queens, a case that stymied inves-
tigators for months. Though a re-
cent break in the case that led to
the arrest of a suspect did not in-
volve familial searching, the push
for New York to join at least nine
other states in authorizing the
method has continued.
Familial searching allows in-
vestigators to look through data-
bases with wider parameters to
identify people who are most
likely close relatives of the person
who may have committed a crime.
After a relative is found, investiga-
tors work backward to find the
suspect. Many officials say famil-
ial searching is an important tool
for solving particularly stubborn
cases. It has led to arrests in cases
like the so-called Grim Sleeper in
Los Angeles. Ms. Vetranos par-
ents, too, have advocated its use.
But the method has raised ethi-
cal questions. Many see it as an in-
vasion of privacy that draws an in-
nocent group of people and
their DNA into criminal inquir-
ies based on their blood relation to
a suspect or someone convicted of
a crime. And there was at least
one case where familial searching
was used and an innocent man
was told he was a murder suspect,
before he was eventually cleared.
On Friday, the National Com-
mission on Forensic Science,
which is weighing whether to au-
thorize the method in New York,
held a public meeting to hear testi-
mony on both sides of the debate.
Here are remarks from four peo-
ple who shared their perspectives
at the hearing. Their comments
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Students at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice on Friday. New York Citys graduation rate grew to 69.6 percent.
a small portion of the gain.
Even so, the share of students
who met the standard for college
preparedness was still far below
the share who received diplomas.
Mr. de Blasio said that the city
wanted to see that difference
shrink over time.
What we can say today is that
51 percent of our graduates, we
can say squarely from last year,
were college ready, he said.
Were on goal for 66 percent over
the next 10 years, and then we
have to just go farther and far-
ther.
The graduation rates were for
students who graduated by or be-
fore June. When students who
graduated in August, after attend-
ing summer school or retaking
A memorial for Karina Vetrano at the site where she was strangled in August in Howard Beach,
Queens. Her case stymied investigators for months. Ms. Vetranos parents have advocated a tech-
nique called familial searching, which could identify people related to the perpetrator of a crime.
have been edited for length and
clarity.
Disproportionate Impact
The criminal justice system has
created a massive racial disparity
in the way poor New Yorkers of col-
or are policed and prosecuted. So
logically their overrepresentation
in the DNA database would be
equally dramatic. Thus, the com-
munities largely falling under in-
vestigation from familial search-
ing would be those communities of
color already disproportionately
affected by the criminal justice sys-
tem as it is.
This kind of hunch policing in
communities of color used to go by
the name stop and frisk. Eventu-
ally declared unconstitutional,
Two Plead Guilty to Plotting Pressure-Cooker Bombing
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
Two New York City men have
pleaded guilty to federal charges
that they plotted a pressure-
cooker bomb attack in the city on
behalf of the Islamic State, pros-
ecutors said on Friday.
The men, Munther Omar Saleh,
21, of Queens, and Fareed Mu-
muni, 22, of Staten Island, were ar-
rested in 2015.
Mr. Saleh searched online for
materials needed to build a pres-
sure-cooker bomb and looked at
images of city tourist attractions
in hopes of carrying out an attack,
a federal complaint said. An ISIS
fighter gave Mr. Mumuni the go-
ahead for a suicide attack against
law enforcement officers who
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Regents exams, were included,
the statewide graduation rate was
81.4 percent, and it was 72.6 per-
cent in the city.
Statewide, the disparities in
graduation rates remain large for
black and Hispanic students ver-
sus white students, students with
disabilities versus general-educa-
tion students, and students who
are still learning English versus
proficient English speakers. The
rate for black and Hispanic stu-
dents is more than 20 percentage
points below that of white stu-
dents, though the gap has nar-
rowed by roughly five points since
2014.
Clearly, we can see that were
going in the right direction, the
state education commissioner,
stop and frisk had a devastating
impact on communities of color
and their relationships with law
enforcement. Now instead of
whats in your pockets, law en-
forcement wants to know whats in
your DNA, all because a relative of
yours was convicted of a past
crime.
Brad Maurer, DNA specialist
at the New York County Defender
Services.
Helping Solve Crimes
It reliably can generate leads
that enable law enforcement to
identify the guilty. But the tech-
nique can also, importantly, help
ensure that the innocent will not be
wrongly charged, let alone sub-
jected to prosecution, conviction or
were following the men, the
United States Attorneys Office for
the Eastern District of New York
said in a statement.
A police officer for the Port Au-
thority of New York and New Jer-
sey saw Mr. Saleh walking on and
looking around the George Wash-
ington Bridge on two consecutive
days. The authorities said he was
also seen visiting a spy store in
Queens and he later searched on-
line for disguises.
Mr. Saleh was studying electri-
cal circuitry at a college in Queens
at the time of his arrest. A criminal
complaint said he had translated
Islamic State propaganda into
English and criticized Al Qaeda as
being too moderate.
Mr. Saleh, Mr. Mumuni and oth-
MaryEllen Elia, said in a confer-
ence call with reporters about the
racial achievement gap. Still, she
acknowledged that it will just
take too long to shrink this gap,
and the Regents and I are focused
on examining ways to eliminate
the gap.
There was a sharp drop in the
graduation rate among students
still learning English, who are
generally recent immigrants. The
graduation rate for these students
declined to 26.6 percent in 2016
from 33.8 percent in 2015. That re-
flected a decline in New York City,
where the graduation rate for so-
called English language learners
fell by 9.6 percentage points, to
26.9 percent. However, the city
said the decrease had been caused
by more students learning enough
SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
sentence. Why, weve been asked in
the past days, are we still pressing
for familial DNA searching if an
arrest has been made in the mur-
der of Karina Vetrano? After all, it
was the vicious killing of this young
women that drew our attention to
this modern tool of DNA technol-
ogy and it moved us to press the
commission to take up the issue.
We are grateful that with the ar-
rest the Vetrano family may find
some very small measure of com-
fort in knowing that a suspect has
been apprehended. However, while
the public can rest easier knowing
the suspect is in custody, there are
other horrible crimes that remain
unsolved.
Eric C. Rosenbaum, chief of
the Queens District Attorneys
DNA Prosecutions Unit
ers helped plan a New Jersey
mans trip to ISIS-controlled terri-
tory, the statement said. Mr. Saleh
accompanied the man, Nader
Saadeh, to Kennedy International
Airport, where Mr. Saadeh began
his trip with a flight to Jordan. Mr.
Saadeh was later arrested and
pleaded guilty to conspiring to
provide material support to ISIS.
Mr. Saleh pleaded guilty on Fri-
day to charges of attempting to
provide material support to ISIS
and assaulting and conspiring to
assault federal officers. Mr. Mu-
muni pleaded guilty on Thursday
to the same charges, as well as at-
tempted murder of federal offi-
cers. The attempted murder
charge was the result of Mr. Mu-
muni repeatedly stabbing an
DAVID DEE DELGADO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
English to no longer be included in
that group, meaning that the re-
maining students represented a
smaller, more challenging popula-
tion. Statewide, the graduation
rate for former English language
learners increased to 81.6 percent,
nearly as high as that for English-
speaking students.
The statewide graduation rate
for students attending charter
schools increased to 71 percent,
from 65.2 percent in 2015.
The average graduation rate at
the 31 high schools in the citys Re-
newal program for low-perform-
ing schools increased by 4.8 per-
centage points in 2016, to 59.3 per-
cent, including students who
graduated in August, according to
the citys Education Department.
A New Class of Suspects
Familial searches take one en-
tire class of citizens the fathers,
sons and brothers of convicted of-
fenders and turns them into sus-
pects. We dont treat the fathers,
sons and brothers of crime victims
that way, we dont treat the fathers,
sons and brothers of members of
our military that way, we dont
treat the fathers, sons and broth-
ers of police officers or lab employ-
ees that way, and we dont treat the
fathers, sons or brothers of missing
persons that way, even though we
have DNA databases for all those
groups of people as well. And yet
somehow proponents of familial
searches believe that the state can
single out the fathers, sons and
brothers of convicted offenders for
treatment as possible criminals. I
disagree.
Erin E. Murphy, New York
University law professor and au-
thor of Inside the Cell: The Dark
Side of Forensic DNA.
Valuable Leads
In 2004, the United States Jus-
tice Department published a re-
port that concluded that almost
half of all prison inmates surveyed
report having a close relative who
had also been in prison. Usually it
was a sibling, primarily a brother.
Data such as this supports the be-
lief in and bolsters the efficacy of
familial searching to produce valu-
able leads. To date, when used suc-
cessfully to identify a perpetrator,
the courts have not ruled to sup-
press evidence based solely on fa-
milial searching. There is no scien-
tific or legal reason to believe that
familial searching cannot provide
the same finding of evidence that
the criminal justice system has re-
lied upon using conventional DNA
comparisons for decades.
Emanuel Katranakis, deputy
chief of forensic investigations,
New York Police Department
F.B.I. agent in the torso with a
large kitchen knife as the authori-
ties carried out a search warrant
at his home in June 2015. The
agent sustained only minor inju-
ries after the knife failed to pene-
trate his body armor, officials said.
Mr. Saleh faces up to 53 years in
prison and Mr. Mumuni 85 years.
They are scheduled to be sen-
tenced on May 16.
Mr. Saleh is a United States citi-
zen. Information on Mr. Mumunis
status was not available.
William F. Sweeney Jr., the as-
sistant director in charge of the
New York field office of the F.B.I.,
said in a statement that the guilty
pleas show just how close the
threat of homegrown terrorism
exists for New York City.
A Lot of Fun
And New Pals
At the Scouts
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Joe Maldonado, 9, was in the car
with his mother when she got the
call in November telling them that
he was barred from the Boy
Scouts.
He knew what all the fuss was
about, why the Northern New Jer-
sey Council of the Boy Scouts of
America said he had to leave a
Cub Scout pack just weeks after
he had joined.
Because I was born a girl, he
said by phone on Thursday from
his home in Secaucus, N.J.
How things have changed.
This week, Joe put on a bor-
rowed uniform and attended his
first meeting as a member of the
Maplewood Cub Scouts. He took
the oath, was given a handbook
and joined the other boys in learn-
ing how to cook. He also made
plans to build model cars.
Joe became one of the first
transgender children to join the
organization after the Boy Scouts
of America announced on Jan. 30
that it was reversing its policy of
more than a century and would ac-
cept members based on the gen-
der listed on their application.
His attendance at the Cub
Scouts meeting may have been
groundbreaking, but to Joe, it was
all just a good time. I had a lot of
fun, he said. I had a permanent
smile on my face. I felt like I be-
longed there.
He spoke a while longer before
darting off to do other things. He
A transgender boy
from Secaucus, N.J.,
breaks a barrier.
was home from school because of
the heavy snow.
His mother, Kristie Maldonado,
said that seeing Joe in the Scout
uniform on Tuesday made her
proud, happy. She added: It is
about time. It should not have
been. It should never have hap-
pened, and we should have never
went through it.
Ms. Maldonado recalled being
told last year that her son had to
leave the Scouts. An official at the
council was pretty much saying
that he could no longer be in the
Scouts because his identity was a
girl, she said. He mentioned my
childs birth name. I jumped down
his throat and said, No, his iden-
tity is a boy.
Effie Delimarkos, the director
of communications for the Boy
Scouts of America, said in an
email: The Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica is pleased to welcome Joe and
the Maldonado family back into
the Scouting community. Moving
forward, the B.S.A. will continue
to work to bring the benefits of our
programs to as many children,
families and communities as pos-
sible.
In its statement announcing the
policy reversal, the Boy Scouts
said that using the information on
a persons birth certificate to de-
termine eligibility for single-gen-
der programs was no longer suf-
ficient as communities and state
laws are interpreting gender iden-
tity differently, and these laws
vary widely from state to state.
Michael Surbaugh, the Scouts
chief executive, added in a re-
corded message that the decision
came after weeks of significant
conversations at all levels of our
organization.
The move was the latest change
in the Scouts approach to gender
identity and sexual orientation. In
2013, the Boy Scouts of America
ended its ban on allowing openly
gay youths to participate in activi-
ties, and two years later, its ban on
openly gay adult leaders.
The Record newspaper of
Northern New Jersey, which has
reported on Joes story, wrote
about his ejection from the Secau-
cus Cub Scouts last year. I had a
sad face, but I wasnt crying, he
was quoted as saying. Im way
more angry than sad. My identity
is a boy. If I was them, I would let
every person in the world go in.
Its right to do.
Shortly after the policy rever-
sal, Ms. Maldonado said on Thurs-
day, she received a second call
from the regional council saying
that Joe could rejoin. She regis-
tered him in the Cub Scouts in Ma-
plewood, a town about 18 miles
southwest of Secaucus.
On his application, she marked
that he is a boy, as Joe himself has
been telling her since he was just
more than 2 years old, she said.
At the Maplewood meeting, Joe
did not yet have his own uniform,
so he put on a borrowed one and
dived into the activities.
I had a lot of fun, he said. I
learned how to cook and how to
get prepared for cooking.
He made friends. They planned
to make cars in a wood shop and
race them. He was asked about his
hamsters. The other children
were very nice, he said. One is
really funny. He pronounced the
event amazing, phenomenal.
Joe said pack leaders asked him
how he felt that night. They said,
I can see you are very happy, he
said. And I said, Yeah.
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A18 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Legal Setback for Trumps Travel Ban

TO THE EDITOR: membered as a vestige of bigotry.
Re Judges Refuse to Reinstate Travel CARLA BENSON
Ban (front page, Feb. 10): Spokane, Wash.
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman A. G. SULZBERGER, Deputy Publisher
I applaud the appeals panels decision
Founded in 1851 ADOLPH S. OCHS ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER ORVIL E. DRYFOOS ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER to uphold the suspension of President TO THE EDITOR:
Publisher 1896-1935 Publisher 1935-1961 Publisher 1961-1963 Publisher 1963-1992 Trumps ignominious and discriminatory Re Farmers Backed Trump; Now
travel ban. The ruling not only reopens Theyre Worried (news article, Feb. 10):
Americas doors for travelers, asylum This is a classic example of myopic vot-
seekers and refugees from the seven ing. So zealous about wanting fewer regu-
blacklisted Muslim-majority countries lations, the farmers backed Donald

Anti-Consumer Agenda at the F.C.C.
As President Trump rushes to dismantle Obama-era
rules that protect Americans, he has an energetic helper
over at the Federal Communications Commission. Its new
Republican chairman has started undoing policies of his
predecessor that were intended to make phone, cable and
internet service more fair and more affordable.
Ajit Pai, who was a commissioner before he became
chairman last month, is trying to wipe away net neutrality
rules put in place by Tom Wheeler, the former chairman,
to prevent broadband companies from creating fast and
slow lanes on the internet. Mr. Pai has scrapped a proposal
to let people buy cable-TV boxes instead of renting them at
inflated prices from companies like Comcast. Many of Mr.
Pais moves would hurt the people who have the least
power. For instance, he has backed away from rules to
lower the exorbitant rates for prison phone calls. And he
has suspended nine companies from providing discounted
internet service to poor people through a program known
as Lifeline.
Mr. Pai, who says the Wheeler-era regulations are
burdensome, clearly favors policies that serve the inter-
ests of large telecommunications companies.
Consider the net neutrality rules, which were put in
place to prevent broadband companies from giving prefer-
ential treatment to content from their affiliates or business
partners. Because only one or two cable and phone com-
panies provide high-speed internet access to homes in
most of the country, they can easily impose abusive poli-
cies without fear of losing customers. Those businesses
have tried to use their power as internet gatekeepers to
demand that streaming companies like Netflix pay them
fees to deliver movies and TV shows to people who are al-
ready paying for broadband. The regulations were upheld
last year by the United States Court of Appeals for the Dis-
trict of Columbia. If Mr. Pai now scraps them, he will be
helping big telecom companies at the expense of internet
users and smaller companies without the deep pockets to
pay broadband providers.
Mr. Pai wants cable companies to keep making a mint
from renting cable boxes a revenue stream that totals
nearly $20 billion a year. He seems unconcerned that fam-
ilies across the country are being forced to spend an aver-
age of $231 a year on those fees, when they would save
money over the long run if they were allowed to buy the
boxes just as they purchase other electronic devices. In
fact, Congress directed the F.C.C. to do just that. Yet the
commission is ignoring that law and allowing this scheme
to continue.
Mr. Pai is aiming right at the poor with his policies on
prison phone rates and discounted broadband service.
Phone companies filed a lawsuit challenging rules adopted
during Mr. Wheelers tenure to cap prison phone rates,
which had been as high as $17 for a 15-minute phone call.
There is simply no justification for those rates. And by sus-
pending companies seeking to offer discounted broadband
service through Lifeline, the F.C.C. will deprive children
from poor households of the high-speed internet access
they need to do homework. Mr. Pai says he is concerned
about fraud and says the affected companies were not
properly vetted. But this isnt the right way to root out
abuse. The commission could, for example, subject compa-
nies participating in the program to regular audits.
Congress created the F.C.C. to help all Americans ob-
tain access to communication services without discrimina-
tion and at fair prices. Mr. Pais approach does exactly the
opposite.
KAYE BLEGVAD
but also delivers amid the unsettling
outset of Mr. Trumps aggressive and ca-
pricious presidency a reassuring check
on executive power. RICHARD H. IM
New York
TO THE EDITOR:
Make no mistake. Donald Trump is bril-
liant and light-years ahead of both his
friends and his enemies. As he loses this
recent clash with the law, he wins.
This man who is so good at building
things has already begun the clever con-
struction of the get out of jail free card
that will insulate him against blame for
any future terrorist activity that takes
place on his watch. He is positioning him-
self to be seen as the hero who tried to pre-
vent such an attack as he battled against
an intransigent system that wouldnt let
him. ELLEN HOLLY
White Plains
TO THE EDITOR:
President Trump issued an executive
order temporarily halting immigration
from seven countries for 90 days so he
could create an immigration strategy in
that time that would make America more
secure. While he is fighting the courts
over this order, why doesnt he proceed on
developing that strategy anyway and ad-
vise the American people of his efforts?
DON FLAKS
Carbondale, Colo.
TO THE EDITOR:
My daughters are 11 and 12 years old.
Their image of Syria is a little boy sitting
in an ambulance, bloody and dazed. They
are not scared of Syrians and they do not
worry about Islamic terrorists. For their
generation, Sandy Hook is the keystone
event, not 9/11. They have fire and active-
shooter drills at school. They are scared of
another Adam Lanza or James Holmes or
Dylann Roof or Omar Mateen.
My daughters are of the Obama gener-
ation, the most racially diverse genera-
tion yet. They do not fear the other. The
first president they will remember is a
black man with African and Arabic
names. Theirs is not the generation of tol-
erance; it is the generation of acceptance.
This is Barack Obamas legacy, and
why the Muslim travel ban will be re-
Trump, not believing hed actually try to
make good on his promise to deport ille-
gal immigrants. Now the farmers are fac-
ing the specter of labor shortages.
I was living in Washington State sev-
eral years ago, the last time there was a
crackdown on illegal migrant workers.
The orchard owners and farmers were
panicking, not having enough labor to
harvest their crops. They were offering
$125 a day, but no Americans showed up
to do the backbreaking work. Imagine
that! What happened to: The illegals are
stealing our jobs?
Well, were about to find out just how
much these illegals contribute to our so-
ciety. When people start paying $3 a head
for lettuce perhaps theyll wake up.
Yes, we need immigration reform, but
this scorched-earth mentality is cruel, ab-
surd and, ultimately, bad for our nation.
MacKENZIE ALLEN
Santa Fe, N.M.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re Bad Dude? No, but Deported
Anyway (editorial, Feb. 10):
As an American citizen and the daugh-
ter of immigrants, Im heartbroken that
immigration officials elected to deport
Guadalupe Garca de Rayos, a Mexican
woman with two American-born children
who has lived and worked in this country
since the age of 14.
Ms. Rayoss only crime was to use
someone elses Social Security number to
obtain legal work. What is particularly
galling about this is the fact that just five
months after Ms. Rayoss arrest, the Su-
preme Court issued a ruling limiting the
federal governments use of identity theft
laws to go after undocumented immi-
grants trying to gain employment. If Ms.
Rayos had been stopped a year later, she
would have had no criminal conviction on
her record, let alone a felony. She would
not have faced deportation.
If President Trump wants to tighten im-
migration, he should concentrate his ef-
forts on gang members and those con-
victed of violent crimes. To tear apart a
family based on a law that our highest
court ruled against is a travesty of justice.
SUZANNE CHAZIN
Chappaqua, N.Y.
The writer is the author of a series of nov-
els about the undocumented.

Our So-Called National Security Adviser
From the start, Michael Flynn, a retired army lieuten-
ant general, was a disturbing choice as President Trumps
national security adviser. He is a hothead with extremist
views in a critical job that is supposed to build consensus
through thoughtful, prudent decision-making. The choice
is now growing more unnerving every day.
A conspiracy theorist who has stoked dangerous fears
about Islam, Mr. Flynn was fired by the Obama adminis-
tration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and led
anti-Hillary Clinton chants of lock her up at the 2016 Re-
publican Convention. He raised eyebrows by cultivating a
mystifyingly cozy relationship with Russia, which the Pen-
tagon considers a major threat.
Now we have learned that in the weeks before the in-
auguration, Mr. Flynn discussed American sanctions on
Russia, and areas of possible cooperation, with Moscows
ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak. They spoke a
day before President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia
for hacking the Democrats computers, probably in an ef-
fort to sway the election in Mr. Trumps favor.
Mr. Flynns underhanded, possibly illegal message
was that the Obama administration was Russias adver-
sary, and that would change under Mr. Trump and that
any sanctions could be undone. The result seems to be
that Russia decided not to retaliate with its own sanctions.
We know this not from Mr. Flynn or the administra-
tion, but from accounts first provided to The Washington
Post by nine current and former government officials who
had access to reports from American intelligence and law
EDITORIAL OBSERVER ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
enforcement agencies that routinely monitor the commu-
nications of Russian diplomats. Bizarrely, Mr. Trump told
reporters on Friday afternoon that he was unaware of the
Post report, but would look into that.
By consorting with the Kremlin after it interfered in
the election, Mr. Flynn may have violated the Logan Act,
which prohibits citizens from negotiating with foreign gov-
ernments in disputes involving the American government.
Prosecution seems unlikely since the act, which dates
back to 1799, has never been used. Former American offi-
cials may have a point when they say that aggressive en-
forcement could discourage sensible foreign contact. But
there is little doubt that Mr. Flynn displayed the kind of
bad judgment that makes him unfit for high office and
raises fresh questions about why he kowtows to President
Vladimir Putin of Russia.
The episode has also showed that Mr. Flynn has utter
disregard for the truth. On Wednesday, he twice told The
Post no when asked if he discussed sanctions with Mr.
Kislyak. But the next day, a spokesman said Mr. Flynn
couldnt be certain that the topic never came up.
Mr. Flynn may also have lied to Vice President Mike
Pence, who last month told CBS News that Mr. Flynn had
not discussed sanctions with Mr. Kislyak, but had an infor-
mal chat in which he extended Christmas wishes. Given
his background, shouldnt Mr. Flynn have known that
someone would be listening to his conversation and that
any falsehoods would be discovered? He was always a
flawed choice for national security adviser and is irrepara-
bly damaged now. No one can believe what he says.
Moves to Loosen Regulation of Wall Street
TO THE EDITOR:
Re A Poison Pill for the Recovery
(editorial, Feb. 4):
The five largest financial firms control
about 70 percent of all commercial bank
deposits and hold on their combined bal-
ance sheets over $10 trillion in assets,
roughly equal to two-thirds of the Ameri-
can economy. More than 90 percent of
their assets is backed by debt, with very
little equity capital.
From my 2014 study of the 2008 finan-
cial crisis at Harvards Shorenstein Cen-
ter on Media, Politics and Public Policy, I
concluded these too big to fail banks
JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of
America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan
Stanley were also too big to manage,
too big to regulate and too opaque for the
media, or the public and even the regula-
tors to comprehend.
We have a highly concentrated oligopo-
ly of banks that someday could become
expensive wards of the state once again
unless we keep tight oversight of them.
We need regulation to make sure we avoid
Gambling Responsibly
TO THE EDITOR:
Threatened With Ruin at the Virtual
Casino, by Francis X. Clines (Editorial
Notebook, Feb. 5), discusses the impor-
tant addiction services provided by the
Queens Center for Excellence to trou-
bled bettors at Resorts World Casino
another bankruptcy like that of Lehman
Brothers.
A gutting of the Dodd-Frank Act could
once again allow the major Wall Street
firms to eventually return to the reckless
ways of the past and to leverage them-
selves up to a dangerous level. Because of
Dodd-Frank, there have been no financial
crises for almost a decade. As unknown
risk exists in global markets, we need the
regulators to keep watch and step in when
Armageddon threatens again, as it al-
ways does, sooner or later.
ROBERT LENZNER
New York
The writer is former national editor of
Forbes Magazine and former fellow of the
Shorenstein Center.
TO THE EDITOR:
Your editorial is premature and reveals
your deep-seated prejudice against Presi-
dent Trump: Per The Times, anything Mr.
Trump proposes is necessarily perni-
cious. In fact, the presidents directive
that you castigate as an attack on the
Dodd-Frank Act is broader: It lays out
some core principles for the Trump ad-
ministration and seeks improvements to
all laws and regulations possibly now im-
peding the economy.
Its conceivable that no improvements
and corrections are needed to the Dodd-
Frank Act, 848 pages long. Conceivable,
but unlikely. So lets wait and see what
changes are recommended to the presi-
dent. Until then, your alarums are prema-
ture. WINTHROP DRAKE THIES

Help! My Constituents Are After Me!
Congressional Republicans are find-
ing that constituents, like facts, are
stubborn things.
On Thursday night, Representative
Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who heads the
House Oversight Committee, cut a
town hall short by an hour when some
of the 1,000 attendees jeered him for
failing to investigate Mr. Trump.
Why arent you checking out your
own president? one woman de-
manded.
That same evening in Tennessee,
Representative Diane Black tried to an-
swer only questions submitted in ad-
vance. This failed, as she was blasted
by constituents over Republicans plan
to kill Obamacare without a replace-
ment.
There are people now who have can-
cer that have that coverage, that have
to have that coverage to make sure they
dont die, said Mike Carlson of Antioch,
Tenn. How can I trust you to do any-
thing thats in our interest at all?
Representative Dave Brat of Virgin-
ia, a Tea Party tough guy, said recently
that hes getting hammered by wom-
en who want to keep Obamacare. They
are getting in my grill, he said. They
come up Whens your next town
hall?
We need activists, he pleaded with
fellow conservatives. Get writers you
know. Friends that you have, in every
county you have. On Facebook, Mr.
Brat rejected holding town halls until
our first 100 days agenda is imple-
mented. His tormentors responded
with plans for a symbolic grilling of
Brat-Worst in front of his office.
Republicans are squirming from
coast to coast. The biggest draw is the
Affordable Care Act, whose supporters
are following the Tea Party playbook
and storming legislator meetings much
as anti-Obamacare protesters did in
2009. Its a harrowing turn of the screw
for legislators who rode that fervor into
office.
Representative Peter Roskam
abruptly scrapped a meeting on Oba-
macare in Illinois last week because he
said a reporter was there. Sandra Alex-
ander, the constituent who requested
the meeting, had a different take: He
just ran off, she said.
On Tuesday, constituents opposing
Mr. Trumps Muslim ban swarmed Rep-
resentative Tom McClintocks town hall
meeting in Roseville, Calif. After de-
fending the ban, Mr. McClintock, sur-
rounded by a half-dozen police officers
in riot gear, hurried to a waiting S.U.V.
as protesters shouted Shame!
On Jan. 14, Representative Mike Coff-
mans meeting at a library in Aurora,
Colo., was swarmed with angry people.
With 100 people still waiting, Mr. Coff-
man was caught on video sneaking out
the back door. He couldnt handle it,
said Stephanie Brook Chavez of Aurora.
Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, are
you even a little embarrassed that a
constituent brought her baby to your
office, to protest your failure to answer
the phone? He definitely needs to be
mindful of what the people here and
throughout the state are saying, said
the young woman, identified on TV as
Kendall Weisemiller: Cant Reach
Heller.
Republicans are pushing back
from a safe distance. After he fled the
library, Mr. Coffman said on Facebook
that he would stand firm against activ-
ists angry about the election results
and angry about the impending repeal
of Obamacare. Representative Jimmy
Duncan of Tennessee declared, I am
not going to hold town hall meetings in
this atmosphere, because they would
very quickly turn into shouting oppor-
tunities for extremists, kooks and radi-
cals. He made this bold statement in a
letter mailed to constituents.
Senator Marco Rubio, Twitter war-
rior, called the protesters left-wing
radicals. The Dave Brat town hall pos-
se had a caps-lock response to that. I
AM NOT A RADICAL. I AM A SUBUR-
BAN CHESS CLUB MOM WHO JUST
WANTS TO SPEND HER FREE TIME
CROSS-STITCHING. FIX THIS, wrote
one of them, who goes by the handle Jan
in the Pan.
Meanwhile, President Trump,
starved for the roar of the crowd, plans
a red-state road trip to intimidate law-
makers into doing his will. Its the rest
of America these Republicans should
answer to. Yet nearly every day, they
bow to an overreaching president and
run from a chess club mom.
New York City, but not the casinos unwa-
vering commitment to promote respon-
sible gambling, which includes a long-
standing partnership with the center.
In 2015, Resorts World sponsored the
purchase of kiosks that are displayed at
the casino and publicize the centers re-
sources, as well as offer takeaway litera-
ture on issues related to problem gam-
bling. Indeed, the center, in a blog post,
has noted the importance of the partner-
ship, commending the casinos admira-
ble commitment to Responsible Gam-
ing. MICHAEL LEVOFF
Jamaica, Queens
The writer is senior vice president for
public affairs at Genting Americas, which
operates Resorts World Casino New York
City.
NEWS
DEAN BAQUET, Executive Editor
JOSEPH KAHN, Managing Editor
TOM BODKIN, Creative Director
JANET ELDER, Deputy Managing Editor
CLIFFORD LEVY, Deputy Managing Editor
MATTHEW PURDY, Deputy Managing Editor
KINSEY WILSON, Editor for Innovation and Strategy
Executive V.P., Product and Technology
REBECCA CORBETT, Assistant Editor
STEVE DUENES, Assistant Editor
ALEXANDRA MAC CALLUM, Assistant Editor
MICHELE MC NALLY, Assistant Editor
New York
The writer is a retired tax lawyer.
TO THE EDITOR:
President Trump wants to weaken the
Dodd-Frank Act because, he says, his
friends cant get money from the banks.
But its not his friends who cant get
money from the banks. After he
bankrupted four companies, the big
American banks have reportedly refused
to lend him money and he has been forced
to go to overseas banks to get financing.
Narcissist that he is, he thinks that his
own self-induced problems are the same
as everybody elses. Mr. Trump blames
Dodd-Frank and not his own commercial
failures. RONALD KAISERMAN
Wynnewood, Pa.
EDITORIAL
JAMES BENNET, Editorial Page Editor
JAMES DAO, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
TERRY TANG, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
BUSINESS
MARK THOMPSON, Chief Executive Officer
JAMES M. FOLLO, Chief Financial Officer
DIANE BRAYTON, General Counsel and Secretary
ROLAND A. CAPUTO, Executive V.P., Print Products
MEREDITH KOPIT LEVIEN, Chief Revenue Officer
ELLEN SHULTZ, Executive V.P., Talent and Inclusion
WILLIAM T. BARDEEN, Senior Vice President
TERRY L. HAYES, Senior Vice President
R. ANTHONY BENTEN, Treasurer and Controller
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017 N A19

TIMOTHY EGAN GAIL COLLINS

Sugar High The Ties That Blind Footing

For the
Democrats
These are giddy times for the forces of
reason and light. A surge of resistance to
a bumbling and unstable president has
sent millions of people into the streets,
into the faces of politicians, and into
bookstores to make best sellers again of
authoritarian nightmare stories.
And all of that hasnt changed the fact
that Democrats, the opposition party, are
more removed from power than at al-
most any point in history. Republicans
control everything in Washington, two-
thirds of state legislative chambers and
33 governors mansions.
Every day brings some fresh affront to
decency, some assault on progress, some
blow to the truth. The people who run the
White House cant spell, cant govern,
cant get through a news cycle without
insulting an ally or defaming a cherished
institution. Republicans just shrug and
move on, in lock step with a leader who
wants to set the country back a century.
From their view, things are going swim-
mingly.
Outraged about the ban on people
from Muslim-majority nations? So what.
About half of the nation, and a majority of
Republicans, are in favor of it. Upset over
the return of Wall Street pirates to
power? President Trumps supporters
arent.
Democrats havent been able to stop a
single one of Trumps gallery of ill-quali-
fied, ethically challenged and backward-
thinking cabinet appointees. His pick for
labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, doesnt
believe people should be paid a living
wage to stir a milkshake, and he hired an
undocumented immigrant to clean his
house. Hell fit right in.
Millions of reasonable people are ap-
palled that a madman is in charge of the
country. But tell that to Mitch McConnell
when he cuts off the right of a fellow sen-
ator to speak. Or tell it to Paul Ryan when
he cant find his copy of the Constitution
he has sworn to uphold. These inverte-
brate leaders dont care if Trumps resi-
dence is a house of lies. They dont care
that their president is a sexual predator,
or that his family is using the office to en-
rich themselves. All they care about is
the R stitched to his jersey.
When Adlai Stevenson was told that
all thinking people were with him in his
race for president, he famously re-
sponded: Thats not enough. I need a
majority.
And so, too, do the Democrats. This
week, the powerless party went into
their winter cave for an annual retreat
three days of soul-searching and strate-
gizing.
This is our moment in history, the
House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi,
told her fellow Ds. This man in the
White House is incoherent, incompetent
and dangerous. And we have to protect
children and other living things from
him.
Feels good, right? Sorry. The Demo-
crats shouldnt mistake a sugar high for
nutrition. Theyre still getting their butts
kicked. Being Not Trump gained them
But they are more
removed from power
than ever.
only a net of six seats in the House in
Novembers election, and will not be
enough to win a majority in 2018.
By Richard Thompson Ford
Lost in the excitement and outrage of Donald
The Bill
For Trumps
Trumps first three weeks as president of the
United States was a minor sartorial scandal:
The putative leader of the free world can-
not tie a necktie properly. Compared
with religious persecution at our All these Trumps are getting damned
borders and the unraveling of expensive.
decades-old international al- Last month, taxpayers forked over
liances, this may seem nearly $100,000 to protect Eric Trump
trivial. But could a mis- while he was on a business trip to
Uruguay. And the Defense Department
begotten (and far too is looking to rent space in Trump Tower
shiny) necktie reflect which goes for as much as $1.5 million
weightier issues of self- a year per floor so they can bring the
discipline, competence nuclear launch codes along when the
and integrity? president comes to visit his wife in New
One should fasten a neck- York.
tie so that the front falls just at The mere idea of Donald Trump and
the waist, then thread the nar- the nuclear codes is way more disturbing
row end through the loop on the than the money. But still, critics claim
back of the front one to keep it in
place. But the president makes the What do those shiny, that Melania Trumps decision not to
move into the White House is costing the
front end much too long it hangs
far below his waistline while the badly knotted neckties country more in security than the annual
budget for the National Endowment for
narrower end sits, stubby and forlorn,
only inches below his collar. As a conse- say about the president? the Arts.
Melania is staying in New York so her
quence, the too-short, narrower end can-
not reach the loop on the overlong wider son, Barron, can continue at his school.
Presumably, the bill will drop somewhat
end, and the two threaten to go off in sepa-
rate directions, like cabinet members with over the summer. Meanwhile, the city po-
lice and the Secret Service have wrapped
competing agendas.
To compensate, the president resorts to a an incredibly expensive security blanket
around a chunk of Fifth Avenue.
kludge favored by 8-year-olds forced to dress
Of course shes totally within her
up for a wedding: Scotch tape. Close-up photos
rights. One of the rules for criticizing a
from two occasions one taken during the inau-
guration! clearly show a strip of cellophane tape first family is that you leave the kids
holding the errant tie end in place. alone. (I am not thinking here of Eric.) If
For men of a certain age, learning to tie a tie was a Melania decides never to become part of
rite of passage. The necktie is a sign of maturity, self- official Washington at all, thats fine.
discipline and respect for tradition. The knot in ones Theres plenty of precedent. Zachary
necktie is a biography in silk, communicating details of Taylors wife, Margaret, hated the whole
temperament, character and upbringing. Bulky Double idea so much that when Taylor died in of-
Windsors are brash and extroverted. Perfectly symmetri- fice, the engraving of the deathbed scene
cal knots with centered dimples betray an obsessive-com- showed Mrs. Taylor with her hands over
pulsive personality. The Italians have mastered the insouci- her face in grief, because nobody knew
ance of the slightly off-center knot some even leave the nar- what she actually looked like.
rower end a bit longer, letting it peek out from behind the thicker
On the other hand, she never filed a
one in front, as if to say, I really couldnt be bothered to redo it. lawsuit claiming an erroneous news
Trump partisans may well complain: Why is the Italian imper-
story had hurt her ability to market a
fect tie-knot considered chic and the presidential idiosyncrasy d-
broad-based commercial brand while
class? Isnt this a double standard set up by liberal elitists?
As with most sartorial conventions, there is an underlying logic. she had an unmatchable opportunity to
The long, fat end of Mr. Trumps tie, flapping in the breeze like an ad- be in the public eye as first lady.
vertising banner or swinging far beneath his belt, is both overly con- Melania says her legal actions are
trived and disproportionate. By contrast, the Italians slightly askew tie is completely misunderstood.
visually balanced and charmingly unselfconscious. If the Italians tie Conservatives used to have a field day
shows an aristocratic disdain for the trappings of masculine potency, Mr. complaining about the high cost of mov-
Trumps symmetrical but overlong tie stands out like a rehearsed macho ing the Obamas around. The future Pres-
boast, crass and overcompensating. In past eras such posturing could be un- ident Trump himself once tweeted: The
lawful: The overstuffing of ones codpiece, for instance, was considered such habitual vacationer, @BarackObama, is
an affront to public order in Renaissance England that offenders were forced to now in Hawaii. This vacation is costing
march through the streets with their stuffing pulled out their deception ex- taxpayers $4 million +++ while there is
posed for all to see. 20% unemployment.
And then there is the matter of the tape. This is the opposite of the Italians devil- The unemployment rate was not, at
may-care. It betrays a devil who cares too much and about the wrong things. the time, anywhere near 20 percent. And
Whereas the slightly imperfect tie knot demonstrates nonchalance, the badly tied and last weekend Trump happily ran up a
taped tie suggests a desperate but failed bid to look correct. Its not only a failure, but federal bill of around $3 million for a trip
also a fraud, a paper moon artlessly stuck over a cardboard sea. to Mar-a-Lago where he watched the Su-
Mr. Trumps neckties tell us something about his social and political ties. He has per Bowl and dropped in on a Red Cross
made the persona of the loud, tacky mogul a sort of trademark. Many of his sup- ball, which presumably brought his re-
porters cheer him on because of his lack of refinement they consider him a sort a hefty fee.
refreshing change from patrician politicians born with a silver tie bar Yeah, its the profit-making end of the
clutched in their long elegant fingers. Mr. Trump comes off as a ple- story thats so irritating. When Eric
beian hero in spite of his inherited wealth because he did not
Trump went to Uruguay, his mission was
inherit the sensibilities of the elite. He may have grown up in
to promote Trump Tower Punta del Este.
a plutocrats manor, but he was not to the manner born.
Mr. Trumps tie symbolizes one of the central Were going to have an amazing com-
questions of his candidacy, and now his presi- pany, Eric told the local media, adding
Richard Thompson Ford dency. Is his seeming ineptness genuine? that his father was going to do amazing
teaches at Stanford Law School Or is it part of a contrived performance, things for the United States. And that
and is writing a book about designed to deploy the symbols of Dad would be an incredible commander
dress codes. power while rejecting the con- in chief. The apple doesnt fall far from
ventions of civility that
have traditionally de-
fined and con-
strained
them? 0
Weve elected
a high-ticket
item.
Campus Politics in the Age of Trump
puses. Most of the policies that are being those universities that take on the label. the tree, adjective-wise.
By Brittany Bronson talked about on college campuses are not Still, the sanctuary movement, what- The president has theoretically sepa-
really about getting in the way of federal ever its legal or symbolic implications, rated himself from all his businesses, but

Reliance on identity politics and me-
dia-cushioned affirmation, and a blind
spot to the genuine pain of the white
working class, is precisely what
produced a President Trump. For the
next year, Democrats should filter their
policy initiatives through the eyes of the
person Trump claims to speak for the
forgotten American.
Of course, Trumps phrase was lifted
from somewhere else. Franklin Roose-
velt first rode to victory in 1932 by urging
fellow citizens to put faith in the forgot-
ten man at the bottom of the economic
pyramid.
Roosevelt actually did something for
that overlooked American Social Se-
curity, minimum wage, building roads,
bridges and dams and was rewarded
with a majority coalition that carried the
United States to new heights. Therein
lies the way back to power for Demo-
crats.
When Democrats lost the South for
multiple generations, as it turned out
it put them in a deep hole, forcing them to
rely on a surge of young and Latino vot-
ers to turn the demographic tide, or can-
didates with broad appeal beyond the
party strongholds on the coasts.
President Obama left office with soar-
ing approval numbers and a great legacy.
But Democrats also lost 1,034 state and
federal offices in his time. Whites are still
70 percent of the vote. If Democrats con-
tinue to hemorrhage voters among the
working class, they will never see the
presidency, or even expect to govern in
one house, for a long time.
The way out is not that difficult. Yes,
they should engage in hand-to-hand
combat in the capital. And certainly,
Democrats must turn to the courts when
the rule of law is broken. But they have to
be for something, as well a master pol-
icy narrative, promoting things that help
average Americans. The old Broadway
adage was how it will play in Peoria. For
Democrats, they should think of Joe Bi-
dens Scranton, Pa., every time they take
to a podium. 0 and a contributing opinion writer.
R
LAS VEGAS
ECENTLY, I met with a former
student of mine who showed
exceptional promise during
his freshman year. Since he
took my class, he has become a
leader in social justice groups and works
part time at the universitys womens cen-
ter. He is now a junior and is on schedule to
graduate a semester early. He is a model
student. He is also undocumented.
He was among a group of students and
faculty members who signed a petition re-
questing our college president declare our
university a sanctuary campus one of
hundreds of similar petitions that circu-
lated on colleges across the nation after
President Trumps election.
Much like sanctuary cities, sanctuary
campuses grant protections to undocu-
mented students while enrolled. A college
or university would, for example, prevent
federal immigration officers from enter-
ing campus without warrants, and keep
information on students immigration sta-
tus private unless subpoenaed.
Here in Nevada, where 7 percent of the
population is undocumented, the sanctu-
ary movement has particular relevance.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
where I teach, is a federally designated
Hispanic-serving and Asian-Pacific-
serving institution, meaning it gets gov-
ernment support to help underprivileged
minority students. Some 25 percent of our
students are Hispanic, and U.S. News and
World Report has named it one of the most
diverse campuses in the country.
A sizable number of those students are
registered under the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program; if President
Trump moves ahead with his threats to re-
peal the program and deport millions of
undocumented people, it would leave a
significant dent in our community.
Hence the calls for sanctuary cam-
Brittany Bronson is an English instructor
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
enforcement, said Michael Kagan, a pro-
fessor of immigration law at U.N.L.V.
They are about making campuses as wel-
coming a place as possible regardless of
peoples immigration status. After all,
contrary to popular belief, he said, Being
an undocumented person in the United
States is not a crime.
Claiming sanctuary status, however,
has its own complications which our
president, Len Jessup, explained when he
declined the petitions request (along with
the presidents of Harvard, Columbia and
Penn State). Legally, the label has no defi-
nition, and what it means in practice is un-
clear.
The term inspires some and generates
anger for others, Professor Kagan said.
Can universities afford
not to wade into the
immigration debate?
Any institution that decides whether it
wants to raise that flag must realize it is no
more than a symbol.
For the left, that symbol has come to
represent an overt stance against Presi-
dent Trumps anti-immigrant rhetoric.
For the right, it is further proof of liberal
bias in universities. Some have lumped
the sanctuary campus movement in with
larger conversations about safe spaces
on campuses, and the ethical and moral
challenges universities face in meeting
the needs of their increasingly diverse
student populations.
Many of the college administrations
that have rejected the term cited their
fears of giving undocumented students a
false sense of safety while remaining le-
gally unable to protect them from deporta-
tion. Others worry about their federal
funding, which conservative congress-
men have threatened to try to yank from
raises important questions for campuses
like mine that strive to be committed to
minority and low-income students: How
do we proceed in the shadow of a presiden-
tial administration that unapologetically
promotes xenophobia? And is it even pos-
sible to do so without getting political?
Naturally, President Trumps actions, in
particular his executive order for agen-
cies to find ways to deny federal funding to
sanctuary cities, have unsettled undocu-
mented students. But they should equally
bother institutions that claim diversity as
a central part of their mission. Not only
are Mr. Trumps executive actions a threat
to those values, his entire first few weeks
in office have been driven by ideologies,
ideas and anti-intellectualism that conflict
with academic principles. Remaining
apolitical in the Trump era not only under-
cuts core principles of higher learning, it is
no longer sustainable.
But universities that prioritize diversity
of thought are not all the same, and they
are by definition heterogeneous places.
On my campus, conservative groups peti-
tioned against the sanctuary label, and an
instructor threatened to report students
who revealed to him their undocumented
status. There is strong opposition to the
idea that college campuses should pick
and choose the federal laws they follow.
Balancing all of this competing inter-
ests on campus, concerns about claiming
sanctuary status, threats from the White
House is now the most pressing task for
university presidents. Their guiding prin-
ciple must be to protect the students who
make up the breadth of perspectives that
our institutions value. If we as a university
refuse to take symbolic, practical and poli-
tical steps to express solidarity with these
students, we are undermining our own
principles.
Institutions like U.N.L.V. may reject the
sanctuary label, but we must be prepared
to eventually step into the political firing
line. If the last few weeks are any indica-
tion, President Trumps policies may soon
force us to. 0 wine. As far as we know.
they still belong to him. He may not have
operational command, but Eric does, and
its hard for folks in Uruguay not to be-
lieve that the president is watching when
the son comes to call and mix with his fel-
low realtors, flanked by a security detail
thats on our dime.
Those continuing financial interests
around the world are a huge problem
you probably noticed that the immigra-
tion ban on Muslim-majority countries
didnt include the ones in which the presi-
dent had hotels or condos or golf
courses? And hes never going to do any-
thing to fix it. When Trump was calling
for better ethics in Washington, he only
wanted us to drain the other guys
swamp.
But dont you wish hed try to show he
appreciates the security price tag? We
dont want to make little Barron change
schools, but Trump could buy Melania a
condo in a relatively low-traffic location
to save security from having to create a
no-go zone in Midtown. It would send up
a signal that he realized the problems he
was causing. Also it would be cheaper for
the Defense Department. And maybe
closer to the school. The only thing incon-
venienced would be Donalds bottom
line.
And Eric could have put his security
detail up for free. Given that he was trav-
eling on a moneymaking venture and all.
Trump did announce that when the
Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe,
came to visit him in Mar-a-Lago this
weekend, he was not going to charge Abe
for his room. That is a gift that the presi-
dent is extending to the prime minister,
said White House Press Secretary Sean
Spicer, otherwise known as The Most
Miserable Man on Earth.
That was the grand gesture. Mean-
while, you could argue that Trump is us-
ing a visit by an important foreign leader
to promote one of his brands.
At least Abe has not been requested to
pose holding up a gift bottle of Trump
0
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
DIANE BONDAREFF/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Raising the Bar at Calvin Klein
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
New York Fashion Week blew into
the city on Thursday amid a blizzard
and a brouhaha (the Trump vs. Nord-
strom uproar), but it wasnt until Fri-
day that it really began.
Did you hear the
VANESSA whoosh?
That was the sound of
FRIEDMAN the fashion industry
finally releasing the
FASHION
REVIEW breath that had been
bated since August, when
it was announced that Raf Simons,
beloved for resetting the dial on Jil
Sander and Christian Dior, had been
named chief creative officer of Calvin
Klein and suddenly the hope that
sportswear could once again exert a
magnetic pull on the world seemed
within reach.
Because in his debut he took that bet
head-on, and raised it one.
If he did not reshape the relationship
of clothing and identity, or rewrite the
description of what New York fashion
meant as originally laid down in part by
Calvin Klein-the-designer, he did pro-
vide a crystal clear argument for the
relevancy of the American idea and a
way forward.
Its worth noting (sotto voce, nudge
nudge) that it took a Belgian to do it.
Held in the brands headquarters, the
For Rag & Bone, the Runway Show Is History
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Marcus Wainwright, the chief execu-
tive and creative director of Rag & Bone,
sat in his 13th Street Rag & Bone studio,
converted for two days into two make-
shift photo studios to shoot 74 portraits,
with all of the chaos and confusion that
entailed. At one side, the photographer
Glen Luchford worked a Polaroid cam-
era the size of a small car that churns out
20-inch-by-24-inch instant photos on an-
cient, rapidly expiring, no-longer-in-pro-
duction film. At another, Frank Lebon
coaxed his subjects into bouncing on
trampolines as he shot them on film and
an iPhone.
In and out went friends and support-
ers from the full course of Rag & Bones
15-year history: Mikhail Baryshnikov
and Thom Yorke, Keri Russell and
Carmelo Anthony, and the models, finan-
cial backers and creative types who have
championed the brand over the years.
The painter Walton Ford, in a black Rag
& Bone jacket, had just finished his sit-
ting.
Like America itself, a coming
together of different characters
and different individuals.
show took place under
a permanent installa-
tion by Mr. Simonss
frequent collaborator,
the artist Sterling
Ruby, entitled Ster-
ling Ruby Imagined America, all col-
orful yarn mop-heads and industrial
detritus conveying the optimism of the
everyday, and before a crowd that
stretched from Calvin past to present
(Lauren Hutton, Brooke Shields, Millie
Bobby Brown) to celebrity royalty
(Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore) to
Friends of Raf (Cindy Sherman, Rachel
Feinstein, ASAP Rocky). And it repre-
sented, read the show notes, the com-
ing together of different characters and
different individuals, just like America
itself.
Thats a big claim, but it was largely
justified.
Both men and woman were on the
runway, and Mr. Simons (working with
his creative director, Pieter Mulier,
whom he also included in his final run-
way bow) dressed them in almost iden-
tical looks, emphasizing the fact that
ease, action and modernity are not
gender-specific concepts. It wasnt so
much about confronting stereotype
the men didnt wear the skirts, or the
dresses but rather nodding to equal
Now I have a new career as a male
model, he said cheerfully. At 56.
All of the portrait sitters wore Rag &
Bone, mostly its fall 2017 collection,
which they picked themselves (with a lit-
tle guidance from a stylist). Mr. Wain-
wright conceived of the project as a cele-
bration of individuality, having soured
slightly on the traditional fashion show.
I woke up after the election and for
whatever reason felt completely disin-
terested in runway shows, he said. It
meant absolutely nothing, suddenly.
Weve got people from all walks of life, all
with their very strong sense of personal
style. Thats really what fashion means
to me right now.
The room around him was a whir of
people coming and going, including one,
hovering at waist level, who tugged at his
sleeve.
Does this look good? asked Henry
Wainwright, 7, Mr. Wainwrights young-
er son, who was wearing a black and
camel Chesterfield.
FA S H I O N
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
opportunity across genres.
In sportswear, for example, via
slouchy trousers that hung on the hip,
with athletic stripes up the side, paired
with buttoned-up Western-pocket shirts
over turtlenecks, all in contrasting
shades. For the power set, with Prince
of Wales double-breasted trouser suit-
ing paired with sheer nylon muscle
shirts. Via a rethinking of past classics
and familiar iconography: thick varsity
rib-knit sleeves severed from their
sweaters and layered over jackets; an
updated classic denim in a dark wash
and a 1970s vibe; black leather biker
jackets embossed in silver roses;
draped asymmetric stars-and-stripes
skirts; and bedquilts-cum-Crombie
coats.
Also with a slipdress, floral print or
feather-covered, slipcovered in turn
with clear vinyl, a synthetic overlay
likewise applied to gold faux-fur
grandma bathrobe coats and tailored
overcoats, the better to provide both
protection and luminescence. And a
much smarter alternative to ye olde
It looks amazing, Mr. Wainwright
said. Its totally up to you, but . . . is that
a new hat?
Young Master Wainwright scampered
off to get the original one.
DIANE BONDAREFF/ASSOCIATED PRESS
paillette.
The slice of rib underneath the breast
may prove a challenging proposition as
an erogenous zone, but these were
clothes that wore their concept lightly,
sketching out a no-fuss melting pot of
the mind without hesitation and making
you think twice about your own precon-
ceptions.
It was about time.
As Norma Desmond said in Sunset
Boulevard, I am big; it was the pic-
tures that got small. In New York, it
often seems this could apply to many
designers ambitions.
Case in point were the few shows
that came before: Brock Collection,
where Laura Vassar and Kristopher
Brock send out an ode to uptown
prairie chic in cashmere and mink,
gingham and micropleating; Adam
Selman, where the eponymous designer
embraced a Streetwear of the Roses
shtick with funky embroidered denim,
billowing gingham shirtdresses unbut-
toned to the hot pants and disco slips;
and Thakoon, which got a bit hung up
PHOTOGRAPHS BY REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Above from left: Marcus
Wainwright at his Rag & Bone
exhibition; Henry Wainwright, 7;
some of the 74 portraits on display.
Joan Smalls attends. Left, Amber
Valletta makes an appearance.
This is quite an easy chap to dress,
Mr. Wainwright said. Hes the sartorial
one. His 9-year-old brother, Noah, was
still in head-to-toe Nike, waiting to
choose his outfit. Nearby was his sister,
5-year-old Cate.
At the labels party on Thursday night,
all of the subjects attended in their looks
to witness the unveiling of their images,
as well as a curated exhibition of im-
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
At his highly anticipated
Calvin Klein show, Raf
Simons, waving at far
left with his creative
director, Pieter Mulier,
dressed men and
women in almost
identical looks,
indicating that ease,
action and modernity
are not gender-specific
concepts.
on its arty video presentation, a frame
that didnt really equate with the cute
mash-up of bandannas, striped shirting
and trench coats that formed the
clothes.
While they were perfectly fine, they
were also politely familiar, without any
sense of urgency. Like many col-
lections, they have gotten so predict-
able and safe. Mr. Simons could proba-
bly have shown a line of coherently
designed Calvin Klein paper bags and
the audience would have fallen into a
collective swoon and screamed gen-
ius. That he did not that he dared to
try to live up to the founders legacy
and say something bigger and more
visceral with his clothes could make
all the difference.
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agery, music and video from Rag &
Bones full history. (The exhibition re-
mains open to the public through Sun-
day, Feb. 12, at 60 10th Avenue, at 14th
Street.)
They wandered the room, seeking out
their portraits for selfies and spilling into
the back room for what the company
called a damn good party. (Mr. Yorke
would do a D.J. set before the end.)
The supermodel Joan Smalls was on
the hunt for her picture, dressed in the
camouflage flight jacket and jeans she
had picked. Its a collaboration, she
said. Thats what works.
Ms. Smalls is hardly new to being pho-
tographed, but it was her first time in
front of the large-format Polaroid, which
sat like a sentry off to one side. Really,
the size of it is whats amazing, she said.
And apparently these are the last pic-
tures its going to be able to take.
 Wealth Matters
Fleeing a Bad Fund
Investors must keep an eye on
whether an adviser is acting in
their best interests.
Taco Bell, Betting on China,
Goes Easy on the Grease
By SUI-LEE WEE
SHANGHAI Until he was appointed
manager of a Taco Bell in China, Will Cao
had never seen a taco. When confronted
with its hard, U-shaped shell in Los Angeles
last June, he wondered: How do you eat it?
Everything was spilling all over the
place, said Mr. Cao, a 31-year-old Shanghai
resident. Then I looked at the other
customers to learn that, actually, you are
supposed to tilt your neck to eat it.
Mr. Caos employer is betting that other
Chinese diners will figure it out. Yum China,
the company behind KFC there, last month
opened the first Taco Bell in China in years,
and says it plans to open an unspecified
number more. The company is turning to
double-layered tacos and overstuffed quesa-
dillas in hopes of regaining ground in a mar-
ket where its fried chicken has shown the
limits of its appeal.
It wont be easy. First, there is the matter
of whats on the menu: Mexican food. Tacos
and burritos are virtually unknown in
China, where many diners prize aspirational
noshes from America, Japan and Europe
and look skeptically at what they see as
Top, customers at a Taco Bell last month in Shanghai. It is the chains first
outlet in China in years. The menu, right, offers basic Tex-Mex items but is
also tailored to local tastes and includes alcoholic drinks.
Two Ex-Executives Settle A.I.G. Fraud Case
REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Maurice Greenberg, in New York on Wednesday, admitted ap-
proving transactions that falsely portrayed A.I.G.s finances.
New Star of Daytime TV
Live, From Washington
Briefings by Sean Spicer, the
White House press secretary, are
3 a ratings hit on cable.
poorer fare from other developing coun-
tries.
Then there is Taco Bells very American
take on Mexican meals. Even among fans,
many of its more artery-hardening menu
items are best considered late-night guilty
pleasures. Its like a dirty thing that I love
Taco Bell so much, the actress Anna
Kendrick once said on Conan OBriens talk
show, adding, It has to be under cover of
darkness in my car.
For its new store in Shanghai, Taco Bell is
leaving behind some of those greasy Ameri-
can favorites, such as taco shells made out of
Doritos or fried chicken cutlets. Instead, as
it once successfully did with KFC, Yum
China is tailoring the menu to local tastes. It
is offering basic, understandable Tex-Mex
fare such as a crunchy taco supreme and a
chicken quesadilla. Other dishes made for
the Chinese market include a shrimp and av-
ocado burrito and a spicy fried chicken dish,
a meal that has broader appeal with the Chi-
nese.
And in a feature rare in America per-
haps for good reason the China store of-
Continued on Page 2
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES SABRI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
By RANDALL SMITH
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chief exec-
utive of American International Group, reached
an unexpected settlement ending a tumultuous,
decade-long battle over civil accounting fraud
charges first brought in 2005 by New York Attor-
ney General Eliot Spitzer.
Mr. Greenberg, 91, and his co-defendant, How-
ard Smith, A.I.G.s former chief financial officer,
reached the agreement with the current New
York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman,
who announced it on Friday.
In the settlement, the two men acknowledged
that they had participated in and approved two
transactions that inaccurately portrayed A.I.G.s
financial results over four years. They agreed to
give up more than $9.9 million that they received
as performance bonuses from 2001 through
2004, with Mr. Greenberg paying most of that
amount. But it is a fraction of the more than $50
million the state had sought.
The former executives also released state-
ments acknowledging their roles in the transac-
tions, but not admitting to fraud.
Continued on Page 4
5 vehicle technology.
has a heart attack, he added. Now they
with a tweet from the president.
Pepper a Financial Adviser
With Questions About Fees
So much hand-wringing over such a
simple proposition: When a financial
professional gives you advice about
the life savings in your retirement
account, that person ought to
RON act in your best interest.
It took several years for
LIEBER this so-called fiduciary rule
to gain approval firms are
YOUR
MONEY supposed to begin following
the new rule in April
thanks to pushback from people in the
financial services industry. Then, last
week, President Trump told the Labor
Department to study this uncontrover-
sial (and already much-studied) pro-
position, which he wants to upend. A
few days later came a big loss for
industry players who challenged the
legitimacy of the rule in Texas, where
a federal judge ruled against them.
But lets put the focus back where it
$1 Billion Investment
Ford Looks to Future
The automaker made a big move
into developing self-driving
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
In the Era
Of Trump,
Shopping
Is Political
By JULIE CRESWELL
and RACHEL ABRAMS
A couple of weeks ago, people boy-
cotted Nordstrom for one reason: The
department store sold Ivanka Trump
products.
Now people are boycotting Nord-
strom for another reason: The store
said it would not sell her products.
These days, a shirt is not always just a
shirt, and a store is not always just a
store. Handbags, dresses and other or-
dinary items and where they are
bought have become politicized, turn-
ing shopping decisions into acts of pro-
test for the millions of people in pro- and
anti-President Trump camps. Under Ar-
mour, L.L. Bean, T.J. Maxx and many
other companies have already been
pulled into a sort of ideological tug of
war.
But perhaps no retailer has been in
the hot seat like Nordstrom.
The boycott Nordstrom movement
instantly changed political direction af-
ter the department store scrubbed Ms.
Trumps name from its site last week.
Thousands of people lashed out at the
retailer online. Even President Trump
himself posted on Twitter that his
daughter had been treated unfairly.
The sharp reaction before and after
Nordstroms decision made quietly,
with no announcement highlights the
tightrope companies must walk in this
Everyday decisions
become acts of protest, as
brands walk a tightrope.
hyper-politicized environment.
Companies are nervous, said An-
drew Gilman, chief executive of the cri-
sis communications firm CommCore
Consulting Group. I know several com-
panies that have war rooms set up.
They have playbooks on what to do if
there is a product recall or if the C.E.O.
have a different chapter on how to deal
Many retailers and brands would
clearly prefer to fly below the political
radar and stay away from the outrage
on Twitter and Facebook.
Calls or emails sent to a half-dozen of
the countrys largest department stores
about how they are handling Ms.
Trumps products, for example, resulted
in either no comment or carefully neu-
tral statements. None of the stores
agreed to discuss how they made deci-
sions around Ms. Trumps merchandise
or details about sales of the products.
But many of these companies like
L.L. Bean and Macys still find them-
selves in the eye of a social media storm.
So, too, does the Ivanka Trump brand.
In recent days, weve seen our brand
swept into the political fray, becoming
collateral damage in others efforts to
advance agendas unrelated to what we
do, which is produce accessible, solu-
tion-oriented products for our loyal
customers, the brand said in a state-
Continued on Page 5
belongs: not on politics or the law, but
on you. The best way to understand
what the fiduciary debate is about
and to protect yourself is to view
this discussion through the lens of fees.
Every time you do business with
people in the financial services indus-
try, ask them this: How much money
are you making, and what are the
different ways you are making it?
If only there were always a simple
answer to this question. All of this
fiduciary wrangling got started in
large part because there has rarely
been a simple answer in many parts of
the industry.
The fiduciary rule ultimately comes
down to the fact that some people are
making a lot of money at the expense
of other people who have no idea how
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B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Betting on the Chinese Market, Taco Bell Goes Easy on the Grease
From First Business Page
fers Japanese beer and alcoholic
slushes.
Yum China is aware of the mag-
nitude of the challenge. Micky
Pant, its chief executive, says eat-
ing a taco is a whole new way of
learning.
The company is learning its
own lessons. In the 1990s, Chinese
consumers flocked to KFC and
other Western fast-food chains,
drawn by their clean bathrooms
and air-conditioning a novelty
in China at that time. But restau-
rants like McDonalds and KFC
have since struggled against in-
creasing competition from quick-
service Chinese restaurant chains
and a shift toward healthier eat-
ing.
While China is still a lucrative
market for companies including
Apple, Nike and Starbucks, other
American firms are finding the go-
ing tougher than it used to be. The
once seemingly insatiable appe-
tite for all things foreign has
stalled in a marketplace where do-
mestic brands are catching up and
consumers are richer, with more
choices than ever.
Big American fast-food chains
are now distancing themselves
from their China operations. Yum
Brands divested Yum China last
year, while McDonalds is selling a
controlling stake in its business to
a locally led investor group.
That led to Yum Chinas gamble
on Taco Bell. Instead of Taco Bells
American approach quick,
cheap, often unabashedly junky
the Shanghai restaurant seems in-
tent on easing Chinese diners into
ordering. The menu in China fea-
tures enlarged images of foods on
a lighted board and a transparent
kitchen, where skeptical cus-
tomers can watch their food being
assembled.
Yum dropped fajitas because fo-
cus groups said Chinese people
did not like the peppery type of
spiciness that Westerners like,
said Jimmy Chen, senior director
of Yum Chinas brand develop-
ment division. Chinese con-
sumers wanted warm cheese on
their tacos, not the cold grated va-
riety offered in the United States.
They asked for alcohol to be of-
fered.
The bean burrito was contro-
versial, Mr. Chen said; while
some Chinese who had studied
abroad considered it a must, oth-
ers found two types of starches
layered on top of one another un-
familiar. Ultimately the bean bur-
rito was booted.
We just need a little more
time, Mr. Chen said.
Yum has tried Taco Bell in
China before. In 2003 it opened
full-service restaurants called
Taco Bell Grande in Shanghai,
then in the southern city of Shen-
zhen, offering higher-end fare like
steaks and fajitas. But it pulled out
five years later.
They had little Chinese girls
with sombreros on them looking
ridiculous, said Joel Silverstein,
president of the consultancy East
West Hospitality Group and a for-
mer senior executive with Pep-
siCo restaurants, the onetime par-
Zhang Tiantian contributed re-
search.
Wall St. Ends Week With More Highs
By Reuters
Wall Street capped a week of
milestones on Friday with a rally
that pushed the major stock in-
dexes to new highs for the second
day in a row.
Small-company stocks did bet-
ter than larger ones, nudging the
Russell 2000 index to a record
high for the first time since De-
cember.
Mining companies and other
producers of raw materials led the
gainers. Rising crude oil prices
also gave energy companies a big
boost. Consumer goods stocks
were essentially flat.
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age rose 96.97 points, or 0.5 per-
cent, to 20,269.37. The Standard &
Poors 500-stock index gained 8.23
points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,316.10.
The Nasdaq composite index add-
ed 18.95 points, or 0.3 percent, to
5,734.13. All told, the Nasdaq
closed at a record high four times
this week, as well as on Feb. 3.
The Russell 2000 picked up
10.32 points, or 0.8 percent, to
1,388.84.
Strong company earnings and
investor optimism over the Trump
administrations promises of tax
cuts, less government regulation
and other policies helped fuel the
markets gains much of the week.
News that OPEC is largely adher-
ing to a recent pact to cut crude oil
production has also helped to lift
markets. The daily market moves
have been mostly small, but big
enough to push indexes to new
heights.
We had a drought for a very,
very long time, Randy Frederick,
vice president of trading and de-
rivatives at Charles Schwab, said,
adding, Now were back to what I
would say is more of a typical
move, where you get record highs
consistently.
Earnings are on track to mark
the second consecutive quarter of
ent of Yum Brands. That was a
complete disaster.
Still, Yum once seemed to have
cracked the China code. Since
opening its first KFC near Tianan-
men Square in 1987, Yum has
grown into the biggest Western
fast-food chain in the country, with
more than 7,300 stores in over
1,100 cities, three times that of its
rival McDonalds. Part of the se-
STOCKS & BONDS
The Dow Minute by Minute
Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Friday.
Previous close
20,172.40
10 a.m. Noon
Source: Reuters
growth after a five-quarter losing
streak.
Investors bid up shares in com-
panies that turned in better earn-
ings or outlooks than Wall Street
was expecting, including the
footwear company Skechers, the
video game publisher Activision
Blizzard and the real estate in-
vestment company CBRE Group.
Skechers gained $4.51, or 19.3
percent, to $27.78, while CBRE
Group climbed $2.43, or 7.7 per-
cent, to $34. Activision Blizzard
was the biggest gainer in the S&P
500. The maker of Call of Duty,
Candy Crush and other video
games jumped $7.50, or 18.9 per-
cent, to $47.23.
Investors also welcomed a huge
cost-savings initiative from Sears.
The troubled department store
chain said on Friday that it will
slash at least $1 billion a year in
costs by selling stores, cutting
jobs or selling some of its well-
known brands. The stock leapt
$1.42, or 25.6 percent, to $6.96.
Benchmark crude rose 86
cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at
$53.86 a barrel in New York. The
contract rose 66 cents on Thurs-
cret was localization: KFC offered
fried dough sticks and congee for
breakfast, while its sister brand
Pizza Hut served pizzas topped
with seafood and durian, a pun-
gent fruit from Southeast Asia.
But in recent years, Yum has
grappled with a series of food-
quality scandals in China.
In 2012, the Chinese news media
reported that KFC chicken suppli-
20,300
20,250
20,200
20,150
2 p.m. 4 p.m.
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day. Brent crude, the benchmark
for international oil prices, gained
$1.07, or 1.9 percent, to close at
$56.70 a barrel in London.
Major stock indexes in Europe
closed mostly higher.
Britains FTSE 100 added 0.4
percent, while Germanys DAX
rose 0.2 percent. Frances CAC 40
was flat. Greeces stock market
gained 2.5 percent as its creditors
met to find a way to ease concerns
about the future of its bailout pro-
gram.
In Asia, investors welcomed
strong January trade data from
China. Hong Kongs Hang Seng
rose 0.2 percent, while South Ko-
reas Kospi added 0.5 percent.
Australias S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1
percent. Japans benchmark
Nikkei 225 index surged 2.5 per-
cent as the yen weakened against
the dollar, lifting shares of export-
ers.
Bond prices fell. The 10-year
Treasury yield rose to 2.41 percent
from 2.39 percent late Thursday.
The dollar strengthened to
113.32 yen, up from 113.23 yen on
Thursday. The euro weakened to
$1.0637 from $1.0661.
ers used antibiotics and growth
hormones in their meat, news that
hurt sales and prompted Yum to
cut its number of suppliers. The
company emphasized that its food
was safe. Two years later, a Chi-
nese state-run broadcaster re-
ported that a meat supplier used
by Yum was suspected of selling
expired meat. Yum terminated
the supplier, which was later fined
Candy-Tasting Job Isnt Always So Sweet
By AMIE TSANG
READING, England Some
people like to take a break from
work with a quick bite of choco-
late. But what if a quick bite of
chocolate was your work?
That is the opportunity being of-
fered by Mondelez, the company
that makes Cadbury chocolates
and Oreo cookies and is hiring
part-time tasters to test its prod-
ucts.
At first glance, the job descrip-
tion could hardly be better: Get
paid to taste candy, chocolate and
cookies. More than 4,000 appli-
cants have submitted rsums for
just two openings since the roles
were advertised and promoted on
social media.
But, Mondelez insists, those
hoping for an easy opportunity to
stuff their faces for money, at
least should think again.
Applicants must go through
three days of vetting at the compa-
nys consumer research center in
this city just outside London. The
process calls for them to spend
two and a half hours a day having
their taste buds put to the test, as
they try to join around 60 tasters
who already work for Mondelez.
Its no easy task.
The testing is done in so-called
sensory booths, where red-tinged
lights mask differences in the ap-
pearance of various chocolates,
leaving applicants to focus on
taste and smell. Air pressure in
the booths is controlled so that
smells are automatically sucked
upward and away.
Three plastic cups are passed
through a small hatch in the booth,
each one holding a small amount
of chocolate. Applicants must dis-
cern which one tastes most like
the reference sample.
Between batches the process
puts applicants through 20 rounds
of tasting tasters must wait two
minutes and cleanse their palates
with crackers and water before
moving on.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES SABRI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Taco Bells Shanghai location has a transparent kitchen, allow-
ing customers to see their food being assembled. Liu Xiaoyi, left,
chief editor of a local food guide, said Mexican food could take
off in China because people were willing to try new things.
about $3.5 million by regulators in ball star Shaquille ONeal, who
Shanghai. Sales growth weakened made the famous Taco Neck
after both episodes, and by 2015, commercial in 1995, participated
sales at stores that had been open in a taco-eating competition.
for at least a year continued to de- On a recent Tuesday, the store
cline. was packed at lunch, with a 15-
Adding to the decline: an in- minute wait to get a table. Diners
creasingly sophisticated cus- sat on chairs below surfboards
tomer base that eschews Western suspended from ceilings. Workers
fast food for other options. The in polo shirts served margaritas
biggest challenge is making the and draft beer.
connection with the younger gen- If you didnt tell me, I wouldnt
eration, said Ye Liyan, marketing even know this was Mexican
director in China for Pizza Hut. food, said Zang Jing, 30, a bank
In its own effort to refurbish, clerk, adding that she thought the
Pizza Hut is rolling out concept food was not bad.
stores across China in Shang- Liu Xiaoyi, chief editor of a local
hai, one features a robot waiter food guide, said she believed Mex-
and a table with a built-in screen ican food could take off in China
for customers to build their own because people were willing to
pizzas. try new things.
Taco Bell may be an unlikely They are willing to listen to
restaurant to connect. Chinese people telling them, You have to
people have mostly admired look at it from a different angle to
things from Europe and the appreciate it; its not the same as a
United States, said Darcy Zhang, Chinese meal, but its also deli-
a food blogger based in Shanghai. cious, she said after photograph-
But Mexico itself is a developing ing her burrito.
country, and so many Chinese Her friend Zhu Li disagreed. It
people would wonder why they really does not look good when
would have to try Mexican food. you eat it, said Ms. Zhu, 45, an in-
Yum China formally opened the surance agent.
Taco Bell on Jan. 9 in Shanghais Its all over your hands and
prime Lujiazui area, a popular dripping on the table. It just
tourist spot. The former basket- makes me uncomfortable.
Reviews are scientific and clini-
cal saying you like a particular
undated with applications.
The job typically attracts a
kind of chocolate is not enough, range of applicants, but many are
and even terms like caramel are mothers drawn by a flexible work
discouraged (Mondelez techni- schedule and an expectation that
cians prefer tasters be able to new hires will work 7.5 hours a
name the constituent parts of car- week.
amel). Caroline Robbins, who left a job
Many applicants are unable to in retail banking to have a baby
even differentiate between cer- when she saw an advertisement
tain flavors, according to Dr. Af- for the position, was herself once
sha Chugtai, who oversees an aspiring taster.
projects at the research center. Now a technician at the re-
This is not the first time the job search center, Ms. Robbins re-
has been advertised, but Mon- called of her application: I just
delezs decision to promote the couldnt believe it, that there was
openings on social media left it in- an advert for a chocolate taster.
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PERSONAL BUSINESS

WEALTH MATTERS

Two Funds Did Poorly. One Group of Investors Knew to Flee.

By PAUL SULLIVAN
This is a tale of two mutual
funds with abysmal performance
but very different reactions
from their investors to their
returns.
The Ivy Asset Strategy
which is known as a total return
fund, because it tries to maxi-
mize gains through a variety of
investment strategies ranked
in the 99th percentile in 2016,
according to Morningstar, mean-
ing that investors could scarcely
do worse.
The Waddell & Reed Asset
Strategy, also a total return fund,
ranked in the 97th percentile in
the same class.
But last year, the Ivy fund lost
65 percent of its assets mean-
ing that investors pulled out
while the Waddell & Reed fund
lost only 26 percent. Over the
last three years, the Ivy fund has
lost 82 percent, compared with 41
percent for the Waddell & Reed
fund.
Given that both funds come
from the same family the Ivy
fund is a product of Waddell &
Reed, and they have the same
portfolio managers it might
seem to be a curious question
why one dysfunctional family
member is being battered more
than another.
The answer, however, is in
plain sight, and of importance to
investors: The Waddell & Reed
version is sold by Waddell &
Reed representatives to their
financial advice clients. The Ivy
fund can be bought by anyone
and those independent advisers
seem to have told their clients to JAKE NAUGHTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

get out of it.
The discrepancy goes to the
heart of the so-called fiduciary
rule, which is supposed to take
effect in April for retirement
assets unless the Trump admin-
istration succeeds in blocking it.
Under the rule, financial advisers
would be required to act in the
best interests of their clients
retirement accounts, not their
employers bottom lines.
Roger Hoadley, the director of
communications for both the Ivy
and Waddell & Reed funds, does
not dispute the premise that
investors pulled out of the former
more than the latter because of
how their advisers may have
steered them. Those are two
funds managed very similarly,
just distributed differently, he
wrote in an email response to
questions. So, the same portfolio
manager(s) in each case, almost
identical holdings, though there
may be slight differences.
The Waddell & Reed Advisors
funds are offered by the Waddell
& Reed Inc. broker/dealer, he
added. The Ivy Funds are of-
fered widely through registered
investment advisers, wirehouse
brokers and others.
The reason that some invest-
ors would be told to sell shares in
a poorly performing fund
while others wouldnt can be
traced to the two different stand-
ards of care in the financial ad-
vice world.
The standard of suitability
guides most brokers and regis-
tered representatives, like those
at Waddell & Reed, and means
they will pick an investment that
is suitable for you. The fiduciary
standard binds an adviser to
work in your best financial inter-
ests and also includes lawyers,
certified public accountants and
brokers with certain designa-
tions, like the chartered financial
analyst designation, who have
ethical obligations. If the distinc-
tion seems subtle, the outcomes
arent always.
Last week, President Trump
made an announcement that
gave the Labor Department
Gary Ribe, left, and Mark Cortazzo of the Macro Consulting Group, a wealth management firm in New Jersey, advise investors to keep a close eye on fees.
discretion over whether to re-
place the suitability standard
with the fiduciary obligation on
retirement assets. The change
had been debated for six years
and was about to be put in place,
but now it may be revised or
scrapped entirely.
The debate on these two stand-
ards brings up an age old-ques-
tion: How can anyone find an
adviser who is going to counsel
them on investing their money
for the long haul?
If youre working with a bro-
ker or registered investment
adviser, if theres a brand on
their card and the brand of in-
vestment theyre recommending
matches that, Id have very
heightened awareness and Id
ask a lot more questions, said
Mark Cortazzo, a senior partner
at the Macro Consulting Group,
an independent adviser.
The Waddell & Reed/Ivy situa-
tion is stark, but its not the only
Identical Funds, Different Withdrawal Rates
These three pairs of funds identical in assets and managers all
have had generally poor performance, relative to similar funds. Their
poor returns should prompt investors to withdraw. But in each instance,
funds sold by the company that created them have lower levels of
withdrawals than the versions of those funds sold to the general public.
Net flow percentages, 2016
FUNDS SOLD
BY ADVISERS PAID
BY THE FUND CREATOR
Waddell & Reed
26%
Asset Strategy
Waddell & Reed Advisor
9%
Science and Technology
MassMutual Premier
+ 4%
Strategic Emerging Markets
Source: Morningstar
one at those sister funds. The
Waddell & Reed Science and
Technology Fund ranked in the
92nd percentile for such funds
and had outflows of just 8.5 per-
cent last year. The same fund
through Ivy Investments had a
loss of 39.1 percent of its assets in
2016.
Other companies have similar
issues. While the MassMutual
Financial Group is well known
for insurance, its agents also sell
financial products. Its Premier
Strategic Emerging Markets
Fund ranked in the 63rd per-
centile for similar funds, yet in
2016 its assets increased by 3.7
percent in 2016.
OppenheimerFunds, which is
owned by MassMutual, offers the
same fund with the same manag-
ers to its broader range of cli-
ents. Given its middling perform-
ance among emerging markets
funds, its assets fell by 6.4 per-
cent.
IDENTICAL FUNDS SOLD
BY ADVISERS NOT PAID
BY THE FUND CREATOR
Ivy Asset
65%
Strategy
Ivy Science
39%
and Technology
Oppenheimer
6%
Developing Markets
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More starkly, over a three-year
period during which the funds
ranked in the bottom quartile,
the MassMutual versions assets
rose by 65 percent, while the
Oppenheimer one lost 15 percent
of its assets, as investors and
advisers outside of the MassMu-
tual network voted with their
dollars.
Asset flows are driven by a
number of factors, including the
end investor and their invest-
ment goals and time horizon,
said Natalie Marin, a spokes-
woman for Oppenheimer. How
those funds are marketed and
sold to investors also factors into
how money goes into and out of
the funds, she added.
To be fair, its easy to see the
differences with these funds.
Most fund manufacturers that
also have wealth management
divisions have stopped giving the
internal and external funds dif-
ferent names. When all money is
commingled, its harder to tell
what money was put there by
internal advisers and what came
from outside.
One way, of course, is the
occasional lawsuit, as happened
with JPMorgan Chase, which
was fined $307 million in 2015 for
steering customers to its own
funds and products. The regula-
tors showed that in addition to
funneling more fees to the asset
management division, the advis-
ers also at times put clients into
more expensive JPMorgan prod-
ucts when the firm had a less
expensive version of the same
thing.
Most people would have no
way of knowing if it was a con-
flict, Mr. Cortazzo said. You see
a lot of their own brand, a lot of
not the cheapest stuff you can
buy. We see these conflicts.
Of course in some cases, cli-
ents dont have the opportunity
to think something could be
wrong. Investments get chosen
for them because they are in a
discretionary account, even
though those investments may
not have been selected to min-
imize fees.
Fidelity Investments, the
mutual fund giant, has a series of
funds just for clients of its port-
folio advisory service. They are
called Strategic Advisers funds
and open only to people who use
Fidelity to manage their money.
As an investor, you dont
choose that fund, Nicole Good-
now, a Fidelity spokeswoman,
said. Its not like an investor
comes and says, I want that
income opportunity fund to be
part of my portfolio. The man-
ager says, We think youd be a
fit for this fund.
And that can be a problem.
Take the Strategic Advisers
Income Opportunities Fund. It
gained 13.54 percent in 2016,
which put its return slightly
above the average for similar
funds in its category. But the
fund had three of its largest
investments in Fidelity funds,
including its largest position
18.48 percent in the Fidelity
Capital & Income fund.
This Strategic Advisers fund
also had large holdings in the
more expensive A shares of
several funds instead of the
cheaper institutional class. The
difference sounds like inside
baseball, given that the differ-
ences are fractions of a percent.
But in a low-return environment,
those fractions matter, particu-
larly when it is easy to switch
from A shares to institutional
shares without incurring a tax
bill.
People are all so good now, so
it all comes down to fees: Do we
expect to get value in excess of
what were paying? said Gary
Ribe, chief investment officer of
the Macro Consulting Group.
The hunt for fees hiding in
plain sight particularly when
investors think a provider is
acting in their best interest is
continuing, exhaustive and
dispiriting.
Even advisers who act under
the fiduciary standard can re-
ceive so-called soft dollars from
the custodian holding their cli-
ents money or from mutual
funds or exchange-traded funds
that want to encourage them to
sell more of their fund. The fund
may be ideal for clients, but it is
the appearance of conflict that
calls into question the advisers
motives.
So what should people do? The
advice, short of enforceable
regulation and industry change,
puts the onus on the individual.
Michael Krol, chief client serv-
ice officer at Waldron Private
Wealth, which manages $1.4
billion, said that clients needed to
hear their advisers say: This is
the fee you pay me, and none of
the advice I give you, none of the
products I put you into, are going
to result in any greater compen-
sation to me.
If the client knows there is no
way for me to get paid more, Mr.
Krol added, thats a simple way
to avoid that conflict.
That can work fine at a broker-
age firm guided by the less rig-
orous suitability standard. If we
happen to engage someone on
the brokerage side of the busi-
ness, Im very comfortable dis-
closing how product vendors
compensate us, said Jimmy Lee,
chief executive of the Wealth
Consulting Group, which is a
hybrid adviser and broker
through LPL Financial. I tell
them what the commissions are
directly from product vendors,
and I say the broker-dealer gets
a part of the commission that is
passed on to us as a registered
representative.
But at the end of the day, fidu-
ciary standard or not, investors
are going to need to look more
closely at what they own and
why they continue to own it.

YOUR MONEY ADVISER

How to Manage a 529 Plan for Your Childs Education

By ANN CARRNS
Saving money in a 529 plan
offers families a way to put cash
away for college and save on
taxes as well. But if your child is
entering high school soon, its
time to double-check the alloca-
tion of your investments.
Funds in state-sponsored 529
accounts, typically invested in
mutual funds, grow tax-free.
When you take the money out,
funds arent taxed as long as the
money is spent on eligible educa-
tion costs, including tuition, room
and board and books. Total in-
vestment in 529 plans reached
$253 billion in 2015, according to
the College Savings Plans Net-
work.
Investments in 529 plans gen-
erally have a shorter window of
time to grow than money in a
retirement account does. And
once a child enters high school,
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college is just four years away. A
steep drop in the market could
leave you short of funds when
your child heads to campus so
scaling back high-risk invest-
ments is often a good idea, un-
less you have other funds avail-
able to pay for college.
If all your college money is in
the 529, said Kim Lankford, an
editor at Kiplinger who writes
about the plans, you should be
more conservative.
To help avoid that situation,
most 529 plans offer age- and
risk-based investment options,
designed to automatically shift
funds to more conservative in-
vestments as the child grows.
Plans typically begin with a
majority of funds in stocks, then
shrink the allocation over time
and add more bonds.
Still, some advisers suggest
that families even those using
age-based portfolios double-
check the specifics of their 529
holdings as college nears. The
mix of investments and the shift
in allocation, sometimes called a
glide path, vary greatly by plan.
Id want to look under the
hood and make sure it makes
sense for my particular circum-
stances, said Scott Clemons,
chief investment strategist with
Brown Brothers Harriman.
P. J. Wallin, a financial planner
at Atlas Financial in Richmond,
Va., said that while age-based
portfolios shift more money into
bonds over time, fixed income
doesnt always equal safe.
For instance, Mr. Wallin said,
the 2021 age-based portfolio in
Virginias 529 inVest plan now
has 70 percent in fixed-income
investments. But with about 36
percent in stable market
bonds, the mix also includes 5
percent in high-yield bonds and
10 percent in emerging market
bonds, he said, which may be
riskier than some investors want
with college four years away.
Mr. Wallin generally advises
clients to move half of their hold-
ings into a money-market fund
within the 529 plan when the
child enters high school, and
even as early as the eighth
grade. I like to put it in cash, he
said.
The point of a 529 plan, he
noted, is that growth is tax-free
but its risky to seek a lot more
growth during the high school
years. The last thing we want is
to stretch for an extra $5,000 of
appreciation, he said, but lose 20
percent in a market downturn.
Christopher Parr, a financial
planner in Columbia, Md., re-
called that his daughters 529
fund lost a year of savings when
the market dropped in 2008.
You better understand whats
under there, he said.
Steve Stanganelli, a financial
planner in Amesbury, Mass.,
suggests that families consider
moving funds for at least the
coming years college costs into
cash. Connecticuts 529 plan, he
said, generally offers a high-yield
money-market option. And Ms.
Lankford notes that some 529
plans even offer savings ac-
counts insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
as an option.
By moving to safety, families
may miss out on market gains.
Barry Korb, a financial adviser in
Potomac, Md., said a couple
came to see him a year ago,
having saved the equivalent of
four years of tuition at a private
college in a 529 plan. The child
was starting school in six months
and 90 percent of the money
was in equities.
On Mr. Korbs advice, they
agreed to shift most of the funds
to short-term fixed investments.
Even though in retrospect the
couple would have been fine if
they had left the money in stock
over the past year, Mr. Korb is
firm that money needed within
five years shouldnt be in the
market. I do not regret my
advice, he said.
Here are some questions and
answers about 529 savings
plans:
Can I deduct contributions to a
529 plan?
Contributions are not de-
ductible on your federal tax
return. But many states offer a
deduction on your state tax
return.
How many times can I change my
529 investment allocations?
You can change them twice a
year.
What if my child doesnt go to
college?
The College Savings Plans
Network says that you can
change the plans beneficiary to
another family member, and they
can use the funds for college. If
you withdraw the money for
noneducational purposes, the
earnings but not your contri-
butions will be subject to
income tax, plus a 10 percent
federal penalty. Some plans may
charge extra fees or penalties.
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Plan for $10 Billion Chip Plant in China Shows Strong Pull Across Pacific
By PAUL MOZUR
HONG KONG After Intel and
Foxconn said they would build ad-
vanced factories in America, it
might have seemed as if the
United States were gaining high-
end manufacturing momentum.
But on Friday, the California-
based chip maker Global-
Foundries announced a $10 billion
project in China, showing how the
center of gravity continues to shift
across the Pacific.
The new advanced semicon-
ductor factory, in the central Chi-
nese city of Chengdu, is only the
most recent in an array of invest-
ments, often by major multi-
nationals, into China with the sup-
port of the Chinese government.
The projects have become mark-
edly more sophisticated, making
more modern microchips, memo-
ry chips or flat-panel displays.
The reason for the shift is in
part the Chinese government. In
2013 Beijing announced a major
initiative to expand the countrys
ability to produce microchips,
2 A.I.G. Ex-Executives
Settle Long Fraud Case
From First Business Page
After negotiations spanning
about two months, the settlement
was a quiet conclusion to a case
that began during an era when Mr.
Spitzer extracted large fines after
accusing Wall Street research an-
alysts of publishing biased re-
search, mutual fund managers of
shady trading and insurance bro-
kers of rigging bids and receiving
kickbacks. The Enron and World-
Com accounting frauds had shak-
en corporate boards.
But Mr. Greenberg was deter-
mined to fight his case, and both
sides dug in for a long battle. Nei-
ther Mr. Greenberg nor Mr.
Spitzer have the same jobs they
had in 2005, having receded from
those prominent roles.
The trial began in September
before New York State Supreme
Court Justice Charles E. Ramos
after 11 years of delays and legal
maneuvering, much of it as Mr.
Greenberg appealed rulings by
the judge. After his testimony and
cross-examination in the trial, Mr.
Greenberg and the lawyers argu-
ing for the state began mediation
in December. The trial had been
set to resume last month, but was
postponed pending the talks.
The former executives were ac-
cused of overseeing two sham re-
insurance deals aimed at duping
A.I.G. investors. One deal turned
auto warranty insurance losses
into investment losses; the other
inflated A.I.G. reserves by $500
million. The charges led to Mr.
Greenbergs ouster in 2005 as
chief of A.I.G., which he had built
into a global insurance leader.
In a statement on Friday, Mr.
Schneiderman said, Todays
agreement settles the indisput-
able fact that Mr. Greenberg has
denied for 12 years: that Mr.
Greenberg orchestrated two
transactions that fundamentally
misrepresented A.I.G.s finances.
In his statement, Mr. Greenberg
said he initiated, participated in
and approved these two transac-
tions; as a result, A.I.G.s public
Pepper a Financial Adviser With Questions About Investment Fees
From First Business Page
much their adviser is getting
paid, said Lynn M. Dunston,
who runs a financial planning
firm in Denver, where the only
fees he earns come directly from
clients.
The best (and by far the funni-
est) explanation Ive seen of
what a fiduciary is and does
comes from a video that a firm
called HighTower Advisors
posted on YouTube in 2012. The
video compares butchers and
nutritionists. Butchers push
meat, perhaps the best meat
they have. Nutritionists, howev-
er, tell you what is best to eat,
period, because they have your
best overall health interests at
heart and have no stake in how
much meat you consume.
When seeking advice on your
life savings, you would presum-
ably want to speak to the nutri-
tionists and not the butchers. But
the butchers of the financial
world are in a pretty good spot
right now. After all, we have just
seen eight years of stock market
gains. With an unpredictable new
president in the White House,
people have reason to be wary.
So enter the annuity peddlers,
and others touting safety, protec-
tions from downside risk, guar-
antees and the possibility of
participating in future market
gains, too. And wouldnt you
know it? The way these sales-
people sold those products dur-
ing the last downturn was a big
part of what pushed the propo-
nents of the fiduciary rule to act.
You will be seeing these
Twitter: @ronlieber
which act as the brains of every-
thing from guided missiles to
smartphones. Also driving the
companies, according to analysts,
are new guidelines urging Chi-
nese electronics makers to buy
chips made in China.
Since China has begun focusing
on semiconductors, the prov-
enance of advanced chips has be-
come an increasingly fraught poli-
tical issue. The United States gov-
ernment has blocked several Chi-
nese deals for American and
European chip companies during
the past two years, and a commis-
sion created by former President
Barack Obama said Chinas chip
policies posed a risk to American
companies.
The election of President
Trump has further increased
pressure on companies, several of
which have announced plans to
build facilities in America. In In-
tels case, it was a recommitment
to an earlier plan the company
had announced.
Leading Chinas charge have
filings inaccurately portrayed
the accounting, and thus the fi-
nancial condition and perform-
ance for A.I.G.s loss reserves and
underwriting income.
In an interview, David Boies,
Mr. Greenbergs lawyer, called the
agreement a nuisance settle-
ment, noting that Mr. Greenberg
had avoided two penalties sought
by the state that would have
barred him from working in the
securities industry or as an officer
of a public company. The settle-
ments outline was framed by the
mediator, Kenneth R. Feinberg.
The transactions were featured
when A.I.G. settled accounting
fraud charges brought by the Se-
curities and Exchange Commis-
sion in 2006. One, a reinsurance
deal between A.I.G. and General
Reinsurance Corporation, a com-
pany owned by Berkshire Hath-
away, prompted federal criminal
charges in Connecticut against
several former executives of the
companies; two former Gen Re
executives pleaded guilty. A 2008
jury verdict against five others
was overturned on appeal.
What began as a Spitzer-Green-
berg battle was nasty from the
start. Before he brought the
charges in May 2005, Mr. Spitzer
had forced the ouster of Mr.
Greenbergs son Jeffrey as chief
executive of the insurance broker-
age Marsh & McLennan after
charging it with bid-rigging and
receiving kickbacks. And Mr.
Greenberg complained that Mr.
Spitzer was treating minor infrac-
tions, like foot faults in tennis, as
capital crimes. Mr. Spitzer shot
back, too many foot faults, and
you can lose the match.
Early in the trial, Mr. Greenberg
admitted to a sometimes active
role in formulating the transac-
tions at issue but insisted he had
intended for them to comply with
accounting rules. He said he had
left most details to subordinates.
On the stand, he lunged and
parried with state trial lawyer Da-
vid E. Nachman, avoiding simple
answers so often that the judge
pitches soon enough, and when
you do, there is a long list of
questions you must ask. In fact,
anytime anyone is trying to sell
you an actively managed mutual
fund, a real estate investment
trust that you dont understand
or anything else even remotely
confusing, ask each of the follow-
ing questions:
How much money will you
personally make in cash commis-
sion, now, if I select this product?
And how much will you make
later, in any sort of ongoing or
trailing commission?
Asking about
bonuses, trips and
other perks acquired
through sales.
Is there a bonus you are
eligible for that comes as a result
of your recruitment to this firm?
Is it in jeopardy if you dont make
this sale?
Are you earning more from
selling me this product than you
might from putting me in a simi-
lar product from a different
company? Are you earning more
than you might if you put me in a
different vehicle from the same
company?
Is your company or the
company that created this prod-
uct running any contests that
might lead to your getting to take
a free trip if I buy this product?
And while we are discussing
been both the central and provin-
cial governments, which have
been spending billions of dollars
on investments and subsidies.
The government has said China
will spend about $100 billion to
bring chip factories and research
facilities to China.
Almost all of the large semicon-
ductor enterprises in the United
States have received investment
offers from Chinese state actors,
according to a report from the
Mercator Institute for China Stud-
ies, a think tank based in Ger-
many. The report added that Chi-
nas newest industrial policy,
Made in China 2025, had named
semiconductors as a crucial area
to improve.
Although analysts remain un-
sure of how quickly China might
be able to close a huge gap with
companies from Japan, South Ko-
rea, Taiwan and the United States,
the funds have been slowly at-
tracting new plants. A semicon-
ductor industry group said in a re-
cent report that it was tracking
the production of more than 20
Maurice Greenberg, right, the former chief of A.I.G., with David Boies, his lawyer, leaving New York State Supreme Court in 2016.
chided him. If we dont want this
trial to last a year, youre going to
have to give direct answers,
Judge Ramos said.
In his opening statement, Mr.
Boies said, this case is devoid of
any admissible evidence that ties
Mr. Greenberg to anything that
was improper about these two
transactions.
Saule Omarova, who special-
izes in the regulation of financial
institutions as a professor at Cor-
nell Law School, said the case was
about the legacies of Mr. Green-
berg as A.I.G.s longtime leader
and Mr. Spitzer as a onetime
prominent Wall Street regulator.
Stepping back, she said, the
case is a prominent example of
regulators efforts to untangle the
blame for risk-creating activities
at large financial conglomerates
that later loomed large in the fi-
trips, do any of the companies
that you work with offer due
diligence trips? You know, the
ones where you spend an hour
learning about the products and
10 hours drinking and golfing?
My wife reads on Facebook that
one of our mutual friends is
down in Orlando at a fixed annu-
ities conference, said Patrick
Rush, who sold annuities in a
former life and is now a financial
planner in Greensboro, N.C.
Shes like: What is going on?
How come you dont win any-
thing?
Now, what about other forms
of payment say, in points that
you might redeem for merchan-
dise? Mr. Dunston of Denver
once sold annuities before he
came upon what he describes as
a better way to help clients. After
a couple of big sales more than a
decade ago, he had earned
enough credits to exchange them
for a diamond ring for his wife
worth about $3,500.
The annuity provider, Allianz,
told me that a thorough search of
its records did not yield informa-
tion that confirmed Mr. Dun-
stons story, but Mr. Dunston said
that it might have been a third
party that ran the incentive
program, and that he was certain
he had earned those points and
that spiffy ring through Allianz.
You can see why advisers might
be conflicted about offering
something like this versus a
low-cost index fund, he said.
But I really thought I was doing
the right thing at the time.
More questions!
Do you get to eat lots of free
food? Mr. Rush, the Greensboro
planner, well remembers all of
the so-called plate-licker semi-
semiconductor manufacturing
plants in China.
Such spending momentum will
drive China to the top-tier bracket
for fab equipment and is paving
the way to establish Chinas posi-
tion on the global semiconductor
stage, according to a recent re-
port by SEMI, a global microelec-
A California-based
companys project
reflects a flow of cash
away from the U.S.
tronics industry association, re-
ferring to tools used to fabricate
chips.
The GlobalFoundries project is
being built in cooperation with the
Chengdu municipal government.
GlobalFoundries declined to
specify the amount of the invest-
nancial crisis of 2008.
Three years after the charges
led to Mr. Greenbergs ouster,
A.I.G. nearly collapsed and
needed an $185 billion federal res-
cue. Mr. Spitzer resigned as New
York governor in 2008 in a prosti-
tution scandal.
The state and the two defend-
ants had reached an agreement to
settle the case just before A.I.G.s
near-collapse. However, a steep
drop in A.I.G.s stock price at that
time reduced the value of a
planned charitable donation of
A.I.G. shares that would have
been part of the settlement, and
the agreement was called off.
Before the trial, Judge Ramos
ruled in favor of the state on one of
the charges, but that was over-
turned on appeal, and the defense
unsuccessfully sought to remove
him from the case.
Natalie Dunston and her husband, Lynn, who said he had gotten
a ring for her in exchange for credits he earned selling annuities.
nars he once attended at Ruths
Chris, the steakhouse chain,
courtesy of various financial
services companies.
How about hoops tickets in
basketball-mad parts of the
country? There were certainly
people who could provide Car-
olina or Duke seats, he said.
You knew who to call. They
werent going to be putting you
up in the nosebleed seats either.
Then there is some nitty-gritty.
You will be offered all sorts of
product features and extras, and
you will need to ask the following
questions:
How much extra will I pay in
fees (or how much might I sacri-
fice in returns or payouts) if I
elect to receive a sign-up bonus
on my annuity? Or for a guaran-
teed minimum income or benefit
if I elect to take my money in
monthly payments starting at
ment, but several documents on
government websites put the total
project around $10 billion.
Jason Gorss, a GlobalFoundries
spokesman, declined to provide fi-
nancial details but said in an email
that industry analysts estimate
that the total cost of an advanced
semiconductor fab is on the order
of $10B and this fab will be in that
range. It is not clear how much in-
vestment is being provided by the
company and how much by the
Chengdu government.
Although the semiconductors
produced at the plant will be a
generation behind the most cut-
ting-edge chip technology, they
are based on a special design that
is likely to make them useful in
sensors for mobile devices, cars
and other gadgets that are in-
creasingly being connected to
computer networks.
GlobalFoundries is based in
Santa Clara, Calif., and owned by
Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab
Emirates. The company has semi-
conductor plants across the
In the Gen Re deal struck in
2000, the company was suppos-
edly paying $10 million to get re-
insurance from A.I.G., according
to testimony by Christian M. Mil-
ton, a former A.I.G. executive. But
A.I.G. arranged to repay the $10
million to Gen Re with a $5 million
deal fee, he testified.
The state charged that the se-
cret fee repayment was a sign the
reinsurance was bogus, intended
mainly to allow A.I.G. to increase
reserves by $500 million. But Mr.
Greenberg, who initiated the deal
by phoning the Gen Re chief exec-
utive, testified that he was not
aware of the repayment plan.
In a 2008 deposition admitted
into evidence early in the trial, Al-
ice Schroeder, a former Morgan
Stanley insurance analyst, said
that if she had known about the
Gen Re transaction and its impact
MATT NAGER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
some later date? What if I want a
death benefit for my heirs? Are
there specific charges for the
insurance component of the
product? Are there any penalties
for pulling my money out early?
As for any subaccounts in
my annuity, are there expense
ratios or fees for the money
there? A separate management
fee? Trading fees? A record-
keeping or other administrative
fee? Please provide me an item-
ized list for any and all fees,
thank you!
Finally, does your firm stand
to collect any fees that you your-
self will not share in as part of
your commission because they
have favored one product or
another or limited their platform
to certain products and locked
out others?
There is no right answer to
these questions not exactly,
world, including two former IBM
plants in the United States that it
uses to make chips for the Ameri-
can military.
Although Intel and Foxconn
have said they have plans to build
in America, the factories being
built in China greatly outnumber
them.
In late 2015, a leading chip
maker, Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing, said it would build
a production facility in China de-
spite longtime concerns from Tai-
wans government about insulat-
ing the industry from Chinese
competition and potential intellec-
tual property theft. Late last year,
another major chip maker from
Taiwan, United Microelectronics,
said it would build a factory on the
east coast of China.
Other companies have taken
different approaches. The Ameri-
can chip maker AMD has licensed
technology to a Chinese joint ven-
ture, also in Chengdu. IBM has li-
censed chip technology to a sepa-
rate local partner.
LOUIS LANZANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
in raising A.I.G.s then-faltering
reserve levels, she almost cer-
tainly would not have upgraded
the stock in early 2001. She also
described Mr. Greenberg as a
very hands-on manager.
One cloud over the states case
was whether a deposition of Rich-
ard Napier, a former Gen Re exec-
utive, could come into evidence.
Mr. Napier was an important
prosecution witness in the Con-
necticut trial who in 2005 pleaded
guilty to conspiring to commit se-
curities fraud in the A.I.G. deal.
While the defense objected to
parts of Mr. Napiers deposition as
inadmissible hearsay, New York
State lawyers argued that a co-
conspirator exception to hearsay
rules should apply. Judge Ramos
received briefs on the issue but
had not ruled before the mediation
effort began.
anyway. Some annuities can be
useful (especially the simple
fixed, immediate ones and simi-
lar products known as longevity
insurance), and in some other
cases you may get what you pay
for in peace of mind. But many
other annuities may cost 3.5
percent annually when you add
up all of the fees. For about one-
third of that or even less in some
cases, you can find a fiduciary
adviser who will give you all-
you-can-eat advice on every
aspect of your financial life and
put you in solid (if boring and
simple) investments that cost a
tiny fraction of what many annu-
ities do.
Its anyones guess how much
regulators will ultimately be
looking out for you. All Jillian B.
Rogers, a Labor Department
spokeswoman, would say was
that it was exploring options to
delay the applicability date for
the fiduciary rule. And she would
not explain on the record why
the department had recently
removed an explainer on the rule
from its website, though an
archived version is pretty easy to
find.
Whatever happens, however,
so much will hinge on squishy
terms like suitability, best inter-
ests, the reasonableness of fees,
legal exceptions to any and all
standards, and whoever is adju-
dicating any disputes.
Rather than get caught up in
all of that, its probably best to
protect yourself from the outset.
And in an industry that makes a
game of hiding lots and lots of
fees every which way, the best
possible response is to ask lots
and lots of questions.

TVs New Hit Soap Opera: White House Press Briefings
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
He is no match for The Young
and the Restless. But he is beat-
ing The Bold and the Beautiful.
Sean Spicer, the White House
press secretary whose early ten-
ure has prompted political fire-
works and late-night parodies,
may be struggling to settle in be-
hind the lectern. On the airwaves,
however, he is daytime televi-
sions new big hit.
Mr. Spicers briefings, carried
live by the major cable news net-
works, are pulling in an average of
4.3 million viewers, according to
data from Nielsen. Audiences
across Fox News, MSNBC and
CNN grow by an average of 10 per-
cent when Mr. Spicer comes on-
screen to discuss the latest news
on President Trump, statistics
show.
The soap opera at the White
House is outscoring actual soaps
like General Hospital and The
Bold and the Beautiful, which
typically air in the afternoon. Mr.
Spicers ratings are on par with
prime-time entertainment like
MasterChef Junior on Fox and
the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken, which
draw around four million viewers
each.
The big ratings offer a quantifi-
able measure for what has be-
come a truism in Washington:
Three weeks into the Trump ad-
ministration, Mr. Spicers daily
joust with reporters peppered
with fiery exchanges, memorable
malapropisms and some much
discussed dissembling are now
must-see-TV for the political class.
Theres huge interest in every-
John Koblin contributed reporting.
In Trump Era, Ordinary Shopping Decisions Are Political Acts
From First Business Page
ment.
The athletic-gear maker Under
Armour also encountered the per-
ils this week, when its chief execu-
tive, Kevin Plank, called Mr.
Trump a real asset for the coun-
try. Within hours, the hashtag
#boycottunderarmour emerged
on social media.
Under Armour moved quickly
to contain the damage, clarifying
Mr. Planks remarks by saying he
supported Mr. Trumps business
policies, not his social viewpoints.
It is unclear how much the boy-
cotts and activism are shaping
businesses financial results, es-
pecially at big department stores,
which are battling weak sales
across the board.
The Ivanka Trump brand said it
had experienced double-digit
growth in revenue last year, and
planned to continue expanding its
offerings and distribution in 2017.
Consumer companies, more
broadly, have long faced cam-
paigns against their products for
political, social or environmental
reasons. There have been boy-
cotts over the use of sweatshop la-
bor, dangerous chemicals and
even microbeads.
But now, companies are dealing
with even more intense pressure,
as they have become targets in a
politically charged environment
fueled by social media.
After Nordstrom pulled Ms.
Trumps products, many people
opposed to Mr. Trump cheered the
decision.
But Josh Cornett, a 37-year-old
Trump supporter in Cleveland,
was quick to tell his 25,000 follow-
ers not to shop at the department
store.
All you have to do is write out a
sentence, and youre done, he
said.
Anything that helps him, I try
to promote, he said, referring to
Mr. Trump. And anyone who at-
tacks him, I try to defend.
Nordstrom said that Ms.
Trumps products were simply not
selling well, and that remaining
inventory would still be available
in some physical stores. But that
has not stopped people like Mr.
Cornett from viewing the decision
through a political lens, and as-
serting that the company took a
Facebook Takes Steps to Improve Advertising Data After Criticism
By SAPNA MAHESHWARI
Facebook said on Friday that it
would agree to an audit of infor-
mation it provides to marketers
and provide them with new, more
precise measurement data, less
than two weeks after Procter &
Gamble, Americas biggest adver-
tiser, criticized the lack of trans-
parency provided by digital ad
platforms.
The social network, which came
under scrutiny last year for re-
peated inaccuracies in its tools for
measuring ads, also said Friday
that it would give marketers new
options for buying video ads this
year.
For example, marketers might
pay only if an ad was viewed to
completion or if the sound was on.
The nonprofit Media Rating Coun-
cil will conduct an audit to verify
the accuracy of the information
Facebook gives marketers, the
company said in a blog post, add-
thing Trump does, and Sean is
benefiting from that, said Alex
Conant, a Republican consultant
who helped lead Senator Marco
Rubios presidential campaign.
Depending on your perspective,
you either tune in to watch Sean
defend the indefensible, or to
watch media bias in action.
The interest in Mr. Spicers
briefings coincides with a spike in
cable news viewership over all.
Since Inauguration Day, Fox
Newss audience from 1 to 3 p.m.
on weekdays has grown to about
2.2 million, up 62 percent from the
previous year. CNN and MSNBC
have also seen big increases in
daytime audiences.
With Mr. Trump dominating the
morning news cycle with his pro-
vocative Twitter postings, Mr.
Spicers afternoon briefing is a
highly anticipated forum for jour-
nalists to parse and probe the
presidents words. The news net-
works have taken to teasing the
briefing for viewers, broadcasting
an empty lectern in the corner of
the screen in the minutes before
Mr. Spicer arrives.
Mr. Spicer, a famous-for-D.C.
type who is now actually famous,
is also attracting interest, al-
though perhaps not for reasons he
would like.
His lambasting of the White
House press corps, false claims
about inauguration attendance
and occasional use of props were
viciously parodied by Saturday
Night Live last weekend with
the actress Melissa McCarthy
portraying Mr. Spicer causing
consternation inside the White
House, Politico reported.
Mr. Spicer has what some de-
scribe as the least desirable job in
Ivanka Trumps store inside the Trump Tower lobby in New York. Nordstrom recently scrubbed Ms. Trumps name from its website.
Public cries to boycott
or reward companies
tied to the president.
stand.
Companies are now being
swept up into this political con-
sumer activism in a way that they
have not been in the past, said
Maurice Schweitzer, a professor
of operations, information and de-
cisions at the Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Nordstrom is one of more than a
dozen other retailers that have
found themselves in the cross
hairs of Grab Your Wallet, an on-
line campaign to boycott compa-
ing that it was also working with
24 third-party measurement com-
panies.
Facebook announced the
changes after Marc S. Pritchard,
the chief brand officer at Procter
& Gamble, demanded that the dig-
ital ad industry grow up, criticiz-
ing the different ways platforms,
including Facebook and YouTube,
define whether an ad has been
viewed and the lack of accredited
outside sources used to measure
digital ad performance.
While technology has let adver-
tisers venture where no creative
has been before at lightning
speed, it has too often led to bad
advertising accompanied by even
worse viewing experiences, Mr.
Pritchard said on Jan. 29 at a con-
ference held by the Interactive
Advertising Bureau.
He said that, as part of an effort
to change the situation, Procter &
Gamble would start accepting the
Media Rating Council standard on
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Briefings by Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, are shown live by cable news networks.
Washington, balancing his rela-
tionship with reporters while
spinning on behalf of a president
who has shown open hostility to-
ward the press. Mr. Trump, a me-
dia maestro himself, monitors Mr.
Spicers performance and often
critiques it afterward.
Mr. Spicer has retained the offi-
cial backing of the White House.
Stephen K. Bannon, a chief White
House strategist, described Mr.
Spicers combative interaction
with the press as a badge of hon-
or.
Ari Fleischer, President George
W. Bushs first press secretary,
nies associated with the Trump
brand. The movement has also
protested brands that donated to
Mr. Trumps campaign or adver-
tised on The New Celebrity Ap-
prentice, on which he is credited
as an executive producer.
Some major companies, includ-
ing Macys, the countrys largest verse its position, explaining that
department store, still sell Ms.
Trumps shoes, handbags and
clothes. Those companies remain
on Grab Your Wallets list.
Macys did not respond to multi-
ple requests for comment. But
many companies that are on the
anti-Trump list argue they have
not picked a side and should not be
there.
For instance, in the days before
his inauguration, Mr. Trump
tweeted his thanks for the support
of an L.L. Bean heir and encour-
ad viewability and work with
third-party measurement compa-
nies that are accredited by the
group. If companies are not will-
ing to comply, he said, they will
lose its business. Procter & Gam-
A social network will
provide measurable
data and allow
outsiders to audit it.
ble, with brands including Gillette,
Crest and Charmin, is the biggest
advertiser in the United States,
spending $2.4 billion in marketing
last year, according to Kantar Me-
dia.
We spend enormous amounts
of time trying to understand, ana-
said that his post-inauguration
press briefings in 2001 were also
carried live by the cable networks,
but interest waned a few weeks
into the administration. Briefings
during the Obama administration
followed a similar pattern, with
viewership fluctuating depending
on events.
But while Mr. Bush did not have
Twitter at his disposal, Mr. Fleis-
cher said that Mr. Spicers task
was not a lot different than his
own. The job of the press secre-
tary is to elaborate on what the
president is thinking and why, he
said. Whether the thought is con-
aged consumers to buy products
from the merchandiser. Soon, the
company, based in Maine, was the
focus of the Grab Your Wallet cam-
paign.
In a statement also posted on
social media and elsewhere, L.L.
Bean urged the campaign to re-
political divide.
the Trump supporter, Linda Bean,
was one of more than 50 family
members involved in the busi-
ness. It added that L.L. Bean did
not endorse political candidates or
take positions on political matters.
Simply put, the statement read,
we stay out of politics.
Still, other business leaders ap-
pear eager to dash into the poli-
tical fray. After Mr. Trump signed
an executive order in late January
that suspended the countrys ref-
ugee program and barred individ-
lyze and explain the differences
between Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Pan-
dora, YouTube and the dozens of
different viewability standards
claimed to be right metric for each
platform, Mr. Pritchard said, ac-
cording to a copy of his remarks
given to The New York Times.
Think about that for a moment. It
would be like each N.F.L. football
team having a different standard
of yards needed for a first down.
Facebook, which made nearly
all of its $27.6 billion in revenue
last year from advertising, has
been trying to win marketers
faith back since September, when
it apologized for overstating video
viewership.
The mistake, followed by sev-
eral other disclosures of errone-
ous measurements, spurred an in-
dustrywide reassessment of the
metrics used by digital advertis-
ing platforms, which are drawing
more marketing dollars every
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
tained in a tweet, or in a carefully
worded speech or the latest gossip
that came from the closed-door
meeting, the briefing has the
same dynamic.
At one point, Mr. Fleischer re-
called, Donald Rumsfeld, then the
secretary of defense, became a
more familiar figure for daytime
audiences than the press secre-
tary, when cable networks carried
live Pentagon briefings in the run-
up to the Iraq war.
Mr. Rumsfeld was on television
so often that Mr. Bush bestowed
him a nickname: teen matinee
idol.
SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
uals from certain countries from
entering the United States, How-
ard Schultz, the chief executive of
Starbucks, announced plans to
hire 10,000 refugees over the next
five years.
Like with Nordstrom, the re-
sponse was largely split down the
ferries commuters around the San
Theres a real difference in
styles emerging here. L.L. Bean
wants to stay low, saying, Were
not political. We dont want to pick
sides, said Professor Schweitzer,
of the Wharton School.
But Howard Schultz is posi-
tioning Starbucks as a more libe-
ral-friendly place, Professor
Schweitzer continued. Hes
aligning the company with the
employees and most of the
customers in taking that stance.
year. Facebooks revenue last
year, for instance, soared by more
than 50 percent.
The social network, in its post
on Friday, said that it would pro-
vide marketers with new data on
display ads, including the milli-
seconds they appear on a screen.
Its new video ad buying options
will include two-second buying,
where at least half of an ads pixels
are in view for two seconds or
longer, which Facebook noted
complies with the Media Rating
Councils video standard.
Facebooks actions on media
transparency are a positive step
forward, particularly coming from
one of the largest media players in
the industry, Mr. Pritchard said in
an emailed statement. Procter &
Gamble was encouraged by the
responsiveness and leadership
Facebook is demonstrating, and
we hope it builds more momen-
tum to create a clean and produc-
tive digital media supply chain.
N B5
Ford Invests
$1 Billion
For a Future
Of Riders
By MIKE ISAAC
and NEAL E. BOUDETTE
SAN FRANCISCO One of the
oldest automakers in the United
States is making a billion-dollar
bet that one day, owning a car may
not be a necessity of American
life.
Ford Motor announced on Fri-
day its plans to invest $1 billion
over the next five years in Argo
AI, an artificial intelligence start-
up formed in December that is fo-
cused on developing autonomous
vehicle technology.
The move is Fords biggest ef-
fort to move into self-driving car
research. Argo AI will develop the
technology exclusively for Ford at
first, and then plans to license its
technology to others.
The investment is also a way for
Ford, which is more than century
old, to tap into Silicon Valley talent
and make headway in a competi-
tive space. Former Google and
Uber self-driving technologists
will lead the effort out of Pitts-
burgh, a hub for robotics and au-
tonomous vehicle research, and
satellite offices will be in place in
the San Francisco Bay Area and
southeastern Michigan.
Argo AI will operate as a sub-
sidiary of Ford; the automaker
will be the majority shareholder.
But Argo AI will also use shares of
its stock to lure robotics and engi-
neering professionals from other
companies, a challenge in a field
where companies like General
Motors, Chrysler, Uber and
Google are all racing to bring au-
tonomous vehicles to the main-
stream.
If we can combine the best of a
start-up and marry that with
proper equity compensation, then
thats the best of both worlds,
Mark Fields, president and chief
executive of Ford, said at an event
with reporters in San Francisco on
Friday.
The move comes as Ford posi-
tions itself as not just a manufac-
turer of cars, but as a provider of
mobility services, enabling peo-
ple to get around without owning
cars. That is especially important
as companies like Uber and Lyft,
ride-hailing services popular in
urban areas, have reduced the
need for people to have their own
vehicles.
Ford sees mobility services as
potentially more profitable than
its traditional business of making
and selling cars. Manufacturing
vehicles requires billions of dol-
lars in investments in plants and
engineering costs that are often
difficult to recoup. Company exec-
utives have said mobility services
could generate returns of around
20 percent, compared with the 8
percent it earns on making vehi-
cles today.
As part of that strategy, Ford
has been racing to develop self-
driving cars, put down roots in Sil-
icon Valley and acquire fledgling
players in ride-hailing services,
autonomous-driving technologies
and related areas.
There is not a strong enough
pipeline of talent coming out of the
universities today, Bryan
Salesky, chief executive and co-
founder of Argo AI, said on Friday.
Mr. Salesky said Argo AI was look-
ing to hire 200 employees across
its three offices by the end of the
year.
In the last several months, Ford
acquired Chariot, a start-up that
Francisco area, and invested in
Civil Maps, which is developing
3-D mapping technology that can
be used by self-driving cars. In
August, Ford also acquired
SAIPS, an Israeli company devel-
oping machine learning and com-
puter-vision technology.
A year ago, Ford opened a re-
search center in Palo Alto, Calif., a
move Mr. Fields acknowledged
was aimed at making Ford part
of the ecosystem of Silicon Valley.
Ford is also remaking its head-
quarters and main development
center in Dearborn, Mich., just
outside Detroit, into two sprawl-
ing, high-tech campuses of ener-
gy-efficient buildings similar to
those that dot Silicon Valley. The
automaker envisions the new
campuses, which will take 10
years to complete, as places that
will showcase autonomous shut-
tles as well as electric bikes and
other green modes of transporta-
tion.
Other automakers are moving
in the same direction. General
Motors has invested $500 million
in Lyft, a ride-hailing service and
main rival of Uber. G.M. also ac-
quired Cruise Automation, a
maker of sensors and other gear
that can enable conventional auto-
mobiles to drive themselves on
highways.
Like Ford, G.M. also has a Sili-
con Valley tech center, and it is
spending $1 billion to renovate its
main big development campus in
Warren, Mich.
Mike Isaac reported from San
Francisco, and Neal E. Boudette
from Ann Arbor, Mich.
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DOW JONES NASDAQ 20 MOST ACTIVE 20 TOP GAINERS 20 TOP LOSERS

Industrials 20269.37 + 96.97 + 0.48 + 27.36 + 2.56 Nasdaq 100 5226.69 + 14.53 + 0.28 + 31.78 + 7.46 Cliffs Natura (CLF) 11.15 0.22 1.9 1159064 KBS Fashion (KBSF) 10.87 +7.06 +185.6 40702 ChannelAdvis (ECOM) 10.85 3.40 23.9 11085
Transportation 9393.79 + 62.62 + 0.67 + 34.51 + 3.87 Composite 5734.13 + 18.95 + 0.33 + 33.86 + 6.52 Bank of Ameri (BAC) 23.08 0.04 0.2 904866 Sierra Wirel (SWIR) 24.45 +5.80 +31.1 38809 Ubiquiti Net (UBNT) 53.43 10.70 16.7 60693
Utilities 669.68 + 4.96 + 0.75 + 6.97 + 1.53 Industrials 4736.55 + 38.91 + 0.83 + 34.52 + 6.56 Twitter (TWTR) 15.58 0.83 5.1 729763 Infinera (INFN) 11.96 +2.56 +27.2 166393 Eagle Bulk (EGLE) 5.50 0.96 14.9 33170
Banks 3815.31 + 22.42 + 0.59 + 56.51 0.96 AMD (AMD) 13.58 +0.16 +1.2 545193 Sears (SHLD) 6.96 +1.42 +25.6 120523 Apptio (APTI) 14.54 2.50 14.7 8397
Composite 7093.67 + 40.74 + 0.58 + 25.50 + 2.77
Immunomedics (IMMU) 5.23 +0.93 +21.6 543215 Pulse (PLSE) 9.35 +1.80 +23.8 4384 Yelp (YELP) 35.83 5.66 13.6 159862
Insurance 8323.43 + 62.75 + 0.76 + 22.49 0.36 15.21
Activision (ATVI) 47.23 +7.50 +18.9 516964 Immunomedics (IMMU) 5.23 +0.93 +21.6 543215 AquaBounty Te (AQB) 2.34 13.3 476
STANDARD AND POORS Other Finance 6730.44 15.37 0.23 + 40.90 + 4.05 Mead Johnson (MJN) 87.72 +4.67 +5.6 503080 Quotient Tec (QUOT) 13.20 +2.30 +21.1 21760 Cardtronics (CATM) 45.49 5.40 10.6 28180
100 Stocks 1020.67 + 3.13 + 0.31 + 23.03 + 2.95 Telecommunications 300.54 + 0.08 + 0.03 + 40.35 + 4.25 Freeport Mcmo (FCX) 15.80 +0.41 +2.7 453617 Control4 (CTRL) 13.93 +2.36 +20.4 21788 Mimecast (MIME) 20.74 2.32 10.1 5376
500 Stocks 2316.10 + 8.23 + 0.36 + 25.07 + 3.45 Computer 3157.47 + 1.40 + 0.04 + 37.96 + 7.92 Intel (INTC) 35.34 0.12 0.3 440695 Skechers USA (SKX) 27.78 +4.50 +19.3 131578 Forum Energy (FET) 21.95 2.35 9.7 46607
Mid-Cap 400 1720.84 + 9.42 + 0.55 + 36.96 + 3.63 NVIDIA (NVDA) 113.62 2.76 2.4 412422 Activision (ATVI) 47.23 +7.50 +18.9 516964 Magnachip (MX) 7.45 0.75 9.1 23024
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AK Steel Hold (AKS) 8.39 0.27 3.1 253015 FB Financial (FBK) 30.08 +3.76 +14.3 2878 Atara (ATRA) 15.05 1.05 6.5 1498
NYSE Comp. 11377.72 + 50.04 + 0.44 + 23.98 + 2.90 Russell 2000 1388.84 + 10.32 + 0.75 + 44.15 + 2.34 Noble Corp (NE) 7.31 +0.68 +10.3 235291 Leap (LPTX) 8.20 +1.00 +13.9 667 Kona Grill (KONA) 8.75 0.55 5.9 1429
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Apple (AAPL) 89.47 132.94 132.12 0.30 + 41.00 + 14.1 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 106.67 78.53 + 1.22 16.34 0.5 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 99.98 126.07 115.24 + 1.16 + 13.31 + 0.0 Procter Ga (PG) 79.10 90.33 87.97 0.70 + 10.10 + 4.6
AbbVie (ABBV) 51.60 68.12 60.42 0.42 + 15.79 3.5 Chevron (CVX) 80.64 119.00 113.05 + 0.79 + 36.22 4.0 JPMorgan (JPM) 52.50 88.17 87.00 0.20 + 63.93 + 0.8 PMI (PM) 86.78 104.20 102.63 0.14 + 16.18 + 12.2
Abbott (ABT) 36.02 45.79 42.74 + 0.20 + 17.61 + 11.3 Du Pont (DD) 55.94 78.36 77.21 + 0.84 + 36.37 + 5.2 Kinder Mor (KMI) 13.26 23.36 22.48 + 0.10 + 61.03 + 8.6 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 32.01 44.52 40.58 0.25 + 21.06 + 2.8
Accenture (ACN) 92.25 125.72 117.60 + 0.62 + 25.87 + 0.4 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 102.79 83.98 + 0.22 + 32.56 + 7.9 Kraft Hein (KHC) 70.17 90.54 90.20 + 0.42 + 26.26 + 3.3 Qualcomm (QCOM) 42.24 71.62 54.00 + 1.12 + 25.58 17.2
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 301.32 246.36 + 0.68 10.27 + 17.3 Walt Disne (DIS) 86.96 111.99 109.26 0.23 + 20.98 + 4.8 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 47.13 40.58 0.67 4.32 2.1 Raytheon (RTN) 119.38 152.58 150.03 + 0.79 + 22.79 + 5.7
AIG (AIG) 48.41 67.47 65.61 + 0.29 + 29.87 + 0.5 Dow (DOW) 44.40 61.73 61.19 + 0.93 + 36.58 + 6.9 Eli Lilly (LLY) 64.18 83.79 77.79 + 0.09 + 8.92 + 5.8 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 61.64 56.22 + 0.41 + 2.37 + 1.3
Allstate (ALL) 61.70 79.31 78.88 + 0.53 + 26.57 + 6.4 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 78.10 + 0.35 + 1.69 + 0.6 Lockheed (LMT) 203.65 269.90 260.55 + 2.35 + 25.76 + 4.3 Schlumberg (SLB) 66.10 87.84 82.16 + 0.95 + 19.37 2.1
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 176.85 167.89 + 0.42 + 18.68 + 14.8 Emerson El (EMR) 44.70 63.50 63.26 + 0.55 + 39.25 + 13.5 Lowes (LOW) 62.68 83.65 73.97 + 0.44 + 16.67 + 4.0 Southern C (SO) 46.20 54.64 49.05 + 0.19 + 2.08 0.3
Amazon.com (AMZN) 484.00 847.21 827.46 + 6.10 + 64.24 + 10.4 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 37.70 35.02 + 0.17 + 15.54 1.3 Mastercard (MA) 79.98 111.07 107.27 0.03 + 30.64 + 3.9 Simon Prop (SPG) 173.11 229.10 182.10 + 0.11 + 0.34 + 2.5
American E (AXP) 50.27 78.69 78.48 + 0.30 + 53.55 + 5.9 Ford Motor (F) 11.07 14.22 12.51 + 0.13 + 12.00 + 3.1 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 131.96 125.82 + 1.34 + 7.79 + 3.4 AT&T (T) 35.91 43.89 41.38 + 0.07 + 14.28 2.7
Boeing (BA) 102.10 170.00 166.23 + 1.95 + 53.29 + 6.8 Facebook (FB) 98.88 135.49 134.19 + 0.05 + 31.68 + 16.6 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 36.90 46.40 44.99 + 0.29 + 19.40 + 1.5 Target (TGT) 62.94 84.14 65.73 0.68 3.41 9.0
Bank of Am (BAC) 10.99 23.55 23.08 0.04 + 106.81 + 4.4 FedEx (FDX) 122.78 201.57 190.86 + 2.29 + 53.40 + 2.5 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.27 76.15 + 0.44 + 4.86 + 6.9 Time Warne (TWX) 59.52 97.35 96.58 + 0.21 + 54.97 + 0.1
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Caterpilla (CAT) 60.51 99.46 96.31 + 2.35 + 56.83 + 3.9 Alphabet (GOOG) 663.28 841.95 813.67 + 4.11 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 48.04 65.91 64.00 0.06 + 28.80 + 3.0 Visa (V) 67.43 86.82 85.90 + 0.32 + 25.46 + 10.1
Celgene (CELG) 94.39 127.00 115.61 1.13 + 16.09 0.1 Alphabet (GOOGL) 672.66 867.00 834.85 + 4.79 + 18.19 + 5.4 NextEra (NEE) 109.34 131.98 125.47 + 0.82 + 12.13 + 5.0 Verizon (VZ) 46.01 56.95 48.98 + 0.17 0.83 8.2
Colgate (CL) 63.43 75.38 67.72 + 1.12 + 5.09 + 3.5 Goldman Sa (GS) 138.20 247.77 242.72 + 1.17 + 72.52 + 1.4 Nike (NKE) 49.01 65.44 56.22 + 0.91 + 0.39 + 10.6 Walgreens (WBA) 73.88 88.00 83.31 + 0.93 + 10.30 + 0.7
Comcast (CMCSA) 54.70 76.87 75.15 + 0.12 + 34.10 + 8.8 Halliburto (HAL) 27.96 58.78 56.13 0.55 + 94.90 + 3.8 Oracle (ORCL) 34.47 42.00 40.79 + 0.56 + 17.08 + 6.1 WalMart (WMT) 62.35 75.19 68.02 1.06 + 4.13 1.6
Capital On (COF) 58.03 91.64 88.40 0.14 + 46.97 + 1.3 Home Depot (HD) 112.22 140.57 139.85 + 1.14 + 23.47 + 4.3 Occidental (OXY) 64.12 78.48 68.47 + 0.28 + 3.47 3.9 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 58.02 56.86 + 0.13 + 25.91 + 3.2
ConocoPhil (COP) 31.05 53.17 50.14 + 0.33 + 57.28 0.0 Honeywell (HON) 99.93 122.00 121.85 + 1.19 + 20.69 + 5.2 Priceline (PCLN) 1029 1650 1647 + 34.68 + 56.03 + 12.3 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 77.58 95.55 82.52 + 0.68 + 3.67 8.6
Costco Who (COST) 138.57 172.27 172.00 + 1.04 + 17.29 + 7.4 IBM (IBM) 116.90 179.25 178.68 + 1.47 + 51.62 + 7.7 PepsiCo (PEP) 96.09 110.94 106.10 + 0.13 + 9.49 + 1.4
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 24.09 31.95 31.51 + 0.01 + 27.67 + 4.3 Intel (INTC) 27.68 38.45 35.34 0.12 + 25.23 2.6 Pfizer (PFE) 28.74 37.39 32.35 0.03 + 11.05 0.4

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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%
10% high yield +5.92% +30% high yield +29.63% Total Issues Traded 7,661 5,322 2,159 180 T-BILLS
Advances 3,288 2,216 983 89
3 4 3-mo. May 17 0.54 0.53 .00 0.54
Declines 3,902 2,965 858 79 6-mo. Aug 17 0.65 0.63 +0.01 0.64
8 Unchanged 187 38 137 12
+20 52 Week High 275 65 193 17 3 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 111 68 42 1 2 2-yr. Jan 19 1[ 99.87 99.88 0.02 1.18
Dollar Volume* 28,394 18,242 8,462 1,689 5-yr. Jan 22 1~ 99.95 99.95 0.09 1.87
6 2 10-yr. Feb 27 2 98.59 98.61 0.11 2.40
+10 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 30-yr. Feb 47 3.000 99.89 99.91 +2.52 3.01
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
4 publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 21 [ 101.30 101.36 +0.01 -0.18
0 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 27 ] 99.80 99.89 +0.02 0.40
2 credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. C Yield is
20-yr. Jan 29 2 122.74 123.00 +0.09 0.54
unavailable because of issues call criteria. 3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 30-yr. Feb 46 1.000 102.61 102.86 +0.73 0.93
*Par value in millions.
0 invest. grade +3.76% 10 invest. grade +5.12% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moodys,
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2016 2016 Standard & Poors and Fitch.

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

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0645 15.5120 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7673 1.3033
One Dollar in Yen
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 3.150 Oct26 Baa2 BBB BBB 91.651 89.641 89.860 1.240 4.456 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1458 6.8600 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9401 China (Yuan) .1454 6.8775 120 yen $1 = 113.34
Apple Inc (AAPL) 2.500 Feb22 Aa1 AA+ AA+ 101.667 100.079 100.161 0.077 2.465 Brazil (Real) .3216 3.1099 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1289 7.7578
General Mtrs Finl Co Inc (GM) 3.450 Apr22 Baa3 BBB BBB 101.438 100.838 101.438 0.383 3.136 Canada (Dollar) .7642 1.3085 India (Rupee) .0150 66.8131
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 3.650 Feb26 A3 A BBB 102.724 100.376 100.962 0.016 3.521 Chile (Peso) .0016 639.45 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0088 113.34
115
Sabine Pass Liquefaction Llc (LNG) 5.750 May24 Ba1 BBB BBB 108.538 108.006 108.250 0.084 4.369 Colombia (Peso) .0004 2849.5 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2251 4.4420
Wells Fargo Bk N A San Francisco Calif M (WFC) 1.650 Jan18 Aa2 AA AA 100.280 100.159 100.280 0.088 1.348 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0214 46.7200 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .7195 1.3899
Time Warner Inc New (TWX) 4.850 Jul45 Baa2 BBB BBB+ 98.389 97.615 97.822 0.343 4.994
Actavis Fdg Scs (ACT) 3.450 Mar22 Baa3 BBB BBB 102.597 101.631 101.700 0.092 3.075
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0095 104.75
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1345 7.4360 Philippines (Peso) .0200 49.9490 105
Cms Energy Corp (CMS) 5.050 Mar22 Baa2 BBB BBB 110.198 110.178 110.178 0.208 2.785
Honduras (Lempira) .0425 23.5400 Singapore (Dollar) .7039 1.4206
Mplx Lp (MPLX) 4.125 Mar27 Baa3 BBB BBB 100.095 99.801 100.029 0.090 4.121
Mexico (Peso) .0492 20.3200 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1145.5
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0344 29.0300 Taiwan (Dollar) .0323 30.9540
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5799.0 Thailand (Baht) .0285 35.0500
Gulfmark Offshore Inc (GMRK) 6.375 Mar22 Ca CCC NR 67.000 62.938 67.000 3.500 16.127 Peru (New Sol) .3077 3.2497 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22640 95
Harrahs Oper Inc (CZR) 10.000 Dec18 NR D NR 76.250 76.000 76.250 0.083 N.A. Uruguay (New Peso) .0351 28.4700
Petrobras Intl Fin Co (PTRB) 5.375 Jan21 B2 B+ BB 103.014 99.800 101.625 1.379 4.917 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2016
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX) 3.875 Mar23 B1 BB BBB 97.364 92.300 93.950 1.950 5.042 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6552 .3766
Calpine Corp (CPN) 5.750 Jan25 B2 B BB 100.000 96.960 97.250 0.500 6.194 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1505.6
Norway (Krone) .1193 8.3845 Egypt (Pound) .0562 17.8000
Noble Hldg Intl Ltd (NE) 7.750 Jan24 B1 BB 102.190 98.490 99.250 1.125 7.889 Britain (Pound) 1.2485 .8010 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2666 3.7504
Poland (Zloty) .2477 4.0370 Iran (Rial) .00003 32376
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 8.375 May21 B2 B+ BB 114.582 111.375 113.793 1.943 4.765 So. Africa (Rand) .0749 13.3494
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0394 25.3920 Russia (Ruble) .0172 58.2602 Israel (Shekel) .2668 3.7479
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX) 3.550 Mar22 B1 BB BBB 95.902 92.725 94.450 1.638 4.802 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6726
Denmark (Krone) .1431 6.9883 Sweden (Krona) .1121 8.9198 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4124 .7080
Range Res Corp (RRC) 4.875 May25 B1 BB+ 99.843 97.250 97.563 0.563 5.242
Europe (Euro) 1.0637 .9401 Switzerland (Franc) .9971 1.0029 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 103.40
Hexion U.s. Finance Corp. (MPM) 9.000 Nov20 Ca CCC NR 78.500 75.438 76.000 6.375 18.067 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 289.41 Turkey (Lira) .2707 3.6943 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2805 .3048
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Microchip Technology Inc (MCHP) 1.625 Feb25 NR B+ 139.924 136.000 139.112 0.701 2.718
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 0.350 Jun20 NR BBB+ NR 139.300 136.033 138.900 3.213 9.327
Citrix Sys Inc (CTXS)
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)
0.500
2.125
Apr19
Sep26
NR
NR
NR
CCC+
NR 121.138
190.950
120.176
183.071
121.019
185.750
0.481
1.950
8.168
4.837
FUTURES
Rti Intl Metals Inc (AA) 1.625 Oct19 NR NR NR 123.510 122.070 123.510 1.966 6.328 Monetary
Weatherford Intl Ltd (WFT) 5.875 Jul21 NR B 124.274 122.241 123.924 1.674 0.362 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $53.86 a barrel
Fxcm Inc (FXCM) 2.250 Jun18 NR NR NR 31.000 30.500 31.000 3.500 115.380
Mentor Graphics Corp (MENT) 4.000 Apr31 NR NR NR 186.000 186.000 186.000 0.411 354.461 Corn CBT /bushel 455.00 325.00 Mar 17 368.50 375.50 368.50 374.50 + 5.00 451,716
Acorda Therapeutics Inc (ACOR) 1.750 Jun21 NR NR NR 90.750 86.500 87.750 0.677 4.923 Soybeans CBT /bushel 1135.50 869.00 Mar 17 1050.00 1063.50 1047.50 1059.00 + 8.50 235,735
Two Hbrs Invt Corp (TWO) 6.250 Jan22 NR 102.375 99.880 101.475 0.225 5.899 Wheat CBT /bushel 649.75 392.75 Mar 17 442.50 450.75 441.00 449.00 + 5.50 165,812 55
Live Cattle CME /lb 137.75 97.80 Feb 17 117.78 118.08 116.20 116.40 1.25 15,520
Hogs-Lean CME /lb 74.35 47.53 Feb 17 74.78 74.97 74.00 74.55 + 0.33 14,119 50
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3337.00 1969.00 Mar 17 1971.00 1979.00 1928.00 1939.00 35.00 23,329
Coffee NYBOT /lb 230.00 121.80 Mar 17 145.05 146.85 144.80 145.75 + 0.55 34,379
Sugar-World NYBOT /lb 24.10 12.05 Feb 17 20.66 20.74 20.31 20.42 0.23 207,042 45
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday Gold COMX $/oz 1387.10 1055.20 Feb 17 1227.60 1234.30 1221.50 1234.40 0.70 1,352
Change from last week Silver COMX $/oz 17.82 15.70 Feb 17 17.58 17.97 17.58 17.91 + 0.19 285 40
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.73 2.45 Feb 17 2.68 2.77 2.66 2.76 + 0.11 681
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 89.07 35.59 Mar 17 53.15 54.13 52.90 53.86 + 0.86 320,938 35
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.70 1.10 Feb 17 1.64 1.68 1.64 1.67 + 0.02 107,494
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.30 2.47 Feb 17 3.11 3.12 3.01 3.03 0.11 169,572 2016
Home Year
Mortgages Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 0.66% 0.38% Source: Thomson Reuters
Construction Spending +15%
Prime rate 3.75 3.50 Change from
15-yr fixed 3.15 2.74 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: MUNICIPAL BOND FUNDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 3.83 4.02 Dec. 16 +4.2% 0
Nov. 16 +4.3 12 16 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.94 3.53 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.21 4.02 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.15 3.13
Personal Savings Rate +15%
Vanguard Interm-Term Tx-Ex Adm(VWIUX) MI +0.8 0.8 +2.7 0.09 46,275 Oppenheimer Rochester Fund Municipals(RMUYX) MY +1.8 +6.8 +4.2 0.61 271
Percent of Vanguard Ltd-Term Tx-Ex Adm(VMLUX) MS +0.9 0.2 +1.2 0.09 20,796 Oppenheimer Rochester High Yld Muni A(ORNAX) HM +2.1 +6.0 +6.5 0.74 3,025
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.37 3.81 disposable income Vanguard Short-Term Tx-Ex Adm(VWSUX) MS +0.4 +0.5 +0.7 0.09 13,171 Oppenheimer Rochester PA Municipal A(OPATX) MP +2.1 +4.3 +3.9 0.80 499
Franklin CA Tax-Free Income A(FKTFX) MC +0.7 +0.1 +4.2 0.56 12,535 Goldman Sachs High Yield Muni Instl(GHYIX) HM +1.6 +4.3 +5.9 0.56 3,955
1-year adj. rate 3.19 2.71 Dec. 16 +5.4% Vanguard CA Interm-Term Tax-Exempt Adm(VCADX) MF +0.9 0.9 +3.1 0.09 9,771 Oppenheimer Rochester AMT-Free NY Mun(OPNYX) MY +0.9 +4.2 +4.0 1.00 914
0
Franklin Federal Tax-Free Income A(FKTIX) ML +0.7 +0.1 +3.2 0.61 9,552 Oppenheimer Rochester NJ Municipal A(ONJAX) MJ +1.3 +3.9 +3.2 0.87 227
Nov. 16 +5.6 12 16 American Funds Tax-Exempt Bond A(AFTEX) MI +0.7 0.3 +3.3 0.54 9,278 Oppenheimer Rochester CA Municipal A(OPCAX) MC +1.3 +3.8 +5.6 1.06 854
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Adm(VWLUX) ML +0.7 0.3 +3.7 0.09 8,950 Oppenheimer Rochester Ltd Term Muni A(OPITX) HM +1.0 +3.7 +2.1 0.84 968
Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Adm(VWALX) MI +0.8 +0.2 +4.1 0.09 8,740 JPMorgan Tax Aware Real Return Instl(TXRIX) MS +1.0 +3.4 +0.7 0.50 1,065
$75K line good credit* 4.55% 4.48%
Manufacturing Index 58 Nuveen High Yield Municipal Bond I(NHMRX) HM +1.4 +1.5 +7.2 0.59 6,203 AB Municipal Bond Inflation Strategy 2(AUNTX) MS +1.3 +3.3 +1.0 0.50 179
$75K line excel. credit* 4.42 4.11 Fidelity Municipal Income(FHIGX) ML +0.8 0.9 +3.4 0.47 5,408 Lord Abbett High Yield Municipal Bond (HYMFX) HM +1.6 +3.2 +5.5 0.69 460
ISM; over 50 indicates AB Diversified Municipal(SNDPX) MS +1.0 0.9 +1.5 0.54 5,183 Hartford Municipal Real Return A(HTNAX) MI +0.9 +2.7 +1.9 0.70 102
$75K loan good credit* 4.25 4.09 expansion; seasonally adjusted Franklin High Yield Tax-Free Inc A(FRHIX) HM +0.8 +0.4 +3.7 0.65 5,039
LAGGARDS
Thornburg Limited-Term Muni Inst(LTMIX) MS +0.9 0.9 +1.6 0.41 5,038
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.23 4.06 Jan. 17 56.0 46 Fidelity Interm Muni Inc(FLTMX) MI +0.7 0.7 +2.3 0.35 4,968 SEI Massachusetts Municipal Bd F (STET)(SMAAX) MT +1.0 2.6 +1.6 0.64 69
Invesco High Yield Muni A(ACTHX) HM +1.1 +1.3 +5.7 0.85 4,763 JPMorgan CA Tax Free Bond C(JCBCX) MF +0.7 2.1 +1.6 1.09 69
Dec. 16 54.5 12 17 Goldman Sachs Short Dur T/F Instl(GSDUX) MS +0.7 +0.4 +1.0 0.39 4,473 Nuveen LA Municipal Bond A(FTLAX) SL +0.6 2.1 +3.2 0.82 91
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Oppenheimer Rochester Fund Municipals(RMUNX) MY +1.8 +6.7 +4.1 0.76 4,458 JPMorgan Intermediate Tax Free Bd C(JITCX) MI +0.6 2.1 +0.9 1.41 64
USAA Tax Exempt Intermediate-Term(USATX) MI +0.5 1.4 +2.7 0.53 4,275 Franklin NY Intermediate T/F Income C(FKNCX) MN +0.7 2.0 +1.6 1.20 176
36-mo. used car 3.41% 3.22% Balance of Trade 30 T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intm(PRSMX) MI +0.7 0.9 +2.5 0.50 4,245 Dreyfus Massachusetts Z(PMAZX)
SEI California Municipal Bond F (STET)(SBDAX)
MT
MF
+0.6
+1.2
2.0
2.0
+2.1
+1.9
0.72
0.61
128
304
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield(PRFHX) HM +0.7 +0.9 +5.1 0.68 4,033
60-mo. new car 3.25 3.37 In billions of dollars Franklin NY Tax-Free Income A(FNYTX) MY +0.7 +0.3 +2.3 0.61 3,970 Fidelity Advisor Municipal Income C(FAMCX) ML +0.7 2.0 +2.3 1.55 121
Seasonally adjusted Goldman Sachs High Yield Muni Instl(GHYIX) HM +1.6 +4.3 +5.9 0.56 3,955 Nuveen WI Municipal Bond A(FWIAX) SL +0.3 2.0 +2.5 0.86 59
AB Intermediate Diversified Muni C(AIMCX) MS +0.9 2.0 +0.5 1.55 96
CDs and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Dec. 16 44.3 55 Average performance for all such funds +0.8 0.3 +2.7 Fidelity Connecticut Municipal Income(FICNX) SI +0.6 1.9 +2.4 0.48 396
Number of funds for period 609 608 602 Franklin Federal Interm-Term T/F Inc C(FCITX) MI +0.8 1.9 +1.6 1.20 430
Nov. 16 45.7 12 16
Money-market 0.30% 0.25%
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Todays fund types: HM-High Yield Muni. MC-Muni
$10K min. money-mkt 0.25 0.24 California Long. MF-Muni California Intermediate. MI-Muni National Interm. MJ-Muni New Jersey. ML-Muni National Long. MN-Muni New York Intermediate. MO-Muni Ohio. MP-Muni Pennsyl-
Housing Supply 7
vania. MS-Muni Short. MT-Muni Massachusetts. MY-Muni New York Long. SI-Muni Single St. Interm. SL-Muni Single St. Long. SM-Muni Minnesota. SS-Muni Single St. Short. NA-Not Available.
6-month CD 0.36 0.35 YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar
In months
1-year CD 0.58 0.55
2-year CD 0.75 0.74 Dec. 16 3.6 3 ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS
5-year IRA CD 1.39 1.65 Nov. 16 3.9 12 16
Information on all United States stocks, plus bonds, mutual funds, commodities and foreign stocks along
*Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850. Source: Bankrate.com with analysis of industry sectors and stock indexes: nytimes.com/markets
3 TELEVISION 2 MUSIC

Why solar winds just might Latin jazz is

be our downfall. BY MIKE HALE
6 THAT DECISIVE MOMENT
booming. But where
A young conductors are the Grammys?
last-minute debut. And more. BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

NEWS CRITICISM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017 C1

N

SO, HOW DID I DO?

SARA MEARNS

NATALIE KEYSSAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

It took everything out of me: Sara Mearns at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, where she danced the role of the Fairy Carabosse for the first time Thursday night in New York City Ballets The Sleeping Beauty.

The Good Fairy

By GIA KOURLAS
Fairies can be so fickle. One night, all you
want to do is break a spell. The next, with ice
in your veins and a malicious flourish, you
put a curse into action.
an all-or-nothing dancer who reacts on the
spot through her deep connection with mu-
sic. Speaking twice in her dressing room on
Thursday once during intermission and
later after her brief, ferocious appearance in

Turns Diabolical
On Thursday, Sara Mearns, the glam-
orous New York City Ballet principal, made
an unlikely debut: the evil Fairy Carabosse
in The Sleeping Beauty. Her usual role,
which she performed Wednesday, is the Li-
lac Fairy, Princess Auroras shimmering
A City Ballet principal muses about going protector who counteracts Carabosses
curse of death.
dark in The Sleeping Beauty. Ms. Mearns, 31, is no polite ballerina, but
the second act Ms. Mearns reflected on
the two roles. Carabosse is like spitfire
short and sweet, she said. With the Lilac
Fairy, I feel very empowered. Youre sort of
in charge of the whole extravaganza. Youre
always there.
After a parting hug so she could take her
bow Dont get caught in the wing, she
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ACTING CLASS BEN BRANTLEY THEATER REVIEW

DAVID OYELOWO

How to Play a Real King Yelling The Town Hall Affair

The Performing Garage

By MEKADO MURPHY
About Sex This, after all, is a production from the
Wooster Group, those downtown masters of
deconstruction and detonation whose per-
In A United Kingdom, David Oyelowo David Oyelowo, who Norman Mailer and Germaine spective-muddling shows have a way of ex-
plays Seretse Khama, the real-life king of stars as the king of panding the view of who and where we are.
Botswana (then a British protectorate what is now Botswana Greer are butting heads again And The Town Hall Affair which recre-
known as Bechuanaland) who set off an in- in the film A United in The Town Hall Affair. ates one explosive night of public debate in
ternational crisis in 1948, when he married Kingdom. Manhattan in 1971 splits some very well-
Ruth Williams, a white British clerk. South known identities by means theatrical and
Africa, which was instituting apartheid at IM BESIDE MYSELF. Im beside myself, cinematic, so a number of real-life literary
the time, objected to an interracial couples mutters an anxious and excited Jill Johns- figures are literally beside themselves.
leading a neighboring country; Britain op- ton at the beginning of The Town Hall Af- Johnston, for example, who frames this
posed the marriage because resource-rich fair, the very timely and time-bending new witty and deeply stimulating exercise in
South Africa did; and Botswanans were an- mixed-media piece thats churning up dec- cultural archive-diving, shows up as exactly
gry that their leader had chosen a queen not ades of sexual discontent at the Performing the way she was, in film footage from Town
of their race or tribe. Garage in SoHo. Johnston (reincarnated by Bloody Hall, the 1979 documentary by
Reviewing A United Kingdom for The Kate Valk), the poetic polemicist whose Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker that
New York Times, Glenn Kenny said the best works included Lesbian Nation: The Femi- inspired this show. But she has also been re-
reason to see the film was Mr. Oyelowos nist Solution, sure isnt alone in feeling that incarnated in the flesh by the peerless Ms.
CONTINUED ON PAGE C5 way. CONTINUED ON PAGE C4
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017

A WORD WITH
JAMES CORDEN

The Chef Providing a Comic Garnish to the Grammys

The hosts Carpool Karaoke
grants him musical credibility.
By BEN SISARIO
The host of the Grammy Awards is almost a
nonentity, usually present for only about 15
minutes of a three-and-a-half-hour broad-
cast. Unlike the Oscars or the Golden
Globes, where the M.C. sets the tone, the
performance-dominated Grammys can
seem to do just fine without one; in fact, the
show had no host at all from 2006 to 2011.
This year, though, the Grammys are bet-
ting on a new face to draw in viewers. James
Corden, the star of The Late Late Show on
CBS and, perhaps just as important, the
proprietor of its viral hit, Carpool Kara-
oke, will take over as the Grammys host
from LL Cool J, who did it for five years.
Thanks largely to Carpool Karaoke
in which he is joined on drives by the likes of
Adele, Justin Bieber and even Michelle
Obama Mr. Corden, 38, has carved out a
niche as a well-liked comedian with musical
bona fides. But because he is British, he has
no long history with the Grammys.
When I was growing up, there was no
real way to see the Grammys, Mr. Corden
said in an interview. Its only been on
YouTube and the internet that you can find
these incredible Grammy performances.
In a telephone interview this week from
CBSs studios in Los Angeles, Mr. Corden
discussed his hopes for the Grammys, the
political climate surrounding the show and
the advice that LL Cool J gave him. Here are
edited excerpts from that conversation.
How did you come to be the host of the
Grammy Awards this year?
I got a call from Les Moonves [chief execu-
tive of CBS]. In fact it wasnt a call; I was at
a dinner and he was there. And he just came
over to me and said, Do you want to host
Grammys this year? And I said, O.K.
And that was kind of it, really.
Did it have the feeling of the bosss saying,
Hey, kid, Ive got a job for ya?
Not really, because he knows that I already
have a job. It was more that this year theres
going to be three big awards shows on CBS:
the Grammys, the Tonys and the Emmys.
So I think theres a certain element of need-
ing to find which host is going to do which.
Do you think theres a way to get an EGOT
[for winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and
Tony] as host?
I never knew about this EGOT thing until I
moved to America. I didnt realize what a
big thing it is. I have two I have a Tony
and an Emmy. But I dont think hosting the
Grammys makes you eligible for a Grammy.
The Grammys show has mostly been about
performances, with relatively little screen
time for the host. Is that going to change
with you on board?
the evening, as opposed to being funny. Its
When you hosted the Tony Awards last year,
James Corden will be getting
another 15 minutes or so of
fame this Sunday night.
The first time, with The History Boys, we
Not really. Its not what you would call a con-
ventional hosting gig. Most awards shows
need a host because essentially theyre a
group of millionaires giving each other gold
statues. Whereas this is one where the show
is predominantly about celebrating the last
12 months in music, and has these unbeliev-
able performances in it.
Im in the show for like 16 or 17 minutes. I
think what were going to try to do as best
we can is just try to inject as much fun into
to do.
not really a room where you can come out
and do a monologue.
you made it clear that it had a lot of person-
al significance for you. Do you feel the same
way about the Grammys?
The Tonys had a particular place in my
heart, because thats a show Ive been to.
year-old guy from High Wycombe in Buck-
won six awards. Going back in 2012 and win-
ning that award myself was incredible. The
Tonys are also this incredible thing where
these are performers who dont always get
the chance to perform on television.
The Grammy Awards is the absolute high
point for so many artists, in a world where
there are so many other music shows
which I think are inferior just because of
what the Grammys mean to artists. Youve
only got to see that artists who are no longer
with us are always referred to as a seven-
time Grammy winner, or a four-time
Grammy winner. It just has that history to
it. Its not lost on me how lucky I am to be
part of it.
Have you been doing your homework on
previous years?
Not really. Ive watched loads of perform-
ances. I asked LL Cool J if he had any ad-
vice, and he said you just have to be your-
self. Which Im hoping is good advice, be-
cause thats certainly what were intending
This year theres been a heightened political
tone at awards shows. Do you expect that at
the Grammys, and what role, if any, will you
play in that?
Ive only lived in America for 18 months, and
I feel like it would be strange for me to start
talking about federal legislation. I just feel
like I havent earned the right. Im a 38-
inghamshire, and I dont know that anyone
is tuning in to the Grammys to hear a big
political statement from myself.
If youre watching the news right now, if
youre on social media right now, you can re-
ally feel like the world is an incredibly dark
place. And I feel like, if we can bring a big
music show, and celebrate some people who
we should all be incredibly pleased that we
are around at the same time that theyre
making music, then we can let it be a mo-
ment to realize that there is a lot to cele-
brate, as much as there is to worry about.

As Latin Jazz Mutates, the Awards Dont

The genre is in creative bloom,
with players diversifying and
adding influences at a rare clip.
By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
When the Grammy Awards eliminated the
category of best Latin jazz album six years
ago, an outcry arose quickly. Musicians and
advocates argued that the move cut off a
rare source of institutional recognition for a
genre at the commercial fringes. And the
academy listened. The next year the cate-
gory returned.
In the years since, the importance of that
recognition has become even clearer: Latin
jazz is experiencing a kind of creative
bloom, with musicians diversifying their
work at an uncommon clip. Its generating
some of the most invigorating improvised
music around.
So maybe it is a bit disappointing that the
Grammy nominations this year dont fully
reflect those developments, focusing in-
stead on older musicians. Every nominee
up for best Latin jazz album this Sunday is
over 60. And while all have led fabulous ca-
reers especially the pianist Chucho
Valds, the bassist Andy Gonzlez and the
trombonist Wayne Wallace each of these
recordings tends toward a sound thats now
classic.
Look beyond the nominees, though, and
youll find a proliferating landscape of
shape-shifters, particularly among Cuban
musicians. In particular, recent records by
Pedrito Martnez, Alfredo Rodrguez and
Arturo OFarrill all released within the
Grammys eligibility period offer visions
of how the fusion of Afro-Caribbean
rhythms and jazz improvisation is no longer
an end unto itself, but an invitation to inte-
grate more.
In a sense, this is a continuation of the
work Mr. Valds was doing 40 years ago CHRISTOPHER OCCHICONE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

with his Latin fusion band, Irakere (the sub-

This years nominations

look toward the elders,
not fresh sounds.

ject of his latest Grammy-nominated al-

bum, Tribute to Irakere). Musicians to-
day are reworking his mission for an even
more globalized and diversified world.
These guys the third generation, in a
way are brilliant, said Toms Pea, an
editor of the Latin Jazz Network website,
referring to musicians whove come of age
in the 21st century, two generations down
the line from the first marriages of Afro-Cu-
ban music and American jazz. They have
their own sound, theyre writing their own
music, and their energy is so strong.
Mr. Pea added: Theyre not averse to
playing R&B, theyll play straight-ahead
jazz, Latin jazz. And theyre talented
enough, smart enough, where theyre ta-
king things to a whole new level.
Mr. Martnezs Habana Dreams is the
most effortlessly relatable of these new
Afro-Latin fusion recordings. It finds this
Havana-born virtuoso percussionist and
JACK VARTOOGIAN/GETTY IMAGES MONIQUE JAQUES/GETTY IMAGES
vocalist collaborating with Wynton
Marsalis, the jazz trumpeter; Rubn Mr. Virelless latest recording, the 10-inch of Latin American music frequently have to Some innovative faces of Latin In performances with younger musicians
Blades, the salsa vocalist; and Telmary vinyl album Antenna, was released too venture closer to the source. They are also jazz, clockwise from top: like Mr. Martnez, Mr. Virelles and the re-
Daz, the Cuban rapper. The result is an al- late in 2016 to be eligible for Sunday nights exploring other influences in their daily Pedrito Martnez, Luques markable saxophonist Yosvany Terry, he
bum that couples the liquid pull of Cuban Grammys. But with its skewed traditional lives, and pouring the components together. Curtis and Arturo OFarrill. has shown how folkloric tradition can fit
rumba with gently romantic melodies
rhythms, unsettling electronics, tenacious If they really want to understand this into almost any berth. (Mr. Dazs own re-
and some subtly magnetic electric bass
Cuban rap and occasional spurts of impro- music, Mr. OFarrill said, they study it cent recording, L D Fn Bt, is a mar-
playing from Alvaro Benavides. Its a new
vised delirium, it reveals how open the themselves, and very often go to Cuba, and velous document of folkloric rhythm and
form of Latin pop that makes no compro-
mises, and doesnt let your ear wander. world of Afro-Cuban jazz is becoming. sit with older musicians, and bug them until song. Perhaps too traditional for the Latin
Mr. OFarrill is the son of the Latin jazz they divulge the secrets. And in a way, thats jazz category, it ought to have received
Mr. Martnez performed at the Jazz
Standard this week with Mr. Rodrguez, an- pioneer Chico OFarrill and the director of real jazz education. some kind of Grammy nod this year.)
other Havana-born musician of wide-rang- the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, which won In some cases, a trip south is not neces- At Zinc Bar each week, Mr. Daz gathers
ing ambition. Mr. Rodrguez released an im- the Latin jazz Grammy in 2015. (It was a sary. The bassist Luques Curtis, 33 who, roughly a dozen percussionists, vocalists
pressive third album last year, Tocororo. surprisingly good year for progressive no- along with his brother, Zaccai, recently re- and dancers to play traditional Cuban
It shows his piano playing to be both punc- minees.) The younger Mr. OFarrill re- leased Syzygy, a strong album of Latin rhythms. But stay long enough and you
tilious and expansive ready to handle a leased an incisive sextet album last year, jazz fusions learned at the elbow of men- may see him welcome other musicians on-
tightly syncopated revamp of Bach (Jesu, Boss Level, spiced with hints of avant- tors like Andy Gonzlez (a nominee in the stage, too maybe a blues guitarist, a jazz
Joy of Mans Desiring) or a swaying, spa- garde improvising and aggressive, rocklike Latin jazz category this year), while also violinist, a flamenco singer. As the complex
cious collaboration with the Indian-Ameri- propulsion. studying straight-ahead jazz at a conserva- rhythms open up to accommodate them, the
can vocalist Ganavya (the title track). He suggests that Latin jazz is enjoying a tory. new initiates find themselves fitting in.
Then theres David Virelles, 33, a Cuban surge in creativity partly because its sys- More recently, musicians seeking direct Even within the most rigorous realms of
pianist whose inclinations run rampant. In tems of inheritance remain relatively pure mentorship have been wise to seek out the Afro-Latin music, other sounds and influ-
his tirelessly experimental music, Abaku and loose. Straight-ahead jazz is often Cuban folkloric percussionist, singer and ences can find a home. The academy does-
and Lucum folklore become an invitation to taught in the academy, where practices can poet Romn Daz, who runs the Midnight nt always recognize it, but by now its in-
enter a diffusely contemplative space. become codified and recycled, but students Rumba at Zinc Bar every Thursday. escapable.

MIKE HALE
TELEVISION REVIEW
We Love
The Sun.
It Couldnt
Care Less.
A film shows that solar
winds could doom us.
AMERICANS FEARS OF NUCLEAR
annihilation well up every few
decades. Early 1960s: the Cuban
missile crisis. 1980s: the Soviet
Unions reaction to the Star
Wars defense plan. Now: Were
going to war in the South China
Sea in five to 10 years, theres no
doubt about that Stephen K.
Bannon.
Apocalyptic visions are always
in fashion, of course; its just a
question of where the end is seen
to be coming from. The bellicose
statements directed at other
countries by our current presi-
dent and some of his advisers
have renewed fears (or, in some
quarters, hopes) that well bring
it about ourselves through all-out
war.
Trust television to remind us
that whatever we do, theres a
range of threats completely out of
our control that will someday do
the job for us. This programming
category is a mainstay of a num-
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar
Telescope, from a documentary
about our fate and the suns.
The Dark Side of the Sun
Saturday on the Science Channel
ber of cable channels, and its lat-
est iteration can be seen on Satur-
day when the Science Channel
presents The Dark Side of the
Sun.
Dark Side, a documentary
about the inevitable catastrophe
that will be caused by a coronal
mass ejection huge solar winds
isnt, strictly speaking, apoca-
lyptic. But its on the spectrum:
coronal ejection, mega-volcano,
asteroid strike. When Earth is hit
by another solar wind like the
1859 Carrington Event (scientists
estimate that were about 50
years overdue), the likely result
will be significant, with a long-
lasting loss of electric power.
Imagine the entire East Coast
without any power for a year.
(If you want real apocalypse,
cable provides. On Sunday the
American Heroes Channel begins
the six-part series How the
World Ends, beginning with nu-
clear war and proceeding through
rogue planet and epidemic to
alien invasion.)
Because Dark Side is on the
Science Channel, it balances its
scaremongering with reports on
two major efforts to study the sun
and predict when a massive solar
wind is going to hit the Earth. (We
couldnt send Ben Affleck up to
stop the wind, but we could shut
down our power grids and com-
munication systems and ground
our airplanes.)
We can only hope that other
current trends the belittling of
climate research and general at-
tacks on the scientific method
dont derail the construction of a
huge solar telescope in Maui or
the launch of the first spacecraft
that will provide close-up satellite
views of the sun. The program
doesnt suggest this, though it in-
cludes a highly pointed image in
the current context: President
Obama signing an executive or-
der coordinating efforts to pre-
pare the nation for space weather
events.
In the end, Dark Side leaves
behind the problem of solar winds
and indulges in some pure tab-
loid-cable fun: pointing out that
the sun, according to scientists
best guesses, only has about five
billion years to live. As the com-
mentators talk dreamily about
nuclear-fusion engines that will
carry our descendants to other
planets, you cant help wondering
whether approaches to diplo-
macy might be affected by our
popular cultures love affair with
apocalypse.
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
Shia LaBeoufs
Art Show Shut Down
A museum in Queens has shut
down an online art installation
by the actor Shia LaBeouf, call-
ing it a serious and ongoing
public safety hazard after Mr.
LaBeouf was arrested and the
exhibition became a target for
threats of violence.
The participatory exhibition,
He Will Not Divide Us, was a
collaboration among Mr. LaBeouf
and the artists Luke Turner and
Nastja Sade Ronkko. Meant as a
rebuke to President Trump, it
hinged on a video camera
mounted outside the Museum of
the Moving Image in Astoria,
Queens, into which passers-by
were invited to repeat the phrase
he will not divide us. The aim
was to stream online images of
people repeating those words
throughout Mr. Trumps time in
office.
After it began on Jan. 20, the
exhibition quickly became a hot
spot for politically charged con-
frontations, and the video cam-
era caught it all. Mr. LaBeouf
himself made several appear-
ances. In one, he squared off
against a man who made refer-
ence to white supremacist ideolo-
gies. In another, he was arrested
and led away by police officers.
The museum cited Mr. La-
Beoufs arrest along with doz-
ens of threats of violence and
numerous arrests in announc-
ing that it had closed the show.
The installation had become a
flash point for violence and was
disrupted from its original in-
tent, it said in a statement.
On Friday, the exhibitions
website had replaced its video
stream with the words The
museum has abandoned us, in
stark white against black. On
February 10, 2017, the Museum of
the Moving Image abandoned
the project. The artists, however,
have not.
The museum said the installa-
tion had deteriorated markedly
after one of the artists was ar-
rested on the site of the installa-
tion and ultimately necessitated
the shutdown.
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For American Idol, Rockettes Suspend A Marriage of Film
A Possible Comeback Warm-Weather Show And Art at Berlin Fest
NBC is in discussions to poten- After two years of poor to The power of a famous patron
tially bring back American Idol, middling reviews, a Rockettes was on show this week in Berlin.
according to a person briefed on show aimed at warm-weather The 67th Berlinale, the annual
the plans. crowds has been suspended and film festival, opened and so
LEGO BATMAN This spinoff
Fremantle Media, the produc- will undergo the latest in a series did the first show by an Ameri-
film, with Will Arnett voicing
tion company behind Idol, of creative overhauls, the Madi- can artist, Joe Ramirez, whose
son Square Garden Company the tiny hero, is pretty
approached NBC recently with a work caught the eye of the Ger-
plan to revive the show, which announced on Friday. man filmmaker Wim Wenders irresistible, according to our
critic Manohla Dargis.
was canceled at Fox and went off The New York Spectacular, (Salt of the Earth, Every
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sides are not close to a deal and a spring and summer alternative met three years ago.
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fall apart, the person added. duction, was to begin perform- in attendance, Mr. Wenders, 71,
American Idol, the talent ances on June 30 at Radio City said he was flabbergasted by
show that debuted in 2002, was a Music Hall. But the Madison Mr. Ramirezs work as a meeting
monster hit for Fox, before its Square Garden Company, which of painting and film, something
ratings plunged the last few manages the Rockettes, above, that the German director said
years it was on the air. Its not said the show would take a one- had long fascinated him.
unheard-of for canceled shows to year hiatus and return in 2018.
Mr. Ramirez trained as a wood-
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for a canceled show from one of work needed on the production,
er. His Gold Projections will be
the four broadcast networks to which cannot be completed be- on show at the Kulturforum
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From left, Maura Tierney, Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos in The Town Hall Affair. Both Mr.
Shepherd and Mr. Fliakos play Norman Mailer.
Celebrities Yelling
About Sex in 1971
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
Valk, the Wooster Groups longtime leading
lady.
In The Town Hall Affair, directed by
Elizabeth LeCompte, this same double vi-
sion is applied to other participants in the
fabled and combative Dialogue on Wom-
ens Liberation, which was the hottest
ticket in town for the New York literati of 46
years ago. There are the glamorous Aus-
tralian feminist Germaine Greer and her
ratty fur stole, onscreen and in person (in
the form of the actress Maura Tierney), and
the august essayist Diana Trilling, whose
face on film looks remarkably like that of
the male actor playing her onstage, Greg
Mehrten.
As for Norman Mailer, the M.C. of this
fraught dialogue (which was convened in
response to The Prisoner of Sex, his pugil-
istic essay on feminism in Harpers Maga-
show begins, Norman Mailer is seated next
to the person he most admires, Norman
Mailer. He and he are portrayed by Scott
Shepherd and Ari Fliakos. (Wouldnt you
know it would take two actors to contain all
that testosterone?)
Mailer, too, is, of course, also represented
onscreen but not just in the footage from the
Town Hall debate. We also see him running
wild (and drawing blood) in the notorious
1970 film Maidstone, which he directed
and starred in, playing a director.
Feeling a bit confused? Well, so were the
audience members for that 1971 donnybrook
er, panel discussion which lasted three
and a half hours and quickly degenerated
into name-calling, catcalling and (on Johns-
tons part) a make-out session with mem-
bers of the audience. (Town Hall Affair, for
the record, is a fast hour.)
Of course, the subject being tackled, the
A stormy night of
name-calling, with
feminists and their foe.
repression of women in a male-dominated
society, was pretty confusing, too, since
even the debaters who were ostensibly on
the same side couldnt seem to agree on
much. Thank heavens this is a matter that
we have since worked through, systemat-
ically and sanely.
Yeah, right.
Since its founding in 1975, the Wooster
Group has taken a fracturing view of life,
breaking down and then remixing the
cultural components of the present and the
past that shape our daily lives. Literary
classics by old masters like Eugene ONeill,
Racine and Gertrude Stein have been regu-
larly anatomized and reconstituted by
means that include the latest in vision-shap-
ing technology (computers, cameras,
sound equipment, etc.).
With all its performances, we are asked to
see how we are indeed beside ourselves,
and on top of, and behind, and ahead of
engaged in inescapable dialogues both with
what came before us and with who we think
we are now. The troupes gutsy and brilliant
interpretation of ONeills The Emperor
A SECRET ON EVERY PAGE.
JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES
THEATER REVIEW
CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR
Tickets Through March 4 at the Performing
Garage, Manhattan; 212-966-3651,
thewoostergroup.org. Running time: 1 hour.
Credits Based on the film Town Bloody Hall,
by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker; di-
rected by Elizabeth LeCompte; lighting by
Jennifer Tipton and Ryan Seelig; sound by Eric
Sluyter and Gareth Hobbs; video and projec-
tions by Robert Wuss; costumes by Enver
Chakartash; assistant directors, Mr. Chakar-
tash and Matthew Dipple; stage manager, Erin
Mullin; technical directors, Eric Dyer and Jo-
seph Silovsky; production manager, Bona Lee;
produced by Cynthia Hedstrom; general man-
ager, Pamela Reichen. Presented by the
Wooster Group, Ms. LeCompte, director; Kate
Valk, associate director.
Cast Enver Chakartash (Usher/Man in Black),
Ari Fliakos (Norman Mailer/Norman the Direc-
tor), Mia Fliakos (a Daughter), Gareth Hobbs
(voice of Peter Fisher), Greg Mehrten (Diana
Trilling/a Friend), Erin Mullin (Jills Friend/Ruth
Mandel), Scott Shepherd (Norman Mailer/Rip
the Actor), Maura Tierney (Germaine Greer/
Beverly the Wife) and Kate Valk (Jill Johnston).
Jones, which had Ms. Valk channeling the
African-American actor Paul Robeson por-
traying ONeills idea of devolving savage
manhood, became an electric consideration
of American perceptions of race.
This may sound too academic for your
tastes. And the (verbatim) language of the
exchanges in The Town Hall Affair now
registers as rather quaint in its free-float-
ing, self-footnoting intellectualism.
But like most of what the Wooster Group
does, this is also juicy, visceral theater,
translating outlandish concepts with highly
disciplined technique. The synchronicity
with which the cast members say what their
alter egos onscreen are saying is a jaw-
dropping marvel. So is the sudden, subver-
sive techno-layering of voices, so youre not
sure where the sound is coming from.
And for pure, mind-boggling theatrical
bravura, theres the uncanny spectacle of
our two-headed Norman Mailer becoming
the man he plays in Maidstone and the ac-
tor Rip Torn (Mr. Shepherd) from that same
film. Mr. Fliakos and Mr. Shepherd proceed
to enact the movies notorious on-camera
fight, which involved a hammer and a badly
bitten ear. The impression is of Mailer
wrestling with himself. But everybody on-
stage, it seems, is truly divided and truly
alone. How can we begin to understand
other people, especially if their bodies are-
nt anything like ours?
The Town Hall Affair doesnt provide
answers any more than the debate on which
its based did. Ms. Valks Johnston, who be-
gan the play reading from Lesbian Na-
tion, ends with a hopeful passage from the
same book about rewriting the ancient
myths of womanhood. But thats not the last
word with which she leaves us.
That would be a wondrous, bewildered
Aargh!
THE INSTANT
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER

The Good Fairy Turns Madly Diabolical
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said, referring not to the stage but to the ap-
pendage on her glittering black dress she
headed back out. For the record, the crowd
roared. Ms. Mearns grinned with delight.
Here are edited excerpts from the con-
versation.
Who did you model Carabosse on?
I wanted her to be the Maleficent Disney
[animated] version where she just stands
there. Shes actually somewhat nice and
doesnt scream in the beginning. Peter
[Martins, the ballet master in chief] told
me: Carabosse is just as beautiful as the
Lilac Fairy. You should be above it all. But
whats different is that your soul is evil.
Your rage seemed to bubble up inside of
you. Is that what it felt like?
Yes. I actually didnt think that was going to
happen! When Ive seen people do that, Ive
been like, theres no way that I could get my-
self to do that. I would feel so stupid. And
then when I got onstage, there was no one
standing in front of me. I was just like, oh my
God, this feels right.
What did you not want Carabosse to be?
I didnt want to come out screaming like a
crazy person. I feel like I have a really differ-
ent approach. The music makes you want to
go there because its so powerful it makes
you want to scream. The costume does it.
You just standing there already does it. You
just have to rein it in. It was hard, but once I
really committed to the way I was going to
do it, I felt comfortable.
Was the experience what you thought it
would be like?
Yes and no. I was waiting for this thrill of
being evil onstage. I was more nervous than
I thought I would be. I dont think Ive actu-
ally done a character role that doesnt re-
quire dancing. There was such a different
nervousness, such a different placement of
your feet and your stance.
How to Play a Real King in Front of His Subjects
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
performance and added, It is remarkable,
genuinely riveting work. One scene in par-
ticular encapsulates the performance: an
open-air meeting at which he must con-
vince his countrymen that he should remain
their king and that they should accept his
wife. In an interview at The Times, Mr.
Oyelowo, who was also a producer of the
film, explained how, for this scene, he drew
on his own life as well as historical research.
Here are edited excerpts from the conver-
sation:
How did you think about this scene?
For me, things hopefully come together. Ob-
viously you have to know your lines and
know them well enough in front of a crowd,
[so] you harness their attention. Theres
also the accent: Seretse Khama had a
Botswana accent, but he also spent a lot of
time in the U.K., so his accent was a hybrid.
And sometimes the emotion can take over
and the technical aspects can go by the way-
side, and you dont want that to happen.
Then theres the truth of what hes saying,
the emotional truth. None of the technical
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Lilac Fairy is so much apart of me that I
can grab it at a moments notice, but Cara-
bosse is so much deeper and harder to find
that it took everything out of me. I actually
get more tired doing this because my whole
body is so tense. You cant hide behind your
dancing, which is your comfort zone.
Were you dancing with your hands?
Yes. The first time I had used the nails was
in the stage rehearsal, and I saw how much
you can do because your fingers are much
STANISLAV HONZIK/FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
work means anything unless there is an
emotional connection for you as the actor
but also to the people youre delivering the
speech to and then the audience as well.
What was the attitude you started out with
SO, HOW DID I DO?
SARA MEARNS
longer than they normally are. I came up Top, Sara Mearns preparing for
with this thing that I was doing on my chest. the role of the Fairy Carabosse
[She drummed her fingers slowly.] in New York City Ballets The
Sleeping Beauty as, from left,
That part made me laugh.
the dancers Gabriella Domini,
I came up with it in the shower this morn- Devon Malin, Kristina
ing. I felt like my hands were dancing in-
Hadjipetkov and Nieve
stead of my feet. Corrigan watched. Right, Ms.
Your nails are scary. What are they? Mearns acquiring evil talons.
Theyre plastic fingers, and we have to tape
them on. In the dress rehearsal, I lost two
nails when I pulled off [the master of cere-
ACTING CLASS
DAVID OYELOWO
when you looked out into the crowd?
It was one of those rare instances for me as
an actor where what I say as the character
very much overlapped with what I believe
as a person myself. And so I felt a lot of the
emotions I imagine Seretse Khama would
have felt. We shot it in Botswana in front of a
Botswana crowd, a lot of whom would know
who Seretse Khama was. So in some ways,
its a real test to play this leader who means
so much to them and to convince them both
within the film and as real people who see
me as an actor not from Botswana.
Do you think about posture or other physical
things when youre performing?
I found through my research and watching
footage [that Khama] was an incredibly
poised man, a very elegant man. And I felt
in this speech, there should be a stillness to
him. Ive always felt stillness gives status.
David Oyelowo, center, in A And even though he is emotional [through-
United Kingdom. He called out] this speech, he never loses his dignity.
playing this monarch a real
When people arent engaged in the crowd,
test.
how do you get them back?
Any actor will tell you this. Ive done a lot of
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATALIE KEYSSAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
monies] Catalabuttes wig because I didnt
tape them right. I cant really feel my finger-
tips right now because theyre so tight, but
its good. They wont fall off.
Does Carabosse produce a different kind of
adrenaline than the Lilac Fairy?
Yes. Dancing adrenaline is excitement
its like, I cant wait to do those steps, I cant
wait to have that feeling. This is deeper. Its
a deeper-soul thing happening. You trans-
form your soul to a dark place. Youre not
really happy when you come offstage.
I couldnt tell if you were annoyed because
you had to do an interview, or if you were
still in character.
[Laughs.] No. Im still so mad! When you
come off, youre not like, I did such a great
job. Youre simmering. With Carabosse, you
can really go for it. You can scare people,
throw people, just do whatever. I want to
shock them.
stage, and you can see how the audience is
reacting. Sometimes you have people
asleep in the front row. Sometimes people
are crying their eyes out. You have to try to
find a place within you that doesnt take it
personally. Thankfully, most people seemed
engaged, but sometimes people werent.
And you have to use those people; you prob-
ably zone in on someone who seems not so
interested.
In the scene, a single tear falls. How do you
make that happen?
For me, any emotion I have, its not techni-
cal. I am not one of those people who can cry
on cue. It has to feel real.
Is there anything in your performance as the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma
that you brought to this role?
In many ways, I was desperate to make
sure there was a distinction between myself
as Dr. King giving a speech and Seretse
Khama giving a speech. Of course, these are
completely different men, but they have me
in common in movies, and I was very mind-
ful that they must remain distinct.
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Classical Music
THAT DECISIVE MOMENT

A Lightning Bolt,
Then Clarity
In a new feature, our critics are your guides to the most important classical
moments of the week: the chord that sent a shiver down their spines, the voice
they cant forget, the set change that left them breathless.

A Last-Minute Debut I Want You, I Want To

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC F E B . 9 THE CROSSING F EB. 3

This concerts crucial moment came before
the music started. Joshua Gersen, 32, the
Philharmonics assistant conductor, was
drafted on a few hours notice to take over
for an ill Semyon Bychkov in a Tchaikovsky
program. It was a gutsy move: Mr. Gersen
led the frenzied tone poem Francesca da
Rimini, a work he had never conducted,
and the Sixth Symphony (Pathtique),
which he had only led in part. Impassioned
and incisive, the performance earned a
standing ovation and prolonged applause
from his colleagues in the orchestra.
ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Were they singing I want you or I want
to? The words blurring in a rush of enthusi-
asm and confusion, these two lines slipped
over and past one another at National Saw-
dust as the exquisite vocal ensemble the
Crossing began Consent, Ted Hearnes
church-like reflection on 21st-century sex, a
babbling mash-up of love letters, the Roman
Catholic marriage rite and texts from high
school students accused of rape.
ZACHARY WOOLFE
One-Two Vivaldi Punch
JUDITHA TRIUMPHANS F EB. 7

Young, but Down and Out
DUST F E B. 4
I could have learned everything, a home-
less man says an hour into Dust, Robert
Ashleys enigmatic 1998 opera, in which the
characters, down-and-out denizens of a
public park, summon the past in a deadpan
yet wistful, sing-song-y speech. That the
performer, Mario Diaz-Moresco, is a stu-
dent at the Mannes School of Music, his life
and career ahead of him, made the line
bring a mist over my eyes.
ZACHARY WOOLFE
In the midst of the Venice Baroque Orches-
tras rare, rousing performance of Vivaldis
oratorio Juditha Triumphans at Carnegie
Hall, a one-two punch: the strumming theo-
rbos, as delicately joyful as music gets, ac-
companying Ann Hallenberg in O servi vo-
late, and then the chalumeau a clarinet
progenitor weaving a milkily cooing mel-
ody, like a flute heard through a foggy morn-
ing at a harbor, as Delphine Galou sang
Veni, veni, me sequere fida.
ZACHARY WOOLFE

Exhilarating Release
LEONIDAS KAVAKOS AND YUJA WANG F E B . 8

The piano introduction to the last move-

ment of Bartoks Violin Sonata No. 1 rang
out like gunfire at David Geffen Hall, ending
on a dark two-note cluster that Yuja Wang
delivered with a full-arm gesture so fierce it
looked as if she were ripping out the keys
and smashing them on the floor. Her start-
ing shot set the violinist Leonidas Kavakos
off on a breathless race through throaty,
full-bodied Gypsy scales an exhilarating
release at the end of a recital that often be-
guiled with its feline elegance and restraint.
CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

HIROYUKI ITO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Glimpse of a Suffering Soul

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA F E B . 4

Michael Herschs end stages, commis-

sioned and given its New York premiere by
the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Car-
negie Hall, was a little-relieved cry of an-
guish and anger in the face of terminal ill-
ness and death. But with a faint tolling of or-
chestral bells and whimpers in the violins at
the end of the second movement, attitude
gave way to what seemed a touching
glimpse of the suffering soul itself.
JAMES R. OESTREICH
A Womans Love
ALICE COOTE F E B . 4
A Restrained Alleluia
WESTMINSTER SYMPHONIC CHOIR F EB. 3
Through the opening movements of Rach-
maninoffs glorious Vespers music, Joe Mil-
llers 194-voice Westminster Symphonic
Choir sounded mushy at the Church of St.
Paul the Apostle, awash in swimmy acous-
tics. But at the end of the third movement,
which is laced with cascading Alleluias, a
gorgeously restrained pianissimo line a
simple Alleluia, Glory to Thee, O God
seemed to impart a focus that held for much
of the rest of an accomplished if not particu-
larly stirring performance.
JAMES R. OESTREICH

The girl spoke of love, insists a distraught

young man driven to rootless wandering by
the indifference of the woman he pines for.
That crucial word, liebe, comes early in
Schuberts harrowing song cycle Winter- From top, Mario Diaz-Moresco
reise, embedded in a melodic phrase that performing in Dust at the
rises with a remnant of hope before trailing Mannes School of Music;
off in despair. Sung not as usual by a man, Delphine Galou, center, with the
but by the courageous mezzo-soprano Alice conductor Andrea Marcon and
Coote, at Carnegie Hall, it was a disorient- the Venice Baroque Orchestra at
ing moment, blending earthiness and vul- Carnegie Hall; Joshua Gersen
nerability, that began a long wintry journey filling in as conductor of the New
beyond gender. York Philharmonic at David
ANTHONY TOMMASINI Geffen Hall.
CHRIS LEE

ANTHONY TOMMASINI CRITICS NOTEBOOK

How to Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key

A staggering technique is not
necessarily the best approach.
A LOT WAS AT STAKE for the pianist Dmitry
Masleev when he made his New York reci-
tal debut on Jan. 30 at Carnegie Hall. After
he took the gold medal in the 2015 Interna-
tional Tchaikovsky Competition, New York-
ers would have a chance to hear what the
fuss was about.
His program, including works by Scar-
latti, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, seemed
devised to showcase his spectacular virtu-
osity, especially the final work: Liszts de-
monically difficult Totentanz. And Mr.
Masleevs white-hot performance with
arm-blurring bursts of octaves, tangles of
chromatic passagework, pummeling itera-
tions of a dirgelike Dies Irae motif elic-
ited a frenzied ovation.
That was the way for a debut artist to
make a lasting impact, right?
Not necessarily. Mr. Masleev, 28, is cer-
tainly an impressive pianist. Still, a couple
of weeks earlier, on Jan. 17, I had heard a
more modest New York debut that will stay
with me longer, when the Zora String Quar-
tet played at Merkin Concert Hall, pre-
sented by the invaluable organization
Young Concert Artists. Naturally, the young
members of this ensemble, who began play-
ing together at Indiana University in 2013,
wanted to demonstrate their technical
skills. But they seemed even more intent on
revealing depth and maturity.
They opened with Mozarts dark Quartet
JULIEN JOURDES
Dmitry Masleev, winner of
the 2015 International
Tchaikovsky Competition, at
his New York debut at
Carnegie Hall.
No. 15 in D minor (K. 421). From the first
phrase of the opening movement, played
with rich sound and wistful beauty, I knew
this would be an eloquent and probing per-
formance. They then turned to Weberns
Langsamer Satz, a work that shows its 21-
year-old composer steeped in late Romanti-
cism but anticipating Expressionist angst.
The Zora played it with melting sound and
affecting impetuosity. They ended with an
intense performance of Shostakovichs
String Quartet No. 9, completed in 1964, a fit-
ful, brooding work. It was charming how
these young musicians, from Thailand,
South Korea, China and Spain, so strongly
conveyed the very particular character of
the hints of klezmer in the music.
The only missing element was a new or
recent work. The Zora was introducing it-
self. What better occasion to introduce a
piece?
The Verona Quartet, another outstanding
ensemble of young musicians, did just that
in a revealing New York debut on Tuesday
at Weill Recital Hall. Presented by the Con-
cert Artists Guild, the Verona opened with
an exciting performance of Ravels String
Quartet in F, cohesive yet full of tempera-
ment, and ended with a vibrant, intelligent
account of Beethovens Quartet in E minor
(Op. 59, No. 2).
At the center of the program was the pre-
miere of a quartet by Michael Gilbertson.
Mr. Gilbertson, 29, told the audience that he
was working on the piece when the presi-
dential election hit in November, as he put
it. So he altered his original sketches to
write something more introspective and
comforting. The first movement, Mother
Chords, unfolds in gentle, pulsing waves of
strange, soft, mystical harmonies. The sec-
ond, Simple Sugars, is full of frenetic blips,
with the instruments often playing in-sync
riffs and screeching sonorities.
Like the Zora program, this one seemed a
clearer indicator of artistic potential than
Mr. Masleevs recital, however staggering
his technique. Listening to him made me
think of a low-key New York debut, this one
at the Mannes School of Music in 2011 by
Daniil Trifonov, then fresh from his own vic-
tory in the Tchaikovsky Competition. He
brought formidable virtuosity to Scriabin
and Liszt. But I was more struck by his po-
etic accounts of Chopin, including the lovely
Barcarolle.
Six years later, Mr. Trifonov is one of the
most sought-after artists of his generation.
And Ive never forgotten that beautiful, per-
sonal New York performance.
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Adele and Lady Gaga. (N) (G) needs medical care. (N) (PG) Hills. Alleged killer Robert Durst.Schwartz. The murder of a Florida hosts. (N) The Road to Alec Baldwin, who has made headlines with
(N) (PG) doctor. (N) (PG) Hell. (14) (12:05) his impersonation of President Trump on
4 WNBC Paid Program 1st Look (PG) Dateline NBC The Good Husband. Investigation into a mans death. Saturday Night Live (14) News (N) OSaturday Night Live Alec Bald-
Saturday Night Live, returns to host for a
(PG) win; Ed Sheeran. Host Alec Baldwin;
Ed Sheeran performs. (N) (14) (11:29) 17th time. And the violinist Joshua Bell plays
5 WNYW TMZ (N) (PG) 24: Legacy 12:00 Noon -1:00 PM. 24: Legacy 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM. News (N) Hells Kitchen Tequila Shots? Laughs (PG) with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Eric Carter seeks help from the Ben wants cash for the list he Andi and Aaron sabotage the con-
CTU. (14) seized. (14) testants. (14)
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Ringling Broth- tune Americas down Sally, Ride. (14)
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9 WWOR Major Crimes Leap of Faith. Flynn Rizzoli & Isles Tears of a Clown.
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11 WPIX Two and a Half Two and a Half Pawn Stars (PG) Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Mil- Pawn Stars (PG) News (N) The Honey- The Honey- The Honey-
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21 WLIW MetroFocus Andr Rieu: Waltzing Forever Andr Rieu performs. Il Volo Notte Magica (G) Favorite Love Songs (My Music) (G) Songbook Stan.
25 WNYE Her Big Idea Travels to Edge Globe Trekker Puerto Rico. (G) . Love Affair (1939). Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer. 92y Reel Pieces Profiles Movie Loft (G) Video Mus. Box
31 WPXN Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Saving Hope (14) Saving Hope (14)
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47 WNJU . Titanic (1997). Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. Rich girl falls for penniless artist on ill-fated ship. Spectacular. Best picture and other Oscars. (PG-13) Noticiero Tele Titulares y Ms Decisiones Ext.
48 WRNN One Smile at a Scrub Now Buddy Holly Red Skelton (G) Perricone MD Cindy Crawford Scrub Now IT Cosmetics Perricone MD Paid Program Memory Trick
49 CPTV Hamiltons America The Broadway musical Hamilton. (PG) . Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman. (PG) Father Brown (PG) Antiques
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50 WNJN Il Volo Notte Magica (G) Andr Rieu: Waltzing Forever Andr Rieu performs. Songbook Standards: As Time Goes By (My Music) (G) Downton Abbey
55 WLNY 2 Broke Girls Toni on Mike & Molly Mike & Molly News (N) Miracle Makeup! Judge Judy (PG) Entertainment Tonight (N) (G) Toni on From left, Ed Sheeran, Alec Baldwin and
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63 WMBC Perricone MD Nip&Tuck Sermon Time Compass (8:40) Mini Concert Sweet Heaven Skin Secrets Darkspots Darkspots Nip&Tuck Darkspots
68 WFUT Un Da con el Diablo (1945). Cantinflas, Susana Cora. Brick Mansions (2014). Paul Walker, David Belle. (PG-13) El Chavo (G) Noticiero Killers (2010).
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Alec Baldwin has been no stranger to this
FLIX Basquiat (1996). Jeffrey Wright. . Traffic (2000). Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle. Soderberghs scathing overview of inter- Tears of the Sun (2003). Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci. Navy Seals try to
(R) (6) national drug trade and largely futile war against it. Great, gripping squall of a film. (R) protect doctor and Nigerian refugees. Spectacularly incoherent. (R) season. He made headlines before the
HBO Ride Along 2 (2016). Ice Cube, Central Intelligence (2016). Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart. C.I.A. agent Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds The Young Pope Eighth Episode. Central Intelli- election, when he first appeared in a wig
Kevin Hart. (PG-13) (6:15) recruits ex-classmate for case. Staggeringly dopey. (PG-13) (MA) (9:50) (MA) (10:50) gence (11:50) with a wavy comb-over, orange makeup
HBO2 Girls Love Sto- Girls I Love You Unbreakable (2000). Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson. Security guard mys- Straight Outta Compton (2015). OShea Jackson Jr. Corey Hawkins. N.W.A. revolutionizes and a pouty grimace as Donald J. Trump,
ries. (MA) Baby. (MA) teriously survives train crash. Tidy, compact Shyamalan drama. (PG-13) music and culture. Exultant rap-to-riches story. (R) (9:50)
then a candidate. Mr. Baldwins cameos
MAX . The Man Without a Face (1993). Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Dylan OBrien. Teens escape Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Harry pre-
Mel Gibson. (PG-13) (6:05) Maze but face new obstacles. Respectable doses of adrenaline. (PG-13) pares a small group of students to fight Voldemort. Not great, but pretty good. (PG-13) (10:15) have since become expected, if highly
SHO Trumped: Inside the Greatest Politi- Triple 9 (2016). Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jewish mob and dirty Fifty Shades of Black (2016). Marlon Wayans. Making Southpaw (2015). Jake Gyllenhaal, anticipated, nearly every weekend. Well,
cal Upset of All Time (2017). (6:15) cops plan heist. Waste of appealing cast. (R) fun of Fifty Shades of Grey. Scattershot satire. (R) Forest Whitaker. (R) (11:35) now hes back, and for a full episode as he
SHO2 . Brokeback Mountain (2005). Heath Meet the Browns (2008). Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett. Woman travels home Nick Cannon: Stand Up, Dont Shaquille ONeal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam hosts the show for a record 17th time. Ed
Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal. (R) (6) for fathers funeral. Corny, hokey, contagiously pleasurable. (PG-13) (8:15) Shoot The comic performs. (MA) - Live From Sin City (MA) (11:15)
STARZ The Day After Tomorrow (2004). Dennis Quaid. Global warming leads Get a Job (2016). Miles Teller. 20-somethings try to Black Sails XXX. Flint gives in to . Gangs of New York (2002). Dan-
Sheeran is the musical guest.
to new ice age. Odd how much is played for laughs. (PG-13) (6:54) enter workforce. Strictly entry-level. (R) Billys authority. (MA) (10:25) iel Day-Lewis. (R) (11:25)
STZENC The Missing Return to Eden. An- The Missing Till Death. New evi- Lakeview Terrace (2008). Samuel L. Jackson. Cop harasses interracial 8MM (1999). Private eye searches for teenager seen
other boy mysteriously disappears. dence about Olivers case. (14) couple next door, via LaBute. Wrongheaded hackwork. (PG-13) in snuff film. Drab, with miscast Cage. (R) (10:53)
TMC Rocky Balboa (2006). Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young. Rocky, now re- The Day (2011). Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell. Apoca- Unnatural (2015). James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn. Ge- The Day (2011).
tired, fights the world heavyweight champion. (PG) (7:15) lypse survivors battle cannibals. (R) netically modified polar bear goes on rampage. (R) Ashley Bell. (R)
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A&E The First 48 Flight Risk; Trapped. The First 48: Most Shocking Live PD Live PD, 02.11.17. Riding along with law enforcement. (N) (Live) (14) The First 48:
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AHC America: Facts vs. Fiction (PG) The Knights Templars Treasure America: Facts vs. Fiction (N) (PG) America: Facts America: Facts The Knights Templars Treasure America: Facts
AMC The Walking Dead JSS. A new The Walking Dead Thank You. A The Walking Dead Heres Not Here. A new face ap- The Walking Dead Now. (MA) The Walking Dead Always Ac-
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APL Pit Bulls and Parolees (PG) Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (PG) Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (N) The Guardians (Season Finale) (N) Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (PG) The Guardians
BBCA Planet Earth: Frozen Planet (PG) Planet Earth: Frozen Planet (8:01) Planet Earth: Frozen Planet (PG) The Graham Norton Show (N) (14) Planet Earth: Frozen Planet (PG) Planet Earth LIFETIME
BET A Very Soul Train Valentines Day . Beyond the Lights (2014). Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker. Troubled A Very Soul Train Valentines Day 2017 Performances in Soul Train Being Mary Jane
2017 (N) (PG) (6) singer and aspiring politician try to make it work. Silly and stirring. (PG-13) history. (PG) (10:10) (14) (12:15) Haley Pullos as Miriam Weeks.
BLOOM Play Piano Paid Program John Denver Gaithers Travis Grand Ole HallOates Bob Dylan Bloomberg Markets: Middle East Styx, Journey,
BRV . The School of The Hangover (2009). Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. Las Vegas bachelor party goes bad. The Hangover (2009). Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. Las Vegas bachelor party goes bad. FROM STRAIGHT AS TO XXX (2017) 8 p.m. on
Rock (2003). (4:52) Funny, until you think about it. (R) Funny, until you think about it. (R) Lifetime. The latest Lifetime original movie
CBSSN College Basketball College Basketball Davidson vs. VCU. Bask The Black 14: Wyoming N.C.A.A. Men Bask inspired by a true story is this tale of Mir-
CMT Failure to Launch (2006). (PG-13) (6) . Dirty Dancing (1987). Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze. (PG-13) Roseanne (PG) Roseanne (PG) Roseanne (PG) iam Weeks (also known by her porn alias,
CN Teen Titans Go! Teen Titans Go! Dragon Ball Samurai Jack American Dad Rick and Morty Rick and Morty Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14) Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z Belle Knox), a Duke University freshman
CNBC The New Celebrity Apprentice Im Going Full Ballmer. Teams promote Undercover Boss The Dwyer Undercover Boss Phenix Salon Undercover Boss Forman Mills. Undercover who starts acting in pornographic films to
the Los Angeles Clippers. (PG) Group. (PG) INC. (PG) Forman Mills Inc. CEO Rick Forman. Boss (PG)
cover her tuition costs. But another student
CNN CNN Newsroom (N) CNN Newsroom (N) The History of Comedy F-ing The Seventies Television Gets The Seventies Whats Goin On. The Seventies
Funny. Real. American pop music explodes. outs her to the rest of the school, and she
COM South Park The . Hot Tub Time Machine (2010). John Cusack, Rob Corddry. Tub transports pals to their . 50 First Dates (2004). Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. (PG-13) Employee of the finds herself on the receiving end of death
Hobbit. (7:07) 1980s heyday. Nostalgic riot of crude humor. (R) (7:40) Month (12:05) threats and cyberbullying.
COOK Save My Bakery (G) Save My Bakery (G) Save My Bakery Losing Dough. Save My Bakery Out of the Mix. Good Eats (G) Good Eats (G) Save My Bakery
48 HOURS 9 p.m. on CBS. In Murder in
CSPAN Washington This Week Public Affairs Events Public Affairs
Beverly Hills, Erin Moriarty takes a deep
CSPAN2 The Genius of Judaism (N) What Washington Gets Wrong (N) After Words Melissa Fleming. (N) Rigged (N) The Big Stick
dive into an interview between Robert
CUNY African Amer Tony Guida CUNY Special Theater Talk (G) Sleepwalking Land (2007). Nick Lauro Teresa, Aladino Jasse. TimesTalks (11:05) Stoler Rpt
Durst the infamous New York real estate
DIS Stuck in the Liv and Mad- K.C. Undercover Bizaardvark In Cars 2 (2011). Voices of Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy. Animated. K.C. Undercover Bizaardvark Liv and Mad-
Middle (G) die (G) (Y7) Your Space! (G) Mater the tow truck falls in with spies. Soulless sequel. (G) (Y7) (10:55) First! (G) (11:25) die (G) heir and subject of the HBO docu-series
DIY First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers First-Flippers The Jinx and the prosecutor trying to
DSC What on Earth? Inside El Chapos What on Earth? Outback to Ocean. (N) (PG) The Dark Side of the Sun Prepar- Secrets of the Underground The Dark Side of imprison him in the killing of Susan
Escape. (PG) ing for solar storms. (N) (PG) Sneak Peek. (N) (11:01) the Sun (PG) Berman 17 years ago.
E! Safe Haven (2013). (PG-13) (5:30) Dear John (2010). Soldier and his love write letters. Go ahead and cry. (PG-13) Friends With Benefits (2011). Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis. (R)
ELREY Nightmare on Elm St. 5: Child A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). John Saxon, Johnny Depp. (R) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddys Revenge (1985). (R) Nightmare 3
ESPN College Basketball College Basketball Gonzaga vs. Saint Marys. (8:15) SportsCenter (10:15) SportsCenter SportsCenter Whats Streaming
ESPN2 College Basketball College Basketball South Carolina vs. Mississippi State. College Basketball California vs. Arizona. Basketball
ESPNCL 30 for 30 30 for 30 The 1988 Notre Dame/Miami football game. 30 for 30 N.F.L. great Randy Moss. 30 for 30 30 for 30
ESQTV NCIS: Los Angeles (14) NCIS: Los Angeles (14) NCIS: Los Angeles Seoul Man. NCIS: Los Angeles Granger, O. NCIS: Los Angeles (PG) NCIS: LA
FOOD Chopped (G) Chopped (G) Chopped Chopped Desserts! (G) Chopped Chocolate Rush! (G) Chopped Chocolate Obsession. Chopped (G)
FOXNEWS Fox Report Julie Banderas hosts. Watters World Jesse Watters Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) Watters World Jesse Watters Justice With
(N) hosts. (N) hosts. Judge Jeanine
FREEFRM The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012). (PG-13) (6:10) . Grease (1978). John Travolta. 50s teens singing and dancing their heads off. Fun. (PG) (8:50) Whats Your Number? (2011). (R)
FS1 U.F.C. Prefight Show (6:30) U.F.C. 208: Holm vs. de Randamie - Prelims From Brooklyn, N.Y. Motorcycle Racing Monster Energy Supercross: Arlington.
FUSE Sister, Sister (G) Sister, Sister (G) Malcolm-Eddie Malcolm-Eddie Malcolm, Eddie Empire (2002). Bronx drug dealer forgets where he came from. Leaves no cliche unturned. (R) Belly (1998). (R)
FX World War Z Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci. Autobots up against it. Like watching a boy play a very 24: Legacy 12:00 Noon -1:00 PM. APB Hard Re-
(2013). (PG-13) (5) expensive game. (PG-13) Eric Carter seeks help from the CTU. set. (14)
FXM Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012). Voices of Ray Romano. Animated. Ani- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). Ben Stiller. Office drones day- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). Ben Stiller,
mals cause break-up of single landmass. Originality already extinct. (PG) dreams give way to real adventure. Dreamy midlife melodrama. (PG) (8:46) Kristen Wiig. (PG) (11:01)
FXX Snow White and the Huntsman (5) . The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen. (PG-13) Lord of Rings
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 NETFLIX

GOLF P.G.A. Tour Golf AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, third round. From Pebble Beach, Calif. European P.G.A. Tour Golf Maybank Championship, final round. Bjarke Ingels
GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud The Chase (PG) Divided (PG) Divided (PG) Idiotest (PG) Idiotest (PG) Family Feud
HALL Walking the Dog (2017, TVF). Jennifer Finnigan, Sam Page. A Dash of Love (2017, TVF). Jen Lilley. Wrongly fired chefs open restaurant. Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN on Netflix. The
HGTV Property Brothers (PG) Property Brothers (PG) Property Brothers (G) House Hunters Renovation (G) Log Cabin Lvn Log Cabin Lvn Property Bro idea that design is everywhere is hardly
HIST Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars Detroit Steel All in the Family. (N) Counting Cars Counting Cars Counting Cars new; it is the backbone of the podcast 99%
(PG) (PG) (Part 1 of 2) (PG) (Part 2 of 2) (PG) (N) (Part 1 of 2) (N) (Part 2 of 2) (PG) (10:03) (PG) (11:03) (PG) (11:33) (Part 1 of 2) (PG)
Invisible, for example, and fodder for TED
HLN Forensic Files Forensic Files How It Really Happened Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files
talks about architecture and planning. And
ID Murder Calls Death at the Door. Ice Cold Killers Ice Cold Heart. A Ice Cold Killers Frozen Inno- Your Worst Nightmare Into the Ice Cold Killers Ice Cold Heart. A Ice Cold Killers
A former police officer calls 911. (14) young mother is found murdered. (14) cence. (14) Wild. (N) (14) young mother is found murdered. (14) (14) now this series, which had its premiere at
IFC Push (2009). Chris Evans, Dakota Mortal Kombat (1995). Robin Shou. Plucky young warriors vs. evil sor- Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). Robin Shou, Talisa Soto. Warriors Watchmen the Sundance Film Festival in January, is
Fanning. (PG-13) (5:30) cerer. Mythological junk food. (PG-13) must save Earth from evil warlord. Mortally dull. (PG-13) (10:15) (2009). (R) (12:15) the latest exploration of how smart design
LIFE His Secret Family (2015). Vanished OFrom Straight As to XXX (2017, TVF). Haley Pullos, Judd Nelson. The Perfect Stalker (2016, TVF). Danielle Savre, Jefferson Brown. Ob- From Straight is in fashion, technology and even the
husband has a big secret. (6) New way of paying tuition draws unwanted attention. sessive woman invents a stalker. (10:02) As to XXX
LMN The Wrong House (2016, TVF). A Wifes Nightmare (2014, TVF). Jennifer Beals, Dylan Neal. Step- Stranger in the House (2016). Emmanuelle Vaugier, Matthew MacCaull. A Wifes Night- mundane facets of daily life. Expect to hear
Clare Kramer, Tilky Jones. (6) daughter may not be what she seems. Fathers new caregiver moves in. mare (2014, TVF). from eight design luminaries, including Es
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 Devlin, the stage designer whose credits
LOGO Roseanne (PG) Roseanne (PG) Married. With Married. With Married. With Married. With Married. With Married. With Married. With Married. With All in the Family include Beyoncs 2016 concert tour; Pla-
(6:56) (7:28) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) Children (PG) (PG)
ton, the photographer known for his memo-
MLB M.L.B. Network Countdown M.L.B. Network Presents . Little Big League (1994). Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield. (PG) M.L.B. Network Presents
rable portraits of heads of state; and Bjarke
MSG N.H.L. Colorado Avalanche vs. New York Rangers. Rangers Postgame Billy Joel Rangers in 60 From Feb. 11, 2017. U.F.C. Reloaded
Ingels, the architect who has a knack for
MSGPL Basketball MSG Hockey N.H.L. New York Islanders vs. Ottawa Senators. Horse Racing The Game 365 Horse Racing
speaking about his buildings with catchy
MSNBC MSNBC Live (N) Caught on Camera (MA) Lockup: Tampa- Extended Stay Lockup: Wichita- Extended Stay Lockup: Wabash- Extended Stay Lockup: Wabash
sound bites like High Line to the skyline.
MTV Friends (14) Friends (14) That 70s Show That 70s Show That 70s Show That 70s Show Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011). Cuckolded husband meets pick-up artist. Sane and smart. (PG-13)
JOSHUA BELL AND THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY
NBCS Speed Skating F.I.S. Freestyle Skiing Red Bull: Air Race Premier League Match of the Day
ORCHESTRA 8 p.m. on Medici.tv. Live from
NGEO Border Wars Stash House Sting. Border Wars (PG) Lawless Oceans The Victims. Lawless Oceans The Endgame. Explorer Warlords of Ivory. (G) Drugs, Inc. (14)
Kennedy Center, its the star violinist
NICK Henry Danger Henry Danger Henry Danger Game Shakers Nicky, Ricky Thundermans Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (14) Friends (PG)
Joshua Bell conducting this orchestra in a
NICKJR Mutt & Stuff (Y) Mutt & Stuff (Y) Hey Duggee (Y) Hey Duggee (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Paw Patrol (Y) Digby Dragon (Y) Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi
performance of Beethovens Symphony No.
NY1 News On Stage News In Transit (8:44) News News New York Times Close Up News Sports on 1 The Last Word. (11:35)
7 which is famous for its second move-
OVA . Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Fear (1996). Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon. (R) . Bonnie and Clyde (1967). They rob banks. The bad and the beautiful, artfully framed by Beatty.
ment, the captivating Allegretto. Then, the
OWN Oprah: Where Are They Now? (14) Welcome to Sweetie Pies (14) Welcome to Sweetie Pies (N) (14) Oprah: Where Are They Now? (N) Welcome to Sweetie Pies (14) Sweetie Pies
Kansas City Symphony director Michael
OXY Snapped Ashley Humphrey. (PG) Snapped Monique Turenne. (PG) Snapped Jodi Arias. (Part 1 of 2) Snapped Jodi Arias. (Part 2 of 2) Killerpost Sacco & Puccio. (PG) Killerpost (PG)
Stern takes up the baton while Mr. Bell
SCIENCE Outrageous Acts of Science (PG) Outrageous Acts of Science (PG) MythBusters: The Search (N) (9:01) Outrageous Acts of Science (PG) Outrageous Acts of Science (PG) The Search
performs the solo part in douard Lalos
SMITH Battle for the Atlantic The Hunt. Battle for the Atlantic (PG) Battle for the Atlantic (PG) Air Disasters Miracle Escape. (14) Battle for the Atlantic (PG) Battle- Atlantic
Symphonie Espagnole, a concerto-like
SNY College Basketball College Basketball College of Charleston vs. William & Mary. Oh Yeah. SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite
piece inspired by Spanish dance melodies.
SPIKE Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (N) (14) Cops (PG) Jail: Big Texas Cops (14) Fast Five (2011). Cars, muscles and bikinis in Rio. Often absurdly entertaining. (PG-13)
This music will be accompanied by the
STZENF Strange Magic Superstar (1999). (PG-13) (7:17) The Land Before Time (1988). (G) (8:40) The Pink Panther (2006). Steve Martin. (PG) (9:50) Adventures of Wilderness
Brooklyn-based Dance Heginbotham (led
SUN . Smokey and the . Smokey and the Bandit (1977). Burt Reynolds, Sally Field. Moonshiner eludes sheriff. . Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason. Transporting an el-
Bandit II (5:15) Funny and flavorsome. (PG) (7:45) ephant cross country. Fast and tangy, same as before. (PG) by John Heginbotham, a longtime member
SYFY . John Wick (2014). Keanu . Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, voice of Zo Saldana. Soldier falls for native of lush alien world. Trippy joy ride. (PG-13) Underworld (2003). Kate Beckin- of the Mark Morris Dance Group). Avail-
Reeves, Michael Nyqvist. (R) (6) sale, Scott Speedman. (R) able to stream after Saturday.
TBS 2 Broke Girls The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal With Godzilla (2014). Aaron Taylor-John- JOSHUA BARONE
And the It Hole. Theory (PG) Theory (14) Theory (PG) Theory (14) Theory (14) Theory (PG) Theory (14) Samantha Bee son, Ken Watanabe. (PG-13)
TCM . Hail the Conquering Hero (1944). . Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey. Three . A Hard Days Night (1964). The Beatles. Four in . Harvey (1950). James Stewart,
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines. (6) Manhattan women, via Woody Allen. Richly entertaining. (PG-13) clover, and their screen debut. Delicious grazing. (G) Josephine Hull. (11:45)
TLC Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress ONLINE: TELEVISION LISTINGS
TNT Limitless (2011). Bradley Cooper, The Bourne Identity (2002). Matt Damon, Franka Potente. Ludlums assassin-hero with . The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Matt Damon, Franka Potente. (PG- Television highlights for a full week, recent
Robert De Niro. (PG-13) (6) amnesia. Modest thriller but top-notch existential confusion. (PG-13) 13) reviews by The Timess critics and complete
TRAV Ghost Adventures (PG) Ghost Adventures (PG) Ghost Adventures Star of India. The Dead Files (N) (PG) The Dead Files (PG) Ghost Adv. local television listings. nytimes.com/tv
TRU Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Hack My Life Hack My Life Hack My Life Hack My Life Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Hack My Life
TVLAND Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens
USA Miss Congeniality (2000). Sandra Bullock, Michael The Proposal (2009). Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds. A woman pretends to be engaged to Imposters My So-Called Wife. Suits Teeth, Definitions of symbols used in Ratings:
Caine. (PG-13) (6:30) evade deportation. (PG-13) (14) Nose, Teeth. (14) the program listings: (Y) All children

VH1 I Love New York (14) (6:45) I Love New York (14) (7:50) I Love New York (14) (8:55) I Love New York Basketball skills. I Love New York (14) (11:05) I Love New York Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
Recommended series (G) General audience
WE Law & Order We Like Mike. Sus- Law & Order Passion. An editors Law & Order Past Imperfect. A Law & Order Terminal. Gunfire Law & Order Thrill. A young deliv- Law & Order New or noteworthy program (PG) Parental guidance
pected killer tries to wed. (PG) death looks like a cover-up. (PG) cover girls death unearths secrets. disrupts fund-raiser. (PG) ery man is killed. (PG) Denial. (14) (N) New show or episode suggested
(CC) Closed-caption (14) Parents strongly cautioned
WGN-A Blue Bloods (14) Blue Bloods Power of the Press. Blue Bloods Under the Gun. (14) Blue Bloods Baggage. (14) Engagement Engagement Engagement (HD) High definition (MA) Mature audience only
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highs
40s Regina L TODAY ...................................Some clearing
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peg
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c
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H
Halifax
Portlan
a
and
40s
30s Montreal
20s moves away from the area, clouds during
Helena
Bismarck
Otta
Ottawa
the morning will give way to a mixture of 60
Eugen
ene
20s Billin
ngs
Fargo L Burlington
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Por
Portland
clouds and sunshine during the after-
20s
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Boston
noon. It will not be as cold.
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n St. Paul
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St Albany
Pierre Milw kee
Milwauk Buffalo 40s
0 Hartford
Har
a TONIGHT ....................Cloudy, a shower late 50
Detroit
Casper
Sioux
o Falls
New York
N Low 38. The next storm system will start
Re 4
40s
Reno Cheyyenne
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Des Moines Chicago
o Clevelan
elan
land Pittsburgh
Phi
Philadelphia
to move toward the region. This will
Salt Lake O
Omaha 50
50s
0s
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City Wash
Wash
Washington
S Fra
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back across the area. There can be a rain 40 highs
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shower in spots.
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TOMORROW ................Fog with a bit of rain
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Wichita
hita Raleigh
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Los Angeles
ngeles Santa Fe Nashville Charlotte
Ch High 40. The next storm system will move 30
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phis into the region. This will result in consid- lows
San Diego
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Phoenix Albuquerque
erqu
Birmingham
m
Columb
bia erable amounts of clouds along with a bit
7
70s Tucson
c
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Atlanta
of rain and areas of fog. Temperatures will
El Paso
Dallas H be slightly above average. 20
Ft. Worth Jackson
n
80s 90s
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80s J
Jacksonville MONDAY ........................Windy, sun returns
80s
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o Rouge Mo
Mobile
80s
s The storm system will be strengthening as
New O
Orlando
70s
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ouston Orleans Tampa
a it moves away from the region. This will 10 M T W T F S S M T W
70s
0s
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80s result in a windy day with clouds breaking
60s Corpus Christi
C for sunshine. TODAY
90s
0 Miami
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Fairbanks
airbank TODAYS HIGHS
Tuesday will be partly sunny and season-
<0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ able. The high will be 40. Sunshine will Forecast
Record
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20s
20s
s 30s
give way to increasing amounts of clouds lows
0s H L High High
Juneau
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COLD WARM STATIONARY COMPLEX HIGH LOW MOSTLY SHOWERS T-STORMS RAIN FLURRIES SNOW ICE
throughout the region Wednesday. The
40s
FRONTS COLD PRESSURE CLOUDY PRECIPITATION
high will be 41. Low Low
20s
0s

Highlight: Weekend Blizzard in the Northeast National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac

A developing storm Warmth will build from the South to the In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
system will bring another Ohio Valley and into the mid-Atlantic
round of snow to the region today. Meanwhile, a batch of Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
Northeast late this mainly light snow will slide east from New Yesterday ............... 0.00 Snow ......................... 0.0
60 Record
weekend. Heavy snow York to New England. A swath of moisture high 61
Record .................... 2.63 Since Oct. 1 ............ 20.5
and high winds will will lead to rain showers from the central (2001) For the last 30 days
create blizzard conditions Actual ..................... 4.61
Gulf coast to part of the Ohio Valley. 50 THU. YESTERDAY
Normal .................... 3.40
from eastern Massachu- Areas of rain and mountain snow will Normal
Saint John For the last 365 days
setts to Nova Scotia. extend from Southern California and 40 32 high 41
Actual ................... 42.71
3 p.m.
Wind gusts of over 40 northwestern Arizona to the central and Normal .................. 49.96
miles per hour are Montreal
northern Rockies, part of the northern 30 Normal LAST 30 DAYS
expected to start Sunday low 28
Plains and the Upper Midwest. Much of Air pressure Humidity
night and last through Portland
the rest of the West can expect a dry day 20
High ........... 30.25 9 a.m. High ............. 54% 4 a.m.
Monday. Snowfall will Low ............ 30.11 1 a.m. Low.............. 37% 3 p.m.
Boston
with some sunshine breaking through.
accumulate across most Only spotty showers will linger along the 19
of New England, as well. 10 Midnight Heating Degree Days
Buffalo Washington and Oregon coasts.
L A vigorous storm will move over central
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the days mean temperature fell below 65
0 Record
Canada before crossing the Northeast low -6 Yesterday ................................................................... 39
Sunday and Monday in the form of signifi- (1899) So far this month ...................................................... 286
So far this season (since July 1) ............................ 2620
cant snow and wind in New England. -10
Normal to date for the season ............................... 2999

4 12 6 12 4
Little Rock 68/ 54 0 77/ 60 C 66/ 38 C New Delhi 73/ 48 0 74/ 51 PC 75/ 51 F p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Cities Los Angeles 67/ 56 0.06 68/ 52 PC 73/ 53 S Riyadh 77/ 53 0 73/ 57 C 78/ 58 S Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 55/ 48 0 64/ 58 C 62/ 31 C Seoul 28/ 15 0 32/ 20 S 35/ 19 S Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 65/ 56 0 74/ 63 C 68/ 38 C Shanghai 44/ 26 0 44/ 29 S 50/ 33 S from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 76/ 65 0 79/ 65 PC 81/ 62 PC Singapore 88/ 74 0 87/ 76 Sh 84/ 76 Sh
this month ............. +2.4 this year ................ +4.7 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow. Milwaukee 41/ 35 0 41/ 32 C 42/ 26 SS Sydney 106/ 75 0 102/ 74 S 86/ 65 W
Mpls.-St. Paul 41/ 30 0 41/ 29 C 39/ 26 W Taipei 57/ 47 0 58/ 50 PC 62/ 54 PC 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 61/ 48 0 68/ 63 C 68/ 33 C Tehran 51/ 36 0.11 44/ 37 C 47/ 38 C Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 73/ 61 0 79/ 63 C 79/ 59 C Tokyo 43/ 37 0.56 48/ 36 S 49/ 37 S
H .......................... Haze SS ......... Snow showers Norfolk 45/ 37 0 66/ 51 PC 75/ 42 PC Yesterday ............... 78% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 75/ 52 0 86/ 42 S 59/ 34 C Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T .......... Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 88% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 55/ 32 0 49/ 30 C 46/ 25 PC Amsterdam 31/ 23 0.06 36/ 29 Sn 37/ 29 PC
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 52/ 44 0.12 50/ 39 C 48/ 39 PC
Orlando 73/ 52 0 81/ 55 S 83/ 60 S
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 34/ 29 0 52/ 40 C 46/ 35 R Berlin 33/ 23 Tr 29/ 24 Sn 33/ 24 PC
Sh ................... Showers .............. Not available Phoenix
Pittsburgh
85/
32/
60
29
0
Tr
79/
53/
58
43
C
C
75/
52/
57
29
PC
R
Brussels
Budapest
34/ 27 0
37/ 28 0
37/ 34 Sn
39/ 26 PC
45/ 33 PC
38/ 27 PC
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 16/ 3 Tr 26/ 18 Sn 32/ 27 Sn Copenhagen 32/ 28 0.02 32/ 27 C 31/ 26 SS
New York City 32/ 19 0 43/ 38 C 40/ 35 R Portland, Ore. 48/ 36 0.27 46/ 31 PC 49/ 33 PC Dublin 39/ 32 0 41/ 37 Sh 40/ 38 C Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 32/ 16 0 44/ 34 Sn 41/ 33 R Providence 24/ 15 0 41/ 26 Sn 38/ 28 Sn Edinburgh 37/ 27 0.45 40/ 34 Sn 39/ 35 C
Caldwell 31/ 13 0 44/ 35 C 40/ 35 R Raleigh 51/ 37 0 70/ 52 PC 79/ 42 PC Frankfurt 37/ 28 0.05 45/ 33 PC 46/ 32 PC Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Danbury 28/ 11 0.02 42/ 30 C 37/ 32 Sn Reno 54/ 31 0.50 50/ 24 PC 50/ 27 S Geneva 40/ 33 0.03 44/ 36 C 49/ 34 PC Todays forecast
Islip 30/ 16 0 43/ 34 C 42/ 32 R Richmond 45/ 36 0 68/ 49 C 77/ 40 PC Helsinki 21/ 14 0.01 26/ 24 C 31/ 27 C
Newark 32/ 15 0 45/ 37 C 42/ 34 R Rochester 27/ 25 0.18 42/ 31 C 38/ 27 R Istanbul 45/ 39 0 42/ 36 R 43/ 35 PC White
Trenton 30/ 15 0 48/ 36 C 46/ 35 R Sacramento 63/ 46 0.08 63/ 39 PC 63/ 38 S Kiev 19/ 4 Tr 26/ 16 C 26/ 17 C Feb. 18 Feb. 26 Mar. 5 Mar. 12 22/11 Snow, 1-3"
White Plains 29/ 14 0 43/ 33 C 40/ 33 Sn Salt Lake City 54/ 36 0.18 47/ 25 Sn 41/ 25 S Lisbon 48/ 44 0.33 54/ 49 Sh 58/ 50 Sh 9:59 a.m. 10:53 a.m.
San Antonio 74/ 61 0 84/ 60 PC 76/ 56 C London 37/ 32 0.46 39/ 34 C 42/ 38 C Green
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow 24/15 Snow, 1-3"
San Diego 68/ 60 0 65/ 53 Sh 66/ 52 PC Madrid 46/ 31 0.23 48/ 42 Sh 54/ 47 Sh Sun RISE 6:55 a.m. Moon S 7:13 a.m.
Albany 23/ 18 0 39/ 28 SS 33/ 28 Sn Moscow 28/ 21 0.05 31/ 18 SS 21/ 15 Sn
San Francisco 61/ 49 0.05 59/ 45 PC 60/ 46 S SET 5:26 p.m. R 6:23 p.m. Adirondacks
Albuquerque 72/ 43 0 72/ 45 PC 54/ 34 Sh Nice 52/ 44 0.02 55/ 49 Sh 60/ 52 R
San Jose 62/ 46 0.24 61/ 42 PC 63/ 40 S NEXT R 6:54 a.m. S 7:49 a.m.
Anchorage 13/ 4 0 12/ 1 PC 12/ 9 C Oslo 24/ 21 0.16 25/ 13 SS 27/ 21 PC 31/19 A bit of snow, 1-3"
San Juan 84/ 74 0.03 85/ 75 PC 83/ 73 Sh 40s
Atlanta 60/ 44 0 70/ 58 PC 73/ 41 C Paris 38/ 30 0 38/ 30 C 49/ 36 I Jupiter S 9:34 a.m. Mars R 8:51 a.m.
Seattle 46/ 39 0.14 47/ 35 C 49/ 35 PC Berkshires
Atlantic City 35/ 27 0 55/ 44 C 57/ 41 R Prague 36/ 23 0.01 34/ 29 C 35/ 24 PC R 10:21 p.m. S 9:25 p.m.
Sioux Falls 49/ 31 0 44/ 27 R 43/ 27 S 34/25 A bit of snow, 1-3"
Austin 75/ 60 0 83/ 59 PC 75/ 53 C Rome 61/ 45 0.08 60/ 45 PC 61/ 45 PC
Spokane 41/ 26 0.02 37/ 20 PC 38/ 21 F Saturn R 3:29 a.m. Venus R 8:22 a.m.
Baltimore 38/ 32 0 60/ 46 C 60/ 36 R St. Petersburg 26/ 12 0 23/ 18 C 29/ 24 C
St. Louis 62/ 48 0 69/ 46 C 52/ 30 C S 12:52 p.m. S 9:06 p.m. Catskills
Baton Rouge 77/ 61 0 83/ 64 C 81/ 57 C Stockholm 30/ 23 0 31/ 21 C 30/ 26 C
St. Thomas 81/ 73 0.15 84/ 73 PC 83/ 72 Sh 36/29 A little morning snow
Birmingham 63/ 48 0 72/ 61 C 73/ 39 Sh Vienna 37/ 30 0.01 38/ 29 PC 35/ 28 PC
Syracuse 23/ 22 0.15 40/ 30 C 37/ 25 Sn Boating
Boise 52/ 28 0.09 43/ 24 S 42/ 24 S Warsaw 30/ 14 0 24/ 16 SS 25/ 15 PC
Tampa 73/ 57 0 78/ 59 S 79/ 62 S Poconos
Boston 22/ 14 0 36/ 25 Sn 38/ 29 R
Toledo 36/ 34 0.03 46/ 32 Sh 43/ 25 R North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 41/33 Mostly cloudy and milder
Buffalo 28/ 27 0.08 41/ 32 C 39/ 27 R
Tucson 89/ 55 0 83/ 54 C 76/ 48 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New 50s
Burlington 12/ 6 0 31/ 22 Sn 34/ 26 Sn Tulsa 74/ 58 0 83/ 44 S 58/ 35 C Acapulco 92/ 72 0 88/ 72 S 85/ 72 PC
Casper 53/ 33 0 44/ 17 Sn 43/ 25 S York Harbor. Southwest Pa.
Virginia Beach 43/ 36 0 64/ 53 PC 76/ 41 PC Bermuda 67/ 56 0.11 63/ 60 PC 69/ 64 Sh
Charlotte 53/ 39 0 71/ 54 PC 79/ 41 C Washington 42/ 37 0 65/ 48 C 71/ 39 Sh Edmonton 19/ -3 0.02 32/ 17 S 38/ 26 PC Small craft should exercise caution on the ocean. 52/45 An afternoon shower, mild
Chattanooga 59/ 42 0 65/ 57 C 72/ 36 C Wichita 70/ 45 0 73/ 40 S 54/ 31 C Guadalajara 84/ 47 0 86/ 46 S 85/ 44 S Wind will be from the southwest, then west at 10-20
Chicago 42/ 34 0 45/ 32 C 44/ 23 SS Wilmington, Del. 34/ 30 0 53/ 41 C 52/ 35 R Havana 82/ 66 0 83/ 57 S 83/ 58 S knots. Waves will be 4-6 feet on the ocean and a foot
Cincinnati 48/ 42 0 60/ 53 C 56/ 28 C Kingston 86/ 73 0 87/ 74 PC 86/ 73 PC
West Virginia 60s
or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor.
Cleveland 35/ 34 0 48/ 35 C 42/ 29 Sn Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 86/ 74 0.06 85/ 74 Sh 84/ 72 Sh 54/46 Afternoon shower, milder
Colorado Springs 72/ 46 0 64/ 25 S 37/ 25 PC Algiers 67/ 36 0 67/ 51 C 67/ 52 C Mexico City 74/ 42 0 77/ 48 S 77/ 48 S High Tides
Columbus 39/ 35 0.02 55/ 47 C 50/ 27 C Cairo 72/ 51 0 72/ 53 PC 68/ 52 PC Monterrey 83/ 54 0 90/ 57 S 88/ 61 PC Color bands
Concord, N.H. 15/ 6 0 26/ 14 Sn 33/ 25 Sn Cape Town 86/ 64 0 84/ 65 S 76/ 62 PC Montreal 8/ 2 0 19/ 11 Sn 29/ 25 Sn Atlantic City ................... 7:31 a.m. .............. 7:58 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 72/ 62 0 83/ 60 PC 64/ 50 C Dakar 76/ 65 0 74/ 62 PC 72/ 63 PC Nassau 78/ 67 0.01 80/ 66 S 81/ 66 S Barnegat Inlet ................ 7:41 a.m. .............. 8:08 p.m. 59/48 Afternoon shower, milder temperature.
Denver 73/ 43 0 54/ 24 Sh 45/ 27 PC Johannesburg 78/ 60 0.08 79/ 58 S 82/ 60 S Panama City 92/ 73 0 91/ 72 PC 92/ 71 PC The Battery .................... 8:19 a.m. .............. 8:49 p.m.
Des Moines 51/ 36 0 49/ 31 C 44/ 26 PC Nairobi 82/ 56 0 83/ 55 PC 84/ 57 PC Quebec City 5/ -6 0 12/ 9 C 22/ 18 Sn Beach Haven ................. 9:07 a.m. .............. 9:37 p.m.
Detroit 35/ 32 0.07 45/ 35 Sh 42/ 27 W Tunis 58/ 46 0.14 63/ 49 PC 65/ 53 C Santo Domingo 85/ 68 0.02 88/ 68 PC 85/ 68 Sh
El Paso 83/ 52 0 84/ 53 PC 64/ 42 W Toronto 24/ 13 0.03 42/ 28 SS 36/ 27 Sn
Bridgeport ................... 11:19 a.m. ............ 11:45 p.m.
City Island .................... 11:45 a.m. .......................... ---
Some snow will continue to fall across the
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Fargo
Hartford
44/ 25 0.04
26/ 18 0
41/ 27 C
42/ 27 Sn
36/ 27 S
36/ 28 Sn Baghdad 68/ 43 0 67/ 44 S 65/ 44 PC
Vancouver 45/ 39 0.18 44/ 32 PC 45/ 34 PC Fire Island Lt. ................. 8:35 a.m. .............. 9:05 p.m. mountains of upstate New York and New
Winnipeg 23/ 6 0.02 25/ 17 PC 28/ 20 S
Honolulu 80/ 68 0.02 76/ 66 Sh 81/ 71 Sh Bangkok 91/ 75 0 91/ 69 S 89/ 70 S Montauk Point ................ 8:54 a.m. .............. 9:15 p.m. England with a general 1 to 3 inches
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 11:33 a.m. .......................... ---
Houston
Indianapolis
76/ 67 0
46/ 40 0
84/ 66 F
56/ 42 C
82/ 61 C
48/ 25 C
Beijing
Damascus
43/ 18 0
58/ 32 0
47/ 21 S
59/ 40 PC
51/ 26 S
55/ 36 PC Buenos Aires 86/ 65 0.10 79/ 67 PC 75/ 64 R Port Washington .......... 11:55 a.m. .......................... --- expected. Some mixed rain and snow
Jackson 72/ 55 0 79/ 62 C 78/ 48 Sh Hong Kong 62/ 47 0 64/ 54 S 66/ 58 S Caracas 85/ 76 0.04 84/ 75 PC 85/ 74 PC Sandy Hook ................... 7:49 a.m. .............. 8:19 p.m. showers will be over southwestern New
Jacksonville 64/ 44 0 79/ 50 S 80/ 59 S
Kansas City 63/ 43 0 62/ 35 C 48/ 25 C
Jakarta
Jerusalem
84/ 75 0.39
59/ 42 0
86/ 76 T
56/ 42 S
86/ 75 T
51/ 42 Sh
Lima
Quito
83/ 70 0
69/ 56 0.10
82/ 71 PC
66/ 54 Sh
83/ 71 PC
67/ 52 Sh
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 7:30 a.m. .............. 7:56 p.m.
Stamford ...................... 11:22 a.m. ............ 11:48 p.m.
York with an afternoon rain shower over
Key West 78/ 68 0 79/ 69 S 80/ 67 PC Karachi 81/ 56 0 81/ 58 PC 84/ 62 PC Recife 90/ 79 0.08 87/ 77 R 87/ 79 C Tarrytown ..................... 10:08 a.m. ............ 10:38 p.m. parts of western Pennsylvania and West
Las Vegas 75/ 57 0 65/ 51 PC 67/ 51 S Manila 86/ 73 0 83/ 70 PC 82/ 70 PC Rio de Janeiro 90/ 75 0.02 93/ 76 PC 94/ 76 S
Lexington 52/ 45 0 61/ 56 C 64/ 28 C Mumbai 93/ 64 0 84/ 69 PC 86/ 72 PC Santiago 86/ 57 0 88/ 56 S 90/ 58 S
Willets Point ................. 11:42 a.m. .......................... --- Virginia. It will not be as cold of a day.
5 GOLF 3 SPORTS OF THE TIMES

After a painful absence, George Vecsey on

Jos Mara Olazbal is back.
4 SKIING
the mystery of sports
Age is just a number for that try to fix whats
35-year-old Erik Guay. not broken.

SCORES ANALYSIS COMMENTARY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017 D1

N

The Garden Is Falling. Run.

BEN SOLOMON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

James L. Dolan, center, the Knicks owner, at Madison Square Garden on Friday after announcing that the former player Charles Oakley had been barred.

Dolan and Knicks Sometime Wednesday as I watched

officials could have
handled the Oakley
episode better. They
just made it worse.
Charles Oakley go face down on the Gar-
den floor and get handcuffed, or maybe it
was the next day when I read another of
the Knicks presidents cryptic, emoji-laden
Twitter posts that might read
MICHAEL better if I were stoned this
thought occurred:
POWELL
Start running, because this
building is coming down.
SPORTS
OF THE TIMES I dont mean that just
because of this Knicks sea-
son. The team of my youth lets go of sea-
sons like a lobsterman tossing underweight
crustaceans back into the Gulf of Maine. I
mean the entire Kremlin by Seventh Ave-
nue apparatus run by the glowering James
L. Dolan.
The Gardens insistence in this case on
not just booting Oakley who no doubt
behaved badly, pushing security guards
and cursing from his seat at the game,
but gang-tackling and handcuffing him on
national television, was bad optics raised to
high art. The Kremlin printing press swung
into motion. A Knicks Twitter post arrived:
Oakley behaved in a highly inappropriate
and completely abusive manner.
It ended: We hope he gets some help
soon.
That one took my breath away. Dolan
would return to this theme on Friday, sug-
gesting to the world that Oakley has drink-
ing problems and an uncontrollable temper.
Dolan, it should be noted, is a recovering
alcoholic, and for facing down his demons
he has nothing but my admiration. I have
family members who are recovering alco-
holics, and their lives are one long triumph
and service given back to fellow alcoholics.
For a powerful man, a billionaire, and his
corporation to repeatedly traffic in this sort
of innuendo about a former player is bully-
ing, not help.
Perhaps the Knicks president, Phil
Jackson, or the assistant coach Kurt Ram-
bis, who is a contemporary of Oakleys,
could have stopped by Oakleys seat and
tried to quietly defuse the confrontation.
Perhaps Dolan might have taken a men-
schs shot and invited Oakley to his suite to
talk it over. Perhaps, as worse was turning
Continued on Page D2

Par for the Course: Woods Is Hurt Again AWOL APPAREL

If only Tiger Woods had announced on
Friday that he was withdrawing from
next weeks Genesis Open in Los Angeles
but still hoped to play the Honda Classic
the week after that in Palm Beach Gar-
dens, Fla. Then it would
KAREN have been possible to sug-
CROUSE gest, gallows-humor style,
that it was Woodss allergy
ON to Riviera Country Club,
GOLF and not his back, that was
acting up.
But by pulling out of two events Friday,
Woods made it clear that the focus of his
competitive playing career from this point
forward would be less about winning than
about waiting to exhale.
My doctors have advised me not to
play the next two weeks, to continue my
treatment and to let my back calm down,
Woods, 41, said in a statement on his
website. This is not what I was hoping
for or expecting.
This will be Woodss fifth injury-related
reset since his five-victory season in 2013.
He sat out more than three months in the
spring of 2014; more than five months at
the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015;
two more months in 2015; and then all of
the 2015-16 season.
After two back operations and more
than a year away from the game, Woods
Tiger Woods during the pro-am event before the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 1.
After an opening 77, he pulled out before the second round of the tournament.
made a triumphant return to competition
at the unofficial limited-field event that he
hosts in the Bahamas in December. He
didnt win, but his tournament-leading 24
birdies and his zero pain-related winces
made everybody invested in golf breathe
Bndchen, New England Patriots
player of tonights Super Bowl.
FRANCOIS NEL/GETTY IMAGES EUROPE
Ring any bells?
easier.
After all the false starts, Woods ap-
peared healthy enough to resume his
chase of the PGA Tour career titleholder,
Continued on Page D5
Tom Bradys game jersey is missing.
Its time to call in the gumshoes.
By DAN BARRY
Chapter 1
We have a situation, the
lieutenant began.
His call interrupted my second
nightcap.
Im listening, I said.
A football jersey has gone
missing.
I swallowed and let out a low
whistle.
The owner is one Tom Brady,
he said. A.k.a. husband of Gisele
quarterback and most valuable
Brady, I said. Wasnt he one
of the perps in that . . .
Old news. He did his time:
four games.
Learned his lesson, Im sure,
I said.
Something like that, he said.
But this is no joke. That jersey
is like the American Shroud of
Turin, and the brass is way up
my boxers on this. So find it.
Fast.
Since Im the senior detective
in MAFCU the Missing Appar-
el, Footwear and Collectibles
Unit this case was tailor-made
for me. And I could tell this was
big; bigger than the bobblehead
case Id been working the past
few months.
Yessir, I said. Description?
White and blue. The number
12, front and back. Says Brady
across the shoulders.
I muttered a word my sainted
mother would have slapped me
for. You mean, a jersey identical
to the shirts being worn by thou-
sands of drunken knuckleheads
running around Houston right
now?
You got it, the lieutenant
said. And one more thing.
Whats that?
Continued on Page D3
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Steve Mills, center, the Knicks general manager, and Phil Jackson, the team president, during Friday nights game at the Garden.
While Testy Fans Make a Stand, Knicks Do Not
By MIKE VORKUNOV
Greg Armstrong was conflicted
on Friday morning. He has owned
Knicks season tickets for 25 years,
and he makes the trek from Mid-
dletown, N.Y., for about 30 games
each year. He has raised his chil-
dren in this
NUGGETS 131 fandom.
KNICKS 123 And yet,
Armstrong
felt torn about whether to attend
Fridays game. He had watched as
Charles Oakley was removed
from Madison Square Garden two
nights earlier and had heard the
team owner James L. Dolan an-
nounce Friday afternoon on
ESPN Radio that Oakley, a former
Knicks star, had been barred from
the arena indefinitely. Armstrong
thought Oakley had been in the
wrong, too, but Armstrongs frus-
tration with the franchise had
built up after so many difficult
years.
In the end, though, his alle-
giance won out. So he stood in the
stands 45 minutes before a game
that the Knicks lost to the Denver
Nuggets, 131-123, with a blue No. 34
Oakley jersey, signed by the man
himself two years ago, aiming to
convey a message.
I said, You know what? Im go-
ing to come, and Im going to
make a stand, Armstrong said.
Im going to put on my Oakley
jersey in support of him and show
Im not happy with whats going
on.
Armstrong was not alone. Fri-
day night, the Garden was a place
for Knicks fans to air their griev-
ances as Dolan sat in his custom-
ary courtside seat.
It did not take long for the crowd
to start chanting the name of the
man who can now hear it only on
Knicks Invent New Type of Loss as Owner Banishes a Beloved Ex-Stalwart
From Page A1
Several times over the course of
the half-hour interview, Dolan de-
scribed Oakleys behavior on
Wednesday night as out of line.
Dolan also said that Oakley may
have a problem with alcohol and
that Oakley needed to seek help to
control his anger. If Oakley were
to address his behavioral issues,
Dolan said, the Garden would
most likely welcome him back.
Oakley, 53, has long been es-
tranged from the Knicks and has
had an adversarial relationship
with Dolan. But he has insisted he
was not acting inappropriately on
Wednesday night when he sat
down not far from Dolan to watch
the Knicks play the Los Angeles
Clippers.
A number of fans who were sit-
ting near Oakley said they had not
seen or heard him being belliger-
ent. Other fans suggested that he
seemed somewhat combative. In
any case, after security guards ap-
proached him, a shoving match
ensued, and that was followed by
the hard-to-believe sight of Oak-
ley being grabbed and led away.
But many things with the
Knicks are not easy to fathom.
Their starting point guard, Der-
rick Rose, went AWOL for a day.
The team itself has lost 20 of its
past 26 games, continuing a run of
futility that has dominated
Dolans two decades as owner.
And the team president, Phil Jack-
son, mimicking Dolan, has not
spoken with reporters who cover
the team since September.
Jacksons few communications
have come via an isolated inter-
view or two and occasional Twit-
ter posts, some of them cryptic.
Forward Carmelo Anthony led Knicks scorers with 33 points.
television. The chants of Free
Charles Oakley began midway
through the first quarter and per-
sisted throughout the game.
There were variations, like We
Want Oakley and Fire Dolan. It
was clear that a significant por-
tion of the crowd wanted Oakley
there, and not Dolan.
The game itself offered no pos-
itive counterbalance. With the
loss, the Knicks have dropped
nine of their past 12 games. Their
playoff hopes continue to dwindle,
as they sit three and a half games
out of the final playoff spot in the
Eastern Conference. Carmelo An-
thony scored 33 points on Friday,
but he was overshadowed by Den-
vers Nikola Jokic, who scored 40.
The teams on-court woes had
been on the back burner even be-
fore Wednesday. Instead, the spot-
light had been on the team presi-
dent, Phil Jackson, and his rela-
Charles Oakley, once the Knicks on-court muscle, was arrested after he tussled with security
guards during a game Wednesday. Nothing theyre doing makes sense, he said of the Knicks.
And although he seems intent on
trading away the teams star,
Carmelo Anthony, Jackson has a
problem: Anthonys no-trade
clause.
Asked about Jackson during the
radio interview, Dolan asserted
that he would stay out of his way
despite the dismal results Jackson
has produced in his nearly three
years as team president. He said
he would honor Jacksons five-
year contract all the way to the
end.
But while Jackson and Dolan
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tionship with Anthony, who had
reportedly been shopped around
the league in recent weeks.
The tension between the two
rose to another level on Tuesday
after a Twitter post by Jackson
was interpreted as a critique of
Anthonys playing style and will to
win. In a follow-up post on Twitter,
Jackson insisted that his earlier
message had been misunder-
stood.
Dolan, however, did not wade
into that morass during his radio
interview Friday. He declined to
comment multiple times during
the segment about Jackson and
his stewardship of the organiza-
tion. Jackson signed a five-year
contract in 2014, and Dolan in-
tends to let him remain for its en-
tirety. Dolan said he would not ac-
tivate a clause that lets the Knicks
opt out of the contract after this
season.
are not popular figures in New
York, Oakley clearly is. The inci-
dent on Wednesday led to an out-
pouring of support for him, not
only from the teams frustrated
fans but also from current and for-
mer N.B.A. players, who have
long admired the tough work ethic
that Oakley displayed on the
court.
Given all the negative fallout
from Oakleys ejection, Dolan was
asked in the interview whether
the organization now felt embar-
rassed.
I literally turned over the en-
tire basketball operations to Phil
and General Manager Steve Mills,
Dolan said, adding: That is
where I am at. Whether I like the
results or dont like the results, I
am going to honor that agreement
all the way to the end. It is not over
yet. My hope is that the team will
become much, much better and
that Phil will be successful.
While Dolan admitted that he
stepped in to acquire Anthony
from the Nuggets in 2011, he did
not want to get into the middle of
Anthonys frosty back-and-forth
with Jackson. That would be
meddling, he said.
There is no leashing Jackson, ei-
ther, Dolan said. Jackson is in con-
trol of his own public and fan rela-
tions as part of their deal.
Yet, if the Knicks continue to
lose, as they have in 148 of the 219
games during Jacksons tenure,
frustrations will continue to com-
pound.
Friday was the culmination of a
weekslong slog of bickering and
unflattering headlines. The Oak-
ley affair was a tipping point that
may have more fallout than just
bad publicity. Stars around the
N.B.A. took his side on social me-
dia, and with Anthonys ordeal
playing out in public, even he ad-
mitted he was worried that the
Knicks hopes of drawing stars via
free agency might have been dam-
aged.
Its just kind of this cloud over
us right now, Anthony said. We
have to figure out a way to get out
of it. I think you have to be in it,
and you have to be going through
it, in order to understand it. From
the outside looking in, it looks bad,
and its even worse when youre
going through it.
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Well, I certainly think Charles
should be embarrassed, he said.
Oakley, who was reached by
telephone after Dolans radio in-
terview concluded, said that he
had not listened to the broadcast
but had already heard about some
of Dolans comments.
Nothing theyre doing makes
sense, Oakley said. I mean, this
man, somethings wrong with
him. He crossed a bridge the first
night, and then hes been crossing
another bridge every day since.
Oakley, who has acknowledged
Madison Square Garden
Is Falling. Run.
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to worst, someone could have
asked the Clippers coach, Doc
Rivers, a fine man, to walk over
and talk with Oakley, who was
once his teammate.
In photos, Rivers can be seen
taking a step or three toward the
growing confrontation, his face
pained.
There are probably 43 ways to
try to defuse a breach of calm.
The Knicks chose the 44th, which
was to swarm him like a street-
corner mug.
The Knicks seemed to realize
Friday that they had taken a
sledgehammer to their brand, as
N.B.A. stars such as Dwyane
Wade, LeBron James and Chris
Paul, as well as former players
and television celebrities, rallied
quickly to Oakleys defense. So
Dolan took to the air on ESPNs
The Michael Kay Show for one
of his very rare interviews. Be-
forehand there had been specula-
tion that he might announce a
reconciliation with Oakley.
Dolan was having none of that.
He opened by announcing that
he was barring Oakley indefi-
nitely from Madison Square
Garden. Then he suggested over
and over that Oakley was an
alcoholic and emotionally trou-
bled.
He may have a problem with
alcohol; we dont know, Dolan
told Kay. There are personality
problems.
Dolan appears to have exper-
tise in these matters.
The media machine ground on.
On Thursday, reporters were
offered access not to employees
who had seen Oakley that night,
but to their anonymous state-
ments. Reporters could not per-
sonally ascertain if those em-
ployees existed.
Late Friday, the Garden re-
leased videos of employees talk-
ing about Oakleys misbehavior.
Reporters still could not inter-
view them and draw their own
conclusions. I wonder about their
candor, as they learned that
Dolan had earlier fired his senior
vice president of security, appar-
ently for failing to bar Oakley
from the Garden as Dolan
suggested on the radio that
evening and therefore having to
jump him on national television.
That move was good for a giggle.
If you run your business like a
medieval fortress, you cant
complain about how precisely
your Earl Constable beheads
objects of your disfavor.
Lets turn now to the con-
founding Zen Phil. He was there
Wednesday night and, as so often
is the case, he appeared to be
looking in, bemused, on his own
absurdist theater show. I ap-
plauded his hiring two years ago.
He was an older man trying to
learn a new trick: running an
N.B.A. franchise. But he was a
brilliant, iconoclastic coach and
author who motivated and nee-
dled and massaged the prickliest
of stars into one-for-all champi-
onship runs. And he had the ego
and sense of self to make Dolan
back off.
As it turns out, I was demon-
strably correct only on the last
that he had a couple of drinks be-
fore he arrived at Wednesdays
game, declined to address Dolans
statement that he might have
problems with alcohol.
I dont talk about that stuff, he
said. I have no comment on that. I
dont have to defend myself on
that. The people around me know
if I have a drinking problem or
not.
Asked if he planned to pursue
legal action against Dolan or the
organization, Oakley said, Well
see what happens. Oakley later
wrote on Twitter that he was plan-
ning to hold a news conference
next week.
Meanwhile, neither Oakley nor
those backing him are liable to
take kindly to repeated sugges-
tions by the Knicks the first
came in a statement on Wednes-
day night that Oakley needs
some kind of help for his behav-
ior.
Instead, there was more sup-
port for Oakley, with Michele Rob-
erts, the executive director of the
National Basketball Players Asso-
ciation, weighing in after Dolans
interview. Painful to believe that
my last image of Oak at MSG is
him dragged out of the arena,
Roberts wrote on Twitter. Is that
how we remember our Legends?
#NoBan.
Dolan said he hoped that Oak-
ley would not be barred forever.
He said he would love to honor
Oakley at midcourt along with
several of his former teammates
again, provided that he seeks
help.
But his behavior, it just doesnt
work with that, Dolan said. Until
he can address it and get it under
control, then we probably wont be
point.
Jacksons most fateful deci-
sion was to re-sign Carmelo
Anthony and to grant his stars
demand for a no-trade clause.
Anthony is forthright in the
locker room, after infrequent
wins and more frequent losses.
Anthony was the pillar of the
teams one true playoff run of his
time here. And he has a social
conscience, speaking out on gun
control, among other issues.
He is well into his 30s, howev-
er, and some nights his legs look
as heavy as dining table staves.
Too often he slows the offense to
a torpor.
A savvy team president might
go to his aging star and work out
an amicable parting. A savvy
team president might keep those
talks private, seeing no point in
running down an asset.
Jackson is not that man. No
longer forced to meet with the
news media daily, as when he
coached, he prefers to cultivate
an air of mystery, the enigmatic
Captain Beefheart of this hair-
on-fire administration.
He fires off obscure Twitter
posts poking Anthony in one rib
or another, suggesting his skills
are eroding and his hoop IQ low.
A flailing teams
owner dismisses
booing fans as a
malcontent group.
This week he took a mean elbow
shot at a long-ago minor league
hoopster, Michael Graham, who
survived a tough childhood and
now leads an exemplary life,
with a business and a founda-
tion.
On Thursday, Jackson tried to
calm the waters. He did this not
with a news conference, which is
the vale inhabited by team presi-
dents; he posted on Twitter
again. He offered an emoji peace
sign to a society torn with
discord. Im against it. Let It
Be.
This would be adorable if
Jackson were 11 years old.
Dolan, whose willingness to
spend extravagant sums on
terrible teams is not an issue,
gave Jackson a five-year, $60
million contract. On the Michael
Kay show, Dolan emphasized
that hed never meddle with his
nonchalant president. He was
the best man we could find to
run the Knicks, Dolan said of
Jackson. Whether I like the
results or dont like the results,
Im going to honor my agree-
ment.
The Knicks sell out night after
night, and Dolan acknowledged
that some fans had taken to
booing his sad, underperforming
team. He dismissed them as a
malcontent group that is very
vocal.
Malcontent is a Dolan love
tap.
Did I mention this building is
coming down?
able to do it.
Dolan said it was clear to him
that Oakley had gone to Wednes-
days game with an agenda to be
disruptive. Oakley never should
have been allowed to take his seat,
Dolan said, which he cited as one
of his reasons for firing Frank
Benedetto, the Gardens senior
vice president for security, on Fri-
day morning.
Benedetto, who previously
served with the United States Se-
cret Service, could not be reached
for comment.
Dolan recalled how, during the
first quarter of Wednesdays
game, a security guard ap-
proached him to relate that he and
his co-workers were having diffi-
culties with Oakley. Dolan said he
had asked if they could wait to
deal with the problem between
quarters to avoid a big scene on
national television. The security
guard agreed with him, Dolan
said, but the situation escalated.
And I said, Youve got to do
what youve got to do, Dolan
said.
It wasnt until it was pointed
out to me that he was behind us, I
sort of opened my ear and started
to hear and what I heard was terri-
ble, Dolan added.
At one point during the radio in-
terview, Dolan was reminded that
he does not give many interviews.
No, he said, this isnt my fa-
vorite thing.
Nor, no doubt, is watching his
team lose again, which the Knicks
did on Friday night at the Garden,
falling to the Denver Nuggets, 131-
123. Dolan sat in his customary
seat near the court. Oakley, mean-
while, was absent, except for the
chants bearing his name.
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This could get . . . messy. Be
careful out there.
Click.
I could feel that familiar white
rage welling inside me, a rage
rooted in the stress of my job. It
had cost me two marriages,
three promotions and Vera. I
wondered where she was right
now, but my anger pushed
thoughts of even her out of my
head.
This supposed victim is a mov-
ie-star-handsome millionaire, has
a model for a wife, has just won
his fifth Super Bowl and fourth
Super Bowl M.V.P. Award and
now I have to go find his used
jersey?
Snap out of it, I told myself.
Youre a cop. And a damned good
one. Do your job.
I grabbed a coffee to sober up,
drove to the football stadium,
and found my way down to the
locker-room crime scene. A cou-
ple of Patriots flunkies were
hanging around, but they were
too emotional to talk. So I chat-
ted up a security guard who had
some video.
Watching it over and over,
rewinding, fast-forwarding, I
knew in my gut that something
had gone down. Something . . .
un-American.
10:05: The victim, wearing a
Super Bowl championship T-
shirt, is driven by golf cart to the
locker room. The only others
present are teammates, Patriots
hangers-on, and N.F.L. muck-a-
mucks.
In my book: suspects.
The victim sits down near his
locker and turns his attention to
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all the love in the room.
10:17: Some disheveled charac- the longer the jersey was miss- governor had announced that quoted the Sherlockian theorem have an acronym. Its referred to my steps, beginning with an-
ters waddle into the scene, look- ing, the more likely it would wind the Texas Rangers the Texas that when you have eliminated only with a series of coded other hard look at that locker-
ing like tourists searching for the up in the private collection of Rangers were joining the hunt. the impossible, whatever re- grunts. room video. This time, I noticed
nearest Olive Garden. The me- some memorabilia sicko, never In Texas, we place a very mains, however improbable, His voice rose again. So, that at the very end, the victims
dia, Im guessing. to be seen again by a worshiping high value on hospitality and must be the truth. Detective, what does all this voice can be heard cracking
10:20: Now the victim, visibly public. The coffee churned in my football, the lieutenant governor In that case, the lieutenant mean? slightly as he asks:
upset, is searching a carry-on stomach. said. Tom Bradys jersey has said, his voice mocking, you I dont know, sir. Guys? Did anyone see it?
bag, his locker, the floor around I drove home and tried to great historical value and is believe that, however improba- It means its getting awfully I started to choke up, so I hit
him. He asks someone to see if sleep. I muttered a prayer to St. already being called the most ble, this football jersey just crowded up in my boxers! So pause. Staring at the frozen
the equipment guys have found Anthony, patron saint of lost valuable N.F.L. collectible ever. climbed out of that duffle bag? Is FIND THAT JERSEY! crime scene through a blur of
his game jersey yet. items. I turned out the light. He added: It is important that that what youre telling me, Click. tears, I cursed the twisted, thiev-
I put it right here, he says. I Then everything went dark. history does not record that it Detective? Yessir, I said to dead air. ing S.O.B. who had besmirched
know exactly where I put it. The good saint never an- was stolen in Texas. No sir. I just . . . I started to write down the this day: the holiest day on the
Crazy. swered. Instead, I woke up to the As if I needed the extra pres- Just nothing! Now he was names of anyone who might American calendar.
Not crazy; this was evil. And I news that the lieutenant gover- sure. Were not talking here about screaming. Ive got the lieuten- want to wish the victim ill. Seven I vowed then and there to
knew from hard experience that nor of Texas the lieutenant Jim Bowies knife, I thought. This ant governor and the Texas hours later, my half-finished list bring the fiend to justice. And to
is a sweaty shirt owned by a guy Rangers butting in! Ive got included the Atlanta Falcons; the track down this precious piece of
who can afford to buy another crazies blaming Syrian refugees! N.F.L. commissioner; some polyester knit.
one! Ive got the Vatican calling to say lawyer named Ted Wells; and
C A L E N DA R I was losing it again. I slapped this jersey might have spiritual most of the 300 million Ameri- Chapter 2
myself hard. Quietly recited the significance! cans who live outside New Eng-
MAFCU oath (I hereby swear to He caught his breath and land. He looked down at the table,
TV Highlights uphold the sartorial promise of lowered his voice. I slammed down my pen. I then at the wall, then at the
ceiling, and then back at the
this great nation . . . ). And This goes all the way to the wanted a drink, bad. I wanted to
Auto Racing / N.H.R.A. 1:00 p.m. Drag Racing Winternationals, qualifying FS1
began searching through a sam- very top, Detective. Do you un- be with Vera, lovely Vera, ma- table. Reaching for his glass of
Basketball / N.B.A. 8:30 p.m. Golden State at Oklahoma City ABC
ple book of cloth swatches for an derstand? The victim has . . . king her laugh as she worked the water, his hand quivered like
Basketball / College Men Noon Marquette at Georgetown FOX
idea, a clue . . . anything. connections. And now Ive got counter down at the Bowl-O- disturbed Jell-O.
Noon Seton Hall at St. Johns CBSSN
The phone rang a long time the White House offering the Rama. But you can never go I had to ask.
Noon Kansas State at West Virginia ESPN
before I picked up. I knew who it services of some black-ops back. Is everything all right, Com-
Noon Texas A&M at Florida ESPN2
was. With nothing to report, I agency so secret it doesnt even Desperate, I decided to retrace missioner?
Noon Minnesota at Rutgers ESPNU
Noon North Carolina State at Wake Forest YES
1:00 p.m. Kentucky at Alabama CBS
1:00 p.m. Syracuse at Pittsburgh IND SPORTS BUSINESS
2:00 p.m. Kent State at Toledo CBSSN
2:00 p.m. Kansas at Texas Tech ESPN
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Miami at Louisville
Texas Christian at Baylor
Creighton at DePaul
ESPN2
ESPNU
FS1
Fixing What Aint Broke? Thats Ruinous
2:30 p.m. Villanova at Xavier FOX
2:30 p.m. Massachusetts at St. Josephs NBCSN
Why do thriving sports feel the prisoner in the ballpark. The no position players desecrated his tenure with FIFA, its ultimate
need to monkey around with turnstiles work in reverse. Fans the holy site known as the event expanded from 16 to 32
4:00 p.m. Butler at Providence CBSSN
their product? Lets take current are free to go home if getting up mound, but there were signs of teams.
4:00 p.m. Ohio State at Maryland ESPN
examples from the two sports I for class or work is so important emergency. Bill Wakefield There was a certain logic to
4:00 p.m. Texas at Oklahoma State ESPN2
like and know to them. started for the Mets but got an making it easier to qualify, as
4:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Georgia at Tennessee
Washington at Utah
ESPNU
FS1
GEORGE best: soccer and I can understand baseballs early hook from Casey Stengel, even the United States began to
baseball. and was watching while his pal
4:30 p.m. St. Bonaventure at George Washington NBCSN VECSEY The new gang
desire to protect pitchers from
being overworked, with the new Larry Bearnarth pitched innings
get the hang of the sport. Using
32 teams in the final tournament
5:30 p.m. Boston College at Georgia Tech YES running FIFA has eight through 14.
SPORTS breed conditioned to pitch every four years allowed more
6:00 p.m. Connecticut at Central Florida CBSSN
OF THE TIMES voted to expand counts. No less a wise old head At some point, Casey told teams from Africa and Asia to
6:00 p.m. Florida State at Notre Dame ESPN the 2026 World than Joe Torre was quoted as Wakefield to warm up, and qualify. Bravo. Outsiders have
6:00 p.m. Oklahoma at Iowa State ESPN2 Cup from 32 teams to 48. Wakefield had to remind him been a joy: In 2002, Turkey and
saying it is not fun to see
6:00 p.m. Houston at Tulsa ESPNU Right, and in the spirit of this that he had already pitched. South Korea, a co-host, were
teams run out of pitchers. With
6:00 p.m. Fordham at George Mason SNY exercise in participatory democ- Later, Wakefield and Bearnarth gallant semifinalists.
8:00 p.m. Davidson at Virginia Commonwealth CBSSN racy, I want my doodles placed in dressed and went into the stands But 48 nations? Assuming this
8:00 p.m. South Carolina at Mississippi State ESPN2 the Museum of Modern Art. to avoid tempting fate with planet is still spinning by 2026,
8:00 p.m. East Carolina at South Florida ESPNU Meanwhile, the geniuses who Casey. They saw the Giants last
8:15 p.m. Gonzaga at St. Marys ESPN run baseball are tinkering to put Officials of baseball pitchers warming up with a
co-hosts could be the trend
perhaps a Nafta World Cup from
a quicker end to some minor security guard because the extra
10:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
California at Arizona
Bradley at Illinois State
ESPN2
ESPNU league games that go longer than and soccer cant leave catchers had gone into the game.
Toronto to Mexico City. But some
potential hosts might be over-
Basketball / College Women 2:00 p.m. Iowa State at Kansas State MSG nine innings by borrowing a
gimmick from softball and
well enough alone. Come to think of it, Caseys
stratagem to slip Wakefield back
whelmed by hosting 48 entries
2:00 p.m. Southern Methodist at Connecticut SNY and their entourages.
putting a runner on second base into the game was better than
Golf 1:00 p.m. Pebble Beach Pro-Am, third round GOLF I hate to break the news to the
to start every extra inning. the goofy stuff being proposed
3:00 p.m. Pebble Beach Pro-Am, third round CBS so-called leaders of FIFA, but
Right, and maybe baseball now. A designated runner on
3:00 p.m. Champions, Allianz Championship, second round GOLF all due respect to Torre, I submit they already have a wonderful
could have extra-inning games second base? Most likely fol-
10:00 p.m. Maybank Championship, final round GOLF it is jolly good fun to watch system for culling the strays
decided by foot races between lowed by sacrifice bunts? What
Hockey / N.H.L. 1:00 p.m. Islanders at Ottawa MSG+ teams resort to position players, regional qualifying tournaments,
clunky mascots of former presi- is a sacrifice bunt?
7:00 p.m. Colorado at Rangers MSG
dents. serving it up to weary opponents an integral part of the four-year
From the Bay Area on Friday,
Soccer 7:25 a.m. England, Hull City at Arsenal NBCSN
Why this obsession to mess at some outrageous witching calendar, in which great soccer
Wakefield emailed this proposal:
9:30 a.m. Germany, Bayern Munich at Ingolstadt FS1 with what aint broke? Baseball hour. powers sometimes get bush-
Put Wakefield in and there will
9:30 a.m. Germany, Eintracht Frankfurt at Bayer Leverkusen FS2 already screwed up a hallowed There is a list of 552 position be a man on second with no outs whacked. Brazil, as you might
9:55 a.m. England, Watford at Manchester United NBCSN sport by allowing the designated players (from Abbey to Zeile) in a heartbeat. have guessed, is the only nation
12:20 p.m. Germany, Hertha Berlin at Schalke FS2 hitter. Now its got wild-card who have pitched at least once, Let the players play. One of my to appear in all 20 final tourna-
12:30 p.m. England, Tottenham Hotspur at Liverpool NBC games. Gimmicks. most of them in emergencies in favorite words in soccer is foot- ments.
Track and Field 4:00 p.m. Millrose Games NBC The owners didnt notice when extra innings. I once saw Rocky baller, used respectfully for a The qualifiers are terrifying. I
Colavito and Gene Michael pitch
This Week their sluggers craniums and
on successive days for the Yan-
versatile player who can defend, saw the United States beat Trini-
dad and Tobago, 1-0, in Port of
jawbones kept growing. Now the pass, dribble and shoot maybe
HOME SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI kees in 1968. Believe me, that Spain in 1989 to reach its first
2/11 2/12 2/13 2/14 2/15 2/16 2/17
owners notice when an occa- with either foot. Footballer. Let
AWAY was fun. World Cup since 1950 joyous
sional game goes long? the baseball players settle the
SAN ANTONIO OKLA. CITY In one game in 1982, Tom La- for the Yanks, heartbreaking for
KNICKS 3:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. There is a certain fascination outcome. Let them be base-
ABC ESPN, MSG to extra-inning games because sorda used two of his aces, Fer- ballers. the sporting T & T fans. And in
MEMPHIS MILWAUKEE they smack of anarchy televi- nando Valenzuela and Bob Of course, soccer is about to 1993 I was in Milan to watch
NETS 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. sion schedules disrupted, travel Welch, in left field in extra in- adulterate its own product. The Italy, who needed at least a draw
YES YES plans delayed, things off-kilter. nings. Baseball survived. world soccer body, FIFA, has not with Portugal to qualify. The
SAN JOSE COLORADO OTTAWA But still, something, eventually, Baseball even survived a yet outgrown the 1,000-year damp night air was sour with an
DEVILS 12:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. will happen to decide the game. 32-inning doubleheader in 1964 in advanced case of communal
MSG+ MSG MSG+ Chernobyl of shame the
You just dont know when, or which the great Willie Mays money slipping around, the anxiety, as I wrote, until Dino
OTTAWA COLORADO TORONTO RANGERS
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MSG+ MSG+ MSG+ MSG, MSG2 stop running, or who will be the nings of the second game. Noth- graced Sepp Blatter to make nation.
COLORADO COLUMBUS ISLANDERS last survivor on the mound. ing was hit to him, but people female players wear tighter Ill never understand why
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PEBBLE BEACH
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE Friday
By BRIAN PINELLI p-Pebble Beach Golf Links: 6,816 yards,
par 72 (36-36)
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland Erik Atlantic W L Pct GB Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA m-Monterey Peninsula Country Club:
6,958 yards, par 71 (34-37)
Guay believes that downhill ski racers Boston 34 19 .642 Montreal 31 17 8 70 163 142 s-Spyglass Hill Golf Course: 6,953
can improve with age. Toronto 32 22 .593 2{ Ottawa 28 18 6 62 140 143
yards, par 72 (36-36)
Pebble Beach, Calif.
He would know. At 35, Guay became Purse: $7.2 million
Knicks 22 33 .400 13 Toronto 25 17 11 61 164 158
the oldest skier to win a world champi- First Round
Philadelphia 19 34 .358 15 Rick Lamb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3468 -4s
onship title, charging to a gold medal Boston 27 23 6 60 149 152 Seung-Yul Noh. . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3568 -4s
in the super-G at the Alpine World Ski Nets 9 45 .167 25{ Florida 23 20 10 56 127 149 Joel Dahmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3468 -4s
Mark Hubbard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3369 -3p
Championships this week. Southeast W L Pct GB Tampa 24 24 7 55 150 159 Jordan Spieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31-3768 -3m
Brandt Snedeker . . . . . . . . . . . .32-3668 -3m
Its always taken me a bit of time to Washington 32 21 .604 Buffalo 22 22 10 54 133 154 Tim Wilkinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3369 -3p
get comfortable with some things, Atlanta 31 22 .585 1
Robert Garrigus . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3469 -3s
Detroit 22 22 10 54 137 161 Rob Oppenheim . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3569 -2m
Guay said. Shane Lowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3470 -2p
Charlotte 24 29 .453 8
Brimming with confidence and free Metropolitan W L OT Pts GF GA Nick Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -2s
Miami 24 30 .444 8{ Troy Merritt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3370 -2s
of injury, he is looking to add a downhill Wash. 38 11 6 82 186 117 Jason Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3669 -2m
victory on the 2,774-meter Corviglia Orlando 20 35 .364 13
Pittsburgh 34 13 6 74 190 151
Seamus Power . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -2s
Scott Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -2s
course on Saturday. Central W L Pct GB Sam Saunders. . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3569 -2m
Columbus 34 14 5 73 173 132 Jim Furyk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -2s
Anything is possible, absolutely, Cleveland 36 16 .692 Kelly Kraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32-3769 -2m
Guay said of the speed event double. Rangers 35 18 1 71 185 143 Derek Fathauer . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -2s
Indiana 29 24 .547 7{ Stewart Cink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3470 -2p
Im going to have a certain amount of Phila. 26 22 7 59 145 167
Zac Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -2s
Chicago 26 27 .491 10{
pressure come Saturday. I think Im Islanders 24 18 10 58 156 154 Robert Streb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3470 -2s
Detroit 25 29 .463 12 Nick Watney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -2p
going to have to ski again with a free Devils 23 21 10 56 127 153 Kevin Tway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -2p
spirit. You need intensity, but you also Milwaukee 22 30 .423 14 Gary Woodland . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -1m
J.B. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -1m
Carolina 24 21 7 55 138 151
have to be relaxed on the way down. Brian Gay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32-3870 -1m
Guay, a resident of Mont-Tremblant, WESTERN CONFERENCE Brett Drewitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3471 -1s
WESTERN CONFERENCE Tyrone Van Aswegen . . . . . . . . .36-3571 -1p
Quebec, was the mens world downhill Southwest W L Pct GB Martin Flores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -1m
Phil Mickelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32-3870 -1m
champion in Garmisch-Par- San Antonio 41 12 .774
Central W L OT Pts GF GA Mackenzie Hughes. . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -1m
tenkirchen, Germany, in 2011. If he Minnesota 36 12 6 78 181 126 Patrick Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3571 -1p
Houston 39 17 .696 3{ Dustin Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3770 -1m
achieves another downhill win in St. Chicago 34 17 5 73 161 146 Patrick Cantlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3670 -1m
Moritz, he will join the ski racing Memphis 33 23 .589 9{ Will MacKenzie. . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3570 -1m
St. Louis 28 22 5 61 157 163 Chris Kirk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32-3870 -1m
greats Jean-Claude Killy, Toni Sailer, Dallas 21 32 .396 20 Ricky Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3871 Em
Bernhard Russi, Zeno Col and Aksel Nashville 26 20 8 60 149 141 Matt Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672 Ep
New Orleans 21 33 .389 20{ Hunter Mahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3572 Es
Lund Svindal, each of whom has two Northwest W L Pct GB
Winnipeg 25 28 4 54 165 181 Tag Ridings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672 Ep
Tony Finau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31-4071 Em
downhill world championships. Dallas 21 24 10 52 150 175 Hiroshi Iwata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3472 Es
Utah 34 20 .630
Guay, the father of three daughters, Colorado 15 34 2 32 104 172
Bobby Wyatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3472 Es
ALEXANDER HASSENSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES Oklahoma City 31 23 .574 3 Jimmy Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3472 Ep
is the most decorated Canadian racer Chad Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3472 Ep
in World Cup history, with 24 career Erik Guay training for the mens downhill on Friday. Guay became the Denver 24 29 .453 9{ Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA Scott Stallings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672 Es
Martin Laird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3871 Em
medals. oldest skier to win a world title when he claimed gold in the super-G. Portland 23 31 .426 11 San Jose 33 18 4 70 151 132 Webb Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-3871 Em
He has been working to regain his Billy Hurley III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672 Ep
Minnesota 20 34 .370 14 Anaheim 29 17 10 68 147 141 Matt Every. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3472 Es
form since two knee operations wiped Alex Cejka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672 Ep
skiers stood together on a world cham- because I was quite sore. Pacific W L Pct GB Edmonton 29 18 8 66 156 141
Geoff Ogilvy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3771 Em
out his 2014-15 season.
pionship podium. Guay, who has never won a medal at Golden State 45 8 .849 L.A. 28 23 4 60 138 136 Peter Malnati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3772 Es
Ive had a strange career with a lot Richy Werenski . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3772 Es
Guay called it a little bit of a fairy the Olympics despite coming close on L.A. Clippers 32 21 .604 13 Calgary 28 25 3 59 149 159 Brandon Hagy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3771 Em
of missed time, a lot of injuries and a Michael Thompson. . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
tale. three occasions, is looking forward to a
major knee operation, which took me Sacramento 21 32 .396 24 Vancou. 24 24 6 54 128 154 John Senden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3573 +1s
The Canadian Ski Team racers have fourth Games next winter in Kevin Kisner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3772+1m
out for well over a year, Guay said. L.A. Lakers 19 37 .339 27{ Arizona 17 28 7 41 120 166 D.A. Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-3872+1m
persevered, hindered by a lack of fi- Pyeongchang, South Korea. Having Cameron Percy . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
Its been a building process my Phoenix 16 37 .302 29 NOTE: Two points for a win, one
nancing in recent seasons. They do not started in 224 career World Cup races Mark Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . .40-3373 +1s
body is a lot better, Ive changed my point for overtime loss. Ben Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3672+1m
have a permanent training base in Eu- dating to December 2000, Guay said THURSDAY Pat Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
training techniques, Im not hurting Houston 107, Charlotte 95 THURSDAY
rope and bounce around resorts to pre- he realized he was getting close to Rangers 4, Nashville 3
Jon Rahm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3573 +1s
anymore and Im able to run again. Philadelphia 112, Orlando 111 Scott Langley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
pare for competitions. hanging up his racing skis and boots. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1 Rich Berberian Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
I dont feel like Im 35 anymore, I Oklahoma City 118, Cleveland 109 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
We have had a tough time Im What Ive loved about skiing is Washington 6, Detroit 3
feel like Im 25, he added. Dallas 112, Utah 105, OT Tom Hoge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-3772+1m
hoping this result can help the team traveling all over the world and seeing Boston 120, Portland 111 Anaheim 5, Buffalo 2 David Duval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
The American skier Travis Ganong, Justin Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-3772+1m
and spur on some corporate sponsor- different places, but now with a family Boston 6, San Jose 3
Bob Estes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1p
the 2015 world championship downhill FRIDAY Vancouver 3, Columbus 0
ships, Guay said. its hard to leave home, especially for Denver 131, Knicks 123 Steve Stricker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3772+1m
silver medalist and a likely contender St. Louis 2, Toronto 1, OT Grayson Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3873 +1s
He is also coming back from a spec- long periods of time, he said. Its Miami 108, Nets 99 Trey Mullinax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3673 +1s
on Saturday, agreed that age was an Ottawa 3, Dallas 2
tacular crash three weeks ago in a tough on the family when youre not San Antonio 103, Detroit 92 Jason Bohn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3874 +2s
asset for skiers. Golden State 122, Memphis 107
Los Angeles 6, Florida 3 Padraig Harrington . . . . . . . . . . .39-3574 +2p
downhill event on the Kandahar around, and its very tough on me, but Pittsburgh 4, Colorado 1 Cody Gribble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-3973+2m
It takes experience as long as you L.A. Lakers 122, Milwaukee 114 William McGirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3873+2m
course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. its part of life. Weve made a game Montreal 5, Arizona 4, OT
can stay somewhat healthy then New Orleans 122, Minnesota 106 Ken Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-3873+2m
Charging down the mountain at about plan that after the Olympics that well FRIDAY Andres Gonzales. . . . . . . . . . . . 37-3673+2m
you can progress every year and also Washington 112, Indiana 107 Mike Weir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2s
70 miles per hour, Guay appeared to reassess when Ill retire, but it will not Chicago 5, Winnipeg 2
get tactically smarter, Ganong, 28, Atlanta at Sacramento Matt Kuchar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3874 +2p
catch an edge just before a jump and last forever, and then I will be there Chicago at Phoenix Minnesota 2, Tampa Bay 1, SO Steve Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2s
said. James Hahn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-3873+2m
went tumbling head over heels. He with them full time. SATURDAY Zack Sucher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41-3374 +2s
After Guays super-G victory, Lind- SATURDAY
was fortunate to walk away with only After light snowfall and limited visi- L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 5 Vancouver at Boston, 1 Vaughn Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37-3673+2m
sey Vonn, 32, congratulated him on Islanders at Ottawa, 1 Cameron Tringale. . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2p
bumps and bruises. bility on Friday in St. Moritz, weather Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 Ryan Brehm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34-4074 +2s
Twitter, saying, Age is only a number. San Jose at Philadelphia, 1 Spencer Levin . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39-3574 +2s
Its not always easy, and the best- conditions appeared favorable for Sat- Denver at Cleveland, 7:30
Adding to Guays elation in the su- Carolina at Dallas, 2 Adam Hadwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-3973+2m
case scenario is you get back on skis as urdays mens downhill. Miami at Philadelphia, 7:30 Kevin Chappell. . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3773+2m
per-G was his teammate Manny Os- Golden State at Oklahoma City, 8:30 Florida at Nashville, 2 Brad Fritsch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2p
soon as possible and you sort of forget Im feeling great, I like my chances,
borne-Paradiss winning a bronze Orlando at Dallas, 9 Detroit at Columbus, 5 Xander Schauffele . . . . . . . . . . .36-3874 +2s
about it as soon as you can, Guay said. Im having fun now and looking for- Colorado at Rangers, 7 Max Homa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3874 +2s
medal on his 33rd birthday. It was the Phoenix at Houston, 9 Stuart Appleby. . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3874 +2s
In my case, I had to take a few days off ward to the race, Guay said. St. Louis at Montreal, 7 Scott Piercy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-3773+2m
first time that two Canadian Alpine Boston at Utah, 10
K.J. Choi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2p
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 7
SUNDAY Buffalo at Toronto, 7
Rory Sabbatini . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38-3674 +2p
Chicago at Minnesota, 3:30 Morgan Hoffmann . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2p
Anaheim at Washington, 7:30 J.T. Poston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-3774 +2s
San Antonio at Knicks, 3:30 Sebastian Munoz . . . . . . . . . . . .35-3974 +2s
Pittsburgh at Arizona, 8
OLY MPICS Detroit at Toronto, 6 Dominic Bozzelli. . . . . . . . . . . . .39-3574 +2s
Chicago at Edmonton, 10
New Orleans at Sacramento, 9
SUNDAY MALAYSIAN OPEN

Russian Runner Stripped of 2012 Gold Medal

MONDAY San Jose at Devils, 12:30
Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 Friday
Detroit at Minnesota, 3 At Saujana Golf and Country Club
San Antonio at Indiana, 7 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Colorado at Islanders, 6
Memphis at Nets, 7:30 Purse: $3 million
Dallas at Nashville, 6 Yardage: 7,186; Par: 72
Orlando at Miami, 7:30
The Russian runner Mariya Savinova was stripped of Detroit at Milwaukee, 8
Vancouver at Buffalo, 7:30 Second Round
Bernd Wiesberger, Austria . . . 69-63132
her 2012 Olympic gold medal on Friday for doping, putting Oklahoma City at Washington, 8
Montreal at Boston, 7:30
Danny Willett, England . . . . . . 66-67133
Caster Semenya in line to become a two-time champion. Boston at Dallas, 8:30 MONDAY Mike Lorenzo-Vera, France . . . 70-65135
David Lipsky, United States . . 68-67135
Savinova, who won the 800-meter title at the London Golden State at Denver, 9 Rangers at Columbus, 7:30
K.T. Kim, South Korea . . . . . . 68-68136
Games ahead of Semenya, was also barred for four years L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9 Arizona at Calgary, 9 Shubhankar Sharma, India . . . 68-68136
James Morrison, England . . . . 70-67137
by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The court said that New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 N.H.L. LEADERS Anirban Lahiri, India . . . . . . . 69-68137
Savinova, 31, had been found to have been engaged in us- Atlanta at Portland, 10:30 THROUGH FEBRUARY 9 Alexander Levy, France . . . . . 69-68137
Goal Scoring Matteo Manassero, Italy . . . . . 71-66137
ing doping from July 2010 until August 2013. NUGGETS 131, KNICKS 123 GP G Sam Brazel, Australia . . . . . . 66-71137
Shiv Kapur, India . . . . . . . . . 70-67137
If the International Olympic Committee reallocates the FG FT Reb
Sidney Crosby Pittsburgh . . . . . . .47 30
Marcel Siem, Germany. . . . . . 66-71137
Jeff Carter Los Angeles . . . . . . . .55 29
medals from the 2012 final, Semenya would add that gold DENVER Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS Max Pacioretty Montreal . . . . . . . .56 27 Robert Rock, England . . . . . . 71-67138
Arthur 20 5-9 0-0 0-3 2 13 Romain Wattel, France . . . . . . 68-70138
medal to the one she won last year in Rio de Janeiro. Chandler 36 9-14 0-0 1-4 3 19
Cam Atkinson Columbus . . . . . . . .53 26
Marc Warren, Scotland . . . . . 63-75138
Michael Grabner N.Y. Rangers . . . .53 26
Jokic 36 17-23 4-5 4-9 5 40 Alex Ovechkin Washington. . . . . . .55 26 Gaganjeet Bhullar, India . . . . . 66-72138
Harris 34 6-10 1-1 2-7 2 16 Vladimir Tarasenko St. Louis . . . . .55 26 Siddikur Rahman, Bahrain . . . 69-69138
Nelson 35 6-10 0-0 0-4 12 16
HOCK EY Barton 34 6-15 2-4 6-10 4 15
Auston Matthews Toronto . . . . . . .53 25
Mark Scheifele Winnipeg . . . . . . . .53 25
J.Hrnngmz 16 3-6 0-0 0-1 1 8 David Pastrnak Boston . . . . . . . . .49 24 TENNIS
Mike Ilitch, Red Wings Owner, Dies at 87 Murray
Nurkic
Totals
14
11
1-4
1-4
0-0 1-3 1
0-0 2-3 0
240 54-95 7-10 16-44 30 131
2
2 Assists
GP A SUD DE FRANCE
Mike Ilitch, the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers Percentages: FG .568, FT .700. 3-Point Goals: Connor McDavid Edmonton . . . . . .55 42
Nicklas Backstrom Washington . . . .55 41 Friday
16-32, .500 (Nelson 4-6, Arthur 3-6, Harris 3-6,
owner who founded the Little Caesars Pizza empire, has Jokic 2-3, J.Hernangomez 2-4, Chandler 1-2, Erik Karlsson Ottawa . . . . . . . . . .52 36 At Arena Montpellier
Patrick Kane Chicago . . . . . . . . . .55 36 Montpellier, France
died. He was 87. Barton 1-4, Murray 0-1). Team Rebounds: 5.
Victor Hedman Tampa Bay . . . . . .51 35 Singles
Team Turnovers: 15 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: Quarterfinals
Ilitch and his wife opened their first Little Caesars in 5 (Barton 2, Chandler 2, J.Hernangomez). Brent Burns San Jose. . . . . . . . . .55 35
Richard Gasquet (3), France, d. Kenny
Phil Kessel Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . .53 34
suburban Detroit in 1959. The business eventually grew Turnovers: 15 (Murray 3, Barton 2, Chandler
Alexander Wennberg Columbus . . .53 34 de Schepper, France, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Benoit
2, Harris 2, Jokic 2, Nelson 2, Arthur, Nurkic). Paire, France, d. Dustin Brown, Germany,
into the worlds largest carryout pizza chain. Steals: 6 (Chandler 2, Jokic 2, Harris, Duncan Keith Chicago . . . . . . . . .55 34
1-0 retired. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (2),
Mikael Granlund Minnesota . . . . . .53 33
Ilitch paid a reported $8 million for the Detroit Red J.Hernangomez). Technical Fouls: None. France, d. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 6-2,
7-5. Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, d.
Wings in 1982, and the team won four championships under FG FT Reb
SKIING Jeremy Chardy, France, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
KNICKS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS
his ownership. A decade later, he paid $85 million for the Anthony 35 13-20 1-2 1-6 4 33
Doubles
Semifinals
Detroit Tigers, who advanced to the World Series in 2006 Porzingis 33 7-14
Jennings 39 2-10
1-2 2-4 2 17
0-0 1-2 13 6
WORLDS WOMENS ALPINE Fabrice Martin, France, and Daniel
and 2012 but lost both times. COMBINED Nestor (2), Canada, d. Marcus Daniell,
OLIVER WEIKEN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Lee 31 6-10 0-0 0-3 4 15 New Zealand, and Marcelo Demoliner (4),
A full obituary will appear in Sundays print editions. Rose 27 6-9 1-1 1-3 4 13 Brazil, 6-4, 6-4.
OVER THE TOP The Polish pole-vaulter Piotr Lisek com- OQuinn
Holiday
22
20
8-9
3-8
0-0 2-6 3 16
0-0 0-2 2 9
Friday
At St. Moritz, Switzerland
peting at an indoor track and field meet in Berlin. Baker 19 1-4 0-0 0-1 4 2 1. Wendy Holdener, Swizterland, 1 minute,
58.88 seconds.
SOFIA OPEN
SKIING W.Hrnngmz 8 6-7 0-0 2-4 0 12
Ndour 2 0-2 0-0 1-2 0 0 2. Michelle Gisin, Swizterland, 1:58.93. Friday
Totals 240 52-93 3-5 10-33 36 123 3. Michaela Kirchgasser, Austria, 1:59.26. At Arena Armeec Sofia
PRO BASKE T BAL L 4. Denise Feierabend, Swizterland, 1:59.70.
Switzerland Wins, but Loses a Star Percentages: FG .559, FT .600. 3-Point Goals:
16-38, .421 (Anthony 6-10, Lee 3-7, Holiday 3-8,
5. Lindsey Vonn, United States, 1:59.73.
6. Marie-Michele Gagnon, Canada, 2:00.15.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Singles
Quarterfinals
On a bittersweet day for the home team at the world Unusual Triple-Double in Warriors Win Porzingis 2-4, Jennings 2-6, OQuinn 0-1, Baker
0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 10 (17
7. Federica Brignone, Italy, 2:00.26.
8. Marusa Ferk, Slovenia, 2:00.72.
Roberto Bautista Agut (4), Spain,
d. Gilles Muller (5), Luxembourg, 7-5,
championships, Wendy Holdener led a 1-2 finish for Switz- PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (OQuinn 4, Porzingis). 9. Ricarda Haaser, Austria, 2:00.81. 7-6 (5). David Goffin (2), Belgium, d.
erland in the combined event in St. Moritz, but the coun- Draymond Green had an uncommon triple-double Turnovers: 10 (Anthony 2, Lee 2, OQuinn 2, 10. Ragnhild Mowinckel, Norway, 2:00.84. Steve Darcis, Belgium, 6-1, 6-3. Grigor
Holiday, Porzingis, Rose, W.Hernangomez). Steals: 11. Valerie Grenier, Canada, 2:00.94.
trys top skier, Lara Gut, crashed in practice, tearing her while scoring only 4 points, and the Golden State Warriors 10 (Anthony 2, Holiday 2, Lee 2, Baker, Jennings, 12. Anne-Sophie Barthet, France, 2:00.96.
Dimitrov (3), Bulgaria, d. Viktor Troicki
(9), Serbia, 6-3, 6-3. Nikoloz Basilashvili,
anterior cruciate ligament. beat the Grizzlies, 122-107, in Memphis. Green had 12 re- Porzingis, Rose). Technical Fouls: None. 13. Christine Scheyer, Australia, 2:01.23. Georgia, d. Martin Klizan (8), Slovakia,
Denver . . . . . . . 34 30 36 31131 14. Maria Tviberg, Norway, 2:01.27.
bounds, 10 assists and a franchise-record 10 steals. 0-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Gut, who was second in the World Cup standings to Knicks. . . . . . . . 32 34 22 35123 15. Laurenne Ross, United States, 2:01.32. Doubles
16. Romane Miradoli, Frace, 2:01.64. Semifinals
Mikaela Shiffrin, will miss the rest of the season. HEAT 108, NETS 99 James Johnson scored a season-high 26 HEAT 108, NETS 99 17. Kristin Lysdahl, Norway, 2:01.78. Mikhail Elgin and Andrey Kuznetsov,
Holdener, a slalom specialist, was five-hundredths of a points as Miami beat the Nets at Barclays Center. FG FT Reb
17. Marta Bassino, Italy, 2:01.78. Russia, d. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and
19. Lisa Hoernblad, Sweden, 2:01.93. Alexander Peya (2), Austria, 6-4, 6-4.
second ahead of her teammate Michelle Gisin, who took MIAMI Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS 20. Ester Ledecka, Czech Republic, 2:02.12.
Babbitt 9 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 3 21. Candace Crawford, Canada, 2:02.64.
silver. Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria trailed Holdener by C OL L EGE BASKE T BAL L Whiteside 25 3-10 2-2 3-9 0 8 22. Stacey Cook, United States, 2:03.40.
0.38. The finish gave Switzerland its first womens world Dragic 34 9-18 2-3 1-4 5 21 23. Maryna Gasienica-Daniel, Poland, 2:03.89.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Ellington 24 3-9 0-0 0-4 2 9 24. Nevena Ignjatovic, Serbia, 2:05.04.
title since 2001.
A Leading Womens Referee Is Arrested McGruder 34 5-12
T.Johnson 36 6-16
0-0 1-6 3 11
6-6 3-6 2 18
25. Aleksandra Prokopyeva, Russia, 2:05.19.
26. Macarena Simari Birkner, Argentina, 2:05.82.
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J.Johnson 34 11-17 4-4 1-8 2 26 27. Sarah Schleper, United States, 2:10.04. FRIDAY, FEB. 10
PRO FO OTBAL L A top N.C.A.A. womens basketball referee was ar- White 30 2-6 5-6 4-5 1 10 28. Pavla Klicnarova, Czech Republic, 2:10.23. EAST
Reed 9 1-3 0-0 0-3 0 2 Canisius 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niagara 41
rested in an Atlanta suburb on two counts of child molesta- Totals 240 41-92 19-21 13-46 16 108 Drexel 65 . . . . . . . . . William & Mary 48
tion and one count of enticing a child. SOCCER
Jets Void Fitzpatricks Contract Wesley Dean, 56, is in custody at the Cobb County Jail
Percentages: FG .446, FT .905. 3-Point Goals:
7-23, .304 (Ellington 3-8, Babbitt 1-1, White
Georgetown 77 . . .
Hofstra 85 . . . . . . .
Monmouth (NJ) 58 .
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Ryan Fitzpatricks contract with the Jets has been after being arrested Sunday. He worked the 2003 champi- T.Johnson 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Penn 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbia 54
Turnovers: 14 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Princeton 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornell 54
voided, as expected, making the 34-year-old quarterback a onship game between Connecticut and Tennessee. In 2006, (Whiteside 4, J.Johnson 3). Turnovers: 14 Chelsea . . . . . 24 19 2 3 51 17 59 Rider 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iona 36
free agent and most likely ending his up-and-down tenure he was named the Naismith womens official of the year. (T.Johnson 4, Dragic 3, J.Johnson 3, White 2, Tottenham. . . . 24 14 8 2 46
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with the team. 4, T.Johnson 3, Dragic, Ellington, J.Johnson, Arsenal . . . . . . 24 14 5 5 52 28 47 UNC-Wilmington 48 . . . . . . . . Towson 42
Whiteside). Technical Fouls: None. Liverpool . . . . . 24 13 7 4 52 30 46 Villanova 66 . . . . . . . . . . . St. Johns 56
Because his $10 million bonus was prorated over two T E NNIS Man. United . . 24 12 9 3 36 21 45 SOUTH
years to help with the salary cap last year, Fitzpatrick will FG FT Reb Everton. . . . . . 24 11 7 6 40 27 40 Chattanooga 70 . . . . . . . . . . . ETSU 62
NETS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS West Bromwich 24 10 6 8 32 29 36 Duke 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Syracuse 55
cost the Jets $5 million against the cap this year.
Gasquet Reaches Semifinals in France Lopez 30 10-17 9-12 3-8 1 30
Bogdanovic29 4-12 0-0 0-6 0 10
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Hlls-Jffrsn 22 1-3 3-4 2-6 3 5 Southampton . . 24 7 6 11 24 31 27 Drake 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illinois St. 49
beat Kenny De Schepper, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, to reach the semi- Booker 24 4-7 0-0 2-10 1 8 Bournemouth . . 24 7 5 12 35 47 26 Marquette 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Butler 66
finals of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier. Harris 20 1-4 2-4 1-2 2 5 Middlesbrough . 24 4 9 11 19 27 21 Missouri St. 73 . . . . . . . . . . S. Illinois 59
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glass Hill, posting a seven-under-par 65 at the Pebble Totals 240 35-81 21-28 15-48 19 99 Sunderland . . . 24 5 4 15 24 42 19
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Beach Pro-Am in California. Percentages: FG .432, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: Saturday's Games
Spieth was at 10-under 133. He was tied for the lead with Stewart Stumbles in Sprint Car Return 8-20, .400 (Bogdanovic 2-5, Harris 1-1, LeVert
1-1, Foye 1-2, Hamilton 1-2, Kilpatrick 1-3,
Hull vs. Arsenal
Southampton vs. Sunderland
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Dayton 75 . . . . . . . . . . Rhode Island 74
Everton vs. Middlesbrough Harvard 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown 74
Derek Fathauer, who was also at 10 under with the ninth Tony Stewart, a three-time Nascar champion, finished Lopez 1-3, Dinwiddie 0-1, Whitehead 0-2).
Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 22 (29 Watford vs. Manchester United Niagara 94 . . . . . . . . . . . . Canisius 81
hole to play at Pebble Beach. The second round was sus- a disappointing 17th in a 26-car sprint car event late Thurs- PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Hamilton 3, Lopez West Bromwich vs. West Ham Penn 70 . . . .
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king it difficult to see more than 120 yards. MIDWEST
the night arguing with a fellow driver and complaining to LeVert 2, Dinwiddie, Hollis-Jefferson). Steals: Sunday's Games Akron 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . E. Michigan 76
4 (Dinwiddie 2, Hollis-Jefferson 2). Technical Chelsea vs. Burnley
officials. Stewart was driving a sprint car for the first time Fouls: coach Kenny Atkinson, 4:22 third. Leicester vs. Swansea
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Ohio 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ball St. 77
since he accidentally struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. dur- Miami . . . . . . . . 20 29 25 34108 Monday, Feb. 13 FAR WEST
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Olazbal Is Back on Tour After a Painful Absence
By ADAM SCHUPAK
BOCA RATON, Fla. When
Jos Mara Olazbal stepped onto
the practice green Wednesday at
Broken Sound Golf Club, Billy An-
drades face lit up in a smile. An-
drade stopped stroking putts, ap-
proached Olazbal and gave him a
warm embrace.
Its been a while, Andrade
said.
Too long, Olazbal replied.
Andrades brow was pleated
with worry as he asked, How are
you?
Olazbal, who has known An-
drade since they were teenagers,
flashed a smile.
Im still alive, he said.
Olazbal is also happy to be dip-
ping his toe a toe that had until
recently been in agony in the
water to see if he is capable of
playing competitive golf again.
After more than a years ab-
sence from the game, Olazbal,
who turned 51 on Sunday, made
his debut on the Champions tour
on Friday at the Allianz Champi-
onship. He shot a one-under-par 71
and is eight shots behind the
leader, Olin Browne.
Olazbal was sidelined by ar-
thritis from the second round of
the 2015 Masters until he played
on the European Tour late last
year.
I could not walk at all, said
Olazbal, a two-time Masters
champion and a former Ryder
Cup stalwart. I think that was the
lowest point.
After he withdrew from the
Masters two years ago, Olazbal
pulled out of the Spanish Open the
following week. He could not
comb his hair, let alone swing a
golf club. Olazbal tried anti-in-
flammatories and cortisone shots,
to no avail, and endured countless
tests. He spent the next 18 months
feeling like a prisoner in his home
in Fuenterraba, Spain.
Its not rheumatoid, its not
psoriatic, but they couldnt put a
name on it, he said.
It was not the first time that
pain sidetracked his career. After
limping around golf courses with a
mysterious ailment in his right
foot, Olazbal missed the 1995 Ry-
der Cup while taking an 18-month
absence from competition. He
stayed in bed for months.
His feet hurt so badly the pain
nearly made him cry. In his home,
he had to crawl to the bathroom,
which was only nine feet from his
bedroom. He thought he might
end up needing a wheelchair for
the rest of his life.
Olazbal did not begin to feel
better until a German doctor,
Hans-Wilhelm Mller-Wohlfahrt,
concluded that the pain was com-
ing from his back, not his foot. Dr.
Mller-Wohlfahrt, a homeopathic
specialist who has worked with
Bayern Munich and the German
Par for the Course:
Woods Comeback,
Injury Setback
From First Sports Page
Sam Snead, and the career
leader in major victories, Jack
Nicklaus. Woods needs three
victories to equal Sneads record
of 82, and four majors to match
Nicklauss 18. Woodss last vic-
tory in a major came seven
months before the birth of his
second child, his son Charlie,
who turned 8 on Wednesday.
Woodss performance in the
Bahamas created a bubble of
optimism that developed a slow
leak in late January in San
Diego, where he failed to sur-
vive the 36-hole cut at the Farm-
ers Insurance Open, with a
swing that looked less fluid than
it had in the Bahamas. But
Woods nonetheless managed
five birdies, more than some of
the players who advanced to the
weekend could muster, provid-
ing hope that whatever was
wrong with his game could be
patched up.
The bubble was pierced when
Woods traveled to the other side
of the world for his first back-to-
back starts since August 2015.
After an opening birdie-less 77
at the Dubai Desert Classic, he
pulled out before the second
round. He attributed the with-
drawal to back spasms that he
experienced during dinner after
the first round.
Before the tournament,
Woods sat for an interview with
Peter Dawson, the former chief
of the R&A, the sports govern-
Jos Mara Olazbal of Spain, playing in the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 2, made his debut on the Champions tour on Friday at the Allianz Championship.
national soccer team, determined
that Olazbal had a biomechanical
problem caused by a hernia be-
tween the fifth lumbar and first sa-
cral spinal bones.
He asked if Olazbal would be
willing to try a nontraditional
I could not walk at
all, said a two-time
Masters champion.
treatment. Olazbals longtime
manager, Sergio Gomez, said of
his client, He would jump out of a
window if it meant he would get
better.
After receiving injections of
iron, amino acids and shark carti-
lage, Olazbal was able to resume
playing. In his third start after re-
ing body. It was illuminating
not for anything Woods said, but
for what the viewers could
plainly see: Woods gingerly
settling into a chair. He seemed
to be in bad shape before he hit
his first ball.
It is worth noting that the
winner of Woodss event in the
Bahamas was Hideki Matsuya-
ma of Japan, who has been
tallying top finishes like Woods
in his prime. Since Woods last
played four competitive rounds
in a full-field event, in August
2015, Matsuyama has recorded
six victories and 17 top-seven
finishes worldwide. While fans
of the game hold their breath
waiting for Woods to return to
form, the game is inexorably
marching on.
Woods said in San Diego that
his focus was getting his game
in tournament shape for the
Masters in April. On the bright
side, Woodss seven competitive
rounds since December are one
more than he posted in the
lead-up to the 2015 Masters,
where he recorded two rounds
in the 60s on his way to a tie for
17th.
Before that Masters, Woods
took a two-month break precipi-
tated by a round of 82 at the
Phoenix Open and a mid-round
withdrawal the next week in
San Diego.
Still, Woodss body is two
years older, and two operations
wobblier, than in 2015. People
look at Nicklaus, who won the
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2017
GOLF
turning in 1997, he won the Euro-
pean Tours Turespana Masters, naments if he had been healthy.
burst into tears of joy and thanked
his doctor.
Without him, I wouldnt be
standing here, Olazbal said at
the time.
Olazbal won six times on the
PGA Tour and 23 times on the Eu-
ropean Tour before being elected
to the World Golf Hall of Fame in
2009.
There are pictures of Olazbal,
whose parents and grandparents
worked at Real Golf Club in Fuen-
terraba, with a club in his hand at
14 months. He was seemingly born
with a technically perfect swing
that was the envy of all.
Paul Goydos was among the cu-
rious players who stopped in his
tracks to watch Olazbal hit prac-
tice shots this week.
They were all as pure as snow,
Goydos said.
Bernhard Langer, a former Ry-
der Cup teammate, said Olazbal
Tiger Woods last week. His withdrawal Friday from two tournaments is his fifth injury-related reset since his five-win 2013 season.
Masters at age 46, and say that
Woods still has time to add to his
surefire Hall of Fame rsum.
But Woods has many more
miles on his odometer than
Nicklaus did at the same age. By
10, Woods, a child prodigy, had
pounded more golf balls than
Nicklaus had at 20. It is hard to
read between the lines of the
statement Woods released Fri-
day and feel anything but fore-
would have won even more tour-
You might say, Why? Lang- by crippling pain. He played only
er said. Hes got one of the best
putting strokes. His short game is,
you know, every bit as good as
Seves, referring to the Spanish
golfing great Seve Ballesteros,
who died in 2011.
Hes a great iron player, Lang-
er added, speaking of Olazbal.
The only thing that sometimes
held him back winning certain
events was his driver.
In April 1999, Olazbals erratic
driving had damaged his confi-
dence. So Gomez asked Gary
Player to speak to Olazbal at a
gathering of international players
before the Masters.
Look at me, said Player, who
was 63 at the time. Im strong as
steel. You have a great swing. Be-
lieve in yourself.
Player repeated the words sev-
eral times with growing convic-
tion. Inspired, Olazbal won his
boding.
Woods hasnt played at Rivi-
era Country Club, site of his
PGA Tour debut as a 16-year-old
amateur, since 2006. Among the
tour events Woods has entered
at least four times, it remains
the only one he has not won.
Before the 2006 event, Woods
said: Id be seriously upset if I
went my whole career and
never won this tournament. Its
second green jacket that week.
But he continued to be plagued
six tournaments in 2008 and three
times in 2010. This time, Dr.
Mller-Wohlfahrt could not help.
Medicine alleviated the pain until
it returned with a vengeance in
2015. Olazbal could not unscrew
the cap from a bottle of water or
raise a glass.
It seemed his career had come
to another abrupt halt. As much as
it pained him, he passed the time
watching golf on television, pay-
ing special attention to the 50-and-
over players.
The only time that I left home
mainly was to get some physical
therapy and to see the doctors,
and that was it, he said. I could-
nt do even a normal life at all.
For all his manifold attributes,
toughness may be Olazbals
greatest strength. In December
2015, he was prescribed Humira, a
drug that is used to combat in-
one of the oldest events on our
tour. Its played every year on
one of our best courses. It al-
ways attracts a strong field.
These are exactly the tourna-
ments you want to win.
Eleven years later, it has
come to this: People who once
wondered whether Woodss
dominance was healthy for the
sport are simply rooting for him
to get healthy.
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number of autoimmune diseases.
In May, Olazbal started hitting
balls again. He returned to the Eu-
ropean Tour by October.
Since coming back, he has
missed the 36-hole cut at all four of
his starts, including tournaments
the past two weeks in Doha, Qatar,
and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
But now Olazbal is looking to
give a lift to the senior tour. He
said it might take time for his
game to return to the top level.
Despite all the adversity he has
faced, Olazbal has maintained a
positive outlook. When asked if he
felt he had been robbed of much of
his prime, he shook his head.
No, no, he said. Ive dedi-
cated my life to what I love. Ive
actually managed to do quite well,
so in that regard I dont think that
the sport of golf owes me anything
or life owes me anything. I con-
sider myself a very lucky person
in that regard.
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Nicolai Gedda, a Celebrated Tenor

On Worlds Opera Stages, Dies at 91
By MARGALIT FOX
Nicolai Gedda, the Swedish
singer who rose from an impover-
ished childhood and a youthful ca-
reer as a bank clerk to become one
of the most celebrated tenors of
the 20th century, died on Jan. 8 in
Tolochenaz, Switzerland. He was
91.
The Royal Swedish Opera con-
firmed his death to the news
agency Agence France-Presse.
Mr. Geddas death, after a heart at-
tack at his home in Tolochenaz,
had not been announced by his
family until this week.
Widely admired for his sensi-
tive musicianship, masterly tonal
control and impeccable diction in
a spate of European languages,
Mr. Gedda possessed a lyric tenor
voice that shimmered like silver
but was no less warm for that.
He was one of the most versa-
tile, and professionally long-lived,
tenors of his era, with many doz-
ens of roles to his name in a career
that lasted until he was well into
his 70s a good two decades past
a classical singers customary re-
tirement age.
Mr. Gedda was ubiquitous on
recordings and in the worlds fore-
most opera houses and concert
halls, including La Scala in Milan
and Covent Garden in London.
Over a quarter-century, he sang
367 performances with the Metro-
politan Opera, from his debut in
the title role of Gounods Faust
in 1957 to his final performance, as
Alfredo in Verdis La Traviata, in
1983.
The fluid lightness of Mr. Ged-
das voice made him especially
well suited to the French reper-
toire: His roles included Des
Grieux in Massenets Manon,
Hoffmann in Offenbachs Les
Contes dHoffmann, Romo in
Gounods Romo et Juliette and
the title role in Berliozs Ben-
venuto Cellini.
Among his Italian roles were
Nemorino in Donizettis LElisir
dAmore, Ernesto in his Don
Pasquale and Edgardo in his Lu-
cia di Lammermoor, as well as
the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto,
Alfredo in La Traviata and Ric-
cardo in Un Ballo in Maschera,
all by Verdi.
But the role for which Mr.
Gedda was very likely most fa-
mous was Russian: Lensky, the
young poet in Tchaikovskys Eu-
gene Onegin.
Reviewing Mr. Gedda in a con-
cert performance of Onegin
with the Boston Symphony in
JOACHIM SCHULZ/ULLSTEIN BILD,
VIA GETTY IMAGES
Nicolai Gedda in 1998. He
sang 367 performances with
the Metropolitan Opera.
Work as a bank clerk
led to a renowned
singing career.
aria an ideal union of respon-
siveness to word and musical line,
a demonstration of vocal and tech-
nical mastery and varied and
beautiful tone, and an expression
of wise and generous human feel-
ing was a classic demonstration
of why, for some of us at least, op-
eratic singing is the highest
achievement of human art.
Mr. Geddas prowess in a Rus-
sian opera is perhaps unsurpris-
ing in light of the fact that Russian,
along with Swedish, was his na-
tive language: He was abandoned
as a child by one Russian father
and reared by another.
The permutations of Mr. Ged-
das name over time attest to the
volatile nature of his childhood:
According to his memoir, Nico-
lai Gedda: My Life & Art, pub-
lished in English in 1999, he was
born in Stockholm on July 11, 1925.
The son of an unwed teenage wait-
ress, Clary Linnea Lindstrom, and
an unemployed father of Russian-
Swedish parentage, Nikolai
Gdda, he was christened Harry
Gustaf Nikolai Gdda.
His parents abandoned him at
birth and planned to consign him
to an orphanage. But when he was
six days old, his fathers sister,
Olga Gdda, intervened, deter-
mining to rear him as her own.
known as Nikolai Ustinoff.
As the British newspaper The
Telegraph reported in its obituary
of Mr. Gedda on Friday, Swedish
authorities deemed the couple too
poor to adopt him.
Nevertheless, Mr. Gedda
wrote in his memoir, they had the
courage to keep me illegally.
But the situation was far from
idyllic. At the slightest infraction,
Mr. Gedda wrote, his foster father
would beat him with a narrow
Cossack belt that had once be-
longed to his uniform.
Mr. Gedda, who grew up speak-
ing Russian and Swedish, be-
lieved for years that the Ustinoffs
were his biological parents. It was
not until he was an older teenager
that he was told the circum-
stances of his birth.
In 1929, when Michail Ustinoff
became the choirmaster of a Rus-
sian Orthodox Church in Leipzig,
the family moved there, and
young Nikolai soon acquired Ger-
man. His first voice lessons were
with his foster father, and by the
time he was 5, he was singing and
playing the piano with facility.
In 1934, after the rise of Hitler,
the family left Germany and re-
turned to Stockholm. He lived
there with his foster parents until
he was in his early 20s, sleeping in
a tiny alcove off the kitchen of
their modest apartment.
After finishing high school, Mr.
Gedda took a job as a bank clerk in
Stockholm, earning extra money
as a wedding singer. (He would
adopt the name Nicolai Gedda
early in his career.)
Through a customer at the
bank, he was introduced to the
tenor Carl Martin Ohman, who
had been a mentor of the re-
nowned Swedish tenor Jussi Bjr-
ling. Mr. Gedda began lessons BINDER/ULLSTEIN BILD, VIA GETTY IMAGES
with Mr. Ohman and later studied
Above, Nicolia Gedda per-
at what is now the Royal College of
Music in Stockholm.
forming in Switzerland in
Mr. Gedda made his operatic 1970. Right, Mr. Gedda in
debut at 26, as the coachman Don Carlos in an undated
Chapelou in Le Postillon de Lon- photograph. He was a versa-
jumeau, by the French composer tile singer, and also profes-
Adolphe Adam, with the Royal sionally long-lived, perform-
Swedish Opera. ing well into his 70s.
His performance notably the
aria Mes amis, coutez lhis-
toire, with its stratospheric high singer in my life, his wires read.
D, was rapturously received. Soon His name is Nicolai Gedda.
afterward, Mr. Gedda sang for From then on, Mr. Gedda never
Walter Legge, the influential clas- wanted for work. He made his La
sical record producer at EMI. Scala debut as Don Ottavio in Mo-
As Opera News reported in its zarts Don Giovanni, conducted
obituary of Mr. Gedda, on hearing by Mr. Karajan, in 1953. The next
him Mr. Legge sent telegrams to year he sang Faust at the Paris
the conductor Herbert von Kara- Opera and the Duke of Mantua at REX FEATURES, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

1976, Richard Dyer wrote in The
Boston Globe:
The tenors voicing of Lenskys
Deaths
Barasch, Bettina Gutterman, Karen
De Lorenzo, William Korody, Erica
Gedda, Nicolai Lenzo, Jeanine
Goodman, Roslyn Michaelson, Pauline
Gurieva, Diana Pachner, Janice
BARASCHBettina May, 98, GOODMANRoslyn,
died peacefully at home on
February 8, 2017. A successful
retailer for many years as
the proprietor of Barasch's
Youth Center, in Freeport,
New York. She lived a long
and active life filled with
friends and family and her
love for the opera, theatre,
crossword puzzles, living at
the beach, traveling the world
and pursuing lifelong learn-
ing. Known to one and all as
A few years later, Olga married
Michail Ustinoff, a Russian-born
singer, and the child became
Rolfe, N. Anthony
Ross, Nanette
Rubin, Martha
died peacefully on February
10 of complications from a
stroke, in Boca Raton, FL.
She was 89. Formerly of New
York City, she was the moth-
er of Kenny, Rusty (Paul), Pe-
ter and daughter-in-law Ka-
ren, grandmother of Emily,
Katie, Allie, Jesse, Andrea
and Ian, widow of Goody
(Irv), sister-in-law of Sandy
and Hal, aunt of Susie, Jon,
Jayne, and Steve. Roz grew
jan and Antonio Ghiringhelli, who
oversaw La Scala.
Just heard the greatest Mozart
Deaths
KORODYErica Goetter.
Loving daughter, wife, moth-
er and grandmother passed
away peacefully in Los An-
geles on January 12, 2017.
LENZOJeanine E.
Deaths
ROLFEN. Anthony,
died peacefully in his sleep on
February 9 in West Palm
Beach, FL. He was 94. In his
final days Tony was sur-
rounded by his adoring child-
ren Jody Quinn, Mickey Rolfe
and Penny Sullivan, and their
husbands. Born in New York
City, he attended DeWitt Clin-
ton HS and the University of
Missouri. Tony served in
WWII as an officer in the US
Navy. He was a principal in
the New York City real estate
firm Sulzberger-Rolfe, Inc
and a leading member of the
industry. Tony spent many
winters in Palm Beach until
moving there permanently in
2010. Those who knew and
loved Tony were fortunate to
receive his gifts of great hu-
Covent Garden.
Mr. Gedda made his United
States debut in 1957, singing Faust
with the Pittsburgh Opera. Re-
viewing his Met debut, in the
same role later that year, under
the baton of Jean Morel, Howard
Taubman wrote in The New York
Times:
His carriage is tall and straight
and his movement buoyant. It is
credible that he will attract Mar-
guerite. Even more impressive
than his appearance is the intelli-
gence of his singing.
Mr. Geddas other Met roles
over the years included Don Ot-
tavio, Tamino in Mozarts The
Magic Flute, Admte in Glucks
Alceste, Grigory in Mus-
sorgskys Boris Godunov and
Pinkerton in Puccinis Madama
Butterfly.
With the Met, he also sang Ana-
tol in the world premiere of Samu-
el Barbers Vanessa, conducted
by Dimitri Mitropoulos, in 1958,
and Kodanda in the United States
premiere of Gian Carlo Menottis
The Last Savage, under Thomas
Schippers, in 1964.
Mr. Geddas first two marriages
ended in divorce. His survivors in-
clude his third wife, Aino Seller-
mark Gedda, the co-author of his
memoir. Information on other sur-
vivors could not be confirmed.
His recordings include many
works in the standard repertoire,
along with operettas and Leonard
Bernsteins Candide.
Mr. Gedda never met his biolog-
ical father. In 1977, when he was in
his 50s, he met his biological
mother for the first and only time.
As he recounted in his memoir,
when he entered her apartment in
a Stockholm suburb, he noticed a
large framed photograph of him-
self as a young singer, promi-
nently displayed.
He realized, he wrote, that she
had purchased it from a photo-
graphic agency, as any stranger
might have done.

Ljubisa Beara, 77; Oversaw War Crimes

Tina, she is survived by her
children Stephen H. Barasch
and Betsy Plevan, grand-
children William Plevan,
Samuel Barasch, and Sarah
Barasch and four great
grandchildren. Predeceased
by her husband William,
grandson Jeffrey, and sibl-
ings Jane, Marjorie, and Hen-
ry. Services will be held on
Sunday, February 12, 2017, at
Plaza Jewish Community
Chapel at 9:00am, Amster-
dam and 91st Street. The fa-
mily will sit Shiva at the home
of Betsy and Ken Plevan on
Sunday from 4:00pm to
8:00pm. Donations may be
made in Tina's memory to
the Friends of the Freeport
Memorial Library, 144 West
Merrick Road, Freeport, NY
11520.
De LORENZOWilliam A.,
78, a lawyer and accountant,
died Tuesday, February 7,
2017 in New York City, after a
long illness. He is survived by
his wife of forty five years,
Jeanne, along with two broth-
ers, Edward and Thomas,
and was preceded in death by
his brother, James. William
was the cherished uncle of
many nieces and nephews
and was adored by his dog,
Abby. He was a gentle, witty
man who enjoyed people's
laughter and the absurdities
of life. He had a big heart, but
in the end it failed him. Wil-
liam was born and raised in
Brooklyn, NY, and graduated
from Fordham Law School.
He was a voracious reader
and a Civil War buff. William
and Jeanne enjoyed the thea-
ter, the opera and the Rolling
Stones. He was loved by his
family, friends, colleagues
and clients for his quiet intel-
ligence, impeccable integrity
and irresistible sense of hu-
mor. Friends may call at
Frank E. Campbell - The
Funeral Chapel, 1076 Madison
Avenue, New York, NY 10028
(at 81st Street), Sunday, 1pm-
4pm. Funeral service to fol-
low at 4pm. Contributions in
William's memory may be
made to the ASPCA.
GEDDANicolai.
The Metropolitan Opera
mourns the death of Nicolai
Gedda, one of the world's
finest lyric tenors, who sang
367 performances with the
company over the course of
26 years. From the time of his
Met debut in 1957 as the title
character in Gounod's Faust,
he showed a particular stylis-
tic flair for the French reper-
tory. His musicality and clear,
limpid vocal timbre also
made him a leading singer of
Mozart's operas, though his
Met repertory was wide and
included 27 roles in Italian,
German, Russian, and En-
glish, among them Anatol in
the world premiere of Sa-
muel Barber's Vanessa.
Peter Gelb,
General Manager
James Levine,
Music Director Emeritus
up in Forest Hills, NY, with
cousins Shirley, Janet and
Marilyn, the daughter of Sam
and Ida Berkowitz. She gra-
duated from Queens College,
and met her future husband
when they were counselors
at summer camp. Roz and
Goody were married for 43
years. They lived in Elmont,
then Great Neck, Manhattan
and Los Angeles. After rais-
ing their three sons, Roz got
her MSW from Adelphi, and
launched a career as a psy-
chiatric social worker. With
Goody, she shared a life full
of friends and family, travel,
his career in book publishing
and hers in social work. After
Goody died in 1994, Roz
moved part-time to Boca Ra-
ton, eventually settling there
year round. Roz was the most
energetic person any of us
knew. She lived a rich life,
making the most of every
moment. Her family and
many friends already miss
her dearly. Glick Family
Funeral Home is in charge of
the services.
GURIEVADiana.
The Trustees of the Amy P.
Goldman Foundation mourn
the loss of our dear friend and
Co-Trustee, Diana Gurieva,
and express our heartfelt
condolences to her husband,
Max Godby. Diana devoted
her life to helping others and
was a tireless champion of
reproductive rights, animal
rights and countless projects
benefiting the Mid-Hudson
Valley. We will dearly miss
her.
Amy Goldman Fowler
Cary Fowler
Sara Goldman Arno
Donald A. Goldsmith
GUTTERMANKaren Deene
(Gross), of Scotch Plains, NJ,
died Saturday, February 4 at
St. Barnabas Hospital, Living-
ston, from complications fol-
lowing a stroke. She was 72.
Born in Memphis, TN, to the
late Dr. Victor Gross and
Katherine Spector Gross, she
grew up in New York City's
Stuyvesant Town. She gra-
duated from Hunter College
with a degree in French and
taught in the New York City
public schools for several
years. She also briefly acted
in the theater under the stage
name Karen Deene, and
maintained her Screen Ac-
tors Guild membership. She
lived in Scotch Plains since
1975. She was an avid reader
and animal lover. She is sur-
vived by her husband of 47
years, Robert, two sons Roy
(Lucy) of Syracuse, NY, and
Jeff (Gina) of Scotch Plains,
and one grandson, Samuel.
She was predeceased by her
sister Leslie Robin Gross. A
memorial will be held Sun-
day, February 12 at 2pm at
Menorah Chapels at Millburn,
2950 Vauxhall Road, Union,
New Jersey.
mor, unbounded generosity
of New York City died Friday,
February 10, 2017 after a five-
month battle with Cancer.
Born in Belgium on March 8,
1946 to Marcel and Georgette
Claes, she was raised in
Greenwich, CT and later lived
in Brooklyn, Staten Island and
New Jersey, before moving
into Manhattan to spend
what proved to be the hap-
piest last four years of her
life. She attended New York
University and worked for
over 25 years in Advertising
Sales at The New York
Times. She is survived by her
devoted life partner Tamir J.
Bourla, her loving daughter
Danielle Lenzo-Siecinski, her
cherished granddaughter
Dominique Lenzo - Villalta,
her supportive girlfriends
Trev, Darby, Liv and Sara
and her adoring cats Fini and
Obie. Jeanine was the best of
us and she will forever be
missed.
MICHAELSONPauline.
In loving memory, December
25, 1927 - February 9, 2017.
Pauline is survived by her de-
dicated daughter Tamara
Deer (Ken), son Dana, grand-
son Kenny Deer, grand-
daughters Sophia Marin (Ed),
Dawn Cadle (Lloyd), Darice,
and 11 great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Sunday
at Boulevard-Riverside Hew-
lett, NY at 2pm. Accepting vi-
sitors at 1:15pm.
PACHNERJanice Frenkel,
February 6, 2017, 95, of Scars-
dale, NY. Born December 1,
1921 in New York City to
Helen Wolff Frenkel and Leo
S. Frenkel. Devoted wife of
Charles W. Pachner for 56
years. Loving mother to
Donald, Robert and Joan,
caring grandmother to Max
and Greg, David Newman
and Josh Newman. Family
requests in lieu of flowers,
donations to The Musici-
ans Foundation, Breast
Cancer.org or the charity of
your choice. Family receiv-
ing visitors at 56 Midvale
Road, Hartsdale, NY, Satur-
day, February 11 from 1pm to
5pm.
and relentless needling. The
confines of this space cannot
contain the legend and lore of
the man. Tony lived large at
the NYC and PB speakeasies,
nightclubs, theaters, ball- By SAM ROBERTS
parks, golf courses, race-
tracks, and gin and backgam- Col. Ljubisa Beara, the Bosnian
mon tables on the circuit
well-traveled by his long-
Serb Army security chief sen-
standing large circle of tenced to life imprisonment for
friends. Tony was deeply
loved and will be missed by genocide in 2010 in the massacre
his three grandsons, three of as many as 8,000 Muslim men
great-granddaughters and his
former wife, Susan S. Rolfe. and boys near Srebrenica in 1995
The family expresses their
appreciation to Tony's ex-
the worst mass murder in Eu-
tended family at Mayacoo rope since World War II died on
Lakes Country Club, Old Oaks
Country Club, the Palm Wednesday in Berlin. He was 77.
Beach Kennel Club and prac-
tically every NYC and PB res-
His death was confirmed by
taurant's bartenders and ser- Peggy Fiebig, a spokeswoman for
vers. Services private. Tony's
long remarkable life will be the Berlin states Justice Depart-
celebrated with stories and
songs in the near future.
ment, but she did not give a cause.
ROSSNanette Bacheller,
Colonel Beara, who was being
died peacefully on February 8 held at Tegel prison in Berlin, had
in her home in New York City
at age 93. Her husband, surrendered to the United Nations
Howard Ross, predeceased war crimes tribunal in The Hague
her in 1989. She was a woman
of exceptional grace, beauty in 2004. The tribunal had accused POOL PHOTO BY MICHAEL KOOREN
and elegance, who accom-
plished everything she set
the Serbian government of shel- Col. Ljubisa Beara in The Hague in 2015. He was serving a life
her mind to and cared deeply tering him for the two years after sentence for his part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
about her family. She is sur-
vived by her son, James he was indicted on charges stem-
Ross, her daughter, Deborah ming from his role in the massa-
Dauman, her daughter-in- transferring Muslim women and The judges at The Hague con-
law, Alice Ross, her son-in- cre.
law, Philippe Dauman, children from Srebrenica. cluded that Colonel Beara was
What amounted to a five-day the most senior officer of the Secu-
her grandsons, Philippe Dau- The International Criminal Tri-
man Jr. and Alexandre Dau-
man, and her granddaugh-
killing frenzy began when Serb bunal at The Hague was estab- rity Branch and had the clearest
ters, Harling, Elizabeth and soldiers and police overran Mus- lished to prosecute war crimes overall picture of the massive
Virginia Tully Ross.
lim forces and United Nations perpetrated during the in- scale and scope of the killing oper-
RUBINMartha.
Martha Rubin approached troops guarding what was sup- ternecine bloodletting that fol- ation.
life with a smile, a laugh, and posed to have been a haven for lowed the rupture of the former They added: Beara had a very
a heart full of goodness and
grace. She was the inspiration Muslim refugees who had fled eth- Yugoslavia. personal view of the staggering
behind so many transforma-
tive experiences in our
nic cleansing during the Bosnian Ljubisa Beara (pronounced lee- number of victims destined for ex-
Museum. From beautiful new war. Srebrenica is in eastern OO-bee-sha bay-AH-ra) was born ecution. Steeped in this knowl-
galleries to free camp for
Brooklyn's youth, she made a Bosnia and Herzegovina. edge, he became, in the opinion of
huge difference in the lives of
countless people. She was
Kofi Annan, the former United the Trial Chamber, a driving force
one of the Brooklyn Nations secretary general, de- behind the murder enterprise.
A lead role in Europes
Museum's greatest treasures
of all. The Board and Staff scribed the massacre as the worst The former Bosnian Serb poli-
of the Brooklyn Museum will war crime in Europe since the tical leader Radovan Karadzic
cherish
always.
and honor her
Second World War. worst mass murder was convicted of crimes commit-
Colonel Beara and Vujadin
In Memoriam Popovic, another Bosnian Serb se- since World War II. ted during the Bosnian war and
was sentenced to 40 years in pris-
CASCELLARalph A.
curity commander, were both con- on. A verdict in the trial of Gen.
8/25/29-2/11/87. Beloved fath- victed of genocide and sentenced Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb
er, missed and loved every
day these past thirty years. to life terms. The convictions were on July 14, 1939, in Sarajevo, now military commander who was
How you and your four mag-
nificent grandchildren would
upheld in 2015. the capital of Bosnia and Herze- captured in 2011, is expected later
have adored each other! Colonel Beara was specifically govina. this year.
Your ducats
accused of overseeing the behead- As a colonel and chief of securi- Forensic experts have so far
ing of up to 100 men and boys, of ty in the Bosnian Serb Army, he identified more than 6,100 of the
supervising the digging of mass was responsible for the military estimated 8,000 Muslim victims of
graves, and of floodlighting killing police, the Ministry of the Interior the Srebrenica massacre. Their
zones so that firing squads could and the Bosnian Muslim pris- remains have been reburied at a
conduct executions at night. He oners captured after the fall of memorial center near where they
was also charged with forcibly Srebrenica. were last seen alive.